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SAT SATURDAY 01 JUNE 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01snqrp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01snxs9 (Listen) SAT The North (and Almost Everything in It), Episode 5 SAT SAT Paul Morley grew up in Reddish, less than five miles from SAT Manchester and even closer to Stockport. Ever since the age SAT of seven, old enough to form an identity but too young to be SAT aware that 'southern' was a category, Morley has always SAT thought of himself as a northerner. What that meant, he SAT wasn't entirely sure. It was for him, as it is for millions SAT of others in England, an absolute, indisputable truth. SAT Forty years after walking down grey pavements on his way to SAT school, Morley explores what it means to be northern. SAT SAT In today's episode it's 1976, and the Sex Pistols play SAT Manchester's Free Hall. Morley was there. SAT SAT Paul Morley is an acclaimed music journalist, writer, SAT presenter and music producer. He made his name writing for SAT the NME between 1977 and 1983, and has gone on to publish SAT several books about music. SAT Reader: Paul Morley, with additional readings from Paul SAT Hilton SAT Abridger: Viv Beeby SAT Producer: Justine Willett. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01snqrr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01snqrt (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01snqrw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01snqry (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01snz0t (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon SAT Stephen Shipley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01snz0w (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01snqs0 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01snqs2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b02147m6 (Listen) SAT Series 24, In Search of Love SAT SAT Clare Balding meets those who have found love and SAT companionship through walking when she joins a group to walk SAT a section of the Greensand Way in Surrey. SAT SAT She speaks to Liz and James who explain how walking SAT side-by-side took the awkwardness out of their first SAT meeting. Liz said she knew James liked her when he started SAT flirting like a teenager over lunch, even though she was SAT wearing her Mum's over-sized waterproof at the time. SAT SAT Margaret explains how walking transformed her retirement and SAT led to a wider range of social activities. She adds, "London SAT can be very lonely when you live on your own". SAT SAT Clare hears how walk-leader Roger met his wife Sue thirty SAT years ago on a walk, and that this history can provide a map SAT of a relationship both literally and metaphorically. SAT Although they walk at a different pace, Sue's keen to point SAT out that Roger never forgets she's on the walk. SAT SAT Producer: Toby Field. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0210pl2 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01snqs4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0210pl4 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day, Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0210pl6 (Listen) SAT Travel writer Paul Theroux SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with traveller Paul Theroux. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Nightingales of India b0210pl8 (Listen) SAT Presented by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, this is the remarkable SAT story of two iconic sisters revered by Bollywood fans the SAT world over. Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle are two of the SAT finest and most prolific female vocalists in the business. SAT They are playback singers extraordinaire - providing the SAT singing voices of generations of film actresses. SAT SAT The story of the sisters from a humble background parallels SAT the story of Bollywood and of India itself. SAT Known as the 'nightingales of India', they have forged SAT careers spanning more than six decades. One or the other of SAT them is rarely out of the record books as the most recorded SAT artist in the world. SAT SAT The sisters were born into a theatrical family. Lata, the SAT older of the two, who is interviewed in the programme was SAT left, at the age of thirteen, to support the whole family. SAT After much hardship she got her big break and, just as the SAT Hindi film industry was taking off at the end of the SAT thirties, a star was born. Now in her 80s, despite her fame SAT and fortune, she leads a quiet, simple life and remains SAT unmarried. Her younger sister Asha, now in her eighties too, SAT was far from shy and retiring. Teenage elopement, affairs SAT and divorce make her the dangerous half of the duo. She too SAT made it to the top. SAT SAT Everyone who is anyone in Bollywood has worked with or is SAT familiar with the sisters' work. And the programme includes SAT a rare interview with Lata Mangeshkar herself SAT SAT Producer: Mohini Patel. SAT SAT 11:00 Front Row b0214dly (Listen) SAT Cultural Exchange SAT SAT Mark Lawson presents highlights from the Cultural Exchange SAT project so far, in which leading creative minds select a SAT favourite cultural work. SAT SAT The choices, which include books, music and art, have at SAT times had life-changing consequences: Tamara Rojo, Terence SAT Stamp and Bernardo Bertolucci explain how childhood SAT experiences shaped their future careers. SAT SAT Will Self and Mohsin Hamid share unexpected influences - The SAT Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton and the sci-fi novel SAT Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon. SAT SAT Choosing outside their field, writers Chimamanda Ngozi SAT Adichie and A.S. Byatt are inspired by art. A reproduction SAT of Tutu by Ben Enwonwu means home for Adichie, and A.S. SAT Byatt explains why she always takes a pilgrimage to see The SAT Red Studio, by artist Henri Matisse, when she is in New SAT York. SAT SAT Producer Claire Bartleet. SAT Cultural Exchange SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0210sp5 (Listen) SAT The World's Troubles - Put on Hold!! SAT SAT A world that's not just full of doom and gloom: Anna SAT Borzello on the remarkable changes that have happened in SAT northern Uganda since the area was abandoned by the brutal SAT rebels of the Lords Resistance Army; Richard Porter tells us SAT how the cruelties of Saddam Hussein have become a distant SAT memory in the marshlands of southern Iraq -- people have SAT returned to their homes, the wildlife is back too; BBC SAT foreign correspondent James Reynolds talks of the phone call SAT to London which might have cost him his job; Elisabeth SAT Kendall explains how tribesmen of eastern Yemen are finally SAT getting a say in their own future and Hugh Schofield, a SAT British dad in Paris, sees his daughter transformed by SAT philosophy lessons. SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0210sp7 (Listen) SAT Mortgage refusal mix-up, fake financial advisors, discount SAT vouchers SAT SAT Meet Ms K Richardson, Ms K Richardson, and Ms K Richardson. SAT As triplets they share the same date of birth, the same SAT name, and, until recently, they all shared the same address. SAT Kelly, the youngest by a few minutes, saved up carefully SAT with her fiancĂ© to buy a home. With few debts and all SAT payments up to date she expected to get a mortgage easily. SAT But when she sent for her credit record, she got a shock. SAT Found out what happened next on the programme and hear SAT advice about managing your credit file from Neil Munroe of SAT the credit rating agency Equifax. SAT SAT Crooks trying to sell people shares are now cloning the SAT identity of registered financial advisers to give themselves SAT respectability. One top adviser tells us he had to spend SAT thousands of pounds changing his firm's name and website SAT after it was copied flawlessly by crooks who even answered SAT the phone in his name! And a victim of the scam tells us how SAT he was reeled in with small investments. Every check he made SAT seemed to show the advisor was legitimate. But it was a SAT clone and eventually took £120,000 off him. We hear how SAT investors can protect themselves from the fake financial SAT advisors. SAT SAT Legitimate websites of major and well-known online retailers SAT are being used to lure people into joining a discount club SAT which can cost them hundreds of pounds. It is all entirely SAT above board but some customers say they are not aware they SAT are being signed up. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01snyk9 (Listen) SAT Series 40, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, SAT Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Mitch Benn and Susan Calman to SAT present a topical selection of stand-up, sketches and song. SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Jon Holmes SAT Performer: Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT Performer: Mitch Benn SAT Performer: Susan Calman SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01snqs6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01snqs8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01snykh (Listen) SAT Theresa Villiers, Sunder Katwala, Lord Adonis, Julie White SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Slough in Berkshire. The panel includes the Secretary SAT of State for Northern Ireland Theresa Villiers MP, the SAT director of the think-tank British Future Sunder Katwala, SAT Business woman Julie White and Labour peer Lord Adonis. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0210sp9 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b0210spc (Listen) SAT The Letter of Last Resort SAT SAT The Letter of Last Resort is a hand-written letter from the SAT Prime Minister to the commanding officer of each of SAT Trident's submarines. It contains instruction on what action SAT the commanding officer of the submarine should take in the SAT event that Britain is obliterated by nuclear attack and all SAT those in authority deceased. The letter can only say one of SAT two things: retaliate, or, don't retaliate. Each new British SAT prime minister must write the letter upon taking office. SAT SAT Set in the near future, David Greig's brilliant play is a SAT conversation between the new prime minister (in this case a SAT woman) and the Head of Arrangements, John, at the end of her SAT first day. It unpacks the arguments around nuclear SAT deterrents - and the surreal position a new prime minster SAT must find themself in. SAT SAT The Letter of Last Resort was originally commissioned and SAT produced by the Tricycle Theatre as part of a cycle of plays SAT 'The Bomb - A Partial History'. SAT SAT Credits SAT Prime Minister: Belinda Lang SAT John: Simon Chandler SAT Director: Nicolas Kent SAT Producer: Lu Kemp SAT Writer: David Greig SAT SAT 15:08 Letter of Last Resort: The Discussion b0210spf (Listen) SAT What would you tell the commander of the Trident submarine SAT at sea to do if the UK was destroyed, and its leadership SAT killed, by a surprise nuclear strike? SAT SAT To retaliate? Or not? SAT SAT That is the question for Paddy O'Connell's guests. SAT SAT Dr David Rodin, Commodore Tim Hare and Dr Caroline Lucas MP SAT debate what orders they would give in a "Letter of Last SAT Resort". SAT SAT The letters contain orders from beyond the grave. They are SAT written out by every new Prime Minister, within days of SAT entering office, four times - one for each of Britain's four SAT Trident submarines. SAT SAT When a PM leaves office his or her orders are removed from SAT the submarines, destroyed unread and replaced by the orders SAT of their successor. SAT SAT You can only give one order in the Letter of Last Resort. SAT What should it be? SAT SAT Producer: Arlene Gregorius SAT Editor: Richard Knight. SAT SAT 15:30 The Science of Music b01sm6s2 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT Professor Robert Winston looks at music with a scientist's SAT eye in a series which seeks to fully understand our SAT relationship with the power of sound. SAT SAT In this programme, Robert Winston explores music and the SAT mind. What's happening in our heads when we listen to music? SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0210sph (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Samira SAT Ahmed. SAT SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0210spk (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01snmp2 (Listen) SAT The App Industry SAT SAT Evan Davis meets "appreneurs" trying to make money in a SAT marketplace where traditional business rules do not apply. SAT Becoming an appreneur is easy. All you need is a computer SAT and a couple of hundred pounds. And an idea of course. No SAT surprise perhaps that thousands of new apps are created SAT every week to serve the ever growing smart phone and tablet SAT computer market. But what happens next? How do you make a SAT living if your product is free? And if you sell your app, SAT how high can you go when buyers expect a lot for very SAT little? And how do you market to customers without knowing SAT who they are? SAT SAT Guests : SAT Barry Meade, co-founder Fireproof Studios SAT Professor Anthony Steed, co-founder Chirp SAT Max Whitby, co-founder & CEO Touch Press SAT SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01snqsb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01snqsd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01snqsg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0210t8h (Listen) SAT Irvine Welsh, Clarke Peters, Richard Olivier, Simon SAT Hopkinson, Jo Bunting, Yasmine Hamdan, Ruth Moody SAT SAT Clive's Trainspotting with novelist Irvine Welsh, whose new SAT book 'Skagboys' is the prequel to the 20th century cult SAT classic charting the lives of Renton, Sick Boy, Spud and SAT Tommy, addicted to the heroin flooding their disintegrating SAT community. Clive talks about his journey from Leith to SAT Hollywood and why he's gone back to the novel. SAT SAT There's Much Ado About Nothing with Laurence Olivier's son, SAT Richard Olivier. Clive asks Richard what it was like growing SAT up with an iconic actor as a father and talks to him about SAT new book 'Inspirational Leadership', which looks to the SAT leadership lessons found in Shakespeare's plays, not least SAT Henry V. SAT SAT Jo Bunting's fine dining with food writer, cook and critic SAT Simon Hopkinson, who reveals the sumptuous secrets that go SAT into making the world's most delicious restaurant dishes and SAT shows how it's possible to achieve those professional SAT results at home. 'Simon Hopkinson Cooks' is on Monday June SAT 3rd at 21.00 on More4. SAT SAT Clive's back in the courtroom with actor Clarke Peters. Well SAT known for his role as Detective Lester Freaman in The Wire, SAT Clarke's now starring in 'Race,' a play set in a hotel room SAT with a man accused of rape. 'Race' is at Hampstead Theatre, SAT London until Saturday 29th June. SAT SAT With music from Wailin' Jenny, Ruth Moody, who performs SAT 'Trouble and Woe' from her album 'These Wilder Things'. SAT SAT And from Lebanese songstress Yasmine Hamdan, who performs SAT 'Deny' from her album 'Ya Nass'. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b0210t8k (Listen) SAT Series 14, The Woman and the Warrior SAT SAT Playwright and novelist Chris Dolan creates an imaginative SAT response to a story from this week's news as the SAT award-winning series returns. SAT SAT To complement Radio 4's News and Current Affairs output, our SAT weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story SAT from the week's news. The form and content is entirely led SAT by the news topic. SAT SAT From Fact to Fiction presents writers with the creative SAT opportunity to work in a bold and instinctive way as they SAT respond to events in the news, beginning on a Monday when an SAT idea is selected through to Friday when the programme is SAT recorded and edited. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Chris Dolan SAT Producer: David Neville SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0210v88 (Listen) SAT The Mary Rose Museum; David Mamet's Race; more vampires in SAT Byzantium SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests, Ellah Allfrey, Misha Glenny and SAT Kevin Jackson, discuss the cultural highlights of the week SAT including the £27m Mary Rose Museum opening in Portsmouth's SAT Historic Dockyard and David Mamet's Race SAT SAT In the UK premiere of David Mamet's play, "Race," starring SAT Jasper Britton and Clarke Peters - known to television SAT audiences from "The Wire" - Mamet sets out to write a play SAT which explores racial tension. Mamet himself says, "Race, SAT like sex, is a subject on which it is near impossible to SAT tell the truth." A playwright who likes to shock, most SAT famous for his Pullitzer Prize winning play Glengarry Glen SAT Ross, how close does he get to providing a truthful analysis SAT in this play which explores one of contemporary society's SAT most controversial themes, both in the UK and in the US. SAT SAT The new £27 million Mary Rose Museum opens in Portsmouth's SAT Historic Dockyard, showcasing the Tudor ship in a unique hot SAT box. The Mary Rose is the only sixteenth century warship on SAT display anywhere in the world, and the museum displays 19, SAT 000 Tudor artefacts found on board King Henry VIII's SAT favourite warship as well as bringing to life those who SAT worked on board. Described by David Starkey as the "British SAT Pompeii," the exhibition also documents the amazing story of SAT the Mary Rose's 1982 rescue from the sea bed. SAT SAT "Money, The Unauthorised Biography" by Felix Martin sets out SAT to answer the question: "What is Money and how does it SAT work?" Martin argues that the conventional answer - that SAT people once used sugar in the West Indies, tobacco in SAT Virginia and dried cod in Newfoundland, and that today's SAT financial universe evolved from barter - is not just wrong, SAT but dangerous. So what is the true nature of money, and how SAT crucial is our understanding of it to our economic recovery? SAT SAT And ITV's answer to Channel 4's "Homelands" is "The SAT Americans" - set in 1980s America, when the Cold War is in SAT full swing, it follows the lives of Soviet agents posing as SAT an all-American family. It's written by Joseph Weisberg, who SAT himself worked for CIA in the 90s, and is inspired by a real SAT life incident in 2010 when the FBI discovered 10 undercover SAT agents who had been living nationwide for over a decade. SAT SAT Producer: Hilary Dunn. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0210v8b (Listen) SAT The Longest Suicide Note in History SAT SAT Denys Blakeway tells the story of Labour's botched campaign SAT in the 1983 general election with the help of the vivid SAT archive from the time and interviews with participants from SAT all sides. SAT SAT In 1983, the Labour Party - in the midst of a bitter battle SAT for the soul of the party and led by the unlikely figure of SAT Michael Foot - produced a manifesto that was regarded as so SAT extreme that it was dubbed by a leading party member as 'the SAT longest suicide note in history'. SAT SAT In this Archive on 4, Denys Blakeway looks at the genesis of SAT this document which called for nuclear disarmament, SAT withdrawal from Europe and a return to nationalisation- and SAT which, it is alleged, only narrowly avoided a clause on the SAT need to ban puppy farms. SAT SAT Denys explores how Labour's election campaign disintegrated SAT under the leadership of Michael Foot, a firebrand leftist SAT orator and romantic intellectual, who rejected polling and SAT sound-bites as no more than the slick ephemera of marketing SAT men. Foot used all his oratory to persuade a sceptical SAT public to embrace his vision, and led the party to a SAT crashing defeat. SAT SAT But it was not only his leadership and a radical manifesto SAT put off the electorate. Labour's bitter civil war caused the SAT party to split and resulted in the formation of the Social SAT Democratic Party. Although many are critical of Michael SAT Foot, he staved off melt-down. The Labour Party survived - SAT just - to fight another day and, ironically enough, some of SAT the manifesto policies regarded as so extreme in 1983 have SAT now been adopted by the mainstream. SAT SAT With Neil Kinnock, Roy Hattersley, Denis Healey, Shirley SAT Williams, Cecil Parkinson, Tony Benn and John Sergeant. SAT SAT Produced by Melissa FitzGerald SAT A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01slrj9 (Listen) SAT The Mask of Dimitrios, The House of the Eight Angels SAT SAT Episode 2 (of 2): The House of Eight Angels SAT SAT English crime writer, Charles Latimer's growing obsession SAT with the career of infamous master criminal, Dimitrios SAT Makropoulos, takes him to Geneva where he learns of SAT Dimitrios' exploits as a spy, and on to Paris where, in the SAT company of the eccentric Mr Peters, he finds his own life SAT under very real threat. SAT SAT The Mask of Dimitrios was written in 1939 by Eric Ambler, a SAT key figure in the evolution of the crime thriller who SAT brought realism and political awareness to the genre and SAT influenced writers such as Graham Greene and John le CarrĂ©. SAT SAT By using the criminal career of Dimitrios as a lens, it SAT enables us to see the dark heart of Europe, a continent SAT riven by violence and corruption. Its demonstration that the SAT pursuit of money is the well-spring from which all other SAT evils flow is as pertinent as ever - and its cast of drug SAT dealers, shady businessmen and displaced refugees makes it SAT seem astonishingly modern. SAT SAT Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan SAT Original music by Neil Brand SAT SAT Director: David Blount SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Latimer: Jamie Glover SAT Dimitrios: Tim McInnerny SAT Col Haki: Kenneth Cranham SAT Mr Peters: Desmond Barrit SAT Marukakis: Richard Attlee SAT Mme Chavez: Rachel Atkins SAT Irana Preveza: Rachel Atkins SAT Siantos: Andrew Branch SAT Sholem: John Evitts SAT Greek Official: John Evitts SAT Dhris Mohammed: Gary Carr SAT Mortuary Attendant: Ilker Kaleli SAT Director: David Blount SAT Author: Eric Ambler SAT Adaptor: Stephen Sheridan SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01snqsj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01sn9cf (Listen) SAT How Free Is Our Speech? SAT SAT Are laws designed to protect individuals and minority groups SAT from offence and harassment, inhibiting free speech? SAT SAT Clive Anderson and his guests discuss whether cases such as SAT the conviction of a woman for telling David Cameron he had SAT "blood on his hands" and the arrest of a man for calling a SAT police horse "gay" are bringing the law into disrepute. SAT SAT Barristers Ivan Hare and Neil Addison call for the repeal of SAT some public order laws and for reform of law relating to the SAT incitement of hatred on the grounds or race, religion or SAT sexual orientation. SAT SAT But Chief Constable Andrew Trotter argues that such laws are SAT essential tools in the police armoury for maintaining public SAT order. He says minority groups and individuals deserve SAT protection from abusive language. SAT SAT Legal academic Gavin Phillipson suggests that hate speech SAT laws should be restricted to preventing language which SAT fundamentally questions other people's right to exist or SAT that attempts to relegate them to lower class citizens. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b01sm2f5 (Listen) SAT Series 27, Episode 4 SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini welcomes four more musically-minded SAT contestants to the wide-ranging quiz on all aspects and SAT genres of music. SAT SAT In heat four of the 2013 competition, the contestants are SAT from London, Bury St Edmunds and Berkhamstead. They'll have SAT to demonstrate a wide knowledge of music in all its variety, SAT as well as specialising in a musical topic of which they've SAT had no prior warning. Will they prefer questions on Verdi, SAT or on Paul Weller? SAT SAT The winner will take a place in the semi-finals in July. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS SAT SAT E.C. GOH, an editor from London; SAT SAT ADAM HARVEY, a music hire librarian from Bury St Edmunds; SAT SAT RICHARD WYBORN, a hospital radio and community radio SAT volunteer from Berkhamstead. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01slrjf (Listen) SAT A Bouquet of Flowers SAT SAT Roger McGough celebrates the centenary of the Chelsea Flower SAT Show with a bouquet of poems about flowers. SAT SAT Daisies from Emily Dickinson and Jon Silkin, roses by Blake SAT and Burns and the wonderfully moving account of his son's SAT birth 'The Almond Tree' by Jon Stallworthy. SAT SAT With readers Juliet Aubrey, Mark Meadows and Harry SAT Livingstone. SAT SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 JUNE 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b020tp0t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Junior Science b01756jf (Listen) SUN The Answering Machine SUN SUN To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick SUN Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence SUN at The Science Museum in London. SUN SUN In these three specially-commissioned stories, children SUN become involved in science with strange and unsettling SUN results. SUN SUN In 'The Answering Machine', the narrator remembers his SUN father buying an early version of an answering machine. The SUN machine changes the lives of his family in a chilling and SUN unexpected way. SUN SUN Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. SUN His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for SUN The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won SUN The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has SUN published three novels and two illustrated collections of SUN stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears SUN which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. SUN One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by SUN Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at SUN international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best SUN Short Animation. SUN SUN Mick lives in Brighton with his family. SUN SUN Written by Mick Jackson SUN Read by David Holt SUN SUN Producer: Rosalynd Ward SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b020tp0w (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b020tp0y (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b020tp10 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b020tp12 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b02116ys (Listen) SUN The bells of Westminster Abbey. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01snbm0 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Anna Woodhouse: Windows to the Soul SUN SUN Anna Woodhouse explores what looking through glass and SUN glasses means for us. SUN SUN When she was a call centre worker Anna could see the towers SUN of Leeds University through the window of her high rise SUN block on a Leeds council estate. For her, this symbolised SUN both possibility and disconnection from the object of her SUN desire. When she eventually left the estate, she completed a SUN study on the place of glass in our culture. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas SUN and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking SUN on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a SUN live audience at Somerset House. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b020tp14 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b02116yv (Listen) SUN Walking a Mile in Another Man's Shoes SUN SUN As the old saying has it, "Before you judge a man, you must SUN walk a mile in his shoes". SUN SUN At a time when some claim divisions in society to be SUN widening, Mark Tully examines the place of empathy in SUN politics, religion, medicine, popular culture and the arts. SUN He tries to establish the difference between empathy, pity SUN and compassion and consults the works of thinkers and SUN writers - ranging from Jain Mystic Shrimad Rajchandra to SUN T.S. Eliot and comic poet Shel Silverstein. SUN SUN Mark also talks to veteran politician Tony Benn about the SUN importance of developing empathy in political life and plays SUN music by Mozart, Mark Campbell and the Bhutanese monk, Lama SUN Gyurme. SUN SUN The readers are Harriet Walter and Tim Pigott-Smith. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b02116yx (Listen) SUN British Brie - Anna Hill visits a young dairy farmer in SUN Suffolk who is trying to make a living by creating something SUN unique. Jonny Crickmore has just started producing a brie SUN made from his unpasteurised milk. Anna visits him on Day 2 SUN of the operation just as he is cutting the curd. SUN SUN Jonny Crickmore's father is a dairy farmer at Fen Farm near SUN Bungay in Suffolk. Jonny and his wife Dulcie decided that SUN they want to diversify the business into making cheese. They SUN think there is a gap in the market for a raw milk brie style SUN cheese made in Suffolk. And they've enlisted the help of a SUN French cheesemaker to teach them the tricks of the trade. SUN SUN Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Weatherill. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b020tp16 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b020tp18 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b02116yz (Listen) SUN Melvyn Bragg; Coronation; Synagogue Saviours SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b02116z1 (Listen) SUN SignHealth SUN SUN Liz Wyatt, whose son is deaf, presents the Radio 4 Appeal SUN for SignHealth SUN Reg Charity:1011056 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN SignHealth. SUN SUN SignHealth SUN SUN SignHealth is a national charity and its vision is a world SUN where there are no barriers to good health and wellbeing for SUN deaf people. SignHealth work with the deaf community, health SUN services and other charities to help improve the lives of SUN deaf people.They provide a wide range of bespoke services SUN which include supporting deaf women and children who are SUN victims of domestic abuse, outreach, psychological therapy SUN and supported living to deaf people with complex needs. SUN SUN For many being Deaf is associated with social exclusion and SUN reduced educational opportunities. It is no wonder that the SUN high rate of mental health problems experienced by SUN profoundly deaf people are often connected to abuse or SUN neglect received at an early age. SUN SUN SignHealth’s project DeafHope highlights the vulnerability SUN and isolation of young deaf people who are sadly three times SUN as likely to experience abuse and neglect than hearing SUN children. The DeafHope service is run entirely by deaf SUN professionals and provides life-changing support for both SUN deaf children and adults who are vulnerable to abuse. SUN Pointed in the right direction by a social worker or member SUN of the Deaf community, once someone is in the caring hands SUN of DeafHope, they are safe. Whether they need protection, SUN legal support or emergency shelter. SUN SUN SignHealth Psychological Service ‘BSL Healthy Minds’ SUN Therapy is provided in British Sign Language on a one to one SUN basis SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b020tp1b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b020tp1d (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b02116z3 (Listen) SUN Marking the 60th Anniversary of Her Majesty The Queen's SUN Coronation. SUN From Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh, the Parish Church for the SUN Palace of Holyroodhouse. SUN Leader: Katie Munnik; Preacher: The Revd Neil Gardner. SUN With the Choir of Fettes College, Edinburgh, directed by SUN David Goodenough. SUN Organist: Donald Hunt. SUN SUN Hymns: O praise ye the Lord! (Laudate Dominum) SUN O thou who camest from above (Hereford) SUN Lord of Life we come to you (Eriskay Love Lilt) SUN Lord for the years (Lord of the years) SUN SUN Anthems: Most glorious Lord of life (William Harris) SUN O clap your hands (Ralph Vaughan Williams) SUN SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b01snykk (Listen) SUN Gatsby: The Perfect Fake SUN SUN John Gray finds new resonance for our own age in the story SUN of "the Great Gatsby". "Just as in the Roaring Twenties, SUN we've lived through a boom that was mostly based on SUN make-believe - easy money, inflated assets and financial SUN skulduggery." "We want nothing more than to revive the fake SUN prosperity that preceded the crash. Just like Gatsby, we SUN want to return to a world that was conjured into being from SUN dreams." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b01slvgp (Listen) SUN Spotted Crake SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. David SUN Attenborough presents the Spotted Crake. If it weren't for SUN its whiplash song, the spotted crake could win a prize as SUN our least visible bird. Unlike its showy relatives the coot SUN and the moorhen, this polka-dotted skulker is notoriously SUN hard to find and only rarely betrays itself by singing. SUN SUN Spotted Crake (Porzana porzana) SUN Image by Michael Gore (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b02116z5 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b02116z7 (Listen) SUN Matt's pulling the strings, and Tom comes to the rescue. SUN Vanessa's top storylines SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Producer: Vanessa Whitburn SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough SUN Ben Archer: Thomas Lester SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer: Colin Skipp SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Matt Crawford: Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan: Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Alec Murray: Rick Warden SUN Mikey: Matthew Watson SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b02116z9 (Listen) SUN Sir Mervyn King SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the out-going Governor SUN of the Bank of England, Sir Mervyn King. SUN SUN He has been in charge during a period of unprecedented SUN global financial turmoil yet under his leadership the Bank SUN of England has emerged as one of the world's most powerful SUN central banks. He may have grown used to the pink tails SUN coats and top hats of his attendants in Threadneedle Street SUN but his background was far from privileged. His father SUN worked on the railways and then became a teacher; his mother SUN was a housewife and sang in the church choir. Their son SUN studied hard and gained a top first at Cambridge before SUN going on to teach at MIT and the London School of Economics. SUN SUN Throughout his demanding public life he has been sustained SUN by his twin passions for cricket and Aston Villa football SUN club. His other great love appears to have been an SUN intriguingly slow burn: he first met Barbara, the woman who SUN would become his wife, in 1970 - they married in 2007. SUN SUN He says, "Being the Governor of the Bank of England is SUN actually the easiest job I've ever done; you're in charge & SUN you've got tremendous support." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01sm2fc (Listen) SUN Series 66, Episode 2 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons is in Derry, Londonderry for this edition SUN of the linguistically challenging Just A Minute. The SUN panellists are; Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks, Fred MacAulay SUN and Roy Walker. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b02116zc (Listen) SUN Michael Pollan on Cooking SUN SUN Sheila Dillon speaks to Michael Pollan on the craft, science SUN and pleasures of cooking. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b020tp1g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b02116zf (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 The New North b02116zh (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Professor Martin Goodman explores the new, iconic cultural SUN buildings that have emerged in the North of England over the SUN last decade and asks if they represent a 'New North'. SUN SUN In the second part of his journey, he visits the Hepworth SUN Gallery in Wakefield and talks to its architect, Sir David SUN Chipperfield about the design. In Manchester he gets a SUN panoramic view of the city from the 47th floor penthouse of SUN the architect Ian Simpson, who designed the tower. SUN SUN He talks to Maria Balshaw, the director of the Manchester SUN Art Gallery to find out about the historic relevance of that SUN gallery today, and meets the director of a new cultural SUN building, where work has just begun. SUN SUN Martin also hears from Professor Peter Barrett about the SUN regeneration of Salford Quays, home of the Imperial War SUN Museum and the recently opened MediacityUK. Professor SUN Barrett has studied the economics of Lottery funded arts and SUN cultural buildings. SUN SUN In Cheshire, at the Jodrell Bank telescope, Martin explores SUN a longer-term view of the North's history with the writer SUN Alan Garner. SUN SUN In Liverpool, he visits the new Museum of Liverpool on the SUN banks for the Mersey, meeting its director Janet Dugdale to SUN find out about its perspective on Liverpool's history, and SUN also talks about that city's culture and place in the world SUN with the writer Phil Redmond. Finally Martin hears from SUN Liverpool's Mayor about the challenges of economic austerity SUN and public funding for the arts, and his hopes of attracting SUN investment from China into a huge redevelopment of the SUN city's derelict Docks. SUN SUN Producer: Philip Reevell SUN A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01snyjz (Listen) SUN Cornwall SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts this edition of GQT with local gardeners SUN in Cornwall. Anne Swithinbank, Bunny Guinness and local SUN special guest Toby Buckland feature on the panel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b02117wy (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations about the miners' strike SUN and the Suffolk flood of 1953, about how mums are never SUN satisfied, and about the impact a teacher can have on a SUN student, in the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that SUN proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b02117x0 (Listen) SUN The Radetzky March, Episode 1 SUN SUN by Joseph Roth. SUN Dramatised by Gregory Evans SUN SUN A dramatisation of Joseph Roth's most celebrated novel. The SUN end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire as seen through the lives SUN of three generations of the Trotta family. Part 1 of 2. SUN SUN Piano and Trupet played by Peter Ringrose SUN SUN Directed by Marc Beeby SUN SUN *************************** SUN SUN Literary critic Harold Blom described Joseph Roth's The SUN Radetzky March as "One of the most readable, poignant and SUN superb novels in twentieth century German". SUN SUN This is the story of the Trottas, a family of Slovenian SUN peasants ennobled when Lieutenant Joseph Trotta saves SUN Emperor Franz Joseph's life at the Battle of Solferino in SUN 1859. Most of the action, however, is set in the early years SUN of the twentieth century and con-cerns the next two SUN generations of Trottas, a bureaucrat and a soldier: the SUN Baron - stiff, guarded, but secretly loving - and his son, SUN the feckless, disaster-prone Carl Joseph. SUN SUN The Radetzky March is a novel about the ending of things: SUN love affairs, friendships, individual lives, dynasties, an SUN empire, a world. SUN SUN Credits SUN Joseph Roth: Henry Goodman SUN Carl Joseph: Paul Ready SUN Franz Von Trotta: Sam Dale SUN Demant: Scott Handy SUN Barenstein: Gunnar Cauthery SUN Moser: Chris Pavlo SUN Eva: Joannah Tincey SUN Jacques: John Rowe SUN Josef Von Trotta: Paul Stonehouse SUN Onufrij: Ben Crowe SUN Kovacs: Robert Blythe SUN Kindermann: Matthew Watson SUN Sternberg: David Seddon SUN Frau Slama: Hannah Wood SUN Aunt Resi: Joanna Brookes SUN Musician: Peter Ringrose SUN Director: Marc Beeby SUN Author: Joseph Roth SUN Adaptor: Gregory Evans SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b02118cw (Listen) SUN Jim Crace - Quarantine SUN SUN Jim Crace talks about his novel Quarantine. The novel is a SUN re-working of the biblical account of Jesus' forty days SUN spent in the wilderness; and, he says, has its roots in a SUN 'Care in the Community' hostel in Moseley, Birmingham. SUN SUN First published in 1997, it was shortlisted for that year's SUN Booker Prize for Fiction. SUN SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the SUN questions. Recorded at the Stratford-Upon-Avon Literature SUN Festival. SUN SUN July's Bookclub choice : The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey SUN Niffenegger SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b02118cy (Listen) SUN Poets reading other poets SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests. This SUN week; poets reading other poets' work, including Maya SUN Angelou reading Shakespeare and Alice Oswald reading Milton. SUN Also featuring Christopher Logue's rendition of Neruda's SUN work with jazz accompaniment, and translations of Rilke and SUN Machado by Don Paterson. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01sm74t (Listen) SUN Iran's Nuclear Standoff SUN SUN There's mounting concern over the Iranian nuclear programme. SUN Is Tehran is simply playing cat and mouse with the SUN international community and buying time until it is ready to SUN develop a nuclear weapon? Evidence is emerging that Iran is SUN co-operating with North Korea, a country which has already SUN developed its own weapon. SUN SUN The latest report from the UN's international watchdog, the SUN IAEA, is due out next month - but has the IAEA been strong SUN enough in its dealings with Tehran and Pyongyang? SUN SUN Reporter Rob Broomby charts the history of concealment of SUN Iran's nuclear activities and its refusal to abandon the SUN most controversial parts of its programme, despite numerous SUN UN Security Council resolutions and a raft of sanctions. In SUN a detailed interview with File on 4, Iran's ambassador SUN dealing with nuclear matters, Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, denies SUN his country is a "serial offender". But can protestations of SUN innocence be taken seriously when Iran still refuses SUN inspectors access to key sites and documents? SUN SUN The programme also examines the role of the IAEA in dealing SUN with Iran and hears from former nuclear inspectors, SUN ex-Whitehouse officials, diplomats and experts. Is the SUN Agency up to the job of preventing states from acquiring the SUN bomb? SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b0210t8k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b020tp1j (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b020tp1l (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b020tp1n (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b02118d0 (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes makes his selection of the best of this week's SUN BBC Radio programmes. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b02118d2 (Listen) SUN Lilian is preoccupied, and Jill tries to be helpful. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b02119cq (Listen) SUN Dorothy Parker SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests Sue SUN Limb and Mark Watson. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 The Time Being b02119cs (Listen) SUN Series 6, The Dog Track SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. SUN Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience SUN and provided a stepping stone for writers who have since SUN gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print, SUN such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and SUN Joe Dunthorne. SUN SUN The Dog Track by Rebecca F. John SUN SUN A young woman visits the dog track for the first time, and SUN weighs up a matter of life and death. SUN SUN Rebecca F. John was born in 1986 and grew up in Pwll, a SUN small village on the Welsh coast. She has previously worked SUN as a ski instructor and in the financial sector, and holds SUN an MA in Creative Writing from Swansea University. SUN SUN Reader: Rakie Ayola SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01snyk3 (Listen) SUN The maths of spies and terrorists SUN SUN MI5 has been criticised in the media after it emerged that SUN both suspects in the Woolwich attack case had been known to SUN them for a decade. But how feasible is it for the security SUN services to follow all the people on their watch list? Tim SUN Harford crunches the numbers, with the help of former head SUN of MI5, Dame Stella Rimington; Howard Wainer, Adjunct SUN Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the SUN University of Pennsylvania; and Professor Louise Amore, a SUN security data analytics expert from Durham University. SUN SUN Kidney donations: a cost-benefit analysis SUN A More or Less listener is donating his kidney to a SUN stranger. Jason contacted the programme to ask how much his SUN donation will save the NHS. Tim Harford compares the cost of SUN the operation with dialysis, and considers the cost-benefit SUN analysis to the donor and recipient. And he looks at whether SUN the UK's system for allocating kidneys could be improved. SUN Tim speaks to Keith Rigg, consultant transplant surgeon at SUN Nottingham University Hospitals Trust; and Lisa Burnapp, SUN Lead Nurse for Living Donation at NHS Blood and Transplant. SUN SUN Waste paper? SUN The Chancellor George Osborne says the Crown Prosecution SUN Service generates a million print-outs per day, and that SUN it's an example of the kind of "waste" in central spending SUN that he wants to clamp down on. But, in this context, is one SUN million a big number? SUN SUN The Apprentices do the Math SUN Over the centuries many top mathematicians have tried and SUN failed to solve some of the great numerical challenges. It SUN took 100 years to prove the Poincare Conjecture, but that SUN was very quick when compared to the 358 years it took to SUN solve Fermat's Last Theorem. However last week on BBC One's SUN The Apprentice programme, a new maths conundrum for the 21st SUN Century was discovered: what is 17 divided by 2? There's SUN only one man who can - maybe - help solve the puzzle: TV's SUN Johnny Ball. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01snyk1 (Listen) SUN An actor, a child behavioural researcher, a French SUN singer-songwriter, a chemist, a lighthouse keeper and a SUN bass player SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN The actor Bill Pertwee, best known as the pugnacious air SUN raid warden in Dad's Army. SUN SUN Joyce Robertson, whose research into young children who were SUN separated from their parents transformed public policy SUN SUN Georges Moustaki, the Egyptian born French singer songwriter SUN who had an affair with Edith Piaf SUN SUN Professor George Gray, the world's leading authority on the SUN properties of liquid crystals. His work lies behind the SUN screens that now dominate our daily lives. SUN SUN Angus Hutchison, Scotland's last principal light house SUN keeper. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0210sp7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b02116z1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01sm2g0 (Listen) SUN Labour's New New Jerusalem SUN SUN The words of William Blake's Jerusalem were invoked by SUN Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee when he launched his SUN party's proudest achievement: the creation of a welfare SUN state. SUN SUN "I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword SUN sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem, In England's SUN green and pleasant land." SUN SUN But some leading Labour Party figures no longer believe in SUN the top down model that was meant to make real that vision SUN of a "new Jerusalem". Mukul Devichand hears from leading SUN Labour Party figures who want a radical new welfare SUN settlement, saying the state itself is to blame for SUN society's ills as much as the market. SUN SUN This new cadre of Labour thinkers is known as "Blue Labour". SUN Two years ago we made a programme about them. Then they were SUN worried about the impact of immigration on blue collar SUN communities. SUN SUN Now they are part of Labour's inner circle: academic Maurice SUN Glasman has been elevated to the House of Lords; Jon Cruddas SUN MP is in charge of writing the party's manifesto; and Ed SUN Miliband's widely applauded "One Nation" conference speech SUN last year was written by "Blue Labour" godfather Marc SUN Stears. SUN SUN The post war welfare settlement, according to Lord Glasman, SUN represented the triumph of those who believed that SUN government could solve social problems. That victory, says SUN Glasman, came at a price: "A labour movement that was active SUN and alive in the lives of people became exclusively SUN concerned with what the state was going to do." SUN SUN The alternative, according to Blue Labour thinkers, is SUN welfare delivered at local level rather than by a SUN centralised state; and a benefits system that prioritises SUN those who contribute over those who do not. "The key concept SUN we use is incentive to virtue," Lord Glasman tells Mukul SUN Devichand, "so we have to be judgemental." SUN SUN Producer: Fiona Leach SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b02119kd (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 b02119kg (Listen) SUN Sue Cameron of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01snlst (Listen) SUN Neil Jordan on Byzantium; Dr Who 50 years on; Trailers or SUN spoilers? SUN SUN Matthew Sweet talks to the director Neil Jordan about his SUN new vampire film, Byzantium starring Gemma Arterton and SUN Saoirse Ronan. He describes how he relished the chance to SUN meddle with vampire stereotypes and rituals. And 50 years SUN after Dr Who appeared on TV, we look at the Dr Who films SUN that took to the big screen in Technicolor. We hear from its SUN stars Bernard Cribbins and Roberta Tovey and from Dr Who SUN writer and comedian Mark Gatiss. Plus trailers - too much SUN information? Tasters or spoilers? We trawl through some of SUN the worst offenders with critic Andrew Pulver and The SUN Creative Partnership trailer-maker Dave Coultas. And as the SUN Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda wins the Jury Prize at SUN Cannes Film Festival with Like Father, Like Son, Peter SUN Bradshaw looks at his last film, I Wish, a tale of two young SUN brothers separated by family breakdown who pin their hopes SUN on the magic of high speed trains. SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b02116yv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 JUNE 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0211bxk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01smpw6 (Listen) MON Multicultural Prison; Jellied Eels MON MON The multicultural prison - a unique analysis of the daily MON lives and interactions of both white and ethnic minority MON inmates in the closed world of the modern, male prison. MON Diverse British nationals, foreign. and migrant populations, MON have been brought into close proximity within prison walls. MON How do they negotiate their tensions and differences? The MON criminologist, Coretta Phillips, talks to Laurie Taylor MON about her empirical research in Rochester Young Offenders' MON Institution and Maidstone Prison. MON MON Also, reactions to jellied eels. Drawing on a series of MON ethnographic encounters collected while hanging around at a MON seafood stand in east London, Alex Rhys Taylor explores the MON relationship between individual expressions of distaste and MON the production of class, ethnic and generational forms of MON distinction. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b02116ys (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0211bxm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0211bxq (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0211bxv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0211bxz (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b021zfqy (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon MON Stephen Shipley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0211hmz (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Anna Varle. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0211by3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tnrx (Listen) MON Nightjar MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Nightjar. Take a walk on MON a heath on a warm summer evening and you may hear the MON strange churring sound of the nightjar. MON MON 06:00 Today b0211hn1 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0211hn3 (Listen) MON Fairy Tale Physics? MON MON On Start the Week Allan Little grapples with super-symmetric MON particles, superstrings and multiverses with the help of Jon MON Butterworth. But the writer Jim Baggott dismisses many of MON the ideas of modern theoretical physics as mere fairy tales MON and fantasy. The sociologist Hilary Rose bemoans how science MON is being reduced to its smallest component while missing the MON bigger picture. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01s7yvn (Listen) MON Maggie and Me, Episode 1 MON MON Damian Barr reads his touching and entertaining memoir of MON growing up in a small Scottish steelworks town in the 80s. MON MON On 12th October 1984 young Damian's world explodes. He MON watches in panic as his mum rips off her wedding ring and MON packs their bags. Later that night he is glued to the news MON as Margaret Thatcher miraculously survives the IRA bomb that MON has blown apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. As his own life MON descends into chaos, he knows that he too must survive. MON MON In the shadow of the Falklands war, milk snatching, and the MON strikes that are spreading across Britain, tensions flare up MON in the heart of his own community. As the local Ravenscraig MON steelworks and his dad's job come under threat, Damian holds MON onto Maggie's advice to work hard and escape. MON MON Written and read by Damian Barr. MON Abridged by Sian Preece MON MON Producer: Allegra McIlroy. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0211hn5 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Women’s lives in the Syrian conflict MON MON Syria is rarely out of the headlines. The EU’s decision not MON to extend an embargo on supplying arms to opposition rebel MON fighters marks a new stage in a conflict that last month MON witnessed one of its bloodiest days. Liesl Gerntholtz, MON Women’s Rights Director at the organisation MON MON Anti Bullying Playleaders MON MON A child is most likely to be bullied at school just after MON lunch finishes or just before the bell rings at the end of MON the day. The MON MON Impact Of Pornography MON MON What do we really know about the effects of pornography? MON It’s a question that researchers have been trying to answer MON for decades - now with an added urgency as pornography has MON become so much easier to access online. Analysis on Radio 4 MON is examining the evidence for an upcoming programme – and MON asking how does the use of porn affect families. Analysis MON presenter, Jo Fidgen, joins Jane Garvey to tell us more, and MON to ask for listeners’ experiences. MON MON Lorraine Hunt Lieberson MON MON Lorraine Hunt Lieberson was an American mezzo-soprano who MON was known for her emotionally intense performances. Tonight MON (Monday) the MON MON Gabriel Weston MON MON Surgeons save lives, but Nancy is a special kind of surgeon. MON A new novel “Dirty Work” by Gabriel Weston tells the story MON of her character’s appearance before the General Medical MON Council following a mistake in the operating theatre and MON explores what it means to be a female doctor who performs MON terminations. MON MON Dirty Work by Gabriel Weston is out this week. Published by MON Jonathan Cape – The Random House Group. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pz9xx (Listen) MON Kidnap, Abduction MON MON by Richard Monks. MON MON Director ..... Sally Avens MON MON Richard Monks serial looks at the kidnapping of an aid MON worker from five different viewpoints; the hostage, one of MON her captors, the hostage negotiator, a soldier on a rescue MON mission and her daughter. As the story unfolds we discover MON that all the characters are trapped by events in their own MON lives. MON The cast includes: Barbara Flynn, Hamza Jeetooa, Neil MON Dudgeon, James McArdle and Morven Christie. MON MON Richard Monks is a Sony Award winning writer; his plays MON include - Hearing Sense, The Donor Trail, Lying Undiscovered MON and Shattered. MON MON Credits MON Elizabeth Harrap: Barbara Flynn MON News Reporter: Ben Crowe MON Writer: Richard Monks MON Director: Sally Avens MON MON 11:00 Recycled Radio b0211hn7 (Listen) MON Power MON MON What connects Adolf Hitler, John Humphrys, John Prescott, MON Jenny Murray and Genghis Khan ? You are about to find out. MON MON Welcome to the chopped up, looped up, sped up world of MON Recycled Radio - a kind of archive hour on speed. Gerald MON Scarfe introduces this first episode. The subject is POWER, MON a subject close to his heart. Expect to hear Tony Blair MON talking with the devil Mephistopheles about the faustian MON pact; Sue Perkins on Just a Minute's Machiavellian chairman MON Nicholas Parsons; and Eddy Grundy from the Archers stumbling MON into a sliced and diced version of Animal Farm. All animals MON are equal, wrote George Orwell, but some are more equal than MON others. This programme is asking you why. MON MON Structured around Bertrand Russell's 1948 Reith lecture on MON Authority and the Individual, this is a crazed reworking of MON his exploration of power, where it comes from, and why it MON works. MON MON The producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 11:30 Bleak Expectations b01nxt2d (Listen) MON Series 5, A Pleasant Yet Dull Life Re-Evilled MON MON Bleak Expectations MON By Mark Evans MON Volume 5, Chapter 1: Episode One: 'A Pleasant Yet Dull Life MON Re-Evilled' MON MON The Dickensian comedy adventure returns. Pip Bin is MON beginning to miss the conflict with his absent evil nemesis MON Mr Gently Benevolent when he receives an intriguing MON invitation to a house party with Britain's poshest man, the MON Baron-Viscount-Marqu-earl-et the Lord-Dukey Clampvulture of MON Too-Many Titles. But one of the other guests may not be all MON he seems.... MON MON Produced by Gareth Edwards. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Mark Evans MON Sir Philip: Richard Johnson MON Young Pip Bin: Tom Allen MON Gently Benevolent: Anthony Head MON Harry Biscuit: James Bachman MON Clampvulture: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Ripely: Sarah Hadland MON Pippa: Susy Kane MON General Kartoffel-Kopf: Mark Evans MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0211hn9 (Listen) MON Doctors prescribing books, stolen phones, sun creams MON MON Doctors in England will soon be prescribing a range of MON specially selected books to people with mental health MON problems. It follows a scheme developed in Wales and widely MON regarded as a success. But can books be an effective MON treatment, and how do patients feel about reading as MON therapy? MON Sun creams make a variety of claims as to the protection MON they provide, but what do they really do for our skin? How MON much should we use, and what is the difference between using MON a factor 5, 10 or 50? MON Some smart-phones come with attractive warranties, but it's MON emerged that thieves are exploiting these to increase the MON profits they make on a stolen phone. MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0211by7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0211hnc (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 Disability: A New History b0211jrg (Listen) MON Doing and Being MON MON Work and disability has always been an awkward fit. MON MON Peter White says, "When as a teenager I said I wanted to be MON a broadcaster, there was a sharp intake of breath. Shouldn't MON I be considering becoming a piano tuner, or a MON physiotherapist? That's what blind people did. I wanted to MON know what it was like in the past, when people had to work - MON or starve." MON MON What he discovers is surprising - disabled people were MON everywhere in the 19th century work-force. In some parts of MON the country, more than 60% of nurses had a disability. For MON other disabled men and women, earning a living meant MON creating a particular niche for themselves. Peter uncovers MON the career of the blind poet Priscilla Pointon, who made a MON living writing poetry about her life - signing up hundreds MON of people on a subscription list to become a wealthy woman. MON She was just one in a long tradition of blind poets. MON MON Peter also discovers a treasure trove of letters from MON disabled people seeking work in the Victorian period, which MON have been collected by Professor Stephen King of Leicester MON University. They describe the indignity of being assessed by MON the authorities of the day, and their anger at being accused MON of faking disability. There are some striking parallels with MON today, when the debate about work and disability is in full MON swing. MON MON With historians Steven King, Chris Mounsey and Julie MON Anderson, and readings by Gerard McDermott and Emily Bevan. MON MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke MON Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b02118d2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01s8qxp (Listen) MON The Hill Bachelors MON MON Paulie has returned home for the funeral of his father. A MON man he barely knew. The remote farm is on a boreen, high up MON in the hills, a place he hasn't been back to in many years. MON As his brothers and sisters arrive home for the funeral, the MON question on everyone's mind is - 'What will happen to Ma?' MON She cannot manage by herself and Paulie knows what they are MON inadvertently saying - he is the only one who is unmarried, MON doesn't have children - it is up to him to move back and MON help his mother. MON MON Caught between desire and circumstance, Paulie, must choose MON between marrying his long-time love, Patsy Finnucane, or MON caring for his widowed mother and resigning himself to the MON isolated life of a hill bachelor. MON MON 'There is no better short story writer in the MON English-speaking world' The Wall Street Journal MON MON William Trevor has long been hailed as the master in short MON story telling. He has published nearly 40 novels, short MON story collections, plays, and collections of non-fiction. He MON has won three Whitbread Awards, a PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen MON Award, and been nominated five times for the Booker Prize, MON most recently for his novel Love and Summer (2009). In 1977 MON Trevor was awarded an honorary CBE (Commander of the Most MON Excellent Order of the British Empire) for his services to MON literature. MON MON Written by William Trevor MON MON Directed by Gemma McMullan. MON MON Credits MON Michael's widow: Fionnula Flanagan MON Paulie: Damien Molony MON Hartigan: Peter Gowen MON Miss Hartigan: Deirdre Donnelly MON Patsy: Susan Loughnane MON Frances: Ruth Bradley MON Annie: Aoibhinn McGinnity MON Aidan: Padraic Delaney MON Caslin: Ian McEIhinney MON Writer: William Trevor MON Director: Gemma McMullan MON Producer: Gemma McMullan MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b0211jrj (Listen) MON Series 27, Episode 5 MON MON (5/13) MON MON The latest heat of the wide-ranging music quiz comes from MON the Radio Theatre in London, with Paul Gambaccini asking the MON questions. MON MON The contestants will have to display their knowledge of MON music in all its variety, from Puccini and Wagner to Elvis MON Costello and the music of the Bond films. There are plenty MON of musical extracts to identify, both familiar and MON surprising. The winner will take a place in the Counterpoint MON 2013 semi-finals later in the summer. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b02116zc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Rock 'n' Roll in Four Movements b01m182x (Listen) MON When Rock 'n' Roll began, it was music of rebellion, MON fighting against the strait-laced world of classical music. MON The two worlds seemed far apart until the late Jon Lord MON wrote his Concerto for Rock Group and Orchestra which MON combined the forces of his heavy rock group Deep Purple with MON The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The work was premiered in MON the Royal Albert Hall in London under the baton of Malcolm MON Arnold in 1969. From then until the arrival of Punk in the MON late seventies rockers like the Nice, Emerson Lake and MON Palmer and Rick Wakeman embraced this hybrid genre with MON great energy and enthusiasm. Rick Wakeman in particular MON became known for stage shows which matched the ambition of MON his music. MON MON Stuart Maconie talks to Rick Wakeman and Keith Emerson about MON the genre's excesses. We hear from Roy Wood about the early MON days of the Electric Light Orchestra. And the late Jon Lord, MON in his last ever recorded interview, talks about his passion MON for writing classical music, inspired by his early MON experiment with his Concerto. MON MON Stuart Maconie casts a fairly benevolent eye on the genre - MON in his view some of it was actually very good. But classical MON music critic Ivan Hewett is pleased that the genre was MON largely killed off by punk - although in his view there are MON more modern examples where classical and pop sensibilities MON are successfully combined, by the likes of Jonny Greenwood MON of Radiohead and Damon Albarn. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b0211jrn (Listen) MON Livingstone's Legacy MON MON Beyond Belief debates the place of religion and faith in MON today's complex world. Ernie Rea is joined by a panel to MON discuss how religious beliefs and traditions affect our MON values and perspectives. MON It's 200 years since the birth of the Scottish missionary, MON David Livingstone. His legacy was to shape missionary work MON in Africa and elsewhere, right through to the present day. MON His supporters point to the medical and educational advances MON Christian missions have brought whilst his detractors talk MON about the oppression of colonialism. Today African MON missionaries are being sent to the UK. MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss Livingstone's legacy are Paul MON Lloyd, Senior Pastor of the Victory Outreach Church; Cyprian MON Yobera, an Anglican Minister in Salford and Dr Jack MON Thompson, Honorary Fellow at the School of Divinity, the MON University of Edinburgh. MON MON 17:00 PM b0211jrq (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0211by9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b0211jrs (Listen) MON Series 66, Episode 3 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the verbally challenging panel game MON with panellists; Paul Merton, Richard Herring, Gyles MON Brandreth and Russell Kane. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0211jrv (Listen) MON Brian turns a bit frosty, and Jennifer has the cares of the MON world on her shoulders. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0211jrx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film Behind the MON Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas as Liberace, with Matt MON Damon as his lover Scott Thorson. MON MON Producer Stephen Hughes. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pz9xx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Looking for Luddites b01rqnvx (Listen) MON In 1813, 17 Luddites were hanged in York for MON machine-breaking and/or murder. MON MON Ask people on the street if they're Luddites and the odds MON are they'll refer to whether or not they hate the intrusion MON of new technology into their lives. Which does a disservice MON to the original Luddite textile workers. These MON machine-breakers didn't hate new technology per se - rather, MON the way it was being used by factory owners to drive down MON wages, create unemployment and create an inferior product. MON They saw governments side with employers by doing away with MON guaranteed wages and union rights. MON MON In Looking for Luddites, technology writer Bill Thompson MON assesses how far this authentic representation of the MON Luddite mindset can apply to a 21st century environment in MON which technology is ever more intrusive. MON MON Has the introduction of new technology created modern-day MON factory environments which are as de-humanising in their own MON way as those of the early 19th centuries? What are the MON appropriate models for the introduction of new technology in MON terms of industrial relations? Has capitalism's insatiable MON need to lower costs, combined with consumer demand for MON competitive prices, meant that we ignore the fact that MON workers in the developing world have conditions imposed on MON them which Luddites would have baulked at? MON MON Bill Thompson pursues the Luddite trail to the prison and MON execution sites in York and to the Huddersfield area, where MON some of the worst machine-breaking took place. He hears from MON RMT General Secretary Bob Crow, Minister of State for MON Universities and Science, David Willetts, extreme MON anti-technology campaigner John Zerzan, and Luddite MON descendant Alan Brooke. MON MON Producer: Andrew Green MON An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0211jzs (Listen) MON Is regional policy a waste of time MON MON The gap between English north and south is growing. But does MON government have the answer? In the north-east of England, MON Alison Wolf discovers why 'regional policy' may be a waste MON of time. Does better infrastructure or state support for MON 'key' industries make a real difference? But there's a MON twist. Instead of everyone heading from north to south, MON there may just be a move back in the other direction. She MON discovers that individuals chasing quality of life, not MON government pushing its policies, will be what really decides MON the regions' future. MON MON Presenter: Professor Alison Wolf MON Producer: Chris Bowlby MON Editor: Richard Vadon. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01snlsw (Listen) MON Multiverses; Culture-driven Evolution; Lee Smolin on Time MON MON Laura Mersini-Houghton is appearing at this weekend's How MON The Light Gets In festival of philosophy and music in MON Hay-on-Wye.Born in Albania, she is a cosmologist at the MON University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill whose theory of MON the origin of the visible universe has attracted a lot of MON attention for its strong observational predictions. MON As she and Marcus Chown explain to Quentin Cooper, the MON recently released data from the Planck telescope lend MON particular support. MON MON Could the big blue blotch on the Cosmic Microwave Background MON be a kind of shadow cast just after the big bang by a MON neighbouring universe beyond our own? MON MON "Are evolutionary changes in our genome a cause or a MON consequence of cultural innovation?" MON MON In last week's journal Science, a piece by Simon Fisher and MON Matt Ridley suggested that contrary to much received wisdom, MON we must consider whether sometimes in the evolution of the MON human genome, it is cultural changes which have led to MON genetic ones. MON According to Ridley, mistaking cause for effect is common in MON the science, and this realisation could have profound MON consequencies for our understanding of who - and why - we MON are. MON MON Is time real after all? MON Many physicists and thinkers over the last century or so MON have treated our experience of the passage of time as an MON illusional human adaptation, and is actually unreal. MON Some powerful physics relies on time being reversible, and a MON lot of particle physics works equally well backwards as MON forwards. MON But in Lee Smolin's new book, Time Reborn, he outlines his MON conclusions from 20 years thinking, that time is real after MON all. MON As he explains to Quentin, more importantly for him this MON implies the laws of physics are not constant, but have MON likely changed over the course of the history of the MON universe. MON MON Multiverse MON Have Planck’s observations proven that there could be MON millions of universes beyond our own or is the evidence far MON from proof? MON MON Culture and evolution MON Could culture, rather than random genetic mutations, have MON driven the evolution of humans? MON MON Time Reborn MON Throughout history the concept of time as an illusion has MON been commonplace. Relativity reveals that time is not MON absolute. Lee Smolin argues that this denial of time is MON holding back both physics, and our understanding of the MON universe. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0211hn3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0211byc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0211jzv (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0211jzx (Listen) MON Blood and Beauty, Episode 6 MON MON Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance, Sarah Dunant, MON takes on the era's most infamous family - the Borgias. MON MON The story of the Borgia Pope is not long - Roderigo Borgia, MON Alexander VI, was the Head of the Church for barely a decade MON - but an enormous amount of activity, social, political and MON sexual, was crammed into that period. MON MON Our abridgement began last week in August 1492 when Roderigo MON Borgia won his campaign to become Pope. This week, we move MON on to the next four years of his reign. The problems seeded MON in the first year are blossoming into crises at every turn, MON as Italy explodes into war against the invading French. MON Rising above this challenge through a series of canny MON political manoeuvres, Alexander proves less able in his MON ability to control his children. MON MON Read by Robert Glenister MON Written by Sarah Dunant MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b0211jzz (Listen) MON Series 2, Mike Scott and Steve Wickham of the Waterboys (the MON A-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with the series in which he talks to MON leading performers and songwriters about the album that made MON them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience MON at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition MON includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the MON artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, MON the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature MON exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 2, A-side. "Fisherman's Blues" - Twenty five years MON after it was first released, Mike Scott and Steve Wickham MON return to the album that marked a distinct change in the MON sound of their group The Waterboys. Featuring the ominous MON 'We Will Not Be Lovers', the otherworldly 'When Ye Go Away' MON and the much covered title track (including Hip Hop, torch MON song and Japanese punk versions), "Fisherman's Blues" only MON came about when Scots-born Mike went to stay with fiddler MON Steve Wickham in Dublin for a week in 1986 and ended up MON living in Ireland. Two years and well over 100 songs later, MON the album marks the band's musical journey from rock to MON roots, with electric guitar and sax being replaced by MON mandolin and fiddle. An album that mixes rock and roll with MON Celtic folk, a love of literature with spirituality and the MON British poetic tradition with punk's DIY ethic. The MON programme also features live performances of music from the MON album. MON MON The B-side of the programme, where it's the turn of the MON audience to ask the questions, can be heard tomorrow at MON 3.30pm MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0211k01 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 JUNE 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0211bzf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01s7yvn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0211bzh (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0211bzk (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0211bzm (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0211bzp (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b021zdg6 (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon TUE Stephen Shipley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0213yff (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anna Jones. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp2b (Listen) TUE Kittiwake TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Kittiwake. In June you TUE can find kittiwakes breeding on sea-cliffs around the coast. TUE You may well hear them before you see them, shouting their TUE name from vertiginous cliffs. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0213yfh (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b0213yfk (Listen) TUE Athene Donald TUE TUE When she started her career, physicist Dame Athene Donald TUE took a decision that shocked her colleagues. She wanted to TUE apply the strict rules of physics to the messy, complicated TUE world of biology. TUE TUE Since then, she has taken the field of biological physics TUE out of an unfashionable rut in the 1980s, and helped to turn TUE into one of the most exciting and promising areas in science TUE today. TUE TUE As Professor of Experimental Physics at the Cavendish TUE Laboratory in Cambridge University, she studies the TUE microscopic structure of everyday stuff, from plants to TUE plastics. TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to Athene about her life and her TUE passionate campaign to get more women working in science. TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0213yfm (Listen) TUE Clive Myrie talks to Sylvia Emenike TUE TUE BBC News presenter, Clive Myrie, presents the second of his TUE three interviews on immigration as seen from an immigrant's TUE point of view. TUE TUE As the son of Jamaican immigrants who came to the UK in the TUE 1960s, Clive has a personal interest in this topic. Clive TUE lived abroad as a foreign correspondent for almost 15 years, TUE returning once or twice a year to see his family. After 2004 TUE he noticed how much the UK was changing: the EU had TUE expanded, Polish people were settling here in large numbers TUE and the transformation came as a shock. TUE TUE In the first programme he spoke to Alp Mehmet, Vice-Chair of TUE Migration Watch. This week he meets Sylvia Emenike. Sylvia TUE came to the UK from Jamaica in the 1950s. TUE TUE Clive will explore with Sylvia what her experience has been TUE of living in the UK, but also of the changes she has seen TUE since she moved here and her feelings about the waves of TUE immigration that she's seen from other parts of the world. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b0213yfp (Listen) TUE Maggie and Me, Episode 2 TUE TUE Damian Barr reads his extraordinary memoir of growing up in TUE small-town Scotland in the 1980s. TUE TUE The threat of closure comes to Ravenscraig, the nearby TUE steelworks where Damian's dad works, and tensions build TUE locally. But as the community mounts a campaign to 'Save the TUE Craig' and the chaos of his homelife escalates, ten year old TUE Damian finds escape in his books and his new best friend TUE Mark - everybody at school loves Mark, but he's joined at TUE the hip to Damian. TUE TUE Written and read by Damian Barr. TUE Abridged by Sian Preece TUE TUE Producer: Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0213yfr (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:40 15 Minute Drama b01pzs6p (Listen) TUE Kidnap, Captivity TUE TUE by Richard Monks TUE TUE Director ..... Sally Avens TUE TUE A young boy, Samir, is left to guard the hostage Elizabeth TUE and a bond forms between them when she hears Samir's story. TUE TUE 10:55 Coronation 60th Anniversary Service b0213yfv (Listen) TUE Commentator Nicholas Witchell describes the scene in TUE Westminster Abbey as Her Majesty The Queen, His Royal TUE Highness The Duke of Edinburgh and members of the Royal TUE Family attend a service to mark the 60th anniversary of the TUE Coronation of HM Queen Elizabeth II. TUE TUE Preacher: The Archbishop of Canterbury TUE The Choir of Westminster Abbey TUE The Choir of Her Majesty's Chapel Royal TUE James O'Donnell, Organist and Master of the Choristers, TUE Westminster Abbey TUE Organist: Martin Ford, Assistant Organist, Westminster Abbey TUE Producer: Simon Vivian TUE TUE Following HM The Queen's Accession to the throne in 1952, TUE her Coronation took place, after months of planning, on TUE Tuesday 2nd June 1953. Despite the wet weather, the route of TUE the Golden State Coach carrying The Sovereign from TUE Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey was lined by packed TUE crowds. TUE TUE Pageantry and celebration gave way to a solemn ceremony TUE conducted by Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, TUE in Westminster Abbey, which had been specially adapted for TUE the service with galleries and staging to accommodate as TUE many people as possible - a congregation, royal and TUE political, representing the Nation, the Commonwealth, and TUE many foreign states. TUE TUE It was also the day when television came of age, as hundreds TUE of thousands from the Commonwealth gathered around brand new TUE television sets to share in the splendour and significance TUE of the Coronation in a way never before possible. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0213yfz (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0211bzr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0213yzp (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 Disability: A New History b0213yg1 (Listen) TUE Wooden Legs and Wheelchairs TUE TUE Peter White has a close encounter with a huge wooden leg, TUE and asks who got access to new technology in the 19th TUE century. TUE TUE Strangely, wooden legs were thought to be sexy in the 19th TUE century. During the 22 years of war with France, tens of TUE thousands of British soldiers and sailors gave their lives TUE for their country. Surviving, with a missing limb, became TUE tangible proof of valour - and virility. TUE TUE However, the reality of life with a wooden leg was anything TUE but romantic. Peter White discovers an extraordinary account TUE written by a 19th century soldier, Thomas Jackson, who lost TUE his leg in battle: TUE TUE "Military surgeons are not very nice about hurting one. What TUE with the tearing off of the bandages, and the opening of the TUE wound afresh, and the tying of the ligaments of the TUE arteries, I fear in my feeble strength I must have sunk TUE under the excruciating pain. When fitted on, my wooden leg TUE was strapped by the knee. I looked down with the same kind TUE of satisfaction which a dog does when he gets a tin kettle TUE tied to his tail." TUE TUE But William Jackson was one of the lucky ones. As a military TUE man, he had access to the latest technology. Disabled women TUE were not so lucky - and could be confined to the house, TUE unable to leave their bedroom. Two case studies - one TUE soldier, one genteel woman in Bath - reveal how expectations TUE of mobility were limited by gender. And how crucial it was TUE to have individual ambition. TUE TUE With historians Julie Anderson, Caroline Nielsen, and Amanda TUE Vickery. TUE TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0211jrv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b018grvp (Listen) TUE A Tale of Two Cities, The Grindstone TUE TUE Episode 4/5 - The Grindstone TUE TUE Much against the wishes of his new wife, Charles Darnay is TUE determined to travel to Paris to go to the aid of a family TUE retainer who has been imprisoned by the revolutionary TUE committee. TUE TUE With Adam Billington, Rikki Lawton, Christopher Webster TUE Music by Lennert Busch TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Adaptor: Mike Walker TUE Charles Dickens: Robert Lindsay TUE Jarvis Lorry: Jonathan Coy TUE Miss Pross: Alison Steadman TUE Dr Alexandre Manette: Karl Johnson TUE Lucie Manette: Lydia Wilson TUE Charles Darnay: Andrew Scott TUE Sydney Carton: Paul Ready TUE Ernest Defarge: James Lailey TUE Therese Defarge: Tracy Wiles TUE Jerry Cruncher: Carl Prekopp TUE Court President: Paul Moriarty TUE Ensemble: Adam Billington TUE Ensemble: Rikki Lawton TUE Ensemble: Christopher Webster TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Director: Jeremy Mortimer TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b0213yg5 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Taking Flight TUE TUE Josie Long presents a selection of short documentaries in TUE which people hurl themselves into the air with the hope of TUE taking flight. TUE TUE We glide through the air, fall into the sea and explore TUE grand leaps of the imagination, which cross the border TUE between dreaming and reality. TUE TUE From comedian Holly Walsh's tale of hurtling off the edge of TUE a pier in a handmade helicopter, through to the story of a TUE trapeze artist balancing on the edge of falling as he casts TUE himself upwards. TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE TUE The Fall TUE Featuring Charlie Morley TUE TUE Sky Boy TUE Produced by Hana Walker-Brown TUE TUE Falling for Rambo TUE Featuring Holly Walsh TUE Produced by Benjamin Partridge TUE TUE The Dreamers TUE Featuring Charlie Morley TUE TUE Looking Up TUE Originally broadcast in 'Space' from Radiolab TUE http://www.radiolab.org TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b0213yg7 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Mike Scott & Steve Wickham of the Waterboys (the TUE B-Side) TUE TUE John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks TUE to leading performers and songwriters about the album that TUE made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live TUE audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each TUE edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing TUE the artist about the album in question, and then, in the TUE B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions TUE feature exclusive live performances. TUE TUE Programme 2, the B-side. Having discussed the making of TUE "Fisherman's Blues", the career changing forth album from TUE The Waterboys (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on TUE Monday 3rd June and available online), Mike Scott & Steve TUE Wickham respond to questions from the audience and performs TUE acoustic live versions of some to the tracks from the album TUE which was released twenty five years ago. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b0213yg9 (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b0213ygc (Listen) TUE Terry Deary & Shappi Khorsandi TUE TUE In the first of a new series, Terry Deary, author of TUE Horrible Histories, and Iranian-born British comedian Shappi TUE Khorsandi talk to Harriett Gilbert about their favourite TUE books. TUE TUE Terry chooses a little-known but fascinating 1904 novel by TUE G.K. Chesterton: The Napoleon of Notting Hill. It's set in TUE an imaginary future London in 1984, and it's said to have TUE inspired George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. For Terry, TUE it's the book that made him become a writer. TUE TUE Shappi's favourite is Adrian Mole and the Weapons of Mass TUE Destruction, by Sue Townsend, in which Adrian hits middle TUE age. TUE TUE And presenter Harriett Gilbert talks about John McGahern's TUE masterpiece, Amongst Women, which stirs up strong feelings TUE about family in both her and her guests. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0213ygf (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0211bzw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Castle b01jjtn3 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Boogie Knights TUE TUE Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, TUE starring James Fleet (The Vicar Of Dibley), Neil Dudgeon TUE (Life Of Riley), Martha Howe-Douglas (Horrible Histories) TUE and Ingrid Oliver (Watson & Oliver) TUE TUE The wedding of the decade is almost ruined by 200 tents and TUE an over-excited woodpecker. Plus Henry, Duncan and De TUE Warenne gatecrash a rather special Hen Night. TUE TUE Written by Kim Fuller and Paul Alexander TUE Music by Guy Jackson TUE TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sir John Woodstock: James Fleet TUE Sir William De Warenne: Neil Dudgeon TUE Lady Anne Woodstock: Martha Howe-Douglas TUE Cardinal Duncan: Jonathan Kydd TUE Lady Charlotte: Ingrid Oliver TUE Master Henry Woodstock: Steven Kynman TUE Bates: Lewis Macleod TUE Kate Puddleton: Jess Robinson TUE Writer: Kim Fuller TUE Writer: Paul Alexander TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0213ygk (Listen) TUE David and Ruth are relieved, and Rob has things on his mind. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0213yzr (Listen) TUE John Wilson has news of the winner of the Art Fund Prize for TUE Museum of the Year, as he presents the programme live from TUE the ceremony at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. TUE TUE Producer Ella-mai Robey. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pzs6p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b0213yzt (Listen) TUE Elderly Care: Neglected Questions TUE TUE Operation Jasmine was the UK's biggest ever care home abuse TUE investigation. TUE TUE But in January this year proceedings against two key figures TUE in the case collapsed, leaving dozens of families asking if TUE they will ever get justice. TUE TUE While relatives demand a public inquiry into what happened TUE in the six Welsh care homes at the centre of the case, 12.5 TUE metric tonnes of unpublished evidence lie in a Pontypool TUE warehouse. TUE TUE Experts say prosecutors too often face insurmountable TUE difficulties in bringing people accused of neglecting the TUE vulnerable to justice. Several high-profile figures are now TUE calling for a change in the law: one barrister and academic TUE tells File on 4 current legislation gives greater protection TUE against cruelty to animals than against people. TUE TUE With other major scandals such as those at Winterbourne View TUE and Mid-Staffordshire still fresh in the public mind, Fran TUE Abrams asks if the justice system is fit for purpose when it TUE comes to dealing with abuse and neglect. TUE Producer: Nicola Dowling. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0213yzw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b0213yzy (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents a series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b0213yfk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0211bzy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0213z00 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0213z02 (Listen) TUE Blood and Beauty, Episode 7 TUE TUE Read by Robert Glenister TUE Written by Sarah Dunant TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Toll b02140k8 (Listen) TUE The Toll is a warm-hearted and uncynical sitcom following TUE the lives of the people who work on a toll bridge in Wales, TUE written by Benjamin Partridge. It centres around the TUE character of Neville, who is the general manager of the TUE bridge, a man struggling always to do the right thing. TUE TUE In this episode, Neville (Played by Gavin and Stacy's TUE Steffan Rhodri) finds a pair of rare birds nesting on the TUE bridge and disrupts traffic flow to protect them, enraging TUE motorists and his boss Felicity. Meanwhile, Paul has bought TUE a new coat having discovered the local charity shop. TUE TUE Benjamin Partridge has written for The News Quiz, The Now TUE Show, Dilemma, The Headset Set and Listen Against. He TUE devised the Radio 4 panel show It's Your Round. Partridge TUE has also co-presented shows on BBC Radio Wales with Chris TUE Corcoran or Gareth Gwynn, and is a regular panellist on the TUE BBC Radio Wales panel show What's The Story? TUE TUE Written by ..... Benjamin Partridge TUE TUE Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Benjamin Partridge TUE Neville: Steffan Rhodri TUE Jane: Melanie Walters TUE Paul: Steven Meo TUE Sally: Kimberley Nixon TUE Felicity: Katy Wix TUE Producer: Tilusha Ghelani TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0213z04 (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 JUNE 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0211c0s (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b0213yfp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0211c0v (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0211c0x (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0211c0z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0211c11 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b021zdp3 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon WED Stephen Shipley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0214310 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp38 (Listen) WED Puffin WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Puffin. Far better-known WED for its comical looks than its calls, the puffin is a bird WED that that is recognised by many and has earned the nickname WED "sea-parrot" or "clown of the sea". WED WED 06:00 Today b0214312 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0214314 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED Producer: Rebecca Stratford WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b0214316 (Listen) WED Maggie and Me, Episode 3 WED WED Powerful 1980s memoir written and read by Damian Barr. WED WED It's 1987 and Damian Barr is eleven years old. He's WED terrified of the AIDS epidemic, and he's sure it's coming to WED get him. Secondary school is a harsh place for a young gay WED boy on free school dinners. As his chaotic home life WED escalates he attempts to hide from his sexuality, and turns WED to the escape offered by his friend Heather's calm home. WED WED Written and read by Damian Barr. WED Abridged by Sian Preece WED WED Producer: Allegra McIlroy. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0214318 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01pztjk (Listen) WED Kidnap, Negotiation WED WED by Richard Monks WED WED Director ..... Sally Avens WED WED A hostage negotiator finds his personal life harder to WED confront than a kidnapping thousands of miles from home. WED WED 11:00 Trade-Plating Round Britain b021406q (Listen) WED In the latest of his quirky and revealing assignments for WED Radio 4, Steve Carver works for a week as a Trade Plate WED driver. WED WED 'Trade-Platers' are self-employed (mostly) men who deliver WED vehicles up and down the country for car dealerships, rental WED companies, the Motability scheme, corporate clients... WED anyone who needs a car, or van, or lorry shifted, for WED whatever reason. WED WED The 'trade-plates' themselves are the red-and-white licence WED plates issued to the drivers so they are legally able to WED drive any vehicle without being specifically registered and WED taxed for it. WED WED It's a tough life. Drivers must turn up for work at around WED 4.30 every morning; they have no idea where they might be WED sent, what they'll be driving, or how they'll get home. A WED typical day might involve driving from Essex to Coventry, WED crossing Coventry by bus (or fold-up bicycle, or on foot) WED picking up another vehicle and delivering it to Birmingham. WED There you'll fetch yet another vehicle and - if you're lucky WED - bring it back down to Essex. WED WED Or you might hop in a mini-bus and be delivered to Glasgow, WED where you'll pick up a car and drive it down to Leeds, where WED you'll pick up a car and drive it to Worcester, where you'll WED pick up a car and - perhaps - drive it back to your base. WED WED The logistics are extraordinary, and in smaller companies WED with fewer vehicles on the move, drivers have no choice but WED to hitch between jobs. However we sent Steve to work for one WED of the biggest firms, based in Essex, who have 160 drivers WED and enough clients to ensure that hitching isn't necessary - WED there's always another vehicle to move. And in an WED extraordinary jigsaw puzzle - coordinated from the office - WED the deliveries are linked up, and the drivers eventually WED return home. WED WED Join Steve behind the wheel as he spends the week Trade WED Plating Round Britain. WED WED 11:30 House on Fire b021431b (Listen) WED Series 3, Crime WED WED A new series with Matt and Vicky, the two flatmates who love WED to hate to love each other - with the usual mixture of WED somewhat hapless situations brought about by their inability WED to live in the real world, or indeed with each other. WED WED They are aided and abused as ever by their less than loving WED parents, who can always be relied upon to wash their hands WED of any responsibility. WED WED After looking at the latest crime statistics, Vicky decides WED to learn self-defence. But she doesn't expect to see Matt's WED mother at the same class. WED WED Written by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Vicky: Emma Pierson WED Matt: Jody Latham WED Peter: Philip Jackson WED Julie: Janine Duvitski WED Colonel Bill: Rupert Vansittart WED Steve: Stephen Mangan WED Natalie: Kellie Shirley WED Waitress: Anna Morris WED Shopkeeper: Fergus Craig WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Writer: Dan Hine WED Writer: Chris Sussman WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b021431d (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0211c13 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b02143ym (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 Disability: A New History b02143yp (Listen) WED Sex and Marriage WED WED Peter White explores sex and marriage between disabled WED people and reveals the shameful history of eugenics in WED Britain. WED WED The programme begins with a document from Buckingham Palace WED - an order for some glamorous undergarments for a Royal WED Trousseau. They were sewn by the women of the Girls' WED Friendly Society, a group of disabled seamstresses who made WED a living by sewing sexy underwear. But they themselves had WED no expectation of marriage, or a sex life. In fact, if they WED were discovered not to be a virgin they were expelled from WED the group. WED WED For disabled women - or men - the idea of sex or marriage WED was taboo. The programme traces the fear of "bad blood" - WED the early and shameful history of the eugenics movement in WED Britain. It was a potent mixture of bad science and fear, WED and it ran right through society. The birth control pioneer WED Marie Stopes, for instance, became hysterical at the WED prospect of her son marrying a girl who had bad eyesight and WED refused to attend the wedding. WED WED But despite such fears, there were of course romantic WED relationships between disabled people - not surprising, when WED so many of young people were living together in residential WED institutions in the 19th century. New research from a WED Swansea institution for the deaf reveals that the official WED rules about sex, and the reality of what happened, were very WED different. WED WED With historians Professor Joanna Bourke, Mike Mantin and WED Vivienne Richmond. Documents are brought vividly to life by WED actors Euan Bailey, Gerard McDermott and Madeleine Brolly. WED WED Producer: Elizabeth Burke WED Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0213ygk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b02143yr (Listen) WED Kokomo WED WED A thriller by Julian Simpson. WED WED A single act of cyber-terrorism. A computer virus - WED incredibly advanced and coded in a language no one WED understands - is released onto the internet, encrypting WED every piece of information held on every system. WED WED All information is being held hostage. WED WED Alice Price is sent in to negotiate the safe return of the WED information before the world descends into chaos. But who WED are the terrorists and why have they asked for Price? WED WED Director: Julian Simpson WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Levine: Robert Glenister WED Daguero: Rufus Wright WED Pantalone: Tim McInnerny WED Harlequin: Louise Brealey WED Columbina: Hermione Norris WED Alice Price: Nicola Walker WED Director: Julian Simpson WED Producer: Karen Rose WED Writer: Julian Simpson WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b02143yt (Listen) WED Payday loans WED WED Worried about a Payday loan or thinking about taking one WED out? Call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday WED or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED If money is tight and you're struggling to make it last WED until the next pay slip arrives, you may be tempted by WED adverts offering short-term or 'Payday loans'. WED WED Who are these loans suitable for? WED WED What should happen before you sign up? WED WED How much will you repay and who can help if you can no WED longer afford it? WED WED What are you rights and where can you complain if things go WED wrong? WED WED To answer your questions, Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED Russell Hamblin-Boone, The Consumer Finance Association WED (short-term lending trade association) WED WED David Cresswell, Financial Ombudsman Service WED WED National Debtline WED WED Whatever your question, call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Phone lines WED are open between 1pm and 3.30pm. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED Contact the Money Box Live Team WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b0213yzy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b02143yw (Listen) WED Empty labour; 'Long Hours' work culture WED WED Empty labour - international statistics suggest that the WED average time an employee spends engaged in private WED activities is 1 and a half to 2 hours a day. Laurie Taylor WED talks to Roland Paulsen, a US sociologist, who interviewed WED 43 workers who spent around half their working hours on WED 'empty labour'. Are such employees merely 'slacking' or are WED such little' subversions' acts of resistance to the way work WED appropriates so much of our time? By contrast, Jane Sturges, WED discusses her research into professionals caught up, both WED reluctantly as well as willingly, in a 'long hours' work WED culture. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b02143yy (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b02143z0 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0211c15 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Sketchorama b01s8q18 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Thom Tuck presents the pick of the new sketch groups WED currently performing live on the UK comedy circuit - with WED character, improv, broken and musical sketch comedy. WED WED This is the second series, and in the second episode: WED WED SO ON AND SO FORTH WED Posh sketch boys Nick Gadd, John Sherman and Martin Allanson WED have been performing together since 2010. In that time they WED have chalked up an acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe debut and WED picked up a Cofilmic Comedy Film Award for best sketch in WED 2011. WED WED THAT PAIR WED That Pair are Kathryn Bond and Lorna Shaw, who met at WED Bretton Hall where they discovered their mutual love of WED being from Essex. After graduating with one degree each in WED Theatre Acting, they have worked as professional actresses WED ever since. They came out of the comedy closet in 2010 as a WED female musical comedy duo. Influenced by fellow Bretton WED Haller's and comedy legends The League of Gentlemen and WED their Nans and Grandads, they perform sketches and songs WED with bags of silliness. WED WED SHEEPS WED Sheeps are Daran Johnson, Alastair Roberts and Liam Williams WED - three erudite young chaps doing sketches, and then doing WED themselves reflecting on their own sketches. Sheeps are WED graduates of that most venerable of comedy finishing WED schools, Cambridge Footlights. Liam Williams was runner-up WED in the 2010 standup contest So You Think You're Funny?, WED while Daran Johnson is already a prizewinning playwright. WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b02144zs (Listen) WED Rob is working hard, and Lynda pricks Jim's conscience. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b02144zv (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01pztjk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b02144zx (Listen) WED Secret Courts WED WED Leading human rights barrister Dinah Rose challenges cabinet WED minister Ken Clarke over the Government's extension of the WED use of secret courts. WED WED Dinah Rose is fundamentally opposed to the new law which WED allows so-called closed material proceedings to be used in WED civil courts where the Government is defending itself WED against such things as claims for compensation by alleged WED victims of torture. She says the move is unfair and WED unnecessary and undermines the principle of open justice. WED She was among a number of high profile figures who recently WED resigned from the Lib Dems over the issue. WED WED But Ken Clarke, who pushed new legislation through WED parliament, says the alternative would be to allow Al-Qaeda WED to learn all of Britain's security secrets. WED WED Their lively exchange comes in an edition of Unreliable WED Evidence asking if the fundamental tenet of our legal system WED - that justice should be seen to be done - is coming WED increasingly under threat. WED Clive Anderson and his guests discuss the arguments for and WED against conducting proceedings behind closed doors in the WED Court of Protection, the family courts and in the criminal WED courts as well as issues relating to anonymity of WED defendants, victims and witnesses. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b02144zz (Listen) WED Series 4, Steven Poole: Think for Yourself WED WED Steven Poole argues that we should resist the modern WED message, from pop science and brain scans, that humans are WED irrational creatures, driven by instant judgement and WED primordial urges. WED WED Instead, he says we should stand up together and say we can WED think, and that's what makes us human. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. Speakers explain their latest thinking WED on the trends and ideas in culture and society in front of a WED live audience. It is recorded in front of a live audience at WED Somerset House in London. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Malcolm Sayer - Aerodynamic Wizard b021463z (Listen) WED Jonathan Glancey tells the story of one of the most talented WED but little known British designers, Malcolm Sayer. WED WED Sayer was responsible for the classic Jaguar cars, the C- WED and D-Types, that won Le Mans five times throughout the WED 1950s. He went on to create that 1960s icon, the E Type, and WED the XJS. WED WED During WWII he worked for the Bristol Aeroplane Company and, WED following the war, he went to Iraq in 1948 to work at WED Baghdad University. This only existed on paper, so he worked WED instead on the maintenance of a fleet of government WED vehicles. While overseas, he met a mysterious character who WED taught him some arcane and advanced mathematics. WED WED Returning to the UK in 1950, he joined Jaguar the following WED year and began to use the maths he had learnt to create some WED extraordinary designs. He used the slide rule and log tables WED to work out formulae for drawing curves - work which is now WED undertaken by complex Computer Aided Design software. WED WED But in many ways, Sayer was years ahead of his time. Neville WED Swales, who is building a replica of the one-off XJ13, has WED used Sayer's calculations and married them with up-to-date WED technology - he found that they matched almost exactly. WED WED The programme includes interviews with Neville Swales; WED Sayer's test driver, Norman Dewis; Sir Stirling Moss; one of WED Sayer's daughters, Kate; his grandson, Sam; fellow workers WED at Jaguar, Peter Wilson and Mike Kimberley; writer, Philip WED Porter; Goodwood owner, Lord March; motoring journalist, WED Mick Walsh; sports car enthusiast, Jools Holland; and WED current Jaguar designer Ian Callum. WED WED Jonathan Glancey also takes the new F-Type for a spin to see WED whether Sayer's legacy is being upheld. WED WED Produced by Neil Rosser WED A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0214314 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0211c17 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b021469f (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02147zx (Listen) WED Blood and Beauty, Episode 8 WED WED Read by Robert Glenister WED Written by Sarah Dunant WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b02147zz (Listen) WED Series 2, About Difficult Dads WED WED EPISODE SIX: ABOUT DIFFICULT DADS WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, WED up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the WED first in his family to graduate from University, opted not WED to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand WED at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's WED annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' WED WED The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with WED scenes from his family life. WED WED Janet a.k.a. Mum - loves Nathan, but she aint looking WED embarrassed for nobody! WED WED Martin a.k.a. Dad - turning 50 and doesn't want to. WED WED Shirley a.k.a. Grandma - can't believe she left the paradise WED in the West Indies and came to the freezing United Kingdom WED for a better life so that years later her grandson could WED 'tell jokes!' How can her grandson go on stage and use foul WED language and filthy material... it's not the good Christian WED way! WED WED Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and WED rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving WED family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. WED WED About Difficult Dads WED WED Nathan's Dad celebrates his 50th birthday but resents being WED made to feel middle-aged by his son. So, he challenges him WED to see who is The Man of the House. WED WED Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle WED Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED Credits WED Nathan: Nathan Caton WED Mum: Adjoa Andoh WED Dad: Curtis Walker WED Grandma: Mona Hammond WED Girl: Chizzy Akudolu WED Reverend Williams: Don Gilet WED Comedy Club Promoter: Ola WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Nathan Caton WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Ola WED Writer: Maff Brown WED WED 23:15 Dreaming the City b02224wv (Listen) WED Ashes WED WED Four journeys into the dark, recurring dreams of the city. WED In each episode, leading writers collaborate with WED documentary-makers Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta to WED uncover the unsaid obsessions of city life. WED WED Episode 1: Ashes by Craig Taylor. WED WED When an urban explorer suffers a fatal accident, two friends WED are charged with the task of scattering his ashes. They WED travel to London and revisit the derelict buildings, river WED barges and train sidings he used to explore, to find the WED most appropriate location for his final resting place. WED WED These experimental radio features blend archive, fiction and WED documentary footage. What's real and what's fiction becomes WED unclear, just like in the city. WED WED A city isn't just a location on the map, it's a place we WED imagine, dream about, invent. A place to love, to endure or WED to resent. A place where you can find anything - but it WED always has a price. WED WED You don't need to live in a city - it's part of the WED universal imagination. But the way we think of it has common WED dark undertones, recurring dreams that come round again and WED again. These late night woozy dreamscapes uncover those WED unsaid obsessions, each taking a different theme, and WED question why these ideas seem to keep coming back in the way WED we imagine urban living. WED WED Featuring the voice of Joseph Kloska. WED WED Producers: Russell Finch and Francesca Panetta WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Joseph Kloska WED Producer: Russell Finch WED Producer: Francesca Panetta WED Writer: Craig Taylor WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0214803 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 JUNE 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0211c4s (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b0214316 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0211c4v (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0211c4x (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0211c4z (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0211c51 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b02144gd (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon THU Stephen Shipley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b02144gg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Jones. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp50 (Listen) THU Razorbill THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Razorbill. Smart as a THU dinner-jacketed waiter and with a deep blunt patterned bill, THU the razorbill is a striking bird - though its looks could be THU compensation for its voice. THU THU 06:00 Today b02144gj (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b02144gl (Listen) THU Relativity THU THU Melvyn Bragg discusses Einstein's theory of relativity with THU three leading British cosmologists: the Astronomer Royal THU Martin Rees, Sir Roger Penrose and Ruth Gregory. Between THU 1905 and 1917 Albert Einstein formulated a theoretical THU framework which transformed our understanding of the THU Universe. The twin theories of Special and General THU Relativity offered insights into the nature of space, time THU and gravitation which changed the face of modern science. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b0213zsb (Listen) THU Maggie and Me, Episode 4 THU THU Though Damian is caught up in the anti-capitalist enthusiasm THU of one of his teachers who smuggles key anti Poll Tax THU Protesters into school to inspire the children, he still has THU a secret desire to impress his unlikely heroine Margaret THU Thatcher. THU THU He's been hiding his sexuality for years, but he finally THU discovers some freedom in dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's THU only gay club. THU THU Written and read by Damian Barr. THU Abridged by Sian Preece THU THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b02144gn (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01q030j (Listen) THU Kidnap, Rescue THU THU by Richard Monks THU THU As a rescue attempt is made to save the hostage one of the THU soldiers mind is distracted by events back home. THU THU Director: Sally Avens THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b02144pw (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell their stories and THU examine news developments in their region. Presented by Kate THU Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Science of Music b02144py (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Professor Robert Winston looks at music with a scientist's THU eye in a series which seeks to fully understand our THU relationship with the power of sound. THU THU In this programme, Robert Winston explores the science of THU music performance. What's happening when we perform music? THU And does it change our brains? THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b02146xf (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0211c5s (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b02147h5 (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 Disability: A New History b02147h7 (Listen) THU Brave Poor Things THU THU Disabled children are everywhere in popular fiction - Tiny THU Tim, What Katy Did, The Secret Garden. But what about the THU real children of the 19th century? What were their lives THU like, and where can we hear their voices? THU THU In this 9th programme in the series, Peter White searches THU for documents which reveal the reality of children's lives. THU THU He discovers new research into the history of the Brave Poor THU Things, a charity which set out to "save" disabled children THU across the country through organised games, outings, and a THU Guild song: THU THU "A trouble's a ton, A trouble's an ounce THU A trouble is what you make it. THU And it isn't the fact that you're hurt that counts THU But only how did you take it." THU THU The literature of the Brave Poor Things includes quotes from THU children - like this girl: THU THU "O! I am so glad to be a cripple!", said a happy-faced girl THU one day when away in the country. "Glad?" questioned THU someone. What DO you mean? And she answered "I can't help THU being glad. It is so beautiful to belong to the Guild, and I THU couldn't unless I had lost my leg." THU THU That's from fund-raising propaganda - but it's not a real THU girl's voice. Using images of pathetic children to raise THU money for charity has had a powerful legacy. THU THU Just occasionally, there is a real child's voice. Peter THU discovers a letter from a little girl in a Swansea THU Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and it is almost THU unbearably moving: THU THU "I do feel homesick. When are you coming to see me? Do you THU know how long I have to stop here? The children are all dumb THU here, I am the only girl that can speak." THU THU With historians Julie Anderson, Joanna Bourke and Mike THU Mantin. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Burke THU Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b02144zs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00p93sy (Listen) THU No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Tea Time for the THU Traditionally Built THU THU Written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith, from his THU hugely popular series of books set in Botswana. THU THU Precious Ramotswe, owner of The No 1 Ladies' Detective THU Agency, is about to get in over her head. She's got an THU important new client from the incomprehensible world of THU football, but she's on her own as her loyal assistant Mma THU Makutsi is distracted by the return of a troublesome figure THU from her past. THU THU Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Alexander McCall Smith THU Mma Ramotswe: Claire Benedict THU Mma Makutsi: Nadine Marshall THU Mr JLB Matekoni: Ben Onwukwe THU Mma Potokwani: Janice Acquah THU Mr Molofololo: Mo Sesay THU Phuti Raduphuti: Nyasha Hatendi THU Puso: Kedar Williams-Stirling THU Boy: Kedar Williams-Stirling THU Rops Thobega: Emmanuel Ighodaro THU Violet Sepotho: Anna Bengo THU Director: Eilidh McCreadie THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01snjq6 (Listen) THU Series 24, George Monbiot in search of the wild THU THU Clare Balding goes rambling, near Machynlleth, with the THU writer and environmentalist, George Monbiot. The theme of THU this series of Ramblings is 'In Search Of.' and, together, THU George and Clare are walking in search of wildness. THU THU George's new book, 'Feral', is partly a personal story about THU his attempt to stave off the monochrome nature of modern-day THU life: "I could not continue just sitting and writing, THU looking after my daughter and my house, running merely to THU stay fit, watching the seasons cycling past without ever THU quite belonging to them. I was, I believed, ecologically THU bored". THU THU In this walk, George explains how he has attempted to THU 'rewild' his own life and describes what he believes needs THU to be done in order to reintroduce true wildness to our THU countryside through the large-scale restoration of THU ecosystems. He says "researching it felt like stepping THU through the back of the wardrobe". THU THU Using OS Explorer OL23 - Cadair Idris and Llyn Tegid - THU George takes Clare to his favourite place in mid-Wales, a THU rare stand of ancient native woodland, which stirs him to THU his very soul. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b02116z1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b02118cw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b02147x0 (Listen) THU Neil Jordan on Byzantium; Doctor Who 50 years on with THU Bernard Cribbins, Roberta Tovey and Mark Gatiss THU THU The director Neil Jordan talks to Matthew Sweet about his THU new vampire film Byzantium, starring Gemma Arterton and THU Saoirse Ronan. And cast members Bernard Cribbins and Roberta THU Tovey meet again 50 years after Dr Who hit the big screen. THU They are joined by comedian, writer and Dr Who devotee Mark THU Gatiss to discuss the allure of the time lord's transition THU to technicolour. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Material World b02147xp (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b02147xr (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0211c6f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Heresy b021480y (Listen) THU Series 9, Episode 4 THU THU Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show THU which dares to commit heresy. THU THU Her guests this week are newspaper columnist Julia THU Hartley-Brewer, the Rev. Richard Coles and food critic, THU television presenter and novelist Giles Coren. THU THU Producers: Victoria Coren Mitchell and Daisy Knight THU An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b02142rt (Listen) THU Emma has a good idea, and Jolene appreciates what she's got. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b021484g (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with writer and THU comedy performer Miranda Hart. THU THU Producer Ella-mai Robey. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01q030j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b0213yg9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b02148kx (Listen) THU Recruitment THU THU Recruitment companies discuss the marks left by recession on THU their businesses and the employment market. THU THU Companies in the eye of the storm when the economy first THU collapsed have had to adapt to stay in business. Evan Davis THU finds out the survival strategies of three recruiters in THU very different markets - from board level headhunting to THU finding seasonal temps and mid-level professionals. THU THU Guests : THU Virginia Bottomley, Odgers Berndtson THU Matthew Sanders, CEO de Poel THU Ian Temple, chair Hydrogen Group THU THU Producer : Rosamund Jones. THU THU 21:00 In Search of Originality b01fd4v4 (Listen) THU Is it still possible to do anything truly original? And why THU should we care if it isn't? Ian Peacock finds out, with a THU challenge to come up with just one original thought of his THU own: a new sound to end a radio programme. THU THU 'Creation is the art of concealing your sources' is a mantra THU attributed to any number of great thinkers, Einstein among THU them. And if we are not convinced that Einstein was THU original, who is? THU THU In his trademark quirky but thoughtful style, Ian Peacock THU sets off on a Kafkaesque quest for true originality. But his THU infectious optimism quickly begins to crack. Doubts set in THU during a trip to the UK Patent Office, surely a bastion of THU unalloyed originality. Patents it seems are rarely built on THU blinding flashes of inspiration, more on incremental THU development. And Ian's own inventions (a hamster wheel for THU cats and bleeping contact lenses amongst them) find THU surprisingly little enthusiasm. THU THU For help he turns to Kane Kramer, self-proclaimed inventor THU of the digital audio player, who also runs a side-line THU helping people nurture their own creativity. Is there THU originality lurking within us all, or is this a gift you THU have to be born with? According to writer Winifred THU Gallagher, invention is an instinct lurking within all of THU us, if only you can work out how to harness it. THU THU As Ian's increasingly philosophical journey evolves, ever THU more curious sounds emerge from a quartet of THU specially-engaged minds, holed up in a darkened anechoic THU chamber and challenged by Ian to devise the most original THU sound ever for the programme's finale. At times it sounds THU more like a children's party than a route to blinding new THU truths as this menagerie of professors and artists clank THU together random objects. The result, when at last it THU appears, turns out to be, well, interesting. Have these THU great brains achieved the ultimate alchemist's dream? Or are THU we doomed, in the era of the mash-up never to achieve THU originality again? And would that even matter? THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b02144gl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0211c6h (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b021499p (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b021499r (Listen) THU Blood and Beauty, Episode 9 THU THU Read by Robert Glenister THU Written by Sarah Dunant THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Listen Against b00tmt97 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU THU Listen Against: the programme that looks back at a week's THU worth of radio and TV that never happened, and works its way THU through it all, like a critical tapeworm going through a THU giant media dog. THU THU Jeremy Paxman finally breaks and goes rogue, Today gets THU remade as a US sitcom, and listeners thoughts on the Food THU Programme giving recipes for cooking a Flump and spit THU roasting a Clanger. With special guests Jenni Murray, THU Richard Bacon and John Humphrys. THU THU Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes. THU THU Featuring: James Bachman, Stephen Critchlow, Sarah Hadland THU and David Schnieder. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b021499t (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 JUNE 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0211c8l (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b0213zsb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0211c8n (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0211c8q (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0211c8s (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0211c8v (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0213yrq (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon FRI Stephen Shipley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0213yrs (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b020tp6d (Listen) FRI Goldfinch FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the Goldfinch. With its FRI bright yellow wing-flashes and face painted black, white and FRI red, the goldfinch is one of our most colourful birds. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0213z3k (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b02116z9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b0213yrn (Listen) FRI Maggie and Me, Episode 5 FRI FRI Still at school, Damian makes a brave decision to come out FRI as gay, but discovers first-hand the impact of Clause 28 FRI when his normally supportive teachers are unable to discuss FRI his sexuality openly with him. FRI FRI He heads to university and leaves Scotland for good with the FRI help of a bursary from a mystery benefactor, and finally FRI makes it to a new life as a journalist living in Brighton FRI with his partner. His last visit to Scotland reminds him of FRI the ghosts of his past that still echo in his life, the FRI Ravenscraig steelworks that were the heart of the community FRI and have now disappeared from the landscape, and his FRI complicated relationship with Margaret Thatcher, his FRI unlikely heroine. FRI FRI Written and read by Damian Barr. FRI Abridged by Sian Preece FRI FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0213zsd (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01q0335 (Listen) FRI Kidnap, Resolution FRI FRI by Richard Monks FRI FRI Director ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI Lucy waits for her mother's release from captivity with FRI ambiguous feelings about her return. FRI FRI 11:00 New Broadcasting House b02w0kvr (Listen) FRI On the day the Queen opens the BBC's new headquarters, Sian FRI Williams, Jim Naughtie and guests consider the cultural FRI identity of a London landmark. FRI FRI 11:45 Four Thought b01snbm0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 on Sunday] FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b021406s (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b02140bm (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0211c8x (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b02140nw (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 Disability: A New History b02140ny (Listen) FRI A Disabled Identity FRI FRI In the final part of his series, Peter White reveals the FRI birth of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century - FRI through the lives of some extraordinary independent blind FRI women. FRI FRI Peter says, "I'm used to people describing me as "disabled". FRI Fair enough, I can't see. But I do wonder sometimes whether FRI putting me into a disabled category really makes much sense. FRI Some of my best friends use wheelchairs, but the truth is FRI our needs could hardly be more different. I fall over them, FRI they run over me! But over the last 40 years, disabled FRI people have needed a collective identity to make change FRI possible, to break down discrimination in jobs, transport, FRI in people's attitudes generally. FRI FRI People have tended to think that this sense of collective FRI identity in Britain began after the First World War, when so FRI many men returned with very visible injuries. But the FRI evidence I've uncovered making this series reveals it to FRI have begun much earlier." FRI FRI This evidence comes from new research into the lives of FRI blind women in the 19th century. We hear the stories of two FRI extraordinary women who fought the conventions of their FRI time, Adele Husson and Hippolyte van Lendegem. Independent, FRI critical, angry - their voices are very modern, and research FRI into their lives challenges accepted wisdom about the FRI history of the disability movement. FRI FRI With historians Selina Mills, David Turner and Julie FRI Anderson, and readings by Emily Bevan and Madeleine Brolly. FRI FRI Producer: Elizabeth Burke FRI Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b02142rt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00p94r2 (Listen) FRI No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, The Seller of Beds FRI FRI Written and dramatised by Alexander McCall Smith, from his FRI hugely popular series of books set in Botswana. FRI FRI The detectives are embroiled in the murky world of the FRI football cheat as they investigate the recent bad form of FRI the Kalahari Swoopers. But Mma Ramotswe's problems don't end FRI there - she must confront an issue which has been avoided FRI for too long. Could it be the end of the road for the tiny FRI white van? FRI FRI Mma Ramotswe ...... Claire Benedict FRI Mma Makutsi ...... Nadine Marshall FRI Mr JLB Matekoni ...... Ben Onwukwe FRI Mr Molofololo ...... Mo Sesay FRI Mma Tafa ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo FRI Fanwell ...... Beru Tessema FRI Grandmother ...... Albie Parsons FRI Puso Boy ...... Kedar Williams-Stirling FRI Oteng Boleleng ...... Emmanuel Ighodaro FRI Charlie ...... Tyrone Lewis FRI Violet Sepotho ...... Anna Bengo FRI Phuti Raduphuti ...... Nyasha Hatendi FRI FRI Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b02142z1 (Listen) FRI Stoke-on-Trent FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs the horticultural panel programme in FRI Stoke on Trent. Matt Biggs, Christine Walkden and Chris FRI Beardshaw take questions from the local gardening audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Four Bare Legs in a Bed b0222fgn (Listen) FRI An Interesting Condition FRI FRI The second of three stories from Helen Simpson's collection, FRI Four Bare Legs in a Bed, read by Rosie Cavaliero. FRI 2/3 An Interesting Condition. Fear and loathing in an FRI antenatal class. FRI Producer: Sarah Langan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Rosie Cavaliero FRI Producer: Sarah Langan FRI Writer: Helen Simpson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b02142z3 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b02142z5 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b021430b (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b021430d (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0211c91 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b0214336 (Listen) FRI Series 40, Episode 4 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Holly Walsh, John FRI Finnemore, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn for a comic run FRI through the week's news. Producer: Colin Anderson. FRI FRI Producer: Colin Anderson FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b021433b (Listen) FRI Peggy manages to sort things out, and there's a tough FRI farewell for Elona. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Carolyn Jones FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Helen Monks FRI Josh Archer: Cian Cheesbrough FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Matt Crawford: Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary: Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Elona Makepeace: Eri Shuka FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Mikey: Matthew Watson FRI Rick (Designer): Will Howard FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b021438t (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, who reports on a major exhibition of art FRI by Chagall at Tate Liverpool. FRI FRI Producer Ekene Akalawu. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01q0335 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b021438w (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Centre for Alternative Technology in Machynlleth FRI Wales with Secretary of State for the Environment Food and FRI Rural Affairs Owen Paterson MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Leader of FRI Plaid Cymru Leanne Woods & commentator James Delingpole. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b021439g (Listen) FRI Tom Shakespeare presents the first of his four essays. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Tom Shakespeare FRI FRI 21:00 Disability: A New History - Omnibus b02143kr (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI Across the country, historians are discovering the voices of FRI disabled people from the past. In this two week series, FRI Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal FRI first-hand accounts of what it was like to live with FRI physical disability in the 18th and 19th centuries. FRI FRI The result is moving, revealing, and sometimes very funny: FRI "Sirs, I am a dwarf. I have lost my job at the circus and FRI what is a dwarf to do in such a situation? In this FRI Godforsaken place the snow comes so deep that a FRI self-respecting dwarf can't even walk along the street FRI without drowning!" FRI FRI This document is from a huge archive of letters from FRI disabled people in the 19th century, applying to the local FRI authorities for money. Sources like this are only now being FRI discovered and interpreted by historians across the country FRI - it amounts to a new historical movement. FRI FRI For Peter, as a blind man, the series is revelatory. He FRI says, "I'm used to people describing me as "disabled". Fair FRI enough, I can't see. But I do wonder sometimes whether FRI putting me into a disabled category really makes much sense. FRI Some of my best friends use wheelchairs, but the truth is FRI our needs could hardly be more different. I fall over them, FRI they run over me! But over the last 40 years, disabled FRI people have needed a collective identity to make change FRI possible, to break down discrimination in jobs, transport, FRI in people's attitudes generally. FRI FRI People have tended to think that this sense of collective FRI identity in Britain began after the First World War, when so FRI many men returned with very visible injuries. But the FRI evidence I've uncovered making this series reveals it to FRI have begun much earlier." FRI FRI Producer: Elizabeth Burke FRI Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0211c94 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b02143qp (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b02143qr (Listen) FRI Blood and Beauty, Episode 10 FRI FRI Acclaimed novelist of the Italian Renaissance, Sarah Dunant, FRI takes on the era's most infamous family - the Borgias. FRI FRI Read by Robert Glenister FRI Written by Sarah Dunant FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b0213ygc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b02143t9 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b02143tc (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents another conversation in the series that FRI proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
31 May, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 01/06/2013 - 07/06/2013
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