SUNDAY 02 JUNE 2019

SUN 00:00 Midnight News (m0005mpr)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 00:30 Short Works (m0005f9c)
Where You Are

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the author Sam Thompson. As read by Stuart Graham.

Sam Thompson was born in London in 1978. His first book Communion Town was published in 2012 and long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His second book Jott was published in 2018. He’s written for the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and other periodicals, and has taught English Literature and creative writing at Oxford University, Oxford Brookes and Queen’s University Belfast. He currently lives in Belfast.

Writer ..... Sam Thompson
Reader ..... Stuart Graham
Producer ..... Michael Shannon


SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m0005mpt)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m0005mpw)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m0005mpy)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 05:30 News Briefing (m0005mq0)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (m0005mh4)
St Mary le Ghyll Church in Barnoldswick

Bells on Sunday comes from St Mary le Ghyll Church in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. Founded in 1157 by monks from Kirkstall Abbey, the tower was added in 1524, but it wasn’t until 1723 that the community was able to hang three bells cast by Abraham Rudhall of Gloucester. Last century the bells fell into disuse but in 2010, sufficient funds were raised to augment them to a peal of six. We hear them ringing Barnoldswick Treble Bob Minor.


SUN 05:45 Profile (m0005mgb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 News Headlines (m0005mdz)
The latest national and international news headlines.


SUN 06:05 Something Understood (b07x18sz)
Learning and the Reasons of the Heart

Writer and theologian Jane Williams examines the relationship between learning and language and the tension between what we know in our hearts and what we can articulate.

Jane starts by looking at the beginning of life, when we exist in a pre-verbal stage. As wondrous as it is to see the arrival of speech in a child, there has long been a sense that children lose something as they try to contain their world in language.

Speech is one of the primary metaphors for God’s communication. Jane explores the extraordinary mixed metaphor of a Divine Language that becomes a human being and, even more strangely, a human being who has to learn to speak. The Word of God made wordless, a baby able only to cry and babble.

As a theologian it is Jane’s job - and her delight - to try to render our understanding of God in words. She explains that words are bound to be incomplete, but that’s not an admission of failure, it’s a celebration of the fact that language has its limits.

Presenter: Jane Williams
Producer: Max O’Brien
A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:35 On Your Farm (m0005mf1)
The 2019 Future Food Award finalists

Lucy Taylor travels from Ayrshire to Milton Keynes and on to a London orchard, accompanying BBC Food and Farming Awards judges Donald Sloane and William Kendall as they visit three innovative businesses, each of them a finalist in the Farming Today Future Food category for 2019.

This award is about innovation - people who are breaking new ground and will ultimately help shape the future of what we eat and drink, and how it's produced.

The judges visit Mossgiel Milk in Ayrshire, the brainchild of dairy farmer Bryce Cunningham. He took over the farm - somewhat reluctantly - when his father and grandfather passed away just a few years ago and since then has transformed the farming practices and the milk business as well. The farm is now certified organic, and has eliminated single-use plastics from its sales - having crowd-funded to raise enough money to buy reusable glass bottles. Mossgiel Milk is now delivered to doorsteps and cafes across central Scotland, and Bryce believes his slow pasteurisation method ensures the milk retains its natural, delicious flavour.

Next up is Hubbub, an environmental charity that's committed to reducing food waste. The judges visit Hubbub's community fridge site in Milton Keynes - one of 54 across the UK - where surplus food is redistributed to the community. But as the organisation's creative partner Stine Wilhelmsen is keen to point out, this model is about far more than reducing waste food. It also provides a hub for local communities, bringing people together and helping them bond over food, cooking workshops, family events and a belief in supporting positive environmental change.

The final stop is an apple orchard in Redbridge, north east London, which has been restored with the help and guidance of The Orchard Project, a 10-year-old organisation that started in London and has now spread to other cities across the UK. The group helps communities to plan and look after orchards in towns and cities, aiming to improve local knowledge and skills, support wildlife in the areas, and make connections between local people in these urban environments. The group also uses surplus apples from their orchards across the country, to make their own cider.

Once the judges have made their decision, the winner will be announced at the 2019 BBC Food and Farming Awards in Bristol on June 12th.


SUN 06:57 Weather (m0005mf3)
The latest weather forecast.


SUN 07:00 News and Papers (m0005mf5)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 07:10 Sunday (m0005mf7)
Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme presented by William Crawley.


SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal (m0005mf9)
Kids Club Kampala

Singer-Songwriter Michael Kiwanuka makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Kids Club Kampala.

To Give:
- Freephone 0800 404 8144
- Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. (That’s the whole address. Please do not write anything else on the front of the envelope). Mark the back of the envelope ‘Kids Club Kampala’.
- Cheques should be made payable to ‘Kids Club Kampala’.

Registered Charity Number: 1152451


SUN 07:57 Weather (m0005mfc)
The latest weather forecast.


SUN 08:00 News and Papers (m0005mff)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship (m0005mfh)
True to the Call

A service from Portsmouth Cathedral to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

In June 1944 thousands of service men and women gathered in and around Portsmouth to prepare for the allied invasion of the Normandy beaches, which eventually led to the liberation of Europe from Nazi occupation. A local newspaper reported that on the night before the invasion troops gathered in Portsmouth to pray, sing hymns, and to listen to an address from the Archbishop of Canterbury.

The Precentor of Portsmouth, Canon Dr Jo Spreadbury recounts events leading up to the invasion, and the Dean of Portsmouth, the Very Reverend Dr Anthony Cane, reflects on how we, like those who served, may be true to God's call. An Act of Remembrance is led by the Chaplain of the Fleet, the Venerable Martyn Gough.

Cantate and the Cathedral Consort lead the congregation in hymns including 'Lead us, heavenly Father, lead us' and 'Eternal Father strong to save’.

Organist and Master of the Choristers: Dr David Price. Sub-Organist: Sachin Gunga. Producer: Ben Collingwood.


SUN 08:48 A Point of View (m0005fb0)
A weekly reflection on a topical issue.


SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day (b09ws5p4)
Mark Cocker on the Twite

Nature writer Mark Cocker recalls seeing twite feeding between the goalposts at his school in Derbyshire, however twite and its trilling song are a rare sound today in the uplands.

Producer Tim Dee
Photograph: Simon Stobart.


SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House (m0005mfk)
News with Paddy O'Connell including what can be achieved during President Trump's visit to the UK. Reviewing the Sunday news coverage: Brexit MEP Claire Fox, Times columnist Oliver Kamm and TV presenter Janet Ellis.


SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus (m0005mfm)
Writer ….. Paul Brodrick
Director ….. Peter Leslie Wild
Editor ….. Jeremy Howe

Jill Archer ….. Patricia Greene
Ruth Archer ….. Felicity Finch
Kenton Archer ….. Richard Attlee
Tony Archer ….. David Troughton
Pat Archer ….. Patricia Gallimore
Tom Archer ….. William Troughton
Natasha Archer ….. Mali Harries
Harrison Burns ….. James Cartwright
Alice Carter ….. Hollie Chapman
Chris Carter ….. Wilf Scolding
Ian Craig ….. Stephen Kennedy
Alan Franks ….. John Telfer
Emma Grundy ….. Emerald O'Hanrahan
Ed Grundy ….. Barry Farrimond
Shula Hebden Lloyd ….. Judy Bennett
Tracy Horrobin ….. Susie Riddell
Alistair Lloyd ….. Michael Lumsden
Jim Lloyd ….. John Rowe
Adam Macy ….. Andrew Wincott
Jazzer McCreary ….. Ryan Kelly
Kate Madikane ….. Perdita Avery
Kirsty Miller ….. Annabelle Dowler
Philip Moss ….. Andy Hockley


SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs (m0005mfp)
Lubaina Himid, artist

Lubaina Himid is a Turner Prize-winning artist, curator and Professor of Contemporary Art at the University of Central Lancashire.

Lubaina was born in Zanzibar in 1954. Her mother was from Britain and her father was originally from the Comoros Islands. He died from malaria when Lubaina was just a few months old, and so she and her mother returned to England. She studied Theatre Design at the Wimbledon College of Art and began organising exhibitions of works by fellow black women artists in the early 1980s as part of the Black Art Movement.

Her own work focuses on black identity, often shining a light on the slave trade and the contribution made by the people of the black diaspora. She was the first black woman to win the Turner Prize, and was also its oldest winner, at the age of 63. She was appointed an MBE in 2010 and a CBE in 2018. She lives and works in Preston.

Presenter: Lauren Laverne
Producer: Cathy Drysdale


SUN 12:00 News Summary (m0005mfr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 12:04 Just a Minute (m0005f55)
Series 84

Episode 3

Tony Hawks, Cariad Lloyd, Zoe Lyons and Paul Merton join Nicholas Parsons for the panel game where the challenge is to speak without repetition, hesitation or deviation.

A BBC Studios Production


SUN 12:32 The Food Programme (m0005mft)
Faith, Fasting and Feasting – A Ramadan Special

As Ramadan 2019 draws to a close, many British Muslim reach the culmination of a month of fasting during daylight hours. But that doesn't mean that food is forgotten. On the contrary...

In this programme, food writer Yasmin Khan celebrates the social, cultural and culinary rituals of Ramadan, the most holy month in the Islamic calendar. She speaks to comedian Tez Ilyas about celebrations with family and friends and a very memorable 'Happy Eid cake'. She meets Naima Khan, trustee at London's first 'Inclusive Mosque' to talk about the movement striving create safe spaces for marginalised communities to practise their faith. And in Bristol, Yasmin joins thousands of people coming together for a 'Grand Iftar', a vast street party of Muslims and non-Muslims, who have come together to share a meal with their neighbours once the sun goes down.

Presented by Yasmin Khan
Produced by Clare Salisbury


SUN 12:57 Weather (m0005mfw)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (m0005mfy)
Global news and analysis, presented by Mark Mardell.


SUN 13:30 Translating for Mum and Dad (m0005mg0)
Psychologist and academic Dr Humera Iqbal's research at University College London is all about migrant kids, who do vital unpaid translating work for their families. This is because they’re often able to pick up English more quickly than their parents. There are thousands of children like them in the UK, translating in crucial places like at the doctors or in banks. But we just don’t notice them – they’re invisible – doing adult tasks – and navigating the lives of their families. It really does create a role-reversal in the parent-child dynamic. We follow them as they go about their extraordinary lives.


SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time (m0005f99)
Tyneside

Kathy Clugston hosts the horticultural panel show from Tyneside. Matt Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and James Wong are on hand to answer the horticultural queries.

Produced by Hannah Newton
Assistant Producer: Rosie Merotra

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 14:45 The Listening Project (m0005mg2)
Sunday Omnibus - Friendship, Cultural Differences and Support

Three conversations on the value of friendship, cultural differences and support. Fi Glover presents the omnibus edition of the series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you listen with three conversations.

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: Mohini Patel


SUN 15:00 Vanity Fair (m0005mg4)
Episode 2

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray. Dramatised by Jim Poyser with additional material by Al Murray.
Thackeray's celebrated satire on class, sex and money in nineteenth century England given a new makeover in this pacey, anarchic adaptation. Becky has married Rawdon, but her plans to enrich them both have come to nought with their disinheritance by Aunty Crawley. But we are on the eve of Waterloo, how can she turn this to her advantage? Starring Al Murray as his ancestor William Makepeace Thackeray and Ellie White as Becky Sharp.

Thackeray (narrator)......Al Murray
Becky Sharp......................Ellie White
Amelia Sedley..................Helen O'Hara
Rawdon Crawley..............Blake Ritson
Jos Sedley..........................Thom Tuck
George Osborne..............Rupert Hill
Dobbin................................Graeme Hawley
Mrs Sedley.........................Emma Gregory
Mr Sedley..........................Jonathan Keeble
Mr Osborne....................Malcolm Raeburn
Pitt.......................................Lloyd Peters
Lady Bareacres................Fiona Clarke
Director/Producer Gary Brown.


SUN 16:00 Bookclub (m0005mg6)
David Szalay - All That Man Is

David Szalay discusses his novel All That Man Is which was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2016.

All That Man Is is a meditation of modern man told through the stories of nine men from across Europe, who are all at different stages of their lives.

David says the three ages of man was present in his mind as the nine stories fall naturally into youth, middle age and older age. The characters are seemingly unrelated, and their stories are rooted in a contemporary reality, with David presenting the driving ambitions of each man in various stages of life.

As well as the preoccupations of time passing and aging, the book is also about contemporary Europe, with characters in different social settings from Cyprus to Copenhagen, Budapest to Mayfair. The book was published just before the 2016 European Referendum, but David, who currently lives in Budapest, says his aim was not to pass any political judgment, but to describe modern European life as it is.

Also important to him was the comic element of men's lives – from obsessions like booze to sex to social status, and how comedy can be redemptive, with incapacity being both funny and sad at the same time.

Presenter : James Naughtie
Producer : Dymphna Flynn

July's Bookclub choice : Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2017)


SUN 16:30 Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets (m0005mg8)
Cumbria

A return of the series on dialect poetry in different parts of the UK. Poet and novelist Katie Hale explores the legacy of early dialect poets in her native county of Cumbria, to discover if dialect poetry is a way of expressing local identity.

Cumbria has a long history of dialect poetry, beginning with poets like Josiah Relph, Susanna Blamire and Robert Anderson, and continuing right up to the present day. Katie finds out more about some of these historic poets and their contemporary counterparts. She also speaks to Cedric Robinson - the Queen’s Guide to the Sands of Morecambe Bay - and to farmer and writer James Rebanks, trying to understand the connection between dialect, identity and the land itself. How does the place we live in shape who we are and how we choose to express ourselves?

In episodes two and three, the series takes a look at dialect poetry in the Isle of Man and Yorkshire.

A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 17:00 File on 4 (m0005f1l)
A Load of Rubbish

Households in Britain are recycling more than ever, with millions of us dutifully sorting through our rubbish every week in an effort to help save the planet. But when the blue, green and brown bins are taken away, what really happens to our waste?

File on 4 goes digging through Britain’s multi-million pound recycling industry - and discovers it’s a dirty business.

The UK sends more than half its recyclable packaging overseas, selling our sorted plastics and paper to countries which need the raw material and will recycle it. But when File on 4 tracks where shipments are being sent - we discover they can have a devastating effect on the developing communities where they end up.

Reporter: Jane Deith
Producer: Mick Tucker
Development Producer: Oliver Newlan
Researcher: Deniz Kose
Editor: Gail Champion


SUN 17:40 Profile (m0005mgb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m0005mgd)
The latest shipping forecast.


SUN 17:57 Weather (m0005mgg)
The latest weather forecast.


SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m0005mgl)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week (m0005mgn)
Jake Yapp

The best of BBC Radio this week with Jake Yapp.


SUN 19:00 The Archers (m0005mgq)
Lynda is faced with an unexpected challenge and Harrison attempts to nail the bunting thief.


SUN 19:15 Jacob Hawley's Welcome to Britain (m0005mgs)
Jacob Hawley is a BBC New Comedy Award Finalist, a tattoo-emblazoned young man from a working class, leave-voting town, who now boasts an arts degree, a vegetarian girlfriend and an almost convincing concern for climate change - so not far off Billy Elliot.

In this stand-up special, he brings material from his 2018 Edinburgh show Howl so that foreigners and, if they’re listening, aliens, can find out first hand what Britain is really like - based on Jacob's experiences of the monotonous suburbs, the insular small towns, the hypocritically righteous city and their inhabitants.

Written and performed by Jacob Hawley
Produced by Daisy Knight

An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 19:45 Strictly Stories (m0005mgv)
Jive

As a teenager Tessa had her leg amputated below the knee. Now, every week she puts on her circle skirt and heads off to the Pink Lemon Dance Studio for the jive lesson. Maybe one day she won't give up half way and turn back. By Bethan Roberts.

Produced and Directed by Kate McAll
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 20:00 More or Less (m0005f9h)
Hay Festival Special

This week More or Less goes to meet an army of loyal listeners – and a rebellious clique of disloyal ones – at the Hay Festival.

Tim Harford and Ruth Alexander ask which country is the richest. Plus, we pose a multiple choice question about multiple choice questions.

And we’re joined by Professor David Spiegelhalter, who uses statistics to understand the behaviour of one of the world's most dangerous serial killers.


SUN 20:30 Last Word (m0005f9f)
Professor Murray Gell-Mann, Nan Winton, James McCord, Gregory Gray

Pictured: Nan Winton

Matthew Bannister on

Murray Gell-Mann, the American physicist who won the Nobel Prize for his work on the theory of elementary particles. He coined the name "quarks" for the fundamental building blocks of matter.

Nan Winton, the first woman to read the TV news on the BBC. She faced discrimination in the male-dominated BBC newsroom.

James McCord, the CIA agent who was involved in the Bay of Pigs and the Watergate break in.

Gregory Gray, the Irish singer who went from boy band to cult musician.

Interviewed guest: Professor Geoffrey West
Interviewed guest: Graham Farmelo
Interviewed guest: Tina Ellen Lee
Interviewed guest: Maggie Brown
Interviewed guest: Michael Carlson
Interviewed guest: Tom Robinson
Interviewed guest: Noel McLaughlin

Producer: Neil George

Archive clips from: The Key To The Universe: The Search For The Laws Of Creation, BBC Two 27/01/1977; Horizon, BBC Two 25/07/1964; Panorama, BBC One 21/09/1959; Panorama, BBC One 09/03/1959; Arena, BBC Two 15/03/1997; U.S. Senate Select Committee On The Watergate Affair, BBC Sound Archive 18/05/1973; Watergate: Inside The Scandal That Took Down A Presidency, ABC News 17/06/2017.


SUN 21:00 Money Box (m0005mgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday]


SUN 21:25 Radio 4 Appeal (m0005mf9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today]


SUN 21:30 Analysis (m0005f5m)
Love Island, dating apps and the politics of desire

For centuries we have met our other halves through family, friends, work, or religious institutions. But they have all now been outstripped: meeting online is now the most common way to meet. Not long ago, finding love online was considered unconventional. Now the ping of dating apps is the soundtrack to many people's lives.

But what does this change mean for how we choose whom to date?

Shahidha Bari, author and academic at Queen Mary University of London, examines the changing landscape of modern love - its dating apps, its politics of sexual preference - and ultimately tries to answer the age-old question: what does Love Island tell us about love?

Producer: Ant Adeane


SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour (m0005mh0)
Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme.


SUN 23:00 The Film Programme (m0005f4v)
Moving Image: Paul Franklin on Alien

Visual effects artist Paul Franklin on 1979's Alien, and its influence on his Oscar winning work on Inception and Interstellar.

Francine Stock also hears from Alien's producer Ivor Powell, editor Terry Rawlings, who died in April 2019, and the film's director Ridley Scott.


SUN 23:30 From Sensuality to Puritanism: How Muslim Cultures turned Grey (m0002r01)
The vibrancy of Islamic culture

In the first of two programmes writer and broadcaster Yasmin Alibhai-Brown asks why the Islamic world that historically represented a vibrant, dazzling and even alluring cultural appeal to the more reserved and conservative West, is now reversing that perception. While Islamist countries were initially understood as a threat to Christendom, increasingly close contact through trade and shared scholarship lead to an opinion expressed most vividly by Orientalists, that these cultures were places of great liberalism in art, culture and sexuality. The brighter the colour and culture from the East the more alarming it was for the Puritanical West.
And yet it is, increasingly, a history that appears to have been forgotten both by the West as it sees the emergence of a more conservative manifestation of Islam and by Islamist states themselves who are increasingly puritanical in their religious observance and the culture that follows that.
Yasmin talks to scholars, historians, Imams and people who remember a less restrained Islamic identity which, in their lifetimes as been under increasing attack.
This first programme takes us from the early history of Islam to events in the 20th century that saw a shift and a concomitant greying in the lives of Muslims, and most particularly in the lives of Muslim women.

Producer: Tom Alban