31 July, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 01/08/2009 - 07/08/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 1 AUGUST 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00lt3j3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00lwtv6 (Listen) SAT The Accidental Billionaires, Episode 5 SAT Ben Mezrich's new book charts the much-contested history SAT of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook. SAT As Facebook's users begin to grow exponentially, the sums SAT of money being bandied around by prospective investors SAT also grow. So do the egos and anxieties of those involved SAT with the company. SAT A Waters Partnership production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lt3j5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00lt3j7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00lt3j9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00lt3jc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00lt3jf (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean. SAT SAT 05:45 Backstreet Business b00d5w3g (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses. SAT In the Cotswolds village of Long Compton, David Law is SAT part of a network of off-the-beaten-track companies SAT creating beautiful musical instruments. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00lt3jy (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00ltl39 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00ltl3c (Listen) SAT WWII Secrets of The Peak District SAT Matt Baker discovers the Second World War secrets of the SAT Peak District. SAT Nestled away in the Peak District are two Second World War SAT 'training grounds'. The first is the Derwent Valley, with SAT the wide open dam that heard the roar of Lancaster bombers SAT as they prepared for the historic Dambuster raids. SAT The second is the lesser known Burbage Valley, where in SAT secrecy, British and Canadian troops were trained for war, SAT leaving their battle scars across the landscape. Burbage SAT Valley is also home to one of the first bomber decoys in SAT the country. In an extroadinary bid to distract German SAT bombers, a mini-Sheffield was built. This hoax site SAT comprised an elaborate arrangement of lights and fires SAT contained in baskets and trenches that were designed to SAT replicate Sheffield's railway marshalling yards as seen SAT from the air at night. This 'model city' was set into SAT action by brave Sheffield men who had to run straight into SAT the decoy to activate it, knowing full well that if they SAT were successful it could mean that SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00ltl3f (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT What does it take for a rural area to survive a recession? SAT The Association of Market Towns says the coutryside is SAT being hit harder than urban areas. The Federation of Small SAT Businesses says 13 rural pubs close each week and up to SAT 500 village shops will shut this year. Charlotte Smith SAT visits Tenbury Wells in Worcestershire to look at what SAT impact the downturn is having and how areas are fighting SAT back. Are 'shop-local' schemes enough or do the NIMBYs SAT have to accept that new housing may be the key to their SAT town's survival? SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00ltl3h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00ltl3k (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00ltl6j (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Alain De SAT Botton. With poetry from Matt Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00ltl6l (Listen) SAT After a crisis in her life, and feeling that she had SAT nothing left to lose, Terri Julians travelled to South SAT Africa to work with the families of AIDS victims in SAT Kwazulu-Natal. Sandi Toksvig talks to her about her life SAT in rural Zululand, the people she lived among and how her SAT own life was affected by the experience. SAT Fiona Waller's efforts in a transatlantic rowing race SAT encouraged her to want to become one of the first women to SAT row across the Indian Ocean. As a member of a team of four SAT females she has achieved just that, and along with fellow SAT rower Jo Jackson joins Sandi to talk about what made them SAT want to attempt such a record, the hardship of rowing SAT non-stop for 78 days - especially in a cyclone - and what SAT they sang on the way. SAT The Pamir Highway is one of the highest and hardest roads SAT to travel in central Asia. Elise Laker and Kate Holberton SAT have recently returned from journeying along it, SAT particularly in Tajikistan, a country so unused to SAT tourists they don't even have hotels on the highway. They SAT tell Sandi about a land that is far from being a holiday SAT hotspot. SAT SAT 10:30 Soho Stories b00ltl6n (Listen) SAT Lifestyle or Business? SAT Television executive and broadcaster Paul Jackson charts SAT the rise of independent producers, from the isolated SAT minnows of the early 1980s to the global monoliths of SAT today. SAT In 1993, Sir John Harvey Jones stood up at the Edinburgh SAT Television Festival and declared that the independent SAT production sector was less of a business and more of a SAT lifestyle; more like mice running in a large wheel and SAT less something that people should invest in. SAT Paul Jackson looks at how the foundations were laid for a SAT viable business model. With the help of activist Michael SAT Darlow and head of Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit in No SAT 10, Brian (now Lord) Griffiths, he explains how the indies SAT were able to pursuade the government that both the BBC and SAT ITV should be compelled to take a proportion of programmes SAT from independent producers. The 25 per cent quota campaign SAT was later described as the most successful poltical lobby SAT in modern British history. SAT Peter Bazalgette, Paul Smith, Jimmy Mulville, Jon Thoday, SAT David Frank and Henry Normal describe the artistic and SAT business opportunities that presented themselves during SAT the 1990s. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00ltl6q (Listen) SAT It costs the taxpayer millions of pounds each year to SAT evict gypsies and travellers from illegal sites. Elinor SAT Goodman visits Crays Hill in Essex, where travellers are SAT currently facing eviction, and asks if their needs can SAT ever be reconciled with those of local residents. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ltl6s (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Including valedictory despatches from two of the BBC's SAT most senior correspondents. Justin Webb gives us his SAT thoughts on America and Americans as he completes a SAT near-eight year posting in Washington. SAT And the question for Mark Mardell, as he leaves Brussels, SAT is did he really find European politics so fascinating? SAT Also, former Delhi correspondent Sam Miller sets out on a SAT search for the Phantom Squirter of Connaught Place. SAT SAT 12:00 The Money Grab b00ltl6v (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Alvin Hall explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus SAT culture. SAT Starting in the 1980s, with Wall Street's mantra of 'greed SAT is good', Alvin charts the changes in the finance world SAT which led to a new generation of multi-millionaires. He SAT reveals how big businesses calculate super salaries, and SAT asks how much is enough; can a company suffer from paying SAT its top talent too much? SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00lt16r (Listen) SAT Series 28, Episode 6 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of SAT the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, SAT Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00ltm3n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00ltm3q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00lt16t (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Fishguard, SAT Pembrokeshire. The panellists are secretary of state for SAT Wales Peter Hain, Conservative home office spokesman SAT Damian Green, columnist Tanya Gold and writer Tony Sewell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00ltm3s (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response SAT to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00ltm3v (Listen) SAT Last Night, Another Soldier SAT By Andy McNab. Eighteen-year-old Briggsy is just three SAT weeks into his first posting in Afghanistan and is SAT thrilled to be part of the action. But when his Rifle SAT Section loses a man in battle, Briggsy is forced to SAT confront the realities of war. SAT Briggsy ...... Russell Tovey SAT Si ...... Lloyd Thomas SAT Flash ...... Paul Rider SAT Toki ...... Damian Lynch SAT Mackenzie/John ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Mum/Helicopter pilot/Radio Operator ...... Janice Acquah SAT Emma/Tannoy ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT Newsreader/Cookie ...... Matt Addis SAT Directed by Vernee Samuel. SAT SAT 15:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen) SAT Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll SAT stars who emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound SAT known as Khmer Rock. Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, SAT almost all these singers and musicians were killed, but SAT they are still revered by Cambodians today. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00ltm3x (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Sheila McClennon. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00ltm81 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00ltm83 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ltm85 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00ltmpj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltmpl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00ltmpn (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by financial expert Alvin Hall, science SAT journalist Adam Rutherford and architecture critic Tom SAT Dyckhoff. SAT Arthur Smith talks to mind reader Philip Escoffey. SAT With comedy from Andrew Maxwell and music from James SAT Yorkston and Meaghan Smith. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00ltmpq (Listen) SAT Sebastian Coe SAT Seb Coe was victorious on the running track, gaining gold SAT for the UK. Later in life he won again - bringing home the SAT Olympic Games for London 2012 - now just three years away. SAT But what of the years in between? A stint as a Tory MP SAT resulted in a lost seat. This was followed by a short SAT spell as William Hague's 'chief of staff'. How did Coe SAT re-invent himself as the champion of Britain, the SAT underdog, in its battle against Paris for the laurel crown? SAT Clive Coleman hears from Coe's geography teacher, Ken SAT Livingstone and his former boss and judo partner William SAT Hague about what kind of man Sebastian Coe really is. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00ltmps (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00ly0nx (Listen) SAT George Blake - The Confession SAT Former Panorama reporter Tom Bower introduces the SAT documentary he made in the late 1980s about double agent SAT George Blake. SAT For 18 years, Blake served as a trusted and senior MI6 SAT officer. But secretly, in 1952, he became a double agent, SAT betraying MI6 operations and personnel to the KGB. Over SAT the course of nine years, at a critical period of the Cold SAT War, he destroyed most of MI6's activities in Eastern SAT Europe. 'I don't know what I handed over', he admitted, SAT 'because it was so much'. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00lr153 (Listen) SAT Tennyson's Maud SAT Joseph Millson reads Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 1855 dark and SAT lyrical poem Maud to celebrate the 200th anniversary of SAT the poet's birth. SAT A disturbed young man roams the windswept hills, haunted SAT by his father's suicide and his mother's early death. He SAT blames his father's old friend, the lord of the Hall, for SAT his ruin. The young man was betrothed to Maud, the lord's SAT daughter, when they were children, but she and her family SAT left the area after the suicide. But now there are workmen SAT up at the Hall - Maud has come home. SAT With Kathryn Nutbeem. SAT Sound design by Christopher Shutt. SAT Directed by Abigail le Fleming. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00ltmr0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Reality Check b00lsyd2 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT Justin Rowlatt presents a series of discussions with SAT experts and people closely involved with the issues. SAT Those who seek to influence university policy are joined SAT by students at the sharp end of the government's higher SAT education policy to ask if the UK needs to send so many SAT people to university. SAT Around 300,000 university students finish their studies in SAT summer 2009, only to join one of the worst employment SAT markets for years, and questions continue to be asked SAT about the quality of education provided by some SAT institutions. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00lrsnr (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from Scotland and Northern Ireland. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00lr157 (Listen) SAT Listeners' requests for poems lead Roger McGough to swim SAT with seals in icy waters, recall the wives of Thomas Hardy SAT and contemplate life and death while talking about a tea SAT tray. With readers Renu Brindle, Paul Mundell and Rupert SAT Wickham. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 2 AUGUST 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00ltn18 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008118y (Listen) SUN Cheltenham Festival Readings, Close SUN Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival. SUN A brief holiday encounter takes hold of Elizabeth's SUN imagination. Written and read by Jon McGregor. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltn1b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltn1d (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltn1g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00ltn1j (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ltn1l (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from the Cathedral of the SUN Transfiguration, Archangel, Russia. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00ltmpq (Listen) SUN Sebastian Coe SUN Seb Coe was victorious on the running track, gaining gold SUN for the UK. Later in life he won again - bringing home the SUN Olympic Games for London 2012 - now just three years away. SUN But what of the years in between? A stint as a Tory MP SUN resulted in a lost seat. This was followed by a short SUN spell as William Hague's 'chief of staff'. How did Coe SUN re-invent himself as the champion of Britain, the SUN underdog, in its battle against Paris for the laurel crown? SUN Clive Coleman hears from Coe's geography teacher, Ken SUN Livingstone and his former boss and judo partner William SUN Hague about what kind of man Sebastian Coe really is. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00ltn1n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00ltn1q (Listen) SUN Cricket SUN Mark Tully celebrates cricket as a symbol of an ideal SUN society, with historian Ramanchandra Guha. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00ltn1s (Listen) SUN Alex James visits Hill Farm in Oxfordshire, home of SUN Truckfest, a locally run music festival which features SUN well known-bands alongside the up and coming. The owners SUN of the farm and organisers of the festival, Alan Binning SUN and his wife, cater the event with the local Rotary Club SUN and the cows give up their shed to hold an indoor stage of SUN more adventurous sounds and shelter for the rain weary. SUN Truck remains a local festival with no desire to grow any SUN bigger, but what do these many visitors mean for the farm SUN and the local community? Can cows and campers really SUN co-exist? Alex James, a man with one foot in rock 'n' roll SUN and the other firmly in the field, finds out. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00ltn1v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00ltn1x (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00ltn1z (Listen) SUN Jane Little discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00ltn21 (Listen) SUN Prisoners of Conscience SUN ZoĆ« Wanamaker appeals on behalf Prisoners of Conscience. SUN Donations to Prisoners of Conscience should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Prisoners of Conscience. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Prisoners of Conscience with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another SUN 25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are SUN not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 213766. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00ltn23 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00ltn25 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00ltn27 (Listen) SUN From St Martin's Church, Belfast, with the Grosvenor SUN Chorale, directed by Edward Craig. SUN Preacher: Bishop Harold Miller. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lt16w (Listen) SUN Salamander SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Sir David's first pet was a fire salamander, given to him SUN by his father on his eighth birthday. He also gave his own SUN son a salamander on his eighth birthday, the legacy of SUN which is very much alive and kicking today. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00ltn29 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00ltn2c (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00lr14v (Listen) SUN Nicky Haslam SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior decorator, SUN socialite and one-time cowboy, Nicky Haslam. SUN His life defies easy description. In America in the 1960s, SUN he was part of Andy Warhol's circle of friends. He got to SUN know Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor and met Cyd SUN Charisse and President Kennedy; and after all that, he SUN became a cowboy. SUN When he returned to Britain he brought the sleek style of SUN the States with him. When he is designing a room, he says, SUN first he lets the room speak to him, then his client - SUN then he gets the last word on how it should look. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00lrt1q (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 1 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with SUN panellists Sue Perkins, Pam Ayres, Tony Hawks and Tim Rice. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00ltn9p (Listen) SUN Sport and Food SUN Sheila Dillon examines the business of food at sports SUN events, from horse racing to football. She finds out about SUN the caterers and the companies behind thousands of meals SUN every week. SUN A handful of global businesses look after most of the food SUN in Britain's sports venues. Companies like Compass Group SUN and the US-based Aramark have turnovers which run into the SUN billions of pounds, generated in part by the food they SUN sell at sports venues. SUN Sheila hears about two major sports events, Glorious SUN Goodwood, at which Compass serve burgers made using SUN organic beef produced on the Goodwood estate, and Lord's SUN cricket ground, which decided to go it alone, bring SUN catering in-house and leave the world of contract catering. SUN With the London 2012 Olympic Games approaching, Sheila SUN asks if these examples of catering at sports venues will SUN be suited to an event at which up to 20 million meals are SUN due to be served. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00ltn9r (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00ltn9t (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Tracing Your Roots b00ltn9w (Listen) SUN In Scotland's first Homecoming Year, Sally Magnusson SUN discovers why people with Scottish ancestry feel so SUN passionate about pursuing their family history. Find out SUN what they are looking for in a special edition, recorded SUN at the Strathclyde University International Genealogy SUN Festival in Glasgow. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lt16k (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and Anne Swithinbank answer SUN questions posed by members of Letchworth District SUN Gardeners Association. SUN Letchworth was the world's first garden city, founded in SUN 1903 by social reformer Ebenezer Howard. Planners gave its SUN citizens a generous space for each garden, and one of the SUN founding principles was that the town should have the SUN space to grow its own food. The panel find out whether SUN Letchworth's history gives its gardeners an advantage SUN today, given that the concept of self-sufficiency and the SUN 'grow your own' movement are increasingly popular. SUN Also, Anne Swithinbank unearths a local colony of rare - SUN but temperamental - black squirrels and Pippa Greenwood SUN explores ways of getting children interested in gardening SUN during the summer holidays. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Estuary b008kvrj (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN Peter France narrates an extraordinary story of life on SUN the Wash as the tides and the seasons change, set against SUN a backdrop of sounds recorded on location by Chris Watson. SUN How might climate change and rising sea levels affect this SUN wild, desolate and beautiful landscape? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00ltnfs (Listen) SUN Ruth, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth SUN Gaskell. SUN Sixteen-year-old orphan Ruth Hilton is apprenticed as a SUN dressmaker to the hard-bitten Mrs Mason, because she is SUN too much of an inconvenience for her legal guardian. A job SUN as a seamstress for a Hunt Ball and an encounter with a SUN young man have far-reaching consequences. SUN Ruth ...... Laura Rees SUN Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear SUN Benson ...... Anton Lesser SUN Mrs Mason ...... Abigail Thaw SUN Guardian/Jones/Thomas ...... Richard Hope SUN Nelly/Mrs Bellingham ...... Alison Skilbeck SUN Miss Duncombe ...... Aimee Cowen SUN Jenny ...... Helen Jenkinson SUN Bessie ...... Daisy Ashford SUN Directed by Ellen Dryden. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00ltnfv (Listen) SUN CJ Sansom SUN James Naughtie and readers meet the best-selling writer CJ SUN Sansom. They discuss Dissolution, the first in his series SUN of Tudor mysteries featuring the investigator Matthew SUN Shardlake. SUN Shardlake is sent to Sussex to investigate a murder in a SUN monastery, just as Henry VIII is beginning his reformation SUN of the Church. SUN SUN 16:30 Tennyson's Ulysses Revisited b00ltnpm (Listen) SUN Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth Alfred, Lord SUN Tennyson's birth, poet Sean O'Brien explores his great SUN poem, Ulysses, from the singular story of its tragic SUN origins to its many meanings for readers today. SUN He hears from Homer scholar Oliver Taplin and Dante SUN scholar Martin McLaughlin about Tennyson's sources for the SUN poem and its surprisingly ambiguous hero. Sean learns from SUN Victorian experts Seamus Perry, Robert Douglas Fairhurst SUN and Linda Hughes about the tragedy in Tennyson's young SUN life that led him to write this poem about an old man when SUN he himself was just 24. SUN It is a poem about bereavement and death but, as poet SUN Vicki Feaver explains, it is also about the personal SUN struggle in each of us between comfort and adventure, SUN between the familiar and the unknown, between accepting SUN life as it is and striving ever onward. SUN Featuring a powerful new reading of Ulysses by Anton SUN Lesser. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00ls660 (Listen) SUN As evidence continues to emerge about the CIA's secret SUN detention and interrogation programme, calls grow on this SUN side of the Atlantic for an inquiry into claims that SUN Britain colluded in the torture of suspects. Stephen Grey SUN investigates the relationship between the US and the UK SUN security services in the hidden War on Terror. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00ltmpq (Listen) SUN Sebastian Coe SUN Seb Coe was victorious on the running track, gaining gold SUN for the UK. Later in life he won again - bringing home the SUN Olympic Games for London 2012 - now just three years away. SUN But what of the years in between? A stint as a Tory MP SUN resulted in a lost seat. This was followed by a short SUN spell as William Hague's 'chief of staff'. How did Coe SUN re-invent himself as the champion of Britain, the SUN underdog, in its battle against Paris for the laurel crown? SUN Clive Coleman hears from Coe's geography teacher, Ken SUN Livingstone and his former boss and judo partner William SUN Hague about what kind of man Sebastian Coe really is. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ltnpp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00ltnpr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltnpt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00ltnpw (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Programmes featured: SUN Six O'Clock News - Radio 4 SUN The Call - Radio 4 SUN MI6: A Century in the Shadows - Radio 4 SUN Marmalade for Comrade Philby - Radio 4 SUN Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists - Radio 4 SUN Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine - Radio 2 SUN Crossing Continents - Radio 4 SUN Mind Changers - Radio 4 SUN Just A Minute - Radio 4 SUN Round Britain Quiz - Radio 4 SUN Words And Music - Radio 3 SUN Prom 17: Bach - Radio 3 SUN The Adventures of Sexton Blake - Radio 2 SUN With Great Pleasure - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00ltnpy (Listen) SUN Jazzer keeps a low profile at The Bull. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00ltnq0 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. Combining location reports SUN with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show SUN provides new and surprising insights into contemporary SUN America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008cnz9 (Listen) SUN Blake's Doors of Perception, May Malone SUN Short stories marking the 250th anniversary of William SUN Blake's birth, each inspired by a quote from the great SUN poet. SUN There are stories that May keeps a monster in her house. SUN Young Norman Trench becomes fascinated by the noises he SUN hears with his ear pressed to May's back wall. Fascination SUN gives way to fear as she invites him in to see her monster. SUN By David Almond, read by Alun Armstrong and inspired by SUN Blake's The Marriage of Heaven SUN and Hell. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00lt16f (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN Sir Michael Lyons, chairman of the BBC Trust, faces a SUN selected panel of Feedback listeners and addresses their SUN concerns about topics including presenter salaries, SUN Thought For The Day and the 2015 DAB switchover. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00lt16m (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00ltnq2 (Listen) SUN Licensing the Landlords SUN John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. SUN John Waite investigates how laws designed to raise the SUN standard of living conditions in 'Bedsitland' are being SUN undermined by unscrupulous landlords. He reveals what SUN measures the landlords use and asks why some local SUN authorities have failed to take advantage of the new SUN powers given to them by the government. He visits Rhyl in SUN north Wales and Haringey in London. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ltn21 (Listen) SUN Prisoners of Conscience SUN ZoĆ« Wanamaker appeals on behalf Prisoners of Conscience. SUN Donations to Prisoners of Conscience should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Prisoners of Conscience. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide SUN Prisoners of Conscience with your full name and address so SUN they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another SUN 25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are SUN not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 213766. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00lszhn (Listen) SUN Learning Curve SUN A 21st-century corporation needs a different kind of SUN organisational structure from the old command and control SUN mechanisms that built the world's biggest companies. Peter SUN Day finds out how people can create learning organisations SUN without commanding and controlling. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00ltnq4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00ltnyf (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Election Agent. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00lt16p (Listen) SUN The star of La Haine, Vincent Cassell, discusses the life SUN and death of Jacques Mesrine, France's Public Enemy Number SUN One, the subject of his new movie. SUN David Warner, the star of Morgan: A Suitable Case For SUN Treatment, reveals how Sam Peckinpah saved his career. SUN Mark Gatiss from The League Of Gentlemen continues his SUN alternative guide to British cinema. SUN Jane Graham offers tips for movie mobsters on how to dress SUN for a heist. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00ltn1q (Listen) SUN Cricket SUN Mark Tully celebrates cricket as a symbol of an ideal SUN society, with historian Ramanchandra Guha. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 3 AUGUST 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00ltpdh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00lsxgy (Listen) MON The 15th century mosques of India were built by Hindu MON craftsmen trained on temples. Shakespeare borrowed from MON Seneca and emulated Ovid in the writing of his plays, and MON reggae was introduced to Britian by Jamaican immigrants MON who had brought African influence to the development of MON ska which in turn had borrowed from American R and B. No MON wonder that Edward Said said that, 'the history of all MON cultures is the history of cultural borrowing'. But is MON that cultural borrowing a fair exchange? Are some cultures MON more readily imposed than others and is there any sense in MON resisting the influence of foreign ways of life? Laurie MON Taylor discusses cultural hybridity with Tariq Ali, Peter MON Burke and Ang MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ltn1l (Listen) MON The sound of bells from the Cathedral of the MON Transfiguration, Archangel, Russia. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00lxz72 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltphg (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltps0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00ltpsj (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpxv (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00ltrk4 (Listen) MON Dairy farmers who suffered major financial losses when MON dairy farmers of britain collapsed are facing another MON round of price cuts. First Milk is now paying those MON producers who signed on with them when DFB went into MON administration 18.65 pence a litre, which is around MON three-and-a-half pence less than last month. First Milk is MON not the the only company to announce price cuts. Another MON of the main suppliers of milk and cheese to our stores, MON Milklink, is also reducing the price it pays producers by MON half a pence a litre. MON We also take a closer look at the harvest; what is being MON taken in and where it goes. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00lv0bk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00ltrmn (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lv0bm (Listen) MON Heroes and Villains MON BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to senior MON intelligence officers, agents and diplomats as well as MON their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of MON espionage. MON What went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War? MON MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting MON with an agent and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky MON talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side. MON MON 09:30 The Call b00lvg16 (Listen) MON The Adoption MON Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made MON life-changing phone calls. MON After months of form-filling bureaucracy and MON disappointment, educationalist Fiona Byerley made a MON late-night call to a Thai orphanage and was told that a MON baby girl was waiting to be collected. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00ltrn9 (Listen) MON Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 1 MON Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of MON the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access MON to her letters and papers. MON Abridged by Rosemary Goring. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrv6 (Listen) MON With Sheila McClennon. MON In the 80s, removing your bikini top to sunbathe was seen MON by some as part of the feminist third wave. The right to MON bare breasts on the beach was claimed by women in their MON thousands and for many, to do anything else would have MON been unthinkable. Now, it's reported, the tide has turned. MON Women on the Riviera are back in their tops. But why? MON Sheila McClennon talks to Vicki Hambley, the director of MON the 'topfree' play 'The Strong Breast Revolution' (which MON is appearing at the Edinburgh fringe) and to Dr Ruth MON Barcan, who has written a history of nudity. They discuss MON why going topfree can be an act of protest, not just a way MON to get rid of tan lines. MON Charlotte Bronte is perhaps best remembered for writing MON Jane Eyre. Yet it is her darker psychological novel MON Villette that probably reveals the most about the author MON herself. Like Charlotte herself, its narrator - Lucy Snowe MON - moves to Brussels as a governess, where she falls in MON love with a man she knows she can never have. While some MON criticise Villette for its unlikely heroine and ambiguous MON ending, others see it as a masterpiece. Sheila takes a MON closer look at Villette with Jude Morgan, the author of MON The Taste of Sorrow, and writer and historian Lucasta MON Miller. MON News about Europe's first 'home prison', which houses a MON growing number of female convicts and their babies. MON And male circumcision - are there health benefits for MON women when her partner has been circumcised? Should all MON boys be circumcised? Sheila discusses the facts and myths MON of male circumcision with Kennedy Gondwe, a 29-year-old MON reporter from Zambia who was circumcised two years ago, MON and recorded the event. MON MON 11:00 Mind Changers b00lv0wx (Listen) MON Series 4, The Hawthorne Effect MON Claudia Hammond presents a series looking at the MON development of the science of psychology during the 20th MON century. MON In the 1920s, at the enormous Western Electric Hawthorne MON Factory in Cicero outside Chicago, management began an MON experiment which was to improve the working life of MON millions and give rise to a phenomenon that anyone MON planning a psychology experiment would have to take into MON account in their design. MON Keen to improve productivity at a time when the telephone MON industry was growing and Western Electric was building the MON components for all the telephone exchanges in the United MON States, management decided to see whether working MON conditions affected production. But the initial MON 'illumination studies' were inconclusive; whether lighting MON was increased or decreased to no better than moonlight, MON productivity increased. Whatever the intervention, it MON seemed to promote faster work. MON Confused, management turned to economists from Harvard MON Business School to design a more complex study. So, in MON April 1927 five women were removed from the factory floor MON and put in a separate room - the relay assembly test room. MON For the next five years, as they assembled the complex MON relays they were minutely monitored. Their working MON conditions were regularly altered, but whether breaks were MON included or removed, their working day lengthened or MON shortened, their productivity continued to rise. MON The study improved working conditions throughout the MON factory, as breaks were introduced for all, but it also MON gave rise to a phenomenon known as The Hawthorne Effect, MON which has to be taken into account in the design of any MON experiment - the mere fact that subjects know that they MON are being studied may alter their behaviour. MON Yet The Hawthorne Effect is widely questioned. How can an MON experiment using such a small sample - five women, two of MON whom were changed during the study - have given rise to MON such a ubiquitous theory? MON With the help of the Hawthorne Museum in Cicero, the Baker MON Library archive and Professor Michel Anteby at Harvard MON Business School, Professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld of Yale MON Business School who met the original participants in the MON study back in the 1970s, and Mecca Chiesa of the MON University of Kent, Claudia Hammond re-examines the MON classic Hawthorne Studies. MON MON 11:30 Hazelbeach b00lv0wz (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON Comedy drama series by Caroline and David Stafford, MON featuring likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach and his MON hapless friend, Nick. MON Ronnie loses a prized possession and Nick learns what it MON means to be the Daddy. MON Ronnie Hazelbeach ...... Jamie Foreman MON Nick ...... Paul Bazely MON James ...... Neil Stuke MON Art Sanford ...... Philip Fox MON Other parts by Stephen Hogan, Annabelle Dowler and Lizzy MON Watts. MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00ltrz4 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00lts0w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00lts2l (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00lv0x1 (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from Wales and the North of England. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00ltnpy (Listen) MON Jazzer keeps a low profile at The Bull. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lv0x3 (Listen) MON Forty-Three Fifty-Nine- Assassins MON By John Dryden and Mike Walker. MON Henry, a professional killer, is sent to Hastings to MON assassinate a hedge fund manager. He has brought his MON daughter Cathy along, who he hopes will one day take over MON the family business. But all is not right in Henry's mind, MON and what should be a routine job begins to spiral out of MON control. MON Henry ...... Rob Jarvis MON Bryant ...... Nicholas Farrell MON Angela ...... Emily Beecham MON Cathy ...... Meghan Haggerty MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ly0nx (Listen) MON George Blake - The Confession MON Former Panorama reporter Tom Bower introduces the MON documentary he made in the late 1980s about double agent MON George Blake. MON For 18 years, Blake served as a trusted and senior MI6 MON officer. But secretly, in 1952, he became a double agent, MON betraying MI6 operations and personnel to the KGB. Over MON the course of nine years, at a critical period of the Cold MON War, he destroyed most of MI6's activities in Eastern MON Europe. 'I don't know what I handed over', he admitted, MON 'because it was so much'. MON MON 15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German MON Philosophers b00ltsd1 (Listen) MON German Atlantis MON Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German MON cities where great philosophers of the 19th century lived MON and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers have MON had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he reflects MON on the Germany which has been locked away behind the two MON World Wars, and examines our contemporary prejudices MON towards Germans. MON Stephen visits the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly MON Kƶnigsberg, the capital of East Prussia, to explore the MON legacy of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who lived MON his entire life in the city. MON He visits Kant's grave and meets Kant scholar Vadim Chaly, MON a native of the city which Stalin ethnically cleansed of MON Germans in 1946. He also tracks down Professor Vladimir MON Bryushinkin, the current encumbent of the Chair of Logic MON at Kaliningrad University, the chair that Kant once MON occupied in the old city of Kƶnigsberg. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00ltn9p (Listen) MON Sport and Food MON Sheila Dillon examines the business of food at sports MON events, from horse racing to football. She finds out about MON the caterers and the companies behind thousands of meals MON every week. MON A handful of global businesses look after most of the food MON in Britain's sports venues. Companies like Compass Group MON and the US-based Aramark have turnovers which run into the MON billions of pounds, generated in part by the food they MON sell at sports venues. MON Sheila hears about two major sports events, Glorious MON Goodwood, at which Compass serve burgers made using MON organic beef produced on the Goodwood estate, and Lord's MON cricket ground, which decided to go it alone, bring MON catering in-house and leave the world of contract catering. MON With the London 2012 Olympic Games approaching, Sheila MON asks if these examples of catering at sports venues will MON be suited to an event at which up to 20 million meals are MON due to be served. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00lv0x5 (Listen) MON With protests continuing in Iran over the results of the MON presidential elections, Ernie Rea and guests examine the MON history and theology which underpin the Islamic republic. MON MON 17:00 PM b00ltsj9 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltssy (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00lv13k (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 2 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Paul MON Merton, Shapp Khorsandi, Gyles Brandreth and Kit MON Hesketh-Harvey. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00ltsc6 (Listen) MON Lilian drowns all thoughts of Matt. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00ltt42 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Includes an MON interview with Tim Lott, who reflects on the reissue of MON his memoir The Scent of Dried Roses, an account of his MON mother's suicide. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ltt46 (Listen) MON Villette, Bretton MON Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte MON Bronte. MON Lucy Snowe looks back to the happy times spent with her MON godmother and the arrival of a letter with some surprising MON news. MON Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin MON Young Lucy ...... Lizzy Watts MON Polly ...... Nell Venables MON Mrs Bretton/Miss Marchmount ...... Joan Walker MON Graham Bretton ...... Benjamin Askew MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON 20:00 Benjamin Jealous: The Future of the NAACP? b00lv13m (Listen) MON Guardian journalist Gary Younge talks to Benjamin Jealous, MON the new leader of America's oldest and largest civil MON rights organisation, the National Association for the MON Advancement of Colored People, and asks if America still MON needs the organisation. MON Jealous joins the NAACP in its centenary year, but at a MON time when it is suffering from an image crisis and MON dwindling membership. Has an organisation that fought MON segregation, publicised lynchings and awakened the MON conscience of a nation become a victim of its own success? MON How relevant is the NAACP in the age of Barack Obama? MON Mr Jealous is the youngest leader the NAACP has ever MON selected and he plans to kick the organisation into the MON 21st century, encouraging new members to use technology to MON document discrimination and force change, and to turn the MON organisation back into the political powerhouse of its MON prime. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00lszh6 (Listen) MON A Journey Without Maps MON Humphrey Hawksley retraces the extraordinary journey MON undertaken on foot by the novelist Graham Greene from MON Sierra Leone across Liberia in 1935. He feasts on sardines MON and luncheon meat, meets the lightning makers and devil MON dancers and is involved in a near-fatal car crash. How has MON West Africa changed? Is it better or worse than it was 70 MON years ago? MON MON 21:00 Chips With Everything b00lv18s (Listen) MON Sue Nelson explores the mining town in North Carolina that MON is responsible for the production of the entire world's MON supply of silicon chips. MON The small community of Spruce Pine is home to the purest MON quartz on Earth, which is essential for making the chips MON that run every computer, digital radio, washing machine MON and microwave on the planet. MON Quartz is vital because of how computer chips are made; MON this uniquely pure mineral forms the mixing bowls and MON tools that make the manufacture of silicon chips possible. MON If the quartz is contaminated then it becomes useless, but MON by a stroke of geological luck these rocks formed in the MON shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains are just perfect. MON Without them - and therefore without the work of this MON North Carolina town - microchip development as we know it MON would grind to a halt. MON But as new quartz deposits are discovered in other MON countries, including Norway, could Spruce Pine cease to be MON indispensible? And what will the people of the town do if MON their last major industry disappears? The programme meets MON the locals of this Mitchell County town and digs beneath MON the surface of this strategically important mineral. MON MON 21:30 MI6: A Century in the Shadows b00lv0bm (Listen) MON Heroes and Villains MON BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera looks inside MON Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. He talks to senior MON intelligence officers, agents and diplomats as well as MON their former arch enemies about the shadowy world of MON espionage. MON What went on behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War? MON MI6 Chief John Scarlett describes his clandestine meeting MON with an agent and the Russian defector Oleg Gordievsky MON talks about his reasons for coming over to the other side. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00lttj9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00lttt6 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Felicity MON Evans. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq7 (Listen) MON The Rapture, Episode 6 MON Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. MON Gabrielle discovers the truth about her predecessor on MON Bethany's case, but Bethany has disappeared from hospital. MON Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00ls65t (Listen) MON Chris Ledgard explores the idea that the language we speak MON shapes the way we are and the way we see the world: that MON we really are different in different languages. MON The programme visits a group of Asian women at home to MON hear about all the languages they speak, and how they MON manage to switch effortlessly between them. We talk to the MON professor who is leading research into the idea that the MON actual structure of our language makes a difference to the MON way we think. MON And we hear from an Australian expert who believes that MON the difficulty of the English system of numbers puts MON English-speaking children at a disadvantage when it comes MON to learning to count. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00f3wq1 (Listen) MON Series 4, Going to the Dogs MON Documentary series telling original stories about real MON lives in Britain today. MON When Walthamstow dog track closed its doors for the last MON time in August 2008, it was the end of an era. Alan Dein MON was the only reporter allowed to join the crowds as the MON hare led the dogs round the circuit for the last time; the MON loudspeakers played Thanks for the Memory and the tears MON flowed freely. MON But what now for the future of British greyhound racing, MON without the iconic Stow? For bookie Joe Bennett and young MON trainer Paul Rich the dogs are a way of life and a family MON tradition, in spite of the fact that in England greyhound MON racing's glory days are long past. Alan follows them as MON they face an uncertain future. While Joe is philosophical MON and knows that the sport has always had its ups and downs, MON Paul, who has devoted to his dogs and has only just taken MON over the family business, is more pessimistic. Now he is MON racing in Kent, at Sittingbourne's track on a dreary MON industrial estate in the wrong end of town - a far cry MON from the glories of the Stow. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 4 AUGUST 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00ltp9v (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00ltrn9 (Listen) TUE Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 1 TUE Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of TUE the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access TUE to her letters and papers. TUE Abridged by Rosemary Goring. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdk (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgk (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00ltps2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpxx (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh0 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00ltrk6 (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00lrv4t (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE Jonathan takes the Long View of the railways at a time of TUE recession, asking what lessons can be learnt in our own TUE time from the experience of the Great Western Railway in TUE the 1860s. TUE A once-prestigious and highly-profitable enterprise, GWR TUE had over-extended itself and the company faced bankruptcy. TUE As debates rage over the future of the East Coast Main TUE Line, Jonathan and guests compare the action taken to TUE rescue the railways in the 19th century with the TUE challenges faced today. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b00b4nss (Listen) TUE Series 1, From North to South TUE Stories of people who relocated to other lands, influenced TUE by music. TUE In the early 1970s, Bruce Greene left New Jersey to embark TUE on a decade-long road trip around Kentucky and the TUE Southern Appalachians to collect old time fiddle tunes and TUE immerse himself in the traditional music that is part of TUE that landscape. He yearned for the sort of lifestyle that TUE the music seemed to convey and which he now recreates at TUE his home in a log cabin in the North Carolina mountains. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjlq (Listen) TUE Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 2 TUE Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of TUE the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access TUE to her letters and papers. TUE Marriage to an older man offers escape from the TUE claustrophobia of Edinburgh's social microcosm, but the TUE excesses of life in colonial Africa soon prove TUE overwhelming. TUE Abridged by Rosemary Goring. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq1 (Listen) TUE With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. TUE TUE 11:00 The Hidden World of Jacques Cousteau b00lv1r2 (Listen) TUE For 40 years, the Calypso was the mythical flagship of TUE that most emblematic of Frenchmen, Jacques Cousteau. Now, TUE with restoration underway on the boat, Nick Haslam sets TUE out to re-evaluate the renowned, yet sometimes TUE controversial, underwater explorer, and to shed light on TUE the bitter battle over both Cousteau's legacy and his boat. TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00lv202 (Listen) TUE Anthony Howard TUE Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. TUE Journalist and political commentator Anthony Howard TUE chooses some of his favourite pieces - read by Nigel TUE Anthony and Eleanor Bron. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00ltrv8 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00ltrz6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00lts0y (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Gesualdo: Musician and Murderer b00lv204 (Listen) TUE Aled Jones examines the bizarre life and tormented music TUE of Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa, who slaughtered his TUE unfaithful wife and her paramour and then composed six TUE books of madrigals about the joys of love. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00ltsc6 (Listen) TUE Lilian drowns all thoughts of Matt. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hk12x (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 5, The Reckoning TUE Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian TUE detective, based on real-life Edinburgh policeman TUE Inspector James McLevy. TUE Jean is busy with preparations for Hannah and Donald's TUE wedding. But somewhere in the city someone is planning a TUE terrible revenge, and death stalks McLevy's footsteps. TUE McLevy ...... Brian Cox TUE Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond TUE Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell TUE Roach ...... David Ashton TUE Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil TUE Marianna ...... Claire Knight TUE Cyrus ...... Angus Macinnes TUE Donald ...... Andrew Neil TUE Mrs Gulliver ...... Sheila Donald TUE Craigie ...... Robin Laing TUE Directed by Patrick Rayner. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00lv206 (Listen) TUE Ggiven the vast number of different beetle species on TUE Earth, do we not live in the age of the beetle? And if so, TUE what was the beetle that surprised one listener by nipping TUE him on the toe? TUE Why does the Moon always point the same face towards the TUE Earth and why does it appear that the bright side of the TUE Moon does not always point towards the Sun? TUE And finally, what can or should be done about the vast TUE numbers of plastic bags consumed by the agricultural TUE industry? TUE On the panel are astronomer Dr Carolin Crawford of the TUE University of Cambridge, soil scientist Dr Chris Collins TUE of the University of Reading and entomologist Richard TUE Jones. As always we want to hear your comments on the TUE topics discussed and any questions you might want to put TUE to future programmes. TUE Don't forget we want to hear your observations of House TUE Martins; have they returned this year and when, and have TUE they bred successfully? TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lv228 (Listen) TUE Perspectives, The Mumpers TUE Series of stories about people approaching something TUE familiar from a different point of view. TUE By Eleanor Thom. Distant memories mingle with the present TUE as an old woman at the end of her life is cared for by her TUE young nurse. Read by Laura Smales. TUE TUE 15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German TUE Philosophers b00lxd78 (Listen) TUE The Early Romantic TUE Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German TUE cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century TUE lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers TUE have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he TUE reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind TUE the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary TUE prejudices towards Germans. TUE Stephen revisits Marburg, where he was a student 35 years TUE ago. He reconsiders the subjective philosophy of Fichte TUE and of the nature philosopher Schelling, whose work he TUE studied in the 1970s, with particular reference to TUE Schelling's idea of the World Soul. TUE These thinkers provided the philosophic basis for German TUE Romanticism. Stephen relates how, as a young man, seeing TUE the world through the lens of Romanticism, he was in for TUE some pretty sharp collisions with reality. TUE The 'magic theatre' behind the mysterious black door in TUE the building in which he rents a room as a student turns TUE out to be Marburg's secret gay scene. Revisiting the TUE building nearly four decades later, he discovers it has TUE become another cultural ghetto: a smoker's pub. TUE Stephen also recalls a house party in the forests near TUE Marburg back in the early 1970s, where he had a strange TUE encounter with a young woman who seemed to embody TUE Schelling's idea of the World Soul. Like a character in a TUE fairytale, she appears to have sprung from the forest TUE itself. However, the inherent romanticism in their meeting TUE is later tempered by the appearance of the woman's husband. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00lv28b (Listen) TUE Chris Ledgard takes another journey into the world of TUE words, language and the way we speak. TUE 'Giving a presentation' has become an ordeal that many TUE people dread. But why has this business practice spread TUE into so many parts of modern life, from primary school to TUE the armed forces? And does the pre-eminent presentation TUE software package, PowerPoint, force us to think and speak TUE in certain ways? TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00lv28d (Listen) TUE Series 19, Alfred, Lord Tennyson TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, TUE Poet Laureate for over 40 years and creator of In Memoriam TUE and The Charge of the Light Brigade. TUE Ann Thwaite provides further details of Tennyson's TUE often-troubled life. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00ltshl (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltspz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Laurence & Gus: Hearts and Minds b00lv28g (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Comic sketches starring Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown. TUE Sketches on the theme of 'keeping it and losing it'. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00ltsbr (Listen) TUE Betty's gone, but not forgotten, at Willow Cottage. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00ltst0 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a report TUE on the art of the self-portrait. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfpf (Listen) TUE Villette, Turning A New Leaf TUE Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte TUE Bronte. TUE Alone and orphaned, Lucy Snowe must make her own way in TUE life. TUE Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin TUE Ginevra/Rosine ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Mme Beck ...... Joan Walker TUE Monsieur Paul ...... Sam Dale TUE Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 20:00 Rewriting the Psychiatrist's Bible b00kf117 (Listen) TUE Matthew Hill investigates the links between psychiatrists TUE and the pharmaceutical industry. Should there be increased TUE transparency over top psychiatrists' links to the industry? TUE He looks at the influence of the Diagnostic and TUE Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders (DSM), TUE produced by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), TUE which has been heavily criticised in the past for a lack TUE of transparency between the panel members and TUE pharmaceutical companies. Matthew also examines the TUE 'Chinese menu' aspect of the DSM's diagnostic criteria and TUE the sheer number of conditions it includes. Matthew TUE investigates whether the APA's transparency policy goes TUE far enough and if we are medicalising real conditions or TUE just traits of human personality. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00lv28l (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00lv28n (Listen) TUE Eczema TUE Dr Mark Porter visits the Centre of Evidence Based TUE Dermatology in Nottingham to find out the latest reasearch TUE into treating the symptoms of eczema. He sees their TUE day-to-day work in action and talks to the team. TUE One study going on at the centre is looking at whether TUE installing a water softener will have any effect on TUE childhood eczema. Professor Hywel Williams, the director TUE of the centre, has been wanting to do this study for TUE years, after hearing from many patients that softened TUE water seems to improve their symptoms. TUE Other patients are not so sure though, so research in this TUE area is needed. If it is the case that installing a water TUE softener in the home (bar one tap to be used for drinking TUE water) has an effect, then many patients will be relieved, TUE as this bypasses the worrying side-effects of many eczema TUE drug treatments. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00lrv4t (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE Jonathan takes the Long View of the railways at a time of TUE recession, asking what lessons can be learnt in our own TUE time from the experience of the Great Western Railway in TUE the 1860s. TUE A once-prestigious and highly-profitable enterprise, GWR TUE had over-extended itself and the company faced bankruptcy. TUE As debates rage over the future of the East Coast Main TUE Line, Jonathan and guests compare the action taken to TUE rescue the railways in the 19th century with the TUE challenges faced today. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00lttr4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsh (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Felicity TUE Evans. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgpz (Listen) TUE The Rapture, Episode 7 TUE Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. TUE Gabrielle meets Bethany's kidnappers and discovers why TUE they are concerned about her disturbing premonitions. TUE Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00b7wwz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme that likes to think TUE the unthinkable. TUE Former host David Baddiel makes a special appearance, TUE joined by David Mitchell and Rev Richard Coles. TUE An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 The Hollow Men b00lzn34 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand, TUE Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy TUE Brand. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00ltp9x (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00lxjlq (Listen) WED Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 2 WED Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of WED the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access WED to her letters and papers. WED Marriage to an older man offers escape from the WED claustrophobia of Edinburgh's social microcosm, but the WED excesses of life in colonial Africa soon prove WED overwhelming. WED Abridged by Rosemary Goring. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00ltps4 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpxz (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh2 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00ltrk8 (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Between Ourselves b00ls6wm (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two stand-up comedians, probably the UK's WED first female Muslim stand-up, Shazia Mirza, and doctor, WED Paul Sinha. They discuss how they got into comedy and if WED the pigeon-holes they have been put into of being 'Asian', WED Muslim' or 'gay' are a help or a hindrance to them. WED WED 09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A WED b00ls6wp (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's WED Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform WED itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing' WED modern museum. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjlj (Listen) WED Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 3 WED Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of WED the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access WED to her letters and papers. WED Spark's unique literary voice is discovered when she wins WED The Observer's Christmas story competition in 1951 with WED The Seraph and the Zambesi, beating 7,000 other entries. WED Abridged by Rosemary Goring. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq3 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00lv4hc (Listen) WED Series 10, Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin WED Contemporary history series. WED 'Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin' was a children's WED picture book that showed two gay men bringing up a small WED girl. When a copy was found in a teachers' resource centre WED in 1986, it casued uproar and was denounced by the WED education secretary as 'blatant homosexual propaganda'. WED Jolyon Jenkins traces how the book, and the policies of a WED small number of local authorities, led to the now infamous WED Section 28. WED WED 11:30 Baggage b00lv5h7 (Listen) WED Series 4, For a' that and a' that WED Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. WED It's Burns' night and passion and politics are to the WED fore. Tensions abound at the prospect of baby April WED spending the weekend with her birth father and Caroline WED frets over why her own father isn't spending the night at WED home. WED Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon WED Fiona ...... Phyllis Logan WED Ruth ...... Adie Allen WED Roddy ...... Robin Cameron WED Hector ...... David Rintoul WED Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00ltrvb (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00ltrz8 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00lts10 (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00lv5h9 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00ltsbr (Listen) WED Betty's gone, but not forgotten, at Willow Cottage. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lv5hc (Listen) WED The Tower WED By Richard Monks. Mashama is on the run from his home; Eva WED believes she can't return to hers. Music brings them WED together at a motorway service station, but the law is not WED far behind. WED Eva ...... Cristina Catalina WED Mashama ...... Lucian Msamati WED Neil ...... Stephen Hogan WED Carol ...... Lorraine Ashbourne WED Crosby ...... John Lightbody WED Geoff ...... John Hollingworth WED Denise ...... Annabelle Dowler WED Driver ...... David Hargreaves. WED WED 15:00 The Money Grab b00ltl6v (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Alvin Hall explores the rise in corporate pay and bonus WED culture. WED Starting in the 1980s, with Wall Street's mantra of 'greed WED is good', Alvin charts the changes in the finance world WED which led to a new generation of multi-millionaires. He WED reveals how big businesses calculate super salaries, and WED asks how much is enough; can a company suffer from paying WED its top talent too much? WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lxfbg (Listen) WED Perspectives, futouristic.co.uk WED Series of stories about people approaching something WED familiar from a different point of view. WED By Christopher Priest, read by Nick Underwood. WED When he replies to an irresistible email proposition, Mr WED Frogle can be sure of only one thing - nothing will ever WED be the same again. WED WED 15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German WED Philosophers b00lxd7b (Listen) WED DoppelgƤnger WED Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German WED cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century WED lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers WED have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he WED reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind WED the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary WED prejudices towards Germans. WED Together with his brother Neville, an expert on the WED romantic city of Heidelberg, Stephen explores the city of WED the Student Prince and examines its connections with the WED philosophers Hegel and Schopenhauer. He considers the idea WED of the DoppelgƤnger, the double, an important archetype in WED German Romantic literature. WED Neville explains how the movement of High Romanticism was WED created by the anti-French nationalism, which developed in WED the city during the years after the Napoleonic invasion. WED The enthusiasm for German folklore, which was later WED fostered by the Nazis, was directly related to this WED cultural reaction. WED Stephen discusses with his brother two of the famous WED philosophers associated with the city, Hegel and WED Schopenhauer. Hegel went on to become an intellectual WED superstar, taking over the chair of philosophy in Berlin. WED Schopenhauer, on the other hand, was dismissed by the WED academic establishment, his ideas only latterly being WED taken seriously by the likes of Richard Wagner and WED Friedrich Nietzsche. Schopenhauer attempted to emulate WED Hegel, and became a kind of DoppelgƤnger for him when he WED followed in his footsteps to Berlin and set up his own WED rival series of lectures. These were so poorly attended WED however, he had to beat an ignominious retreat from the WED capital. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00lv5hf (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00lv28n (Listen) WED Eczema WED Dr Mark Porter visits the Centre of Evidence Based WED Dermatology in Nottingham to find out the latest reasearch WED into treating the symptoms of eczema. He sees their WED day-to-day work in action and talks to the team. WED One study going on at the centre is looking at whether WED installing a water softener will have any effect on WED childhood eczema. Professor Hywel Williams, the director WED of the centre, has been wanting to do this study for WED years, after hearing from many patients that softened WED water seems to improve their symptoms. WED Other patients are not so sure though, so research in this WED area is needed. If it is the case that installing a water WED softener in the home (bar one tap to be used for drinking WED water) has an effect, then many patients will be relieved, WED as this bypasses the worrying side-effects of many eczema WED drug treatments. WED WED 17:00 PM b00ltshn (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltsq1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00lv5hh (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Sketch show for anyone who is beginning to find this WED exciting new century a bit too much like all the rubbish WED previous centuries. WED How the recession is affecting supermarkets, the WED conspiracy behind celebrity gossip magazines and how Radio WED 4 is going to rebrand itself. WED With Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and WED Katherine Parkinson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00ltsbt (Listen) WED Peggy's finances take a knock. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00ltst2 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson questions leading crime WED writers, including Reginald Hill and Val McDermid, in a WED special report from the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfph (Listen) WED Villette, Isidore WED Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte WED Bronte. WED A handsome young English doctor pays a visit to the school WED and begins to confide in Lucy. WED Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin WED Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew WED Ginevra/Rosine ...... Lizzy Watts WED Mme Beck ...... Joan Walker WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED 20:00 Reality Check b00lv6fn (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Justin Rowlatt presents a discussion series involving WED experts and people closely involved in the issues. WED The UK is suffering an obesity crisis, supermarkets are WED accused of having too much power over our lives and of WED squeezing farmers dry, while others worry about the impact WED of the food industry on global warming. WED Consumers, farmers, retailers and food experts ask if our WED food chain needs a radical overhaul and discuss who has WED the right to tell us where to shop. WED WED 20:45 The Election Agent b00lyfd3 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED With exclusive access to an election count, Shaun Ley WED hears stories from election agents. What really goes on WED behind the scenes of an election campaign? What messages WED do dissatisfied voters write on their ballot papers? WED WED 21:00 Last Chance for Africa's Elephants? b00lv6tq (Listen) WED Andrew Luck-Baker asks how science can stop the new WED upsurge in the slaughter of African elephants for the WED booming illegal international trade in ivory. WED 20 years ago the African elephant was being fast-tracked WED to extinction by poaching. In response, the world voted to WED outlaw the international trade in ivory. Since then, WED elephant numbers in many countries have been recovering. WED But in the last five years, ivory poaching and trafficking WED have surged once more. WED One group of conservation scientists has calculated that WED 38,000 animals every year are being slaughtered to feed WED the demand for ivory products in East Asia. If that WED poaching rate is correct and sustained, the African WED elephant will be effectively extinct within 15 years. WED Some other elephant experts argue the slaughter rate is WED not as high as this but are still alarmed at the steep WED increase in poaching in many African countries. WED Andrew Luck-Baker visits Kenya, one of the countries where WED some believe elephant poaching is accelerating out of WED control. He also talks to the scientist behind an ivory WED DNA test which is helping the fight against the organised WED crime syndicates behind the illegal trade. WED WED 21:30 Between Ourselves b00ls6wm (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two stand-up comedians, probably the UK's WED first female Muslim stand-up, Shazia Mirza, and doctor, WED Paul Sinha. They discuss how they got into comedy and if WED the pigeon-holes they have been put into of being 'Asian', WED Muslim' or 'gay' are a help or a hindrance to them. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00lttr6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsk (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq1 (Listen) WED The Rapture, Episode 8 WED Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. WED In order to exploit her prophetic powers, Gabrielle is WED forced to give Bethany ECT, with dire consequences. WED Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Act Your Age b00g3hr8 (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Host Simon Mayo pits the comic generations against each WED other. With team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and WED Roy Walker and guests Russell Kane, Johnnie Casson and WED Phil Nichol. WED WED 23:30 Kicking the Habit b007tzgy (Listen) WED Series 1, Long Distance Friar WED Comedy drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite WED monastery where the brown habit is no protection against WED the problems and temptations of the modern world. WED Father Athanasias is tweaking his bath chair for greater WED speed. Brother Luke is in training for the marathon, but WED when the Anglicans suggest a rival entrant the race is WED really on. WED Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina WED Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice WED Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis WED Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson WED Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres WED Brother Francis ...... Alan Shearman WED Father Lawrence ...... Kenneth Danziger WED Directed by Pete Atkin WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 6 AUGUST 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00ltp9z (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00lxjlj (Listen) THU Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 3 THU Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of THU the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access THU to her letters and papers. THU Spark's unique literary voice is discovered when she wins THU The Observer's Christmas story competition in 1951 with THU The Seraph and the Zambesi, beating 7,000 other entries. THU Abridged by Rosemary Goring. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgp (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00ltps6 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpy1 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh4 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. THU THU 06:00 Today b00ltrkb (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lvgwj (Listen) THU Series 5, Terminally Ill and Suicidal THU Joan Bakewell discusses the real-life case of Mary, a THU terminally-ill woman in her 80s. She has considered her THU condition and has decided that she wants to die. THU She is admitted to a hospice for respite care. On the THU first night she attempts suicide. The psychiatric team, THU who assess Mary, conclude that she is not clinically THU depressed. THU Mary talks quite openly with her relatives and the medical THU staff about her wish to die, describing her existence as THU inconvenient. She also asks members of the team for THU euthanasia. THU While at the hospice she refuses palliative care, and, as THU her condition is stable, she decides to go home and employ THU a full-time carer. THU But the psychiatric staff are very concerned. Mary THU continues to talk of her death wish, and she has asked the THU psychiatric team to leave her alone when she goes home. THU What right does Mary have to determine how her life ends? THU What is the role of her doctors, and should she attempt THU suicide again? Is not doing anything the equivalent of a THU policeman walking past and ignoring a man who is about to THU jump off a building? THU Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss THU the complex ethical issues surrounding this case. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjll (Listen) THU Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 4 THU Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of THU the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access THU to her letters and papers. THU Spark's life is transformed by the publication of her THU fifth novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which gained THU critical and commercial success on both sides of the THU Atlantic when it was published in 1961. THU Abridged by Rosemary Goring. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq5 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00lvh19 (Listen) THU Southern Sudan THU While the world's attention has focused on the conflict in THU Darfur, an older and even bloodier conflict between the THU Muslim north and mainly Christian south of Sudan is in THU danger of reigniting. Four years after a peace deal was THU agreed, Grant Ferrett travels to Southern Sudan to THU investigate claims that Africa's biggest nation is sliding THU back to civil war. THU THU 11:30 Billy Liar: Fifty Years On b00lvh1c (Listen) THU Fifty years after the publication of Keith Waterhouse's THU Billy Liar, writer Blake Morrison goes in search of the THU world it evokes - the north of England on the cusp of the THU 1960s. The story of a frustrated young man in a northern THU town who escapes from reality into vivid fantasies of THU power and glory, Billy Liar captured the public THU imagination. It became a play, a film, a musical and even THU a TV series. THU Blake travels to Leeds to explore the way in which THU Waterhouse's life there overlaps with Billy's story, and THU talks to long-term residents and local historians about THU how the city, and the society depicted in the novel, has THU changed. The programme also features contributions from THU Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barry Cryer and Sir Gerald THU Kaufman MP. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00ltrvd (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. Including Face THU the Facts, presented by John Waite. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00ltrzb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00lts12 (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00lvh6r (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00ltsbt (Listen) THU Peggy's finances take a knock. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lvh6t (Listen) THU Normal and Nat THU By Debbie Oates. Nat's life spirals out of control after THU she describes hearing voices in her head, until a THU sympathetic teacher helps to unlock the obsessive musical THU way in which Nat thinks. THU Nat ...... Rebecca Ryan THU Miss Davies ...... Elizabeth Berrington THU Mix ...... Jamil Thomas THU Shanice ...... Wunmi Mosaku THU Jane ...... Sue Devaney THU Paul/HeadteacherDavid Fleeshman THU Pianist ...... Jonathan Scott THU The Voice in Nat's Head ...... Emma Johnson THU With Chorlton High School Choir and The RNCM Gospel Choir. THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00ltl3c (Listen) THU WWII Secrets of The Peak District THU Matt Baker discovers the Second World War secrets of the THU Peak District. THU Nestled away in the Peak District are two Second World War THU 'training grounds'. The first is the Derwent Valley, with THU the wide open dam that heard the roar of Lancaster bombers THU as they prepared for the historic Dambuster raids. THU The second is the lesser known Burbage Valley, where in THU secrecy, British and Canadian troops were trained for war, THU leaving their battle scars across the landscape. Burbage THU Valley is also home to one of the first bomber decoys in THU the country. In an extroadinary bid to distract German THU bombers, a mini-Sheffield was built. This hoax site THU comprised an elaborate arrangement of lights and fires THU contained in baskets and trenches that were designed to THU replicate Sheffield's railway marshalling yards as seen THU from the air at night. This 'model city' was set into THU action by brave Sheffield men who had to run straight into THU the decoy to activate it, knowing full well that if they THU were successful it could mean that THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00ltn21 (Listen) THU Prisoners of Conscience THU ZoĆ« Wanamaker appeals on behalf Prisoners of Conscience. THU Donations to Prisoners of Conscience should be sent to THU FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your THU envelope Prisoners of Conscience. Credit cards: Freephone THU 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide THU Prisoners of Conscience with your full name and address so THU they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation worth another THU 25 per cent. The online and phone donation facilities are THU not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 213766. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00lxfbj (Listen) THU Perspectives, Attendance THU Series of stories about people approaching something THU familiar from a different point of view. THU By Elizabeth Reeder, read by Robin Laing. THU A man comes to a life-changing decision as he observes his THU lover tending to a dying relative. THU THU 15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German THU Philosophers b00lxd7d (Listen) THU Human, All Too Human THU Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German THU cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century THU lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers THU have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he THU reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind THU the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary THU prejudices towards Germans. THU Stephen visits the Nietzsche House in Naumburg, in the THU former East Germany, where Nietzsche spent part of his THU youth and where he returned at the onset of his madness. THU He meets the head of the Nietzsche Archive, RĆ¼diger THU Schmidt Grepaly, and Fellow in residence Stefan Wilke. The THU archive is housed in the house where Nietzsche died, THU having been removed to Weimar by his ambitious sister THU Elizabeth Fƶrster Nietzsche on the death of their mother. THU Grepaly and Wilke explain the triangular relationship THU between Nietzsche, his friend, the psychologist Paul Rey, THU and a beautiful and brilliant young student Lou Andreas THU Salome. The relationship ended in disaster for Nietzsche THU when the other two abandoned him to a life of hermetic THU isolation. THU Stephen compares this relationship to the three-cornered THU friendship between himself, his Nietzschean school friend THU Kevin and Maja, a beautiful doctor's daughter, when they THU all lived in Zurich in the late 1970s. Stephen's romantic THU hopes were finally dashed when Maja declines to accompany THU him on a nocturnal ski sortie across a frozen lake in the THU Alps, close to where Nietzsche wrote many of his major THU works. In the freezing temperatures, the limitations of THU the Nietzschean path become all too apparent to the lonely THU skier. THU Stephen is reunited with Maja in Berlin. They recall Kevin THU and the events of that time together. Stephen realises he THU was unable to live up to Nietzsche's demand that man THU should transcend his humanity and become the Superman. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00ltnfv (Listen) THU CJ Sansom THU James Naughtie and readers meet the best-selling writer CJ THU Sansom. They discuss Dissolution, the first in his series THU of Tudor mysteries featuring the investigator Matthew THU Shardlake. THU Shardlake is sent to Sussex to investigate a murder in a THU monastery, just as Henry VIII is beginning his reformation THU of the Church. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00lvltz (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00ltshq (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltsq3 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Electric Ink b00kq62n (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Satirical comedy by Alistair Beaton. Old hacks meet new THU media in the newspaper industry. THU Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay THU Oliver ...... Alex Jennings THU Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington THU Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar THU Masha ...... Debbie Chazen THU Freddy ...... Ben Willbond THU Press Officer (Barry) ...... Stephen Hogan THU Announcer ...... Matt Addis THU With additional material by Tom Mitchelson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00ltsbw (Listen) THU Eddie gets his feet under the table at Brookfield. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00ltst4 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang meets tenor Jose THU Carreras, who reflects on his wide-ranging career and his THU performances with Placido Domingo and the late Luciano THU Pavarotti. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfpk (Listen) THU Villette, The Long Vacation THU Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte THU Bronte. THU Celebrations are afoot for Madame Beck's birthday, but THU when the school empties for the summer holidays, Lucy THU realises the full extent of her loneliness. THU Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin THU Monsieur Paul/Pere Silas ...... Sam Dale THU Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew THU Ginevra ...... Lizzy Watts THU Directed by Tracey Neale. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00lvlv1 (Listen) THU Simon Cox investigates the next phase in the swine flu THU story: the mass vaccination programme. Will the majority THU of people be persuaded to be vaccinated voluntarily and THU will countries that need the vaccine be able to get it? THU THU 20:30 In Business b00lvlv3 (Listen) THU Hell for Leather THU How do you manage a traditional family shoe repair firm THU with 550 outlets all over the country? John Timpson does THU it by dropping in on them all the time to find out what's THU going on, day by day. He calls it 'upside-down THU management'. Peter Day went along for the ride. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b00lvgwj (Listen) THU Series 5, Terminally Ill and Suicidal THU Joan Bakewell discusses the real-life case of Mary, a THU terminally-ill woman in her 80s. She has considered her THU condition and has decided that she wants to die. THU She is admitted to a hospice for respite care. On the THU first night she attempts suicide. The psychiatric team, THU who assess Mary, conclude that she is not clinically THU depressed. THU Mary talks quite openly with her relatives and the medical THU staff about her wish to die, describing her existence as THU inconvenient. She also asks members of the team for THU euthanasia. THU While at the hospice she refuses palliative care, and, as THU her condition is stable, she decides to go home and employ THU a full-time carer. THU But the psychiatric staff are very concerned. Mary THU continues to talk of her death wish, and she has asked the THU psychiatric team to leave her alone when she goes home. THU What right does Mary have to determine how her life ends? THU What is the role of her doctors, and should she attempt THU suicide again? Is not doing anything the equivalent of a THU policeman walking past and ignoring a man who is about to THU jump off a building? THU Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss THU the complex ethical issues surrounding this case. THU THU 21:45 Top of the Class b00cx6b5 (Listen) THU Lauren Child THU John Wilson meets leading figures in their fields and THU takes them back to the places and people they left behind THU but who influenced their later success. THU Children's author Lauren Child goes back to her THU comprehensive school to meet her former teachers and best THU friend. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00lttr8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsm (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Ritula THU Shah. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq3 (Listen) THU The Rapture, Episode 9 THU Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. THU Bethany finally describes the circumstances of the murder THU she committed, while desperate efforts are made to avert THU the catastrophe she has predicted. THU Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b00lvm68 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU The omniscient friend you know from your computer and THU laser watch takes over Radio 4 for 30 minutes in a unique THU experiment in broadwebcasting. THU Written by Nick Doody and Matt Kirshen with Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith, Carey Marx and Sarah Morgan. THU Featuring Ewan Bailey, Sam Battersea, Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Kobna THU Holdbrook-Smith and Lewis MacLeod. THU THU 23:30 Will Smith Presents The Tao of Bergerac b007w0j4 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Comedian Will Smith is obsessed with 1980s detective THU series Bergerac, so uses an audio book of its star, John THU Nettles, reading the Tao, to navigate the minefield of his THU life, with the help of a special guest. THU Will wonders how he can be an individual without being THU derided for his choices. THU With Karl Johnson, Simon Greenall, John Nettles, Rachel THU Bavidge and Olivia Poulet. THU Written by Will Smith and Roger Drew. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 7 AUGUST 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00ltpb1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00lxjll (Listen) FRI Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 4 FRI Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of FRI the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access FRI to her letters and papers. FRI Spark's life is transformed by the publication of her FRI fifth novel, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, which gained FRI critical and commercial success on both sides of the FRI Atlantic when it was published in 1961. FRI Abridged by Rosemary Goring. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ltpdr (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ltpgr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ltpm8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00ltps8 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ltpy3 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Marjory Maclean. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00ltrh6 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00ltrkd (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; FRI Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00lr14v (Listen) FRI Nicky Haslam FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is the interior decorator, FRI socialite and one-time cowboy, Nicky Haslam. FRI His life defies easy description. In America in the 1960s, FRI he was part of Andy Warhol's circle of friends. He got to FRI know Wallis Simpson and the Duke of Windsor and met Cyd FRI Charisse and President Kennedy; and after all that, he FRI became a cowboy. FRI When he returned to Britain he brought the sleek style of FRI the States with him. When he is designing a room, he says, FRI first he lets the room speak to him, then his client - FRI then he gets the last word on how it should look. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00lxjln (Listen) FRI Muriel Spark - The Biography, Episode 5 FRI Hannah Gordon reads from Martin Stannard's biography of FRI the acclaimed Scottish novelist, written with full access FRI to her letters and papers. FRI Despite finding companionable happiness in Italy, the FRI vexations of Spark's family life continued to intrude long FRI into her old age. FRI Abridged by Rosemary Goring. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ltrq7 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Villette. FRI FRI 11:00 Can't Connect, Won't Connect b00lxh3p (Listen) FRI A so-called 'digital revolution' is promised to transform FRI public and private life, but many millions are still not FRI online in Britain, saying that they don't need or want to FRI join this revolution. Chris Bowlby discovers who the FRI digital 'refuseniks' are, and explores how far their FRI resistance can go. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b00lxh3r (Listen) FRI Series 2, Johannesburg FRI Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny FRI charter airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs FRI are too difficult. FRI When Carolyn makes a daring bet with her pilots, what FRI better place for a race against time than a sleepy Spanish FRI airfield? FRI Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole FRI First Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam FRI Capt Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore FRI Senor Quintanilla ...... Michael Fenton-Stevens FRI Diego ...... Javier Marzan FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00ltrvg (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00ltrzd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00lts14 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Edward Stourton. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00lxh3t (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates statistics which some claim FRI reveal the 'Islamification' of Europe and checks whether FRI the Home Office has been doing its sums properly. Do its FRI claims about the DNA Database really add up? FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00ltsbw (Listen) FRI Eddie gets his feet under the table at Brookfield. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0093z9w (Listen) FRI Bearing the Cross FRI Ken Blakeson's play tells the story of the Battle of FRI Rorke's Drift and the effect it had on three of the FRI soldiers who fought in it. FRI William Jones VC ...... Nigel Anthony FRI Robert Jones VC ...... Sebastian Harcombe FRI Henry Hook VC ...... Jon Strickland FRI Landlord/Buffalo Bill ...... Robert Blythe FRI Barmaid ...... Bethan Walker FRI Original music by David Chilton FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00lxh3w (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI John Cushnie, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs answer FRI questions posed by members of Brightlingsea Garden Club. FRI Brightlingsea is on the Essex coast near Colchester, and, FRI as winner of the 2006 Britain in Bloom award and multiple FRI winner of the Best Town in Anglia competition, it has an FRI enviable reputation. FRI Bunny Guinness investigates how local man Brian FRI Wickenden's garden ended up being nominated as the FRI National Collection of Corydalis, and finds out how Brian FRI is coping with its maintenance. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 The Romantic Road: On the Trail of the German FRI Philosophers b00lxd7g (Listen) FRI Lifting Berlin FRI Writer Stephen Plaice takes a journey through the German FRI cities where the great philosophers of the 19th century FRI lived and worked, exploring the impact that these thinkers FRI have had on each stage of his life. Along the way, he FRI reflects on the Germany which has been locked away behind FRI the two World Wars, and examines our contemporary FRI prejudices towards Germans. FRI Stephen ends his philosophical journey in Berlin where he FRI considers how, in maintaining our prejudices towards the FRI Germans, we have excluded the liberal wisdom of its FRI philosophers. Berlin, a city with an very divided past, FRI provides a living metaphor of the Hegelian dialectic of FRI history. Out of the opposing forces of Communism and FRI Nazism, a third, democratic synthesis has emerged. But at FRI Checkpoint Charlie, Stephen discovers that the old FRI oppositions of the Cold War have been turned into tourist FRI entertainment. Is there an ironic phase to history? FRI Visiting the cemetery in which Hegel is buried, and then FRI the Humboldt University where he lectured, Stephen FRI reflects on the two opposing ideologies that tried to gain FRI control of Berlin in the 20th century, and examines the FRI extent to which the accusation holds that German idealist FRI philosophy was responsible for the rise of both Fascism FRI and Communism. He cites Kant's treatise On Perpetual Peace FRI to illustrate the enlightened legacy which has been FRI obscured behind the pseudo-philosophy of the Third Reich. FRI Stephen argues that we have handed Hitler a victory by FRI allowing our image of the Germans and of German culture to FRI remain fixated on the Nazis. FRI Stephen also reflects on The Principle of Hope, a key work FRI by the German Jewish utopian philosopher Ernst Bloch, FRI which he co-translated in the 1980s. FRI In conclusion Stephen reflects how, from the early FRI Romanticism of student days in Germany, via Nietzsche and FRI Schopenhauer, to Ernst Bloch's philosophy of hope and the FRI Kantian responsibilities of parenthood, philosophy has the FRI power to shape personal experience. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00lxh3y (Listen) FRI Jane Little presents the obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. The programme reflects on people of distinction and FRI interest from many walks of life, some famous and some FRI less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00lxh40 (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to father and son Freddie and Toby FRI Jones about their careers in the British film industry. FRI As well as appearing in numerous horror movies in the FRI early 1970s, Freddie starred in And The Ship Sails On for FRI Federico Fellini and had some memorable roles for David FRI Lynch, including The Elephant Man and Dune. Toby started FRI out in roles such as 'Man at Bar' in Mike Leigh's Naked FRI and recently starred as Truman Capote in Infamous. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00ltshs (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ltsq5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00lxh42 (Listen) FRI Series 28, Episode 7 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, FRI Mitch Benn and Ben Goldacre. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00ltsby (Listen) FRI Fallon's dreams in music hit a duff note. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00ltst6 (Listen) FRI John Wilson meets writer Tony Parsons, whose new novel FRI focuses on a middle-aged man who is given the heart of a FRI 19-year-old and the chance to change his life. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00lxfpm (Listen) FRI Villette, La Terresse FRI Dramatisation of the classic romantic novel by Charlotte FRI Bronte. FRI Alone, weary and desperately low in spirits, Lucy has FRI pitched into an abyss of despair from which, it appears, FRI there is no return. But then suddenly there is hope. FRI Lucy Snowe ...... Anna Maxwell Martin FRI Mrs Bretton ...... Joan Walker FRI Monsieur Paul ...... Sam Dale FRI Dr John ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00lxh7t (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate in Margate. The panel FRI includes writer Charles Moore, British Medical Association FRI chairman Hamish Meldrum, commentator and chief executive FRI of the Index on Censorship John Kampfner and chair of the FRI Health and Safety Commission, Judith Hackitt. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00lxhb3 (Listen) FRI Birds of Paradise FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI Sir David talks about the Birds of Paradise, a group of FRI birds which evolved in the relative safety of New Guinea, FRI allowing them to acquire adornments and feathered FRI decorations so resplendent that they fooled the early FRI explorers who discovered them. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00lxhdb (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Enemy Within FRI Second series of three political dramas. FRI By Jon Sen. MP Bobby Khan is blackmailed over an alleged FRI homosexual affair he had at university. FRI Bobby ...... Zubin Varla FRI Imran ...... Bhasker Patel FRI Lucy ...... Nicola Stephenson FRI Wasim ...... Christopher Bisson FRI David Hart/Geraint ...... James Quinn FRI Terry ...... John McArdle FRI Shazia/Woman ...... Balvinder Sopal FRI Ali ...... Darren Kuppan FRI Graham ...... Jonathan Keeble FRI Sara ...... Millie Rose Kinsey FRI Political adviser Andrew Russell FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00lttrb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00lttsp (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00lxgq5 (Listen) FRI The Rapture, Episode 10 FRI Denise Black reads from Liz Jensen's eco-thriller. FRI The day of tribulation has come. Gabrielle and Frazer FRI drive Bethany to a rendezvous to try to escape the FRI catastrophe, but their plans are hijacked. FRI Abridged by Fiona McAlpine. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00lv28d (Listen) FRI Series 19, Alfred, Lord Tennyson FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Andrew Motion champions the life of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, FRI Poet Laureate for over 40 years and creator of In Memoriam FRI and The Charge of the Light Brigade. FRI Ann Thwaite provides further details of Tennyson's FRI often-troubled life. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b0089j50 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the last week of radio. FRI FRI FRI