Radio 4 Listings for 21 – 27 August 2021 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 21 AUGUST 2021 SAT 06:07 Open Country (m000ytzz) Jay Rayner hosts the culinary panel show. Sophie Wright, Tim A Fabric Landscape Anderson, Asma Khan and Dr Annie Gray share delectable SAT 00:00 Midnight News (m000yvbc) ideas and answer questions from the audience. The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4. Fashion designer and judge of The Great British Sewing Bee, Patrick Grant, has a dream: he wants to create a line of jeans This week, the panellists tell us their favourite recipes for that made in Blackburn. It sounds simple, but Patrick wants to go classic savoury nibble, the cheese straw. They also delve into SAT 00:30 Hello, Stranger by Will Buckingham (m000yvbf) the whole hog - growing the crop to make the fabric in the world of fresh peas and, when it comes to cooking with this Episode 5 Blackburn, growing the woad to dye it blue in Blackburn and small green vegetable, our panellists are not quite peas in a pod! finally processing the flax into linen and sewing it all When Will Buckingham's partner died, he coped with his grief together...in Blackburn. Nigerian food writer Yemisi Aribisala explains the significance by throwing his doors open to new people, and travelling alone of soup in Nigerian cuisine, and tells us what goes into the to far-flung places among strangers. 'Strangers are unentangled In this programme, the writer and broadcaster Ian Marchant perfect jollof rice. in our worlds and lives,' he writes, 'and this lack can lighten our travels to a tiny field of flax on the side of the Leeds and own burdens.' Starting from that experience of personal grief, Liverpool Canal, where Patrick and a group of passionate local Producer: Hannah Newton he draws on his knowledge as a philosopher and anthropologist, people are trying to make this dream a reality, and bring the Assistant Producer: Aniya Das as well as a keen and wide-roaming traveller, to explore the textile industry back to Blackburn. tensions, anxieties, joys and rewards of our relationship with A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 strangers. Taking in stories of loneliness, exile, travel and But why? Blackburn and the area around it has been shaped by hospitality from early history, classical Greece and Rome to the the textile industry for centuries, with the carcasses of old present day, he holds out the possibility of an antidote to the cotton mills littering the landscape. Ian visits Imperial Mill to SAT 11:00 The Briefing Room (m000yv0h) fears and isolation of an increasingly fragmented world. hear what life was like for workers there in the industry's What next for President Biden’s foreign policy? heyday. He finds out how Patrick and the team have been Reader: Mark Jeary-Fairbairn inspired by the visit of Mahatma Gandhi to Lancashire 90 years ‘The likelihood there’s going to be the Taliban overrunning Abridged and produced by Sara Davies ago and learns why cotton made for a complicated relationship everything and owning the whole country is highly unlikely,’ between Imperial Britain and India. said President Joe Biden six weeks ago. This prediction has not aged well. SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (m000yvbh) Presented by Ian Marchant The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. Produced by Heather Simons One harrowing scene this week saw some Afghans trying to escape their new reality by clinging to the wheels of a US Air Force plane as it took off from Kabul airport. Some of them SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes SAT 06:30 Farming Today (m000yzs5) fell to their deaths. (m000yvbk) 21/08/21 - Farming Today This Week: Harvest 2021 BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, Amidst growing international condemnation of the United arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service. Caz Graham presents a round-up of some of the stories from States, President Biden has remained unrepentant about the end this year's harvest, including a trip in the combine in the wheat of the US mission in Afghanistan, arguing it was never about fields of Yorkshire, picking broccoli in Scotland and bringing in nation building or creating a unified democracy. It was about SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (m000yvbm) crops in the Cotswold fields. Plus Anna Hill has an encounter preventing a terrorist attack on American homeland. The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping. with something called 'The Beast' in Norfolk, and young farmer Bronagh Dempster says that a work-based agricultural training But what impact will events in Afghanistan this week have on scheme is kick-starting her career. the President's future foreign policy decisions? SAT 05:30 News Briefing (m000yvbp) The latest news from BBC Radio 4 Presenter: Caz Graham Joining David Aaronovitch in The Briefing Room are: Producer in Bristol: Toby Field Alex Ward, National Security reporter at Politico SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (m000yvbr) A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Bishop SAT 06:57 Weather (m000yzs7) Dr Leslie Vinjamuri, Director of the US & Americas Helen-Ann Hartley The latest weather reports and forecast programme at Chatham House Good morning. Madiha Afzal, Brookings Institution SAT 07:00 Today (m000yzs9) Recently a photo memory popped up on my tablet screen Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. Prof Michael Clarke, former Director General of RUSI and reminding me that nearly a year ago we acquired a rescue Professor of Defence Studies at King's College London kitten. She, along with a sibling had been found in a garden and handed in to the local vet. Just a few weeks’ old she arrived in SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (m000yzsc) Producers: Ben Carter, Kirsteen Knight and Sharon Hemans our home, and spent the best part of three weeks hiding in the Celia Imrie Editor: Penny Murphy shoe-rack right by the front door. To avoid the potential drama Sound Engineer: Graham Puddifoot of letters and parcels landing on her head, I placed a cheerful Actress and author Celia Imrie joins Nikki Bedi and Richard sign on the front door alerting the postman to ‘mind the kitten’ Coles to discuss her debut non-fiction novel, set against the and kindly leave our mail round the side of the house. backdrop of the sinking of the Titanic. Celia explains her SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (m000yzsf) family connections to the legendary ship and talks about her Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists I happened to meet him one morning, and he wondered what love of travel and career highlights. and writers from around the world kind of kitten we had given that his usual animal challenge might be an enthusiastic dog! Sharing our home with a four- Listener Nick Wharton got in touch about his adventures in legged bundle of energy has been a source of great joy climbing, and being reunited with his estranged father. SAT 12:00 News Summary (m000yzvm) particularly in the long months of lockdown. Our kitten is now a National and international news from BBC Radio 4 cat, I have continued to marvel at her curiosity when I return Tom Chapman is an award-winning barber who experienced a home and place my bags in the kitchen, and her immense personal tragedy that led him to create The Lions Barber patience watching birds and squirrels for hours on end. Collective, a charity which aims to support mental health by SAT 12:04 The Hangover (m000yywf) offering a safe space for people to talk. Tom's also just written Local Councils As this day turns into the next, I recall the narrative of creation his debut children’s book. in the Biblical book of Genesis. God gave everything its place Covid has been an economic crisis as well as a health in creation, and commanded human beings to share in its Singer Frankie Bridge shares her Inheritance Tracks: I Heard it emergency. stewardship. Whilst recreation is an important aspect of our Through the Grapevine sung by Marvin Gaye and Don’t Worry, lives, the need for rest is something animals and human beings Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin. In a new four-part series Felicity Hannah meets families, share. As I go about my tasks today, I will look to my cat for a businesses & local councils whose lives and fortunes have been lesson in how to find rest when needed, and often in the Restaurant critic, MasterChef guest judge and writer Grace changed completely by the pandemic. unlikeliest of places. Dent talks about the comfort food that she enjoys when not working, and how it’s inspired her new podcast. Grace also This week, she meets the leaders of three local councils – God of creation, thank you for animals who share our lives. reflects on realising her childhood ambitions and her love of the Wirral, Lancashire and Newcastle - to find out what Covid has Help me to learn lessons of wisdom from their ways, and to Lake District. done to their budgets and how that will hit their communities. care for all creatures great and small. We hear how some councils saved money because families Orphans of the Storm by Celia Imrie is out now. were too scared to send elderly relatives into care homes, while Amen. How Hard Can It Be by Nick Wharton is out now. most faced huge extra costs and have struggled to recoup The Mighty Lions & the Big Match by Tom Chapman is out income lost through local lockdowns.