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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 29/05/2008

29/05/2008

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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: 29/05/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 29/05/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Canon Noel Vincent.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 29/05/2008

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: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 29/05/2008

Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

In Our Time

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

In Our Time: Probability

Probability

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability.

Melvyn Bragg discusses the strange mathematics of probability from renaissance gambling to chaos theory.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the strange mathematics of probability where heads or tails is a simple question with a far from simple answer. Gambling may be as old as the hills but probability as a mathematical discipline is a relative youngster. Probability is the field of maths relating to random events and, although commonplace now, the idea that you can pluck a piece of maths from the tumbling of dice, the shuffling of cards or the odds in the local lottery is a relatively recent and powerful one. It may start with the toss of a coin but probability reaches into every area of the modern world, from the analysis of society to the decay of an atom. With Marcus du Sautoy, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford; Colva Roney-Dougal, Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at the University of St Andrews; Ian Stewart, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick

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: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 29/05/2008

Christian worship and music led by Clair Jaquiss.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Anti-ageing creams; Jules et Jim

Anti-ageing creams; Jules et Jim

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Anti-ageing creams; Jules et Jim

Why do women continue to be seduced by an instant cure for wrinkles? With Jenni Murray.

Why do women continue to be seduced by an instant cure for wrinkles? Plus the legacy of Truffaut's 'Jules et Jim', the gender gap in solicitors' pay, and the last queen of Wales.

From Our Own Correspondent

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers.

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories from around the world.

From Our Own Correspondent: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 29/05/2008

Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.

BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.

Off the Page

Series featuring new writing and stimulating discussion.

Off the Page: Luvvies

Luvvies

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Dominic Arkwright chairs a special edition of the programme from the Hay-on-Wye Festival.

Dominic Arkwright chairs a special edition of the programme from the Hay-on-Wye Festival. Up for discussion is the word 'Luvvies'.

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 Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 29/05/2008

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: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 29/05/2008

Consumer news and issues with John Waite and Liz Barclay.

Weather

Weather: 29/05/2008

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World at One

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

World at One: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 29/05/2008

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: 24/05/2008

24/05/2008

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Helen Mark looks into the demise of rural pubs in Yorkshire.

Helen Mark looks into the demise of rural pubs in Yorkshire and finds a family-run pub in Rippondale which is maintaining its popularity and continuing to serve its local community.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 28/05/2008

28/05/2008

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Alan and Usha cope with the consequences.

Jill prepares for her trip, making and freezing food for Phil. Ruth says they will keep an eye on Phil but Phil is adamant he can cope alone. Before Ruth can escape, Phil insists on showing her his latest star pictures.

Mike tells Ed he nearly lost more customers. Oliver wants to issue another leaflet explaining about TB. Mike thinks that's a bad idea. He thinks it was the first one which that made people panic. 

Usha tells Ruth she hasn't been sleeping well and is very jumpy. Mike and Ed pass them on the way to the pub. Usha heads off. Ruth asks after Fallon. Ed says she texts regularly and the band are well received. Mike says Ed's been miserable but Ed says that's because of the TB.

Walking alone, Usha believes she hears someone following her. Turning into the Vicarage, she urgently rings the doorbell, calling for Alan. Alan reassures her she's safe and goes to search for whoever it is. Returning, he tells her he couldn't see anyone. Usha's worried she's now imagining things. She blames Shula for stirring up the past. Alan tells her to let it go but Usha says she can't.

Episode written by Caroline Harrington.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Play: The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole

Drama on 4: The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole: Episode 2: Going for Silk

Episode 2

Episode 2: Going for Silk

The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole

Going for Silk

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Rumpole hopes to become a QC, whilst defending a young man on a charge of murder.

Having avoided an ASBO, Rumpole is hoping to become a QC at last, as he prepares to defend a young man on a charge of murder.

Rumpole has successfully rebutted his colleagues attempts to quash his ebullient lifestyle with an ASBO, and now turns his attention back to the continuing case against young Bertie Timson whose sole 'crime' seems to be playing football in the street. Why are the residents pursuing their case against the boy quite so strongly? Could they have more sinister reasons for wanting him off their street? And could it be connected in any way to the lonely death of a prostitute across town, in which the prime suspect is a hapless young bachelor protesting his innocence; a call to arms Rumpole can scarcely ignore? 

John Mortimer's two part BBC Radio 4 Rumpole story brings us the magician of the Old Bailey at his implacable best as he defends our ancient freedoms, while remaining uneasy about exactly what Hilda is up to in her continuing friendship with a high court judge.

Cast:
Horace Rumpole ..... Timothy West
Hilda Rumpole ..... Prunella Scales 
Bonny Bernard ..... Nicholas le Prevost
Police Doctor ..... Roger May
Anna McKinnon ..... Jillie Mears
Graham Wetherby ..... David Holt
Prosecutor Noakes ..... Matthew Morgan
Detective Inspector Belfrage ..... David Shaw-Parker 
Judge Barnes ..... Geoffrey Whitehead


Director: Marilyn Imrie
A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.

Drama on 4: The Antisocial Behaviour of Horace Rumpole

Another adventure for John Mortimer's wily defender of our civil liberties

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: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Questions, Questions, 29/05/2008

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: 25/05/2008

25/05/2008

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Martha Kearney appeals on behalf of International Childcare Trust.

Martha Kearney appeals on behalf of International Childcare Trust. 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: Hay-on-Wye Stories

Afternoon Reading: Hay-on-Wye Stories 2008: Episode 3: You've Got Everything Now

Episode 3

Episode 3: You've Got Everything Now

Hay-on-Wye Stories 2008

You've Got Everything Now

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By Catherine O'Flynn. A married man is haunted by his school experiences.

By Catherine O'Flynn. A married man is haunted by his school experiences, in particular by his memories of Quinn, his inscrutable but troubled classmate.

A married man is haunted by his school experiences and in particular, by his memories of his inscrutable, troubled classmate, Quinn.   Costa Award winning novelist Catherine O'Flynn reads her specially commissioned short story for BBC Radio 4 in front of an audience at the Hay Festival.  

Read by Catherine O'Flynn
Producer: Emma Harding.

Afternoon Reading: Hay-on-Wye Stories 2008

Stories from the renowned literary festival, read by the authors before an audience

Cosmic Quest

Cosmic Quest: Mirror of the Earth

Mirror of the Earth

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Cosmic Quest, Mirror of the Earth

The history of astrology began as a way of advising rulers on their military campaigns.

Astronomer Heather Couper looks at the history of astrology which began as a way of advising rulers on their military campaigns.

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.

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy

Astronomer Heather Couper charts the history of our growing understanding of the universe and progress of astronomy.

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: Open Book at teh Hay Festival; including Andrew Davies, Philip Kerr, Catherine O'Flynn and Tim Smit

Open Book at teh Hay Festival; including Andrew Davies, Philip Kerr, Catherine O'Flynn and Tim Smit

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Open Book at teh Hay Festival; including Andrew Davies, Philip Kerr, Catherine O'Flynn and Tim Smit

Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme from the Hay-on-Wye festival.

Mariella Frostrup presents the books programme from Hay-on-Wye. Her guests, joining her in front of a Hay Festival audience, include screenwriter Andrew Davies.

Mariella Frostrup presents a programme recorded in front of an audience at the Hay Festival. 

Her guests include Andrew Davies, whose celebrated TV adaptations of classic fiction from Pride and Prejudice to Bleak House have introduced millions to the world of nineteenth-century literature. He chooses his Five of the Best - his selection of his favourite novels - and reveals how Jane Austen changed his life (but not necessarily in a good way). 

Mariella also talks to the writer Philip Kerr, author of the celebrated Bernie Gunther novels set in Third Reich-era Germany. He talks about his new book A Quiet Flame and the business of incorporating the people and events of European history into his thrillers. 

Catherine O'Flynn, the winner of the 2007 Costa First Novel Award, presents a specially-commissioned piece on the subject of her new profession as a full-time writer, and the distractions she has to overcome in order to get any work done. 

And Mariella also talks to Tim Smit, the founder of the Eden Project, about reading and the workplace. He explains why all his employees have to read books - the less relevant to their work, the better.

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: Science Vs the Rest of the World 

Science Vs the Rest of the World 

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, Science Vs the Rest of the World

Quentin Cooper talks to scientists at the Hay Literary Festival.

Quentin Cooper talks to scientists at the Hay Festival, including geneticist Professor Steve Jones and David King, formerly the government's Chief Scientific Adviser.

Science Vs the Rest of the World 
In a special programme recorded at this year's Hay festival, Quentin Cooper asks three leading scientific thinkers what happens when the frontiers of science come up against the realms of politics, religion and public opinion. Science is always pushing into disputed territory, such as the recent Parliamentary debates over human-animal embryos or the ongoing arguments over climate change.  But when the different states of mind meet, where does the line get drawn? Is it the case that, when scientists propose unexpected or unwanted theories, they're dismissed as being unable to see the broader picture? Or, after disagreements and delays, does science eventually just march on restricted only by what is possible? To discuss these issues are Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College London, science writer Philip Ball and the Government's former Chief Scientific Advisor, Professor Sir David King.

1968 Day by Day

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

1968: Day by Day

1968 Day by Day: 29th May 1968

29th May 1968

BBC Radio 4 - 1968 Day by Day, 29th May 1968

A Kennedy loses for the first time. Daniel Cohn-Bendit sneaks back into France.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. A Kennedy loses for the first time. Daniel Cohn-Bendit sneaks back into France.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

PM: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 29/05/2008

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

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 29/05/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Heresy

Discussion programme which challenges established ideas and questions received wisdom

Heresy: Series 5

Heresy: Series 5: Episode 3

Series 5

BBC Radio 4 - Heresy, Series 5, Episode 3

Victoria Coren hosts the show that thinks the unthinkable. From May 2008.

Victoria Coren hosts the show that thinks the unthinkable. With Jo Caulfield, Caitlin Moran and Peter Bradshaw. From May 2008.

Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges established ideas

The Archers: 29/05/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 29/05/2008

Jill tells Shula that Phil is preoccupied with his latest hobby, building star pictures. Shula tells Jill that she feels uncomfortable when she sees Alan and wishes the whole business would blow over. 

Shula apologises to Alan about her stupidity with the journalist, revealing that she has received shocking phones calls from racist customers. Alan defends Usha, saying that the past has come back to haunt her and her confidence has disappeared. Alan is annoyed that Shula betrayed his confidence with how Usha's family took the news of their engagement. He thought Shula was a friend as well as a colleague. He says she should think before speaking, leaving Shula clearly upset.

Adam tells Matt that it will cost around 60,000 pounds to connect their digester up to the mains! An urgent meeting is arranged. Matt tells Annabelle he's hoping to get information from Lilian about how Tony's intends to fight the planning application but Lilian's lips remain sealed. Adam arrives, explaining the high cost is because the grid requires a considerable upgrade to the local infrastructure. Annabelle thinks it's excessive and believes there's room for negotiation. She asks if Adam is prepared to leave it with her. He replies 'Err, yes. Yes, OK.'

Episode written by Caroline Harrington.

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