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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 03/04/2008

03/04/2008

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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: 03/04/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 03/04/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Kevin Franz of the Religious Society of Friends.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 03/04/2008

News and issues in rural Britain with Mark Holdstock.

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: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 03/04/2008

Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Yesterday in Parliament at 6.45am; Weather at 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am.

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

In Our Time: The Laws of Motion

The Laws of Motion

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion – three sentences that explain the movements of everything from planets to ping pong balls.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Newton’s Laws of Motion. In 1687 Isaac Newton attempted to explain the movements of everything in the universe, from a pea rolling on a plate to the position of the planets. It was a brilliant, vaultingly ambitious and fiendishly complex task; it took him three sentences. These are the three laws of motion with which Newton founded the discipline of classical mechanics and conjoined a series of concepts - inertia, acceleration, force, momentum and mass - by which we still describe the movement of things today. Newton’s laws have been refined over the years – most famously by Einstein - but they were still good enough, 282 years after they were published, to put Neil Armstrong on the Moon. With Simon Schaffer, Professor in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Darwin College;  Raymond Flood, University Lecturer in Computing Studies and Mathematics and Senior Tutor at Kellogg College, University of Oxford; Rob Iliffe, Professor of Intellectual History and History of Science at the University of Sussex.

Daily Service

Spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Daily Service: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 03/04/2008

Christian worship and music led by Stephen Shipley.

Woman's Hour

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

Woman's Hour: Sophie Andrews; Uniforms

Sophie Andrews; Uniforms

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Sophie Andrews; Uniforms

Samaritans' chair Sophie Andrews on her abusive childhood.

Sophie Andrews on her abusive childhood. Plus, the legacy of 19th century philanthropist Enriqueta Rylands, and why are some uniforms perceived to be more alluring than others?

Crossing Continents

Series focusing on foreign affairs issues

Crossing Continents: Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

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Natalia Antelava asks whether the Ilkhom Theatre can survive after its founder was killed.

Uzbekistan: Natalia Antelava asks whether the radical Ilkhom Theatre founded by Mark Weil can survive without its director after Weil was stabbed to death in the street last year.

1968: Notes from the Underground

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Rosie Boycott considers the origins, impact and legacy of the underground press in Britain

Rosie Boycott, who began her career in journalism at Frendz, considers the origins, impact and legacy of the underground press in Britain.

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

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News and Weather

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 03/04/2008

National and international news and the shipping forecast.

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

You and Yours

You and Yours: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 03/04/2008

Consumer news and issues with Liz Barclay and John Waite.

Weather

Weather: 03/04/2008

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World at One

Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.

World at One: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 03/04/2008

National and international news with Martha Kearney.

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: 29/03/2008

29/03/2008

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Helen Mark investigates willows grown on the Somerset Levels.

Countryside magazine. Helen Mark investigates willows grown on the Somerset Levels. Traditionally used for basket making, these are increasingly being harvested for charcoal.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 02/04/2008

02/04/2008

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Alan suggests to Usha that it might be better to give Mabel some space for a while. He explains that Mabel wants her to convert but it's more Mabel's relationship with Amy that concerns him. Satya leaves a message on Usha's phone saying she is coming to see her! 

Emma receives an unexpected call from Will. Will tells her that they haven't gone away and asks he if can drop George back to Emma's. Emma is confused and worried, as Will won't tell her what's happened over the phone. Will takes George back to Emma's and explains what he saw. Begrudgingly he admits Ed was right and that he and Nic have split up. Emma is shocked but reassures worried Will that he can still see George. She knows how much he loves him.

Kathy calls Kenton to say she will be late as Jacqui, her liaison officer, wants to meet her urgently. At home, she tells Kenton it's bad news. The prosecution is applying to have the two rape charges heard separately. It appears to be a ploy to delay it. Kathy knows her case is the weaker. If the judge agrees to the separation, she feels she'll have to pull out.

Episode written by Mary Cutler.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Play

Drama on 4: Out of Season

27/11/2006

Out of Season

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By Anne-Marie O'Connor. Four Blackpool residents seek refuge in an empty promenade cafe.

Out of Season, by Anne-Marie O'Connor. Four Blackpool residents seek refuge from the cold in an empty promenade cafe. Their thoughts reveal what brought them to the town.

Questions, Questions

Problem-solving programme addressing listeners' questions

Problem-solving programme which addresses the intriguing and seemingly imponderable questions posed by everday life

Questions, Questions: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Questions, Questions, 03/04/2008

Stewart Henderson answers those niggling questions from everyday life.

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: 30/03/2008

30/03/2008

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Honor Blackman appeals on behalf of the National Domestic Violence Helpline.

Honor Blackman appeals on behalf of the National Domestic Violence Helpline. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Countryman's Cooking

Afternoon Reading: Countryman's Cooking: Episode 4: Salmon and the Salad Queen

Episode 4

Episode 4: Salmon and the Salad Queen

Countryman's Cooking

Salmon and the Salad Queen

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Willie considers salad, an obstruction in everyone's path through life.

Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery manual for men. 4/5: Salmon and the Salad Queen. Willie considers salad, an obstruction in everyone's path through life.

Leslie Phillips reads from WMW Fowler's definitive cookery manual for men

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home: Episode 9: Eco-houses

Episode 9

Episode 9: Eco-houses

Eco-houses

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Laurence explores new ways to build and run a home at an eco-community in Nottingham.

Laurence explores new ways to build and run a home for the mass market by visiting an eco-community in Nottingham. From April 2008.

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.

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores the history of our homes from the 1920s to the present

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores the history of our homes from the 1920s to the present day

Open Book

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

Open Book: Jo Brand, The Literature of Armageddon, and Julia Donaldson 

Jo Brand, The Literature of Armageddon, and Julia Donaldson 

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Mariella Frostrup looks at the works of Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul.

Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme, which includes a look at the works of Nobel Laureate VS Naipaul, one of our greatest contemporary novelists.

Jo Brand
Stand up comedienne and novelist Jo Brand talks to Mariella Frostrup about her five favourite books and how they relate to her own experience of life, her former job as a psychiatric nurse and her interest in the world around her.


The Literature of Armageddon
Twenty five years ago the threat of nuclear annihilation spawned a literary genre. In the 21st century the causes of potential global cataclysm may have changed from nuclear to ecological but the threat is still perceived to be there, so how are today’s generation of writers writing about current fears. Sarah Hall whose own award winning book The Carhullan Army depicts a dystopian England, much of which is under water, Rachel Seifert and Robert McFarlane talk about the literary underbelly of Armageddon then and now. 


Julia Donaldson 
Creating Stories For Your Children by Ronny M Cole (Hay House Publishing) is out this week, marking World Storytelling day. Award winning author of The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson gives her own tips on how to make up stories for your children and reveals how she gets the ideas for her own work.

Material World

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: Redefining the Kilogram - Mapping Membrane Proteins

Redefining the Kilogram - Mapping Membrane Proteins

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, Redefining the Kilogram - Mapping Membrane Proteins

Quentin Cooper investigates plans to redefine the standard measure of a kilogram.

Quentin Cooper finds out about plans to redefine the kilogram in terms of light and why fixing this fundamental value will transform physics.

Redefining the Kilogram
On the outskirts of Paris, locked away in an underground vault lies a heavily guarded cylinder of platinum and iridium which has lain there for over 120 years. What’s so special about this particular lump of metal? It is the kilogram by which all other kilograms are measured. Quentin Cooper finds out why ‘Le Grand K’, the international prototype for the kilogram might soon be out of a job. He talks to Dr. Ian Robinson from the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington and science historian William Ashworth. 

Mapping Membrane Proteins
Membrane proteins are key to every cell process in the human body and to the activity of bacteria. They control what goes into and out of cells and how nerve impulses are generated. But why do we know so little about them? A new 15 million Euro EU Science programme is going to find out. Quentin is joined by project leader Professor Peter Henderson from the University of Leeds, and leading membrane protein researcher Dr. Chris Tate from the University of Cambridge to find out how the results could lead to a drug revolution.

1968 Day by Day

A look back at the events making the news 40 years ago

1968: Day by Day

1968 Day by Day: 3rd April 1968

3rd April 1968

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Dr Martin Luther King delivers a speech in Memphis, Tennessee.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Clyde the elephant flies into Vietnam. Dr Martin Luther King delivers a speech in Memphis, Tennessee.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago.

Clyde the elephant flies into Vietnam, England win the series in the West Indies and Dr Martin Luther King delivers a speech in Memphis, Tennessee.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines

PM: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 03/04/2008

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. Including Weather at 5.57pm.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 03/04/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Banter

Panel show in which comic guests are invited to come up with their definitive top threes

Andrew Collins hosts the panel show in which comic guests are invited to come up with their definitive top threes in categories covering anything from playwrights to Playstation

Banter: Series 3

Banter: Series 3: Episode 1

Episode 1

Series 3

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Guests include Richard Herring and Russell Howard.

Andrew Collins hosts the show in which guests are invited to offer their definitive top threes. Guests include Richard Herring and Russell Howard.

The Archers: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 03/04/2008

Satya tells Usha that the marriage news has broken her mother's heart. Usha says she thought her parents were fine with it. Satya explained that they had already been patient, letting her pursue a career over marriage and children. She tells Usha that if she marries Alan she will be cut off from the family and it cannot happen.

Clarrie is shocked to hear of Will's split with Nic. Susan breaks the news while Clarrie is shopping. Susan gives her all the details but Clarrie cannot believe what she's hearing. She is extremely concerned for Will as she learns he doesn't want to talk to anyone.

At the Bull, Kathy starts to worry about what the judge will decide over the trial. Kenton tries to reassure her that it will be fine. Elizabeth sees them and says that Nigel has persuaded Matt to sponsor his team chase course. As Kathy goes to congratulate him, Kenton tells Elizabeth about the last minute application to have two trials. Elizabeth tries to be positive but Kenton is full of regret for not having been around. If Kathy has been through all this for nothing, how can they live with that?

Episode written by Mary Cutler.

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

Front Row: 03/04/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 03/04/2008

With Kirsty Lang, who examines how seances inspired Victorian and Edwardian writers.

Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, who examines how seances inspired Victorian and Edwardian writers.

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