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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 28/07/2007

28/07/2007

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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: 28/07/2007

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 28/07/2007

Daily prayer and reflection with Andrew Greystone.

Gardens of Faith

Gardens of Faith: Episode 2: Buddhism

Episode 2

Episode 2: Buddhism

Buddhism

BBC Radio 4 - Gardens of Faith, Buddhism

Peter France visits a Buddhist temple in Hertfordshire.

Series examining the relationship between different faiths and the natural world by looking at their gardens. 2/5. Peter France visits a Buddhist temple in Hertfordshire.

Peter France examines the relationship between different faiths and the natural world

Peter France examines the relationship between different faiths and the natural world by looking at their gardens

News and Papers

The news headlines, including a look at the newspapers

News and Papers: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Papers, 28/07/2007

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

Weather

Weather: 28/07/2007

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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: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, 28/07/2007

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 28/07/2007

Rural magazine programme with Miriam O'Reilly.

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: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 28/07/2007

With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Thought for the Day; Weather.

With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk at 7.25am, 8.25am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am and Weather at 7.57am.

Saturday Live

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

Saturday Live: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 28/07/2007

Guest presenter Tom Robinson is joined by comedian Janey Godley.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Guest presenter Tom Robinson is joined by comedian Janey Godley.

Excess Baggage

Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: Crete - Tuk-Tuks

Crete - Tuk-Tuks

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, Crete - Tuk-Tuks

John McCarthy is joined by two regular visitors to Crete.

CRETE
Crete is the largest of the Greek islands. It is sometimes called the cradle of European civilisation with its Minoan culture accepted as the first major civilised society on the continent from as early as 2,700BC. 

Nowadays it is largely agricultural with tourism making up a significant part of its economy.  Its beaches and resorts as well as its archaeological sites attract huge numbers.  But, despite its rich history and challenging landscape, many aspects of Crete are still relatively unknown. 

John McCarthy is joined by two regular visitors to the island. Travel writer Christopher Somerville has just published his latest book The Golden Step: a walk through the heart of Crete and writer Susanna Hoe is currently writing a series on islands looking at their association with the women who lived, travelled or worked there.

TUK-TUK
Tuk-tuks or auto rickshaws are well known in some big cities in Asia.  The little covered scooter type three wheelers are used for everything from delivery vans to taxis.  But on the whole they don’t venture much outside the city that is their home.  Not so for Ting Tong, the tuk tuk of Jo Huxster and Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent who drove it from its natural habitat in Bangkok to Brighton, a distance of 12,561 miles, according to Ting Tong’s milometer.

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

California Dreaming

California Dreaming: Episode 2: Life in the Fast Lane

Episode 2: Life in the Fast Lane

Life in the Fast Lane

BBC Radio 4 - California Dreaming, Life in the Fast LaneSearch BBC

Andy Parfitt tells the story of the Californian music scene of the 1960s and 70s.

Life in the Fast Lane: Andy Parfitt tells the story of the Californian music scene of the 1960s and early 70s. 2/2. The hippy idealism of the 60s gave way to corporatisation.

Andy Parfitt tells the story of the Californian music scene of the 1960s and early 1970s

Test Match Special

Test Match Special: Test Match Special

BBC Radio 4 - Test Match Special, Test Match Special

Commentary on the second day of the Second Test between England and India at Trent Bridge.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the second day of the Second Test between England and India at Trent Bridge. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Mark Saggers.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the second day of the Second Test between England and India at Trent Bridge.

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Mark Saggers with summaries by Graham Gooch, Vic Marks and Sunil Gavaskar.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 28/07/2007

Ball-by-ball commentary on the second day of the Second Test between England and India at Trent Bridge.

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Mark Saggers with summaries by Graham Gooch, Vic Marks and Sunil Gavaskar.

Including Shipping Forecast at 5.54pm.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 28/07/2007

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Loose Ends

An eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy

Loose Ends: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, 28/07/2007

An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.

Peter Curran is joined by football fanatic Adrian Chiles, playright Tanika Gupta and author Sam Delaney. Gideon Coe talks to Robert Popper. Comedy comes from Andrew Maxwell.

Profile

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

Profile: Baroness Young

Baroness Young

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A profile of Baroness Young, chief executive of the Environment Agency.

BBC environment correspondent Sarah Mukherjee takes a look at the career of Baroness Young, chief executive of the Environment Agency.

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: David Mamet's Bambi vs Godzilla, The Simpsons Movie

David Mamet's Bambi vs Godzilla, The Simpsons Movie

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, David Mamet's Bambi vs Godzilla, The Simpsons Movie

Tom Sutcliffe, Paul Farley, Deborah Moggach and Kamila Shamsie review cultural highlights.

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

The Simpsons Movie
After 18 years and 400 episodes television’s most famous animated family hit the big screen. The story begins with Homer Simpson falling in love with a pig and ends with him plunging Springfield into an environmental disaster.


Bambi vs Godzilla
In this book of essays, David Mamet, the playwright and screenwriter, gives us a subversive inside look at Hollywood from the perspective of a film-maker who enjoys a love/hate relationship with the movie business.

Bambi vs Godzilla is published by Simon and Schuster.

British Film Forever
British Film Forever is a seven-part series and forms the centrepiece of BBC 2’s upcoming season celebrating the rich heritage of British Film: The Summer of British Film. The series will examine British film by genre and also features interviews from leading actors and directors, including Michael Caine, Anthony Hopkins, Kate Winslet, Ewan McGregor and Richard Curtis.


Guest Choice
Paul Farley nominates a long established London umbrella shop as his guest choice and explains how it inspired one of his poems. It was founded in 1830 and is still owned and run as a family business.

Spirit Life Exhibition: Masterpieces of Islamic Art from the Aga Khan Museum Collection
This exhibition of rare Islamic art and manuscripts at The Ismaili Centre in South Kensington, London presents treasures from the collection of the Aga Khan which will eventually be displayed at the new Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, Canada in 2010. It includes over 165 objects from the collection showing the diversity of artistic traditions in the Muslim world. The exhibition covers a geographical area stretching from India in the east to Spain and Morocco in the West, and spans over a thousand years, from the ninth to the 19th century.

The Archive Hour

BBC Radio 4 Extra

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives

The Archive Hour: Footlights and Fancy Free

Footlights and Fancy Free

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Archive Hour, Footlights and Fancy Free

The story of the Cambridge University Footlights Club.

Footlights and Fancy Free: This programme uses extensive archives of the Cambridge University Footlights Club to tell its story, from its cricket match inspired inception in 1883.

Classic Serial

Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

Classic Serial: Maurice

Classic Serial: Maurice: Episode 2

Maurice

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Maurice, Episode 2

Devastated by Clive Durham's change and his marriage, Maurice wrestles with his sexuality.

Maurice, by EM Forster, dramatised by Philip Osment. 2/2. Devastated by Clive Durham's change and his subsequent marriage, Maurice wrestles with his sexuality.

EM Forster's story of a young man who embarks on a journey of self-understanding

EM Forster's story of a young man from the suburbs who embarks on a journey of self-understanding, dramatised by Philip Osment

News and Weather

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

News and Weather: 28/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 28/07/2007

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: 25/07/2007

25/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 25/07/2007

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. Ian Hargreaves, Michael Portillo, Clifford Longley and Melanie Phillips cross-examine expert witnesses.

Round Britain Quiz

Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions on unpredictable fields of knowledge

Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge

Round Britain Quiz: 2007

Round Britain Quiz: 2007: Episode 6

Episode 6

2007

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, 2007, Episode 6

Tom Sutcliffe asks the questions in the cryptic general knowledge quiz.

Tom Sutcliffe asks the questions in the cryptic general knowledge quiz. Northern Ireland take on Wales, with panellists Polly Devlin, Brian Feeney, Peter Stead and Patrick Hannan.

Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions

Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge

Poetry Please

Roger McGough introduces selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners.

Series

Poetry Please: Episode 3: Episode 2

Episode 3

Episode 3: Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Episode 2

Roger McGough hosts the programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk.

Roger McGough hosts a second programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk. With Mark Steel, Simon Armitage, Rickie Lee Jones and Rachel Pantechnicon.

Roger McGough hosts a second programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk.

Performers include Mark Steel, Simon Armitage, Rickie Lee Jones and Rachel Pantechnicon. Readers are John Lightbody and Eleanor Tremain.

Quiet Zone by Roger McGough

To the Women of the Merrie England Coffee Houses, Huddersfield by Simon Armitage
From:  Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid
Publ:  faber

The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death by Thom Gunn
From:  Collected Poems
Publ:  faber

Elf-Shelf by Rachel Pantechnicon

Donegal by Robin Robertson
From:  Swithering
Publ:  Picador

from Sir Gawain and The Green Knight translation by Simon Armitage
Publ:  faber

Self-Portrait by David Whyte

In Paris With You by James Fenton
From:  Selected Poems
Publ:  Penguin

Teenybop Theologian by Rachel Pantechnicon

The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash
From:  Candy is Dandy
Publ:  Methuen

from Killing Time by Simon Armitage
publ: faber

News and Weather: 29/07/2007

29/07/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 29/07/2007

A Dark and Stormy Night

Five stories about a crime told from five separate points of view

A Dark and Stormy Night: Series 1

A Dark and Stormy Night: Series 1: Episode 3: The Daughter's Tale

Episode 3: The Daughter's Tale

Series 1

The Daughter's Tale

BBC Radio 4 - A Dark and Stormy Night, Series 1, The Daughter's Tale

Rachel finds herself wondering if she ever knew her mother at all.

Stories about a crime from five separate points of view. 3/5. The Daughter's Tale, read by Nicola Walker. Rachel's daughter finds herself wondering if she ever knew her mother.

Shipping Forecast: 29/07/2007

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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: 29/07/2007

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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