Radio 4 Listings for 5 – 11 June 2021 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 05 JUNE 2021 visible, mind and body, body and soul. SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m000wrsk) Big Zuu SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m000wly2) In this ten part series, academic and broadcaster Professor Alice The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. Roberts traces how human knowledge of anatomy has grown Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary and changed over time, and how this changing understanding stories and remarkable people. has in turn affected our understanding of who we are. SAT 00:30 Natives: Race & Class in the Ruins of Empire by Akala (m000wlxk) Episode 10: Visible and Invisible - where the body ends SAT 10:30 You're Dead To Me (p07pj5m9) Episode 5 Joan of Arc Professor Alice Roberts ends her journey through the history of From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child to anatomy. From pre-history until the 20th century, the story was Delusion or divine intervention? Learn about Joan of Arc’s his first encounters with racist teachers, race and class have broadly the transformation of a conception of the body as a super sewing skills, her badass credentials, and the story of why shaped Akala's life and outlook. In Natives: Race and Class in mysterious black box into the body as a machine. But now we it took nearly half a century for her to become a saint. If you the Ruins of Empire he charts his own personal story alongside seem on the cusp of a new era – with technology profoundly think it’s tough being a woman now, find out what it was like in the social, historical and political factors that have shaped the changing the ways we view our bodies both metaphorically and 1400s France. world we live in today. practically. Joining historian Greg Jenner to learn about Joan are comedian Kingslee Daley, better known by his stage name Akala, is a Presenter: Professor Alice Roberts Catherine Bohart of The Mash Report, and Dr Helen Castor, British rapper, author, and activist. In 2006, he was voted the Actor: Jonathan Kydd medieval historian and author of The Women Who Ruled Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards. He is the founder of England Before Elizabeth. the The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company and has recently A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4 published a novel called The Dark Lady, which features a Script: Greg Jenner 15-year-old orphan on the streets of Elizabethan London. Research: Emma Nagouse SAT 06:00 News and Papers (m000wrs9) Producer: Dan Morelle Written and read by Akala The latest news headlines. Including the weather and a look at Abridged by Jill Waters and Isobel Creed the papers. A Muddy Knees production for BBC Radio 4 Produced by Jill Waters A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 SAT 06:07 Ramblings (m000wlnh) SAT 11:00 School for Communists (m000wrsn) Mallerstang in Cumbria with Debbie North. A witty and surprising personal view of communism from SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m000wly4) Alexei Sayle, whose parents were Communists and took him on The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. Debbie North uses a motorised wheelchair and is a powerful holidays to the Eastern bloc during the Cold War. Alexei soon advocate for making the countryside accessible for all. Debbie rejected their brand of left wing politics - and became a Maoist. had always been a keen walker but, in her 40s, was diagnosed He says, "I'm a Marxist-Leninist survivor!" SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes with spinal degeneration. Very quickly she became a wheelchair (m000wly6) user yet made the decision that this wasn’t going to stop her Alexei meets children's author Michael Rosen, and shares BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, accessing the countryside that she loves. Today she takes Clare memories of growing up in Jewish Communist homes. arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service. on one of her favourite rambles in Mallerstang. It starts at The Thrang, south of Outhgill. Although officially at the eastern He also meets Tom Bell, a former member of the London edge of Cumbria, the walk is in the Yorkshire Dales National Recruits, who was sent to apartheid South Africa to work for SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m000wly8) Park. Their destination is the 'Water Cut' stone sculpture which the ANC and the South African Communist Party. While The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. overlooks some of the area's most beautiful and expansive Nelson Mandela and others were jailed, Tom and others worked scenery. under cover, risking arrest and death. SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m000wlyb) Grid Ref for start of walk: NY783004 The current General Secretary of the Young Communist The latest news from BBC Radio 4 League, Johnny Hunter, explains why they have returned to the OS Map: OL19 Howgill Fells and Upper Eden Valley Hammer and Sickle, love pictures of Che Guevara and want the destruction of capitalism. SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m000wlyd) Producer: Karen Gregor A reflection and prayer to start the day with Rev Cheryl Meban The Young Communist League is a democratic organisation for people under 30, founded in 1921 as the youth wing of the SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m000wrsc) Communist Party of Great Britain. They describe themselves as Good morning. 05/06/21 - Farming Today This Week: Carbon tax, HS2 Ltd, a "Britain's biggest organisation of revolutionary young people - green recovery and rural tourism fighting for a society that provides for workers and young On this day in 1981, the US Center for Disease Control people, not big business". They want a revolutionary reported on pneumonia affecting 5 homosexual men in Los Over the last few weeks, there’s been heated debate about the transformation of society - an end to poverty, unemployment, Angeles. It is from this date that the AIDS epidemic is officially Government's attempts to sign a free trade deal with Australia, destruction of the environment, exploitation and division, measured. and it’s showing no signs of going away. Farmers are concerned including oppression based on gender, race and sexual that giving Australian agricultural produce tariff-free access to orientation. The virus was isolated at the Pasteur institute in Paris in 1983. the UK market could lead to them being out-competed by Then an American-discovered virus was given a different name, cheaper imports and that it would set the precedent for other In the 1930s, many League members volunteered to join the though it turned out to be the same. There was wrangling over trade deals. But the Environment Secretary, George Eustice, International Brigades and fight for the Spanish Republic what it should be called until both names were replaced by HIV, said this week that a carbon tax on imported meat could stop against Franco. Human Immunodeficiency Virus. British farmers being undercut on environmental standards. So how would such a system work? In the 1960s, the YCL helped establish the Campaign for Naming is a powerful thing. One early name for AIDS was, Gay- Nuclear Disarmament, and organised medical aid and hundreds Related Immunodeficiency syndrome. This effectively HS2 was “dishonest, misleading and inconsistent” when of bicycles to support Vietnam against the United States. stigmatised its sufferers, implying causation or judgment, and negotiating compensation with a farmer who had to move to made no room for complex lives or other causes of infection. make way for the new high-speed rail line. That's according to A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4 Throughout the eighties one big debate was whether AIDS was the Parliamentary Ombudsman, which has just published its “God’s judgment on gays.” A teenage contemporary of mine, as findings into complaints made by a family from a village near sexuality developed, would feel cosmically judged for sexual Lichfield, in Staffordshire. The building of the high-speed rail SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m000wrsq) attraction beyond their control. The naming of, Human link between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds has Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists Immunodeficiency Virus, and the embodied and relational meant more than 900 properties worth nearly six hundred and writers from around the world interactions of ordinary compassionate people - brought million pounds have been bought up to release land for the new sufferers back, verbally and visibly, to human inclusion. But the routes. economic divide between Global north and South still leaves SAT 12:00 News Summary (m000wrss) vast swathes of the human race unable to access the lifesaving The Wildlife Trusts are calling on government and local National and international news from BBC Radio 4 treatments UK citizens can take for granted. authorities to invest in nature to help rebuild after the pandemic. Their ‘Wilder Recovery’ Report says increased God teach us to see and name each other first as human. Inspire spending on nature and the environment would lead to new SAT 12:04 Money Box (m000wrsv) and equip us -researchers, politicians and business-people - to jobs, a growing economy and a healthier, happier population. DWP urged to rethink the two child Universal Credit cap support life and change how we do relationships (so no one Caz Graham visits a initiative in Morecambe called ‘The Bay - feels inferior or excluded) and economics, so that all who need A Blueprint for Recovery’, which aims to tackle mental health Children’s Commissioner for Wales Professor Sally Holland healthcare and treatment may have life, and have it to the full, problems, exacerbated by Covid, by encouraging greater explains why she, along with the Commissioners for Scotland as you promised us in Christ.