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SAT SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b011vhvn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b011vhsg (Listen) SAT James Joyce - A Biography, Episode 5 SAT SAT "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the SAT lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope SAT with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora SAT go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he SAT was by her..." SAT SAT Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at SAT Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial SAT jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of SAT married life, but still managed to produce SAT works of literature that have stood the test of time. SAT SAT 5. To Trieste, then later to Paris, and by 1919 it's the SAT efforts of some determined women, Margaret Anderson, SAT Harriet Weaver and Sylvia Beach, who help Joyce in SAT the publication of Ulysses. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011vhvq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011vhvs (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011vhvv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b011vhvx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011vjjj (Listen) SAT With Quaker and author Alastair McIntosh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b011vjjl (Listen) SAT 'Mum brought eyes and hearts home from the butcher' The SAT early life of plastic surgeon Nigel Mercer. Also his SAT thoughts on NHS funding, taking 'jug ears' seriously and SAT 'good' death. With Eddie Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b011vhvz (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b011vhw1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b011zj68 (Listen) SAT Literary Walks, Daphne Du Maurier - Fowey SAT SAT Daphne Du Maurier lived and worked in Cornwall and the area SAT surrounding Fowey features in many of her novels. Today the SAT town is home to the annual Daphne Du Maurier festival and SAT this year is it's 10th anniversary. Clare Balding discovers SAT how the area inspired many features of Du Mauriers work and SAT meets local experts including Du Maurier's son. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b011zj6b (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Farmers say the drought could mean this year's wheat harvest SAT will be the worst for 30 years. Some farmers in East Anglia SAT say they're expecting a 50% drop in yield. If this spring is SAT a taste of things to come, farmers in the UK could be SAT planting "less water dependant strains" in the next few SAT decades. Charlotte Smith meets scientists at the University SAT of Nottingham's Research centre who are crossing traditional SAT wheat with distant relatives from warmer climates to see if SAT they can identify drought resistant crops. SAT SAT Producer; Angela Frain. Presenter; Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b011vhw3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b011zj6d (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b011zj7c (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with broadcaster Esther Rantzen, poet Luke SAT Wright, a man who hoaxed the nation in to believing that SAT Jimi Hendrix had recorded the Welsh national anthem, and a SAT woman who discovered after his death that her husband of 46 SAT years has kept his sexuality secret. There's a guerilla SAT report about pamper parties for young girls and opera singer SAT Lesley Garrett shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b011zj7f (Listen) SAT Catalonia - Cornish Coast SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig meets novelist Richard Gwyn and translator SAT Peter Bush to discuss Catalonia and its relationship with SAT Spain. She hears how life is changing there, not just in the SAT big city of Barcelona but in the more rural areas near the SAT Pyrenees. Sandi also talks about the Cornish coast with the SAT historian and author Philip Marsden who has lived in the SAT Falmouth area for many years and reflects on the role of the SAT sea in the lives of the residents and visitors from the days SAT of sail to the present. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Royal Racers and Fascinators b011zkl5 (Listen) SAT Every June thousands of men and women step out at Ascot SAT railway station wearing clothes that would grace the Garden SAT Parties of Buckingham Palace - gentlemen in top hats and SAT grey morning suits, ladies in fine silks and satins, and SAT often wearing fizzing little creations on their heads - the SAT fascinator. This is Royal Ascot, and Hardeep Singh Kohli is SAT there to talk to the racegoers and to mark the card of SAT Ascot's 300 year old history. SAT SAT The connection with Royalty and fashion has been there from SAT the start. The hunting-mad Queen Anne in 1711 noticed that, SAT just by the kennels where her hounds were kept, there was a SAT clearing which would make an excellent racecourse. It was a SAT stone's throw from her Royal residence at Windsor Castle, SAT and the first races took place in August of that year. SAT Immediately Ascot became a place where apart from wagers, SAT people came to show themselves off and have a very good SAT time. SAT SAT The Royal connection was enhanced by the George IV, who SAT could set off after a heavy night at Windsor to have a Royal SAT flutter. It was he who initiated the Royal Procession down SAT the course, which marks the arrival of the current Queen. SAT SAT Hardeep talks to the historian of Ascot, Sean Magee, about SAT the landmark moments - from the early days when SAT cock-fighting and bare-knuckle boxing added to the SAT entertainment, to the memorable races of champion jockeys SAT and their steeds - Arkle, Yates, Nijinsky, and Desert Orchid SAT have all graced the course, with the record-breaking moment SAT when jockey Frankie Dettori rode the winner of all seven SAT races in September 1996. SAT SAT Hardeep hears about the highspots of his commentating career SAT from Sir Peter O'Sullevan, talks to the TV presenter Clare SAT Balding and meets the Chief Executive Charles Barnett and SAT Clerk of the Course Chris Stickels. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Bannerman SAT A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b011zkl7 (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster SAT SAT What future for Ed Miliband as Leader of the Opposition? SAT It's a question the press have been asking in the last few SAT days. But how far is their criticism justified? And what SAT task faces him now? The former Conservative leader Michael - SAT now Lord - Howard reflects on the demands of the job with SAT Tim Montgomerie, a former chief of staff for Iain Duncan SAT Smith. The President of YouGov, Peter Kellner, interprets SAT the latest polls. The chief economics correspondent at The SAT Observer, William Keegan, takes issue with the former SAT Conservative Chancellor, Lord Lawson on the government's SAT strategy for economic recovery. And how political is Bob SAT Dylan? Two Labour MPs who are big fans, Kevin Brennan and SAT Kerry McCarthy, reflect on his talents. SAT SAT The Editor was Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b011zkl9 (Listen) SAT The ultimate failed state. That's what some call Somalia in SAT the Horn of Africa. Peter Greste is in the capital SAT Mogadishu, perhaps the most dangerous city in the world. SAT He's finding out why thousands of Somalis are leaving homes SAT in the country and flooding in to the city? Another mass SAT migration's going on in China. But, as Julianna Liu tells SAT us, difficulties can lie ahead for the country people SAT heading for town in search of a better life. Paul Henley's SAT been looking at an economic boom that's lifting parts of SAT Poland; one port city's described as the Sydney and Dubai of SAT the Baltic. The worst drought in fifty years has hit Texas. SAT Jonny Dymond finds one rancher whose fortunes are suffering SAT -- but he says he's battling on: it's the American way. And SAT she's called the Miss Marple of the Himalayas; Joanna Jolly SAT meets the woman who keeps climbers in Nepal roped to the SAT truth. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b011zklc (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b011vjhr (Listen) SAT Series 34, Episode 2 SAT SAT Coalition health reforms, opposition leadership squabbles SAT and Leicester's preparedness against the unknowable zombie SAT threat. SAT SAT This week's Now Show Audience Question was: SAT SAT As "Your Desert Island Discs" showed last week, particular SAT songs recall particular memories for people. Give us one of SAT yours. SAT SAT What does it make you think of? SAT SAT Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis; with Mitch Benn, Jon SAT Holmes, Laura Shavin and special guest Andy Zaltzman. SAT SAT Written by the cast, with additional material from Steve SAT Hall, Jon Hunter, Ben Partridge, Ava Vidal and Andy Wolton. SAT SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b011vhw5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b011vhw7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b011vjhy (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a political and topical SAT discussion from the Barnaby Festival in Macclesfield with SAT Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Angela Eagle; Daily SAT Telegraph and Spectator columnist, Charles Moore; SAT general-secretary of the ATL teacher's union, Mary Bousted; SAT and business minister, Edward Davey. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b011zklf (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b011zklh (Listen) SAT In Praise of Love SAT SAT A number of Terence Rattigan's plays e.g. The Winslow Boy, SAT Separate Tables, The Deep Blue Sea, Cause Celebre were SAT triggered by real incidents - and In Praise of Love is no SAT exception. In the mid-1950s his friend, Rex Harrison, told SAT him that his wife, the talented Kay Kendall, was dying of SAT leukaemia, but she but she didn't know and he would never SAT tell her. SAT SAT Twenty years later Rattigan wrote this, his very last stage SAT play, which was produced in 1973 and subsequently on SAT Broadway, with Rex Harrison himself in the lead, triggered SAT by this true event. SAT SAT The play is precisely what the title says it is - but it SAT doesn't praise youthful passion; it praises mature, SAT spiritual love and devotion. SAT SAT Within the play a character says that the English vice is SAT never to show emotion. Each of the two middle-aged spouses SAT withhold information from the other to protect their SAT partner. But each knows the truth - Lydia, the wife, is SAT dying of an incurable disease and only an American friend is SAT told the true facts by both of them. Of course we, the SAT audience, know their secrets too, and therein lie our tears. SAT The critic Harold Hobson called it "the most moving SAT expression of love that I have ever seen on a stage...a SAT compact heart-breaking masterpiece". SAT SAT Lydia Cruttwell ..... Sarah Badel SAT Sebastian Cruttwell ..... Martin Jarvis SAT Mark Walters ..... Kerry Shale SAT Joey Cruttwell ..... James Joyce SAT SAT Director: Celia de Wolff SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b011zklk (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Highlights from the Woman's Hour SAT week including: French Icon Catherine Deneuve talks about SAT her new film Potiche. Live music from singer Nerina Pallot, SAT compulsory contraception for drug addicted mothers? Artist SAT Judy Chicago, Should twins be in the same class at school? SAT Will the ban on women being able to drive in Saudi Arabia SAT ever be lifted? and can you influence whether you have a boy SAT or a girl baby? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b011zklm (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT Presented by Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b011vhdm (Listen) SAT Contacts and Contracts SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan and his guests swap thoughts on contacts and contracts. SAT Is it who you know that counts in business? Are informal SAT networks the way business is allocated? Or do more formal SAT arrangements now apply? Evan also asks his guests to reveal SAT their greatest business regrets. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Will Butler-Adams, managing SAT director of folding bicycle manufacturer Brompton Bicycle; SAT Charles Cohen, chief executive of mobile gambling company SAT Probability plc; Ralph Oppenheimer, chairman of steel SAT trading company Stemcor. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b011vhw9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b011vhwc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011vhwf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b011zklr (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the comedienne and actress Kathy Griffin. SAT She's a double Emmy award winner for her television series SAT Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D List, she's featured on The SAT New York Times Bestselling list for her memoir 'Official SAT Book Club Selection' and she's been nominated for two SAT Grammys for her comedy albums. Kathy's here in the UK to SAT perform for one day only, with two shows at London's Palace SAT Theatre. SAT SAT Marcus Brigstocke has got ranting down to an art form, from SAT his Now Show monologues to his team captaincy on Argumental. SAT This time he's having a go at religion in his new book 'God SAT Collar'. His need for it, his lack of it, the myths SAT surrounding it...... Oh and he's about to play Station SAT Master Perks in the stage adaption of The Railway Children. SAT SAT Douglas Henshall has been on our screens in Dennis Potter's SAT Lipstick On Your Collar' and recently as Professor Nick SAT Cutter in Primeval. Now he's starring on stage alongside SAT Kristin Scott Thomas in Harold Pinter's Betrayal at the SAT Comedy Theatre in London. SAT SAT Political incorrectness in music are explored with columnist SAT and author Terence Blacker. He talks to Jo Bunting about his SAT two part documentary Taboo De Do featuring songs with the SAT power to upset and offend from jazz to rock to hip hop. SAT SAT Music comes from the multi-talented singer-songwriter, SAT dancer and actress Fatoumata Diawara who blends her Wassalou SAT traditions with wider influences in her music. She performs SAT Bakanoba from her debut EP 'Kanou'. SAT SAT And introducing the fearsome talent of Kyla La Grange who SAT brings one of her passionate, epic pop songs 'Been Better' SAT to the Loose Ends studio. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b011zklt (Listen) SAT Series 10, The Gotcha Moment SAT SAT "Perhaps the highest pinnacle in the career of the legendary SAT newspaper editor Gary Wells - known affectionately by his SAT colleagues as The Guv'nor". SAT SAT In THE GOTCHA MOMENT, Terence Blacker responds to the Sarah SAT Palin emails leak, when 24,000 pages of her missives SAT appeared in the public domain. He imagines how a newspaper SAT editor would deal with such a mountain of stuff, if it came SAT his way. Would he rise to the challenge of making something SAT of it all, or would he sink without trace! SAT SAT Gary Wells ..... Adrian Scarborough SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b011zklw (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Rowan Pelling, poet Paul SAT Farley and novelist Deborah Moggach review the week's SAT cultural highlights. SAT SAT Harold Pinter's 1978 play Betrayal tells the story of a love SAT affair, starting two years after it has ended and travelling SAT back to the moment when it began. In Ian Rickson's SAT production at the Comedy Theatre in London Kristin Scott SAT Thomas plays Emma, Ben Miles is her husband and Douglas SAT Henshall her lover. SAT SAT The visit of a young undergraduate poet to a suburban house SAT in Middlesex in 1913 sets in motion the events of Alan SAT Hollinghurst's novel The Stranger's Child. Over the course SAT of nearly a century the reputation of both the poet and his SAT most celebrated poem - written during that pre-war visit - SAT are wrestled over and reappraised. SAT SAT Kevin MacDonald's film Life In A Day was actually filmed by SAT some of the 80,000 people from around the world who SAT responded to his invitation to record a short video clip of SAT what they were doing on 24th July 2010. The resulting 4,500 SAT hours of footage was edited down to create this 95 minute SAT film. SAT SAT Joan Crawford won an Oscar for her performance in the 1945 SAT film adaptation of James M Cain's novel Mildred Pierce. Now SAT Kate Winslett is playing the title role in Todd Haynes's SAT five part TV version (which is more faithful to Cain's book) SAT about a California divorcee struggling to bring up her SAT imperious daughter, Veda, during the Depression. SAT SAT Although it was christened by Ezra Pound, Vorticism was a SAT self-consciously British branch of Modernism, reacting to SAT the Italian Futurists. The Tate Britain exhibition The SAT Vorticists: Manifesto for the Modern World gathers together SAT many of the works which appeared in the two shows the SAT Vorticists put on before the movement fizzled out and SAT includes work by Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier Brzeska. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b011zkly (Listen) SAT Although many Radio 4 listeners grew up tuning in to light SAT orchestral music, it's now largely been forgotten. Most of SAT us will be still be familiar with at least one very famous SAT piece of light music: 'By The Sleepy Lagoon' - better known SAT as the theme tune to 'Desert Island Discs' and composed by SAT Eric Coates. SAT SAT When BBC Radio was much slimmer than it is today - made up SAT of just the Home Service, the Light Programme and the Third SAT Programme - listeners tuned in to hear a live concert for SAT the Festival of Light Music. it began in 1953 and was SAT broadcast every June. SAT SAT With the disappearance of the Light Programme in 1967 when SAT it split into Radios 1 and 2, light music began to disappear SAT from the airwaves. Eventually its only home was a single SAT slot 'Friday Night is Music Night'. So why did such a SAT popular style of music fade away? SAT SAT The music journalist and broadcaster Paul Morley uses BBC SAT archive to explore light music at its peak, including SAT interviews with some of the major composers of British light SAT music - Eric Coates, Ronald Binge and Ernest Tomlinson. He SAT traces its decline, and looks at its possible resurgence in SAT 2011, with events like the 'Light Fantastic Festival'. SAT SAT Paul travels to Preston to meet Ernest Tomlinson and takes a SAT tour around the Light Music Society's remarkable archive of SAT thousands of pieces of light music - all rescued by SAT Tomlinson and his daughter Hilary after the BBC and music SAT publishers threw it away. SAT SAT Paul also meets Christopher Austin at the Royal Academy of SAT Music and the young conductor John Wilson, who is passionate SAT about light music: for him, this music is not about SAT nostalgia but beautifully written miniatures of orchestral SAT music. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b011tw7v (Listen) SAT Plantagenet: Series 2, Richard II - And All Our Dreams Will SAT End in Death SAT SAT by Mike Walker. Inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Richard SAT II, having proved his mettle in quelling the Peasants' SAT Revolt, disappoints his courtiers as he pursues peace and SAT culture as an alternative to fighting and swiving. SAT SAT 'Plantagenet' tells the story of the birth of a new Europe SAT after the dark ages. The issues of control, of freedom, of SAT belief, above all, perhaps, the temptations of power which SAT are so familiar to us now were new to an age which had no SAT template for domination on this scale. SAT SAT Richard II ..... Patrick Kennedy SAT Henry Bolingbroke ..... Blake Ritson SAT Queen Ann ..... Alex Tregear SAT Gloucester ..... Peter Polycarpou SAT John of Gaunt ..... Sean Baker SAT DeVere ..... James Lailey SAT Burley ..... Stuart McLoughlin SAT Tyler ..... Simon Bubb SAT Walworth ..... Daniel Rabin SAT John Ball ..... Jonathan Forbes SAT Joan ..... Claire Harry SAT Welshman ..... Alun Raglan SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b011vhwh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b011vg9r (Listen) SAT Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and SAT Westminster to ask how controversial decisions are reached. SAT SAT This week, he and his panel examine the European Court of SAT Human Rights, which has generated controversy with its SAT judgement on prisoner voting. With him to examine the case SAT for changing Britain's relationship with the court are Jack SAT Straw MP, the former Home, Foreign and Justice Secretary who SAT has been leading the criticism of the Court on prisoner SAT voting, Carl Gardner, a former government lawyer, Priti SAT Patel, the Conservative MP, Sir Stephen Wall, the former SAT Permanent Representative to the EU and former chief European SAT adviser the Prime Minister, and Allegra Stratton, political SAT correspondent for the Guardian. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b011tzkx (Listen) SAT Series 25, Semi 2 SAT SAT The evergreen general knowledge music quiz reaches the SAT second semi-final of its 25th anniversary series, with Paul SAT Gambaccini asking the questions. SAT SAT The three competitors today come from Sussex and the SAT Midlands. They've already won their respective heats, and SAT will be going all-out for a place in the grand Final later SAT this month. As ever, they'll have to answer on the widest SAT possible range of music - encompassing the classics, show SAT tunes, film themes, jazz, rock and pop. Paul will have SAT plenty of musical extracts to illustrate the questions, SAT including old favourites along with a few surprises. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS SAT SAT RICHARD FOSTER, a piano tuner and technician from SAT Crowborough in Sussex; SAT ANDY KILLEEN, a novelist from Birmingham; SAT PAUL McKENNA, a fine artist from Sutton Coldfield. SAT SAT 23:30 Blind Date with Bloomsday b011tynw (Listen) SAT Much quoted but arguably little read, James Joyce's Ulysses SAT is a Modernist classic. Set on June 16th 1904, the author SAT cannily assigned his novel its own annual feast day. Peter SAT White travelled to Dublin on Bloomsday last year to meet the SAT celebrants who enthusiastically enact sections of the book. SAT SAT Among them - resplendent in boater and blazer - is Irish SAT Senator David Norris, a founder of Dublin's Joyce Centre, SAT explaining how an apparently random string of consonants SAT precisely captures the sound of a breaking wave. But there's SAT also the writer and Irish Times journalist John Waters who's SAT courageous enough to confess that he's only ever managed to SAT get as far as page 35 of Ulysses. "It's more important to SAT Irish tourism", he says, "than to readers". SAT SAT What Peter White realises is that whilst the text of Ulysses SAT might be dense and difficult on the page, it is in fact SAT perfectly suited to the ear, as radio - filled with gleeful SAT linguistic tricks, puns and jokes and stream of SAT consciousness bawdiness. SAT SAT Having read Ulysses in Braille, Peter finds out that Joyce SAT was long troubled by eye problems, and that the author's SAT eyesight worsened considerably whilst writing the book when SAT exiled in Zurich. As a blind man himself, Peter is SAT interested to hear how Joyce uses blindness and myopia to SAT great symbolic effect in his work - evoking the whole of SAT Dublin society by emphasising all the senses - sound, touch SAT and smell as much as sight. SAT Producer Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 JUNE 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b011y46f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00nfmks (Listen) SUN The Fantastic Book of Everybody's Secrets, You Are A SUN Gongedip SUN SUN Three chilling tales from crime writer Sophie Hannah's first SUN short story collection mark her debut on Radio 4. Read by SUN Charles Swift SUN SUN When William's daily routine is interrupted by an irate SUN woman he vaguely recognises, he is irritated and soon shakes SUN her off. But he vastly underestimates her capacity for SUN revenge. SUN SUN Producer: Melanie Harris SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011y46h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011y46k (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011y46m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b011y46p (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b011zlcp (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Mary Magdalene, Chewton Mendip, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b011vg9t (Listen) SUN Series 2, Steve Jones SUN SUN Professor Steve Jones reflects on the legacy of the father SUN of eugenics, Francis Galton, and warns against the danger of SUN overstatement by geneticists. SUN Four Thought is a series of taks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SUN front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the SUN encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, SUN speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on SUN the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SUN culture and society. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b011y46r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b011zlcr (Listen) SUN Art of Prediction SUN SUN Mark Tully polishes his crystal ball and, with the help of SUN prophets ancient and modern, ponders the value of SUN prediction. Should we be grateful to those who can see the SUN follies of our ways while we are in the thick of them? And SUN should we be more prepared to listen to their foretellings, SUN even if the news is bad. SUN SUN In an interview for the programme, Julius Lipner, Professor SUN of Hinduism and the Comparative Study of Religion at SUN Cambridge University, explains the prophetic aspects of SUN Hinduism, where the actions of this life can influence the SUN next. He is sceptical about some of the devices used by SUN soothsayers to ensure that what they say can be interpreted SUN as correct, whatever actually happens. He has some sympathy, SUN though, for those who make predictions and expose themselves SUN to our tendency to 'shoot the messenger' if we don't like SUN the message. SUN SUN Tully, himself, wonders briefly if there is any point in SUN trying to prophesize what is ahead:'To those who will be SUN alive in the future, our present, and its prophecies will be SUN irrelevant, as they look to their futures.' But, in the end, SUN he comes down very much in favour of contemplating the SUN future consequences of our current actions. SUN SUN It's unlikely, though, that all our predictions will be as SUN prescient as Friar Roger in the 13th century, quoted in the SUN programme as foreseeing, 'optical instruments, mechanically SUN propelled boats and flying machines'. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b011zlct (Listen) SUN Agricultural shows act as a shop window for farming. Caz SUN Graham prepares sheep in Cumbria ready to be paraded on SUN display this summer in the hope that they will sell well SUN later in the year. SUN SUN The Buckles family breed Beltex sheep near Kirkby Stephen in SUN East Cumbria. If the sheep perform well at agricultural SUN shows then their price will increase when it comes to SUN auction time. SUN SUN But the family is divided - the parents have one flock and SUN their sons another - and this year they will be competing SUN against each other to win a prize at the Great Yorkshire SUN Show. SUN SUN Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b011y46t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b011y46w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b011zlcw (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 Escalating violence against civilians in Sudan's South SUN Kordofan state is a humanitarian catastrophe in the making; SUN the Archbishop of Canterbury warned this week that it could SUN turn into another Darfur. Edward speaks to Bishop Anthony SUN Pogo of the Southern Sudan about his fears for the region. SUN SUN Next week the House of Lords start to debate how the SUN re-modelled second chamber will look. But what will its SUN faith make-up be and should the Church of England be the SUN only religion represented? Edward debates with Bishop Tim SUN Stevens, Rabbi Julia Neuberger and Jonathan Bartley. SUN SUN Edward meets Phillip Pullman who once described himself as a SUN "Church of England Atheist". He will ask him how he turned SUN away from organised religion and about his own spirituality. SUN SUN Writer Symon Hill is walking from Birmingham to London as a SUN public act of repentance for his youthful homophobia. Trevor SUN Barnes joins him on the first few miles and finds out more SUN about his journey. SUN SUN The Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks tells Edward about his new book SUN -"The Great Partnership. God, Science and the Search for SUN Meaning" which explores Judaism's relationship with science. SUN SUN A BBC1 documentary will investigate the sexual abuse by SUN teachers of the Catholic Rosminian order in two schools in SUN the UK and Africa. Reporter Olenka Frienkel tells Edward how SUN after initially supporting the victims, the head of the SUN order is now ignoring their claims for compensation. SUN SUN The Treasures of Heaven exhibition opens next week at the SUN British Museum. Kati Whitaker explores the relics on show, SUN including the arm of St George! SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b011zlcy (Listen) SUN Book Aid International SUN SUN Alan Bennett presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Book Aid International. SUN SUN Donations to Book Aid International should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Book Aid International. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Book Aid International with your full name SUN and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. SUN The online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 313869. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b011y46y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b011y470 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b011zld0 (Listen) SUN Caring in Action SUN SUN To mark the end of Carers Week, a service from Nazareth SUN House, a Nursing and Residential Home in Cardiff. Worship is SUN led by Sister Margaret Gibbons and the preacher is the SUN Reverend Professor Maurice Scanlon. The Cardiff Polyphonic SUN Choir is directed by Neil Ferris and the Organist is David SUN Geoffrey Thomas. Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b011vjj0 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Waterton SUN SUN 18/20. Squire Waterton of Walton Hall was an eccentric SUN Englishman and gentleman who made many visits to South SUN America and wrote about his travels. His travel books are SUN "amongst the oddest I know" David Attenborough tells us, SUN written in an odd, almost biblical style. But nevertheless, SUN these books are accounts of natural history two hundred SUN years ago. Attenborough argues that Waterton shouldn't be SUN just remembered for his writing. He should be credited with SUN establishing the first nature reserve in this country. SUN Appalled by the ravages of the industrial revolution's SUN impact on the landscape, he built a wall around his estate SUN to protect the wildlife - and free of charge allowed people SUN to visit, which they did in their masses. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b011zld2 (Listen) SUN With Patrick O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b011zld4 (Listen) SUN Written by ... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling 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 Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Zofia ..... Izabella Urbanowicz SUN Spencer Wilkes ..... Johnny Venkman. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b011zld6 (Listen) SUN Len Goodman SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the international dance judge, SUN Len Goodman. SUN SUN He became a star of Strictly Come Dancing and the US show SUN Dancing with the Stars, after a forty year career as a SUN ballroom dancer and judge. Born in London's east end, as a SUN kid he was a barrow-boy, selling fruit and veg on his SUN grandfather's stall. He went on to work on the docks as a SUN welder. But come Saturday night he would don his best SUN threads and head for the Embassy ballroom in Welling. SUN SUN He was in his sixties when he found international fame and SUN it was, he says, perfect timing. "If it had happened when I SUN was thirty, I'd have been one these people that would be SUN seen rolling out of nightclubs drunk, with a couple of SUN dolly-birds on my arm. The pilot was on my sixtieth birthday SUN and I think it was the perfect age because I was sensible by SUN then, my feet were planted firmly on the ground." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b011tzl5 (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 5 SUN SUN Graham Norton, Jenny Eclair, Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence SUN join chairman Nicholas Parsons for the most devious of panel SUN games. The four panellists are asked by Mr Parsons to speak SUN on subjects he gives them for sixty seconds without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation. A surprisingly taxing SUN task. SUN SUN This week Graham Norton reveals his thoughts on Internet SUN Dating and How to Make Smalltalk at Parties, Jenny Eclair SUN describes her Favourite Shoes, Josie Lawrence shares her SUN ability to Leave on a High and Paul Merton talks about SUN Plankton and Smoothies. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b011zld8 (Listen) SUN Sanjay and the Sardine SUN SUN Cornish based chef Sanjay Kumar goes on a cooking mission to SUN Italy to save the Cornish sardine. SUN SUN The pilchard and its young offspring the sardine used to be SUN the basis of a thriving fishing and processing industry in SUN Cornwall. In the late 19th century nearly 20 thousand tonnes SUN of sardine was caught, salted, packed and sent to northern SUN Italy where it was highly prized. SUN SUN By the end of the 20th century the fish had fallen out of SUN favour. Supplies of the fish were still abundant but SUN consumers had started to switch to more aspirational fish SUN like cod and salmon. Sardines being landed fell below 10 SUN tonnes. Fisherman gave up the profession, boats were SUN destroyed and processing plants closed. SUN SUN Now with concerns over global stocks, one solution is for SUN more of us to switch to "poorer" more abundant fish species SUN like the sardine and pilchard. SUN SUN Chef Sanjay Kumar, born in Calcutta and now based in SUN Cornwall, wants to help make that happen. He moved to the SUN county five years ago, fell in love with Cornish food and SUN its fishing traditions. SUN SUN In May Sanjay travelled to a bi-annual event held in Italy SUN called Slow Fish. It brings together fishermen, chefs, SUN policy experts and fish scientists, all keen to promote SUN small scale, traditional and sustainable forms of fishing. SUN His mission was to use the event to find new ideas to help SUN revive Cornish fishing tradition. SUN SUN As well as cooking a traditional Italian sardine dish, SUN meeting fellow campaigning chefs, Sanjay also gets to SUN interview the European Union's Fisheries Commissioner, Maria SUN Damanaki. Find out how Sanjay's trip can make a difference SUN to how we all think about fish. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b011y472 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b011zldb (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Return to Joujouka b011zldd (Listen) SUN Neil McCarthy retraces Brian Jones' 1967 journey to Morocco SUN to encounter the first stars of world music- The Master SUN Musicians of Joujouka. SUN SUN This year the Master Musicians will hypnotize a new audience SUN when they open Glastonbury, but they have been stars on the SUN world stage for more than 40 years now, the first stars of SUN 'world music' in fact. Their trance like & cacophonous SUN sounds have spread far from their home in the foothills of SUN Morocco's Rif Mountains. . SUN SUN In 1967 their sounds cast a spell on Rolling Stone Brian SUN Jones. Just as they already had over Beat writers like Brion SUN Gysin and William Burroughs, drawn to the exotic and SUN hallucinatory world of Tangiers where the musicians had SUN first played for Westerners. The results of Jones' journey SUN came in 1971- effectively the first 'World Music album' SUN featuring the Master Musicians,' Brian Jones Presents The SUN Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka'. SUN SUN The Rolling Stone took recording engineer George Chkiantz SUN along to capture the essence of this wildly hypnotic music, SUN passed from generation to generation and designed to first SUN entice and then whip you into a frenzy for Bou Jeloud - the SUN Goat God Pan SUN SUN Neil McCarthy retraces Jone's journey. Meeting Chkiantz SUN before travelling to Morocco in the company of Frank Rynne, SUN another under Joujouka's spell. There he meets Mohamed SUN Hamri, effectively ambassador for the village musicians, SUN befriending Jones and other Westerners including the woman SUN he would marry, Blanca. His charms persuading her to leave SUN New York's jazz scene far behind for a very different life. SUN SUN As the night wears on McCarthy finds himself drowned in SUN sound as the Master Musicians summon up the spirit of Bou SUN Jeloud before the dawn finally breaks. SUN SUN N.B. Revised repeat of a feature first broadcast in 2000 SUN SUN Producer Mark Burman. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b011vjhk (Listen) SUN Yorkshire Dales SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood, Chris Beardshaw and Christine Walkden join SUN Eric Robson for another horticultural discussion. SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank advises on how to create a garden pond from SUN scratch. Chris Beardshaw explores the flora of limestone SUN pavements. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 GPs Who Need GPS b00tmj2h (Listen) SUN Doc of the Antarctic SUN SUN GP Phil Hammond compares his commute to that of Claire SUN Lehman, who travelled to work via Madrid, Santiago and the SUN Falkland Islands before flying into Rothera in the SUN Antarctic. SUN SUN As she watches for killer whales, carries out postmistress SUN duties, cooks for her colleagues and prepares for potential SUN Antarctic casualties, the differences between this remote SUN job and the life of a typical GP like Phil is brought SUN sharply into focus. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Adam. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b011zldj (Listen) SUN The Hireling SUN SUN Dramatised by Judith Adams from the novel by L.P.Hartley. SUN SUN In this 1957 thriller by the author of The Go-Between, SUN L.P.Hartley, ex-Sergeant Stephen Leadbitter, raised from an SUN unhappy working class childhood between the wars, is on a SUN peacetime mission to business success as a chauffeur and car SUN for hire. SUN SUN He uniformly despises his clients, especially the ladies, SUN until the young, widowed, naive and immensely rich Lady SUN Franklin hires him to take her on trips to cathedrals which SUN she had visited with her late husband. Lady Franklin has SUN been in mourning for her late husband 'a man considerably SUN older than her and an invalid' for two years, and is finding SUN it impossible to return to normal life. SUN SUN In the confines of the car, and in search of a cure for her SUN depression, she shares her burden with him. He obliges with SUN a story of his own, a fiction, which grows, monster-like, to SUN plague the inventor. Two alien classes are put on a SUN collision course, causing salvation or destruction to all SUN involved, from the epicentre of an unexpected burst of love. SUN SUN Narrator ..... Kenneth Cranham SUN Steve Leadbitter ..... Simon Day SUN Lady Franklin ..... Lisa Dillon SUN Hughie ..... Joseph Millson SUN Constance ..... Ursula Burton SUN Clarice ..... Nicola Duffett SUN Simmonds ..... Anthony Gleave SUN Bert Standing ..... Kevin James SUN Landlady ..... Jane Purcell SUN Porter ..... Andrew Cullimore SUN SUN Producer: Chris Wallis SUN An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b011zldl (Listen) SUN Margaret Drabble, Helen Oyeyemi and Beach Reads SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents. SUN SUN Margaret Drabble discusses A Day in the Life of a Smiling SUN Woman - the first time her 13 short stories, published SUN between 1966 and 2000, have been put together in one volume SUN SUN As summer approaches, and with Book At Beachtime about to SUN launch on Radio 4Extra, John Crace - the man behind the SUN Guardian newspaper's Digested Reads - puts forward his SUN thoughts about the best books to read while relaxing on a SUN beach, and stands up for the classics. SUN SUN And author Helen Oyeyemi on her new novel Mr Fox, a modern SUN day re-telling of the Bluebeard tale, and why - aged 9 - she SUN had to kill off her imaginary friend SUN SUN Producer: Ella-mai Robey. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b011zldn (Listen) SUN Roger McGough makes another foray into listeners' poetry SUN requests, and comes up with a selection which largely SUN reflects the season. With guest appearances by contemporary SUN poets Kate Clanchy and Helen Dunmore. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b011vf2f (Listen) SUN PFI Profits SUN SUN For two decades, the Private Finance Initiative has been a SUN controversial way of building new hospitals, schools, roads SUN and prisons. Well over £200bn of taxpayers' money has been SUN committed to the companies managing these projects. SUN The coalition government describes some PFI contracts as SUN 'ghastly' and wants some of this cash back. One cabinet SUN minister says 'the people on the other side must have been SUN laughing all the way to the bank'. SUN But, while public services are facing cuts, PFI payments are SUN guaranteed under watertight contracts. So experts say the SUN government can win only small amounts in rebates. SUN Much of the money has already gone offshore. Huge profits SUN have been made by selling and reselling many contracts in a SUN secretive 'secondary market' - with none of the proceeds SUN returning to the taxpayer. SUN Gerry Northam investigates gaps in HM Treasury's knowledge SUN of this trade and asks if PFI represents value for public SUN money. SUN Producer: Rob Cave. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b011zklt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b011y474 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b011y476 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011y478 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b011zlxn (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN This week on Pick of the Week: MC Millan, Barnsley's newest SUN Sodcaster tries out a bit of Vaughan Williams on the local SUN bus - with mixed results. Sir Stirling Moss on why he's SUN decided now's the time to stop racing competitively. Sarah SUN Millican lends support to a man with a delicate dilemma, and SUN the Hungarian sisters whose father trained them from SUN toddlers to be chess Grand Masters. And another chance to SUN hear some of Christopher Reid's A Scattering - a collection SUN of poems charting love and loss written after the death of SUN his wife. SUN SUN The Choice - Radio 4 SUN The Infinite Monkey Cage - Radio 4 SUN The Chess Girls - Radio 4 SUN This Is Not Magritte - Radio 4 SUN A Scattering - Radio 4 SUN Twenty Minutes - Emotional Breakdown - Radio 3 SUN The 219 Sodcast Project - Radio 4 SUN Sarah Millican's Support Group - Radio 4 SUN Park Life - Radio 4 SUN Meet David Sedaris - Radio 4 SUN Americana - Radio 4 SUN Lilo - Radio 4 SUN The Day of the Jackal - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b011zlxq (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b011zlxs (Listen) SUN As President Obama travels the country hoping to inspire job SUN creation, Americana examines the changing fortunes of SUN American cities from Omaha, Nebraska to Fresno, California. SUN SUN Presenter Adam Brookes talks to Jennifer Grant, about her SUN famously charismatic father Cary and about life as a SUN Hollywood kid. SUN SUN Jeffery Deaver tries to explain how an American author such SUN as himself could dare to take on the challenge of writing SUN new episodes in the James Bond series, SUN SUN And pianist Monty Alexander traces the surprising SUN connections between Jamaican reggae and American jazz. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00nmt7y (Listen) SUN Tales From The Low Countries, In Landlocked Frontiers SUN SUN Georges Hausemer is one of Luxembourg's most prolific SUN writers, having published more than a dozen novels, short SUN stories and poetry collections. SUN SUN Read by Michael Pennington SUN Translated by Michael Hoffman SUN Produced by Emma Harding. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b011vjhf (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton encounters a sticky problem on You and Yours SUN after listeners question the validity of a nine minute SUN report on a doughnut manufacturer. You and Yours editor SUN Andrew Smith defends the decision. SUN SUN Radio 3 devotee Chris Newman joins Roger for a behind the SUN scenes visit to a live broadcast and find out some of the SUN unexpected things that can go wrong during a performance. SUN SUN And 25,000 of you submitted your Desert Island Discs - so SUN why were only five listeners' stories featured in a special SUN programme celebrating the public's favourite discs? Desert SUN Island Discs editor Alice Feinstein explains why- and says SUN she hopes there's more to come. SUN SUN Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like SUN him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC SUN radio. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b011vjhm (Listen) SUN Jane Little on: SUN SUN Albertina Sisulu, whose contribution to the end of apartheid SUN in South Africa led to her being called The Mother of the SUN Nation. SUN SUN Adventurer, travel writer, and war hero Sir Patrick Leigh SUN Fermor. SUN SUN TV and film director John MacKenzie, best known for The Long SUN Good Friday. SUN SUN Carl Gardner, singer and founder of the 1950s hitmakers, The SUN Coasters. SUN SUN And the 'Picasso of India', prolific artist MF Husein. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b011zklc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b011zlcy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b011tzlf (Listen) SUN Egypt's New Islamists SUN SUN Edward Stourton asks if the Egyptian revolution spells the SUN end of old-style Islamism. As groups like the Muslim SUN Brotherhood embrace democracy, how will they - and Egypt - SUN change? SUN SUN The overthrow of Hosni Mubarak has been described as the SUN Middle East's first "post-Islamic" revolution: there were no SUN religious slogans or chanting in Tahrir Square and the SUN protestors we saw on television were largely young, SUN seemingly secular liberals. But Islam is likely to play a SUN major role in the development of post-revolution Egypt, with SUN the Muslim Brotherhood the biggest and best organised SUN political force in the country. SUN SUN Edward Stourton asks what kind of society Egypt's Islamists SUN want to create and explores how they are changing as they SUN form political parties and prepare to contest their first SUN fully democratic elections. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b011zlxv (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b011zlxx (Listen) SUN Episode 57 SUN SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b011vjhp (Listen) SUN Topping the bill in this week's Film Programme are Kevin SUN Macdonald and Brendan Gleeson. Macdonald discusses his SUN extraordinary documentary, Life in a Day, which he quarried SUN from more than eighty thousand clips submitted via the SUN internet and Gleeson offers insights into Gerry Boyle, the SUN quirky Connemara cop he plays in John McDonagh's The Guard. SUN Francine Stock also talks to the critic, Jane Graham, about SUN Edinburgh's International Film Festival which opened this SUN week and invites the film historian Pasquale Iannone to SUN reflect on Paolo Sorrentino, one of Italy's modern masters. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b011zlcr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 JUNE 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b011y47x (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b011vg9h (Listen) MON HG Wells, Utopias, Paraphernalia MON MON HG Wells was so involved in establishing sociology in this MON country that he wrote to Prime Minister Balfour to ask for a MON special endowment so he could give up on his novels. His MON emphasis was on utopias, he felt that social science could MON only progress if an ideal version of society was created MON with which to compare our own. He lost his battle but the MON sociologist Ruth Levitas tells Laurie that sociology has MON become boring and that Wells was right! MON Also, some everyday things - keys, combs, glasses - have the MON ability to enchant or absorb. Laurie Taylor talks to Steven MON Connor and Michael Bywater about how paraphernalia can have MON an almost magical power. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b011zlcp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011y47z (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011y481 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011y483 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b011y485 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011zm10 (Listen) MON With Quaker and author, Alastair McIntosh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b011zm12 (Listen) MON There are demands for farmers to stop using as many MON antibiotics in their animals. Dr Mark Holmes is a lecturer MON in veterinary medicine from the University of Cambridge and MON says that the government needs to bring in new regulations MON to govern the use of antibiotics in farming. He claims that MON this would take pressure off production and raise the price MON of milk. MON MON There will be a shortage of hay this year. That's according MON to the Hay and Straw merchants association which warns many MON fields harvested so far are only yieding 30% of their MON potential, following the driest spring for a generation. MON Ruth Sanderson went to meet Roly Fenwick - President of the MON Straw and Hay association - who says that this year's hay MON yeild will depend on what the weather will do in the next MON week. MON MON There are new calls for Chinese lanterns to be banned. Alan MON Buckwell is the policy Director at the Country Land Business MON Association and says that they are causing huge amounts of MON damage each year, and the problem is not getting any better. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b011y487 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b011zm14 (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk MON at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; MON Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b011zm16 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Tim Harford about the key to success. MON The 'undercover economist' argues that the fear of failure MON paradoxically leads to greater and more dangerous failures - MON from oil disasters to world conflict. Success in parliament MON is often mercurial, but the new Director of the Institute MON for Government and former Labour Minister, Andrew Adonis MON believes the pool of talent for the top jobs is too small, MON and that Ministers should be better prepared for their role. MON Priyamvada Gopal argues that university education is MON becoming one of the country's biggest failures. She believes MON the humanities have been denigrated, as consecutive MON governments have emphasised the value of work, over MON knowledge. And Eli Pariser explores the world of internet MON personalisation in which your every move is tracked and MON individual choices assessed: he warns that it's the end of MON objective news and the free exchange of ideas. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b011zm18 (Listen) MON Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 1 MON MON Ian Leslie traces the line from the great apes - who are no MON mean liars themselves - to humans and documents studies MON which suggest that becoming human wasn't a simple MON evolutionary process of the best forager and builder MON surviving, but the building blocks came from our social MON contacts and our understanding of deceit. MON MON Written by Ian Leslie MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Reader: Tim McInnerny MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b011zm1b (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Is crying in the office really a MON sign of weakness? We talk to an occupational health MON psychologist who's researched workplace tears. Shortlisted MON Orange prize author Kathleen Winter discusses her first MON novel Annabel in which the central character is born as an MON inter-sex person. Her book also features as the drama on MON Woman's Hour this week. Latest figures on abortions carried MON out in England and Wales show a rise in the number performed MON on women over forty - we discuss the possible reasons and MON the challenges facing women making this decision. MON Song-writer Emmy the Great performs live and talks about how MON the breaking off of her engagement influenced her latest MON album. MON MON Crying at work MON MON Staying on top of your emotions is often an important part MON of being at work. So what happens when emotions break down? MON In a recent edition of The Apprentice one of the contestants MON cried during a task and her competitors used it against her MON in the board room. But is crying at work always a bad thing? MON Gail Kinman is a Professor of Occupational Health MON Psychology, and one of the only people in the country to MON have done research on crying in the workplace. She joins MON Jane along with Vanessa Vallely who runs WeAreTheCity.com, a MON website and support network for women working in banking and MON finance. MON MON Abortion in the over 40s MON MON The number of women having abortions in their 40s in England MON and Wales has risen by almost one third in a decade, MON according to latest Department of Health figures. In total, MON 8,179 women aged 40 and over terminated pregnancies last MON year – including 665 women above the age of 45, and 21 women MON aged 50 and over. To discuss the many reasons behind the MON rise and the particular challenges facing older women who MON must make this decision, Medical Director at Marie Stopes MON International Dr Paula Franklin and ProLife’s Josephine MON Quintavalle join Jane in the studio. MON MON Emmy the Great MON MON Emmy the Great is the stage name of singer-songwriter MON Emma-Lee Moss. MON She was born in Hong Kong and came to England when she was MON 12, ending up as a fixture on London's folk scene. Her MON critically acclaimed debut album ‘First Love’ was released MON in 2009 and ranked seventh in the New York Times' Album of MON the Year list. She joins Jane to talk about her new album MON ‘Virtue’ - influenced by lost love - and sings live in MON studio. MON MON Kathleen Winter MON MON British-born Canadian author Kathleen Winter's first novel MON 'Annabel' was shortlisted for the 2011 Orange prize. The MON central character Wayne/ Annabel who was born as an MON inter-sex person. Kathleen talks to Jane about gender MON identity, and about her own early life in Labrador, Canada MON where the novel is set. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011zm1d (Listen) MON Annabel, Episode 1 MON MON In 1968, a mysterious child is born into the bleakly MON beautiful environment of remote coastal Labrador: a baby MON with both male and female sex organs. MON MON 11:00 When Wesley Went to Winchester b011zm1g (Listen) MON In 1970, broadcaster Wesley Kerr was awarded a County MON Bursary to study at the prestigious public school Winchester MON College. Forty years later, he opens the gates of memory and MON attends a special reunion to find out what happened to the MON other bursary boys and explores the scheme's attempts at MON 'social engineering.' MON MON From a working class background, Wesley was a black foster MON child growing up in Hampshire. With the odds against him, he MON passed the exam and interview and took the opportunity that MON was presented to him, later becoming the BBC's first black MON television reporter and royal correspondent. His early MON success even made the national press - one newspaper MON headlined 'Coloured Boy Wins place at Public School'. For MON Wesley and many of these boys, they were parachuted into a MON new life at one of Britain's top public schools. MON MON The national bursary scheme, initiated by Winston Churchill, MON MP Rab Butler and Lord Fleming, ran from 1947 to 1974, after MON a request by Churchill that a quarter of public schools MON places were to be taken by state school boys and were funded MON by the local education authority. A number of other schools MON such as Eton and Rugby also gave bursaries. MON MON At the unique springtime reunion, Wesley meets over thirty MON former pupils, who include a former judge, the man who's MON designing the new Routemaster bus and the Bishop of MON Gibraltar. With stories of strange accents, public school MON pranks and those who struggled to fit into an alien MON environment, Wesley hears how the experience gave them new MON opportunities and shaped their lives. MON MON Producer: Tamsin Barber. MON MON 11:30 When The Dog Dies b00s7f9r (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom MON Sorry, Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. Sorry ran for seven MON series on BBC 1 and was number one in the UK ratings. MON MON In this Radio 4 sitcom, Ronnie plays Sandy Hopper, who is MON growing old happily along with his dog Henry. His grown up MON children 'both married to people Sandy doesn't approve of at MON all' would like him to move out of the family home so they MON can get their hands on their money earlier. But Sandy's not MON having this. He's not moving until the dog dies. And not MON just that, how can he move if he's got a lodger? His MON daughter is convinced that his too attractive lodger Dolores MON (Liza Tarbuck) is after Sandy and his money. MON MON Luckily, Sandy has three grandchildren and sometimes a MON friendly word, a kindly hand on the shoulder can really help MON a Granddad in the twenty-first century. Man and dog together MON face a complicated world. There's every chance they'll make MON it more so. MON MON In this second episode, Spying Is Believing, we meet Sandy's MON daughter-in-law Victoria, also known as the Wicked Witch of MON the West. Her husband and daughter are two of her victims. MON Sandy, aided by Dolores, finds himself snooping on Victoria, MON hiding in a car boot and climbing a very tall tree. This is MON an adventure straight out of the Dangerous Grandad's Book MON For Boys. MON MON Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett MON Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Tyson ..... Daniel Bridle MON Calais ..... Amelia Clarkson MON Victoria ..... Joanna Brookes MON Lance ..... Philip Bird MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b011zm1j (Listen) MON Our national tourism agency, Visit Britain, unveils its MON latest international TV ad campaign MON MON We report on fears that academies - very much the MON centrepiece of education policy - will be reluctant to admit MON children with special educational needs. MON MON And the man who thinks we can have too much technology - how MON one man dumped his smartphone in a rubbish bin to stop it MON taking over his life. MON MON 12:57 Weather b011y489 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b011zm1l (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b011zm1n (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 12 MON MON Which British songwriter connects Petula Clark's 'Downtown' MON with the themes from the TV soaps 'Crossroads' and MON 'Neighbours'? MON MON Paul Gambaccini has the answer to this and many other MON musical teasers, as he chairs the third semi-final in the MON current series of the long-running music quiz. The three MON contestants are each aiming for the one remaining place in MON next week's grand Final, to stand a chance of becoming the MON 25th Counterpoint champion. MON MON As usual the questions cover every genre of music, from the MON classical repertoire through film and show tunes, light MON music, jazz, and sixty years of the pop charts. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b011zlxq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hvgbt (Listen) MON Success Story MON MON When Ray's low-budget film is picked up by a major studio MON his dreams of Hollywood start to become a reality. Then, MON holed up in a hotel room doing endless publicity interviews, MON he finds the past coming back to bite him. By Brett MON Goldstein. MON MON Ray ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild MON Tara ..... Caroline Catz MON Emily ..... Sasha Pick MON Kristen ..... Laurel Lefkow MON MON Directed by Toby Swift. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b011zkly (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Completists b00xp1fm (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The word 'completist' was coined in the 1950s and was MON originally applied to collectors who aspired to own an MON entire set of records by a particular artist (usually a jazz MON musician). But now completists come in many different forms MON with different ambitions. Ian Marchant meets five MON "completists" - each of them driven by the need to tick off MON the entire collection. MON The internet has revolutionised everything for this group MON dragging them out of their cellars, kitchens, bedrooms and MON sheds and into web forums, specialist chatrooms and onto the MON blogosphere to exchange opinions, tips and secrets with MON whole tribes of fellow completists. The opportunities to MON complete their goal are more available because of global MON communication but the logistics are harder and the goal MON posts are higher. MON Ian Marchant, a former Charing Cross Road bookseller, is an MON old friend and admirer of completists. He recalls the story MON of one book collector who regularly asked for a particular MON volume habitually adding '...but you won't have it.' When MON the book (at last and amazingly) turned up, the collector MON refused to buy it because, once he owned it, he'd no longer MON have a reason to live. MON Ian's completism? He owns all the records of Brinsley MON Schwarz. It took him ten years to find a copy of their first MON album and it turned out to be lousy. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b011zld8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b011zm32 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 4 MON MON Science show, presented by Professor Brian Cox and Robin MON Ince. MON MON 17:00 PM b011zm34 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011y48c (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b011zm36 (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 6 MON MON Stephen Fry, Sue Perkins, Paul Merton and Fi Glover are the MON panellists on this, the final show of the series. Chairman MON Nicholas Parsons hands out subjects on which the panellists MON attempt to speak for sixty seconds without being buzzed by MON fellow players of the game. MON MON This week Stephen Fry speaks on The Right Way to Greet MON Someone and Fi Glover speaks on The Wrong Way to Greet MON Someone, Paul Merton declaims on the American Dream and Sue MON Perkins reveals she is less than loyal to the idea of MON Loyalty Cards. MON MON This week both Sue Perkins and Stephen Fry achieve the MON coveted aim of speaking for a whole minute without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task much more MON testing than it sounds. MON MON The programme was devised by Ian Messiter. MON The producer was Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b011zm38 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b011zm3b (Listen) MON Mark Lawson talks to film director Stephen Frears on his MON 70th birthday. MON MON He reports from Folkestone, which is preparing for the MON second festival which sees art placed around the town. MON Andrea Schlieker, curator of the Folkestone Triennial, gives MON him a tour of exhibits which include a bell suspended 20 MON metres in the air by the shoreline, 100 miniature boats MON suspended from a church ceiling and Mark meets the MON Folkestone woman who responded to an advert in the local MON paper saying Wanted: one mermaid, any shape or size. MON MON Producer: Jack Soper. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b011zm1d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Root of All Evil: Christianity and Money MON b011zm3d (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Giles Fraser tells the story of how Christians came to have MON such mixed feelings about a subject we all obsess about: MON money. MON MON Giles is the Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. As MON well as being responsible for the Cathedral's money, his job MON is to reach out to the people who work in the City of MON London. But with Jesus' instructions to give up all worldly MON goods, what can Giles say to people earning millions of MON pounds a year? At what point does profit become immoral? And MON what can the Church of England as a whole say to the MON financial community, when itself has hundreds of millions of MON pounds on the stock market? Is that why the Church went MON rather quiet during the credit crunch? MON MON In this second programme Giles uncovers how, over the MON centuries, the church changed its mind about money. From MON it's origins as a religion based on ideals of poverty, the MON medieval church grew to be the richest institution Europe MON had known. MON MON But at the heart of the church's changing attitude to money MON is the Reformation, which whilst starting as a rebellion MON against the riches of the medieval church, relaxed laws on MON usury and opened the way for today's capitalism. Giles talks MON to historian Niall Ferguson and to Lord Griffiths, Vice MON President of Goldman Sachs and a committed Christian, to MON explore how the Reformation paved the way for our attitudes MON to money today. MON MON Producer: Jane Greenwood MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b011zm3g (Listen) MON Hague's Middle East MON MON "The eruption of democracy movements across the Middle East MON and North Africa is, even in its early stages, the most MON important development of the early 21st century." These were MON the words of Foreign Secretary William Hague May 2011. MON Events from Cairo to Banghazi have shaken the very MON foundations of the Middle East, and with it the West's MON longstanding friendships with Arab dictators. But what will MON happen next? MON MON In this week's Analysis, Edward Stourton meets Foreign MON Secretary Hague and explores the map of the new Middle East MON as seen from London, Washington and Brussels. Amid the talk MON of massive economic investment, customs unions, and a MON newfound support for democratic transition, what will really MON change in terms of Western relations with the Middle East? MON MON The "Arab Spring" came just as the world began to recover MON from the 2008 crash -- with oil prices already high. Edward MON looks at how the economic pressures will shape our policy, MON and explores divisions within the EU -- with some nations MON afraid of opening up to the Arab world, while others are MON pushing for it. MON MON Support for Israel has long been a cornerstone of Western MON interests in the region, but recent comments by British MON leaders and the US President about "1967 borders" have left MON many in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv seething. In the new Middle MON East, what future do Britain and the US see for Israel and MON the Palestinians -- and will it change things enough to make MON a difference? MON MON Western foreign policy on the Middle East has been through MON massive convulsions -- from die-hard "realism" that saw MON close relations with dictators to the "neo-conservatism" MON that called for the invasion of Iraq. So what is now driving MON our new vision for the region? MON MON 21:00 Material World b011vhdh (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week he hears about: plans to MON drill the ocean floor to study climate, disasters and life MON underground; advanced technologies for the planes of the MON future; the influx of science words being added to the MON Oxford English Dictionary and why, what and when we dream. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON New Decade for Ocean Drilling MON MON At a meeting in Amsterdam this week, the Integrated Ocean MON Drilling Programme announces its science plan for the next MON ten years. Chair of the committee that wrote the plan is MON Professor Mike Bickle of Cambridge University. At the centre MON of the plan is the Japanese drilling vessel Chikyu (meaning MON Planet Earth). There are 4 main aspects to the plan ahead. MON One is to use sediment cores from the ocean floor to explore MON climate change in the past with the hope of understanding it MON better in the future. The second is to study the hidden MON biosphere – vast communities of micro-organisms now known to MON live within the rocks under the ocean. How do they live and MON evolve where it’s almost impossible to move around and MON interact? Thirdly - and particularly urgent in the light of MON the recent Japanese Tsunami – is the need to drill and MON instrument the ocean floor faults where submarine MON earthquakes occur in hope of understanding and warning of MON future disasters. Finally, there’s deep geology – MON understanding how new ocean floor forms, how circulating MON fluids cool the Earth’s mantle and ultimately drilling right MON through the crust for the first time, into the unexplored MON mantle. MON MON Smart Materials and Future Planes MON MON Business consultants PwC have just published a new report on MON the future technology for airplanes, civil and defence. One MON of the report’s authors, Anna Sargeant and Dr Colin Brown of MON the Institution of Mechanical Engineers join Quentin Cooper MON to discuss future planes and in particular, the new MON materials they may be made of. The list includes advanced MON new coatings and composites, self-repairing materials and MON ‘smart dust’ – minute sensors embedded in the fabric of a MON plane that can radio in with updates. MON MON Dreams: What When and Why? MON MON Almost everyone dreams, at least occasionally, while asleep. MON But is there any meaning to the content of dreams or any MON purpose in our having them? Next week, leading psychologists MON and other dreamers meet in The Netherlands at the MON International Association for the Study of Dreams to discuss MON their research. Quentin Cooper hears the latest from MON Professor Mark Blagrove who is researching why we dream more MON of things that happened last week than those of yesterday. MON MON More Science in the Oxford English Dictionary MON MON Today the Oxford English Dictionary is being updated, with MON the addition of over 1,840 new and revised words. In total MON there have been 98,000 updated and new entries published MON since the OED went online in March 2000. A high proportion MON of added words in the new release come from the world of MON science. Dr Robert Hughes tells Quentin what some of them MON are and discuses this increasing trend. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b011zm16 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b011y48f (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b011zm45 (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011zm47 (Listen) MON Three Stations, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Martin Cruz Smith. Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON MON Renko is approached by an oligarch who has fallen on hard MON times and discovers that even multimillionaires have their MON problems in modern day Moscow. And we find out what has MON happened to Maya's baby. MON MON Read by Philip Jackson MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b011vh4y (Listen) MON Instant Gratification MON MON Cheap credit and immediate online access to infinite MON availability have contributed to one of the defining MON characteristics of our time - the 'have it all' culture of MON being able to instantly gratify our wants and needs. But at MON what cost? MON MON Dominic Arkwright explores the pleasures and pitfalls of MON instant gratification in the company of three speakers from MON very different walks of life. Representing the complete MON antithesis of the quick hit, tapestry weaver Jane MON Freear-Wyld shows Dominic a textile the size of a paperback, MON explaining how it takes 250 hours, or six working weeks, to MON make. Hers is a world away from the work of advertising MON creative director Matt Beaumont who arguably fuels our lust MON for not only jam today, but yesterday and tomorrow too. MON Meanwhile, Times columnist and writer Sathnam Sanghera, MON recently returned from a holiday in Mumbai, argues that it's MON the recent shift towards instant gratification that is MON fuelling India's rapidly rising standard of living, very MON different to an ethos that promises fulfilment neither now MON nor in in this life at all, but in the next one. MON Producer Mark Smalley. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b011zm49 (Listen) MON Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b011y490 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b011zm18 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011y492 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011y494 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011y496 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b011y498 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011zmpv (Listen) TUE With Quaker and author, Alastair McIntosh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b011zmpx (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b011zmpz (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk TUE at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; TUE Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b011zmq1 (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland returns with a new series of The Long TUE View, the programme that sheds old light on new stories. TUE This week Jonathan looks at super-injunctions through the TUE trial of William Hone, scurrilous gossip and high-minded TUE political campaigner. TUE TUE In the early 19th century, Hone used the communications TUE technology of his day - pamphlets and cartoons - to keep one TUE step ahead of the libel laws, whether over allegations of TUE sexual impropriety among the royals or political corruption. TUE As with today, the message proliferated far ahead of the TUE law's ability to keep up with it. Pamphlets were printed and TUE passed with such speed the authorities struggled to track TUE the source or arrest the perpetrators. TUE TUE Join Jonathan Freedland and guests for the Long View of TUE public gossip, political freedom and the way communications TUE technology challenges the law. TUE TUE 09:30 Britain's Labs b00shrlz (Listen) TUE Rothamsted Research TUE TUE Presented by Prof Iain Stewart. TUE TUE Rothamsted Research is the oldest agricultural research TUE centre in the world. It has planted wheat experiments that TUE have been running since the 1840s. TUE TUE But these days, amid worries over food security, scientists TUE are being asked to redouble their efforts to make crops more TUE productive and cheaper, and more sustainable to grow. TUE TUE Their approach is often genetic - looking to use genetic TUE investigation into plants to identify ways in which their TUE cropping or resistance to pests can be enhanced. This use of TUE GM as a 'tool' in experiment has been very successful. But TUE the use of genetically modified crops is currently banned in TUE Britain - something the scientists discuss. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0122vx4 (Listen) TUE Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 2 TUE TUE Children learn deceit very early in their lives, but they TUE are not very good at it. Then, at roughly between the ages TUE of three and a half and four and a half, something changes. TUE Ian Leslie explains how children's deceit becomes more TUE sophisticated and the social processes that change (or TUE sometimes not) their behaviour for the better. TUE TUE Written by Ian Leslie TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Reader: Tim McInnerny TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b011zmq3 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Are mixed football teams good for TUE girls? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f9 (Listen) TUE Annabel, Episode 2 TUE TUE Thomasina faces up to the deaths of her husband and TUE daughter, Annabel, while Jacinta reluctantly takes her baby TUE in for surgery. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b011zmq5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 9 TUE TUE 9/30 As part of our mini-series "Citizen Conservation", TUE produced and presented by Sarah Pitt, we feature the TUE conservation of Dormice. In woods up and down the country TUE local conservation groups are taking responsibility for TUE monitoring and managing the habitat and nest sites of these TUE small mammals. Together with sophisticated annual counts of TUE their population, the expert placement of nest boxes and TUE management of their woodland habitat - who are these TUE conservationists? How much do we rely on our community of TUE amateur naturalists to look after our natural heritage? We TUE hear that looking after scrubland is one of the most TUE important measures to look after this creature. TUE TUE We continue our reporting of seabirds with a a piece TUE recorded on location on Canna near the Isle of Skye by Bob TUE Swann on Manx Shearwater. TUE TUE And we hope to bring you Large Blue Butterflies. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Dr Seuss and the Butter Battles b011zmq7 (Listen) TUE "...most of my books don't carry heavy morals. The morals TUE sneak in, as they do in all drama. Every story's got to have TUE a winner, so I happen to make the good guys win... it's TUE probably a pretty dirty thing I'm doing. When I do it, TUE though, I don't consider it propaganda; I consider it making TUE sense." - Dr Seuss TUE TUE Twenty years on from his death, Theodor 'Dr Seuss' Geisel TUE remains one of the best-loved children's authors in America. TUE Famed for his witty and often subversive stories such as, TUE 'The Cat in the Hat' and 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!' TUE his whimsical characters and playful rhymes are deeply TUE embedded in American childhoods and those of children around TUE the world. However, few readers are aware of the surprising TUE political subtext to many of his tales. TUE TUE One of Geisel's earliest jobs was as a political cartoonist TUE for the left-wing newspaper PM in the 1940s. These cartoons TUE reveal the beginnings of a Seussian universe - prototypes of TUE Yertle the Turtle and the Cat in the Hat sit alongside TUE images of Hitler and Charles Lindbergh - attacked with TUE artistic fervour and biting wit. TUE TUE Despite the move to children's literature, Dr Seuss' TUE political sympathies still bubbled under the surface of his TUE innocuous sounding rhymes where his cast of characters TUE rallied against anti-Semitism, fascism, the arms race and TUE environmental recklessness. With contributions from his TUE former editor Michael Frith, the writers Michael Rosen and TUE Giles Andreae and the political cartoonist Dave Brown we TUE explore the political passions of Dr Seuss. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b011zmq9 (Listen) TUE Is streaming young pupils the best way to help them in TUE class? One in six UK children is being streamed according to TUE their ability by the age of seven, according to research by TUE the Institute of Education. It suggests the oldest children TUE in the year are more likely to be in the top classes. But TUE critics say it has a negative effect on those in the bottom TUE streams. So what is the best way to deal with mixed TUE abilities? Do brighter pupils help motivate those needing to TUE go at a slower pace? Is there a risk of labelling pupils a TUE failure before they even turn eight? And where children are TUE split into streams, how important is it to keep reviewing TUE their progress - so they don't get demoralised? If you're a TUE parent, teacher or pupil we'd like to hear from you. Call TUE You and Yours with Julian Worricker. Your chance to share TUE your views on the programme. Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk, TUE text 84844 and we may call you back or call 03700 100 444 TUE (lines open at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b011y49b (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b011zmqc (Listen) TUE National and international news, with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Free Wales Harmony: When Pop Went Welsh b011zmqf (Listen) TUE Andy Votel is a DJ, producer and record label boss from TUE Manchester who first found fame setting up Twisted Nerve TUE Records, home to the singer Badly Drawn Boy. Obsessed with TUE collecting records, today Andy runs Finders Keepers, a TUE record company which specialises in releasing non-English TUE language pop music from all over the world. About 9 years TUE ago, in a charity shop, he stumbled across a collection of TUE vinyl which he'd never seen or heard before. Not able to TUE place the language, he initially guessed it was Icelandic, TUE Breton or Hungarian. But on closer inspection it turned out TUE the records were made less than a hundred miles from his TUE house. These unidentified spinning objects were from Wales. TUE From that moment on Andy's world was opened up to whole TUE discography of idiosyncratic pop music. Girl-groups, close TUE harmony pop, Acid Folk, Prog Rock, concept albums, pop TUE poetry, indie rock and DIY punk. And to his amazement he TUE discovered that - outside of Wales - this very cool music TUE scene had been virtually ignored. Researching further in to TUE his new found obsession, Andy discovered the story behind TUE the songs was just as intriguing as the music: a tale of TUE passion, politics, poetry, oppression, triumph and a bloody TUE good disco! TUE In this Radio 4 documentary Andy reveals a cultural TUE revolution that happened on our doorsteps and the music that TUE made it sing. A struggle to save a dying language that TUE involves protest, prison, Mabinogion concepts, the Royal TUE family, cottage burning and even the death of Jimi Hendrix. TUE With contributions from Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys, TUE Cerys Matthews, Dafydd Iwan, Heather Jones, Meic Stephens TUE and Geraint Jarman amongst others. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b011zm38 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b011zmqh (Listen) TUE A Terrible Beauty TUE TUE The poet WB Yeats travels to propose to legendary beauty TUE Maud Gonne soon after her husband was executed by the TUE British in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. TUE TUE by David Pownall TUE TUE with original music composed and performed by Max Pownall TUE TUE YEATS...............JOHN KAVANAGH TUE MAUD............. .FIONA VICTORY TUE YSEULT................LYDIA WILSON TUE ELSIE...............JANE WHITTENSHAW TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b011zmqk (Listen) TUE Fiona Watson presents Radio 4's popular history programme in TUE which listener's questions and research help offer new TUE insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b011zmqw (Listen) TUE New Welsh Writing from Ty Newydd, A Very Private View TUE TUE Ty Newydd, near Snowdonia, is the National Writing Centre TUE for Wales as well as being the former home of Lloyd George. TUE These three stories were created there on a Writing for TUE Radio course, and showcase both new and established Welsh TUE writers. TUE TUE In A Very Private View, a young man in Vienna keeps company TUE with one of the city's most famous doctors. Peter Taylor's TUE story is read by Ioan Gruffudd. TUE TUE Director Nigel Lewis TUE Executive Producer: Kate McAll TUE BBC Cymru Wales. TUE TUE 15:45 The Completists b00y203z (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b011zmqy (Listen) TUE The new business of law TUE TUE The liberalisation of the legal services market in the TUE autumn has been described as the sectors 'big bang' TUE comparable with the deregulation of financial services in TUE the eighties. Change might not come overnight but the legal TUE landscape will see a huge shift in the next five to ten TUE years with new players coming into the market and some firms TUE going out of business. Co-op is already staking it's claim - TUE trialling legal services in branches of Britannia building TUE society and smaller law firms are banding together to form TUE countrywide chains, seeing strength in numbers. It is the TUE result of the Legal Services Act introduced by the last TUE government and it aims to increase competition, make TUE services better for consumers and improve access to justice. TUE But those hostile to the changes believe that a drive for TUE profit compromises lawyers professional ethics and will TUE drive down standards. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b011zms3 (Listen) TUE Laura Solon, Fleur Adcock TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert discusses favourite paperbacks with writer TUE Fleur Adcock and comedian Laura Solon. Their choices include TUE a modern classic by Evelyn Waugh and two coming-of-age TUE novels, one set in France and the other in the north of TUE England. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Books Featured in the Programme TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: The Greengage Summer by Rumer TUE Godden TUE Publ. Pan TUE TUE Laura Solon's choice: Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh TUE Publ. Penguin Modern TUE TUE Fleur Adcock's choice: Bilgewater by Jane Gardam TUE Publ. Abacus Books TUE TUE 17:00 PM b011zms5 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011y49d (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b010y7bp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second TUE series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real TUE advice for real people. TUE TUE Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she TUE wants you to live life to the upmost, and she's got tons of TUE ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of TUE the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self TUE qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's TUE problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which TUE normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). TUE TUE This week the team tackle two problems - "I think I'm TUE addicted to plastic surgery" and "My retired Dad has more of TUE a social life than me - how can I get him to swap stripping TUE for slippers?" TUE TUE Sarah Millican Sarah TUE Ruth Bratt Marion TUE Simon Day Terry TUE Rachel Isy Suttie TUE Ian William Andrews TUE Jeff Kevin Eldon TUE Clive Malcolm Tierney. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b011zms9 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b011zmsc (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Australian TUE writer Christos Tsiolkas, whose 2010 novel The Slap TUE generated considerable debate. TUE TUE Russell T Davies discusses making Torchwood for UK and US TUE TV. TUE TUE Producer: Andrea Kidd. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b011zmsf (Listen) TUE A Living Death TUE TUE A review into the care of patients in vegetative or low TUE awareness states has been launched by the Royal College of TUE Physicians. There are thought to be as many as 5000 such TUE people in the UK. TUE The working party will look at concerns that assessment and TUE diagnosis of patients is not consistent across the country TUE and will ask whether the cost of long term care is TUE affordable to the NHS. TUE Ann Alexander examines calls for a reform of the process to TUE end the life of such patients where their families believe TUE their loved one would no longer wish to be alive. TUE The programme reveals how some hospitals appear unaware of TUE the law and hears how the process can be lengthy and costly, TUE putting families under further strain. TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b011zmsh (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b011zmsk (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond explores the limits and potential of the TUE human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b011zmq1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b011y49g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b011zmsm (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011zmsp (Listen) TUE Three Stations, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Martin Cruz Smith. Abridged by Jane Marshall TUE TUE When his wife rejects the baby he has acquired for her the TUE General puts it in a shopping bag and abandons it on a TUE platform at Three Stations. And Renko receives a letter TUE summonsing him to a suspension hearing. TUE TUE Read by Philip Jackson TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b011zm32 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b011zmsr (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme presents the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b011y4b1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0122vx4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011y4b3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011y4b5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011y4b7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b011y4b9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011zn5c (Listen) WED With Quaker and author, Alastair McIntosh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b011zn5h (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b011zn5k (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b011zn5p (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Henry Winkler. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0122vzn (Listen) WED Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 3 WED WED We think that people are lying when they mumble or they are WED embarrassed, but the liars amongst us are often those who WED are the most fluent speakers, the most charming people. Ian WED Leslie describes how two researchers discovered way to pick WED those who were being economical with the truth. WED WED Written by Ian Leslie WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Reader: Tim McInnerny WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b011zn5t (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Caitlin Moran on 'How to Be a WED Woman'. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f1 (Listen) WED Annabel, Episode 3 WED WED Wayne's childhood is torn between the conflicting desires of WED his father, Treadway, who wants to make a true Labradorian WED man of him, and of the two women in his life. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b011zn5y (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 4 WED WED Millie is about to reach the astonishing age of 104; at 94, WED Lily is a mere youngster, while 95-year-old Hetty is still WED as voluble and lively as she was when she worked in a WED football factory or ran her own business... Alan Dein visits WED Vi and John Rubens House in Ilford, Essex, where elderly WED residents of the old East End Jewish community in London now WED spend their days. Talking to them about how they spend their WED time now he discovers a rich landscape of experience in the WED lives of these entertainingly lively and thoughtful old WED people. WED WED Producer: Simon Elmes. WED WED 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b00s0vqr (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED WED From Carnegie Hall to the BBC Radio Theatre - American WED humourist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection WED of published stories and articles. WED WED "Kookabura", and "With a Pal Like This...." WED WED The producer is Steve Doherty. WED This is a Boomerang Plus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b011zn64 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Julian Worricker. WED WED 12:57 Weather b011y4bc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b011zn66 (Listen) WED National and international news, with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b011zn6b (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b011zms9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b011zn6g (Listen) WED The People Next Door WED WED by Shelley Silas. WED WED Sarah ..... Claire Rushbrook WED James ..... Nicholas Gleaves WED Samuel ..... Sean Baker WED Teresa ..... Marlene Sidaway WED Car Mechanic ..... Alun Raglan. WED WED directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b011zn6j (Listen) WED If you are confused by banking you can ask the experts for WED advice on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Whether your question is about the service you receive, WED charges, switching accounts or resolving disputes, if you WED want to know your rights as a customer, Vincent Duggleby and WED guests will be ready to help. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012036k (Listen) WED New Welsh Writing from Ty Newydd, Translation WED WED Ty Newydd, near Snowdonia, is the National Writing Centre WED for Wales as well as being the former home of Lloyd George. WED These three stories were created there on a Writing for WED Radio course, and showcase both new and established Welsh WED writers. WED WED Translation is Julie Ma's story about a young Chinese girl WED having to translate sensitive information for her mother. WED It's read by Liz Sutherland. WED WED Director Kate McAll WED BBC Cymru Wales. WED WED 15:45 The Completists b00y517j (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b011zn6q (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b011zmsk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b011znh5 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011y4bf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b011znh7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Is the party over? WED WED The aspiring politicians of the new political party move on WED to tackle drugs and housing and come up with a convenient WED catch-all solution. But is there any point if Jared's all WED set to move to the Isle of Wight? Last in this second series WED of a satirical comedy written by Tom Basden. WED WED Simon ..... Tom Basden WED Duncan ..... Tim Key WED Jared ..... Jonny Sweet WED Mel ..... Anna Crilly WED Phoebe ..... Katy Wix WED WED Produced by Julia McKenzie. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b011znh9 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b011znhc (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who visits a major Magritte exhibition WED opening this week in Liverpool, and also reports on a show WED of portraits by Andy Warhol, including images of Jane Fonda WED and Marilyn Monroe, at the Lowry in Salford. WED WED Producer Ekene Akalawu. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b011znhk (Listen) WED Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and WED Westminster to ask how controversial decisions are reached. WED This week, he and his panel examine changing the rules for WED calling strikes. WED WED Should our local school, the train we take to work, even the WED local job centre, be closed by strikes which do not have the WED majority of members backing them? Pressure is certainly WED growing for a change, from the Mayor of London, business WED leaders and some Conservative MPs. They want a minimum WED threshold of support before a union can call its members out WED on strike. WED WED Critics, though, point out that no government in history WED would cross such a high democratic hurdle, that the right to WED strike is fundamental and anyway, workers these days only WED strike in extreme circumstances. WED WED Nick is joined by the Conservative MP Dominic Raab, who has WED a backbench bill on the issue, by John Edmonds, the former WED General Secretary of the powerful GMB union, by Lord Tebbit, WED the former Employment Secretary who was largely responsible WED for the current laws, by Helen Leiser, a former senior civil WED servant responsible for employment relations, and by Sam WED Coates, Deputy Political Editor of The Times. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b011znl3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Ed Smith WED WED Former England cricketer Ed Smith argues that too much WED professionalism in sport and in other areas of life spoils WED rather than promotes the chance of success. WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to WED the stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b011znl5 (Listen) WED Large numbers of seismologists fear the recent earthquake in WED Japan reveals greats gaps in their science. Attention in the WED country has focused on the threat to Tokyo and to the south, WED where danger still lurks; but experts admit they WED underestimated the danger to the north, where the quake and WED tsunami struck in March. If even the Japanese experts, the WED best prepared in the world, can get it wrong, what other WED dangers is seismology missing? Roland Pease investigates WED from Japan. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b011zn5p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b011y4bh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b011znl7 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. Presented by WED Ritula Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b011znl9 (Listen) WED Three Stations, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Martin Cruz Smith. Abridged by Jane Marshall WED WED Renko is dismissed from his job but still he pursues the WED killer of Vera Antonova and his enquiries lead him back to WED the Nijinsky Club where he is intrigued by a photograph of WED the choreographer's son. WED WED Read by Philip Jackson WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Shedtown b011znlc (Listen) WED Storm WED WED A layer-cake of disaster threatens the creosoted community. WED And where's Colin? WED WED Barry ...... Tony Pitts WED Jimmy & Johnny ...... Kevin Eldon WED Colin ....... Johnny Vegas WED Diane ...... Suranne Jones WED Dave ....... Shaun Dooley WED Eleanor ...... Ronni Ancona WED Deborah Dearden ...... Emma Fryer WED William ....... Adrian Manfredi WED Carly ...... Jessica Knappett WED Father Michael ...... James Quinn WED Wes ......Warren Brown WED Petshop Owner ...... Caron May WED WED Narrator...Maxine Peake WED Music......Paul Heaton WED WED Written and created by Tony Pitts WED Directed by Jim Poyser WED WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b011znlf (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b011y4c2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0122vzn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011y4c4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011y4c6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011y4c8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b011y4cb (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b011zzh0 (Listen) THU With Quaker and author, Alastair McIntosh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b011zzh2 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b011zzh4 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b011zzh6 (Listen) THU Malthusianism THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Malthusianism. THU THU In 1798 the Reverend Thomas Malthus published An Essay on THU the Principle of Population. It predicted future population THU growth, and also suggested that food production could not THU keep pace. The work caused a furore and fuelled a public THU debate about the size and sustainability of the British THU population which raged for generations. Although the THU gloomier predictions of Malthusianism were subsequently THU proved wrong, its central ideas have remained influential THU ever since. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0122w87 (Listen) THU Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 4 THU THU In principle, the lie detector solves the problems of THU society: it can pick the thief or the philanderer or the THU dodgy politician. But the polygraph, as it was christened, THU has had a chequered history, it's reputation being more THU effective than the machine itself. THU THU Written by Ian Leslie THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Reader: Tim McInnerny THU THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b011zzh8 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Nancy Dell'Olio on turning 50. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f3 (Listen) THU Annabel, Episode 4 THU THU Kathleen Winter's compelling debut novel is the moving story THU of a child born as both a girl and a boy, growing up in the THU Canadian wilderness. THU THU In 1968, a mysterious child is born into the bleakly THU beautiful environment of remote coastal Labrador: a baby THU with both male and female sex organs. Only three people THU share the secret - the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, THU and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make THU a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the THU child as a boy named Wayne. THU THU But as Wayne grows up within the masculine, Labradorian THU hunting culture of men such as father, his shadow-self - a THU girl he thinks of as 'Annabel' - is never entirely THU extinguished. As Wayne approaches adulthood, the woman THU inside him begins to cry out. THU THU In today's episode, Wayne becomes close friends with a girl, THU Wally Michelin - much to his father Treadway's THU consternation. THU THU Narrator ..... Buffy Davis THU Thomasina ..... Genevieve Adam THU Jacinta ..... Madeleine Sims-Fewer THU Treadway ..... Simon Lee Phillips THU Eliza ..... Gwenneth Holmes THU Joan ..... Teresa Gallagher THU Wayne ..... Kristopher Bosch THU Young Wayne ..... Amelia Clarkson THU Young Wally ..... Jessica Little THU Derek Warford/ Dr Ho ..... Jason Durran THU Steve/ Dr Lioukras ..... Christopher Bailey THU Roland/ Dr Carr ..... Simon Bubb THU THU Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies THU Directed by Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b011zzhb (Listen) THU The stories behind the world headlines. THU THU 11:30 Vampires V Zombies! b011zzhd (Listen) THU The Vampire is dead, Long live the Zombie. Natalie Haynes THU investigates our contemporary obsession with Vampires and THU Zombies from Buffy to the Walking Dead. She examines the THU various anxieties they express about food, addiction, sex THU and disease and talks to writers who've found themselves THU depicting these creatures in fiction. What happens when you THU put a vampire family in a semi in bradford? Do zombies know THU they are zombies? Why is an American High School the perfect THU setting for a Vampire slayer? The answer to all these and THU more as Natalie Haynes pits Vampires against Zombies. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b011zzhg (Listen) THU Consumer news with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b011y4cd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b011zzhj (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b011zzhl (Listen) THU Pleasure and Pain of Public Transport THU THU The three contributors to this edition of Off the Page are THU all seasoned travellers who know very well both the THU pleasures and the pain of public transport. Ian Marchant THU wanted to write a book about inland waterways but was THU persuaded to write about trains instead and while THU researching that he fell in love with the idea of the THU railway; poet Lavinia Greenlaw has been making a sound THU installation based on comments overheard at a station; and THU writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe has never owned a car. THU But presenter Dominic Arkwright throws a spanner in the THU works when he reveals a loathing for public transport and THU that he will go to any length to avoid it. THU THU Producer Paul Dodgson. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b011znh9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b011zzhn (Listen) THU Crimes of Mancunia THU THU Criminal's loved ones are being kidnapped around Manchester. THU When the kidnapper starts asking for very specific amounts THU of ransom money, word soon spreads that he is an ex-cop with THU a dangerous grudge against the criminal community. DCI Lise THU Lazard and DI Mikey Finn take up the case before time runs THU out for the kidnapper's victims. A noir drama in verse by THU Michael Symmons Roberts. THU THU DI MICKEY FIN .. Jason Done THU DCI LISE LAZARD .. Sinead Keenan THU BENNETT .. James Quinn THU CHIZ .. Danielle Henry THU SONJA .. Beth McCann THU CRAIG/ BARMAN .. Stephen Hoyle THU STATION FOREMAN/ POLICEMAN .. Russell Richardson THU THU Producer: Charlotte Riches THU Director: Susan Roberts THU THU The drama also has an accompanying website THU www.stringsta.com, where listeners can create their own THU characters and stories, or add to other people's THU contributions, inspired by Michael Symmons Roberts' world of THU Mancunia. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b011zj68 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b011zlcy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b01204xl (Listen) THU New Welsh Writing from Ty Newydd, The Wake THU THU Ty Newydd, near Snowdonia, is the National Writing Centre THU for Wales and these three stories created there on a Writing THU for Radio course, showcase new and established Welsh THU writers. THU THU A woman returns to Aberystwyth for her mother's funeral and THU finds the past is still very much present. Beth Robert reads THU a story by Francesca Rhydderch. THU THU Director: Willa King THU Executive Producer: Kate McAll THU BBC Cymru Wales. THU THU 15:45 The Completists b00yhv38 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU 16:00 Open Book b011zldl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b011zzhq (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. THU THU 17:00 PM b01206c0 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011y4cg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Your Round b00z5zyh (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format THU is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the THU panellists has brought along their own round for the others THU to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and THU unpredictable. THU THU This episode Foster's award winner in Edinburgh this year, THU Russell Kane, Josie Long, Alun Cochrane and Milton Jones THU battle it out to see who can beat each other at their own THU games. THU THU Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the THU games they've brought along. How will the teams fare when THU they play Russell Kane's "Mood News" round? What superhero THU would Milton Jones like to be? And what is josie Long's THU "Nine Previous Convictions" all about? Find out the answers THU to these questions and more in this show. THU THU Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure THU everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. THU THU Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01206c2 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01206c4 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who reports on an exhibition of 60 images THU of The Queen, spanning the six decades of her reign, and THU including official portraits, photographs and unofficial THU works. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b011zmqy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01206c6 (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b011zmq5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b011zzh6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b011y4cj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01206cb (Listen) THU With David Eades. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01206cd (Listen) THU Three Stations, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Martin Cruz Smith. Abridged by Jane Marshall. THU THU Dismissed from his job as an investigator but still on the THU trail of a killer Renko discovers his own life is in danger. THU And Maya's baby is discovered once more but still her mother THU has no idea how close she is to her missing daughter. THU THU Read by Philip Jackson THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01206cg (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU A new audience sketch show set in the world of call centres. THU It is Sailesh's first day as team leader working at Smile5, THU the catalogue company that sells anything and everything. THU THU EPISODE 1 THU THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul sharma THU Various ..... Philip Fox THU THU Writers ..... James kettle, Stephen Carlin, Andy Wolton, Ben THU Partridge, Colin Hoult, Dan Tetsell, Dale Shaw, Kevin Core, THU Rob Gilroy, Tom Neenan THU THU Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01206cj (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 JUNE 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b011y4d3 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0122w87 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b011y4d5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b011y4d7 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b011y4d9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b011y4dc (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012077v (Listen) FRI With Quaker and author, Alastair McIntosh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b012077x (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b012077z (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather, Yesterday in Parliament and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b011zld6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0122w98 (Listen) FRI Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 5 FRI FRI The 'murderer at the door' refers to the moral dilemma of FRI whether you tell the truth if the honest answer will FRI threaten someone's life. How did philosophers square with FRI that conundrum? FRI FRI Written by Ian Leslie FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Reader: Tim McInnerny FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0120781 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f5 (Listen) FRI Annabel, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode, Wayne faces the emotional and physical FRI challenges of adolescence. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Buffy Davis FRI Thomasina ..... Genevieve Adam FRI Jacinta ..... Madeleine Sims-Fewer FRI Treadway ..... Simon Lee Phillips FRI Eliza ..... Gwenneth Holmes FRI Joan ..... Teresa Gallagher FRI Wayne ..... Kristopher Bosch FRI Young Wayne ..... Amelia Clarkson FRI Young Wally ..... Jessica Little FRI Derek Warford/ Dr Ho ..... Jason Durran FRI Steve/ Dr Lioukras ..... Christopher Bailey FRI Roland/ Dr Carr ..... Simon Bubb FRI FRI Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies FRI Directed by Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Reversing Dr Beeching b0120783 (Listen) FRI Without much fanfare, Scotland has been systematically FRI reversing Dr Beeching's cuts to rural rail services. In the FRI last 30 years, 62 railway stations in Scotland have FRI reopened- more than anywhere else in the British Isles. In FRI December 2009 the Airdrie to Bathgate Line which had been FRI closed to regular passenger traffic since 1956 started to FRI run again. The reopened service brought rail to an area FRI which had lived without it for half a century. Rail FRI reopenings have enjoyed a cross party consensus in Scotland FRI - but can the programme survive public spending cutbacks? FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b0120785 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI Written By Phil Hammond and David Spicer. FRI FRI Nigel Planer, Celia Imrie, David Westhead, Phil Cornwell and FRI Tony Gardner star in a timely satire on the NHS set in the FRI bewildering new world of Coalition healthcare. FRI FRI This new sitcom is written by Private Eye's medical FRI columnist, broadcaster, comedian and practising GP Dr Phil FRI Hammond and David Spicer ('Double Income No Kids' and 'Three FRI off the Tee'.) As responsibility for the Health Service is FRI stripped from managers and handed to doctors, FRI brothers-in-medicine Roy and Hugh Thornton are struggling to FRI work out what to do with all this sudden money and power. If FRI they can diagnose acute appendicitis surely they can manage FRI an £80 billion health budget. Can't they? But a useless FRI celebrity TV doctor, an overly-aggressive South African FRI nurse and a sinister GP Consortium Chairman don't make their FRI lot any easier. FRI FRI This week, to Practice Manager Betty's horror, Hugh FRI discovers an enormous fiscal hole in the Consortium budget. FRI Polyoaks has no money, even though they're swamped with FRI patients, most of whom are 'frequent flyers.' The worried FRI well may well have not very much wrong with them, but they FRI can prove very expensive to treat. The practice has to come FRI up with a way of getting rid of them. Hugh is advocating FRI swingeing cuts in the treatments on offer and Roy's beloved FRI therapies are under threat. Could the brilliant bedside FRI manner of the incompetent Dr Jeremy provide them with a FRI surprising solution? FRI FRI Dr Roy Thornton ..... Nigel Planer FRI Dr Hugh Thornton ..... Tony Gardner FRI TV's Dr Jeremy ..... David Westhead FRI Betty Crossfield ..... Celia Imrie FRI Vera Du Plessis .... Carla Mendonca FRI Mr Devlin ..... Phil Cornwell FRI FRI All Patients played by David Holt and Kate O'Sullivan FRI FRI Producer/Director: Frank Stirling FRI An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0120787 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b011y4df (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0120789 (Listen) FRI National and international news, with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b012078c (Listen) FRI Listeners' champion Roger Bolton is back with a new series FRI of Feedback to put your criticisms, queries and concerns to FRI BBC radio's top dogs. FRI FRI It will be a long hot summer as BBC management chew over FRI where the axe will fall to make savings needed - and staff FRI at 5Live prepare to move to Salford but will the listeners FRI hear any difference? FRI FRI And Roger investigates threatened changes to BBC local radio FRI and spends a morning with the Today team - can he get a word FRI in edgeways? FRI FRI Contact the Feedback team to let Roger know what you'd like FRI him to tackle this series about anything you've heard on BBC FRI radio. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01206c2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b012078f (Listen) FRI Playing for His Life FRI FRI Written by John Peacock. FRI FRI Already under Gestapo Surveillance, tennis ace Baron FRI Gottfried Von Cramm, married but secretly homosexual, FRI offends Hitler, by refusing to join the Nazi Party. He FRI believes himself to be safe as long as he remains Germany's FRI number one and winning. 'But I must win. I can't lose, and I FRI can't quit.' He was left playing for his life. FRI FRI Gottfried Von Cramm ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild FRI Lisa Von Cramm ..... Paloma Baeza FRI Jutta Von Cramm ..... Frances Jeater FRI Joachim Von Ribbentrop ..... Sam Dale FRI Manasse Herbst ..... Nicholas Boulton FRI Bill Tilden Junior ..... William Hope FRI Commentator/Pate ..... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Hermann Goering/Umpire ..... Simon Treves FRI Don Budge ..... Adam Unze FRI Lady Astor .... Rachel Atkins FRI Henkel/David ..... James Joyce FRI FRI Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012078h (Listen) FRI Dumfries & Galloway FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team are in Dumfries & Galloway for some FRI gardening trouble-shooting. FRI Christine Walkden discovers some extraordinary Gunnera in FRI Logan Botanic Gardens. FRI Matthew Wilson reports from Gardeners' World Live in FRI Birmingham. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Completists b00yn83l (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b012078k (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b012078m (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b012078p (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b011y4dh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b012078r (Listen) FRI Series 34, Episode 3 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Mitch Benn, Jon FRI Holmes and Jess Robinson, to present an array of topical FRI stand-up, sketch and song. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b012078t (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b012078w (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who finds out more about composer Arthur FRI Wood, whose works include Barwick Green, well known to Radio FRI 4 listeners as the theme music for The Archers. FRI FRI Stevie Nicks talks about solo life after Fleetwood Mac. FRI FRI Producer: Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01224f5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b012078y (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion from FRI Victoria Hall, Shipley in West Yorkshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0120790 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Fireflies FRI FRI 19/20. The chemistry that allows the combustion of natural FRI chemicals to generate light without heat is wonderfully FRI harnessed by the firefly. Fireflies are insects with several FRI species in the group; each with its own species specific FRI code and signalling regime. In this life story David FRI Attenborough tells of his personal experience filming the FRI antics of fireflies and the insight this gave him into this FRI secret world of messaging. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00j1fdm (Listen) FRI Stone, The Ties That Bind FRI FRI By Damian Wayling. FRI FRI When a body dredged up from a lake implicates an ex-police FRI officer and a respected headteacher, DCI Stone has a FRI difficult decision to make as he discovers the real truth FRI that lies behind the murder. FRI FRI Stone ...... Hugo Speer FRI Catriona ...... Zoe Henry FRI Thomas ...... Rob Pickavance FRI Sally ...... Danielle Henry FRI Tanner ...... Craig Cheetham FRI Chloe/DS Addison ...... Maxine Burth FRI Tyler ...... Reece Noi FRI Wise ...... James Nickerson FRI Piotra/Lawler ...... Greg Wood FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b011y4dk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0120792 (Listen) FRI With David Eades. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0120794 (Listen) FRI Three Stations, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Martin Cruz Smith. Abridged by Jane Marshall. FRI FRI Renko has discovered the identity of the killer but with no FRI power of arrest his own life is in danger as he races FRI through the streets of Moscow. And Maya is close to giving FRI up hope in the search for her child. FRI FRI Read by Philip Jackson FRI FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b011zms3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0120796 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
18 June, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 18/06/2011 - 24/06/2011
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