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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 22/07/2007

22/07/2007

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BBC Radio 4

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: 22/07/2007

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Bells on Sunday

The sound of church bells ringing on Sunday from around the country

Bells on Sunday: 22/07/2007

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The sound of bells from St Michael's Cornhill in the City of London.

Profile

An insight into the character of an influential figure making news headlines

Profile: Wolfgang Wagner

21/07/2007

Wolfgang Wagner

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A profile of the Bayreuth Festival's artistic director Wolfgang Wagner.

Music journalist Tom Service examines the controversy coursing around the festival’s artistic director Wolfgang Wagner.

The week ahead sees the opening of the renowned Bayreuth Festival, the pinnacle of musical life for lovers of Wagner. Music journalist Tom Service examines the controversy coursing around the festival’s artistic director Wolfgang Wagner.

News Headlines

The latest national and international news headlines

News Headlines: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines, 22/07/2007

The latest national and international news.

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

Something Understood

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

Something Understood: Good People, Be Civil

Good People, Be Civil

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Mark Tully asks whether we have lost the culture of civility.

Good People, Be Civil: Mark Tully asks if it is true, as the Chief Rabbi has recently argued, that we have lost the culture of civility.

On Your Farm

Getting to the heart of country life with a look at individual farming endeavours

On Your Farm: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - On Your Farm, 22/07/2007

Weather

Weather: 22/07/2007

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News and Papers

The news headlines, including a look at the newspapers

News and Papers: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Papers, 22/07/2007

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

Sunday

A look at the ethical and religious issues of the week

Sunday: 22/07/2007

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Roger Bolton with the religious and ethical news of the week.

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: 22/07/2007

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Kevin Whately appeals on behalf of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust.

Kevin Whately appeals on behalf of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.

Sunday Worship

Sunday Worship: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday Worship, 22/07/2007

Festival Eucharist from St John's Church, Buxton, sung by the Buxton Madrigal Singers.

Festival Eucharist from St John's Church, Buxton, sung by the Buxton Madrigal Singers and Festival soloists to Schubert's Mass in G, D167.

A Point of View

A Point of View: Helplessly Advanced 

20/07/2007

Helplessly Advanced 

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Clive James reflects on the conundrum of living in a technologically advanced world.

Clive James reflects on the conundrum of living in a technologically advanced world. As life is made easier, with machines doing our thinking for us, will our intellect suffer and eventually slow future advancement as we no longer have the brain power to build new technology?

Broadcasting House

The Sunday morning news magazine programme. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

The Sunday morning magazine programme with a fresh approach to the news and discussion about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy O'Connell.

Broadcasting House: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Broadcasting House, 22/07/2007

News and conversation about the big stories of the week with Jane Little.

The Archers Omnibus

The Archers Omnibus: 22/07/2007

The Archers

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Test Match Special

Test Match Special: Test Match Special

BBC Radio 4 - Test Match Special, Test Match Special

Commentary on the fourth day of the First Test between England and India at Lord's.

Coverage of the fourth day of the First Test between England and India at Lord's. Commentary from Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Arlo White.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the fourth day of the First Test between England and India at Lord's.

Commentary from Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Arlo White, with summaries by Geoff Boycott, Angus Fraser and Sunil Gavaskar.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 22/07/2007

Ball-by-ball commentary on the fourth day of the First Test between England and India at Lord's.

Commentary from Jonathan Agnew, Henry Blofeld, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Arlo White, with summaries by Geoff Boycott, Angus Fraser and Sunil Gavaskar.

Including at 5.54pm Shipping Forecast.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 22/07/2007

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Pick of the Week

A selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.

Pick of the Week: 22/07/2007

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Michael Rosen presents a selection of highlights from the past week on BBC radio.

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

The Archers: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 22/07/2007

Jennifer takes fractious Ruairi to the fete but is at her wits' end trying to keep him busy. Hayley is on her face painting stall with a steady stream of customers. Miserable Maurice is running Gourmet Grills and wandering Kenton abandons Kathy to run the White Elephant stall alone.
 
Lynda's 'Guess the Weight of the Llama' stall has Mozart blaring out. She tells Robert that Borsetshire Life has commissioned Dylan Nells to write a restaurant review about the meal 'he' won. When Ruairi arrives with Jennifer, Lynda tries to help cheer him up, but it's an uphill struggle. In the tea tent, Ruairi throws a tantrum and Jennifer reaches the end of her tether. She shouts at him in front of everyone in the tent, and is mortified. Adam comes in to rescue her.

While Adam takes Ruairi to have his face painted, Jack and Peggy have a nice time unencumbered by the White Elephant stall. Jennifer is still very stressed, so Adam takes her and Ruairi to Honeysuckle. Ian plays with Ruairi, and Jennifer leaves him there to give herself a break - much to Brian's discomfort. Jennifer says if she doesn't have a problem with it, neither should he.

Episode written by Adrian Flynn.

Go4it

Childrens magazine exploring everything under the sun, with features and songs

Go4it: 22/07/2007

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Barney Harwood presents the children's magazine.

Barney Harwood presents the children's magazine. This programme looks at books set in schools, from Mallory Towers to Hogwarts.

The Pat Hobby Stories

Five stories by F Scott Fitzgerald about Hollywood hack Pat Hobby

The Pat Hobby Stories: Series 1

The Pat Hobby Stories: Series 1: Episode 5: Pat Hobby's Preview

Episode 5

Episode 5: Pat Hobby's Preview

Series 1

Pat Hobby's Preview

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Pat has finally secured a writing credit on a movie but is in danger of losing his dignity

Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald. 5/5. Pat Hobby's Preview: Pat has finally secured a writing credit on a new movie but is in danger of losing what dignity he has left.

Feedback

Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations

Feedback: 20/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Feedback, 20/07/2007

Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy.

Last Word

Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

Last Word: 20/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, 20/07/2007

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.

Face the Facts

Original investigations into social injustice, public policy, inefficiency and fraud

Face the Facts: Series

Face the Facts: Episode 1: Iraqi Interpreters

Episode 1

Episode 1: Iraqi Interpreters

Iraqi Interpreters

BBC Radio 4 - Face the Facts, Iraqi Interpreters

John Waite looks at the plight of interpreters who work for British and US forces in Iraq.

John Waite investigates the dangers faced by local interpreters who work for British and US forces in Iraq.

John Waite investigates the dangers faced by local interpreters who work for British and US forces in Iraq. Seen as collaborators by some of their compatriots, an estimated 250 have been killed. Some are in hiding for fear of their lives, claiming that their pleas for help remain unanswered. Mounting pressure has forced the Government to review whether they should be offered asylum in Britain.

Analysis

Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad.

Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad, presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics.

Analysis: Go Green, or Else!

19/07/2007

Go Green, or Else!

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Camilla Cavendish asks how the government can make us greener.

Go Green, or Else! The British government's targets for halving carbon emissions are ambitious. Camilla Cavendish asks how the government can make us greener.

Westminster Hour

Radio 4's Sunday night political discussion programme

Westminster Hour: 22/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Westminster Hour, 22/07/2007

Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including Talking to Terrorists.

Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including at 10.45pm Talking to Terrorists. 2/2. Alastair Crooke reflects on his experience of negotiating with terrorist groups.

Off the Page

Series featuring new writing and stimulating discussion.

Off The Page

Off the Page: Zeitgeist

Zeitgeist

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Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion beteween Joe Queenan, Pauline Black and Toby Young.

Dominic Arkwright discusses the idea of the 'spirit of the age' with Joe Queenan, Pauline Black and Toby Young. From July 2007.

Zeitgeist

Joe Queenan, Pauline Black and Toby Young discuss one of the few German words to find a secure place in the English language.

Though adored by fashion writers and political columnists alike, Queenan says: 'If you used words like zeitgeist where I grew up, they'd break your legs'.

Dominic Arkwright presents.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.

News and Weather

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

News and Weather: 23/07/2007

23/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 23/07/2007

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

Thinking Allowed

Thinking Allowed: A Social History of Dying - Obituaries

18/07/2007

A Social History of Dying - Obituaries

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Laurie Taylor explores the social history of dying and the social memory of obituaries.

Laurie Taylor discusses the nature of dying with Professor Allan Kellehear and Kate Berridge before examining the social memory of obituaries with Professor Bridget Fowler.

A SOCIAL HISTORY OF DYING
“Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.” (W. Somerset Maugham) According to Allan Kellehear, Stone Age people had an idea of death, but not of dying.  Death came so suddenly and violently there was not a passage of time in which people slipped from one world to the next.  Dying, he claims, became a facet of human culture when the first cities began to be formed.   With the cities came disease, and with disease came dying.  His new book A Social History of Dying examines the process before death and how it has changed over 10,000 years. How does the contemporary experience of dying and its place in our culture compare with the past? Laurie Taylor and Allan Kellehear, Professor of Sociology at the University of Bath, are joined by Kate Berridge, author of Vigor Mortis; the end of the Death Taboo to discuss the nature of dying in the modern world and how the arrival of ‘slow deaths’ has transformed the ways in which people prepare for death. 

OBITUARIES
Bridget Fowler Professor of Sociology, Glasgow University talks about her recent paper The Obituary as Collective Memory: a Bourdieusian Approach which she will be presenting at the Cultural Studies Conference, East London University on Saturday. Professor Fowler argues that, despite the pretence of a democratic revolution in obituaries, they still perform the function of enshrining the dominant sections of society that they had in 1900. She says that her detailed analysis shows that prejudices against the working class, minor universities, racial minorities and women are still very present in the selection of who gets an obituary, and whose life is publicly forgotten.

Shipping Forecast: 23/07/2007

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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: 23/07/2007

BBC World Service Online - Schedules

BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of programmes.

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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