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SAT SATURDAY 04 JULY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0606k29 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b06172qn (Listen) SAT Queen of the Desert, Episode 5 SAT SAT The story of Gertrude Bell and her crucial role in the SAT foundation of the state of Iraq. SAT SAT With the new King, Faisal, safely installed, Gertrude's SAT energies turned to the establishment of a museum in Baghdad SAT to house the extraordinary collection of artefacts that SAT chronicled Iraq's ancient history. SAT SAT First published in 2006, Queen of the Desert by Georgina SAT Howell has been reissued - partly to coincide with the SAT Werner Herzog film of the same title, but also to provide SAT the long view on the troubled history of a remarkable SAT country. SAT SAT Using letters written by Gertrude Bell throughout the SAT period, the book tells the story of an extraordinarily SAT talented and determined woman who has often been SAT overshadowed by her more famous friend, T.E. Lawrence. SAT SAT Read by Sylvestra le Touzel and Deborah Findlay (the SAT letters) SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Sylvestra Le Touzel SAT Reader: Deborah Findlay SAT Author: Georgina Howell SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0606k2c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0606k2f (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0606k2h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0606k2k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b060bxr3 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie SAT Griffiths. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b060q9b6 (Listen) SAT 'I realised the crisis was coming for me.' A Greek woman SAT talks to iPM about the financial crisis in her country and SAT the unexpected events which brought her to the UK. Presented SAT by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0606k2m (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0606k2p (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b060bf65 (Listen) SAT The Lengthsman with Antony Gormley SAT SAT The Landmark Trust exists to save endangered important SAT buildings and to enable people to inhabit them. For their SAT 50th anniversary they invited one of our most celebrated SAT artists Sir Antony Gormley to create a sculpture at 5 iconic SAT locations across the country. The centre point of these 5 SAT pieces is The Lengthsmans Cottage in Lowsonford which sits SAT on the side of the Stratford-Upon-Avon canal in SAT Warwickshire. Each work of art has been composed in direct SAT response to the landscape which surrounds them and here the SAT figure perches on the very edge of the lock gazing down into SAT the depths of the rushing water as the calm yet industrious SAT life of the canal unfolds below. SAT SAT Helen Mark meets Sir Antony Gormley as he returns to the SAT site for a final inspection and he explains how for him this SAT figure represents our need to reconnect with our industrial SAT heritage, man's essential drive to make things. As the SAT programme unfolds we hear more about the secret life of the SAT canal, the people who keep it running and the wildlife that SAT live along it. Perhaps an unlikely spot to find the work of SAT such an influential artist, Helen discovers that the canal SAT in fact provides a perfect gallery as those who use it can SAT view and react to the figure as they float by. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b060q9b8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Flowers SAT SAT The vast majority of cut flowers sold in the UK are SAT imported. It's estimated than only seven per cent are grown SAT here in the UK, but many British flower producers are SAT determined to change that. For Farming Today This Week, SAT Charlotte Smith visits the Hampton Court Flower Show to talk SAT to those who grow, market, and sell flowers. It's an SAT industry which the government estimates is worth £10 billion SAT pounds to the UK economy. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0606k2r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b060q9bb (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b060q9jt (Listen) SAT Sally Phillips SAT SAT Writer and actress Sally Phillips first appeared regularly SAT on our screens in female comedy series Smack the Pony. Roles SAT in Alan Partridge and Bridget Jones soon followed and since SAT then she's carved out a niche as one of the UK's top comedy SAT actors - appearing in Rescue Me, Parents, Skins and Jam and SAT Jerusalem in the UK and Green Wing, Veep and Parents across SAT the pond. On Radio 4 she's Claire in the Community, she's SAT popularised the phrase "bear with..." as posh girl Tilly in SAT TV sitcom Miranda and wrote film The Decoy Bride starring SAT David Tennant. She joins us fresh from wrapping on Austen/ SAT Zombie mash up: 'Pride, Prejudice and Zombies'. SAT SAT Colin Furze lives in Stamford, Lincolnshire where he was SAT born. A former plumber, he now works as an inventor creating SAT weird and wonderful inventions such as a flamethrower SAT scooter and the world's fastest mobility scooter, for which SAT he set a new world record. SAT SAT Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich met twelve years ago in an SAT Italian restaurant in Israel. They moved to the UK and SAT worked at Oxo Tower, J Sheekey and Ottolenghi, before SAT setting up their own restaurant, Honey & Co, serving their SAT version of middle eastern food. SAT SAT Toby Jones is the author of three novels and three works of SAT non fiction including 'The Dark Heart of Italy'. Six years SAT ago he and his wife decided to start an experiment in SAT communal living in Somerset. They bought a house in Windsor SAT Hill Wood, and set about finding guests to create what has SAT become a successful and well known refuge for those needing SAT respite from their ordinary lives. SAT SAT Ex Jackson 5 member and guitarist Tito Jackson chooses his SAT inheritance tracks. He inherited SAT Papa's Got a Brand New Bag by James Brown and would pass on SAT Thank You by Sly & The Family Stone. SAT SAT Two listeners who were caught up in the 7/7 bombings in SAT London in 2005 say special thank yous to two guardian SAT angels. SAT SAT And Charles Collingwood aka Brian from The Archers tells us SAT about his Saturday passion for cricket. SAT SAT Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich's The Baking Book SAT and SAT A Place of Refuge by Tobias Jones SAT are out now. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Interviewed Guest: Sally Phillips SAT Interviewed Guest: Toby Jones SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarit Packer SAT Interviewed Guest: Itamar Srulovich SAT Interviewed Guest: Colin Furze SAT Interviewed Guest: Tito Jackson SAT Interviewed Guest: Charles Collingwood SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 Pussy Galore b060q9jw (Listen) SAT Susan Calman finds out why our feline overlords rule SAT cyberspace. In an age where celebrity cats star in films, SAT host talk shows and have lucrative book deals, Susan tries SAT to make her own fur babies into viral internet sensations. SAT SAT She is inspired by speaking to celebrity cat Lil Bub - who SAT has been viewed over 30 million times on youtube, and Will SAT Braden, cat video maker and winner of the first ever "Golden SAT Kitty", awarded by the Internet Cat Video Festival at the SAT prestigious Walker Art Center. Author Tom Cox whose cats SAT have twitter accounts tells Susan how to tweet like a cat SAT and Jack Shepherd, beastmaster of news and entertainment SAT website Buzzfeed explains why - on the internet - cats beats SAT dogs. Fellow comedians Vikki Stone, Angela Barnes and Pippa SAT Evans advise Susan on what she should film her cats doing - SAT for maximum comedy value. SAT SAT With all this expert guidance - will Susan be able to SAT capture a moment of spontaneous hilarity to make her cats SAT the next feline internet sensation? SAT SAT Presenter: Susan Calman SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Ross. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b060q9jy (Listen) SAT Tom Newton Dunn of the Sun looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0606k2t (Listen) SAT Greek Tragedies SAT SAT Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories. Today: Theopi SAT Skarlatos traces the growing divide in Athens; Nick Thorpe SAT says it's not just Italy and Greece that thousands of SAT migrants are heading for - Hungary is now putting up the SAT barbed wire to stem the tide; Mark Urban is in Bosnia where SAT 20 years ago the flow of mujaheddin fighters was into the SAT former Yugoslavia but now the government there is worried SAT about the consequences of that; Kirsty Land learns why a two SAT and a half thousand year old play from ancient Greece still SAT resonates in a refugee camp in Beirut; and Alastair Leithead SAT checks out of Hotel California - but can he ever really SAT leave? SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b0606k2w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b060q9k0 (Listen) SAT European train travel tips, Savings safety limit cut, Scrap SAT tax credits for new claimants SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT The amount of savings that are protected if a bank goes bust SAT is to be cut by £10,000. The Prudential Regulatory Authority SAT has announced that the current £85,000 limit will fall to SAT £75,000 from 1 January 2016. The PRA blames the falling euro SAT for the cut. But there's good news too for some savers with SAT temporary higher balances. There will be FSCS protection on SAT balances up to £1mn for up to six months. Anna Bowes, SAT Savings Champion, explains the changes. SAT SAT Labour MP Frank Field explains to Money Box his plans to SAT phase out the £30 billion a year tax credit scheme SAT completely. Field wants the government to end what he calls SAT the "welfare dependency of large numbers of employers" who SAT pay low wages and then "dip into taxpayers' pockets" to make SAT those wages up to a decent level. But he does think that tax SAT credits could be stopped now for new claimants and phased SAT out by 2020 for existing ones, replacing their need for SAT benefits with higher pay. SAT SAT This week the Bank of England revealed that buy to let homes SAT now account for nearly one in seven mortgages and about one SAT in five new loans and warned the sector could pose a risk SAT for financial stability. Buy to let landlords can claim the SAT interest on their mortgage as a business expense and offset SAT it against any profit they make before tax is levied. Is it SAT just a normal business expense that must be preserved? Or is SAT it time to look at this tax relief again? Housing experts SAT Professor Michael Ball and economist Angus Hanton, debate SAT the issues. SAT SAT The Supreme Court has decided that if a customer is not told SAT fully about the amount of commission earned on an insurance SAT product and who receives it then that could create what is SAT called an 'unfair relationship' between the insurer and the SAT client and that could mean the whole contract was void. This SAT wide ranging judgement over a PPI case was announced on 12 SAT November. But the FCA has still not decided exactly how this SAT court decision will be implemented - either for current SAT sales or for PPI compensation. Money Box unpicks what all SAT this might mean. SAT SAT The latest Money Box travel tip: This week, we're looking at SAT the cheapest way to travel by train in different European SAT countries. Which are the best websites ... and does it pay SAT to book ahead? How do you avoid getting caught out by SAT validation machines? Here to take you on your rail journey SAT with the answers is Mark Smith who runs the international SAT rail information website, seat61.com. SAT SAT Related links SAT Financial Services Compensation Scheme Limited (FSCS) SAT Savings Champion SAT Frank Field: cut credits cuts SAT SAT Bank of England: Financial Stability Report SAT Gov.UK: SAT Renting out your property (England and Wales) SAT The Guardian: Landlords enjoy £14bn tax breaks as figures SAT reveal buy-to-let expansion SAT Money Saving Expert: Reclaim PPI for free SAT Money Saving Expert: Court ruling could open door for more SAT PPI claims SAT Which? How to reclaim mis-sold PPI for free SAT Travel tip: train travel across Europe SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b060bwds (Listen) SAT Series 46, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week's news through SAT stand-up and sketches. This week the cast are joined by SAT alternative comedy legend Alexei Sayle and Political Editor SAT for Sky News Faisal Islam. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Alexei Sayle SAT Performer: Faisal Islam SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0606k2y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0606k30 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b060bxpg (Listen) SAT Chris Grayling MP, Sir Peter Kendall, Khalid Mahmood MP, SAT Vicky Pryce SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Weobley SAT Village Hall in Hereford with the Leader of the House of SAT Commons, Chris Grayling MP, Sir Peter Kendall who is the SAT former President of the National Farmers Union and the SAT current chair of the Agriculture and Horticulture SAT Development Board, Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr SAT Khalid Mahmood MP, and the Greek-born British economist, and SAT former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government SAT Economic Service Vicky Pryce. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b060q9k2 (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01qgr4f (Listen) SAT The Liberty of Norton Folgate SAT SAT London's rich past as a melting pot of cultures is one of SAT the themes of Madness's 2009 album - The Liberty of Norton SAT Folgate, which has inspired Mark Davies Markham's play. Gazi SAT and Sitara have been serving full English breakfasts at the SAT Union CafĂ© on London's Norton Folgate for thirty years. But SAT now the council have served a demolition order, and it looks SAT as if their son Aki's girlfriend's father, Ralph Burke, is SAT behind the plan to develop the site. No one is going to let SAT the Union go without a fight, and soon Gazi and Sitara find SAT that they have the support of pop royalty in the form of SAT Suggs, Chas Smith and Mike Barson from Madness. SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT Mark Davies Markham writes scripts for TV, theatre and SAT radio. 'Taboo' the West End musical he wrote for Boy George SAT was nominated for an Olivier Award . 'Eric' his recent play SAT for the Liverpool Everyman was also about the music SAT industry. SAT SAT Credits SAT Himself: Suggs SAT Himself: Chas Smith SAT Himself: Mike Barson SAT Gazi: Vincent Ebrahim SAT Sitara: Pooja Ghai SAT Aki: Avin Shah SAT Sunshine: Danny Sapani SAT Jess: Stephanie Racine SAT Ralph: Patrick Brennan SAT Hughie: Adam Nagaitis SAT Connor: Paul Stonehouse SAT Iona: Eleanor Crooks SAT Writer: Mark Davies Markham SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT SAT 15:30 The Kampala Dream House b06086dq (Listen) SAT Sarah Taylor visits this remarkable children's home in SAT Kampala, Uganda. SAT SAT Amidst the slums of Kampala, MLISADA is a success story. SAT (Music, life skills and arts for destitution alleviation.) SAT SAT It's a children's home set up and run by former street kids SAT who learned to play brass instruments. 12 years on, it cares SAT for 90 children, teaches them music and acrobatics and they SAT are safe from the perils of street life. Former pupils like SAT euphonium player, Franke, have gone on to be teachers within SAT the wider school communities of Kampala. It's supported by SAT keen brass players from around the world - including BA SAT pilot and trumpet player, Jim Trott who took star trumpet SAT players Alison Balsom and Guy Barker out there last January SAT to run music workshops with the pupils. SAT SAT Sarah talks to Alison about how her involvement with the SAT work of Brass for Africa has influenced her approach to SAT performing on concert platforms around the world. SAT SAT Most importantly, if you get to live in the Dream House, as SAT it's known by the kids, you've got a chance of a future. A SAT future where you can learn to be a teacher, or simply access SAT a better school and then go on to get a better job because SAT you've got the bedrock of living at MLISADA. And you'll be a SAT great trumpet player too! SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b060q9k5 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Woman's Hour 2015 Power List - SAT Influencers SAT SAT An opportunity to hear some of Wednesday's Programme when we SAT unveiled this year's Woman's Hour 2015 Power List; SAT Influencers. SAT SAT A global call for DNA samples to identify genetic links with SAT anorexia - and the UK trial that's trying to get early SAT treatment for the disorder. SAT SAT What's it like to be an agent in the music business? Emma SAT Banks leading agent at CAA Creative Artists Agency, tells SAT us. SAT SAT Plus Royal Navy Reservist Michelle Ping on her work in SAT Helmand Province in Afghanistan and her role training the SAT Armed Forces and health workers deployed to tackle Ebola in SAT Sierra Leone. And comedian Bridget Christie on A Book For SAT Her - and Him if He Can Read. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Producer: Helen Fitzhenry SAT Editor Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT Anorexia and DNA SAT SAT AN25K is trying to collect 25 000 DNA samples from people SAT who have suffered from anorexia in order to understand what SAT makes some people more predisposed to an eating disorder. In SAT the UK SAT Charlotte’s Helix SAT aims to get 1 000 samples for the project. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Sarah Vine SAT Interviewed Guest: Helena Kennedy SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Barnett SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane Shepherdson SAT Interviewed Guest: Gemma Cairney SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Banks SAT Interviewed Guest: Bridget Christie SAT Interviewed Guest: Michelle Ping SAT Producer: Helen Fitzhenry SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell SAT SAT 17:00 PM b060q9tk (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b060bll1 (Listen) SAT Burger Battles SAT SAT The British love fast food. Each year we munch our way SAT through thirty billion pounds worth. On The Bottom Line this SAT week Evan Davis and guests discuss the burgeoning burger SAT market. There are new challengers to the traditional big SAT boys, like Five Guys, who claim to offer better quality SAT burgers and a "casual dining experience." Whilst one old SAT famous brand from the 1970s, Wimpy, is attempting to make a SAT come-back with re-branded restaurants and menu. But what's SAT the recipe for success in this already over-crowded market? SAT SAT Guests: John Eckbert, Managing Director of Five Guys; SAT Bruce Layzell, Managing Executive of International Markets SAT at Famous Brands (the South African company who own Wimpy SAT and Steers) SAT And Martin Breeden, Regional Director of Intu, who own some SAT of Britain's biggest shopping centres. SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0606k32 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0606k34 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0606k36 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b060q9tm (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Arthur Smith, Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Simon SAT Bird, Emily Watson, Nick Robinson, Lucy Rose, Samantha SAT Crain SAT SAT Nikki Bedi and Arthur Smith are joined in studio with Vic SAT Reeves and Bob Mortimer, Simon Bird, Emily Watson, Nick SAT Robinson, and music from Lucy Rose and Samantha Crain. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer SAT SAT The '25 Years of Reeves & Mortimer: The Poignant Moments' SAT show starts in Glasgow at the Clyde Auditorium on 10th SAT November and continues until 16th February for its final SAT date at London’s Eventim Apollo. SAT SAT SAT SAT Lucy Rose SAT SAT The album 'Work It Out’ is out on Monday 6th July on SAT Columbia Records. Lucy Rose will be performing at a variety SAT of festivals this summer. Full details can be found on the SAT official website SAT SAT Nick Robinson SAT SAT Election Notebook is out now published by Bantam Press. SAT SAT SAT SAT Emily Watson SAT 'A Song for Jenny' is on BBC One at 9pm on Sunday 5th July. SAT SAT Simon Bird SAT The Crocodile is at the Manchester International Festival SAT from the 14th-18th July. SAT SAT Samantha Crain SAT SAT The new album 'Under Branch & Thorn & Tree' is released on SAT July 17 on Full Time Hobby Records. SAT Samantha Crain's official website SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Vic Reeves SAT Interviewed Guest: Bob Mortimer SAT Interviewed Guest: Simon Bird SAT Interviewed Guest: Emily Watson SAT Interviewed Guest: Nick Robinson SAT Performer: Lucy Rose SAT Performer: Samantha Crain SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b060q9tp (Listen) SAT Series 18, Lexicon SAT SAT Poet Glyn Maxwell responds to the Greek debt crisis. To SAT complement Radio Four's News and Current Affairs output, our SAT weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major story SAT from the week's news. The form and content are entirely lead SAT by the news topic - so drama comes in many guises, as well SAT as poetry and prose. SAT SAT Directed by Toby Swift SAT Produced by Emma Harding. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Glyn Maxwell SAT Sally Utterley: Sally Phillips SAT Yalanda: Rhiannon Neads SAT Zeno: Mark Edel-Hunt SAT Colin Erasmus: David Acton SAT Professor Z: David Hounslow SAT Dr Z: Amelia Lowdell SAT Cherry-Ann: Alex Tregear SAT Producer: Emma Harding SAT Director: Toby Swift SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b060q9tr (Listen) SAT Amy, Apple Music, The Book of Aron, As Is, Cornell at the SAT Royal Academy SAT SAT Amy is Asif Kapadia's documentary telling the story of the SAT short life of the talented singer Amy Winehouse. SAT We look at the launch of Apple Music - is it an exciting SAT brand new way to explore what's out there or just another SAT option in an already over-serviced market? SAT Jim Shepard's novel The Book of Aron is about a young boy in SAT wartime Poland occupied by the Nazis. Does it manage to say SAT something new about a familiar subject? SAT There's a revival in London of the first AIDS play: As Is. SAT It premiered in New York in 1985 and won a TONY. What does SAT it say about the situation today? SAT The Joseph Cornell retrospective at London's Royal Academy SAT allows visitors to view collages rarely seen in the UK. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b060qbwm (Listen) SAT Tomorrow's World, Today SAT SAT Everyone knows the iconic TV series Tomorrow's World - and SAT many of us watched it as it made predictions about the SAT future. Was it correct in its assumptions and predictions? SAT James Burke takes a journey through the archive, and SAT explores the story of the past half century of technological SAT development. SAT SAT Tomorrow's World began in the "White Heat" of the 1960s - as SAT science and technology began to promise a future previously SAT unimaginable. SAT SAT From the first orbits of the moon, to the first heart SAT transplant; from the nuclear debates of 20th century, to the SAT economic failure of Concorde; from robots to the internet - SAT Tomorrow's World reported on it all. How did the show do it? SAT And did it get it right? SAT SAT Now, on the programme's 50th Anniversary, James Burke - a SAT reporter on the show from 1966-1972 - looks at how it dealt SAT with the often huge changes that occurred in the time from SAT when it was first broadcast, and assesses what it says about SAT our ability to see what's around the corner. SAT SAT Featuring Judith Hann, Michael Rodd, Maggie Philbin, Howard SAT Stableford, Michael Blakstad and Dame Wendy Hall. SAT SAT Producer: Polly Weston. SAT SAT 21:00 The Stuarts b0606vv7 (Listen) SAT William III and Mary II: To Have and To Hold SAT SAT Mike Walker's epic chronicle considers the early years of SAT William of Orange and his marriage to James II's daughter, SAT Mary Stuart. By marrying his English cousin, Dutch William SAT looks to cement an alliance between the two countries and SAT halt Louis XIV's land-grabbing march across Europe. Neither SAT partnership gets off to an auspicious start. SAT SAT Harpsichord played by Peter Ringrose SAT Director - Gemma Jenkins. SAT SAT Credits SAT William: Mark Edel-Hunt SAT Mary: Elaine Cassidy SAT Bentinck: Jonathan Coy SAT Young Bentinck: Finn den Hertog SAT De Witt: Sam Dale SAT Aurelia: Alex Tregear SAT Hendrieka: Rhiannon Neads SAT James II: David Acton SAT John Churchill: David Hounslow SAT Halifax: Stephen Critchlow SAT Director: Gemma Jenkins SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0606k38 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0608nlb (Listen) SAT The Morality of Debt SAT SAT It's been some time coming but the Greek debt crisis is SAT reaching a climax. On one level this is an issue of SAT political brinkmanship and economics, but at its heart there SAT are profound moral questions. The moral hazard is plain to SAT see - especially if you're a German tax payer faced with SAT funding a seemingly bottomless pit of debt while the Greek's SAT themselves refuse to recognise their obligations. But how SAT moral was it for the European Union and the European Central SAT Banks to not only happily turn a blind eye to the escalating SAT Greek debt, but to keep on offering them more loans? And SAT finally there's you and I and every one of us and our SAT attitude to money and debt. The reality is that we're SAT drowning in a sea of debt. Personal debt levels are at an SAT all-time high. The idea of scrimping and saving until you SAT can afford to buy something seems impossibly old fashioned SAT in our "have it now - pay for it sometime later" society. SAT Pension providers have been overwhelmed by people wanting to SAT cash in and spend their savings - with holidays being the SAT most popular choice. So much more immediately gratifying SAT than prudently planning for an old age. And when it goes SAT wrong of course there are those who will blame it all on SAT politicians, greedy bankers and venal financial advisors. SAT But the banks have to lend to someone and there were two SAT consenting adults in the transaction. Or is money morally SAT neutral - a token of exchange which should carry no burden SAT of judgement? What is the morality debt? SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b06084kq (Listen) SAT Series 29, Heat 4, 2015 SAT SAT (4/13) SAT Competitors from London and West Sussex join Paul Gambaccini SAT for heat four of the 2015 tournament. Among the musical SAT topics Paul will be quizzing them on are Wagner, the witches SAT in the musical Wicked, and what caused Mrs Mary Whitehouse SAT to have a spat with 'Top of the Pops' in 1972. SAT SAT The contenders will also have to choose a special musical SAT subject on which to answer a set of individual questions, SAT with no warning of what the topics are going to be. At stake SAT is a place in the 2015 semi-finals. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT DAMIEN DILL, a retired finance manager from East Grinstead SAT in West Sussex SAT SAT DAVID HARMAN, a freelance editor and former librarian from SAT North East London SAT SAT SIMON O'HAGAN, a journalist, also from London SAT SAT SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b060724c (Listen) SAT John Donne SAT SAT Roger McGough is joined by expert Katherine Rundell and SAT actor Samuel Barnett for a special programme featuring the SAT beautiful, sensual, clever and passionate poetry of John SAT Donne. Last in the series. SAT Producer Sally Heaven. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT SAT Love’s Growth SAT SAT The Relic SAT SAT The Sun Rising SAT SAT Elegy XVIII SAT SAT The Calm SAT SAT Batter My Heart SAT SAT A Nocturnal Upon St Lucie’s Day, Being the Shortest Day SAT SAT A Valediction Forbidding Mourning SAT SAT SAT SAT All by John Donne SAT SAT All taken from Donne: Poems and Prose SAT SAT Published by Everyman SAT SAT SAT SAT Apart from Elegy XVIII SAT SAT Taken from SAT http://4umi.com/donne/elegies/18 SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Interviewed Guest: Katherine Rundell SAT Interviewed Guest: Samuel Barnett SAT Producer: Sally Heaven SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 JULY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b060xvnn (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Original Shorts b01dvzgc (Listen) SUN Series 5, Episode 3 SUN SUN Edward is fond of the little oak tree that stands near the SUN 15th tee of his local golf course. But there are SUN club-members who view the tree with less friendly eyes. SUN Chief among them is the club captain. There have been SUN complaints, he says: some branches hang far too low over the SUN tee - the oak should be cut down. So how SUN can the situation be resolved happily for the club and its SUN members? SUN SUN Over the months, Edward wonders whether Nature herself is SUN becoming involved. And, he recalls, didn't Wordsworth have SUN something to say about all nature being alive, and possessed SUN with a presence that disturbs him with the joy of elevated SUN thoughts? He continues to observe, and witnesses a SUN surprising conclusion. SUN SUN Broadcaster, novelist and humorist Christopher Matthew has SUN written this story especially for Original Shorts. SUN SUN Martin Jarvis reads this wry tale of Nature versus petty SUN bureaucracy. SUN SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b060xvnq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b060xvns (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b060xvnv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b060xvnx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b060xwcz (Listen) SUN The sound of church bells. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b0608nvd (Listen) SUN A Progressive Case for Authority SUN SUN Eliane Glaser argues that since everyone is against SUN authority now, the true iconoclast would make a progressive SUN case for authority. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b060xvnz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b060xyp5 (Listen) SUN Desire Lines SUN SUN Mark Tully follows the paths we choose to take instead of SUN the official routes laid out for us by others. SUN SUN Literally, desire lines are paths worn over time through a SUN landscape by people taking the shortest or most desirable SUN route, rather than the one provided for them by planners or SUN designers. They can cut across fields or over busy roads, SUN even between countries. But do they represent a desire to SUN break the bounds of convention, or an instinct to follow the SUN crowd? SUN SUN Arnold Schoenberg and Franz Schubert take a musical detour SUN from the prescribed channels, while Philip Larkin leads the SUN literary trail off-piste, as Mark considers metaphorical SUN desire lines - behaving, thinking or doing as we want, SUN rather than as custom, etiquette or rules would have had us SUN do. SUN SUN In the end, desire lines could be seen as evidence of human SUN behaviour triumphing over rigid attempts to control and SUN confine - but might they also be physical reminders of our SUN inherent laziness? Is there not something to be said for SUN taking the long way round? SUN SUN A Unique Broadcasting Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN The Old Ways SUN Author: SUN Robert MacFarlane SUN Publisher: SUN Hamish Hamilton SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN River and Lake SUN Author: SUN Gresswell & Huxley SUN Publisher: SUN Wiedenfeld & Nicolson SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Lines of Desire SUN Author: SUN Martin Hall SUN Publisher: SUN Routledge SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Going, Going SUN Author: SUN Philip Larkin SUN Publisher: SUN Faber & Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Departure SUN Author: SUN Edna St. Vincent Millay SUN Publisher: SUN Harper Collins SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN The Calf Path SUN Author: SUN Sam Foss SUN SUN SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b060xyp8 (Listen) SUN Festival Farmer SUN SUN Sybil Ruscoe meets Pete Nosworthy - Noz to his friends - who SUN runs a summer music festival on his cattle farm in SUN Herefordshire. It started out in 1998 as a family barbecue SUN with friends singing round the campfire on his 70-acre farm. SUN But it's grown into a festival with nine stages, which SUN attracts 5,000 people. We find out how you turn a SUN traditional farm into a party venue - from the licensing and SUN safety, to ticketing and clearing up afterwards! SUN And we meet Pete's wife and two grown-up children who now SUN work pretty much full time on planning the festival. The SUN producer is Sally Challoner. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b060xvp1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b060xvp3 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b060xztd (Listen) SUN The Greek Bailout Crisis, Salvation Army at 150, 7/7 SUN Memories SUN SUN On Sunday, Greeks vote in a referendum to accept or reject SUN the bailout conditions demanded by their creditors. 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Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b060y0qs (Listen) SUN Violence and the Kingdom of Heaven SUN SUN A service from St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, in SUN the week of the tenth anniversary of the London bombings, SUN reflecting on how violence deforms the human soul. Most of SUN us would rather denounce violence in others than do the SUN arduous work of resisting violence in ourselves. Led by the SUN Vicar, the Revd Dr Sam Wells, with the American best-selling SUN author, professor, and Episcopal priest, Barbara Brown SUN Taylor. The choir is directed by Andrew Earis and the SUN producer is Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN Script SUN SUN lease note: SUN SUN This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it SUN was prepared before the service was broadcast. It may SUN include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor SUN spelling and other errors that were corrected before the SUN radio broadcast. SUN SUN It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that SUN prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may SUN also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to SUN reflect current events. SUN Radio 4 Opening Announcement: BBC Radio 4. It’s ten past SUN eight and time to go live to St Martin-in-the-Fields in SUN London’s Trafalgar Square for today’s Sunday Worship. The SUN preacher is the American author and Episcopal priest, the SUN Revd Professor Barbara Brown Taylor and the service is led SUN by the Vicar, the Revd Dr Sam Wells. SUN Sam Wells: SUN Good morning and welcome to St Martin-in-the-Fields. Ten SUN years ago this week, the day after London had been awarded SUN the 2012 Olympics, four coordinated bombs were detonated in SUN central London on underground trains and a double-decker SUN bus. In all 56 people died and 700 were injured. The 7/7 SUN bombings brought the international crisis of Islamist SUN terrorism to the forefront of British attention and SUN represented the first suicide attack of its kind in British SUN history. SUN SUN Hearts went out and still do to families and loved ones of SUN those murdered in such horrifying circumstances. Beyond the SUN grief and the fear of repeat attacks, lie troubling SUN questions. What is the nature of violence; what drives SUN people to blow themselves up and take dozens of people to SUN death with them; and is there something about religion that SUN brings out this disturbing dimension of destructive hatred? SUN SUN Let us pray. SUN God of rushing wind and raging storm, you know the secrets SUN of our hearts and violence that sometimes lurks within us; SUN in your Son’s body on the cross you took upon yourself our SUN hatred and horror: show us the peace that passes SUN understanding, the ways of gentleness and reconciliation, SUN and the justice that rolls down like a never-failing stream, SUN that we may see beyond the terror of the present to the SUN glory that will be revealed in you. Amen. SUN SUN Violence isn’t the first word; it’s always a secondary SUN intrusion on a deeper, truer, peace that engulfs us like a SUN mighty river. 2 SUN SUN Hymn: Like a mighty river flowing (Tredinnick) SUN Sam Wells: SUN Countless people were affected by the 7/7 attacks. John SUN Valentine is Rector of St George’s, Queen Square, close by SUN Russell Square tube station. He was called to the scene of SUN the tube bomb that morning. SUN SUN John Valentine: SUN As I walked towards Russell Square tube station I felt as if SUN I was in a film. Time had slowed down. It was as though I SUN could watch myself as if I was a different person. Two SUN people were wrapped in what looked like tin foil. A bemused SUN man in London underground uniform told me with incredulity – SUN ‘They put a bomb on my train’. People were running towards SUN me, their faces and clothes blackened. One man in a smart SUN suit had blood running down his face. ‘Are you alright?’ I SUN asked stupidly. ‘I am okay,’ he said. Then, pointing SUN towards the tube station, ‘They need you in there’. SUN SUN I don’t know how many times I had been to the ticket office SUN at Russell Square tube – hundreds, I suppose. It was eerily SUN familiar, but totally strange. The barriers were open. SUN People sat against the walls, wrapped in the tin foil, some SUN in blankets. No one spoke. In the centre of the room were SUN medics, some in white coats, some not. They were moving SUN fast, shouting, calling for help, working in improvised SUN teams. On the floor were the injured. One man, was wrapped SUN in a blanket from the waist down, it was black with blood. SUN I don’t know if he had lost his legs. I knelt beside him. SUN He looked me in the eye, and asked with courage and terror, SUN ‘Am I going to die?’ A woman lay quietly, but trembling. I SUN walked to the lifts – they were like a charnel house, the SUN whole floor thick and sticky with blood. SUN SUN It was a moment, and a morning, of horror. I still don’t SUN understand it – still find it hard to go back there in my SUN mind. It has changed me. There is still outrage, anger. SUN Still a great sense of shock, of violation. But, to my SUN surprise, a friend who was also there spoke of seeing Jesus SUN on the streets of Holborn that day. And there in the middle SUN of the horror, He was. The courage of ordinary people. The SUN dedication and tenacity of the medics, working to save life SUN with none of the right equipment. The ambulance man about SUN to go back down to the tunnels again, this time to get the SUN bodies of those who had died. The policeman asking for SUN prayer, shaking with the strain, but then 5 minutes later SUN calm, directing the anxious crowd. The people who came in SUN to open the church, to provide a place of safety and care, SUN with food and blankets and hot sugared tea. The school SUN teachers calmly reassuring the children. SUN SUN Yes, a day of horror. But, yes, we saw Jesus walking the SUN streets of Holborn that day. 3 SUN SUN Choir + Choristers: Be still, my soul (Finlandia) SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN Jesus is under no illusions about the violence that stalks SUN his own ministry, because he remembers what happened to John SUN the Baptist when he spoke up in the face of power. John was SUN imprisoned and beheaded. So Jesus always knew a similar SUN destiny was likely to await him. Here he speaks of the SUN forerunner John. SUN SUN Frances Harris: SUN A reading from the Gospel of Matthew [11: 10-15] SUN This is the one about whom it is written, 'See, I am sending SUN my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way before SUN you.' Truly I tell you, among those born of women no one has SUN arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the SUN kingdom of heaven is greater than he. From the days of John SUN the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven has suffered SUN violence, and the violent take it by force. For all the SUN prophets and the law prophesied until John came; and if you SUN are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come. Let SUN anyone with ears listen! ½ SUN SUN Choir: Down by the riverside (Trad. arr. Rick Modlin) SUN Sam Wells: SUN Our preacher is the renowned Episcopalian priest and author, SUN Professor Barbara Brown Taylor. SUN Barbara Brown Taylor: SUN From the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of SUN heaven has suffered violence, and the violent take it by SUN force. SUN Who knew the truth of that better than Jesus? Even before SUN the violent had come for him, he knew what had happened to SUN God’s messengers in the past: silenced, exiled, outlawed, SUN killed. What did people expect? Speaking in the name of God SUN may fortify the speaker, but it has a way of agitating SUN listenersnot just those with something to lose if things do SUN change, but also those who have already lost their grip, who SUN feel the rage piling up like a storm inside them as they SUN watch the world they thought they owned snatched from their SUN hands by the other team. SUN Violence did not surprise Jesus. He was prepared for it, and SUN he tried to prepare his followers as well but few of them SUN had ears to hear. They were more focused on the perks of SUN discipleship, the rate of return on their investment. Then SUN King Herod threw John the Baptist in prisonGod forbid!-- and SUN Jesus had to say it all over again: expect violence; prepare SUN for it; never underestimate the harm it can do. There is no SUN magic shield around the kingdom of heaven; the violent can SUN take it by force. SUN SUN If you have never heard that last bit in church before, I SUN think I know why: it’s too upsetting. The balance of power SUN is all wrong. How can the violent take heaven by force? SUN Isn’t God able to prevent that? Isn’t that God’s job? SUN Apparently not. SUN SUN Those of you who listen to world news know all about the SUN murders at a black church in South Carolina last month. SUN There’s no comparison to what happened in central London ten SUN years ago. The violence was about race, not religion. The SUN body count was lower. The shooter acted alone. The only SUN reason to bring it up now is because it happened in a SUN church, which put Christians at the center of it. SUN In most ways that made them no different from anyone else SUN suffering violence. The only difference was the teachings SUN they had absorbed, year after year, about how to handle SUN violence when it came. Because it was a black church, the SUN teachings weren’t theoretical. There had been ample SUN opportunity to put them to the test. SUN SUN When the young white man with the odd haircut showed up at SUN their Bible study on Wednesday night, they did what the SUN Bible told them to do: they welcomed the stranger so warmly SUN that he sat with them for close to an hour before he SUN remembered why he was there. Then he took out his gun and SUN started shooting. SUN SUN All the right people stepped up to the microphone in the SUN days that followed. The president spoke of gun control. SUN The governor called for the death penalty. Citizens said it SUN was time for the Confederate flag at the courthouse to come SUN down. But it was the Christians people were waiting to SUN hear. What would they say to the man who had violated their SUN small heaven and taken their loved ones by force? SUN SUN At his bond hearing two days later he stood handcuffed SUN before them, under court order to listen until they were SUN through. SUN SUN “You have killed some of the most beautifulest people I SUN know,” a mother said of her son. “Every fiber in my body SUN hurts, and I’ll never be the same…but may God have mercy on SUN you.” SUN SUN “You took something very precious away from me,” said a SUN daughter of her mother. “I will never be able to hold her SUN again. But I forgive you. And have mercy on your soul.” SUN “It was as if the Bible study had never ended…” one reporter SUN said, listening to people ask mercy for someone who had SUN shown them no mercy, to forgive him before he had asked. SUN Some sounded like they were still practising. Their hearts SUN weren’t in it yet, but they knew what was at stake. Violence SUN had already taken the young man in front of them by force. SUN It had taken nine people they loved as well, but it had not SUN taken them yet. They still had power to resist that deadly SUN force by doing what Jesus had taught them: turn the cheek, SUN pray for the persecutor, love the enemy, welcome the SUN stranger. In everything do to others as you would have them SUN do to you. SUN SUN It sounds like advice for angels, not humansso unrealistic, SUN so undefended, it’s a wonder we repeat it at all. Yet there SUN it is: the Christian teaching on how to respond to violence SUN when it comes. Sometimes it actually works to disarm the SUN violence in others, which is why we know the names of SUN Gandhi, Tutu, and King. But that is not its main purpose. SUN Its main purpose is to disarm the violence in us, so that we SUN do not join the other team. SUN SUN A few days after the church murders, a reporter interviewed SUN someone who worked in a restaurant where the shooter often SUN ate. When he asked her why she thought he did it, she SUN didn’t mention guns, or racism, or flags. She said, “He SUN always looked like he needed love.” SUN SUN I wonder who taught him to hate instead? I wonder who is SUN teaching a child to hate people like him right now? SUN SUN If there is a shield around the kingdom of heaven, it is not SUN in the hands of God. It is in the hands of those who keep SUN deciding not to hate the haters, who keep risking the fatal SUN wound of love and teaching others to do the samebecause that SUN is how we prepare the ground around us to receive the seeds SUN of heaven when they come. There is no other force on earth SUN like itthe soft power of God’s other wayand no better SUN teacher than the one we have come to worship here. SUN SUN Choir + Choristers: Walk softly (Chilcott) SUN SUN Prayers and African Kyrie (Richard Carter and Frances SUN Harris): SUN Let us pray. SUN God of mercy, when we see your Son on the cross we see your SUN heart broken between anger and love. Come near to all who SUN have had violence take away their beloved, their hope, their SUN trust, their future. Heal any who have seen things they can SUN never forget, suffered things they can never erase, or lost SUN things they can never restore. Bless those for whom the SUN London bombings ten years ago marked a moment after which SUN nothing would ever be the same again. Make us a people of SUN gentleness and transform the violence in our own hearts. SUN SUN Choir: Kyrie eleison x4 SUN God of justice, your Son looked over Jerusalem and said ‘If SUN only you knew the paths that lead to peace.’ Renew your SUN church that it might recognise its complicity in patterns of SUN domination and oppression, listen to the stories of those SUN whose blood cries out from the ground, and walk in humility SUN alongside those it once despised. Bring understanding and SUN wisdom across religious divides. By your Holy Spirit, visit SUN Jerusalem and places where difference of faith evokes SUN bitterness and tension. And raise up leaders who embody your SUN joy. SUN SUN Choir: Christe eleison x4 SUN SUN God of love, your Son taught us to pray for our persecutors. SUN Speak to the hearts of any today who look at a gun as the SUN answer to their problems, look to force as a solution to SUN their failure, or seize upon a scapegoat as a victim for SUN their frustration. Come close to us in the places where SUN impatience and self-hatred and fury turn us from your SUN gracious children into perpetrators of terrible crimes. As SUN you know every saint has a past, ensure every sinner has a SUN future, where you are our companion, guide, and shepherd. SUN SUN Choir: Kyrie eleison x4 SUN SUN As forgiveness is the heart of your gospel, make it the SUN heart of our prayers. SUN Our Father… SUN SUN Sam Wells: SUN Our final hymn places all its trust on God, who ‘is love, SUN eternal Love.’ SUN SUN SUN Hymn: God is love; let heaven adore him (Abbot’s Leigh) SUN SUN Sam Wells: Blessing SUN Gentle Lord, hasten the hour when we shall be forever with SUN you, when disappointment, grief, and fear are gone, sorrow SUN forgot, love's purest joys restored. And the blessing… SUN SUN Choir + Choristers: An Irish Blessing (Chilcott) SUN SUN Organ Voluntary: Prelude in E major, BWV 566 (Bach) SUN SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b060bxpj (Listen) SUN Adam Gopnik: Family Reunions SUN SUN Adam Gopnik's ten-year family reunion brings into focus the SUN passage of time. SUN "The inescapable material of any family reunion, British or SUN American, Jewish or Celtic, is always the same: each SUN offering a hair-raising or hair-losing seminar on the SUN effects of time on the human body and soul, and especially SUN on the difference between aging and growing." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Adam Gopnik SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03dx944 (Listen) SUN Twite SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Martin Hughes-Games presents the Twite. Twites are birds of SUN heather moorland and crofting land - a Scottish name is SUN "Heather lintie", as they nest in the shelter of wiry SUN heather clumps and feed on seeds. To see twites, you'll need SUN to visit some of our most scenic spots; the Scottish Isles, SUN the moorlands of northern England or the western Irish SUN coast. SUN SUN Twite (Carduelis flavirostris) SUN Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b060y27t (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 b060yk4k (Listen) SUN Pat and Tony have an announcement to make, and David takes SUN to the airwaves. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Joanna Toye SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Alex Redwood: Josh Harper SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b060yk4m (Listen) SUN Freddie Flintoff SUN SUN Kirsty's castaway this week is the former England cricketer SUN Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff. SUN SUN One of the best players of his generation, he was part of SUN the England team that won the Ashes in 2005, a year that SUN marked his sporting coming of age. On the strength of that SUN historic victory he was awarded an MBE for services to the SUN game, and the public voted him BBC Sports Personality of the SUN Year. SUN SUN Barely out of his pram when he picked up a cricket ball he SUN turned out to bat for an under-14 match when he was just six SUN years old. His debut was not in crisp cricket whites, but in SUN a second hand Manchester United tracksuit, setting the tone SUN for someone who's made a habit of doing things his way. Not SUN least at a 10 Downing Street reception when, somewhat the SUN worse for wear, he weaved into the cabinet room, plonked SUN himself down in the PM's chair and knocked back yet another SUN bottle of beer. SUN SUN Since retiring from the game he's had a go at heavyweight SUN boxing and won the bout. One area where he hasn't come out SUN on top: his sons never listen to his cricket coaching tips. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Andrew Flintoff SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b060xvp9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b06084kz (Listen) SUN Series 72, Episode 7 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game in SUN which guests Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Lucy Beaumont, SUN and Marcus Brigstocke attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN A BBC Comedy Production. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Lucy Beaumont SUN Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b060yk4p (Listen) SUN Feeding the Commons - Part II: Lunch to Lights Out SUN SUN Following the food operation at the centre of British SUN politics. Lunch to Lights out SUN SUN The Food Programme team go behind the scenes of one of the SUN most historic food operations in the world. SUN SUN In the second part of this edition, we hear how dining in SUN Parliament is under new pressures. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon & produced in Bristol by Clare SUN Salisbury. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Producer: Clare Salisbury SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b060xvpc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b060yk4r (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b060yk4t (Listen) SUN Series 9, Episode 1 SUN SUN The thirty youngsters have gone from school life in 2005 to SUN futures involving marriage, jobs and mortgages. In these SUN programme he gets them all together to hear about their SUN lives now and to reflect on the part that the Singapore trip SUN played in shaping what happened next. SUN SUN Some of them are living oversees - Perry, for instance, who SUN has married an American and now coach's football on the East SUN Coast. Amber has just finished her degree at an American SUN University and is applying for a Green Card whilst Jessica, SUN the promising heptathlete with the potential to have made SUN the Olympics, is happily married in Canada and working in a SUN sports store. SUN SUN There were some stand out stars amongst the group - Ashley SUN Mitchell went form that Singapore trip with Sebastian Coe to SUN work as the Junior Mayor in the Olympic Village. He has SUN finished his degree and is helping on Tessa Jowell's bid to SUN be Mayor of London. But being Ashley he also has several SUN other plans on the go - a pop up restaurant, a few charity SUN projects and some impromptu family tuition for younger SUN cousins! SUN SUN For Thomas Brown the London Games offered the hope of SUN Paralympic selection. His dreams fell apart when he left SUN home and moved into a homeless hostel. His life was on hold SUN as he struggled with independent living and wrestled with SUN the training needed to really go all the way. He has now SUN reconciled with his parents and rents a house with his SUN girlfriend. SUN SUN Perhaps the biggest star of all is a schoolboy who showed SUN such promise in rugby that he was offered the chance to SUN concentrate on it full time. He opted instead for the discus SUN and reached the finals in the 2012 Olympics. Lawrence Okoye SUN is now playing American football for the San Francisco 49ers SUN and has married his girlfriend Pippa. He was touted as a SUN possible medal candidate come Rio 2016 but he loves the path SUN he's chosen instead. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b060bwdl (Listen) SUN Hampton Court SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the show from the Hampton Court Flower SUN Show. Chris Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood, and Matthew Wilson SUN make up the panel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b060yk4w (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations from Sark, Guernsey and SUN Jersey, remembering the Occupation that ended 70 years ago SUN and reflecting on the changes wrought by the Second World SUN War, in the Omnibus edition of the series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Stuarts b060yk4y (Listen) SUN Queen Anne: Myself Alone SUN SUN Mike Walker's epic chronicle of Queen Anne, the last Stuart SUN monarch. Everything changed when William of Orange at the SUN head of the Dutch army landed in England and James II fled SUN to France. England is now on the path towards constitutional SUN monarchy and in this new climate, Queen Anne must abandon SUN long-held and cherished allegiances if she is to command the SUN loyalty of rebellious Whigs and Tories and rule with SUN authority. SUN SUN Director - Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN Credits SUN William III: Nicholas Murchie SUN Mary II: Amelia Lowdell SUN Queen Anne: Fenella Woolgar SUN Hans Bentinck: Jonathan Coy SUN Sarah Churchill: Rhiannon Neads SUN John Churchill: David Hounslow SUN Godolphin: David Acton SUN Halifax: Stephen Critchlow SUN The Speaker: Sam Dale SUN Royal Servant: Jessica Turner SUN Director: Gemma Jenkins SUN Writer: Mike Walker SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b060yk50 (Listen) SUN Jon McGregor - If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things SUN SUN With James Naughtie SUN SUN Jon McGregor won critical acclaim for his debut novel If SUN Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things in 2003. SUN SUN The novel focuses on one street in a town in the North of SUN England, where ordinary people are going through the motions SUN of their everyday existence - street cricket, barbecues, SUN painting windows. SUN SUN A young man is in love with a neighbour who does not even SUN know his name. An old couple make their way up to the nearby SUN bus stop. But then a terrible event shatters the quiet of SUN the early summer evening. SUN SUN This binds together the residents and shows the reader the SUN imperfect lives of ordinary people on a single day. SUN SUN Recorded with a group of readers at the first ever Derby SUN Book Festival. SUN SUN August's Bookclub choice : May We Be Forgiven by AM Homes. SUN SUN Presenter : James Naughtie SUN Interviewed guest : Jon McGregor SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 The King's Muse b060yk52 (Listen) SUN In The King's Muse, Peggy Reynolds explores the world of the SUN Tudor court, through the poetry of Henry VIII. Held at the SUN British Library is a songbook that includes poetry and SUN compositions by this Tudor monarch. These were not written SUN by an aged despot with a fondness for divorcing and SUN executing his wives, but instead by a youth who came to the SUN throne as a teenager. These poems were penned by an educated SUN young King who enjoyed games, hunting, and performing his SUN own works in front of his courtiers. Henry's early court was SUN one of the most brilliant in Europe, and a centre for SUN culture and pageantry. SUN SUN Historian David Starkey joins Peggy Reynolds to put these SUN poems into context, lifting the lid on this cultured SUN youthful King, long overshadowed by the machinations of the SUN older tyrant he was to become. Peggy's journey begins at the SUN British Library, where she is joined by musicologist SUN Professor David Fallows as they leaf through this songbook SUN compiled in the sixteenth century. Professor Raymond Siemens SUN discusses the importance of this poetry in the development SUN of Tudor literature, and delves into some of the reoccurring SUN themes including love and politics, foreshadowing the more SUN complicated monarch that would emerge. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b0608h81 (Listen) SUN The Aid Business SUN SUN The UK's £12 billion pound foreign aid budget is one of the SUN few areas of Government spending protected from cuts. The SUN commitment to spend 0.7% of Britain's gross national income SUN on aid means at least 60 billion pounds will be spent on SUN overseas development in the next five years. Many of these SUN projects are delivered by large companies that receive tens SUN of millions of pounds from DFID (the Department for SUN International Development). They can charge over a thousand SUN pounds a day for a consultant and their directors earn six SUN figure salaries but how effective are they are and the SUN programmes they are paid to deliver? Simon Cox investigates SUN the UK's aid industry and asks how taxpayers can know that SUN they're getting value for money. SUN Reporter: Simon Cox Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b060q9tp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b060xvpf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b060xvph (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b060xvpk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b060yngy (Listen) SUN Sarfraz Manzoor SUN SUN It's been a feature of the British high street for decades SUN but could the Indian restaurant soon be consigned to the SUN great tandoori kitchen in the sky? That's one of the SUN questions Sarfraz Manzoor will be asking along with just WHY SUN are internet cat videos so weirdly popular and what is SUN Benedict Cumberbatch doing back on the radio? He'll also be SUN celebrating the forgotten women writers from the Beat SUN Generation and enjoying Abba as played by Ugandan street SUN children on trumpets. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b060ynh0 (Listen) SUN Phoebe has no time for Kate, and David gets goosed. SUN SUN 19:15 Dave Podmore's Toughest Test b0612pjc (Listen) SUN It's Ashes time (again) and the world's sleaziest cricketer SUN Dave Podmore is making his literary debut with explosive new SUN memoir DP. But, in doing so, he's putting at risk his SUN budding career as motivational coach for the England women's SUN team. SUN SUN Pod's especially proud of emerging star player Danniii (yes, SUN three i's), until he realises his precious second-hand car SUN lot endorsements have a new competitor who's young enough to SUN still be discovered on the Borrowash roundabout at 3am with SUN her pants on her head. SUN SUN Is Pod's long reign as England's anti-hero finally over? And SUN has he burned his lucrative corporate advertising bridges SUN for good? SUN SUN It's Pod's toughest test yet. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Harvey SUN A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Yeats: The Man and the Echo b0612pjf (Listen) SUN What Then? SUN SUN Three Irish writers choose three Yeats poems as inspiration SUN for a story. SUN SUN Episode 3/ 3 SUN SUN What Then SUN SUN Dermot Bolger's reflective story inspired by WB Yeats' poem SUN about the endless doubts writers face. SUN SUN A young man timidly embarking on a life as a writer meets an SUN old man with a story to tell. SUN SUN A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Dermot Bolger SUN Reader: Paul Hickey SUN Producer: Kirsty Williams SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b061039t (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton looks at the battle for control of language. SUN SUN More than 120 MPs have written a letter to the BBC's SUN Director General calling for an end to use of the name SUN "Islamic State" in news reporting. David Cameron is among SUN those calling for a change of terminology, saying that many SUN Muslims recoil from the name. Radio 4 and World Service SUN listeners tell us what they think the BBC should call the SUN group and consider whether a change in terminology would SUN weaken Islamic State, or weaken the BBC's impartiality. SUN SUN There are also concerns about the terminology used by the SUN BBC when reporting immigration. Roger investigates whether SUN listeners' concerns are about inaccuracy or the potential SUN for stoking animosity. SUN SUN The biggest job in BBC Radio Comedy - the host of The News SUN Quiz - has gone to Miles Jupp. But what do our listeners SUN think of the new appointment, and can Miles fill Sandi SUN Toksvig's tiny shoes? SUN SUN Miles is a household name for Radio 4 listeners but BBC SUN Radio is also on the lookout for new talent with the 2015 SUN BBC Radio New Comedy Awards. Roger speaks to Marcus SUN Brigstocke and Angela Barnes to find out what it takes to SUN make it in the world of radio comedy. SUN SUN And why, why, why, did Tom Jones' song Delilah offend one of SUN Feedback's listeners? Roger speaks with Jeff Smith, Head of SUN Music at BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music, to find out how the BBC SUN approaches older songs covering potentially controversial SUN themes. SUN SUN Producer: Katherine Godfrey SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b060pdqy (Listen) SUN Sir Nicholas Winton, Val Doonican, Nek Chand, James Salter, SUN Lady Rozelle Raynes SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Sir Nicholas Winton who saved 669 children from the SUN advancing Nazis in Czechoslovakia. SUN SUN Also the Irish singer Val Doonican - known for his cardigans SUN and rocking chair - he was sometimes called Britain's Bing SUN Crosby. SUN SUN The Indian artist Nek Chand who created the extraordinary SUN Rock Garden of Chandigarh. Jarvis Cocker pays tribute. SUN SUN The novelist and former fighter pilot James Salter SUN SUN And Lady Rozelle Raynes, the daughter of an Earl who became SUN a stoker on a tug boat during the war. SUN SUN Sir Nicholas Winton (pictured) SUN SUN Last Word spoke to his son, Nick Winton. SUN SUN Born 19 May 1909; died 1 July 2015 aged 106. SUN SUN Val Doonican SUN SUN Born 3 February 1927; died 1 July 2015 aged 88. SUN SUN Nek Chand SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Jarvis Cocker who made a documentary SUN about him and to Dr. Elaine M Goodwin of Exeter University SUN who worked in the Rock garden and has lectured on his work. SUN SUN Born 15 December 1924; died 11 June 2015 aged 90. SUN SUN James Salter SUN SUN Matthew spoke to the American author and broadcaster, SUN Michael Goldfarb. SUN SUN Born 10 June 1925; died 19 June 2015 aged 90. SUN SUN Lady Rozelle Raynes SUN SUN Matthew spoke to her cousin, Hugh Matheson. SUN SUN Born 17 November 1925; died 22 June 2015 aged 89. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Nick Winton SUN Interviewed Guest: Jarvis Cocker SUN Interviewed Guest: Elaine Goodwin SUN Interviewed Guest: MICHAEL GOLDFARB SUN Interviewed Guest: Hugh Matheson SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b060q9k0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b060xztg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b06084l6 (Listen) SUN Samuel Scheffler on the Afterlife SUN SUN The American philosopher Samuel Scheffler reveals a hidden SUN force which motivates our actions: our belief in the SUN continuation of humanity after our deaths. In an interview SUN with Edward Stourton, plus a Q&A from an audience at the SUN London School of Economics and Political Science, Scheffler SUN proposes thought experiments which expose the importance of SUN this conception of the afterlife. It is, he argues, this SUN continued existence of the human race in general - and not SUN just of our own descendants - which gives meaning and SUN purpose to much of our lives. With references to Woody SUN Allen, National Porn Shops and Martin Luther. Scheffler is SUN professor of philosophy and law at New York University. SUN Producer: David Edmonds. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b061035s (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b061035v (Listen) SUN Kevin Maguire of The Mirror analyses how the papers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b060bf67 (Listen) SUN Back to the Future, Amy, Audrey Hepburn, I was Brigitte SUN Bardot's double SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Back To The Future composer Alan Silvestri reveals why he's SUN added 15 minutes of music to the original score for a new SUN screening of Back To The Future. SUN SUN The producer and editor of Amy, James Gay-Rees and Chris SUN King, discuss the skill and ethics of editing a documentary SUN about the life of singer Amy Winehouse, and respond to SUN criticism about the film from her father Mitch. SUN SUN Antonia Quirke visits the National Portrait Gallery's SUN exhibition about Audrey Hepburn to see if it has changed her SUN mind about an actress that she's always considered SUN over-rated. SUN SUN The job of Colourist is relatively new but increasingly SUN important in the film industry, and Adam Glasman explains SUN the tricks of his trade. SUN SUN Listener Alan Wilding reveals his 15 seconds of movie fame - SUN he was Brigitte Bardot's double. SUN SUN AUDREY HEPBURN: PORTRAITS OF AN ICON SUN 2 July – 18 October 2015, SUN National Portrait Gallery SUN London SUN Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s SUN by Howell Conant, published on the cover of Jours de France, SUN 27 January 1962 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Alan Silvestri SUN Interviewed Guest: James Gay-Rees SUN Interviewed Guest: Chris King SUN Interviewed Guest: Antonia Quirke SUN Interviewed Guest: Adam Glasman SUN Interviewed Guest: Alan Wilding SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b060xyp5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 JULY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b060xvql (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0608n26 (Listen) MON Factory music, Volunteering post-recession MON MON Factory music:the role that popular music plays in workers' MON culture. Marek Korczynski, Chair in Sociology of Work at the MON Nottingham University Business School, talks to Laurie MON Taylor about his study of a British factory that MON manufactures window blinds, revealing how pop music can MON enliven monotonous work, providing a sense of community as MON well as moments of resistance to the tyranny of the MON workplace. MON MON Also, volunteering in 'hard times': James Laurence ESRC MON Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, examines MON how the 2008-9 recession has affected peoples' willingness MON to do formal voluntary work as well as informal helping. MON MON Producer:Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b060xwcz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b060xvqn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b060xvqq (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b060xvqs (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b060xvqv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b061bp40 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie MON Griffiths. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b060yxym (Listen) MON Neonics Ban Latest, Badger Cull in Northern Ireland, MON Historic Footpaths Ruling MON MON The National Farmers Union says its discovered that UK MON farmers won't be allowed to use neonicotinoid pesticides as MON the government has turned down its application for an MON emergency exemption from the current EU ban. MON MON Northern Ireland is to start a limited cull of badgers as MON part of a research project to combat TB in cattle which MON costs its taxpayers £30m a year. Despite a long standing MON eradication programme, Bovine TB still affects around six MON per cent of herds in Northern Ireland and it's on the rise. MON MON A haulier explains what it's like trying to get chilled MON carcasses to the continent during the Calais ferry strike. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b060xvqx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qkfw (Listen) MON Serin MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Brett Westwood presents the serin. Serins breed just across MON the English Channel but they are small finches that continue MON to tantalize ornithologists here in the UK. Hopes were MON raised that this Continental finch would settle here to MON breed, especially if our climate became warmer. However, MON something about our islands doesn't suit them. They do like MON large parks and gardens, so keep an ear out for the song of MON this visitor....a cross between a goldfinch and a goldcrest, MON and you may be rewarded. MON MON Serin (Serinus serinus) MON Image courtesy of Rodger Tidman (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b060z4ph (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b060z4pk (Listen) MON Harmony and Balance MON MON Mary Ann Sieghart discusses harmony and balance, in the MON universe and on a smaller scale. She is joined by Nobel MON Prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek, whose new book MON examines whether beauty is one of the organising principles MON of the universe, and by the choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh, MON who uses dance to explore our relationship with science and MON technology. The mathematician and standup comedian Matt MON Parker outlines things you can make and do in the fourth MON dimension, and the Canadian baritone opera singer and keen MON amateur astronomer Gerald Finley brings his perspective to MON bear. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Mary Ann Sieghart MON Interviewed Guest: Frank Wilczek MON Interviewed Guest: Shobana Jeyasingh MON Interviewed Guest: Matt Parker MON Interviewed Guest: Gerald Finley MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b060z4pm (Listen) MON All Day Long, The Lawyer MON MON In 1974, the US broadcaster Studs Terkel talked to Americans MON "About what they do all day, and how they feel about what MON they do". His book telling their stories, Working, became a MON seminal tract in social history, and left an indelible print MON of how Americans worked and felt in the seventies. MON MON Biggs has revisited Terkel's model in her tour of MON contemporary Britain - her interviewees including a lawyer, MON care worker, fishmonger, giggle doctor (yes, there really is MON such a thing), ballet dancer, quiz writer and potter, among MON many others. The book is a beautifully-observed portrait of MON the United Kingdom at work in the twenty-first century. MON MON Episode 1: The Lawyer MON MON Joanna Biggs is an assistant editor at the London Review of MON Books. She was born in Willesden, North-West London, in MON 1982. MON MON Readers: Ben Crowe, Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Colleen MON Prendergast, Michelle Terry and Thom Tuck MON MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Ben Crowe MON Reader: Teresa Gallagher MON Reader: David Holt MON Reader: Colleen Prendergast MON Reader: Michelle Terry MON Reader: Thom Tuck MON Author: Joanna Biggs MON Abridger: Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b060z4pp (Listen) MON Sue Sim, Former Chief Constable of Northumbria Police, MON Sculptors Emily Young and Laura Ford MON MON The former chief constable of Northumbria Police, Sue Sim, MON talks about her career and in particular her handling of the MON hunt for killer, Raoul Moat and the complaints made against MON her afterwards by officers in the force. Sim has now lodged MON a complaint against her accusers, and claims that male MON officers treated her differently because she was a woman. MON MON Time management Laura Vanderkam has written a book, I Know MON How She Does it, in which she provides a framework for MON anyone who wants to thrive at "having it all" in both work MON and life. MON MON Two very different leading British sculptors, Emily Young MON and Laura Ford, talk about their work. MON MON Health and Fitness apps are useful for setting goals to help MON achieve your desired weight. But are there are any MON safeguards in place for people with eating disorders who MON could easily use them in an obsessive and unhealthy way? MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON Former Northumbria Police Chief Sue Sim MON MON The former Chief Constable of Northumbria Police, Sue Sim, MON became a familiar public face five years ago in July 2010 as MON she led the manhunt for Raoul Moat. It was the largest MON manhunt the country had seen for 44 years, and, as she said, MON “one of the most challenging times” of her career since she MON joined the force 30 years previously. However following the MON operation, she faced allegations by mostly male officers of MON bullying and an aggressive management style. An MON investigation into the allegations cleared her of misconduct MON in April, but criticised her management style, and now Sim MON has lodged a complaint against her accusers, and claims that MON male officers treated her differently because she was a MON woman. Having retired from her role in June, Sue Sim now MON joins Jane Garvey to describe leading the Raoul Moat MON manhunt, and how she feels about the complaints which were MON made against her. MON MON Laura Vanderkam MON MON Balancing work and family life is a constant struggle, MON especially for women with children and ambitious career MON goals. Given that we all have the same 168 hours every week, MON how do women with thriving careers and families use those MON hours? In her book I Know How She Does It, time-management MON expert Laura Vanderkam provides a framework for anyone who MON wants to thrive at “having it all” in both work and life. MON MON Sculptors: Emily Young and Laura Ford MON MON Jane speaks to two leading British sculptors - Emily Young MON and Laura Ford. Emily works in stone using classical methods MON which reflect current concerns for the earth and MON environment. She describes the intensely physical nature of MON her work and her love for a material that is billions of MON years old. Laura Ford works with a variety of materials, MON often ones that are discarded and recycled, and then recast MON in bronze. She grew up in Wales, travelling fair grounds in MON a family of show people, and says the fantasy and whimsy of MON fairgrounds have influenced her sculptures of mysterious MON children and animals. MON MON Emily Young is currently exhibiting a solo show at MON the Venice Biennale, and her show of around 20 new works, MON entitled Call and Response, is at The Fine Art Society in MON London until 27 August. Laura Ford’s exhibition is at MON Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham, until 6 November. MON MON Fitness Apps and Anorexia MON MON Health and fitness apps are big business, making it easy to MON track the calories you eat and expend through exercise and MON to set goals to achieve weight loss. However they can also MON be used in an obsessive and unhealthy way by people with MON eating disorders. After a recent discussion about anorexia MON on Woman’s Hour, a listener got in touch to raise her MON concern about the potential for health apps, used to track MON diet and exercise, to be used in a damaging way. We speak to MON Deanne Jade - a psychologist and founder of The National MON Centre for Eating Disorders, who has seen a rise in patients MON using these apps -and to former anorexia sufferer Holly, who MON felt the app she used became an unhealthy obsession and MON spurred her on to lose unhealthy amounts of weight. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Lucinda Montefiore MON Interviewed Guest: Sue Sim MON Interviewed Guest: Laura Vanderkam MON Interviewed Guest: Emily Young MON Interviewed Guest: Laura Ford MON Interviewed Guest: Deanne Jade MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b060z4pr (Listen) MON Dead Clever, Episode 1 MON MON Val McDermid's second "Dead" comedy crime drama. MON MON DCI Alma Blair (Julie Hesmondhalgh) and DS Jason Trotter MON investigate murder in the Geography Department of an MON unspecified Russell Group university in the North of MON England. Where academics rub shoulders and, indeed, other MON parts of the body with students and administrators. A place MON where the students think they know everything, the academics MON know they know everything and the secretaries actually know MON everything. MON MON Alma has worked her way up the ranks from making the tea for MON the families of murder victims to ordering Jason to make the MON tea. She knows she knows best. Jason should know better. MON MON In Episode 1, Jason thinks that a professor who is wearing MON some of his brains on the outside of his head might just be MON his chance to put Alma in her place. MON MON Written by Val McDermid MON Sound Designer and Engineer: Eloise Whitmore MON MON Produced and Directed by Justine Potter MON A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON DCI Alma Blair: Julie Hesmondhalgh MON DS Jason Trotter: John Hollingworth MON CSM Jo Black: Jane Hazlegrove MON Narrator: Jonathan Keeble MON Linda: Helen Kay MON Mary: Gemma North MON Mo: Nitin Kundra MON Director: Justine Potter MON Producer: Justine Potter MON Writer: Val McDermid MON MON 11:00 Battleships: The Ashes Voyages b060z6ly (Listen) MON To mark the start of the latest Ashes Test cricket series, MON former England captain David Gower relives the days when MON England and Australia cricketers went by ship to play in the MON Ashes. MON MON Legendary Australian players taking part include Neil Harvey MON (who played in Don Bradman's team in 1948), Alan Davidson, MON Bill Lawry, Bob Simpson, Graham Mackenzie and Colin MON MacDonald. Ted Dexter leads the England contingent, joined MON by such names as Peter Richardson, Peter Parfitt, John MON Murray and David Larter. MON MON The programme is rich in the colours of a 10,000 mile sea MON voyage. Stories of life on board include everything from the MON delights of first-class cabins and fabulous food to fancy MON dress contests and tricks for fending off fans. MON MON It was a different world as far as keeping fit for a MON sportsman was concerned, with fiery fast bowler Fred Trueman MON testily able to refuse training runs in favour of long hours MON in a deck chair. MON MON There are tales of exotic stopping off points. England MON fast-bowler David Larter tells the story of the day his MON 'sea-legs' let him down as he tore in to bowl in Colombo - MON and fell flat on his face. Twice running. Australians Brian MON Booth and Colin MacDonald re-live the scenes as local MON traders surrounded their ships on arrival at port after MON port. There's poignancy, too, as former Times cricket MON correspondent John Woodcock recalls a pilgrimage by MON Yorkshire and England cricketers at Naples to lay flowers on MON the grave of outstanding spin-bowler Hedley Verity, who died MON fighting in Italy during the Second World War. MON MON What method of travel would these cricketers choose if they MON were travelling to play now? MON MON Guess. MON MON Producer: Andrew Green MON A Singing Wren production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Secrets and Lattes b060z7c5 (Listen) MON Series 2, All Change MON MON It's the second series of Hilary Lyon's Secrets and Lattes. MON Trisha (Hilary Maclean) and Clare (Hilary Lyon) keep the MON caffeine-fuelled comedy coming in their Edinburgh coffee MON shop, Cafe Culture. MON MON But can the sisters rise to the challenge of keeping the MON business going while coping with a missing chef and dealing MON with 20 year-old waitress, Lizzie (Pearl Appleby) falling MON off the kleptomania wagon? MON MON Throw in Trisha's married ex-boyfriend and Clare's absent MON husband and it's emotional carnage all round. MON MON Clare can't cope with change but Trisha positively craves it MON - praise the Lord for God-fearing Minty (June Watson), an MON eccentric but helpful customer who won't make a drama out of MON a crisis. MON MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producers: Gordon Kennedy and Moray Hunter MON An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Trisha: Hilary Maclean MON Clare: Hilary Lyon MON Lizzie: Pearl Appleby MON Minty: June Watson MON Writer: Hilary Lyon MON Director: Marilyn Imrie MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Moray Hunter MON MON 12:00 News Summary b060xvqz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b060z9rv (Listen) MON 6 July 1915 - Victor Lumley MON MON Victor prepares for a meeting he only ever dreamed about MON before. MON MON Written by Richard Monks MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Victor Lumley: Joel McCormack MON Adeline Lumley: Anastasia Hille MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Toby Speedwell: Joe Bannister MON Adam Wilson: Leo Montague MON Skater: Sam Valentine MON Writer: Richard Monks MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b060z9rx (Listen) MON Loneliness in old age, Upgrading flight tickets, Scooter MON culture MON MON Loneliness in Old Age: Eighteen months after the launch of MON the Silver Line helpline for elderly people who are lonely MON or isolated, it is about to take its half millionth call. MON The service has been inundated and on average takes 1,000 MON calls a day. In a period of spending cuts in the public MON sector, what more could be done to reduce the misery of MON loneliness and isolation among older people? MON MON When you hire an estate agent to help sell your home, you MON would naturally expect them to let you know about all the MON genuine offers they receive. We investigate how an estate MON agent failed to pass on a high-priced offer to its customer MON and a potential buyer tells us how they discovered their MON offer had not been passed to the vendor. MON MON When is it worth paying a supplement on your flight ticket MON to upgrade to a higher level of service? We hear from the MON You & Yours listener who paid nearly £200 extra to improve MON his flight experience, but was greeted by a tired and dirty MON cabin and was then served poor food. MON MON The DVLA has reported a big rise in the number of people MON registering motorcycles in the UK, with over a hundred MON thousand people registering a new bike last year. It's MON bringing with it a growing "scooter culture" with MON enthusiasts meeting up regularly and sharing pictures and MON films online. We report from the ACE cafe in north London. MON MON Producer: Jonathan Hallewell MON Presenter: Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b060xvr1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b060z9rz (Listen) MON Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by MON Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:45 What Is a Story? b060z9s1 (Listen) MON First Times MON MON Marina Warner - in the company of leading contemporary MON writers - looks at the world of contemporary fiction. In MON each programme, she considers a story and story writing from MON a different angle. MON MON Marina is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize MON 2015 and the series draws on the expertise of this year's MON International Booker judging panel, the views of the MON shortlisted writers, as well as other key literary talent. MON MON Marina speaks with writers as diverse as Julian Barnes, MON Michelle Roberts, Fanny Howe, Marlene van Niekerk, Alain MON Mabanckou, Lydia Davis, Edwin Frank, Elleke Boehmer, MON Wen-Chin Ouyang, Daniel Medin, Nadeem Aslam and Laszlo MON Krasznahorkai. MON MON There are questions around the boundaries between fact and MON fiction which Marina believes are central to any MON consideration of storytelling, since readers' pleasure MON depends so much on trust built up between the storyteller or MON writer and the audience. MON MON Over ten episodes, there are discussions on the reasons for MON writing, writers as witnesses and political interaction. MON MON In episode one Marina looks at early experiences of stories. MON MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b060ynh0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b060zbjp (Listen) MON Another Life MON MON Two strangers bump into each other in the bread aisle of the MON local supermarket. It's a meeting that will mark both their MON lives in unexpected places and unexpected ways. MON MON Both are currently following the map of their lives, Glenn MON makes marble kitchen tops and is married to Claire, MON surrounded by the monotonous demands of family life, and MON Suzanne is married to psychotherapist Guy who is definitely MON 'on the verge'. MON MON An encounter with an attractive stranger releases MON butterflies in your belly. That attractive stranger is now MON talking to you and you just can't stop yourself from MON imagining what their life's like - how their life could MON revitalize yours and how your new life together would be the MON answer to all your questions. MON MON It just so happens that this stranger's inventing a version MON of your life too. MON MON Fast forward ten years and they are reminded of what could MON have been in 'Another Life'. MON MON Starring Stephen Tompkinson and Natasha Little with Adrian MON Lukis and Beth Goddard. MON MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Stephen Tompkinson MON Actor: Natasha Little MON Actor: Adrian Lukis MON Actor: Beth Goddard MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b060zbjr (Listen) MON Series 29, Heat 5, 2015 MON MON (5/13) MON What was the name of Louis Armstrong's pianist wife who MON encouraged him to start his own band in the 1920s? And which MON musical instrument takes its name from the Greek for 'having MON a pleasant sound'? MON MON These and many other questions face the competitors in MON today's fifth heat of Counterpoint, with Paul Gambaccini. MON The questions and extracts cover every era of the classical MON repertoire as well as film music, stage musicals, jazz, rock MON and pop. To win a place in the semi-finals the contestants MON will have to demonstrate the breadth of their knowledge of MON music in general, as well as tackling specialist questions MON on a surprise musical topic. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b060yk4p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b060zddx (Listen) MON Jessica Hynes MON MON Jessica Hynes, who won a Bafta for her role as PR consultant MON Siobhan Sharpe in W1A, and also co-wrote and starred in the MON sitcom Spaced, presents the pieces of writing that have MON meant the most to her throughout her life, in front of an MON audience at the BBC Radio Theatre. MON They include The Queen's Speech by Lemn Sissay, The Wind In MON The Willows, The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem, MON Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, Pimp: The Story Of My MON Life by Iceberg Slim, Coming Up For Air by George Orwell, MON and poems by Betjeman and ee cummings. MON Her readers are Cyril Nri, fresh from playing Lance in MON Russell T Davies' drama Cucumber, and Angela Thorne, who MON played Marjory Frobisher in To the Manor Born. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON Extracts chosen: MON MON MON MON The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame MON MON MON MON Coming Up For Air by George Orwell MON MON MON MON Youth and Age on Beaulieu River, Hants by John Betjeman MON MON MON MON The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem MON MON MON MON it may not always be so by ee cummings MON MON MON MON The Queen’s Speech by Lemn Sissay, from his collection MON Listener MON MON MON MON Pimp: The Story Of My Life by Iceberg Slim MON MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jessica Hynes MON Reader: Cyril Nri MON Reader: Angela Thorne MON Producer: Beth O'Dea MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b060zddz (Listen) MON Series 12, The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: New York MON MON The Infinite Monkey Cage USA Tour: New York MON MON The Infinite Monkeys return for a new series, the first of MON which will see them head to the USA for their first live MON tour. This week Brian Cox and Robin Ince can be found on MON stage in New York asking the question, Is Science a Force MON for Good Or Evil? They are joined on stage by Bill Nye the MON Science Guy, cosmologist Janna Levin, actor Tim Daly and MON comedian Lisa Lampanelli. MON MON 17:00 PM b061czby (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b060xvr6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b060zdf1 (Listen) MON Series 72, Episode 8 MON MON Paul Merton, Alun Cochrane, Susan Calman, & Gyles Brandreth MON join host Nicholas Parsons for another edition of the MON perenially popular panel show. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON A BBC Comedy Production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Alun Cochrane MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b060zg88 (Listen) MON Helen and Tom have big ideas, and Adam will not compromise. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b060zg8b (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b060z4pr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Fighting to Stay the Same b060zg8d (Listen) MON For decades some Northern Ireland loyalists protested, MON rioted, and killed to protect their sense of Britishness. MON The fearsome ability of their paramilitary groups to put MON thousands on the streets to challenge - or even at times MON reverse - decisions that displeased them has gradually been MON weakened to the point of derision. How did it get to this MON point? MON MON BBC Ireland Correspondent, Andy Martin, examines the current MON state of loyalism. Often characterised as the fiery wing of MON unionism, loyalist protest has failed in recent years to MON effect change, such as a reversal of a decision to end the MON routine flying of the Union flag above Belfast City Hall. MON MON So what do the loyalists from the heartlands of the MON Shankill, east Belfast and the villages of north Antrim MON think of their predicament? Some still believe they are a MON force to be reckoned with, some say they have outlived their MON usefulness to the mainstream unionist political leaders. MON Amidst this identity crisis, many people outside loyalism MON are only too happy to portray them all as criminals only MON interested in self-gain. MON MON Producer: Paul McKillion. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b060zg8g (Listen) MON Why do American police kill so many black men? MON MON Recent high profile cases of unarmed black men dying at the MON hands of the US police have sparked outrage, protests and MON civil unrest in several American cities. The deaths of MON Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Walter Scott and Freddie Gray MON are - some claim - evidence of long-standing problems with MON police racism and excessive violence. But what do we really MON know about what's happening? Helena Merriman explores the MON issues of racism, bias and police use of force. And the head MON of President Obama's taskforce on police reform, Charles MON Ramsey, tells us that fixing the problem will involve much MON more than just fixing the police. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5b (Listen) MON Lions MON MON Brett Westwood explores how lions have been harnessed by MON humans as a symbol of strength and power throughout the MON ages. MON MON For hundreds of years two beasts lay beneath the mud of the MON moat surrounding the Tower of London. Only when workmen dug MON them up in 1935 did the sun warm their bones once more. They MON were once kept as fearsome gatekeepers, reminding people MON visiting the king exactly where power lay - or that was the MON idea. In reality they were diseased, malnourished and died MON young. MON MON From the exquisitely depicted lions painted on cave walls in MON the Palaeolithic through to those kept in the Tower of MON London and the lions sitting around Nelson's column this MON programme looks at how we have used lions. MON MON Lions are used in literature to represent authority and MON majesty, and C S Lewis used a lion - Aslan - to be the MON figure of Christ, a mysterious, wild presence that cannot be MON tamed. MON MON However, this attention has come at great cost. Barbary MON lions, the magnificently-maned North African species most MON used by the Romans for gladiatorial combat and dispatching MON Christians, were so over-exploited they are now extinct: the MON first documented example of mass extinction on the mainland MON at the hands of humans. MON MON We might be able to breed them back again from lions in zoos MON that have Barbary genes still present, but should we? Would MON these magnificent beasts become just a curiosity, no MON different to those in the Tower? Maybe they had best remain MON as a poignant example of how power can destroy. MON MON Richard Sabin MON Richard Sabin is Principal Curator in the Department of Life MON Sciences at the MON Natural History Museum MON specialising in the study of the form and function of marine MON mammal skeletal anatomy. MON He is special advisor to the NHM’s MON UK Strandings Project MON carries out endangered species identification work for UK MON and international law enforcement, and develops MON internationally recognised protocols and techniques for the MON extraction of genetic material from the Museum's research MON specimens. MON MON Rosie Broadley MON Rosie Broadley is associate curator at the National Portrait MON Gallery, working on the 19th and 20th century and MON Contemporary collections. MON She specialises in the relationship between written MON life-stories and visual portraits and her research interests MON include portraits of 19th and 20th century female MON suffragists, including the portrait of MON Dame Christabel Pankhurst by Ethel Wright MON British Academic portrait painters working between 1900 and MON 1939, and the interactive nature of contemporary portraits. MON MON Adam Chapman MON Adam Chapman worked as a producer in the BBC Natural History MON Unit for 10 years, working on MON Big Cat Dairy MON Wildlife on One MON Life MON and Bear Week. MON He joined Silverback films where he directed a Disney Nature MON feature film called MON Bears MON and is now working on Netflix's latest commission. MON MON Sally Dixon-Smith MON Sally Dixon-Smith is Historic Royal Palaces' Collections MON Curator at the MON Tower of London MON where she has worked since 2006. MON She works with the archaeological collections and curates MON new displays, such as the representation of the Crown Jewels MON in 2012 and the MON 'Tower Remembers' MON centenary of the First World War in 2014. With training in MON history and architectural history, she is particularly MON interested in social history and how people used buildings. MON MON Dr Paul Fox MON Dr Paul Fox is a medical doctor and historian, with a MON passion for medieval heraldry. He recently stepped down as MON Chairman of the MON Heraldry Society MON and is an elected Fellow of both the MON Royal College of Physicians MON and of the MON Society of Antiquaries MON MON Professor Erica Fudge MON Erica Fudge is Professor of English Studies at the MON University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She is the author of a MON number of books and essays on human-animal relations in the MON English Renaissance and in the contemporary age. MON Her work has also appeared in MON History Today MON magazine. She is the director of the MON British Animal Studies Network MON MON Jonathan Andrew Hume MON Jonathan Andrew Hume plays MON Simba in The Lion King, London MON He has previously performed in The Lion King, Singapore and MON Jesus Christ Superstar as well as the television productions MON Living the Dream, Casualty, EastEnders, Down to Earth, Hope MON and Glory and Grange Hill. MON His film credits have included Bluff, Filthy Habit and MON Decorating. He was a session singer for the motion pictures MON 10,000 BC, Amazing Grace and Pride. MON MON Tom Kerss MON Tom Kerss is a professional astronomer at the MON Royal Observatory Greenwich MON A keen stargazer and astrophotographer, he spends his days MON (and nights) communicating astronomy to students and the MON public and chasing clear skies. MON MON Anthony Lynn MON Anthony Lynn is global associate director of The Lion King MON supervising 10 productions around the world. His London MON theatre work includes Anything Goes, Miss Saigon, Les MON MisĂ©rables, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat MON and Damn Yankees. MON He has directed top Broadway shows and overseen tours of MON productions such as Mary Poppins the recent Les MisĂ©rables MON 25th anniversary productions in Toronto and across the USA. MON MON Professor Ralph Pite MON Ralph Pite is a professor of English Literature at the MON University of Bristol. His research is focused on the MON Romantic period, Thomas Hardy, ecocriticism, and MON 20th-century poetry. MON He is currently writing a book about the poets, Robert Frost MON and Edward Thomas. They were close friends in the three MON years before Thomas’s death in 1917, at the Battle of Arras. MON Both men shared a love of nature and an interest in ‘the MON simple life’ – in ways of living, which we would call MON sustainable. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b060z4pk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b060xvr9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b060zg8j (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b060zg8l (Listen) MON Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Episode 1 MON MON Best known for The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim's MON first novel, the semi-autobiographical Elizabeth and her MON German Garden, was published anonymously in 1898. In it she MON mines her unhappy marriage to an overbearing Count - the MON 'Man of Wrath' - and the mores of the German landed gentry. MON Subversive, witty and a beautiful meditation on the joys of MON gardening, it was a huge bestseller and firmly established MON von Arnim's reputation as an author. MON MON Written as a series of diary entries, Elizabeth is a wild MON spirit whose minor eccentricities (she is happiest when MON eating salad outdoors) bemuse the servants and shock the MON high-born neighbours of her husband's family estate in MON northern Germany. Rather than hating its remoteness and MON dilapidation, Elizabeth sees her sojourn there as an MON opportunity to create a beautiful garden in which she can MON spend time thinking about the world, playing with her MON beloved daughters and tolerating the occasional visitor. MON MON Reader: Caroline Martin MON Writer: Elizabeth von Arnim MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Caroline Martin MON Author: Elizabeth von Arnim MON Abridger: Sara Davies MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 23:00 The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair) MON b060zg8n (Listen) MON Late-night interview programme. Robert Peston and Eddie Mair MON join forces to spring surprise guests on each other. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b060zg8q (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 JULY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b060zgnt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b060z4pm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b060zgnw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b060zgny (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b060zgp0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b060zgp2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b061bpjh (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie TUE Griffiths. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b060zjrf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Campbell. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkc26 (Listen) TUE Redwing 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 Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the TUE Redwing. The soft thin 'seep' calls of redwings as they fly TUE over at night are as much a part of autumn as falling TUE leaves, damp pavements and the smoke of bonfires. In winter TUE up to a million redwings pour into our islands, most of them TUE from Scandinavia and Iceland. TUE TUE Redwing (Turdus iliacus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b060zq8k (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b060zq8m (Listen) TUE Dorothy Bishop TUE TUE Dorothy Bishop is a world-leading expert in childhood TUE language disorders. TUE TUE Since the 1970s, she has been instrumental in bringing to TUE light a little-known language disorder that may affect TUE around two children per class starting primary school. TUE TUE 'Specific Language Impairment', or SLI, was originally TUE deemed to be the fault of lazy parents who didn't talk to TUE their children. But through her pioneering studies on twins, TUE Dorothy found a genetic link behind this disorder, helping TUE to overturn these widespread misconceptions. TUE TUE Dorothy talks to Jim Al-Khalili about how families react TUE when they discover there's a genetic basis to their TUE problems, and why this language impairment isn't as well TUE known as other conditions, like autism and dyslexia. TUE TUE A critic of pseudoscience and media misreporting, Dorothy TUE discusses her experiences of speaking out against folk TUE psychology and bad science journalism. TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b060zq8p (Listen) TUE Selina Scott speaks to Canon Paul Greenwell TUE TUE Selina Scott was recently involved in buying, at an auction TUE in America, a rare edition of one of the most famous ghost TUE stories in the world, Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. TUE The book was subsequently returned to its home town of TUE Malton in North Yorkshire which was the inspiration for the TUE novel. TUE TUE Thus, with ghosts very much on Selina's mind and a suspicion TUE that there is a ghost in her own home, Selina finds out more TUE about the paranormal in this series of One to One. TUE TUE In the first of her three programmes Selina talks to Canon TUE Paul Greenwell from Ripon Cathedral who carries out 'home TUE blessings' for people who think they have encountered a TUE ghost or spirit. TUE TUE He joins Selina in her home, a 15th century farm house in TUE North Yorkshire, to try and get to the bottom of the TUE presence in her kitchen. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b061ckdt (Listen) TUE All Day Long, The Giggle Doctor and the Care Worker TUE TUE In 1974, the US broadcaster Studs Terkel talked to Americans TUE "About what they do all day, and how they feel about what TUE they do". His book telling their stories, Working, became a TUE seminal tract in social history, and left an indelible print TUE of how Americans worked and felt in the seventies. TUE TUE Biggs has revisited Terkel's model in her tour of TUE contemporary Britain - her interviewees including a lawyer, TUE care worker, fishmonger, giggle doctor (yes, there really is TUE such a thing), ballet dancer, quiz writer and potter, among TUE many others. The book is a beautifully-observed portrait of TUE the United Kingdom at work in the twenty-first century. TUE TUE Episode 2: The Giggle Doctor and the Care Worker TUE TUE Joanna Biggs is an assistant editor at the London Review of TUE Books. She was born in Willesden, North-West London, in TUE 1982. TUE TUE Readers: Ben Crowe, Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Colleen TUE Prendergast, Michelle Terry and Thom Tuck TUE TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Ben Crowe TUE Reader: Teresa Gallagher TUE Reader: David Holt TUE Reader: Colleen Prendergast TUE Reader: Michelle Terry TUE Reader: Thom Tuck TUE Author: Joanna Biggs TUE Abridger: Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b060zq8r (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b060zq8t (Listen) TUE Dead Clever, Episode 2 TUE TUE Val McDermid's comedy crime drama series, starring Julie TUE Hesmondhalgh as DCI Alma Blair and John Hollingworth as DS TUE Jason Trotter. TUE TUE In episode 2, the news that the Cecil Rhodes Professor of TUE Geography has been beaten to death by his own antique globe TUE is not, as you might suppose, an occasion of deep mourning TUE within the department. Rather, it has provoked a fever of TUE speculation among his colleagues. TUE TUE But for Detective Chief Inspector Alma Blair, only one TUE question matters. Whodunit? TUE TUE There's no shortage of suspects lining up to share their TUE motives. TUE TUE Written by Val McDermid TUE Sound Designer and Engineer: Eloise Whitmore TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Justine Potter TUE A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE DCI Alma Blair: Julie Hesmondhalgh TUE DS Jason Trotter: John Hollingworth TUE CSM Jo Black: Jane Hazlegrove TUE Narrator: Jonathan Keeble TUE Linda: Helen Kay TUE Mary: Gemma North TUE Mo: Nitin Kundra TUE Director: Justine Potter TUE Producer: Justine Potter TUE Writer: Val McDermid TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b05w9b5j (Listen) TUE Burbot TUE TUE The burbot is the skulker under the rocks, the flabby, TUE sour-faced cod of cold, fresh water. It is not loved for its TUE looks, but it was once prized for its body. TUE TUE At one time it was common here but has now gone from UK TUE shores, believed extinct in the 1960s. TUE TUE This is the only member of the cod family that lives in TUE fresh water and for centuries it swam in the eastern part of TUE England to be pursued by fishermen for its firm, white flesh TUE and unbelievably rich liver oils. TUE TUE Barbot Hall in Rotherham and Burbolt Lane in Cambridge show TUE it was once important - and so common that some records say TUE it was fed to pigs. TUE TUE In North America it is a common angling fish; but in the TUE early 20th century, the rich oils were so prized the Burbot TUE Fishing Company processed half a million fish a year. TUE TUE It is still found in Europe and Russia. Chekhov wrote a TUE comic story, The Burbot, showing how this Cinderella of fish TUE could outwit even the aristocracy. TUE TUE Some want the burbot restored to our waterways, arguing in TUE the present desire to re-wild it should be allowed to live TUE here once more. After all, the burbot was so much a part of TUE our culture; it was pictured in cigarette cards and cards TUE found in packets of Brooke Bond tea. However, others say it TUE is best to leave it as a faint memory as climate change will TUE make its life unbearable. TUE TUE Either way, the burbot is a reminder of how quickly we TUE forget what was once so common. TUE TUE 11:30 Archie Shepp's Message from Paris b060zq8w (Listen) TUE The American saxophonist Archie Shepp has spent much of his TUE life in Paris and it was there in January that he and his TUE French wife heard about the shootings at the satirical TUE magazine Charlie Hebdo. They had friends among the staff and TUE the killings shocked them deeply. TUE TUE As a foreigner in France, an artist with long-standing TUE political convictions and a man who'd grown up among the TUE violence and prejudice of a black ghetto in the States, TUE Archie knows - on a profound personal level - the mechanisms TUE of anger, fear and frustration. TUE TUE He knows the realities of segregation, the feeling of being TUE trapped in a deprived neighbourhood and the difficulties of TUE not seeing a way out. For Archie, education and music TUE offered an escape route. Looking through the lens of his own TUE experiences, he considers life now in his adopted city of TUE Paris. TUE TUE Produced by Rikke Houd TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b060zgp4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b060zq8y (Listen) TUE 7 July 1915 - Hilary Pearce TUE TUE Hilary is too impatient to settle for the long game, TUE financially. TUE TUE Written by Richard Monks TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Hilary Pearce: Craige Els TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Mr Scott: David Hounslow TUE Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick TUE Howard Argent: Toby Jones TUE Writer: Richard Monks TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b060zq90 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b060zgp6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b060zq92 (Listen) TUE Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by TUE Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 What Is a Story? b061ckdw (Listen) TUE Why Write Stories? TUE TUE Marina Warner - in the company of leading contemporary TUE writers - looks at the world of contemporary fiction. In TUE each programme, she considers a story and story writing from TUE a different angle. TUE TUE Marina is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize TUE 2015 and the series draws on the expertise of this year's TUE International Booker judging panel, the views of the TUE shortlisted writers, as well as other key literary talent. TUE TUE Marina speaks with writers as diverse as Julian Barnes, TUE Michelle Roberts, Fanny Howe, Marlene van Niekerk, Alain TUE Mabanckou, Lydia Davis, Edwin Frank, Elleke Boehmer, TUE Wen-Chin Ouyang, Daniel Medin, Nadeem Aslam and Laszlo TUE Krasznahorkai. TUE TUE There are questions around the boundaries between fact and TUE fiction which Marina believes are central to any TUE consideration of storytelling, since readers' pleasure TUE depends so much on trust built up between the storyteller or TUE writer and the audience. TUE TUE Over ten episodes, there are discussions on the reasons for TUE writing, writers as witnesses and political interaction. TUE TUE In episode two, Marina asks, "Why Write Stories?". TUE TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b060zg88 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pp897 (Listen) TUE Second Body TUE TUE BAFTA-winning writer Trevor Preston draws on his own TUE experience as an artist in this dark thriller. Anna is a TUE painter driven to capture the haunting images of death that TUE fill the twilight world of her dreams. But whose death do TUE they foretell? TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift TUE TUE Trevor Preston trained at the Royal College of Art before TUE embarking on a career in television. He wrote for many of TUE the best dramas of the 1970s and 80s, including Ace of TUE Wands, Callan, The Sweeney, Minder, Out and Fox, for which TUE Trevor received a BAFTA in 1981. His film work includes TUE Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire and the Mike TUE Hodges directed I'll Sleep When I'm Dead with Clive Owen. TUE Trevor has written three radio plays, the first of which, TUE Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood, was shortlisted for TUE the Imison Award and a Mental Health in the Media Award in TUE 2009. TUE TUE Credits TUE Anna: Tara Fitzgerald TUE Robert: Raymond Coulthard TUE Schuman: Kenneth Collard TUE Munch: Ben Crowe TUE Jacob: Stephen Greif TUE Stella: Liza Sadovy TUE Mr Otis: Patrick Brennan TUE Zelda: Sarah Thom TUE Writer: Trevor Preston TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b060zqbc (Listen) TUE How can history inform the debate about Britain's TUE relationship with Europe? Tom Holland and guests look to TUE Caruasius, Aethelwold, Henry II and Historians for Britain TUE for valuable pointers. TUE TUE Tom is joined in the studio by Professor David Abulafia from TUE the University of Cambridge and Professor Justin Champion TUE from Royal Holloway University of London. TUE TUE David Abulafia leads a new pressure group of historians, TUE called Historians for Britain, who believe that the UK is TUE better out of the EU. Justin Champion, on the other hand, is TUE part of a loose coalition of historians called Historians TUE for History who argue that Britain's history is a European TUE one. But, how can history help inform the forthcoming TUE referendum? TUE TUE In the 3rd Century a leading military man, Carausius, led a TUE break with Europe - the Roman Empire in this case - when he TUE made himself Emperor of Britain. Was this a UKIP-styled TUE revolt or just a simpler way of gaining power while still TUE following Roman ideals? Tom talks to Roman historian Guy de TUE la Bedoyere. TUE TUE And, in Suffolk, Helen Castor visits the magnificent castle TUE at Orford to hear from the most recent biographer of Henry TUE II, Richard Barber, about how Europe was at the heart of his TUE domestic problems. TUE TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Produced by Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b060zr3d (Listen) TUE Series 6, Under Pressure TUE TUE The Human Zoo is a place to learn about the one subject that TUE never fails to fascinate - ourselves. Are people led by the TUE head or by the heart? How rational are we? And how do we TUE perceive the world? It's a curious blend of intriguing TUE experiments to discover our biases and judgements, TUE explorations and examples taken from what's in the news and TUE what we do in the kitchen - all driven by a large slice of TUE curiosity. TUE TUE We're guided by Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural TUE Science at Warwick University, who is on hand as guide and TUE experimenter in chief, while each week resident reporter TUE Timandra Harkness sets out on a mission to unravel. TUE TUE We like to say that all human behaviour could turn up in The TUE Human Zoo, including yours. TUE TUE In this series - TUE Morals and norms: What are the hidden rules that govern our TUE lives? We explore how and why we follow the intricate rules TUE of social engagement - manners and etiquette - and the TUE values they represent. How do we negotiate the expectation TUE to conform? TUE TUE The improvising mind: We visit the Cheltenham Science TUE Festival to consider whether we often just make up what we TUE think, on the spot. TUE TUE Under pressure: What can we learn about our everyday TUE psychology from the highly competitive sports we play? We TUE explore the limits of our concentration and how we behave TUE under stressed conditions. Why do we sometimes crumble under TUE the pressure? TUE TUE Morals and laws: How do we navigate the more obvious rules TUE that society dictates we follow? We explore the sometimes TUE blurry line between right and wrong. When do we feel it is TUE ok to cross the line? TUE TUE Presenter: Michael Blastland TUE Producer: Eve Streeter and Dom Byrne TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Self-Service Nation b060zr3g (Listen) TUE Ian Marchant, writer and broadcaster, asks who benefits most TUE from the self-service revolution - is it the consumer or big TUE business? TUE From buying tickets online, to banking, to 'flat pack' TUE shopping and the rise and rise of the supermarket, Ian TUE explores how much the self-service revolution affects every TUE aspect of our lives. He asks how much the consumer benefits TUE from cheaper costs, and sets it against the shopper's own TUE time and labour, which the self-service model relies on. TUE TUE This is a programme about the pros and cons of self-service, TUE of apparently limitless choice of brightly coloured brands - TUE branding which is in part brought about by allowing the TUE shopper the freedom to make their own choices. But TUE self-service also led to a smaller and less skilled TUE workforce, a process which continues today with the TUE self-scanning checkouts at supermarkets. TUE TUE And Ian wrestles with flatpack furniture - can he build his TUE very own chest of drawers, cheap and convenient to buy, but TUE is it worth the effort? TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b060zr3j (Listen) TUE Julian Clary and Janet Ellis TUE TUE Comedian Julian Clary and former Blue Peter presenter Janet TUE Ellis talk favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Choices TUE under discussion are Mischief, a collection of short stories TUE by Fay Weldon, English Passengers, Matthew Kneale's tale of TUE the colonisation of Tasmania, and Anne Tyler's best-known TUE novel The Accidental Tourist. Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Julian Clary TUE Interviewed Guest: Janet Ellis TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b060zw8b (Listen) TUE Interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b060zgp8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 It's Not What You Know b060ztxq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE What was Seann Walsh's worst gig? What was Dane Baptiste's TUE nickname at school? What is Sara Cox's all time favourite TUE food? TUE TUE All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in TUE the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested TUE on how well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE TUE In this case, comedians Seann Walsh and Dane Baptiste pick TUE their old school mates, and DJ Sara Cox asks her best friend TUE to answer questions about each other. TUE TUE Producer: Matt Stronge. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Miles Jupp TUE Panellist: Seann Walsh TUE Panellist: Dane Baptiste TUE Panellist: Sara Cox TUE Producer: Matt Stronge TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b060zvnb (Listen) TUE Shula plays peacemaker, and Kate shares something personal. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b060ztbq (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b060zq8t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b060zvnd (Listen) TUE Works behind schedule; costs going up; an inquiry into poor TUE performance announced by the industry regulator. It's a TUE depressingly familiar story on our railways. From brand new TUE station escalators at a standstill in Birmingham, to only 10 TUE per cent of trains on time at one of London's busiest TUE stations, even the Chancellor's planned Northern Powerhouse TUE is threatened as line upgrades between Manchester and York TUE are delayed. TUE Allan Urry investigates Network Rail's woes as pressure TUE mounts to deliver £24 billion of infrastructure TUE improvements. TUE Reporter: Allan Urry Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b060zvng (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b060zvnj (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b060zq8m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b060zgpb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b060zw8d (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b060zw8g (Listen) TUE Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Episode 2 TUE TUE Elizabeth von Arnim's semi-autobiographical first novel - TUE first published in 1898 and written as a series of diary TUE entries - details the joys and frustrations of creating a TUE garden on her husband's family estate in northern Germany. TUE TUE Elizabeth is a wild spirit whose minor eccentricities (she TUE is happiest when eating salad outdoors) bemuse the servants TUE and shock her high-born neighbours. Rather than hating the TUE estate's remoteness and dilapidation, Elizabeth sees her TUE sojourn there as an opportunity to create a beautiful garden TUE in which she can spend time thinking about the world, TUE playing with her beloved daughters and tolerating the TUE occasional visitor. TUE TUE Reader: Caroline Martin TUE Writer: Elizabeth von Arnim TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Caroline Martin TUE Author: Elizabeth von Arnim TUE Abridger: Sara Davies TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b060zddz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b060zw8j (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 JULY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b060xvs5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b061ckdt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b060xvs7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b060xvs9 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b060xvsc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b060xvsf (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b061brxx (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie WED Griffiths. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0610171 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkc54 (Listen) WED Red-Legged Partridge 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 Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the WED Red-legged Partridge. The red-legged partridge, which are WED sometimes called French partridges, are native to WED Continental Europe and were successfully introduced to the WED UK as a game bird in the 18th century. Seen from a distance, WED crouching in an arable field, they look like large clods of WED earth, but up close they have beautiful plumage. WED WED Red-legged Partidge (Alectoris rufa) WED Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b0610173 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0610175 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b061d0fp (Listen) WED All Day Long, The Ballet Dancer WED WED In 1974, the US broadcaster Studs Terkel talked to Americans WED "About what they do all day, and how they feel about what WED they do". His book telling their stories, Working, became a WED seminal tract in social history, and left an indelible print WED of how Americans worked and felt in the seventies. WED WED Biggs has revisited Terkel's model in her tour of WED contemporary Britain - her interviewees including a lawyer, WED care worker, fishmonger, giggle doctor (yes, there really is WED such a thing), ballet dancer, quiz writer and potter, among WED many others. The book is a beautifully-observed portrait of WED the United Kingdom at work in the twenty-first century. WED WED Episode 3: The Ballet Dancer WED WED Joanna Biggs is an assistant editor at the London Review of WED Books. She was born in Willesden, North-West London, in WED 1982. WED WED Readers: Ben Crowe, Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Colleen WED Prendergast, Michelle Terry and Thom Tuck WED WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Ben Crowe WED Reader: Teresa Gallagher WED Reader: David Holt WED Reader: Colleen Prendergast WED Reader: Michelle Terry WED Reader: Thom Tuck WED Author: Joanna Biggs WED Abridger: Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0610177 (Listen) WED Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jane Garvey WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b0610179 (Listen) WED Dead Clever, Episode 3 WED WED As we romp through the University cloisters to Episode 3, it WED is the world of modern Geography that is even more of a WED puzzle to DCI Alma Blair than whodunit. WED WED But while Alma is employed with the suspects in the case, DS WED Jason Trotter realises there is very little he knows about WED his boss's private life, so determines to play detective. WED However, asking CSM Jo Black to share what Alma keeps so WED private may well be taking his life into his own hands. WED WED Written by Val McDermid WED Sound Designer and Engineer: Eloise Whitmore WED WED Produced and Directed by Justine Potter WED A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED DCI Alma Blair: Julie Hesmondhalgh WED DS Jason Trotter: John Hollingworth WED CSM Jo Black: Jane Hazlegrove WED Narrator: Jonathan Keeble WED Linda: Helen Kay WED Mary: Gemma North WED Mo: Nitin Kundra WED Director: Justine Potter WED Producer: Justine Potter WED Writer: Val McDermid WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b061017c (Listen) WED Pat and Cheryl - Senior Moments WED WED Fi Glover with two stalwarts of the Black Mountain Lions WED charity sharing their reflections on aging and on how giving WED to charity can give a lot back. Recorded in the Listening WED Project Booth at the Hay Festival. Another in the series WED that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 New Wave at Westminster b061017f (Listen) WED Arcane and bewildering - that's how new members often find WED the House of Commons. Following the General Election there WED are 182 of them, who have been adjusting to their new life WED at Westminster. WED WED Over the past few weeks, BBC Radio 4 has been following six WED of the new intake, recording their experiences, exploring WED their hopes and seeing whether this class of 2015 are going WED to make a difference. WED WED Johnny Mercer was the unexpected Conservative winner for the WED seat of Plymouth, Moor View. A former captain in the British WED Army, he completed three combat tours of Afghanistan. WED WED Maria Caulfield is the Conservative MP for Lewes, and until WED the election was a nurse at the Royal Marsden Hospital and a WED part-time shepherd. WED WED Tulip Siddiq kept the seat of Hampstead and Kilburn for WED Labour by the slimmest of majorities. She is the WED granddaughter of the first President of Bangladesh and niece WED to the current Bangladeshi Prime Minister. WED WED Jess Phillips is the Labour MP for Birmingham, Yardley, with WED a background of working with victims of domestic and sexual WED violence. WED WED Tommy Sheppard is the new SNP MP for Edinburgh East and one WED of the older newbies at 56. He was previously Scottish WED Labour's Assistant General Secretary but more recently a WED comedy club owner. WED WED Natalie McGarry is the SNP MP for Glasgow East and was a WED founder member of Women for Independence in 2012. WED WED Martha Kearney looks at how these MPs from very diverse WED backgrounds are coping with the pressures of Westminster WED life and asks whether the class of 2015 is making an WED impression in the new parliament. WED WED Producer: Kate Dixon. WED WED 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b03b0yf2 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, WED regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things WED like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit WED sketch show. WED WED The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by WED The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny WED sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The WED second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and WED Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. WED WED This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches WED about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how WED goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate WED instead on the the big, serious issues. WED WED This third episode of the series features a song about an WED unheralded inventor; a touching reunion; and a normal man. WED WED Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret WED Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. WED Original music is by Susannah Pearse. WED WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: John Finnemore WED Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Ensemble: Simon Kane WED Ensemble: Lawry Lewin WED Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: John Finnemore WED WED 12:00 News Summary b060xvsh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b061017h (Listen) WED 8 July 1915 - Mervyn Harris WED WED When Mervyn returns home on leave, only Maisie is unchanged WED by the war, for better or worse. WED WED Written by Richard Monks WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Mervyn Harris: Tom Whitelock WED Maisie Plackett: Cassie Layton WED Albert Wilson: Harry Myers WED Roy Lavoie: Tim Beckmann WED Norman Harris: Sean Baker WED Eric Morton: Ian Conningham WED Jacko: Jude Akuwudike WED Charlie: Sam Valentine WED Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick WED Reg: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Inspector Forrester: Nigel Hastings WED Writer: Richard Monks WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 Summer Budget 2015 b061017m (Listen) WED Coverage of the chancellor's Budget speech with analysis and WED reaction. WED WED 13:56 Weather b060xvsk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b060zvnb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b061017r (Listen) WED Curious Under the Stars, Gone West WED WED By Meic Povey WED WED The first of a new series set in Glan Don, a wild and WED mysterious village perched on the Welsh coast. WED WED When Gareth finds his wife Diane in bed with a stranger, the WED couple attempt to salvage their marriage by uprooting from WED London to run a pub in West Wales. But The Druid's Rest has WED seen better days - the wallpaper is peeling, there's WED something growing out of the pool table and a mysterious man WED called Emlyn is living in the customer toilets. WED WED Starring Elis James (Crims), Louise Ford (Chickens) and Ifan WED Huw Dafydd (Gavin and Stacey), Curious Under the Stars takes WED us deep into a Welsh landscape of myth, magic and mayhem. WED WED Directed by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Gareth: Elis James WED Diane: Louise Ford WED Emlyn: Ifan Huw Dafydd WED Bethan: Eiry Hughes WED Gwyn: Matthew Gravelle WED Director: James Robinson WED Writer: Meic Povey WED WED 15:00 Money Box b061017t (Listen) WED Need help with welfare benefits, tax credits or older age WED benefits? Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday WED 8 July or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now with your questions. WED WED Billions of pounds in state benefits remain unclaimed each WED year but over 13 million UK households are living in WED poverty, according to Department for Work and Pensions WED (DWP). WED WED About 4 million older people are entitled to Pension Credit, WED yet Age UK say around 1 in 3 of those eligible are still not WED claiming and could also be missing out on housing benefit WED and council tax support. WED WED The charity Carers UK say that families taking on caring WED responsibilities face lasting financial pressure as a result WED of lost earnings and rising household costs, many cutting WED back on essentials like food and heating. WED WED If a change in personal circumstances, disability, illness WED or losing your job is causing you financial hardship, you WED may be entitled to seek help through benefits. WED WED Whether you're of working age or in retirement, we'll have a WED team of benefits advisors to talk you through the options. WED Joining presenter Lesley Curwen to answer your questions WED will be: WED WED Eddy Graham, Head of Advice and Information, Carers UK. WED David Stickland, The Benefits Training Company. WED Sally West, AGE UK WED WED Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. Standard geographic WED charges from landlines and mobiles will apply. WED Carers UK WED AGE UK WED Working Families WED Citizens Advice WED Money Advice Service - Benefits WED GOV.UK - Benefits WED GOV.UK - Tax Credits WED Turn2us WED IncomeMax WED DWP Income-related benefits: estimates of take-up: financial WED year 2013/14 WED WED WED WED WED WED WED WED 15:30 The Listening Project b04mh75g (Listen) WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and son WED from Carlisle about whose right it was to reveal he was gay, WED and the depression which both he and his father have WED experienced, in the Omnibus edition of the series that WED proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 15:45 What Is a Story? b061017p (Listen) WED It's All Absolutely True WED WED Marina Warner - in the company of leading contemporary WED writers - looks at the world of contemporary fiction. In WED each programme, she considers a story and story writing from WED a different angle. WED WED Marina is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize WED 2015 and the series draws on the expertise of this year's WED International Booker judging panel, the views of the WED shortlisted writers, as well as other key literary talent. WED WED Marina speaks with writers as diverse as Julian Barnes, WED Michelle Roberts, Fanny Howe, Marlene van Niekerk, Alain WED Mabanckou, Lydia Davis, Edwin Frank, Elleke Boehmer, WED Wen-Chin Ouyang, Daniel Medin, Nadeem Aslam and Laszlo WED Krasznahorkai. WED WED There are questions around the boundaries between fact and WED fiction which Marina believes are central to any WED consideration of storytelling, since readers' pleasure WED depends so much on trust built up between the storyteller or WED writer and the audience. WED WED Over ten episodes, there are discussions on the reasons for WED writing, writers as witnesses and political interaction. WED WED In episode three Marina considers whether, "It's all WED Absolutely True" WED WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b061017w (Listen) WED Arab Londoners - Migrants and British identity WED WED Being Arab in London: diaspora and difference in the city. WED Laurie Taylor talks to Ramy M. K. Aly, Assistant Professor WED of Anthropology at the American University in Cairo, about WED his seven year study of the everyday experiences of young, WED British-Arab people and the ways in which London has shaped WED and changed their ethnic identities. WED WED Also, British identity among migrant groups. Dr Saffron WED Karlsen, Senior Lecturer in Social Research, explores the WED degree to which ethnic and religious minorities feel WED themselves to be British. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b061017y (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b0610180 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b060xvsm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b0610182 (Listen) WED Series 2, Alcohol WED WED Comedian Simon Evans returns with a new series about the WED economics of some of the goods - or bads - we are addicted WED to. WED WED If you crave your daily coffee, can't get by without a WED cigarette, feel that mid-afternoon slump without your WED sugar-fix, or can't face an evening without a glass of wine, WED you are definitely not alone. But have you ever thought WED about the economics that has made your addiction possible? WED Who does it profit? And would you want to make some canny WED investments that take advantage of our human weaknesses? WED WED In this series, Simon Evans looks at the economics, history WED and health issues behind these oh-so-addictive commodities. WED WED With the help of economics guru, More Or Less host Tim WED Harford and the Queen of investment know-how, Merryn WED Somerset-Webb, Simon walks us around the economics of these WED very familiar commodities and pokes fun at our relationship WED with them. WED WED Presented by Simon Evans, with regular guests Tim Harford WED and Merryn Somerset-Webb. WED Written by Simon Evans, Benjamin Partridge and Andy Wolton. WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Simon Evans WED Interviewed Guest: Tim Harford WED Interviewed Guest: Merryn Somerset Webb WED Writer: Simon Evans WED Writer: Benjamin Partridge WED Writer: Andy Wolton WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0610184 (Listen) WED Jennifer offers some womanly wisdom, and Charlie's left high WED and dry. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b06101bb (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0610179 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b06101bd (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser, Claire Fox WED and Jill Kirby. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b06101bg (Listen) WED A Response to Terror WED WED Hashi Mohamed re-interprets a recent British response to WED terrorism, arguing that the episode tells us a great deal WED about our nation. WED WED Producer: Katie Langton. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b06101bj (Listen) WED Seeing Is Believing - The Leviathan of Parsonstown WED WED Today, astronomers believe the universe is a violent, WED constantly changing place. But it was not always the case. WED WED At the beginning of the 19th century, many believed WED fervently that the celestial sky was a constant, divinely WED perfected, completed creation. WED WED But as telescopes got larger, the mystery of the number, WED origin and role of the "nebulae" - those colourful, WED cloud-like smudges on the sky - grew and grew. Were they WED really vast clouds of gas and dust as they sometimes WED appeared? Or were they merely closely packed, very distant WED clusters of stars, as some of them allegedly appeared when WED magnified through the great reflecting telescopes? WED WED When some astronomers and writers suggested they were in WED fact a vision of creation in action, matter condensing to WED form stars and planets like our own, some establishment WED religious figures cried foul, fearing the social WED implications. WED WED Could bigger telescopes resolve the crisis? WED WED For most of the 19th century, the biggest telescope in the WED world was in Birr, Ireland, then known as Parsonstown. It WED was built by an Anglo-Irish nobleman, William Parsons, Earl WED of Rosse, in the midst of the Irish famine. 50 feet long, 6 WED feet in diameter, the monster instrument was dubbed "The WED Leviathan". WED WED But even thus equipped, in the days before photography and WED spectroscopy, observers could only describe and sketch what WED they saw, and it was hard to be objective. WED WED As Simon Schaffer, James Bennet, and Chris Lintott narrate, WED the debate as to the truth of the "Nebular Hypothesis", and WED the concern as to whether the Irish astronomers really saw WED what they claimed to see, paved the way for the Darwinian WED debates in the coming decades. WED WED Producer: Alex Mansfield. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0610175 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0610349 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b061034c (Listen) WED Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Episode 3 WED WED Elizabeth von Arnim's semi-autobiographical first novel - WED published in 1898 and written as a series of diary entries - WED details the joys and frustrations of creating a garden on WED her husband's family estate in northern Germany. WED WED Elizabeth is a wild spirit whose minor eccentricities bemuse WED the servants and shock her high-born neighbours. In WED particular, she constantly rails against the constraints WED placed upon her gender. In this episode she revisits her WED childhood home, which she had to leave when her father died WED and it was inherited by her (male) cousins. WED WED Reader: Caroline Martin WED Writer: Elizabeth von Arnim WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Caroline Martin WED Author: Elizabeth von Arnim WED Abridger: Sara Davies WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 23:00 Bunk Bed b061034f (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Two men in darkness, sharing a bunk bed and a stream of WED semi-consciousness about family, relationships, work and WED imagined life. WED WED We all crave a place where our mind and body are not applied WED to a particular task. The nearest faraway place from daily WED life. Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange WED thoughts which don't have to be shooed into context, but WED which can be followed like balloons escaping onto the air. WED Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, the restless WED mind can wander. WED WED After an acclaimed reception by The Independent, The Sunday WED Telegraph, The Observer and Radio 4 listeners, Bunk Bed WED returns with its late night stream of semi-consciousness. WED WED In this episode, under cover of darkness, the bedfellows WED touch on how your name forms the character, alarms in WED biscuit tins, a child called Typhus, and the enduring WED strength of The Night Chicago Died by Paper Lace. WED WED Elsewhere in the series, Patrick and Peter deal with WED therapy, Chas and Dave, children's happiness, JRR Tolkien, WED Babysham, Aldous Huxley and correction fluid - among a WED ragbag of subjects. WED WED Written and performed by Patrick Marber and Peter Curran WED WED Producer: Peter Curran WED A Foghorn production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 I, Regress b01rr6cg (Listen) WED Series 2, Cats WED WED A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an WED unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees WED Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff WED Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking WED unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through WED their subconscious. WED WED Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client WED who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient WED is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the WED various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are WED played out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or WED nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny WED as it is disturbing. WED WED The cast across the series include Bob Mortimer, Daisy WED Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy-Ann Oberman. WED WED A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone WED else's head! WED WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Matt Berry WED Producer: Sam Bryant WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b061034h (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 JULY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b060xvtv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b061d0fp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b060xvtx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b060xvtz (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b060xvv1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b060xvv3 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b061bry4 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie THU Griffiths. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b06123jh (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkcwq (Listen) THU Eider 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 Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Eider. THU Eiders are northern sea-ducks perhaps most famous for the THU soft breast feathers with which they line their nests. These THU feathers were collected by eider farmers and used to fill THU pillows and traditional 'eider -downs'. Drake eiders display THU to the females with odd moaning calls which you can hear in THU the programme. THU THU Eider (Somateria mollissima) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b06125z9 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b06125zc (Listen) THU Born near Mexico City in 1907, Frida Kahlo is considered one THU of Mexico's greatest artists. She took up painting after a THU bus accident left her severely injured, was a Communist, THU married Diego Rivera, a celebrated muralist, became friends THU with Trotsky and developed an iconic series of THU self-portraits. Her work brings together elements such as THU surrealism, pop culture, Aztec and Indian mythology and THU commentary on Mexican culture. In 1938, artist and poet THU Andre Breton organised an exhibition of her work in New THU York, writing in the catalogue, "The Art of Frida Kahlo is a THU ribbon around a bomb." She was not as widely appreciated THU during her lifetime as she has since become, but is now one THU of the most recognised artists of the 20th century. THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b061d16d (Listen) THU All Day Long, The Fishmonger THU THU In 1974, the US broadcaster Studs Terkel talked to Americans THU "About what they do all day, and how they feel about what THU they do". His book telling their stories, Working, became a THU seminal tract in social history, and left an indelible print THU of how Americans worked and felt in the seventies. THU THU Biggs has revisited Terkel's model in her tour of THU contemporary Britain - her interviewees including a lawyer, THU care worker, fishmonger, giggle doctor (yes, there really is THU such a thing), ballet dancer, quiz writer and potter, among THU many others. The book is a beautifully-observed portrait of THU the United Kingdom at work in the twenty-first century. THU THU Episode 4: The Fishmonger THU THU Joanna Biggs is an assistant editor at the London Review of THU Books. She was born in Willesden, North-West London, in THU 1982. THU THU Readers: Ben Crowe, Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Colleen THU Prendergast, Michelle Terry and Thom Tuck THU THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Ben Crowe THU Reader: Teresa Gallagher THU Reader: David Holt THU Reader: Colleen Prendergast THU Reader: Michelle Terry THU Reader: Thom Tuck THU Author: Joanna Biggs THU Abridger: Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b06125zf (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b06125zh (Listen) THU Dead Clever, Episode 4 THU THU Jo is starting to wonder whether it's time for Alma to stop THU protecting the line between her professional and private THU life. THU THU Meanwhile, the academics implicated in the murder of their THU professor seem interested only in how it will transform THU their career prospects. THU THU The pursuit of an important piece of forensic evidence leads THU them into danger. THU THU Written by Val McDermid THU Sound Designer and Engineer: Eloise Whitmore THU THU Produced and Directed by Justine Potter THU A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU DCI Alma Blair: Julie Hesmondhalgh THU DS Jason Trotter: John Hollingworth THU CSM Jo Black: Jane Hazlegrove THU Narrator: Jonathan Keeble THU Linda: Helen Kay THU Mary: Gemma North THU Mo: Nitin Kundra THU Director: Justine Potter THU Producer: Justine Potter THU Writer: Val McDermid THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b06125zk (Listen) THU Reports from writers and journalists around the world. THU Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 People Talking b06125zm (Listen) THU Exploring the poetic sound world of postwar radio THU documentary pioneer, Denis Mitchell. THU THU From 1953 to 1959, Denis Mitchell was the producer of the THU seminal radio series People Talking, made at the BBC North THU Region. Throughout these years, Mitchell roamed the streets THU of Manchester and Liverpool, recording voices of everyday THU people and becoming one of the first radio producers in the THU country to exploit the potential of new portable tape THU machines. THU THU For his documentaries, Mitchell sought out people sleeping THU in doorways and under bridges. He was drawn to those who THU were usually voiceless and hidden. He recorded with THU prisoners at Strangeways and with lorry drivers on the road. THU He was a good listener. Fellow radio producer Philip THU Donnellan described his approach as, "...with scarcely a THU word, holding the mic with one hand and a ciggie with the THU other, he encouraged people only with his look of battered THU and opaque world-weariness... It was remarkable." THU THU When he returned to the studio, Mitchell made use of another THU new technology - magnetic tape - to splice together voices THU with ambient sound, becoming the first radio producer to THU experiment with the sound montage. His impressionistic THU assemblages of everyday voices were presented without THU commentary or questions. THU THU This programme explores Mitchell's sound world, a THU revolutionary and democratic approach to long-form radio and THU his innovation as a sound artist. THU THU Contributors include filmmaker Ken Loach, folk singer Peggy THU Seeger, radio critic and writer Gillian Reynolds, American THU radio documentarian David Isay, BFI historian Patrick THU Russell and Kevin Macdonald, director of One Day in THU September and Touching the Void. THU THU Producers: Simon Hollis and Eve Claxton THU A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b060xvv5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b06125zp (Listen) THU 9 July 1915 - Mickey Macknade THU THU The day that Mickey Macknade put away childish things, and THU grew up. THU THU Written by Richard Monks THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU Credits THU Mickey Macknade: Reece Buttery THU Maggie Macknade: Hollie Thoupos THU Alice Macknade: Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Thornton Tulliver: Nigel Harman THU Muriel Grainger: Hannah Tointon THU Roy Lavoie: Tim Beckmann THU Adam Wilson: Leo Montague THU Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson THU Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick THU Spence: Mark Edel-Hunt THU Writer: Richard Monks THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b06125zr (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b060xvv7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b06125zt (Listen) THU Rigorous analysis of news and current affairs, presented by THU Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 What Is a Story? b061d16g (Listen) THU Bearing Witness THU THU Marina Warner - in the company of leading contemporary THU writers - looks at the world of contemporary fiction. In THU each programme, she considers a story and story writing from THU a different angle. THU THU Marina is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize THU 2015 and the series draws on the expertise of this year's THU International Booker judging panel, the views of the THU shortlisted writers, as well as other key literary talent. THU THU Marina speaks with writers as diverse as Julian Barnes, THU Michelle Roberts, Fanny Howe, Marlene van Niekerk, Alain THU Mabanckou, Lydia Davis, Edwin Frank, Elleke Boehmer, THU Wen-Chin Ouyang, Daniel Medin, Nadeem Aslam and Laszlo THU Krasznahorkai. THU THU There are questions around the boundaries between fact and THU fiction which Marina believes are central to any THU consideration of storytelling, since readers' pleasure THU depends so much on trust built up between the storyteller or THU writer and the audience. THU THU Over ten episodes, there are discussions on the reasons for THU writing, writers as witnesses and political interaction. THU THU In episode four Marina looks at, 'Bearing Witness' THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0610184 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Drama b0612b30 (Listen) THU The Dad Who Fell to Earth THU THU Drama: The Dad Who Fell to Earth by Toby Hadoke THU THU Tom had been struggling to come to terms with his dad's THU sudden death, but that was before he found out his dad was THU secretly an alien from a distant planet. Tom finds his whole THU world shifting to a new perspective, a perspective that THU might just also include saving Earth from imminent THU destruction. THU THU Written by Toby Hadoke THU Directed by Charlotte Riches. THU THU Credits THU Tom: Toby Hadoke THU Russel: Ronald Pickup THU Jan: Cherylee Houston THU Wendy: Alexandra Mathie THU Pete: Lee Fenwick THU Steve: Lee Fenwick THU Chelsea: Zoe Iqbal THU Writer: Toby Hadoke THU Director: Charlotte Riches THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0612bn9 (Listen) THU Celebrating Golowan in Cornwall THU THU Golowan is the Cornish tradition of lighting Midsummer THU Bonfires. This ancient tradition which hopes to prolong the THU summer sun for a good harvest was revived by The Old Cornish THU Society. Helen Mark meets some of their members to learn how THU they hope to keep the unique identity of this place alive THU and well. THU THU On Bodmin Moor and Kit Hill there are reminders of man's THU habitation going back 5000 years. The fires they light on THU Bodmin Moor each year hark back to pre-historic times and THU scattered around the moor are Neolithic monuments which bear THU testament to man's long history in this 'ritual landscape'. THU Writer Philip Marsden explains how his search for the THU 'Spirit of Place' began on the moors and then spread deep THU into the heart of the Cornish landscape and its people. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b060xztg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b060yk50 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0612bnc (Listen) THU Dear White People THU THU With Francine Stock. THU THU Director Justin Simien discusses his controversial comedy THU Dear White People. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Justin Simien THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b0612hjg (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b0612hjj (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b060xvv9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's a Fair Cop b0612hjl (Listen) THU Series 2, Stop Search THU THU After a successful first series on Radio 4 and a sold-out THU run at the Edinburgh Festival, policeman turned comic, Alfie THU Moore, returns with the series that forces his audience to THU make the policing decisions as he takes them through a real THU life crime scenario. This week Alfie tackles the tricky THU subject of Stop Search THU THU Written and performed by Alfie Moore, THU Script Editor ..... Will Ing, THU Producer..... Alison Vernon-Smith. THU THU Credits THU Performer: Alfie Moore THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Writer: Alfie Moore THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0612hjn (Listen) THU Ruth and David consider the future, and Toby has his eyes on THU the prize. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0612hjq (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b06125zh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0612hjs (Listen) THU Jehovah's Witnesses and Child Sexual Abuse THU THU In June, the High Court ruled that the Jehovah's Witnesses THU organisation was liable for sexual abuse committed by one of THU its members. THU THU The Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain - to give THU the group its official name - had failed to take adequate THU safeguarding steps when senior members of the organisation THU were aware that a fellow Witness was a known paedophile. THU THU It was the first civil case in the UK of historical sexual THU abuse brought against the Christian-based religious THU movement. THU THU The BBC's Religious Affairs Correspondent, Caroline Wyatt, THU explores the implications of the Court's decision and THU investigates the child safeguarding policies of the THU Jehovah's Witnesses. THU THU The Report hears from former Witnesses who have suffered THU abuse and who claim that rather than protecting children, THU the Society provides a 'paedophile's paradise' that THU encourages allegations of abuse to be dealt with in-house, THU rather than by the police. THU THU The programme investigates how the group's Elders are THU instructed to act when they receive an allegation of sexual THU abuse, and asks whether the Jehovah's Witnesses have a THU systematic problem in the way it deals with such complaints. THU THU Presenter: Caroline Wyatt THU Producer: Hannah Barnes. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0612hjv (Listen) THU Newspapers - to pay or not to pay? THU THU Despite widespread predictions of their demise and amid THU falling numbers of readers, newspapers are still with us. THU How are they adapting to the challenges of digital THU technologies? The industry is split on the issue of whether THU or not to charge readers for online. What is the best THU business model for newspapers to survive and prosper? Evan THU Davis and guests discuss. THU THU The guests this week are: John Ridding, Chief Executive of THU the Financial Times; Ashley Highfield, Chief Executive of THU the Johnson Press and Andrew Miller, out-going Chief THU Executive of the Guardian Media Group. THU THU Producer: Jim Frank. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b0612hjg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b06125zc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0612hjx (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0612hjz (Listen) THU Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Episode 4 THU THU Best known for The Enchanted April, Elizabeth von Arnim's THU first novel, the semi-autobiographical Elizabeth and her THU German Garden, was published anonymously in 1898. In it she THU mines her unhappy marriage to an overbearing Count - the THU 'Man of Wrath' - and the mores of the German landed gentry. THU Subversive, witty and a beautiful meditation on the joys of THU gardening, it was a huge bestseller and firmly established THU von Arnim's reputation as an author. THU THU Reader: Caroline Martin THU Writer: Elizabeth von Arnim THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Caroline Martin THU Author: Elizabeth von Arnim THU Abridger: Sara Davies THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 23:00 Seekers b0612hk1 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Boy with the Wogan Tattoo THU THU Matthew Horne, Daniel Mays, Tony Way and Zahra Ahmadi star THU in the sitcom set in a jobcentre. It's the morning after THU Stuart's stag night, his back hurts, & Mr Big is looking for THU him. THU THU Written by Steve Burge. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU Credits THU Stuart: Matthew Horne THU Joseph: Daniel Mays THU Terry: Tony Way THU Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi THU Vanessa: Natalie Walter THU Gary Probert: Steve Oram THU Writer: Steven Burge THU Producer: Victoria Lloyd THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0612hk3 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 JULY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b060xvx6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b061d16d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b060xvx8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b060xvxb (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b060xvxd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b060xvxg (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b061brym (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Leslie FRI Griffiths. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0612jp1 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkdkt (Listen) FRI Ortolan Bunting 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 Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Ortolan FRI Bunting. Ortolan Buntings are smart relatives of our FRI yellowhammer. They're migrants which winter in Africa and FRI small numbers of birds heading south for the winter may turn FRI up on our coasts in autumn. But until recently in parts of FRI southern Europe, their arrival was welcomed by hunters with FRI nets. FRI FRI The sound archive recording of the ortolan bunting featured FRI in this programme was sourced from: FRI Volker Arnold, XC139765. Accessible at FRI www.xeno-canto.org/139765. FRI FRI Ortolan Bunting (Emberiza hortulana) FRI Image courtesy of Gordon Langsbury (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI Recording of Ortolan Bunting by Volker Arnold FRI (Xeno-Canto.org) FRI FRI One of the sources of audio recording of the Ortolan Bunting FRI bird was recorded by Volker Arnold and sourced via the FRI website Xeno-Canto.org. FRI FRI Source reference Volker Arnold, XC139765 Accessible at FRI www.xeno-canto.org/139765 FRI FRI Used under the conditions as per licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0612wdc (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b060yk4m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b061czhm (Listen) FRI All Day Long, The Quiz Writer and the Potter FRI FRI In 1974, the US broadcaster Studs Terkel talked to Americans FRI "About what they do all day, and how they feel about what FRI they do". His book telling their stories, Working, became a FRI seminal tract in social history, and left an indelible print FRI of how Americans worked and felt in the seventies. FRI FRI Biggs has revisited Terkel's model in her tour of FRI contemporary Britain - her interviewees including a lawyer, FRI care worker, fishmonger, giggle doctor (yes, there really is FRI such a thing), ballet dancer, quiz writer and potter, among FRI many others. The book is a beautifully-observed portrait of FRI the United Kingdom at work in the twenty-first century. FRI FRI Episode 5: The Quiz Writer and the Potter FRI FRI Joanna Biggs is an assistant editor at the London Review of FRI Books. She was born in Willesden, North-West London, in FRI 1982. FRI FRI Readers: Ben Crowe, Teresa Gallagher, David Holt, Colleen FRI Prendergast, Michelle Terry and Thom Tuck FRI FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ben Crowe FRI Reader: Teresa Gallagher FRI Reader: David Holt FRI Reader: Colleen Prendergast FRI Reader: Michelle Terry FRI Reader: Thom Tuck FRI Author: Joanna Biggs FRI Abridger: Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0612wdf (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b0612k64 (Listen) FRI Dead Clever, Episode 5 FRI FRI When a killer strikes close to home, in the world of FRI academia it's every man - or woman - for himself. Or FRI herself. Whereas in law enforcement, they close ranks. Kick FRI one and they all limp. FRI FRI Val McDermid's second comedy crime drama series - and the FRI University murder investigation - concludes. FRI FRI Written by Val McDermid FRI Sound Designer and Engineer: Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Justine Potter FRI A Savvy production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI DCI Alma Blair: Julie Hesmondhalgh FRI DS Jason Trotter: John Hollingworth FRI CSM Jo Black: Miriam Margolyes FRI Narrator: Jonathan Keeble FRI Linda: Helen Kay FRI Mary: Gemma North FRI Mo: Nitin Kundra FRI Director: Justine Potter FRI Producer: Justine Potter FRI Writer: Val McDermid FRI FRI 11:00 CSI Whale b0612k66 (Listen) FRI Six hundred cetaceans (whales and dolphins) are stranded on FRI British coasts every year. FRI FRI The UK Cetacean Strandings Investigation Programme team FRI works out of a laboratory and office at London Zoo and FRI attend as many strandings as they can in order to try to FRI find out why the animals have died. FRI FRI Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan, attends the necropsy of a FRI harbour porpoise that was washed up dead on a Welsh beach. FRI As Rob Deaville and Matt Perkins scrutinise the dead animal FRI for clues as to what might have killed it, Philip reflects FRI more widely on what going inside a whale might tell us FRI metaphorically as well as literally. FRI FRI Whales are so big and such creatures of another realm that FRI getting close to them has long spurred the human imagination FRI to ambitious reflection. Among the fruits of this are the FRI Bible story of Jonah, Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and FRI George Orwell's essay Inside the Whale. Why have we been so FRI fascinated - so bewitched and terrified at once - by these FRI animals? FRI FRI Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b0612n9l (Listen) FRI Series 10, My Kinda Town FRI FRI Episode One - My Kind Of Town FRI FRI Clare gets involved with a devious TV producer who's making FRI a documentary about the Sparrowhawk estate. Brian has gone FRI on a fitness kick and joined a men's group, which is FRI threatened by the arrival of a new member. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering FRI in other people's lives on both a professional and personal FRI basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI FRI Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control FRI both her professional and private life In today's Big FRI Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an FRI involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer Alexandra Smith. FRI FRI Credits FRI Clare: Sally Phillips FRI Brian: Alex Lowe FRI Alan: Richard Lumsden FRI Carl: Richard Lumsden FRI Simon: Andrew Wincott FRI Libby: Sarah Kendall FRI Lou: Lizzie Roper FRI Caspar: Karl Theobald FRI Malcolm: Anil Goutam FRI Writer: Harry Venning FRI Writer: David Ramsden FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b060xvxj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b0612n9n (Listen) FRI 10 July 1915 - Ralph Winwood FRI FRI Reverend Winwood finds ministering to a diverse flock of FRI parishioners far easier than his own household. FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie FRI Howard Argent: Toby Jones FRI Mervyn Harris: Tom Whitelock FRI Maisie Plackett: Cassie Layton FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Marieke Dupont: Olivia Ross FRI Juliet Cavendish: Lizzie Bourne FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b0612n9q (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b060xvxl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0612wdh (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 What Is a Story? b061d24z (Listen) FRI History for the Record FRI FRI Marina Warner - in the company of leading contemporary FRI writers - looks at the world of contemporary fiction. In FRI each programme, she considers a story and story writing from FRI a different angle. FRI FRI Marina is the Chair of the Man Booker International Prize FRI 2015 and the series draws on the expertise of this year's FRI International Booker judging panel, the views of the FRI shortlisted writers, as well as other key literary talent. FRI FRI Marina speaks with writers as diverse as Julian Barnes, FRI Michelle Roberts, Fanny Howe, Marlene van Niekerk, Alain FRI Mabanckou, Lydia Davis, Edwin Frank, Elleke Boehmer, FRI Wen-Chin Ouyang, Daniel Medin, Nadeem Aslam and Laszlo FRI Krasznahorkai. FRI FRI There are questions around the boundaries between fact and FRI fiction which Marina believes are central to any FRI consideration of storytelling, since readers' pleasure FRI depends so much on trust built up between the storyteller or FRI writer and the audience. FRI FRI Over ten episodes, there are discussions on the reasons for FRI writing, writers as witnesses and political interaction. FRI FRI In episode five Marina explores History for the Record. FRI FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0612hjn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b0612n9s (Listen) FRI Rumpole, Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation FRI FRI Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Rumpole in a story written by FRI John Mortimer and adapted by Richard Stoneman. FRI FRI Rumpole meets Erskine-Brown in Pommeroy's. Erskine-Brown is FRI depressed because he's doing a sordid ABH and affray which FRI allegedly occurred in a Soho night club. Rumpole tells him FRI to visit the scene of the crime to get the lay of the land, FRI which they do. They drink with Maurice Machin, the editor of FRI the Daily Beacon, who tells Rumpole that an article in his FRI paper by one "Stella January" alleged that Ameila FRI Nettleship, an author of historical novels, has affairs with FRI married men. She is suing the paper, and Maurice Machin, for FRI libel. FRI FRI Will Rumpole defend? He agrees. FRI FRI Meanwhile Erskine-Brown, due to get married to Phillida FRI Trant in a couple of weeks, doesn't realise his photo has FRI been taken as he ogles the topless dancers. When this photo FRI is published in the papers, Phillida is furious. FRI FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI Produced by Catherine Bailey FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Horace Rumpole: Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Hilda Rumpole: Jasmine Hyde FRI Phillida Erskine-Brown: Cathy Sara FRI Claude Erskine-Brown: Nigel Anthony FRI Maurice Machin: Ewan Bailey FRI Porky Peppiatt: Stephen Critchlow FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Adaptor: Richard Stoneman FRI Author: John Mortimer FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0612rhl (Listen) FRI County Antrim FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts the programme from County Antrim, Northern FRI Ireland. Joining the panel are Matt Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and FRI James Wong. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras. FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton. FRI FRI A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Rapunzel b0612rhn (Listen) FRI The Switch FRI FRI The last of three specially-commissioned tales by Julie FRI Mayhew - her first stories for radio - taking their FRI inspiration not only from the Rapunzel story made familiar FRI by the Brothers Grimm, but also from some of the traditional FRI European tales that influenced them. FRI FRI In modern settings, each story features a girl with a tall FRI tower of her own and the possibilities of an open window... FRI FRI Episode 3: The Switch FRI Set in the not-too-distant future, a woman sits watching FRI events on 'Earth'. But who is the crying girl with the crazy FRI hair? FRI FRI Julie Mayhew has written three plays for radio, including A FRI Shoebox Of Snow which was nominated for Best Drama at the FRI BBC Audio Drama Awards in 2012. Her first novel, Red Ink FRI (2013), was nominated for the 2014 CILIP Carnegie Medal. Her FRI second, The Big Lie, will be published in the summer of FRI 2015. Julie is a founder and host of the short story FRI cabaret, The Berko Speakeasy. FRI FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI FRI Produced by Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Indira Varma FRI Writer: Julie Mayhew FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0612wdk (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b0612rhq (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for listener comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b0612rhs (Listen) FRI Ian and Matthew - A Farming Family History FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a farmer and son FRI about the pull of the land and the responsibility of FRI tradition. Another in the series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0612wdm (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b060xvxn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b0612rhv (Listen) FRI Series 46, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical FRI stand-up and sketches. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0612rhx (Listen) FRI Ruth feels torn, and there is no going back for Adam. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Simon Frith FRI Director: Marina Caldarone FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Usha Franks: Souad Faress FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0612wdp (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b0612k64 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0612rhz (Listen) FRI Tim Farron MP FRI FRI Shaun Ley presents political debate from the Concorde Centre FRI at Manchester Airport with Liberal Democrat leader contender FRI Tim Farron MP and others. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0612wdr (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front - Omnibus b0612rj1 (Listen) FRI 6-10 July 1915 FRI FRI Omnibus edition of this week's episodes. Soldiers home on FRI leave find home so different to the one they thought they FRI were fighting for. FRI FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Story-led by Sebastian Baczkiewicz FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Howard Argent: Toby Jones FRI Juliet Cavendish: Lizzie Bourne FRI Marieke Dupont: Olivia Ross FRI Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Muriel Grainger: Hannah Tointon FRI Mervyn Harris: Tom Whitelock FRI Norman Harris: Sean Baker FRI Josiah King: Daniel Kendrick FRI Roy Lavoie: Tim Beckmann FRI Adeline Lumley: Anastasia Hille FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Victor Lumley: Joel McCormack FRI Alice Macknade: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Maggie Macknade: Hollie Thoupos FRI Mickey Macknade: Reece Buttery FRI Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Hilary Pearce: Craige Els FRI Maisie Plackett: Cassie Layton FRI Toby Speedwell: Joe Bannister FRI Thornton Tulliver: Nigel Harman FRI Adam Wilson: Leo Montague FRI Albert Wilson: Harry Myers FRI Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley FRI Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie FRI Inspector Forrester: Nigel Hastings FRI Eric Morton: Ian Conningham FRI Mr Scott: David Hounslow FRI Jacko: Jude Akuwudike FRI Charlie: Sam Valentine FRI Spence: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Writer: Richard Monks FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b060xvxq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0612wx2 (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0612rj3 (Listen) FRI Elizabeth and Her German Garden, Episode 5 FRI FRI Elizabeth von Arnim's semi-autobiographical first novel, FRI written as a series of diary entries, was published FRI anonymously in 1898. FRI FRI The central character, Elizabeth, is a wild spirit whose FRI minor eccentricities bemuse the servants and shock the FRI high-born neighbours of her husband's family estate in FRI northern Germany. Rather than hating its remoteness and FRI dilapidation, Elizabeth sees her sojourn there as an FRI opportunity to create a beautiful garden in which she can FRI spend time thinking about the world, playing with her FRI beloved daughters and tolerating the occasional visitor. FRI FRI Reader: Caroline Martin FRI Writer: Elizabeth von Arnim FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Caroline Martin FRI Author: Elizabeth von Arnim FRI Abridger: Sara Davies FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b060zr3j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0612x36 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy and the BBC parliamentary team report from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b0612rj5 (Listen) FRI Sarah and Andy - Doctors are Human Too FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a doctor and her FRI husband about the strain of dealing with life and death FRI every day. Another in the series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
04 July, 2015
Radio 4 Listings for 04/07/2015 - 10/07/2015
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