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SAT SATURDAY 25 JUNE 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01206dp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0122w98 (Listen) SAT Born Liars: Why We Can't Live Without Deceit, Episode 5 SAT SAT The 'murderer at the door' refers to the moral dilemma of SAT whether you tell the truth if the honest answer will SAT threaten someone's life. How did philosophers square with SAT that conundrum? SAT SAT Written by Ian Leslie SAT Abridged by Pete Nichols SAT Reader: Tim McInnerny SAT Producer: Rosalynd Ward SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01206dr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01206dt (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01206dw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01206dy (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012079x (Listen) SAT With Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b012079z (Listen) SAT 'The press treats crime like public entertainment. It's SAT not.' A murder victim's mother speaks out about attitudes to SAT crime and punishment. Listener Avril Sanders Royle is a SAT trustee of Support After Murder and Manslaughter (SAMM), and SAT explains why she opposes murder mysteries on TV and any SAT reduction of the prison population to save money. With SAT Jennifer Tracey. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01206f0 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01206f2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b0122k8h (Listen) SAT Literary Walks, Alderley Edge - Alan Garner SAT SAT Alan Garner spent his early childhood in Alderley Edge, SAT Cheshire, England, and he remains associated with the area. SAT Many of his works, including The Weirdstone of Brisingamen SAT and The Moon of Gomrath, are drawn from local legends and SAT locations. Clare Balding walks with him to hear more about SAT the area and how it inspired his writing. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0122k8k (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The Hay and Straw Merchants' Association says animal owners SAT could face a shortage of hay as many fields are yielding SAT only 30% of what's expected. The dry spring has also meant SAT that in addition to cereal yields being down so will the SAT amount straw which is baled after harvesting. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith goes haymaking in Shropshire to find out the SAT difference between hay, haylage and silage, how much they'll SAT cost those wanting feed and bedding and the cheaper SAT alternatives that are being suggested to make supplies go SAT further. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01206f4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0122krh (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0122ksm (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with actress Lesley Sharp, poet Kate Fox, a SAT young woman who went to China as a student and came back a SAT pop star, and a lifelong campaigner. There's a Daytrip with SAT Griff Rhys Jones and author William Boyd shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0122ksp (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig looks at the simplicity and versatility of the SAT bicycle as a travel machine with three very different SAT cyclists. Susie Wheeldon rode 22,000 kilometres around the SAT world, crossing deserts from Tunisia to Arizona, as she and SAT her companions were researching solar energy. Robert Penn SAT leads cycling weekends in the hills of the Brecon Beacons SAT where the ups are as satisfying as the downs. And Matt SAT Carroll recommends day trips in some of England's most SAT beautiful countryside. Together they discuss the feeling of SAT freedom realised in today's world by a device which hasn't SAT changed its basic design for over 130 years. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Taboo be Doo b0122lfd (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT When Terence Blacker started looking for new music to play SAT in his duo with guitarist Derek Hewitson, he found many of SAT the songs they wanted to play were likely to cause offence - SAT to women, black people, gays, disabled people, foreigners - SAT pretty much everybody really. SAT SAT Terence started to wonder more and more about these songs SAT and the questions they raised - were they written to offend? SAT Has what offends us changed over time? What's politically SAT incorrect now? Is a song, however offensive, ok if it's SAT funny? SAT SAT A few surprising artistes will make an appearance. Noel SAT Coward, Randy Newman, Mick Jagger and Florence Welch are to SAT be expected, but Hoagy Carmichael? Tammy Wynette? The SAT Beverley Sisters? SAT SAT Some of the songs Terence will be listening to will have SAT been specifically written to provoke outrage. More often, SAT though, they will simply reflect the prevailing moods, SAT prejudices, fears and hang-up of the times in which they SAT were written. SAT SAT Terence talks to fellow musicians including Dillie Keane, SAT Kit Hesketh Harvey and Steve Knightley - and of course we SAT get to hear all those politically incorrect songs from the SAT past - and can judge for ourselves their ability to amuse, SAT provoke, shock and delight. SAT SAT Terence Blacker is the author of numerous children's books SAT and eight novels for adults as well as the acclaimed SAT biography of his friend Willie Donaldson, You Cannot Live As SAT I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This. He has written a SAT twice weekly column for the Independent since 1998 and is a SAT regular broadcaster. Terence is also one half of the SAT acoustic guitar duo Something Happened. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Greenwood SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0122lkk (Listen) SAT With Benedict Brogan. A look behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0122lkr (Listen) SAT The lights go out in the United States. It's only a SAT simulation at present but Mark Mardell in Washington says SAT it's evidence the US military is taking seriously the threat SAT of war in cyberspace. Inside the walls of a prison in the SAT Horn of Africa our correspondent Mary Harper is surprised by SAT a demand for an interview ... from a Somali pirate! Misha SAT Glenny reflects on the EU's decision to admit Croatia to SAT full membership: proof, he believes, that a powder keg has SAT finally been defused. Rupert Wingfield Hayes has an account SAT from inside the Bahrain courtroom where a number of people SAT were sentenced to life imprisonment after being found guilty SAT of trying to overthrow the country's royal family. And SAT Andrew Martlew's been walking in the mountains of northern SAT Italy tracking down some rarely visited British war graves. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0122ll4 (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b012078r (Listen) SAT Series 34, Episode 3 SAT SAT Hugh Dennis and Jon Culshaw are joined by Mitch Benn, Jon SAT Holmes, Jess Robinson and Tom Wrigglesworth, to present an SAT array of topical stand-up, sketch and song. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01206f6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01206f8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b012078y (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics SAT from Victoria Hall, Saltaire in West Yorkshire, with editor SAT of the Spectator, Fraser Nelson, editor of the New SAT Statesman, Jason Cowley, Shadow Secretary of State for SAT Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Mary Creagh and SAT Conservative MP, David Davis. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0122lz4 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0122lz6 (Listen) SAT Cause Celebre SAT SAT The Old Vic Theatre's recent production of Terence SAT Rattigan's gripping courtroom drama, directed by Thea SAT Sharrock, starring Anne Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack. SAT SAT 2011 marks the centenary of Terence Rattigan's birth. Cause SAT Celebre was originally a radio play, produced by the BBC in SAT 1975. Rattigan was fascinated by a sensational murder trial SAT at the Old Bailey in 1935 concerning an elderly architect SAT allegedly killed by his much younger wife Alma and George, SAT their handsome odd-job boy. The popular press had a field SAT day - tales of sex, drugs, alcohol and gore were plastered SAT across the papers. The play follows the course of the murder SAT trial and its impact on Edith Davenport, the morally upright SAT forewoman of the jury. Edith is forced to reconsider her SAT initial condemnation of the life-affirming, morally relaxed SAT Alma. SAT SAT Terence Rattigan is one of Britain's most popular 20th SAT century dramatists. SAT SAT Joan Webster ..... Lucy Black SAT Francis Rattenbury .... Timothy Carlton SAT John Davenport .... Simon Chandler SAT Croom-Johnson ..... Richard Clifford SAT Christopher .... Oliver Coopersmith SAT Edith Davenport .... Niamh Cusack SAT Alma Rattenbury ..... Anne-Marie Duff SAT Montagu ..... Rory Fleck-Byrne SAT Tony Davenport .... Freddie Fox SAT Irene Riggs .... Jenny Galloway SAT Judge ...... Patrick Godfrey SAT O'Connor .... Nicholas Jones SAT George Wood .......Tommy McDonnell SAT Stella Morrison ....... Lucy Robinson SAT Clerk of the court .....Tristan Shepherd SAT Casswell ....... Richard Teverson SAT Wardress ....... Sarah Waddell SAT Sergeant Bagwell ....... Michael Webber SAT Coroner ....... Tristram Wymark SAT SAT The play was directed by Thea Sharrock and produced by Polly SAT Thomas for Sparklab, from the recent production by the Old SAT Vic Theatre SAT SAT Assistant director: Eleanor While SAT Original music: Adrian Johnston SAT Executive producer: Melanie Harris SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:30 Woman's Hour b0122lzn (Listen) SAT Nancy Dell'Olio, Caitlin Moran, Music from Emmy the Great SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. Nancy Dell'Olio, Caitlin Moran, Music from Emmy the SAT Great, women and prison sentencing changes, the SAT revolutionary washing machine and crying at work - is it SAT ever okay? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0122ml2 (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01206c6 (Listen) 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 This week Evan's executive guests hail from the worlds of SAT banking, headhunting and advertising. He asks them about SAT loyalty - or rather the seeming lack of it in business. Are SAT companies generally looking for short-term relationships of SAT convenience, with loyalty gone and promiscuity the rule? SAT Evan also asks them how they measure how well they're SAT performing. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Michael Morley, chief SAT executive of private bank Coutts & Co; Robin Wight, SAT president of communications agency Engine; Alistair Cox, SAT chief executive of global recruitment firm Hays. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01206fb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01206fd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01206fg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0122mnd (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Lucinda Lambton has researched, written and presented over SAT 80 films for BBC and ITV including "On The Throne -The SAT History of the Lavatory". Now she explores porcine palaces, SAT bovine barracks and terrapin temples in her new book SAT 'Palaces for Pigs - Animal Architecture and other Beastly SAT Buildings'. SAT SAT Rhys Thomas is perhaps best known as the award winning spoof SAT radio presenter Gary Bellamy in BBC Radio 4's 'Down The SAT Line' and BBC Two's 'Bellamy's People'. Rhys tells Clive SAT about a different role as a world-weary paramedic in Channel SAT 4's new comedy drama series 'Sirens'. SAT SAT Philip Mould OBE is an international art dealer who SAT regularly appears on BBC One's "Antique's Roadshow". He can SAT now be seen again on Sunday nights alongside Fiona Bruce in SAT "Fake or Fortune" in which they explore the mysteries that SAT lie beneath the paint of valuable pieces of art. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi's music knowledge is put to the test with Guy SAT Chambers. Best known for his collaboration with Robbie SAT Williams, Guy shares his musical expertise in his new series SAT "Secrets of the Pop Song" on BBC Two . SAT SAT Live music this week from former dance DJ turned SAT singer/songwriter Fink. He may have written for John Legend, SAT Amy Winehouse and Professor Green, but this month sees the SAT release of his own album "Perfect Darkness" and alongside SAT his bandmates, they perform that title track. SAT SAT King Creosote and classically trained producer Jon Hopkins SAT spent seven years creating their latest album 'Diamond SAT Mine'. King Creosote describes it as a 'soundtrack to a SAT romanticised version of a life lived in a Scottish coastal SAT village'. From it, they play their single "Bubble". SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0122mt4 (Listen) SAT Bashar al-Assad of Syria is facing a serious challenge to SAT his rule in the form of widespread political protest across SAT the country. Simon Cox examines how instead of training to SAT be an eye doctor in London he was thrust into the role of SAT leader of an Arab state in the of a political storm. Had his SAT brother not died, Bashar would almost certainly have been SAT destined for a quiet life outside politics and far from the SAT spotlight. SAT SAT He came to power in 2000 on a wave of hope for political and SAT economic reform. Under his leadership, the country underwent SAT a degree of relaxation, with hundreds of political prisoners SAT being released and a few tentative steps towards easing SAT media restrictions. SAT But the pace of change has slowed - if not reversed - and SAT President Assad has made clear his priority is economic SAT rather than political reform. The Syrian leader's vocal SAT opposition to the US-led invasion of Iraq prompted US anger, SAT but it was popular in Syria and in the region. His SAT administration has also come under fire for its alleged SAT support for Palestinian militants and insurgents in Iraq. SAT For Syria's security services and army, the ruling Baath SAT Party and the massive state bureaucracies, Mr Assad SAT represents stability and continuity after the 30-year rule SAT of his father, Hafez al-Assad. Some observers believe an old SAT guard with entrenched interests may be holding back the SAT young leader. Others say Mr Assad is firmly in the driving SAT seat. So how much do we know about the real character of the SAT man - is he reformer or autocrat? SAT Presenter: Simon Cox SAT Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0122n0s (Listen) SAT With Tom Sutcliffe. A review of the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0122n2g (Listen) SAT Schumacher's Big Society SAT SAT David Cameron's Big Society? Well, actually, economist E. F. SAT Schumacher thought of it first, forty years ago, and his SAT daughters have recently been invited to No 10 to discuss SAT their father's ideas. This summer marks the birth centenary SAT of Fritz Schumacher, seminal author of the newly SAT re-published "Small is Beautiful - Economics as if people SAT mattered". And a long-lost recording of one of his public SAT lectures given at the Findhorn spiritual community in SAT Scotland in October 1976, has just been lovingly restored. SAT SAT The recording, now broadcast for the first time, is a SAT revelation. Quite simply, just months before his sudden SAT death, Fritz is on fire! He is relaxed, inspirational, SAT extraordinarily witty, and highly prescient. "The economic SAT party is over," he says, "we're just left with the washing SAT up. At the height of our achievements, we're bankrupt. Our SAT civilisation is experiencing the second fall of man and must SAT get up again." SAT SAT Jonathon Porritt examines how the philosophy of this German SAT exile, described as "one of the few original thinkers of the SAT 20th Century", is now being taken seriously in British SAT government circles, even to the extent of unwittingly SAT helping today's Prime Minister shape his ideas for Big SAT Society. It also reveals how Cameron's predecessor, Margaret SAT Thatcher, was a Schumacher fan - but only up to a point - SAT and how Schumacher championed the now fashionable concepts SAT of well-being measurement, localism, and volunteerism SAT SAT Contributors include: Satish Kumar of the Schumacher College SAT and George McRobie (with whom he pioneered the Intermediate SAT Technology Development Group), Findhorn members who were SAT present at his1976 talk, economist Wilfred Beckerman (author SAT of Small is Stupid), and members of Schumacher's family. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Eldon Lee SAT A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b011zldj (Listen) SAT The Hireling, The Hireling SAT SAT Dramatised by Judith Adams from the novel by L.P.Hartley. SAT SAT In this 1957 thriller by the author of The Go-Between, SAT L.P.Hartley, ex-Sergeant Stephen Leadbitter, raised from an SAT unhappy working class childhood between the wars, is on a SAT peacetime mission to business success as a chauffeur and car SAT for hire. SAT SAT He uniformly despises his clients, especially the ladies, SAT until the young, widowed, naive and immensely rich Lady SAT Franklin hires him to take her on trips to cathedrals which SAT she had visited with her late husband. Lady Franklin has SAT been in mourning for her late husband 'a man considerably SAT older than her and an invalid' for two years, and is finding SAT it impossible to return to normal life. SAT SAT In the confines of the car, and in search of a cure for her SAT depression, she shares her burden with him. He obliges with SAT a story of his own, a fiction, which grows, monster-like, to SAT plague the inventor. Two alien classes are put on a SAT collision course, causing salvation or destruction to all SAT involved, from the epicentre of an unexpected burst of love. SAT SAT Narrator ..... Kenneth Cranham SAT Steve Leadbitter ..... Simon Day SAT Lady Franklin ..... Lisa Dillon SAT Hughie ..... Joseph Millson SAT Constance ..... Ursula Burton SAT Clarice ..... Nicola Duffett SAT Simmonds ..... Anthony Gleave SAT Bert Standing ..... Kevin James SAT Landlady ..... Jane Purcell SAT Porter ..... Andrew Cullimore SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wallis SAT An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01206fj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b011znhk (Listen) SAT Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and SAT Westminster to ask how controversial decisions are reached. SAT This week, he and his panel examine changing the rules for SAT calling strikes. SAT SAT Should our local school, the train we take to work, even the SAT local job centre, be closed by strikes which do not have the SAT majority of members backing them? Pressure is certainly SAT growing for a change, from the Mayor of London, business SAT leaders and some Conservative MPs. They want a minimum SAT threshold of support before a union can call its members out SAT on strike. SAT SAT Critics, though, point out that no government in history SAT would cross such a high democratic hurdle, that the right to SAT strike is fundamental and anyway, workers these days only SAT strike in extreme circumstances. SAT SAT Nick is joined by the Conservative MP Dominic Raab, who has SAT a backbench bill on the issue, by John Edmonds, the former SAT General Secretary of the powerful GMB union, by Lord Tebbit, SAT the former Employment Secretary who was largely responsible SAT for the current laws, by Helen Leiser, a former senior civil SAT servant responsible for employment relations, and by Sam SAT Coates, Deputy Political Editor of The Times. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b011zm1n (Listen) SAT Series 25, Episode 12 SAT SAT Which British songwriter connects Petula Clark's 'Downtown' SAT with the themes from the TV soaps 'Crossroads' and SAT 'Neighbours'? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini has the answer to this and many other SAT musical teasers, as he chairs the third semi-final in the SAT current series of the long-running music quiz. The three SAT contestants are each aiming for the one remaining place in SAT next week's grand Final, to stand a chance of becoming the SAT 25th Counterpoint champion. SAT SAT As usual the questions cover every genre of music, from the SAT classical repertoire through film and show tunes, light SAT music, jazz, and sixty years of the pop charts. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS SAT SAT ANTHONY DEAN, a teaching assistant from Nottingham; SAT STEPHEN POLLARD, a journalist from London; SAT SUSAN WEDLAKE, a PR executive from Sevenoaks. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b011zldn (Listen) SAT Roger McGough makes another foray into listeners' poetry SAT requests, and comes up with a selection which largely SAT reflects the season. With guest appearances by contemporary SAT poets Kate Clanchy and Helen Dunmore. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 JUNE 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b012250k (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00n55n4 (Listen) SUN Lyrical Ballads, Lewti and The Thorn SUN SUN In today's episode we hear the poems 'Lewti' - Coleridge's SUN 'love-chant' to an enigmatic and stony-hearted woman and SUN 'The Thorn', Wordsworth's ballad about a mysterious outcast SUN and the superstitions that the locals have attached to her. SUN Recorded on location in Coleridge's Cottage in Nether SUN Stowey, Somerset and in the Quantock Hills. SUN SUN Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Julius D'Silva SUN William Wordsworth - Mark Meadows SUN The Captain - Peter Gruffydd SUN SUN Adapted and produced by Emma Harding. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012250m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012250p (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012250r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b012250t (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0122nd3 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary Magdalene, Ditcheat, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0122mt4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b012250w (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0122nfs (Listen) SUN Diamonds and Coal SUN SUN In this week's Something Understood, Llewelyn Morgan SUN considers how the diamond, a beautiful yet tarnished jewel, SUN is capable of provoking complex responses within us. SUN SUN With readings from Christina Rosetti, Marco Polo and William SUN Pitt, music from Joan Baez, Bela Bartok and Joni Mitchell, SUN and an interview with bookseller Farrukh Hussain, he SUN examines how this precious stone can bring out the best and SUN worst in us. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Burningham SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0122npn (Listen) SUN The recession is being felt in the paddocks of Newmarket, SUN with the number of Thoroughbred racehorse foals born this SUN year down by a quarter on 2008. The Managing Director of the SUN National Stud, Brian O'Rourke, tells Sarah Swadling that in SUN the long term the reduction could improve welfare and SUN breeders' incomes because it comes after a period of SUN overproduction. Sarah finds out how racehorses are bred, and SUN about the history of the National Stud. She also meets some SUN of the students who are training at the stud. SUN SUN Producer and Presenter: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b012250y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0122512 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0122npq (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 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0122nps (Listen) SUN ERIC SUN SUN Lynda Bellingham presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity ERIC. SUN SUN Donations to ERIC should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope ERIC. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 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 ERIC with your full name and address so they SUN can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1002424. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0122514 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0122516 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0122nr3 (Listen) SUN Singing the Faith SUN SUN President of Conference Designate the Revd Leo Osborn tells SUN how Methodism was 'born in song,' as the Wesleys used music SUN in mission to take their message across the UK and the SUN world. Live from Eccleston village methodist church, SUN Lancashire as the new Methodist hymn book is launched. SUN Leader: Judy Merry; With the Good News Singers directed by SUN Sue Guénault; Organist: Alan Winstanley; Producer Mark SUN O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0120790 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Fireflies SUN SUN 19/20. The chemistry that allows the combustion of natural SUN chemicals to generate light without heat is wonderfully SUN harnessed by the firefly. Fireflies are insects with several SUN species in the group; each with its own species specific SUN code and signalling regime. In this life story David SUN Attenborough tells of his personal experience filming the SUN antics of fireflies and the insight this gave him into this SUN secret world of messaging. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0122p8n (Listen) SUN With Patrick O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0122p8q (Listen) SUN Written by ... Joanna Toye SUN Director ... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Zofia ..... Izabella Urbanowicz. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0122p93 (Listen) SUN Dame Harriet Walter SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress Dame Harriet Walter. SUN SUN She has been a stalwart of the stage for more than three SUN decades - winning great acclaim for her work with the Royal SUN Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. Performing ran SUN in the family - her uncle is the actor Christopher Lee and SUN she remembers how, as a child, he would make her shriek by SUN putting on his famous 'Mummy' walk to scare her. She turned SUN down a place at Oxford because she knew she wanted to act - SUN only to find that the drama schools weren't keen on her... SUN she was turned down five times before securing a place. SUN SUN She says she has never thought about making clever career SUN choices, but, in the year in which she has been made a dame, SUN turned sixty and married for the first time, she says it has SUN all turned out better than she ever expected. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b011zm36 (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 6 SUN SUN Stephen Fry, Sue Perkins, Paul Merton and Fi Glover are the SUN panellists on this, the final show of the series. Chairman SUN Nicholas Parsons hands out subjects on which the panellists SUN attempt to speak for sixty seconds without being buzzed by SUN fellow players of the game. SUN SUN This week Stephen Fry speaks on The Right Way to Greet SUN Someone and Fi Glover speaks on The Wrong Way to Greet SUN Someone, Paul Merton declaims on the American Dream and Sue SUN Perkins reveals she is less than loyal to the idea of SUN Loyalty Cards. SUN SUN This week both Sue Perkins and Stephen Fry achieve the SUN coveted aim of speaking for a whole minute without SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task much more SUN testing than it sounds. SUN SUN The programme was devised by Ian Messiter. SUN The producer was Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0122pcr (Listen) SUN New Food Entrepreneurs SUN SUN Food writer Tim Hayward investigates a new wave of food SUN entrepreneurship started by professionals seeking a second SUN career or life change, often due to redundancy. Can the food SUN industry sustain this new creative bubble? SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0122518 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0122pct (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 Testing Times b0122pcw (Listen) SUN John Humphrys revisits his old school to assess education in SUN Wales today. SUN SUN The decade since devolution has seen the educational SUN performance of Wales fall behind the other nations of the SUN UK. The Principality emerged particularly poorly from a SUN recent international test of educational ability. SUN SUN What is Wales doing wrong? SUN SUN Wales abandoned the controversial SAT tests and school SUN league tables in 2001. Could this move-part of the Welsh SUN Assembly's larger effort to put "clear red water" between SUN Cardiff and Westminster-be at the heart of the nation's poor SUN performance? SUN SUN John Humphrys goes back to school to ask what is education SUN for and what part should testing and tables play? SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012078h (Listen) SUN Dumfries and Galloway SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are in Dumfries & Galloway for some SUN gardening trouble-shooting. SUN Christine Walkden discovers some extraordinary Gunnera in SUN Logan Botanic Gardens. SUN Matthew Wilson reports from Gardeners' World Live in SUN Birmingham. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 GPs Who Need GPS b00tgfr9 (Listen) SUN Doctor on Your Trail SUN SUN Dr Phil Hammond tells the story of another GP who SUN experiences extraordinary journeys as part of their work. SUN SUN Frostbite, altitude sickness and machete accidents. All SUN injuries that expedition doctors can come across as they SUN travel throughout the world with charity fundraisers, gap SUN year students and adventurers. All fairly unusual for SUN your standard practising GP. SUN SUN As Alex Hoskin prepares to climb Africa's highest mountain, SUN Phil Hammond tells his story of nerves, excitement....and SUN potential lion attacks. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Adam. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0122r2m (Listen) SUN The Hireling, The Hireling 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. He uniformly despises his clients, especially the SUN ladies, until the young, widowed, naive and immensely rich SUN Lady Franklin hires him to take her on trips to cathedrals SUN which she had visited with her late husband. SUN SUN Lady Franklin has been in mourning for her late husband - a SUN man considerably older than her and an invalid - for two SUN years, and is finding it impossible to return to normal SUN life. In the confines of the car, and in search of a cure SUN for her depression, she shares her burden with him. He SUN obliges with a story of his own, a fiction, which grows, SUN monster-like, to plague the inventor. Two alien classes are SUN put on a collision course, causing salvation or destruction SUN to all involved, from the epicentre of an unexpected burst SUN of love. SUN SUN Dramatised by Judith Adams from the novel by L.P.Hartley. 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/Director: Chris Wallis SUN An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0122r2p (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to John Banville - writing as SUN Benjamin Black - about the fourth novel in his Dublin SUN mystery series, "A Death in Summer." Dublin pathologist SUN Doctor Quirke and Inspector Hackett investigate the supposed SUN suicide of 'Diamond Dick'. SUN SUN The success of the e-reader has outstripped all SUN expectations. And it's having a particular impact on the SUN popularity of short stories and novellas. How are publishers SUN responding to the ever growing demand for short form fiction SUN and how will writers themselves respond - will it regenerate SUN the short story, or sound its death knell? Dan Franklin, SUN digital editor at Random House, reveals his publishing SUN house's plans for the future, and writers Kevin Barry and SUN Laura Dockrill consider how the phenomenon of the low priced SUN short story download might affect them. SUN SUN Michelangelo's David and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa are SUN possibly the two most famous art works in the world and were SUN both produced in Italy in the early 16th century. SUN Co-incidentally two books out now fictionalise the story of SUN their creation. Mary Hoffman and Lucille Turner discuss the SUN implications of writing about the world's most iconic pieces SUN of art, the "muses" that inspired them, and how they SUN approached describing the visual aesthetic at the heart of SUN their books in words. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0122rkl (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b011zmsf (Listen) SUN A Living Death SUN SUN A review into the care of patients in vegetative or low SUN awareness states has been launched by the Royal College of SUN Physicians. There are thought to be as many as 5000 such SUN people in the UK. SUN The working party will look at concerns that assessment and SUN diagnosis of patients is not consistent across the country SUN and will ask whether the cost of long term care is SUN affordable to the NHS. SUN Ann Alexander examines calls for a reform of the process to SUN end the life of such patients where their families believe SUN their loved one would no longer wish to be alive. SUN The programme reveals how some hospitals appear unaware of SUN the law and hears how the process can be lengthy and costly, SUN putting families under further strain. SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0122mt4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012251b (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b012251d (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012251g (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0122rlg (Listen) SUN Felicity Finch makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0122rm7 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b0122rnr (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00nqbl3 (Listen) SUN The Diaries of Edith Appleton, Episode 1 SUN SUN Series of readings featuring extracts from the diaries of SUN Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line SUN during the First World War. SUN SUN It is 1915 and Edie is based at Casualty Clearing Station SUN Number 3 near Ypres, where she witnesses first-hand the SUN horrors of war. In these dark days, small pleasures mean SUN everything and the rare chance to have a bath is most SUN welcome. SUN SUN Read by Rachel Atkins. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b012078c (Listen) SUN What is the secret of making children's radio - which SUN children actually want to listen to? SUN SUN As listeners young and old object to the loss of much of BBC SUN children's on-air programming, Roger Bolton asks Paul Smith, SUN Head of Editorial Standards for BBC Audio & Music, if the SUN BBC has given up trying to find an answer. Gregory Watson, SUN Managing Director of children's station Fun Kids and Susan SUN Stranks of the National Campaign for Children's Radio add SUN their views to the debate. SUN SUN Does BBC 6 Music really offer an alternative to more SUN mainstream stations? If so, why is it playing so much SUN Coldplay? Bob Shennan, controller of 6 Music, defends the SUN playlist. SUN SUN And listeners have been concocting fake Radio 4 programmes SUN on Twitter. Apparently Feedback is 30 minutes of unbearable SUN noise. 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 b012078k (Listen) SUN Brian Haw, Mike Waterson, Yelena Bonner and Mietek Pemper SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Brian Haw - the anti war protester who camped in Parliament SUN Square for ten years; SUN SUN Mike Waterson who made singing traditional British music a SUN family affair; SUN SUN Yelena Bonner - wife of the Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov SUN - and campaigner in her own right SUN SUN Mietek Pemper - the Jewish secretary who helped to type SUN Schindler's List and saved thousands from the gas chamber SUN SUN And Gunnar Fischer - the cinematographer who gave the films SUN of Ingmar Bergman their distinctive look. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0122ll4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0122nps (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b011zm3g (Listen) SUN Hague's Middle East SUN SUN "The eruption of democracy movements across the Middle East SUN and North Africa is, even in its early stages, the most SUN important development of the early 21st century." These were SUN the words of Foreign Secretary William Hague May 2011. SUN Events from Cairo to Benghazi have shaken the very SUN foundations of the Middle East, and with it the West's SUN longstanding friendships with Arab dictators. But what will SUN happen next? SUN SUN In this week's Analysis, Edward Stourton meets Foreign SUN Secretary Hague and explores the map of the new Middle East SUN as seen from London, Washington and Brussels. Amid the talk SUN of massive economic investment, customs unions, and a SUN newfound support for democratic transition, what will really SUN change in terms of Western relations with the Middle East? SUN SUN The "Arab Spring" came just as the world began to recover SUN from the 2008 crash -- with oil prices already high. Edward SUN looks at how the economic pressures will shape our policy, SUN and explores divisions within the EU -- with some nations SUN afraid of opening up to the Arab world, while others are SUN pushing for it. SUN SUN Support for Israel has long been a cornerstone of Western SUN interests in the region, but recent comments by British SUN leaders and the US President about "1967 borders" have left SUN many in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv seething. In the new Middle SUN East, what future do Britain and the US see for Israel and SUN the Palestinians -- and will it change things enough to make SUN a difference? SUN SUN Western foreign policy on the Middle East has been through SUN massive convulsions -- from die-hard "realism" that saw SUN close relations with dictators to the "neo-conservatism" SUN that called for the invasion of Iraq. So what is now driving SUN our new vision for the region? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0122rpy (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 b0122rq0 (Listen) SUN Episode 58 SUN SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b012078m (Listen) SUN Comedian Kristen Wiig on Bridesmaids, her rom-com from the SUN female point of view. Co-written by Wiig, Bridesmaids is SUN produced by Judd Apatow, king of the buddy comedies. Andrew SUN Collins assesses his influence. SUN SUN Director Denis Villeneuve discusses his Oscar-nominated film SUN Incendies, about a pair of twins who travel to the Middle SUN East to shed light on their family's complicated past. SUN SUN Viva Riva director Djo Munga reveals his struggle to make SUN the Congo's first gangster film, where there are no studios SUN and very few professional actors or trained technicians. SUN SUN This month marks the centenary of Bernard Herrmann's birth. SUN One of the giants of film music composition his scores SUN include Citizen Kane, Psycho and Taxi Driver. Friend and SUN fellow composer Laurie Johnson remembers. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0122nfs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 JUNE 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0122523 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b011zn6q (Listen) MON The Politics of Sleep - Women Who Kill MON MON One third of us now think we are sleep deprived. Why should MON that be? Who loses the most and how is society reacting? MON Laurie is joined by Stephen Williams to discuss a new area MON for sociology, the contested area of the 'politics of MON sleep'. MON Also, what happens when a woman commits murder? It is a very MON rare event and can challenge ingrained notions about the MON nature of femininity. Perhaps because of that, a new study MON finds that there are existing stereotypes which guide the MON reaction of both the media and the judiciary to women who MON kill. Lizzie Seal and Louise Westmarland join Laurie to MON discuss our attitudes towards women, murder and femininity MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0122nd3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0122525 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0122527 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0122529 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b012252c (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0122rr4 (Listen) MON Prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0122rr6 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b012252f (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0122sjg (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0122szw (Listen) MON Andrew Marr explores the limits of science and art in this MON week's Start the Week. The philosopher and neuroscientist MON Raymond Tallis mounts an all-out assault on those who see MON neuroscience and evolutionary theory as holding the key to MON understanding human consciousness and society. While fellow MON scientist Barbara Sahakian explores the ethical dilemmas MON which arise when new drugs developed to treat certain MON conditions are used to enhance performance in the general MON population. And the gerontologist Aubrey de Grey looks to MON the future when regenerative medicine prevents the process MON of aging. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0122t2y (Listen) MON The House in France, Episode 1 MON MON Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON MON The House In France is the childhood memoir of Gully Wells, MON now the Features Editor at Conde Nast Traveller magazine. MON Gully was the long time girlfriend of Martin Amis, the MON dedicatee of his first novel and features as the character MON Lily in his latest work, The Pregnant Widow. MON MON Gully's mother, Dee Wells was the outspoken and often MON furiously rude American journalist who became a regular on MON satirical television chat shows in the 1960s. Gully observes MON the life of her mother, a self confessed adventuress, and MON her stepfather, the philosopher Freddie Ayer, with affection MON and humour as they swing their way through the London of the MON 1960s. MON MON Read by Rosalind Ayres MON Produced by Jane Marshall. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0122t3l (Listen) MON Girls dumbing down, Sharia law, competing in school sport MON MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Playing to win: why competition in MON school sports can be good for children. In a society that MON appears to value beauty over brains, are girls being MON encouraged to dumb down? We hear from one headteacher who MON says yes. It's argued that Sharia law can infringe the legal MON rights of women: we hear from the female peer who wants a MON new law to limit powers available and end what she says is MON discrimination against women. MON MON Competitive kids MON MON School sports day season is well and truly underway – is it MON a fun-filled triumphant end to a school year, or a tearful MON ordeal that is best avoided? How do you teach your children MON to behave graciously whether they win or lose, and is there MON a right age to encourage a competitive spirit? We talk to MON Professor Kathy Armour from Birmingham University’s School MON of Sport and Exercise Science, and Wasim Khan, Chief MON Executive of the Cricket Foundation. MON MON Women and Sharia law MON MON Since 2007, Sharia tribunals and councils in England have MON been deciding on financial, family and custody issues MON according to Sharia law. But Baroness Cox says that the MON principles applied in such decisions are inherently MON discriminatory to a Muslim women, and has introduced a Bill MON into the House of Lords to limit the practices of Sharia MON councils. Diana Nammi, director and founder of Iranian and MON Kurdish Women's Rights Organisation, relates the stories of MON women who have contacted her to complain about their MON treatment by Sharia councils. And Jane is joined by Baroness MON Cox and Aina Khan, a family law solicitor who specialises in MON Islamic family law in the UK. MON MON Sexualisation and social media MON MON The government-commissioned Bailey Review of the MON Commercialisation & Sexualisation of Childhood, published MON earlier this month, recommended putting age restrictions on MON music videos and stopping shops selling ‘sexy’ clothes aimed MON at pre-teen girls, amongst other things. But it didn’t have MON very much to say about the role of social media in making MON sexualised images and role models more common. Dr Helen MON Wright, a headmistress and the President of the Girls’ MON Schools Association, thinks the prevalence of sexual imagery MON in social media like Facebook and Twitter get right to the MON nub of the problem with sexualised culture. She joins Jane MON along with the blogger and columnist Laurie Penny, who’s MON sceptical about the notion of ‘sexualisation’ to begin with. MON MON Dishwashers MON MON More than 60% of dishwashers in a recent survey by the MON British Mycological Society were found to contain a MON potentially pathogenic fungus on the rubber on the inner MON door. The fungus showed remarkable tolerance to heat, high MON salt concentrations, aggressive detergents and water - a MON combination of extreme properties not previously observed in MON fungi. Jane is joined by Dr Elaine Bignell, an expert on MON fungal human pathogens at Imperial College London. And she MON also talks to the broadcaster and dishwasher fan Sally MON Feldman, and the columnist David Robson who favours more MON traditional methods of washing up. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0122t6n (Listen) MON Annabel, Episode 6 MON MON Kathleen Winter's compelling debut novel is the moving story MON of a child born as both a boy and a girl, growing up in the MON Canadian wilderness. 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. Only three people MON share the secret - the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, MON and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make MON a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the MON child as a boy named Wayne. MON MON But as Wayne grows up within the masculine, Labradorian MON hunting culture of men such as father, his shadow-self - a MON girl he thinks of as 'Annabel' - is never entirely MON extinguished. As Wayne approaches adulthood, the woman MON inside him begins to cry out. MON MON In today's episode, Wayne's adolescent body is showing odd MON symptoms and he has to undergo emergency surgery. MON MON Narrator ..... Buffy Davis MON Thomasina ..... Genevieve Adam MON Jacinta ..... Madeleine Sims-Fewer MON Treadway ..... Simon Lee Phillips MON Eliza ..... Gwenneth Holmes MON Joan ..... Teresa Gallagher MON Wayne ..... Kristopher Bosch MON Young Wayne ..... Amelia Clarkson MON Young Wally ..... Jessica Little MON Young Donna ..... Amy Charlton MON Derek Warford/ Dr Ho ..... Jason Durran MON Steve/ Dr Lioukras ..... Christopher Bailey MON Roland/ Dr Carr ..... Simon Bubb MON Graham ..... Rick Bland MON MON Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies MON Directed by Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 Green Ears b0122t6q (Listen) MON Many of us think of our gardens, parks and green urban MON spaces as retreats and oases of calm from our busy lives, MON others think of them as places for fun, socialising and MON play, whereas there are some who think of them as just hard MON work. Whatever we think, we usually think of them in terms MON of what they look like, even maybe what they smell like. But MON in Green Ears, Professor Trevor Cox explores what they sound MON like. MON MON Acoustics play a massive part in our sense of space. With MON loud noises like traffic or industrial works actually MON causing us harm. The right sorts of sounds, at the right MON volume and pitch though can really help to enhance our sense MON of tranquillity. MON MON So what are the sounds we most like to hear in our gardens? MON Water tricking, birds singing, bees buzzing, wind rustling MON leaves and children playing (quietly or from a distance!) MON can be as calming as beautiful planting and clever layout. MON But it has to be the right trickle of water, get it wrong MON and you may find you want to rush to the loo! too loud and MON the sense of Niagara Falls in your small back yard can feel MON threatening. Trevor talks to the scientists who have put it MON to the test and found the water sound we all seem to enjoy. MON He talks to garden designers who not only think about MON harmonising colours and textures of plants, but think about MON how they'll attract birds and insects into the garden as MON well as creating cocooned quiet spaces and introducing MON natural noises. MON MON Plants can also be used to block out or distract you from MON unwanted sounds. Green walls not only reflect sounds, but MON they can also absorb them. Again water can be used to MON distract you from a busy motorway - and these have all been MON used to varying effect by urban planners aiming to create MON pockets of peace and calm in busy cities. MON MON Trevor also explores the use of artificial sounds in our MON green spaces and finds out how a garden in Florence is being MON used as a sound laboratory to test cutting edge sonic MON devices to see if they can increase the harmony of the MON garden. MON MON 11:30 When The Dog Dies b00s9l4y (Listen) MON The Rival Grandad MON MON Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit series MON Sorry - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent - for a sitcom about MON Sandy Hopper, a granddad happily growing old along with his MON dog Henry and his lodger, Dolores (Liza Tarbuck). MON MON In this third episode, The Rival Grandad, we meet Sandy's MON grandson Tyson's other Grandad - Rex - who is a popular MON swashbuckling figure of a man, Tyson's hero and thus the MON bane of Sandy's life. Sandy's chance to get even comes when MON he takes Tyson and his sister Zoe to a new Adventure Park MON featuring dinosaurs, sharks and a great many light-fingered MON monkeys. Can Sandy's lodger, Dolores, save Sandy from an MON utter fiasco? MON MON Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett MON Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh MON Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck MON Tyson ..... Daniel Bridle MON Mrs Pompom ..... Sally Grace MON Blake ..... Jonathan Aris MON Zoe ..... Amelia Clarkson MON MON The producer is Liz Anstee, and this is a CPL production for MON BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0122td7 (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b012252h (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0122td9 (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 b0122tgg (Listen) MON Series 25, Episode 13 MON MON The 25th anniversary series of the evergreen music quiz MON reaches its grand Final, with Paul Gambaccini in the MON questionmaster's chair. MON MON The winners of the three semi-finals gather in the BBC Radio MON Theatre for the tense climax of the series. One of them will MON take away a handsome silver trophy and join the roll of MON honour as the 25th Radio 4 Counterpoint champion. To achieve MON it, they'll have to show knowledge of the widest possible MON range of music, from the classical repertoire to light MON music, show tunes, film themes, jazz, rock and pop. MON MON As always, Paul will have plenty of musical extracts on MON hand, some familiar and some surprising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0122rm7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b0122twz (Listen) MON Can You Hear Me MON MON A new drama by Margaret Wilkinson. MON MON It is the summer of 1940 and Anna, a young Italian MON translator is working at the BBC's Wood Norton Hall, MON Evesham: a government listening post where she monitors MON enemy domestic radio broadcasts. Her work is secret; she MON looks for buried information on troop movements in Italian MON radio broadcasts and provides information to the Allies. MON Anna works alongside sound engineers and other translators, MON including young German translator Fred who is in love with MON Anna. MON MON One day the voice of Anna's recently interned Italian lover MON Carlo comes over the airwaves asking for her help. Anna is MON gripped by a fierce dilemma. As Carlo's communications MON increase in frequency, passion and urgency, Fred discovers MON Anna's activities and warns her not to believe what she MON hears, this could be an enemy spy posing as Carlo. MON MON When news comes in that a ship carrying Italian internees MON has been struck by a torpedo from a German submarine, Anna MON is shocked to hear that it is The Arandora Star, a ship she MON believes Carlo to have been aboard. Fred urges Anna to MON inform the authorities immediately; she cannot aid an enemy MON fugitive. MON MON Will Anna risk losing everything for Carlo? MON MON ANNA.....Morven Christie MON FRED.....Matthew McNulty MON CARLO.....Cesare Taurasi MON MRS FELLOWS.....Sarah Parks MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0122n2g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Making of Music b007mh44 (Listen) MON Series 1, Origins MON MON James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped classical MON music. The origins of this music begin in the churches and MON monasteries of the Christian world, from Constantinople in MON the East to Iona in Scotland. The building blocks of MON classical music were formed. MON MON Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt MON BBC Birmingham. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0122pcr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0122v33 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON MON Glastonbury Special MON MON Radio 4's award winning science/comedy show hits Glastonbury MON to prove that science really is the new rock n roll. Brian MON Cox and Robin Ince are joined on stage by musicians Billy MON Bragg and Graham Coxon, comedian Shappi Khorsandi, and MON scientist Professor Tony Ryan to bring their own brand of MON rationality and reason to Glastonbury's most hardened MON new-age followers. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b0122v35 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012252k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0124sc5 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 1 MON MON The 55th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment MON for all the family, as the series starts its run in front of MON an audience of 2,500 at Nottingham's Royal Concert Hall. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by special guest Marcus Brigstocke, MON with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant chairman. Regular MON listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless MON revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0122v5v (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0122v5g (Listen) MON Philip Roth MON MON Mark Lawson meets novelist Philip Roth, winner of the Man MON Booker International Prize. MON MON Producer Robyn Read. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0122t6n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 An Interior Life b0123x01 (Listen) MON The new edition of the award-winning Interior Life strand MON tells the intimate story of a hospital consultant's struggle MON with alcoholism. MON MON Steve was a respected consultant when a series of stressful MON events led him into alcoholism. In his own words, he tells MON his story. MON MON Steve charts his journey from a modest rural upbringing to MON academic and professional acclaim. A series of family MON illnesses then intervened which meant his once modest MON drinking started to become a cause for concern. MON MON In a candid and highly personal account, he then recounts MON the drink-fuelled descent which took him to the brink of MON death. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0123x03 (Listen) MON Is America Doomed? MON MON Justin Webb, the BBC's former North America Editor, regards MON the United States with affection and respect. But he is MON worried that America is in denial about the extent of its MON financial problems and therefore incapable of dealing with MON the gravest crisis the country has ever faced. MON MON A decade of tax cuts and increased public spending took the MON United States from an era of budget surpluses to one of MON growing deficits. The Congressional Budget Office predicts MON that federal debt could reach 90 per cent of GDP within a MON decade. The nation's partisan political culture, argue some, MON means its leaders are incapable of taking the necessary MON action to avert financial disaster and a loss of MON international influence. MON MON Justin Webb examines the consequences of failing to deal MON with the growing debt and looks for any signs that the MON United States might start to tackle its problems before it MON is too late. MON MON Interviewees include Diane Coyle, David Frum, Richard Haass, MON Jeffrey Sachs and Anne Applebaum. MON MON Producer: Bill Law. MON MON 21:00 Material World b011zzhq (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science. MON MON Stress and the City MON MON Living in a major city is associated with a greater lifetime MON risk for mental disorders. For example living in a major MON city increases the risk of anxiety disorders by 21 %, and MON being brought up in a city doubles your risk of MON schizophrenia. However until now there has been no research MON into the biology of these associations. Research published MON in Nature is the first to show that two distinct brain MON regions, that regulate emotion and stress, seem to be MON affected by city living. Quentin talks to the author of this MON paper, Prof. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg and Dr Craig Morgan, MON who also carries out research in this area. MON MON Darwin’s Books MON MON Notes and comments scrawled by Charles Darwin on the pages MON of his own personal library have been made available online MON for the first time. 330 of Darwin’s most heavily annotated MON books can now be read at the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s MON website. This is part of an ongoing collaborative project MON between the University of Cambridge, the Darwin Manuscripts MON Project, the Natural History Museum, and the Biodiversity MON Heritage Library. It was acknowledged by Darwin, himself how MON important his reading had been in gathering evidence for his MON ideas and the development of his theory of Natural MON Selection. Quentin finds out more from Cambridge MON University’s Dr Alison Pearn about what these annotations MON reveal and their significance. MON MON Health Reporting MON MON A report published this week suggests that 68-72% of dietary MON health claims in newspapers fail to measure up to standard MON criteria for convincing evidence. Quentin discusses what MON should be reported and how with one of the report’s authors MON Dr William Lee, King’s College London and Roger Highfield, MON Editor of New Scientist. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0122szw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b012252m (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0123x29 (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0123zzm (Listen) MON Half Blood Blues, Episode 1 MON MON Shortly after the fall of Paris in 1940, Hieronymus Falk - a MON brilliant young jazz trumpeter who made his name in Berlin - MON is arrested in a café and never seen nor heard from again. MON He is black - and a German citizen. Falk and his fellow MON bandmates Sid Griffiths and Chip Jones fled Berlin the MON previous year. But as Sid puts it: "We ...known [we] MON wouldn't fend off the chaos forever. Ain't no man can outrun MON his fate." MON MON But what really happened to Hieronymus Falk? MON MON Fifty years later, Sid and Chip return to Berlin - but Chip MON has received a mysterious letter which sets the pair of them MON on a new journey to uncover the secrets of past. But the MON heart of the story is set in those wartime days in Berlin MON and Paris. It's a jazzman's tale, with a language and MON preoccupations that give us a very fresh take on some MON well-known historical events. MON MON Half Blood Blues sings of betrayal, loyalty and creative MON ambition, with the thought that if you don't tell your own MON story others may tell it for you. And they just might tell MON it wrong ... MON MON 1940. Paris is under occupation, and without papers it's no MON longer safe for Hiero to be out on the streets. But after a MON hard drinking session Sid and Hiero set off for a café in MON search of milk. MON MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. MON Read by Ricky Fearon. MON Produced by Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b011zzhl (Listen) MON Pleasure and Pain of Public Transport MON MON The three contributors to this edition of Off the Page are MON all seasoned travellers who know very well both the MON pleasures and the pain of public transport. Ian Marchant MON wanted to write a book about inland waterways but was MON persuaded to write about trains instead and while MON researching that he fell in love with the idea of the MON railway; poet Lavinia Greenlaw has been making a sound MON installation based on comments overheard at a station; and MON writer and broadcaster Simon Fanshawe has never owned a car. MON But presenter Dominic Arkwright throws a spanner in the MON works when he reveals a loathing for public transport and MON that he will go to any length to avoid it. MON MON Producer Paul Dodgson. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0123zzw (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 JUNE 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0122538 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0122t2y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012253b (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012253d (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012253g (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b012253j (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0124015 (Listen) TUE With Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0124017 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0124019 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b012402s (Listen) TUE Securing Freedom: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi: Lecture 1 TUE TUE The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, explores TUE what freedom means in the first of the 2011 Reith Lecture TUE series, 'Securing Freedom'. TUE TUE Reflecting on her own experience under house arrest in TUE Burma, she explores the universal human aspiration to be TUE free and the spirit which drives people to dissent. She also TUE comments on the Arab Spring, comparing the event that TUE triggered last December's revolution in Tunisia with the TUE death of a student during a protest in Burma in 1988. TUE TUE READ THE TRANSCRIPTS TUE TUE The transcripts of Aung San Suu Kyi's Reith Lectures will be TUE available immediately after the first broadcast on Radio 4 TUE on June 28 and July 5. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01240dm (Listen) TUE The House in France, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Gully Wells. TUE TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall. Hopelessly mismatched with her TUE first husband Gully's mother, Dee Wells, returns not to TUE America but to London, and starts a career in journalism, TUE commenting on London life. The sixties are dawning and this TUE famously outspoken adventuress soon makes many contacts and TUE conquests. Then she falls in love with the celebrated TUE Professor of Philosophy A.J. Ayer. TUE TUE Read by Rosalind Ayres. TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b012410g (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Profile of US Republican TUE congresswoman Michele Bachmann. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012410j (Listen) TUE Annabel, Episode 7 TUE TUE In today's episode, Wayne begins to learn the truth about TUE his identity. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Buffy Davis TUE Thomasina ..... Genevieve Adam TUE Jacinta ..... Madeleine Sims-Fewer TUE Treadway ..... Simon Lee Phillips TUE Eliza ..... Gwenneth Holmes TUE Joan ..... Teresa Gallagher TUE Wayne ..... Kristopher Bosch TUE Young Wayne ..... Amelia Clarkson TUE Young Wally ..... Jessica Little TUE Young Donna ..... Amy Charlton TUE Derek Warford/ Dr Ho ..... Jason Durran TUE Steve/ Dr Lioukras ..... Christopher Bailey TUE Roland/ Dr Carr ..... Simon Bubb TUE Graham ..... Rick Bland TUE TUE Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies TUE Directed by Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b012410l (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 10 TUE TUE 10/30 This week in the Saving Species studio we have Lucy TUE Hawkes visiting who is a biologist working on the Bar-Headed TUE Goose. The Bar-Headed goose is famous for its high altitude TUE migration, climbing from the lowlands of India, over and TUE above the highest peaks of the Himalayas, to their breeding TUE grounds on the high altitude grasslands of Outer Mongolia. TUE Lucy's work is already showing that the migration of these TUE extraordinary birds is different to that "famed" view, TUE although no less spectacular. These geese "...are at the TUE edge of what they can do..". The high altitude grasslands TUE are inherently fragile and therefore sensitive to global TUE climate change. And the Bar-Headed Goose is part of that TUE complex and sensitive ecology - with a phenomenal migration TUE thrown in. TUE TUE We also talk to Daniel Pauly, a leading marine biologist TUE from University of British Columbia, about his take on the TUE state of global oceans - and get out with Michael Scott on TUE an Earth Watch expedition looking for whales around the TUE British coastline. TUE TUE Presenter: Brett Westwood TUE Producer: Mary Colwell TUE Editor: Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Dali Christ b012427y (Listen) TUE In 2005 Dali's Christ of St John of the Cross was voted TUE Scotland's favourite painting in the Herald newspaper, but TUE it's had a torrid relationship with its home city of Glasgow TUE over its near 60 year existence. It was bought for the then TUE shocking price of £8,200 by Dr Tom Honeyman, the head of the TUE city's art galleries in 1952. But Honeyman was no ordinary TUE curator and the Dali was no ordinary painting. From the TUE start there was uproar: art students, religious zealots and TUE critics were all appalled that Honeyman had spent so much TUE money and bought this atypical Dali with its mesmerising TUE stigmata-less, floating crucifixion. But Honeyman was TUE defiant: not for him the baggage of an elitist arts TUE background, he had trained and practised as a Glasgow doctor TUE among the poor of the city. He saw himself as a showman, TUE whose job was to show pictures and to pull the people in. He TUE recognised from the first the unique pulling power of this TUE extraordinary painting which has stormed the hearts of TUE Glaswegians. Using extracts from the Honeyman Papers at TUE National Library of Scotland read by Bill Paterson we hear TUE Honeyman's thoughts along with the those of the Glasgow TUE public who love the painting. It can't be so much as moved TUE within the gallery without exciting comment and opinion from TUE the public to whom it is THEIR painting - how dare some TUE curator move it! How to explain such an extraordinary TUE outpouring of feeling about a single work of art? Crime TUE writer Louise Welsh gets on the case to examine the TUE remarkable love/hate affair between Glasgow and the Dali. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0124280 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. The proposed high TUE speed rail link - HS2- has been in the headlines over the TUE past few days as the Yes to High Speed Rail group has TUE stepped up its campaign. They have produced posters that TUE have gone on buses in Manchester which carry the headline TUE "Their lawns or our jobs?" One uses an image of a TUE businessman doffing his bowler hat, the other features a TUE country mansion. However these class based images have been TUE strongly criticised by people opposed to the £33 billion TUE link. The proposed link will run from London to the West TUE Midlands and eventually up to Leeds and Manchester with room TUE for further potential links. But the proposed service has TUE been very controversial. Are you affected by it? What are TUE your concerns about the environment? Will it generate more TUE business for the UK? Is this a price worth paying? How do TUE you feel about the class divide being used in a North versus TUE South campaign? Were you affected by High Speed 1, that is TUE the Channel Tunnel link? Was it in a positive or negative TUE way? TUE TUE An opportunity to contribute your views to the programme. TUE Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines TUE open at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b012253l (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0124282 (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 The Politics of Dancing: How Disco Changed the World TUE b0124284 (Listen) TUE Disco is one of the most maligned and misunderstood of TUE musical genres, thought to be musically vapid, hedonistic TUE and frivolous. Far from it. Disco was utopian and TUE subversive, and political to its core. Born in New York's TUE deepest underground, it brought together strands of gay TUE liberation and post Civil-Rights racial integration. Disco TUE put into practice what the Sixties preached. This feature TUE uncovers the politics of the disco movement, beginning in TUE the lofts of New York and culminating in a racially charged TUE backlash and the mass burning of disco records in football TUE stadiums across America. TUE TUE Presented by Martha Reeves, with contributions from Nile TUE Rodgers, Gloria Gaynor, Frankie Knuckles, Jocelyn Brown, TUE Nicky Siano and Vince Aletti. TUE TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0122v5v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b0124286 (Listen) TUE Shall I Say a Kiss? TUE TUE In 1936, Morris met Eva at Warrington Deaf Club. An unusual TUE transatlantic romance began. Drama starring two deaf actors, TUE based on a true story. Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. TUE Shall I Say a Kiss? is the title of a book of letters edited TUE by Lennard Davis, Eva and Morris' youngest son. When his TUE parents died he found a bundle of faded letters. They TUE afforded a fascinating glimpse into his parents' courtship. TUE TUE Morris Davis was born deaf in 1898 in Whitechapel. He moved TUE to New York in 1924. On a visit to the UK in 1935, he saw a TUE photo of Eva Weintrobe, also deaf. He went to Liverpool to TUE meet her. TUE TUE After four meetings, Morris proposed. Eva accepted, but TUE before they could arrange a date, Morris had to go back to TUE New York. So the letters and challenges began. Could he TUE bring Eva to America and marry her there? Would he be able TUE to support her? And most pressingly, would American TUE Immigration accept her? TUE TUE Cast includes deaf actors David Bower and Emily Howlett, and TUE Miriam Margolyes. TUE TUE There will be a signtheatre version of the play, a TUE collaboration between Sign Dance International and BBC TUE Cymru/Wales, on the BBC website. The play script will be TUE online. TUE TUE Morris - David Bower TUE Eva - Emily Howlett TUE Mrs Weintrobe - Miriam Margolyes TUE Joseph Weintrobe - Adam Levy TUE Beattie Sokolov - Ceri Mill TUE TUE Chad Gaya sung by the Dyson Langleben families. TUE TUE Production co-ordinator Eleri McAuliffe TUE Sound engineers Cathy Bassett,Nigel Lewis TUE Director/producer Polly Thomas TUE Executive producer Kate McAll. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b012438p (Listen) TUE Programme answering listeners' questions about planet Earth TUE and man's impact upon it. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b012438r (Listen) TUE The British at Table, Episode 1 TUE TUE Written by Christopher Driver. TUE TUE Christopher Driver's eloquent and passionate insights into TUE British attitudes to food. TUE TUE Christopher Driver was a passionate writer, broadcaster, TUE second-hand bookshop owner, conscientious objector and TUE controversial hand-picked successor to Raymond Postgate as TUE editor of The Good Food Guide through the 1970s. His TUE descriptions of our changing attitudes towards what we TUE allowed to grace our plates between the end of rationing and TUE the affluent 1980s, and caustically witty observations of TUE the marvels of British catering (such as the waitress who TUE uncorked the wine with her teeth), made both informative and TUE amusing reading. It is, as he said, "a book about the way we TUE eat now in the light of the way we used to eat within TUE middle-aged-memory. It is about ourselves as shoppers, TUE cultivators, cooks and consumers." TUE TUE Driver saw the shape of food to come thirty years before the TUE rest of us and his accuracy is extraordinary: "The march of TUE regulation and technology means that to obtain good bacon it TUE will be once again necessary to kill and cure your own pig, TUE as in the eighteenth-century. Progress takes odd forms." TUE TUE It is sixty years since Postgate (known as "Public Stomach TUE Number One" after founding his "Society for the Prevention TUE of Cruelty to Food") first published the Good Food Guide. TUE Here is an opportunity to enjoy part of its history in the TUE words of its most eloquent editor, revealing everything from TUE the lost world of whale steaks, coypu vindaloo and sweet and TUE sour barracuda, to the language of food description that TUE embraces such evocative phrases as "the flavour of TUE unploughed fields" and "the texture of compressed string." TUE TUE Reader: Tony Gardner TUE Abridger: Neil Cargill TUE Producer: Neil Cargill TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Making of Music b007mtk0 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Notre Dame TUE TUE James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the TUE development of classical music. Notre Dame in Paris was TUE consecrated in 1163. Paris was the centre of intellecual TUE life in Europe. As Notre Dame was being built, two men were TUE writing the music that would fill it. Perotin and Leonin are TUE the first named composers that come down to us through TUE history. TUE TUE Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey , Lucy Lunt TUE BBC Birmingham. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01247gk (Listen) TUE Scotland TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg examines the relationship between the TUE Scottish legal system and that of the rest of the UK. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01247gm (Listen) TUE Hardeep Singh Kohli, Simon Evans TUE TUE Broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli and comedian Simon Evans TUE talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite books. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01247gp (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012253n (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b0113086 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 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'm a cherry TUE childless and proud of it" and "I'd like to be romantic but TUE I have a voice that makes children cry" TUE TUE Sarah Millican Sarah TUE Ruth Bratt Marion TUE Simon Day Terry TUE Bridget Christie Jenny TUE Joe Wilkinson Keith. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01247gr (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01247gt (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including a review of the film Larry TUE Crowne, directed by and starring Tom Hanks as a man who TUE loses his job and decides to study at his local college. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b012410j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01247gy (Listen) TUE Over the last month Britain's biggest provider of care homes TUE for the elderly, Southern Cross, has been beset by financial TUE woes. But across the country an even deeper crisis is TUE unfolding as local authorities implement massive budget TUE cuts. TUE TUE This week File on 4 investigates how cutbacks are leaving TUE elderly people with insufficient care, and councils with a TUE major financial headache. TUE TUE The programme also hears from small care home providers who TUE say they are being forced out of business because the fees TUE local authorities now pay them are too low. TUE TUE And with the report from a Government commission due in a TUE few days, the programme asks whether the gap in funding for TUE the care of elderly people can be closed.. TUE TUE Reporter: Fran Abrams TUE Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01247h0 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01247h2 (Listen) TUE Nobody knows exactly how many people experience mental TUE illness in Hong Kong, but as this former British colony TUE undertakes its first-ever survey of mental health, it's TUE widely believed that rates will match every other developed, TUE industrialised country. TUE TUE And when that data comes in, as Claudia Hammond reports in a TUE special All In The Mind from Hong Kong, the gaps in mental TUE health care will be exposed. TUE TUE For years, the reality of mental illness in Hong Kong has TUE remained hidden: a combination of shame, stigma and denial. TUE Claudia hears from those who have experienced mental TUE distress about the discrimination they suffer, and talks to TUE mental health campaigners and professionals about the urgent TUE need to expand and modernise the service to meet the soaring TUE demand for mental health care. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 Europe: Driving on the Right b00y8vk4 (Listen) TUE Scandinavia TUE TUE Chris Bowlby discovers how new populist parties are TUE re-shaping European politics. He begins in Scandinavia - TUE where the minority Danish People's party wields major TUE influence. He has a rare encounter with the party's TUE charismatic leader, "housewife" Pia Kjaersgaard, and hears TUE how the party has transformed the country's immigration and TUE integration policy, as mainstream parties offer concessions. TUE He visits Sweden too to investigate how the Sweden TUE Democrats, new members of the national parliament, now hope TUE to emulate the Danish People's party success. TUE TUE Producer: Daniel Tetlow. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b012253q (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01247jn (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01276tz (Listen) TUE Half Blood Blues, Episode 2 TUE TUE 1992. Sid and Chip return to Berlin for the inaugural TUE Hieronymus Falk Festival. They have both contributed to a TUE documentary about Hiero's life, but when they watch the TUE film's premiere Sid is in for a shock. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. TUE Read by Ricky Fearon. TUE Produced by Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0122v33 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01247jq (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b012254c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01240dm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012254f (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012254h (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012254k (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b012254m (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0124nq2 (Listen) WED With Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0124nq4 (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 b0124nq6 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0124nq8 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0124nqb (Listen) WED The House in France, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Gully Wells. WED WED Abridged by Jane Marshall. Gully Wells is delighted when her WED mother finds herself with enough money left over from her WED divorce to buy a tumbledown house at the wrong end of the WED Cote d'Azur. It's the 1960s, and for a young girl from WED London even the wrong end is impossibly glamorous, though WED she appreciates that she is stuck with a terminally WED unfashionable family. WED WED Read by Rosalind Ayres WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0124nqd (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Is there still prejudice against WED red-heads? WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0124nqg (Listen) WED Annabel, Episode 8 WED WED In today's episode, Wayne and Thomasina are reunited after a WED long separation. WED WED Narrator ..... Buffy Davis WED Thomasina ..... Genevieve Adam WED Jacinta ..... Madeleine Sims-Fewer WED Treadway ..... Simon Lee Phillips WED Eliza ..... Gwenneth Holmes WED Joan ..... Teresa Gallagher WED Wayne ..... Kristopher Bosch WED Young Wayne ..... Amelia Clarkson WED Young Wally ..... Jessica Little WED Young Donna ..... Amy Charlton WED Derek Warford/ Dr Ho ..... Jason Durran WED Steve/ Dr Lioukras ..... Christopher Bailey WED Roland/ Dr Carr ..... Simon Bubb WED Graham ..... Rick Bland WED WED Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies WED Directed by Emma Harding WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b0124nqj (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 5 WED WED In May, major forest fires swept through a corner of WED Berkshire. 12 fire services were engaged in tackling the WED blaze which lasted a week and is estimated to have caused WED £100,000 of damage to woodland. On the edge of a section of WED the forest known as Crowthorne Wood a small row of wooden WED houses narrowly avoided being destroyed by the fire which WED reached the end of the road. The residents of these one-time WED foresters' houses were evacuated whilst firefighters tried WED to regain control. Alan Dein meets this small neighbourhood WED whose existence was suddenly thrown into peril as the fire WED moved quickly towards it. He also returns to the much loved WED forest with some of the residents, now a charred remnant of WED what it used to be. WED WED Producer: Neil McCarthy. WED WED 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b0124nql (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Everyone Quite Likes Justin is the story of a Manchester DJ WED and his less than fully functioning family. WED WED In this episode Justin decides to add courting to his list WED of life struggles. Seeking advice from the father of his WED soon-to-be ex-wife, less than helpful producer and blunt WED Grandmother, it is difficult to see how things could go WED wrong… WED WED By Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser WED WED Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse WED Gran ..... Anne Reid WED Ray ..... Paul Copley WED Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley WED Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford WED Tanya ..... Susan Cookson WED Waiter ..... Jim Poyser WED Head ..... Caimh McDonnell WED WED Produced by Steven Canny WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0124nqn (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b012254p (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0124nqq (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 b0124nqs (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01247gr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0124nqv (Listen) WED A Bobby's Job WED WED A young detective gets pulled in to investigate some WED thieving at a local firm. But every step he takes, tugs him WED slowly into places he shouldn't be. A radio noir by Don WED Webb. WED WED Mark...... Mark Jordon WED Helen..... Lisa Brookes WED Lynda..... Fiona Clarke WED Joby...... Ian Redford WED Richrad..... Christopher Corcoran WED Stefan...... Liam Fox WED WED Directed by Gary Brown WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0124nqx (Listen) WED If you are puzzled by the tax system you can ask the experts WED for a solution on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Whether you are curious about allowances, capital gains, WED inheritance tax or self assessment, 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 b01276xs (Listen) WED The British at Table, Episode 2 WED WED Christopher Driver's observations on the impact of foreign WED food on British eating habits. WED WED Reader: Tony Gardner WED Abridger: Neil Cargill WED Producer: Neil Cargill WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Making of Music b007mnr4 (Listen) WED Series 1, Troubadours WED WED James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the WED development of classical music. Across Europe in courts and WED great houses, music was beginning to celebrate the human as WED well as the divine. The Troubadours wrote songs of love, WED jealously and betrayal. WED WED Reader: Benedict Cumberbatch WED Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lunt Lunt WED BBC Birmingham. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0124nty (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b01247h2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b0124nv0 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012254r (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00x9237 (Listen) WED Series 7, In the Current Climate WED WED Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, WED complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his WED never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever WED scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and WED cat together. WED WED Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas WED Jaz Milvain ..... Philip Jackson WED Cliff ..... Geoff McGivern WED Ray ..... Simon Greenall WED Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy WED Felix ..... John Fortune WED Ben Herbert ..... Tom Price WED Pearl ..... Rita May WED Olive ..... Stephanie Cole WED Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Functionary ..... Henry Devas WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas WED Produced by Dawn Ellis WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0124nv2 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0124nv4 (Listen) WED Mark Lawson taks to actor Trevor Eve on his birthday and a WED review of Robert Redford's film The Conspirator, which WED depicts Mary Suratt's part in assassinating Abraham Lincoln. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0124nqg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b0124p9t (Listen) WED Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and WED Westminster to ask how controversial decisions are reached. WED WED In the last of the current series, he and his panel consider WED how a government would consider the case for a new WED generation of nuclear power stations. How would the safety, WED financial, energy security and environmental arguments be WED marshalled, and how would the protagonists make their WED arguments stick? WED WED Joining Nick to discuss the issue are Tom Burke, a very WED experienced environmentalist and former special adviser to WED three Environment Secretaries; Professor Sir David King, the WED former government Chief Scientific Adviser; Tim Eggar, the WED former Energy Minister; Tessa Munt, the Liberal Democrat MP; WED and Anne McElvoy, Public Policy Editor for The Economist. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0124p9w (Listen) WED Series 2, Danny Kruger WED WED Danny Kruger, founder of Only Connect, a charitable arts WED company working with prisoners, ex- offenders and young WED people at risk of crime calls for a re-evaluation of the WED purpose of punishment, treating retribution and WED rehabilitation as two separate objectives whose current WED confusion serves neither the criminal, nor the victim nor WED the wider interests of justice. 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 WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b0124p9y (Listen) WED On 28th June 1911 an explosion erupted in the sky over the WED Nakhla region of Alexandria in Egypt. WED WED A chunk of rock, about the size of a football, had broken WED away from the surface of Mars several million years ago. It WED floated around the Solar System until eventually the Martian WED rock was pulled into our planet's gravitational field. WED WED When it fell to Earth a century ago, eyewitnesses saw an WED explosion high in the atmosphere, as the meteor split into WED dozens of fragments which hurtled towards them and were WED buried up to a meter deep in the ground. WED WED Dr Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory WED Greenwich, looks at the legacy of the Nakhla meteorite. WED These precious rocks are now being used by scientists to WED ground-truth data sent back from Spirit and Opportunity - WED the two rovers currently exploring the Martian surface. WED WED Over 100 yrs after it landed, the Nakhla meteorite could WED hold the key to the ancient history of Mars, answering WED questions about the presence of water and the possibility of WED microbial life on the Red Planet. WED WED Producer: Michelle Martin. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0124nq8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b012254t (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01276q8 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. Presented by WED Ritula Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01276xv (Listen) WED Half Blood Blues, Episode 3 WED WED Berlin 1939. Time was when the Hot-Time Swingers was the WED stuff. But life is hard for jazzmen under the Nazis. Will WED the arrival of Delilah Brown bring a change of fortune for WED the band? WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. WED Read by Ricky Fearon. WED Produced by Rosalynd Ward. WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00mrwzf (Listen) WED While the Sun Shines WED WED Lynne Truss' comedy drama about celebrity policeman WED Inspector Steine returns to Radio 4. It's six months on and WED Twitten is back from a secondment at Scotland yard. But all WED is not well at the station since Brunswick is more depressed WED than ever. To cheer him up Twitten arranges for Brunswick's WED favourite crime reporter Harry Jupiter to interview him and WED Brunswick is jubilant. But then Steine gets involved and WED disaster follows. That's episode one of "The Adventures Of WED Inspector Steine' : While the Sun Shines. WED WED Written by Lynne Truss WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0124pb2 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 JUNE 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b012255d (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0124nqb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012255g (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012255j (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012255l (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b012255n (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0124pnj (Listen) THU With Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0124pnl (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 b0124pnn (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0124pnq (Listen) THU Tennyson's In Memoriam THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Alfred, Lord Tennyson's THU long poem In Memoriam. THU THU In 1850, shortly before his appointment as Poet Laureate, THU Tennyson published a work which many critics regard as his THU masterpiece. In Memoriam A.H.H. was written in tribute to a THU close friend, the sculptor Arthur Hallam, who had died THU seventeen years earlier. The work is a farewell not just to THU Hallam but to an entire system of thought. Tennyson realised THU that the advent of new scientific certainties meant the THU death of old religious ones. The work was enormously THU successful; one early reader was Queen Victoria, who after THU the death of Prince Albert wrote: "Next to the Bible, In THU Memoriam is my comfort". THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0124pns (Listen) THU The House in France, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Gully Wells. THU THU Abridged by Jane Marshall. Back from another summer in THU France, the "Ayer Wells den of sin" is just the place to be THU in the London of the 1960s. Freddie has become a regular on THU the "Brain's Trust", and is busy supporting his political THU causes and Dee is in demand for her outspoken views on THU London life, whilst Gully observes the fun of their radical THU chic lifestyle. THU THU Read by Rosalind Ayres THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0124pnv (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Iranian born Nobel laureate THU Shirin Ebadi on her new book. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0124pnx (Listen) THU Annabel, Episode 9 THU THU In today's episode, Wayne continues to forge a new life - THU and a new identity - in the city of St John's, Newfoundland. 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 Young Donna ... Amy Charlton THU Derek Warford/ Dr Ho ..... Jason Durran THU Steve/ Dr Lioukras ..... Christopher Bailey THU Roland/ Dr Carr ..... Simon Bubb THU Graham ... Rick Bland THU THU Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies THU Directed by Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0124pnz (Listen) THU The stories behind the world headlines. THU THU 11:30 Does Happiness Write White? b0124pp1 (Listen) THU Everyone's talking about happiness: politicians want to THU measure it, and self-help books explaining how to become THU ever happier are two-a-penny. So why have literary folk been THU reluctant to depict this emotion, when many philosophers and THU politicians see it as the very point of human existence? The THU French poet Montherlant may have the answer- he claimed that THU 'Happiness writes white', that it is too boring to depict or THU even unrepresentable. Presenter Catherine Blyth explores the THU challenges facing award-winning writers, including Helen THU Simpson, novelist Ann Patchett, and poet Don Paterson when THU they try to put something as elusive and subjective as THU 'happiness' onto the page. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b0124pp3 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b012255q (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0126c3y (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 b0124pp5 (Listen) THU Always On THU THU Mobile phones, laptops and tablet computers give us the THU opportunity to be constantly deluged by information wherever THU we are in the world. And if we have one of these devices and THU don't turn it off then we can be reached, wherever we are. THU So is being always on a good thing? Here with new writing THU and discussion are the Financial Times Slow Lane columnist THU Harry Eyres, Guardian digital media correspondent Jemima THU Kiss and the best selling author William Powers who has THU written a guide book on how to live wisely and happily in a THU connected world. THU Producer Paul Dodgson. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0124nv2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rb16l (Listen) THU Hitched, Episode 1 THU THU Welcome to the wedding of Emma and Richard. This is their THU wedding day from the viewpoints of their respective THU families. The dress - the food - the speeches - the music. THU Who wore what, who said what, what cost what; the secrets, THU the lies, the smiles and the tears. From the pen of THU acclaimed dramatist Doug Lucie, this is one wedding you THU won't want to miss! THU THU Emma and Richard have done their best to keep their THU respective families apart, but as their wedding day THU approaches it is time for the in-laws-to-be to finally meet. THU But how will Emma's atheist father Max and 'slightly too THU fond of the grape' mother Ellie (divorced, not exactly THU amicably!) get along with Richard's bullish and opinionated THU father Barry and rather put upon mother Jenny? THU THU With Emma's grandfather Chas and Richard's grandmother Ruby THU both along for the ride, the stage is set for a fiery clash THU of personalities - and that's before we even get to the THU reception! THU THU Two afternoon plays track the events of one couple's big day THU creating a stunning social satire on our modern-day THU obsession with weddings. What will the day hold for our THU happy couple? And, once the band strikes up and the wine is THU flowing will bubbling tensions and family frictions erupt THU and ruin this happiest of days? THU THU 'Hitched' takes us behind the scenes as one couple promise THU to love each other 'for better or worse'. But which will it THU be? THU THU Chas William Gaunt THU Ruby Sylvia Syms THU Emma Lydia Leonard THU Barry Ian Reddington THU Max Stephen Moore THU Ellie Frances Barber THU Jenny Cheryl Campbell THU Frankie Michael Colgan THU Richard Joe Armstrong THU Roy Nicky Henson THU Bill Michael Shelford THU Peter Guy Henry THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b0122k8h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0122nps (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b01276yj (Listen) THU The British at Table, Episode 3 THU THU Written by Christopher Driver. THU THU Christopher Driver's thoughts on the evocative and bizarre THU language of food description. THU THU Reader: Tony Gardner THU Abridger: Neil Cargill THU Producer: Neil Cargill THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Making of Music b007mvlf (Listen) THU Series 1, Burgundy THU THU James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the THU development of classical music.Philip The Good, the Duke of THU Burgundy funded great musicians Dufay and Binchois. They in THU turn were influenced by an English composer, John Dunstable. THU His style was imitated in the Burgundy court and gave music THU there ' an English countenance.' THU THU Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey and Lucy Lunt. THU BBC Birmingham. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b0122r2p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b0124pxb (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 Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b0124pxd (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012255s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Your Round b00zf4nz (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where each of the THU panellists tries to beat the others at their own games. All THU the panellists have brought along their own round for the THU others to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, THU and unpredictable. THU THU In this episode Tim Key, Micky Flanagan, Bridget Christie THU and Nick Hancock battle it out to see who can become It's THU Your Round champion for the week. THU THU Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the THU games they've brought along. What is Micky's "Cockney THU Rhyming Slang Charades" all about and is it any fun to play? THU Can anyone understand the rules to Tim's "No More Women"? THU And what is Bridget's idea of her "Fantasy Funeral"? Find THU out the answers 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, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell THU The reader is Christine Kavanagh THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0124pxg (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0124pxj (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, who reviews Kevin Spacey as he takes the THU title role in a new staging of Shakespeare's Richard III, THU directed by Sam Mendes. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0124pnx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01247gk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0124pxl (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 b012410l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0124pnq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b012255v (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0124pxq (Listen) THU With David Eades. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b012774g (Listen) THU Half Blood Blues, Episode 4 THU THU Berlin 1939. After the fight with Nazi thugs the band must THU hide from the Gestapo at Ernst's club. And Sid gets to know THU Delilah better. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. THU Read by Ricky Fearon. THU Produced by Rosalynd Ward. THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b0124pxs (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU A new audience sketch show set in the world of call centres. THU A new phone system is causing chaos at Smile5, the catalogue THU company that sells anything and everything. 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 Written by ..... Various THU Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0124pxv (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 JULY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b012256f (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0124pns (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012256h (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012256k (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012256m (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b012256p (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0124qsz (Listen) FRI With Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0124qt1 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0124qt3 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am; FRI Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0122p93 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0124qt5 (Listen) FRI The House in France, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Gully Wells. FRI FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall. It is 1969, the Summer of Love, FRI and Gully is 19 and keen to shed her studious image before FRI going up to Oxford. Then after another summer in France, FRI with the strains of Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin in her FRI head, she meets up with an old friend, Martin Amis, and FRI falls hopelessly in love. FRI FRI Read by Rosalind Ayres FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0124qt7 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. How much pocket money should FRI children be given? FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0124qt9 (Listen) FRI Annabel, Episode 10 FRI FRI In today's episode, Wayne recovers from Derek Warford's FRI brutal attack and, with the help of Thomasina and his FRI father, begins to contemplate his future. 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 Young Donna ... Amy Charlton FRI Derek Warford/ Dr Ho ..... Jason Durran FRI Steve/ Dr Lioukras ..... Christopher Bailey FRI Roland/ Dr Carr ..... Simon Bubb FRI Graham ... Rick Bland FRI FRI Adapted for radio by Miranda Davies FRI Directed by Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 The Battle of Byker b0124qtc (Listen) FRI Finnish photographer Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen moved to Byker, FRI near Newcastle, just over 40 years ago. FRI FRI She arrived just as a whole community was being transplanted FRI from rundown terraced houses to bright modern apartments. FRI The demolition balls and bulldozers were busy eradicating FRI Byker's past and in its place a massive, imposing, FRI multi-coloured screen known as the Byker Wall was FRI constructed. Below this unusual form of residence more new FRI homes were built, all looking to carry Byker into the 20th FRI Century. FRI FRI From the moment Sirkka got there she began photographing FRI Byker's residents and over three generations witnessed FRI poverty, demolition, regeneration, and the local peoples' FRI ongoing fight for Byker's soul. FRI FRI In this programme, Sirkka remembers the old, sometimes FRI forgotten, community. She meets some of Byker's original FRI residents in what's now known as 'new Byker' and shares FRI memories of the bath house, soot smattered streets, pub FRI sing-alongs and up to five houses sharing just a single FRI outside water pipe. FRI FRI She also discovers Byker has an ancient history, hearing FRI about the area's coal mining heritage, how it related to FRI neighbouring Newcastle and why eventually those in power FRI could no longer tolerate the poor living conditions, seeking FRI to replace them with contemporary accommodation. FRI FRI Sirkka eventually meets Byker's 'new residents' and hears FRI how the area has often supported victims of conflict and FRI persecution including a Bosnian who escaped the war. FRI FRI Finally she learns that today's residents are fighting to FRI take control of their own destiny by creating the Byker FRI Community Trust and that they might finally get to make FRI decisions about their own and Byker's future. FRI FRI Producer: Russell Crewe FRI A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Cabin Pressure b0124qtf (Listen) FRI Series 3, Qikiqtarjuaq FRI FRI When MJN Air flies a party of tourists near the North Pole, FRI Arthur goes hunting for polar bears, Carolyn for a rogue FRI lemon and Martin for a believable French accent. Meanwhile, FRI Alfred Hitchcock makes a surprise appearance... FRI FRI Cast: FRI Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole FRI 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam FRI Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore FRI Nancy Dean Liebhart ..... Melanie Hudson FRI Mrs. Cook ..... Kosha Engler FRI Mr. Peary ..... Ewan Bailey FRI FRI Written by John Finnemore FRI Produced & directed by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0124qth (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b012256r (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0124qtk (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 b0124qtm (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 b0124pxg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rb2sx (Listen) FRI Hitched, Episode 2 FRI FRI Welcome to the wedding of Emma and Richard. This is their FRI wedding day from the viewpoints of their respective FRI families. The dress - the food - the speeches - the music. FRI Who wore what, who said what, what cost what; the secrets, FRI the lies, the smiles and the tears. From the pen of FRI acclaimed dramatist Doug Lucie, this is one wedding you FRI won't want to miss! FRI FRI Emma and Richard have done their best to keep their FRI respective families apart, but as their wedding day FRI approaches it is time for the in-laws-to-be to finally meet. FRI But how will Emma's atheist father Max and 'slightly too FRI fond of the grape' mother Ellie (divorced, not exactly FRI amicably!) get along with Richard's bullish and opinionated FRI father Barry and rather put upon mother Jenny? FRI FRI With Emma's grandfather Chas and Richard's grandmother Ruby FRI both along for the ride, the stage is set for a fiery clash FRI of personalities - and that's before we even get to the FRI reception! FRI FRI Two afternoon plays track the events of one couple's big day FRI creating a stunning social satire on our modern-day FRI obsession with weddings. What will the day hold for our FRI happy couple? And, once the band strikes up and the wine is FRI flowing will bubbling tensions and family frictions erupt FRI and ruin this happiest of days? FRI FRI 'Hitched' takes us behind the scenes as one couple promise FRI to love each other 'for better or worse'. But which will it FRI be? FRI FRI Chas William Gaunt FRI Ruby Sylvia Syms FRI Emma Lydia Leonard FRI Richard Joe Armstrong FRI Max Stephen Moore FRI Ellie Frances Barber FRI Barry Ian Reddington FRI Jenny Cheryl Campbell FRI Frankie Michael Colgan FRI Roy Nicky Henson FRI Bill Michael Shelford FRI Peter Guy Henry FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0124qtp (Listen) FRI Plympton St Maurice FRI FRI Eric Robson leads a horticultural discussion in this small FRI village in Plymton, Devon. A fly-on-the-wall report from FRI Plympton St Maurice's unique Open Garden Day. Anne FRI Swithinbank visits a community nut forest in Totnes. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Making of Music b007mnr6 (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Renaissance FRI FRI James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the FRI development of classical music.The world was changing: in FRI the Renaissance, man was well as God was celebrated in music FRI and the arts. In Ferrara, Italy, Josquin Desprez wrote as FRI mass that immortalised his patron, the Duke Ecole d'Este I. FRI Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae was based on the syllables of FRI the Dukes name. FRI FRI Reader: Simon Russell Beale FRI Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt. FRI BBC Birmingham. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0124qtr (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b0124qtt (Listen) FRI Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0124qtw (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012256t (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b0124qty (Listen) FRI Series 34, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present an assortment of FRI stand-up, sketches and comedy songs. 4/6: With Mitch Benn, FRI Susan Calman and Laura Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0124qv0 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0124qv2 (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson at the Manchester International Festival, with FRI Victoria Wood and Paul Heaton from The Housemartins and The FRI Beautiful South. FRI FRI Producer Ekene Akalawu. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0124qt9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0124r4h (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs debate about politics and news in FRI front of an audience from Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b0124r4k (Listen) FRI Series 2, Elsa FRI FRI 20/20. David Attenborough tells us how, whilst en route to FRI Madagascar, his bosses in the BBC asked him to break his FRI journey in Kenya to visit the Adamsons. Joy and George FRI Adamson were famous for hand rearing a Lioness whom they FRI called Elsa. Elsa was the central character in the book FRI written by the couple "Born Free". In this Life Story Sir FRI David cleverly takes us from the romanticism of Born Free FRI and being close to habituated lions, to the harsh reality of FRI befriending a big cat. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Polly Procter. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00j58sp (Listen) FRI Stone, Dead Fishes FRI FRI By Chloe Moss. FRI FRI A young man with Down's syndrome admits to killing his FRI mother. Then a woman turns up claiming that he was with her FRI on the day that his mother was killed. Stone must discover FRI who is lying and why. FRI FRI Stone ...... Hugo Speer FRI Eammon ...... Tommy Jessop FRI Jacqueline ...... Christine Brennan FRI Tanner ...... Craig Cheetham FRI Catriona ...... Zoe Henry FRI David ...... Andrew Grose FRI Jay ...... Andrew Whitehead FRI Weeks ...... Luke Broughton FRI FRI Directed by Stefan Escreet. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b012256w (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0124r4m (Listen) FRI With David Eades. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01276jq (Listen) FRI Half Blood Blues, Episode 5 FRI FRI Delilah and Paul have disappeared and the remaining Hot-Time FRI Swingers wait anxiously for news. FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. FRI Read by Ricky Fearon. FRI FRI Produced by Rosalynd Ward. FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01247gm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0124r4p (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events in the House of FRI Lords. FRI
24 June, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 25/06/2011 - 01/07/2011
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