REEP - What's On - TV & Radio Listings

Sunday 5 July

Something Understood

6:05am

Buying and Selling: Mark Tully examines the troubled relationship between buyer and seller, talking to business guru Charles Handy. Featuring music by Henry Purcell and Memphis Minnie and commentary from Martin Amis and Montaigne.

Country Tracks

11:00am

Cornwall Moor to Shore. Ben Fogle goes on a journey through Cornwall, from moor to shore. Starting on horseback, Ben crosses Bodmin Moor, discovering the secrets of its past, its famous association with Daphne Du Maurier and its mythic beast. He finishes his journey at Newquay, the surfing capital of Britain. Along the way, Ben looks back at the very best of the BBC's rural programmes from this unique place.

The Food Programme

12:30pm

Farmer Turned Brander: Sheila Dillon investigates the scores of enterprising farmers who have turned themselves into 'brands' in order to survive. More than ever before, they have to be businessmen as well as growers and producers of food. But how difficult is it? What are the unique selling points that work, what are the costs and what are the possible pitfalls?

Countryfile

7:00pm

Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury head for Pembrokeshire in Wales for the annual fish festival. Matt finds out which fish you can eat with a clear conscience, and scours the seashore foraging for wild food. Julia joins the scientists monitoring the bird colonies on Skomer Island, and discovers why the Pembrokeshire coastline spawned one of the UK's fastest growing extreme sports - coasteering. John Craven investigates whether the way we breed Holstein cows is creating 'milk machines'.

Monday 6 July

The Essay

11:00pm

Haydn Essays: Series considering different aspects of Haydn's life, work and reputation. 1. Haydn and God: David Stancliffe, Bishop of Salisbury, and an experienced musical performer himself reflects on the composer's view of the Almighty. Are Haydn's six settings of the Mass the music that best represents his view of God?

Tuesday 7 July

Morris and the Muslims

11:30am

Navid Akhtar examines the influence of Islamic design and values on the life of the Victorian designer, poet, craftsman and socialist radical William Morris. Morris was inspired by Turkish ceramics and Persian carpets to create a new movement in British design. For him, the Muslim world had managed to preserve the art of the craftsman and avoid the ills of industrial production. He espoused the philosophy that art should be affordable and hand made; this was already a reality in the Islamic world. Not stopping at arts and crafts, he was a passionate advocate of social utopianism and believed in the rights of the worker. Today, these ideals have profoundly influenced a new generation of British-born Muslim artists, as they rediscover Morris and look to his artistic work and socialist ideas for inspiration.

Home Planet

3:00pm

Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it, from astronomy to geology, biology to environmental science.

Wednesday 8 July

Night Waves

9:15pm

Isabel Hilton talks to bestselling religious commentator Karen Armstrong about her book The Case For God, a passionate defence of religion and an attack on prominent atheists. Armstrong argues that 'new atheists' have constructed a caricature of religion that is dangerous, that for the first time in history many millions of people want nothing to do with God, and that mainstream theology is largely to blame for this crisis of faith.

The Richard Dimbleby Lecture 2009

10:35pm

Facing the Future. His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales gives The Richard Dimbleby Lecture from St James's Palace in London. The heir to the throne has become well-known for identifying key issues ahead of mainstream public thinking, such as encouraging organic food production or emphasising the importance of inter-faith dialogue. In this lecture, he sets out some of the serious challenges which the world faces, and explores how some of these issues could be tackled in the years ahead.

The Essay

11:00pm

Haydn Essays: Series considering different aspects of Haydn's life, work and reputation. 3: Haydn and Cosmology: Writer and biographer Richard Holmes explores Haydn's reaction to the ideas of the astronomer William Herschel and its possible impact on his oratorio The Creation.

Thursday 9 July

Open Country

3:00pm

Helen Mark drives a chip fat-powered car around the Orkney island of Westray as she meets the pioneers determined to turn their island into the first community in Britain to be entirely self-sufficient in energy. The local kirk is powered by a wind turbine, holiday homes are heated by ground source heat-pumps and local farmers and fishermen are making their own fuel from cattle manure and cooking oil. Helen also takes to the water to discover more about the enormous energy resource contained within the tides and currents of the Orkney Islands. Can a parade of new gadgets harness the power without disturbing the birds and mammals that feed in the rich waters of the Pentland Firth?

Friday 10 July

Three Rivers

11:00am

Three-part series in which Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three major rivers that are being regenerated after years of neglect and industrial use. 3: The Liffey. The Liffey, a river beloved of Irish writers, particularly James Joyce, winds its way from the Wicklow Mountains into the heart of Dublin and under the 14 bridges. It has also provided power and clean water for those along its path, and at its outer edges encouraged trade with the wider world beyond.