SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2022

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m001887c)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 00:30 The Social Distance Between Us by Darren McGarvey (m001887j)
Episode 5

Writer and broadcaster Darren McGarvey, AKA rapper Loki, argues that the pandemic has exposed the contours of inequality in Britain. Turning a critical eye on poverty, land ownership, health inequalities and policing, the activist argues that there are chasms of misunderstanding between the powerful decision-makers and those who must live with the consequences.

Darren challenges assumptions around language and accent - and asks himself some hard questions about authenticity.

Written and read by Darren McGarvey
Abridged by Anna Magnusson
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie
Author photograph by Steven Reynolds


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001887q)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001887x)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m0018881)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m0018886)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001888b)
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with George Craig, a Methodist local preacher in Cardiff.

Good morning. I really wish I knew where the world’s biggest collection of rhubarb varieties is. I have looked but not even the internet can tell me. However, I do know where the world’s second biggest collection is – because that’s how it publicises itself. It’s at Clumber Park in Nottinghamshire, which is run by the National Trust. And just before the first lockdown I fulfilled a long-held ambition and went to see it.

It’s in an old walled Garden where there are over 130 varieties of rhubarb growing, many of them very rare and even endangered. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but to be perfectly honest it was a bit of a let-down at first. One variety of rhubarb - to the untrained eye – looks very much like another. Once we started looking more carefully and closely we began to see that there were differences, but they were very subtle.

But to the people who run that garden – which is the national Rhubarb collection – every one of those plants is unique and precious.

It was an interesting experience, but I came away with a niggling thought at the back of my mind.

And that thought was this - what may look to me like the great undifferentiated mass of humanity looks to God like a huge collection of unique and precious individuals. And that’s how I should see them, too. What niggled me was that it took a field of rhubarb to teach me that.

Lord , help us to remember that every one of us is unique and precious in your sight, and to treat each other accordingly. Amen


SAT 05:45 Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley (m00187ws)
Read

In this episode, Michael enters the world of creative fiction to discover how simply reading a story for half an hour a day can bring big benefits to your body and brain - from reducing stress and helping stave off depression, to strengthening your social skills and even helping you live longer! With the help of Professor Raymond Mar from York University in Toronto, Canada, Michael discovers why reading for pleasure could have such a significant impact on overall health and longevity, and delves into research revealing the unique benefits of reading narrative fiction.


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m0018fz5)
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (m0018839)
Erland Cooper's Orkney

Composer Erland Cooper takes us on a tour of his Orkney homeland - with help from artists, poets, some Neolithic monuments and around a million swirling sea-birds.

Producer for BBC Audio in Bristol : Emily Knight


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m0018fz7)
18/06/22 National Food Strategy; Scottish Salmon.

The government's long awaited food strategy was published this week - to mixed reactions. The white paper is its response to the National Food Strategy published by one of the founders of the Leon restaurant chain Henry Dimbleby, around a year ago. He was commissioned to look at the whole food system and find ways of providing affordable healthy food while tackling obesity and meeting climate objectives. The white paper doesn't back all of his proposals: a sugar and salt tax, is out; nor does it expand free school meals; and it avoids his recommendation of a cut in meat consumption of 30 percent. The National Farmers Union has welcomed the white paper's focus on food production in the UK, but some farming organisations say it's weak and doesn't go far enough.

All week on Farming Today we've been looking at salmon - farmed and wild. Scottish salmon is the UK’s biggest fresh food export with overseas sales hitting £614 million in 2021, that's a third more than in 2020. Salmon aquaculture directly employs 2,500 people, and the industry says it supports 10,000 jobs across Scotland. But critics say all that comes at too high a price, they cite concerns about the environmental impact and the welfare of the fish. Salmon farming is a controversial topic - so we've been talking to those who love it, and those who hate it.

Presenter = Charlotte Smith
Producer = Rebecca Rooney


SAT 06:57 Weather (m0018fz9)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 07:00 Today (m0018fzc)
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m0018fzf)
Gyles Brandreth

Gyles Brandreth joins Nikki Bedi and Richard Coles. The writer, broadcaster and former MP talks about his life, varied career and why he’s still trying to please his parents.

Felicity Cloake shares her experiences of cycling around the UK sampling breakfasts.

Actor James Nesbitt chooses his Inheritance Tracks: Stardust by Nat King Cole and Star of the County Down by Van Morrison and The Chieftains.

Ronnie Archer-Morgan discovered a love of objects when he was a boy; his passions helped him when growing up and led to him becoming an expert on Antiques Roadshow.

Odd Boy Out by Gyles Brandreth is out now.

Red Sauce Brown Sauce by Felicity Cloake is out now.

Would It Surprise You To Know...? by Ronnie Archer-Morgan with Janet Gleeson is out the 23rd June.

Producer: Claire Bartleet
Editor: Richard Hooper


SAT 10:30 Soul Music (m0018fzh)
Bruch's Violin Concerto

A Violin Concerto in G minor, Opus 26, became the best-known work of the German composer Max Bruch. Originally written in 1866 it went through many revisions before finally being completed in 1867. It was performed extensively but having sold both the publishing and the manuscript Bruch died in relative obscurity in 1920. The Concerto would continue to be played around the world and the second movement in particular, the Adagio, became a much-loved favourite.

Journalist Claire Read describes how much her Mother loved the piece after Claire learned and performed it in school, and how she would listen to it whilst being treated for cancer.

Ukrainian violinist Kostia Lukyniuk recalls playing it with an orchestra in his home town aged 11, and how music still gives him strength as he plays for those battered by the Russian invasion of his home country.

The second movement brings back fond memories for Archers actor June Spencer who listened to it with her husband and their friends on a veranda in Minorca.

Leader of the Welsh National Opera David Adams was inspired to take-up the violin after listening to a recording of David Oistrakh playing this piece, and later performed it at the Fishguard Festival. It was a favourite of his Mum's and that recording was played at her funeral.

The Carnegie Hall was the setting for violinist Shlomo Mintz's most treasured performance and he describes how it feels to play those soaring melodies.

Curator Robinson McClellan at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York explains how the manuscript of this concerto made its way from Germany to the USA, and why this work would later become a source of resentment for this 'establishment' composer.

Studio Manager: Ilse Lademann
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Toby Field.


SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (m0018fzk)
Top commentators review the political week


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m0018fzm)
Ukraine's Battlefield Doctors

The task of a surgeon is not an easy one at the best of times, but some in Ukraine are having learn how to carry out operations in the midst of a battlefield. Many have been taught how to do this by the British surgeon, David Nott, who has worked in conflict zones around the globe. Wyre Davies joined one of his classes.

Russia’s attack on Ukraine has left other countries wondering if they might be next. Fourteen countries have land borders with Russia, and eight of these were once part of the old Soviet Union, which Vladimir Putin at times seems keen to resurrect. Zeinab Badawi has been to Georgia, where she says many feel like they are now right on the front line.

We owe the planet’s peat bogs a debt of gratitude, as they effectively suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, and store it underground. Andrew Harding travelled deep into the Republic of Congo, to see a vast area of peat the size of England, which is currently under threat.

The Yazidi people of northern Iraq suffered horrific atrocities at the hands of the group which calls itself Islamic State. IS has now been driven out of the Yazidi homeland, Mount Sinjar, but the Yazidi people now find themselves caught up in their country's fractious politics, with different groups fighting for their loyalty, and with guns as well as persuasion. Shelly Kittleson learns how this has left communities - and families - bitterly divided.

Banks want your custom., or at least, you might think so, given the number of adverts suggesting they offering the most favourable interest rates, and perhaps the broadest smile on the faces of their staff. However, when Alba Arikha recently had to open a bank account in Greece, she found herself having to fight hard just to give them her money.

Producer: Paul Moss
Production coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith


SAT 12:00 News Summary (m0018fzp)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 12:04 Money Box (m0018fsx)
Interest Free Loan Scheme to help 20,000 people

A scheme offering interest-free loans to the financially vulnerable is being expanded to reach up to 20,000 people. After a successful trial at South Manchester Credit Union the No Interest Loan Scheme (NILS) will be rolled out across the UK from September. It's backed by the Treasury but will be run by credit unions and other lenders. The aim is to offer emergency loans to people who would normally be turned down because they can't afford the interest payments. We'll speak to Economic Secretary to the Treasury John Glen.

As a new survey, commissioned by the BBC, suggests half of people working are planning to increase their hours to boost their income and almost one in three people are thinking about taking a second job, we'll hear from the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group about the implications for tax and benefits.

More on how thousands of people may be able to boost their state pension by paying extra National Insurance Contributions. Paying just one missing year can mean an extra £275 a year for your pension.

Plus, less than half the firms that sell funeral plans look set to be approved by the regulator when tough new rules begin in six weeks. More on how you can check yours.

Presenter: Paul Lewis
Reporters: Dan Whitworth and Katie Barnfield
Researcher: Sandra Hardial
Editor: Jess Quayle


SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers (m0018863)
Series 22

Episode 1

What is Professor Whitty doing now? How is Sir Keir Starmer going to improve his image? How many spuds can you buy for a fiver these days? All these questions are answered and more.

Performed by Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey.

The series is written by: Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, James Bugg, Edward Tew, Rebecca Bain, Cody Dahler, Jade Gebbie, Robert Dark, Sophie Dickson, Rachel E. Thorn and Cameron Loxdale.

Produced and created by Bill Dare
Production Co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound design Rich Evans


SAT 12:57 Weather (m0018fzr)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 13:00 News and Weather (m0018fzt)
The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (m001886k)
Virginia Crosbie MP, Baroness Fox, Carolyn Harris MP, Ben Lake MP

Chris Mason presents political debate and discussion from Boston Centre Stage, Holyhead with Conservative MP and PPS to the Secretary of State for Wales Virginia Crosbie, non-affiliated peer Baroness Fox of Buckley, Labour MP and Deputy Leader of Welsh Labour Carolyn Harris, and the Plaid Cymru MP Ben Lake.
Producer: Camellia Sinclair
Lead broadcast engineer: Michael Smith


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (m0018fzw)
Have your say on the issues discussed on Any Questions?


SAT 14:45 39 Ways to Save the Planet (m000vghp)
Logging For Good

Is logging always bad for the planet? A team from The Nature Conservancy in the United States believe they have developed a way to cut down the trees we need for construction without damaging tropical forests or adding to our carbon emissions.

Tom Heap meets Peter Ellis, the man behind Reduced Impact Logging, and his Indonesian colleagues, Purnomo and Ruslandi, who are persuading the foresters of Borneo to take up the new techniques.

Back in the UK, climate scientist, Tamsin Edwards joins Tom to crunch the numbers- how much carbon dioxide could these ideas save?

Producer: Alasdair Cross

Researcher: Sarah Goodman

Produced in conjunction with the Royal Geographical Society. Particular thanks for this episode to Professor David Coomes from the University of Cambridge and to Professor Michelle Pinard and Professor David Burslem from the University of Aberdeen.


SAT 15:00 Electric Decade (m000jnkk)
A Room of One's Own

Virginia Woolf's funny, provoking and insightful feminist text on female creativity dramatised for radio by Linda Marshall Griffiths.
Part of Electric Decade: classic titles that influenced and characterised the 1920's.

WOMAN.....Indira Varma
MARY SETON/ CHARLOTTE BRONTE.....Jenny Platt
JUDITH SHAKESPEARE/JANE AUSTEN/MARY CARMICHAEL.....Anjli Mohindra
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE/ NICK GREEN.....Sacha Dhawan
TREVELYAN/SHAKESPEARE'S FATHER.....Colin Tierney

Directed by Nadia Molinari
BBC Radio Drama North Production

Publicity photograph of Indira Varma by Ruth Crafer.

It is 1928, a woman is asked to talk of women and writing. In the university town of 'Oxbridge' she is refused entry to the gardens and library and discovers the poverty of the one female college there. She searches the British Museum library for proof that women even existed in history.

"Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women."

She imagines what would have happened if Shakespeare had had a sister and imagines conversations with the great British female novelists.

"Who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?"

She reflects on the difficulties that face the female writer and proposes a different kind of life.

A Room of One’s Own is one of the greatest feminist polemics of the twentieth century, but also a narrative of beauty, humour and humanity. Its case is for the existence of female writers and its proof is in the genius of its writer.

A Room of One's Own was recorded during lockdown with actors and production team all in rooms of their own.


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (m0018fzy)
Weekend Woman's Hour: The Whyte Review into British Gymnastics, Lea Ypi, Rosie Kinchen on horticultural therapy

Following a two-year investigation into bullying, abuse and discrimination the Whyte Review into British Gymnastics is finally published. We hear from ex-gymnast Claire Heafford, co-founder and campaign director of Gymnasts 4 Change, and Sarah Moore, lawyer and partner at Hausfeld who are acting on behalf of 38 former elite gymnasts against British Gymnastics in relation to allegations of abuse.

In her prize-winning memoir, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, Lea Ypi describes what it was like to grow up in Albania under a strict communist regime. Lea joins us to talk about her extraordinary coming-of-age story in Europe's last Stalinist outpost.

Rosie Kinchen explains how horticultural therapy helped her overcome depression after having her second child. She discusses finding solace in a community garden.

Her newspaper only launched 14 weeks before the outbreak of war in Ukraine, but the Kyiv Independent now has over two million followers on Twitter, and has been described by Time Magazine as: "The world's primary source for reliable English-language journalism on the war." We speak to the Editor of the newspaper, Olga Rudenko.

A new film, Below the Belt, documents the reality of living with endometriosis. We hear from director Shannon Cone.

Listener Christian Peake inherited a huge stack of canvasses painted by her grandmother, the artist Maeve Gilmore, whose artistic work had been over-shadowed by her more famous husband Mervyn Peake. As time went on though she became increasingly determined to get Maeve’s work the recognition she feels it deserves. Her grandmother's first exhibition is now on at Studio Voltaire in Clapham, London.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Lucy Wai
Editor: Lucinda Montefiore


SAT 17:00 PM (m0018g00)
Full coverage of the day's news


SAT 17:30 Political Thinking with Nick Robinson (m0018g02)
The Naomi Long One

Nick Robinson talks to Naomi Long, the leader of the Alliance Party and Northern Ireland's Justice Minister, about growing up during the Troubles, the ongoing implications of Brexit and her decision not to identify as nationalist or unionist


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m0018g04)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SAT 17:57 Weather (m0018g06)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m0018g08)
Walkouts to cause widespread disruption after talks failed to resolve disputes. Tens of thousands march in London to urge government to do more to tackle rising cost of living.


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (m0018ft1)
Noma Dumezweni, Andi Oliver, Darryl W Bullock, Kathryn Williams & Ed Harcourt, Tot Taylor, Scottee, Anneka Rice

Anneka Rice and Scottee are joined by Noma Dumezweni, Andi Oliver and Darryl W. Bullock for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Kathryn Williams & Ed Harcourt and Tot Taylor.


SAT 19:00 Profile (m0018fsd)
Kate Bush

Kate Bush, whose song Running up that Hill is storming the charts across the world. The singer exploded onto the music scene at the end of the 1970s with Wuthering Heights, the first UK number one song performed and written by a female artist. Kate Bush has experimented throughout her career, sometimes being in the public eye and at other times composing at home while bringing up her son. With Timandra Harkness. Produced by Bob Howard


SAT 19:15 This Cultural Life (m0018g0c)
Eileen Atkins

With a career spanning eight decades, Dame Eileen Atkins is one of the most acclaimed British actors. She is a three-time Olivier Award-winner and has won Emmy and BAFTA Awards for her role in the television series Cranford. A familiar face on screen since making her television debut in 1959, she has starred in shows ranging from Doc Martin to The Crown, and her film roles have included The Dresser, Gosford Park, Cold Mountain and Paddington 2. She also co-created the long-running television series Upstairs Downstairs and The House of Elliot, and wrote the screenplay for the 1997 film of Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.

Dame Eileen talks to John Wilson about her upbringing on a Tottenham council estate and how, under the tutelage of a woman she knew as Madame Yandie, she became Baby Eileen, a child stage performer, singing and dancing in working men’s clubs. She chooses as one of her greatest influences one of her teachers at Latymer School, EJ Burton, who introduced her to literature and theatre. She recalls the impact of joining the company at the Shakespeare Theatre, now the Royal Shakespeare Company, in 1957, after a long struggle to secure stage roles. Dame Eileen also explains how her fascination with Virginia Woolf led to one of her most celebrated stage performances, that of the writer herself, in a one woman show adaptation of A Room Of One’s Own.

Producer: Edwina Pitman


SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 (b05qvr63)
Black Aquarius

Matthew Sweet explores the dawning of the age of Black Aquarius - the weirdly great wave of occultism that swept through British popular culture in the 1960s-70s. From journals like the Aquarian Arrow to the diabolical novels of Dennis Wheatley, lurid accounts of satanic cults in the Sunday papers and the glut of illustrated books, part-magazines, documentary film and TV drama, it was a wildly exuberant seam of British pop culture.

Flowering from the more arcane parts of the hippy movement but mutating into something quite different, why was there such a huge crossover appeal for the British public? Was this a continuation of the Sixties cultural battleground of restrictive morality being secretly titillated, or was it something else - something darker? These questions certainly puzzled factual television at the time.

The age of Black Aquarius matched the late Victorian craze for the occult in its intensity and popularity, and certainly drew from some of that era's obsessions - dark dimensions, secret rites, unearthly energy – but filtered through ‘the permissive society’, through a hugely eclectic counterculture, swinging sexual liberation and new kinds of consumption and lifestyle. And while dark forces were summoned in the grooviest of Chelsea flats they were being unearthed in the countryside too, a fantasy of pagan ritual and wicker men, of tight-lipped locals and blood sacrifice at harvest time.

Contributors include Mark Gatiss, Katy Manning, Caroline Munro, Kim Newman, Highgate Vampire hunter David Farrant and Piers Haggard, director of ‘The Blood on Satan’s Claw’.

Producer: Simon Hollis
A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 21:00 Tumanbay (m000jp2p)
Series 4

Glass Souls

Anton Lesser, Aiysha Hart, Rufus Wright and Kirsty Bushell lead an impressive ensemble cast in this engrossing, historical fantasy from creators John Scott Dryden and Mike Walker.

The great artist Piero has arrived from across the seas with his assistant Angel. He has been commissioned by the Empire’s self-styled “Queen Mother” Fatima (Kirsty Bushell) to create a great work glorifying her rule. But after a period of brutal occupation, Tumanbay is no longer the gleaming city it was - and tensions and suspicions abound.

The blind Grand Master Amalric (Anton Lesser), leader of a fearsome religious order of knights, has his own plans for the city - plans that involve the religious figurehead, the Hafiz. But the Hafiz has gone missing. The only person who can find him is spymaster Gregor (Rufus Wright) who is languishing in the Palace of the Blind, a place in the desert where unwanted officials and rulers are exiled.

Cast:
Manel................ Aiysha Hart
Gregor................ Rufus Wright
Grand Master................ Anton Lesser
Mehmed................ Nadim Sawalha
Fatima................ Kirsty Bushell
Pilaar................Enzo Cilenti
Cadali................ Matthew Marsh
Heaven................Olivia Popica
Sarp................Joplin Sibtain
Piero................Pano Masti
Angel................Steffan Donnelly
Sarp................Joplin Sibtain
Olef................ Antony Bunsee
Frog................Misha Butler
Matilla................Albane Courtois
Bello................Albert Welling
Alkin................ Nathalie Armin
Faruk............... Ali Khan
Mad Sultan................ Vivek Madan
Functionaries................ Gerard McDermott

Original Music by Sacha Puttnam

Sound Design by Eloise Whitmore
Sound Recording by Laurence Farr

Produced by Emma Hearn, Nadir Khan and John Scott Dryden
Written by Mike Walker
Directed by John Scott Dryden

A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 21:45 Rabbit at Rest (m000282f)
Episode 3

John Updike’s fourth novel about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom.

It's the end of the 1980s and Harry has acquired a Florida condo, a second grandchild, and a troubled, overworked heart - not to mention a troubled underworking son. As Reagan’s debt-ridden, AIDS-panicked America yields to that of the first George Bush, Rabbit explores the bleak terrain of late middle age - looking for reasons to live and opportunities to make peace with a remorselessly accumulating past.

The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1991, the second "Rabbit" novel to garner that award.

Reader: Toby Jones
Abridger: Eileen Horne
Producer: Clive Brill

A Brill production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:00 News (m0018g0f)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:15 Moral Maze (m00187xx)
Inequality: Is the gap between rich and poor in the UK fair?

Is the gap between rich and poor in the UK fair?

The soaring cost of living is raising questions about the gap between rich and poor. As prices have been forced up by global events, including the war in Ukraine, families on low incomes, who spend most of their money on basics, have been hit hard. In the last year, more than two million people in the UK turned to food banks. Stories of parents forced to choose between food and warmth, or skipping meals so their children can eat, have become common. Can the UK, one of the richest countries in the world, morally justify millions of its people relying on charity just to keep their children warm and fed?

The wealthiest ten per cent of households own 43% of the country’s wealth, so is it naïve to suggest that the poorest should get more help and the richest should pay for it? The recently announced windfall tax on energy companies was an extraordinary moment: cash taken from big companies and handed to their customers. Is it time for more of this? Or are Robin Hood taxes, taking money from people who have earned it and handing it to people who haven’t, essentially unfair? Isn't wealth inequality the very driver of human effort? We work, so we can become better off. Remove that incentive, and what happens to economic growth, on which we all rely? What is the case for redistributing the nation’s wealth? Is it immoral to accumulate enormous personal wealth? Or is it acceptable for some people to become fantastically rich, provided that nobody is truly poor?

Producers: Jonathan Hallewell and Peter Everett
Presenter: Michael Buerk


SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz (m00187g8)
Programme 12, 2022

Northern Ireland and Scotland convene for the twelfth and last contest in the 2022 Round Britain Quiz season, and they face the additional hurdle that the questions in today's edition are all the work of listeners. How will they fare against the challenge posed by some of the most inventive minds around the UK and even overseas?

The Northern Irish team is Freya McClements and Paddy Duffy, opposite Val McDermid and Alan McCredie for Scotland. Both teams really need a win to avoid the 'wooden spoon' in the series this year. But don't underestimate their knowledge of music, film, sport, literature and the television classics of childhood - all of which will come in handy in today's contest.

The final league table will appear on the Round Britain Quiz homepage after the repeat of today's edition.

Producer: Paul Bajoria


SAT 23:30 Poetry Please (m00187ph)
Joelle Taylor

Poetry from Walt Whitman, TS Eliot, Caroline Bird and Kayo Chingonyi feature in poet Joelle Taylor's selection of listener requests.
Joelle was awarded the TS Eliot Prize for Poetry in 2021. She is the founder of Slambassadors and is the author of C+nto & Othered Poems.
Among her choices are an extract from Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic read by Garth Greenwell and Noma Dumezweni and an extract of Walt Whitman's Song of Myself read by Orson Welles.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

SUNDAY 19 JUNE 2022

SUN 00:00 Midnight News (m0018g0h)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 00:15 Past Forward: A Century of Sound (m0015vc3)
Rebuilding Britain

Greg Jenner watches a clip from a documentary from 1963 about the growth in large urban redevelopment projects in the UK and seeks assistance in unpacking the past and present of such schemes from Otto Saumarez-Smith and Andrew Carter from the Centre for Cities.

Marking the centenary of the BBC, Past Forward uses a random date generator to alight somewhere in the BBC's vast archive over the past 100 years. Greg Jenner hears an archive clip for the first time at the top of the programme, and uses it as a starting point in a journey towards the present day. The archive captures a century of British life in a unique way - a history of ordinary people’s lives, as well as news of the great events. Greg uncovers connections through people, places and ideas that link the archive fragment to Britain in 2022, pulling in help from experts and those who remember the time, and looking at how far we've come since then.

Producer: Martin Williams


SUN 00:30 Short Works (m001885k)
Enjoy the Show

An original short story specially commissioned by BBC Radio 4 from the writer Peter Jordan. As read by Niall Cusack.

Peter Jordan is a short story writer from Belfast. He has won the Bare Fiction Prize, came second in the Fish, and was shortlisted for both the Bridport Flash and the Bath Flash & Short Story Prizes, amongst others. Over 50 of his stories have appeared in literary magazines, journals and anthologies. His essays have been published at Thresholds and TSS Publishing & Retreat West. He has also been nominated for Best of ‘net, Best Small Fictions and a Pushcart Prize. His award-winning short story collection, Calls to distant places, was released in August 2019. His story ‘The Stigmata’ was broadcast as part of BBC Radio Ulster’s Storytellers series ‘New Writers, Short Stories’.

Writer: Peter Jordan
Reader: Niall Cusack
Producer: Michael Shannon
Executive Editor: Andy Martin

A BBC Northern Ireland production.


SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m0018g0k)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m0018g0m)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m0018g0p)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 05:30 News Briefing (m0018g0r)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (m0018ft5)
Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire

Bells on Sunday comes from Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon in Wiltshire. The tower contains a peal of eight bells from various foundries. The two oldest, numbers five and seven, were cast in 1614. The twenty nine and a half hundredweight tenor was cast in Bristol in 1882 and is tuned to D Flat. We now hear them ringing Grandsire Triples.


SUN 05:45 Profile (m0018fsd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 News Summary (m0018fr5)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:05 Something Understood (b01jwfpj)
The Spirit of Jazz

Mark Tully improvises on the theme of spirituality in jazz, one of his favourite forms of music. He is joined by trumpeter, Ian Smith who evangelizes about the links between jazz and faith.

Together Mark and Ian identify the roots of jazz, deep in the church and in religious experience, as well as in the lives of ordinary black Americans in the first half of the 20th Century. Ian maintains that jazz provided the only forum in American public life where black creative artists could be respected and could articulate a culture specific to their own experiences. More than that, he maintains that jazz, "is a meditative form which circles around certain fundamental truths without pretending that the limited human personal experience can solve them."

Mark Tully also celebrates the sheer joy of jazz with readings and music which lift the heart. He is even given permission by Ian to enjoy some of his favourite jazz pieces by musicians who are sometimes regarded by jazz buffs as not quite the genuine article.

The readers are Frank Stirling, Emma Fielding and Peter Guinness.

Producer: Adam Fowler
A Unique production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:35 Natural Histories (b05w9l9z)
Beetles

Beetles, in the group of insects known as Coleoptera or 'sheathed wing', make up roughly one quarter of all known living species on the planet, that's about 400,000 species. It's perhaps not surprising that beetles are at the heart of the many ways we take inspiration from nature.

"Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home,
Your house is all burned and your children are gone....."

This nursery rhyme is one of many across Europe that demonstrates our close relationship with ladybirds. Peter Marren, leading wildlife author, explains the story behind the rhyme and why the ladybird in folklore is seen as 'Our Lady's Bird' as well as the poem Clock-o'-clay by the poet John Clare. The beetles collection at the Natural History Museum reveals the gold and silver beetles of the Cloud Forests of Costa Rica collected by Walter Rothschild in 1894. Scarab beetles found in Ancient Egypt had a huge impact on both the ecology and culture of the region and we find out why they were revered as sacred. In the Amazon region, the Shaur tribe incorporated beetle wings into ceremonial dress to enhance their prowess as warriors.

In this programme we celebrate the beetle and the role it plays as both an exotic and mundane creature whose biology is so extraordinary that some scientists now wish to copy it through the new science of Biomimetics.

With all their varied forms and irresistible structural colours, beetles may yet prove as invaluable in our future as they have been in our past.

Original Producer : Sarah Pitt

Archive producer for BBC Audio in Bristol : Andrew Dawes
Revised repeat - first broadcast in a longer form on 27th October 2015


SUN 06:57 Weather (m0018fr8)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 07:00 News and Papers (m0018frb)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 07:10 Sunday (m0018frd)
The Church of England and slavery; Ukrainian military chaplains; Should the Lords Spiritual be scrapped?

Should the Lords Spiritual be scrapped? Currently 26 bishops sit in the Lords. But it's been reported that some cabinet ministers want that to end after the Church of England criticised the government's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda. We debate the issues with the former attorney general Dominic Grieve - a practising Anglican and former Conservative MP - and Dr Jonathan Chaplin from the Divinity Faculty at the University of Cambridge.

In Ukraine, the focus of the fighting has shifted to the Donbas region, but it is as fierce as ever. A senior government official has told the BBC that Ukraine is losing between one and two hundred troops every day. Military chaplain Father Sergiy Berezhnoy, a Ukrainian Orthodox priest and a chaplain to the 42nd Battalion of Defenders of Kyiv tells Edward how Ukrainian soldiers are bearing up in the latest battle.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has apologised after research showed the Church of England's investment fund has links to the slave trade. Justin Welby said he is 'deeply sorry' for the links. But are apologies enough? We speak to Robert Beckford, Professor of Climate and Social Justice at the University of Winchester, who's recently been to Barbados to explore the legacy of the link between Anglicanism and slavery.

As devoted yogis prepare to mark International Yoga Day, we speak to Heather Mason from the Yoga in Healthcare Alliance, which trains people to use yoga to prevent health conditions and we ask the Indian cultural minister for the UK, Amish Tripathi, how he feels about yoga being detached from its spiritual roots.

Plus an Anglican church leader in Rwanda responds to his English counterparts' attack on the UK Government's new asylum policy.

Presented by Edward Stourton
Produced by Rebecca Maxted and Julia Paul
Editor: Helen Grady


SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal (m0018frg)
School-Home Support

Lady Sophie Windsor makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of School-Home Support.

To Give:
- UK Freephone 0800 404 8144
-You can donate online at bbc.co.uk/appeal/radio4
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- Cheques should be made payable to ‘School-Home Support’.
Please note that Freephone and online donations for this charity close at 23.59 on the Saturday after the Appeal is first broadcast. However the Freepost option can be used at any time.

Registered charity number: 1084696


SUN 07:57 Weather (m0018frj)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 08:00 News and Papers (m0018frl)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship (m0018frn)
Radical hospitality

Today’s episode of Sunday Worship comes from St Illtud’s Church in Llantwit Major (in Welsh, ‘Llanilltud’). Situated on the beautiful Glamorgan Heritage Coast, St Illtud’s is an ancient place of Christian witness and learning. Illtud founded his ‘College’ there in the early 6th century, and the alumni of Llanilltud reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of Celtic saints, with Dewi Sant (Saint David himself) studying there according to tradition, while even Patrick and Bridget would have known of Llanilltud’s work and witness.

Today’s service reflects on how the roots of Celtic spirituality can frame the context of a contemporary faith tradition. The service is led by Revd Emma Street, with reflections by Canon Edwin Counsell, and contributions from members of the St Illtud’s Church community, all bearing witness to how the rich and ancient tradition of radical hospitality is as relevant now as ever in supporting service of one another.

Music includes hymns sung by members of the National Chorus of Wales, excerpts of Britten’s Third and Bach’s Fourth Cello Suites from local ‘cellist Ben Tarlton, and a window into a Celtic mediaeval sound-world from the Welsh bardic musicians, ‘Bragod’.


SUN 08:48 A Point of View (m001886n)
No-Stalgia

'It's time to acknowledge', writes Will Self, 'that we don't really feel nostalgia at all - only something far more worrying and debilitating: a condition I've named no-stalgia'.

Will argues that the West is particularly in thrall to rose-tinted nostalgia and looks to Japan - and its concept of 'mono no aware' - as an alternative and healthier way of thinking about the past.

Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production Coordinator: Iona Hammond
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith


SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day (b038qk90)
Jay

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.

Brett Westwood presents the jay. This bird is a colourful member of the crow family. In September and October you'll often see jays flying around woodland with their bills and throats crammed with acorns. Many of these they bury as winter stores but not all are retrieved by Jays and many germinate and grow into young oaks, making the jay a tree-planter on a national scale.


SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House (m0018frq)
Broadcasting House 19/06/2022

Paddy returns this week, and speaks to the boss of the RMT Union Mick Lynch about this week's planned rail strikes. We launch a BH Festival just in time for Glastonbury, with music, comedy and astrology. We speak to the wife of James Brokenshire, who died of lung cancer last year, as part of our series examining grief. On the papers, Janine Gibson of the Financial Times, bestseller Joanne Harris and broadcaster Luke Jones.


SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus (m0018frs)
Writer, Adrian Flynn
Director, Rosemary Watts
Editor, Jeremy Howe

David Archer …… Timothy Bentinck
Ruth Archer ….. Felicity Finch
Ben Archer ….. Ben Norris
Natasha Archer ….. Mali Harries
Tom Archer ….. William Troughton
Tony Archer ….. David Troughton
Brian Aldridge ….. Charles Collingwood
Neil Carter ….. Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter ….. Charlotte Martin
Beth Casey ….. Rebecca Fuller
Justin Elliott ….. Simon Williams
Martyn Gibson ….. Jon Glover
Ed Grundy …… Barry Farrimond
Jakob Hakansson ….. Paul Venables
Alistair Lloyd ….. Michael Lumsden
Jazzer McCreary ….. Ryan Kelly
Hannah Riley ….. Helen Longworth
Sonya ….. Dru Stephenson
Denise ….. Clare Perkins


SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs (m0018frv)
Rita Tushingham, actor

Rita Tushingham first won international acclaim as a teenager, playing Jo in the film A Taste of Honey. Her performance in this 1961 kitchen sink drama earned her a BAFTA, a Golden Globe and the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival. She starting shooting the film on her 19th birthday.

She went on to play roles in the Leather Boys, the Knack… and How to Get it and Doctor Zhivago. Now 80, she continues to perform and recently appeared in two BBC television drama series - Ridley Road and The Responder - and in the film Last Night in Soho.

Rita was born in Liverpool and at 16 joined the Liverpool Repertory Company as a student assistant stage manager. Her first role was as the back legs of a horse in Toad of Toad Hall. In 1960 she responded to a newspaper article which invited ‘ugly’ unknown girls to apply for the part of Jo in a film adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's play A Taste of Honey, to be directed by Tony Richardson. The film challenged many taboos of the time, including teenage pregnancy and interracial relationships.

After the British film industry went into decline in the 1970s Rita started working in Europe. In 1988 she went back to her roots and played Celia Higgins in Carla Lane’s Liverpool sitcom, Bread. Rita lives in London and is a passionate supporter of Liverpool Football Club.

DISC ONE: You’ll Never Walk Alone by Gerry & the Pacemakers
DISC TWO: Tutti Frutti by Little Richard
DISC THREE: Penny Lane by The Beatles
DISC FOUR: Every Time We Say Goodbye by Ella Fitzgerald
DISC FIVE: The pas de deux from the second act of Giselle, performed by The Pro Arte Orchestra, conducted by Marcus Dods
DISC SIX: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel
DISC SEVEN: An extract from I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue - Potted Plots, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 22nd May 2006
DISC EIGHT: Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

BOOK CHOICE: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
LUXURY ITEM: A photograph album
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley


SUN 12:00 News Summary (m0018g9g)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 12:04 Just a Minute (m00187gl)
Series 89

Finding Your Feet, A Bed of Roses and Taking the Train

Sue Perkins challenges Paul Merton, Desiree Burch, Daliso Chaponda and Lucy Porter to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.

The long-running Radio 4 national treasure of a parlour game is back for a new series with subjects this week ranging from Finding Your Feet to A Bed of Roses.

Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
Producer: Sarah Sharpe

A BBC Studios Production


SUN 12:32 The Food Programme (m00187gb)
Birmingham’s Food System Revolution

The city of Birmingham is about to launch its own ambitious Food System Strategy. It’s vision is to create a bold, fair, sustainable and prosperous food system and economy, where food choices are nutritious and affordable. The strategy faces many challenges – Birmingham has one of the highest rates of childhood obesity in the country, and worrying levels of food poverty with 6.8 % of residents reporting using food banks during lockdown.

Last week the government published its long-awaited Food Strategy for England – a policy paper responding to Henry Dimbleby’s National Food Strategy, a landmark national review into the food system. Reaction has been mixed, with campaigners disappointed that many of the review’s bolder recommendations - like a tax on salt and sugar - haven’t been taken up, and no mention of a Food Bill. So in today’s programme Jaega Wise visits Birmingham to ask if cities could take up the mantle of improving what we eat, and talk to grassroots food groups about the change they want to see. Is it time for cities to step up and drive the food agenda, and far can they go in creating the radical change we need?

Presented by Jaega Wise and produced by Sophie Anton for BBC Audio in Bristol


SUN 12:57 Weather (m0018fs0)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (m0018fs2)
Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world


SUN 13:30 The Listening Project (m0018fs4)
The Human Need to Connect

Four conversations presented by Fi Glover.

This week: as the 50th anniversary of Pride UK approaches, Ashley and Chris reflect on the impact the marches have had on their live; Charlie and Richard share their poignant feelings about Father’s Day and losing people they love; and super fans Seyi and Robert bemoan the passing of the hit Australian TV soap ‘Neighbours’ - soon to be axed after 37 years.

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. The conversations are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation lasts up to an hour and is then edited to extract the key moments 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 this decade of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject

Producer: Mohini Patel


SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time (m001885h)
Chelsea Flower Show Potting Shed - Part 2

Horticultural programme featuring a group of gardening experts. Peter Gibbs presents the second instalment of highlights from the Potting Shed sessions at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Answering the questions this week are Ashley Edwards, Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Chris Beardshaw.

From GQT's bustling Chelsea exhibit, the panellists share their advice on planting for window boxes, growing the most delicious blueberries, and cultivating dahlias that stand the test of time.

Away from the questions, Matthew Wilson chats to PhD student Jack Greenhalgh about how the interdisciplinary science of eco acoustics could aid efforts towards restoring biodiversity in freshwater environments.

Producer: Dominic Tyerman
Assistant Producer: Bethany Hocken

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 14:45 Past Forward: A Century of Sound (m0015vc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:15 today]


SUN 15:00 Drama (m0018fs6)
The Machine Stops

Tamsin Greig stars in EM Forster's prescient vision of a world population living in isolated underground rooms, utterly dependent on technology. Philip Franks adapts this 1909 story into an eerie 'steampunk' journey through a world of fractured people, reliant on The Machine.

It still feels like a warning of things to come.

Existing in bunkers and communicating only through screens, the population has become neurotic and compliant, unaware that The Machine has taken complete control from its human inventors. Communication is via screen only and daily activity is largely confined to gossip, the sharing of ideas and a form of 'knowledge', itself electronically controlled and manipulated by The Machine. Then it begins to break down.

Tamsin Greig plays Vashti, a lecturer in the history of music, specialising in the Late Australian Period (Forster does retain a sense of humour). Her world is turned on its head by her son Kuno (played by Tok Stephen) when he says he has visited the surface and met people living up there. Vashti worships The Machine, her son wants to escape its grip. Their journey, as the all embracing structure collapses, brings them closer together, and eventually to the realisation that mankind's only future is in shared humanity and a connection to nature - then and only then perhaps a ruined planet can be rebuilt.

In 1909, EM Forster took a break from linen suits, big hats and unrequited love among the upper classes, and wrote a story which predicts - among other things - globalisation, the Internet, zoom, algorithms, social isolation and climate crisis.

Cast:
Tamsin Greig
Sarah Lawrie
Alana Ramsey
Veronica Roberts
Wilf Scolding
Tok Stephen
John Wark

Adapted/ Directed by Philip Franks
Produced by David Morley

A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 16:00 Open Book (m0018fs8)
Time and Time Travel with Emily St. John Mandel, Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger

Johny Pitts presents a special edition of the programme exploring time and time travel in books.

He talks to Emily St. John Mandel, author of the prescient Station Eleven about her latest novel Sea of Tranquilty, which spans past, present and an eerily familiar future.

Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli and Audrey Niffenegger, the writer behind bestselling The Time Traveller's Wife, also join them to discuss how literature has changed our understanding of time. Is scientific stranger than science fiction?

Book List - Sunday 19 June and Thursday 23 June

Sea of Tranquillity by Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin
The Door in the Wall by H G Wells
Await Your Reply by Dan Chaon
Monkey by Wu Ch’êng-ên: Translated by Arthur Waley
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu


SUN 16:30 Uncanny (m0018fsb)
Uncanny Summer Special: Canadian Horror Story

Uncanny is back, with a brand-new case, in this terrifying Summer Special episode. It’s 1998 and teenager Scott goes on his first trip abroad, a summer vacation in the rugged beauty of Newfoundland in Canada. But when Scott’s family stay the night in a remote seaside lodging house, their trip of a lifetime becomes the holiday from hell as they find themselves seemingly face to face with a malevolent supernatural force.

Nearly 25 years later, Danny meets Scott to see if he can solve the mystery that has haunted him his whole life. What really happened in that lonely old house? Was it demonic or can it be explained?

Written and presented by Danny Robins
Editor and Sound Designer: Charlie Brandon-King
Music: Evelyn Sykes
Theme Music by Lanterns on the Lake
Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 17:00 File on 4 (m00187rz)
Sibling Sexual Abuse: The Last Taboo?

With exclusive access to research – the first of its kind – reporter Livvy Haydock investigates what could be the most common form of sexual abuse that happens within families: sibling sexual abuse.

She speaks to families struggling to get help for this distressing form of abuse and those struggling to come to terms with a child harming another child – and fighting to repair their family.

As she will find out, a lack of official data makes it difficult to know for sure the true scale of the problem but some experts suggest 1.3 million people in the UK may have been affected by it.

And she will ask if a reluctance to accept what’s going on in front of us, could mean that when people look for help, often, it’s not there.

This is a story about sexual abuse at the very heart of the family; a story that may challenge what you think you know about the risk children may face in our homes.

Reporter: Livvy Haydock
Producer: Alys Harte
Technical Producer: Craig Boardman
Journalism Assistant: Tim Fernley
Production Manager: Sarah Payton
Editor: Nicola Addyman


SUN 17:40 Profile (m0018fsd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m0018fsg)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


SUN 17:57 Weather (m0018fsj)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m0018fsl)
Transport Secretary dismisses calls to intervene ahead of Tuesday's rail walkout.


SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week (m0018fsn)
Louise Minchin

A selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio


SUN 19:00 The Archers (m0018fsq)
Lynda asks Robert to speak to Adil about his singing in the shower. Robert thinks Adil has an excellent voice; Lynda should cast him in her next production. As Lynda remarks her production days are over, Robert notes Lynda isn’t Adil’s biggest fan. Lynda confronts Adil herself about the singing, but when Robert drops in Lynda’s history with local productions, Adil’s keen to get involved. Lynda tells Adil she has no interest in working with someone who is out to destroy her community. Cautious, Adil tells them he’s planning on holding a consultation with the village – he hopes Lynda will join. As he leaves Lynda berates Adil’s cheek. Robert can’t see Lynda’s problem; Adil is a paying guest, a nice person and just doing his job.
Chris bumps into Usha and asks after Amy, but Usha’s more concerned about Chris. Chris feels bad about how things ended with Amy, but Usha tells Chris he did the decent thing. When Usha informs him Amy’s met someone new, Chris says she deserves to be happy. Usha reminds Chris he deserves to be happy too. Chris confesses he’s avoiding the family Father’s Day lunch – he’s too depressing to be around and his family have earned a day off. Usha is sympathetic as Chris tells her about the court hearing. She asks if he can talk to Alice, but Chris thinks it’s too late. Usha encourages Chris not to catastrophise but to focus on the here and now, and enjoy Martha. Chris promises to try and do that.


SUN 19:15 Stand-Up Specials (m0018fss)
Josie Long: What Next?

Three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee and self-effacing national treasure Josie Long returns to the R4 airwaves to turn her sharp but affectionate eye on the state of the nation – and world, and planet – as we begin to emerge from two years of upheaval.

‘What’s Next?’ was a slogan stencilled all over major cities by climate change campaigners during the pandemic. It’s a fair question. In this stand-up masterclass – adapted from one of the most lauded Edinburgh Fringe shows in recent years – Josie considers the responsibility we have to our children with the planet in the parlous state it is.

She has become a mother herself (the first person ever, to her knowledge, to have not one, but two babies) and, through the prism of new parenthood, there is a lot to be alarmed about - corrupt governments, melting icecaps, health-food entrepreneurs making unsubstantiated claims about dates. And yet, in among all the existential crisis of the world in 2022, Josie finds hope and humanity.

A memoir of life-altering experiences broadened out into a manifesto for the direction we take now, post-pandemic, What’s Next deals surehandedly with both the personal and the global, showcasing the talents of a comic with an unusual and much-cherished ability to straddle the playful and the profound.

She may not have all the answers to our many societal crises, but nobody poses the questions in quite such an impassioned and entertaining way.

Written and performed by Josie Long

Produced by Siren Turner and Lianne Coop

An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 19:45 Accidents and Emergencies (m0018fsv)
2: Stage Four Rory

The next in a powerful new short story series from Sarah Moss, set on one hospital ward over a long bank holiday weekend. As patients wait to be assessed on the Acute Medical Unit, with staff exhausted and thin on the ground, stories of patients' lives and possible futures slowly unfold. These are tales of kindness, love and small acts of humanity in a system at breaking point.

Today: as the doctors pull the curtains shut around him, one young patient prepares for life-changing news...

Writer: Sarah Moss
Reader: Niamh Cusack
Producer: Justine Willett


SUN 20:00 More or Less (m00187wq)
Maternity litigation, stars, bees and windowless planes

The former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says that the cost of maternity litigation claims in England is now more than the cost of salaries for maternity nurses and doctors. We crunch the numbers and ask how worried parents and taxpayers should be. Also are there more bees in the world than stars in the galaxy? And would planes be much lighter if they didn’t bother with windows? Maths Professor Hannah Fry talks to us about her experience of cancer and the choices she and others have faced after a diagnosis. And we hear from author Simon Singh, who wants to bring fun maths conversations into homes everywhere.

Produced in partnership with the Open University.

Presenter: Tim Harford
Series Producer: Charlotte McDonald
Reporters: Nathan Gower, Lizzy McNeill, Jon Bithrey
Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown
Sound Engineer: James Beard
Editor: Richard Vadon


SUN 20:30 Last Word (m001885m)
Dame Paula Rego (pictured), Bruce Kent, Hilary Devey CBE

Matthew Bannister on

Dame Paula Rego, the acclaimed Portuguese-born artist who later made her home in the UK and was renowned for making vivid and disturbing work focussing on the subjugation of women. We talk to her son Nick Willing.

Bruce Kent, the Catholic priest who became a leader of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Hilary Devey CBE, who founded a multi-million pound freight distribution business and was one of the Dragons on the TV show Dragons Den.

Producer: Neil George

Interviewed guest: Nick Willing
Interviewed guest: Jacky Klein
Interviewed guest: Kate Hudson

Archive clips used: BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - Dame Paula Rego 07/12/1997; Kismet Film Company/ BBC, Paula Rego - Secrets and Stories 25/03/2017; Eric Minh Swenson Art Films, Samella Lewis - Pioneering Visual Artist and Educator 19/12/2016; BBC Radio Ulster, Bruce Kent documentary 13/03/1988; British Movietone, Aldermaston March - Natural Sound 12/04/1963; British Movietone, The March to Aldermaston in Trafalgar Square 10/04/1958; BBC Radio 4, PM - Cardinal Basil Hume interview 27/04/1983; BBC News, Troops Erect Fence Around RAF Molesworth Base 06/02/1985; CND - YouTube Channel, Bruce Kent - Why I joined CND 18/02/2018; BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs - Hilary Devey 02/11/2012; BBC Radio 4, Woman's Hour - Hilary Devey interview 24/05/2012; BBC One, Dragons' Den (Season 10) 2012; ITV Studios - YouTube Channel, Loose Women - Hilary Devey interview 03/06/2015.


SUN 21:00 Money Box (m0018fsx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday]


SUN 21:25 Radio 4 Appeal (m0018frg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today]


SUN 21:30 Analysis (m00187gs)
The Advertising Trap

Digital advertising fuels the digital economy, but is it all based on smoke and mirrors?

Ed Butler investigates what some claim is a massive collective deception - a trillion dollar marketing pitch that simply does not deliver value to any of those paying for it. He asks, do online ads actually work, or could it be that some of the biggest names in global tech are founded on a false prospectus?


SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour (m0018fsz)
Carolyn Quinn is joined by the Business minister and minister for London, Paul Scully; Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Jo Stevens; and the Lib Dem Treasury spokeswoman, Christine Jardine. They discuss the forthcoming rail strikes and the prospect of wider industrial action in the public sector, and the government's policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda - ahead of the Commonwealth summit being held in the country this week. The political editor of the Daily Telegraph, Ben Riley-Smith, brings additional insight and analysis.


SUN 23:00 Loose Ends (m0018ft1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Saturday]


SUN 23:30 Something Understood (b01jwfpj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today]

MONDAY 20 JUNE 2022

MON 00:00 Midnight News (m0018ft3)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed (m00187xg)
Package holidays and 'authentic' travel

Package holidays and ‘authentic’ travel: Michael John Law, retired research fellow in History at the University of Westminster, investigates the origin of budget tourism and how the package deal opened up a previously unaffordable world to working class holidaymakers. Also, Kaylan Schwarz, assistant professor in the School of Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, explores the experience of international volunteers who insist on experiencing ‘authenticity’ and claim superiority to every day tourists.

Producer: Jayne Egerton


MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday (m0018ft5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday]


MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m0018ft7)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m0018ft9)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m0018ftc)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


MON 05:30 News Briefing (m0018ftf)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m0018fth)
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with George Craig, a Methodist local preacher in Cardiff.

Good morning. My younger sister has often complained that of all the things she could have inherited from our late father it’s a bit galling that it had to include his nose and ears. Family resemblances are a funny business, but they must be important because we are told at the start of the Bible that we are made in the image of our Heavenly Father – so it’s clearly something we ought to give some serious thought to.

Clearly, we don’t all actually look like God physically – a quick glance around any group of people will show that – we really do come in all shapes and sizes. So we have to assume that our likeness to God is of a different order.

And I think there’s a clue to be found in one of the relatively harmless pastimes of a grandparent: spotting the various family resemblances amongst grandchildren – attitudes, temperaments, behaviours that seem to pop up in every generation.

The family likeness may not be physical, but the personality and the character are easy to spot.

And it seems to me that is how we can be like God – showing His love, His care and kindness, His tolerance and understanding. The mission of the Christian is to be our Father’s living presence in the world.
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I’d be honoured to be told that I had inherited any of my father’s strengths – and there were many – so my Christian life should be a constant striving to show the world how much I am like my Heavenly Father.

Lord God, You made us in your image and yet we find it so hard to show it. Make us more like you, showing one another a love that truly reflects Yours. Amen


MON 05:45 Farming Today (m0018ftk)
Bird Flu Consortium launched

The Government has launched a consortium of scientists and researchers to tackle the biggest ever outbreak of bird flu. There have already been more than 100 cases - leading to strict restrictions on poultry earlier this year. It's also now killing some sea birds. The task force aims to find out why this outbreak is so bad, and what can be done to contain it in future. However a recent government report found out that the main lab used by teams to tackle these outbreaks is itself run down, with some facilities described as 'not fit for purpose'.
How do you keep cattle in a field? It may seem an obvious question but the obvious answer – a fence or hedge - is no longer the only one. GPS electric collars keep cattle in the defined area by delivering a small electric shock – less than an electric fence - if the animals stray too close to the digital boundary. The collar also emits a high-pitched tone until they back away. These ‘invisible borders’ are set by farmers using a phone app. We meet a farmer trialling this teach, and hoping it will lead to a much larger regional grazing project.
This week we're also talking about legumes - plants which produce a pod with seeds inside, so anything from peanuts to beans and peas. Today we hear from a farmer growing fava beans in Yorkshire.


MON 05:56 Weather (m0018ftm)
The latest weather forecast for farmers.


MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b038qk9b)
Bluethroat

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.

Brett Westwood presents the bluethroat. This is a fine songbird and a sprightly robin-sized bird with a dazzling sapphire bib. Your best chance of seeing one is in autumn when they pass through the north or east coast on migration.


MON 06:00 Today (m0018g53)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


MON 09:00 Start the Week (m0018g55)
Justice, war crimes and targeted killings

Linda Kinstler’s Latvian grandfather disappeared after WWII and the family never spoke about him. But as she delved into Boris Kinstler’s life she found he had been a member of a killing brigade in the SS linked to the ‘Butcher of Riga’ Herbert Cukurs, before becoming a KGB agent and then vanishing. She attempts to uncover the truth in Come To This Court and Cry: How The Holocaust Ends, but also interrogates the uncertainties of memory, family, nation and justice.

Although Herbert Cukur’s name came up frequently at the Nuremberg war crime trials for the killing of tens of thousands of Jews, he managed to escape and find refuge in South America. It was there he was murdered by Mossad agents who left a note from Those Who Will Never Forget saying ‘the condemned man has been executed’. The Israeli investigative journalist Ronen Bergman has uncovered his country’s most secret activities in Rise and Kill First: The Secret History Of Israel's Targeted Assassinations (translated by Ronnie Hope).

The Nuremberg trials in the aftermath of WWII mark the birth of international law and set the framework of modern human rights law. The barrister and writer Philippe Sands has appeared frequently before international courts, and has been involved in many of the most important cases of recent years from Yugoslavia to Rwanda to Guantanamo. He explains what can be done when countries – like Russia – refuse to recognise the jurisdiction of international law.

Producer: Katy Hickman


MON 09:45 The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland (m0018jzc)
1. Auschwitz

The award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland reads from his powerful and moving new book about a heroic and courageous young Jewish man who escaped Auschwitz to reveal the truth about the Holocaust.

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland, the award-winning journalist, broadcaster and international bestselling author, tells the remarkable story of a young man who made it his mission to expose the chilling reality of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Courage and a steely determination to do the right thing led Rudolf Vrba and his friend, Fred Wetzler, to make a daring escape from the heavily guarded concentration camp. An eyewitness to many stages of the Final Solution, Vrba committed to memory details of the concentration camp's brutal and murderous regime. His testimony found its way into report that was disseminated to Churchill, Roosevelt and the Pope and ultimately saved the lives of 200,000 Hungarian Jews.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard


MON 10:00 Woman's Hour (m0018g59)
#MeToo in Comedy, Prom Dresses, Crowd Surfing

The comedians Katherine Ryan and Sara Pascoe have been making headlines in recent weeks following comments they made on Katherine’s new TV show. Both revealed instances when they’ve worked with men they believe to be predatory and despite complaining these men have not been reprimanded. Emma is joined by Kathryn Roberts who quit comedy because of her experiences and also by Chloe Petts who will be performing her show Transience at the Edinburgh Fringe this summer.

School proms return this year, but with more and more families feeling the pinch during the cost-of-living crisis, some students are missing out on this milestone event as they can't afford a dress. Across the UK, pop-up shops for preloved dresses are helping relieve the financial burden for disadvantaged teenagers. We speak to two women involved in such intiatives.

When Amy Maynard offered to take in a Ukrainian lady called Iryna, she didn’t realise the other struggle Iryna had been dealing with – fertility. Her first round of IVF was successful until she had a stillbirth, and she has one embryo left in Kyiv. Amy has now decided to raise money for Iryna and her husband Sergey, so they can have the chance to have a family of their own.

Have you ever tried crowd surfing before? One woman decided she would try her hand at it and won a competition. Amanda Mansell from York has been crowned 'Middle-Aged Crowd Surfing Champion'. She had never done it before but now thinks more women should be doing it.

Presenter: Emma Barnett
Producer: Emma Pearce


MON 11:00 The Untold (m0018g5c)
Should GLOR1A give up her dreams?

GLOR1A has always dreamed of becoming a singer. Growing up in a Pentecostal Christian family near Blackpool, music was always part of her life and she spent her childhood summers performing on the pier before heading off to university to study business, finance and economics. But the siren call of music remained strong, with GLOR1A eventually moving to London and recording vocals for house music producers. Often unpaid and feeling overlooked, Gloria was close to giving up until she met Gaika, a musician and visual artist who encouraged her to find her own sound.

She released her first EP as GLOR1A, starting to find her creative voice and a more experimental sound and look. Things were going well. So well, in fact, that she quit her day job in February 2020. Four weeks later the world shut down and with it all her gigs and income disappeared. With no money coming in, she reluctantly left London and moved in with her dad.

Two years later with her savings depleted and no home to call her own, GLOR1A gave herself an ultimatum; six months to get her music to a level where she can find a label to back her, try and get a publishing deal and build back the momentum she needs to make singing a sustainable career. Now the six months is nearly up, can she do it or should she give up her dreams?

Produced and presented by Emily Dicks


MON 11:30 The Bottom Line (m001883t)
Online Reviews

Can we trust the wisdom of the crowd on online review platforms? Evan Davis and guests discuss how businesses can harness this knowledge to their advantage and how they can deal with bad reviews. And how do the platforms that consumers look to for assurance ensure that we're reading the truth? Plus stories of chip shops, splashing in puddles and the mysterious "review farms"...
Guests:
Anoop Joshi, VP Legal and Platform Integrity, Trustpilot
Melissa Norton, Commercial Director, Muddy Puddles
Professor Adrian Palmer, Head of Marketing and Reputation, Henley Business School

Producer: Julie Ball
Editor Hugh Levinson
Sound: Neil Churchill
Production coordinators: Siobhan Reed and Helena Warwick-Cross


MON 12:00 News Summary (m0018gc6)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 12:04 You and Yours (m0018g5h)
Care home top-up fees, Working holidays on farms, BT digital voice

We look at how some families in England still end up paying top-up fees for relatives in care homes, even when they're entitled to a council funded place. By law, councils have to offer at least one suitable place in a home where no top-up fees are needed. It's been seven years since the law was changed to prevent unfair top-up fees being charged. We ask why some councils in England are still flouting the rules, making relatives pay hundreds of pounds a week towards care. We speak to a woman who was wrongly charged £56,000 in top-up fees for her mother by Stockport Council over a five year period. Following an investigation by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman, the council has now agreed to refund the money. We hear more from Donna Campbell, an assistant Ombudsman and David Broome from Age UK.

Many of us will already be looking ahead to a relaxing summer holiday either here in the UK or abroad. But for some people the ideal break involves something more active such as learning new skills on a working holiday and often paying for the privilege. Our reporter, Bob Walker, visits an organic farm in the Shropshire countryside and talks to volunteers there who are both taking a break and working at the same time.

We return to a story we've covered a lot in the last year - the woes of customers who've been cut off phone and broadband following an upgrade to BT's new Digital Voice system. The new internet phone service replaces the old copper wire connection. BT halted the mass rollout at the end of March and has told You and Yours that it won't be resuming, it has technical solutions in place. We speak to Dennis Reed from Silver Voices, a campaign group for the Over 60s.

Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Tara Holmes


MON 12:57 Weather (m0018g5k)
The latest weather forecast


MON 13:00 World at One (m0018g5m)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.


MON 13:45 The People Vs J Edgar Hoover (m0018g5p)
5. "The Most Notorious Liar in the Country”

Martin Luther King Jr crosses Hoover's radar. It doesn't end well.

J Edgar Hoover built then ran the FBI for almost five decades. He turned it from a bureaucratic backwater into a premier crime fighting and counterintelligence force. In the process, he arguably became America’s most powerful man. He’s been dead 50 years and still his shadow looms over the US. Today’s fears of a ‘deep state’ - of unaccountable government officials working against the public in their own interest – can be traced back to him. In this 8-part series, Emily Maitlis shows how though his job was to enforce the law...he would not always be bound by it.

Producer: Neal Razzell
Research: Louise Byrne
Editor: Hugh Levinson
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
Sound: Tom Brignell


MON 14:00 The Archers (m0018fsq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday]


MON 14:15 The Price of Oil (b06cvf4w)
Baby Oil

Daniel Betts, James McArdle and Michael J Shannon star in Jonathan Myerson's imagined political drama, based on real events in the propaganda campaign at the outbreak of the First Gulf War.

1991: the start of the First Gulf War. As the first bombs fall on Baghdad, a young man walks into the Marines Recruiting Office and demands to join up... because the war is his fault.

Baby Oil follows a young staffer’s last crazy weeks in the White House, as George Bush Snr’s administration struggles to sell to the American people the unpalatable idea of committing US troops to defend an oil-rich monarchy like Kuwait.

That is until the young staffer finds the perfect way…

The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. It takes us from 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world.

Devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, the season was produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC Audio.

As director of London’s Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil.

Recruiting Sergeant/Admiral ..... Daniel Betts
Forbes McEwen III ..... James McArdle
George H W Bush ..... Michael J Shannon
Dick Cheney ..... Sam Dale
UK Military Attache ..... Chris Pavlo
Drake ..... Stephen Critchlow
Diana ..... Jessica Turner
Cashier ..... Alex Tregear
Nayirah ..... Rhiannon Neads

Baby Oil was directed by Nicolas Kent.


MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree (m0018g5r)
Series 12

UCL

A funny, lively and dynamic quiz presented by Steve Punt and recorded on location at a different university each week, pitting three undergraduates against three of their professors.

This week the show comes from University College London. The specialist subjects are Biochemical Engineering, Psychology and English Literature and the questions range from Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway to Willy Wonka's Timothée Chalamet and the answers include the words yttrium, walla and quinquereme.

The rounds vary between specialist subjects and general knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the students’ knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors’ awareness of television, sport, and quite possibly Ed Sheeran. And the Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own subjects, offer plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides.

The other universities in this series are Leeds Beckett, Warwick, Bangor, Lancaster and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4


MON 15:30 The Food Programme (m00187gb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday]


MON 16:00 Future Art (m000tfjw)
Art Market

When the digital artwork Everydays: The First 5000 Days sold for a multi-million dollar sum, the buyer purchased not the art but a digital token called an NFT. The artist, Beeple, was paid in the crypto currency Ether and the art market suddenly seemed on the cusp of a revolution.

In this final episode, art historian James Fox asks how technology is transforming the art market, through online art fairs, virtual reality exhibitions, blockchain verification and the sale of new kinds of art.

The performance artist Marina Abramovic has long believed that the future of art is an ‘art without objects’. As the digital revolution gathers pace, Abramovic is one artist turning to new technologies to realise her vision.

In conversation with contributors from Christie’s, Hiscox and Hauser and Wirth, James asks whether there is a market for these new kinds of artwork.

Katharine Arnold describes Abramovic’s mixed-reality work The Life, which sees the artist materialise as a hologram, and James hears the inside story of the estimate-smashing sale of AI-generated artwork the Portrait of Edmond Belamy, an 18th century aristocrat who never existed.

And, beyond the online auction rooms, James asks how tech companies are taking on the role of patrons, as the boundaries between art and commerce blur.

Producer : Julia Johnson
A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4

Image: The Life – Mixed Reality installation with artist's box, by Marina Abramović © Christie’s Images Ltd 2021

The Louise Bourgeois audio is courtesy of The Easton Foundation.


MON 16:30 The Digital Human (m0018g5x)
Series 26

Solitary

Aleks Krotoski explores what it means to be solitary in our digital world and whether we should be more nuanced in our approach to the complex human emotion of loneliness.

To mark the 10th anniversary of the Digital Human, we’ve been reflecting on some of the questions that have stuck with us over the years. When 'Isolation' aired in 2013, the phrase 'loneliness epidemic' often appeared in the press with digital technology regarded as a key culprit in increasing isolation. Aleks interrogated this idea, exploring ways in which technology might facilitate as well as disrupt connection, speaking to inventor Joanna Montgomery whose prototype project 'Pillow Talk' had become an internet sensation.

Things shifted during lockdown when enforced separation from loved ones and, conversely, a lack of personal space, effectively mainstreamed loneliness, with technology reframed as an important tool in keeping us connected. In this follow-up programme Aleks wonders what insights the pandemic revealed about loneliness and how we might future-proof ourselves against it? She finds out what happened next for Joanna Montgomery and talks to writer and historian Fay Bound Alberti who suggests that there is a distinction between transitory and chronic loneliness. 'Wellbeing smuggler' Antony Malmo talks about how the language we use around loneliness can be counter-productive whilst Maff Potts of the Camerados movement explains how setting up 'public living rooms' can remove stigma and encourage community connections.

Produced by Lynsey Moyes in Edinburgh.

Contributors:

Joanna Montgomery is an interaction designer, founder of technology company, Little Riot and the creative mind behind the internet phenomenon "Pillow Talk”. Her work explores how humans engage with technology and the impact it has on society.

Antony Malmo, Director of Change and Capability at Allos Australia describes himself as a ‘wellbeing smuggler’ and ‘jargon cutter’ and is an accomplished educator across the fields of management, finance, health, engineering and manufacturing.

Fay Bound Alberti is a writer, historian and consultant. She is UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Professor in Modern History at the University of York. Her books include This Mortal Coil (2016) and A Biography of Loneliness (2020).

Maff Potts is founder of the Camerados movement which believes that the simple human act of looking after each other can be transformative. https://www.camerados.org/


MON 17:00 PM (m0018g5z)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m0018g63)
The biggest train strikes in decades will start tomorrow after talks between rail bosses and unions failed to reach a resolution


MON 18:30 Just a Minute (m0018g65)
Series 89

A Seating Plan, Doris Day and Under the Floorboards

Sue Perkins challenges Gyles Brandreth, Ria Lina, Zoe Lyons and Paul Merton to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.

The long-running Radio 4 national treasure of a parlour game is back for a new series with subjects this week ranging from Doris Day to Under the Floorboards.

Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
Producer: Richard Morris

A BBC Studios Production


MON 19:00 The Archers (m0018g67)
Ben finds Steph in the freshly cleaned kitchen at Beth’s place – Steph’s gesture of thanks to Beth for letting her share her room. Steph knows she’s been driving Beth mad, but it’s been a weird time for her. Beth gets home from work to find Ben and Steph chatting away. She’s blown away by the spotless kitchen and fridge. When Steph offers to make tea Beth jokes she’s like a totally different person! Ben tells Beth how overwhelming his prep for work is next week, and Beth suggests they stay in tonight. Ben thinks Beth should go out with Steph, and seeing her sister in a new light, Beth agrees.
As Martha and Xander play in the park, Adam chats to Alice about his and Ian’s artisan pizza van venture. Alice is unhappy when Chris arrives to pick up Martha earlier than agreed. Alice and Chris argue over who’s unreasonable, but as Adam attempts to mediate they all miss Martha climbing up a slide. Martha falls and injures her head. In A&E Chris and Alice are tense as a doctor confirms Martha can go home when she wakes up. Neither want to leave Martha tonight. They argue about who she should go home with, and whose fault it was that Martha fell. Having overheard their ugly row, the doctor explains she understands this was an accident, but she is concerned for Martha’s welfare. She’s made a referral to children’s social services. Alice and Chris are horrified.


MON 19:15 Front Row (m0018g69)
Baz Lurhmann on Elvis, new productions of Carmen and Tom, Dick and Harry

Director Baz Luhrmann on the making of Elvis, his new biopic of Elvis Presley, starring Austin Butler and Tom Hanks. Director Mathilde Lopez talks about drawing on her heritage for a new production of Bizet's opera Carmen at Longborough Festival Opera. Theresa Heskins, Artistic Director of the New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme on Tom, Dick and Harry, a new play about the escape attempt from Stalag Luft III in World War II. And Jessica Moor, author of the feminist thriller Keeper, singles out her 'moment of joy' in Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe
Producer: Julian May


MON 20:00 The Virtual World of Sex Education (m0018g6c)
In today’s ever-evolving digital world, social media can sometimes feel like a frightening place. But is it all bad? As our online and offline lives are becoming increasingly blurred perhaps it is time we looked at the ways social media can be used for good?

Ruby Rare is a sex educator and author who has delivered relationships and sex education workshops to all ages up and down the country.

Ruby speaks to a group of teens about the ways they use social media to fill the gaps left by their formal sex education, and parents about their concerns around young people learning about sex and relationships online. We hear from a number of ‘sexperts’ who address some of the dangers of young people not accessing good sex education and professionals who are using online platforms to provide comprehensive and inclusive sex education for the 21st century.

With contributions from:

Ben Hurst from Beyond Equality, Professor Jessica Ringrose, Eliza Bell from Brook, Genevieve Collister Brown, Dr Tanaya Narendra, Sophia Smith-Galer and Melissa Pintor Carnagey from Sex Positive Families.

Presenter: Ruby Rare
Producer: Anna de Wolff Evans
Sound Design: David Thomas

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4


MON 20:30 Analysis (m0018g6f)
Germany and Russia: It's Complicated

In late February, three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz made a landmark speech in the German parliament, the Bundestag. The invasion, he declared, represented a 'Zeitenwende' - a turning point.

The speech has been much discussed since - was Mr Scholz referring simply to the fact of the invasion, or to the way Germany needed to respond to it?

The speech contained a number of policy statements, the boldest of which was the commitment to set up a 100 billion Euro fund to re-equip Germany's outdated armed forces.

The question now is whether Germany will live up to Mr Scholz' promises, or will the cultural, political and economic bonds that have tied Germany and Russia together get in the way?

Presenter: Caroline Bayley
Producer: Tim Mansel


MON 21:00 Lives in Care (m00187qx)
In May, the Independent Review of Children's Social Care called for £2.6 billion investment to reform a system that is under “extreme stress”.

Tony Simpson was born in a Salvation Army Mother and Baby home and then at the age of just three months was taken into care, where he was to remain until he was 16. In this three-part series he compares his experiences with those who have been through the care system more recently.

While policy makers, legislators and service providers consider how the system should be improved, this series considers what the actual experience of being cared for away from home is actually like. It features only those who have been through the care system.

Presented by Tony Simpson
Mixed by Mike Sherwood
Produced by Paul Kobrak

A Mindhouse production for BBC Radio 4


MON 21:30 Start the Week (m0018g55)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 22:00 The World Tonight (m0018g6j)
Eve of 3 day national rail strike

In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective


MON 22:45 The Stranding by Kate Sawyer (m0018g6l)
Episode 6

When Ruth leaves London to volunteer with a charity in New Zealand, she leaves behind her job, her family and the relationship with her partner. But she’s also escaping the news of an imminent global catastrophe. As the disaster strikes, her only hope of survival lies in taking shelter inside the mouth of a beached whale, in the company of a complete stranger. When they emerge into an utterly changed world, these two can only rely on each other for survival. As they try and come to terms with their loss and pain, and find a way to build a life for themselves out of the destruction around them, we slowly begin to discover what drove Ruth from London to the New Zealand beach where everything came to an end – and a new beginning.

In a bold and skilful weaving of Ruth’s desperate present and her past life in London, the story follows two strangers as they confront the worst that can happen.

6/10: New Arrivals. A baby has been born, and Ruth has a shock when there are other arrivals at the camp.

Writer:
Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before writing The Stranding. Published in 2021, it was Kate’s debut novel and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the East Anglian Book Awards Fiction Award.

Reader:
Kerry Fox is an award-winning actor who came to prominence playing the writer Janet Frame in Jane Campion’s film An Angel at my Table, since when she’s had an international career in films and television.

Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Celia de Wolff
Sound Design: Lucinda Mason Brown
Production Coordinator: Sarah Wright

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4


MON 23:00 DMs Are Open (m001874l)
Series 1

Episode 5

In the series debut, DMs Are Open sees show hosts Athena Kugblenu and Ali Official dissecting the big stories alongside Will Hislop, Meggie Foster and Tom Lawrinson. Tune in for sketches, one-liners and voice notes about over-eager tree surgeons, a Brexit nightclub and the gritty origin story of Donkey Kong.

Written by: Will Adnams, Arfie, Danny Antrobus, Hamish Lloyd-Barnes, Davina Bentley, Carl Carzana, Tasha Dhanraj, Paul Di Paola, David Duncan, Kit Foxley, Jade Gebbie, Jacob Hatton, Neil James Hudson, Tom Lawrinson, Martin Pilgrim & Jennifer Walker
Voice notes by: Hamish Lloyd-Barnes, James Docherty, Kit Foxley, Mo Gascoigne & Phil Green
Script Editors: Catherine Brinkworth & Gráinne Maguire
Producers: Sadia Azmat & Rajiv Karia
Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Sound Editor: Sean Kerwin
Sound Engineer: Neil Goody

A BBC Studios Production


MON 23:30 Today in Parliament (m0018g6n)
Sean Curran reports as MPs debate a statement from the Transport Secretary on the biggest rail strike in 30 years.

TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2022

TUE 00:00 Midnight News (m0018g6q)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 00:30 The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland (m0018jzc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday]


TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m0018g6s)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m0018g6v)
BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service.


TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m0018g6x)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping.


TUE 05:30 News Briefing (m0018g6z)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m0018g71)
A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with George Craig, a Methodist local preacher in Cardiff.

Good morning. If there’s a single image from the Second World War that embodies the national spirit of hope and defiance during the blitz it’s the famous photograph of the dome of St Paul’s Cathedral towering over the burning city. The message it sent was that – while St Pauls was standing the nation could deal with whatever was thrown at it. And that picture came into my mind when I discovered that the foundation stone for the cathedral was laid on this day in 1675

Places and buildings can be powerful symbols – but people too can offer powerful and inspiring images – the war in Ukraine has provided many such images of courage and defiance in the face of terrible suffering.

But at a more personal level many of us have people who are hugely important in our lives.

When I was young we lived with my grandmother. My Grandmother’s best friend – Jean and her dog Tatters – were my best friends too. When we moved away the disruption was pretty difficult for me – but so long as old Jean and Tatters were there when we went back, unconditional love and support were there too. And that got me through some fairly sticky times as a child growing up a long way from what I thought of as home.

And I find that challenging. As a Christian I know that I am loved and accepted by God, but I also know that it’s my job to show and share that love and acceptance with those around me. St Pauls was a symbol of reassurance for the nation, Jean was a symbol of reassurance for me. I need to think hard about what kind of symbol I am in the lives of those around me.

Father God, I pray that, just as your presence in our lives is comforting and strengthening so we may bring comfort and strength into the lives of others. Amen


TUE 05:45 Farming Today (m0018g73)
21/06/22 - Farming Rules for Water, legumes for cattle, red clover for sheep

Since last Autumn, there’s been confusion about the rules governing muck spreading - outlining when and how much farmers can spread on their land. In March, DEFRA released new guidance, allowing autumn spreading, and also allowing farmers to spread more muck than their soil or crop required. The Salmon and Trout Conservation group believed the guidance given to the Environment Agency was essentially encouraging farmers to break the law. It threatened to take DEFRA to judicial review. Now, the government has altered its guidance. The National Farmers Union says it’s “disappointed", saying the changes "seemingly prevent some farmers applying organic manures to certain fields.”

Red clover is a legume, which fixes nitrogen in the soil. Its flowers attract bees and its leafy growth provides calcium and protein-rich grazing, but fifty years ago research suggested the legume could reduce fertility in sheep. Now, a group of farmers in the Midlands and Wales have been testing these findings. The field trials are being run by the “Innovative Farmers” - a group that links up farmers with scientists - and the agricultural consultancy, ADAS. The conclusion is that the original findings were wrong and red clover can actually improve fertility rates.

And a significant part of livestock feed is made of plant-based protein and while feed costs are rising sharply for farmers, a Welsh government funded scheme has been getting more farmers to grow their own cattle-feed ingredients - and that means growing pulses in their fields. We visit one of the farmers who has taken up the challenge.

Presented by Anna Hill
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons


TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b038qkb3)
Aquatic Warbler

Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about our British birds inspired by their calls and songs.

Brett Westwood presents the aquatic warbler. The stripy aquatic warbler is streaked like the sedges it lives in and is the only globally threatened European perching bird. They sing in the marshes of central and eastern Europe where the small European population has its stronghold. Unfortunately, this specialized habitat is disappearing because of drainage, disturbance and peat extraction. They are migrants so it's vital to protect their wintering areas as well as their breeding sites. It's known that up to 10,000 birds winter in the swamps of North-west Senegal.


TUE 06:00 Today (m0018g77)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific (m0018g79)
Vlatko Vedral on the universe as quantum information

Vlatko Vedral describes himself as a quantum information practitioner, who believes that our universe is made up of quantum bits of information.

It is information, he tells Professor Jim Al-Khalili, rather than energy or matter, the traditional building blocks of classical Newtonian physics, that can help us to understand the nature of reality.

Vlatko is Professor of Quantum Information Science at the University of Oxford and the Principal Investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore and he talks to Jim in front of an audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival.

At high school in Belgrade, in what was then Yugoslavia, young Vlatko was bowled over by the idea that you could take the micro-laws of quantum mechanics, and apply them to the complex systems of the macro world.

This drive to see the big picture, was fuelled when, as an undergraduate at Imperial College, London, he saw three words – “Information is physical” – the title of a paper by the IBM physicist, Rolf Landauer.

It was a light-bulb moment for Vlatko, who realised that the kind of information processing that the universe is capable of, depends on the underlying laws of physics.

This revelation led to Vlatko’s incarnation as a self-confessed “physics fundamentalist” who unashamedly crowns physics the Queen and other disciplines, her servants. It is physics alone, he tells Jim, which can answer the fundamental questions of the universe and discover the ultimate reality.

His PhD in 1997 at Imperial College, London, applied quantum mechanics, including super-positioning and entanglement (which Einstein famously called “spooky action at a distance”), to Claude Shannon’s Information theory, making Vlatko one of the pioneers in the field of quantum information.

As new quantum computers come on stream, he tells Jim, quantum information practitioners, like him, will have the capacity to simulate complex systems in the macroscopic domain.

Producer: Fiona Hill


TUE 09:30 One to One (m0018g7c)
Emma Garland and Mike Parker on living in Wales

Emma and Mike have done a kind of cultural house swap - Emma left South Wales when she was 18 and is now London-based. Mike left England over two decades ago and has learnt to speak Welsh. So which of them is more Welsh?

Emma Garland was born in Ynysybwl. She writes for Dazed, Vice and Rolling Stone magazine. Mike Parker lives in Powys and is the author of Neighbours from Hell and the forthcoming All the Wide Border, which is about the frontier between England and Wales.

The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde


TUE 09:45 The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland (m0018jz9)
2. The Devastating Deception

The award-winning journalist Jonathan Freedland reads from his powerful and moving new book. Today, in Auschwitz, a young Jewish man arrives at a devastating realisation and he is compelled to make a courageous decision.

The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland, the award-winning journalist, broadcaster and international bestselling author, tells the remarkable story of a young man who made it his mission to expose the chilling reality of Auschwitz and the Holocaust. Courage and a steely determination to do the right thing led Rudolf Vrba and his friend, Fred Wetzler, to make a daring escape from the heavily guarded concentration camp. An eyewitness to many stages of the Final Solution, Vrba committed to memory details of the concentration camp's brutal and murderous regime. His testimony found its way into report that was disseminated to Churchill, Roosevelt and the Pope and ultimately saved the lives of 200,000 Hungarian Jews.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard


TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (m0018g7f)
Celebrating midwinter in sub-Antarctic. Olivia Harrison on celebrating her husband though poetry.

As we celebrate the summer solstice on the other side of the world it's the shortest day or mid-winter. For the first time the British Antarctic Survey have an all-female team wintering on Bird Island in the sub-Antarctic. Midwinter is a moment of celebration for the teams on sites. The Bird Island Research Station Leader, Imogen Lloyd, joins Emma to tell her about the work they're doing.

Olivia Harrison has penned a book of poetry called "Came the Lightening" to celebrate her husband, George Harrison's life, more than twenty years after his death.. As lead guitarist of The Beatles, his most famous songs included While My Guitar Gently Weeps, and Here Comes the Sun. What prompted her to share her memories in poetry?

A court support service that helps thousands of people who cannot afford a lawyer could be under threat after having its government funding changed. The Chief Executive of Support Through Court Eileen Pereira explains what any loss of core-funding could have on the women they support.

A new story suggests that Boris Johnson may have spoken to Downing Street aides about getting his wife, Mrs Carrie Johnson, two roles while she was living in Number 10 with the Prime Minister as his fiancee. Sources told the Daily Mirror that the Prime Minister raised possible new environmental roles for her in autumn 2020, either on the COP 26 summit or with the Royal Family. His closest advisors are said to have vetoed both suggestions - but what questions does this raise about her being the victim of sexism and the idea of her as a private citizen? We hear from Daily Mirror Political Editor Pippa Crerar

Plus a new coming-of-age TV series was released on Amazon Prime – The Summer I Turned Pretty, The characters are supposed to be 15 and 16 year olds, but the majority of the cast are in their early 20’s. Why are films and television shows that focus on the teenage experience so often played by older actors? We hear from Alex Hart an English and History Student at Durham University and Tianna Haffenden a young actor.

Presenter Emma Barnett
Producer Beverley Purcell


TUE 11:00 Lives in Care (m0018g7h)
In May, the Independent Review of Children's Social Care called for £2.6 billion investment to reform a system that is under “extreme stress”.

Tony Simpson was born in a Salvation Army Mother and Baby home and then at the age of just three months was taken into care, where he was to remain until he was 16. In this three-part series he compares his experiences with those who have been through the care system more recently.

While policy makers, legislators and service providers consider how the system should be improved, this series considers what the actual experience of being in care is like.

Featuring only those who have been through the care system themselves, this is also an honest assessment of the lasting legacy those experiences can have on those who have been cared away from home.

Presented by Tony Simpson
Mixed by Mike Sherwood
Produced by Paul Kobrak

A Mindhouse production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 11:30 The Secrets of Storytelling (m0018g7k)
Real and Imagined Worlds

James Runcie, author of the Grantchester Mysteries series, is a writer in search of the best way to tell a story. In this series he meets high profile authors to discuss the craft of novel writing. Using extracts from the author’s own work, as well as classic texts, the conversations will reveal the secrets of the storytelling craft.

In this episode James is joined by Kamila Shamsie to explore the art of creating a convincing sense of place, using analysis of Dickens' Bleak House and Calvino's Invisible Cities, and Kamila’s own prize-winning novels including Home Fire and Burnt Shadows.

Presenter: James Runcie
Producer: Ellie Bury
Reader: Paterson Joseph


TUE 12:00 News Summary (m0018g7m)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 12:04 You and Yours (m0018g7p)
Call You and Yours - How are the train strikes affecting your life?

We'd like to know what impact the train strike is having on you and your plans.

Is it affecting your work, holidays or exams? Maybe you have had tickets for the first Glastonbury since 2019 - how will you get there

Call You & Yours and let us know - 03700 100 444

Or email youandyours@bbc.co.uk

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON

PRODUCER: KEVIN MOUSLEY


TUE 12:57 Weather (m0018g7r)
The latest weather forecast


TUE 13:00 World at One (m0018g7t)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.


TUE 13:45 The People Vs J Edgar Hoover (m0018g7w)
6. The Break-In

Amateur burglars risk all to go after Hoover’s secrets.
J Edgar Hoover built then ran the FBI for almost five decades. He turned it from a bureaucratic backwater into a premier crime fighting and counterintelligence force. In the process, he arguably became America’s most powerful man. He’s been dead 50 years and still his shadow looms over the US. Today’s fears of a ‘deep state’ - of unaccountable government officials working against the public in their own interest – can be traced back to him. In the first of an 8-part series, Emily shows how though his job was to enforce the law...he would not always be bound by it.
Producer: Neal Razzell
Research: Louise Byrne
Editor: Hugh Levinson
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
Sound: Tom Brignell


TUE 14:00 The Archers (m0018g67)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]


TUE 14:15 The Price of Oil (b06cvgq8)
Someone's Making a Killing in Nigeria

Nadine Marshall, Obi Abili, and David Ajala star in Rex Obano's drama, set in Rivers State, Nigeria, in 1994.

The Ogoni people’s campaign against the environmental degradation of their land by the oil industry has crystallised into a mass movement. Under General Abacha’s military regime, the dispute between the people led by Ken Saro-Wiwa on the one hand, and big oil on the other, is reaching its height – when one local businesswoman finds herself caught up in its notoriously violent consequences.

This drama uses fictional characters to reflect on real events, about which responsibilities are still disputed, and many details have never fully come to light.

The Price of Oil season of factual dramas explores the history of oil - and the price we've paid for it. It takes us from 1951 to 2045, and around the world from Iran to Alaska, Libya, Nigeria, Turkmenistan, Washington and onto Scotland's offshore rigs, to explore the role oil has played in shaping our world.

The season was devised by Nicolas Kent, with Jack Bradley & Jonathan Myerson, and was produced by Jonquil Panting for BBC Audio.

As director of London’s Tricycle theatre for almost 30 years, Nicolas Kent championed responsive factual and political drama, including seasons of plays by renowned writers about Afghanistan (The Great Game) and nuclear weapons (The Bomb). Now he brings that experience to BBC Radio 4, to tell the story of oil.

Sira Banatu ..... Nadine Marshall
Monday Banatu ..... Obi Abili
Felix ..... David Ajala
Donald Chesworth ..... Jude Akuwudike
Joseph Idigbe ..... Landry Adelard
Barinem ..... Zackary Momoh
The Buyer ..... Jessica Turner
The Protester ..... Rhiannon Neads
Schoolboy ..... Michael Ogunseye
Schoolboy ..... James Okulaja

The poem 'Ogoni! Ogoni!' quoted in the drama, was written by Ken Saro-Wiwa.

Someone's Making a Killing in Nigeria was directed by Jonquil Panting.


TUE 15:00 Short Cuts (m0018g7y)
Series 31

Numbers

From a rhythm that weaves itself through memory to our relationship with deep time, Josie Long presents a countdown of numerically-inspired short documentaries.

The Everywhen
Featuring Dave Johnston-Pitt and Sam Juparulla Wickman
Produced by Jaye Kranz

The Yelling Birds of the Presidio
Featuring Jenny Phillips, who also shared the field recordings used to create this piece
Produced by Kalli Anderson and Kaija Siirala

Counting to Six
Accordion played by Kaveh Ghaffari, Tonbak by Farhad Asadi and Pedal Steel by Michael Eckert
Produced by Arif Mirbaghi

Curated by Axel Kacoutié, Eleanor McDowall and Andrea Rangecroft
Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 15:30 A Thorough Examination with Drs Chris and Xand (p0c98bfy)
Series 1: Addicted to Food

4. Building an ultra processed body

Chris and Xand are doctors, scientists and identical twins. Well, not quite identical. Xand is 20kg heavier, clinically obese, and has a Covid induced heart condition.

Chris believes that the reason Xand is overweight is the same reason that most of us in the UK are overweight - Ultra Processed Food or UPF. It’s the main thing that we now eat and feed to our children, but most of us have never heard of it. It’s addictive, highly profitable and the main cause of the global obesity pandemic. It’s destroying our bodies, our brains and the environment.

In this series, recorded during the first coronavirus lockdown of 2020, Chris wants to help his brother quit UPF and get his health back. So, he has a plan. In an attempt to turn Xand's life around, Chris persuades his brother to eat a diet comprising 80% Ultra-processed food while learning about every aspect of it. By doing this, Chris tests two theories - that Xand is addicted to UPF, and that eating more of the stuff while learning about it, will help him quit.

Chris believes that the science shows UPF is addictive and harmful to the body, not least by driving excess consumption and weight gain. By speaking with the world’s leading experts on obesity and nutrition, Xand will learn what UPF is made of, how it’s produced, whether it’s addictive, what it does to the human brain and body and how it is the number one force driving global obesity.

In episode four - Building an ultra-processed body - Xand starts the diet, eating 80% UPF while continuing to learn about it. Chris thinks the diet will work because he’s done it, subsisting on a junk food diet for four weeks while investigating the causes of childhood obesity in a BBC TV documentary. In order to understand the direct effect UPF is having on his body - appetite, hormones and weight - Xand speaks to obesity expert, Dr Janine Makaronidis from University College London. Xand also interviews Dr Kevin Hall from the National Institute of Health in the US about his ground-breaking research into the consumption of UPF. Kevin was the first scientist to prove that UPF causes weight gain.

Presented by Drs Chris and Xand Van Tulleken
Produced by Hester Cant
Executive Producers Philly Beaumont and Jo Rowntree
A Loftus Media and van Tulleken Brothers Ltd production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 16:00 Law in Action (m0018g81)
Why do so few rape cases go to court?

Explaining the barriers to conviction at every stage of the criminal justice system. Prosecutions for the crime have declined by 40% over the last four years in England and Wales, although they have gone up in Scotland and Northern Ireland. And yet the number of cases reported to the police is higher than ever. What is going wrong? And what needs to change so that more survivors get justice - and to reduce the threat from rapists?
Joshua Rozenberg is joined by a specialist panel drawn from across the criminal justice system, to find out where the problems lie. They debate what could be done differently, so that fewer cases result in no further action being taken, or with survivors dropping out of the legal process. And he hears first-person testimony from a woman who was raped, who describes her subsequent experience with police and prosecutors.

Panellists:
- Alice Kelly, Deputy Chief Crown Prosecutor for the Southeast, Crown Prosecution Service
- Betsy Stanko OBE, emeritus Professor of Criminology, strategic advisor to the Home Office's Operation Soteria Bluestone, and formerly of the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime
- Claire Waxman OBE, Victims Commissioner for London
- Kirsty Brimelow QC, Vice Chair of The Criminal Bar Association
- Sarah Crew, Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset police and National Lead for rape and serious sexual offences at the Police Chiefs Council
- Wendy Williams CBE, Her Majesty’s Inspector of the Constabulary for the Wales and Western Region

Presenter: Joshua Rozenberg
Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Ben Cooper
Researcher: Diane Richardson
Production coordinator: Maria Ogundele
Sound recording: James Beard
Sound mixing: Neil Churchill


TUE 16:30 A Good Read (m0018g83)
Rob Newman & Sarfraz Manzoor

Comedian Rob Newman and writer Sarfraz Manzoor talk about favourite books. Rob loves John Berger's novel To the Wedding, but not everyone finds it hugely romantic. Sarfraz has chosen Bob Dylan's Chronicles: Volume 1. Thus far, there has been no Volume 2. Harriett enjoys Eric Ambler's The Mask of Dimitrious, a thriller which criss-crosses pre-war Europe.

Producer Sally Heaven


TUE 17:00 PM (m0018g85)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m0018g87)
Railway stations across England, Scotland and Wales have been deserted as services have been largely brought to a halt by the first of three days of strike action this week


TUE 18:30 Damned Andrew (m0018g89)
Series 1

Episode 1. And So It Begins

Struggling musician and successful delivery driver Andrew O'Neill has inadvertently opened a portal to another dimension in their flat. This is a very bad thing. A million demons have flooded through and they're getting in everyone's way. A comedy about being stuck between worlds - human and demon, millennials and boomers. This is the first narrative comedy starring a non-binary character.

Written by Andrew O'Neill and Tom DeVille and narrated by writer and graphic novelist Alan Moore

Episode One - And So it Begins.
Andrew has inadvertently opened a portal to another dimension and a thousand demons flooded into London and parts of Leeds. That was a year ago and, although people are pretty much getting used to them, they're really getting in the way.

Andrew needs to find a way to close the portal. Which isn't easy when they're completely in denial about it having happened in the first place.

Not only that, their friend and landlord Pad (Sanjeev Kohli) wants to sell the flat Andrew shares with their partner Gabriella (Jen Brister) and Andrew enlists their sister's help (Carly Smallman) to change his mind. Meanwhile, a weird tramp (Phil Nichol) keeps appearing and seems to be trying to tell Andrew something.

Cast:
Andrew ..... Andrew O'Neill
Gabriella ..... Jen Brister
Pad ..... Sanjeev Kohli
Phil ..... Phil Nichol
Siobhan ..... Carly Smallman.
Stolas ..... Lucy Pearman.
Driver/announcer ..... Toby Hadoke
Announcer and slayer T Shirt wearer ..... Joel Trill
Waiter and announcer ..... Sami Abu Wardeh.
Bookshop owner ..... Ninia Benjamin

Written by Andrew O'Neill and Tom DeVille

Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith

A Yada-Yada Audio production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 19:00 The Archers (m0018g8f)
Chris relays to Neil that a date has come through for the court hearing for the care of Martha. Neil suggests Chris fills in his solicitor about Martha’s accident. Chris calls Neil to let him know the solicitor’s response – it could be used as evidence against Alice, and is Chris sure that Alice hadn’t been drinking? Later Neil tries to reassure Chris who is stressed about his social worker interview tomorrow, and consumed by anxiety over his solicitor asking about Alice’s drinking. Neil carefully asks how sure he is about Alice’s sobriety but Chris doesn’t know what to believe anymore.
Kirsty and Lynda reflect on the closure of Grey Gables and Lynda admits it’s not easy having Adil as a guest. Adil interrupts them, keen to hear about rewilding. Listening to Kirsty he is reminded of his grandmother who practices zero budget natural farming in Pakistan. Adil tries to compliment Lynda by likening her to his force of nature grandmother. But Lynda remains cool towards Adil. Robert joins them and Adil jokes about Kirsty leaving rewilding to work for the new Grey Gables. Robert ticks off Lynda for not finding it funny. Lynda changes the subject by reminding Adil he has to stop singing in the shower; they’ve had a complaint. Adil asks for a tour of the rewilding, something Lynda would also like. However, she claims to be unavailable at the time suggested by Kirsty. Kirsty says that’s absolutely fine – they’ll just have to have separate tours.


TUE 19:15 Front Row (m0018g8h)
Live music festivals; Roy Williams' play The Fellowship; The Horniman Museum

As Glastonbury returns this week after a two year pandemic hiatus, a summer of festivals gets under way while some festivals are forced to cancel due to difficult conditions. We look at how the festival sector has struggled through the challenges of the last two years, and consider the importance of live music festivals to the UK economy and culture. Shahidha is joined live by Melvin Benn – Managing Director of Festival Republic and a director of Glastonbury Festival, Paul Reed CEO of the Association Of Independent Festivals and Lauren Down, Director of End Of The Road festival.

In Roy Williams' new play The Fellowship, sisters Dawn and Marcia are children of the Windrush generation. They were activists together in the struggles for justice in the 1980s. The sisters have little in common now, but the fellowship of family connection is powerful. Roy Williams talks to Shahidha Bari about unflinchingly putting the stories of black British people on the stage.

A tour round the Horniman Museum and Gardens in South London, shortlisted for the Art Fund's Museum of the Year, with Chief Executive Nick Merriman and Senior Curator Sarah Byrne.

Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Nicki Paxman

Image: Glastonbury Festival


TUE 20:00 File on 4 (m0018g8k)
Dementia: The Final Indignity

Around 800,000 people have dementia in the UK. For those suffering from the illness, incontinence can often be seen an inevitable consequence - but that’s not always the case. Deemed as too embarrassing or taboo, it’s a topic that rarely hits the spotlight. Experts say preserving someone’s ability to go to the toilet is crucial to maintaining their dignity and quality of life and should be a priority in care settings. But is that always happening? A new report shown exclusively to File on 4 has looked at how continence care is being managed in hospitals – and how, in some cases, those who are continent are actively encouraged to soil themselves. Datshiane Navanayagam speaks to families who say their loved ones were ignored when it came to their continence needs in hospital and that the consequences have left them with health issues and requiring additional support. Nurses and medical staff say that continence training is often seen as a ‘Cinderella subject’. We also hear from dementia patients themselves about why maintaining your own dignity and independence is so crucial with this disease. With the government set to reveal a new dementia strategy this year, will continence care be placed higher up the agenda?

Reporter: Datshiane Navanayagam
Producers: Emma Forde, Annabel Deas and Scott Hesketh
Production Manager: Sarah Payton
Journalism Assistant: Tim Fernley
Editor: Carl Johnston


TUE 20:40 In Touch (m0018g8m)
Museums & Exhibitions

For some visually impaired people, the element of touch is very important when trying to establish what a piece of art work looks like. This prompted listener Mike Lambert to contact the program following a visit to The World of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum. Mike was unhappy that he wasn't able to handle some of the stone items displayed at the exhibition and he explains to Peter a series of other access concerns that he has. We put these concerns to the Museum's Equality and Diversity Manager, Will Westwood.

We also take a look at The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives. Here, they ensure that visually impaired visitors are catered for with touch tours, 3D printings of the sculptures and more. We pay a remote visit to the garden with Georgina Kennedy, the museum's Public Program Curator.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Beth Hemmings
Production Coordinator: Liz Poole

Website image description: pictured is a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth titled 'Two Forms (Divided Circle)'. The sculpture is asymmetrical, with each part at an angle to the other and one is slightly behind the other. One of the semi-circular sections has a cylindrical hole. On the other, a hole spirals from a circle to an oval. The sculpture is surrounded by lots of shrubbery and behind it, to the right, is a smaller sculpture and to the left is a large white shed with glass windows.

Barbara Hepworth Two Forms (Divided Circle) 1969 © Bowness


TUE 21:00 All in the Mind (m0018g8p)
One mother's story of the psychological impact on her children of her ex husband's sexual offences

They call it "the knock" - when the police are at the door and demand to take away laptops and phones to search for evidence of images of child sexual abuse. Our reporter Jo Morris talks to "Emma" (not her real name) about the moment her life was turned upside down when her then husband was accused of looking at indecent images of children. She felt isolated and wasn't given any support to explain to her children about what was happening, once social services had made sure that the children hadn't been directly harmed by their father. She told her younger children that their father's computer had been taken away because it was broken - and was more open with the older children about what he'd done. The family moved house and changed their name once vigilantes became aware of the case and her oldest child had suicidal thoughts and was hospitalised.

Emma eventually got support from the charity Children Heard and Seen, which offers face-to-face support to children in Oxford and Birmingham and online support to families across the country. Sarah Burrows and James Otley explain how their online groups and mentoring help to support families like Emma's.

The Ministry of Justice say that there is help for children who are victims of crime, but a victim is defined as someone who is directly affected by a criminal offence, so families of offenders are not deemed to be victims of crime. There are no plans to change this as it could result in victims of crime receiving less support.

Robin Dunbar examines the psychology of religion in his new book How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures. The Emeritus Professor of Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Oxford believes that the number 150 which he popularised as the "optimum" number for successful social groups also plays a significant role in religious gatherings. He explains how the bonds created by religion offer benefits to individuals and communities.

Our studio guest Professor Catherine Loveday from the University of Westminster offers ideas on how to avoid doomscrolling, when the news feels overwhelming and whether professional or amateur musicians are more at risk of developing anxiety and depression.

Producer: Paula McGrath

Made in partnership with the Open University


TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific (m0018g79)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (m0018g8r)
Widespread disruption for rail passengers

In-depth reporting, intelligent analysis and breaking news from a global perspective


TUE 22:45 The Stranding by Kate Sawyer (m0018g8t)
Episode 7

When Ruth leaves London to volunteer with a charity in New Zealand, she leaves behind her job, her family and the relationship with her partner. But she’s also escaping the news of an imminent global catastrophe. As the disaster strikes, her only hope of survival lies in taking shelter inside the mouth of a beached whale, in the company of a complete stranger. When they emerge into an utterly changed world, these two can only rely on each other for survival. As they try and come to terms with their loss and pain, and find a way to build a life for themselves out of the destruction around them, we slowly begin to discover what drove Ruth from London to the New Zealand beach where everything came to an end – and a new beginning.

In a bold and skilful weaving of Ruth’s desperate present and her past life in London, the story follows two strangers as they confront the worst that can happen.

7/10: To Stay or to Go? As the visitors move on, Ruth and Nik have to make a decision

Writer:
Kate Sawyer worked as an actor and producer before writing The Stranding. Published in 2021, it was Kate’s debut novel and was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the East Anglian Book Awards Fiction Award.

Reader:
Kerry Fox is an award-winning actor who came to prominence playing the writer Janet Frame in Jane Campion’s film An Angel at my Table, since when she’s had an international career in films and television.

Abridged by Sara Davies
Produced by Celia de Wolff
Sound Design: Lucinda Mason Brown
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Wright

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 23:00 Fortunately... with Fi and Jane (m0018g8w)
238. Sticking Snowsuits and Magnifying Mirrors, with Ramita Navai

This week on the podcast, Fi and Jane speak to the investigative journalist Ramita Navai, who has covered stories in hostile environments all over the world. Ramita tells them about The Line of Fire, her podcast speaking to fellow reporters about their experience covering dangerous events around the globe. Ramita also talks about growing up amidst the Iranian Revolution and the benefits of being a female reporter. Before their guest joined them, Fi has a zoological question, Jane is feeling good about mixed beans and there's a new Italian man in her life.

Get in touch: fortunately.podcast@bbc.co.uk


TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament (m0018g8y)
All the news from Westminster with Sean Curran.