08 June, 2012

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SAT SATURDAY 09 JUNE 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01jhp3x (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01jk4dd (Listen) SAT Strands, Episode 5 SAT SAT A year of discoveries on the beach. Jean Sprackland SAT meditates on objects revealed by the shape-shifting sands, SAT or washed up on the wild beaches between Blackpool and SAT Liverpool. SAT SAT Recorded on location on Ainsdale Sands, 'Strands' is a book SAT about what is lost and buried, then re-discovered; about all SAT the things you find on a beach, dead or alive, natural or SAT man-made; about mutability and transformation - about SAT sea-change. SAT SAT In today's episode, Jean experiences a very physical brush SAT with the past, when she places her feet in the prehistoric SAT footprints of humans from the Late Mesolithic to SAT mid-Neolithic period, which are revealed briefly by the SAT tide. SAT SAT Read by Jean Sprackland SAT Abridged by Miranda Davies SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jhp3z (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jhp41 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jhp43 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01jhp45 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jhp6v (Listen) SAT Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by The Revd SAT Gillean Maclean, Minister of Lamlash and Kilmory Parish SAT Church, Isle of Arran. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01jhp6x (Listen) SAT "I thought Scottish independence was only for people who SAT watched Braveheart." An Englishman living in Scotland tells SAT iPM why he changed his mind about Scottish independence. And SAT BBC Correspondent Kevin Connolly reads Your News. With Eddie SAT Mair and Jennifer Tracey iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01jhp47 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01jhp49 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01jhjrv (Listen) SAT Series 21, Alnmouth, Northumberland SAT SAT Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) in SAT this series of Ramblings. SAT SAT Programme 3: Alnmouth, Northumberland SAT SAT If you go walking with a dog, something extraordinary SAT happens: complete strangers will talk to you. Sometimes this SAT doesn't go any further than a regular 'good morning' but SAT occasionally strong friendships are formed. SAT SAT On this week's Ramblings Clare Balding goes walking in rural SAT Northumberland with Kelly Smith and her friend Carolyn Ryan. SAT They met while dog-walking and struck up a close friendship SAT which is mirrored by the incredibly strong connection SAT between their dogs: Mel the Border Terrier and Kizzy the SAT Lurcher. SAT SAT The walk begins in Kelly's kitchen, where her partner (the SAT author Val McDermid) explains why a Border Terrier was such SAT an obvious choice of dog for this neck of the woods. Then SAT (leaving Val behind to make bacon sandwiches for their SAT return), Clare, Kelly and Carolyn head down to the beach for SAT a bracing, uplifting walk. Kelly and Carolyn explain how SAT their friendship works, and how - despite an initially SAT difficult start their dogs are now inseparable. SAT SAT Producer Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01jppt6 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The SAT presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01jhp4c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01jppt8 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague. SAT Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01jpptb (Listen) SAT Stephen Mangan, David Gower's secret life, Grace Idowu, John SAT McCarthy in Gran Canaria, Felicity Kendal's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with actor and comic Stephen SAT Mangan; Jackie Malton, the retired Detective Chief Inspector SAT who was the inspiration for Prime Suspect's Jane Tennison; SAT ex-cricketer David Gower reveals his secret life, a love of SAT bats; John McCarthy discovers the deserted beaches of Gran SAT Canaria; Beryl Ritchie, one of the few female record cutters SAT of the 1970s, remembers creating the first 12'' single in SAT the UK; Grace Idowu, whose son was stabbed and killed four SAT years ago, on her CitySafe campaign; and Inheritance Tracks SAT from actress Felicity Kendal. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Simpson. SAT SAT 10:30 The Playlist Series b01jpptd (Listen) SAT James Joyce's Playlist SAT SAT James Joyce had a fine singing voice and earned money SAT singing professionally as a young man. All his life he sang SAT for friends; he sang to his desperately sick young brother, SAT dying of typhoid; he sang to his mother on her deathbed. He SAT sang to Nora, and she sang to him - their songs becoming a SAT part of their courtship and marriage. He wrote songs, and SAT set them to music; and certain special songs are repeated SAT again and again through his fiction. SAT SAT In this programme, recorded in James Joyce's Martello Tower SAT near Dublin, we discover and recreate James Joyce's SAT favourite songs. We also find, and hear, Joyce's own guitar. SAT At one point in his life he had a plan to make a living SAT travelling round Ireland playing it, as a wandering SAT minstrel. SAT SAT The songs include sentimental classics like 'Love's Old SAT Sweet Song', which appears seven times in 'Ulysses'; the SAT bawdy music hall ballad 'Those Seaside Girls', one of SAT Joyce's favourites (his most erotic scenes are set by the SAT sea); and a hauntingly sad farewell he wrote to his wife SAT Nora, 'Bid Adieu'. We end with the rollicking 'Finnegan's SAT Wake', an Irish song about a drunken wake which gave its SAT name to the novel. SAT SAT The contributors are Declan Kiberd, eminent Irish scholar SAT and author of 'Ulysses and Us: the Art of Everyday Living'; SAT actor Barry McGovern; and Katherine O'Callaghan, who has SAT spent several years researching Joyce's music. SAT SAT The presenter is David Owen Norris, pianist and music SAT Professor, who has also arranged the songs which are sung by SAT Thomas Guthrie and Gwyneth Herbert. SAT SAT The setting is the Martello Tower near Dublin where Joyce SAT lived as a young man, and which becomes the setting for the SAT opening scenes of 'Ulysses'. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b01jpptg (Listen) SAT In the final Beyond Westminster, Mary Ann Sieghart explores SAT politicians' use of humour. SAT SAT Politicians are in the business of communication, and many SAT work hard at their jokes and one liners. Party leaders often SAT employ joke writers to help them engage with their audience, SAT make them seem more charismatic, or score hits on their SAT opponents. In Parliament, in the media, and at live events, SAT humour can be an effective way of deflating opponents and SAT connecting with the audience, but can also backfire. SAT SAT This programme looks at the best and the worst of SAT politicians' attempts to use humour. It asks whether it can SAT contribute to political success and how its use has changed SAT over the years. SAT SAT Producer: John Murphy. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01jpptj (Listen) SAT From Mogadishu -- Gabriel Gatehouse on how the al-Shabab SAT militants have managed to lose friends and influence among SAT the population of Somalia and given a boost to the African SAT peacekeepers there SAT SAT Andy Martin's talking of a rift in the Irish church as SAT Dublin prepares to welcome tens of thousands of Catholic SAT visitors to the capital SAT SAT A shaded graveyard in Kabul: Andrew North says the memorials SAT there tell a story about Afghanistan's strategic value and SAT the many times foreign soldiers have marched onto its soil SAT SAT Chancellor Merkel of Germany likes straight talking, Steve SAT Evans in Berlin believes. During the visit to Berlin of SAT prime minister Cameron, she used vocabulary British SAT politicians would hesitate to voice in public. SAT SAT And the repressive policies of the apartheid era may be long SAT gone but colour remains a preoccupation in South Africa as SAT new mother, Tara Neill, has been finding out. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01jpptl (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01jhp0f (Listen) SAT Series 37, Episode 1 SAT SAT Jon Holmes, John Finnemore, Mitch Benn and Pippa Evans join SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis to dissect the week's news in SAT their own indomitable style. SAT SAT It's the 37th series of The Now Show. And this, in many ways SAT their Jubilee year, sees them joined by a range of guests SAT from the world of comedy - from stalwarts Marcus Brigstocke SAT and Jon Holmes, to newcomers Susan Calman and Nathan Caton. SAT Join them for the pageant of the year. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01jhp4f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01jhp4h (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01jhp1q (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Aldborough Northern Festival, North Yorkshire, SAT with former Labour cabinet minister, Alan Johnson; SAT Conservative MP and former minister, David Davis; writer SAT Douglas Murray; and Leader of the Respect Party, Salma SAT Yaqoob. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01jppvr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby steps down from Any Answers after nearly SAT 25 years in the chair. He hands the baton over to Anita SAT Anand who gives listeners the chance to respond to Any SAT Questions and the big policy and political issues raised in SAT the programme. Call 03700 100444, e mail SAT any.answers@bbc.co.uk, tweet @Radio4 using #bbcaq or text SAT 84844. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01jppvt (Listen) SAT Talking It Over SAT SAT By Julian Barnes SAT Dramatised by Julia Stoneham SAT SAT Stuart and Oliver have been friends since school but are SAT rather different. SAT Oliver is charismatic and has this way of talking. Stuart is SAT shy and no good at saying what he means. But then Stuart SAT meets Gillian and things begin to change ... SAT SAT Stuart ................ Carl Prekopp SAT Oliver ................. Nicholas Boulton SAT Gillian ................ Hermione Norris SAT Madame Rives .... Tracy Wiles SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT 15:30 Modern Day Griot b01jhb34 (Listen) SAT How are modern musicians re-imagining the role the West SAT African griot? Traditionally griots belong to particular SAT West African families who act as oral historians, advisors, SAT story-tellers and musicians for their culture. Now a SAT generation of artists living in the West, who have African SAT roots, are learning musical techniques from the masters but SAT creating songs and stories with contemporary relevance. SAT SAT In a programme rich in musical sounds and poetic SAT storytelling, writer Gaylene Gould explores what it means to SAT be a griot today. When modern culture uses the term as a SAT shorthand - what does it mean to call someone a griot? SAT SAT Hereditary griot Seckou Keita, leads a music workshop at a SAT primary school, teaching harp-like instrument the Kora. At SAT the age of 10, Tunde Jegede travelled from England to Gambia SAT to train with a master kora player. He now collaborates with SAT both orchestras and the hip-hop artist HKB FiNN - who has SAT changed the way he approaches writing lyrics and embraced SAT the griot label. Sona Jobarteh, Tunde's sister, is a SAT hereditary griot. She gives Gaylene a lesson in kora playing SAT and discusses how her sex affects the role and why she is SAT reluctant to call herself a griot. SAT SAT Award winning poet and performer Inua Ellams has been SAT performing at the National Theatre and Malian musician SAT Fatoumata Diawara sells out gigs internationally- both are SAT called griot by their fans but aren't entirely comfortable SAT with the label. Fatoumata believes she couldn't address SAT topics like female circumcision as a griot. London based SAT spoken word artist Zena Edwards explains why she wants to SAT honour the tradition. SAT SAT Reflecting on the importance of the tradition in its purest SAT form, Tunde Jedege says "every time a griot dies it's like a SAT library burning down." SAT SAT Producer Claire Bartleet. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01jppvw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour - Nina Conti SAT SAT Ventriloquist Nina Conti and her monkey. Are mandatory SAT quotas the only way to get more women on Boards. SAT Psychologist Terri Apter on understanding and overcoming the SAT power of difficult mothers. Should the First Lady be SAT promoting Beyonce as an aspirational role model? Award SAT winning writing Kishwar Desai on a new scandal in the SAT subcontinent, the renting of the wombs of poor women to SAT produce children for the rich. Plus what makes the perfect SAT fruit salad - and music from the Noisettes. Presented by SAT Jenni Murray. SAT SAT Producer Louise Corley. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01jppvy (Listen) SAT The day's top news stories, with sports headlines, presented SAT by Glenn Campbell. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01jhjs9 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Evan Davis and his executive panel discuss different types SAT of employment contracts and how far should employers go in SAT checking on their employees' behaviour? SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Eric Born, Swiss CEO of SAT logistics and transport company, Wincanton, Nick Buckles, SAT CEO of security giant G4S and Jason Iftakhar, co-founder of SAT Salford based company, Swifty Scooters. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Carter SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01jhp4k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01jhp4m (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jhp4p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01jppw0 (Listen) SAT Tony Parsons, Lenora Crichlow, Lemn Sissay and Charles SAT Hazlewood SAT SAT Clive's sunning himself with columnist, author, Man And Boy SAT Tony Parsons, whose bestselling novels typically deal with SAT relationship problems and emotional dramas between the SAT sexes. His latest book 'Catching The Sun', is the story of a SAT family who go in search of Paradise and end up discovering SAT themselves. SAT SAT Clive's Being Human with actress Lenora Crichlow, who will SAT soon burst out of the blocks and into cinemas to star in SAT pacey sports drama 'Fast Girls'. Lenora plays sassy, SAT streetwise Shania, who meets ambitious, middle class Lisa SAT and their two worlds explosively collide on the athletics SAT track. 'Fast Girls' races into UK cinemas on 15th June. SAT SAT Clive seeks refuge with official Olympic poet and Rebel SAT Without Applause Lemn Sissay, whose poetry adorns buildings SAT throughout Manchester and London. The specially commissioned SAT 'Spark Catchers' is etched into a transformer on the Olympic SAT site. As part of Refugee Week, Lemn will be performing SAT poetry at 'Celebrating Sanctuary London' on the South Bank SAT on Sunday 17th June. SAT SAT Allegra McEvedy's donning her wellies to talk to SAT inspirational conductor Charles Hazlewood. He's attained a SAT unique place in British music through his eclectic range of SAT work including his Scrapheap Orchestra and most recently the SAT Paraorchestra, the UK's first national disabled orchestra SAT which he founded. Both can be heard at his Orchestra in a SAT Field' Festival in Somerset at the end of this month. SAT SAT Music comes from a veritable pool of musical talent! Kathryn SAT Williams Presents The Pond perform 'Circle Round A Tree'. SAT SAT And hot on the heels of his sister Julia, Angus Stone, the SAT other half of Australian musical siblings Angus & Julia SAT Stone is in the studio to perform 'Wooden Chair' from his SAT solo album 'Broken Brights'. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01jppw2 (Listen) SAT Series 12, Episode 2 SAT SAT Andrew Martin writes a fictional response to this week's SAT news SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01jppw4 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01jppw6 (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 4, Sir Richard Branson SAT SAT The first programme in the new series of 'Meeting Myself SAT Coming Back', the series in which leading public figures SAT explore their lives through the BBC archives, features Sir SAT Richard Branson in conversation with John Wilson. From his SAT early days as the founder of "Student" magazine, to the SAT creation of the Virgin record business and expansion into a SAT global empire, Richard Branson has been an icon of SAT entrepreneurship. In this interview, he meets his younger SAT self from the sound archive and discusses his reactions with SAT John Wilson. SAT SAT He begins by hearing his 21- year old self running the SAT influential "Student Magazine" from a basement in London and SAT relives the way he created Virgin Records as a cut price SAT mail order enterprise. He also hears the sound archive from SAT 1984 when he announced the setting up of Virgin Atlantic SAT with only one plane. We hear his memories of his daring SAT exploits in hot air balloons and at sea and his thoughts on SAT escaping death by a whisker. SAT SAT Richard Branson also relives the episode when one of his SAT planes flew into Baghdad airport in to bring out the British SAT hostages held by Saddam Hussain after the invasion of Kuwait SAT in 1990. He talks about the eerie stillness of the deserted SAT airport, the tension of waiting and the relief when the SAT hostages finally came on board. SAT SAT We also hear his thoughts on doing business, taking knocks, SAT political affiliation, plans for space travel and paying SAT tax. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Saturday Drama b0128fkt (Listen) SAT White Nights SAT SAT By Ann Cleeves. SAT SAT Dramatised for radio by Iain Finlay MacLeod. SAT SAT Atmospheric crime drama set in Shetland at midsummer - the SAT time of white nights, when the sun never quite leaves the SAT sky and birds sing at midnight. SAT SAT The launch of Bella Sinclair's art exhibition, at the SAT Herring House Gallery in the remote hamlet of Biddista, is SAT ruined by the appearance of a distressed stranger, claiming SAT amnesia. The man is later found hanged but local detective SAT Jimmy Perez has a hunch that it's murder not suicide. SAT SAT When the dead stranger is finally identified, strands of SAT clues point towards a dark secret held deep within the SAT collective memory of the community, one which has brought SAT death to the present. SAT SAT D.I. Jimmy Perez ..... Steven Robertson SAT Kenny ..... Finlay Welsh SAT Edith ..... Anne Lacey SAT Bella ..... Eileen McCallum SAT Fran ..... Tracy Wiles SAT D.I. Roy Taylor ..... Robin Laing SAT Peter ..... Steven McNicoll SAT Roddy ..... Finn den Hertog SAT SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01jhp4r (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b01jhdhf (Listen) SAT Press regulation SAT SAT The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on SAT the process by which controversial decisions are reached SAT behind closed doors in Whitehall. SAT SAT In this final programme in the current series, he and his SAT panel examine regulating the press. Have British newspapers SAT so abused their power that they've lost the right to be free SAT of regulations imposed on them by Parliament? Or is the SAT freedom of the press so valuable that politicians should SAT resist at all costs setting rules for those whose job is, in SAT part, to hold the powerful to account? SAT SAT This series examines issues which could face any government, SAT of any political colour, at this time and looks at how any SAT decision might or might not make its way through the SAT corridors of power. SAT SAT Producer: Giles Edwards. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01jggld (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 7 SAT SAT (7/13) SAT Could you remember which contemporary composer wrote the SAT anthem 'This Is The Day' for the marriage service of the SAT Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last year? SAT SAT The seventh heat in the current series of the wide-ranging SAT music quiz features competitors from Surrey and Kent SAT answering Paul Gambaccini's questions, not just on classical SAT music but on jazz, film music, musical theatre and sixty SAT years of pop and rock. SAT SAT There are plenty of musical extracts for them to identify, SAT both familiar and surprising. They will also have to be SAT prepared to answer a set of specialist questions on a SAT musical topic that's been sprung on them by surprise. SAT SAT The winner will take another of the remaining places in the SAT series semi-finals, which begin next month. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01jgccz (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests read by SAT Se�n Gleeson and Barbara Barnes. This week's mixture SAT includes an anti-war poem by James Joyce. We also hear the SAT jaunty song recorded in 1902 that inspired Joyce's poem. Its SAT refrain of "Mr Dooley-ooley-ooley-ooh" is pleasingly SAT difficult to shake. SAT Roger dons a hybrid scouse-west country accent to indulge in SAT a little Smuggling, courtesy of Rudyard Kipling and SAT introduces work by one of his favourite poets, Norman SAT MacCaig. SAT There's a clever and moving 'mirror' poem by Julia Copus, SAT recalling a memory of a father, which is also the subject SAT for a poem by Ken Smith. And Anna Crowe joins the programme SAT to read her poem 'Alice and the Birds.' SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 JUNE 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01jppjg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Platform 3 b01jqb87 (Listen) SUN A Good Impression SUN SUN Ali takes the Glasgow train to a small Highland village and SUN brings his new fiancee Sophie to meet his family. Sophie SUN worries that they won't like her. Ali worries whether his SUN eccentric mother and sister can be trusted to behave. SUN Neither worry is unfounded. SUN SUN Written by Morven Crumlish and read by Siobhan Redmond. One SUN of three stories inspired by railway stations, each by a SUN different writer. SUN SUN Morven Crumlish's stories have been published and broadcast SUN widely, including The Big The Beautiful Nanda Gray, which SUN appeared in WORK: the Scotsman/Orange Short Story SUN Collection, and You See Patterns When You Close Your Eyes, SUN featured in Shorts 4: the Macallan/Scotland on Sunday short SUN story collection. She has has also written for the Guardian; SUN was a finalist in the 1998 Vogue Talent Contest for young SUN writers and in 2004 she was awarded a New Writers Bursary SUN from the Scottish Arts Council. Her work has featured in two SUN previous Sweet Talk productions for BBC Radio 4: Loulou and SUN Barbie and the Seven Deadly Sins appeared in 2005 and SUN Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs - five of her stories in 2008. SUN Morven lives in Edinburgh. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jppjj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jppjl (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jppjn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01jppjq (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01jqb89 (Listen) SUN The bells of Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01jhdhh (Listen) SUN Series 3, Kamin Mohammadi SUN SUN Kamin Mohammadi uses her own and her family's history in SUN Iran to argue that life - particularly private life - under SUN an authoritarian regime is lived more creatively. SUN SUN She describes the complicated and sometimes intricate SUN behaviour which is required to navigate - creatively - SUN around restrictions on private lives. And she explains how SUN everything from the newest technology to shared taxis are SUN called in aid of young people wishing to sit close and steal SUN caresses. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front SUN of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the SUN stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, SUN interests and passions that affect our culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01jppjs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01jqb8c (Listen) SUN Life in a Seminary SUN SUN In Something Understood this week, Mark Tully is intrigued SUN by life in a Roman Catholic seminary. How are young men SUN trained for the priesthood? SUN SUN At Allen Hall Seminary in the busy heart of London, Dean of SUN Studies and Formation Advisor Father Stephen Wang explains SUN the need for his students to train for their pastoral role SUN within the Catholic community. Seminarians at Allen Hall SUN spend much of their time in local parishes, schools and SUN hospitals preparing for life as a Diocesan priest. And yet SUN it's also crucial that they have the quiet, contemplative SUN space they need to develop spiritually. They must become men SUN of God and men of communion. SUN SUN Mark explores the history of the seminary system, with SUN readings from Anthony Kenny and Denis Meadows, and hears SUN music written by ancient monks in isolation. He speaks to SUN writer and academic John Cornwell, whose own time at SUN Upholland Seminary in the 1950s left a strong imprint on his SUN spiritual life. The Junior Seminary system he experienced SUN from the age of 12 no longer exists, but John believes that SUN there are still serious flaws in the way the Catholic Church SUN trains its priests. He argues that seminarians are too SUN separated out from the world and from the people they are SUN destined to serve once ordained. SUN SUN Ultimately, becoming a priest requires huge dedication - SUN what Jesuit Father Pedro Arrupe described as a 'falling in SUN love' with God. Perhaps what is also needed is a balance, SUN between the prosaic and the spiritual, between being within SUN the world and being apart from it. SUN SUN Producer: Hannah Marshall SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01jqb8f (Listen) SUN For this week's On Your Farm, Caz Graham is on the Isle of SUN Man to explore how fishermen, the Government and SUN conservationists are working together to protect scallop SUN stocks. The Isle of Man currently has five marine protected SUN areas, designated as fisheries closed or restricted areas, SUN primarily for the enhancement of the scallop stocks. The SUN longest running of these is the Port Erin closed area, which SUN was established in 1989 and is recognised world wide for its SUN success. The Manx fishermen have seen the benefits of SUN closing patches of sea bed to dredging and have since SUN requested other areas also be closed or restricted. SUN Subsequently, Douglas Bay was closed to mobile fishing gear SUN in 2008 and Niarbyl Bay and Laxey Bay were closed in 2009. SUN Additionally, Niarbyl Bay and Laxey Bay were seeded with SUN juvenile scallops, in a new 'ranching' project. Ramsey Bay SUN was also closed as an emergency measure to protect the SUN scallop stock as the fishermen could see it was being SUN damaged. Caz Graham investigates what impact these closed SUN zones are having on local fishermen and asks if they are SUN working. Produced by Anna Varle. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01jppjv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01jppjx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01jqb8h (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01jqb8k (Listen) SUN CBM UK Ltd SUN SUN Steve Mannion presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity CBM UK Ltd. SUN Reg Charity: 1058162 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN CBM. SUN SUN CBM UK Ltd SUN SUN CBM consultant surgeon Steve Mannion talks about his SUN orthopaedic work overseas; specifically clubfoot treatment. SUN Every five minutes a child from a poor country is born with SUN clubfoot. If left untreated, these children endure growing SUN up with the pain, isolation and limited mobility of SUN clubfoot, many unable to go to school. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01jppjz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01jppk1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01jqb8m (Listen) SUN From Bloomfield Presbyterian Church, Belfast. Led by Rev Dr SUN William Addley. Preacher: Rev Frank Sellar. Director of SUN Music: Brian McNarry. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01jhp1s (Listen) SUN Embarrassing Parents: The Thirteen-Year-Old Truth SUN SUN "One thing that is written into the human genome" says Adam SUN Gopnik, "is that exactly at the age of thirteen, your child SUN - in a minute, and no matter how close or sympathetic the SUN two of you have been before - will discover that you are now SUN the most ridiculous, embarrassing and annoying person on the SUN planet". SUN SUN Ridiculous "because of your pretensions to be cool...in SUN spite of the obvious truth that you are barely sentient, SUN with one foot rooted in the dim, ancient past while with the SUN other your toes are already tickling eternity"; embarrassing SUN because, "in spite of being ridiculous, you are not content SUN to keep your absurdity decently to yourself" and annoying SUN because "in the face of the wild obvious public SUN embarrassment you cause, you still actually think that you SUN can give advice and counsel". SUN SUN He takes us on a generational analysis of the plight of the SUN parent - and offers some light-hearted consolation! SUN SUN Producer: SUN Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01jqb8p (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Kevin SUN Connolly. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01jqb8r (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Graham Harvey SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... John Yorke SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer .....Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesborough SUN Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Will Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling ..... Michael Cochrane SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Hattie Marshall ..... Maya Barcot SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01jqb8t (Listen) SUN Doreen Lawrence SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the campaigner Doreen Lawrence. SUN SUN The life she thought was hers ended when her son Stephen was SUN murdered by a group of young white men on a street in London SUN in 1993. In the years since, her campaigning has resulted in SUN a shift in public attitudes, laws being changed and policing SUN methods overhauled. She set up a charity in her son's memory SUN and has been awarded an OBE for services to community SUN relations. SUN SUN She says: "My son was special and I think, what happened to SUN him, I just wanted everyone to know and learn about him - SUN but all the other things, the OBE, I'd swap all of that just SUN to have my son back. When your children are young you take SUN them for granted, because you think they're going to be SUN there forever." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01jgj0f (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 4 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition & deviation? Regulars Jenny Eclair SUN and Tony Hawks welcome relative newcomers Richard Herring SUN and Paul Sinha to try. As ever, Nicholas Parsons chairs this SUN popular comedy panel show. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01jqb8w (Listen) SUN Tasting tomatoes SUN SUN Sheila Dillon explores the world of the modern British SUN tomato. Great improvements have been made in variety, SUN flavour and quality over the last decade thanks to some SUN technological breakthroughs including computer controlled SUN glasshouses and use of micro-environments, green energy and SUN smart water use. SUN SUN Now many more varieties can be trialled, grown and marketed SUN in the UK. But with the emphasis on quality and flavour SUN rather than quantity, can they ever compete with Spanish SUN imports? SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01jppk3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01jqb8y (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Speaker, Behind the Scenes b01jwhzl (Listen) SUN The House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow, has adopted an SUN outspoken approach unusual for someone in his role. He has SUN been introducing important changes to the way the Commons is SUN run - changes which some say are having a significant effect SUN on our democracy. The BBC's Parliamentary Correspondent Mark SUN D'Arcy goes behind the scenes at Westminster to find out how SUN John Bercow does the job and why he inspires admiration in SUN some and loathing in others. He speaks to Speaker Bercow SUN about his views on the behaviour of MPs, how to tackle SUN rowdiness in the chamber, and what he thinks of his critics. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bond. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01jhnzn (Listen) SUN Scampston, North Yorkshire SUN SUN Matthew Biggs, Christine Walkden and local gardener Alison SUN Pringle answer horticultural questions at Scampston Gardens. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood gives the lowdown on using nematodes as SUN biological controls, and Alison Pringle explains how to SUN create an American Prairie garden. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01jqb90 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series SUN capturing the nation in conversation: in today's programme, SUN we meet Sarah Jane and Philip, a brother and sister from SUN Wales who talk frankly and, as only siblings can, with SUN affection too, about the pressures and problems that SUN Philip's period behind bars caused the family; from London SUN Margaret and Barry, whose son Jimmy was murdered in a knife SUN fight remember their beloved boy; and a chance to meet David SUN Isay, the award-winning American documentary-maker who came SUN up with the idea of these intimate conversations in the SUN first place. He called it StoryCorps, and ten years on, it's SUN become a US sensation; an initiative so successful that the SUN BBC has, with David's blessing, brought it to Britain as SUN ...The Listening Project. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that SUN aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which SUN people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with SUN someone close to them about a subject they've never SUN discussed intimately before. The conversations are being SUN gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and SUN national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every SUN conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an SUN important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then SUN edited to extract the key moment of connection between the SUN participants. Many of the long conversations are being SUN archived by the British Library which they will use to build SUN up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the SUN UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload SUN your own conversations or just learn more about The SUN Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer:. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01jqb92 (Listen) SUN Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Adapted by Ellen Dryden. SUN SUN Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson - one of the most SUN infamous and talked-about women of the early 19th century. SUN Her lovers included aristocrats, adventurers and even the SUN Duke of Wellington, and when they all ceased to support her SUN after her retirement, she had a simple bargain for them - SUN 'pay up, and I'll keep you out of my memoirs'. SUN SUN A scandalous bestseller of their time, her memoirs reveal a SUN sharp-witted, good-hearted, infinitely adaptable, madcap SUN woman who took on the patriarchy of the time and did SUN something close to beating them at their own game. SUN SUN Having finally made contact with the mysterious Lord SUN Ponsonby, Harriette finds there are all kinds of obstacles SUN to their blossoming romance - including the small matter of SUN his wife whom everyone agrees is an angel. Harriette's SUN former lovers, the dashing Duke of Argyll and the taciturn SUN but loyal Duke of Wellington, are never far from the picture SUN and are soon joined by a new, passionate young admirer. The SUN Marquis of Worcester is devoted to Harriette as only a 19 SUN year-old can be. SUN SUN Eventually Harriette is persuaded to reveal all in her SUN memoirs - a course of action which leads Wellington to make SUN one of the most famous remarks in the English Language. SUN SUN Harriette ...... Nancy Carroll SUN Ponsonby ....... Charles Edwards SUN Wellington ....... Barnaby Kay SUN Argyle ...... Blake Ritson SUN Fanny ....... Anna Francolini SUN Amy ....... Abigail Burdess SUN Matthew Lee ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor SUN Poodle Byng/ Doctor/ Beaufort ..... Gus Brown SUN Porter/ Brougham ....... Jonathan Coote SUN Leinster ....... Andrew Mudie SUN Worcester ....... Nigel Thomas SUN SUN Producer: Ellen Dryden SUN A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01jqb94 (Listen) SUN Lionel Shriver on her controversial novel The New Republic SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup presents news and features from the world SUN of books. SUN SUN Read the Opening Chapter of The New Republic by Lionel SUN Shriver SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The New Republic - Lionel Shriver SUN Publisher: Harper Collins SUN SUN Mrs Bridge - Evan S Connell SUN Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics SUN SUN Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and SUN for Those Who Want to Write Them - Francine Prose SUN Publisher: Union Books SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01jqb96 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry SUN requests on subjects which range from birds to railways via SUN love. The poems are read by Andrew Sachs and Catherine SUN Harvey, with guest poets Cicely Herbert, John Siddique and SUN Julian Stannard. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01jhb3x (Listen) SUN Police Racism SUN SUN Is institutional racism still alive in the police? Black and SUN Asian officers claim discrimination is thwarting progress SUN through the ranks and destroying promising careers. SUN SUN Black police risk 'trouble' label SUN SUN Black and Asian police officers who file complaints of race SUN discrimination in the force are more likely to be SUN disciplined and labelled "troublemakers" says the National SUN Black Police Association. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01jppw2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01jppk5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01jppk7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jppk9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01jqb98 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01jqb9b (Listen) SUN Jamie makes a conquest at the Single Wicket Competition. SUN Meanwhile David is on edge. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b019h2bb (Listen) SUN Sir John Betjeman SUN SUN James Walton hosts another series of the book-based panel SUN show. This episode's Author of the Week is former poet SUN laureate, Sir John Betjeman. SUN SUN Sebastian Faulks is joined by children's author, Sue Limb, SUN and John Walsh is joined by Sir Andrew Motion, a previous SUN poet laureate himself, to solve more literary challenges, SUN based on Betjeman's life and work, as posed to them by James SUN Walton. SUN SUN The teams are also asked to imagine what Betjeman might have SUN written about were he alive today, and still poet laureate. SUN SUN 19:45 Sailors' Knots b01jqbff (Listen) SUN Self-Help SUN SUN Written by W.W. Jacobs. Read by Mark Williams. SUN SUN Sailors' Knots, published in 1909, is an anthology of comic SUN stories set around London and the Thames Estuary at the turn SUN of the last century. The 'knots' are the various mix-ups SUN that occur between sailors on shore leave and the local SUN residents. The tales are great fun, full of entertaining SUN characters with names like Silas Winch, Sam Small and Ginger SUN Dick, and often deal with marital spats, misunderstandings, SUN and rascals getting their just rewards. SUN SUN W.W. Jacobs is best know for his horror story, The Monkey's SUN Paw (1902), but the majority of his writing is comic. He was SUN born in Wapping in 1863, where his father was manager at the SUN South Devon Wharf at Lower East Smithfield, and his early SUN observation of merchant ships and the behaviour of their SUN crews informed his many humorous tales. SUN SUN Mark Williams is well-known as one of the stars of BBC TV's SUN The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role of Ron SUN Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. SUN SUN Abridged by Roy Apps SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01jhnzx (Listen) SUN A right Royal let down? In this week's Feedback, listeners SUN get the chance to express their views on the BBC coverage of SUN the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. We hear from many of you who SUN got in touch with the Feedback team to comment on the BBC's SUN handling of the event across the main radio networks. Roger SUN Bolton looks for answers from Alan Yentob, Creative Director SUN of the BBC, and speaks to Kevin Marsh, a former Editor of SUN Today, about how coverage of major events like this are SUN planned. SUN SUN Is Albert Square really coming to Ambridge? John Yorke, SUN controller of BBC drama production, is acting editor of the SUN Archers and his comments about darker storylines have sent SUN ripples through the programme's loyal fan base. SUN SUN And Roger talks to Tony Phillips, the Commissioning Editor SUN behind BBC Radio 4's landmark series The Listening Project. SUN The idea of capturing the nation in conversation has SUN entranced many - but raised questions about scheduling and SUN presentation. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01jhnzv (Listen) SUN Ray Bradbury, Bob Edwards, Astrid Aghajanian and Herb Reed SUN SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew SUN Bannister. SUN SUN Ray Bradbury SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his friends and fellow writers Brian SUN Sibley and Dana Gioia. SUN SUN Born 22 August 1920; died 5 June 2012 aged 91. SUN SUN Bob Edwards SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the journalist Ian Aitken who worked for SUN Bob Edwards at Tribune and to Richard Holledge who was SUN employed by him at The People. SUN SUN Born 26 October 1925; died 28 May 2012 aged 86. SUN SUN Astrid Aghajanian SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her daughter Sophie Aghajanian. SUN SUN Born in 1913 died in 2012 aged 99. SUN SUN Herb Reed SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Sonny Turner who joined the group as a SUN tenor vocalist in 1959 and to rock and roll expert Geoff SUN Barker. SUN SUN Born 7 August 1928; died 4 June 2012 aged 83. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01jpptl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01jqb8k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01j5h51 (Listen) SUN Steve Keen: Why Economics Is Bunk SUN SUN Newsnight Economics Editor Paul Mason interviews the SUN controversial economist Steve Keen before an audience at the SUN London School of Economics. Keen was one of a small number SUN of economists who predicted there would be a major financial SUN crisis before the 2008 crash. He argues that if we keep the SUN "parasitic banking sector" alive the economy dies, and says SUN that conventional economics provides an unwitting cover for SUN "the greatest ponzi schemes in history". SUN Producer: Kavita Puri. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01jqbfh (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b01jqbfk (Listen) SUN Episode 107 SUN SUN David Aaronovitch of The Times analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01jhjrx (Listen) SUN Simon Pegg talks to Matthew Sweet about his latest comedy, A SUN Fantastic Fear of Everything. Producer Stephen Woolley and SUN Catherine Bray of FilmFour join them to celebrate British SUN humour in film - how much does what makes us laugh define SUN who we are as a nation? And why do American audiences still SUN look to British performers to provide them with some element SUN they can't quite manage to grow at home? SUN SUN From Chaplin to Carry On, from Monty Phython to Sacha Baron SUN Cohen - we look at the fine comic tradition that Simon Pegg SUN embodies. SUN SUN Producer: David Braithwaite. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01jqb8c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 JUNE 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01jppl7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01jhdh1 (Listen) MON Working class alienation - Nottingham council estate MON MON Laurie Taylor explores new research from this year's British MON Sociological Association conference. Lisa Mckenzie describes MON the growth in working class alienation on the St Anne's MON housing estate in Nottingham. Also, Dr Maria Papapolydorou, MON considers how class impacts on young peoples choice and MON experience of friendship. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01jqb89 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jppl9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jpplc (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jpplf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01jpplh (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jqd38 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by The Revd MON Gillean Maclean, Minister of Lamlash and Kilmory Parish MON Church, Isle of Arran. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01jqd3d (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The MON presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Emma MON Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01jpplk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01jqd3g (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01jqd3j (Listen) MON WWII with Antony Beevor and Max Hastings MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses how World War II MON still grips the public imagination. No other period in MON history has presented greater dilemmas for both leaders and MON ordinary people, and in two sweeping accounts Max Hastings MON and Antony Beevor discuss the power politics at play, MON ideological hypocrisy, egomania, betrayal and MON self-sacrifice. Juliet Gardiner discusses how military MON history has been largely replaced by social history, as the MON lives of those who lived through war and its aftermath take MON centre stage. And for this year's Reith Lectures, Niall MON Ferguson questions whether the Western world, in the MON aftermath of WW2 and the Cold War, has become so in thrall MON to its institutions of democracy and the rule of law that it MON can no longer find solutions to today's crises. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01jqd3l (Listen) MON Dear Lupin, Episode 1 MON MON The late Sunday Times Racing Correspondent Roger Mortimer MON wrote to his wayward son Charlie over a period of twenty MON five years. The correspondence was sometimes touching, often MON hilarious and always generous. Charlie is publishing this MON collection as a tribute to a father who never gave up on him MON despite his frequent disasters and general inability to live MON up to expectations. MON MON 'Initially there were hopes that I would get my house MON colours at Eton and become an officer in the Coldstream MON Guards. Ultimately my dad merely hoped that I would avoid MON "being taken away in a Black Maria" ... As he predicted it MON is only in later life that I have come to fully appreciate MON the affection and wisdom imparted by him to me.' MON MON Read by David Horovitch and Nicky Henson. MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jqd3n (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Yulia Tymoshenko's daughter MON MON British ministers are boycotting the initial stages of Euro MON 2012 amid anger over the treatment of jailed opposition MON leader, Yulia Tymoshenko. As England prepares to play its MON first match in Ukraine against France on Monday, we�ll MON speak to Tymoshenko�s daughter, Eugenia Tymoshenko. MON MON Olympic Gold MON MON As the UK gets ready to host the London 2012 Games the MON athletes taking part will be visualising stepping up to the MON top of the podium and bending their head to receive a gold MON medal. The pinnacle of years of hard work and training, MON what�s it like to win Olympic gold? We talk to two British MON athletes who�ve done just that � Tanni Grey-Thompson and MON Sarah Webb - to find out how it�s changed their lives. MON MON Cervical Screening MON MON The NHS is starting to roll out changes to cervical MON screening at the moment. If a woman�s screening result shows MON mild abnormalities, an HPV test will be carried out on her MON sample. But what all this mean? We will hear from Dr Adeola MON Olaitan, who is a consultant gynaecological oncologist at MON University College London. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jqd3q (Listen) MON Writing the Century 19, Girl Meets Plane MON MON In October 2003 the Antiques Roadshow featured the MON flight journals of Joan Allen who had served with the ATA MON during the Second World War. But there had been MON another intriguing find. Hidden in a metal flight box MON under Joan's stairs was another flight journal. MON It recorded the solo flight that Joan had undertaken in 1948 MON in a 2 seater Angus Fairchild aircraft from England to MON Singapore. MON MON Diane Samuels' 'Tiger Wings' makes a leap of imagination MON from this true-life source and gives wing to Joan's MON remarkable achievement that might so easily have vanished MON into the mists of the past. MON MON Joan Allen .............................. Honeysuckle Weeks MON Wiggs/Mme Carter/Mrs Reed .. Tracy Wiles MON Maud ......................................Christine Absalom MON Mr McCowan/Hotelier................ Patrick Brennan MON Becky Sharpe/Martha................ Susie Riddell MON Young Woman ......................... Amaka Okafor MON Young Man/Stevens .................. Joe Sims MON Jacques/Cpt Harkness............... Sam Alexander MON Gemile/Airport Mangager ........... Akbar Kurtha MON SAA Pilot/Jack Roche ............... Don Gilet MON Abdul ....................................... Peter Singh MON Moiter/Mr Daniels ...................... Angelo Paragoso MON Shreela/Clemmie Daniels ........... Deeivya Meir MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale MON MON 11:00 The Taking Part b01jqd3s (Listen) MON Tim Franks recalls the 1972 Olympics and the triumph of Dame MON Mary Peters in the Pentathlon and asks those who strove to MON beat her what impact being an Olympian had on their lives. MON MON For millions of British viewers the grainy picture of Mary MON Peters giving her all in the final event of the Pentathlon MON in the Munich Olympics was the brightest moment of a games MON lit up by Mark Spitz and Olga Korbut only to be blighted by MON the massacre of Israeli athletes. MON MON But for those taking part in the Pentathlon this was their MON moment, their chance to take part in Olympic competition. MON The impact of winning on Dame Mary Peters is a familiar MON story but what of the others who made up that field, the MON German Heide Rosendahl who lost out by the blink of an eye, MON or the Canadian Diane Jones who gashed her leg on the MON hurdles in the first event. And he goes further into the MON field hearing from the other British athlete Anne Wilson who MON was well placed after the first event, and Margaret Murphy, MON the Republic of Ireland's only competitor. And way back down MON the field Lin Chu-Yu. MON MON In this unique view of those two days of competition and the MON lives that followed Tim hears what it meant to be an MON Olympian and how those memories have played out over forty MON years since Mary Peters smile shone across the Stadium in MON Munich on hearing, from her rival Heide, that she'd MON triumphed. MON MON So was it enough to Take Part or are their nagging MON frustrations still about the tiny margins between winning MON and losing or the giant chasms between the competitors MON supported by their national sporting bodies and those, like MON Margaret Murphy who relied on the goodwill of local schools MON and a generous priest who cleared a run up to a temporary MON sandpit so that she could work on her long jump. MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b017wyyf (Listen) MON Series 3, Berwick-Upon-Tweed MON MON In this third series comedian Mark Steel visits 6 more UK MON towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants MON distinctive. MON MON He creates a bespoke stand-up show for that town and MON performs the show in front of a local audience. MON MON As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of MON Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate MON with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British MON way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and MON people who have shaped where we live. MON MON During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit MON Berwick-Upon Tweed, Holyhead, Basingstoke, Douglas (Isle of MON Man), Bungay and Wigan. MON MON Episode 1 - In this first episode Mark performs a show for MON the residents of Berwick-Upon Tweed where he talks about war MON with Russia, Scottish rivalries and rather unusual local MON slang. MON MON Written by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete MON Sinclair. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01jqd3v (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jqd3x (Listen) MON Edmund Hillary MON MON The New Elizabethans: Edmund Hillary. To mark the Diamond MON Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the MON men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its MON character. Edmund Hillary was the first man to set foot on MON the summit of Mount Everest. His achievement was announced MON on the day of the Coronation itself, providing a dramatic MON and positive beginning to the new Elizabethan era. Later he MON became the Queen's first Knight. MON MON The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading MON historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of MON London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic MON Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, MON Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. MON MON They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions MON during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant MON impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its MON character, for better or worse." MON Producer: James Cook. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01jpplm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01jqd3z (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle MON b01jqd41 (Listen) MON Embracing Uncertainty MON MON In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers MON the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 MON years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard MON Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he MON takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, MON through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in MON subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and MON writers, up to the present day. MON MON In today's programme, Richard Holloway discusses the work of MON the early 19th century British poets John Keats and Percy MON Bysshe Shelley, and how their Romanticism grew out of the MON rationalism of the 18th century Enlightenment thinkers. He MON talks to former poet laureate Andrew Motion about Keats' MON ability to live with uncertainty, without feeling he had to MON come down on any one side of an argument. And AN Wilson, MON author of God's Funeral, discusses Keats' belief that he was MON 'certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's MON affections'. MON MON Unlike Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley wanted to proclaim his MON brand of atheism. His pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism got MON him sent down from Oxford University. MON MON Producer: Olivia Landsberg MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01jqb9b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jqd43 (Listen) MON Page of Wands MON MON Written by Carole Hayman. MON MON When Peggy and Ken come to the South Coast town of Warfleet MON they imagine they will exhibit their prize winning pigeon at MON a convention in the Winter Gardens, then head off to nearby MON Canterbury to celebrate their 35th Wedding anniversary, with MON a few days off and a visit to the Chaucer experience. But MON life takes a different turn when Peggy, out for a walk in MON the town, sees a flyer for Rumer, the psychic healer, and MON goes for a tarot reading above the Delphinium Tea Rooms. So MON begins a chain of events that means Peggy's life will never MON be the same again. MON MON The Page of Wands is the new comedy drama from Carole MON Hayman, who co-wrote the long running BBC Radio 4 series MON Ladies of Letters. MON MON Peggy ...... Gwen Taylor MON Rumer ...... Louise Plowright MON Ken ...... Alan Leith MON Jim ....... Peter Pacey MON Teddy ....... Dan Goode MON Jeremy/bouncer ....... Paul Mundell MON Darryl/Someone ........ James Joyce MON Waitress / Woman ....... Sally Orrock MON MON Director: Paul Dodgson MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01jqfk4 (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 8 MON MON Can you name two different Top Ten hits by Elton John whose MON titles consist of just a boy's name? MON MON Paul Gambaccini can - and he'll be hoping the competitors in MON the eighth heat of the general knowledge music quiz can too. MON This week they hail from West Sussex and London, and a place MON in the series semi-finals is up for grabs. MON MON As always, they'll be faced with a choice of musical MON subjects of which they've had no warning and for which MON they're totally unprepared - on one of which they'll have to MON answer a set of specialist questions. The questions range, MON as always, from classical music to film themes, jazz, show MON tunes, and sixty years of pop and rock. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01jqb8w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Slippered Pantaloons b01jqfk6 (Listen) MON So what does it mean to be old? MON MON The drama of stage and screen is one of the places we have MON traditionally gone to for answers to this sort of question. MON Theatre plays, sit-coms and soaps are full of images of the MON elderly - sometimes affectionate, sometimes contemptuous - MON that explore this subject. But what about the people who MON embody those images? MON MON Slippered Pantaloons explores how actors come to terms with MON ageing, and draws parallels with how old age is portrayed on MON stage and screen. From characters like Victor Meldrew in One MON Foot in the Grave via our favourite matriarchal soap opera MON figures to the deep and flawed characters of Shakespeare. MON Are there enough of these great characters and do they MON really reflect our aging demographic? MON MON As a culture we are only just beginning to take serious MON notice of ageing. In England and Wales alone, census figures MON show that between 1900 and 1950, the number of centenarians MON receiving the traditional telegram from the monarch held MON fairly steady at under 400. By the 2001 census, this had MON risen to nearly 9000. By 2025, there are expected to be 1.2 MON billion people aged 60 or over worldwide. Are they visible MON in the plays being written and performed today? MON MON Along with the physicality of performance, no artist is as MON conscious of the ageing process, no artist makes us as MON conscious of the ageing process, as the actor whose body MON itself displays, hides or imitates the ineluctable signs of MON youth or age. MON MON Producer: Rob Alexander MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Digital Human b01jqfk8 (Listen) MON Episode 7 MON MON Aleks Krotoski explores the digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b01jqfkb (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jpplp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01jqfkd (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 5 MON MON Graham Norton, Alun Cochrane, Gyles Brandreth & Paul Merton MON join Nicholas Parsons to play the devious panel game. MON MON Can the panellists talk on a subject that Nicholas gives MON them for one minute without hesitation, repetition or MON deviation? MON MON The subjects today include: 'If I Was a Fairy Godmother', MON 'Shopping in Charity Shops', 'Decorating' and 'Things You MON Should Never Do In Public'. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01jqhlr (Listen) MON Ruth is getting rattled and Darrell does a good turn. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01jqhlt (Listen) MON Mark Lawson reports on a major new exhibition of invisible MON art, and talks to Janet Suzman as she publishes a book MON offering 'meditations on the frail position of women in MON drama'. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jqd3q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b01jqhlw (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 3 MON MON We remember Georgian England with its elegant architecture MON and regency refinement; the world of Jane Austen novels, the MON Brighton pavilion, smart red coated soldiers, of wealth and MON taste. It is a time of harmony, elegance and proportion MON epitomised by its dominant architectural style, MON Palladianism, as seen in the city of Bath. MON MON But we forget that all this was a genuine Georgian fa�ade. MON The Georgian England that we are so comfortable remembering MON broiled with political sedition and discontent ruthlessly MON suppressed through political purges, espionage networks and MON military might. MON MON The Georgian regime was established in 1714; supporting an MON imposed Hanoverian monarch (58th in line to the throne) MON through partisan Whig political power. Highly ideological, MON it faced and suppressed extensive opposition. Even Jane MON Austen's Bath, which came to epitomise Georgian elegance, MON was the site of a mass riot against the Hanoverian regime. MON MON So we have inherited a sense of the inevitability of MON Georgian England and it has placed its roots firmly in our MON sense of collective history but we have forgotten its MON suspect foundations and the vast amount of work that went MON into the construction of this apparently inevitable turn in MON British history. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01jqhly (Listen) MON Wasted Youth MON MON Many young school leavers have struggled to find work for MON years. Now the economic crisis has made things worse. Paul MON Johnson of the Institute for Fiscal Studies investigates the MON roots of the problem. He discusses the challenge faced by MON those - particularly boys - who dislike classroom learning, MON and the often chaotic transition from school to the world MON beyond. And he hears about the key importance of work MON experience at the earliest stage to enable young people to MON acquire the skills and attitudes employers want. But how MON much can be changed as employers hold onto their older MON workers during the downturn, leaving youngsters even further MON behind? MON MON Interviewees include the youth unemployment and vocational MON education specialists Alison Wolf and Paul Gregg, employers MON and specialist trainers in Wiltshire, and the new Scottish MON minister for youth employment. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01jhjrz (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper looks at the outbreak of Legionnaires' MON disease in Scotland. He speaks to leading bacteriologist MON Professor Hugh Pennington about the causes of the disease, MON its history and why Legionnaires', one of the world's most MON dangerous bacterial pathogens, is so hard to detect. MON MON We look at the transit of Venus. Venus passed between the MON earth and the sun earlier this week - and won't do so again MON for over 100 years. Observed in past centuries this MON phenomenon is credited with helping devise methods to MON navigate the earth's oceans, but it is also helping us now MON to detect distant planets that we cannot see. MON MON And we catch up with 'So You Want to Be a Scientist' MON finalist Val Watham. After a lot of hard work analysing the MON results, Val can finally shed some light on whether MON horizontal or vertical stripes are more flattering. MON MON Producer: Julian Siddle. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01jqd3j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01jpplr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01jqhm0 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jqhm2 (Listen) MON Salvage the Bones, Episode 1 MON MON By Jesmyn Ward. MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. MON MON It is 2005. Hurricane Katrina is forming out in the Gulf. In MON rural Mississippi, Skeetah's dog China is giving birth to a MON set of puppies. Skeetah's younger sister Esch watches. She MON is distracted by the arrival of Manny, the boy she loves. MON MON Fifteen-year-old Esch is the narrator of the novel. She MON lives in poverty with her brothers and her father in the MON Mississippi woods near the small town of Bois Sauvage. MON Skeetah's beloved pit-bull, China, is a fighting dog and her MON puppies will be trained to fight too, if they survive. MON Esch's mother died giving birth to her youngest brother MON Junior. The only other people in Esch's world are her MON father, her older brother Randall and her brother's friends. MON They include Manny, who she worships and gives herself too MON freely, without getting any love or respect in return. MON MON Salvage The Bones won the 2011 National Book Award in MON America. It is Jesmyn Ward's second novel and is based on MON her own experience of Hurricane Katrina and growing up black MON and in a poor family in rural Mississippi. She is currently MON the Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of MON Mississippi. MON MON Read by Cush Jumbo. MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b01jhb3j (Listen) MON The Garden of Eden MON MON "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and MON there he put the man whom he had formed." The story of the MON Garden of Eden in Genesis is perhaps the most influential MON tale ever told. Its chief components of God, Adam and Eve MON and the snake, temptation, and a paradise lost still exert a MON hold on western thinking. Children understand it almost MON immediately, but this ancient story has not always been MON benign in its effects. MON MON Joining presenter Dominic Arkwright are the novelist Zina MON Rohan, who talks about her own investigations into what this MON story has meant, particularly to women in the west; Sean MON Thomas writes about his search for where the real garden MON might have been; and Brook Wilensky-Lanford, whose book MON Paradise Lust is published in the UK later this year, MON describes the events of the Scopes trial of 1925. This MON famous clash between Darwinists and creationists featured an MON American presidential candidate who declared his belief that MON Eve was literally made from one of Adam's rib. MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jqhm4 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 JUNE 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01jppml (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01jqd3l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jppmn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jppmq (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jppms (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01jppmv (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k6l9c (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by The Revd TUE Gillean Maclean, Minister of Lamlash and Kilmory Parish TUE Church, Isle of Arran. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01jqj25 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01jqj27 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01jqjkz (Listen) TUE Episode 26 TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life TUE and work. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01jqjl1 (Listen) TUE Mary Ann Sieghart talks to Charles Hanson TUE TUE Mary Ann Sieghart concludes her series of interviews with TUE people who've taken another life. TUE Here she talks to Charles Hanson who was convicted for the TUE murder of his third wife, Julie, seventeen years ago. TUE Now in his sixties, Charles has spent over half his life in TUE prison for a string of violence related crimes; violence TUE being the only way he knew, to resolve conflict. When Julie TUE ran off with his son from his first marriage,Charles decided TUE the only course of action left open to him, was to resort to TUE murder. He explains to Mary Ann why he came to this TUE conclusion, why even the threat of the death penalty would TUE not have deterred him, how it took him eight years to feel TUE remorse and how the event still haunts him. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01jrs27 (Listen) TUE Dear Lupin, Episode 2 TUE TUE To his father's surprise, Charlie has made an impetuous TUE decision to join the Coldstream Guards as a squaddie. But TUE true to form, he regrets it almost immediately. And his TUE father writes him encouraging letters about his own days in TUE the army, not always glorious, and relates the usual tales TUE from home. "In the Hyperion Bar a blonde lady stood me a TUE large Irish whiskey which I naturally accepted ... It would TUE be interesting and doubtless humiliating too, to discover TUE who she thought I really was." TUE TUE Read by David Horovitch and Nicky Henson TUE Abridged and Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jqjl3 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv7bx (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 19, Vive La France TUE TUE Episode Two - Vive La France TUE Joan is about to begin her solo flight half way across the TUE world. TUE First stop is France but will she get off the ground in TUE time? ... TUE TUE 11:00 The Turing Solution b01jqjl5 (Listen) TUE Alan Turing, born June 23 1912, is famous for his key role TUE in breaking German codes in World War 2. But for TUE mathematicians, his greatest work was on the invention of TUE the computer. TUE TUE Alan Turing's brilliance at maths was spectacular. Aged 22, TUE just a year after his graduation, he was elected a fellow of TUE King's College Cambridge. And it was just a year after that, TUE that he turned his attention to problems in the foundations TUE of mathematics and ended up showing that a simple machine, TUE set up to read and write numbers and to run a few basic TUE functions, could in principle do all the things that are TUE do-able in mathematics. His 'universal' machine was just a TUE concept - a paper tape that could be read, interpreted and TUE acted on robotically. But the concept was profound. TUE TUE World War II shortly afterwards took Turing's talents into TUE other directions, but even while designing machines at TUE Bletchley Park to break the German Enigma codes, he was TUE wondering how much more a computing machine might do - play TUE chess for example. TUE TUE And although the war work might have delayed Turing's TUE academic work, it greatly accelerated progress in TUE electronics, so that in 1945 he returned to his first love, TUE creating a complete design for what he expected to be the TUE world's first fully programmable computer, the National TUE Physical Laboratory's ACE - the Automatic Computing Engine. TUE In the end, beset by hesitation and bureaucratic delays, the TUE ACE was overtaken by a rival team in Manchester, whose Small TUE Scale Experimental Machine first ran on June 21 1948. But TUE the Manchester Baby, as it became known, fulfilled the TUE requirements laid down in Turing's seminal 1936 paper, and TUE in a handful of instructions had the power to do any kind of TUE maths, or data processing, like a computer of today does. TUE TUE Turing soon joined the Manchester team, and again with TUE remarkable prescience started work on artificial TUE intelligence, wondering whether electronic machines could TUE programmed not just to do maths, but to think in the way TUE human minds do - a hot topic of debate even now. TUE TUE Those explorations were cut short by his suicide in 1954, TUE following prosecution for his homosexuality. His death at a TUE time when official secrecy still hid his code-breaking work, TUE and when the history of computing was already being written TUE meant that few appreciated his central role in today's TUE dominant industry. But some enthusiasts hope they can write TUE him back in where he belongs. TUE TUE Presenter, Standup Mathematician Matt Parker. TUE TUE 11:30 Cerys Matthews' Blue Horizon b01jqjl7 (Listen) TUE Among Cerys Matthews' landmark musical memories is a very TUE sunny summer Sunday afternoon in 2009. It was the day that, TUE browsing albums in Portobello Market, she parted with �70 TUE and took home a rare copy of Fleetwood Mac's Sweet Pious TUE Bird of Youth. She played it over and over again. She was TUE hooked. TUE TUE Since that day Cerys has fed her addiction to Blue Horizon TUE records and has sought out and amassed a valuable collection TUE of her own. She is passionately enthusiastic about these TUE gems of recordings that are almost too precious to play. TUE TUE The Blue Horizon record label linked the roots of the blues TUE in the US with the UK blues scene of the 60s. It was the TUE home of American blues artists Champion Jack Dupree, Bukka TUE White, Mississippi Joe Callicot and Furry Lewis, Eddie Boyd, TUE Otis Spann, Ainsley Dunbar, Elmore James but also of the TUE British blues artists Chickenshack and Fleetwood Mac. TUE TUE Label founder Mike Vernon also invented the blues sound we TUE still hear today. In 1966, he produced the Blues Breakers TUE with Eric Clapton, considered one of the most influential TUE British blues recordings. It was notable for its driving TUE rhythms and Clapton's rapid blues licks with a full TUE distorted sound derived from a Gibson Les Paul and a TUE Marshall amp. This became something of a classic combination TUE for British blues guitarists. TUE TUE In the programme, Cerys talks to Mike Vernon about his TUE passion for the blues and how he left the old-school Decca TUE Record company to strike out on his own. Artists from Blue TUE Horizon's roster, including former members of The Yardbirds, TUE Fleetwood Mac and Chickenshack reflect on the part Blue TUE Horizon played in their careers and establishing the TUE credibility of Britain as a home for the blues. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Barraclough TUE A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01jqjl9 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jqjlc (Listen) TUE Elizabeth David TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Elizabeth David. To mark the Diamond TUE Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the TUE men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its TUE character. TUE TUE James Naughtie delivers a flavour of the food writer who TUE brought European cuisine to British tables. In the Oxford TUE Dictionary of National Biography, David's biographer Artemis TUE Cooper article concludes: "David was the best writer on food TUE and drink this country has ever produced. When she began TUE writing in the 1950s, the British scarcely noticed what was TUE on their plates at all, which was perhaps just as well. Her TUE books and articles persuaded her readers that food was one TUE of life's great pleasures, and that cooking should not be a TUE drudgery but an exciting and creative act. In doing so she TUE inspired a whole generation not only to cook, but to think TUE about food in an entirely different way." TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01jppmx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01jqjlf (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Martha TUE Kearney. Listeners can share their views via email: TUE wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle TUE b01jqjlh (Listen) TUE Believer's Doubt TUE TUE In a series of personal essays Richard Holloway considers TUE the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 TUE years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard TUE Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he TUE takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, TUE through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in TUE subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and TUE writers, up to the present day. TUE TUE In today's programme, Richard Holloway looks at how four TUE Victorian believers struggled with doubt - a priest and TUE three poets. Cardinal Newman wrote about 'certitude', TUE although inside he had anything but. The non-conformist TUE Robert Browning was one of the first students at the new TUE University College London had 'flirted with atheism' but TUE couldn't bring himself to take the plunge. Richard tells us TUE how Arthur Hugh Clough was 'clinging onto his faith by his TUE fingernails' and talks to his biographer, Sir Anthony Kenny. TUE In his poem 'Dover Beach', Matthew Arnold presages the TUE Victorian crisis of faith as he hears its melancholy, long, TUE withdrawing roar - which Professor David Jasper sees as a TUE statement of humanity caught in a limbo of 'inbetweenness, TUE that darkling plain'. TUE TUE Producer: Olivia Landsberg TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01jqhlr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jqjlk (Listen) TUE Kicking the Air TUE TUE Facing deportation from the UK, a young Iranian student, TUE Reza Mostafai, claims asylum on the grounds that he is gay, TUE fearing for his safety if he is returned to his homeland. TUE With the help of his barrister Fiona and best friend Lulu, TUE Reza must try and find a way to prove his sexuality in time TUE to halt his removal. Can they find someone to come forward TUE to testify to the truth of Reza's claim? TUE TUE Christine Murphy's debut radio drama is a powerful and TUE shocking story of one man's desperate attempt to prove his TUE homosexuality. TUE TUE Starring Jamie Harding as Reza, Sophia Myles as Fiona, and TUE Vicky McClure as Lulu, the cast also includes Ben Caplan, TUE Zubin Varla, Ian Beattie and Maggie Cronin. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01jqsyb (Listen) TUE Historian Helen Castor presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners and leading researchers share TUE their passion for the past. TUE TUE Join in by contacting the programme: TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE Join the conversation on our Facebook page or find out more TUE from the Radio 4 website - TUE www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/makinghistory TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b01jqsyd (Listen) TUE What It Says on the Tin TUE TUE There is a well known advert for woodstain with the modest TUE boast, "It does what it says on the tin." This is the theme TUE for our trio of writers - actor Michael Simkins, TUE psychologist Dr Funke Baffour, and journalist Tom TUE Mitchelson. Truth and lies in everyday life, and how honest TUE are we with those we love, including ourselves. TUE Tom Mitchelson reveals a sideline as an investigative TUE journalist - infiltrating a male bonding cult, posing as a TUE playboy, pretending to be a foreign language teacher - to TUE get at a higher truth. "I find it exhilarating," he TUE confesses. Not everything is as it seems in Off The Page, TUE presented by Dominic Arkwright. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01jqsyg (Listen) TUE Clashes between US politicians and judges TUE TUE A major confrontation between the courts and the government TUE in the United States is set to ignite with the autumn TUE election campaign about to start. TUE TUE On health care and immigration - issues of direct concern to TUE tens of millions of voters - the judges of the US Supreme TUE Court will rule on laws that are championed by the leaders TUE of both political parties. These decisions loom just as TUE tensions between elected politicians and appointed judges TUE are mounting in the UK, too, over issues as varied as voting TUE rights for prisoners and the deportation of alleged TUE terrorists. TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg discovers why these disagreements are TUE becoming more heated now and how they are being tackled in TUE the two countries. TUE TUE He considers, in particular, what lessons Britain could TUE learn from the American experience. Should we empower our TUE courts to strike down laws passed by the TUE democratically-elected parliament? If not, what real check TUE exists against the arbitrary use of power by government? Or TUE is tension between different parts of government unavoidable TUE - and perhaps even a good thing? TUE TUE Producer Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01jqsyj (Listen) TUE Michele Hanson, Roger Highfield TUE TUE Columnist and author Michele Hanson and Director of External TUE Affairs at the Science Museum Group Roger Highfield discuss TUE their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Michele's choice reflects her love of eighteen century TUE literature, telling the story of Matthew Bramble, a TUE gout-ridden misanthrope who travels Britain with his nephew, TUE niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry TUE Clinker after whom Tobias Smollett's book is named. Michele TUE explains how her book club "...all hated it, but I think TUE they have no taste." TUE TUE Roger picks 'The Emperor of All Maladies' by Siddhartha TUE Mukherjee, a lucid and eloquent chronicle of cancer which TUE humans have lived with - and perished from - for more than TUE five thousand years. Roger says the book: "Told stories that TUE I knew very well, and told them in a brilliant gripping TUE way." TUE TUE Harriett's book is the second George Smiley novel in which TUE he investigates the murder of a woman in a very particularly TUE English public school. On le Carre, Harriett says he TUE "...writes probably the best spy fiction that's ever been TUE written." TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Michele Hanson's choice: 'Humphry Clinker' by Tobias TUE Smollett TUE Publ. Penguin Classics �9.99 TUE TUE Roger Highfield's choice: 'The Emperor of All Maladies' by TUE Siddhartha Mukherjee TUE Publ. Fourth Estate �9.99 TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'A Murder of Quality' by John le TUE Carr� TUE Publ. Penguin Classics �5.99 TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01jqsyl (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jppmz (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b012r99d (Listen) TUE Series 3, Rotterdam TUE TUE Written by John Finnemore. TUE TUE It's Lifejacket, Camera, Action as stardom beckons for one TUE of the crew of MJN Air. But who will get to blow the final TUE whistle? And will they look good in a vest? TUE TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam TUE Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore TUE Capt. Herc Shipwright ..... Anthony Head TUE Martin Davenport ..... Gus Brown TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01jqsyn (Listen) TUE Iftikar is under pressure and Will has an embarrassing TUE encounter. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01jqsyq (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a report from the Hepworth, TUE Wakefield, one of the four contenders for the Art Fund Prize TUE for museums and galleries. TUE TUE Producer Erin Riley. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv7bx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01jqsys (Listen) TUE NHS Queues TUE TUE Hospital waiting times are a key measure of success for the TUE NHS. But do the official figures accurately reflect the TUE reality for patients across the UK? TUE In Scotland the waiting time data has been called into TUE question after a hospital trust was exposed for manipulating TUE the figures in order to hit its targets. There's now an TUE investigation to see if the practice has become widespread. TUE In England the Health Secretary has hailed latest statistics TUE showing a fall in the number of people waiting for treatment TUE as a great achievement. However there's evidence which TUE suggests the pressure to meet waiting list targets is TUE leading to gaming of the system. TUE Jane Deith investigates. TUE TUE Producer Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01jqsyv (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01jqsyx (Listen) TUE In an exclusive interview for All in the Mind, a woman who TUE was harassed and threatened over four years by a female TUE member of staff, calls for employers to take stalking in the TUE workplace seriously. TUE After her attacker was sent to jail for two years, this TUE former high-flying senior manager tells Claudia Hammond TUE about the death threats, abusive mails and harassment that TUE amounted to "four years of hell". TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01jqjkz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01jppn1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01jqsyz (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jqsz1 (Listen) TUE Salvage the Bones, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Jesmyn Ward. TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. TUE TUE It is 2005. Hurricane Katrina is growing out in the Gulf. TUE Skeetah, Big Henry and Esch drive into the nearby town to TUE buy dog food for China. Esch secretly steals a pregnancy TUE test and when she gets it home, it confirms her suspicions TUE about her condition. TUE TUE Read by Cush Jumbo TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Pickerskill Reports b01381nf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Richard and Gregory Severin TUE TUE Written by Andrew McGibbon. TUE TUE It is the late forties and Gregory and Richard Severin, soon TUE to head off to university, become entranced by the in-vogue TUE teachings of Lenin, Marx, Engels and Trotsky and the Soviet TUE experiment. TUE TUE In a bid to save himself from being bored to death by their TUE endless Spartist dogma, Pickerskill uses a detention with TUE them to say that he is secretly one of them - a communist, TUE and that they must remain silent until he gives them the TUE signal to join him in the vanguard of the great British TUE workers proletarian rebellion. Unfortunately, his false TUE pledge of allegiance is overheard by the cook of Castlereagh TUE House who happens to be the daughter of a murdered White TUE Russian anti-communist. TUE TUE Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid TUE Richard Severin ........Tom Kane TUE Gregory Severin ...... James Rowland TUE A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne TUE Mrs Stroove ...... Mia Soteriou TUE Cartwright/Dawson .......Toby Longworth TUE The Colonel/Pyotr Stroove ...... Andrew McGibbon TUE TUE Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon TUE Directed by Andrew McGibbon TUE A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jqsz3 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 JUNE 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01jppnw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01jrs27 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jppny (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jppp0 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jppp2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01jppp4 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k6lb3 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by The Revd WED Gillean Maclean, Minister of Lamlash and Kilmory Parish WED Church, Isle of Arran. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01jrj7s (Listen) WED Farming Today. With Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01jrj7v (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports WED Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01jrj7x (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01jt0ny (Listen) WED Dear Lupin, Episode 3 WED WED More correspondence from a father to his wayward son: "Dear WED Charles, I suppose writing a serious letter to you is about WED as effective as trying to kick a 30 ton block of concrete in WED bedroom slippers, but I'm a glutton for punishment as far as WED you are concerned." WED WED Read by David Horovitch and Nicky Henson WED Abridged and Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jrj7z (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv7s4 (Listen) WED Writing the Century 19, Middle East WED WED Episode Three - Middle East WED After an unscheduled stop in gorgeous Cannes, Joan attempts WED to make up for time as she crosses the sea to Tunisia. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b01jrj81 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Alan Dein returns with a new series of nocturnal excursions WED via Facebook and Skype, discovering the real life dramas WED behind the online profiles, talking to people in every WED corner of the globe. WED WED Holed up in the studio late into the night, Alan makes WED conversation with people all over the world, talking to them WED about their stories and whatever's on their mind. He never WED knows what he'll be hearing next. WED WED Among those he connects with this time are a 66 year old WED widow in rural Texas and an 18 year old with Asperger's who WED makes a living playing online poker all night. He also WED catches up with Jennifer in Nova Scotia who featured in the WED last series - whose ex-husband is just about to come out of WED jail and marry her best friend. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 A Month of June b01jrj83 (Listen) WED Lost and Found WED WED A Month of June: Lost and Found WED by Andy Merriman and Alison Joseph WED WED The second of four comedies written for the many voices of WED legendary actor June Whitfield. Retired politician Kate WED Whittington has agreed to take part in TV reality show Lolly WED in the Loft. WED WED Kate ..... June Whitfield WED Virginia ..... Marcia Warren WED Sam ..... Ella Smith WED Danny ..... Joe Sims WED Joel ..... Don Gilet WED Terence ..... Robert Blythe WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01jrj85 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jrj87 (Listen) WED Graham Greene WED WED The New Elizabethans: Grahame Greene. To mark the Diamond WED Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the WED men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its WED character. WED WED Grahame Greene was among the foremost novelists of the WED Second Elizabethan age. He was a master of moral guilt and WED cold war intrigue with novels such as The Quiet American, WED Brighton Rock and The End of the Affair. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01jppp6 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01jrj89 (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle WED b01jrj8c (Listen) WED A Post-Mortem WED WED In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers WED the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 WED years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard WED Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he WED takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, WED through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in WED subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and WED writers, up to the present day. WED WED The mid-19th century was a time of great change in almost WED every area of life - economic, political, social and WED industrial. Up to now, Richard Holloway has been looking at WED 'the poetics of doubt' through the work of poets and WED writers. Today, he focuses on 'the forensics of doubt'. He WED looks at the impact of Charles Darwin and geologist Charles WED Lyell, whose discoveries undermined the creation stories of WED the Old Testament. And Richard discusses with AN Wilson how WED the emerging tradition of 'biblical criticism', which began WED in Germany, started to strip away the supernatural elements WED of God. WED WED George Eliot is the bridge here. In translating the work of WED the German critics, she lost her own faith and began to WED believe, as the German philosopher and atheist Ludwig WED Feuerbach suggested, that God may be a human construct - a WED creation of the human mind. WED WED Producer: Olivia Landsberg WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01jqsyn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01jrjfz (Listen) WED Digging for Victory WED WED By Moya O'Shea WED WED When a family decide they have no option than to take WED destiny into their own hands they discover digging WED another room under their flat isn't as simple as they first WED thought. WED WED Mum .................. Cathy Murphy WED Dad .................... Don Gilet WED Gran ................... Christine Lohr WED Gil ...................... Harry Livingstone WED Alec ................... Scott Smith WED Henry ................. Daniel Cooper WED Tess ................... Rhianna Hosmer WED Mick ................... Carl Prekopp WED Doctor ................. Tracy Wiles WED Mr. Mowson ......... Paul Moriarty WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01jrjg1 (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests take calls on charitable giving. WED Donating money to charity has been in the headlines after WED the Chancellor George Osborne recently dropped plans to WED limit tax relief on charitable giving. Mr Osborne had WED announced the proposals in his March Budget, but they WED provoked a storm of protest from charities. WED Last year Britons gave �11 billion to charity, according to WED research carried out by the Office of National Statistics. WED But while an extra 1 million people donated money to WED charity, the average (median) amount given per month has WED fallen compared to 2010. And in real terms the total value WED of donations remained the same as the previous year. WED More people have been donating cash via online sites or by WED text as well as more traditional ways. WED So what are the different ways to give and what tax reliefs WED are available? WED Are you clear about Gift Aid declarations? WED Do you know if your employer has a payroll giving scheme and WED how it works? WED Perhaps you want to leave a charitable gift in your will and WED want advice on how to do this? WED Or you might want to give money via an online site or by WED text and want to know which sites charge less for the WED service? WED WED Lines open at 1pm. Ring 03 700 100 444. Or e mail the show WED on moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01jqsyx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01jrjg3 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01jrjg5 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01jrjq6 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jppp8 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jrjq8 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED WED Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy show that seeks the finest WED wrong answers, with guest comics Susan Calman and Miles Jupp WED plus writer Shaun Pye on the panel. WED WED So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask his guests to pitch WED their finest terrible ideas and to disclose the most WED shameful, yet entertaining, stories from their lives. WED WED In this episode, Charlie challenges his guests to recall the WED stupidest thing they've ever believed and to suggest the WED best ideas for the worst new sport for the London 2012 WED Olympics. WED WED The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also WED presents BBC4s acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series, and WED is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also won WED Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. WED WED Produced by Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01jrjqb (Listen) WED Alan worries for Amy's safety. Meanwhile Ruth has come to a WED decision. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01jrjqd (Listen) WED With John Wilson, who reports from the Scottish National WED Portrait Gallery, one of the four contenders for the Art WED Fund Prize for museums and galleries. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv7s4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01jrjqg (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox and Clifford WED Longley and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01jrkn9 (Listen) WED Series 3, Sir Terry Farrell WED WED Sir Terry Farrell explains why architects are uniquely WED placed to solve the problems of Britain's public spaces - WED and why doing the work for free is crucial to its success. WED WED Sir Terry explains how working pro bono can bring together WED businesses, councils and community groups who would WED otherwise find it hard to work together, and how these WED architectural schemes or 'masterplans' can transform the WED public spaces we all share. And he describes some of the WED schemes he has worked on - and how, even though it sometimes WED takes years, the benefits are clear to see. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01jrknf (Listen) WED Artificial Photosynthesis WED WED Chemist Andrea Sella explores the current race to do WED photosynthesis better than nature ever achieved. In just a WED few hundred years mankind has burnt fossil fuels which had WED taken natural photosynthesis billions of years to create. WED WED Now, around the world hundreds of millions of pounds are WED being spent on the race to develop a robust, cheap and WED efficient way to turn water and the light from the sun into WED new fuels we can use. At a time when politicians everywhere WED debate the economics and climatic burdens of future energy WED needs, such a "Solar Fuel" would be a genuinely novel WED alternative energy. WED WED Producer: Alex Mansfield. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01jrj7x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01jpppb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01jrknk (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jrknr (Listen) WED Salvage the Bones, Episode 3 WED WED By Jesmyn Ward. WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. WED WED One of China's puppies is sick. The boys camp out in the WED woods while Skeetah deals with it. Esch is with them and, WED now knowing that she's pregnant, tries to reach out to WED Manny. WED WED Read by Cush Jumbo WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bird Island b01jrknt (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED On the one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antartica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED WED Bird Island is written by Katy Wix, one half of the sketch WED Duo 'Anna and Katy'. Katy is a writer performer who has made WED appearances in 'Miranda', 'Outnumbered' and stars regularly WED as Daisy in 'Not Going Out'. WED WED EPISDE ONE: WED WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non-audience comedy. In episode 1, Ben WED loses his watch and logs on to a dating website. WED WED Ben ..... Reece Shearsmith WED Graham ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b01jrknw (Listen) WED Series 3, The End of the World Is Nigh WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st Century Wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated 2000 WED year-old Scottish sorcerer with enough power in his small WED finger to destroy a town, yet insufficient clout to get a WED speed bump installed outside his cave by the local council. WED Even for such a skilful sorcerer, modern life is rubbish! WED WED In this episode, Mordrin (David Kay) is enlisted by fellow WED wizard Bernard The Blue (Jack Docherty) to help tackle a WED fiery meteor which is heading straight to earth and is WED threatening to wipe out all civilisation. However, Mordrin's WED attention is swayed from the task in hand by news that WED Heather has a new boyfriend in the shape of slimy patter WED merchant Aiden. (Donald Pirie). Will Mordrin be able to be WED distracted long enough from aiming pot shots at Aiden to WED save the world from certain doom? WED WED Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He WED initially set up his jam-making business Fruity Potions as a WED plc for income tax relief, but has found it a useful vehicle WED to help him bolster his skill set and his range of products WED and services. (Even a wizard has to diversify these days.) 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 WED help kings in battles of good and evil, or as he prefers to WED put it 'assisting with neighbour disputes'. Now it can range WED from killing the odd Jakonty Dragon to an array of end of WED the world-type scenarios. WED WED Mordrin ...... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ...... Jack Docherty WED Geoff ....... Gordon Kennedy WED Heather ...... Hannah Donaldson WED Aiden ....... Donald Pirie WED WED Written by David Kay & Gavin Smith. WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jrkny (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 JUNE 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01jppq5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01jt0ny (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jppq7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jppq9 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jppqc (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01jppqf (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k6lbk (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by The Revd THU Gillean Maclean, Minister of Lamlash and Kilmory Parish THU Church, Isle of Arran. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01jrldq (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Melvin THU Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01jrlds (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports THU Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01jrldv (Listen) THU James Joyce's Ulysses THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss James Joyce's novel THU Ulysses. First published ninety years ago in Paris, Joyce's THU masterpiece charts a single day in the life of its THU protagonist, Leopold Bloom. Often hailed as the greatest THU example of literary modernism, the book prompted outrage and THU praise in equal measure, and remains one of the THU most-discussed novels ever written. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01jsxlb (Listen) THU Dear Lupin, Episode 4 THU THU Charlie is drifting from job to job but his father keeps in THU touch with a mix of gentle admonishment, advice and amusing THU tales from home: "We had a very good midday party where THU there was a lot to drink and your dear mother took advantage THU of that fact. Nor in fact did I stint myself ... A tall lady THU in an azure wig explained at some length why she loathed her THU husband so much. Perhaps I am a sympathetic listener; THU possibly I just lack the energy to move away." THU THU Read by David Horovitch and Nicky Henson THU Abridged and Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jrldx (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv81y (Listen) THU Writing the Century 19, Oranges and Pearls THU THU Episode Four - Oranges and Pearls THU Hoping the technical problems are behind her now, Joan THU heads for Baghdad. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01jrldz (Listen) THU Correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the THU headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Who the Wild Things Are b00c5j0j (Listen) THU Another chance to hear Philip Glassborow's exploration of THU the origins and immense appeal of "Where the Wild Things THU Are", the multi-million selling children's classic by the THU late Maurice Sendak THU THU The story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land THU where the Wild Things Are has become an acknowledged classic THU of children's literature since it won the American Caldecott THU Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year in THU 1964. But what is it really about and what are the reasons THU for its immense appeal? Generations of children, parents, THU teachers and psychoanalysts have had their opinions. And, THU intriguingly, over the years, Sendak himself, who died THU recently aged 83 - has offered not one but many different THU stories of its genesis. THU THU Did it grow out of the over-protective love of his mother, THU the stories told to him by his father, comments made by his THU foreign-sounding aunts and uncles (their hairy nostrils and THU warty faces peering down and declaring "you're so good I THU could eat you up!" .....) the insecurity of immigrant life THU in Depression New York, the deaths of most of his family in THU the Holocaust, his love of the movie King Kong......or all THU of these things? THU THU Presenter Philip Glassborow talks with Sendak's British THU editor, Judy Taylor, to his long-time friend, the THU distinguished writer and playwright Tony Kushner and to the THU American children's literature expert Leonard Marcus, who THU takes him back to the haunts of Sendak's childhood in THU Brooklyn. He is astonished to discover that in all the THU extensive press, radio and television coverage of Sendak, THU nobody has ever thought to consult any children. Every great THU children's book, has a world beyond its creator and here the THU Year 2 children of an Oxfordshire primary school have their THU say. Angry mothers and fathers with big hairy feet both THU feature in their interpretations of who the Wild Things THU really are. THU THU With a thrilling new reading by Henry Goodman and extensive THU use of Jewish Klezmer music, this programme will shed new THU light on who the Wild Things really are and act as a fitting THU legacy to the late, great master. THU THU Producer Beaty Rubens. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01jrlf1 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jrlf3 (Listen) THU Michael Young THU THU The New Elizabethans: Michael Young. To mark the Diamond THU Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the THU men and women who have given the second Elizabethan age its THU character. THU THU James Naughtie looks at the energetic and innovative founder THU of Which?, the Consumers' Association and the Open THU University. A social reformer bursting with ideas, Young THU challenged conventional thinking and was one of the leading THU minds behind the 1945 Labour manifesto which helped shape THU post-war Britain. Along side the Consumers' Association he THU set-up a network of advisory bodies and services and his THU legacy lives on in The Young Foundation which is still THU working to develop ventures which help the less well off. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01jppqh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01jrlf5 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Martha THU Kearney. Listeners can share their views via email: THU wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle THU b01jrlf7 (Listen) THU God's Funeral THU THU In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers THU the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 THU years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard THU Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he THU takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, THU through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in THU subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and THU writers, up to the present day. THU THU In today's episode, Richard Holloway brings together the THU 19th century English writer Thomas Hardy and the 19th THU century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who THU represented for many the culmination of the Victorian crisis THU of faith. THU THU In his poetry, notably God's Funeral and The Oxen, Hardy THU writes with nostalgia about his loss of faith. AN Wilson, THU author of The Victorians, describes Hardy as being 'infected THU with the doubting spirit of the age' but retaining 'a THU wistfulness of what had been lost'. THU THU Nietzsche's declaration, through one of the characters in THU his work The Gay Science, that 'God is Dead and we have THU killed him' is a significant moment in the story of doubt. THU For Chris Janaway, Professor of Philosophy at Southampton THU University, the statement is an attack on contemporary THU society which has lost its sense of value and morality. THU THU Producer: Olivia Landsberg THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01jrjqb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00ss4th (Listen) THU Bell in the Ball THU THU Danny was blinded in a fight on New Year's Eve 2008. He's THU angry about it - in fact he's angry about everything. So his THU long suffering girlfriend suggests he joins a blind cricket THU team. It's surprisingly competitive and skilful. There's THU only one problem - Danny hates cricket. Comedy drama by THU Lloyd Peters. THU THU Danny...................................Jason Done THU Beth......................................Victoria Brazier THU Floyd.....................................Marlon G Day THU Lucy......................................Julia Rounthwaite THU Brian.....................................Robert Hudson THU Derek....................................David Acton THU Roger...................................Greg Wood THU THU Producer Gary Brown THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01jrlff (Listen) THU Series 21, Larkhall, South Lanarkshire THU THU Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) THU throughout this series of Ramblings. THU THU Prog 4: Larkhall, South Lanarkshire. THU THU This week Clare Balding travels to Larkhall in South THU Lanarkshire to meet Scott Cunningham. A veteran of some of THU Britain's long-distance walks (including the West Highland THU Way, the Pennine Way and the Southern Upland Way) as well as THU the bagger of multiple Munros, he never walks without the THU dog, he describes as his 'best-mate', Travis. On this walk THU around the Larkhall area, he describes the intensity of THU their relationship and the joy of his companionship. This THU will be a particularly moving walk for Scott, as Travis (who THU is a guide-dog) is retiring the following day, and a new THU dog, Milo, will take over. THU Producer Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01jqb8k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01jqb94 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01jrlfh (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01jrlfk (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week THU and speaks to scientists who are making headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b01jrlfm (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jppqk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b01jrlfp (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at THU The Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, THU self-doubt and the new owner's vision for the theatre's THU future. THU THU This week it's the turn of Yorkshire poet Geoffrey Allerton, THU who's accompanied by amateur journalist friend Duncan THU (played by Paul Whitehouse). THU THU Billy Bleach ..... Simon Day THU Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter THU Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks THU Ron Bone / Wozac ..... Simon Greenall THU Duncan... Paul Whitehouse. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01jrlfr (Listen) THU Usha's patience wears thin and Neil can't believe his eyes. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01jrlft (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including a report from the Watts Gallery, THU near Guildford, a contender for the Art Fund Prize for THU museum of the year. THU THU Producer Erin Riley. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv81y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01jqsyg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01jrlfy (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 The Turing Solution b01jqjl5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01jrldv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01jppqm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01jrlnt (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jrlnw (Listen) THU Salvage the Bones, Episode 4 THU THU By Jesmyn Ward. THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. THU THU Esch's brother, Randall, practises for an important THU basketball match. Esch has to endure seeing Manny with his THU girlfriend, Shaliyah. Meanwhile, her father worries about THU the hurricane which is growing stronger. He tries to fix the THU house up, with disastrous results. THU THU Read by Cush Jumbo. THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Small Scenes from Odd Stories b01jrlny (Listen) THU Comedy sketch show starring Daniel Rigby, Henry Paker, Mike THU Wozniak and Sara Pascoe. Featuring an unfortunate incident THU at a bird sanctuary and an uncomfortable moment for a THU beefeater. THU THU Written by the cast, plus Madeleine Brettingham, Ben THU Partridge, Jon Lynes and Dan O'Donohue. THU THU Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jrlp0 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 JUNE 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01jpprg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01jsxlb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jpprj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jpprl (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jpprn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01jpprq (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k6lcq (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily prayer and reflection presented by The Revd FRI Gillean Maclean, Minister of Lamlash and Kilmory Parish FRI Church, Isle of Arran. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01jrlq6 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Emma FRI Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01jrqqv (Listen) FRI With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01jqb8t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01jsw4q (Listen) FRI Dear Lupin, Episode 5 FRI FRI David Horovitch and Nicky Henson conclude their reading from FRI the collected correspondence of a long-suffering father to FRI his wayward son. FRI FRI "My Dear Lupin, How are things going with you? Are you (a) FRI On the verge of becoming a millionaire? (b) On the brink of FRI insolvency? (c) The subject of investigation by the Fraud FRI Squad?" or (d) Cruising along like me, in genteel poverty? FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01jrqqx (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv8y0 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 19, Tiger Beer Girl FRI FRI Episode Five - Tiger Beer Girl FRI Will the wish, made at The Iron Pillar in Delhi, come true? FRI Singapore is within sight and this solo flight, halfway FRI across the world, is bringing back both happy and painful FRI memories for Joan. FRI FRI 11:00 The Synchro Girls b01jrqqz (Listen) FRI As the British women's synchronized swimming team prepares FRI for its debut in the 2012 Olympics, one time FRI synchro-challenger Katie Derham takes a side-ways look at FRI the sport. FRI FRI Katie's relationship with synchronised swimming began as a FRI school girl in the 80's around the time the sport gained FRI Olympic Status. As a starring member of the school synchro FRI club she dedicated hours to choreographing routines and FRI designing the sparkly outfits to go with them. 'For a few FRI years synchronised swimming was my greatest passion', she FRI says. FRI FRI In the wider domain, synchro has often been laughed at for FRI its staid, nose-clip image and its 'grit your teeth and FRI smile' mantra. But the sport has made an extraordinary FRI journey, from the Esther Williams water ballets of the 1950s FRI to its position in the Olympics. FRI FRI Looking at modern synchro, Katie discovers a competition FRI where girls are required to have the agility of a ballet FRI dancer, the breath control of a free diver and the strength FRI of a gymnast. She also finds that she shares her passion FRI with some unlikely high profile figures, including IMF FRI director Christine Lagarde who was a member of the French FRI national synchronised swimming team as a teenager and who FRI reflects on the lessons it taught her for her future career FRI in politics. FRI FRI Katie visits Team GB in Aldershot as they prepare for the FRI last weeks of training before their London 2012 debut. She FRI speaks to coaches and choreographers, including former FRI Olympic Gold ice-skating medallist Robin Cousins and Stephan FRI Miermont of Cirque du Soleil. She makes a special journey FRI back to the school where she learnt her first moves and FRI joins the London Gay men's synchronised swimming team, the FRI only all male team in the country. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Cuddon FRI A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jrqr1 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' is a brand new sitcom set in FRI a Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with FRI the three greatest events in anybody's life. FRI FRI Written by David Schneider ('The Day Today', 'I'm Alan FRI Partridge'), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is FRI a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any FRI wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health FRI and safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's FRI married thousands of women. FRI FRI Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been FRI parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and FRI Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her marriage isn't just FRI about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit FRI in our new age of austerity. FRI FRI There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried FRI he'll end up like Malcolm one day while ditzy Anita may get FRI her words and names mixed up occasionally but as the only FRI parent in the office, she's a mother to them all. FRI FRI In this episode, Lorna's latest brainwave to let school FRI children into the office brings back unhappy memories of FRI bullying for Malcolm & Luke and a missing register causes FRI chaos. FRI FRI Malcolm ...... David Schneider FRI Lorna ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Anita ...... Sandy McDade FRI Luke ...... Russell Tovey FRI Mary ...... Sally Bretton FRI Lord Jefferson, Patrick, Groom ...... Simon Greenall FRI Reader, Woman registering birth ...... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Mum, Bride ...... Gina Peach FRI FRI Producer: Simon Jacobs FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01jrqr3 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01jrqr5 (Listen) FRI Vladimir Raitz FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Vladimir Raitz, the pioneer of the FRI package holiday. James Naughtie considers how Raitz FRI broadened the horizons of the British holidaymaker and set FRI the ball rolling for mass tourism in the Mediterranean. FRI FRI To mark the Diamond Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the FRI lives and impact of the men and women who have given the FRI second Elizabethan age its character. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01jpprs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01jrqr7 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle FRI b01jrqr9 (Listen) FRI Godless Morality FRI FRI In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers FRI the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 FRI years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard FRI Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he FRI takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, FRI through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in FRI subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and FRI writers, up to the present day. FRI FRI Richard Holloway uses Fyodor Dostoevsky as his starting FRI point to discuss the possibility of morality in a godless FRI world. Do we say yes to life and find our own formula for FRI doing right, as Nietzsche suggested? Are we just FRI intrinsically egoistic in order to survive? Are there things FRI we ought to do, whoever we are and whatever we want, as Kant FRI believed? FRI FRI Richard Holloway says that 'the religious dimension in FRI ethical debate sometimes clogs rather than encourages the FRI flow of discussion', but one thing religion can bring to the FRI moral life is the sense of responsibility to a power higher FRI than ourselves. If we lose that sense of responsibility to FRI God, what will now motivate us to help others and restrain FRI our own selfishness? FRI FRI He discusses the theme with author AN Wilson, Chris Janaway, FRI Professor of Philosophy at Southampton University, and Nina FRI Power at Roehampton University. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01jrlfr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00sjdr5 (Listen) FRI Philip and Sydney FRI FRI In 'This Be The Verse', Philip Larkin famously bemoans the FRI impact parents have on their children. In Philip and Sydney, FRI playwright Alan Pollock uncovers some of the reasons why FRI Larkin may have had such a profound sense of anguish. FRI FRI In 1937, Philip Larkin's father took him on holiday to FRI Germany. Sydney was Coventry's City Treasurer and had a keen FRI interest in the Nazi regime. FRI FRI It was a holiday that Philip never spoke of. But, taking FRI inspiration from Sydney's diaries, Philip and Sydney FRI imagines what might have happened during their trip. FRI FRI A witty and powerful coming of age drama starring Tim FRI McInnerny as Sydney and Pip Carter as Philip. FRI FRI Alan Pollock is a playwright, translator and screenwriter. FRI Plays include One Night in November, Pigs, and All FRI Tomorrow's Parties. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01jrqrc (Listen) FRI South Gloucestershire FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team are garden trouble-shooting in FRI South Gloucestershire. The panellists are: Bunny Guinness, FRI Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw. FRI FRI This week we revisit two listeners' gardens, in Nottingham FRI and Shrewsbury, as part of an ongoing series. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Amy Racs FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Are You Inexperienced? b01jrqrf (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Novelist and stand-up performer AL Kennedy relates some of FRI the hapless events that befell her whilst trying to complete FRI her latest book in the USA. Secreted away in a wooden cabin FRI in deepest Connecticut, she finds that she has to contend FRI with noisy woodpeckers that mistake her temporary home for a FRI tasty tree. Later, upon returning to the States from Canada FRI by train, she encounters suspicious US immigration officials FRI who struggle to grasp the fact that she doesn't fly, and FRI arrived in the States by boat. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01jrqrh (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01jrqrm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01jrqrp (Listen) FRI Olympic Memories: Mark and Sophie FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today, former Olympic hurdler Mark remembers FRI what it was like to take part in the 1980 Games in Moscow, FRI and again, four years later, in the Los Angeles Olympic FRI Games. His conversation with daughter, Sophie, was recorded FRI by Radio Stoke. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01jrqrr (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jpprv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01jrqrt (Listen) FRI Series 37, Episode 2 FRI FRI Jon Holmes, Ava Vidal, Mitch Benn and Laura Shavin join FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis as they dissect the week in their FRI own indomitable style. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01jrqrw (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress FRI Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley FRI Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley FRI Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron FRI Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell FRI Rosa Makepeace..... Anna Piper. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01jrqry (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who reports from Royal Albert Memorial FRI Museum in Exeter, a shortlisted contender for the Art Fund FRI Prize for museums. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01jv8y0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01jrqs0 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Bishop's Stortford High School, Hertfordshire. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01jrqs2 (Listen) FRI Adam Gopnik reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Honest Doubt: The History of an Epic Struggle - FRI Omnibus b01jrqs4 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI In a series of personal essays, Richard Holloway considers FRI the tensions between faith and doubt over the last 3000 FRI years. Author and former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard FRI Holloway focuses on the Judeo-Christian tradition as he FRI takes the listener from the birth of religious thinking, FRI through the Old and New Testaments, to the developments in FRI subsequent centuries and their influence on thinkers and FRI writers, up to the present-day. FRI FRI In this omnibus edition, Richard Holloway moves into the FRI 19th century, as he looks at the work of some of the FRI Romantic poets like John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, FRI whose beliefs were a reaction to the cold rationalism of FRI Enlightenment thinkers. He discusses the struggles of some FRI of the 'believer' poets like Robert Browning and Arthur Hugh FRI Clough, with contributions from Clough's biographer Sir FRI Anthony Kenny. FRI FRI As well as 'the poetics' of doubt, Richard looks at 'the FRI forensics' as he explores the impact of Charles Darwin's FRI discoveries on the creation story, and the emerging FRI tradition of 'biblical criticism'. These factors contributed FRI to the Victorian crisis of faith, and poets like Matthew FRI Arnold and Thomas Hardy expressed the sense of mourning and FRI nostalgia of the time. FRI FRI Meanwhile, European thinkers were considering the FRI possibility that 'maybe there wasn't anything on the other FRI side of the window-pane - no God, just a gradually fading FRI projection of our own longing'. He looks at the characters FRI of Friedrich Nietzsche and Fyodor Dostoevsky along with some FRI of the nineteenth century philosophers. FRI FRI With contributions from philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny, Chris FRI Janaway from Southampton University, author AN Wilson and FRI former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Landsberg FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01jpprx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01jrqs6 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01jrqs8 (Listen) FRI Salvage the Bones, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Jesmyn Ward. FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. FRI FRI Emotions run high at Randall's basketball game when Manny FRI discovers that Esch is pregnant. Skeetah defends his FRI sister's honour in the only way he knows how. Manny's cousin FRI Rico throws down an unexpected challenge to Skeetah. FRI FRI Read by Cush Jumbo FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01jqsyj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01jrqsb (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01jrqsd (Listen) FRI Civil Partners: Nick and Philip FRI FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series capturing the nation in FRI conversation: today, from Radio Scotland, civil partners FRI Nick and Philip reflect on how attitudes to gay men have FRI changed. The prejudice of the past meant that they both came FRI out as gay late in life - Nick even underwent aversion FRI therapy as a 'cure' for homosexuality. But now they can FRI publicly declare their love for each other and live their FRI lives honestly and happily. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a new initiative for Radio 4 that FRI aims to offer a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which FRI people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with FRI someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Many of the long conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library which they will use to build FRI up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the FRI UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can upload FRI your own conversations or just learn more about The FRI Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject. FRI