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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 05/07/2008

05/07/2008

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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: 05/07/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 05/07/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Cathy Le Feuvre.

iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners.

The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.

iPM: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - iPM, 05/07/2008

Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs magazine.

Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.

News and Papers

The news headlines, including a look at the newspapers

News and Papers: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News and Papers, 05/07/2008

News headlines, plus a look at the papers.

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

Weather

Weather: 05/07/2008

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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: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, 05/07/2008

Farming Today This Week

Farming Today This Week: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today This Week, 05/07/2008

News and issues in rural Britain, with Charlotte Smith. Badgers are top of the rural agenda.

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

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: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 05/07/2008

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

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

Presented by John Humphrys and Edward Stourton.

Including:

Demand is growing for an international ban on organ trafficking and what has been called transplant tourism. With Dr Adrian McNeil, the chief executive of the Human Tissue Authority. 

It is 20 years since the Piper Alpha rig in the North Sea caught fire, resulting in 167 deaths. Journalist Stephen McGinty recalls the rescue effort in a new book called Fire in the Night. He and Michael Jennings, who was one of the survivors, remember the tragedy. 

Knife crime in London has overtaken terrorism as the Metropolitan police's top priority. Rod Morgan, chairman of the youth justice board for England and Wales, looks at the strategy for tackling the problem. 

Charles Darwin may have seriously considered the possibility that life arrived here in a meteorite. Dr John Van Whye, a historian of science at Cambridge, has been exploring this theory for a paper he is giving. He discusses the possibility with Dr Caroline Smith, meteorite curator at the Natural History Museum. 

Boris Johnson has been mayor of London for two months, but already two of his senior appointees have been forced to resign. Prof Tony Travers from the LSE considers the implications. 

Video evidence has emerged of the vote-rigging which appears to have taken place during the presidential election in Zimbabwe last month.

Saturday Live

Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

Saturday Live: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 05/07/2008

Presenter Fi Glover is joined by Simon Singh. The poet is Matt Harvey.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Presenter Fi Glover is joined by Simon Singh. Featured poet is Matt Harvey.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Presenter Fi Glover is joined by Simon Singh. Featured poet is Matt Harvey.

Fi talks to Colin Parry, whose 12-year-old son Tim was killed in the IRA Warrington bomb. Miss World protester Sally Alexander explains why she took a stand. Peter Duncan shares his secret life. Inheritance tracks come from listener Sue Charman.

Excess Baggage

Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: Jungle - War Graves

Jungle - War Graves

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, Jungle - War Graves

Sandi Toksvig takes a trip through the Amazonian rain forest with Yossi Ghinsberg.

Sandi Toksvig takes a trip through the Amazonian rain forest with Yossi Ghinsberg author of the 80’s US best seller Lost in the Jungle.

JUNGLE - WAR GRAVES
Sandi Toksvig takes a trip through the Amazonian rain forest with Yossi Ghinsberg author of the 80’s US best seller Lost in the Jungle. She is also joined by The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Director Outer Areas (East) Brad Hall and journalist and writer Nigel Jones author of The War Walk to discuss the work of the CWGC which operates in 150 countries around the world and the importance of maintaining and visiting war graves.

What's So Great About ...?

Lenny Henry explores the iconic status of people or things held dear by many

Series in which Lenny Henry explores the iconic status of people or things held dear by many

What's So Great About ...?: Series 1

What's So Great About ...?: Series 1: Episode 2: Method Acting

Episode 2

Episode 2: Method Acting

Series 1

Method Acting

BBC Radio 4 Extra - What's So Great About ...?, Series 1, Method Acting

Can Lenny Henry be convinced to go Method?

4 Extra Debut. Will Lenny Henry follow in the footsteps of Robert De Niro? Can he be convinced to go Method? With Ellen Burstyn.

In the second of three programmes in which Lenny Henry challenges the iconic status of things we often take as read, Lenny Henry goes to New York to question the mystique that surrounds the 'Method' school of acting.

In New York, on still only part-gentrified West 44th Street, stands an old converted redbrick chapel. Just a small plaque indicates that this is the inner sanctum, the private home of The Method. It's the legendary Actors' Studio, the space created in 1947 by Lee Strasberg and others to provide a safe place for some of the world's greatest actors - often the biggest Hollywood stars of their generation - to come and practise their art. Here came Marlon Brando, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Lee J Cobb, Jane Fonda, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Rod Steiger, Cissy Spacek, Robert de Niro, Shelley Winters and dozens of others and here they listened and rehearsed and criticised and supported their fellow actors and directors. They were all devotees of The Method, a training discipline evolved by Strasberg from the teachings of the great Russian actor and teacher Stanislavski. For many, though, The Method has come to signify 'mumbling and scratching', a sort of slightly inarticulate style of performance that in seeking to be internalised and 'real' ends up just being dull. British actors reputedly despised it and Laurence Olivier is famously said to have told Dustin Hoffman to stop trying to find an interior motivation in his character 'and just ACT, dear boy!' 

Seeking enlightenment from stars like Ellen Burstyn and experts and aficionados, Lenny tests his reservations about The Method and finds that when he actually has a go it's not quite so unconvincing as he at first thought... 

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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.

Charles Wheeler: In His Own Words

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On the occasion of his 80th birthday, journalist Charles Wheeler talks to Jeremy Paxman.

In a tribute to Charles Wheeler, another chance to hear a conversation between the award-winning journalist and Jeremy Paxman on the occasion of his 80th birthday.

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: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 05/07/2008

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.

A Dollar a Day

A Dollar a Day: Episode 5: China

Episode 5

Episode 5: China

China

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Despite the Chinese economic boom, many in rural areas face an insecure existence.

Mike Wooldridge presents a series asking what living on a dollar a day really means. Despite the Chinese economic boom, many in rural areas face an insecure existence.

Mike Wooldridge presents a series asking whether the global target of halving world poverty by 2015 can be achieved and what living on a dollar a day really means. 

The Chinese economic boom has succeeded in lifting millions out of poverty, but many in rural areas continue to face an insecure existence.

Mike Wooldridge presents a series exploring what living on a dollar a day really means

Mike Wooldridge presents a series asking whether the global target of halving world poverty by 2015 can be achieved and what living on a dollar a day really means

Cricket: Friends Provident 2008

Cricket: Friends Provident 2008: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Cricket: Friends Provident 2008, 05/07/2008

Coverage of the second semi-final in the Friends Provident Trophy.

Coverage of the second semi-final in the Friends Provident Trophy. Commentary by Simon Mann, Arlo White and Kevin Howells. Including Shipping Forecast.

Coverage of the 2008 Friends Provident trophy tournament

The Archive Hour

A look back at programmes and recordings from the BBC archives

The Archive Hour: Piper Alpha's Legacy

Piper Alpha's Legacy

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Archive Hour, Piper Alpha's Legacy

Mark Stephen explores Piper Alpha's legacy, for individuals and for the oil industry.

Two decades on from the world's worst offshore oil disaster, Mark Stephen explores Piper Alpha's legacy, for individuals and for the oil industry as a whole.

Two decades on from the world's worst offshore oil disaster, Mark Stephen explores Piper Alpha's legacy, for individuals and for the oil industry as a whole, and asks how much concerns about offshore work and safety in the North Sea have changed as the years have passed.

Classic Serial

Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

Classic Serial: The Ring and the Book

Classic Serial: The Ring and the Book: Episode 1

Episode 1

The Ring and the Book

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Rome is rife with speculation in the aftermath of a triple stabbing.

Rome is rife with speculation after a triple stabbing. Poetic masterpiece of sex, lies and murder. Stars Anton Lesser.

Robert Browning's poetic masterpiece of sex, lies and murder, adapted by Martyn Wade.

Rome is rife with speculation in the aftermath of a triple stabbing.

Browning ...... Anton Lesser
Guido Franceschini ...... Roger Allam
Pompilia ...... Loo Brealey 
Caponsacchi ...... Dominic Rowan
Pietro Comparini ...... Andrew Sachs
Violante Comparini ...... Frances Jeater 
Paolo Franceschini ...... Dan Starkey
First Roman ...... Stephen Critchlow
Second Roman ...... Ben Crowe
Conti ...... Chris Pavlo
Margherita ...... Joan Walker
Judge ...... John Rowe

Directed by Abigail le Fleming.

Robert Browning's poetic masterpiece of sex, lies and murder, adapted by Martyn Wade

News and Weather

The latest national and international news and weather reports from BBC Radio 4

News and Weather: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News and Weather, 05/07/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Moral Maze

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Moral Maze: 02/07/2008

02/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 02/07/2008

Michael Portillo, Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik and Claire Fox question witnesses.

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. Melanie Phillips, Ian Hargreaves, Claire Fox and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses.

Round Britain Quiz

Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions on unpredictable fields of knowledge

Radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge

2008

Round Britain Quiz: 2008: Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Round Britain Quiz, 2008, Episode 1

The Midlands team meets Wales. Tom Sutcliffe chairs.

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz. The Midlands team meets Wales.

Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz. The Midlands team meets Wales.

Questions from Programme 2

Question 1
Midlands

An author caused a fuss by taking some home; the Aborigines recognised the remarkable size of theirs; and the ancients counted on theirs. Why might Fred and Wilma's daughter be interested?

Question 2
Wales

What would a Godly and Gay daily thinker, an elderly ruler of Northern Britain, and Rose Buck be doing in your garden?

Question 3
Midlands

In which Royal catalogue might you find these, along with the father of modern physics and the first verse of the Koran?

Question 4
Wales

Why might the first voice be in greater control than the other two?

Question 5 - Listener question from Andrew Walker in St Peter Port in Guernsey
Midlands

How can a Mrs Gaskell novel, a Christmas comestible, a spring sporting event, and an old London market help you to recognise someone?

Question 6 - Listener question from Bob Foreman in Aylesbury
Wales

Why could the shadow-sewer, the Forfarshire rescuer, and Doris Day and James Garner prompt a please by George Osborne?

Question 7
Midlands

Poincare's birthplace came first; she was followed by Lady B.'s maid, Latona's daughter and James Brown's hip-hop classic. Lorenzo's torchbearer and a Hebrew bee were the youngest. Which of them loved Hitler?

Question 8
Wales

What literally connects John Luther Jones with, in this order, a red hot South American city, an article of French headgear and an often domesticated rodent?

Round Britain Quiz: 2008

Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions

Tom Sutcliffe chairs radio's most fiendish quiz, with cryptic questions drawing on unpredictable fields of knowledge

The Week in Westminster

Radio 4's weekly assessment of developments at Westminster

Week in Westminster

The Week in Westminster: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Week in Westminster, 05/07/2008

Behind the scenes at Westminster with Elinor Goodman.

A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Elinor Goodman.

Midnight News

The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.

Midnight News: 05/07/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Midnight News, 05/07/2008

The Late Story

The Late Story: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret

The Late Story: The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret: Episode 1

The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret

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Two short stories about ambition by Etgar Keret, a master of the form.

Two stories about ambition by an Israeli master of the modern short story. Read by Henry Goodman.

....God and Other Stories by Etgar Keret

Two stories about ambition by an Israeli master of the modern short story: The Story about a Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God and The Flying Santinis. 

Read by Henry Goodman.

Short stories by the young Israeli writer

Selection of BBC World Service Programmes

A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes

BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service

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