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SAT SATURDAY 14 AUGUST 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00tbtd0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00tc3h3 (Listen) SAT We are a Muslim, Please, Episode 5 SAT SAT Award-winning investigative journalist Zaiba Malik's memoir SAT of growing up in the 70s and 80s, torn between being SAT 'British' and 'Muslim'. SAT SAT Now working as a journalist, Zaiba returns to her home town SAT of Bradford to see how things have changed. SAT SAT Read by Nisha Nayar. SAT SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier. SAT SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tbtd2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tbtd4 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tbtd6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00tbtd8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tbtdb (Listen) SAT With Dr Catherine Cowley, Assistant Director for the SAT Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. SAT SAT 05:45 Brother Mine b00cm7h2 (Listen) SAT Global Differences SAT SAT Famous sibling Julian Lloyd Webber takes a closer look at SAT what it is to be a sibling and why that relationship can be SAT a lifelong source of love, hate, conflict and peace. SAT SAT Julian looks at global differences in siblings: milk SAT siblings in Islamic culture (sibling through the same milk SAT nurse), sibling hierarchies in African countries, and SAT Chinese and Bangladeshi immigrant families in Britain today. SAT SAT With contributions from Prof Juliet Mitchell, anthropologist SAT Prof Tom Weisner, psychologist Dorothy Rowe, sociologist Dr SAT Miri Song, Prof Eve Gregory, anthropologist Prof Ruth Mace, SAT and Ahmed Darwish (psychologist and Chairman of the Muslim SAT Council of Wales). SAT SAT Producer: Terry Lewis SAT A Tinderbox production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00tbtdd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00tcfhj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00tcfhl (Listen) SAT Western Irish Lake District SAT SAT To the north of Galway in Ireland lies the Lake SAT District.....but not a Lake District that Alfred Wainwright SAT might instantly recognise. This is the Irish Lake District, SAT where three major lakes can be found - from north to south SAT they are Loughs Carra, Mask and Corrib. Unusually all the SAT three lakes are located almost entirely on low lying SAT limestone, which is notoriously a leaky rock. Because of SAT this, the lake system encompasses some of the most SAT fascinating hydrology and lake shore features. Helen Mark SAT begins her exploration of the lakes with geologist, Mike SAT Simms, at Lough Mask where the shoreline resembles a vast SAT empty egg box, a feature formed by the rise and fall of the SAT water on the limestone. From here, Helen travels to Lough SAT Carra where she takes to the water with ecologist and SAT farmer, Chris Huxley. The bed of the lake consists of marl, SAT a calcerous deposit, which gives the lake its distincitive SAT and characteristic appearance. Lough Carra is a wildlife SAT sanctuary and home to a wide variety of wild orchids but in SAT recent years the lake has been threatened by pollution SAT caused by modern intensive farming methods. SAT Loughs Mask and Corrib are connected by an underwater stream SAT with water draining from sinkholes on the shore of Lough SAT Mask to springs in the village of Cong. Before the 1840s and SAT the building of the Cong Canal, these would have been among SAT the largest in the world but they were robbed of their peak SAT flows by the canal which ultimately failed because it was SAT constructed on the leaky limestone. Helen hears about the SAT ill-fated canal from historian, Gerard Moran, and along with SAT caver, Pat Cronin, she descends the stone staircase to SAT Pigeon Hole, one of the many underground caves and passages SAT that connect Lough Mask to Carra. SAT Helen ends her journey at Lough Carra, the second largest SAT lake in Ireland, from where the water eventually empties SAT into Galway Bay. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00tcfhn (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Farming Today reports on how droughts and wild fires in SAT Russia and the Ukraine will affect the price of bread in the SAT UK. Caz Graham follows the path of wheat from the field, to SAT the mill where it is turned into flour, and on to the bakery SAT where it becomes a loaf of bread. Farming Today discovers SAT how it may not just be basic foods such as bread that are SAT affected by the current spike in wheat prices. Meat and milk SAT may soon cost more as the price of animal feed also SAT increases. SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Martin SAT Poyntz-Roberts. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00tc6pl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00tcfhq (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00tcfhs (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles is joined by chef, and chair of SAT this year's Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards, Angela SAT Hartnett. The poet is Matt Harvey. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00tcs21 (Listen) SAT Nagasaki - Slow travel canoe SAT SAT If you are simply planning to do nothing today then our SAT guest Hilary Bradt thinks you've planned your holiday SAT perfectly. Her new guide is called Slow Devon and Exmoor and SAT it's all about how to enjoy the gentle side of holidaying. SAT She joins Sandi Toksvig in the Excess Baggage studio along SAT with Peter Knowles, who has written a canoeing guide which SAT lists twenty-seven stretches of water where you can serenely SAT paddle through beautiful countryside and end up in a lovely SAT pub. SAT SAT Sandi is also joined by author Lee Langley who walked out of SAT Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly desperate to know what SAT became of the remaining characters. Her novel Butterfly's SAT Shadow imagines their lives through 20th Century Japan and SAT America. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Northedge. SAT SAT 10:30 Never Mind the Bhangra b00tcs23 (Listen) SAT Adil Ray takes a light-hearted look at how the lack of brown SAT faces in rock and pop has mortified and marginalised SAT generations of music-loving Asian kids in Britain. He talks SAT to famous British Asians about why there have been so few SAT Asians in popular music, and finds out why Bhangra and SAT Bollywood can never be enough. SAT SAT East Enders star Nitin Ganatra talks about growing up in the SAT 1970s in a racist area of Coventry where his parents ran a SAT corner shop. Comedian Paul Sinha remembers being a SAT chess-loving academic kid who didn't care about liking cool SAT music. Presenters Anita Rani and Hardeep Singh Kohli discuss SAT being called a "coconut" - brown on the outside but white on SAT the inside - for liking rock and indie music. SAT SAT We also hear from newsreader Mishal Husain; writer Sathnam SAT Sanghera and Goodness Gracious Me star Kulvinder Ghir about SAT musical passions, parental tensions and the struggle to fit SAT in and be accepted in Britain. SAT SAT Helped by former NME writer and now editor of The Guardian SAT Guide, Malik Meer, Adil charts the journey of Asians in SAT British music from Freddie Mercury - who rarely mentioned SAT his Indian heritage - through the rise of the Asian SAT Underground to modern day superstars like MIA. We hear from SAT Talvin Singh as well as upcoming artists Nadine Shah and SAT Prash Mistry from Engine Earz Experiment. SAT SAT Producer: Verne Samuel SAT An AlFi Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00tcs25 (Listen) SAT Cuts in public spending are coming and, according to a SAT recent opinion poll, a majority of voters accept that they SAT will have to happen if the budget deficit is to be reduced. SAT SAT But what happens when people realise that cuts may affect SAT them personally? The coalition government has asked voters SAT for feedback about how and where the cuts might bite. How SAT else can voters make their voices heard beyond Westminster, SAT short of going on strike? How will lobbyists argue their SAT case for protecting certain elements of society from their SAT effects? Some union leaders predict a return to the 1980s SAT when a mass movement was mobilised against the cuts imposed SAT by Margaret Thatcher's government. But others see a new SAT politics about to emerge, beyond political parties and SAT beyond ideology, a new agenda that may lead towards an SAT unpredictable political future across the country. With SAT Westminster in its summer recess, these are key issues for SAT voters around the country, whatever their view of the need SAT for cuts may be. Elinor Goodman assesses the mood of the SAT electorate SAT SAT Presenter: Elinor Goodman SAT Producer: Paul Vickers. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00tcs27 (Listen) SAT We hear from Kate Clark the story of two of the aid workers SAT who were killed recently in Afghanistan - of their SAT bloody-minded courage and dedication to the country; Emma SAT Thomas discovers how the drug-related violence in Mexico has SAT spread far across the country; Alan Little reports on the SAT convergence of religion and nationalism at a pilgrimage site SAT in the hills of Bosnia; and Chris Bockman explains why grown SAT men dress up as pigs and squeal in the French Pyrenees. SAT SAT The murder of ten members of a Christian charity group last SAT week in north-western Afghanistan has highlighted just how SAT insecure the country is and how the unwritten rules of SAT conflict have been torn up. SAT SAT The team, which was bringing medical help to remote SAT communities, included Dan Terry and Tom Little, who had SAT worked in Afghanistan for thirty years. SAT SAT Kate Clark knew them both well. SAT SAT Since Felipe Calderon became President of Mexico three and a SAT half years ago and vowed to wipe out the drug cartels which SAT controlled the trafficking routes into the United States, SAT twenty-eight thousand people have been killed. Emma Thomas SAT has seen for herself just how far the worsening violence is SAT blighting the lives of Mexicans. SAT SAT The Swedish government is tightening up its refugee policy, SAT including sending some Iraqis back home. The news of more SAT than two hundred killings in Iraq in the past two weeks, is SAT extremely worrying for those asylum-seekers who fear that SAT they will be forced to return to Iraq, as Tim Mansel reports. SAT SAT The Bosnian war ended fifteen years ago. But the peace did SAT little to quell nationalist feelings. SAT SAT For the Bosnian Croats, their Catholic religion has been an SAT important part of their identity. SAT SAT Allan Little has been to the town of Medjugorje, near the SAT Croatian border, which is now an important pilgrimmage site SAT for catholics in the area and across the world, to SAT investigate the political sensitivities surrounding the town. SAT SAT In the depths of France, Chris Bockman reports on the SAT peculiar festival of pig squealing. SAT SAT 12:00 Alvin Hall's Generations of Money b00tcs29 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT In this third part of this series on inter-generational SAT finance, Alvin Hall meets Britain's young families and asks SAT what the future holds for their money. SAT SAT It's estimated that over half of the UK's housing wealth is SAT owned by the post-war generation of people born in the SAT twenty years after the end of the Second World War. Only SAT around ten per cent of it is owned by people under the age SAT of 40. High house prices have meant families are having to SAT wait until much later in life to get a foot on the property SAT ladder. SAT SAT Alvin Hall meets Jennie Lichfield, a single mother of two SAT from Ashford in Kent who's desperate to buy her own place. SAT Jennie feels resentful of the grip that local baby-boomer SAT buy-to-let landlords have on the property market. She finds SAT out why the credit crunch has made it harder than ever for SAT people in her situation to take out a mortgage. SAT SAT Alvin also meets psychiatric nurse, Oliver Wyatt from Leeds SAT who gave up his NHS pension for an ill-fated investment in SAT property. Oliver's confronted with the benefits he's missed SAT out on and receives advice on how to save for retirement at SAT a later age. But the programme also asks whether such public SAT sector pensions are sustainable in the future. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b00tbhhg (Listen) SAT Series 6, Ronni Ancona interviews Lee Mack SAT SAT A brand new series of Chain Reaction, the talk show with a SAT twist where this week's guest becomes next week's SAT interviewer. This series kicks off with Scottish actress, SAT comedian and impressionist Ronni Ancona interviewing one of SAT the UK's most celebrated comics, writer and star of "Not SAT Going Out" Lee Mack. SAT SAT Ronni asks Lee about being a Red Rum stable boy, his worst SAT ever gig and his amazing juggling talents. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00tc9zr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00tcs2c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00t9rb4 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Little Wenlock SAT Village Hall, Shropshire, with questions for the panel, SAT including James Delingpole, author, journalist and blogger, SAT John Sergeant, broadcaster, Ruth Lea, economic adviser to SAT the Arbuthnot Banking Group and former Labour minister and SAT veteran campaigner Tony Benn. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S PANEL SAT SAT TONY BENN was a Labour MP for almost 50 years and stood down SAT in 2001 “to devote more time to politicsâ€. He served as SAT Secretary of State for Industry then at Energy under two SAT Labour prime ministers, Harold Wilson and Lord Callaghan. A SAT committed socialist and prominent figure on the left of his SAT party, his politics led commentators to coin the term SAT ‘Bennite’. He twice contested the leadership in 1976 and SAT 1988, and also ran for the deputy leadership. His published SAT diaries run to eight volumes which chronicle his life in SAT politics from 1940 and round off with entries from 2007. SAT Other books include Free Radical, a collection of essays, SAT his autobiography, Dare To Be A Daniel and Letters To My SAT Grandchildren. Born the son of Viscount Stansgate, Benn SAT fought a successful battle to relinquish his peerage after SAT his father's death in 1960, allowing him to be re-elected as SAT an MP. He is president of the Stop the War Coalition, and SAT continues to travel the country to address festivals and SAT give lectures covering hundreds of miles every month. Last SAT week, he called for "a broad movement of active resistance SAT to the Con-Dem government's budget intentions", calling the SAT proposed cuts "malicious vandalism" and resolving to SAT "campaign for a radical alternative, with the level of SAT determination shown by trade unionists and social movements SAT in Greece and other European countries." He first took part SAT in Any Questions? in 1951 and is the programme’s longest SAT serving panellist. SAT SAT JAMES DELINGPOLE is an author, journalist, broadcaster and SAT critic, who writes for the Telegraph, the Express and The SAT Spectator. After graduating from Oxford he wrote for the SAT Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph. A libertarian SAT Conservative and climate change sceptic, he’s a keen SAT polemicist whose books include How to be Right… in a PC SAT World Gone Wrong and Welcome to Obamaland: I’ve Seen Your SAT Future and It Doesn’t Work. It rails against the “the SAT stupidity of left-liberals (whose frontal lobes have not SAT properly formed); the ruination of our culture through SAT relativism and progressive education; the deceit, lies – and SAT lunatic expense to the taxpayer – of the Anthropogenic SAT Global Warming industryâ€. He thoughtfully adds “You will SAT hate it if: you are a left-liberal; you are stupid; you have SAT no sense of humourâ€. His novels include Coward on the Beach SAT and Coward at the Bridge set during the Second World War and SAT Thinly Disguised Autobiography about which his friend Alain SAT de Botton says: “I'd go as far as to say that spending time SAT with this novel is even better than spending time with the SAT author - it's a lot less grouchy, is always funny, doesn't SAT smoke and tells you lots of intimate secrets.†SAT SAT JOHN SERGEANT spent more than 25 years years as a reporter SAT but in 2008 gained a whole new generation of fans not for SAT his political journalism but for his disastrous paso doble SAT on Strictly Come Dancing. Since bowing out of the ballroom, SAT he has chaired a comedy panel show, Argumental, co-presented SAT The One Show, played a journalist on Casualty, filmed an ITV SAT documentary about Britain from the point of view of its 32 SAT million tourists and taken a 3,000 mile journey by train SAT across India for the BBC’s Tracks of Empire. In December he SAT hosts Celebrity Grimefighters on ITV (where stars clean out SAT sewers and tackle the nation's household waste). His career SAT in broadcasting began in comedy; he first appeared with Alan SAT Bennett in a BBC comedy series On the Margin. For 12 years SAT he was the BBC’s chief political correspondent before going SAT on to become Political Editor at ITN. In 1990 his live TV SAT report was famously interrupted by Margaret Thatcher on the SAT steps of the British Embassy in Paris who announced she SAT would continue to fight for the Conservative leadership. He SAT has taken his one-man show An Audience with John Sergeant SAT around the UK. In 2001 he published his memoirs, Give Me Ten SAT Seconds followed by his second book Maggie: Her Fatal SAT Legacy. SAT SAT RUTH LEA is one of the country’s best-known economists. She SAT is currently Economics Adviser to the Arbuthnot Banking SAT Group and said recently that next year government “cuts will SAT have to be accelerated. Deep cuts are not just right - they SAT are essential.†In 2007, she became a Director of Global SAT Vision, which campaigns for a “middle way†in Britain’s SAT relationship with Europe as an alternative to what it SAT describes as the existing “polarised choices.†She was SAT Director of the rightwing think tank, Centre for Policy SAT Studies from 2004 to 2007. For eight years she was Head of SAT Policy at the Institute of Directors where she was often a SAT critical voice of the Government. Before that she was the SAT Economics Editor at ITN, Chief Economist at Mitsubishi Bank SAT and Chief UK Economist at Lehman Brothers. She also spent 16 SAT years in the Civil Service in the Treasury, the Department SAT of Trade and Industry and the Central Statistical Office. SAT She has served on, amongst other bodies, the Council of the SAT Royal Economic Society, the National Consumer Council, the SAT Nurses' Pay Review Body and the Retail Prices Advisory SAT Committee. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00tcs2f (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00tcs2h (Listen) SAT Rebus: Strip Jack, Rebus: Strip Jack, part 2 SAT SAT Final part of Ian Rankin's crime thriller as Inspector Rebus SAT investigates the death of an MP's wife. Ron Donachie stars SAT in this two-part dramatisation by Chris Dolan set in SAT Edinburgh and the Highlands in 1992. SAT SAT In Edinburgh a man confesses to the murder of two women - SAT but Rebus isn't convinced. Much to his superior's dismay, SAT Rebus ignores the confession and disappears north to SAT investigate a wild party deep in the Scottish countryside. SAT SAT D.I. Rebus ..... Ron Donachie SAT D.S. Holmes ....... Andy Clark SAT WPC Moffat.... Lisa Gardner SAT Gregor Jack.... Gavin Kean SAT McMillan....Liam Brennan SAT C.S. Watson..... Douglas Russell SAT Ronald Steele.... Robin Laing SAT Helen/Cathy ..... Emma Currie SAT Costello/Rab ..... Lewis Howden SAT Patience...... Monica Gibb SAT Kemp..... Laurie Brown SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT Producer/director Bruce Young. SAT SAT 15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00t9f0d (Listen) SAT Series 2, Franz Schubert SAT SAT Professor Robert Winston continues his exploration into the SAT relationship between the music and the medical conditions of SAT composers who suffered mental and physical illness. SAT SAT Franz Schubert was often uncomfortable in the polite circles SAT of middle-class Viennese society. Was he hiding a secret? SAT Prof. Winston looks at the evidence that Schubert was lured SAT into an unsavoury clandestine lifestyle and contracted SAT syphilis, which many writers have assumed cast a shadow over SAT both his remaining life and his music. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00tcsvf (Listen) SAT Presented by Bidisha. 7/7 London bombings survivor Davinia SAT Douglass became known as 'the woman in the mask'. She talks SAT about the events of that day and the doctors who restored SAT her face. Vanessa Feltz recently had a gastric band fitted - SAT but how safe is the operation? As the government defer the SAT pilot scheme for Domestic Protection Orders, what impact SAT might this have on victims of domestic violence? Plus 24 SAT year-old composer Alissa Firsova talks about Bach, 75 SAT year-old artist Rose Wylie gives a tour of her house and SAT studio and women beer drinkers - what is the appeal of real ale? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00tcsvh (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00tcsvk (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00tcd3s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00tcd3v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tcd3x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00tcsvm (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Peter is joined by the author, illustrator and journalist SAT Wendy Holden. Her latest novel, Gallery Girl, draws on her SAT love of art and has all the raunch and sparkle of her SAT previous novels. all nine of which were Top 10 sellers! SAT SAT Coast's resident osteoarchaeologist Dr Alice Roberts is the SAT presenter of choice for any BBC television programme SAT featuring the three A's - anthropology, archaeology or SAT anatomy. She talks about her latest series for BBC Two, SAT Digging for Britain, finding the treasures that lie beneath SAT suburban sprawls, roads and shopping malls. SAT SAT Jah Wobble (aka John Wardle) followed quite an idiosyncratic SAT career trajectory in the music industry, from John Lydon's SAT bassist for Public Image Limited to tube driver to dub SAT producer extraordinaire. The man behind such genre bending SAT classics as Chinese and Japanese dub releases a new album SAT 'Welcome to My World' next month and his autobiography SAT 'Memoirs of a Geezer' is out now. SAT SAT Not content with having just the one legendary musician and SAT cockney geezer on the programme, Jo Bunting grabs another SAT for a chin wag. Chas Hodges talks Chas 'n Dave, Rock 'n' SAT Roll... and Allotments! SAT SAT Live music comes from singer songwriter Andreya Triana. SAT Already making waves for her non-conformist vocal style, she SAT performs the title track from her soul, funk and jazz SAT infused debut album 'Lost Where I Belong'. SAT SAT And with Mormon roots and 178 cousins to boot, Utah's SAT bluegrass-country beatnik Emit Bloch performs 'Dorothy' from SAT 'The Dorothy EP' - dedicated to his grandma Dorothy. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00tcsvp (Listen) SAT Michael Gove SAT SAT Education Secretary Michael Gove is in the thick of a SAT political storm over plans for radical changes to English SAT education. But this highly influential figure in today's SAT Conservative party has a background far from the gilded SAT youths of David Cameron or George Osborne. The adopted son SAT of an Aberdeen fish merchant, who used to carry an SAT encyclopaedia to and from school, became a star student SAT debater, and had the most varied of media careers, believes SAT education is the key to transforming lives. SAT SAT But why has he become such a significant figure in modern SAT Conservatism? And how easy has the transition been from SAT commentating and debating to running a Whitehall department? SAT With education potentially one of the most radical areas of SAT new government activity, Gove's own fate in the next few SAT months and years will be central to the fate of the SAT government as a whole. Chris Bowlby discovers what has SAT shaped this distinctive and unusual political career. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00tcsvr (Listen) SAT Sarfraz Manzoor and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00tcsvt (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 2, Peter Mandelson SAT SAT From Labour PR supremo to cabinet minister and peer, and SAT dubbed "Prince of Darkness" along the way, Peter Mandelson SAT reflects on his life in sound through the BBC archives. In SAT the first programme of the series "Meeting Myself Coming SAT Back" where guests replay the sound archive of their life, SAT he talks to John Wilson about his career, hears recordings SAT of his younger self and discusses how he has changed over SAT the decades. SAT SAT Lord Mandelson grew up with Labour in his blood - his SAT grandfather was the Labour cabinet minister Herbert SAT Morrison. After university and early jobs, he became first SAT the party's Director of Campaigns and Communications and SAT then MP for Hartlepool. After Labour's 1997 General Election SAT victory, he served in Tony Blair's cabinet but was forced to SAT resign twice - once over a home loan and the second over the SAT Hinduja passport affair. After a move to Brussels as EU SAT Trade Commissioner, a surprise request by the new Prime SAT Minister Gordon Brown saw him given a cabinet post for an SAT unprecedented third time, serving this time as a Peer in the SAT House of Lords. SAT SAT In this programme, John Wilson takes Lord Mandelson through SAT the sound archive of his life from his earliest appearance SAT in the 1970s up to the Labour's 2010 election defeat. We SAT hear about his role as a moderniser of the Labour Party, his SAT work in Government and his very public resignations. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00t870t (Listen) SAT The Wings of the Dove, Episode 2 SAT SAT by Henry James SAT Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths SAT SAT Milly confides in Kate that she believes herself to be SAT gravely ill and Kate begins to see a way for her and Merton SAT to have a future. SAT SAT When Merton returns to London, Kate sets out to bring her SAT lover and her friend together. With Kate's assurances that SAT there is nothing between them, Milly allows herself to hope SAT that Merton may be the one great passion in her short life. SAT SAT Milly.....Anna Maxwell Martin SAT Lord Mark.....Toby Jones SAT Maud.....Clare Higgins SAT Susie.....Barbara Barnes SAT Kate.....Lyndsey Marshal SAT Merton.....Blake Ritson SAT Lord Strett...Sam Dale SAT Lady Aldershaw...Alison Pettitt SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00tcdfg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Reality Check b00tbhnt (Listen) SAT Series 3, Intellectual Property SAT SAT Justin Rowlatt chairs a debates on a topical issue, bringing SAT together experts in a particular field with people living at SAT the sharp end. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00t8xfk (Listen) SAT (2/12) Tom Sutcliffe chairs the second programme in the 2010 SAT series of Radio 4's evergreen quiz of cryptic clues and SAT unlikely connections. Critic Michael Alexander and SAT journalist Alan Taylor, of Scotland, return to face SAT publisher Michael Schmidt and novelist Adele Geras, SAT representing the North of England. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 But Found No Keepers There: SAT The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery b00t870y (Listen) SAT On Boxing Day, 1900, The Hesperus arrives at Flannan Isle to SAT relieve the lighthouse keepers. She sounds her steam whistle SAT to alert the keepers but there is no response. The telegram SAT from the captain reads 'managed to land Moore, who went up SAT to the Station but found no Keepers there.' What the relief SAT keeper did find was the lamp prepared, the washing up done, SAT but the clock stopped, the fires out and the last entry in SAT the diary dated 15th December. The three lighthouse keepers SAT had vanished. SAT SAT The mystery of their disappearance has fascinated people SAT ever since - not least artists. Wilfrid Gibson, a friend of SAT Robert Frost and Edward Thomas, wrote an atmospheric poem on SAT the subject, published in 1912, that intrigued the public of SAT the day. Peter Maxwell Davies has written an opera, there's SAT a song by Genesis and an episode of Dr Who all based on the SAT mystery. SAT SAT The poet Kenneth Steven visits Flannan and relates what he SAT sees there to Wilfrid Gibson's poem. Using the original SAT reports - the telegram giving the first news, a letter SAT written two days later by Joseph Moore, the official report SAT by the lighthouse superintendent - with archive recordings SAT and expert opinion, he pieces together what happened, and SAT interweaves all these elements with the wind, the waves, and SAT the silence of the deserted isle. SAT SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 AUGUST 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00tc4yt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00h31rj (Listen) SUN Murder She Thought - Series 2, Portrait of an Unknown Man SUN SUN Do you know that weird feeling when the eyes of a portrait SUN seem to follow you around the room? This gothic tale takes SUN the experience several steps further. SUN SUN Miriam Margolyes reads Elizabeth Morgan's gothic tale. SUN SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tc572 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tc574 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tc5b5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00tc5bw (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00tc6f2 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Vedast, Foster Lane, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00tcsvp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00tc6mg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00tcswn (Listen) SUN The Art of Faith, part 2 SUN SUN Mike Wooldridge considers the place of religious art in an SUN increasingly secular age. SUN SUN In conversation with the Director of the British Museum, SUN Neil MacGregor, he considers the difference between sacred SUN art and religious art, and the place of belief in the SUN creation of art. SUN SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00tcy3n (Listen) SUN Nest Finder of Dartmoor SUN SUN 5/18. If you're out walking on Dartmoor and see a hump of SUN camouflage netting with binoculars poking out, don't be SUN alarmed. It's likely to be Mark Lawrence at work. SUN SUN Thousands of birds make their nests amongst the bracken and SUN gorse of dartmoor, tucked into hollows low in the brush. SUN Finding them is Mark's passion. But they are totally hidden, SUN so how does he do it? Lionel Kelleway asked the same SUN question and goes on a nest-finding expedition with Mark to SUN watch him in action. It turns out that it's all about SUN observation. Picking up clues which signal where the nests SUN are: clues from the behaviour of the parent birds. SUN SUN In just one morning Mark and Lionel find Pippits' nests, two SUN of which have been taken over by enormous cuckoo chicks; a SUN whinchat brood just hatched and finally a rare and precious SUN family of young Grasshopper Warbler chicks. SUN SUN So why does Mark do it? Listen now to find out. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Tania Dorrity. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00tc6p6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00tccj8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00tcy3q (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00tcy3s (Listen) SUN Malaria Consortium SUN SUN John Simpson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Malaria Consortium. SUN SUN Donations to Malaria Consortium should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Malaria Consortium. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Malaria Consortium SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1099776. SUN SUN Malaria Consortium SUN SUN John Simpson appeals on behalf of Malaria Consortium, a UK SUN charity dedicated to the prevention, care and treatment of SUN malaria in the developing world, ensuring that anti-malarial SUN drugs and long-lasting insecticidal nets reach those who SUN need them most, and supporting national governments and SUN health workers in providing help to individuals and SUN communities affected by malaria. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00tcbb8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00tcbbb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00tcy3v (Listen) SUN A service following the traditional pattern of Morning SUN Prayer. The service is led by the Rector, the Revd Canon SUN Tony Bundock and the preacher, the Revd Professor Simon SUN Robinson, Running Stream Professor of Applied and SUN Professional Ethics at Leeds Metropolitan University. He SUN reflects not just on ancient treasures, but our contemporary SUN attitude to treasure and wealth and the business of making SUN money. SUN The music is by former organists and choirmasters of Leeds SUN Parish Church. One such old organist was none other than SUN the illustrious Samuel Sebastian Wesley. The 200th SUN anniversary of his birth falls this week end and the choir SUN celebrates the treasures of this church's musical tradition SUN in worship. SUN Readings: Ecclesiasticus 44:1-5, Matthew 6:19-34 SUN Music includes works by SS Wesley: Jubilate, Lead me Lord, SUN Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace SUN Organist and Choirmaster: Dr Simon Lindley SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00tbjkc (Listen) SUN A History of Fireworks SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the history of fireworks and SUN especially on the role they have played in France; once they SUN were the rejected symbol of a decadent monarchy, now they SUN are a must for civic celebrations SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00tcz8t (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00tcz8y (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Mary Cutler SUN Directed by ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Alice Aldridge ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowksi SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Amy Franks ..... Vinette Robinson SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00tcz90 (Listen) SUN Kathy Burke SUN SUN She became a household name for her comedy performances, SUN working with Harry Enfield to create the characters Kevin SUN and Perry. She won critical acclaim for serious roles and SUN picked up the Best Actress award at Cannes for her portrayal SUN of an abused wife in the film "Nil By Mouth". SUN SUN Her early life had been tumultuous - her mother died before SUN she was two and her father was often drunk, leaving her SUN older brother ran the family home. She was a teenager when SUN she discovered acting and, she says, it was the saving of her. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00t97p0 (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 2 SUN SUN The classic long running panel game is back on the airwaves. SUN SUN Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes charge once again. Subjects SUN include 'What Shall We do With the Drunken Sailor?' Paul SUN Merton, Sue Perkins, Liza Tarbuck and John Sergeant take it SUN in turns to speak without Repetition hesitation or SUN Deviation. Tune in, to find out how many words per minute SUN they can manage. SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00tcz94 (Listen) SUN In part 2 of the Food Programme's summer series, food writer SUN Charles Campion indulges his love of pork scratchings, the SUN carnivore's popcorn. We meet the pigs with the most suitable SUN skins, chew the fat with black country pub goers, tour the SUN scratchings factory in comedy hats, and see how the upmarket SUN chefs are re-interpreting the scratching for the discerning SUN palate. SUN Producer: Sukey Firth. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00tc9y8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00tcz98 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Paris Bouquinistes b00srktl (Listen) SUN Paris has many grand monuments dominating its skyline, but SUN for regular visitors to the 'city of light' there is a sight SUN every bit as ingrained into its terroir as the Eiffel Tower, SUN the Arc de Triomphe and Sacre Coeur - that of the riverside SUN booksellers who for centuries have plied their trade on the SUN banks of the River Seine. Les Bouquinistes can count SUN Presidents (including Mitterand and Thomas Jefferson) as SUN regular customers, and boast a proud history of providing a SUN source of literatures thought subversive to the prevailing SUN authorities of the day. More recently, many have branched SUN out from books to supplement their income, offering plastic SUN souvenirs instead of Balzac, plastic tat in place of SUN Monserrat - a practice the city council, worried about SUN tarnishing the image of playground Paris, has fought SUN against. In 'The Paris Bouquinistes' Kirsty Lang takes a SUN long stroll along the Seine to meet some of the current crop SUN and discover how confident they feel about the future SUN prosperity of their time-honoured trade. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tcpcl (Listen) SUN Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew are guests SUN of Wenhaston Gardeners Club in Suffolk. SUN SUN We explore drought-tolerant plants at the Dry Garden, RHS SUN Hyde Hall. SUN SUN The chairman is Peter Gibbs. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A Guide to Coastal Birds b00tcz9d (Listen) SUN Sandy Shores SUN SUN Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss SUN on the Devonshire coast. With the help of wildlife sound SUN recordist Chris Watson, they offer a practical and SUN entertaining guide to birds that you're most likely to see SUN and hear on sandy shores around Britain's coastline; birds SUN like Common Tern, Sandwich Tern, Ringed Plover and SUN Oystercatcher. SUN SUN This is the second of five programmes to help identify many SUN of the birds found around our British coastline in places SUN like rocky shores, sea cliffs, off-shore islands, estuaries SUN and sandy beaches. Not only is there advice on how to SUN recognise the birds from their appearance, but also how to SUN identify them from their calls and songs. SUN SUN This series complements three previous series; A Guide to SUN Garden Birds, A Guide Woodland Birds and A Guide to Water SUN Birds and is aimed at both the complete novice as well as SUN those who are eager to learn more about our coastal visitors SUN and residents. SUN SUN Produced by Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00td4v4 (Listen) SUN The Wings of the Dove, Episode 3 SUN SUN Milly, now gravely ill, is staying in Venice. Kate's plan to SUN bring Merton and Milly together is gaining pace. But Merton SUN begins to realise that his own feelings for Milly are much SUN deeper than he knew. Lord Mark's arrival threatens SUN everything and Merton and Kate aren't prepared for the SUN consequences. Will Milly change their lives irrevocably? SUN SUN Merton.....Blake Ritson SUN Milly.....Anna Maxwell Martin SUN Kate.....Lyndsey Marshal SUN Maud.....Clare Higgins SUN Susie.....Barbara Barnes SUN Lord Mark.....Toby Jones SUN Eugenio.....Sam Dale SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00td4v6 (Listen) SUN Aminatta Forna talks to the award-winning Nigerian novelist SUN Helon Habila about his new book, Oil on Water. She also SUN explores the different ways in which men and women SUN incorporate domesticity in to their fiction, with the help SUN of novelists Louise Doughty and Tim Lott. Plus, a guide to SUN work of Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died earlier this SUN year, and whose book The Elephant's Journey has just been SUN published posthumously. SUN SUN Producer: Aasiya Lodhi. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry of the Forgotten People b00td4v8 (Listen) SUN Greta Scacchi pays a personal tribute to Aboriginal poet SUN Oodgeroo Noonuccal, formerly known as Kath Walker. SUN SUN A pioneer of Aboriginal poetry, she was the first Indigenous SUN Australian woman to have her work published, which was a SUN milestone in Australian history. SUN SUN She was also a trailblazing Aboriginal Rights campaigner and SUN environmental activist, who paved the way for contemporary SUN Aboriginal artists and political campaigners. SUN SUN In this programme Greta Scacchi, who spent much of her SUN childhood in Australia, shares how over the years, SUN Oodgeroo's poetry has grown with her and still even today SUN continues to surprise and excite her. SUN SUN Joining Greta are close friends and family of Oodgeroo, who SUN share their memories of this remarkable woman and the impact SUN she had not only on their lives but on millions of SUN Australians too. SUN SUN Throughout the programme we will hear Oodgeroo's poems read SUN by Aboriginal actress Roxanne McDonald. SUN SUN Produced by Charlotte Austin and Diana Bentley SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Battle for Hearts and Lungs b00t8rky (Listen) SUN Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on SUN developing countries as tobacco companies battle for the SUN hearts and lungs of new smokers. At the same time, some SUN poorer tobacco growing countries like Malawi are becoming SUN ever more dependent on tobacco as a cash crop. How do they SUN resolve the dilemma between health and wealth? SUN SUN In much of the rich world, smoking is on the wane in the SUN face of rising taxes on cigarettes, bans on promotion and SUN lawsuits against tobacco companies. Less than 21% of British SUN people and 24% of Americans now smoke -the lowest rates on SUN record. But elsewhere, smoking is exploding. SUN SUN The World Health Organization predicts that tobacco will SUN kill more than eight million people worldwide each year by SUN 2030, with eighty percent of these premature deaths in low- SUN and middle-income countries. SUN SUN In China alone more than 300 million people smoke. That's SUN equivalent to the entire population of the US, and one third SUN of the world's smokers. SUN SUN We hear about Malawi's growing dependency on tobacco as a SUN cash crop. Although the government has tried to introduce SUN minimum prices, small farmers like Elson Matope hardly cover SUN their costs, and continue to live on less than a dollar a SUN day, despite supplying the raw material for one of the SUN richest industries in the world. SUN SUN Malawi has not yet signed up to the WHO's international SUN Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and rules about SUN cigarette advertising and promotion are lax compared to SUN rules in the developed world. Are cigarette manufacturers SUN trying to take advantage of poor regulation to build up new SUN markets in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world, as SUN smoking has declined in the developed world? SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Evans SUN A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00tcsvp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00tcbbd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00tcbbg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tcbg0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00td4vb (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Radcliffe & Maconie - Radio 2 SUN But Found No Keepers There - Radio 4 SUN The Choice - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes - Mouche - Radio 3 SUN Desi Pubs - Radio 4 SUN Les Paul - The Final Words of a Pioneer and Guitar Legend - SUN Radio 2 SUN Mrs Tolstoy - Radio 4 SUN Case Study - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes - My Summer Job - Radio 3 SUN Word of Mouth - Radio 4 SUN The Manchester Writers - Radio 4 SUN The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons - Radio 4 SUN Just A Minute - Radio 4 SUN Desert Island Discs - Radio 4 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00tcbpt (Listen) SUN Debbie brings news from Hungary, and who is the mysterious SUN visitor at Rickyard Cottage? SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00td4vd (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN Shine, baby, shine! SUN SUN Obama's proposed energy legislation has been left dead in SUN the water by this summer's BP oil disaster - but renewable SUN energy does have one surprising proponent. SUN Soap-star-oil-baron Larry Hagman explains why he's SUN jettisoned oil for solar power. SUN SUN From Surfin' to Gershwin SUN SUN Beach Boy Brian Wilson talks about his new album SUN re-envisioning George Gershwin. SUN SUN Everybody's going surfing SUN SUN And Michael Scott Moore on how America exported surfing to SUN the world. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00g4bmz (Listen) SUN Big Charlie, Episode 3 SUN SUN Colonel Williams' amazing story of how in the summer of 1957 SUN the largest elephant in captivity, Big Charlie, was moved SUN from Butlin's in Scotland to Butlin's, Yorkshire. SUN SUN The Colonel faces an obstacle as the 5-and-a-half ton SUN elephant is reluctant to enter his crate. SUN SUN Abridged and read by Tony Lidington. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00td4w0 (Listen) SUN Has the coverage of the trial of Charles Taylor on the BBC SUN been more concerned with the evidence of supermodel Naomi SUN Campbell than the accusations of genocide? Some listeners SUN suspect so, Roger Bolton gets a response. SUN SUN Plus the BBC Trust wants to know what you think of Radio 4, SUN Radio 3 and BBC 7. You can find out how to do just that and SUN as ever we will be hearing exactly what you; the listeners SUN really think of the BBC's radio output. SUN SUN Producer: Brian McCluskey SUN A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00tbhbh (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Professor Tony Judt the leading historian and political SUN thinker who wrote eloquently about his struggle with motor SUN neurone disease SUN SUN The Hollywood actress Patricia Neal who suffered a series of SUN strokes and was nursed back to health by her husband Roald SUN Dahl SUN SUN The Glasgow union leader Jimmy Reid who led a "work in" to SUN save the Clyde shipyards from closure SUN SUN And the jazz and swing drummer Jack Parnell, a star of the SUN Ted Heath Band and conductor of the music for the Muppets. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00tb993 (Listen) SUN Delayed Inquests SUN SUN The grieving families waiting years for answers over the SUN deaths of their loved ones because of delays in the inquest SUN system. Some coroners are facing a backlog of cases, SUN hold-ups with official inquiries, and difficulties in SUN finding inquest venues. John Waite discovers the patchy SUN service offered to relatives, and hears how things could get SUN even worse. SUN Major reform of the coroners' service is supposed to speed SUN up delays, but implementation of a new law is under review SUN as part of the Coalition Government cuts. SUN SUN Campaigners are warning that the changes may never happen. SUN The appointment of a Chief Coroner to oversee a national SUN service has already been postponed. SUN SUN Face the Facts has obtained performance figures for every SUN coroner across England and Wales. They show that the average SUN time for an inquest to be completed is six months. SUN SUN But in some areas, such as Bridgend, Exeter and Portsmouth, SUN it can take up to a year. Yet in Liverpool, the average time SUN is just 10 weeks. SUN SUN And we have spoken to some families who are waiting much SUN longer. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00tcy3s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00tbhny (Listen) SUN In At The Start SUN SUN There's a tiny office space in Silicon Valley that has SUN produced a stream of blockbuster companies in recent years, SUN including Google and PayPal. Peter Day learns how owner SUN Saeed Amidi is now trying to nurture the start-up spirit on SUN a much larger scale. SUN Producer: Neil Koenig and Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00tcd81 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00td4w6 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00td4w8 (Listen) SUN Episode 14 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week John Harris of The SUN Guardian takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00td4x3 (Listen) SUN The writer, star and co-creator of BBC's Sherlock, Mark SUN Gatiss, celebrates the work of his favourite actor, Roger SUN Livesey, best known as Colonel Blimp. SUN SUN Horror director John Carpenter explains how he came to make SUN a bio-pic of Elvis Presley only a year after his death. SUN SUN Matthew Sweet talks to director Sylvain Chomet who SUN resurrected a script by Jacques Tati for his latest SUN animation, The Illusionist SUN SUN Neil Brand reveals the debt that modern blockbusters owe to SUN Douglas Fairbanks' action heroes SUN SUN Matthew meets producer Ann Skinner, one of the unsung SUN heroines of British cinema. SUN SUN The writer, star and co-creator of Sherlock explains why he SUN adores Roger Livesey. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00tcswn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 AUGUST 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00td5jn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00tbgwr (Listen) MON Black Emancipation MON MON When 'Liberte, egalite, fraternite' first defined the ideals MON of French Revolution, it was over half century before they MON applied to the hundreds of thousands of slaves working in MON the French Colonies. Similarly the ideals of 'Life Liberty MON and the Pursuit of Happiness', failed to encompass American MON slaves until as late as 1863. When these slaves were freed a MON complicated debate began on what freedom really meant, and MON how true freedom would be achieved. MON From Booker T Washington to Martin Luther King, from WEB MON Dubois to Frantz Fanon, ideas of black freedom have been MON defined, tested and fought for. In the first of a three part MON series tracing some of the key ideas of sociology, Laurie MON Taylor talks to Paul Gilroy, Brett St Louis and Gurminder MON Bhambra about ideas of black freedom and the impact they MON have had. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON Paul Gilroy MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00tc6f2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tc54r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tc54t (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tc576 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00tc5b7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tc6f4 (Listen) MON With Dr Catherine Cowley, Assistant Director for the MON Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00tc6hb (Listen) MON Caz Graham hears plans for an 8,000 cow dairy farm will be MON resubmitted, despite opposition from the RSPCA. The man MON behind the Nocton Dairy development says he's addressed all MON animal welfare concerns, and those of local residents in MON Lincolnshire. MON MON 184,000 people visited farms as part of the recent Open Farm MON Sunday event. A year on from the E.coli outbreak at Godstone MON farm in Surrey, Farming Today looks at the benefits, and the MON risks of opening farms to the public. Caz visits Walby Farm MON Park near Carlisle to see what famers and visitors gain from MON the experience. MON MON And farmers in the East Anglia are being told they risk MON having restrictions on their water use, if they can't be MON more efficient with irrigation. The Environment Agency warn MON that it will take more than a wet August to make up for the MON driest start to a year in 80 years, and that farmers must do MON their bit. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00tc6jw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00tc6mv (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00td73z (Listen) MON Series 4, Sir William Atkinson MON MON Sir William Atkinson, one of the country's best-known MON super-heads, first came to this country from Jamaica aged 7. MON His father met him, his mother and two brothers at Heathrow. MON This is the first memory Sir William has of his father who MON had worked abroad for a number of years. The other oddity of MON that day was seeing white people doing manual work on the MON drive from the airport. The only white people he'd seen as a MON young child, growing up in a small village, had been MON plantation owners. MON MON The family settled in Battersea, South London. In the 1950s MON this was a white working-class neighbourhood and racism was MON endemic with room-to-let signs proclaiming: no blacks, no MON Irish. Despite a difficult educational start - Sir William MON must be the only person to have failed the 11+ twice - MON school became his saviour. Teachers, fired with a 1960s MON social conscience, put faith in him. He went into education MON to return the favour. MON Producer: Rosamund Jones. MON MON 09:30 Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star b00td741 (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON MON Ex Home Secretary Alan Johnson goes in search of the life he MON thought he nearly had: as a rock star. In the 1960s Alan MON Johnson was in a band ("The Area") that cut a single but MON couldn't get it released. He gave music up for a career that MON took him from Postman to Union Leader to The Cabinet. So MON what has he missed out on? Does the fame of being a senior MON government minister compare in any way with that of being in MON a successful band. MON MON In this series he meets five people who tasted the fame he MON craved. Each of the warm and engaging interviews reveal MON something different about life in music and the truth behind MON the myths. MON MON In the final episode Alan takes his only copy of The Area's MON crackly 7 inch single to a state-of-the art modern studio to MON get the verdict of Roxy Music guitarist, and now studio MON owner, Phil Manzanera. Alan learns how the industry has MON changed since he tried his luck and gets an informed opinion MON on the quality of his music from Phil and Phil's engineer MON who just happens to be Alan's son Jamie. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00td5jq (Listen) MON Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, Episode 1 MON MON His name, image and influence can be seen everywhere; from MON Scottish banknotes to place names across the globe. Sir MON Walter Scott invented the modern novel, began Scotland's MON tourist industry and was the first celebrity author - a MON heady mix of JK Rowling and Dan Brown long before the age of MON mass media hype. Lauded by contemporary critics as well as MON his massive readership in the 19th century, he's hardly read MON - and even more rarely enjoyed - today. MON MON Stuart Kelly examines the contradictory legacy of Sir Walter MON Scott; bestselling bankrupt, iconic unknown and the Tory MON defender of the Union who fought to save Scotland's banking MON independence. Kelly considers the influential images of his MON own country created by Scott - the stereotype of the kilted MON native dwelling within rugged, romantic landscapes - images MON which haunt Scotland to this day. MON MON Stuart Kelly was born and brought up in the Scottish MON Borders. He studied English at Oxford and is the Literary MON Editor of Scotland on Sunday. MON MON Reader: Robin Laing MON Abridger: Laurence Wareing MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tc5nr (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. The film director Gurinder Chadha MON talks to Jane about balancing movie making with motherhood. MON Is it ok to put your kids into a holiday club when you're on MON vacation? Or should holidays be about family time? As Czech MON female politicians pose for a sexy calendar, what is women's MON role in politics in post-Communist countries? And cookery MON writer Sarah Raven makes summer soup and plum tart. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75s (Listen) MON Dear Mr Spectator, series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Returning for a second series, the nation's favourite agony MON uncle - Mr. Spectator - continues to offer his wit and MON wisdom on the morals and manners of his countrymen in his MON daily writings; but who exactly is this mysterious MON Spectator, and why does everyone want to find him all of a sudden? MON MON London. 1710. Nothing changes under the sun. Political MON upheaval, national debt, spin; and, in the midst of it all, MON eager, naive young Ned Dempsey, just arrived in the Capital MON and determined to make his way in the big city. MON MON With Britain in debt to the tune of nine million pounds, MON Chief Minister and Lord of the Treasury, Robert Harley, has MON a plan to raise the funds the country so desperately needs: MON a little idea called the South Sea Company. However, he MON requires public support to get his Bill through Parliament MON and to do that he needs someone influential to speak out in MON support of his scheme. Someone with the ear of the country, MON someone people respect, someone people turn to, listen to, MON obey. Someone like Mr. Spectator! MON MON Enlisting the aid of Palace paper-boy Ned, Harley determines MON to track down the elusive Mr. Spectator in order to convince MON him to come out in support of the Bill before it goes before MON the House on Friday. MON MON Embarking on a quest to discover the identity of London's MON most spectral of citizens, Ned scours the 'Spectator's' MON daily publications for a clue to his prey's whereabouts. MON Pursuing hints and clues through a world of clubs, MON coffee-houses, theatres and booksellers; from lowly taverns MON to the Royal Palace itself, Ned is swept along in a MON mercenary world of spin and manipulation. Is anyone really MON who they seem? Does everything and everyone have their price? MON MON Can Ned unmask Mr. Spectator before time - and Harley's MON patience - runs out? MON MON Adapted from Addison & Steele's 'Spectator' essays by MON Elizabeth Kuti. MON MON Mr. Spectator ... Benjamin Whitrow MON Ned Dempsey ... Bryan Dick MON Harley ... David Schofield MON Abigail ... Christina Cole MON Queen Anne ... Jemma Redgrave MON Anne Baldwin ... Claire Rushbrook MON Defoe ... Sam Dale MON Aunt Maude ... Stella McCusker MON Opera Singer ... David Revels MON Other parts played by: Seainin Brennan, Niall Cusack, Paul MON Kennedy, Marty Maguire and Charlie Niblock-Hamill. MON MON 11:00 How to Get An A-Star b00td743 (Listen) MON Actress Imogen Stubbs investigates how to achieve an A* MON grade at A-level. MON MON A-level results come out soon and some of the pupils who MON gave it their all will achieve the new A* grade, which has MON just been introduced. MON MON But what is the magic ingredient that adds the star? MON MON Imogen Stubbs has watched her children go thorough the MON agonizing experience of exams and has often wondered who the MON people are who set the questions and how they mark them. MON MON In 'How to get an A*' she goes on a quest to discover what MON it actually takes to achieve the new A*. She talks to MON teachers, pupils and examiners. MON MON Imogen also enlists the help of actor Adam Long and her MON husband, director Trevor Nunn who have both agreed to sit MON one A-level Shakespeare exam question and see how they get MON on when they have it graded by a genuine examiner who does MON not know who they are. MON MON Producer: Lore Windemuth MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00db5bt (Listen) MON Series 2, Chapter the Last: A Happy Life Broken and then Mended a Bit MON MON By Mark Evans MON Chapter the Last: A Happy Life Broken and then Mended a Bit MON This week in the Victorian comic epic listeners are MON cordially invited to cower before the terrifying spectacle MON of the Martian invasion, where only Pip and some geese stand MON between Mr Benevolent's army of long-eared purple space MON villains and all that is good and true.... MON MON The final chapter of the Victorian comic epic, and the whole MON planet is in terrible danger when Pip's evil ex-guardian Mr MON Gently Benevolent summons a massive Martian invasion. Is MON this the end for Pip, Harry and the rest of the human race? MON And will Pippa's goose sanctuary be all right? Listeners are MON cordially invited to cower before the terrifying spectacle MON of the army of long-eared purple space villains... MON MON Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson MON Mr Benevolent........................Anthony Head MON Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman MON Young Pip..................................Tom Allen MON Sternbeater...................Geoffrey Whitehead MON Ripely Fecund......................Sarah Hadland MON Mr Parsimonious...............Laurence Howarth MON Pippa........................................Susy Kane MON Sundry learned gentlemen...........Mark Evans MON MON Produced by Gareth Edwards. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00tccwp (Listen) MON Julian Worricker talks to the electronica band Faithless MON about why they've ditched their record company and are now MON promoting Fiat. Could this symbiotic relationship be the MON future of the music industry? MON MON We find out why one online retailer believes high street MON opticians are being short-sighted when it comes to MON prescriptions, look at the contenders to run the the MON country's only high speed route from St Pancras MON International to the Channel Tunnel and, three years on from MON the Credit Crunch, we examine how the recession has affected MON ordinary people's pay. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00tc9yb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00tc9yd (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00td7f2 (Listen) MON (3/12) Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the third contest MON in the 2010 series. The new Welsh partnership of David MON Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander takes to the air for the first MON time, facing Northern Ireland regulars Polly Devlin and MON Brian Feeney. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00tcbpt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00td7f4 (Listen) MON The Patience of Mr Job MON MON by Justin Butcher. MON Mr Job is an African farmer with an unshakeable faith in the MON benevolence of the West. There's a flurry of excitement in MON the village. Mr Kismet, from the World Development Agency, MON has sent a letter offering rich rewards if the region sells MON its timber and moves to cut-flower production. Mr Job obeys MON the WDA scrupulously, even when the instructions prove MON extremely inconvenient, but as they wait for Mr Kismet's MON arrival, a series of disasters strike. A satire about MON globalisation and climate change. MON MON Mr Job...Jude Akuwudike MON Mrs Job...Adjoa Andoh MON Mr Eliphaz...Danny Sapani MON Mr Bildad...Kobna Holdbrook-Smith MON Mr Achebe...Lloyd Thomas MON Mr Lucy...Paul Courtney Hyu MON MON Directed by Claire Grove MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00tcsvt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Famous Footsteps b00pqhf3 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience of MON growing up in a creatively successful family. MON MON Fiona considers the challenges of maintaining a creative MON career while bringing up small children. How does a writer, MON working at home, manage to carve out the mental and physical MON space to work? Is the 'pram in the hallway' really a barrier MON to creative thought? MON MON She talks to Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Daphne Du MON Maurier's daughter Tessa Montgomery and songwriter Guy MON Chambers about their experiences of balancing these MON conflicting demands. MON MON A Paladin Invision production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00tcz94 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00td8hl (Listen) MON A secular meaning to life MON MON Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place of faith in our MON complex world. MON MON Each week Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss how MON their own religious or non-religious tradition affects their MON values and outlook on the world, often revealing hidden and MON contradictory truths. MON MON In this programme, Ernie asks whether there is a secular MON meaning of life and how this can be achieved without a MON shared reference to God or other higher spiritual figure. MON What is the basis of our morality and can there be any MON universally held, objective rules of right and wrong if MON there is no God? MON MON Ernie and the panel hear from the writer, AN Wilson, who MON recounts his journey from childhood belief, through atheism MON and back to a constant, yet doubting faith in God. MON MON In the second half of the programme, the panel discuss how a MON secular purpose to life is created and asks whether the MON purpose of life without God, can only be failure? In a MON secular world, have the terrors of hell been replaced by the MON terrors of failure? Can belief in God offer redemption MON where human capacity has failed? MON MON The panel comprises Fergus Stokes who was once a Baptist MON minister and now is a humanist who practises psychotherapy; MON Dr Sue Blackmore, Visiting Professor in the School of MON Psychology at the University of Plymouth and who is a Zen MON Practitioner; and Canon Dr Alan Billings, former director of MON the Centre for Ethics and Religion at the University of MON Lancaster. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00tcd13 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tcd3z (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00td8kq (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 3 MON MON Radio 4's classic long running panel game. MON MON Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes control of a loquacious and MON rebellious bunch of players whose task it is to speak on a MON subject he gives them for one minute without hesitation, MON repetition or deviation. MON MON This week Paul Merton, Ross Noble, Tony Hawks and Sheila MON Hancock attempt to speak within the rules of the game. MON MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00td5vq (Listen) MON Susan needs some urgent advice and things are tense at April MON Cottage. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00td621 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson. Jonathan Harvey talks about his new comedy MON drama, The Cobbles of Corrie, a whistle stop tour through 50 MON years of the much loved soap, Coronation Street, opening at MON the Lowry Centre in Salford MON MON Producer Ella-Mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b00td8tp (Listen) MON Mike Thomson returns with Radio 4's investigative history MON series, examining documents which shed new light on past MON events. The news series begins with a paper trail MON surrounding an oil disaster - not the most recent example in MON the Gulf of Mexico - but one much closer to home, in the MON North Sea. MON MON Whilst President Obama has told BP that it will be held MON fully responsible for cleaning up the damage caused by the MON massive oil spill off the American coast, papers seen by MON Document show that the oil company Occidental got off far MON more lightly after the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988 off the MON Scottish coast, which left 167 people dead. MON MON After seeing the recently released documents, the MON environmental pressure group Greenpeace claims too little MON was done to deal with more than five tons of highly toxic MON chemicals released in the disaster, marine contamination MON that led the Government to consider a fishing ban and which MON has had a lasting impact on the North Sea. The documents MON also shed light on the decision to topple the remains of the MON Piper Alpha platform, an operation which threatened to MON worsen contamination and which was fiercely opposed by MON relatives who wanted the search for bodies to continue. MON MON Mike Thomson speaks to marine biologists, politicans from MON the time and survivors to find out if more should have been MON done to clean up after the disaster. MON MON Producer: Julia Johnson. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00tbcdr (Listen) MON The Romanian healthcare system is in crisis. Earlier this MON year the university hospital in Bucharest announced it had MON just 4 euros left in the bank, and it's not alone in its MON financial woes. Even the Romanian health minister hasn't MON denied that his country's medical system is facing imminent MON collapse. National funds were due to run out in July. MON MON Across the country doctors complain of a lack of X-ray film MON and surgical thread. Operations are postponed indefinitely. MON Patients are being asked to pay for their own bandages and MON hospital infections are spreading at alarming rates. Over MON the last year 4,700 doctors, fed up with wages of around 300 MON euros a month, have left the country to earn a better living MON in western Europe. MON MON It's not just a problem for Romanians. As cash for drug MON treatments and preventive work such as needle exchanges runs MON out, there are fears that the country's already high rates MON of TB and HIV could get out of control, with the potential MON to spread beyond Romania's shores. MON MON The wealthy are going to Hungary, Germany and Austria for MON treatment, paying up to 900 euros a day for a hospital bed. MON Inside Romania a black market is growing with doctors taking MON back-handers to prioritise those who can afford it. Those MON who can't have to put up with what state treatment they can MON find. MON MON It's hard to see a solution. Government coffers are empty MON and the economy shrank by over 7% in 2009. And in May this MON year, to great protest, the government announced it would MON reduce public sector pay and pensions by 25%. MON MON As Romania's healthcare system teeters on the edge of MON collapse, Oana Lungescu, the BBC European Affairs MON Correspondent, returns to her homeland to find out how MON ordinary citizens are coping. MON MON Producer: Ben Crighton. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00t9r4g (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week he looks to the night sky to MON see the Perseid Meteor Shower, he explores a new carbon MON capture project that is getting started in California this MON month. Quentin also delves into the world of Photonic MON Molecular Materials as he finds out about the process of MON making solar cells cheaper and out of plastic, and the So MON You Want To Be A Scientist noctilucent cloud experiment is MON coming to an end so we hear the latest from our finalist, MON John Rowlands. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00td73z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00tcd7q (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00tcdg3 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00td6ll (Listen) MON The Story of a Marriage, Episode 6 MON MON Finding the courage to confront Annabel DeLawn, Pearlie MON spies on her and her fiance. MON MON Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and MON abridged by Fiona McAlpine. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00t8rg9 (Listen) MON Every August exam results are published, and every August MON newspaper headlines are filled with comments about dumbing MON down. But how much thought lies behind modern examination MON questions, and who decides the language that is used ? In MON Word of Mouth we hear from Edexcel's chair of history MON examiners Angela Leonard, and her managing director Ziggy MON Liaquat. The key word is accessibility, and enabling MON students to understand the questions they have been set. It MON all seems a brave new world for our presenter Chris Ledgard, MON who recalls stumbling through an A Level question about MON Bismarck's expediency, not knowing what expediency meant. MON Also the American critic Joe Queenan attacks the editors who MON insist on the use of simpler words in his books. "People who MON don't enjoy words should just shut up," he says. The MON producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mcwv3 (Listen) MON Kaws and Effect MON MON Ian McDiarmid stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill, retired English MON master of Haunchurst School for boys, looking back on his MON favourite pupils and their fortunes in the adult world - MON based on their school reports and their letters to him after MON they left. MON MON Dr Pickerskill encourages Francis Kaws, whose great MON engineering talents are being wasted on clever and inventive MON school pranks, putting him in danger of being expelled. MON MON Pickerskill harnesses the boy's gifts, encouraging him to MON adapt an old tractor to run on Haunchurst College's defunct MON narrow-gauge railway line. MON MON Dr Henry Pickerskill ..... Ian McDiarmid MON Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ..... Philip Madoc MON Francis Kaws ..... Louis Williams MON The Colonel ..... Richard Johnson MON Mike Poulson Jabby ..... Mike Feast MON Stanislaw ..... Mike Sarne MON Jack Rousseau ..... Tony Gardner MON MON Written and directed by Andrew McGibbon. MON MON Producers: Nick Romero MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 AUGUST 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00tc50y (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00td5jq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tc54w (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tc54y (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tc578 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00tc5b9 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tc6dq (Listen) TUE With Dr Catherine Cowley, Assistant Director for the TUE Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00tc6gw (Listen) TUE Presented by Cath Mackie and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00tc6mj (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of ... b00td8zs (Listen) TUE Series 3, The RAF TUE TUE Quentin Letts returns with another series offering a witty TUE and thought-provoking look at some of Britain's cherished TUE insitutions. Over the next four weeks he casts a quizzical TUE eye over Marylebone cricket club, the public library, the TUE Kennel Club - and the RAF. TUE TUE All over the country, events are being held to commemorate TUE the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, when the TUE bravery of the Few saved these islands from a Nazi invasion. TUE Even if some historians have had the temerity to suggest it TUE was actually the navy wot done it, it's an opportune moment TUE for the RAF to remind us of their historic contribution, and TUE why we need them in the future. TUE TUE Which is why exactly? TUE TUE Britain was the first country in the world to have an TUE independent air force. To get rid of it is unthinkable, isn't it? TUE TUE Defence secretary Liam Fox has promised that the Governments TUE strategic defence review will be ruthless and unsentimental TUE - will he listen to the RAF's critics? They claim that a TUE bloated higher command structure in Whitehall argues for TUE fast jets we cant afford for a war we wont be fighting. Oh - TUE and its uniforms are horrible and they can't march properly. TUE TUE Historian Max Hastings, War correspondent Sam Kiley, former TUE defence secretary Geoff Hoon and retired Colonel Tim Collins TUE are among those who join Quentin to ask the question, What TUE is the point of the RAF? TUE TUE 09:30 How The Mighty Have Fallen b00td9fr (Listen) TUE The Exhibitors TUE TUE "I believe no Age did ever afford more Instances of TUE Corpulency than our own." Physician Thomas Short, writing in 1727. TUE TUE Today the language may be less quaint, but the sentiments TUE are echoed repeatedly in the media, in Government and in TUE medical reports all over the world. The obesity epidemic has TUE arrived - but obesity is as old as mankind, and in a new TUE four-part series, Dr Hilary Jones looks back into its TUE history, and asks what can we learn today from the mistakes TUE and successes of our overweight ancestors. TUE TUE We start with an investigation of the immensely corpulent TUE individuals who put themselves on show to the public. TUE TUE It begins in Stamford - scene of the death and extraordinary TUE burial of Daniel Lambert, hailed in 1809 as "the most TUE corpulent man in the history of the world". Prof Vanessa TUE Toulmin, of the National Fairground Archive, and Prof David TUE Haslam, Chair of the National Obesity Forum, explore the TUE world of the circus fat folk. TUE TUE And from America, we hear a snatch of the Strates Carnival TUE in 1941, featuring Big Bertha and Slim Jim, "the world's TUE strangest married couple". TUE TUE Times have changed, and nowadays the idea of obese TUE individuals exhibiting in freak shows is highly TUE uncomfortable. But is the portrayal of obesity in TUE sensationalist, prurient tabloid articles, and on TV, the TUE modern-day equivalent of the freak show? TUE TUE Future programmes focus on depictions of obesity in art, TUE music and literature; diets through the ages; and the weird, TUE wonderful and downright dangerous obesity remedies of the TUE past. TUE TUE Readings by Toby Longworth & Michael Fenton-Stevens. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Kenyon TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00tdllt (Listen) TUE Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, Episode 2 TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tc6ts (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Should there be quotas for women TUE in the the Irish Dail? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75v (Listen) TUE Dear Mr Spectator, series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE 11:00 In Living Memory b00td9pl (Listen) TUE Series 12, Episode 3 TUE TUE In the mid 1990s investment companies sprung up offering TUE huge returns on ostrich farming. The promise was that you TUE could get 70 per cent or more and never get your feet muddy, TUE or even have to see your ostriches. The birds would lay and TUE endless supply of valuable eggs and the companies offered to TUE buy them back. TUE TUE Ostrich fever took hold, and birds changed hands at 10 times TUE their true market value. It seemed too good to be true - and TUE it was. The Department of Trade moved in and closed down the TUE companies on the grounds that that they were running pyramid TUE schemes. In the case of the biggest company, the Ostrich TUE Farming Corporation, an investigation by the Serious Fraud TUE Office revealed that the directors had also been siphoning TUE off millions of pounds into offshore accounts, and three TUE directors went to prison. TUE TUE In this programme, Jolyon Jenkins tries to discover why so TUE many apparently intelligent people fell for the ostrich TUE scams. He also discovers what happened to the ostriches when TUE the Ostrich Farming Corporation collapsed, and follows the TUE fortunes of the two companies, each run by retired military TUE officers, which were set up to try to carry on ostrich TUE farming. TUE TUE 11:30 Grand Guignol b00td9qw (Listen) TUE At the end of the nineteenth century, in the seediest TUE quarter of Paris, a new theatre opened its doors offering a TUE recipe of blood and terror - and soon the Grand Guignol was TUE to become as big as an attraction in the city as the Eiffel TUE Tower and the Arc de Triomphe. The success of an evening's TUE performance - made up of a succession of short comedy and TUE horror plays - was measured by how many members of the TUE audience fainted, as they witnessed gougings, garrottings TUE and gory murders on a nightly basis. After more than sixty TUE years the theatre finally closed its doors, but only after TUE helping influence the development of horror in the cinema, TUE as well as introducing the phrase Grand Guignol into common TUE parlance as a byword for shocking, blood-soaked terror. TUE Sheila McClennon visits Paris to revisit the scene of this TUE most shocking of theatre movements, and also comes to London TUE to find out how the likes of Joseph Conrad and Noel Coward TUE got involved in its English incarnation, which fought a TUE staunch but unsuccessful battle with the censors at the TUE beginning of the 1920s. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00tccjb (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00tc9yg (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00tc9nd (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00td9qy (Listen) TUE Series 2, Peter Warlock TUE TUE Professor Robert Winston continues his exploration into the TUE relationship between the music and the medical conditions of TUE composers who suffered mental and physical illness. TUE TUE Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Heseltine, a TUE troubled British composer who died of apparent suicide in TUE 1930. Prof. Winston wades through the many colourful and TUE outrageous episodes in his life to investigate if the TUE apparent 'Jekyll and Hyde' quality in his character and in TUE his music was the result of a serious psychological condition. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Taylor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00td5vq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tdltn (Listen) TUE Unauthorised History: The Killing TUE TUE By Michael Butt. TUE TUE In May 1593, the playwright Christopher Marlowe was killed. TUE Apparently, it was because of an argument over a bill. TUE Michael Butt's innovative drama dons the cloak of TUE documentary to re-examine the unsolved case. TUE TUE Cast: TUE TUE Narrator . . . . . Paul Rhys TUE Thomas Walsingham . . . . . Blake Ritson TUE Thomas Kyd . . . . . Harry Lloyd TUE Robert Poley . . . . . Burn Gorman TUE Lord Cecil . . . . . Tim McMullan TUE Mrs Bull . . . . . Christine Kavanagh TUE Ingram Frizer . . . . . Tony Bell TUE Richard Baines . . . . . Sam Dale TUE Cambridge Porter . . . . . Sean Baker TUE Drew Woodleff . . . . . Lloyd Thomas TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00tdltq (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tdly6 (Listen) TUE Opening Lines, Horses TUE TUE The series which gives first-time and emerging short story TUE writers their radio debut. TUE TUE By Emma Greengrass TUE TUE The sight of four coal-black horses, glimpsed through the TUE window of a London bus, encourages an elderly lady to TUE believe her luck is changing. TUE TUE Julia McKenzie reads this life-affirming story about making TUE every second count. TUE TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE 15:45 Famous Footsteps b00pxll8 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Fiona Neill explores the advantages of being born into a TUE creatively successful family; what is the nature of the TUE silver spoon handed down from one generation to the next? TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00tdm53 (Listen) TUE Body Language TUE TUE How important is body language in the way we communicate? TUE Are some people much better at it than others? Can good body TUE language be taught? Chris Ledgard investigates. TUE Chris visits Dr Harry Witchel for some body language TUE training, looks into some body language myths, and talks to TUE impressionist Kate Robbins about the way she uses her face TUE and gestures when mimicking people. TUE Produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00tdm55 (Listen) TUE Series 22, Richard Nixon TUE TUE The disgrace and resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974 was a TUE profoundly traumatic moment in the history of the American TUE presidency, leaving us the endlessly influential word TUE Watergate and a cynicism about politics which arguably has TUE only now, with Barack Obama, started to heal. His life is TUE thus perhaps a strange one to nominate as "great", but the TUE historian Dominic Sandbrook unhesitatingly selected him for TUE celebration in this programme. Matthew Parris talks to him TUE about his intriguing choice, and calls on Professor Philip TUE Davies of the Eccles Centre for American Studies to round TUE out the picture. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00tccwr (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 b00tcd41 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00lxh3r (Listen) TUE Series 2, Johannesburg TUE TUE When Carolyn makes a foolish bet with her pilots, what TUE better place for a race against time than a sleepy Spanish TUE airfield? Plus we learn about the thermodynamic properties TUE of boiled sweets and the kinetic thrust of white wine. TUE TUE Starring TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam TUE Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore TUE Senor Quintanilla ..... Michael Fenton-Stevens TUE Diego ..... Javier Marzan TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00td5vs (Listen) TUE Kenton makes a breakthrough and Jolene expresses her doubts. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00td623 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interiews and reviews with John Wilson TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Why Russia Spies b00tdm57 (Listen) TUE The Cold War is over. But some habits die hard. Since 2007 TUE Russian nuclear bombers have been flying provocatively close TUE to UK airspace, triggering interception by RAF fighters. The TUE Royal Navy has encountered Russian 'hunter-killer' TUE submarines. And as the recent discovery of a spy ring in the TUE United States revealed, Russian agents remain active against TUE the West. With remarkable access to Britain's military and TUE intelligence worlds, Peter Hennessy examines the scale of TUE Russian activity - and what it tells us about the TUE Russia-NATO relationship. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00tdm59 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00tdm86 (Listen) TUE Regional Anaesthesia TUE TUE Instead of putting patients to sleep, many major surgical TUE procedures can be done under regional anaesthesia. Mark TUE Porter visits the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading to TUE investigate the latest alternatives to having a general TUE anaesthetic. He talks to patients, surgeons and TUE anaesthetists about the new high-tech options available and TUE why they choose one form of anaesthesia over another. TUE TUE Producer: Erika Wright. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of ... b00td8zs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00tcd7s (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00tcdfl (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00td6x3 (Listen) TUE The Story of a Marriage, Episode 7 TUE TUE After an unexpected conversation with Holland, Pearlie makes TUE a momentous decision. TUE TUE Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and TUE abridged by Fiona McAlpine. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Happy Tuesdays b00tdm88 (Listen) TUE Antiquity TUE TUE Antiquity is a lively audience sitcom about the staff of an TUE antiques shop in the fictional town of Newby-On-Wye. TUE TUE Sassy, cutting, clever, perceptive and in desperate need of TUE a job, Faye Chambers is new to the team. She joins Rupert TUE Bull, an old school bounder and cad who has somehow managed TUE to survive into the 21st Century, and Toby Atkins, his TUE useless but enthusiastic assistant manager. TUE TUE Rupert won the shop in a poker competition many years ago, TUE and sees it as little more than a way to make a fast buck. TUE In this pilot episode, the immeasurably lovely local TUE shop-owner Mr Richards has a set of priceless Faberge eggs TUE that need restoring. TUE TUE Rupert Bull ----------- Tim McInnerny TUE Toby -------------------- William Andrews TUE Faye -------------------- Nadia Kamil TUE Mr Richards ---------- Andrew Sachs TUE Chicken Seller ------ David Reed TUE Amulet Seller ------- Christine Kavanagh TUE TUE 23:30 Tickets Please b00ny7k4 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE By Mark Maier TUE TUE The 9.27 London to Exeter emotional rollercoaster continues TUE as the train staff's personal embroilments deepen. Now one TUE of the wedding party is joining in the melee. And why are TUE there finger holes in the muffins? TUE TUE Robin..................Jeremy Swift TUE Nadine...................Alex Kelly TUE Peter..............Malcolm Tierney TUE Carol..............Tessa Nicholson TUE Carl................Nicholas Boulton TUE Diana...............Melissa Advani TUE Linda...................Kate Layden TUE Keith...............Stephen Hogan TUE other parts played by Piers Wehner, Philip Fox and Joseph TUE Cohen-Cole TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 AUGUST 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00tc510 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00tdllt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tc550 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tc552 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tc57b (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00tc5bc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tc6dt (Listen) WED With Dr Catherine Cowley, Assistant Director for the WED Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00tc6gy (Listen) WED Presented by Cath Mackie and produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00tc6ml (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00tdmqr (Listen) WED Series 3, He Said, She Said WED WED Stephen Fry examines whether men and women really use and WED understand language differently. WED WED Is there a genuine gender language barrier, or is it just WED something we made up to amuse ourselves, or to castigate WED each other? WED WED As a former presenter on Woman's Hour, Sue MacGregor has a WED unique insight into the way men used to use language to WED patronise or dominate, and recalls one of her guests on the WED programme referring to her as 'my dear'. WED WED But as women began to win equality there was a genuine need WED to discover whether and how women and men differed in the WED way they spoke. WED WED Cast aside all memories of cartoon strips, Woody Allen WED movies, sitcoms and diatribes on political correctness or WED questionable seaside postcards. WED WED This programme gets to the truth, with the aid of academics, WED a bit of comedy from Ronnie Barker, a sex change surgeon and WED a speech therapist. Do people who want to change their sex WED also want to change the way they use language? WED WED Producer: Ian Gardhouse WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:30 Head to Head b00tdmqt (Listen) WED Series 2, AJP Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper WED WED Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast WED debates of the 1960s and 70s exploring the ideas, the great WED minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day WED politics. WED WED This episode pitches AJP Taylor against Hugh Trevor-Roper, WED two big-name historians and the 'telly dons' of their time. WED WED It's 1961 and the fall-out of world war two is still fresh WED in the minds of the British people. Taylor had just WED published his provocative revision of the orthodox view of WED the causes of the war in 1939 - that Britain had scuppered a WED lunatic dictator's plans of world domination. Taylor argued WED instead that Hitler was a rational statesman who carried out WED the expected foreign policies of any German leader, and that WED a war against Britain and France was unintended. WED WED It caused outrage. WED WED Also on the table is the question of Munich - were tweaks to WED Germany's frontiers to save another world war morally right? WED The inflation of the term 'appeasement' has many WED contemporary connotations. WED WED In the studio dissecting the debate is Adam Sisman, WED biographer of both AJP Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper, and WED Richard Evans, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge. WED WED Producer: Dominic Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00tdllm (Listen) WED Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, Episode 3 WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tc6rs (Listen) WED Presented by Jane Garvey. Is gender pre-determined or the WED product of our enviroment? WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75x (Listen) WED Dear Mr Spectator, series 2, Episode 3 WED WED 11:00 Case Study b00t97xf (Listen) WED Series 2, John/Joan - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl WED WED Without a few unusual people, human behaviour would have WED remained a mystery - ordinary people whose extraordinary WED circumstances provided researchers with the exceptions that WED proved behavioural rules. Claudia Hammond revisits the WED classic case studies that have advanced psychological research. WED WED Janet and Ron Reimer's twin sons, Bruce and Brian, were born WED in Winnipeg in Canada in August 1965. All went well until WED April 1966, when the twins were circumcised. In the process, WED Bruce suffered a catastrophic injury to his penis. A year WED later, on the advice of Dr John Money, founder of the Gender WED Identity Clinic at Johns Hopkins University Medical Centre WED in Baltimore, Bruce became Brenda and the Reimers began to WED raise their son as a daughter. WED WED John Money published the case as one of successful gender WED re-assignment in 1975, when the twins were 9. Yet by the WED time Brenda was a teenager she was suicidal. When her WED parents finally told her the truth, Brenda decided to change WED back to her original gender; she became David Reimer. WED WED The medical literature, however, continued to quote WED John/Joan as evidence of successful gender reassignment, WED until Milton Diamond, Director of the Pacific Centre for Sex WED and Society at the University of Hawaii, finally tracked WED down David Reimer and published an article in 1997. For the WED first time it was revealed that the re-assignment had not WED been a success. Journalist John Colapinto followed it up WED with a book about David in 2000. WED WED As a man, David appeared finally to have found happiness in WED marriage and stepchildren. However, a series of events took WED their toll: his twin brother's death, the loss of his job, WED and separation from his wife all proved too much and he took WED his own life on 4 May 2004. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:30 The Castle b00tdn0f (Listen) WED Series 3, There's No Place Like Woodstock WED WED Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four Weddings WED & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode, we discover that somewhere, over the WED rainbow... there is a bunch of idiots from Woodstock and a WED mysterious man known only as "Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber". WED WED Sir John Woodstock .... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne .... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock .... Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan .... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte .... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock .... Steven Kynman WED Merlin .... Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller and Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00tccjd (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00tc9yj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00tc9ng (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00tdn2f (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Joe Kent. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00td5vs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00drz1k (Listen) WED HMS Surprise, Episode 1 WED WED 1/3. Naval battles, political intrigue and WED romantic rivalry are all to the fore in Patrick WED O'Brian's novel, set in 1804-5 in England, India WED and on the high seas. Captain Jack Aubrey WED engages the Spanish at sea and the French on land WED - but falls victim to enemies at home. Starring David Robb WED as Aubrey. WED WED 15:00 Alvin Hall's Generations of Money b00tcs29 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tdly8 (Listen) WED Opening Lines, The Amazing Arnolfini and His Wife WED WED The series which gives first-time and emerging short story WED writers their radio debut. WED WED By Jonathan Pinnock WED WED A husband and wife tightrope walking team travel across WED America wowing audiences with their daredevil acrobatics. A WED jaw-dropping finale is promised in this high wire thriller. WED WED Read by Laurel Lefkow WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED 15:45 Famous Footsteps b00q3fr4 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Fiona Neill examines the burden of expectation felt by the WED children of creatively successful parents. How debilitating WED is the worry about comparisons being made with their parent? WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00tdn2h (Listen) WED Disenchantment WED WED The sociologist Max Weber saw the Enlightenment as the WED period when science started to take over from religion as WED the way of comprehending human existence, and became the WED defining character of modernity. The process of casting WED magic and superstition aside in favour of rationality he WED defined as 'disenchantment': no longer was the world a place WED of supernatural signs and natural magic. In the second of a WED special series of programmes looking at some of the key WED concepts in social science, Laurie Taylor explores the idea WED of disenchantment with three experts. David Voas, Sam WED Whimster and Linda Woodhead, discuss how the idea has been WED applied to understanding the development of secular WED societies and whether we are now entering a phase of re-enchantment. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00tdm86 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00tccwt (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 b00tcd43 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qbv2p (Listen) WED Series 6, Cheese Cricket WED WED Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. Despite WED his scepticism, Ed finds himself a surprise hit when he WED takes part in a new Radio 4 'topical quiz with a tasty twist'. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00td5vv (Listen) WED Jamie finds a sympathetic friend and Brenda helps out with WED staffing issues. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00td625 (Listen) WED Mark Lawson with Arts stories, interviews and reviews at The WED Edinburgh Festival WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Electric Ride b00tfpmf (Listen) WED The highlights of Peter Curran's epic 4,500 mile WED battery-powered journey through Europe, investigating the WED current state of electric car manufacturing and policy. WED WED He visits cities which are wiring up charging stations and WED probing politicians about what they're doing to promote the WED electric cause. WED WED Peter discovers that it's not always that easy to find a WED place to plug in the car, and there's a nail-biting episode WED in the Alps when he reaches the one hotel en route to the WED top - which has closed. WED WED From Norway to the Coastal plains of Andalusia, it's a WED journey of highs, lows and tense moments amidst the roaring WED traffic on the German autobahns - which were not made for WED small electric cars with a top speed of around 50 mph. WED WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Talking to the Enemy b00tdn9f (Listen) WED Face to face with the enemy WED WED Jonathan Powell, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, took part in WED the negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement in WED Northern Ireland. Here he takes us into the negotiating room WED and explains how negotiations with men of violence come WED about, work or fail, and can lead to peace. Produced by WED David Stenhouse. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00tdnjl (Listen) WED Muscle Wastage WED WED We're all familiar by now with being told to "use it or lose WED it" when it comes to certain aspects of our health and WED bodies, and never more so than for muscles. WED WED But in this edition of Frontiers, Vivienne Parry hears how WED new research in to muscle wastage is turning the accepted WED view on its head. WED WED Startling results from a large-scale study have seen elderly WED peoples' muscles completely rebuilt through diet and WED exercise. WED WED The detailed molecular pathways within muscles are beginning WED to be understood well enough for drug companies to target WED new ways of replacing what is lost, offering hope to the WED many thousands of people in Britain who suffer from muscle WED wastage due to illness or ageing. WED Producer: Sue Broom. WED WED 21:30 Fry's English Delight b00tdmqr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00tcd7v (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00tcdfn (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00td6wx (Listen) WED The Story of a Marriage, Episode 8 WED WED Buzz takes Pearlie and Sonny for a trip and tells her the WED truth about his war experiences. WED WED Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and WED abridged by Fiona McAlpine. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Continuity b00tdnt4 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED A continuity announcer's booth can be a lonely place - WED especially on the late shift, when you've barely seen your WED wife and children for a week. Still, this Radio 4 continuity WED announcer is a consummate professional, and he's not going WED to let his own insignificant little problems get in the way WED of your listening pleasure. Especially when there are so WED many exciting programmes coming up for him to tell you about. WED WED At least, some of them are exciting. Some of them aren't WED quite his cup of tea, if he's honest, but that's not really WED the point, is it? They may be right up your street. It's not WED really his place to express an opinion. Even if it is WED tempting. This may be a come-down from heady days spent WED announcing on the Today programme, but he's got a job to do. WED Though sometimes it is rather difficult to concentrate... WED WED Alistair McGowan stars in this subversive new sitcom about a WED continuity announcer, brooding on the escalating disasters WED of his private and professional life at the same time as WED attempting to give us a preview of the programmes on offer WED in the coming week on Radio 4. Or what might be Radio 4 in a WED parallel universe. Trails for The Ethical Enigma, Britain's WED Favourite Sound and The History of Britain One Year at a WED Time are just some of the strange delights on offer in the WED world of this 'radio professional' who harbours a slightly WED inappropriate relationship with his audience. WED WED Written by Hugh Rycroft - stalwart of The News Quiz and WED co-creator of Parliamentary Questions and Life, Death and WED Sex with Mike and Sue, the series also features the voices WED of Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David Holt. WED WED Producers: David Spicer and Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Rik Mayall's Bedside Tales b00nkp1y (Listen) WED Red Coat WED WED Settle down, brush your teeth, do whatever it is you do at WED this time of night. But, most of all, listen because Rik WED would like to talk to you. One on one. Tonight he'd mostly WED like to tell you about Red Coat. WED WED Performer ..... Rik Mayall WED Writers ..... Rik Mayall & John Nicholson WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED We open a small and peculiarly shaped window in to the mind WED of Rik Mayall. Written by Rik and John Nicholson, it's a WED woozy, strange and resonant series from one of the country's WED most loved comic performers. Rik wants to sit with you in WED your room - one on one. He wants to let you know things - WED important, secret things, things about your neighbours. WED About him. About you. WED WED 23:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off b00pbx22 (Listen) WED Series 4, Lapland WED WED He's back! But this time, he's got a computer! Budleigh WED Salterton's most famous citizen has been grounded by both WED the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel WED ("2 Ms, 2 Gs, 2 Vs - bit of a mix up at the printers"). WED WED Run from his bedroom with the help of his long-suffering WED former Primary School teacher Mr Timmis and the hindrance of WED his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop Travel/Advice/Events WED Management/Website service, where each week his schemes WED range far and wide - whether it's roaming the country WED lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a rucksack WED ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or finding WED someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll look in the WED Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to D"...), GWH WED Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, so you WED won't want to". WED WED In this special episode, first broadcast at Xmas, Giles WED takes a trip to Iceland and buys some frozen food for his WED trip to Lapland. He also learns that when hunting with WED shotguns, it's good to know the difference between an elk WED and an elf. WED WED Co-starring Catherine Tate as his long-suffering fiancee WED Arabella and Celia Imrie as his mother-in-law-to-be - the WED woman known only as "Mrs Wells" - in a snowbound special WED that mixes The Wizard Of Oz, It's A Wonderful Life and The WED Ice Queen in Giles's head, and serves them up with a helping WED of brandy butter and South Devon-style idiocy. WED WED Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles. WED WED Cast: WED Giles Wemmbley Hogg ..... Marcus Brigstocke WED Bella ..... Catherine Tate WED Mrs Wells ..... Celia Imrie WED Mr Timmis ..... Adrian Scarborough WED Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd WED Santa ..... Ewan Bailey WED WED Written by Marcus Brigstocke & Jeremy Salsby. WED WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 AUGUST 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00tc512 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00tdllm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tc554 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tc556 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tc57d (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00tc5bf (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tc6dw (Listen) THU With Dr Catherine Cowley, Assistant Director for the THU Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00tc6h0 (Listen) THU Presented by Cath Mackie and produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 06:00 Today b00tc6mn (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The Choice b00tdnzc (Listen) THU On The Choice this week, Micahel Buerk talks to Romy THU Tiongco. THU THU He spent a lifetime fighting poverty - first as a Catholic THU priest, then as a Christian Aid worker. Where he comes from THU - the Philippines - poverty is made worse by violence and THU corruption. He'd taken it on as a young man, before moving THU to this country with his wife. When he decided to return to THU the Philippines he did not realise it would draw him back THU into a dangerous and murky world and present him with the THU most difficult choice of his life. After his best friend was THU killed, the people called on him to challenge corruption by THU standing for political office - a choice that would put his THU own life on the line. THU THU 09:30 GPs Who Need GPS b00tfv5h (Listen) THU The Flying Doctor THU THU Phil Hammond's patients come to him, and he likes to work THU civilised hours. Not so for Malcolm Russell who drives over THU 150 miles to come to the aid of casualties who may be THU anywhere in Surrey. Malcolm is a member of the Surrey Air THU Ambulance, and for two days a fortnight he flies with them. THU THU Phil Hammond narrates the extraordinary journey of Dr THU Russell as he fights sleep and leaps to action as part of THU the helicopter crew. THU THU Produced by Lucy Adam. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00tdllp (Listen) THU Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, Episode 4 THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tc6rv (Listen) THU Presented by Jane Garvey. The first American heiresses who THU took Europe by storm. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75z (Listen) THU Dear Mr Spectator, series 2, Episode 4 THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00tdptg (Listen) THU Medjugorje THU THU In Medjugorje the age of miracles isn't over: it is alive THU and well and is big business. The Catholic boom town in the THU Bosnian hills now rivals the better known Fatima or Lourdes. THU There were eight appearances of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, THU yet since 1981 there have been 33,000 at Medjugorje, where THU she appears practically every day. The Vatican is currently THU investigating the validity of the claims. THU THU Meanwhile the pilgrims keep rolling in and spending their THU money. The town is also a hotbed of Croat THU ultra-nationalists, who some say are using the religious THU fervour to boost their own political influence in the THU region. Allan Little investigates the political THU sensitivities around Medjugorje. THU THU Producer: Paul Vickers. THU THU 11:30 Ziggy Stardust Came from Isleworth b00tdpz8 (Listen) THU Ziggy Stardust was a rock and roll fantasy. But David THU Bowie's fictional rockstar, around whom his 1972 album, THU stage show, and film were built, was inspired by a real THU performer, Vince Taylor, born in Isleworth, Middlesex. This THU programme uncovers the truth about a singer whose wild THU lifestyle ultimately destroyed him, but in so doing he gave THU rise to a myth that transcended glam-rock and science THU fiction. THU His record "Brand New Cadillac" remains to this day a THU British rock 'n' roll classic, covered later by The Clash. THU But Vince was frustrated by his limited success in Britain THU and, already displaying the unpredictable behaviour and THU volcanic temper that were to dog him for the rest of his THU days, he moved to France where the "yé-yé" crowd really went THU wild for him. They called him 'Le Diable Noir' - the Black THU Devil. THU THU Decked out in black leathers, chains, kohl eye make-up and THU with his hair greased up into a high pompadour he was THU immediately signed to the French Barclay label. But fuelled THU by alcohol and drugs Vince's behaviour became increasingly THU erratic. At a party he tried LSD for the first time. In his THU state of mind at the time it was absolutely the very last THU thing that he needed. THU THU Vince Taylor underwent a kind of public breakdown at his THU next gig, where he started claiming he was a divine being. THU David Bowie bumped into him in London and later said: THU "Vince Taylor was the inspiration for Ziggy...He always THU stayed in my mind as an example of what can happen in rock n THU roll. I'm not sure if I held him up as an idol or as THU something not to become. There was something very tempting THU about him going completely off the edge." THU The programme, presented by MARTYN DAY, tracks down many of THU the people who worked with Taylor, including members of his THU original band and his family. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00tccjg (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00tdpzb (Listen) THU Fatal Inaction THU THU A convicted murderer, threats to kill and numerous reports THU of stalking and harrassment. They're all factors the police THU need to take into account when a victim of domestic abuse THU calls for help. Too often, though, police are failing to THU spot the warning signs until it's too late. This, despite THU repeated concerns voiced by its own watchdog, the THU Independent Police Complaints Commission and detailed THU guidelines and procedures on how officers should investigate THU domestic abuse. Every week, two women in the UK are killed THU by a violent partner or ex-partner. So it's crucial police THU can identify who is most at risk of harm and respond THU appropriately. John Waite investigates the cases where THU police officers breached their own guidelines and failed THU those whom they needed to protect. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00tc9yl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00tc9nj (Listen) THU National and international news with James Robbins. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00tdq8g (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving THU programme for those niggling questions. THU THU Email Questions.questions@bbc.co.uk THU Tel: 03700 100400 or you can reach us online via our Radio 4 THU message board. THU THU Presenter: Stewart Henderson THU THU Producer: Dilly Barlow THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00td5vv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dsk50 (Listen) THU HMS Surprise, Episode 2 THU THU Patrick O'Brian's novel, set in 1804-5 in THU England, India and on the high seas, THU dramatised by Roger Danes. Jack Aubrey is THU ordered to convey a British ambassador to THU the East Indies - but in Bombay Stephen THU Maturin meets Diana Villiers, the one woman Jack THU would avoid at any cost. Starring David Robb as Aubrey and THU Richard Dillane as Maturin. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00tcfhl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00tcy3s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tdlyb (Listen) THU Opening Lines, Kiss THU THU The series which gives first-time and emerging short story THU writers their radio debut. THU THU By Heather Reid THU THU A quirky coming-of-age story in which thoughts of that all THU important first kiss occupy the mind of a teenager as she THU travels home from school on the bus. THU THU Read by Morven Christie THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU THU 15:45 Famous Footsteps b00qc030 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Fiona Neill finds out how creatively successful people cope THU when things go wrong, talking to songwriter Guy Chambers, THU Adrian Edmondson and Daphne Du Maurier's daughter. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00td4v6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00tdr1s (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00tccww (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 b00tcd45 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 On the Fringe with Stephen K Amos b00tgz6f (Listen) THU For more than 50 years, what is now the biggest arts THU festival in the world has been at the heart of British THU comedy. The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is where our aspiring THU stand-ups, writers and comic actors head each August to cut THU their teeth, catch the eye of talent scouts and take part in THU a kind of comedy summer camp. THU THU Stand-up comedian, Stephen K Amos, presents a one-off show THU featuring highlights from a Radio 4 comedy spectacular on THU Edinburgh's Royal Mile. This gang show will include THU stand-up, music, a twisted version of Just A Minute and some THU very special surprise guests. THU THU Stephen will be trawling the bars and gutters of Edinburgh, THU talking to Fringe veterans, promoters and newcomers about THU their experiences of the festival, to find out what draws THU hundreds of comedians -and almost as many audience members- THU up to Auld Reekie every Summer. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00td5vx (Listen) THU It's results day for Pip, and Jamie gives his mum a scare. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00td627 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang. Artists shortlisted for the next THU commission to place work on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar THU Square in London reveal maquettes of their proposals at a THU new exhibition in the crypt of St Martins in the Fields. THU THU The artists are Allora & Calzadilla, Elmgreen & Dragset, THU Katharina Fritsch, Brian Griffiths, Hew Locke and Mariele THU Neudecker. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc75z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00tdr1v (Listen) THU Simon Cox examines what happened with the investigation into THU the death of Ian Tomlinson at last year's G20 protest and THU asks why no charges have been brought. THU Outrage has been expressed at the recent decision of the THU Crown Prosecution Service not to pursue charges against the THU policeman that struck Ian Tomlinson minutes before his THU death. And the General Medical Council is currently THU conducting a hearing into the 'fitness to practice' of the THU pathologist who conducted the first post mortem on Ian THU Tomlinson. The programme examines each stage of the THU investigation, talks to those closely involved with the THU case, and asks whether the judicial process failed. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00tdr1x (Listen) THU Are CEOs up to the job? THU THU In the wake of the very personal attacks on former BP boss, THU Tony Hayward, the programme asks: are chief executives THU really up to the job in our top companies? Peter Day shines THU the spotlight on these much praised and vilified high THU profile leaders. THU Producer: Lesley McAlpine. THU THU 21:00 We Are The Egg Men b00tdr1z (Listen) THU Generations of boys have robbed nests during their THU childhoods. Most grow out of it, making a moral journey THU towards a less rapacious relationship with the natural THU world. But some don't, and this can have terrible THU consequences for both birds and men: the red-backed shrike THU became extinct in Britain because its beautiful speckled THU eggs proved irresistible to collectors. This happened as THU recently as the 1980s, even though it has been illegal to THU steal eggs from nests since 1954. Punishment then was THU limited to a fine, related to the offender's ability to pay, THU but the law was no deterrent to people such as Colin Watson. THU He offended repeatedly, paid fines totally £6,000 and was THU once caught trying to fell a tree with a chainsaw to get at THU an osprey's nest. He tumbled from a tree while trying to THU reach a nest in 2005, and died, killed by his obsession. THU THU In 2001 a change in the law meant egg collectors faced THU prison. Several were apprehended in Operation Easter THU (focusing on the vulnerable birds of the Scottish Isles) by THU detectives from the National Wildlife Crime Unit. It is now THU pursuing 70 suspected collectors in Britain, and is liaising THU with Interpol. Cheap flights, Alan Stewart of Tayside THU Police, says, have led to 'egg-collecting tourism'. THU THU Mark Thomas, investigation officer with the Royal Society THU for the Protection of Birds, believes that while the recent THU sentences are significant, they are not doing enough. THU THU Paul Farley talks to those involved, on both sides of the THU law: John Dodsworth, who has a number of convictions THU relating to egg collecting, speaks about his passion, his THU love of nature, how he feels he has done no harm, and has THU been treated unjustly. Farley visits the headquarters of the THU RSPB where Mark Thomas shows him some of the confiscated egg THU collections - that include red-backed shrike eggs - and THU where he reads the journals of Colin Watson. THU THU Farley also visits Leighton Moss, the reserve where some of THU the tiny number of bitterns in Britain roost in the reeds, THU to find out about measures taken to safeguard nests, and THU speaks to David Waters, the man behind the re-introduction THU of the Great Bustard to this country, about the lengths he THU goes to protect their eggs. THU THU And, with naturalist Mark Cocker, Paul Farley wonders THU whether, unless people can get close to nature, they become THU dislocated from the natural world entirely. THU THU Producer: Julian May. THU THU 21:30 The Choice b00tdnzc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00tcd7x (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00tcdfq (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00td6wz (Listen) THU The Story of a Marriage, Episode 9 THU THU Pearlie atones for what she feels she has done to Annabel THU DeLawn. The day, that she has been waiting for, is finally THU drawing closer. THU THU Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and THU abridged by Fiona McAlpine. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Recorded for Training Purposes b00tdr21 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 5 THU THU More razor-sharp sketches about modern communication from THU the Recorded for Training Purposes team, recorded in front THU of a studio audience. THU THU The cast collectively have countless sketch shows, sitcoms THU and films to their names. Google Rachel Atkins, Dominic THU Coleman, Lewis Macleod, Julie Mayhew, Ingrid Oliver or Ben THU Willbond, and be impressed. THU THU The show had an open-door policy, meaning that anyone could THU send the show sketches. Some 1500 were sent in this way, THU with every single one being read by a script-editor or THU producer - with the funniest stuff getting recorded and THU broadcast. In addition, a small number of the new writers THU who got material broadcast this way in series three were THU given one-to-one script-editing notes and feedback from the THU production team as part of BBC Radio Comedy's commitment to THU discovering and developing new writing talent. THU THU The scripts were edited by award-winning writers James Cary, THU Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris. James' writing will be THU familiar to Radio 4 audiences from the his sketch show THU Concrete Cow to his sitcoms Think The Unthinkable and Hut THU 33. He also co-writes, with Milton Jones, Another Case of THU Milton Jones. Jason and Joel have written sketches for THU Mitchell & Webb on both TV and Radio, The Armstrong & Miller THU Show, The Peter Serafinowicz Show, and are the best-selling THU authors of Bollocks to Alton Towers: Uncommonly British Days THU Out. THU THU Running order and writers for episode five THU THU Coming Up 1... ...Hazeley & Morris THU Jehova's Star Witness... ...Stephen Hair THU Dermot O'Leary Chess... ...Chris Neilan THU 10-Second Match of the Day... ...Russell Thompson THU Spoilers 3... ...Lynes & O'Donoghue THU Coming Up 2... ...Hazeley & Morris THU Despotistan TV... ...James Kettle THU Salmon... ...Ciaran Murtagh THU 10-Second Most Haunted... ...Jason Arnopp THU V/O Record... ...Mark Restuccia THU Restaurant Critics... ...Jason Arnopp THU Coming Up 3... ...Murtagh & Jones THU Spoilers 4... ...Lynes & O'Donoghue THU Police Statement... ...Tom Meltzer THU 10-Second Planet Earth... ...Stuart Cooper THU Father of the Robo-Bride... ...Mike Balazo THU Coming Up 4... ...Hazeley & Morris THU Sweary CV... ...John-Luke Roberts THU Single Issue PPB... ...Ben Partridge THU World's Latest Adopter... ...Eddie Robson THU Product Recall... ...David Shannon THU THU 23:30 Safety Catch b00jhy0r (Listen) THU Series 2, I Draw the Line THU THU Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern morality set in THU the world of arms dealing. THU THU This week Simon is faced with even more of a moral dilemma THU than he's grown sadly accustomed to in his line of work and THU so finds himself finally drawing the line and resigning. THU When faced with a particularly tricky moral issue at work THU Simon finally decides enough is enough and quits his job. THU It's not great timing though as he and Anna find themselves THU contemplating having a baby. THU THU Cast: THU THU Simon McGrath...........Darren Boyd THU Anna Grieg............Joanna Page THU Boris Kemal...........Lewis Macleod THU Judith McGrath..........Sarah Smart THU Angela McGrath..........Brigit Forsyth THU Madeleine Turnbull..........Rachel Atkins THU Marcus...............Dan Mersh THU THU Produced by Dawn Ellis THU THU Written by Laurence Howarth. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 AUGUST 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00tc514 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00tdllp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tc55b (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tc55d (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tc57g (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00tc5bh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tc6dz (Listen) FRI With Dr Catherine Cowley, Assistant Director for the FRI Heythrop Institute for Religion, Ethics and Public Life. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00tc6h2 (Listen) FRI Presented by Cath Mackie and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00tc6mq (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00tcz90 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00tdllr (Listen) FRI Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, Episode 5 FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tc6rx (Listen) FRI Presented by Bidisha. Jeans - when should you give them up? FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc761 (Listen) FRI Dear Mr Spectator, series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI 11:00 Running with the Hare b00ss4t9 (Listen) FRI Peter Curran travels to the County Tipperary town of FRI Clonmel, besieged in the 17th century by Cromwell's forces, FRI but today overrun by the thousands of fans who come for the FRI Irish National Hare Coursing Meeting each February. FRI FRI While the ancient yet controversial sport of hare coursing FRI was banned in the UK some time ago, it continues to thrive FRI in the Irish Republic where a rich social, gambling and FRI sporting culture climaxes at this event, now in its 85th FRI year. Said to be worth millions to the Irish economy, the FRI Clonmel gathering unsurprisingly also finds itself under FRI attack from a vociferous animal rights lobby. FRI FRI For his three days at the races, Peter Curran finds himself FRI battling through a sea of fanatical dog owners and trainers, FRI applauding an all-women betting syndicate that bursts into FRI song with little provocation and meeting a family dynasty of FRI bookmakers whose whole lives revolve around the National FRI Coursing Meeting. And all of this for a set of races, each FRI of which lasts.a paltry fifteen seconds. FRI FRI Producer Conor Garrett. FRI FRI 11:30 Old Harry's Game b0080xpp (Listen) FRI Series 6, Episode 3 FRI FRI Edith needs to know who murdered her. Fortunately, hell is FRI full of people who can assess the evidence. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00tccjj (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00tc9yn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00tc9nl (Listen) FRI National and international news with Brian Hanrahan. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00tdx4s (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00td5vx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dst9g (Listen) FRI HMS Surprise, Episode 3 FRI FRI Final part of Patrick O'Brian's novel, FRI set in 1804-5 in England, India and on the high FRI seas, dramatised by Roger Danes. Tragedy halts FRI the ship's mission to the East Indies. In Calcutta FRI Stephen makes a proposal of marriage and takes FRI part in a duel. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tdx4v (Listen) FRI Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw are near FRI Kettering, answering questions posed by Barton Seagrave FRI Horticultural Society. The chairman is Eric Robson. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Famous Footsteps b00qhmfp (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Fiona Neill examines the reality behind the apparently FRI bohemian lifestyle enjoyed by creative people, talking to FRI William Miller, Guy Chambers and the daughter of Daphne Du FRI Maurier. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00tdx4x (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00tdx4z (Listen) FRI Neil Brand traces the roots of the horror movie from the FRI silent era. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00tccwy (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tcd47 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b00tdx5w (Listen) FRI Series 6, Lee Mack interviews Ade Edmondson FRI FRI The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last FRI week's guest, one of the UK's most celebrated and current FRI comics Lee Mack, writer and star of BBC1's "Not Going Out" FRI takes the microphone to interview alternative comedy legend, FRI writer and star of "The Young Ones" and "Bottom", Ade FRI Edmondson. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00td5vz (Listen) FRI Written by ..... Carole Simson Solazzo FRI Directed by .....Rosemary Watts FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig FRI Alice Aldridge ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00td629 (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson. Frederick Forsyth talks about his new FRI novel Cobra, which deals with a hypothetical US assault on FRI the cocaine industry FRI FRI Producer Ella-Mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tc761 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00tdxpr (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical discussion from Harvest Fields FRI Centre in Sutton Coldfield with questions for the panel FRI including Ruth Deech, Chairman of the Bar Standards Board. FRI FRI Producer: Beverley Purcell. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00tdxpt (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00tdxpw (Listen) FRI Pilgrims, Raiders and Traders (AD 800 - 1300) FRI FRI Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in FRI London, continues his global history as told through objects FRI that history has left behind. FRI FRI This week Neil has chosen objects that bring to life the FRI traders, pilgrims and raiders who swept across the vast FRI expanse of Europe and Asia between the 9th and 13th centuries. FRI FRI His quest takes him to a glass beaker that is believed to FRI turn water into wine and a thorn said to be from Christ's FRI crown of thorns, but he begins with a great Viking treasure FRI hoard that was discovered by metal detectors in a field in FRI North Yorkshire in Britain. FRI FRI Producers: Paul Kobrak and Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00tcd7z (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00tcdfs (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00td6x1 (Listen) FRI The Story of a Marriage, Episode 10 FRI FRI Pearlie recalls the end of her marriage and, after many FRI years, Buzz's reappearance in her life. FRI FRI Read by Adjoa Andoh. Written by Andrew Sean Greer and FRI abridged by Fiona McAlpine. FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00tdm55 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qjx5j (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI FRI Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas FRI creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his FRI studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. FRI The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay FRI attention. FRI FRI This edition includes such policies as forcing Ofsted FRI inpectors to teach; taxing commodities trading; and paying FRI off the mortgages of the customers of failed banks. FRI FRI Produced by Ed Morrish. FRI
13 August, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 14/08/2010 - 20/08/2010
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