The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Are we right to blame the parents? Is there anything they could do? Laurie Taylor speaks to two researchers behind a massive investigation into the families of British gang members. Judith Aldridge and Jon Shute tell him what they discovered about the lives and experience of families with children in gangs and whether it is possible to intervene.
Also, Gordon Mathews, the author of a book about Chungking Mansions, the cheapest accommodation in Hong Kong, describes its multifarious residents. This ramshackle building in the heart of the tourist district is home to a polyethnic melting pot of people - from Pakistani phone stall operators to American backpackers and Indonesian sex workers.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Andrew Martlew.
We discover how free range hens could be prevented from pecking each others feathers by the simple measure of planting trees in their fields. New research from the Food and Animal Initiative has discovered that the cover from tree canopies encourages free range hens to venture into the fields which prevents them from attacking each other.
Also, Caz Graham hears how across the globe we waste a third of all of our food. In the UK, this amounts to 16 million tonnes of food waste every year - with 40% going into landfill. Emma Marsh from Love Food, Hate Waste says that small changes in buying habits could make a huge difference.
Sarah Swadling visits an anaerobic digester in Devon to see how that waste can be saved from landfill and made to produce electricity.
And Pete Higgins tells Caz about his invention "Use Within Labels" which warn people when the jars in their fridge should be thrown away.
Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill.
Prof Julian Lindley-French, of the Netherlands Defence Academy, and Amal Tarhuni, who spent five months working with the National Transitional Council (NTC) in Benghazi, reflect on the situation in Libya.
Ibrahim Dabbashi, the NTC's deputy ambassador to the UN, examines the path ahead.
The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes describes his dramatic escape from an ambush in Tripoli and Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt outlines the government's view of the fast-moving story.
In this programme he interviews the Malaysian politician and human rights campaigner, Karpal Singh, who was left in a wheelchair after a motor accident in 2005. In 1987 Karpal was detained for fifteen months without trial and declared a prisoner of conscience by Amnesty International. Just a year earlier he had represented the British born drug smuggler Kevin Barlow who was eventually executed for drug smuggling in Malaysia. Karpal tells Peter about his long career fighting for justice and the obstacles now in his way as he battles the discriminatory stance towards his disability by fellow MPs.
Known as the Tiger of Jelutong for his astonishing fifth electoral win in the Penang constituency, he is publicly as sharp and formidable as ever although in private he has struggled to regain his health following the accident: "I am fighting an internal battle that people don't see and which I can't express," he says. "Life is so different now. I can't stand to address the court or parliament and I need help to even scratch my forehead. It's a terrible thing when you can't do simple things that were once so normal."
Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day politics.
Two media men clash over press freedom in Britain. Harold Evans, campaign editor of the Sunday Times, appeared on BBC2 in 1974 to the backdrop of two major controversies in the newspaper business - Watergate and thalidomide. He met Lord Windlesham, pillar of the Tory establishment. Evans was furious that British media law prevented him reporting the cases of the victims of the morning sickness drug thalidomide, for whom he was determined to win fair compensation. In stark contrast, the other side of the Atlantic had seen President Nixon brought to justice by the Washington Post. Could Watergate have happened in the UK? Or would our laws, such as contempt of court, libel and Official Secrets Act, have restricted this course?
Windlesham, however, took a more conservative line, that existing legislation was in place to curb the excessive powers of a press that wasn't very good at taking criticism. Evans later secured victory for thalidomide victims at the European Court of Human Rights. But more than 40 years after this discussion, in a world of Wikileaks and super-injunctions, how does the contemporary media landscape compare?
In the studio dissecting the debate are Peter Preston, editor the Guardian for 20 years and now a columnist at the paper, and John Kampfner, who has worked in newspaper, broadcasting and magazine journalism and is now the chief executive of the Index on Censorship.
Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall.
For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each year in a 7 foot by 7 foot room at the top of a tower, on top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires.
Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and black bears. Filled with Connors' heartfelt reflections on our place in the wild, Fire Season is an instant modern classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once a homage to the beauty of nature, the blessings of solitude, and the freedom of the independent spirit.
Tracie Bennett discusses playing Judy Garland. Esther Rantzen and psychotherapist Christine Webber talk to Jane Garvey about loneliness - how harmful is it? Men working in childcare; and keeping urban chickens.
DCI Marion Bettany (Helen Baxendale) and DS John Hodgson, a new detective team created for Radio 4 by award-winning author Val McDermid, investigate a murder in the sleepy Northumbrian village of Shilwick. They love their work, they enjoy each other's company and like nothing better than investigating a new crime. The only thing that makes life difficult is dealing with the public. Take the residents of the former mining community of Shilwick, for example.
Val McDermid is a multi-award winning crime writer, and creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, which stars Robson Green.
DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale
DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon
Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland
Colin Arnott ..... Antony Byrne
Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton
Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove
Tilly Francis ..... Rachel Bavidge
Tom Briggs ..... Christian Rodska
Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher
For 87 days in 1991 the world watched in helpless horror as 2000 civilians, and volunteers from all around Croatia, defended the town of Vukovar against tens of thousands of heavily armed soldiers from the Serbian dominated Yugoslav National Army. The fighting had broken out in the wake of the collapse of the former Yugoslavia. Vukovar, on the banks of the Danube, became known as "The City of Heroes" for the almost countless acts of valour among the untrained volunteer army of defenders. Yet it also has a much darker significance. Not only was this the first town in Europe to suffer such devastation since the Second World War, but the pattern of the indiscriminate bombardment of civilians that characterised the Yugoslav wars, was first seen here. The siege also brought a new and terrible phrase into common usage. The first cases of organised ethnic cleansing took place in Vukovar. Former BBC correspondent Martin Bell, who covered the siege, returns 20 years later to find out how Vukovar and its people are recovering and finds Vukovar today is a shadow of its former self; haunted by the ghosts of 1991.
The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience readings. This week: The consequences of buying your partner an antique skeleton in "Memento Mori" and a dark fable about mourning: "The Motherless Bear".
Consumer news with Julian Worricker. Today - the end of the traditional light bulb. How the internet is destroying the culture business and how the culture business can fight back. And neither a borrower nor lender be? We'll be looking at a new website that allows people to rent items from each other . So instead of borrowing your neighbour's lawnmower, you could pay a small sum fee and make it official.
National and international news with Martha Kearney. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
Jamaica: Maureen Sheridan tells her story - moving her young family to the home of reggae after the death of her husband.
Samantha goes abroad to adopt two young children. Her guide, Jarilo Veles, acts as mediator with the director of the orphanage. But it is clear that nothing is straightforward in this world, and elements of fable and fantasy intrude in the story, which is told through the device of a recorded narrative Samantha is making for the children she plans to adopt.
Barbara Norden set up the MA in Creative Writing at City University London in 2004. Her plays include Try Not to Worry; Via Crucis; The Milkman (Birmingham Rep Commission); Wedding Album; Blue Light in Delphi and a play for 7-11 year olds produced by Hampstead Theatre and published by Oberon. Souvenirs is her first play for radio.
Stephen Fry is of course a black cab driver, known for his prodigious knowledge. Taking the taxi journey as metaphor, Stephen tries to pin down what the knowledge is, with the help of cab drivers quiz contestants, quizmasters philosophers, memory champions and educationalists. And he looks at the idea of 'general' knowledge, as in general knowledge games and General Certificates of Education.
There are excerpts from a variety of quiz shows, starting with the very first British example, less of a quiz and more of a spelling bee. Though quiz shows aren't the be-all and end-all of the subject they do show how our perception of knowledge has changed, from the deeply serious to the wilfully trivial. In an era when popular culture is taken very seriously, the question of 'what's worth knowing?' needs careful thought. Magnus Magnusson, for example argues for knowledge for its own sake.
Technology - the way Knowledge is shared - is also a theme. Is The Knowledge, as famously earned by London cabbies, threatened by Satellite Navigation? What happens to how we value knowledge in an age when technology offers us such wide horizons?
Stephen discovers fascinating pre-Google knowledge sharing systems including the much loved Daily Telegraph Information service and the nineteenth century Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. He argues that how we share knowledge doesn't alter its nature and that a study of the subject -epistemology, to give it its correct name - is ultimately a philosophical matter.
The programme's nonetheless entertaining with apposite contributions from Alan Bennett, Magnus Magnusson, Nicholas Parsons, John Peel, Bertrand Russell, Fred Housego and the philosopher Mary Margaret McCabe.
The writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah has regularly attended the Notting Hill Carnival since the 1970s. This year, before he gets ready to dance in the streets of West London, he sets out to explore the history of the festival and to meet some of the key people who make the event happen.
The Notting Hill Carnival is the biggest multicultural festival in Europe. It's generally accepted that the event started somewhere between 1959 and 1965 as a community-strengthening celebration of Caribbean culture. But for decades the carnival community has been divided over precisely when the festival started and who should be credited with laying its foundations. For some people the first Carnival was organised by black American Civil Rights campaigner Claudia Jones in January 1959, as an indoor event. Eyewitnesses describe evenings of calypso, steelband and costume competitions, staged as a reaction to the race riots that had gripped Notting Hill.
Other witnesses are certain that the festival started much later, in August 1965, by the white community worker Rhaune Laslett who created a multicultural festival aimed at bringing together the poor communities living in Notting Hill. Experts and surviving witnesses take Kwame through their private archives to shed light on this early period.
Presenter Kwame Kwei-Armah is famous for his role as a paramedic in the BBC drama, Casualty. He is also an award-winning playwright and has recently been appointed Artistic Director of Baltimore's state theatre, Center Stage.
The Scottish Premier League season is well underway with memories of the sectarian attacks on the Celtic manager earlier in the year still fresh in the mind. What do these incidents tell us about the nature and extent of sectarianism in Scotland today? Is it confined mainly to football or is it endemic within wider society? With church attendance in rapid decline, is religion still a potent force in reinforcing sectarian attitudes? And - even given their diminished influence - what role do the churches have in countering such attitudes?
Joining Ernie to discuss sectarianism in contemporary Scotland are Peter Kearney, a spokesperson for the Catholic Church in Scotland, Michael Rosie, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Edinburgh University and Harry Reid, former editor of The Herald and member of the Church of Scotland.
Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including Weather.
The popular panel game from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, hosted by Nicholas Parsons. With Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth and newcomer Jason Byrne.
Brian is stressfully trying to coordinate DEFRA, the haulage people and the rendering plant, to get work started again on the site. Alice comes up with an idea to maximise strawberry sales by selling them with scones or dipped in chocolate.
Susan tells Pat that she thinks Brian should have offered financial help to Chris and Alice. She's quite critical of him but quickly bites her tongue when she remembers Pat and Brian are related. The arrival of the Environmental Health Officer unnerves Susan, and she drops a pot of yoghurt. Pat reminds her to wash her hands after she's cleaned up the mess.
Brenda's impressed by Helen's work on the website but isn't too thrilled with Pip giving out marketing advice, especially since Brenda's the one with the marketing degree. Tom knows that there's still a lot to do to improve Bridge Farm's reputation. Pat unexpectedly loses her patience with Brenda and Tom's attempts at improving the website, telling them it's a complete waste of time. Brenda's taken aback but Tom reassures her that what they're doing is worthwhile. He knows Brenda just wants to help, and he couldn't do any of it without her.
With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film One Day, based on the best-selling novel by David Nicholls, which stars American actress Anne Hathaway as a young woman from Yorkshire who falls for fellow student Jim Sturgess.
Mark Lawson visits Northumberlandia, a vast sculpted landform in the shape of a reclining female figure which is being created from 1.5 million tonnes of soil on a mining site near Cramlington, south east Northumberland. Designed by artist Charles Jencks, when complete the earth works will be 34 metres high and 400 metres in length, forming the centrepiece to a new public park.
Mark talks to the American writer Nicholson Baker, whose previous books include Vox, The Fermata and The Mezzanine. His latest is a sexually explicit novel called House Of Holes.
Julie Fernandez, a disabled actor best known for her role in The Office as the 'Woman in a Wheelchair' explores the complex relationship between disabled child and parent carer.
Julie has brittle bone disease and Julie's mother cared for her through more than seventy operations and considerable pain. Always strict, she made Julie help with housework even when encased in full body plaster, fought to get her into a boarding school and encouraged her independence. So Julie was not prepared for what happened when she left home to get married. For several months her mother wouldn't speak to her.
Inspired by her experience Julie undertakes a personal journey into what happens when parents care too much? Funny, frank and very challenging she talks to parents and their adult dependent children when as one mother put it 'two become one.'
She explores the different issues for parents of children with physical disabilities compared to those with learning difficulties. Jenny's story is typical: she is 68 and still caring for 47 year old Simon who is autistic and has schizophrenia. "I have never stopped to think have I missed out, because I haven't missed out on Simon, he's lovely..its a privilege to have had him." However desperate the individual circumstances parents echo this sentiment again and again.
But the issues around separation are complex. One mother whose 27 year old son requires round the clock care confessed that the year he left home to start a job in London was the worst of her life. It caused her profound grief, despite her pride at his achieving all she had dreamed of for him, and more.
Finally Julie returns to her mother to reflect on their experiences anew. Their journey also involved seemingly insurmountable obstacles but was overcome by courage and love.
In December, Ghana turned on the taps and began pumping its first commercial oil. Production will top 100,000 barrels a day this year -- enough the government believes to more than double the country's economic growth. At the centre of this oil rush is the once sleepy city of Takoradi. Already things are starting to change here: new businesses setting up to service the offshore oil industry, an increase in population, and, spiralling expectations. So can Ghana - one of the most stable countries in Africa - escape the curse of violence and corruption that has afflicted other big oil producers on the continent? Rob Walker visits Takoradi to find out, and he'll be returning to observe the transformation of Africa's newest oil city over the coming years.
This week Quentin Cooper feels his way round a new aid to keyhole surgery, tracks brainy bees from flower to flower and wonders how they do it so efficiently. He hears how unblocking the nose of a primitive fish enabled vertebrates to develop jaws, how plesiosaurs may have been caring parents, and how we perceive passing time in a blink of an eye.
Fierce fighting is taking place in parts of the Libyan capital, Tripoli, after rebel forces entered the heart of the city.
On tonight's programme, we'll hear about the events of the past 24 hours. We look at the legacy of Colonel Gaddafi. We hear the hopes and fears of the Libyan people. We discuss the country's future and and we examine the lessons to be learned from intervening in Libya.
Written by Moshin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed.
At a cafe table in Lahore a bearded Pakistani accosts an uneasy American stranger and tells him the story of his life. But as dusk deepens to night it becomes clear that this is no chance encounter.
Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other places including New York and London.
Chris Ledgard explores the world of voice recognition and finds out how the technology is changing the way we use language. Belfast writer Malachi O'Doherty shows how he's had to train his voice recognition software to recognise his particular accent. Forensic linguist Peter French talks about the qualities of different voices, and how they can be quantified. Tyler Perrachione has found that people with dyslexia also find it difficult to recognise voices. And Chris meets Steve Renals, whose group has been given a 6.2 million pound grant to work on improving synthetic voices and speech recognition.
When Peter Lewis heard that the BBC were inviting people to nominate personal objects that helped tell the story of the history of the world, he thought immediately of his Uncle Bryn.
The invitation was intended to complement the award-winning Radio 4 series 'A History of the World in A Hundred Objects', made in partnership with the British Museum. Those objects told of mankind's origins, of dynasties, of trade and economics, of science and engineering, war, peace, growth and development.
The many thousands of contributions to the BBC website threw vivid personal light on those broader subjects, but perhaps none more than Bryn's portrait of his World War Two sweetheart, and later wife, Peggy.
The picture, which still hangs in his living room, was painted in oils from a Red Cross postcard photograph that Peggy had sent him when he was a prisoner of war in Poland. He'd been captured in April 1940 and, in spite of twelve unsuccessful escape attempts, he wouldn't see Peggy again until 1945.
His life as a prisoner is an extraordinary story of a private soldier gifted with an iron will, a wicked optimism and an unshakeable survival instinct.
Many of the camps in which he was held are familiar to historians: Thorn, Stalag VIIb Lamsdorf, Terezin - but it's Auschwitz that leaps most agressively from the page.
Bryn was never held with the Jewish prisoners in the main camp. As a British soldier, he had rights they could only have dreamt of. But he was a labourer in the metal workshops alongside the main camp, and he saw the brutality meted out over the several months of his incarceration there.
It was during this period that a fellow worker, a Polish Jew, told him that he could get the tired photograph of Peggy painted for him in oils.
Bryn was uneasy about losing such a treasured possession - but when he learnt about the Nazi policy of employing Jewish craftsmen and artists to copy stolen art treasures in the camp next door, he relented.
A couple of weeks later, his postcard photo was returned, along with a beautiful portrait of Peggy. For obvious reasons, it was unsigned.
So Bryn would never discover the name of the person who painted it, but he treasured it beyond any other possession and kept it taped to his stomach or back for the remaining two years of the war.
Bryn is now in his nineties. He's always been reticent about telling the stories of his imprisonment, but here he talks to Peter Lewis about his survival, his escapes, and the portrait from Auschwitz that he brought home safely to the woman who was to become his wife.
TUESDAY 23 AUGUST 2011
TUE 00:00 Midnight News (b013f31b)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
TUE 00:30 Book of the Week (b013f0xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Monday]
TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b013f31g)
The latest shipping forecast.
TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b013f31j)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b013f31n)
The latest shipping forecast.
TUE 05:30 News Briefing (b013f31q)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b013f31v)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Andrew Martlew.
TUE 05:45 Farming Today (b013f3b7)
Anna Hill discusses how restaurants can reduce the 600,000 tonnes of food they throw away annually. We meet the 'plum evangelist' arguing that Worcestershire Droopers, Pershore Eggs and other old plum varieties are ripe for rediscovery. Plus, the milk test which can help farmers reduce the amount of methane their cows produce.
Presenter: Anna Hill
Producer: Sarah Swadling.
TUE 06:00 Today (b013f3rx)
Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin Webb, including:
07:40 Evan Davis takes the temperature of the UK's real economy.
08:10 The latest on the battle for Tripoli.
08:20 Spanish film director Pedro Almodovar on his new film.
TUE 09:00 Secret Britain (b013f3rz)
D for Discretion: Can the Modern Media Keep a Secret?
Twice a year, over tea and biscuits at the Ministry of Defence, senior media editors meet senior civil servants to talk about what should be kept secret in the military, intelligence and counter-terrorism worlds. Originally known as the D-Notice Committee, it's been in existence for nearly a century. It started out dominated by newspaper proprietors, now though even Google is a member. In D for Discretion Naomi Grimley asks where does the public's right to know end and the state secret start? And can the media even be trusted to keep such secrets in the internet age?
In the early days the remit of the D-Notice Committee was wide. Newspapers, for example, weren't supposed to make any mention of Rasputin and his relationship with "the highest personage in Russia". Nowadays, though, the system is supposed to be used only in the most serious cases when national security may be at stake.
The "Defence Advisory Notice System" - as it is now called - is supposed to be entirely voluntary. In reality, though, it's very rare for any of the mainstream media organisations to ignore the committee's requests. But how does this work in the age of Wikileaks and citizen journalism? This programme looks at the challenges to the system posed by social media websites. What happens if members of the public try to reveal government secrets on Twitter - in a similar way to this year's row about super-injunctions? And how do newspapers like The Guardian square their Wikileaks collaborations with their own editorial guidelines on national security issues?
Produced by Alicia Trujillo.
TUE 09:30 Head to Head (b013ptf0)
Series 3
Is free will an illusion?
Edward Stourton continues to revisit passionate broadcast debates from the archives - exploring the ideas, the great minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in the present day.
In the third episode, the very notion of free will is up for question - do we have it? B F Skinner was an American behaviourist and one of the most influential psychologists since Sigmund Freud. To confront his quite controversial views on the human condition was an equally brilliant Donald Mackay, who in 1971 when they met on US television, was a British academic at the cutting edge of a new discipline called neuroscience.
Skinner had just published Beyond Freedom and Dignity, where he set out his contentious blueprint for a utopian society. He believed that if human beings were prepared to give up their freedom, which was an illusion anyhow, their behaviour could be controlled in such a way that would solve some of the greatest challenges of our times, such as climate change and crime.
The mass social experiments that Skinner proposed met vehement opposition from Mackay. Is Skinner's bleak determinism, his assumption about our inability to follow our own intentions, just plain wrong? Today, the discussion continues - the latest research on the mind has yielded surprising results. Experiments that measure activity in different regions of the brain have shown that what we feel to be a conscious intention, a thought that is put into action, is in fact sparked by the unconscious part of the brain, which is beyond our knowing control.
In the studio are Angus Gellatly, professor of cognitive psychology at Oxford Brookes University, and Frederick Toates, who is professor of biological psychology at the Open University.
Producer: Dominic Byrne
A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 09:45 Book of the Week (b013n5g7)
Fire Season
Episode 2
Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall.
In April there's little lightning in the Gila wilderness so a fire is unlikely, meanwhile the fire lookout spies the first hummingbird of the season from his tower and learns once more to embrace the solitary nature of his summer job.
Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and black bears.
Read by Kerry Shale
Produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (b013f3s1)
Cook the Perfect Gazpacho; Overweight Babies; Hildegard of Bingen
Presented by Jane Garvey. How to Cook the Perfect gazpacho. Why are some babies overweight at birth? The nun, composer, doctor and mystic Hildegard of Bingen is celebrated at the Proms - Jane discusses who she was and why she is inspiring female composers today. And the latest in our Women in Business series.
TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b013f4q4)
Village SOS
Episode 2
By Val McDermid.
DCI Marion Bettany, played by Helen Baxendale, continues her investigation into Colin Arnott's murder, but the residents of Shilwick are curiously reluctant to help. Colin's plans to turn a deconsecrated chapel into a performing arts centre had ruffled feathers throughout the village, and Bettany wants to know if that's a strong enough motive for murder.
Val McDermid is a multi-award winning crime writer, and creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, which stars Robson Green.
Set in Shilwick, Village SOS is a fictional version of the BBC One series of the same name.
DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale
DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon
Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton
Tilly Francis ..... Rachel Bavidge
Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove
Peter Robson ..... Shaun Prendergast
Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher
www.bbc.co.uk/villagesos.
TUE 11:00 In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity (b013f4q6)
Human Cultural Evolution Versus Genetic Evolution
Human uniqueness takes many forms: we can communicate complex ideas; we have developed technologies, such as medicine and transport; and we change our environment to suit our biology. But how does human culture affect our biology - our genes?
Geneticist and broadcaster Adam Rutherford continues to explore the evolutionary fate of the human race...
Following on from Programme 1 where, Adam discovered that humans are still evolving, but perhaps not as much as we have done in the past. And he learnt that our culture (medicine, technology etc.) certainly does interact with our biology. This week, he explores more how genes and culture interact and asks whether the choice of who we have children with is changing and whether this has an effect? He finds out if the increase in global travel is opening up more options for us to find partners and tries to pin down an answer to the often asked question - are we getting brainier?
Many people think that evolution is always progressive and always for the best. But Steve Jones says that this is a common misconception, where Darwinian evolution gets muddled up with Lamarckism. French biologist, Jean Baptiste de Lamarck saw a pattern in evolution - which he called, 'the Law of Necessary Progress' - that it was built in that things were bound to get better. But evolution by natural selection is not like this - it's just a mechanism that just cranks around... So a future, where we evolve large thumbs for better texting and playing video games and even become more intelligent, isn't all that likely.
A major reason why humans are changing genetically nowadays, is due to the impact of travel and globalisation. Professor Steve Stearns is excited by the prospect of grandchildren from his youngest son who has married a Tanzanian lady - if they have children, "there will be genes meeting, that haven't seen each other for more than a hundred thousand years." This genetic refreshment caused by out-breeding could spell a genetically healthy human future.
Professor Spencer Wells, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and Director of The Genographic Project, is attempting to trace human migrations throughout history - tracking down where individuals have come from - and he is already seeing massive genetic diversity in cities all over the world.
Professor Steve Jones thinks that this is where evolution has actually speeded up and is really active. But he thinks it's speeding up towards a grand averaging out, where, over hundreds of generations of this great mixing, individuals will end up, genetically very fit, but as a species, very homogenous. And we won't know what the consequences of this might be.
Adam attempts to untangle another evolutionary pressure - that of sexual selection. Who we choose as a mate, also has an effect on our evolutionary trajectory. Kevin Laland from St Andrews University thinks that our cultural preferences can be stronger than genetic preferences, which means that sexual selection could become a more important driving force for human evolution in the future.
As to whether we're evolving greater intelligence? No chance says Steven Pinker!
Producer: Fiona Roberts.
TUE 11:30 Hemingway Days (b013f96m)
Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway, who together launched the Red or Dead label, have long been admirers of Robin and Lucienne Day, a husband and wife design team from another era.
Wayne looks back at their impact on post-war Britain and how they emerged from the FOB to spearhead our understanding of modern design.
He talks to colleagues, friends and family about their vision and their drive and explores some of the less well known areas of their personal lives and their creative partnership.
Lucienne was a textile designer. Inspired by abstract art, she pioneered the use of bright, optimistic, abstract patterns.
Robin was a furniture designer best known for his injection moulded polypropylene stacking chair, of which over 20 million have been manufactured.
The Days shared a vision of good, affordable design for all. Together they established themselves as Britain's most celebrated post-war designer couple, often been compared to US contemporaries, Charles Eames and Ray Eames.
But despite their growing fame in the 1950s and 60s they remained uncomfortable with the public attention they received. They shared a passion for nature and spent more and more time outdoors. Lucienne drew much of her inspiration from plants and flowers and Robin was a talented and obsessive mountain climber.
Wayne reflects on the many layers to Robin and Lucienne and, with his wife Gerardine, he draws on their own experiences of working as a husband and wife creative team.
Producer: Sarah Cuddon
A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in August 2011.
TUE 12:00 You and Yours (b013f96p)
Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker.
The lobby against the proposed relaxation of planning rules is gathering strength . The Campaign to Protect Rural England has been accused by the Government of running a "carefully choreographed smear campaign against the reforms". But the CPRE say they are just trying to protect the Green Belt. The last census showed that the total amount of land used in the UK is 9 per cent - that covers everything from housing to roads. So many argue there is plenty of land available. We examine the pros and the cons of the changes to planning policy.
Does the Greenbelt help or hinder life in the countryside?
Is it necessary to stop the countryside being concreted over, or a bar to breathing new life into rural areas?
An opportunity to contribute your views to the programme. Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at
10am).
TUE 12:57 Weather (b013f96r)
The latest weather forecast.
TUE 13:00 World at One (b013f96t)
With Martha Kearney. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
TUE 13:30 Soul Music (b013f96w)
Series 12
Wichita Lineman
Wichita Lineman, the ultimate country/pop crossover track, is the subject of this week's Soul Music.
David Crary is a lineman from Oklahoma. He describes his job - storm-chasing to mend fallen power-lines; travelling on 'dirt roads, gravel roads, paved roads... up in the farmlands of Illinois and Missouri... down south in the Swamplands... it ain't nothing to swerve in the middle of the road in your bucket-truck to miss an alligator '.
He recalls the first time he heard Wichita Lineman, travelling in the back of his family's Station Wagon, listening to the radio... thinking that being a lineman 'must be a cool job' if someone's written a song about it. Also a part-time musician, David has recorded his own version of the song which sums up his working life... on the road, working long hours, away from his wife and six kids.
Wichita Lineman was written by Jimmy Webb for the Country star Glen Campbell. It tells the story of a lonely lineman in the American midwest, travelling vast distances to mend power and telephone lines.
Released in 1968 it's an enduring classic, crossing the boundary between pop and country. It's been covered many times, but it's Glen Campbell's version which remains the best loved and most played.
Johnny Cash also recorded an extraordinary and very raw version. Peter Lewry, a lifelong Cash fan, describes how this recording came about, towards the end of Cash's career.
Meggean Ward's father was a lineman in Rhode Island... her memories of seeing him in green work trousers, a plaid shirt and black boots, wrapping his cracked hands in bandages every morning before setting off to climb telephone poles are interwoven forever with Wichita Lineman... as a child she always felt the song was written for her father, who else?
Glen Campbell also gave an interview for this programme. Shortly after the interview was recorded, Campbell went public about his diagnosis of Alzheimer's. His contribution to the programme is brief, and includes an acoustic performance of the song. It was a real privilege to record this, appropriately enough, down the line.
Producer: Karen Gregor.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
TUE 14:00 The Archers (b013ggrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Monday]
TUE 14:15 Drama (b013f96y)
Higher - Series 3
Rebrand, Relaunch
Higher: Ep 3 Rebrand, Relaunch by Joyce Bryant
To Jim's dismay Roland becomes Vice Chancellor and image consultants 'Harsover Tutt' are brought in to rebrand the university. Jim feels he's being forced out. Will he find an ally in Karen?
Karen.....Sophie Thompson
Jim.........Jonathan Keeble
Roland....Lloyd Peters
Dame Sheila....Brigit Forsyth
Clive.....Malcolm Reaburn
Radio Announcer....Luke Jerdy
Producer Gary Brown
In the subsequent fall out from the University's dealings with a discredited African Dictator, it is decided to rebrand and relaunch the University. The first thing to do is sack the Vice Chancellor and ease Roland Chubb in. This makes Jim's position very tenuous, but Roland determines to get him out. He sneakily offers Karen the Deanship - is this the end of Jim Blunt?
Starring Sophie Thompson and Jonathan Keeble.
TUE 15:00 Making History (b013f970)
A new series of programmes which reflect listener's passion for the past.
This week Dr Vanda Wilcox in Rome comes to the aid of a listener whose research into her grandfather's disappearance in Northern Italy during the First World War has hit a brick wall.
Helen Castor is in Bruges with Dr Caroline Bowden of Queen Mary University of London finding out about an English Convent that was established in 1629 and is still open to this day.
Tom Holland talks to Dr Hazel Mackenzie at the University of Buckingham to find out how they are using so-called crowd-sourcing techniques to research the journals of Charles Dickens and whether this might change historical research in the future.
Finally, Professor Ian Rotherham at Sheffield Hallam University takes reporter Joanna Pinnock up onto the moors near Keighley to explain why he feels that conservation may be destroying cultural heritage.
The programme is presented by Tom Holland.
Producer: Nick Patrick
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 15:30 Comic Fringes (b0144tx2)
Comic Fringes: Series 7
Stairlift Us Up Where We Belong
By Sarah Millican.
Poignant and funny monologue exploring the tricky turning point in a woman's life, when she goes from being thought of as useful to becoming invisible.
A series of brand new short stories written and performed by leading comedians Sarah Millican, Joe Lycett and Bridget Christie.
Recorded live in front of an audience at the BBC's own venue at Potterrow, listeners are invited to take front row seats for 'as live' performances by three of the freshest talents appearing at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
TUE 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill (b013gjx5)
Innovation
The writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah discovers how today's carnival emerged from the wasteland created by the building of a new flyover. For years the Notting Hill Carnival was a festival organised for, and by, the local community. But the construction of the M40 Westway in North Kensington destroyed homes and caused huge disruption that tore into the community spirit. As part of the Westway regeneration project, the Notting Hill Carnival was given encouragement to create something spectacular out of the rubble.
From August Bank Holiday 1973 the Notting Hill Carnival was transformed under its new director Leslie Palmer to include many of the features which are now familiar to us. It was the first year of a carnival route, stalls, full costume bands and several steelbands. It was also the era that saw the introduction of sound systems playing Jamaican reggae. For the first time Carnival reached out beyond the Trinidadian expatriate community and began to accommodate a diverse youth culture from across London.
Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon
A Culture Wise Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth (b013f974)
Counting Word Incidences
Chris Ledgard looks at what counting the incidences of words can tell us - from whether a writer has Alzheimer's, to who really wrote Macbeth and even how to read the mood of the country. With the advent of computers it's possible to find patterns in texts, and to use that information for applications like web translation and anti-plagiarism software. And David Quantick rounds things off with a more human analysis of the most frequently used words in pop music.
Producer Beth O'Dea.
TUE 16:30 Great Lives (b013f976)
Series 25
Eduardo Paolozzi
This week's Great Life, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, hated being tagged as the father of pop art, yet his representations of images from popular culture came almost two decades before Warhol and Lichtenstein. Prolific and generous, his public sculptures populate many cities across the country, yet his name is not as well known as Moore, Hepworth or Gormley. The diversity of the forms that he worked in, and his reluctance to be packaged and promoted by agents, accounts at least partly for that.
Paolozzi's personal story is no less complicated. Born in Edinburgh to Italian parents that sent him back to Fascist summer camp in Italy every year, all the men in his family, including the young Eduardo were interned when Mussolini declares war in 1940. Eduardo spent three months prison, but his father and grandfather met a far worse fate.
Joining Matthew in the studio are two close friends of Paolozzi's. Nominating him is the restaurateur Antonio Carluccio, who remembers dining and cooking with Paolozzi, and marvelling at how his 'fatty sausage' fingers could produce artwork of such intricacy. Cultural historian, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling who taught with Paolozzi for many years also has many anecdotes to tell, and he and Matthew agree to differ on their appraisal of one of Paolozzi's most well known works; the mosaics at Tottenham Court Road tube station.
Produced by: Sarah Langan.
TUE 17:00 PM (b013f978)
Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including Weather.
TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b013f97b)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective (b013n71d)
The C.U. Jimmy Hat
Richard Herring reclaims a contentious object. For this Edinburgh Special, Richard is reclaiming the C.U. Jimmy hat. A hat and ginger hair combo, widely available in tourist shops throughout Scotland. He looks at Scottish identity with the help of Scottish comedienne Susan Calman, and looks at the Celtic roots of red hair and asks why ginger hair bullying is acceptable.
Written and performed by Richard Herring, starring Emma Kennedy, Susan Calman and guests.
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani.
TUE 19:00 The Archers (b013ggsr)
Pat's been looking at the cashflow forecast, and is worried about the mortgage payments. Tony tries to assure her that things might improve, but Pat's not convinced about the new markets which Tom is aiming at.
Later, there's good and bad news. Environmental Health have decided not to prosecute (they'll inspect the farm every six months) but Underwoods has charged £10,000 for emergency product withdrawal, which the insurance doesn't cover.
Peggy admits to Elona that she's struggled around the house lately, and offers Elona two days work a week at The Lodge. Even with this, Elona knows she couldn't afford to rent the house Lilian's company owns, so she turns down Peggy's offer. Peggy even offers to pay the house deposit but Elona won't accept.
Eddie's worried about Clarrie, and she's worried about how hard Eddie is working. Clarrie rings Eddie to tell him she's received a letter from Environmental Health but she can't work out what it means. Eddie shows the letter to David, who confirms that it's 99.9% certain the E coli outbreak was caused by Clarrie. Clarrie's convinced she'll never get a job anywhere now.
TUE 19:15 Front Row (b013f9cx)
Bill Nighy, and Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
With Mark Lawson.
Actor Bill Nighy looks back over his career including Love Actually, and in particular his latest role as a spy working for the British government in David Hare's new TV thriller Page Eight.
Pedro Almodóvar's new film The Skin I Live In is the story of an inventive plastic surgeon who creates an indestructible synthetic skin. Sarah Churchwell reviews.
And bestselling Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø, whose highly-acclaimed novels feature Detective Harry Hole, discusses his latest book Headhunters, and how as a crime writer he views the recent tragic events in Norway.
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b013f4q4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
TUE 20:00 Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks (b013xsm1)
Patients with high grade brain tumours can expect to survive for little more than one more year, and that's with the best available surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. There's only one, very expensive drug available that can penetrate into the brain and attack the most aggressive tumours there, and nothing new on the horizon. For these patients, the outlook is as bleak as it can get. But ten years ago, researchers discovered that the out-of-fashion antidepressant drug clomipramine has apparently remarkable anti-tumour properties. What's more the treatment costs pennies, not hundreds or thousands of pounds. Yet these scientists have struggled to find anyone to back their research. And many patients are being given the drug without the scientific proof it is really helping them. Why is such a promising treatment going to waste? Gerry Northam investigates.
TUE 20:40 In Touch (b013f9d1)
Concessionary Bus Travel; Liz Cooke's Parachute Jump. 23/08/2011
John Welsman, transport policy officer for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Asssociation, explains the charity's concerns about the future of concessionary bus services, following government cuts. Listeners offer their suggestions to journalist Maggie Rosen to help her get the equipment she needs to help her continue working now that she's losing her sight. And ahead of our 50th Anniversary we delve into the programme's archive with reporter Liz Cooke, who relives her 1993 parachute jump.
Presenter Peter White
Producer Cheryl Gabriel.
TUE 21:00 The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life (b013f9d3)
Episode 2
The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life
Part 2: Infancy
Imagine if your health as an adult is partly determined by the nutrition and environment you were exposed to in the first 1000days of life. Or even further back; that the lifestyle of your grandparents during their children's first 1000 days, has programmed your adult health. A strong body of scientific evidence supports this explosive idea, and is gradually turning medical thinking on its head. To understand the cause of chronic adult disease, including ageing, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, obesity and lung problems we need to look much further back than adult lifestyle - but to the first 1000 days.
In this groundbreaking three part series Dr Mark Porter talks to the scientists who now believe that this 'lifecourse' approach, will find the cause of many adult diseases. "Chronic disease is going up in leaps and bounds, this is not a genetic change" says Kent Thornburg, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine in Oregon, America "it's because the environment in the womb is getting worse. We know now that the first 1000 days of life is the most sensitive period for determining lifelong health'.
But it's not just down to mothers or grandmothers, there is growing evidence that diet and lifestyle along the paternal line matters too. 'You are what your dad ate,' argues Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith of Cambridge University.
"Growth has a pattern," continues Alan Jackson, Professor of Nutrition at Southampton University "everything has a time and a place and if that gets interrupted then you can catch up, but there are consequences".
So where does that leave us as adults? Good diet and lifestyle is very important, but scientists know that some individuals are more vulnerable to disease than others, and that's not just down to genetics. "All diseases may be expressions of key developments in the womb" explains Professor David Barker, "That does not mean you are doomed, it means you are vulnerable. Understanding that challenges the way medicine is structured".
Mark Porter sets out to investigate his own birth history and meets families to debate these overwhelming ideas. He talks to world leading scientists about how this approach to adult disease can help make us healthier and learns top tips for the first 1000 days.
TUE 21:30 Secret Britain (b013f3rz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
TUE 21:58 Weather (b013f9dk)
The latest weather forecast.
TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (b013f9zx)
In Tripoli, hundreds of rebels have fought their way into the compound of Colonel Gaddafi.
We'll have the latest from the Libyan capital. We talk to the Ambassador in Washington, and hear how families living through the war have been coping.
Plus, what can Scotland's Childen's Panels teach us about dealing with young offenders?
All that and more with Ritula Shah on The World Tonight.
TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b013m7cp)
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Episode 2
Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed.
On the forty-first floor of Samson and Underwood's New York offices Changez feels on top of the world.
Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other places including New York and London.
Abridged by Lisa Osborne
Producer: Lisa Osborne
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 23:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b013fb8y)
Stephen K Amos hosts a selection of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's best stand-up comedians to present an Idiot's Guide to "Holidays and Getting Away".
With guest stand-up from:
Susan Calman - On Scottish family holidays
W. Kamau Bell - On being an American visiting the UK
Tim FitzHigham - On always reading the instructions when travelling abroad
Simon Munnery - On the philosophy of getting away
and
Josie Long - On getting away from the Edinburgh Fringe (by imagining that she's an otter)
Recorded at The BBC@Potterrow at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2011.
Producer: Colin Anderson.
TUE 23:30 Agatha Christie (b00qcjl3)
Towards Zero
Episode 4
Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective novel.
Now Nevile is in the clear, suspicion has turned on Audrey for the murder of Lady Tresselian. But no-one can find her, and MacWhirter is convinced she's innocent.
Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville
MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion
Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook
Mary ...... Julia Ford
Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska
Kay ...... Lizzy Watts
Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox
Royde ...... Stephen Hogan
Sergeant ...... Matt Addis
Directed by Mary Peate.
WEDNESDAY 24 AUGUST 2011
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b013fbf4)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Book of the Week (b013n5g7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b013fcz6)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b013fcz8)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b013fczb)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b013fczd)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b013fczg)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Andrew Martlew.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b013fczj)
Alpacas and llamas could be saved from catching tuberculosis as a new test is developed. Currently the animals take the same test as cattle, which can be unreliable. Now farmers are putting their own money in to fund research into a better TB test for the animals. Gina Bromege, a vet who specialises in alpacas, says that there is a pressing need for a new testing system.
Pink salmon has swum its way into the River Tweed, causing concern that the non-native species could harm the biodiversity. Nigel Yonge from the Tweed Foundation says that if the animal were to breed here there would be huge ramifications for the Scottish Salmon industry.
And Anna Hill harvests mint in Norfolk, without crushing it, which will make its way into mint sauce.
Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill.
WED 06:00 Today (b013fczl)
Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Evan Davis, including:
07:50 Has the cheque been granted a reprieve?
08:10 The latest on the battle for Libya.
08:20 How many species are there in the natural world?
WED 09:00 Keynes Vs. Hayek (b012wxyg)
What caused the financial mess we're in? And how do we get out of it? Two of the great economic thinkers of the 20th century had sharply contrasting views: John Maynard Keynes believed that government spending could create employment and longer term growth. His contemporary and rival Friedrich Hayek believed that investments have to be based on real savings rather than increased public spending or artificially low interest rates. Keynes's biographer, Professor Lord Skidelsky, will take on modern day followers of Hayek in a debate at the London School of Economics. Paul Mason, economics editor of Newsnight, is in the chair.
Speakers:
Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick and author of a three-volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes.
George Selgin, Professor of Economics at The Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. Prof Selgin is one of the founders of the Modern Free Banking School, which draws its inspiration from the writings of Hayek.
Duncan Weldon, a former Bank of England economist, works as an economics adviser to an international trade union federation. He has a long standing interest in and admiration for Keynes but also a respect for Hayek. He blogs at Duncan's Economic Blog.
Jamie Whyte, Head of Research and Publications at Oliver Wyman, a strategy consulting firm specialising in the financial services industry. In February 2011 he presented an edition of Radio 4's Analysis series in which he looked at the revival of interest in the economic theories of Hayek.
The debate was recorded before an audience on 26th July at the LSE.
The event has the hashtag #lsehvk.
WED 09:45 Book of the Week (b013n5hj)
Fire Season
Episode 3
Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall.
Near the end of April, with the snow melted, the mule packers arrive with supplies and ask the fire lookout if he ever gets lonely or sad in his wilderness lookout but he's not about to confide the near mystical feelings he experiences to two guys in leather chaps and cowboy hats.
Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and black bears.
Read by Kerry Shale
Produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b013fj13)
Women in Libya; Tammy Weis; Why We Talk Differently
Presented by Jenni Murray. As Anne Hathaway's new film One Day opens, can a beautiful woman play a plain one? Women in Libya. Why men and women talk differently. And Canadian jazz singer, Tammy Weis, performs live in the studio.
WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b013fj15)
Village SOS
Episode 3
By Val McDermid.
On the hunt for Colin Arnott's murderer, DCI Marion Bettany (Helen Baxendale) turns her attention to the village post office, run by terse sub-postmistress Angela Bryman. And Angela's not the only villager who resented Colin's project to turn a deconsecrated chapel into a performing arts centre.
Val McDermid is a multi-award winning crime writer, and creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, which stars Robson Green.
Set in Shilwick, Village SOS is a fictional version of the BBC One series of the same name.
DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale
DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon
Angela Bryman ..... Lynn Fairbairn
Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton
Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland
Tilly Francis ..... Rachel Bavidge
Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove
Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher
www.bbc.co.uk/villagesos.
WED 11:00 In Living Memory (b013fj17)
Series 14
Episode 4
In 1974 an provincial orchestra sold out the Albert Hall. But this was no ordinary band - it was the Portsmouth Sinfonia, billed as the "world's worst orchestra". In its ranks were some distinguished musicians, including Brian Eno, Michael Nyman and the composer Gavin Bryars. But under the rules of the orchestra they had to play an instrument they were unfamiliar with. Alongside them were amateurs with no musical ability whatsoever. The conductor knew nothing of conducting but had studied pictures of Herbert von Karajan.
The Portsmouth Sinfonia played light classics and rock arrangements, and the familiar tunes were just discernable through the miasma of wrong notes and unforced errors. It enraged some in the musical establishment who felt they were murdering good music, but got huge national attention, appearing regularly on TV programmes and in the newspapers, thanks in part to the fact that the orchestra signed a deal with a record company with a flair for publicity. Brian Eno was the producer of its first records.
The orchestra had been founded by Gavin Bryars while he was a lecturer at the Portsmouth College of Art, and most of the original members were art students. So was it all an art school prank? By no means, say former members. It was an important contribution to the experimental music scene. Michael Nyman says it was hugely influential on his own work. Some people have claimed that the orchestra was a precursor of the punk movement. Others say that's nonsense.
The orchestra never formally disbanded but stopped live performances in 1979. Portsmouth Sinfonia's recordings have never been re-released on CD and the vinyl recordings are collectors' items. In this programme Jolyon Jenkins talks to key former members of the orchestra, gives listeners the chance to savour those classic recordings, and tries to work out whether the Portsmouth Sinfonia had any artistic merit whatsoever.
WED 11:30 Paul Temple (b013fj19)
A Case for Paul Temple
1. In Which Paul Temple Hears About Valentine
Ten apparent suicides in one single week and all of them drug addicts.
Scotland Yard is desperate for Temple's help.
In this 2011 recreation of the 1946 vintage crime serial, Crawford Logan stars as Paul Temple and Gerda Stevenson as Steve.
Between 1938 and 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave amateur detective Paul Temple and glamorous wife Steve solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated, well-heeled world of cocktails and fast cars.
Sadly, only half of their adventures survive in the archives. But in 2006, the BBC began recreating them using original scripts and incidental music, and recorded with vintage microphones and sound effects.
Paul Temple ...... Crawford Logan
Steve ...... Gerda Stevenson
Sir Graham ...... Gareth Thomas
Major Peters ...... Greg Powrie
Supt. Wetherby ...... Richard Greenwood
Sheila Baxter ...... Melody Grove
Snooker Riley ...... Jimmy Chisholm
Charles Kelvin ...... Nick Underwood
Joy ...... Lucy Patterson
Producer: Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011.
WED 12:00 You and Yours (b013fj1c)
With almost 2.5m unemployed why are some businesses complaining they just can't find the staff? Julian Worricker speaks to some of those in the hospitality business.
We have the latest on the High Street Fund, launched today, to help businesses affected by the riots in England.
John Waite speaks to the company placing adverts for psychic readers in the Jobcentre Plus.
And, why one company is paying reality TV stars not to wear their clothes.
The producer is Joe Kent.
WED 12:57 Weather (b013fj1h)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b013fj1k)
With Martha Kearney. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
WED 13:30 The Media Show (b013fj1m)
Covering Events in Libya
All eyes were on Libya this week as rebels entered Tripoli and battled Colonel Gaddafi's loyalist soldiers. Sky's correspondent Alex Crawford broadcast extraordinary scenes as she rode into Tripoli on the back of a rebel convoy, sending her report using a satellite and laptop plugged into the truck's cigarette lighter.
But which news organisations have provided the best analysis and how well informed can viewers really be about the rapidly changing events?
Sky News's Head of International News Sarah Whitehead and the BBC's World News Editor Jon Williams explain the challenges involved. Professor Tim Luckhurst, who has been watching coverage of Libya as the situation unfolds, discusses how well audiences are served by print, radio and rolling TV news.
Channel 4's International Editor Lindsey Hilsum, who is currently reporting from Tripoli, discusses how this conflict differs from those she has covered in the past and Marie Colvin of the Sunday Times, who is also in Libya, explains how newspaper reporters can delve further into a story by being less conspicuous than TV crews in dangerous territory.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b013ggsr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b00z62b1)
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is an elegy to the young gap-year student who was attacked in Stubbeylee Park, Bacup, Lancashire. She later died on August 24th 2007. This is an elegy to mark the anniversary of her death, four years later. Aged twenty, Sophie suffered fatal injuries while cradling her boyfriend Rob's head in an attempt to protect him from a ferocious attack by a group of youths. Rob survived but Sophie went into a coma and never recovered.
Sophie was an intelligent bookish child who showed signs of wanting to be different from an early age. Political, vegetarian, a pacifist, Sophie had left school with A levels and was thinking about what to do with her future when it was taken so brutally from her.
Sophie and Rob dressed in a unique way, expressing their individuality as creative artistic people through goth-style clothes, piercings and make-up, which provoked the fatal attack in the early hours of that Saturday morning. Sophie had been dating Rob Maltby, a 21-year-old art student for three years.
I didn't do sport.
I didn't do meat.
Don't ask me to wear that dress:
I shan't.
Why ask me to toe the line,
I can't.
I was slight or small
but never petite,
and nobody's fool;
no Barbie doll;
no girlie girl.
I was lean and sharp,
not an ounce of fat
on my thoughts or my limbs.
In my difficult teens
I was strange, I was odd,
- aren't we all -
there was something different down at the core.
Boy bands and pop tarts left me cold,
let's say
that I marched to the beat
of a different drum,
sang another tune,
wandered at will
through the market stalls
humming protest songs.
I wore studded dog leads
around my wrist,
and was pleased as punch
in the pit, at the gig,
to be singled out
by a shooting star
of saliva from Marilyn Manson's lips.
But for all that stuff
in many ways an old fashioned soul,
quite at home
in my own front room,
on my own settee.
I read, I wrote,
I painted, I drew.
Where it came from
no one knows
but it flowed. It flowed.
Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is a drama documentary in which Sophie tells her own story through a series of poignant poems written by the award-winning poet Simon Armitage alongside her mother, Sylvia Lancaster remembering her daughter's shortened life.
Black Roses : The Killing of Sophie Lancaster written by Simon Armitage with an interview with Sylvia Lancaster
Cast :
SOPHIE ...........Rachel Austin
Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts.
WED 15:00 Money Box (b013f6qg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:00 on Saturday]
WED 15:30 Comic Fringes (b0144v1t)
Comic Fringes: Series 7
Spooky and the Van
By Joe Lycett.
Seventeen year old Julian is writing a blog. He's currently experiencing the weird limbo that lies between finishing school and starting university. As well as musing upon how his life might change, Julian's neighbour, nicknamed Spooky, is providing plenty of writing material and mystery...
Part of a series of short stories written and performed by comedians; recorded in front of an audience at the BBC's own venue at Potterrow, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2011.
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.
WED 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill (b013gjxk)
Carnival Clash
The Notting Hill Carnival is one of the world's biggest carnivals, a showcase for multicultural celebrations. But the event often makes the news for all the wrong reasons. Kwame goes behind the headlines to explore the complex relationship between the Notting Hill Carnival community and the Metropolitan Police.
From 1973 the Notting Hill Carnival was attracting crowds of a scale rarely seen on the streets of Europe and by 1975 organised gangs of pickpockets were working those crowds. In reaction to such burgeoning criminality, thousands of police officers were placed on duty in the carnival the following year. Large scale policing has characterized the event ever since. There was a major riot in 1976 and there have been occasional clashes since but it's clear that the police are now as much a part of the event as the costume procession.
Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon
A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b013fj1p)
Home Life 1: Multi-Generational Household
Thinking Allowed explores the changing nature of home in a 3 part summer series recorded in the homes of our listeners. Who do we live with, how do our homes operate and what do they say about us and about the dramatic social transformations of the last century and the century to come? By invitation, in each edition a new type of home is invaded, analysed and explained by Laurie Taylor and a panel of two sociologists round the kitchen table.
Much political debate still revolves around the assumption that most of us live in conventional family homes. However research suggests that in 20 years time only 2 out of 5 people will be in marriages and married couples will be outnumbered by other types of household. Behind closed doors, Britain is changing: Single living has increased by 30% in 10 years but at the same time financial pressures are fuelling a growth in extended families - people sharing bills, childcare and mucking-in in a way which makes private life far less private.
After generous invitations from Thinking Allowed listeners, Laurie Taylor visits three. In this edition he visits a big multi-generational family in Bristol accompanied by the sociologists Rachel Thomson and Esther Dermot. They attempt to divine the future for Britain's private life.
Producer: Charlie Taylor.
WED 16:30 The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life (b013f9d3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 17:00 PM (b013fj1r)
Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including Weather.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b013fj1t)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 18:30 Great Unanswered Questions (b013fj1w)
Edinburgh Special
Comedy talk show recorded at last year's Edinburgh Festival. Northern Irish comedian Colin Murphy and team are joined by special guest Andrew Maxwell. Resident font of knowledge Dr David Booth attempts to answer the questions presented by the audience and as the others debate and discuss, computer buff Matthew Collins trawls the internet to find content which will enhance the humour and knowledge.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b013ggtq)
Emma asks Nic to keep Mia (who has a cold) away from Keira, and makes an insensitive comment about breastfeeding. Nic tells Will about her attitude. He wants to talk to Emma but Nic assures him she can handle it.
Nic wants Will to take another day off work so they can go out with Jake and Mia again before school starts. She is full of enthusiasm and suggests booking tickets for her and Will to go to a gig. Clarrie arrives and Nic and Will suggest she tries for a job at Lower Loxley
Jill is helping Elizabeth pack for her trip to Cornwall next week with the twins. Elizabeth's excited about it being just her and the children for a week. Elizabeth is also looking forward to being able to drive again in a few weeks. Jennifer pops in to say hello. Clarrie turns up to ask for work but loses her nerve and pretends she came to look for Mia's cardigan.
The only bit of good news for Clarrie is that Susan rang to say Pat's not being prosecuted. Will suggests it might not be too long till she can take Clarrie back on at the dairy.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b013fj1y)
Novelist Sapphire and Singer Jacqui Dankworth
With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the novelist Sapphire, whose book Push, about an obese, abused African-American schoolgirl, was adapted into the award-winning film Precious. The sequel, The Kid, follows the travails of her child after Precious has died of AIDS, as history begins to repeat itself.
Singer Jacqui Dankworth, discusses her new album, which includes arrangements by her late father, saxophonist and jazz musician Sir John Dankworth.
A new exhibition, Locked Room Scenario by the artist Ryan Gander, takes the visitor on a disconcerting journey. Arriving at a canal-side warehouse, the building is open but the group show featuring a number of artists appears to be closed. The writer Stella Duffy dons her detective's hat to try to work out the mystery.
Producer Claire Bartleet.
WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b013fj15)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
WED 20:00 Black Roses Debate (b013n5j5)
Matthew Taylor chairs an audience debate on the issues raised by today's Radio 4 drama 'Black Roses' about the murder, four years ago, of 20-year-old 'goth' Sophie Lancaster. How should 'hate crime' be defined - and what can we do to stop it? The panel includes Sophie's mother, Mrs Sylvia Lancaster, and will involve members of the invited studio audience.
Was the killing of Sophie an exceptional crime or was it typical of a wider problem of unprovoked attacks on strangers?
If 'hate crimes'- ranging from verbal abuse to murder - are commonplace, is the situation worse or better than it was a generation or two generations back? How has the authorities' response to these crimes changed during that time?
'Hate-crime' in the UK currently includes offences motivated by prejudice about the victim's race, religion, sexuality or disability. Sylvia Lancaster is campaigning to extend the definition of 'hate crime' to include offences motivated by 'hatred of sub-cultural groups'. But how could these be defined? Were the authorities hampered by legal constraints in their attempts to deal appropriately with what happened in Sophie's case? Would changes in the law be useful in future similar cases?
Is there anything to be gained from trying to understand the mental processes that lead to such crimes? Can anything be done to reform such criminals either before or after they've offended?
Would harsher sentences act as a deterrent to hate-criminals or would they make no difference?
Are there no-go areas in our towns and cities? Times of night when it's unwise to walk in the park or down a particular street? Places where it's unwise to be obviously different? If so, should we accept it as 'the way it is'? Contributory negligence on the part of the victim?
Producer: Peter Everett.
WED 20:45 Four Thought (b013fj20)
Series 2
Andrew Robinson: What Can We Learn from Geniuses?
The writer Andrew Robinson has studied the lives of scores of geniuses and written about them, most recently in his new book, 'Genius, a Very Short Introduction'.
Since time immemorial humanity has been fascinated by genius and geniuses - those extraordinary men and women whose abilities mark them out from the rest of us.
Are geniuses born not made? Or do they have habits and skills which the rest of use can learn from? Andrew poses the question: What can we learn from geniuses?
Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought provoking ideas and engaging storytelling.
Recorded live in front of an audience at the Edinburgh International Festival, speakers take to the stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and society.
Producer: David Stenhouse.
WED 21:00 An Unhealthy Wait (b013fj22)
On average it takes 17 years between the time a medical discovery is made and the time that it's put into wide use. Why does it take so long? Some of the reasons include regulatory requirements, established practices, professional jealousy and a fear of failure. The programme explores these barriers but also the way that patient advocacy groups and even the Department of Health are now overturning them in order to bring research more quickly to the people who need it most.
Vivienne Parry talks to eminent surgeon Professor Lord Ara Darzi about his passion for innovation - and how it can sometimes go too far, creating must-have operations that aren't necessarily the best treatment for the individual patient. She hears from consultant orthopaedic surgeon Andy Goldberg, the Founder of the Medical Futures Innovation Awards Ltd, who has raised several million to fund Europe's largest showcase of early stage innovation in healthcare.
The Director of the Wellcome Trust, Professor Mark Walport, meets Vivienne at the building site of the Francis Crick Centre for Innovation - where it's hoped tomorrow's innovators will be nurtured and supported. We hear from one innovator who has produced new hoist and bed designs. He believes to overcome the barriers in the way of your products being adopted you should start by asking hospital staff what they would like to use and taking their comments on board.
WED 21:30 It's My Story (b0128hsj)
Letting Go of James
"I've driven home from work in tears many times recently, because I just don't want to let go", says Jane, James mother at the start of Letting Go of James. But the truth is that the family isn't coping with him living at home. He is 16, severely autistic, does not speak and can attack other members of the family.
He has been offered a place in full time residential care, and the family is now going through the process of transition. James three brothers take part in several visits to the school and Charles, James' father, comments on the irony that the family is spending more times with James just as they are about to say goodbye.
Before the final goodbye they have a last family holiday, which despite some magical moments, underlies the fact that James needs to go.
On the final evening tensions are running higher than normal as his parents prepare James for bed, but there is a real moment of revelation when they all do finally say goodbye, as the youngest sibling touches James for the first time, and with time the boys begin to experience a new side of James.
The process of adjusting continues for the family who do not say that they are 'happier'. They all miss James more than expected, although they can enjoy doing more together, relax a bit more and are relieved it has happened.
James has a number of successful visits home - although just where home is becomes a heartbreaking issue in the programme.
At Christmas he pulls his first ever cracker, but New Year leads Jane to reflect on her ongoing fears for her son. The initial honeymoon period does pass and Jane and Charles admit there are no fairytale endings. Letting Go of James ends with the recognition - from the whole family - that life will never be easy for James and that there will always be difficult choices.
Producers: Anna Scott-Brown & Adam Fowler
A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 21:58 Weather (b013fj24)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b013fj26)
As the Libyan rebels consolidate their positions we look at how the country will rebuild politically and economically.
The El Nino weather system doubles the risk of civil wars in certain countries -the researcher behind this claim tells us why.
WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b013mzrl)
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Episode 3
Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed.
Changez relationship with Erica deepens.
Abridged by Lisa Osborne
Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other places including New York and London.
Producer: Lisa Osborne
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:00 Verse Illustrated (b013fj5t)
A Valentine at Waterloo; A Hell of a Week
In the third of a series of illustrated poems, spoken word artists Salena Godden and Scroobius Pip tell two very different stories.
'A Valentine at Waterloo' written and performed by Salena Godden
A post-apocalyptic vision of our sexual future: "They have real flying femen, ladybirds and buttflies, cock-a-tails and flick beans, hermaids and mermaids, 8-breasted gooligans, whippers, flippers and strippers to-go-go..."
'A Hell of a Week' written and performed by Scroobius Pip
This should be 'one of the biggest solo spoken word shows ever to be recorded', exclusively for Radio 4. But where exactly is Scroobius Pip...?
Actors ..... Carl Prekopp, Peter Polycarpou and Jonathan Forbes.
Directed by James Robinson.
WED 23:15 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard (b00y8yk1)
Series 2
The Dating Wizard
Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon.
This week Mordrin decides to join a Wizard dating website after the being convinced by Bernard the Blue, but fails to read the full terms and conditions.
Cast:
Mordrin ..... David Kay
Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty
Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy
Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson
Molly ..... Fiona Morrison
Duchess of Bedlam ..... Susan Calman
Producer/ Director ..... Gus Beattie
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 23:30 The Marx Brothers in Britain (b00sp198)
Author and historian Glenn Mitchell profiles the fascinating visits to Britain of legendary comedy team The Marx Brothers.
The Marx Brothers; Groucho, Harpo, Chico and (for a while) Zeppo, inspired a generation of comedians, not least in Britain via The Goon Show and, by extension, Monty Python's Flying Circus. Although Britons knew the Marxes essentially from their American films, they worked in the UK on several remarkable occasions, the first of which pre-dates their movie career.
Featuring actor Michael Roberts, famous for playing Groucho on the UK radio series Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel and using archive and new contributions from people that met and worked with them this programme recreates and explores the eventful visits of the brothers.
Beginning with their first in 1922, with an ensemble that included future 'boop-oop-a-doop' girl Helen Kane, the opening night at the London Coliseum saw them the target of flying pennies. With the act not working they reverted to an earlier sketch, moving to the Alhambra for the third week prior to appearances in Bristol and Manchester where elsewhere on the bill was a young Sandy Powell.
By the time of their next visit, in 1931, the Marxes had gone from vaudeville to being the biggest attraction in Broadway musical-comedy. Two of their shows had been filmed - The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers - and had done sufficient business in the UK for impresario C.B. Cochran to invite them to star at the Palace, London.
Audiences were thrilled and the Marxes enjoyed their second stay in London, even when Harpo and Chico, drawn into a protracted card game in an unheated flat, found themselves burning the furniture to keep warm! The journey back saw Groucho and family strip-searched at US Customs when Groucho put down his occupation as 'smuggler'.
In 1947, Chico accepted a solo engagement at the London Casino. He returned to Britain in January 1949 for an extensive variety tour, joined briefly by Harpo for a four-week engagement at the London Palladium in June. In a dockside interview - to be heard in the programme - Chico is asked about the Italian accent he used when in character and claims that, after seeing what they'd done to Mussolini, he'd become Greek!
Chico's final UK visit was in 1959 for two BBC appearances, one of which, Showtime hosted by David Nixon.
There will also be interview material from Groucho's various trips to Great Britain between 1954 and 1971. Some of his activities were professional - such as a British TV version of his quiz show You Bet Your Life - while others were purely social, notably his celebrated meeting with T.S. Eliot.
Contributors include actor Ron Moody, Theatre historian Chris Woodward and Marxist fan Peter Dixon.
THURSDAY 25 AUGUST 2011
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b013flcr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b013n5hj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b013flct)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b013flcy)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b013fld0)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b013fld6)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b013fldb)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Andrew Martlew.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b013fldg)
Natural England - the body that would issue licences to farmers to cull badgers in England raise questions over whether the Government's projected results would be realised. DEFRA says the culling could bring up to a 16% reduction in new cases of bovine TB but Natural England says the way the cull is planned is different from the trials on which the figures are based. It also wants a cap on the size of the cull areas.
Plum farmers in Kent says they've had a bumper crop but supermarkets won't buy the extras because of cheaper supplies from abroad. Some say they'll leave them to rot on the trees.
And as the hospitality industry is blamed for causing 700,000 tonnes of food waste a year Farming Today looks at what restaurants are doing to reduce waste and asks whether portion sizes should be reduced.
Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.
THU 06:00 Today (b013fldl)
With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 The House I Grew Up In (b013fldn)
Series 5
Toby Young
Writer and journalist Toby Young returns to his childhood in North London. The son of Lord Young of Dartington, a towering figure in post-war social policy making and the originator of many of this country's institutions, Toby remembers his father being a formidable over-achiever and workaholic. His mother, the artist and writer, Sasha Mooram gave up a career at the BBC to look after Toby and his sister full time, something the children remember as being very difficult for their mother.
Toby's father, who believed in comprehensive education, sent his son to two comprehensive schools. After leaving school at 16 with only one O level and on the insistence of his mother that he get a trade, he attended a work experience programme where he trained as a car mechanic, washer upper and a lavatory cleaner. But he decided the work of a manual worker was not for him. He was persuaded by his parents to go back to school and attended the sixth form at William Ellis Grammar school in London gaining 3 A levels. And it is the traditional education he experienced here, its discipline and high expectations, that Toby wants to provide in the new free school he is opening next month in West London. It is something he believes his father would be proud of.
In the House I Grew Up In, Toby Young takes Wendy Robbins back to the home and haunts of his childhood.
THU 09:30 The Tribes of Science (b013flds)
More Tribes of Science
Antarctic Scientists
Peter Curran puts scientists at the British Antarctic Survey under his anthropological lens. What are the passions and survival strategies of this ice-bound tribe?
Peter meets the geologists who live in two-man tents for months in the Antarctic ice fields, hundreds of miles from nearest people. He also talks to a polar marine biologist about how she copes with months apart from her 3 year old son.
Peter hears about the thrills, sights and sounds of diving under the sea ice, and glaciologist Rob Mulvaney reveals the nightlife to be had on the frozen continent, under the snow.
THU 09:45 Book of the Week (b013n5jn)
Fire Season
Episode 4
Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall.
May is relentless with wind, the fire lookout's tower vibrates, guy wires scream and the distant hills are swallowed in dust. As he spots a cloud rise from the hills his eye is drawn to the contours but he decides the spiral is just dust, it's colour and movement don't jibe with smoke. He quits his post early and finds a spot of early evening peace by a mountain pond.
Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and black bears.
Read by Kerry Shale
Produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b013fldx)
Miriam O'Reilly, Heather Brooke, Constance Briscoe, Jamelia.
Miriam O'Reilly and Ann Leslie talk to Jenni Murray about ageism in the public eye. Heather Brooke, the journalist who led the MPs expenses expose. The barrister Constance Briscoe on writing a thriller. And Jamelia discusses the stigma of being a single mum.
THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b013flf3)
Village SOS
Episode 4
By Val McDermid.
Today's episode of Village SOS takes us to Shilwick's beach house workshops, where DCI Bettany and her sidekick DS Hodgson interview even more villagers with a grudge against murder victim Colin Arnott, his grieving widow Kai Ling, and their plans to turn a disused chapel into a performing arts centre.
Val McDermid is a multi-award winning crime writer, and creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, which stars Robson Green.
Set in a sleepy Northumbrian community, Village SOS is a fictional version of the BBC One series of the same name.
DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale
DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon
Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton
Bob Brandison ..... Bill Fellows
Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland
Marcus Francis ..... Adrian Grove
Peter Robson ..... Shaun Prendergast
Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher
www.bbc.co.uk/villagesos.
THU 11:00 Crossing Continents (b013flf5)
The Mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi
On the 18th of February 2011 a Palestinian engineer by the name of Dirar Abu Sisi boarded a train in eastern Ukraine. He was travelling to Kiev, where he hoped to apply for Ukrainian citizenship. But when the train arrived at its destination the following morning, Mr Abu Sisi was no longer on board. He had vanished.
For more than a week, nothing was heard from Mr Abu Sisi, a manager at Gaza's main power plant. Then his wife got a phone call: her husband was in an Israeli jail. Now he is awaiting trial, accused of being the brains behind Hamas' rocket programme.
Only twice in the country's history has Israel abducted someone on foreign soil to bring them back to face trial at home. Adolf Eichmann, one of the principal organizers of the Holocaust, was kidnapped in Argentina in 1960, and subsequently tried and executed. In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu was drugged and smuggled out of Italy after revealing the existence of Israel's nuclear programme.
So who is Dirar Abu Sisi? Did he really study rocket science at a Ukrainian military academy, as the Israeli indictment claims? Is he a senior Hamas operative? Or is he an innocent victim of mistaken identity? What role if any did the Ukrainian authorities play in his disappearance from that train?
In this edition of Crossing Continents, Gabriel Gatehouse unravels the mystery of Dirar Abu Sisi, tracking his journey across Ukraine and beyond, to Israel and Gaza. It's a story that involves the secret services of at least two nations, and goes to the very heart of the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Producer: Smita Patel.
THU 11:30 The Little Black Fish That Created Big Waves (b013flf9)
Journalist Negar Esfandiary looks inside the covers of one of her favourite childhood books from Iran and discovers that the delightful tale of a little fish that leaves its little pond to swim to the sea is actually a powerful political allegory - one which caused major ripples which still reverberate to this day.
The story was written in 1967 by a school teacher called Samad Behrangi from the Azeri community in northern Iran and was strikingly illustrated by Farshid Mesghali (who won the Hans Christian Andersen award for it in 1974). It tells of a little black fish who defies the rules of her community to leave her pond in order to discover what lies beyond. As she travels along the river encountering other creatures, she learns many things and faces down her fears. As she reaches the sea she performs one final heroic act and experiences the euphoria of freedom, before meeting an untimely death. Samad Behrangi drowned in 1968 aged only 29; some believed his death to be a murder by the secret services but those close to him say it was just a tragic accident. The book became a huge success and has inspired generations of political activists. The story was quoted by Kurdish teacher Farzad Kamangar on the eve of his execution last year.
Hedayollah Soltanzadeh, a friend of the author says The Little Black Fish was the story of his generation and the symbolism used by Samad Behrangi to disguise his political message in a time of tight censorship was well-understood. Composer Mehran Rouhani was so inspired by the story that he composed a symphonic poem which was performed in London by the Wandsworth Symphony Orchestra in 2007.
Producer: Mukti Jain Campion
A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:08 Sacrifices (b00k3j0r)
Josh
Families with a talented child talk about the sacrifices they make to help them fulfil their potential.
Josh wants to dance, but when he gets a coveted place at Elmhurst dance school, associated with Birmingham Royal Ballet, his parents have to dig deep to ensure that his dream comes true.
THU 12:22 You and Yours (b013flff)
Men should avoid storing a mobile phone in their trouser pocket, says a charity. The Radiation Research Trust claims mobile phones can be linked to male fertility damage.
The Advertising Standards Authority have just banned Birds Eye's Polar Bear ad which claims their frozen veg contains 30% more vitamins than fresh veg. We talk to the ASA and Birds Eye.
Can't get the staff - There are nearly 2.5 million unemployed, yet some employers still can't fill their vacancies. Our series continues today as we explore the skills gap in the high tech sector.
Plus shop security shutters: should planning regulations around them be relaxed in the wake of the riots? The Government seems to think so. The UK's Chief Planning Officer has written to local councils asking them to relax planning laws around shutters, and reduce red tape.
Bristol City Council tell us why they're out-sourcing 'home help' and care staff . This will affect more than a 1000 elderly residents who will soon be served by a private company. But what impact could this have on the quality of care?
Producer - Maire Devine.
THU 12:57 Weather (b013flfh)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b013flfm)
With Martha Kearney. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
THU 13:30 Questions, Questions (b013flfr)
Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.
Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week.
In this week's programme Stewart helps a listener who has long been mystified as to why bacon comes in rashers but everything else in slices. He finds out why so many Greek theatres were built close to the coast and about a strange seaside phenomenon, the mechanical elephant. And, with Buster Keaton in mind, he discovers how fast a car would need to go to lift you off your feet and fly you horizontally behind it!
Producer: Kate Taylor
A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b013ggtq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b00jngcx)
Christopher Douglas - Dolly
By Christopher Douglas, based on the real events surrounding the selection of Basil D'Oliveira for the England cricket team in the 1960s.
Having emigrated to England and been called up to the national team, D'Oliveira's one unfulfilled ambition is to be selected to tour against his native South Africa. But the administrators of both South African and English cricket have other ideas.
Directed by Roland Jaquarello.
THU 15:00 Open Country (b013f4bc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:07 on Saturday]
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b013fjqx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:55 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Comic Fringes (b013f972)
Comic Fringes: Series 7
A Difference of Opinion by Bridget Christie
When Bridget's husband is assaulted by the ghost of a long dead European leader, it highlights the vast differences in interpretation between a believer and an atheist.
Written and performed by Bridget Christie.
Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC's own venue at Potterrow, during 2011's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
THU 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill (b013gjxp)
Enterprise
Writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah discovers how the Notting Hill Carnival was transformed from a British urban arts festival into a global phenomenon during the 1980s and 1990s - but at great personal cost to those at the heart of the organization of the event.
This was the era when the carnival-goers increased year-on-year, until numbers reached two million in 1999. The costumes and the bands also became bigger every year. Big name sponsors were persuaded to invest and the carnival looked well-positioned to becoming a fully commercial enterprise. However, although crime at the Carnival was generally low, in 1987 a man was fatally wounded. By 2000, four deaths had been linked to the event and the carnival organisation came under intense scrutiny.
Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon
A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 16:00 Open Book (b013gjhx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:30 Material World (b013fm6c)
This week, Quentin Cooper looks at what may be the oldest fossils on Earth; he tracks cholera across continents, plays games with weather forecasts to understand uncertainty and asks how many species there really are on Earth.
Producer: Martin Redfern.
THU 17:00 PM (b013fm6g)
Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including Weather.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b013fm6j)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones (b013fm6m)
Series 5
Undercover Journalist
Milton Jones becomes Britain's best-known undercover journalist. Which means that Milton Jones also becomes Britain's most least-effective undercover journalist...
He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") and Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda").
Milton Jones returns to BBC Radio Four for an amazing 9th series - which means he's been running for longer than Gardeners' Question Time and answered more questions on gardening as well.
Britain's funniest Milton and the king of the one-liner returns with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new jokes for a series of daffy comedy adventures
Each week, Milton is a complete and utter expert at something - brilliant Mathematician, World-Class Cyclist, Aviator, Championship Jockey...
... and each week, with absolutely no ability or competence, he plunges into a big adventure with utterly funny results...
"Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The Guardian.
"King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times
"If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The Daily Mail
Written by Milton with James Cary ("Think The Unthinkable", "Miranda")
David Tyler's radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies.
Produced & directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b013ggtx)
The disinfection of the market site is underway. Brian wants a full report of costs and a revised schedule for completion from Cliff Alladay. He needs to know exactly where they stand. Brian's relieved to get the all clear. Cliff reports back that the delay has been costly but they should still meet the early completion deadline.
Jamie gets his GCSE results. He did better than expected but D in Maths means he doesn't meet the entry requirements for Borchester College. Kathy's pleased that Natalie convinced him to ring the college and they've agreed to discuss letting him start his A levels and re-take Maths.
Pat tells Kathy she feels bad for snapping at Brenda recently. Kathy says they're a strong family and she's sure they'll find a way out of their troubles.
Tom is calling potential new clients. Pat hopes it's not in vain. They receive five letters notifying Bridge Farm that they will be sued. Pat doesn't know how she can tell Tony. Brenda encourages Tom to keep trying, but he must maintain confidence in the brand to survive. He's determined not to let it beat him, and knows they have a fantastic range of products. It's just a case of getting them out into the wider world.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b013fmkj)
South Pacific Review, Author Miroslav Penkov
The award-winning Broadway production of South Pacific, now starring former EastEnder Samantha Womack, has just had its British debut. Until its recent American revival this Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, famous for songs such as I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair, hadn't been staged on Broadway since its original 1949 run. Critic David Benedict offers his verdict.
Three forthcoming films aim to capture the rock 'n' roll experiences of clubland, festivals and being in a band just about to hit the big time. The familiar settings of Ibiza, warehouse raves and muddy fields are accompanied by loud soundtracks. But can such works ever be authentic? Adil Ray gives his assessment.
Miroslav Penkov, an expatriate Bulgarian writer now resident in Texas, explains why in his new collection of short stories, East of the West, he hopes to tell the world about the rich history of his mother country and paint a picture of Bulgarians away from the clichés involving car thieves and prostitutes.
And Kirsty Lang reports on an independent bookshop in Bath which is finding new ways to engage readers in author events, including the creation of The Bookshop Band. The shop's owner Nic Bottomley got together with local musicians to create original music inspired by books.
Producer Jerome Weatherald.
THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b013flf3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b013fmkl)
The Riots - How They Began
England has witnessed its worst rioting for a generation this month. The majority have been shocked by scenes of people, some as young as 11, looting high street shops with seemingly no fear of being caught by the police or of any punishment that could be handed out by the courts.
The violence started in Tottenham, North London, where what started out as a peaceful protest over the shooting of 29 year old Mark Duggan, spiralled out of control. Two days after Mr Duggan had been killed by armed officers, his friends and family gathered outside Tottenham police station asking for more information on the circumstances surrounding his death. Five hours later, trouble ensued.
Police cars were set on fire; shops were destroyed along the length and breadth of Tottenham High Road; and families were forced to flee their homes as the flames spread. Later that night, just a mile or so away in Tottenham Hale, the looting began.
The Report investigates what happened on that fateful Saturday - August 6th 2011 - in Tottenham and asks why the situation grew so violent. Wesley Stephenson speaks with people who were on Tottenham High Road when the violence broke out. He reveals deep-seated anger at the police within some sections of the community and hears claims that the police response was not robust enough.
Producer: Hannah Barnes.
THU 20:30 In Business (b013fmkn)
Crunching the Crisis
As global economic confusion continues, maybe it is time to rethink the way the world works. Peter Day hears from three influential business gurus with change-making suggestions.
THU 21:00 In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity (b013f4q6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
THU 21:30 The House I Grew Up In (b013fldn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 21:58 Weather (b013fmkq)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b013fmks)
The latest from Libya: how important is the capture of Gaddafi for ordinary people?
A special report from Peckham in South London - why did the riots happen there despite years of government spending?
And the geneticist who tested himself - with some difficult results.
With Samira Ahmed.
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b013mztz)
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Episode 4
Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed.
Changez's star is rising at work but when the twin towers collapse his reaction is unexpected.
Abridged by Lisa Osborne
Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other places including New York and London
Producer: Lisa Osborne
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:00 House on Fire (b013fmkv)
Series 2
Makeover
Vicky decides she needs a new body and where better to get one than down the local gym. One session with Hans - a man who put the boot into camp - is enough to convince her she never wants to go back. But Hans has other ideas.
Meanwhile, Matt's parent have other ideas about restructuring their lives....
Cast:
Vicky ..... Emma Pierson
Matt ..... Jody Latham
Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart
Peter ...... Philip Jackson
Julie ..... Janine Duvitski
Hans ..... Stephen Mangan
Receptionist ..... Kellie Shirley
Producer: Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:30 Elvenquest (b00kfgcx)
Series 1
Episode 4
Sirens interrupt a sea crossing. Are they what they seem? Fantasy comedy starring Darren Boyd and Dave Lamb. From May 2009.
FRIDAY 26 AUGUST 2011
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b013fnvw)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b013n5jn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b013fnvy)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b013fnw0)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b013fnw2)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b013fnw4)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b013fnw6)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Andrew Martlew.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b013fnw8)
Anna Hill hears that tonnes of in date, edible food is being fed to animals. The foods have been discarded by supermarkets and manufacturers and would previously have been sent to landfill . Over 16 million tonnes of food is thrown away in the UK every year - on farms, during the manufacturing process, by supermarkets and in the home. The Love Food Hate Waste Campaign says 3.6 million tonnes of waste is generated by grocery supply chain. The British Retail Consortium explains what is being done in supermarkets to reduce the amount of food that gets thrown into the bin.
Dairy farmers across the country are negotiating new contracts with processors. One company has already announced an increase of
1.85 pence per litre. The National Farmers Union says this is because the selling price of other dairy products like milk powder and butter has gone up.
Also in the programme there is a look ahead to the first in the new series of On Your Farm. This edition is focusing on the sheep that live on the salt marshes around Morecambe Bay and how the herby grasses they eat have made them a local delicacy.
Presenter: Anna Hill; Producer: Angela Frain.
FRI 06:00 Today (b013fnwq)
Morning news and current affairs, with Justin Webb and Evan Davis, including:
07:50 Medical experts are warning that 40% of the UK's adult population could be obese by 2040.
08:10 The latest from Libya, as the TNC move their headquarters to Tripoli.
08:20 Country music singer Glen Campbell, on his battle with Alzheimer's
08:40 Why do our leaders lie?
FRI 09:00 The Reunion (b013fk5s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b013n5k1)
Fire Season
Episode 5
Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall.
A new relief lookout appears on the mountain but the author is unsure that he has what it takes to cope alone in the wilderness. And some smokejumpers arrive to put out a fire, which reminds the author of the famous tragedy of the Mann Gulch fire which inspired Norman Maclean's famous book.
Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and black bears.
Read by Kerry Shale
Produced by Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b013gcn6)
South Sudan, GCSEs, Air Hostesses, She Magazine
Presented by Jenni Murray.
In July this year there were celebrations when South Sudan became the world's newest country. But how much has the situation for women changed for the women of South Sudan since the peace agreement that was signed in 2005 ended the civil war that had ravaged the country for two decades? And what role did women play in the civil war?
GCSE results are out today - should 16 year olds who have good enough GCSEs to continue with academic study also consider vocational training?
Three air hostesses who worked for British Airways in different eras talk about the way the uniform - and the job - has changed.
And the women's glossy magazine, She, which started in the mid-1950s, has just published its last ever issue. What are the reasons for its demise?
FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b013gcn9)
Village SOS
Episode 5
By Val McDermid.
DCI Bettany fears she's no closer to finding Colin Arnott's murderer. Colin's plans to convert a United Reformed chapel into a performing arts centre made him enemies in the village. Bettany hopes that spending a night in the village pub will bring her closer to the killer.
Val McDermid is a multi-award winning crime writer, and creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, which stars Robson Green.
Set in Shilwick, Village SOS is a fictional version of the BBC One series of the same name.
DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale
DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon
Peter Robson ..... Shaun Prendergast
Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland
Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton
Tom Briggs ..... Christian Rodska
Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher
www.bbc.co.uk/villagesos.
FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales (b013gcnc)
Series 2
More Fruitcake?
Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head for some famous sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their lives. Today they bring the current series to a close with a tranquil visit to the Oval for the third day of of a mid-week game of county cricket.
As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des is never short of a story to tell, or an insight to reveal, about the men and women in professional sport - their lives, their characters, their training regimes, their triumphs and their disasters. And Christopher continues to play a straight bat with his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest levels of sport (and an occasional participant at the lowest).
Producer: Paul Kobrak.
FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff (b00vcpf4)
Series 14
Marcel Proust
James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary correctness. With team captains John Walsh and Sebastian Faulks, discussing the life and works of Marcel Proust.
FRI 12:00 You and Yours (b013gd22)
Research published last week declared that Whitstable in Kent is the fastest growing seaside destination in the UK. So what gives this Kent seaside town the edge?
With unemployment on the rise, why are so many employers complaining that they just 'can't get the staff'' ? Today we look at the problems with recruiting engineers.
And the hotels already ratcheting up their prices for next years Olympics.
Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Alex Lewis.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b013gd24)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b013gd26)
With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
FRI 13:30 More or Less (b013gd28)
In More or Less this week:
Scottish independence
Listeners have already been in touch with us asking for clarification on the various claims made about the economic viability of an independent Scotland with the prospect of a referendum in the next five years. Is Scotland subsidised by the rest of the UK or does it more than pay its way through North Sea oil revenues? And what would have happened if an independent Scotland had to bail out RBS and HBOS?
Mobile phones and cancer
There have been some scary headlines about mobile phones and links to brain cancer recently after the WHO classified radiofrequency electromagnetic fields as possibly carcinogenic to humans. But did all the press coverage get this right? Professor Kevin McConway from the Open University explains what this development really means.
Is Tendulkar the greatest sportsman alive?
It's a question that often prompts heated discussion but can maths help us arrive at a more definitive answer? Writer Rob Eastaway makes the case for Indian cricketer, Sachin Tendulkar.
Producer: Phil Kemp.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b013ggtx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b013gd2b)
Pink Boy Blue Girl
by Mateusz Dymek
When a Swedish PHD student interviews a couple about raising their child gender neutrally she begins to wonder if their choices are as politically correct as they first seem.
Directed by Sally Avens.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b013gfgp)
Southport
What is happening at this year's Southport Flower Show? Christine Walkden, Bunny Guinness and Bob Flowerdew report. In addition : what did Southport Flower show ever do for me? Eric Robson gives the history of the largest independent flower show in Britain.
Produced by Howard Shannon
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Stories from Notting Hill (b013gk08)
Legacy
Writer and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah goes to the Notting Hill Carnival to meet some of the multitude who create the event and discovers most are volunteers, passionate about preserving the heritage of carnival culture.
Among them are several veterans who were involved in the first indoor carnival and the first street festival and who are still at the heart of the carnival community today. Young and old, they are all adjusting to a new era of regulations and negotiations with powerful stakeholders.
Some old conflicts have been resolved but new pressures are appearing elsewhere in the carnival that demand a different way of working. Kwame discovers that the Notting Hill Carnival is an event with a history of transforming itself and today it's doing so by diversifying and building new partnerships.
Producer: Pam Fraser Solomon
A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b013gfgr)
Jerry Lieber, Diana Lamplugh, John Howard Davies, Ctirad Masin and George Devol
Matthew Bannister on
Jerry Lieber who with his partner Mike Stoller wrote scores of classic songs - from Hound Dog for Elvis Presley to Stand By Me for Ben E King and Pearl's a Singer for Elkie Brooks.
Diana Lamplugh who reacted to the disappearance of her daughter by launching a campaign to change atitudes to personal safety
John Howard Davies - as a child actor he played Oliver in David Lean's film - as an adult he produced and directed many classic TV comedies including Monty Python, the Goodies and Fawlty Towers.
Ctirad Masin - Czech resistance fighter whose violent and daring escape still causes controversy today
And Geroge Devol who invented the first industrial robot - the Unimate.
FRI 16:30 The Film Programme (b013gfgw)
Leading ladies hog the limelight in this week's Film Programme with Matthew Sweet. Anne Hathaway talks about mastering a Yorkshire accent for her role as Emma in the celluloid version of David Nicholls' much loved book, One Day and Elena Anaya discusses the challenges of acting for Pedro Almodovar in his disturbing new feature, The Skin I Live In... a sort of cross between Frankenstein and Jane Eyre if you can imagine that! There's also the concluding part of Mark Gatiss' world of horror series. This week he's in India for the extraordinary Bollywood film, Mahal. And then last, but certainly by no means least - there's Jonathan Balcon - whose father Michael was the driving force behind Ealing Studios. Jonathan paints a picture of his father and reflects on the ethos which inspired films such as Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavender Hill Mob, two of the Ealing classics that have been re-released on DVD this summer.
Producer: Zahid Warley.
FRI 17:00 PM (b013gfgy)
Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including Weather.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b013gfh0)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction (b013gfnh)
Series 7
Kevin Eldon interviews Mark Steel
Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series.
Kevin Eldon is a writer and actor for whom it would probably be quicker to list the brilliant programmes he's not been in than those he has - which include Brass Eye, 15 Storeys High, Spaced, Look Around You, Black Books, Big Train, World of Pub, Jam, I'm Alan Partridge and Attention Scum!. He also wrote and starred in Radio 4's Poets' Tree, in character as the Islington poet Paul Hamilton, and is the singer in Beergut 100.
Mark Steel has presented a range of his own programmes on Radio 4, from The Mark Steel Solution, The Mark Steel Revolution, The Mark Steel Lectures to, most recently, the Sony Silver Award and Writers Guild Award-winning Mark Steel's In Town. He also occasionally appears in programmes that don't have his name in the title, such as The News Quiz.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b013ggwg)
Jazzer meets up with Harry and Zofia to see a band in Penny Hassett. Jazzer's upset to hear that Nicolette won't be joining them but remembers that the band's drummer is a pretty blonde. Jazzer is unhappy when Harry makes them walk to the gig but Zofia thinks it's romantic.
But at the pub, they realise Harry's made a mistake. It's karaoke night. Jazzer isn't too thrilled when Harry signs them up to sing, especially as it's a Spice Girls hit. Zofia has a great time.
Pat tells Tony that Daniel did well in his GCSEs. Reg and Bunty have rewarded him with a cheque. Tony says they're trying to get Daniel to become a lawyer.
Tom is shocked to see how many surplus vegetables there are. Pat and Tony are furious when one of Tom's prospects rings, feeling conned after discovering the E coli story on the internet. Tom's upset that his parents don't appreciate how hard he's tried to help. Tony's convinced the whole Bridge Farm brand is contaminated so no matter how far afield they try to sell, it's not going to work.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b013gfnk)
Author David Almond interviewed and the art of puppetry
With Kirsty Lang
Prize-winning children's author David Almond, creator of Skellig, discusses writing his first novel for adults. Told from the perspective of a young boy, the story explores how the child, born at a time of disaster and war, struggles with good, evil and a very powerful gift.
This year the Little Angel Puppet Theatre in London, described as the home of British puppetry, reaches its 50th anniversary. It was founded by John and Lyndie Wright, the parents of the director Joe Wright whose films include Atonement, Pride and Prejudice and Hanna. Kirsty talks to puppeteer and director at the theatre, Ronnie Le Drew, the Royal Shakespeare Company's Greg Doran and mother and son Joe and Lyndie Wright about the continued success of the theatre and Joe reveals that growing up in a puppet theatre not only moulded the way he directs films but also leads him to treat his actors like puppets.
The vibraphone - a metallic cousin of the xylophone - rarely finds its way into symphonic music, but it has a rich history in jazz. While it doesn't enjoy the profile of the saxophone or trumpet, many vibes players are passionate advocates for their instrument. Among them are the American Gary Burton, who has just released a new disc, and British musician Orphy Robinson, who relaunched his band this summer at Ronnie Scott's club in London. Kevin LeGendre reports.
Producer Claire Bartleet.
FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b013gcn9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b013gfnm)
Aylesbury
Edward Stourton presents a topical discussion of news and politics from the Waterside Theatre in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. This week's panel will be Dame Wendy Hall, Professor of Computer Science and Dean of the Faculty of Physical and Applied Sciences at the University of Southampton; award-winning theatre director and Artistic Director of the Southbank Centre, Jude Kelly; the UK Director of Islamic Relief, Jehangir Malik and financial services columnist Margaret Doyle.
Producer: Kathryn Takatsuki.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b013gfnp)
Kim Philby
As recently discovered letters from Kim Philby are published, John Gray argues that the spy's life illustrates why we are so poor at predicting the future. Where Philby saw a bright future in Soviet Communism - one that led him to betray friends and colleagues - many in the West hoped for a different utopia in Russia as Communism collapsed. Neither saw their dreams realised. As John Gray observes, both groups "failed to understand that the only genuine historical law is the law of irony."
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
FRI 21:00 Friday Drama (b00jntf4)
I'm the Boss
By Karen Brown. Successful HR manager Diane's life is turned upside down by a sinister online bullying campaign, and when she finally discovers the culprit, her world begins to disintegrate.
With Lesley Sharp.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b013gfnr)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b013gfnt)
The scale of the casualties in Tripoli is starting to emerge, we'll hear from our correspondent there who found shocking scenes at a hospital.
New York is locking down in preparation for what President Obama has called an historic hurricane - we'll get the latest from the city as it prepares for Irene.
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b013mzx3)
Mohsin Hamid - The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Episode 5
Written by Mohsin Hamid. Read by Riz Ahmed
Changez's new life begins to unravel.
Abridged by Lisa Osborne
Mohsin Hamid is the author of two novels: The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and Moth Smoke (2000). He also contributes articles to publications such as Dawn, the Guardian, and the New York Times. He lives between Lahore, where he was born, and other places including New York and London.
Producer: Lisa Osborne
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:00 Great Lives (b013f976)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:30 Great Unanswered Questions (b011r189)
Series 3
Episode 4
This week's comedy talk show features Northern Irish comedian Colin Murphy and special guest comedienne Holly Walsh discussing questions such as: when you wash clothes, why do jumpers get baggy and jeans shrink? Resident know-all Dr David Booth will attempt to answer this and other questions and computer nerd Matthew Collins will click his way through the world wide web in an attempt to add other mind baffling "stuff".
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 MON (b013f0xp)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 MON (b013f0xp)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 TUE (b013f4q4)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 TUE (b013f4q4)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 WED (b013fj15)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 WED (b013fj15)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 THU (b013flf3)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 THU (b013flf3)
15 Minute Drama
10:45 FRI (b013gcn9)
15 Minute Drama
19:45 FRI (b013gcn9)
A History of the World Special
23:30 MON (b010y36c)
A Point of View
08:50 SUN (b01391jt)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b013gfnp)
Afternoon Reading: The Time Being
00:30 SUN (b00pmcqg)
Agatha Christie
23:30 TUE (b00qcjl3)
Americana
19:15 SUN (b013gjj3)
An Unhealthy Wait
21:00 WED (b013fj22)
Another Case of Milton Jones
18:30 THU (b013fm6m)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b013f6s0)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b01391jr)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b013gfnm)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b01465z9)
Archive on 4
15:00 MON (b013spvh)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b013fj37)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b013fj37)
Beyond Belief
16:30 MON (b013f1kn)
Beyond Westminster
11:00 SAT (b013f5kw)
Black Roses Debate
20:00 WED (b013n5j5)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 MON (b013fb8w)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 TUE (b013m7cp)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 WED (b013mzrl)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 THU (b013mztz)
Book at Bedtime
22:45 FRI (b013mzx3)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b0138yky)
Book of the Week
09:45 MON (b013f0xk)
Book of the Week
00:30 TUE (b013f0xk)
Book of the Week
09:45 TUE (b013n5g7)
Book of the Week
00:30 WED (b013n5g7)
Book of the Week
09:45 WED (b013n5hj)
Book of the Week
00:30 THU (b013n5hj)
Book of the Week
09:45 THU (b013n5jn)
Book of the Week
00:30 FRI (b013n5jn)
Book of the Week
09:45 FRI (b013n5k1)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b013fjvb)
Caring Too Much
20:00 MON (b0138vgk)
Chain Reaction
12:30 SAT (b01390bf)
Chain Reaction
18:30 FRI (b013gfnh)
Classic Serial
21:00 SAT (b013522k)
Classic Serial
15:00 SUN (b013fnz7)
Comic Fringes
15:30 TUE (b0144tx2)
Comic Fringes
15:30 WED (b0144v1t)
Comic Fringes
15:30 THU (b013f972)
Crossing Continents
20:30 MON (b0138527)
Crossing Continents
11:00 THU (b013flf5)
Drama
14:15 MON (b013f1kj)
Drama
14:15 TUE (b013f96y)
Drama
14:15 WED (b00z62b1)
Drama
14:15 THU (b00jngcx)
Drama
14:15 FRI (b013gd2b)
Elvenquest
23:30 THU (b00kfgcx)
Excess Baggage
10:00 SAT (b013f5jj)
Face the Facts
21:00 SUN (b01381nw)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b013f4bf)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b013f1xt)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b013f3b7)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b013fczj)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b013fldg)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b013fnw8)
Four Thought
20:45 WED (b013fj20)
Friday Drama
21:00 FRI (b00jntf4)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b013f5qg)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b013f1kx)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b013f9cx)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b013fj1y)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b013fmkj)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b013gfnk)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b0138zlh)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b013gfgp)
Great Lives
16:30 TUE (b013f976)
Great Lives
23:00 FRI (b013f976)
Great Unanswered Questions
18:30 WED (b013fj1w)
Great Unanswered Questions
23:30 FRI (b011r189)
Head to Head
09:30 MON (b013f0xh)
Head to Head
09:30 TUE (b013ptf0)
Hemingway Days
11:30 TUE (b013f96m)
House on Fire
23:00 THU (b013fmkv)
How to Write a Personal Statement
13:30 SUN (b013fmcn)
Iconoclasts
22:15 SAT (b013835x)
In Business
21:30 SUN (b0138xmr)
In Business
20:30 THU (b013fmkn)
In Living Memory
11:00 WED (b013fj17)
In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity
11:00 TUE (b013f4q6)
In Our Own Image - Evolving Humanity
21:00 THU (b013f4q6)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b013f9d1)
Interrail Tales
10:30 SAT (b013f5kc)
It's My Story
21:30 WED (b0128hsj)
Just a Minute
12:00 SUN (b0135t7q)
Just a Minute
18:30 MON (b013f1kv)
Keynes Vs. Hayek
09:00 WED (b012wxyg)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b0138zlm)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b013gfgr)
Life: An Idiot's Guide
23:00 TUE (b013fb8y)
Listen to Them Breathing
23:30 SAT (b013528r)
Living World
06:35 SUN (b013fjqs)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (b013f7h3)
Making History
15:00 TUE (b013f970)
Maledictions and Disaffections - Poetry That Doesn't Please
16:30 SUN (b013gjhz)
Material World
21:00 MON (b013857l)
Material World
16:30 THU (b013fm6c)
Meet David Sedaris
11:30 MON (b012f9s3)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b0133rfl)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b013fhtw)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b013f1xf)
Midnight News
00:00 TUE (b013f31b)
Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Money Box
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Money Box
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Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard
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More or Less
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More or Less
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Musical Migrants
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No Triumph, No Tragedy
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No Triumph, No Tragedy
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Once Seen
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Open Book
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Open Book
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Open Country
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Open Country
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Paul Temple
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Pick of the Week
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Profile
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Profile
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Profile
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Questions, Questions
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Radio 4 Appeal
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Radio 4 Appeal
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Radio 4 Appeal
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Return to Vukovar
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Richard Herring's Objective
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Round Britain Quiz
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Sacrifices
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Secret Britain
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Secret Britain
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Shipping Forecast
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Slums 101
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Something Understood
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Something Understood
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Soul Music
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Soul Music
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Stories from Notting Hill
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Stories from Notting Hill
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Stories from Notting Hill
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Stories from Notting Hill
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Stories from Notting Hill
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Sunday Worship
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life
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The First 1000 Days: A Legacy for Life
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The Food Programme
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The House I Grew Up In
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The House I Grew Up In
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The Little Black Fish That Created Big Waves
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The Marx Brothers in Britain
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The Reunion
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The Reunion
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The Tribes of Science
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The Tribes of Science
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The World This Weekend
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The Write Stuff
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Thinking Allowed
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Thinking Allowed
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Today
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Touchline Tales
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Treating Tumours: Old Drug, New Tricks
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Verse Illustrated
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Westminster Hour
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What the Papers Say
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Word of Mouth
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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