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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 11/08/2007

11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast, 11/08/2007

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: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News Briefing, 11/08/2007

Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 11/08/2007

Daily prayer and reflection with Musharraf Hussain.

Gardens of Faith

Gardens of Faith: Episode 4: Judaism

Episode 4

Episode 4: Judaism

Judaism

BBC Radio 4 - Gardens of Faith, Judaism

Two rabbis explain the real meaning behind a Jewish garden and the act of gardening.

Peter France presents the series examining the relationship between different faiths and their gardens. 4/5: Two rabbis explain the real meaning behind a Jewish garden.

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: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Papers, 11/08/2007

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

Weather

Weather: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Weather, 11/08/2007

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: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, 11/08/2007

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 11/08/2007

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: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 11/08/2007

With James Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn. Including Sports Desk; Thought for the Day; Weather

With James Naughtie and Carolyn Quinn. 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: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 11/08/2007

Guest presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli is joined by writer Stella Duffy.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Guest presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli is joined by writer Stella Duffy.

Excess Baggage

Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: Swimming & The Swimming Pool

Swimming & The Swimming Pool

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, Swimming & The Swimming Pool

Arthur Smith is joined by pioneer polar swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh and Charles Sprawson.

SWIMMING AND THE SWIMMING POOL
For the Romantic poets and their followers, swimming symbolised many things: heroic challenge, liberation from the pressures of bourgeois life and a return to nature and the womb.  Enthusiastic swimmer Arthur Smith takes the plunge into a world of dangerous depth and wonderful waters and explores an enduring icon, and symbol, at the heart of the holiday experience – the swimming pool.

Arthur is joined by pioneer polar swimmer Lewis Gordon Pugh and Charles Sprawson, the author of cult swimming classic, Haunts of the Black Masseur and Duch Historian, Thomas van Leeuwen who wrote The Springboard on the Pond: An Intimate History of The Swimming Pool.

Elvis Effect

Programme investigating the phenomenon of the Elvis Presley brand

Elvis Effect: Series 1

Elvis Effect: Series 1: Episode 2

Episode 2

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - Elvis Effect, Series 1, Episode 2

David Stafford investigates the phenomenon of the Elvis Presley brand.

David Stafford investigates the phenomenon of the Elvis Presley brand. Mingling with tribute act contestants, he asks why Elvis is the most impersonated musician of all time (2/2).

Series in which David Stafford investigates the phenomenon of the Elvis Presley brand

Two-part series in which David Stafford investigates the phenomenon of the Elvis Presley brand

Test Match Special

Test Match Special: Test Match Special

BBC Radio 4 - Test Match Special, Test Match Special

Commentary on the third day of the Third Test between England and India at the Oval.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day of the Third Test between England and India at the Oval. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Simon Mann.

Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day of the Third Test between England and India at the Oval. 

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Simon Mann, with summaries by Geoff Boycott, Graham Thorpe, Mike Selvey and Sunil Gavaskar.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News and Weather

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 11/08/2007

Ball-by-ball commentary on the third day of the Third Test between England and India at the Oval. 

Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Simon Mann, with summaries by Geoff Boycott, Graham Thorpe, Mike Selvey 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: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 11/08/2007

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: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - Loose Ends, 11/08/2007

An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music.

An eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. Peter Curran talks to actors Pieter Dirk-Uys and Peter Davison and playwright Peter Nichols.

Profile

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

Profile: Michel Aoun

Michel Aoun

BBC Radio 4 - Profile, Michel Aoun

Tim Llewellyn profiles Lebanese politician Michel Aoun.

Series on people who are currently making headlines. Tim Llewellyn profiles Lebanese politician Michel Aoun.

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: Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Forgiven starring Derek Riddell

Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Forgiven starring Derek Riddell

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Review, Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Forgiven starring Derek Riddell

Tom Sutcliffe, Stephen Hough, Bidisha and Piers Plowright review cultural highlights.

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

The Walker
Paul Schrader’s tale about a Washington socialite is the fourth and final part in a series of films chronicling the life of the outsider. Woody Harrelson plays a ‘walker’ - a gent who takes the wives of the rich and powerful political elite to social occasions when their husbands are either too busy or disinterested. In an attempt to protect one of his friends, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, he unwittingly becomes involved in a murder and his cosy life of gossip and canasta is disrupted.


Hotel de Dream by Edmund White
Edmund White tells the story of a dying author dictating his last work to his ‘wife’ Cara. The tale is a fictionalised account of the American writer Stephen Crane as he struggles to finish a controversial story about an affair between a married man and young male prostitute. 


Forgiven
Based on the interviews of a real family, Forgiven charts the discovery, punishment and rehabilitation of a father abusing his daughter. Starring Derek Riddell, the programme features dramatisations of the treatments offered in the controversial Wolvercote Clinic in Epsom.


'Says the junk in the yard'
The average Briton generates 537 kilograms of household rubbish per annum and the exhibition ‘says the junk in the yard’ attempts to challenge the audience to think differently about the waste they produce. Almost thirty artists have taken ‘junk’ as a theme and produced works from different angles in different ways.


Tete a Tete – The Opera Festival
Three courses of opera in one night at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith where experimental and work-in-progress pieces make up the starters, mains and afters. With the emphasis on improvisation and audience participation, the festival aims to encourage a lively interactive experience.

The Archive Hour

BBC Radio 4 Extra

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives

The Archive Hour: Britain's Space Race

Britain's Space Race

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Archive Hour, Britain's Space Race

Heather Couper meets some of Britain's rocket pioneers from the 50s.

Britain's Space Race: Heather Couper meets some of Britain's rocket pioneers from the 1950s and recalls their triumphs and disasters.

Classic Serial

Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

Classic Serial: Solaris

Classic Serial: Solaris: Episode 2

Solaris

BBC Radio 4 - Classic Serial, Solaris, Episode 2

Rheya finds out who she really is, and the knowledge proves unbearable.

Solaris: Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of Stansilaw Lem's modern sci-fi classic. 2/2: Rheya finds out who she really is, and the knowledge proves unbearable.

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

Hattie Naylor's two-part dramatisation of Stansilaw Lem's modern sci-fi classic

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

News and Weather: 11/08/2007

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 11/08/2007

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

Hecklers

Series in which people argue a provocative thesis

Hecklers: Series 3

Hecklers: Series 3: Episode 2

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 - Hecklers, Series 3, Episode 2

Mark Oaten MP argues that we should abolish all prisons.

Evan Davis presents the series in which provocative theses are put to an audience. 2/4: From the Galleries of Justice, Nottingham, Mark Oaten MP argues for the abolition of prisons.

Evan Davis presents the series in which someone argues a provocative thesis

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 8

Episode 8

2007

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, 2007, Episode 8

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz. South of England team meet Wales.

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz. The South of England team meets Wales.

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 5: Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson

Episode 5

Episode 5: Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson

Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry.

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry, read by Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson.

Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry, read by Peter Marinker, Tom Lawrence, Phyllida Nash and Susan Jameson.

Pretty Halcyon Days by Ogden Nash
From: Candy is Dandy
Publ: Methuen

Beach, Morning by Fiona Hamilton
From: Skinandi
Publ: Two Turtles Press

Links of Love by Fiona Hamilton
From: Skinandi
Publ: Two Turtles Press

Waste by Harry Graham
From: The Faber Book of Comic Verse

Opportunity by Harry Graham
From: The Faber Book of Comic Verse

Bath by Virginia Graham
From: Consider the Years – 1938-1946
Publ: Persephone Books

Bath - Avon by Roger
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Viking

On the Road to Bath by Tony Stowell
Publ: Cotswold Writers’ Circle

From de Bello Gothico by Claudian
from De Bello Gothico tr. Waddell
From: More Latin Lyrics, from Virgil to Milton
Publ: Victor Gollancz

Roman Centurion’s Song by Kipling
From: Rudyard Kipling’s Verse – Definitive Edition
Publ: Hodder & Stoughton

Roman Wall Blues by WH Auden
From: Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
Publ: faber

The Whispering Roots by C. Day Lewis
From: The Complete Poems
Publ: Sinclair-Stevenson

Touch and Go by Stevie Smith
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: Penguin

The River God by Stevie Smith
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: Penguin

Rising Damp by UA Fanthorpe
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin

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 5: The Defendant's Tale

Episode 5: The Defendant's Tale

The Defendant's Tale

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

With his leg in plaster, Donald tells his own story of the dark and stormy night.

Stories about a crime from five separate points of view. 5/5: The Defendant's Tale, read by Neil Stuke. The events are familiar but the truth remains elusive.

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: 12/08/2007

12/08/2007

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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