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SAT SATURDAY 25 JUNE 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b07gctdj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07gctdl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07gctdn (Listen) SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07gctdq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b07gctds (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07glxfg (Listen) SAT Spiritual reflection to start the day with Anna Magnusson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b07glxfj (Listen) SAT 'There is nothing that prepares you for the horror you face' SAT - Trauma after jury duty SAT SAT Is there enough support available for jurors in cases of SAT extreme violence? An iPM listener describes the trauma he SAT experienced after serving on the jury of a murder trial, and SAT listening to graphic details about the crime. He's concerned SAT that unlike other people in the courtroom, jurors are left SAT alone to deal with what they've seen in evidence, and he SAT believes more should be done to prepare them for "the SAT horrors they'll face". SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b07gctdv (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b07gctdx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b07gh57v (Listen) SAT Series 33, Northumberland: Bothy Bagging SAT SAT Clare Balding meets Phoebe Smith, an expert in planning long SAT walks and bagging bothies. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Interviewed Guest: Lucy Newcombe SAT Producer: Lucy Lunt SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b07gctdz (Listen) SAT Brexit Reaction SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally SAT Challoner. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b07gctf1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b07h2v2t (Listen) SAT News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and SAT Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:30 Saturday Live b07gctf3 (Listen) SAT Richard Madeley SAT SAT Richard Madeley is one of the most recognizable faces on SAT British TV, part of a successful husband and wife presenting SAT team that lasted over 20 years. He has written four books - SAT one about his relationship with his father, the latest SAT called 'The Night Book' which is published this month. SAT SAT Living statues. You see them now in Trafalgar Sq. and at the SAT seaside, wherever tourists gather, standing dead still, or SAT sometimes even appearing to hover, for hours for the SAT amusement of the crowds. One (at least) is a regular SAT listener to the programme, Eve Blakemore, and she's with us SAT now, and she's dressed magnificently... SAT SAT Steve Rich loved football and played at amateur level until SAT a car accident and a ruptured knee in his twenties ended all SAT that. Twenty years later, he's back on the pitch, but at his SAT own pace - playing walking football. SAT SAT Gina Yashere has been a stand up and TV star in the UK for SAT several years now, with appearances on iconic TV shows such SAT as Live at the Apollo & Mock the Week, as well as creating & SAT performing popular comedic characters on The Lenny Henry SAT Show. She broke onto the American comedy scene with her SAT appearances on Last Comic Standing (NBC), where she made it SAT to the final 10, and then never went home. SAT SAT Playwright David Hare shares his Inheritance Tracks. He has SAT chosen 'Oh What a Lovely War (Joan Littlewood Stage Show) & SAT Simple Twist of Fate (by Bob Dylan) Sung by Diana Krall) SAT SAT Richard Madeley's new book The Night Book is Published by SAT Simon & Schuster 30 June 2016 | Paperback SAT SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Madeley SAT Interviewed Guest: Gina Yashere SAT Interviewed Guest: David Hare SAT Interviewed Guest: Eve Blakemore SAT Interviewed Guest: Steve Rich SAT Producer: Maire Devine SAT Editor: Karen Dalziel SAT SAT 10:30 I Was... b069r80x (Listen) SAT Series 2, George Orwell's Pupil SAT SAT Andrew McGibbon presents the series that analyses great SAT artists at a significant time in their careers - but from SAT the perspective of someone who worked for them, inspired SAT them, employed them, was taught by them or even did their SAT job for them while no one was looking. SAT SAT In 1932, George Orwell was still known as Eric Blair and SAT supporting himself by teaching in a private middle school SAT run by tradesmen in semi rural Hayes, West London. SAT SAT Geoffrey Stevens was one of his pupils during the year that SAT saw him publish his first book - Down and Out in Paris and SAT London - and also change his name from Eric Blair to George SAT Orwell. SAT SAT Geoffrey, now 96, remembers Orwell teaching him French - SAT badly, Orwell's harsh classroom style and reliance on SAT corporal punishment, his avuncular after school country SAT walks to look for puss moth larva and collect marsh gas, and SAT Orwell directing the school play which he wrote himself. SAT SAT He recalls how Orwell was driven mad by the school owner's SAT wife playing Baptist hymns on the piano late into the night, SAT the curious role of the school parrot during mealtimes and SAT Orwell coming round for tea with Geoffrey's mum and dad and SAT giving him more homework as a result. SAT SAT It's a fragment of time that reveals fascinating and mundane SAT insights to George Orwell, a powerful sense of early SAT thirties suburban London during the depression and the story SAT of an underperforming pupil who went on to run two SAT businesses and, at nearly 100, still walks 30 miles a week. SAT SAT Written and presented by Andrew McGibbon SAT Reader: Gunnar Cauthery SAT Produced by Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon SAT A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b07h2v2y (Listen) SAT Steve Richards reports on the result of the EU referendum. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b07gctf7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b07h2v30 (Listen) SAT EU Referendum: From What If? to What Now? SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Pensions Advisory Service SAT Pension Wise SAT Savings Champion SAT Money Advice Service SAT FSCS SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b07glx81 (Listen) SAT Series 16, Episode 2 SAT SAT The topical satirical show that mixes political vituperation SAT with media savaging is back. With a referendum on Europe, a SAT presidential election in America and the BBC in crisis, the SAT team will focus on the things that matter, and quite a few SAT things that don't, like Top Gear and most things on BBC SAT Three. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b07gctf9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b07gctfc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b07glx85 (Listen) SAT Ken Clarke MP, Chris Grayling MP, Emily Thornberry MP, SAT Steven Woolfe MEP SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from SAT Broadcasting House Radio Theatre in London, with former SAT Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ken Clarke MP; Leader of the SAT House of Commons Chris Grayling MP; Shadow Secretary of SAT State for Defence Emily Thornberry MP; and UKIP Frontbench SAT Spokesman on Migration and Financial Affairs Steven Woolfe SAT MEP. SAT SAT Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b07gctff (Listen) SAT Listeners have their say on the issues discussed on Any SAT Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Drama b07h2v3d (Listen) SAT Miss Julie SAT SAT A reimagined version of August Strindberg's 1888 stage play SAT by Roger James Elsgood, starring Sofie Grabol, Lars SAT Mikkelsen, and Marie Bach Hansen. SAT SAT Strindberg's Miss Julie concerned a well-bred woman from the SAT land-owning classes who has a one-night stand with her SAT father's valet, Jean. Over the course of a midsummer night, SAT Julie and Jean discuss their different stations in life and, SAT emboldened by alcohol, she goads Jean to cross the social, SAT economic and sexual lines that divide them and seduces him SAT into her bed. Following their lovemaking, the axis of their SAT relationship reverses - he now has power over her as she SAT realises she is vulnerable to exposure and disgrace. Julie SAT becomes conflicted about the implications of their deed and, SAT with no one else to turn to, relies on Jean for advice. Jean SAT is concerned about losing his job and he contrives a lethal SAT scenario which best serves his needs. SAT SAT In this new version, the themes that lead to the dramatic SAT denouement are not so much those of social class, status, SAT and breeding, but gender, identity and sexual orientation - SAT issues that Victorian-era audiences were not ready for, but SAT which are being openly debated today. SAT SAT The production was recorded on location in a 19th-century SAT country house in Ballerup on the island of Zealand in SAT Denmark. SAT SAT Written by August Strindberg SAT Adapted by Roger James Elsgood SAT SAT Director: Willi Richards SAT Producer: Roger James Elsgood SAT SAT An Art and Adventure production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Miss Julie: Sofie Grabol SAT Jean: Lars Mikkelsen SAT Kristen: Marie Bach Hansen SAT Author: August Strindberg SAT Adaptor: Roger James Elsgood SAT Director: Willi Richards SAT Producer: Roger James Elsgood SAT SAT 15:30 Tales From the Stave b07gfgv7 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Haydn's Drum Roll Symphony No 103 SAT SAT Josef Haydn's two visits to London produced the final SAT flourish of his symphonic writing. His fame, established in SAT the Esterhazy Court in the Austro-Hungarian Empire had SAT travelled before him and once in the UK he was something of SAT a celebrity. But on his final departure in 1795 he took most SAT of his music with him. The fact that the handwritten SAT manuscript of the Drumroll Symphony, his 103rd and SAT penultimate, is in the hands of the British Library is due SAT to its journey by way of the French composer Luigi SAT Cherubini. SAT Frances is joined by the British Library's Richard Chesser, SAT Percussionist Mick Doran, Co-leader of the Orchestra of the SAT Age of Enlightenment Maggie Faultless and music scholar SAT David Wynn Jones to tell the story of that journey. They're SAT also inspired by the careful and clear penmanship of the SAT composer, the small but telling instructions to players and SAT the brilliance of his creativity under the pressure of the SAT London celebrity spotlight. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b07gctfh (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Laura Mvula, EU referendum, Kim SAT Cattrall SAT SAT The British soul singer Laura Mvula discusses the highs and SAT lows of becoming an overnight sensation and the influences SAT behind her latest album The Dreaming Room. SAT SAT Three young women Ruth Douglas, Beth Button and first time SAT voter Jane Prinsley give us their reactions to the outcome SAT of the EU Referendum. SAT SAT Tracey McDermott the acting Chief Executive of the Financial SAT Conduct Authority tells us why she's decided to walk away SAT from the top job. SAT SAT Schools across the UK will start sending students off for SAT work experience in the next few weeks but what do you do if SAT your child has a disability? Rowan Crosby a student from SAT Wales and her dad Pete tell us about the challenges they've SAT faced looking for a work placement. SAT SAT The actor Kim Cattrall tells us about the second series of SAT the critically acclaimed comedy drama 'Sensitive Skin'. SAT SAT The author CJ Grace discusses her new book Adulterers Wife SAT which asks should she stay or should she go? SAT SAT And we cook the perfect Kimchi Fried Rice with the French SAT trained, Korean-American Londoner Judy Joo. SAT SAT Presented by Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Laura Mvula SAT Interviewed Guest: Ruth Douglas SAT Interviewed Guest: Beth Button SAT Interviewed Guest: Jane Prinsley SAT Interviewed Guest: Tracey McDermott SAT Interviewed Guest: Rowan Crosby SAT Interviewed Guest: Pete Crosby SAT Interviewed Guest: Kim Cattrall SAT Interviewed Guest: CJ Grace SAT Interviewed Guest: Judy Joo SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b07gctfk (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b07gctfp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07gctfr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:30 Loose Ends b07h2v3q (Listen) SAT Nikki Bedi, Scottee, Tamsin Greig, Nish Kumar, Robert SAT Muchamore, Alice Nutter, David McAlmont and Alex Webb SAT SAT Nikki Bedi and Scottee are joined by actress Tamsin Greig, SAT comedian Nish Kumar, author Robert Muchamore and writer SAT Alice Nutter for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and SAT comedy. With music from David McAlmont and Alex Webb. SAT SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT Tamsin Greig SAT 'Breaking The Bank' is out now on DVD. SAT SAT Alice Nutter SAT SAT 'Barnbow Canaries' is at the Courtyard Theatre at the West SAT Yorkshire Playhouse until Saturday 9th July. SAT SAT Robert Muchamore SAT 'New Guard' is published by Hodder and available now. SAT SAT Nish Kumar SAT SAT 'Actions Speak Louder Than Words Unless You Shout The Words SAT Real Loud' is at the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh from 6th SAT to 28th August. And you can also catch Nish at the Cornbury SAT Music Festival which runs from 8th to 10th July. SAT SAT SAT SAT Alex Webb and David McAlmont SAT 'Call Me Lucky' by Alex Webb and The Copasetics is available SAT now on Splash Point. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nikki Bedi SAT Presenter: Scottee SAT Interviewed Guest: Tamsin Greig SAT Interviewed Guest: Nish Kumar SAT Interviewed Guest: Robert Muchamore SAT Interviewed Guest: Alice Nutter SAT Performer: David McAlmont SAT Performer: Alex Webb SAT Producer: Debbie Kilbride SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b07h2v3s (Listen) SAT Michael Eavis SAT SAT Series of profiles of people who are currently making SAT headlines. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b07gctfv (Listen) SAT Henry V, Elvis and Nixon, The Girls, Sculpture in the City, SAT The Border SAT SAT Liza Johnson's directs Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey in SAT the title roles of Elvis and Nixon a film which dramatises SAT the unlikely 1970 meeting between the two men . SAT The title role in a production of Shakespeare's Henry V at SAT the Regent's Park Open Air theatre is taken by the actress SAT Michelle Terry. SAT Debut novel The Girls by Emma Cline looks at relationships SAT and their consequences in a Charles Manson-like cult in SAT California. SAT The City of London has placed 15 sculptures by leading SAT artists among architectural landmarks such as the Gherkin SAT and the Cheesegrater - an opportunity to see engaging works SAT in unusual settings. SAT Polish television drama serial The Border dealing with the SAT highly topical subject of immigration control starts SAT downloads on All Four this week. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Ellah Allfrey, Linda Grant and SAT Nikesh Shukla. The producer is Harry Parker. SAT SAT Henry V SAT Henry V SAT is at Regent Park’s Open Air Theatre in London until 9 July SAT 2016. SAT SAT Image: Michelle Terry as King Henry. Photo credit - Johan SAT Persson SAT SAT SAT Elvis & Nixon SAT Elvis & Nixon SAT is in cinemas now, certificate 15. SAT SAT SAT Emma Cline SAT SAT The Girls by SAT Emma Cline SAT is available in hardback now. SAT SAT Photo: © Neil Krug SAT SAT SAT Sculpture in the City SAT SAT The SAT Sculpture in the City SAT artworks are on display from 28 June in and around the City SAT of London. SAT SAT Image: Anthony Caro, Aurora, 2000/2003. Photo: John Riddy SAT SAT SAT SAT SAT The Border SAT SAT All episodes of SAT The Border SAT are available to watch on All 4now. SAT SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Ellah Allfrey SAT Interviewed Guest: Linda Grant SAT Interviewed Guest: Nikesh Shukla SAT Producer: Harry Parker SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b07h2v3y (Listen) SAT Pevsner: Through Outsider's Eyes SAT SAT Tom Dyckhoff goes in search of Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the art SAT historian and perennial outsider who did more than anyone SAT else in recent memory to open our eyes to the art and SAT architecture of Britain. SAT SAT "Englishness is the purpose of my journey," Nikolaus Pevsner SAT wrote to his wife in 1930 on his first trip to this country SAT at the age of 28. SAT SAT It might stand as an emblem for the rest of his working SAT life. SAT SAT Pevsner was an arch-classifier - rigorous and systematic - SAT and when he turned his gaze towards architecture he saw not SAT just buildings but a morality play - a story of identity, of SAT imagined pasts and possible futures. SAT SAT Arguably his greatest achievement -- and the one for which SAT he's best remembered -- is the Buildings of England series SAT of guidebooks. SAT SAT For nearly thirty years Pevsner buckled up and took to the SAT highways and by-ways on an obsessive architectural stock SAT take that covered the whole of England, county by county. SAT The 46 volumes he put together combine into a kind of an SAT architectural Domesday Book - the most detailed inventory of SAT British architecture ever published. The Buildings of SAT Scotland and Wales would follow. The series is still SAT on-going, still being revised and updated. SAT SAT Guidebooks, churches, country houses. Cosy stuff. But there SAT are bigger things at stake when we look back at Pevsner's SAT life and work. It provides a lens through which to view SAT ourselves -- and to think about how others see us. And SAT Pevsner may seem like a nostalgic, tweedy figure from a SAT distance, but up close we can see - and hear - someone much SAT more interesting than that. SAT SAT Sir Nikolaus worked his way to the centre of British SAT society, living through a testing of what it meant to be SAT English and British, during the Second World War. But he SAT never stopped being an outsider. SAT SAT Featuring writer and cultural historian Ian Buruma; SAT Pevsner's biographer Susie Harries; writer and architect SAT Charles Jencks; David Matless, geographer and author of SAT Landscape and Englishness; media historian Jean Seaton; and SAT Neil Stratford, one-time driver and assistant to Pevsner on SAT three of his journeys for the Buildings of England. SAT SAT Producer: Martin Williams. SAT SAT 21:00 Drama b07gczrx (Listen) SAT Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory, Episode 1 SAT SAT Tabasco, Mexico in the 1930s. The last priest is on the run SAT from the anti-Catholic authorities, who put any priests they SAT find before the firing squad. Stephen Rea and Hugo Speer SAT star in Graham Greene's masterpiece, dramatised by Nick SAT Warburton. SAT SAT Directed by Emma Harding. SAT SAT Credits SAT The Whisky Priest: Stephen Rea SAT The Lieutenant: Hugo Speer SAT The Narrator: Danny Sapani SAT Tench: James Lailey SAT The Chief of Police: Brian Protheroe SAT Luis: Milo Parker SAT Luis's mother: Nicola Ferguson SAT Padre Jose: Sean Baker SAT Beggar: Sean Baker SAT Maria: Adie Allen SAT Jose's Wife: Adie Allen SAT Grandmother: Elizabeth Bennett SAT Captain Fellows: Nick Underwood SAT The Governor's Cousin: Nick Underwood SAT Coral: Kirsty Oswald SAT The Mestizo: Jason Barnett SAT Brigitta: Amy Jayne SAT Author: Graham Greene SAT Adaptor: Nick Warburton SAT Director: Emma Harding SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b07gctfx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:30 The Bottom Line b07gh583 (Listen) SAT How to Negotiate SAT SAT Most of us negotiate in some form or other every day - SAT whether it's about who walks the dog, how much screen-time SAT the kids can have or when to visit the in-laws. But too SAT often we treat it like a competitive sport, with only one SAT aim: to win. Which can backfire, especially when you need SAT co-operation later on. It's much the same in business - SAT negotiating to win at all costs is unlikely to result in a SAT long-term, sustainable business relationship. So how to SAT achieve a win-win situation when both sides leave satisfied SAT and ready to do business with each other again? Evan Davis SAT and guests explore the skills that can help settle disputes SAT between individuals, companies and even nations. They'll SAT discuss when to walk away from the negotiating table and SAT they'll find out what happens when doing a deal is literally SAT a matter of life and death. SAT SAT Guests: SAT SAT Tim Cullen, Director, Oxford Programme on Negotiation, Said SAT Business School SAT SAT Bridie Warner-Adsetts, COO, Naylor Industries SAT SAT Sue Williams, Hostage Negotiator SAT SAT Producer: Sally Abrahams. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b07gf9kv (Listen) SAT Series 30, Heat 1, 2016 SAT SAT (1/13) SAT Paul Gambaccini returns with the 30th anniversary series of SAT the perennial music quiz, with questions ranging across SAT every musical genre. SAT SAT Whether your interest is in the Baroque, opera, choral SAT music, the romantic symphony, the golden age of Hollywood, SAT traditional and modern jazz, film music and TV themes or the SAT rock and pop greats of the past fifty years, there's always SAT something in Counterpoint to suit your taste. In this series SAT 27 competitors from around the UK will be showing off the SAT breadth of their musical knowledge, as well as hoping for SAT some specialist questions that suit their expertise. After SAT the knockout rounds, three of them will end up in the Final, SAT which will come from the 2016 BBC Proms to mark the SAT programme's 30th birthday. SAT SAT This year's first heat comes from the BBC's Maida Vale SAT studios and features music lovers from Essex, Kent and SAT Lancashire. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT Today's competitors SAT SAT JOHN BRIGHT, a retired local government officer from SAT Ingatestone in Essex; SAT SAT DAVID JOHNS, a tour guide from Colne in Lancashire; SAT SAT CHRISTINE McCOMBE, a retired teacher from Faversham in Kent. SAT SAT 23:30 The Slow Machine b07gdlk9 (Listen) SAT Jo Bell's 67ft narrowboat 'Tinker' has been her floating, SAT roving home for 13 years. As she prepares to leave Tinker SAT for a new boat, she writes a poem series about her years SAT afloat. Elderflower, coal smoke and diesel. Ducks, engines SAT and ratcheting locks. SAT SAT A new commission from former Canal Laureate Jo Bell, The SAT Slow Machine weaves soundscape and words into a documentary SAT poem of canal life. SAT SAT What's a canal to you? An interruption SAT to dry business - an obstacle that wants a bridge. SAT To us, the road; the long wet answer SAT to the only question every day; where to? SAT The way on. The way through. The water way. SAT SAT 'Jo Bell is one of the most exciting poets now writing and SAT no time is wasted in the company of her work.' - Carol Ann SAT Duffy SAT SAT Produced by Mair Bosworth. SAT With music by The Cabinet of Living Cinema. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 JUNE 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b07h2v7h (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 After Milk Wood b044jh71 (Listen) SUN London Choral Celestial Jazz SUN SUN 'After Milk Wood': three stories by acclaimed writers which SUN take their inspiration from Dylan Thomas's '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, from the Laugharne Festival, Bernardine Evaristo SUN reads her own short story in verse set in the high-octane, SUN adrenaline-charged streets of contemporary London, which SUN takes its inspiration from Dylan Thomas's 'Under Milk Wood'. SUN SUN The Reader is Bernardine Evaristo. Writer and poet SUN Bernardine Evaristo's awards include: the EMMA Best Book SUN Award, Big Red Read, Orange Youth Panel Award, a NESTA and SUN the Arts Council Writer's Award. Her books have been a 'Book SUN of the Year' twelve times in British newspapers and SUN magazines and The Emperor's Babe was a Times 'Book of the SUN Decade'. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of SUN Literature in 2004, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in SUN 2006, and she received an MBE in 2009. Her most recent novel SUN is Mr Loveman. SUN SUN The producer is Justine Willett. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Bernardine Evaristo SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Writer: Bernardine Evaristo SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07h2v7k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07h2v7m (Listen) SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07h2v7p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b07h2v7r (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b07h60ld (Listen) SUN St Margaret's Church, Dunham Massey SUN SUN This week's Bells on Sunday comes from St Margaret's Church, SUN Dunham Massey in Altrincham, Cheshire. There are ten bells SUN all cast in 1854 specifically for the church, whilst it was SUN still under construction. They were rehung in 1974 with only SUN minimal retuning and the Tenor remains a "maiden" or untuned SUN bell. We hear them ringing, Bristol Surprise Royal. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b07h2v3s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b07h2v7t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b07h60lg (Listen) SUN In the Slipstream of God SUN SUN Mark Tully meets an artist and a scientist who argue that SUN religion and science have always been entangled, and that SUN our quest for knowledge follows in the wake of spiritual SUN curiosity. SUN SUN Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials at the University SUN of Oxford, and the artist, poet and writer Roger Wagner, SUN renowned particularly for his religious paintings, explain SUN to Mark why they believe that it's been religion which has SUN led the seminal developments in our empirical understanding SUN of the world we live in. Together they challenge the SUN perception that the two disciplines are at loggerheads. SUN SUN With the help of music from Beethoven and Charles Ives, and SUN words from John Keats, George Herbert and Albert Einstein, SUN Mark joins his guests in seeking the underlying principles SUN which have bound religion and science together in the past, SUN and might do so again in the future. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b07h60lj (Listen) SUN Scottish Tea SUN SUN Sun-kissed hillsides in India, China, Kenya and Sri Lanka SUN may produce the bulk of the world's tea but Scottish tea SUN drinkers now have the opportunity to sample a home-grown SUN brew. In Dumfries and Galloway Angela Hurrell is defying the SUN climactic odds to produce a single-leaf tea that's served at SUN London's Dorchester Hotel. SUN SUN Caz Graham helps with one of Britain's smallest harvests and SUN meets Tam O'Braan the agronomist who first noticed that a SUN hardy plant that thrives in the foothills of the Himalayas SUN could find friendly soil in the Scottish glens. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b07h2v7w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b07h2v7y (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b07h2v80 (Listen) SUN Bob Holman, Lindisfarne dig, Referendum and beyond SUN SUN Religious and ethical news. SUN SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal b07h60ll (Listen) SUN Theodora Children's Charity SUN SUN Kerry McCarthy, whose daughter Ava had cancer, presents The SUN Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Theodora Children's Charity SUN Registered Charity No 1094532 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Theodora' SUN - Cheques should be made payable to 'Theodora Children's SUN Charity'. SUN SUN Theodora Children’s Charity SUN SUN The Theodora Children’s Charity sends specially trained SUN performers, called Giggle Doctors, to provide restorative SUN moments of fun and laughter to children in hospitals, SUN hospices and specialist care centres across England. SUN SUN Dr Bungee and Dr Teapot with a nurse at Royal Manchester SUN Children’s Hospital SUN SUN The Giggle Doctor visits help to reduce anxiety, improve SUN wellbeing and provide increased opportunities for play in SUN the healthcare environment. SUN SUN Ava (featured in our appeal) with Dr Fab SUN SUN Ava was just 2 years old when she was diagnosed with a form SUN of kidney cancer. The Giggle Doctors took some of the fear SUN and anxiety away. SUN SUN Ava (now aged 6) with Dr Easy Peasy SUN Ava is doing well and occasionally visiting the hospital for SUN check-ups. She always looks forward to seeing the Giggle SUN Doctors. Ava is one of more than half a million children who SUN have been visited by the Theodora Children’s Charity since SUN it was founded in 1994. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b07h2v82 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b07h2v84 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b07h60ln (Listen) SUN Change and Transformation SUN SUN American writer and preacher Mark Yaconelli and the Rev. SUN Mary Stallard explore how paying attention to the stories of SUN our lives can help us understand the temptations and fears SUN that hold us back from discovering what is real. This live SUN service from St. Collen's Church, Llangollen, North Wales SUN features music by The Sirenian Singers, directed by Jean SUN Stanley Jones with accompanist Christopher Enston. Producer: SUN Karen Walker. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b07glx87 (Listen) SUN The power of language SUN SUN AL Kennedy reflects on how being able to communicate clearly SUN is the work of a lifetime. She argues that the present SUN school testing regime could have a catastrophic effect on SUN our children's ability to find their voice. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: AL Kennedy SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45tq (Listen) SUN Ring Ouzel 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 ring ouzel. Ring ouzels are related SUN to blackbirds and because they nest in the uplands, they're SUN sometimes known as the 'mountain blackbird'. The male ring SUN ouzel is a handsome bird, sooty black with a broad white SUN ring called a 'gorget' right across his chest that stands SUN out like a beacon. Unfortunately these summer visitors are SUN becoming harder to find even in their strongholds, which SUN include the North York Moors and several Scottish and Welsh SUN mountains. SUN SUN Ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) SUN Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b07h2v86 (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 b07h60lq (Listen) SUN Anna is frustrated, and it is time for Josh to face the SUN music. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Tim Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Daisy Badger SUN Josh Archer: Angus Imrie SUN Tony Archer: David Troughton SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Alice Carter: Hollie Chapman SUN Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber SUN Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas SUN Ursula Titchener: Carolyn Jones SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Kaz: Amaka Okafor SUN Juliette Carson: Sarah Thom SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b07h60ls (Listen) SUN Sara Khan SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Sara Khan. SUN SUN A British Muslim human rights activist, she's the director SUN of Inspire, a counter-extremism and women's rights SUN organisation which she co-founded in 2009. SUN SUN Born in Bradford in 1980 to Pakistani parents, she decided SUN to wear the veil when she was thirteen changing her mind SUN eighteen years later. She studied Pharmacy at the University SUN of Manchester but never felt she was fulfilling her SUN potential, and set up Inspire in her home. She has been at SUN the heart of various campaigns to raise awareness of her SUN cause from Jihad Against Violence to #MakingAStand which SUN encouraged women in particular to stand up against SUN extremism. SUN SUN In 2009 she was listed in the Equality and Human Rights SUN Commission Muslim Women's Power List and in 2015 was SUN included in BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour Power List. She is SUN currently sitting on the Department for Education's Due SUN Diligence and Counter-Extremism Expert Reference Group and SUN on the Government's Community Engagement Forum. SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Sara Khan SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b07h2v88 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b07dklgk (Listen) SUN Series 75, Episode 6 SUN SUN Josh Widdicombe, Marcus Brigstocke, Holly Walsh and Paul SUN Merton join Nicholas Parsons to attempt to speak on the SUN subject of his choosing for 60 seconds without hesitation, SUN deviation or repetition. SUN SUN On the cards this week: The Garden of England, and SUN Sellotape. SUN SUN Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Josh Widdicombe SUN Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke SUN Panellist: Holly Walsh SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Producer: Victoria Lloyd SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b07h60lv (Listen) SUN That Gut Feeling: Part Two SUN SUN Dan Saladino returns to the world of the gut microbiota, the SUN vast array of microbes within us all. From the Amazon Basin SUN to East Africa to the life underneath our feet; food will SUN never be quite the same again. SUN SUN Featuring Tim Spector, author of The Diet Myth, Jeff Leach, SUN co-founder of the American Gut Project, microbiome scientist SUN Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, food professor and author Ken SUN Albala, and DJs Lisa and Alana Macfarlane - aka The Mac SUN Twins. SUN SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Rich Ward. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Interviewed Guest: Tim Spector SUN Interviewed Guest: Jeff Leach SUN Interviewed Guest: Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello SUN Interviewed Guest: Ken Albala SUN Interviewed Guest: Lisa Macfarlane SUN Interviewed Guest: Alana Macfarlane SUN Producer: Rich Ward SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b07h2v8b (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b07h2v8d (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07glx7q (Listen) SUN RHS Wisley Correspondence Edition SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the panel answer questions from the postbag SUN at RHS Wisley in Surrey. Pippa Greenwood, Anne Swithinbank SUN and Bob Flowerdew solve the horticultural queries this week. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Cocker SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Fact Sheet SUN Q – Our blighted box is spoiling our garden. Can you SUN recommend something to replace it that is green or SUN green/white? SUN SUN Matthew Pottage – *Berberis*, *Loniceras*, *Podocarpus*. A SUN dwarf Yew called *Taxus baccata* ‘Repandens’. Try a small SUN *Podocarpus* called ‘Kilworth Cream’. SUN SUN Q – A friend has given me a Giant Redwood and a Dawn SUN Redwood. They are currently in pots. Can we keep them in SUN large containers? Can we pollard them? SUN SUN Panel – No! SUN SUN Pippa – Pollarding will ruin it. Find someone who has the SUN space to look after them properly and give the trees to SUN them! SUN SUN Bob – Things with fibrous roots tend to do better in SUN containers. SUN SUN Anne – Shallow-rooted Birch are ok in containers, Magnolias SUN too, Japanese Maples as well. SUN SUN Pippa – Camellias would do in a container but it is a lot of SUN work and the plants, as a rule, don’t generally like it. Go SUN for shrubs rather than trees and get the biggest containers SUN you can. SUN SUN SUN Q – We’ve recently had an extension built and the builders SUN have dumped sharp sand in my vegetable patch and washed SUN concrete into the herb garden. Can the panel advise whether SUN I need to dig everything up and start again or will the SUN plants survive? SUN SUN Bob – I’d just dig it in. Sand isn’t normally a big problem. SUN The concrete will be very limey and full of chemicals – just SUN dig it in and then put a top layer over it. SUN SUN Pippa – See how the plants react before doing anything. SUN Keep them well watered and fed and see what happens. Years SUN ago when I worked at Wisley they employed someone to paint SUN the timber in my lab and there was an *Actinidia kolomikta* SUN on the wall there and it was fascinating because the painter SUN painted over all the stems! SUN SUN SUN Q – I have two tree stumps at the bottom of my garden – one SUN is 8ft (2.4m) tall and one is 6ft (1.8m) tall – I’d like to SUN grow some flowering climbers up them. What can you SUN recommend? SUN SUN Matthew – We have a lot of Oak, Birch and Scots Pine here at SUN Wisley that we send climbers up. I like climbing Hydrangeas SUN – the *Petiolaris* cultiva – also there’s one called ‘Summer SUN Snow’ that’s great. *Pileostegia viburnoides* if you want SUN evergreen foliage. Virginia Creepers are lovely too –* SUN Parthenocissus*. SUN SUN Pippa – Do be careful leaving trunks and stumps around if SUN there’s a risk of Honey Fungus. SUN SUN SUN Q – Is there a natural method of getting rid of snails? SUN SUN Pippa – The nematodes are the best thing for getting rid of SUN slugs as they work below ground. As snails are more SUN surface-dwelling it can be trickier. There’s nothing SUN available at the moment that will do for snails what SUN nematodes do for slugs. You could use copper barriers to SUN ring-fence areas. Wool pellets or pine needles will also SUN create good barriers. SUN SUN SUN Q – I have a young *Pandanus* that was planted a couple of SUN years ago. Unfortunately, it has been uprooted and moved a SUN few inches to one side. Since then the leaves have turned SUN yellow/brown – how can I save it? SUN SUN Matthew – The *Pandanus* will need lots of heat and humidity SUN – I guess it’s not the moving it’s more the climate that it SUN doesn’t like. SUN SUN Pippa – Temperature-wise it’s going to be struggling. SUN SUN Anne – An optimistic minimum temperature for a *Pandanus* SUN would be 7-10 degrees Celcius (44.6 – 50 Fahrenheit). I SUN think this plant is too cold. SUN SUN SUN Q – What do Vine Weevil eggs look like when you squash them? SUN SUN Pippa – They are tiny and you’re not really going to see SUN them to be honest. Often what you think might be eggs are SUN actually slow-release fertilizer balls that are doing good, SUN so don’t worry! SUN SUN SUN Q – My ‘Mother-in-Law’s Tongue’ plant has flowered suddenly SUN and unexpectedly. Is it likely to do so again? SUN SUN Bob – It is rare but it can happen. SUN SUN Anne – They are South African and there are lots of them. SUN We mainly see *Sanseveria trifasciata *with big succulent SUN leaves. SUN SUN SUN Q – I want to create a sensory garden on a piece of ground SUN about 8m x 1m (26ft x 3.2ft). Divided into five sections SUN (one for each sense). We’d like some plants that will SUN create interest during the winter months. SUN SUN Anne – In shadier bits put Daphnes, small winter-flowering SUN Honeysuckles. Citruses and Salvias could be in the sunnier SUN bits. SUN SUN Bob – One plant will do the lot: Loquat. SUN SUN Matthew – The ‘Feijoa’ or *Acca sellowiana* would be great SUN SUN Pippa – We had a wonderful *Chionanthus* that the kids SUN nicknamed the buzzing bush because of all the bees – that’d SUN be good. SUN SUN SUN Q – What’s wrong with my ‘Redhot Poker’? This year it sent SUN up a number of stems but most of the flowers are dead/dried SUN up. It’s three years old. SUN SUN Pippa – I wonder if the flowers have gotten too dry. SUN SUN Anne – I would blame the late frosts. SUN SUN SUN Q – Has the panel any experience of growing rose cuttings in SUN potatoes? SUN SUN Bob – People do do it but I don’t think it’d work very well SUN SUN Pippa – My big question is, why?! Roses root very well as SUN it is so I shan’t be trying it. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b07h60lz (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations between families who had SUN to leave their home country to settle in the UK and one that SUN chose to make the shorter move from town to country, for the SUN Omnibus of the series that proves it's surprising what you SUN hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Drama b07h65by (Listen) SUN Graham Greene - The Power and the Glory, Episode 2 SUN SUN Tabasco, Mexico in the 1930s. The last priest is on the run SUN from the anti-Catholic authorities, who put any priests they SUN find before the firing squad. Stephen Rea and Hugo Speer SUN star in Graham Greene's masterpiece, dramatised by Nick SUN Warburton. SUN SUN The Lieutenant remains determined to track down the last SUN priest in the state - the whisky priest. SUN SUN Directed by Emma Harding. SUN SUN Credits SUN The Whisky Priest: Stephen Rea SUN The Lieutenant: Hugo Speer SUN The Narrator: Danny Sapani SUN Tench: James Lailey SUN The Chief of Police: Brian Protheroe SUN Luis: Milo Parker SUN Luis's mother: Nicola Ferguson SUN Padre Jose: Sean Baker SUN Beggar: Sean Baker SUN Maria: Adie Allen SUN Jose's Wife: Adie Allen SUN Grandmother: Elizabeth Bennett SUN Captain Fellows: Nick Underwood SUN The Governor's Cousin: Nick Underwood SUN Coral: Kirsty Oswald SUN The Mestizo: Jason Barnett SUN Brigitta: Amy Jayne SUN Author: Graham Greene SUN Adaptor: Nick Warburton SUN Director: Emma Harding SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b07h65c0 (Listen) SUN Ruth Gilligan, Vietnam novels, Kenneth Baker SUN SUN Ruth Gilligan talks to Mariella Frostrup about her new SUN novel, Nine Folds Make A Paper Swan, a story of the Irish SUN Jewish community at the turn of the last century, in the SUN fifties and in the present day. SUN And Kenneth Baker discusses the strange and sad history of SUN book burning, for political, personal and religious reasons. SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan by SUN Ruth Gilligan SUN Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan SUN : Chapter 1 by Ruth Gilligan SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Ruth Gilligan SUN Interviewed Guest: Kenneth Baker SUN SUN 16:30 The Echo Chamber b07h65c2 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Simon Armitage in the Somme SUN SUN One hundred years after the beginning of the catastrophic SUN battle of the Somme, Paul Farley crosses the battlefield in SUN north-eastern France with Simon Armitage to hear his new SUN poems inspired by wartime aerial photographs of the area and SUN Virgil's ancient Georgics (quasi-didactic texts on good land SUN use and husbandry). Taking these new poems back to their SUN source involves travelling along an old Roman road that runs SUN through open farmland. One hundred years ago a paltry mile SUN or two along this road were the scene of horrendous carnage SUN as British and Allied troops attempted to attack and overrun SUN the German lines. Months after the battle began in July 1916 SUN only a mile or so of ground had been won. An appalling price SUN had been paid. In one of the many wartime cemeteries now SUN chequering the French farmland is the grave of a William SUN Shakespeare. Many others and much else died in those months SUN and Simon Armitage and the Echo Chamber have been to listen. SUN His poem sequence is called 'Still' and was commissioned by SUN 14-18 NOW, the UK's arts programme for the First World War SUN centenary, the Writer's Centre Norwich, and Norfolk and SUN Norwich Festival. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b07gfjhr (Listen) SUN Whose Right to Buy Is It Anyway? SUN SUN Around 2.5m council tenants across the UK have bought their SUN homes since Right to Buy started in 1980. The scheme is now SUN being extended to more than a million housing association SUN tenants in England with the first homes expected to be sold SUN in pilot areas next month. SUN The popularity of right to buy has risen sharply since SUN greater discounts were introduced four years ago, but so too SUN have cases of fraud as people seek to exploit discounts of SUN up to nearly £104,000. SUN SUN Simon Cox goes on the trail of the fraudsters and the SUN companies seeking to make big bucks out of right to buy. He SUN discovers people trying to buy homes they're not entitled to SUN and criminals attempting to launder drugs money. SUN SUN He investigates companies who offer tenants help to buy SUN their home in order to get their hands on valuable SUN properties. SUN SUN He also hears concerns from experts that many housing SUN associations do not have the resources and skills to prevent SUN fraud which could potentially result in the loss of millions SUN of pounds worth of much needed homes SUN SUN Reporter: Simon Cox SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b07h2v3s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b07h2v8g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b07h2v8j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07h2v8l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:30 Pick of the Week b07h2v8n (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN SUN Pick Of The Week, SUN The best of BBC Radio in Pick of the Week chosen and SUN presented by Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN This week's programme features Yoking - an ancient ritual of SUN the Sami people of the Artic in Nature, some wise words on SUN worry in Radio 3's The Essay, an excellent drama from Radio SUN 4 involving a Victorian Man in a wall, and Sara Pascoe SUN sharing her teenage diary. SUN SUN Production team: Pauline Harris, Kay Bishton, Pete Liggins. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b07h65c4 (Listen) SUN Pat and Tony need to find the right words, and Adam is ready SUN to spend. SUN SUN 19:15 Rumblings from the Rafters b07h65c6 (Listen) SUN Death Watch Beetle and Queen Wasp SUN SUN A Death Watch Beetle, played by Bill Paterson, and a bossy SUN Queen wasp played, by Alison Steadman, reveal the truth SUN about life in a draughty old attic in a house in Amersham in SUN the first of three very funny tales, written and introduced SUN by Lynne Truss, with additional sound recordings by Chris SUN Watson. SUN The Death Watch Beetle is a wood-boring beetle. Having spent SUN twelve years as a larva boring through a single rafter in SUN the house with no one to talk to, our beetle is now an adult SUN with about 5 weeks left to live. He has just three aims in SUN life. Firstly, to find a mate, which he does by banging his SUN head on the timber "Oh Come on girls, .. I know you're out SUN there ... Don't tell me this attic has ever seen such a SUN specimen before. This lovely compact dark brown capsule of SUN hard cuticle covered with yellowish scale-like hair and just SUN under a centimetre long - it could all be yours! Secondly, SUN to make as much noise as he can and finally to live long SUN enough to see the roof cave in. SUN The Queen Wasp is very, very bossy, and very, very stressed. SUN She carries the entire responsibility for the wasp colony SUN and its thousands of inhabitants, all of whom are her own SUN progeny. There is an enormous amount of work to be done. SUN "They call themselves workers, these girls, but quite SUN frankly, none of them knows what real work actually is." It SUN is lonely at the top too," I did consider leaving all this, SUN at one point. None of them knows this; they'd be heartbroken SUN to think I might have left them" and she is just beginning SUN to lose her grip. "Bring me my list" she constantly yells. SUN Life doesn't get much more stressful than this. SUN SUN Death Watch Beetle: Bill Paterson SUN Dragonfly: Alison Steadman SUN Written and introduced by Lynne Truss SUN Wildlife sound recordings Chris Watson SUN Producer Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Lynne Truss SUN Tadpole: Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN Dragonfly: Alison Steadman SUN Producer: Sarah Blunt SUN Writer: Lynne Truss SUN SUN 19:45 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g65gz (Listen) SUN Swordplay and Swagger SUN SUN Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues SUN his new object-based history. Taking artefacts from William SUN Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean SUN playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing SUN world in which they lived. SUN SUN With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of SUN political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil SUN asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they SUN were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to SUN explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the SUN public and helped shape the works, and he considers what SUN they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of SUN Shakespearean England. SUN SUN Programme 5. SWORDPLAY AND SWAGGER - The essential SUN accoutrements of any self-respecting gentleman illustrate SUN the extent of violence in Elizabethan London - both onstage SUN and off. SUN SUN Producer: Paul Kobrak. SUN SUN Rapier and Dagger SUN Date: SUN c.1600 SUN Size: SUN Rapier: H:1280mm. Dagger: H: 463mm SUN Made in: SUN England SUN Made by: SUN Unknown SUN Material: SUN Steel, Iron, Wood SUN SUN SUN SUN We tend to think of the play about Shakespeare’s most famous SUN couple, Romeo and Juliet, as being about the tribulations of SUN romantic love – when in fact it’s just as much about gangs SUN of privileged lads slicing each other to death. SUN SUN SUN SUN Although the play’s action is set in Italy, the issue of SUN urban violence would not have been foreign to its English SUN audience. Weapons were part of everyday life – all gentleman SUN of the time would have worn something similar to this rapier SUN and dagger set – part fashion accessory, part murder weapon. SUN SUN SUN SUN Many such gentlemen would head south of the river to SUN London’s South Bank where, outside the authority of the SUN City, they could encounter the roaring entertainments of SUN Bankside which could either lead the way to delights…or SUN dangerous drunken feuds. SUN SUN SUN SUN This object is from the SUN Royal Armouries SUN SUN SUN British Museum Blog: Swords as symbols of status by Toby SUN Capwell, Curator of Arms and Armour, The Wallace Collection SUN SUN Quotations SUN SUN 'He fights as you sing pricksong: keeps time, distance, and SUN proportion. He rests his minim rests, one, two, and the SUN third in your bosom. The very butcher of a silk button... SUN Ah, the immortal passado! the punto reverse! the hay!' SUN Romeo and Juliet, Act 2 Scene 4 SUN SUN Background SUN SUN More from Radio 4: Shakespeare's London SUN SUN Writer Iain Sinclair walks the streets of London in the SUN company of Shakespeare scholars and archaeologists, to seek SUN out echoes of Shakespeare's city in the London of today. SUN SUN SUN Listen to the programme SUN SUN More from Radio 4: The Art of War SUN SUN Melvyn Bragg discusses the history and philosophy of SUN warfare, examining how has war been understood throughout SUN the ages, who it has served and how has it been justified. SUN SUN SUN Listen to the programme SUN SUN More from Radio 4: Elizabethan Revenge SUN SUN Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss why revenge tragedy was so SUN popular with Elizabethan theatre goers, from Thomas Kyd's SUN The Spanish Tragedy to Shakespeare's Hamlet. SUN SUN SUN Listen to the programme SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b07glx7x (Listen) SUN The long-awaited decision day has finally arrived. Votes SUN have been cast and campaigns have come to an end. But that SUN hasn't halted your questions, comments and queries on how SUN the BBC has reported on and covered the EU Referendum. In SUN this special edition of Feedback, listeners put forward SUN their views on whether BBC news as a whole has been an aid SUN in your decision making. SUN SUN Throughout the campaign, the Feedback inbox has received SUN numerous questions as listeners have flagged up the areas in SUN which they feel the BBC could have reported the campaign SUN season differently. How did impartiality affect the SUN coverage? Was the news too focused on individual SUN personalities? Have certain issues been missing from the BBC SUN reports? These are just a handful of questions that have SUN been put to the BBC's Chief Political Adviser, Ric Bailey. SUN SUN Amongst the points on the campaigns as a whole, listeners SUN also share their views on how the tragic passing of MP Jo SUN Cox has affected BBC output. SUN SUN Produced by Kate Dixon. SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b07glx7v (Listen) SUN Dr Sylvia Meek, Sam King MBE, Chips Moman, Ethel Bush GM, SUN Harry Rabinowitz SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The parasitologist Sylvia Meek who led the fight to reduce SUN deaths from malaria. SUN SUN Harry Rabinowitz who conducted the music for many films and SUN TV series, including the English Patient and Upstairs SUN Downstairs. SUN SUN Ethel Bush who was one of the two first policewomen to be SUN awarded the George Medal for bravery. SUN SUN Sam King, the RAF veteran from Jamaica who later travelled SUN to Britain on the Empire Windrush and became Mayor of SUN Southwark. SUN SUN And Chips Moman, the record producer who worked with Elvis SUN Presley, Aretha Franklin and Willie Nelson. SUN SUN Dr Sylvia Meek SUN SUN Last Word spoke to her sister, Caroline Brown and to Dr SUN James Tibenderana of the Malaria Consortium. SUN SUN Born 8 October 1954; died 11 May 2016 aged 61. SUN SUN Sam King MBE SUN SUN Matthew spoke to his son Michael King and to his friend, SUN Arthur Torrington from the Windrush Foundation. SUN SUN Born 20 February 1926; died 17 June 2016 aged 90. SUN SUN “Chips” Moman SUN SUN Last Word spoke to music broadcaster Bob Harris. SUN SUN Born 12 June 1937; died 13 June 2016 aged 79. SUN SUN Ethel Bush GM SUN SUN Last Word spoke to Helen King, Assistant Commissioner at The SUN Metropolitan Police and to MET historian, Joan Lock. SUN SUN Born 10 March 1916; died 18 May 2016 aged 100. SUN SUN Harry Rabinowitz SUN SUN Born 26 March 1916; died 21 June 2016 aged 100. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Interviewed Guest: Caroline Brown SUN Interviewed Guest: James Tibenderana SUN Interviewed Guest: Michael King SUN Interviewed Guest: Arthur Torrington SUN Interviewed Guest: Bob Harris SUN Interviewed Guest: Helen King SUN Interviewed Guest: Joan Lock SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b07h2v30 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b07h60ll (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b07gf9l7 (Listen) SUN Marxism Today SUN SUN Journalist Robin Aitken comes from a conservative political SUN viewpoint to a man who has inspired mass movements on the SUN left: Karl Marx. Robin who was a BBC reporter for 25 years SUN thinks Marx was always in the background discourse of SUN politics, an influence he partly feared and didn't fully SUN understand. He takes a walk through central London in the SUN footsteps of the great revolutionary. And in conversation SUN with the likes of Paul Mason, Judith Orr, Marc Stears and SUN Peter Hitchens he tries to find out what political and SUN economic influence Marx retains today. SUN Producer: Nina Robinson. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b07h2v8q (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b07gh57x (Listen) SUN Poor Cow SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Nell Dunn talks about her screenplay for Ken Loach's SUN ground-breaking drama Poor Cow, which is back in cinemas SUN only weeks after Loach won the Palme D'Or at this year's SUN Cannes Film Festival SUN SUN Francine hears from the makers of two documentaries about SUN the different ways that smart technology is killing us. The SUN director of Death By Design, Sue Williams, reveals the SUN damage that the production and destruction of phones and SUN laptops is doing to the planet. Patrick Shen and Poppy SUN Szkiler discuss In Pursuit Of Silence, which demonstrates SUN how our addiction to technology contributes to the noise and SUN stress of our daily lives, which can have fatal SUN consequences. SUN SUN The director of Cameraperson, Kirsten Johnson, talks about SUN the impact that filming in war zones and recording victims' SUN harrowing testimonies has had on her personal life. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Nell Dunn SUN Interviewed Guest: Sue Williams SUN Interviewed Guest: Patrick Shen SUN Interviewed Guest: Poppy Szkiler SUN Interviewed Guest: Kirsten Johnson SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b07h60lg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 JUNE 2016 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b07h2vbh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:34 Dr Broks' Casebook b07h15zt (Listen) MON The Boy Whose Hand Had a Mind of Its Own MON MON Paul Broks continues his detective hunt in search of the MON self. Today he considers anarchic limbs and split brains. MON MON Anarchic limb is a rare condition in which the patient feels MON that they have no control of one of their limbs, but that MON the limb is still "theirs". It poses a challenge to the idea MON of the unified self. Even more perturbing are the cases of MON patients whose brains have been split in two by surgery MON (usually to treat epilepsy). A series of groundbreaking MON experiments by psychologist Michael Gazzaniga shows that the MON two halves of the brain in many respects function MON independently, unaware of each other. But that the left MON brain contains an "interpreter" that tries to make sense of MON it and rationalise what has happened after the event. So MON maybe the self is just something that the interpreter MON invents as it goes along? MON MON Presenter: Paul Broks MON Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b07h60ld (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07h2vbk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07h2vbm (Listen) MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07h2vbp (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b07h2vbr (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07h69n3 (Listen) MON Spiritual reflection to start the day with a director of MON Christian charity Foolproof Creative Arts, Fiona Stewart. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b07h69n5 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 05:56 Weather b07h2vbt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03x45m5 (Listen) MON Egyptian Goose MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Bill Oddie presents the Egyptian goose. Although Egyptian MON geese are common throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa and MON in Egypt, they are now officially a British bird. These MON striking birds attracted the attention of wildfowl MON collectors and the first geese were brought to the UK in the MON 17th century. By the 1960's it became obvious that the geese MON were breeding in the wild in East Anglia and since then MON they've spread in south and eastern England. MON MON Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) MON Webpage image courtesy of Guy Rogers (rspb-images.com) MON MON 06:00 Today b07h9xd8 (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b07h69n9 (Listen) MON Food: From Bread Riots to Obesity MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr explores food and politics. MON Churchill charged Lord Woolton with the daunting task of MON feeding Britain during WW2. The food writer William Sitwell MON looks at the black markets and shop raids Woolton had to MON battle as the country teetered on the edge of anarchy. MON Shirley Williams was the country's first Secretary of State MON for Prices, tackling rising inflation in the 1970s by MON setting the official price of bread. Economist Jane Harrigan MON argues that it was rising food prices that sowed the seeds MON for the Arab Spring Uprisings, and food historian Bee Wilson MON asks what governments can do now to control what we eat. MON MON Producer: Hannah Sander. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Shirley Williams MON Interviewed Guest: Bee Wilson MON Interviewed Guest: William Sitwell MON Interviewed Guest: Jane Harrigan MON Producer: Hannah Sander MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b07h6fmf (Listen) MON White Sands, Pilgrimage MON MON Many people love the books of Geoff Dyer (and author William MON Boyd calls him 'a true original'); be they novels, MON ruminations or travel essays. White Sands is his latest MON travel book and today he writes about his new home in Los MON Angeles and makes a pilgrimage to visit the house of an MON intellectual hero. With characteristic wit and a keen eye MON for detail, he writes beautifully about place and always MON acknowledges that travel can be as much about disappointment MON as it is about elation and discovery. In White Sands he MON makes a series of pilgrimages like this one and then wonders MON why they don't quite live up to their reputation. MON MON Read by Alex Jennings who recently played Alan Bennett in MON The Lady in the Van and Willy Wonka in the musical version MON of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. MON MON Abridged by Katrin Williams MON Produced by Julian Wilkinson. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Alex Jennings MON Author: Geoff Dyer MON Abridger: Katrin Williams MON Producer: Julian Wilkinson MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b07h2vby (Listen) MON Phone-In: Infidelity MON MON If your partner's been unfaithful, how did you deal with it? MON Did you stay or did you go? If you've been unfaithful, did MON the relationship survive? If you've moved on, how did you do MON it? We want to hear from you. Call 03700 100 444, lines open MON at 0800. MON MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Anne Peacock. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Anne Peacock MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07h6fmh (Listen) MON How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 1 MON MON Can Karen and Jack stay married, even though he's openly MON gay? They're living their lives, getting on with their work, MON the kids seem to be fine - and then Jack drops a bombshell. MON MON He wants to buy his own flat and move on - but that means MON the family house must be sold. Karen is outraged. After all MON he's put them through, he now wants to uproot them as well? MON MON In this third series of writer Nicholas McInerny's MON autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack and MON Karen are at a crossroads. Two years after he came out, MON they're still married, still close, have a regular date MON night each week and are both involved in steering their MON girls through their teenage years. MON MON But time doesn't stand still and Jack wants to live openly MON as a gay man. He wants to find out what that could mean. He MON also wants to be a good dad and keep his family healthy and MON safe. So it's time for more negotiations with Karen and the MON girls to see how they can remain a close and loving family MON and allow each other to grow in their own different ways. MON MON Writer: Nicholas McInerny MON Sound Designer: Alisdair McGregor MON Director/Producer: Melanie Harris MON Executive Producer: Jo Meek MON MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Jack: Greg Wise MON Karen: Julia Ford MON Ella: Izzy Watts MON Tom: Daniel Crowder MON Miranda: Mary Doherty MON Naomi: Katriona Perrett MON Writer: Nicholas McInerny MON Director: Melanie Harris MON Producer: Melanie Harris MON MON 11:00 The Untold b07h6fmk (Listen) MON I Hope I Get It MON MON Teenagers Mohammed and Jess are both auditioning for the MON National Youth Theatre - with just a one in ten chance of MON success. MON MON And the stakes are especially high for them, because they're MON a couple. Both are desperate to progress with their acting MON careers: Jess won a drama scholarship to her boarding MON school, while Mohammed attends a performing arts Academy. MON MON Grace Dent follows their story, from the auditions to the MON nail-biting wait on results day. MON MON 11:30 The Break b07h6fmm (Listen) MON Occupied MON MON Andy (Tom Palmer) has found a level of contentment with the MON world - reading books, watching films, and generally MON repairing his wounded psyche. Uncle Jeff (Philip Jackson) is MON having none of this and reveals a hitherto unknown secret to MON Andy, that the dusty shop downstairs from his seaside flat MON belongs to Jeff. When necessary, it seems, he offers the MON community of Flamford a valuable service as an electrical MON repair person. MON MON Jeff lures Andy into the shop and shows him how to use the MON till. Andy realises it's another of his uncle's ploys, and MON refuses this oblique yet unsubtle job offer. But Jeff, never MON the one to say "die", takes his nephew on a job search in MON which Andy is an unwilling participant. MON MON Visits follow to Fish Shop Frank (Mark Benton), the Tourist MON Information Office run by the uniformed and uninformed Steph MON and Pippa (Alison Steadman and Shobna Gulati), and MON Flamford's as-yet-unlicensed zoo. 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 Mr Truepenny: Rasmus Hardiker MON Writer: Ian Brown MON Writer: James Hendrie MON Director: Gordon Kennedy MON Producer: Gordon Kennedy MON MON 12:00 News Summary b07h2vc0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Witness b07hrzf1 (Listen) MON Date Rape MON MON 25 years ago, in June 1991, a young American college MON student, Katie Koestner, became a talking point across the MON USA when she appeared on the front cover of Time Magazine MON after refusing to let a 'date rape' go unchallenged. She has MON been speaking to Claire Bowes about the rape, and the MON notoriety that followed it. MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b07h2vc2 (Listen) MON Breast implants, Sara Eden, Small business fraud MON MON Consumer affairs programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b07h2vc4 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b07h2vc6 (Listen) MON Analysis of news and current affairs. MON MON 13:45 Voices of the First World War b07h6frq (Listen) MON Verdun MON MON Before the last survivors of the First World War passed MON away, the memories of many of those who fought it were MON captured in sound recordings. Speakers recall in great MON detail the conditions of the trenches, the brutality of the MON battlefield, and their psychological state in the face of MON trauma. The Imperial War Museum's holdings include a major MON oral history resource of remarkable recordings made in the MON 1980s and early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the MON conflict. Among the BBC's extensive collection of archive MON featuring first hand recollections of the conflict are the MON interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The Great War', MON which vividly bring to life the human experience of those MON fighting and living through the war. In a unique partnership MON between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, the two sound MON archive collections are brought together for the first time MON in this Radio 4 series. 'Voices of the First World War', a MON fifty-part series which began in Autumn 2014, broadcasts MON many of these recordings for the first time, and will run in MON short seasons throughout the commemorative period, tracking MON the course of the war. MON MON The first five programmes of this year's series of Voices of MON the First World War explore the events of 1916 from the MON point of view of those who experienced them, from MON descriptions of the huge and costly battles that engulfed MON all Armies on the Western Front to the fall-out of the MON introduction of conscription in Britain, with Conscientious MON Objectors revealing the consequences of their decision not MON to fight. MON MON Dan Snow begins the week hearing the experiences of French MON soldiers who fought at the Battle of Verdun. In interviews MON recorded in 1964 for the BBC Great War series, they recall MON the hellish conditions for those who took part in the MON drawn-out battle. MON MON In the second programme we hear vivid recollections from MON those who were caught up in and narrowly survived the MON dramatic and fast-paced Battle of Jutland, which took place MON across the course of a few hours and determined the outcome MON of the war at sea. MON MON The third programme features first-hand accounts from those MON who were called up to replenish the British Army but refused MON to fight - Conscientious Objectors, who talk about their MON imprisonment, and also the ostracism their families were MON exposed to as a result of their decision. MON MON The last two programmes of the week cover the Battle of the MON Somme. On 30th June we hear about the build up to the battle MON exactly 100 years ago, with descriptions of the seven day MON bombardment of the German lines, and the men's optimism and MON even excitement as the noise built to a crescendo. They MON remember what they were doing and how they were feeling from MON sunrise to zero hour on 1st July as they waited to go over MON the top. The final programme focuses on the first MON catastrophic ten minutes of the Battle of the Somme, with MON glimpses of the devastation on the battlefield, and the MON surviving soldiers' feelings about the heavy losses by the MON end of the day on 1st July. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b07h65c4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03phpg2 (Listen) MON Ambiguous Loss, 477 Days MON MON Aidan Stephens is missing. No-one knows where he is or why MON he went. Michael Butt's drama tells the story of the family MON left behind. 16 months later, do they get on with their MON lives or continue to await his return? Made with the MON assistance of the charity Missing People. MON MON Directed by Toby Swift. MON MON Credits MON Sally: Heather Craney MON Helen: Carolyn Pickles MON Gene: Joel MacCormack MON Carmella: Georgie Fuller MON Aidan: Ewan Bailey MON Amy: Amy Walker MON Director: Toby Swift MON Writer: Michael Butt MON MON 15:00 Counterpoint b07h6gwy (Listen) MON Series 30, Heat 2, 2016 MON MON Three more music lovers join Paul Gambaccini for the second MON heat of the 2016 tournament, from the historic Maida Vale MON studios of the BBC. Paul will be putting the breadth and MON depth of their musical knowledge to the test, as they MON compete for a place in the semi-finals later this summer. MON MON The questions and extracts range from Russian opera to 1960s MON TV themes and big band jazz - and that's just in the first MON round. As always, the competitors also have to select a MON special musical topic for their own individual round, from a MON list of five which they've been given no previous sight of, MON and no chance to prepare. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b07h60lv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 David Hockney - Back in LA b07h6hft (Listen) MON In June 2013, art critic Martin Gayford received a message MON from David Hockney. It said that he was leaving Yorkshire to MON return to Los Angeles and he might be staying there for some MON time. MON MON Hockney's relocation to LA came after a disastrous few MON months in the artist's personal life. In autumn 2012 he MON suffered a minor stroke and temporarily almost lost his MON speech. A tree that he often painted was felled in an act of MON vandalism that sent him into depression. In March, one of MON his assistants, Dominic Elliott died as a result of MON misadventure when he drank acid after taking a range of MON drugs. Hockney almost gave up painting. MON MON The artist found inspiration in Los Angeles again, painting MON his assistant John-Pierre with his head in his hands. This MON image of deep despondency, which Hockney calls a MON self-portrait, was the catalyst for a new ambitious phase of MON work. MON MON He began painting figures sat on the same chair against the MON same plain backdrop. The sitters' variety of figures, poses MON and clothes reinvigorated Hockney, as he recruited more and MON more characters for his "Human Comedy." The results would MON become a single series of portraits to be displayed at MON Hockney's second show at the Royal Academy in four years, MON '82 Portraits and One Still Life,' opening in July. MON MON As the series began to take shape, in December 2013, Martin MON flew to California to sit. He'll re-visit the process of MON being painted by Britain's most famous artist and he'll MON interview Hockney about his life in Los Angeles, portraiture MON and this astonishing new chapter in his career. MON MON Producer: Paul Smith MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4 MON MON David Hockney painting Martin Gayford, Los Angeles, 5 MON December 2013 (c) David Hockney MON Photo Credit: Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b07h6n1q (Listen) MON Battle of the Somme MON MON The Battle of the Somme, fought in northern France between MON 1st July and 18th November 1916, was one of the bloodiest of MON World War One. The British and French armies engaged the MON Germans in a brutal battle of attrition on a 15-mile front. MON In total, there were over one million dead and wounded on MON all sides. The slaughter was on an unprecedented scale. How MON did individuals and society grieve? How did faith MON institutions respond to the traumatic loss of life? What was MON its effect on the spiritual psyche of Britain in the MON immediate aftermath and in subsequent decades? Ernie Rea and MON guests discuss the religious response to the Battle of the MON Somme. MON MON Producer: Dan Tierney MON Series producer: Amanda Hancox. MON MON 17:00 PM b07h2vc8 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07h2vcb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07h6qsp (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 1 MON MON The 65th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote MON to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based MON entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run MON at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool where regulars Barry MON Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Rory Bremner, with Jack Dee as the programme's MON reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect MON inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the MON piano. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON It is a BBC Studios production. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b07h6qsr (Listen) MON Neil reaches a decision, and there's big change ahead at MON Grange Farm. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b07h2vcd (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07h6fmh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Greece: Warehouse of Souls b07h6zg5 (Listen) MON The Balkan route is closed, the fragile EU-Turkey deal is in MON effect, the Pope has been and gone, the traffickers are MON turning their attention to Italy & so is much of the media. MON But Greece continues to be the epicentre of a slow MON emergency. In a country in advanced economic meltdown more MON than 50,000 refugees & migrants, 'people on the move', are MON stuck. On the islands, the asylum processing "hotspots" MON funded by the EU are often grim affairs, like the one on MON Chios made out of repurposed shipping containers. Outside MON Thessaloniki, in a place where the railroad tracks run into MON grass, stands an abandoned toilet paper factory: no windows, MON no light, and tents huddled under the low roof. But, for a MON desperately stretched Greek government, this is better than MON the dark anarchy of the recently cleared camp at Idomeni, or MON the petrol station where children play in the still-working MON forecourt & the car wash has tents inside. MON MON The deportations back to Turkey of some 8,500 people who MON came since the deal was done have started (as have the MON suicide attempts). For the more than 40,000 refugees and MON migrants who arrived before March 20th and now have no place MON to go, another long, gruelling story is beginning. The MON left-wing Syriza government is having to contemplate just MON how long these refugees will be stuck there. Minister of MON Migration Yannis Mouzalas knows that the much criticised MON EU-Turkey deal is the only thing preventing another wave of MON refugees reaching the shores of Greek islands that are MON already struggling to cope: "This is not Greece's crisis, MON this is Europe's crisis." Maria Margaronis explores the MON hopes & fears of refugees, islanders & Greek politicians & MON asks whether Greece is becoming Europe's "warehouse of MON souls.". MON MON 20:30 Analysis b07h6zg7 (Listen) MON The Charitable Impulse MON MON Charity is big business. In the UK, over £7 billion is MON donated to charitable institutions each year. But MON fundraising can also be controversial as recent news stories MON about expensive electricity tariffs, elderly donors MON receiving incessant requests for donations and the tactics MON of some "chuggers" have confirmed. MON MON So studies in experimental psychology that reveal which MON approaches persuade people to be more generous are timely MON and could offer charities a neat way to raise more money. MON David Edmonds explores the results of this research - MON including findings published for the first time. He asks if, MON by adopting techniques already used by the marketing and MON advertising industries, charities could transform their MON fortunes - but at what cost? MON MON Producer Simon Coates. MON MON 21:00 Natural Histories b07gfgv5 (Listen) MON Oyster MON MON Eat them alive straight from their shell. Or deep fry them. MON Or remember them - with their little feet - addressing Lewis MON Carroll's Walrus and Carpenter - the oyster plays a rich and MON varied part in British life. Brett Westwood eats his subject MON for the very first time and takes ship to catch some more in MON the muddy tidal creeks of the Essex North Sea coast. The MON world may not quite be his oyster but in this programme the MON oyster is definitely his world. With Richard Haward, Philine MON zu Ermgassen, and Peter Marren and poems from Simon MON Armitage, Sean O'Brien and Carol Ann Duffy. Reader: Niamh MON Cusack. Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON Dr Philine zu Ermgassen MON MON Dr. Philine zu Ermgassen is a Junior Research Fellow MON Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge where she MON researches the many benefits humans derive from coastal MON ecosystems. She has worked with The Nature Conservancy over MON many years to quantify the loss of oyster habitats and their MON associated services, including the benefits to water quality MON that oysters provide by filtering the water and the MON enhancement of commercially important fish they provide MON through providing a place of refuge to young fish and crabs. MON This work is being used to make the ecological and business MON case for oyster restoration globally. MON MON Richard Haward MON MON Richard Haward is a seventh generation oysterman. The Haward MON family have been cultivating oysters since the 1700s so MON seawater runs through their veins. MON MON Richard has been working on the water for most of his MON life. Giving up a place at university he took on the family MON tradition of oyster fishing full-time when he was eighteen MON after his father died prematurely. MON MON Peter Marren MON MON Peter Marren is a writer, one-time journalist and all-round MON naturalist. From 1977 to 1992 he worked for the Nature MON Conservancy Council in Scotland and England, latterly as its MON inhouse ‘author-editor’. Since then he has written about MON twenty books on British natural history, books, bibliography MON and military history. *The Wild Woods*, *England’s National MON Nature Reserves* and *Britain’s Rare Flowers* were all MON runner’s-up for the Natural World Book Prize. *The New MON Naturalists* won the silver medal of the Society of the MON History of Natural History and *Britain’s Rare Flowers* the MON BSBI Presidents’ Prize. He was awarded a Leverhulme MON Fellowship to research *Bugs Britannica*. He is the author MON of the New Naturalist conservation volume, simply titled MON *Nature Conservation*. His latest book, *Rainbow Dust*, MON about butterflies, is to be published next spring. MON MON He also writes obituaries for the Independent, conservation MON news for Whitaker’s Almanack, formerly has a column in *The MON Countryman* and is regular contributor to *British MON Wildlife*, which includes his famous column of biting wit, MON Twitcher in the Swamp. MON MON He lives next to a swamp meadow in Wiltshire. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b07h69n9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b07h2vcg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b07h2vcj (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07h6zg9 (Listen) MON Graham Greene: The Third Man, Heard of Harry Lime? MON MON Samuel West reads from the classic Graham Greene novella MON that inspired one of the most acclaimed films of all time, MON starring Orson Welles. MON MON In today's episode, as snow falls on a ravaged postwar MON Vienna, penniless pulp Western writer Rollo Martins arrives, MON hoping to meet his old school chum and hero, Harry Lime. But MON why isn't Harry there to greet him? Rollo is about to learn MON the first of many shocking truths about his greatest MON friend... MON MON Greene's novella was published the year after the film, The MON Third Man, was released, but formed the basis of Greene's MON screenplay. The Oscar-wining film, directed by Carol Reed, MON is now considered a masterpiece, and was chosen by the BFI MON as the best British film of the 20th century in 1999. MON MON Author: Graham Greene, 1904-91, one of the most acclaimed MON and most popular writers of the 20th century, was awarded MON the Novel Prize for Literature in 1967. His novels include: MON Brighton Rock, The End of the Affair, The Power and the MON Glory, and The Honorary Consul. MON Reader: Samuel West MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Justine Willett MON Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by MON Anton Karas. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Sam West MON Author: Graham Greene MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 23:00 Don't Log Off b07h6zgc (Listen) MON Series 7, Taking Flight MON MON Alan Dein embarks on a new series of nocturnal excursions MON via Facebook and Skype, hearing the real life dramas of MON random strangers. MON MON Alan holes himself up in a studio through the night and MON invites the online world to talk to him. Knowing nothing MON about the people he is about to talk to, he settles down for MON an evening of intriguing encounters. MON MON Tonight he connects with a Nigerian trapped in Abu Dhabi, a MON Hungarian woman who found salvation in the birth of her son, MON a Dutch man who believes he's a reincarnated slave and a MON grounded Canadian test pilot coming to terms with the fact MON he'll never fly again. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b07h6zgf (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 JUNE 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b07h2vf4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b07h6fmf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07h2vf6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07h2vf8 (Listen) TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07h2vfb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b07h2vfd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07ht2rc (Listen) TUE Spiritual reflection to start the day with a director of TUE Christian charity Foolproof Creative Arts, Fiona Stewart. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b07h9xd6 (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 b01sbz1g (Listen) TUE Sedge Warbler TUE TUE David Attenborough presents the Sedge Warbler. Sedge TUE warblers like tangled vegetation near water. They're summer TUE visitors here but seek out similar habitats in Africa where TUE they spend the winter. Before leaving our shores in autumn, TUE they gorge on insects, often doubling their weight. TUE TUE Sedge Warbler (Acrocephalus schoenobaenus) TUE Image courtesy of RSPB TUE TUE 06:00 Today b07h69n7 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific 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 b07h9xdd (Listen) TUE Tim Samuels Meets Helen Croydon TUE TUE Tim Samuels goes in search of alternative relationships and TUE meets women who have ditched traditional monogamy. He meets TUE those making their own rules in a world less constrained by TUE religion and gender norms and where we are evolving and TUE adapting to changing times. TUE TUE For Tim the idea of getting married and settling down with TUE one person for the rest of your life brings him out in a TUE cold sweat and he is not alone. In his last programme for TUE One to One, he meets Helen Croydon who has been expounding TUE the idea of part-time love for ten years. So is this the TUE best model for loving and living? And is it viable in TUE practice? TUE TUE The producer is Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b07h9xdg (Listen) TUE White Sands, Space in Time and Time in Space TUE TUE Many people love the books of Geoff Dyer ('a true original' TUE William Boyd): be they novels, ruminations or travel essays. TUE White Sands is his latest travel book and today he visits TUE two iconic land art installations in America: The Spiral TUE Jetty in Utah and The Lightning Field in New Mexico. With TUE characteristic dry humour, and a keen eye for detail, he TUE vividly recreates both experiences. His essays offer TUE meditations on landscape, time and humanity, but Dyer never TUE shirks from asking himself what exactly 'is the point of it TUE all.' TUE Read by Alex Jennings who recently played Alan Bennett in TUE The Lady in the Van and Willy Wonka in the musical version TUE of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. TUE TUE Abridged by Katrin Williams TUE Produced by Julian Wilkinson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Alex Jennings TUE Author: Geoff Dyer TUE Abridger: Katrin Williams TUE Producer: Julian Wilkinson TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b07h2vfg (Listen) TUE Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07h9xdj (Listen) TUE How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 2 TUE TUE Jack is excited about the success of his book and wants to TUE celebrate. Karen is furious that he wants to sell the house TUE and force her and the girls to move. Seventeen year-old TUE Naomi is fed up with both of them and anyway, she's got TUE other things on her mind - an older boyfriend with a car. TUE TUE In this third series of writer Nicholas McInerny's TUE autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack and TUE Karen are at a crossroads. Two years after he came out, TUE they're still married, still close, have a regular date TUE night each week and are both involved in steering their TUE girls through their teenage years. TUE TUE But time doesn't stand still and Jack wants to live openly TUE as a gay man. He wants to find out what that could mean. He TUE also wants to be a good dad and keep his family healthy and TUE safe. So it's time for more negotiations with Karen and the TUE girls to see how they can remain a close and loving family TUE and allow each other to grow in their own different ways. TUE TUE Writer: Nicholas McInerny TUE Sound Designer: Alisdair McGregor TUE Director/Producer: Melanie Harris TUE Executive Producer: Jo Meek TUE TUE A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Jack: Greg Wise TUE Karen: Julia Ford TUE Ben: John Sessions TUE Naomi: Katriona Perrett TUE Writer: Nicholas McInerny TUE Director: Melanie Harris TUE Producer: Melanie Harris TUE TUE 11:00 Natural Histories b07h9xdl (Listen) TUE Ant TUE TUE For centuries we've peered at them, delighted and terrified TUE at seeing our best and worst traits in miniature. Brett TUE Westwood investigates why we see ourselves in the Ant. TUE TUE With contributions from the Ant Lab of Nigel Franks, giant TUE ants as seen by Judith Buchanan, slave-making ants as TUE interpreted by John Clarke and Tom Waits, and the robot TUE swarm of Sabine Hauert. Plus St Paul's Cathedral and a whole TUE ant colony between 2 microscope slides. TUE TUE Readings by Nicola Ferguson and Brian Protheroe: poems by TUE John Clare, Peter Kane Dufault and Matthew Francis; and the TUE works of Ovid, Adam Smith, William Gould and César Vallejo. TUE Plus the fearsome threat of H G Wells' The Empire of the TUE Ants, and the films Antz, and THEM! TUE TUE Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE Dr Andrew Polaszek TUE Andrew is a Researcher in Entomology at the Natural History TUE Museum, London. His fascination with insects started in TUE childhood, turning over the stones in his South London TUE garden to reveal “the Serengeti in miniature”. TUE He is committed to public outreach, science education, and TUE the facilitation of descriptive taxonomy using modern TUE techniques. A current priority is the use of high-quality TUE images to inform society at all levels about the importance TUE of parasitoids and other wasps, as well as bees and ants, as TUE ecosystem service providers. TUE TUE Professor Judith Buchanan TUE Judith Buchanan is Professor of Film and Literature and TUE Director of the Humanities Research Centre at the University TUE of York and Director of Silents Now. She has expertise in TUE the transmission of stories across generations and across TUE media, in Shakespeare performance histories and in silent TUE cinema. TUE Through the creative work of TUE Silents Now TUE she brings back little-known films from the silent era as a TUE source of pleasurable engagement for contemporary audiences TUE in the UK and elsewhere, thereby helping to ensure the TUE preservation and ongoing life of a valuable but threatened TUE part of our heritage. TUE She is the author of, among other things, Shakespeare on TUE Film and Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb TUE Discourse and the editor of The Writer on Film: Screening TUE Literary Authorship. She speaks regularly to public as well TUE as to academic audiences and her voice-overs can be found on TUE the BFI’s newly released ‘Play On! Shakespeare in Silent TUE Film'. TUE Twitter: TUE @jrbyork TUE TUE Dr John Clark TUE Born and raised in Canada, John Clark completed degrees at TUE the universities of Western Ontario and Toronto before TUE receiving a DPhil at the University of Oxford. He TUE subsequently held fellowships at Oxford and at the TUE University of Kent, where he was a Wellcome Lecturer in the TUE history of medicine and life sciences. TUE He is currently a lecturer in the School of History and TUE director of the Institute for Environmental History at the TUE University of St Andrews. His teaching and research focus on TUE the history of science, medicine, and environment; and his TUE publications include TUE Bugs and the Victorians TUE In 2014, he was a visiting senior fellow at The Ohio State TUE University. TUE TUE Professor Nigel Franks TUE Nigel Franks is Professor of Animal Behaviour and Ecology at TUE the University of Bristol. The focus of his research at the TUE university's TUE Ant Lab TUE is on the simple rules of interaction among worker ants that TUE generate complexity and sophistication at the level of the TUE colony. Recent studies by the team have begun to demonstrate TUE the algorithmic basis of the self organisation of ant TUE colonies. TUE Ant colonies embody all of the most important aspects of TUE biological organisation. In simple terms they are more than TUE the sum of their parts and they are robust flexible systems TUE that are capable of self repair. The fundamental advantage TUE of ant colonies as experimental biological materials is that TUE they can be quickly taken apart and rapidly and easily put TUE together again. This is the reason why we study ant colonies TUE rather than natural neural networks which exhibit similar TUE capabilities but can be experimentally intractable. TUE TUE Dr Sabine Hauert TUE Dr Sabine Hauert is a swarm engineer at the TUE Bristol Robotics Laboratory TUE and is interested in designing large collective systems that TUE self-organise. Swarm strategies are either inspired from TUE natural collectives such as ant colonies and bird flocks or TUE are automatically designed in simulation using machine TUE learning and crowdsourcing. TUE It has been used to design swarming nanoparticles for cancer TUE treatment and for deploying large aerial swarms for TUE communication relay. She is also working towards using TUE automatic swarm design to understand natural self-organised TUE systems such as those found in the brain or the immune TUE system. TUE TUE 11:30 Tales From the Stave b07h9xdn (Listen) TUE Series 13, The Lark Ascending - Vaughan Williams TUE TUE Frances Fyfield is joined by former BBC Young Musician of TUE the Year Jennifer Pike, her father Jeremy, head of TUE Composition at Cheetham's school of music in Manchester, and TUE composer David Matthews to examine the only manuscript of TUE Ralph Vaughan Williams' enduringly popular British Classic - TUE 'The Lark Ascending'. TUE The score for Orchestra and Violin has been lost but the TUE British Library have the manuscript for piano and violin, TUE the form in which the piece was first heard at Shirehampton, TUE near Bristol with the Violinist Marie Hall. Her autograph TUE appears on the score but not the composer's. TUE TUE There's debate about whether the manuscript is in the hand TUE of the composer or a copyist. The guests agree that it's TUE probably a copyist but there are so many corrections, TUE paste-overs and rewrites that the composer's penmanship TUE makes up almost half the score. TUE TUE The beauty of the piece, a response in 1914 to George TUE Meredith's Poem 'The Lark Ascending', is undisputed. What TUE surprises and intrigues the team is just how much work went TUE into what appears a very fluid, easy depiction of the Lark TUE high above a landscape rich in Vaughan Williams folk TUE inspired melodies. He'd put it aside over the war years and TUE it was only in 1920, while staying near Bristol that he TUE worked on it again. It's thought that Marie Hall was TUE alongside him in that process of refinement and, as many TUE people agree, perfection. Jennifer plays detailed passages TUE that have been crossed out and, occasionally re-introduced TUE into the score. TUE And there's a discovery concerning the cover leaf that it TUE appears might go some way to explaining why the orchestral TUE score has been lost and might yet be found. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b07h2vfj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Witness b07hrzgd (Listen) TUE Soviet Imaginary Heroes TUE TUE It is 75 years since the German invasion of the Soviet Union TUE during World War 2. Millions of Soviet soldiers and citizens TUE would lose their lives in the struggle that followed, and TUE many of their stories of heroism and self-sacrifice were TUE absorbed into war propaganda. But one story raised questions TUE right from the beginning..the tale of the so-called TUE 'Panfilov heroes' who were reported to have committed an TUE almost impossible feat of bravery in the face of the Nazi TUE advance against Moscow. Dina Newman reports. TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b07h2vfl (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b07h2vfn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b07h2vfq (Listen) TUE Analysis of news and current affairs. TUE TUE 13:45 Voices of the First World War b07hb1y2 (Listen) TUE Jutland TUE TUE The first five programmes of Voices of the First World War TUE 1916 explore the events of the year from the point of view TUE of those who experienced them, from descriptions of the huge TUE and costly battles that engulfed the British and French TUE Armies on the Western Front to interviews given by TUE Conscientious Objectors and their families. TUE TUE In this, the second programme we hear vivid recollections TUE from those who were caught up in and narrowly survived the TUE dramatic and fast-paced Battle of Jutland, which took place TUE across the course of a few hours. TUE TUE Before the last survivors of the First World War passed TUE away, the memories of some of those who fought it were TUE captured in sound recordings. Speakers recall in great TUE detail the conditions of the trenches, the brutality of the TUE battlefield, and their psychological state in the face of TUE trauma. The Imperial War Museum's holdings include a major TUE oral history resource of remarkable recordings made in the TUE 1980s and early 1990s with the remaining survivors of the TUE conflict. Among the BBC's extensive collection of archive TUE featuring first hand recollections of the conflict are the TUE interviews recorded for the 1964 TV series 'The Great War', TUE which vividly bring to life the human experience of those TUE fighting and living through the war. In a unique partnership TUE between the Imperial War Museums and the BBC, the two sound TUE archive collections are brought together for the first time TUE in this Radio 4 series. 'Voices of the First World War', a TUE fifty-part series which began in Autumn 2014, broadcasts TUE many of these recordings for the first time, and will run in TUE short seasons throughout the commemorative period, tracking TUE the course of the war. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b07h6qsr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03pjf43 (Listen) TUE Ambiguous Loss, No Man's Land TUE TUE 16 months ago Sally Stephen's husband Aidan disappeared, TUE leaving a note saying he was going for a walk. No-one knows TUE where he is or why he went. Then Sally receives a phonecall TUE that will turn her family's lives upside down once again. TUE Made with the assistance of the charity Missing People. TUE TUE Directed by Toby Swift. TUE TUE Credits TUE Sally: Heather Craney TUE Aidan: Ewan Bailey TUE Amy: Amy Walker TUE Helen: Carolyn Pickles TUE Gene: Joel MacCormack TUE Carmella: Georgie Fuller TUE Director: Toby Swift TUE Writer: Michael Butt TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b07hfwrf (Listen) TUE Series 9, The Stranger TUE TUE An innocent encounter tips from flirtation to danger, the TUE professional stranger you never want to see on your door TUE step and a partner whose revelation turns him in an instant TUE into a stranger. Josie Long delves into stories of brushes TUE with the unknown - flirtations, deceptions and the kindness TUE of strangers. TUE TUE Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 The Human Zoo b07hfwrh (Listen) TUE Series 8, That Post-Referendum Feeling 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 episode, that morning-after feeling - the aftermath TUE of the EU referendum. We put our 'X' in a box and, one way TUE or the other, committed. What happened in that moment and TUE what are the consequences - are we different now? TUE TUE Do we have doubts or regrets, or will we stubbornly stick to TUE our decision? The Zoo team investigate the curious TUE psychology of being consistent and how we make ourselves TUE feel better about the decisions we make in life. TUE TUE Michael Blastland is joined by resident Zoo psychologist TUE Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick TUE Business School, and roving reporter Timandra Harkness. TUE TUE Contributors this week include Professor Ralph Hertwig, Max TUE Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin; Professor TUE Greg Maio, Cardiff University; Carol Tavris, social TUE psychologist and author; Lee Jones, Queen Mary University of TUE London; and Lois Pryce, travel writer and journalist. TUE TUE Producer: Dom Byrne TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Homer, Hagrid and the Incredible Hulk b06hk68g (Listen) TUE Ben Hammersley meets creators and fans to investigate how TUE extended fictional universes, from Harry Potter to Game of TUE Thrones, took over global culture. TUE TUE Ben visits Professor Dumbledore's office to talk to Stuart TUE Craig, production designer on the Harry Potter films; goes TUE to Los Angeles to meet Lauren Faust, creator of My Little TUE Pony: Friendship is Magic; and travels to San Diego Comic TUE Con where he discusses different universes with Marc Zicree, TUE writer on numerous film and TV series, including Star Trek. TUE TUE Ben also speaks to authors Robin Hobb and Warren Ellis, and TUE to Axel Alonso and Ryan Penagos from Marvel. And he hears TUE from numerous fans, including Game of Thrones superfans TUE Linda Antonsson and Elio Garcia about the joys of fandom. TUE TUE Producer: Giles Edwards. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b07hfwrk (Listen) TUE Martin Lewis and Tanita Tikaram TUE TUE Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com and singer TUE songwriter Tanita Tikaram join Harriett Gilbert to talk TUE about books they love. Martin reads to relieve stress, is a TUE lover of historical fiction and has picked Dissolution, the TUE first in CJ Sansom's Shardlake series. Harriett chooses spy TUE thriller Slow Horses by Mick Herron and Tanitas's choice, TUE Gentlemen Prefer Blondes by Anita Loos is the only book this TUE week not to feature a beheading. Producer Sally Heaven. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Harriett Gilbert TUE Interviewed Guest: Martin Lewis TUE Interviewed Guest: Tanita Tikaram TUE Producer: Sally Heaven TUE TUE 17:00 PM b07h2vfs (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07h2vfv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b07hfwrm (Listen) TUE Series 7, Samira Ahmed TUE TUE The journalist Samira Ahmed reads from her teenage diaries TUE and is interviewed about her childhood in 1980s London when TUE she was obsessed with school work, Dallas and learning to TUE drive. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Samira Ahmed TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b07hfwrr (Listen) TUE Toby makes an observation, and Rex is apologetic. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b07h2vfx (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07h9xdj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 One Day in Entebbe b07hg4vg (Listen) TUE Forty years ago, the world gasped as it witnessed one of the TUE most outlandish rescue missions ever undertaken. Israeli TUE commandos flew 2,500 miles to free more than a hundred TUE hostages, passengers whose plane had been hijacked and TUE diverted to Entebbe. In the dead of night, they were plucked TUE out from under the nose of Uganda's larger-than-life TUE dictator, Idi Amin. TUE TUE The operation would become a template for special forces TUE operations, taught at military colleges around the globe. It TUE would change the calculus in the Middle East, altering the TUE way Israel was seen and the way it saw itself. And it would TUE set one young man on the path to eventual power. TUE TUE Through exclusive and intensely personal interviews with TUE those involved, including Israeli prime minister Binyamin TUE Netanyahu and two of his predecessors - Ehud Barak and TUE Shimon Peres - as well as former hostages, ex-commandos and TUE the one-time Palestinian hijacker Leila Khaled, writer and TUE broadcaster Jonathan Freedland tells the remarkable story of TUE that day in July 1976. TUE TUE He hears Netanyahu confess that he would not be prime TUE minister today had it not been for Entebbe where his brother TUE led the commando unit and was killed in action - proof that TUE the impact of that one day in Entebbe lives on. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b07h2vfz (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b07hg4vl (Listen) TUE All in the Mind Awards Ceremony from the Wellcome Collection TUE in London TUE 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 b07h2vg1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b07h2vg3 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07hg4vq (Listen) TUE Graham Greene: The Third Man, Everybody's in a Racket TUE TUE Second-rate thriller writer Rollo Martins has arrived in a TUE snow-bound postwar Vienna to meet his old school chum Harry TUE Lime - only to find that Harry has recently been killed in a TUE car accident. And now the police are accusing him of TUE racketeering. Rollo is desperate to clear his old friend's TUE name, and already the circumstances of Harry's death are TUE proving suspicious... TUE TUE Samuel West reads from the classic Graham Greene novella TUE that inspired one of the most acclaimed films of all time, TUE starring Orson Welles. TUE TUE Author: Graham Greene TUE Reader: Samuel West TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by TUE Anton Karas. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Sam West TUE Author: Graham Greene TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 Tim Key Delves Into Daniil Kharms and That's All TUE b072n5xc (Listen) TUE Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) is one of Russia's great lost TUE absurdists - a writer whose world still alarms, shocks and TUE bewitches more than half a century after he died in prison TUE during the siege of Leningrad. TUE TUE In his short, almost vignette-like writings, nothing is TUE sacred or as it seems. His narrators dip in and out of TUE moments, describing curious, often disturbing events before TUE getting bored and leaving his characters to their fates. Old TUE ladies plummet from windows, townsfolk are bludgeoned to TUE death with cucumbers, others wander around in search of TUE glue, sausages or nothing. By turns pointless and harrowing, TUE they are funny. Very funny. And they are funny now. TUE TUE Comedian, Russophile and crumpled polymath Tim Key has been TUE entranced by Kharms' beautiful, horrible, hilarious world TUE for years. But is there more to Kharms than a series of TUE curious happenings cooked up by an eccentric mind in a TUE troublesome world? Key suspects there is. And he's prepared TUE to delve. TUE TUE As he delves, he encounters Noel Fielding, Alice TUE Nakhimovsky, Matvei Yankelevich, Peter Scotto, Tony Anemone TUE and Daniil Kharms. TUE TUE Produced by Steven Rajam. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b07hg4vx (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 JUNE 2016 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b07h2vhz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b07h9xdg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07h2vj1 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07h2vj3 (Listen) WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07h2vj5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b07h2vj7 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07hg5vm (Listen) WED Spiritual reflection to start the day with a director of WED Christian charity Foolproof Creative Arts, Fiona Stewart. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b07hg5vp (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sally Challoner. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5bk0 (Listen) WED Water Rail 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 Chris Packham presents the water rail. Water rails are very WED secretive and live in thick vegetation in marshes and fens WED where the birds breed. The adult birds look rather like WED small moorhens but with chestnut on top, a blue-grey face WED and a zebra-stripe patch on their sides. They have long WED blood-red bills used for probing for insects. WED WED Water rail (Rallus aquaticus) WED Webpage image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com). WED WED 06:00 Today b07hgb49 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b07hgb4c (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 b07hgb4f (Listen) WED White Sands, Northern Dark WED WED Many love the books of Geoff Dyer who has been described by WED author William Boyd as a 'true original.' White Sands is his WED latest collection of travel essays. Today, he and his wife WED make a pilgrimage to see the Northern Lights in Norway and WED find the experience to be not quite as enlightening as they WED had hoped. WED WED With characteristic wit and a keen eye for detail, he WED vividly recreates the experience of the 'Northern Dark' and WED a misguided attempt at dog mushing. His essays offer WED meditations on landscape, time and humanity, but acknowledge WED that travel is as much about disappointment as it is about WED elation. WED WED Read by Alex Jennings who recently played Alan Bennett in WED The Lady in the Van and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the WED Chocolate Factory. WED WED Abridged by Katrin Williams WED Produced by Julian Wilkinson. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Alex Jennings WED Author: Geoff Dyer WED Abridger: Katrin Williams WED Producer: Julian Wilkinson WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b07h2vj9 (Listen) WED Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b07hgb4h (Listen) WED How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 3 WED WED Just when Jack thought he was getting somewhere with Karen, WED her father's health scare stops them in their tracks. Jack WED realises he's out of touch with the girls. And how did his WED ex-boyfriend Tom get so involved in Jack's own family? That WED wasn't part of the plan. WED WED In this third series of writer Nicholas McInerny's WED autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack and WED Karen are at a crossroads. Two years after he came out, WED they're still married, still close, have a regular date WED night each week and are both involved in steering their WED girls through their teenage years. WED WED But time doesn't stand still and Jack wants to live openly WED as a gay man. He wants to find out what that could mean. He WED also wants to be a good dad and keep his family healthy and WED safe. So it's time for more negotiations with Karen and the WED girls to see how they can remain a close and loving family WED and allow each other to grow in their own different ways. WED WED Cast: WED Jack..................Greg Wise WED Tom..................Daniel Crowder WED Karen................Julia Ford WED Miranda.............Mary Doherty WED WED Writer: Nicholas McInerny WED Sound Designer: Alisdair McGregor WED Director/Producer: Melanie Harris WED Executive Producer: Jo Meek WED WED A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Jack: Greg Wise WED Karen: Julia Ford WED Ben: John Sessions WED Naomi: Katriona Perrett WED Writer: Nicholas McInerny WED Director: Melanie Harris WED Producer: Melanie Harris WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b07hgb4k (Listen) WED Alex and Chris - Just Friends WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation between friends who have WED differing views about their direction of travel, but who WED still arrive at the same place. Another in the series that WED proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Greece: Warehouse of Souls b07h6zg5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday] WED WED 11:30 Plum House b07hgb4m (Listen) WED Series 1, Trust the Trust WED WED Comedy about the inept staff at a historic house, starring WED Simon Callow and Jane Horrocks. WED WED Every year thousands of tourists flock to the Lake District. WED But one place they never go to is Plum House - the former WED country home of terrible poet George Pudding (1779-1848). WED Now a crumbling museum, losing money hand over fist, it WED struggles to stay open under it's eccentric curator Peter WED Knight (Simon Callow). WED WED Can anyone save Plum House from irreversible decline? WED WED In this episode, a mysterious visitor arrives. Being visited WED is an unusual event in itself, but when he shows genuine WED interest in how the place is run our team immediately WED suspect he has been sent from the Trust to spy on them. Why WED else would a man, on his own, turn up at a museum WED unannounced? WED WED The cast is joined by Kevin Eldon who guest stars as the WED visiting man of mystery. 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 Martin: Kevin Eldon WED Director: Paul Schlesinger WED Producer: Paul Schlesinger WED Writer: Ben Cottam WED Writer: Paul Mckenna WED WED 12:00 News Summary b07h2vjc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Witness b07hs0c5 (Listen) WED Space Crash WED WED In June 1997 a resupply vessel crashed into the Mir space WED station. Alex Last has been speaking to Michael Foale, one WED of the 3 astronauts on board, about what happened next. WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b07h2vjf (Listen) WED Consumer affairs programme. WED WED 12:57 Weather b07h2vjh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b07h2vjk (Listen) WED Analysis of news and current affairs. WED WED 13:45 Voices of the First World War b07hgbj6 (Listen) WED Conscientious Objectors WED WED By mid-1916 conscription had been introduced to replenish WED the forces of the British Army, which was now engaged in WED huge and costly battles on the Western Front. Dan Snow hears WED first-hand accounts from those who were called up, but WED refused to fight. Conscientious Objectors talk about their WED trials, imprisonment, the ostracism their families were WED exposed to, and even lasting divisions within families, as a WED result of their decision. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b07hfwrr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03pmb50 (Listen) WED Ambiguous Loss, Home WED WED In May 2011, Aidan Stephens walked out on his life and his WED family. Unlike the majority of the 250,000 people who go WED missing in the UK each year, he didn't return within days. WED It is now Autumn 2012 and out of the blue the Stephens WED family hear that Aidan wants to come home. The third of WED three plays by Michael Butt made with the assistance of the WED charity Missing People. WED WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED Credits WED Sally: Heather Craney WED Aidan: Ewan Bailey WED Helen: Carolyn Pickles WED Gene: Joel MacCormack WED Carmella: Georgie Fuller WED Amy: Amy Walker WED Director: Toby Swift WED Writer: Michael Butt WED WED 15:00 Money Box b07h2vjm (Listen) WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b07hg4vl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b07hgcq0 (Listen) WED Good neighbours, The connection between sport and domestic WED abuse WED WED Good Neighbours and the democracy of everyday life. Our WED neighbours do small favours and greet us on the street. They WED also, on occasion, startle us with noises at night and even WED betray us to the authorities. Laurie Taylor talks to Nancy WED Rosenblum, the Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in WED Politics and Government at Harvard University, about her WED study into our many and varied encounters with the people WED 'next door' - from suburbia to popular culture; in peaceful WED times & during disasters and across time and culture. WED They're joined by Graham Crow, Professor of Sociology at the WED University of Chester. WED Also, the connection between sporting events and violence WED against women. Jodie Swallow, Post Graduate Research Student WED at Chester University, discusses her research into women's WED experience of domestic abuse in the context of the FIFA WED World Cup and the Six Nations Rugby Union Tournament. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED RELATED LINKS WED Professor Nancy L. Rosenblum at Harvard University WED Professor Graham Crow at the University of Edinburgh WED WED Jodie Swallow, PhD candidate at the University of Chester WED WED Nancy L. Rosenblum, *Good Neighbors: The Democracy of WED Everyday Life in America, *(Princeton University Press, WED 2016) WED National Domestic Violence Helpline WED for women sufferers or those calling on their behalf WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b07h2vjp (Listen) WED Topical programme about the fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b07h2vjr (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07h2vjt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04vkl9j (Listen) WED Series 6, Ann Widdecombe WED WED I've Never Seen Star Wars - Ann Widdecombe WED WED Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new WED experiences. Ann tries camping in a tent for the first time WED and watches as much of The Thick Of It as she can stand. WED Marcus also offers her a Jagerbomb - but will she accept? WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke WED Interviewed Guest: Ann Widdecombe WED WED 19:00 The Archers b07hgg2f (Listen) WED Anna has a lot on her mind, and Rob makes his situation WED clear. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b07h2vjw (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07hgb4h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b07hgh5f (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Mona Siddiqui, Giles Fraser, Melanie WED Phillips and Anne McElvoy. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b07hgh5h (Listen) WED A Lonely Society WED WED Lucy Hurst-Brown asks why so many learning disabled people WED are so lonely. WED WED Having worked with learning disabled people for 25 years, WED Lucy describes a system which has moved a very long distance WED from the impersonal, institutional care of the twentieth WED century, but which still has a long way to go before WED learning disabled people are properly integrated into their WED communities. WED WED And in describing how she and her colleagues realised they WED may be causing the problem, and how they set about finding a WED solution, she also challenges all of us to play our part. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Nature b07hhqtd (Listen) WED Series 9, James and the Peregrines WED WED James Aldred will be familiar to many Radio 4 listeners as WED 'the tree climber'. As a tree canopy access expert, James WED spends much of his life travelling across the world and WED climbing up into tree canopies to film the wildlife there. WED His accounts have been broadcast in several BBC Radio 4 WED programmes, most recently James and the Giant Atlas Cedars. WED http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03wphhs. But in his spare WED time when he's home, James loves to head through the woods WED behind his house and up to the disused quarry to watch the WED peregrines that have bred here. In 2015 he decided to keep WED an audio diary and follow the lives of these birds in his WED spare time. Historically Peregrines were prized for falconry WED and it's from here that we get the names falcon for the WED female bird and tiercel for the male. On a freezing cold day WED in early February, James set off for the quarry with his WED recorder and microphones for the first time, and watched the WED adult birds patrolling back and forth marking their WED territory, prior to courtship. Over the coming weeks, James WED returned to his ringside seat as often as he could to watch WED these magnificent birds and determine which ledge they would WED choose to nest on. He followed the birds from winter through WED spring and summer as they bred and raised their young, as WED you can hear in this intimate audio diary about one of the WED world's most iconic birds of prey. Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b07hgb4c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b07h2vjy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b07h2vk0 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07hhqtk (Listen) WED Graham Greene: The Third Man, I'd Like to Hear Him Squeal WED WED In a snow-bound postwar Vienna, writer Rollo Martins is WED still the on hunt for evidence to clear Harry Lime's name. WED But the web of lies and deceit surrounding his old friend's WED death is growing ever more intricate....And who is the WED mysterious third man, said to be present at Harry's death? WED WED Samuel West continues reading from the classic Graham Greene WED thriller that inspired the acclaimed 1949 film. WED WED Author: Graham Greene WED Reader: Samuel West WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett WED Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by WED Anton Karas. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Sam West WED Author: Graham Greene WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles b07hhqtq (Listen) WED Series 3, A Trip to the Strip 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 when he used to live WED in Las Vegas. There were parties, parties and you guessed WED it... more parties. But the good times didn't last. WED WED Written and performed by Lach WED Executive Producer: Richard Melvin WED Sound design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin WED A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Bunk Bed b07hhqv2 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED Award-winning actor and director Kathy Burke has given life WED to some of our best-loved comedy characters on screen. She WED won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival for her WED harrowing performance in the film Nil By Mouth. Now, sadly, WED she has to spend the night with a pair of middle-aged men WED who can't stop talking. WED WED Together they discuss fatness, smoking in the bath, and the WED horror of Hollywood stars who improvise. WED WED A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b07hhqv7 (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 JUNE 2016 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b07h2vlq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b07hgb4f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07h2vls (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07h2vlv (Listen) THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07h2vlx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b07h2vlz (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07hhsjy (Listen) THU Spiritual reflection to start the day with a director of THU Christian charity Foolproof Creative Arts, Fiona Stewart. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b07hhsk0 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03bkf9f (Listen) THU Bearded Tit THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Wildlife Sound Recordist, Chris Watson, presents the Bearded THU Tit. Bearded Tit live in reed-beds, eat mainly reed-seeds in THU winter and build their nests using reed leaves and THU flower-heads. The males do have a flamboyant black moustache THU which would be the envy of any Chinese mandarin. THU THU Bearded Tit (Panurus biarmicus) THU Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) THU THU 06:00 Today b07hhvxv (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b07hhvxx (Listen) THU Sovereignty THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of the idea of THU Sovereignty, the authority of a state to govern itself and THU the relationship between the sovereign and the people. These THU ideas of external and internal sovereignty were imagined in THU various ways in ancient Greece and Rome, and given a name in THU 16th Century France by the philosopher and jurist Jean Bodin THU in his Six Books of the Commonwealth, where he said (in an THU early English translation) 'Maiestie or Soveraigntie is the THU most high, absolute, and perpetuall power over the citisens THU and subiects in a Commonweale: which the Latins cal THU Maiestatem, the Greeks akra exousia, kurion arche, and THU kurion politeuma; the Italians Segnoria, and the Hebrewes THU tomech shévet, that is to say, The greatest power to THU command.' Shakespeare also explored the concept through THU Richard II and the king's two bodies, Hobbes developed it in THU the 17th Century, and the idea of popular sovereignty was THU tested in the Revolutionary era in America and France. THU THU With Melissa Lane, Richard Bourke and Tim Stanton. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Melissa Lane THU Interviewed Guest: Richard Bourke THU Interviewed Guest: Tim Stanton THU Producer: Simon Tillotson THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b07hhvxz (Listen) THU White Sands, The Hitchhiker THU THU White Sands is Geoff Dyer's vivid and entertaining new THU collection of travel essays. Today, he and his wife are THU driving to El Paso on Highway 54 when they stop to pick up a THU hitchhiker. All goes well and the hitchhiker proves to be THU good company until they pass a large road sign. With THU characteristic dry humour and a keen eye for detail, Dyer THU recounts the journey and never shirks from turning the THU spotlight on himself and questioning how far, as a fully THU fledged travel writer, he is prepared to step out of his THU comfort zone. THU THU Read by Alex Jennings who recently played the part of Alan THU Bennett in The Lady in the Van and Willy Wonka in Charlie THU and the Chocolate Factory. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Alex Jennings THU Author: Geoff Dyer THU Abridger: Katrin Williams THU Producer: Julian Wilkinson THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b07h2vm1 (Listen) THU Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07hhvy1 (Listen) THU How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 4 THU THU Karen's doing a fun run, Naomi's bunking off to meet her THU boyfriend and Jack's discovering the joy of random sex with THU strangers - an itch that's difficult to ignore. THU THU In this third series of writer Nicholas McInerny's THU autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack and THU Karen are at a crossroads. Two years after he came out, THU they're still married, still close, have a regular date THU night each week and are both involved in steering their THU girls through their teenage years. THU THU But time doesn't stand still and Jack wants to live openly THU as a gay man. He wants to find out what that could mean. He THU also wants to be a good dad and keep his family healthy and THU safe. So it's time for more negotiations with Karen and the THU girls to see how they can remain a close and loving family THU and allow each other to grow in their own different ways. THU THU Writer: Nicholas McInerny THU Sound Designer: Alisdair McGregor THU Director/Producer: Melanie Harris THU Executive Producer: Jo Meek THU THU A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Jack: Greg Wise THU Karen: Julia Ford THU Ella: Izzy Watts THU Naomi: Katriona Perrett THU Tom: Daniel Crowder THU Writer: Nicholas McInerny THU Director: Melanie Harris THU Producer: Melanie Harris THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b07h2vm3 (Listen) THU Correspondents around the world tell stories and examine THU news developments in their region. THU THU 11:30 They Call Us Viet Kieu b07hhvy3 (Listen) THU Anna Ngyuen, a second-generation British Vietnamese theatre THU producer, has always associated fear and unexplained THU inherited traumas with Vietnam. Her parents fled the THU war-torn country in 1975, as part of the mass exodus, and THU were resettled in London along with 20,000 other Vietnamese. THU THU Forty years later Anna returns to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City THU to rediscover Vietnam and its vibrant arts scene for THU herself. THU THU She finds out that the local Vietnamese call people like THU her, ethnic Vietnamese born or living abroad, Viet Kieu. And THU she discovers that many of those who have returned to THU Vietnam are on a similar journey - to find out who they are. THU Foreign but not foreign, Vietnamese but not Vietnamese. THU Among the burgeoning creative community they are using art THU to make sense of their identity. THU THU Does the Vietnam her mother feared still exist? What are THU local Vietnamese like her doing? And what would the Vietnam THU Anna be like if her parents hadn't left? THU THU Producer: Fabiola Büchele THU A Greenpoint production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b07h2vm5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Witness b07hs0h0 (Listen) THU Angela Merkel THU THU Series looking at key events in history, featuring testimony THU from the people who were there. THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b07h2vm7 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs programme. THU THU 12:57 Weather b07h2vm9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b07h2vmc (Listen) THU Analysis of news and current affairs. THU THU 13:45 Voices of the First World War b07hhvy5 (Listen) THU The Somme: From Sunrise to Zero Hour THU THU The last two programmes of the week cover the Battle of the THU Somme. On 30th June we hear about the build up to the battle THU exactly 100 years ago, with descriptions of the seven day THU bombardment of the German lines, and the men's optimism and THU even excitement as the noise built to a crescendo. They THU recall what they were doing and how they were feeling from THU sunrise to zero hour on 1st July, as they waited to go over THU the top. THU THU Drawing on the sound archives of the Imperial War Museums THU and the BBC, survivors of the First World War recall their THU experiences of the events of 1916. With Dan Snow. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b07hgg2f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Tommies b07hhwyf (Listen) THU 30 June 1916 THU THU Tommies reveals a hidden true story, based on secret German THU documents, of how a British signalling blunder contributed THU to the terrible death toll on the first day of the Battle of THU the Somme. THU THU By 30th June 1916, the German lines have been under constant THU bombardment for days. An attack is coming, but it's vital THU that the enemy don't know exactly when. THU THU As vast numbers of men, machinery and armaments move to THU their final jumping-off points, the Indian cavalry of the THU 34th Poona Horse face their battle plan. And Mickey Bliss is THU training the signallers of the Tyneside Scottish - according THU to his unique methods. Mickey has every last point of THU preparation covered. THU THU But there's one tiny detail he has missed. THU THU Lee Ross stars in this story by Nandita Ghose. THU THU Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness THU accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at THU war, exactly 100 years ago. THU THU And through it all, we'll follow the fortunes of Mickey THU Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of THU the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense THU machine, one which connects situations across the whole THU theatre of the war, over four long years. THU THU Series created by Jonathan Ruffle THU Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: Jonquil Panting. THU THU Credits THU Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross THU Commentator: Indira Varma THU Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan THU Sergeant Dixon: Daniel Weyman THU Francis Woodrington: Nick Underwood THU Second Lieutenant Gascoigne: Neil Grainger THU Jemadar Mehta: Raj Ghatak THU Sowar Gopal: Munir Khairdin THU Actor: Anneika Rose THU Actor: Sargon Yelda THU Actor: Ewan Bailey THU Producer: David Hunter THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU Writer: Nandita Ghose THU THU 15:00 Open Country b07hhwyh (Listen) THU Midsummer Music in Orkney THU THU Orkney has a great heritage of music so for this weeks Open THU Country Helen Mark visits the St Magnus International THU Festival of Music and Arts. Now in its 40th year St Magnus THU was founded by the late Orkney-based composer, and Master of THU the Queen's Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. This years THU festival will celebrate his legacy as well as shining a THU light on new talent from the islands. THU THU During the summer months Orkney enjoys 'Twilight All Night' THU due to its latitude, Helen discovers what this means for the THU people who live there and the festival. She meets local THU musicians and composers to find out how the unique THU landscape, history and wildlife of Orkney inspire individual THU creativity and how music contributes to the community spirit THU so integral to island life. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b07h60ll (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b07h65c0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b07hwxs9 (Listen) THU Notes on Blindness THU THU Francine Stock talks to James Spinney and Peter Middleton, THU the makers of a ground-breaking documentary, Notes On THU Blindness, that also has a version in Virtual Reality. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: James Spinney THU Interviewed Guest: Peter Middleton THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b07h2vmf (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford explores the science that is changing our THU world. THU THU 17:00 PM b07h2vmh (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07h2vmk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07hj0q6 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU A new show from the internationally acclaimed master of the THU one-liner Tim Vine sees Tim interview members of his live THU audience as he embarks on a quest to hear the life stories THU of the Great British public while simultaneously showcasing THU his trademark gleeful wordplay and preposterous songs. THU THU In this first episode of the series Tim talks to a THU death-defying parachutist, hears about a hair-raising brush THU with a Royal Protection Officer and tells at least two jokes THU about chickens. THU THU Producer: Richard Morris THU A BBC Studios Production. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Tim Vine THU Producer: Richard Morris THU THU 19:00 The Archers b07hj3xf (Listen) THU Kate is feeling the pressure, and Pip learns more about THU Matthew. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b07h2vmm (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07hhvy1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Briefing Room b07hj0q8 (Listen) THU David Aaronovitch looks at an important issue in the news. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b07hj0qb (Listen) THU The Price of Life THU THU It's hard to put a value on a human life. When you're well, THU perhaps you don't think about it. But if you're ill, getting THU access to the right drugs, whatever the cost, is a priority. THU But the NHS does not have a bottomless pit of money. And THU some medicines are judged too expensive to be freely THU available, so patients miss out on treatments that could THU save or extend their lives. There are usually two villains THU of the piece: The drugs companies for charging too much; the THU NHS for not stumping up the cash. In this edition, Evan THU Davis and guests explore how pharmaceutical companies price THU their drugs, the role of the NHS in deciding how much the THU medicines are worth and, in the case of generic or THU non-branded drugs, they'll ask whether competition is THU working properly to keep down the NHS medicines bill. THU THU Guests: THU Erik Nordkamp, Managing Director, Pfizer UK THU THU Carole Longson, Director of the Centre for Health Technology THU Evaluation at NICE, the National Institute for Health and THU Care Excellence THU THU Warwick Smith, Director-General, British Generic THU Manufacturers Association THU THU Producer: Sally Abrahams. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b07h2vmf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b07hhvxx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b07h2vmp (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b07h2vmr (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07hj3xh (Listen) THU Graham Greene: The Third Man, Do You Believe in Ghosts? THU THU Faced with the harsh fact that his old friend Harry Lime THU wasn't the hero he thought him to be, Rollo is drowning his THU sorrows. Doubting he'll ever track down the third man THU present at Harry's death, or even get Harry's girl to fall THU in love with him, Rollo's desperate to leave the war-torn THU city. But the elusive Harry Lime is about to shock him one THU more time.... THU THU Samuel West continues reading Graham Greene's classic THU thriller, which was the inspiration for the 1949 film, THU starring Orson Welles. THU THU Author: Graham Greene THU Reader: Samuel West THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett THU Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by THU Anton Karas. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Sam West THU Author: Graham Greene THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 The Now Show b07hj3xk (Listen) THU The Now Show 1916 THU THU The Now Show: 1916 is a non-topical show in which Steve Punt THU and Hugh Dennis and their very special guests look back THU exactly 100 years; from wartime humour and art to the THU politics and propaganda, the show that will be informative, THU funny, and a good degree more tasteful than the jokes told THU in the trenches. THU THU Presenter ... Steve Punt THU Presenter ... Hugh Dennis THU THU Producer ... Ed Morrish THU THU A BBC Studios Production. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Steve Punt THU Presenter: Hugh Dennis THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b07hj3xm (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 JULY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b07ht5sx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b07hhvxz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b07ht5sz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b07ht5t1 (Listen) FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b07hwdgk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b07hwdgm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b07ht5t3 (Listen) FRI Spiritual reflection to start the day with a director of FRI Christian charity Foolproof Creative Arts, Fiona Stewart. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b07hwdwj (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03dwy14 (Listen) FRI Black-Headed Gull FRI FRI Martin Hughes-Games presents the Black-Headed Gull. FRI Black-Headed Gulls are our commonest small gull and FRI throughout the year you can identify them by their rather FRI delicate flight action, red legs and the white flash on the FRI front edge of their wings. FRI FRI Black-headed Gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) FRI Image courtesy of RSPB (rspb-images.com) FRI FRI 06:00 Today b07hwdgp (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b07h60ls (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b07hj59r (Listen) FRI White Sands, Beginning FRI FRI Much loved author Geoff Dyer has been described as a 'true FRI original' by William Boyd. White Sands is his latest travel FRI book and is a collection of travel essays that go beyond the FRI logistics of getting from A to B and offer mediations on FRI landscape, time and humanity all relayed with characteristic FRI wit and sharp observation. In this last episode Dyer is back FRI in Los Angeles, but an episode in hospital provokes a more FRI internal journey. FRI FRI Read by Alex Jennings who has recently played Willy Wonka in FRI Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alan Bennett in The FRI Lady in the Van. FRI FRI Abridged by Katrin Williams FRI Produced by Julian Wilkinson. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Alex Jennings FRI Author: Geoff Dyer FRI Abridger: Katrin Williams FRI Producer: Julian Wilkinson FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b07h2vns (Listen) FRI Programme that offers a female perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b07hj65f (Listen) FRI How to Have a Perfect Marriage, Episode 5 FRI FRI Jack's risk-taking in his sexual encounters leave him FRI feeling scared and contrite. Karen's best friend Miranda FRI helps her to see there is a future with or without Jack. And FRI Karen's parents' golden wedding anniversary help her and FRI Jack to appreciate their own honest, tough-love kind of FRI marriage. FRI FRI In this third series of writer Nicholas McInerny's FRI autobiographical look at modern relationships, Jack and FRI Karen are at a crossroads. Two years after he came out, FRI they're still married, still close, have a regular date FRI night each week and are both involved in steering their FRI girls through their teenage years. FRI FRI But time doesn't stand still and Jack wants to live openly FRI as a gay man. He wants to find out what that could mean. He FRI also wants to be a good dad and keep his family healthy and FRI safe. So it's time for more negotiations with Karen and the FRI girls to see how they can remain a close and loving family FRI and allow each other to grow in their own different ways. FRI FRI Writer: Nicholas McInerny FRI Sound Designer: Alisdair McGregor FRI Director/Producer: Melanie Harris FRI Executive Producer: Jo Meek FRI FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jack: Greg Wise FRI Karen: Julia Ford FRI Naomi: Katriona Perrett FRI Ella: Izzy Watts FRI Miranda: Mary Doherty FRI Ben: John Sessions FRI Writer: Nicholas McInerny FRI Director: Melanie Harris FRI Producer: Melanie Harris FRI FRI 11:00 Who Are You Again? b07hj65h (Listen) FRI Every day Mary Ann Sieghart blanks friends and colleagues in FRI the street - some people think she is the rudest woman they FRI know. She also claims to be the 'worst lobby correspondent FRI in the world'. FRI FRI She has prosopagnosia, more commonly known as face FRI blindness. Sufferers have problems perceiving or remembering FRI faces. It's thought around 1 in 50 of us has the condition- FRI the chances are you or someone you know will have it - but FRI many people don't even realise they have it. FRI FRI Stephen Fry and former Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt are FRI two of the well known people who have the condition and here FRI they share how they've found ways of coping with it to get FRI by in their careers. FRI FRI In extreme cases, some sufferers don't recognise family FRI members or even their own reflection. Concerns are rising FRI that it could lead to issues in security, justice and FRI misdiagnoses. Psychologists and psychiatrists are trying to FRI learn more about the condition and its effects, calling for FRI it to be recognised formally and screened for in schools and FRI in jobs. FRI Mary Ann has long dreamed of a solution - could technology FRI or even hormonal treatments help improve her ability? Or FRI will the best solution simply be to make people more aware? FRI FRI Presented by Mary Ann Sieghart FRI Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. FRI FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04n6432 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 4 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 4/6: In the fourth edition of the series, John tries to FRI present a classic sketch, but the others aren't going to FRI help him. We also hear a speech from someone who followed FRI their dream, and induct a new employee at Vicarstown train FRI station, on the Island of Sodor. 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 b07h2vnv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Witness b07hs0qp (Listen) FRI The Trial of Saddam Hussein FRI FRI Series looking at key events in history, featuring testimony FRI from the people who were there. FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b07h2vnx (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b07h2vnz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b07h2vp1 (Listen) FRI Analysis of news and current affairs. FRI FRI 13:45 Voices of the First World War b07hj8b6 (Listen) FRI The Somme: Over the Top FRI FRI The final programme in this instalment of Voices of the FRI First World War focuses on the first catastrophic ten FRI minutes of the Battle of the Somme, with men recalling the FRI orders they were given, the reality on the ground as it FRI became clear the German wire hadn't been cut by the British FRI bombardment and their memory of those around them being mown FRI down by machine gun fire as they attempted to cross No Man's FRI Land. Dan Snow brings together first hand accounts drawn FRI from the sound archives of the IWM and the BBC, some vivid FRI and detailed and others clearly clouded by the trauma of FRI their experience and the intervening years, to reveal the FRI devastation on the battlefield, and surviving soldiers' FRI feelings about the heavy losses suffered by the British by FRI the end of the day on 1st July. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b07hj3xf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Drama b07hj8b8 (Listen) FRI Lance FRI FRI A one-man show about growing up, hero-worship, betrayal and FRI cycling, written and performed by Kieran Hodgson. It was FRI nominated for the 2015 Edinburgh Comedy Award, receiving FRI five star reviews and selling out tours across the country. FRI FRI It is 2003 and the teenage Kieran is training for the Scouts FRI Holme Valley Mountain Bike Challenge in West Yorkshire. FRI Inspired to 'Just Do It' by his hero Lance Armstrong, a FRI signed poster of the cycling superstar is his most precious FRI possession. So how is he going to cope when he discovers his FRI hero has betrayed him? FRI FRI Kieran plays all the parts in this heartfelt story recorded FRI in front of an audience by one of the country's up and FRI coming comedy writers and performers. Kieran's recent FRI television work includes playing the role of Ian Lavender in FRI the BBC 2 drama We're Doomed! The Dad's Army Story. FRI FRI Written and performed by Kieran Hodgson FRI Produced by Caroline Raphael FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Kieran Hodgson FRI Writer: Kieran Hodgson FRI Producer: Caroline Raphael FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b07hj8bb (Listen) FRI Braintree and Bocking Public Gardens FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel pay a visit to Braintree and FRI Bocking Public Gardens in Essex. Matthew Wilson, Christine FRI Walkden and Pippa Greenwood answer the horticultural queries FRI this week. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Christening b07hj8bd (Listen) FRI A new short story specially commission from the writer and FRI former Blue Peter presenter Janet Ellis. FRI FRI It is nearly the end of the school summer holidays. A young FRI girl is invited to go to the local pool by a boy she likes. FRI She's not keen on swimming, and nervous around games and FRI horseplay. Surviving an unexpected dunking, and bolstered by FRI his concerned reaction, she feels older and stronger than FRI before, and begins to shed her childish uncertainty and FRI leave her childhood behind. FRI FRI Written and read by Janet Ellis FRI Produced by David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Janet Ellis FRI Reader: Janet Ellis FRI Producer: David Roper FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b07hj8bg (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b07hj8bj (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for audience comment. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b07hj8bl (Listen) FRI Victoria and Rosie - Looking After Martha FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation in which a mum has the chance FRI to thank her daughter for the tremendous support she's been FRI in caring for her younger sister who has severe eczema. 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 b07h2vp3 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b07h2vp5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b07hj8bn (Listen) FRI Series 16, Episode 3 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 b07hj8bq (Listen) FRI Eddie makes his move, and Helen cannot be cheered. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Paul Brodrick FRI Director: Naylah Ahmed FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI David Archer: Tim Bentinck FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Tony Archer: David Troughton FRI Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Justin Elliott: Simon Williams FRI Rex Fairbrother: Nick Barber FRI Toby Fairbrother: Rhys Bevan FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Richard Locke: William Gaminara FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Helen Titchener: Louiza Patikas FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Anna Tregorran: Isobel Middleton FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Stephen South: Richard Pepple FRI Kaz: Amaka Okafor FRI Simon Hawkes: Simon Armstrong FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b07h2vp7 (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b07hj65f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b07hj8bs (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from St Nicholas Parish Church in Fleetwood, Lancashire. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b07hj8bv (Listen) FRI A reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Archive on 4 b042z1g4 (Listen) FRI Pulped Fiction FRI FRI The writer DJ Taylor examines the question of literary FRI reputations and how they rise and fall. Is talent alone FRI enough to ensure survival? Taylor argues that what allows a FRI writer's work to endure is not straightforward merit, but FRI something far more complex: an immensely subtle calibration FRI of talent with the preoccupations of the age that follows. FRI Tone, taste, fashion and luck all play a part. Taylor speaks FRI to the writers Louis de Bernieres, Tracy Chevalier and David FRI Lodge as well as to Professor Dame Hermione Lee, the critic FRI Peter Kemp and to Simon Winder, the Publishing Director of FRI Penguin Press. Along the way he'll discuss writers whose FRI reputation have waxed and waned. He'll ask which writers FRI deserve to be brought back and which ones are on the FRI slide... FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b07h2vp9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b07h2vpc (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b07hj93g (Listen) FRI Graham Greene: The Third Man, Bloody Fool FRI FRI Harry Lime is very much alive, but no longer the heroic FRI figure from Rollo Martins' school days. In a snow-covered, FRI war-torn Vienna, Rollo decides to confront his old friend FRI over the terrible crimes he's said to have committed. But, FRI first he has to track him down.... FRI FRI Samuel West reads the final part of Graham Greene's classic FRI thriller - the inspiration for the 1949 film, starring Orson FRI Welles. FRI FRI Author: Graham Greene FRI Reader: Samuel West FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI Music from the original soundtrack written and performed by FRI Anton Karas. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Sam West FRI Author: Graham Greene FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton FRI Producer: Justine Willett FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b07hfwrk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b07hj93j (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b07hs855 (Listen) FRI Jason and Sam - Sex and Social Media FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about how social media FRI has changed the way we search for and find partners, between FRI friends who regret the absence of romance in the new FRI network. Another in the series that proves it's surprising FRI what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
24 June, 2016
Radio 4 Listings for 25/06/2016 - 01/07/2016
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