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SAT SATURDAY 23 JUNE 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01jxty5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01k0b0y (Listen) SAT Beauty and the Inferno, The Ghosts of Nobel SAT SAT Essays by Roberto Saviano. Translated by Oonagh Stransky. SAT SAT Saviano visits the Swedish Academy, where he has been asked SAT to speak alongside Salman Rushdie, a fellow victim of SAT threats to his literary freedom, about their common SAT situation and their writing. He draws inspiration not only SAT from Rushdie but from the many authors who have stood in the SAT same place, defending the power of the written word. SAT SAT This series of essays are by the celebrated author of SAT Gomorrah - a sensational book exposing the inner workings of SAT the Italian Mafia. Journalist Roberto Saviano explores a SAT range of his passions, both light and dark, sharing common SAT themes of David vs Goliath and the power of art and talent SAT to overcome difficulties, while offering a compelling SAT insight into his life in hiding and under permanent police SAT protection since Gomorrah's publication in 2006. SAT SAT Abridged by Eileen Horne SAT Reader: Nicholas Murchie SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01jxty7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01jxty9 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01jxtyc (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01jxtyf (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01jxw68 (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01jxw6b (Listen) SAT Eddie speaks to listener Jo, a recent retiree who volunteers SAT as a carer for the elderly. Jo takes great solace in SAT visiting the old and lonely, but finds herself exasperated SAT by wealthy home-owners who call on charities for help with SAT their day-to-day chores. Your News is ready by Rory SAT Cellan-Jones. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01jxtyh (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01jxtyk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01kdpwl (Listen) SAT Series 21, Pen Farthing on Dartmoor SAT SAT Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) SAT throughout this series of Ramblings. SAT SAT Prog 5: Pen Farthing on Dartmoor SAT SAT Pen Farthing is a former Royal Marine; while serving in SAT Afghanistan he rescued an Afghan fighting dog which he named SAT NowZad after the village where his unit was based. He SAT brought NowZad back to the UK (which in itself required SAT military-style planning) and when he left the Marines SAT started a charity which runs a shelter in Afghanistan for SAT stray and abandoned animals. The central aim of the charity SAT is to catch, neuter and release stray dogs to prevent the SAT population growing yet further. SAT SAT Pen lives in Tiverton in Devon and, for this edition of SAT Ramblings, he takes Clare Balding on a wild walk across SAT Dartmoor. Accompanying them is Patchdog (a massive Afghan SAT Kuchi) and Maxchap (rescued from Iraq). Sadly Nowzad is a SAT little old for such a long walk, but his story is central. SAT SAT Producer Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01k1lht (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The SAT presenter was Charlotte Smith and the producer was Emma SAT Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01jxtym (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01k1lhy (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and SAT Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01k1lj0 (Listen) SAT Robert Peston, Uri Geller, cancer sniffing dogs, John SAT McCarthy and Miles Jupp at the cricket, Bomber Command SAT pilot SAT SAT Sian Williams & Richard Coles with the BBC's Business Editor SAT Robert Peston, Claire Guest who trains dogs to sniff out a SAT range of diseases including cancer and Bomber Command pilot SAT Frank Dell who was shot down behind enemy lines in WW2; John SAT McCarthy watches cricket with comedian Miles Jupp, Uri SAT Geller reveals his secret life, and writer and actress Meera SAT Syal shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 The Stardust Memories b01k1lj2 (Listen) SAT When David Bowie's rock album Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders SAT from Mars was released in June 1972, it broke taboos within SAT popular culture and changed the course of many young fans' SAT lives forever. SAT SAT Bowie combined his skills as a mime artist and top-rate SAT vocal dramatist to come up with the most unique rock SAT creation to date -, a flamboyant bi-sexual alter-ego. Ziggy SAT Stardust was a fictional alien rock superstar who came to SAT Earth five years before its predicted end. He turned his SAT creator David Bowie from one hit wonder to superstar and SAT took the world by storm. But then, in an extraordinary coup SAT de theatre, Bowie killed off Ziggy at the Hammersmith Odeon SAT in July 1973. SAT SAT Like many aspiring young musicians, Midge Ure fell for SAT Ziggy. For Midge and many others, watching Ziggy on Tops of SAT the Pops was a rallying cry. Bowie's cross-dressing creation SAT gave Midge and his contemporaries a license to try anything SAT and everything, limited only by their imaginations. So who SAT was Ziggy Stardust? Why was he killed off by his creator at SAT the height of his fame? And why did everyone, even straight SAT men like Midge, fall for him? SAT SAT In an entertaining, insightful programme marking the 40th SAT anniversary of the Ziggy Stardust album, Midge Ure explores SAT the story behind the groundbreaking album and discovers its SAT impact on his fellow musicians, the music industry and the SAT fans, then and now. SAT SAT With contributions from the Spiders from Mars band members, SAT Trevor Bolder and Woody Woodmansey, roadie and hairdresser SAT Suzie Ronson, producer Ken Scott, pop artist George SAT Underwood and musician and fan Gary Kemp. SAT SAT Producer: Melissa FitzGerald SAT A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01k1lj4 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01k1lj7 (Listen) SAT In this edition, rumours and conspiracy theories swirl SAT around Egypt; the Greeks fed up with being criticised for SAT attitudes towards Europe; businessmen and environmentalists SAT squabble over the River Danube in Croatia; how love, trolls SAT and goblins help in the shaping of Swedish government policy SAT and musings on the folly of empire from half way up a SAT volcano in Indonesia. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01k1ljc (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance with Paul SAT Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01jxw4z (Listen) SAT Series 37, Episode 3 SAT SAT Greco-German Wrestling: In the week that Jimmy Carr's tax SAT arrangements made front page news, while Greece swore in a SAT coalition government, David Cameron went to the G20 and an SAT inflatable Stonehenge toured the country as part of the 2012 SAT festival, Marcus Brigstocke, Lloyd Langford, Mitch Benn and SAT Laura Shavin join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, as they SAT dissect the week in their indomitable style. Produced by SAT Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01jxtyp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01jxtyr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01jxw55 (Listen) SAT Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a live discussion of news and SAT politics from the Radio Theatre, Broadcasting House, London. SAT On the panel: Shadow Welsh Secretary, Owen Smith; SAT Conservative MP, Rory Stewart; Columnist for the Mail on SAT Sunday, Peter Hitchens and Director of the Southbank Centre, SAT Jude Kelly. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01k1ljf (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01k1ljh (Listen) SAT Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance SAT SAT Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the story of a SAT motorcycle journey across America, a meditation on values SAT and the concept of Quality, and an allegorical tale of a man SAT coming to terms with his past and with his young son. SAT SAT The narrator takes a cross-country motorcycle trip from SAT Minnesota to California with his son Chris during which the SAT maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an illustration of how SAT to unify the cold, rational realm of technology (the SAT 'classical') with the warm, imaginative realm of artistry SAT (the 'romantic'). As with the practice of Zen, the trick is SAT to engage fully with the activity, to see and appreciate SAT every detail, whether it's hiking in the woods, writing an SAT essay, or tightening the bike chain to ensure a smooth ride. SAT SAT The narrator wrestles both with the ghost of his past and SAT with some of the most important philosophical questions of SAT the 20th century. SAT SAT The book touched the zeitgeist of a whole generation in 1974 SAT after being turned down by 121 publishers. It's the biggest SAT selling philosophy book ever with more than 5 million copies SAT sold worldwide, has a huge online following - and has never SAT been dramatized. Writer Peter Flannery (Our Friends in the SAT North, George Gently, The Devil's Whore) adapts his SAT favourite book for radio, with James Purefoy (Rome, SAT Injustice, Ironclad) playing the Dad/Narrator. SAT SAT Author: Robert M. Pirsig SAT Dramatist: Peter Flannery SAT SAT Dad/Narrator/Phaedrus ...... James Purefoy SAT Chris ...... Max Cazier SAT John ...... Sean Power SAT Sylvia ...... Lucy Newman-Williams SAT Gennie ...... Caitlin Thorburn SAT Professor ...... Paris Arrowsmith SAT Students ....... Arts Ed, School of Acting SAT SAT Original music: Jon Nicholls SAT Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SAT Producer: Melanie Harris SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01k1ljk (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Katie Price talks business, Charlotte SAT Church discusses media privacy SAT SAT Model Katie Price on managing fame and business; force SAT feeding in Britain today; the unacceptability of the term SAT vagina in US debate; singer Charlotte Church discusses media SAT privacy; the unfolding humanitarian crisis in West Africa's SAT Mali; the car and its impact on sexual morality; a Norland SAT Nanny looks back on her life. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT Producer: Anna Bailey SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01k1ljn (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents the day's top news stories, with sports SAT headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01jxtfb (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 asks his executive guests how they spend their SAT time each day. What does the activity of running a company SAT really involve, and what do the guests' diaries tell us SAT about the nature of their jobs? They also swap thoughts on SAT the so-called Shareholder Spring - how investors are SAT rebelling against corporate pay. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Jackie Hunt, chief financial SAT officer of insurance giant Standard Life; John Vincent, SAT entrepreneur and co-founder of Leon Restaurants; Harriet SAT Green, outgoing chief executive of Premier Farnell who takes SAT up her new role as chief executive of travel company Thomas SAT Cook in July. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01jxtyt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01jxtyw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01jxtyy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01k1llv (Listen) SAT Miriam Margolyes, Jeremy Vine, Barrie Rutter and Michael SAT Winslow SAT SAT Clive hits the headlines with presenter, journalist and one SAT of the best-known voices in Britain, Jeremy Vine, whose SAT memoir 'It's All News to Me' tells the fascinating story of SAT his 25 years at the BBC. Jeremy talks to Clive about our SAT obsession with news and the power of real life stories SAT versus the media's desire to shape them. SAT SAT Clive's treading the boards with actor Barrie Rutter who, 20 SAT years ago this month, founded Northern Broadsides; a unique SAT theatre company with a true northern voice. As Artistic SAT Director, Barrie has delighted audiences with a growing SAT classic repertoire. Northern Broadsides presents 'A SAT Government Inspector' at Harrogate Theatre from Friday 13th SAT September. SAT SAT Danny Wallace makes some noise for actor, comedian and vocal SAT gymnast Michael Winslow. Famously starring as Sergeant SAT Larvelle 'Motor Mouth' Jones in the Police Academy films, SAT Michael imitates the impossible using only his voice. His SAT 'Man of 10,000 Voices' UK tour runs until Friday 29th June SAT and then on to the Edinburgh Festival in August. SAT SAT And from one great voice to another, Clive discovers what SAT the Dickens actress Miriam Margolyes is up to! Miriam talks SAT about her internationally acclaimed work on stage, radio and SAT film. As a lifelong admirer of the work of Charles Dickens, SAT Miriam performs as 23 of his colourful characters in her SAT one-woman show. 'Dicken's Women' tours the UK until Saturday SAT 13th October. SAT SAT With musical merriment from Moulettes, who play 'Country SAT Joy' from their album 'The Bear's Revenge'. SAT SAT And Sweden's First Aid Kit perform their latest colourful SAT single 'Blue' from their album 'The Lion's Roar'. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01k1lrx (Listen) SAT Series 12, The Dangers of Extreme Cheerfulness SAT SAT The return of the award-winning series in which writers SAT create a fictional response to the week's news continues SAT with a satirical comedy from Deborah Levy, the novelist, SAT playwright and Freud expert. The Dangers of Extreme SAT Cheerfulness takes it's inspiration from the publication SAT this week of a report into the inequalities in care for SAT those suffering from mental illness. SAT SAT To complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, SAT our weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major SAT story from the week's news. The form and content are SAT entirely lead by the news topic - so drama can come in many SAT guises, as well as poetry and prose. SAT SAT It's uniquely radio - an instant reaction to the mood of the SAT moment - a concept impossible to imagine in any other SAT medium. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01k1lrz (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT The Last of the Haussmans SAT SAT The Last of the Haussmans continues at the National Theatre, SAT London until 10th October 2012. SAT SAT Silent Souls SAT SAT Silent Souls is in selected cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT Yoko Ono -To the Light SAT SAT Yoko Ono -To the Light continues at the Serpentine Gallery SAT until 9th September 2012. Admission is free. SAT SAT Veep SAT SAT Veep begins on Sky Atlantic on Monday 25th June at 10:00pm. SAT SAT Ancient Light SAT SAT Ancient Light by John Banville is published by Viking Adult. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01k1ls1 (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back: Series 4, Clive James SAT SAT Clive James was seldom off our television screens in the 80s SAT and 90s. His shows like "Saturday Night Clive" and "Clive SAT James on Television", featured clips of TV around the world SAT and pioneered many techniques that we take for granted SAT today. SAT SAT But throughout this time, he was also writing memoirs, poems SAT and critical essays. After leaving his native Australia, he SAT began his career writing for literary magazines and later SAT became the TV critic of "The Observer". SAT SAT This more serious side has often been overlooked because of SAT his TV fame. But, having left TV presenting behind and now SAT having been diagnosed with leukaemia, Clive is re-assessing SAT his life and legacy. SAT SAT In "Meeting Myself Coming Back", Clive hears clips from SAT moments in his life and discusses his reaction to them with SAT John Wilson. We hear a recording from his student days in SAT Cambridge performing a comic monologue at a college "Smoker" SAT event. There are clips from early appearances on radio, in SAT the company of the novelist Kingsley Amis and also his first SAT attempts at writing and performing on television. SAT SAT We also hear extracts from his TV shows of the 80s and 90s, SAT when, in addition to his shows about television, he SAT presented travel programmes and a series considering the SAT nature and history of fame in the 20th century. SAT SAT In an honest and penetrating look back at his life, Clive SAT discusses his achievements, his past mistakes and his SAT illness. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01jwfwv (Listen) SAT Songs and Lamentations, Episode 1 SAT SAT Songs and Lamentations by Michael Symmons Roberts SAT interweaving new translations of two powerful books of the SAT Bible: the 'Song of Songs' - the most sensual biblical love SAT poetry; and the 'Book of Lamentations' - its most searing SAT poetry of violence and vengeance. SAT SAT Through a fresh contemporary translation working with SAT Biblical historians, the reverberations in these texts throw SAT light on current events in the same part of the world. SAT SAT Jeremiah Peter Hamilton-Dyer SAT Rachel Gillian Kearney SAT Pashur Russell Dixon SAT Nathan Tom Ferguson SAT Zedekiah David Seddon SAT Thomas Henry Devas SAT Samuel Patrick Lally SAT Ana Deborah McAndrew SAT SAT Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts SAT SAT A powerful story of the horrific destruction of a once great SAT city, and the love story of a couple who find hope and SAT solace in each other offering two very different SAT perspectives on the days leading up to the destruction of SAT Jerusalem by the Babylonian armies in 587 BC. SAT SAT Set in the middle east, this poetry of violence, heat, SAT passion and vengeance has clear resonance with the SAT intractable cycle of violence - and the survival of love - SAT in that same part of the world 2500 years on. The themes and SAT wisdom of 'Song of Songs' and 'Lamentations' have never been SAT more current or more apposite. SAT SAT The two episodes mesh together to form a single drama SAT looking at the same last days of Jerusalem from two very SAT different perspectives. SAT SAT Seen through the eyes of Jeremiah, the troubled prophet. SAT Crippled by poverty and oppression, Jerusalem's streets are SAT buzzing with talk of revolution. King Zedekiah needs a grand SAT gesture to hold on to power. His advisers are urging him to SAT raise an army to overthrow the Babylonians, but there is one SAT siren voice against an uprising - Jeremiah. So Zedekiah has SAT him arrested. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01jxtz0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b01jmx0p (Listen) SAT Niall Ferguson: The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012, The SAT Human Hive SAT SAT The eminent economic historian Professor Niall Ferguson SAT argues that institutions determine the success or failure of SAT nations. In a lecture delivered at the London School of SAT Economics and Political Science, he says that a society SAT governed by abstract, impersonal rules will become richer SAT than one ruled by personal relationships. The rule of law is SAT crucial to the creation of a modern economy and its early SAT adoption is the reason why Western nations grew so powerful SAT in the modern age. SAT SAT But are the institutions of the West now degenerating? SAT Professor Ferguson asks whether the democratic system has a SAT fatal flaw at its heart. In the West young people are SAT confronting the fact that they must live with the huge SAT financial debt generated by their parents, something they SAT had no control over despite the fact that they were born SAT into a democracy. Is there a way of restoring the compact SAT between different generations? SAT SAT Producer: Jane Beresford. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01jwk68 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 9 SAT SAT (9/13) SAT Which opera features the aria known in English as the 'Jewel SAT song'? And which American poet and singer published a SAT prize-winning memoir entitled 'Just Kids'? SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini is in the chair for the last of the heats in SAT the current series of the wide-ranging music quiz. SAT Contestants from Lancashire, Staffordshire and County Down SAT compete at Media City in Salford, for the one remaining SAT place in the 2012 semi-finals. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01jwfwz (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests, including SAT readings of poems both old and new by the Irish poet Paul SAT Durcan - one of which is in celebration of fathers. SAT SAT Also, Lucy Black reads poems by Charlotte Mew, John Donne, SAT Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, John Keats, Emily Bronte, SAT George Byron and John Freeman. SAT SAT Producer Beth O'Dea. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 JUNE 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01k1c4x (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Midsummer Tales b01k1llb (Listen) SUN Count from the Splash SUN SUN By Helen Dunmore. In Finland, at a party to celebrate SUN midsummer night, a woman bumps into a friend from her SUN childhood at a party. Read by Tracy Wiles. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01k1c4z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01k1c51 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01k1c53 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01k1c55 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01k1lld (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary and St Chad, Brewood in Staffordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01jxryn (Listen) SUN Series 3, Mitu Khandaker SUN SUN Computer games present a wonderful opportunity to know SUN ourselves - a slow bombardment of opportunities for SUN self-reflective thought - says Mitu Khandaker. SUN SUN She argues that to look beyond the violent and mindless SUN games of popular caricature is to see a new medium which SUN represents the culmination of all our previous artistic SUN forms - literature, film, painting, music. Parts of all of SUN these, she says, can coalesce in games. 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 b01k1c57 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01k1n5b (Listen) SUN Getting Away with It SUN SUN Felicity Finch reflects on the balance of insecurity and SUN confidence in our lives which can prompt us to feel we are SUN 'getting away with it'. From the idea that we are impostors SUN in our own lives, pretending to play a role we feel we're SUN ill-equipped to perform, to the deliberate attempt to SUN deceive others without facing the consequences. SUN SUN Including readings from Paul Dunbar, John Cheever, and SUN Hilary Mantel; alongside music by Bessie Smith, Fritz SUN Kreisler and Matteo Carcassi and an interview with Professor SUN Athene Donald. SUN SUN Produced by Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01k2b0m (Listen) SUN The beef industry is thriving as the price of the Sunday SUN roast keeps on rising. Caz Graham visits the Scottish SUN Borders where farmers are making the most of the boom. SUN SUN Demand for beef in Britain is outstripping supply, and SUN Scottish beef is now worth more than its English equivalent, SUN giving the best opportunities for beef farmers in over 50 SUN years. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Moira Hickey. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01k1c59 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01k1c5c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01k2b0p (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01k1n54 (Listen) SUN Refugee Action SUN SUN Case worker Santok Odedra appeals on behalf of Refugee SUN Action SUN Reg Charity: 283660 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Refugee Action. SUN SUN Refugee Action SUN SUN Santok Odedra works for the charity Refugee Action. She�s a SUN lifeline for asylum seekers who�ve become destitute in the SUN UK. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01k1c5f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01k1c5h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01k2b0r (Listen) SUN A service from Tabernacle Baptist Church in Cardiff, SUN exploring how people of faith respond to seemingly SUN intractable problems, The preacher is the Rev Roy Jenkins SUN and The Ardwyn Singers are directed by David Michael SUN Leggett. The organist is Janice Ball. Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01jxw57 (Listen) SUN What to do about a bad review SUN SUN Adam Gopnik ruminates on how to handle a bad review. SUN SUN He ponders the various options. The first is to ignore it SUN and claim the high moral ground, "the Big Ignore" he calls SUN it. The second is to write a late night letter - or three - SUN to the offending publication. But he now has a third option SUN - passed on by a friend just the other evening - which he SUN promises will produce delightful results. SUN SUN An amusing guide on how to get your own back on your SUN critics. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01k2b1l (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01k2b25 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... John Yorke SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer .....Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesborough SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Amy Franks ..... Jennifer Daley SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Elona Makepeace ..... Eri Shuka SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Caller ..... Joe Sims SUN Bernie ..... Laurence Saunders SUN Carl Lawrence ..... Nicholas Bailey. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01k2b32 (Listen) SUN John Bishop SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the comedian John Bishop. SUN SUN Growing up on a Merseyside council estate, his early SUN ambition was to play football for Liverpool - otherwise, he SUN thought he might find a way out by winning the Pools or SUN joining a band. The youngest of four children, his family SUN were, he says, the kind that filled factory floors rather SUN than lecture halls. Now a hugely popular stand-up comedian, SUN it was a failing marriage and a sense of desperation that SUN led him, one night, to a comedy bar. He decided to give it a SUN try - it turned his life, and marriage, around. SUN SUN "There was a time where the stand-up was the thing that I SUN think kept me sane - it was like therapy and if I stopped SUN doing it, I would go backwards." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01jwk6g (Listen) SUN Series 63, Episode 6 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. Last in series. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01k2b3j (Listen) SUN The Olympic Menu SUN SUN Sheila Dillon meets Jan Matthews head of the UK's biggest SUN catering job, organising food for the Olympics, London 2012 SUN to ask how successful she's been with the "Olympic Food SUN Vision" that promised to showcase the best of British food. SUN SUN She also meets the Chair of London Food, Rosie Boycott to SUN hear the latest on the city's growing initiative that aims SUN to be part of the Olympic food legacy. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01k1c5k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01k2b45 (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 Secret Catacombs of Paris b01b9h73 (Listen) SUN Famously known as the City of Light, Paris is a diverse SUN metropolis rich in architecture and steeped in history. But SUN it has a dark alter ego that lies 30 metres under the SUN ground, mirroring centuries of bloody wars, revolutions and SUN riots on the surface. For Paris is porous - built on 177 SUN miles of tunnels that were formed when limestone and gypsum SUN were quarried to build the capital. Most people are only SUN aware of just a tiny fraction of these tunnels - the world SUN famous ossuary known as The Catacombs. The authorities have SUN tried to keep a lid on the full extent of the labyrinthine SUN remainder for hundreds of years. But there are little known SUN entry points everywhere - in basements, in train stations, SUN cellars and sewers. Throughout history, invaders have always SUN found a way in, whether they were fighting Prussian SUN soldiers, fleeing royalty of the French Revolution, the SUN Nazis or The Resistance. Today they're home to the SUN cataphiles - urban explorers who use the tunnels as an art SUN space, a music venue or even a clandestine meeting point for SUN secret societies. SUN The Guardian's architecture and design correspondent SUN Jonathan Glancey investigates the underground maze of Paris, SUN revealing a mysterious and intriguing history. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01jxw4l (Listen) SUN Postbag Edition SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel are in the potting shed at SUN Sparsholt College, answering the questions you've sent in by SUN post and e-mail. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01k2b67 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover presents the Sunday edition of Radio 4's series SUN capturing the nation in conversation. Today's programme SUN focuses on the residents of the North London Borough which SUN is the focus of BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend - Hackney, with SUN its diverse and colourful community. SUN SUN We hear from Oby and Rebekah about the consequences of their SUN childhood as Jehovah's Witnesses, from Ashley and Raj about SUN friendship in childhood and beyond, and from Gabin and Paul, SUN Kerry and Duncan and Victoria and Nathaniel about their SUN lives - all lived in Hackney. 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: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01k2bpw (Listen) SUN Songs and Lamentations, Episode 2 SUN SUN Songs and Lamentations , a new translation of the two SUN biblical books Lamentations and Song of Songs by Michael SUN Symmons Roberts . A powerful story of the horrific SUN destruction of a once great city, and the love story of a SUN couple who find hope and solace in each other offering two SUN very different, but complementary, perspectives on the days SUN leading up to the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian SUN armies in 587 BC. SUN SUN Set in the middle east, this poetry of violence, heat, SUN passion and vengeance has clear resonance with the SUN intractable cycle of violence - and the survival of love - SUN in that same part of the world 2500 years on. The themes and SUN wisdom of 'Song of Songs' and 'Lamentations' have never been SUN more current or more apposite. SUN SUN Jeremiah Peter Hamilton-Dyer SUN Rachel Gillian Kearney SUN Pashur Russell Dixon SUN Nathan Tom Ferguson SUN Zedekiah David Seddon SUN Thomas Henry Devas SUN Samuel Patrick Lally SUN Ana Deborah McAndrew SUN SUN Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts SUN SUN 2. Although left to starve by the King, the jailed Jeremiah SUN is kept alive by the young servant girl from the palace, who SUN brings him food, ostensibly because she wants to help him. SUN But she has another motive. SUN SUN She is meeting a man nearby, one of the King's own SUN ministers. Love between a minister and a servant is SUN impossible. Nonetheless they flirt and entice each other, in SUN the poetry of the Song of Songs. SUN SUN Day by day, pressure mounts on the King. The people want SUN revolution against the Babylonians, but Jeremiah the SUN prophet's warnings are unsettling him. SUN SUN The impossible love of the couple in Song of Songs becomes SUN an elegy for the city SUN SUN And its people. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01k2bq2 (Listen) SUN Adele Parks on the continuing appeal of Chick Lit SUN SUN Regarded by many as a derisory and dismissive label the SUN impact of Chick Lit, reflecting the lifestyles and SUN experiences of modern women has been enormous, perhaps SUN single handedly responsible for putting books on supermarket SUN shelves and expanding the market. SUN More used to being ignored than celebrated or reviewed in SUN the press, the sudden downturn in print sales has ironically SUN led to reams of headlines questioning the genre's survival.! SUN Two of its most successful and popular practitioners Jane SUN Green and Adele Parks discuss why it arouses such passion. SUN SUN Women's reading has had a rich and chequered history - in SUN ancient Babylonia there were at least 14 female scribes and SUN Eleanor of Aquitaine is depicted on her tomb holding a book. SUN However in nineteenth century Britain, it was a common SUN assumption that excessive or inappropriate reading, SUN particularly of novels, could induce women to hysteria and SUN madness. Belinda Jack explores the history of women's SUN reading and the controversies it's inspired. SUN SUN We continue our series exploring how writers have been SUN inspired by the landscape. This week Jamie Andrews, lead SUN curator of the British Library's Writing Britain: Wastelands SUN to Wonderlands discusses Rural Dreams; how the countryside SUN has been the source of inspiration for many of the great SUN literary classics SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01k2br8 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' poetry SUN requests, including specially recorded readings by the Irish SUN poet Paul Durcan - one of which is his acerbic and amusing SUN commentary on the recession in Ireland. Also, Lucy Black SUN reads poems by William Blake, Milton, John Clare, Christina SUN Rossetti, Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01jxrdf (Listen) SUN Secret Justice SUN SUN Ministers want to extend secret hearings to Britain's civil SUN courts - so judges can deal with the increasing number of SUN cases involving the intelligence services. SUN SUN Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says it is the only way that SUN judges can hear the testimony of spies working for MI5, MI6 SUN or GCHQ. Getting them to give evidence in open court is not SUN an option, he says. SUN SUN A small number of courts already hold secret sessions to SUN consider appeals from individuals facing deportation on SUN evidence compiled by the security services. But how well SUN does the system work? File on 4 hears evidence from lawyers SUN who are concerned about the quality of some of the testimony SUN given behind closed doors. SUN SUN And the programme has learned of a growing number of closed SUN justice cases being heard in Employment Tribunals where SUN people are claiming they were sacked because they pose a SUN risk to national security. Because the Tribunals are hearing SUN evidence in secret, the claimants are unable to get further SUN details of why they were dismissed. SUN SUN Gerry Northam explores the operation of secret justice in SUN British courts and asks whether its extension to more cases SUN would be in the national interest. SUN Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01k1lrx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01k1c5m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01k1c5p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01k1c5r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01k2btr (Listen) SUN Val McDermid makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN This week, the radio waves have been humming with the SUN possibility of change. We hear Clive James acknowledging the SUN approaching terminus of his life and the transformative SUN power of words; Midge Ure whose life was changed by an SUN androgynous alien; and Albie Sachs, who helped build the new SUN South Africa. To hear all these and more, Val McDermid SUN encourages you to change your life with Pick of the Week. SUN SUN The Essay: Strange Justice ep 1- Radio 3 SUN Are You Inexperienced? - Radio 4 SUN Meeting Myself Coming Back - Radio 4 SUN Mordrin McDonald - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Drama: Flying Backwards - Radio 4 SUN The New Elizabethans: Francis Crick - Radio 4 SUN Sniffing Out Danger - Radio 4 SUN The Archers - Radio 4 SUN An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk - Radio 4 SUN Hooray, I'm a Single Parent - Radio 1 SUN Don't Log Off - Radio 4 SUN The Stardust Memories - Radio 4 SUN The Infinite Monkey Cage - Radio 4 SUN United Irishmen - Radio 4 SUN Honest Doubt - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01k1n50 (Listen) SUN While things are falling apart at Brookfield, Jamie acquires SUN a fan club. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b01bbb6d (Listen) SUN Gustave Flaubert SUN SUN Author of the Week is Gustave Flaubert - French modernist SUN novelist and firebrand, who created perhaps the best novel SUN of all time in the form of "Madame Bovary". SUN SUN Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by SUN comedy writer and author of "May Contain Nuts", John SUN O'Farrell, and literary critic and Guardian journalist, Alex SUN Clark to answer questions about the great Frenchman's life SUN and work. SUN SUN For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine a SUN 2012 update of Flaubert's "Dictionary of Received Ideas". SUN SUN 19:45 Sailors' Knots b01k1n52 (Listen) SUN The Head of the Family SUN SUN Written by W.W. Jacobs. SUN SUN Published in 1909, Sailors' Knots 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 SUN Ginger Dick) and often deal with marital spats, SUN misunderstandings, and rascals getting their just rewards. SUN SUN Mark Williams reads the last in the series when, in a case SUN of mistaken identity, a young sailor becomes part of a SUN family he's never met before. 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 wharf manager SUN at the South Devon Wharf at Lower East Smithfield, and his SUN early observation of merchant ships and the behaviour of SUN their crews informed his many humorous tales. SUN SUN Abridged by Roy Apps SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01jxw4s (Listen) SUN Does Radio 1 have too many celebrity presenters? Are they SUN too old? And is Chris Moyles going to leave the Breakfast SUN Show? In this week's Feedback two listeners meet controller SUN Ben Cooper and quiz him about his station. Plus, as Radio SUN 1's Hackney Weekend music festival comes to East London, SUN Roger finds out what Radio and 1Xtra are doing to encourage SUN new radio talent. Presenter Chantelle Jones tells him why SUN she thought someone from her background could never be on SUN the radio. SUN SUN Last weekend Radio 4 had a Bloomfest to mark Bloomsday, SUN celebrating James Joyce's novel with a five and a half hour SUN dramatisation. Was it awesome or awful? We put your SUN reactions to the commissioning editor for drama, Jeremy SUN Howe, and ask him if he plans to give any other novels the SUN one day treatment. SUN SUN Plus, we launch Drop Out Watch. Many listeners feel the SUN number of programmes dropping off air or correspondents SUN disappearing mid-sentence is increasing. Is it? If so, SUN what's the cause? Send us any examples from any BBC network SUN and we will attempt to diagnose the condition. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01jxw4q (Listen) SUN Rodney King, Teofilo Stevenson, Gitta Sereny and Victor SUN Spinetti SUN SUN Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories SUN of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew SUN Bannister. SUN SUN Rodney King SUN SUN Rodney spoke to Matthew in an interview last May. SUN SUN Born 2 April 1965; died 17 June 2012 aged 47. SUN SUN Teofilo Stevenson SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the boxing historian John McDonald and to SUN the journalist and former boxer Hugh Russell. SUN SUN Born 29 March 1952; died 11 June 2012 aged 60. SUN SUN Gitta Sereny SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her publisher Stuart Proffitt and to her SUN friend the journalist and broadcaster Isabel Hilton. SUN SUN Born 13 March 1921; died 14 June 2012 aged 91. SUN SUN Victor Spinetti SUN SUN Matthew spoke to Victor's friends the actresses Barbara SUN Windsor and Adrienne Corrie; to Barry Burnett who was SUN Victor�s agent for twenty years and to Hunter Davies who SUN wrote the official biography of the Beatles. SUN SUN Born 2 September 1929; died 18 June 2012 aged 82. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01k1ljc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01k1n54 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01jwk7m (Listen) SUN Cameron's Swede Dreams SUN SUN What's so great about Sweden? The British left has long been SUN obsessed with Sweden. Now the Conservatives are too. Little SUN wonder: the country always tops the global charts for SUN happiness and social cohesion; its economy is dynamic and SUN its deficit is low. SUN SUN In this week's Analysis, Jo Fidgen investigates the "Swedish SUN model" and the British obsession with it. She finds the SUN country is more conservative than people think, with its SUN centre-right government's generous welfare state depending SUN on very traditional notions of trust and social cohesion. At SUN the root of Swedish conservativism is what the experts call SUN a "Swedish theory of love" - in which the state is seen as SUN the defender of the individual. Could this idea ever work SUN for Britain? Sweden has provided a blue-print for David SUN Cameron's Conservatives and their "Big Society" reforms, but SUN many in Sweden argue that they are being misunderstood by SUN Britain's Tories. Jo also looks at how, as Sweden struggles SUN to become more multicultural, the "Swedish model" itself may SUN in fact be unravelling. SUN SUN Producer: Mukul Devichand. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01k1n56 (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 b01k1n58 (Listen) SUN Episode 109 SUN SUN Iain Martin of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01jxtdw (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with actor, screenwriter and puppeteer, SUN Jason Segel to discuss his new film The Five Year Engagement SUN and the box-office success, The Muppets. SUN SUN Critic Scott Jordan Harris dissects Carol Reed's IRA drama SUN from 1947, Odd Man Out, starring James Mason. SUN SUN Director Nadine Labaki on her new film, Where Do We Go Now?, SUN which puts the religious tensions between Christians and SUN Muslims in Lebanon under the microscope. SUN SUN Veteran British director Stephen Frears talks about his SUN gambling comedy, Lay the favourite, starring Bruce Willis SUN and Rebecca Hall. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01k1n5b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 JUNE 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01k1c6r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01jxrtp (Listen) MON Hostility to tax; Mumbai slums MON MON Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury MON hotels near Mumbai's international airport. The Pulitzer MON prize winning writer, Katherine Boo, spent 4 years hearing MON the stories of the slum dwellers who stand little chance of MON joining the 'new' Indian middle class. She talks to Laurie MON Taylor about her new book "Behind the Beautiful Forevers: MON Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum". Also, the MON sociologist, Jeff Kidder, highlights new research which MON analyses why so many Americans are morally opposed to MON taxation. They're joined by British sociologist, Peter MON Taylor Gooby, who's researched British attitudes to tax. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01k1lld (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01k1c6t (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01k1c6w (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01k1c6y (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01k1c70 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k2cdg (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01k2cdl (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The MON presenter was Charlotte Smith and the producer was Angela MON Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01k1c72 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01k2cdn (Listen) MON Presented by Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01k2cg0 (Listen) MON The 'life unlived' with Adam Phillips and Helen Dunmore MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr goes in search of a better MON life. The psychoanalyst Adam Phillips praises the life MON unlived: the people we have failed to be, and explores how MON far frustration is interlinked with satisfaction. While the MON philosopher Julian Baggini argues that Aristotle has more to MON tell us about how to live than Freud. The writer Helen MON Dunmore slips between past and present, and in her latest MON collection of poems stories of loss intermingle with MON rediscovery. And the scientist Frances Ashcroft has MON transformed the lives of those born with diabetes, and MON discusses how her breakthrough gave meaning to her own life. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01k1lp3 (Listen) MON Damn His Blood, Episode 1 MON MON 'Damn him!' he swore. 'There is no more harm in shooting him MON than a mad dog!' MON MON The brutal murder of the Reverend George Parker in the rural MON village of Oddingley on Midsummer's Day in 1806 gripped the MON nation. It was a strange and stubborn case in an isolated MON Worcester village still bound by superstition and folklore. MON The investigation, in a time before Robert Peel's police MON force, lasted nearly a quarter of a century, and involved MON inquests, judges and coroners, each more determined than the MON last to solve Oddingley's most gruesome crime - or crimes, MON as it transpired. MON MON Peter Moore's account of the infamous case is a also MON fascinating glimpse into the darker side of English rural MON life at the beginning of the nineteenth century, far away MON from the civilised drawing rooms of Jane Austen. The country MON was exhausted and nervous: dogged by Pitt's war taxes, MON mounting inflation and the lingering threat of a French MON invasion, violence was rife, particularly in rural MON communities where outsiders were regarded with deep MON suspicion. With a cast of characters straight out of Hardy, MON 'Damn His Blood' is also a gripping true story of brutality, MON greed and ruthlessness in a rural community gone wildly MON astray. MON MON Peter Moore is a young literary historian and journalist, MON who is currently teaching Creative Writing at City MON University in London. MON MON Abridger: Viv Beeby MON Producer: Justine Willett MON The Reader is Alex Jennings, who is currently appearing in MON The Collaborators as Mikhail Bulgakov at the National MON Theatre and is currently starring in Silk on BBC One. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01k2cgg (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k2ckm (Listen) MON The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 3, Episode 1 MON MON The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles - Episode One MON by Esther Wilson MON MON Award winning drama series returns with a further five MON enchanting episodes in the life of Darleen Fyles, a young MON woman with learning disabilities. Starring Donna Lavin and MON Edmund Davies - actors with learning disabilities. Darleen MON and Jamie go on honeymoon to Scarborough but it doesn't turn MON out as well as they'd hoped. MON Created in part through improvisation and inspired by true MON stories. MON Darleen Fyles ..... Donna Lavin MON Jamie Cook ...... Edmund Davies MON Treena ...... Lesley Nicol MON Bob ..... Stephen Chapman MON Elsa ..... Judith Barker MON Pat ..... Janice McKenzie MON MON 11:00 The Heath Caper b01k2cnn (Listen) MON This is a tale of blackmail and political intrigue involving MON the Czechoslovakian Security Services during the Cold War MON and a future British prime minister. It is a spy story in MON which John Le Carre's 'Smiley's People' meets the political MON thriller 'House of Cards'. It centres on an allegation made MON by the Czech defector Josef Frolik in a book published in MON the 1970s after he had fled to the United States. Frolik MON claimed that his colleagues had hatched an unsuccessful plot MON to blackmail the upcoming politician and future Conservative MON prime minister Edward Heath in the 1960s. Heath denied all MON knowledge of it at the time and the story was forgotten MON after Margaret Thatcher took over the Conservative Party MON leadership and went on to become prime minister. MON MON Now, more than forty years later, the BBC's Security MON Correspondent Gordon Corera attempts to unravel the truth MON behind what became known as 'The Heath Caper'. Nothing is MON what it seems. Corera travels to Prague where he talks to MON the man who was said to be behind the plot - Jan Mrazek, now MON in his eighties, a former Major in the Czechoslovakian MON intelligence service during the Cold War. MON MON Mrazek ran one of the most successful Czech agents in MON Britain when he worked at his country's embassy in London, MON mixing with leading politicians and British trade unionists. MON His personal file in the security service's archives is now MON open to the public and boasts of his success in gathering MON intelligence for his communist masters and recruiting new MON agents willing to betray their country. But there is no MON mention of the plot. Mrazek insists that Frolik made it all MON up, urged on by right wingers who wanted to discredit Heath MON in order to give Margaret Thatcher free rein in her bid to MON become PM. MON MON Who, then, is telling the truth? MON MON 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b018csyv (Listen) MON Series 3, Basingstoke MON MON Episode 3 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the MON residents of Basingstoke, where he talks about war with the MON Salvation Army, prehistoric roundabouts and a rather unusual MON world record set in a shopping centre. 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 b01k2cp2 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01k2cqp (Listen) MON Benjamin Britten MON MON The New Elizabethans: Benjamin Britten. One of the greatest MON composers of the 20th century. A conductor and musician of MON gifted brilliance, Britten was writing symphonies from the MON age of twelve and learning from the composer Frank Bridge in MON his early teens. MON MON A pacifist during WWII he travelled through America with the MON singer Peter Pears (who would later become his life-long MON companion) and befriended writers like W.H.Auden and MON Christopher Isherwood. MON MON He is famous for operas like Peter Grimes, choral works such MON as The War Requiem which he wrote for the reconsecration of MON Coventry Cathedral and enjoyed composing for children: The MON Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is one of his best MON known pieces. MON MON He founded the Aldeburgh Festival on the Suffolk coast, MON which continues to this day, and the Britten-Pears MON Foundation still promotes his work with Peter Pears. He MON refused a knighthood but was a member of the Order of Merit MON and accepted a life peerage in 1976. 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 Producer: Clare Walker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01k1c74 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01k2crj (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 The Cave b01k2crl (Listen) MON The Cave Horse MON MON A drawing of a horse scratched onto a cave wall is vividly MON brought to life in this dramatic story where dreams become MON reality. MON Creswell Crags is a ravine riddled with caves on the MON Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border. Here in a cave called MON Church Hole, the earliest example of cave art in Britain was MON discovered in 2003. This artwork which includes a horse MON scratched onto the wall is the inspiration for the first of MON five illustrated essays by different writers on the theme of MON 'The Cave'. Writer, naturalist and broadcaster Paul Evans MON considers the significance and symbolism of the cave horse. MON He reflects on whether it is more than a pictorial MON representation of an animal. Creswell Crags were also the MON inspiration for the painter George Stubbs. He studied horse MON anatomy and paintings such as Horse Frightened by a Lion and MON Horse Devoured by a Lion, are visual dramas set against a MON backdrop inspired by Creswell caves. Paul discusses not only MON on the work of George Stubbs, but also Henry David Thoreau, MON Byron and Ted Hughes all of whom have been inspired by wild MON nature but who have also been aware Man's attempts to tame, MON capture and enslave wild nature. What would happen if the MON cave horse could break free? MON Writer : Paul Evans MON Narrators: Paul Evans and Adjoa Andoh MON Wildlife sound recordist: Chris Watson MON Producer: Sarah Blunt. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01k1n50 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k2cvk (Listen) MON Hackney Baths MON MON By award-winning writer Arinze Kene. When three friends MON break into an East London swimming pool in the middle of the MON night, a childhood game becomes a dark and dangerous battle MON for control. Part of the London Season. MON MON Aaron ... Richie Campbell MON Lucy ... Seroca Davis MON Mike ... Charles Mnene MON MON Directed by Abigail le Fleming MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b01k2dbf (Listen) MON Series 26, Episode 10 MON MON (10/13) MON Which great composer's only oratorio was called 'Christ on MON the Mountain of Olives'? MON MON And what was particularly strange about the B-side of the MON 1960s novelty hit 'They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-ha!'? MON MON Paul Gambaccini puts these and many other questions about MON music in all its variety, to the first batch of MON semi-finalists for 2012. The pace really hots up in the MON competition, as those who've already won their heats go MON all-out for a coveted place in the Final. Today's winner MON clears another hurdle on the way to possibly becoming the MON 26th Counterpoint champion. MON MON As always, the questions cover the classics, show tunes, MON jazz, film music, rock and pop. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01k2b3j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Stuart: A Face Backwards b01k2df5 (Listen) MON Stuart Freeborn's face has launched a thousand space ships, MON his hands have fashioned the Dawn of Man. Freeborn is the MON self made genius of British make-up, beginning his career at MON the Denham studios in the late 1930's. In those days there MON were no websites, no books, just a few scant pages in the MON film magazines on the secret science of film make-up. But MON Freeborn, yearning for a life beyond his father's Pooterish MON plan of City clerking, transformed himself at home, alone, MON before startling neighbours with his suburban appearances as MON Frankenstein and even Haile Selassie. Eventually Freeborn MON talked his way into Alexander Korda's shiny new dream MON factory of Denham. MON MON Innovative, obsessive and secretive, he was taxed with the MON controversial Fagin makeup for Alec Guinness in Lean's MON Oliver Twist, the many faces of Peter Sellars in Kubrick's MON Dr Strangelove and the seemingly impossible creation of the MON ape families for the Dawn of Man sequence in 2001: A Space MON Odyssey. His is a career littered with achievement finally MON peaking with the creation of Yoda for George Lucas, bringing MON make-up into the age of prosthetics and mechanics. MON MON Shortly before his collection was scattered and sold off, MON Mark Burman visited Freeborn's garden shed of secrets. MON Where, amongst the cobwebs, Peter Sellar's head nestled next MON to a severed arm & lightsabre and ape feet lay in boxes MON along with sets of Wookie teeth. Burman teases out a long MON life in make-up and hears from some of those under MON Freeborn's magic skins like Dan Richter (Moonwatcher in MON 2001), Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca) & Frank Oz who breathed life MON into Yoda as well as Nick Dudman, today one of Britain's MON leading make-up artists who began his own apprenticeship MON under this very English sorcerer. MON MON Presenter & Producer Mark Burman. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01k1ngp (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 2 MON MON Brian Cox and Robin Ince take to the stage at this year's MON Cheltenham Science Festival to discuss science mavericks. MON They are joined by comedian Marcus Brigstocke, medic and MON broadcaster Dr Kevin Fong, evolutionary biologist Aoife MON McLysaght and Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall. MON Marshall, an Australian physician, famously experimented on MON himself to prove his theory that a bacterium was responsible MON for most peptic ulcers. He drank the bacterium he suspected MON was the cause, and as a result reversed decades of medical MON doctrine. He and the rest of the panel discuss the role of MON mavericks in science, how new theories get accepted and MON whether you have to go to such extreme lengths to truly push MON the frontiers of our scientific understanding. MON MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b01k1ngr (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01k1c76 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01k1ngt (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 1 MON MON The 57th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment MON for all the family. The series starts its run at the Warwick MON Arts Centre as part of the Stratford-upon-Avon Literary MON Festival. Regulars Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are MON joined on the panel by Tony Hawks and Jeremy Hardy, with MON Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant chairman. Regular MON listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless MON revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - Jon MON Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01k1n3s (Listen) MON Adam has a narrow escape and Vicky is in her element. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01k1ngw (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k2ckm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Through Persian Eyes b01k1ngy (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Many in the west have described Iran as a rogue state. Yet MON this so-called rogue state has a recorded history that MON tracks back more than 3000 years. It is a civilization that MON has given rise over the millennia to philosophies and MON religions, to science and medicine, to architecture and the MON arts. MON MON But these are contributions that are often overlooked. We MON tend to construct history through the prism of the Greek and MON Roman empires. We see their influences on contemporary MON western civilisation. But the Persians fought the Greeks to MON a standstill and successfully withstood the might of the MON Roman Empire. Embracing the teachings of the prophet MON Zoroaster, they built a culture in 500 BC that helped shape MON the Near East and beyond. In the 11th century AD, Iran was MON home to the golden age of Islam. MON MON From that great age we recognize the Persian polymath Omar MON Khayyam. But there are others that few in the West know, MON poets and thinkers like Avicenna, Hafiz, Saadi and Ferdowsi MON who continue to have pride of place with Iranians today. MON MON In this three-part series Professor Ali Ansari argues that MON world history takes on a different hue when seen through MON Persian eyes, as he takes the listener on a grand journey MON from ancient past to immediate present. MON MON Professor Ansari is one of the world's leading experts on MON Iran and its history. Professor Ansari's books include Iran, MON Islam and Democracy: the politics of managing change, MON Confronting Iran and The Politics of Nationalism in Modern MON Iran. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01k1nh0 (Listen) MON Eurogeddon II MON MON As the crisis in the Eurozone continues, Chris Bowlby MON examines what might eventually emerge and what that could MON mean for us. MON MON When Analysis looked at the possibility of a Greek exit from MON the Euro back in February, the topic was regarded as MON "thinking the unthinkable". Not so now. MON MON In this programme Chris Bowlby looks forward and asks if the MON Eurozone is headed for disintegration or, conversely, even MON closer political and economic union. What do either of those MON scenarios mean in practice and can the Eurozone survive? MON What are the implications for borders, cash movements and MON who controls the levers of power? MON MON Producer: John Murphy. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01jxtdy (Listen) MON So You Want to Be a Scientist - the finals MON MON The culmination of the BBC's Amateur Scientist of the Year. MON Adam Rutherford presents the finals of 'So You Want to Be a MON Scientist?' recorded in front of an audience at the MON Cheltenham Science Festival. MON MON This year's finalists are: MON MON - Izzy Thomlinson, an 18 year old student from Shropshire, MON is trying to find out why sounds like nails scratching a MON blackboard make some people squirm MON MON - Dara Djavan Khoshdel, a 25 year old mature student from MON Bournemouth, has been measuring whether our emotional MON reaction to art is correlated to its financial value MON MON - Val Watham, a 53 year old management consultant from MON Berkshire, has designed a study to investigate whether MON horizontal or vertical stripes are more flattering to wear MON MON - William Rudling, a 69 year old caricaturist from Leeds, MON wants to know whether people who look the same also sound MON the same MON MON The four finalists present their results to a panel of MON judges - solar scientist Dr Lucie Green from UCL, MON evolutionary biologist Dr Yan Wong from Bang Goes the Theory MON and science journalist Mark Henderson. MON MON After deliberating the merits of each experiment in terms of MON design, methodology and conclusion, the judges will choose MON the person they think deserves to become the next BBC MON Amateur Scientist of the Year. MON MON Producer: Michelle Martin. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01k2cg0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01k1c78 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01k1nh4 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01k1nn1 (Listen) MON Ru, Episode 1 MON MON 'Ru'. In Vietnamese it means lullaby, in French it is a MON small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, MON money. Kim Thuy's 'Ru' is literature at its most MON crystalline; the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and MON on to more peaceful waters MON MON Kim Thuy was one of the refugees who fled from Vietnam by MON boat. This is her haunting lullaby to the country of her MON birth and a letter of heartfelt thanks to Canada, her new MON homeland. Winner of the Governor General's prize when it was MON first published in French, it has now been translated into MON English. MON MON Read by the French actress Elodie Yung, who recently starred MON in the film of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Abridged and MON Produced by Jane Marshall Productions. MON MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b01jwk7r (Listen) MON Bone Idle MON MON As politicians seem to endlessly bang on about their passion MON for protecting 'hard working' families, Dominic Arkwright MON discusses the merits of idleness with Hardeep Singh Kohli, MON Stephanie Calman and Oliver Burkeman. MON Every week there seems to be a new report about how lazy MON we're becoming. Recent headlines have included "Lazy Brits MON Spend 36 Years sitting on their bottoms," and "Teenagers are MON too lazy to babysit." As Dominic wonders who has the time to MON know all of this, Hardeep Singh Kohli tells us how he's not MON had a week off in over ten years, Stephanie Calman extols MON the joys of being a slattern and Oliver Burkeman tells us MON why it's really important for us to step back and just stop. MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01k1nqk (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 JUNE 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01k1c89 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01k1lp3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01k1c8c (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01k1c8f (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01k1c8h (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01k1c8k (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01k1lpv (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01k1lpx (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter was Anna Hill and the producer was Clare Freeman. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01k1lpz (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Evan TUE Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Reith Lectures b01jmxqp (Listen) TUE Niall Ferguson: The Rule of Law and Its Enemies: 2012, The TUE Darwinian Economy TUE TUE The eminent economic historian Niall Ferguson travels to the TUE world's financial centre to deliver a lecture at the TUE New-York Historical Society. He reflects on the causes of TUE the global financial crisis, and argues that many people TUE have drawn erroneous conclusions from it about the role of TUE regulation. Is regulation, he asks, in fact "the disease of TUE which it purports to be the cure"? TUE Producer: Jane Beresford. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01k1lvc (Listen) TUE Damn His Blood, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: two months before the murder, Oddingley village is a TUE hotbed of feuds, oaths and superstition. TUE TUE Abridger: Viv Beeby TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE The Reader is Alex Jennings. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01k1lwl (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k1mvz (Listen) TUE The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Esther Wilson TUE TUE Comic and touching drama series about a young woman with TUE learning disabilities. TUE Darleen and Jamie decide to come home early from their TUE disastrous honeymoon in Scarborough. TUE There are some problems in consummating the marriage and TUE cooking dinner. TUE TUE Darleen Fyles ...... Donna Lavin TUE Jamie Cook ...... Edmund Davies TUE Treena ..... Lesley Nicol TUE Jay ..... Andrew Schofield TUE Bob ..... Stephen Chapman TUE Stacy .... Olivia Cosgrove TUE Pat ..... Janice McKenzie TUE Director/Producer ..... Pauline Harris TUE TUE 11:00 The Hunt for the Gay Whale b01k1mwp (Listen) TUE It may sound like a bumper sticker slogan but a new TUE generation of zoologists are hunting for gay whales - and TUE ducks, penguins and otters. They are painstakingly recording TUE examples of frottage, group sex, self pleasuring and aspects TUE of sexual behaviour which owe more to Fellini than Johnny TUE Morris. TUE TUE Classic Darwinian theory posits that sexual activity is TUE procreational in nature and serves the needs of evolution. TUE Whilst human beings often have recreational sexual activity, TUE this is seen as an anomalous result of human enculturation. TUE Animal sex is seen as having one purpose: breeding. TUE TUE To that end, Darwin dismissed or recategorised animal sexual TUE behaviours which did not seem to meet the procreational TUE model. If a male animal studded on another it was TUE categorised as "dominance behaviour." TUE TUE But a new generation of zoological enquiry aims to TUE re-examine animal sexual behaviour and address the tricky TUE issue of animal sexuality, a topic which is seen by some TUE zoologists as simply anthropomorphism, human projection onto TUE animal behaviour. TUE TUE Joan Roughgarden, a professor of biology at Stanford TUE University catalogued hundreds of varieties of what she TUE categorises as "homosexual" behaviour amongst animals for TUE her book Evolutions Rainbow. These include male big horn TUE sheep who bond through genital licking and anal intercourse, TUE or bottle nose dolphins who cavort in all male sexual TUE groups. Roughgarden claims to have discovered regular same TUE sex contact in 450 different species, proving, she says that TUE homosexuality, far from being an anomalous condition which TUE seems to be an evolutionary dead end, is an adaptive trait TUE that has been carefully preserved by natural selection. TUE TUE 11:30 John Barry - The Lost Tapes b01k1my3 (Listen) TUE One of Britain's premier film composers, John Barry was TUE renowned for his scores for the early James Bond films as TUE well as Midnight Cowboy, Out of Africa and Dances With TUE Wolves. The winner of five Oscars, Barry who passed away TUE last year was a private man - but 'John Barry - The Lost TUE Tapes offers a revealing insight into his working life TUE TUE Author and broadcaster Eddi Fiegel, during the course of TUE many extensive interviews with John for her biography, also TUE recorded a conversation for BBC radio, which was never TUE broadcast and considered lost - until now. TUE TUE Barry is a vivid raconteur and recounted the first decade of TUE his career, from fledgling pop musician and producer to TUE Oscar winning-composer. He also gave me some rare insights TUE into his song writing craft. TUE TUE He talked fondly about his early days with his instrumental TUE group The John Barry Seven, his recordings with Adam Faith, TUE the first venture into film and his remarkable recordings on TUE the James Bond movies. With the success of Goldfinger in TUE 1964, barely a week seemed to go by without John receiving a TUE new film commission. It was a prolific time for him and, TUE over the next two years, his scores included Thunderball, TUE Richard Lester's The Knack and The Ipcress File starring a TUE young Michael Caine. The pair became firm friends. TUE TUE John's Oscar winning score for Born Free made him an TUE international figure and the royal screening of the film saw TUE a leading British actor 'throw a fit' when upstaged in front TUE of the Royal family. TUE TUE Producer: John Sugar TUE A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01k1my7 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01k1my9 (Listen) TUE Dorothy Hodgkin TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Dorothy Hodgkin. 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 Dorothy Hodgkin was one of the most successful chemists of TUE the twentieth century, discovering the structures of TUE penicillin, insulin, and vitamin B12 through her TUE ground-breaking approach to crystallography. As well as TUE being the first woman to receive the Royal Society's Copley TUE medal, she also taught Margaret Roberts, who would go on to TUE become another New Elizabethan, Prime Minister Margaret TUE Thatcher. Despite their diverging political views, Mrs TUE Thatcher would frequently engage her old teacher in debate TUE and held her in the highest regard, even installing a TUE portrait of Hodgkin in Downing Street. She was, through and TUE through, a family person, mother of three and grandmother of TUE three more, prompting the Daily Mail headline as she won her TUE most prestigious award in October 1964, 'Grandmother wins TUE Nobel Prize'. TUE TUE The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading TUE historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of TUE London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic TUE Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, TUE Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. TUE TUE Producer: Alison Hughes TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01k1c8m (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01k1n24 (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE TUE 13:45 The Cave b01k1n26 (Listen) TUE Limestone, Water, Fire and Ice TUE TUE A Cave spirit, volcanic fumes, melting ice walls, hissing TUE noxious gases, groaning ice and the slow drip of time all TUE feature in this powerful immersion underground as wildlife TUE sound recordist Chris Watson recalls his experiences in two TUE very different cave systems; the limestone caves of Waitomo, TUE New Zealand, and the Kverkfj�ll ice caves in Iceland, in the TUE second of five illustrated talks by different writers on the TUE theme of THE CAVE TUE The Waitomo Caves are a large cave system on the North TUE island of New Zealand. The word 'Waitomo' is a Maori word, TUE 'wai' means water and 'tomo' means hole or shaft. Geological TUE and volcanic activity have created around 300 limestone TUE caves in this region over the last 30 million years. TUE Illustrated with recordings he made on location, Chris TUE describes first his encounter with the voice of the spirit TUE of the cave; an invisible force which he could neither see TUE nor locate. Elsewhere, Chris records the intimate sounds of TUE different cave spaces; the Cathedral, the Flowstone and the TUE Dome. All around him, there's the slow drip of water as it TUE percolates through the limestone creating stalactites and TUE stalagmites; the slow dripping of water marking the passage TUE of time. In contrast to the slow formation of these TUE limestone caves, on the far side of the equator in Iceland, TUE Chris visits the Kverkfj�ll ice caves, which are in state of TUE constant flux. They are formed by hot water from a volcanic TUE spring below the Vatnaj�kull glacier. This is truly TUE unpredictable, hostile environment; the deep roar of the TUE volcano and the hissing of noxious gases fills the air TUE inside the cave, along with the terrifying creaks and groans TUE of ice as walls melt and shift in these caves of perpetual TUE transition. TUE Presenter and wildlife sound recordist: Chris Watson TUE Producer: Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01k1n3s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k1n6y (Listen) TUE Love Love Love Like the Beatles TUE TUE by A.L. Kennedy TUE Starring Bill Nighy. TUE TUE A romantic comedy drama about a man on the verge of a TUE nervous breakdown who retreats up a tree. TUE All his life, Oliver has never been able to say those three TUE special words - I love you. TUE Yesterday Oliver lost his job and today - after walking in a TUE daze all night - he is quite literally at his wits' end and TUE waiting for the love of his life, Jo, in a private TUE residents' garden. Knowing that he has a tendency to bolt he TUE has cornered himself in advance by climbing a tree and he TUE won't come down until he sees her. TUE TUE Oliver ...... Bill Nighy TUE Jo ....... Amelia Bulmore TUE Mrs. Henderson ....... Brigit Forsyth TUE Mrs. McDonald ....... Maggie Fox TUE Leonard ...... David Fleeshman TUE TUE Directed by Pauline Harris TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b01k1nbl (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 b01k1nbq (Listen) TUE Tomorrow's World TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright and writers Bidisha, Mark Mason and Mark C TUE Newton boldly go where no Off the Page has been before - TUE into Tomorrow's World. TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright and writers Bidisha, Mark Mason and Mark C TUE Newton boldly go where no Off the Page has been before: to TUE explore our fascination with Tomorrow's World. From biblical TUE prophecy to the predictions of Nostradamus, we have a TUE fascination with possibility of what the future might hold, TUE and of the wonders of time travel. In our new venture, Mark TUE C Newton writes a science fiction piece set in the City of TUE London 100 years from now. Sci-fi nut Bidisha takes us back TUE a century to the same place, and there she dreams of what TUE life might be like a hundred years hence, i.e. now. And Mark TUE Mason offers his sage thoughts on the great predictions that TUE didn't make the grade, such as Edison's assertion that gold TUE would one day be as commonplace as steel. With the rate of TUE advancement in technological progress, is science fiction TUE now just fantasy, or does it serve a broader purpose? TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01k1nbs (Listen) TUE White-Collar Crime TUE TUE The government plans to simplify how serious fraud is TUE prosecuted and punished in the UK. TUE TUE The costs of bringing complicated cases to trial are TUE growing. But some experts in white collar crime believe that TUE the likelihood is increasing that defendants in such cases TUE may receive only light sentences or fines - even if they are TUE convicted. This state of affairs is prompting a re-think TUE about serious fraud is handled by the criminal justice TUE system. TUE TUE Ministers are now promoting a less punitive approach. This, TUE they believe, will save money by encouraging those who have TUE committed fraud to own up before a case comes to court. TUE Perpetrators should then receive lower fines or prison TUE sentences. TUE TUE But Joshua Rozenberg asks if this is the right way to tackle TUE white collar crime. Should those who have swindled companies TUE - and the public at large - out of their money be treated TUE more leniently than other criminals? And will innocent TUE shareholders end up paying for the misdeeds of those who act TUE dishonestly in their name? TUE TUE Producer Simon Coates. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01k1nfb (Listen) TUE Constance Briscoe, Angela Saini TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert and her guests discuss their three book TUE recommendations: Constance Briscoe, writer and part-time TUE judge, champions "Knowledge of Angels" by Jill Paton-Walsh; TUE science writer Angela Seini chooses "Foundation" by science TUE fiction writer Isaac Asimov; and Harriett's own choice is TUE the autobiography of the late novelist Muriel Spark. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Constance Briscoe's choice: 'Knowledge Of Angels' by Jill TUE Paton Walsh TUE Publ. Black Swan �7.99 TUE TUE Angela Saini's choice: 'Foundation' by Isaac Asimov TUE Publ. Harper Collins �7.99 TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'Curriculum Vitae' by Muriel TUE Spark TUE Publ. Carcanet �8.99 TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01k1nfd (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01k1c8p (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sketchorama b01k2h1q (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Award-winning character comedian and doyen of sketch comedy TUE Humphrey Ker presents the pick of the best live sketch TUE groups currently performing on the UK comedy circuit in this TUE brand new showcase - with character, improv, broken and TUE musical sketch comedy. TUE TUE The sketch groups featured in episode one of Sketchorama TUE are: TUE TUE Delete the Banjax: Writer/performers Caroline May-Jones, TUE Daniel Cook, Gareth Cooper and Samuel Champion. They've TUE enjoyed three critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe TUE Festivals, picking up a ThreeWeeks Editors Award at Ed TUE Fringe 2010 and, with their charmingly chaotic performance TUE style, have become one of the most talked about comedy acts TUE on the circuit. TUE TUE Lady Garden: The all-female group are Beattie Edmondson, TUE Rose Johnson, Eleanor Thom and Camille Ucan. Since their TUE Edinburgh debut in 2008, their fast-paced shows filled with TUE fantastic character creations have received widespread TUE praise from audiences and critics alike. TUE TUE Idiots of Ants: Andrew Spiers, Elliott Tiney, Benjamin TUE Wilson and James Wrighton. Since forming in 2007, they have TUE gone on to sell-out four Edinburgh festivals and a run in TUE London's prestigious West End. They have attracted a TUE staggeringly large internet following, with their 'Facebook TUE in real life' and 'Wii Breakfast' sketches achieving TUE multi-million hits. TUE TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01k1nhg (Listen) TUE David faces a dilemma and Brian shows his caring side. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01k1nk4 (Listen) TUE With Kirsty Lang, who reports on the work of Edvard Munch, TUE in the light of a new exhibition at Tate Modern which aims TUE to make us look again at the artist best known for The TUE Scream. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k1mvz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01k1nk6 (Listen) TUE Ofsted has a new, hard-line chief inspector and a new, TUE tougher inspection regime - and in the past few months that TUE has led to a spike in the number of schools deemed TUE inadequate. TUE Predictably, there has been a corresponding wave of anger in TUE schools - with a growing number taking to the courts to TUE challenge the inspectors' views? TUE So are the inspectors really up to the job? And who inspects TUE the inspectors? TUE Fran Abrams investigates. TUE Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01k1nkz (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01k1nl3 (Listen) TUE Old asylums were often sited in pleasant gardens and natural TUE landscapes. The treatment regime inside might not have been TUE so therapeutic, but being outside and experiencing nature TUE was seen as important for recovery. TUE TUE Claudia Hammond investigates the evidence behind the TUE commonly held belief that the growing cycle, the seasons and TUE horticulture in general, really do aid good mental health TUE care. TUE TUE She talks to psychologists training to be "ecotherapists" TUE and asks whether those deprived of any access to green space TUE are more vulnerable to mental illness. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 In Living Memory b01bm0p5 (Listen) TUE Series 15, Ramstein TUE TUE Chris Ledgard tells the story of the air show disaster at TUE Ramstein, Germany in 1988. Three Italian aircraft collided, TUE one crashing into the crowd, killing sixty-seven spectators. TUE TUE In this edition of In Living Memory, Chris Ledgard visits TUE Ramstein USAF base to meet survivors of the accident, TUE explore what went wrong, and examine the safety legacy of TUE Ramstein. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01k1c8r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01k1nmz (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01k779x (Listen) TUE Ru, Episode 2 TUE TUE Having arrived safely at a refugee camp in Malaysia, Kim TUE prepares for a new life. "From all the mornings with this TUE impromptu English teacher I remembered only one sentence: My TUE boat number is KG0338." TUE TUE 'Ru' is written by Kim Thuy, read by Elodie Yung and TUE abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions. TUE TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01k1ngp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01k1np6 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 JUNE 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01k1c9l (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01k1lvc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01k1c9n (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01k1c9q (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01k1c9s (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01k1c9v (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kntsr (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01k1p85 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b01k1p87 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01k1p89 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01k1p8c (Listen) WED Damn His Blood, Episode 3 WED WED Today: the investigation into the parson's murder begins WED with a manhunt in nearby Worcester. Meanwhile, local farmers WED seem strangely untroubled by the brutal killing. WED WED Abridger: Viv Beeby WED Producer: Justine Willett WED The Reader is Alex Jennings. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01k28w2 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k28w4 (Listen) WED The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED by Esther Wilson WED WED Return of award winning drama series about a young woman WED with learning disabilities. WED Darleen meets her father for the very first time. WED WED Darleen Fyles ...... Donna Lavin WED Jamie Cook ....... Edmund Davies WED Treena ..... Lesley Nicol WED Jay ...... Andrew Schofield WED Bob ...... Stephen Chapman WED Mohammad ..... Sushil Chudasama WED Director/Producer - Pauline Harris. WED WED 11:00 Don't Log Off b01k28w6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Alan Dein sets out on nocturnal excursions via Facebook and WED Skype, discovering the real life dramas behind the online WED profiles, talking to people in every 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. He never knows what he'll be hearing WED next. WED WED This time, the theme is War and Peace as Alan connects with WED a Beirut man shot by a sniper during the Lebanese civil war, WED a woman whose father was imprisoned during the Cuban WED revolution and a young man in California jailed for domestic WED violence. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 A Month of June b01k28w8 (Listen) WED Shangri-La WED WED by Andy Merriman and Alison Joseph WED WED The last of four comedies written for the many voices of WED legendary actor June Whitfield. Romance in a council beach WED hut is alive and well but perhaps a little cramped for our WED elderly couple. WED WED Annie Hopkins ..... June Whitfield WED Digby Pickering ..... Richard Briers WED Jim Kett ..... Patrick Brennan WED Martha Denny ..... Susie Riddell WED Brian Boggis ..... Don Gilet WED Jason Denny ..... Sam Alexander WED WED Director: David Hunter. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01k28wb (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01k28wd (Listen) WED Harold Pinter WED WED The New Elizabethans: Harold Pinter. 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 Not many playwrights bequeath an adjective based on their WED name to the nation's vocabulary like 'Kafkaesque' or WED 'Chekhovian'. In this case, it's "Pinteresque". It's a WED measure of the originality of Pinter's dramatic style - and WED of the thought processes that he chose to illustrate through WED his work. After a shaky start with his first play The WED Birthday Party, his writing career spanned 50 years, and WED earned him a Nobel Prize in Literature. WED WED Fiercely political, his background was that of a working WED class boy from an East End Jewish immigrant family, and he WED famously supported the group Jews for Justice for WED Palestinians, as well as campaigning often and loudly WED against the UKs support of the USA's wars of the last 30 WED years or so. A long time champion of Human Rights, he was an WED early member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament and a WED supporter of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. WED WED The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading WED historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of WED London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic WED Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, WED Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. WED WED They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions WED during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant WED impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its WED character, for better or worse." WED WED producer: James Cook. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01k1c9x (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01k28wg (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The Cave b01k28wj (Listen) WED Plato's Cave WED WED In the third of five illustrated talks by different writers WED exploring THE CAVE as a theme, Alan Read, Professor of WED Theatre at Kings College London, presents a fascinating WED philosophical reflection in this essay about Plato's Cave. WED Alan first considers the room in which he imagines a WED listener is sitting, and then the listener's relationship to WED the space in which they are sitting; the floor and the four WED walls. He then suggests the listener imagines what the room WED would be like if a wall is removed. The room is then WED transformed into a stage; a theatrical space. From here, WED Alan discusses ideas about the spectator and the WED performance, and the relationship between the spectator and WED their surroundings. These reflections lead to consideration WED of Plato's Cave; the story, setting, symbolism, meaning and WED relevance today. The programme considers reality and WED theatre, and ideas about theatricality, performers and WED spectators. The essay concludes with a story set in a cave; WED but it's a surprising end; a new take on an old story. WED Writer and narrator : Alan Read WED Additional sound recordings by : Chris Watson WED Producer: Sarah Blunt. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01k1nhg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k290b (Listen) WED Lord Behold Us WED WED Written by Jennifer Howarth. WED WED Set in Birmingham 1958. Michael Cooper is 12 and it is the WED first assembly of a new school term. Amid hearty cheers, the WED headmaster Mr Gardner announces there will be a school play WED this term - The Merchant of Venice directed by charismatic WED English teacher Mr Dawson. WED WED Michael accompanies his friend Grayling to the auditions and WED lands himself a small acting role as well as singing a song. WED WED Michael's sister Pat goes to a different school but wishes WED she was at Michael's school. She loves the theatre but her WED school doesn't do proper plays. WED WED Their father is a lawyer in the Courts service - a WED successful, handsome man, who is dismissive of Michael's WED abilities and ridicules his ideas and interests. He is also WED a governor at Michael's school. WED WED One evening Michael's father is visited by the headmaster WED and a fellow governor and some shocking news about Mr Dawson WED is revealed. Mr Cooper wants him sacked with immediate WED effect but the headmaster wants to stand by him - an WED extraordinary Headmaster for such bigoted times. WED WED Pat ....... Bryony Hannah WED Michael ....... George Hill WED Mr Dawson ....... Tom Riley WED Father ....... Peter Wight WED Mother ....... Jenny Funnell WED Mr Gardner/Robert ...... Nicholas Boulton WED Frank ....... Kim Wall WED Grayling ....... Nicholas West WED Janet ...... Cara Baker WED Anderson ...... James Anderson WED WED Director: Celia De Wolff WED A Pier Production For BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01k290d (Listen) WED 700Vincent Duggleby and guests take calls and e mails on WED holiday finances. WED WED If you're planning a holiday this summer in a troubled WED Eurozone country, you may want advice about travel money or WED insurance. WED WED Is it better to take cash; cards or a pre-paid card? What WED will your travel insurance policy cover you for in case of WED local strikes; a holiday supplier closing down or even civil WED unrest? WED WED And long-haul, short-haul, or just a mini-break, how can you WED be sure you're getting the best value for money? Whatever WED your plans, ask our panel of experts for their tips on WED making the most of your time away. WED WED If you're looking for a cheap holiday, should you buy early WED or wait for a last-minute bargain? WED What are the pitfalls of using debit or credit cards abroad? WED Do prepaid cards offer the best deals? WED What is ATOL protection and how might consumers benefit from WED changes in the law brought in earlier this year? WED What are your rights if your holiday is cancelled, your WED luggage lost or your flight delayed? WED And what are the do's and don'ts of car hire? WED The number to ring: 03 700 100 444. Lines open at 1pm. Or e WED mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED Vincent Duggleby will be joined by: WED Sean Tipton, Spokesman, ABTA. WED Stephen Howard, Association of Travel Insurance WED Intermediaries WED Simon Calder, travel editor, Independent WED Producer Sally Abrahams. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01k1nl3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01k290g (Listen) WED 'Evil' is a concept more readily associated with theology WED and mental health than social science. But Michel Wievorka, WED the President of the International Sociological Association, WED argues, in his new book, for the development of a 'sociology WED of evil'. He's joined by Peter Young, Head of Criminology at WED the University of Kent. WED WED Also, the sociologist, Judith Green, talks about her study WED into the the morality of cycling - do cyclists feel they are WED 'better' than drivers and have drivers conceded the ethical WED high ground? WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01k290j (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 b01k290l (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01k1c9z (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b01k290n (Listen) WED Series 4, Robert Webb WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. WED WED Rufus Hound is joined by actor Robert Webb whose hilarious WED and sometimes abrasive teenage diary documents the highs and WED lows of being seventeen - and the perils of kissing a girl WED at a party when you don't really fancy her. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01k29p9 (Listen) WED There is startling news for Emma. Meanwhile Natalie finds an WED inspired solution. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01k29pc (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Erin Riley. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k28w4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01k29ph (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Anne McElvoy, Claire Fox, Clifford WED Longley and Kenan Malik. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01k2b12 (Listen) WED Series 3, Colin Crooks WED WED Serial social entrepreneur Colin Crooks argues that WED politicians and the media are wrong to focus on youth WED unemployment. WED WED Instead, he says, we should all be worried about the very WED high levels of persistent unemployment amongst the 'lost WED generation' who were failed by poor education between the WED seventies and nineties. Teaching them the lessons of being WED in work, he argues, would not only benefit them, but their WED children, too. WED WED And he believes that to make a meaningful impact in these WED unemployed people's lives, we should stop developing skills WED for jobs which often do not exist, and instead focus on WED creating real jobs where they live. 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 b01k2b14 (Listen) WED Could creating "blood" in the laboratory make infections WED passed on through blood transfusions a thing of the past? WED Vivienne Parry investigates. WED WED The drive behind the quest for creating a blood substitute WED was originally from the US Military - during the Vietnam war WED a clean, reliable and portable alternative to donor blood WED would have helped to save many lives. Donated blood can only WED be kept for a limited time, needs refrigerating and has to WED be cross matched according to which ABO group people belong WED to. The "universal donor" - O negative blood - can be used WED on accident victims before a match is found. But it's in WED very short supply and often many units of blood are WED required. WED WED The history of creating blood has had a chequered past - WED with some products abandoned because of side effects and WED others proving too costly to produce. One analysis of WED clinical trials on blood substitutes in 2008 revealed a WED higher incidence of heart attacks in patients who'd been WED given them, compared with those who received human blood. WED WED Some scientists have tried using the pigment found in WED oxygen-carrying red blood cells - haemoglobin. This molecule WED is normally packed into the cells, so that it can "grab" WED oxygen breathed in by the lungs and release it in minute WED capillaries, providing the body with the oxygen needed to WED survive. But "free" haemoglobin is toxic to the body - WED presenting researchers with a technical challenge. WED WED Another approach has been to grow human red blood cells from WED cells extracted from umbilical cords - known as blood WED pharming. But with the average blood transfusion containing WED 2.5 million million red blood cells the scale of production WED would have to be enormous. A special cocktail of growth WED factors coax these stem cells into becoming red blood cells WED just like those the body produces naturally. WED WED Producer: Paula McGrath. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01k1p89 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01k1cb1 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01k2b16 (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01k7cqs (Listen) WED Ru, Episode 3 WED WED "My parents often remind my brothers and me that they won't WED have any money for us to inherit but I think they've already WED passed on to us the wealth of their memories, which allows WED us to grasp the beauty of a flowering wisteria, the delicacy WED of a word, the power of wonder." WED WED Ru is written by Kim Thuy, read by Elodie Yung and abridged WED and produced by Jane Marshall Productions WED WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bird Island b01k2b18 (Listen) WED Episode 3 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. WED WED Ben and Graham encounter a seal club that's been attacked. WED He takes it home and carefully nurses it back to life and WED share the pup's progress with his mum and Dad. WED WED Ben ..... Reece Shearsmith WED Graham ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Beverley..... Alison Steadman WED Robin..... Gerard Mcdermott WED WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b01k2b1b (Listen) WED Series 3, School Sports Day 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 persuaded by his WED neighbour Tracey (Rosemary Hollands) to take part in her WED School Sports Day. Mordrin is struggling with his fitness WED and any attempts to simply 'magic' himself fit may result in WED an unwanted call up to the Wizard Olympics which contains WED events such as the Dragon Hurdles, a Magroth Marathon and, WED worst of all, a Troll chasing Decathlon. WED WED Mordrin ....... David Kay WED Geoff ...... Gordon Kennedy WED Heather ...... Hannah Donaldson WED Jill ....... Katrina Bryan WED Councillor Campbell ...... Callum Cuthberstson WED Tracey ....... Rosemary Hollands 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 b01k2b1d (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 JUNE 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01k1cby (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01k1p8c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01k1cc0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01k1cc2 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01k1cc4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01k1cc6 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01kntt2 (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01k2bv4 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Emma THU Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b01k2bv6 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01k2bv8 (Listen) THU Al-Kindi THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of the THU Arab philosopher Al-Kindi. Born in the early ninth century, THU Al-Kindi was heavily influenced by Greek philosophy and THU supervised the translation of many works by Aristotle and THU others into Arabic. He made contributions to many different THU fields and is today regarded as one of the greatest scholars THU of the medieval Islamic world. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01k2bvb (Listen) THU Damn His Blood, Episode 4 THU THU Today: with the prime suspect still on the loose, suspicion THU falls on the local farmers, whose stories don't seem to add THU up... THU THU Abridger: Viv Beeby THU Producer: Justine Willett THU The Reader is Alex Jennings. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01k2bvd (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k2bvj (Listen) THU The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU by Esther Wilson THU THU Comic and touching drama series about a young woman with THU learning disabilities. THU Darleen is still struggling to consummate her marriage. Her THU mother, Treena is worried THU about Darleen's father turning up out of the blue. THU THU Darleen Fyles ...... Donna Lavin THU Jamie Cook ...... Edmund Davies THU Treena ...... Lesley Nicol THU Jay ...... Andrew Schofield THU Bob ..... Stephen Chapman THU Mohammad ...... Sushil Chudasama THU Director/Producer - Pauline Harris THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01k2bvl (Listen) THU Correspondents take a closer look at the stories behind the THU headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Uncanny b01k2bvn (Listen) THU It's that sense of unease or disquiet at the heart of ghost THU fiction and horror writing, the stuff of bad dreams when the THU familiar is suddenly strange, a feeling of a place being THU unsettlingly out of place. The uncanny is everywhere. THU THU So why is it that the familiar, or that which is closest to THU home, can be so much more frightening to us than the truly THU exotic or unknown? Freud's extraordinary essay The Uncanny, THU from 1919, is like nothing else he wrote. It's a translation THU of the German 'un-heimlich' meaning 'not homely' or 'a THU feeling of not being at home'. But the term itself is THU strange. In German its meaning can shift so THU 'uncanny/un-heimlich' can be read, eerily, as 'homely but THU not at home' - a disquieting ambiguity. THU THU Freud tries to unravel that sense of the 'uncanny' that he THU sees everywhere in popular art and culture: in the fiction THU of Poe and E.T.A. Hoffman, in life-like puppets and THU mannequins which for a second we think are real, in THU doppelgangers and doubles, in the strange feeling of getting THU lost in a familiar place. THU THU He was arguably onto something. The uncanny really is THU discernable everywhere in fiction, film and art - from Mary THU Shelly to Asimov, from Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the THU Chapman Brothers. This atmospheric THU programme explores the power of the Uncanny in our culture - THU in all its strange, unsettling manifestations. THU THU Presented by Hugh Haughton. Contributors include author A.S. THU Byatt, artists the Chapman Brothers, writer and actor Mark THU Gatiss and psychotherapist Adam Phillips. THU THU Producer: Simon Hollis THU A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01k2bvq (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01k2bvs (Listen) THU Richard Doll THU THU The New Elizabethans: Richard Doll. To mark the Diamond THU Jubilee, James Naughtie examines the lives of the men and THU women who have given the second Elizabethan age its THU character. THU THU 60 years ago, 80% of British adults were smokers. The fact THU that this figure is now nearer 20% is largely down to the THU work of epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll, who in 1954 THU published the first scientific research paper proving the THU link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. His dogged THU and determined research finally led governments world wide THU to challenge the tobacco industry and to initiate a whole THU new era of public health management. THU Sir Richard was to make many more contributions to THU epidemiology, including work on the health effects of THU asbestos and the contraceptive pill. He gave up smoking THU himself while doing the initial research in the 50's, which THU may have contributed to the fact that he lived to 92, long THU enough to witness the legislation to outlaw smoking in THU public places in Britain. THU THU The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading THU historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of THU London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic THU Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, THU Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. THU THU They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions THU during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant THU impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its THU character, for better or worse." THU THU Producer: Mike Tighe. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01k1cc8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01k2bvv (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The Cave b01k2bvx (Listen) THU Cave of Faith THU THU In the fourth of five illustrated essays by different THU writers on the theme of THE CAVE, Martin Palmer, Secretary THU General of The Alliance of Religions and Conservation THU reflects on the role of caves in religious stories and THU traditions. Drawing on examples he explores how in religious THU stories and traditions caves have three main roles. They are THU doorways to the underworld; they are scenes of revelation THU and they are places where two worlds meet. As he says "the THU cave is a metaphor for the inner world, the world of our THU emotions and our psyche - in contrast to our outer world of THU everyday life. Caves give us permission to go into places THU where we otherwise might not have the courage to venture - THU both physically and spiritually." THU Written and narrated by Martin Palmer, with a reading by THU Adjoa Andoh THU Additional sound recordings by Chris Watson THU Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01k29p9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k2bvz (Listen) THU Road to the Borders THU THU Written by Douglas Livingstone. THU THU Road to the Borders is set in Hawick over the weekend of the THU Reivers' Festival - a few days when the deeds of the reivers THU (dictionary definition: one who makes raids or plunders) are THU celebrated. THU THU Until James I & VI united England and Scotland the reivers THU ruled the Borders, stealing their neighbours' cattle and THU exacting revenge for the raids they suffered themselves. THU Hamish is as English as they come, but his father was born THU in the Borders and Jim's pride in his ancestry becomes more THU marked the older he becomes. As he looks back with regret to THU the rules that governed his forbears, he wishes his son THU could be more like the reivers of old. THU THU Road to the Borders is the sixth play in the Road series, in THU which writer Douglas Livingstone and director Jane Morgan THU team up at an event. The particular sounds are recorded and THU the atmosphere absorbed before Douglas writes the play. On THU this occasion, he responded to the romance and melodrama of THU the story of the reivers and the fact that his own father THU was a Scot played some part in the making of the play. THU THU Producer/Director: Jane Morgan THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01k2bw1 (Listen) THU Series 21, Whitley Bay with Barry Stone THU THU Clare Balding is walking with dogs (and their owners) THU throughout this series of Ramblings. THU THU Prog 6 - Whitley Bay with Barry Stone THU THU In this week's programme Clare Balding meets author Barry THU Stone, his partner Paul and their dog, Bonzo the black Lab. THU THU Barry's childhood was coloured by the secret of his father's THU homosexuality and alcoholism; both parents had been THU traumatised by their experiences during the second world war THU and Barry had a deep personal struggle in coming to terms THU with his own sexuality. THU THU Over the years he attempted to write his story - eventually THU burning one manuscript of 300,000 words - and it was only at THU his mother's funeral that he was struck by the need to write THU through the 'voice' of Brucie (his childhood pet dog). The THU resulting book, a semi-autobiographical novel called THU 'Barking at Winston' was initially self-published with local THU distribution but was quickly picked up commercially and is THU now selling successfully around the country. THU THU Barry and Paul take Clare on a favourite local walk through THU Whitley Bay to the village of Holywell. Starting at Barry's THU childhood home, the place where Brucie first came into his THU life, they head down to the beach and then the promenade of THU Whitley Bay sea-front. From there they turn inland and walk THU through Holywell Dene - a beautiful and peaceful area of THU ancient woodland - before heading home. THU THU Producer Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01k1n54 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01k2bq2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01k2bw3 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01k2bw5 (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 b01k2bw7 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01k1ccb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Simon Day Show b01k2bw9 (Listen) THU Series 2, Mick Cunningham 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 brings Australian celebrity chef, Mick Cunningham THU to The Mallard Theatre under the misapprehension that he'll THU be filming a TV show. THU THU Mick Cunningham ..... Simon Day THU Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter THU Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks THU Ron Bone / Wozak ..... Simon Greenall THU Rene ..... Janine Duvitski THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01k2bwc (Listen) THU Adam learns an uncomfortable truth, while Roy and Hayley get THU creative. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01k2bwf (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k2bvj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01k1nbs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01k2cfc (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 Hunt for the Gay Whale b01k1mwp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01k2bv8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01k1ccd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01k2cff (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01k7fll (Listen) THU Ru, Episode 4 THU THU "My grandmother had to choose between the risk of losing her THU son at sea and finding him torn to shreds in a mine field in THU Cambodia. She had to choose without hesitating, without THU trembling. Perhaps it was to control her fear that she THU started to pray." THU THU Ru is written by Kim Thuy, read by Elodie Yung and abridged THU and produced by Jane Marshall Productions THU THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The 21st Century for Time Travellers b01k2cfh (Listen) THU Of all the periods open to the Personal Time Machine user an THU often over-looked and fascinating destination is early years THU of the 21st Century. Yes, this is a period famous not only THU for the romance of the war on terror and the decadent THU glamour of the London Olympic riots, but also for such THU legendary figures as the Enigmatic James Corden. THU THU But for the unwary time traveller, the customs, language and THU behaviour of the 21st Century can be confusing. After all, THU these were simpler times when it was common for people to THU actually laugh at adverts in the cinema. Simpler, more THU disturbing times. THU THU The show is hosted by the crotchety Wilson Thomas, forced to THU guide us on behalf of the 21st Century Tourist Board. He THU manages to thinly veil his contempt for the guests, who THU demonstrate everything a time traveller might need to THU survive in the savage 21st century. He also tolerates THU Martin, the member of the public sent back in time at the THU show's expense. THU THU Wilson ..... Dan Tetsell THU Martin ..... Fergus Craig THU Denise ..... Bridget Christie THU Dixon, Alexei ..... Rufus Jones THU Zammo ..... Katy Brand THU Other parts ..... The cast THU THU Additional material ..... Tom Neenan THU Written by ..... Dan Tetsell THU Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01k2cfk (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 JUNE 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01k1cd7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01k2bvb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01k1cd9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01k1cdc (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01k1cdf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01k1cdh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01knttv (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Father Eugene O'Neill. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01k2f7g (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Angela FRI Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01k2f7j (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01k2b32 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01k2f7l (Listen) FRI Damn His Blood, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's final episode, nearly a quarter of a century has FRI passed, and the case has still not been solved. But a FRI gruesome discovery leads to a new inquest, and Oddingley FRI village finally learns the truth. FRI FRI Abridger: Viv Beeby FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI The Reader is Alex Jennings. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01k2f7n (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01k2f7q (Listen) FRI The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles: Series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI The Pursuits of Darleen Fyles FRI by Esther Wilson FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Comic and touching drama series about a young woman with FRI learning disabilities. FRI Darleen discovers the truth about her estranged father. FRI FRI Darleen Fyles ...... Donna Lavin FRI Jamie Cook ..... Edmund Davies FRI Treena ...... Lesley Nicol FRI Jay ...... Andrew Schofield FRI Bob ..... Stephen Chapman FRI Mohammad ..... Sushil Chudasama FRI Director/Producer - Pauline Harris FRI FRI 11:00 You Must Take the A Train b01k2f7s (Listen) FRI New Yorker columnist and author Adam Gopnik confesses to 'a FRI perverse love' of his city's subway system. In particular, FRI he likes the two hour run of the A train from the tip of FRI Manhattan to the Atlantic Ocean in the outer borough of FRI Queens. FRI FRI Along the way he encounters vendors, preachers, rappers, FRI beggars and the homeless passengers who live in the subway FRI cars and in the tunnels. FRI FRI As a jazz lover, he celebrates Duke Ellington and Billy FRI Strayhorn's song as an anthem of black migration. which FRI imitates the sound of the train and insists: FRI "You must take the A train FRI To go to Sugar Hill way up in Harlem." FRI FRI In 1932 punters queued to take the first A train ride as it FRI went express along the west side of the city. It opened up FRI suburbs, with a fast commute for workers in the Garment FRI District, Times Square and in the offices and restaurants of FRI Midtown. It also linked the dynamic established community of FRI Harlem with the newer black neighborhoods in Brooklyn. FRI FRI Gopnik admits to enjoying the graffiti that spread across FRI the subway cars in the seventies and eighties but FRI acknowledges that this was a sign of how New York had lost FRI control. Since most New Yorkers don't own a car and the FRI subway is the artery of a city, that dysfunctional slide was FRI disastrous. FRI FRI It's only in the last fifteen years that the system has FRI become safe and comparatively pleasant again. For a reporter FRI like Gopnik, it's a perfect way to indulge in people FRI watching and the best subway line to get a real sense of the FRI city. However, depending on your mood, it can either be FRI enervating or profoundly depressing, because it still FRI reveals the seedy, aggressive, desperate and heartbreaking FRI side of New York. FRI FRI Producer: Judith Kampfner FRI A Corporation For Independent Media production for BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01k2f7v (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI FRI In this episode, the team is thrown into panic as Lorna FRI announces there may be job cuts while Malcolm joins a dating FRI website, fearing that unmarried registrars may be made FRI redundant. FRI FRI Births, Deaths and Marriages is a brand new sitcom set in a FRI 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), who also stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox - FRI a stickler for rules and willing to interrupt any wedding FRI service if the width of the bride infringes health and FRI 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, and ditzy Anita who may FRI get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the FRI only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. FRI FRI Malcolm ...... David Schneider FRI Lorna ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Anita ...... Sandy McDade FRI Luke ...... Russell Tovey FRI Mary ....... Sally Bretton FRI Larry, Mr Charalambous ...... Mike Fenton Stevens FRI Malcolm's mum, Client registering birth ....... Mel Hudson FRI Julie, Jessica ...... Gina Peach FRI James ...... Arran Glass FRI FRI Producer: Simon Jacobs FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01k2f7x (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01k2f7z (Listen) FRI Tony Hancock FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Tony Hancock the comedy actor and star FRI of radio and TV and film. Best known for Hancock's Half FRI Hour, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, where he FRI epitomised the little man's struggle against the world. He FRI was always fighting against something, quite often himself. FRI With the advent of TV, his battles with officialdom, and his FRI gloomy reflections on the injustices visited on him, were in FRI every living room. FRI FRI Sadly he began drinking heavily and his personal life FRI unravelled. His vulnerability was exposed in a BBC interview FRI with John Freeman in 1960 called Face to Face. Although he FRI went to Australia in the hope of a revival it wasn't a FRI success and he committed suicide in 1968 at the age of 44. FRI Yet Hancock's Half Hour is still considered one of the most FRI important yardsticks against which British sitcoms are FRI measured and it could be said that Alan Partridge and David FRI Brent owe much of their success to Tony Hancock's character. FRI FRI The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading FRI historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of FRI London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic FRI Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, FRI Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. FRI FRI They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions FRI during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant FRI impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its FRI character, for better or worse." FRI Producer: Clare Walker. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01k1cdk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01k2f81 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The Cave b01k2f83 (Listen) FRI Beyond the Vermilion Border FRI FRI In a dramatic finale to a series about caves, we join dental FRI student Joe, as he embarks on a virtual journey beyond the FRI Vermilion Border (which is the line which separates the lips FRI from the face) and inside the human cave; the mouth. Guided FRI by his virtual Tutors, the ORACLE and the ORACLE LADY, Joe FRI embarks on a rollercoaster journey through the senses of the FRI oral cavity, discovering how touch, taste, sight, smell and FRI sound all play a role inside the mouth. The senses can FRI provide information about health and disease in the mouth, FRI which can lead to a greater understanding of the body's FRI overall health. FRI Written by Patricia Reynolds, specialist in oral surgery and FRI Director of Flexible Learning at Kings College London, this FRI dramatic virtual journey offers a unique insight into the FRI human cave. FRI Joe is played by Harry Livingstone FRI The Oracle is played by Gerard McDermott FRI The Oracle Lady is played by Adjoa Andoh FRI The reader is Christine Hall FRI Additional sound recordings by Chris Watson FRI Producer: Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01k2bwc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01k2f85 (Listen) FRI The Man Who Sold the World FRI FRI by Natalie Mitchell FRI FRI Ticket tout Billy has a chance to start FRI again abroad but his two oldest mates have FRI very different reasons for wanting him to stay put. FRI FRI Billy ..... Lee Ross FRI Lou ..... Tanya Franks FRI Lee ..... Tom Brooke FRI Trevor ..... Neil Maskell FRI O'Shea ..... Ben Crowe FRI Rob ..... Joe Sims FRI Nurse ..... Amaka Okafor FRI FRI Director ..... Sally Avens. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01k2f87 (Listen) FRI Garden for the Games, Olympic Park, Stratford FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel meet a London audience at the FRI Olympic Aquatic Centre, Stratford. FRI We revisit the Olympic Park one final time before the doors FRI are thrown open to the public. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Elizabeth Taylor Short Stories b01k2f89 (Listen) FRI The Idea of Age FRI FRI Highly acclaimed as both novelist and short story writer, FRI Elizabeth Taylor was celebrated for her witty and acutely FRI observed stories of ordinary life. FRI Joanna Tope reads The Idea of Age, the first of three short FRI stories to be broadcast over the coming weeks in celebration FRI of the author's birth a century ago. In this sensuous tale, FRI Taylor captures the dreamlike intensity of adolescent FRI experience. A young girl basks in the warmth of one FRI particularly idyllic Summer holiday, during which the first FRI stirrings of love and loss are savoured. FRI FRI Produced by Amanda Hargreaves. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01k2f8c (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 b01k2f8f (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: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01k2f8h (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01k1cdm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01k2f8m (Listen) FRI Series 37, Episode 4 FRI FRI Jon Holmes, Marcus Brigstocke, Mitch Benn and Pippa Evans FRI join Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis for a review of the week's FRI news. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01k2f8p (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Director ..... John Yorke FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Phoebe Aldridge ..... Lucy Morris FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Natalie Hollins ..... Maddie Glasbey FRI Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly FRI Gerry Moreton ..... Mark Perry. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01k2f8r (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with writer Jake FRI Arnott, whose previous books include the London gangster FRI story The Long Firm, and whose new novel begins with a pulp FRI science fiction author imagining the future during the FRI 1939-45 war. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01k2f7q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01k2f8t (Listen) FRI Curdridge, Hampshire FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from a Young Carers' Festival organised by the FRI Children's Society at a YMCA in Southampton. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01k2f8w (Listen) FRI Adam Gopnik reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: FRI Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b01k2f8y (Listen) FRI Four Trees down from Ponte Sisto FRI FRI Twenty five years ago in Rome, an American student named FRI Geoffrey Charde fell to his death from a wall above the FRI river Tiber, late at night and with no witnesses, four trees FRI down from Ponte Sisto. FRI Since then, his mother, the poet Sharon Charde has been FRI writing her way through all the dimensions of her son's FRI death; writing her way back to life through a series of FRI poems that combine her fearless examination of specific FRI details and events with deep philosophical insights into the FRI close proximity of death within every aspect of life. FRI Adapted and composed for radio by Gregory Whitehead. FRI Performed by Anne Undeland. FRI Producer Jeremy Mortimer. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01k1cdp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01k2f90 (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01k7g2h (Listen) FRI Ru, Episode 5 FRI FRI "My emotional memory vanished during the early years of FRI childhood. That detachment, that distance, allows me to buy FRI without scruple a pair of shoes whose price in my native FRI land would be enough to feed a family of five for a whole FRI year. The sales person just has to promise me, you'll walk FRI on air." FRI FRI Ru is written by Kim Thuy, Read by Elodie Yung and abridged FRI and produced by Jane Marshall Productions. FRI FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01k1nfb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01k2f92 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
22 June, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 23/06/2012 - 29/06/2012
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