BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 05/06/2008

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

News Briefing

News Briefing: 05/06/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 05/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 05/06/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Leslie Griffiths.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 05/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 05/06/2008

News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.

Fanning Today

Presented by Anna Hill. Producer Alasdair Cross

Today

Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day

Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including religious reflections from Thought for the Day at 0748

Today: 05/06/2008

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Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.

With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. 
6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports News 
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament 
With Sean Curran and Robert Orchard. 
7.48 Thought for the Day With Vishvapani. 
8.31  Yesterday in Parliament

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

In Our Time: Lysenkoism

Lysenkoism

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Melvyn Bragg examines the destructive career of the Soviet geneticist Trofim Lysenko.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the dark world of science under Joseph Stalin through the career of his chief geneticist Trofim Lysenko.

Melvyn Bragg and guests delve into the dark world of genetics under Joseph Stalin in discussing the career of Trofim Lysenko. In 1928, as America lurched towards the Wall Street Crash, Joseph Stalin revealed his master plan - nature was to be conquered by science, Russia to be made brutally, glitteringly modern and the world transformed by communist endeavour.Into the heart of this vision stepped Trofim Lysenko, a self-taught geneticist who promised to turn Russian wasteland into a grain-laden Garden of Eden. Today, Lysenko is a byword for fraud but in Stalin’s Russia his outlandish ideas about genetic inheritance and evolution became law. They reveal a world of science distorted by ideology, where ideas were literally a matter of life and death. To disagree with Lysenko risked the gulag and yet he destroyed Soviet Agriculture and damaged, perhaps irreparably, the Soviet Union’s capacity to fight and win the Cold War. With  Robert Service, Professor of Russian History at the University of Oxford; Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London; Catherine Merridale, Professor of Contemporary History at Queen Mary, University of London.

Lysenkoism. The geneticist Trofim Lysenko promised Stalin that he would revolutionise Soviet agriculture in the 1940s but in the end the USSR was forced to import grain from the USA. Melvyn Bragg discusses the Cold 
War and Soviet science with Robert Service, Catherine Merridale and Steve Jones. 
Producer James Cook Shortened repeat at 9.30pm

Book of the Week

Serialised book readings, featuring works from various genres

Serialised book readings, featuring works of non-fiction, biography, autobiography, travel, diaries, essays, humour and history

Book of the Week: Clean

Book of the Week: Clean: Episode 4

Episode 4

Clean

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Public baths arrived during the Victorian age.

Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing. Public baths arrived during the Victorian age, narrowing the gap between the great unwashed and the great perfumed.

Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing, read by Tamsin Greig

Daily Service

Led by Becky Harris. Praise to the Living God (Leoni). Ruth 4, vv 7-17. Praise the Lord! (Leddington Wright ). There Is a Higher Throne (Getty, arr Leddington Wright ).

4/5. By Katherine Ashenburg. The Victorian age ushered in public baths, and both the great unwashed and the great perfumed shared the chance to become clean. For details see Monday Repeated at 12.30am

Woman's Hour

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

Woman's Hour: Harassment and stalking law; Male libido

Harassment and stalking law; Male libido

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Harassment and stalking law; Male libido

How effective is the law covering harassment? With Jenni Murray.

How effective is the law covering harassment? Plus the Coronation of Poppaea discussed, and is it true that men would have sex all the time if possible? With Jenni Murray.

With Jenni Murray. 
10.45  Jane and Prudence 9/10 The Woman's Hour drama. For details see drama repeat at 7.45pm

Test Match Special

England v New Zealand 
Commentary on the first day of the Third 
Test from Trent Bridge by Jonathan Agnew , Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Bryan Waddle , with summaries by Vic Marks , Jeremy Coney and Geoffrey Boycott. 
Producer Adam Mountford approximate times  
TV highlights are on Five at 7.15pm

From Our Own Correspondent

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers.

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories from around the world.

From Our Own Correspondent: 05/06/2008

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Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.

BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.

5/9. The stories behind global headlines. presented by Kate Adie. Producer Tony Grant

Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament

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Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the legacy of Africa's first great post-colonial novel.

4 Extra Debut. Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the legacy of Africa's first great post-colonial novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. From June 2008.

Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the legacy of Africa's first great post-colonial novel. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is a novel set at the turn of the century in what is now Nigeria, telling the story of a society which lives close to the rhythms and drumbeats of nature. Fifty years after its publication, the book still enjoys a huge worldwide appeal.

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Things Fall Apart

Zino Saro-Wiwa explores the legacy of Africa's first great post-colonial novel. 50 years after its initial publication. Chinua Achebe's Lament is set at the turn of the last century and tells the story of a Nigerian society living close to the rhythms and drumbeats of nature. Producer Mark Rickards

You and Yours

You and Yours: 05/06/2008

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Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and Peter White.

Weather

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World at One

Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.

World at One: 05/06/2008

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National and international news with Martha Kearney.

The World at One

Open Country

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of Britain

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles

Open Country: 31/05/2008

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Elinor Goodman visits Eymet in the Dordogne, home to many expatriate Brits.

Countryside magazine. Elinor Goodman visits Eymet in the Dordogne to find out why so many Brits have decided to make this part of rural France their home.

Elinor Goodman travels to Eymet in the Dordogne. Repeated from Saturday at 6.07am

The Archers

An intense and gripping week of events unfolds in Ambridge. Listen to all the drama here.

The Archers: 04/06/2008

04/06/2008

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Helen feels sorry for Oliver. Pat asks about the theory of mineral deficiency in badgers - he has nothing to lose so is laying down mineral licks to see what happens. They're trying the new cheese, which  Pat likes, but Oliver's disappointed. He wouldn't want to market it as Sterling Gold. Helen suggests Sterling Silver to keep the brand alive. Oliver's still not keen but agrees to let Helen arrange a tasting. 

Clarrie wants to help Pat, so she organises a petition, starting in The Bull. Lilian's not happy but Clarrie tells her she can't avoid what's going on. Lilian insists the dispute's with Borchester Land, not Matt. Oliver has no qualms about signing and allows Clarrie to take the petition to Grey Gables.

Tom and Brenda have agreed Will can show Clarrie and Eddie what he's done to 1, The Green. Clarrie's proud of his achievements but isn't pleased to see Will spoiling George. Will's more worried about Brian, who no longer seems to trust Will. Clarrie compares Brian with Matt and blames it on their wealth. Will knows it's not easy. When the likes of Crawford and Brian call the shots no-one else stands a chance.

Episode written by Caroline Harrington.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Play

Drama on 4: Jim and Tonic

02/01/2007

Jim and Tonic

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Dan Jamieson's magical modern version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Dan Jamieson's magical modern version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice about a trainee gin distiller and his unrequited love.

Afternoon Play: Jim and Tonic

By Dan Jamieson. A modern version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice about a trainee gin distiller and his unrequited love.   Producer/Director Marc  Beeby

Questions, Questions

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

Problem-solving programme which addresses the intriguing and seemingly imponderable questions posed by everday life

Questions, Questions: 05/06/2008

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Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

10/10. Stewart Henderson presents the problem-solving programme providing answers to life's niggling dilemmas. Producer Sarah Cuddon PHONE: [number removed] (calls from landlines cost no more than 8p per minute) Lines are open from 1.30pm; email: [address removed]

Radio 4 Appeal

Highlighting a charity and appealing for donations. The presenters donate their time.

A weekly programme highlighting the work of a charity and appealing for donations. The presenters give their time without payment.

Radio 4 Appeal: 01/06/2008

01/06/2008

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Ian McKellen appeals on behalf of The Prostate Cancer Charity.

Ian McKellen appeals on behalf of The Prostate Cancer Charity. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Spy Stories

Afternoon Reading: Spy Stories: Episode 4: The Rocking-Horse Spy

Episode 4: The Rocking-Horse Spy

Spy Stories

The Rocking-Horse Spy

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By Ted Allbeury. A chance encounter at the Science Museum leads to a moral dilemma.

By Ted Allbeury. A chance encounter at the Science Museum leads to subterfuge and a disturbing moral dilemma. Read by Alfred Molina.

Classic tales of deception and betrayal.

By Ted Allbeury.

A chance encounter at the Science Museum leads to subterfuge and a disturbing moral dilemma. 

Read by Alfred Molina.

A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4.

4/5. The Rocking-Horse Spy. By Ted Allbeury. A chance encounter at the Science Museum leads to subterfuge and a moral dilemma. Read by Alfred Molina. Director Martin Jarvis For details see Monday

Cosmic Quest

Cosmic Quest: The Earth Moves

The Earth Moves

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Copernicus had the crazy idea that the Earth was not at the centre of the universe.

Astronomer Heather Couper considers the impact of Copernicus's idea that the Earth was not at the centre of the universe.

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy

Astronomer Heather Couper charts the history of our growing understanding of the universe and progress of astronomy.

9/30. Heather Couper recalls the contribution of Nicolaus Copernicus, who was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically based, heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the centre of the universe. His close association with the religious community meant he was reluctant to publish such a heretical suggestion, and did so only in 1543, the year of his death.
(For details see Monday)

Bookclub

Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Bookclub: Jan Morris

Jan Morris

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Jan Morris joins James Naughtie and readers to talk about her portrait of Venice.

Jan Morris joins James Naughtie and readers to talk about her portrait of the city of Venice. The book, simply entitled Venice, was written nearly fifty years ago.

Material World

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: Telescope - Randomness

Telescope - Randomness

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Quentin Cooper looks at materials that can map decay in a child's teeth.

Quentin Cooper talks to the inventors of novel materials which, when wrapped around a child's teeth, can map the areas where decay might be setting in.

E-ELT: The European Extremely Large Telescope
It could be the size of the Royal Albert Hall’s dome, but twice as high. It will have a mirror 42 metres in diameter and cost up to 1 billion Euros to build. But just what will the Europe’s Extremely Large Telescope allow scientists to do? Quentin Cooper is joined by Professor Michael Merrifield, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham and Dr. Mark Swinbank, Institute for Computational Cosmology, University of Durham to find out. 


Randomness
Quentin finds out that although science likes to achieve predictable, reliable results, underneath everything we see is actually a world of randomness – where events cannot be predicted only observed and understood after they occur. We underestimate the importance of randomness in our daily lives at our peril. He is joined by Dr. Leonard Mlodinow, Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), whose new book is The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Allen Lane). Dr. Mlodinow is co-author of A Briefer History of Time with Stephen Hawking and has also been a Hollywood script writer on science fiction series like Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Material World: Telescope

The Material World

Quentin Cooper explores topical scientific issues, discussing the latest developments.

1968: Day-by-Day

Robert F Kennedy is assassinated by a gunman moments after winning the critical California primary. For details see Saturday

1968 Day by Day

A look back at the events making the news 40 years ago

1968: Day by Day

1968 Day by Day: 5th June 1968

5th June 1968

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Robert Kennedy is shot. Police hold gunman Sirhan Sirhan.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Robert Kennedy is shot. Police hold gunman Sirhan Sirhan.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines

PM: 05/06/2008

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Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 05/06/2008

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The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather.

Six o'Clock News

Heresy

Discussion programme which challenges established ideas and questions received wisdom

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