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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 17/06/2008

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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: 17/06/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 17/06/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Clair Jaquiss.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 17/06/2008

News and issues in rural Britain with 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: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 17/06/2008

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

With Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.

Presented by Sarah Montague and Evan Davis.

A panel of criminal justice experts is calling for the government to back the idea of a network of young offender academies. Lord Ramsbotham explains the idea.

Anthony Bartram reports on the striking drivers returning to work at a Shell depot in Warwickshire.

James Rodgers reports on the challenge the Kremlin faces in reforming the legal system.

Britain's decision on whether to ratify the Lisbon Treaty comes to the House of Lords. But should the Lords nod it through now that Ireland has said no? Lord Owen explains the kind of treaty he would like to see.

Are we losing the war against viruses, worms and spam? Professor Jonathan Zittrain believes the internet is under threat. Science correspondent Tom Feilden learns that the cure could be even worse than the disease.

General Sir Mike Jackson examines whether the government aim of improving security and reconstruction in Afghanistan can be achieved. 

Former Chancellor Lord Lawson gives his views on the latest inflation rate figures.

Nicola Stanbridge reports from the deck of the oldest working boat in Europe, the Boadicea, as she turns 200.

The Reith Lectures

Significant international thinkers deliver the BBC's flagship annual lecture series.

The Reith Lectures: The Reith Lectures 2008

The Reith Lectures: Jonathan Spence - Chinese Vistas: Episode 3: American Dreams

Episode 3

Episode 3: American Dreams

Jonathan Spence - Chinese Vistas

American Dreams

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Spence explores the relationship between China and the US over two centuries.

Chinese Vistas: Jonathan Spence lectures about China. Spence explores relations between China and the US over two centuries. Is America right to be wary of the emerging superpower?

Chinese Vistas: Jonathan Spence lectures about China.

Recorded at The Asia Society in New York.

Spence explores the two centuries in which the United States gradually moved from its position as a dominant beacon of freedom and democracy for China, to becoming a more demanding global rival during and since World War II. Is America right to be wary of the emerging superpower or can the two economic and military giants co-exist happily?

The Reith Lectures: Jonathan Spence - Chinese Vistas

Jonathan Spence delivers a series of lectures about China.

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: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 17/06/2008

Christian worship and music led by Rev Peter Whittaker.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Nigel Slater; Writer Eva Hoffman

Nigel Slater; Writer Eva Hoffman

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Nigel Slater; Writer Eva Hoffman

Cook Nigel Slater on nostalgia food, and writer Eva Hoffman on her book Illuminations.

Cook Nigel Slater on nostalgia food. Plus Eva Hoffman on the role of art in a violent world, and the merits of giving all new mothers a maternity nurse for eight days.

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: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations, 17/06/2008

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

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

Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood present the series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet, from the European eel to the African white-eared kob antelope. A team of wildlife specialists are joined by zoologists and conservationists around the world to present regular reports.

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

Free Cinema

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Simon Hoggart recalls Free Cinema, documentaries shown at the NFT between 1956 and 1959.

Simon Hoggart recalls Free Cinema, a series of six short documentary films shown at the National Film Theatre between 1956 and 1959.

Simon Hoggart recalls Free Cinema, a series of six short documentary films shown at the National Film Theatre between 1956 and 1959. Their informal style, energy and focus on the real lives of working-class people paved the way for the emergence of British New Wave cinema and the many great realist films that have followed.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 17/06/2008

National and international news and the shipping forecast.

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

Call You and Yours

Listeners air their views on consumer news and issues

Call You and Yours: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Call You and Yours, 17/06/2008

Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay.

Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay.

With Lord Darzi putting forward his proposals to reform the NHS constitution, we get views on the future of the National Health Service.

With guests Wendy Savage, Keep the NHS campaign; Nigel Edwards, Director of Policy NHS Confederation; Chris Ham, Nuffield Trust and Anna Dixon, Director of Policy Kings Fund.

Weather

Weather: 17/06/2008

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World at One

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

World at One: 17/06/2008

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National and international news with Martha Kearney.

Music Feature

Programmes exploring music and music-related subjects

Music Feature: Tuning Into the Enemy

Tuning Into the Enemy

BBC Radio 4 - Music Feature, Tuning Into the Enemy

A story of truth and reconciliation in post-Apartheid South Africa.

A story of truth and reconciliation in post-Apartheid South Africa between a secret policeman and a protesting rock musician whose career he systematically wrecked.

A story of truth and reconciliation in post-Apartheid South Africa.

At the age of 18, Afrikaner Paul Erasmus went into the police force. Roger Lucey wrote protest songs and went to political meetings with his university friends. Paul systematically wrecked Roger's musical career, bugging his house, pressurising WEA records to drop him and personally seizing his records from stores. In 1995, he asked to meet Lucey in person and confessed all. They now consider themselves friends.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 16/06/2008

16/06/2008

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The wedding plans are moving ahead. Amy's delighted to be Usha's bridesmaid and. Neil's flattered when Alan asks him to be best man. He has second thoughts when he learns about the Hindu ceremony, until Alan explains that he won't have to be best man at that one. Susan's still not sure she wants to go to either ceremony but Neil insists she must. It's some consolation that as the best man's wife she'll have to have a new outfit.

Ruth is stuck in traffic and is fed up about it. Brookfield is heaving - there are people David's never seen before. He's dreading Ruth's reaction to this but Usha's sure Ruth will see the funny side. To David's relief she's right, and Ruth turns out to be delighted with the party. 

Pip tells David and Ruth that she and Jonathan are helping with the Young Farmers float for the Borsetshire show. The theme is countries of the world and they're going to build a windmill for their float. 

The party continues in full swing and Ruth's overwhelmed. She feels very lucky and it's made her think the next forty years might not be so bad after all.

Episode written by Mary Cutler.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Drama

Drama on 4: Nick Warburton - Foundling

Nick Warburton - Foundling

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Nick Warburton - Foundling

Why will a man famous for finding people not help a young woman find her lost child?

When a man famous for finding lost people arrives in a small town, a desperate woman asks him for help. Stars Peter Marinker.

By Nick Warburton.

A man famous for finding lost people arrives in a small town. Why will he not help a young woman find her lost child?

Laura ...... Emma Fielding
Roach ...... Peter Marinker
Gilbert ...... Ben Crowe

Directed by Peter Kavanagh.

Making History

Popular history series where the past connects with the present.

Making History: The Breast Hole at Tean Hall Mill - Narbonne 1907

The Breast Hole at Tean Hall Mill - Narbonne 1907

BBC Radio 4 - Making History, The Breast Hole at Tean Hall Mill - Narbonne 1907

Vanessa Collingridge explores how working women fed their babies in 1823.

Vanessa Collingridge finds out how women of Tean Hall Mill were able to feed their babies whilst doing a full days work.

The Breast Hole at Tean Hall Mill
Former mill workers and members of the Tean and Checkley Historical Society contacted Making History to highlight the discovery of a remarkable architectural feature discovered during the re-development of an old weaving mill. Described as a 'breast hole' it was a crude device to allow women to feed their babies whilst still doing a days work in the mill.


Narbonne 1907
Bill Cronin was surprised by a plaque he saw whilst visiting Narbonne for a short break. It recalls a riot by wine-growers in May 1907 in which 5 people died. The suggestion is that the protest was about the importing of Algerian wine and it laid the foundations for the Appellation system found in France.

Making History consulted Billy Kay the co-author of Knee Deep in Claret and the author of The Scottish World. He explained that the disturbances in Narbonne came at the end of a period in which the French wine industry, particularly in the Languedoc, had grown considerably.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Unaccustomed Earth

Afternoon Reading: Unaccustomed Earth: Episode 2: Unaccustomed Earth, part 1

Episode 2

Episode 2: Unaccustomed Earth, part 1

Unaccustomed Earth

Unaccustomed Earth, part 1

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When Ruma's mother dies, neither she nor her father knows how to fill the void.

Stories from a collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. When Ruma's mother dies, neither she nor her father knows how to fill the void. Read by Indira Varma.

Indira Varma reads the first part of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri's story, Unaccustomed Earth, exploring the dark secrets of family life through the Bengali immigrant experience.

When Ruma's mother dies, she leaves a space neither she nor her father knows how to fill. Back in India, both know, things would have been very different. A visit from her father brings to the surface feelings of guilt, uncertainty and loss - but ultimately a kind of understanding.

Unaccustomed Earth begins in America, but, like all the stories in this series, spills back over memories and generations to India, following new lives forged in the wake of loss. Concludes tomorrow.

Reader: Indira Varma
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett.

Stories from a brilliant new collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri

Stories from a brilliant new collection by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri exploring the dark secrets of family life, all linked by the Bengali immigrant experience

Cosmic Quest

Cosmic Quest: Episode 17: The Milky Way

Episode 17

Episode 17: The Milky Way

The Milky Way

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Heather considers the struggle to build our knowledge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

Astronomer Heather Couper considers the struggle to develop knowledge about the Milky Way galaxy and our place within it. From June 2008.

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.

Galileo realised that the Milky Way was a glowing band of stars across the sky and philosopher Immanuel Kant recognised that our Sun was just one member of a vast star system. But for centuries, few recognised the true nature of our galaxy. In the late 19th century, William Herschel realised that the Milky Way was a giant body of stars, but still his discovery was ignored. It was not until early in the 20th century that Harlow Shapley began to estimate the distances of the stars and hence map out the Milky Way in three-dimensional detail. Radio astronomy finally yielded the ability to penetrate the dark clouds towards the galactic centre and see the true distribution of matter in the skies.

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.

The Law Show

Conversation about the laws making headlines, and the laws that shape everyday life.

The Law Show is your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK.

Weekly conversation that will give you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on everyone in the UK. Whether it's unpicking a landmark legal ruling, explaining how laws are made or seeking clarity for you on a legal issue, The Law Show will be your guide.

Law in Action

The Law Show: Frightened Witnesses

Frightened Witnesses

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Clive Coleman asks what can be done to get frightened witnesses to give evidence in court.

Clive Coleman takes his weekly look at the legal issues in the news. He asks what the police and prosecutors can do to get frightened witnesses to give evidence in court.

A Good Read

A Good Read: Alistair Beaton and Valerie Grove

Alistair Beaton and Valerie Grove

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Alistair Beaton, Valerie Grove and Sue MacGregor discuss their favourite reads.

4 Extra Debut. Alistair Beaton, Valerie Grove and Sue MacGregor discuss books by Isabella Bird, Penelope Mortimer and Nikolai Gogol. From 2008.

Sue MacGregor and her guests - satirist, Alistair Beaton and writer, Valerie Grove - discuss favourite paperbacks by Isabella Bird, Penelope Mortimer and Nikolai Gogol. 

Adventures in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird 
Publisher: Penguin Great Journeys

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting by Penelope Mortimer
Publisher: Persephone Books

The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
Publisher: Granta

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.

1968 Day by Day

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

1968: Day by Day

1968 Day by Day: 17th June 1968

17th June 1968

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Fred West, Britain's first heart transplant patient, is critical.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Fred West, Britain's first heart transplant patient, is critical. Louis Armstrong begins a residency in Yorkshire.

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

Fred West, Britain's first heart transplant patient, is critical. Louis Armstrong begins a two-week residency in Yorkshire. The women machinists' strike at Ford's plant in Dagenham begins to spread.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

PM: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 17/06/2008

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: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 17/06/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Footlights at 125: A Retrospective

Footlights at 125: A Retrospective: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Footlights at 125: A Retrospective, Episode 1

Former alumni come together to recreate past gems in the club's history.

A celebration of 125 years of comedy at Cambridge Footlights. Former alumni come together to recreate past gems in the club's history, sourced from the extensive archives.

A celebration of 125 years of comedy at Cambridge Footlights. Former alumni come together to recreate past gems in the club's history, sourced from the extensive archives and performed anew. Original material comes from Peter Cook, David Mitchell, Griff Rhys Jones, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and others. Performed by Mel Giedroyc, Lucy Montgomery, James Bachman, John Finnemore, Geoff McGivern and Simon Munnery.

Series celebrating 125 years of comedy at Cambridge Footlights

Series celebrating 125 years of comedy at Cambridge Footlights. Former alumni come together to recreate past gems in the club's history, sourced from the extensive archives and performed anew

The Archers: 17/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 17/06/2008

Attack is the best form of defence for Will.

It's Usha's birthday and although she's pleased with her present from Alan, she's sad not to receive a card from her parents. Then out of the blue she gets a visit from her dad - bearing gifts, and birthday wishes. Usha is very touched - especially when she finds out that both her parents will be coming to the weddings.

Emma tells Will that letting George have his own way all the time isn't good for the boy. Will can't see that George is misbehaving with everyone else and gets annoyed when Emma suggests that George has got Will under his thumb. Emma tells him to stop shouting and to think about what she's saying. But Will just won't see that there's a problem. Emma thinks he's changed since his split with Nic but Will insists that has nothing to do with anything. He refuses to hear any more and walks off.

Pat gets back from visiting a warehouse but it's too big, too expensive and too far out. Their only hope now is a spare shed on Home Farm. 

Clarrie tells Pat how worried Emma is about George. Having failed to get through to William, Emma now wants Clarrie to have a go.

Episode written by Mary Cutler.

Front Row

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

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