27 August, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 28/08/2010 - 03/09/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 28 AUGUST 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00tgzgm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00tffmx (Listen) SAT A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 5 SAT SAT Robert has returned to Texas but he writes to Elena every SAT week and wonders if she might visit him. SAT SAT He explains that he can get her a visitors' visa if she goes SAT as his fiancĂ©e but Elena explains that it is not getting SAT into America that is the difficult part but getting out of SAT the USSR. SAT SAT They both understand that there is only one way to achieve SAT this - but are they ready to get married? SAT SAT Read by Sian Thomas SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tgzgp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tgzgr (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tgzgt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00tgzgw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tgzgy (Listen) SAT with Richard Hill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00tgzh0 (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 b00tgzh2 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00th8mk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00th8x4 (Listen) SAT Richard Uridge visits Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight SAT where the Dabell family have owned and run a theme park on SAT the clifftops for more than 150 years. In that time much of SAT their and their neighbours' land and property have SAT disappeared over the cliffs due to erosion. Richard finds SAT that there's a defiant spirit to the people who live in fear SAT of the sea claiming their homes as well as a love and SAT reverence for the power of Nature. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00th8x6 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00th8x8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00th8xb (Listen) SAT With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00th8xd (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles is joined by conductor Paul SAT Daniel. The poet is Susan Richardson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00th8xg (Listen) SAT Tanzania - Iringa and Zanzibar SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig goes to Tanzania and sees two very different SAT aspects of the country. In the heart of the southern SAT highlands she goes to the market town of Iringa and hears SAT about a farm that accommodates the overlanders passing SAT through Africa, a cafe that caters for volunteer workers in SAT the area and makes elephant dung paper and a prehistoric SAT site that has stone tools up to 400,000 years old. On her SAT way back to the coast she spots African wild life from the SAT main highway. By contrast the tropical island of Zanzibar SAT has dolphins in the Indian Ocean, monkeys in the mangrove SAT forest and amongst popular attractions for tourists are the SAT spice farms where Sandi's preconceptions are challenged. SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 OedipusEnders b00ryf1g (Listen) SAT Who were the Chorus in Coronation Street? How has Oedipus SAT influenced EastEnders? And what is Medea doing in The Bill? SAT SAT On the face of it, they couldn't be more different. Greek SAT tragedy, we're told, is right at the top of the dramatic SAT hierarchy; TV soaps are the definition of low-brow. Not so, SAT says comedian, telly addict and closet classicist Natalie SAT Haynes. SAT SAT As she discovers, the two forms have rather more in common SAT than stereotype might have us believe. Soap and Greek SAT tragedy alike focus relentlessly on families under pressure. SAT Both see it as their job to confront their fellow citizens SAT with social taboos. And both are noted for competing keenly SAT to win the praise of mass audiences. SAT SAT Natalie starts by spending an evening watching 'EastEnders' SAT with Tim Teeman, who has written many articles on soap - and SAT who recently noticed the storylines start to become SAT unmistakably Greek. SAT SAT She soon finds out that this is no coincidence. One of the SAT most controversial, high-impact 'EastEnders' storylines of SAT the last few years was a conscious take on Sophocles' SAT 'Oedipus' - as she discovers when she meets John Yorke, SAT former Executive Producer on 'EastEnders' and now Head of SAT BBC Drama Production, and Dominic Treadwell-Collins, Series SAT Story Producer on 'EastEnders'. SAT SAT Dominic Treadwell-Collins also explains how the story-lining SAT team seriously considered having one of the central SAT EastEnders characters re-enact Euripides' 'Medea': they SAT discussed having her punish her adulterous husband by SAT murdering their children. SAT SAT In the end they decided this was too extreme. But Natalie SAT visits the set of 'The Bill', to talk to Series Story Editor SAT Kara Manley, who explains how and why they have drawn SAT specifically on 'Medea' to create a forthcoming episode. SAT SAT Along the way, Natalie hears from Phil Redmond, the creator SAT of 'Brookside', and soap writers and story-liners who have SAT worked on a wide range of soaps. She discovers that SAT Aeschylus and Sophocles are often present in spirit at SAT script conferences, as story teams exhort each other to SAT "make it more Greek". SAT SAT And she finds out what happened when one writer on the SAT defunct Channel 5 soap 'Family Affairs' spotted that a SAT story-line was identical to Euripides' 'Hippolytus'. He SAT started to work references to Euripides into the script, SAT only to find his bosses were less than amused. SAT SAT Meanwhile, Barrie Rutter, Artistic Director of Northern SAT Broadsides Theatre Company, who is currently touring a SAT production of 'Medea', tells Natalie there is no connection SAT at all between the two genres. SAT SAT But Edith Hall, Professor of Classics and Drama at Royal SAT Holloway, University of London, explains what she thinks is SAT behind all this. Hall argues that the rising power of women SAT has fuelled both the rise of the soap and, over the last SAT forty years, the biggest revival of Greek tragedies since SAT the plays were written. SAT SAT Both forms, she argues, boast an unusually strong set of SAT roles for women, and were seized on from the late 1960s SAT onwards as an antidote to other, more male-focussed forms of SAT drama. In contrast to much earlier TV drama, Aeschylus and SAT 'EastEnders' alike, she argues, don't see the home as a SAT place of safety, with the drama happening beyond. They see SAT the home itself as a place of danger. SAT SAT With: Ryan Craig, Professor Edith Hall, Dr Paula James, Kara SAT Manley, Sean O'Connor, Phil Redmond, Barrie Rutter, Tim SAT Teeman, Dominic Treadwell-Collins, John Yorke. SAT SAT Producer: Phil Tinline SAT (repeat). SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00th8xj (Listen) SAT A Touch of Ermine SAT SAT Michael Dobbs, former adviser to Margaret Thatcher and John SAT Major, and author of 'House of Cards', explores whether SAT political patronage is alive and kicking in our political SAT system. Is it a medieval relic or is it a useful tool SAT managed and manipulated by modern prime ministers and party SAT leaders to offer carrots and rewards to those towing the SAT party line? He goes in search of its different forms. He SAT takes tea on the terrace at the House of Lords and asks SAT whether patronage oils the cogs of our upper chamber or SAT whether it creates a 'cosy corruption' unique to the UK. And SAT he goes on the trail of Lord Prescott, travelling up to SAT Kingston upon Hull to find out if this city of the north SAT gains anything from Lord Prescott's recent appointment to SAT the Lords, or whether only the newly ennobled member SAT benefits. And lastly, Michael debates in greater depth how SAT patronage works, and whether it's a good thing, and compares SAT how it operates in other countries around the world with his SAT guests Mehdi Hasan from the New Statesman, Dr Meg Russell SAT from the Constitution Unit at University College London and SAT Lord Mancroft, one of the last remaining hereditary peers in SAT the UK. SAT SAT Producer: Kirsten Lass SAT Presenter: Michael Dobbs SAT Editor: Sue Ellis. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00th8xl (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00th8xn (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b00tgx3w (Listen) SAT Series 6, Ade Edmondson interviews Ruby Wax SAT SAT The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last SAT week's guest, writer and star of "The Young Ones" and SAT "Bottom", alternative comedy legend Ade Edmondson takes the SAT microphone to interview the UK's favourite sharp tongued SAT American, Ruby Wax. SAT SAT Ade asks Ruby about the impact her strict parents had on her SAT comedy, her start in entertainment as an RDC wench, her SAT break into TV and those famous celebrity interviews, and how SAT her journey has led her from being a celebrated TV SAT entertainer and comedienne to a qualified expert on SAT Psychotherapy and Neuroscience. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00th98c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00th98f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00tgx3y (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical discussion from Newcastle SAT Assembly Rooms with questions for the panel including SAT Deborah Mattinson - Gordon Brown's personal pollster for SAT many years, Matthew Taylor - chief executive of the RSA, SAT Iain Dale - one of Britain's leading political bloggers and SAT Adrian Fawcett - CEO of Britain's biggest private health SAT care provider. SAT SAT Producer: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00th98h (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 b00fn5p6 (Listen) SAT Boscobel SAT SAT A tense and thrilling dramatisation of a real-life escape SAT story from Ian Curteis, starring Simon Woods (Cranford, SAT Rome) as King Charles II. SAT SAT Defeated in battle following the execution of his father, SAT the future Charles II must flee England or die. SAT SAT Over a thrilling 40-day journey, young Charles has much to SAT learn - how to live rough, how to evade capture and how to SAT earn the kindness of strangers. SAT SAT Ian Curteis is a prolific writer for radio and television. SAT His most well known play is The Falklands Play, the story of SAT how Margaret Thatcher's government went to war with SAT Argentina, which was first broadcast on both Radio 4 and BBC SAT 4 to mark the 20th anniversary of the Falklands War. SAT SAT Cast: SAT Charles II ..... Simon Woods SAT Derby/John Penderel ..... Kevin Eldon SAT Wilmot ..... Chris Larkin SAT George Penderel/Whitgreave ..... Simon Treves SAT Gifford/Woolf ..... Malcolm Brown SAT Carlis/Colonel ..... Stephen Carlile SAT Betty/Jane ..... Kate Sachs SAT Mrs Woolf/Cook ..... Jill Shilling SAT SAT Director: Dirk Maggs SAT Writer: Ian Curteis SAT SAT Producer: Rebecca Pinfield SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Star Spangled Hendrix b00tg2m0 (Listen) SAT When Jimi Hendrix returned to his native America as a star, SAT the country he knew had changed. This programme, presented SAT by Tom Robinson to tie in with the 40th anniversary of the SAT guitarist's death, explores the pressure Jimi was under to SAT make an explicit political declaration. SAT SAT Tom explores Hendrix's 14 months in the Screaming Eagles 101 SAT Airborne Division that saw him parachute a total of 26 times SAT before he was invalided out with a broken ankle. Brother SAT Leon Hendrix discusses his elder bother's time in the SAT military, along with comments from author Charles Sharr Murray. SAT SAT Singer and friend Eric Burdon explains how, after the riots SAT in Grovesnor Square, Jimi trotted out the American SAT government's party line on Vietnam - the so-called "Domino Theory". SAT SAT The Soft Machine supported Hendrix as they traveled across SAT America and drummer Robert Wyatt recalls how Jimi responded SAT to media questions about the war, and the emergence of the SAT Black Power movement. Hendrix was receptive to the Black SAT Panther Party and found the Seattle Chapter of the SAT organization run by two former high school friends. Both SAT Panthers, Aaron and Elmer Dixon talk about how receptive SAT Hendrix was to the cause. SAT SAT The programme culminates with Jimi's Woodstock Festival SAT performance of 'The Star Spangled Banner', an eloquent (and SAT wordless) statement against the Vietnam war. In retrospect, SAT it can also be read as a swan song for the era of peace and SAT love and for Hendrix himself, who died in his sleep the SAT following year. Jimi Hendrix is more than a blues guitarist SAT who got lucky in the 60s. He did the best he could to be his SAT own man without openly taking sides, and we are still trying SAT to get to know him 40 years after his death. SAT SAT Producer: John Sugar SAT A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00thcbv (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00thcmt (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00tgzh0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00thcmw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00thcmy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00thcn0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00thcn2 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00thcn4 (Listen) SAT Dr Muhammad ElBaradei SAT SAT Dr Muhammad ElBaradei became a regular fixture on our TV SAT screens in the build up to the Iraq war as the UN's chief SAT nuclear weapons inspector. He won the Nobel Peace Prize for SAT that role in 2005. He spent many years living in New York SAT and Austria. But, as Mukul Devichand discovers, he's just SAT begun a new political life back home in his native Egypt - SAT where he may soon run for President. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00thcn6 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Laura Thomas. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00tf10h (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 2, Janet Street-Porter SAT SAT In the second programme in the series "Meeting Myself Coming SAT Back", Janet Street-Porter takes a look back at her younger SAT self through the BBC Sound archives. In conversation with SAT John Wilson, she re-examines her career, beginning as a SAT newspaper journalist and then moving into radio and SAT television and reflects on the highs and lows of her career. SAT SAT Janet Street-Porter's career has been bound up with media SAT from her earliest days writing for papers and then as a SAT young presenter on LBC radio. Her work on TV programmes like SAT Network 7 and later the BBC's Def II strand has ensured that SAT she'll always be associated with "Yoof TV". Her distinctive SAT voice and looks have been parodied over the decades and SAT she's often been vilified in the press for taking television SAT downmarket. Her attempt to launch Live TV ended with her SAT resignation after only a few months. But she's always SAT bounced back in another guise, as a newspaper editor, a TV SAT personality and a rambler. SAT SAT In this programme Janet re-examines her past life and meets SAT her younger self, analysing how she's changed and developed SAT over the decades. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00tf9nr (Listen) SAT No Highway, Episode 1 SAT SAT by Nevil Shute SAT SAT 1948. The future of Britain's transatlantic aviation SAT industry rests on the success of a new plane - the Rutland SAT Reindeer. One has crashed already and an eccentric SAT government scientist believes more will follow. The race is SAT on to prove his theory before Reindeers start to fell from SAT the sky. Dramatised by Mike Walker. SAT SAT Dennis Scott ..... William Beck SAT Shirley ..... Alison Pettitt SAT Honey ..... Paul Ritter SAT Marjorie Corder ..... Naomi Frederick SAT Monica Teesdale ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT Elspeth ..... Lauren Mote SAT The Director ..... Tony Bell SAT Ferguson ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Samuelson ..... Sam Dale SAT Dobson ..... Michael Shelford SAT Miss Learoyd ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00thcnb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Iconoclasts b00tgf14 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT SAT Edward Stourton chairs a live debate in which Professor SAT David Marsland defends his view that the mentally and SAT morally unfit should be sterilised. Professor David Marsland SAT is Emeritus Scholar of Sociology and Health Sciences at SAT Brunel University, London and Professorial Research Fellow SAT in Sociology at the University of Buckingham. He argues that SAT the only way to prevent the abuse and neglect of children SAT whose parents are incapable of looking after them is to stop SAT them from being born in the first place. It should be open SAT to police and social workers to recommend that drug addicts, SAT alcoholics and the mentally disabled should be irreversibly SAT sterilised - and the courts should be able to enforce this. SAT Challenging his views will be three expert witnesses SAT including a senior social worker, a drugs charity lawyer and SAT a moral philosopher. SAT Join in the debate by emailing iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk or text SAT during the programme on 84844. SAT Producer: Peter Everett. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00tg1c5 (Listen) SAT (4/12) The fourth contest in the 2010 series of the cryptic SAT panel quiz pits the South of England (Fred Housego and SAT Marcel Berlins) against the North of England (Michael SAT Schmidt and Adele Geras). Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair, and SAT Tom will also have the answer to last week's cliffhanger SAT puzzle. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Bards of Somalia b00tf9nw (Listen) SAT What could Britain learn from Somalia - a country where SAT poetry is nothing less than the main means of cultural SAT communication? SAT SAT Portrayed abroad as a land beset by gunmen, pirates and SAT famine, it is also known by those who live there as a Nation SAT of Poets. Somalia had no written language until 1972 and SAT poetry has always been the country's core form of mass SAT communication - whether the spoken word or, more recently, SAT via cassettes and radios. SAT SAT Verse has, in many areas, taken the place of history books, SAT newspapers and television as the main means of spreading SAT news and comment. Poets who have real skill - the true bards SAT - have the power to shape current events and receive both SAT social and political privileges. SAT SAT Can we integrate any of these elements into British poetry? SAT Instead of one Laureate, should we have hundreds of bards SAT reflecting the diversity of our nation - people we can turn SAT to for everything from the poetic equivalent of a Times SAT leader to the latest gossip around the parish pump? Can SAT poetry be integrated into our daily lives as successfully as SAT in Somalia? SAT SAT In discussion with presenter Rageh Omaar, poets from the SAT Somali community in Britain and expert translators wonder if SAT - through the medium of everything from the spoken word to SAT text messaging - Somalia's bards might provide the germ of a SAT new form of information sharing in Britain. SAT SAT Producer: Neil Cargill SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 AUGUST 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00thdqm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00h6zs5 (Listen) SUN Three Stories by Haruki Murakami, Crabs SUN SUN Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. Following the SUN publication of his first novel in Japanese in 1979, he sold SUN the jazz bar he ran with his wife and became a full-time SUN writer. It was with the publication of Norwegian Wood - SUN which has to date sold more than 4 million copies in Japan SUN alone - that the author was truly catapulted into the SUN limelight. SUN SUN Known for his surrealistic world of mysterious (and often SUN disappearing) women, cats, earlobes, wells, Western culture, SUN music and quirky first-person narratives; he is now Japan's SUN best-known novelist abroad. SUN SUN Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is one of his acclaimed SUN collections of short stories. In the stories 'Crabs, 'The SUN Year of Spaghetti' and 'The Mirror', Murakami confronts SUN fundamental emotions: loss, identity, friendship, love; and SUN questions our ability to connect with humanity, and the pain SUN of those connections or the lack of them. SUN SUN The reader is Megan Dodds. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00thdqp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00thdqr (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00thdqt (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00thdqw (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00thdqy (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary Magdalene, Mortehoe, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00thcn4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00thdr0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00thdr2 (Listen) SUN Apocalypse Now? SUN SUN Mark Tully reflects on the reasons behind the current raft SUN of films with apocalyptic themes. SUN SUN Why has every age and every culture created myths of SUN catastrophe and destruction? What function do these myths perform? SUN SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00thdr4 (Listen) SUN Harbour Seals SUN SUN 7/18. It's usually very difficult to get close to or even SUN see Harbour or Common seals, but there is one place in SUN Scotland where they haul out and have their pups on a SUN sandbank just 80 metres from the shore. Lionel Kelleway SUN visits this magical spot in Loch Fleet to enjoy the rare SUN wildlife spectacle of hundreds of mother seals perched in SUN their characteristic banana pose, suckling and caring for SUN their pups. SUN SUN The person who knows most about the seals is PhD student SUN Line Cordes who has been watching them intensively during SUN the breeding season for the last four years. She has taken SUN photographs of every seal in the area and from the patterns SUN on their faces can now identify every seal on sight. From SUN this study she is building a detailed picture of each seal's SUN breeding behaviour and movements. This is giving a unique SUN insight into the lives of Harbour Seals which have rarely SUN been studied this intensively. She and Professor Paul SUN Thompson, both from the School of Biological Sciences in SUN Aberdeen, hope that their findings will help inform SUN management strategies for the species. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Tania Dorrity. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00thdr6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00thdr8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00thf0g (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00thf0j (Listen) SUN Shelterbox SUN SUN Ben Shephard presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Shelterbox. SUN SUN Donations to Shelterbox should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio SUN 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Shelterbox. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide Shelterbox with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1096479. SUN SUN ShelterBox SUN SUN ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity, SUN instantly responding to earthquake, volcano, flood, SUN hurricane, cyclone, tsunami or conflicts, by delivering SUN boxes of aid to support families who have lost everything SUN after a disaster. Each box supplies an extended family with SUN a durable tent and lifesaving equipment to use while they SUN are displaced or homeless. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00thmrt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00thmv0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00thmv3 (Listen) SUN Sunday Worship comes from St Patrick's Church of Ireland SUN Cathedral, Armagh with members of the annual Charles Wood SUN Summer School. The Summer School, named in honour of the SUN composer who began his musical education as a chorister in SUN the cathedral, offers workshops on many apsects of church SUN music and its participants sing at services in the city's SUN churces of many denominations. The service is led by Very SUN Rev Patrick Rooke, the Dean of Armagh and the preacher is SUN Father Hugh Kennedy who is chaplain to the Charels Wood SUN Boys' Choir. SUN SUN The service is led by The Very Rev. Patrick Rooke, Dean of SUN Armagh SUN The Charles Wood Boys’ Choir SUN The Charles Wood Singers SUN Preacher: Father Hugh Kennedy SUN Directed by Nigel McClintock SUN Organist: Ian Keatley SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00tgx68 (Listen) SUN Reputation Building SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on how reputations are won and lost. A SUN bridge builder will be a good engineer if his bridge doesn't SUN fall down....but how do we judge our politicians? This SUN summer politicians are keener than ever to tell us how SUN frugal their choice of holiday destination is...but will SUN that really endear them to us? SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00thmv5 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00thmv7 (Listen) SUN Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Alice Aldridge ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00thmv9 (Listen) SUN Hurricane Katrina SUN SUN In this special edition of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor SUN travels to New Orleans to gather together five Hurricane SUN Katrina survivors who weathered the storm - five years after SUN the hurricane hit. SUN SUN One of the deadliest hurricanes in the history of the USA, SUN Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on 29th August 2005. SUN Rupturing the levees around the city, it submerged eighty SUN percent of New Orleans in water. SUN SUN Thousands of people had been unable to evacuate or had SUN chosen not to leave their homes. Some of the streets sat in SUN up to ten feet of stagnant water, driving residents into SUN their attics, scrabbling for higher ground in a city which SUN sits below sea level. SUN SUN Many took refuge inside the city's Superdome, but without SUN adequate supplies or sanitation, conditions inside the SUN overheated, overcrowded stadium became increasingly SUN intolerable. Law and order across the city was breaking SUN down, with stories of rapes, violence and widespread looting SUN rapidly circulating. SUN SUN Sue is joined around the table by: the leader of Joint Task SUN Force Katrina, General Honore; the manager of the Superdome, SUN Doug Thornton; photojournalist, Ted Jackson; Pastor Willie SUN Walker and Phyllis Montana-LeBlanc. SUN SUN With additional contributions from the musician Dr John. SUN SUN Producer: Ellie McDowall SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00tg1xz (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 4 SUN SUN This week, the popular panel game comes from the Edinburgh SUN Fringe Festival, with comedians Paul Merton, Shappi SUN Khorsandi, John Bishop and Gyles Brandreth. Nicholas Parsons SUN hosts as panellists attempt to speak for a minute without SUN repetition, hesitation or deviation. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00thmvc (Listen) SUN Recorded at this summer's WOMAD festival, The Food Programme SUN visits the TASTE THE WORLD STAGE. Musicians from Cote SUN d'Ivoire, Egypt, Finland and Sicily, cook, play and chat SUN while Sheila Dillon looks on in amazement and samples the SUN food. WOMAD stands for World of Music, Arts and Dance and SUN gives its name to the internationally established Festival, SUN which brings together artists from all over the globe. In SUN the last few years Music, Arts and Dance has come to include SUN food - at the Taste of the World stage. It's organised by SUN and was the idea of Annie Mentor who has been with WOMAD SUN since it began 28 years ago. SUN SUN Producer: Sukey Firth. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00thmvg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00thmvj (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Brian Hanrahan. SUN SUN 13:30 Last of The Last of the Summer Wine b00tjf81 (Listen) SUN As the seemingly immortal 'Last of the Summer Wine' draws to SUN a close, Broadcaster and poet Ian McMillan pays tribute to SUN television's longest running situation comedy. SUN SUN It would be hard to argue that Last Of The Summer Wine is SUN anything but a British classic. Until recently the world's SUN longest running TV situation comedy seemed immortal. In its SUN heyday, the adventures of senior citizens Compo, Foggy and SUN Clegg drew audiences of 19 million and as we know, this SUN current next series will be the last. SUN SUN The lyrical adventures of three bungling, elderly oddballs SUN have charmed viewers of all generations for over a third of SUN a century, and this programme charts the shows unbelievable SUN success. SUN SUN The show was pioneering in many ways, one of which was the SUN decision to have and ultimately set the trend for a double SUN length Christmas special. SUN SUN Including exclusive interviews with major cast members and SUN archive of the late Bill Owen and Kathy Staff, who turned SUN the character of battleaxe Nora Batty into a treasured SUN national icon, the programme delves behind the scenes with SUN writer Roy Clarke and producer/director Alan J. W. Bell who SUN offer fascinating insights into the show's journey from SUN script to screen. SUN SUN The production crew reveal memorable moments, and McMillan SUN calls to mind his own favourite memories including some of SUN the numerous guest stars to feature over the years, such as SUN Norman Wisdom, George Chakiris and John Cleese. SUN SUN The programme examines why the series has survived so long, SUN surprising critics, audiences and even the BBC itself which SUN has often been accused of underestimating its importance. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tgwzb (Listen) SUN Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Christine Walkden advise SUN gardeners in West Yorkshire. SUN SUN We look at the challenges of gardening at high altitude, and SUN chairman Eric Robson goes aboard a canal boat garden. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A Guide to Coastal Birds b00thnb7 (Listen) SUN Sea Cliffs SUN SUN 4/5. 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 which you're most likely to see SUN and hear on sea cliffs around Britain's coastline; birds SUN like Fulmar, Kittiwake, Guillemot and Razorbill. SUN SUN This is the fourth of five programmes to help identify many SUN of the birds found around our British coastline in places SUN like sandy beaches, rocky shores, off-shore islands, SUN estuaries and sea cliffs. 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 b00thpvx (Listen) SUN No Highway, 29/08/2010 SUN SUN by Nevil Shute SUN SUN 1948. The future of Britain's transatlantic aviation SUN industry looks grim following the crash of a new Rutland SUN Reindeer airliner. Lives and careers are on the line as a SUN government scientist tries to convince the authorities that SUN he knows why. 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 Moat SUN The Director ..... Tony Bell SUN Prendergast/Russell ..... William Hope SUN Ferguson ..... Jude Akuwudike SUN Sir David Moon ..... Sean Baker SUN Morgan ..... Sam Dale SUN Hennessey ..... David Seddon SUN Miss Learoyd ..... Christine Kavanagh SUN SUN Directed by Toby Swift. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00thpvz (Listen) SUN Kwame Kwei-Armah talks to thriller writer Mark Billingham SUN about his new novel, From The Dead. The book is the latest SUN in his series featuring DI Tom Thorne, a jaded detective SUN working in the Metropolitan Police. Mark Billingham SUN discusses Thorne's growing presence on the British literary SUN map, and why he feels writing crime fiction is remarkably SUN similar to his previous career - as a stand-up comedian. SUN SUN Also on the programe, children's author Philip Ardagh SUN discusses the Just So Stories, as a new set of stories is SUN published paying homage to Rudyard Kipling's originals. SUN SUN Kwame also talks to publisher Scott Pack, the man behind the SUN new literary event Book Swap, where authors and audience SUN meet but no questions are asked about the authors' works. SUN SUN Plus, Bruce Chatwin's former editor looks over the acclaimed SUN travel writer's newly published letters SUN SUN Producer: Aasiya Lodhi. SUN SUN 16:30 Norn But Not Forgotten: Sounds of Shetland b00thpw1 (Listen) SUN The dialect of the Shetland Islands is one of the most SUN distinctive spoken within the British isles: heavily SUN accented, and studded with words left over from the now SUN extinct Norn language which was spoken on the islands until SUN the late 18th century. Even now, reaching for expressions to SUN describe the natural world, places, the seasons of the year, SUN food, tools, colours, moods or states of agitation or SUN excitement, Shetlanders will often use Norn words. SUN SUN Kathleen Jamie visits Shetland to meet up with the poets who SUN revel in the language, both those born on the island and SUN those who have moved there. SUN SUN Shetland, and its distinctive accents and words, has proved SUN surprisingly receptive to poets from mainland Scotland and SUN England who have chosen to make it home. What is it about SUN the Shetland dialect that so excites and fascinates poets? SUN Kathleen asks the T.S. Eliot award winning poet Jen SUN Hadfield, who was born in Cheshire, and Raman Mundair, who SUN was born in Ludhiana in India and came to live in Glasgow at SUN the age of five, about choosing to write about Shetland's SUN distinctive landscape, people and way of life in its own SUN tongue. SUN SUN Kathleen also meets acclaimed Shetland language poet SUN Christine De Luca who was raised on the island and who has SUN made the opposite journey, leaving the rugged landscape of SUN the island to live and work on the mainland. SUN SUN Rich with the sounds - and not just the language - of the SUN islands, Kathleen Jamie explores how this dense linguistic SUN community has managed to excite and engage some of Britain's SUN leading poets. SUN SUN 17:00 Trouble in Euroland b00tgcsv (Listen) SUN The Euro is in deep trouble. SUN SUN As the project intended to unify the European Union causes SUN even deeper divisions, questions are being raised about SUN whether nations as diverse as Germany and Greece can really SUN share the same currency. SUN SUN The repercussions spread far beyond mainland Europe. Britain SUN is affected as British firms struggle to sell to the SUN Eurozone. SUN SUN Jonathan Charles was the BBC's Europe correspondent in the SUN 1990s, when the euro was first introduced to great fanfare. SUN He travelled widely around the continent, reporting on the SUN years of preparations leading to the final launch of the euro. SUN SUN Now he retraces his steps, returning to some of those places SUN and speaking to the likes of former Chancellor of the SUN Exchequer Norman Lamont, the UK's treasury minister and SUN ambassador at the time, and prominent European figures SUN including the former Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok and some SUN top European bankers. Jonathan also talks to ordinary SUN workers whose livelihood has been fundamentally changed by SUN the advent of euro zone. SUN SUN Having taken Europe's temperature, Jonathan asks if the Euro SUN will survive, and what does it mean for Europe's dream of SUN political integration? SUN SUN Producer: Kati Whitaker SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00thcn4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00thpw3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00thpw5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00thpw7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00thpw9 (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00thqv1 (Listen) SUN Nigel comes to a decision and Bert offers his services. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00thqv3 (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 b00g4bn1 (Listen) SUN Big Charlie, Episode 5 SUN SUN Colonel Williams' amazing story of how, in the summer of SUN 1957, the largest elephant in captivity was moved from SUN Butlin's in Scotland to Butlin's, Yorkshire. SUN SUN The journey over, Big Charlie makes his triumphal entry to SUN Filey. 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 More or Less b00tgwz7 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team are back with a new SUN series of the award-winning investigative numbers programme. SUN This week: the "Spirit Level" row decoded. Is it really SUN safer to wear a helmet when cycling? And has the first SUN future 1000-year-old already been born? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00tgx3r (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Scotland's national poet - Edwin Morgan. SUN Two people who played important roles in advancing our SUN understanding of autism: Dr Ivar Lovaas who developed a SUN controversial treatment based on encouraging desired SUN behaviour and punishing unwanted behaviour and Clara SUN Claiborne Park who wrote an influential book about the SUN pressures facing the parents of autistic children. SUN Bill Millin - the soldier who played the bagpipes as the SUN bullets rattled around him during the Normandy landings. SUN And Bob Boyle, legendary Hollywood art director who worked SUN with Alfred Hitchcock on many of his key films. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b00tgwlf (Listen) SUN Firefighters need the right equipment and back up if they SUN are going to save lives. But millions of pounds have been SUN spent on state of the art control rooms that may never be SUN used, fire engines that are so heavy they can't be driven at SUN speed and a fire training house - that caught fire. SUN Just some of the costly procurement decisions made on behalf SUN of fire and rescue services across Britain - but paid for by SUN us. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00thf0j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00tgwlt (Listen) SUN Sociability SUN SUN In Business finds out how interactive media such as mobile SUN phones can be used to empower the poor as well as entertain SUN the rich. Peter Day has been meeting social entrepreneurs SUN who are finding new ways to harness the new technologies to SUN benefit poor people SUN Producer: Julie Ball. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00thqv5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00thqv7 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00thqv9 (Listen) SUN Episode 16 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 Mehdi Hasan of The New SUN Statesman takes the chair and the editor is Catherine SUN Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00tgx3t (Listen) SUN Robin Williams talks to Matthew Sweet about his latest SUN comedy World's Greatest Dad, in which he plays a depressed SUN English teacher who couldn't be more different than the SUN inspirational figure he played in Dead Poets Society SUN SUN Sherlock co-creator and League of Gentlemen member Mark SUN Gatiss salutes the work of Lionel Jeffries, The Railway SUN Children director and quintessential character actor who SUN died earlier this year SUN SUN Wardrobe supervisor Rosemary Burrows discusses her career, SUN from dressing Christopher Lee in bandages for Hammer horror SUN movies to putting two thousand members of the Moroccan army SUN in Roman costume for Gladiator SUN SUN Colin Shindler turns back the clocks and finds out what was SUN on at the local ABC in August 1960. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00thdr2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 AUGUST 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00thrl0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00tgf11 (Listen) MON Alienation MON MON Laurie Taylor discusses Karl Marx's theory of Alienation MON with Philosophy Professor, Sean Sayers, political economist, MON Ian Fraser, and Professor of Medical Ethics, Donna MON Dickenson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00thdqy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00thrm9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00thsrw (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ths8q (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00thsw3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tht5b (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00thvrv (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00tj523 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00thw3g (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Uncertain Climate b00tj525 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In a special Radio 4 series the BBC's Environmental Analyst MON Roger Harrabin questions whether his own reporting - and MON that of others - has adequately told the whole story about MON global warming. MON MON Roger Harrabin has reported on the climate for almost thirty MON years off and on, but last November while working on the MON "Climategate" emails story, he was prompted to look again at MON the basics of climate science. MON MON He finds that the public under-estimate the degree of MON consensus among scientists that humans have already MON contributed towards the heating of the climate , and will MON almost certainly heat the climate more. MON MON But he also finds that politicians and the media often fail MON to convey the huge uncertainty over the extent of future MON climate change. Whilst the great majority of scientists fear MON that computer models suggest we are facing potentially MON catastrophic warming, some climate scientists think the MON warming will be restricted to a tolerable 1C or 1.5C. MON MON At this crucial moment in global climate policy making, MON Harrabin talks to seminal characters in the climate change MON debate including Tony Blair, Lord Lawson, Professor Bob MON Watson, former diplomat Sir Crispin Tickell and the MON influential blogger Steve McIntyre. MON MON And he asks how political leaders make decisions on the MON basis of uncertain science. MON MON Producer: Daniel Tetlow. MON MON 09:30 The Curse of the Number Two b00sv6vk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Nick Clegg's meteoric rise to become Deputy Prime Minister MON has brought into sharp focus the role of the number two. MON It's not always an enviable position. So why, in British MON politics, does the deputy so rarely reach the summit? And MON why, when he does, does it usually end in disaster? Think of MON Michael Foot or Anthony Eden. These programmes talk to a MON number of the politicians who became deputy leader of their MON party or even Deputy Prime Minister but who just didn't MON reach the summit -- people like Roy Hattersley, Michael MON Heseltine, Shirley Williams, Margaret Beckett and Geoffrey MON Howe. Some never really wanted the job in the first place, MON others found it an exciting experience from which they MON learned a lot. One likens it to a bucket of warm spit, only MON worse. So is there a jinx on the role of the deputy? The MON political commentator, Julia Langdon, finds out in The Curse MON of the Number Two. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00thw3j (Listen) MON Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode 1 MON MON The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect MON irreverently and humourously on New Labour's last term in MON office. Today, dismissed from government Mullin MON contemplates a future at the lower foothills of political life. MON MON Chris Mullin is the former MP for Sunderland South, a MON journalist and author. His books include the first volume MON of his acclaimed diaries, "A View From the Foothills." He MON also wrote the thriller, "A Very British Coup", with the MON television version winning BAFTA and Emmy awards. He was a MON minister in three departments, Environment, Transport and MON Regions, International Development and The Foreign Office. MON MON The reader is Sam Dale. MON The abridger is Penny Leicester. MON The producer is Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00thwrm (Listen) MON A programme devoted to the history, politics and colour of MON hair. We explore how it's been used to indicate status, MON power and politics throughout the ages and across cultures. MON We focus on the lengths and money some black women will go MON to achieve longer, smoother straighter 'good hair' using MON relaxers, weaves and wigs and also how many women refuse to MON go grey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thwrr (Listen) MON Dusty Answer, Episode 1 MON MON Rosamund Lehmann's first novel Dusty Answer records the MON education of Judith Earle, the only child of an academic MON father and socialite mother. Judith grew up in the seclusion MON of a large riverside house in the Thames Valley. The house MON next door is occupied from time to time by the Fyfe family MON whose children - cousins Charlie, Roddy, Julian and Martin MON drift in and out of her life. MON MON Part One sees Judith reminiscing about her childhood where MON the seeds of her strong friendship with the cousins are MON laid. Many years have passed and the cousins return in MON adolescence for an atmospheric day of skating on the pond. MON MON Narrator ..... Julia Hills MON Judith ..... Rosina Carbone MON Charlie ..... Jack Farthing MON Martin ..... Oliver Gomm MON Julian ..... Tom Ferguson MON Gardener ..... Stephen Tomlin MON MON Directed by Susan Roberts. MON MON 11:00 Scientists Go To Hollywood b00tj5qk (Listen) MON Adam Rutherford heads to tinseltown to talk to the MON scientists who have left the lab for the glamour of the filmset. MON Although the silverscreen may not be known for its MON scientific accuracy, in recent years hollywood does seem to MON have come calling, where science is concerned. A growing MON number of scientists seem to be taking time out of their day MON job to advise hollywood directors and producers on the MON portrayal of science, and scientists, in some very well MON known films and TV series. MON MON Adam visits the set of one of the most well known science MON based TV shows, CSI NewYork to meet the writer and MON co-producer, himself a former forensic scientist. He talks MON to physicist Brian Cox about his role as science advisor to MON the Danny Boyle directed movie Sunshine. He meets the new MON wave of hollywood movie makers who are turning to the real MON life scientists to help improve not only the image of MON science on screen, but to inspire some of their most MON fantastical plot line, and finds out whether factually MON incorrect science in the movies really matters? MON MON According to the US National Academy of Science, it does. So MON much so that they have now set up a programme specifically MON designed to help their scientists work with the MON entertainment industry, to improve and foster a positive MON image of science on screen. Adam meets the producer of one MON of this year's biggest hollywood blockbuster about his MON ambition to keep the science fact in the science fiction as MON accurate as possible, and how the scientists he worked with MON came up with some far more intriguing plot twists and turns MON than anything his writers could have dreamt up. MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 11:30 HR b00tj5qm (Listen) MON Series 2, Dogging MON MON Sam, determined to help depressed Peter find a sense of MON purpose in his retirement, gets him a dog. But will the MON scruffy mongrel help Peter? Or will it add to his aggression MON and sense of injustice? MON MON Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce MON Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost MON Nasty Man ..... Tony Bell MON Woman ..... Christine Kavanagh MON Man ..... Sam Dale MON MON Director: Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 12:00 Humph Celebration Concert b00tj5qp (Listen) MON Humphrey Lyttelton's son Stephen introduces an evening in MON celebration of his father, the acclaimed jazz musician, band MON leader and much-loved host of Radio 4's perennial antidote MON to panel games 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'. MON MON An all-star cast of friends and admirers drawn from the MON worlds of music and comedy includes Wally Fawkes, Stacey MON Kent, Tim Brooke-Talyor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Tony MON Hawks, Andy Hamilton, Sandi Toksvig, Jeremy Hardy, Rob MON Brydon, Jack Dee, Elkie Brooks, Jools Holland, Charlie Watts MON the Humphrey Lyttelton Band. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON The Humph Trust production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00thxr6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00thxwj (Listen) MON National and international news with Edward Stourton. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00tj5w1 (Listen) MON (5/12) Tom Sutcliffe asks the trademark cryptic questions in MON the latest heat of the long-running quiz. The Welsh team of MON David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander compete with the Scots, MON Alan Taylor and Michael Alexander. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00thqv1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dl0k1 (Listen) MON Caesar Price our Lord MON MON By Fin Kennedy MON MON Illusionist Caesar Price has reproduced nearly all of the MON miracles of Jesus and built a massive cult following but is MON he prepared for what will happen when he decides to stage MON the crucifixion? MON MON In a near-future London, society is in distress. In the MON midst of climate chaos, people are seeking solace in the MON promises of new strains of religion. Illusionist Caesar MON Price has already walked on water; resurrected people from MON the dead and fed thousands from one tin of sardines. When he MON announces that his next 'miracle' will be the crucifixion MON and eventual resurrection a media frenzy erupts. Is Caesar MON Price merely an illusionist or is there something more? MON MON Caesar.....Lee Ingleby MON Sam.....Aidan Parsons MON Lois.....Emma Cunniffe MON Mum.....Joanne Mitchell MON Dad/Ben.....Conrad Nelson MON Alan/Pastor.....Robert Pickavance MON Barry.....David Fleeshman MON Judy.....Carla Henry MON MON Original music by Jon Nicholls MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00tf10h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 When I Grow Up b00qpl4s (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Forty years ago 14,000 youngsters across Britain were asked MON to write about where they saw themselves in the future - MON their jobs, family lives, belongings, living environments MON and leisure pursuits. Those essays have now been followed up MON by the Nuffield Foundation as a way of finding out how far MON ambition at an early age shapes what happens in later life. MON MON This is the first time that media access has been granted to MON those who have taken part in their research. As well as MON evidence of ambition the essays offer lovely detail about MON how the eleven year olds imagined life would be at 25, with MON one writing: "my husband would have just won £200 so we MON decided to go to the moon for our holiday while we had not MON got any children." MON MON The series covers the following five areas: jobs, family MON lives, living environments, leisure pursuits and belongings MON that they imagined owning when first studied. The findings MON suggest that children who are ambitious go on to enjoy MON greater success than those with lower aspirations. Once MON background and ability were accounted for, children did MON better if they set themselves lofty goals. MON MON It reveals that, even if a child is economically MON disadvantaged or less able, having high ambitions at around MON the time they leave primary school means that they are MON significantly more likely to have a professional job, though MON not necessarily the one that they predicted. MON MON Producer: Sue Mitchell. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00thmvc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00tj74q (Listen) MON The origins of the universe MON MON Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place of faith in our MON complex world. MON MON Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss how their own MON religious or non faith tradition affects their values and MON outlook on the world, often revealing hidden and MON contradictory truths. MON MON In this programme, Ernie's guests discuss what an MON understanding of the Big Bang Theory proves about the MON existence or not of God. How is the search for the so-called MON "God particle" or Higgs Boson taking shape at the Large MON Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland and what are the MON implications for its discovery? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss this are Professor Jeff Forshaw MON from Manchester University, Reverend Dr David Wilkinson from MON St John's College, Durham and Dr Usama Hasan from Middlesex MON University. Providing some light relief is the comedian and MON atheist, Robin Ince. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00tj4k2 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tj4lm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00tj74s (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 5 MON MON Popular panel game in which guests attempt to speak for a MON minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. Recorded MON at the Edinburgh Fringe festival with guests Paul merton, MON Jenny Eclair, Fred Macaulay and Stephen K. Amos. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00thy3k (Listen) MON Lilian makes a snap judgement and Lynda is shocked by the MON behaviour of her B&B guests. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00tj4mz (Listen) MON A Front Row Special with Michael Frayn MON MON Playwright and novelist Michael Frayn talks to Mark Lawson MON about his childhood and his career, in the light of a MON newly-published memoir about his father. MON MON Producer Ella-Mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thwrr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b00tj74v (Listen) MON In the last of the current series Mike Thomson investigates MON how Britain covertly manipulated the democratic process in MON its South American colony, then known as British Guiana in MON the run up to its independence in 1966. Mike discovers new MON documents which show that they deliberately scuppered the MON outcome of their own conference organised to determine the MON country's future. MON MON On the face of it the conference, held in London in October MON 1963, was designed to confirm the constitutional future for MON what was then British Guiana. Publicly Britain encouraged MON the country's Prime Minister Dr Cheddi Jagan - who had been MON fairly elected in 1961 - and the leader of the opposition MON Linden Forbes Burnham to agree terms for independence. MON However, behind the scenes, the documents reveal that the MON British were working to a different outcome - to ensure that MON agreement was never reached. MON MON The British, under pressure from the Kennedy administration MON which feared Dr Jagan's Marxist leanings, were determined MON that he would not lead the country to independence. To this MON end they suggested a form of proportional representation in MON forthcoming elections, knowing full well that Dr Jagan would MON not agree to these terms as they would favour his rival. MON When the conference ended in deadlock as the British hoped MON it would, PR was duly implemented and the following year Dr MON Jagan was ousted much to the relief of the super powers. MON MON Mike talks to historians, eye witnesses and Guyanese MON commentators today to discover how democracy itself was MON destroyed in British Guiana and the legacy of these shady MON days in today's modern Guyana. MON MON Producer: Paula McGinley. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00tgwl9 (Listen) MON Luol Deng is a giant - both physically and in the world of MON American professional basketball where is one of the biggest MON stars, and reportedly Barack Obama's favourite player. He MON was born in South Sudan but had to flee as a child because MON of his father's political activities. His family moved to MON Brixton where Luol's talents on the basketball court were MON spotted as a teenager. He's now established a charity MON working with the "lost boys" of Sudan - young men who have MON lived their entire lives in refugee camps after fleeing the MON country as children. Now Sudan is facing the prospects of MON partition, with a referendum next year expected to endorse MON splitting the mainly Christian South from the mainly Muslim MON North. Tim Franks joins Luol Deng as he returns to Sudan to MON assess the prospects for peace - and of course to show his MON skills with a basketball. MON Producer: Edward Main. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00tgwlm (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week he finds out why it will MON take so long to reach the trapped miners in Chile. He MON catches up on the infestation of the Horse Chestnut Tree by MON tiny parasitic moths and also why our current thinking on MON how Black Holes are formed could be all wrong. And he talks MON to one of our So you want to be scientist finalists about MON the results from his experiments. Will Sam be able to to MON tell where the safest place to be in a crowd at a rock MON concert is? MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 Uncertain Climate b00tj525 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00tj4rw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00tj4sb (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 b00tk91m (Listen) MON And the Land Lay Still, Episode 6 MON MON Written and abridged by James Robertson. MON MON Second narrative strand from James Robertson's monumental MON new novel which portrays the last six decades of Scotland's MON social and political landscape through the lives of a MON handful of characters. MON MON This week, the action is set in 1950 and the story focuses MON on the friendship between Don and Jack - two men in their MON thirties from the same village in Fife. The men have two key MON things in common: they get on the same bus to work each MON morning and they both served in World War Two. Don in MON Europe, Jack in the Far East. MON MON Five years on, the war still casts a shadow but the men deal MON with its after-effects in very different ways. MON MON Read by Liam Brennan. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00tg2sp (Listen) MON With just two years remaining until London's Olympic Games MON start, the search for volunteers with language skills has MON begun. Presenter Chris Ledgard travels to St Pancras station MON to meet Seb Coe, Boris Johnson and LOCOG chief executive MON Paul Deighton to hear about the two schemes - Games Makers MON and Ambassadors for London. "You don't need a degree in MON Mandarin" says Boris Johnson, but what language skills are MON required ? Chris also talks to gold medal winner Sally MON Gunnell about the need for translators in previous games, MON and also to Professor Joe Lo Bianco in Australia. Joe was MON heavily involved in the planning for the Sydney Olympics, MON which set a benchmark in getting language requirements MON correct. Does Joe think the London organisers have left MON enough time to get everything in place ? MON MON 23:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00mlw59 (Listen) MON Crispin Biggerstaffe MON MON Ian McDiarmid stars as Dr Henry Pickerskill retired English MON master of Haunchurst School for boys, looking back on his MON most favourite pupils and their fortunes in the adult world MON based on their school reports and their letters to him after MON they left. MON MON Pickerskill is forced by the Warden, A.R.F. MON Somerset-Stephenson to intercept intimate letters left MON carelessly by a love sick pupil as they threaten to expose MON and embarrass the boy's father, a well-known Conservative MP. MON MON Dr Henry Pickerskill ..... Ian McDiarmid MON Crispin Biggerstaffe ..... James Rowland MON ARF Somerset-Stephenson ..... Mike Sarne MON Chadwick ..... Tom Kane MON Calman ..... Louis Williams MON Mrs Pickerskill / Bernadette Feane ..... Abigail Hollick MON MON Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. MON MON Producer: Nick Romero MON A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 AUGUST 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00thrh9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00thw3j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00thrl2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00thsky (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00thrqp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00thsry (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00thswp (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00thvqp (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin TUE Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00thvrx (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 ... b00tj7rg (Listen) TUE Series 3, The Public Library TUE TUE Question: Where can you go to reduce your fear of crime, TUE have a massage, ring a church bell, get some information TUE about council tax, and engage in some heavy petting without TUE being told off? TUE TUE Quentin Letts is surprised and sometimes disheartened by the TUE answer; a library. TUE TUE Of course, you can borrow a book as well, but campaigners TUE argue that - with some authorities spending less than ten TUE per cent of their library budgets on books -something has TUE gone very wrong with the way the service is being managed. TUE TUE Public Libraries have come a long way since Manchester TUE opened the first in the 1850s. But where is the service TUE going? Gleaming new buildings have opened in Newcastle, TUE Whitechapel and Brighton - but more than 80 other libraries TUE have been closed in the last five years; an age of public TUE spending cuts surely means more. TUE TUE Former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, campaigner Tim TUE Coates and Arts minister Edward Vaizey join Quentin Letts TUE as he asks, what's the point of the public library? TUE TUE 09:30 How The Mighty Have Fallen b00tj826 (Listen) TUE Diets Through The Ages TUE TUE "He that dieteth himself, prolongeth his life" - TUE Ecclesiastes. TUE TUE Dr Hilary Jones continues his series on the history of TUE obesity with a look at diets and dieting through the ages. TUE TUE "It is very injurious to health to take in more food than TUE the constitution will bear, when at the same time, one uses TUE no exercise to carry off this excess" - Hippocrates, TUE millennia ahead of his time, defining the energy balance TUE equation. Plutarch, in 1AD, recognised the link between TUE weight and health: "thin people are generally the most TUE healthy; we should not therefore indulge our appetites with TUE delicacies or high living, for fear of growing corpulent". TUE TUE Twenty years on from the Battle of Hastings, William the TUE Conqueror grew too large to ride his horse, and decided to TUE lose weight by consuming nothing but alcohol. Other historic TUE diets include Cheyne's lettuce diet, Fletcherising - "nature TUE will castigate those who don't masticate", and Banting. TUE William Banting lost almost a quarter of his weight in a few TUE weeks by adopting a diet "low in farinaceous food" - a TUE precursor of the modern low-carbohydrate diet. His 1863 diet TUE book was a top-seller. TUE TUE And we hear about the extraordinary exploits of the Great TUE Eater of Kent, a "Tugmutton" who could eat an entire sheep TUE in one sitting. There are interviews with Dr Susan Jebb of TUE MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge, and Prof David TUE Haslam of the National Obesity Forum, plus readings and TUE music - a popular song from 1929 encapsulating the new craze TUE in America: the grapefruit diet. 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 b00thw3l (Listen) TUE Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode 2 TUE TUE The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect TUE irreverently and humourously on New Labour's last term in TUE office. Today, it is 2006 and Mullin looks back on Tony TUE Blair's premiership, and the events leading up to Labour's TUE Black Wednesday. TUE TUE The reader is Sam Dale. TUE The abridger is Penny Leicester. TUE The producer is Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00thw7h (Listen) TUE Choirmaster Gareth Malone talks about his new TV series TUE "Extraordinary School for Boys" set at a primary school in TUE Essex where he discovers that many of the boys would do TUE anything rather than sit through a literacy lesson.His TUE solution to this problem is to start them on a programme of TUE physical exercise, outdoor lessons and healthy competition. TUE We hear about the history of Klezmer music and there'll be TUE live music from Hilda Bronstein. What's hot and what's not TUE in teen fiction at the moment and we discuss the future of TUE the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority. Presented TUE by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thwrp (Listen) TUE Dusty Answer, Episode 2 TUE TUE Part Two. Judith realises the Fyfe cousins have returned to TUE the house next door during a midnight swim in the river TUE which joins both gardens . After days spent dancing, playing TUE the piano and getting to know her neighbours again an TUE unexpected telegram arrives form her mother in Paris. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00tj829 (Listen) TUE Episode 18 TUE TUE 18/40 We come back on air with a special feature about TUE swifts recorded in the tower that legendary ornithologist TUE David Lack studied the species. Over the run of Saving TUE Species we have been making special features about past TUE abundance of animals and plants in the British landscape. TUE This week we reflect on Swifts. Swifts are often seen as the TUE bird of the towns and cities. We hear their "chatting" call TUE as they swirl and hawk in the sky for insects. Many are now TUE heading south to Africa but that late summer spectacle in TUE the UK is still with us, if you include the swallows and TUE martins as they group up in the sky grabbing their last meal TUE before heading south. In this programme we hear that nest TUE site availability in the UK is as much an issue for swift TUE survival as the many challenges they face migrating to and TUE wintering in Africa. TUE TUE In this programme we also hear about Southern Ocean Krill. TUE TUE And an ancient beast living in the foot prints of cattle in TUE Scotland - The Tadpole Shrimp. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Ford Madox Ford and France b00tj82c (Listen) TUE Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee on The Good Soldier TUE TUE Ford Madox Ford said France "begins on the Left Bank of the TUE Seine" and described Provence as "a frame of mind". His last TUE lover, the painter Biala, said "we grow our own vegetables, TUE we have six (not very magnificent) rooms, and a garden with TUE the finest view in the world". TUE TUE Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee visit Aix-en-Provence to TUE explore the life of Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good TUE Soldier and - 4 years before his death in 1939 - of a book TUE about Provence which includes descriptions of bull-fighting, TUE a recipe for bouillabaisse, an argument about the TUE Albigensian religious heresy and a history of troubadour poetry. TUE TUE Hermione Lee explores the way these interests are woven into TUE the plot of his best known book - The Good Soldier - "a tale TUE of two couples with additional victims who come into their TUE orbit -and it's about adultery, betrayal madness, suicide, TUE desperate love" which she believes is a book about TUE Albigensian beliefs. TUE TUE Julian Barnes explains that "the great emotional smash of TUE Ford's own life was in 1924 when he received a contribution TUE from the Transatlantic Review from a young woman" who was TUE then called Ella Lenglet. He gave her work the title "Triple TUE Sec" and gave her the pen-name Jean Rhys. "She had three TUE francs, a cardboard suitcase and a lot of talent, her TUE husband was in jail and the bad move was to move her in with TUE him and Stella Bowen." All four parties in this affair then TUE wrote books which depicted their tangled relationships. TUE TUE The programme ends by considering his end. When he arrived TUE in France in 1922, Ford was one of over five hundred TUE mourners to attend the funeral of Proust. In June 1939 Ford TUE was taken ill, en route to his beloved South of France, and TUE buried at a ceremony in the port town of Deauville attended TUE by only 3 people. TUE TUE Producer: Robyn Read TUE Reader: Kerry Shale. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00thxg0 (Listen) TUE On Call You and Yours this week we pose the question: Is it TUE worthwhile learning another language? If you speak a few TUE words of French, German or Chinese, or maybe you're even TUE fluent in them, we what to know how and why you mastered it. TUE TUE How does this skill improve your life? Does having another TUE language help you get under the skin of another country, TUE make international friends, and even boost your business? TUE TUE Or perhaps you've struggled, or not even bothered, to learn TUE another langauge, relying on others to speak English. After TUE all, plenty of people abroad speak good English, don't they, TUE and relish any opportunity to practise! TUE TUE Email: youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines TUE open at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00thxg2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00thxr8 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Edward Stourton. TUE TUE 13:30 Serbian Trumpets b00tj82f (Listen) TUE With composer and musician, Llywelyn Ap Myrddin we travel to TUE Guca, officially the Dragacevo Trumpet Festival, a hundred TUE miles south of Belgrade, to explore the sound and culture of TUE this distinctly Balkan music. Played by Roma and Serbs TUE alike, Guca is about the only place the two cultures TUE tolerate one another. TUE TUE With BBC correspondent Allan Little, the programme reports TUE on the culture and character of the Serbs; following the TUE history of trumpet music which, at the Guca Festival runs TUE parallel with the history of Serbia. The festival began as TUE an expression of Serbian culture, which the founders wanted TUE to celebrate and which had, to some extent, along with other TUE ethnic music through Yugoslavia, been suppressed in the big, TUE "we are one people" efforts of Tito . TUE TUE With great emotion for their heritage set against the TUE absorption of Serbian traditions into wider Yugoslavia, the TUE festival became a focus for Serbian trumpeters, but since TUE the recent civil war, other nations in the Balkans have been TUE invited to take part. TUE TUE The different styles of music create an incredible musical TUE range; the slower, heavier Kolo originating in the West of TUE Serbia, to the heady swirl of dissonant melodies with an TUE oriental flavour, that comes with the Roma Orchestras in the TUE South, to the faster Romanian dance music that originates in TUE the east. TUE TUE Crucially, music is centre stage - neither Tito or Milosovic TUE were permitted to attend Guca Festival. We will record the TUE great Roma trumpet players: Boban Markovic, famous worldwide TUE for his music in Emir Kusturica's films; along with his son TUE Marco. Sarajevo born, Goran Bregovic along with Golden TUE trumpet winners and musicians who gather at this TUE extraordinary event. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Bland TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00thy3k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tj82h (Listen) TUE Pilgrim, series 2, The Drowned Church TUE TUE By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. TUE TUE Pilgrim comes to Skaymer, a seaside town in Norfolk, to TUE investigate the strange appearance of a young man believed TUE drowned in the great flood of 1757. TUE TUE William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton TUE Helen ..... Claire Price TUE Doris ..... Judy Parfitt TUE Zach ..... William Gaunt TUE Aaron ..... Luke Treadaway TUE Freya ..... Rachael Spence TUE Mr Hazelbury ..... Sean Baker TUE Hendry ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Mrs Squires ..... Sally Orrock TUE Legend ..... Agnes Bateman TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00tj83g (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge and the team follow up more questions TUE and research sent in by listeners that help us to understand TUE some of the bigger stories from our past. TUE TUE Today, the little known secret army of 'coders' who were TUE trained to listen to Russian military radio communications. TUE Such was the secrecy surrounding these operations that those TUE taking part had little idea just how big an operation they TUE were involved in and that it was all organised by the TUE fledgling GCHQ. TUE TUE We travel back to 16th century Warwickshire and the weeks TUE after the birth of world-famous playwright William TUE Shakespeare to ask why his mother didn't attend his TUE christening and what this tells us about the place of women TUE and their role in the family at this time. TUE TUE We continue our journey to Cresswell Crags near Worksop in TUE Nottinghamshire to find out how to identify flint tools and TUE there's news of a new on-line archive which wants people to TUE submit material they might have on Anglo-Saxon Britain. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tj89s (Listen) TUE Foster, Episode 1 TUE TUE By Claire Keegan TUE TUE Abridged by Neville Teller TUE TUE A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love TUE by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers. A small girl is TUE sent to live with her mother's people on a farm in rural TUE Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the TUE strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has TUE not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. TUE And then a secret is revealed, and suddenly, she realizes TUE how fragile her idyll is. TUE TUE Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster will be TUE published in a revised and expanded version by Faber on 2nd TUE September 2010. Beautiful, sad and eerie, it is a story of TUE astonishing emotional depth, showcasing Claire Keegan's TUE great accomplishment and talent. TUE TUE Claire Keegan's first collection of short stories, TUE 'Antarctica', was completed in 1998 and was awarded the TUE Rooney Prize for Literature. Her second short story TUE collection, 'Walk the Blue Fields', was published to TUE enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge TUE Hill Prize for Short Stories. Claire Keegan lives in County TUE Louth, Ireland. TUE TUE 'Foster' is read by Evanna Lynch, best known to many for her TUE portrayal of Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films. TUE TUE Producer Heather Larmour TUE TUE 15:45 When I Grow Up b00qvl2l (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Forty years ago 14,000 youngsters across Britain were asked TUE to write about where they saw themselves in the future - TUE their jobs, family lives, belongings, living environments TUE and leisure pursuits. Those essays have now been followed up TUE by the Nuffield Foundation as a way of finding out how far TUE ambition at an early age shapes what happens in later life. TUE TUE This is the first time that media access has been granted to TUE those who have taken part in their research. As well as TUE evidence of ambition the essays offer lovely detail about TUE how the eleven year olds imagined life would be at 25, with TUE one writing: "my husband would have just won £200 so we TUE decided to go to the moon for our holiday while we had not TUE got any children." TUE TUE The series covers the following five areas: jobs, family TUE lives, living environments, leisure pursuits and belongings TUE that they imagined owning when first studied. The findings TUE suggest that children who are ambitious go on to enjoy TUE greater success than those with lower aspirations. Once TUE background and ability were accounted for, children did TUE better if they set themselves lofty goals. TUE TUE It reveals that, even if a child is economically TUE disadvantaged or less able, having high ambitions at around TUE the time they leave primary school means that they are TUE significantly more likely to have a professional job, though TUE not necessarily the one that they predicted. TUE TUE Producer: Sue Mitchell. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00tj94q (Listen) TUE Every two weeks another language becomes extinct and, TUE according to UNESCO, more than 2400 languages spoken today TUE are endangered and will probably vanish by the end of the TUE century. In this edition of Word of Mouth Chris Ledgard TUE meets some of those who are dedicating their lives to TUE maintaining global linguistic diversity. These include Dr TUE Mark Turin, the founder of the Oral Literature Project in TUE Cambridge who works with Thangmi speakers in a remote region TUE of Nepal; Dr Stephen Leonard who is preparing to spend a TUE year in Northern Greenland with a community whose language TUE is threatened as an indirect consequence of global warming; TUE and Dr Julia Sallabank who is working to preserve TUE Guernesiais, a language unique to the island of Guernsey. TUE According to the 2001 census, it was spoken by just 2% of TUE the population. Producer Paul Dodgson. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00tjb1h (Listen) TUE Series 22, Simone Weil TUE TUE Simone Weil - mystic, social activist, and sort of latter TUE day saint - is one of the more unexpected recent choices for TUE Great Lives. She is remembered chiefly these days for her TUE writings and the controversy over whether she starved TUE herself to death, at the age of 34. But for Eleanor Bron she TUE remains the supreme example of someone who lived her life TUE according to her ideals. TUE Born in 1909 in Paris, Simone Weil chose to work in TUE factories, volunteered for the anarchist militia in the TUE Spanish Civil War, and tried to persuade General de Gaulle TUE in the Second World War to parachute nurses onto the TUE frontline. She seemed permanently compelled to identify with TUE suffering, but not, argues Eleanor Bron, in a preachy way. TUE Grahame Davies, who based his first novel on Simone Weil's TUE life, largely agrees. TUE Eleanor Bron's career began with satire at the Establishment TUE Club. She appeared alongside the Beatles in Help - her name TUE is said to have inspired McCartney's Eleanor Rigby - and on TUE television she has featured in Yes Minister, Doctor Who, TUE Absolutely Fabulous, and so the list goes on. The presenter TUE is Matthew Parris, and the producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00tj4hs (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 b00tj4k4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00m4472 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Limerick TUE TUE In the last of the series, an interminable flight with a TUE very baffling cargo gives our crew the opportunity to pass TUE the time by alternately opening their hearts up to each TUE other and persuading Arthur not to play charades... 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 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 b00thy35 (Listen) TUE Fallon gets defensive and Kirsty helps to boost Helen's TUE stress levels. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00tj4lp (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Oscar-winning TUE actress Juliette Binoche, who discusses her role in the film TUE Certified Copy, from Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. TUE TUE Producer Gavin Heard. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thwrp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Divided Britain b00tjb1k (Listen) TUE In 2006, Radio 4 was given access to a ground breaking TUE education scheme in East Lancashire which aimed to improve TUE GCSE results and break down divisions in an area where white TUE and Asian families live separate, parallel lives. TUE Following the disturbances in Burnley in the summer of 2001, TUE schools were identified as having a crucial role in TUE promoting community cohesion. Lancashire County Council was TUE given the go ahead to close 11 schools and reopen them as 8 TUE new community colleges each with the aim of being a hub for TUE the neighbourhood, where Asian and white families would come TUE together and get to know each other. The last of those £25 TUE million buildings are due to open in September. TUE Marsden Heights Community College in Nelson moved into its TUE new facilities after Easter. Head teacher Mike Tull is TUE excited by the opportunities that the building brings and TUE hopes it will help engage parents in the area. But what are TUE the challenges he faces in breaking down cultural barriers TUE in the former mill towns of Brierfield and Nelson? TUE Since the scheme began his school has gone from being 60% TUE Asian students to nearly 80% and he says many white parents TUE choose other schools for their children because of prejudice TUE not standards of education. Locals already describe Marsden TUE Heights as "the Asian school". And now a charity is looking TUE to open an Islamic girls school nearby which many say TUE threatens to further segregate young people. TUE Can these new "superschools" make a difference or are racial TUE divisions becoming more entrenched? TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth TUE Presenter: Gerry Northam. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00tjdnv (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00tjdnx (Listen) TUE It's been estimated that 10% of patients in hospital TUE experience something that could cause them medical harm. TUE Many of these mistakes occur in the operating theatre. Since TUE February 2010 the NHS in England and Wales has introduced TUE the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist for every patient TUE undergoing a surgical procedure, following research that TUE showed its application reduced the number of adverse events. TUE Mark Porter looks into how the checklist makes a difference. TUE TUE Other common mistakes are the result of patients being given TUE the wrong drugs or the wrong dosage of drugs. Mark finds out TUE how medical teams report incidents. Can they learn how to TUE avoid further mistakes from other organisations? TUE TUE Producer: Deborah Cohen. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of ... b00tj7rg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00tj4r1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00tj4ry (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 b00tk91p (Listen) TUE And the Land Lay Still, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written and abridged by James Robertson. TUE TUE Read by Liam Brennan. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 23:00 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tjdnz (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Witness Statement: there's been a robbery, and character TUE comedian Nick Mohammed (Reggie Perrin, Sorry I've Got No TUE Head) dons a police helmet and takes statements. Colin Hoult TUE and Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) co-star as the unhappy couple TUE called on to testify. TUE TUE Bits is a series of character pieces showcasing the best of TUE Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters in a series of one TUE off comic plays. TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd. TUE TUE 23:30 Tickets Please b00p5xc2 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE By Mark Maier TUE TUE After delays caused by lightning, a twenty-piece orchestra TUE in coach G practices. This offers Robin a plangent TUE background for his declaration of love. But can he seize his chance? TUE TUE Robin..................Jeremy Swift TUE Nadine...................Alex Kelly TUE Peter..............Malcolm Tierney TUE Carol..............Tessa Nicholson TUE Carl................Nicholas Boulton TUE Diana...............Melissa Advani TUE Linda...................Kate Layden TUE Keith...............Stephen Hogan TUE Other parts played by Philip Fox, Piers Wehner and Joseph TUE Cohen-Cole TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00thrhc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00thw3l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00thrl4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00thsl0 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00thrqr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00thss0 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00thswr (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00thvqr (Listen) WED Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anne Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b00thvrz (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00tjf52 (Listen) WED Series 3, Future Conditional WED WED Stephen Fry on the future of English. WED WED As English continues to grow and spread, the influences of WED the places around the world where it has been adopted are WED being reimported. As Stephen puts it, "we exported brown WED Windsor soup and re-imported mulligatawny. We exported clogs WED - back came tap dancing". The McDonald's slogan "I'm Loving WED it" is an example. So is the youth-speak Jafaican. WED WED This continual process means we can predict some changes in WED the way we use language. Dr David Crystal, a world WED authority, thinks the sound "th" might disappear. The very WED rhythms of our speech might change, and our vocabulary WED certainly will. WED WED The other huge influence on the way English will change WED relates to technology. The programme features computer WED programmes that "read" text. They do this not just to show WED off. The London School of Economics employs a computer WED programme to read text in the service of research. So WED computers will, in some sense, join the swelling billions WED who use English. WED WED But will they - can they - ever "understand" English well WED enough for them to read and understand a novel? Professor WED Margaret Boden, a leader in the field is doubtful. She and WED Microsoft search engineer Ron Kaplan discuss a test for WED computers, in the shape of this sentence: "Is the duck ready WED to eat?" WED WED Nobody knows exactly how English will change, or whether we WED might, as time travellers, recognise it 200 years hence. But WED speculating about it is endless fun. WED WED Producer: Nick Baker WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:30 Head to Head b00tjf54 (Listen) WED Series 2, Malcolm X and James Farmer WED WED Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast WED debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great WED minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day WED politics. WED WED In this last episode, two leading black activists clash at WED the very height of the Civil Rights movement. It was summer WED 1963 when the radical Muslim Malcolm X met mainstream WED campaigner James Farmer. They were fired up by the same WED ideals but were divided on how to achieve them. Malcolm X WED demanded the creation of an all-black nation, by violent WED means if necessary. Farmer believed in de-segregation WED through peaceful protest and the law - using the US WED constitution to fulfill its promise of an America free for all men. WED WED Whether segregation still exists today is up for question. WED In the studio dissecting the debate are the author Bonnie WED Greer, who was a teenager in 1960s Chicago, and Dr Stephen WED Tuck, lecturer in American Studies at Oxford University. WED WED Producer: Dominic Byrne WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00thw3n (Listen) WED Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode 3 WED WED The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect WED irreverently and humourously on New Labour's last term in WED office. Today, Tony Blair's final days as Prime Minister. WED WED The reader is Sam Dale. WED The abridger is Penny Leicester. WED The producer is Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00thw7k (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. From Alexis Colby to Catwoman - WED what makes a female baddie? Actress Claire Skinner on her WED new play 'Deathtrap'. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thxcp (Listen) WED Dusty Answer, Episode 3 WED WED Part Three. Judith arrives in Cambridge and can't find her WED room. She wonders how she will settle down but soon meets WED fellow student Jennifer who is to become a great friend. WED During the winter snow, Roddy comes to visit .. WED WED Directed by Susan Roberts. WED WED 11:00 Case Study b00tjf56 (Listen) WED Series 2, Dora: The Girl Who Walked Out On Freud 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 Dora was the pseudonym Sigmund Freud gave to the teenage WED girl who claimed that her father had offered her to his WED friend in exchange for the continued sexual favours of the WED friend's wife. Freud used this, his first case history, to WED show how the interpretation of dreams could be used in WED analysis. Also to illustrate his new theory of infant WED sexuality, and to explain transference. Although Freud said WED he believed Dora's account of the adults' love triangle, WED Dora ended the analysis after just 11 weeks. Freud wrote up WED his account immediately, but didn't publish it until 1905, WED as Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria. WED WED In the 1970s the case was taken up by feminists to discredit WED Freud's theories. Claire Pajaczkowska made a film about it: WED Dora: A Case of Mistaken Identity. She speaks about it to WED Claudia Hammond in the Freud Museum, Sigmund Freud's former WED London home. WED WED American psychoanalyst, Karin Ahbel-Rappe, asserts that WED Dora, a vulnerable teenager, was badly let down by Freud. So WED does Anthony Stadlen, a psychotherapist who has researched WED the real people behind the pseudonyms in Freud's case WED histories. Dora was in fact Ida Bauer, later Ida Adler, and WED the image of the self-obsessed hysteric perpetuated by Freud WED and his followers was apparently untrue. WED WED Janet Sayers, Professor of Psychoanalytic Psychology at the WED University of Kent, and Michael Billig, Professor of Social WED Science at Loughborough University, also feature in the WED programme. WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:30 Mum's on the Run b00tjf58 (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 Volunteering to do the Crocodile Walk into school to get WED brownie points with the other mothers, is not Jen's idea of WED fun in torrential rain. A quiet parent's evening becomes a WED farcical attempt by Jen and ex-husband Keith to recreate the WED execution of Charles 1. WED WED Jen ..... Ronni Ancona WED Mr Rigby ..... John Gordon Sinclair WED Shelly ..... Alexis Zegerman WED Vivienne/ Shania's Mum ..... Christine Kavanagh WED Keith ..... Kevin Eldon WED Felicity ..... Amy Dabrowa WED Toby ..... Alexander Heath WED Karina ..... Amaya Rowlands WED Connor ..... Pip Woolley WED Shania ..... Matilda Palmer WED David ..... Mischa Goodman WED Adam .....Caleb Hughes WED WED Writer Alexis Zegerman WED Producer Dawn Ellis. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00thxdx (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00thxg4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00thxrb (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00tjf5b (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 b00thy35 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tjf5d (Listen) WED The Great Swim WED WED Drama by Gavin Mortimer. WED WED In the roaring twenties the world was changing at an WED electric pace. In science, commerce and art, everything WED seemed possible and the challenges were there to be WED confronted. By 1926, only five men had ever conquered the WED English Channel, and the race to become the first woman to WED swim the Channel captivated two continents. Many doubted WED that a woman could do it. WED WED Gertrude Ederle, a brilliant young swimmer, was the WED 19-year-old daughter of a German migrant to the United WED States. Her father Henry Ederle ran a successful butcher's WED business in New York. Ederle's cross-channel swim was WED sponsored by the New York Daily News. WED WED The News sent a crime reporter, Julia Harpman, to accompany WED the swimmer and cover the story and this drama is told WED through Julia's eyes. WED WED Cast WED Julia Harpman ..... Madeleine Potter WED Trudy Ederle ..... Emily Bruni WED Lillian Cannon ..... Samantha Dakin WED Bill Burgess/Rutherford ..... Philip Jackson WED Arthur Sorensen ..... Nathan Nolan WED Joe Costa/Frank Pegler/Williams ..... Sam Dale WED Henry "Pop" Ederle/Abbot ..... Nathan Osgood WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b00th8xn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tj89v (Listen) WED Foster, Episode 2 WED WED By Claire Keegan WED WED Abridged by Neville Teller WED WED Producer Heather Larmour WED WED 15:45 When I Grow Up b00r0rdl (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Forty years ago 14,000 youngsters across Britain were asked WED to write about where they saw themselves in the future - WED their jobs, family lives, belongings, living environments WED and leisure pursuits. Those essays have now been followed up WED by the Nuffield Foundation as a way of finding out how far WED ambition at an early age shapes what happens in later life. WED WED This is the first time that media access has been granted to WED those who have taken part in their research. As well as WED evidence of ambition the essays offer lovely detail about WED how the eleven year olds imagined life would be at 25, with WED one writing: "my husband would have just won £200 so we WED decided to go to the moon for our holiday while we had not WED got any children." WED WED The series covers the following five areas: jobs, family WED lives, living environments, leisure pursuits and belongings WED that they imagined owning when first studied. The findings WED suggest that children who are ambitious go on to enjoy WED greater success than those with lower aspirations. Once WED background and ability were accounted for, children did WED better if they set themselves lofty goals. WED WED It reveals that, even if a child is economically WED disadvantaged or less able, having high ambitions at around WED the time they leave primary school means that they are WED significantly more likely to have a professional job, though WED not necessarily the one that they predicted. WED WED Producer: Sue Mitchell. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00tjfzj (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00tjdnx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00tj4hv (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 b00tj4k6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qp1cf (Listen) WED Series 6, Elgar Writes WED WED While Ed is busily teaching grammar to some clumsy, WED apostrophe-ridden phishers, Elgar finds fame when he becomes WED an internet hit with his blog. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00thy37 (Listen) WED Will makes his point at The Bull and there's a surprise WED visitor at Ambridge Organics. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00tj4lr (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Nobel WED Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, as he publishes a new WED collection of verse. WED WED Producer Timothy Prosser. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thxcp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b00tjq8f (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Journalist Stephen Pollard argues that we should stop WED spending public money on the arts. "Why should we give WED taxpayers' money to opera but not to football clubs or pop WED concerts? Subsidy encourages elitist art which prides itself WED on its failure to appeal to the masses; it gobbles up funds WED from the National Lottery which could otherwise be used to WED benefit the people who actually buy the lottery tickets." WED Stephen Pollard's views will be challenged by Moira Sinclair WED of the Arts Council, James Heartfield (Director of the WED think-tank 'Audacity') and Neil Nisbet (dance video-producer WED and journalist). WED The studio discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 20:45 1960-2010 b00tjq8h (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Fifty years after they began, what did the sixties mean for WED Britain? Simon Heffer, born in 1960, is the first of three WED commentators to examine the social consequences of the WED decade in which they were born. He discusses its mixed WED legacy for social mobility. This was a decade whose WED longest-serving Prime Minister was a grammar school boy. But WED that same Prime Minister's government also tried to stamp WED out the grammar school altogether, a policy which Simon WED Heffer says has had disastrous consequences for social mobility. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00tjq8k (Listen) WED Katrina: An Unnatural Disaster WED WED Bad weather shouldn't cause more than 1800 deaths in the WED world's richest country. Five years on from Hurricane WED Katrina Tom Heap investigates the real reasons for the New WED Orleans death toll. WED WED It may be classified as a natural disaster but the famously WED fractious locals agree on one thing- nature had nothing to WED do with it. They suggest corruption, complacency and the WED nagging suspicion that a dirt poor, predominantly black city WED could never expect much help from Washington's power WED brokers. WED WED In the first of a new series of 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap WED returns to the city to dig a little deeper, identify the WED villains and gauge the city's chance of surviving the next WED big storm. WED WED Should the oil industry shoulder the blame? Decades of oil WED extraction from the Louisiana coast has lowered the land, WED leaving it more vulnerable to flood and to the depredations WED of the industry's offshore drilling. How about the US Army? WED They were charged with building hard defences against a once WED in 250 year hurricane yet the levees failed throughout the WED city. Today the same organisation is re-building the WED defences, this time with a promise to defend the city WED against a once in a hundred year flood. How can a city WED rebuild with a promise like that? And what of the wetlands WED and barrier islands that experts had warned were WED disappearing fast, leaving the coastline unprotected? How WED many of the $14bn that's flowed through the city are WED actually being used to rebuild long-term, natural protection WED for the city? WED WED 21:30 Fry's English Delight b00tjf52 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00tj4r3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00tj4s0 (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 b00tk91r (Listen) WED And the Land Lay Still, Episode 8 WED WED Written and abridged by James Robertson. WED WED Jack has gone missing and Don's search is cut short when his WED wife goes into labour. Suffering serious complications, she WED is taken into hospital and Don waits anxiously for news. WED WED Read by Liam Brennan. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:00 Continuity b00tjq8m (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED A consummately professional continuity announcer presents a WED sneak preview of next week's radio highlights. There's a WED treat in store with the new series of 'Living By Numbers' WED (about the numbers we live by), a major retrospective of the WED Volgograd painters' love affair with the colour blue, and a WED gritty and disturbing report on the Swedish milk crisis. And WED our series on Philosophical Logic continues to be WED appointment to listen listening. Obviously. WED WED Alistair McGowan stars in this subversive sitcom about a WED continuity announcer, written by Hugh Rycroft. Also starring WED Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David Holt. WED WED Producers: David Spicer and Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else b00tjqzx (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED What lengths do we need to go to "look good"? Do we really WED need to communicate with our fellow men? How important is it WED to work? Or to have a relationship? WED WED What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else is a four part WED mini-series of short comedic monologues on BBC Radio 4 WED written and performed by the stand-up comedian Andrew WED Lawrence, taking a light-hearted look at various aspects of WED conventional living and the pressure we feel to conform to WED social norms and ideals. WED WED Each episode is fifteen minutes long and was recorded in WED front of an audience, the first two episodes at South London WED comedy club 'Up The Creek', the final two recorded at the WED Edinburgh Comedy Festival. WED WED This first episode examines the effort we all put into our WED personal appearance and the pressure we feel to look good. WED WED 23:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off b00pk7zr (Listen) WED Series 4, Las Vegas 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 This time, it's Viva Las Vegas as Giles accidentally gets WED three wives in a row and loses the jackpot as he tries his WED hand at poker and roulette - and comes up the exact opposite WED of trumps. The game is Texas Hold 'Em, the flop is huge, WED Giles has the nuts and we're crying all the way to the WED river, and no-one has a clue what any of that means. WED Because, as the old saying goes - what happens in Vegas. WED makes everyone in Budleigh Salterton very cross indeed. WED WED Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles. WED WED Giles Wemmbley Hogg ..... Marcus Brigstocke WED Tommy "Tomahawk" Hayes ..... Kerry Shale WED Nadine ..... Matilda Ziegler WED Mr Timmis ..... Adrian Scarborough WED Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd WED Tony ..... Lou Hirsch WED Mikey ..... David Armand WED WED Written by Marcus Brigstocke & Jeremy Salsby. WED Producer: David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00thrhf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00thw3n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00thrl6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00thsl2 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00thrqt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00thss2 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00thswt (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00thvqt (Listen) THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00thvs1 (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The Choice b00tjrgs (Listen) THU On The Choice this week Michael Buerk talks to Frank Evans, THU a butchers boy from Salford who dreamt of becoming a THU bullfighter after a holiday in Spain. THU The decision to become a matador meant he had to fight his THU way into the most dangerous and controversial sports in the THU world. It brought him ridicule and condemnation along with THU injuries in the ring and death threats out of it. But it was THU a choice he kept making despite a fearful wife and family THU and eventually despite ailing health. THU THU 09:30 GPs Who Need GPS b00tjrgv (Listen) THU The Ship's Doctor THU THU Decompression sickness in the Caribbean, dentistry in the THU Mediterranean...Dr Mark Mason sees it all aboard the Crown THU Princess cruiseliner. THU THU As he travels the world Mark is responsible for the THU doctoring of over 3000 passengers and crew. Dr Phil Hammond THU contrasts this exotic life with his own Bristol general THU practice, and wonders if his fear of sea sickness could be THU compensated by the benefits of travelling the seven seas. THU THU Produced by Lucy Adam. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00thw3q (Listen) THU Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode 4 THU THU The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect THU irreverently and humourously on New Labour's last term in THU office. Today, 2008 approaches, and there is mounting THU disquiet over Gordon Brown's leadership. THU THU The reader is Sam Dale. THU The abridger is Penny Leicester. THU The producer is Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00thw7m (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Dame Ellen MacArthur on the THU launch of her Foundation. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thxcr (Listen) THU Dusty Answer, Episode 4 THU THU Part Four Judith is invited to a picnic with Julian and THU Martin, and Roddy takes her for a trip in a canoe. Romance THU rears its head ...but which of the cousins is it to be ? THU THU Narrator ...................................Julia Hills THU THU Judith......................................Rosina Carbone THU Roddy......................................Brodie Ross THU Martin......................................Oliver Gomm THU Julian.......................................Tom Ferguson THU Mamma ...................................Melissa Jane Sinden THU THU Directed by Susan Roberts. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00tjrgx (Listen) THU The Church in China THU THU Christopher Landau explores the explosive growth of THU christianity in China, with millions flocking to the THU official Protestant and Catholic churches. The country has THU the world's largest bible printing press while some THU factories are run on Christian principles. Why has the THU Communist state, which is formally atheist, endorsed this THU transition? There is official interest in the idea of a THU "Protestant work ethic" aiding the country's economy while THU some branches of government hope that the church's social THU services will help care for an ageing population. THU Producer: Caroline Finnigan. THU THU 11:30 Penguin, Puffin and the Paperback Revolution b00tjrgz (Listen) THU Children's author Michael Morpurgo tells the story of THU Penguin books, which was founded 75 years ago by his THU father-in-law, Allen Lane. The idea for the iconic THU publishing house came when Allen was waiting for a train to THU take him from Exeter back to London. He went into a bookshop THU to look for something to read and all he found were badly THU produced, low quality books with gaudy covers. He realised THU that there was a gap in the market for high quality, well THU designed paperbacks available to everyone at the price of a THU packet of cigarettes. THU THU Michael grew up in a house that was especially full of THU Penguins and Puffins because his step-father, Jack Morpurgo, THU was one of the editors there. He remembers being intimidated THU as a child when Sir Allen Lane came over for dinner. When THU they met again, Michael was in his late teens and had fallen THU in love with Allen's eldest daughter Clare. They decided to THU get married - something Lane was not overjoyed about. It was THU only seven years later that Allen Lane died of cancer, so THU Michael never really got to know his father-in-law and never THU understood what had motivated him. THU THU In this programme, he delves into the Penguin archives and THU meets with family members and historians to uncover how THU Allen - who was not a literary man and left school at 16 - THU went on to revolutionise the publishing industry and change THU the way the nation reads. He explores the impact of Puffins, THU launched in 1940, on children's relationships with books and THU he reflects on what Lane felt about the infamous 'Lady THU Chatterley's Lover' trial in 1960. THU THU He also hears from Penguin authors Nick Hornby and Sue THU Townsend about what it feels like to be part of publishing THU history. THU THU Producer: Susie Warhurst THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00thxdz (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00thxg6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00thxrd (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00tjq8k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00thy37 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dv5n2 (Listen) THU Swimming Around Ireland THU THU Steven was badly injured in a traffic accident, his THU physiotherapy sessions haven't been going well and he has THU grown depressed and despondent. Keen to motivate him and THU make some progress his physiotherapist Caet decides to try THU some hydrotherapy in the pool. But the first session goes THU badly, Steven can't move his leg and grows increasingly THU frustrated: 'It's not as if I'll ever swim around Ireland is it?' THU THU But Caet has an idea to prove that Steven can do just that. THU For every move or kick Steven makes they will travel ten THU kilometres around Ireland, plotting their progress on a map. THU So begins an unusual journey of imagination and discovery as THU Steven and Caet set out to 'swim' around Ireland! THU THU StevenMichael Colgan THU CaetDawn Bradfield THU MikeKieran Lagan THU PorterJohn Hewitt THU THU Tin Whistle was played by John Toal THU THU Voices: Bill Maul, Patrick Watson, Chandrika Nayar, THU Itsareeya Johnston, Henryk Pieknik, Camilla Carroll and Fiona Woods. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00th8x4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00thf0j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tj89x (Listen) THU Foster, Episode 3 THU THU By Claire Keegan THU Abridged by Neville Teller THU THU 15:45 When I Grow Up b00r5yzr (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Forty years ago 14,000 youngsters across Britain were asked THU to write about where they saw themselves in the future - THU their jobs, family lives, belongings, living environments THU and leisure pursuits. Those essays have now been followed up THU by the Nuffield Foundation as a way of finding out how far THU ambition at an early age shapes what happens in later life. THU THU This is the first time that media access has been granted to THU those who have taken part in their research. As well as THU evidence of ambition the essays offer lovely detail about THU how the eleven year olds imagined life would be at 25, with THU one writing: "my husband would have just won £200 so we THU decided to go to the moon for our holiday while we had not THU got any children." THU THU The series covers the following five areas: jobs, family THU lives, living environments, leisure pursuits and belongings THU that they imagined owning when first studied. The findings THU suggest that children who are ambitious go on to enjoy THU greater success than those with lower aspirations. Once THU background and ability were accounted for, children did THU better if they set themselves lofty goals. THU THU It reveals that, even if a child is economically THU disadvantaged or less able, having high ambitions at around THU the time they leave primary school means that they are THU significantly more likely to have a professional job, though THU not necessarily the one that they predicted. THU THU Producer: Sue Mitchell THU (repeat). THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00thpvz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00tjrp4 (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 b00tj4hx (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 b00tj4k8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b00hklfr (Listen) THU Series 5, Name Calling THU THU Clare Barker the social worker with all the politically THU correct jargon but none of the practical solutions. THU THU Society itself has improved little, so there are still THU plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring THU social worker. Or even Clare. THU THU The Sony Award Winning comedy, Clare in the Community, stars THU Sally Phillips as Clare Barker the social worker and control THU freak who likes nothing better than interfering in other THU people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. THU Clare is in her early thirties, white, middle class and THU heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of THU discomfort to her. THU THU The last series saw the personal and professional lives of THU Clare and her team shaken around and shuffled about, but it THU is in the nature of hell to be unchanging, and all are THU present and correct for a further round of frustration, THU despair, disappointment, team meetings and eleven o'clock cakes. THU THU Cast: THU THU Clare ..... Sally Phillips THU Brian ..... Alex Lowe THU Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck THU Ray ..... Richard Lumsden THU Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti THU Irene ..... Ellen Thomas THU Simon ..... Andrew Wincott THU Schoolgirl ..... Donnla Hughes THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Produced by Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00thy39 (Listen) THU Kirsty steps into the breach and Robert exacts an ingenious THU revenge. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00tj4lt (Listen) THU With John Wilson, who talks to actor Tim Robbins about his THU musical childhood and his new band and album, which draws on THU American folk traditions. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thxcr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00tjrp6 (Listen) THU Britain's controversial extradition laws will be in focus THU again today, as courts decide on America's request for a THU Kent buinessman, Christopher Tappin, to face charges on THU selling batteries to Iran. In The Report this week, Mukul THU Devichand investigates who can be sent abroad to face trial THU and finds that high profile requests from America are just THU the tip of the iceburg. The system allows over 40 countries THU to request British citizens without a full hearing of the THU evidence against them and a third of European requests come THU from just one country: Poland. Mukul explores claims that THU Britain's courts are being flooded by requests for petty THU criminals - for example, the man being extradited to Poland THU for stealing 20 chocolate bars. Former Home Secretary David THU Blunkett helped push these laws through in the years after THU the 9/11 attacks, but in a remarkably frank exchange, he THU tells The Report that he now "regrets" aspects of the law -- THU and discusses the need for change. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00tjrp8 (Listen) THU Hidden Depths THU THU London-born Graham Hawkes is the man who has created a THU submersible vessel that flies through the deepest ocean like THU a plane. Peter Day reports from his workshop in California, THU where he wonders why space exploration makes decades of THU headlines while it is so hard to get backers for deepsea THU travel into a world no one has ever seen. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00tj829 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The Choice b00tjrgs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00tj4r5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00tj4s2 (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 b00tk91t (Listen) THU And the Land Lay Still, Episode 9 THU THU Written and abridged by James Robertson. THU THU Don's family is growing, his wife has had another son, and THU he realises that being a good husband and father requires a THU different kind of courage from being a good soldier. THU THU Read by Liam Brennan. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 23:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00m6bhh (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU Robert Webb and David Mitchell star in a series of daft but THU intelligent sketches in That Mitchell and Webb Sound. THU THU This week the ideas factory behind Strictly Come Dancing THU reveal the secret to creating hit TV shows - take the title THU of a moderately successful film and replace the last word THU with the name of an old TV programme. Future hits to look THU out for include The Shawshank Rentaghost and Lock Stock and THU Two Smoking Footballers Wives. Also among this week's THU sketches, problems arise over how to talk like a Roman THU emperor; there's a ground breaking interview on how to count THU whales; we meet a man raised by a family of wasps; and we THU visit the only Orthopaedic supplies company in Britain to THU have its very own portal to another universe. THU THU David Mitchell and Robert Webb are joined by James Bachman, THU Sarah Hadland and Olivia Colman in That Mitchell and Webb THU Sound. THU THU The Producer is Gareth Edwards. THU THU 23:30 Safety Catch b00jsxp2 (Listen) THU Series 2, There Will Be Paint THU THU Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern morality set in THU the world of arms dealing. THU THU Simon decides it's about time he and his colleagues prove THU they understand the true horrors of war by getting out there THU and actually fighting. So it is that team Heathcote Sanders THU go paintballing. Okay, so it's not quite the same as THU fighting in an actual war, but you can't expect Simon to THU take part in one of those - I mean, people actually die in THU those things. So join Simon for one last time as he searches THU for the hero inside himself. THU THU Cast: THU THU Simon McGrath.............................Darren Boyd THU Anna Grieg..................................Joanna Page THU Boris Kemal...............................Lewis Macleod THU Judith McGrath..............................Sarah Smart THU Angela McGrath............................Brigit Forsyth THU Madeleine Turnbull........................Rachel Atkins THU Roger/Dave......................................Philip Fox THU Guide.............................................Gus Brown THU THU Written by Laurence Howarth THU THU Producer: Dawn Ellis. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00thrhh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00thw3q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00thrl8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00thsl4 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00thrqw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00thss4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00thsww (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00thvqw (Listen) FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Varle. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00thvs3 (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00thmv9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00thw3s (Listen) FRI Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode 5 FRI FRI The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect FRI irreverently and humourously on New Labour's last term in FRI office. Today, the 2010 election approaches, and Mullin FRI anticipates the inevitable outcome, as well as his own last FRI days as an MP. FRI FRI The reader is Sam Dale. FRI The abridger is Penny Leicester. FRI The producer is Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00thw7p (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thxct (Listen) FRI Dusty Answer, Episode 5 FRI FRI Part Five. Whilst travelling in France with her mother, FRI Judith meets up with Julian. They enjoy the French heat FRI together until his sudden departure. Jennifer steps back FRI into her life.. FRI FRI Narrator ...................................Julia Hills FRI FRI Judith......................................Rosina Carbone FRI Julian.......................................Tom Ferguson FRI Jennifer ...................................Annabel Scholey FRI Mamma ...................................Melissa Jane Sinden FRI FRI Directed by Susan Roberts. FRI FRI 11:00 God's Ambassador b00tjs03 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI When Francis Campbell went to see his careers advisor to FRI find out about becoming a diplomat, he was told that the FRI Foreign Office didnt recruit in Northern Ireland. That was FRI the 1980s, things are different now. He was the first FRI Catholic to be appointed to the role of Ambassador to the FRI Holy See since the Reformation and he's been our man in the FRI Vatican since 2005. Not bad for a man born into farming FRI stock in a tiny Northern Irish village on the border with FRI Ireland. FRI The Holy See might be one of the smallest British Embassies, FRI but Francis is quick to point out the international scope of FRI his team. In this two part series, Ruth Mcdonald follows the FRI work of the tiny team in Rome, as they prepare for the FRI Pope's visit to the UK - the first STATE visit by the head FRI of the Catholic Church to this country. Francis talks about FRI the day he had to apologise to the Vatican after the leaked FRI memo from the Foreign Office was front page news around the FRI world ("there are a few things in your life as a diplomat FRI that you would prefer not to do, and one if them is to have FRI to offer an unreserved apology for stupid actions of your FRI colleagues" says Francis). FRI Francis is a charming, friendly and honest man, whose own FRI memories of the Pope's visit to Ireland in 1979 means he FRI knows just what a papal visit can mean to the Catholic FRI minority in the UK. He himself started training for the FRI priesthood - although his interest in politics won out, and FRI he dropped out of seminary. But a strong faith is behind his FRI enthusiasm and drive for this papal visit - enthusiasm that FRI doesnt flag even though the media focus on the visit has so FRI far been on cost and clerical abuse. FRI Ruth travels between London, Rome and Birmingham, following FRI Francis and the team in Whitehall and the Vatican. FRI FRI 11:30 Old Harry's Game b0082f1x (Listen) FRI Series 6, Episode 5 FRI FRI Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in hell. 5/6. Edith finds FRI out why Satan resented Jesus. He didn't like his holier than FRI thou attitude. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00thxf1 (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00thxg8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00thxrg (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00tjsj3 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers FRI behind the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00thy39 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tjsj5 (Listen) FRI Big Pies FRI FRI Two lonely people, one night school and a lot of lying. A FRI romantic comedy. FRI FRI Ron runs a successful chippy, but when his wife dies, he FRI loses his heart and half his custom. Elaine is trapped at FRI home caring for her irascible Dad, stuck in Yorkshire when FRI she'd much rather be back in Wales. She feels her failure FRI at school holds her back, and her dad doesn't exactly help FRI her self esteem. Ron is fed up at being nagged by best mate FRI Keith about his soggy batter and lack of interest in FRI romance. Goaded into action, they both reluctantly sign on FRI at local night school. FRI FRI Meanwhile, Keith and Elaine's Dad are caught up with the FRI excitement of local UFO spotters with mysterious crop FRI circles. Keith is adamant that if Ron will only absorb a few FRI cosmic rays, his love life will be transformed. FRI FRI One night, during a break, Ron is sneaking a fag near the FRI bins round the back when he bumps into Elaine - and sparks FRI immediately fly. Neither is prepared to admit why they are FRI at night school, so they make up elaborate lies about what FRI they are studying. Over the weeks, attracted to each other FRI but in denial, their deception involves them in more and FRI more complicated situations. When the end of term concert is FRI announced, Ron realises he will have to come clean - he is a FRI widower but not really a stand up comedian - and Elaine FRI isn't really a belly dancer... FRI FRI Big Pies is written by popular radio, stage and screen FRI dramatist, Gill Adams, who has won Silver Sony, Prix ex FRI Aqueo and a Mental Health Award for her previous BBC radio FRI dramas. FRI FRI Ron .....George Costigan FRI Elaine.....Katy Wix FRI Dad......Steffan Rhodri FRI Keith......Richard Nichols FRI Linda......Claire Cage FRI FRI Director Polly Thomas for BBC Wales Radio Drama. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tjsj7 (Listen) FRI Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson join FRI gardeners in Suffolk for a horticultural discussion. Peter FRI Gibbs is the chairman. FRI FRI In addition, the panel visit Helmingham Hall to investigate FRI the dos and don'ts of border design. FRI FRI Producers: Lucy Dichmont & Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 When I Grow Up b00rb1zw (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Forty years ago 14,000 youngsters across Britain were asked FRI to write about where they saw themselves in the future - FRI their jobs, family lives, belongings, living environments FRI and leisure pursuits. Those essays have now been followed up FRI by the Nuffield Foundation as a way of finding out how far FRI ambition at an early age shapes what happens in later life. FRI FRI This is the first time that media access has been granted to FRI those who have taken part in their research. As well as FRI evidence of ambition the essays offer lovely detail about FRI how the eleven year olds imagined life would be at 25, with FRI one writing: "my husband would have just won £200 so we FRI decided to go to the moon for our holiday while we had not FRI got any children." FRI FRI The series covers the following five areas: jobs, family FRI lives, living environments, leisure pursuits and belongings FRI that they imagined owning when first studied. The findings FRI suggest that children who are ambitious go on to enjoy FRI greater success than those with lower aspirations. Once FRI background and ability were accounted for, children did FRI better if they set themselves lofty goals. FRI FRI It reveals that, even if a child is economically FRI disadvantaged or less able, having high ambitions at around FRI the time they leave primary school means that they are FRI significantly more likely to have a professional job, though FRI not necessarily the one that they predicted. FRI FRI Producer: Sue Mitchell. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00tjsj9 (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 b00tjsjc (Listen) FRI Francine Stock discusses the work of legendary Iranian FRI director Abbas Kiarostami. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00tj4hz (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tj4kb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b00tjsjf (Listen) FRI Series 6, Ruby Wax interviews Harry Shearer FRI FRI The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last FRI week's guest, the UK's favourite sharp tongued American, FRI Ruby Wax takes the microphone to interview voice of The FRI Simpsons, face of Derek Smalls and political satirist Harry FRI Shearer. FRI FRI Ruby asks Harry to delve into some of his Simpsons FRI characters, where he found the inspiration for Derek Smalls FRI in Spinal Tap and who his favourite political target has FRI been over the years. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00thy3c (Listen) FRI Written by: Keri Davies FRI Directed by: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright FRI Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Patrick Hennessy ..... Joseph Kloska FRI Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford FRI Reporter ..... Roddy Peters FRI Tim Harmison ..... James Howard FRI Barmaid "Citz" ..... Sophie Cosson. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00tj4lw (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Timothy Prosser. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00thxct (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00tjsjh (Listen) FRI Martha Kearney chairs the topical discussion from St Chad's FRI Church in Burton upon Trent. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00tjsm6 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00tjsm8 (Listen) FRI Meeting the Gods FRI FRI Neil MacGregor retells humanity's history through the FRI objects it has made and this week he is exploring the FRI sophisticated ways that people expressed religious yearning FRI in the 14th and 15th centuries. FRI FRI In this ominbus edition, Neil encounters the statues of gods FRI and ancestors - in India, Mexico and on Easter Island - and FRI he describes the importance of icon painting in the Orthodox FRI Church. FRI FRI But he begins with an object designed to connect with Christ FRI himself - a stunning Christian reliquary from medieval FRI Europe made to house a thorn from the crown of thorns FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00tj4r7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00tj4s4 (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 b00tk91w (Listen) FRI And the Land Lay Still, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written and abridged by James Robertson. FRI FRI Years have passed since Jack went missing yet Don thinks FRI about him almost every day. Finally, he reveals why Jack's FRI friendship meant so much to him. FRI FRI Read by Liam Brennan. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00tjb1h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qx43h (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI FRI Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas FRI creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his FRI studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. FRI The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay FRI attention. FRI FRI This episode will include policies such as crushing the cars FRI of anyone illegally parked in a disabled space; the FRI legalisation of Viking-style funerals; and consolidating the FRI United Kingdom's national debt into one easy-to-pay loan. FRI FRI Produced by Ed Morrish. FRI