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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 15/06/2009

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BBC Radio 4

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: 15/06/2009

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 15/06/2009

Daily prayer and reflection with Gopinder Kaur.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 15/06/2009

Charlotte Smith reports on how dairy farmers are being hit by sharp cuts in milk prices.

Following the collapse of a major dairy cooperative, rock-bottom prices could force hundreds of farmers out of business. Charlotte Smith reports.

Following the collapse of a major dairy co-operative, rock-bottom prices could force hundreds of farmers out of business. 

Plus, with the United Nations pushing for a larger global fish farming industry, Charlotte Smith finds out why Europe is lagging behind the rest of the world.

Weather

Weather: 15/06/2009

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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: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 15/06/2009

Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague.

Tim Franks reports from Jerusalem on Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's landmark speech.

Jon Leyne reports from Tehran on how thousands of protestors are expected on the streets of Iran.

Professors Alan White and Professor Mike Richards discuss whether men face a greater risk of cancer than women.

Michael Roberts, Chief Executive of the Association of Train Operators, discusses if lines axed in the 1960s could be reopened.

George and Deborah Kinsella discuss what should be done to halt the knife crime that they say is 'embedded in the very heart of Great Britain'.

Thought for the day with Rev Dr Colin Morris, a Methodist Minister. 

Nicholas Witchell reports from Baghdad on one of the last US foot patrols with the fifth cavalry.

The swine flu virus has claimed its first victim in the UK, after a female patient died in a Scottish hospital. James Cook reports on the scale of the problem in Scotland and Professor John Oxford, virologist at Queen Mary University, London, debates the implications of the death. 

Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen, Aaron David Miller, who served six US secretaries of state as an advisor on Arab-Israeli negotiations, and Ron Prosor, Israeli Ambassador in London, discuss Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's endorsement of a two-state solution.

New owner of Erotic Review Kate Copstick and novelist Kathy Lette discuss whether men are better at writing about sex than women.

Sir Kenneth Calman discusses what should be done to improve devolution in Scotland. 

Hugh Pym reports on how the recession has affected the government's Private Finance Initiative (PFI) plans. 

Home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw reports on how probation staff monitor violent and high-risk offenders.

Two veterans of the Siege of Tobruk, one German and one British, remember the pivotal battle in World War II.

Start the Week

Weekly discussion programme, setting the cultural agenda every Monday

Start the Week: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, 15/06/2009

Andrew Marr talks to Phillip Blond, Adam Wishart, Elaine Showalter and AC Grayling.

Andrew Marr talks to Phillip Blond about civic society, Adam Wishart about NHS rationing, Elaine Showalter about being judged by our peers and AC Grayling about civil liberties.

Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week.

His guests include the philosopher AC Grayling on why he thinks the 'war on terror' has led to a war on our civil rights, and the documentary maker Adam Wishart on how the NHS body NICE makes its decisions on expensive new drugs.

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: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 15/06/2009

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: Lynn Barber on An Education; Bingo wings

Lynn Barber on An Education; Bingo wings

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Lynn Barber on An Education; Bingo wings

Columnist Lynn Barber on her memoir 'An Education'. Plus, toning up the under-arm dangle.

Columnist Lynn Barber on her memoir An Education. Plus, are there key differences between male and female sexual offending? And what can be done to tone up the under-arm dangle?

The Job Clinic

The Job Clinic: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - The Job Clinic, Episode 1

Liz Barclay meets job seekers whose search for employment is aided by business mentors.

Liz Barclay meets job seekers whose search for employment is aided by three mentors from the world of business.

Liz Barclay meets some job seekers whose search for employment is aided by three mentors - business guru Charles Handy, founder of Coffee Republic Sahar Hashemi and management coach Jenny Rogers. 

Whether a college graduate or a middle-aged businessman, they reveal how unemployment affects their daily lives and family relationships.

Jenny Rogers has been an executive coach for 18 years. She trains other coaches as well as continuing to work with her own clients. She is a founder-director of the UK consultancy Management Futures Ltd and runs her own consultancy. 

Sahar Hashemi founded Coffee Republic with her brother, Bobby Hashemi, in 1995 and is the author of Anyone Can Do It. 

Charles Handy is a social theorist who has written extensively on management and education. His books include The Elephant and the Flea and The New Philanthropists.

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

Liz Barclay meets job seekers whose search for employment is aided by business mentors

Liz Barclay meets job seekers whose search for employment is aided by three mentors from the world of business

Newfangle

Newfangle: Episode 3: Grows on Trees

Episode 3

Episode 3: Grows on Trees

Grows on Trees

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Newfangle has to devise a payment system to cope with demand for his latest discovery.

Newfangle discovers that piles of mud can be shaped into shelters from the oppressive heat and has to devise a complicated payment system to cope with demand for his new discovery.

Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set 100,000 years BC among a tribe of proto-humans.

It's boiling hot down in the swamp and the tribe suffer while Alf and Lucy enjoy the cool breezes in their treetop home. Newfangle, aided by Crag, discovers that piles of mud can be shaped into shelters from the heat. These mudturtles, as Crag calls them, prove very popular with the other hominids - so popular that Newfangle devises a complicated payment system based on future harvests to cope with demand. But then the whole pyramid scheme comes crashing down when Crag intervenes with a big idea of his own. 

Newfangle ...... Russell Tovey
Snaggle ...... Pippa Evans 
Crag ...... Gabriel Vick
Coco ...... Maureen Lipman 
Alf ...... Hugh Bonneville 
Lucy ...... Amy Shindler.

Sitcom by Adam Rosenthal and Viv Ambrose, set 100,000 years BC among a proto-human tribe

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 15/06/2009

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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: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 15/06/2009

Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.

Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.

Including:

Edinburgh Fringe: Will things run smoothly at the festival this year?

Dealing with the aftermath of prostate cancer.

How restaurant suppliers are feeling the pinch in the economic recession.

World at One

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

World at One: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 15/06/2009

With Martha Kearney. Schools Secretary Ed Balls discusses government spending.

National and international news with Martha Kearney. Schools Secretary Ed Balls and his Conservative counterpart Michael Gove discuss spending on schools.

National and international news with Martha Kearney.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls and his Conservative counterpart Michael Gove discuss spending on schools; who has a credible plan that takes into account the need for public spending cuts? 

Plus the couple whose IVF embryo was mistakenly implanted into another woman.

Quote... Unquote

Celebrity panel game about quotations featuring questions posed by listeners

Quote... Unquote: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Quote... Unquote, 15/06/2009

Nigel Rees chairs. With Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher Luscombe, Simon Pearsall.

Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher Luscombe and Simon Pearsall.

Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of quotations and anecdotes. 

With guests Adele Geras, Conn Iggulden, Christopher Luscombe and Simon Pearsall. 

The reader is Peter Jefferson.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 14/06/2009

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Jazzer arrives to check the pigs, and asks about Neil's business worries. Christopher mentions a non-paying customer, Paul Clifford. Jazzer's heard that he might be going under. Christopher's bemused when Susan keeps quizzing him about her missing fruit bowl, and tells her that Jazzer's news is more important.

Lynda can see Christopher on the Ambridge plinth as a youthful icon - the village farrier. Christopher's not interested. Jazzer reckons he ought to be able to stand on the plinth selling. It's what would have happened in the Middle Ages.

Matt wants a bit of peace but Lilian wants some straight answers. Getting nowhere, Lilian tries a change of tack by suggesting they go to a nice country pub. Matt would rather drive to Skegness to see an old pal about a business deal. Lilian reminds him they've got to stay solid and Matt eventually agrees to lunch - as long as there's no more interrogation.

To Lilian's annoyance, Matt becomes engrossed in the pub's television. At least when he gets his car back he can slink off and do what he has to. Matt doesn't think she understands but she does. She's just not sure that she wants to any more.

Episode written by Graham Harvey.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Play

Drama on 4: A Bit of Explaining to Do

A Bit of Explaining to Do

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, A Bit of Explaining to Do

By Graham White. Mark realises that he has made a potentially embarrassing mistake.

By Graham White. Mark realises that he has made a potentially embarrassing mistake: there is a difficult-to-explain entry on his wife's credit card statement.

By Graham White. Mark realises that he has made a potentially embarrassing mistake - there is a difficult-to-explain entry on his wife's credit card statement. He turns on the charm with a young woman, Jo, who works in a call centre, to see if she can make it disappear. 

But this is not just a domestic embarrassment for Mark - his wife Eve is a senior policewoman, very much in the public eye.

Mark ...... Shaun Dingwall
Jo ...... Lizzy Watts
Eve ...... Jaye Griffiths
Jeff ...... Ewan Bailey
Trainee ...... Benjamin Askew
Phone ....... Philip Fox

Directed by Mary Peate.

Archive on 4

Brilliant stories told using archive from the BBC and beyond.

Archive on 4: The First A and R Man

13/06/2009

The First A and R Man

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Paul Gambaccini uncovers the story of Fred Gaisberg, who brought recording to Britain.

Paul Gambaccini uncovers the story of Fred Gaisberg, the music collector, technician and entrepreneur who brought recording to Britain over 100 years ago.

Paul Gambaccini delves into EMI's Hayes archive to uncover the remarkable story of Fred Gaisberg, the music collector, technician and entrepreneur who brought recording to Britain over 100 years ago. 

Fred became the first man to record Caruso and the first to record the court music of the Chinese and Japanese Emperors. In a series of adventures in the early years of the 1900s, transporting his bulky apparatus - including an acid bath - across continents, he amassed hundreds of discs of indigenous music. Nearer home, he recorded the last ever castrato and made precious recordings of the great music hall and operatic stars.

America, Empire of Liberty

America, Empire of Liberty: Episode 71: Cuba - That Four Letter Word

Episode 71

Episode 71: Cuba - That Four Letter Word

Cuba - That Four Letter Word

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An American-backed invasion of Cuba fails.

By David Reynolds. A US-backed invasion of Cuba fails but President Kennedy succeeds in preventing the USSR from placing missiles there.

Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds. 

An American-backed invasion of Cuba fails but President Kennedy saves face when he stops the Soviet Union from placing missiles on the Caribbean island.

Series charting the history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds

The Food Programme

Investigating every aspect of the food we eat

Food Programme

The Food Programme: Diet and Prostate Cancer

Diet and Prostate Cancer

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Diet and Prostate Cancer

Sheila Dillon on the latest findings suggesting a link between diet and prostate cancer.

Sheila Dillon examines the latest findings suggesting a link between diet and prostate cancer. Featuring an audio diary from food campaigner Geoff Tansey.

Sheila Dillon discusses the latest research linking diet and prostate cancer.

A man dies every hour from prostate cancer in the UK, but it is a slow growing cancer. This programme explores the findings that show a link between diet and this form of cancer.  

Food campaigner Geoff Tansey, diagnosed with prostate cancer a year ago, has kept an audio diary relating his experience of the disease, the removal of his prostate, and his quest to discover the effects of diet.

Nutritional scientist Professor Margaret Rayman joins Sheila Dillon to discuss her findings, which show that the health of the prostate can be helped by eating a diet rich in certain foods and avoiding the harmful effects of others

Professor Rayman is joined in the studio by Professor Colin Cooper, of the Department of Molecular Biology at the Institute of Cancer Research.

Beyond Belief

Series exploring the place and nature of faith in today's world

Beyond Belief: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Beyond Belief, 15/06/2009

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the theological issues raised by Alzheimer's disease.

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the theological issues raised by Alzheimer's disease. What is left once Alzheimer's has done its worst?

Ernie Rea and guests discuss the theological issues raised by Alzheimer's disease. What insights do faith communities offer into what makes us human when we lose our cognitive abilities, and what is left of the self once Alzheimer's has done its worst?

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

PM: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 15/06/2009

Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn.

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn. Plus Weather.

World Twenty20 Cricket

Ball by ball coverage of World Twenty20 international cricket

World Twenty20 Cricket: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - World Twenty20 Cricket, 15/06/2009Search BBC

Coverage from the Oval of England v West Indies in the Super Eight Stage.

Coverage from the Oval of a match from the Super Eight stage of the tournament, possibly England v Australia. Including Shipping Forecast.

Coverage from the Oval of England v West Indies in the Super Eight Stage. Commentary from the Test Match Special team including Jonathan Agnew, Tony Cozier and Arlo White, with expert analysis from Phil Tufnell, Geoff Lawson and Ian Bishop.

Including Shipping Forecast.

Analysis

Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad.

Programme examining the ideas and forces which shape public policy in Britain and abroad, presented by distinguished writers, journalists and academics.

Analysis: A New Iraq?

A New Iraq?

BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, A New Iraq?

Bronwen Maddox considers the prospects of lasting peace for the Iraqi people.

As British forces complete their withdrawal from Iraq and the government declares the mission a success, Bronwen Maddox considers the prospect of lasting peace for the Iraqi people.

As British forces complete their withdrawal from Iraq and the government declares the mission a success, Bronwen Maddox considers the prospects of lasting peace for the Iraqi people. Have lessons been learnt that will change the way in which similar missions are tackled in the future?

Frontiers

Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the researchers responsible

Programme exploring new ideas in science and meeting the scientists and researchers responsible for them, as well as hearing from their critics

Frontiers: Bioprecipitation

Bioprecipitation

BBC Radio 4 - Frontiers, Bioprecipitation

Richard Hollingham investigates if bacteria in the atmosphere can influence the weather.

Richard Hollingham investigates if bacteria in the atmosphere can influence the weather and meets scientists working in what has been called 'bioprecipitation'.

Richard Hollingham investigates if bacteria in the atmosphere can influence the weather and meets some of the scientists who are working in what has been called 'bioprecipitation'. 

He talks to David Sands from Montana University, who coined the term, and visits labs in Avignon and London where researchers are trying to understand more about the impact of bacterial particles on our weather. If the complexities of bioprecipitation can be unravelled, it might be possible to turn the process to our advantage and use these extraordinary bacteria to encourage rainfall in drought-affected regions of the world.

The World Tonight

In depth reporting, intelligent analysis and major breaking news from a global perspective

The World Tonight: 15/06/2009

BBC Radio 4 - The World Tonight, 15/06/2009

With Robin Lustig. Plus reports on Iran, Iraq War inquiry, US healthcare and UK jobs.

With Robin Lustig. The government announces an inquiry into the Iraq war, and thousands rally in Tehran in support of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

News from a global perspective with Robin Lustig.

As thousands rally in Tehran in support of the defeated presidential candidate, Mir Hossein Mousavi, what now for Iran? 

How is the recession shaping the world of work in the UK?

The government announces an inquiry into the Iraq war.

President Obama's plans to reform healthcare in the United States.

Millions of unexploded bombs are still killing people in Laos.

Book at Bedtime

Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and world literature

Readings from modern classics, new works by leading writers and literature from around the world

Book at Bedtime: David Nicholls - One Day

Book at Bedtime: David Nicholls - One Day: Episode 6

Episode 6

David Nicholls - One Day

BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime, David Nicholls - One Day, Episode 6

The two friends have not spoken since a painfully acrimonious evening the previous summer.

It is now 1996, and Emma and Dexter are not speaking. As her teaching career surges ahead, his TV career falters. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David Nicholls. 

It is now 1996 and the two friends have not spoken to each other since a painfully acrimonious evening the previous summer when Emma found herself admitting that she no longer liked Dexter very much. In the meantime her teaching career is surging ahead while Dexter is being edged into the graveyard slots of TV presenting.

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4.

Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet romantic comedy novel by David Nicholls

Off the Page

Series featuring new writing and stimulating discussion.

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