Radio 4 Listings for 24 – 30 August 2019 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 24 AUGUST 2019 Centre of the Earth', an urban nature reserve in Birmingham, chaplaincies in a variety of sports in the region including next to Winston Green Prison. volleyball, ice hockey and boxing. He talks about his life in the SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m0007rvm) church and how a youthful misdemeanour came back to haunt National and international news from BBC Radio 4 The Centre of the Earth is Birmingham and Black Country him. Wildlife Trust’s purpose built environmental centre in Winston Green - just 1.5 km from Birmingham City Centre. Situated in Conductor John Eliot Gardiner shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT 00:30 Book of the Week: Coventry (m0007rvp) what has historically been one of the country’s most deprived, Lions on Leashes urban areas, this little pocket of green is a special place for the Producer: Paula McGinley community and a thriving home to all kinds of wildlife. Editor: Eleanor Garland In her striking new collection of essays, award-winning novelist Through tender love and care from the dedicated volunteers, Rachel Cusk weaves observations of domestic concerns with there are otters, smooth newts and a wild flower nursery that art, psychology and current affairs. helps populate other urban sites across the city, including the SAT 10:30 Alex Edelman's Special Relationships visitor’s garden at the prison next door. It's also inspired a local (m0007xs9) The author contemplates the trials and tribulations of school, which has students who between them speak over 40 Faith and Uncertainty adolescence as she reflects on her own family's story. different languages, to develop their own nature space. And then, last but by no means least, there’s the Golden Sparkles Alex Edelman encourages his guests from both sides of the Reader: Amelia Bullmore community group… Atlantic to think laterally about a diverse collection of special Abridged and produced by Eilidh McCreadie relationships in this loose limbed series of chat shows recorded Presented by Helen Mark in London and the USA. Produced by Nicola Humphries SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m0007rvr) This week, matters of faith and uncertainty are probed - and not The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. only religious matters. Is faith misleading and can uncertainty SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m0007wj2) have an upside? Farming goes 'Back to the Future' SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes Producer: Sophie Black (m0007rvt) Sybil Ruscoe goes Back to the Future on a mixed farm in A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. Somerset, to find out how some farmers are moving their businesses forward by learning from the past. SAT 11:00 The Origin of Stuff (m000677l) SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m0007rvw) Farmer, Fred Price, has turned his family arable farm around by Wine Glass The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. introducing forage-fed pigs and perennial crops into his rotation. He has reduced his use of agri-chemicals and started Have you got one of those wine glasses that can hold an entire growing heritage grains. He makes it pay by selling direct to bottle of wine? Katy Brand does and she’s even used it for wine SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m0007rvy) restaurants, butchers and bakers. - albeit because of a sprained ankle, which would have stopped National and international news from BBC Radio 4. her from hobbling back and forth to the kitchen for refills. We also hear from an organic cattle breeder who says mimicking ancient natural grazing patterns is a healthier and But if we skip back a few hundred years, the wine glass was SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m0007rw0) more efficient way of feeding cattle...as well as being better for tiny. Footmen brought their masters what was essentially a shot A spiritual comment and prayer to start the day with Dr Marika the environment. glass. They quaffed back their wine in one. So how did we go Rose. from those dinky little things to the gargantuan goblets we have We visit a farm in Wales where they have reinstated a medieval today? Is it because letting the wine breathe in a bigger glass Good morning. We’re right in the middle of holiday season. system of strip farming and hear about how plant breeders are makes it smell and taste better? Or is it a reflection of our Maybe you’re just setting off on holiday, or just coming back using wild potato varieties to solve future problems. drinking habits? from holiday; maybe you’re in the middle of a holiday (lucky you!); or maybe you’re watching everyone else going away and Presented by Sybil Ruscoe Join Katy and the show's resident public historian, Greg Jenner, wishing that you had the money or the time to do the same. Produced by Heather Simons is glass expert Russell Hand from Sheffield University and Barry Smith, Director for the Study of the Senses at London Holidays are one of the ways that we measure time: are we University. clinging on by our fingernails, waiting till we can down tools or SAT 06:57 Weather (m0007wjb) set an out of office email, or are we in the middle of a long The latest weather forecast. Producer: Graihagh Jackson trudge, dreaming about the distant holiday possibilities? Holidays also one of the ways that we measure ourselves against one another. What kinds of holidays are our friends and SAT 07:00 Today (m0007wjl) SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m0007xsc) neighbours going on, and what does it say about them? Holidays News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Fighting white supremacy matter, especially when work or life are stressful and Thought for the Day. exhausting. It’s worth remembering that in the age of zero-hour The United States is experiencing a resurgence of far-right contracts and the gig economy, more and more of us don’t get extremism. We meet a man trying to challenge the ideology and time off, don’t get to stop and catch our breath, even as many of SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m0007wjv) convert those who have been radicalised. But Aleem Maqbook us are working to make other people’s holidays magical. PP Arnold, John Eliot Gardiner says he's ploughing a lonely furrow. It’s easy to forget about all the people who’ve work hard to let Kate Silverton and Luke Jones meet singer P.P. Arnold; artist In Serbia the government has been investing in traditional crafts us rest, to have that longed for holiday: the parents, Mackenzie Thorpe; poet Charly Cox and the Reverend Peter - carpentry and pottery - in an attempt to sustain rural grandparents, partners and friends who worked hard to save up Allen. With Inheritance Tracks from conductor John Eliot communities. Nicola Kelly goes to meet the craftsmen and money for our holidays; the colleagues who cover for us when Gardiner. women - and finds offers of the local tipple difficult to refuse. we’re away, the service workers in restaurants, pubs and hotels; the workers who struggled so we would be entitled to holiday Soul singer P.P. - Pat - Arnold found her voice as a young girl It's not long ago that Zimbabweans were celebrating the pay. Holidays are a collective effort. singing gospel songs in church. Her career took off when she political demise of Robert Mugabe, who was president for joined the Ikettes - backing singers and dancers for the Ike & nearly three decades - during which the country's economy Whether we are working or resting this weekend, God, we Tina Turner Revue. When the Revue arrived in London Pat collapsed. But, as Kim Chakanetsa reports after a recent trip to thank you for the gift of rest, whether it’s a gift we are -nicknamed P.P. by photographer Gered Mankowitz -became a Harare, many there now have an unexpectedly rose-tinted view receiving, or a gift we are giving to others. Bless our rest, and fixture on the London music scene, collaborating with everyone of the past. bless our work; bless us, this bank holiday weekend. Amen. from Rod Stewart to the Small Faces. Her new album The New Adventures of P.P. Arnold is out now. Argentina too has had its fair share of economic misery. Results of recent presidential primaries spooked the markets and raised SAT 05:45 Four Thought (m0007qd3) This year Middlesbrough-born Mackenzie Thorpe celebrates 30 fears of renewed difficulties. Natalio Cosoy hears echoes of the Preserving the Home Visit years as an artist. He is best known for his 'Square Sheep' series past in Buenos Aires. of works and 'Waiting for Me Dad' - a tribute to the men who Dr Mark Williams believes we need to preserve the traditional worked in the industry of the area who crossed the town's Petanque, that traditional summer pastime of the French, is GP home visit. Alongside new acute visiting services and an transporter bridge to get to work and the families who waited undergoing something of a face lift. But the changes - especially emerging role for artificial intelligence, he thinks the traditional for their return. He was the official artist for the Tour de the one that outlaws an accompanying glass of pastis - have home visit still plays a vital part in the delivery of good Yorkshire 2019 and collectors of his work include the actor occasioned more than a few grumbles, as Chris Bockman finds healthcare and can even be a lifeline back into society.