Listings
: Today
With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton.6.25,7.25 and 8.25 Sports News
6.45 Yesterday in Parliament
With Sean Curran and David Wilby.
7.48 Thought for the Day With the Rev Joel Edwards.
8.32 Yesterday in Parliament
Contributors
Unknown:
James
Naughtie
Unknown:
Edward
Stourton.
Unknown:
Sean
Curran
Unknown:
David
Wilby.
Unknown:
Joel
Edwards.
: Melvyn Bragg - In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of ideas. Shortened repeat at 9.30pmContributors
Presenter:
Melvyn
Bragg
Producer:
Charlie
Taylor
- In Our Time: Duty 42 minutes
: Daily Service
With the Very Revd Ken Riley. Here from All Nations (0 Quanta Qualia). Revelation 7, w9-10; 13-17. These Are They Which Follow the Lamb (Goss). Ye Servants of God (Paderbom).Director of music Christopher Stokes.
Contributors
Unknown:
Ken
Riley.
Music:
Christopher
Stokes.
: Book of the Week: A Writer's World
Jan Morris reads from her new collection of essays. 4: Rome and Naples. Fordetails see Monday Rptd at 12.30amContributors
Unknown:
Jan
Morris
: Woman's Hour
Presented from Manchester by Jenni Murray.10.45 Aurora Leigh Part 4. Drama repeated at 7.45pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Jenni
Murray.
: Crossing Continents
Rosie Goldsmith travels to Poland to find out how the country is preparing for European Union membership. She meets a small, but growing number of Poles-including a Catholic priest - who are discoveringthey have hidden Jewish roots. How are they re-examining their identity in the light of the revelation? She also examines whether Poland is siding with its European Union neighbours orthe United States in taking military control of multinational troops in central Iraq. Producer Jennie Walmsley Repeated on Monday at 8.30pmContributors
Unknown:
Rosie
Goldsmith
Producer:
Jennie
Walmsley
: A Gothic Quest: 1: Madness, Murder and Monsters in the Lab
First of two programmes in which novelist Louise Welsh considers what "gothic" really means, and why gothic literature still captures our imagination.[Caption] The grim splendour of Glasgow's Necropolis provides the backdrop for an exploration of the gothic spirit
A Gothic Quest 11.30am R4
The novelist Louise Welsh (listed recently by The Guardian as one of their "50 women to watch") extends a long pointy finger tipped by an even longer pointy black nail and then slowly coils it back as she requests your company on a dark tour of the gothic genre. Starting in "a spectacular place, a city of the dead" (aka the Necropolis cemetery in her home town of Glasgow), Welsh interviews various experts about the ways in which gothic has popped up in poetry, fiction, art, architecture and film since the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, was printed in 1764. Fellow novelist Sarah Waters joins the debate halfway through and provides the best description of gothic as something that "takes us to a place of fear, beyond our place in society, and shows all our anxieties." If the idea of a programme dealing with "death, madness, altered states, scientific abuses and outsiders" puts you off your mid-morning coffee, just remember that one of the great joys of gothic is that it never takes itself too seriously!
Contributors
Presenter:
Louise
Welsh
Producer:
Jane
Greenwood
: You and Yours
With Winifred Robinson and Liz Barclay.Contributors
Unknown:
Winifred
Robinson
Unknown:
Liz
Barclay.
: Open Country
Extended repeat of Saturday at6.10am: The Archers
Repeated from yesterday at 7pm: Afternoon Play: The Colours of Steam
By John Pilkington. To mark the centenary of the death of the painter Camille Pissarro , the story traces his time as an exile in London when he and Monet gave birth to the French Impressionist movement.Producer Cherry Cookson
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Pilkington.
Unknown:
Camille
Pissarro
Producer:
Cherry
Cookson
Camille:
David
Troughton
Julie:
Jane
Whittenshaw
Claude:
Stephen
Critchlow
Paul:
Philip
Fox
Phineas:
Loan
Meredith
Rachel:
Frances
Jeater
Esther:
Lucy
Trickett
Young woman:
Jaimf
Barbakoff
Groundsman:
Ben
Crowe
: Check Up: Functional Foods
Barbara Myers gives listeners to Sunday's Food Programme (12.30pm) the chance to put questions to an expert. If you want to know answers to questions such as whether bio cultures in yoghurt are really health enhancing, how eggs are injected with fish oils and whether there are real benefits worth the extra cost, contact the programme with questions or comments on [number removed] or email [email address removed].Contributors
Presenter:
Barbara
Myers
Producer:
Erika
Wright
: Radio 4 Appeal
Libby Purves appeals of behalf of the Prisoners' Education Trust. DONATIONS: [address removed]. Credit Cards [number removed]: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
4: The Followers. Read by William Thomas. An idle evening in the rain is spent looking through people's windows. Nothing ever happens- until tonight. Producer Alison Hindell For further details see MondayContributors
Read By:
William
Thomas.
Producer:
Alison
Hindell
: Life of Cranes
4: Mobile Cranes Sling Their Hook. The crane industry has been transformed by the technical advances made in the design of large mobile cranes, known also as "taxi cranes" because of the way they swan from job to job. Dylan Winter tries his hand at slinging a load, and decides to keep his dayjob. Fordetails see Monday (R): Open Book
Mariella Frostrup talks to Michael Dobbs about his latest book, Never Surrender, and looks at the various ways writers create chapter headings and why. Repeated from Sunday at 4pmContributors
Talks:
Mariella
Frostrup
Unknown:
Michael
Dobbs
: The Material World
Shattered glass, bent and twisted metal, burst rubber tyres - Quentin Cooper meets materials chemist Professor Mark Eberhart , who shows him how, by looking at how things break, scientists can develop new durable materials. Producer Martin RedfernContributors
Unknown:
Quentin
Cooper
Unknown:
Professor Mark
Eberhart
Producer:
Martin
Redfern
: Fanshawe Gets to the Bottom of....
The Animal Kingdom. Simon Fanshawe 's cornucopia of comedy, quotations and literature. Today he goes among the beasts of the earth with zookeeper Bill Wallis. Other animal handlers offering their insights include Tom Lehrer , Jerry Seinfeld and Randers and Swann. Producer Paul DodgsonContributors
Unknown:
Simon
Fanshawe
Unknown:
Bill
Wallis.
Unknown:
Tom
Lehrer
Unknown:
Jerry
Seinfeld
Producer:
Paul
Dodgson
: The Archers
Bad news for Brookfield. Repeated tomorrow at 2pm: Front Row
Mark Lawson presents the arts magazine Producer Nicki PaxmanContributors
Unknown:
Mark
Lawson
Producer:
Nicki
Paxman
: Aurora Leigh
By Colin Bytheway. 4: Aurora is now a celebrated poet but her life is somehow still incomolete.For details see Monday Repeated from 10.45am
Contributors
Unknown:
Colin
Bytheway.
Aurora:
Helen
McCrory
Marian:
Jaimi
Barbakoff
Lady Waldemar:
Jane
Slavin
Susan:
Cherie
Taylor-Battiste
Lord Howe:
Nlckolas
Grace
Lady Howe:
Rachel
Atkins
Sir Blaise:
Damien
Lynch
Mr Avery:
Chris
Moran
: Club Class
In the first of two programmes looking at who wields power in Britain today, Simon Cox investigates the elite club that runs the visual arts. These men and women decide the nation's taste and spend tens of millions of pounds of public money every year Are they giving the public what it wants, or merely serving up repeated helpings of headline-grabbing conceptual art"? Producer Richard VadonContributors
Unknown:
Simon
Cox
Producer:
Richard
Vadon
: Analysis
Europe 's Slow Lane. The Eurozone is now the slowest growing of the major advanced economies and its largest member states are in trouble: Italy and Germany are in recession and the French economy is almost at stagnation point.Frances Cairncross investigates the causes of Europe's poor economic health and asks whether the Euro is part of the problem or part of the solution.
Producer Innes Bowen Editor Nicola Meyrick Rptd Sunday 9.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Frances
Cairncross
Producer:
Innes
Bowen
Editor:
Nicola
Meyrick
: Costing the Earth
A Fire in Provence. Forest fires devastated southern France this summer. Miriam O'Reilly investigates the effects on the region's wildlife and landscape.Producer AlasdairCross EMAIL: radioscience@bbc.co.uk
Contributors
Unknown:
Miriam
O'Reilly
: Melvyn Bragg - in Our Time
Shortened repeat of 9am: Book at Bedtime: The Riddle of the Sands
By Erskine Childers. 4: Carruthers and Davies's adventure begins. Fordetailssee MondayContributors
Unknown:
Erskine
Childers.
: The Rapid Eye Movement
By Karl Minns. 5: Bed Boy Bubby. Chester is hit by car and ends up in a coma. As all good REMs know, when people are knocked unconscious, they literally are - meaning that Chester is wandering around in hisownREM.Music by the Neutrinos Producer Dawn Ellis
Contributors
Unknown:
Karl
Minns.
Producer:
Dawn
Ellis
Chester:
Martin
Freeman
Narrator:
Chris
Langham
Butterworth:
Michael
Fenton Stevens
Meryl/Suzie:
Tracy-Ann
OBErman
Tiberius:
Kim
Wall
Miss Maury/Mazzy:
Beth
Chalmers
Agent:
Ewan
Bailey
Hives:
Martin
Hyder
Marlowe:
Owen
Evans
Floyd:
Karl
Minns
: News
: Book of the Week: A Writer's World
Part 4. Repeated from 9.45am: BBC Schools
3.00 The Machine Gunners: Age 9-11 3.15 Maths Challenge: Mental Maths 3: Age 9-11 3.30 Children of Winter: Age 9-113.45 Word Games 3: Age 9-11 4.00 Drama Workshop: Age 9-11
4.20 Dance Workshop: Age 9-114.40 Music Workshop: Age 9-11
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