SATURDAY 22 JULY 2023

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m001nw2n)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 00:30 The Forgotten Girls by Monica Potts (m001nw2q)
Book of the Week: Ep 5 - A downward spiral

In Monica Potts' book about friendship and lost promise. It's 2015 and Clinton, Monica's home town in the heart of rural America is in steep decline, at the same time, Darci's hopes and dreams have been replaced by a downward spiral of addiction and anxiety. Kelly Burke reads.

Monica Potts is an acclaimed journalist and here she sets out to understand generational cycles of poverty and hardship that continue to blight the lives of rural communities in contemporary America. At the same time, she reconnects with her childhood friend, Darci, and the big economic and social questions she's asking become personal. Darci, her talented and brilliant friend was now homeless, jobless and an addict. Her fate could have been Monica's, and so begins a journey to find out why the two women's lives took such different paths.

Abridged by Julian Wilkinson
Produced by Elizabeth Allard


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001nw2w)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001nw32)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001nw39)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m001nw3k)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001nw3v)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Carolyn Skinner, CEO of Third Space Ministries

Good morning

Recently I coordinated a team of volunteers who were welcoming the overnight tennis fans at Wimbledon. The atmosphere in Wimbledon Park where they pitch their tents is wonderful and people are in such good spirits as they anticipate a day at the iconic Wimbledon Championships. Our volunteers from local churches head to the queues each evening to offer free gifts, a listening ear and prayer. We call ourselves Love All Serve All, not just because of the tennis pun, but because that’s what we believe Jesus came to do and what we are called to do also. Love comes with service.

In my work at Third Space Ministries we have 6 values which undergird all that we do. I shall be mentioning them this week and the first value is love. Unfortunately, our English language limits us to expressing love in one word. However, in Greek there are different words for love & they vary in their meaning from friendship love, romantic love, family love. But the word used for what Christians consider to be the highest form of love is ‘agape’. This is the word used to describe God’s love. It is immeasurable, unconditional, sacrificial love, filled with action as well as emotion.

The book of 1 Corinthians in the Bible says that ‘Three things will last forever – faith, hope & love – and the greatest of these is love.’ And the word used here for love is Agape.

Loving God, thank you for the way you demonstrated your love to us, through the life of Jesus. Show us in our lives how we can look beyond ourselves to love others in practical ways as we follow your example. Amen


SAT 05:45 Living on the Edge (m001nvxm)
Downderry

Ten coastal encounters, presented by Richard King.

Today: accompanying the writer Natasha Carthew on a visit to Downderry, the Cornish village where she grew up.

Not simply town or countryside, the coastline is a place apart – attracting lives and stories often overlooked.

In these ten programmes, Richard King travels around the UK coast to meet people who live and work there – a sequence of portraits rooted in distinct places, which piece together into an alternative portrait of the UK: an oblique image of the nation drawn from the coastal edge.

Natasha Carthew's memoir about growing up in Downderry is called Undercurrent (Hodder & Stoughton).


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m001p1hb)
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (m001nvrm)
The Maelor

"When I was a kid, a little junior baby map addict, it always worried me enormously - Flintshire (detached). Why is it detached? What's wrong with it?"

Mike Parker is obsessed by an area of Flintshire called the Maelor. On the map he says it looks like a calloused big toe sticking into the plump ribs of England. Situated slightly south of a line between Wrexham and Whitchurch, it follows few of the expected border rules. And to prove his point, he's taking Miles Warde on a tour, from the Wychbrook to Hanmer and the border post on the strange Fenn's mosses. You'll also hear from a local Welsh language teacher called Dr Cymraeg - aka Stephen Rule - and visit the vicarage where author Lorna Sage grew up. Her most famous book is called Bad Blood.

Mike Parker is the author of All The Wide Border: Wales, England and the Places Between

The producer in Bristol is Miles Warde


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m001p1hd)
22/07/23 Farming Today This Week: Government drops plans to add animal welfare to labels, farm co-ops, landscape scale nature

Defra has dropped its plans add animal welfare to food labels. Farming and food industry figures say it’s just too complex to do, but others disagree.
Good news for short snouted seahorses, the endangered wart biter cricket and the elusive twite. They’re three of the species which will benefit from £7.4 million pounds worth of funding for six new landscape scale Nature Recovery projects.
This week we’ve been looking at the role of co-operatives in UK farming. The idea of a co-op is that farmers work together to share risk, cut costs, increase resilience and gain more control over their supply chain.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.


SAT 06:57 Weather (m001p1hg)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 07:00 Today (m001p1hj)
Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m001p1hl)
Carrie & David Grant, Nabil Abdulrashid, Turi King, Rob Rinder

Carrie and David Grant are best known as the expert vocal coaches from Fame Academy to Carrie and David's Pop Shop. But, they’re new book 'A Very Modern Family' charts their parenting experiences in the hope that it will help other families in similar circumstances.

The scientist and presenter Professor Turi King, whose genealogy, forensics and archaeological finds helped her identify Richard III during his car park exhumation.

Bringing the funny to proceedings stand-up comedian Nabil Abdulrashid has gone from a finalist on Britain’s Grot Talent to making a Pilgrimage on the BBC Two show.

All that – plus the Inheritance Tracks of Rob Rinder.

Presenters: Nikki Bedi and Jason Mohammad
Producers: Ben Mitchell and Glyn Tansley


SAT 10:00 You're Dead to Me (p0b6df21)
Zheng Yi Sao

Greg Jenner, comedian Ria Lina and Prof Ronald C Po investigate one of the most successful pirates to have ever lived, Zheng Yi Sao. During the 18th century Qing dynasty, she led the most feared army of pirates the world had ever seen - all without a parrot on her shoulder.

Research: Will Clayton
Script: Emma Nagouse, Will Clayton and Greg Jenner
Project Manager: Siefe Miyo
Edit Producer: Cornelius Mendez

A production by The Athletic for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 10:30 Rewinder (m001p1hp)
A Rhyme for Beef

Greg James, host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and proud radio nerd, heads into the BBC archives to deliver a selection of prime audio, using stories of the week and listener requests as his launch-pad.

An email takes Greg to the London markets of 1935, where he meets the porters of Billingsgate who can carry up to 150kg of fish on their heads. He finds himself embroiled in the 1925 'market song wars', sparked when the BBC played a foxtrot called Eat More Fruit which extolled the virtues of a fruit-based diet. The meat sellers of Smithfield and the fish purveyors of Billingsgate were up in arms and set about composing their own songs in retaliation.

As singer, model, actor and all-round icon Grace Jones turns 75, Greg finds some extraordinary interviews in the archive. She talks about her tough upbringing, her stunts with a six-foot stick while filming A View to a Kill, and we hear her first BBC appearance on a variety show called Seaside Special. Then there's the infamous interview with Russell Harty, one of the most famous chat show moments of all time, when a sleep-deprived Grace lashed out at the host.

Greg goes in search of the elusive concept of 'the spirit of cricket'. Is it in the village of Tilford on a rainy day in 1936? Maybe it's in the unconventional diet of legendary England fast bowler Harold Larwood? Or perhaps Ainsley Harriott can help?

And as a new Mission Impossible film opens in cinemas, Greg's mission is to uncover the exploits and adventures of British secret agents. He hears from a Second World War saboteur who recalls his parachute training, and from a member of the Special Operations Executive who finds out his comrade is a double agent and has an impossible decision to make.

Producer: Tim Bano


SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (m001p1hr)
Steve Richards and guests discuss the fallout from the by-elections - and the challenges facing the main political parties - with a panel of journalists: Pippa Crerar, Political Editor of the Guardian; Fraser Nelson, Editor of The Spectator magazine and Lucy Fisher, Whitehall Editor at the Financial Times


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m001p1ht)
Sudan: a neglected conflict

Kate Adie introduces BBC correspondents' reports from Sudan, Spain, Tunisia, Italy and Mexico.

Sudan's newest civil war has been raging for more than three months - but first-hand images and reports of conflict are not easy to find. Barbara Plett Usher has been working to cover the violence from Nairobi, in Kenya, and reflects on what it's been possible to confirm.

In this weekend's snap general election in Spain, current Socialist PM Pedro Sanchez tests his mandate against growing pressure from the right - not just the traditional conservatives of the Partido Popular, but also a range of more firmly nationalist parties. Each major bloc has questioned the other's alliances - whether with smaller parties from the far right, or others from the Basque-nationalist movement. Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.

Tunisia may have been the birthplace of the so-called Arab Spring, but these days its democratic credentials seem corroded. President Kais Saied is on an increasingly authoritarian tear, the economy is sputtering and the country's treatment of sub-Saharan African migrants has been growing ever harsher. And as Mike Thomson experienced on a recent trip, the media are still under VERY close supervision.

Much of Southern Europe is baking - if not burning - in a searing heatwave. Sofia Bettiza saw how people are adapting to the soaring temperatures on the streets of Palermo, in Sicily - and heard about concerns for Italians' health in this heat.

And from Mexico City, an unexpected casualty of gentrification. The BBC's Central America correspondent Will Grant has been trying to keep ahead of a wave of affluent foreigners - especially US citizens - moving in, but recently his young daughters' nursery has been priced out of the neighbourhood.

Producer: Polly Hope
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith


SAT 12:00 News Summary (m001p1hw)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 12:04 Money Box (m001p1hy)
NHS Prescriptions and Banks Defy Customers to Stop Fraud

Sick people in England are being caught out by the complex rules which exempt some from NHS prescription charges. The Patients Association says the rules surrounding the £9.65 per item levy should be simplified. The call comes after Money Box listeners told us how they struggled to navigate the rules. The NHS Business Services Authority which runs the system told us "Patients can check they are eligible for free NHS prescriptions before claiming by using the free eligibility checker at www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/check. It takes just three minutes".

Money Box can exclusively reveal that £55 million of fraud was prevented last year by bank and building society employees deliberately ignoring customers' instructions to transfer their money to thieves. They're allowed to do that in a branch because of what is called the banking protocol - a UK-wide law that allows staff in the branch to stop transfers and ask customers what they're doing with their money and why. We'll hear from Sophie who saved one of her customers £90,000.

And, what does this week's fall in inflation really mean for your personal finances?

Presenter: Paul Lewis
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Researchers: Sandra Hardial and Jo Krasner
Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast 12pm Saturday 22nd July, 2023)


SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers (m001nw5b)
Series 23

Episode 6

As the by-election results pour in the reactions are only slightly less predictable than the results themselves. Plus Chris Packham finds that his new series, Earth, is not a hit with everyone and The Repair Shop team face their biggest challenge yet.

This week's impressionists are Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Jason Forbes, Jess Robinson and Duncan Wisbey.

This episode was written by: Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, Edward Tew, Peter Tellouche, Robert Darke, Sophie Dickson, Christina Riggs and Nicky Roberts

Sound Design for the series by Rich Evans

Production Coordinators for the series were Dan Marchini and Caroline Barlow

Produced and created by Bill Dare


SAT 12:57 Weather (m001p1j0)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 13:00 News and Weather (m001p1j2)
The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (m001nw1w)
Chris Philp MP, Maya Goodfellow, Margaret Hodge MP, Tim Montgomerie

Alex Forsyth presents political debate from the Quadram Institute in Norwich with Chris Philp MP, Maya Goodfellow, Margaret Hodge MP, Tim Montgomerie.

Lead broadcast engineer: Tim Allen


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (m001p1j4)
Call Any Answers? to have your say on the big issues in the news this week


SAT 14:45 The Museums That Make Us (m00168br)
Birmingham

Neil MacGregor presents a new series for BBC Radio Four celebrating the role and ambition of museums the length and breadth of the country, and in the process he'll be finding answers to the question ‘What are Museums For in 2022’.

While Birmingham is a relatively young city with a pioneering industrial history in the 19th century, the city museum have chosen an object that helps describe the sound of their city in the last years of the 20th century. Basil Gabidon was the lead guitarist for the Roots Reggae band Steel Pulse. His Gibson custom Les Paul guitar featured in a number of their most celebrated tracks, and it now takes its place alongside the museum's other treasures, helping to describe the cultural mix of the city today. Neil talks to joint CEOs Sara Wajid and Zak Mensah about plans for the museum and how it's addressing the changes the city has, and is still, experiencing.

Museums have always been telescopes trained on the past to help locate a sense of place in the present. Neil believes that role is an active one, responding to changes in the people museums serve and the shifting social and cultural landscape they inhabit. After spending much of his life at the centre of our national Museum life in London, Neil is taking to the road to discover more about the extraordinary work being done in Museums outside the capital, from Stornoway to Stowmarket, and Belfast to Birmingham.

In each episode he visits a single museum, inviting them to choose an object from their collections which they feel best illustrates their civic role, and the way they relate and want to relate to their local audience. Very rarely have they chosen a crown jewel from their often priceless collections. More often it's an object with a particular local resonance, or which helps tackle episodes from the past which are being viewed very differently by citizens in the 21st century.

He’ll be visiting the great national museums of Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, as well as major city institutions in Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and elsewhere. And in spite of the challenges of the last two years, everywhere he meets passionate teams who are dedicated to providing a unique experience for both local audiences and visitors from further afield.

Neil writes: “What’s going on in our museums is at once challenging and exciting and it can only really be understood by visiting as many as possible and finding out how they have approached what is a vital role in providing a sense of local, regional and national identity.”

Producer - Tom Alban
Original music composed by Phil Channell


SAT 15:00 Drama on 4 (m0018ws9)
End of Transmission

Today is Jude’s 50th birthday. She has lived with HIV for over 20 years and has unresolved questions. Only the virus knows the answers.
The virus takes her on a transmission journey skipping across continents, centuries, decades and diverse hosts to meet the person who gave her HIV.

End of Transmission is not one person’s story. It includes Positive Voices speakers from the Terence Higgins Trust. Niamh, Stephen, Allan, Tim, Roland, Ese, Jess and Mary are people living with HIV who share their stories to help end stigma and HIV transmission.

Playwright Anita Sullivan has been living well with HIV since 2000.

On effective medication, we can’t pass it on.

Cast:
The Virus..............DAVID HAIG
Jude......................LOUISE BREALEY
Kenny....................DAVID CARLYLE
Vince.....................DON GILET
Marcel/Jojo............PETER BANKOLE
Ruth.......................MADELEINE POTTER
Elliot.......................RICHARD LAING
Jim/Mark/William....JOEL MACCORMACK
Devina.....................MARTINA LAIRD

Sound.................................David Thomas
Production Coordinators....Jacob Tombling and Sarah Tombling
Producer.............................Karen Rose
Exec Producer.....................Rosalynd Ward

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (m001p1j6)
Mina Smallman, Flexible working laws, Dr Gladys McGarey, Barbie set design and The Wizard of Oz

The law on flexible working changed this week. New rules should make it easier for employees to argue for a flexible working arrangement. It’s the culmination of years of hard work and campaigning for more family friendly workplaces. Anita speaks to the Minister for Small Business, Kevin Hollinrake, and Amy Butterworth from the flexible working consultancy Timewise.

Dr Gladys McGarey, cofounder of the American Holistic Medical Association, began her medical practice at a time when women couldn't even own their own bank accounts. She’s now 102 years old and still practicing as a doctor. She started medical school just before the Second World War, married a fellow doctor, Bill and together they practised medicine and had six children. Dr Gladys joins Nuala to talk about her new book, The Well-Lived Life.

The mother whose daughters were murdered, and their photographs then shared on a police WhatsApp group, speaks to Nuala from the launch of a new organisation designed to help stamp out misogyny, sexism and racism in the police. Mina Smallman has become an activist since the death of her daughters in 2020, and she wants to see change.

The Irish singer-songwriter Roisin Murphy first rose to fame in the 90s as one half of the electronic pop duo Moloko. She has gone on to have a successful solo career and has a new album out soon. She joins Anita live in the studio to talk about her music and creating this latest album.

As the film Barbie opens in cinemas today, Set Decorator Katie Spencer and Production Designer Sarah Greenwood discuss how they created Barbieland in a real life space, the invasion of everything pink, and how they approached the film having never played with Barbies themselves.

Presenter: Anita Rani
Producer: Lottie Garton


SAT 17:00 PM (m001p1j8)
Full coverage of the day's news


SAT 17:30 All Consuming (m001nvqg)
Tea

Did you know there was a time when you could only buy green tea in the UK? Tea is now a staple product for most of us, but it has a long and complicated past.

In this episode of All Consuming, Charlotte Stavrou (née Williams) and Amit Katwala steep themselves in the intriguing history of tea. They talk to advertising expert Paul Feldwick to get the inside story of how chimps were used to advertise the drink, historian Jane Pettigrew explains how tea reached our shores from China, and we also delve into the links between tea and sympathy with psychologist Dr Andrea Shortland.

Producer: Emily Uchida Finch
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m001p1jb)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SAT 17:57 Weather (m001p1jg)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001p1jj)
More than twenty private boats are helping to rescue people from beaches


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (m001p1jl)
Michelle de Swarte, Michael Akadiri, Helen Czerski, Danny Robins, Connie Constance, Jerub, Emma Freud, Danny Wallace

Danny Wallace and Emma Freud are joined by Danny Robins, Michelle de Swarte, Helen Czerski and Michael Akadiri for an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy at Latitude Festival in Suffolk. With music from Connie Constance and Jerub.


SAT 19:00 Profile (m001p1jn)
Dale Vince

The multi-millionaire climate campaigner and Just Stop Oil donor Dale Vince, made his fortune in green energy.

He started generating his own power with a homemade windmill before setting up green energy provider, Ecotricity in the 1990s. He’s since commissioned a record-breaking electric car and added a football club and lab-grown diamonds to his sustainable businesses.

Mark Coles looks at the life of the eco-entrepreneur who says that the disruption caused by Just Stop Oil protesters is nothing compared to the havoc caused by climate change.

Presenter: Mark Coles
Production: Sally Abrahams, Diane Richardson, Alix Pickles
Production Coordinator: Sabine Schereck
Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot
Editor: Richard Vadon


SAT 19:15 The Infinite Monkey Cage (p0fwwx9v)
Series 27

The Secret Life of Sharks

Brian Cox and Robin Ince find out about the apex predators of the ocean. They are joined by physiological ecologist Lucy Hawkes, shark scientist Isla Hodgson and naturalist Steve Backshall. They learn about the surprising social behaviours of sharks, how they reproduce and exactly how long they have been around for - they’re even older than dinosaurs! Brian and Robin hear about Steve’s experience of diving with over 100 species of shark. Is their reputation as cold blooded killers accurate?

New episodes are released on Saturdays. If you're in the UK, listen to the full series first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3K3JzyF

Producer: Caroline Steel
Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem


SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 (m001p1jr)
A Most Consequential Death

The discovery of the body of Dr David Kelly on 18th July 2003 in the woods on Harrowdown Hill in Oxfordshire shocked the world. Just two months earlier, in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq, the scientist and former UN weapons inspector had met a BBC journalist, Andrew Gilligan at a London hotel. Their conversation formed the basis of Gilligan's infamous report on the BBC's Today programme, suggesting the then Labour government had 'sexed up' a dossier on Iraq's WMD in the lead up to the war. Gilligan's report triggered a bitter dispute between the BBC and government figures led by Tony Blair's communications director Alastair Campbell. As the row escalated, Dr Kelly was publicly outed as a possible source for the Gilligan report and called to parliament to be grilled by MPs on the Foreign Affairs Committee. As pressure on him mounted, Dr Kelly went missing. He was found dead and ruled to have taken his own life.

The journalist Steve Richards reported at the time on the long hot summer of 2003 and its turbulent aftermath - from the original BBC report to the Hutton Inquiry hastily convened to investigate Dr Kelly's death which sent further shockwaves through the heart of the media, politics and power. In this major documentary, he retraces a poignant, compelling and profoundly human story from its outset to its consequences, with the help of fascinating archive and new interviews. He talks to key players in the story, friends and associates of Dr Kelly, and senior figures in the government, Whitehall and the BBC.

What was it like for those closely involved? How does it affect them still? What lessons have they learned? How will Dr David Kelly be remembered?

Producer: Leala Padmanabhan
Additional research by Laura Wilkinson
Programme mixed by Hal Haines


SAT 21:00 GF Newman's The Corrupted (m000hghx)
Series 5

Episode 4

It's the 1990s and Brian Oldman is still in jail for a crime he didn't commit.
He found a man in jail able to prove his innocence - but that man was soon found dead in his cell. He suspects that Joseph Oldman, now Sir Joseph Olinska MP, organised the killing.

GF Newman's The Corrupted weaves fiction with real characters from history, following the fortunes of the Oldman/Olinska family - from small-time business and opportunistic petty crime, through gang rivalries, to their entanglement in the highest echelons of society. It's a tale revealing a nexus of crime, business and politics that’s woven through the fabric of 20th century greed as even those with hitherto good intentions are sucked into a web of corruption.

Joey Oldman, an uneducated Jewish child immigrant from Russia, has a natural instinct for business and a love of money - coupled with a knack for acquiring it. His wife Cath is as ruthless in both the pursuit of money and the protection of her son, Brian. Joey built his empire with the help of a corrupt bank manager in the 1950s, starting with small greengrocer shops before moving into tertiary banking and property development, dealing with many corrupt policemen on the way - and befriending both Lord Goodman and Margaret Thatcher. Now ennobled and on the board of Lehman Brothers, Joseph intends to extend his business interests into Russia with the help of Boris Yeltsin and his cronies. John Major is now the Prime Minister and a young man from the left, Tony Blair, also seems keen on making Joseph’s acquaintance. Meanwhile, Joseph is trying to divorce his first wife, Catherine.

The characters are based on GF Newman's novels.

CAST
Sir Joseph Olinska. Toby Jones
Brian Oldman Joe Armstrong
Tony Wednesday Alec Newman
Brian Perry/DAC Henderson Nicholas Murchie
Warder Peters/John Major/
Judge Kelman Paul Kemp
Sonia Hope Sarah Lambie
John Redvers Tom York
Eddie Richardson Charles Davies
Chuck Haley Matt Rippy
Pongo Damian Lynch
Jack Braden John Hollingworth
George Carmen/Tony Blair Nigel Cooke
Margaret Courtney Flora Montgomery
Alex Murray John Hastings
Chuck Haley Matt Rippy

Produced and directed by Clive Brill
A Brill production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 21:45 The Skewer (m001nvzv)
Series 9

Episode 5

Jon Holmes's comedy current affairs concept album remixes news into award-winning satirical shapes. This week - The Coming of Cerberus, The Racist Adventures of Portland Bill, and The Spirit of Local Radio.

Producer: Jon Holmes

An unusual production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:00 News (m001p1jt)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:15 Add to Playlist (m001nw1r)
Rick Wakeman and Anna Lapwood on the joys of the keyboard

Rick Wakeman - keyboard player and former member of the progressive rock group Yes - and organist Anna Lapwood join Cerys and Jeffrey as they add the next five tracks, taking us from a Welsh/Indian collaboration to Hans Zimmer via a 1995 rap classic.

Producer Jerome Weatherald
Presented, with music direction, by Cerys Matthews and Jeffrey Boakye

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Moliannwn by Ghazalaw
My Blue Heaven sung by James Taylor
Gangsta’s Paradise by Coolio
What are you going to do when you are not saving the world? by Hans Zimmer
A far l'amore comincia tu by Raffaella Carrà

Other music in this episode:

Mas Que Nada by Sergio Mendes
Cricket on a Line by Colt Ford ft Rhett Atkins
The Old Cabin Home by Bobby Horton
My Blue Heaven sung by Gene Austin
Rather Be by Clean Bandit ft. Jess Glynne
Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
Pastime Paradise by Stevie Wonder
Space Oddity by David Bowie
No Time for Caution from Interstellar, played by Anna Lapwood
Do It, Do It Again by Raffaella Carrà


SAT 23:00 The 3rd Degree (m001nvry)
Series 13

Somerville College, Oxford

Coming this week from Somerville College, Oxford, The 3rd Degree is a a funny, upbeat and brainy quiz show.

The specialist subjects this week are classics, classical archaeology and ancient history, physics and linguistics, so the questions range from a sybil in a bottle to an electron in a spiral via mustard, runes and Kate Winslet. And you'll learn some simple tips for translating Japanese into Hungarian.

The show is recorded on location at a different University each week, and pits three undergraduates against three of their professors in this fresh take on an academic quiz. The general knowledge rounds include a quickfire bell-and-buzzer finale and the Highbrow and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the students’ knowledge of history, art, literature and politics, but also their Professors’ awareness of TV, music and sport. Meanwhile there are the three specialist subject rounds, in which students take on their professors in their own subjects, and where we find out whether the students have actually been awake during lectures.

In this series, the show goes to Exeter, Strathclyde, Keele, King’s College London, Portsmouth, and Somerville College, Oxford.

Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4


SAT 23:30 Yeti (p0fxt277)
4. Yak Attack

The yeti enthusiasts have moved their search to Nepal where they are keen to investigate the story of a terrifying encounter nearly 50 years ago.

While Richard remains at home, Andy treks up through the mountains to find out if there’s anyone still alive who can verify the account.

As Andy makes his way up towards Mount Everest, the pair look back over Nepal’s colourful yeti searching history. Andy discovers he’s the latest in a long line of explorers who’ve looked for the creature. Will he be the one who finds it?

In this 10-part documentary series, Andrew Benfield and Richard Horsey travel through India, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan in search of stories of yeti sightings and encounters. They hear from villagers, yak herders, sherpas and mountaineers, who give surprisingly consistent descriptions of a mysterious, large, hairy creature. This series takes us on a journey deep into Himalayan culture as the presenters grapple with their own inner demons to try to make sense of the yeti myth.

Producer: Joanna Jolly.
Executive Producer: Kirsten Lass.
Sound designers: Peregrine Andrews and Dan King.
Composer of original music: Marisa Cornford.
Assistant Producer Maia Miller- Lewis.
A Loftus Media production for BBC Radio 4.

SUNDAY 23 JULY 2023

SUN 00:00 Midnight News (m001p1jw)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 00:15 Poetry Please (m001nvk5)
Rachel Long

The poet Rachel Long joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Sarah Howe, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.

Rachel Long's debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions, was published in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Jhalak Prize and was a TIME book of the year and a Best Poetry Book by the Guardian.

Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio.


SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001p1jy)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001p1k0)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001p1k2)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SUN 05:30 News Briefing (m001p1k6)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (m001p1kb)
St Lawrence, Alton in Hampshire.

Bells on Sunday comes from the parish church of St Lawrence, Alton in Hampshire. The earliest reference to bells is in the churchwarden accounts of 1625 mention that the church possesses a peal of bells, and these were rung when King Charles 1 visited Alton. In 1926 the Tenor bell was found to be seriously cracked and others badly chipped. The bells were recast by Gillett and Johnston of Croydon and hung in a new steel frame. The tenor weighs eighteen and a quarter hundredweight and is tuned to E. We hear them ringing Bristol Surprise Major.


SUN 05:45 Profile (m001p1jn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 News Summary (m001p1lv)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:05 Something Understood (b08ksc23)
Crossing the Master

Journalist Abdul-Rehman Malik explores the complex relationship between master and disciple. Acknowledging that truth lies in fiction, he describes how the relationship between Obi Wan Kenobi and his former disciple Darth Vader in the film Star Wars prompted this exploration.

A passage written by the former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams defines what a disciple is and a reading from the 19th century Buddhist master Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro helps the disciple discern a true leader. Hindu mystic Rama Krishna describes how Tapobana the Master, threatened by a disciple he thought of as foolish, goes on to make a fool of himself.

Conflicts between master and disciple arise in the secular world too. We hear the music of jazz trumpeter Miles Davis as Abdul-Rehman recounts the tale of the clash between young lion Wynton Marsalis and the legendary Davis. The death of Malcolm X in 1965 showed that crossing the master can have deadly consequences - we hear from his autobiography.

Abdul-Rehman concludes by examining how differences between the master and disciple can be reconciled.

Presenter: Abdul-Rehman Malik
Producer: Jonathan Mayo

A TBI Media production for BBC Radio 4.


SUN 06:35 On Your Farm (m001p1lz)
Lancashire tomatoes

Caz Graham meets Andy Roe, self confessed tomato fanatic, at the huge indoor tomato farm he runs in Lancashire. Andy is the tomato production manager at Flavourfresh, which produces 2,700 tonnes of them every year. They're grown in large glasshouses, where individual plants can reach 15 metres in length, their stems intertwined above specially created grow bags. The company uses LED lights to enable them to produce tomatoes all year round. Caz also meets Dave Barker as he introduces pollinators and natural pest predators into the greenhouse, and joins one of the company's seasonal workers as they harvest the tomatoes.

Produced by Sally Challoner


SUN 06:57 Weather (m001p1m3)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 07:00 News and Papers (m001p1m7)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 07:10 Sunday (m001p1mc)
Oppenheimer, Manipur, The Sixth Commandment

J. Robert Oppenheimer had a life-long fascination with Hinduism, and the Hindu sacred text, the Bagavad Gita, which he famously quoted in response to the first Atomic bomb detonations. As 'Oppenheimer' is released in cinemas this week, William Crawley explores the connections between Oppenheimer, the Gita and the Bomb, with Emeritus Professor of History Jim Nijiya and Hindu scholar Acharya Vidyabhaskar.

The Indian state of Manipur, has been plunged into what some believe is a state of civil war between its two largest ethnic groups; the majority Meitei, who are mostly Hindu, and the minority Kuki tribe, who are mostly Christian. We speak to a researcher from Open Doors, the charity supporting persecuted Christians.

And as the television series ‘The Sixth Commandment’ draws rave reviews, we debate the moral pros and cons of ‘true crime’ drama with journalist Amelia Tait and theologian Canon Angela Tilby.

Presenter: William Crawley
Producers: Bara'atu Ibrahim & Louise Clarke
Studio Managers: Nat Stokes & Sue Stonestreet
Production Coordinator: David Baguley
Editor: Dan Tierney


SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal (m001p1mj)
Prisoners Abroad

Actress Harriet Walter makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity Prisoners Abroad.

To Give:
- UK Freephone 0800 404 8144
-You can donate online at bbc.co.uk/appeal/radio4
- Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. (That’s the whole address. Please do not write anything else on the front of the envelope). Mark the back of the envelope ‘Prisoners Abroad’.
- Cheques should be made payable to ‘Prisoners Abroad’.
Please note that Freephone and online donations for this charity close at 23.59 on the Saturday after the Appeal is first broadcast. However the Freepost option can be used at any time.

Registered charity number: 1093710


SUN 07:57 Weather (m001p1mn)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 08:00 News and Papers (m001p1ms)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the Sunday papers.


SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship (m001p1mx)
Saint Francis of Assisi

From some of the earliest medieval panels, relics and manuscripts to modern-day sculptures, the National Gallery’s current exhibition on St Francis of Assisi shines a light on how the well-known saint has captured the imagination of artists through the centuries, and how his appeal has transcended generations, continents and different religious traditions.

In today’s Sunday Worship, Denis Nowlan, in conversation with the Director of the Gallery, Gabriele Finaldi, look at why this saint is a figure of enormous relevance to our time due to his spiritual radicalism, commitment to the poor, and love of God and nature, as well as his powerful appeals for peace.

Much of the music was recorded in and around Assisi in Italy. Readings and prayers were recorded in Hilfield Friary, Dorset.

Producer: Andrew Earis

Note: This programme was not scripted but was recorded on location.

Readings
Matthew 16:24, Matthew 10:34-39, Philippians 2:5-8

Music
All creatures of our God and King (Lasst Uns Erfreuen)
Kantos Chamber Choir, recorded in Santa Maria degli Angeli, Assisi, in 2018

The Birds (movement 2: The Dove) - Respighi
London Symphony Orchestra, CD recording

Karitas – Hildegard of Bingen
Recorded by Kantos Chamber Choir in San Damiano, Assisi, in 2018

Brother, sister, let me serve you
Kantos Chamber Choir, recorded in Curia Generale dei Frati Minori, Rome, in 2018

Adagio for strings - Barber
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, CD recording

Beati voi poveri - Taize
Taize - Music of Unity and Peace, CD recording

Canticle of the Creatures
sung by Friar Alessandro, recorded in 2018

Laudate omnes gentes - Taize
Kantos Chamber Choir, recorded outdoors in Eremo della Carcere, above Assisi, in 2018

On the nature of daylight - Max Richter
Max Richer Orchestra, CD recording

The Lord bless you and keep you – John Rutter
Kantos Chamber Choir, recorded in Curia Generale dei Frati Minori, Rome, in 2018


SUN 08:48 A Point of View (m001nw20)
The Soul of a Rebel

As a seasoned protester, Trevor Phillips explores what’s wrong with protest today.

After getting his first taste for protest as a schoolboy in Guyana (which led to detention in an army barracks and an audience with a government minister) Trevor remembers his days of student activism in the 1970s - which he describes as 'the start of a long and undistinguished career of being a pain in the backside of authority'.

Reflecting on the campaigns of groups like Just Stop Oil, he argues that many of today’s protesters simply choose the wrong target.

He concludes that there is still a point to protest, even though success might not be immediate - because victory may come later, and in a way that's often unpredictable.

Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith


SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day (b097cjz7)
Robert Martin on the Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher

Rob Martin of BirdLife International shares an encounter in Indonesia with one of the rarest birds in the world: the Cerulean Paradise-flycatcher, which he feared was extinct.

Tweet of the Day has captivated the Radio 4 audience with its daily 90 seconds of birdsong. In this latest series of Tweet of the Day, we bring to the airwaves the conversational voices of those who listen to and are inspired by birds. Building on the previous series, a more informal approach to learning alongside a renewed emphasis on encounter with nature and reflection in our relationship with the natural world.

Producer: Eliza Lomas.


SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House (m001p1n1)
The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell


SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus (m001p1n5)
Writer, Naylah Ahmed
Director, Pip Swallow
Editor, Jeremy Howe

Helen Archer ….. Louiza Patikas
Pat Archer ….. Patricia Gallimore
Tom Archer ….. William Troughton
Tony Archer ….. David Troughton
Harrison Burns ….. James Cartwright
Neil Carter ….. Brian Hewlett
Susan Carter ….. Charlotte Martin
Ed Grundy ….. Barry Farrimond
Emma Grundy ….. Emerald O'Hanrahan
George Grundy ….. Angus Stobie
Will Grundy ….. Philip Molloy
Tracy Horrobin ….. Susie Riddell
Jazzer McCreary ….. Ryan Kelly
Kirsty Miller ….. Annabelle Dowler
Hannah Riley ….. Helen Longworth
Fallon Rogers ….. Joanna Van Kampen
Lynda Snell ….. Carole Boyd
Miles Titchener ….. Adam Astill


SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs (m001p1n9)
Simon Woolley, crossbench peer

Simon Woolley, Lord Woolley of Woodford, is principal of Homerton College at Cambridge University. He is the first black man to head an Oxbridge college. He is a co-founder of Operation Black Vote, which campaigns for greater inclusivity in politics, and became a crossbench peer in 2019.

Simon spent his early years in an orphanage in Leicester before being fostered and then adopted by a white couple who also adopted his brother Mick. He left school at 16 to work as a car mechanic and then moved to London where he embarked on a successful career in sales. In 1988 he completed a one year access course which provided the pathway to university and a degree in English and Spanish.

In 1996 Simon was one of the co-founders of Operation Black Vote, a non-partisan organisation which encourages voter registration and community engagement, aiming to give a voice to all sections of society.

He was awarded a knighthood for services to race equality in 2019 and took up his current role as principal of Homerton College in 2021.

DISC ONE: I Want You Back - The Jackson 5
DISC TWO: Green Green Grass of Home - Tom Jones
DISC THREE: Manhattan - Ella Fitzgerald
DISC FOUR: Titanium (Morten Future Rave Mix) - David Guetta (feat Sia)
DISC FIVE: Hagamos Lo Que Diga El Corazón - Grupo Niche
DISC SIX: Dreamland – Composed and performed by Alexis Ffrench and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by James Morgan
DISC SEVEN: Cowboy bebop tank! - Niyari
DISC EIGHT: For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder

BOOK CHOICE: Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
LUXURY ITEM: A razor blade
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: For Once in My Life - Stevie Wonder

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley


SUN 12:00 News Summary (m001p1nf)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001nvsz)
Series 79

Episode 2

This series of Radio 4's multi award-winning ‘antidote to panel games’ promises more homespun wireless entertainment for the young at heart.

This week the programme pays a return visit to the Bath Forum where Tony Hawks and Pippa Evans are pitched against Marcus Brigstocke and Rory Bremner, with Jack Dee in the chair.

At the piano - Colin Sell.

Producer - Jon Naismith.

It is a BBC Studios production.


SUN 12:32 The Food Programme (m001p1ll)
UPF WTF?

Ultra-Processed Food makes up more than 50% of all calories consumed in the UK - but UPFs are being linked with obesity and disease, and there are calls for tougher regulations. In this programme, Sheila Dillon meets the Conservative MP for Stourbridge, Suzanne Webb, who says current government guidelines about healthy eating do not go far enough. She says regulators need to stop focussing on individual ingredients, and should focus on health outcomes.

The term Ultra-Processed Food, or UPF, was coined more than a decade ago to describe foods that are highly processed, contain many ingredients that are not found in ordinary kitchens and are often wrapped in plastic. They are most supermarket cereals, bread, ready-meals, ice-cream, fruit yoghurts and desserts. Diets high in these foods are being associated with several illnesses including obesity, cancer, depression and heart disease.

Several countries are now advising consumers to limit their consumption of UPF, but in the UK there are no plans to change advice. Last week, the Government's scientific advisors on nutrition published a statement on (ultra-) processed foods and health, concluding that although research consistently associates increased consumption of UPFs with ill-health, there are uncertainties around the quality of the evidence available. The Government says it is already taking action to limit the consumption of foods that are high in salt, sugar and fat, which will include many UPFs.

So it seems better research is needed - but as Sheila Dillon hears, researching in this area is painstakingly complex.

Presented by Sheila Dillon
Produced in Bristol by Natalie Donovan


SUN 12:57 Weather (m001p1nm)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (m001p1nr)
Radio 4's look at the week's big stories from both home and around the world


SUN 13:30 Director of Me (m001p1ny)
Ria

How do you manage your mental health when you cannot control the direction of your mind?

Director of Me follows three people with diagnosed mental health conditions through a month in their lives. Each episode pivots around self-recorded audio diaries as they reflect on what it's like to inhabit and manage their minds. .

The programmes incorporate specially composed music, worked up in collaboration with each person to illustrate how they experience their mental health conditions.

In this second episode, we meet Ria, who's in her 20s. She’s an actor, director, playwright; a friend, girlfriend and daughter. Ria also lives with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), after being diagnosed at 25.

“I got diagnosed at 25, after I’d already written a play about it. So, that was a relief.”

This episode was recorded by Ria.

Producer: Catherine Carr
Assistant Producer and Composer: Maia Miller-Lewis.
Executive Producer: Jo Rowntree.

With thanks to OCD Action for their support.


SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time (m001nw45)
RHS Bridgewater

How do I persuade my peace lily to re-flower? Should climbers grow inside or outside wiring? Can you cure my garden performance anxiety?

Ready to answer these questions, and also to share their tips and tricks on a variety of cuttings and cultivars are garden designer Bunny Guinness, garden consultant Neil Porteous, and curator of RHS Garden Bridgewater Marcus Chilton-Jones.

Kathy and Marcus take a trip into the wilderness of the RHS Bridgewater grounds to discuss the best trees to plant in a limited space.

Producer: Daniel Cocker
Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock
Executive Producer: Hannah Newton

A Somethin’ Else production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 14:45 Opening Lines (m001p1p4)
Mother Courage and Her Children - Episode 2

John Yorke takes a look at Mother Courage and her Children, Bertolt Brecht’s play written in 1939 on the eve of World War Two.

Set in an earlier time when the Thirty Years War was raging across Europe, Mother Courage and her Children deals with some of the great themes of conflict and capitalism, looking at the way that one mother tries to survive with her family intact. Brecht grew up in Germany in the years after the First World War when the country was struggling with inflation running out of control. This difficult situation informed Brecht’s political views, and he supported the Communist ideals, although never actually joined the Communist Party.

Brecht also had a number of theories about theatre which John explores. The way he structured his plays meant that the audience would be told what was about to happen with the use of placards. So in Mother Courage, scene captions explain the action in advance at the start of each scene. He didn’t want us to identify too closely with the characters on stage believing that, if we do, we would be surrendering our own viewpoint. John Yorke looks at the emotional detachment that Brecht sought and asks if it really worked.

John Yorke has worked in television and radio for nearly 30 years, and he shares his experience with Radio 4 listeners as he unpacks the themes and impact of the books, plays and stories that are being dramatised on BBC Radio 4. From EastEnders to the Archers, Life on Mars to Shameless, he has been obsessed with telling big popular stories. He has spent years analysing not just how stories work but why they resonate with audiences around the globe and has brought together his experience in his bestselling book Into the Woods. As former Head of Channel Four Drama, Controller of BBC Drama Production and MD of Company Pictures, John has tested his theories during an extensive production career working on some of the world’s most lucrative, widely viewed and critically acclaimed TV drama. As founder of the hugely successful BBC Writers Academy John has trained a generation of screenwriters - his students have had 17 green-lights in the last two years alone.

Contributors:
Professor Laura Bradley, Dean of Postgraduate Research, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Personal Chair of German and Theatre, University of Edinburgh
Mark Ravenhill, Playwright
Julie Hesmondhalgh, Actor

Credits:
Mother Courage is played by Sheila Hancock in the production directed by Jeremy Mortimer, first broadcast on Radio 3 in 1990

Helene Weigel in "Brecht on Stage", (BBC / Open University, 1989)

Acting in the Sixties: extract from episode with Richard Burton conducted by film critic Kenneth Tynan, on the BBC in 1967

Producer: Mark Rickards
Executive Producer: Caroline Raphael
Sound: Sean Kerwin
Researcher: Nina Semple
Production Manager: Sarah Wright
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 15:00 Drama on 4 (m001p1pb)
Mother Courage and Her Children (Part 2)

An innovative new two-part radio production of Brecht’s timeless anti-war play with songs. A narrator observes from present day Ukraine, and unconventional techniques mirror Brecht’s “alienation effect”.

Recorded in London and Kyiv, with a mixed cast, Mother Courage and her three adult children pull her cart through a land ravaged by the Thirty Years War (1618-48), loaded with supplies for sale to whoever will buy them. They follow armies across Germany and Sweden for over two decades, trading with soldiers, and turning a profit, selling anything armies desire or require; morals don’t enter into it. The more desperate they are, the more she charges them. Nothing comes before making a profit, not even her three children.

Many consider Mother Courage to be the greatest anti-war play ever and one of the 20th century's greatest plays. Bertolt Brecht's classic drama (last produced on BBC radio in 1990), is now all the more pertinent and resonant, with war returning to Europe. A resonant new Mother Courage for Europe today.

Turan Ali has three decades of award-winning radio drama under his belt.
Musical Director Tim Sutton composed new music and adapted Brecht’s lyrics for the seven songs.

CAST
Mother Courage - Maggie Steed
Narrator (in Kyiv) - Rob Feldman
Chaplain - Guy Henry
Cook - William Brand
Yvette - Sirine Saba
Kattrin - Fiona Skinner
Eilif - Andre Antonio
Swiss Cheese - Taheen Modak
Lieutenant - Richard Glover
Old Peasant - David Holt
Colonel - Mark Straker

Musicians : Sophie Creaner, Freddie Gavita, Beth Higham-Edwards, Justin Quinn, Ian Watson.

New music and adapted lyrics by Tim Sutton
Adapted for radio and directed by Turan Ali
A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 16:00 Open Book (m001p1pj)
Elizabeth Jane Howard

Elizabeth Jane Howard, the British novelist who was born a hundred years ago this year in 1923. Raised in a privileged but unhappy family her early experiences would inform much of her writing through her long career. Despite winning the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for her first novel The Beautiful Visit in 1950 - it wasn’t until the second half of her life that her fictional quintet The Cazalet Chronicles would bring commercial acclaim. Her private life; three marraiges, including the writer Kingsley Amis, affairs with Laurie Lee and Cecil Day Lewis often overshadow her books, but on the programme today, Elizabeth Day is joined by biographer, Artemis Cooper author of Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence, Howard's editor Maria Rejt, and the author of The Familiars and Mrs England, Stacey Halls, to take a closer look at the qualities of her writing.

Book List – Sunday 23 July and Thursday 27 July

The Beautiful Visit by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Long View by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Slipstream by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Light Years by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Marking Time by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Confusion by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Casting Off by Elizabeth Jane Howard
All Change by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
After You’d Gone by Maggie O’Farrell
The Distance Between Us by Maggie O’Farrell
This Must be the Place by Maggie O’Farrell


SUN 16:30 Playing at Power (m001p1pr)
In 1971, actor Richard Burton was invited by Josip Broz Tito, Former President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to play him in the partisan film, Battle of Sutjeska (1973).

The film, Battle of Sutjeska, tells the story of the greatest engagement of the Yugoslav Partisan War.

The potential for this relationship between actor and politician, both interested in each other’s roles in life, to become fast friends seemed a surety. Yet, the realities of running a country and being a leading man meant the relationship was doomed from the start.

Through interviews, film archive and extracts from Burton’s diary, Matthew Sweet explores how celebrity and politics, art and power collided on a film set.

With contributions from Professor Chris Williams, Professor Gethin Matthews, Slavko Stimac, Filmmaker Mila Turalijic and Journalist Jurica Pavicic.

Richard Burton’s Diary extracts are read by Johnny Flynn

Archive from Filmski Centar Sarajevo, BBC Photo Archive, Richard Burton Archives at Swansea University.

Special thanks to Sally Burton.

Presenter: Matthew Sweet
Producer: Mollie Davidson
Executive Producer: Richard Power

A 7digital production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 17:00 File on 4 (m001nvs4)
The Epilepsy Drug Scandal

It’s been called a bigger scandal than Thalidomide. The drug sodium valproate is estimated to have harmed 20,000 children in the UK.

It’s mainly used to treat epilepsy and other conditions such as bipolar disorder.

But taking the drug when pregnant can cause serious harm to unborn babies.

Even when it was licenced fifty years ago, it was known to cause harm to foetuses in animals. But it wasn’t until 2005 that the patient information leaflet, which should come with a prescription- gave clear warnings on the risks of taking valproate in pregnancy to unborn children, beyond a small chance of spina bifida.

File on 4 asks if the health regulators in the UK and the company who make it, Sanofi, did enough to inform patients of the severity of the drug's risks soon enough.

Meanwhile, new risks of the drug are still emerging. A new study shows the drug may affect the neurological development of children fathered by men taking valproate. The evidence is still inconclusive, but neurologists are uncertain what to advise their male patients on valproate.

And why are women still getting pregnant on it? We ask if the system set up to protect women taking it is working as it should be?

A major review of the drug made a number of recommendations, including the setting up of specialist clinics and a compensation scheme for those affected. The programme asks what progress has been made in the UK to implement those changes, and are we lagging behind other countries?

File on 4 speaks to the families whose children have been left with lifelong neurological and physical disabilities as a result of taking the medication.

Reporter: Rachel Stonehouse
Producers: Jane Fellner and Emma Forde
Editor: Carl Johnston


SUN 17:40 Profile (m001p1jn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday]


SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m001p1q1)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SUN 17:57 Weather (m001p1qc)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001p1qm)
19 thousand people have been moved to safety on the Greek island of Rhodes -- as high winds hamper efforts to tackle wildfires burning out of control.


SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week (m001p1qx)
Kate Fox

Whilst picking the week Kate Fox has uncovered the secrets to living a good life via swimming, tea, mushrooms, Northern Soul and the ultimate relativity of time. And she's also uncovering hidden voices - of the graffiti artist Banksy, the Geordie speaking clock and the older women labelled 'hags' and persecuted as witches.

Presenter: Kate Fox
Producer: Jessica Treen
Production Coordinator: Lydia Depledge-Miller


SUN 19:00 The Archers (m001p1lg)
George tells Mia that Ed and Emma can’t stand being in the same room as him; however, the feeling’s mutual. When George asks about Brad, Mia won’t talk about him. Later, George asks Brad how he’s upset Mia. Brad admits he’s worried that the bad experience he had with Paige will be repeated with Mia. He’s frightened of getting hurt again. George points out that Mia really likes Brad, and he needs to talk to her. Later Brad tells Mia about Paige and why he’s been holding back. Mia admits she’s doing the same thing; she was hurt by someone she had a crush on. They say how much they like each other and agree the relationship’s back on.
Helen and Lee look at some photos of Johnny and Freddie having a good time in Lisbon. Lee’s distracted and admits he doesn't think Helen should keep Rob’s condition from Jack and Henry. He knows how hard it is to be separated from his daughters. Helen counters that Rob deserves no consideration from them. But Lee thinks Miles has a point, and Jack could end up really resenting Helen. Helen’s adamant - Rob’s utterly toxic, and she knows what’s best for her children. Henry unexpectedly appears, wondering whether they were arguing about Rob, but Helen won’t talk about it. Later George bumps into angry Henry who opens up about Helen and Lee treating him like an idiot. George advises Henry to ignore what his parents say and do what he wants to do, but make sure he doesn’t get caught.


SUN 19:15 Alexei Sayle's Strangers on a Train (m001p10h)
Series 2

Birmingham to Stansted Airport

Comedy icon Alexei Sayle continues his series of rail journeys across the country with a trip from Birmingham to Stansted Airport

Alexei’s mission is to break the golden rule of travelling by train and actually talk to his fellow passengers, in a quest for conversations with strangers that will reveal their lives, hopes, dreams and destinations.

Along the way, Alexei holds a finger into the wind of the thoughts and moods of the great British travelling public. There’s humour, sadness and surprise as people reveal what is going on in their lives and, as Alexei passes through familiar towns and cities, he also delves into his own personal stories of a childhood in Liverpool and a long career as a comedian, actor and author.

Alexei has a life-long ticket to ride in his DNA, as his father was a railway guard. As a child, Alexei travelled on trains with his mum and dad, not only in the UK but also abroad. While other children in Liverpool at the time thought a trip to Blackpool was a big adventure, Alexei travelled to Paris, experienced the Orient Express, had summer holidays in Czechoslovakia and visited mysterious cities with unpronounceable names in the farthest corners of Europe.

In this programme, Alexei meets Adam, a student at Cambridge on his way back to college with his mum Helen. Adam introduces Alexei to the mysterious world of competitive Pokemon. Among his many fellow travellers, Alexei also meets Holly who lives in Bali and is dedicated to studying and saving sharks; Megan, who was born in Arizona and is on her way to her first ever key note speech at the prestigious Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge and Katrin and Klara who have been on holiday in the UK, are flying home to Germany from Stansted, and are great fans of English humour.


SUN 19:45 Golden Eggs (m001p1pd)
Layyina and Mohsin

Five British Asian writers take folktales or traditional stories and rework them in contemporary settings.

Episode 2: Layyina and Mohsin by Kasim Ali.
Inspired by the love story of Layla and Majnun. Keeping her distance, Lay watches a funeral.

Kasim Ali was longlisted for the 4th Estate B4ME Short Story Prize and shortlisted for Hachette's Mo Siewcherran Prize. His first novel, Good Intentions, was published in March 2022.

Writer: Kasim Ali
Reader: Ramanique Ahluwalia
Producer: Jeremy Osborne

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 20:00 Feedback (m001nw4r)
The BBC’s Annual Report is bigger than usual but are the results any better? Andrea Catherwood is joined by Professor Simon McKerrell, Head of the Department of Media and Music at Glasgow Caledonian University, to unpick the figures and answer your comments.

6 Music DJ Stuart Maconie responds to listeners' feedback on the Northern Soul Prom that had the audience singing, dancing and raising the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.

And in the week the Women’s Football World Cup begins, footballers Rose and Amaka pass judgement on comedian Maisie Adam’s Beautiful Game series on Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Presenter: Andrea Catherwood

A Whistledown Scotland production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 20:30 Last Word (m001nw4j)
Lady Williams of Elvel, Professor John Goodenough, Christine Baker, Lord Palmer

Matthew Bannister on

Lady Williams of Elvel, who, as Jane Portal, was personal secretary to Winston Churchill and the mother of the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

Professor John Goodenough, the American materials chemist who won the Nobel prize for his work on developing the rechargeable lithium battery.

Christine Baker, the publisher who specialised in making British children’s books available in France. Sir Michael Morpurgo pays tribute.

Lord Palmer, the aristocrat who worked in the family biscuit making firm Huntley and Palmer before inheriting the 109 room Manderston House and estate in the Scottish borders.

Interviewee: Allen Packwood OBE
Interviewee: Marnie Chesterton
Interviewee: Sir Michael Morpurgo
Interviewee: Robin Baker
Interviewee: Hugo Palmer

Producer: Gareth Nelson-Davies

Archive used:

Interviews with Lady Williams, all courtesy of the Churchill Archives Centre; An Interview with Lady Williams, HTB at Home, HTB.org, YouTube uploaded 18/04/2021; Winston Churchill speech, The Commonwealth Mourns Its King, BBC Radio, 14/04/1952; Warhorse (2011) Trailer, YouTube uploaded 04/10/2011; Huntley and Palmers Factory, Reading in the 1930s, Wessex Film and Sound Archive YouTube channel, uploaded 25/08/2011; Lord Palmer Interview, Front Row, BBC 13/02/2004; Lord Palmer interview, BBC Antiques Roadshow Series 28 Manderston, BBC One, 30/10/2005; Lord Palmer Interview, Posh people: Inside Tatler, BBC Two, 18/12/2014; Lord Palmer speech in House of Lords, Today at Parliament, BBC Radio 4, 24/03/2021;


SUN 21:00 Money Box (m001p1hy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday]


SUN 21:25 Radio 4 Appeal (m001p1mj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today]


SUN 21:30 Loose Ends (m001p1jl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Saturday]


SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour (m001p1pq)
Leila Nathoo's guests are the Conservative backbencher Danny Kruger; Shadow Cabinet Office Minister, Fleur Anderson; and Professor of Politics, Rosie Campbell. They discuss the impact of the recent by-elections results, especially on green policies. They also look ahead to a government announcement on planning policy, with additional analysis from Ben Riley-Smith - political editor of the Daily Telegraph. The programme also includes an interview with the SNP's Dr Philippa Whitford, calling for faster progress on paying compensation to victims of the infected blood scandal, ahead of fresh hearings by the public inquiry.


SUN 23:00 Moral Maze (m001nvyy)
The Morality of Climate Activism

Wimbledon, the Ashes, the Proms and George Osborne’s wedding have all been interrupted by ‘Just Stop Oil’ protesters in recent days. Several areas of London have been brought to a standstill, provoking the ire of motorists and leading to multiple arrests. ‘Just Stop Oil’ describes itself as a “nonviolent civil resistance group demanding the UK Government stop licensing all new oil, gas and coal projects”. The Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said he wouldn't be “giving in to eco-zealots” disrupting the British summer.

The group’s supporters believe that blocking traffic, interrupting sporting events and vandalising artwork, are entirely proportionate in the face of an existential crisis bequeathed to our children and grandchildren. Right now, they argue, parts of Europe are literally on fire, and there is no more time left to wait for those in power to do the right thing. Their critics object to the fact that the targets of the protests are often ordinary people, who have more immediate concerns like the rising cost of living. Moreover, some believe the use of apocalyptic language is less likely to elicit a change in behaviour, since despair, like indifference, is not a good motivator.

How might our descendants judge today’s climate activists? Successful movements for social change, like the Suffragettes, have historically been disrupters who, in the face of inaction, adopt increasingly radical tactics. For some, the spirit they embody is irrepressible and necessary, which means that their methods cannot always be peaceful. For others, social progress can only be fully achieved through conventional democratic means.

Are acts of civil disobedience and sabotage by climate activists morally justifiable?

Producer: Dan Tierney.

MONDAY 24 JULY 2023

MON 00:00 Midnight News (m001p1pz)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


MON 00:15 Sideways (m001nvp4)
47. China's Ping Pong Power: Episode 3

In the final episode of this mini series from Sideways, former professional ping pong player, Matthew Syed, tells the story of how ping pong fared in a more open China.

After Chairman Mao's death in 1976, his successor Deng Xiaoping introduced privatisation, contracting out, and a host of reforms that freed key parts of the economy from central control. At the same time, China's table tennis team were starting to lose their primacy in the game, with challenging new styles of play emerging from Sweden in particular. But alongside more economic freedom and openness, came a relaxation and innovation in Chinese ping pong style which ushered in a glittering new era of Olympic glory for the Chinese national team.

From a sport that brought Mao's China such national pride in the early decades of the PRC, and then laid the groundwork for the rapprochement with the United States, ping pong today is no longer the popular sport of young people in China, and the Communist Party has its sights on prestige in other sporting arenas too. As the series draws to a close, Matthew explores the changing nature of Chinese sporting diplomacy and how sport, and table tennis, are still deeply entwined with the country’s wider ambitions.

Presented by Matthew Syed
Producer: Pippa Smith
Series Editor: Katherine Godfrey
Script consultation: Dr Olivia Cheung, SOAS, University of London
Sound Design and mix: Rob Speight
Archival research: Nadia Mehdi
With thanks to Zhijie Shao from the BBC World Service and to the International Table Tennis Federation

A Novel production for BBC Radio 4


MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday (m001p1kb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday]


MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001p1q8)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001p1qk)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001p1qt)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


MON 05:30 News Briefing (m001p1r5)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001p1rf)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Carolyn Skinner, CEO of Third Space Ministries

Good morning

Children have a way of speaking the truth without a filter, like the child who wrote a thank you card to their teacher saying ‘you’re a good teacher but not my most favourite’! Or the way they don’t mind telling you that you are ancient if you are over 30!

We may be able to laugh at comments from children but as we grow up we discover that the way we share truth is so important.

Truth can be encouraging and affirming but also challenging, and uncomfortable at times, yet absolutely vital for healthy relationships. We see all around us the damage that comes when truth is avoided. When those that we seek to trust are not completely truthful with us then it dismantles our respect for them. There is often a domino effect to dishonesty which leads to greater pain the longer it continues.

The Bible encourages us in Ephesians 4 to ‘speak the truth in love.’ Recognising that truth can be challenging at times, it needs to be handled carefully. It must come with grace, empathy and compassion not judgement and condescension. We should always be seeking to build people up not tear them down.

I wonder what a difference this would make in relationships at every level of life if we could truly live out speaking the truth in love.

Father God, thank you for the power of truth. May we model truth telling to nurture healthy relationships. Help us in difficult situations to speak truth but to do so with grace and love. Amen


MON 05:45 Farming Today (m001p1rr)
24/07/23 Countryside Stewardship application woes; listening for earthworms; farming issues in Wales.

Farmers say too many applications for environmental payments in England are being turned down.

How listening instead of digging for earthworms could help farmers.

As the Royal Welsh Show gets underway, Farming Today takes a look at farming issues in Wales.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rhiannon Fitz-Gerald.


MON 05:56 Weather (m001p1rz)
The latest weather forecast for farmers.


MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b04hkxh9)
Common Hawk Cuckoo

Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship with them, from around the world.

Miranda Krestovnikoff presents the common hawk cuckoo from the Bengal region. The repetitive call of the common hawk-cuckoo, otherwise known as the brain-fever bird, is one of the typical sounds of rural India and on into the foothills of the Himalayas. Its name partly derives from its call sounding like "brain fever" but also what one writer called its repetition being a "damnable iteration". It looks like a bird of prey, and flies like one too, imitating the flapping glide of a sparrowhawk in the region, known as the shikra, often accompanied by mobbing small birds. Unwittingly as they mob her, birds like babblers betray their nest, into which the cuckoo will lay her egg.

Producer : Andrew Dawes


MON 06:00 Today (m001p1kp)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


MON 09:00 The NHS: Who Cares? (m001p1kt)
Myths and Magic Bullets

Anaesthetist Dr Kevin Fong tells the story of the NHS today and the challenges it faces, from the perspective of the people who deliver the care.

Back in 1999, as the millennium approached, Dr Kevin Fong was in his second year as a senior house officer in A&E and, now working overnight, making decisions and treating patients on his own. "I felt like a real doctor, like I might even be doing some good. I thought I had all the answers, but I was wrong".

Among his patients there was a cast of regulars - people they took in, looked after and patched up, only to see them return, again and again. "In the homes we returned them to there were problems that medicine alone couldn’t fix. But it was a good time to be a junior doctor. The hours were going down, the pay was going up, the economy was booming and the NHS was awash with new money."

Fast forward to today and it’s a different story, with doctors, nurses and the ambulance service on the picket lines. The pressures they face are symptomatic of a Health Service that is complex, inter-connected and desperately short of capacity. Funds to stabilise it are sorely needed but money alone is not a panacea.

In this episode, Kevin gets past the myths to reveal the complexity of the NHS and examine what really lies behind the challenges it faces.

Written and presented by Dr Kevin Fong
Series Producer: Beth Eastwood
Executive Producer: Rami Tzabar
A TellTale Industries production for BBC Radio 4


MON 09:30 Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years On (m001k0x1)
3. The Spies

The case for war would be made based on the idea of a threat from Weapons of Mass destruction. And spies would be used to help sell it. It would leave some on the inside of British intelligence feeling deeply uncomfortable.

Presenter: Gordon Corera
Series Producer: John Murphy
Producers: Ellie House, Claire Bowes
Sound Designer: Eloise Whitmore, Naked Productions
Production coordinators: Janet Staples, Brenda Brown
Series Editor: Penny Murphy


MON 09:45 Attack Warning Red! by Julie McDowall (m001p1kx)
Episode 1

The atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever. The awesome power of the blast and its deadly fallout meant home in Britain fell under the nuclear shadow, and the threat of annihilation coloured every aspect of ordinary life for the next 40 years.



Families were encouraged to construct makeshift shelters with cardboard and sandbags. Vicars and pub landlords learned how to sound hand-wound sirens, offering four minutes to scramble to safety.

Thousands volunteered to give nuclear first aid, often consisting of breakfast tea, herbal remedies, and advice on how to die without contaminating others. And while the public had to look after themselves, bunkers were readied for the officials and experts who would ensure life continued after the catastrophe.



Today we may read about the Cold War and life in Britain under the shadow of the mushroom cloud with a sense of amusement and relief that the apocalypse did not happen. But it is also a timely and powerful reminder that, for as long as nuclear weapons exist, the nuclear threat will always be with us.



Mark Haddon describes the book as 'Simultaneously horrifying, weirdly nostalgic and darkly hilarious"

Written by Julie McDowall
Read by Jasmine Hyde
Abridged by Polly Coles
Directed by Eoin O’Callaghan


MON 10:00 Woman's Hour (m001p1l0)
Post botulinum toxin experiences, Photographing all your objects, FGM

There has been a significant increase in the number of non-surgical aesthetic procedures over the past decade. And now the largest academic survey to date in the UK has just been published, relating the lived experience of over 500 people who have experienced an adverse event following administration of Botulinum Toxin. The study finds that a lack of awareness of reporting structures and the lack of regulation within the UK’s cosmetic injectables sector represents a significant public health challenge. Nuala is joined by the senior author of the study Ash Mosahebi, Professor of Plastic Surgery, and by Genee Schock who took part in the survey and runs a side effects support group for people impacted.

How much time would it take to photograph every single item in your home? Photographer Barbara Iweins spent four years documenting the 12,795 objects she owns. Barbara wanted 'to see the representation – flat on the ground – of a mother and her children.' She joins Nuala.

Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is the leader of the opposition in Rwanda. She talks to Nuala about the challenges facing women and girls in Rwanda as well as the proposed UK-Rwanda asylum plan.

Tributes are being paid to the former Labour MP Ann Clwyd, who has died at the age of 86. Not only Wales' longest-serving woman MP, Ann also became known as a passionate human rights campaigner, committing herself to many causes, including the banning of FGM - female genital mutilation - in the UK. In 2003 she introduced the Female Genital Mutilation Act, making it illegal to take a girl out of the UK to undergo FGM in another country. Nuala is joined by Hibo Wardere, anti-FGM activist and author of Cut.


MON 11:00 History on the Edge (m001p1l2)
Denmark Place

Anita Anand goes on the trail of stories from the recent past which have somehow fallen through the cracks of mainstream history.

In this first episode Anita uncovers the story of a catastrophic fire at the Spanish Rooms in Denmark Place, behind London’s famous Tin Pan Alley, that killed 37 people in 1980. It was the worst death-toll in a fire in London until the tragedy of Grenfell Tower.

The Spanish Rooms were among many unlicensed afterhours clubs in central London at the time. The two clubs were popular with people of many nationalities and backgrounds – many from South America – who loved to salsa the night away.

The victims died where they danced and drank, bodies found still seated at the bar or on the dance-floor. Others plunged to their deaths from the clubs’ second floor windows. Those who survived often had their reputations tarnished in the media as police linked the fire to the Soho underworld.

Anita Anand meets survivors, friends and relatives of those who died, talks to police and fire fighters who were there on that tragic August night and to journalist Matt Rendell who’s long been working on a book about the fire. Using archive and new first-hand testimony, History on the Edge pieces together the real story of the Denmark Place inferno and the forgotten people who died simply having a good night out.

Producer: Sara Parker
Executive Producer: Simon Elmes
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.


MON 11:30 The Bottom Line (m001nvt8)
What next for water?

England’s water companies are under fire – there’s public anger over sewage spills and leaks, and now regulators and government ministers are worried some of them are drowning in too much debt. So what’s gone wrong, and who will pay the price of fixing the industry?

On the face of it, running a water company seems like a licence to print money – there’s guaranteed revenue, and no competition – but there’s a lot of infrastructure to build and maintain, and strict targets that are getting even tougher and more expensive to hit as environmental concerns grow.

Many of England’s water firms have taken on very high levels of debt, but have they used it to invest, or pay off their shareholders? And does the regulator, Ofwat, have questions to answer for strangling spending on improvements in a bid to keep customer prices low?

Evan Davis is joined by:

Nicola Shaw, CEO, Yorkshire Water;
Sir Ian Byatt, Ofwat Director General from 1989 to 2000;
Verity Mitchell, UK analyst at Global Water Intelligence.

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Producer: Simon Tulett
Editor: China Collins
Sound: Graham Puddifoot and Mike Woolley
Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown

Produced in partnership with The Open University.


MON 12:00 News Summary (m001p1l4)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 12:04 You and Yours (m001p1l6)
Holiday fires, Ocado, DINKYs,

Flights are due to land on Rhodes later on today to bring back holidaymakers left stranded by wildfires which have swept the Greek island. British tourists have been sleeping at the airport, in makeshift rescue centres and on the street, after the flames threatened holiday resorts. We hear from two families who had to out run the fire and were housed in rescue centres after spending £10,000 on holidays.

How would you react if you'd spent hundreds of pounds on a laptop, but instead received two boxes of Weetabix? That's what's been happening to some Amazon customers who have ordered high-value items from Amazon - only to be sent low value items instead. We speak to Fiona - who ordered a mobile phone and received a packet of breakfast.

Do you know what a DINKY is? If you grew up at any point from the 50s to the 70s you're probably thinking of the small collectible children's toys. But for today's couples in their 20s and 30s it means something else. It a social media acronym for: Dual Income, No Kids Yet and appears on videos that get millions of views.
We hear from people living that DINKY life.

Ocado’s Chief Executive has admitted its tie-up with Marks & Spencer has been a disappointment so far. Bosses at M&S have been having a go at Ocado, saying it should be doing more to promote M&S products in emails and ads. Ocado started out 23 years ago but it's struggled to make money from delivering groceries.
We speak to Ocado about what's been going wrong.

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON
PRODUCER: JAY UNGER


MON 12:57 Weather (m001p1l8)
The latest weather forecast


MON 13:00 World at One (m001p1lb)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.


MON 13:45 The Banksy Story (m001p1ld)
6. LA Story

James Peak isn't an art critic, or even a journalist. He's a Banksy super-fan, and in this series he, and his soundman Duncan, get closer than close to Banksy's secret world - telling the story of the graffiti kid who made spraying walls into high art, the household name who is completely anonymous, the cultural phenomenon who bites the hand that feeds him.

James persuades a member of Banksy's secret team – someone who worked closely with the artist when they were starting to cut through – to talk about the experience. The story that results is a rollercoaster ride.

In this episode - a new show in LA, Barely Legal, brings in huge celebrity names and, back in the UK, Steph's life at Pictures on Walls gets trickier.

Written, Produced and Presented by James Peak
Sound & Commentary: Duncan Crowe.
Voices: Keith Wickham & Harriet Carmichael
Music: Alcatraz Swim Team & Lilium
Series Mixing: Neil Churchill
Executive Producer: Philip Abrams
With special thanks to Hadrian Briggs, Pete Chinn, Patrick Nguyen, John Higgs and Steph Warren.

An Essential Radio production for BBC Radio 4


MON 14:00 The Archers (m001p1lg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday]


MON 14:15 Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood (m000fgnl)
Series 1: Money

Grow

Fault Lines: Money.
Grow by Eve Steele
Nathalie is broke. She's lost her job and now she's been landed with a bedroom tax demand. She's desperate to earn money. But then she meets an old friend.
Constance.......................Glenda Jackson
Nathalie..........................Siobhan Finneran
Benji................................Jason Done
Sean................................Marvin Brown
Denise...........................Verity Henry
Kelly................................Sade Malone

Director/Producer Gary Brown


MON 15:00 The 3rd Degree (m001p1lj)
Series 13

Keele University

Coming this week from Keele University, The 3rd Degree is a funny, upbeat and brainy quiz show.

The specialist subjects this week are film studies, medicine and law so the questions involve catabolics, contracts and Carry On up the Costa Plonka. And if you thought there were only eight states and territories in Australia, prepare to be mildly amazed.

TThe show is recorded on location at a different university each week, and pits three undergraduates against three of their professors in this fresh take on an academic quiz. The general knowledge rounds include a quickfire bell-and-buzzer finale and the Highbrow and Lowbrow round cunningly devised to test not only the students’ knowledge of history, art, literature and politics, but also their Professors’ awareness of TV, music and sport. Meanwhile there are the three specialist subject rounds, in which students take on their professors in their own subjects, and where we find out whether the students have actually been awake during lectures.

In this series, the show goes to Exeter, Strathclyde, Keele, King’s College London, Portsmouth, and Somerville College, Oxford.

Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4


MON 15:30 The Food Programme (m001p1ll)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday]


MON 16:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage (p0fwwx9v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:15 on Saturday]


MON 16:30 Soul Music (m00187b3)
Ne Me Quitte Pas

Ne Me Quitte Pas is a song about begging someone not to go; of promising the world to them, if they'll only stay. From Haiti to New York, Provence to Glasgow... in versions by Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield and Scott Walker... we hear stories of what Jacques Brel's song has meant to people around the world.

With contributions from France Brel, Johane Celestin, Alastair Campbell, Brendan McGeever, Peter Hawkins and Malaika Kegode.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio


MON 17:00 PM (m001p1lp)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001p1lr)
The reforms received approval in the face of mass protests


MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001p1lw)
Series 79

Episode 3

The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Regent Theatre, Ipswich. On the panel are Vicki Pepperdine, Omid Djalili, Andy Hamilton and Henning Wehn with Jack Dee in the umpire’s chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano.

Producer - Jon Naismith.

It is a BBC Studios production.


MON 19:00 The Archers (m001p1m0)
Tracy’s suspicious that Brad or Chelsea and her college friends have held a party while she and Jazzer were away, because the house is so clean. But Tracy believes them when they have matching alibis. It remains a mystery.
Emma despairs about George treating her and Ed like dirt. After all they’ve done for him, all they get is a bucketful of abuse. And she can’t get over what George called her last week. They join the rest of the family for fete preparation duties, which Ed reckons might help take her mind off George. But Emma’s feeling guilty about slapping George. They meet up with Will and Mia and they all wonder about Eddie’s secret fete project in the barn.
Later Ed tells Will Emma’s in a state because of what George said. Ed thinks Will should’ve been tougher on George growing up. But Will says although George was out of order, he obviously feels strongly about a lot of stuff. Punishment won’t work and they’ve got to ask themselves what they’re trying to achieve.
Brad appears with a bunch of flowers for Mia, to mark their new start. When Mia starts to say cut flowers are bad for the environment, Brad butts in that he’d found out they were Nic’s favourite flowers. He thought Mia might like to put them on Nic’s grave. Brad could come with Mia, if she wanted. Mia’s touched and later at the graveside with Brad, tells Nic that Brad’s a great boyfriend. This is the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for her.


MON 19:15 Front Row (m001p1m4)
Elizabeth Fremantle on Artemisia Gentileschi, French horn player Felix Klieser, logo design

Elizabeth Fremantle talks about her novel ‘Disobedient’, which explores the story of the extraordinary C17th woman artist, Artemisia Gentileschi, and how the traumatic events of her seventeenth year influenced her visceral biblical paintings like ‘Judith Slaying Holofernes’.

Ahead of his premiere at the Proms, French horn player Felix Klieser plays in the studio for Front Row and tells Samira Ahmed how, aged four, he surprised his family with his choice of instrument. Born without arms, he explains how he plays by pressing the valves with the toes of his left foot.

The potential of digital logo design is investigated by graphic artists Adrian Shaughnessy and Marina Willer.


MON 20:00 Intrigue (p0fvd18d)
Burning Sun - Ep 5: An Extreme Decision

Journalist Kang receives a surprising call from K-pop royalty Goo-Hara, who wants to help her with her investigation, as some of the people in the chatroom were her friends. Goo Hara, like many South Korean women is a victim of digital sex crime. Her very public battle in taking a stand against it, receives enormous coverage into her private life and she is mercilessly trolled. It’s too much for her, and will end in tragedy.

For the first time, we give the definitive account of the sex scandals that brought down some of Korea's biggest K-pop stars. It’s a tale of depravity, power and excess - hidden behind a facade of wholesome pop music.

Co-creator, presenter and writer: Chloe Hadjimatheou
Local Producer: Lee Hyun Choi
Assistant Producer and researcher: Loonie Park and Jeong-One Park
Translator and researcher: Jinny Yeon
Music: Tom Haines at Brain Audio
Sound Design: Carlos San Juan at Brain Audio
Co-creator and executive producer: Kavita Puri

ACTORS
Kang Kyung-Yoon: Julee Cerda
Goo Hoin: Jun Noh
Drama director: Anne Isger


MON 20:30 Analysis (m001p1mb)
How far should reparative justice go?

Amid mounting claims for reparations for slavery and colonialism, historian Zoe Strimpel asks how far reparative justice should go.

Should we limit reparations to the living survivors of state atrocities, such as the Holocaust, or should we re-write the rulebook to include the ancestors of victims who suffered historical injustices centuries ago?

Alongside testimony from a Holocaust survivor and interviews with lawyers, historians and reparations advocates, Zoe hears about the long shadow cast by slavery - lumbering Caribbean states and societies with a legacy that they are still struggling with today.

Are demands for slavery reparations just another front in the culture war designed to leverage white guilt? Will they inevitably validate countless other claims to rectify historical grievances? Or are they a necessary step for diverse societies to draw in the extremes of a polarised debate so we can write a common history that we can all live with?

Presenter: Zoe Strimpel
Producer: David Reid
Editor: Clare Fordham

Contributors
Mala Tribich, Holocaust survivor.
Michael Newman, Chief Executive, Association of Jewish Refugees.
Albrecht Ritschtl, Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics
Dr. Opal Palmer Adisa, former director, University of West Indies.
Kenneth Feinberg, Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
Tomiwa Owolade, journalist and author of "This is not America".
Alex Renton, journalist, author and co-founder of Heirs of Slavery.
Dr Hardeep Dhillon, historian, University of Pennsylvania.
James Koranyi, Associate Professor of modern European History at the University of Durham.


MON 21:00 Fever: The Hunt for Covid's Origin (m001nvph)
8. An Answer

Speculation that newly declassified US intelligence will contain smoking-gun evidence.

Three years on from the start of the pandemic, the FBI - the US domestic intelligence agency - reveals it sees a lab leak in Wuhan as the most likely source of Covid. Weeks later, the US Congress passes a law requiring the country’s intelligence agencies to declassify information they have that potentially links the Wuhan Institute of Virology with Covid’s origin. What will it reveal? And, in our final episode (for now at least), what conclusions can we reach about that question that’s sparked so much controversy and acrimony: where did Covid come from?

Archive: Fox News; C-SPAN.

Presenter: John Sudworth
Series producer: Simon Maybin
Editor: Richard Vadon
Sound design and mix: James Beard
Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke
Science advice: Julian Siddle and Victoria Gill
Extra production: Eva Artesona and Kathy Long
Research support: Zisheng Xu and BBC Monitoring
Production coordinators: Siobhan Reed, Helena Warwick-Cross, Sophie Hill, and Debbie Richford
Theme and original music: Pete Cunningham, with trumpet by Joss Murray
Radio 4 Editor of Editorial Standards: Roger Mahony
Head of BBC News - Long Form Audio: Emma Rippon


MON 21:30 The NHS: Who Cares? (m001p1kt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 22:00 The World Tonight (m001p1mh)
Anger in Israel over judicial reform bill

There have been mass protests in Israel tonight - after a law was passed that limits the powers of judges.

Also on the programme:

A new investigation into the only part of Britain to host a Nazi Concentration Camp.

And we hear from TwoSet Violin, a YouTube sensation from Brisbane bringing classical music to a younger audience.


MON 22:45 Money by Martin Amis (m001p1mm)
1: Trust me, Slick

Martin Amis's electrifying, and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self, and read by Bertie Carvel.

John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.

Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.

But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his dangerously excessive lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.

Today: John Self jets in to New York to hook up with hot-shot producer, Fielding Goodney, and to indulge his enormous appetites along the way...

Writer: Martin Amis was the celebrated author of 15 novels, a memoir and essays, whose works defined the 80s and 90s literary scene. He died in May 2023.
Reader: Bertie Carvel is an Olivier Award-winning actor, known most recently for his TV starring roles in Dalgleish and Dr Foster.
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett


MON 23:00 Word of Mouth (m001nvr6)
Interpreting Presidents Putin and Zelensky

Irina Morgan is a high level interpreter. Being bi-lingual in Russian and Ukrainian means she's in demand whenever Vladimir Putin or President Zelensky give a press conference requiring simultaneous interpretation. Irina talks to Michael about the language do's and don'ts of live translation, and about how she puts herself into the mindset of someone like President Putin in order to give an accurate representation of his distinct man-of-the-people hard man linguistic style. By contrast Volodymyr Zelensky is a linguistic free-styler - like following jazz, Irina says.
A fascinating look at the life of a language specialist.

Producer: Maggie Ayre


MON 23:30 One to One (m001j41r)
Gaming and Me: Ellie Gibson speaks to Keza MacDonald

Keza MacDonald left home at sixteen to work in video games journalism, and when she first met Ellie Gibson on a trip her glasses were held together by sticky tape. Ellie was already established in the industry and became a mentor to Keza. They talk about what it was like being one of only a handful of women working in video games journalism at the time which meant being taken to strip clubs and having to laugh off inappropriate behaviour by male colleagues. Comparing their experiences to today they describe how streaming platforms have created a more open and inclusive gaming culture from women of today, but it is still far more perfect.

Produced by Toby Field for BBC Audio in Bristol.


MON 23:45 Today in Parliament (m001p1mr)
Susan Hulme reports as peers debate the government's housing plans.

TUESDAY 25 JULY 2023

TUE 00:00 Midnight News (m001p1mw)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 00:30 Attack Warning Red! by Julie McDowall (m001p1kx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday]


TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001p1n0)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001p1n4)
World Service

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001p1n8)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


TUE 05:30 News Briefing (m001p1nd)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001p1nj)
A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Carolyn Skinner, CEO of Third Space Ministries

Good morning

Where would we be without pioneers? Those who are risk takers, explorers, innovators, and visionaries. It takes courage to try something new, to venture out propelled by conviction and a sense of calling.

Pioneering can be lonely and tough going at times, as there is often no blueprint to follow, no previous trail blazer, sometimes you are misunderstood, and you have to accept trial and error.

We can take encouragement from remarkable people like Sir James Dyson who went through 5,126 failed prototypes over 15 years whilst developing his vacuum cleaner. Or Thomas Edison who was mocked for his invention of the lightbulb with it being referred to as a fairy tale. And when the umbrella was first introduced in the early 1750s people hurled rubbish and insults at the first man who used an umbrella in British streets!

The Bible talks about forerunners, or heralds, who went ahead to prepare the way, to scout out the route, heading into the unknown. Whilst we might not all be pioneers in the sense of creating new innovations, each of us has opportunities to prepare the way for others, for the next generation, and sometimes that might mean stepping into the unknown, taking a risk for the sake of a bigger purpose. It is one way to leave a legacy.

Father God, I thank you for those who have paved the way for us, those who have stepped out in faith for the greater good. Help us to see how, in some small way, we can be those who prepare the way for others too. Amen


TUE 05:45 Farming Today (m001p1np)
25/07/23 - The Royal Welsh Show, Part 1

250,000 people are expected to attend this year's Royal Welsh Show. After several years of disruption because of the pandemic, the show is well and truly back.

Anna Hill visits Builth Wells, to speak to farmers and politicians.

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


TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day (b092fszs)
Amy Liptrot on the Corncrake

Writer and Orkney native Amy Liptrot recalls her work as the RSPB's corncrake officer on the look out for this largely nocturnal bird in the wee small hours for Tweet of the Day.

Producer: Mark Ward.


TUE 06:00 Today (m001p1nw)
News and current affairs, including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


TUE 09:00 Across the Red Line (m001p1p8)
It can be necessary to be a public nuisance in pursuit of a higher cause

A steady flow of demonstrations over climate change inaction and continued dependence on fossil fuels have resulted in public nuisance offences. Demonstrations that cause public nuisance are nothing new. But do they work, and can they ever be justified in the name of a higher cause? , Anne brings two powerful debaters together from either side of the red line. On one hand Peter Tatchell, while no advocate of causing nuisance for nuisance sake, argues that history is littered with demonstrations that disrupted, and with that were effective in forcing attention on a cause. By contrast writer Bruce Anderson, who has youthful experience of confrontational demonstration is adamant that they invariably damage the cause they espouse and at worse can destabilise democratic systems.

With the help of conflict resolution expert Gabrielle Rifkind, Anne invites both men to try and explore their differences by listening carefully to the arguments and personal origins of those arguments.

Producer: Hatty Nash


TUE 09:30 An Almanac for Anxiety: In Search of a Calmer Mind (m001p1pg)
Episode 4 - Air

Anxiety is the most common form of mental illness in the UK, with nearly a fifth of people experiencing it over the course of a year. Although it is often treated through medication, there are many alternative ways which are proving to be very effective in reducing anxiety amongst some people. In this series, we explore how connecting with the elemental forces of nature helps people with a range of mental illnesses to feel better. We also learn about the current academic research behind these methods.

In Episode 4 - Air - we visit an infant school in Nottingham where young children regularly learn breathing techniques to reduce stress and anxiety. We also hear about research from Italy showing how slowing our breathing impacts positively on brain activity. Plus breath coach and founder of School Breathe, Aimee Hartley, shares her experience of learning to breathe well.

Produced and Presented by Helen Needham
Research by Anna Miles and Maud Start
Original Music by Anthony Cowie
Mixed by Ron McCaskill and Malcolm Torrie

A BBC Scotland Production made in Aberdeen for BBC Radio 4


TUE 09:45 Attack Warning Red! by Julie McDowall (m001p1vt)
Episode 2

The atomic bombs of 1945 changed war forever. The awesome power of the blast and its deadly fallout meant home in Britain fell under the nuclear shadow, and the threat of annihilation coloured every aspect of ordinary life for the next 40 years.



Families were encouraged to construct makeshift shelters with cardboard and sandbags. Vicars and pub landlords learned how to sound hand-wound sirens, offering four minutes to scramble to safety.

Thousands volunteered to give nuclear first aid, often consisting of breakfast tea, herbal remedies, and advice on how to die without contaminating others. And while the public had to look after themselves, bunkers were readied for the officials and experts who would ensure life continued after the catastrophe.



Today we may read about the Cold War and life in Britain under the shadow of the mushroom cloud with a sense of amusement and relief that the apocalypse did not happen. But it is also a timely and powerful reminder that, for as long as nuclear weapons exist, the nuclear threat will always be with us.



Mark Haddon describes the book as 'Simultaneously horrifying, weirdly nostalgic and darkly hilarious"

Written by Julie McDowall
Read by Jasmine Hyde
Abridged by Polly Coles
Directed by Eoin O’Callaghan


TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (m001p1px)
Narcissistic mothers, Grenfell play, Orca whale mothers & their sons

Over the last few months we have been hearing the stories of women who believe that they were raised by mothers who have Narcissistic Personality Disorder. And, a woman who has been labelled a narcissist by her daughter. Today, two psychotherapists who have worked extensively in this field, Dr Jan McGregor Hepburn and Helen Villiers, who has an MA in working therapeutically with adult children of narcissists, join Nuala to answer some of the questions raised by the powerful testimonies heard in the series.
Have you ever witnessed a mature, grown male sticking close to – and being very dependent on - his mother? These are the words used to describe new findings from on-going research on orca whales. Carried out by the Centre for Whale Research and Exeter University, it studied orcas in the coastal waters between Vancouver and Seattle, to find that older "post-menopausal" orca mothers protect their adult sons from fights. But, while these four or five-tonne males benefit from this maternal protection, female offspring do not receive the same attention. Lead Researcher from the University of Exeter, Charli Grimes, speaks to Nuala.
This year marks the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire where 72 people lost their lives. A new play created from interviews conducted with a group of survivors of the fire has opened this month at the National Theatre. Grenfell: in the words of survivors follows the lead up to the disaster, the night of the fire, and the Grenfell Inquiry which followed, and is still ongoing. The final report into the disaster is due to be published later this year. Nuala is joined by writer Gillian Slovo and actor Pearl Mackie.

Presenter: Nuala McGovern
Producer: Lucinda Montefiore
Studio manager: Duncan Hannant


TUE 11:00 The Trouble with Sheep (m001p1q6)
Sheep have been instrumental in creating some of the UK’s most iconic upland landscapes – from the sweeping fells of the Lake District, to the moors of Devon and Cornwall. These humble animals have left their mark on our language, our place names and even our architecture. But upland sheep are under fire.

As the farm subsidy system changes post Brexit, it’s getting harder to make money out of them. The wool is now less than profitable, and lamb consumption has decreased. Meanwhile, sheep are being criticised by many environmentalists, who say they have degraded upland habitats.

In this programme, Charlotte Smith travels from Dartmoor to North Wales, exploring the places and meeting the people who have been formed by sheep…and asking what their future holds.

What is the trouble with sheep? Answers range from being picky eaters, to getting bad press!

Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons


TUE 11:30 H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D (m001p1qj)
In 1923, a property developer, put up a series of 45 feet high letters on the scrubby hillside of Mount Lee, a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains. It was there to advertise plots for sale in the newly- developed Hollywoodland estate.

It was only supposed to stay up for 18 months, but quickly became a local landmark. In 1949, the last four letters were removed, and though it has fallen into disrepair on several occasions, the Hollywood sign has survived to celebrate its centenary.

In film, the sign has been shattered by earthquakes, blasted by aliens, eviscerated by robots and bombarded by flying sharks, and has starred alongside Charlton Heston, James Dean, Justin Timberlake, Emma Stone, Scarlett Johansson and Mr Bean.

The BBC's man in Hollywood, David Willis, tells the story of the sign that has attracted speculators and sinners, the hurt and the hopeful, the lost and the lonely.

We hear the sad tale of Welsh born actress Peg Entwistle, who threw herself off the “H” in 1932, and the unlikely hero who saved an “O” from collapse, Alice Cooper, describes why the sign means so much to him.

Producer: Jeremy Neumark Jones
Executive Producer: David Prest
Additional research: Oliver Morris
Original Music by Theo Whitworth
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 12:00 News Summary (m001p1wn)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 12:04 You and Yours (m001p1r4)
Call You and Yours: What's your experience of holidays this year?

On this week's Call You and Yours we're asking: What's your experience of holiday's this year?

The schools have closed for the summer and we've entered peak season for travel. After three years of pandemic restrictions record numbers are flocking abroad this summer and some areas are very busy. There are predictions of travel disruption in the coming weeks not to mention the heat waves in many European destinations.

So what's your experience of holidays right now?

Or are you about to go somewhere very hot in Europe? Or somewhere very rainy in the UK?

What ever your holiday plans this summer we want to hear from you.

Email us now youandyours@bbc.co.uk.

Our phone lines open at 11am. Call 03700 100 444.

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON
PRODUCER: CATHERINE EARLAM


TUE 12:57 Weather (m001p1rg)
The latest weather forecast


TUE 13:00 World at One (m001p1rq)
Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Jonny Dymond.


TUE 13:45 The Banksy Story (m001p1ry)
7. A Nightmare on Oxford St

James Peak isn't an art critic, or even a journalist. He's a Banksy super-fan, and in this series he, and his soundman Duncan, get closer than close to Banksy's secret world - telling the story of the graffiti kid who made spraying walls into high art, the household name who is completely anonymous, the cultural phenomenon who bites the hand that feeds him.

James persuades a member of Banksy's secret team – someone who worked closely with the artist when they were starting to cut through – to talk about the experience. The story that results is a rollercoaster ride.

In this episode, a nightmare exhibition on Oxford Street sees Steph in big trouble with the big man.

Written, Produced and Presented by James Peak
Sound & Commentary: Duncan Crowe.
Voices: Keith Wickham & Harriet Carmichael
Music: Alcatraz Swim Team & Lilium
Series Mixing: Neil Churchill
Executive Producer: Philip Abrams
With special thanks to Hadrian Briggs, Pete Chinn, Patrick Nguyen, John Higgs and Steph Warren.

An Essential Radio production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 14:00 The Archers (m001p1m0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]


TUE 14:15 Fault Lines: Money, Sex and Blood (m000fgjd)
Series 1: Money

Sanctuary

Constance journeys to rural France on the pretense that she wants to commission a famous artist, Eleanor. But there's a lot more to this visit, and there are many secrets between Constance and Eleanor.

Constance - Glenda Jackson
Eleanor - Eleanor Bron
Celeste - Melody Grove
Alain - Clive Hayward
written by Michael Symmons Roberts
Produced and directed by Pauline Harris


TUE 15:00 Short Cuts (m001p1s3)
Series 35

New Word Order

Made up, mixed or invented. Josie Long presents not-so-long-radio sound paintings melting how we use words to make space for who we want to be.

A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
Produced by Darragh Amelia
Featuring June Katz, Patricia Hirsch, poet Xiao Yue Shan, photographer Anna Francesca Jennings and historian Alma Simba.

The Magic of Waves
Produced by Ève-Marie Bouché

Remember There Is More
Produced by Tej Adeleye
Featuring activist Ngozi Alston, creator of the term Neuroexpansive; Dr Nick Walker, creator of Neuroqueer theory; Dr Ned Hallowell; Dr Keri Opai; Matana Roberts; Aiyanna Goodfellow, founder of Neuromancers and “a darling spook, writer, ghost whisperer, and friend".

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


TUE 15:30 A Very British Cult (m001l26k)
3. The Life Coach

Catrin is quite cynical about the concept of life coaching. She’s now spent months speaking with people who signed up to it and ended up in a cult. So, she has a session with one of Ireland’s most in-demand coaches to see if he can change her mind.

Then Catrin meets Anthony, who found Lighthouse during a very dark time in his life. She’s shocked by what she hears about his mentor’s approach to Anthony’s mental health issues.

What happens when a life coach takes over your life? Catrin Nye and her team expose control, intimidation and fear at a sinister life coaching company.

Reporter: Catrin Nye
Written by: Jamie Bartlett and Catrin Nye
Producers: Osman Iqbal, Natalie Truswell, Ed Main & Jo Adnitt
Researcher: Aisha Doherty
Executive Producer: Ravin Sampat
Sound Mixing: James Bradshaw
Original Music by: Phil Channell
Commissioner: Rhian Roberts


TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth (m001p1s7)
Audio description: putting art into words

Lonny Evans audio describes in theatres and museums, and Terry James, who is vision impaired, trains audio describers. They talk to Michael about their work.

Producer Sally Heaven


TUE 16:30 A Good Read (m001p1sc)
Olivia Laing and Charlie Porter

Author and cultural critic Olivia Laing, whose books include The Lonely City, Funny Weather and Everybody, is joined by fashion writer and curator Charlie Porter, of What Artists Wear and Bring No Clothes: Bloomsbury and the Philosophy of Fashion, and presenter Harriett Gilbert, to talk about the books they love.

Olivia recommends Bad Blood by literary critic Lorna Sage - a memoir of her eccentric childhood and adolescence in 1940s rural Wales. Charlie loves Honey From A Weed by Patience Gray, a cookbook which exalts local knowledge and seasonal cooking, taking readers to a time and place far removed from modern life. And Harriett brings The English Understand Wool, a 2022 novella by American author Helen DeWitt, which takes unexpected twists and turns and which Harriett argues, merits reading more than once.

Comment on instagram: @agoodreadbbc
Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio


TUE 17:00 PM (m001p1sk)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines


TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m001p1sy)
Homeless families living in temporary accommodation in England is at its highest level since records began 25 years ago.


TUE 18:30 The Ultimate Choice (m001jbqv)
Series 1

Episode 1: Mordor v Albert Square

Steph McGovern asks some seriously funny minds to offer definitive answers to the great questions of our age. Or not.

Welcome to the world's most devious game of Would You Rather? With guests Zoe Lyons and Dane Baptiste.

Host: Steph McGovern
Guests: Zoe Lyons and Dane Baptiste
Devised and written by Jon Harvey & Joseph Morpurgo
With additional material from Laura Major
Researcher: Leah Marks
Recorded and mixed by Jerry Peal
Producer: Jon Harvey
Executive Producers: Ed Morrish and Polly Thomas
Photo: Carolyn Mendelsohn

A Naked production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 19:00 The Archers (m001p1t4)
Stella advises Brian that this year should be their last cherry harvest as they’re no longer cost-effective. She puts forward a convincing argument and Brian agrees to let Adam know.
When Pip tells Ruth she can’t afford to take Rosie away in the school holidays, Ruth suggests camping. Pip’s not sure Rosie would enjoy it, so Ruth suggests having a practise at it first. Later when Pip tells Stella about her trial camping plan, Stella’s so enthusiastic about camping, that Pip asks her to join them.
George is still surly with Emma and Ed and they ask him to apologise for calling Emma a slut. George says it was a shame, but they have to realise the pressure he’s under. Everyone reckons he’s a trailer-trash freak. He thinks that’s part of the problem; they’re all packed into Little Grange, so it’s no wonder things blow up. Ed suggests turning George’s gaming den in the farmhouse into his bedroom. Emma’s not sure about George moving out, but Ed says he’ll only be across the yard. Emma muses that Hannah has a point about how George is with women. When Will hears about the possibility of George moving, he thinks it could be a good thing. It would mean he and George could spend more time together, in the farmhouse. But when Will discusses it with George, he doesn’t think it’s the best solution. George was thinking of a fresh start at Number One, The Green. Will could throw Hannah and Johnny out, then it could be George and his dad, together.


TUE 19:15 Front Row (m001p1td)
Pianist Christian Blackshaw, tech-inspired funding for artists, playwright Rabiah Hussain

Christian Blackshaw is a renowned classical pianist but has made only a handful of records preferring the concert platform. Ahead of his appearance at the Oxford Piano Festival on 29 July and as a prelude to that talks to Samira about his career and plays in the Front Row studio.

What can the world of fine art learn from the tech start-ups of Silicon Valley? Samira speaks to entrepreneur and musician Joey Flores, the co-founder of Inversion Art, a company proposing a new training programme and business model for artists. We also hear from painter and sculptor Servane Mary, one of the first artists to sign up to the programme and from Melanie Gerlis, art market author and columnist for the Financial Times.

Rabiah Hussain’s new play at the Royal Court explores the power of words – how the ripple effect of what someone in a position of power says publicly can influence views, create mindsets and even incite violence. She joins Samira to discuss.

Presenter: Samira Ahmed
Producer: Kirsty McQuire


TUE 20:00 File on 4 (m001p1tl)
Modern Slavery in the Care Sector

With the number of potential modern slavery cases in England and Wales at a record level, File on 4 investigates how vulnerable people are being targeted and exploited by organised crime groups for cheap labour.

Police estimate that there are tens of thousands of victims of modern slavery in the United Kingdom, being forced to work and live in inhumane conditions with little hope of escape.

Investigators whose job it is to protect workers from exploitation reveal to File on 4 that the care industry has become their top priority in the past 18 months.

Datshiane Navanayagam finds out why and asks whether the systems in place to support victims are working.

Reporter: Datshiane Navanayagam
Producers: Matt Pintus and Phil Marzouk
Journalism Assistant: Tim Fernley
Production Manager: Sarah Payton
Digital Producers: Melanie Stewart-Smith and Georgia-Mae Browne
Technical Producer: Cameron Ward
Editor: Carl Johnston


TUE 20:40 In Touch (m001p1tr)
Delays in accessing essential services

When being diagnosed with sight loss, it is often essential to be able to access your local sight loss support services quickly. This can be for things like long cane training, to guidance on Personal Independence Payments. We discuss the impacts of delays in accessing these services and the Certificate of Vision Impairment (CVI). If eligible, this certificate can trigger support available from your local authority's sight support team - if it has one. We discuss these themes with a consultant ophthalmologist from Moorfields Eye Hospital, a patient, a rehab officer and an ex-eye clinic liaison officer (ECLO).

Further information: If you do not qualify for a CVI, you don’t need to go through the registration process to get help from your local social services. When you visit an optician, they can provide something called a Low Vision Leaflet (LVL). This contains contact details for sources of information and advice, along with a form that you can send to your local social services to ask for an assessment. Moreover, hospital eye clinic staff can fill in a form called a Referral of Vision Impairment (RVI), which does the same, but also staff are able state how urgently they think you require help, so you do not have to wait until the end of your treatment at the clinic to be referred.

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

Website image description: Peter White sits smiling in the centre of the image, wearing a dark green jumper. Above Peter's head is the BBC logo (three individual white squares house each of the three letters). Bottom centre and overlaying the image are the words "In Touch" and the Radio 4 logo (the word Radio in a bold white font, with the number 4 inside a white circle). The background is a bright mid-blue with two rectangles angled diagonally to the right. Both are behind Peter, one of a darker blue and the other is a lighter blue.


TUE 21:00 Inside Health (m001p1tn)
What happened to mpox?

One year after the peak of UK infections, can we determine what actions brought mpox cases down?

A year ago, mpox – the virus formally known as monkeypox – was spreading in the UK. These infections largely impacted the gay, bisexual and men who have sex with men community, with news cases peaking at 350 per week. One of these individuals was Martin Joseph, who tells James Gallagher how a lack of accessible information and the stigma he observed during his illness inspired him to create a mpox-based podcast so others wouldn’t feel so alone.

Thankfully, 2023 so far has told a different story for mpox. Infections in the UK have remained relatively low, and in May, the World Health Organisation declared the mpox global health emergency over. But what helped bring the UK outbreak under control? James is joined by Jake Dunning, infectious diseases doctor and researcher at the University of Oxford, and Claire Dewsnap, sexual health doctor and president of the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH), to discuss potential factors, takeaways and whether we are really ‘done’ with mpox.

How often should we go to the dentist? Listener Mary emailed insidehealth@bbc.co.uk to query the time needed between check-ups. James hears the evidence from Janet Clarkson, professor of dentistry at the University of Dundee, who explains the unlikely origins of our bi-annual appointments!

Presenter: James Gallagher
Producer: Julia Ravey
Editor: Erika Wright
Production Co-ordinator: Jonathan Harris
Studio Producer: Donald McDonald

(Photo: Monkeypox Credit: Uma Shankar sharma | Getty Images)


TUE 21:30 Across the Red Line (m001p1p8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (m001p1ty)
The toll of Yemen's civil war

The generation in Yemen who know nothing but war

Record numbers living in temporary accommodation in England

Making the River Seine in Paris clean enough for swimmers


TUE 22:45 Money by Martin Amis (m001p1v4)
2: Heat, money, sex and fever

Martin Amis's electrifying, and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self, and read by Bertie Carvel.

John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.

Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.

But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his dangerously excessive lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.

Today: The indulgences continue as Self jets back and forth between London and New York, juggling the demands of the film with those of his slippery girlfriend Selina...

Writer: Martin Amis
Reader: Bertie Carvel
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett


TUE 23:00 Witch (p0fpbvg8)
9. To Be Called a Witch

The witch has held a place firmly in our imagination for centuries – from whispered warnings in folklore to pop-culture driven heights. But what does it mean to be a witch now?

Presenter India Rakusen, creator of the podcast 28ish Days Later, is on a journey to find out.

It's one thing to choose to be a witch - it's quite another to be accused. India explores historical and modern witch hunts and the impact of being accused of witchcraft.

Scored with original music by The Big Moon.

Presenter: India Rakusen
Executive Producer: Alex Hollands
Producer: Lucy Dearlove
Producer: Elle Scott
AP: Tatum Swithenbank
Production Manager: Kerry Luter
Sound Design: Olga Reed

A Storyglass production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 23:30 One to One (m001jc3z)
Gaming and Me: Ellie Gibson speaks to Andrew Przybylski

Ellie Gibson has spent her life playing and writing about video games. It is a passion that she enjoys sharing with her son but as a parent she's become interested in the impact games play on the mind and behaviour. It's an emerging area of science and one that's frequently skewed by fevered debates about whether games are "good" or "bad". Ellie's theory is that exploring online worlds and connecting with one another through games is far more constructive than endlessly scrolling through social media, and it's a theory she explores with Professor Andrew Przybylski at the Oxford Internet Institute in the hope that he'll agree.

Producer: Toby Field for BBC Audio in Bristol


TUE 23:45 Today in Parliament (m001p1vg)
News from Westminster with Sean Curran.