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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 20/05/2008

20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Shipping Forecast, 20/05/2008

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: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Briefing, 20/05/2008

Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 20/05/2008

Led by the Rt Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Daily prayer and reflection led by the Rt Rev David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 20/05/2008

News and issues in rural Britain, presented by Anna Hill.

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: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 20/05/2008

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

With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. 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.

On the Ropes

Exploring the lives of successful people who have weathered storms in their careers

Programme exploring the lives of successful people who have weathered storms in their careers

On the Ropes: Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett

BBC Radio 4 - On the Ropes, Terry Pratchett

John Humphrys talks to Terry Pratchett about being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

John Humphrys talks to best-selling author Terry Pratchett, who talks about being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and its effect on his life and work.

John Humphrys talks to best-selling author Terry Pratchett, who talks about being diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and its effect on his life and work in this 2008 interview.

A Sunparched Country

A Sunparched Country: Episode 4: Changing Gardens

Episode 4

Episode 4: Changing Gardens

Changing Gardens

BBC Radio 4 - A Sunparched Country, Changing Gardens

How can gardeners cope with ten years of drought and freak torrential floods?

Caroline Holmes discovers how Australians are adapting to climate change. 4/5: Changing Gardens. How can gardeners cope with ten years of drought and freak torrential floods?

Caroline Holmes discovers how Australians are adapting to the reality of climate change

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: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 20/05/2008

Christian worship and music led by Rev Ernie Rea.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Attitudes to fertility

Attitudes to fertility

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Attitudes to fertility

A special programme on attitudes to fertility and the assumptions that underlie them.

A special programme on attitudes to fertility and the assumptions that underlie them. What impact does the failure to conceive have on a woman's life?

World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations

Series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet

Series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet, with Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood

World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations, 20/05/2008

Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood follow the movement and migration of animals.

Great Animal Migrations: Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood present the series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet.

The Frost Collection

David Frost and guests look back at some of the most memorable interviews of his career

David Frost and guests look back at some of the most memorable interviews of his long career

The Frost Collection: Series 1

The Frost Collection: Series 1: Episode 2: Religion and Morality

Episode 2

Episode 2: Religion and Morality

Series 1

Religion and Morality

BBC Radio 4 - The Frost Collection, Series 1, Religion and Morality

Guests include Max Hastings and Joan Bakewell.

David Frost and guests look back at some of the most memorable interviews of his long career. Interviewees include Billy Graham and convicted Nazi war criminal Baldur von Schirach.

David Frost and guests look back at some of the most memorable interviews of his long career. 

Interviewees include Billy Graham and convicted Nazi war criminal Baldur von Schirach. Guests include Max Hastings and Joan Bakewell.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 20/05/2008

National and international news and the shipping forecast.

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

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

Call You and Yours

Listeners air their views on consumer news and issues

Call You and Yours: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Call You and Yours, 20/05/2008

Consumer news and issues with John Waite and Peter White.

Consumer news and issues with John Waite and Peter White. Including What Disability Means to Me: Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams describes being deaf in one ear.

Weather

Weather: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Weather, 20/05/2008

World at One

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

World at One: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 20/05/2008

National and international news with Martha Kearney.

Gershwin's Horns

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Gershwin's Horns

Rainer Hersch explores unusual instruments used by composers.

Gershwin used car horns in An American in Paris. Rainer Hersch explores other unusual instruments used by composers. From 2008.

Rainer Hersch argues the musical significance of canons, car horns and tuned anvils.

Gershwin's An American In Paris was part of a growing trend in using unusual musical instruments, such as car horns in Gershwin's case.  

Rainer Hersch explores the musical significance of these "black sheep" of the orchestral family - anvils, canons, typewriters, tuned-salad bowls etc. They've all appeared in concert performances over the last two hundred years but who plays them? Who keeps them? And are they really worth a place amongst the back desks of the orchestra?

With the help of two leading British percussionists, Mick Doran and Neil Percy, Rainer demonstrates the soundscape that can be conjured up by bowing a cymbal, rubbing a plastic cup on a gong or bashing a car suspension spring with a hammer.  And he debates the legitimacy of using Academy-trained musicians in the business of hitting tuned anvils.
Of course, if it was good enough for Wagner, why shouldn't modern composers push the boat out a bit?  In the process, Rainer discovers what can go wrong on the back desks when you lose your tubular bells or inadvertantly wound a conductor with the shrapnel from an anvil.  

He also discovers a warehouse containing almost everything that composers have ever asked to be played in an orchestra pit, and even a couple, including the Scaffophone (made entirely from tuned scaffolding pipes!) that haven't.

Producer: Tom Alban

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 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.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 19/05/2008

19/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 19/05/2008

Ed remarks that the cows see Alistair's TB tests as part of their routine now. 

Tony understands what Oliver's going through, and agrees that mineral depletion in badgers could be at the root of the TB problem. Having read about someone who's escaped TB by giving supplements to his cattle and a mineral and molasses mix to the local badger sett, Tony agrees it's worth investigating.

The transition meeting goes well. The steering committee will be Caroline, Kathy, Nigel, Pat and probably Oliver, with Lynda as committee secretary. Tony's confident they'll get more volunteers as word gets around.

Jill's concerned that Shula felt too awkward to attend last night's talk. Shula insists she simply didn't have time. 

A horse owner praises Shula for speaking out in the Echo because it raises important questions about faith. Shula's pleased that someone finally agrees with her, until Mrs Lane announces it's good to see someone take a stand against 'these people'. Shula realises the woman's a racist and clearly believes Shula is too. Shula's mortified - what if everyone thinks the same? Alistair assures her that no-one who really knows Shula would think that. But Shula fears that if Mrs Lane does, then others could too.

Episode written by Adrian Flynn.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Drama: Signs

Drama on 4: Signs: Episode 2: Perfect Day

Episode 2: Perfect Day

Signs

Perfect Day

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Signs, Perfect Day

Adam uses technology to find perfection, but there's a price.  Intense romantic drama.

Adam uses technology to find perfection, but there's a price, in this intense romantic drama by award-winning playwright Hattie Naylor.

The second of two gripping stories about the way technology determines our lives, in interlocking plays by two of radio's most thought-provoking playwrights.  

Adam uses technology to find perfection, but there's a price, in this intense romantic drama by award-winning playwright Hattie Naylor.

Imagine the possibilities of harnessing powerful information-processing technology for the benefit of one super-rich individual.  There is no bad luck if you know how to use the right technology with the right people: everything can be predicted, manipulated, avoided or sought-out. 

Adam signs up to Perfect Day, a company which offers such specialised services, based on access to - and control over - information.  The company promises to take away what is unpredictable, ugly or frustrating and ensure that a particular experience or life choice goes smoothly for their clients.  No more traffic jams, no lost deals, no rained-off holidays, no bad food, no accidental encounters with difficult people.   At first Adam uses the company to arrange evenings out, holidays, small life experiences.  But his taste for perfection grows and soon he signs up to one of their most expensive and successful services: the location of a perfect life-partner. 

Vicky....Joanne Froggatt
Adam....Paul Mundell
Evie....Jane Godber
Sarah....Lisa Coleman
Jim...David Hounslow

Director...Mary Ward-Lowery.

Drama on 4: Signs

Contemporary stories about the way technology determines our lives

Making History

Popular history series where the past connects with the present.

Making History: Vikings on the Wirral - The Woking Invalid Prison

Vikings on the Wirral - The Woking Invalid Prison

BBC Radio 4 - Making History, Vikings on the Wirral - The Woking Invalid Prison

Vanessa Collingridge investigates Viking history on the Wirral.

Vikings on the Wirral
Brendan and Cathleen Meehan live at Thingwall on the Wirral and they wanted Making History to confirm that the village takes its name from the Viking for a parliament ( a ‘thing’). Making History consulted the biologist Professor Stephen Harding at the University of Nottingham who has just finished a DNA project on the blood lines of old, established families on the Wirral and throughout North West England. He explained that parts of the Wirral were settled by Scandinavian Vikings who were expelled from Dublin in 902AD. He confirmed that Thingwall was indeed a place where elders met to discuss the issues of the day and even suggested where this might have been.

The Woking Invalid Prison
Janice Jelley in Billericay has discovered that two members of her family ended up in the Woking Invalid Prison in the 1870’s after being convicted of starving one of their wives to death. Janice wanted to know what an Invalid Prison was?

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Anger

Afternoon Reading: Anger: Episode 2: Kinetic

Episode 2: Kinetic

Anger

Kinetic

BBC Radio 4 - Afternoon Reading, Anger, KineticSearch BBC

Andy McNab reads his story of a personal journey from a turbulent childhood into the army.

Stories about rage and its different manifestations. Andy McNab reads his story of a personal journey from a turbulent childhood into the army and finally into battle.

Andy McNab's 'Kinetic' takes us on a personal journey from a turbulent childhood into the army and ultimately into battle, where geopolitical anger is reduced to man against man.

Read by the author.

Part of a series in which five writers from a range of backgrounds shed light on an aspect of anger in a mix of fiction, memoir and thought pieces.  

Producer: David Roper
A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.

Stories about rage and its different manifestations

Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs

Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs: Episode 2: WorldSong

Episode 2: WorldSong

WorldSong

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Joan Armatrading's Favourite Choirs, WorldSong

Joan meets a choir in Coventry specialising in unaccompanied music from across the globe.

The singer meets a mixed-voice choir in Coventry specialising in unaccompanied music from across the globe, and whose founding principle is that anyone can sing. From May 2008.

Joan Armatrading visits choral assemblies across the country.

She attends a rehearsal of WorldSong, a mixed voice choir in Coventry which specialises in singing unaccompanied songs from across the globe and whose founding principle is that anyone can sing. Joan also talks to the scientist who believes that singing really is beneficial to our health.

Joan visits choral assemblies across the country

Word of Mouth

Series exploring the world of words and the ways in which we use them

Word of Mouth: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, 20/05/2008

Michael Rosen presents the series that takes a close look at the words we use.

Michael Rosen presents the series that takes a close look at the words we use, where they come from and how we play with them.

Great Lives

Biographical series in which guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.

Great Lives: Series 15

Great Lives: Episode 8: Joyce Grenfell

Episode 8

Episode 8: Joyce Grenfell

Joyce Grenfell

BBC Radio 4 - Great Lives, Joyce Grenfell

Arabella Weir nominates Joyce Grenfell. Biographer Janie Hampton assists.

Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. Arabella Weir nominates Joyce Grenfell, whose comic monologues she listened to and loved as a child.

Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris.

Arabella Weir nominates Joyce Grenfell, whose comic monologues she listened to and loved as a child. Joyce's biographer and family friend Janie Hampton offers inside information on one of the greatest entertainers of the last century.

1968 Day by Day

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

1968: Day by Day

1968 Day by Day: 20th May 1968

20th May 1968

BBC Radio 4 - 1968 Day by Day, 20th May 1968

Strikes spread across France. No public transport is running and tourists are heading home

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Strikes spread across France. No public transport is running and tourists are heading home.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

PM: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 20/05/2008

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

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Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 20/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 20/05/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Clare in the Community

Clare Barker stars as the social worker with all the politically correct jargon

Sony Award-winning sitcom by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. Clare Barker is a social worker with all the politically correct jargon but none of the practical solutions. Stars Sally Phillips.

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