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SAT SATURDAY 17 AUGUST 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0385nj3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0385knn (Listen) SAT Sounds Like London - 100 Years of Black Music in the SAT Capital, Episode 5 SAT SAT The story of a city's transformation through its music, SAT taking in the wave of Commonwealth immigration in the '40s SAT right up to the present day. SAT SAT In the final episode, jungle and garage pave the way for SAT grime, a style which has crossed over into the mainstream. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Ben Onwukwe SAT Author: Lloyd Bradley SAT Abridger: Natalie Steed SAT Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0385nj5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0385nj7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0385nj9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0385njc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0385nq6 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Dr Michael Ford. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0385nq8 (Listen) SAT 'ADHD has its benefits' - an iPM listener tells us why she SAT won't be taking her medication. Presented by Eddie Mair and SAT Jennifer Tracey. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0385njf (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0385njh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03859n1 (Listen) SAT The Ants of Longshaw Estate SAT SAT Helen Mark visits Longshaw Estate in Derbyshire to meet some SAT very special ants... SAT SAT The northern hairy wood ant has an international, SAT near-threatened conservation status with England's two main SAT populations found in the Peak District (including Longshaw) SAT and in the North York Moors. In a cutting edge experiment in SAT communication and conservation, Samuel Ellis, a biologist SAT from the University of York, will be attaching a one SAT millimetre radio receiver to each ant in a bid to understand SAT how the ants communicate and commute between the vast SAT network of nests. 'The way the ants use this network has SAT important implications for how they interact with their SAT environment. And the way information is passed through the SAT network may even have implications for our information and SAT telecommunications networks.' The findings will also SAT influence how the landscape is managed and how the habitat SAT can be improved for the ants. SAT SAT Longshaw Estate is home to more than a thousand nests SAT containing 50 million worker ants. Helen hears from Chris SAT Millner, National Trust Area Ranger at Longshaw who has SAT worked alongside these industrious creatures for many years SAT and from the other non-ant residents of the estate who SAT regularly find themselves surrounded by ants as big as your SAT thumb nail. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03892b8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0385njk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03892bb (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03892bd (Listen) SAT Tom Robinson; Inheritance Tracks of Django Bates SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein entertain musician and SAT broadcaster, Tom Robinson, hear the Inheritance Tracks of SAT Django Bates, meet Simon Hood who cycled to every York City SAT Football Club match over a whole season and Nina Wilson who SAT cycled to every town and village in Norfolk, examine the SAT allure of beer with beer sommelier Jane Peyton, talk to the SAT last surviving British 'Dam Buster' George 'Johnny' Johnson SAT and immerse themselves in the genteel atmosphere of SAT Morecambe as JP Devlin meets people from the town for a SAT Saturday Live 'Crowdscape' SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b03892r4 (Listen) SAT Series 6, The Case of the Vanishing Machine Gun Maker SAT SAT Another perplexing case for our best loved, though slightly SAT unusual PI, Steve Punt. SAT SAT His methods may be unconventional but this time Steve is hot SAT on the trail of two gun makers, William Cantelo and Hiram SAT Maxim, and the story begins in Southampton. SAT SAT Late in the 19th century strange noises could be heard from SAT a cellar beneath a pub near the Southampton docks. It was SAT rumoured that gun maker William Cantelo was inventing a SAT rapid firing gun, capable of destroying the enemy and SAT certain to make its inventor very rich. SAT SAT Eventually William Cantelo emerged from his cellar with the SAT news that his invention was complete and that he was going SAT to take a much needed holiday, which he did, taking his new SAT invention with him. But that was the last his family saw of SAT him, "he simply vanished into the void." SAT SAT Eventually his two sons began a search to find out what had SAT happened to their father. When they saw a picture of the SAT American inventor Hiram Maxim in a national paper with his SAT new invention, a rapid firing machine gun, they were SAT shocked; he was the spitting image of their own father SAT William Cantello. The sons both tried in vain to talk to SAT Maxim, on one occasion at Victoria station as Maxim was SAT catching a train, but to no avail. They were convinced that SAT this Maxim was their father and that gun was the same gun SAT that Cantelo had invented but they were never able to prove SAT it. SAT SAT Maxim died a very rich man having made millions from the SAT invention which slaughtered millions in the Great War. SAT Cantelo's last movements were traced to America, how and SAT where he died is a mystery. SAT Clearly this story throws up more questions than answers: SAT What happened to William Cantelo? Was Cantelo impersonating SAT Maxim, if so why? Did Maxim steal Cantelo's invention and SAT pay Cantello to go away? Did one man murder the other, if so SAT who murdered who? SAT SAT Producer Neil George. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b03892r6 (Listen) SAT Peering into Space SAT SAT NASA astronaut and asteroid-hunter Edward Lu explains why we SAT urgently need to map all sizeable Near-Earth orbit asteroids SAT if we want to avoid becoming 'dinosaur toast'. Lisa Randall, SAT a theoretical physicist at Harvard, explores the mysteries SAT of dark matter, the invisible, seemingly inert stuff which SAT is thought to account for over a quarter of all mass-energy SAT in the universe. And Fermilab's Craig Hogan is behind a new SAT experiment to probe the fabric of space itself, by seeing if SAT it's possible to detect the very tiniest units in the SAT universe. Photos © All rights reserved by SAT aspeninstitute-internal SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b038bbv7 (Listen) SAT 72 Snipers SAT SAT Correspondents' stories. Today: Syrians caught in the cross SAT hairs - Hannah Lucinda Smith on the real story of Aleppo's SAT war: one of people trying to carry on with their lives SAT amidst a war they never chose; Petroc Trelawny is on a SAT bridge in Hanoi. The Vietnamese city, once the capital of SAT French Indochina, is growing fast and economic forecasts are SAT optimistic; Celeste Hicks suffers a head injury in Chad. It SAT gives her a chance to see whether any of the country's SAT extensive oil wealth has trickled down as far as the local SAT hospital emergency room. As the diplomatic world wonders SAT whether a new president in Iran presents a window of SAT opportunity, Alastair Newton Brown finds Iranians curious SAT about the West, keen to make friends and David Stern has SAT been in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, where he walked in SAT the footsteps of the man accused of killing President John F SAT Kennedy and ended up facing something of a quandary. SAT The producer of From Our Own Correspondent is Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 How You Pay for the City b038bbv9 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT SAT Critics have long claimed that the financial services sector SAT has become too bloated and complex. But with complexity SAT comes profit. In the third part of this series, David SAT Grossman looks at the byzantine worlds of derivatives and SAT high-frequency trading. SAT SAT Derivatives began as a way of protecting businesses against SAT unexpected developments like a bad harvest. But this SAT practice, known as 'hedging', now represents just a small SAT fraction of the total market. Derivatives are now the SAT product of choice for speculators looking to place vast bets SAT on everything from the price of gold to pork bellies. But SAT the market has become so complex and tangled that it led one SAT of the world's most successful investors to dub them SAT 'financial weapons of mass destruction'. They have been at SAT the heart of scandals from Enron to the sub-prime mortgage SAT bubble that precipitated the crash of 2008. But they remain SAT hugely lucrative for the banks. David Grossman finds out why SAT and hears from the small businesses who were mis-sold SAT products designed to protect them against fluctuations in SAT interest rates but which turned out to be costly bets that SAT they lost and the banks won. SAT SAT The programme also assesses the growth of high-frequency SAT trading, where computers compete to beat the market and SAT where trades are performed automatically at breakneck speed. SAT But if the computers are winning, who is losing? David SAT Grossman investigates and talks to former industry insiders SAT about how high-frequency traders seek an edge over the rest SAT of the market. SAT SAT 12:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b0385n2f (Listen) SAT What Is Britishness? SAT SAT Rory Bremner returns to Radio 4 with a new weekly comedy SAT show that takes one big contemporary question each week and SAT attempts to answer it as satirically as possible. SAT SAT Regular panellists Nick Doody and Andy Zaltzman are joined SAT by comedian and impressionist Mel Hudson and this week's SAT guest experts are author, comedian and politician, John SAT O'Farrell, and the British correspondent for Die Zeit, John SAT Jungclaussen, as Rory asks "What is Britishness?". SAT SAT Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SAT things as it is to make fun of them - only then will people SAT laugh at the truth. So this deconstructed "quiz" has only SAT one question each week, because that question is so big, SAT there's no time for anything else. Expect a mix of stand-up SAT and sketch combined with investigative satire and incisive SAT interviews with a diverse range of characters who really SAT know what they're talking about. SAT SAT Presenter: Rory Bremner SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0385njm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0385njp (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0385n2m (Listen) SAT Martha Kearney presents political debate and discussion from SAT the Richmix Cultural Foundation in London with former Home SAT Secretary Jacqui Smith and Alex Deane former Chief of Staff SAT to David Cameron who's now the Head of Public Affairs at PR SAT firm Weber Shandwick. They'll be joined by Ken Olisa the SAT Chairman of Restoration Partners, a technology merchant SAT bank, and businessman John Mills who founded JML which SAT specialises in on line and TV home shopping. He's also a SAT Labour Party donor. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b038bbvc (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b00ln09n (Listen) SAT Statement of Regret by Kwame Kwei-Armah SAT SAT The Year of Obama should be an opportunity for Kwaku's black SAT policy think tank to florish. But Kwaku is still grieving SAT for his father and his latest misjudged proposal is about to SAT explode. A second chance to hear this provocative play first SAT produced by the National Theatre in 2007 and first broadcast SAT in 2009. SAT SAT Director........................Alison Hindell. SAT SAT Credits SAT Kwaku: Don Warrington SAT Michael: Colin McFarlane SAT Idrissa: Nyasha Hatendi SAT Adrian: Damian Lynch SAT Issi: Janice Acquah SAT Junior: Jimmy Akingbola SAT Lola: Ellen Thomas SAT Val: Trevor Laird SAT Soby: Oscar James SAT Writer: Kwame Kwei-Armah SAT Director: Alison Hindell SAT Producer: Alison Hindell SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b038bbvf (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Hayley Atwell on her stage roles in Pride and changing SAT attitudes to sexuality. Kirstie Allsopp's personal journey SAT to find out why women don't always get the birth they want. SAT The UK's second most senior female judge Lady Justice Arden SAT questions why there aren't more women at the top of the SAT judiciary. Campaigner Caroline Criado Perez discusses what SAT motivates cyber bullies. Women's place in Japanese society. SAT Camping: would you prefer it mild or wild? Poet and rapper SAT Kate Tempest performs her work Brand New Ancients in the SAT Woman's Hour studio. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT Editor: Anne Peacock SAT SAT 17:00 PM b038bbvh (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0385nq8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0385njr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0385njt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0385njw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b038bbvk (Listen) SAT Omid Djalili, Liz Lochhead, Beardyman, Kieran Hurley, Arthur SAT Smith, Young Fathers SAT SAT This week Clive is in Edinburgh to bring you a smorgasbord SAT of delights from all aspects of the festival. Better known SAT as a comedian, Omid Djalili joins Clive to talk about his SAT starring role in The Shawshank Redemption and his solo SAT comedy show 'Omid Djalili Live'. SAT SAT "Funny, feisty, female, full of feeling" is how Carol Ann SAT Duffy describes Liz Lochhead. Liz is a poet, dramatist and SAT current Scots Makar - or national poet who makes her debut SAT appearance on Loose Ends but has hardly missed a year at the SAT Edinburgh International Book Festival since 1983. SAT SAT Clive meets Kieran Hurley and Julia Taudevin who are fast SAT becoming something of a power couple in their generation of SAT young theatre makers. Their play Chalk Farm was inspired by SAT the 2011 riots and stars Julia as a single mother who is SAT caught up in the drama. SAT SAT An Edinburgh star himself, Arthur Smith joins forces with SAT one of the UKs best loved beatboxers, Beardyman, to find out SAT about and have a tinker with his machinery - the Beardytron. SAT SAT We have more music from Edinburgh's Young Fathers who are SAT known as the best Scottish rap group in the world ... ever! SAT The group members hail originally from Liberia, Nigeria, SAT America and Scotland and have been making music together SAT since their teens. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b038bbvm (Listen) SAT Mo Farah SAT SAT Jane Deith presents a profile of someone who is currently SAT making headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b038bbvp (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b038bbvr (Listen) SAT Scrambled SAT SAT The Egg: Hailed as a wonder food; condemned as dangerous; SAT it's fattening; it's slimming; it's ethical; it's unethical. SAT It's been a luxury and dirt cheap. Times change, the egg SAT doesn't. In 1955 they cost the equivalent of £14.80 a dozen SAT but then came the battery farms. The "Go to work on an Egg" SAT campaign is a classic of TV advertising. In 1965 consumption SAT peaked at five eggs per person per week and then fell as SAT doctors warned of cholesterol. The press exposed battery SAT farm conditions and a government minister said they were SAT deadly. In the 00's the egg bounced back. Delia hailed it; SAT the NHS said they were good for you after all- eat as many SAT as you like! Scrambled is not a history of the egg rather it SAT is about how the egg may be seen as symbolic of our attitude SAT to food in general in the past half century as medical SAT science, diet fads, changing lifestyle habits, and animal SAT welfare issues have impacted on how we perceive and consume SAT what on the face of it is as close to a perfect and SAT unchanging food as we have. SAT Presented by Allegra McEvedy. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b0381l64 (Listen) SAT Sense and Sensibility, Episode 2 SAT SAT Jane Austen's classic novel dramatised by Helen Edmundson. SAT SAT Elinor and Marianne are invited to stay at Mrs Jennings' SAT house in London. But Marianne has a surprising encounter SAT with Willoughby and complications arise for Elinor and SAT Edward. Will the Dashwood sisters find happiness and love? SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari SAT SAT Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel SAT is a delightful comedy of manners and a powerful analysis of SAT the ways in which women's lives were shaped by the SAT claustrophobic society in which they had to survive. It is SAT an engrossing story of love, money, passion and prudence. SAT Intelligently written, carefully plotted and beautifully SAT detailed. It has been dramatised in two parts by Helen SAT Edmundson whose previous radio dramatisations include SAT Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge; Bennet's Anna of the Five SAT Town's and Woolf's The Voyage Out. SAT Jane Austen Collection SAT SAT Credits SAT Elinor: Amanda Hale SAT Marianne: Olivia Hallinan SAT Mrs Dashwood: Deborah McAndrew SAT Colonel Brandon: Blake Ritson SAT Willoughby: Ben Lamb SAT Edward: Henry Devas SAT Sir John: Conrad Nelson SAT Lady Middleton: Rosina Carbone SAT Mrs Jennings: Brigit Forsyth SAT Nancy: Victoria Brazier SAT Lucy: Caitlin Thorburn SAT John Dashwood: Andonis James Anthony SAT Fanny: Lisa Brookes SAT Mrs Ferrars: Alexandra Mathie SAT Musician: Emily Hooker SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT Producer: Nadia Molinari SAT Author: Jane Austen SAT Adaptor: Helen Edmundson SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0385njy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b03859mg (Listen) SAT Series 9, End of Life and Islam SAT SAT Mr Khan is brought into A&E with a cardiac arrest and has SAT emergency surgery to clear a blockage in his coronary SAT artery. He's transferred to intensive care with multi-organ SAT failure, his lungs, heart and kidneys supported by machines SAT and medication. SAT SAT Mr Khan is seventy five and his doctors expect him to need SAT intensive care for about ten days. But he is slow to improve SAT and, over the coming weeks, he has repeated lung infections SAT and needs almost constant support for his organs. SAT SAT The anticipated brief stay in intensive care turns to weeks, SAT then months. As time goes by, it becomes clear to the team SAT that Mr Khan is unable to survive without intensive care - SAT removing even small amounts of support for his organs leaves SAT him unable to cope. SAT SAT After six months, the medical team are convinced that Mr SAT Khan has little chance of recovery. He is severely wasted SAT and all the procedures they have to put him through, to keep SAT him alive, are causing him considerable suffering. The team SAT feel they should now limit his treatment and enable him to SAT have a dignified death. SAT SAT Mr Khan is now so weak and confused that he is not able to SAT communicate, so the team discuss this with the family. They SAT find the idea of limiting treatment very difficult. Like Mr SAT Khan, they are devout Muslim and believe that everything SAT should be done to preserve life. They reason that if there SAT are treatments and machines that might help Mr Khan the team SAT should use them, and then leave it in God's hands to see if SAT they succeed or fail. SAT SAT As Mr Khan's life hangs in the balance, should the team keep SAT treating him, so prolonging his suffering, or limit his SAT treatment and enable him to have a comfortable and dignified SAT death? SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b0383lf4 (Listen) SAT The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he SAT quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and SAT asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they SAT have personally collected on a variety of subjects, SAT including their favourite four line humorous poems and SAT quotes form the most quotable people they have ever met. SAT SAT This week Nigel is joined by Actress and Singer - Janie Dee, SAT former editor of Private Eye and current editor of The Oldie SAT - Richard Ingrams, science writer and broadcaster Vivienne SAT Parry and comedian and writer Robin Ince. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Richard Ingrams SAT Panellist: Janie Dee SAT Panellist: Vivienne Parry SAT Panellist: Robin Ince SAT Reader: Peter Jefferson SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 The Sonnet and the Sword b0381l79 (Listen) SAT In The Sonnet and the Sword, Peggy Reynolds explores the SAT world of the Elizabethan Court, through the poetry written SAT by its courtiers. This is a unique exploration of the SAT Elizabethan age, as the poetry written by the elite at the SAT time, evokes a world where rivalry between courtiers was SAT common, and flattering the Queen often involved much SAT spectacle. SAT SAT Poetry during the reign of Elizabeth I developed into a SAT national literature, with courtiers as the elite consumers SAT judging literary developments, and often being at the SAT forefront of innovations themselves. Professor Steven May SAT discusses the merits of this output, which often influenced SAT those outside the court, such as Shakespeare. Dr Susan Doran SAT also joins Peggy Reynolds, to examine the bigger picture, SAT including religious intolerance, the war with Spain, and SAT concern over the royal succession. These national themes are SAT very present in the poetry of the court. SAT SAT Throughout the program there'll be examples of the poetry SAT from this period, and insights from other experts regarding SAT this literature, and the reign of Elizabeth I. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 AUGUST 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b038909c (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Under the Skin b01c6s87 (Listen) SUN Correspondence SUN SUN Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South SUN Asian Literature Festival, which was staged in London and SUN across the United Kingdom in October. The relationship SUN between the English language, its literary tradition and SUN writers from South Asia has become an exciting and enduring SUN part of British literary life. SUN SUN The Festival celebrated writers from South Asia and British SUN Asian writing, equally, reflecting the diversity of themes, SUN subjects and literary forms that constitute South Asian SUN writing in 2011. SUN SUN Under the Skin features two original stories and one adapted SUN from the collection Too Asian, Not Asian Enough which was SUN published to coincide with the festival. NSR Khan's story SUN Correspondence is a touching and witty account of a SUN Pakistani father coming to terms with the life of his SUN British Asian daughter. SUN SUN Under the Skin starts with Deni Francis, Lyndam Gregory and SUN Najma Khan reading a story in letters between a father and SUN daughter. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038909v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03890b0 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03890b7 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03890bl (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b038bhz9 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Peter and St Paul, Shiplake, Oxfordshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b038bbvm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03890c1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b038bhzc (Listen) SUN Why do we have to get richer? SUN SUN Mark Tully questions the pursuit of economic growth at all SUN costs. Many countries and millions of people around the SUN world need to get richer, but what is the right way out of SUN poverty? And why are those of us living in affluent SUN countries, and far from poor, still in thrall to growth. SUN SUN He tries to answer these questions with the help of Gandhian SUN economist, Devaki Jain who defends the desirability of SUN ever-increasing GDP, as long as it serves the needs of SUN communities rather than encouraging unbridled consumerism SUN for its own sake. SUN SUN On the global scale Mark searches for models of growth with SUN morality at their heart. And on the personal level, he draws SUN on thoughts from the Dalai Lama and Ogden Nash to Daniel SUN Defoe among others, and music from Ethiopia, Bhutan, America SUN and Europe, as he compares the power of giving to our SUN obsession with gaining. SUN SUN The presenter is Mark Tully, the producer is Adam Fowler and SUN it is a Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b038h4w7 (Listen) SUN Native Lime SUN SUN This week's Living World sees presenter Chris Sperring SUN heading to Hampshire where with native lime tree specialist SUN Hugh Milner they embark on a journey into the remarkable SUN life of the UK's native lime trees. Most people's SUN association with lime is a sticky mess on car windscreens SUN from street planted non-native common lime. This is a hybrid SUN of the 2 native species of lime tree in Britain, the small SUN leaved lime and the large leaved lime. SUN SUN Small leaved limes were one of the 40 or so tree species SUN which recolonised the country after the last Ice Age, before SUN the land bridge between Europe and England disappeared under SUN the sea. For millennia these two species have been something SUN of a relic species in Britain as they were unable to produce SUN viable fertile seed following a change in the climate which SUN cooled dramatically around 3000BC. From then until now they SUN were lost from the pollen records. In recent years however SUN lime trees have begun to occasionally produce seed again and SUN Hugh Milner takes Chris to see small leaved lime saplings in SUN possibly the only woodland in Britain where lime seedlings SUN are being established. SUN SUN As a woodland species, small leaved lime has been used for SUN centuries as a coppicing tree, not just for wood, but SUN primarily for bast, a thick fibrous bark layer that was SUN prized by rope makers. The bark, or more importantly the sap SUN from the bark is also a great delicacy for great spotted SUN woodpeckers, who it is now believed, after drilling their SUN holes, wait until insects become trapped in the sap to take SUN back to their young in the nest. More surprisingly lime SUN trees can walk across a landscape, as they have the ability SUN to regenerate from fallen timber or if branches make contact SUN with the ground. This vegetative regeneration means that SUN some of our oldest British trees may be lime, such as one in SUN Westonbirt Arboretum which may be 3000 years old. SUN SUN Producer: Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03890cg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03890cs (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b038bhzh (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b038bhzk (Listen) SUN Practical Action SUN SUN Charlotte Green presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Practical Action. SUN Reg Charity: 247257 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Practical Action. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Practical Action SUN SUN Practical Action was founded by the economist EF Schumacher, SUN author of Small is Beautiful. He wrote: “Any intelligent SUN fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. SUN It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in SUN the opposite direction.” This philosophy still guides SUN Practical Action, which uses technology in to help people SUN out of poverty. SUN Their strength is their approach. They enable poor SUN communities to use their skills and knowledge to produce SUN practical solutions which they can build, use and maintain SUN themselves. By doing this they help around a million people SUN a year break out of the cycle of poverty for good. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03890d5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03890dg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b038bmlc (Listen) SUN A Place to Be SUN SUN When St Cedd arrived in Essex in the 7th century, he built a SUN little church on the coast overlooking the North Sea. The SUN area had originally been the home of a Roman garrison and SUN Cedd built the chapel of St Peter-on-the-Wall, SUN Bradwell-on-Sea on the foundations of the old fort. Over SUN time it fell into disuse but was restored again for worship SUN in 1920. Since 1946 this has been a place of peace, SUN friendship and renewal. Along with the Othona Community, SUN belief and faith are integrated with community living. SUN Bishop Stephen Oliver makes his own pilgrimage there to meet SUN members of the Community and to pray and reflect alongside SUN them with Chaplain, the Rev'd Brigid Main. He spends time SUN among the visitors as they relax and explore big questions SUN in an atmosphere of openness and hospitality. SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b0385n2p (Listen) SUN Of the People, By the People 2/4 SUN SUN Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature SUN and limits of democracy. Roger Scruton argues that democracy SUN works only if we are prepared to be ruled by our opponents, SUN however much we may dislike them. We need to accept politics SUN as a process of compromise and conciliation. And for that, SUN he says, the state must be secular. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b0378wy3 (Listen) SUN Common Redstart SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Michaela Strachan presents the common redstart. Redstarts SUN are summer visitors from sub-Saharan Africa. The males are SUN very handsome birds, robin-sized, but with a black mask, SUN white forehead and an orange tail. John Buxton gave us a SUN fascinating insight into their lives when, as a prisoner of SUN war in Germany, he made a study of them. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b038bmlg (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b038bmlj (Listen) SUN Oliver comes up with a solution, and Kathy can't put work SUN behind her. SUN SUN Credits SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Tony Archer: Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Brenda Tucker: Amy Shindler SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman SUN Harriet Franklin: Liza Sadovy SUN Anthea Jennings: Joanna Brookes SUN Mel Harrison: Abigail McKern SUN Writer: John Stimpson SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b038bmll (Listen) SUN Goodness Gracious Me SUN SUN In this episode of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor brings SUN together the creators of the British Asian sketch show SUN Goodness Gracious Me. SUN SUN The comedy show debuted on BBC Radio 4 in the summer of SUN 1996. It was the first venture conceived, written and SUN performed by British Asians. The title 'Goodness Gracious SUN Me' was inspired by the Peter Sellers song from the film The SUN Millionairess, in which he plays an Indian doctor. SUN SUN The series poked fun at British and Indian stereotypes and SUN at the tensions between Asian culture and modern British SUN life. One of the most iconic sketches - 'Going for an SUN English' - featured a group of Asians going out for an SUN English meal and mispronouncing everything on the menu. This SUN reversing of experiences was a hallmark of the show. SUN SUN There was a growing confidence amongst a new generation of SUN British Asians in the 1990s. Asian culture was at the SUN forefront of the youth scene and there was a feeling amongst SUN many in broadcasting that it was time the Asian community SUN had their own TV series. At the BBC, multi-cultural SUN programming was becoming integral to the schedule and yet SUN doubts remained about whether mainstream audiences would tap SUN into something which focussed on one ethnicity. SUN SUN However after an award winning run on the radio, Goodness SUN Gracious Me moved to BBC 2 where it continued to attract SUN huge audiences for three more series, giving birth to a new SUN genre - "Asian Comedy". SUN SUN Sue is joined around the table by: Meera Syal and Sanjeev SUN Bhaskar, who wrote and starred in the series; Anil Gupta, SUN the producer who first pitched the idea to the BBC; Jon SUN Plowman, then the BBC's head of comedy and entertainment and SUN Richard Pinto the comedy writer who helped develop the idea. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b0383mgf (Listen) SUN Series 67, Episode 1 SUN SUN Can Nicholas Parsons keep order over Tony Hawks, Alun SUN Cochrane, Patrick Kielty and Gyles Brandreth as they attempt SUN to talk for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or SUN deviation on subjects from Moving House to Summer Loving. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b038bmln (Listen) SUN Feeding the Detectives SUN SUN Dan Saladino looks at how food has increasingly become a big SUN ingredient in crime fiction. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03890fh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b038bmlq (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 It's My Story b0367slj (Listen) SUN Living in the Memory Room SUN SUN There are 800,000 dementia sufferers in the UK. Kim SUN Normanton presents a personal programme about memory and SUN dementia, inspired by her mother's illness. She explores a SUN new approach to treatment - recreating the past. SUN SUN As her mother's memory of recent events was destroyed, Kim SUN discovered that she could only reach her by entering the SUN past. She began sharing memories of her mother's childhood SUN with theatrical props: "She can't reach where I'm living SUN anymore, so it's up to me to go back to happier days in the SUN past and reach her." SUN SUN This approach to dementia is tried on a much larger scale in SUN Hogewey Dementia Village in Holland. The village recreates SUN the surroundings of the residents' youth, with old-fashioned SUN furnishings and even a supermarket selling old-fashioned SUN sweets. Kim talks to the director about ethical issues: is SUN it right to deceive people with this theatrical illusion? SUN SUN In Britain, she finds care homes increasingly using SUN 'reminiscence objects' to stimulate dementia sufferers. Kim SUN visits a Cornwall home where Janet Brown, known locally as SUN 'the Memory Lady', organizes group memory sessions using old SUN toys and kitchen utensils plucked from a memory box. She SUN says, "It's a horrible disease and there's no cure, but SUN there are moments which we can make more pleasurable for SUN those living with it, and their carers." SUN SUN Kim explores the latest memory science with Dr Catherine SUN Loveday of the University of Westminster: "The biggest SUN problem with dementia is a lack of narrative - being SUN suspended in space without the context of memories to SUN support you. But I've seen people with dementia who are very SUN happy. When you're reminiscing, you really are in that world SUN and enjoying that moment." SUN SUN Producers: Kim Normanton and Elizabeth Burke. SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0385kp3 (Listen) SUN Ulster - County Antrim SUN SUN Eric Robson takes the panel to Ulster for this week's SUN episode. Gardening experts Matthew Wilson, Pippa Greenwood SUN and Bob Flowerdew attempt to solve the audience's SUN horticultural concerns. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b038bmls (Listen) SUN The Nepali Royal Massacre SUN SUN In 2001, the Crown Prince of Nepal killed nine people and SUN then turned the gun on himself in a shooting at the royal SUN palace. His cousin, Ketaki Chester, was injured in the SUN massacre. She tells Witness about the events of that day and SUN why she thinks the Prince murdered his own relatives. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b038bmlv (Listen) SUN The Aeneid, Episode 1 SUN SUN 1/2. Aeneas is a faithful husband, a loving father, and a SUN devoted son. He's a good soldier too, and when the city of SUN Troy is threatened, all he wants to do is to defend his SUN home. For ten long years he fights against the invading SUN Greeks. Then one day the ghost of a long-dead comrade SUN appears to him on the battlefield, telling him to stop SUN fighting and run. The future of the Trojan people lies SUN elsewhere, and if Aeneas is to lead them, he must survive. SUN So, with his frail father on his back, and his son in his SUN arms, Aeneas abandons Troy and sets out on his quest. Caught SUN between love, duty and fate, he'll travel across SUN storm-tossed oceans, have a passionate but doomed affair, SUN and suffer terrible personal loss, as he ventures to the SUN very depths of Hell to discover his glorious destiny. SUN SUN This brand new adaptation of Virgil's epic poem, by SUN award-winning writer Hattie Naylor, uses Robert Fagles' SUN translation. SUN SUN The music was composed by Will Gregory, arranged by Ian SUN Gardiner, and performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by SUN Matthew Hamilton. The soloist is Cherith Milburn-Fryer. SUN Percussion by Joby Burgess. SUN SUN Production Coordinator: Scott Handcock SUN Sound design: Nigel Lewis SUN SUN A BBC/Cymru Wales production, produced and directed by Kate SUN McAll. SUN SUN Credits SUN The Storyteller: Daniel Morden SUN Aeneas: Richard Harrington SUN Anchises: Robert Pugh SUN Creusa: Sara McGaughey SUN The Sibyl: Fiona Shaw SUN Aeolus: Matthew Gravelle SUN Achates: Matthew Gravelle SUN Ilioneus: Matthew Gravelle SUN Hector: Matthew Gravelle SUN Sinon: Matthew Gravelle SUN Laocoon: Ben Crowe SUN Mercury: Ben Crowe SUN Cyprian: Ben Crowe SUN King Priam: Ben Crowe SUN Panthus: Ben Crowe SUN Queen Hecuba: Eiry Thomas SUN Jove: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Laocoon: Michael Bertenshaw SUN Juno: Rachel Atkins SUN Venus: Annette Badland SUN Dido: Daphne Alexander SUN Anna: Amita Dhiri SUN Elissa: Ayesha Antoine SUN Director: Kate McAll SUN Producer: Kate McAll SUN Adaptor: Hattie Naylor SUN Author: Virgil SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b038bpn6 (Listen) SUN Literary Landscapes - Cornwall with Patrick Gale SUN SUN Open Book's summer series on Literary Landscapes continues SUN at the furthest Western edge of the United Kingdom, Land's SUN End in Cornwall. With the Atlantic waves encroaching on both SUN sides, it's one of wildest and most exposed areas in the SUN country and has inspired many of our great writers including SUN Daphne Du Maurier. SUN SUN Open Book's literary guide to this beautifully powerful and SUN rugged terrain is Patrick Gale, one of the county's foremost SUN and prolific contemporary novelists. Born in the Isle of SUN Wight, Patrick has been based in Cornwall since the late SUN 1980s and lives on a working farm in Land's End, with SUN unparalleled views of the outer edge of the landscape he's SUN so often chosen as his setting. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Books by Patrick Gale: SUN SUN A Perfectly Good Man SUN Published by Fourth Estate SUN SUN Notes from an Exhibition SUN Published by Harper Collins SUN SUN Aerodynamics of Pork SUN Published by Flamingo SUN SUN Rough Music SUN Published by Ballantine Books SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry of Gold and Angels b038bpn8 (Listen) SUN San Francisco SUN SUN San Francisco is a place where a thousand stories meet - a SUN port city where many cultures and races mix, the birthplace SUN of counterculture and political ideologies, and now home to SUN the high-tech revolution. Kim Shuck, poet, educator and SUN weaver was born in the city and has Tsalagi, Sauk and Fox SUN and Polish ancestors. She takes us on a tour of her San SUN Francisco including North Beach and China Town and discusses SUN how poets have been inspired by the city. We hear so much SUN about The Beat poets in San Francisco, but the city's poetry SUN scene is so much more than the Beats. This is a chance to SUN hear some of the other poems coming out of the city. SUN SUN During the programme we talk to poets such as Devorah Major SUN who was Poet Laureate of San Francisco and who takes us to SUN Marcus Books, the oldest Black book shop in America. We also SUN hear from Jack Hirschman, part of the Beat generation and SUN social activist, about how music and jazz have influenced SUN the city's poetic voice. Other poets in the programme SUN include Genny Lim, David Brazil, Micah Ballard and David SUN Buuck. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Lending Game b0383zh5 (Listen) SUN As Wonga moves into the mainstream with its sponsorship of SUN Newcastle United, is the so-called payday lender responding SUN to, or shaping, changing attitudes on money and morality? SUN Chris Bowlby goes back to his teenage home on the Tyne to SUN look at the rise of Wonga through the lives of the Toon SUN Army. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b038bbvm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03890fr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03890ft (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03890fw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b038bpnb (Listen) SUN Simon Cox's Pick of the Week. SUN This week's programme goes on a sensory journey, finding out SUN how touch can improve the health of premature babies and SUN hears from the "fumeheads" trying to shake up perfumes. SUN There are a number of firsts; the collaboration between SUN Radio 3 and 6 Music at the Proms and the quiz that persuades SUN royalty to perform. There is the tale of a gritty Scouse SUN football legend and the Caribbean cricket diplomats. And SUN there is plenty of advice on faking - from copying a famous SUN building to being a celebrity - or even a person as we hear SUN about Roxxy the pleasure bot. SUN SUN Princess Di's Handshake - Radio 4 SUN Word of Mouth - Radio 4 SUN With Great Pleasure - Radio 4 SUN Book at Bedtime - Red or Dead - Radio 4 SUN Windies Wonders - Radio 4 SUN One Question Quiz - Radio 4 SUN Simpson in China - Radio 5Live SUN PM - Wednesday - Radio 4 SUN The Prophets - Monday - Radio 4 SUN 6Music Prom - Monday - Radio 3 SUN The Slow Coach - Radio 4 SUN Wow! How did they do that? - Radio 4 SUN Business Daily - Monday - World Service SUN The Why Factor - Celebrity - World Service SUN SUN Produced by Louise Clarke. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b038bpnd (Listen) SUN Shula is finalising details, and Pip helps save a life. SUN SUN Credits SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN SUN 19:15 Jo Caulfield's Speakeasy b038bpz9 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Comedian Jo Caulfield invites authors, comedians and actors SUN to tell true stories from their lives. The results are SUN revealing, hilarious and hugely entertaining. The performers SUN are all recorded live at the historic Scottish Story Telling SUN centre in Edinburgh. SUN SUN Among the stories this week Owen O'Neill remembers an SUN embarrassing trip to the confessional booth, Sanjeev Kohli SUN has a festive poem, young comedian Gareth Waugh shares his SUN attempt at finding love and Lucy Porter explains how hard it SUN is to make friends. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Melvin SUN A Dabster Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Cries of London b038brrm (Listen) SUN The Tyburn Jig SUN SUN A pair of historical tales set in the heart of the capital. SUN SUN Sarah Middleton witnesses her husband's final journey from SUN Newgate to the gallows at Tyburn Tree, but the sight SUN provokes some surprising emotions. SUN SUN Katy Darby studied English Literature at Somerville College, SUN Oxford and took her MA in Creative Writing at the University SUN of East Anglia, where she won the David Higham Award. Her SUN first novel, 'The Unpierced Heart'was published in 2012. She SUN teaches creative writing at City University and co-runs the SUN monthly live fiction event Liars' League. 'Cries Of London' SUN are her first stories for BBC Radio 4. Katy lives in London. SUN SUN Reader: Hattie Morahan SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b0385kp9 (Listen) SUN On Monday evening, just as England bowler Stuart Broad was SUN reaching the peak of a devastating spell, listeners to Radio SUN 4 Long Wave were ripped from the action. They were plunged SUN into the seven o'clock news followed by The Archers. Radio 4 SUN Network Manager Denis Nowlan explains what went wrong. SUN SUN Last week we announced that The Archers is to have a new SUN editor - Sean O'Connor will take over in September. But this SUN week some Archers' fans were turned off by a scene involving SUN reunited lovers Helen and Rob. SUN SUN And is the rest of Radio 4 over-sexed during the school SUN holidays? Listeners have objected to sexual content in SUN programmes such as The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Sketchorama, SUN and How to Have a Perfect Marriage, especially when children SUN are more likely to be at home. Roger Bolton talks sex on the SUN radio with Roger Mahony, Radio 4's Editor of Editorial SUN Standards. SUN SUN Over the course of this series of Feedback, we've heard from SUN many listeners who still lament the loss of Radio 4 science SUN programme Material World. Its replacement, Inside Science, SUN has its fans, but the majority of Feedback listeners have SUN not warmed to the programme during its first two months. We SUN hear your opinions so far. And we'll be speaking the Editor SUN of the BBC Radio Science Unit, Deborah Cohen, about Inside SUN Science in the autumn. SUN SUN Feedback listeners are extremely keen eyed and eared. We're SUN sure you've checked this web text thoroughly for mistakes. SUN And we certainly hope it adheres to the BBC's Style Guide, SUN because this week Roger speaks to Ian Jolly, Style Editor SUN for the BBC Newsroom in London. Listeners frequently write SUN to us to note a perceived increase in Americanisms but SUN what's the 'big deal'? SUN SUN Email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0385kp7 (Listen) SUN A Holocaust activist, a Hollywood actress, a jazz SUN keyboardist, a stuntman and a tugboat hero SUN SUN Aasmah Mir on SUN SUN Betty Maxwell, the widow of the late publisher Robert SUN Maxwell SUN SUN The stuntman who parachuted in to the opening ceremony of SUN the London Olympics, Mark Sutton SUN SUN Karen Black, star of Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider and SUN Airport 75 SUN SUN Kenneth Dancy, the tugboat hero who attempted to save the SUN stricken freighter Flying Enterprise in 1952 SUN SUN And innovative and flamboyant jazz keyboardist George Duke. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Kobrak SUN SUN 21:00 Face the Facts b0384815 (Listen) SUN NHS 111 - A Bad Call? SUN SUN Face the Facts investigates the new NHS 111 helpline service SUN which opened this spring to a chorus of criticism. SUN Allegations include that the service is too cheap, offering SUN too little medical expertise. We hear from people who have SUN used the service and found it wanting, and to professional SUN medical bodies who say they warned it would not be an SUN adequate replacement for NHS Direct. SUN SUN Presenter: John Waite SUN Producers: Richard Hooper, Louise Corley SUN Editor: Andrew Smith. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b038bhzk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03859nh (Listen) SUN Regenerating Margate SUN SUN Towns and cities all over the world are looking to culture SUN to help them rejuvenate. Two years ago Margate in Kent SUN joined the trend when it opened the £17 million Turner SUN Contemporary gallery. Can art improve the fortunes of a SUN struggling community? Peter Day finds out. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b038bq34 (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 b038bq36 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03859n3 (Listen) SUN Film festivals, Lotte Reiniger, DVD recommendations SUN SUN With the autumn film festival circuit about to get underway, SUN Robbie Collin talks to Notting Hill director Roger Michell SUN about who really benefits from the peripatetic circus. And SUN why this director said 'non' to Cannes. And the critic Jason SUN Solomons gives the reviewer's perspective of the scene, from SUN the thrill of the first glimpse of a masterpiece to SUN fisticuffs at dawn. SUN SUN Marina Warner and Nick Bradshaw explore the work of the SUN influential German animator Lotte Reiniger as The Adventures SUN of Prince Achmed, once thought destroyed in World War II, is SUN restored and released. The 1920s groundbreaking shadow film, SUN handcut and manipulated, draws on the Arabian Nights for its SUN tale of exotic lands, kidnapped princesses and flying SUN horses. SUN SUN Terri Hooley the Belfast DJ and record label entrepreneur SUN gives his reaction to Good Vibrations, a film based on his SUN life during the 1970s punk scene. As the man who gave The SUN Undertones their first big break, he reflects on why it was SUN important that this story was told by local screenwriters SUN and cast. SUN SUN And with summer blockbusters squeezing out more modest SUN releases at the multiplexes, Jason Solomons picks out the SUN best DVD and Blu Ray releases for the films you may have SUN missed on the big screen. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b038bhzc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03890nc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0384brx (Listen) MON Drug users and enforcement; 'Militant' Liverpool MON MON Drug enforcement - does it change the drugs market? Laurie MON Taylor talks to Neil McKeganey about his research into MON police crackdowns on illegal drugs in 3 different areas of MON the UK. The researchers interviewed local heroin users to MON establish their views and experience of police activity. MON Although most had found raids to be shocking and MON distressing, this had little impact on the price or MON availability of illegal drugs locally. Also, the MON sociologist, Diana Frost, explores Militant Tendency's MON domination of Liverpool politics in the 1980s. Interviewing MON key protagonists of the time, she uncovers mixed memories of MON a 'city on the edge'. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b038bhz9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03890nr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03890p1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03890p7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03890pd (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b038bwsf (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Dr Michael Ford. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b038bwsh (Listen) MON An international research project involving Scottish MON scientists has found a gene which could make the manufacture MON of fuel from crops more efficient. Professor Claire Halpin MON from the University of Dundee explains how the gene, if MON switched off, allows more sugar to be extracted from woody MON non-food crops like willow and poplar. MON MON Sybil Ruscoe meets a farmer who rears Japanese Wagyu cattle MON in Wales, keeping up the tradition of feeding them beer! MON MON And how effectively are farm tourism businesses capitalising MON on interest in local food and 'staycations'? MON MON Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03890pt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xcd (Listen) MON Icterine Warbler MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Michaela Strachan presents the icterine warbler. Icterine MON Warblers are fluent mimics and include phrases of other MON species in their song. Their name, icterine, is derived from MON ikteros, the ancient Greek word for jaundice and describes MON the bird's spring plumage...yellowish beneath and olive MON brown on top. MON MON 06:00 Today b038bwsk (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Sins of Literature b038bxfd (Listen) MON Thou Shalt Not Steal MON MON In The Sins of Literature Robert McCrum casts a seasoned eye MON over the literary codes of our time. MON MON Malcolm Gladwell, Will Self, Sarah Waters and Howard MON Jacobson help him compile a list of literary sins and MON commandments. MON MON The third commandment is Thou Shalt not Steal. Plagiarism is MON perhaps the gravest of literary sins and yet writers steal MON all the time and sweat away their lives under the anxiety of MON influence. This program looks at the shifting sands of MON plagiarism, theft, influence and borrowing. The Romantics MON may have worshipped the original genius of Shakespeare but MON he merrily lifted whole sections of Anthony and Cleopatra MON from Holinshed's chronicles. In the internet age true MON creativity appears to reside not in what you write yourself MON but in the ways you can remix, mash up, parody and generally MON mess around with the work of others. Robert examines the MON extent to which ideas of originality are being remixed. MON MON 09:30 Wow! How Did They Do That? b038c0dk (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Roger Law goes in search of the entrepreneurs who are behind MON some of the Britain's best designs and inventions. MON MON In a converted garage in rural Cambridgeshire, Wesley West MON has been busy creating real objects out of almost anything MON he can find. His garden is full of robots made of cartons MON and iron creatures of various shapes and sizes, and he has MON worked in advertising for many years making finely crafted MON objects for his clients. All Wesley's ingenious solutions MON are made by hand then filmed or photographed, and no MON computer is involved. Roger steps into an intriguing world MON where everything is, in its own way, real. MON MON Tim Webber on the other hand does all his effects on the MON computer. He works at Framestore, a post-production house in MON London, and he is the magician behind the Harry Potter MON films. Roger joins him in Soho to find out how these visual MON effects are created, and what it is that British artists can MON offer the film industry. MON MON Two contrasting creators, both of whom have plenty to offer MON in ingenuity and skill, either with or without the aid of a MON computer. MON MON Producer Mark Rickards. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b038hr2n (Listen) MON Operation Massacre, Episode 1 MON MON A Latin American true crime classic set in Argentina. MON MON On the evening of the 9th June 1956 in an apartment in MON Buenos Aires, between twelve and fourteen men were arrested MON on suspicion of involvement in a rebellion against the MON Argentine government. A few hours later, the local police MON chief received orders to execute them. Almost all were MON innocent. In compelling prose, Rodolfo Walsh recreates the MON events of that night and its aftermath. MON MON Pre-dating Capote's IN COLD BLOOD by over a decade, MON OPERATION MASSACRE is regarded throughout Latin America as MON the original work of modern 'true crime.' This classic of MON reportage has been admired by writers a diverse as Jorge MON Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It has just been MON translated into English for the first time. MON MON Read by Nigel Anthony MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Author: Rodolfo Walsh MON Reader: Nigel Anthony MON Abridger: Jane Marshall MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b038c0dp (Listen) MON Women in Publishing MON MON Author Kate Mosse interviews Woman's Hour Power Lister MON Ursula Mackensie on her role as Chief Executive of Little, MON Brown and Lennie Goodings, Publisher at Virago. Are fewer MON women reaching the top in publishing in the digital age? MON Former publisher, now agent, Clare Alexander; author and MON chair of the Society of Authors Anne Sebba and Philip Jones, MON editor of the Bookseller join Kate to discuss. Peter MON Stothard, editor of the Times Literary Supplement and MON journalist and reviewer Alex Clark debate why books by men, MON reviewed by men, dominate the pages of newspapers and MON journals. MON MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON Editor: Alice Feinstein MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038c0dr (Listen) MON The One About the Social Worker, Episode 1 MON MON by Martin Jameson MON MON It's an irony of child protection, that if you've been a MON social worker long enough to remove two children from a MON woman at birth, that means you may be the one constant in MON her life she can trust. MON MON So when Tamsin tracks down her old social worker Liz for MON help, she doesn't care that Liz is on suspension and MON forbidden from talking to her. Or that Liz is the current MON hate figure of the national press, after the violent death MON of a child on her caseload. MON MON Tamsin just wants help. MON MON Should Liz ignore her? Or is time to break the rules? MON MON Claire Skinner is best known to TV viewers as harassed mum MON Sue in Outnumbered, but her wide-ranging career includes MON long associations with Mike Leigh, Alan Ayckbourn, and Sam MON Mendes. MON MON Lacey Turner won a fistful of awards for her portrayal of MON Eastenders' Stacey Slater over 6 years, and recent TV work MON includes starring in True Love and Our Girl. MON MON Martin Jameson is a prolific screenwriter, director and MON playwright whose recent work on Radio 4 includes Can You MON Tell Me The Name Of The Prime Minister?, The Night They MON Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister and Stone. MON MON 1/5 Until five months ago, Liz was a hard-nosed MON child-protection social worker. Today she doesn't know who MON she is, except that she's on suspension, hiding from the MON press, dosed up on SSRIs ... and that there's someone MON shouting her name in Tesco's. MON MON Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. MON MON Credits MON Liz Beecham: Claire Skinner MON Tamsin Geraghty: Lacey Turner MON Clive Beecham: Michael Bertenshaw MON Maureen Beecham: Christine Absalom MON Justin: Jerome Holder MON Chloe: Hannah Wood MON Director: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Writer: Martin Jameson MON MON 11:00 The Slow Coach b038c0dt (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Liz Barclay follows three busy people as they continue an MON experiment to slow down their lives. Their 'slow coach' is MON Carl Honoré, spokesperson for a growing 'Slow Movement'. He MON argues that the 'virus of hurry' has infected every corner MON of our lives. 'Slow' has become a dirty word - a byword for MON lazy and unproductive. But can we actually be more MON productive, as well as happier and healthier, if we connect MON with our 'inner tortoise'? MON MON Three volunteers put Carl's theories to the test by MON following his advice over the course of a month. MON MON In programme 1, Carl gave them each a bespoke recipe for MON slowing down, with tips to follow each day. Now, in MON programme 2, he asks them to step back from the daily grind MON to reflect on the bigger picture. What are the pressures MON keeping them speedy? Can they slow down in a way that will MON last? MON MON Lizzie works part-time as a health visitor, and has three MON young children. She's found it challenging to put Carl's MON suggestions into practice. She visits a conference on MON families and relationships to ask if it's inevitable that MON life as a working parent is a constant race against the MON clock. MON MON Steve runs a business, and is overwhelmed by his workload. MON He's been following Carl's tips on switching off technology MON and reducing distraction. Now he tries the practice of MON mindfulness to develop his focus and find a sense of calm. MON MON Scott is on jobseeker's allowance but lives a hectic life MON running local activities like a Carnival. He's been learning MON to say 'no', and pace himself instead of panicking. Now he MON wants to find out if slowing down can help him to take MON control of his life and its direction. MON MON Liz follows their successes and struggles, and asks if it's MON really possible to slow down in a fast-forward world. MON MON Producer: Tessa Watt MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b038c0dw (Listen) MON Series 2, Team Bonding MON MON Births, Deaths and Marriages is the sitcom set in a Local MON Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the MON three greatest events in anybody's life. MON MON Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan MON Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a MON stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any MON wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health MON and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? MON He's married thousands of women. MON MON Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been MON parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and MON Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just MON about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit MON in our new age of austerity. MON MON There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried MON he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may MON get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the MON only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. MON MON In the final episode of the series, the office is MON reluctantly taking part in a team bonding exercise in the MON grounds of a country house. Lorna is doing the celebrity MON wedding of the Honourable Sebastian Foster at the same venue MON but Sebastian wants to have a hymn - which Malcolm says is MON strictly not allowed in a civil ceremony. MON MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Writer: David Schneider MON Malcolm: David Schneider MON Lorna: Sarah Hadland MON Anita: Sandy McDade MON Luke: Russell Tovey MON Mary: Sally Bretton MON Gary: Simon Greenall MON Sebastian: Simon Greenall MON Carly: Grainne Keenan MON Producer: Simon Jacobs MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b038c0dy (Listen) MON Corporate degrees, circus animals and Commonwealth Games MON tickets 19 August 2013 MON MON How does a degree from Harrods sound? Or KFC, ASDA or MON MacDonalds? We examine the rise of the 'corporate degree' MON and take a tour of the hamburger university. MON MON We examine the credit and debit cards that pay you every MON time you spend - what's in it for the banks and are they MON always a good deal? MON MON And is it time to ban animals from travelling circuses? MON MON Plus how to get tickets to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth MON Games MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Joe Kent. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03890qw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b038c0f0 (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 A View Through a Lens b0150mlg (Listen) MON Series 3, Taking the Plunge MON MON Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in MON isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe MON filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the MON uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the MON fragility of life and the connections which unite society MON and nature across the globe. MON MON 1/5 Taking the Plunge: MON MON John travelled with a team whilst making the BBC series, MON Frozen Planet, to Dream Island a remote, cold, hostile MON island despite its name, whose only inhabitants are elephant MON seals and Adelie penguins. Over fifteen years ago, another MON team from the BBC came here to film what happens when young MON penguins go to sea. There were thousands of chicks in the MON colonies then, and when they reached the water, several MON hundred leopard seals were waiting for them. But John MON discovers the colony is less than a fifth of its original MON size, and there are far fewer leopard seals so he travels MON further south where the breeding season is shorter and MON later. On the Fish Islands, he finds what he's looking for; MON a larger colony of Adelie adults and chicks. The young MON penguins head down the rocky shore to the water's edge for MON their first swim, flapping their wings up and down before MON they take their first plunge. They are like nervous ducks, MON waiting for someone to make the first move. Eventually a MON young penguin dives into the water. Others follow. John MON watches anxiously; the penguins seem unaware of the dangers MON of diving into water with leopard seals nearby. What follows MON next is a tense game of 'cat and mouse' as a leopard seal MON hunts the young swimmers. MON MON Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b038bpnd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00z5zxx (Listen) MON A Sleepwalk on the Severn MON MON Award- winning poet, Alice Oswald's extraordinary evocation MON of the experience of moonrise over the Severn Estuary. Set MON to original music by Roger Goula, its subject is moonrise MON which happens five times in different forms: new moon, half MON moon, full moon, no moon and moon reborn. Various MON characters, some living some dead, all based on real people MON from the Severn catchment, talk towards the moment of MON moonrise and are changed by it. MON MON Performed by Ron Cook, Sam Dale, Emma Fielding, Tom MON Goodman-Hill, James Laurenson and Helen Longworth. MON MON Music composed by Roger Goula and performed by the Raven MON Quartet and Rowland Sutherland. MON MON Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON Credits MON Writer: Alice Oswald MON Performer: Ron Cook MON Performer: Sam Dale MON Performer: Emma Fielding MON Performer: Tom Goodman-Hill MON Performer: James Laurenson MON Performer: Helen Longworth MON Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b038c0f2 (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects, MON including quotations they wish they'd said and family MON sayings they have grown up with. MON MON This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, MON News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David Wood MON and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. MON MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b038bmln (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down b038c0f4 (Listen) MON Every comedian, however famous or successful, has memories MON of stand-up shows which didn't go to plan. Many comics will MON agree that 'dying' on stage is a rite of passage from which MON a lot can be learned - and swapping stories of on-stage MON humiliation can bind comedians together. Rich Morton has MON performed with most of Britain's best loved stand-ups down MON the years, and in this programme he gets some of them to MON confess their memories of the nightmare gigs they'd rather MON forget. MON MON Realising too late that your material is completely MON inappropriate for the audience, finding the crowd was MON expecting someone else, having to deal with the heckler from MON hell - whatever the situation, most comics have been there, MON and have emerged from the experience with some hilarious MON stories to tell. Jo Brand, Tim Clark, Jack Dee, Mike Gunn, MON Milton Jones, Lucy Porter and Ian Stone share their MON recollections. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b038c0f6 (Listen) MON Buddhism and Violence 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 Buddhism is generally portrayed in the West as a religion of MON peace and non-violence. The first of Buddhism's 'Five Moral MON Precepts' states that it is wrong to take the lives of MON others. But recent clashes between native Buddhists and MON minority Muslims in Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) have MON left over 200 people dead, and more than 150,000 people MON homeless. So what is Buddhism's teaching about the use of MON violence? Is it permitted or prohibited? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss Buddhism and violence are MON Michael Jerryson, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies MON at Youngstown State University, Ohio, who co-edited the book MON 'Buddhist Warfare'; Rupert Gethin, Professor of Buddhist MON Studies at the University of Bristol, and Soe Win Than, a MON journalist who was born in Myanmar and who works for the MON BBC's Burmese Service. MON MON 17:00 PM b038c0f8 (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03890rr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b038c0fb (Listen) MON Series 67, Episode 2 MON MON Paul Merton, Greg Proops, Joe Lycett and Sue Perkins play MON the devious linguistic game at the Edinburgh Fringe MON Festival. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b038c0fd (Listen) MON Oliver is reassuring, and Tom sticks his neck out. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b038c0fg (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Tom Stoppard MON about his new drama for BBC Radio 2, inspired by Pink MON Floyd's album The Dark Side of the Moon, which will be MON broadcast next Monday. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038c0dr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Monogamy and the Rules of Love b038c0fj (Listen) MON Does monogamy still have a place in a society where choice MON is everything? Jo Fidgen asks why people are still so wedded MON to the ideal, if not always the practice. Does true love MON really demand sexual fidelity and what happens when people MON choose to open up their relationships? MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03859mq (Listen) MON Kazakhstan's Living Gulags MON MON The Kazakh steppe was once home to the infamous Soviet MON forced labour camps which formed part of the Gulag. Today, MON the Gulag system is said to live on in Kazakhstan's jails MON where a growing prison population faces daily torture, MON humiliation and lawlessness. Despite its poor human rights MON record, many developed nations, including Britain, are MON rapidly strengthening relations with Kazakhstan. BBC Central MON Asia Correspondent Rayhan Demeytrie investigates why the MON Gulag violence persists and asks why the international MON community stays silent. MON Producer: Nina Robinson. MON MON 21:00 Bragg on the Braggs b0383vb0 (Listen) MON Melvyn Bragg looks back at the extraordinary achievements of MON two other famous Braggs, the father and son scientists MON William and Lawrence. In 1913 the Braggs discovered a method MON of investigating the structure of crystals using X-ray MON radiation. They soon proved the significance of this MON breakthrough by determining the internal structure of MON diamond. Two years later they shared a Nobel Prize for their MON work, which founded the discipline of X-ray crystallography. MON Melvyn Bragg, a distant cousin of William and Lawrence, MON tells the story of their groundbreaking work. He visits the MON laboratories in Cambridge and Leeds where the two Braggs MON made important discoveries, and the Royal Institution, where MON they lectured and conducted research. And he learns how the MON Braggs' technique of X-ray crystallography revolutionised MON chemistry and biology, from the determination of the MON structure of DNA to the design of new pharmaceutical drugs. MON MON Producer: Thomas Morris. MON MON 21:30 The Sins of Literature b038bxfd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03890s0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b038c0fl (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038c159 (Listen) MON Red or Dead, Episode 6 MON MON By David Peace. MON MON One hundred years ago on 2nd September 1913, in a small MON Scottish mining village in East Ayrshire, Bill Shankly was MON born. MON MON Shankly's passion was football. It was his job and it was MON his life, both as a player and then as a manager. He MON transformed the fortunes of Liverpool Football Club, turning MON the team into a world class side, and he has been MON immortalised as a hero. From the very beginning, he was as MON committed to the fans as they were to him. MON MON David Peace, acclaimed author of the 'Red Riding' series and MON 'The Damned United', now turns his attentions to Bill MON Shankly. 'Red or Dead' pulls Bill Shankly out of the MON football world and into the mainstream and tells us the MON story of the man, not just the manager. Peace describes MON Shankly as "not just a great football manager. Bill Shankly MON was one of the greatest men who ever lived." MON MON David Peace's astonishing book takes us into Bill Shankly's MON home and his heart, beyond Anfield. For Bill, his wife Ness MON had always been his security. There was only Ness and MON football, football and Ness. But now, his wife's sudden MON serious illness shakes him deeply. MON MON Read by Gary Lewis MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON MON Producer: Allegra McIlroy. MON MON 23:00 Summer Nights b038c3bn (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON MON Britain has become an elite sporting nation. The triumph of MON Team GB and ParalympicsGB at London 2012 has been followed MON by British winners of the Tour de France, Wimbledon, the US MON Open and a first Lions series win for 16 years. England are MON heading for a third straight Ashes win and we have the most MON commercially successful football league in the world. But MON some of us still have a problem with athletic excellence, be MON it through disliking competitive sport or preferring the MON amateur ethos. So why, Jane Garvey asks, do we still get MON sniffy about sport? MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 AUGUST 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03890t2 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b038hr2n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03890t4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03890t6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03890t8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03890tb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b038c5cj (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Dr Michael Ford. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b038c5cl (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xj7 (Listen) TUE Northern Wheatear TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Michaela Strachan presents the northern wheatear. With their TUE black masks, white bellies, apricot chests and grey backs, TUE male wheatears are colourful companions on a hill walk. The TUE birds you see in autumn may have come from as far as TUE Greenland or Arctic Canada. They pass through the British TUE Isles and twice a year many of them travel over 11,000 TUE kilometres between Africa and the Arctic. It's one of the TUE longest regular journeys made by any perching bird. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b038c5cn (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b038c5qj (Listen) TUE Russell Foster TUE TUE Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at TUE Oxford University, is obsessed with biological clocks. He TUE talks to Jim al-Khalili about how light controls our TUE wellbeing from jet lag to serious mental health problems. TUE Professor Foster explains how moved from being a poor TUE student at school to the scientist who discovered a new way TUE in which animals detect light. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b038c5ql (Listen) TUE Frank Gardner talks to Dr Stuart Butchart TUE TUE In 2004 , the BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner was TUE shot several times by terrorists while reporting in Saudi TUE Arabia, some of those bullets hit the core of his body and TUE damaged his spinal nerve which means that he can no longer TUE use his legs and is in a wheelchair for the rest of his TUE life. This was for him a catastrophic life changing injury. TUE But while he was in hospital he received an email from TUE someone who too had been shot in the back and said I've got TUE some advice and tips on how to cope .In this first of three TUE programmes for the series 'One to One' Frank Gardner TUE explores how one copes with a life changing injury and TUE begins by talking to Dr Stuart Butchart who gave Frank hope. TUE TUE Presenter : Frank Gardner TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b038jcc6 (Listen) TUE Operation Massacre, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Nigel Anthony. TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b038c7b5 (Listen) TUE Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038c7b7 (Listen) TUE The One About the Social Worker, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Martin Jameson TUE TUE 2/5 Liz has been offered a settlement by the Council, if TUE she'll sign a gagging order. TUE TUE Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 11:00 Raising Allosaurus: The Dream of Jurassic Park TUE b038c7b9 (Listen) TUE In the 20 years since the release of the film Jurassic Park, TUE DNA cloning technologies have advanced dramatically. TUE Professor Adam Hart asks whether we could and should start TUE bringing extinct animals back from the dead. TUE TUE The fossilised remains of dinosaurs are too degraded to hold TUE any viable DNA, so Jurassic Park is unlikely to be a TUE reality. But what about Pleistocene Park? Deep frozen TUE remains of Arctic animals like the woolly mammoth or the TUE Irish elk, have been shown to contain DNA - but is it in TUE good enough condition to rebuild the genome and attempt TUE cloning these animals which went extinct nearly 4000 years TUE ago? TUE TUE Some people think it could work. But should we even be TUE considering it? With so many plants and animals threatened TUE with extinction now, should we be wasting time and resources TUE on bringing back animals that didn't make the cut? TUE TUE Adam Hart asks experts in ancient DNA whether the code for TUE life could be resurrected in animals like the mammoth, the TUE passenger pigeon, the dodo, the marsupial tiger, or TUE thylacine? And he asks conservationists whether we should be TUE doing it. TUE TUE 11:30 Letting the Walls Speak b038c7bc (Listen) TUE 2013 is the 400th anniversary of the building of the city TUE walls in Londonderry. Constructed in 1613 by the City of TUE London and its wealthy guild companies to "plant" the TUE region, the Catholic population was displaced to outside the TUE walls and the Irish Derrie was given the prefix London. TUE TUE Today the walls mean different things to different people. TUE For one section of the community they are glorious reminders TUE of a proud heritage. To others, the walls represent a forced TUE displacement from their own land. TUE TUE Now the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and the poet Paul TUE Muldoon have been commissioned to write a cantata to mark TUE 400 years of the walls. Arts broadcaster Marie-Louise Muir, TUE who grew up in Derry, follows their journey. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b038c7bf (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03890td (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b038c7bh (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 A View Through a Lens b0150p92 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Funky Chickens TUE TUE Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in TUE isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe TUE filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the TUE uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the TUE fragility of life and the connections which unite society TUE and nature across the globe. TUE TUE 2/5 Funky Chickens: TUE Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison travels to Kansas, land of TUE the prairies, the wild west and, as John discovers, some TUE funky chickens. Under the cover of darkness, and after TUE checking for rattle snakes, John crawls into his hide and TUE waits. A strange sound, rather like that produced when you TUE blow across the top of a bottle, begins to fill the air. The TUE chickens are coming! Prairie chickens are a type of grouse, TUE short-legged and dumpy. Their bodies are striped pale yellow TUE brown and black, so they are well camouflaged in the long TUE grass. Male birds gather in groups called leks and compete TUE with one another to attract a female by engaging in an TUE elaborate display; a kind of dance. First, long feathers TUE rise up from the neck, revealing orange patches of skin on TUE either side of the throat. Combs of orange inflate above TUE their eyes. They drop their wings to the ground, shake their TUE heads and inflate their orange throat patches. And then the TUE birds begin to boom, and drum their feet. From his hide John TUE watches this bizarre and hilarious performance. And then a TUE bird flies up and lands on the roof of his hide, and begins TUE to drum his feet! Now John feels he is really part of the TUE crowd! TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b038c0fd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038c7bk (Listen) TUE Encounter TUE TUE In 1971, Yves Saint Laurent stripped naked for a TUE revolutionary photograph. TUE TUE In 2002, he retired from fashion, declaring that after a TUE lifetime of international fame, he'd learned that the TUE greatest encounter in life is with oneself. TUE TUE In 2013, Christopher Green took his pants off in Wembley to TUE recreate that famous shot, at the start of a very personal TUE encounter with fashion, fame, love, loss and legacy. TUE TUE Expect songs, laughs, some of your actual French, a sizeable TUE amount of nudity, a few tears, and the story of three TUE missing men. TUE TUE Written, narrated and composed by Christopher Green. TUE TUE In conversation with Tom Lewis Russell, Alicia Drake, Kerry TUE Taylor and Gabrielle Drake. TUE TUE Actor Playing "Christopher" ..... Sam Alexander TUE Actor Playing "Pierre" ..... Sam Dale TUE by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Anders Rye TUE TUE Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting TUE TUE Olivier-award winning entertainer Christopher Green is best TUE known in his multiple personas as Country and Western Icon TUE Tina C. (Tina C's Global Depression Tour), OAP Rap Artist TUE Ida Barr (Artificial Hip Hop), and as The Singing Hypnotist. TUE His many original projects for Radio 4 include Like An Angel TUE Passing Through My Room (about his meeting with Anni-Frid TUE Lyngstad, aka Frida from Abba), Generation Electric, The TUE Second Best Bed, and None of The Above. He's just completed TUE a year as The British Library's first artist in residence TUE and is currently on attachment to the National Theatre. TUE TUE Credits TUE Writer: Christopher Green TUE Narrator: Christopher Green TUE Composer: Christopher Green TUE Christopher: Sam Alexander TUE Pierre: Sam Dale TUE Interviewed Guest: Tom Lewis Russell TUE Interviewed Guest: Alicia Drake TUE Interviewed Guest: Kerry Taylor TUE Interviewed Guest: Gabrielle Drake TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b038c7bn (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined in the Making History studio by TUE archaeologist Professor Francis Pryor and Arthur MacGregor TUE the author of the much praised history of our relationship TUE with animals, "Animal Encounters". TUE TUE Tom talks to Professor Lisa Brady from BioseStateUniversity TUE in the USA to find out what we mean by environmental history TUE and why it seems to be more popular across the Atlantic than TUE it is in Europe. Professor Ian Rotherham takes us on a TUE journey into England's lost fens and Helen Castor is in the TUE wetlands of Somerset with Professor Ronald Hutton to hear TUE Making History listener Steve Pole's theories on why TUE religion and landscape made Bridgwater such a rebellious TUE town. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE Like us on Facebook TUE http://www.facebook.com/pages/Making-History-Radio-4/1494437 TUE 2242 TUE TUE Making History is produced by Nick Patrick and is a Pier TUE Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Philosopher's Arms b038c7bq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Moral Blame TUE TUE Pints and philosophical puzzles with Matthew Sweet. Each TUE week Matthew goes to the pub to discuss a knotty conundrum TUE with an audience and a panel of experts. Free will, TUE exploitation, sex, sexism, blame and shame are just some of TUE the topics to be mulled over in this series of The TUE Philosopher's Arms. TUE Tonight we look at historic wrongs. Can we blame people in TUE the past who held views that we now regard as abhorrent, but TUE which were then widely accepted? The programme features TUE philosopher Miranda Fricker. TUE TUE Producer: David Edmonds. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b038c7bs (Listen) TUE Language Games TUE TUE Chris Ledgard visits the International Linguistics Olympiad TUE to look at the language of puzzles. TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b038c7bv (Listen) TUE Series 31, Tanika Gupta on Rabindranath Tagore TUE TUE Playwright Tanika Gupta chooses as her Great Life, a man who TUE is a hero to Bengali speakers across the World, Rabindranath TUE Tagore. TUE TUE Born in 1861, to a wealthy family in Calcutta, Tagore would TUE be the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for TUE Literature, his work spanning every genre. He was also a TUE humanist, philanthropist, and thinker, whose friends TUE included Yeats and Gandhi. TUE TUE Tagore began writing in his boyhood, and his work reflects a TUE deep feeling for the landscape of Bengal. His plays, essays, TUE stories and poetry quickly found a ready audience in Bengali TUE speakers. And in 1913, when he won the Nobel Prize for TUE Literature for his poetry collection 'Gitanjali', or 'Song TUE Offerings', his reputation was established world-wide. TUE TUE Tagore's brand of humanism, his anti-imperial politics, and TUE his literature, took him around the World. It also convinced TUE him of the dangers of European aggression and the need for TUE Indian Independence. He died just six years before it was TUE achieved. TUE TUE Playwright Tanika Gupta joins Matthew Parris to share her TUE deep love of Tagore's work and her early experiences of TUE performing it. She is joined by Tagore's translator, Ketaki TUE Kushari Dyson, to discuss Tagore's vast legacy to Bengali TUE speakers and beyond. TUE The producer is Lizz Pearson. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b038c82c (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03890tg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b038c82f (Listen) TUE Series 2, Edinburgh Special TUE TUE Miles Jupp hosts the panel show that tests how well TUE panellists know those closest to them, in a special show TUE from the Edinburgh Fringe. TUE TUE Producer: Sam Michell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b038c82h (Listen) TUE Jennifer is concerned, and Rob is running late. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b038c8s2 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who reviews Lovelace, a new film about the TUE career of Linda Lovelace, starring Amanda Seyfried in the TUE title role. TUE TUE Producer Timothy Prosser. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038c7b7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Patently Absurd b038c8s4 (Listen) TUE The patent system in the USA is so distorted it's now more TUE lucrative for companies known as 'patent trolls' to sue TUE manufacturers rather than actually make anything. The TUE problem's so serious that President Obama has got involved TUE -- and British companies are targeted if they do business in TUE the US. Rory Cellan-Jones investigates and finds one of the TUE world's biggest trolls in his lair in Dallas. TUE TUE For centuries patents have helped stimulate innovation by TUE rewarding inventors. But in recent years millions of US TUE patents have gone to minor developments often in terms so TUE general they seem to cover whole technologies like TUE podcasting or wi-fi. TUE TUE Major corporations are amassing huge 'war-chests' of patents TUE to defend and sue each other. Around 250,000 patents affect TUE smartphones alone; such 'patent thickets' make it almost TUE impossible for new companies to compete without risking TUE ruinous lawsuits. TUE TUE But worst of all are 'trolls' - companies that buy up TUE patents simply to extract 'license fees' from businesses TUE that actually make products. Faced with defending a lawsuit TUE at a cost of at least $1 million, or settling for a smaller TUE license fee, most pay up even if they're not infringing any TUE patents. TUE TUE Last year the majority of US patent cases were filed by TUE 'troll' companies at an estimated cost to technology TUE businesses of $29 billion a year. But it's all legal and the TUE companies say they're simply monetising a 'property right' TUE and raising money for small inventors. TUE TUE Strangely many of these cases are filed in a small town in TUE rural Texas. Cellan-Jones reports from Marshall, once the TUE home of 'boogie-woogie' but now more famous for 'the rocket TUE docket' - patent cases that go to trial in a fraction of the TUE time they take elsewhere in the US. TUE TUE Producer: Mike Hally TUE A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b038c8s8 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Seven Ages of Science b038c8sb (Listen) TUE Age of Opportunity TUE TUE Lisa Jardine explores how the advent of mass manufacture in TUE the Midlands changed scientific endeavour from a gentlemanly TUE pursuit into a gritty, profitable, factory-based industry; TUE and helped to forge a new scientific discipline, chemistry. TUE TUE Many early industrialists in Britain were vigorously TUE interested in the material world. Josiah Wedgwood carried TUE out thousands of experiments to achieve his unique Portland TUE Blue: methodically changing the precise composition of the TUE clay and adding different chemical elements to create new TUE colours. He gave us fine bone china. He also gave us TUE systematic and relentless testing on an industrial scale and TUE the notion of quality control. TUE TUE Through patiently experimenting with different methods, TUE apparatus and techniques, James Keir worked out how to TUE mass-produce soap. His factory at Tipton turned soap making TUE from a craft into a science. It revolutionised hygiene, made TUE Keir's fortune and paved the way for modern industrial TUE chemistry. TUE TUE In this Age of Opportunity, as the demand for little TUE luxuries like soap and fine bone china grew, scientific TUE endeavour was no longer solely a gentlemanly pursuit. It was TUE a gritty, profitable, factory-based business. Science proved TUE itself to be hugely profitable. And, at the turn of the TUE century, Humphry Davy made it highly fashionable and TUE respectable. His dazzling chemical performances in London TUE were a sell- out. And, in 1833, Davy's friend, Samuel TUE Coleridge suggested that men who were neither literary men TUE nor philosophers, might be given the name, "scientist". TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b038c5qj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03890tj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b038c8sd (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038c8sg (Listen) TUE Red or Dead, Episode 7 TUE TUE By David Peace. TUE TUE Read by Gary Lewis TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Allegra McIlroy. TUE TUE 23:00 Summer Nights b038c8sj (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE TUE How important are the groups that we belong to and how free TUE are we to choose between them? Race, class, gender, TUE nationality and religion are all powerful labels - but how TUE important are they really? And in the age of all-consuming TUE social media, is deciding where we belong now something we TUE do on our own? Hardeep Singh Kohli asks his guests what TUE challenges our sense of identity in Britain today. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 AUGUST 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03890vc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b038jcc6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03890vf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03890vh (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03890vk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03890vm (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b038hf8c (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Dr Michael Ford. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b038hf8f (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xjw (Listen) WED White Stork WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Michaela Strachan presents the white stork. White Storks are WED annual visitors in small numbers to the UK, mainly in spring WED and summer when migrating birds overshoot their Continental WED nesting areas and wander around our countryside. They used WED to breed here, most famously documented on St Giles's WED cathedral in Edinburgh in 1415 and who knows, they may well WED breed here in the future. WED WED 06:00 Today b038hf8h (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b038hfdc (Listen) WED Baroness Newlove WED WED Libby Purves meets community reform campaigner Baroness WED Newlove. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b038kv9v (Listen) WED Operation Massacre, Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3 WED WED A police raid on a house in Buenos Aires has astounded the WED unsuspecting residents. But as they are bundled onto a truck WED most of them think they have nothing to fear. WED WED Little do they know that they are suspected of conspiring in WED a rebellion against the government. WED WED Read by Nigel Anthony WED Aridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b038hfdf (Listen) WED Azeri singer Fidan Hajiyeva: born in Baku, Azerbaijan and WED raised in Hackney, the 17 year old will be performing at the WED World Prom on 22nd August alongside her mentor Gochaq WED Askarov. Katie Waldegrave on her book The Poets' Daughters WED about Dora Wordsworth and Sara Coleridge. WED WED Producer: Louise Adamson WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038hffy (Listen) WED The One About the Social Worker, Episode 3 WED WED by Martin Jameson WED WED 3/5 When Tamsin presents her with an emergency, Liz tries to WED play it by the book. WED WED Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 11:00 The I.T. Girls b038hfkx (Listen) WED From the 1950s to the mid-1970s in Britain, many of the WED pioneers of early computing were women. This was a highly WED skilled new world of work providing opportunities that were WED often in sharp contrast to the established norms of post-war WED British life, with new technology helping drive social WED change. WED WED Mary Coombs was the first woman to program the world's first WED commercially available business computer: the Lyons LEO. She WED was tells us what it was like to work on this machine - WED which was the size of a room. WED WED In 1962 Dame Stephanie Shirley founded a programming WED company, Freelance Programmers, which only employed women. WED She became a very successful figure in the industry. WED WED Ann Moffat started her career at Kodak in 1959. She WED programmed the black box flight recorders for Concorde and WED wrote missile programmes for Polaris. WED WED The Science Museum's Keeper of Technologies and Engineering, WED Dr Tilly Blyth, explains the significance of her museum's WED collection of machines that changed these women's lives. WED WED Martha Lane Fox presents the programme. In 1998 she WED co-founded Lastminute.com, and become one of the pioneers of WED the dot com era. WED WED Producer: Oliver Woods. WED WED 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b038hfpt (Listen) WED News of Mr Gregory WED WED Part 8 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, WED Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, WED and A Case for Paul Temple. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory WED Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the WED mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. WED WED Episode 8: News of Mr Gregory WED WED Steve goes in search of a trumpeter at the Hammersford WED Palais. WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in WED Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most WED successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his WED day. WED WED Credits WED Paul Temple: Crawford Logan WED Steve: Gerda Stevenson WED Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas WED Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie WED Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson WED Edward Day: Nick Underwood WED Miss Marcia: Eliza Langland WED Charlie: Greg Powrie WED Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood WED Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser WED Writer: Francis Durbridge WED Producer: Patrick Rayner WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b038hfr2 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Stuart Flinders. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b038hfr4 (Listen) WED The Defiance of Science WED WED Face the Facts investigates a commonly used medicine, WED licensed for use since the 1980s, that may have caused WED thousands of unnecessary deaths in UK hospitals until its WED suspension 2 months ago. It's one of the most common sights WED in a hospital - a drip hanging from a stand by a patient's WED bed. We hear from doctors who have been calling for a ban on WED one type of starch-based drip since the late nineties and WED how their concerns were drowned out by supporters of the WED drug including a German doctor, who, we now know, falsified WED scientific research to support the use of the drug. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03890vp (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b038hftl (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 A View Through a Lens b0151pyd (Listen) WED Series 3, Patience WED WED Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in WED isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe WED filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the WED uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the WED fragility of life and the connections which unite society WED and nature across the globe. WED WED 3/5 Patience. Its summer and wildlife cameraman John WED Aitchison travelled to Svalbard as part of a team making the WED BBC series Frozen Planet to film polar bears hunting for WED food. In summer, when there is no ice from which to hunt, WED the polar bears on land resort to hunting sea birds. This is WED what John has come here to film. But it proves far harder WED than he expects, as the bears are in no hurry to hunt, and WED John is left watching and waiting for a bear which does WED little else but sleep, day after day after day. Whilst he WED waits, John's attention turns to other things; like the WED sounds of the kittiwakes, the sounds of gas escaping from WED the ice and the dives and breaths of white beluga whales in WED a nearby fjord. As he listens, watches and waits, John WED reflects on what it means to be patient. WED WED Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b038c82h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038hg46 (Listen) WED When Greed Becomes Hunger, The Pit WED WED By D.J. Britton WED WED The first in a two part drama about global food security. WED WED British trader Phil Ward has just moved to the US with his WED wife Sian to start work at the Chicago Board of Trade. When WED the grain market is thrown into turmoil, Phil's boss - Joel WED Bosco - calls him in to make sense of the numbers. Phil WED uncovers a global trend in food scarcity that represents a WED huge financial opportunity for the company. But what if the WED market fails? WED WED World food security is a hot topic. Internationally, after WED record growth, global wheat exports have fallen by 10 per WED cent in the last year. Prices are rising inexorably. WED According to Oxfam, 800 million people are currently WED malnourished - a greater figure than ever before. As cereal WED production falls, world population numbers continue to rise, WED and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation predicts food WED demand will double by 2030. Meanwhile world food security WED remains left to the volatility of the global free market. WED WED When Greed Becomes Hunger asks whether the world can afford WED to trust the free market with its food supply. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Phil: Matthew Gravelle WED Sian: Carys Eleri WED Joel: Stuart Milligan WED Beth: Zoe Tapper WED Donnie: Ronan Summers WED Carfi: Amaka Okafor WED Writer: DJ Britton WED Director: James Robinson WED WED 15:00 How You Pay for the City b038bbv9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] WED WED 15:30 Seven Ages of Science b038c8sb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b038hg73 (Listen) WED Michel Foucault WED WED Michel Foucault - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme WED on the life and work of the iconoclastic French philosopher WED and theorist. He's joined by Professor Stephen Shapiro, WED Professor Vikki Bell and Professor Lois McNay. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b038hg75 (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 b038hgh9 (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03890vr (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b038hghc (Listen) WED Series 5, Ken Livingstone WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. WED WED For the first in the new series, comedian Rufus Hound is WED joined by former London Mayor Ken Livingstone. Ken reads WED from his 1966 diary, when he hitched across the Sahara, WED adopted an incontinent ostrich called Horace, and ate a WED venomous snake. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b038hghf (Listen) WED It's make-your-mind-up time for Jolene, and Martyn is like a WED dog with a bone. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b038hghh (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Vince WED Gilligan, creator of the acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad. WED WED Producer Timothy Prosser. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038hffy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Four Thought b038hghk (Listen) WED Best of Four Thought, Original Thinkers WED WED David Baddiel presents the best of the series which mixes WED new ideas and personal stories. In this edition we meet WED three speakers who challenge received wisdom. WED WED Georgie Fienberg argues that charities should be putting WED themselves out of business. Matthew Syed, the journalist and WED former English table tennis international, says we have WED over-stated the importance of talent in relation to effort. WED Ben Dyson, from the campaign group Positive Money, wants the WED entire global financial system to change the way it does WED business. WED WED Producer: Arlene Gregorius. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b038hghm (Listen) WED Series 4, Yasmin Hai WED WED Yasmin Hai says it's not Western foreign policy that is WED radicalising British Muslims but more pedestrian WED psychological factors closer to home. Four Thought is a WED series of talks which combine new ideas and personal WED stories. Speakers explain their thinking on the trends and WED ideas in culture and society in front of a live audience. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Finding a Way: The Future of Navigation b038yq98 (Listen) WED We all rely on GPS - the Global Positioning System network WED of satellites - whether we want to or not. WED WED From shipping to taxis to mobile phones, the goods we WED consume and the technology with which we run our lives WED depend upon a low-power, weak and vulnerable signal beamed WED from a few tonnes of electronics orbiting above our heads. WED WED This dependence is a new Achilles' heel for the world's WED financial, commercial and military establishments. From WED North Korea's concerted disruption of the South's maritime WED and airborne fleet, to white van drivers' evading the boss's WED scrutiny over lunch, this signal is easy to jam, with WED disastrous consequences. WED WED Some people are looking at alternatives. Quentin Cooper WED meets the scientists and engineers developing alternative, WED resilient, navigation systems. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b038hfdc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03890vt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b038hgqf (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038hgqq (Listen) WED Red or Dead, Episode 8 WED WED By David Peace. WED WED Read by Gary Lewis WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Producer: Allegra McIlroy. WED WED 23:00 Summer Nights b038hgr0 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED WED They caused this' was the common cry against the bankers and WED the politicians who presided over the crisis of 2008. So WED have we let our financial and political elites off the hook? WED And can we trust those who apparently let us down with our WED economy again. Evan Davis asks who the elite are, how they WED operate and what, if anything, should be done to check the WED behaviour of those who continue to enjoy the greatest share WED of wealth and power in society. WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 AUGUST 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03890zr (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b038kv9v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03890zt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03890zw (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03890zy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0389100 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b038hhf6 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Dr Michael Ford. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b038hhfk (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xkr (Listen) THU Honey Buzzard THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Michaela Strachan presents the honey buzzard. The Honey THU Buzzard is more closely related to the Kite than it is to THU our common Buzzard. It gets its name for its fondness, not THU for honey, but for the grubs of bees and wasps. The bird THU locates their nests by watching where the insects go from a THU branch. It then digs out the honeycomb with its powerful THU feet and breaks into the cells. THU THU 06:00 Today b038hhs5 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee b038hhs7 (Listen) THU Series 9, Genetic Testing in Children THU THU Alan is in his late thirties when he is diagnosed with lung THU cancer. A genetic test reveals that he has Li Fraumeni THU Syndrome, a fault in a gene which predisposes him to cancer. THU THU Alan starts chemotherapy but the treatment takes its toll. THU He and his wife Rachel try to resume family life - they have THU three children and Rachel is pregnant. But over the coming THU months Alan's health deteriorates further and eventually THU Alan dies. THU THU Soon after his death, Rachel gives birth to their baby. Over THU the next eighteen months she's increasingly unnerved by the THU pattern that's now emerging in Alan's extended family. Two THU of his siblings have died from cancer and there are tumours THU developing in other siblings, and in some of their children. THU Rachel is extremely worried that some of her own children, THU aged 2 to 12 years, may also carry the genetic fault. THU THU Rachel visits a genetics service and asks them to test her THU four children for Li Fraumeni Syndrome. The genetic THU counsellor explains that children are not usually tested for THU this condition as there is little benefit in knowing - while THU there's a high risk of cancers developing in affected THU children, there is no reliable way of detecting these THU cancers early. Rachel remains committed - she wants to know THU if any of her children carry the faulty gene. THU THU Should the genetic team allow her to have her children THU tested? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b038c0dm (Listen) THU Operation Massacre, Episode 4 THU THU The men arrested from a house in Buenos Aires have been THU questioned by police and then put on a truck, understanding THU that they are being transferred to La Plata. THU THU However, the truck doesn't drive to La Plata but to a THU deserted wasteland where the men are forced out onto the THU road at gun point. And they still have no idea what is THU happening to them or why. THU THU Read by Nigel Anthony THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b038hj3p (Listen) THU Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038hj3r (Listen) THU The One About the Social Worker, Episode 4 THU THU by Martin Jameson THU THU 4/5 Liz changes her mind - and her appearance. THU THU Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b038hj3t (Listen) THU Turkey's New Opposition THU THU Change is in the air in Turkey following anti-government THU protests centred on a park in Istanbul - but where will it THU end? Emre Azizlerli of the BBC Turkish Service explores the THU strange new alliances forged in Turkey's anti-government THU protests, and asks if this diverse movement can hold THU together. He meets the anti-capitalist Islamists who have THU made common cause with environmentalists and secularists as THU well as gay and lesbian groups. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip THU Erdogan refers to the protesters as "piteous rodents". The THU government has reacted by clamping down and sending in the THU riot police. Can the very different groups which oppose THU Erdogan really make common cause? THU THU Producer: Mark Savage. THU THU 11:30 The Gambaccini Years b038hj7d (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU (3/4) THU Paul Gambaccini's series reflecting on his 40 years as one THU of Britain's most respected broadcasters looks at the 1980s, THU and the campaign to make the public aware of the threat THU posed by AIDS. THU THU Paul is joined by the Chief Executive of the Terence Higgins THU Trust, Sir Nick Partridge, who recalls the work they did THU together to raise funds for AIDS related causes. THU THU Paul also reminisces about his favourite moments from the THU Radio 4 show Kaleidoscope, with fellow presenter Tim Marlow; THU and about his time as a broadcaster at Classic FM, with THU former colleague Nick Bailey. THU THU Producer: Paul Bajoria. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b038hjd9 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Stuart Flinders. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0389102 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b038hjdc (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 A View Through a Lens b0151t3w (Listen) THU Series 3, Fur Seals THU THU Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in THU isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe THU filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the THU uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the THU fragility of life and the connections which unite society THU and nature across the globe. THU THU 4/5 Fur Seals. Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison travelled THU with a team filming the BBC series Frozen Planet to Bird THU Island, a small island at the western tip of South Georgia THU in the South Atlantic to film fur seals giving birth. But THU fur seals are extremely aggressive seals and trying to walk, THU let alone film, amongst them is both difficult and THU frightening. A colleague of John's makes him a metal barrel THU which acts as protective shield from which he can film. From THU inside this hide, John looks out across a colony of THU thousands of fur seals; the males engage in fierce and THU bloody fights, whilst the females run the gauntlet from the THU beach to their natal site to give birth. John finds it hard THU to feel empathy with animals which seem intent on doing him THU harm, but when amidst the noise and aggression of the THU battlefield, something beautiful and tender happens, John THU soon changes his mind. THU THU Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b038hghf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038hk0k (Listen) THU When Greed Becomes Hunger, The Pen THU THU The second in a two part drama about global food security. THU THU It's three years after the events of part one and a new THU world order is dominated by global food protectionism, an THU unpredictable climate and, most of all, hunger. THU THU Phil and Sian have used the money they made to buy a farm in THU mid-Wales. But as an international enquiry is launched into THU the causes of the crash, the couple's country idyll provides THU little shelter from an angry world, hungry for answers. THU THU World food security is a hot topic. Internationally, after THU record growth, global wheat exports have fallen by 10 per THU cent (2012/13 figs). Prices are rising inexorably. According THU to Oxfam, 800 million people are currently malnourished - a THU greater figure than ever before. As cereal production falls, THU world population numbers continue to rise, and the UN Food THU and Agriculture Organisation predicts food demand will THU double by 2030. Meanwhile world food security remains left THU to the volatility of the global free market. THU THU When Greed Becomes Hunger asks whether the world can afford THU to trust the free market with its food supply. THU THU Directed by James Robinson THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU THU Credits THU Phil: Matthew Gravelle THU Sian: Carys Eleri THU Joel: Stuart Milligan THU Sunita: Amita Dhiri THU James: Ben Crowe THU Huw: Nathan Sussex THU Heledd: Carla Turner THU Writer: DJ Britton THU Director: James Robinson THU THU 15:00 Open Country b038hk3d (Listen) THU Skiffs on Loch Broom THU THU The skiff - a four-person, coxed rowing boat - was THU traditionally a common sight in the seas off Scotland's THU coastal communities. Changes in the populations of these THU towns and villages, many losing their traditional links with THU the sea altogether, has meant, though, that the racing of THU skiffs was becoming less common - until, that is, the advent THU of the self-build kit skiff. THU THU Named the St. Ayles skiff (in honour of the Scottish THU Fisheries Museum, where the idea was born and which is built THU on the site of St. Ayles Chapel in Anstruther), the huge THU popularity of the kit skiff has taken the coastal rowing THU world by surprise. Communities up and down the coastline THU have banded together to buy, build and then share their own THU skiff, with some villages buying more than one and women THU particularly well-represented in the sport. THU THU Helen Mark visits Ullapool for a trip out on Loch Broom in THU the Ulla with the village's over-forty women's crew, THU enjoying the calm before attending the opening of the THU inaugural St. Ayles Skiff World Championships. Crews from THU around the world, linked only by the fact that they have all THU bought and built their own St. Ayles skiff, have come THU together for a week's racing and a celebration of coastal THU rowing. All agree that the skiff has brought unexpected THU bonuses to their communities, uniting people in fundraising, THU in boatbuilding and then, finally, in getting out onto the THU water together. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b038bhzk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b038bpn6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b038hk3g (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b038hk5t (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b038hk5w (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0389104 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b01nkt53 (Listen) THU Series 3, Easy Tiger; Possession THU THU The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his THU wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience THU readings. This week the perils of learning a foreign THU language by audio tape in "Easy Tiger" and when crossing the THU line in property desire in "Possession". THU THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b038hkjq (Listen) THU Ruth is sympathetic, and Helen's weaving a tangled web. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b038hkjs (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who talks to Simon Bird and Jonny Sweet, THU who with Joe Thomas are the creators and stars of Chickens, THU a TV sit-com about men avoiding combat in the First World THU War. THU THU Producer Olivia Skinner. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038hj3r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b038hkl5 (Listen) THU Gibraltar THU THU Phil Kemp travels to Gibraltar to investigate what's really THU happening on The Rock. THU THU 20:30 In Business b038hkl7 (Listen) THU Design Thinking THU THU There's a certain magic when a product you've bought just THU simply works, when a company's customer service satisfies THU instead of frustrates, or when a website gives you exactly THU the right information you need, exactly when you need it. THU But these seemingly serendipitous moments might actually be THU the result of exact planning and customer research. The THU technical term is 'design thinking' and with the help of THU designers eager to break out of the lab and into the real THU world, it's a movement that's catching on in all sorts of THU unlikely places. THU This week Peter Day talks to the people behind an THU award-winning government website, agencies that are creating THU whole companies from scratch, and finds out about other ways THU that innovative designers are intruding into the real world THU like never before. THU Producer: Mike Wendling. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b038hk5t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Zeitgeisters b0366wms (Listen) THU YouTube THU THU As part of Radio 4's Year of Culture initiative, the BBC THU Arts Editor Will Gompertz meets the cultural entrepreneurs THU who are shaping our lives and defining the very spirit of THU our age. THU THU These are not Turner Prize winners or the recipients of THU grants from the Arts Council or the Lottery Fund. These are THU the people behind the scenes, pulling the strings and THU plotting a path of consumer-driven success. They are the THU designers of the latest 'must have' piece of technology or THU clothing, the brains behind an artist's development, and the THU tastemakers that know what will work at the box office and THU what will sell on the high street. Their impact goes beyond THU mere commerce, it shapes contemporary culture. They are the THU Zeitgeisters and it's about time we met them. THU THU Programme 3. YouTube - For a platform that was launched in THU 2005 as a means of sharing personal videos on the internet THU (the very first YouTube video was called 'Me At The Zoo' and THU was uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim), it has become a THU major player in how we consume video content and THU increasingly in how we make it. Today 100 hours of video are THU uploaded onto YouTube every minute... six billion hours of THU video are watched every month. And by the time you finish THU reading this description, those figures may already be out THU of date. THU THU The BBC Arts Editor, Will Gompertz, in searching for the THU next generation of cultural Zeitgeisters, meets the people THU who are moving YouTube up to the next level: 'YouTubers' THU like Benjamin Cook, who posts regular episodes of 'Becoming THU YouTube' on his channel Nine Brass Monkeys; Andy Taylor, THU who's 'Little Dot Studios' aims to bridge the gap between THU television and YouTube; and Ben McOwen Wilson who is THU Director of Content Partnerships for YouTube in Europe. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 21:58 Weather b0389106 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b038hky7 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038hky9 (Listen) THU Red or Dead, Episode 9 THU THU By David Peace. THU THU Now, in retirement, and missing his involvement at the club THU that was such a central part of his life, Bill remains THU committed to the Liverpool community. Bill Shankly goes to THU visit an under-16s player at the children's hospital who has THU been told his injury could mean he will never play football THU again. THU THU Read by Gary Lewis THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Producer: Allegra McIlroy. THU THU 23:00 Summer Nights b038hkyc (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU THU Just how attached are we to our privacy? We're often told THU that social media is eroding our private lives, but many of THU us are happy to share our lives online, from photos to THU personal confessions. Today we are unwilling to let the law THU stop short of our front doors and the abuse that occurs in THU private homes is now open to scrutiny. Mariella Frostrup THU explores how we have set the boundaries between intimate and THU public spaces. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 AUGUST 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0389116 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b038c0dm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0389118 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038911b (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038911d (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b038911g (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b038hr3p (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Dr Michael Ford. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b038hr3r (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Emma Campbell, and Presented by Sybil Ruscoe. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xmn (Listen) FRI Common Tern FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Michaela Strachan presents the common tern. The Common Tern FRI is the most widespread of our breeding terns and is very FRI graceful. It has long slender wings and a deeply forked tail FRI with the outer feathers extended into long streamers. These FRI features give the bird its other name, sea swallow, by which FRI terns are often called. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b038hr4d (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b038bmll (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b038kqlw (Listen) FRI Operation Massacre, Episode 5 FRI FRI Seven of the condemned men arrested in a house in Buenos FRI Aires have escaped a botched execution. FRI FRI Seriously injured, Livraga has been found wandering down a FRI road and rushed to a clinic by an unsuspecting policeman. FRI Here the nurses bravely try to prevent further harm FRI befalling him. FRI FRI Read by Nigel Anthony FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b038hr4l (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b038jg0w (Listen) FRI The One About the Social Worker, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Martin Jameson FRI FRI 5/5 Liz makes a full confession. But it's harder than she FRI expected. FRI FRI Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI 11:00 The Fleadh Goes North b038jg0y (Listen) FRI In August 2013 Londonderry hosts the all-Ireland Fleadh FRI Cheoil. The ten day spectacle, which combines performance FRI with competition, is the biggest traditional music festival FRI in the world and is the embodiment of Irish cultural FRI identity. FRI FRI This is the first time the event has ever been held north of FRI the Irish border - in the UK. FRI FRI Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected from all over FRI the world and this is likely to be one of the most ambitious FRI public events in Northern Ireland's history. It also takes FRI place during the Derry~Londonderry UK City of Culture year. FRI FRI But the 2013 all-Ireland Fleadh Cheoil did not have an easy FRI birth. Initially the Ulster Council of organisers, Comhaltas FRI Ceoltóiri Éireann, refused to back the plan to hold the FRI event in Northern Ireland. Executive members said they would FRI not be able to support the bid due to the potential threat FRI posed by dissidents. There was also criticism from some FRI quarters about an Irish cultural event being held FRI effectively under the auspices of the "UK" City of Culture. FRI But eventually the event was given the green light. FRI FRI Peter Curran follows the twists and turns of bringing the FRI Fleadh Cheoil north. FRI FRI 11:30 With Nobbs On b01jggl4 (Listen) FRI The Fall and Reprise of Reggie Perrin FRI FRI With Nobbs On sees David Nobbs, the comic genius behind FRI Reggie Perrin, The Two Ronnies, Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howerd FRI and Radio 4's The Maltby Collection, presenting a three-part FRI series of entertaining, joke-laden, insider observations on FRI his comedy career to a studio audience along with guest FRI readings, archive material and unpredictable delights. FRI FRI David Nobbs describes life after he creates one of the most FRI memorable of British characters, Reginald Iolanthe Perrin FRI and how Reggie keeps on rising. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Nobbs FRI Featuring Martin Trenaman and Mia Soteriou FRI FRI Produced by Andrew McGibbon FRI A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b038jk3d (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b038911j (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b038jk3g (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 A View Through a Lens b0151xst (Listen) FRI Series 3, Shearwater Hurricane FRI FRI Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in FRI isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe FRI filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the FRI uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the FRI fragility of life and the connections which unite society FRI and nature across the globe. FRI FRI 5/5 Shearwater Hurricane. Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison FRI travelled with a team filming the BBC series Frozen Planet FRI to the Aleutian islands, a chain of islands which stretches FRI more than a thousand miles in the far west of Alaska. The FRI Aleutians are famous for their strong fickle tides, for FRI their fog and for their storms. The currents rushing between FRI the islands pump nutrients between the Pacific and Bering FRI Sea and where there are nutrients, there are plankton. FRI Plankton are food for krill, and krill are food for Humpback FRI whales. But its not only whales that gather here, so too do FRI herring, and the herring attract birds; Short-tailed FRI shearwaters which fly thousands of miles here from the south FRI of Australia to feed on the herring. These waters are FRI transformed into the scene of an extraordinary banquet; and FRI one of Nature's greatest feeding spectacles. FRI FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b038hkjq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b038jk3j (Listen) FRI Red and Blue, Sacrifice FRI FRI The return of Philip Palmer's series following wargame FRI exercise writer Bradley Shoreham. Shoreham's latest training FRI scenario places Yorkshire at the centre of a global pandemic FRI alert. Its credibility rests on the successful recruitment FRI of the formidable Dr. Hoffman. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift FRI FRI A second series of Red and Blue, Philip Palmer's drama FRI series focusing on the work of Lieutenant Colonel Bradley FRI Shoreham (Tim Woodward). After leaving the British Army, FRI Shoreham became a Consultant Subject Matter Expert. He FRI spends his working life creating war games for training FRI purposes. Fictional they may be but the higher the level of FRI authenticity the greater their value to the participants. FRI And when governments and major corporations are paying for FRI training they expect a high return for their money. FRI FRI The other episodes: FRI FRI In 'Ransomware', he's been hired by a City hedge fund to FRI test its cyber-security in a planned exercise. FRI FRI In 'Shadow', Shoreham finds himself on an oil rig in the FRI North Sea, testing the safety protocols and the rig's FRI security. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Philip Palmer FRI Bradley Shoreham: Tim Woodward FRI Alicia Hoffman: Harriet Walter FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Producer: Toby Swift FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b038jk71 (Listen) FRI Norfolk FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs this week's episode of Gardeners' FRI Question Time in Norfolk. Joining him to tackle the FRI audience's gardening concerns are panellists Bob Flowerdew, FRI Matthew Wilson and Chris Beardshaw. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b038jkr9 (Listen) FRI Comic Fringes, The Understudy FRI FRI Story series featuring new writing by leading comedians, FRI recorded live in front of an audience at this year's FRI Edinburgh Festival Fringe. FRI FRI Crammed into her tiny dressing room, an actress looks back FRI on the highs and lows - mainly lows - of her life and FRI career. A poignant and funny monologue written and performed FRI by Jenny Éclair. FRI FRI Completing the line-up, and coming up over the next two FRI Sundays, will be witty tales by award-winning Irish comic FRI Aisling Bea and Scottish master of droll Sanjeev Kohli. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b038jkrc (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI Credits FRI Producer: Philip Sellars FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b038jktq (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio FRI justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles FRI you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the FRI top. FRI FRI We will also be digging down into the mystery of the FRI programme makers world. Getting an idea of why things turn FRI out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and FRI offer suggestions on the way things are done. FRI FRI So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme FRI anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something FRI could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've FRI heard something brilliant, tell us. FRI FRI We are also interested in your general views about how FRI broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. FRI You can contact us about everything from programme FRI scheduling to management pay. FRI FRI So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI Feedback is a Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b038jkts (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038911l (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b038jkx6 (Listen) FRI Where Did All the Money Go? FRI FRI Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big FRI contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. FRI Regular panellists Nick Doody, Andy Zaltzman and Kate FRI O'Sullivan are joined this week by Gillian Tett, of the FRI Financial Times and the financial journalist Max Keiser. FRI FRI Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of FRI things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then FRI will people laugh at the truth. This deconstructed "quiz" FRI has only one question each week, because that question is so FRI big, there's no time for anything else: expect a mix of FRI stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and FRI incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who FRI really know what they're talking about. FRI FRI This week's question: Where Did All The Money Go? FRI FRI Presenter: Rory Bremner FRI Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling FRI A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b038jkx8 (Listen) FRI Lynda sees herself as the power behind the throne, and FRI Kathy's trying to fight back. FRI FRI Credits FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Helen Monks FRI Tony Archer: Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Alan Franks: John Telfer FRI Rob Titchner: Timothy Watson FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b038jl14 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Ellie Bury. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b038jg0w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b038jl16 (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents political debate and discussion from FRI Broadcasting House, London with scientist Mark Miadownik, FRI Broadcaster and blogger Iain Dale and NFU president Peter FRI Kendall. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b038jl18 (Listen) FRI Of the People, by the People FRI FRI Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature FRI and limits of democracy. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b01hw3zk (Listen) FRI Kind Hearts and Coronets - Like Father, Like Daughter FRI FRI Natalie Walter is pursuing a title and Alistair McGowan FRI plays the seven members of a family standing in her way in a FRI sequel to the famous Edwardian comedy by Roy Horniman. FRI FRI The action of this new radio sequel to a classic comedy FRI takes place some years after the death of the 10th Earl of FRI Chalfont, a man who has systematically murdered his family FRI in order to inherit his title. The twentieth century rolls FRI on and even against a backdrop of international conflict and FRI revolution,an Earldom is still not to be sniffed at FRI apparently. It is rather to be fought for by fair means and FRI foul. There are at least eight claimants to the Chalfont FRI title, all of them ruthless. The Gascoyne family is a big FRI one, its sense of entitlement enormous, its appetite for FRI violence impressive and the family resemblance at times FRI uncanny. A fresh modern take on a great comic plot, this FRI Saturday Play draws both on the Edwardian novel 'Israel FRI Rank' by Roy Horniman for inspiration. David Spicer's FRI entirely new version of this brilliantly simple story has FRI something to offer both those who know the original and FRI those who come to it for the first time. FRI FRI Written by David Spicer FRI FRI Producer: Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI The Gascoyne Family: Alistair McGowan FRI Unity: Natalie Walter FRI Dolly: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Tour Guide: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Lily: Sally Orrock FRI Mr Morfill: Simon Greenall FRI Vicar: David Holt FRI Prosecuting Counsel: David Holt FRI Inspector Stirling: Steve Hodson FRI Prison Governor: Steve Hodson FRI Foreman of the Jury: Jason Devoy FRI Writer: David Spicer FRI Producer: Frank Stirling FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b038911n (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b038jl6h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b038jl6k (Listen) FRI Red or Dead, Episode 10 FRI FRI By David Peace. FRI FRI Read by Gary Lewis FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 23:00 Summer Nights b038jl6m (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI FRI What lies behind our urge to fill our days with activity, FRI noise and excitement? We seem to flee from boredom: from FRI parents who constantly seek to keep their children occupied FRI to TV executives who over-stimulate their audiences so they FRI don't switch channels. So why do we stay busy rather than FRI spend more time alone with our thoughts? Giles Fraser FRI wonders why we're so scared of being bored. FRI
16 August, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 17/08/2013 - 23/08/2013
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