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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 16/06/2007

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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 Briefing

News Briefing: 16/06/2007

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 16/06/2007

Men of Stone

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Men of Stone: Series 1

Men of Stone: Series 1: Episode 1: Portland: The Jurassic Park

Episode 1

Episode 1: Portland: The Jurassic Park

Series 1

Portland: The Jurassic Park

BBC Radio 7 - Men of Stone, Series 1, Portland: The Jurassic Park

Julian Richards tells the story of Portland Stone and the men who quarried it.

1/5. Portland: The Jurassic Park. Julian Richards tells the story of Portland Stone and the men who quarried it.

Julian Richards tells the story of Portland Stone and the men who quarried it

News and Papers

The news headlines, including a look at the newspapers

News and Papers: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Papers, 16/06/2007

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

Weather

Weather: 16/06/2007

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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: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, 16/06/2007

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 16/06/2007

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: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 16/06/2007

With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton, plus Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.

With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. 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: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 16/06/2007

Fi Glover is joined by writer and broadcaster Joan Bakewell.

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

Excess Baggage

Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: Lebanon - The Hungry Cyclist

Lebanon - The Hungry Cyclist

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, Lebanon - The Hungry Cyclist

John McCarthy talks to Tom Kevill Davies, aka the Hungry Cyclist.

John McCarthy talks to Tom Kevill Davies, aka the Hungry Cyclist, who has just come to the end of a very long bike ride through the Americas.

LEBANON
The Jebel Lubnan snowy mountain range of Lebanon gave the country its name.  Its Mediterranean climate, varied scenery and café society made it, for many years, a centre for holiday makers from both Europe and the Middle East.  

The civil war in the seventies and eighties changed it all.  Tourism, along with other important service industries like banking, had just about re-established themselves when last year Lebanon returned to strife. 

John McCarthy is joined by journalist Alex Klaushofer, author of Paradise Divided: A portrait of Lebanon and Dr Edward Wickham Director of Music at St Catharine’s College Cambridge who has visited Lebanon many times working with choirs there.  They discuss the beauty of the country and the increasingly unlikely prospects of it regenerating its tourist industry.

CYCLING IN EUROPE & THE HUNGRY CYCLIST Edward Enfield has saddled up in countries across Europe while Tom Kevill Davies, aka the Hungry Cyclist, has just come to the end of a very long bike ride through the Americas. 

They reveal the pleasures and pains of developing their muscles and breathing fresh air as they tackled the Massif Central or the Andes.

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

Speak on the Dotted Line

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Speak on the Dotted Line

Rory Bremner examines the technology of speaker recognition and voice verification.

Rory Bremner probes the inner workings of recognition and voice verification technology. Can he outwit the software? From June 2007.

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.

Test Match Special

Test Match Special: Test Match Special

BBC Radio 4 - Test Match Special, Test Match Special

Second day of the Fourth Test between England and West Indies at Chester-le-Street.

Commentary on the second day of the Fourth Test between England and West Indies at Chester-le-Street. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Tony Cozier and Simon Mann.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the second day of the Fourth Test between England and West Indies at Chester-le-Street.

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Tony Cozier and Simon Mann, with analysis by Geoff Boycott, Vic Marks and Vivian Richards.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News and Weather

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 16/06/2007

Ball-by-ball commentary on the second day of the Fourth Test between England and West Indies at Chester-le-Street.

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Tony Cozier and Simon Mann, with analysis by Geoff Boycott, Vic Marks and Vivian Richards.

Including at 5.54pm Shipping Forecast.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 16/06/2007

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: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, 16/06/2007

An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.

Peter Curran is joined by actress Gina Bellman, actor Phil Davies, comedian Lenny Henry, jazz singer Claire Martin and former Morcheeba front woman Skye Edwards.

From Fact to Fiction

Series in which writers create a fictional response to recent headlines.

From Fact to Fiction: Series 2

From Fact to Fiction: Series 2: Episode 4: Draining the Pool

Episode 4

Episode 4: Draining the Pool

Series 2

Draining the Pool

BBC Radio 4 - From Fact to Fiction, Series 2, Draining the Pool

Comic Stewart Lee creates a fictional response to the week's news.

America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression while many parts of the world are suffering floods.

America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression while many parts of the world are suffering floods. President Bush, however, is still non-committal in response to climate change. Fervent Democrat Frank has retired to Arizona with his wife, but what is happening to his tranquil poolside lifestyle?

By Stewart Lee.

Series in which writers create a fictional response to the week's news

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: Guillaume Canet's Tell No One, Summer Cooking By Elizabeth David

Guillaume Canet's Tell No One, Summer Cooking By Elizabeth David

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Guillaume Canet's Tell No One, Summer Cooking By Elizabeth David

Tom Sutcliffe, Cahal Dallat, Kathryn Hughes and Brad Lochore review cultural highlights.

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

Gaslight
Peter Gill directs a cast, including Rosamund Pike and Kenneth Cranham, in Gaslight - the story of a young woman psychologically dominated by her husband. While Jack Manningham is out on the town each evening, his wife, Bella, stays at home alone, believing she’s losing her mind - she can’t explain the disappearance of familiar objects, the mysterious footsteps overhead or the ghostly flickering of living room gaslights. 


Hockney On Turner Watercolours
Tate Britain displays its largest ever survey of Turner’s watercolour paintings. David Hockney has worked with Tate curators to select many of the works. In addition there is a display of five new paintings by Hockney of the East Yorkshire landscape.


Tell No One
This French film - adapted from the best selling novel by Harlan Coban - is directed by Guillaume Canet, better known as the actor who starred in The Beach opposite Leonardo de Caprio. It tells the story of Alex Beck, a pediatrician, who has not got over the tragic murder of his wife seven years before. He receives an email from an unknown source with cctv footage of a woman who appears to be his wife – alive. Alex finds himself on the run and fearing for his life, while desperately trying to find out if his wife could still be alive.


Summer Cooking By Elizabeth David
Kathryn Hughes nominates one of Elizabeth David’s less well known books as her guest choice. It's a lyrical account of what we can eat in the summer and feels very up-do-date despite being written in 1955. 

Summer Cooking by Elizabeth David is published by Penguin

12:23
The title of this book by the Irish author Eoin McNamee refers to the precise time the car driving Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed crashed in the Alma tunnel in Paris. The book weaves a fictional narrative around the events leading up to the death of the Princess of Wales.

The Archive Hour

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives

The Archive Hour: Back to the Future

Back to the Future

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Archive Hour, Back to the Future

Adam Hart Davies looks at how scientists and writers have predicted future social trends.

Back to the Future: Adam Hart Davies looks at how scientists, programme-makers and politicians have predicted the ways we would lead our lives in the future.

Classic Serial

Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

Classic Serial: Classic Serial: No Name

Classic Serial: Classic Serial: No Name: Episode 1

Classic Serial: No Name

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Classic Serial: No Name, Episode 1

Magdalen and Norah Vanstone, suddenly orphaned, see their inheritance go to their cousin.

No Name: John Fletcher's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's tale. 1/2: Magdalen and Norah Vanstone, suddenly orphaned, see their whole inheritance go to their cousin.

John Fletcher's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's tale of deception, and sacrifice

John Fletcher's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's tale of disguise, deception, and sacrifice. Directed by Kate McAll

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

News and Weather: 16/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 16/06/2007

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

Moral Maze

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Moral Maze: 13/06/2007

13/06/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 13/06/2007

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news.

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. Clifford Longley, Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox and Steven Rose cross-examine witnesses.

Counterpoint

Paul Gambaccini presents radio's widest-ranging music quiz.

Counterpoint: Series 21

Counterpoint: Series 21: Episode 13: Final

Episode 13

Episode 13: Final

Series 21

Final

BBC Radio 4 - Counterpoint, Series 21, Final

Edward Seckerson chairs the final of the music quiz.

Edward Seckerson chairs the final of the music quiz with contestants Sean Gilligan, Geoff Smith and John Wrigley. From June 2007.

Music quiz in which members of the public compete to become Radio 4's musical mastermind

Music quiz programme covering music of all kinds, in which members of the public compete to become Radio 4's musical mastermind. Presented by Edward Seckerson

After a Manner: Finding G H Vallins

10/06/2007

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Jonathan Dryden Taylor and Stephen Moore recall a search for an elusive literary item.

Jonathan Dryden Taylor and Stephen Moore present the story of a search for an elusive piece of literature by the poet and parodist GH Vallins.

Short Stories by John McGahern

Short Stories by John McGahern: Swallows

14/11/2006

Swallows

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Short Stories by John McGahern, Swallows

A young Dublin surveyor meets a country policeman and their life choices are compared.

A young Dublin surveyor meets a country policeman and their life choices are ruthlessly compared. 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: 17/06/2007

17/06/2007

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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