SATURDAY 08 JUNE 2024

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m001zw6j)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 00:30 Night Train to Odesa by Jen Stout (m001zw54)
Siversk

Shetland journalist Jen Stout was studying in Moscow when Russia invaded Ukraine. After a scramble to gather essential accreditation and equipment, Stout crossed the border to report on the human cost of Russian aggression.

Over the course of several trips Stout has reported on the lives of ordinary and extraordinary Ukrainians, all the while juggling the funding and safety concerns that face freelancers operating in a war zone. Today she prepares to join volunteers heading on an evacuation run close to the frontline.

An EcoAudio certified production.

Written and read by Jen Stout
Abridged by Rosemary Goring
Produced by Eilidh McCreadie


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m001zw6l)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m001zw6n)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m001zw6q)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m001zw6s)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m001zw6v)
Seven Golden Tickets

A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rev Carolyn Skinner

Good morning.

Back in 2012, I served as a chaplain at the London Olympic Games. What an incredible summer that was!

Myself and six other chaplains were working the evening of the closing ceremony. Our role was simply to hand out snacks to the teams as they walked through the athlete’s village towards the stadium for the celebration. We could hear the noise inside the stadium increase as the ceremony was about to get underway.

When team Australia walked past us, one of their team stopped for a chat. He asked when we were coming into the ceremony, assuming that we were. We laughed and said there was no way that we had an invitation to that occasion. At which point he pulled out not one but seven golden tickets and said they were spare and we could have them. Oh my goodness, how we squealed with delight!

We quickly packed up our table and ran as fast as we could to the stadium. When we found out where our seats were we couldn’t believe it, they were in the best location. It was a pinch yourself moment. We hadn’t bought a ticket but we were invited, for free, to accept a seat that someone else had given to us.

I was struck that night by the generosity and kindness of God. It was a tiny glimpse, in a human way, of the lavish nature of God’s love towards us. Even when we don’t deserve it or haven’t earned it, God extends to us his extravagant goodness.

Loving God, I thank you that you are extravagant in your love towards me. May I have eyes to see your goodness and generosity in the world around me today.

Amen


SAT 05:45 Naturebang (m001qm54)
Chuckling Chimps and the Evolution of Laughter

Becky Ripley and Emily Knight look to the giggles and guffaws of the animal kingdom to ask where human laughter has come from.

At least 65 species have been identified as making 'play vocalisations', a sort of animal version of laughter, according to a recent UCLA paper studying animals at play. Rats giggle in ultrasound, elephants have a play-specific trumpet, and kia parrots cackle from the treetops. These sounds are auditory cues that have come from breathing during play, and they signal to fellow playmates that their rough-and-tumble is in jest.

But us humans have taken laughing to new levels. Our laughter has evolved from a play-specific vocalisation into a highly sophisticated tool of communication, sometimes spontaneous, other times performed. It is a powerful spell that affects our brains and bodies, playing so many important roles in our close relationships and wider social networks. And the best thing about it: it’s good for you.

Featuring biological anthropologist Sasha Winkler, co-author of the UCLA paper 'Play vocalisations and human laughter: a comparative review' (2021), and Professor Sophie Scott, Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. Produced and presented by Emily Knight and Becky Ripley.

Animal recording credits:
The chimpanzee laughter clip is courtesy of Dr. Robert Provine.
The rat clip (slowed down so that our ears can detect the ultrasound) is courtesy of Dr. Jaak Panksepp.
The kea parrot play vocalisation is from Schwing et al. (2017)


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m00201v6)
The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at the papers.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (m001zvwd)
Wiltshire's white horses

Wiltshire has more chalk hill figures than any other county in the UK, with no fewer than eight white horses carved into its rolling hills. They're all slightly different, and were carved into the hillsides at different times, often to mark an important occasion such as the coronation of Queen Victoria. In this programme, Helen Mark visits some of them - from the oldest and probably best-known one at Westbury, to the much smaller and less prominent horse at Broad Town near Swindon. She finds out about their history and significance, and asks why they became so popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. The tradition continues into the present-day, with the most recent horse, at Devizes, created in 1999 to mark the Millennium. The white horses are a key feature of the Wiltshire landscape, and have become an unofficial emblem of the county.

The horses have to be regularly maintained. Left unattended, they would gradually revert to nature, become overgrown with weeds and lichen and simply disappear. In Broad Town, Helen meets up with a team of volunteers who are spending their Sunday morning perched on a steep hillside, weeding and putting fresh lime powder onto their horse, to keep it white and visible.

As well as its horses, Wiltshire is also home to carvings with a military connection - in the shape of regimental badges and insignia. There's also a map of Australia, a YMCA logo, and even a giant kiwi. Helen visits some of the military carvings at Fovant near Salisbury, and finds out how they were created by soldiers stationed at training camps in the area during the First World War. She discovers that they're still important to the county today, more than a century on.

Produced by Emma Campbell


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m00201v8)
08/06/24 - Farming Today This Week: UK pollinators, bark beetle and NI water pollution

Spruce trees may not be viable in the UK in the long term because of a pest which is now in the country. Restrictions on spruce trees have been extended after spruce bark beetles were found in East Anglia. The beetle was first found the the UK in 2018 and areas of the South East of England have been under restriction - that has now been extended to cover much of Norfolk and Suffolk. In the longer term, foresters may have to look for alternatives to Spruce.

A chicken producer in Northern Ireland has breached environmental laws repeatedly, but not faced prosecution. An investigation into water pollution by BBC Northern Ireland's Spotlight found that Moy Park, Northern Ireland which supplies chickens throughout the UK and Europe, has breached laws on more than 500 occasions.

And pollinators are very important to farmers - pollinating crops from apples to oil seed rape and field beans - and so are worth millions to the UK economy. But across Europe, numbers are declining. The UK’s Joint Nature Conservation Committee has found that, as of 2022, there had been a 24% decrease in pollinator numbers compared with 1980. We visit several farms where efforts are being made to increase their numbers.

Presented by Charlotte Smith
Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons


SAT 06:57 Weather (m00201vb)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 07:00 Today (m00201vd)
Election 2024: Amol Rajan and Martha Kearney

Analysis of the BBC election debate and Martha reports from the key seat of Norwich North.


SAT 09:00 Orwell vs Kafka: Nineteen Eighty-Four (m00201vg)
1: 'Big Brother Is Watching You'

Martin Freeman kicks of a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season.

Other readers include: Tom Hollander, Juliet Stevenson, Samuel West, Adjoa Andoh and Rhashan Stone.

The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, and its leader, Big Brother, stares out from every poster. The Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal, and no one is free. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. When he falls in love with Julia, their affair is an act of rebellion against the Party. But nothing is secret. And Room 101 awaits...

Orwell's cautionary tale was first published in 1949, and is one of the 20th century's most influential novels.

Today: Simply by opening a diary, Winston Smith has committed Thoughtcrime. And Big Brother is watching...

Reader: Martin Freeman is an award-winning actor, known for his film and TV roles, including The Office, Sherlock, and The Hobbit film trilogy.
Writer: George Orwell was one of the greatest writers of the 20th century, known best for his novels Animal Farm and 1984.
Abridger: Robin Brooks
Producer: Justine Willett


SAT 10:00 Orwell vs Kafka (m00201vk)
Ep 1: Battle of the Adjectives

George Orwell and Franz Kafka became two of the most influential writers of the 20th century and their ideas still resonate powerfully today.

In the first episode of Orwell vs Kafka, Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis explore the two adjectives that have arisen from the writing of both men. But what exactly do we mean by Orwellian or Kafkaesque?

Professor Carolin Duttlinger of Wadham College, Oxford and Orwell Biographer DJ Taylor are on hand to wrestle with definitions, while Ian and Helen also hear from New Yorker cartoonist Evan Lian, who made fun of people who use the terms endlessly.

They also find a vivid illustration of the very particular dystopias conjured up by both Orwell and Kafka in the form of the Post Office horizon scandal, hearing from Alan Bates about his experience of striving against injustice in a system that seemed stacked against him.

Producer: Tom Alban


SAT 10:30 Newscast (m0020b6g)
Electioncast: How did Sunak's D-Day blunder happen?

Today Adam, Laura and Henry talk Sunak’s D-Day blunder, and the 7-way TV debate that followed it.

Henry also talks about receiving a letter from the chief Treasury civil servant disputing the Conservatives’ £2000 tax claim.

And we lookahead to manifesto launches next week.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere

Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming, Laura Kuenssberg, and Henry Zeffman. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper. The technical producer was Michael Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The editor is Sam Bonham


SAT 11:00 Orwell vs Kafka: Nineteen Eighty-Four (m00201vp)
2: 'If there is hope, it lies in the proles.'

The next in a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season.

Other readers include: Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander, Juliet Stevenson, Samuel West and Adjoa Andoh.

The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, and its leader, Big Brother, stares out from every poster. The Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal, and no one is free. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. When he falls in love, the affair is an act of rebellion against the Party. But nothing is secret. And Room 101 awaits...

Orwell's cautionary tale was first published in 1949, and is one of the 20th century's most influential novels.

Today: Winston is unnerved by attention from a dark-haired girl from the Anti-Sex League. Could she be a spy?

Reader: Rhashan Stone
Writer: George Orwell
Abridger: Robin Brooks
Producer: Justine Willett


SAT 12:00 News Summary (m00201vr)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 12:04 Money Box (m00201tc)
Cost of Care and Energy Credit

As we continue our series of listener questions ahead of the election, we focus on the Cost of Care and how care later in life should be paid for. Dan Whitworth has been to Shipley to meet Graham, who’s concerned about the cost of his own care – he wants to know what politicians plan to do about it.

Energy companies are continuing to hang on to billions of pounds of their customers' money, which has built up as credit on their accounts. The energy regulator Ofgem says that during 2023, the average amount of credit in energy accounts for people who pay for their gas and electricity by fixed direct debit was £3.7 billion pounds. What's behind that?

More than half a million people were left without their Child Benefit payment this week, after a technical issue at HMRC. What was done to help them?

And this week, new banknotes featuring a portrait of King Charles III came into circulation – how can you get hold of one?

Presenter: Felicity Hannah
Reporter: Dan Whitworth
Researchers: Jo Krasner and Catherine Lund
Editor: Jess Quayle

(First broadcast at 12pm Saturday 8th June, 2024)


SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (m001zvft)
Series 114

Episode 1

Andy Zaltzman quizzes the week's news. Providing all the answers are Ian Smith, Geoff Norcott, Shaparak Khorsandi and Anushka Asthana.

In this first episode of the new series, the panel catches up on all things General Election, Trumped up charges (all 34), and a recently discovered royal kid.

Written by Andy Zaltzman

With additional material by: Christina Riggs, Jade Gebbie, Mike Shephard & Stephen Mawhinney
Producer: Sam Holmes
Executive Producer: Richard Morris
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Sound Editor: Marc Willcox

A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4
An Eco-Audio certified Production


SAT 12:57 Weather (m00201vt)
The latest weather forecast


SAT 13:00 News and Weather (m00201vw)
The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4


SAT 13:15 Any Questions? (m001zw62)
James Cartlidge, Paul Johnson, Alison McGovern, John Nicolson, Richard Tice

Alex Forsyth presents political discussion from Victoria Hall in Oakham in Rutland with the Minister for Defence Procurement James Cartlidge, the Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies Paul Johnson, Labour's spokesperson for Employment and Social Security Alison McGovern, the SNP spokesperson for Culture, Media and Sport John Nicolson and the Chair of Reform UK Richard Tice.
Producer: Robin Markwell
Lead Broadcast Engineer: Mike Smith


SAT 14:15 Any Answers? (m00201vy)
Call Any Answers? to have your say on the big issues in the news this week.


SAT 15:00 The Archers (m001zw5y)
Fallon and Harrison wake up together feeling close again, but she checks he was ok that they just cuddled? Of course. Harrison looks for Jolene at the Bull and shares good news with Kenton – Markie has been arrested for receiving stolen goods and should be facing jail. Kenton asks about Fallon and Harrison admits that recently has been the worst time they’ve faced together. Kenton and Jolene really care about Harrison - Fallon is like a daughter to Kenton, and Harrison is like a son.

Fallon feels that things are on the up, and Harrison comments about the importance of finding justice for hurt loved ones. Fallon knows what he really means and asks that they don’t go there.

Jakob instructs Lilian on dealing with Strangles, and she feels like crying. Lilian is critical of Justin over his assumptions that Alice’s drinking is connected to problems at the Stables and Jakob thinks Justin’s being unfair.

Oliver hopes his horse, Duke, will survive, and acknowledges that the Stables have just been incredibly unlucky. But Lilian confesses that she can’t find the essential paperwork about Cinnamon, the original horse with Strangles – which means she could be seen to be personally at fault for trusting Alice. However, Lilian phones Oliver again, relieved to have found it, and to reassure him. Oliver is cool with Lilian and suggests she get to the bottom of what happened so that it doesn’t happen again.

Jakob looks over Duke again and tells Lilian he’s sorry, but he can’t make any promises about whether the horse will survive.


SAT 15:15 Orwell vs Kafka: Nineteen Eighty-Four (m00201w0)
3: 'Have you done this before?'

Juliet Stevenson continues a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season.

Other readers include: Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander, Samuel West, Rhashan Stone and Adjoa Andoh.

The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, and its leader, Big Brother, stares out from every poster. The Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal, and no one is free. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. When he falls in love, the affair is an act of rebellion against the Party. But nothing is secret. And Room 101 awaits...

Orwell's cautionary tale was first published in 1949, and is one of the 20th century's most influential novels.

Today: the girl with the dark hair passes Winston a note - and everything changes....

Reader: Juliet Stevenson
Writer: George Orwell
Abridger: Robin Brooks
Producer: Justine Willett


SAT 16:15 Orwell vs Kafka (m00201w2)
Ep 2: Telescreens

Helen Lewis and Ian Hislop refine their focus in this second episode of Orwell Vs Kafka to examine what the warnings and insights in the novel’s of both men tell us about Surveillance and the human response to it.

We’re often told that as a nation we’re subject to more camera surveillance than most, and Helen speaks to Gavin Saul of Verrimus, a Newcastle based company specialising in technical surveillance counter measures, to measure the truth of that. He describes the extent of modern surveillance and the acceptance of it through what he refers to as normalcy bias, the shrugged shoulder reaction to the reality of smart phone dependence.

Helen and Ian are also joined by Silkie Carlo of Big Brother Watch, an organisation that took it’s name from Orwell’s dystopian vision of a people permanently under surveillance. She talks about the extent to which Orwell’s warning was prescient, as was Kafka’s awareness that surveillance often becomes internalised, with the subjects effectively policing themselves.

And they lighten the tone somewhat in a conversation with Anna Nolan, the runner up on the first UK TV production of Big Brother House. Anna recalls what it felt like to be under surveillance for the sake of entertainment, and why there was an inevitable air of religiosity about accepting the presence of an all-seeing eye, something that hovers in the background of both Kafka and Orwell’s writing.

Producer: Tom Alban


SAT 16:45 A Recipe for Recovery (m001zw5g)
In 2021, producer Anna de Wolff Evans’ mother Emma was diagnosed with a rare type of leukaemia. Now, two gruelling years of treatment later, she’s in remission. But returning to ‘normal life’ after such a traumatic disruption isn’t always a straightforward process.

Much of the language around cancer survival is about ‘thriving’ and ‘seizing opportunities’, as if a near-death experience teaches you to live each day as if it’s your last. But for some people, the reality is a much more complex experience, with the physical and mental effects of cancer often still felt long after remission.

For Emma, the simple act of making jam has become a metaphor for her recovery journey. This touching and honest story looks at what life can be like in the aftermath of cancer and the profound healing power that can be found in the ordinary routines of daily life.

Producer: Anna de Wolff Evans

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SAT 17:00 PM (m00201w4)
Full coverage of the day's news.


SAT 17:30 Sliced Bread (m001zvw4)
Contact Lenses

Listener Jennifer is considering switching contact lenses, if there's an alternative that's more eco friendly. She's not alone - we've had lots of questions about eyecare options, and whether the fancy features some lenses offer are worth the extra cash. Joining Greg and Jennifer in the studio to talk all things contact lens are Daniel Hardiman-McCartney, a clinical adviser to the College of Optometrists, and Sarah Smith - a research optometrist who's studied the environmental impact of these tiny pieces of plastic.

Have you seen a product that claims to make you happier, healthier or greener? Want to know if it is SB or BS? Then please do send it over on email to sliced.bread@bbc.co.uk or drop us a message or voicenote on Whatsapp to 07543 306807

PRESENTER: Greg Foot
PRODUCER: Tom Moseley


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m00201w8)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SAT 17:57 Weather (m00201wb)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m00201wd)
3 men and a woman reunited with their families in joyful scenes. Greek emergency teams looking for missing presenter Michael Mosley search rocky hills.


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (m00201wg)
Laura Smyth, Caitlin Moran, John Hopkins and Alex Lowe join Stuart Maconie. With music from Dexys

After a series of best-selling books focussing on girls and women Caitlin Moran turns her attention to the lads in ‘What About Men?’. Find out if comedian Laura Smyth is indeed living her best life on the ‘Living My Best Life’ tour and Alex Lowe tells us what makes his Clinton Baptise character so popular. John Hopkins on playing Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at the Leeds Playhouse and we have music from Dexys - formely Dexy's Midnight Runners.

Presenter: Stuart Maconie
Producer: Jessica Treen


SAT 19:00 Orwell vs Kafka: Nineteen Eighty-Four (m00201wj)
4: 'We are the dead.'

Adjoa Andoh continues a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season.

Other readers include: Martin Freeman, Tom Hollander, Juliet Stevenson, Rhashan Stone and Samuel West.

The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, and its leader, Big Brother, stares out from every poster. The Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal, and no one is free. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. When he falls in love, the affair is an act of rebellion against the Party. But nothing is secret. And Room 101 awaits...

Today: now convinced that an opposition to the Party must exist, Winston risks all when he takes Julia to O'Brien's flat...

Reader: Adjoa Andoh
Writer: George Orwell
Abridger: Robin Brooks
Producer: Karen Holden


SAT 20:00 Orwell vs Kafka (m00201wl)
Ep 3: Doublethink

George Orwell’s 1984 gave us a whole vocabulary to describe the techniques of modern tyranny: from Newspeak, to Doublethink, the Thought Police, and Big Brother, in many ways the language he created is Orwell’s biggest legacy.

In today’s world of half-truths and ‘alternative facts’, Orwell's 1984 has never felt more relevant. The novel remains the book we turn to when facts are questioned, the truth is distorted and power is abused. Franz Kafka’s work plays a similar role: in February 2024, Russian human rights defender Oleg Orlov sat reading ‘The Trial’ in a Moscow courtroom during his own trial.

Helen Lewis and Ian Hislop find out how and why our duo’s writing is still so potent today.

Guests:
Masha Karp, author of “George Orwell and Russia”
Dorian Lynskey, author of “The Ministry of Truth: A Biography of George Orwell's 1984”
Professor Carolin Duttlinger of Wadham College, Oxford
Steve Rosenberg, BBC Russia Editor.

Producer: Sarah Shebbeare


SAT 20:30 Nature Table (m001zvnq)
Series 4

1: Dogs, Ducks and a Chunk of the Moon

In this first episode of a new series, ducks’ super vaginas and a meteorite that’s the key to how life on Earth started wow the team.

For this new series of Sue Perkins’ ARIA-winning ‘Show and Tell’ wildlife comedy, Team Nature Table have recorded at the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens – for some botanical specials – and London Zoo.

Starting the series off, we’re at the Natural History Museum. Sue is joined by special guests: comedian Desiree Burch, science writer Jules Howard and the NHM’s curator of meteorites Dr. Natasha Almeida.

Our varied subjects include: Dogs, a meteorite that can explain how life started on Earth, Ducks’ vaginas (with Sue studying one up close courtesy of a VR headset) and moon rock.

Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild flora and fauna in a fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the same time having a giggle.

Hosted by: Sue Perkins
Guests: Desiree Burch, Natasha Almeida & Jules Howard
Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Jenny Laville & Jon Hunter
Additional material by: Christina Riggs & Pete Tellouche
Researcher: Catherine Beazley
Executive Producer: Richard Morris
Sound Recordist & Editor: Jerry Peal
Music by: Ben Mirin
Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Producer: Simon Nicholls

An EcoAudio certified production
A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4


SAT 21:00 Orwell vs Kafka: Nineteen Eighty-Four (m00201wn)
5: 2 + 2 = 5

Samuel West continues a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season.

The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, and its leader, Big Brother, stares out from every poster. The Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal, and no one is free. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. When he falls in love, the affair is an act of rebellion against the Party. But nothing is secret. And Room 101 awaits...

Orwell's cautionary tale was first published in 1949, and is one of the 20th century's most influential novels.

Today: Winston and Julia read Goldstein's book in their tranquil haven above Charrington's shop. But Big Brother is watching...

Reader: Samuel West
Writer: George Orwell
Abridger: Robin Brooks
Producer: Justine Willett


SAT 22:00 News (m00201wq)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SAT 22:15 The Food Programme (m001zw52)
The BBC Food and Farming Awards 2024: The Search Begins...

Jaega Wise heads to Glasgow to open the nominations for this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards, and to announce that the 2024 ceremony will be held in the city on December 2nd.

The head judge for 2024 is Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, a long time supporter of the Awards, and there is a brand new award for those championing the best Scottish local produce with a strong connection to their community - BBC Scotland Local Food Hero, which will be judged by Dougie Vipond (Landward & The Great Food Guys) and Rachel Stewart (Out of Doors).

Another new face on the judging panel is social media star Max La Manna, a low-waste chef, who will be judging the Digital Creator Award.

On Jaega's mini-tour of Glasgow she visits past winner Matt Fountain from Freedom Bakery, has tea and scones at one of Glasgow's famous tearooms with food journalist Robbie Armstrong, visits the Old Fruitmarket where the Awards will be hosted, and she shares a Pizza Crunch with one of Glasgow's most famous chefs, Julie Lin.

To see the full list of awards and to nominate, go to bbc.co.uk/foodawards where you can also find the terms and privacy notice.

Nominations open Friday 7 June at 11am and close 23:59 Sunday 30 June 2024.

Presented by Jaega Wise
Produced in Bristol for BBC Audio by Natalie Donovan


SAT 23:00 Orwell vs Kafka: Nineteen Eighty-Four (m00201ws)
6: 'Do it to Julia!'

Tom Hollander ends a day of readings from Nineteen Eighty-Four, celebrating the 75th anniversary of Orwell's great dystopian novel, as part of Radio 4's 'Orwell vs Kafka' season.

The year is 1984. War and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, and its leader, Big Brother, stares out from every poster. The Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal, and no one is free. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. When he falls in love, the affair is an act of rebellion against the Party. But nothing is secret in 1984.

Orwell's cautionary tale was first published in 1949, and is one of the 20th century's most influential novels.

Today: Room 101 awaits, as O'Brien continues Winston's interrogation. But will he betray Julia?

Reader: Tom Hollander
Writer: George Orwell
Abridger: Robin Brooks
Producer: Justine Willett

SUNDAY 09 JUNE 2024

SUN 00:00 Midnight News (m00201wv)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


SUN 00:15 Bookclub (m001zvnn)
Lucy Caldwell: These Days

Celebrated novelist and short story writer Lucy Caldwell joins James Naughtie and readers to discuss These Days. Set in 1941, it focusses on the lives of two sisters living through the Belfast Blitz.

Lucy talks about the inspiration for her novel, her research and writing it during the pandemic.


SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m00201wx)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m00201wz)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m00201x1)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SUN 05:30 News Briefing (m00201x3)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (m00201tp)
The church of St Nicholas in Chawton, Hampshire

This week's Bells on Sunday comes from the church of St Nicholas in Chawton, Hampshire. The church is closely associated with the author Jane Austen who lived in the village, worshipped at St Nicholas and whose mother and sister are buried in the churchyard. There are six bells all cast by Taylors Earye and Smith foundry of Loughborough in 2006. The Tenor bell weighs six hundredweight and is tuned to the note of B and we hear them ringing Cambridge Surprise Minor.


SUN 05:45 In Touch (m001zv96)
Gene Therapy

Although not now new, gene therapy is an evolving procedure for the treatment of a range of eye conditions. Recent developments include an American-based trial involving a gene editing process known as CRISPR. We speak to Dr Eric Pierce and Dr Mark Pennesi, who were both involved in the trial, as well as Olivia Cook, who tells us about her experience of undergoing the pioneering treatment.

Closer to home, we caught up with Professor Rob Lucas from the University of Manchester. Professor Lucas tells us about developments in gene therapy here in the UK.

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Fern Lulham
Production Coordinator: Liz Poole
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SUN 06:00 News Summary (m00201rk)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4


SUN 06:05 Thinking Allowed (m001zv8t)
Opioids

Opioids in the US and UK; Laurie Taylor explores the changing nature of opioid use, from street heroin to synthetic prescription drugs. Helena Hansen Professor of Psychiatry and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, reveals the surprisingly white “new face” of the US opioid crisis. Although Black Americans are no more likely than whites to use illicit drugs, they are much more likely to be incarcerated for drug offenses. Meanwhile, a very different system for responding to the drug use of whites has emerged. White opioids – the synthetic opiates such as OxyContin - came to be at heart of epidemic prescription medication abuse among white, suburban and rural Americans. Why was the crisis so white? How did a century of structural racism in drug policy lead, counter intuitively, to mass white overdose deaths?

Also, Alex Stevens, Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Kent, provides a UK perspective, charting the rise of synthetic opioids which are much more potent than heroin. Heroin related deaths are concentrated in people over 40, who live in deindustrialised areas and are nine times higher in the most deprived decile of neighbourhoods in England. He argues that their increasing presence in the drug supply could dramatically increases the number of deaths as has been seen in the USA.

This episode contains a clip from a TV programme Horizon recorded by Dr Michael Mosley in 2020 exploring painkiller use in Britain.

Producer: Jayne Egerton


SUN 06:35 On Your Farm (m00201rm)
The salad factory

Charlotte Smith delves into the world of vertical farming, a cutting-edge approach to food production that uses indoor stacked layers for growing crops. The programme visits a state-of-the-art vertical farm in Gloucestershire, where herbs and salads flourish under LED lights in a meticulously controlled environment. She talks to the staff and the company's founder about the potential of vertical farming to offer a sustainable and efficient solution to food production challenges.

The programme also addresses the challenges facing vertical farming, including high energy consumption, which has led to the closure of some similar ventures in other countries. The long-term viability of the approach is questioned, sparking a discussion about the future of food production and the role of technology in agriculture.

Presented by Charlotte Smith
Produced by Marcus Smith


SUN 06:57 Weather (m00201rp)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 07:00 News and Papers (m00201rr)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SUN 07:10 Sunday (m00201rt)
Jürgen Moltmann; Cricket’s drinking culture; Woke as a religion

The world’s first Sikh court opened recently in the UK. Campaigner Pragna Patel of Project Resist has called it ‘a threat to women’s rights’. The barristers behind the court argue that it’s a way of plugging a gap in the legal system that’s desperately needed. Pragna and Sharan Bachu, Lead Family Judge at the Sikh Court, debate the issues.

The leading Protestant theologian, Jürgen Moltmann, died this week. We talk to Miroslav Volf, Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture, about the man who found God in a prisoner-of-war camp and his theology of hope.

Is cricket based on drinking culture and does this unfairly affect the opportunities available to Muslim players? We’re joined by ex-England cricket player Azeem Rafiq and commentator Vic Marks who discuss the culture of the game.

Is woke a religion? Professor Eric Kaufmann from the University of Buckingham and Professor Will Davies of Goldsmiths, University of London explore whether the movement is religious.

Presenter: William Crawley
Producers: Alexa Good, Rosie Dawson and Peter Everett
Editor: Rajeev Gupta


SUN 07:54 Radio 4 Appeal (m00201rw)
Sand Dams Worldwide

Science and wildlife broadcaster Liz Bonnin makes the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of Sand Dams Worldwide. The charity builds sand dams, which capture and preserve rainwater, to help sustain communities and wildlife in regions facing drought.

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 ‘Sand Dams Worldwide’.
- Cheques should be made payable to ‘Sand Dams Worldwide’.
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: 1094478


SUN 07:57 Weather (m00201ry)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 08:00 News and Papers (m00201s0)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the Sunday papers


SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship (m00201s2)
Sing to the Lord

Angel Morgan, from the MOBO award winning gospel group Volney Morgan & New Ye, leads worship from Big Church Festival.

Music making is as old as time and you could say the Psalms are the original worship songs. Angel reflects on the Psalms as a source of inspiration for some of today’s biggest worship songs with fellow artists at the festival. Big Church Festival is the largest UK Christian festival held at the end of May with 30,000 Christians attending to worship together, with bands and worship leaders from across genres from Gospel to Afrobeats to Country. Angel sits down backstage with Brian Doerkson, Lucy Grimble, Elle Limebear, CalledOut Music, Philippa Hanna and Warehouse Worship - to discuss their love of the Psalms and writing Christian music.

Readings:
Psalm 95
Psalm 150

Music:
Bless the Lord - Volney Morgan & New Ye (recorded at the festival)
Thanks and Praise - Lucy Grimble & Philippa Hanna
Maker of the Moon - Elle Limebear
Come now is the time to worship - Brian Doerkson & Marika Siewert (recorded at the festival)
Trust - Philippa Hanna
Worst Days - CalledOut Music
Praise (Elevation Worship)- Volney Morgan & New Ye (recorded at the festival)

Producer: Miriam Williamson


SUN 08:48 A Point of View (m001zw64)
It's Me or the Lamborghini

When it comes to fast cars or literary festivals, Howard Jacobson reckons that, for the average male, there isn't usually much of a contest.

'You don't get as many men at a literary festival as you do on a street corner where there's a Lamborghini parked,' writes Howard. 'Or you didn't.'

But he senses a change - and a new interest in men talking and reading about love.

It's not that men find female characters too soft - rather, that they often find the male characters aren't soft enough.

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


SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day (m00201s4)
Martin Hughes-Games on the Nuthatch

A new series of Tweet of the Day for Sunday morning revealing personal and fascinating stories inspired by birds, their calls and encounters.

Television presenter and former Springwatch host Martin Hughes-Games got a bit of surprise when he reviewed the footage from his nestbox camera.. Expecting to find a fluffy nest made by tits, what he saw was the course material nest of a nuthatch. These sleek birds of the woods with their slate grey backs may be beautiful but they can be thugs around the bird feeders. Readily taking to any available hole, to raise their young over the breeding season Martin watched on until the chicks fledged and began to cause trouble all over the garden.

A BBC Audio production from Bristol
Producer : Andrew Dawes
Studio Engineer : Ilse Lademann


SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House (m00201s6)
EU rebuke over Gaza raid death toll

The EU's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, rebukes Israel for the number of Palestinians killed in the raid that freed four hostages. Plus a body is found in the search for Michael Mosley.


SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs (m00201s8)
Shirine Khoury-Haq, businesswoman

Shirine Khoury-Haq is the chief executive officer of the Co-op Group – the first female chief executive in its 180-year history and the first from an ethnic minority background.

Shirine was born in Beirut to a Palestinian father and a Turkish mother. Her father was a geophysicist who worked in the oil industry and his work took the family around the world. By the time Shirine was 12 she had lived on every continent except Antarctica, regularly having to adapt to very different schools and classmates.

She studied for a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and economics at the Australian National University in Canberra, while taking on a number of jobs to pay her way. In 1996 she joined the McDonald’s Corporation as a finance and operations manager and then joined IBM as an associate partner.

In 2014 she was appointed chief operating officer for Lloyd’s of London and five years later she joined the Co-op as chief financial officer. She became the Group’s CEO in August 2022.

Shirine lives in Cheshire with her husband and two daughters.

DISC ONE: Jamaica Farewell - Harry Belafonte
DISC TWO: Ya Talien Eljabal - Rola Azar
DISC THREE: Better Together - Jack Johnson
DISC FOUR: Fight the Power - Public Enemy
DISC FIVE: Nuthin’ But A “G” Thang - Dr Dre and Snoop Dogg
DISC SIX: Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
DISC SEVEN: How Great Thou Art - Susan Boyle
DISC EIGHT: Stuck in a Moment You Can’t Get Out Of - U2

BOOK CHOICE: The Quran
LUXURY ITEM: A photo frame
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: How Great Thou Art - Susan Boyle

Presenter Lauren Laverne
Producer Paula McGinley


SUN 11:00 The Archers Omnibus (m00201sb)
WRITER: Katie Hims
DIRECTOR: Pip Swallow
EDITOR: Jeremy Howe

Ben Archer…. Ben Norris
Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee
Lilian Bellamy…. Sunny Ormonde
Harrison Burns…. James Cartwright
Vince Casey…. Tony Turner
Mick Fadmoor…. Martin Barrass
Ed Grundy…. Barry Farrimond
Emma Grundy…. Emerald O‘Hanrahan
George Grundy…. Angus Stobie
Jakob Hakansson…. Paul Venables
Chelsea Horrobin…. Madeleine Leslay
Joy Horville…. Jackie Lye
Freddie Pargetter…. Toby Laurence
Lily Pargetter…. Katie Redford
Fallon Rogers…. Joanna Van Kampen
Lynda Snell…. Carole Boyd
Robert Snell…. Michael Bertenshaw
Oliver Sterling…. Michael Cochrane
Jason Burntwood…. Ian Conningham


SUN 12:15 Profile (m00201sd)
Rylan

Rylan Clark is on the cusp of becoming a national treasure. Having defied the odds of most reality TV stars, he has managed to stay the course, cementing his already steady career rise to the top with his most recent television outing with Rob Rinder 'Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour', which showed the viewing public a whole new side to his talents.

Brought up in the East End by his mum, Linda. Rylan or Ross as his family and friends know him, was always performing from a young age, according to his mum. The family moved to Essex when he was around 11 going to school in Upminster, where Ross was a mischievous and talented student.

After a few years in retail he started modelling and went off to Ibiza where he was in tribute bands to Take That and Westlife. His big break came when he appeared on X Factor in 2012. Although he didn't win, he did make an impression, and after winning Celebrity Big Brother his career took off.

Mark Coles charts the rise of Rylan Clark.

Presenter: Mark Coles

Contributors

Scott Bryan, TV critic and broadcaster

Linda Clark, Mother

Bernice Cole, Make-up artist and friend

Nader Dehdashti, Agent and friend

Mark Duncan, Deputy Headmaster, Coopers' Company and Coborn School

Robert Rinder, Broadcaster and barrister

CREDITS

X Factor - Thames and Syco Entertainment
Rob and Rylan's Grand Tour - Rex Productions
Keeping Up Appearances - BBC
Masterchef - Endemol Shine UK
How to Be a Man - Mindhouse production for BBC Sounds
How to Be in the Spotlight - Mindhouse production for BBC Sounds

Production Team

Producers: Julie Ball, Diane Richardson & Ivana Davidovic
Editor: Tom Bigwood
Sound: James Beard
Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele


SUN 12:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001zv3t)
Series 81

Episode 4

The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the King George’s Hall in Blackburn. Tony Hawks and Vicki Pepperdine take on Marcus Brigstocke and Henning Wehn with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano accompaniment.

Producer - Jon Naismith.

A Random production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 12:57 Weather (m00201sg)
The latest weather forecast


SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (m00201sj)
Body found in search for Michael Mosley

Teams searching for Dr Michael Mosley on the Greek island of Symi have found a body. Mimi Spencer, co-author of The Fast Diet, pays tribute. Plus, the challenges big tech will pose to the next government.


SUN 13:30 Orwell vs Kafka (m00201sl)
Ep 4: Uneasy Dreams

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.” - Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, 1915.

In this episode Helen Lewis and Ian Hislop talk anxiety and alienation. From Gregor Samsa being transformed into a giant insect, to shouting at a telescreen in 1984's Two Minutes Hate - Ian and Helen discover why these anxiety ridden images still connect with readers today.

Guests:
Dr Karolina Watroba of All Souls College, Oxford
Dr Nathan Waddell of the University of Birmingham
Wolfgang Hantel-Quitmann, Professor of Clinical and Family Psychology.

Producer: Sarah Shebbeare


SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time (m001zw5m)
From The Archive: Container Gardening

Kathy Clugston lifts the lid on the GQT archive, in search for some advice on gardening in containers, pots and hanging baskets.

Gardening in pots and containers has become more of a hot topic in recent years and the GQT panellists have dished out their fair share of advice on it.

The programme's horticultural experts share their knowledge on the potted plants that can be grown on the roof of a narrow boat, the type of pot that can prevent frost damage to a plant, and whether liquid sheep manure is a sufficient feed for tomatoes and pot plants?

Later we hear a fiery debate between Bill Sowerbutts and Dr Tom Rochford on the differences between houseplants and potted plants.

Producer: Bethany Hocken
Assistant Producer: Rahnee Prescod

Executive Producer: Carly Maile

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 14:45 Opening Lines (m00201sp)
Orwell vs. Kafka: The Trial

John Yorke explores the enduring mystery and power of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial.

All Joseph K was expecting when he awoke was breakfast. Instead he is arrested for a nameless crime and finds his life gradually, utterly consumed by the process. Set in a nameless city very like the twisting alleyways and cramped confines of Kafka’s Prague, the book was only published after the writer’s death. Since then, it has become a world famous tale of unending, indefinable bureaucratic unease.

John Yorke has worked in television and radio for 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 in BBC Radio 4’s Sunday Drama series. 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

Contributors:
Professor Carolin Duttlinger-Co-director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre
Ed Harris - Playwright who has adapted Kafka's work for a major season on BBC Radio 4

Readings from The Trial by Franz Kafka trans. Mike Mitchell (Oxford World's Classic 2009)

Reader: Jack Klaff
Researcher: Nina Semple
Production Manager: Sarah Wright
Sound Designer: Sean Kerwin
Producer: Mark Burman
Executive Producer: Sara Davies

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4


SUN 15:00 Drama on 4 (m00201sr)
Orwell vs Kafka: The Trial

On the morning of his thirtieth birthday, Josef K is arrested. But his crime is not revealed.

In attempting to establish his innocence, K steps into a nightmarish world of institutional absurdity he can’t escape.

The most quintessentially ‘Kafkaesque’ of Kafka’s work, The Trial is a sinister satire, charting one man’s descent into self-destruction in the face of a society that has become a machine. This daring, debauched and darkly comic adaptation is written by award-winning dramatist Ed Harris.

CAST (in order of appearance)
K ..... Iwan Rheon
Franz/Albert ..... Phil Davis
Willem/Magistrate ..... Lee Ross
Mrs Godbee ..... Nina Wadia
Eliška/Supervisor ..... Celeste Dring
Edmund ..... Rick Warden
Thrasher ..... Jason Barnett
Dr Huld ..... Adrian Scarborough
Leni ..... Gwyneth Keyworth
Block ..... Mark Heap

Dramatist ..... Ed Harris
Director ..... Anne Isger
Sound ..... Pete Ringrose and Keith Graham
Production Co-ordinators ..... Sara Benaim and Daniel Bishop
A BBC Studios Audio Production

With thanks to Abigail Le Fleming for playing the recorder.

Ed Harris is an award-winning dramatist and comedy writer. He has had over 20 audio plays broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, as well as three series of his popular wartime sitcom, DOT. His work has won numerous awards including two Writers’ Guild Awards, a BBC Audio Drama Award and a Sony Gold/Radio Academy Award. His stage plays include STRANGERS LIKE ME (National Theatre Connections), MONGREL ISLAND (Soho Theatre), NEVER EVER AFTER (shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award) and WHAT THE THUNDER SAID (Theatre Centre). He is a current Royal Literary Fellow at Brighton University and Writer-in-Residence for the Oxford Kafka 2024 programme at Oxford University.


SUN 16:00 Orwell vs Kafka (m00201st)
Ep 5: But I’m Not Guilty!

With his nightmare visions of miscarriages of justice and petty authorities in his novel 'The Trial' Franz Kafka foresaw the powerlessness and frustration many of us feel in the face of faceless corporations and bureaucracies today. George Orwell's '1984' depicts a society where citizens are conditioned, monitored and made to live in eternal fear without protest.

In this episode of Orwell vs Kafka, Helen Lewis and Ian Hislop look at powerlessness - and why both our writers were obsessed with it.

Guests:
DJ Taylor, George Orwell biographer
Dr Karolina Watroba of All Souls College, Oxford
Professor Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of Magdalen College, Oxford

With thanks to Charles Games, makers of the “Playing Kafka” video game.

Producer: Sarah Shebbeare


SUN 16:30 Nature Table (m00201sw)
Series 4

2: Crime-solving brambles and radioactive houseplants

In this episode, Sue and the Nature Table team visit Kew Gardens for an entertaining botanical special.

Crime-solving brambles, radioactive houseplants, scheming water lilies, hallucinogenic flowers and life-saving seagrass all feature and wow Sue and the invited audience.

Sue is joined by special guests: ethnobotanist James Wong, forensic botanist Mark Spencer and comedian Lucy Porter.

Nature Table has a simple clear brief: to positively celebrate and promote the importance of all our planet’s wonderfully wild flora and fauna in a fun and easily grasped way... whilst at the same time having a proper giggle.

For this series of Sue Perkins’ ARIA-winning ‘Show and Tell’ wildlife comedy, Team Nature Table have recorded at the Natural History Museum, Kew Gardens and London Zoo.

Hosted by: Sue Perkins
Guests: James Wong, Mark Spencer & Lucy Porter
Written by: Catherine Brinkworth, Jenny Laville & Jon Hunter
Additional material by: Christina Riggs & Pete Tellouche
Researcher: Catherine Beazley
Sound Recordist & Editor: Jerry Peal
Music by: Ben Mirin
Executive Producer: Richard Morris
Production Coordinator: Sarah Nicholls
Producer: Simon Nicholls

An EcoAudio certified production
A BBC Studios Audio Production for Radio 4


SUN 17:00 Witness History (w3ct4xkl)
Russian ballerina defects to the west

In 1970, Natalia Makarova became the first female ballet star to defect to the West from Russia.

The dancer claimed asylum during a UK tour, nine years after another Russian dancer, Rudolf Nureyev, had defected.

Natalia later joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. She wouldn’t return to her home country for almost 20 years.

Jane Wilkinson has been looking through the archive to discover the reasons behind her defection.

(Photo: Natalia Makarova in New York, 1980. Credit: Brownie Harris/Corbis via Getty Image


SUN 17:10 This Cultural Life (m001zvvw)
Neil Jordan

Oscar-winning director, screenwriter and novelist Neil Jordan made his name with the 1984 movie The Company Of Wolves, adapted from an Angela Carter short story. His 1986 film Mona Lisa earned BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for its star Bob Hoskins. Jordan scored an even bigger critical and commercial hit worldwide with The Crying Game, which had six Academy Award nominations including best screenplay which was won by Neil Jordan himself. His 20 feature films made over 40 years also include an adaptation of Ann Rice’s novel Interview With the Vampire, Irish revolutionary drama Michael Collins and The End Of The Affair, adapted from the Graham Greene novel.

Neil Jordan talks to John Wilson about his upbringing in a Dublin suburb, the son of a school teacher father who encouraged an early love of storytelling. After working as a labourer, and in a Dublin theatre for a while, he met filmmaker John Boorman (Point Blank, Deliverance, The Emerald Forest) who, in 1980, was shooting his Arthurian legend film Excalibur at film studios in Ireland. Boorman invited Neil Jordan to direct a documentary about the making of Excalibur, an experience which started his filmmaking career. Jordan also chooses the 1943 Jean Genet novel Notre Dame des Fleurs - Our Lady Of The Flowers - as a formative influence on his screenwriting. He recalls the struggles to make The Crying Game and how the film’s producer Harvey Weinstein objected to the inclusion of a trans character, a supporting role for which Jaye Davidson was nominated as best actor at the 1992 Academy Awards.

Producer: Edwina Pitman

Archive used:
Clip from A Fistful of Dollars, Sergio Leone, 1964
Clip from Excalibur, John Boorman, 1981
Clip from The Crying Game, Neil Jordan, 1992
Neil Jordan accepts his Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, 1992
Clip from The Crying Game, Neil Jordan, 1992
Clip from Michael Collins, Neil Jordan, 1996


SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast (m00201sz)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


SUN 17:57 Weather (m00201t1)
The latest weather reports and forecast


SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m00201t3)
Presenter, who disappeared on Wednesday, was discovered on a steep slope on the Greek island of Symi. Medical students urged to help at hospitals in London hit by cyber attack.


SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week (m00201t5)
Tessa Dunlop

We've had an extraordinary week of commemorations for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. As a historian, Tessa has worked to reflect the best of those in this week's programme, alongside the selections of a veteran who served in the summer of 1944 and the views of a soldier from one of Britain's more recent conflicts, Afghanistan. There'll be music, reflection and - at the insistence of Tessa’s mum - a slice of levity in the form of a duck's nether regions.

Presenter: Tessa Dunlop
Producer: Elizabeth Foster
Production Co-ordinators: Paul Holloway & Brigid Harrison-Draper


SUN 19:00 The Archers (m00201t7)
When Alan catches up with Harrison, he admits that although things are now good with Fallon, he can’t get away from a nagging feeling about the miscarriage. Alan advises talking to Fallon, but Harrison doesn’t want to rock the boat. When Alan suggests doing something practical, Harrison says he’s already applied for a baby loss certificate, to acknowledge it happened. Alan wonders whether he would also consider a Church of England service for the loss of unborn babies, but if so Harrison would need to share it with Fallon. Later Harrison tells Alan he’d like to do the service and Alan suggests calling round later in the week to talk to both Harrison and Fallon. Harrison’s not sure about putting Fallon in the picture, but he’ll definitely let Alan know if Fallon’s not going to be there.

Ed and Emma are at the Borsetshire County Show where Bartleby’s the star attraction in his VIP enclosure. George looks miserable though, but they agree that the recent hero worship may’ve affected him. Will arrives with the ‘Little Grange Tree Surgery’ flyers and business cards to distribute, and Ed gets a phone call. It’s a local tree surgeon needing emergency help to clear a tree from a road. Ed and Emma accept the job, leaving Will and George to do publicity work. Afterwards Ed and Emma are delighted - their business is up and running! Will’s less delighted at being left leafletting, but mentions a woman who was keen on Bartleby. But despite being a celebrity, Bartleby is costing them more that he’ll ever make.


SUN 19:15 Orwell vs Kafka (m00201t9)
Ep 6: Afterlife

Having explored the impact George Orwell and Franz Kafka have had on the language we use, the psychological anxieties we experience and the dystopian frustrations that seem rife in 2024, Ian Hislop and Helen Lewis turn their attention to the future. Will the stories created by two writers from fading 20th century European Empires continue to resonate across the globe, and how potent is that resonance beyond the west. Helen speaks to the Booker winning author Shehan Karunatilaka about his experience of both men's work and his own dystopian afterlife novel 'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida'. They're also joined in the studio by Professor Laura Beers, author of Orwell's Ghosts and Professor Carolin Duttlinger of Wadham College, Oxford.
But they begin the programme with some priceless recollections from the BBC archive from listeners who had seen the first TV adaptation of Orwell's novel in December 1954, a programme that counted amongst its audience the then monarch Queen Elizabeth I. And then there was the typically British reaction to the dark foreboding of political satire and angst - an episode of the Goons Show which went out a month later called '1985'.

Producer: Tom Alban


SUN 19:45 Profile (m00201sd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:15 today]


SUN 20:00 Word of Mouth (m001zvwg)
Word of Mouth with Michael Morpurgo at the Hay Festival

Michael meets fellow children's author Michael Morpurgo - author of over 150 books - including Kensuke's Kingdom, Private Peaceful and Warhorse. They talk words, writing, books and language and why it's so important that children learn to love reading at an early age.

Producer: Maggie Ayre


SUN 20:30 Last Word (m001zw5r)
Nora Cortiñas, Belinda Belville, John Burnside, Roger Corman

Matthew Bannister on Nora Cortiñas, a founding member of Argentina’s “Mothers of the Disappeared” campaign group. Her son Gustavo was 24 when he was arrested by the country’s right-wing dictatorship. He was never seen again.

Belinda Bellville, the fashion designer who dressed every female member of the royal family apart from Queen Elizabeth. Her business partner David Sassoon shares his memories.

The poet John Burnside whose acclaimed work reflected his troubled childhood in Cowdenbeath and Corby.

Roger Corman, the American film director and producer known for his prolific output of low budget pictures.

Producer: Ed Prendeville

Archive used:
Exhibition of Belinda Bellville dresses at Holkham Hall, BBC Norfolk, 17/04/2013; Princess Goes To Washington (1965). Pathe News, 21/11/1965; Wild Music, Radio 4, 29/12/2019; Belief: John Burnside, BBC Radio 3; 04/04/2012; The Little Shop Of Horrors (1960) Official Trailer; Masque Of The Red Death (1964) Trailer; Attack of the Crab Monsters Official Trailer; Viking Women and the Sea Serpent (1957) Trailer; It Conquered the World (1956) Theatrical Trailer; Horror Café, BBC 2, 15/09/1990; The Film Programme, BBC Radio 4, 30/05/2008;


SUN 21:00 Money Box (m00201tc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday]


SUN 21:25 Radio 4 Appeal (m00201rw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:54 today]


SUN 21:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m00201tf)
Modi's Modest Victory

Kate Adie introduces stories from India, Mexico, South Africa, Russia and a trans-continental sleeper train.

Narendra Modi has returned for a third term as India's Prime Minister, but has seemingly lost some of his star power among voters, as the BJP lost its parliamentary majority. Yogita Limaye reflects on what this surprising election outcome says about the current health of Indian democracy.

In another major election, Claudia Sheinbaum was elected as Mexico's first female president – the first in nearly 200 years. Many cite her victory as a tipping point, following decades of campaigning by Mexico’s pioneering women politicians. Will Grant met the new president’s celebrating supporters.

When the African National Congress came to power in 1994, it promised greater equality and economic opportunity for black South Africans. But last week's election saw its support drain, as voters punished the party of Nelson Mandela for the economic hardship they still face. Anne Soy reflects on the difficult choices ahead for the ANC.

The St Petersburg International Economic Forum, which took place this week, used to attract the biggest players in global finance, from the US to Europe. Their presence has dissolved somewhat since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent onset of Western sanctions. That friction is not new, of course, and Paul Moss remembers an encounter he had in Russia when the effects of mass privatisation were still being felt – and arguably, still are today.

‘Train bragging’ is a Swedish phenomenon that encourages travellers to take pride in opting for climate-friendly rail travel over polluting aeroplanes - and it’s becoming more popular, as new overnight sleeper routes proliferate across Europe. Horatio Clare reflects on the enduring romance of transcontinental train travel.

Series Producer: Serena Tarling
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Production Coordinator: Katie Morrison


SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour (m00201th)
Leila Nathoo is joined by the Conservative former Cabinet minister, Sir Robert Buckland; Labour Shadow Treasury Minister, James Murray; and the Lib Dems' Treasury spokesperson, Sarah Olney. They discuss the election campaign so far and look ahead to manifestos week. Lara Spirit from The Times Red Box brings additional insight and analysis, and financial journalist Louise Cooper assesses whether the parties' promises on tax and spending add up. The programme also includes an interview with Baroness Carmen Smith of Plaid Cymru - and the BBC's Disinformation Correspondent, Marianna Spring, explains how fake election videos are appearing on social media.


SUN 23:00 In Our Time (m001zvvp)
The Orkneyinga Saga

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Saga of the Earls of Orkney, as told in the 13th Century by an unknown Icelander. This was the story of arguably the most important, strategically, of all the islands in the British Viking world, when the Earls controlled Shetland, Orkney and Caithness from which they could raid the Irish and British coasts, from Dublin round to Lindisfarne. The Saga combines myth with history, bringing to life the places on those islands where Vikings met, drank, made treaties, told stories, became saints, plotted and fought.

With

Judith Jesch
Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham

Jane Harrison
Archaeologist and Research Associate at Oxford and Newcastle Universities

And

Alex Woolf
Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews

Producer: Simon Tillotson

In Our Time is a BBC Studios Audio Production

Reading list:

Theodore M. Andersson, The Growth of Medieval Icelandic Sagas, 1180-1280, (Cornell University Press, 2012)

Margaret Clunies Ross, The Cambridge Introduction to the Old Norse-Icelandic Saga (Cambridge University Press, 2010)

Robert Cook (trans.), Njals Saga (Penguin, 2001)

Barbara E. Crawford, The Northern Earldoms: Orkney and Caithness from AD 870 to 1470 (John Donald Short Run Press, 2013)

Shami Ghosh, Kings’ Sagas and Norwegian History: Problems and Perspectives (Brill, 2011)

J. Graham-Campbell and C. E. Batey, Vikings in Scotland (Edinburgh University Press, 2002)

David Griffiths, J. Harrison and Michael Athanson, Beside the Ocean: Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney: Archaeological Research 2003-18 (Oxbow Books, 2019)

Jane Harrison, Building Mounds: Orkney and the Vikings (Routledge, forthcoming)

Ármann Jakobsson and Sverrir Jakobsson (eds.), The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas (Routledge, 2017)

Judith Jesch, The Viking Diaspora (Routledge, 2015)

Judith Jesch, ‘Earl Rögnvaldr of Orkney, a Poet of the Viking Diaspora’ (Journal of the North Atlantic, Special Volume 4, 2013)

Judith Jesch, The Poetry of Orkneyinga Saga (H.M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures, University of Cambridge, 2020)

Devra Kunin (trans.), A History of Norway and the Passion and Miracles of the Blessed Olafr (Viking Society for Northern Research, 2001)

Rory McTurk (ed.), A Companion to Old Norse-Icelandic Literature and Culture (Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)

Tom Muir, Orkney in the Sagas (Orkney Islands Council, 2005)

Else Mundal (ed.), Dating the Sagas: Reviews and Revisions (Museum Tusculanum Press, 2013)

Heather O’Donoghue, Old Norse-Icelandic Literature: A Short Introduction, (John Wiley & Sons, 2004)
Heather O'Donoghue and Eleanor Parker (eds.), The Cambridge History of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2024), especially 'Landscape and Material Culture' by Jane Harrison and ‘Diaspora Sagas’ by Judith Jesch

Richard Oram, Domination and Lordship, Scotland 1070-1230, (Edinburgh University Press, 2011)

Olwyn Owen (ed.), The World of Orkneyinga Saga: The Broad-cloth Viking Trip (Orkney Islands Council, 2006)

Hermann Pálsson and Paul Edwards (trans.), Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney (Penguin Classics, 1981)

Snorri Sturluson (trans. tr. Alison Finlay and Anthony Faulkes), Heimskringla, vol. I-III (Viking Society for Northern Research, 2011-2015)

William P. L. Thomson, The New History of Orkney (Birlinn Ltd, 2008)

Alex Woolf, From Pictland to Alba, 789-1070 (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), especially chapter 7


SUN 23:45 Short Works (m001zw5p)
Dawn by Emma Hooper

Jenny’s family have recently moved from their home in Canada to a village in Dorset to take over the running of her Grandpa’s quarry - ‘aka abandoned everything for a few English rocks’. Homesick and lonely, she explores quarry caves when she’s meant to be waiting at school for her brother to finish football practice. One day she finds something incredible...

Emma Hooper is an author, musician and academic. Her debut novel, ‘Etta and Otto and Russell and James’, was published in 23 territories and 18 languages and her second book, ‘Our Homesick Songs’, was long listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. ‘We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky’ is her third novel and has been long listed for The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

Her viola-accordion-saw-and-loop-pedal solo act ‘Waitress For The Bees’ has earned her a Finnish Cultural knighthood and her quartet ‘Red Carousel’ have performed with Peter Gabriel, The Heavy, Newton Faulkner and many others.

Although Emma lives in the UK, she visits home in Alberta to cross-country ski as often as she can.

Written and read by Emma Hooper
Music by Waitress For the Bees
Produced by Alison Crawford

MONDAY 10 JUNE 2024

MON 00:00 Midnight News (m00201tk)
The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.


MON 00:15 Your Place or Mine with Shaun Keaveny (m00201tm)
Dame Sheila Hancock: Luberon, Provence, France

Sheila wants to whisk Shaun away to the land of lavender fields. But what about his hay fever? Will Shaun be persuaded to don some linen and waft through them with her...? She has very happy memories of holidaying in this beautiful valley. Resident geographer, historian and comedian Iszi Lawrence brings some bon mots.

Your Place Or Mine is the travel series that isn’t going anywhere. Join Shaun as his guests try to convince him that it’s worth getting up off the sofa and seeing the world, giving us a personal guide to their favourite place on the planet.

Producers: Beth O'Dea and Caitlin Hobbs

Your Place or Mine is a BBC Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.


MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday (m00201tp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday]


MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m00201tr)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m00201tt)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m00201tw)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


MON 05:30 News Briefing (m00201ty)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m00201v0)
Celebrating Our Differences

A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rev Carolyn Skinner

Good morning.

Next month the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris get underway. The strapline for this year is, Games Wide Open. This encourages us to open our minds to stop seeing differences as obstacles. Sadly in the world of sport this hasn’t always been true. This year is seeking to be the biggest Paralympic Games in history.

The use of the same emblem for both the Olympics and Paralympics for the first time is a game changer, not just for marketing but the culture of the Games too. Also full gender equality will be achieved for the first time in history. In the Paris Olympics in 1900 women took part for the first time with twenty two participants, and now in 2024 women will make up 50% of the athletes. Such advancements are to be applauded as we all seek to see differences as something to be celebrated.

Difference and diversity is also something which is celebrated in the Christian tradition. The Bible tells us that we are all created in the image of God and all of equal worth. Jesus recognized and welcomed differences, he reached out to all people without distinction. This is a model that many of us could learn something from.

Equality in diversity is what creates life’s rich tapestry. Celebrating our differences, as well as our common humanity, helps to unite and educate us. It is within our differences that we can find beauty not barriers. I’m glad that the Games shine a light on this but we could all do well to keep remembering it.

Loving God I thank you that we are all made equal and yet unique. Help me to respect, learn from, and celebrate one another’s differences.

Amen.


MON 05:45 Farming Today (m00201v2)
10/06/24 Calls for a bigger farming budget, closure of another Cornish fish market, farm vets.

Farmers need more money - so says the National Farmers' Union which says the incoming Government should increase the agriculture budget. Over the next few weeks as well as hearing from politicians about what they propose for farming, the environment and rural communities, we're also going to hear from rural and wildlife groups about what they think incoming MPs should be focusing on. Starting with the NFU which launched its manifesto at the end of last year.

Fishermen in Looe say the closure of the Plymouth Fish Market is a disaster for their industry. Now the day catch has to be sent around 30 miles further, to Brixham Harbour for auction. The Looe Harbour Commissioners are trying to help the fishermen by transporting the fish to Brixham.

Our topic for the week is vets. While they'll still be involved in a emergency, the role of a farm vet has changed a lot over the years. They now work with farmers on whole herd health. But that doesn't make the job any easier and as we'll hear this week recruiting vets in rural areas can be a challenge.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Beatrice Fenton.


MON 05:57 Weather (m00201v4)
Weather reports and forecasts for farmers


MON 06:00 Today (m00201x5)
Election 2024: Manifesto week

Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Daisy Cooper on the party's manifesto launch. Labour focus on nursery provision with Bridget Phillipson, while Chris Philp talks about the Conservative's plans for policing.
President Macron calls a snap election in France after his Renaissance party is defeated in voting for the European Parliament, UNRWA's Director of Planning Sam Rose talks to us about the impact of Israel's operation to free four hostages over the weekend, while the broadcaster Chris van Tulleken and former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson pay tribute to the "immediately likeable" and "genuinely funny" Michael Mosley.
A fluorescent dye could lead to an advance in the treatment of prostate cancer, the historian David Olusoga on a murder in the family, and Radio 2 DJ Jo Wiley and her daughter Coco on the generation-spanning appeal of Taylor Swift.


MON 09:00 Start the Week (m00201x7)
‘Left behind’, but not forgotten

Why are there areas of severe deprivation in prosperous countries, and how can prosperity be shared more equally? Those are the questions the world-renowned development economist Paul Collier explores in his book, Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places. He looks at areas that were once thriving – from the mining towns of South Yorkshire to the bustling city ports in Colombia – to explore widening inequality, but also to offer ideas of economic renewal.

Matthew Xia directs the UK premier of Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morriseau at the Donmar Warehouse (from 28th June to 24th August 2024). Set in Detroit in 2008, the play follows a tight-knit group of workers in one of the city’s last surviving car factories as they struggle to come to terms with its inevitable closure. This is a story about the human cost of a global financial crisis and of enduring hope, against the odds.

Joanna Kusiak calls herself a scholar-activist as she recounts the movement she was involved in that put people and community before speculative finance and profit. Her book, Radically Legal, is the story of how a group of ordinary Berliners used a forgotten clause in the German constitution to take back more than 240,000 apartments from corporate landlords. The book is based on Kusiak’s winning entry to the Nine Dots Prize, which supports the development of book proposals, and was in response to the question set by the prize: ‘why has the rule of law become so fragile?’

Producer: Katy Hickman


MON 09:45 Oliver Burkeman's Inconvenient Truth (m001mbys)
The Nomadic Life

Oliver Burkeman considers the inconvenience of travel and the convenience of being mentally elsewhere. By never fully inhabiting a place we risk loneliness and disconnection. With digital nomad Mark Manson and philosopher Julian Baggini.


MON 10:00 Woman's Hour (m00201x9)
Isabella Tree, Emma Caldwell case, Baroness Delyth Morgan

Nearly 300 rapes and sexual assaults reported by sex workers during the Emma Caldwell murder investigation were not dealt with by police at the time, the BBC has learned. 276 reports of sex crimes made by sex workers working in Glasgow during the murder inquiry were filed away and not acted upon. Investigate journalist Sam Poling, whose work was pivotal in bringing Emma Caldwell’s killer, Iain Packer, to justice in February of this year, joins Clare McDonnell to discuss, along with former Detective Sergeant Willie Mason.

Baroness Delyth Morgan, the chief executive of Breast Cancer Now, the largest breast cancer charity, is stepping down after 23 years. She joined Breakthrough Breast Cancer in 1995, where she led fundraising efforts that resulted in the opening of the UK's first dedicated breast cancer research facility in 1999. The crossbench peer, who sits in the House of Lords, joins Clare McDonnell to reflect on her tenure as well as the treatment and outlook for breast cancer.

Conservationist Isabella Tree tells Clare about turning her failing farmland estate into one of Europe's most significant rewilding experiments. Her bestselling book about the Knepp Estate project has now been made into a film. Later this week, Wilding is released in cinemas.

Virginie Viard, the creative director at Chanel, has announced her resignation from the fashion house. Only three people have held this prestigious position in the brand’s 114-year history: Viard, Karl Lagerfeld, and Coco Chanel. Who is in the frame for this esteemed role? And what will be the impact of a change in creative vision at Chanel on the fashion industry at large? Clare talks to Justine Picardie, writer and biographer of Coco Chanel, and Victoria Moss, fashion director at the Evening Standard.

Presenter: Clare McDonnell
Producer: Dianne McGregor


MON 11:00 Writing the Universe (m00207vm)
In the beginning

From Shakespeare to Milton, writers have long been preoccupied with the birth of the universe, but there's still so much uncertainty about how the cosmos came into being. The phrase 'the big bang' is now part of our everyday language, but the astronomer Fred Hoyle coined the expression in frustration at the idea the universe burst into being and remained adamant throughout his career that it could never have happened.

So has the idea of a big bang ultimately proved unhelpful in explaining how the universe was formed? Philosopher and theoretical physicist Sean Carroll explains that not even scientists can agree what the term means, and says it's still not clear whether the big bang was even the kind of giant explosion many of us imagine.

For cosmologist Carlos Frenk, Dali's melting clocks are the best way of describing a time before time existed, and he explains how art and science are intimately intertwined, while the theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli relies on metaphor to explain concepts that are often mind-bending in their complexity.

With contributions from fellow Infinite Monkey Cage presenter Brian Cox; physicist and philosopher Sean Carroll; astrophysicist Katie Mack; cosmologist Carlos Frenk, and theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli.

Producer: Marijke Peters

Executive Producer: Alexandra Feachem

Soundscape Designer: Jane Watkins

BBC Studios Audio Production


MON 11:45 All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield (m00201xg)
Episode One

A story of friendship, fraud and fine art.

When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of making their mark by dealing art. Their friendship endures for 15 years until one day, Inigo – the most successful dealer of his generation by then – disappears, accused of a fraud so massive and audacious that it shakes the art world to its core.

So, who is Inigo Philbrick and what led to the unravelling of this gifted wunderkind? Why would someone who, by all accounts, had it all, engage in such epic self-sabotage?

In this captivating five-part cautionary tale, his friend Orlando Whitfield attempts to answer these questions. In doing so, he breaks the art world's code of silence, taking us on a dazzling journey to the heart of the contemporary art scene – a place marked by shocking ambition, greed and unrestrained madness.

Read by Hugh Skinner (Fleabag, The Windsors, W1A)
Produced and Abridged by Karen Rose
Sound by David Thomas
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling
Executive Producer: Ros Ward

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4


MON 12:00 News Summary (m00201xk)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 12:04 You and Yours (m00201xm)
Loyalty Cards, Counterfeit Football Shirts, Live Shopping

How easy it to buy a counterfeit football shirt online? As the men’s European football Championships kick off this week we take a look at how the market has grown and why people are buying them.
Supermarket loyalty pricing has been given the thumbs up by consumers, according to a new report by The Grocer magazine. We hear what customers think and take a look at why these types of schemes are proving so popular – and what you should do to make the most of them.
Australia and Thailand have long been the biggest gap year destinations, but new data suggests that more young people are now deciding to stay in the UK on their gap year.
In May there were the most houses up for sale in the last eight years. What does this mean for the housing market?
Would you watch your favourite brand’s live shopping videos? Zara is bringing live shopping broadcasts to the UK after the format proved successful in China. Will it work and is it bringing teleshopping into the digital age?

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON

PRODUCER: CHARLIE FILMER-COURT


MON 12:57 Weather (m00201xp)
The latest weather forecast


MON 13:00 World at One (m00201xr)
Macron gambles on election

After the far-right make gains in EU elections, how should EU leaders respond? Former EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso gives his thoughts. Plus the latest from the UK election campaign including the Liberal Democrat manifesto launch.


MON 13:45 Understand (m00204b0)
The UK Election

The UK Election: 1. How do you get the campaign right?

Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-episode guide to everything that is going on in the election.

Hosted by Adam Fleming, it looks at everything from candidate selection and leader debates, to results day and the difference a manifesto can make, speaking to journalists, election forecasters and people who have worked at the heart of politics.

The series kicks off by taking you inside the campaign trail and asking how parties make it work to their advantage.

This episode was hosted by Adam Fleming, Newscast and Anti-Social, alongside political correspondent and host of Any Questions Alex Forsyth, as well as John McTernan who worked as Tony Blair's Political Secretary and Lee Cain, key strategist for Boris Johnson’s campaign to be prime minister and Downing Street Director of Communications.

Producers: Alix Pickles and Alex Lewis

Production Manager: Janet Staples

Editor: Sam Bonham

Credit: Good Morning Britain for the Boris Johnson in a fridge archive clip.


MON 14:00 The Archers (m00201t7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday]


MON 14:15 Fags, Mags and Bags (m00201xx)
Series 11

Ep2: Grumpy-Pumpy Doo-Dah McGraw

The hit Radio 4 series Fags, Mags & Bags returns with an 11th series with more shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Majhu and his trusty sidekick Dave.

In this episode, Bishop Briggs has a crisis of faith and really questions his future within the church, but a pesky sarcasm demon lurks in Lenzie and The Bish is the only man who can help.

Set in a Scots-Asian corner shop and written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli, the award winning Fags, Mags & Bags has proved a huge hit with the Radio 4 audience. This brand-new series sees a return of all the show’s regular characters, and some guest appearances along the way.

Cast
Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli
Dave: Donald McLeary
Sanjay: Omar Raza
Alok: Susheel Kumar
Bishop Briggs: Michael Redmond
Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson-Nimmo
Mr Hepworth: Tom Urie
Keith Futures: Gavin Mitchell

Producer: Gus Beattie for Gusman Productions
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4


MON 14:45 Gambits (m0011by6)
2: The King

Stephen Mangan continues a new short story series, set in what might seem like and ordinary Essex village, but is anything but. Today, in 'The King', Little Purlington has been gripped by chess fever, but the father of the local chess prodigy struggles to understand his son...

Reader: Stephen Mangan is a British actor, known best for his TV roles in Episodes, I'm Alan Patridge and Green Wing.
Writer: Eley Williams is the author of Attrib. and Other Stories, and a debut novel, The Liar's Dictionary.
Producer: Justine Willett


MON 15:00 A Good Read (m00201xz)
Samantha Harvey and Darran Anderson

QUARTET IN AUTUMN by Barbara Pym, chosen by Samantha Harvey
MRS CALIBAN by Rachel Ingalls, chosen by Harriett Gilbert
PHARMACOPOEIA: A DUNGENESS NOTEBOOK by Derek Jarman, chosen by Darran Anderson

Two award-winning writers share books they love with Harriett Gilbert.

Samantha Harvey is the author of five novels, The Wilderness, All Is Song, Dear Thief ,The Western Wind and, most recently, Orbital. She is also the author of a memoir, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping. Her choice of a good read is a slim novel by Barbara Pym set in 1970s London about the lives of four single people in their sixties who work in an office together. Quartet in Autumn is sharply perceptive about the ways in which we hide from one other and from ourselves.

Darran Anderson is an Irish writer who lives in London. He is the author of Imaginary Cities: A Tour of Dream Cities, Nightmare Cities, and Everywhere in Between; a memoir, Inventory, about growing up during the Troubles; and the forthcoming In the Land of My Enemy. His choice, Pharmacopoeia, brings together fragments of the artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman's writing on nature, gardening and Prospect Cottage, his Victorian fisherman's hut on the shingle at Dungeness.

Harriett's choice is a fantastically strange novel by Rachel Ingalls, published in 1982. In Mrs Caliban, a grieving housewife in a loveless marriage embarks on a heady affair with a green-skinned frogman.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio


MON 15:30 Open Book (m00201y1)
Claire Messud

Claire Messud talks about her new book, This Strange Eventful History - an epic family history set across seven decades and five perspectives.

Plus Kafka's influence on contemporary writing - in story collection A Cage Went In Search Of A Bird. Shahidha talks to author Leone Ross and to Anna Kelly, Publishing Director for Abacus and Virago, who commissioned the work.

And in celebration of Pride Month, Chinese American writer Jiaming Tang on how his love of reading helped him embrace his queerness and connect with his family.

Presenter: Shahidha Bari
Producer: Emma Wallace

Book List - Monday 10 June

This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud
The Last Life by Claire Messud
The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud
A Cage Went in Search of a Bird: Ten Kafkaesque Stories
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Castle by Franz Kafka
Cockroach by Ian McEwan
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Cinema Love by Jiaming Tang
The Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Deltora Quest by Emily Rodda


MON 16:00 The South Asian Shift (m00201y3)
Historically South Asians in the UK have been linked to the Labour Party.
That association for many Muslims goes back to early jobs for immigrants in working towns, unionised industry where Labour politicians like Roy Hattersley were quick to capitalise on a growing source of swing voters in urban areas.
But that old model has changed.
Barnie Choudhury investigates how assumptions about the way these communities vote are being questioned, as new generations vent their anger over Gaza, and loosen the bonds of family influence. And he considers whether the startling increase in diversity in The Conservative Party has any actual impact at the ballot box.
The question facing the country is whether the rock-solid political afflilations of the 1960s are evolving into a new sense of political homelessness.

Presented by Barnie Choudhury
Produced by Kevin Core

There's a full list of candidates in your area on the BBC website.


MON 16:30 The Kitchen Cabinet (m00201y5)
Series 44

Doncaster

Jay Rayner and his rabble of culinary connoisseurs are in Doncaster. Joining Jay are food writers Sumayya Usmani and Tim Hayward, chef Rachel McCormack and food historian Dr Annie Gray.

Whether it be inventive fillings for jacket potatoes or their most loved school dinners, the panel put their minds to a range of kitchen-based queries. They discuss the ins and outs of fish stock, the do’s and don’ts of baking powder, and their most loved ultra-processed foods.

Alongside the fiery debate, Jay chats to Doncaster Fish Market’s youngest fishmonger, Charlotte Jackson, about the history of the market and her top tips for deboning and gutting.

Assistant Producer: Dulcie Whadcock
Producer: Bethany Hocken
A Somethin’ Else production for BBC Radio 4


MON 17:00 PM (m00201y7)
Far-right gains across European elections

After the European elections, what does the shift toward the right mean for Europe? Also, Evan Davis interviews Home Sec James Cleverly ahead of the Conservative manifesto launch.


MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m00201y9)
He faced days of criticism and said he did not mean to cause "hurt or upset"


MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m00201yc)
Series 81

Episode 5

The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. On the panel are Fred MacAulay, Milton Jones, Pippa Evans and Rory Bremner with Jack Dee in the umpire’s chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano.

Producer - Jon Naismith.

A Random production for BBC Radio 4


MON 19:00 The Archers (m00201yf)
Lilian and Paul look over Oliver’s horse Duke, who’s struggling with Strangles. Lilian confides to Paul that she feels she hasn’t managed the situation at The Stables very well – she wouldn’t blame Oliver if he held her entirely responsible for this whole disaster. There’s no guarantee that Duke will survive this. Later when she visits Oliver, he’s understanding and apologises for being snappy last week. Lilian opens up saying she thinks she’s losing her grip by failing to control the spread of Strangles. Oliver knows exactly how she feels – he’s felt like that in the past with Grey Gables, but it turned out alright. With Roy away, Oliver feels that chaos could be one step away again. But we cope, he says! Lilian’s comforted and admits she thought Oliver would shout at her about Duke. She’s not a flimsy woman, but Oliver’s sympathy has made her feel tearful.

Lily and Josh sunbathe in the garden and chat about Paul’s messages from Denise who’s having a great time on holiday. Lily muses that now she’s finished her course for the summer and her placement at Grey Gables is coming to an end, it’s going to be the start of her hot girl summer. She’s going to a spin class at Grey Gables as part of her summer plans to get tanned, then toned. Paul turns up saying he’ll join her at the class as he needs a distraction. They have fun but afterwards Paul receives a text from boyfriend Etienne, wanting to open up their relationship. Paul worries that it might signal the end for him.


MON 19:15 Front Row (m00201yh)
Jon Bon Jovi, Clare Pollard & Marina Walker, Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps

Jon Bon Jovi talks about his band’s new album Forever and their new documentary Thank You, Goodnight on Disney+ which celebrates the band’s 40th anniversary in rock and roll this year.

Clare Pollard’s new book The Modern Fairies is set in 17th century France, where stories of trapped princesses and enchanted beasts are performed at the home of Madame Marie D'Aulnoy, who invented the term “conte de fée” or fairytale. Samira talks to Clare and cultural historian Marina Warner about the importance of pioneers such as D'Aulnoy and Charles Perrault, who brought many of these stories to subversive salons long before the Brothers Grimm.

Viggo Mortensen and Vikki Krieps star in the new western The Dead Don’t Hurt, in which they play an immigrant couple trying to build a new life in Nevada as the American Civil War begins. This is his second film as writer and director.


MON 20:00 The Briefing Room (m001zvwj)
Are Trump's legal cases really a problem for him?

David Aaronovitch and guests discuss Donald Trump's conviction in the hush money case, examine the cases yet to be heard and ask whether any of this hurts his election chances?

Guests:

Anthony Zurcher, BBC North America correspondent
Jack Chin, Professor of Criminal Law at the University of California, Davis
Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science at Brown University

Production team: Caroline Bayley, Miriam Quayyum, Kirsteen Knight and Ben Carter
Editor: Richard Vadon
Production Co-ordinator: Gemma Ashman
Sound engineers: Rod Farquhar


MON 20:30 BBC Inside Science (m001zvwl)
How do we solve antibiotic resistance?

The looming danger of antibiotic resistance may have fallen out of the public consciousness but is still very much in the mind of those in public healthcare and research. As promising new research is published, the University of Birmingham’s Laura Piddock and GP Margaret McCartney get to the bottom of why antibiotic resistance is still so difficult to tackle.

Marine biologist Helen Scales joins us in the studio to talk about her new book “What the Wild Sea Could Be” which uses changes in the Earth’s past to predict what we can expect to happen to our oceans in the coming years.

Cosmologist Andrew Pontzen speculates on what happens in and around the extreme environment of a black hole as news of the first observations of the “plunging zone” comes to light.

And as the EU head to ban smoky flavoured crisps we ask what the science behind this decision is with Food scientist Stuart Farrimond.

Presenter: Marnie Chesterton
Producers: Ella Hubber and Hannah Robins
Researcher: Caitlin Kennedy
Editor: Martin Smith
Production Co-ordinator: Jana Bennett-Holesworth


MON 21:00 Start the Week (m00201x7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 21:45 Assume Nothing: The Shankill Gold Rush (m001kpxn)
The Rush

In the summer of 1969, weeks before the Troubles would ignite, children playing in the rubble of a demolition site struck gold! While searching for treasure hundreds, maybe thousands of gold sovereigns, hidden and forgotten years before, tumbled to the ground from a chimney stack. More than 50 years later, author Glenn Patterson visits the Lower Shankill Road to find out who the coins belonged to. Why were they hidden? And where are they now?

Written and presented by Glenn Patterson
Sound by Bill Maul
Producer Sarah McGlinchey
Executive Editor Andy Martin
A BBC Northern Ireland Production for Radio 4


MON 22:00 The World Tonight (m00201yk)
Will Tory manifesto contain any big surprises?

After what is seen as one of the biggest blunders in recent political history, Rishi Sunak is trying to claw back the initiative. So will there be a big surprise in tomorrow's Tory manifesto that could take the heat off the prime minister?

And as Mr Sunak tells the BBC it has become harder for people to own their own home under the Conservatives, we ask what parties are offering on housing in the election.

Also on the programme:

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is in Israel as the country is engulfed in political chaos. Can he make a difference this time?

And after Emmanuel Macron's shock decision to call a snap parliamentary election we ask whether the French president's gamble is backfiring - and what is drawing so many young people across Europe to the far-right.


MON 22:45 The Photographer by Max Porter (m00201ym)
Episode One: The Girl in the Pink Bikini

"I’m going to try and explain myself. Lynn said she didn’t think a normal biographical approach would get me very far. No point plodding through childhood, school, college, assignments, awards. People can find that on Wikipedia, Lynn said.

She suggested I use my photos. Sometimes actual photos, sometimes my memory of them, or my memory of taking them.

So I’ve chosen five photos. I’m going to try and tell a true story of myself with these five photographs and we’ll end up with Jack. With me, and Jack, and what happened with that."

An original fiction series by Max Porter, author of Lanny, Shy and Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Read by Tim McInnerny.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio


MON 23:00 Limelight (p0b05tgg)
Harland

Harland - Episode 4: Friday

Lucy Catherine's supernatural thriller is set in a new town built on the site of an abandoned village with a violent past. As DI Sarah Ward continues her investigation into the strange events surrounding Evie Bennett's disappearance, her dreams become increasingly entangled with the case.

Sarah ..... Ayesha Antoine
Dan ..... Tyger Drew-Honey
Sadie ..... Melissa Advani
Jim ..... Chris Jack
Lori ..... Grace Cooper Milton
Jess ..... Lizzie Mounter
Lindsay ..... Jasmine Hyde
Pete ..... Michael Begley
Aldo ..... Sam Dale

Sound design by Caleb Knightley
Directed by Toby Swift


MON 23:30 The Bottom Line (m001yy7f)
The Decisions That Made Me A Leader

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: How To Retire Before 30

Evan Davis sits down with Timo Armoo, the founder of social media advertising business Fanbytes, which he set up when he was 21 with two friends.

Aged 27 he sold the company, which connects social media influencers with brands, for an eight-figure sum, saying he can now retire a multi-millionaire.

Timo was born in Hackney in London but moved to Ghana to live with his grandmother when he was 3 months old. He returned to the UK and grew up on a council estate in south London and says he always had this burning feeling that he was destined for more.

Evan asks about the key personal and business-related decisions that got him to where he is today.

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader is a mini-series from The Bottom Line. It features one-on-one interviews with entrepreneurs and business leaders, including Duncan Bannatyne, Martha Lane Fox, and the boss of Depop, Simon Beckerman. All of these episodes are available on BBC Sounds and you can also watch them on BBC iPlayer. To find the series, just search: The Decisions That Made Me A Leader. You can also watch the series on BBC iPlayer. To find the series, just search: The Decisions That Made Me A Leader.

Host: Evan Davis
Producers: Paige Neal-Holder and Farhana Haider
Assistant Editor: Matt Willis
Senior News Editor: Sam Bonham
Commissioning Editor: Hugh Levinson

A BBC News Long Form Audio production.

TUESDAY 11 JUNE 2024

TUE 00:00 Midnight News (m00201ys)
National and international news from BBC Radio 4


TUE 00:30 All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield (m00201xg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 on Monday]


TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m00201yv)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (m00201yx)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.


TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m00201yz)
The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping


TUE 05:30 News Briefing (m00201z1)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4


TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m00201z3)
Eric Liddel

A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Rev Carolyn Skinner

Good morning.

This year marks 100 years since Eric Liddell won 400m gold at the Paris Olympics back in 1924.

Liddell was a 100m runner, but because of his Christian faith, he refused to compete on a Sunday, which ruled out the Olympic 100m in Paris. Instead, he switched events to train for the 400m – and not only won but broke the Olympic and world records too. It’s a tale made famous by the film Chariots of Fire.

As well as his athletic achievements, Liddell is also remembered for the values he upheld throughout his life, of passion, compassion, and integrity. He was a man who stood by his principles regardless of the pressures placed upon him by others.

It’s easy to talk about ‘doing the right thing’ until you are faced with the sacrifice it might require. If our life is going to make an impact on others, they can’t merely hear our convictions spoken; they must see our convictions lived. Who or what controls how we live and to what extent are we prepared to hold on to what we believe is true?

In the Bible there are many wisdom statements, one such says that “the integrity of the upright guides them”. This is a challenge for each of us to consider whether we are guided by our moral compass or by other influences around us. Living by conviction is hard. It will challenge us. But it will also give our life power and purpose and leave a lasting legacy.

Mighty God, help me to pursue positive values in my life, to model them to others, to live a life of integrity, and to have the courage of my convictions even when I am challenged the most.

Amen


TUE 05:45 Farming Today (m00201z5)
11/06/24 - Graphene from slurry, bluetongue and vet recruitment

In a world first, methane from slurry on a dairy farm in Somerset is being broken down and turned into hydrogen gas and graphene. The farm involved is Worthy Farm, which hosts the Glastonbury Festival. It already has an anaerobic digester which uses slurry from their dairy cows to make methane which is used to make electricity, and now also used to make graphene. We find out how it all works.

Last year tens of thousands of sheep in the Netherlands died after contracting bluetongue - a virus transmitted by biting midges. Famers in England are being warned to be vigilant for signs of the disease, and scientists at the Pirbright Institute in Surrey are studying midges to try to predict what might happen this summer.

And a shortage of vets means recruiting can be a challenge - and it can be even harder for practices in remote areas. We visit from practice in Fort William in the West Highlands who are finding it difficult to recruit a new member of staff.

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


TUE 06:00 Today (m0020208)
Election 2024: Mishal Husain and Amol Rajan

Live coverage of the election campaign, plus Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day.


TUE 09:00 Being Roman with Mary Beard (m002020b)
12. The Wolf of Via Vesuvio

Lucius Caecilius Iucundus kept the economic wheels of Pompeii well greased. He was a middle man doing very nicely- part money-lender, part auctioneer, part banker, all hustler.

Thanks to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the preservation of the ruins of Pompeii, we can still visit his house, look at his bronze portrait, and read his account books. 150 tablets of receipts, carbonised in the destruction of Pompeii, lead us through the deals that keep the city’s economy moving. If you want to buy a Ferrari-level horse but only have the cash for a Fiesta then Iucundus is your man. It might look like dry stuff, but it's as revealing of real life as snooping on someone’s Paypal account or leafing through their credit card receipts might be now. Never mind imperial plunder and luxury lifestyles, it’s a glimpse of how the economy works in a regular town.

Mary Beard visits Iucundus's home and talks to the novelist Robert Harris about his fascination with the Pompeii moneylender.

Producer: Alasdair Cross

Expert Contributors: Sophie Hay, Parco Archeologico di Pompei; Matthew Nicholls, Oxford University

Special thanks to National Archaeological Museum, Naples and Parco Archeologico di Pompei


TUE 09:30 All in the Mind (m002020d)
Tetris as therapy; internet addiction and teens; the psychology of secrets

You probably know the video game Tetris, perhaps you’ve even played it, but have you ever thought about it as therapy? Claudia Hammond talks to Professor Emily Holmes from Uppsala University, about her work using Tetris as a psychological intervention for unwanted memories. During the pandemic many ICU workers found they were experiencing intrusive memories about the traumatic events they had experienced. Prof Holmes and her colleague, consultant clinical psychologist Dr Julie Highfield, ran a trial offering Tetris therapy to ICU workers and showed they could reduce intrusive memories significantly.

Next, you may have seen headlines this week suggesting that teenage brains could be worryingly and irrevocably changed by excessive internet use. It is the latest in a recent surge of concern about teenagers' relationship to technology. Claudia and studio guest, Sarah king from Sussex University, dig into the research and discover that the evidence isn’t as worrying as the headlines make it sound.

And do you have a secret? Apparently most of us do and we can't resist thinking about them even though that rumination can impact our wellbeing. Claudia discusses the psychology of secrets with Dr Michael Slepian from Columbia University in New York.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond
Producer: Lorna Stewart
Production Coordinator: Siobhan Maguire
Studio Manager: Emma Harth
Content Editor: Holly Squire

ICU workers testimony clips taken from https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000j22z


TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour (m002020g)
Naomi Klein, Thornaby FC, folk singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan, author Lucy Foley

Thornaby Football Club’s committee is facing criticism after they announced that the Teeside-based club would be dropping all of its women’s section. First team manager Abbey Lyle tells Clare McDonnell what this means for the women and girls in the club, the support they’ve received since, and what it says about grassroots women’s sport. Clare also discusses the issues with Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson, former Paralympian and Chair of Sport Wales and the CEO of Women in Sport, Stephanie Hilborne.

Clare talks to the Canadian writer and social activist Naomi Klein about her book Doppelganger, now out in the UK in paperback. The book is a result of her being mistaken for another Naomi – Wolf, for years. Naomi Klein uses her doppelganger as a metaphor to explain many of the issues facing the modern world, from climate change and politics, to obsession with wellness and the ways we parent our children.

British writer Lucy Foley began her career writing historical fiction before making an extremely successful switch to crime and thrillers, and with New York Times bestsellers The Paris Apartment and The Guest List under her belt, Lucy has sold more than five and half million books. She joins Clare to discuss her latest novel, The Midnight Feast, which takes place during the opening of a luxury wellness retreat and explores the clash between the insta-ready super-rich and some very disgruntled locals.

Grammy-award winning American folk singer/songwriter Aoife O’Donovan has released three critically-acclaimed solo albums, is co-founder and front woman of the string band, Crooked Still, and is also one third of the all-female group I’m With Her. Her latest album, All My Friends, is inspired by the passage of the 19th amendment and the evolving landscape of women’s rights in America over the past century. She joins Clare to discuss the themes and to perform live in the studio.

Presented by Clare McDonnell
Producer: Louise Corley


TUE 11:00 Add to Playlist (m001zw60)
Series 9

Emma Rawicz and Gavin Higgins take us from Aldeburgh to Bicycle Town

Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Emma Rawicz, and composer Gavin Higgins, join Anna Phoebe and Jeffrey Boakye as they add the next five tracks.

From a Muddy Waters masterpiece, they take us to Aldeburgh for Benjamin Britten's tragic tale, before jumping on their bicycles and heading to Copenhagen for an audacious saxophone composition.

The five tracks in this week's playlist:

Mannish Boy by Muddy Waters
The Passacaglia from Peter Grimes by Benjamin Britten
Bicycle Town, Pt 1 by Marius Neset
Egyptian Reggae by Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers
Bad Reputation by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Other music in this episode:

Eejit by Blazin' Fiddles
Concerto Grosso written by Gavin Higgins
Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
I'm a Man by Bo Diddley
None Shall Escape the Judgement by Earl Zero
I Love Rock 'n Roll by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

Gavin's BBC Radio 3 Sunday Feature - Everything Stops:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zgft


TUE 11:45 All That Glitters by Orlando Whitfield (m002020j)
Episode Two

A story of friendship, fraud and fine art.

When Orlando Whitfield first meets Inigo Philbrick, they are students dreaming of making their mark by dealing art. Their friendship endures for 15 years until one day, Inigo – the most successful dealer of his generation by then – disappears, accused of a fraud so massive and audacious that it shakes the art world to its core.

So, who is Inigo Philbrick and what led to the unravelling of this gifted wunderkind? Why would someone who, by all accounts, had it all, engage in such epic self-sabotage?

In this captivating five-part cautionary tale, his friend Orlando Whitfield attempts to answer these questions. In doing so, he breaks the art world's code of silence, taking us on a dazzling journey to the heart of the contemporary art scene – a place marked by shocking ambition, greed and unrestrained madness.

Reader Hugh Skinner (Fleabag, W1A, The Windsors)
Produced and Abridged by Karen Rose
Sound by David Thomas
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling
Executive Producer: Ros Ward

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 12:00 News Summary (m002020l)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


TUE 12:04 You and Yours (m002020n)
Call You & Yours: Over-tourism

Do you live somewhere spoiled by over tourism, or have you visited somewhere like that?

In parts of Europe locals are protesting about it but there are worries here too.

Each summer some towns say they are 'full-up'.

Are there places, here or abroad, you love to visit, but now avoid. If you live in a tourist hot-spot how has life changed.

Let us know

Email us at youandyours@bbc.co.uk and leave a telephone number where we can contact you.

From 11am on Tuesday you can call us on 03700 100 444

PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON

PRODUCER: KEVIN MOUSLEY


TUE 12:57 Weather (m002020q)
The latest weather forecast


TUE 13:00 World at One (m002020s)
Conservative Manifesto Launch

The Conservatives reveal their manifesto. Analysis and reaction. Also, knife crime prevention as judge decides whether to name 12 year old killers.


TUE 13:45 Understand (m00204b3)
The UK Election

The UK Election: 2. How are candidates selected?

Understand the UK Election is a simple 10-part guide to everything that is going on in the election, hosted by Adam Fleming.

In this episode, Adam looks at how candidates are selected and why it’s such a critical moment for the parties.

This episode was hosted by Adam Fleming, from Newscast and AntiSocial, with Michael Crick, political journalist and founder of @TomorrowsMPs.

Producers: Alix Pickles and Alex Lewis

Production Manager: Janet Staples

Editor: Sam Bonham


TUE 14:00 The Archers (m00201yf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday]


TUE 14:15 Drama on 4 (m002020x)
Orwell vs Kafka: Franz and Felice

By Ed Harris

An intimate and mischievously punk telling of Franz Kafka’s most significant romantic relationship. Franz and Felice follows the twists and turns of the writer’s relationship with Felice Bauer, how events in their relationship burst violently into Kafka’s stories and imagination, and how his stories responded. And how everything, real and invented, played out in the shadow of his father, the dark presence always ready to enter from the room next door.

Narrator . . . . . Anton Lesser
Franz . . . . . Ashley Margolis
Felice . . . . . Abigail Weinstock
Ottla . . . . . Anna Spearpoint
Guide . . . . . Clare Corbett
Max . . . . . Ian Dunnett Jnr
Grete . . . . . Lily Anne Lefkow

Production co-ordinator: Ben Hollands
Sound design: Peter Ringrose
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

A BBC Studios Audio production

Ed Harris is an award-winning dramatist and comedy writer. He has had over 20 audio plays broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4, as well as three series of his popular wartime sitcom, Dot. His work has won numerous awards including two Writers’ Guild Awards, a BBC Audio Drama Award and a Sony Gold/Radio Academy Award. His stage plays include Strangers Like Me (National Theatre Connections), Mongrel Island (Soho Theatre), Never Ever After (shortlisted for the Meyer-Whitworth Award) and What The Thunder Said (Theatre Centre). He is a current Royal Literary Fellow at Brighton University and Writer-in-Residence for the Oxford Kafka 2024 programme at Oxford University.


TUE 15:00 The Gatekeepers (m001w206)
1. We Are as Gods

For years something strange has been happening online, but most of us have no idea what’s really going on.

Ethnic conflict in Myanmar. A chemistry professor is killed in Ethiopia. A teenager dies in her bedroom in London. A mob storms the Capitol in Washington DC.

And that’s the moment that catches Jamie Bartlett’s eye. A few days after the riot, on January 9th 2021, the outgoing leader of the United States is suspended on social media. First Twitter, (renamed X), and then Facebook. A President silenced. It’s a glimpse behind the curtain. For the first time millions of us can see the power of technology companies.

They can delete you. They can amplify you. They can change your life. Social media has conquered the world.

Jamie Bartlett follows the roots of this story back to San Francisco : the home of Big Tech, where he meets one of the early pioneers of social media who tells him about a strange hand bound book, passed around hippy communes in the summer of love, and how it turned the world upside down.

Archive Credits: Wolf of Wall Street, Paramount Pictures; Telecommunications Bill sign in, C-Span 1996; Bloomberg's TicTic 2019; Fox News 2020

Presenter: Jamie Bartlett
Producer: Caitlin Smith
Sound Design: Eloise Whitmore
Music: Jeremy Warmsley
Story Consultant: Kirsty Williams
Researchers: Rachael Fulton, Elizabeth Ann Duffy and Juliet Conway
Executive Producer: Peter McManus
Commissioning editor: Dan Clarke.
A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4

New episodes released on Mondays. If you’re in the UK, listen to the latest episodes of The Gatekeepers, first on BBC Sounds: bbc.in/3Ui661u


TUE 15:30 Thinking Allowed (m002020z)
The politics of the body

The politics of the body: movement and posture. Laurie Taylor talks to Matthew Beaumont, Professor in English Literature at UCL, about how race, class, and politics influence the way we move: You can tell a lot about people by how they walk. Through a series of dialogues with thinkers and walkers, his book explores the relationship between freedom and the human body. Also, Beth Linker, Associate Professor in the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania discusses the posture panic which once seized America - a decades-long episode in which it was widely accepted as scientific fact that Americans were suffering from an epidemic of slouching, with potentially catastrophic health consequences. Tracing the rise and fall of this socially manufactured epidemic, she reveals how this period influenced the 20th century eugenics movement and the belief that sitting or standing up straight was a sign of moral rectitude.

Producer: Jayne Egerton


TUE 16:00 Poetry Please (m0020211)
Sean Hewitt

Roger McGough returns with more listener poetry requests.

Produced by Sally Heaven for BBC Audio


TUE 16:30 When It Hits the Fan (m0020213)
Sunak's D-Day blunder, is Farage using dog whistles?, and Mike Lynch

David and Simon analyse what is arguably the biggest PR moment in British electoral history - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's decision to leave the D-Day celebrations in Normandy early. Simon takes us behind the scenes at Number 10 to try to work out exactly how things went so wrong for the PM.

Nigel Farage - he's been accused of 'dog whistle' politics. What are they, and how do they work?

And - the acquittal of tech tycoon Mike Lynch. What are the lessons to be learned from surviving the nine circles of media hell?

Producer: Eve Streeter
Editor: Sarah Teasdale
Executive Producer: William Miller
Music by Eclectic Sounds
A Raconteur production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 17:00 PM (m0020215)
Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines.


TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News (m0020217)
Rishi Sunak's offer promised tax cuts, help to buy homes and falling immigration


TUE 18:30 Joe Lycett's Obsessions (m000dgyy)
Series 2

Chelsea Norris and Jack Carroll

Joe Lycett returns to explore the nation's weird and wonderful obsessions by getting to know a selection of famous and not so famous guests, recorded in Manchester. Joining Joe on the sofa this week, BBC Manchester presenter Chelsea Norris shares her love of boxing, whilst comedian Jack Carroll reveals his obsession with the TV show ‘The Sopranos’. Joe also welcomes members of the public to share their secret passions, as well as this week's VOP (very obsessed person), Alex Bidolak, who through his love of Lego became an official Master Model Builder.

Joe Lycett's Obsessions was written and performed by Joe Lycett, with material from James Kettle and additional material from Catherine Brinkworth and Kat Sadler. The production coordinator was Damilola Mabadeje. The producer was Suzy Grant and it was a BBC Studios Audio production.


TUE 19:00 The Archers (m0020219)
Lily and Josh discuss Paul’s boyfriend Etienne, who’s asked for an open relationship. Paul’s really down about it. Josh thinks Paul would be better off without dull Etienne and they wonder what they can do to help. They decide that it’s best to keep their distance - Paul only has to ask if he needs any support.

Lilian visits Paul at the Vets to discuss Oliver’s horse Duke, who’s not showing any signs of improvement from his Strangles infection. Lilian notices Paul’s not himself and asks Josh what’s wrong. When Josh says it’s boyfriend trouble, Lilian points out that Paul’s lucky to have Lily and Josh as housemates to shore him up. Later Lily agrees with Josh that it would be better if they reached out to Paul.

George tells Emma that someone called Meg Mellor really took to Bartleby at the County Show on Sunday. He’s invited her over to see Bartleby in his home environment – there might be a commercial opportunity in it, like sponsorship for Bartleby or buying online advertising around George’s posts. She might even make a charitable donation which would help with vets fees. Emma’s surprised when she discovers Meg’s visiting today. When she arrives early, Emma learns that Meg wants to buy Bartleby. She runs a sanctuary for veteran horses, and she’d really like Bartleby to be a companion pony. Ed thinks they should tell Meg to sling her hook but is stopped in his tracks when he hears how much she’s willing to pay for Bartleby.


TUE 19:15 Front Row (m002021c)
Liverpool's Taylor Swift Art Trail, Les Dennis, the state of UK festivals

As Liverpool enters the Swiftularity with the arrival of the arrival of the record-breaking phenomenon that is Taylor Swift and her Eras world tour, Nick visits the Taylor Town Trail - the new art trail dedicated to the singer's albums/eras - in the city centre and talks to one of the trail's co-producer Rhiannon Newman from Culture Liverpool, Kirsten Little - artistic director of the trail, and three of the artists involved in the project - Simon Armstrong, Rachel Smith-Evans, and Catherine Rogers.

Les Dennis makes his Shakespeare debut as Malvolio in a new production of Twelfth Night directed by Jimmy Fairhurst. Almost as soon as the final preview performance ends, Nick joins them backstage at Shakespeare North Playhouse to discuss finding the heart in one of Shakespeare's least-loved characters, and why songs by the Arctic Monkeys Blondie, and Charlie Chaplin have an important role in this retelling of the play set in the music industry.

As the music festival season begins, news that 28 festivals have been cancelled or postponed with that number expected to rise to 100 by the end of the year prompted Front Row to reflect on the current state of music festivals in the UK with Nick Morgan, CEO of We Group - a live events production company, who has launched the Your Festival Needs You campaign, and BBC Radio 6 Music journalist and festival aficionado Georgie Rogers.

Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene Akalawu


TUE 20:00 The Public Philosopher (m002021f)
The Ethics of AI

Is extracting the voices of dead musicians, digitally de-aging living actors, or relying on AI algorithms to pick a future husband or wife creepy or cool?

Professor Michael Sandel of Harvard University - Radio 4's 'Public Philosopher' - discusses these and other questions with an audience at the Hay Festival in Wales.

Producer: Ben Carter
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
Sound Engineer: Andy Fell
Production co-ordinators: Janet Staples and Liam Morrey

Archive credits:

Apple Music: The Beatles, Now and Then
Intuition Robotics: ElliQ


TUE 20:40 In Touch (m002021h)
Alt-Text in News; Goalball Saved My Life

Alt-Text is an image description for those who use screen readers. It is an important accessibility tool that is often misused or is missing entirely, impacting on visually impaired people's experiences when consuming online content. The BBC's Johny Cassidy was instrumental in creating new mandatory training and guidance for journalists so that they can consider and begin to implement meaningful descriptions of images, graphs, maps and graphics etc in the content that they create. The guidance is also available for journalists and content creators outside of the BBC. Johny describes why and how this all came about and Holly Tuke, a visually impaired blogger and content creator, describes how important Alt-Text is to her online experience.

Gareth Mainwaring is from West Wales and has recently discovered goalball. It is a sport designed specifically for people with visual impairments and it has had a profound impact on Gareth's life. He and his mum Helen describe how the sport, as well as making Gareth more active, has created more opportunities.

If you are interested in getting involved in goalball, you can find details of Goalball UK's taster sessions via the following link: https://goalballuk.com/the-sport/taster-sessions/

Presenter: Peter White
Producer: Fern Lulham
Production Coordinator: David Baguley
Website image description: Peter White sits smiling in the centre of the image and he is wearing a dark green jumper. Above Peter's head is the BBC logo (three separate 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 is a darker blue and the other is a lighter blue.


TUE 21:00 The Law Show (m001zv0x)
Sewage-polluted waters, Divorce and financial orders, Leasehold reform

Weekly conversation led by Dr Joelle Grogan about the law stories making the news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on everyone in the UK. Whether it’s explaining a new law or seeking clarity for you on a legal issue, The Law Show will be your guide.

This week:

Water: from the cryptosporidium outbreak in tap water in Devon, to E. coli bacteria in the Thames, and sewage in rivers, lakes and seas across the country - what does the law say about clean water? What obligations do water companies have, who enforces this, and who keeps an eye on the enforcers? Do we have a right to clean water to drink or swim in? Joelle explores all this and more with Angus Evers, Partner and Head of Environment Law at Shoosmiths, and with Dr Charlotte Proudman, a barrister and academic.

Divorce: in England and Wales, the only divorce available now is no-fault divorce, as a result of a law change that came into force last year. As family law solicitor Tracey Moloney points out though, you also need to get a financial order. If not, your ties haven't been fully severed, and your ex-spouse could make a financial claim in future. In Scotland, you need to prove irretrievable breakdown of the marriage to get a divorce, or that one of you is applying for a gender recognition certificate. In Northern Ireland, you need to cite reasons like adultery, unreasonable behaviour or desertion.

And: the Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 was the last bill that became law just before parliament was dissolved for the general election. Under the Act, which covers England and Wales, leaseholders will gain more rights. For example, it will become easier and cheaper for them to buy their freehold, or extend leases to 990 years. There is also a ban on the sale of all new leasehold houses. But, the Act didn't cap, let alone abolish, ground rent, and hasn't come into force yet...

Producers: Ravi Naik and Arlene Gregorius
Editor: Tara McDermott
Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele


TUE 21:30 The Bottom Line (m001zvw2)
Electric Cars: Made in China?

China produces more than half the world's electric vehicles and is scaling up exports, but there are concerns its manufacturers would have an unfair advantage in the UK, which could spell disaster for domestic firms.

Evan Davis and guests discuss the UK's dilemma around Chinese EVs - do we open our doors to the competition, which might mean cheaper electric cars for consumers and a quicker transition to net zero, or should the government follow the USA and EU in considering import restrictions to protect domestic car-makers?

Plus, do buyers really care where their EV is made, and will 100% of new car sales be electric by 2035?

Evan is joined by:

Ginny Buckley, editor-in-chief and founder, electrifying.com;
Victor Zhang, UK country director of Omoda and Jaecoo (made by Chery);
James Taylor, UK managing director, Vauxhall;
Fraser Brown, managing director, MotorVise

PRODUCTION TEAM:

Producer: Simon Tulett
Researcher: Drew Hyndman
Editor: Matt Willis
Sound: Neil Churchill
Production co-ordinator: Rosie Strawbridge


TUE 22:00 The World Tonight (m002021k)
Rishi Sunak promises tax cuts in Tory manifesto

The Prime Minister unveils the Conservatives' General Election manifesto, with a promise to reduce the tax take by 17 billion pounds.

Also in the programme:

A US court has found Hunter Biden, the son of US president Joe Biden, guilty on all counts in his federal gun crimes case, will it influence how Americans vote in November?

And, previously unseen diary of Christine Keeler, the woman at the heart of the Profumo affair, is to go up for auction. We spoke to her son Seymour Platt.


TUE 22:45 The Photographer by Max Porter (m002021m)
Episode Two: Portrait of My Mother

"I’m going to try and explain myself. Lynn said she didn’t think a normal biographical approach would get me very far. No point plodding through childhood, school, college, assignments, awards. People can find that on Wikipedia, Lynn said.

She suggested I use my photos. Sometimes actual photos, sometimes my memory of them, or my memory of taking them.

So I’ve chosen five photos. I’m going to try and tell a true story of myself with these five photographs and we’ll end up with Jack. With me, and Jack, and what happened with that."

An original fiction series by Max Porter, author of Lanny, Shy and Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Read by Tim McInnerny.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for BBC Audio


TUE 23:00 Uncanny (m002021p)
Series 4

S4. Case 7: The Burnt Man

Myke is visited by a nightmarish apparition as a child. The experience is so troubling that he is haunted afterwards by vivid memories of what he saw that night. But as Myke grows older, he begins to wonder why the apparition appeared to him. Could the answer lie in the house they lived in?

Written and presented by Danny Robins
Expert: Ciaran O'Keeffe
Editing and sound design: Charlie Brandon-King
Music: Evelyn Sykes
Theme music by Lanterns on the Lake
Script editor: Dale Shaw
Development producer: Sarah Patten
Production manager: Tam Reynolds
Commissioning executive: Paula McDonnell
Commissioning editor: Rhian Roberts
Produced by Danny Robins and Simon Barnard

A Bafflegab and Uncanny Media production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 23:30 The Bottom Line (m00204bh)
The Decisions That Made Me A Leader

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader: Dragon's Den's Duncan Bannatyne

Duncan Bannatyne grew up in relatively poor circumstances in Clydebank, Scotland. He spent his 20s trying almost everything, before launching an actual business career with an ice cream van.

He rapidly expanded that business before setting up a chain of care homes. His business interests include the chain of health clubs bearing his name, Bannatyne.

He is probably best known as a no nonsense business investor on Dragons' Den. He says when you have no qualifications, no references, the best option is starting your own business because no one can stop you.

Evan asks about the key personal and business-related decisions that got him to where he is today.

The Decisions That Made Me A Leader is a mini-series from The Bottom Line. It features one-on-one interviews with entrepreneurs and business leaders, including Duncan Bannatyne, Martha Lane Fox, and the boss of Depop, Simon Beckerman. All of these episodes are available on BBC Sounds and you can also watch them on BBC iPlayer. To find the series, just search: The Decisions That Made Me A Leader. You can also watch the series on BBC iPlayer. To find the series, just search: The Decisions That Made Me A Leader.

Host: Evan Davis
Producers: Paige Neal-Holder and Farhana Haider
Assistant Editor: Matt Willis
Senior News Editor: Sam Bonham
Commissioning Editor: Hugh Levinson

A BBC News Long Form Audio production.