The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim writer, Sarah Joseph.
The perfect strawberry, Positive signs in the dairy industry, Methane-powered tractor
Scientists at the East Malling Research Institute may have discovered the perfect strawberry to rival the most commonly grown variety, Elsanta. The classic English Elsanta strawberry is prone to disease, needs a lot of spraying, and only produces 75% class-one fruit, so there's a lot of waste. The new variety, the Malling Centenary, appears to perform better in trials.
There are positive signs in the dairy industry as milk prices begin to rise.
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
John Aitchison tells the story of the Slavonian grebe. In winter, Slavonian Grebes, with their vermilion eyes, bright and shiny as redcurrants, fly south from Scandinavia and Iceland to spend the winter around our coasts. Their winter plumage is black, grey and white but in spring they moult into their breeding plumage with a rich chestnut throat and belly and golden ear-tufts. A small population breed on a few Scottish Lochs where you might hear their trilling calls.
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
Self-taught Professor of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem has spent decades studying children with developmental amnesia. Her mission: to understand how we form memories of the events in our past, from things we've experienced to places we've visited and people we've met. She talks to Jim about the memories we lay down during our lives and the autobiographies stored in our brains that define us as individuals. Faraneh was also part of the team that identified the FoxP2 gene, the so called 'speech gene', that may explain why humans talk and chimps don't. Plus Faraneh discusses how her Baha'i faith informs her scientific thinking.
Unexpected stories of education: Datshiane Navanayagam speaks to the musician and broadcaster Soweto Kinch about his experience as an inner-city child of going to a private school.
The journalist Datshiane Navanayagam had a challenging childhood which involved periods of homelessness. But her parents always had high expectations of her and what she could achieve educationally. She was awarded a bursary to a private school, and went onto Cambridge University. As a result she's fascinated by the transformative role of education and for three editions of One to One is speaking to people who went on unexpected educational journeys.
Today she meets the musician and broadcaster Soweto Kinch. Soweto was brought up in inner city Birmingham, but from the age of nine was educated in private schools. On a daily basis he found himself crossing cultural boundaries and confounding expectations. He discusses this experience with Datshiane in terms of the confidence it gave him, and in the context of his West Indian heritage.
Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and revealing biography.
Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and there is new personal testimony from those who knew and worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, presenting new details of his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime career.
Do Georgia O'Keeffe's flower paintings actually depict vaginas? It was her husband who first said so and O'Keeffe always denied it. In a major new exhibition the full range of the work of this pioneering modernist artist is on show and the curator Tanya Burson tells Jane Garvey why it's time conservative male readings of her art were challenged.
On the day that MPs begin voting in the Conservative leadership race, we hear from Armed Forces Minister Penny Mordaunt on why she's supporting Andrea Leadsom, and from Caroline Spelman MP, who's backing Theresa May for the top job.
Comedy writers and performers Diane Morgan AKA Philomena Cunk and Morwenna Banks pay tribute to Caroline Aherne.
Emma Straub's last novel, The Vacationers spent ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. She now has a new novel, Modern Lovers. Set in Brooklyn over one summer, it's about two couples, neighbours and old friends, now nearing 50, whose teenaged children start sleeping together. Jane talks to Emma about the shock of middle age, the effect on the couples when their children become sexually active, passions that never go away and whether people ever grow up.
Rubber planter Harry Pope fears that a krait – a lethally venomous snake – has crawled under his bed sheets and is nestling on his stomach. His friend, Timber Woods, calls the local doctor for urgent assistance.
When Dr Ganderbai arrives, tension mounts as he puts an ingenious and desperate plan into operation.
Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in five classic tales by Roald Dahl.
Brett Westwood looks at how the lobster is a creature that when drawn up from the deep is made to shed its natural identity as an ancient predator of the sea floor and has become an improbable sex symbol, an epicure's delight, a muse for surrealist artists a fearsome little nipper thanks to those pincers. Not all lobsters have claws, but the ones in this programme do. They're the European and American species, which come equipped with enormous claws like oversized boxing gloves, and a tough armour evolved to withstand the rigours of life on the rocks. Producer: Tom Bonnett.
Aditya Chakrabortty journeys to Kolkata and into the mythology of one of India's most precious musical traditions.
Over the course of an all-night classical music concert - or 'conference' - hear some of the best Indian classical musicians on the planet describe the intricacies of their art, and explain why it might not last much longer in a culture short of attention and keen for quick satisfaction.
"The whole day is so much full of noise, of work, of distraction ... Indian classical music is more about meditation. Nights give us that tranquillity. The listener needs to be free of his worldly worries, as musicians paint on the canvas of silence."
At the Uttarpara Sangeet Chakra Conference, on the bank of the river Ganges just north of Kolkata, sitarists, tabla-players, vocalists and other instrumentalists start at
and try to outplay each other until 7 o'clock in the morning, to an audience of nearly 3,000. In doing so, they re-enact a tradition central to Indian classical music, which was based on such a competitive tradition with artists battling each other in front of a royal court.
It's magical, hypnotic, mesmerising - but do modern audiences have the stamina or the will to keep awake for arguably the world's most famous sitar player, Shahid Parvez, at 5 o'clock in the morning?
Aditya meets some of the audience members and musicians trying to keep the all-night conference alive, including some of Indian classical music's biggest names - Shahid Parvez, Tanmoy Bose and Ajoy Chakrabarty, as well as the Kolkata-based writer and classically trained singer Amit Chaudhuri.
In 1999 one of Leonardo da Vinci's great masterpieces was revealed to the public in Milan, after 20 years of painstaking restoration work. Mike Lanchin has spoken to Pinin Brambilla who led the restoration team.
A new report, complied by the fraud prevention service Cifas, suggests there has been a sharp rise in the number of young people becoming victims of identity fraud because they're prepared to share too many personal details online.
We'd like to hear from you, if you've had your identity stolen. What was the impact and how did it make you feel?
It's not just young people who're affected either, as research suggests not enough care in being taken in general. Perhaps you're worried someone in your family is putting themselves at risk, or maybe you've taken steps to protect yourself.
E-mail us - YouandYours@bbc.co.uk and remember to give us a phone number so we can call you back.
In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1948 - and hears from three people who lived through it.
At the beginning of 1948 Czechoslovakia had been the only parliamentary democracy left in East Europe. But within a couple of months it was part of the Soviet bloc. Not through the invasion of Soviet tanks -that would come later, in 1968 - but through the actions of local Communists, with the influence of the Soviet Union looming in the shadows.
Music: Variations on the Theme of Brigadier H. Smith by Karel Janovicky
A 'bonding' weekend in Amsterdam for Juliette, her teenage kids and her boyfriend goes pear-shaped in this new comedy drama.
No stranger to Radio 4, this is Sir Lenny Henry's third original drama. His earlier plays for this network were the very well-received Corinne Come Back And Gone and Miss You Still.
From the man who'll help you disappear to coping with a sudden, shocking loss - Josie Long looks at vanishing points.
We hear stories of private investigators, the search for solitude in the dust bowl and a woman's life changing in one devastating second.
Trust me... I'm an expert
The series that looks at current events through the lens of psychology. Michael Blastland explores the quirky ways in which we humans think, behave and make decisions.
In this week's programme, a question of trust - why do people have a tendency to distrust experts and expertise? It has been made much of in the UK's Brexit campaign to leave the European Union. 'People in this country have had enough of experts,' claimed Leave campaigner Michael Gove. What's behind this lack of faith in authority?
The Zoo team discover that the difficulty of evaluating expertise is a problem we all face - because to really understand what's going on, you have to know what you don't know, and it's easier to spot the flaws in other people's reasoning and knowledge than to see it in ourselves. But then forecasting is a tricky business, and the experts don't always get it right. So, who to trust?
Michael Blastland is joined by resident Human Zoo psychologist Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at Warwick Business School, and roving reporter Timandra Harkness.
Guests this week include David Dunning, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan; Professor Barbara Mellers from the University of Pennsylvania; journalist turned teacher Steve McCormack; and Olympic silver medalist and two-time world champion rower Annie Vernon.
As part of Radio 4's Cold War season, Document unearths new evidence from key moments in the 1940s and 1950s.
In the first edition of the series, Gordon Corera re-examines the CIA's attempt to subvert Albania's communist government in the early 1950s.
The failure of the operation has been blamed for decades on the Soviet spy Kim Philby. But with the help of new evidence provided by historian Steve Long, Gordon investigates whether this story really stands up.
And he asks why, at the height of the Cold War, the CIA was secretly meeting agents of a communist power.
One Show presenter Alex Jones and writer Victoria Hislop talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert. Alex Jones has chosen The Girls by Lisa Jewell, while Harriett's pick is Days of Abandonment by the writer everyone's talking about, who goes by the pseudonym Elena Ferrante. And what do three women who aren't keen on Virginia Woolf make of Victoria's choice, Michael Cunningham's The Hours? Producer Sally Heaven.
The Bank of England has revealed plans to try to keep banks lending, after warning that some of the risks to the economy from the EU referendum were already materialising.
He discusses his formative years with Rufus Hound. These were mostly spent up trees, looking for birds.
Kenton tells Jolene he asked Wayne to bring along Beverley to the Food and Drink Awards but she's busy that night. He mentions that Wayne had said she would love to meet them and wonders if Jolene isn't so keen on meeting her ex's new partner.
Adam and Brian assess the mob-grazing cattle using the handling system. They find the animals are doing really well grazing the herbal leys. They're both positive that even with poor prices they should still make a profit as the running costs are so low.
Justin invites Lilian for a day at Wimbledon as a birthday treat. They work out the logistics around Miranda and the Borchester Food and Drink Awards and decide to meet that evening and have two nights together.
Back in The Bull, when Kenton says he's going to ask Wayne to ring Beverley right away, Jolene panics and tells him that Beverley has died. Kenton can't believe it as Wayne has been coming to work. Jolene says he wanted to keep things normal. Meanwhile, Lilian, Adam and Brian talk in the pub. Brian is incredulous about Kate and her new business. He's more positive about Alice who has an interview on Friday. Adam books the Flood Bar with Kenton for the cricket team's EGM.
Kenton reveals to Jolene that he has talked to Wayne about Beverley and he's amazed at how well he's holding it together. He's offered Wayne a permanent contract, after all he's been through he thought it was the least they could do.
Barry Humphries, Abbas Kiarostami, Stanley Kubrick, National Museums of Scotland, The Neon Demon
Best known as Dame Edna Everage, Barry Humphries takes to the stage as himself in a concert celebrating the subversive music of Berlin's Weimar Republic. Barry talks to John Wilson about the show which he has curated and features cabaret star Meow Meow and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
In its 150th anniversary year, the National Museums Scotland prepares to open 10 new galleries, housing more than 3000 objects of decorative art, design, fashion, science and technology. The museum's Director Gordon Rintoul discusses this latest stage in an £80 million redevelopment.
Director of Drive Nicholas Winding Refn's new film The Neon Demon is a shocking story set in LA's fashion world, with a palette of neon colour, hyper-real imagery and a dark, electronic sound track. Elle Fanning, who starred in Maleficent, plays an ingénue 16 year old, making her debut on the catwalks, exciting vicious, predatory interest from the established models. Wendy Ide reviews.
The award-winning Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami has died. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a fellow Iranian film maker and writer pays tribute.
Daydreaming with Stanley Kubrick is a new exhibition at Somerset House in London. The show has been curated by the artist and musician James Lavelle, and features the work of a number of contemporary artists, filmmakers and musicians inspired by the director of 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange and The Shining. John talks to James Lavelle and the artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Successive government procurement strategies have repeatedly promised high quality public buildings made possible through Private Finance Initiatives, but is that what's been delivered? What went wrong in Edinburgh where 17 schools remained closed after the Easter break because of fears walls might collapse on children and staff? Allan Urry reveals new concerns about the extent of fire safety problems in some schools and hospitals because contractors failed to ensure they were built to specification. How safe are they, and who's footing the bill to put them right?
Notes on Blindness, a new film based on the true story of an academic losing his sight has just come out in the UK. So In Touch uses the film's release to discuss the portrayal of blind people in film, TV and on the stage. Peter White is joined by Emily Davison, Kevin Mulhern and Red Szell, and they swap good and bad examples, and talk about problems and solutions.
Multi-morbidity, one-shot radiotherapy during surgery for early stage breast cancer
David Haslam, chair of NICE, discusses with Mark Porter how doctors should treat patients with 'multi-morbidity', the millions of people receiving many different drugs for many different conditions. There's plenty of trial data for starting treatments, but a dearth of evidence for stopping them!
And one-shot radiotherapy during surgery for breast cancer may help 20,000 women in the UK. Rather than daily hospital visits for radiotherapy over 5 weeks, a dose is given straight to the open wound during the operation. It is quicker, cheaper and much more convenient, so why isn't it more widely available?
Theresa May wins first round of voting, Liam Fox is out and Stephen Crabb later pulled out of the race. Sir John Chilcot's inquiry into the Iraq war is published in the morning - we hear from a bereaved parent. And Welsh footballing success in the Euros, poses a dilemma for Portuguese people who live in Cardiff.
When on a summer’s day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is about to change. For there she meets the glamourous and enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is holding back, and when ‘Rufina and the Lion’, a lost Spanish masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to suspect that the mystery behind the painting’s origins and her mentor’s secrecy may be somehow connected.
The truth about ‘Rufina and the Lion’ lies in 1936 and a large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and devastating consequences for them all.
Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist.
The after-shocks of the EU Referendum result continue to reverberate around Westminster. Susan Hulme reports on a series of strong speeches made in a House of Lords debate on the effects of the Referendum.
* The Minister placed in charge of the new 'Brexit Department' faces the questions of the Foreign Affairs committee.
* A Conservative MP and 'Leave' campaigner claims migrants from the EU are putting excessive pressure on NHS services.
* An Education Minister labels as 'destructive' and 'futile' a strike by teachers in England as part of their long-running pay dispute.
* The problems at Southern Rail come under the microscope of the Transport committee.
WEDNESDAY 06 JULY 2016
WED 00:00 Midnight News (b07hwmbv)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
WED 00:30 Book of the Week (b07k1dsj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Tuesday]
WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b07hwmbx)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b07hwmbz)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b07hwmc1)
The latest shipping forecast.
WED 05:30 News Briefing (b07hwmc3)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b07kpzvf)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim writer, Sarah Joseph.
WED 05:45 Farming Today (b07hwmc5)
Pears, Gooseberries and the Future Foresters
New research by scientists at Washington State University in the U.S. has discovered ripening compounds that could bring an end to the crunchy unripe pear which suddenly goes bad, without becoming ripe at all. Apples can be treated with a substance called SmartFresh which enables them to be stored for long periods - but pears don't react in the same way when they are treated - they just stay unripe. Now, genomics scientists have developed a new compound that helps pears to ripen after they've been treated with SmartFresh.
The Royal Forestry society is an educational charity that's been urging landowners to manage woodland wisely since the 1880s. But the Society's currently concerned that too few young people are becoming foresters leading to a skills gap in an industry they claim is worth nearly two billion pounds to the UK economy. To try and help plug that gap their Future Foresters Project is offering paid hands-on experience to get student foresters employment ready.
The gooseberry is one of the first fruits to be cultivated commercially in this country and in their heyday hundreds of different varieties were found in the UK. However in 1905 the accidental introduction of a mildew disease from America wiped out many of our British specialities. The gooseberry bounced back when it was crossed with mildew-resistant American plants, but popularity for the fruit has declined, and gooseberry pies and fools are no longer on many people's dessert menus.
WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03whpln)
St Kilda Wren
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
Bill Oddie presents the St Kilda wren. The Island of St Kilda is not where you'd expect to see wrens but the wrens that sing along the cliffs of St Kilda are the same species as the common wren, but after 5000 years of isolation they've evolved a different song and are slightly larger and slightly paler than the mainland wrens. Bill Oddie remembers an encounter with the St Kilda Wren.
WED 06:00 Today (b07j571d)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
WED 09:00 Midweek (b07j571g)
Glynis Barber, Paco Pena, Lorraine Jones, Diana Nyad.
Libby Purves meets actress Glynis Barber; flamenco composer and guitarist Paco Pena; Pastor Lorraine Jones and champion long distance swimmer Diana Nyad.
Diana Nyad was a champion swimmer in her twenties, setting the record around Manhattan Island. In 1978 she made her first attempt to swim from Cuba to Florida, but failed to get across. In her sixties she made four further attempts, finally achieving her dream at the age of 64. Her memoir, Find a Way - One Untamed and Courageous Life, is published by Pan McMillan.
Pastor Lorraine Jones lost her son Dwayne Simpson just short of his 21st birthday when he was fatally stabbed in Brixton. Dwayne had created a boxing club for young people to divert them from joining gangs. After his death his mother relaunched the boxing scheme as Dwaynamics. She recently won a Points of Light Award which recognises outstanding individual volunteers.
Paco Pena is a flamenco composer and guitarist. His new work Patrias is an exploration of the emotional and cultural impact on Spain of the civil war and the death of one of its most prominent victims, Federico Garcia Lorca. Born in Cordoba, Paco taught himself to play the guitar as a child. Patrias is at Sadler's Wells, London.
Glynis Barber is an actress who is best known for her role in the crime series Dempsey and Makepeace. She is appearing in Stalking the Bogeyman based on the story of journalist David Holthouse who was the victim of a violent rape when he was a child. Glynis's television work includes EastEnders and Emmerdale. Stalking the Bogeyman is at Southwark Playhouse, London.
If you have been effected by anything you heard on the programme:
Survivors UK (www.survivorsuk.org)
Napac (napac.org.uk)
Safeline (www.safeline.org.uk)
Producer: Paula McGinley.
WED 09:45 Book of the Week (b07k1dxp)
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Episode 3
Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and revealing biography.
Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and there is new personal testimony from those who knew and worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, presenting new details of his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime career.
Read by Nickolas Grace
Abridged by Libby Spurrier
Directed by Celia de Wolff
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 10:00 Woman's Hour (b07hwmc7)
Bat For Lashes; Losing a baby in pregnancy or birth
Bat For Lashes, aka Natasha Khan, on the making of her new album, The Bride, which uses a character and storytelling to reflect on ideals about marriage.
Losing a twin at birth and supporting families who lose a baby. Millie Smith talks tells us how her campaign to put purple butterflies on cots to show a baby has been lost in a multiple pregnancy led her to set up The Skye Foundation. And we speak to Cheryl Titherly, Manager of Improving Bereavement Care at Sands UK - a charity which supports parents and families.
Plus The Millicent Fawcett Memorial Lecture - we hear from leading historian and writer Dr Amanda Foreman who is delivering this year's lecture on the silencing of women through history and the repercussions today.
And Dr Louisa Messenger joins us to talk about her research into Chagas disease - which led to her being awarded one of five 2016 L'Oréal UNESCO Women in Science Fellowships.
Presenter: Jane Garvey
Producer: Emma Wallace.
WED 10:41 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j571j)
My Lady Love, My Dove
Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, cheats and schemers.
The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human nature.
In My Lady Love, My Dove, starring Penelope Keith, we meet Arthur and Pamela Beauchamp, a wealthy couple who like to play bridge. However, they are continually being beaten by the Snapes – a younger couple who stay with them as house guests. But Pamela has devised a cunning way of getting her own back.
Cast:
Storyteller……..Charles Dance
Pamela…………Penelope Keith
Arthur………….Richard O’Callaghan
Henry…………..Nicholas Boulton
Sally……………Jaimi Barbakoff
Written by Roald Dahl
Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan
Director: David Blount
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4
WED 10:55 The Listening Project (b07j571l)
Ben and Rufus - I Never Say I'm a Cabaret Performer
Fi Glover with a conversation about how those who choose to tread the boards are perceived, between friends who know all about the hard work and dedication that choice requires. Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
WED 11:00 You May Now Turn Over Your Papers (b07hwwbd)
Cambridge Classics professor, Mary Beard, tells the intriguing story of the history of exams and asks what are exams really for. In her quest for an answer, she scales the rooftops of King's College, Cambridge, grills a well-known comedian in Latin and discovers Charles Darwin was a terrible student more interested in finding beetles than doing his exams.
Mary delves into the world of exams past and present in the company of comedian Richard Herring, roof-walker and academic, Katherine Rundell, fellow Classicist Simon Goldhill and others.
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
WED 11:30 Plum House (b07j571n)
Series 1
Peter vs Prynne
Tom has organised a special summer event and invited the great and good from the world of George Pudding scholarship to gather round the museum's celebrated plum tree.
It's bound to be a day to remember. But with Peter encountering his arch nemesis - the unbearably pompous Mungo Prynne (Roger Allam), Julian upsetting a neighbouring farmer and Emma rather enjoying the plum punch, will it be remembered for the right reasons?
Ben Cottam and Paul Mckenna's comedy about the inept staff at a historic house, starring Simon Callow, Miles Jupp and Jane Horrocks.
Every year thousands of tourists flock to the Lake District. But one place they never go to is Plum House - the former country home of terrible poet George Pudding (1779-1848). Now a crumbling museum, losing money hand over fist, it struggles to stay open under its eccentric curator Peter Knight (Simon Callow).
Can anyone save Plum House from irreversible decline?
Peter ...... Simon Callow
Julian ...... Miles Jupp
Maureen ...... Jane Horrocks
Tom ...... Tom Bell
Alan ...... Pearce Quigley
Emma ...... Louise Ford
Mungo Prynne ...... Roger Allam
Barry Bunting ...... Sean Gilder
Directed and Produced by Paul Schlesinger
A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2016.
WED 12:00 News Summary (b07hwmcb)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
WED 12:04 Witness (b07j5v6t)
Spanish Republic
It is 80 years since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War and the end of a short-lived republican government which had made it a priority to introduce modern education and culture to even the most remote parts of Spain. Simon Watts reports on the movement of writers, artists and volunteers who took part in cultural missions to the rural poor.
PHOTO: Village children watching a film, Andalucia 1934 (Courtesy: Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid)
WED 12:15 You and Yours (b07hwmcd)
Acid attacks; Home care; Social media videos
There are around a hundred admissions to hospital in England each year, following acid attacks, with many of the victims left with severe burns and disfiguring scars. Yet acid and other corrosive liquids are freely available for sale. You & Yours has exclusive access to the draft of a new report into acid attacks by the Conservative MP James Berry. In it he recommends new restrictions on the sale of corrosive liquids and improved reporting and research into the attacks. A victim of an acid attack tells us that sentences for those convicted should be stiffer and more consistent.
Care providers are deserting the council-funded home care market because of increasing costs and the level of fees paid by some local authorities. That's according to analysts Laing Buisson who have just produced a substantial report on the industry. It says this is a 'make or break' moment for home care companies, whose staff help elderly and disabled people at home with things like washing, dressing, taking medication and going to the toilet. A large home care provider tells You & Yours that they are withdrawing from some council contracts because the fees paid by them are too low.
A new home industry which produces short comedy films has developed to serve a big demand from social media and TV companies. A successful short video can be viewed by millions around the world. The sharing of videos is increasing all the time, assisted by faster internet speeds. New companies are springing up to sell the best of them to social media sites. We find out how much you can expect to make from that hilarious short video you recorded on holiday.
Producer: Jonathan Hallewell
Presenter: Winifred Robinson.
WED 12:57 Weather (b07hwmcg)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 13:00 World at One (b07hwmcj)
Analysis of news and current affairs.
WED 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze (b07jlq44)
Series 1
The 1948 Election in Italy
In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the divisive 1948 general election in Italy.
Featuring Giorgio Napolitano, Sergio Romano and Aldo Tortorella.
Readings by George Rossi.
Producer: Martin Williams.
WED 14:00 The Archers (b07j53dg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Tuesday]
WED 14:15 Drama (b07j68n9)
States of Mind: The Sky Is Wider
When Ella is asked questions pointing her towards places and memories, she begins to realise that the world she lives in now is just the imagined life of her mind and in reality she is in hospital in a minimally conscious state. Ella realises that these questions, posed by a neurologist, are attempts to discover whether she is conscious and that her possible answers are her only way to communicate with others, especially with her daughter, Charlie, who has her own questions that desperately need answers.
The Sky is Wider was developed through Wellcome Experimental Stories in consultation with Anil Seth (Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and co-director at Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex). The drama was inspired by the themes of the current States of Mind exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London which explores the nature of consciousness and runs until 16th October 2016.
The drama asks what it is to be a self. It explores an 'active approach' in which the neurologist asks questions of the patient in an attempt to ascertain their level of consciousness by examining the brain responses. Currently brain imaging (fMRI, EEG) can be used to actively decode responses to questions in patients who, following severe brain injury, are left in minimally conscious states. These methods represent a revolution in clinical neurology; allowing us to assess whether there is any residual consciousness or awareness left, following devastating brain injury and allowing us to open a means of communication.
Written by Linda Marshall Griffiths
Directed by Nadia Molinari
Sound Design by Steve Brooke
Programme Consultant Anil Seth
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WED 15:00 Money Box (b07hwmcl)
Money Box Live: Benefits - is the system too complex?
Is our welfare benefit system too complex? Billions of pounds go unclaimed every year by millions of people. So what can be done to improve benefit take-up so that the money reaches those who need it? And as the roll out of Universal Credit progresses, we find out how it's helping to simplify the system.
To share your views, suggestions and experiences. with Paul and guests, call 03700 100 444 from
1pm to
3.30pm or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk Standard geographic charges from landlines and mobiles will apply.
Presenter: Paul Lewis
Producer: Alex Lewis
Editor: Andrew Smith.
WED 15:30 Inside Health (b07j537l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
21:00 on Tuesday]
WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed (b07j68nc)
Political women and language, The morality of sleep medication
Political women, gender and speech: Laurie Taylor talks to Deborah Cameron, Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at the University of Oxford, about her analysis of the performances of the three female party leaders who took part in televised debates during the 2015 UK General Election campaign. What were the similarities and differences between the women and their male colleagues, as well as between the women themselves and how was it taken up as an issue in media coverage of the campaign?
Also, the morality of sleep medications. Jonathan Gabe, Professor of Sociology at Royal Holloway, University of London, talks about his study into attitudes towards the prescribing and taking of sleeping pills.
Producer: Jayne Egerton.
WED 16:30 The Media Show (b07hwmcn)
BBC leadership shake-up, and exposing the secret tax havens of the rich and powerful
BBC Director General Tony Hall has revealed his plans to reshape the senior leadership team at the corporation. But it's not what analysts were expecting. We look into what's going on behind the scenes with this BBC reorganisation.
We hear reaction from Ben Dowell of the Radio Times, Daily Telegraph Radio Critic Gillian Reynolds and broadcasting consultant Tim Suter, formerly of Ofcom, the Department for Culture Media and Sport, and the BBC.
Also on the Media Show, the two German investigators behind the Panama Papers - Frederik Obermaier and Bastian Obermayer of the Suddeutsche Zeitung - reveal how they put together the international story that brought down governments and revealed the secret money trails and tax havens of world leaders, criminals and big business.
WED 17:00 PM (b07hwmcq)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b07hwmcs)
06/07/16 Chilcot report: Tony Blair's Iraq War case not justified
It says the intelligence was flawed and post-war planning had been wholly inadequate
WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b04wv049)
Series 6
Roy Walker
Marcus Brigstocke persuades Roy Walker to see his first ever Shakespeare play and banter with the audience for the first time.
Roy is best known as the host of ITVs Catchphrase.
Series persuading guests to try new experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. Some are loved, some are loathed, in this show all about embracing the new.
Director: Bill Dare
First broadcast on BBC Radio in January 2015.
WED 19:00 The Archers (b07j68nf)
Clarrie and Pat chat in the dairy about the elf migration. Jennifer has put up photos of the event on the village website. Pat tells her that Helen has started working the vegetable garden but they haven't heard from her directly yet. Later, Clarrie explains to Pat and Tony about the work being done at Grange Farm. The sycamore has come down but now a patch of damp has been found in the sitting room.
Helen explains to Kaz that Henry was conceived by donation insemination. Kaz empathises about being grateful for meeting a man who will take on a child that's not their own. Helen cautiously says it feels good to be able to choose for herself again and mentions the haircut Rob persuaded her to have for a New Year Ball. Helen opens up to Kaz about Rob's controlling behaviour; his comments on her appearance and the tracking software the police found on her mobile.
Rob visits Pat and Tony and tells them that Henry was upset by one of the other children at school who told him his mother was a murderer and locked in prison. He explains what he said to Henry and tells Pat and Tony it's up to them if they want to give a more sugar-coated version. Pat can't believe that Rob is dictating how they treat their grandchild. Tony says they can only do their best, nothing more.
WED 19:15 Front Row (b07hwmcv)
Christopher Hampton, Maggie's Plan, Arnolfini, Queens of Syria
Playwright and screenwriter (Atonement; Les Liaisons dangereuses) Christopher Hampton on translating the work of Florian Zeller, as his latest play The Truth transfers to London's West End.
Maggie's Plan starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, and Julianne Moore - and directed by Rebecca Moore - is a romantic comedy with a twist. After Maggie, played by Gerwig, falls for a married man, she decides to try and reunite him with his wife. Film critic Larushka Ivan-Zadeh reviews.
With the announcement of the winner of the 2016 Art Fund Prize for Museum of the Year being made this evening, Front Row visits the fifth and final shortlisted entry, Arnolfini, a gallery and arts centre on the harbourside in Bristol.
Queens of Syria began in Jordan as a project for female Syrian refugees, updating Euripides' The Trojan Women to reflect their own experiences. As the play comes to the UK for a nationwide tour we speak to cast members Sham and Amwar and the director of the UK production Zoe Lafferty.
WED 19:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j571j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:41 today]
WED 20:00 Moral Maze (b07j68nh)
The Chilcot Inquiry
130 sessions of oral evidence,150 witnesses, 150,000 documents, more than 2.5 million words - the Chilcot Report on the Iraq War was finally published on the day of this programme. The inquiry was set up to examine our reasons for taking part in the US-led invasion of Iraq, how the war was prosecuted and its aftermath. But was the decision to go to war morally justified? Chilcot confirms that there was a massive failing in intelligence in the lead-up to the decision to go to war, especially around WMD; it accepts that Tony Blair was acting in good faith and did not deliberately mislead Parliament and the public about that intelligence. The relationship between morality and consequences is complex and sometimes contradictory. If Tony Blair and his government were acting in good faith but the consequences of that war were so catastrophic, can we still describe the decision to go to war as a moral one? If the government were a limited company, isn't this the kind of gross negligence that would lead to directors being prosecuted for corporate manslaughter? On the other hand, if - being wise after the event - we were to hound all politicians for making decisions that went wrong, wouldn't that produce sclerosis and the replacement of democratic judgement with technocracy? Is this a counsel of moral perfection that produces only paralysis of the will? When does ignorance become a moral failing? Is that contingent on outcomes? What if the war had been a success and Iraq transformed into a flourishing democracy? Would we still be worrying about whether it was moral? Would we have spent £10m on an inquiry about it? Chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Giles Fraser and Melanie Phillips. Witnesses are Prof Michael Clarke, John Rentoul, Haider Al Safi and Dr Dan Bulley.
WED 20:45 David Baddiel Tries to Understand (b07j68nk)
Series 2
Nuts
David Baddiel sets out to make sense of some apparently puzzling topics.
In the first programme of this series, after receiving suggested topics on social media, David tries to understand why nuts have hard shells. He visits the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew to meet the head of the arboretum, and a nut tree; and speaks to Thor Hanson, the author of 'The Triumph of Seeds'. On his journey to understanding David finds himself discussing evolution, fruit, badger poo, concrete and absent-minded squirrels.
Producer: Giles Edwards.
WED 21:00 Nature (b07j68nm)
Series 9
The Rainforest Canopy
With a two metre wingspan, strong hooked beak and four inch talons, harpy eagles are one of the most powerful birds of prey in the world and have been known to attack people who get too close to their nests, so when wildlife cameraman John Aitchison agreed to spend a month on a tiny platform high up in rainforest canopy in Venezuela to try and film a young eagle chick hunting for the first time, it was with some trepidation at what might lie ahead. John abseiled down from his platform each night to grab a meal and a few hours of sleep, but before dawn he climbed back up onto his tiny platform, just big enough for him and his camera. High up in the rainforest canopy, his neighbours included bellowing howler monkeys, flocks of squawking parrots and colourful butterflies as well as highly venomous snakes and stinging ants. He also had to endure some torrential storms and powerful winds. But his perseverance was rewarded with stunning views across the forest, magical misty mornings, very close encounters with the harpy chick and a most unexpected meeting between the young eagle and a very brave sloth! Producer Sarah Blunt.
WED 21:30 Midweek (b07j571g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 21:58 Weather (b07hwmcz)
The latest weather forecast.
WED 22:00 The World Tonight (b07hwmd1)
Iraq war decision 'flawed' - Chilcot
In a special edition of the World Tonight, we examine the Chilcot report with the help of Sir Jeremy Greenstock, Lord Falconer, Major General Tim Cross and Charles Duelfer. Also on the programme Paul Bremer, General Jack Keane and Amir Amirani.
Picture: Tony Blair receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom from George W. Bush
Credit: AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEBSAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images.
WED 22:45 The Muse by Jessie Burton (b07j68np)
Episode 3
When on a summer’s day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is about to change. For there she meets the glamourous and enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is holding back, and when ‘Rufina and the Lion’, a lost Spanish masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to suspect that the mystery behind the painting’s origins and her mentor’s secrecy may be somehow connected.
The truth about ‘Rufina and the Lion’ lies in 1936 and a large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and devastating consequences for them all.
Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist.
Written by Jessie Burton
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Read by Jessica Raine
Produced by Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
WED 23:00 The Lach Chronicles (b07j68pq)
Series 3
Lach's Antihoot
Lach was the King of Manhattan’s East Village and host of the longest running open mic night in New York. He now lives in Scotland and finds himself back at square one, playing in a dive bar on the wrong side of Edinburgh.
His night, held in various venues around New York, was called the Antihoot. Never quite fitting in and lost somewhere lonely between folk and punk music, Lach started the Antifolk movement. He played host to Suzanne Vega, Jeff Buckley and many others; he discovered and nurtured lots of talent including Beck, Regina Spektor and the Moldy Peaches. But nobody discovered him.
In this, the final episode, Lach decides it’s time to bring back the Antihoot and wonders what this adventure might bring.
Written by Lach
Performed by Lach, Julia Sutherland and Richard Melvin
Sound Design: Al Lorraine and Sean Kerwin
Executive Producer: Richard Melvin
A Dabster production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in July 2016.
WED 23:15 Bunk Bed (b07j68qd)
Series 3
5. The Cynical Use of Xylophones
Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place.
Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be followed like balloons escaping onto the air. Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander.
This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter Curran.
Here they try to get the heart of things in an entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for typical male banter.
From under the bed clothes they play each other music, and archive of Angela Carter, ex-Prime Ministers, a Castrato singer, and an elephant playing the piano.
Work, family, literature, and their own badly-scuffed dreams are the funny, if warped conversational currency.
A Foghorn Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in December 2018.
WED 23:30 Today in Parliament (b07j68qg)
Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the strong reactions in Parliament to Sir John Chilcot's report on the Iraq war.
THURSDAY 07 JULY 2016
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b07hwmg9)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b07k1dxp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b07hwmgc)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b07hwmgf)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b07hwmgh)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b07hwmgk)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b07ktf2t)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim writer, Sarah Joseph.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b07hwmgm)
DEFRA Minister George Eustice, Migrant Workers and the 2016 Livestock Event
DEFRA Minister George Eustice gives us his vision for the future of British Farming from the 2016 Livestock held at the NEC. The event is hosted by the Royal Association of British Dairy Farmers (RABDF) which has drawn in farmers, industry specialists and trades stands from twenty two countries from as far afield as New Zealand. It's a forum for farmers to scrutinise the very latest innovations that might help them cut costs, and improve their businesses.
We hear from farmers who say there is a returning optimism to the dairy sector.
Migrant workers staff everything from pig and poultry units to dairy farms - but nowhere are they more in demand than the horticulture sector. The EU referendum result has left migrant workers unsure of their current work status or their ability to return in the future. We meet three staff members from G's Fresh, one of the largest vegetable growing companies in the UK, to find out about their concerns for the future.
THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03k5cbg)
Lesser Redpoll
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
David Attenborough presents the lesser redpoll. You can spot Lesser Redpolls hanging like tiny acrobatic parrots among the slender twigs, while a rain of papery seeds falls down around them. They're lively birds which allow you to get fairly close, and then sometimes flocks will explode en masse for no apparent reason and fly around calling.
THU 06:00 Today (b07j68xq)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
THU 09:00 In Our Time (b07j699g)
The Invention of Photography
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the development of photography in the 1830s, when techniques for 'drawing with light' evolved to the stage where, in 1839, both Louis Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot made claims for its invention. These followed the development of the camera obscura, and experiments by such as Thomas Wedgwood and Nicéphore Niépce, and led to rapid changes in the 1840s as more people captured images with the daguerreotype and calotype. These new techniques changed the aesthetics of the age and, before long, inspired claims that painting was now dead.
With
Simon Schaffer
Professor of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge
Elizabeth Edwards
Emeritus Professor of Photographic History at De Montfort University
And
Alison Morrison-Low,
Research Associate at National Museums Scotland
Producer: Simon Tillotson.
THU 09:45 Book of the Week (b07k1hk2)
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Episode 4
Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and revealing biography.
Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and there is new personal testimony from those who knew and worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, presenting new details of his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime career.
Read by Nickolas Grace
Abridged by Libby Spurrier
Directed by Celia de Wolff
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b07hwmgp)
India's trafficked children.
An estimated 1.2 million children are trafficked worldwide for sexual exploitation, In India 10% of human trafficking is international, while almost 90% is interstate. Nearly 40,000 children are abducted every year. In some cases, children are not abducted but sold by desperately poor families resort to selling their children themselves to survive. Young girls are more commonly trafficked this way, as the illegal practice of dowries persists, making girls a financial burden on their parents. We join reporter Catherine Carr in the Eastern state of Orissa, where she went to meet workers from the charity Love the One and other working in the front line of child trafficking.
Iceland's men's Football team may well have reached the quarter finals of Euro 2016 in France but the women's national team already outplay the men on the international stage. We speak to the women's team captain Margret Lara Vioarsdottir.
Plus novelist and critic Amanda Craig discusses women in Roald Dahl, from the kind and sweet Miss Honey, to the sinister witches. And we join listener Karel Lush for a big night out a Soul and 60s legends weekend at Brean Sands in Somerset as she indulges her passion for tribute bands.
THU 10:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j699j)
The Surgeon
Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, cheats and schemers.
The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human nature.
In The Surgeon, Robert Sandy and his wife are faced with a dilemma - where should they conceal the priceless diamond Robert has been given by the King of Agrabah as reward for saving the life of his eldest son? It’s Friday evening and the banks are closed. There’s only one thing for it, they must find a secret hiding place somewhere in their house.
Cast:
Storyteller……..Charles Dance
Robert Sandy…..Simon Williams
Betty Sandy…….Emma Fielding
Prince…………..Sope Dirisu
Inspector……….Chris Stanton
Written by Roald Dahl
Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan
Director: David Blount
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4
THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent (b07hwmgr)
Middle class terrorists
Kate Adie introduces correspondents' stories from around the world: This week: After the killing of 20 hostages at an upmarket café in Bangladesh Sanjoy Majumder hears how it is the backgrounds of the killers that is worrying people in Dhaka. Linda Pressly meets the people attending an unusual rehab centre for alcoholics in Canada. Martin Patience tries in vain to get an accident report for a prang in his car in Nigeria. Shile Khumalo looks at how the Oscar Pistorius murder trial is being seen as an example of lingering white privilege in the South African Justice system. And Tony Vale is on the hunt of avocado rustlers in New Zealand.
THU 11:30 Roald Dahl: A Gremlin in the Works (b07j7b3j)
The cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe tells the story of one of the greatest movies never made.
Walt Disney sent a telegram to Roald Dahl saying he wanted to make a film based on Dahl's 1942 book The Gremlins - $50,000 was invested, more than a year of pre-production time was spent but, in the end, the story of little creatures who sabotaged wartime planes never made it into our cinemas.
Gerald Scarfe, who has provided illustrations for both Dahl's and Disney's works, paints a picture of how an RAF myth nearly became a Disney classic alongside The Jungle Book or Mary Poppins. He reveals the factors that eventually became the project's own 'gremlins in the works'.
The programme features Dahl's official biographer Donald Sturrock, who also directed Fantastic Mr Fox for TV, and Gerald was also given exclusive access to some of Roald Dahl's original papers.
A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:00 News Summary (b07hwmgt)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:04 Witness (b07j7b3l)
The Assassination of Anwar Sadat
This year marks 35 years since the assassination of the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. His death followed protests across the Arab world at his peace accord with Israel. Louise Hidalgo has spoken to his widow Jehan Sadat, about the events leading up to his death, and the day itself.
THU 12:15 You and Yours (b07hwmgw)
Online gambling, Fundraising regulator, Amazon reviews
Gamblers in the UK are losing more bets than ever - last year a record £12.6 billion was lost. But as punters lose more the bookmakers are becoming more reluctant to pay out. We speak to a gambler who won tens of thousands of pounds on an online casino but he says the betting site was holding onto his winnings.
Today the new Fundraising Regulator comes into force. It hopes to protect donors from being hassled by charities. We speak to the Chief Executive Stephen Dunmore.
Amazon is trying to crack down on retailers offering discounts and free gifts in exchange for good reviews. We speak to the customers who say they don't trust reviews when they shop online because of it.
Research by You and Yours shows more than a quarter of care homes are in financial danger. We report from Northamptonshire where the council, like most, needs to meet austerity targets, and is trying to make most of those savings by cutting adult social services.
A third of all holiday booked now are by adults travelling on their own. Former Newrsreader Jan Leeming likes to travel alone and she tells Winifred why.
And crisp fans are munching their way through multipacks of Walkers because they want to win a competition to win a holiday. If they collect enough letters in packs to spell a destination they'll be able to cash them in for a trip to that location. But they say that some of the letters are too hard to get hold of - they're even setting up ebay auctions to find the elusive letters.
THU 12:57 Weather (b07hwmgy)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b07hwmh0)
Analysis of news & current affairs with Edward Stourton. As she stands to replace David Cameron, Andrea Leadsom discusses her CV and her stance on gay marriage. Ireland's foreign minister talks about his hope for the Brexit negotiations, but warns that some border controls seem likely. And we hear from villagers in Oxfordshire who've become a tourist attraction for reasons they can't quite fathom.
THU 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze (b07jlq0n)
Series 1
The Berlin Blockade
As part of her series tracing the crucial turning-points of the early Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the Berlin Blockade - with the help of three people who lived under the Blockade for a year.
In 1948, Stalin was alarmed and frustrated by moves by America, Britain and France to forge the Zones of Germany that they occupied into a new state - what would become West Germany.
But the Western Allies had a weak point - Berlin was surrounded by the Soviet Occupation Zone, and within the city, Britain, America and France each ran a sector. So Stalin retaliated by placing the Western sectors under Blockade in a bid to drive the Western Allies from the city.
Would the West help the stranded Berliners? How could it, without risking World War Three? Would it leave them to their fate - either starvation or Soviet occupation?
Bridget Kendall hears from three young Berliners of the time about how the hungry city held its breath. And how the West scrambled to establish what had been thought impossible: an Airlift to feed well over two million people a day.
And she explores how the eventual against-the-odds success of the Airlift had a consequence Stalin hadn't intended - driving the Western nations together into a more cohesive military bloc to oppose Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe.
With: Jürgen Blask, Gisela Bilski, Gerhard Bürger
Producers: Phil Tinline and Sabine Schereck.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b07j68nf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b07j7j65)
States of Mind: Real Worlds
It is 2030, and for the past fourteen years Charlie's mother Ella has been confined to her hospital room following a brain injury. Although Ella has remained behaviourally unresponsive, she is conscious and able to communicate using Virtual Reality (VR) and a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) which controls a speech synthesiser. Charlie has struggled growing up without the support of her mother and is reluctant to communicate with her mother in VR. Charlie has her own problems with a new baby, a husband who spends all his time in VR and a young son Kieran who she fears is heading the same way. But will Kieran be the key for Charlie to reconnect with her mother?
Real Worlds was developed through Wellcome Experimental Stories in consultation with Anil Seth (Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience and co-director at Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, University of Sussex). The drama was inspired by the themes of the current States of Mind exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London which explores the nature of consciousness and runs until 16th October 2016.
The drama imagines a time when advances in neuroscience have made interaction through VR and BCI not only possible but fluent. Even today, new research is able to decode some aspects of people's mental states by combining brain imaging with machine learning: 'brain reading'. The technologies of brain implantation and VR are advancing rapidly. Fourteen years provides a plausible horizon for when these technologies could provide new opportunities for immersive interactions in VR without relying on the physical body.
Written by Jane Rogers
Directed by Nadia Molinari
Sound Design by Steve Brooke
Programme Consultant Anil Seth.
THU 15:00 Open Country (b07j7j67)
Bishop Auckland, History in Production
'Kynren' is set across a landscaped stage which is the size of 5 football pitches and involves over 1000 local volunteers. Organizers hope that it will transform Bishop Auckland and bring many visitors to the area for years to come. The story will explore 2000 years of British history from Roman times through the Saxons and Vikings to Industrial times and beyond. Helen Mark hears from the local volunteers about what it means to them and discovers the real history behind Bishop Auckland. She visits Binchester Roman Fort, Escomb Saxon Church and the shut down collieries to see how history remains clearly written in the landscape as well as in this ambitious new production.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b07hwtwq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:54 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Bookclub (b07hwwjx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b07j7j69)
Rebecca Miller on Maggie's Plan
With Francine Stock
Rebecca Miller, the writer/director of Maggie's Plan, discusses the ways in which academia is like the mafia.
Josh Kriegman discusses his fly-on-the-wall documentary about the attempted come-back of disgraced politician Anthony Weiner, which goes horribly wrong.
Critics Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Tim Robey offer some alternatives to the sequels, prequels, re-makes and re-boots that dominate our cinemas over summer.
THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science (b07hwmh2)
Juno, Space debris, Fake tumours, Risky plants
Earlier this week, the US space agency successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter. The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had to fire a rocket engine in a tricky and precise manoeuvre in order to brake and become ensnared by Jupiter's gravity.
Fran Baganal is a mission scientist for Juno and tells Adam Rutherford what measurements Juno is now in position to make.
Space is full of junk left over from past space missions: from flecks of paint to used rockets, dead satellites, also debris from past collisions of space junk. This junk is speeding around the Earth at several thousand miles per hour. At those speeds even small pieces of rubbish just fractions of a millimetre across can damage communication satellites which are vital for the web, mobile phones, and satellite navigation on earth.
The Surrey Space centre team are preparing to launch the world's first space litter-picking mission. The RemoveDebris team share their clean up designs with Adam.
Researchers have had success growing body parts like windpipes and ears in the laboratory for use in transplants. A group of scientists at Barts Cancer Institute in London are making own tumours; tissues we don't want. However, it is important to study how they grow, and co-opt other cells in the body. Reporter Anand Jagatia heads to their tissue lab to see what they've grown.
All animals take risky decisions all the time. The ability to assess the potential gain from the potential harm, and make the right choice, gives the animal an evolutionary advantage. A new study suggests that plants are capable of making similar calculations, despite not having brains. Alex Kacelnik at Oxford University is one of the scientists behind the experiment that suggests that pea plants are willing to gamble.
Presenter: Adam Rutherford
Producer: Adrian Washbourne.
THU 17:00 PM (b07hwmh4)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b07hwmh6)
Theresa May and Andrea Leadsom go head to head for Tory leader
THU 18:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show (b07j7j6f)
Series 1
Episode 2
Internationally acclaimed master of the one-liner Tim Vine interviews members of a live audience as he embarks on a quest to hear the life stories of the Great British public while simultaneously showcasing his trademark mirthful wordplay and preposterous songs.
From the Wakefield Theatre Royal, Tim meets a secretary and sings an imaginary country song.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Studios production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2016.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b07j7j6h)
Pip makes a suggestion, and Alistair blames himself.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b07hwmh8)
The Liverpool Biennial 2016
As the Liverpool Biennial prepares to open, Samira Ahmed talks to Sally Tallant, director of the biennial and the woman charged with turning the Merseyside city into an international contemporary art gallery. She meets three of the artists who have responded to the themes of this year's biennial: Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey meditates on memory in his film Dream English Kid, 1964 - 1999 AD; 78 of Liverpool's youngsters help performance artist Marvin Gaye Chetwynd create a film installation - Dogsy Ma Bone - that fuses Bertolt Brecht and Betty Boop; and the American ceramic artist Betty Woodman draws inspiration from Liverpool's architecture for her fountain commission. And the first broadcast interview with the winner of the John Moores Painting Prize, the UK's longest-established painting prize with former winners including David Hockney and Peter Doig.
Presenter - Samira Ahmed
Producer - Ekene Akalawu.
THU 19:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j699j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Briefing Room (b07j7j6k)
The Chilcot Report: The Source Who Lied
The Chilcot Report revealed that a key source of flawed intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war was a man known as Curveball. How did this obscure figure come to influence Britain's decision to go to war? David Aaronovitch and guests discuss the story of Curveball and what it tells us about why intelligence sometimes fails.
Presenter: David Aaronovitch
Guests:
Peter Taylor, BBC reporter and presenter of "Panorama: The Spies Who Fooled the World";
Stephen Grey, author of The New Spymasters;
Valerie Plame, former CIA officer and author of "Fair Game"
Producer: Joe Kent.
THU 20:30 The Bottom Line (b07j7j6m)
The Price of Life
It's hard to put a value on a human life. When you're well, perhaps you don't think about it. But if you're ill, getting access to the right drugs, whatever the cost, is a priority. But the NHS does not have a bottomless pit of money. And some medicines are judged too expensive to be freely available, so patients miss out on treatments that could save or extend their lives. There are usually two villains of the piece: The drugs companies for charging too much; the NHS for not stumping up the cash. In this edition, Evan Davis and guests explore how pharmaceutical companies price their drugs, the role of the NHS in deciding how much the medicines are worth and, in the case of generic or non-branded drugs, they'll ask whether competition is working properly to keep down the NHS medicines bill.
Guests:
Erik Nordkamp, Managing Director, Pfizer UK
Carole Longson, Director of the Centre for Health Technology Evaluation at NICE, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Warwick Smith, Director-General, British Generic Manufacturers Association
Producer: Sally Abrahams.
THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science (b07hwmh2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 today]
THU 21:30 In Our Time (b07j699g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 21:58 Weather (b07hwmhb)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b07hwmhd)
Final two in race to be PM
Who are the final candidates vying to be Prime Minister and who are the members who will decide between them.
THU 22:45 The Muse by Jessie Burton (b07j7j6p)
Episode 4
When on a summer’s day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is about to change. For there she meets the glamourous and enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is holding back, and when ‘Rufina and the Lion’, a lost Spanish masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to suspect that the mystery behind the painting’s origins and her mentor’s secrecy may be somehow connected.
The truth about ‘Rufina and the Lion’ lies in 1936 and a large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and devastating consequences for them all.
Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist.
Written by Jessie Burton
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Read by Martina Laird
Produced by Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
THU 23:00 Ria Lina: School of Riason (b07j7jkl)
Award-winning comic Ria Lina shares her surprising experience of the year she concluded her local school wasn't making the grade and decided to school her children at home.
Well, not all of them, just the two she can stand.
No one was going to screw up her children better than she was. But suddenly, the responsibility for everything they were learning was upon her shoulders.
Ria's eclectic upbringing and education provides a unique perspective on what is and isn't important for her children to learn, but none of that means she's necessarily the best equipped to guide the youth of today into the future of tomorrow. She had to quickly dig into the issues of what we teach, and how - writing her own curriculum with comedic results.
Didactic comedy for anyone who ever went to school. Complete with songs.
Ria Lina has electrified audiences across the globe with her biting material. Half Filipino, half German, she was born in Britain but raised in the USA and Europe.
She's a trained actor, singer and dancer, with an extensive education (she studied the International Baccalaureate before going on to acquire a BSc in Experimental Pathology, an MSc in Forensic Science and a PhD in Viral Bio-informatics). And she can play the ukulele.
Producer: Lianne Coop
An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2016.
THU 23:30 Today in Parliament (b07j7jkn)
The Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond faces the questions of MPs over how much government planning was done in advance of the EU Referendum. Susan Hulme follows the session of the Foreign affairs committee.
Also on the programme.:
* Labour MPs question whether British agriculture is being properly safeguarded as Britain moves to leave the EU.
* A Labour peer calls for a second referendum on Britain's EU membership.
* The Leader of the Commons mocks Labour for its internal party difficulties at Westminster.
* MPs talk about the abusive and hateful communications they've received via the internet.
FRIDAY 08 JULY 2016
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b07hwmk5)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b07k1hk2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b07hwmk7)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b07hwmk9)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b07hwmkc)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b07hwmkf)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b07jlqzv)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Muslim writer, Sarah Joseph.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b07hwmkh)
Dolly the sheep, Horticulture sector post-Brexit, Tractor tailbacks
Twenty years ago this week the eyes of the world were on Edinburgh, and more specifically on the Roslin Institute for a huge scientific breakthrough. Dolly the sheep, the first animal to be cloned from an adult cell anywhere, ever, was born. Dolly was created in a lab using an adult stem cell taken from one sheep to fertilise an egg from another. It was a leap forward in the science of genetic engineering. Researchers hoped it would generate new ways of treating debilitating diseases, but critics were worried it could open the door to human cloning.
Tractor drivers often cause tail backs, but what's it like if you're the one driving that tractor and you can see the queue of irritated motorists mounting up behind you? We speak to a farmer in Carlisle about the problems he faces on the roads near Carlisle.
John Shropshire runs G's, one of Britain's largest vegetable growers, who supplies celery beetroot and salad vegetables to British supermarkets. He employs eight thousand staff across the world and has farms in Spain, Poland, Senegal and the UK. Much of his business relies on access to the European Single Market - but the EU Referendum result could have put this in jeopardy.
Presented by Caz Graham and Produced by Emily Hughes.
FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b03mztrw)
Greylag Goose
Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.
David Attenborough presents the story of the Greylag Goose. Greylags are the biggest and bulkiest of our wild grey geese with bright orange bills and pink legs. When they fly, you can see large pale grey panels on the wings. The greylag has been fully domesticated for around three thousand years.
FRI 06:00 Today (b07j7ntt)
Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b07hwv06)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b07k1jnw)
Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited
Episode 5
Hailed by Graham Greene as 'the greatest novelist of my generation', yet reckoned by Hilaire Belloc to have been possessed by the devil, Waugh's literary reputation has risen steadily since Greene's assessment in 1966. Philip Eade revisits the life of Evelyn Waugh for a new and revealing biography.
Waugh's Estate has released previously unseen letters and there is new personal testimony from those who knew and worked with him. The book spans the whole of Waugh's life, presenting new details of his difficult relationship with his embarrassingly sentimental father, his love affair with Alastair Graham at Oxford, his disastrous marriage to Evelyn Gardner and its complicated annulment, his dramatic conversion to Roman Catholicism and his chequered wartime career.
Read by Nickolas Grace
Abridged by Libby Spurrier
Directed by Celia de Wolff
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b07hwmkm)
Black beauty pageants, Wannabe, Stepmothers, Dark fiction, Jewish salon
Miss Black and Beautiful is the first major exhibition of the work of Raphael Albert, the cultural promoter and photographer of black beauty pageants in west London from the late 1960s to the 1980s. Jenni speaks to Renée Mussai, the exhibition's curator.
Twenty years after its first release, the Spice Girls' hit Wannabe has been remade, with a new video calling for an end to violence against women ahead of a United Nations meeting. Jenni speaks to director of the video, MJ Delaney and BBC Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney.
What is it really like to be a step parent? Jenni speaks to four listeners who share their own experiences of taking on the role of mum.
We look at the attraction of reading psychological thrillers like The Widow, Disclaimer, Stranger on A Train and Gone Girl. Why do we enjoy grappling with an unreliable narrator, being taken to a dark, corrupt, sometimes evil place. Why is it that women are so good at writing these types of books? Jenni speaks to writers Sabine Durrant and Ruth Ware.
The Salon is a series from the BBC World Service looking at women's lives and identities as expressed through their relationship with their hair and their hairdressers around the world. Chaya is a member of London's Orthodox Jewish community and she spoke to reporter Charlotte Pritchard.
Presenter: Jenni Murray.
FRI 10:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j7ntw)
The Butler
Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, cheats and schemers.
The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human nature.
In The Butler, we meet George Cleaver, the Sausage King of the North, who sells his business and moves to London in order to enter society. He employs a butler, Tibbs, to help him to do this. Tibbs explains that it’s vital Cleaver learns as much as he can about fine wines - and, to this end, Tibbs sets about buying rare and expensive vintages and educating his employer. Before long, Cleaver feels he no longer needs his butler’s advice.
Cast:
Storyteller………..Charles Dance
George Cleaver….Geoffrey Whitehead
Mrs Cleaver……...Sarah Badel
Tibbs……………..Nickolas Grace
Lord Dungeness….Nicholas Boulton
Written by Roald Dahl
Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan
Director: David Blount
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 11:00 Farewell Doctor Finlay (b07j7nty)
Episode 1
Doctor Margaret McCartney tells the story of general practice in the UK from the surgeon-apothecaries of the 18th century to the troubled early years of the NHS.
"The history of medicine is the history of general practice," declares historian Martin Edwards - and this programme shows why, starting with the first golden age of general practice in the 18th century when growing affluence meant people could afford to seek out surgeon-apothecaries who did primitive surgery and bloodletting, and dosed patients with powerful purgative drugs.
In 1858, the Medical Act introduced the registration of doctors and created the General Medical Council, which still regulates GPs today.
Legendary GP and medical author Julian Tudor Hart describes how the National Insurance Act of 1911 meant GPs could "prescribe money" in the form of benefits to sick and injured men, at a time when most medicine was ineffective. Only in the 1930s - the period when Dr Finlay's Casebook was set - did a new generation of effective medicines come into being.
The programme also considers how the 1911 Act, the Medical Aid Societies, the Highlands and Islands Medical Service and World War Two laid the foundations for the National Health Service.
Presented by Dr Margaret McCartney
Produced by Mike Hally
A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 11:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b04nvf5n)
Series 4
Episode 5
John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch show.
5/6: This penultimate edition of the series presents the only detectives who've not had their own TV show yet; a well-disguised sketch about the residents of the savannah; and a revolutionary email exchange..
The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series actually won a Radio Academy award.
In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in other words, but about different things and with different jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will involve talking animals.)
Written by and starring ... John Finnemore
Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.
Producer ... Ed Morrish.
FRI 12:00 News Summary (b07hwmkp)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:04 Witness (b07j7nv1)
Forced Sterilisation in Peru
It is 20 years since the Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori launched a family planning programme. He argued that a lower birth rate would drive down poverty but many Peruvian women now claim that they were forcibly sterilised without their permission. Mike Lanchin reports.
FRI 12:15 You and Yours (b07hwmkr)
Consumer confidence, Smart homes, Market research
Consumer research specialist GfK says its seen the biggest plunge in consumer confidence for 21 years. The company, which publishes monthly data on how we feel about spending, says it hasn't seen a drop like it for more than two decades.
How a head injury could increase your propensity to commit crime. Researchers at Leeds Prison say 47% of prisoners had suffered a head injury before committing the crime for which they were incarcerated.
Why do tech companies want you to buy a smart thermostat to control your heating online? Some see it as an entry point for consumers to buy more internet-connected devices for their home. They believe that in the future we'll want to connect up everything from our front door to our kettle and control them all via a mobile app. But do we really want to and what are the down-sides to a connected home?
The market research industry in the UK is 70: What has it done to improve consumers' lives? Liz Nelson OBE, the co founder of market research company TNS gives us her insights.
Producer: Kevin Mousley
Presenter: Peter White.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b07hwmkt)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b07hwmkw)
Analysis of news and current affairs.
FRI 13:45 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze (b07jlq6n)
Series 1
The Fall of Shanghai
In a series tracing the decisive moments in the early years of the Cold War, Bridget Kendall tells the story of the fall of Shanghai in 1949, a pivotal event which helped pave the way for the emergence of a new Communist power in Asia - the People's Republic of China.
Featuring Eddy Hsia, Betty Barr Wang, George Barr Wang and Liliane Willens.
Producer: Martin Williams.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b07j7j6h)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Defoe (b07j7nv3)
Defoe: Merchant, Writer, Convict, Spy
Throughout his life Daniel Defoe was never far from trouble and died hiding from creditors. Philip Palmer's biographical drama tells the story of a man trying to survive in an extremely hard world; of how he wrote his way out of trouble in prison, came to the attention of one of the most powerful men in England, and became a spy for the government in the lead up to the Act of Union.
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b07j7nv5)
Galleries of Justice, Nottingham
Eric Robson and the panel answer horticultural questions from the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham. Dealing with the queries this week are Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood
Produced by Dan Cocker
Assistant producer: Laurence Bassett
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Hannah Vincent - The Poison Frog (b07j7nv7)
Written by Hannah Vincent. A curious tale featuring a mother, a daughter and an amphibian. The swelling on Vicky’s mother’s neck creates unforeseen family tensions.
Hannah Vincent lives in Brighton. She began her writing life as a playwright and her first radio play, Come to Grief, was a re-working of one of her stage plays. It won the BBC 2015 Audio Award for Best Adaptation. Hannah’s first novel is Alarm Girl. She is currently writing a second novel and carrying out doctoral research in creative and critical writing at the University of Sussex. She teaches Creative Writing for the Open University and will become a Royal Literary Fund fellow in September.
Writer: Hannah Vincent
Reader: Sinead Matthews
Producer: Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b07j7nv9)
Caroline Aherne, Elie Wiesel, Sir Geoffrey Hill, Lord Mayhew, Michael Cimino
Matthew Bannister on
The comedian Caroline Aherne who created Mrs Merton and the Royle family and struggled with the pressures of fame.
Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel. Described by President Obama as "one of the great moral voices of our time", he won the Nobel Peace Prize.
The poet Sir Geoffrey Hill whose work focused on English history, landscape and religion.
The Conservative politician Lord Mayhew. As Northern Ireland Secretary under John Major, he laid the foundations for the peace process.
And the film director Michael Cimino - best known for the Deer Hunter which won five Oscars.
Producer: Dianne McGregor.
FRI 16:30 Feedback (b07jx1db)
The unpredictable and fast-moving political landscape post-Brexit continues to dominate the headlines and listeners remain divided over whether the BBC's coverage has been as "duly impartial" as its Charter requires.
The "political earthquake" caused by last month's vote has presented special challenges to BBC Radio News - not just in terms of balance but also because of the sheer speed with which the tectonic plates have shifted. And when Boris Johnson announced he wasn't running for the tory leadership it wasn't just the lunchtime bulletins which had to be re-written - it presented a considerable headache to the writers and performers of Radio 4's Deadringers, who were recording their programme just a few hours later.
We went along to see how they would cope.
Series producer Bill Dare talks us through some of the hairier moments of the last two weeks and Jon Culshaw and Jan Ravens explain how they've speedily perfected their impersonations of Michael Gove and Theresa May.
And is visualisation the future of radio? Roger Bolton chairs a panel with Joe Harland, the BBC's Head of Visual Radio; Rhian Roberts, the editor of digital for Radios 4, 3 and 4 Extra; and three listeners with very different views on the need to be able to watch radio.
Producer: Will Yates
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 16:55 The Listening Project (b07j7nvc)
David and John - Bowing Out Gracefully
Fi Glover introduces a thespian conversation about how long one can continue to direct youth theatre and be a useful mentor. Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
FRI 17:00 PM (b07hwmky)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b07hwml0)
A man with a grudge against white people is the main suspect in the Dallas sniper attack
FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers (b07j7nvf)
Series 16
Episode 4
It's out with Farage, Gove, Boris, Hodgson, Chris Evans and David Cameron. And in with the new: Andrea Leadsom?
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b07j7nvh)
Jennifer helps Lilian choose what to wear for the Borchester Food and Drink Awards. Lilian has had a call from Helen and they have arranged a time for Lilian to visit. She tells Jennifer that Helen is sounding much more like herself.
Helen phones Anna and they both admit their nerves at last week's FHDRA. Anna suggests she doesn't have to represent Helen if she's not happy with their rapport but Helen doesn't want Anna to give up on her. Anna makes it clear she needs to build her case.
At the Awards, Justin wishes Jennifer and Pat an enjoyable evening and goes to find Lilian. Pat and Jennifer wonder why Justin is still around now Route B has been ruled out. Lilian joins them flustered by the requests of Miranda's friends. Miranda comes over to have a word with Lilian who appears to be mesmerised by Miranda's dress. Lilian insists Miranda must change immediately as the mayor's wife will be wearing the same dress.
Ian wins the award for Haute Cuisine and Pat, Jennifer and Lilian talk over the applause; The Bull won the Family Dining category. Lower Loxley's wine, Upper Class Eggs and the Tearoom all missed out on awards. Justin announces the final award of the evening - Best Artisan Product goes to Helen Titchener. Pat says it will mean a lot to Helen and collects the award on her behalf.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b07hwml2)
Judith Kerr, Mumford & Sons and Baaba Maal, Weiner, Spencer Tunick
The author and illustrator Judith Kerr, who escaped Hitler's Germany as a child and went on to write more than 30 children's books, has received a lifetime achievement award from the reading charity BookTrust. The creator of the Mog the Cat and The Tiger Who Came to Tea talks to John Wilson about what keeps her drawing and writing at the age of 93.
Hadley Freeman reviews a fascinating new fly-on-the-wall film about American politician Anthony Weiner, whose campaign to be Mayor of New York is beset with scandal.
Folk rockers Mumford & Sons travelled to South Africa earlier this year to perform a series of concerts. They came back having recorded a mini-album, Johannesburg, with Senegalese singer Baaba Maal, South African rockers Beatenberg and electronic producers The Very Best. Marcus Mumford and Ben Lovett from the group, and Baaba Maal joined John to discuss what attracted them both to the collaboration.
And tomorrow thousands of members of the public will be taking to the streets of Hull naked and painted blue. They're taking part in an installation called Sea of Hull. We speak to the artist Spencer Tunick about the practicalities of pulling off such a large scale work.
Presenter - John Wilson
Producer - Rachel Simpson.
FRI 19:45 Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist (b07j7ntw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b07j7nvk)
Tim Farron MP, Dominic Grieve MP, Liam Halligan, Gisela Stuart MP
Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Sandbach Town Hall in Cheshire with the Leader of the Liberal Democrats Tim Farron MP, Chair of the Intelligence and Security Committee Dominic Grieve MP, Sunday Telegraph columnist Liam Halligan and the Labour MP and former chair of Vote Leave which campaigned for Brexit, Gisela Stuart.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b07j7nvm)
Belongings
"Transitions shake us" writes AL Kennedy. "and you don't need me to tell you that as a nation we're sharing one".
Alison reflects on how disturbing transitional times can be ...and writes of her own personal experience and that happening in post-Brexit Britain.
Producer: Adele Armstrong.
FRI 21:00 Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze (b07j7nvp)
Series 1
Omnibus 1
Bridget Kendall presents a new oral history of the early turning points in the Cold War.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b07hwml4)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b07hwml6)
Dallas shooting suspect 'wanted to kill white people'
We have extensive coverage of the Dallas shootings hearing from eyewitness Brendan Tyler Hester; Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson, who represents Dallas; and Robert Wilonsky, from the Dallas Morning News.
Picture: Police officers take cover after a sniper shoots at them in Dallas, Texas.
Credit: Smiley N. Pool/The Dallas Morning News/via REUTERS.
FRI 22:45 The Muse by Jessie Burton (b07j7pdk)
Episode 5
When on a summer’s day in 1967, Odelle Bastien climbs the steps of the Skelton gallery in London to take up a position as typist, she little realises how significantly her life is about to change. For there she meets the glamourous and enigmatic Marjorie Quick, who soon takes Odelle into her confidence and encourages her to pursue her dream of writing. But Odelle senses there is something that Quick is holding back, and when ‘Rufina and the Lion’, a lost Spanish masterpiece is brought to the gallery, Odelle begins to suspect that the mystery behind the painting’s origins and her mentor’s secrecy may be somehow connected.
The truth about ‘Rufina and the Lion’ lies in 1936 and a large house in rural Spain, where Olive Schloss, the daughter of renowned art dealer Harold Schloss and his beautiful but fragile wife Sarah, is harbouring artistic ambitions of her own. When artist and revolutionary Isaac Robles and his half-sister Teresa come into their lives, passion, art, and politics collide, with explosive and devastating consequences for them all.
Weaving between events in 1967 and those of 1936, a powerful story of love, obsession, identity, authenticity and deception unfolds in this highly anticipated new novel from Jessie Burton, author of the best-selling The Miniaturist.
Written by Jessie Burton
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Read by Jessica Raine
Produced by Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.
FRI 23:00 A Good Read (b07j4qx4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:30 on Tuesday]
FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament (b07j7pdm)
Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster.
FRI 23:55 The Listening Project (b07j7q4d)
Omar and Radhika - Education Is Everything
Fi Glover with a conversation about how her son's performance ambitions are making his mother re-think the career expectations she's absorbed from her culture. Another in the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen.
The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to them about a subject they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being archived by the British Library and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject
Producer: Marya Burgess.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)
A Good Read
16:30 TUE (b07j4qx4)
A Good Read
23:00 FRI (b07j4qx4)
A Point of View
08:48 SUN (b07hj8bv)
A Point of View
20:50 FRI (b07j7nvm)
Analysis
21:30 SUN (b07h6zg7)
Analysis
20:30 MON (b07j47q0)
Any Answers?
14:00 SAT (b07h2vsg)
Any Questions?
13:10 SAT (b07hj8bs)
Any Questions?
20:00 FRI (b07j7nvk)
Archive on 4
20:00 SAT (b07hwhl9)
BBC Inside Science
16:30 THU (b07hwmh2)
BBC Inside Science
21:00 THU (b07hwmh2)
Bells on Sunday
05:43 SUN (b07hwtdg)
Bells on Sunday
00:45 MON (b07hwtdg)
Book of the Week
00:30 SAT (b07hj59r)
Book of the Week
09:45 MON (b07j3mv1)
Book of the Week
00:30 TUE (b07j3mv1)
Book of the Week
09:45 TUE (b07k1dsj)
Book of the Week
00:30 WED (b07k1dsj)
Book of the Week
09:45 WED (b07k1dxp)
Book of the Week
00:30 THU (b07k1dxp)
Book of the Week
09:45 THU (b07k1hk2)
Book of the Week
00:30 FRI (b07k1hk2)
Book of the Week
09:45 FRI (b07k1jnw)
Bookclub
16:00 SUN (b07hwwjx)
Bookclub
15:30 THU (b07hwwjx)
Broadcasting House
09:00 SUN (b07hwm2j)
Bunk Bed
23:15 WED (b07j68qd)
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze
13:45 MON (b07j40x0)
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze
13:45 TUE (b07jlq39)
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze
13:45 WED (b07jlq44)
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze
13:45 THU (b07jlq0n)
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze
13:45 FRI (b07jlq6n)
Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze
21:00 FRI (b07j7nvp)
Comic Fringes
19:45 SUN (b068sp4j)
Counterpoint
23:00 SAT (b07h6gwy)
Counterpoint
15:00 MON (b07j4384)
David Baddiel Tries to Understand
20:45 WED (b07j68nk)
Dead Ringers
12:30 SAT (b07hj8bn)
Dead Ringers
18:30 FRI (b07j7nvf)
Defoe
14:15 FRI (b07j7nv3)
Desert Island Discs
11:15 SUN (b07hwv06)
Desert Island Discs
09:00 FRI (b07hwv06)
Document
16:00 TUE (b07j4ppw)
Don't Log Off
23:00 MON (b07j47q4)
Drama
14:30 SAT (b07hwhgc)
Drama
21:00 SAT (b07h65by)
Drama
15:00 SUN (b07hwwjv)
Drama
14:15 MON (b044j7q2)
Drama
14:15 TUE (b07j4pg2)
Drama
14:15 WED (b07j68n9)
Drama
14:15 THU (b07j7j65)
Farewell Doctor Finlay
11:00 FRI (b07j7nty)
Farming Today
06:30 SAT (b07h2vs0)
Farming Today
05:45 MON (b07hwm5b)
Farming Today
05:45 TUE (b07hwm86)
Farming Today
05:45 WED (b07hwmc5)
Farming Today
05:45 THU (b07hwmgm)
Farming Today
05:45 FRI (b07hwmkh)
Feedback
20:00 SUN (b07hj8bj)
Feedback
16:30 FRI (b07jx1db)
File on 4
20:00 TUE (b07j537j)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:30 SAT (b07h2vs6)
From Our Own Correspondent
11:00 THU (b07hwmgr)
Front Row
19:15 MON (b07hwm5z)
Front Row
19:15 TUE (b07hwm8s)
Front Row
19:15 WED (b07hwmcv)
Front Row
19:15 THU (b07hwmh8)
Front Row
19:15 FRI (b07hwml2)
Gardeners' Question Time
14:00 SUN (b07hj8bb)
Gardeners' Question Time
15:00 FRI (b07j7nv5)
Hannah Vincent - The Poison Frog
15:45 FRI (b07j7nv7)
I Was...
10:30 SAT (b06bnbpg)
I Work for the Government, and Let's Leave It at That
20:00 MON (b07j47py)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
12:04 SUN (b07h6qsp)
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
18:30 MON (b07j438b)
I've Never Seen Star Wars
18:30 WED (b04wv049)
In Our Time
09:00 THU (b07j699g)
In Our Time
21:30 THU (b07j699g)
In Touch
20:40 TUE (b07hwm8v)
India's Classical Music Marathon
11:30 TUE (b07j4kfy)
Inside Health
21:00 TUE (b07j537l)
Inside Health
15:30 WED (b07j537l)
Introductions
00:30 SUN (b044gkbf)
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
11:30 FRI (b04nvf5n)
Last Word
20:30 SUN (b07hj8bg)
Last Word
16:00 FRI (b07j7nv9)
Loose Ends
18:15 SAT (b07hwhgf)
Midnight News
00:00 SAT (b07h2vrk)
Midnight News
00:00 SUN (b07hwm1t)
Midnight News
00:00 MON (b07hwm50)
Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
00:00 FRI (b07hwmk5)
Midweek
09:00 WED (b07j571g)
Midweek
21:30 WED (b07j571g)
Money Box
12:04 SAT (b07hwhg9)
Money Box
21:00 SUN (b07hwhg9)
Money Box
15:00 WED (b07hwmcl)
Moral Maze
22:15 SAT (b07hgh5f)
Moral Maze
20:00 WED (b07j68nh)
My Teenage Diary
18:30 TUE (b07j4qx6)
Natural Histories
21:00 MON (b07h9xdl)
Natural Histories
11:00 TUE (b07j4kc9)
Nature
21:00 WED (b07j68nm)
News Briefing
05:30 SAT (b07h2vrt)
News Briefing
05:30 SUN (b07hwm22)
News Briefing
05:30 MON (b07hwm58)
News Briefing
05:30 TUE (b07hwm84)
News Briefing
05:30 WED (b07hwmc3)
News Briefing
05:30 THU (b07hwmgk)
News Briefing
05:30 FRI (b07hwmkf)
News Headlines
06:00 SUN (b07hwm24)
News Summary
12:00 SAT (b07h2vs8)
News Summary
12:00 SUN (b07hwm2l)
News Summary
12:00 MON (b07hwm5l)
News Summary
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News Summary
12:00 WED (b07hwmcb)
News Summary
12:00 THU (b07hwmgt)
News Summary
12:00 FRI (b07hwmkp)
News and Papers
06:00 SAT (b07h2vrw)
News and Papers
07:00 SUN (b07hwm28)
News and Papers
08:00 SUN (b07hwm2g)
News and Weather
22:00 SAT (b07h2vsx)
News
13:00 SAT (b07h2vsd)
On Your Farm
06:35 SUN (b07hwtdl)
One Day in Entebbe
17:00 SUN (b07hg4vg)
One to One
09:30 TUE (b07j4jgb)
Open Country
06:07 SAT (b07hhwyh)
Open Country
15:00 THU (b07j7j67)
PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
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PM
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Pick of the Week
18:15 SUN (b07hwm2z)
Plum House
11:30 WED (b07j571n)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 SAT (b07hj999)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 MON (b07k9j73)
Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
05:43 THU (b07ktf2t)
Prayer for the Day
05:43 FRI (b07jlqzv)
Profile
19:00 SAT (b07hwhl7)
Profile
05:45 SUN (b07hwhl7)
Profile
17:40 SUN (b07hwhl7)
Radio 4 Appeal
07:54 SUN (b07hwtwq)
Radio 4 Appeal
21:26 SUN (b07hwtwq)
Radio 4 Appeal
15:27 THU (b07hwtwq)
Ria Lina: School of Riason
23:00 THU (b07j7jkl)
Roald Dahl: A Gremlin in the Works
11:30 THU (b07j7b3j)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
10:45 MON (b07j40wr)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
19:45 MON (b07j40wr)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
10:45 TUE (b07j4kc7)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
19:45 TUE (b07j4kc7)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
10:41 WED (b07j571j)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
19:45 WED (b07j571j)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
10:45 THU (b07j699j)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
19:45 THU (b07j699j)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
10:45 FRI (b07j7ntw)
Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist
19:45 FRI (b07j7ntw)
Rumblings from the Rafters
19:15 SUN (b07hwxbk)
Saturday Live
09:00 SAT (b07h2vs4)
Saturday Review
19:15 SAT (b07h2vsv)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SAT (b07h2vrp)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 SUN (b07hwm1y)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 MON (b07hwm54)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 WED (b07hwmbz)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 THU (b07hwmgf)
Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
01:00 FRI (b07hwmk9)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SAT (b07h2vrm)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SAT (b07h2vrr)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SAT (b07h2vsn)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 SUN (b07hwm1w)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 SUN (b07hwm20)
Shipping Forecast
17:54 SUN (b07hwm2s)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 MON (b07hwm52)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 MON (b07hwm56)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 TUE (b07hwm7y)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 TUE (b07hwm82)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 WED (b07hwmbx)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 WED (b07hwmc1)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 THU (b07hwmgc)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 THU (b07hwmgh)
Shipping Forecast
00:48 FRI (b07hwmk7)
Shipping Forecast
05:20 FRI (b07hwmkc)
Short Cuts
15:00 TUE (b07j4pg4)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SAT (b07h2vss)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 SUN (b07hwm2x)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 MON (b07hwm5x)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 TUE (b07hwm8q)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 WED (b07hwmcs)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 THU (b07hwmh6)
Six O'Clock News
18:00 FRI (b07hwml0)
Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b07hwtdj)
Something Understood
23:30 SUN (b07hwtdj)
Start the Week
09:00 MON (b07hwm5g)
Start the Week
21:30 MON (b07hwm5g)
Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b07hwtws)
Sunday
07:10 SUN (b07hwm2b)
Tales from the Stave
15:30 SAT (b07h9xdn)
The Archers Omnibus
10:00 SUN (b07hwv04)
The Archers
19:00 SUN (b07hwwvd)
The Archers
14:00 MON (b07hwwvd)
The Archers
19:00 MON (b07j43hd)
The Archers
14:00 TUE (b07j43hd)
The Archers
19:00 TUE (b07j53dg)
The Archers
14:00 WED (b07j53dg)
The Archers
19:00 WED (b07j68nf)
The Archers
14:00 THU (b07j68nf)
The Archers
19:00 THU (b07j7j6h)
The Archers
14:00 FRI (b07j7j6h)
The Archers
19:00 FRI (b07j7nvh)
The Bottom Line
17:30 SAT (b07hj0qb)
The Bottom Line
20:30 THU (b07j7j6m)
The Break
11:30 MON (b07j40ww)
The Briefing Room
20:00 THU (b07j7j6k)
The Echo Chamber
23:30 SAT (b07h65c2)
The Echo Chamber
16:30 SUN (b07hwwl9)
The Film Programme
23:00 SUN (b07hwxs9)
The Film Programme
16:00 THU (b07j7j69)
The Food Programme
12:32 SUN (b07hwv25)
The Food Programme
15:30 MON (b07hwv25)
The Human Zoo
15:30 TUE (b07j4ppt)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
16:30 MON (b07j4388)
The Infinite Monkey Cage
23:00 TUE (b07j4388)
The Lach Chronicles
23:00 WED (b07j68pq)
The Life Scientific
09:00 TUE (b07j4jg8)
The Life Scientific
21:30 TUE (b07j4jg8)
The Listening Project
14:45 SUN (b07hwycc)
The Listening Project
10:55 WED (b07j571l)
The Listening Project
16:55 FRI (b07j7nvc)
The Listening Project
23:55 FRI (b07j7q4d)
The Media Show
16:30 WED (b07hwmcn)
The Muse by Jessie Burton
22:45 MON (b07j47q2)
The Muse by Jessie Burton
22:45 TUE (b07j537n)
The Muse by Jessie Burton
22:45 WED (b07j68np)
The Muse by Jessie Burton
22:45 THU (b07j7j6p)
The Muse by Jessie Burton
22:45 FRI (b07j7pdk)
The Tim Vine Chat Show
18:30 THU (b07j7j6f)
The Untold
11:00 MON (b07j40wt)
The Week in Westminster
11:00 SAT (b07jdk2s)
The World This Weekend
13:00 SUN (b07hwm2q)
The World Tonight
22:00 MON (b07hwm63)
The World Tonight
22:00 TUE (b07hwm8z)
The World Tonight
22:00 WED (b07hwmd1)
The World Tonight
22:00 THU (b07hwmhd)
The World Tonight
22:00 FRI (b07hwml6)
Thinking Allowed
00:15 MON (b07hgcq0)
Thinking Allowed
16:00 WED (b07j68nc)
Today in Parliament
23:30 MON (b07j48d4)
Today in Parliament
23:30 TUE (b07j537q)
Today in Parliament
23:30 WED (b07j68qg)
Today in Parliament
23:30 THU (b07j7jkn)
Today in Parliament
23:30 FRI (b07j7pdm)
Today
07:00 SAT (b07hwhg7)
Today
06:00 MON (b07j3mtz)
Today
06:00 TUE (b07j4jg6)
Today
06:00 WED (b07j571d)
Today
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Today
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Tweet of the Day
08:58 SUN (b03x45m5)
Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
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Tweet of the Day
05:58 FRI (b03mztrw)
Weather
06:04 SAT (b07h2vry)
Weather
06:57 SAT (b07h2vs2)
Weather
12:57 SAT (b07h2vsb)
Weather
17:57 SAT (b07h2vsq)
Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
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Weather
21:58 THU (b07hwmhb)
Weather
12:57 FRI (b07hwmkt)
Weather
21:58 FRI (b07hwml4)
Westminster Hour
22:00 SUN (b07hwm33)
With Great Pleasure
16:00 MON (b07j4386)
Witness
12:04 MON (b07j40wy)
Witness
12:04 TUE (b07j4kg0)
Witness
12:04 WED (b07j5v6t)
Witness
12:04 THU (b07j7b3l)
Witness
12:04 FRI (b07j7nv1)
Woman's Hour
16:00 SAT (b07h2vsj)
Woman's Hour
10:00 MON (b07hwm5j)
Woman's Hour
10:00 TUE (b07hwm88)
Woman's Hour
10:00 WED (b07hwmc7)
Woman's Hour
10:00 THU (b07hwmgp)
Woman's Hour
10:00 FRI (b07hwmkm)
World at One
13:00 MON (b07hwm5s)
World at One
13:00 TUE (b07hwm8j)
World at One
13:00 WED (b07hwmcj)
World at One
13:00 THU (b07hwmh0)
World at One
13:00 FRI (b07hwmkw)
You May Now Turn Over Your Papers
11:00 WED (b07hwwbd)
You and Yours
12:15 MON (b07hwm5n)
You and Yours
12:15 TUE (b07hwm8d)
You and Yours
12:15 WED (b07hwmcd)
You and Yours
12:15 THU (b07hwmgw)
You and Yours
12:15 FRI (b07hwmkr)
iPM
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