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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 09/06/2007

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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 and Weather

The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4

News and Weather: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 09/06/2007

Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 09/06/2007

Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey.

Apprentice to the Past

Apprentice to the Past: Episode 4

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 - Apprentice to the Past, Episode 4

Clare Jenkins visits Castleford to observe the job of a canal lock engineer.

Clare Jenkins presents a series about ancient British trades. 4/4: She visits Castleford in Yorkshire to find out how canal lock engineers help to keep the waterways safe.

Series about ancient British trades, presented by Clare Jenkins

Series about ancient British trades, many of which are in danger of disappearing due to a lack of people willing to learn them. Presented by Clare Jenkins

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

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: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, 09/06/2007

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 09/06/2007

Miriam O'Reilly presents the rural magazine programme.

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: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 09/06/2007

With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. 7.25am, 8.25am Sports Desk; 7.57am, 8.58am Weather; 7.48am Thought for the Day; 8.50am Yesterday in Parliament.

Saturday Live

Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

Saturday Live: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 09/06/2007

Fi Glover is joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by writer and broadcaster Lynne Truss.

Excess Baggage

Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: Kazakhstan - Honeymoon

Kazakhstan - Honeymoon

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Christopher Robbins tells John McCarthy of his journey through Kazakhstan.

KAZAKHSTAN
Kazakhstan was occupied by nomadic tribesmen when it was conquered by Ghengis Khan in the 13th century. Two centuries later it was gradually absorbed into imperial Russia and became Kazakh SSR under the soviets and then independent in 1991. It is currently ruled by President Nursultan Nazarbayev who became lifetime ruler in 2000. 

Author and journalist Christopher Robbins talks about his journey to a country recently propelled into people’s consciousness by Sacha Baron Cohen’s comic character Borat, who purported to come from Kazakhstan. 

HONEYMOON
“Whilst our friend George and his young wife were enjoying the first blushing days of the honeymoon at Brighton, honest William was left as George's plenipotentiary in London, to transact all the business part of the marriage.” (Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 1847). 

John McCarthy finds out that times have changed and hears about the kinds of holidays newlyweds are taking nowadays to kick off their married life.  He is joined by travel expert Julie Middleton and Louise Cheung and Stewart Denard who honeymooned in Belize last year.

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

Guerrillas of Pop

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Tim Samuels investigates the censorship of popular music in European democracies.

Test Match Special

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Third day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Tony Cozier and Simon Mann.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Tony Cozier and Simon Mann, with analysis by Angus Fraser, Mike Gatting and Vivian Richards.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast; News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

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The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day of the Third Test between England and West Indies at Old Trafford.

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Tony Cozier and Simon Mann, with analysis by Angus Fraser, Mike Gatting and Vivian Richards.

Including Shipping Forecast at 5.54pm.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 09/06/2007

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Loose Ends

An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy

Loose Ends: 09/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, 09/06/2007

Peter Curran presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.

Peter Curran presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. Guests are comedian Mark Thomas, actress Nichola McAuliffe and veteran rocker Nick Lowe.

Six Days that Changed the Middle East

Documentary looking back at the 1967 war and its continuing aftermath in the Middle East

Six Days that Changed the Middle East: Series 1

Six Days that Changed the Middle East: Series 1: Episode 6

Episode 6

Series 1

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June 9, Israel and Syria battle over the Golan Heights. Egyptian President Nasser resigns.

Jeremy Bowen looks at the 1967 war and its continuing aftermath. 6/7: On June 9, Israel and Syria battle over the Golan Heights. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser resigns.

Jeremy Bowen looks back at the 1967 war and its continuing aftermath in the Middle East

Documentary in which Jeremy Bowen looks back at the 1967 war and its continuing aftermath in the Middle East

Saturday Review

Sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events, with Tom Sutcliffe and guests

Presenter Tom Sutcliffe and guests offer sharp, critical discussion of the week's cultural events

Saturday Review: The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon, Brad Pitt in Oceans Thirteen

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon, Brad Pitt in Oceans Thirteen

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon, Brad Pitt in Oceans Thirteen

Tom Sutcliffe, Susannah Clapp, Howard Schuman and Amanda Vickery review cultural items.

Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week.

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union
This book by the American author Michael Chabon imagines that the new state of Israel collapses and that Alaska is designated as a temporary safe haven for the Jews in 1948. The story is written in the style of a noir thriller and is both a whodunit and an exploration of what it means to be in exile.

The Yiddish Policeman’s Union by Michael Chabon is published by Fourth Estate.

The Drowsy Chaperone
The Drowsy Chaperone stars Elaine Paige in an affectionate pastiche of the
escapist musicals of the 1920s.


The Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall re-opened to the public on Friday 8th June after a multi-million pound re-furbishment with the aim of upgrading all its facilities and improving its famously bad acoustics. To mark the occasion the South Bank are presenting a weekend of free music, dance, film and visual arts starting at dusk on Friday June 8, when massed choirs arrive by candlelit river barge and finishing at dusk on Sunday night. 

Guest Choice – The Foundling Museum tokens
Amanda Vickery nominates as this week’s guest choice a case of tokens in the Foundling Museum which record women's futile hopes as they gave up their infants in the 18th century. With each child a token was left, while the mother kept a counterpart, against the possiblity of reunion. Mothers gave up buttons, keys, coral necklace, inscribed coins, ribbon, little locks, precious stones, drawings and so on. These are heart-breaking souvenirs of maternal anguish, desperation and the lingering hope of getting their babies back in the end. 


Oceans Thirteen
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia and Al Pacino star in the new sequel to Ocean's Eleven and Ocean's Twelve. Their latest heist targets a casino and involves them attempting to create a natural disaster.

The Archive Hour

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives

The Archive Hour: The People's Place

The People's Place

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Harry Enfield explores the history of the Royal Festival Hall through music and anecdotes.

4 Extra Debut. Harry Enfield explores the history of the Royal Festival Hall in London. With Jude Kelly and Paul Gambaccini. From June 2007.

Join Harry Enfield for some musical fun and games as he relives some of the more extraordinary - and eccentric - moments from the Royal Festival Hall's cosmopolitan past.
 
In June 2007, a splendidly refurbished Royal Festival Hall threw open its doors again to the public after a two year closure.  To celebrate the event, Harry Enfield went in search of favourite stories and music from the BBC and Southbank Centre archives.  From exploding crinolines and musical watering cans to the exploits of a young Paul Gambaccini, he finds out why the 'people's place' has captured the heart of the nation for the past half century.
 
Presenter - Harry Enfield
Producer - Susan Kenyon
Executive Producer - Anne-Marie Cole
 
A ChromeRadio production.

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.

Classic Serial

Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

Classic Serial: Tom Jones

Classic Serial: Henry Fielding - Tom Jones: Episode 3

Episode 3

Henry Fielding - Tom Jones

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Henry Fielding - Tom Jones, Episode 3

Tom follows his true love Sophia to London and receives an invitation to a masked ball.

Tom Jones: Stephen Wyatt's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic comic adventure. 3/3: Tom follows his true love Sophia to London and receives an invitation to a masked ball.

Classic Serial: Henry Fielding - Tom Jones

Stephen Wyatt's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic comic adventure

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

Unreliable Evidence

Series exploring and analysing the legal issues of the day

Series

Unreliable Evidence: Episode 4: Appointing the Judges

Episode 4: Appointing the Judges

Appointing the Judges

BBC Radio 4 - Unreliable Evidence, Appointing the Judges

Clive Anderson asks whether we need a new judicial selection process.

Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal issues of the day. 4/4: Appointing the Judges. Is the new Judicial Appointments Commission having the desired effect?

Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal issues of the day.

4/4. Appointing the Judges

A new Judicial Appointments Commission was set up a year ago to choose the next generation of judges in England and Wales.This independent body is looking for candidates from outside the traditional white middle-class gene pool, but is committed to appointing purely on merit. Why do we need a new selection process and is anything changing?

[Rpt of Wed 8.00pm].

Counterpoint

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Edward Seckerson chairs the last semi-final of the quiz on music of all kinds.

Portraits of Jerusalem

Series offering different perspectives on the political and religious climate of the city

Series offering different perspectives on the political and religious climate of a hallowed but divided city

Portraits of Jerusalem: Series 1

Portraits of Jerusalem: Series 1: Episode 2: Jews

Episode 2

Episode 2: Jews

Jews

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Series offering different perspectives on the political and religious climate of the city.

Series offering different perspectives on the political and religious climate of a hallowed but divided city. 2/3. Jews.

Series offering perspectives on the political and religious climate of a divided city

Short Stories by John McGahern

Short Stories by John McGahern: The Stoat

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The Stoat

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A man compares a stoat's quest for a rabbit to a shy woman's pursuit of his father.

A man compares a stoat's steadfast quest for a rabbit to a shy woman's pursuit of his hopeless father. Read by Sean McGinley.

Series of five short stories by the celebrated Irish author

Selection of BBC World Service Programmes

A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes

BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service

Selection of BBC World Service Programmes: 10/06/2007

10/06/2007

BBC World Service Online - Schedules

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs.

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes. BBC Radio 4 resumes at 5.20am.

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