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SAT SATURDAY 21 AUGUST 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00tdyhb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00tdllr (Listen) SAT Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, Episode 5 SAT SAT His name, image and influence can be seen everywhere; from SAT Scottish banknotes to place names across the globe. Sir SAT Walter Scott invented the modern novel, began Scotland's SAT tourist industry and was the first celebrity author - a SAT heady mix of JK Rowling and Dan Brown long before the age of SAT mass media hype. Lauded by contemporary critics as well as SAT his massive readership in the 19th century, he's hardly read SAT - and even more rarely enjoyed - today. SAT SAT Stuart Kelly considers the backlash which hit Scott's work SAT after the prolific author's death. Although his critical SAT reputation would never recover, the images of Scotland which SAT Walter Scott created - the romantic landscapes populated by SAT isolated, kilted natives - haunt Scotland to this day. SAT SAT Reader: Robin Laing SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tdyhd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tdyhg (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tdyhj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00tdyhl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tdyhn (Listen) SAT with Canon Martyn Percy, Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00tdyhq (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00tdyhs (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00tdyj1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00tdz4n (Listen) SAT Stargazing on Dartmoor and Kit Hill SAT SAT For this week's Open Country, Helen Mark goes in search of SAT the Perseids Meteor Shower, described as a 'celestial SAT firework display' and visible each year from mid-July and SAT reaching its peak around August 12th. SAT SAT Helen hears all about this spectactular shooting star from SAT amateur astronomer, Shona Owen, before joining naturalist SAT Paul Gompertz from Devon Wildlife Trust for some nocturnal SAT wildlife spotting at Castle Drogo, the last castle to be SAT built in England. Heading across Dartmoor towards Kit Hill SAT in Cornwall, Helen meets up cyclist, Jim Pascoe, who takes SAT Helen for a ride out into the darkness of the moors and SAT explains why he does what he does under the cover of SAT moonlight. We also hear from Brian Byng who studies SAT megaliths by moonlight. Brian explains to Helen how many of SAT the ancient burial sites found on Dartmoor are linked to the SAT stars and aligned with astronomy. SAT SAT Finally, Helen rejoins Shona and her group of amateur SAT astronomers at Kit Hill, close to the Callington Space SAT Centre in Cornwall for the meteor shower's peak. How SAT different the countryside seems under the night sky. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00tdz4q (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT It's a year since the largest outbreak of e-coli linked to SAT an open farm in the UK. 93 people were affected by the SAT incident at Godstone Farm in Surrey and 27 - mostly children SAT - were hospitalised. The Griffin report recommended that SAT farms should change their layouts and reduce public contact SAT with animal faeces but also that parents bear some SAT responsibility to ensure children wash their hands properly SAT after farm visits. Cath Mackie heads to a farm park in SAT Staffordshire to see how farms balance their desire to SAT educate the public with the cost and responsibility of SAT keeping everyone safe. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00tdznn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00tdznq (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00tdzns (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles with studio guest Benjamin SAT Zephaniah and poet Elvis McGonagall. There's an interview SAT with a woman who gave away the fortune she inherited, and SAT the man who's translated Stieg Larsson's celebrated SAT Millennium Trilogy from the original Swedish into English, a SAT Sound Sculpture about a traditional barber's shop and the SAT Inheritance Tracks of Julian Clary. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00tdznv (Listen) SAT Bus trip SAT Sandi Toksvig asked the Excess Baggage audience to nominate SAT their favourite bus journeys and she chose one that, while SAT in many ways is very ordinary, reveals much of fascination SAT and beauty along the way. She meets listener Sonia SAT Mabberley, who nominated the route, at the bus station in SAT Swindon. It could have been an unpromising beginning, given SAT the town's reputation for dullness, but in fact there is SAT much on offer and they soon find themselves in the heart of SAT the Wiltshire countryside at harvest time. The bus passes SAT much of historical interest including the white horse carved SAT from a chalk hillside, the World Heritage site of Avebury SAT and they arrive at Devizes a typical country town on market SAT day. Sandi concludes there is much you can see and enjoy for SAT little outlay and without even going far from home. SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Ken and Mark and Robert b00tdznx (Listen) SAT Legendary film-maker Ken Russell is in the studio with Mark SAT Kermode recalling his love of music, which inspired such SAT films as Mahler, Tommy and The Music Lovers as well as many SAT television documentaries. SAT SAT Meanwhile, in the adjacent studio, musician Robert Ziegler SAT is also talking about Ken's love of music... to Twiggy, SAT Glenda Jackson MP, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Lord Bragg SAT and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00tdznz (Listen) SAT As the coalition reaches its first 100 days in government, SAT John Kampfner looks at how coalitions really work. What are SAT the limits of what they can do - and what are the unintended SAT consequences? John travels to Derby to meet local SAT councillors who've had to work together in recent years - SAT and finds out if there are lessons that can be learned by SAT the new government. SAT John will also get advice from unexpected quarters on how SAT coalitions can stick together -- and how they're perceived SAT by the public. SAT SAT Producer: Alicia McCarthy SAT Presenter: John Kampfner SAT Editor: Sue Ellis. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00tdzp1 (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Alvin Hall's Generations of Money b00tdzp3 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT SAT In the final part of this series on inter-generational SAT finance, Alvin Hall meets pensioners from different parts of SAT the country to find out what retirement means for those SAT without savings. SAT SAT In Bristol, he meets Valerie Shellard, who worked as a SAT tailor until the age of 72 and has lived in the same house SAT for over 50 years. He hears how, before the intervention of SAT the local council, she had to manage for months without a SAT bath or a shower. Alvin assesses the benefit to the state of SAT older people maintaining their independence at home rather SAT than going into care. SAT SAT Alvin then travels to Cambridgeshire where he meets racing SAT car enthusiast, Peggy, whose ill-health is forcing her into SAT sheltered accommodation. He finds out how she's lost out SAT financially, without the support of family. A local charity SAT explains how some older people are vulnerable to SAT exploitation as many lack close contact with relatives. SAT SAT And, looking back over the series, Alvin asks whether the SAT credit crisis has really only served to expose pre-existing SAT challenges facing an ageing population. Will the SAT baby-boomers, holding so much wealth and political SAT influence, defend their own interests or can they be SAT encouraged to take the longer view? SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b00tdx5w (Listen) SAT Series 6, Lee Mack interviews Ade Edmondson SAT SAT The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last SAT week's guest, one of the UK's most celebrated and current SAT comics Lee Mack, writer and star of BBC1's "Not Going Out" SAT takes the microphone to interview alternative comedy legend, SAT writer and star of "The Young Ones" and "Bottom", Ade SAT Edmondson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00tdzp5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00tdzp7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00tdxpr (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical discussion from Harvest Fields SAT Centre in Sutton Coldfield with questions for the panel SAT including Ruth Deech, Chairman of the Bar Standards Board, SAT Douglas Murray, director of the Centre for Social Cohesion, SAT author and historian Alex von Tunzelmann and Maajid Nawaz, SAT founder of the Quilliam Foundation. SAT SAT Producer: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00tdzp9 (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response to SAT this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00djnw2 (Listen) SAT Bora Bora SAT SAT What happened when Alec appeared as a young boy in a SAT famously and mysteriously suppressed film called Bora Bora? SAT SAT It appears to have blighted his entire life while his SAT brother went on to fame as an actor. Charlie, invading a SAT painting holiday in Greece led by the older Alec, now an SAT art-historian, is intent on unravelling secrets. SAT SAT Sir Derek Jacobi takes on the role of Alec in a play SAT specially written for him by Lynne Truss. SAT SAT Cast: SAT Alec Bosanquet ..... Derek Jacobi SAT Tony Bosanquet ..... Corin Redgrave SAT Margaret ..... Cheryl Campbell SAT Charlie ..... Adrian Bower SAT Rosa ..... Eve Pearce SAT Jean ..... Jill Johnson SAT With Stephen Critchlow and Rachel Atkins SAT SAT Producer/Director: Ned Chaillet SAT A Watershed Production for Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Robert Winston's Musical Analysis b00td9qy (Listen) SAT Series 2, Peter Warlock 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 Peter Warlock was the pseudonym of Philip Heseltine, a SAT troubled British composer who died of apparent suicide in SAT 1930. Prof. Winston wades through the many colourful and SAT outrageous episodes in his life to investigate if the SAT apparent 'Jekyll and Hyde' quality in his character and in SAT his music was the result of a serious psychological condition. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00tdzpc (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Director Gurinder Chadha on the SAT inflence of Ealing comedies in her most recent film. SAT Businesswoman Jacqueline Gold on the tragic loss of one of SAT her twins who was born with a severe brain abnormality. SAT Should anyone be prosecuted for knowingly risking the SAT passing on of the HIV virus and what would be the legal and SAT social implications. Women who kill their own children. Poet SAT Sally Crabtree brings paper butterflies and poetry in a tin SAT to the studio. Why more than a third of British adults still SAT sleep with a cuddly toy. Kids' clubs on holiday - are they SAT really fun? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00thcd2 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00tdyhq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00tf0y3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00tf0y5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tf0y7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00tf0y9 (Listen) SAT Loose Ends comes from the Edinburgh Festival. Clive Anderson SAT presents the usual mix of conversation, music and comedy in SAT front of an audience at the Pleasance Grand. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00tf0yc (Listen) SAT Louise Casey SAT SAT This week's Profile is of Louise Casey, the first SAT Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses (for England and SAT Wales). She was appointed in March this year by the Labour SAT government and is continuing in her new role under the SAT coalition government. Her job is to champion the rights of SAT the victims of crime. SAT In a report published last month, Louise Casey argued that SAT victims and witnesses are the "poor relation" in the SAT criminal justice system. During her inaugural speech, Louise SAT Casey argued that victims and witnesses enter a criminal SAT justice system that is complicated, haphazard and often SAT frightening, and where they have no guarantee of help. SAT SAT During her career as a civil servant Louise Casey has SAT frequently been outspoken about the rights of victims. She SAT first came to prominence as "Homelessness Czar" and followed SAT that with "Asbo Czar" and "Respect Czar." SAT Her sometimes forthright comments have not always been SAT welcomed and, on occasion, have landed her in hot water. But SAT her friends and many of those who have worked with her SAT display great loyalty towards her and describe her as a SAT "breath of fresh air" in Whitehall. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00tf0yf (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights and pay a visit to the Edinburgh Festival SAT SAT Producer: Laura Thomas. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00thcn8 (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 2, Episode 2 SAT SAT He became famous as a member of the Beyond the Fringe cast SAT and went on to present television programmes and direct SAT opera and theatre productions around the world. Now, in the SAT last of the series "Meeting Myself Coming Back", Sir SAT Jonathan Miller explores his life and work through the BBC SAT Sound archive. In conversation with John Wilson, he looks SAT back at his younger self and discusses the ways in which he SAT has changed and developed. SAT SAT Revered as a polymath, Jonathan Miller's life has taken in SAT medical studies at university, comedy performing and SAT television presenting with series like "The Body in SAT Question". Throughout his career there has been a tension SAT between his medical career and his reputation as a satirist SAT and director. In this programme he explores the pull of the SAT two worlds upon him and the guilt that he still feels at SAT having abandoned his work as a doctor. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00td4v4 (Listen) SAT The Wings of the Dove, Episode 3 SAT SAT Milly, now gravely ill, is staying in Venice. Kate's plan to SAT bring Merton and Milly together is gaining pace. But Merton SAT begins to realise that his own feelings for Milly are much SAT deeper than he knew. Lord Mark's arrival threatens SAT everything and Merton and Kate aren't prepared for the SAT consequences. Will Milly change their lives irrevocably? SAT SAT Merton.....Blake Ritson SAT Milly.....Anna Maxwell Martin SAT Kate.....Lyndsey Marshal SAT Maud.....Clare Higgins SAT Susie.....Barbara Barnes SAT Lord Mark.....Toby Jones SAT Eugenio.....Sam Dale SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00tf112 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Electric Ride b00tfpmf (Listen) SAT The highlights of Peter Curran's epic 4,500 mile SAT battery-powered journey through Europe, investigating the SAT current state of electric car manufacturing and policy. SAT SAT He visits cities which are wiring up charging stations and SAT probing politicians about what they're doing to promote the SAT electric cause. SAT SAT Peter discovers that it's not always that easy to find a SAT place to plug in the car, and there's a nail-biting episode SAT in the Alps when he reaches the one hotel en route to the SAT top - which has closed. SAT SAT From Norway to the Coastal plains of Andalusia, it's a SAT journey of highs, lows and tense moments amidst the roaring SAT traffic on the German autobahns - which were not made for SAT small electric cars with a top speed of around 50 mph. SAT SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00td7f2 (Listen) SAT (3/12) Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for the third contest SAT in the 2010 series. The new Welsh partnership of David SAT Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander takes to the air for the first SAT time, facing Northern Ireland regulars Polly Devlin and SAT Brian Feeney. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry of the Forgotten People b00td4v8 (Listen) SAT Greta Scacchi pays a personal tribute to Aboriginal poet SAT Oodgeroo Noonuccal, formerly known as Kath Walker. SAT SAT A pioneer of Aboriginal poetry, she was the first Indigenous SAT Australian woman to have her work published, which was a SAT milestone in Australian history. SAT SAT She was also a trailblazing Aboriginal Rights campaigner and SAT environmental activist, who paved the way for contemporary SAT Aboriginal artists and political campaigners. SAT SAT In this programme Greta Scacchi, who spent much of her SAT childhood in Australia, shares how over the years, SAT Oodgeroo's poetry has grown with her and still even today SAT continues to surprise and excite her. SAT SAT Joining Greta are close friends and family of Oodgeroo, who SAT share their memories of this remarkable woman and the impact SAT she had not only on their lives but on millions of SAT Australians too. SAT SAT Throughout the programme we will hear Oodgeroo's poems read SAT by Aboriginal actress Roxanne McDonald. SAT SAT Produced by Charlotte Austin and Diana Bentley SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 AUGUST 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00tf1cq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00h31rl (Listen) SUN Murder She Thought - Series 2, Box SUN SUN A young assistant in a bookshop is having a problem with a SUN strange admirer. But is he really a stalker? SUN Then, he leaves a package for her in the shop... SUN SUN Joanne Whalley reads Zeba Kalim's tale. SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tf1cs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tf1cv (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tf1cx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00tf1cz (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00tf1d1 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Nicholas, Leeds, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00tf0yc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00tf1jq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00tf1js (Listen) SUN A Short Madness SUN SUN Fergal Keane reflects on the value of anger. Is it a force SUN for energy? The inspiration of great art and literature? Or SUN the cause of destructive behaviour? SUN SUN With readings from Liza Sadovy and Joseph Kloska. SUN SUN Producer: Ronnie Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00tf1jv (Listen) SUN Beavering SUN SUN 6/18. In this touching encounter, a young beaver swims SUN within touching distance of Lionel Kelleway and his host Sir SUN John Lister-Kaye. So what are they doing in a Scottish Loch? SUN Hunted for their fur and meat over 400 years ago, the beaver SUN was quickly made extinct. Now various pilot projects have SUN been set up to explore the possibility of a return of SUN beavers to Britain. Sir John Lister-Kaye brought beavers to SUN his Field Centre at Aigas from Bavaria four years ago. They SUN instantly settled into their new home by ignoring the lodge SUN thoughtfully provided and building their own. They haven't SUN looked back as shown by the kits they have had every year SUN ever since. In this delightful programme Lionel and John SUN spend an evening watching the beavers do what beavers do. SUN Including spotting of one of the new baby kits, emerging SUN from the lodge for the very first time. As if that isn't SUN exciting enough, one of last year's kits swims to within 5 SUN metres of the hide, oblivious to everything but the task in SUN hand: folding up dinner-sized plates of waterlillies and SUN shoving them into his jaws as quickly as possible - with the SUN odd flower on the side. Clearly moved by such a close SUN encounter, Lionel and John evoke the magic of the evening on SUN the loch with their animated and engaging musings on the SUN second largest rodent in the world. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Tania Dorrity. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00tf1jx (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00tf1jz (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00tf1k1 (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 Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00tf1k3 (Listen) SUN Brainstrust SUN SUN Julie Walters presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Brainstrust. SUN SUN Donations to Brainstrust should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Brainstrust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you SUN are a UK tax payer, please provide Brainstrust with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1114634. SUN SUN Julie Walters appeals on behalf of Brainstrust, a national SUN charity dedicated to improving clinical care for brain SUN tumour sufferers and providing co-ordinated support in their SUN search for the best treatment. The charity provides SUN practical and emotional support and advice at the point of SUN diagnosis and beyond, and they also fund research that sets SUN out to improve clinical outcomes for brain tumour patients. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00tf1k5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00tf1k7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00tf1k9 (Listen) SUN From St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, marking the 450th SUN anniversary of the Reformation. SUN SUN As the city celebrates the International Festival and SUN Fringe, our worship comes from this historic building on SUN Edinburgh's Royal Mile, surrounded by a host of festival SUN venues and street performers. The Minister of St Giles' SUN reflects on the changes brought about by the turbulent times SUN of the Reformation, and how best to make creative use of the SUN past. SUN SUN Led by the Assistant MInister, the Revd Helen Alexander; SUN Preacher: the Very Revd Gilleasbuig Macmillan. SUN SUN Introit: O come, let us sing unto the Lord (Noel de Jongh) SUN Hymns: The Lord of heaven confess (Darwall's 148th) SUN The Lord's my Shepherd (Stracathro) SUN Now Israel may say (Old 124th)] SUN Anthem: Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing (Leighton) SUN SUN Cathedral Choir directed by Michael Harris. Organist: Peter SUN Backhouse. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00tdxpt (Listen) SUN A weekly reflection on a topical issue. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00tf1kc (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00tf1kf (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Directed by ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Alice Aldridge ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00tf9bl (Listen) SUN The Dome SUN SUN Sue MacGregor gathers together the key people responsible SUN for building, co-ordinating and realising the creative SUN concepts that became The Millennium Dome at Greenwich. SUN SUN Following Labour's landslide election victory in May 1997, SUN the Prime Minister Tony Blair was determined to change the SUN way Britain saw itself and he seized upon the idea - mooted SUN under the outgoing Tory government - to have a major event SUN to celebrate the forthcoming new millennium. SUN SUN After much discussion and heated argument it was decided to SUN build a dome on the site of a disused gasworks on East SUN London's Greenwich peninsular. It would stage a grand SUN millennium extravaganza and house a year-long exhibition to SUN rival the 1951 Festival of Britain. SUN SUN It was a hugely controversial decision from the very start, SUN and became a project rife with argument, sackings and SUN constant flack from the press. SUN SUN The person who took the brunt of the criticism was Chief SUN Executive Jennie Page, who was eventually sacked - shortly SUN after the opening night. This is the first time she has SUN spoken publically about her personal millennium experience. SUN SUN Sue also hears some hitherto unreported and little known SUN stories of both the pain and the excitement of life under SUN the Dome. SUN SUN Producer: Dilly Barlow SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00td8kq (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 3 SUN SUN Radio 4's classic long running panel game. SUN SUN Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes control of a loquacious and SUN rebellious bunch of players whose task it is to speak on a SUN subject he gives them for one minute without hesitation, SUN repetition or deviation. SUN SUN This week Paul Merton, Ross Noble, Tony Hawks and Sheila SUN Hancock attempt to speak within the rules of the game. SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00tf9bn (Listen) SUN Jellies were once the extravagant food of kings. Henry VIII SUN showed off with them, the Victorians raised them to a SUN dazzling art form, a far cry from the lurid teatime horrors SUN served up at children's parties where jelly has since SUN languished. SUN SUN Simon Parkes celebrates our noble jelly-making past with SUN historian Ivan Day, and looks to those raising it back onto SUN its wobbling pedestal today: chef Heston Blumenthal, and SUN "jellymongers" Bompas & Parr. And we ask food writer Jill SUN Norman if jelly's savoury past could be set for a comeback. SUN Producer: Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00tf9bq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00tf9f9 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Brian Hanrahan. SUN SUN 13:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00strxn (Listen) SUN As a tribute to the historian Tony Judt, who died earlier SUN this month, this is another chance to hear his candid SUN interview with Peter White. SUN SUN Tony Judt was an acclaimed historian of post-war Europe. SUN Eighteen months before his death, Tony - an active, sporty SUN 60-plus - was diagnosed with a severe form of Motorneurone SUN Disease, leaving him able to do little more than think. SUN SUN Paralysed from the neck down, Tony needed 24 hour care and SUN relied on other people for all his physical needs. SUN His mind however, was always his own, and was SUN extraordinarily busy. SUN SUN In this programme, first broadcast in June, he describes the SUN experience of having the illness: "This disease is viciously SUN consuming. It's like a kind of octopus: it eats you bit by SUN bit. You can't fix it, you can't cure it, you can't stop it, SUN but you've got one thing over it, it doesn't hurt. So if SUN you're tough minded, you don't need medicine, you just need SUN a mind". SUN SUN Tony refused to be crushed by the disease and continued SUN writing up until his death earlier this month. SUN SUN Producer: Cheryl Gabriel. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tdx4v (Listen) SUN Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw are near SUN Kettering, answering questions posed by Barton Seagrave SUN Horticultural Society. The chairman is Eric Robson. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A Guide to Coastal Birds b00tf9np (Listen) SUN Rocky Shores SUN SUN 3/5. Brett Westwood is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen SUN Moss on the Devonshire coast. With the help of wildlife SUN sound recordist Chris Watson they offer a practical and SUN entertaining guide to birds that you're most likely to see SUN and hear on rocky shores around Britain's coastline; birds SUN like Rock Pipit, Turnstone, Herring Gull and Lesser SUN Black-backed Gull. SUN SUN This is the third of five programmes to help identify many SUN of the birds found around our British coastline in places SUN like sandy beaches, sea cliffs, off-shore islands, estuaries SUN and rocky shores. 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 b00tf9nr (Listen) SUN No Highway, Episode 1 SUN by Nevil Shute SUN SUN 1948. The future of Britain's transatlantic aviation SUN industry rests on the success of a new plane - the Rutland SUN Reindeer. One has crashed already and an eccentric SUN government scientist believes more will follow. The race is SUN on to prove his theory before Reindeers start to fell from SUN the sky. Dramatised by Mike Walker. SUN SUN Dennis Scott ..... William Beck SUN Shirley ..... Alison Pettitt SUN Honey ..... Paul Ritter SUN Marjorie Corder ..... Naomi Frederick SUN Monica Teesdale ..... Fenella Woolgar SUN Elspeth ..... Lauren Mote SUN The Director ..... Tony Bell SUN Ferguson ..... Jude Akuwudike SUN Samuelson ..... Sam Dale SUN Dobson ..... Michael Shelford SUN Miss Learoyd ..... Christine Kavanagh SUN SUN Directed by Toby Swift. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00tf9nt (Listen) SUN Dreda Say Mitchell talks to former bookseller Tim Waterstone SUN about his new novel. Writer Fay Weldon discusses how she has SUN used Maori myths in her new book. And crime writers NJ SUN Cooper and Tania Carver explain why they have been SUN encouraged to write under names which mask their real gender. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 The Bards of Somalia b00tf9nw (Listen) SUN What could Britain learn from Somalia - a country where SUN poetry is nothing less than the main means of cultural SUN communication? SUN SUN Portrayed abroad as a land beset by gunmen, pirates and SUN famine, it is also known by those who live there as a Nation SUN of Poets. Somalia had no written language until 1972 and SUN poetry has always been the country's core form of mass SUN communication - whether the spoken word or, more recently, SUN via cassettes and radios. SUN SUN Verse has, in many areas, taken the place of history books, SUN newspapers and television as the main means of spreading SUN news and comment. Poets who have real skill - the true bards SUN - have the power to shape current events and receive both SUN social and political privileges. SUN SUN Can we integrate any of these elements into British poetry? SUN Instead of one Laureate, should we have hundreds of bards SUN reflecting the diversity of our nation - people we can turn SUN to for everything from the poetic equivalent of a Times SUN leader to the latest gossip around the parish pump? Can SUN poetry be integrated into our daily lives as successfully as SUN in Somalia? SUN SUN In discussion with presenter Rageh Omaar, poets from the SUN Somali community in Britain and expert translators wonder if SUN - through the medium of everything from the spoken word to SUN text messaging - Somalia's bards might provide the germ of a SUN new form of information sharing in Britain. SUN SUN Producer: Neil Cargill SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Why Russia Spies b00tdm57 (Listen) SUN The Cold War is over. But some habits die hard. Since 2007 SUN Russian nuclear bombers have been flying provocatively close SUN to UK airspace, triggering interception by RAF fighters. The SUN Royal Navy has encountered Russian 'hunter-killer' SUN submarines. And as the recent discovery of a spy ring in the SUN United States revealed, Russian agents remain active against SUN the West. With remarkable access to Britain's military and SUN intelligence worlds, Peter Hennessy examines the scale of SUN Russian activity - and what it tells us about the SUN Russia-NATO relationship. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00tf0yc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00tf9ny (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00tf9p0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tf9p2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00tf9p4 (Listen) SUN Tom Robinson makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN The Richard Burton Legacy - R2 SUN He Played It Left Hand - R3 SUN Ziggy Stardust Came From Isleworth - R4 SUN Afternoon Play: Unauthorised History: the Killing - R4 SUN Grand Guignol - R4 SUN Composer of the Week: SS Wesley - R3 SUN Alvin Hall's Generations - R4 SUN Continuity - R4 SUN The World Tonight - R4 SUN Bobby Friction - Asian Network SUN Empire State of Mind - R1 SUN Book of the Week: Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation SUN - R4 SUN Poetry of the Forgotten People - R4 SUN Talking to the Enemy - R4 SUN Today - R4 SUN Saturday Live - R4 SUN Ken Bruce - R2 SUN Tom Ravenscroft - 6Music SUN The Wireless World of Gerry Wells - World Service 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 b00tf9q4 (Listen) SUN The honeymooners return, and Ed and Emma have a secret. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00tf9q6 (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 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00g4793 (Listen) SUN Big Charlie, Episode 4 SUN SUN The true story of the transportation of an elephant between SUN two Butlins camps in the 1950s. SUN SUN Billy Butlin wants Charlie photographed for publicity SUN purposes en route, but Elephant Bill has other ideas. SUN SUN Written by JH Williams. Abridged and read by Tony Lidington. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00tdx4s (Listen) SUN The current series of Feedback is coming to an end, as is SUN Mark Damazer's time as the controller of Radio 4. He joins SUN Roger Bolton this week to talk about the programmes he is SUN particularly proud to have had on Radio 4 under his watch. SUN SUN Also on Feedback, does the new form of coalition politics SUN require a new kind of political coverage? Many listeners SUN think so, Roger Bolton puts their points to the BBC's chief SUN advisor of politics. SUN SUN Producer: Brian McCluskey SUN A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00tdx4x (Listen) SUN Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on SUN the lives of people who have recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00tdpzb (Listen) SUN Fatal Inaction SUN SUN A convicted murderer, threats to kill and numerous reports SUN of stalking and harrassment. They're all factors the police SUN need to take into account when a victim of domestic abuse SUN calls for help. Too often, though, police are failing to SUN spot the warning signs until it's too late. This, despite SUN repeated concerns voiced by its own watchdog, the SUN Independent Police Complaints Commission and detailed SUN guidelines and procedures on how officers should investigate SUN domestic abuse. Every week, two women in the UK are killed SUN by a violent partner or ex-partner. So it's crucial police SUN can identify who is most at risk of harm and respond SUN appropriately. John Waite investigates the cases where SUN police officers breached their own guidelines and failed SUN those whom they needed to protect. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00tf1k3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00tdr1x (Listen) SUN Are CEOs up to the job? SUN SUN In the wake of the very personal attacks on outgoing BP SUN boss, Tony Hayward, the programme asks: are chief executives SUN really up to the job in our top companies? Peter Day shines SUN the spotlight on these much praised and vilified high SUN profile leaders. SUN Producer: Lesley McAlpine. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00tf9ts (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00tf9tv (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00tf9tx (Listen) SUN Episode 15 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 Sarah Sands of The SUN Evening Standard takes the chair and the editor is Catherine SUN Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00tdx4z (Listen) SUN Sylvester Stallone talks to Matthew Sweet about his latest SUN action movie The Expendables and why he used to go to school SUN dressed as a super-hero SUN SUN Shaun of The Dead director Edgar Wright reveals the SUN influence of video games on his latest comedy, Scott Pilgrim SUN Vs The World SUN SUN Sherlock co-creator and League Of Gentlemen member Mark SUN Gatiss celebrates the work of Sheila Keith, who made history SUN as British cinema's first cannibal pensioner SUN SUN Neil Brand traces the DNA of horror movie Piranha 3D to a SUN Dracula rip-off made in 1922 SUN SUN Joy Cuff discusses what it was like being the only woman SUN working on the models for 2001: A Space Odyssey. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00tf1js (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 AUGUST 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00tfb5q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00tdn2h (Listen) MON Disenchantment MON MON The sociologist Max Weber saw the Enlightenment as the MON period when science started to take over from religion as MON the way of comprehending human existence, and became the MON defining character of modernity. The process of casting MON magic and superstition aside in favour of rationality he MON defined as 'disenchantment': no longer was the world a place MON of supernatural signs and natural magic. In the second of a MON special series of programmes looking at some of the key MON concepts in social science, Laurie Taylor explores the idea MON of disenchantment with three experts. David Voas, Sam MON Whimster and Linda Woodhead, discuss how the idea has been MON applied to understanding the development of secular MON societies and whether we are now entering a phase of MON re-enchantment. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON David Voas MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00tf1d1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tfbgw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tfblg (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tfbk1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00tfblv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tfbvt (Listen) MON with Canon Martyn Percy, Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00tfcsf (Listen) MON Presented by Cath Mackie and produced by Fran Barnes. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00tft6y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00tfd17 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00tfv5f (Listen) MON Series 4, Emma Harrison MON MON Entrepreneur and one of the country's wealthiest MON businesswomen, Emma Harrison, was born in Sheffield in 1964. MON Her parents embraced the sixties with gusto. She was brought MON up mainly by her father in a creative and chaotic house as MON her mother spent extended periods away from home seeking MON adventure. Emma took on the running of the household from MON the age of 10 - helpful, she admits, when setting up in MON business later but a lonely enterprise for a child MON nonetheless. She attended the local comprehensive where she MON was a regular truant but ran the tuck shop at a profit. On a MON school visit to Thornbridge Hall in Derbyshire she vowed to MON buy the stately home one day. Five years ago she did just MON that. MON Producer: Rosamund Jones. MON MON 09:30 GPs Who Need GPS b00tmj2h (Listen) MON Doc of the Antarctic MON MON GP Phil Hammond compares his commute to that of Claire MON Lehman, who travelled to work via Madrid, Santiago and the MON Falkland Islands before flying into Rothera in the Antarctic. MON MON As she watches for killer whales, carries out postmistress MON duties, cooks for her colleagues and prepares for potential MON Antarctic casualities, the differences between this remote MON job and the life of a typical GP like Phil is brought MON sharply into focus. MON MON Produced by Lucy Adam. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00tff34 (Listen) MON A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 1 MON MON Elena Gorokhova wishes her mother had come from Leningrad, MON the world of Pushkin and the tsars, lace ironwork and pearly MON domes. Its sophistication might have left a permanent mark MON of refinement on her soul. MON But she didn't. MON She came from the provincial town of Ivanovo in central MON Russia, where chickens lived in the kitchen and a pig MON squatted under the stairs. MON She came from where they lick plates. MON MON Read by Sian Thomas MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tffq9 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Raunch culture: Is there too much MON sex in pop music? Mike Stock, of 80s pop production outfit MON Stock, Aitken & Waterman, claims pop music has become so MON sexualized that mothers don't want to let young children MON watch it any more. Karate Kid is currently on at cinemas MON across the country, re-telling the tale of a 12-year-old MON American boy who masters the art of Karate under the strict MON supervision of a Master in Beijing. What role can the MON discipline and rigour often found in sport and music offer MON children and what lessons can it teach us for later life? MON The Fawcett Society has filed papers with the High Court MON seeking a Judicial Review of the Government's emergency MON budget. The women's rights group believes that the Coalition MON Government should have assessed whether its budget proposals MON would increase or reduce inequality between the genders. MON And, we hear a report about one woman's return to MON Afghanistan. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfq9v (Listen) MON Soloparentpals.com, A Clean Slate MON by Sue Teddern. MON Episode 1. A Clean Slate. MON MON After a year cyberpals Rosie and Tom still haven't met in MON the flesh. Rosie discovers that she quite likes her ex's new MON girlfriend and that Tom has a new love interest. MON MON Rosie - Maxine Peake MON Tom - Kris Marshall MON Tash - Karina Jones MON Calum - Thomas Rolinson MON Gill - Christine Kavanagh MON Barb - Alison Pettitt MON Bazz - Sam Dale MON Scott - David Seddon MON MON Director: David Hunter MON MON 11:00 British Muslims, Father and Son b00tg1c1 (Listen) MON Moazzam Begg spent three years as a prisoner in Bagram and MON Guatanamo Bay before being released without charge. MON Throughout that that time his father fought for his son's MON release. Since his release Moazzam Begg has remained in the MON headlines. He is a controversial figure - for some he is an MON innocent victim, while others have hard questions about his MON beliefs and actions. Steve Evans tells an extraordinary MON story of a father and son and their very different MON experiences of being a British Muslim. From the generations MON of Begg family military history, to Moazzam almost joining MON the British army, to his support for Muslim causes around MON the world - there are many contradictions and paradoxes in MON the Begg family story. The exceptional bond between father MON and son, though, is clear throughout. MON MON 11:30 HR b00tg1c3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Gassing MON MON EPISODE 1 - GASSING MON Sam is battling retirement blues with a part-time job MON working for the Saviours, manning telephone lines to help MON those in distress. And today's first client is of course MON Peter, in distress about their faulty boiler. MON MON Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce MON Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost MON George ..... Sam Dale MON Voice ..... Alison Pettitt MON MON Director: Peter Kavanagh MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00tfqzs (Listen) MON Julian Worricker discusses what can be done to help rural MON communities survive the recession. The Chairman of The Rural MON Coalition Lord Taylor, says action needs to be taken to MON prevent rural villages becoming "part dormitory, part theme MON park and part retirement home". MON MON Also - why small businesses are struggling to access the MON loans they need. MON MON And we hear what life is like aboard the only residential MON cruise ship in the world - where residents get to decide MON where the ship goes next. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00tfr30 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00tfrbh (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00tg1c5 (Listen) MON (4/12) The fourth contest in the 2010 series of the cryptic MON panel quiz pits the South of England (Fred Housego and MON Marcel Berlins) against the North of England (Michael MON Schmidt and Adele Geras). Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, and MON Tom will also have the answer to last week's cliffhanger MON puzzle. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00tf9q4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tg1c7 (Listen) MON Miss Balcombe's Orchard MON MON A drama-documentary by Jonathan Davidson set and recorded in MON an apple orchard. Miss Balcombe is getting on but she is MON determined to keep her apple trees. Her workers don't much MON care but there is a trespasser among her russets. MON MON With Susan Engel as Miss Balcombe, Richard Bremmer as Claud, MON Sonia Ritter as Barbara, and Hayley Doherty as Sophie; and MON featuring Barrie Juniper, author of The Story of the Apple. MON Recorded on location in Oxfordshire. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00thcn8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 A Load of Rubbish b00fkqm2 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Out of sight, out of mind - that's been our attitude to the MON rubbish we produce. But increasingly our noses are being MON rubbed in our waste. Travel writer Ian Marchant investigates MON the flip side of consumerism, starting in the London Borough MON of Brent, which is threatening to fine residents who fail to MON recycle their rubbish £1000. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00tf9bn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00tg1c9 (Listen) MON Faith and disability MON MON In Beyond Belief Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place MON of faith in our complex world. MON MON Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss how their own MON religious tradition affects their values and outlook on the MON world, often revealing hidden and contradictory truths. MON MON In this programme Ernie is joined by a Christian, a Druid MON and a Hindu who discuss the understanding of disability from MON their faith perspective. They address how disability is MON viewed within their community, the value of a disabled life MON lived, the quality of that life and how discrimination MON against people with disability begins even before birth. MON MON Ernie and his guests hear from a deaf couple who wanted the MON right to keep an embryo with genes for deafness, should they MON undergo IVF treatment. Their wishes caused outrage and was MON frequently misunderstood. How could parents wish for a MON child with a disability; how could this possibly be wanting MON the best for their child? MON MON Ernie's panel comprises Emma Restall Orr who is a Druid and MON a wheel chair user; Jonathan Bartley, co-director of the MON Christian Think Tank, Ekklesia, and father of Samuel who has MON spina bifida; and Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford MON Centre for Hindu Studies. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00tfsc2 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tfsj3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00tg1xz (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 4 MON MON This week, the popular panel game comes from the Edinburgh MON Fringe Festival, with comedians Paul Merton, Shappi MON Khorsandi, John Bishop and Gyles Brandreth. Nicholas Parsons MON hosts as panellists attempt to speak for a minute without MON repetition, hesitation or deviation. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00tfrz3 (Listen) MON Susan's determined to impress and Jennifer needs some MON answers. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00tfsjw (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film The Girl MON Who Played With Fire, an adaptation of the second novel in MON Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium Trilogy. MON MON Producer: Timothy Prosser. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfq9v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b00tg1y1 (Listen) MON On August 16th 1951 a number of people in the quiet southern MON French town of Pont St.Esprit began to fall ill. Stomach MON pains were soon followed by violent and often terrifying MON hallucinations. Local hospitals were soon overwhelmed and MON more than thirty people were taken to asylums in nearby MON towns. It was soon decided that the cause was bread MON poisoning and the evidence pointed to just one Bakery. The MON reason, it was believed was 'ergot', a fungal infection MON found in Rye bread which had often caused mass poisonings in MON Medieval times. MON MON But documents obtained by the American writer Hank Albarelli MON suggest that rather than simple 'ergot' there was a strong MON possibility that the symptoms and the nature of the outbreak MON were not a tragic accident. In his research in to the MON mysterious death of the CIA biochemist Frank Olson and his MON post-war work on LSD and its uses as a biochemical weapon he MON got hold of papers implying Olson's connection with the Pont MON St Esprit outbreak. MON MON Mike follows up the claims talking to experts in LSD and its MON impact, historians of the cold-war search for the perfect MON biochemical weapon and agricultural scientists specialising MON in ergot poisoning. He also visits the town of Pont St MON Esprit and talks to one survivor, the local postman Leon MON Armundier, about the events of 1951. Leon describes of the MON horrors he faced as a young man, being forced into a MON straight-jacket for a week as burning sensations and images MON of snakes raged around him. MON Many in the town are uneasy at re-opening the old story MON about Le Pain Maudit - the evil bread - preferring the MON establishment 'truth' that it was just a tragic accident. MON But there are some who believe a proper examination of the MON facts still hasn't taken place. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00tdptg (Listen) MON Medjugorje MON MON In Medjugorje the age of miracles isn't over: it is alive MON and well and is big business. The Catholic boom town in the MON Bosnian hills now rivals the better known Fatima or Lourdes. MON There were eight appearances of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes, MON yet since 1981 there have been 33,000 at Medjugorje, where MON she appears practically every day. The Vatican is currently MON investigating the validity of the claims. MON MON Meanwhile the pilgrims keep rolling in and spending their MON money. The town is also a hotbed of Croat MON ultra-nationalists, who some say are using the religious MON fervour to boost their own political influence in the MON region. Allan Little investigates the political MON sensitivities around Medjugorje. MON MON Producer: Paul Vickers. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00tdr1s (Listen) MON Gareth Mitchell presents this week's digest of science in MON and behind the headlines. In this edition; DIY on the MON International Space Station, will astronauts have to be MON doing more of this work in the future? It's getting 'Hot in MON the City' - the latest predictions suggest our cities could MON be 10 degrees warmer than the countryside by the end of the MON century, Gareth explores the possible solutions. Can you MON prove anything with science? Gareth talks to scientists MON about why we ignore any science we don't agree with and fail MON to act on anything we do believe in; and monitoring the wolf MON population in Germany. MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00tfv5f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00tfsv4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00tfsxh (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 b00th7zk (Listen) MON And the Land Lay Still, Episode 1 MON MON Excerpts from James Robertson's monumental new novel which MON portrays the last six decades of Scotland's social and MON political landscape through the lives of a handful of characters. MON MON Read by Liam Brennan. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00tdm53 (Listen) MON Body Language MON MON How important is body language in the way we communicate? MON Are some people much better at it than others? Can good body MON language be taught? Chris Ledgard investigates. MON Chris visits Dr Harry Witchel for some body language MON training, looks into some body language myths, and talks to MON impressionist Kate Robbins about the way she uses her face MON and gestures when mimicking people. MON Produced by Beatrice Fenton. MON MON 23:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mgz1p (Listen) MON Cadmus Wilcox MON MON A pupil with American diplomat parents is denied access to MON the senior cadets shooting team by the Colonel because he's MON not a British citizen - even though he is the only hope the MON school have of winning the prestigious inter-school's MON shooting cup. MON MON But when he visits Haunchurst as an adult with an Olympic MON medal for shooting with his US team, the Colonel is totally MON unimpressed. Why? MON MON Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid MON Colonel Bradshaw ..... Richard Johnson MON A.R.F. Somerset-Stephenson ..... Mike Sarne MON Young Cadmus Wilcox ..... Tom Kane MON Adult Cadmus Wilcox ..... Dominic Hawksley MON Wentworth ..... Louis Williams MON MON Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. MON Producer: Nick Romero MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 AUGUST 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00tfb5g (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00tff34 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tfbfm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tfbk3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tfbgy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00tfblj (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tfbvk (Listen) TUE with Canon Martyn Percy, Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00tfcsh (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00tfcy6 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of ... b00tg23z (Listen) TUE Series 3, Marylebone Cricket Club TUE TUE The celebrated historian George Trevelyan once wrote that if TUE the French nobility had only played cricket with their TUE servants they wouldn't have had their chateaux burnt. TUE Today, with the revolution taking place within the game TUE itself, Quentin Letts casts a quizzical eye over Marylebone TUE cricket club, the English institution responsible for TUE maintaining its laws and upholding its spirit. TUE TUE It's not easy for MCC to shake off the weight of history. It TUE resisted the demands of sexual equality almost into the TUE present century, and it is still berated for its TUE exclusiveness. The programme hears from Rachael TUE Heyhoe-Flint who captained the first English women's team TUE allowed onto the Lord's pitch, and to another former TUE Captain, Mike Gatting, who berates MCC members for a display TUE of very ungentlemanly manners to fellow cricketer, Ian TUE Botham. TUE TUE The powerhouse of cricket is now in India, the governing TUE body is in Dubai and the focus of the game is shifting from TUE test match to twenty-twenty TUE But this private members club, the owner of the most famous TUE sports ground in the world , still seeks a place at the TUE table. Quentin talks to MCC chief executive Keith Bradshaw TUE about what it's doing there - resisting the economic and TUE global forces of modernity or leading the charge of change? TUE TUE 09:30 How The Mighty Have Fallen b00tg273 (Listen) TUE Depictions of Obesity TUE TUE "Let me have men about me that are fat" - Shakespeare's TUE Julius Caesar. TUE TUE Continuing his series on the history of obesity, Dr Hilary TUE Jones investigates how corpulence has been portrayed over TUE the millennia in art, music and books. TUE TUE Obese stereotypes often reveal social attitudes of the day. TUE In literature, they range from Shakespeare's Falstaff and TUE Dickens' 'Fat Boy', Joe, to the most famous fat character of TUE all: Billy Bunter, from the immensely prolific pen of Frank TUE Richards. TUE TUE In art, some of the earliest sculptures in existence are TUE small prehistoric statuettes of naked obese 'Venuses'. TUE Cartoons of corpulence were used for satirical effect in the TUE prints of Hogarth and Gillray - and for bawdy humour in TUE seaside postcards. TUE TUE Music includes vintage recordings of the 'Too Fat Polka' and TUE 'Nobody Loves A Fat Man'. TUE TUE There are readings, archive clips, and a visit to Tate TUE Britain's Rude Britannia exhibition. Contributors include Dr TUE Fiona Haslam, a writer on Hogarth, Prof Stephan Rossner of TUE the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and Bunter expert Dr TUE Peter McCall. 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 b00tffmq (Listen) TUE A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 2 TUE TUE From the moment she goes to nursery school in the Soviet TUE Union of the 1960s, Elena Gorokhova begins to rebel against TUE being part of the collective and is threatened by the TUE redoubtable Aunt Polya, with a dvoika, in behaviour. TUE TUE And as she progresses to proper school she knows that TUE membership of the Young Pioneers and later the Komsomol TUE awaits her as it awaits all her fellow students. TUE TUE Read by Sian Thomas TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tffpw (Listen) TUE Women at the top - is it really a choice between kids and TUE career? Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqvg (Listen) TUE Soloparentpals.com, Dating For Beginners TUE by Sue Teddern. TUE Episode 2. Dating For Beginners. TUE TUE After a year cyberpals Rosie and Tom still haven't met in TUE the flesh. Tom's revelation that he is "seeing" Siobhan TUE spurs Rosie into the dating game. TUE TUE Rosie - Maxine Peake TUE Tom - Kris Marshall TUE Tash - Karina Jones TUE Calum - Thomas Rolinson TUE Gill - Christine Kavanagh TUE Barb - Alison Pettitt TUE Bazz - Sam Dale TUE Scott - David Seddon TUE TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE 11:00 In Living Memory b00tg2lw (Listen) TUE Series 12, The Humber Bridge TUE TUE Why was the Humber Bridge built? The first major proposal TUE for a crossing was made in 1872, but a hundred and nine TUE years were to pass before the Queen opened the bridge across TUE the River Humber in July 1981. The aim was to link two TUE remote areas of England, unite the new political entity - TUE Humberside, and attract investment on both banks of the river. TUE TUE The bridge has been widely acclaimed as an architectural TUE achievement. But it cost far more to build than originally TUE envisaged, and traffic forecasts were optimistic. Just over TUE a decade after the opening, its debts had reached £431 TUE million pounds. And as Parliament debated how the money TUE could be paid back, MPs focused on a promise made by the TUE then Minister of Transport, Barbara Castle, on a January TUE night in 1966. Was this really, as one Conservative member TUE claimed, "a serious scandal...a bribe by the Labour party TUE for the Hull North by-election"? TUE TUE Harold Wilson came to office in 1964 with a majority of just TUE five. A by-election took that down to three. Then the TUE Labour member for Hull North died in late 1965. His TUE majority had been slight, and the by-election arranged for TUE January 25th 1966 was seen as the key to the future of the TUE Wilson government. The leading figures from both major TUE parties headed from London to Hull to speak to packed TUE hustings. The Labour candidate, Kevin McNamara, was TUE favourite. But opinion polls right up to the last minute TUE suggested Toby Jessel for the Conservatives was still in the TUE race. A week before the election, Barbara Castle made her TUE famous speech and ended nearly a century of debate by TUE promising the people of Hull their bridge. TUE TUE In this edition of In Living Memory, we hear from the key TUE figures in that election. Kevin McNamara and Toby Jessel TUE discuss why the promise was made and whether it really had TUE any political effect. A Labour party official at the centre TUE of the discussions with Mrs Castle gives an insider's TUE version of events. The fringe but feared candidate, the TUE Guardian journalist Richard Gott, gives his perspective. TUE And Sir Christopher Foster, who in January 1966 had just TUE joined the Ministry of Transport as special advisor and TUE chief economist, describes the ridicule he faced for TUE allowing his minister to make a promise which, he says, made TUE no economic sense. "It was with the greatest of TUE embarassment" he remembers "that we learned the Humber TUE Bridge was to be built...it was perfectly obvious that the TUE Humber Bridge was not needed and would cost a great deal of TUE money". The promise, he says, was made to win a by-election. TUE TUE 11:30 Ford Madox Ford and France b00tg2ly (Listen) TUE Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee on Ford Madox Ford TUE TUE The advice Julian Barnes offers young writers is "study The TUE Good Soldier as an example of perfect and completely TUE original narration and at the same time study his life as an TUE example of negative career management." TUE TUE Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee tell the story of Ford Madox TUE Ford - author of The Good Soldier and editor of a Paris TUE based magazine which published James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway TUE and Jean Rhys. In fact Ezra Pound complained that Ford "kept TUE on discovering merit with monotonous regularity" although TUE his lack of financial acumen meant the magazine only lasted TUE a year. TUE TUE Hermione and Julian visit the site of the Transatlantic TUE Review offices where Ford's assistant (and work-horse) the TUE Northumberland poet Basil Bunting "bunked down in a squalid TUE little scullery." The cafes of Paris provided the venue for TUE a weekly soiree, organised by Ford and his then companion TUE Stella Bowen, which offered guests red wine, hot dogs and TUE dancing. And in the Luxembourg Gardens we hear a discussion TUE of the tangled love life of Ford Madox Ford, his elopement TUE with Elsie Martindale, a stint in Brixton prison and the TUE women who followed Elsie: Violet Hunt "who took arsenic to TUE keep herself looking younger" and the Australian painter TUE Stella Bowen who described Ford as "the wise man I crossed TUE the world to see". TUE TUE Rebecca West described being embraced by Ford as like "being TUE the toast under the poached egg." Others called him "a TUE beached whale" or a "behemoth in grey tweed." He had a pink TUE face, very blue eyes, very blond hair, and was rather TUE chinless with a little moustache and a drawly voice. Henry TUE James is said to have used Ford for the model of the TUE character Morton Densher in Wings of the Dove. TUE TUE In his novel The Good Soldier he creates one of the best TUE examples in literature of the unreliable narrator and his TUE embroidered accounts of his own life provide a test for TUE biographers. Hermione and Julian swap examples of their TUE favourite "whoppers" which include the church service he TUE couldn't possibly have attended with DH Lawrence; the claim TUE that he helped Marconi transmit the first wireless message TUE across the Atlantic; that the chef Escoffier had said to him TUE "I could learn cooking from you" and that he attended the TUE second trial of Dreyfus. TUE TUE Producer: Robyn Read. TUE Reader: Kerry Shale. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00tfqvj (Listen) TUE Call You & Yours: Are graduates doing enough to find work? TUE There are more people than ever before leaving University, TUE yet fewer jobs are available. What is it like having spent TUE three years gaining qualifications to 'get on', only to find TUE yourself back where you started, except with a huge debt? TUE Will the labour market pick up and what can those leaving TUE college do to increase their chances of gaining employment? TUE If you're an employer, have you cut back on the number of TUE graduates you are employing or are you waiting for the right TUE people to come knocking at your door? If you are a parent, TUE how worried are you for your child's future? TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00tfqzv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00tfr32 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Star Spangled Hendrix b00tg2m0 (Listen) TUE When Jimi Hendrix returned to his native America as a star, TUE the country he knew had changed. This programme, presented TUE by Tom Robinson to tie in with the 40th anniversary of the TUE guitarist's death, explores the pressure Jimi was under to TUE make an explicit political declaration. TUE TUE Tom explores Hendrix's 14 months in the Screaming Eagles 101 TUE Airborne Division that saw him parachute a total of 26 times TUE before he was invalided out with a broken ankle. Brother TUE Leon Hendrix discusses his elder bother's time in the TUE military, along with comments from author Charles Sharr Murray. TUE TUE Singer and friend Eric Burdon explains how, after the riots TUE in Grovesnor Square, Jimi trotted out the American TUE government's party line on Vietnam - the so-called "Domino Theory". TUE TUE The Soft Machine supported Hendrix as they traveled across TUE America and drummer Robert Wyatt recalls how Jimi responded TUE to media questions about the war, and the emergence of the TUE Black Power movement. Hendrix was receptive to the Black TUE Panther Party and found the Seattle Chapter of the TUE organization run by two former high school friends. Both TUE Panthers, Aaron and Elmer Dixon talk about how receptive TUE Hendrix was to the cause. TUE TUE The programme culminates with Jimi's Woodstock Festival TUE performance of 'The Star Spangled Banner', an eloquent (and TUE wordless) statement against the Vietnam war. In retrospect, TUE it can also be read as a swan song for the era of peace and TUE love and for Hendrix himself, who died in his sleep the TUE following year. Jimi Hendrix is more than a blues guitarist TUE who got lucky in the 60s. He did the best he could to be his TUE own man without openly taking sides, and we are still trying TUE to get to know him 40 years after his death. TUE TUE Producer: John Sugar TUE A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00tfrz3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tg2m2 (Listen) TUE The Rain Maker TUE By Matthew Broughton TUE TUE When a father takes his son on a trip to a cabin in the TUE woods, he has no idea what terrible horror is to come. A TUE sinister story about the demons that lurk in the dark forest TUE of the mind. TUE TUE Father ..... Kenneth Cranham TUE Son ..... Joe Dempsie TUE TUE Directed by James Robinson. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00tg2m4 (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 b00tg2nr (Listen) TUE Comic Fringes, The Woman Who Sniffed TUE TUE Take front row seats for a new series of short stories TUE written and read by comedians and recorded last week in TUE front of an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. TUE TUE Susan Calman gets the series underway with a wry look at TUE office politics in "The Woman Who Sniffed". TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:45 A Load of Rubbish b00fkqpg (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Ian Marchant continues his investigation of our rubbish with TUE a visit to Britain's first plastic bottle recycling factory TUE capable of turning drinks bottles back into food grade TUE plastic. Meet the machines that can tell the difference TUE between a shampoo bottle and a milk bottle. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00tg2sp (Listen) TUE With just two years remaining until London's Olympic Games TUE start, the search for volunteers with language skills has TUE begun. Presenter Chris Ledgard travels to St Pancras station TUE to meet Seb Coe, Boris Johnson and LOCOG chief executive TUE Paul Deighton to hear about the two schemes - Games Makers TUE and Ambassadors for London. "You don't need a degree in TUE Mandarin" says Boris Johnson, but what language skills are TUE required ? Chris also talks to gold medal winner Sally TUE Gunnell about the need for translators in previous games, TUE and also to Professor Joe Lo Bianco in Australia. Joe was TUE heavily involved in the planning for the Sydney Olympics, TUE which set a benchmark in getting language requirements TUE correct. Does Joe think the London organisers have left TUE enough time to get everything in place ? TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00tgcss (Listen) TUE Series 22, Mary Carpenter TUE TUE Matthew Parris is joined by the founder of Kids' Company, TUE the psychotherapist Camila Batmanghelidjh, to discuss the TUE life of her Victorian equivalent, Mary Carpenter. TUE TUE Mary Carpenter developed theories for helping deprived and TUE criminalised children through the experience of running TUE schools and reformatories in Bristol in the mid-nineteenth TUE century. She became very influential as MPs turned to her TUE for advice on educational and penal reform regarding TUE children. Her guiding principle was that the treatment of TUE troubled children should be based on the love of the child, TUE not on ideas of punishment or retribution. TUE TUE Camila Batmanghelidjh founded Kids' Company to offer TUE practical support 'and love' to vulnerable inner city TUE children who may lack it from their families. She was TUE surprised to discover how closely Mary Carpenter's beliefs TUE mirror her own, one hundred and fifty years on, and how many TUE of the problems Mary Carpenter described remain unchanged. TUE Camila finds Dickensian conditions in the homes of South TUE London children now, with filthy conditions, parents who are TUE intoxicated and drugs being used to control or pacify TUE children. These scenes would have been familiar to Mary TUE Carpenter as she visited families in the slums of Bristol. TUE TUE The parallels between the two women are striking: both TUE exhibited a gift for dealing with children at an early age; TUE both decided to devote their lives to the cause, eschewing a TUE family life of their own; both have had to spend time TUE raising money and advocating on behalf of the children they TUE represent. TUE TUE Matthew and Camila are joined by biographer and historian TUE Carla Contractor in this fascinating and moving programme. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00tfrz5 (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 b00tfsfx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00lyvz7 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Kuala Lumpur TUE TUE A week on stand-by at the airfield gives Arthur an TUE opportunity to brush up on his stewarding skills, while TUE Douglas seems to have disappeared. And why is everyone TUE terrified of Dirk the groundsman? 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 Dave ..... Paul Putner TUE George ..... Roger Morlidge 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 b00tfrbk (Listen) TUE Bert presents Nigel with a growing problem and Susan gets TUE plenty of culinary advice. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00tfsj5 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqvg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Trouble in Euroland b00tgcsv (Listen) TUE The Euro is in deep trouble. TUE TUE As the project intended to unify the European Union causes TUE even deeper divisions, questions are being raised about TUE whether nations as diverse as Germany and Greece can really TUE share the same currency. TUE TUE The repercussions spread far beyond mainland Europe. Britain TUE is affected as British firms struggle to sell to the TUE Eurozone. TUE TUE Jonathan Charles was the BBC's Europe correspondent in the TUE 1990s, when the euro was first introduced to great fanfare. TUE He travelled widely around the continent, reporting on the TUE years of preparations leading to the final launch of the euro. TUE TUE Now he retraces his steps, returning to some of those places TUE and speaking to the likes of former Chancellor of the TUE Exchequer Norman Lamont, the UK's treasury minister and TUE ambassador at the time, and prominent European figures TUE including the former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok and some TUE top European bankers. Jonathan also talks to ordinary TUE workers whose livelihood has been fundamentally changed by TUE the advent of euro zone. TUE TUE Having taken Europe's temperature, Jonathan asks if the Euro TUE will survive, and what does it mean for Europe's dream of TUE political integration? TUE TUE Producer: Kati Whitaker TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00tgcsx (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00tgcsz (Listen) TUE Attacks of vertigo and dizziness afflict hundreds of TUE thousands of people every year in the UK. One in three of TUE us under 65 years old will have experienced a balance TUE disorder. For some, problems with their sense of balance TUE are so severe that a trip outside the house becomes a TUE disorientating nightmare. Many become reclusive and depressed. TUE TUE In this edition of Case Notes, Dr Mark Porter talks to TUE patients, doctors and other clinical specialists about the TUE various conditions which cause vertigo and disabling TUE dizziness. Mark visits the one-stop Balance Clinic at TUE Guy's Hospital in London where patients are assessed and TUE treated for a range of balance disorders. TUE TUE These include the commonest varieties such as labyrinthitis TUE and vertiginous migraine (also known as 'Supermarket TUE Syndrome because the visual patterns of the packet-lined TUE surroundings trigger attacks of disorientation). TUE Fortunately many patients can be helped with sessions of TUE special physiotherapy exercises rather than drugs and TUE surgery. Mark joins a session in the clinic's gym to hear TUE how these cheap and simple therapies work. TUE TUE There are also rare, stranger balance upsets such as TUE Tullois' Syndrome in which one allied symptom is that TUE patients can also hear the sound of their eyeballs moving. TUE Another is Mal De Debarquement Syndrome in which sufferers TUE experience years of a constant rocking sensation following a TUE single trip on a boat. TUE TUE Mark also hears about the kinds of surgery possible for TUE those patients stricken with vertigo that cannot be treated TUE with less radical interventions. At the hi-tech end, Daniel TUE Merfeld of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Hospital in the USA TUE talks about the inner ear implant he is developing. This TUE device is designed to be a balance-correcting equivalent of TUE a cochlear implant. TUE TUE Producer: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of ... b00tg23z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00tfsqc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00tfsv6 (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 b00tk8zy (Listen) TUE And the Land Lay Still, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written and abridged by James Robertson. TUE Read by Liam Brennan. TUE TUE Excerpts from James Robertson's monumental new novel which TUE portrays the last six decades of Scotland's social and TUE political landscape through the lives of a handful of characters. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 23:00 Curiosity Killed The Cabaret b00tgct1 (Listen) TUE Some of the most interesting acts appearing at this year's TUE Edinburgh Fringe will be from the cabaret world. Established TUE cabaret singer Ali McGregor hosts a half hour show featuring TUE the best acts appearing at this year's Fringe. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Tickets Please b00p1nm5 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE By Mark Maier TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Love among the train-staff on the 9.27 London to Exeter TUE flourishes, but with the unwelcome addition of Diana's TUE amorous mum. And why's her Dad squashing Carol's 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 TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00tfb5j (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00tffmq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tfbfp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tfbk5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tfbh0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00tfbll (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tfbvm (Listen) WED with Canon Martyn Percy, Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00tfcsk (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b00tfcy8 (Listen) WED With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00tgd1b (Listen) WED Series 3, Accentuate The Negative WED WED Contradiction is an addiction - from philosophical dialectic WED to the verification of scientific and mathematical WED hypotheses, and from religious controversy to traditional WED pantomime exchanges with the audience. Oh No It Isn't, you WED may think. Oh, yes, it very much is. WED WED Stephen Fry examines various aspects of the subject with WED language expert Professor David Crystal, theologian Melissa WED Raphael-Levine, philosopher Anthony Grayling, and Oliver WED Double, who has made a special study of comedy double-acts, WED and will reveal just how vital contradiction is not only for WED cross-patter partners but for the whole of comedy. WED WED We learn about the Square of Opposition and about how there WED is more than one way to be wrong. We find out just how the WED law of double negatives work, and how beguiling and WED sometimes surprising the oxymoron can be - that little WED combination of a couple of words that cancel each other out WED in some way. Well, it's only common sense, isn't it? WED WED We also hear how those who claim to spot contradictions in WED the Bible, or the Talmud, or the Koran are essentially WED misguided, and we hear about a current development in WED English that threatens to change one of the things that has WED so far made the language different to French or German. WED WED All of that, together with a lesson in when "No" does not WED necessarily mean no - and when "Yes" doesn't really mean WED yes, either. WED WED Producer: Ian Gardhouse WED ATestbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:30 Head to Head b00tgd1d (Listen) WED Series 2, AJ Ayer and Edward de Bono WED WED Edward Stourton continues to revisit broadcast debates from WED the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind WED them and echoes of the arguments in present-day politics. WED WED In this episode, two leading minds thrash out the question WED of whether democracy works. It was a meeting of logical and WED lateral thinking in 1976 when celebrity philosopher AJ Ayer WED discussed the fairness and efficiency of democracy with WED Edward de Bono, the original lateral thinker. WED WED The 1970s were trying economic times in the UK and the WED British public was losing faith in its government. Why was WED it Britain had won the war yet countries such as France and WED Germany were prospering and we weren't? In this context, WED Ayer and de Bono explore the fault lines in representative WED government: do elected politicians actually represent the WED interests of the population? Are these politicians equipped WED to do the job? And who makes the big decisions anyway - WED ministers or civil servants? WED WED Their debate is in part a search for innovative solutions - WED not unlike the current UK political situation. WED WED In the studio dissecting the debate are Ben Rogers, WED Associate Fellow at think tank Demos and writer of Ayer's WED biography, and author Piers Dudgeon, who wrote de Bono's WED biography. WED WED Producer: Dominic Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00tffms (Listen) WED A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 3 WED WED Elena Gorokhova has strong doubts about joining the Young WED Communist League but she knows she can't go to college WED unless she is a member, and she longs to read English at WED Leningrad University. WED WED She loves the romanticism of literature and yearns for a WED dacha with white gauzy curtains; she wishes her family WED discussed etiquette instead of lugging buckets of water to WED beds of tomatoes and dill. WED WED And then her Aunt Mila arrives from Minsk. WED WED Read by Sian Thomas WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tffpy (Listen) WED Ejected from the workforce - how the 'marriage bar' affected WED women's lives. Presented by Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqrf (Listen) WED Soloparentpals.com, Doormats WED by Sue Teddern. WED Episode 3. Doormats WED WED Not only has Rosie been sleeping with her ex-husband but she WED has become good friends with his girlfriend. Meanwhile Tom's WED ex treats him like a doormat. WED WED Rosie - Maxine Peake WED Tom - Kris Marshall WED Tash - Karina Jones WED Calum - Thomas Rolinson WED Gill - Christine Kavanagh WED Barb - Alison Pettitt WED Bazz - Sam Dale WED Scott - David Seddon WED WED Director: David Hunter WED WED 11:00 Case Study b00tgd1g (Listen) WED Series 2, SB: The Man Who Was Disappointed With What He Saw 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 Claudia Hammond re-visits the case of Sidney Bradford, born WED in 1906, who lost his sight when he was 10 months old. When WED it was finally restored with corneal grafts at the age of WED 52, a lecturer in Experimental Psychology at Cambridge, WED Richard Gregory, began a series of tests on SB - a study WED that would launch Gregory's career as a world-renowned WED expert in visual perception. WED WED For this programme, in his last broadcast interview before WED his death in May this year, Richard Gregory, Emeritus WED Professor of Neuropsychology at Bristol University, WED accompanied Claudia Hammond to the London sites he'd visited WED with Sidney 50 years earlier. At the Science Museum SB was WED captivated by the Maudsley screw-cutting lathe from 1800; he WED enjoyed the flurry of pigeons in Trafalgar Square, and WED laughed at the giraffes at London Zoo. But in general SB WED found the visual world a disappointing place. He died less WED than two years after his sight was restored. WED WED His reaction differed greatly from that of Mike May, an WED American who lost his sight aged 3 and recovered it when he WED was 43. WED WED What's become apparent from such cases is that humans have WED to 'learn' to see; without accumulating visual experience WED from which the brain can make sense of what the eyes see, WED vision is of little use. WED WED Claudia Hammond hears from consultant ophthalmologist, WED William Ayliffe about the other historical cases of WED recovered sight, and visits Dr Steven Dakin in the WED Department of Visual Neuroscience at UCL WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:30 Mum's on the Run b00tgd1j (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Mum's on the Run is a modern-day twist on the single-family WED situation. It follows the hectic life ("What life?") of WED single mum, Jen. Mother of two, Master of none - Jen seems WED to spend most of her time as an unpaid chauffeur to a 15 WED year-old teenage existentialist son, Toby, and a tonally WED challenged recorder-practising 11 year-old daughter, WED Felicity, whilst also coping with the jazz musician WED ex-husband, the fiercely competitive and annoying downstairs WED neighbour and a huge crush on her son's history teacher. WED WED How Jen drops the kids off at school at the begining of the WED day but ends up collecting them from a nightclub at the end WED of it. WED WED Jen ..... Ronni Ancona WED Mr. Rigby ..... John Gordon Sinclair WED Shelley ..... Alexis Zegerman WED Vivienne ..... Christine Kavanagh WED Keith ..... Kevin Eldon WED Felicity ..... Amy Dabrowa WED Toby ..... Alexander Heath WED Karina ..... Amaya Rowlands WED Connor ..... Pip Woolley WED Cashier ..... Iain Batchelor WED Doorman ..... Jude Akuwudike WED Leona ..... Sam Dale WED WED Written by Alexis Zegerman WED Produced by Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00tfqvl (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00tfqzx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00tfr34 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00tgd7y (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 b00tfrbk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jsxxk (Listen) WED The Gallery WED WED Comedy by Alan Plater. The opening night of a Newcastle art WED gallery dissolves into chaos when a greyhound runs amok. WED WED 15:00 Alvin Hall's Generations of Money b00tdzp3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tg2nt (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, Just When You Thought It Was Safe to be Green WED WED Series of new short stories written and read by comedians WED and recorded live last week in front of a packed audience at WED the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. WED WED Patrick Monahan takes centre stage with "Just When You WED Thought It Was Safe to be Green"; a story which warns WED against paying too much attention to government crime statistics. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:45 A Load of Rubbish b00fq4ft (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Ian Marchant visits Ludlow, gourmet capital of England, to WED find out what happens to the food that gets thrown away. It WED gets swallowed up by the country's first anaerobic digestion WED plant - once the knives and forks have been removed. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00tgf11 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor discusses Karl Marx's theory of Alienation WED with Philosophy Professor, Sean Sayers, political economist, WED Ian Fraser, and Professor of Medical Ethics, Donna WED Dickenson. WED WED Marx saw Alienation as an objective condition inherent in WED waged labour under capitalism. He believed that the mass WED proletariat were alienated because the fruits of production WED belonged to the employers. Factory workers were estranged WED from themselves, from the products of their labour, and from WED each other. Human relations came to be seen as relations WED between commodities rather than people. Marx believed this WED alienation would be overcome in a communist future in which WED we could "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear WED cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner...without ever WED becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic". Individuals WED would become multifaceted and be at one with their creative WED selves. Work, in such a future, would be an end in itself WED rather than a means to an end in the form of a wage. WED WED Thinking Allowed explores the evolution and development of WED Marx's theory of Alienation. Can it, in any way, capture the WED experience of today's worker? Or is it hopelessly outdated WED in an economy dominated by a service sector rather than WED factory production? WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00tgcsz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00tfrz7 (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 b00tfsfz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qgxxb (Listen) WED Series 6, A Bottle of Ulterio Motivo WED WED Ed finds himself in the money when he sells most of his WED possessions to a themed wine bar owned by the lovely Violet WED Carson. WED WED With Christopher Douglas as Ed Reardon and WED Stephanie Cole as Olive WED Simon Greenall as Ray WED Geoff McGivern as Cliff WED Philip Jackson as Jaz WED Rita May as Pearl WED Barunka O'Shaughnessey as Ping WED And Geoffrey Whitehead as Stan WED With Dan Tetsell and Emma Fryer. WED WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds WED WED Producer: Dawn Ellis. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00tfrbm (Listen) WED Ed's on a mission and Helen is making plans. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00tfsj7 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqrf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b00tgf14 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Edward Stourton chairs a live debate in which Professor WED David Marsland defends his view that the mentally and WED morally unfit should be sterilised. Professor David Marsland WED is Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at WED Brunel University, London and Professorial Research Fellow WED in Sociology at the University of Buckingham. He argues that WED the only way to prevent the abuse and neglect of children WED whose parents are incapable of looking after them is to stop WED them from being born in the first place. It should be open WED to police and social workers to recommend that drug addicts, WED alcoholics and the mentally disabled should be irreversibly WED sterilised - and the courts should be able to enforce this. WED Challenging his views will be three expert witnesses WED including a senior social worker, a drugs charity lawyer and WED a moral philosopher. Listeners also join in via emails and WED text-messages. WED WED 20:45 Talking to the Enemy b00tgf16 (Listen) WED From agreements to peace WED WED How do agreements in the negotiating room develop into WED peace? Should we always talk or are some terrorists beyond WED the pale? Jonathan Powell presents the final programme on WED negotiating with terrorists. Produced by David Stenhouse. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00tgf18 (Listen) WED Graphene - the new wonder material WED WED Discovered in Manchester just a few years ago, graphene is WED an atomically thin form of carbon that looks set to WED transform technology. In the short time it has been known, WED graphene has been found to be among the toughest of WED materials, has almost no resistance to electricity, is WED chemically inert, impermeable to gases, almost completely WED transparent ... . Potential uses include the ultimate in WED nano-electronics, touch screens, hydrogen storage for WED zero-emission cars, solar panels, DNA sequencing, WED ultracapacitors for the next generation of electric cars, WED chemical sensors ... WED WED 21:30 Fry's English Delight b00tgd1b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00tfsqf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00tfsv8 (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 b00tk90q (Listen) WED And the Land Lay Still, Episode 3 WED WED Written and abridged by James Robertson. WED Read by Liam Brennan. WED WED Excerpts from James Robertson's monumental new novel which WED portrays the last six decades of Scotland's social and WED political landscape through the lives of a handful of characters. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:00 Continuity b00tgf1c (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Alistair McGowan stars in this subversive 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. WED WED This week we welcome the return of 'Musical Notebook', cast WED our minds back to the controversial career of that terror of WED the music halls, the irrepressible comic Lennie Bloom, and WED we discuss the revamp of Desert Island Discs. It's all good. WED WED Written by Hugh Rycroft. Also starring Lewis Macleod, Sally WED 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 b00nqj86 (Listen) 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 Wake Up. WED WED Performer ..... Rik Mayall WED Writers ..... Rik Mayall & John Nicholson WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED WED Written by Rik and John Nicholson, this is a woozy, strange WED and resonant series from one of the country's most loved WED comic performers. Rik wants to sit with you in your room - WED one on one. He wants to let you know things - important, WED secret things, things about your neighbours. About him. WED About you. WED WED 23:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off b00pfp8n (Listen) WED Series 4, The Orient Express 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 in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of WED his long-suffering former Primary School teacher Mr Timmis WED and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop WED Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each WED week his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming WED the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a WED rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or WED finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll WED look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to WED D"...), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, WED so you won't want to". WED WED In this episode; It's a Merger On The Orient Express as WED Giles takes four cross ladies and a piece of lead piping on WED a septuagenarian trans-Balkan hen party. With an Agatha WED Christie theme. WED WED Mysterious jewels, magnificent moustaches and a set of pink WED fluffy handcuffs add up to a baffling mystery. WED WED Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles. WED WED Giles Wemmbley Hogg ..... Marcus Brigstocke WED Lady Flench ..... Alison Steadman WED Mrs Hadleigh-Broome ..... Morwenna Banks WED Mrs Gunthorne ..... Janet Henfrey WED Mr Timmis ..... Adrian Scarborough WED Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd WED Hugo ..... Ben Willbond WED David ..... David Armand WED Mehmet ..... Nej Adamson 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 26 AUGUST 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00tfb5l (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00tffms (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tfbfr (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tfbk7 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tfbh2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00tfbln (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tfbvp (Listen) THU with Canon Martyn Percy, Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00tfcsm (Listen) THU Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b00tfcyb (Listen) THU With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The Choice b00tgfr7 (Listen) THU On The Choice this week Michael Buerk talk to Elissa Wall THU who was born into the strange, narrow world of the THU Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints - an American THU sect that had broken away from the Mormon church. THU THU It was a group that believed in religious devotion, hard THU work, female subservience, the virtues and the clothes of THU the prairie puritans - and polygamy. Elissa was married off THU at 14 to a 19-year-old cousin - a relationship she hated. THU After several miscarriages, and a stillbirth, she faced the THU toughest choice of her young life - to stay with the THU community and the church, which was all she knew, or to THU leave. That would mean, not only separation from her mother THU and sisters, maybe for ever, but taking on the man who had THU ruled her life, the cult leader Warren Jeffs. THU THU 09:30 GPs Who Need GPS b00tgfr9 (Listen) THU Doctor on Your Trail THU THU Dr Phil Hammond tells the story of another GP who THU experiences extraordinary journeys as part of their work. THU THU Frostbite, altitude sickness and machete accidents. All THU injuries that expedition doctors can come across as they THU travel throughout the world with charity fundraisers, gap THU year students and adventurers. All fairly unusual for THU your standard practising GP. THU THU As Alex Hoskin prepares to climb Africa's highest mountain, THU Phil Hammond tells his story of nerves, excitement....and THU potential lion attacks. THU THU Produced by Lucy Adam. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00tffmv (Listen) THU A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 4 THU THU Elena Gorokhova is understandably nervous when the THU university authorities select her to teach English to THU visiting American students during the summer break. THU THU It is the first time she has seen a live American and now THU she is faced with fourteen of them, staring at her with the THU same intense curiosity with which she stares at them. THU THU And she likes what she sees, especially when she is THU introduced to Robert. THU THU Read by Sian Thomas THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tffq0 (Listen) THU Jane Garvey talks to an artist reunited with the son she THU gave up for adoption, who discovered himself in her drawings. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqrh (Listen) THU Soloparentpals.com, Emotional Quicksand THU by Sue Teddern. THU Episode 4. Emotional Quicksand. THU THU Rosie's love-life is in a tangle and Tom is getting cold THU feet about Siobhan. THU THU Rosie - Maxine Peake THU Tom - Kris Marshall THU Tash - Karina Jones THU Calum - Thomas Rolinson THU Gill - Christine Kavanagh THU Barb - Alison Pettitt THU Bazz - Sam Dale THU Scott - David Seddon THU THU Director: David Hunter THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00tgwl9 (Listen) THU Luol Deng is a giant - both physically and in the world of THU American professional basketball where is one of the biggest THU stars, and reportedly Barack Obama's favourite player. He THU was born in South Sudan but had to flee as a child because THU of his father's political activities. His family moved to THU Brixton where Luol's talents on the basketball court were THU spotted as a teenager. He's now established a charity THU working with the "lost boys" of Sudan - young men who have THU lived their entire lives in refugee camps after fleeing the THU country as children. Now Sudan is facing the prospects of THU partition, with a referendum next year expected to endorse THU splitting the mainly Christian South from the mainly Muslim THU North. Tim Franks joins Luol Deng as he returns to Sudan to THU assess the prospects for peace - and of course to show his THU skills with a basketball. THU Producer: Edward Main. THU THU 11:30 Svelte Sylvia and the Hollywood Trimsters b00tgwlc (Listen) THU Madame Sylvia was a tiny, opinionated Norwegian who became THU the toast of 1920s Hollywood. THU THU Employed by Pathe studios, her legendary violent massage THU technique kept stars such as Gloria Swanson ready for their THU close-ups. THU THU She claimed to be able to make fat ooze from the pores like THU mashed potato through a colander. A shrewd businesswoman, THU she made herself into a brand, marketing her techniques THU through books, articles and radio programmes across America. THU THU She made her name at a time when the movie boom meant not THU just stars, but audiences were starting to become more THU self-conscious about physical appearance. THU THU She was the very first fitness guru, and kick-started our THU modern obsession with working out. THU THU Karen Krizanovich, a film critic and accredited personal THU trainer, goes to Hollywood in search of Sylvia's story. THU THU She goes to Sylvia's house and the studio where she worked, THU and reads her racy newspaper columns. But she also assesses THU Sylvia's legacy, questioning the role that fitness and THU beauty play in modern Hollywood as she talks to a celebrity THU personal trainer and joins a class of hula-hoopers on Santa THU Monica beach. THU THU Was Sylvia a pioneering trailblazer - or can we blame her THU for the darker side of today's obsession with the body THU beautiful? THU THU Producer: Kate Taylor THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00tfqvn (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00tgwlf (Listen) THU Firefighters need the right equipment and back up if they THU are going to save lives. But millions of pounds have been THU spent on state of the art control rooms that may never be THU used, fire engines that are so heavy they can't be driven at THU speed and a fire training house - that caught fire. THU Just some of the costly procurement decisions made on behalf THU of fire and rescue services across Britain - but paid for by THU us. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00tfqzz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00tfr36 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00tgwlh (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson presents the interactive problem-solving THU programme for those niggling questions. THU THU Producer: Dilly Barlow THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00tfrbm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tgwlk (Listen) THU Quirks THU THU Wealthy East Ender Joey and his much younger wife Bianca THU live in an expensive villa on the Costa del Sol, surrounded THU by servants and other staff. They seem to have the perfect THU life. But as the story unfolds, some unsettling questions THU arise. THU THU Why can't Joey go back to England, where most of his THU business interests still lie? Why is he so obsessed about THU security? Why, come to that, does Bianca keep going on about THU contract killers? And when it comes to the crunch, how far THU can husband and wife trust each other? THU THU David Troughton and Tracy-Ann Oberman star as Joey and THU Bianca in this taut black comedy. Written by Simon Brett, THU the crime novelist and creator for radio of After Henry, No THU Commitments and - more recently - People in Cars. THU THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00tdz4n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00tf1k3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tg2nw (Listen) THU Comic Fringes, On The Dot THU THU Series of short stories which captures the atmosphere of the THU Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Recorded live at The Pleasance THU last week, leading comedians perform their own work in front THU of a packed audience. THU THU Comedian and newspaper columnist Shazia Mirza completes the THU line-up with her story "On The Dot". Mrs.Pims is late for THU everything but no one knows why. Until one day... THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 15:45 A Load of Rubbish b00fq4fw (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU It's not the romance of rail, but every night ghostly THU rubbish trains travel from Bristol and London to a landfill THU site deep in the Buckinghamshire countryside. Just a few THU hours closure would cause a crisis in our cities. Ian THU Marchant meets the people saving us from drowning in our own waste. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00tf9nt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00tgwlm (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 b00tfrz9 (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 b00tfsg1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Arthur Smith's Edinburgh Bash b00tgwlp (Listen) THU Arthur Smith adapts his successful Radio 4 series in which THU he invites an audience into his home in Balham to the THU Edinburgh Festival. In this special edition he takes his THU audience on a magical tour of top-flight music and comedy in THU the Pleasance Courtyard. He'll lead them to hear his guests THU at some of the venues and more unexpected corners there. THU Guests include Emo Phillips and Clanadonia. THU THU Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00tfrbp (Listen) THU Elizabeth's concerns increase and Ed cooks up a romantic THU surprise. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00tfsj9 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqrh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00tgwlr (Listen) THU Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow has been sold and THU eaten in the UK. Nadene Ghouri investigates how it happened THU and asks whether anyone is likely to be at risk. She traces THU the animal's journey from Wisconsin in the US to a dairy THU herd in the Scottish Highlands, and finds out how the THU international market in animal embryos made it all possible. THU THU Producer: Monica Soriano. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00tgwlt (Listen) THU Sociability THU THU When the new breed of social entrepreneurs meet the new THU networks of interactive social media, the impact is felt THU round the globe. Peter Day reports on some clever ideas that THU are tackling some of the big problems in the developing THU world. THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 The British Whales b00tgwlw (Listen) THU The British Isles are littered with whales - real and THU imagined. Kathleen Jamie investigates. Whales have bumped THU into the coast and swum recklessly up the Forth, the Humber THU and the Thames. Whalebone arches are raised on cliffs. We THU hunted them to within inches of extinction and now we love THU them to death, though many scientists think of them as no THU cleverer than marine cows. But still they fill our dreams THU and populate our imginations. The programme tries to map THU some of the mutifarious cetaceans that make up the British THU Whales. With poems from Simon Armitage, Catriona O'Reilly THU and Paul Farley and contributions from former chemist on THU board floating whalers, Hugh Symons, whalebone archivist THU Nicholas Redman, and writer Philip Hoare. Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU 21:30 The Choice b00tgfr7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00tfsqh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00tfsvb (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 b00tk90l (Listen) THU And the Land Lay Still, Episode 4 THU THU Written and abridged by James Robertson. THU Read by Liam Brennan. THU THU Excerpts from James Robertson's monumental new novel which THU portrays the last six decades of Scotland's social and THU political landscape through the lives of a handful of characters. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 23:00 Recorded for Training Purposes b00tgwly (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 6 THU THU Recorded for Training Purposes, the sketch show about modern THU communication, ends its fourth series. Described as THU "brilliant" by the Telegraph, it does sketches about how and THU why we talk to each other, and what we have to say. (There's THU an especially good sketch about the music they use on THU gameshows.) THU THU Recorded in front of a studio audience, the show features a THU cast whose credits spread from Radio 4 afternoon plays, via THU award-winning fringe theatre, to Star Wars: Rachel Atkins, THU Dominic Coleman, Lewis Macleod, Julie Mayhew, Ingrid Oliver THU and Ben Willbond. 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 23:30 Safety Catch b00jn0py (Listen) THU Series 2, If A Job's Not Worth Doing THU THU Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern morality set in THU the world of arms dealing. THU THU Simon is totally convinced this week that he is in the right THU job and has a duty not only to stay there, but to do his job THU sloppily. His reasoning for this is that if he wasn't there THU doing the job badly then someone else would be doing it well THU and that would be a much worse scenario. Then he has the THU awful, soul shattering realisation, and one which is THU something every person in Britain would be ashamed to admit, THU that he actually loves his job. Boris of course is in heaven THU at the thought of a soul-mate at work, but Simon decides the THU only way he can go on is to learn to hate again. 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 Richard...........................................Dan Mersh THU Julius........................................Nyahsa Hatendi THU THU Written by Laurence Howarth THU THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 AUGUST 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00tfb5n (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00tffmv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tfbft (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tfbk9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tfbh4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00tfblq (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tfbvr (Listen) FRI with Canon Martyn Percy, Principal, Ripon College Cuddesdon. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00tfcsp (Listen) FRI Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin Poyntz- FRI Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00tfcyd (Listen) FRI With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00tf9bl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00tffmx (Listen) FRI A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 5 FRI FRI Robert has returned to Texas but he writes to Elena every FRI week and wonders if she might visit him. FRI FRI He explains that he can get her a visitors' visa if she goes FRI as his fiancée but Elena explains that it is not getting FRI into America that is the difficult part but getting out of FRI the USSR. FRI FRI They both understand that there is only one way to achieve FRI this - but are they ready to get married? FRI FRI Read by Sian Thomas FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tffq2 (Listen) FRI Is having sisters good for your health? Presented by FRI Bidisha. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqrk (Listen) FRI Soloparentpals.com, Happy Now? FRI by Sue Teddern. FRI Episode 5. Happy Now? FRI FRI Rosie and Tom meet. FRI FRI Rosie ..... Maxine Peake FRI Tom ..... Kris Marshall FRI SPP voice ..... Karina Jones FRI Calum ..... Thomas Rolinson FRI Gill ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Scott ..... David Seddon FRI FRI Director: David Hunter FRI FRI 11:00 Confessions of a Window Cleaner b00tgwz5 (Listen) FRI Minimal start up costs, cash in hand and no licence FRI necessary, window cleaning sounds like a tempting option to FRI recession victims or immigrants wanting to start a new life. FRI In fact it's been described by one insurance company as the FRI most dangerous job in Britain and the battle for pitches can FRI be fierce and furious. FRI The world's fastest female window cleaner, Debbie Morris FRI gives Steve Carver some pointers before he heads into the FRI world of soap and squeegee's. A high proportion of the FRI window cleaners in the UK are followers of Jehova and Geir FRI Perry uses his experience selling God to market the values FRI of shiny glass, honest work and enough time in the day for FRI his faith. In the spiritual home of George Formby Steve FRI faces his biggest challenge, gaining a head for heights at FRI the top of Blackpool tower and testing his new found skills FRI on the oldest window cleaner in Britain, Alan Forest. FRI FRI 11:30 Old Harry's Game b0081l18 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Episode 4 FRI FRI Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in hell. 4/6: Edith FRI quizzes Satan about The Fall. Satan sees it more as The Push FRI and feels that God has anger management issues. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00tfqvq (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00tfr01 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00tfr38 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Brian Hanrahan. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00tgwz7 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers FRI behind the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00tfrbp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00djtvh (Listen) FRI Elephant and Castle FRI FRI Robin Baker's romantic comedy charts the relationship FRI between insecure, self-destructive Ian and enigmatic, FRI aspiring novelist Kat. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tgwzb (Listen) FRI Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden advise FRI gardeners in West Yorkshire. FRI FRI We look at the challenges of gardening at high altitude, and FRI chairman Eric Robson goes aboard a canal boat garden. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 A Load of Rubbish b00fq4j6 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Ian Marchant visits Newport, home of the country's biggest FRI fridge graveyard, and sees them reduced to piles of shrapnel FRI - along with televisions, cars and scrap metal. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00tgx3r (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 b00tgx3t (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to Robin Williams about his new comedy FRI World's Greatest Dad. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00tfrzc (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Glenn FRI Campbell. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tfsg3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b00tgx3w (Listen) FRI Series 6, Ade Edmondson interviews Ruby Wax FRI FRI The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last FRI week's guest, writer and star of "The Young Ones" and FRI "Bottom", alternative comedy legend Ade Edmondson takes the FRI microphone to interview the UK's favourite sharp tongued FRI American, Ruby Wax. FRI FRI Ade asks Ruby about the impact her strict parents had on her FRI comedy, her start in entertainment as an RDC wench, her FRI break into TV and those famous celebrity interviews, and how FRI her journey has led her from being a celebrated TV FRI entertainer and comedienne to a qualified expert on FRI Psychotherapy and Neuroscience. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00tfrbr (Listen) FRI Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Directed by: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Alice Aldridge ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00tfsjc (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tfqrk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00tgx3y (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical discussion from Newcastle FRI Assembly Rooms. FRI FRI Producer: Beverley Purcell. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00tgx68 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00tgxxm (Listen) FRI Status Symbols (AD 1100 - 1500) FRI FRI Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in FRI London, continues his global history as told through objects FRI from the Museum's collection. FRI FRI This week he sheds light on some of the great status symbols FRI of taste and power, as owned by the wealthy and FRI well-informed around 700 years ago. His journey takes him FRI from China to Nigeria and from Spain to the Caribbean, but FRI he begins in Scotland with the story of probably the world's FRI best known board game, in the company of the Lewis Chessmen. FRI FRI Producers: Paul Kobrak and Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00tfsqk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00tfsvd (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 b00tk90n (Listen) FRI And the Land Lay Still, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written and abridged by James Robertson. FRI Read by Liam Brennan. FRI FRI Excerpts from James Robertson's monumental new novel which FRI portrays the last six decades of Scotland's social and FRI political landscape through the lives of a handful of characters. FRI FRI The late Angus Pendreich was considered to be one of the FRI greatest photographers of the post-war era. His son Mike, FRI also a photographer, is curating a major retrospective of FRI his father's work. Seeking to discover more about the man, FRI Mike has contacted Jean Barbour, one of Angus's old lovers FRI and she has revealed a long buried truth about their affair. FRI FRI Jean's revelation allows Mike to see his own relationship FRI with his father more clearly and as the dust settles on the FRI past he finds himself reconsidering his future. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00tgcss (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qps81 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 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 The weeks' edition will include policies such as banning FRI cars from city centres; monitoring investment bankers' FRI testosterone levels; and abolishing all forms of self-regulation. FRI FRI Produced by Ed Morrish. FRI
20 August, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 21/08/2010 - 27/08/2010
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