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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 20/06/2008

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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: 20/06/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 20/06/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Clair Jaquiss.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 20/06/2008

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: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 20/06/2008

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

With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day.

Presented by James Naughtie and John Humphrys.

Detectives have visited Bulgaria twice this year to investigate the murder of Georgi Markov in London nearly 30 years ago. David Loyn, who covered the case at the time, looks at the latest developments.

A rare type of meteorite that could hold clues to the birth of our solar system has been bought by London's Natural History Museum. Dr Caroline Smith, meteorite curator at the museum, explains its importance. 

The glory that was the Circus Maximus in Rome is being restored. Julius Caesar built it in 46 BC and as many as 250,000 people are thought to have watched chariot races there in its heyday. David Willey reports. 

A new book, Cityboy, reveals what really happens in the fevered world of the money markets. Author Geraint Anderson and Justin Urquhart-Stewart, a veteran of city life, discuss the book.

President Sarkozy hopes that the United Nations will award 'heritage' status to France's cuisine. Emma Jane Kirby reports.  

Are we seeing a resurgence in vinyl records? BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris and Mark Ellen, editor of Word magazine, discuss whether the era of the LP is over.

Desert Island Discs

Castaway guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Eight tracks, a book and a luxury: what would you take to a desert island? Guests share the soundtrack of their lives.

Desert Island Discs: Peter Carey

Peter Carey

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Peter Carey

Kirsty Young invites novelist Peter Carey to choose eight records.

Kirsty Young invites novelist Peter Carey to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island.

Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Peter Carey. He says he grew up in his homeland "thinking that Australian history was dull and Australian literature was dull" and that he developed a strong passion to make it new and fresh. In this he has surely succeeded - he is one of only two novelists to have been awarded the Booker Prize twice. 

Yet he came to writing relatively late. The son of a car salesman he started off studying science but he abandoned his university career and ended up, in his 20s, drifting into advertising. It was only then that his literary awakening began. "I announced with great confidence one day, 'I’m going to be a writer',' he says, 'I’m an obsessive fool, I was determined to do it!"

Favourite track: The Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah by George Frideric Handel
Book: Austerlitz by W G Sebald
Luxury: A ‘magic’ pudding and a drink

Act of Worship

Act of Worship: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Act of Worship, 20/06/2008

An act of worship and music from Edinburgh, presented by Rev Richard Frazer.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Mica Paris; Women boxers

Mica Paris; Women boxers

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Mica Paris; Women boxers

Mica Paris talks about her wide ranging career and sings live. With Jane Garvey.

Mica Paris talks about her wide ranging career, and sings live. Plus the appeal of women and boxing, and how hard is it to get boys to enjoy reading? With Jane Garvey.

Langoustines on the Clyde

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Mark Stephen reports on a remarkable development on Glasgow's river Clyde.

Mark Stephen reports on a remarkable development on Glasgow's river Clyde, where cleaner waters and over-fishing of predators have made the river a home to billions of langoustines.

Mark Stephen reports on a remarkable development on Glasgow's river Clyde, where cleaner waters and over-fishing of predators have made the river a home to billions of langoustines. This has come not a moment too soon for a fishing fleet rapidly becoming obsolete. Mark joins the fishermen benefiting from this and asks whether the phenomenon is as sustainable as everyone hopes.

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Paul Temple

The adventures of writer and amateur private detective, Paul Temple.

The adventures of writer and amateur private detective, Paul Temple. Created by Francis Durbridge

Paul Temple: Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery

Paul Temple: Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery: Episode 6: Just a Red Herring

Episode 6

Episode 6: Just a Red Herring

Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery

Just a Red Herring

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The hunt for the counterfeiters leads Paul to a high-speed powerboat on the Thames.

The hunt for the counterfeiters leads Paul to a high-speed powerboat on the Thames. Francis Durbridge adventure stars Crawford Logan, Gerda Stevenson, Jimmy Chisholm, Greg Powrie.

New production of an adventure by Francis Durbridge, first broadcast in 1949.

The hunt for the counterfeiters leads Paul to a high-speed powerboat on the Thames. 

Paul Temple ...... Crawford Logan
Steve ...... Gerda Stevenson
Sir Graham Forbes ...... Gareth Thomas
Stella Portland ...... Emma Currie
George Kelly ...... Robin Laing
Inspector Vosper ...... Michael Mackenzie
Hubert Greene ...... Richard Greenwood
Chris Boyer ...... Nick Underwood
Moira Portland ...... Lucy Paterson
Dr Elzec ...... Greg Powrie
Don Alfaro ...... Jimmy Chisholm.

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.

Paul and Steve are on board a luxury liner when they meet an amnesiac millionaire.

Paul and Steve are returning from New York on board a luxury liner when they meet an amnesiac millionaire. New production of an adventure by Francis Durbridge.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 20/06/2008

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: 20/06/2008

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Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay.

Presented by Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay.

Is the power supply needed for the 2012 Olympic Games denying power supply to computer centres? We speak to Alex Rabbetts, Managing Director of Migration Solutions.

Are we too embarrassed to complain in expensive restaurants? And do we know what the food should taste like? Italian chef Aldo Zilli and restaurant critic Charles Campion discuss the issues.

We take a tour through the UK's finest little homes at the Dolls House festival in Kensington.

How will China transform its transport infrastructure and tourist sites to accommodate disabled visitors?

Weather

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World at One

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

World at One: 20/06/2008

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National and international news with Shaun Ley.

Feedback

Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and congratulations

Feedback: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Feedback, 20/06/2008

Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes and policy.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 19/06/2008

19/06/2008

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It's Fallon's birthday and Jolene senses things aren't right. Fallon admits something's changed. Jolene thinks Ed just needs time and reminds her of Ed's problems at Grange Farm. She's sure their relationship will work itself out. Anyone can see they're made for each other.

Will wants to talk to Emma but catches her during another bad moment with George. She doesn't want him shouting again but Will explains that he's realised she's right. Will thinks he's been a hopeless father and blames himself for everything. Emma insists that George couldn't have had a better father, he just needs boundaries.
 
Jennifer's looking forward to ladies' day at Ascot but Brian's got something on his mind. He found Ruairi making a big thing out of burying a dead bee and is clearly upset. Jennifer points out that Ruairi needs to grieve for his mother in his own way. She's determined not to let it spoil their day. It's Brian's thank-you for Jennifer being so good about him going to Ireland, but she doesn't want to talk about that now. Brian agrees and asks her what she fancies for the next race.

Episode written by Mary Cutler.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Drama

Drama on 4: Address Unknown

Address Unknown

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Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938.

Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938. The rise of Nazism in Germany is encapsulated in an exchange of letters between two old friends.

Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, published in 1938.

Two old friends, former business associates in San Francisco, exchange letters. One is an American German Jew, the other an American German who, excited and energised by the new Germany of the 1930s, has gone home. Attitudes harden with the seemingly inexorable rise of Hitler, the Jew horrified by the change in his friend and his wholesale adoption of the rhetoric and ideology of Nazism.

With Henry Goodman, Patrick Malahide.

Shared Earth

Series celebrating nature and exploring what can be done to conserve wildlife and habitats

Natural history series celebrating nature and exploring what can be done to conserve wildlife and habitats

Shared Earth: Series 5

Shared Earth: Series 5: Episode 2

Episode 2

Series 5

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Dylan Winter finds out how great tits are coping with climate change.

Dylan Winter presents the series celebrating the natural world. He meets Prof Ben Sheldon at Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire to find out how great tits are coping with climate change.

Dylan Winter presents the topical magazine series celebrating the natural world and how to preserve it. He meets Professor Ben Sheldon at Wytham Woods in Oxfordshire to find out how great tits are coping with climate change.

Dylan Winter presents the topical magazine series celebrating the natural world

Dylan Winter presents the topical magazine series celebrating the natural world and how to preserve it

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Unaccustomed Earth

Afternoon Reading: Unaccustomed Earth: Episode 5: Year's End

Episode 5

Episode 5: Year's End

Unaccustomed Earth

Year's End

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A young man struggles to accept his widowed father's new young Indian wife.

Stories from a collection by Jhumpa Lahiri. During a Christmas visit to his family home, a young man struggles to accept his widowed father's new young Indian wife.

Hari Dhillon reads Year's End, the last in the series of stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri, exploring the dark secrets of family life through the Bengali immigrant experience.

During a holiday visit to his family home three years after his mother's death, a young man struggles to accept his father's new, and very young, Indian wife. 

Year's End 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.

Reader: Hari Dhillon
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 20: How the Universe Began

Episode 20

Episode 20: How the Universe Began

How the Universe Began

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The Big Bang theory of how the universe began and what its opponents think.

Astronomer Heather Couper considers the Big Bang theory of how the universe began and what its opponents think. From June 2008.

Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.

The discovery that the universe is expanding led cosmologists to suggest that its origin lay in a compact, dense, hot fireball. Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle thought this so ridiculous that he disparagingly called it the big bang. The name stuck and there followed intense arguments between supporters of the big bang theory and Fred Hoyle and his colleagues, who favoured a steady state universe.

A decisive blow to the latter theory came from a radio telescope in New Jersey in the early 1960s that detected a gentle background glow at microwave radio frequencies that theorists had predicted as the dying embers of the big bang itself.

Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt and John Palmer.

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.

Last Word

Radio 4's weekly obituary programme, telling the life stories of those who have died recently

Last Word: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Last Word, 20/06/2008

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series.

Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently died.

The Film Programme

The latest releases, the hottest stars and the leading directors, plus news and insights

The latest releases, the hottest stars and the leading directors, plus news and insights from the film world

The Film Programme: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, 20/06/2008

Francine Stock talks to Audrey Tautou about the film that was written for her.

Audrey Tautou on the film that was written just for her; Brian Cox on the film that was written just for him.

Francine Stock talks to Brian Cox about his new film The Escapist, prison movies and James Cagney.

Audrey Tautou, The star of Amelie talks about Priceless and playing against type.

Critic Jane Graham on a new director's cut of Peter Weir's early masterpiece Picnic At Hanging Rock.

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 June 1968

20th June 1968

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

Vice President Hubert Humphrey launches his campaign for the US presidency.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. Hubert Humphrey launches his campaign for the US presidency. James Earl Ray's defence lawyer arrives in London.

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

Vice President Hubert Humphrey launches his campaign for the US presidency. James Earl Ray's defence lawyer arrives in London. Industrial unrest deepens in the UK.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

PM: 20/06/2008

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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: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 20/06/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

The News Quiz

Topical panel quiz show, taking its questions from the week's news stories.

The News Quiz: Series 65

The News Quiz: Series 65: Episode 6

Series 65

BBC Radio 4 - The News Quiz, Series 65, Episode 6

Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Carrie Quinlan, Phill Jupitus and Andy Hamilton.

Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Carrie Quinlan, Phill Jupitus and Andy Hamilton.

Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz

The Archers: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 20/06/2008

Brian's mulling over Jennifer's suggestion that Ruairi needs to grieve privately and thinks he needs a memorial to Siobhan. Jennifer thinks it's maybe Brian who needs this, and when he keeps going on about it she makes it clear she's had enough.

Susan's heard a rumour about the anaerobic digester and asks Ruth if it's true it's going to be much bigger than they thought. Realising this has come from Matt, Ruth suggests that Matt's maybe trying to wind Pat up. 

Ruth tells David, who can't believe Matt could be so stupid, but Ruth's concerned it could actually happen. David decides to put a stop to it by going straight to Matt. Matt tries to convince David it's a good idea but David's having none of it; if it goes ahead it will happen without Brookfield's involvement. Matt retorts that he can always get another partner. 

David tells Ruth that Matt seems determined to go ahead and apologises for pulling out without consulting her. Ruth insists he's done the right thing. The last thing the village needs is some big industrial unit and if that's what Matt's planning then Brookfield should have nothing to do with it.

Episode written by Mary Cutler.

Front Row

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

Front Row: 20/06/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 20/06/2008

With Kirsty Lang. Actor James McAvoy talks about his latest Hollywood action role.

Presented by Kirsty Lang. 

Scottish born actor James McAvoy talks about his latest Hollywood action role, and reveals why no-one cares what you do on a big action movie.

Kirsty talks to Charlie and Lola author Lauren Child on the eve of the opening an exhibition of her creations.

Critic and novelist Nicholas Royle reviews Criminal Justice, a new five-part drama on the BBC.

Music Journalist and broadcaster Rob Hughes looks at the reissue of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue.

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