28 July, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 28/07/2012 - 03/08/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 28 JULY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01l1dmy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01ky3wx (Listen) SAT Follow the Money, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Steve Boggan. SAT SAT After hundreds of miles on the road, and quite a few hours SAT in the bars of Arkansas, Steve Boggan finds himself on the SAT home straight - and yet many of his final hours following SAT the ten dollar bill are spent halfway up a tree trying not SAT to sneeze. SAT SAT Having been asked by a newspaper editor, several years ago, SAT to pursue a ten pound note through a series of transactions SAT in Britain , Steve Boggan decides to undertake something SAT more ambitious - to spend 30 days following the same ten SAT dollar bill across America. What might appear to be a SAT whimsical conceit becomes a surprisingly poignant and often SAT funny foray into the heartland of the ordinary. Surrendering SAT himself to the decisions of others and their daily purchases SAT proves to be a strangely cathartic experience which also SAT opens his eyes to a world of serendipity and unexpected SAT kindness. SAT SAT Music by Crash Meadows: an Arkansas local band who welcomed SAT the author in Hot Springs. SAT SAT Read By Ian Redford SAT Abridged and produced By Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l1dn0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l1dn2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l1dn4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01l1dn6 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01l1gks (Listen) SAT With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic SAT Park. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01l1gkv (Listen) SAT 'I was downstairs during the Olympic siege.' A listener SAT explains how he spent a day in 1972 hiding beneath the SAT Munich flat where gunman were holding Israeli Olympians, and SAT how he couldn't speak of his experience for years SAT afterwards. Also, with listeners telling iPM what a good egg SAT the BBC founder John Reith was, one listener begs to differ SAT - his daughter. James Naughtie reads Your News. With Eddie SAT Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01l1dn8 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01l1dnb (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01l1dkr (Listen) SAT White Cliffs of Dover SAT SAT In a year in which the world will be looking in on Britain SAT as we celebrate the Diamond Jubilee and host the London SAT Olympics, Helen Mark goes in search of the people whose SAT lives are inextricably linked with the White Cliffs of SAT Dover.We find out about this iconic part of the British SAT landscape which has played such an important part in our SAT nation's history and discovers why it still holds a special SAT place in the nation's heart.Brian Whittaker and Rob Sonnen SAT of the National Trust tell us why it is so important that SAT landscapes like the White Cliffs are preserved for the SAT nation. Jon Iveson from the Dover Museum tells Helen about SAT the vital part that Dover and the White Cliffs have played SAT in Britain's past and geologist Melanie Wrigley of the White SAT Cliffs Countryside Partnership, which was set up to conserve SAT and enhance the coast and countryside of Dover and the White SAT Cliffs as the gateway to England, takes Helen for a walk on SAT Shakespeare Beach in search of fossils. SAT Helen also meets Kaimes Beasley of HM Coastguard who tells SAT her about the vital role that they play in ensuring the SAT safety of the seas around the cliffs over which bluebirds SAT have never really flown.....or have they? Finally, Helen SAT meets Dame Vera Lynn, whose wartime anthem firmly placed SAT this most iconic of British landscapes in the hearts and SAT minds of the nation. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01l5kkz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Caz Graham hears how farmers and rural businesses are SAT cashing in on a boom in rural tourism across Britain. SAT From maize mazes in Yorkshire, hot tubs in Sherwood Forest SAT to canoe hikes in the Highlands, Farming Today explore how SAT sustainable tourism is capturing the hearts and purses of SAT more tourists - from home and abroad. SAT SAT Caz meets Cumbrian farmer Steve Roberts who farms pigs, SAT turkeys and veg. But the real profit from his small holding SAT is from guests 'glamping' - glamorous camping - in yurts and SAT gypsy caravans. And charity, Nuture Lakeland explains SAT there's plenty of potential for businesses in Eden Valley SAT like Steve's to build on, with £200m already benefiting the SAT region from tourism. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Clare Freeman in SAT Birmingham. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01l1dnd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01l5kl1 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie SAT and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01l5kl3 (Listen) SAT Barry McGuigan, Tattoo guerrilla report, Zeb Soanes on his SAT path to recovery after suffering a paralysed vocal chord. SAT SAT Suzy Klein and Richard Coles with boxer Barry McGuigan. SAT Radio 4's Zeb Soanes on his path to recovery after suffering SAT a paralysed vocal chord. Inheritance Tracks from Leo Sayer, SAT update from Hazel Parry on her trip to the Congo where her SAT parents were murdered in the sixties. Foundling Andrew Rowan SAT on finding out about his roots and making contact with his SAT half brother Ronnie Finlayson, a guerrilla report on the SAT tattoo industry, John McCarthy takes a barge on the Trent SAT and Mersey canal, World Open Water Swimming Woman of the SAT year Anne Marie Ward. SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 10:30 Swimming with Piranhas b01l5kl5 (Listen) SAT Mike Greenwood journeys into one of the world's final SAT frontiers, the relentlessly hot Chaco in Paraguay, to SAT uncover how environmental groups, ranchers and missionaries SAT are battling for the soul of one of the last wildernesses. SAT SAT In the hostile environment of the north Chaco in Paraguay, SAT indigenous peoples, cattle ranchers, illegal loggers, SAT eco-warriors, zealous missionaries - not forgetting piranhas SAT - combine to create the febrile atmosphere of a new SAT frontier. SAT SAT This is a meeting point for several major habitats. It is SAT also one of the last places on earth where un-contacted SAT peoples live. Some scientists believe these lesser-known SAT habitats are more threatened than rainforest regions such as SAT the Amazon. Paraguay's Chaco grasslands are particularly at SAT risk because they easily convert to cattle pasture. Cattle SAT ranching is profitable but, as well as destroying the local SAT ecology, it has also pushed out indigenous people. SAT SAT Mike experiences, close-up, this anthropological and SAT environmental melee and meets its remarkable, and sometimes SAT unexpected characters - from German-speaking Mennonites SAT thriving in the Chaco to Moonies who have bought up an SAT entire town in the Chaco; and from environmental campaigners SAT to indigenous people displaced from their ancestral land. We SAT will also hear from pro-development governors and ranchers SAT who argue conservation is a luxury Paraguay can not afford - SAT development brings in money that promises to lift the SAT country's many poor out of poverty. SAT SAT This is the closest most of us will get to the 'wild west'. SAT A 21st-century frontier country in which a battle is being SAT fought for the socio-economic and spiritual soul of a SAT hitherto little explored region. SAT SAT Presenter: Mike Greenwood SAT Producer: Eve Streeter SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01l5kl7 (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times chairs a discussion on SAT the past parliamentary year with Steve Richards of The SAT Independent Andrew Pierce of the Daily Mail and Sue Cameron SAT of The Daily Telegraph. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01l5kl9 (Listen) SAT Ian Pannell visits a school which has become a morgue for SAT children in the Syrian city of Aleppo. SAT SAT James Harkin meets a Syrian whose chosen weapon, in his SAT battle against the Assad regime, is a mobile phone rather SAT than a gun SAT SAT John Sweeney's in Belarus. It's ruled, he says, by a regime SAT so cocky it can't even be bothered to rebrand its secret SAT police. They're still known as the KGB. SAT SAT Senegal's become the latest African country to grow melons SAT for Europe. Susie Emmett joins workers who find time to down SAT tools and play a game of football. SAT SAT And is it more Lord of the Flies or Swallows and Amazons? SAT Laura Trevelyan travels to the state of Maine to investigate SAT the phenomenon that is the US summer camp. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01lb10y (Listen) SAT Ruth Alexander presents a special edition of Money Box: a SAT guide to money for young people. SAT SAT You're 18 and just starting to be economically independent. SAT How do you convince your bank, or other financial bodies SAT that you're a safe bet? The programme hears from young SAT people about how they are coping taking those first SAT financial steps. SAT SAT Ruth Alexander and her expert guests will explore: SAT SAT How do you borrow sensibly and draw up a budget, learning to SAT distinguish between what you might 'want' and what you SAT really 'need'? SAT SAT You may be renting a home. Your relationship with your SAT landlord will be crucial. Do you understand your legal SAT obligations to ensure you'll get your rental deposit back at SAT the end of the tenancy? SAT SAT Your credit record will reveal how promptly you pay bills SAT and cards. But did you know that shared accommodation and SAT bills could have a devastating impact on your credit SAT history? SAT SAT And finally, those shock mobile phone bills. Listen to the SAT programme and hear how to avoid them. SAT SAT Joining Ruth Alexander will be: Antonia Bance, Shelter; SAT Lynne Jones, National Debtline; Hannah Jones, MyBank. The SAT programme will also hear from Dominic Baliszewski, SAT Broadbandchoices.co.uk; James Jones, Experian and Accidental SAT Landlord Victoria Whitlock. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b01l1g68 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Jeremy Front talks to Rebecca Front SAT SAT Rebecca Front is interviewed by the man who knows her best, SAT her big Brother Jeremy Front. SAT SAT Producer ..... Carl Cooper SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01l1dng (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01l1dnj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01l1gg8 (Listen) SAT West Kilbride, Ayrshire SAT SAT Eddie Mair chairs a live discussion of news and politics SAT from West Kilbride Village Hall in Scotland, with panellists SAT Michael Moore, Secretary of State for Scotland and Liberal SAT Democrat MP; Anas Sarwar, deputy leader of the Scottish SAT Labour Party; writer and broadcaster, Lesley Riddoch; and SAT SNP MSP Linda Fabiani SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01l5klc (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01l5klf (Listen) SAT A Special Kind of Dark SAT SAT A year ago Caspar was locked up and declared criminally SAT insane. Finally he breaks his silence to reveal a deadly SAT tale of love and politics. But is he telling the truth? A SAT psychological thriller by Adrian Penketh. SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift SAT SAT 15:30 Making Tracks b01l06z2 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Cultural commentator Paul Morley explores a history of SAT popular music through some of the iconic recording studios SAT in which classic albums were created. In future programmes SAT he revisits some of the classical materpieces recorded in SAT the 80 year old Abbey Road Studios and cutting edge pop in SAT Metropolis, the studio complex built when the music industry SAT was at its most bloated peak. But he begins in the rural SAT heart of Monmouthshire - at a studio that grew out of a farm SAT and gave brith to some of rock music's finest recordings - SAT everything from Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" to the Stone SAT Roses' eponymous debut album, from Dr. Feelgood's "Down By SAT The Jetty" to Oasis' "(What's The Story) Morning Glory", SAT even from the Waterboys' "Fisherman's Blues" to Adam Ant's SAT "Kings Of THe Wild Frontier". Those trying to explain what SAT part the studio played in creating such musical magic SAT include performers (the veteran Dave Edmunds and the SAT newcomers Iko), technicians (John Leckie and Sean Genockey) SAT and the people who (in some cases, quite literally) built SAT the studio and the business (father and daughter, Kingley SAT and Lisa Ward, and Terry Matthews). As the money flowing SAT through the music industry continues to dry up - Paul also SAT asks what future there may be or the historic recording SAT studios that helped build the industry in the first place? SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01l5n82 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week, including a SAT performance by Rumer. The Guardian's West Africa SAT correspondent Afua Hersch talks about combining her work SAT with having a young child. The Pulitzer Prizewinning SAT journalist Maureen Dowd discusses whether Marilyn Monroe was SAT a "smart dumb blonde". One of the country's first female SAT beer sommeliers Sophie Atherton talks about her profession SAT and selects some beers for the summer. There are discussions SAT on why there haven't been any prosecutions in this country SAT over female genital mutilation; and why are more and more SAT women opting for surgery on their labia? Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01l5n86 (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Paddy O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01l1gkv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01l1dnl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01l1dnn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l1dnq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01l5n8w (Listen) SAT Fatima Whitbread, Julien Temple, Jon Culshaw and David SAT Quantick SAT SAT Danny throws himself headlong into conversation with the SAT Olympic silver medalist Fatima Whitbread. Famed for her SAT ability to throw a javelin and dubbed 'Rambo' for her SAT spectactular endurance in the jungle last year, Fatima's SAT next challenge is to confront her childhood demons. In her SAT Channel 5 documentary 'Growing up in Care - My Secret Past' SAT Fatima tells her story which is ultimately one of survival SAT against the odds. SAT SAT Jon Culshaw reminds Danny to always look on the bright side SAT of life as he takes his seat at the Round Table in the new SAT production of 'Spamalot'. Jon will be playing the legendary SAT King Arthur and can't wait to be surrounded every night on SAT stage by a bevy of beautiful show girls, killer rabbits and SAT French people at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London. SAT SAT Jo Bunting will be waiting for the crack of the starting SAT pistol as David Quantick races through his Blagger's Guide SAT to the Games - everything you ever needed to know about the SAT Olympics to ensure a podium finish at the next pub quiz. His SAT BBC Radio 2 series goes out on Thursday nights at 9.30 SAT SAT Danny leaves the locker room to chat to legendary director SAT Julien Temple about his new film 'London: The Modern SAT Babylon'. A kaleidoscope of archive TV and film clips, SAT photos, poetry and album covers, this documentary lifts the SAT lid on the capital and shows its changing people, culture SAT and attitudes as you've never seen it before. All the while SAT accompanied by a soundtrack worthy of one who's made films SAT with the Sex Pistols and hung out with the Kinks. SAT SAT With music by the soulful and elegant Jessie Ware who SAT performs her single 'Wildest Moments' SAT from her album Devotion. And from Yorkshire-born Fran Smith SAT who plays All Wild and Wicked Things from her self-titled SAT EP. SAT SAT Producer Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01l5n8y (Listen) SAT The London 2012 Olympics will be the biggest test yet for SAT Charles Van Commenee, the no-nonsense head coach to the GB SAT athletics squad. If he achieves the target number of medals, SAT then British athletics and Van Commenee will be propelled SAT onto the world stage. Van Commenee doesn't shy away from SAT controversy - he is tough with his athletes and is SAT unsympathetic to people who fail to deliver. And there's SAT speculation that if his squad does badly, he'll fall on his SAT sword. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01l5nbm (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Sarah Hall, playwright SAT Laura Wade and writer David Aaronovitch review the week's SAT cultural highlights including the Olympic opening ceremony. SAT SAT THEATRE Richard III - Globe Theatre - starring Mark Rylance SAT SAT FILM Red Desert SAT SAT TV Olympic opening ceremony SAT SAT BOOK The Teleportation Accident - Ned Beauman SAT SAT EXHIBITION Another London: International Photographers 1930 SAT - 1980 - Tate Britain SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01l5nbp (Listen) SAT The Smart Dumb Blonde SAT SAT Pulitzer prize winning journalist Maureen Dowd argues that SAT the so-called 'dumb blonde' of 1950s Hollywood was in fact SAT smarter than she seemed. Marilyn Monroe and her ilk aspired SAT to be brilliant in conversation as well as on camera; they SAT wanted to pose with books as well as blonde hair; they SAT understood the value of their sexual currency and they had SAT enough sense to take advantage of their assets. SAT SAT In this programme, Maureen Dowd brings together some of her SAT most eminent friends and colleagues (amongst them, Harvey SAT Weinstein and Mike Nichols) to travel back to a time when SAT glamour and brains were not mutually exclusive. With the SAT help of archive, film and music and some brilliant personal SAT anecdotes, they'll debate why the figureheads of the 50s SAT believed in education as a mark of status and success. SAT SAT Jump forward to today and American popular culture and SAT politics has lost the drive which Marilyn's era possessed. SAT Maureen Dowd argues that aspirations and originality are no SAT longer valued; instead we live in a cookie-cutter world of SAT reality tv, banal cinema and inane politicians. And, despite SAT the seeming triumph of feminism, some of the world's most SAT powerful and desirable women - from Sarah Palin to Kim SAT Kardashian - are leading this trend. In the words of John SAT Hamm, 'stupidity is certainly celebrated'. SAT SAT Producer: Isabel Sutton SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01ky5h5 (Listen) SAT The Graduate, Episode 2 SAT SAT Now that's he's stopped sleeping with Mrs Robinson, Benjamin SAT has become obsessed with her daughter, Elaine. Now, at last, SAT he understands the purpose of his life. He drives through SAT the night to Berkeley, determined to find Elaine and marry SAT her. Elaine, however, has other plans. SAT SAT The Graduate has been adapted from Charles Webb's novel by SAT Polly Thomas. Polly is a Sony award-winning director and SAT producer of radio drama. Her theatre work includes directing SAT for the West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Royal Exchange Theatre SAT Manchester; and the Manchester Literature Festival launch of SAT Margaret Atwood's new book, The Year of the Flood. SAT SAT A BBC Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01l1dns (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01l0kcc (Listen) SAT According to the government there are about 120,000 of them SAT and they cost the tax payer - that's you and me - an SAT estimated £9 billion in benefits, crime, anti-social SAT behaviour and health care. They're problem families and SAT Louise Casey, the head of the government unit tasked with SAT doing something about them has not been mincing her words. SAT She says the state shouldn't be afraid of telling mothers in SAT large problem families of the damage they're doing to SAT society and that they should stop having children. She's SAT also reported as saying that society should be more prepared SAT to talk about shame and guilt when it comes to the behaviour SAT of problem families. The Troubled Families Unit will have a SAT budget of nearly £450 million and a small army of social SAT workers who'll be sent in to manage the lives of those SAT deemed as being a problem to society. How you define a SAT problem family and how many there are may be in dispute, but SAT the moral question here is how far can and should the state SAT interfere with family life? Louise Casey may be correct, but SAT is it the job of the state to tell any of us when and how SAT many children we should have? Are we demonising a group in SAT society for no other reason than they're poor and SAT inadequate? Or is our reluctance to make a moral judgement SAT on the damage this group of people are doing to themselves, SAT their children and wider society, part of the problem SAT itself? SAT SAT Chaired by Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, SAT Kenan Malik and Anne McElvoy. SAT Witnesses: SAT Professor Ruth Levitas - University of Bristol SAT Alexander Brown - Senior Lecturer in Social & Political SAT Thought, UEA author of "Personal responsibility: Why it SAT Matters" SAT Christian Guy - Director, Centre for Social Justice SAT Helen Dent - Director, Family Action. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b01l04d8 (Listen) SAT A new series of Radio 4's popular quotations programme SAT 'Quote ... Unquote'. SAT SAT The show is presented by Nigel Rees, who also devised it, SAT and the guests are Samira Ahmed, Simon Jones, Dominic SAT Sandbrook and Dominic Lawson. The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT Producer: Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 23:30 The New Group b01ky5h9 (Listen) SAT Ian Sansom leads listeners through Belfast's new poetry SAT scene, meeting the men and women who gather each week at SAT cafés, bars and reading groups to share their work. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 JULY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01l5hty (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 In-Flight Entertainment b01l5pfc (Listen) SUN Homework SUN SUN Three short stories taken from Helen Simpson's new SUN collection, In-Flight Entertainment. SUN SUN A boy contemplates a parallel life after asking his mother SUN for help with his creative writing homework. But how much is SUN fact and how much is fiction? SUN SUN Reader: Juliet Aubrey. SUN Abridged and Produced by Joanna Green. SUN This is a Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l5hv0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l5hv2 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l5hv4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01l5hv6 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01l5pff (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Peter's Parish Church, South Petherton, SUN Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01l5n8y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01l5hv8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01l5pfh (Listen) SUN Footloose SUN SUN Irma Kurtz considers how curiosity and imagination inspire SUN true footloose travellers to explore. SUN SUN She reflects that, for her, the important part of travel is SUN encountering others on the road: learning how different we SUN are, and how alike. Irma believes that by extending your SUN view of the world, you extend your view of yourself so that, SUN by the end of your journey, you will have changed. SUN SUN To illustrate her footloose theme we hear readings from the SUN work of John Keats, Walt Whitman and Mary Morris as well as SUN an extract from her own travel book 'The Great American Bus SUN Ride'. Music is provided by composers Ralph Vaughan SUN Williams, Edward Elgar and Claude Debussy. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy and Col Farrell. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01l5pfk (Listen) SUN A Home in the Reeds SUN SUN The elusive reed warbler weaves its cup-like nest among the SUN swaying stems of reeds which makes it hard to study. For The SUN Living World Joanna Pinnock joins Dave Leech from the SUN British Trust for Ornithology in his study area in an East SUN Anglian reed-bed. SUN SUN Dave Leech is researching why reed warblers are bucking the SUN trend of decline in long-distance migrants by counting nests SUN and ringing chicks. Unlike turtle doves, nightingales and SUN other birds which winter in south of the Sahara and which SUN are disappearing from any areas of the UK, reed warblers are SUN increasing in numbers and in their range. Part of their SUN success could be in their amazing productivity, with some SUN pairs producing two broods a year. They can also nest over SUN open water which makes the nests less vulnerable than those SUN of ground-nesting birds, and could be benefitting from SUN reed-bed creation by conservationists. SUN SUN But as Joanna discovers, the warblers can't escape from one SUN of their parasites. Reed warblers are a main host of the SUN cuckoo, a bird which is declining even as the reed warbler SUN is increasing. The discovery of a cuckoo's egg in an SUN unsuspecting warbler's nest is no surprise to Dave Leech who SUN has been observing cuckoos and their relationship with their SUN hosts at this site and others. Here cuckoos parasitize SUN around 5-8% of the reed warbler's nests and seem to be SUN thriving, so in the face of huge decreases in the numbers of SUN British cuckoos, could the reed warbler present them with a SUN lifeline? SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01l5hvb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01l5hvd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01l5pfm (Listen) SUN As the Olympic Games get underway Trevor Barnes joins a SUN community festival in East London organised by churches to SUN ask what it all means to local people now it's finally SUN arrived. SUN SUN Tony Blair 'does God' in conversation with the Archbishop of SUN Canterbury and the Daily Telegraph's Charles Moore, in the SUN last in the series of Westminster Faith Debates. SUN SUN Would you 'pray-on-the-go?' Sunday presenter Edward Stourton SUN tests out a prototype multi-faith prayer booth designed by SUN Manchester University. SUN SUN Olympic champion, founder of the US Council for Sports SUN Chaplaincy and contemporary gospel recording artist Madeline SUN Manning Mimms talks faith, spirituality and sport with SUN Edward. SUN SUN Should mixed faith marriage be opposed or accommodated SUN within the Jewish faith? Edward talks to Rabbi Jonathan SUN Romain and Rabbi Alan Plancey following the lifting of the SUN ban on blessing mixed faith marriages. SUN SUN Matt Wells reports from New York on the world's first SUN televangelist, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, and his journey SUN toward sainthood. SUN SUN Gay marriage got the green light in Scotland this week but SUN where does it leave the Scottish Catholic Church whose SUN leadership has made headlines because of its position on SUN homosexuality? Edward discusses the issues with Professor SUN John Haldane. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01l5pfp (Listen) SUN Project Harar SUN SUN John Hurt presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Project Harar SUN Reg Charity: 1094272 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Project Harar. SUN SUN Project Harar SUN SUN Project Harar is a health outreach charity helping poor and SUN rural people with severe facial disabilities to access SUN life-changing medical care in Ethiopia. SUN SUN The narrator John Hurt CBE has been the charity’s patron for SUN six years. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01l5hvg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01l5hvj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01l5pld (Listen) SUN The opening of the Olympic Games is marked by a service from SUN the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Situated on the SUN Olympic equestrian site and close to the Meridian marking SUN the meeting of East and West, the Revd Canon Duncan Green - SUN Head of Multi-Faith Chaplaincy Services for the Olympics, SUN preaches on the coming together of nations and the power of SUN change. SUN SUN The service is led by the Chaplain of the Old Royal Naval SUN College, the Revd Jeremy Frost with music from the Trinity SUN Laban Chapel Choir, directed by Richard Tanner. SUN SUN Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01l1ggb (Listen) SUN The Paradox of Immortality SUN SUN The philosopher John Gray reflects on the nature of SUN immortality as expressed by the writer Theodore Powys, 'The SUN longest life may fade and perish but one moment can live and SUN become immortal.' "Powys captures a paradox at the heart of SUN our thinking about death and the afterlife: there's a kind SUN of immortality that only mortals can enjoy." SUN Producer: SUN Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01l5plg (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 b01l5plj (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Graham Harvey SUN Director ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... John Yorke SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01l5pll (Listen) SUN Mary Berry SUN SUN Mary Berry is one of the UK's best-known and respected SUN cookery writers. More than six million copies of her books SUN have now been sold - not bad for a girl who failed her SUN school certificate in English. SUN On television, it is her role as a judge on The Great SUN British Bake-off that has brought her to the attention of a SUN new generation. SUN It was in domestic science lessons that she discovered her SUN love of cooking and she is in no doubt of the importance of SUN teaching cookery in school "When everybody leaves school, SUN whether they are a boy or a girl, what do they have to do in SUN the home? They have to produce a meal. They haven't been SUN taught to do it. I think it should be essential." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01l04l5 (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a first visit to the SUN Rose Theatre in Kingston-upon-Thames. Old-timers Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Ross Noble, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN accompanies on the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01l5pln (Listen) SUN Favourite Foods SUN SUN Simon Parkes hears from some of the listeners who've sent in SUN their nominations for this year's Food and Farming Awards. SUN SUN Their stories cover a variety of foods, places and people, SUN from the Glasgow curry cart, to the man so obsessed with the SUN local jam he discovered that he finds himself making jam SUN sandwiches at 10 o' clock at night 'grinning like a five SUN year old.' SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01l5hvl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01l5plq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Stepping Stones of Islamic Spain b01l5pls (Listen) SUN The 750 year Muslim rule of Spain left a complex social, SUN religious and cultural legacy. SUN SUN Great buildings, such as The Alhambra Palace and the SUN Cathedral-Mosque of Cordoba, link us to much of this past SUN and are stepping stones in Michael's journey. Along the way, SUN he asks why there are so few mosques in Spain, despite its SUN many Muslims, and he digs into the Reconquista - the SUN expulsion of Muslims and their forced conversion to SUN Christianity. SUN SUN The construction of places of worship was, and still is, a SUN strong indication of the vitality of a religion. So in the SUN centuries of fluctuating power struggle between Islam and SUN Christianity churches became mosques, which turned back into SUN churches. SUN SUN Michael starts his trip in Badalona - a bustling city in SUN Catalonia. The region has around 280,000 Muslims in 100 SUN registered communities, yet there is not one purpose built SUN Mosque for them to use. Each Friday, Muslims have been SUN conducting their prayers on a sports pitch, but now the SUN local Mayor has ruled that even this cannot continue. SUN SUN He tells Michael 'those who don't make an effort to SUN integrate into the community, well I don't want them to feel SUN too comfortable in Badalona....I would like them to leave - SUN to another city or go back to their home country'. SUN SUN Michael says 'Spain is a self-consciously Christian country, SUN despite and because of its years of Islamic rule and its SUN border with Muslim North Africa. Many of its own Muslims SUN struggle to fit in, yet the fabric of the country is SUN interwoven with Islam - enormous Cathedrals, tiny chapels, SUN grand mosques, daunting castles and even ordinary backstreet SUN houses show the influence of Islamic architecture, SUN philosophy and engineering.' SUN SUN Producer: David Morley SUN A Perfectly Normal Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01l1g5w (Listen) SUN Brixham SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the team are in Brixham. Matthew Wilson and SUN Bunny Guinness appear alongside guest panellist Toby SUN Buckland. In addition, Anne Swithinbank and Toby Buckland SUN discuss how to heal a garden suffering from flood damage. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01l5pm3 (Listen) SUN The GI who chose China SUN SUN The Korean War ended on July 27th 1953. After the ceasefire, SUN prisoners on both sides were told they could choose where SUN they wanted to go next. Thousands of North Korean and SUN Chinese prisoners headed for a new life in the USA. David SUN Hawkins was one of the 21 Americans who had been held SUN prisoner in North Korea, who chose to go to communist China. SUN He explains his decision, made at the height of the Cold SUN War, and recalls the treatment he recieved as a prisoner, SUN and then as a celebrated guest in Beijing. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01l5qc7 (Listen) SUN The Chrysalids, Episode 1 SUN SUN John Wyndham's post-apocalyptic science fiction classic SUN dramatised by Jane Rogers. SUN SUN Genetic mutation has devastated the world. In the emergent SUN bleak, primitive society, any deviation is seen as the work SUN of the devil, ruthlessly hunted out and destroyed. David SUN Strorm is one of a group of young people who discover they SUN are able to communicate by transferring thought-shapes into SUN each other's minds. In law abiding, God-respecting Waknuk SUN this makes David and his friends 'mutants'. The young SUN telepaths manage to keep their deviation secret until one of SUN them marries a 'norm'. Will they be forced to flee to the SUN Fringes, a lawless territory inhabited by mutants, or face SUN the consequences of discovery? SUN SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01l7lsk (Listen) SUN Christopher Buckley on his latest novel They Eat Puppies, SUN Don't They SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Christopher Buckley about his SUN latest novel "They Eat Puppies, Don't They?", a satirical SUN tale in which the shenanigans of Washington lobbyists bring SUN America to the brink of war with China. A classic "what if" SUN narrative which dramatises the doomsday scenario following SUN the untimely death of the Dalai Lama, using Donald SUN Rumsfeld's maxim - "If you can't solve a problem, make it SUN bigger" - as a guiding principle. Author of "Thank You For SUN Smoking" and "The White House Mess", Christopher Buckley was SUN himself once a speech writer for Vice President George Bush SUN (senior) and also the son of the influential Republican SUN commentator William Buckley. In this novel he exploits his SUN inside knowledge of the workings of politics at its highest SUN level to full comic potential. SUN SUN Mariella also looks at crime in unusual locations. With the SUN television series Vera - based on the Vera Stanhope crime SUN novel series and in which Brenda Blethyn stars alongside SUN such spectacular North Eastern settings as Tod le Moor, SUN Linhope Spout and Thrum Mill - attracting six million plus SUN viewers, we consider why location is such an integral and SUN influential element in the crime novel. And what is the SUN growing appeal of more exotic - and often more rural - SUN locations compared to the mean streets of the gritty urban SUN underworlds that crime novels more traditionally inhabit. SUN With Vera Stanhope creator Ann Cleeves - whose other SUN successful crime series is set in the virtually crime free SUN Shetland Isles - and Zoe Ferraris, who sets her crime novels SUN in Saudi Arabia where she once lived. SUN SUN Anthony Cheetham's latest publishing start-up, Head of Zeus, SUN will publish 24 titles between May 2012 and January 2013, SUN with Fay Weldon among its launch authors. Another 36 titles SUN are planned for the following year. Cheetham's been SUN described as a genius and our greatest living publisher by SUN his peers, having helped to shape many of our great SUN publishers including Century, Orion and Quercus. So why is SUN he launching a new publishing house in the middle of a SUN recession when sales of print books are experiencing their SUN worst ever decline - is he the visionary who will at last SUN enable publishers to embrace the challenge posed by the SUN e-book revolution? SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY SUN They Eat Puppies, Don’t They? – published by Twelve SUN Little Green Men – published by Random House SUN Boomsday – published by Twelve SUN Thank You For Smoking – published by Random House SUN SUN ANN CLEEVES - SHETLAND SERIES SUN Raven Black – published by St Martin’s Press SUN White Nights – published by Macmillan SUN Blue Lightning – published by Macmillan SUN Red Bones – published by Macmillan SUN SUN ANN CLEEVES - VERA STANHOPE SERIES SUN The Crow Trap – published by Macmillan SUN Telling Tales – published by Macmillan SUN Hidden Depths – published by Macmillan SUN Silent Voices – published by Macmillan SUN SUN ZOE FERRARIS SUN Night of the Mi’raj - published by Little, Brown & Company SUN City of Veils - published by Little, Brown & Company SUN Kingdom of Strangers – published by Little, Brown & Company SUN SUN ANTHONY CHEETHAM, headofzeus.com SUN Catherine the Great by Robert K Massie SUN The Conductor by Sarah Quigley SUN Habits of the House by Fay Weldon SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry 2012 - the Power of the Poem b01l7lsm (Listen) SUN Poetry 2012 - the Power of the Poem SUN SUN In celebration of London 2012, the BBC and The Scottish SUN Poetry library have created Poetry 2012, a wonderfully SUN ambitious and inspiring collaboration, taking a poem from SUN each country competing in this year's Olympics and asking SUN someone from each nation now living in the UK to read and SUN reflect. SUN SUN In this programme, Jamaican poet Kei Miller and Robyn SUN Marsack, Director of the Scottish Poetry library, explore SUN the recurring themes of family, loss, love, and landscape, SUN bringing together some of the most memorable poems and SUN readers from Poetry 2012, who were profoundly moved and SUN affected by the experience, and they share just how SUN impactful and poignant reading the poem was and the SUN unexpected emotional journey it sent them on. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01l0fkc (Listen) SUN Violent Veterans SUN SUN Thousands of British troops have been deployed to conflict SUN zones since 2001, in the so-called War on Terror. Research SUN is now beginning to confirm what many people have suspected SUN - that a sizeable minority of returning soldiers - one in SUN ten - are displaying increased levels of violence. This is SUN impacting on families through domestic abuse and is raising SUN the risk of people in the wider community becoming victims. SUN With two years to go before frontline troops are pulled out SUN of Afghanistan, is the Army doing enough to make sure SUN returning soldiers are safe? And is the intensity of SUN deployment to active combat zones making matters worse? SUN Presenter: Jane Deith Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01l5n8y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01l5hvn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01l5hvq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l5hvs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01l7lsp (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Afternoon Drama: - Radio 4 SUN Looking for Ruritanea: - Radio 4 SUN Archive Hour: The Smart Dumb Blonde - Radio 4 SUN Evita's Odyssey: - Radio 4 SUN My Teenage Diary: Rhona Cameron: - Radio 4 SUN Letters to The Russian Front: - Radio 4 SUN Chain Reaction: - Radio 4 SUN Viola: - Radio 3 SUN Unspeakable Act: - World Service SUN Unbuilt Britain: - Radio 4 SUN To Paris with Parsnips - Radio 4 SUN Amy Winehouse: - Radio 2 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01l7lsr (Listen) SUN It is the day of the Ambridge Community Games, but who is in SUN the running for a medal? SUN SUN 19:15 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014gsmn (Listen) SUN Series 4, Frank Skinner SUN SUN Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. SUN Frank Skinner tries five things he has never done before. SUN SUN 19:45 8.51 to Brighton b01l7wwc (Listen) SUN Anywhere Else SUN SUN A series of short stories written by new writers to radio. SUN Each writer has taken the 8.51 to Brighton and given the SUN journey their own twist, introducing us to characters whose SUN lives have changed by taking that particular train. SUN SUN Episode 2 of 3: Anywhere Else by Tam Hoskyns SUN This is the story of a man who travels with a case full of SUN complications and it is on this journey that he begins to SUN unravel who he really is and hopefully where he is actually SUN going. A cathartic tale read by James Fleet. SUN SUN Recorded in front of an audience at The Old Courtroom as SUN part of 2012's Brighton Festival. SUN SUN The stories are introduced by Lynne Truss. SUN SUN Director: Celia De Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01l1g64 (Listen) SUN Levelling the statistical playing field SUN SUN If you adjust for the fact that some countries are richer SUN than others, and some have more people in them, can we work SUN out what the Olympic medal tally should look like, based SUN only on those factors? SUN SUN Gun control SUN SUN Last week's mass-shooting at a cinema in Colorado has - not SUN surprisingly - intensified America's bitter and long-running SUN argument with itself about gun control. The argument is SUN political and highly partisan. But it is also practical: SUN would tighter gun laws actually lead to fewer gun deaths? SUN You might think it's obvious that they would. But it seems SUN the evidence isn't quite that clear. SUN SUN Tax SUN SUN The treasury minister David Gauke came in for some stick SUN this week for arguing that people who pay plumbers and SUN cleaners cash-in-hand, while not breaking the law, are SUN immoral. Several commentators have argued that the problem SUN is small beer compared to the huge amounts sheltered from SUN the taxman by large companies and rich individuals. Are they SUN right? SUN SUN Leaders' mums SUN SUN Listener Mike Shearing wrote to us after noticing that the SUN mums of post-war US presidents seem to have died very late, SUN while British prime ministerial mothers seem to die young. SUN Had he - he asked - found something of significance? He SUN certainly had. SUN SUN How has Britain changed since 1908? SUN SUN A new book by researchers at the House of Commons Library SUN charts in numbers how Britain has changed since it hosted SUN the 1908 Olympics. Their findings may surprise you. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01l1g62 (Listen) SUN Sally Ride, Omar Suleiman, Rajesh Khanna, Jane Leighton and SUN Jim Drake SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sally Ride - who overcame sexism to become America's first SUN woman astronaut. SUN SUN Omar Suleiman - head of Egypt's General Intelligence Service SUN and right hand man to President Mubarak SUN SUN Bollywood superstar Rajesh Khanna, in his prime beloved by SUN millions of swooning female fans SUN SUN Jane Leighton, the TV journalist who campaigned for the SUN underdog SUN SUN And Jim Drake, the engineer who designed the modern SUN windsurfer. SUN SUN Producer Neil McCarthy. SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b01l0fwj (Listen) SUN High Street or High and Dry Street? SUN SUN The coalition has announced a series of measures designed to SUN protect town centres from further decline. Mary Portas SUN produced a report into how high streets could be SUN rejuvenated, whilst new guidance was issued to councils SUN asking them to prioritise town centres. John Waite hears how SUN big retailers are still building out of town and why some SUN local authorities are letting them do so in exchange for SUN so-called "community benefits". Jack Straw, the former SUN foreign secretary accuses one of Britain's largest landlords SUN - Peel Holdings - of using "legal subterfuge" to develop an SUN out of town site in Blackburn, an allegation the company SUN denies. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01l5pfp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01l1dl8 (Listen) SUN Japan Gone Grey SUN SUN Japan is ageing faster than anywhere else, and the SUN population is shrinking. 2012 is the crunch year as many of SUN their baby boomers reach retirement age. How will Japan SUN manage an economy where their healthy pensioners might SUN survive at least another 20 years and younger citizens don't SUN seem to want to have children? So how will Japan cope and SUN who will pay the bill? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01l7mfp (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 b01l7mfr (Listen) SUN Episode 114 SUN SUN Mehdi Hasan of The Huffington Post analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01l1dkt (Listen) SUN New figures show that UK cinema ticket sales increased again SUN last year, by 61% in the past decade. What have we been SUN watching in 2012? Francine Stock discusses with industry SUN analyst Charles Gant and cinema owner/manger Kevin Markwick. SUN Plus your favourite films. SUN SUN Industrial devastation becomes a thing of beauty in SUN Antonioni's Red Desert from 1964. Director Mike Hodges, who SUN made Get Carter, appreciates Antonioni's striking use of SUN colour. SUN SUN And the search for Sugarman, a new documentary about a SUN mysterious singer-songwriter from the 1970s who unwittingly SUN wrote an anthem for the anti-apartheid movement. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01l5pfh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 JULY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01l5hwq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01l0gz4 (Listen) MON Sport under communism - Regeneration Games MON MON Advanced CCTV, security cordons and an £80 million pound MON electric fence: The security impact of the Olympics is MON already being felt in the London Borough of Newham. Security MON procedures are some of the most intense and developed in the MON world, designed to protect not only Olympic visitors but MON also future residents of the 40,000 new homes due to be MON completed by the end of the decade. Newham is one of the MON most impoverished areas in the country and the condition of MON its current residents stands in sharp contrast to the lives MON of people flooding into the borough for the Olympics. Laurie MON Taylor talks to Gary Armstrong about a large scale study of MON security, policing and the impact of the 'Regeneration MON Olympics' on the lives of the residents of Newham. MON Also on the programme, Laurie speaks to Jonathan Grix about MON 'sport under communism' and why East Germany was, for two MON decades, one of the most successful nations in the Summer MON and Winter Olympics. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01l5pff (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l5hws (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l5hwv (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l5hwx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01l5hwz (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01l7pts (Listen) MON With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic MON Park. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01l7ptv (Listen) MON One person dies every month in a farming accident in MON Northern Ireland. The Health and Safety executive say it's MON the worst period for farm deaths for many years. Almost half MON of those dying on farms are over the age of 65. MON MON The cost of producing chicken and eggs has increased by MON around a third due the drought in America and the delayed MON harvest in the UK - according to poultry producers. Farmers MON have written to supermarkets to ask if the increased cost MON can be reflected in the price. The British Retail Consortium MON says the whole supply chain should share the risk. MON MON And a change in tariffs for green energy could mean farmers MON will soon be cashing in on growing energy crops MON MON This programme is presented by Caz Graham and produced in MON Birmingham by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01l5hx1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01l7ptx (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and MON Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 The Long View b01l7ptz (Listen) MON King John and the Leveson Inquiry MON MON Jonathan Freedland presents the programme which looks at the MON past behind the present. MON This week he centres on the Leveson Inquiry and the MON parallels it has with the 1215 King John Inquiry in which MON both the King and prime minister are forced to set up and MON inquiry against their wishes and both inquiries do not go MON according to plan. In the short term the 1215 inquiry ends MON in civil war but in the long term it was to establish the MON laws for local government for the next 800 years, it MON remains to be seen what will happen when the Leveson Inquiry MON finally makes its conclusions. MON MON 09:30 Capital Justice b01l7pv1 (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Helena Kennedy QC presents a new series uncovering the MON profound and powerful relationship between our financial and MON legal systems, between capitalism and the law, between MON freedom and justice. MON MON The great British system of common law - judge made, ever MON evolving and adaptable - flourished in the 19th century MON under the growing dynamism of markets and new ideas of MON individual freedom. And market capitalism was given legal MON security and freedom to flourish in turn. MON MON For centuries our financial and legal systems have been MON profoundly intertwined, a close arrangement of 'spontaneous MON order' that travelled to America and then around the world. MON So how has this dynamic really shaped the course of our MON history, and what have been its deepest moral and political MON consequences? The economist Adam Smith championed both free MON commerce and the rule of law, but feared a moral vacuum MON growing up between the two in society. Now, after years of MON deregulation, what happens when we turn to the law to set MON limits, both legal and moral, on what can be done in the MON name of market freedoms and the pursuit of profit? Can MON justice have any meaning in these terms? MON MON This reflective series mixes the historical and contemporary MON with Helena Kennedy's sharp legal insight, exploring the MON connectedness between capitalism and the law that, beneath MON the surface, has so profoundly shaped our modern life. MON MON Contributors include Naomi Klein, John Lanchester, John MON Grey, Julian Assange, Gillian Tett, Matt Ridley, Peter MON Oborne and Lord Neuberger, Master of the Rolls (and second MON most senior judge in England and Wales). MON MON Producer: Simon Hollis MON A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01l30yg (Listen) MON Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 1 MON MON "One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality MON I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own MON version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich MON MON Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist MON Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the MON slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, MON Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a MON makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering MON luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Boo tells MON the tale of those she met there, from the garbage scavenger MON to the wannabe slumlord, the corrupt police officers to the MON slum's first female college graduate, as she looks at what MON it takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's MON great, unequal cities. MON MON Today: while local teenage boys see a job in the luxury MON hotels as a way out, one woman sets her sights on becoming MON the slum's first female slumlord. MON MON Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist MON who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is MON her first book. MON Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director MON of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and MON playwright. MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l7pv3 (Listen) MON We discuss the implications of testosterone measurements for MON Olympic athletes, the essence of a good summer read, MON masculinity comes under the spotlight as we look at the MON history of men, with the eyes of the world fixed on London MON 2012 we open the wardrobe of brand specialist Kubi Springer MON to find out how she creates her capital style. MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Caroline Donne. MON The knight, the gentleman, the lover, the sailor, the MON explorer, the suit - male archetypes which still have an MON echo today. Jane talks to Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early MON Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London about her MON new Radio 4 series in which she explores the history of MON masculinity. MON Over the next few weeks, Woman’s Hour will be looking at MON some classic summer reads. We’ll be dipping into a variety MON of genres from crime and historical fiction to feminist MON literature and romance. But first, what constitutes a good MON summer read? Jane talks to Sherise Hobbs from Headline Books MON and Kate Skipper from Waterstones. MON Britain has long been a world leader in fashion with MON successful designers like Stella McCartney and Vivienne MON Westwood. But what about the style of everyday people? As MON the world looks to our capital for the Olympics, we take a MON look inside Londoners' wardrobes. Henrietta Harrison meets MON Kubi Springer at her home in Crystal Palace in South London MON to find out what one of the leading figures in the urban MON music industry keeps in her wardrobe. MON The International Olympic Committee has introduced a policy MON which means some athletes could be tested for female MON hyperandrogenism (characterised by high testosterone MON levels). If their androgen level is found to be in the male MON range, they risk being disqualified from the 2012 Games. To MON discuss the new policy, Jane is joined by Katrina Karkazis, MON from the Centre of Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University MON and Rebecca Jordan-Young, Associate professor of women’s MON gender and sexuality studies at Columbia University. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01l7mpy (Listen) MON Writing the Century 20, Episode 1 MON MON The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith MON Dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. MON MON The series which explores the 20th century through the MON diaries and correspondence of real people. MON 1942, Borneo. American travel writer and former journalist, MON Agnes Keith her English husband, Harry and 2yr old son are MON captured and imprisoned for over three years in Japanese MON prisoner of war camps. Throughout this time Agnes and son, MON George, are held separately from Harry. She is requested by MON the commander of the POW's to write an account of her life MON as an internee. But.all the while she writes a secret diary, MON hiding it from the Japanese inside her son's toys and under MON the floorboards. MON MON Directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON 11:00 Torture in the 21st Century b01l7pv5 (Listen) MON Torture still flourishes worldwide, often in the face of MON official denial. John Sweeney, previous winner of an Amnesty MON award for a radio documentary on torture, investigates its MON current extent and variety, and the motivation. Torture has MON its defenders as well as its deniers. Can there be MON justification for torture? Does it ever reveal the truth? MON How much is it invariably state-licensed sadism? MON MON He visits Belarus, investigating reports of the KGB's use of MON torture and meeting torture 'victims' from the Amerikanka MON prison. It is widely believed that two men executed for MON killing 15 people with a bomb at the Minsk metro were MON tortured into 'confessing' - Sweeney delves into what seems MON to be contradictory evidence. With Belarus arguably still in MON a Stalinist past, should that embarrass major backers like MON Russia and China, and perhaps its Western 'friends'? MON MON How often do so-called civilised countries and their leaders MON connive at torture, even when not physically participating? MON Sweeney takes a hard look at the euphemisms and excuses used MON to cover it up. MON MON But what is torture? According to the UN Convention Against MON Torture it is 'an act by which severe pain or suffering is MON inflicted on a person to obtain information or a MON confession'. The programme reveals some of the methods used MON to 'politically re-educate, interrogate, punish, and MON co-erce' and also to compel a 'transfer of loyalties'. MON MON The programme begins among the instruments of torture housed MON in the Tower of London, dating from Henry VIII. The MON historical monstrosities entertain visitors, who probably MON give no thought to their modern-day equivalents. This MON documentary does. MON MON Producer: David Coomes MON A CTVC Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00vy38l (Listen) MON Series 4, A Now Spoiled Life Smashed Some More MON MON Another chapter of the Victorian comic epic, and this week MON Pip and Harry journey to the Underworld to rescue Ripely, MON only to find the evil Mister Benevolent has got there first. MON MON Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson MON Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen MON Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head MON Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman MON Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland MON Pippa ..... Susy Kane MON MON Writer ..... Mark Evans MON Producer ..... Gareth Edwards MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01l7pv7 (Listen) MON First work day of the Olympics: can the transport cope? MON MON Travel chaos or business as usual? On the first work day of MON the Olympic Games, we hear from some of London's travel "hot MON spots" to find out how the transport system is coping with MON the influx of visitors. MON MON Ebook readers like the Kindle and Kobo might provide MON discretion as no-one can tell what you're reading but some MON ebook readers gather data about what you read. Author Joan MON Brady talks about her concerns about privacy when your ebook MON reader is reading you. MON MON The French rail company SNCF has launched a range of coaches MON travelling between the UK and France, hot on the heels of MON MegaBus's new service to continental Europe. Both companies MON hope to target cash strapped travellers with a luxury MON service but is there a market for posh coaches? MON MON And we hear from the "App Circus" where application MON developers have been pitching their ideas to industry MON insiders in a bid to be crowned the winner. MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker MON Produced by Olivia Skinner. MON MON 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l7pv9 (Listen) MON David Bowie MON MON The New Elizabethans: David Bowie. James Naughtie considers MON the musical influence of the man who first came to public MON attention in 1969 with his song "Space Oddity", and then MON exploded onto the music scene in the early 70's with his MON glam rock, androgynous alter ego, Ziggy Stardust. MON MON Bowie has proved the master of reinvention, breaking into MON the American market in the mid 70's with songs like "Fame" - MON described by Bowie as "plastic soul" -, a radical change in MON style and sound which confounded his UK fan base. He then MON reached a new commercial peak in 1983 with "Let's Dance" and MON throughout his career has continued to experiment with MON musical styles, including blue-eyed soul, industrial, adult MON contemporary, and jungle. He is widely considered to be the MON most unique innovator of popular culture of his era. MON MON The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading MON historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of MON London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic MON Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, MON Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. MON MON They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions MON during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant MON impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its MON character, for better or worse." MON MON Producer: Alison Hughes. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01l5hx3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01l7pvc (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Children of the Olympic Bid b01l7pvf (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 1 MON MON Peter White follows those who helped secure the Olympics for MON London and are now playing a key role in the games - from MON the swimmer with her hopes set on a gold medal and the MON discuss thrower who only took up the sport two years ago, to MON the torchbearer who started the flame's journey from Athens MON to London and the dancer performing at the opening ceremony. MON MON The thirty youngsters who helped secure London's bid for the MON Games by appearing alongside Sebastian Coe in Singapore in MON 2005 have seen great changes in their lives. Since then MON Peter White has been following them, their families and MON those who live and train alongside them. Each fifteen minute MON programme focuses on one extraordinary story: MON MON Danielle was chosen for the Singapore because of her dancing MON and she's underlined her passion for the Games by getting MON selected to perform in the opening ceremony. The Olympics MON has transformed the East End area she grew up in, but so has MON time itself - with her Mum and Dad now living under the same MON roof again after a fifteen year separation Danielle has just MON been selected as a finalist for the Miss England competition MON and is hoping that 2012 will prove a key year in many ways. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01l7lsr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l7pvh (Listen) MON Higher - Series 4, Clearing MON MON by Joyce Bryant. MON MON With fees going through the roof and an eye watering twenty MON percent cut in funding it's important that Hayborough MON University keeps its recruitment numbers high. So what does MON Jim Blunt and his colleagues do? Panic! MON MON Producer/Director Gary Brown. MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b01l7mq0 (Listen) MON Another edition of the 48th series of Quote... Unquote, the MON popular quotations programme presented and devised by Nigel MON Rees. The guests this week are Charlie Higson, Martin MON Kelner, Nat Luurtsema and Stephanie Merritt. The reader is MON Peter Jefferson. MON MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01l5pln (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01l7qk9 (Listen) MON June Tabor MON MON Eminent folk singer (and former librarian) June Tabor MON movingly explores the links between literature and song, MON presenting extracts from her favourite books and poems to an MON audience at Bristol's Arnolfini. The readers are Alun Raglan MON and Noni Lewis. MON MON Producer: Mark Smalley. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01l7qx7 (Listen) MON Depression MON MON Ernie Rea explores the relationship between religion and MON depression with expert guests: Sabnum Dharamsi, a Muslim; Dr MON John Swinton, a Christian; and Ed Halliwell, a Buddhist. MON They look at what different religious traditions teach us MON about the experience of sadness and despair; how having a MON religious faith can be a source of support for some people MON suffering from depression; but they also consider how MON religious communities don't always get it right. MON MON 17:00 PM b01l7qx9 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l5hx5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01l7qxc (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at the Rose Theatre in MON Kingston-upon-Thames, regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden MON and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Ross Noble, MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Piano accompaniment is provided MON by Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01l7mq2 (Listen) MON Mike has a lot to take in. Jazzer proves to be MON indispensible. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01l7qxf (Listen) MON With John Wilson, who meets artist Sarah Lucas, as she opens MON a major exhibition of her work at the Henry Moore Institute, MON Leeds. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01l7mpy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Mexico Rising b01l7qxh (Listen) MON If you imagine a lazy Mexican lounging in the sun, think MON again. Mexicans are the hardest workers in the world, MON according an OCED survey. The Mexico economy is amongst the MON top twenty in the world - and still growing despite the MON global economic crisis and drugs problems which have cost MON 60,000 lives over the past five years. MON MON BBC's Central America correspondent Will Grant challenges MON the stereotypes as he investigates how foreign investment MON and exports are driving the economy. The richest man in the MON world is Mexican. MON MON In 1994, after the so-called Tequila crisis when Mexican MON defaulted on US debt and devalued the peso, signing of the MON North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the sell-off MON of state-owned assets and companies kick-started the economy MON again. MON MON Mexico now has free trade agreements with more than 40 MON countries - with growing export sectors such as the MON automobile, electronics and aviation industries. On the MON doorstep of the United States - the largest consumer market MON in the world - Mexico is looking to overtake China in US MON trade and this year hosted the G20. MON MON But all the same, when the new Government takes over in MON November, it faces not only the challenges of drugs and MON corruption but also huge inequality in income and wages. The MON Mexico economy also relies on 23 billion dollars of MON remittances sent back to families by Mexicans crossing into MON the States to find work. MON MON Will Grant talks to industry leaders, workers, politicians MON and economists about the state of the Mexico economy and how MON it will survive the global downturn. MON MON Presented by Will Grant MON Producer: Sara Parker MON A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01l1dk9 (Listen) MON Spain's White Elephants MON MON The state-of-the-art Aeropuerto Don Quijote in Ciudad Real MON opened for business at the end of 2008. The vision was to MON create an air hub in the heart of Spain, and its backers MON believed it would bring business, jobs and tourists to this MON underdeveloped region. But just over three years later the MON airport closed - bankruptcy proceedings are on-going. Now it MON lies abandoned and empty, the silence broken only by MON birdsong and the occasional whoosh of a high speed train. MON MON In Crossing Continents, Pascale Harter tells the story of a MON project with its roots in Spain's building boom-years. Was MON the airport doomed by the economic crisis, as its supporters MON claim? Or was it always fanciful to imagine that a region MON with little industry and tourism could sustain an airport MON with a capacity for five million passengers a year? And what MON does the building of the airport tell us about the MON relationship between local business, politicians and the now MON defunct local banks - the Cajas? MON MON 21:00 Material World b01l1dkw (Listen) MON Researchers at Stanford University and the J Craig Venter MON Institute have managed for the first time to make a computer MON simulation of an entire organism. Quentin is joined by MON Markus Covert, the team's leader, to learn how the MON scientists were able to successfully simulate the workings MON of the simple bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium. MON MON While it is unlikely that the UK will be hit by a tsunami MON caused by an earthquake, rare but very large underwater MON landslides could cause a huge amount of destruction in MON coastal areas. A UK-wide project, led by researchers at the MON National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, has recently been MON awarded a grant of £2.3 million to investigate such tsunami MON threats to the UK. Quentin speaks with Peter Talling to MON discuss the severity of the tsunami threat and the MON importance of this research. MON MON NASA has announced that this month an unusually large MON percentage of the surface of the Greenland ice sheet has MON melted. It is far from unusual for Greenland's ice caps to MON melt slightly in summer, but the geographical extent and MON speed of the current melt have not been observed since the MON satellite age, and perhaps have not happened since the late MON 19th century. Quentin is joined from the University of MON Sheffield by Edward Hanna to find out whether the reaction MON to the news this week was proportional. MON MON Finally Quentin is joined in the studio by Dr Andrew King of MON the Royal Veterinary College to discuss herd behaviour of MON sheep. By kitting out a herd of sheep and a sheepdog with MON small GPS backpacks, his group has found evidence that sheep MON in a herd will display selfish behaviour in order to stay MON safe, for the first time quantifying a previously MON qualitative theory. MON MON 21:30 The Long View b01l7ptz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01l5hx7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01l7qxk (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis presented by MON Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01l7qxm (Listen) MON Embers MON MON A bittersweet tale of a man whose breakfast habits allow him MON a tantalizing glimpse of romance outside his loveless MON marriage. MON MON Mukhtar Sahib is a Pakistani farmer and a creature of habit MON - every morning he takes breakfast and reads the paper with MON the local postmaster - but finds himself gradually drawn to MON the woman of the house. Will fate and the strictures of his MON society allow him a taste of happiness after his morning MON tea? MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b01l7qxp (Listen) MON The Now Show 2012 - Live!, Episode 1 MON MON A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you MON abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted MON by Punt and Dennis with Jon Holmes, John Finnemore, Margaret MON Cabourn-Smith and Mitch Benn. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b015mzl0 (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 1 MON MON "Ten years work gone in one night". MON MON On Monday, 8th August, 2011, Siva's shop, "The Clarence MON Convenience Store" in the heart of Hackney, London, fell MON prey to looters during the riots that swept UK city centres. MON A Tamil refugee, Siva had spent a decade building up the MON small shop in Clarence Road, which was destined, one hot MON summer night, to become the 'front-line' in a battle between MON police and rioters. MON MON Over the days and weeks that followed, presenter Alan Dein MON talked to Siva and others affected by the turmoil in this MON area of north London, for this Sony nominated "Lives in a MON Landscape". MON MON Immediately after the attack, pictures of Siva's shop, a MON whirlwind of wreckage created by a dark carnival of looters, MON were circulated across the globe by social media. Siva was MON left devastated - his was no chain store selling trainers or MON electrical goods. This was a small business, with no MON contents insurance. Bewildered by the attack, he was left MON wondering how he'd ever get his life and business back MON together. MON MON But locals, determined that this would not be the end of the MON road for a popular local trader, got together to raise money MON and get help to rebuild his shop, and the Help Siva fund was MON born. MON In the new series of "Lives in A Landscape" Alan Dein MON follows the immediate aftermath of the disturbances, meeting MON the people whose lives, for one night, were turned upside MON down and shaken violently. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 JULY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01l5hy2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01l30yg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l5hy4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l5hy6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l5hy8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01l5hyb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lt4s7 (Listen) TUE With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic TUE Park. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01l7r0g (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The TUE presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Angela Frain. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01l7r0j (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Stephanomics b01l7sf9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE In the final programme of the current series, Stephanie TUE Flanders discusses with a panel of leading economists how TUE far long-term economic growth should be the over-riding TUE objective of governments and societies in countries like TUE Britain. TUE TUE In the boom years, we saw that growth did not automatically TUE lead to increased human contentment or greater welfare. So TUE should we continue to accord it the level of priority which TUE British governments of all parties have given it over recent TUE decades? TUE TUE One of the reasons why long-term growth may not provide us TUE with a greater sense of well-being is that it does not solve TUE problems created by inequality. But if we had different TUE economic aims would inequality be tackled more successfully? TUE And if so, how? TUE TUE If we decide to move away from faster growth as our economic TUE objective, that would have other implications for the TUE economy. Governments might no longer feel bound to create TUE freer markets to drive growth. So where might such a TUE dramatic shift in thinking take us? TUE TUE Among those joining Stephanie to discuss these ideas are the TUE biographer of John Maynard Keynes, Lord Skidelsky. TUE TUE 09:30 Key Matters b01hy2wg (Listen) TUE Series 3, G Minor TUE TUE Ivan Hewett explores the way in which different musical keys TUE appear to have unique characteristics of their own. In this TUE programme, Ivan is joined by musicologist Cliff Eisen to TUE explore the key of G minor, a favourite key of Mozart's for TUE expressing failure, anger and loss. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01l314l (Listen) TUE Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: a young teacher banks on education as a way out of TUE the slums, while a young garbage scavenger is tempted into TUE theft. TUE TUE Reader: Sudha Bhuchar TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l7sfc (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh668 (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 20, Episode 2 TUE TUE The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith TUE Dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. TUE TUE The series which explores the 20th century through the TUE diaries and correspondence of real people. TUE 1942, Borneo. Taken from the secret diaries of American TUE travel writer and former journalist, Agnes Keith whilst TUE imprisoned in Japanese P.O.W. camps. Women and children are TUE separated from their husbands but the commander in chief of TUE POW's sets up a meeting for Harry and Agnes. TUE TUE Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01l7sff (Listen) TUE Series 7, Bird Wars on Malta TUE TUE Twice each year the skies above the Mediterranean island of TUE Malta are filled with the spectacle of thousands of TUE migrating birds. Kestrels, bee-eaters, honey-buzzards, TUE turtle dove and quail, among other species fly first north, TUE in the Spring, to the breeding grounds of Europe. TUE TUE They return south in the Autumn to their wintering grounds TUE in sub Saharan Africa. If their migration takes them over TUE Malta, twice each year they must run the gauntlet of TUE hunters' guns. Many of the migrant bird species are TUE protected, only two species are legal quarry for Maltese TUE hunters. TUE TUE Investigative journalist Matthew Hill travels to Malta to TUE talk to the hunters about the age-long culture of hunting TUE birds on Malta and to investigate allegations of widespread TUE illegal hunting. TUE TUE Presented by Matthew Hill TUE Produced by Lizz Pearson. TUE TUE 11:30 Making Tracks b01l8x2n (Listen) TUE London's Abbey Road TUE TUE Cultural commentator Paul Morley explores a history of TUE popular music through some of the iconic recording studios TUE in which classic albums were created. TUE TUE Today he visits the world's first purpose built recording TUE studio, and possibly the most famous: the one at No 3, Abbey TUE Road, a stone's throw from a much photographed zebra TUE crossing in London's St John's Wood. Opened by Sir Edward TUE Elgar conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in a TUE recording of "Land Of Hope And Glory", the studios went on TUE to record everyone from Adam Ant, The Bolshoi and Nick TUE Cave... to XTC, Diana Yakawa and the Zombies - to say TUE nothing of Pink Floyd and the Beatles. TUE TUE But that's not what's drawn Paul Morley to these historic TUE recording rooms - it's the continuing work in capturing the TUE sound of orchestras that is put under the spotlight in this TUE programme. With the help of engineers and producers, TUE composers and those that keep the studios running on a day TUE to day basis, Paul explores how the relationship classical TUE music has with the recording studio differs from the one TUE that pop music enjoys. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01l7sfh (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l7sfk (Listen) TUE Talaiasi Labalaba TUE TUE The New Elizabethans: Talaiasi Labalaba. TUE TUE Britain's military history during the current Queen's reign TUE has featured many interventions in Middle East politics - TUE some successful, some disastrous - nearly all of them highly TUE public and controversial. The Battle of Mirbat is a TUE little-known secret. Fought in 1972, it was part of the TUE British Army's clandestine involvement in Oman. Nine SAS TUE troopers, plus support from a handful of Omani gunners, were TUE pitted against hundreds of communist guerrillas. James TUE Naughtie recounts how the bravery and self-sacrifice of one TUE man, Talaiasi Labalaba, helped the British and Omanis to TUE hold out and prevent a loss in one of the UK's most crucial TUE secret conflicts. He assesses Britain's military TUE international presence since 1952 through the exploits of TUE this one soldier. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01l5hyd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01l7sfm (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Children of the Olympic Bid b01l7sfp (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 2 TUE TUE Ashley is the youth ambassador for his borough and is TUE working to ensure a legacy from 2012 for those coming up TUE behind him. His dreams of competing were put on hold through TUE injury and after the Singapore trip he changed focus, TUE immersing himself in politics and campaigning. He is joined TUE in this programme by Alex, who capped his role in securing TUE the 2012 Olympics with the honour of being the second person TUE to carry the Olympic torch at the start of its journey from TUE Athens to London. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01l7mq2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l7sfr (Listen) TUE Echo Point TUE TUE While renovating an old spa hotel, a husband unleashes TUE sounds and echoes which provoke his wife. She has been TUE recovering from a mental breakdown but gradually becomes TUE animated, alert, curious and intent on uncovering a mystery TUE embedded in the walls of the old mansion. TUE TUE Celebrated Australian author Louis Nowra sets his ghost TUE story in a creaky rattling building with a labyrinth of TUE rooms. TUE TUE On top of the misty isolated Blue Mountains, outside Sydney, TUE stands the former glorious hotel overlooking a cliff, which TUE creates a constant echo. TUE TUE Inside Gavin, a renovator, is tearing down walls and TUE discovering rooms of contraptions once used to cure women TUE with nervous afflictions. His marriage to Esther is in TUE trouble and he hopes this trip may help her calm down. For TUE some time Esther, a brilliant pianist, has avoided touching TUE a piano, but in the ballroom she discovers a piano as TUE damaged as she is. As past and present merge, Esther takes TUE control of her life. But is she becoming saner or more TUE unhinged? TUE TUE Louis Nowra has had his work translated into over ten TUE languages. 'Echo Point' and Nowra's sister-play for Radio 4, TUE 'The Wedding in Venice', were recorded in Australia with TUE same cast of Sydney theatre actors. TUE TUE Music Composed by Stewart D'Arrietta. TUE Technical production: David McCarthy and Peregrine Andrews. TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Judith Kampfner. TUE A Corporation for Independent Media Production for BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01l7sft (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents episode five in the series of BBC Radio TUE 4's food panel show. Each week the programme travels around TUE the country to visit interesting culinary places, and answer TUE questions from local food-lovers. TUE TUE Recorded in front of a live audience, The Kitchen Cabinet is TUE for anyone who cooks at home, not just the experts. TUE TUE In this programme the team are in Cumbria discussing TUE damsons, salt marsh lamb, and Morecambe Bay Shrimps as well TUE as taking questions on all aspects of cooking and eating. TUE TUE This week the panel features: Rachel McCormack, the TUE Glaswegian cook who is also an expert on Catalan cooking; TUE Stefan Gates, self-styled food adventurer and Gastronaut, TUE Tim Hayward the acclaimed food critic, writer, and TUE broadcaster, and Dr Marianne Gray, a food historian who TUE specializes in Georgian and Victorian dining. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Darby Dorras TUE A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The House I Grew Up In b013851x (Listen) TUE Series 5, Jasvinder Sanghera TUE TUE Jasvinder Sanghera is the founder of the charity, Karma TUE Nirvana, which campaigns against forced marriage. She was TUE also one of the influential voices behind the 2008 Forced TUE Marriages Act. TUE Jasvinder was born into a Sikh community in Derby, part of a TUE family of seven daughters and one son. Her mother married TUE off each of her girls one by one. But when it was TUE Jasvinder's turn, she refused. So she was dragged to her TUE bedroom and a lock was put on the door. She was told that TUE she had brought huge shame onto her family and that she TUE would not be allowed out until she promised to go ahead with TUE the wedding. She finally agreed but, once free, hatched a TUE plan to run away with her secret boyfriend. She was just 15. TUE This caused a family rift which, in the 30 years since, has TUE never fully healed. The relationship which Jasvinder mourned TUE the most was with her father, to whom she was very close. TUE After his death he made Jasvinder executor of his estate - TUE proof, for her, that despite everything he had always loved TUE her. TUE She takes Wendy Robbins back to her childhood homes and TUE haunts and tells her about her recent trip to India's TUE Punjab, to meet the one sister she had never met before. TUE Bachanu had decided not to make the journey with the rest of TUE her family when they came to England in the late 1950s. This TUE was a cathartic meeting. Bachanu told her sister she should TUE carry no shame. Their father had travelled to this country TUE in order to live by western values, and Jasvinder, she TUE thought, should not have been punished when that is what she TUE tried to do. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01j6z8q (Listen) TUE The Language of Carers TUE TUE Series exploring the world of words. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01l7spw (Listen) TUE Series 28, Henry Cooper TUE TUE The date is June 18 1963, the final seconds of the fourth TUE round of a boxing match. In the ring, Henry Cooper, eight TUE years older and 26 pounds lighter than his opponent, Cassius TUE Clay. And then Cooper hits Clay, just as the bell rings. TUE TUE Des Lynam was Henry Cooper's boxing co-commentator for many TUE years. He nominates our 'Enery - or Lord 'Enery as he became TUE - as the representative of a different era of sporting TUE prowess. Winner of three Lonsdale belts, but never world TUE champion himself, Henry Cooper is always remembered for his TUE two fights with Cassius Clay, later Muhammed Ali. The TUE programme features archive of the first of those fights, TUE plus the voice of Cooper's famous manager, the Bishop, also TUE known as Jim Wicks. Expert opinion is provided by Norman TUE Giller, author of Henry Cooper: A Hero For All Time. TUE TUE The presenter is Matthew Parris, the producer Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01l7spy (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l5hyg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr Blue Sky b01gvkw9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, With Deepest Sympathy TUE TUE Written by Andrew Collins TUE TUE Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal TUE optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the TUE silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every TUE bit of bad news. TUE TUE This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass TUE is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his TUE wife of 19 years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows TUE all too well. Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter TUE family a series of sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the TUE positive side. It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees TUE it, instead of dealing with the problems of their marriage TUE and their teenage kids, Harvey's optimism is actually his TUE way of avoiding engagement with the big issues. TUE TUE Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in TUE moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with TUE someone who has his head in the clouds. TUE TUE In this episode, the Easter family travel to Middlesborough TUE to help Harvey's miserable, hypochondriac, racist mum Lou TUE through a difficult time, and Charlie learns about mobile TUE phone etiquette at a Catholic funeral mass and an Italian TUE wake. TUE TUE Harvey Easter ..... Mark Benton TUE Jacqui Easter ..... Claire Skinner TUE Charlie Easter ..... Rosamund Hanson TUE Robbie Easter ..... Tyger Drew Honey TUE Kill-R ..... Javone Prince TUE Lou Easter .... Sorcha Cusack TUE Priest .... Angus Deayton TUE TUE Producer: Anna Madley TUE An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01l7sq0 (Listen) TUE There's an awkward homecoming. Meanwhile Fallon needs her TUE mother's advice. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01l7sq2 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with comedian Mark TUE Thomas, whose show Bravo Figaro! is inspired by his father's TUE love of opera. TUE TUE Producer Ella-mai Robey. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh668 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01l7sq4 (Listen) TUE Tuberculosis TUE TUE Figures released this month reveal almost 9000 new TUE tuberculosis cases in the United Kingdom last year, the TUE highest level since the 1970s. The disease has risen by more TUE than a third in the past decade. In parts of London, TUE Birmingham and other cities it is already at the level of TUE high-risk countries in the developing world. TUE TUE Yet in most of the rest of Europe TB rates have been TUE steadily falling in recent years. Health experts have found TUE that cases of TB remain static among people of all TUE ethnicities who were born in Britain. They attribute the TUE national rise in cases to migration from some former British TUE colonies in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian sub-continent. TUE TUE Airport screening of migrants, using a chest x-ray, TUE identifies only active cases of the disease in the lungs. It TUE misses the much more numerous cases of latent TB which can TUE progress to become active at any time. An estimated 10,000 TUE cases of latent TB arrive undetected in the UK each year. TUE TUE A nationwide survey of NHS blood-test screening programmes TUE shows that the areas with populations most at risk are also TUE those with least effort put into screening for latent TUE disease. Patients' groups also question the level of GPs' TUE awareness of the many manifestations of tuberculosis, citing TUE cases of repeated missed diagnosis or misdiagnosis which TUE have left patients suffering as the disease advances with TUE sometimes fatal consequences. TUE TUE Gerry Northam investigates the resurgence of a condition TUE once thought to be all-but eliminated from the UK and asks TUE if the NHS is failing to tackle it. TUE TUE Producer: Gail Champion TUE Reporter: Gerry Northam. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01l7sq6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01l7sq8 (Listen) TUE About a third of deaths from liver disease is down to TUE excessive alcohol consumption, but what is responsible for TUE the other two thirds, the majority? Dr Mark Porter TUE investigates. TUE TUE 21:30 Stephanomics b01l7sf9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01l5hyj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01l7sqb (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis presented by TUE Ritula Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01l7vnk (Listen) TUE Duty Free, Episode 1 TUE TUE Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre TUE by Meera Syal. TUE TUE As every woman knows, matchmaking is no easy job. TUE Particularly when you're trying to find a girl for your TUE dull, balding, freshly-divorced cousin and on top of that TUE manage a house full of servants, shop for contraband Prada TUE goods and attend parties every night. Not to mention the TUE fact that your husband's work trips are becoming TUE increasingly frequent, your city is under attack, and your TUE friends can't be trusted. How is a girl to cope? TUE TUE Jane Austen's Emma is transported to the outrageous social TUE melee of 21st-century Lahore. "Our plucky heroine's cousin, TUE Jonkers, has been dumped by his low-class, slutty secretary, TUE and our heroine has been charged with finding him a suitable TUE wife -- a rich, fair, beautiful, old-family type. Quickly. TUE But, between you, me and the four walls, who wants to marry TUE poor, plain, hapless Jonkers?" TUE TUE As our heroine social-climbs her way through TUE weddings-sheddings, GTs (get togethers, of course) and TUE ladies' lunches trying to find a suitable girl from the TUE right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her cousin TUE has his own ideas about his perfect mate. And secretly, she TUE may even agree. TUE TUE Full of wit and wickedness, Duty Free is a delightful romp TUE through Pakistani high society - although, even as it makes TUE you cry with laughter, it makes you wince at the gulf TUE between our heroine's glitteringly shallow life and the TUE country that is falling apart around her Louboutin-clad TUE feet. TUE TUE Moni Mohsin, already a huge bestseller in India, has been TUE hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen, and compared to Nancy TUE Mitford and Helen Fielding. Duty Free is social satire at TUE its biting best. TUE TUE In today's episode; against a backdrop of escalating TUE violence, a Lahore socialite reluctantly takes on a TUE difficult family challenge. TUE TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b01l7vnm (Listen) TUE Welcome TUE TUE Comedy's best kept secret ingredient gets his own sketch TUE show. Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, TUE some messin' about, you know... TUE TUE In this episode, a robot king, a 50s Spaceman, a ghastly TUE Lottery, some crabs, a kitten, disco and John Donne. TUE TUE Appearing in this episode are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan TUE Partridge, Scott & Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), Paul TUE Putner (Little Britain), Justin Edwards (The Consultants) TUE and David Reed (The Penny Dreadfuls) with special guest TUE Philip Pope (Radio Active). TUE TUE Written by Kevin Eldon, TUE with additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris TUE Original music by Martin Bird TUE Produced & directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b011vg93 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 3 TUE TUE It was a chance encounter with the President himself which TUE saw Zimbabwean musician, Wilson Magwere, become a well TUE rewarded propagandist for Robert Mugabe's regime. While he TUE and his fellow musicians from the band Storm were asked to TUE perform at pro-government rallies and events, all around TUE them they witnessed their friends, neighbours and family TUE members suffer at the hands of the same repressive regime. TUE It was soon too much for Wilson to bear. Leaving his wife TUE and baby daughter behind in Harare, he ran away from the TUE band, from Mugabe and from Zimbabwe. Eight years later, he TUE has found himself living alone in Belfast, a city synonymous TUE with its own set of political complexities. There he TUE continues to wait for his political refugee status to be TUE reviewed and prays that one day his wife and child will be TUE able to join him. But for now Wilson has been trying to make TUE a success of 'Magwere,' the new band he's formed with a TUE disparate group of Belfast based musicians hailing from a TUE hotchpotch of different countries around the world. Alan TUE Dein meets Wilson as he attempts to carve out a life for TUE himself in Belfast and Magwere prepare for their next big TUE gig. TUE TUE Producer: Conor Garrett. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 AUGUST 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01l5hzf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01l314l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l5hzh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l5hzk (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l5hzm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01l5hzp (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lt4zc (Listen) WED With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic WED Park. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01l7w1f (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The WED presenter is Anna Hill and the producer is Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01l7w1h (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01l7w1k (Listen) WED Libby Purves is joined by The Great British Bake Off's Paul WED Hollywood. WED Producer: Annette Wells. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01l317b (Listen) WED Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 3 WED WED Today: a feud between two Muslim neighbours ends tragically, WED and threatens to bring down both families. WED WED Reader: Sudha Bhuchar WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l7w1m (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh6d8 (Listen) WED Writing the Century 20, Episode 3 WED WED The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith WED Dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. WED WED The series which explores the 20th century through the WED diaries and correspondence of real people. WED American travel writer and former journalist, Agnes Keith WED experience in POW camps during 1942 - 1945 in Borneo.. Agnes WED is assaulted by a guard. Although Colonel Suga promises to WED investigate and bring justice, Lieutenant Yoshida chooses a WED different course action against Agnes. WED WED Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01l7w1p (Listen) WED Series 16, Episode 1 WED WED In 1966, a former pirate radio broadcaster, Major Paddy Roy WED Bates, occupied a disused military platform in the North WED Sea, and moved his family aboard. The next year he declared WED it to be the sovereign Principality of Sealand, appointing WED himself Prince Roy, and his wife, a former fashion model, as WED Princess Joan. Five decades on, the Bates family still WED occupy the platform, having survived the repeated attempts WED by the British government to evict them by legal means, and WED having fought off attempts by rival groups to seize the WED platform by force. It's a story of coups, counter-coups, WED guns, petrol bombs, and rival groups of foreign businessmen. WED Jolyon Jenkins interviews surviving witnesses to tell the WED story of this real life "Passport to Pimlico". WED WED 11:30 The Castle b01jrt6b (Listen) WED Series 4, Give Me the Flaming Torch WED WED Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, WED starring James Fleet (The Vicar Of Dibley), Neil Dudgeon WED (Life Of Riley), Martha Howe-Douglas (Horrible Histories) WED and Ingrid Oliver. WED WED The Olympics are coming to Woodstock, so what better time WED for Sir William to go on a go-slow and for Henry to hunt WED dragons? Meanwhile, Sir John tries to get fit and Charlotte WED tries to get into her beach volleyball costume. WED WED Sir John Woodstock ..... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ....... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ....... Martha Howe-Douglas WED Cardinal Duncan ........ Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ...... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ........ Steven Kynman WED Bates ........ Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller and Paul Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01l7w1r (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01l7wq5 (Listen) WED Today on Face the Facts we reveal how scores of people with WED learning disabilities are ending up in illegal forced WED marriages. WED WED It ranges from immigration scams, right through to well WED meaning relatives who hand pick a sometimes unwitting WED spouse, as a carer for the disabled person. WED WED It predominantly, but not exclusively, involves South Asian WED families. It has also happens in some East European , WED African, Mediterranean and traveller families. WED WED The key issue is to do with consent. If someone does not WED have mental capacity they can't consent to marriage, and no WED one else can consent on their behalf. WED WED However, many families do not know about the Mental Capacity WED Act, and presume they are simply 'arranging' a marriage, WED which they have done for generations, and which is perfectly WED legal. WED WED John Waite speaks to families of people with learning WED disabilities who have ended up in a forced marriage. We hear WED from a mother who is planning her disabled son's wedding for WED the end of the year. WED WED We report about a couple who say their marriage is happy, WED even though experts agree the husband does not appear to WED have capacity to consent, and the wife is acting as his WED carer. WED WED Plus we hear from a woman who was unwittingly married to a WED man who turned out to have learning disabilities and who has WED described how they are both victims. WED WED The Government's recent announcement to criminalise Forced WED Marriage in general has been welcomed by some campaign WED groups, but opposed by others who say it will only push the WED practice underground. WED WED For those working with people with learning disabilities, WED they view the reported cases of forced marriage involving WED people with learning disabilities as only the 'tip of the WED iceberg'. WED WED Producer: Carolyn Atkinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01l5hzr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01l7wq7 (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 Children of the Olympic Bid b01l7wq9 (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 3 WED WED Ellie was the face of the Olympic bid - the thirteen year WED old swimmer in a silver suit poised to dive from the Thames WED barrier. Now she's within reach of her target - an Olympic WED medal. She's just been selected for team GB and will be WED racing in the 100 and 200m butterfly - hoping that the huge WED home crowds will spur her on to victory. Her experiences in WED the Olympic village are mirrored by another Olympic swimmer, WED Mbeh, the London youngster picked to represent his home WED country, Cameroon. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01l7sq0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l7wqc (Listen) WED The Wedding in Venice WED WED When a doyenne of Sydney society happens to meet a charming, WED intelligent and cultured European prince, she is not put off WED by him working as a hotel concierge. Instead, she invites WED him to her charity ball so he can meet her daughter. WED Everything goes according to plan. Any suspicions about him WED are unfounded. Or so she tells herself. WED WED Once they become engaged, her daughter is increasingly WED excited about the upcoming nuptials, which are to be held in WED a grand palazzo in Venice. The build up to the wedding is WED enormous, but an influential newspaper columnist and WED restaurant critic thinks he has a scoop. He investigates the WED prince and becomes determined to prove that, on many levels, WED he is not what he claims to be. WED WED Louis Nowra has had his work translated into over ten WED languages. He has written for theatre, film, TV and opera WED and is the author of novels and non-fiction. After writing WED three plays for BBC Radio, this work is part of a Nowra WED special. 'The Wedding in Venice' and its sister play 'Echo WED Point' are about events in crumbling old houses, which WED influence the dramatic action. They were recorded in WED Australia with some of Sydney's most celebrated stage actors WED - with the same cast performing in both productions. WED WED Technical Direction: David McCarthy and Peregrine Andrews WED WED Produced and Directed by Judith Kampfner WED A Corporation for Independent Media Production for BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b01lb10y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01l7wqf (Listen) WED Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify WED perplexing health issues. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01l7wqh (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01l7wtm (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01l7wtp (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l5hzt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b01l7wtr (Listen) WED Series 4, Julia Donaldson 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 This week, comedian Rufus Hound is joined by the author of WED The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson. Donaldson's diaries are a WED vivid account of her obsession with Mick Jagger and the WED lengths she went to in order to meet the elusive Rolling WED Stone. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01l7mrd (Listen) WED Tracy is incensed. Annabelle has her suspicions. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01l7wtt (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh6d8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01l7wtw (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Matthew Taylor WED and Melanie Phillips. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01l7wty (Listen) WED Series 3, James Bridle WED WED Publisher and technologist James Bridle asks how computer WED networks will affect cultural memories. In this Four WED Thought, James brings his two lives together to look for the WED crossing points between books and technology. WED WED How will storing our memories and experiences on 'the WED network' change how we relate to them? They are no longer WED spread through time and geography, and instead much more WED visible to us, but what does that mean? When we have read a WED book, the book remains as a souvenir of the experience, but WED we do not yet have a similar way of accounting for the time WED we spend online. 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 Whatever Happened to the Chemistry Set? b01l7wv0 (Listen) WED Unpacking a vintage Merit Chemistry set from the 1960s, WED complete with glass test tubes, alcohol burner, copper WED sulphate and box-cover picture of side-parting schoolboy in WED classic test-tube pouring pose, Dr Kat Arney lays out the WED history of the chemistry set and assesses its impact on a WED generation of scientists, before charting its decline in the WED final decades of the 20th Century. WED WED In its heyday, the chemistry set fuelled the imagination of WED young amateur scientists, some of whom became Nobel prize WED winners - Linus Pauling, aged 11, was able to procure WED potassium cyanide for his set. WED WED With academics claiming that a lack of hands-on experience WED leaves students ill-prepared for practical work in industry WED and higher education, Kat asks Whatever Happened To The WED Chemistry Set? WED WED In early 20th century the sets focused on the magic of WED chemistry with wonderful colour changes. In the post war WED period they reflected the atomic and space-race world. By WED the 1970s they declined in popularity as health and safety WED issues and manufacturer's fears of litigation took hold. WED Perhaps they also just became boring and unfashionable. WED WED The decline of their popularity reflects a similar decline WED in practical chemistry experiments in schools. Kat asks WED whether this has made chemistry less appealing to pupils and WED reduced interest in the subject. WED WED Kat shares anecdotes and conducts chemistry set experiments WED with some of Britain's leading chemists, including the Royal WED Society's Professor Martyn Poliakoff, Andrea Sella from UCL, WED Lee Cronin from the University of Glasgow, Judith Hackett WED Chair of the Health and Safety executive and Hugh WED Aldersley-Williams author of Periodic Tales - The Curious WED Life of Elements. WED WED Producer: Julian Mayers WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01l7w1k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01l5hzw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01l7wv2 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis presented by WED Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ld1ky (Listen) WED Duty Free, Episode 2 WED WED Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre WED by Meera Syal. WED WED In today's episode; the Marriage Committee targets its first WED potential bride and an introduction to the blushing groom is WED arranged... WED WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Now Show b01l7wv6 (Listen) WED The Now Show 2012 - Live!, Episode 2 WED WED A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you WED abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted WED by Punt and Dennis with Andy Zaltzman, Henning Wehn and WED Margaret Cabourn-Smith. WED WED 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b016w800 (Listen) WED Series 9, Episode 5 WED WED Alan Dein travels to Elsecar Park, Barnsley.For the past 4 WED years it has been home to Francis McDonald who both runs the WED cafe and acts as unofficial park keeper. This was once WED called 'Elsecar by the sea'. Day trippers from Sheffield and WED hordes of local children from the pit village would play and WED swim in its reservoir. There's a wrought iron bandstand, a WED modern playground and the water still laps against the WED shore. In the last of the golden autumn sun, with eddies of WED brown leaves skittering around, it is a place of quiet WED beauty. WED WED It seemed like a paradise when McDonald opened the doors on WED a world he had known since his childhood. But gradually it WED became a kind of lonely hell. Now this will be his last WED autumn and the house on the hill will fall silent and WED shuttered. WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 AUGUST 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01l5j0q (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01l317b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l5j0s (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l5j0v (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l5j0x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01l5j0z (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lt4zh (Listen) THU With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic THU Park. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01l7wyq (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The THU presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Clare Freeman. THU THU 06:00 Today b01l7wys (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01l7wyv (Listen) THU Series 8, Preventing Pregnancy in Homeless Women THU THU The number of people sleeping rough on Britain's streets is THU rising, and the need for supported housing continues. But THU providing a roof over someone's head is just the start. THU THU A nurse specialist, working in day centres and hostels, THU provides health services to the homeless. It's an ideal THU opportunity to try to engage with clients, who usually fall THU under the radar of a general practitioner. THU THU Physical health problems associated with living outside are THU common, and many suffer from mental health problems and drug THU addiction. THU THU Women who find themselves on the streets are particularly THU vulnerable to assault, and sex work often provides a means THU of escaping the streets, and also funding a drug addiction. THU THU The chaotic nature of these women's lives means they are THU often reluctant to accept the nurse's help. Getting these THU women to use regular contraception is a particular THU challenge. THU THU Pregnancy is not uncommon among homeless women and their THU children often end up in care. Despite the terrible trauma THU this causes, women still find it difficult to use regular THU contraception. THU THU What lengths should the sexual health team go to to THU encourage these women to avoid unwanted pregnancies? THU THU Producer: Beth Eastwood. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01ky5r9 (Listen) THU Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 4 THU THU Today: while some slum dwellers are forging their way up THU into the overcity, others are fighting for their lives back THU in the slum. THU THU Author: Katherine Boo THU Reader: Sudha Bhuchar THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l8n6j (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh7tv (Listen) THU Writing the Century 20, Episode 4 THU THU The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith THU Dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. THU THU The series which explores the 20th century through the THU diaries and correspondence of real people. THU American travel writer and former journalist, Agnes Keith THU experience in POW camps during 1942 - 1945 in Borneo.. Agnes THU discovers her husband has been imprisoned in the notorious THU Guard House where prisoners are starved and tortured. She THU pleads for Col. Suga to intervene. THU THU Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01l8n6p (Listen) THU Rwanda Cycling THU THU Rwanda is a nation of bicycles; large cumbersome machines, THU piled high with sacks of coffee or potatoes, so heavy they THU can only be pushed up the steep winding roads in this "land THU of a thousand hills." THU THU Rwanda -- a country known only for the genocide of 1994, THU when an estimated 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, were THU murdered in cold blood in a mere 100 days -- is also a THU nation in need of heroes. THU THU It may now have found them: lycra-clad athletes in helmets THU and wrap-around sunglasses on five thousand dollar racing THU bikes. They are Team Rwanda, the national cycling team, its THU tightly packed and brightly coloured peloton now a familiar THU sight on their training rides on the roads around Ruhengeri THU in the country's north-west, not far from the border with THU Uganda. THU THU For this week's Crossing Continents Tim Mansel has spent a THU week with Team Rwanda as they prepare for their latest THU international competition, the Tour of Eritrea. The team THU assembles on a Monday night from all over Rwanda. They come THU by bike, some after riding for three or four hours, one THU after a ride of six. Their week is a series of gruelling THU rides, nutritious food, and daily yoga, all under the THU critical eye of their outspoken American coach, Jock Boyer. THU THU It's impossible to spend time in Rwanda without being THU confronted by the genocide. A large purple banner adorns the THU main street in Ruhengeri, its message unmissable - Jenocide, THU it proclaims - and this year's slogan: "Learning from THU History to build a bright future." And only a few hundred THU yards from where the riders live is the town's genocide THU memorial, a walled garden dominated by a disturbing monument THU - the figure of a man pleading for his life and a machete THU that appears to be dripping in blood. THU THU Team Rwanda is not immune from the genocide, indeed it makes THU explicit connections. Its website features biographies of THU several of its riders: Rafiki Uwimana, a small child in THU 1994, sent by his parents to live in the countryside to THU escape the horrors of the capital Kigali, forced to hide in THU the forest from the Hutu militias, and almost dying of THU malaria before being saved by the Tutsi RPF militia invading THU from Uganda; or Obed Rugovera, who lost three siblings and THU two uncles in the carnage. THU THU "The genocide has affected every one of the riders THU profoundly and you can feel it even without talking about THU it," says the coach, Jock Boyer. "Cycling...gives them the THU hope that they can buy a house, provide for their family, do THU something they're good at and that they're recognised for THU and that the country is not just going to be known for a THU genocide.". THU THU 11:30 Challenging Kane b01l8n6t (Listen) THU Every ten years since 1952, Sight and Sound, the monthly THU publication for the British Film Institute, has asked THU critics and directors to vote for their top ten films of all THU time. Since 1962, the Orson Welles classic 'Citizen Kane' THU has won this poll and been declared the greatest ever film THU but how has it managed to do so? And will a film that was THU made 71 years ago triumph once more as the magazine conducts THU the poll again in 2012? THU THU Orson Welles directed 'Citizen Kane' in 1941 when he was THU just 25 years old. The story of newspaper magnate Charles THU Foster Kane was interpreted by many as a thinly veiled THU fictional parody of the real tycoon William Randolph Hearst. THU Hearst was so enraged by the film that he banned any mention THU of it from his newspapers and although 'Citizen Kane' was a THU critical success, it failed to make its money back and faded THU from view. THU THU Film historian and broadcaster Matthew Sweet investigates THU how the film's reputation was restored in the 1950s, partly THU thanks to French critics writing for the Cahiers du Cinema THU magazine who championed cinema as an art form. He explores THU how the film's critical reputation continued to go from THU strength to strength over the next half century. THU THU Matthew is voting for the first time in this year's poll and THU included 'Citizen Kane' in his top ten. He says: "I couldn't THU help myself. It's very hard to think of a film that's THU greater and it's hard to ignore its history of greatness. THU But mainly I put it there for personal reasons. When I was THU fifteen I saw 'Citizen Kane' at the Manchester Cornerhouse - THU sitting on the floor, because too many tickets had been THU sold. It's the moment, I think, when I started taking cinema THU seriously." THU THU Helping Matthew unravel the secret of the film's success are THU the director and friend to Welles Peter Bogdanovich, THU biographer & critic David Thomson, author of 'Citizen Kane' THU Professor Laura Mulvey, film-maker Mark Cousins and critic THU Peter Cowie. Sight and Sound editor Nick James reveals to THU Matthew the results of the poll and whether 'Citizen Kane' THU has won again at the end the programme. THU THU Producer: Simon Jacobs THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01l8n6w (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l8n6y (Listen) THU Jocelyn Bell Burnell THU THU The New Elizabethans: Jocelyn Bell Burnell the THU astrophysicist who discovered pulsars, the beams of THU radiation emitted by rapidly spinning neutron stars. THU THU Bell Burnell was a PhD student trying to track quasars at THU the time of her discovery, but it was through analysing the THU data from the radio telescope she had helped to build at THU Cambridge University that she first noticed these signals. THU THU When her results were published in the journal Nature in THU 1968 they caused an astronomical sensation. In 1974, her PhD THU supervisor, Prof Anthony Hewish received the Nobel Prize for THU Physics along with Dr Martin Ryle for their work on pulsars THU but she was not included. Many of her peers think she is one THU of the most notable omissions from the Nobel list, although THU she has claimed she was not upset by it. THU THU She was the first woman president of the Institute of THU Physics and throughout her life she has promoted the cause THU of women in science. THU THU Producer: Clare Walker. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01l5j11 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01l8n71 (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Children of the Olympic Bid b01l8n73 (Listen) THU Series 8, Episode 4 THU THU Amber presented London's bid plans to the International THU Olympic Committee all those years ago. Since then her talent THU as a sportswoman has taken her to America on a scholarship. THU She now lives in Tennessee but hopes to be selected for team THU GB and has put her many other dreams - from modelling to THU motherhood - on hold. She is joined in this programme by THU Thomas, the talented Paralympic hopeful whose Olympic dreams THU fell by the wayside but who still hopes to find some role to THU fulfil in 2012. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01l7mrd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l8n77 (Listen) THU Mitchener - Black Box Detective THU THU Alison Joseph's new drama introduces a distinctive brand of THU detective. Mitchener is an air accident investigator, THU haunted by memories of a previous fatal air crash in which THU he was involved, and in which his best friend died. Having THU settled into a quiet life as a mechanic in a cycle shop, he THU has so far resisted all attempts to draw him back into THU investigative work, but when a Boeing 767 crashes THU mysteriously in the English Channel, the wife of one its THU victims approaches Mitchener personally in an effort to THU obtain his professional services, threatening not only his THU peace of mind but also his marriage. THU THU Although entirely fictional and featuring only fictional THU characters, Mitchener's investigation in this drama is based THU on a real life air disaster and the science is authentic. THU The programme was made with the generous assistance of the THU Air Accident Investigation Board, an organisation with a THU formidable track record for painstaking work in uncovering THU the causes of air disasters. THU THU Alison Joseph is a novelist and playwright whose books THU include the Sister Agnes stories. Alison is currently THU working on a novel about particle physics. THU THU Directed by John Taylor THU A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01l8n79 (Listen) THU Urban Wildlife THU THU From Dover to Dundee, London to Leeds and Cardiff to THU Cambridge, there is much more to our towns and cities than THU concrete and cars. Take the time to listen and look and a THU world of wildlife is there just waiting to be spotted. As THU Britain's largest city London is alive with wildlife and THU Jules Hudson takes a journey across West London in search of THU just a few of the feathered, furry and winged residents that THU call the city home. THU THU As the day begins, Jules meets David Lindo, aka The Urban THU Birder, who takes Jules for a walk across Wormwood Scrubs, THU the 183 acres of open land close to the prison of the same THU name. This is David's patch, his 'garden' where he says he THU has had the privilege of seeing Meadow Pipits, Woodpeckers, THU passing Northern Wheatears, Honey Buzzards and even nesting THU Skylarks. Leaving David doing what he does best, looking up THU to the skies, Jules joins Jan Hewlett at the Gunnersbury THU Triangle Nature Reserve. Cut off from the surrounding area THU by railway tracks in the late nineteenth century, this THU reserve in a corner of Chiswick has developed into a lively THU ecological community which became one of London Wildlife THU Trust's first reserves when it was saved from development by THU a local campaign. Jan takes Jules on a walk through the THU woodland of the reserve, which is home to an array of THU birdlife, butterflies and bats, as well as hedgehogs and THU field voles, to the pond to discover what creatures thrive THU there. THU THU Leaving Jan taking in the peace of the Triangle, Jules THU continues his journey to the home of Kelly Gray where he THU finds some surprising residents in her back garden. Longing THU for the rural lifestyle, Kelly has brought the countryside THU and the idea of life on the farm to Brentford. Introducing THU Jules to Rosie and Jim, the pigs that share her back garden THU with the ducks and chickens she also has, Kelly explains why THU she took such such a huge decision to bring the countryside THU in to her West London garden. THU THU No urban wildlife story would be complete without the THU gardener's best friend, the hedgehog. Jules rounds off his THU journey with a visit to the home of Sue Kidger in Twickenham THU from where she runs her hedgehog hospital, caring for THU orphaned and injured hedgehogs with the aim of releasing THU them once again to secure gardens. With Sue is Hugh Warwick, THU self-confessed hedgehog obsessive who tells Jules about an THU initiative to safeguard the future of hedgehogs whose THU numbers have been declining rapidly in recent years. As Hugh THU says, a hedgehog friendly garden is a wildlife friendly THU garden. THU THU Presenter: Jules Hudson THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01l5pfp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01l7lsk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01l8n7f (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01l8n7k (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 b01l8n7m (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l5j13 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b0105vtt (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU THU The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with a THU 4th series with more shop based shenanigans and over the THU counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty THU sidekick Dave. THU THU Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli. THU 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 THU audience with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and THU a Writers' Guild award in 2008. This brand new series sees a THU crop of new shop regulars, and some guest appearances along THU the way from the likes of Mina Anwar and Kevin Eldon. THU THU In this episode Alok announces his sudden engagement to THU Siddiqua, the daughter of the local Pennywise empire and THU shop rival to Ramesh. So is it love that is driving Alok, or THU the promise of a gadget filled backshop? THU THU Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kolhi THU Dave ..... Donald McLeary THU Sanjay ..... Omar Raza THU Alok ..... Susheel Kumar THU Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth THU Keith Futures ..... Greg McHugh THU Siddiqua ..... Debbie Welsh THU Shahid Mirza ..... Mani Sumal THU THU Producer/Director: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01l7mtp (Listen) THU Adam dreams of pastures new. Meanwhile Brian makes an THU unexpected move. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01l8n7p (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including a review of a new RSC staging of THU Much Ado About Nothing, starring Meera Syal as Beatrice. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh7tv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01l8n7t (Listen) THU Olympic Security THU THU The London Olympics were 7 years in preparation. So why did THU the plans for security to be provided by private contractor THU G4S go so badly wrong? THU THU Mukul Devichand hears from G4S guards and police officers THU working on the Olympic sites about their concerns for THU securing the Games. Whistleblowers talk of untrained guards THU operating the x-ray machines, men working 24 hour shifts and THU vans entering venues without being searched. Police officers THU tell the programme how they're trying to fill the security THU gaps left by G4S. THU THU The Report also explores how G4S achieved the Olympic THU contract, their recruitment process and what seems to have THU gone wrong. And as media attention focuses on blaming G4S, THU Mukul Devichand asks if the London Organising Committee THU (LOCOG) could have sorted these problems much earlier on. THU THU Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01l8n7y (Listen) THU New Gateway THU THU Britain is getting a new port on the Thames, the first for THU many years. When London Gateway opens next year, it will be THU able to handle several million containers a year. THU Peter Day asks what impact this vast undertaking is likely THU to have on the way the country works and on the port's THU competitors. THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley THU Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b01l7wyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:45 A Life With ... b01djrph (Listen) THU Series 6, Seals THU THU A Life With... Episode 5 of 5: Seals THU THU Grey seals are Britain's largest mammal, yet still remain a THU mystery. Mary Colwell Meets Sue Sayer on a windy cliff in THU Cornwall to view the animals she loves so much. THU THU Sue now spends all her time discovering their lives. She THU used to be a teacher, but as her passion for seals grew she THU found herself spending more and more time with seals. THU Eventually she gave up her paid job and became a champion of THU seals. THU THU Sue has developed a fur pattern recognition system that THU means she know 700 seals just by looking at them! What is it THU about seals that inspires such dedication? Is it their big THU eyes or their playful, curious character that is so THU alluring? Sue finds it hard to say herself, but acknowledges THU they have totally taken over her life. THU THU Sue still uses her teaching skills, but this time to educate THU the public about seals, how to behave around them and what THU to do if there is a lone pup on the beach. We may take them THU for granted she says, but there as many grey seals an red THU squirrels, its time to take their welfare to heart and grey THU seals could have no better champion than Sue Sayer to fight THU their cause. THU THU 21:58 Weather b01l5j15 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01l8n80 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis, presented by THU Robin Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ld1jj (Listen) THU Duty Free, Episode 3 THU THU Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre THU by Meera Syal. THU THU In today's episode; two weeks into the campaign to find THU Jonkers a bride, the groom is proving to be less than THU willing, while the streets of Lahore are becoming ever more THU dangerous, after a wave of suicide bombings. THU THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b01l8n82 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. THU It's a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it THU in the slightest. Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, THU wigshops and witches, murderous pensioners and squirrels of THU this delightful land as they go about their bizarre THU business. THU THU A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe. THU THU Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel THU Stubbings, Clare Thompson and Marcia Warren. THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b016kkbq (Listen) THU Series 9, Episode 4 THU THU Alan Dein goes to Boston, Lincolnshire to explore the THU simmering tensions caused by a large influx of migrant THU workers from Eastern Europe. THU THU On arriving in this traditional market town dominated by its THU vast church known locally as the Stump, Alan hears rumours THU of escalating crime, homelessness and enforced THU repatriations. Migration is without doubt the number one THU issue here - the population of this market town has swollen THU dramatically since the expansion of the EU, with workers THU drawn by the ready supply of agricultural work. THU THU Alan talks to Bostonians and migrant workers alike. He THU witnesses for himself the troubles in the town on a Saturday THU night, attempting to build up a balanced picture of the THU truth behind the rumours. THU THU Producer: Laurence Grissell. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 AUGUST 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01l5j22 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01ky5r9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01l5j24 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01l5j26 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01l5j28 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01l5j2b (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01lt4zm (Listen) FRI With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic FRI Park. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01l8qqw (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. The FRI presenter is Caz Graham and the producer is Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01l8qqy (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought FRI for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01l5pll (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01l3049 (Listen) FRI Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: while some slum dwellers are forging their way up FRI into the overcity, others are fighting for their lives back FRI in the slum. FRI FRI Author: Katherine Boo FRI Reader: Sudha Bhuchar FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01l8qr0 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh7vh (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 20, Episode 5 FRI FRI The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith FRI Dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery. FRI FRI The series which explores the 20th century through the FRI diaries and correspondence of real people. FRI American travel writer and former journalist, Agnes Keith FRI experience in POW camps during 1942 - 1945 in Borneo.. The FRI American and Australian Allies liberate the camps. Freedom FRI at last. FRI FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 11:00 Tolkien in Love b01l8qr2 (Listen) FRI Novelist Helen Cross, who herself lives in Birmingham, FRI uncovers the story of the young J.R.R. Tolkien, falling in FRI love with Edith Bratt. The love story of Beren and Luthien FRI at the heart of his novel The Silmarillion was inspired by FRI their relationship. They were both orphans, living in a FRI boarding house in Edgbaston, Birmingham. The teenagers would FRI talk out of their respective bedroom windows until dawn, and FRI go for cycle rides to the Lickey Hills. However, when their FRI romance was discovered, Tolkien's guardian, Father Francis FRI Morgan, forbade Tolkien to see Edith until he came of FRI age.Tolkien won an Exhibition to Oxford and Edith went to FRI live in Cheltenham. But at midnight, as he turned 21, FRI Tolkien wrote to Edith saying his feelings were unchanged. FRI Unfortunately, in the intervening years, Edith had got FRI engaged to someone else. Tolkien got on a train and she met FRI him at Cheltenham station. They walked out to the nearby FRI countryside and Tolkien persuaded her to break off her FRI engagement and marry him instead. But the First World War FRI was about to intervene, and Tolkien volunteered and was sent FRI to the Somme. FRI FRI Helen Cross visits key locations in Birmingham, Cheltenham FRI and Oxford, to tell the story of Tolkien's young life and FRI the love story at the heart of it. FRI Readings by David Warner as Tolkien and Ed Sear as the young FRI Tolkien. FRI FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies b01l8qxl (Listen) FRI Series 2, Sex, Guns and Frida Kahlo FRI FRI Mimi and Joe are in a state of conflicted liberal anguish FRI because Lucy is growing up too fast. She wants a sexy FRI Halloween costume to dazzle her boyfriend, but Joe talks her FRI into going to a party dressed as Frida Kahlo. Meanwhile FRI Joe's wily mother sorts out her son's vindictive and most FRI recent ex-wife, the radical rug designer. FRI FRI Joe ..... Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi ....... Sarah Alexander FRI Tom ..... Finlay Christie FRI Lucy ...... Phoebe Abbott FRI Sophia ....... Juliet Cadzow FRI FRI Written by Marcella Evaristi FRI FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01l8qxn (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01l8nht (Listen) FRI Roy Jenkins FRI FRI The New Elizabethans: Lord Jenkins of Hillhead. Jim Naughtie FRI considers the politician, Roy Jenkins who left the Labour FRI Party to set up the Social Democratic Party. FRI FRI Roy Jenkins made the journey to Government from a school in FRI south Wales, via Oxford University and a spell at Bletchley FRI Park. He held high office in a Labour government but never FRI made Prime Minister. He became the first British president FRI of the European Commission and after disaffection with the FRI direction the Labour party was taking, he was one of the co FRI founders of the Social Democratic Party. In his political FRI retirement he went on to write acclaimed political FRI biographies of Gladstone and Churchill. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Taylor. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01l5j2d (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01l8nhw (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Children of the Olympic Bid b01l8rbg (Listen) FRI Series 8, Episode 5 FRI FRI Laurence has played a prominent role in sport across the FRI capital but had thought it would be his rugby skills which FRI would take him to international level. Two years ago he took FRI up the discuss and so talented was he that he's on the brink FRI of Olympic selection. According to his coach his physic is FRI near perfect - at 6ft 6 he weighs close to 23 stone and the FRI main thing standing in his way is how well he copes with the FRI psychological pressures as this top sporting event FRI approaches. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01l7mtp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01l8rbj (Listen) FRI Hello Mum FRI FRI by Bernardine Evaristo FRI FRI Jerome was only bad for twenty-five minutes in his whole FRI life. He wants his Mum to understand why. FRI FRI Why he had to ditch his best friend, fail at school, hang FRI out with a new crew, and leave behind the baby sister he FRI loved. FRI FRI So Jerome sets out to show his Mum, how very different life FRI looks through his eyes. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01l8nv8 (Listen) FRI Fishbourne Roman Palace, Chichester FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team answer gardening questions in FRI Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens. Bob Flowerdew, FRI Christine Walkden and Anne Swithinbank are on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Opening Lines b01l8rbl (Listen) FRI Series 14, The Cairn FRI FRI A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging FRI short story writers their radio debut. FRI FRI The ascent of a mountain assumes heightened significance for FRI a climber in this poignant tale by Sophie Hampton. FRI FRI Read by Anthony Calf FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01l8rbn (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 More or Less b01l8rbq (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. Presented by Tim FRI Harford. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01l8rbs (Listen) FRI Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01l5j2g (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b01l8rbv (Listen) FRI Series 8, Rebecca Front talks to Chris Addison FRI FRI Rebecca Front talks to her Thick Of It co-star and fellow FRI Nude-a-phobe, comedian Chris Addison about working with FRI Armando Iannucci and embracing his middle-classness through FRI stand-up FRI FRI Producer ..... Carl Cooper FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01l7n7r (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Keri Davies FRI Director ..... John Yorke FRI Editor ..... John Yorke FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy 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 Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills FRI Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell FRI Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski FRI Keith Horrobin ..... Sean Connolly. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01l8rbx (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who reports on a new National Theatre FRI stage version of Mark Haddon's best-selling novel The FRI Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. FRI FRI Producer Ella-mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01lh7vh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01l8rbz (Listen) FRI Clevedon, North Somerset FRI FRI Shaun Ley chairs a live discussion of news and politics from FRI Clevedon Community Cinema, Somerset, with author, journalist FRI and chairman of the National Trust, Simon Jenkins; Neal FRI Lawson, director of left-leaning pressure group Compass; FRI cross-bench peer and businessman, Digby Jones and author FRI Harriet Sergeant. FRI FRI Producer: Isobel Eaton. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01l8rc1 (Listen) FRI John Gray reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer: FRI Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Drama b00z62nv (Listen) FRI Direct Red FRI FRI How does it feel to hold someone's heart in your hands? How FRI do you tell a young patient that he's dying? What do you do FRI when, on a quiet ward in the middle of the night, a patient FRI you've grown close to invites you into his bed? This vivid FRI portrayal of the day-to-day life of young female surgeon, FRI and the medical and moral dilemmas she faces, is based on FRI the memoir by Gabriel Weston. One of few women in an alpha FRI male world, she finds herself continually questioning where FRI a doctor should draw the line between being detached and FRI being human. And it's the conflict between these opposing FRI forces - the personal and professional - that lies at the FRI heart of this powerful play, which has been adapted for FRI radio by Tina Pepler. FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01l5j2j (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01l8rc3 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis, presented by FRI Robin Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ld1p5 (Listen) FRI Duty Free, Episode 4 FRI FRI Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre FRI by Meera Syal. FRI FRI In today's episode; at a huge society wedding, surely a FRI prospective wife for Jonkers can be found in the crowd...but FRI will she have the right bagground? FRI FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 The Now Show b01l8s2g (Listen) FRI The Now Show 2012 - Live!, Episode 3 FRI FRI A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you FRI abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted FRI by Punt and Dennis with Andy Parsons and Margaret FRI Cabourn-Smith. FRI FRI 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b015yt3z (Listen) FRI Series 9, Episode 2 FRI FRI The village of Woodhouses is half-rural, half-suburban FRI idyll. It has two pubs, a bowling green, a working men's FRI club, a golf course and a thriving cricket club. Just ten FRI minutes from the heart of Manchester, the village is full of FRI excitement and anticipation because, as Alan Dein discovers, FRI it's just won the semi-final of the 2011 Village Cricket FRI Cup; the final - at Lords - is only a few weeks away. FRI FRI However this proud Lancashire cricketing village, once home FRI to quarter of a million pigs, suddenly finds itself part of FRI a broader national debate about Britain's threatened FRI countryside, because Woodhouses is today in real danger of FRI being consumed by bricks and concrete. Although the very, FRI very smelly pigs have all but gone, a handful of horses FRI remain, keeping the builders at bay. But how long will FRI Woodhouses remain a village? Will the bowling green become a FRI car park as the rumour has it? If the building does not stop FRI will Woodhouses be eligible to enter the National Village FRI cup? The future could be up to a few horses, six small pigs FRI and the final result at Lords. FRI FRI Producer: Neil George. FRI FRI