08 July, 2016

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SAT SATURDAY 09 JULY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b07hwmnq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b07k1jnw (Listen) SAT Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited, Episode 5 SAT SAT Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my SAT generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been SAT possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has SAT risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip SAT Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and SAT revealing biography. SAT SAT Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and SAT there is new personal testimony from those who knew and SAT worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, SAT presenting new details of his difficult relationship with SAT his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with SAT Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn SAT Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic SAT conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime SAT career. SAT SAT Read by Nickolas Grace SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Directed by Celia de Wolff SAT SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Nickolas Grace SAT Author: Philip Eade SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07hwmns (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07hwmnv (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwmnx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b07hwmnz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07j7q7q (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His SAT Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox SAT Church. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b07j7q7s (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b07hwmp1 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b07hwmp3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b07j7j67 (Listen) SAT Bishop Auckland, History in Production SAT SAT 'Kynren' is set across a landscaped stage which is the size SAT of 5 football pitches and involves over 1000 local SAT volunteers. Organizers hope that it will transform Bishop SAT Auckland and bring many visitors to the area for years to SAT come. The story will explore 2000 years of British history SAT from Roman times through the Saxons and Vikings to SAT Industrial times and beyond. Helen Mark hears from the local SAT volunteers about what it means to them and discovers the SAT real history behind Bishop Auckland. She visits Binchester SAT Roman Fort, Escomb Saxon Church and the shut down collieries SAT to see how history remains clearly written in the landscape SAT as well as in this ambitious new production. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07hwmp5 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Soft Fruit SAT SAT From strawberries to raspberries and gooseberries, Charlotte SAT Smith finds out about how soft fruits are faring this SAT season. Visiting Hayle's Fruit Farm near Winchcombe in the SAT Cotswolds, she asks Martin Harrell how the Brexit vote might SAT affect the availability of East European migrant workers who SAT the industry relies upon to pick the crops. Charlotte also SAT hears about the delayed growing season after a long, wet SAT spring, and why Martin's had to diversify in order to SAT survive. SAT SAT Produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b07hwmp7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07jqlvp (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 b07hwmp9 (Listen) SAT Tim Vincent SAT SAT The next stop on the Saturday Live summer road trip is the SAT beautiful seaside town of Tenby in Pembrokeshire. SAT SAT It's the Long Course Weekend and Aasmah Mir and Richard SAT Coles will be celebrating extreme sports, adrenaline and SAT music, live from Wales. SAT SAT Wrexham lad Tim Vincent first hit our screens as the SAT youngest ever male Blue Peter presenter, which saw him SAT flying a fighter jet, running the New York Marathon and SAT carrying a large tree around with 3 other paras. He's spent SAT the last 11 years as the roving reporter on NBC's flagship SAT entertainment programme, Access Hollywood. SAT SAT American country singer Stella Parton will be with us to SAT talk about her new album 'Mountain Songbird: A Sister's SAT Tribute' - a collection of re-recorded songs previously made SAT famous by her sister, Dolly Parton. SAT SAT A mix of orienteering, mountaineering and swimming with SAT tombstoning thrown in, the extreme sport of coasteering is SAT said to originate in Pembrokeshire. Local guide Ollie Davies SAT talks about his passion for this exhilarating pastime. SAT SAT As a scientist, adventurer and educator, Huw James is well SAT versed in adrenaline. He uses his enthusiasm for extreme SAT sports to teach science, in between keeping the night sky SAT dark in the Brecon Beacons. SAT SAT O DUO are that rare thing - a duo of percussionists. After SAT training at the Royal College of Music an Edinburgh festival SAT novelty act has led to 15 years of percussive duets. Owen SAT Gunnel and Oliver Cox join us on Saturday Live before their SAT gig at the Gower festival. SAT SAT JP meets local hero and "Mr Tenby", Laurie Dale, and we'll SAT have thank yous live from our studio audience. SAT SAT And the Inheritance Tracks of TV Weather presenter Sian SAT Lloyd who chooses Can Walter by Meic Stevens and Something SAT Inside So Strong by Labi Siffre. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Interviewed Guest: Tim Vincent SAT Interviewed Guest: Ollie Davies SAT Interviewed Guest: Huw James SAT Interviewed Guest: Owen Gunnel SAT Interviewed Guest: Oliver Cox SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Laurie Dale SAT Interviewed Guest: Sian Lloyd SAT SAT 10:30 Viz: An Unfeasibly Large Success b07g8psz (Listen) SAT Viz was born in a Newcastle bedroom during the Thatcher SAT years. The profanity-laced and flatulence-filled comic took SAT Britain by storm with its taboo-shattering humour. While its SAT blatant disregard for political correctness turned many away SAT in disgust, its gasp-inducing gags made it one of Britain's SAT best-selling magazines. Nick Baker traces the comic back to SAT its Geordie genesis to ask how something so shockingly SAT vulgar ended up under the mattresses of countless teens and SAT under the eyes of business men pretending to read the SAT Financial Times. SAT SAT Nick's journey begins in Tyneside with the creators of Viz. SAT Brothers Chris and Simon Donald and best friend Jim SAT Brownlow. SAT SAT With the equally loved and hated Fat Slags, Sid the Sexist SAT and Johnny Fartpants by his side, Nick tours the Newcastle SAT underground that served as an incubator for Viz. The naughty SAT and risqué content spread like wildfire in the punk scene. SAT Soon each issue of the DIY magazine was consistently selling SAT over a million copies. SAT SAT As Nick tries to understand this rollercoaster success, he SAT secures exclusive interviews with Viz legends Roger Mellie SAT the Man on the Tellie and Billy the Fish, voiced by Harry SAT Enfield. SAT SAT Viz's outrageous satire got them in trouble with everyone SAT from the United Nations to Scotland Yard. Accusations of SAT racism, sexism, and insensitivity were part of the daily SAT routine at the office. Comedians Richard Herring, Alex Lowe, SAT Lucy Porter and Frank Skinner debate whether these SAT boundaries should exist in the first place. SAT SAT Today, sales of Viz have declined dramatically. Nick SAT discusses its place in the pantheon of British comedy with SAT current editors Graham Dury and Simon Thorp. SAT SAT Produced by Anishka Sharma SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT Image (c) Colin Davison. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b07jqm79 (Listen) SAT Paul Waugh of The Huffington Post looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b07hwmpc (Listen) SAT The man who inspired a killer SAT SAT Kate Adie introduces stories from correspondents around the SAT world. SAT Frank Gardner assesses the reaction to the bombing close to SAT one of Islam's holiest sites. SAT Shaimaa Khalil tells how a Pakistani assassin and the SAT country's strict blasphemy laws influenced a killer in the SAT UK. SAT We go to Colombia to hear from Natalio Cosoy and the story SAT of legislators who are struggling with a problem: how do you SAT pass laws to force senators to turn up for work when the SAT senators needed to pass the laws don't turn up for work. SAT Olivia Acland travels to meet residents of a small island SAT off the coast of Sierra Leone who learn that rich foreigners SAT bearing gifts don't always keep their promises. SAT And Diarmaid Fleming tells how the appearance of mayflies SAT causes the residents of one Irish town to drop everything SAT and take to the water in search of trout. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b07hwmpf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b07jqm7c (Listen) SAT What is the future for investing in commercial property SAT SAT Seven commercial property funds, accounting for more than SAT half this investment sector, have stopped investors taking SAT their money out. They say too many investors wanted to cash SAT in their investments on concerns that the value would fall SAT after the vote to leave the EU. Is it right to blame Brexit? SAT And what is the future of commercial property investment? SAT David Hatcher, Estates Gazette and Adrian Lowcock, head of SAT investing, AXA Wealth, join the programme. SAT SAT More than a million people living abroad on UK pensions have SAT seen their value plummet as the pound has tumbled since the SAT vote to leave the European Union. Pensioners living in SAT Europe have seen more than £40 wiped off their four weekly SAT state pension payment and in other parts of the world such SAT as America or Australia the loss has been even greater. SAT What, if anything, can they do? Mark Bodega, from the SAT currency firm HI FX talks to the programme. SAT SAT A third of your pension fund can be taken by other people SAT over a lifetime of investing. New research by the SAT Transparency Taskforce - a campaign group of finance SAT professionals - has identified a total of three hundred SAT separate costs, fees, and charges which can drain away our SAT money, often without being properly set out and usually SAT without us noticing. The taskforce chairman, Andy SAT Agathangelou, tells us why he wants more openness and SAT control for investors. SAT Pensions Advisory Service SAT State pension if you retire abroad - Gov.UK SAT Which? SAT The Association of Real Estate Funds SAT Transparency Task Force SAT The Investment Association SAT Money Advice Service SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b07j7nvf (Listen) SAT Series 16, Episode 4 SAT SAT It's out with Farage, Gove, Boris, Hodgson, Chris Evans and SAT David Cameron. And in with the new: Andrea Leadsom? SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b07hwmph (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b07hwmpk (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b07j7nvk (Listen) SAT Tim Farron MP, Dominic Grieve MP, Liam Halligan, Gisela SAT Stuart MP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Sandbach SAT Town Hall in Cheshire with the Leader of the Liberal SAT Democrats Tim Farron MP, Chair of the Intelligence and SAT Security Committee Dominic Grieve MP, Sunday Telegraph SAT columnist Liam Halligan and the Labour MP and former chair SAT of Vote Leave which campaigned for Brexit, Gisela Stuart. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b07hwmpm (Listen) SAT You have your say on the Question's raised in last night's SAT programme. SAT Any Answers after the Saturday broadcast of Any Questions? SAT Lines open at 1230 SAT Call 03700 100 444. Email is any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Or SAT tweet, the hastag is BBCAQ. Follow us @bbcanyquestions. SAT SAT 14:30 Defoe b07jwj17 (Listen) SAT Moll Flanders, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Daniel Defoe, adapted by Nick Perry. SAT SAT Daniel Defoe, once more in need of ready money, finds SAT inspiration for a new book when he meets Elizabeth Atkins in SAT Newgate gaol. She tells him her stranger-than-fiction story; SAT of how she was born in prison to a petty thief and of how SAT she loved and bargained her way from rags to riches, from SAT prostitution in the streets of London to prosperity on a SAT Virginia plantation, and then lost it all again. Defoe SAT interprets it all in his characteristic manner, blending SAT fact with fiction, and re-inventing his interlocutor as the SAT lusty and resourceful Moll Flanders. SAT SAT The Harpsichord was played by Peter Ringrose. SAT SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT Credits SAT Moll Flanders: Jessica Hynes SAT Daniel Defoe: Ben Miles SAT Mr Mist: Brian Protheroe SAT Lady Cholmondley: Elizabeth Bennett SAT Jemmy: Blake Ritson SAT Nurse: Claire Perkins SAT Young Moll: Alex Jarett SAT Rob: Nick Underwood SAT Lucy: Kirsty Oswald SAT John: Tom Forrister SAT Robin: Sam Rix SAT Gaoler: Sean Baker SAT Author: Daniel Defoe SAT Adaptor: Nick Perry SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT SAT 15:30 India's Classical Music Marathon b07j4kfy (Listen) SAT Aditya Chakrabortty journeys to Kolkata and into the SAT mythology of one of India's most precious musical SAT traditions. SAT SAT Over the course of an all-night classical music concert - or SAT 'conference' - hear some of the best Indian classical SAT musicians on the planet describe the intricacies of their SAT art, and explain why it might not last much longer in a SAT culture short of attention and keen for quick satisfaction. SAT SAT "The whole day is so much full of noise, of work, of SAT distraction ... Indian classical music is more about SAT meditation. Nights give us that tranquillity. The listener SAT needs to be free of his worldly worries, as musicians paint SAT on the canvas of silence." SAT SAT At the Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra Conference, on the bank of SAT the river Ganges just north of Kolkata, sitarists, SAT tabla-players, vocalists and other instrumentalists start at SAT 8pm and try to outplay each other until 7 o'clock in the SAT morning, to an audience of nearly 3,000. In doing so, they SAT re-enact a tradition central to Indian classical music, SAT which was based on such a competitive tradition with artists SAT battling each other in front of a royal court. SAT SAT It's magical, hypnotic, mesmerising - but do modern SAT audiences have the stamina or the will to keep awake for SAT arguably the world's most famous sitar player, Shahid SAT Parvez, at 5 o'clock in the morning? SAT SAT Aditya meets some of the audience members and musicians SAT trying to keep the all-night conference alive, including SAT some of Indian classical music's biggest names - Shahid SAT Parvez, Tanmoy Bose and Ajoy Chakrabarty, as well as the SAT Kolkata-based writer and classically trained singer Amit SAT Chaudhuri. SAT SAT Produced by Eve Streeter SAT A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b07hwmpp (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jacqueline Gold the CEO of Ann Summers discusses the SAT changing landscape of the adult entertainment industry and SAT why she's a fan of the new ITV drama Brief Encounters based SAT on the Ann Summers party reps of the 80s. SAT The Multi award winning poet Helen Mort talks about her new SAT collection of poems which explores the lives of pioneering SAT female mountaineers, campaigners and runners. SAT Iceland reached the quarter finals of the Euros this year SAT but the women's national team will very likely be going to SAT their third euros in 2017, outplaying the men on the SAT international stage. The women's team captain Margret Lara SAT Vioarsdottir tells us why they are doing so well. SAT Is crying at work still a taboo? How can we best support a SAT colleague who become tearful? Dr Emily Grossman, a science SAT broadcaster and educator who presented a Ted Talk on why SAT science needs people who cry, and Nell Frizzell a freelance SAT journalist discuss. SAT Millie Smith started a campaign to put a purple butterfly SAT sticker onto cots in hospital to indicate to visitors when SAT there has been a loss of a sibling in a multiple pregnancy. SAT Millie tells us about her own loss of a twin and Cheryl SAT Titherley from Bereavement Care at Sands UK discuss how best SAT to help families. SAT What is the appeal of psychological thrillers and why is it SAT that women are so good at writing these types of books? We SAT hear from the authors Sabine Durrant and Ruth Ware. SAT What is it really like to be a step parent? Four listeners SAT Jane, Alison, Louise and Jo share their own experiences of SAT taking on the role of mum. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Jacqueline Gold SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Mort SAT Interviewed Guest: Margret Lara Vioarsdottir SAT Interviewed Guest: Emily Grossman SAT Interviewed Guest: Nell Frizzell SAT Interviewed Guest: Millie Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Cheryl Titherley SAT Interviewed Guest: Sabine Durrant SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Ware SAT SAT 17:00 PM b07hwmpr (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b07j7j6m (Listen) SAT The Price of Life SAT SAT It's hard to put a value on a human life. When you're well, SAT perhaps you don't think about it. But if you're ill, getting SAT access to the right drugs, whatever the cost, is a priority. SAT But the NHS does not have a bottomless pit of money. And SAT some medicines are judged too expensive to be freely SAT available, so patients miss out on treatments that could SAT save or extend their lives. There are usually two villains SAT of the piece: The drugs companies for charging too much; the SAT NHS for not stumping up the cash. In this edition, Evan SAT Davis and guests explore how pharmaceutical companies price SAT their drugs, the role of the NHS in deciding how much the SAT medicines are worth and, in the case of generic or SAT non-branded drugs, they'll ask whether competition is SAT working properly to keep down the NHS medicines bill. SAT SAT Guests: SAT Erik Nordkamp, Managing Director, Pfizer UK SAT SAT Carole Longson, Director of the Centre for Health Technology SAT Evaluation at NICE, the National Institute for Health and SAT Care Excellence SAT SAT Warwick Smith, Director-General, British Generic SAT Manufacturers Association SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07hwmpt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b07hwmpw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07hwmpy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b07jwj19 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson, Scottee, Howard Jacobson, Anohni, Tess SAT Berry-Hart, Nish Kumar SAT SAT Clive Anderson and Scottee are joined by Howard Jacobson, SAT Anohni, Tess Berry-Hart and Nish Kumar for an eclectic mix SAT of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Anohni. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Howard Jacobson SAT ‘The Mighty Walzer' is at The Royal Exchange Theatre, SAT Manchester, until Saturday 30th July. The book of the same SAT name is published by Vintage and is available now. SAT SAT Nish Kumar SAT Actions Speak Louder Than Words Unless You Shout The Words SAT Real Loud is at the Pleasance Courtyard – Cabaret Bar from 6 SAT to 28 August. And you can also catch Nish at the Cornbury SAT Music Festival on Sunday 10th and Latitude Festival on SAT Sunday 17th July. SAT SAT Tess Berry-Hart SAT 'Cargo' is at the Arcola Theatre, London until Saturday 6th SAT August. SAT SAT Anohni SAT SAT 'Hopelessness' is available now on Rough Trade. SAT SAT Anohni is performing 'Hopelessness' at the Edinburgh SAT Playhouse on 17th and 18th August, as part of the SAT Edinburgh International Festival. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clive Anderson SAT Presenter: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Howard Jacobson SAT Interviewed Guest: Tess Berry-Hart SAT Interviewed Guest: Nish Kumar SAT Performer: Anohni SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b07jqmrd (Listen) SAT Andrea Leadsom SAT SAT Andrea Leadsom and Theresa May are vying to be the next SAT Conservative leader and Britain's second ever female prime SAT minister. Mark Coles explores how a little-known junior SAT energy minister was propelled into the limelight by the SAT televised referendum debates and now stands a chance of SAT leading not only her party but also her country. She is a SAT relative newcomer to politics, having been elected to SAT Parliament in 2010 when she won her seat in South SAT Northamptonshire. She cooks an excellent roast dinner and SAT has strong family values. Before becoming an MP she had a SAT long career in the city but this has come under scrutiny SAT this week with some claiming she has exaggerated past roles. SAT We take a closer look at her CV and ask - does it stack up? SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles SAT Producers: Laura Gray and Sarah Shebbeare. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b07hwmq0 (Listen) SAT Georgia O'Keeffe, Maggie's Plan, Robert lePage, The SAT Association of Small Bombs, Brexit metaphors SAT SAT A major retrospective exhibition of the work of Georgia SAT O'Keeffe at Tate Modern brings together a wide range of her SAT work from the floral paintings to her landscapes and urban SAT paintings SAT A complicated web of marital intrigue unfolds in Rebecca SAT Miller's film Maggie's Plan - is it more than Woody Allen SAT lite? SAT Needles and Opium is Canadian performer Robert lePage's SAT latest work to reach the UK - a revival of a work debuted in SAT 1991 and based on the New York experiences of Jean Cocteau SAT and Miles Davis SAT Karan Mahajan's novel The Association of Small Bombs is set SAT in Delhi, which follows the consequences and web of SAT influences of a terrorist attack SAT When politics seems wobbly, commentators in the press reach SAT for the solid base of a good metaphor; Shakespeare, Game of SAT Thrones and The Thick of It and Game of Cards have all been SAT invoked to try and describe the consequences of the Brexit SAT vote and Tory and Labour parties disarray. SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Alex Preston, Rosie Boycott and SAT Simon Evans. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Needles and Opium SAT Ex Machina/Robert Lepage: Needles and Opium SAT is at the Barbican in London until 16 July 2016 SAT SAT Images (main and left): photo credit: Nicola-Frank Vachon. SAT SAT SAT Maggie’s Plan SAT Maggie’s Plan SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Karan Mahajan SAT SAT The Association of Small Bombs by SAT Karan Mahajan SAT is available in hardback and ebook now. SAT SAT Photo: © Joshua Haner. SAT SAT SAT Georgia O’Keeffe SAT Georgia O’Keeffe SAT is at the Tate Modern in London until 30 October 2016. SAT SAT Image: Black Mesa Landscape, New Mexico / Out Back of SAT Marie's II. Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. Gift of The Burnett SAT Foundation ©Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Alex Preston SAT Interviewed Guest: Rosie Boycott SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Evans SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b07jwj1c (Listen) SAT The Heath Enigma SAT SAT The conventional wisdom is that Sir Edward Heath was a SAT one-shot prime minister. For good or ill, he transformed the SAT United Kingdom by taking the country into the European SAT Community in 1973. But otherwise his premiership is commonly SAT remembered for its economic 'U-turn', its prices and incomes SAT policy, the miners' strike and the three-day week, SAT culminating in an early election and humiliating defeat. SAT After Heath was ousted as Conservative leader by Margaret SAT Thatcher, he famously devoted himself to the 'incredible SAT sulk' while she became an election-winner and long-serving SAT prime minister. SAT SAT Yet does this view present the full truth of the man and his SAT career - a man who was an accomplished musician, and who SAT also taught himself to sail before becoming a world class SAT yachtsman? Was he also a more successful politician who made SAT a greater impact than is often appreciated? SAT SAT On the centenary of his birth (9 July 1916), Shaun Ley SAT presents a reappraisal of Heath, the man and the leader, SAT drawing on archive recordings and interviews with those who SAT knew him. This portrait explores the enigma of an intensely SAT private man who reached the top in politics and inspired SAT affection among those closest to him, despite his SAT extraordinary social awkwardness and brusque dealings with SAT many others. His contemporaries discuss the personal SAT qualities and flaws that shaped him, and the drive and SAT talent that enabled him to transform the Conservatives into SAT a party of change. The programme also reveals the inside SAT story of the eventual rapprochement between Sir Edward Heath SAT and Baroness Thatcher in their later years. For the first SAT time, a wider audience can hear Margaret Thatcher praising SAT Edward Heath as one of Britain's greatest Prime Ministers. SAT SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b07hwwjv (Listen) SAT Roald Dahl: Going Solo, Episode 1 SAT SAT To celebrate the centenary year of his birth, a full SAT dramatization of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical SAT overseas adventure. SAT SAT Beginning aboard the SS Mantola, Dahl sets sail for Africa SAT at the tender age of 22. He experiences the remnants of SAT colonial British life, filled with eccentric characters, and SAT is thrown into a world as bizarre and surprising as any you SAT will find in his fiction. SAT SAT "Life is made up of a great number of small incidents and a SAT small number of great ones." SAT SAT Stationed in Tanzania, Dahl is faced with the excitement of SAT the wild; lions carrying off women in their mouths; fatal SAT green mambas captured by snake men. But his SAT savannah-sun-drenched life is interrupted when World War II SAT erupts. Dahl is ordered to round up the German inhabitants SAT of Dar es Salaam and experiences first-hand the horror of SAT war. 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: John Heffernan SAT Mother: Joanna Van Kampen SAT Mdisho: Eric Abrefa SAT Major Griffiths: Brian Protheroe SAT Mrs Griffiths: Clare Perkins SAT Miss Trefusis: Elizabeth Bennett SAT Sandford: Nick Underwood SAT Savory: James Lailey SAT Parkinson: Tom Forrister SAT Mackintosh: Sam Rix SAT Snakeman: Sean Baker SAT Sergeant: Jason Barnett SAT Adaptor: Lucy Catherine SAT Author: Roald Dahl SAT Director: Helen Perry SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b07hwmq2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b07j68nh (Listen) SAT The Chilcot Inquiry SAT SAT 130 sessions of oral evidence,150 witnesses, 150,000 SAT documents, more than 2.5 million words - the Chilcot Report SAT on the Iraq War was finally published on the day of this SAT programme. The inquiry was set up to examine our reasons for SAT taking part in the US-led invasion of Iraq, how the war was SAT prosecuted and its aftermath. But was the decision to go to SAT war morally justified? Chilcot confirms that there was a SAT massive failing in intelligence in the lead-up to the SAT decision to go to war, especially around WMD; it accepts SAT that Tony Blair was acting in good faith and did not SAT deliberately mislead Parliament and the public about that SAT intelligence. The relationship between morality and SAT consequences is complex and sometimes contradictory. If Tony SAT Blair and his government were acting in good faith but the SAT consequences of that war were so catastrophic, can we still SAT describe the decision to go to war as a moral one? If the SAT government were a limited company, isn't this the kind of SAT gross negligence that would lead to directors being SAT prosecuted for corporate manslaughter? On the other hand, if SAT - being wise after the event - we were to hound all SAT politicians for making decisions that went wrong, wouldn't SAT that produce sclerosis and the replacement of democratic SAT judgement with technocracy? Is this a counsel of moral SAT perfection that produces only paralysis of the will? When SAT does ignorance become a moral failing? Is that contingent on SAT outcomes? What if the war had been a success and Iraq SAT transformed into a flourishing democracy? Would we still be SAT worrying about whether it was moral? Would we have spent SAT £10m on an inquiry about it? Chaired by Michael Buerk with SAT Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser and Melanie SAT Phillips. Witnesses are Prof Michael Clarke, John Rentoul, SAT Haider Al Safi and Dr Dan Bulley. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b07j4384 (Listen) SAT Series 30, Heat 3, 2016 SAT SAT (3/13) SAT Competitors from Gloucestershire, Worcestershire and West SAT Yorkshire join Paul Gambaccini for the latest heat of the SAT wide-ranging music quiz. From Beethoven and Korngold to SAT Elton John and Led Zeppelin, the questions and extracts test SAT their knowledge of music in all its variety and provide SAT something for all tastes. SAT SAT Today's contest comes from the headquarters of the BBC SAT Philharmonic in Salford, and the winner will automatically SAT take a place in the semi-finals with a real chance of SAT competing in the 30th Counterpoint Final at the Proms in SAT September. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT TIM ADKIN, a solicitor from Stroud; SAT SAT SIMON LOACH, a receptionist from Bingley in West Yorkshire; SAT SAT PAUL MOUNTAIN, a solicitor from Worcester. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b07hwwl9 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Sharon Olds SAT SAT In New York City Paul Farley hears some new odes from Sharon SAT Olds addressed to bodies and body parts, both shoddy and SAT enduring. Sharon Olds' poetry is almost always personal and SAT is renowned for its frank directness. She has written SAT unflinchingly about abuse in her family and her broken SAT marriage. Much imitated and highly influential no one SAT compares to her. She reads her new poems about her hymen, SAT and her wattles, a composting toilet, and the tampon. SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 JULY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b07jqqgk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Introductions b0457fqm (Listen) SUN Three Singers 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 Kavita A Jindal's Three Singers mixed race twins Himani SUN and Sonali escape the tensions of setting up their own SUN fashion business by joining a classical Indian singing SUN class, but what they get from the class is not what they SUN expected. SUN SUN Reader: Deni Francis SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Deni Francis SUN Producer: David Roper SUN Writer: Kavita A Jindal SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07jqqgm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07jqqgp (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07jqqgr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b07jqqgt (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b07jwl7k (Listen) SUN St Bartholomew's Church, Sutton-cum-Lound SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from St Batholomew's, SUN Sutton-cum-Lound in Nottinghamshire who are marking a SUN special time in the life of the church. A service of SUN celebration is being held to celebrate a record 50 years of SUN service by Mr Bryan Birkett as Tower captain. Guest preacher SUN to recognise this achievement will be The Right Reverend SUN Tony Porter, Bishop of Sherwood. We hear now the 8 Bells of SUN Sutton ringing Superlative Surprise Major. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b07jqmrd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b07jqqgw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b07jwlcy (Listen) SUN Brilliant Mistakes, Blessed Failures SUN SUN Artist Grayson Perry has said that 'creativity is mistakes'. SUN Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik agrees, and explores through SUN poetry and prose how mistakes, although a reminder of human SUN imperfection, nevertheless have the ability to reveal SUN something new and hidden. SUN SUN The programme features the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Elvis SUN Costello and Puccini, and readings from theologian Paula SUN Gooder, the Qu'ran, and the Old and New Testaments. SUN SUN Presenter: Abdul-Rehman Malik SUN Producer: Jonathan Mayo SUN A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: The Book of Hadith: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad SUN from the Mishkat Al Masabih SUN SUN Author: Charles Le Gai Eaton SUN SUN Publisher: Book Foundation SUN Title: The Qur'an SUN SUN Translator: M. A. S. Abdel Haleem SUN SUN Publisher: OUP Oxford SUN Title: Don Quixote SUN SUN Author: by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra SUN SUN Publisher: Wordsworth Editions SUN Title: The Book of Legends/Sefer Ha-Aggadah: Legends from SUN the Talmud and Midrash SUN SUN Translator: William G. Braude SUN SUN Publisher: Penguin / Random House SUN Title: NIV Holy Bible SUN SUN Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b07jwld0 (Listen) SUN Wild Farming in South Devon SUN SUN Sarah Swadling meets sheep farmers Rebecca Hosking and Tim SUN Green and discovers how they are using mob grazing to SUN regenerate exhausted arable land. 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SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b07jqqh6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b07jwt5l (Listen) SUN Deliver Us from Evil SUN SUN The next in an occasional series on the Lord's Prayer, SUN Sunday Worship comes live from Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, in SUN Manchester, with preacher Natalie Collins, who won this SUN year's "Sermon of the Year" competition. The programme SUN explores the complex life of Dorothy Lawrence, the English SUN reporter who secretly posed as a man to become a soldier in SUN the Battle of the Somme one hundred years ago. SUN SUN Born in London in 1896, Lawrence was abandoned by her mother SUN and adopted by a guardian of the Church of England. When she SUN returned after the war, she confided to a doctor that she SUN had been raped in her teenage years by her church guardian. SUN She was not believed and was sent to a lunatic asylum in SUN Barnet. She died in 1964, and was buried in a pauper's SUN grave. SUN SUN Natalie Collins works to prevent and respond to violence SUN against women and enable others to do the same. In telling SUN the story of Dorothy Lawrence, she reflects on the ways in SUN which, one hundred years on, individuals and communities can SUN still be ignored and diminished. SUN SUN The service is led by the Rev Dr Kirsty Thorpe and music is SUN provided by the Manchester Singers, directed by Aimee SUN Presswood. The producer is Andrew Earis. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN Please note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN SUN ANNO: It’s ten past eight. Winner of the 2016 Sermon of the SUN Year Competition Natalie Collins gives the address on Sunday SUN Worship now. The service explores the complex life of SUN Dorothy Lawrence, the only female who acted as a British SUN soldier at the Battle of the Somme. It comes live from SUN Emmanuel Church, Didsbury, in South Manchester, and is led SUN by the Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe. The service begins as the SUN choir sings Drop, drop slow tears. SUN SUN CHOIR: Drop drop slow tears (Gibbons) SUN Phineas Fletcher (1582-1650) SUN RECORDED INSERT: TRACK 1 (ACTOR) SUN SUN “Perhaps I shall never come back. Anyhow, I mean to get into SUN the very thick of it. And if I die or if I am killed, well, SUN I die, and my corruptible hide simply parts company with me” SUN INTRODUCTION: KIRSTY THORPE SUN Good morning. A hundred years ago, during the Battle of the SUN Somme, the words ‘walking wounded’ gave hope to relatives SUN waiting for news of loved ones. But all of us, at times, can SUN be walking wounded in different ways – physical or SUN emotional. Unbeknownst to all but a few of the thousands of SUN soldiers fighting on the Front line in 1916, there was a SUN woman in British army uniform among their ranks. Dorothy SUN Lawrence – whose words we heard read just a moment ago - SUN went to France as an undercover reporter, escaping an SUN earlier life blighted by sexual violence. Dorothy’s story, SUN and the pain of other victims of coercive and abusive SUN people, men and women, will be explored in today’s service. SUN SUN It sometimes seems that people who have been subjected to SUN abuse find themselves being victimized time and time again. SUN Our worship explores what it means to ask that God might SUN ‘Deliver us from evil’. SUN SUN Let us pray. SUN SUN Gracious God, SUN in Jesus Christ you enter our broken, pain-filled world, SUN bringing healing and hope, truth and light. SUN We ask your forgiveness for the part we have played - both SUN men and women - in hurting others, SUN and remember before you our tendency to hurt ourselves. SUN Give us your strength SUN as we confront evil, SUN your persistence SUN as we challenge oppression, SUN your loving protection SUN as we enter dangerous places SUN in order to witness to your truth. SUN In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen. SUN SUN HYMN: THE KING OF LOVE (St Columba) SUN SUN Henry Williams Baker (1821-1877) SUN KIRSTY SUN Dorothy Lawrence was born in Hendon in North London in 1896. SUN Abandoned by her mother, or perhaps because her mother had SUN died, she was adopted by a guardian of the Church of SUN England. When she left school, she had a strong desire to SUN become a journalist. In 1914, she was living in Paris when SUN World War One was declared. She contacted several British SUN newspapers offering to work as a war correspondent but they SUN all refused to employ a woman, considering it to be very SUN dangerous work. But she would not be deterred. SUN SUN SUN SUN RECORDED INSERT: TRACK 2 (ACTOR) SUN “I’ll see what an ordinary English girl, without SUN credentials or money, can accomplish. If war-correspondents SUN cannot get out there, I’ll see whether I cannot go one SUN better than these big men with their cars, credentials, and SUN money. I’ll see what I can manage as a war correspondent!” SUN KIRSTY SUN She convinced some British army soldiers to smuggle her a SUN uniform, she flattened her figure with a home-made corset, SUN and persuaded two Scottish military policemen to cut her SUN long, brown hair in short military style. She roughed her SUN pale skin with a razor blade in the hope of giving herself a SUN shaving rash, and to this added shoe-polish tan. She took up SUN the name Denis Smith, managed to obtain some fake army SUN papers, and signed up. SUN SUN Weeks later, Dorothy reached the town of Albert on the SUN Somme, and then spent quite a short time on the front line. SUN RECORDED INSERT: TRACK 3 (ACTOR) SUN “Approximately four hundred yards from the German front line SUN I put in most of my time as a British soldier. I divided the SUN ten days and nights either alone in the open of no man’s SUN land, under simultaneous fire of shell, rifle and shrapnel, SUN or within one of three dugouts appropriated at night for my SUN own use; though several nights I slept alone, under fire, SUN among the ruins.” SUN KIRSTY SUN After reaching the front she was quickly found out, and SUN detained in a French convent. Dorothy was only released when SUN she signed an affidavit promising not to reveal publically SUN how she had eluded the military. On her return to Britain SUN she tried to publish an account of her time at the Somme, SUN but it was banned by the War Office. SUN RECORDED INSERT: TRACK 4 (ACTOR) SUN “In making that promise I sacrificed the chance of earning SUN by newspaper articles written on this escapade, as a girl SUN compelled to earn her livelihood” SUN KIRSTY SUN She later managed to write a book about her experiences, but SUN it was so heavily censored it didn’t become the commercial SUN success that she both wanted and needed. SUN SUN With no income and her journalistic credibility in ruins, SUN her life took a turn for the worse. By 1925, some ten years SUN later, her increasingly unpredictable behaviour was brought SUN to the attention of the authorities. She confided in a SUN doctor that she had been raped in her teenage years by her SUN church guardian. She was not believed, she was taken into SUN care, and deemed insane. She remained in a lunatic asylum SUN for many years, until hear death in 1964. She was buried in SUN an unmarked pauper’s grave. SUN CHOIR: MISERERE MEI – WILLIAM BYRD SUN KIRSTY SUN Miserere Mei by the 17th century English composer William SUN Byrd, with words from Psalm 51, ‘Have mercy upon me O God, SUN after thy Great Goodness’. Our preacher today is Natalie SUN Collins, who works to prevent domestic abuse and violence SUN against women. But before that, a reading from the Old SUN Testament. SUN SUN SUN SUN READING: GENESIS 16.1-6 SUN A reading from the Book of Genesis, Chapter Sixteen, SUN beginning at the first verse. SUN SUN Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children. She had an SUN Egyptian slave-girl whose name was Hagar, and Sarai said to SUN Abram, ‘You see that the LORD has prevented me from bearing SUN children; go in to my slave-girl; it may be that I shall SUN obtain children by her.’ And Abram listened to the voice of SUN Sarai. So, after Abram had lived for ten years in the land SUN of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her SUN slave-girl, and gave her to her husband Abram as a wife. He SUN went in to Hagar, and she conceived; and when she saw that SUN she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress. SUN Then Sarai said to Abram, ‘May the wrong done to me be on SUN you! I gave my slave-girl to your embrace, and when she saw SUN that she had conceived, she looked on me with contempt. May SUN the LORD judge between you and me!’ But Abram said to Sarai, SUN ‘Your slave-girl is in your power; do to her as you please.’ SUN Then Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she ran away from SUN her. SUN SERMON PART 1 – Natalie Collins SUN SUN The story of Dorothy Lawrence reminds me of that of Hagar, SUN the Egyptian slave of Abraham’s wife Sarah. When Hagar SUN became pregnant her relationship with Sarah broke down, so SUN pregnant, powerless and abused she fled into the desert to SUN escape mistreatment. SUN SUN Dorothy Lawrence’s story is amazing and heart wrenching. SUN But, like Hagar, she lived many years ago and it would be SUN easy to imagine the painful parts of her story relegated to SUN the past – to distance ourselves from the horrors that she SUN endured. But my work with women and children who have been SUN subjected to abuse, suggests otherwise. Indeed, my own SUN story, and that of countless others around the world, echoes SUN both that of Dorothy Lawrence, and of Hagar. I was brought SUN up in a Christian household, and the teaching I received in SUN church disabled me from recognising the abuse that I was SUN subjected to. How, after that, could I possibly continue to SUN follow Jesus or the Christian faith? SUN SUN So the story of Hagar is a powerful one for me. The reading SUN we’ve just heard continues as Hagar fled into the desert. As SUN she sat devastated near a spring, an angel appeared to her. SUN And the angel told her – amazingly - that she would be SUN blessed. SUN SUN “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be SUN too numerous to count.” The angel of the Lord also said to SUN her: “You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. SUN You shall name him Ishmael, for the Lord has heard of your SUN misery.” SUN SUN Ishmael means “God hears”. This woman, powerless and SUN abused; and God, Creator of all, appeared to her and told SUN her He had heard her! SUN SUN And Hagar spoke to God. She said, “I have now seen the One SUN who sees me.” Hagar, abused and alone, is the first person SUN in the Bible to give God a name, - a highly significant act SUN in ancient middle eastern cultures for whom God was so holy SUN he could hardly BE named. Hagar’s relationship with God was SUN enduring, despite what she’d been through. How SUN characteristic of our loving God to take the initiative, SUN appearing to Hagar as he did, affirming her personal SUN significance strongly and profoundly. SUN SUN For me too, it was through Jesus that I found a new way to SUN live, with life in all its fullness. I came to realise that SUN some of the horrid things which had been done to me - did SUN not diminish my significance as a human being, that in God, SUN wholeness and healing can be found and this God was the God SUN who heard me. SUN SUN My personal journey and professional expertise led me to SUN found and run a consultancy to enable individuals and SUN organisations to prevent and respond to male violence SUN against women and also to found a youth domestic abuse and SUN exploitation education programme. And though we must SUN recognise the gendered nature of abuse, it has never been SUN solely women who are subjected to abuse; men, and children SUN of both genders are too. It is not before time that our SUN society is becoming more sensitized to and aware of such SUN issues, including in our churches and religious communities, SUN and taking steps to safeguard the vulnerable and young. SUN SUN People often ask why God doesn’t just stop bad things SUN happening, if He is real. As Teresa of Avila famously said, SUN “Christ has no body now but yours. No hands, no feet on SUN earth but yours. Yours are the eyes through which he looks SUN compassion on this world. Yours are the feet with which he SUN walks to do good. SUN Yours are the hands through which he blesses all the world. SUN Yours are the hands, yours are the feet, yours are the eyes, SUN you are his body. Christ has no body now on earth but SUN yours.” SUN HYMN (CHOIR ONLY): WHO CAN SOUND THE DEPTHS OF SORROW SUN (Kendrick) SUN Graham Kendrick SUN BIBLE READING: LUKE 10.25-37 SUN A reading from the Gospel according to Luke, Chapter 10, SUN beginning at the 25th verse. SUN SUN A lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what SUN must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is SUN written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, SUN “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and SUN with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all SUN your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to SUN him, “You have given the right answer; do this, and you will SUN live.” SUN But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is SUN my neighbor?” Jesus replied, “A man was going down from SUN Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, SUN who stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half SUN dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and SUN when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. So likewise SUN a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by SUN on the other side. But a Samaritan while traveling came near SUN him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to SUN him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on SUN them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an SUN inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two SUN denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, ‘Take care of SUN him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more SUN you spend.’ Which of these three, do you think, was a SUN neighbour to the man who fell into the hands of the SUN robbers?” He said, “The one who showed him mercy.” Jesus SUN said to him, “Go and do likewise.” SUN SUN SERMON PART 2 – Natalie Collins SUN SUN The story of the Good Samaritan encapsulates for all time SUN Jesus’ own understanding: Namely that compassion can be SUN exercised in surprising ways by surprising people, including SUN those we might ourselves most naturally despise, be SUN suspicious of, or exclude. How badly do we need to hear that SUN message in our society that feels increasingly beset by SUN divisions! How important is it for us to break down walls of SUN suspicion between all sorts of groupings – be they of class, SUN politics, race, gender or sexuality, at this particular SUN moment in our national life. It’s good to remember that SUN Dorothy’s story also involved people who saw her as their SUN neighbour, both men and women, who got involved and SUN supported her. A man called Tom found her a safe place to SUN sleep when she was in the trenches. Ten men Dorothy SUN described as the “khaki accomplices” also helped her when SUN she was in the trenches.. Emmeline Pankhurst, listened to SUN her, believed her and gave her an opportunity to speak about SUN her experiences. SUN SUN There are so many women, and men, like Dorothy. They are SUN our neighbours, friends, work colleagues and family members SUN in need. We pass them in the street and sit next to them on SUN the bus. SUN SUN The story of the Good Samaritan reminds me of a woman I met SUN some years ago. Her husband was an elder in their church. SUN For twenty years he had abused her. And when she finally SUN left him, the people in the church abandoned her. She told SUN me that the church women literally walked by on the other SUN side of the road when they saw her. “And do you know who SUN helped me?” She asked. Her voice rose louder, “An atheist, SUN a group of Hindu people and a homosexual couple. They are SUN the ones who helped me.” SUN SUN It’s my experience that in many ways some church communities SUN have been disabled from effectively supporting those who are SUN subjected to abuse, often having sided with the SUN perpetrator. This is not limited to the church, many SUN communities and individuals would prefer to imagine that SUN abuse happens “out there” to people unlike them. Yet the SUN church has a history of mistreating, not only children, but SUN women too. Tertullian said that woman is a temple built SUN over a sewer, St Augustus Magnus said woman is a misbegotten SUN man and Martin Luther said women should remain at home and SUN sit still. Although there has been much progress since SUN these early church fathers, I think we still have a long way SUN to go until women are understood and respected as within our SUN churches, and the wider world. SUN SUN Fortunately there are also many, many Good Samaritans across SUN our communities, and there is so much good to celebrate. SUN It’s noteworthy that Jesus tells the parable of the Good SUN Samaritan in response to a question ‘What must I do to SUN inherit eternal life’? This is so important it affects our SUN salvation, as individuals, as communities. Being Good SUN Samaritans - taking notice of the marginalized or abused, SUN being a good neighbour in every way to those around us - is SUN our very spiritual life blood! Christ has no body but us on SUN this earth, we are Christ’s eyes and we must be a people who SUN see the Dorothy’s. We must be willing to take seriously the SUN stories of those like Dorothy and we must help them to see SUN that God does indeed see them, as Hagar herself came to SUN understand. He sees, He cares. When we ourselves see them SUN and we get involved we become Christ’s hand, holding theirs SUN in ours. We become Christ’s feet walking with them. SUN SUN If you are hurting today, know that God knows you and sees SUN you, and loves you. SUN CHOIR: PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU – AMY BEACH SUN SUN KIRSTY THORPE SUN Peace I leave with you, an anthem by the American composer SUN Amy Beach, performed by the Manchester Singers, directed by SUN Aimee Presswood. And so to our prayers. SUN READER 1 SUN We bring our prayers for the victims of violence in our SUN world, SUN children subjected to abuse and neglect of all kinds, SUN women and men trapped by unloving relationships, SUN relatives, neighbours, and others within communities, SUN who suspect or know something is wrong behind closed doors, SUN but may not see a way to deliver those in suffering SUN from the evil they are subjected to. SUN CHOIR: PRAYER RESPONSE – NADA TE TURBE (TAIZE) SUN SUN READER 2 SUN We pray for those choosing to be abusive, violent, SUN controlling or hurtful to others, that they would be SUN convicted to stop and that as a community we would not SUN collude with abusers' behaviour. SUN We remember before God those who are drawn to challenge SUN oppression – SUN social workers, counsellors, doctors and nurses, SUN lawyers, police officers, teachers and refuge workers – SUN asking that their sensitivity may not be blunted SUN by the things they uncover, SUN and that their commitment may not be diminished SUN by the scale of the evil they confront. SUN CHOIR: PRAYER RESPONSE – NADA TE TURBE (TAIZE) SUN READER 1 SUN We pray for ourselves, recognizing the inner conflicts we SUN often face SUN when we are subjected to pressure or manipulative behavior SUN by others. SUN Help us to confront what we are denying, SUN to allow your healing to touch and transform what faces us, SUN and to receive the peace, love and joy SUN which you alone can give us. SUN SUN CHOIR: PRAYER RESPONSE – NADA TE TURBE (TAIZE) SUN SUN READER 2 SUN Bringing together all our prayers, we join in the words that SUN Jesus taught us. SUN Our Father, SUN 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. SUN Amen. SUN KIRSTY SUN Our final hymn comes from the Iona Community in Scotland. SUN Jesus Christ is waiting. SUN HYMN: JESUS CHRIST IS WAITING (Bell/Maule/Iona Community) SUN SUN John L Bell (born 1949) and Graham Maule (born 1958) SUN SUN KIRSTY SUN The blessing of the God of Sarah and Hagar, SUN as of Abraham, SUN the blessing of the Son, born of the woman Mary, SUN the blessing of the Holy Spirit SUN who broods over us SUN as a mother, her children, SUN be with you all. SUN Amen SUN SUN ORGAN VOLUNTARY – Theme and Variations (Andriessen) SUN (publisher Zengerink) SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b07j7nvm (Listen) SUN Belongings SUN SUN "Transitions shake us" writes AL Kennedy. "and you don't SUN need me to tell you that as a nation we're sharing one". SUN SUN Alison reflects on how disturbing transitional times can be SUN ...and writes of her own personal experience and that SUN happening in post-Brexit Britain. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03thwxg (Listen) SUN Black-Throated Diver SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN John Aitchison presents the black-throated diver. SUN Black-throated divers are strong contenders for our most SUN beautiful bird. Their breeding plumage with a neck barcoded SUN in white, an ebony bib and a plush grey head, is dramatic. SUN The black dagger-like bill and broad lobed feet are perfect SUN for catching and pursuing fish which the divers bring to SUN their chicks in nests on the shoreline of the Scottish Lochs SUN on which they breed. SUN SUN Black-throated Diver (Gavia arctica) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b07jqqh8 (Listen) SUN News with Paddy O'Connell. Including Conservative leadership SUN latest, sounds to relax to and wither the bungalow? SUN Reviewing the papers: Labour's Dame Margaret Hodge, SUN commentator Barry Davies and financial journalist Heather SUN McGregor. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b07k7qnb (Listen) SUN Anna needs to make herself scarce, and Kenton gets some SUN shocking news. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Mary Cutler SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis 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 Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Miranda Elliott: Lucy Fleming SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Richard Locke: William Gaminara SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN Kaz: Amaka Okafor SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b07jwt5n (Listen) SUN Nicole Farhi SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the designer and sculptor Nicole SUN Farhi. SUN SUN Born into a Turkish family in France, Nicole's interest in SUN fashion was present from an early age. As a child, she used SUN to design clothes for her paper dolls; as a teenager, she SUN was taken to couture shows in Paris by her stylish aunts. SUN SUN Aged eighteen, she enrolled in fashion school in Paris and SUN began selling her design sketches to earn a little pocket SUN money, thus setting out on a career as a freelance designer. SUN In the early 1970s, she met the British entrepreneur Stephen SUN Marks who was just starting the retail chain French SUN Connection where she became chief designer, and it was he SUN who encouraged her to set up her eponymous label in 1982. SUN Her fashion empire would eventually extend to New York, SUN London and Tokyo before being sold in 2010, and Nicole SUN herself left the business in 2012. SUN SUN Since retiring from fashion, Nicole Farhi has dedicated SUN herself to her other passion - sculpture. She sculpts SUN predominantly in clay and then casts her works in different SUN materials including glass, bronze and concrete. SUN SUN She has been married to the playwright Sir David Hare since SUN 1992. SUN SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Nicole Farhi SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b07jqqhb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07j438b (Listen) SUN Series 65, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 65th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a SUN return visit to the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke-Taylor are SUN once again joined on the panel by Rory Bremner with Jack Dee SUN in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. 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: Jeremy Hardy SUN Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN Panellist: Rory Bremner SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b07jwt5q (Listen) SUN School food: An uncertain future SUN SUN In 2013, The School Food Plan was published aiming to SUN revolutionise food in schools across England, and to show SUN countries around the world what providing good food in SUN schools could look like. Out of the policy came 'universal SUN infant free school meals', dubbed by the Government as "good SUN news" for any family with small children at infant school. A SUN £600 million commitment to giving children a hot meal at SUN lunchtime. SUN SUN But in this programme, one of the authors of the School Food SUN Plan says the Government failed to listen to the advice it SUN asked for. Now thousands of primary schools across England SUN face funding cuts which could see them struggling to provide SUN school lunches to tens of thousands of pupils. SUN SUN Sheila Dillon hears how a Government report on funding food SUN in small schools was never published and asks what the SUN future holds for school food across the UK in an uncertain SUN political climate. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon SUN Produced in Bristol by Clare Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b07jqqhd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b07jqqhg (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 Black Flight and the New Suburbia b07jwt5s (Listen) SUN In Britain, multiculturalism is no longer confined to urban SUN areas. Black, Asian and minority ethnic people are leaving SUN inner cities in large numbers and heading for the suburbs. SUN SUN As new research forecasts high levels of internal migration SUN over the next forty years, Hugh Muir examines why this is SUN happening and what it will mean for our traditional view of SUN quintessential suburbia. SUN SUN In his 1973 documentary Metro-land, Sir John Betjeman SUN romanticised the suburbs of Middlesex created by the SUN Metropolitan railway. Betjeman celebrated the mundane SUN streets where all the people and houses looked the same; the SUN interchangeable parks and churches, the slow pace of life. SUN The suburbs enticed workers out of cramped homes in the city SUN to suburban semis built on the principle of defensible space SUN and home-as-castle. 'White flight' was born. SUN SUN Fast forward to 2016. The suburbs have a very different look SUN and are anything but mundane. Large numbers of Black and SUN Asian people have moved out of Britain's city centres to SUN leafy suburbia. SUN SUN Hugh examines this drift away from the inner-cities by SUN meeting those who have made the leap, and those that plan SUN to. He asks what has changed, in both mindset and SUN infrastructure, to enable this movement to happen. SUN SUN With so many people leaving the city, he asks if we need to SUN stop using 'urban' as a byword for ethnic minority. SUN SUN Presented by Hugh Muir SUN Produced by Peter Sale SUN SUN A PPM production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07j7nv5 (Listen) SUN Galleries of Justice, Nottingham SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel answer horticultural questions SUN from the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham. Dealing with the SUN queries this week are Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and SUN Pippa Greenwood SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Fact Sheet SUN Q – My washing machine has recently died on me – any SUN suggestions for the stainless steel drum? SUN SUN SUN Bob – They make fantastic planters. You’ll need to line it SUN with some old sacking or an old t-shirt. Plants that like SUN aerated soil will like it – Citrus plants for example. A SUN good thing to do is plant a Fig tree in them – the roots can SUN get out but they do cut themselves off so it stays quite SUN small. SUN SUN SUN Q – We’ve got an alley which is in the sunshine for most of SUN the day. Are there any fruit/veg that I can grow in SUN containers here? SUN SUN SUN Pippa – Try rotating containers – so move containers from SUN the alleyway to sunnier bits of the garden regularly. Paint SUN the walls white. Attempt things which are leafy – so salad SUN crops, beet, spinach – something that is up and ready to eat SUN quickly. SUN SUN SUN SUN Bob – You’ll have no problem growing redcurrants, SUN blackcurrants, or whitecurrants in big containers. You’ll SUN need netting to keep birds off and they won’t be as sweet as SUN ones in the sun but they’ll grow fine in the shade. SUN SUN SUN SUN Eric – You’re going to need a sack barrow for moving SUN containers around. SUN SUN SUN SUN Anne – I would green herbs – mint, parsley – they grow well SUN in semi shade. Maybe even coriander too. SUN SUN SUN Q – My tomatoes are spindly and feeble, what can I do to SUN give them a boost? They are ‘Gardener’s Delight’ and SUN ‘Moneymaker’ varieties. I’ve tried dilute Comfrey juice but SUN to no avail. SUN SUN SUN Pippa – Are they getting enough light? SUN SUN SUN SUN Bob – It’s been a hard year for tomatoes. I normally manage SUN to get mine in June – in very very good years in May. This SUN year I only brought some in last week. This is due to cold SUN and low light. Nitrogen will do them some good. SUN SUN SUN SUN Anne – You could use a well-balanced general-purpose liquid SUN feed. SUN SUN SUN Q – We’ve noticed a curious corkscrewing of the leaves of SUN our seed-raised onions over the last two years. We practice SUN crop rotation, the varieties are ‘Walla walla’, ‘Ailsa SUN Craig’, and ‘Bedfordshire Champion’. What is it? SUN SUN SUN Pippa - I think this is due to an Eelworm infestation. SUN There’s a wonderful little Eelworm called *Ditylenchus SUN dipsaci *that adores onions. Unfortunately, there’s nothing SUN you can do about it. SUN SUN SUN Q - Last November we had a Wisteria, Clematis and a Jasmine SUN removed from an arbour. We discovered that the bed is only SUN about 1.3m x 0.5m (4.2ft x 1.6ft). Has the patch been left SUN long enough to plant a Climbing Rose there? SUN SUN SUN Anne – You could have put a Rose in almost straight away to SUN be honest as it’s a different plant family to any of the SUN others. Any idea what you’ll plant? SUN SUN SUN SUN Q – ‘Generous Gardener’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Anne – Great choice. SUN SUN SUN Q – We have a newly planted orchard with about ten mixed SUN Apple, Pear and Cherry trees. One of the ‘William’ Pears SUN has rust spots – is this going to hurt the tree and will it SUN spread to the others? SUN SUN SUN Pippa – It’s an interesting rust – almost eerie and SUN finger-like in looks. There is no control for it. Collect SUN and pick up infected sections and bin/burn. Chances of it SUN spreading to other Pear trees is high but the others should SUN be fine. Rust fungi all love damp/gloomy weather like we’ve SUN had recently – so if weather improves or if you can improve SUN circulation that will help keep it in check. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have never been able to grow sweet peas in pots. Can SUN you help? SUN SUN SUN Anne – It’s possible to grow in a pot but it would be much SUN easier in the ground. They like really well-conditioned soil SUN – the more organic matter the better. Best place is in a SUN kitchen garden or allotment. For a pot you’ll need a SUN container of 45-60cm (17inch-23inch) across, good potting SUN compost (50/50 John Innes No 2/and soilless potting mix and SUN some of my own garden compost too. I’d use Beech/Hazel from SUN the garden for supports. Sow in October or February. Put SUN them in long modules. Then lift the roots out carefully, SUN never let them get dry, as soon as they’ve begun to climb SUN give them liquid feed. They’re not going to grow in compost SUN alone. SUN SUN SUN Q – I leave the seed heads on my Alliums – because they’re SUN attractive and for the birds – but their numbers are SUN reducing. Should I deadhead them? ‘Purple Sensation’ in SUN particular has dwindled. SUN SUN SUN Bob – I leave them because they’re good for the insects. SUN Leaving the flower on is brilliant but as soon as it forms SUN seed it takes energy out of the bulb. So chop as soon as it SUN finishes flowering. SUN SUN SUN SUN Anne – I think the soil is too wet in winter and some of the SUN bigger bulbs are rotting off. Raising the bed up slightly, SUN say 6-8 inches (15-20cm), would help. SUN SUN SUN SUN Pippa – If you’re mulching be careful not to suffocate the SUN bulbs. Whack on some sulphate of potash too. SUN SUN SUN Q – Which weed, if you had to pick one, would you most like SUN to destroy? SUN SUN SUN Pippa – I can’t just pick one! Stinging Nettles and ‘Hairy SUN Bittercress’ SUN SUN SUN SUN Anne – A Creeping Cinqefoil called *Potentilla reptans* SUN SUN SUN SUN Bob – I don’t like ones with thorns and those little ones SUN like the *Potentillas* and the *Oxalis* SUN SUN SUN Eric – Bracken SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b07jwt5v (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about how long one can usefully SUN pursue amateur dramatics, cabaret and choosing a career as a SUN performer, in the Omnibus of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b07jwt5x (Listen) SUN Roald Dahl: Going Solo, Episode 2 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 As World War II rages, Pilot Officer Dahl takes to the air SUN in a series of daring deeds. An inspirational account of SUN survival when things seem hopeless, in which the SUN extraordinary is made human. SUN SUN "The second part is about the time I spent flying for the SUN RAF in the Second World War. There was no need to discard SUN anything from this period because every moment was, to me at SUN least, completely enthralling." SUN SUN Having joined the RAF Dahl discovers a love of flying. But a SUN crash in the Western desert almost ends his war before he's SUN started. Eventually he rejoins his heavily depleted squadron SUN during the hopeless last days in Greece. Dogged air fights, SUN secret missions and many narrow misses with death ensue SUN before he eventually returns home to his loving mother. 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 David: Stuart McLoughlin SUN Mother: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Sister: Kirsty Oswald SUN Squadron Leader: James Lailey SUN Fitter: Nick Underwood SUN Medical Examiner: Tom Forrister SUN Commodore: Sean Baker SUN Carter: Jason Barnett SUN Pat Pattle: Brian Protheroe SUN Operator: Clare Perkins SUN Adaptor: Lucy Catherine SUN Author: Roald Dahl SUN Director: Helen Perry SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b07jwt5z (Listen) SUN Writing From Wales, a special programme recorded at Cardiff SUN Library. SUN SUN In a special edition, recorded at Cardiff Central Libray, SUN Mariella Frostrup explores contemporary literature from SUN Wales - written in both Welsh and English. She talks to SUN authors Tom Bullough and Jon Gower about their approach, and SUN hears about some of the country's fresh voices and new SUN writing from Gwen Davies, editor of the New Welsh Review and SUN LLeucu Siencyn, Chief Executive of Literature Wales. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Tom Bullough SUN Interviewed Guest: Jon Gower SUN Interviewed Guest: Gwen Davies SUN Interviewed Guest: Lleucu Siencyn SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b07jwt61 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Craig Raine SUN SUN Paul Farley meets Craig Raine at his home to hear new and SUN old poems from a famous Martian. 'A Martian Sends A Postcard SUN Home' (1979) was Craig Raine's second collection and its SUN poems defined and encapsulated a way of looking afresh at SUN the familiar world. Since then Raine has taught English SUN literature, written novels, edited Fabers' poetry list and SUN started and run magazines of criticism and new writing. He SUN has written poetry throughout. 'How Snow Falls' appeared in SUN 2010 and this year he has published a book on the writing SUN and reading of poetry called 'My Grandmother's Glass Eye'. SUN He talks about arguing about poetry and reads a suite of new SUN poems as well as some old ones. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b07j537j (Listen) SUN The Price of PFI SUN SUN Successive government procurement strategies have repeatedly SUN promised high quality public buildings made possible through SUN Private Finance Initiatives, but is that what's been SUN delivered? What went wrong in Edinburgh where 17 schools SUN remained closed after the Easter break because of fears SUN walls might collapse on children and staff? Allan Urry SUN reveals new concerns about the extent of fire safety SUN problems in some schools and hospitals because contractors SUN failed to ensure they were built to specification. How safe SUN are they, and who's footing the bill to put them right? SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir Cochrane SUN Reporter: Allan Urry. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b07jqmrd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07jqqhj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b07jqqhl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07jqqhn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b07jqqhq (Listen) SUN Sarfraz Manzoor SUN SUN Sarfraz Manzoor chooses his BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b07jwt63 (Listen) SUN Toby finds himself in a tight spot, and Rob's patience is SUN tested. SUN SUN 19:15 Rumblings from the Rafters b07jwt65 (Listen) SUN Edible Dormouse and Peacock Butterfly SUN SUN An Edible Dormouse played by Hugh Dennis and a Peacock SUN Butterfly played by Amanda Abbington reveal the truth about SUN life in an old attic in a house in Amersham in the last of SUN three very funny tales, written and introduced by Lynne SUN Truss, with additional sound recordings by Chris Watson. SUN SUN The Edible Dormouse is no Common Dormouse. He is Russian and SUN extremely serious-minded. He is obsessed with answering the SUN question, "Why are we here?" both the philosophical question SUN and the literal one. No answer satisfies him. So he has SUN reached his own conclusion, which involves secret agents and SUN a submarine. "I may be rare, cute-looking, and of SUN indisputable foreign origin, but I am not stupid." He is SUN planning a meeting with his fellow Edible Dormice to discuss SUN their next move. He knows this won't be easy. The others SUN think he is mad. Top of the agenda is what they should call SUN themselves. "Imagine how it feels to be one of the only SUN zoological species in existence whose very name says, "Have SUN you ever thought of eating me?" SUN SUN The Peacock Butterfly is youthful, intelligent, and ever so SUN concerned with being brave and sensible about mortality. SUN Having been born the previous year, she is re-visiting the SUN attic before dying. "I remember when I first came in, I SUN thought hello, this wouldn't be a bad place to pop off, when SUN the time comes." But trying to be brave about her inevitable SUN end is much harder than she expects, "Well, I'm sorry to say SUN that for some completely inexplicable reason I totally lost SUN it at the sycamore! I mean what's wrong with me? " But as SUN she settles down to die, a sudden thought changes everything SUN ... SUN SUN Edible Dormouse: Hugh Dennis SUN Peacock Butterfly: Amanda Abbington 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 Edible Dormouse: Hugh Dennis SUN Peacock Butterfly: Amanda Abbington SUN Producer: Sarah Blunt SUN Writer: Lynne Truss SUN SUN 19:45 The Crime Writer at the Festival b07jwt67 (Listen) SUN The Queen of Mystery SUN SUN In the month that thousands of fiction fans head to SUN Yorkshire for the Harrogate Crime Festival, this new short SUN story series celebrates the very particular atmosphere of SUN such festivals. It's often said that there is something SUN different about crime writers - they flock together, they SUN enjoy each other's company and freely interact with their SUN fans. Over the next four Sunday evenings, festival stalwarts SUN Ann Cleeves, Sarah Hilary, Val McDermid and David Mark, will SUN take us to events real and imagined in four original stories SUN that will charm and intrigue. SUN SUN In this first story, Ann Cleeves (bestselling author of the SUN Vera and Shetland crime novel series) takes us to Malice SUN Domestic in Bethesda, Maryland - an annual crime convention SUN for lovers of the traditional mystery novel. Her character, SUN Stella Monkhouse, known to her fans as the "Queen of SUN Mystery", is an award-winning crime writer who is struggling SUN to come to terms with the fact that her literary star is SUN beginning to wane... SUN SUN Read by Joanna Tope. SUN SUN Written by Ann Cleeves. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Joanna Tope SUN Writer: Ann Cleeves SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b07jx1db (Listen) SUN The unpredictable and fast-moving political landscape SUN post-Brexit continues to dominate the headlines and SUN listeners remain divided over whether the BBC's coverage has SUN been as "duly impartial" as its Charter requires. SUN SUN The "political earthquake" caused by last month's vote has SUN presented special challenges to BBC Radio News - not just in SUN terms of balance but also because of the sheer speed with SUN which the tectonic plates have shifted. And when Boris SUN Johnson announced he wasn't running for the tory leadership SUN it wasn't just the lunchtime bulletins which had to be SUN re-written - it presented a considerable headache to the SUN writers and performers of Radio 4's Deadringers, who were SUN recording their programme just a few hours later. SUN SUN We went along to see how they would cope. SUN SUN Series producer Bill Dare talks us through some of the SUN hairier moments of the last two weeks and Jon Culshaw and SUN Jan Ravens explain how they've speedily perfected their SUN impersonations of Michael Gove and Theresa May. SUN SUN And is visualisation the future of radio? Roger Bolton SUN chairs a panel with Joe Harland, the BBC's Head of Visual SUN Radio; Rhian Roberts, the editor of digital for Radios 4, 3 SUN and 4 Extra; and three listeners with very different views SUN on the need to be able to watch radio. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b07j7nv9 (Listen) SUN Caroline Aherne, Elie Wiesel, Sir Geoffrey Hill, Lord SUN Mayhew, Michael Cimino SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The comedian Caroline Aherne who created Mrs Merton and the SUN Royle family and struggled with the pressures of fame. SUN SUN Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel. Described by SUN President Obama as "one of the great moral voices of our SUN time", he won the Nobel Peace Prize. SUN SUN The poet Sir Geoffrey Hill whose work focused on English SUN history, landscape and religion. SUN SUN The Conservative politician Lord Mayhew. As Northern Ireland SUN Secretary under John Major, he laid the foundations for the SUN peace process. SUN SUN And the film director Michael Cimino - best known for the SUN Deer Hunter which won five Oscars. SUN SUN Producer: Dianne McGregor. SUN SUN Caroline Aherne SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her friend, Andy Harries who was the SUN executive producer of ‘The Mrs Merton Show’; ‘Mrs Merton and SUN Malcolm’ and ‘The Royle Family’. SUN SUN Born 24 December 1963; died 2 July 2016 aged 52. SUN SUN Elie Wiesel SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his friend, Menachem Rosensaft who is SUN General Counsel of the World Jewish Congress and teaches SUN about the law of genocide and war crime trials at the law SUN schools of Columbia and Cornell University. SUN SUN Born 30 September 1928; died 2 July 2016 aged 87. SUN SUN Sir Geoffrey Hill SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his widow Alice Goodman and to Robert SUN Potts, managing editor of the Times Literary Supplement. SUN SUN Born 18 June 1932; died 30 June 2016 aged 84. SUN SUN Lord Mayhew of Twysden SUN SUN Last Word spoke to political commentator Bruce Anderson and SUN to Northern Ireland journalist, David McKittrick. SUN SUN Born 11 September 1929; died 25 June 2016 aged 86. SUN SUN Michael Cimino SUN SUN Born 3 February 1939; died 2 July 2016 aged 77. SUN SUN Credits SUN Interviewed Guest: Andy Harries SUN Interviewed Guest: Menachem Rosensaft SUN Interviewed Guest: Alice Goodman SUN Interviewed Guest: Robert Potts SUN Interviewed Guest: Bruce Anderson SUN Interviewed Guest: David McKittrick SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Dianne McGregor SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b07jqm7c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b07jwt5j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b07j47q0 (Listen) SUN Obama's World SUN SUN Politico foreign correspondent Nahal Toosi examines the SUN international record of President Obama's eight years in SUN office and tries to discern the governing principles behind SUN his foreign policy. The president sought to avoid costly SUN overseas interventions - yet his critics allege that he has SUN allowed rival powers like Russia and China to flex their SUN muscles and threaten American interests. And he has been SUN condemned for his signature foreign policy achievements, SUN like rapprochements with Iran and Cuba. With interviews SUN gathered in Europe, the Middle East and in Washington DC, SUN Nahal examines the president's decisions to ask if there is SUN such a thing as an "Obama Doctrine". SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b07jqqhs (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07jl8vp (Listen) SUN Series 3, Science Hour SUN SUN True stories told live in the USA: Meg Bowles introduces SUN stories about heroic research, prizes and survival against SUN great odds. SUN SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 23:50 A Point of View b07j7nvm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:48 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 JULY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b07jqqkp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b07j68nc (Listen) MON Political women and language, The morality of sleep MON medication MON MON Political women, gender and speech: Laurie Taylor talks to MON Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and MON Communication at the University of Oxford, about her MON analysis of the performances of the three female party MON leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 MON UK General Election campaign. What were the similarities and MON differences between the women and their male colleagues, as MON well as between the women themselves and how was it taken up MON as an issue in media coverage of the campaign? MON Also, the morality of sleep medications. Jonathan Gabe, MON Professor of Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of MON London, talks about his study into attitudes towards the MON prescribing and taking of sleeping pills. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Jonathan Gabe at Royal Holloway, University of London MON Deborah Cameron at the University of Oxford MON MON *Prescriptions and proscriptions : moralising sleep MON medicines.* / Gabe, Jonathan; Coveney, Catherine; Williams, MON Simon. In: *Sociology of Health and Illness *, 20.11.2015, MON p. 1-18. Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council MON Deborah Cameron's blog - Language: A feminist Guide MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b07jwl7k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07jqqkr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07jqqkt (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07jqqkw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b07jqqky (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07l170r (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His MON Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox MON Church. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b07jqql0 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emily Hughes. MON MON 05:56 Weather b07jqql2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03zrcgb (Listen) MON Capercaillie 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 Kate Humble presents the capercaillie. The bizarre MON knife-grinding, cork-popping display of the male MON capercaillie is one of the strangest sounds produced by any MON bird. The name 'Capercaillie' is derived from the Gaelic for MON 'horse of the woods', owing to the cantering sound, which is MON the start of their extraordinary mating display. These are MON the largest grouse in the world and in the UK they live only MON in ancient Caledonian pine forests. MON MON Capercaillie (Tetrao urogallus) MON Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). MON MON 06:00 Today b07jqql4 (Listen) MON News and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, Weather and MON Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Long View b07jxsy1 (Listen) MON Military Drones and the 'Robo-planes' of the 1940s MON MON Jonathan Freedland and guests compare the development of MON drone warfare today with the arrival of Nazi V1 and V2 MON weapons in the skies above southern England in the final MON year of the Second World War. MON MON The philosopher A C Grayling and Professor Michael Clarke, MON former Director of the Royal United Services Institute, are MON among the contributors exploring connections between MON contemporary drones and the 'pilotless aircraft' or MON 'robo-planes' of the 1940s. MON MON From the technology of unmanned flight to the ethics of MON increasingly autonomous weaponry, Jonathan and his guests MON consider the dilemmas of the present through the prism of MON the past. MON MON With: MON Christy Campbell, author of Target London: Under Attack from MON the V-weapons during WWII MON Professor A C Grayling of the New College of the Humanities, MON author of Among The Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of MON Civilians in War Ever Justified ? MON Professor Michael Clarke, former Director of RUSI MON Ulrike Franke of the University of Oxford MON MON With readings by Anna Wilson Jones MON MON Producer Julia Johnson. MON MON 09:30 In Therapy b070v8bn (Listen) MON John MON MON Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores the private MON relationship between therapist and patient. Each day we are MON given privileged access to Susie's consulting room, where MON she meets a variety of clients. MON MON All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not MON scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully MON constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former MON artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of the MON highly acclaimed 'Jerusalem') and radio producer Kevin MON Dawson. The client profiles have been given to the actors MON who have learnt about their characters lives, backgrounds, MON and individual reason for seeking therapy. The scenes have MON then been improvised and recorded on hidden microphones at MON Susie's surgery. MON MON Today, Susie meets John, a retired railway trade unionist in MON his 60s. His wife and children are gone, but his therapy is MON helping him to turn his life around. MON MON Elsewhere in the series, we meet Helen, a high achieving MON corporate lawyer who is struggling to identify what is wrong MON - but knows that something is. We also hear Susie's first MON meeting with Jo - a new patient and an out of work actress. MON Then there is Louise and Richard who are expecting their MON first child in a few days. MON MON We hear the therapist at work, eavesdropping on the most MON intimate of exchanges. To help us with our understanding of MON the process, Susie Orbach commentates on what is happening MON in the room, shining a light on the journey both she and her MON patient have embarked upon. MON MON Presenter: Susie Orbach MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON Director: Ian Rickson MON MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 A Point of View b07l24cr (Listen) MON After the Vote, Onora O'Neill MON MON The philosopher Onora O'Neill criticises the standard of MON public debate on both sides of the European Union decision MON and asks how this democratic deficit can be repaired. MON "The disarray that we now witness, and the retractions, MON revelations and recriminations that spill out on a daily MON basis, show that large parts of each campaign failed to MON communicate with the public, did not offer adequate or MON honest accounts of the alternatives, and did not provide the MON basic means for voters to judge the real options, the real MON opportunities or the real risks." MON This is the first of a series of special editions of Radio MON 4's long-running essay programme, A Point of View, in which MON five of Britain's leading thinkers give their own very MON personal view of "Brexit" - what the vote tells us about the MON country we are, and are likely to become. MON Producer: Sheila Cook. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b07jqql8 (Listen) MON Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. MON MON NHS Advice MON Female Sexual Dysfunction MON Loss Of Libido MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07jxsy5 (Listen) MON Life Lines, Episode 1 MON MON By Al Smith MON MON Carrie is an ambulance call handler. She never knows what MON the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on MON her. MON And sometimes you have to listen hard to find out exactly MON what's going on. MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON Al Smith's tense drama goes behind the scenes of an MON ambulance control room where we hear from Carrie about the MON job and hear how she deals with the vast disparity of calls MON that come in - some are literally a matter of life or death MON and in some of the others well the emergency may be more in MON the mind of the caller. MON Al has written extensively for radio including Life In The MON Freezer and Everyday Time Machines. He is a graduate of the MON BBC Writers Academy, has been a broadcast Hot Shot and in MON 2012 won the BFI Wellcome Trust Screenwriting Prize. His MON play Harrogate will be at The Royal Court later in the year MON and also stars Sarah Ridgeway. MON MON Sarah Ridgeway has appeared in Holby City, The Suspicions of MON Mr Whicher and The Crimson Petal and The White,. MON MON Credits MON Carrie: Sarah Ridgeway MON Destiny: Clare Perkins MON Dave: Nick Underwood MON Margaret: Elizabeth Bennett MON Chris: Tom Forrister MON Connor: Lloyd Hutchinson MON Dr Farnsworth: James Lailey MON Director: Sally Avens MON Writer: Al Smith MON MON 11:00 The Untold b07jxsy7 (Listen) MON Our Own Marigold Hotel MON MON The idea for a guest house came after Phillida and MON Christopher Purvis spent time travelling with charities MON working in the Nilgiri Hills. They had heard Indian MON community leader, Stan Thekaekara when he gave a guest MON presentation at Oxford University's Said Business School and MON were impressed by the work he was doing. He and his wife MON Mari have been alongside the Adivasi community in the MON Nilgiri Hills for more than three decades, working with MON those living in more than 300 villages and settlements MON stretching over a 40 mile radius. They set up a charity to MON help tribal villagers reclaim land and businesses to trade MON in tea and honey, for example. They have also overseen new MON community provisions, including a school and a well-regarded MON hospital. MON MON As a former merchant banker Christopher already had MON experience of working abroad and being thrown in at the deep MON end. He had overseen the setting up of Warburg's Tokyo MON branch and it was in Japan that he and Phillida met. When he MON retired from banking he turned his hand to charity work, MON opening the Handel House Museum in London and working to MON help disadvantaged youngsters get into University and adjust MON to life there. He and Phillida decided to commit to MON sustained periods of volunteering in India with Stan and his MON community. They also thought that some of their retired MON friends might also like to help and the idea of the guest MON house was born. MON MON The couple have put in a third of the money needed to buy MON the land and build the guest house and are lending a further MON third to the charity they've set up to oversee things. They MON want to raise the last £100,000 from friends and people they MON know, in part because it signifies a commitment and desire MON to join the venture. As Grace Dent hears, this will enable MON people with a range of skills can join together to help and MON it will also be fun sharing the guest house with like-minded MON people. There will be terraces, an area for yoga and even MON for Ayurveda medicine and meals will be specially prepared MON in the purpose built kitchens. MON MON The unveiling of the idea to friends is met with a mixed MON response: on the one hand some are happy to commit to the MON kind of time share arrangement proposed, with £6,000 MON securing a month's stay every year for a decade. Others are MON more reluctant without visiting first and instead offer MON donations to help get things started. With the Monsoon fast MON approaching the work on clearing the land needs to start for MON things to be up and running on time. The rallying of the MON uncommitted begins in earnest and Grace Dent follows what MON happens MON Produced by Susan Mitchell. MON MON 11:30 Way Out East b07jyrd2 (Listen) MON Domino Effect MON MON New comedy by Guy Meredith about a group of expats sharing a MON flat in Hong Kong. Into the lives of unsuccessful architect MON James (Tony Gardner) and failed-everything Malcolm (John MON Gordon Sinclair) comes Zoe (Katherine Kingsley) on a one-way MON ticket from England to start a new life. MON MON After an unpromising start, she moves in with James and MON Malcolm, convinced that she can get these two undomesticated MON alpha males to change their ways and become more organised MON at home and work. She also becomes part of the scene at the MON Shakes, the local expat pub run by Wanda (Samantha Bond) and MON visited by James's boss Mr Ampersand (Nicky Henson) who MON gives her a job as his PA. MON MON The flatmates share many adventures including a very MON disorganised pub quiz, a series of domestic mishaps, MON attempts to fix the result of the Hong Kong Derby and a MON local marathon, and the annual Hong Kong New Year MON celebrations. MON MON Katherine Kingsley was Olivier nominated for her role in MON Piaf and Singin' in the Rain, John Gordon Sinclair has MON performed in several musicals and is remembered for the MON title role in Gregory's Girl, Tony Gardner is currently one MON of the stars of the award-winning Last Tango in Halifax, and MON Samantha Bond has starred in many award-winning television MON and theatre productions including Downton Abbey. Guy MON Meredith has written several very successful dramas and MON comedies for radio, including the long-running series Daunt MON and Dervish. MON MON Series Music David Chilton MON Writer: Guy Meredith MON Producer: Cherry Cookson MON MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Zoe: Katherine Kingsley MON Malcolm: John Gordon Sinclair MON James: Tony Gardner MON Wanda: Samantha Bond MON Ampersand: Nicky Henson MON Sam: Lobo Chan MON Hugo: Charlie Cash MON Aircrew: Mark Straker MON Writer: Guy Meredith MON Producer: Cherry Cookson MON MON 12:00 News Summary b07jqqlb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 The Why Factor b07jyrd4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Groupthink MON MON The Why Factor investigates the concept of "Groupthink." How MON the perceived wisdom of our allies and colleagues can MON influence our choices and persuade us to make disastrous MON military decisions, join cults or simply deny the evidence MON before our very eyes. MON MON Presenter:Mike Williams MON Producer:Sandra Kanthal MON Editor:Andrew Smith MON MON First broadcast on the BBC World Service. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b07jqqld (Listen) MON Electric cars, Wedding debt MON MON The company behind the UK's 'electric highway' and sole MON provider of electric car chargers at motorway service MON stations has announced it's going to start charging a fee MON for charging your electric car. Ecotricity has revealed that MON it plans to roll out a £5 fee for a 20 minute charge at its MON 300 fast-charging stations across the country. It has come MON as a surprise to the owners of pure electric and hybrid MON cars. MON MON You don't need us to tell you that international travel has MON become more complicated over the years, and that airlines MON are stringent in their demands for documentation for MON travellers. But what is the poor traveller to do if the MON information provided is contradictory? Simon Calder, travel MON editor of The Independent, has come across one of the MON strangest cases of tangled red tape - involving nothing more MON complicated than a flight from London to Dublin. MON MON Brides and grooms break their wedding budget by £2 billion a MON year according to a new study by Barclays. A fifth of MON couples overspend while planning their big day, having on MON average nine arguments. The average overspend is £7,971. We MON meet the couples getting into debt to tie the knot. MON MON We talk to Citroën's global CEO Linda Jackson the first-ever MON British boss of Citroën, and the first woman to do that job. MON This week she was named as the most influential British MON woman in the car industry. MON MON Presenter: Shari Vahl MON Producer: Maire Devine MON Editor: Chas Watkin. MON MON 12:57 Weather b07jqqlg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07jqqlj (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07jyrd6 (Listen) MON The Korean War MON MON As part of her series tracing the crucial turning-points of MON the early Cold War, Bridget Kendall revisits the Korean War. MON This was the moment the Cold War turned hot, and brought MON fears of a new global conflict. MON MON But in this programme Bridget focuses on the fate of Koreans MON driven from their homes and divided from other family MON members, often permanently. MON MON And she hears from two people who were rescued by a MON remarkable act of military compassion - the Heungnam MON Evacuation of December 1950. Tens of thousands of Korean MON refugees were allowed onto American, Japanese and South MON Korean ships and sailed to safety. MON MON As she hears, conditions on board were grim. But as the MON ships landed in Busan, in the days immediately before MON Christmas, the evacuation came to be known as the 'Christmas MON Miracle'. MON MON Nonetheless, the permanent division of families wrought by MON the war persists even today. MON MON With: Lee Hoo-ja, Sohn Dong-hun, Kim Taesung, Norman Deptula MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b07jwt63 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b07jyrd8 (Listen) MON Brief Lives, Episode 1 MON MON Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly MON Episode 1 MON Return of the popular drama series set in Manchester. Two MON young women are arrested for fighting in a hotel. Frank and MON Sarah reckon it's a fuss over nothing. Until one of the MON women is accused of theft. MON MON Producer/Director Gary Brown MON MON Series nine of the popular afternoon drama series starring MON David Schofield. Frank Twist's and Sarah Gold's legal MON advisers operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week to set MON free burglars, muggers, murderers and even some innocent MON people who find themselves on the wrong side of a cell door. MON Sarah and Frank have a child but their relationship is MON purely business as they clean up the mean streets of MON Manchester. The combination of complex crime stories and MON witty humour make this a popular returning series. MON MON Credits MON Frank: David Schofield MON Sarah: Sally Dexter MON Morgan: David Corden MON Isabel: Jenny Platt MON Lucy: Rosina Carbone MON Ricky: Jonathan Tafler MON Director: Gary Brown MON Producer: Gary Brown MON Writer: Tom Fry MON Writer: Sharon Kelly MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b07jyrdb (Listen) MON Series 30, Heat 4, 2016 MON MON (4/13) MON In the fourth heat of the 2016 series Paul Gambaccini MON welcomes competitors from Hampshire and London to face MON questions on every genre of music, with plenty of surprises MON and intriguing musical extracts. The programme comes from MON the BBC's historic Maida Vale studios. MON MON Which American group wrote and originally performed the song MON which gave Lulu her first (and still best-known) hit? With MON which orchestra was Eugene Ormandy associated for more than MON forty years? Which composer is the subject of Julian MON Barnes's recent novel The Noise of Time? MON MON In addition to general musical questions such as these, the MON competitors have to choose a special musical topic on which MON to answer their own individual questions, with no prior MON warning of the categories and no chance to prepare. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b07jwt5q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b07jyrdd (Listen) MON Maxine Peake MON MON Actress Maxine Peake, star of Shameless, Silk and MON Dinnerladies, shares the pieces of writing that have meant MON the most to her in life. Including inspiration from Joan MON Littlewood and Marti Caine, Hovis Presley and Beryl MON Bainbridge. Recorded before an audience at the BBC Radio MON Theatre, with readers Diane Morgan (aka TV's Philomena Cunk) MON and John Shrapnel. MON Producer Beth O'Dea MON MON Pieces: MON Joan's Book: the Autobiography of Joan Littlewood MON Nico, Songs They Never Play on the Radio by James Young MON The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge MON Lucy in The Sky with Hummus by Hovis Presley MON A Coward's Chronicles by Marti Caine MON Music: Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul and Mary. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Maxine Peake MON Reader: Diane Morgan MON Reader: John Shrapnel MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b07jyrdg (Listen) MON Series 14, The Recipe to Build a Universe MON MON The Recipe to Build A Universe MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince ask what ingredients you need to MON build a universe? They are joined on stage by comedian and MON former Science Museum explainer, Rufus Hound, chemist Andrea MON Sella and solar scientist Lucie Green, as they discuss the MON basis of all school chemistry lessons, the periodic table. MON They discover how the elements we learnt about at school are MON the building blocks that make up everything from humans to MON planet earth to the universe itself. They were formed in MON stars and during the big bang. The history of the discovery MON of the periodic table and the elements is a wonderful tale MON of genuine scientific exploration that has changed our MON understanding of where we come from and how life and the MON universe that we know came to be. The panel also ponder MON which element they might choose if they were building a MON universe from scratch and the audience suggest which MON elements they would remove from the periodic table if given MON the chance? MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b07jqqll (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07jqqln (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07jyrdj (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit MON to Glasgow's Pavilion Theatre. Old-timers Barry Cryer and MON Tony Hawks are joined on the panel by locals Susan Calman MON and Fred Macaulay with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON provides piano accompaniment. 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: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Fred MacAulay MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07jyrdl (Listen) MON Rex is not in the mood to celebrate, and Ursula strikes a MON deal. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b07jqqlq (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07jxsy5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Corbyn Story b07jyrdn (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In this series, Steve Richards examines the dramatic story MON of Jeremy Corbyn over the past year, and what it tells us MON about the bitter battle for the soul of the Labour party. MON MON Producer: Peter Mulligan. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b07jyrdq (Listen) MON Should the state pay everyone a Universal Basic Income? MON Sonia Sodha finds out why the idea is winning support from MON an unlikely alliance of leftists and libertarians. MON Producer: Helen Grady. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b07j4kc9 (Listen) MON Lobster MON MON Brett Westwood looks at how the lobster is a creature that MON when drawn up from the deep is made to shed its natural MON identity as an ancient predator of the sea floor and has MON become an improbable sex symbol, an epicure's delight, a MON muse for surrealist artists a fearsome little nipper thanks MON to those pincers. Not all lobsters have claws, but the ones MON in this programme do. They're the European and American MON species, which come equipped with enormous claws like MON oversized boxing gloves, and a tough armour evolved to MON withstand the rigours of life on the rocks. Producer: Tom MON Bonnett. MON MON Dr Paul Clark MON Dr Paul Clark has worked at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London for more than 40 years. He started as an MON Assistance Scientific Officer in the Crustacea Section on 19 MON November 1974 and since then has worked as curator of the MON decapod collection, working with 10-footed animals such as MON crayfish, crabs, lobsters, prawns, and shrimp. MON For the lastdecade his work has focused mainly on research; MON taxonomy and systematics of decapods, brachyuran crab MON larvae, some eel studies, invasive decapoda and riverine MON plastic litter. MON MON Dr Giovanni Aloi MON Giovanni Aloi is an expert in the representation of animals MON and plants in modern and contemporary art. He is a lecturer MON in History of Art and Visual Cultures at the School of the MON Art Institute of Chicago, Sotheby’s Institute of Art London MON and New York, and Tate Galleries. MON In 2006, he founded MON Antennae MON the Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. It is an MON international reference point for the debate on animals in MON the arts. He is the author of Art & Animals and is currently MON working on two monographs, one on taxidermy in contemporary MON art and another on plants in contemporary art, both due for MON publication in 2016. MON MON MON Trevor Corson MON In the pursuit of writing projects Trevor Corson has MON wandered restaurant kitchens, worked as a commercial MON fisherman, resided among Buddhist priests in Japan, begged MON his way aboard scientific research ships, and observed MON protest movements in China. MON His first book, MON The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists MON Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean MON began as a centerpiece article in the Atlantic that was MON included in the Best American Science Writing edited by MON Oliver Sacks. To research the book Trevor lived on a small MON island off the Maine coast for two years while working MON full-time as a crew member on a lobster boat, then spent MON months holed up in laboratories and zoology libraries MON learning about the surprising soap opera of decapod mating MON habits. MON MON MON Dr Charlie Ellis MON Charlie Ellis is Postdoctoral Researcher at the MON National Lobster Hatchery MON in Padstow. Having grown up in coastal North Cornwall, he MON became interested in creating sustainable ways to meet MON seafood demand, and the conservation of both traditional MON inshore fishing fleets and the populations they target. MON He has studied the population ecology of European lobsters MON in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly and his Univrsity of MON Exeter PhD thesis examined the stock enhancement project run MON to conserve the species at the National Lobster Hatchery. MON This project aims to use genetic markers to test population MON structure and reproductive ecology in local lobsters, and MON provide lobster hatcheries and alternative stock MON conservation measures with a genetic method to identify MON released animals, enabling assessments of how well they MON contribute to the sustainability of pressured or depleted MON marine populations. MON MON Dr Zoe Jaques MON Dr Zoe Jaques is Lecturer in Children's Literature at the MON University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Homerton College. MON She has published on topics ranging from the history of MON metamorphosis to the representation of archery in modern MON children’s fiction. The majority of her research concerns MON children’s literature and she has a particular interest in MON the representation of the non-human. MON Her most recent book, MON Children’s Literature and the Posthuman MON considers how questions of the animal, environment and MON technology emerge in children’s fantasy literature and film. MON She also has an interest in book history and illustration. MON She has published extensively on Lewis Carroll’s Alice. MON MON Olivia Orchart MON Olivia Orchart is Displays Supervisor at Bristol Aquarium MON where she helps to look after a huge variety of marine life MON ranging from stingrays and sharks to seahorses, jellyfish MON and giant Pacific octopus. She trained at Bangor University MON where she gained a Masters degree in Marine Biology. MON MON Len Walters MON Len Walters is a commercial fisherman in Cardigan Bay in MON West Wales. He started catching lobsters for fun as a young MON boy and it grew into a pastime that he has been working on MON for more than 25 years. He catches lobster and crab for MON export and for his wife, Mandy, to prepare and sell at MON markets. MON MON Mandy Walters MON Mandy Walters runs a seafood market stall at the MON Food and Farming Award-winning St Dogmael's market MON where she sells lobster and crab prepared herself. MON She encourages people to try her produce and teaches people MON how to cook it as she believes this, and the weather, are MON the main reason people in Wales have not traditionally eaten MON this local food. MON MON 21:30 The Long View b07jxsy1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b07jqqls (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b07jqqlv (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07jyrds (Listen) MON The Muse, Episode 6 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 Read by Jessica Raine MON MON Produced by Heather Larmour. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Jessica Raine MON Reader: Martina Laird MON Author: Jessie Burton MON Abridger: Doreen Estall MON Producer: Heather Larmour MON MON 23:00 Don't Log Off b07jyrdv (Listen) MON Series 7, A Message from Hank and Norma MON MON Alan Dein presents the moving story of three years in the MON life of Hank & Norma, a couple in their 60s from Arkansas, MON USA - told entirely by the messages left by Hank for Alan on MON Skype. MON MON Alan first spoke to harp-playing Hank three years ago for MON Don't Log Off. Shortly afterwards, Hank started to leave MON Alan occasional messages and audio recordings. As the months MON went by, the recordings became more intimate and revealing, MON charting Hank's major heart surgery and Norma's experiences MON with cancer. Entirely on his own initiative, Hank started to MON record every detail of the couple's lives - including the MON final hours of Norma's life. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b07jyrdx (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 JULY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b07jqqnk (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A Point of View b07l24cr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07jqqnm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07jqqnp (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07jqqnr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b07jqqnt (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07l5y3b (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His TUE Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox TUE Church. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07jqqnw (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mztnb (Listen) TUE Crossbill 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 David Attenborough presents the story of the Crossbill. TUE Crossbills are large finches that specialise in eating TUE conifer seeds. To break into the pine or larch cones, TUE they've evolved powerful bills with crossed tips which help TUE the birds prise off the woody scales of each cone. TUE Crossbills breed very early in the year and incubating birds TUE sometimes have snow on their backs. TUE TUE Common Crossbill (Loxia curvirostra) TUE Webpage image courtesy of Nigel Blake (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07jys1f (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 b07jys1h (Listen) TUE Georgina Mace TUE TUE Despite decades of conservation work, in zoos and in the TUE field, the rate at which species are going extinct is TUE speeding up. Georgina Mace has devoted her Life Scientific TUE to trying to limit the damage to our planet's bio-diversity TUE from this alarming loss. For ten years she worked on the Red TUE List of Threatened Species, developing a robust set of TUE scientific criteria for assessing the threat of extinction TUE facing every species on the planet. When the list was first TUE published, she expected resistance from big business; but TUE not the vicious negative reaction she received from many TUE wildlife NGOS. Her careful quantitative analysis revealed TUE that charismatic animals, like the panda and the polar bear, TUE are not necessarily the most at risk. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b07jys1k (Listen) TUE Datshiane Navanayagam speaks to Val McDermid TUE TUE Unexpected stories of education: The journalist Datshiane TUE Navanayagam speaks to the crime writer, Val McDermid, about TUE an unusual educational experiment she was part of in the TUE 1960s. TUE TUE Datshiane Navanayagam had a difficult childhood punctuated TUE by periods of homelessness, but she was always expected to TUE achieve educationally and won a bursary to a private school TUE which led her onto Cambridge University. As a result she's TUE fascinated by the transformative role of education and for TUE three editions of One to One is speaking to people who went TUE on an unexpected educational journey. TUE TUE Today she meets the crime writer, Val McDermid, who was part TUE of an educational experiment in the 1960s which separated TUE her from her peers and pushed her forward by a year. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 A Point of View b07l5y3d (Listen) TUE After the Vote, Episode 2 TUE TUE Five of Britain's leading thinkers give their personal view TUE of Brexit. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b07jqqny (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07jys1p (Listen) TUE Life Lines, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Al Smith TUE TUE Carrie is an ambulance call handler. She never knows what TUE the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on TUE her. TUE And today a man is intent on taking his own life. TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens. TUE TUE Credits TUE Carrie: Sarah Ridgeway TUE Ben: Joe Sims TUE Will: Nick Underwood TUE Ian: Michael Jibson TUE Connor: Lloyd Hutchinson TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Writer: Al Smith TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b07jys1r (Listen) TUE Carp TUE TUE Brett Westwood goes fishing. Why is the carp king? Dexter TUE Petley author of 'Love, Madness, Fishing' knows some TUE answers. He went to live in a yurt in Normandy in order to TUE spend his life carp fishing. From there and a nearby water TUE he brings us his tales of the river bank. Carp fishing is TUE now a very high-tech pastime. Electronic bite detectors and TUE gourmet bait balls are part of the business but an older TUE intimacy with the carp is still crucial to land a fish; the TUE angler must know how to read the water and track its hidden TUE denizens. Meanwhile the ornamental koi carp has become the TUE pet fish of choice for many with money to spare; and, around TUE the world, various cultures continue to value as a food the TUE cartilaginous fish with a face that only a mother could TUE love. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 11:30 The House of the Windy City - Dance Music's Forgotten TUE Heroes b07jys1t (Listen) TUE Presenter and DJ Dave Pearce travel to Chicago to hear how a TUE country traditionally resistant to dance music finally got TUE it. The US invented it and then ignored it. Today with TUE electronic dance music estimated to be a $20 billion TUE industry, what do those who started Chicago House in the TUE early 1980s think of this new scene? TUE TUE House music grew out of black gay clubs in Chicago in the TUE early 1980s. We hear from Robert Williams who started the TUE legendary Warehouse club where the scene got its name. He TUE brought in Frankie Knuckles to DJ and Dave Pearce hears how TUE he would create his own edits to keep the crowd dancing all TUE night. TUE TUE In Chicago we track down Rocky Jones, founder of DJ TUE International, who put out some of the very first records. TUE What was his reaction when he found out the few thousand TUE records he put out were driving a cult scene in the UK? With TUE contributions from The Pet Shop Boys, DJ Marshall Jefferson TUE and DJ Pierre we hear how the sound of Chicago topped the TUE charts in the UK. TUE TUE But in America a lot of house music wasn't played on the TUE radio because it was viewed as gay music. As Hip Hop became TUE the dominant musical form, Chicago House was pushed out to TUE the suburbs. DJ Black Madonna takes us on a tour of one of TUE the few remaining house music clubs. While here in the UK a TUE new generation of house music artists like Disclosure have TUE found an audience and a following. They tour the world TUE playing their own interpretation of Chicago House. TUE TUE A Tonic Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b07jqqp0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 The Why Factor b07jys1w (Listen) TUE Series 3, Age of Consent TUE TUE Mike William investigates the Age of Consent. it used to be TUE 12 in England, it''s currently 14 in italy - less for TUE so-called "Romeo and Juliet" couples who have only three TUE years age difference. The Why Factor explores the real TUE reasons we draw a line on sexual relationships. TUE TUE Presenter:Mike Williams TUE Producer:Ben Carter TUE Editor: Andrew Smith TUE TUE The Why Factor broadcasts weekly on the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b07jqqp2 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b07jqqp4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07jqqp6 (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07jys1y (Listen) TUE McCarthyism TUE TUE As part of her series tracing the crucial turning-points of TUE the early Cold War, Bridget Kendall explores the personal TUE impact of the McCarthyite Red Scare in the America of the TUE 1950s. TUE TUE As she finds, the Cold War fear of 'Reds' was driven not TUE just by the spectre of Stalin's Soviet Union but by the TUE communist revolution to America's west, across the Pacific. TUE TUE As angry voices asked 'Who Lost China?', people with strong TUE associations with China became objects of suspicion - TUE particularly if they were left-wing intellectuals. TUE Investigation and long years of hearings followed. TUE TUE All this had huge, lasting impact on these people - and on TUE their children. And Bridget hears too from the daughter of a TUE civil rights activist and communist, who went 'underground' TUE for five years, when she was a young child, before the case TUE against him finally fell away. TUE TUE With Kathryn Jackson, David Lattimore, Sian Shaw. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07jyrdl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b07jysdn (Listen) TUE Foreign Bodies: Keeping the Wolf Out, The Wolf TUE TUE Philip Palmer's new detective drama is set in communist TUE Hungary in 1963. A former member of the despised secret TUE police has been found brutally murdered. Special TUE Investigator Bertalan Lázár must find his killer but not all TUE his colleagues share his zeal. TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift TUE TUE Keeping the Wolf Out is part of Radio 4's 'Cold War: Stories TUE from the Big Freeze'. TUE TUE Credits TUE Bertalan Lazar: Leo Bill TUE Franciska Lazar: Clare Corbett TUE Tibor Farkas: Andy Linden TUE Gizella: Nicola Ferguson TUE Mrs Kovacs: Susan Jameson TUE Bela Fekete: Sargon Yelda TUE Mr Papp: Nick Underwood TUE Kitchen Porter: Richard Pepple TUE Police Officer: Sam Rix TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE Writer: Philip Palmer TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b07jysdq (Listen) TUE Series 9, Illuminations TUE TUE A mysterious character offering to illuminate a course of TUE action, an activist thrust into a glaring spotlight and the TUE dull glow of car tail lights- Josie Long looks for TUE illuminations in the darkness. TUE TUE Featuring the actress and activist Sacheen Littlefeather TUE walking onstage to collect Marlon Brando's Oscar, a singing TUE medium and Laura Barton on driving at night. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b07jysds (Listen) TUE Series 8, Wisdom of Crowds 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 At a time when questions are being asked of democracy, and TUE how Donald Trump continues to rise in the US, the Human Zoo TUE team investigates the so-called wisdom of crowds - the idea TUE that collective judgments lead to the right solution. TUE TUE Sometimes, how we learn from one another results in human TUE progress. Elsewhere, our tendency to copy each other's TUE behaviour has irrational outcomes. TUE TUE When does the herd get it right and wrong? How do we know TUE when the crowd is leading us in the right direction? 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 Contributors this week include Alex Mesoudi from the TUE University of Exeter and author Steven Poole. TUE TUE Producer: Eve Streeter TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Document b07jysdv (Listen) TUE Knowing Jurgen Kuczynski TUE TUE When Anne McElvoy met and wrote about the East German TUE Economist Jurgen Kuczynski back in the 1980s she was aware TUE of his reputation as a fringe player in the collection of TUE Soviet spies operating in Britain in the years leading up to TUE the 2nd World War. Now, with the help of recently released TUE documents from MI5 and the intelligence services in both the TUE US and Germany, Anne pieces together a fuller story of TUE Kuczynski, his family and their role in the Atomic bomb spy TUE scandals that rocked the British in the years after the TUE second World War. She talks to academics who have been TUE exploring the way the Kuczynski family were able to operate TUE in spite of a full and detailed operation by MI5 intended to TUE keep them under surveillance and she talks to surviving TUE members of the family about Jurgen and his sister Ruth, TUE better known as the soviet spy Sonya, and why they never TUE felt any need to excuse the work they did in allowing a TUE Stalinist regime in Moscow to dramatically accelerate their TUE development of Nuclear Weapons. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b07jysdx (Listen) TUE Joann Fletcher and Damian Barr TUE TUE Writer Damian Barr and Egyptologist Joann Fletcher join TUE Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite books. Under TUE discussion are Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize winner, The TUE Color Purple, Isis in the Ancient World by RE Witt, an TUE exploration of the Egyptian Goddess, and Leonora TUE Carrington's surreal novel The Hearing Trumpet. But which TUE book helped save Damien Barr's life? Which book is variously TUE described as "a wonderful book" and "turgid and TUE indigestible", and which book would Damien have rather eaten TUE than read? Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Joann Fletcher TUE Interviewed Guest: Damian Barr TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b07jqqp8 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07jqqpb (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Missing Hancocks b04ly3xv (Listen) TUE The Matador TUE TUE Between 1954 and 1959, BBC Radio recorded 102 episodes of TUE Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's comedy classic Hancock's Half TUE Hour. The first modern sitcom, it made stars of Tony TUE Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams, and launched Galton TUE and Simpson on one of the most successful comedy-writing TUE partnerships in history. But 20 episodes of the show are TUE missing from the BBC archives, and have not been heard since TUE their original transmission nearly sixty years ago. Now, TUE five of those episodes have been lovingly re-recorded in TUE front of a live audience at the BBC Radio Theatre, featuring TUE a stellar cast led by Kevin McNally as The Lad Himself. TUE TUE Tonight's episode: The Matador. Tony uses Sid's travel TUE agency to book a holiday in Spain, little knowing that Sid TUE also runs a bullfighting business.... TUE TUE Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and with the classic TUE score newly recorded by the BBC Concert Orchestra, the show TUE stars Kevin McNally, Kevin Eldon, Simon Greenall, Robin TUE Sebastian and Susy Kane. The Matador was last broadcast in TUE October 1955. TUE TUE Produced by Ed Morrish and Neil Pearson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Hancock: Kevin McNally TUE Actor: Kevin Eldon TUE Actor: Simon Greenall TUE Actor: Robin Sebastian TUE Actor: Susy Kane TUE Writer: Ray Galton TUE Writer: Alan Simpson TUE Producer: Ed Morrish TUE Producer: Neil Pearson TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07jysvg (Listen) TUE Josh loses his rag, and Adam and Brian have a new purchase TUE to admire. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b07jqqpd (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07jys1p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b07jysvj (Listen) TUE Trade and Torture TUE TUE Is the UK putting trade above concerns about human rights in TUE the United Arab Emirates? TUE TUE Britons who claim they were tortured in the Gulf state's TUE prison cells say the UK government failed to fight for them. TUE TUE The foreign office has received 43 cases of alleged abuse of TUE UK citizens in the UAE since 2010. TUE TUE In exclusive interviews, File on 4 hears from those who've TUE got out of detention in Dubai who say they were arrested TUE without charge, and tortured with electric shocks and TUE solitary confinement, and threatened with guns and sexual TUE assault. TUE TUE The UK government says it regularly raises Britons' cases - TUE and allegations of mistreatment - with the UAE authorities. TUE But those who've been stuck there tell File on 4 they didn't TUE get the support they needed and expected when they were TUE suffering, despite the authorities here knowing the risks TUE they faced. TUE TUE The government's also promoting deals with its largest TUE trading partner in the Middle East. TUE TUE Jane Deith counts up the billions of UAE investment in the TUE UK, from container ports to housing developments. TUE TUE And the programme hears the arguments for joint ventures TUE with Emirati companies - for example by NHS hospitals - as a TUE lucrative way to generate income as budgets are squeezed, TUE ultimately providing better services for patients here. TUE TUE The United Arab Emirates is seen as a stable ally in an TUE unstable Middle East, not least in the fight against Islamic TUE State - does that make the UK less willing to raise issues TUE like human rights abuses and judicial process? TUE TUE Reporter: Jane Deith TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b07jqqpg (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b07jysvn (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series on health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b07jys1h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b07jqqpj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b07jqqpl (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07jyv0z (Listen) TUE The Muse, Episode 7 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 Jessica Raine TUE TUE Produced by Heather Larmour. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Jessica Raine TUE Author: Jessie Burton TUE Abridger: Doreen Estall TUE Producer: Heather Larmour TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b07jyrdg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b07jyv11 (Listen) TUE Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 JULY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b07jqqtm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A Point of View b07l5y3d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07jqqtr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07jqqtt (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07jqqty (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b07jqqv4 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07ldrbh (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His WED Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox WED Church. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b07jqqv6 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emily Hughes. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03mzv6d (Listen) WED Merlin 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 Chris Packham presents the story of the merlin. These WED diminutive falcons nest in deep heather on moorland, mainly WED in the north and west. In winter they also hunt over open WED country, hillsides and coastal marshes. The male merlin or WED jack is our smallest falcon, about the size of a mistle WED thrush. WED WED Merlin (Falco columbarius) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b07jyvzs (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 The Listening Project b07jyvzv (Listen) WED The Listening Project Live: From Bexhill-on-Sea WED WED In the first of this summer's special live programmes from WED The Listening Project Mobile Booth, currently parked by the WED De La Warr Pavilion, Fi Glover enjoys local conversations WED and asks journalist Kathryn Flett and others how different WED Sussex seaside towns really are. WED WED Fi welcomes former contributors to The Project to hear about WED the impact their conversation had on their lives, introduces WED new conversations, and hears about the role of the iconic WED modernist Pavilion through 80 years of local life. 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 09:30 In Therapy b070cxy4 (Listen) WED Helen WED WED Psychotherapist Susie Orbach explores the private WED relationship between therapist and patient. Each day we are WED given privileged access to Susie's consulting room, where WED she meets a variety of clients. WED WED All of the clients are played by actors, but these are not WED scripted scenes. Each client profile has been carefully WED constructed by therapist Susie, director Ian Rickson (former WED artistic director at the Royal Court, and director of the WED highly acclaimed 'Jerusalem') and radio producer Kevin WED Dawson. The client profiles have been given to the actors WED who have learnt about their characters lives, backgrounds, WED and individual reason for seeking therapy. The scenes have WED then been improvised and recorded on hidden microphones at WED Susie's surgery. WED WED Today, Susie meets Helen, a high achieving corporate lawyer WED who is struggling to identify what is wrong - but knows that WED something is. WED WED Elsewhere in the series, we meet John - in his 60s, and a WED retired railway trade unionist. His wife and children are WED gone, but his therapy is helping him to turn his life WED around. We also meet Louise and Richard - a couple expecting WED their first baby in a few days, and Jo, who is meeting Susie WED for the first time - she is an out of work actress. WED WED We hear the therapist at work, eavesdropping on the most WED intimate of exchanges. To help us with our understanding of WED the process, Susie Orbach commentates on what is happening WED in the room, shining a light on the journey both she and her WED patient have embarked upon. WED WED Presenter: Susie Orbach WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED Director: Ian Rickson WED WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 A Point of View b07ldrbk (Listen) WED After the Vote, Episode 3 WED WED Five of Britain's leading thinkers give their personal view WED of Brexit. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b07jqqvn (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b07jyvzz (Listen) WED Life Lines, Episode 3 WED WED By Al Smith WED WED Carrie is an ambulance call handler. She never knows what WED the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on WED her. WED And now her own life is fast becoming as difficult as some WED of the calls she has to take. WED WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Carrie: Sarah Ridgeway WED Penny: Adie Allen WED Greg: Jason Barnett WED Jess: Nicola Ferguson WED Connor: Lloyd Hutchinson WED Ian: Michael Jibson WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Al Smith WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b07jyw01 (Listen) WED David and John - Moving to the Country WED WED Fi Glover with a conversation where a couple who moved from WED London to a small village in Pembrokeshire reveal that it's WED the one who was born in Wales who found it harder to settle. 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 The Corbyn Story b07jyrdn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Plum House b07jyw84 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Rather Risky Ramble 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 returns from a team building course in WED London to find the Plum House team have been bickering in WED his absence. So he decides to put what he has learned into WED action. Peter has a better idea to restore team spirit and WED suggests the museum's staff go on a walk through the WED Cumbrian countryside, known as Pudding's Horseshoe. Hiking WED boots on, the group set off on their ramble on a beautiful WED sunny day, full of enthusiasm and Kendal Mint Cake. What can WED possibly go wrong? 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 Maureen: Jane Horrocks WED Julian: Miles Jupp WED Tom: Tom Bell WED Alan: Pearce Quigley WED Emma: Louise Ford WED Director: Paul Schlesinger WED Producer: Paul Schlesinger WED Writer: Ben Cottam WED Writer: Paul Mckenna WED WED 12:00 News Summary b07jqqvv (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 The Why Factor b07jyw86 (Listen) WED Series 3, Fear of Robots WED WED Robots are in our homes, our factories, on battlefields and WED in hospitals. Some are smarter than us, some are faster. WED Some are here to help us, others not. Science fiction is WED filled with malign machines which rise against humanity. WED Mike Williams asks if we have reason to fear the machines we WED are creating. WED WED Presenter:Mike Williams WED Producer:Sandra Kanthal WED Editor:Andrew Smith WED WED First broadcast on the BBC World Service. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b07jqqw1 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b07jqqw3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b07jqqw5 (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07jyw88 (Listen) WED The H-Bomb 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 development of the hydrogen bomb. WED WED Featuring Kenneth Ford, Sergei Khrushchev and Matashichi WED Oishi. WED WED Readings by Sadao Ueda. WED WED Producer: Martin Williams. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07jysvg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b07jyw8b (Listen) WED Foreign Bodies: Keeping the Wolf Out, The Old Days WED WED Hungary, 1963. Soviet investigators are determined to find WED the mole in the Ministry. Archivist Franciska Lázár finds WED herself in their sights as her detective husband WED investigates what becomes a brutal murder case. Scores are WED being settled in Philip Palmer's Cold War detective drama. WED WED Directed by Toby Swift WED WED Keeping the Wolf Out is part of Radio 4's 'Cold War: Stories WED from the Big Freeze'. WED WED Credits WED Bertalan Lazar: Leo Bill WED Franciska Lazar: Clare Corbett WED Tibor Farkas: Andy Linden WED Gizella: Nicola Ferguson WED Bela Fekete: Sargon Yelda WED Mr Papp: Nick Underwood WED Csaba: Sam Rix WED Lilien Racz: Adie Allen WED Director: Toby Swift WED Writer: Philip Palmer WED WED 15:00 Money Box b07jqqw9 (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b07jysvn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b07jyw97 (Listen) WED Sociological discussion programme, presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED RELATED LINKS WED Martina Byrne at University College Dublin WED Professor Hilary Pilkington at the University of Manchester WED Professor Nasar Meer at the University of Strathclyde, WED Glasgow WED READING LIST WED Pilkington, H. (2016). *Loud and Proud: Passion and Politics WED in the English Defence League*. (New Ethnographies). WED Manchester University Press WED Byrne, M. (2016) *Shades of White: Irish Professionals' WED response to Immigrants*. In Dada, A and S. Kushal (eds). WED *Whiteness Interrogated*. (Oxford: Oxford University/ WED Inter-disciplinary.Net.) WED Nasar Meer,Tariq Modood, Ricard Zapata-Barrero. A plural WED century: situating interculturalism and multiculturalism. WED (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) ISBN 9781474407083 WED WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b07jqqwf (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b07jqqwh (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07jqqwk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04xp4wx (Listen) WED Series 6, Rebecca Front 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, Rebecca Front, a self-confessed scaredy cat, is WED persuaded to take her first ride on a motorbike and read her WED first book about science. But how much of it did she WED understand? WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke WED Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Front WED WED 19:00 The Archers b07jyw99 (Listen) WED It is feeling brighter at Bridge Farm, and it is time to WED decide the theme of the fete. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b07jqqwm (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07jyvzz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b07jyw9f (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Anne McElvoy, Claire Fox, Giles Fraser WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 David Baddiel Tries to Understand b07jywbn (Listen) WED Series 2, The Cloud WED WED After receiving suggestions of topics that merit explanation WED through social media, David Baddiel sets out to make sense WED of The Cloud (as in computing, rather than meteorology). WED David speaks to the head of IT for the Chartered Institute WED of Information Technology, and visits an IBM data centre as WED he tries to grapple with what this term actually means, WED before returning to explain it to the man who originally WED suggested he try to understand it. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Nature b07jywbq (Listen) WED Series 9, The Fen Raft Spider WED WED Fen Raft Spiders as their name implies are water-loving WED spiders. They are also large and distinctive looking spiders WED with white, cream or yellow stripes along the sides of both WED the carapace and abdomen which contrast with their dark WED body. They were first discovered in the mid-1950s in WED Redgrave and Lopham Fen in Suffolk which today is one of the WED sites where Helen Smith, President of the British WED Arachnological Society and leader of the Fen Raft Spider WED Recovery Programme has been introducing these spiders after WED their populations declined as a result of degradation and WED loss of lowland aquatic habitat. The spiders are also found WED at on the Pevensey Levels in East Sussex and Crymlyn Bog WED near Swansea in South Wales. For this programme, Helen, who WED has a license to handle these spiders, very kindly agreed to WED collect a male and female Fen Raft Spider and bring them WED indoors in a tank so that wildlife sound recordist Chris WED Watson could not only get a really close look at these WED spiders, but also try and record their courtship behaviour. WED This is a complex and elaborate affair, which includes the WED males vibrating his front legs in arcs on the water surface. WED After mating, the female lays her eggs in an egg sac and WED spins a nursery web in which to protect them. The webs are WED usually spun on vegetation above the water's surface, but WED Helen also had one in tank so Chris was able to examine the WED tiny spiderlings which had hatched from the egg case. Back WED out on the fens, Chris also lowered a couple of underwater WED microphones (hydrophones) into a ditch and captured the WED extraordinary world of sound in which these creatures live WED as diving beetles, backswimmers and water boatman WED communicated to one another below the water surface. WED Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED 21:30 The Listening Project b07jyvzv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b07jqqwp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b07jqqwr (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07jywck (Listen) WED The Muse, Episode 8 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 glamorous 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 Martina Laird WED WED Produced by Heather Larmour. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Martina Laird WED Author: Jessie Burton WED Abridger: Doreen Estall WED Producer: Heather Larmour WED WED 23:00 Expenses Only b07jzxdj (Listen) WED Advertising WED WED Put away your P45, you're not going to need it - it's WED Expenses Only. Our two young interns Tim and Miranda face WED heated hot-seating, intense lunch runs and jingle-themed WED back-stabbing as they compete for the same internship in the WED acronym-obsessed world of advertising. WED WED Expenses Only is a narrative sketch show by new writer Alex WED Lynch, centred around internships and the world of work WED experience. WED WED In each episode, the show's two leading twenty-something WED protagonists, Tim (enthusiastic worker) and Miranda (jaded WED graduate), attempt to break into a different industry WED through a series of increasingly challenging placements. WED WED The series is made up of an ensemble cast and is also tied WED together using linking sketches, signature ad-breaks and the WED Narrator who, with his deadpan delivery and wry commentary, WED guides us through the schadenfreude and chaos that unravels WED across an episode. WED WED Recorded live at Bush Hall, London. WED WED Creator / Writer: Alex Lynch WED Additional material by Charlotte Michael WED Director: Celia De Wolff WED Executive Producer: Peter Hoare WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Tim: Rasmus Hardiker WED Miranda: Lucy Beaumont WED Narrator: Robert Glenister WED Actor: Kathryn Bond WED Actor: Simon Bubb WED Actor: Beth Goddard WED Actor: Matt Green WED Actor: Simon Greenall WED Actor: Christine Kavanagh WED Actor: Paul G Raymond WED Actor: Lorna Shaw WED Actor: Kellie Shirley WED Actor: Tom Glenister WED Writer: Alex Lynch WED Director: Celia de Wolff WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b07jzxdl (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 6 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 b07jzxdn (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 JULY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b07jqr0n (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A Point of View b07ldrbk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07jqr0q (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07jqr0s (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07jqr0v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b07jqr0x (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07lg2w1 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His THU Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox THU Church. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b07jqr11 (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 b03zrcnt (Listen) THU Red-Throated Diver THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Kate Humble presents the red-throated diver. The eerie wails THU of a red-throated diver were supposed to foretell rain. In THU Shetland the red-throated diver is called the "rain goose" THU but anyone who knows the island knows that rain is never far THU away. Like all divers, red-throats are handsome birds with THU sharp bills, perfect for catching fish. In summer they have THU a rusty throat patch and zebra-stripes on the back of their THU neck but in winter they're mainly pearly grey and white. THU THU Red-throated diver (Gavia stellata) THU Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). THU THU 06:00 Today b07k01bc (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Defoe b07k01bf (Listen) THU Defoe: The Facts and the Fictions THU THU Mark Lawson presents a documentary exploring the THU far-reaching influence of Daniel Defoe. Bookshops have THU separate sections for Fiction, Non-Fiction, Autobiography, THU Travel Writing, Journalism, Economics and Politics. But all THU of these different forms of writing were more or less THU created by one author - Daniel Defoe. Defoe also pioneered, THU three hundred years ago, what has become one of the most THU fashionable literary tactics of the 21st century: "faction", THU which blurs history and story. THU THU Although now considered foundations of the realistic English THU novel, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and Moll Flanders THU (1721) were initially published with only the names of their THU narrators on the cover, and were sold and bought as memoirs. THU Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year (1722), an account of THU the bubonic epidemic, is still often read as reportage, but THU was "faction" based on extensive research. His book, A Tour THU Through the Whole Isles of Great Britain (1724), can be seen THU as one of the beginnings of travel writing and The Complete THU English Tradesman (1726) is one of the first business or THU economic texts. As the author of more than 500 pamphlets, THU Defoe is also a forefather of British journalism. THU THU In the company of writers, biographers, critics, and THU cartoonists, Mark Lawson tells the story of the man who THU never stopped telling stories. THU THU 09:45 A Point of View b07lg2xj (Listen) THU After the Vote, Episode 4 THU THU Five of Britain's leading thinkers give their personal view THU of Brexit. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b07jqr17 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07jyw9c (Listen) THU Life Lines, Episode 4 THU THU By Al Smith THU THU Carrie is an ambulance call handler. She never knows what THU the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on THU her. THU And how can you help when precious resources can't be in two THU places at once. THU THU Directed by Sally Avens. THU THU Credits THU Carrie: Sarah Ridgeway THU Will: Nick Underwood THU Jenny: Kirsty Oswald THU Paramedic: James Lailey THU Nurse: Clare Perkins THU Andrew: Brian Protheroe THU Jess: Nicola Ferguson THU Ian: Michael Jibson THU Director: Sally Avens THU Writer: Al Smith THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b07jqr1f (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine THU news developments in their region. THU THU 11:30 Breaking Bard b07k01bn (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Fiona Lindsay listens in to the table talk of the actors and THU director as they begin work to bring Shakespeare's Othello THU from text to performance. THU THU Fiona has spent years at the RSC working with actors and THU directors as they look afresh at the play texts to which we THU return again and again. What interests her is how new THU connections and insights are drawn from stories so well THU known that they have almost become national myths. THU THU In the first in the series, Fiona takes her panel to The THU Brooksbank Schook in Elland, West Yorkshire, where students THU are hard at work bringing the play to life. THU THU Her panel includes Carol Rutter, Professor of Drama and THU Shakespeare Studies at the University of Warwick, director THU and dramaturg Tom Cornford, and actors Jonjo O'Neill, fresh THU from a season at Shakespeare's Globe, and Karl Collins, a THU regular on Hollyoaks. THU THU The panel is joined by a local audience as well as the THU students, and together they put the words from the page on THU their feet for the first time. They try out practical THU exercises to unearth new questions in order to see what THU surprising new connections they might be able to make about THU this tale of jealousy and masculinity. THU THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b07jqr1k (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 The Why Factor b07k01bq (Listen) THU Series 3, Drawing THU THU Lucy Ash asks why we draw. Are some people simply more THU visual than others? And what do we reveal through our THU drawings? THU Drawing is something we all do unselfconsciously as children THU before we learn to write. It is a form of expression that THU goes back 40,000 years and began on the walls of caves. But THU why do we draw? Is it to make our mark on the world, to THU decorate our surroundings, or is it a way of communicating THU with others when words fail us? THU Lucy Ash talks to Stephen Wiltshire, world famous for his THU incredibly detailed pen and ink cityscapes; to David Hockney THU renowned for both his traditional draughtsmanship and his THU enthusiasm for new technology, and to Lizzie Ellis, who THU comes from a remote community in central Australia and draws THU with a stick, telling stories through her traditional form THU of Aboriginal women's art. THU THU Presenter: Lucy Ash THU Producer: Arlene Gregorius THU Editor: Andrew Smith THU THU First broadcast on the BBC World Service. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b07jqr1m (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b07jqr1p (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b07jqr1t (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07k01bv (Listen) THU The East German Uprising THU THU On June 17 1953, East German workers went on strike and THU demanded free elections. Within hours, Moscow ordered its THU tanks to crush the rebellion. THU THU Bridget hears the story of that day, as experienced by a THU teenage boy, a young worker, a trainee lawyer, an English THU military driver - and a girl who was looking forward to her THU seventh birthday party. THU THU With Hardy Firl, George Flint, Carla Ottmann, Joachim THU Rudolph, Alfred Wegewitz THU THU Producers: Phil Tinline and Sabine Schereck. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b07jyw99 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Dangerous Visions b046j8zp (Listen) THU The Bee Maker THU THU By Anita Sullivan THU THU It's 2020 and the bees are nearly all gone. Human beings THU might be next. THU THU Robotics expert, Deborah, builds artificial bees in order to THU help pollinate fruit trees across the world - real bees THU having been driven to the brink of extinction. But then a THU strange phenomenon strikes mankind - people start getting THU lost. It happens slowly, people lose their way, forget where THU they are. But before long society starts to crumble. THU THU Deborah must fight her way across an apocalyptic Britain and THU find her way back home. But first she must remember where THU that is. THU THU A dark and cautionary tale about our busy technology-filled THU lives. THU THU Directed by James Robinson THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU THU Credits THU Deborah: Alice Lowe THU May: Harriet Walter THU Ant: Stuart McLoughlin THU Hire Car Salesman: Alun Raglan THU Customs Official: John Norton THU Lost Passenger: Claire Cage THU Director: James Robinson THU Writer: Anita Sullivan THU THU 15:00 Open Country b07k01by (Listen) THU The Dolphins of Cardigan Bay THU THU Patrick Aryee travels to West Wales to meet the THU dolphin-watchers of New Quay, and to encounter some members THU of the largest group of bottlenose dolphins off the coast of THU the UK. THU THU New Quay is home to the Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre, THU which was set up in 1996 by Steve Hartley, a former THU fisherman, because he wanted people to know about the THU amazing array of marine wildlife he saw from his fishing THU boat. Fishing trips turned into dolphin-watching trips, and THU now Steve takes researchers out regularly to monitor the THU marine wildlife. The Centre has become a hub of scientific THU research and is now part of the Wildlife Trust of South and THU West Wales. It's manned by volunteers and just a couple of THU paid scientific officers. Dolphins are a key part of the THU economy of the area, bringing tourists and visitors who hope THU to catch a glimpse of these charismatic animals from the THU harbour wall. THU THU Patrick, a guest presenter on Open Country, has had a THU fascination for marine mammals since his childhood, when his THU parents took him to a safari park. But he's hoping to see THU dolphins in the wild for the first time. Another first is a THU chance for Patrick to try coasteering with Jethro Moore, who THU describes the activity as 'everything your mum told you THU never to do beside the sea'. THU THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b07jwt5j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b07jwt5z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b07k063f (Listen) THU Ghostbusters Revisited THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU The Comedians Cinema Club present their unique take on THU Ghostbusters. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b07jqr1y (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford explores the science that is changing our THU world. THU THU 17:00 PM b07jqr20 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07jqr22 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07k08xb (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU A new show from the internationally acclaimed master of the THU one-liner Tim Vine sees Tim interview members of his live THU audience as he embarks on a quest to hear the life stories THU of the Great British public while simultaneously showcasing THU his trademark gleeful wordplay and preposterous songs. THU THU This week, a job interview for Tim and an encounter with an THU anaconda. THU THU Producer: Richard Morris THU A BBC Studios Production. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Tim Vine THU Producer: Richard Morris THU THU 19:00 The Archers b07k01c6 (Listen) THU Alistair needs Fallon's help, and Carol shares her view of THU Rob. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b07jqr24 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07jyw9c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Briefing Room b07k08xd (Listen) THU David Aaronovitch looks at an important issue in the news. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b07k08xg (Listen) THU Brave or Naive? THU THU Is escaping the rat race always a good idea? Many people THU dream of giving up the day job to start their own business - THU and we often hear about the success stories. But does THU everyone have what it takes? Evan Davis and guests compare THU the dream and the reality. THU THU GUESTS: THU THU Luke Johnson, Entrepreneur and Founder of Risk Capital THU Partners THU THU Paula Fry, former Director, Fashion Seeker UK THU THU Sarah Meredith, Sole Trader, Rock Cakes THU THU Deirdre Critchley, former Director, Jammy Cow THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Cassin. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b07jqr1y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Defoe b07k01bf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b07jqr26 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b07jqr28 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07k08xj (Listen) THU The Muse, Episode 9 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 Jessica Raine THU THU Produced by Heather Larmour. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Jessica Raine THU Author: Jessie Burton THU Abridger: Doreen Estall THU Producer: Heather Larmour THU THU 23:00 Daphne Sounds Expensive b07k0dfn (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Join critically-acclaimed sketch trio, Daphne, as they pull THU out all the stops in a dazzling array of peculiar THU characters, whacky scenarios, dodgy remarks, curious THU observations, minor altercations and major peacemaking - THU served on a bed of catchy little numbers with a live THU nine-piece band. THU THU Written by and starring: Jason Forbes, George Fouracres & THU Phil Wang. THU THU Production coordinated by Hayley Sterling. THU THU Produced by Matt Stronge. THU THU It was a BBC Studios production. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Jason Forbes THU Performer: George Fouracres THU Performer: Phil Wang THU Producer: Matt Stronge THU Writer: Jason Forbes THU Writer: George Fouracres THU Writer: Phil Wang THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b07k0dfq (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 JULY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07jqr44 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A Point of View b07lg2xj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07jqr46 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07jqr48 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07jqr4b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07jqr4d (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07k77pc (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with His FRI Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox FRI Church. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b07jqr4g (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 b0378xxk (Listen) FRI Golden Eagle FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Michaela Strachan presents the golden eagle. Golden Eagles FRI are magisterial birds. With a wingspan of over two metres FRI their displays are dramatic affairs involving spectacular FRI aerobatics. They can dive upon their quarry at speeds of FRI more than 240 kilometres per hour, using their sharp talons FRI to snatch up their prey. FRI FRI Golden Eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07k88qx (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 b07jwt5n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A Point of View b07lpfdj (Listen) FRI After the Vote, Episode 5 FRI FRI Five of Britain's leading thinkers give their personal view FRI of Brexit. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b07jqr4j (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07k0k4k (Listen) FRI Life Lines, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Al Smith FRI FRI Carrie is an ambulance call handler. She never knows what FRI the next emergency will be or the effect it might have on FRI her and her relationships. FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI Credits FRI Carrie: Sarah Ridgeway FRI Caller: Sam Rix FRI Operator: Adie Allen FRI Owen: Charlie Brand FRI Paramedic: James Lailey FRI Jess: Nicola Ferguson FRI Connor: Lloyd Hutchinson FRI Will: Nick Underwood FRI Destiny: Clare Perkins FRI Ian: Michael Jibson FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Writer: Al Smith FRI FRI 11:00 Farewell Doctor Finlay b07k0k4m (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Dr Margaret McCartney, along with medical historians and FRI GPs, tells the story of general practice from the troubled FRI early years of the NHS to the still-troubled present day. FRI FRI The NHS was a huge improvement for the general population, FRI for hospitals and hospital doctors. But it was rather FRI different for GPs as their private fees disappeared and FRI their workload multiplied with all the chronic disease that FRI had previously gone untreated. General practice was FRI under-funded and under-loved. Scathing reports of dingy, FRI ill-equipped surgeries, along with repeated bouts of GP FRI unrest, finally brought about the Family Doctors Charter in FRI 1966, leading to a much better period of subsidised health FRI centres and staffing. FRI FRI Modernisation came thick and fast from the late 1980s, with FRI some GPs controversially given budgets to choose services FRI for their patients. Relaxation of the "out of hours" FRI obligation saw practices forming co-operatives to handle FRI evening and weekend calls and, from 2004, the responsibility FRI for providing 24 hour care was removed from GPs entirely. FRI FRI But unrest has continued, with many training places FRI unfilled, GP posts vacant, and some practices closing FRI altogether. The programme explores how the profession FRI evolved into its present state. 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 b04l3clb (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 1 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 1/6: This first edition of the brand-new series sees John FRI create an innovative teaching aid; eavesdrop on two guards FRI who really should be paying more attention; and, well, since FRI you ask him for a tale of honour satisfied, he does have one FRI such sketch. 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 Original music by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally Stares. 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 b07jqr4q (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 The Why Factor b07k0k4p (Listen) FRI Series 3, Cycling FRI FRI The bicycle - and cycling - started out as somewhat of a FRI faddish leisure pursuit, largely the preserve of middle-aged FRI and wealthy men. Yet it quickly became the world's most FRI popular means of transport and remains so to this day. So FRI what lies behind its mass appeal? FRI Author and life-long cyclist Rob Penn, helps us chart the FRI cultural and social impact of the bicycle. From helping to FRI widen the human gene pool to blazing a trail for the women's FRI movement. FRI FRI Presenter:Mike Williams FRI Producer:Rose de Larrabeiti FRI Editor:Andrew Smith FRI FRI The Why Factor is broadcast weekly on the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b07jqr4v (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b07jqr51 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b07jqr53 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07k0k4r (Listen) FRI The Iran Coup FRI FRI In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years FRI of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall hears from three people who FRI witnessed the fall of Mohammad Mossadegh in Iran in 1953. FRI FRI Featuring Farhad Diba, Stephen Langlie and Homa Sarshar FRI FRI Producer: Martin Williams. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b07k01c6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b047c9zz (Listen) FRI A Hospital Odyssey FRI FRI Gwyneth Lewis's new drama is a contemporary version of The FRI Odyssey set in an NHS Hospital. A woman sets off on a FRI journey to save her husband's life. As she hears the dreaded FRI diagnosis, cancer, the hospital lurches and her fear sets FRI her on a quest to save him. As Maris confronts her deepest FRI fears her world slides into science-fiction. She must face FRI dark creatures and tests of her resolve - a dragon in the FRI bowels of the hospital, a Microbe's Ball, and The Cancer FRI Mother herself. FRI FRI Starring Alexandra Roache (who played the young Margaret FRI Thatcher to Meryl Streep's Iron Lady) as Maris, and Alex FRI Beckett (Twenty Twelve's Jubilympic creative Barney) as FRI Wilson the talking dog. FRI FRI Gwyneth Lewis was the first Poet Laureate of Wales. She FRI wrote her original poem A Hospital Odyssey drawing on very FRI personal experience after her husband was diagnosed with FRI cancer. FRI FRI Written and dramatised by Gwyneth Lewis FRI Music and sound design by Gary C. Newman FRI Produced and directed by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI Credits FRI Maris: Alexandra Roache FRI Wilson: Alex Beckett FRI Ludlow: Patrick Brennan FRI Hardy: Patrick Brennan FRI The Cancer Mother: Heather Craney FRI Nurse: Heather Craney FRI Bees: Heather Craney FRI Philoctetes: Wilf Scolding FRI The Dragon: Wilf Scolding FRI Papilloma Virus: Wilf Scolding FRI Bees: Wilf Scolding FRI Hippocrates: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Administrator: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Director: Allegra McIlroy FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy FRI Writer: Gwyneth Lewis FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07k0k4w (Listen) FRI Summer Garden Party, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 1 FRI FRI Eric Robson presents the show from the GQT Summer Garden FRI Party at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Joining him on FRI the panel are Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Bunny FRI Guinness. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant producer Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 An American Fridge b07k0k4y (Listen) FRI by Mick Herron FRI A man is tempted by a luxury apartment complete with FRI top-of-the-range kitchen. But there will be a heavy price to FRI pay for entry to this glamorous new life. FRI Read by Alasdair Hankinson FRI Producer Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI Mick Herron is the author of the SLOUGH HOUSE series of spy FRI novels. He won the CWA's Gold Dagger award for best crime FRI novel of the year in 2013 and is on the longlist for this FRI year's prize. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Mick Herron FRI Reader: Alasdair Hankinson FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b07k0k50 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b07k0k52 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b07k7cnn (Listen) FRI Dermot and Sinead - Access for All FRI FRI Fi Glover with a pair who have been friends since primary FRI school and celebrate the fact that Dermot has never let his FRI disability get in the way, even in the face of bigotry. FRI Another conversation in the series that proves it's FRI surprising 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 b07jqr5h (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07jqr5m (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b07k0k56 (Listen) FRI Series 16, Episode 5 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 Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Debra Stephenson FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b07k0k58 (Listen) FRI Pip spots an opportunity, and Henry must do his duty. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Joanna Toye FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones FRI Bruce Titchener: Michael Byrne FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b07jqr60 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07k0k4k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b07k0m7y (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Brentwood in Essex. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07k0m80 (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze b07k0m82 (Listen) FRI Bridget Kendall presents an oral history series tracing FRI decisive moments of the early Cold War. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b07jqr6d (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b07jqr6l (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07k0m84 (Listen) FRI The Muse, Episode 10 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 Martina Laird FRI FRI Read by Jessica Raine FRI FRI Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Martina Laird FRI Reader: Jessica Raine FRI Author: Jessie Burton FRI Abridger: Doreen Estall FRI Producer: Heather Larmour FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b07jysdx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b07k7861 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b07k0k54 (Listen) FRI Kay and Rachel - A Musical Friendship FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between professional FRI string players who have supported each other through the FRI most difficult family problems. Another in the series that FRI proves it's surprising 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