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SAT SATURDAY 11 JUNE 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b07djvw4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b07f4yrr (Listen) SAT Only in Naples, Episode 5 SAT SAT Fresh out of college in 1996, Katherine arrives in Naples SAT from America to intern at the United States Consulate. SAT "There is a chaotic, vibrant energy about Naples that forces SAT you to let go and give in," writes Katherine, who meets SAT handsome, studious Salvatore and finds herself immediately SAT enveloped by his elegant mother, Raffaella, and the rest of SAT the Avallone family. From that moment, Katherine's education SAT begins: Never eat the crust of a pizza first, always stand SAT up and fight for yourself and your loved ones, and consider SAT mealtimes sacred-food must be prepared fresh and consumed in SAT compagnia. SAT Immersed in Neapolitan culture, traditions, and cuisine, SAT slowly and unexpectedly falling for Salvatore, and longing SAT for Raffaella's company and guidance, Katherine discovers SAT how to prepare meals that sing, from hearty, thick ragù to SAT comforting rigatoni alla Genovese, to name but two. SAT Through courtship, culture clashes, Sunday services, SAT marriage, and motherhood (in Naples, a pregnancy craving SAT must always be satisfied!), Katherine comes to appreciate SAT carnale, the quintessentially Neapolitan sense of comfort SAT and confidence in one's own skin. Raffaella and her famiglia SAT are also experts at sdrammatizzare, knowing how to suck the SAT tragedy from something and spit it out with a great big SAT smile. Part travel tale, part love letter, Only in Naples is SAT a sumptuous story that is a feast for the senses. SAT SAT Credits SAT Writer: Katherine Wilson SAT Reader: Fenella Woolgar SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07djvwd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07djvwl (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07djvwn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b07djvwq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07dp2jb (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi SAT Jonathan Wittenberg. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b07dp2jd (Listen) SAT 'Learn the art of patience' SAT SAT One iPM listener's story of becoming a full time carer for SAT his grandfather with dementia. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b07djvws (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b07djvx1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b07dnqjl (Listen) SAT Series 33, Severn Way with Lucy Newcombe SAT SAT Clare Balding continues this series of epic walks by meeting SAT up with a retired RAF officer, Lucy Newcombe, who started SAT walking round the coast of Britain last summer. By the time SAT her journey ends she expects to have covered over six SAT thousand miles. Lucy and Clare discuss the kindness of SAT strangers, their love of the British countryside, home-made SAT cake and the best way to deal with dogs. They walk for six SAT miles along the Severn Way and are joined by Lucy's sister SAT in law, Laura, who, as she lives locally, has been operating SAT as landlady, laundress and taxi driver for the past two SAT weeks. She tells Clare about the changes this journey has SAT made to Lucy, once a loner, now discovering that she likes SAT the company of her fellow man. Lucy however insists she's SAT not walking alone to discover herself, find her inner voice SAT or to make plans for a new career. Lucy walks for the joy of SAT it and the chance to see more of the country she loves. SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Newcombe SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07djvx8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Royal Welsh Grassland Event SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b07djvxg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07f8q9t (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 b07djvxt (Listen) SAT Freddie Fox SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by SAT SAT Actor Freddie Fox starred in TV drama Cucumber, has played SAT Romeo, and is currently performing the parts of both SAT Demetrius and Bottom in a madcap production of A Midsummer SAT Night's dream. SAT SAT Rescued from Kolkata riverside by Mother Theresa, Gautam SAT Lewis went on to carve a career in the music industry SAT working with bands like The Libertines. He joins us on SAT Saturday Live to tell us his extraordinary story. SAT SAT Referee Mary Harmer is a football referee. She talks about SAT her love of football, her path to becoming a referee and how SAT volunteering helped her. SAT SAT A jelly version of Buckingham Palace has popped up on social SAT media this week, and Tim Simpson is the man responsible for SAT this and other strange concoctions such as a lifesize SAT chocolate Benedict Cumberbatch and a tweed suit for a horse. SAT He'll tell us how and why. SAT SAT JP meets record producer John Schroeder who worked with SAT Status Quo, Cliff Richard and Helen Shapiro, and whose cat, SAT Treasure, could predict a number one hit. SAT SAT We have the inheritance tracks of hairdresser to the stars SAT Nicky Clarke who chooses Starman by David Bowie and SAT Beautiful Boy by John Lennon, and your thank yous. SAT SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT BBC Do something great SAT link here SAT SAT Freedom in the Air SAT link here SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Freddie Fox SAT Interviewed Guest: Gautam Lewis SAT Interviewed Guest: Mary Harmer SAT Interviewed Guest: Tim Simpson SAT Interviewed Guest: John Schroeder SAT Interviewer: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Nicky Clarke SAT Producer: Corinna Jones SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b07f8q9w (Listen) SAT Series 13, Birmingham SAT SAT Jay Rayner hosts the last programme in this series from SAT Birmingham. Catalan cook Rachel McCormack, Japanese-inspired SAT Masterchef winner Tim Anderson, Chinatown Kitchen's Lizzie SAT Mabbott and expert in all things material Zoe Laughlin SAT answer the culinary questions. SAT SAT This week, the panel learn about the history of chocolate SAT making in the city as well as offering their own tips on the SAT best chocolates to use in different types of cooking. And SAT Tim Anderson ups the ante by brandishing his blowtorch in SAT order to extol the virtues of cheap chocolate! SAT SAT The panel also considers how best to use coffee in cooking - SAT giving Rachel McCormack the opportunity to get some coffee SAT gripes off her chest. And there's advice on which dishes SAT work best with a dash of lime. SAT SAT We also hear from the chocolate historian Deborah Cadbury SAT and Irene De Boo, Curator of Industry and Transport at The SAT Black Country Living Museum. SAT SAT Produced by Darby Dorras SAT Assistant producer: Hannah Newton SAT SAT Food consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b07f8q9y (Listen) SAT Isabel Hardman of the Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The Editor is Leala Padmanabhan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b07djvy2 (Listen) SAT Old Habits Die Hard SAT SAT Around the world in less than half an hour. A slump in SAT global oil prices has hit Angola hard but still, there are SAT glimpses of wealth everywhere while abject poverty's still SAT never far away. The Iraqi city of Basra is governed by SAT hardline Iranian-backed Islamist politicians but that SAT doesn't stop its citizens enjoying themselves at a brand new SAT shopping mall they call Times Square. What happens to the SAT clothes you give away to charity shops? Many are beginning a SAT journey which could lead to countries in Asia or Africa - SAT but first stop, we learn, might be a giant warehouse in SAT Hungary. The quality of the air in Hong Kong has reached new SAT lows and people are becoming ill with respiratory problems SAT and cancers - we're off in search of the one spot in the SAT city that usually escapes the smog. And, in the primary SAT schools of France they take poetry very seriously indeed. SAT That can mean a homework nightmare for the children - and SAT for their parents too. SAT SAT PHOTO: People shop at a street market in Luanda on July 3, SAT 2015. (ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images) SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b07djvyd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b07f8qb0 (Listen) SAT Energy switching - How many suppliers does it take to change SAT your provider? SAT SAT Details of how the UK's largest sports retailer Sports SAT Direct pays some of its workers were revealed to MPs this SAT week. The Business Innovation and Skills Committee is SAT looking into working practices at the company. It heard SAT evidence from the Unite union that prepaid debit cards are SAT used to pay some workers from Eastern Europe their wages. SAT They come with a £10 a month fee for workers who are also SAT charged for cash withdrawals and associated texts. Lesley SAT Curwen speaks to Craig James, Chairman of the Prepaid SAT International Forum, a trade association that represents the SAT prepaid card industry. SAT SAT As industry body Energy UK launches a Switch Guarantee which SAT aims to help households change providers in 21 days instead SAT of four to six weeks, Audrey Gallacher, Director of Energy SAT Supply at Energy UK, outlines how they plan to achieve that SAT and Money Box listener Angie shares her switching story. It SAT didn't go to plan... SAT SAT The state pensions of 472,000 British retirees who now live SAT in another EEA country receive a yearly increase. Could that SAT change if the UK votes to leave the EU? We hear from Tom SAT Selby, Senior Analyst with AJ Bell. SAT SAT There's concern from the Financial Services Consumer Panel, SAT which advises the regulator, the FCA, that millions of SAT people will miss out on receiving impartial financial advice SAT after the Money Advice Service closes. MAS was set up in SAT 2010 to provide debt and financial advice. Questions over SAT whether it was delivering value for money were raised in a SAT National Audit Office report. A March 2016 budget SAT announcement confirmed plans to abolish the service and SAT replace it with a smaller advice body. Sue Lewis is Chair of SAT the Financial Services Consumer Panel. SAT SAT Presenter: Lesley Curwen SAT Reporter: Kevin Peachey SAT Producer: Charmaine Cozier SAT Editor: Andrew Smith. SAT UK Cards Association - uses of prepaid cards SAT Prepaid International Forum SAT Energy UK – How to switch energy company SAT State pension if you retire abroad SAT SAT Money Advice Service SAT Financial Services Consumer panel SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b07dp051 (Listen) SAT Series 90, Episode 9 SAT SAT Jeremy Hardy, Sarah Kendall, Camilla Long and Lucy Porter SAT are Miles' guests in the long-running satirical quiz of the SAT week's news. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Sheehan. SAT SAT A BBC Studios Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Jeremy Hardy SAT Panellist: Sarah Kendall SAT Panellist: Camilla Long SAT Panellist: Lucy Porter SAT Producer: Paul Sheehan SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b07djvyg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b07djvyj (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b07dp055 (Listen) SAT Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh MP, Lord Forsyth, Ian Murray MP, Merryn SAT Somerset Webb SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents political debate from George Watson's SAT College in Edinburgh with the SNP MP Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh, SAT Conservative peer Lord Forsyth, the Shadow Secretary of SAT State for Scotland Ian Murray MP, and Editor-in-chief of SAT MoneyWeek Merryn Somerset Webb. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b07djvyl (Listen) SAT Any Answers after the Saturday broadcast of Any Questions? SAT Lines open at 1230 SAT Call 03700 100 444. Email is any.answers@bbc.co.uk. Or SAT tweet, the hastag is BBCAQ. Follow us @bbcanyquestions. SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b07f8qh8 (Listen) SAT Cassandra at the Wedding SAT SAT Hayley Atwell stars in Dorothy Baker's whip-smart family SAT drama about a headstrong student hell-bent on sabotaging her SAT identical twin sister's wedding day. SAT SAT Published in 1962, Baker's touching, witty and sharp SAT character study is an over-looked 20th century American SAT literary classic, featuring a protagonist easily as SAT headstrong, vulnerable and compelling as Catcher in the SAT Rye's Holden Caulfield. SAT SAT Cassandra Edwards is a clever, popular and attractive SAT 24-year-old grad student at California's Berkeley SAT University. But she is missing one thing - her much loved SAT identical twin sister, Judith. Cassandra's seemingly gilded SAT life is sent into a tailspin when she finds out that Judith SAT is marrying someone she has only just met, a nice young SAT doctor from Connecticut. SAT SAT Cassandra heads home to her family ranch to stop the wedding SAT by any means at her disposal - namely a clutch purse full of SAT pills, a taste for brandy and her own biting wit. She SAT plunges herself back into the heart of a family still SAT reeling from the death of the mother, and finds herself SAT having to face the challenge of finding out who you really SAT are when you think you're only one half of a complete SAT person. SAT SAT Adapted by Peter Flannery, the multi-award-winning stage and SAT television writer who created Our Friends in the North, The SAT Devil's Whore and who adapted the George Gently novels for SAT BBC One. SAT SAT Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore SAT Written by Dorothy Baker SAT Adapted by Peter Flannery SAT SAT Director/Producer: Melanie Harris SAT Executive Producer: Jo Meek SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Vera: Nancy Crane SAT Cassandra: Hayley Atwell SAT Judith: Cassie Layton SAT Papa: Tom Clarke-Hill SAT Grandma: Buffy Davis SAT Jack: Walles Hamonde SAT Author: Dorothy Baker SAT Adaptor: Peter Flannery SAT Director: Melanie Harris SAT Producer: Melanie Harris SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b07djvyn (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT It's the 150th anniversary of the Fawcett Society. On June SAT 7th 1866 John Stuart Mill and Henry Fawcett handed the first SAT petition to parliament demanding the vote for women. So what SAT has been the impact of feminism on women's lives? We hear SAT from Helen Pankhurst the great granddaughter of Emmeline and SAT granddaughter of Sylvia, Laura Perrins the co-editor of the SAT Conservative Women's website, Leyla Hussein psychotherapist SAT and the founder of the Dahlia Project and Yvonne Roberts the SAT journalist and novelist. SAT SAT American actor Patricia Clarkson stars in the new film SAT Learning to Drive about a woman who finally takes lessons SAT following the break up of her marriage. She tells us what SAT it's like to be Hollywood hot property at the age of 56. SAT SAT With less than two weeks to go before the EU Referendum, how SAT important are the votes of those still to make up their SAT minds and what are the issues that will sway the way women SAT vote? Dr Michelle Harrison of the global market research SAT organisation Kantar discusses. SAT SAT The Radium Girls painted dials with radium in 1920s America. SAT They licked the brushes they used to sharpen the point SAT unaware of the risks to their health. Soon the women had SAT problems with their teeth, gums, and limbs. We hear from the SAT writer Kate Moore on how they fought to get their employers SAT to admit liability and claim compensation. SAT SAT Hillary Clinton is almost certain to be claimed the SAT Democratic presidential nominee after decisive victories in SAT the California, New Jersey and New Mexico primaries. But SAT what do US women make of Hillary Clinton? Kelly Dittmar, a SAT scholar at the Centre for American Women and Politics at SAT Rutgers University, and Tiffanie Drayton, a writer and black SAT feminist writer, discuss. SAT SAT The Music journalist Sylvia Patterson shares the highlights SAT of her last 30 years writing about pop music from her time SAT in the 80s at Smash Hits. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT Interviewed Guest: Helen Pankhurst SAT Interviewed Guest: Laura Perrins SAT Interviewed Guest: Leyla Hussein SAT Interviewed Guest: Yvonne Roberts SAT Interviewed Guest: Patricia Clarkson SAT Interviewed Guest: Michelle Harrison SAT Interviewed Guest: Kelly Dittmar SAT Interviewed Guest: Tiffanie Drayton SAT Interviewed Guest: Sylvia Patterson SAT SAT 17:00 PM b07djvyq (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b07dntkc (Listen) SAT Old Dog, New Tricks SAT SAT It is not easy to teach new tricks to the business world's SAT old dogs. The latest fashionable solution for big SAT corporations slowed down by bureaucracy and traditional ways SAT of thinking is to incubate tech start-ups. The idea is that SAT the big corporation benefits from the creativity and "can SAT do" attitude of the start-up. In return the start-up gets SAT funding, professional advice and help navigating the SAT corporate world to reach the top decision makers. The model SAT is known as "corporate acceleration" and it is growing in SAT popularity. Evan Davis hears how it works. SAT SAT GUESTS: SAT SAT Jess Williamson, Director, Techstars with Barclays FinTech SAT Accelerator SAT SAT David Fogel, Head of Accelerator & Deputy Director at Wayra SAT UK SAT SAT Emily Forbes, Founder, Seenit SAT SAT Producer: Julie Ball. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07djvys (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b07djvyv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07djvyx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b07f8qk3 (Listen) SAT Sara Cox, Arthur Smith, Karl Hyde, Stuart Skelton, Emma SAT Kennedy, Jack Carroll, Nadine Shah, Bombino SAT SAT Sara Cox and Arthur Smith are joined by Underworld's Karl SAT Hyde, opera singer Stuart Skelton, author and actress Emma SAT Kennedy and comedian Jack Carroll for an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. With music from Nadine Shah SAT and Bombino. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Emma Kennedy SAT The new series of 'Mount Pleasant' is out later in the SAT summer on Sky 1. SAT The Paperback of ‘Shoes for Anthony’ is out on 30th June. SAT SAT SAT Jack Carroll SAT SAT Comedy Classroom is open to school students in Years 9 and SAT 10 in England and Wales and the equivalent in Scotland and SAT Northern Ireland until 24th July. Winners in each category SAT will have their entry made and broadcast by the BBC this SAT autumn. SAT SAT Stuart Skelton SAT 'Tristan & Isolde' is at London's Coliseum until Saturday SAT 9th July. SAT SAT Karl Hyde SAT SAT 'Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future' is available SAT now. SAT SAT Underworld are playing at Glastonbury Festival, Somerset on SAT Friday 24th June and Blue Dot Festival, Cheshire on Friday SAT 22nd July. SAT SAT Nadine Shah SAT Nadine is playing the closing party of London's Meltdown SAT Festival, a free concert to launch Refugee Week on Sunday SAT 19th June and Mouth of The Tyne Festival on Thursday 7th SAT July. SAT SAT Bombino SAT 'Azel is available now on Partisan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Sara Cox SAT Presenter: Arthur Smith SAT Interviewed Guest: Karl Hyde SAT Interviewed Guest: Stuart Skelton SAT Interviewed Guest: Jack Carroll SAT Interviewed Guest: Emma Kennedy SAT Performer: Nadine Shah SAT Performer: Bombino SAT Producer: Sukey Firth SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b07f8qk5 (Listen) SAT Mike Ashley SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b07djvyz (Listen) SAT Deep Blue Sea, Fire At Sea, Edmund White, Winifred Knights, SAT Outcast/Preacher SAT SAT Terrence Rattigan's post-war classic Deep Blue Sea opens in SAT a new production at London's NationalTheatre; dealing with SAT need, loneliness and long-repressed passion. Directed by SAT Carrie Cracknell with Helen McRory as Hester SAT Fire At Sea is the Italian documentary which won The Golden SAT Bear at this year's Berlin Film festival. Set on the SAT Sicilian Island of Lampedusa, it examines the lives of the SAT locals and the migrants who land there. SAT Edmund White's novel Our Young Man is a work of gay fiction SAT set in the world of modelling in 1980s New York, with an SAT apparently-ageless central character and the spectre of AIDS SAT on the horizon. SAT Dulwich Picture Gallery is staging an exhibition of the SAT works of early 20th century painter British Winifred Knights SAT We consider a couple of recent supernatural/horror TV dramas SAT - Outcast and Preacher. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Bidisha, Shahidha Bari and David SAT Benedict. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT The Deep Blue Sea SAT The Deep Blue Sea SAT is at the National Theatre in London until 21 September SAT 2016. SAT SAT Photo credit: Richard Hubert Smith SAT SAT SAT Fire at Sea SAT Fire at Sea SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 12A. SAT SAT SAT Winifred Knights SAT Winifred Knights (1899-1947) SAT is at the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London until 18 SAT September 2016. SAT SAT Image above and left: Winifred Knights, Landscape study for SAT Edge of Abruzzi; boat with three people on a lake, 1924, SAT Thinned oil over pen and ink on tracing paper, 28 x 38 cm, SAT Private Collection. © The Estate of Winifred Knights SAT SAT SAT Edmund White SAT SAT Our Young Man by SAT Edmund White SAT is available in hardback and ebook now. SAT SAT Photo credit: Andrew Fladeboe SAT SAT SAT Outcast SAT Outcast SAT continues on Fox on Tuesday 14 June at 10pm SAT SAT SAT Preacher SAT SAT The first three episodes of SAT Preacher SAT are available to watch on Amazon Prime now, with a new SAT episode available every Monday. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Bidisha SAT Interviewed Guest: Shahidha Bari SAT Interviewed Guest: David Benedict SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b07f8qkk (Listen) SAT The Bomb That Made Manchester? SAT SAT The massive regeneration of Manchester has happened so SAT rapidly - arguably outstripping that of any other British SAT city in recent years - that it's only natural that its SAT population looks for a reason to explain it. The simplest, SAT and the one that's taken hold most profoundly, is that the SAT 1996 IRA bomb that destroyed a large section of the city SAT centre provided the essential catalyst for the renaissance SAT that has subsequently taken place. Although nearly two SAT hundred people were injured, there were no fatalities on the SAT day; combined with the fact that much of the damage centred SAT on the widely disliked Arndale Shopping Centre, people soon SAT began to talk of this as an opportunity rather than a SAT tragedy. Michael Symmons Roberts sets out to investigate SAT whether it was in fact the bomb that did it, or whether the SAT changes that have happened would have done so anyway, just SAT at a slower rate - after all, bold projects were already SAT underway in Manchester, most notably the successful bid to SAT host the Commonwealth Games. Michael goes back over the SAT archive, listening to not just reports from the day but also SAT the debates around city planning more generally that were SAT triggered by the devastation wreaked by the bomb - and finds SAT out the extent to which Manchester's success offers a SAT template for other cities, like Detroit and Christchurch, SAT that have faced devastating blows. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b07dk01s (Listen) SAT Major Barbara, Episode 1 SAT SAT After a long absence George Bernard Shaw returns SAT to the Radio 4 airwaves in this new 2 part drama. SAT Starring Eleanor Tomlinson as Barbara and SAT Rebecca Front as Lady Britomart. SAT Barbara's mission is to save East End souls in the West Ham SAT Salvation shelter. A tale of rich privilege and a battle of SAT wills. All SAT wrapped up in a romance, the return of a long lost father SAT and SAT a little matter of finding a foundling to carry on the SAT Undershaft SAT arms and gunpowder empire. SAT SAT Concertina played by Colin Guthrie and the SAT Cornet by Peter Ringrose SAT SAT Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT Major Barbara, written in 1905, is funny, enjoyable and SAT crafty in dividing opinion and it leaves you pondering SAT whether anything has changed over the years. It cleverly SAT splits into two episodes for this Radio 4 production. SAT SAT At its heart - a simple and intriguing conflict: the SAT struggle between arms manufacturer Andrew Undershaft and his SAT Salvationist daughter Barbara. Can a father win his SAT daughter's heart and mind? SAT SAT All the best things about George Bernard Shaw are here - the SAT humour, the teasing paradoxical thinking and the sense of SAT life being both absurd and deadly serious. How should people SAT be ruled and how should they be helped? And who is really SAT pulling the strings in the struggle for power - politicians SAT or money? SAT SAT Credits SAT Barbara: Eleanor Tomlinson SAT Adolphus (Dolly): Jack Farthing SAT Lady Britomart: Rebecca Front SAT Andrew Undershaft: Matthew Marsh SAT Stephen: Joel MacCormack SAT Sarah: Scarlett Brookes SAT Charles (Cholly): Kieran Hodgson SAT Morrison: Brian Protheroe SAT Mrs Baines: Susan Jameson SAT Jenny Hill: Nicola Ferguson SAT Bill Walker: Ewan Bailey SAT Snobby Price: Sargon Yelda SAT Rummy Mitchens: Adie Allen SAT Peter Shirley: Sean Baker SAT Director: Tracey Neale SAT Producer: Tracey Neale SAT Writer: George Bernard Shaw SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b07djvz1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b07dm2ps (Listen) SAT The Morality of Business SAT SAT The sales signs are going up in 163 BHS shops around the SAT country as the liquidators try to salvage something from the SAT wreckage of this once proud company. When Sir Philip Green SAT bought BHS in 2000, it was making a profit. By the time he SAT sold it in 2015, for £1, to a three-times bankrupt with no SAT retailing experience, it was making a loss and the company SAT pension fund was more than £400m in deficit. Exactly what SAT went wrong at BHS is the subject of no fewer than four SAT separate inquires. What is certain is that it's you and I, SAT the tax payers, who will pick up the bill for the redundancy SAT payments for the 11,000 staff and responsibility for the SAT 20,000 members of the BHS company pension scheme. The head SAT of the Institute of Directors described the affair as deeply SAT damaging to the British business world. It's all a far cry SAT from the days of Quaker philanthropy that inspired so many SAT Victorian entrepreneurs. The study of business ethics is one SAT of the few growth areas of the economy. You might be SAT forgiven for wondering how effective such courses are when SAT we see so many headlines about companies avoiding tax, SAT walking away from pension liabilities, using legal loopholes SAT to make excessive profits, zero hours contracts, falsifying SAT data, mis-selling... The list goes on. Do companies have any SAT moral duty beyond the bottom line? Is the only duty of a SAT company to make money for its shareholders within the law? SAT Where and how do we draw the line between legal duty to SAT shareholders and moral duty to society? The individuals that SAT run companies have moral agency, but is there such a thing SAT as a collective, corporate moral agency? Can we impose a set SAT of moral values, or a social licence, on a company? Or will SAT that create a climate of "What can we get away with?" rather SAT than "What is right?"? SAT Chaired by Michael Buerk with Giles Fraser, Claire Fox, SAT Mathew Taylor and Melanie Phillips. Witnesses are Dr Steve SAT Davies, Dawn Foster, Prof Chris Cowton and John Morrison. SAT SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree b07dklgc (Listen) SAT Series 6, Birmingham City University SAT SAT A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this SAT week from the Birmingham City University, with specialist SAT subjects including Visual Communication, English Literature SAT and Sociology, and questions ranging from Squash and Stretch SAT to Roger McGough via Clement Attlee and the Duckworth-Lewis SAT Method. SAT SAT The programme is recorded on location at a different SAT University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates SAT against three of their Professors in an original and fresh SAT take on an academic quiz. SAT SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow SAT and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the SAT students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages SAT and science, but also their Professors' awareness of SAT television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In SAT addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope SAT for mild embarrassment on both sides. SAT SAT Other Universities featured in this series include SAT Gloucestershire, Chester, York, Bath and Glasgow. SAT SAT Produced by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b07dk0y3 (Listen) SAT Attila the Stockbroker's Mum SAT SAT Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including a moving SAT poem by Attila the Stockbroker reflecting on his mother's SAT rich life before Alzheimer's gradually robbed her of her SAT memory. SAT The readers this week are Simon Armstrong, Rosie Cavaliero, SAT Attila the Stockbroker and Radio 4 announcer and poetry SAT lover, Zeb Soanes. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT This Week's Poems SAT SAT SAT Please Mrs Butler SAT SAT by Allan Ahlberg SAT SAT From Please Mrs Butler SAT SAT Published by Puffin Books SAT SAT SAT SAT Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 SAT SAT by William Wordsworth SAT SAT From William Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SAT SAT Published by Faber and Faber SAT SAT SAT SAT A Subaltern’s Love Song SAT SAT by John Betjeman SAT SAT From The Best of Betjeman SAT SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT SAT SAT On the Sale by Auction of Keats’ Love Letters SAT SAT by Oscar Wilde SAT SAT From Oscar Wilde Selected Poems SAT SAT Published by Fyfield Books SAT SAT SAT SAT Extract from Endymion SAT SAT by John Keats SAT SAT From Keats’s Poetry and Prose SAT SAT Published by W.W Norton and Company SAT SAT SAT SAT To Night SAT SAT by Joseph Blanco White SAT SAT From Hispanic Anthology SAT SAT Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons SAT SAT SAT SAT The Long Goodbye by Attila the Stockbroker SAT SAT From Arguments Yard by Attila the Stockbroker SAT SAT Published by Cherry Red Books SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT Zeb Soanes and Roger McGough SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Roger McGough SAT Reader: Simon Armstrong SAT Reader: Rosie Cavaliero SAT Reader: Attila the Stockbroker SAT Reader: Zeb Soanes SAT Producer: Christine Hall SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 JUNE 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b07fdxnw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 After Milk Wood b04368ff (Listen) SUN Polly Garter Was My Great Gran SUN SUN In 'After Milk Wood', three acclaimed writers take their SUN inspiration from Dylan Thomas's greatest work, 'Under Milk SUN Wood'. The stories have been commissioned to commemorate the SUN centenary of the birth of the great Welsh writer, Dylan SUN Thomas, and were recorded at the Laugharne Festival in SUN Wales. SUN SUN Today Ruth Jones reads her own story, 'Polly Garter Was my SUN Great Gran' - celebrating a colourful life of love. SUN SUN The Reader is Ruth Jones - Ruth Jones is an acclaimed comedy SUN actor and writer, known best for the BAFTA Award-winning SUN series Gavin and Stacey which she co-wrote and starred in SUN with James Corden. Jones was judged the Best Female Comedy SUN Newcomer at the 2007 British Comedy Awards, and was also SUN nominated for Best Television Comedy Actress. She received SUN an MBE in 2014. SUN The producer is Justine Willett. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Ruth Jones SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Writer: Ruth Jones SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07fdxny (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07fdxp0 (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07fdxp2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b07fdxp4 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b07fdyq1 (Listen) SUN St David's, Moreton-in-Marsh SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from the Parish Church of SUN St. David, Moreton in Marsh, Gloucestershire. The church's SUN west tower and spire is over 35 metres high and houses eight SUN bells. The tenor weighs ten hundredweight and is tuned to G. SUN We hear them ringing, "Kent Treble Bob Major". SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b07f8qk5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b07fdxp6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b07fdzjs (Listen) SUN Heresy SUN SUN The poet Michael Symmons Roberts explores the subject of SUN heresy and puts some surprising names under the spotlight SUN including the Sex Pistols and that unlikely heretic George SUN Herbert. Michel explains, "I'd always thought that John SUN Donne was the metaphysical poet who really 'wrestled with SUN God', but now I think it's George." SUN SUN He starts his journey though by referencing the 500th SUN anniversary of Thomas Moore's Utopia, "a remarkable vision, SUN progressive and impressive in its openness to different SUN beliefs" and tries to square the author of that with the SUN more familiar Thomas More we know through dramas like Wolf SUN Hall. "...maybe those two Thomas Mores are like before and SUN after shots, with the seismic events of the reformation, SUN Luther's challenge to historic orthodoxy, causing More's SUN radical change of heart." SUN SUN But a main focus of Michael's thinking are the various witch SUN trials and witch hunts that take him through the heart SUN wrenching Salem witch trials, the injustice inflicted on SUN Isobel Gowdie and the extraordinary visions of Margery SUN Kempe, "she was accused of Lollardy, of siding with the SUN heretical anti-clerical reform movement known as the SUN Lollards, and she made some pretty powerful enemies, like SUN the then Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel. But it's SUN safe to say that her legacy is a lot more impressive than SUN Thomas Arundel's." Michael's journey is accompanied by the SUN music of James MacMillan, Aaron Copland and Radiohead whose SUN recent release, "Burn the Witch" begins the programme. SUN SUN Presenter: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Producer: Michael Wakelin SUN A TBI Media Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Utopia SUN Author: Thomas Moore SUN Publisher: Simon & Brown SUN Title: The Crucible SUN Author: Arthur Miller SUN Publisher: Penguin Classics SUN Title: The Book of Margery Kempe SUN Author: Margery Kempe SUN Translator: B. A. Windeatt SUN Title: In Praise of Scientific Heresy SUN Author: New Scientist SUN Publisher: Reed Business Information SUN Title: Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George SUN Herbert SUN Author: John Drury SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b07fdzjv (Listen) SUN Sticklebacks SUN SUN Chris Packham relives programmes from The Living World SUN archives. SUN SUN Sunlight reflecting through a jam-jar of small fish - SUN collected from a local stream is often a golden childhood SUN memory and one which can open the door to a lifetime of SUN wildlife observation. Those 'tiddlers' in the jar were often SUN the three-spined stickleback - one of the most common of SUN British fishes and a voracious predator to boot. In this SUN programme from 2005, Lionel Kelleway joins stickleback SUN biologist Dr Iain Barber in a mid-Wales lake to relive his SUN boyhood nature rambles and with his net in hand. SUN SUN For such small fish, sticklebacks have an impressive SUN reputation as models for scientific research. They have SUN aided our advancement and understanding of many diverse SUN fields from behaviour to evolution, biology to disease, SUN propelling this little fish to the forefront of modern SUN biological research. SUN SUN Producer Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b07fdxp8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b07fdxpc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b07fdxpf (Listen) SUN Football, 1975 referendum, The Queen SUN SUN As the nation celebrates the Sovereign's 90th Birthday, Mark SUN Greene - co-author of 'The Servant Queen and the King She SUN Serves' - talks to Edward Stourton about the Queen's faith. SUN SUN There is currently a campaign in Australia to repeal a law SUN which allows people to use a so-called 'gay panic' defence SUN in murder cases; if someone makes a sexual advance, you can SUN claim that was the reason you lost control and killed them. SUN The growing demand to change this law is being led by Roman SUN Catholic priest Fr Paul Kelly. SUN SUN Hazel Southam visits St Luke's Church in Wolverhampton - SUN which is on the Church of England's top ten endangered SUN buildings list - to investigate the problems faced by SUN congregations who find themselves in charge of historic SUN buildings. SUN SUN The Pan-orthodox Council taking place on Crete next week has SUN been in the planning since the 1920s. In fact, the last one SUN was held over 1000 years ago. Russian Orthodox priest Fr SUN Cyril Hovorun explains why the alliance between the orthodox SUN churches is so fragile. SUN SUN Rosie Dawson speaks to Libby Lane and Philip North who have SUN been the bishops of Stockport and Burnley for 18 months. SUN They discuss their friendship, which has not always been SUN easy as they hold opposing views on the ordination of women. SUN SUN As EURO 2016 gets underway, three football fanatics discuss SUN their faith and the beautiful game. SUN SUN Historian Dr Robert Saunders talks to Edward about the SUN churches' role during the 1975 EEC referendum campaign. SUN SUN A UN committee has called on the British government to SUN repeal a law that school children in the UK to take part in SUN a daily act of Christian worship. Dr Alison Mawhinney SUN analyses the UN's concerns. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Helen Lee SUN David Cook SUN SUN Series Producer: SUN Amanda Hancock. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b07fdzjx (Listen) SUN Partnership for Children SUN SUN Marcus Brigstocke presents The Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN Partnership for Children SUN Registered Charity No 1089810 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Partnership for Children ' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Partnership for SUN Children'. SUN SUN Partnership for Children SUN SUN Partnership for Children works for a world in which fewer SUN children need treatment for mental health problems, fewer SUN teenagers turn to drink and drugs when life gets tough, and SUN fewer young people take their own lives. We promote the SUN mental health and emotional wellbeing of young children, SUN helping them to develop the social skills, coping strategies SUN and resilience to deal with problems and crises as SUN adolescents and adults. We do this by providing teachers, SUN parents and carers with skills and resources. SUN SUN The need for coping skills SUN SUN Children face many pressures these days, from exams to SUN bullying, body image to problems at home. It’s vital that SUN they have the words and confidence to talk about how they’re SUN feeling and reach out for help but many don’t. SUN SUN Helping children to reach out and talk SUN SUN Partnership for Children works with teachers, giving them SUN the skills and resources to help children develop coping and SUN communication skills. Children like Brandon, whose father SUN died when he was four. Brandon didn’t talk about what had SUN happened for two years but, thanks to Partnership for SUN Children’s work, he was finally able to start talking about SUN his dad and get the support he so needed. SUN SUN Working with parents SUN SUN So far, Partnership for Children has worked with more than SUN 40,000 primary school children in the UK and, in September, SUN we will be launching our programme in 50 new schools. Funds SUN from this appeal will help us to expand our work with SUN parents, ensuring that they too can support their children SUN to develop emotional resilience - for life. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b07fdxph (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b07fdxpk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b07fdzjz (Listen) SUN Sandringham SUN SUN A service of Matins according to the Book of Common Prayer SUN from the Church of St Mary Magdalene, Sandringham, where Her SUN Majesty the Queen and the Royal Family spend every SUN Christmas. The service is led by the Rector of Sandringham, SUN Canon Jonathan Riviere, with the Bishop of Norwich, the Rt SUN Revd Graham James. The music is directed by Claire Stewart SUN and the organist is Derek Thomas. Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b07dp057 (Listen) SUN How Should We Build? SUN SUN Roger Scruton says we should protect the English countryside SUN by making beauty our priority when we build new houses while SUN in towns we should reverse the damage done in previous SUN decades. SUN SUN "Surely the time has come to tear down the post-war estates, SUN and to recover the old street lines that they extinguished." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45bg (Listen) SUN Sand Martin 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 Bill Oddie presents the sand martin. The flickering shapes SUN of sand martins over a lake or reservoir are a welcome sign SUN of spring. After winging their way across the Sahara Desert, SUN the first birds usually arrive in the UK in March. They're SUN smaller than house martins or swallows, and they're brown SUN above and white below with a brown band across their chest. SUN Often you can hear their dry buzzing calls overhead before SUN you see them. SUN SUN Sand martin (Riparia riparia) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b07fdxpy (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 b07ff0hg (Listen) SUN It is a busy day at Brookfield, and Lynda eyes up the SUN competition. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Keri Davies SUN Director: Marina Caldarone SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Jolene Archer: Buffy Davis SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Justin Elliott: Simon Williams SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Bert Fry: Eric Allan SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Robert Snell: Graham Blockey SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN Kaz: Amaka Okafor SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b07ff0hj (Listen) SUN Warwick Davis SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Warwick Davis. SUN SUN His career began thanks to his grandmother who heard a radio SUN advert calling for short people to be in the latest of SUN George Lucas's Star Wars films. SUN He played his first role as an Ewok in Star Wars when he was SUN 11 years old and found himself on set with his childhood SUN heroes. Since then he's worked on all the Harry Potter SUN films, appeared in TV sitcoms, documentaries, horror movies, SUN quiz shows and Christmas pantomimes. SUN SUN Born with Spondyloepiphyseal Dysplasia Congenita (SED), a SUN rare disorder of bone growth which results in dwarfism, the SUN view of his doctors was that he'd be wheelchair bound and SUN unlikely to live beyond his teens. Now in his mid-forties, SUN he is married with two children of his own. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Warwick Davis SUN Producer: Sarah Taylor SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b07fdxq0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b07gf9l1 (Listen) SUN Series 75, Episode 4 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of SUN the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 SUN seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No SUN repetition? That's no small order after nearly 50 years. SUN SUN In this episode Paul Merton, Josh Widdicombe, Holly Walsh SUN and Marcus Brigstocke join Nicholas Parsons as they try to SUN shine discussing such diverse topics as The Hanging Gardens SUN of Babylon, The Bard, and A Nice Cup of Tea. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Josh Widdicombe SUN Panellist: Holly Walsh SUN Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b07ff0hl (Listen) SUN That Gut Feeling SUN SUN Dan Saladino discovers the world of the gut microbiota, the SUN vast array of microbes within us all. From East Africa to SUN the White House, it's a story that'll change the way you SUN eat. SUN SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b07fdxq2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b07fdxq4 (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 13:30 In Wales the Ball Is Round b07ff0hn (Listen) SUN A Welsh Football Future SUN SUN Football is the Welsh national sport. Yes, you read that SUN right. Comedian and writer Elis James gives a polemical SUN appraisal of football's role in constructing modern Welsh SUN identity. (2/2) SUN SUN The story of football in Wales tells a richer, SUN geographically-wider, more socially-inclusive national story SUN than rugby, the country's much vaunted "national sport". The SUN Welsh football story has long embraced crosspollination from SUN ethnic communities, the influx and growth of industries SUN other than coal and steel, and the myriad geographical, SUN social and linguistic divisions that crisscross Wales. In SUN 2016, more Welsh people watch football and follow their SUN local team than rugby; six times as many Welsh women play SUN football than its oval-balled cousin. SUN SUN But no-one's listening. Across Offa's Dyke and within the SUN Welsh media, we're being sold a myth. Rugby articulates a SUN set of comfy, uninterrogated clichés about a fabled Welsh SUN national psyche (Poetry! Coal mines! Celts! Oppressed by the SUN English!) that's ossified. Only in the story of Welsh SUN football - virtually ignored by British sporting media - SUN does one find laid bare the difficult, rich tapestry of SUN Wales today. SUN SUN As the Welsh national football team embarks on its first SUN major tournament for nearly sixty years, Elis James examines SUN why sport plays such a key role - within Wales and to all of SUN us - in constructing different kinds of national, ethnic and SUN personal identities. What are the difficulties and myths SUN that are generated when a sport is elevated to "national" SUN status? And for small nations like Wales taking confidence SUN from the patriotism their national teams generate - how much SUN does a national sport help them stand on their own two feet SUN - and how much does it distract from the hard questions of SUN what it means to be a nation? SUN SUN In the second and final episode, Elis James explores the SUN reality of Welsh identity in 2016. He argues that football SUN offers a route to understanding Wales now and in the future SUN - and explores the economic and philosophical value of the SUN global reach of football offers to Wales. SUN SUN With contributions from Martin Johnes, Sarah Dunant, Laura SUN McAllister, Dai Smith and Simon Kuper. SUN SUN Producer: Steven Rajam. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07dnyvz (Listen) SUN Keswick SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts the horticultural panel programme from SUN Keswick. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Bunny Guinness SUN answer the questions from the audience. SUN SUN The panel offer advice on wormeries, how to avoid SUN Phytophthora, and a sure-fire way of growing Peonies. They SUN also help an audience member with a question on how to grow SUN vegetables in winter and reveal their Topical Tips for this SUN time of year. SUN SUN Eric Robson takes a tour round the nearby Wordsworth House SUN and Gardens. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Fact sheet SUN Q – I have a wormery – what would be best to use the liquid SUN for? Leaves or flowers? SUN SUN Bob – A wormery is like a compost heap but with worms SUN working it so you get a run off at the bottom of it. It’s a SUN very good liquid feed. Strong but not too rich. You can SUN use it on pretty much anything but always dilute it down. SUN One cup of the liquid to every two-gallon (9 litre) watering SUN can. All through the season. SUN SUN Bunny – I dilute it and put it in my pots. SUN Q – Can the panel advise on what we can plant where we’ve SUN had trees and bushes die from Phytophthora infection in the SUN soil? SUN SUN Bunny – It’s very common in compacted, wet soil. You can SUN get an all-terrain aerator to boost the surrounding soil. SUN If you can raise the planting area by adding more organic SUN matter (especially green waste from local authorities) you SUN can help drainage and aeration. I would go for Hawthorn as SUN it’s resilient. SUN SUN Anne – Take the shrubs out and try growing some prairie SUN herbaceous perennials – do something completely different. SUN Let the soil rest for a bit and then after a few years you SUN could reintroduce some more woody plants. SUN Q – I’m converting a piece of concrete into a patio. I’d SUN like to grow climbing roses from tubs. Advice please. SUN SUN Anne – Depends on how big a tub you have. If you fill 50cm SUN x 50cm (20 x 20 inches) tubs with really good compost (John SUN Innes No 2 and equal mix of soil free and some garden SUN compost and grit). They will need lots of regular watering SUN and feeding. Use a slow-release fertiliser in the spring to SUN get them going and then again when they’re coming into SUN flower. SUN SUN Try – English shrub roses. A rambler like ‘Félicité SUN Perpétue’. SUN SUN Bunny – I’d really have a go at breaking the concrete and SUN planting into the ground. ‘Mayflower’ is a very good SUN English rose that is hardy. SUN Q – What’s a sure-fire way of growing Peonies? SUN SUN Anne – They rather like clay soil and they love to be in SUN their own space. Good, cultivated soil in a nice sunny SUN position too. When you plant them make sure their growth SUN buds are not buried by more than an inch of soil. SUN SUN Bunny – Don’t mulch them up around the crown – you need to SUN allow them to get air to the roots. SUN SUN Bob – They’re very closely related to Buttercups and are SUN very hungry feeders. So dig a big whole and add some SUN bonemeal if you can afford it. SUN Q – My kitchen garden is south facing but I can see SUN Hellvellyn to one side and the Pennines to the other so we SUN are windswept whichever the weather. We are elevated to SUN 800ft+ (245m+). Could the panel suggest some winter SUN vegetable varieties that will withstand the wind? SUN SUN Bob – Not many things grow in winter anyway so things that SUN you grow in summer and then cover up might be better eg SUN carrots, parsnips etc. Brussel sprouts – grow them in SUN threes about 2-3ft (0.6m–0.9m) apart and then tie them SUN together at the top to make a tripod. Is a good alternative SUN to staking. Also, invest in fleece and put it on stakes SUN around the plants to break the wind. SUN SUN Bunny – Can you get any hedging in to screen part of the SUN area? I would do a stout, Hawthorn hedge. SUN SUN Anne – I use mesh rather than fleece and I weigh it down SUN over the crops with walling stones. SUN Q – We are entering Cumbria in Bloom – what top tips can you SUN give us to make sure we impress the judges with our SUN wildlife? SUN SUN Bob – Have something with water. Birds need bird baths SUN etc. Put in bird boxes and toad boxes too. Bundles of SUN hollow stemmed stuff for ladybirds and hoverflies. SUN SUN Anne – Wildlife need cover and thickets. SUN SUN Bunny – Do a thoroughly big pool with stepping stones, SUN watercress area, lots of marginal planting around the edge, SUN paddling pool. SUN Topical tips: SUN SUN Anne – There’s an old Chinese saying, ‘The best manure is SUN the shadow of the gardener’. At this time of the year with SUN growth at its peak this is very true. Go round regularly SUN looking for primroses that need dividing, plants like SUN *Dimorphotheca* that need deadheading, tomatoes that need SUN side shoots taking off. Get out there and get busy! SUN SUN Bunny – After all that work you’ll need a herbal tea to SUN relax and I’d recommend Verve. The French call is Te sans SUN de Verve or *Aloysia citrodora*. It might also be called SUN *Lipia* or *tryphilla *as it keeps changing its name. Lemon SUN scented and a natural mild sedative, perfect before bed! SUN SUN Bob – I’m setting out wasp traps because the last few years SUN they’ve eaten all my fruit! If you trap the scouts early SUN then they don’t bring their friends later in the summer! SUN Q – I live on the lower slops of Skiddaw, so my garden is SUN composed mostly of shillies and is in need of soil. Do you SUN have suggestions for making/getting soil without buying it? SUN SUN Bob – The best way is to take turf and rot it down. Help SUN neighbours out with their gardens and take their garden away SUN for your own compost. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b07ff0hq (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations that reflect on loss and SUN also prepare for it, in this special Omnibus Edition from SUN the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when SUN 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 Drama b07ff197 (Listen) SUN Major Barbara, Episode 2 SUN SUN While Barbara is out in the East End trying to SUN save souls and raise money for the Salvation Army, SUN Undershaft tells Dolly the two things SUN necessary for Salvation are money and gunpowder SUN and once he's got the Army he'll have Barbara too. SUN Is he, as Dolly suspects, an infernal old rascal? SUN SUN Concertina played by Colin Guthrie and the SUN Cornet by Peter Ringrose SUN SUN Produced and Directed by Tracey Neale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Barbara: Eleanor Tomlinson SUN Adolphus (Dolly): Jack Farthing SUN Andrew Undershaft: Matthew Marsh SUN Lady Britomart: Rebecca Front SUN Stephen: Joel MacCormack SUN Sarah: Scarlett Brookes SUN Charles (Cholly): Kieran Hodgson SUN Morrison: Brian Protheroe SUN Mrs Baines: Susan Jameson SUN Jenny Hill: Nicola Ferguson SUN Bill Walker: Ewan Bailey SUN Snobby Price: Sargon Yelda SUN Man: Sean Baker SUN Woman: Adie Allen SUN Director: Tracey Neale SUN Producer: Tracey Neale SUN Writer: George Bernard Shaw SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b07ff199 (Listen) SUN Historical Fiction SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Icelandic novelist Sjon. His new SUN book Moonstone The Boy That Never Was won both the Literary SUN Prize and the Booksellers' Novel of the Year in his home SUN country and is now being published in the UK. It's set in SUN 1918 and tells the story of a teenage boy, obsessed by SUN films, who witnesses huge changes in Iceland when a flu SUN epidemic sweeps through the population. SUN And what is historical fiction? Mariella and guests look at SUN the changing face of the genre, from swashbuckling SUN adventures to fictionalizing our recent past. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was SUN by Sjon SUN Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was - Chapter 1 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Sjon SUN SUN 16:30 Adelia Prado: Voice of Brazil b07ff1n1 (Listen) SUN A rare encounter with one of Brazil's most extraordinary SUN poets. Adélia Prado has shunned the spotlight since her SUN discovery in 1976 - then a 40-year-old mother of five living SUN in the interior state of Minas Gerais. Now aged 80, her SUN sensual, devout, sometimes provocative poetry is read and SUN admired around the world. SUN SUN For this programme, in the company of her long-time SUN translator and fellow poet Ellen Doré Watson, she invites us SUN into her home to talk about her life and work. SUN SUN Adélia Prado was discovered by Brazil's foremost modern SUN poet, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, who launched her literary SUN career with the announcement that St Francis was dictating SUN verses to a housewife in the backwaters of the interior SUN state of Minas Gerais. She writes about the transcendent in SUN ordinary life, of how the human experience is both mystical SUN and carnal. She has been called one of the major voices of SUN the Americas, who 'would remind you of Emily Dickinson if SUN she didn't keep reminding you of Walt Whitman'. SUN SUN With Poetic Licence, Denouement, Seduction, Neighbourhood SUN and Day from The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of SUN Adélia Prado, published by Wesleyan. Copyright 1990 Adélia SUN Prado and Ellen Doré Watson. The Mystical Rose and Spiritual SUN Exercise from Ex-Voto: Poems of Adélia Prado, published by SUN Tupelo Press. Copyright 2013 Adélia Prado and Ellen Doré SUN Watson. Adélia Prado, The Mystical Rose: Selected Poems, SUN translated by Ellen Doré Watson (Bloodaxe Books, 2014). Used SUN with permission. SUN SUN Producer: Eve Streeter SUN A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b07dlxxt (Listen) SUN The Cancer Drugs Fund SUN SUN Over the past five years thousands of patients in England SUN have been given access to new but expensive cancer drugs SUN through a special Cancer Drugs Fund. But critics argue that SUN hundreds of millions have been spent on drugs that offered SUN poor value for money with sometimes limited effects. The SUN Fund is now being reformed but cancer charities have written SUN to the Prime Minister to express deep concern that drugs SUN will now struggle to gain approval. Phil Kemp investigates SUN the record of the Cancer Drugs Fund and asks if the proposed SUN changes will offer better value for money or access for SUN patients. SUN SUN Reporter: Phil Kemp SUN Producer: Anna Meisel. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b07f8qk5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07fdxq6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b07fdxq8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07fdxqb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b07ff2ks (Listen) SUN Ian McMillan SUN SUN The poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan presents Pick of the SUN Week: There's a musical theme and variations to Pick of the SUN Week this week: I hear the bleeps and bloops of computer SUN music or, as the aficionados call it, ChipChune and I hear a SUN well-known novelist's encounter with a saxophone, or as my SUN Uncle Frank called it The Devil's Piccolo. I eavesdrop on SUN two middle-aged men chuntering from bunk beds and I overhear SUN a child planning the comedic murder of her mid-life crisis SUN of a dad though the medium of concrete and gravity. SUN SUN There's tragedy, too, and a kind of rebuilding, in the story SUN of the aftermath of a car accident and there's a reflective SUN and poetic look at a terrible journey in the Antarctic that SUN ended with cold eggs in a warm hand and sweet ice in a SUN child's mouth. SUN SUN Teenage diaries make me blush and there's a piano in the SUN corner of an impressionist's house, presumably doing an SUN impersonation of a spinet. And I return to the 12-inch SUN singles that formed the soundtrack of me storming out of my SUN girlfriend's house because she didn't understand me, and SUN then creeping back in again just as she scribbled in her SUN teenage diary. SUN SUN Production team Kevin Mousley & Kay Bishton. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b07ff2kv (Listen) SUN Ambridge is in the party mood, and Joe plays his part. SUN SUN 19:15 The Write Stuff b02119cq (Listen) SUN Dorothy Parker SUN SUN Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with SUN team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests Sue SUN Limb and Mark Watson. SUN SUN Produced by Alexandra Smith. SUN SUN 19:45 Dangerous Visions b07bzjxm (Listen) SUN Dark Vignettes, Inertia SUN SUN The last of four specially-commissioned stories in the SUN Dangerous Visions series. SUN SUN Inertia by Melissa Lee-Houghton SUN Somewhere in a near-future Britain, Mr McManus wakes up in SUN hospital and discovers that the healthcare provision he's SUN been paying for is not at all as expected. SUN SUN Writer: Melissa Lee-Houghton SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN Writer: Melissa Lee-Houghton SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b07dnyw3 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton explores listener reaction to BBC radio. SUN SUN The death of boxing legend Muhammad Ali blazed across BBC SUN output in the last week - but did this coverage fail to SUN portray the two sides of his character? Listeners questioned SUN whether the reporting focused too heavily on his success and SUN iconic image and neglected his more controversial moments. SUN Controller of daily news programmes Gavin Allen explains how SUN these decisions are made in the editorial process and what SUN he feels the news programmes achieved. SUN SUN In the age of audiences having streaming websites and SUN personal playlists at their fingertips, is there a place for SUN music presenters to curate our listening? BBC 6 Music SUN believe there is as it broadcasts its annual 6 Music SUN Recommends Day. Reporter Rob Crossan goes behind the scenes SUN with musicians and presenters to find out how they put SUN together a 12 hour playlist of brand new music that will SUN please a diverse set of listeners. He speaks to presenters SUN Cerys Matthews, Steve Lamacq and Shaun Keaveny, as well as SUN Head of Music Jeff Smith and Head of Programmes Paul Rogers. SUN SUN Roger Bolton also puts listener questions to BBC 6 Music SUN Controller Bob Shennan, asking the station has evolved since SUN its launch in 2002 and where it fits into the range of music SUN radio stations. SUN SUN And in last week's Feedback, the BBC's assistant political SUN editor Norman Smith explained how he feels the corporation's SUN impartiality may affect reporting of the EU Referendum. It's SUN a debate that many Feedback listeners felt compelled to join SUN in. SUN SUN Produced by Kate Dixon. SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b07dnyw1 (Listen) SUN Sir Peter Shaffer, Sir Denys Wilkinson, Peggy Spencer and SUN Muhammad Ali SUN SUN Julian Worricker on: SUN SUN The playwright Sir Peter Shaffer, most famous for 'The Royal SUN Hunt of the Sun, 'Equus' and 'Amadeus'... SUN SUN The physicist, Sir Denys Wilkinson, considered an expert on SUN the electromagnetic properties of nuclear isotopes... SUN SUN The dancer, Peggy Spencer - also a choreographer, SUN adjudicator and dance event organiser... SUN SUN And the man voted the sportsman of the last century, SUN heavyweight boxer and civil rights campaigner, Muhammad Ali. SUN SUN Peter Shaffer SUN SUN Julian spoke to director Sir Richard Eyre and to the London SUN theatre critic of The International New York Times, Matt SUN Wolf. SUN SUN Born 15 May 1926; died 6 June 2016 aged 90. SUN SUN Muhammad Ali SUN SUN Julian spoke to fellow boxer John Conteh. SUN SUN Born 17 January 1942; died 3 June 2016 aged 74. SUN SUN Peggy Spencer SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Len Goodman, Angela Rippon and to her SUN friend and former colleague, Anne Lingard. SUN SUN Born 24 September 1920; died 25 May 2016 aged 95. SUN SUN Denys Wilkinson SUN SUN Julian spoke to his friend and former colleague, Professor SUN Frank Close. SUN SUN Born 5 September 1922; died 22 April 2016 aged 93. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Julian Worricker SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Eyre SUN Interviewed Guest: Matt Wolf SUN Interviewed Guest: John Conteh SUN Interviewed Guest: Len Goodman SUN Interviewed Guest: Angela Rippon SUN Interviewed Guest: Anne Lingard SUN Interviewed Guest: Frank Close SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b07f8qb0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b07fdzjx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b07dknlv (Listen) SUN Silicon Valley Values SUN SUN David Baker explores the identity and values of Silicon SUN Valley - and what they mean for the rest of us. He talks to SUN entrepreneurs, investors, academics and activists about how SUN those values are permeating the world and what to do when SUN they clash with other priorities down on the ground. SUN Producer: Peter Snowdon. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b07fdxqd (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b07dnqjp (Listen) SUN Embrace Of The Serpent; I Am Belfast SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Film-maker Mark Cousins and composer David Holmes discuss SUN their documentary I Am Belfast and reveal why they rarely SUN went to the cinema at the height of The Troubles. SUN SUN How virtual reality puts us in the shoes of someone with SUN epilepsy, a migrant living in the so-called Calais Jungle, SUN and an Irishman caught up in the Easter Rising in 1916. SUN These are three of the films nominated for the first VR SUN awards at this week's Sheffield Documentary Festival. SUN SUN The Amazon makes up almost half of Columbia and yet very SUN much is known about the jungle in the rest of the country. SUN Film-maker Ciro Guerra has tried to put that right with his SUN drama Embrace Of The Serpent, and he tells Francine how he SUN taught indigenous people to act and why his leading man is SUN one of the last people in the world to speak his particular SUN language. SUN SUN VR Awards SUN SUN Easter Rising: Voice Of A Rebel SUN SUN You can watch the trailer for Easter Rising: Voice Of A SUN Rebel SUN here SUN and watch more VR films from the BBC SUN here SUN : SUN SUN In My Shoes: Dancing With Myself SUN SUN Find out more about In My Shoes: Dancing With Myself SUN here SUN . SUN SUN Home: Amir SUN SUN Find out more about the Home: Amir SUN here SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Mark Cousins SUN Interviewed Guest: David Holmes SUN Interviewed Guest: Ciro Guerra SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b07fdzjs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 JUNE 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b07fdxs1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b07dm2pj (Listen) MON Engineers of Jihad, Orange Jumpsuits MON MON Engineers of Jihad: Laurie Taylor asks why so many Islamist MON extremists come from an engineering background. He talks to MON Steffen Hertog, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics MON at the London School of Economics, about a new study which MON finds that Islamist and right-wing extremism have more in MON common than either does with left-wing extremism, in which MON engineers are absent while social scientists and humanities MON students are prominent. Is there a mindset susceptible to MON certain types of extremism? They're joined by Raffaello MON Pantucci, Director of International Security Studies at the MON Royal United Services Institute. MON MON Orange prison jumpsuits: Elspeth Van Veeren, Lecturer in MON Political Science at the University of Bristol, discusses MON the US prisoner uniform which took on a transnational MON political life due to the Global War on Terror. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON RELATED LINKS MON Elspeth Van Veeren at the University of Bristol MON MON Steffen Hertog at the LSE MON Raffaelo Pantucci at RUSI (The Royal United Services MON Institute) MON Mark B. Salter (ed.) *Making Things International 1, MON Circuits and Motion*,(Minneapolis: Minnesota University MON Press, 2015) (includes the chapter '*Orange Prison MON Jumpsuit*' by Elspeth Van Veeren) MON Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, *Engineers of Jihad: The MON Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education*, MON (Princeton University Press, 2016) MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b07fdyq1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07fdxs3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07fdxs5 (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07fdxs7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b07fdxs9 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07gm1hz (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi MON Jonathan Wittenberg. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b07ffb1v (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally MON Challoner. MON MON 05:56 Weather b07fdxsc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02tyk25 (Listen) MON Little Tern MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve MON Backshall presents the little tern. MON MON Little terns are our smallest terns. You can pick them out MON from our other terns by their smaller size, white forehead MON and yellow bill with a black tip. They look flimsy and MON delicate but move too close to one of their colonies, and MON you'll unleash a tirade of grating shrieks as they try to MON intimidate you out of their territory. MON MON Little tern (Sterna albifrons) MON Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b07ffb1x (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b07ffb1z (Listen) MON New Artistic Director of the ENO, Daniel Kramer MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores the state of the MON arts. The English National Opera has lost £5 million of MON funding and its chorus recently went on strike, but the MON newly appointed Artistic Director Daniel Kramer, hopes to MON turn it around. He's directing a new production of Wagner's MON Tristan and Isolde, and the philosopher Roger Scruton MON celebrates the mastery of Wagner to express truths about the MON human condition. The biographer Franny Moyle looks at the MON life and career of Britain's most famous landscape painter, MON JMW Turner. Born as the Royal Academy was founded and MON British art was deemed inferior to its Continental MON counterpart, his work pushed the boundaries of what was MON accepted as art at the time. Julia Peyton-Jones looks back MON at a quarter of a century at the Serpentine Gallery in MON London, and makes a case for London as the centre of the art MON world. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Daniel Kramer MON Interviewed Guest: Roger Scruton MON Interviewed Guest: Franny Moyle MON Interviewed Guest: Jonathan Meades MON Producer: Katy Hickman MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b07ffb21 (Listen) MON Negroland, Episode 1 MON MON Margo Jefferson was born in 1947 to a successful black, MON middle-class couple in Chicago. Her memoir looks back on her MON childhood and the black bourgeois upbringing that 'made and MON maimed me'. MON MON She explains the title of her book, "Negroland is my name MON for a small region of Negro America where residents were MON sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty." MON MON But the material comforts provided by a father who was a MON paediatrician and a mother who was formerly a social worker MON were circumscribed by all the painful and baffling MON assumptions of racial prejudice. To be a child in Negroland MON you had to learn the rules. But who was making those rules? MON And what exactly were they? MON MON Margo Jefferson went on to become an arts and theatre critic MON on the New York Times and Newsweek. She won a Pulitzer for MON her journalism and now teaches at Columbia University. MON MON Written and read by Margo Jefferson MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Margo Jefferson MON Writer: Margo Jefferson MON Abridger: Jill Waters MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b07fdxsf (Listen) MON Takeover week: Guest Editor Mary Berry MON MON Mary Berry looks back with fondness at being a Girlguide in MON the 1940s and explains why she thinks it makes her the woman MON she is today. Jane Garvey talks to Julie Bentley, Chief MON Executive of Girlguiding UK about how the organisation has MON changed since Mary's day. MON MON Doctors should prescribe gardening for patients more often, MON according to research by the King's Fund health think tank. MON The hobby can help people with physical and mental health MON problems. Jane is joined by Dr Sam Everington, a GP in Tower MON Hamlets who helped set up Bob's Park, in The Bromley by Bow MON Centre and Tara, member of gardening group Sage Greenfingers MON in Sheffield. Should gardening be prescribed on the NHS? How MON does it benefit women's mental health? MON MON When was the last time you handwrote a thank you note, or MON made a gift? Do we take the easy way out when we just send a MON happy face emoji in a text message as thanks, or buy gifts MON from the high street? Jane asks craft bloggers Momtaz MON Begum-Hossain and Clare Albans about the joys of giving and MON receiving presents (or cards) that are home-made. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Editor: Mary Berry. MON MON Gardening as Therapy MON Sage Greenfingers MON Bromley By Bow Centre MON MON MON MON Handmade Gifts and Handwritten Thank You Notes MON The Make Escape MON Hello! Hooray! MON MON MON MON MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Editor: Mary Berry MON Interviewed Guest: Julie Bentley MON Interviewed Guest: Sam Everington MON Interviewed Guest: Tara MON Interviewed Guest: Momtaz Begum-Hossain MON Interviewed Guest: Clare Albans MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07ffb25 (Listen) MON Unsuitable Men with Familiar Smiles, Episode 1 MON MON by Caroline and David Stafford MON MON Christine has hidden her past from her family. But now she MON must reveal her extraordinary history of relationships with MON unsuitable men and their adventures together. Today, the MON coronation and the kidnapping of a very important horse. MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON Credits MON Christine: Eleanor Bron MON Sally: Tracy Wiles MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Writer: Caroline Stafford MON Writer: David Stafford MON MON 11:00 The Untold b07ffb27 (Listen) MON The Sailor Who Lost Everything MON MON Grace Dent tells the story of an 82 year old sailor, forced MON to rebuild his life from scratch after a disaster at sea MON leaves him with nothing. MON MON From the Norwegian lifeboat that had plucked him from the MON waves, 82 year old Julian watched his uninsured sailing boat MON that was his home sink to the bottom of the North Sea - with MON it, all of his belongings. MON MON For most of his life he had lived conventionally - working MON as an architect, bringing up children - but in the back of MON his mind was always the feeling there was more to life. MON MON Taking early retirement he put all his money into pursuing MON his dream - sailing. Living on a 26 foot boat, he MON circumnavigated the globe, visiting some of the wildest MON places of the world. MON MON Forced back on land, with no home or belongings, Julian must MON pause and reflect on what he wants from life. MON MON As he considers whether he is too old to continue the MON nomadic seafaring lifestyle that is his dream, he also faces MON up to something he has been putting off for decades - how to MON reconnect with the daughter he has not seen since a bitter MON divorce 30 years before. MON MON Producer Georgia Catt. MON MON 11:30 The Break b07ffb29 (Listen) MON Dead Man's Dinner MON MON Jeff (Philip Jackson) and his nephew Andy (Tom Palmer) are MON contacted by the Editor of The Flamford Bugle (Rasmus MON Hardiker). They have won a slap-up dinner for two at MON Flamford's poshest eaterie, The Royal Albion Hotel. MON MON Eagerly anticipating the night out of a lifetime, Andy and MON Jeff's dreams of gourmet heaven quickly deteriorate into the MON nightmare of a lifetime. The prize had been promised to MON local citizen Wally Metcalfe, but he died just after the MON draw. Now his widow (Alison Steadman) is on the warpath with MON her two burly sons. MON MON Social media doesn't help either, and in no time there is a MON mob baying for Jeff and Andy's blood. MON MON Writers: Ian Brown and James Hendrie MON Producer/Director: Gordon Kennedy MON An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Jeff: Philip Jackson MON Andy: Tom Palmer MON Frank: Mark Benton MON Corinne: Alison Steadman MON Joyce: Alison Steadman MON Kevin: Rasmus Hardiker MON Mira: Shobna Gulati MON Chris (Chef): Gordon Kennedy MON Writer: Ian Brown MON Writer: James Hendrie MON Director: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON MON 12:00 News Summary b07fdxsj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 More or Less b07gv98b (Listen) MON The Referendum by Numbers, The Cost of EU Membership MON MON If the EU referendum debate just involves two politicians MON shouting contradictory statistics at each other - then we MON are here to help. MON In this series, we're giving you a break from the MON politicians and we're going to try to figure out the truth. MON Bracing concept, isn't it? We'll be looking at some of the MON big questions - immigration, lawmaking, regulations and MON trade. MON But in this first program, Tim Harford tackles two very MON basic questions: how much would we save if we left the EU? MON And what would we lose if we did? MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b07fdxsl (Listen) MON Psychology of money, Move or improve, Future of grocery MON delivery MON MON Home improvement applications are up all over the UK, with MON the exception of Scotland and DIY sales are at a level not MON seen since the downturn began. At the same time there are MON fewer houses for sale and fewer buyers around according to MON RICS. Does this mean we are becoming improvers rather than MON movers? What are the pitfalls to doing up your house. Should MON you go it alone or call in the professionals? TV Property MON expert Kirsty Allsop has the answers. MON MON The shift to internet shopping seems irreversible now, with MON more of us buying online all the time. But new technology MON will influence how and where we do that shopping. Our MON reporter Samantha Fenwick got exclusive access to online MON grocery retailer Ocado's new distribution centre. She'll be MON reporting on how your tea-bags and breakfast cereal will be MON chosen and delivered in the future. MON MON And All in the Mind presenter and lecturer Claudia Hammond MON will discuss her new book Mind Over Money. She's looked at MON more than 250 pieces of research about the psychology of MON money to come up with tips on how to get control of your MON finances. MON MON Presenter: Winifred Robinson MON Producer: Olive Clancy. MON MON 12:57 Weather b07fdxsq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07fdxss (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01dp526 (Listen) MON England Goes Global MON MON Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, returns to MON Radio 4 with a new object-based history. Taking artefacts MON from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan MON and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and MON rapidly changing world in which they lived. MON MON With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of MON political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil MON asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they MON were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to MON explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the MON public and helped shape the works, and he considers what MON they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of MON Shakespearean England. MON MON Programme 1. ENGLAND GOES GLOBAL - How Sir Francis Drake's MON circumnavigation of the globe changed the way Shakespeare's MON audiences viewed the world and their country's place on it. MON For the first time, England was engaging with the whole MON world. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b07ff2kv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Drama b07ffd8d (Listen) MON Behind Closed Doors, Contact MON MON The first in a series of three dramas following London MON barrister Rebecca Nyman. MON MON Today's drama is set in the Family Courts where Harry, a MON sperm donor, is trying to get a court order to allow him to MON see 'his' daughter. Barrister Rebecca Nyman is representing MON Beth - the mother - who is now in a lesbian relationship and MON would prefer Harry to keep his distance. MON MON Harry offered to donate sperm so his lesbian friend and work MON colleague, Beth, could have a baby. After the birth Harry MON visited Beth and got to know baby Molly. For a time Beth was MON happy for Harry to visit but she never intended to have a MON relationship with him or for him to become involved with MON Molly as a father. Things went from bad to worse when Beth MON formed a relationship with Melanie and Harry felt he was MON completely excluded from seeing Molly. Now a judge has to MON decide whether Harry should have any contact rights. MON MON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS SERIES 3: MON Contact MON by CLARA GLYNN MON MON Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. MON MON Credits MON Rebecca Nyman: Clare Corbett MON Harry Ventong: Sam Alexander MON Judge: Sean Baker MON Beth Sinclair: Robin Weaver MON Melanie Otway: Joanna McCallum MON Miss Haslow: Joanna McCallum MON Writer: Clara Glynn MON Director: David Neville MON Producer: David Neville MON MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree b07ffd8g (Listen) MON Series 6, The University of Bath MON MON A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this MON week from the University of Bath, with specialist subjects MON including Biology, Politics and Maths, and questions ranging MON from Sierpinski Gaskets to Scottish Nationalism via Francois MON Mitterand and Adele. MON MON The programme is recorded on location at a different MON University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates MON against three of their Professors in an original and fresh MON take on an academic quiz. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow MON and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the MON students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages MON and science, but also their Professors' awareness of MON television, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In MON addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope MON for mild embarrassment on both sides. MON MON Other Universities featured in this series include MON Gloucestershire, Chester, Birmingham City, Glasgow and York. MON MON Produced by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b07ff0hl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Portrait Of... b07ffhf1 (Listen) MON Imtiaz Dharker MON MON We follow artist Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints the MON portrait of poet, artist and documentary film-maker Imtiaz MON Dharker. MON MON Born in Pakistan and raised in Glasgow, Imtiaz was awarded MON the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014. She writes about MON freedom, cultural intolerance, gender politics, love and MON loss. Fellow poet Carol Ann Duffy has said, "If there were MON to be a World Laureate, then for me the role could only be MON filled by Imtiaz Dharker." MON MON Fiona Graham-Mackay has painted hundreds of portraits, MON including Seamus Heaney and Sir Andrew Motion. Drawing is, MON she says, "the flow of life, the soul of life," and "you MON have to fall a little in love with your subject". MON MON It's a revealing, intimate experience, peeling away the MON layers to capture the essence of the sitter as seen through MON the artist's eye. And in this, conversations meander in MON unexpected places. MON MON Features readings of 'The Conversation' and 'Invisible' from MON Over the Moon; 'This room' from I Speak For the Devil, both MON published by Bloodaxe Books. With permission. MON MON Producer: Eve Streeter MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b07ffj3h (Listen) MON Freedom of Expression MON MON 50 years ago this week, the Vatican's list of banned books MON was finally abolished by Pope Paul VI. The aim of the Index MON Librorum Prohibitorum was to protect the faith and morals of MON Catholics by preventing the reading of what the Church MON deemed to be heretical and immoral books. The final list MON reads as a who's who of some the greatest writers, MON philosophers and thinkers in Western culture. But religious MON censorship is not just part of the Christian story; it has MON been practiced in many societies and by many religions. MON Ernie Rea explores the relationship between religion and MON freedom of expression with Ed Condon, a canon lawyer and a MON writer for the Catholic Herald; Barry Kleinberg, a lecturer MON at the London School of Jewish Studies and an Orthodox Jew; MON and Khola Hassan, an Islamic scholar who sits on the Islamic MON Sharia Council for London. MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b07fdxsv (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07fdxsx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b07ffj3k (Listen) MON Series 75, Episode 5 MON MON Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of MON the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 MON seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No MON repetition? That's no small order after nearly 50 years. MON MON Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Alexei Sayle and Graham Norton MON join Nicholas Parsons, and try to avoid hesitation, MON deviation or repetition as they talk about diverse subjects MON like Virginia Wade, Beef Wellington, and Physics for MON Beginners. MON MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Panellist: Alexei Sayle MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07ffj3m (Listen) MON Helen gets some fresh air, and Josh makes an executive MON decision. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b07fdxsz (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07ffb25 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Borders of Sanity b07ffkhx (Listen) MON Hearing Voices in the UK MON MON For years, hearing voices served as a symbol of a fear we MON all share - losing our minds. MON MON But voice hearing is now known to be an experience of almost MON limitless range, from cruel distress to creativity and MON meaning. MON MON The UK is at the forefront of a movement that has changed MON the way patients and psychiatrists view the voices that some MON people hear. MON MON Christopher Harding is in his adopted homeland of Scotland MON to explore how our ideas about the mind, and about reality MON shape these experiences and what life is like for voice MON hearers in the UK today. MON MON Producer: Keith Moore. MON MON (Photo credit:Shutterstock) MON MON 20:30 Analysis b07ffkhz (Listen) MON The New Young Fogeys MON MON Young people today drink and smoke much less than previous MON generations. The rates of teenage pregnancy and youth crime MON have fallen dramatically. New Statesman editor Jason Cowley MON talks to experts to find out what is shaping the attitudes MON and choices of young people today. He grew up in Harlow in MON Essex during a time of particular social unrest. He returns MON to his former sixth-form college where he meets a group of MON students who are markedly more conformist and disciplined MON than his generation, but more anxious too. So what accounts MON for this change in young people's behaviour? Is it economic MON pressures, government policy or the fear of transgressors MON being shamed on social media? Will we continue to see the MON rise of a generation of New Young Fogeys? MON Producer: Katie Inman. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b07dlwwb (Listen) MON Fly MON MON Houseflies, bluebottles, fruit flies - Brett Westwood MON explores how these flies that live close to us have buzzed MON in our imagination but have also taught us much about who we MON are. A scholar of literature, a genetic investigator, a MON naturalist, a forensic entomologist and a plain fly-lover MON come together to talk flies: Steve Connor, Peter Lawrence, MON Peter Marren, Martin Hall, and Erica McAlister. Readers: MON Anton Lesser and Niamh Cusack. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON Dr Erica McAlister MON Dr Erica McAlister is the Collections Manager for flies, MON fleas, spiders, and Myriapoda, the group MON containing millipedes and centipedes at the MON Natural History Museum MON in London. The collection contains 3-4 million specimens MON and is the most important type collection of flies globally MON and receives many UK and international visitors. MON She has carried out contract work for the MoD in Tajikistan, MON where she was involved in the training of mosquito MON identification and malaria incrimination over a three year MON project. She is also involved in UK Mosquito projects which MON have included incriminating for viruses and also for genomic MON resolution. MON MON Dr Martin Hall MON Martin gained his PhD from Imperial College, London, in MON 1978, earning the Thomas Henry Huxley Award of the MON Zoological Society of London for his thesis on blowfly MON feeding behaviour. Following several years studying tsetse MON flies in Africa, mainly in The Sudan and Zimbabwe, Martin MON returned to the UK. MON He joined the MON Natural History Museum MON London, in 1989 to research forensic and veterinary MON entomology, studying fly larvae that develop on dead and/or MON living tissues. Martin has worked as a forensic entomologist MON on more than 175 criminal cases during the past 25 years, MON mainly in cases of murder. MON MON Professor Steven Connor MON In 1987, an editor at Blackwell publishers remarked how much MON he would love it if he could persuade someone to write a MON book with the words ‘theory’, ‘introduction’ and MON ‘postmodernism’ in the title. In 1989, Steven Connor's MON Postmodernist Culture: An Introduction to Theories of the MON Contemporary was published. MON In 2000 he published Dumbstruck and in 2002 succeeded Paul MON Hirst as the Academic Director of the London Consortium. MON His most recent books are MON Beyond Words: Sobs, Hums, Stutters and Other Vocalizations MON (London: Reaktion 2014) and MON Beckett, Modernism and the Material Imagination MON (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014). Living By MON Numbers: In Defence of Quantity will appear from Reaktion in MON 2016. MON MON Dr Peter Lawrence MON Dr Peter Lawrence has a long standing interest in the MON formation of patterns in development and works to understand MON how genes act to achieve pattern through the interaction of MON cells. MON The fruit fly drosophila is the experimental system of MON choice and for the last twenty years or so, in collaboration MON with José Casal in Cambridge, Gary Struhl at the HHMI, MON Columbia University, NY and David Strutt in Sheffield, Peter MON has been investigating the development of the larval and MON adult abdomen. MON MON Peter Marren MON Peter Marren is a writer, one-time journalist and all-round MON naturalist. His book MON The New Naturalists MON won the silver medal of the MON Society of the History of Natural History MON and he is the author of the New Naturalist conservation MON volume, simply titled MON Nature Conservation MON His latest book, MON Rainbow Dust MON about butterflies, is to be published next spring. MON He also writes obituaries for MON the Independent MON conservation news for MON Whitaker’s Almanack MON formerly has a column in MON The Countryman MON and is regular contributor to MON British Wildlife MON which includes his famous column of biting wit, Twitcher in MON the Swamp. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b07ffb1z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b07fdxt1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b07fdxt3 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07ffkj1 (Listen) MON Vinegar Girl, Episode 1 MON MON Anne Tyler's contemporary response to Shakespeare's The MON Taming of the Shrew follows the story of college drop-out MON Kate Battista, who keeps house for her widowed father and MON fifteen year old sister, Bianca. MON MON Kate also works at a preschool nursery where her forthright MON ways win her the affection of the children but are not MON appreciated by the school's principal who would prefer her MON to exercise a little tact, restraint and diplomacy when MON dealing with the parents. MON MON When her obsessively dedicated scientist father makes MON uncharacteristic use of his mobile phone to summon her to MON his lab, she is not prepared for what he has in mind. MON MON Anne Tyler's previous novels include Dinner at the Homesick MON Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and MON Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the MON Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning MON the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger MON Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award and the National Book MON Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday MON Times Award for Literary Excellence. MON MON Read by Liza Ross MON Abridged by Isobel Creed MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Liza Ross MON Author: Anne Tyler MON Abridger: Isobel Creed MON Producer: Jill Waters MON MON 23:00 Self's Search for Meaning b07ffkj3 (Listen) MON Philosophy MON MON Will Self asks some of Britain's key opinion-makers to MON share, in simple terms, their conclusions about the nature - MON and meaning - of our existence. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b07ffkj5 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 JUNE 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b07fdxvr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b07ffb21 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07fdxvt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07fdxvw (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07fdxvy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b07fdxw0 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07gbg3m (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi TUE Jonathan Wittenberg. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07ffxs5 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Beatrice Fenton. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03szw62 (Listen) TUE Avocet TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Chris Packham presents the avocet. With its black and white TUE plumage, blue-grey legs and delicate upturned bill, the TUE avocet is one of our easiest birds to identify. They are a TUE conservation success and are now breeding in Norfolk, TUE Lincolnshire, Kent and elsewhere. TUE TUE Avocet (Recurvirostra avosetta) TUE Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07ffxs9 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b07ffxsc (Listen) TUE Hazel Rymer TUE TUE Hazel Rymer has journeyed closer to the centre of the earth TUE than most, regularly peering into the turbulent, fiery world TUE than makes up the earth's core. By taking measurements of TUE micro-gravity on, and inside, volcanoes all over the world, TUE she hopes to better understand why they erupt and what TUE happens when they do. Having lost a close colleague to a TUE random volcanic eruption, she appreciates the risks involved TUE and, at the same time, insists that they are no greater than TUE driving on the M25. She talks to Jim Al-Khalili about TUE learning to think like a geologist after studying physics; TUE the joys and frustrations of doing fieldwork on volcanoes; TUE and why she loves gravity meter, G513. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b07ffxsf (Listen) TUE Tim Samuels talks to Helen TUE TUE Tim Samuels goes in search of alternative relationships and TUE meets women who have ditched traditional monogamy in favour TUE of part-time, polygamous and pragmatic love. TUE TUE Tim recently wrote about the challenges of being a 21st TUE century man, including how monogamy can be a struggle. He's TUE not the first man to feel it could run counter to men's TUE biological make-up. And these days, in heterosexual couple TUE break ups, female infidelity is just as likely to be cited TUE as a cause for divorce as the male half of the partnership TUE straying. TUE TUE Tim says we are now living in a world where religion has TUE lost its grip, women are freer than ever before to express TUE their sexuality without male diktats, and we are continually TUE evolving and adapting to changing times. He's long been TUE interested in alternatives to monogamy, and now he wants to TUE hear about some actual examples. TUE TUE In the first of his three programmes for One to One, Tim TUE meets Helen who has ripped up the relationship rules to find TUE a model that works for her. She is a mother of two, but TUE partner of none. TUE TUE The producer is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b07ffxsh (Listen) TUE Negroland, Episode 2 TUE TUE To be born into a black , relatively wealthy family in TUE Chicago, in the late 1940s, was to be born into a world of TUE contradictions. Margo Jefferson describes this world of TUE 'privilege and plenty' as 'Negroland'. TUE TUE But despite their comfortable home and private education she TUE and her sister still had to navigate the rules that TUE determined what made a black woman attractive. The shade of TUE their skin, the texture of their hair, the shape of their TUE noses. TUE TUE In prose that is always intellectually incisive and often TUE powerfully vulnerable Margo Jefferson reads from her own TUE memoir. TUE TUE Written and read by Margo Jefferson TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Margo Jefferson TUE Writer: Margo Jefferson TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b07fdxw2 (Listen) TUE Takeover week: Guest Editor Eniola Aluko TUE TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07ffxsk (Listen) TUE Unsuitable Men with Familiar Smiles, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Caroline and David Stafford TUE TUE Christine continues to tell her daughter extraordinary TUE stories from her past. Today she relives her time in the TUE folk and jazz clubs of London and her unsuitable TUE relationship with blues giant Chicago Slim. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE Credits TUE Christine: Eleanor Bron TUE Sally: Tracy Wiles TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE Writer: Caroline Stafford TUE Writer: David Stafford TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b07ffxsm (Listen) TUE Owl TUE TUE Owls are lovable cuddly creatures and wicked associates of TUE witches and the dark: what prompted such contradictions? TUE Brett Westwood investigates. With contributions from a host TUE of hoots and the poetry of William Wordsworth and George TUE Macbeth and Mike Toms of the British Trust for Ornithology, TUE writers Mark Cocker and Richard Mabey, biologist and TUE man-watcher Desmond Morris, a husband and wife team of owl TUE keeper and collector of ceramic figurines, and the museum TUE curator David Waterhouse. Plus a stuffed specimen of the TUE extinct laughing owl of New Zealand. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales From the Stave b07ffxsp (Listen) TUE Series 13, The Dream of Gerontius - Elgar TUE TUE When Elgar was commissioned to write a new work for the TUE Birmingham Music Festival of 1900 he eventually lighted on a TUE poem by the late Cardinal John Henry Newman, The Dream of TUE Gerontius. The resulting piece, neither Oratorio nor TUE Cantata, has remained a favourite in this country for over a TUE century in spite of a disastrous first performance. TUE When Novello's eventually decided to print the orchestral TUE score Elgar presented his handwritten manuscript, which had TUE been used to conduct the work for two years, to Cardinal TUE Newman's library at the Birmingham Oratory. TUE TUE Frances Fyfield and her guests, the internationally TUE acclaimed Mezzo-Soprano and singer of the role of the Angel, TUE Sarah Connelly, the choral conductor and head of music at TUE Gloucester Cathedral, Adrian Partington and the music TUE scholar and conductor Nigel Simeone make the pilgrimage to TUE Birmingham to see this extraordinary work which Elgar TUE himself declared in the score was 'the best of me'. TUE TUE As ever the musician's eye is drawn to the details, the TUE nuances, the refinements in the composer's own hand, and TUE they're not disappointed. Although the famous conductor Hans TUE Richter used the score to conduct the work in Birmingham and TUE elsewhere, Elgar's neat markings mean there's little more TUE than the composer's hand on display. TUE There are, however, tell-tale additions by Elgar's publisher TUE August Jaeger (The Nimrod of the Enigma Variations) and just TUE occasionally Richter does call upon the chorus and orchestra TUE not to rush. TUE TUE The setting of Cardinal Newman's Library, the sheer beauty TUE and complexity of the music and the sense of a composer TUE working at the very peak of his powers make this a TUE compelling manuscript with a moving response from the TUE musicians lucky enough to see it. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b07fdxw4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 More or Less b07gv9c7 (Listen) TUE The Referendum by Numbers, Immigration TUE TUE If the EU referendum debate just involves two politicians TUE shouting contradictory statistics at each other - then we TUE are here to help. TUE In this series, we're giving you a break from the TUE politicians and we're going to try to figure out the truth. TUE Bracing concept, isn't it? We'll be looking at some of the TUE big questions - The cost of the EU, lawmaking, regulations TUE and trade. TUE In the second of these programmes Tim Harford asks what TUE might happen to migration if we left the EU, and what are TUE the benefits and costs of EU migrants to the UK economy? TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b07fdxw6 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b07fdxw8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07ffxsr (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g61vf (Listen) TUE Communion and Conscience TUE TUE Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, returns to TUE Radio 4 with a new object-based history. Taking artefacts TUE from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan TUE and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and TUE rapidly changing world in which they lived. TUE TUE With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of TUE political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil TUE asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they TUE were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to TUE explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the TUE public and helped shape the works, and he considers what TUE they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of TUE Shakespearean England. TUE TUE Programme 2. COMMUNION AND CONSCIENCE - The communion cup TUE that Shakespeare may well have used sheds light on the TUE dramatic religious changes that came in the aftermath of the TUE Reformation TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE The Stratford Chalice TUE Date: TUE 1571-2 TUE Made in: TUE London TUE Made by: TUE Unknown TUE Material: TUE Silver TUE Size: TUE Cup H:127mm, W:72mm Paten H:32mm, W:76mm TUE TUE TUE TUE For Elizabethans, the communion cup was central to the TUE Protestant religious service. Every parishioner was obliged TUE to sip from it: a new communal experience, and one that TUE everybody had to join in. TUE TUE TUE TUE This silver communion cup is from Holy Trinity Church in TUE Stratford upon Avon. It was brought to Stratford when TUE Shakespeare was a boy as part of a nationwide campaign to TUE tell England that Catholicism was out – and the Protestant TUE reformation under Elizabeth was back and here to stay. TUE TUE TUE TUE An object like this takes us closer to Shakespeare's daily TUE life – he may even have drunk from it – and helps us imagine TUE what life was like when private belief and practice was TUE inseparable from national politics. TUE TUE TUE TUE This object is from the Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon TUE Avon TUE TUE TUE British Museum Blog: The Protestant state under Elizabeth I TUE by Eamon Duffy, University of Cambridge TUE TUE Quotations TUE TUE 'Stay, give me drink. Hamlet, this pearl is thine./Here's to TUE thy health!/Give him the cup.' TUE Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 2 TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE TUE 'It is the poisoned cup. It is too late.' TUE Hamlet, Act 5 Scene 2 TUE TUE Background TUE TUE More from Radio 4: The Reformation TUE TUE How does a highly religious society cope when almost every TUE aspect of its religious practice is changed? Melvyn Bragg TUE investigates the effect of the Reformation on ordinary TUE people. TUE TUE TUE Listen to the programme TUE TUE More from Radio 4: Puritans TUE TUE Re-examining the myth that the lives of Puritans were TUE uneventful, Dr Justin Champion investigates their ambitions TUE for social reform and the dream of 'Godly cities'. TUE TUE TUE Listen to the programme TUE TUE More from Radio 4: Faith TUE TUE Will explores the monarch's relationship with the church TUE through the centuries, seeing how hard successive rulers TUE have worked to make sure religion stayed on their side. TUE TUE TUE Listen to the programme TUE TUE More from Radio 4: The Commission TUE TUE James Naughtie visits Hampton Court to tell the story of how TUE and why King James commissioned a translation of the Bible TUE that has become our "national epic". TUE TUE TUE Listen to the programme TUE TUE More from Radio 4: Reformation centenary broadsheet TUE TUE Neil MacGregor is exploring the co-existence of faiths TUE around 400 years ago. Today - a woodblock print marking a TUE hundred years of the Protestant reformation. TUE TUE TUE Listen to the programme TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07ffj3m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Drama b07ffxst (Listen) TUE Behind Closed Doors, Section TUE TUE The second in a series of three dramas set inside legal TUE hearings. TUE Today Barrister Rebecca Nyman is representing a client at a TUE Mental Health Tribunal. Andrew has been in a High Security TUE Mental Hospital for seven years, now he thinks he's fit to TUE be released. But will the Tribunal agree? TUE TUE BEHIND CLOSED DOORS SERIES 3: TUE Section TUE by CLARA GLYNN TUE TUE Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE Credits TUE Barrister Rebecca Nyman: Clare Corbett TUE Andrew Caston: Joe Sims TUE Judge: David Holt TUE Dr Ruckman: Katherine Igoe TUE Dr Reynolds: David Timson TUE Wendy Caston: Adie Allen TUE Charlotte Workman: Kirsty Oswald TUE Margosha Day: Nicola Ferguson TUE Writer: Clara Glynn TUE Director: David Neville TUE Producer: David Neville TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b07f8q9w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b07ffxsw (Listen) TUE Series 8, As a matter of fact... TUE TUE The series that looks at current events through the lens of TUE psychology - Michael Blastland explores the quirky ways in TUE which we humans think, behave and make decisions. TUE TUE In this first episode of a new series, we look at facts and TUE the EU referendum. We are bombarded with statistics and TUE projections about how the UK will benefit or suffer, TUE depending on whether or not we are in or out of Europe. And TUE we, the public, clamour for even more. How do we respond and TUE use these facts, if at all, to formulate a reasoned opinion? TUE TUE To what extent do we make a judgment first and then collect TUE the evidence afterwards? Do we simply seek out facts that TUE confirm our original belief - are we simply TUE self-justification machines? As we near ballot time, the TUE Human Zoo team investigate how emotions - such as fear and TUE anger - may shape the way we think and act. TUE TUE Michael Blastland is joined by resident psychologist Nick TUE Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business TUE School, and roving reporter Timandra Harkness. TUE TUE Contributors this week include Prof. Jennifer Lerner, TUE Harvard University; Historian Lucy Robinson, University of TUE Sussex; and Prof. Peter Johansson, Lund University, Sweden. TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b07ffxsy (Listen) TUE Legal magazine programme. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b07ffxt5 (Listen) TUE Robert 'Judge' Rinder and Stella Duffy TUE TUE Barrister Robert Rinder, TV's Judge Rinder, and novelist TUE Stella Duffy talk to Harriett Gilbert about the books that TUE matter deeply to them. TUE Robert Rinder loves Hons and Rebels by Jessica Mitford so TUE much that he says he couldn't be friends with anyone who TUE didn't. TUE Stella Duffy shares her thoughts about facing mortality with TUE Staring at The Sun: Overcoming the Dread of Death by Irvin TUE D. Yalom. TUE Harriett introduces them to what she thinks is a dark TUE comedy: A Matter of Death and Life by Andrey Kurkov, set in TUE Kiev - but there is some dispute over its comedic value.. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Robert Rinder TUE Interviewed Guest: Stella Duffy TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea TUE TUE 17:00 PM b07fdxwb (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07fdxwd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:28 EU Referendum Campaign Broadcasts b07ffxtc (Listen) TUE Vote Leave, 14/06/2016 TUE TUE Referendum Campaign Broadcast by the Vote Leave campaign for TUE the Referendum on the United Kingdom's membership of the TUE European Union on 23rd June 2016. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b07ffxtj (Listen) TUE Series 7, Michael Rosen TUE TUE Poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen reads from his teenage TUE diaries which focus on growing up as a naughty schoolboy in TUE the 1960s, his early enthusiasm for politics and his warm, TUE loving and unusual family life. TUE TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE Executive Producer: Aled Evans TUE A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Michael Rosen TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07ffxtm (Listen) TUE Emma deals with an emergency, and Pat is put out. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b07fdxwg (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07ffxsk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b07ffxtr (Listen) TUE The recent deaths of children at the hands of family members TUE have revealed some children's social work departments are TUE still failing children some nine years after the death of TUE Baby P. In some regions the reaction of the Government has TUE been to take social workers out of the hands of councils and TUE put them into independent trusts. TUE TUE So what's been going wrong - and will the radical solution TUE coming out of Whitehall really work? Jenny Chryss TUE investigates. TUE TUE Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b07fdxwj (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b07ffxtt (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond presents the series that explores the limits TUE and potential of the human mind. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b07ffxsc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b07fdxwl (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b07fdxwn (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07gbc1k (Listen) TUE Vinegar Girl, Episode 2 TUE TUE Anne Tyler's contemporary response to Shakespeare's The TUE Taming of the Shrew is set in Baltimore where Dr Battista, TUE an obsessively dedicated scientist, lives with his two TUE daughters Kate and Bunny. TUE TUE Kate has been introduced to her father's research assistant TUE Pyotr, in a somewhat staged encounter. Already her TUE forthright manner has caused him to describe her as TUE 'rude-spoken', but nonetheless Pyotr manages to bump into TUE her on her way home from the nursery school where she works. TUE TUE Kate and Bunny's mother died when Bunny was a baby, and TUE since she dropped out of college (after a disagreement with TUE her biology lecturer) Kate has managed the household for her TUE father and teenage sister. TUE TUE Anne Tyler's previous novels include Dinner at the Homesick TUE Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and TUE Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the TUE Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning TUE the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger TUE Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award and the National Book TUE Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday TUE Times Award for Literary Excellence. TUE TUE Written by Anne Tyler TUE Read by Liza Ross. TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Liza Ross TUE Author: Anne Tyler TUE Abridger: Jill Waters TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE TUE 23:00 What Does the K Stand For? b0510ftl (Listen) TUE Series 2, Sister Dearest TUE TUE Stephen K Amos' sitcom about his own teenage years, growing TUE up black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. TUE TUE Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. Produced by TUE Colin Anderson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos TUE Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah TUE Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna TUE Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas TUE Vincent Amos: Don Gilet TUE Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly TUE Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson TUE Princess: Jocelyn Jee Esien TUE Producer: Colin Anderson TUE Writer: Jonathan Harvey TUE Writer: Stephen K Amos TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b07ffxtw (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 JUNE 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b07fdxy7 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b07ffxsh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07fdxy9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07fdxyc (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07fdxyf (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b07fdxyh (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07gm2xq (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi WED Jonathan Wittenberg. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b07fg1x0 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Mark Smalley. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03thswl (Listen) WED Canada Goose WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED John Aitchison tells the story of the Canada goose. These WED large black-necked geese with white cheeks and chinstraps WED are native to Canada and the USA. The first reference to WED them in the UK is in 1665 when English diarist, John Evelyn, WED records that they were in the waterfowl collection of King WED Charles II at St. James' Park in London. WED WED Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) WED WED 06:00 Today b07fg1x2 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b07fg1x4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b07fg1x6 (Listen) WED Negroland, Episode 3 WED WED To be born into a black, relatively wealthy family in the WED late 1940s was to be born into a world of contradictions. WED Margo Jefferson describes this world of 'privilege and WED plenty' as 'Negroland'. WED WED As her father became increasingly successful as a leading WED black paediatrician, he and her mother moved the family into WED a neighbourhood that had been exclusively white. Change was WED coming but it wasn't always welcome. As a young girl, Margo WED had to learn who amongst her white friends she could trust WED and who came from families which really despised them. WED WED Margo Jefferson went on to become an arts and theatre critic WED on the New York Times and Newsweek; she won a Pulitzer for WED her journalism and now teaches at Columbia University. WED WED Written and read by Margo Jefferson WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Margo Jefferson WED Writer: Margo Jefferson WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b07fdxyk (Listen) WED Takeover week: Guest editor Jackie Kay WED WED The newly appointed Makar - Scottish National Poet - guest WED edits the programme. The subjects she's chosen are WED WED Writing poems to order - Jackie and fellow poet Imtiaz WED Dharker on writing commissioned poems - both have just WED written poems inspired by bookshops in preparation for their WED Shore to Shore tour of readings at independent bookshops WED WED Vitiligo and hyperpigmentation - What causes these skin WED conditions and what it's like to live with them with WED dermatologist Dr Chopra and Natalie Ambersley who has had WED vitiligo since she was a toddler. WED WED Refugee Tales - Refugee Tales are a series of poems and WED stories based on the real experiences of refugees in the UK WED interpreted by writers and poets and published to bring WED attention to the plight of people held in long term WED detention. Refugee Tales was set up by the action group WED Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group who are campaigning for a 28 WED limit to detention. Reporter Catherine Carr talks to poet WED Patience Agbabi and 'Farida' who came to this country as a WED refugee. Anna Pincus, of the GDWG joins Jackie live in the WED studio to talk about Refugee Tales and their modern WED interpretation of the Canterbury Tales walk. WED WED Complicated grief - Psychotherapist and agony aunt Philippa WED Perry on how to deal when the grieving process is WED complicated by a difficult or unresolved relationship with WED the deceased. WED WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED Producer: Eleanor Garland. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED Editor: Jackie Kay WED Interviewed Guest: Imtiaz Dharker WED Interviewed Guest: Sunil Chopra WED Interviewed Guest: Natalie Ambersley WED Interviewer: Catherine Carr WED Interviewed Guest: Patience Agbabi WED Interviewed Guest: Farida WED Interviewed Guest: Anna Pincus WED Interviewed Guest: Philippa Perry WED Producer: Eleanor Garland WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b07fg1x8 (Listen) WED Unsuitable Men with Familiar Smiles, Episode 3 WED WED by Caroline and David Stafford WED WED Episode Three WED WED While Sally worries about her daughter in Mexico, Christine WED reveals her unlikely involvement in the Profumo Affair. But WED is she telling the truth? WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Christine: Eleanor Bron WED Sally: Tracy Wiles WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Writer: Caroline Stafford WED Writer: David Stafford WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b07fg1xb (Listen) WED Ian and Chikodi - Sharing in a Different Way WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple WED reflecting on the differences that bind them together. WED Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you WED 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 The Borders of Sanity b07ffkhx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Plum House b07fg2q7 (Listen) WED Series 1, Why Why WI? WED WED Comedy about the inept staff at an historic house. Starring WED Simon Callow and Jane Horrocks. WED WED Every year, thousands of tourists flock to the Lake WED District. But one place they never go to is Plum House - the WED former country home of terrible poet George Pudding WED (1779-1848). Now a crumbling museum, losing money hand over WED fist, it struggles to stay open under its eccentric curator WED Peter Knight (Simon Callow). WED WED Can anyone save Plum House from irreversible decline? WED WED Tom Collyer, sent from the Trust to do just that, seems to WED be the most likely candidate but the challenge is huge as he WED confronts the reality of winning round Peter Knight's WED handpicked team - the hopelessly out of touch deputy Julian WED (Miles Jupp), the corner-cutting gift shop manager Maureen WED (Jane Horrocks) intent on making profit from extremely cheap WED plum-themed merchandise, and maintenance man Alan (Pearce WED Quigley) who has heard the words "health" and "safety" but WED never in the same sentence. WED WED In this opening episode, the museum's preparations for the WED annual WI visit include hiding away valuable artefacts as, WED according to Peter, some members are prone to stealing them. WED And Julian gives a disastrous lecture on the life and work WED of George Pudding. WED WED Written by Ben Cottam and Paul McKenna WED Directed and Produced by Paul Schlesinger WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Peter: Simon Callow WED Maureen: Jane Horrocks WED Julian: Miles Jupp WED Tom: Tom Bell WED Alan: Pearce Quigley WED Emma: Louise Ford WED Mary: Kate Anthony WED Jean: Sandra Maitland WED Director: Paul Schlesinger WED Producer: Paul Schlesinger WED Writer: Ben Cottam WED Writer: Paul Mckenna WED WED 12:00 News Summary b07fdxym (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 More or Less b07hjvk4 (Listen) WED The Referendum by Numbers, Episode 3 WED WED Series of programmes investigating the numbers surrounding WED the EU referendum. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b07fdxyp (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b07fdxyt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b07fg2qb (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01drtc2 (Listen) WED Snacking through Shakespeare WED WED Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, returns to WED Radio 4 with a new object-based history. Taking artefacts WED from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan WED and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and WED rapidly changing world in which they lived. WED WED With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of WED political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil WED asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they WED were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to WED explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the WED public and helped shape the works, and he considers what WED they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of WED Shakespearean England. WED WED Programme 3. SNACKING THROUGH SHAKESPEARE - A luxury fork WED discovered on the site of the Rose theatre helps explain WED what people were nibbling on when they first heard: "Is this WED a dagger I see before me?" WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07ffxtm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Drama b07fg2qd (Listen) WED Behind Closed Doors, Protection WED WED The last in a series of three dramas set inside legal WED hearings. WED WED Today's drama is set at the Court of Protection. Mary has WED been in a Minimally Conscious State for over three years WED following a road accident. Barrister Rebecca Nyman is WED representing her husband who feels it is time to allow his WED wife to die. WED WED BEHIND CLOSED DOORS SERIES 3: WED Protection WED by CLARA GLYNN WED WED Barrister Rebecca Nyman ..................... CLARE CORBETT WED Mr Buchar....................................... VINCENT WED EBRAHIM WED Justice Rainer ............................. ELIZABETH WED BENNETT WED Gavin Howell ......................................... EWAN WED BAILEY WED Emily Howell ....................................... AMY WED SHINDLER WED Dr Raplock/Mrs Forest......................... CLARE PERKINS WED Professor Rushmore ...................... BRIAN PROTHEROE WED Megan Trantor.................................... BETTRYS WED JONES WED WED Producer/Director: David Ian Neville. WED WED Credits WED Barrister Rebecca Nyman: Clare Corbett WED Mr Buchar: Vincent Ebrahim WED Justice Rainer: Elizabeth Bennett WED Gavin Howell: Ewan Bailey WED Emily Howell: Amy Shindler WED Dr Raplock: Clare Perkins WED Mrs Forest: Clare Perkins WED Professor Rushmore: Brian Protheroe WED Megan Trantor: Bettrys Jones WED Writer: Clara Glynn WED Director: David Neville WED Producer: David Neville WED WED 15:00 Money Box b07fg6tm (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b07ffxtt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b07fg6tp (Listen) WED Secrecy at Work, Drugs and Employment WED WED Secrecy at Work: the hidden architecture within our WED organisations. Laurie Taylor talks to Christopher Grey, WED Professor of Organization Studies at Royal Holloway, WED University of London, about his study into the secrecy which WED is woven into the fabric of our lives at work - from formal WED secrecy, as we see in the case of trade and state secrets WED based on law and regulation; informal secrecy based on WED networks and trust; and public or open secrecy, where what WED is known goes undiscussed. WED WED Also, drug taking and employment: how does the UK anti drugs WED policy shape our concept of 'employable citizens'? Charlotte WED Smith, Lecturer in Management at the University of WED Leicester, argues that drug consumption, in neo liberal WED times, is positioned as the antithesis of economic WED potential. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED RELATED LINKS WED Charlotte Smith at the University of Leicester WED Christopher Grey at Royal Holloway, University of London WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b07fdxyw (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b07fdxyy (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07fdxz0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:28 EU Referendum Campaign Broadcasts b07fg6tr (Listen) WED Stronger IN Europe, 15/06/2016 WED WED Referendum Campaign Broadcast by the Stronger IN Europe WED campaign for the Referendum on the United Kingdom's WED membership of the European Union on 23rd June 2016. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b07fg6tt (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 5 WED WED Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show WED which dares to commit heresy. WED WED Her guests this week are comedians Lee Mack and David WED Baddiel and performer and QI elf Andrew Hunter Murray. WED Together they discuss Netflix, father figures and Katie WED Hopkins. WED WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Victoria Coren Mitchell WED Panellist: Lee Mack WED Panellist: David Baddiel WED Panellist: Andrew Hunter Murray WED WED 19:00 The Archers b07fg6tw (Listen) WED Lilian and Kate get down to business, and Rex spends time WED with Pip. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b07fdxz2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07fg1x8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b07fg6ty (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Claire Fox, Anne McElvoy, Giles Fraser WED and Mona Siddiqui. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b07fg6v2 (Listen) WED Citizen Diplomacy WED WED Tom Fletcher, former British Ambassador to Lebanon and known WED as the 'naked diplomat' for his direct, unvarnished WED approach, argues that the future of diplomacy will be WED citizen-led. WED WED Speaking at the Hay Festival, the 'ex-Excellency' explains WED how in the digital age most people doing diplomacy - what he WED describes as a basic human reflex to find common ground - WED will never have crossed the threshold of a Foreign Ministry. WED Instead, they will be working for NGOs, the media, in WED business, elsewhere in government or in communities. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Science Stories b07fg6v6 (Listen) WED Series 3, Blood and Fire: The Segregation and Racialisation WED of Blood WED WED Blood and Fire: the segregation and racialization of blood WED WED The development of plasma transfusion for masses of people WED was born of urgent necessity during WW2. In 1940, Britain WED struggled to treat thousands of civilians injured in the WED Blitz and many more soldiers in Dunkirk. Into that desperate WED maelstrom Charles Drew, an African American doctor, came to WED the rescue. Dr Drew was the key driving force behind a WED project called Plasma for Britain which saved many lives. WED WED But when a similar project was rolled out in the USA the WED authorities insisted that the blood be segregated; Charles WED Drew resigned and returned to work at a black establishment. WED WED A few years later Dr Drew was involved a catastrophic car WED accident; he was taken to a segregated (whites only) WED hospital but died of his injuries. For decades afterwards, WED the myth persisted, especially amongst African Americans, WED that the man credited with saving the lives of so many WED through transfusion was denied blood (because of his colour) WED that would have spared him. In Blood and Fire, Naomi WED Alderman explores the pivotal moment in the history of blood WED transfusion and its legacy in the controversy over WED race-based medicine. WED WED Producer: Colin Grant. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b07fg1x4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b07fdxz4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b07fdxz6 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07gb74k (Listen) WED Vinegar Girl, Episode 3 WED WED As part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project, authors of WED international standing have been invited to select a play WED and to write a contemporary version of it as a novel. Anne WED Tyler's response to The Taming of the Shrew is set in WED Baltimore where Dr Battista, an obsessively dedicated WED scientist, lives with his two daughters Kate and Bunny. WED WED He spends most of his waking hours at the lab where he is WED assisted by a brilliant young researcher called Pyotr. But WED Pyotr's three year visa is set to expire in a few weeks and, WED fearful that it will not be renewed, Dr Battista has WED suggested that his eldest daughter Kate might marry Pyotr WED and resolve the situation to everyone's satisfaction - WED except hers. WED WED After all it's not as if Kate has a boyfriend or a bevy of WED admirers like her pretty sister, Bunny. WED WED Kate responds with anger and humiliation, but her father is WED still determined to pursue his plan. WED WED Anne Tyler's previous novels include Dinner at the Homesick WED Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and WED Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the WED Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning WED the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger WED Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award and the National Book WED Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday WED Times Award for Literary Excellence. WED WED Written by Anne Tyler WED Read by Liza Ross WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Liza Ross WED Author: Anne Tyler WED Abridger: Jill Waters WED Producer: Jill Waters WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b07fg6v8 (Listen) WED Series 3, Goodnight Tokyo WED WED Lach was the King of Manhattan's East Village and host of WED the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives WED in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in WED a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh. WED WED His night, held in various venues around New York, was WED called the Antihoot. Never quite fitting in and lost WED somewhere lonely between folk and punk music, Lach started WED the Antifolk movement. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff WED Buckley and many others. He discovered and nurtured lots of WED talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches- WED but nobody discovered him. WED WED In this episode, Lach remembers a time he played a gig in WED Tokyo. Things didn't go to plan. WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED Produced by Richard Melvin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b07fln54 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not WED applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. WED Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts WED which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be WED followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, WED in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander. WED WED This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and WED Peter Curran. Here they try to get the heart of things in an WED entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place WED for typical male banter. From under the bed clothes they WED play each other music, and archive of Angela Carter, WED ex-Prime Ministers, a Castrato singer, and an elephant WED playing the piano. Work, family, literature, and their own WED badly-scuffed dreams are the funny, if warped conversational WED currency. WED WED A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b07fln56 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 JUNE 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b07fdy0q (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b07fg1x6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07fdy0s (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07fdy0v (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07fdy0x (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b07fdy0z (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07gbp3l (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi THU Jonathan Wittenberg. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b07fl5b9 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Sally Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02twnw4 (Listen) THU Herring Gull THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve THU Backshall presents the herring gull. THU THU Herring gulls now regularly breed inland and that's because THU of the way we deal with our refuse. Since the Clean Air Acts THU of 1956 banned the burning of refuse at rubbish tips, the THU birds have been able to cash in on the food that we reject: THU And our throwaway society has provided them a varied menu. THU We've also built reservoirs around our towns on which they THU roost, and we've provided them with flat roofs which make THU perfect nest sites. THU THU Herring gull (Larus argentatus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b07fl5bc (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b07fl5bh (Listen) THU The Bronze Age Collapse THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss The Bronze Age Collapse, the THU name given by many historians to what appears to have been a THU sudden, uncontrolled destruction of dominant civilizations THU around 1200 BC in the Aegean, Eastern Mediterranean and THU Anatolia. Among other areas, there were great changes in THU Minoan Crete, Egypt, the Hittite Empire, Mycenaean Greece THU and Syria. The reasons for the changes, and the extent of THU those changes, are open to debate and include droughts, THU rebellions, the breakdown of trade as copper became less THU desirable, earthquakes, invasions, volcanoes and the THU mysterious Sea Peoples. THU THU With THU THU John Bennet THU Director of the British School at Athens and Professor of THU Archaeology at the University of Sheffield THU THU Linda Hulin THU Fellow of Harris Manchester College and Research Officer at THU the Oxford Centre for Maritime Archaeology at the University THU of Oxford THU THU And THU THU Simon Stoddart THU Reader in Prehistory at the University of Cambridge THU THU Producer: Simon Tillotson. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU Interviewed Guest: John Bennet THU Interviewed Guest: Linda Hulin THU Interviewed Guest: Simon Stoddart THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b07fl5bk (Listen) THU Negroland, Episode 4 THU THU A fiercely intelligent account of race and class by writer THU and critic Margo Jefferson. She was born in 1947, the THU daughter of a paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, and THU grew up surrounded by the comforts of a well off family who THU were part of Chicago's black elite. This is the world she THU terms 'Negroland' - 'a small region of Negro America where THU residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege THU and plenty'. THU THU In episode 4, Dr and Mrs Jefferson take their two young THU daughters on a holiday trip, but in Atlantic City not THU everything goes to plan. THU THU Written and read by Margo Jefferson THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Margo Jefferson THU Writer: Margo Jefferson THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b07fdy11 (Listen) THU Takeover week: Guest Editor Professor Sunetra Gupta THU THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07fl5bm (Listen) THU Unsuitable Men with Familiar Smiles, Episode 4 THU THU by Caroline and David Stafford THU THU When Sally unearths a set of old rosary beads, Christine THU tells her daughter about her time in Rome - an adventure THU with life-changing results. THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU Credits THU Christine: Eleanor Bron THU Sally: Tracy Wiles THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: Caroline Stafford THU Writer: David Stafford THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b07fl5bp (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine THU news developments in their region. THU THU 11:30 Manto: Uncovering Pakistan b07fl5br (Listen) THU Sa'adat Hassan Manto was a writer who confronted social THU taboos in Indio-Pakistani society. Even though he died in THU 1955, an alcoholic and penniless, his work still speaks to THU 21st century Pakistan. THU THU "If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in THU is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth" (Manto) THU THU Born in Punjab in what was then British India on 11th May THU 1912, Manto died aged only 42 in Punjab, by then Pakistan. THU As a film and radio script writer, a journalist and most THU significantly as short story writer in Urdu, he chronicled THU the chaos that prevailed in the run up to, during and after THU the Partition of India in 1947. Manto was tried for THU obscenity six times - three times in British India and three THU times in Pakistan, but he was never convicted. THU THU "A writer picks up his pen only when his sensibility is THU hurt" (Manto) THU THU Often compared with DH Lawrence, Manto (much like Lawrence) THU wrote about topics considered to be social taboos in THU Indio-Pakistani society. With stories such as 'Atishparay' THU (Nuggets of Fire), 'Bu' (Odour), 'Thanda Gosht' (Cold Meat) THU and 'Shikari Auratein' (Women of Prey), he portrayed the THU darkness of the human psyche and the collective madness of THU the social and political changes around him. THU THU "If you cannot bear these stories then society is THU unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, THU which itself is naked. I don't even try to cover it, because THU that is not my job. That is the job of dressmakers" (Manto) THU THU With the help of Manto's three daughters, Nusrat, Nighat and THU Nuzhat, as well as writers and scholars like Ayesha Jalal, THU Suniya Qureshi, Preti Taneja and Mohammed Hanif, presenter THU Sarfraz Mansoor tells Manto's story and assesses his legacy. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b07fdy13 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 More or Less b07hjy4z (Listen) THU The Referendum by Numbers, Episode 4 THU THU Series of programmes investigating the numbers surrounding THU the EU referendum. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b07fdy15 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b07fdy17 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b07fl5bt (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g637c (Listen) THU Life Without Elizabeth THU THU Radio 4 with a new object-based history. Taking artefacts THU from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan THU and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and THU rapidly changing world in which they lived. THU THU With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of THU political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil THU asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they THU were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to THU explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the THU public and helped shape the works, and he considers what THU they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of THU Shakespearean England. THU THU Programme 4. LIFE WITHOUT ELIZABETH - Painted in 1571 to THU justify and celebrate Elizabeth I's position in the Tudor THU succession, by the 1590s, with no direct Tudor heir, this THU image had very different implications. THU THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU Portrait of the Tudor Dynasty THU Date: THU c.1572 THU Size: THU H:1312mm, W:1840mm THU Made in: THU Unknown THU Made by: THU Lucas de Heere THU Material: THU Oil paint on panel THU THU THU THU In the 1590s, the nation was gripped by a constitutional THU crisis in waiting. As Elizabeth I drew closer to her three THU score years and ten, the question of who would succeed her THU to the throne became a pressing matter. THU THU But the queen herself was a little tetchy on the subject. In THU 1571, she made it an act of treason to discuss the issue of THU succession, and in later years added further laws to THU guarantee silence. THU THU If the issue couldn’t be spoken or written about in words, THU then it could be pictured. This portrait of the Tudor THU dynasty from 1571 (and a popular print version issued 20 THU years later) demonstrates the power of metaphor and allegory THU in exploring such sensitive subject matter. And on stage, THU Shakespeare too was exploring ideas of dynasty – but behind THU the veil of ancient Rome and historical England. THU THU THU THU This object is from the THU National Museum of Wales THU THU THU British Museum Blog: Why was a picture like this made? by THU Susan Doran, Historian, University of Oxford THU THU Quotations THU THU 'England hath long been mad, and scarred herself;/The THU brother blindly shed the brother's blood,/The father rashly THU slaughtered his own son,/The son, compelled, been butcher to THU the sire:/All this divided York and Lancaster' THU Richard III, Act 5 Scene 5 THU THU Background THU THU More from Radio 4: Legacy THU THU How the monarchy has dealt with a series of dynastic crises, THU and a look at some objects that are being brought into the THU service of both Queen and country today. THU THU THU Listen to the programme THU THU More from Radio 4: The Thistle and the Rose THU THU An intimate view of a monarchical succession told through THU the correspondence between James VI of Scotland and the THU gaoler of his mother, Elizabeth I. THU THU THU Listen to the programme THU THU More from Radio 4: The Tudor State THU THU Melvyn Bragg discusses the role of the Tudor dynasty in THU reshaping the British state and whether their government of THU England laid the political foundations of our own age. THU THU THU Listen to the programme THU THU More from Radio 4: The Death of Elizabeth I THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth THU I and its immediate impact, as a foreign monarch became King THU in the face of plots and plague. THU THU THU Listen to the programme THU THU 14:00 The Archers b07fg6tw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Tommies b07fl5bw (Listen) THU 16 June 1916 THU THU Lee Ross, Indira Varma, Fay Castelow and Justin Salinger THU star in this story by Jonathan Ruffle. THU THU When Mickey Bliss is summoned to advise on signals at the THU Bureau Centrale Interallie in Paris he comes across both an THU impressive young woman and a disturbing figure from his THU past. THU THU Meticulously based on war diaries and eye-witness accounts, THU each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war exactly THU 100 years ago. THU THU Through this series of TOMMIES we follow the fortunes of THU Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers. They are cogs in an THU immense machine, one which connects situations across the THU whole theatre of war, over 4 long years. THU THU With Ewan Bailey, Nick Underwood and Maksim Mijovic. THU THU Series created by Jonathan Ruffle THU Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: David Hunter. THU THU Credits THU Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross THU Commentator: Indira Varma THU Miss Softley: Faye Castelow THU Robert De Tullio: Justin Salinger THU Mrs Flinders: Adie Allen THU Celestine De Tullio: Pippa Nixon THU General-Major Storms: James Lailey THU Actor: Ewan Bailey THU Actor: Nick Underwood THU Actor: Maksim Mijovic THU Producer: David Hunter THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU Writer: Nick Warburton THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b07fl5by (Listen) THU Series 33, The Cotswold Way THU THU Clare Balding joins Graham Hoyland and his partner, Gina THU Waggott, as they retrace the steps they took last year along THU the Cotswold Way as part of their three month epic walk of THU five hundred miles, following the progress of the spring as THU it spread up England from the south coast to Gretna Green. THU They planted an acorn every mile and are thrilled to THU discover some of them have grown. They talk to Clare about THU the joy they felt in sharing this journey, their favourite THU rucksack snacks and their future walking plans. THU Producer Lucy Lunt. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Interviewed Guest: Graham Hoyland THU Interviewed Guest: Gina Waggott THU Producer: Lucy Lunt THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b07fdzjx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b07ff199 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b07fl5c0 (Listen) THU Sheffield Doc Fest THU THU Francine Stock reports from this year's Sheffield Doc Fest THU and talks to the winner of the festival's first award for THU virtual reality. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b07fdy19 (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford explores the science that is changing our THU world. THU THU 17:00 PM b07fdy1c (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07fdy1f (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07fl6sk (Listen) THU Series 2, Planes, Trains and Automobiles THU THU Paul Sinha returns for a second series of his History THU Revision, the show that uncovers the fascinating stories THU that we've forgotten in our onward march of progress. In the THU last series we learned how Alexander Graham Bell did NOT THU invent the telephone, and that the World Cup final of 2014 THU could only have happened because of the 1415 invasion of THU Morocco. THU THU 4/4: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. THU This week, Paul asks "How did we get here?", quite THU literally, getting the studio audience to tell him how they THU got to the BBC Radio Theatre, and then regaling them with THU stories from the history of transport. From the area of THU London that became a Russian train station, to the man who THU revolutionised both the motor industry and the music charts, THU to the names of airports around the world, this programme THU about the world of planes, trains and automobiles will THU provide fascinating facts and surprising stories (unless you THU listen on a weekend, when a bus replacement service is in THU operation). THU THU "Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a THU listen" - The Telegraph THU THU Written and performed by Paul Sinha THU Produced by Ed Morrish THU THU A BBC Radio Comedy Production. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Paul Sinha THU Performer: Paul Sinha THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU 19:00 The Archers b07fl6sw (Listen) THU Phoebe finds solace, and Toby pulls out all the stops. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b07fdy1h (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07fl5bm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b07ffxsy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b07fl6t6 (Listen) THU The Finance of Films THU THU The business of film. Evan Davis follows the money trail THU from script to screen. With the help of a top independent THU film producer, a film distributor and the head of a top THU cinema chain, Evan discovers who takes the risks and who THU makes the money behind the scenes. THU THU Guests THU THU Alex Hamilton, Managing Director, Entertainment One UK THU THU Elizabeth Karlsen, Producer and co-founder, Number9 Films THU THU Tim Richards, CEO, Vue International. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b07fdy19 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b07fl5bh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b07fdy1k (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b07fdy1m (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07gb89g (Listen) THU Vinegar Girl, Episode 4 THU THU As part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project authors of THU international standing have been invited to select a play THU and to write a contemporary version of it as a novel. Anne THU Tyler's response to The Taming of the Shrew is set in THU Baltimore where Dr Battista, an obsessively dedicated THU scientist, lives with his two daughters Kate and Bunny. THU THU He spends most of his waking hours at the lab where he is THU assisted by a brilliant young researcher called Pyotr. But THU Pyotr's three year visa is set to expire in a few weeks and THU fearful that it will not be renewed Dr Battista has THU suggested that his eldest daughter Kate might marry Pyotr THU and resolve the situation to everyone's satisfaction - THU except hers. THU THU After all it's not as if Kate has a boyfriend or a bevy of THU admirers like her pretty sister, Bunny. THU THU Pyotr has paid a visit to Kate at home and apologised for THU offending her. Dr Battista is determined to see the fact THU that she responded graciously to his apology as progress, THU and is still keen to persuade her to at least consider his THU plan. Without Pyotr he is convinced that he would be unable THU to successfully complete his research, which he believes to THU be at a crucial stage. THU THU Anne Tyler's previous novels include Dinner at the Homesick THU Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and THU Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the THU Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning THU the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger THU Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award and the National Book THU Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday THU Times Award for Literary Excellence. THU THU Written by Anne Tyler THU Read by Liza Ross THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Liza Ross THU Author: Anne Tyler THU Abridger: Jill Waters THU Producer: Jill Waters THU THU 23:00 The World of Simon Rich b07fl6t9 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Simon Rich has been Saturday Night Live's youngest writer, a THU staff writer for Pixar and a regular contributor to The New THU Yorker - as well as one of the funniest short story writers THU of his generation. Now he brings his enchanting, absurd THU world to radio with his first British comedy show. THU THU The series takes us across time and space, from the design THU of the universe and prehistoric love triangles to the THU terrors of life as an unused condom inside a teenager's THU wallet. THU THU Performing the stories alongside Simon is a cast of UK comic THU talent, starring Peter Serafinowicz and Tim Key, with Cariad THU Lloyd, Jamie Demetriou, Joseph Morpurgo and Claire Price. THU THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU Executive Producer: Richard Wilson THU A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Writer: Simon Rich THU Performer: Simon Rich THU Ensemble: Peter Serafinowicz THU Ensemble: Tim Key THU Ensemble: Cariad Lloyd THU Ensemble: Jamie Demetriou THU Ensemble: Joseph Morpurgo THU Ensemble: Claire Price THU Producer: Jon Harvey THU THU 23:30 Sugar, Saris and Green Bananas b06b36w4 (Listen) THU Sugar in My Blood THU THU When you reach for the sugar bowl do you ever think where THU those sweet granules come from? In the first of two THU programmes, London-born journalist Lainy Malkani embarks on THU a quest to uncover her family's Indo-Guyanese roots on the THU sugar plantations of the Caribbean. THU THU She learns how her ancestors were among the tens of THU thousands of poor indentured labourers shipped from India to THU work on the British-owned sugar estates - a practice that THU began after slavery was abolished in 1838 and continued well THU into the 20th century. They lived and laboured on THU plantations with quintessentially English names like Rose THU Hall and Albion. THU THU When Jock Campbell, the Eton-educated son of the owners of THU Albion, first visited in 1932 he was shocked by the THU conditions he found. He asked the fearsome Scottish manager THU James Bee why the workers' lodgings were so much worse than THU those of the mules. He was told "Because mules cost money to THU replace." THU THU Lainy hears firsthand accounts of life on the sugar THU plantations and the intense nostalgia workers felt for their THU Indian homeland. She also learns how some of the most famous THU West Indies cricketers, such as Alvin Kallicharran and Rohan THU Kanhai, began their careers on the cricket grounds of the THU Guyanese sugar estates. THU THU And in a south London suburb, she joins numerous other THU Indo-Guyanese families as they commemorate the first THU generation of indentured labourers who went to the THU Caribbean. THU THU She says, "It was sugar that brought my Indian ancestors to THU the Caribbean. It was the sugar plantations that defined THU their daily lives. And eventually it was what drove so many THU of my parents' generation to seek better lives abroad, such THU as here in Britain." THU THU Producer Mukti Jain Campion THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 JUNE 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07fdy31 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b07fl5bk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07fdy33 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07fdy35 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07fdy37 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07fdy39 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07gbqs0 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Rabbi FRI Jonathan Wittenberg. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b07fl7c4 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b02ty530 (Listen) FRI Lesser Black-backed Gull FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. Steve FRI Backshall presents the lesser black-backed gull. FRI FRI These smart gulls are charcoal grey on top and white FRI beneath. Like herring gulls, their close relatives LBBs have FRI moved into urban areas and now breed on flat roofs in the FRI centre of cities. It seems almost any flat surface will do. FRI In just three hours, one bird in Gloucester built a nest on FRI a car roof and laid an egg in. FRI FRI Lesser Black-backed gull (Larus fuscus) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07flbs3 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Includes Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b07ff0hj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b07flbsd (Listen) FRI Negroland, Episode 5 FRI FRI The writer and critic Margo Jefferson was born in 1947, the FRI daughter of a paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, and FRI grew up surrounded by the comforts of a well off family who FRI were part of Chicago's black elite. This is the world she FRI terms, 'Negroland' - 'I call it Negroland because I still FRI find 'Negro' a word of wonders, glorious and terrible. ... FRI because I lived with its meanings and intimations for so FRI long.' FRI FRI In the 1960s, as the Black Power movement in America gained FRI momentum, the young Margo Jefferson had to find a way of FRI resolving the internal conflicts arising from being educated FRI to be better than the white people who occupied positions of FRI power. Growing up with the advantages of class and money had FRI somehow resulted in 'an excess of white-derived manners and FRI interests'. Negotiating rules, entitlements and prejudices FRI made it increasingly difficult to find her place and her FRI self in the fractured world around her. FRI FRI Written and read by Margo Jefferson FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Margo Jefferson FRI Writer: Margo Jefferson FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b07fdy3c (Listen) FRI Takeover week: Guest Editor Angelina Jolie Pitt FRI FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07flbsn (Listen) FRI Unsuitable Men with Familiar Smiles, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Caroline and David Stafford FRI FRI With Sally frantic with worry about her daughter in Mexico, FRI Christine reveals her biggest - and most surprising - FRI secret. FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI Credits FRI Christine: Eleanor Bron FRI Sally: Tracy Wiles FRI Director: Marc Beeby FRI Writer: Caroline Stafford FRI Writer: David Stafford FRI FRI 11:00 The Secret History of Yoga b07flbst (Listen) FRI As UN International Yoga Day approaches, Mukti Jain Campion FRI sets out to explore the roots of modern yoga practice. FRI FRI Like millions of people across the world, Mukti attends FRI regular yoga classes and enjoys its many physical and mental FRI benefits while believing it to be the "timeless Indian FRI discipline" so often described in yoga books. FRI FRI But recent research challenges this common assumption. Could FRI modern yoga classes, as now taught all around the world, FRI actually be the product of 19th century Scandinavian FRI gymnastics as much as ancient Indian philosophy? FRI FRI Startled by this possibility, Mukti sets out to explore the FRI roots of modern yoga practice and uncovers an extraordinary FRI multicultural history in which early 20th century European FRI ideas of health, fitness and the cult of the Body Beautiful FRI became intertwined with Indian nationalism and the revival FRI of Indian interest in its own traditions of physical FRI culture. Out of this heady mix emerged a new generation of FRI yoga innovators who transformed an obsolete and frowned-upon FRI practice of Indian holy men into something that would appeal FRI to masses of ordinary people. FRI FRI Contributors include Dr Mark Singleton, author of Yoga Body: FRI The origins of modern posture practice, Dr Jim Mallinson, a FRI Yoga historian from the School of Oriental and African FRI Studies in London, Dr Manmath Gharote, Director of the FRI Lonavla Yoga Institute in India and Dr Suzanne Newcombe from FRI The London School of Economics who has studied the FRI development of yoga in Britain. FRI FRI Readers: Tim Pigott-Smith and Denise Stephenson FRI FRI Producer: Mukti Jain Campion FRI A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04l3clb (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 1 FRI FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch FRI show. FRI FRI 1/6: This first edition of the brand-new series sees John FRI create an innovative teaching aid; eavesdrop on two guards FRI who really should be paying more attention; and, well, since FRI you ask him for a tale of honour satisfied, he does have one FRI such sketch. FRI FRI The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was FRI described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and FRI "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite FRI some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio FRI Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was FRI nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series FRI actually won a Radio Academy award. FRI FRI In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like FRI the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them FRI that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand FRI not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to FRI completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in FRI other words, but about different things and with different FRI jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will FRI involve talking animals.) FRI FRI Written by and starring ... John Finnemore FRI Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry FRI Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. FRI Original music by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally Stares. FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Finnemore FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: Simon Kane FRI Ensemble: Lawry Lewin FRI Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b07fdy3f (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 More or Less b07hjxrm (Listen) FRI The Referendum by Numbers, Episode 5 FRI FRI Series of programmes investigating the numbers surrounding FRI the EU referendum. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b07fdy3h (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b07fdy3k (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b07flbt3 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g65gz (Listen) FRI Swordplay and Swagger FRI FRI Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues FRI his new object-based history. Taking artefacts from William FRI Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean FRI playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing FRI world in which they lived. FRI FRI With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of FRI political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil FRI asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they FRI were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to FRI explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the FRI public and helped shape the works, and he considers what FRI they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of FRI Shakespearean England. FRI FRI Programme 5. SWORDPLAY AND SWAGGER - The essential FRI accoutrements of any self-respecting gentleman illustrate FRI the extent of violence in Elizabethan London - both onstage FRI and off. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI Rapier and Dagger FRI Date: FRI c.1600 FRI Size: FRI Rapier: H:1280mm. Dagger: H: 463mm FRI Made in: FRI England FRI Made by: FRI Unknown FRI Material: FRI Steel, Iron, Wood FRI FRI FRI FRI We tend to think of the play about Shakespeare’s most famous FRI couple, Romeo and Juliet, as being about the tribulations of FRI romantic love – when in fact it’s just as much about gangs FRI of privileged lads slicing each other to death. FRI FRI FRI FRI Although the play’s action is set in Italy, the issue of FRI urban violence would not have been foreign to its English FRI audience. Weapons were part of everyday life – all gentleman FRI of the time would have worn something similar to this rapier FRI and dagger set – part fashion accessory, part murder weapon. FRI FRI FRI FRI Many such gentlemen would head south of the river to FRI London’s South Bank where, outside the authority of the FRI City, they could encounter the roaring entertainments of FRI Bankside which could either lead the way to delights…or FRI dangerous drunken feuds. FRI FRI FRI FRI This object is from the FRI Royal Armouries FRI FRI FRI British Museum Blog: Swords as symbols of status by Toby FRI Capwell, Curator of Arms and Armour, The Wallace Collection FRI FRI Quotations FRI FRI 'He fights as you sing pricksong: keeps time, distance, and FRI proportion. He rests his minim rests, one, two, and the FRI third in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button... FRI Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverse! the hay!' FRI Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 4 FRI FRI Background FRI FRI More from Radio 4: Shakespeare's London FRI FRI Writer Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London in the FRI company of Shakespeare scholars and archaeologists, to seek FRI out echoes of Shakespeare's city in the London of today. FRI FRI FRI Listen to the programme FRI FRI More from Radio 4: The Art of War FRI FRI Melvyn Bragg discusses the history and philosophy of FRI warfare, examining how has war been understood throughout FRI the ages, who it has served and how has it been justified. FRI FRI FRI Listen to the programme FRI FRI More from Radio 4: Elizabethan Revenge FRI FRI Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why revenge tragedy was so FRI popular with Elizabethan theatre goers, from Thomas Kyd's FRI The Spanish Tragedy to Shakespeare's Hamlet. FRI FRI FRI Listen to the programme FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b07fl6sw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b07flhl7 (Listen) FRI Reasons for Leaving FRI FRI Reasons for Leaving by Peter Whalley FRI Lauren thinks someone is breaking into her house and calls FRI the police, only to discover it's Ian, her estranged husband FRI who walked out and disappeared eleven months ago. When we FRI discover the woman, lying in hospital in a coma,s is Ian's FRI lover, Ian's reasons for leaving and why he's back, become FRI more allusive. The real reason is finally realised but is it FRI too late? FRI FRI Produced and directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ian: Jason Done FRI Lauren: Sally Carmen FRI Tracy: Julia Rounthwaite FRI Sarah: Rachel Leskovac FRI Policeman: Stephen Fletcher FRI Policeman in Brighton: Eric Potts FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Writer: Peter Whalley FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07flhl9 (Listen) FRI Stonehenge - Midsummer Special FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts a special edition of the programme from FRI Stonehenge. Anne Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood and Matt Biggs FRI join him to answer the horticultural questions. FRI FRI Produced by Dan Cocker FRI Assistant Producer: Laurence Bassett FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Hank of Black Hair b07flhlc (Listen) FRI It's 1922 and in a Dublin park, Matt Kirwan is enjoying his FRI Sunday afternoon painting a landscape when a young woman FRI approaches his easel to watch him work. He knows from this FRI day forward his life will never be the same. FRI FRI Sebastian Barry is one of Ireland's finest and most FRI celebrated writers. His He has twice been shortlisted for FRI the Man Booker Prize for his novels A Long Long Way (2005) FRI and The Secret Scripture (2008), the latter of which won the FRI 2008 Costa Book of the Year and the James Tait Black FRI Memorial Prize. His 2011 novel On Canaan's Side was FRI longlisted for the Booker. His new novel, Days Without End FRI will be published October 2016. FRI FRI Writer ..... Sebastian Barry FRI Reader ..... Liam O'Brien FRI Producer ..... Gemma McMullan. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Sebastian Barry FRI Reader: Liam O'Brien FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b07flhlf (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b07flhlh (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b07flhlk (Listen) FRI Ian and Chikodi - People Stare At Us FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple whose FRI different ethnic origins, ages and the visual disability one FRI of them has elicit stereotypical reactions from the public. FRI Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you FRI 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 b07fdy3m (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07fdy3p (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b07flhlm (Listen) FRI Series 16, Episode 1 FRI FRI The topical satirical show that mixes political vituperation FRI with media savaging is back. With a referendum on Europe, a FRI presidential election in America and the BBC in crisis, the FRI team will focus on the things that matter, and quite a few FRI things that don't, like Top Gear and most things on BBC FRI Three. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b07flhlp (Listen) FRI Reality hits home for the Grundys, and Helen has a moment of FRI happiness. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Caroline Harrington FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer: William Troughton FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Bert Fry: Eric Allan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Kaz: Amaka Okafor FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b07fdy3r (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07flbsn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b07flhlr (Listen) FRI Alan Johnson MP, Nigel Farage MEP, Lord Owen, Anna Soubry MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Masham Town FRI Hall in Yorkshire with a panel including chair of Labour In FRI Alan Johnson MP, the leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage MEP, the FRI former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen, and the Small Business FRI Minister Anna Soubry MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07flhwb (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zdm6g (Listen) FRI Five Hundred Years of Friendship: Omnibus, Episode 2 FRI FRI Dr Thomas presents this omnibus edition of his history about FRI the changing meaning and experience of friendship over the FRI centuries FRI FRI He explores working class Friendly Societies - pre-Welfare FRI State, grassroots insurance schemes - in the 18th and 19th FRI centuries; children's friendships and the invention of the FRI idea of the best friend; the idea of dogs being "man's best FRI friend"; the Victorian borderland between platonic and FRI homosexual love; and the tragic impact of the First World FRI War on male friendships. FRI FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b07fdy3t (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b07fdy3w (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07gbb1m (Listen) FRI Vinegar Girl, Episode 5 FRI FRI As part of the Hogarth Shakespeare project authors of FRI international standing have been invited to select a play FRI and to write a contemporary version of it as a novel. Anne FRI Tyler's response to The Taming of the Shrew is set in FRI Baltimore where Dr Battista, an obsessively dedicated FRI scientist, lives with his two daughters Kate and Bunny. FRI FRI He spends most of his waking hours at the lab where he is FRI assisted by a brilliant young researcher called Pyotr. But FRI Pyotr's three year visa is set to expire in a few weeks and FRI fearful that it will not be renewed Dr Battista has FRI suggested that his eldest daughter Kate might marry Pyotr FRI and resolve the situation to everyone's satisfaction - FRI except hers. FRI FRI After all it's not as if Kate has a boyfriend or a bevy of FRI admirers like her pretty sister, Bunny. FRI FRI Anne Tyler's previous novels include Dinner at the Homesick FRI Restaurant (1983), The Accidental Tourist (1985) and FRI Breathing Lessons (1988). All three were finalists for the FRI Pulitzer Prize for Fiction with Breathing Lessons winning FRI the prize for 1989. She has also won the Janet Heidinger FRI Kafka Prize, the Ambassador Book Award and the National Book FRI Critics Circle Award. In 2012 she was awarded The Sunday FRI Times Award for Literary Excellence. FRI FRI Written by Anne Tyler FRI Read by Liza Ross FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Liza Ross FRI Author: Anne Tyler FRI Abridger: Jill Waters FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b07ffxt5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Sugar, Saris and Green Bananas b06c48pj (Listen) FRI Indo-Guyanese and Proud FRI FRI A cutlass once used for chopping sugar cane, a collection of FRI old Indian music albums and a pair of shiny red stiletto FRI shoes. Can these objects help a daughter better understand FRI her mother's past? FRI FRI Since her mother died, London-born journalist Lainy Malkani FRI has been trying to make sense of her family's history of FRI double migration. In the first programme she uncovered the FRI epic story of her ancestors who came from India to work as FRI indentured labourers on the sugar plantations of British FRI Guyana in the 19th and early 20th century. In this programme FRI she discovers how difficult it was to forge an Indo-Guyanese FRI identity for the migrants who came to build new lives in FRI Britain during the 1960s. FRI FRI "No-one knew what to make of us when we came to England. We FRI looked Indian but we didn't speak any Indian language or FRI dress in Indian clothes. If we said we were from the FRI Caribbean people didn't understand because, to most British FRI people, Caribbean just meant being black. So we became sort FRI of invisible." FRI FRI When her parents were alive they didn't speak much about the FRI past. But by going through her mum's belongings with her FRI siblings and speaking to other immigrants of that period FRI Lainy has begun to reconnect with her Indo-Guyanese FRI heritage. And as she reflects on the life her mother created FRI for herself and her children in north London, Lainy learns FRI that migration can be motivated by many things other than FRI money. FRI FRI Producer Mukti Jain Campion FRI A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b07flm1r (Listen) FRI Ian and Chikodi - Leaving Things Where You'll Trip Over Them FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about being aware of FRI your partner's needs... or not... Another in the series that FRI proves it's surprising 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
10 June, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 11/06/2016 - 17/06/2016
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