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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 28/08/2008

28/08/2008

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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: 28/08/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 28/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 28/08/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Kevin Franz of the Religious Society of Friends.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 28/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 28/08/2008

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: 28/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 28/08/2008

Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

Presented by John Humphrys and Evan Davis.

Including:

Bill Clinton has told delegates at the Democrat convention that Barack Obama is the man for the job, while Hillary has formally proposed Obama as the party's presidential candidate. Justin Webb and James Naughtie report from Denver.

Ukraine's deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria says that his country is eager to work with the EU and Nato.

Film-maker and criminologist Roger Graef claims that the government has not taken the threat from replica guns seriously enough.

Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley discusses the widening gap in the health of the richest and poorest in society. Sir Michael Marmot, chair of the World Health Organisation, discusses the problem.

Two galleries are appealing for funds to buy two paintings by Italian Renaissance artist Titian. Art critic Richard Cork reports.

Thought for the Day with Elaine Storkey, president of the Tearfund.

Mike Thomson reports from a health clinic in the remote Sudanese border village of Tieraliet.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband says that the UK will support Ukraine's democratic choices.

Home Office minister Tony McNulty explains how the police want the government to act over their promise to ban all deactivated guns.

Housing expert Henry Pryor discusses how many estate agents are closing each week and what this means for the property market.
 
Professor Michael Foot and Lord Selborne discuss Britain's wartime Special Operations Executive.

Between Ourselves

Series bringing together people who have had profound and similar experiences

Series bringing together people who have had profound and similar experiences to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term effects on each of their lives

Between Ourselves: Series 2

Between Ourselves: Series 2: Episode 7

Episode 7

Series 2

BBC Radio 4 - Between Ourselves, Series 2, Episode 7

Two celebrity photographers discuss life at the business-end of a long-lens.

Olivia O'Leary brings together people with similar experiences: Two celebrity photographers discuss life at the business-end of a long lens.

Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together two people who have had profound and similar experiences, to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term effects on each of their lives.

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

Olivia O'Leary brings together two people who have had profound and similar experiences

Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together two people who have had profound and similar experiences

Backstreet Business

Backstreet Business: Episode 2

Episode 2

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David Law is part of a network of companies creating beautiful musical instruments.

Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses. In the Cotswolds village of Long Compton, David Law is part of a network of companies creating beautiful musical instruments.

Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses.

In the Cotswolds village of Long Compton, David Law is part of a network of off-the-beaten-track companies creating beautiful musical instruments.

Nicola Heywood Thomas visits small businesses

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: 28/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 28/08/2008

Christian worship and music led by Bishop George Stack.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Joan Rivers; Drug related deaths

Joan Rivers; Drug related deaths

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Joan Rivers; Drug related deaths

Comedienne Joan Rivers on turning 75. Why are men more likely to die from drug abuse?

Comedienne Joan Rivers on turning 75. Plus writer Julie Summers on how women coped when the men came back from World War Two, and why men are more likely to die from drug abuse.

Crossing Continents

Series focusing on foreign affairs issues

Crossing Continents: Czech Republic

Czech Republic

BBC Radio 4 - Crossing Continents, Czech Republic

Ray Furlong reports on a landmark court case involving the education of Roma children.

Across Europe, Roma children are often educated in special schools for children with mental disabilities. Ray Furlong reports on a landmark court case.

Across Europe, Roma children are often educated in special schools for children with mental disabilities. Last year, a group of Roma children defeated the Czech government at the European Court of Justice. The court ruled that the children had been the victims of systematic discrimination and ordered that they should be paid compensation. How has the court ruling affected their lives? Ray Furlong reports.

The Ancient Novel

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Ancient Novel

In search of the ancient novel, Tibor Fischer discovers they're like film scripts.

In search of the ancient novel, Tibor Fischer discovers they're not as dusty as the manuscripts they're written on. From 2008.

Tibor Fischer goes in search of the ancient novel to discover they aren't as dusty as the manuscripts on which they're written.  

Two thousand years before Hollywood, Greek and Latin novelists were writing stories that read like film scripts, others like a Mills and Boon romance and others still like religious mystery texts worthy of Dan Brown's Da Vinci code.  They incorporate the twists of a soap opera, bawdy humour and magical episodes in way that is strikingly modern; and their influence on world literature is vast - as Cervantes, Goethe, Shakespeare and Racine (amongst others) testify. 

At the International Conference on the Ancient Novel, in Lisbon, Tibor Fischer speaks to leading academics about this area of fiction very few people know about.  He finds love, happiness and tragedy at the end and shows that although our names have changed, human nature has remained the same.

Produced by Gavin Heard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 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.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 28/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 28/08/2008

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: 28/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 28/08/2008

Consumer news and issues with Liz Barclay and Peter White.

Presented by Liz Barclay and Peter White.

Including: 
Mark Holdstock joins a group of fair trade farmers from developing countries on a tour of Cumbrian supermarkets to see how their produce is sold in the UK.

Jon Douglas reports on a pilot project to install the latest green energy systems into poor households to lower their energy bills.

The online shopping site Ebay is to introduce major changes to its fees and listings next month. What do these mean for buyers and sellers?

Evidence has come to light that some letting agents are breaking the law by not placing tenants' deposits with the deposit protection scheme.

Should local government be able to offer mortgages and help families facing repossession?

Weather

Weather: 28/08/2008

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World at One

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

World at One: 28/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 28/08/2008

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: 23/08/2008

23/08/2008

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Helen Mark visits Exmoor, where local farmers and businesses are saving rare butterflies.

Countryside magazine. Helen Mark visits Exmoor, where local farmers and businesses are saving rare butterflies.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 27/08/2008

27/08/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 27/08/2008

Ed and Emma are having a picnic in the garden with George, and they chat about ways to help boost Mike's sales. Emma mentions that they have the house to themselves tonight, and suggests to Ed that he could stay over.

It's Usha's Hindu wedding day and Auntie Satya is providing comfort and fuss in equal measure. The ceremony goes off without a hitch, and later in a quiet moment Alan fills Usha in on the accident with David's tractor. The pair talk fondly of their day, and of their love for each other.
 
Susan's intrigued by the customs at the Hindu ceremony, but Neil's dreading what faux pas she will make next. He's aghast when she raises the subject of the digester meeting with Ruth. As she's been less than diplomatic with the priest, Neil is keen to wrest Susan away from Satya before she puts her foot in it again. Neil hopes tomorrow's crowd at the diploma ceremony are as nice as the people today have been. He's surprised it's going to be such a formal affair. But Susan says Christopher deserves a big occasion and she can't wait. It'll be fantastic.

Episode written by Carole Simpson Solazzo.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Drama

Drama on 4: This Cold August Light

15/08/2006

This Cold August Light

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By Jerome Vincent. The year 1816 saw some extraordinary weather.

By Jerome Vincent. The year 1816 saw some extraordinary weather. The climatic conditions and amazing sunsets had a profound effect on artists and writers, including Edgar Allan Poe.

By Jerome Vincent. The year 1816 saw some extraordinary weather, with snow falling and crops failing across Europe and North America. The sunsets, however, were amazing, and the climatic conditions had a profound effect on artists and writers, including Edgar Allan Poe.

Edgar Allan Poe ...... Kerry Shale
Young Poe ...... Michael Beveridge
Maunder ...... David Timson
Lily/Edith ...... Alison Pettitt
Laura/Mary Shelley ...... Rachel Atkins
Turner/Mellish ...... Harry Myers
Polidori/Farthing ...... Chris Stanton
Taylor ...... Robin Toller

Organ music composed and performed by Jonathan Ayerst.

Directed by David Blount.

Lives in a Landscape

Documentary series telling original stories about real lives in Britain today

Lives in a Landscape: Series 3

Lives in a Landscape: Episode 4: The Dawn Winder

Episode 4

Episode 4: The Dawn Winder

The Dawn Winder

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Jeffrey Rosson winds the clocks that measure out the day in the Royal Courts of Justice.

Series telling original stories about real lives in Britain today. Jeffrey Rosson winds the clocks that measure out the day in the Royal Courts of Justice.

Twice a week, as the city of London rumbles slowly into life, a solitary figure hurries from room to room at the Royal Courts of Justice. For 35 years, Jeffrey Rosson has wound the clocks that measure out the day in the country's famous law courts. The job is as old as the building itself, but Jeffrey's tenure as the dawn winder will soon be coming to an end.

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: Living Paintings Trust

24/08/2008

Living Paintings Trust

BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 Appeal, Living Paintings Trust

Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Living Paintings Trust.

Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Living Paintings Trust. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.

Opening Lines

Series showcasing first-time and emerging writers

Opening Lines: Series 10

Opening Lines: Series 10: Episode 4: Pink or Blue

Episode 4: Pink or Blue

Series 10

Pink or Blue

BBC Radio 4 - Opening Lines, Series 10, Pink or Blue

By Elizabeth Wells. Gender stereotyping and dysfunctional families through a teen's eyes.

By Elizabeth Wells. Gender stereotyping and dysfunctional families are seen through a teenager's eyes in small-town Canada. Read by Maggie Blake.

Series showcasing cutting-edge contemporary writing.

In Elizabeth Wells's story, gender stereotyping and dysfunctional families are seen through a teenager's eyes in small-town Canada.

Read by Maggie Blake.

Series showcasing cutting-edge contemporary writing

A Guide to Garden Birds

An entertaining guide to birds found in the garden

A Guide to Garden Birds: Series 1

A Guide to Garden Birds: Series 1: Episode 4

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 - A Guide to Garden Birds, Series 1, Episode 4

Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss and Chris Watson identify some of the woodland visitors.

Brett Westwood, Stephen Moss and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson identify some of the woodland visitors, including the great spotted woodpecker and skulking dunnock.

Brett Westwood presents an entertaining and practical guide in a series recorded in a Somerset garden. He is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson.

They identify some of the woodland visitors, including the great spotted woodpecker and skulking dunnock.

An entertaining guide to birds found in the garden, with Brett Westwood and guests

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: Philippa Gregory, Love Letters, Max Blecher, and Graphic Novels

Philippa Gregory, Love Letters, Max Blecher, and Graphic Novels

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Philippa Gregory, Love Letters, Max Blecher, and Graphic Novels

Muriel Gray talks to novelist Philippa Gregory about her new book The Other Queen.

Muriel Gray talks to novelist Philippa Gregory about her new book The Other Queen, a fictional account of the life of Mary Queen of Scots.

Philippa Gregory
One of Britain’s most successful historical novelists, Philippa Gregory, talks to Muriel Gray about her new novel, The Other Queen. Based on the life of Mary Queen of Scots, Muriel finds out why Mary is so studied, and where Philippa will be looking next for inspiration.


Love Letters
Inspired by a scene in the film Sex In The City, Pan McMillan has released a book of love letters written by historical figures. Muriel is joined by writer Frances Wilson to discuss whether other people’s letters are worth reading, and to ask whether a great man automatically writes great love letters.


Max Blecher
Max Blecher was a Romanian novelist who contracted tuberculosis of the spine, and spent the last ten years of his life in sanitoria before dying in 1938 at the age of 29. His book Scarred Hearts concerns a Romanian student of chemistry in Paris, who also contracts tuberculosis of the spine) and spends a year in a sanatorium, his body wrapped in a plaster body cast. Paul Bailey talks to Muriel to explain why this ‘lost masterpiece’ deserves further attention.


Graphic Novels
Do you know the fastest growing sector in publishing? Perhaps surprisingly, it is the sector of graphic novels. Danny Fingeroth, author of The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels, and Naomi Alderman, author and graphic novel fan, talk about their favourites.

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: Tracking Traffic - Periodic Table of Videos

Tracking Traffic - Periodic Table of Videos

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, Tracking Traffic - Periodic Table of Videos

Quentin Cooper explores new ideas to reduce traffic chaos.

Quentin Cooper explores new ideas to reduce traffic chaos. He talks to Dr Alan Stevens from the Transport Research Laboratory and Dr David Brown of Portsmouth University.

Tracking Traffic
In a bank holiday week, traffic can be the main topic of conversation. This week Quentin Cooper investigates how artificial intelligence is being applied to traffic navigation systems for the first time. 

The Institute of Industrial Research at Portsmouth University has teamed up with the Traffic Research Laboratory to develop the ‘Congestion Avoidance Dynamic Routing Engine’ (CADRE). 

Instead of a regular sat nav system that gets information about the car’s location from a satellite and tells you where you are on a map, the CADRE uses ‘fuzzy logic’ to imitate how humans think and make decisions, and constantly takes on new information from fellow users to keep up to date with how traffic is moving.

He’s joined by Dr Alan Stevens, Chief Research Scientist at the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire and Dr David Brown, Head of the Institute of Industrial Research at Portsmouth University who has come up with this new system known as CADRE.


Periodic Table of Videos
There are 118 new videos available on the internet. That number (among many other videos) is significant because it’s the number of elements in the periodic table – 16 more than when Tom Lehrer sang his famous song listing the elements. 

The new video collection comes from Professor Martyn Poliakoff who, along with colleagues in the chemistry department at the University of Nottingham have created the latest internet video hit by making short films about each element in the periodic table. 

Quentin is joined by Professor Poliakoff and his fellow periodic table video star, Dr Debbie Kays.

1968 Day by Day

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

1968: Day by Day

1968 Day by Day: 28th August 1968

28th August 1968

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The Democrats choose Hubert Humphrey as their candidate for the White House.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. The Democrats choose Hubert Humphrey as their candidate for the White House.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

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