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SAT SATURDAY 06 AUGUST 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b012x04h (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b012ymq5 (Listen) SAT Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue, Episode 5 SAT SAT Lynn Knight's family memoir tells how three generations of SAT her family were adopted in three distinct ways. Today, Lynn SAT Knight recounts the story of how her mother uncovered the SAT mystery and the truth surrounding her beginning. SAT SAT The reader is Barbara Flynn. SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012x04k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012x04m (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012x04p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b012x04r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b012x143 (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd SAT Marjory MacLean. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b012x145 (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b012x04t (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b012x04w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b012zwxc (Listen) SAT Ordnance Survey, the organisation responsible for mapping SAT every inch of land in England, Scotland and Wales, was set SAT up in 1791 as a military mapping service based in the Tower SAT of London. SAT SAT It was used to create maps of Britain during the Napoleonic SAT Wars to protect England from the French invasion and the art SAT of map making subsequently played a major role in both World SAT Wars. SAT SAT Now based in Southampton, the agency has moved from the SAT paper-based hand-drawn maps of its origins, to SAT technologically advanced digital mapping systems in order to SAT cope with the constant changes to the landscape of the SAT country. SAT SAT Helen Mark visits the Kent coastline to discover how war has SAT shaped the landscape and how important these maps have been SAT in the past and today. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b012zwxf (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT At the end of a week of harvesting on a farm in Lincolnshire SAT Charlotte Smith looks at how much crop the team have been SAT able to bring in after dealing with the downpours. The SAT Farming Today team have been combining with Mark Ireland and SAT his family on their 2000 acre site in Sleaford. The wheat, SAT barley and oil seed rape have all been affected by drought SAT and record temperatures in Spring. Charlotte Smith finds out SAT how much yield, quality and ultimately the price of the crop SAT has been affected and how that will affect our bread and SAT beer. SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith. Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b012x04y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b012zwxx (Listen) SAT With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b012zwyr (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, poet Matt SAT Harvey, two men whose lives were linked by the discovery of SAT some old photographs, a woman whose challenging childhood SAT made her a lifelong optimist, a Sound Sculpture of jet SAT engines and Inheritance Tracks from author Nicholas Evans. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b012zwyt (Listen) SAT Independent countries - Kashmir SAT SAT Sonia Deol looks at Kashmir with the author Rosie Thomas, SAT who went there to learn about the production of cashmere SAT shawls, and journalist Tim Hannigan who toured the region SAT investigating the murder of the Victorian explorer George SAT Hayward. They discuss the pleasures and dangers of SAT travelling in the beautiful but troubled land. Sonia also SAT meets Adam Strudwick and Rekha Sharma a couple who are SAT visiting all the world's countries in the order they became SAT independent. It's a lifetime's project but already they are SAT visiting the South American countries which had revolutions SAT in the nineteenth century. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Ladies of the Links b012zwz0 (Listen) SAT Marking the bi-centenary of the first ever women's golf SAT tournament, Rhona Cameron plays a round at Musselburgh, both SAT the scene of that historic competition and also her home SAT course. SAT SAT Records show that during the nineteenth century a women's SAT golf competition was held annually on New Years Day among SAT the fishwives of Musselburgh. The earliest known reference SAT to an open women's golf competition at Musselburgh dates SAT from 9th January 1811. SAT SAT To ensure a bumper entry from the hard-working women of the SAT fishing community the winner's prize was a 'creel' and a SAT 'skull' (the headdress and basket used to carry fish). The SAT consolation prizes were 'two fine silk handkerchiefs from SAT Barcelona'. SAT SAT Musselburgh Links is the site of the oldest remaining golf SAT course in the world. This nine-hole course is a relic from SAT the 'cradle of golf' and remains as a testimony to what was SAT the centre of Scottish golf during its greatest era. The SAT course itself is fascinating. Unexpectedly it is on the SAT infield of a race course, slap-bang in the middle of a horse SAT racing track. SAT SAT Rhona Cameron was born and raised in Musselburgh and is a SAT keen golfer. For this programme she will play a round on the SAT famous Musselburgh links course, whilst exploring the SAT history of this famous game and considering the origins of SAT women's golf more generally. SAT SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b012zwzv (Listen) SAT Police Commissioners SAT SAT Direct election of police commissioners in England and Wales SAT is a key part of the coalition's police reforms. The SAT government argues that giving voters power to choose one SAT person to oversee their local police force will increase SAT accountability. And although the Lords have tried to stop SAT the provision in the larger police reform bill, ministers SAT have vowed to push forward with the plans. SAT In London, the Met Police Commissioner is a high profile job SAT appointed by elected officials. The Commissioner is SAT accountable to the Home Secretary and the Mayor of London. SAT But do Londoners feel they can hold the police to account SAT any more than people outside the capital? SAT Meanwhile in Leicestershire, a debate is starting about how SAT one person could oversee policing in a hugely diverse SAT county. Anita Anand also hears from experts in the United SAT States, where directly elected police officials are common. SAT Producer: Harbinder Minhas. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b012zwzx (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Producer: John Murphy. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b013srr1 (Listen) SAT With the world markets in turmoil there is increasing SAT concern about the indebtedness of major Eurozone economies SAT like Italy and Spain. In a special edition of Money Box, SAT Peter Day and Andrew Verity explain what is happening and SAT seek out experts who can give practical advice about the SAT likely impact on personal finances. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b012x130 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Simon Day Interviews Peter Hook SAT SAT Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each SAT week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses SAT another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns SAT interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone SAT else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series. SAT SAT This seventh series started with Rhys Thomas interviewing SAT Simon Day. This week, Simon is asking the questions, and has SAT chosen one of his musical heroes: Peter Hook, best known for SAT playing bass in Joy Divison and New Order, and for co-owning SAT and running one of the most famous nightclubs in the world - SAT which lost £10 for every punter who walked through the door SAT for over a decade. The interview skips through the early SAT days of punk, Joy Division's transformation into New Order, SAT and Peter's new career as a DJ. "I thought DJs were arrogant SAT and overpaid", he says, "So when I became one I fitted right SAT in". SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b012x050 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b012x052 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b012x136 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics SAT from Poolewe, Wester Ross, northwest Scotland, with SAT Conservative MP Rory Stewart; Scottish Cabinet Minister for SAT Education and Lifelong Learning, Mike Russell; Labour MP, SAT Gisela Stuart; and author and associate director of the SAT Henry Jackson Society, Douglas Murray. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b012zx0h (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00bfd0d (Listen) SAT Dr No SAT SAT A distinguished cast, headed by Toby Stephens and David SAT Suchet, takes part in this 'radio movie' of Ian Fleming's SAT 1958 novel, dramatised by Hugh Whitemore. SAT SAT Bond is sent to investigate a strange disappearance on the SAT island of Jamaica, and discovers that the heart of the SAT mystery lies with a sinister recluse known as 'Dr No'. SAT Another chance to hear this classic Bond adventure - the SAT first in Radio 4's ongoing all-star series. SAT SAT 'M' ..... John Standing SAT Moneypenny ..... Janie Dee SAT James Bond ..... Toby Stephens SAT The Armourer ..... Peter Capaldi SAT Chief of Staff ..... Nicky Henson SAT Airport Announcer/Receptionist ...... Inika Leigh Wright SAT Airport Official/Pus-Feller/ Henchman .....Kobna SAT Holdbrook-Smith SAT Quarrel ..... Clarke Peters SAT Miss Chung/ Sister Lily ...... Kosha Engler SAT Pleydell Smith ..... Samuel West SAT Miss Taro/ Telephonist/ Sister May/Tennis girl..... Jordanna SAT Tin SAT Librarian ..... Lucy Fleming SAT Honey Rider ...... Lisa Dillon SAT Guard /Henchman/Crane Driver ..... Jon David Yu SAT Dr No ..... David Suchet SAT Acting Governor of Jamaica ..... Simon Williams SAT Voice of Ian Fleming ..... Martin Jarvis SAT SAT Original music by Mark Holden and Sam Barbour SAT SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b012zx7q (Listen) SAT Eva Gabrielsson; Yasmeen Khan; Kathryn Tickell SAT SAT Eva Gabrielsson on her life with Stieg Larsson; the measures SAT being taken to prevent FGM; boredom - how interesting can it SAT be; comedian Yasmeen Khan gets ready for Edinburgh; Kathryn SAT Tickell plays Percy Grainger; and author Lynn Knight. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b012zy02 (Listen) SAT With Carolyn Quinn. A fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b012x145 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012x054 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b012x056 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012x058 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b012zy06 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Offering Clive some nautical advice is, surprisingly, the SAT actor Timothy Spall. He's best known for his roles in SAT various Mike Leigh films and Auf Wiedersehen Pet. But in his SAT new series for BBC Four 'Back At Sea', Timothy and his wife SAT Shane continue their journey from Wales to Scotland in their SAT Dutch barge, discovering a new tale at every port. SAT SAT Bouncing into the studio is Liza Goddard who shot to fame as SAT Clancy alongside 'Skippy the Bush Kangaroo'. In her new SAT autobiography, 'Working with Children and Animals' Liza SAT tells us about life after the marsupial and her roles on SAT stage and screen most recently appearing in 'Midsomer SAT Murders'. SAT SAT Doug Stanhope is known as an unpredictable, no-holds-barred SAT and uncompromising comic. But whilst the rest of the comedy SAT world decamps to Edinburgh, Doug has decided to take up SAT residency at The Leicester Square Theatre in London. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi tries to give some dating advice to the comedian SAT with OCD, Jon Richardson. In his latest book 'It's Not Me, SAT It's You', Jon sets out to track down the right lady. But SAT coming from the man who arranges the coins in his pockets in SAT ascending size and colour, women who leave wet teaspoons in SAT sugar bowls need not apply. SAT SAT There's 'gyp-step' music from Molotov Jukebox, the energetic SAT six-piece band (fronted by actress and accordionist Natalia SAT Tena, of 'Harry Potter' and 'About A Boy' fame). They SAT perform 'Double Dare' from their debut EP of the same name. SAT SAT And from busking on the London Underground, Brixton Bluesman SAT Errol Linton comes above ground to play a track from his SAT latest album 'Mama Said'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b012zy08 (Listen) SAT Ayatollah Ali Khamenei SAT SAT When Iran makes the news it is often that country's SAT flamboyant and provocative president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who SAT finds himself under the spotlight. But the man who wields SAT real power in Iran is not Ahmadinejad, nor was it any of his SAT predecessors as president. Instead it is the man who has SAT served as the head of the country's religious structure SAT since 1989, the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. SAT SAT The Ayatollah owes his rise to power to two men - his SAT predecessor as Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini SAT and the previous president, Hashemi Rafsanjani. SAT SAT Ayatollah Khamenei has been a cleric for most of his life, SAT beginning as a religious scholar in the city of Mashhad at SAT the tender age of 11. He served several terms in jail as a SAT result of his religious convictions during the secular SAT dictatorship of the Shah. His rise to power began with the SAT revolution of 1979 that turned Iran into the Islamic SAT Republic. Khamenei became, first president, a post with SAT relatively little power, and his election as Supreme Leader SAT after the death of Khomenei was a surprise to all. Many SAT believe this was engineered by Rafsanjani to allow SAT Rafsanjani himself to remain in control. SAT SAT But Khamenei has gradually made himself the most powerful SAT man in Iran - and he's done so by recruiting the SAT Revolutionary Guard to his side. There are those who say SAT that far from a religious dictatorship, Iran is in fact a SAT military dictatorship. SAT SAT But Ali Khamenei is 72 and with 70 per cent of the Iranian SAT population having been born since the revolution, it's not SAT clear that the post of Supreme Leader will survive his SAT death. SAT SAT Producer TIM MANSEL SAT Presenter JAMES REYNOLDS. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0134xdd (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Midsummer Night's Dream SAT Lucky Bunny SAT The Tree SAT Street Summer Season SAT Jasper Joffe SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b012zy1c (Listen) SAT RP RIP SAT SAT "It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth SAT without making some other Englishman hate or despise him." SAT George Bernard Shaw. SAT SAT A hundred years ago, Shaw ridiculed the British obsession SAT with class, recognising that its most powerful expression SAT was not in what someone said, but how he or she said it. SAT SAT An imperative for anyone at public school or studying at SAT Oxbridge, was speaking in RP, a 'non' accent which denoted SAT all that was masterful in the British Empire. SAT SAT But changes are afoot. Cheryl Cole's push from American X SAT Factor because of her Geordie accent has exasperated many SAT Brits, who love her AND her accent and think the Yanks are SAT missing out. SAT SAT Using a wealth of archive, we hear how the drive to hide SAT linguistic, geographical roots often went hand in hand with SAT a desire to be seen as part of the metropolitan set. The SAT fear of being labelled as provincial, unfashionable or SAT rustic would develop into "RP" - Received Pronunciation. SAT SAT With access to archives of soldiers during the First World SAT War, Melvyn discusses the rarity of hearing different SAT accents at the time. He points out that RP was the 'non' SAT site-specific accent of the officer class while everyone SAT else was identified by their regional accents. SAT SAT The BBC burst on the scene with Lord Reith who insisted that SAT RP be used for BBC broadcasting, arguing that it had greater SAT 'clarity' and was better suited for broadcasting. SAT SAT We hear about the post war levelling and the move away from SAT RP. The popular music scene developed an accent of it's own SAT - John Peel went to public school, but cultivated a soft SAT scouse accent, instinctively recognizing this as an SAT acceptable voice in popular music - adopting a non-standard SAT UK accent - with 'Jafaican' as one of the burgeoning SAT metropolitan accents - suggesting individual freedom SAT SAT Producer: Kate Bland SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b012wclj (Listen) SAT The History of Titus Groan, Titus Departs SAT SAT By Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SAT Episode Four 'Titus Departs' SAT Steerpike takes up his new role as the Master of Ritual, and SAT as Titus grows older, so his suspicions about the former SAT kitchen boy grow. When Steerpike's plans at last begin to SAT unravel, a final, tragic trail of bodies is left in his wake SAT and Titus must make a desperate bid for vengeance and, SAT ultimately, freedom from Gormenghast. SAT Titus...Luke Treadaway SAT Artist...David Warner SAT Young Titus...Hugo Docking SAT Steerpike...Carl Prekopp SAT Gertrude, Countess Of Groan...Miranda Richardson SAT Dr Prunesquallor ...James Fleet SAT Irma Prunesquallor...Tamsin Greig SAT Bellgrove...William Gaunt SAT Clarice ...Fenella Woolgar SAT Cora ...Claudie Blakley SAT Fuchsia ...Olivia Hallinan SAT Flay ...Adrian Scarborough SAT Barquentine...Gerard McDermott SAT Nannie Slagg ...Jane Whittenshaw SAT Keda...Susie Riddell SAT With Jonathan Forbes, James Lailey, Alun Raglan, Alex SAT Tregear SAT Music by Roger Goula SAT Directed by Gemma Jenkins and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b012x05b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Keynes Vs. Hayek b012wxyg (Listen) SAT What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get SAT out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th SAT century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes SAT believed that government spending could create employment SAT and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich SAT Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real SAT savings rather than increased public spending or SAT artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, SAT Professor Lord Skidelsky, will take on modern day followers SAT of Hayek in a debate at the London School of Economics. Paul SAT Mason, economics editor of Newsnight, is in the chair. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b012wdrw (Listen) SAT Episode 5 in the new series of Quote...Unquote, hosted by SAT Nigel Rees. This week's quote fans are legendary actress, SAT Sian Phillips, sports journalist James Richardson, SAT broadcaster Edward Stourton and the comedian and actress, SAT Rebecca Front. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b012wcln (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Poet Ruth Padel launches the first edition in a four part SAT landmark series "Poetry Workshop" which taps into the SAT excitement and pleasures of writing and reading poetry. More SAT and more of us are connecting with poetry for pleasure or SAT emotional insight, for memorable comfort at moments of SAT personal crisis, and to discover new ways of seeing our own SAT lives. Unprecedented access to poems and poets means that SAT any of us can engage with it even if we have felt shut out SAT from it in the past. Poetry and its fans are everywhere - on SAT the underground, internet and in science labs; on the stage SAT at slams and festivals; in pubs, schools, colleges and in SAT workshops and reading groups. Radio 4's Poetry Workshop aims SAT to deepen the experience for those who love to spend time SAT with poetry and to open up to everybody new ways of SAT connecting with it. By exploring how specific poems work in SAT a practical setting the series will profile the talent and SAT enormous enthusiasm for poetry round the country. The first SAT workshop comes from Exeter where members of ExCite - one of SAT the Poetry Society's regional "Stanza" groups - join Ruth SAT Padel and fellow poet Lawrence Sail to work on some of their SAT poems in progress. Radio 4 listeners get to eavesdrop as SAT Ruth and Lawrence guide the Workshop members through the SAT process of writing and improving their poems, sharing SAT practical and inspirational pointers as well as encouraging SAT new ways of thinking. As they go behind the scenes of the SAT poems to look at their techniques, language and wordplay, SAT they reveal the creative processes and craft that make SAT poetry so rewarding. SAT SAT Producers: Sara Davies and Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 07 AUGUST 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b012x6tx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading: The Time Being b00pmcqb (Listen) SUN Series 4, Jules SUN SUN Series of original stories by unpublished writers. SUN SUN Jules has been diagnosed as having cancer. But for a number SUN of reasons, not all of them noble, her best friend Kate SUN finds it hard to be as supportive as she should. SUN SUN By Tamara Pollock, read by Nicola Walker. SUN SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012x6tz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012x6v1 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012x6v3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b012x6v5 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b012zyf1 (Listen) SUN The bells of Sheffield Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b012zy08 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b012x6v7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b012zzzw (Listen) SUN Animals SUN SUN Mark Tully explores our relationship with animals. He talks SUN to Jane Goodall, who has spent her life living among SUN chimpanzees, about how apes have changed her way of SUN thinking. With readings by Jenny Diski, David Constantine, SUN Alexander Pope and Jeremy Bentham, and music by John SUN Tavener, Joseph Haydn and St Francis of Assisi. SUN SUN Producer: Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b013002r (Listen) SUN Limestone Pavements SUN SUN Nestling beneath the towering shape of Ingleborough, this SUN weeks' Living World looks closely at the complex botanical SUN structure associated with Limestone Pavements. At 723m, SUN Ingleborough is the second highest peak in the Yorkshire SUN Dales. However further down its slopes at a mere 350m are SUN some of the world's rarest geological structures. Created SUN some 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period, in a SUN tropical sea, since then glaciers, erosion and man's SUN activities have greatly modified this landscape to form a SUN mosaic of block and fissure features, known as clints and SUN grykes. SUN SUN Michael Scott travels to Ingleborough where he meets Tim SUN Thom, an ecologist from the Yorkshire Dales National Park. SUN Britain is home to almost all the limestone pavements on SUN earth, which over time have become habitats for unique SUN associations of botany. Exploring this fascinating landscape SUN is something which Tim is passionate about. In just a few SUN feet, remnant woodland plants such as dogs mercury, wild SUN garlic and bluebells flourish in the humid grikes, alongside SUN sculptural ferns. But alongside these grassland plants such SUN as quaking grass, orchids and wild thyme flourish on the SUN exposed clints while in ungrazed areas stunted trees make SUN for an African Savannah scene. SUN SUN Beautiful though this landscape is, it is not without its SUN dangers. Rain can make the limestone as treacherous as SUN walking on seaweed covered rocks, while deep fissures can SUN trap the legs of unsuspecting walkers. Fortunately on a SUN wonderful mid summer day, with blue skies and white SUN billowing clouds flicking shadows across Ingleborough's SUN slopes, Michael and Tim can relax and unfurl the story of SUN this unique habitat through the plants they see. SUN SUN Producer Mr Andrew Dawes SUN Presenter Michael Scott. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b012x6v9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b012x6vc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0130237 (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 With more than six thousand people in the UK currently in SUN need of a new kidney, a Senior Research Fellow from the SUN University of Dundee has come up with a proposal to tackle SUN the shortage of donors. Dr Sue Rabbit Roth suggests that SUN people should be allowed to sell their kidney for the SUN equivalent of the average annual income, currently around SUN £28,000. Our Presenter Edward Stourton discusses the ethical SUN implications with Dr. Paul Van den Bosch a 'living donor' SUN and Transplant Surgeon Dr. Keith Rigg. SUN SUN More than two thousand charities across England, have had SUN their funding reduced or withdrawn by their local council. SUN The cuts added up to more than ten million pounds in the SUN last year alone. We look at the impact on one Church based SUN community centre in Manchester and Edward asks Local SUN Government Minister Grant Shapps how the idea of the Big SUN Society can work in the face of such cuts. SUN SUN It's estimated that Religious Communities own up to one SUN tenth of the world's forests, but most receive no formal SUN protection. Now Oxford University are preparing a global map SUN of these sacred sites and assessing their value in terms of SUN bio-diversity and land use by the local community. Dr. SUN Shonil Bhagwat, from the Research team explains the project SUN to Edward. SUN SUN The average funeral now costs around the three thousand SUN pounds mark, an outlay which for many in today's climate is SUN becoming increasingly unaffordable. Now the Quakers have SUN introduced a scheme to help the bereaved organise a funeral SUN that doesn't stretch their budget. But it's one that's not SUN welcomed by established Funeral Directors. Our reporter SUN Trevor Barnes investigates. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0130239 (Listen) SUN Relate SUN SUN Kirsty Young presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Relate. SUN SUN Donations to Relate should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Relate. 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 Relate with your full name and address so SUN they 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: 207314. SUN SUN Relate SUN SUN Relate is the UK’s largest provider of relationship support, SUN helping over 150,000 people of all ages, backgrounds and SUN sexual orientations each year. Whether it’s witnessing SUN parents separate, a break up with a partner or rifts with SUN family members, problems with relationships can have a SUN devastating effect on people’s lives and wider society. SUN SUN We rely on donations to cover the cost of our professional SUN counselling services, so we hope you will support this SUN campaign to allow Relate to help more people who urgently SUN need our support. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b012x6vf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b012x6vk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0130246 (Listen) SUN Walsingham has been Alive with the Vision as pilgrims from SUN all walks of life have made their way to this holy site in SUN Norfolk for 950 years. In 1061 a Saxon noblewoman, Richeldis SUN de Faverches had a vision of the Virgin Mary and was asked SUN to build a replica of the house in Nazareth where the angel SUN Gabriel announced the news of the birth of Jesus. SUN Worshippers gather in the church at the Anglican Shrine of SUN Our Lady to reflect on its timeless history and contemporary SUN inspiration with a story that has spoken to people across SUN more than nine centuries. Only this week for example some SUN 800 young people have been involved in the youth pilgrimage SUN and many of them will be joining in the service and taking SUN part. SUN SUN Leader: Fr Stephen Gallagher, Youth Missioner SUN Preacher: Bishop Lindsay Urwin, Administrator SUN Music is led by Jo Boyce and Mike Stanley, CJM music SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b012x138 (Listen) SUN Modern Parenting SUN SUN Alain de Botton takes a witty look at modern parenting. He SUN explains why today's parent simply can't avoid baking SUN biscuits and helping to paint Tyrannosaurus Rex's scales! SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b013026n (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b013026q (Listen) SUN Written by: Tim Stimpson SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Feilcity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Sol Bradley ..... Rob Swinton SUN Adrian Pegg ..... James Lailey SUN Ted Griffiths ..... Paul Webster SUN Cliff Alladay ..... Gerard McDermott. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b0132026 (Listen) SUN Barings Bank Collapse SUN SUN In the first of a new series of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor SUN reunites Nick Leeson, the man who broke Barings bank, with SUN his colleagues and former boss, Peter Norris. SUN SUN On the 26th February 1995, a pillar of the British financial SUN and social establishment suddenly came crashing to the SUN ground as Britain's oldest merchant bank went bust with SUN debts of £830 million. SUN SUN Barings Bank had financed Napoleon, been immortalised by SUN Byron, and held accounts for The Queen and many in the SUN aristocracy. Barings had stood aloof, a symbol of discreet SUN grandeur and probity since 1762. But now Britain's oldest SUN merchant bank was bust, and the architect of destruction was SUN Nicolas Leeson, a plaster's son from Watford. SUN SUN He was Barings star trader on the Singapore International SUN Monetary Exchange and regularly reported huge profits to his SUN delighted bosses. The truth was that he was losing Barings SUN and their customers hundreds of millions of pounds which he' SUN d been hiding in a secret account. SUN SUN As company auditors eventually closed in, Leeson fled SUN Singapore with his wife Lisa. Back in London that weekend, SUN frantic efforts were being made to save Barings and the SUN whole banking sector from meltdown before the markets opened SUN on Monday morning. SUN SUN For the first time since 1995 rogue trader Nick Lesson will SUN publicly face his former boss Peter Norris - now a senior SUN figure in the Virgin Group - who presided over the SUN investment department in which Leeson traded secretly for SUN years before the bank's eventual collapse. SUN SUN Also joining Sue will be Andrea Leadsom MP, who in 1995 SUN managed a team of bankers at Barclays who supplied finance SUN for Barings investments, Nicholas Edwards then an investment SUN banker with Barings in London, the administrator of Barings SUN Alan Bloom, and John Gapper of the FT. SUN SUN Producers: Peter Curran and David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b012wdv0 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at the Grassington Festival, SUN Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in SUN the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b013027c (Listen) SUN Mario Cassandro SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks back at the life of Mario Cassandro - SUN the man who helped re-invent the restaurant in Britain. SUN SUN Together with his business partner, Franco Lagattolla, Mario SUN Cassandro helped make dining out in 1960s Britain a far more SUN fun, informal and gastronomically pleasing experience. SUN SUN A former waiter from Naples he created Soho's Terrazza SUN Restaurant. As well as attracting the like of Frank Sinatra, SUN The Beatles and Princess Margaret it was a restaurant that SUN brought together all layers of British society. SUN SUN They were all keen to experience a new look in restaurant SUN design (care of Enzo Appicella, the man who went on to SUN create the look of the early Pizza Express restaurants) as SUN well carefully sourced and authentic ingredients. SUN SUN Mario Cassandro passed away this summer, former Good Food SUN Restaurant Guide editor Tom Jaine described him as one of a SUN small number of people who helped transform the restaurant SUN industry in the UK. Tom joins Sheila to help tell his story. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b012x6vm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0130286 (Listen) SUN With Shaun Ley. The latest national and international news, SUN with an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The I Love You Bridge b01302s4 (Listen) SUN A quest for the original lovers of the 'I Love You Bridge' - SUN a fabulously incongruous message painted on a footbridge on SUN a hollowed-out housing estate in Sheffield. SUN SUN Presented by feature film maker, opera director and SUN screenwriter, Penny Woolcock, in her first radio SUN documentary. SUN SUN Perhaps you quietly ask yourself "How do they live like SUN this." / Then out of nowhere the answer / "I love you"/ SUN scrawled on the highest bridge." (Rowan Blair Colver). Funny SUN how graffiti can transform cement. How a simple love message SUN scrawled on a bridge between two empty flanks of Brutalist SUN flats can lift our hearts. That's what happened when SUN somebody, somehow, leaned over the perilous edge of this SUN narrow footbridge on Norwich Row at Park Hill flats, high SUN above Sheffield's train station, and painted: SUN SUN Clare Middleton I love you will u marry me SUN SUN We call it The I Love You Bridge. It's visible for miles, SUN from town. When we set off on this journey we don't know who SUN wrote it or when, or even if it all went up at once. We SUN don't know whether she said 'Yes' or what happened next. SUN Nobody knows, not even the people who've worked on the SUN Estate for years - caretaker, needle exchange worker, SUN decorator, or the few (like writer, Rowan, above) who still SUN live there; not even the local builders who are regenerating SUN the first flank that the bridge links. SUN SUN In this programme we follow up all kinds of rumours in the SUN hope of sourcing the graffiti and its lovers. SUN SUN Producer: Frances Byrnes SUN A Rockethouse Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b012x12p (Listen) SUN Walsham Le Willows SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this horticultural Q&A from Walsham Le SUN Willows in Suffolk. We revisit Bob Flowerdew's laboratory SUN garden to find out about inarching grafting and weed-killing SUN carpets. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b012wzfb (Listen) SUN More Tribes of Science, The Archaeologists SUN SUN In the first of a new series, Peter Curran puts SUN archaeologists under his anthropological microscope. Do the SUN scientists who discover and interpret lives in the distant SUN past have a distinctive culture and mind set of their own? SUN To find out, Peter visits a tribe of British archaeologists SUN at their excavations on the island of Jersey. SUN SUN For 250 000 years, Jersey was a magnet for bands of nomadic SUN Neanderthals and later Stone age hunter gatherers. During SUN much of that time, sea level was lower than today and you SUN could walk to Jersey from Britain or France. When ice ages SUN waned, groups of Palaeolithic people gravitated there to SUN hunt mammoths, rhinos and reindeer. SUN SUN Today Jersey is drawing archaeologists from all over the UK SUN because of its windows into the early Stone Age past. One is SUN in a rocky ravine by the sea and the other in a farmer's SUN field. While the scientists want to learn about the people SUN and their lives in the landscape back then, Peter Curran SUN gets down in the dirt to find out what makes the SUN archaeologists tick and what might distinguish them as a SUN tribe of science. SUN SUN Peter explores what drives the desire to spend a summer SUN month crouched in the dirt with trowels and sieves, and SUN hears about tribal life in the archaeolological trenches. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01304fj (Listen) SUN The History of Titus Groan, Titus Abroad SUN SUN by Mervyn Peake, dramatised by Brian Sibley SUN Episode Five 'Titus Abroad' SUN Far from Gormenghast, Titus finds himself in an alien world. SUN Lost in a country policed by machines, he must trust to the SUN good will of an eccentric zookeeper, and the kindness of a SUN beautiful woman named Juno. SUN Titus...Luke Treadaway SUN Artist...David Warner SUN Muzzlehatch...Gerard Murphy SUN Juno...Maureen Beattie SUN Acreblade...Alun Raglan SUN Magistrate...Peter Polycarpou SUN Drugg...Jonathan Forbes SUN With Elaine Claxton, James Lailey, Gerard McDermott, Susie SUN Ridell, Alex Tregear SUN Music by Roger Goula SUN Directed by David Hunter and produced by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b0131x9v (Listen) SUN Donna Leon - Death at La Fenice SUN SUN Donna Leon talks to James Naughtie and a group of readers SUN about the first in her hugely successful crime series set in SUN Venice, Death At La Fenice. SUN SUN The book launched the career of her fictional detective, SUN Commissario Guido Brunetti in the early 1990s, and he is now SUN beloved by readers. Like an Italian Maigret, he's a SUN policeman of integrity. Brunetti also has a fulfilled family SUN life with his intellectual and feminist wife Carla, and SUN their two children, who are trapped in an eternal SUN adolescence as the Brunetti series progresses and the years SUN pass by. SUN SUN The portrait of the family, along with the subtle and vivid SUN picture of Venice, and the enticing descriptions of what SUN Venetians eat, is at the heart of Leon's books, giving a SUN warmth that balances out the darkness of the crimes. SUN SUN The books also give us an insight as to how Italy as a SUN country works. Donna Leon is an American who's lived in SUN Venice for more than twenty years and she describes the SUN corruption, inertia, nepotism and cynicism so sharply we can SUN only think it's authentic. SUN SUN Although the books are translated into twenty languages now, SUN Italian is not one of them. She tells James Naughtie and SUN assembled readers it's because she wishes to remain SUN anonymous in her adopted city. SUN SUN September's Bookclub choice : 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' SUN by Mohsin Hamid. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Wordsworth's Mysterious Trip to Calais b0131x9x (Listen) SUN In August 1802 the poet William Wordsworth and his sister SUN Dorothy set off from the Lake District bound for Calais. SUN SUN Few people knew about the journey - only his closest SUN friends, and his wife-to-be, Mary Hutchinson. The writer SUN John Worthen follows in Wordsworth's footsteps in what was a SUN momentous time for the poet. Ten years before, in 1792, when SUN the French Revolution was still in full swing, Wordsworth SUN had visited France and while there had fallen for Annette SUN Vallon. Their love affair produced a daughter, but by then SUN Wordsworth had had to return to England, and the following SUN 10 year long war between the two countries meant no return SUN visit was possible. SUN SUN When the war came to an end, Wordsworth took the decision to SUN go to France and meet his illegitimate daughter, called SUN Caroline, whom he had never seen. John Worthen starts the SUN programme at Dove Cottage, Wordsworth's home in Grasmere, SUN and talks to Pamela Woof, the editor of Dorothy Wordsworth's SUN Journals. It is through these Journals that we know about SUN the visit, and her account is only a meagre couple of pages. SUN But the visit that was planned for about 10 days lasted a SUN month, and John Worthen is accompanied by the Wordsworth SUN biographer Juliet Barker on its next step to Calais. SUN SUN Juliet speculates about a legal contract that may have been SUN drawn up between them, but for Wordsworth one mystery was SUN cleared up, the fact that he had met his daughter, and kept SUN her in his memory (as well as providing financial SUN assistance). One offshoot of the journey was Wordsworth's SUN most famous poem - the sonnet Composed Upon Westminster SUN Bridge. William and Dorothy set off in the early morning SUN from London on the coach for Dover and crossing the Thames, SUN Wordsworth was struck by the stillness and peace of the SUN city. He finished the poem in Calais. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Bannerman SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b012wjdc (Listen) SUN Exiles in Fear SUN SUN The UK is the largest bilateral donor to Rwanda, giving SUN around £83m a year. President Paul Kagame is praised by the SUN British government for bringing stability and economic SUN growth to a country torn apart by the genocide in 1994. But SUN recently it was revealed that two opponents of the Rwandan SUN regime living in London had been warned by police they were SUN in danger of being assassinated by their own government. SUN Other Rwandans living in the UK have been threatened too. SUN The Rwandan High Commission say the allegations are SUN baseless. SUN SUN Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe also receives substantial amounts SUN of British aid but via charities and other non-governmental SUN organisations. However, an exile who had attended opposition SUN Movement for Democratic Change meetings in the UK has been SUN revealed as a former torturer. Although he's rejected his SUN past, its alleged the man was until recently on the pay-roll SUN of Zimbabwe's notorious Central Intelligence Organisation - SUN leaving the ex patriot Zimbabwean community scared and in SUN disarray. SUN SUN Jenny Cuffe asks whether in the light of such claims the SUN British government should question its aid policy. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b012zy08 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b012x6vp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b012zy9m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012zy9p (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0131x9z (Listen) SUN Lynne Truss makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN What a week! Lynne Truss discovers how devils are cast out SUN in Margate, the finer points of English pronunciation and SUN meets the Swedish man who cooks up radium on his stove. SUN There's also a tense encounter when rogue trader, Nick SUN Leeson, comes face to face with the people he ruined all SUN those years ago, and a truly remarkable song about bums. SUN SUN Voices From the Old Bailey - Radio 4 SUN The Last Project - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN The Reunion- Radio 4 SUN So You Want to be an Exorcist - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN RP RIP - Radio 4 SUN Fry's English Delight - Radio 4 SUN New Irish Short Stories - Radio 4 SUN The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4 SUN Test Match Special - Radio 5live SUN Queen of Soul - Radio 2 SUN The I Love You Bridge - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0131xb1 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b0131xb3 (Listen) SUN An insider's guide to modern America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00pqj9g (Listen) SUN The Curiosities of the Egyptian Hall, The Great Mephisto! SUN SUN A series of three specially commissioned stories inspired by SUN London's Egyptian Hall - 'England's Home of Mystery & Many SUN Illusions', which stood in Piccadilly for most of the 19th SUN Century. The recordings were made in front of an invited SUN audience at the Concert Artistes' Association in Covent SUN Garden. SUN SUN London's Egyptian Hall was originally built in 1812 to house SUN collections of curiosities brought back from the most remote SUN and mysterious parts of the globe - from the South Seas, SUN North & South America and Africa. But it soon became the SUN venue for extraordinary spectaculars, panoramas and pseudo SUN scientific demonstrations - such as Britain's first ever SUN films, illusions, magic and freak shows. By the end of the SUN 19th Century, it had become known as 'England's Home of SUN Mystery and Many Illusions', under the management of the SUN renowned magician, Maskelyne. It became the centre of magic SUN and spiritualism where new acts were demonstrated and SUN charlatans exposed. SUN SUN The Great Mephisto! written by Tony Lidington SUN SUN A young illusionist from the Punjab takes revenge on his SUN cruel master. SUN SUN Read by Medhev Sharma SUN Introduced by Tony Lidington as Alfred, Custodian of the SUN Hall. SUN SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b012x12m (Listen) SUN In this week's More or Less: SUN SUN A very big number SUN SUN The United States has decided that its total debt - $14.3 SUN trillion - is to be allowed to get even bigger. But how much SUN is $14.3 trillion? It's a number so huge, it's almost SUN impossible to imagine. But we try, with the help of Nigel SUN Holmes. SUN SUN NHS spending SUN SUN Before the last election the Conservatives promised they SUN would increase spending on the NHS in England in real terms, SUN and in the Coalition Agreement they and the Liberal SUN Democrats reiterated the commitment. But there have been SUN accusations that they've already broken that pledge. Have SUN they? SUN SUN Decades of austerity? SUN SUN In July the Office for Budget Responsibility published a SUN "fiscal sustainability report" in which it considered the SUN likely health of Britain's finances far into the future. SUN According to newspaper reports, the OBR struck a sobering SUN tone, explaining that we face decades of austerity because SUN of rising health and education costs, and an ageing SUN population. But is that the right way to look at it? Michael SUN Blastland thinks not. SUN SUN The "27 Club" SUN SUN When Amy Winehouse was found dead last month, newspapers SUN around the world pointed out that death at 27 put the singer SUN in a club which few would wish to join: the so-called "27 SUN club" of rock and pop musicians who died at that age. But is SUN it really true - as some have claimed - that superstar SUN musicians are more likely to die at 27 than at any other SUN age? We asked Matt Parker of Queen Mary University of London SUN to work out the answer. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b012x12t (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN The Reverend John Stott, whose influential books and sermons SUN earned him the unofficial moniker of "the Protestant's SUN Pope." SUN SUN Fran Landesman, jazz lyricist, poet, bohemian whose wild SUN life made her at least as famous as did her art. SUN SUN Author, Stan Barlow, one of the so-called Angry Young Men SUN who brought the working class north to literary life in A SUN Kind of Loving. SUN SUN Professor Derek Bryce-Smith, whose work played a key role in SUN the introduction of unleaded petrol. SUN SUN And David Dunseith, police officer turned broadcaster who SUN described his phone-in programme on Radio Ulster as a SUN "people's parliament" during the troubles. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b012r6v0 (Listen) SUN Mister Bollywood and the Case of the Missing Millions SUN SUN Ramzan Nasir goes by the stage name "Zain" and styles SUN himself as a former star of Bollywood. Having moved into SUN property investment, his company "Heaven on Earth" sold SUN off-plan apartments in Dubai on the promise of high returns SUN on outlays which ran into millions of pounds. John Waite SUN meets the man and his clients, who include doctors, SUN shopkeepers and a former Minister of Health for Tanzania - SUN many of them claim they've nothing to show for their money. SUN SUN Producer Richard Hooper. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0130239 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b012wzqr (Listen) SUN Bitter Pill SUN SUN The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is closing most of its giant SUN research facility at Sandwich in Kent, the place where SUN Viagra was developed, putting two thousand science jobs at SUN risk. Peter Day asks what the surprising decision means for SUN an important UK industry. SUN SUN Producer : Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0131xb5 (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn previews the week's political agenda at SUN Westminster with MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion SUN of the issues politicians are grappling with. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0131xb7 (Listen) SUN Episode 64 SUN SUN Ian Burrell, the Independent's Media Editor, analyses how SUN the newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b012x12w (Listen) SUN Matthew Sweet ranges from Iraq to India and from Baghdad to SUN Buddha in this week's Film Programme. He talks to Dominic SUN Cooper about playing both Saddam Hussein's psychopathic son, SUN Uday and Latif Yahia, the man forced to impersonate him in SUN Lee Tamahori's feature, The Devil's Double. Then, having set SUN up camp in the Middle East, Matthew investigates the SUN background to an extraordinary film commissioned by Saddam SUN about the end of British colonial influence in the region. SUN With the help of two members of the cast, Marc Sinden and SUN Nicholas Young he re-lives the experience of shooting The SUN Great Question while the Iran-Iraq war was still in SUN progress. His excursion to the Subcontinent is prompted by SUN the revival of one of the landmarks of silent cinema, Light SUN of Asia, a life of Buddha which is being showing again in a SUN brand new print and with a brand new score. And then there's SUN part three of Mark Gatiss' guide to foreign horror. This SUN week he's dodging about among the chimney pots of Paris to SUN celebrate Franju's Nuits Rouges. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b012zzzw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 08 AUGUST 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b012x6wj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b012wxy6 (Listen) MON The mummy's curse - Death photography MON MON Laurie Taylor discusses the mummy's curse and other Oriental MON myths with Marina Warner and Roger Luckhurst. The Ancient MON Egyptians had no real concept of the curse; instead, MON Luckhurst argues, it was a product of the Victorian MON imagination, a result of British ambivalence about Egypt's MON increasing self-determination. The curse was part of a wider MON Western tradition of portraying the East as exotic and MON irrational, dominated by superstitions. That attitude is MON revealed in the British reaction to English language MON translations of The Arabian Nights, which played into MON Oriental stereotypes of barbarity, cruelty and unbridled MON sexuality. Marina Warner discusses the reasons why the MON stories of Aladdin et al are as popular as ever in modern, MON multi-cultural Britain. MON Author Audrey Linkman discusses the relationship between MON photography and death in her study of post-mortem portraits MON from the late 19th century to the modern day, and how they MON reflect contemporary attitudes towards mortality. MON Producer: Stephen Hughes. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b012zyf1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012x6wl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012x6wn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012x6wq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b012x6ws (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0131y3d (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd MON Marjory MacLean. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0131y3g (Listen) MON £50million worth of thefts on UK farms last year as rural MON crime increases. The insurers NFU Mutual calculate in their MON Rural Crime Survey that tractor, fuel and livestock thefts MON have increased sharply. MON MON Metal theft has become such a problem in Avon and Somerset MON that the police force has a specialist metal theft officer. MON Sarah Swadling joined Police Community Support Officer Matt MON Tailby as he started his shift at Yeovil police station. MON MON 88% of people believe that the UK is too reliant on other MON countries for food, according to a ComRes survey MON commissioned by BBC One's Countryfile and Farming Today. MON With the UK currently importing around 40% of our food, MON Professor Charles Godfray explains how he thinks we can MON create a secure global food supply. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Swadling. Producer: Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b012x6wv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b013217y (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Generations Apart b0131y3j (Listen) MON Baby Boomers MON MON This August, Fi Glover launches Generations Apart, a new MON landmark series for BBC Radio 4 which tracks the fortunes of MON people at two very different stages in their lives - the MON first Baby Boomers born in 1946, and the 'children of the MON nineties' born at the same time as the world wide web. MON MON Over the next 3 years, Fi delves into the lives of MON individuals selected from each generation to explore how MON people are shaped by when they're born, looking at the MON similarities and differences between them. MON MON In this opening programme, Fi Glover meets the baby boomers. MON Born in 1946, and turning sixty five this year, they're MON leading their generation into older age. MON MON The baby boomers have lived through some interesting times. MON Born in post-war austerity Britain, they were weaned on the MON ration book, but their lives were destined for social MON change. Raised in an era of opportunity and progress, they MON witnessed rapid social and technological change first hand MON and became the driving force behind it. Teenagers in the MON swinging sixties, some campaigning throughout their lives, MON they've ridden the tide of boom and bust. MON MON As the first baby boomers turn sixty five, they are set to MON buck the trend again. MON MON Comprising over a quarter of the UK population, their MON spending habits and lifestyles have huge sway on the MON economy. And the notion of retirement doesn't sit MON comfortably with all of them. MON MON Fi follows their contrasting personal journeys, from Alice, MON the Grimsby Grandmother whose own life mirrors the changes MON in the community around her, to David and Sandra, the MON triathlon training couple striving to compete on the MON international stage and hopeful that reaching sixty five MON will make this easier to achieve. Fi meets Carol, the MON airline worker who hopes her age won't stand in her way as MON she attempts to find a new job, and Tony who is reluctantly MON facing retirement to make way for the younger generation. MON Along with thousands of others born at the same time, MON Carol's life has been tracked since her birth in the world's MON longest running survey, run by the Medical Research Council. MON MON Generations Apart reflects on where these baby boomers have MON got to in their lives, and expresses their hopes, fears and MON expectations for the future. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b013204f (Listen) MON Bred of Heaven, Episode 1 MON MON "You have to pay to get in. The current cost, if you're in a MON car, is £5.30. Pressing a note into a fleshy female palm, I MON deploy the lone word of conversational Welsh in my locker. MON 'Diolch'. Thanks. Then I push my right foot down and MON accelerate into the land of my fathers. I'm not really sure MON where I'm going." MON MON Author and journalist Jasper Rees rises to the challenge of MON embracing his 'inner Welshness'. His grandparents on his MON father's side were Welsh. So it's partly in recollection of MON times spent at their house on a hill in Carmarthen that he MON opts for full 'immersion'. This means learning the language MON and putting to paper to some of his grandparents vivid MON stories about Wales. It also means travelling around, MON setting himself various tasks - singing in choirs, MON sheep-shearing, coracling, coal-mining. Some tasks are MON accomplished with deftness, some not, in his wry travelogue, MON which is abridged for radio in five parts by Katrin MON Williams. MON MON 1. It can cost £5.30 to enter this country, which fires the MON author's memories MON about a Welsh grandmother on a Gothic porch. Plus a bit on MON landscapes and languages and adventures with a coracle... MON MON Reader Ben Miles. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b013204h (Listen) MON Female unemployment; babies and salt; Becky Sharp; jockey MON Hayley Turner MON MON Becky Sharp: modern inspiration or despicable social MON climber? Unemployment for women over 45 is an increasing MON problem - we look at the figures and get advice. Out on the MON gallops with jockey, Hayley Turner. And is there too much MON salt in the diet of babies and toddlers? Presented by Jenni MON Murray. MON MON Female Unemployed and Approaching 50 MON MON The number of women claiming unemployment benefit is at its MON highest level for almost 15 years and increasingly those MON approaching 50 are being hit by unemployment and MON redundancy.Jenni hears from listener Paula Daley about her MON experience of unemployment, and dicusses the issues with MON Bobbie Graham, who specialises in working with the long term MON unemployed for the Department of Work and Pension's new Work MON Programme; and Dalia Ben Galin, Associate Director from the MON think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research. MON MON Hayley Turner, Jockey MON MON History was made at Carlisle Races last week, when the track MON staged the first ever meeting of all female jockeys. The MON races were in support of Breast Cancer charities. In the MON morning, women jockeys gathered at Newmarket for a glamorous MON photo-shoot to publicise the event. Having her photo taken MON was 27-year old Hayley Turner, who became the first woman MON rider to win an elite “Group One,” race, on Dream Ahead in MON the July Cup last month. Lizz Pearson went to meet Hayley, MON the horse trainers and other women jockeys to find out how MON the sport is adapting. MON MON Babies and Salt MON MON Seventy per cent of eight-month-old babies have a salt MON intake higher than the recommended UK maximum level, a study MON by University of Bristol has found. Researchers at the MON Children of the 90s project identified salty and processed MON foods like yeast extract, gravy, baked beans and tinned MON spaghetti in babies' diets. They also found that many babies MON are given cows’ milk, which has higher levels of salt than MON breast or formula milk, as their main drink despite MON recommendations that it should not be used in this way until MON babies are at least one year old. So how do you avoid salt MON in babies’ food and how can nutritional advice best be MON communicated to parents? One of the report’s authors Dr MON Pauline Emmett and paediatric dietician Jessica Williams MON join Jenni to discuss. MON MON Becky Sharp MON MON The author William Thackeray was born exactly 200 years ago MON and his most famous creation, the scheming social climber MON Becky Sharp, is still causing controversy today. To discuss MON to discuss why Becky Sharp has endured as an icon into the MON 21st Century Jenni is joined by David James author of "The MON Confessions of Becky Sharp", a sequel that reveals the MON salacious details of Becky’s private life; and Kirsty Milne, MON an academic at Oxford University. MON MON "The Confessions of Becky Sharp", published by Vanguard MON Press MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132144 (Listen) MON A Farewell to Arms, Episode 6 MON MON Ernest Hemingway's beautiful novel of love and war, MON dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. 6/10 Anarchy rules on the MON Italian retreat, and it's every man for himself. MON MON Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy MON Bartolomeo ..... Jonathan Forbes MON Piani ..... Daniel Rabin MON Sergeant ..... James Lailey MON Bonello ..... Carl Prekopp MON Officer ..... Simon Bubb MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 11:00 The Barbershop b0132146 (Listen) MON An insightful, humorous piece of reportage from inside the MON High Street "freemasonry" of the barber's, scene of one of MON the last rites of passage left to the modern British male. MON MON Stephen Smith journeys from the old fashioned barber where MON his Dad used to take him to the exclusive world of MON Trumper's, barber to the great and good in Mayfair... via MON the colourful world of the black barbershop. MON MON To the buzz of electric clippers, Stephen enters Gianni and MON Elio's, his dad's old barber's. On the walls are football MON memorabilia and a Page 3 calendar. Welcome to the Masonic MON world of the barber's - more (sexually) exclusive, these MON days, than even football grounds and the clubs of St MON James's. The barber's meant a bit of a chinwag with Elio in MON worldly tones that Stephen didn't hear his Dad use at home. MON MON Ex-KLF pop star and art provocateur Bill Drummond is MON fascinated by the barber's and its unambiguously male MON environment: 'there is little in life that is as totally MON male as the barber's shop,' he says. He has a highly MON original theory about the primacy of the barber's in human MON culture. The skill on show is 'probably the most central MON craft in the existence of civilised man on this MON planet...Ever since man has considered himself civilised he MON has had his hair cut. Religions will come and go, empires MON decline and fall, but the barbers keep snipping. MON MON Recalling the cutthroat shave he once enjoyed in the Mafiosi MON village of Corleone, Sicily, Stephen reflects on the macabre MON practice of the Mob in whacking its targets when they're at MON the barber's, in real life as well as the movies: targeting MON a place where a man expects to relax, to be pampered, but MON which was once associated with pain, gore and death. Step MON forward Sweeney Todd! MON MON To the stropping noise of a sharpening blade, we enter the MON thoroughly pukka salon of Trumper's, Mayfair, where Stephen MON has a wet shave with hot fluffy towels and all the MON trimmings. We hear about the great affairs of state (and MON other affairs!) which have been settled over a short back MON and sides at Trumpers. MON MON Finally, with a burst of hip hop, we're in the exuberant MON world of the black barbershop: part rap concert, part MON teenager's bedroom on a Saturday evening. It's all about MON 'styling', about getting the 'freshest' look while your MON mates gaze on - nodding their approval, or whistling their MON scorn, as the cut takes shape. Is it a welcome place of MON refuge and male solidarity for the often put-upon MON Afro-Caribbean male - not unlike the traditional High Street MON barber's, come to think of it? MON MON Producer: Adele Armstrong. MON MON 11:30 Meet David Sedaris b0125g85 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and MON charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This MON week: what not to do with a mouse, in front of strangers in MON "Nuit of the Living Dead" and the ups and downs of along MON term relationship get the Sedaris treatment in "The End of MON the Affair" MON MON Producer: Steve Doherty MON A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0132148 (Listen) MON On You and Yours today with Julian Worricker. MON MON We examine why so many of our care homes are operating MON without a manager. MON We hear how a train commuter writes a complaint to the First MON Great Western boss every single time his train is delayed. MON And we listen to experts as they debate alcohol units. MON Should the guidance on the amount we drink go up or down, MON and how is that kind of decision reached? MON MON 12:57 Weather b012x6wx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b013214b (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b013214d (Listen) MON Last in the current series of Quote...Unquote, presented by MON the renowned Nigel Rees. Joining Nigel to wave au revoir are MON the comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty, MON writer Brian Sibley and actor Martin Jarvis. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0131xb1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b013214g (Listen) MON My Name Is Stephen Luckwell MON MON By Nick Wood. MON MON Stephen Luckwell is an autistic teenager with an enquiring MON mind. His teacher, Claire, helps him through the daily MON activities which present him with enormous challenges, from MON deciphering phrases such as "I was miles away" or "I MON wouldn't want to be in your shoes", to understanding private MON jokes and other people's expressions. MON MON It's the day of the regional heats of the Young Artists' MON competition and Stephen is preparing how to behave. If he's MON properly prepared he can behave appropriately. Meanwhile MON Claire has some huge life changes in store, but she's not MON quite so prepared as Stephen. MON MON Nick Wood has adapted My Name is Stephen Luckwell from his MON stage play, originally produced by Nottingham Playhouse MON Roundabout. MON MON Stephen ..... James Rastall MON Claire ..... Emily Chennery MON Louis ..... Simon Lee Phillips MON MON Produced and directed by Fiona Kelcher. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b012zy1c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b013214j (Listen) MON Series 2, Gorbachev vs Yeltsin MON MON Martin Sixsmith remembers the "electric" sessions of the MON Congress of People's Deputies, after the Soviet Union's MON first genuinely contested elections in March 1989."As I MON wandered through the parliament's corridors, meeting openly MON with former dissidents, I realized that Gorbachev had let MON the genie of liberty out of the bottle," he says. MON MON Thousands of people took to the streets demanding MON multi-party democracy and booing Gorbachev. Boris Yeltsin MON -Chairman of the newly-created Russian parliament and de MON facto leader of the Russian Republic was demanding MON independence. Gorbachev, as leader of the Soviet Union and MON nominally the senior figure, struggled to hold the USSR MON together. "I'm doomed to go forward and only forward," he MON told a colleague. "If I retreat, I will perish..." Hardline MON communists were also on the attack; 'Gorbymania' in the West MON gave them leverage, and when Soviet territory was 'lost' as MON the Berlin wall came down, Gorbachev was derided as a MON traitor. The Baltic republics stridently demanded MON independence and although Gorbachev had publicly renounced MON coercion, Soviet troops were sent in. MON MON Yeltsin announced he would battle the threat of autocracy MON with the sword of democracy, proposing free and open MON elections for a new post of Russian President. Gorbachev MON tried to block it, but on 28 March 1991 the battle took to MON the streets. Gorbachev was forced to back off; the balance MON of power was shifting. In June 1991 Yeltsin was elected MON President of Russia with a mandate for radical change. He MON wanted to end communism and abolish the USSR. Gorbachev's MON compromise of a looser confederation of states with MON considerable autonomy but not control of defence and foreign MON policy, might have worked. But before the New Union Treaty MON could be signed, history would take a dramatic turn. MON MON Producers:Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b013027c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b013214l (Listen) MON The idea of the Sabbath, a communal day off every week, has MON been all but taken over by Sunday opening and the 24/7 MON society. In "Beyond Belief" Ernie Rea asks what society has MON gained and lost as a result of this change. Sports MON Commentator Dan Walker tells him why he refuses to work on a MON Sunday, and he is joined by Rabbi Naftali Brawer, Sam Barker MON of the Relationships Foundation and Keep Sunday Special MON Campaign, and Philip Booth from the Institute of Economic MON Affairs. MON MON 17:00 PM b0135s8w (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0131pqd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b013214n (Listen) MON Series 61, With Sheila Hancock and Graham Norton MON MON Returning series of the ever popular Just A Minute, hosted MON by Nicholas Parsons. Graham Norton, Paul Merton, Sheila MON Hancock and Tony Hawks are attempting to speak without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation on 'Barn Dances' 'My MON Personal Assistant' and other subjects. The producer is MON Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b013214q (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b013214s (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including an interview with the writer MON Hari Kunzru, whose new novel is set in 2008, in a remote MON town in the Californian desert. MON MON Producer Ella-Mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132144 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b013214v (Listen) MON In 1938, Hitler annexed Austria. As the Nazi repression of MON Austrian Jews intensified, many were desperately seeking MON ways of leaving the country. MON MON One option was obtaining a baptismal certificate which MON offered the hope of making it easier to acquire transit MON visas and move across borders. MON MON The President of the Los Angeles Holocaust Museum has just MON discovered, to his surprise, one such baptismal certificate MON belonging to his great uncle. MON MON Mike Thomson follows this certificate back to the Anglican MON Church in Vienna, where this and many other baptisms took MON place in a very short space of time. MON MON He finds people who received these certificates and hears MON how they were useful in aiding their escape from Austria. MON MON He finds out about the Chaplains who came up against the MON Gestapo as a result of conducting these baptisms, and asks MON what motivated them. He also unravels the arguments in the MON Church of England over what should be done to help Jews MON trying to escape Nazi Europe. MON MON Producer: Neil McCarthy. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b012wzfj (Listen) MON Tim Judah travels to Senegal to report on the Mourides, an MON increasingly powerful Senegalese Muslim movement that MON stresses the importance of hard work MON MON Many of the African street sellers in cities like Paris or MON Rome, and on Mediterranean beaches, are in fact Mourides. MON Far from being chancers who washed up on Europe's shores and MON now barely scrape a living from selling fake designer MON handbags or miniature Eiffel towers, they are part of a very MON organised and supportive brotherhood that now wields great MON economic and political power in Senegal. MON MON Thanks to their strong work ethic and the unparalleled MON networking opportunities the brotherhood provides, Mourides MON now dominate many sectors of the economy. MON MON They are said to constitute up to 40% of Senegalese Muslims MON (who make up over 90% of the population.) So not MON surprisingly, senior politicians, if they are not Mourides MON anyway, are courting the Mouride vote by going on pilgrimage MON to the Mouride holy city, Touba, several hours' drive east MON of the capital. The president of Senegal is a Mouride, as is MON the man who is probably the most famous Senegalese of all: MON singer Youssou N'Dour, who tells Tim why his Mouridism MON matters to him, and why it could be a way forward for MON Africa. MON MON So who are the Mourides? What do they believe and what MON matters to them? Tim travels to Dakar and the fabled holy MON city of Touba to find out. MON MON Producer: Arlene Gregorius. MON MON 21:00 Generations Apart b0131y3j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:45 The London Nobody Knows b00sxj2l (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Historian and presenter, Dan Cruickshank, has a copy of a MON battered, yellowing book under his arm. "The London Nobody MON Knows" was written by Geoffrey Fletcher in the 60s. It was MON a record of an unfamiliar London at the time, written by a MON man totally infatuated with the city. MON MON Fifty years on, Dan retraces Fletcher's steps.from the pie MON shops where "the floors are sanded, where the eels are MON greenest, where the cups of tea are thickest" to the east MON end markets where "the fishy smell has sunk into the very MON pavements". MON MON Much of it has gone.but not all. In a series of two MON programmes, Dan takes us on a journey through the city he MON loves. He sets out to find what remains - and what has been MON lost - of Geoffrey Fletcher's London. MON MON He visits a wonderfully colourful Hackney market - one of MON the many London street markets now under threat - in the MON company of writer and Hackney wanderer, Iain Sinclair. MON MON As he climbs the great stone stairway of Wilton's Music Hall MON in East London, the music begins to pour out. "It is MON absolutely fantastic.nothing like it in London" he says. MON The last grand music hall in the world is one of MON Cruickshank's favourite places. It's the kind of place Dan MON wants to remain a secret! MON MON Presenter: Dan Cruickshank MON Producer: Adele Armstrong. MON MON 21:58 Weather b0131pqg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0132180 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0132182 (Listen) MON The Sense of an Ending, Episode 1 MON MON Julian Barnes' new novel challenges the stories we tell MON about our own lives and the interpretations we put on events MON in order to construct a version we can live with. MON MON Tony Webster met Adrian Finn in the 6th form of a boys MON school in London, it was the early sixties and the future MON glowed bright for the small group of friends, especially for MON Adrian who was the bright young academic star of the year. MON It was Adrian who quoted the crucial definition of history, MON and skewered it with an example of the death of a fellow MON student who had got his girlfriend pregnant: MON MON ' "History is that certainty produced at the point where the MON imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of MON documentation."' MON 'Is it, indeed? Where did you find that?' MON 'Lagrange, sir. Patrick Lagrange. He's French.' MON 'So one might have guessed. Would you care to give us an MON example?' MON 'Robson's suicide, sir.' MON MON Memories of their classroom debates and student friendship MON are triggered by an unexpected legacy forty years after MON Adrian's death. It is only then that the now retired Tony MON begins to look back and re-examine events in the light of MON new evidence. MON MON Read by Julian Barnes MON Producer: Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b012wjcz (Listen) MON Eisteddfod MON MON Tired of living next to his noisy neighbours, Les Barker MON opted out of urban Manchester and moved to North Wales. MON "Although I'd spent half a lifetime an hour's drive away, MON I'd never heard of Hedd Wyn. Or any other major figure in MON Welsh history or literature, apart from Max Boyce and Dylan MON Thomas." So Les began to learn...and learn...and learn..... MON MON "After toying briefly with 'Teach Yourself Welsh', I went on MON a four-day course in Denbigh; Craig Jones was the tutor. MON Over the summer I did a couple of week-long courses in MON Denbigh, initially with another Mr Jones, but he went off MON sick and was replaced by a Mrs Jones. Wales is full of MON them." MON MON "Being a beginner is frustrating. After a lifetime of being MON fluent, I suddenly had the vocabulary and grammar of a MON three-year-old." But Les persevered, and is now a serious MON performer on the Welsh poetry scene, and one of the MON organisers of this summer's Eisteddfod. Chris Ledgard meets MON Les as he makes last minute preparations for the festival. MON MON Producer John Byrne. MON MON 23:30 Polyoaks b011vjh9 (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Written By Phil Hammond and David Spicer. MON MON Nigel Planer, Celia Imrie, David Westhead, Phil Cornwell and MON Tony Gardner star in a timely satire on the NHS set in the MON bewildering new world of Coalition healthcare. MON MON This new sitcom is written by Private Eye's medical MON columnist, broadcaster, comedian and practising GP Dr. Phil MON Hammond and David Spicer ('Double Income No Kids' and 'Three MON Off the Tee'.) As responsibility for the Health Service is MON stripped from managers and handed to doctors, MON brothers-in-medicine Roy & Hugh Thornton are struggling to MON work out what to do with all this sudden money and power. If MON they can diagnose acute appendicitis surely they can manage MON an £80 billion health budget. Can't they? But a useless MON Celebrity TV Doctor, an overly-aggressive South African MON Nurse and a sinister GP Consortium Chairman don't make their MON lot any easier. MON MON In this episode Hugh is lumbered with a problem patient, MON when Roy goes mysteriously AWOL, while cycling for his MON health. He's worried that Roy's overlooked a possible MON communicable disease, which could lumber the practice with a MON disastrous drugs bill and he really needs a second opinion. MON Trouble is there's only Dr. Jeremy on hand. Which is worse MON than useless. And anyway it would mean interrupting the STD MON clinic. MON MON Dr Roy Thornton ..... Nigel Planer MON Dr Hugh Thornton ..... Tony Gardner MON TV's Dr Jeremy ..... David Westhead MON Betty Crossfield ..... Celia Imrie MON Vera Du Plessis ..... Carla Mendonca MON Mr Devlin/Mr Bourner ..... Phil Cornwell MON MON All Patients played by David Holt and Kate O'Sullivan MON MON Producer: Frank Stirling MON An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 09 AUGUST 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b012x6xp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b013204f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012x6xr (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012x6xt (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012x6xw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b012x6xy (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013n7cy (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd TUE Marjory MacLean. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01321bp (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01321br (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Generations Apart b01321h8 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01321hb (Listen) TUE Bred of Heaven, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2. The author continues his embrace of all things Welsh with TUE a trip to Caldey Island where his uncle, now known as Teilo, TUE practices as a monk. Life starts at half past three in the TUE morning and it's often a revelatory time of the day... TUE TUE Reader Ben Miles. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01321hd (Listen) TUE Ugly Beauty - History of the Beauty Industry. Presented by TUE Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01321hg (Listen) TUE A Farewell to Arms, Episode 7 TUE TUE Ernest Hemingway's greatest love story, dramatised by TUE Stephen Keyworth. 7/10 On the run from the chaos of the TUE Italian retreat, Frederic seeks Catherine out. TUE TUE Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy TUE Catherine ..... Morven Christie TUE Ferguson ..... Alex Tregear TUE Emilio ..... James Lailey TUE Simmons ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Rinaldi ..... Carl Prekopp TUE Piani ..... Daniel Rabin TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Giving the Critic Back His Voice b01321hj (Listen) TUE Ricky Ross discovers how one Scottish company is giving back TUE the freedom of speech by creating artificial voices with TUE genuine human inflection and emotion. We've come a long way TUE from 'Hal' in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Today, one small TUE Edinburgh-based company is at the forefront of creating TUE artificial voices that sound remarkably like the real thing, TUE and that's because they are. TUE TUE Critic Roger Ebert had governed America's movie tastes for TUE over three decades when thyroid cancer robbed him of his TUE voice. Enter Cereproc. They've managed to piece together a TUE voice much akin to Ebert's own by using his old audio TUE recordings. So what are the implications of this TUE groundbreaking development for ordinary people, and how will TUE it change the way we relate to the human voice? Songwriter TUE and broadcaster Ricky Ross finds out. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b01322cz (Listen) TUE Gerry Robinson TUE TUE The businessman and broadcaster Sir Gerry Robinson presents TUE extracts of some of his favourite readings. Recorded with an TUE audience in Londonderry, at the University of Ulster. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01322d1 (Listen) TUE Can you learn to be a good parent or should it just come TUE naturally? The government's being urged to start a new TUE campaign to improve the way children are brought up in their TUE early years. Under the scheme, proposed by the think-tank TUE CentreForum, parents would be encouraged to do five things TUE with their children every day: To read, play and talk with TUE them, to praise and to feed them healthy food. Research TUE suggests that the quality of parenting and care a child gets TUE early on in life has a big impact on how well they develop TUE later on. So should parents be taught how to do the job or TUE does it sound too much like state interference? Call You and TUE Yours with Julian Worricker. Your chance to share your views TUE on the programme. Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk, text 84844 TUE and we may call you back or call 03700 100 444 (lines open TUE at 10am Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b012x6y0 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01322d3 (Listen) TUE With Martha Kearney. National and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Mr Suzuki's Bach Passion b01322d5 (Listen) TUE The story of how a group of remarkable Japanese musicians TUE overthrew centuries of tradition - and prejudice - to become TUE one of the of the world's most brilliant baroque music TUE ensembles. Presented by Roland Buerk. TUE TUE A musical revolution is in the air. After three centuries as TUE the undisputed masters of Johann Sebastian Bach's legacy, TUE Germany has found itself rudely usurped...by Japan. TUE TUE The Bach Collegium Japan - and their musical director, TUE Masaaki Suzuki - are a phenomenon. Founded in 1990, they've TUE overcome the cultural prejudices of a snooty musical world TUE to become one of the most lauded baroque musical ensembles TUE in the world. TUE TUE The BCJ have won major award after major award for their TUE extraordinary complete series of Bach's cantatas: the Mount TUE Everest of baroque music, numbering more than 200 works and TUE 50 CDs of some of the most beautiful - and challenging - TUE music ever written. TUE TUE Critics praise the remarkable clarity, finesse and sheer TUE musicianship of their performances: readings that throw off TUE hundreds of years of European baggage to reveal the TUE unadorned beauty and raw devotion of the notes beneath. TUE TUE Yet wasn't always this way. When Suzuki set up the BCJ more TUE than two decades ago, Western critics were in stitches. TUE "Don't worry - this isn't Bach in kimonos", chuckled one TUE reviewer - after all, how could a nation with its an TUE entirely alien musical and cultural tradition - a place TUE where classical music and Christianity were decidedly TUE minority interests - master some of the most complex, subtle TUE and devotional music ever written? TUE TUE They're not laughing now. Critics and members of the public TUE alike queue around the block to catch a glimpse of the TUE ensemble in rehearsal - whilst their CDs sell in their TUE hundreds of thousands across the globe. TUE TUE In "Mr Suzuki's Bach Passion", Roland Buerk follows the BCJ TUE as they prepare for the latest in their acclaimed series of TUE performances - recorded in February this year, and featuring TUE exclusive excerpts from the group's latest series of cantata TUE recordings, as well as their acclaimed readings of the St TUE John and St Matthew Passions, and Bach's B Minor Mass. TUE TUE As momentum builds towards a sell-out performance at Tokyo's TUE vast Opera City Hall, Roland investigates the roots of TUE Japan's love affair with JS Bach and the BCJ - trying to pin TUE down why a nation with less than 3% Christian population is TUE so taken with this highly contemplative, devotional TUE religious music. TUE TUE Is there something in the Japanese national psyche that TUE mirrors the unadorned aesthetic beauty of JS Bach's music? TUE How much does a musical culture require a tradition - and TUE how much is it hindered by it? And does an age-old Western TUE claim about Japanese society - that it is brilliant at TUE copying and refining, yet can lack true originality - apply TUE to the BCJ's music? Or does it merely reflect Western TUE prejudices? TUE TUE Roland also reflects on the message of hope imbued in Bach's TUE music - and its power to heal - in the aftermath of the TUE devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan in March this TUE year. TUE TUE Contributors include Masaaki Suzuki, director of the Bach TUE Collegium Japan; Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the TUE Royal Academy of Music; Catholic priest Fr. Takehiro 'Gus' TUE Kunii; Robert von Bahr, founder of BIS records; and the TUE celebrated German tenor and BCJ soloist Gerd Tuerk. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b013214q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b01322d7 (Listen) TUE Higher, The Price of Partnership TUE TUE Higher: Ep 1 The Price of Partnership by Joyce Bryant TUE Teaching has become a dirty word at Hayborough University TUE and when a new Dean of Research Development comes on board TUE she urges partnerships abroad. So an international research TUE centre for Pier and Wharf ethics is mooted. The only problem TUE is the person sent to set it up - academic snob and TUE sociopath, Professor David Poll. TUE TUE Karen.........Sophie Thompson TUE Jim.............Jonathan Keeble TUE David..........Jeremy Swift TUE Cherry.........Caroline Burns Cooke TUE President......Cyril Nri TUE Abdi.............Marlon G. Day TUE TUE Produced by Gary Brown TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b01322d9 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b01322dc (Listen) TUE Portrait, The Painter's Story TUE TUE A mystery unfolds in Susie Maguire's trilogy of stories that TUE examine a portrait from three perspectives. The painter's TUE story is read by Burn Gorman. TUE TUE Tom first lays eyes on Nic in the audience of an art house TUE cinema. She smells of money and he knows she is out of his TUE league, but he decides to ask if he can paint her. She TUE succumbs and finally enters the arena of his scruffy studio. TUE There's a power shift; she may be the femme fatale whose TUE husband owns the building, but this is Tom's domain, and she TUE is the one feeling nervous. He knows all the tricks to put TUE her at her ease. He's used to the idle chit chat between TUE artist and model, the questions about commissions, the TUE subtle pleas for reassurance. He rashly agrees to her TUE request not to exhibit the painting when it's finished, but TUE hopes that once she sees the finished piece, she'll be TUE flattered and have a change of heart. He is already secretly TUE planning further portraits of her as he circles her with his TUE camera snapping away, adjusting her position now and then. TUE Will he keep his promise to keep her portrait for his eyes TUE only, and who is really studying who? TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b01322df (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Moscow Coup TUE TUE Intermingling memories and on location reporting at the TUE time, Martin Sixsmith recreates the dramatic events of TUE August 1991 when hardline communists removed Gorbachev from TUE power and instituted a State of Emergency. TUE TUE Standing on the steps of the Russian parliament building he TUE describes Yeltsin climbing onto a tank calling for all TUE citizens to oppose "the anti-constitutional coup that will TUE return us to the days of the Cold War era." Thousands of TUE people ignored curfews and threats to respond; Sixsmith TUE recalls the campfires and people sharing their food, waving TUE the pre-revolutionary Russian flag. TUE TUE We hear a poem by Yevgeny Yevtushenko written for the TUE occasion and of 3 young men crushed by tanks as TUE demonstrators intercepted their advance. And then on 21st TUE August the coup plotters lost their nerve and the tanks TUE withdrew. On 22nd August, Gorbachev flew back to Moscow TUE claiming, "This is the victory of perestroika." But he TUE underestimated Yeltsin's heroism and the guilt of the TUE Communist Party that had backed the coup. The days of TUE reforming and modernizing the Party were over. The end of TUE the week brought the political showdown that would determine TUE the country's future: Gorbachev stubbornly defended the TUE communist party, but was forced to recognize the entire TUE government had supported the coup and agreed everyone must TUE resign. Yeltsin moved in for the kill, banning the Russian TUE Communist Party. TUE TUE The next day Gorbachev addressed the nation, agreeing the TUE Soviet Communist Party, too, should be abolished. 74 years TUE of political domination had come undone in a mere six days. TUE Forced to accept the inevitable Gorbachev announced his TUE resignation in an emotional television address on Christmas TUE Day. At midnight on the last day of 1991, the hammer and TUE sickle was taken down from the Kremlin towers. TUE TUE Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01322dh (Listen) TUE In the programme exploring the world of words and the ways TUE in which we use them, Chris Ledgard examines the production TUE of talking newspapers for the blind. From cassette TUE distribution to downloads, the daily newspaper can be as TUE up-to-date for blind people as it is for their sighted TUE neighbours. But how do you "voice up" both the Daily Star TUE and the Telegraph? And what does it take to be the "reader" TUE on FHM or Private Eye? TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01322dk (Listen) TUE Series 25, Kirsty MacColl TUE TUE Broadcaster Janice Long tells Matthew Parris why TUE singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl led a "great life" despite TUE her tragically early death in a boating accident in Mexico TUE in 2000. TUE TUE Kirsty MacColl was a supremely gifted singer-songwriter in TUE the "English" tradition, often compared to Ray Davies or TUE Morrissey for her kitchen-sink realism and sardonic wit. She TUE loved pop but insisted on witty and literate writing, and, TUE whilst sporadically successful in her own right, she was TUE everyone's favourite collaborative artist. She battled TUE stage-fright and writers block to produce five outstanding TUE albums, and worked with The Smiths, Talking Heads, the TUE Rolling Stones, Simple Minds and U2. She once described her TUE talent as a "one-woman-Beach Boys" for her ability to layer TUE and orchestrate harmonies. TUE TUE Her father, Ewan MacColl, was a famous folk singer, but TUE Kirsty had no interest in folk music - a clear rejection of TUE the world her father inhabited - and wanted instead to TUE create great, "edgy" pop records. TUE TUE She died in controversial circumstances when she was hit by TUE a speedboat whilst on a diving holiday in Mexico in 2000. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0132vkg (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b012x6y2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b01322dm (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing TUE the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. Lucy is a true TUE chameleon who can embrace any character with uncanny TUE accuracy, from a non-stop chattering public school girl to a TUE decrepit and self-abasing charwoman. Lucy is a rare and TUE multifaceted performer her intelligence and Barry TUE Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a smart and TUE distinctive edge TUE TUE Like all big stars, Lucy's worked hard to earn her tilt at TUE the windmill of fame. In her ten years since Footlights TUE she's honed her talents on Radio 4 shows as diverse as the TUE Sony Gold winning Down the Line, The Museum of Everything, TUE The Department, Another Case of Milton Jones, Mastering the TUE Universe, Torchwood, The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook TUE and The Way We Live Right Now. On television she has made TUE her mark on BBC THREE's TittyBangBang, BBC ONE's Armstrong TUE and Miller and BBC TWO's - Bellamy's People. TUE TUE Starring; Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie TUE Walter, Iris Walker and Waen Shepherd TUE TUE Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve TUE Burge, Jon Hunter, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Fay Rusling. TUE TUE Script Editor; Dan Tetsell TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01322dp (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01322dr (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01321hg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01322dt (Listen) TUE Kick Starting Recovery? TUE TUE The Government's strategy to boost local enterprise in TUE England began poorly. The Director of the CBI criticised it TUE as 'a shambles' and Business Secretary Vince Cable admitted TUE it was 'Maoist and chaotic'. TUE TUE Now 36 Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) have been TUE established with the aim of supporting economic growth and TUE innovation and encouraging a network of Enterprise Zones. TUE But some experts remain sceptical. They claim that the TUE policy has failed to put business interests first and that TUE in some parts of the country it has been hijacked by local TUE politicians. Others complain that areas of deprivation have TUE been overlooked in favour of more affluent neighbours. There TUE is also concern that the strategy is not implementing the TUE government's policy of localism. TUE TUE Can LEPs deliver the economic fruits they promise? Or will TUE some just fizzle out, as one insider fears? Gerry Northam TUE reports. TUE TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane TUE Editor: David Ross. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01322dw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Generations Apart b01321h8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:45 The London Nobody Knows b00t0d1c (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Historian and broadcaster, Dan Cruickshank, goes off the TUE beaten track and takes us to some of his favourite - and TUE largely undiscovered - haunts. TUE TUE Dan visits Clerkenwell with its secret and underground TUE history in the company of London biographer, Peter Ackroyd. TUE He takes us to Grub Street - where we hear about the TUE beginnings of the tabloid press in the early 17th century. TUE And in Chinatown, he peers behind the shelves of a Cantonese TUE supermarket to reveal an amazing tale of 18th century debate TUE and debauchery. TUE TUE Producer: Adele Armstrong. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0131prh (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01322fq (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0133jtr (Listen) TUE The Sense of an Ending, Episode 2 TUE TUE Julian Barnes' new novel challenges the stories we tell TUE about our own lives and the interpretations we put on events TUE in order to construct a version we can live with. TUE TUE The friends have dispersed to university where Tony finally TUE acquires a girlfriend, Veronica. He is invited to spend a TUE weekend at her family's home in Chiselhurst. TUE TUE Read by Julian Barnes TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 A Jewel in the Comedy Crown b00p2cc1 (Listen) TUE Jason Manford pays tribute to Jimmy Jewel, one of the most TUE enduring showbusiness entertainers of the 20th century. TUE TUE Born in December 1909, Jewel, probably best remembered today TUE for his fractious double act with Hylda Baker in the 1960s TUE and 70s comedy Nearest and Dearest, first took to the stage TUE aged four. Later, as part of the variety double act Jewel TUE and Warriss, he became a popular music hall star. Jewel TUE continued a successful career on radio, stage and screen TUE before cementing his position as one of the great survivors TUE and adapters when he made the transformation to accomplished TUE straight actor. TUE TUE Jimmy Jewel's story reflects the changing face of British TUE light entertainment over 60 years, and this programme is TUE peppered with classic Jewel archive and includes TUE contributions from actor Jean Boht and variety entertainer TUE John Styles. TUE TUE 23:30 Towards Zero b00pxqz1 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Towards Zero TUE By Agatha Christie TUE Dramatised by Joy Wilkinson TUE Part Two TUE TUE Lady Tresselian's house party is thrown into disarray by the TUE death of her old friend Justice Treves. Meanwhile Nevile is TUE feeling the strain of a house party with both his wife and TUE his ex-wife in attendance. TUE TUE Nevile............Hugh Bonneville TUE Lady Tresselian.......Marcia Warren TUE MacWhirter.........Tom Mannion TUE Audrey............Claire Rushbrook TUE Mary.............Julia Ford TUE Kay............Lizzy Watts TUE Latimer...........Joseph Kloska TUE Inspector Leach .......Philip Fox TUE Royde............Stephen Hogan TUE Receptionist...........Annabelle Dowler TUE Sergeant...........Matt Addis TUE Doctor Lazenby........Benjamin Askew TUE Treves...........David Hargreaves TUE TUE Directed by Mary Peate. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 10 AUGUST 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b012x6yq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01321hb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012x6ys (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012x6yv (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012x6yx (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b012x6yz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013n7d8 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd WED Marjory MacLean. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0132k4w (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b0132k4y (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Voices from the Old Bailey b0132k50 (Listen) WED Series 2, Servants WED WED Many thousands of cases in the Old Bailey feature servants, WED and the court transcripts give us something extraordinary: WED the voices and words of people who have otherwise left no WED record of their lives. In court, they not only reveal the WED detail of their working day, they throw a light on the WED complex psychological relationship between master and WED servant. WED WED Three cases are featured in the programme. The first is a WED servant who lives with a family so poor they have only one WED room and she shares their bed. The master takes her to court WED accusing her of theft but when she gives evidence, she tells WED a very different story, of his sexual abuse. The second case WED is a juicy case of sexual scandal, and reveals what happens WED when the mistress falls in love with her footman. In the WED final case, which created a huge stir at the time, the WED servant murders her elderly employer with a bayonet. WED WED Three contributors discuss the cases: Dr Tim Meldrum, author WED of the leading book on the subject; Dr Hannah Greig, WED historian of the aristocracy; and Peter King, historian of WED crime. The programme is recorded on location in Uppark WED House, Sussex, where the master of the servant married his WED dairy maid - and against all expectations, stayed married to WED her for 21 years until his death. The historians discuss how WED far love was possible across the master/servant divide, and WED reveal that servants were often the moral guardians of a WED household. Gwyneth Herbert sings a revealing ballad, a sad WED cautionary tale about what happens when a young girl falls WED in love with her father's stable groom. The music used in WED this programme was arranged by David Owen Norris, from WED original 18th century ballads. WED WED Produced by Elizabeth Burke WED A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0132k52 (Listen) WED Bred of Heaven, Episode 3 WED WED 3. Embracing Welshness means you have to go underground, to WED greet WED blackened faces lit by lamps, and all talk is about WED tunnelling and a WED very big drill... WED WED Reader Ben Miles WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0132k54 (Listen) WED Cook the Perfect... ice cream. Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132k56 (Listen) WED A Farewell to Arms, Episode 8 WED WED Ernest Hemingway's great love story, dramatised by Stephen WED Keyworth. 8/10 Frederic and Catherine escape together from WED Italy, and find that their troubles evaporate. WED WED Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy WED Catherine ..... Morven Christie WED Waitress ..... Alex Tregear WED Lieutenant ..... James Lailey WED Soldier ..... Simon Bubb WED Officials ..... Carl Prekopp & Jonathan Forbes WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b0132k58 (Listen) WED Series 14, Episode 2 WED WED Late one afternoon in November 1979, Arthur Brooks and his WED wife Greta were on their way back from a day's metal WED detecting in Norfolk. They stopped at Gallows Hill near WED Thetford, so Arthur could have one last search. Trespassing WED on a building site owned by the district council, he found WED one of the most significant hoards of Roman treasure ever WED discovered in Britain - gold jewellery and silver tableware. WED WED The Brooks took the jewellery home and washed it - the gold WED in cold water, and the silver in warm water and baby WED shampoo. Mr Brooks should then have notified the authorities WED as this was likely to be Treasure Trove, belonging to the WED Crown. But the hoard was hidden away, and what happened next WED is a mystery. WED WED In this episode of In Living Memory, Chris Ledgard explores WED the murky story of the Thetford Treasure. On the building WED site where it was discovered, a warehouse soon went up. WED This, archaeologists say, means we almost certainly missed WED vital clues about why the hoard was left there late in the WED 4th century AD. WED WED So what was Arthur Brooks doing? We hear from his widow, and WED from the London dealer who was driven North in the dead of WED night to be shown the hoard. Eventually, it ended up in the WED British Museum. But even then it posed a problem: how much WED reward should go to the finder's widow? She would normally WED have been paid the full value, more than £260,000. But the WED academic and antiquarian worlds wanted to send a message to WED metal detectorists, against whom they were waging a bitter WED battle. WED WED 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b0132k5b (Listen) WED Series 2, Timothy Spoontz WED WED Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. WED WED When the new progressive headmaster Mike Poulson Jabby WED decides to impose an austerity drive in the seventies, the WED quality of the school's food is compromised as part of the WED tedious process. But the inventive agricultural talents of WED young boarder, Timothy Spoontz, helped by his successful WED father's growing agricultural business, provide the school WED and Castlereagh House with it's own privately delivered WED supply of food - until Mike Poulson Jabby gets wind of it. WED WED Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid WED Timothy Spoontz ....... Harry McEntire WED Mike Poulson Jabby ...... Mike Priest WED Lefty Rogers ....... Tony Gardner WED Stanislaw ....... Mike Sarne WED Stealgroynes ...... Jack Edwards WED Calman ........ Kris Saddler WED Moorcroft ...... Joe Cooper WED Matron ... ... Mia Soteriou WED WED Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0132k5d (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b0132k5g (Listen) WED Mind the Funding Gap WED WED Edinburgh needs to find up to £228m of extra public money if WED it's part-built tram line is to be salvaged. John Waite WED investigates what's gone wrong and why costs have spiralled. WED WED 12:57 Weather b012x6z1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0132l6y (Listen) WED With Martha Kearney. National and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b0132l70 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01322dp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0132l72 (Listen) WED The Other Simenon, The Cat WED WED Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of WED other novels, often tough, gripping and WED psychologically-penetrating stories like this black comedy WED about a couple whose marriage has foundered. Conversation WED between Emile and Marguerite has given way to a mute WED exchange of vicious notes, a shared life to separate beds WED and separate larders. Meanwhile the sudden deaths of two WED cherished family pets - a poisoned cat and a murdered parrot WED - block all attempts at reconciliation. Emile, at the end of WED his tether, packs his bags and chooses freedom - but he WED quickly makes a discovery that, even when affection has WED gone, a powerful bond still unites a man and his wife. WED Dramatised by Ronald Frame. WED WED Emile ............................... CHRISTIAN RODSKA WED Marguerite .................................. JOANNA TOPE WED Nelly ............................................ IRENE WED ALLAN WED Madame Martin/Nurse .. CAROL ANN CRAWFORD WED Patron/Professor .............. MARK McDONNELL WED Producer/director Bruce Young. WED WED 15:00 Poorer Than Their Parents b012zx09 (Listen) WED Inheritance WED WED In this third part of our series on inter-generational WED finance, Alvin Hall meets families seeking help to support WED younger relatives with their finances. WED WED He speaks to a gerontologist - an academic who studies the WED social impact of ageing - who rejects the idea that the WED baby-boomer generation born in the twenty years after the WED end of the Second World War have stolen their children WED inheritance but who feels the Government's not doing enough WED to allow her to help her children. WED WED Alvin also meets one of a growing number of families seeking WED new ways of releasing capital from their homes or from their WED pension pots to pass down to younger relatives to raise a WED deposit for a home or pay off debts. He assesses whether WED this trend marks a shift back to a society more dependent on WED inherited wealth. WED WED With more student debt to pay off, many young people are WED putting off saving for their retirement. Fewer than 40% of WED under 30 year olds contribute to pension schemes offered by WED their employer. Alvin accompanies the Pensions Advisory WED Service for a session educating young workers at a hire car WED firm about the benefits of their scheme and he meets WED pensions sceptic and youth activist George Lewkowicz to hear WED why he's stopped saving. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0132l74 (Listen) WED Portrait, The Model's Story WED WED A mystery unfolds in Susie Maguire's trilogy of stories that WED examine a portrait from three perspectives. The Model's WED Story is read by Federay Holmes. WED WED Nic wakes up in hospital. She's battered and bruised, and is WED trying to piece together the events that led her to this WED state. Her husband Andrew turns up, very concerned and keen WED to take care of her, but Nic retreats to a local hotel to WED lick her wounds and reflect on what has happened. She WED wonders if it all went wrong when she started modelling for WED Tom. She'd certainly valued that time they shared in his WED studio, but Andrew would never be able to understand that WED theirs was a platonic relationship. It's only when she is WED finally and violently presented with a fragmented image of WED herself, that she really begins to see the bigger picture, WED and seeks the courage to do what she has to. WED WED Producer: Sarah Langan. WED WED 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b0132l76 (Listen) WED Series 2, Brave New World? WED WED The programme opens with a new national anthem full of hope WED for a country frantically ridding itself of its communist WED past. WED WED At the time, Martin Sixsmith witnessed the dumping of WED Moscow's communist statues "here on the grass for the crowds WED to spit on" and returns to the site to reflect on what WED actually happened. President Yeltsin's 'economic shock WED therapy' freed prices and deregulated trade, but inflation WED soared to 400%. In late 1992 every citizen was given a $60 WED stake in Russia's denationalized industries, but WED entrepreneurs bought out the people, who were left poorer WED than ever. Corruption and violence flourished; wages went WED unpaid; homelessness and poverty escalated. WED WED When opposition to his policies reached a climax, Yeltsin WED demanded the right to rule by decree; the Russian parliament WED refused; Yeltsin dissolved the parliament but the parliament WED impeached him. Supporters of the 2 sides clashed on the WED streets of Moscow and Yeltsin sent in the tanks, destroying WED his reputation as a democrat and giving the Russian WED Communist Party a chance. When it won a clear majority in WED the elections of 1995 Yeltsin panicked. Conflict in Chechnya WED and the failure of the economic reforms had brought Moscow WED close to bankruptcy so Yeltsin turned to the new oligarchs WED for a massive injection of cash to save his political skin. WED In return he had to hand over Russia's remaining state WED industries, including steel, gas and oil. In 1998 oil and WED gas prices collapsed sending the Russian economy into WED freefall. WED WED When demonstrators took to the streets, Yeltsin announced WED his reforms were being suspended, ending Russia's experiment WED with Western style liberal democracy. On New Year's Eve he WED dramatically announced he was stepping down, handing over to WED his Prime Minister, a little known bureaucrat - Vladimir WED Putin. WED WED Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0132l78 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b0132l7b (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 4 WED WED GPs regularly see patients with the complaint of feeling WED "tired all the time". It's so common that the acronym TATT WED is used as shorthand. But what levels of tiredness are WED normal and when should we seek help for fatigue and WED exhaustion? Many illnesses like anaemia, diabetes, cancer, WED infections or depression can all cause symptoms of tiredness WED and fatigue. Growth spurts, pregnancy and sleep deprivation WED can too but what about when there's no obvious underlying WED illness and symptoms are of chronic fatigue? Vivienne Parry WED investigates. WED WED 17:00 PM b0132l7d (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0131psg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons WED b0132l7g (Listen) WED The Dalai Lama Or How The West Was Won WED WED The multi award winning National Theatre of Brent - Artistic WED Director Desmond Olivier Dingle and the entire acting WED company (Raymond Box) - returns triumphantly to Radio 4 in WED the last of an occasional series celebrating the rare but WED rarefied beings deemed in Desmond's expert view to be Iconic WED Icons. Previous celebratees include Bob Dylan and Tracey WED Emin. WED WED The final and climactic iconic icon is his holiness the WED Dalai Lama. Desmond and Raymond trace his journey from two WED year old yak boy to disaffected teenage Dalai to the mature WED Lama, exiled from his country, separated from his people, WED but spiritually at one with himself and the world, and WED possessor of a top twinkly smile. They also present Buddhism WED in a Nutshell. WED WED Written and performed by the National Theatre of Brent, who WED are Patrick Barlow and John Ramm, in front of an audience at WED the Bush Hall in London, this latest addition to the Brent WED canon will be as essential and massive a contribution to the WED current artistic and spiritual life of this country as the WED rest of their work. And, of course it will be very funny. WED WED Desmond Olivier Dingle ..... Patrick Barlow WED Raymond Box ..... John Ramm WED Director: Patrick Barlow WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0132l7j (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0133dxt (Listen) WED John Wilson meets film director Steve James and the WED Spaghetti Western Orchestra play live. WED WED Producer: Ella Mai Robey. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132k56 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b0132l7l (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED WED Gordon Graham, Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at WED Princeton Theological Seminary, argues that democracy is WED overrated. "There is a relentlessness about the democratic WED process that eliminates all possibility of dissent despite WED the myth to the contrary." WED WED Professor Graham's views will be challenged by Edward Lucas WED (European Editor of The Economist), Professor Robert Hazell WED (Director of the Constitution Unit at University College WED London) and Professor David Chandler (of the Centre for the WED Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster). WED WED The live studio discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. WED You can join in by e-mailing: iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk or text WED 84844. WED WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0132l7n (Listen) WED Series 2, Dominic Hobson WED WED Writer and entrepreneur Dominic Hobson argues that WED organised, competitive sport damages rather than builds the WED character of players and spectators alike. In common with WED war, he condemns it as a zero sum game: what one side gains, WED the other loses, "rich in triumphalism, disdain and pride". WED "I still recoil in horror from the behaviour of the parents. WED let alone the players, when my oldest son played for a youth WED football team in south London." 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 (the Royal Society for the WED encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, WED speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 The Sex Test b0132l7q (Listen) WED Dame Mary Peters described the gender test of her era as WED "the most degrading experience of my life." Over forty years WED later, Caster Semenya endured appalling public scrutiny of WED her eligibility to compete in female competitions. So why is WED such an apparently simple question so difficult to answer? WED WED As the IAAF produce new eligibility guidelines for athletes, WED Chris Ledgard asks if female athletes can ever achieve a WED truly level playing field. Physical examination, chromosome WED testing, androgen testing; whatever tests are applied, how WED can gender be effectively defined? And whilst wider society WED can tolerate shades of grey, as long as top-flight WED competition requires precise definitions of male and female, WED what are the effects of testing for an athlete's sense of WED self-worth and identity? WED WED 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b0132k50 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0131psj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0132l7s (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0133k3z (Listen) WED The Sense of an Ending, Episode 3 WED WED Julian Barnes' new novel challenges the stories we tell WED about our own lives and the interpretations we put on events WED in order to construct a version we can live with. WED WED After the end of his relationship with Veronica the WED narrator, Tony, receives a surprising letter from his old WED schoolfriend, and is not impressed. WED WED Read by Julian Barnes WED Producer: Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Verse Illustrated b0132l7v (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED In the first of a new series of illustrated poems, spoken WED word artists Laura Dockrill and Polar Bear tell two very WED different stories. WED WED 'Earwig' written and performed by Laura Dockrill WED A darkly modern fairy tale. When Mrs Budge attempts to WED squash an earwig, it grows in size until: "He, giant like WED for a bug, is less of an earwig and more like a thug". WED WED 'Homebase' written and performed by Polar Bear WED A tale of two teenage friends at a party they'll never WED forget: "We went to cubs together, snuck into pubs together, WED dabbled in drugs together and now and then we blend in at WED uni student parties." WED WED Actors... Alex Tregear, Daniel Rabin, Peter Polycarpou, Carl WED Prekopp, Susie Riddell and Jonathan Forbes. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00xw1th (Listen) WED Series 2, Billirock The Black WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st century wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated WED 2000-year-old sorcerer with enough power in his small finger WED to destroy a town, yet not even enough clout to get his bins WED emptied on time by the local council. Even for such a WED skilful sorcerer - modern life is rubbish! WED WED Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He WED initially set up as a plc for income tax relief, but has WED found it a useful vehicle to help him bolster his Wizard WED skill set and his range of services. (Even a wizard has to WED diversify). WED WED He's been running Fruity Potions from his cave for the past WED few years, in between completing the odd quest as instructed WED by the Wizard Council. In the past his services were to help WED kings in battles of good and evil, or as he prefers to put WED it, 'assisting with neighbour disputes.' WED WED In this episode Mordrin is recruited to help re-capture evil WED sorcerer Billirock the Black who has escaped from his prison WED under Stirling Castle and is hell-bent on exacting his WED revenge. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty WED Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy WED Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson WED Jill ..... Katrina Bryan WED Billirock The Black ..... Greg Hemphill WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Rory Bremner's International Satirists b00rb1xy (Listen) WED Ireland - Barry Murphy and Mario Rosenstock WED WED An edgy three part comedy arts series starring Rory Bremner WED engaging topical comics, satirists and comedians from WED different countries about their cultures and how they relate WED to ours - if at all. WED WED This is a series of unique and insightful comic encounters WED into the humour of other nations presented by one of WED Britain's most significant topical comedians. WED WED Barry Murphy of Ireland. Described as the Don of Irish WED comedy by the Irish Times, Barry Murphy has, with his Comedy WED Cellars club in Dublin watched as his protégé Eddie Izzard, WED Tommy Tiernan and Dylan Moran have gone on to international WED fame. Barry Murphy is the most respected topical WED comic/satirist in Ireland and gives Rory a unique insight WED into the rich world of Irish satire. With contributions from WED Mario Rosenstock. WED WED Produced by Andrew McGibbon and Nick Romero WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 11 AUGUST 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b012x6zr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0132k52 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012x6zt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012x6zw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012x6zy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b012x700 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013n7dq (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd THU Marjory MacLean. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0132p7d (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 b0132p7g (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 The House I Grew up In b0132p7j (Listen) THU Series 5, Terry Waite THU THU Terry Waite, who was held hostage in Beirut for nearly five THU years in the late 1980s, returns to his childhood in the THU small Cheshire hamlet of Styal. Born in 1939, he remembers THU the constraints of being the son of the local policeman, THU where any misdemeanour from a young Terry came under THU scrutiny. His father Thomas, a highly principled man, was THU also a disciplinarian, leading to an ambivalent relationship THU between father and son. His mother Lena worked hard to keep THU the the family fed, especially at a time of post war THU rationing. Terry's parents used their large garden to THU sustain meal times and even sold fruit and vegetables to THU supplement a policeman's wage. THU THU As a child, Terry failed his 11 plus and left school at 16. THU Being a loner and finding village life too confined, Terry THU was eager to see more of the world and applied to join the THU navy, but he was persuaded by his father to stay at home and THU continue his education through evening classes and college. THU The Church of England played a big role in his life. As a THU boy he sang in the church choir and and even learnt large THU parts of the prayer book by heart and it was the rituals, THU language and music of his faith which he says nourished and THU sustained him while in captivity. THU THU In the House I Grew Up In, Terry Waite takes Wendy Robbins THU back to the home and haunts of his childhood. THU THU 09:30 The Tribes of Science b0132p7l (Listen) THU More Tribes of Science, Episode 2 THU THU The scientific tribe that Peter Curran meets this week has a THU spectacular gleaming home. The tribal dwelling place is a THU gigantic silver bagel in the Oxfordshire countryside. Within THU this flying saucer-like construction is the UK's largest THU particle accelerator and it functions as the country's most THU powerful x-ray machine. It's called the Diamond Light Source THU synchrotron and it enables scientists to peer deep inside THU matter at the scale of atoms. Four years old, it's the THU newest of Britain's megascience facilities. THU THU Hordes of researchers visit every year to image and study THU everything from new drug compounds to novel materials for THU computers, tiny viruses to meteorites, and Dead Sea Scroll THU parchment to aircraft wing alloys. THU The work of the visitors is only possible thanks to the THU resident scientists who run Diamond's experimental stations THU called beam lines. These are labs are positioned at THU different points around the giant accelerator's ring. At THU these points, beams of radiation - from x rays to THU ultraviolet - fire out from the bagel and are channelled for THU use in research projects. THU THU Peter Curran puts the beam line scientists under his own THU anthropological microscope. The beam line scientists are THU largely physicists and chemists by background and each of THU the 15 beamlines has its own team of them, working in units THU called 'hutches'. The researchers have designed and built THU each station and are responsible for its smooth operation THU and pristine maintenance. They host the researchers who come THU to use the facilities. Some of these beamlines are operating THU 24 hours a day, 6 days a week. THU THU The Diamond Light Source Synchotron THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0132p7n (Listen) THU Bred of Heaven, Episode 4 THU THU 4. Walking parts of Offa's Dyke is another way of getting to THU know Wales. So THU the author and a friend set out across sapping moorland and THU climb many a THU steep hill, including Hergest Ridge and Lords Hereford's THU Knob. Compelling THU tales are attached to these landmarks... THU THU Reader Ben Miles. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0132p7q (Listen) THU The increase in numbers of women suffering a stroke during THU pregnancy. Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132p7s (Listen) THU A Farewell to Arms, Episode 9 THU THU Ernest Hemingway's greatest novel of love and war, THU dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. 4/10 Frederic has to go back THU to the war, and Catherine gives him some parting news. THU THU Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy THU Catherine ..... Morven Christie THU Major ..... James Lailey THU Gage ..... Susie Riddell THU Van Campen ..... Jane Whittenshaw THU Ettore ..... Simon Bubb THU Shopkeeper ..... Alex Tregear THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0132p7v (Listen) THU Murder, migration and Mexico THU THU Every year, hundreds of thousands of Central Americans leave THU home and travel north overland, hoping to make a new life in THU the United States. THU THU This has always been a difficult journey. Now it is THU perilous. Mexican drug cartels have seen a business THU opportunity in the migrants: they are being systematically THU kidnapped en route, and held to ransom. Often they have been THU killed, and Mexico is currently investigating a number of THU mass graves. THU THU With the Mexican government's hardline military campaign THU against the cartels, these criminal organisations are moving THU south. The northern Guatemalan department of Peten - an area THU through which many migrants cross to Mexico - is vulnerable. THU On May, 27 farmworkers were killed at a remote farm in THU Peten. This was apparently revenge for a drug debt, and the THU killers are believed to be Zetas - the bloodiest Mexican THU cartel. The Zetas are battling other organised crime groups THU to take control of Peten. There's a fear that if they THU succeed, not only will they terrorise the local population, THU but they will begin to kidnap, extort and murder some of the THU thousands of migrants moving through - as they do routinely THU in Mexico. THU THU Crossing Continents follows part of the migrants' route - THU from Peten in Guatemala, to the southern Mexican town of THU Tenosique. Linda Pressly meets two Hondurans who were lucky THU to escape with their lives after an encounter with the THU Zetas. She hears from a Franciscan monk dedicated to THU protecting migrants. But the story of migration is complex. THU Not only do the cartels abuse the migrants, they also THU recruit them. And alongside the hopeful, innocent travellers THU travelling north, come criminals. In Tenosique, she speaks THU to a local businessman whose son was kidnapped and killed. THU THU 11:30 The Art of Water Music b0132p7x (Listen) THU Starting with an underwater concert, Midge Ure sounds the THU depths of the complex relationship between music and water. THU THU Water has fascinated classical composers, modernist THU musicians and contemporary sound artists alike, and in this THU programme Midge hears some of the extraordinary ways in THU which water has been represented, evoked and even used as an THU instrument by musicians over the centuries. It flows through THU an extraordinary range of pieces. Midge meets experts on THU water compositions by Beethoven, Wagner and Debussy and THU explains why Handel's Water Music is not technically THU speaking water music at all. THU THU While some of the water music we know best might be THU classical, water continues to appeal to those working at the THU musical cutting edge. Midge has a go at playing a bizarre THU instrument called a 'waterphone' and talks to sound artist THU Lee Patterson as he performs a strangely hypnotic piece of THU 'drip music'. He also listens to recordings of the Danube by THU sound artist Annea Lockwood. She believes the sound of THU running water is itself music, raising the question of THU whether or not water and music are actually different at THU all. Water, it seems, continues to excite, mystify and THU intrigue, and musicians have engaged with it with whatever THU instruments they have had at their disposal: orchestras, THU pianos, and now computers. THU THU Midge goes to meet Simon Harding who makes electronic music THU on his computer using the water sounds from appliances in THU his house, while Professor Doug James, a computer scientist THU at Cornell University, explains some of the science behind THU water's unique musicality. There is a wealth of beautiful THU water music already in existence as this programme shows, THU but water is still a vigorously flowing source of musical THU inspiration, even expanding our ideas of what we consider THU music to be. THU THU Presenter: Midge Ure THU Producer: Tom Rice THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b0132p7z (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b012x702 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0132p81 (Listen) THU With Martha Kearney. National and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b0132p83 (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson continues another sparkling series of THU Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to THU those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by THU current events and popular culture. THU THU Now in its nineteenth series, QQ has become something of an THU institution on Radio 4 providing informed and ingenious THU answers to questions such as, How do you know when a volcano THU is extinct? When was the conventional heart icon first THU drawn? How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? What is a THU Siamese Blood Chit? THU THU Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed THU and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled THU collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. THU THU In this richly informative programme all manner of questions THU are looked into. Some recent enquiries that sparked THU particularly large responses included: What happened to all THU the wrought iron fencing that was collected during the THU Second World War? Is it possible to create one sound, which THU completely cancels out another sound? and How was the THU direction of writing originally established? THU THU Among the array of puzzlers we'll be tackling during this THU series of Questions Questions: THU THU - Why does the height of a swallows flight vary so much ? THU - Can you hear a bell ring under water ? THU - What is the origin of the word 'Wingwoms' ? THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0132l7j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b0132p85 (Listen) THU Two-Pipe Problem, Here Doggie THU THU Anne Reid and Honor Blackman join Richard Briers and Stanley THU Baxter in this latest Two Pipe Problem, written by Michael THU Chaplin. THU THU The Old Beeches care-worker Karen has a new pet; Poppet, a THU rambunctiously badly behaved Scottie dog. THU Manager Mary issues an ultimatum - the pet goes, or you both THU go, and Sandy persuades another resident ,a retired variety THU artiste called Norman Naylor who once had a dog-novelty act, THU to start training the dog on the nearby common. THU THU His wife Nelly, who also lives in the home, sees this as yet THU another opportunity for her husband to return to his old THU philandering ways. THU THU And one day, he doesn't return, and neither does Poppet. THU THU William and Sandy follow Norman's trail to an elegant home THU near the Common, belonging to a retired BBC Home Service THU announcer called Diana, with whom Norman and Poppet have THU taken residence. Norman confesses he met her on the common THU where she was exercising her dog. THU THU Nelly appears, and tells Diana of Norman's skill at picking THU up women via 'his bloody dogs'. Norman sadly acknowledges THU it's always been the best way to go a-wooing. Meanwhile THU Poppet takes off through an open door and heads for a main THU road nearby, followed by Norman. Tune in to find out what THU happens next! THU THU Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter THU William Parnes ..... Richard Briers THU Karen .....Tracy Wiles THU Norman/Postie/Post Office Clerk ...... Sam Dale THU Mary ..... Jillie Meers THU Poppet the Dog/PC Marlowe/Tedious Customer ..... David Holt THU Diana ..... Honor Blackman THU Nellie ...... Anne Reid. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b012zwxc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0130239 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0132p87 (Listen) THU Portrait, The Model's Story THU THU The mystery deepens in the final part of Susie Maguire's THU trilogy of stories that examine a portrait from three THU perspectives. The Voyeur's Story is read by Bill Paterson. THU THU Andrew is being roundly ignored on the set of the popular TV THU detective series that he's written, 'Westlake'. Hardly THU anyone talks to him and he doesn't care much for either the THU young golden boy director or the arrogant and untalented THU star of the show, Dean Smith. So he is pleased to make the THU acquaintance of Tom over lunch. THU The episode of Westlake they're filming this week sees the THU Detective investigating the death of a woman who the viewer THU only ever sees as a figure in a portrait. Tom is the artist THU that painted the portrait. THU THU In one scene the actor playing the model's husband slashes THU at the portrait.Tom flinches; it's clear from his reaction THU that the painting means something more to him than being THU just a cog in a make-believe story. And when the loud mouth THU star of the show makes a crude comment about the model THU between takes, it's too much for Tom to take, and all hell THU breaks loose. Andrew is intrigued by Tom's apparent THU obsession with the model and begins to imagine all kinds of THU possibilities for this beguiling portrait. THU THU Producer: Sarah Langan. THU THU 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b0132p89 (Listen) THU Series 2, Return of the Fist THU THU Vladimir Putin came to power determined to halt economic THU meltdown and re-establish Russia as a world power. He THU achieved both, but at the expense of democracy: THU parliamentary powers were weakened, those of the president THU enhanced; opposition parties were harassed, protestors THU jailed, freedom of the press restricted. This so called THU 'managed democracy' was described by critic Lilia Shevtsova THU as a "smokescreen to conceal the old power arrangements." THU THU Putin revived the trappings of the Soviet era promoting a THU strong state and the pop song 'Be Like Putin!' shot up the THU charts. He took on the oligarchs, forcing them to hand over THU the TV channel that criticized his handling of the Kursk THU tragedy when 118 sailors died on board a nuclear submarine; THU and when the oil magnate Khodorkovsky, started to fund THU political parties he was arrested on bogus tax charges and THU sent to a labour camp. Russia resumed its seat at the THU world's top table when Putin reclaimed the oil for the THU state, using his power to ramp up oil and gas prices to THU Ukraine when angered by Western encroachment in the former THU Soviet republics. But after guerrillas seized a school in THU Beslan, Northern Ossetia, and several of the hostage-takers THU were Arabs, Putin argued it was proof, that Russia was THU fighting the same war on international terror as the West. THU 200 children died, but Putin's response was uncompromising: THU "the weak get beaten," he said. THU THU Ongoing conflict with Chechnya gave him further chances to THU demonstrate his toughness, and when Alexander Litvinenko was THU murdered in London, a commentator on Russian state THU television compared it to the elimination of Trotsky by THU agents of Stalin. "There was a new willingness to THU rehabilitate the dictator's memory," says Martin Sixsmith. THU "Autocracy was back in Russia, and the people liked it." THU THU Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b0131x9v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b0132p8c (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 b0132p8f (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0131pth (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b0132p8h (Listen) THU Series 5, Milton Jones - Royal Speech Therapist THU THU As the royal Speech Therapist, Milton Jones helps a Prince THU find his voice and a king find his pomegranates. He also THU starts three wars in one afternoon, and another three a THU little later on. THU THU He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom THU Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") THU and Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"). THU THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0132p8k (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0133dx5 (Listen) THU As the centenary of the theft of the Mona Lisa approaches, THU John Wilson reports on how and why art is stolen, with a THU focus on the theft of Rembrandts, Turners and the most THU famous painting of all. THU THU Producer John Goudie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132p7s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0132p8m (Listen) THU Following the massacre in Norway and amid concerns over THU contacts between the killer and supporters of the English THU Defence League, the Government is reviewing its policing of THU right wing terrorism. THU THU The atrocity has prompted a furious debate about whether THU those who fear the 'Islamisation' of Britain - using what THU some say is inflamatory language - bear any responsibility THU for fuelling violent extremism. THU THU James Silver reports from areas where are relations between THU muslim and white working class communties are often poor and THU asks whether the aftermath of the killings have inflamed THU tensions further. THU THU Are the English Defence League right to suggest that the THU threat from right wing terrorism in the UK could grow? THU THU Producer: Samantha Fenwick. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0132p8p (Listen) THU Bad Company THU THU Business leaders make a lot of fuss about corporate THU governance, but the scandals keep on coming. Peter Day asks THU what's wrong with the way companies are run. THU THU Producer: Ben Crighton. THU THU 21:00 Giving the Critic Back His Voice b01321hj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The House I Grew up In b0132p7j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0131ptk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0132p8r (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0133k4m (Listen) THU The Sense of an Ending, Episode 4 THU THU Julian Barnes' new novel challenges the stories we tell THU about our own lives and the interpretations we put on events THU in order to construct a version we can live with. THU THU Forty years on: baffled by the legacy left to him by THU Veronica's mother, Tony manages to get in touch with his THU former girlfriend to ask for an explanation. THU THU Read by Julian Barnes THU Producer: Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 House on Fire b0132p8t (Listen) THU Series 2, Love THU THU The return of House on Fire. Written by Dan Hine and Chris THU Sussman. Vicky (Emma Pierson) and Matt (Jody Latham) are two THU of the most unlikely people to buy a house together. THU THU Matt discovers an entirely original use for Vicky's THU coat-hangers whilst Vicky bumps into an old boyfriend and THU finds herself compelled to invite him and his fiancee round THU for dinner. THU THU In a desperate attempt to hang on to her pride - Vicky feels THU compelled to provide herself with her own love interest. In THU the absence of any suitable candidates - Matt will have to THU do. THU THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt ..... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU Julie ..... Janine Duvitski THU Conchita ..... Kellie Shirley THU Martin ..... Colin Hoult THU TV show host/pet shop owner ..... Fergus Craig THU Waiter ..... Chris Sussmann THU TV show contestant ..... Joanne Ryan THU THU Additional characters will be played by Fergus Craig and THU Colin Hoult THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Elvenquest b00kjjyy (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU THU Sci-fi comedy series by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. THU THU The Questers face the Tower of Tests and are horrified when THU one of their number is struck down. Meanwhile, Lord Darkness THU must confront some revolting slaves. THU THU Vidar ...... Darren Boyd THU Dean the Dwarf/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon THU Amis ...... Dave Lamb THU Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan THU Sam ...... Stephen Mangan THU Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 12 AUGUST 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b012x70v (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0132p7n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b012x70x (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b012x70z (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b012x711 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b012x713 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b013n7ft (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by the Revd FRI Marjory MacLean. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0132pjn (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0132pjq (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b0132026 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0132pjs (Listen) FRI Bred of Heaven, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5. Embracing all things Welsh means you start dreaming FRI about the country, which has something to do with FRI the author's grandfather Bert and an atmospheric FRI house at Carmarthen... FRI FRI Reader Ben Miles. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0132pjv (Listen) FRI Weeds; should we love them more? Presented by Jenni Murray FRI FRI Producer: Susannah Tresilian. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132pjx (Listen) FRI A Farewell to Arms, Episode 10 FRI FRI Concluding episode of Hemingway's greatest love story, set FRI in the First World War, dramatised by Stephen Keyworth. FRI 10/10 Frederic wishes the rain would stop. FRI FRI Frederic ..... Patrick Kennedy FRI Catherine ..... Morven Christie FRI Nurses ..... Susie Riddell & Alex Tregear FRI Doctor ..... Daniel Rabin FRI Waiter ..... Simon Bubb FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b0132pjz (Listen) FRI Series 2, A Game of Two Halves FRI FRI Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew return with a FRI second series of the programme in which they head for some FRI famous sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and FRI trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their FRI lives. This time round, they muse along to the sound of FRI leather on willow at the Oval and drop in on a local FRI equestrian meet in the heart of rural Sussex. But they begin FRI the series amongst the youthful fans at an open day held by FRI Brighton & Hove Football Club. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has a FRI fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal, about the FRI men and women in professional sport - their lives, their FRI characters, their training regimes, their triumphs and their FRI disasters. But Christopher more than matches him with his FRI own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest FRI levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at FRI the lowest), as well as with his observations on sporting FRI events he finds himself attending for the first time. FRI FRI Indeed, amusing, informative and entertaining talk between FRI old friends is what these programmes are all about. FRI FRI Recorded entirely on location, their extended discourses FRI have been edited down to a seamless half hour - with each FRI programme capturing the atmosphere, the passion, the FRI frustration, the humour and, at times, the sheer quaintness, FRI of entertainments regularly enjoyed by millions of people up FRI and down the land. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b00v1qkl (Listen) FRI Series 10, PG Wodehouse FRI FRI More literary challenges will be set as another series of FRI The Write Stuff starts, seeing the return of host, James FRI Walton, along with novelists, John Walsh and Sebastian FRI Faulks as team captains. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0132pk3 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b012x715 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0132pk5 (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b0132pk7 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0132p8k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0132pk9 (Listen) FRI Two-Pipe Problem, The Case of the Missing Meerschaum FRI FRI Joanna David, James Fleet and Geoffrey Palmer join Richard FRI Briers and Stanley Baxter in this new Two Pipe Problem by FRI Michael Chaplin. FRI FRI William and Sandy are to appear at a Sherlock Holmes FRI Convention, held at a hotel just around the corner from FRI Holmes' mythical haunts in Baker Street. Sandy isn't keen FRI but succumbs to William's desperate need to be in the FRI spotlight once more. FRI FRI Sandy finds the display of 'fan-dom' absurd: the packed FRI memorabilia stalls, and one fan's observation that he FRI thought he'd died years before. He also finds the political FRI infighting threatening to tear the Society apart faintly FRI ridiculous. But William is in his bombastic element, to such FRI an extent that he has a very public and painful row with FRI Sandy, who quits the convention and catches the Metropolitan FRI Line back to the Old Beeches. FRI FRI William occupies centre-stage at that night's dinner FRI flourishing a meerschaum lent to him by a zealous member of FRI the Baker Street Adventurers, which was used by Basil FRI Rathbone in the first Holmes films. During the dinner the FRI society's internal tensions, prior to elections at the AGM FRI next day, spill over, but after a bibulous evening, William FRI rolls into bed, still with the precious pipe in his FRI possession. FRI FRI He wakes up the following morning and discovers that it's FRI gone. He travels to the Old Beeches in a panic, begging FRI Sandy to return to the Convention to help him, and solve the FRI mystery, which he does, using Holmesian precepts and FRI restoring their friendship in the process. FRI FRI Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter FRI William Parnes ..... Richard Briers FRI Mortimer Tregennis ..... Geoffrey Palmer FRI Roger Butterworth ..... James Fleet FRI Beryl Butterworth ..... Joanna David FRI Underground Worker/Hotel Receptionist ...... Matt Simandl FRI Autograph hunter/Souvenir Stall holder ......James McGregor FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI Produced by Catherine Bailey FRI A Catherine Bailey Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0132ptx (Listen) FRI Blackpool Winter Gardens FRI FRI Matthew Wilson, Christine Walkden and Matthew Biggs visit FRI gardeners of Blackpool, who reveal the secrets of getting FRI your garden noticed. FRI FRI We visit the new participants of our Listeners' Gardens FRI series. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Russia: The Wild East b0132ptz (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Lessons of History FRI FRI Starting with the relationship between Putin and Medvedev FRI Martin Sixsmith reviews the dichotomy of Russian history: FRI "on the one hand, tantalising hints of democracy and FRI freedom; on the other, hard-bitten conviction that Russia FRI needs strong centralized power to rule her unruly lands." FRI Medvedev has questioned Putin's 'managed democracy' but has FRI failed to free the legislature from the state, and there FRI have been few improvements in Russia's human rights record. FRI His role in Georgia, Abkhazia and South Ossetia reveals, FRI Sixsmith argues, "the reflexes of an autocrat ... If FRI Medvedev is a liberal, his reformist instincts seem to be FRI curbed by his Prime Minister, Putin, whom most Russians FRI continue to regard as the real leader of the country." So if FRI Russia's past experiments with democracy all ended in FRI failure, what of her prospects now? FRI FRI Sixsmith notices a recurrent pattern: nearly every attempt FRI at reform has come from 'above;' all have been motivated by FRI an immediate threat to autocracy. The revolution 'from FRI below' in February 1917 was quickly hijacked by the idealist FRI despots of Leninist socialism, another form of autocracy FRI that lasted for 74 years. Gorbachev's Glasnost taught the FRI Russian people to have their own opinions and in 1991 it was FRI the people who demanded freedom and democracy - a tectonic FRI shift that opened up new possibilities for the future. But FRI instead of prosperity and freedom, Russia got economic FRI meltdown, crime and ethnic strife. The reassertion of FRI autocracy was carried out with the approval of the people, FRI not imposed on them, and the governments of Putin and of FRI Putin-Medvedev are genuinely popular. Sixsmith questions why FRI liberalism always fails and ends suggesting, "Could it be FRI that centripetal Russia really can be ruled only by the fist FRI of centralized autocracy?" FRI FRI Producers: Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0132pv1 (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b0132pv3 (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet explores international horror with Mark Gatiss FRI and talks to Vincent Cassel about his new film. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0132pv5 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0131pvj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b0132pv7 (Listen) FRI Series 7, Peter Hook Interviews John Cooper Clarke FRI FRI Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each FRI week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses FRI another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns FRI interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone FRI else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series. FRI FRI After Rhys Thomas interviewed Simon Day, Simon interviewed FRI the musician and author Peter Hook. This week, Peter FRI interviews a fellow Salfordian, the punk poet laureate John FRI Cooper Clarke. Coming to prominence during the punk years of FRI the late 70s, Clarke would appear on the bill with The Sex FRI Pistols, The Buzzcocks, and Peter's own Joy Division - and FRI Peter's next band, New Order, would support John on a tour FRI of New Zealand and Australia. The interview takes in their FRI shared Salford heritage, doing adverts in the 1980s, and FRI John's recent appearance on the GCSE English syllabus. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0132pv9 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0132pvc (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson reports from the recent Crime Writing Festival FRI in Harrogate, with guests including Howard Marks, who has FRI published his first crime novel, Martina Cole, Nick Stone, FRI Tana French and Charles Cumming. FRI FRI Producer Robyn Read. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0132pjx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0132pvf (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and FRI politics from York with Peter Hitchens, Roy Hattersley, Tim FRI Montgomerie and Julie Bindel. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0132pvh (Listen) FRI The Advantages of Pessimism FRI FRI Alain de Botton on why pessimism is the key to happiness. He FRI argues that the incompatibility between the grandeur of our FRI aspirations and the reality of life is bound to disappoint - FRI unless we learn to be a bit more gloomy! FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Russia: The Wild East b0132pvk (Listen) FRI Series 2 Omnibus, Collapse FRI FRI Martin Sixsmith remembers the "electric" sessions of the FRI Congress of People's Deputies, after the Soviet Union's FRI first genuinely contested elections in March 1989."As I FRI wandered through the parliament's corridors, meeting openly FRI with former dissidents, I realized that Gorbachev had let FRI the genie of liberty out of the bottle," he says. FRI FRI Thousands of people took to the streets demanding FRI multi-party democracy and booing Gorbachev. Boris Yeltsin FRI -Chairman of the newly-created Russian parliament and de FRI facto leader of the Russian Republic was demanding FRI independence. Gorbachev, as leader of the Soviet Union and FRI nominally the senior figure, struggled to hold the USSR FRI together. "I'm doomed to go forward and only forward," he FRI told a colleague. "If I retreat, I will perish..." Hardline FRI communists were also on the attack; 'Gorbymania' in the West FRI gave them leverage, and when Soviet territory was 'lost' as FRI the Berlin wall came down, Gorbachev was derided as a FRI traitor. The Baltic republics stridently demanded FRI independence and although Gorbachev had publicly renounced FRI coercion, Soviet troops were sent in. FRI FRI Yeltsin announced he would battle the threat of autocracy FRI with the sword of democracy, proposing free and open FRI elections for a new post of Russian President. Gorbachev FRI tried to block it, but on 28 March 1991 the battle took to FRI the streets. Gorbachev was forced to back off; the balance FRI of power was shifting. In June 1991 Yeltsin was elected FRI President of Russia with a mandate for radical change. He FRI wanted to end communism and abolish the USSR. Gorbachev's FRI compromise of a looser confederation of states with FRI considerable autonomy but not control of defence and foreign FRI policy, might have worked. But before the New Union Treaty FRI could be signed, history would take a dramatic turn. FRI FRI Producers:Adam Fowler & Anna Scott-Brown FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0131pvl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0132pvm (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0133k5l (Listen) FRI The Sense of an Ending, Episode 5 FRI FRI Julian Barnes' new novel challenges the stories we tell FRI about our own lives and the interpretations we put on events FRI in order to construct a version we can live with. FRI FRI Veronica decides she needs to show Tony some historical FRI evidence. FRI FRI Read by Julian Barnes FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01322dk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions b011r18f (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI FRI This week's comedy talk show features Northern Irish FRI comedian Colin Murphy and special guest comic Carl Donnelly FRI discussing questions such as: what do blind people see in FRI their dreams? Resident know-all Dr David Booth will attempt FRI to answer this and other questions and computer nerd Matthew FRI Collins will click his way through the world wide web in an FRI attempt to add other mind baffling "stuff". FRI
05 August, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 06/08/2011 - 12/08/2011
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