The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
Anna Hill hears about Ireland's first GM crop trials for 14 years. The European Commission is funding the controversial project in growing blight resistant potatoes.
The National Grid plans to build a route of around 100 high voltage power to pass through Powys in mid Wales. BBC correspondent Iolo ap Dafydd tells Anna why the announcement is not popular with local people.
And a pig farmer is fighting planning proposals for a biomass plant in Suffolk because he thinks it will create a shortage of straw.
Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.
Libby Purves is joined by The Great British Bake Off's Paul Hollywood, air ambulance doctor Tony Bleetman, theatre director Ivan Cutting and curator and jouster Tobias Capwell.
Paul Hollywood is an artisan baker and judge on the BBC series The Great British Bake Off. The son of a baker, Paul originally trained as a sculptor. He first turned his hand to the art of bread-making at the age of seventeen when he served an apprenticeship in his father's business. His book 'How To Bake' is published by Bloomsbury.
Ivan Cutting is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the Suffolk-based touring theatre company Eastern Angles which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The company is performing I Heart Peterborough, a new play by Joel Horwood, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Tony Bleetman is a consultant in emergency medicine and an air ambulance doctor. His book 'You Can't Park There! The Highs and Lows of an Air Ambulance Doctor' gives a behind-the-scenes account of life on board an air ambulance. Tony and his team confront a variety of emergencies from a man attacked by an angry llama to a cardiac arrest on an allotment. 'You Can't Park There!' is published by Ebury.
Tobias Capwell is Curator of Arms and Armour at the Wallace Collection and champion jouster. He is the curator of the exhibition 'The Noble Art of the Sword' which tells the untold story of this fascinating area of Rennaissance art: revealing the skilled artistry behind the rapier - once a weapon, fashion item, and jewellery object. The Noble Art of the Sword - Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe is at The Wallace Collection in London.
"One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich
Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, unequal cities.
Today: a feud between two Muslim neighbours ends tragically, and threatens to bring down both families.
Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is her first book.
Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and playwright.
Are women under increasing pressure to look a certain way? We hear your views on a Woman's Hour phone-in. Do you spend time and money on your appearance because you enjoy it? Do you feel happy with the way you are, or need to conform to certain standards of beauty and attractiveness? Where do those ideals come from and how much pressure do they put you under? What lengths have you gone to maintain your appearance? Presented by Jenni Murray.
The series which explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people.
American travel writer and former journalist, Agnes Keith experience in POW camps during 1942 - 1945 in Borneo.. Agnes is assaulted by a guard. Although Colonel Suga promises to investigate and bring justice, Lieutenant Yoshida chooses a different course action against Agnes.
In 1966, a former pirate radio broadcaster, Major Paddy Roy Bates, occupied a disused military platform in the North Sea, and moved his family aboard. The next year he declared it to be the sovereign Principality of Sealand, appointing himself Prince Roy, and his wife, a former fashion model, as Princess Joan. Five decades on, the Bates family still occupy the platform, having survived the repeated attempts by the British government to evict them by legal means, and having fought off attempts by rival groups to seize the platform by force. It's a story of coups, counter-coups, guns, petrol bombs, and rival groups of foreign businessmen. Jolyon Jenkins interviews surviving witnesses to tell the story of this real life "Passport to Pimlico".
Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley"), Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley"), Martha Howe-Douglas ("Horrible Histories") & Ingrid Oliver
The Olympics are coming to Woodstock, so what better time for Sir William to go on a go-slow & for Henry to hunt for dragons? Meanwhile, Sir John tries to get fit and Charlotte tries to get into her beach volleyball costume.
More tickets are being released daily but how do you get your hands on them? We find out how to get hold of those elusive remaining Olympic tickets.
The milk farmers turning their attention from the supermarkets to the coffee chains.
Today on Face the Facts we reveal how scores of people with learning disabilities are ending up in illegal forced marriages.
It ranges from immigration scams, right through to well meaning relatives who hand pick a sometimes unwitting spouse, as a carer for the disabled person.
It predominantly, but not exclusively, involves South Asian families. It has also happens in some East European , African, Mediterranean and traveller families.
The key issue is to do with consent. If someone does not have mental capacity they can't consent to marriage, and no one else can consent on their behalf.
However, many families do not know about the Mental Capacity Act, and presume they are simply 'arranging' a marriage, which they have done for generations, and which is perfectly legal.
John Waite speaks to families of people with learning disabilities who have ended up in a forced marriage. We hear from a mother who is planning her disabled son's wedding for the end of the year.
We report about a couple who say their marriage is happy, even though experts agree the husband does not appear to have capacity to consent, and the wife is acting as his carer.
Plus we hear from a woman who was unwittingly married to a man who turned out to have learning disabilities and who has described how they are both victims.
The Government's recent announcement to criminalise Forced Marriage in general has been welcomed by some campaign groups, but opposed by others who say it will only push the practice underground.
For those working with people with learning disabilities, they view the reported cases of forced marriage involving people with learning disabilities as only the 'tip of the iceberg'.
National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
Peter White follows those who helped secure the Olympics for London and are now playing a key role in the games - from the swimmer with her hopes set on a gold medal and the discuss thrower who only took up the sport two years ago, to the torchbearer who started the flame's journey from Athens to London and the dancer performing at the opening ceremony.
The thirty youngsters who helped secure London's bid for the Games by appearing alongside Sebastian Coe in Singapore in 2005 have seen great changes in their lives. Since then Peter White has been following them, their families and those who live and train alongside them. Each fifteen minute programme focuses on one extraordinary story:
Danielle was chosen for the Singapore because of her dancing and she's underlined her passion for the Games by getting selected to perform in the opening ceremony. The Olympics has transformed the East End area she grew up in, but so has time itself - with her Mum and Dad now living under the same roof again after a fifteen year separation Danielle has just been selected as a finalist for the Miss England competition and is hoping that 2012 will prove a key year in many ways.
Ashley is the youth ambassador for his borough and is working to ensure a legacy from 2012 for those coming up behind him. His dreams of competing were put on hold through injury and after the Singapore trip he changed focus, immersing himself in politics and campaigning. He is joined in this programme by Alex, who capped his role in securing the 2012 Olympics with the honour of being the second person to carry the Olympic torch at the start of its journey from Athens to London.
Ellie was the face of the Olympic bid - the thirteen year old swimmer in a silver suit poised to dive from the Thames barrier. Now she's within reach of her target - an Olympic medal. She's just been selected for team GB and will be racing in the 100 and 200m butterfly - hoping that the huge home crowds will spur her on to victory. Her experiences in the Olympic village are mirrored by another Olympic swimmer, Mbeh, the London youngster picked to represent his home country, Cameroon.
Amber presented London's bid plans to the International Olympic Committee all those years ago. Since then her talent as a sportswoman has taken her to America on a scholarship. She now lives in Tennessee but hopes to be selected for team GB and has put her many other dreams - from modelling to motherhood - on hold. She is joined in this programme by Thomas, the talented Paralympic hopeful whose Olympic dreams fell by the wayside but who still hopes to find some role to fulfil in 2012.
Laurence has played a prominent role in sport across the capital but had thought it would be his rugby skills which would take him to international level. Two years ago he took up the discuss and so talented was he that he's on the brink of Olympic selection. According to his coach his physic is near perfect - at 6ft 6 he weighs close to 23 stone and the main thing standing in his way is how well he copes with the psychological pressures as this top sporting event approaches.
When a doyenne of Sydney society happens to meet a charming, intelligent and cultured European prince, she is not put off by him working as a hotel concierge. Instead, she invites him to her charity ball so he can meet her daughter. Everything goes according to plan. Any suspicions about him are unfounded. Or so she tells herself.
Once they become engaged, her daughter is increasingly excited about the upcoming nuptials, which are to be held in a grand palazzo in Venice. The build up to the wedding is enormous, but an influential newspaper columnist and restaurant critic thinks he has a scoop. He investigates the prince and becomes determined to prove that, on many levels, he is not what he claims to be.
Louis Nowra has had his work translated into over ten languages. He has written for theatre, film, TV and opera and is the author of novels and non-fiction. After writing three plays for BBC Radio, this work is part of a Nowra special. 'The Wedding in Venice' and its sister play 'Echo Point' are about events in crumbling old houses, which influence the dramatic action. They were recorded in Australia with some of Sydney's most celebrated stage actors - with the same cast performing in both productions.
'Jobs for the Boys?' New research presented at the British Sociological Association's 2012 conference claimed that middle class people hoard job opportunities in the UK TV and film industry. In a pre- recorded interview from the conference, Professor Irena Grugulis, suggests to Laurie Taylor that working class people don't get these jobs because they don't have the right accents, clothes, backgrounds or friends. Indeed, it's hard to find an area of the economy where connections and contacts are more significant. But is this mainly due to structural changes in the industry rather than to class based prejudice? The media expert, Sir Peter Bazalgette and Professor of Sociology, Mike Savage, respond to this research and explore nepotism, networking and discrimination in the media world and beyond.
ITV's Chief Executive talks to Steve Hewlett about the company's latest results and what the future holds for Britain's biggest free to air commercial broadcaster. Plus what impact is new media - particularly Twitter having on the Olympics?
Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for the very first time.
This week, comedian Rufus Hound is joined by the author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson. Donaldson's diaries are a vivid account of her obsession with Mick Jagger and the lengths she went to in order to meet the elusive Rolling Stone.
Brian puts a successful case to the Borchester Land board for Home Farm supplying the feedstock for the mega-dairy. Annabelle notices his staffing plans didn't mention Adam. Brian's evasive. When he tells Jennifer they've won the contract, she accuses him of writing Adam out of history. On the contrary, asserts Brian, the securing of this contract may well see Adam reversing his decision.
Tracy tells Susan that Keith's been charged. Emma's genuinely sorry it's worked out this way..
The charges are arson, criminal damage and conspiracy. Tracy is aghast when Keith admits that he did it. Keith says his well-off lifestyle is all front. The only way he could afford Samantha's wedding was to collude in farm thefts, giving tip-offs to the thieves about easy targets. Then he got sucked in to the situation at Brookfield. He was under pressure, but no-one was meant to get hurt. Tracy insists he has to co-operate with the police, or he'll go down for ever.
Susan and Tracy remain at odds. Susan sees Keith as wicked. But Tracy can't accept Emma turning him in. You just don't do that to your own family.
With John Wilson, who pays tribute to Gore Vidal, and visits the William Morris Gallery.
We pay tribute to the American writer Gore Vidal who died yesterday, following a seven decade career as novelist - he wrote the best selling Myra Breckenridge, essayist, playwright, screenwriter and political activist. Often associated with high profile feuds, notably with Norman Mailer and John Updike, he also had close associations with J. F. Kennedy's family and Hollywood stars Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Literary critics Harold Bloom and Christopher Bigsby reflect on the career of Gore Vidal and we here part of an interview he gave to Front Row in 2008.
Two Chinese films are released this week - Zhang Yimou's war epic The Flowers of War starring Christian Bale and Ann Hui's moving art-house movie A Simple Life with Chinese super star Andy Lau. Front Row asked cultural commentator David Tse Ka-Shing to take a look at two very different sides to Chinese film.
John visits the newly renovated William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, North London - the place of Morris' birth in 1834. The eighteenth century merchant house illuminates all aspects of Morris' work from the design of fabrics, wallpaper and stained glass windows to his social campaigning - against the industrialisation of the Victorian era, and for the preservation of buildings, Epping Forest and the principle of quality in everybody's life.
To mark the Olympics, the BBC - in partnership with The Scottish Poetry Library - has selected and recorded a poem representing every country taking part. Each is read by a native of that country who lives here in Britain. Every night during the Olympics, Front Row features one of the poems.Tonight, the British poem - Jim Broadbent celebrates our first gold medals.
The Olympics - you can hardly miss them. They're said to have cost more than government cuts in the welfare budget and with the rows over security, Zil lanes, empty seats and the ruthless protection of the Olympic brand it's perhaps too easy to forget that the purpose of all this is the essentially trivial pursuit of sport. Have we come to demand so much from modern sport that we've forgotten its true purpose and value? As the cost of major sporting events like the Olympics has escalated we demand and expect more of them; to make us better, healthier people, to promote social inclusion, contribute to the economy and even peace among nations. That all may sound farfetched from the comfort our or sofas and our ever expanding waistlines, but it's worth recalling that morality is at the core of the spread of modern sport around the world. Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the Olympic Movement, was one of many who thought sport was morally improving - a way of shaping character, transmitting values and challenging anti-social behaviour. "Play up and play the game" feels a long way from the mores of the modern professional footballer, but even here, can we still see the faintly beating heart of the morality play that makes sport so compelling - with its themes of challenge, defeat and redemption? Or in the era of professional corporatized sport is that a hopelessly romantic notion that has fallen victim to the win at all cost Nietzschean Ubermensch? What exactly is the moral value of sport?
Mihir Bose - Sports journalist & writer, author of 'The Spirit Of The Game', on the ethics & politics of sport
Matthew Syed - Former Olympic table tennis player, now sports & feature writer for The Times
Sam Tomlin - Sports ThinkTank and go author of a report with Theos "Give Us our Ball Back"
Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips.
Publisher and technologist James Bridle asks how computer networks will affect cultural memories. In this Four Thought, James brings his two lives together to look for the crossing points between books and technology.
How will storing our memories and experiences on 'the network' change how we relate to them? They are no longer spread through time and geography, and instead much more visible to us, but what does that mean?
When we have read a book, the book remains as a souvenir of the experience, but we do not yet have a similar way of accounting for the time we spend online.
Unpacking a vintage Merit Chemistry set from the 1960s, complete with glass test tubes, alcohol burner, copper sulphate and box-cover picture of side-parting schoolboy in classic test-tube pouring pose, Dr Kat Arney lays out the history of the chemistry set and assesses its impact on a generation of scientists, before charting its decline in the final decades of the 20th Century.
In its heyday, the chemistry set fuelled the imagination of young amateur scientists, some of whom became Nobel prize winners - Linus Pauling, aged 11, was able to procure potassium cyanide for his set.
With academics claiming that a lack of hands-on experience leaves students ill-prepared for practical work in industry and higher education, Kat asks Whatever Happened To The Chemistry Set?
In early 20th century the sets focused on the magic of chemistry with wonderful colour changes. In the post war period they reflected the atomic and space-race world. By the 1970s they declined in popularity as health and safety issues and manufacturer's fears of litigation took hold. Perhaps they also just became boring and unfashionable.
The decline of their popularity reflects a similar decline in practical chemistry experiments in schools. Kat asks whether this has made chemistry less appealing to pupils and reduced interest in the subject.
Kat shares anecdotes and conducts chemistry set experiments with some of Britain's leading chemists, including the Royal Society's Professor Martyn Poliakoff, Andrea Sella from UCL, Lee Cronin from the University of Glasgow, Judith Hackett Chair of the Health and Safety executive and Hugh Aldersley-Williams author of Periodic Tales - The Curious Life of Elements.
President Assad's decisive battle in Syria, but what evidence for jihadi fighters with foreign support playing a decisive role in the conflict, and will rebels succeed in establishing a bridgehead in Aleppo? Slugging it out for superpower status at the Olympics, Paul Moss reports on China and the US battling out for supremacy at the top of the table; Ebola reaches Kampala,sowing fears of contagion, tonight with Robin Lustig.
In today's episode; the Marriage Committee targets its first potential bride and an introduction to the blushing groom is arranged...
As every woman knows, matchmaking is no easy job. Particularly when you're trying to find a girl for your dull, balding, freshly-divorced cousin and on top of that manage a house full of servants, shop for contraband Prada goods and attend parties every night. Not to mention the fact that your husband's work trips are becoming increasingly frequent, your city is under attack, and your friends can't be trusted. How is a girl to cope?
Jane Austen's Emma is transported to the outrageous social melee of 21st-century Lahore. "Our plucky heroine's cousin, Jonkers, has been dumped by his low-class, slutty secretary, and our heroine has been charged with finding him a suitable wife -- a rich, fair, beautiful, old-family type. Quickly. But, between you, me and the four walls, who wants to marry poor, plain, hapless Jonkers?"
As our heroine social-climbs her way through weddings-sheddings, GTs (get togethers, of course) and ladies' lunches trying to find a suitable girl from the right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her cousin has his own ideas about his perfect mate. And secretly, she may even agree.
Full of wit and wickedness, Duty Free is a delightful romp through Pakistani high society - although, even as it makes you cry with laughter, it makes you wince at the gulf between our heroine's glitteringly shallow life and the country that is falling apart around her Louboutin-clad feet.
Moni Mohsin, already a huge bestseller in India, has been hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen, and compared to Nancy Mitford and Helen Fielding. Duty Free is social satire at its biting best.
A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted by Punt and Dennis with Andy Zaltzman, Henning Wehn and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
Alan Dein travels to Elsecar Park, Barnsley.For the past 4 years it has been home to Francis McDonald who both runs the cafe and acts as unofficial park keeper. This was once called 'Elsecar by the sea'. Day trippers from Sheffield and hordes of local children from the pit village would play and swim in its reservoir. There's a wrought iron bandstand, a modern playground and the water still laps against the shore. In the last of the golden autumn sun, with eddies of brown leaves skittering around, it is a place of quiet beauty.
It seemed like a paradise when McDonald opened the doors on a world he had known since his childhood. But gradually it became a kind of lonely hell. Now this will be his last autumn and the house on the hill will fall silent and shuttered.
THURSDAY 02 AUGUST 2012
THU 00:00 Midnight News (b01l5j0q)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
THU 00:30 Book of the Week (b01l317b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Wednesday]
THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b01l5j0s)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b01l5j0v)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b01l5j0x)
The latest shipping forecast.
THU 05:30 News Briefing (b01l5j0z)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b01lt4zh)
With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic Park.
THU 05:45 Farming Today (b01l7wyq)
Caz Graham hears how drought in America's Mid-West is putting a squeeze on British pig farmers. With feed prices up by a quarter, the National Pig Association say unless prices in the shops go up too, pig farmers will be quitting the business.
Across the Atlantic, the drought is having a serious effect on the biggest agriculture crop in the states - corn. The short supply of crop is driving up global feed prices. Now, there's a row between livestock farmers and ethanol producers who burn corn to produce energy, it's an almost classic food versus fuel debate. America's NPR reporter, Dan Charles, says last year 40% of America's corn went to ethanol factories, leaving farmers and factories heading towards a bidding war over where the corn will end up.
And in the first of a season on Scotland's country sports industry, Moira Hickey goes salmon fishing along the River Spey.
Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Clare Freeman in Birmingham.
THU 06:00 Today (b01l7wys)
News and current affairs with John Humphrys and Justin Webb, including Robert Peston on the ECB summit, and NHS reports of an increase in use of anti-depressants.
THU 09:00 Inside the Ethics Committee (b01l7wyv)
Series 8
Preventing Pregnancy in Homeless Women
The number of people sleeping rough on Britain's streets is rising, and the need for supported housing continues. But providing a roof over someone's head is just the start.
A nurse specialist, working in day centres and hostels, provides health services to the homeless. It's an ideal opportunity to try to engage with clients, who usually fall under the radar of a general practitioner.
Physical health problems associated with living outside are common, and many suffer from mental health problems and drug addiction.
Women who find themselves on the streets are particularly vulnerable to assault, and sex work often provides a means of escaping the streets, and also funding a drug addiction.
The chaotic nature of these women's lives means they are often reluctant to accept the nurse's help. Getting these women to use regular contraception is a particular challenge.
Pregnancy is not uncommon among homeless women and their children often end up in care. Despite the terrible trauma this causes, women still find it difficult to use regular contraception.
What lengths should the sexual health team go to to encourage these women to avoid unwanted pregnancies?
Producer: Beth Eastwood.
THU 09:45 Book of the Week (b01ky5r9)
Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Episode 4
"One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich
Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, unequal cities.
Today: while some slum dwellers are forging their way up into the overcity, others are fighting for their lives back in the slum.
Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is her first book.
Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and playwright.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones
Producer: Justine Willett.
THU 10:00 Woman's Hour (b01l8n6j)
Shirley Conran on her book "Lace", bonkbusters and the Conran dynasty. Why are there so few women working in IT? Single people and serious illness - we respond to a listener's plea for advice. Presented by Jenni Murray.
Producer: Laura Northedge.
THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b01lh7tv)
Writing the Century 20
Episode 4
The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith
Dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery.
The series which explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people.
American travel writer and former journalist, Agnes Keith experience in POW camps during 1942 - 1945 in Borneo.. Agnes discovers her husband has been imprisoned in the notorious Guard House where prisoners are starved and tortured. She pleads for Col. Suga to intervene.
Directed by Pauline Harris.
THU 11:00 Crossing Continents (b01l8n6p)
Rwanda Cycling
Rwanda is a nation of bicycles; large cumbersome machines, piled high with sacks of coffee or potatoes, so heavy they can only be pushed up the steep winding roads in this "land of a thousand hills."
Rwanda -- a country known only for the genocide of 1994, when an estimated 800,000 people, mainly ethnic Tutsis, were murdered in cold blood in a mere 100 days -- is also a nation in need of heroes.
It may now have found them: lycra-clad athletes in helmets and wrap-around sunglasses on five thousand dollar racing bikes. They are Team Rwanda, the national cycling team, its tightly packed and brightly coloured peloton now a familiar sight on their training rides on the roads around Ruhengeri in the country's north-west, not far from the border with Uganda.
For this week's Crossing Continents Tim Mansel has spent a week with Team Rwanda as they prepare for their latest international competition, the Tour of Eritrea. The team assembles on a Monday night from all over Rwanda. They come by bike, some after riding for three or four hours, one after a ride of six. Their week is a series of gruelling rides, nutritious food, and daily yoga, all under the critical eye of their outspoken American coach, Jock Boyer.
It's impossible to spend time in Rwanda without being confronted by the genocide. A large purple banner adorns the main street in Ruhengeri, its message unmissable - Jenocide, it proclaims - and this year's slogan: "Learning from History to build a bright future." And only a few hundred yards from where the riders live is the town's genocide memorial, a walled garden dominated by a disturbing monument - the figure of a man pleading for his life and a machete that appears to be dripping in blood.
Team Rwanda is not immune from the genocide, indeed it makes explicit connections. Its website features biographies of several of its riders: Rafiki Uwimana, a small child in 1994, sent by his parents to live in the countryside to escape the horrors of the capital Kigali, forced to hide in the forest from the Hutu militias, and almost dying of malaria before being saved by the Tutsi RPF militia invading from Uganda; or Obed Rugovera, who lost three siblings and two uncles in the carnage.
"The genocide has affected every one of the riders profoundly and you can feel it even without talking about it," says the coach, Jock Boyer. "Cycling...gives them the hope that they can buy a house, provide for their family, do something they're good at and that they're recognised for and that the country is not just going to be known for a genocide.".
THU 11:30 Challenging Kane (b01l8n6t)
Every ten years since 1952, Sight and Sound, the monthly publication for the British Film Institute, has asked critics and directors to vote for their top ten films of all time. Since 1962, the Orson Welles classic 'Citizen Kane' has won this poll and been declared the greatest ever film but how has it managed to do so? And will a film that was made 71 years ago triumph once more as the magazine conducts the poll again in 2012?
Orson Welles directed 'Citizen Kane' in 1941 when he was just 25 years old. The story of newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane was interpreted by many as a thinly veiled fictional parody of the real tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Hearst was so enraged by the film that he banned any mention of it from his newspapers and although 'Citizen Kane' was a critical success, it failed to make its money back and faded from view.
Film historian and broadcaster Matthew Sweet investigates how the film's reputation was restored in the 1950s, partly thanks to French critics writing for the Cahiers du Cinema magazine who championed cinema as an art form. He explores how the film's critical reputation continued to go from strength to strength over the next half century.
Matthew is voting for the first time in this year's poll and included 'Citizen Kane' in his top ten. He says: "I couldn't help myself. It's very hard to think of a film that's greater and it's hard to ignore its history of greatness. But mainly I put it there for personal reasons. When I was fifteen I saw 'Citizen Kane' at the Manchester Cornerhouse - sitting on the floor, because too many tickets had been sold. It's the moment, I think, when I started taking cinema seriously."
Helping Matthew unravel the secret of the film's success are the director and friend to Welles Peter Bogdanovich, biographer & critic David Thomson, author of 'Citizen Kane' Professor Laura Mulvey, film-maker Mark Cousins and critic Peter Cowie. Sight and Sound editor Nick James reveals to Matthew the results of the poll and whether 'Citizen Kane' has won again at the end the programme.
Producer: Simon Jacobs
A Unique production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 12:00 You and Yours (b01l8n6w)
Great British Day Out
We take the temperature of the Great British Day Out. From seaside resorts to open-top buses, from caravans to the big attractions, You and Yours looks at how we're holidaying this summer. Has the wet weather driven you abroad, or are you staying in the UK for the Olympics? Have you had to cut back on holiday spending this year?
Presented by Winifred Robinson
Produced by Paul Waters.
THU 12:45 The New Elizabethans (b01l8n6y)
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The New Elizabethans: Jocelyn Bell Burnell the astrophysicist who discovered pulsars, the beams of radiation emitted by rapidly spinning neutron stars.
Bell Burnell was a PhD student trying to track quasars at the time of her discovery, but it was through analysing the data from the radio telescope she had helped to build at Cambridge University that she first noticed these signals.
When her results were published in the journal Nature in 1968 they caused an astronomical sensation. In 1974, her PhD supervisor, Prof Anthony Hewish received the Nobel Prize for Physics along with Dr Martin Ryle for their work on pulsars but she was not included. Many of her peers think she is one of the most notable omissions from the Nobel list, although she has claimed she was not upset by it.
She was the first woman president of the Institute of Physics and throughout her life she has promoted the cause of women in science.
The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings.
They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its character, for better or worse."
Producer: Clare Walker.
THU 12:57 Weather (b01l5j11)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 13:00 World at One (b01l8n71)
National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
THU 13:45 Children of the Olympic Bid (b01l8n73)
Series 8
Episode 4
Peter White follows those who helped secure the Olympics for London and are now playing a key role in the games - from the swimmer with her hopes set on a gold medal and the discuss thrower who only took up the sport two years ago, to the torchbearer who started the flame's journey from Athens to London and the dancer performing at the opening ceremony.
The thirty youngsters who helped secure London's bid for the Games by appearing alongside Sebastian Coe in Singapore in 2005 have seen great changes in their lives. Since then Peter White has been following them, their families and those who live and train alongside them. Each fifteen minute programme focuses on one extraordinary story:
Danielle was chosen for the Singapore because of her dancing and she's underlined her passion for the Games by getting selected to perform in the opening ceremony. The Olympics has transformed the East End area she grew up in, but so has time itself - with her Mum and Dad now living under the same roof again after a fifteen year separation Danielle has just been selected as a finalist for the Miss England competition and is hoping that 2012 will prove a key year in many ways.
Ashley is the youth ambassador for his borough and is working to ensure a legacy from 2012 for those coming up behind him. His dreams of competing were put on hold through injury and after the Singapore trip he changed focus, immersing himself in politics and campaigning. He is joined in this programme by Alex, who capped his role in securing the 2012 Olympics with the honour of being the second person to carry the Olympic torch at the start of its journey from Athens to London.
Ellie was the face of the Olympic bid - the thirteen year old swimmer in a silver suit poised to dive from the Thames barrier. Now she's within reach of her target - an Olympic medal. She's just been selected for team GB and will be racing in the 100 and 200m butterfly - hoping that the huge home crowds will spur her on to victory. Her experiences in the Olympic village are mirrored by another Olympic swimmer, Mbeh, the London youngster picked to represent his home country, Cameroon.
Amber presented London's bid plans to the International Olympic Committee all those years ago. Since then her talent as a sportswoman has taken her to America on a scholarship. She now lives in Tennessee but hopes to be selected for team GB and has put her many other dreams - from modelling to motherhood - on hold. She is joined in this programme by Thomas, the talented Paralympic hopeful whose Olympic dreams fell by the wayside but who still hopes to find some role to fulfil in 2012.
Laurence has played a prominent role in sport across the capital but had thought it would be his rugby skills which would take him to international level. Two years ago he took up the discuss and so talented was he that he's on the brink of Olympic selection. According to his coach his physic is near perfect - at 6ft 6 he weighs close to 23 stone and the main thing standing in his way is how well he copes with the psychological pressures as this top sporting event approaches.
THU 14:00 The Archers (b01l7mrd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Wednesday]
THU 14:15 Drama (b01l8n77)
Mitchener - Black Box Detective
Alison Joseph's new drama introduces a distinctive brand of detective. Mitchener is an air accident investigator, haunted by memories of a previous fatal air crash in which he was involved, and in which his best friend died. Having settled into a quiet life as a mechanic in a cycle shop, he has so far resisted all attempts to draw him back into investigative work, but when a Boeing 767 crashes mysteriously in the English Channel, the wife of one its victims approaches Mitchener personally in an effort to obtain his professional services, threatening not only his peace of mind but also his marriage.
Although entirely fictional and featuring only fictional characters, Mitchener's investigation in this drama is based on a real life air disaster and the science is authentic. The programme was made with the generous assistance of the Air Accident Investigation Board, an organisation with a formidable track record for painstaking work in uncovering the causes of air disasters.
Alison Joseph is a novelist and playwright whose books include the Sister Agnes stories. Alison is currently working on a novel about particle physics.
Directed by John Taylor
A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 15:00 Open Country (b01l8n79)
Urban Wildlife
From Dover to Dundee, London to Leeds and Cardiff to Cambridge, there is much more to our towns and cities than concrete and cars. Take the time to listen and look and a world of wildlife is there just waiting to be spotted. As Britain's largest city London is alive with wildlife and Jules Hudson takes a journey across West London in search of just a few of the feathered, furry and winged residents that call the city home.
As the day begins, Jules meets David Lindo, aka The Urban Birder, who takes Jules for a walk across Wormwood Scrubs, the 183 acres of open land close to the prison of the same name. This is David's patch, his 'garden' where he says he has had the privilege of seeing Meadow Pipits, Woodpeckers, passing Northern Wheatears, Honey Buzzards and even nesting Skylarks. Leaving David doing what he does best, looking up to the skies, Jules joins Jan Hewlett at the Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve. Cut off from the surrounding area by railway tracks in the late nineteenth century, this reserve in a corner of Chiswick has developed into a lively ecological community which became one of London Wildlife Trust's first reserves when it was saved from development by a local campaign. Jan takes Jules on a walk through the woodland of the reserve, which is home to an array of birdlife, butterflies and bats, as well as hedgehogs and field voles, to the pond to discover what creatures thrive there.
Leaving Jan taking in the peace of the Triangle, Jules continues his journey to the home of Kelly Gray where he finds some surprising residents in her back garden. Longing for the rural lifestyle, Kelly has brought the countryside and the idea of life on the farm to Brentford. Introducing Jules to Rosie and Jim, the pigs that share her back garden with the ducks and chickens she also has, Kelly explains why she took such such a huge decision to bring the countryside in to her West London garden.
No urban wildlife story would be complete without the gardener's best friend, the hedgehog. Jules rounds off his journey with a visit to the home of Sue Kidger in Twickenham from where she runs her hedgehog hospital, caring for orphaned and injured hedgehogs with the aim of releasing them once again to secure gardens. With Sue is Hugh Warwick, self-confessed hedgehog obsessive who tells Jules about an initiative to safeguard the future of hedgehogs whose numbers have been declining rapidly in recent years. As Hugh says, a hedgehog friendly garden is a wildlife friendly garden.
Presenter: Jules Hudson
Producer: Helen Chetwynd.
THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal (b01l5pfp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:55 on Sunday]
THU 15:30 Open Book (b01l7lsk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
16:00 on Sunday]
THU 16:00 The Film Programme (b01l8n7f)
Matthew Sweet and guests look back at the film career of Ivor Novello, one of the most popular British entertainers of the 20th century. With contributions from actor Simon Callow, composer Neil Brand, academic Lawrence Napper, and former criminal Frankie Fraser.
Producer: Craig Smith.
THU 16:30 Material World (b01l8n7k)
While school children are enjoying a well-deserved holiday, Quentin Cooper discusses the use of phonics to teach children to read and looks at the extent to which neuroscience can help inform education policy. He is joined from Cambridge by Usha Goswami and from York by Charles Hulme.
Quentin also finds out how a mathematical approach can help elucidate the historical basis of some of our oldest classical texts. Padraig Mac Carron and Ralph Kenna, join him from Coventry University.
And Alex Kacelnik joins Quentin from Oxford to discuss the question as to whether or not animals have empathy.
THU 17:00 PM (b01l8n7m)
Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis.
THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b01l5j13)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags (b0105vtt)
Series 4
Magical Mister Murgatroyd
The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with a 4th series with more shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave.
Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli. 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 audience with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and a Writers' Guild award in 2008. This brand new series sees a crop of new shop regulars, and some guest appearances along the way from the likes of Mina Anwar and Kevin Eldon.
In this episode Alok announces his sudden engagement to Siddiqua, the daughter of the local Pennywise empire and shop rival to Ramesh. So is it love that is driving Alok, or the promise of a gadget filled backshop?
So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves the art of the 'shop'.
However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave.
Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them whether they like it or not!
Cast:
Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kolhi
Dave ..... Donald McLeary
Sanjay ..... Omar Raza
Alok ..... Susheel Kumar
Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth
Keith Futures ..... Greg McHugh
Siddiqua ..... Debbie Welsh
Shahid Mirza ..... Mani Sumal
Producer/Director: Gus Beattie
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 19:00 The Archers (b01l7mtp)
Eddie encourages Clarrie to read the Borchester Echo. He gnomically says he's got something in the pipeline that will boost sales. Clarrie's sceptical. She's just pleased to be picking up some shifts at the Bull while Fallon is on the road trip with Kirsty et al.
Clarrie helps Eddie with an old freezer he's mysteriously acquired to store boar meat. She understands Eddie's hints when she later sees a press story about the Beast of Ambridge, with 'artist' Eddie marketing a statue of the creature. More worrying is his plan to sell the boar meat. Pat offers to do some research into the legalities.
All the E coli claims have been finally settled. Pat assures mortified Clarrie that it's all in the past.
Brian tries to get Ian to change Adam's mind about leaving. Outspoken Ian thinks Brian's handled the situation badly, but admits he doesn't want to leave Ambridge. He'll see what he can do.
Having spoken to Pawel while patching up a polytunnel, Adam tells Ian it's inspiring to be with someone whose ideals are intact. He thinks it would be good to spend some time overseas; Poland, perhaps. Furious Ian wants to know where that would leave him.
Meanwhile Brian places an advertisement for a new farm manager.
THU 19:15 Front Row (b01l8n7p)
Meera Syal in Much Ado About Nothing
With Kirsty Lang
Meera Syal has made her professional Shakespeare debut playing Beatrice in the RSC's new production of Much Ado About Nothing. Directed by Iqbal Khan, this latest adaptation sets the comedy in modern-day India - with Paul Bhattacharjee playing Benedict. Author Bidisha gives the critical verdict.
Director Lynn Alleway discusses her experiences making a documentary, which follows an Old Order Amish family in America. According to the strict rules of the Amish church, filming is not permitted, so by opening up their homes and life to the cameras Miriam and David risk being ex-communicated and excluded from their society.
Glasgow writer Louise Welsh talks about her latest novel, The Girl on the Stairs, a thriller set in Berlin - and also about the libretto she's written for a short opera called Ghost Patrol, about soldiers returning from an unspecified war. The opera is part of a Scottish Opera season opening at the Edinburgh Festival.
With Kate Moss appearing in a video for George Michael's track White Light, and Daniel Radcliffe in a Snow Club video - David Quantick considers cameos in pop videos.
In celebration of the Olympics, the BBC - in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh - has selected and recorded a poem representing every country that's competing. Each poem is introduced and read by a native of the country in question, who has made their home here in Britain. Every night during the Olympics, Front Row features one of these poems.
Producer Rebecca Nicholson.
THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b01lh7tv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
THU 20:00 The Report (b01l8n7t)
G4S and Olympic Security
The London Olympics were 7 years in preparation. So why did the plans for security to be provided by private contractor G4S go so badly wrong?
Mukul Devichand hears from G4S guards and police officers working on the Olympic sites about their concerns for securing the Games. Whistleblowers talk of untrained guards operating the x-ray machines, men working 24 hour shifts and vans entering venues without being searched. Police officers tell the programme how they're trying to fill the security gaps left by G4S.
The Report also explores how G4S achieved the Olympic contract, their recruitment process and what seems to have gone wrong. And as media attention focuses on blaming G4S, Mukul Devichand asks if the London Organising Committee (LOCOG) could have sorted these problems much earlier on.
Producer: Charlotte Pritchard.
THU 20:30 In Business (b01l8n7y)
Thames Gateway
NEW GATEWAY
Britain is getting a new port on the Thames, the first for many years. When London Gateway opens next year, it will be able to handle several million containers a year.
Peter Day asks what impact this vast undertaking is likely to have on the way the country works and on the port's competitors.
Producer: Caroline Bayley
Editor Stephen Chilcott.
THU 21:00 Inside the Ethics Committee (b01l7wyv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 21:45 A Life With ... (b01djrph)
Series 6
Seals
A Life With... Episode 5 of 5: Seals
Grey seals are Britain's largest mammal, yet still remain a mystery. Mary Colwell Meets Sue Sayer on a windy cliff in Cornwall to view the animals she loves so much.
Sue now spends all her time discovering their lives. She used to be a teacher, but as her passion for seals grew she found herself spending more and more time with seals. Eventually she gave up her paid job and became a champion of seals.
Sue has developed a fur pattern recognition system that means she know 700 seals just by looking at them! What is it about seals that inspires such dedication? Is it their big eyes or their playful, curious character that is so alluring? Sue finds it hard to say herself, but acknowledges they have totally taken over her life.
Sue still uses her teaching skills, but this time to educate the public about seals, how to behave around them and what to do if there is a lone pup on the beach. We may take them for granted she says, but there as many grey seals an red squirrels, its time to take their welfare to heart and grey seals could have no better champion than Sue Sayer to fight their cause.
THU 21:58 Weather (b01l5j15)
The latest weather forecast.
THU 22:00 The World Tonight (b01l8n80)
Kofi Annan resigns as envoy to Syria; what impact does this have on international diplomacy?
The ECB says the euro is irreversible, but the markets want more details of how the bank can help Spain.
Day 6 of the Olympics. We trace the French history of fencing.
All that and more with Robin Lustig.
THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b01ld1jj)
Duty Free
Episode 3
Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre by Meera Syal.
In today's episode; two weeks into the campaign to find Jonkers a bride, the groom is proving to be less than willing, while the streets of Lahore are becoming ever more dangerous, after a wave of suicide bombings.
As every woman knows, matchmaking is no easy job. Particularly when you're trying to find a girl for your dull, balding, freshly-divorced cousin and on top of that manage a house full of servants, shop for contraband Prada goods and attend parties every night. Not to mention the fact that your husband's work trips are becoming increasingly frequent, your city is under attack, and your friends can't be trusted. How is a girl to cope?
Jane Austen's Emma is transported to the outrageous social melee of 21st-century Lahore. "Our plucky heroine's cousin, Jonkers, has been dumped by his low-class, slutty secretary, and our heroine has been charged with finding him a suitable wife -- a rich, fair, beautiful, old-family type. Quickly. But, between you, me and the four walls, who wants to marry poor, plain, hapless Jonkers?"
As our heroine social-climbs her way through weddings-sheddings, GTs (get togethers, of course) and ladies' lunches trying to find a suitable girl from the right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her cousin has his own ideas about his perfect mate. And secretly, she may even agree.
Full of wit and wickedness, Duty Free is a delightful romp through Pakistani high society - although, even as it makes you cry with laughter, it makes you wince at the gulf between our heroine's glitteringly shallow life and the country that is falling apart around her Louboutin-clad feet.
Moni Mohsin, already a huge bestseller in India, has been hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen, and compared to Nancy Mitford and Helen Fielding. Duty Free is social satire at its biting best.
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:00 Alice's Wunderland (b01l8n82)
Series 1
Episode 4
A trip round Wunderland, a poundland of magical realms. It's a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it in the slightest.
Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, wigshops and witches, murderous pensioners and squirrels of this delightful land as they go about their bizarre business.
A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe.
Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel Stubbings, Clare Thompson and Marcia Warren.
Producer: Sam Bryant
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2012.
THU 23:30 Lives in a Landscape (b016kkbq)
Series 9
Boston's Migrant Workers
Alan Dein goes to Boston, Lincolnshire to explore the simmering tensions caused by a large influx of migrant workers from Eastern Europe.
On arriving in this traditional market town dominated by its vast church known locally as the Stump, Alan hears rumours of escalating crime, homelessness and enforced repatriations. Migration is without doubt the number one issue here - the population of this market town has swollen dramatically since the expansion of the EU, with workers drawn by the ready supply of agricultural work.
Alan talks to Bostonians and migrant workers alike. He witnesses for himself the troubles in the town on a Saturday night, attempting to build up a balanced picture of the truth behind the rumours.
Producer: Laurence Grissell.
FRIDAY 03 AUGUST 2012
FRI 00:00 Midnight News (b01l5j22)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.
FRI 00:30 Book of the Week (b01ky5r9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:45 on Thursday]
FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b01l5j24)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b01l5j26)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b01l5j28)
The latest shipping forecast.
FRI 05:30 News Briefing (b01l5j2b)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b01lt4zm)
With Andrew Graystone, Chaplain to the Media at Olympic Park.
FRI 05:45 Farming Today (b01l8qqw)
Russia wants to buy quarter of a million beef cattle to boost it's stocks. It currently imports from countries like the USA and Australia. A British delegation visiting later this month is hoping to pave the way to lifting the export ban on British beef.
Arable farmers say the June downpours could have cost them thousands of pounds. A fungus has taken hold on some wheat, severely damaging the quality of the crop.
And as the Government announces incentives for power stations to burn 100% energy crops, like wood and willow instead of fossil fuels, environmentalists express concern that the 'green' credentials of the fuel will be wiped out as companies have to import biomass from around the world.
This programme was presented by Caz Graham and produced in Birmingham by Angela Frain.
FRI 06:00 Today (b01l8qqy)
Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.
FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs (b01l5pll)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Sunday]
FRI 09:45 Book of the Week (b01l3049)
Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Episode 5
"One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich
Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, unequal cities.
Today: while some slum dwellers are forging their way up into the overcity, others are fighting for their lives back in the slum.
Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is her first book.
Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and playwright.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones
Producer: Justine Willett.
FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour (b01l8qr0)
Presented by Jenni Murray.
For the first time in Olympic history, every country at the 2012 Games is represented by female athletes. But not all of them will chose to return home and anecdotal evidence suggests that cases of women absconding from sporting events to claim asylum or hide out in the host nation are increasing. Gauri Van Gulik at Human Rights Watch joins Jenni to discuss the issue.
Earlier this year, Liza Klaussmann's debut novel - Tigers in Red Weather - was the subject of a fierce bidding war. It is now being tipped as the summer read for 2012. Liza Klaussmann joins Jenni to talk about the story and about how F Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Chandler have influenced her writing.
One of the success stories of the London Olympics has been the games makers - 70,000 unpaid volunteers who welcome spectators, transport athletes and help out quietly behind the scenes to keep the whole thing going. A survey from the WRVS has revealed that volunteers who are over 60 are healthier and happier than people of the same age who don't do any volunteering work. Lily and Maureen who run the WRVS cafe at Salford Royal, talk about their volunteering. Jenni is joined by Verity Haines from the WRVS and by 64 year old Salle Dare - who does a lot of volunteering work - to discuss the benefits of volunteering.
FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama (b01lh7vh)
Writing the Century 20
Episode 5
The Secret Diary of Agnes Keith
Dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery.
The series which explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people.
American travel writer and former journalist, Agnes Keith experience in POW camps during 1942 - 1945 in Borneo.. The American and Australian Allies liberate the camps. Freedom at last.
Directed by Pauline Harris.
FRI 11:00 Tolkien in Love (b01l8qr2)
Novelist Helen Cross, who herself lives in Birmingham, uncovers the story of the young J.R.R. Tolkien, falling in love with Edith Bratt. The love story of Beren and Luthien at the heart of his novel The Silmarillion was inspired by their relationship. They were both orphans, living in a boarding house in Edgbaston, Birmingham. The teenagers would talk out of their respective bedroom windows until dawn, and go for cycle rides to the Lickey Hills. However, when their romance was discovered, Tolkien's guardian, Father Francis Morgan, forbade Tolkien to see Edith until he came of age.Tolkien won an Exhibition to Oxford and Edith went to live in Cheltenham. But at midnight, as he turned 21, Tolkien wrote to Edith saying his feelings were unchanged. Unfortunately, in the intervening years, Edith had got engaged to someone else. Tolkien got on a train and she met him at Cheltenham station. They walked out to the nearby countryside and Tolkien persuaded her to break off her engagement and marry him instead. But the First World War was about to intervene, and Tolkien volunteered and was sent to the Somme.
Helen Cross visits key locations in Birmingham, Cheltenham and Oxford, to tell the story of Tolkien's young life and the love story at the heart of it.
Readings by David Warner as Tolkien and Ed Sear as the young Tolkien.
FRI 11:30 The Gobetweenies (b01l8qxl)
Series 2
Sex, Guns and Frida Kahlo
Mimi and Joe are in a state of conflicted liberal anguish because Lucy is growing up too fast. She wants a sexy Halloween costume to dazzle her boyfriend, but Joe talks her into going to a party dressed as Frida Kahlo. Meanwhile Joe's wily mother sorts out her son's vindictive and most recent ex-wife, the radical rug designer.
Written by Marcella Evaristi
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Gordon Kennedy
An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 12:00 You and Yours (b01l8qxn)
Spam texts
Millions of us receive scam text messages every year but what is being done about it? The Information Commissioners Office has only prosecuted two people since 2003 We find out why.
A warning over the future of ticket offices in train stations across the UK.
We meet some of the people who travelled to the UK only to find their Olympics 2012 tickets weren't real.
Peter visits his favourite butcher as part of Radio 4's Food and Farming Awards.
Plus, the future of solar power, could it be solar skyscrapers?
Presenter: Peter White.
Producer: John Neal.
FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans (b01l8nht)
Roy Jenkins
The New Elizabethans: Lord Jenkins of Hillhead. Jim Naughtie considers the politician, Roy Jenkins who left the Labour Party to set up the Social Democratic Party.
Roy Jenkins made the journey to Government from a school in south Wales, via Oxford University and a spell at Bletchley Park. He held high office in a Labour government but never made Prime Minister. He became the first British president of the European Commission and after disaffection with the direction the Labour party was taking, he was one of the co founders of the Social Democratic Party. In his political retirement he went on to write acclaimed political biographies of Gladstone and Churchill.
The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings.
They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its character, for better or worse."
Producer: Sarah Taylor.
FRI 12:57 Weather (b01l5j2d)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 13:00 World at One (b01l8nhw)
National and international news. Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato.
FRI 13:45 Children of the Olympic Bid (b01l8rbg)
Series 8
Episode 5
Peter White follows those who helped secure the Olympics for London and are now playing a key role in the games - from the swimmer with her hopes set on a gold medal and the discuss thrower who only took up the sport two years ago, to the torchbearer who started the flame's journey from Athens to London and the dancer performing at the opening ceremony.
The thirty youngsters who helped secure London's bid for the Games by appearing alongside Sebastian Coe in Singapore in 2005 have seen great changes in their lives. Since then Peter White has been following them, their families and those who live and train alongside them. Each fifteen minute programme focuses on one extraordinary story:
Danielle was chosen for the Singapore because of her dancing and she's underlined her passion for the Games by getting selected to perform in the opening ceremony. The Olympics has transformed the East End area she grew up in, but so has time itself - with her Mum and Dad now living under the same roof again after a fifteen year separation Danielle has just been selected as a finalist for the Miss England competition and is hoping that 2012 will prove a key year in many ways.
Ashley is the youth ambassador for his borough and is working to ensure a legacy from 2012 for those coming up behind him. His dreams of competing were put on hold through injury and after the Singapore trip he changed focus, immersing himself in politics and campaigning. He is joined in this programme by Alex, who capped his role in securing the 2012 Olympics with the honour of being the second person to carry the Olympic torch at the start of its journey from Athens to London.
Ellie was the face of the Olympic bid - the thirteen year old swimmer in a silver suit poised to dive from the Thames barrier. Now she's within reach of her target - an Olympic medal. She's just been selected for team GB and will be racing in the 100 and 200m butterfly - hoping that the huge home crowds will spur her on to victory. Her experiences in the Olympic village are mirrored by another Olympic swimmer, Mbeh, the London youngster picked to represent his home country, Cameroon.
Amber presented London's bid plans to the International Olympic Committee all those years ago. Since then her talent as a sportswoman has taken her to America on a scholarship. She now lives in Tennessee but hopes to be selected for team GB and has put her many other dreams - from modelling to motherhood - on hold. She is joined in this programme by Thomas, the talented Paralympic hopeful whose Olympic dreams fell by the wayside but who still hopes to find some role to fulfil in 2012.
Laurence has played a prominent role in sport across the capital but had thought it would be his rugby skills which would take him to international level. Two years ago he took up the discuss and so talented was he that he's on the brink of Olympic selection. According to his coach his physic is near perfect - at 6ft 6 he weighs close to 23 stone and the main thing standing in his way is how well he copes with the psychological pressures as this top sporting event approaches.
FRI 14:00 The Archers (b01l7mtp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
19:00 on Thursday]
FRI 14:15 Drama (b01l8rbj)
Hello Mum
by Bernardine Evaristo
Jerome was only bad for twenty-five minutes in his whole life. He wants his Mum to understand why.
Why he had to ditch his best friend, fail at school, hang out with a new crew, and leave behind the baby sister he loved.
So Jerome sets out to show his Mum, how very different life looks through his eyes.
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting
'Hello Mum' is based on Bernardine's novella, published by Penguin. British writer Bernardine Evaristo is the multi award-winning author of six books of fiction and verse fiction, including 'Lara', 'Blonde Roots', 'Soul Tourists', 'The Emperor's Babe' and 'Island of Abraham'. She co-edited the anthologies 'Ten: New Black and Asian Poets'; 'Wasafiri: Black Britain - Beyond Definition', and the British Council Anthology 'NW15'. She teaches internationally, and has been awarded the MBE for her services to literature.
FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time (b01l8nv8)
Fishbourne Roman Palace, Chichester
Eric Robson and the team answer gardening questions in Fishbourne Roman Palace and Gardens. In addition, Bob Flowerdew asks "what did the Romans ever do for British gardeners!"
Questions answered in the programme:
Q. My wife has a chocolate themed border, boasting chocolate-scented Cosmos amongst other plants. Which plants can she add to extend the collection?
Suggestions included:
Dark leaved Heuchera 'Paddy's pride' or 'Plum pudding'; Pelargonium 'Chocolate Peppermint'; Zaluzianskya capensis or Night Phlox
Q. This year, why do my broad beans have very large pods but no beans?
Often bad weather leads to low rates of pollination. Try companion planting 'Forget Me Nots' are good to attract pollinators.
Q. My quince tree usually crops very well. This year I've no fruit and spotty, sparse foliage.
The quince seemed to be suffering from scab.
Q. My Agave is 35 yrs old. Will it bloom in my lifetime? I'm 72.
Some Agaves can live for hundreds of years and take a long time to flower.
The ethylene released by old banana skins may encourage flowering. Similarly, smoke can trigger flowering too.
Q. Can the panel suggest a plant to fill a gap in my small shrub bed. It should grow no taller than 1.5m and, if possible, flower in June or July.
Suggestions include Daphne Burkwoodii 'Somerset Gold edge'; Desfontainia Spinosa variegata; Drimys lanceolata or 'Mountain pepper'
Q. What has happened very beloved, old apple tree?
It is suffering from leaf miner, scab and powdery mildew. Old cooking apple trees, such as these need extra potash to help fight off disease. Try spreading woodash under the canopy.
Q. Will a 'Pride of Madeira' Echium survive outside in this area? (West Sussex)
Yes, it needs hot, dry, well-drained conditions. However, be sure to keep it cold and dry in the winter.
Q. Is it true you should not pull rhubarb sticks from July onwards, due to a toxin rising in the fruit?
This is false.
Q. I planted a Eucalyptus five years ago. It has a kinked trunk. Will it survive coppicing?
Produced by Howard Shannon
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:45 Opening Lines (b01l8rbl)
Series 14
The Cairn
A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging short story writers their radio debut.
The ascent of a mountain assumes heightened significance for a climber in this poignant tale by Sophie Hampton.
Read by Anthony Calf
Produced by Gemma Jenkins
Currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University, Sophie Hampton's short stories have been published in the Eastern Daily Press, Scribble Magazine and the Best of MA Writing 2011.
FRI 16:00 Last Word (b01l8rbn)
Maeve Binchy, Gore Vidal, Ann Atkinson and Geoffrey Hughes
Matthew Bannister on the Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, who sold forty million books around the world and didn't include sex scenes because she said she didn't have enough first hand experience
The wit, commentator and writer Gore Vidal, admired for his elegant prose and poise, but involved in many a public feud
The poet laureate of the Peak District Ann Atkinson - Barnsley's own Ian McMillan will be here with a tribute
And the actor Geoffrey Hughes, best known for playing lovable rogues like Eddie Yeats in Coronation Street, Twiggy in the Royle Family and Onslow in Keeping Up Appearances. Patricia Routledge - Hyacinth Bucket herself - shares her memories.
FRI 16:30 More or Less (b01l8rbq)
How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?
In this week's programme:
How extraordinary is Ye Shiwen?
There was controversy this week after Ye Shiwen, a young Chinese swimmer, won the 400 metre individual medley in fine style. A US swimming coach called the performance "disturbing", implying that she may have cheated. More or Less investigates the numbers and finds there's no statistical smoking gun.
Homelessness
Does the news that homelessness has risen by 25% mean that homelessness has risen by 25%? The simple answer is yes. But that word "homeless"; in the words of the great Inigo Montoya, I do not think it means what you think it means.
How many songs could ever be written?
TV's Yan Wong answers this listener's question: "I'm always amazed by the number of songs one can recognise on hearing the first second or two of music. Is it possible to calculate the total number of potential opening bars? Surely it must be finite?"
The crime capital of television
We look for the most dangerous place in TV crime drama. Why? Because we can.
Presenter: Tim Harford
Producer: Richard Knight.
FRI 17:00 PM (b01l8rbs)
Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis.
FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b01l5j2g)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction (b01l8rbv)
Series 8
Rebecca Front interviews Chris Addison
Rebecca Front talks to her Thick Of It co-star and fellow Nude-a-phobe, comedian Chris Addison about working with Armando Iannucci and embracing his middle-classness through stand-up
Producer ..... Carl Cooper
"In an unclothed state I look like a child has done a collage with some Twiglets".
Chris Addison
Other episodes in the chain include:
Rebecca Front being interviewed by the man who knows her best, her big brother, Jeremy Front.
Chris Addison in a rare interview with the actually-really-nice-and-he-doesn't-do-any-of-that-weird-stuff-in-real-life, Derren Brown;
Derren Brown chatting hair, beliefs and Tim Minchin with comedy musical megastar and fellow sceptic Tim Minchin;
A poorly Tim Minchin being handed tissues whilst attempting to interview with no questions a not-at-all-poorly and hilarious Caitlin Moran.
Caitlin Moran getting to spend time and talk shoes, Bananarama and women with her comedy hero Jennifer Saunders.
And.
Jennifer Saunders turning up a week later to find the series has ended. Probably. We weren't there because the series had ended.
FRI 19:00 The Archers (b01l7n7r)
Ian lays it on the line. And there's a cause for celebration at Brookfield.
Adam makes a delayed start on Brookfield's winter barley.
Eddie's sold a few Beast of Ambridge statues off the back of his piece in the Echo. David and Ruth wonder if he will still want to work for them now that he's a sculptor of renown. As long as he turns up for afternoon milking, laughs Ruth.
Although it's been a poor year from the bees, Josh is pleased with the bee suit Jill's given him. He's even more delighted at the news that the remaining three members of the terror gang have been arrested. Preoccupied Adam seems less than thrilled, but David puts this down to tiredness. They get a text from an equally overjoyed Pip, who's having a great time abroad. David cracks open a celebratory bottle of wine.
Ian tries again to talk to Adam. When at last he pins him down, Adam tells him he believes Brian and Debbie have been trying to force him out for months, and Brian's only making overtures now because Jennifer's on his case. But Ian thinks Brian's genuine. He's had enough, and carefully lays out all the arguments against Adam's position, delivering some home truths in the process. Harsh words are exchanged and Ian storms out.
When Ian returns home that night, there's no sign of Adam.
FRI 19:15 Front Row (b01l8rbx)
Curious Incident onstage, Alan Davies, Olympic puppeteers
With Kirsty Lang
Alan Davies, QI panellist and star of Jonathan Creek, discusses returning to stand-up after a ten year break. He also talks about coming last on QI, his run-ins with the tabloids and how maturity enables him to perform material based on painful life experiences for the first time
Mark Haddon's best selling book, The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, has been adapted for the stage by playwright Simon Stephens. It stars Luke Treadway as the Aspergic boy in a cast that includes Niamh Cusack and Una Stubbs. Alex Clark reviews
When Danny Boyle conceived the opening ceremony of this year's Olympics, special effects company Artem helped him realise his visions. The 20 metre Voldemort, grinning Cruella de Ville, and smoking chimneys of the industrial revolution were all made by Artem, who also designed a 6 metre tall Lady Godiva, now travelling from Coventry to London as part of the West Midlands' contribution to the Cultural Olympiad. Artem CEO, Mike Kelt, explains how these giant puppets were brought to life and reveals just a little about what to expect at the Olympic closing ceremony
Undefeated is an Oscar-winning documentary following a group of underprivileged school athletes from inner-city Memphis, on and off the football field. Adrian Wootton, Chief Executive of Film London, discusses this take on contemporary America, and the formula behind Oscar-winning documentaries
In celebration of the Olympics, the BBC - in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh - has selected and recorded a poem representing every competing country. Each is read by a native of that country who has made their home here in Britain. Every night for the Olympic fortnight FRONT ROW features one of these poems
Producer Nicki Paxman.
FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b01lh7vh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:45 today]
FRI 20:00 Any Questions? (b01l8rbz)
Clevedon, North Somerset
Shaun Ley chairs a live discussion of news and politics from Clevedon Community Cinema, Somerset, with author, journalist and chairman of the National Trust, Simon Jenkins; Labour Peer, Angela Billingham, cross-bench peer and businessman, Digby Jones and author Harriet Sergeant.
Producer: Isobel Eaton.
FRI 20:50 A Point of View (b01l8rc1)
Price of a Postage Stamp
The philosopher John Gray wonders what bulk buying of stamps ahead of the price rise tells us about economic gloom. "The relative security that many people enjoyed in the recent past is fading from memory".
Producer:
Sheila Cook.
FRI 21:00 Friday Drama (b00z62nv)
Direct Red
How does it feel to hold someone's heart in your hands? How do you tell a young patient that he's dying? What do you do when, on a quiet ward in the middle of the night, a patient you've grown close to invites you into his bed? This vivid portrayal of the day-to-day life of young female surgeon, and the medical and moral dilemmas she faces, is based on the memoir by Gabriel Weston. One of few women in an alpha male world, she finds herself continually questioning where a doctor should draw the line between being detached and being human. And it's the conflict between these opposing forces - the personal and professional - that lies at the heart of this powerful play, which has been adapted for radio by Tina Pepler.
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll.
FRI 21:58 Weather (b01l5j2j)
The latest weather forecast.
FRI 22:00 The World Tonight (b01l8rc3)
UN debates who's to blame for the failure of international diplomacy as the battles rage in Syria; from Nebraska, the BBC's Paul Adams reports on the drought affecting food US production; and warnings over rising global food prices; and how Olympic athletes cope with the extraordinary pressures of competition. The programme is presented tonight by Robin Lustig.
FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b01ld1p5)
Duty Free
Episode 4
Read before a live studio audience in the BBC Radio Theatre by Meera Syal.
In today's episode; at a huge society wedding, surely a prospective wife for Jonkers can be found in the crowd...but will she have the right bagground?
As every woman knows, matchmaking is no easy job. Particularly when you're trying to find a girl for your dull, balding, freshly-divorced cousin and on top of that manage a house full of servants, shop for contraband Prada goods and attend parties every night. Not to mention the fact that your husband's work trips are becoming increasingly frequent, your city is under attack, and your friends can't be trusted. How is a girl to cope?
Jane Austen's Emma is transported to the outrageous social melee of 21st-century Lahore. "Our plucky heroine's cousin, Jonkers, has been dumped by his low-class, slutty secretary, and our heroine has been charged with finding him a suitable wife -- a rich, fair, beautiful, old-family type. Quickly. But, between you, me and the four walls, who wants to marry poor, plain, hapless Jonkers?"
As our heroine social-climbs her way through weddings-sheddings, GTs (get togethers, of course) and ladies' lunches trying to find a suitable girl from the right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her cousin has his own ideas about his perfect mate. And secretly, she may even agree.
Full of wit and wickedness, Duty Free is a delightful romp through Pakistani high society - although, even as it makes you cry with laughter, it makes you wince at the gulf between our heroine's glitteringly shallow life and the country that is falling apart around her Louboutin-clad feet.
Moni Mohsin, already a huge bestseller in India, has been hailed as a modern-day Jane Austen, and compared to Nancy Mitford and Helen Fielding. Duty Free is social satire at its biting best.
Abridged by Eileen Horne
Produced by Clive Brill
A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:00 The Now Show (b01l8s2g)
The Now Show 2012 - Live!
Episode 3
A special late 'n' live edition of The Now Show keeping you abreast of all the happenings at the London Olympics. Hosted by Punt and Dennis with Andy Parsons and Margaret Cabourn-Smith.
FRI 23:30 Lives in a Landscape (b015yt3z)
Series 9
Bowling for Woodhouses
The village of Woodhouses is half-rural, half-suburban idyll. It has two pubs, a bowling green, a working men's club, a golf course and a thriving cricket club. Just ten minutes from the heart of Manchester, the village is full of excitement and anticipation because, as Alan Dein discovers, it's just won the semi-final of the 2011 Village Cricket Cup; the final - at Lords - is only a few weeks away.
However this proud Lancashire cricketing village, once home to quarter of a million pigs, suddenly finds itself part of a broader national debate about Britain's threatened countryside, because Woodhouses is today in real danger of being consumed by bricks and concrete. Although the very, very smelly pigs have all but gone, a handful of horses remain, keeping the builders at bay. But how long will Woodhouses remain a village? Will the bowling green become a car park as the rumour has it? If the building does not stop will Woodhouses be eligible to enter the National Village cup? The future could be up to a few horses, six small pigs and the final result at Lords.
Producer: Neil George.
LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
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15 Minute Drama
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15 Minute Drama
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15 Minute Drama
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15 Minute Drama
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8.51 to Brighton
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A Life With ...
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A Point of View
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A Point of View
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Alice's Wunderland
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Any Answers?
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Any Questions?
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Any Questions?
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Archive on 4
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Bells on Sunday
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Bells on Sunday
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Beyond Belief
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Bleak Expectations
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Book at Bedtime
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Book at Bedtime
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Book at Bedtime
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Book at Bedtime
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Book at Bedtime
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Book of the Week
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Broadcasting House
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Capital Justice
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Chain Reaction
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Chain Reaction
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Challenging Kane
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Children of the Olympic Bid
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Children of the Olympic Bid
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Children of the Olympic Bid
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Children of the Olympic Bid
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Children of the Olympic Bid
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Classic Serial
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Classic Serial
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Crossing Continents
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Crossing Continents
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Desert Island Discs
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Desert Island Discs
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Drama
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Face the Facts
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Face the Facts
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Fags, Mags and Bags
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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Farming Today
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File on 4
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File on 4
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Four Thought
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Friday Drama
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From Our Own Correspondent
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Front Row
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Gardeners' Question Time
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Gardeners' Question Time
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Great Lives
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
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I've Never Seen Star Wars
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In Business
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In Business
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In Living Memory
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In Touch
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In-Flight Entertainment
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Inside Health
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Inside Health
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Inside the Ethics Committee
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Inside the Ethics Committee
21:00 THU (b01l7wyv)
Kevin Eldon Will See You Now
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Key Matters
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Last Word
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Last Word
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Lives in a Landscape
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Lives in a Landscape
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Lives in a Landscape
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Lives in a Landscape
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Lives in a Landscape
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Living World
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Loose Ends
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Making Tracks
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Making Tracks
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Material World
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Material World
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Mexico Rising
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midnight News
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Midweek
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Midweek
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Money Box
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Money Box
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Moral Maze
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Moral Maze
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More or Less
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More or Less
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Mr Blue Sky
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My Teenage Diary
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Nature
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News Briefing
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News Briefing
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News Headlines
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News and Papers
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News and Papers
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News and Papers
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News and Weather
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News
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Open Book
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Open Book
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Open Country
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Open Country
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Opening Lines
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PM
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Pick of the Week
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Poetry 2012 - the Power of the Poem
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Prayer for the Day
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Prayer for the Day
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Profile
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Profile
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Profile
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Quote... Unquote
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Quote... Unquote
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Radio 4 Appeal
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Radio 4 Appeal
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Radio 4 Appeal
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Saturday Drama
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Saturday Live
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Saturday Review
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Selection of BBC World Service Programmes
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Shipping Forecast
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Six O'Clock News
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Something Understood
06:05 SUN (b01l5pfh)
Something Understood
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Stephanomics
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Stephanomics
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Stepping Stones of Islamic Spain
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Sunday Worship
08:10 SUN (b01l5pld)
Sunday
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Swimming with Piranhas
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The Archers Omnibus
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Archers
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The Castle
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The Film Programme
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The Film Programme
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The Food Programme
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The Food Programme
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The Gobetweenies
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The House I Grew Up In
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The Kitchen Cabinet
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The Long View
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The Long View
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The Media Show
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The New Elizabethans
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The New Elizabethans
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The New Elizabethans
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The New Elizabethans
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The New Group
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The Now Show
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The Now Show
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The Now Show
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The Report
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The Week in Westminster
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The World This Weekend
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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The World Tonight
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Thinking Allowed
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Thinking Allowed
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Today
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Tolkien in Love
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Torture in the 21st Century
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Westminster Hour
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What the Papers Say
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Whatever Happened to the Chemistry Set?
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With Great Pleasure
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Witness
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Woman's Hour
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Word of Mouth
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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World at One
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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You and Yours
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