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SAT SATURDAY 10 MAY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread b007jrzr (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Englishman Philip confesses all to Italian Gino, and learns SAT a bitter truth. Stars Sian Thomas, Jamie Bamber and Tom SAT George. SAT SAT 00:15 A Short History of Ireland b007sygj (Listen) SAT The Green Flag Will Be Flying Independently; God Save SAT Ireland! SAT The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With SAT Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. SAT SAT 00:30 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00nm0k3 (Listen) SAT Graillis's Legacy SAT The touching and compassionate story of one man's love for SAT two women. Read by Dermot Crowley. SAT SAT 00:45 England's Mistress - The Infamous Life of Emma SAT Hamilton b01m68vf (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Nelson and Emma are briefly reunited, but he must face the SAT French fleet off the Cape of Trafalgar. Read by Polly SAT Walker. SAT SAT 01:00 Act Your Age b00qplyn (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 5 SAT Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic SAT generations against each other to find out which is the SAT funniest. SAT Team captains Jon Richardson, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson SAT are joined by Tom Wrigglesworth, John Bishop and Tom SAT O'Connor. SAT SAT 01:30 Humphrey Lyttelton - Play As I Please b01fhr4f (Listen) SAT Playing for Eton SAT Jazz musician Humphrey Lyttelton tells June Knox-Mawer about SAT his life, his colourful ancestors and passion for music. SAT From December 1993. SAT SAT 02:00 Charles Paris Mystery b00wnmbt (Listen) SAT Dead Side of the Mic, Episode 4 SAT Can the actor-sleuth solve the deadly mystery haunting the SAT BBC, or will he end up in chains? Stars Bill Nighy and Nicky SAT Henson. SAT SAT 02:30 Eric Ambler - Journey Into Fear b00yzj3n (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT As the Nazis close in, Graham makes a grim discovery in a SAT cabin aboard the Sestri Levante. Concluded by Richard SAT Greenwood. SAT SAT 03:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love b007k1zw (Listen) SAT Mountain Snows SAT A looming tragedy cements the future of Rupert, Gerald, SAT Ursula and Gudrun. With Clare Holman, Stella Gonet and SAT Douglas Hodge. SAT SAT 04:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00nm0k3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 00:30 today] SAT SAT 04:15 Roy Apps - The Master and Mrs Tucker b00cz803 (Listen) SAT The story of the friendship between Noel Coward and E SAT Nesbit. Roy Apps' play stars Guy Henry, Ann Bell and SAT Rosemary Leach. SAT SAT 05:00 Second Holmes b0161p3d (Listen) SAT The Case of the Shadowed Minister SAT The grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson help an MP SAT who claims he's being followed. Stars Peter Egan. From SAT January 1983. SAT SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses b00dbwtv (Listen) SAT Series 3, A Closed Book SAT Rosie is contracted to organise a literary prize, but things SAT don't go by the book. Stars Prunella Scales. From August SAT 2002. SAT SAT 06:00 Miriam Margolyes - Dickens' Women b007jqv0 (Listen) SAT From Kate Nickleby to Little Nell, Miriam Margolyes SAT entertains an audience with her celebration of the classic SAT English author's characters. SAT SAT 07:30 Death by Chocolate b00ybzdh (Listen) SAT From Brighton's chocolate-cream poisoner to chocolate hand SAT grenades, Jo Brand looks at the sinister history of the SAT sweet treat. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00qs41j (Listen) SAT AJP at the BBC SAT Joe Queenan recalls the long and turbulent relationship SAT between the BBC and the first television don, historian AJP SAT Taylor. SAT Taylor's broadcasting career spanned five decades, beginning SAT on BBC radio and then switching to the new medium of SAT television, where his unscripted lectures brought serious SAT history out of the university lecture halls and into the SAT living rooms of millions of people for the first time. His SAT broadcasts were as provocative as they were popular, at one SAT point arousing bitter condemnation in the House of Commons, SAT and his relationship with the corporation was often far from SAT cordial. SAT It dropped the sulky don, as he became known, from the SAT airwaves on numerous occasions - once for refusing to speak SAT any further in a live discussion programme. For his part, SAT Taylor campaigned vigorously for an independent competitor SAT to the BBC, and frequently mocked it in the press. Still, SAT the relationship served both well over the years, providing SAT Taylor with the mass audience he craved and the BBC with SAT many hours of entertaining and enlightening broadcasting SAT from one of the greatest academics of his day. SAT Queenan, a long-term admirer of Taylor, tells the story of SAT the historian and the corporation through written and SAT broadcast archives. SAT SAT 09:00 Some of Our Archives Were Missing b0089b35 (Listen) SAT Stuart Maconie presents classic programmes thought lost SAT forever, but now returned to the BBC's vaults thanks to SAT attentive radio fans: SAT It Sticks Out Half a Mile (19/07/1981) SAT Comedy Parade: Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bolshie Man SAT (14/03/1971) SAT Thirty Minute Theatre: The Green Machine (23/04/1975) SAT Story Time: Eye Witness Accounts - The Great Fire of London SAT (20/01/1970) SAT Things Could Be Worse (15/09/1976) SAT The Worst Show on the Wireless (12/02/1975). SAT The BBC's Treasure Hunt initiative of the early noughties SAT focussed its efforts on missing radio and television SAT programmes, dating from prior to 1980. It was an invitation SAT to collectors, fans and even former BBC staff who might have SAT possessed domestic recordings of missing comedies and SAT dramas. Among other gems, a missing episode of The Likely SAT Lads was returned. An eclectic collection of radio curios SAT made its way home - some of them shared in this programme. SAT Stuart Maconie is a writer and broadcaster - a fixture of SAT BBC Radio 2 and BBC 6 Music, and a compadre of fellow radio SAT legend Mark Radcliffe. SAT SAT 12:00 HighLites Omnibus b0435jd5 (Listen) SAT Wash and Blow SAT Made for 4 Extra. Bev and Shirley, the country's worst SAT hairdressers, decide to head out on a cruise. Stars Lorraine SAT Ashbourne and Rosie Cavaliero. SAT SAT 13:10 Inheritance Tracks b0103zk2 (Listen) SAT Annie Lennox SAT The singer reveals her love of 'Waterloo Sunset' by The SAT Kinks, and the track she would hand on: 'A Whiter Shade of SAT Pale' by Procol Harum. SAT SAT 13:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b007514c (Listen) SAT Nigel Kennedy SAT The maverick violin star and footie fan talks to Dr Anthony SAT Clare about intensive schooling, family and music. From July SAT 1997. SAT Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with SAT prominent people from different walks of life. SAT Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, SAT a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the SAT Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on SAT BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became SAT Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own SAT vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this SAT series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV. Series SAT highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil SAT Parkinson and Gerry Adams. SAT Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Anthony Clare SAT Interviewed Guest: Nigel Kennedy SAT SAT 14:00 Listen to Les b0180fmx (Listen) SAT From 20/01/1985 SAT Les Dawson pays tribute to a feisty barber, and Cosmo SAT Smallpiece chairs a chat show. With Daphne Oxenford. From SAT January 1985. SAT SAT 14:30 Hancock's Half Hour b007jpd5 (Listen) SAT Series 6, The Last Bus Home SAT The lad, Sid and Bill get stranded, so face a long walk home SAT in the rain. Stars Tony Hancock and Sid James. From October SAT 1959. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00qs41j (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Miriam Margolyes - Dickens' Women b007jqv0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Bird Island b042l2xt (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT EPISODE ONE: SAT Ben, a young scientist working in Antarctica, tries to adapt SAT to the loneliness by keeping a cheery audio diary on his SAT Dictaphone. This week, Ben is all-consumed by a new cereal SAT bar while Jane and Graham are completing The Penguin Census. SAT Written by ..... Katy Wix SAT Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani SAT ABOUT BIRD ISLAND: SAT An atmospheric comedy about a cheery scientist based in SAT Sub-Antarctica. Starring Reece Shearsmith, Julian SAT Rhind-Tutt, Alison Steadman and Katy Wix. SAT On the one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime. On the SAT other, he's trapped in a vast icy landscape with a dodgy SAT internet connection and a dictaphone. Loneliness is SAT something of a problem. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us SAT in the form of an audio 'log'. SAT His fellow scientist Graham should alleviate this sense of SAT isolation, but the tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy SAT blokes, so they stumble through yet another mumbled SAT exchange. Not to mention the new arrival Jane, who Ben is SAT even more awkward around, for reasons that aren't entirely SAT clear to him. SAT Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the SAT Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an SAT earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very SAT endearing. We eavesdrop as he chats awkwardly with Graham or SAT Jane, phones his mother or talks to himself, as he often SAT does. We also hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the SAT Squawks and screeches of the birds and the vast expanse SAT outside. Oh, and ice. Lots of ice. SAT Bird Island is written by Katy Wix, half of sketch comedy SAT Duo 'Anna and Katy'. Katy is also an actress who stars in SAT 'Miranda', 'Outnumbered' and 'Not Going Out'. SAT Clip SAT empty SAT Credits SAT Ben: Reece Shearsmith SAT Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Jane: Katy Wix SAT Beverley: Alison Steadman SAT Producer: Tilusha Ghelani SAT Writer: Katy Wix SAT SAT 17:45 Don't Start b01ml8b3 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Notebook SAT What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new SAT comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. SAT Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. SAT The first series of Don't Start met with instant critical SAT and audience acclaim: "That he can deliver such a heavy SAT premise for a series with such a lightness of touch is SAT testament to his skills as a writer and, given that the SAT protagonists are both bookworms, he's also permitted to use SAT a flourish of fine words that would be lost in his stand-up SAT routines". Jane Anderson, Radio Times. SAT "Writing and starring in the four-parter Don't Start (Radio SAT 4) Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic SAT comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a SAT bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly SAT precise dissection of a relationship". Daily Mail SAT ... "a lesson in relationship ping-pong" - Miranda Sawyer, SAT The Observer. SAT Series 2 follows hard on its heels. Well observed, clever SAT and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a SAT deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our SAT couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - SAT the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. Each week, the SAT stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these SAT are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with SAT increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references SAT (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs Rochester, SAT to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's SAT weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an SAT unmistakable tenderness". SAT Frank says: SAT "Having established in the first series that Neil and Kim SAT are a childless academic couple who during their numerous SAT arguments, luxuriate in their own and each other's learning SAT and wit, I've tried in the second series to dig a little SAT deeper into their relationship. Love and affection SAT occasionally splutter into view, like a Higgs boson in a big SAT tunnel-thing, but can such emotions ever prevail in a SAT relationship where the couple prefers to wear their brains, SAT rather than their hearts, on their sleeves? Is that too much SAT offal imagery? SAT Episode 1: The Notebook SAT Frank's apparently innocent discovery of an old notebook SAT strangely rekindles Kim's former enthusiasm for Frisbee SAT throwing. SAT Directed and produced by Polly Thomas SAT An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Neil: Frank Skinner SAT Kim: Katherine Parkinson SAT Director: Polly Thomas SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT Writer: Frank Skinner SAT SAT 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy b007jm4s (Listen) SAT Secondary Phase, Fit the Tenth SAT Arthur discovers his unique contribution to the history of SAT Brontitall, while Ford and Zaphod fall onto a huge bird. SAT From January 1980. SAT SAT 18:30 Fear on Four b007jnpz (Listen) SAT Survival SAT The Man in Black reveals the horrifying dependency of a SAT group of people in outer space. Stars Edward de Souza and SAT Karen Ascoe. SAT SAT 19:00 Some of Our Archives Were Missing b0089b35 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Innes Own World b017gwqz (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Breakfast dramas and memories of touring the USA with the SAT Bonzo Dog Band. Songs and sketches from Neil Innes. From SAT January 2003. SAT SAT 22:30 4 at the Store b00ct1wm (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT Stand-up at London's Comedy Store, with host Simon Bligh, SAT John Mann, Marian Unfaithful and Paul Tonkinson. From SAT December 1998. SAT SAT 23:00 28 Acts in 28 Minutes b009ly1p (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT John Humphrys gives 28 performers 60 seconds each to SAT entertain. With Phil Cornwell and John Finnemore. From SAT January 2008. SAT Featured Acts SAT SAT 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jswh (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Tatting of the Mastersons SAT Family revenge in the Wild West over dodgy dental work. SAT Improvised comedy with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From SAT May 1993. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 11 MAY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy b007jm4s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Fear on Four b007jnpz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b00qs41j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 HighLites Omnibus b0435jd5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b007514c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Miriam Margolyes - Dickens' Women b007jqv0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Bird Island b042l2xt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:45 Don't Start b01ml8b3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread b007js09 (Listen) SUN Omnibus, part 2 SUN Philip and Harriet arrive in Monteriano to rescue Lilia's SUN baby from the horrors of an Italian upbringing. With Sian SUN Thomas. SUN SUN 07:15 Key Matters b00b6x4s (Listen) SUN Series 1, F Sharp Major SUN Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to have SUN distinct characteristics and create specific moods. SUN He looks at the key F sharp major. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00pg5r6 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Keep Fit SUN Arthur is keen on taking up a free trial gym membership, but SUN will his doctor approve? Stars Steve Delaney. From January SUN 2010. SUN SUN 08:00 Beyond Our Ken b00tz0hd (Listen) SUN From 11/06/1959 SUN Kenneth Horne's songwriting talents spark adventure, plus a SUN look at underwater sports. With Kenneth Williams. From June SUN 1959. SUN SUN 08:30 To the Manor Born b007jm7w (Listen) SUN Plenty More Fish SUN With their love lives in a tangle, Audrey falls out with SUN Marjory. Written for radio. Stars Penelope Keith. From March SUN 1997. SUN SUN 09:00 Gillian Cross - The Demon Headmaster b00rpz92 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SPLAT members try to stop the Head's quest for the school to SUN win the Eddy Hair TV quiz. Stars Lucy Speed and Edward de SUN Souza. SUN SUN 09:30 Alf Proysen - Mrs Pepperpot b00p7qb4 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN The incredible shrinking woman gets in big trouble at a SUN Christmas market. Based on the popular books. Stars Alison SUN Steadman. SUN SUN 10:00 The Reunion b00tt3qv (Listen) SUN Play School SUN Sue MacGregor reunites people involved with classic SUN children's TV programme Play School, which ran from 1964 to SUN 1988. SUN Devised by Joy Whitby, former producer of the Listen with SUN Mother slot on BBC Radio, the programme was a direct SUN response to concerns about the perceived poor standard of SUN British pre-school education. SUN Play School was ground-breaking in more ways than one as it SUN accidentally became the first programme to be shown on BBC 2 SUN after a power cut halted the opening night's programming. SUN Its enthusiastic presenters came from diverse backgrounds SUN and became household names with the iconic three shaped SUN windows, clock and toys to form an integral part of many SUN early childhoods. SUN Sue is joined around the table by Joy Whitby, presenters SUN Floella Benjamin, Brian Cant, who also fronted spin-off SUN series Play Away, and Toni Arthur and musical SUN director/pianist Jonathan Cohen. SUN The programme also features contributions from Johnny Ball SUN and Play School historian Paul R. Jackson. SUN Producer: Chris Green SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 10:45 Love Stories b01msgg4 (Listen) SUN A Voice From the Past SUN By Penny Vincenzi. A young girl is enchanted by vivid tales SUN from the past. Stories from bestselling romantic novelists. SUN Read by Joanna Lumley. SUN SUN 11:00 This American Life b0436503 (Listen) SUN 24 Hours at the Golden Apple SUN One day in a Chicago diner called The Golden Apple, starting SUN at 5am and going until 5am the next morning. We hear from SUN the waitress who's worked the graveyard shift for over two SUN decades, the regular customers who come every day, the SUN couples working out their problems, various assorted drunks SUN and, of course, cops. SUN US public radio show from 2000. SUN Weaving interviews, stories, and music, This American Life SUN takes us on an intense weekly journey into the lives of SUN ordinary and extraordinary people and situations. SUN One of the great speech radio successes of recent years from SUN Ira Glass and his team at Chicago Public Media. SUN SUN 12:00 EM Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread b007js09 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Key Matters b00b6x4s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Peter Roberts - Holy Fool b014gj3c (Listen) SUN Chivalrous or just crazy? The story of William the Marshall SUN with a real-life Don Quixote and his cohort. Stars Michael SUN Williams. SUN SUN 15:00 Beyond Our Ken b00tz0hd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 To the Manor Born b007jm7w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b0436505 (Listen) SUN Mel Giedroyc presents her highlights of this week's shows, SUN including former children's laureate Michael Rosen and SUN safari guide Peter Allison. SUN SUN 17:00 Gillian Cross - The Demon Headmaster b00rpz92 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Alf Proysen - Mrs Pepperpot b00p7qb4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 The Price of Fear b007jmxv (Listen) SUN Out of the Mouths SUN Vincent Price's tale of the unforeseen danger of a scientist SUN trying out advanced theories on his newborn son. With Hywel SUN Bennet. SUN SUN 18:30 Bradbury 13 b012wzzd (Listen) SUN A Sound of Thunder SUN A safari into the prehistoric past sparks unexpected SUN results. Adaptation of one of Ray Bradbury's most famous SUN yarns, starring Max Robinson. SUN SUN 19:00 This American Life b0436503 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Beyond Our Ken b00tz0hd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 To the Manor Born b007jm7w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 The Reunion b00tt3qv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Love Stories b01msgg4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00pg5r6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 As Told to Craig Brown b00vrssk (Listen) SUN Craig Brown's Lost Diaries, November and December SUN November & December. As winter sets in, John Prescott, SUN Germaine Greer and Nigella Lawson's thoughts turn to home. SUN A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the SUN private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the SUN present day. SUN Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan SUN Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. SUN Written by Craig Brown. SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN 23:00 The Castle b00t7f96 (Listen) SUN Series 3, The Vuvuzela of Terror SUN Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, SUN starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four Weddings SUN & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") SUN In this episode, we discover that an Englishman's home is SUN his castle and an Englishman's moat is his tax write-off. SUN Until Sir John is investigated and has to hire some SUN Frenchmen and a bucket of eels. Meanwhile, the Woodstock SUN Hospital is about to lose its no-star status... SUN Cast: SUN Sir John Woodstock ....... James Fleet SUN Sir William De Warenne ....... Neil Dudgeon SUN Lady Anne Woodstock ........ Martha Howe-Douglas SUN Cardinal Duncan ........ Jonathan Kydd SUN Lady Charlotte ....... Ingrid Oliver SUN Master Henry Woodstock ....... Steven Kynman SUN Merlin ....... Lewis Macleod SUN Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander SUN Music by Guy Jackson SUN Producer/Director: David Tyler SUN A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Credits SUN Producer: David Tyler SUN SUN 23:30 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b007jmzw (Listen) SUN Series 1, Normal Death SUN The cartoonist sells his soul to the devil in the hope of SUN securing eternal life. Stars Paul McCrink. From August 2001. SUN SUN 23:45 Jelly Mountain b00fh6vz (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Ivor Cutler's unique views on how to promote a child's SUN growth. Songs and stories, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May SUN 1996. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 12 MAY 2014 MON MON 00:00 The Price of Fear b007jmxv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Bradbury 13 b012wzzd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Reunion b00tt3qv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Love Stories b01msgg4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00pg5r6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Beyond Our Ken b00tz0hd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 To the Manor Born b007jm7w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Peter Roberts - Holy Fool b014gj3c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Gillian Cross - The Demon Headmaster b00rpz92 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Alf Proysen - Mrs Pepperpot b00p7qb4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnsy (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Newly engaged American socialite Newland Archer is drawn to MON his fiancee's cousin. Stars Andrew Wincott and Susanne MON Bertish. MON MON 06:30 Mr Pollock's Theatres b0076dzn (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. How did toy theatres begin? With enthusiasts MON of all ages, Simon Callow explores the world of cardboard MON make-believe. From May 2003. MON MON 07:00 Double Science b013dzmw (Listen) MON Field Trip MON Alison takes her class to a Cumbrian wind farm, with keen MON Colin and Kenneth in hot pursuit. Stars Rebecca Front. From MON May 2008. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b042jcxg (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 5 MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Tony Hawks, Susan Calman, Phill Jupitus and MON Miles Jupp are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: The Brain, MON Victorians, Toads and Cooking. MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON A Random production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Phill Jupitus MON Panellist: Miles Jupp MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Listen to Les b01ms5j6 (Listen) MON From 27/01/1985 MON Les Dawson is Wotan, Man of Steel and Aunt Ada recalls her MON wartime adventures. With Eli Woods. From January 1985. MON MON 08:30 The Navy Lark b007jn8n (Listen) MON The day proves unlucky for the superstitious crew of HMS MON Troutbridge. Stars Jon Pertwee and Leslie Phillips. From MON June 1972. MON MON 09:00 When the Dog Dies b012xpym (Listen) MON Series 2, Knock Down Ginger MON Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom MON Sorry, Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. Sorry ran for seven MON series on BBC 1 and was number one in the UK ratings. MON In the second series of their Radio 4 sitcom, Ronnie plays MON Sandy Hopper, who is growing old happily along with his dog MON Henry. His grown up children - both married to people Sandy MON doesn't approve of at all - would like him to move out of MON the family home so they can get their hands on their money MON earlier. But Sandy's not having this. He's not moving until MON the dog dies. MON Dolores, Sandy's lodger, has a moment of revelation - she MON really does feel guilty for always being behind with the MON rent and is going to leave and be a housekeeper to Mr MON McAhmed in Edinburgh. Sandy bows to the inevitable - and MON thus gets everything completely wrong. Will he have enough MON wit to pull the communication cord? Do they still have them? MON Cast: MON Ronnie Corbett ..... Sandy MON Liza Tarbuck ..... Dolores MON Sally Grace ..... Mrs Pompom MON Tilly Vosburgh ...... Ellie MON Jonathan Aris ..... Blake MON Philip Bird ..... Lance MON Stephen Critchlow ..... Mr De Vere Smith MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b0436hkz (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON Series two of Life: An Idiot's guide again sees Stephen K MON Amos investigate a series of themes using guest stand-ups MON and the hilarious audience interaction that he's become MON famous for. MON In episode 1, Stephen tackles "Role Models": Who are our MON role models? What does it mean to be a role model? And why MON did Stephen's parents made him impersonate Trevor McDonald MON around the house? MON Guests Sarah Kendall, Gráinne Maguire and James Acaster all MON offer their own perspectives. MON Additional material by Christine Rose and Hugh Sington. MON Produced by Colin Anderson. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b00zzpl5 (Listen) MON Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command, Episode 1 MON Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised in MON three parts by Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain MON Jack Aubrey and Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. MON Following his adventures in HMS Surprise, Jack Aubrey has MON been kicking his heels at home when his old friend, Stephen MON Maturin, comes knocking at his door with welcome news. Jack MON is promoted to Commodore, and is to lead a squadron of MON English ships, charged with taking the Indian Ocean islands MON of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. MON In the course of the novel Jack must succeed against MON superior odds at sea and on land. Yet, in his new role as MON Commodore, Jack will need subtlety and subterfuge to win MON over the crews and subordinate captains of his own fleet. MON Based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when Britain and France MON were bitterly engaged in protecting their trade routes MON around the southern tip of Africa. MON The Mauritius Command is the fourth novel in Patrick MON O'Brian's Nelsonic epic series, and the sequel to HMS MON Surprise which was dramatised for Radio 4 in 2008. MON Captain Jack Aubrey ................... DAVID ROBB MON Doctor Stephen Maturin .......... ...RICHARD DILLANE MON Governor Farquhar ..................... DAVID RINTOUL MON Lt-Col Keating ............ .......THOMAS ARNOLD MON Lord Clonfert................................ SAM DALE MON Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA MON Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER MON Midshipman George Johnson ....... NYASHA HATENDI MON Dr McAdam/Admiral Bertie.......... .SEAN BAKER MON Captain Pym............................... BRIAN BOWLES MON Mrs. Williams ............................ JOANNA MONRO MON Sophie....................................... SALLY ORROCK MON Producer/director: Bruce Young MON Producer Bruce Young. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00v2z35 (Listen) MON Three Short Stories by E Nesbit, Her Marriage Lines MON She is known now, almost exclusively, as a children's writer MON - the author of The Railway Children. But E. Nesbit was more MON than that: a pioneer Socialist, a campaigner for Women's MON Rights and a passionate social reformer. She was also a MON prolific poet and author of adult fiction. MON The stories in this series are taken from 'In Homespun', a MON collection that was originally published in 1896, and are MON set in the villages of South Kent and East Sussex that MON Nesbit knew well. Told in the first person, by a variety of MON strong, women characters- the sort of character E. Nesbit MON specialized in - looking back on their earlier lives. Their MON voices are robust and distinct. MON Here, by turns, are danger, comedy and romance. At stake? MON Marriage and money. Deft and atmospheric writing from a MON master story teller. MON Her Marriage Lines is a wonderfully comic detective story MON cum romance. Harry, the son of the house, wants to marry MON Poll, but the delightfully wicked old housekeeper has other MON ideas. When the Old Man dies unexpectedly, poison is MON suspected. But there is a surprising twist in the tale. MON Reader: Jenny Agutter MON Abridged by Roy Apps MON Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b042z1fy (Listen) MON Neneh Cherry, Tom Hollander, Lynn Barber, John Hegarty, Cody MON ChesnuTT MON Clive sees a Clown in the Moon with actor Tom Hollander, who MON plays the lead role in brand-new BBC drama, 'A Poet In New MON York', to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas's birth. The MON drama explores how the creator of some of the most memorable MON lines in the English language, died in a smog-ridden New MON York on a November day in 1953. MON Clive has An Education with journalist and author Lynn MON Barber. In her new book 'A Curious Career', Lynn takes us MON from her early years as a journalist for 'Penthouse' to MON interrogating a huge cross-section of celebrities, ranging MON from politicians to film stars, comedians, artists and MON musicians. MON Sara Cox hangs in a Buffalo Stance with singer-songwriter, MON rapper and broadcaster Neneh Cherry, who burst on to the MON 80's pop scene, paving the way for sassy, solo, female MON artists. Neneh performs 'Everything' from 'Blank Project'; MON her first solo album in 18 years. MON Clive talks to advertising Guru John Hegarty, who believes MON that irreverence and its power to challenge and question MON makes his creativity stand out. His book 'Hegarty on MON Creativity...There Are No Rules' gives 50 provocative MON insights to guide you through the process and help select MON your best ideas. MON With more music from Cody ChesnuTT, who performs 'What Kind MON of Cool' from his album 'Landing on a Hundred: B-Sides and MON Remixes.' MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from Neneh Cherry, Tom Hollander, Lynn Barber, MON John Hegarty, Cody ChesnuTT (2) MON Tom Hollander MON ‘A Poet In New York’ is on Sunday 18th May at 21.00 on BBC MON Two. MON Lynn Barber MON ‘A Curious Career’ is published by Bloomsbury and available MON now. MON Lynn will talk about her career and experiences at New MON Writing South Lecture at Brighton Dome Studio on Saturday MON 24th May at 19.00 as part of Brighton Festival. MON Neneh Cherry MON ‘Blank Project’ is available now on Smalltown Supersound. MON Neneh is playing at Love Saves The Day, Castle Park, Bristol MON on Sunday 25th May, Field Day, Victoria Park, London on MON Saturday 7th and James Lavelle’s Meltdown on Wednesday 18th MON June. MON John Hegarty MON ‘Hegarty on Creativity: There are No Rules’ is published by MON Thames and Hudson Ltd and available now. MON Cody ChesnuTT MON ‘Landing on a Hundred: B-Sides and Remixes’ is available now MON on One Little Indian. MON MON 12:00 Listen to Les b01ms5j6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Navy Lark b007jn8n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnsy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Mr Pollock's Theatres b0076dzn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gxs (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON 4 Extra Debut. On a quest to find a position in society, MON young Fanny Price goes to live with her rich aunt and uncle. MON Stars Felicity Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch and David MON Tennant. MON MON 14:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tdf7 (Listen) MON The Growth of Belfast; Party Fights MON The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With MON Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. MON MON 14:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0132l49 (Listen) MON The Crime of Captain Gahagan MON GK Chesterton's civil servant figures out a mystery - 'Women MON go so fast that they get no farther.' Read by Martin Jarvis. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00kmzyv (Listen) MON Claire Harman - Jane's Fame, Episode 1 MON Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane MON Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings MON to Hollywood movies. MON The myth of Jane Austen is of a demure spinster, MON unobtrusively writing masterpieces in the corner of the MON family sitting room. The reality was of an ambitious and MON spirited young woman who was part of a lively, bookish MON family and keenly attuned to the literary world of her time. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b00zzpl5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0436k8p (Listen) MON Mel Giedroyc continues our story bonanza with more of the MON Top 50 from 500 Words, BBC Radio 2's short story MON competition. Plus another Unpredictable Tale by Paul MON Jennings. MON MON 17:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Black Bag MON b008kxdq (Listen) MON Series 1, The Golden Fishbone MON The GP is distracted by the stock market and the promise of MON a fast fortune. AJ Cronin dramatisation with John Gordon MON Sinclair. MON MON 17:30 Double Science b013dzmw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 When the Dog Dies b012xpym (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0436kd5 (Listen) MON Mark Knopfler and Esther Freud MON 4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Esther Freud and Mark Knopfler MON discuss books by Alain De Botton, Robert Graves and Evelyn MON Waugh. From June 1997. MON MON 19:00 Listen to Les b01ms5j6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Navy Lark b007jn8n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnsy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Mr Pollock's Theatres b0076dzn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00v2z35 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b042z1fy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b042jcxg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b0436hkz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b042lp9b (Listen) MON Series 43, Episode 4 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guest Nick MON Doody for a comic romp through the week's news. With Mitch MON Benn, Pippa Evans and Jon Holmes. MON Written by the cast with additional material by Jane MON Lamacraft, Andy Wolton and Glenn Moore. Produced by MON Alexandra Smith. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Panellist: Nick Doody MON Panellist: Mitch Benn MON Panellist: Pippa Evans MON Panellist: Jon Holmes MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 23:30 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years b0085flc (Listen) MON Incy Wincy Quincy MON Dan Freedman and Nick Romero present spider pathologist Incy MON Wincy Quincy and The Archers abroad. From August 1998. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 13 MAY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gxs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tdf7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0132l49 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b00kmzyv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 When the Dog Dies b012xpym (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b0436kd5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnsy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Mr Pollock's Theatres b0076dzn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b00zzpl5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00v2z35 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b042z1fy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Black Bag TUE b008kxdq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Double Science b013dzmw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnww (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Concerned at the impact on New York society, Eleanor's TUE family are upset over her plans to divorce. Stars Andrew TUE Wincott. TUE TUE 06:30 The Hunt for the Hum b00773qg (Listen) TUE Bill Bailey explores the phenomena of low frequency noise, TUE and goes in search of apparently mysterious 'hums' that have TUE been heard from Tokyo to Toronto, and Beijing to Bristol. TUE Engineers, hospital consultants, acoustics experts and sperm TUE whales all play their part in a strange and occasionally sad TUE story of industrialisation and noise pollution. TUE TUE 07:00 The Mitch Benn Music Show b007tdvz (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE The musical comedian presents his selection of some of the TUE finest comic songs. With guest Hils Baker. From August 2005. TUE Playlist TUE Monty Python - "The Money Song" (from Monty Python Sings) TUE Dudley Moore - "And The Same To You" (from Completely Beyond TUE the Fringe) TUE Bernard Cribbins - "Winkle Picker Shoes Blues" (from The TUE Very Best of Bernard Cribbins) TUE Peter Sellers - "All The Things You Are" (from EMI Comedy: TUE Peter Sellers) TUE Hils Barker and Mitch Benn - "Spanish Song" TUE Hayseed Dixie - "This Fire" (from A Hot Piece of Grass) TUE The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain - "Hard to Handle" TUE (from The Secret of Life) TUE TUE 07:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b042jhzs (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE For the first show in the new series stand-up Alex Horne and TUE his band explore the theme of technology through live music TUE and comedy, with songs about a record player, hoover and a TUE teasmaid amongst others. They're joined by guest comedians TUE Sara Pascoe and James Acaster. TUE Host...Alex Horne TUE Band...Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben Reynolds, TUE Ed Sheldrake TUE Guest... Tom Basden TUE Producer... Julia McKenzie. TUE Clips TUE empty TUE empty TUE empty TUE See all clips from Episode 1 (3) TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Alex Horne TUE Performer: Sara Pascoe TUE Performer: James Acaster TUE Producer: Julia McKenzie TUE TUE 08:00 The Goon Show b007jws9 (Listen) TUE What's My Line? TUE Can anyone guess the unusual professions in a special TUE edition of the 1950s TV quiz? Stars Spike Milligan. From TUE December 1956. TUE TUE 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00890mh (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE The shady lawyer starts a bus tour of New York. The Marx TUE Brothers radio show recreated. With Spike Milligan. From TUE July 1992. TUE TUE 09:00 Street and Lane b00w5rgj (Listen) TUE Series 2, Going for Broke TUE The Yorkshire builders are warned over a dodgy landlord, and TUE a birth is imminent. Stars Fine Time Fontayne. From January TUE 2007. TUE TUE 09:30 The Now Show b042lp9b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b0105s46 (Listen) TUE Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command, Episode 2 TUE Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised by TUE Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain Jack Aubrey and TUE Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. Episode 2 of 3. TUE Jack Aubrey is promoted (temporarily) to Commodore to lead a TUE squadron of English ships, charged with taking the Indian TUE Ocean islands of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. Jack TUE must succeed against superior odds at sea and on land (where TUE Stephen's subversive skills are invaluable as ever). Yet, in TUE his new role as Commodore, Jack needs subtlety and TUE subterfuge to win over the crews and subordinate captains of TUE his own fleet, including the flamboyant but erratic, Lord TUE Clonfert. TUE The story is based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when TUE Britain and France were bitterly engaged in protecting their TUE trade routes around the southern tip of Africa - and the TUE islands of Mauritius and Réunion (east of Madagascar) were TUE viewed as strategic bases. TUE The Mauritius Command is the fourth novel in Patrick TUE O'Brian's Nelsonic epic series and the sequel to HMS TUE Surprise which was dramatised for Radio 4 in 2008. TUE Captain Jack Aubrey ................... DAVID ROBB TUE Doctor Stephen Maturin .......... ...RICHARD DILLANE TUE Lord Clonfert.................................SAM DALE TUE Dr McAdam................................. SEAN BAKER TUE Lt-Col Keating ............ .......THOMAS ARNOLD TUE Governor Farquhar ..................... .DAVID RINTOUL TUE Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA TUE Captain Pym............................... BRIAN BOWLES TUE Lt Webber....................................PIP CARTER TUE Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER TUE Lt Briggs..................................... NYASHA TUE HATENDI TUE Midshipman Cotton........................LLOYD THOMAS TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00v39mh (Listen) TUE Three Short Stories by E Nesbit, The Bristol Bowl TUE Jane's aunt is a real ogre to work for, but Jane is after TUE her money, so she puts up with it. TUE Everything is going to plan, until the day Jane smashes The TUE Bristol Bowl- aunt's prize bit of porcelain. That disaster TUE takes her on her first trip to London and a very surprising TUE offer of marriage. TUE Reader: Jenny Agutter TUE Abridged by Roy Apps TUE Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:15 Juliet Ace - Money for Old Rope b007rr6t (Listen) TUE Jason, a young and fit student, takes part in a drugs trial TUE to earn some cash. But is it worth the risk? With Di TUE Botcher. TUE TUE 12:00 The Goon Show b007jws9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00890mh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnww (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Hunt for the Hum b00773qg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gyd (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Fanny Price has to deal with some new neighbours from TUE London. Stars Felicity Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch and David TUE Tennant. TUE TUE 14:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tkgd (Listen) TUE My Mission to Pacify Ireland; Keep a Firm Grip on Your TUE Homesteads TUE The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With TUE Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. TUE TUE 14:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0132pll (Listen) TUE The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse TUE Another mystery for GK Chesterton's civil servant - 'Too TUE much Prussian obedience saves a patriot'. Read by Martin TUE Jarvis. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9l (Listen) TUE Claire Harman - Jane's Fame, Episode 2 TUE Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane TUE Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings TUE to Hollywood movies. TUE The last years of Jane Austen's life were a period of TUE concentrated writing and business with publishers. Though TUE largely cut off from the fashionable literary world, her TUE fame was nonetheless beginning to spread. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b0105s46 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0439rjj (Listen) TUE Mel Giedroyc returns with more of the top 50 stories from TUE BBC Radio 2's 500 Words short story competition, and she TUE wishes Catherine Tate many happy returns in her birthday TUE week. TUE TUE 17:00 Second Thoughts b007jx3l (Listen) TUE Series 1, Marriage of Inconvenience TUE Bill and Faith are about to get wed when the groom receives TUE a shock. Stars James Bolam and Lynda Bellingham. From TUE December 1988. TUE TUE 17:30 The Mitch Benn Music Show b007tdvz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Street and Lane b00w5rgj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jnyc (Listen) TUE Series 3, John Fortune TUE The satirist and writer recalls his career and the people TUE he's worked with, including Peter Cook and John Bird. From TUE November 2001. TUE TUE 19:00 The Goon Show b007jws9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00890mh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnww (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Hunt for the Hum b00773qg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00v39mh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Juliet Ace - Money for Old Rope b007rr6t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b042jhzs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Music Teacher b00s9gbs (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE An aural feast of a musical comedy written by and starring TUE 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb as long TUE suffering multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny. TUE Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. TUE Shut away in a tiny windowless practice room in a regional TUE arts centre, music teacher Nigel Penny endures his usual TUE succession of bizarre pupils whilst wrestling with the TUE latest curveball thrown at him by panicked Arts Centre TUE manager, Belinda. TUE Episode 2 sees Nigel faced with having to up the rate he TUE charges his students; but he finds his negotiating skills TUE somewhat thwarted by a guitarist with no strings, a Cameo TUE tribute act and possibly the world's most confusing busker. TUE Belinda meanwhile is struggling to cope with the Arts TUE Centre's new emergency procedures - and therefore so is TUE everyone else. TUE Cast: TUE Nigel Penny ..... Richie Webb TUE Belinda ..... Vicki Pepperdine TUE Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. TUE Written by Richie Webb. TUE Producer: Richie Webb TUE Director: Nick Walker TUE A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 22:45 Earls of the Court b00r0yt2 (Listen) TUE The Eklov Experience TUE Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright TUE about two Australians down on their luck in London. TUE Now living with his girlfriend, Johnno is steadying himself TUE for a couples' day out. But his sofa-crashing best mate TUE Lloydie has other plans TUE Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright TUE Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale TUE Nadine ...... Keely Beresford TUE Security ...... Rufus Wright TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:00 Delve Special b007jn2h (Listen) TUE Series 3, Resurrection of St Jerome TUE Intrepid reporter David Lander probes the rise and fall of TUE Caribbean despot Felipe Delnazo. Stars Stephen Fry. From TUE September 1987. TUE TUE 23:30 2000 Years of Radio b007scys (Listen) TUE Dark Age FM TUE It's just coming up to 500AD, but watch out - the end of the TUE world is nigh. With Marcus Brigstocke. From October 2000. TUE TUE 23:45 All the World's a Globe b007jwwz (Listen) TUE Episode 8 TUE The National Theatre of Brent's definitive history of Earth TUE reaches the 20th century, with special guest Ben Kingsley. TUE From June 1990. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 14 MAY 2014 WED WED 00:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gyd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tkgd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0132pll (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Street and Lane b00w5rgj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 That Reminds Me b007jnyc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b007jnww (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 The Hunt for the Hum b00773qg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b0105s46 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00v39mh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Juliet Ace - Money for Old Rope b007rr6t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Second Thoughts b007jx3l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 The Mitch Benn Music Show b007tdvz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Socialite Newland follows Ellen to the country, where their WED rendezvous is disturbed. Stars Andrew Wincott and Susanne WED Bertish. WED WED 06:30 Language of Laughter b00773fj (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. Julian Clary meets the intrepid British WED comics who take their acts abroad to places where stand-up WED is totally alien. From January 2007. WED WED 07:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k3y6 (Listen) WED Series 3, Mixed Fortunes WED Su prepares to take Jeremy home while Abraham prepares to WED talk to the press. Stars Tracy-Ann Oberman. From March 2002. WED WED 07:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b042l78d (Listen) WED Series 2, Rosa and Matthew WED Isy Suttie returns to BBC Radio 4 with a brand new series of WED her Sony Award Winning show, recounting a series of love WED stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, WED told partly through song. WED Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; WED quite often she's intervened, changing the action WED dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these WED stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, WED often disastrous, love life. WED In this episode, Isy recounts the tale of Rosa and Matthew, WED a hypnotherapist and an osteopath who work a few doors apart WED and find it difficult to express their feelings for each WED other. WED With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied WED by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving WED world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love. WED "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED Credits WED Performer: Isy Suttie WED Writer: Isy Suttie WED Producer: Lyndsay Fenner WED WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0090xjy (Listen) WED Series 6, The Picnic WED The lad, Bill and Sid eat al fresco to impress their dates WED from the local Palais. Stars Tony Hancock. From October WED 1959. WED WED 08:30 Albert and Me b007jsgr (Listen) WED Mind That Baby WED Single dad Bryan is wrapped in red tape at the benefits WED office. Stars Richard Beckinsale and Pat Coombs. From WED December 1977. WED WED 09:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful b007jvs5 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 WED Ken Handley fancies a winter break, but can he escape the ad WED agency? Stars Martin Jarvis and Wendy Richard. From February WED 1982. WED WED 09:30 1835 b0125lgl (Listen) WED All at Sea WED Aristocrat Belport and servant Ned are called up to serve on WED the unfortunate HMS Fortunate. Stars Paul Rider. From June WED 2004. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b010dgrb (Listen) WED Patrick O'Brian - The Mauritius Command, Episode 3 WED Patrick O'Brian's naval epic set in 1809, dramatised by WED Roger Danes. Starring David Robb as Captain Jack Aubrey and WED Richard Dillane as Doctor Stephen Maturin. WED Jack has been promoted to Commodore to lead a squadron of WED English ships, charged with taking the Indian Ocean islands WED of Mauritius and Réunion from the French. Jack faces WED superior odds at sea and on land (where Stephen's subversive WED skills are invaluable as ever). Yet, in his new role as WED Commodore, Jack needs subtlety and subterfuge to win over WED the crews and subordinate captains of his own fleet, WED including the courageous but brutal Captain Corbett. WED Based on a naval campaign in 1809-10 when Britain and France WED were bitterly engaged in protecting their trade routes WED around the southern tip of Africa - and the islands of WED Mauritius and Réunion (east of Madagascar) were viewed as WED strategic bases. WED The Mauritius Command is the fourth novel in Patrick WED O'Brian's Nelsonic epic series and the sequel to HMS WED Surprise which was dramatised for Radio 4 in 2008. WED Captain Jack Aubrey ................... DAVID ROBB WED Doctor Stephen Maturin .......... ...RICHARD DILLANE WED Captain Corbett................. ....CHRISTIAN RODSKA WED Governor Farquhar ..................... ..DAVID RINTOUL WED Lt-Col Keating ............ ........THOMAS ARNOLD WED Admiral Bertie.............................. SEAN BAKER WED Lt Seymour ....................... ...MAX DOWLER WED Lt Pullings ...................................DAVID HOLT WED Lt Tullidge....................................LLOYD THOMAS WED Major O'Neil................................ SAM DALE WED Midshipman Johnson ....... ...........NYASHA HATENDI WED Producer/director: Bruce Young. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00v39s8 (Listen) WED Three Short Stories by E Nesbit, Grandsire Triples WED Kate's 'intended' comes back from learning farming, a WED Catholic. WED Kate is torn between duty and love, a conflict that is WED dramatically resolved when the two lovers inadvertently get WED locked in the bell tower, during a Grandsire Triple peal WED ("there's five thousand and fifty changes to 'em, and it's a WED matter of three hours!') groans Kate. WED Reader: Jenny Agutter WED Abridged by Roy Apps WED Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jw6t (Listen) WED Mr Reliable WED It is Mr Openshaw's job to listen to people, except when he WED visits Mrs Flenswick. Peter Tinniswood tale starring Peter WED Sallis and Edna Dore. WED WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0090xjy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 Albert and Me b007jsgr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Language of Laughter b00773fj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gyv (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Fanny Price's trip to Mr Rushworth's estate has unforeseen WED consequences for the whole party. Stars Felicity Jones and WED Benedict Cumberbatch. WED WED 14:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tm4c (Listen) WED The Land War; The Relief of Captain Boycott WED The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With WED Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. WED WED 14:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0132vv8 (Listen) WED Pond the Pantaloon WED Another mystery for GK Chesterton's civil servant - 'A poker WED prevents a national disaster'. Read by Martin Jarvis. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9d (Listen) WED Claire Harman - Jane's Fame, Episode 3 WED Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane WED Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings WED to Hollywood movies. WED The 19th century taste for the great, sprawling novels of WED Dickens, Thackeray and others left Jane Austen in relative WED obscurity for some decades. But public interest flared up WED again with her nephew's publication of the first biography WED in 1870, and gained a momentum that was now unstoppable. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b010dgrb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0439wdl (Listen) WED Mel Giedroyc introduces an Unpredictable Tale by Paul WED Jennings, read by John Sessions. Plus artist Jack Vettriano WED shares his Inheritance Tracks, two favourite pieces of WED music. WED WED 17:00 After Henry b007jmr5 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Dinner Party WED Sarah plays hostess, mother plays the martyr and daughter WED Clare holds a flat-warming party. With Prunella Scales. From WED May 1985. WED WED 17:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k3y6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful b007jvs5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b00766d6 (Listen) WED Taboo WED 4 Extra Debut. Chris Bigsby chairs a debate about taboo with WED Adam Mars-Jones and Daisy Sampson. Is there anything still WED forbidden these days? WED WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0090xjy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Albert and Me b007jsgr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Language of Laughter b00773fj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00v39s8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jw6t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b042l78d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Genius b0080rmy (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED Lego prisons? A tea tray as a system of measurement? WED Germaine Greer helps Dave Gorman solicit new thinking. From WED October 2007. WED WED 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jvjx (Listen) WED Series 4, Beauty WED Satan introduces the Professor and Thomas to Helen of Troy WED and her plain friend, Daphne. Devilish sitcom stars Andy WED Hamilton. From May 2001. WED WED 23:30 The Sofa of Time b00hwyq7 (Listen) WED There's Gravy in My Locker WED Milford and Parker arrive in a magical world and embark on a WED quest. Stars Nick Frost, Matt King and Mark Heap. From WED October 2002. WED WED THU THURSDAY 15 MAY 2014 THU THU 00:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tm4c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0132vv8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful b007jvs5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b00766d6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Language of Laughter b00773fj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b010dgrb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00v39s8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jw6t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 After Henry b007jmr5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k3y6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qr (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Newland loves Ellen, but has married her cousin May. A THU secret rendezvous is arranged. Stars Andrew Wincott and THU Susanne Bertish. THU THU 06:30 Soul Self Satisfaction: The Story of Northern Soul THU b0076v8l (Listen) THU The Story of Northern Soul THU Writer and cultural historian CP Lee explores the strange THU world of Northern Soul music, which first came to Britain in THU the early 1960s. This underground cultural phenomenon was THU driven by a love of black American artists who had failed to THU make a success in the USA. THU Contributors include designer Wayne Hemingway, producer Ian THU Levine, DJ Jo Wallace and Stuart Cosgrove. THU THU 07:00 Semi Circles b007jtsz (Listen) THU A Family Time THU Ben and Helen squabble over spending Christmas with her THU mother. Stars Paula Wilcox and David Wood. From November THU 1982. THU THU 07:30 Cabin Pressure b01qjc6k (Listen) THU Series 4, Yverdon-Les-Bains THU Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny charter THU airline. THU Love is in the air as Douglas and Herc fight it out over the THU fruit tray, and hope springs eternal as Martin has the THU interview of his life. THU Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world THU of a tiny, one plane, charter airline staffed by two pilots: THU one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. THU Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, metal sheets to THU Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too THU small, but many, many jobs are too difficult. THU Written by John Finnemore THU Produced and directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for the BBC. THU Credits THU Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole THU 1st Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam THU Captain Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch THU Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore THU Captain Hercules 'Herc' Shipwright: Anthony Head THU Oskar Bider: Nicholas Woodeson THU Captain Deroche: Kate Duchene THU Writer: John Finnemore THU Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 08:00 Dad's Army b007jqpj (Listen) THU Series 3, The Royal Train THU Mainwaring gets up steam when the platoon waits for the King THU at the station. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From June THU 1976. THU THU 08:30 Take It From Here b015f9b1 (Listen) THU From 10/03/1955 THU Ron Glum faces jail - will Eth stand by her man? Stars Dick THU Bentley, Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From March 1955. THU THU 09:00 Heresy b019j12x (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 2 THU Atheist Marcus Brigstocke clashes with the Rev Richard Coles THU in a discussion about the irrationality of religious belief THU in an unusually combative edition of Heresy. THU Victoria Coren Mitchell is aided in her attempts to maintain THU order by comedian Natalie Haynes, who argues that THU agnosticism is the only rational position to be adopted on THU the issue. THU Victoria's guests find more consensus in taking a heretical THU position against the received wisdom that Kate Middleton THU should get a job, and that transport strikes are terrible THU for commuters. THU Producer: Brian King THU An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 The Young Postmen b00fz7bp (Listen) THU Top of the Pops THU The eager threesome attempt a Christmas number one. Stars THU Ben Miller, John Thompson and Alistair McGowan. From THU December 1992. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) THU Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower, Episode 1 THU Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of THU star-crossed lovers in the West Country. THU When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the handsome young THU astronomer Swithin St Cleeve on the lonely tower on her THU estate, a story of passion and sacrifice begins. THU Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill THU Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson THU Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson THU Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys THU Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin THU Granny Martin ...... Pauline Jefferson THU Louis ...... Richard Heap THU Joshua ...... Carter Dowland THU Directed by Stefan Escreet. THU THU 11:00 Elizabeth Buchan - Resurrection b007wfqx (Listen) THU A gardener and grieving widower muses over love and the THU cycle of life and death. Elizabeth Buchan's story is read by THU Christopher Scott. THU THU 11:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End b007jyz3 (Listen) THU Leni makes a surprising discovery at a public swimming pool. THU Moving drama about the loss of a baby. Stars Michelle THU Holmes. THU THU 12:00 Dad's Army b007jqpj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Take It From Here b015f9b1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Soul Self Satisfaction: The Story of Northern Soul THU b0076v8l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gzc (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Amateur dramatics give Fanny Price cause for consternation. THU Stars Felicity Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch and David THU Tennant. THU THU 14:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tcj0 (Listen) THU Assassination in the Phoenix Park; The First Home Rule Bill THU The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With THU Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. THU THU 14:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0133gjr (Listen) THU Ring of Lovers THU 'A real liar doesn't tell wanton and unnecessary lies. He THU tells wise and necessary lies.' Curious mystery read by THU Martin Jarvis. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9g (Listen) THU Claire Harman - Jane's Fame, Episode 4 THU Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane THU Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings THU to Hollywood movies. THU By the early years of the 20th century, the cult of 'Divine THU Jane' had seized Britain and America. For the soldiers of THU the First World War, she came to represent an Englishness THU that was far removed from the terrible realities of life in THU the trenches. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b043bh56 (Listen) THU Mel Giedroyc has more of the top 50 short stories from BBC THU Radio 2's 500 Words short story competition, and she THU investigates the satnav of homing pigeons. THU THU 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited b007jxck (Listen) THU Series 1, Waiting for Ofsted THU There's tension in the staff room, and nerves are on edge. THU Why? The inspectors are coming! Starring Carolyn Pickles. THU From May 2002. THU THU 17:30 Semi Circles b007jtsz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Heresy b019j12x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b00763rq (Listen) THU Sir Ernest Shackleton THU 4 Extra Debut. The polar explorer's life is scrutinised by THU Rosie Boycott and his granddaughter Alexandra. With Humphrey THU Carpenter. From August 2001. THU THU 19:00 Dad's Army b007jqpj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Take It From Here b015f9b1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Soul Self Satisfaction: The Story of Northern Soul THU b0076v8l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Elizabeth Buchan - Resurrection b007wfqx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End b007jyz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Cabin Pressure b01qjc6k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00773xs (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 5 THU Perrier Award winning comedian Laura Solon continues her new THU sketch and character comedy series, aided by the voices of THU Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond. THU Credits THU Writer / Performer: Laura Solon THU Performer: Ben Moor THU Performer: Katherine Parkinson THU Performer: Ben Willbond THU Producer: Colin Anderson THU THU 23:00 The Museum of Everything b007k425 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Dig THU Drop in on a 'live' archaeology excavation, and visit a very THU liberal safari park. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From March THU 2005. THU THU 23:30 The Skivers b00j1ff4 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU High winds alert! Weatherman Michael Fish bids for stardom. THU Sketch show with Nick Golsen and Tim de Jongh. From January THU 1997. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 16 MAY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gzc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tcj0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0133gjr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Heresy b019j12x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b00763rq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00898qr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Soul Self Satisfaction: The Story of Northern Soul FRI b0076v8l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Elizabeth Buchan - Resurrection b007wfqx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End b007jyz3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b007jxck (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Semi Circles b007jtsz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00899j7 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Ellen Olenska returns, and socialite Newland rushes to tell FRI her his big decision. Stars Andrew Wincott and Susanne FRI Bertish. FRI FRI 06:30 The People's Palace b0076lt4 (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. London's vast Crystal Palace put the world FRI under glass for amazed visitors. Michael Rosen revisits its FRI glorious past. From June 2004. FRI FRI 07:00 Smelling of Roses b00dh89p (Listen) FRI Series 3, Leading a Merry Dance FRI Events planner Rosie discovers that a Russian dance troop FRI isn't quite what it seems. Stars Prunella Scales. From FRI January 2002. FRI FRI 07:30 Bird Island b042z66l (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI EPISODE TWO: FRI Ben, a young scientist working in Antarctica, tries to adapt FRI to the loneliness by keeping a cheery audio diary on his FRI Dictaphone. This week, Ben tests out a new coat, suitable FRI for the cold climate and Jane celebrates her birthday. FRI Written by ..... Katy Wix FRI Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani FRI ABOUT BIRD ISLAND: FRI Bird Island is an atmospheric non-audience comedy about a FRI cheery scientist based in Sub-Antarctica. Starring Reece FRI Shearsmith, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alison Steadman and katy Wix. FRI On the one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to FRI Sub-Antarctica. On the other, he's trapped in a vast icy FRI landscape with a dodgy internet connection and a dictaphone. FRI Loneliness is something of a problem. So, Ben shares his FRI thoughts with us in the form of an audio 'log'. FRI His fellow scientist Graham should alleviate this sense of FRI isolation, but the tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy FRI blokes, so they can only stumble through yet another mumbled FRI exchange. Not to mention the new arrival Jane, who Ben seems FRI to be even more awkward around, for reasons that aren't FRI entirely clear to him. FRI Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the FRI Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an FRI earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very FRI endearing. FRI Bird Island is written by Katy Wix, one half of the sketch FRI Duo 'Anna and Katy'. Katy is a writer and performer who has FRI made appearances in 'Miranda', 'Outnumbered' and stars as FRI Daisy in 'Not Going Out' and authored 'The Oberon Book of FRI Comic Monologues For Women'. FRI Credits FRI Ben: Reece Shearsmith FRI Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Shanghai Solitaire Voice: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Jane: Katy Wix FRI Producer: Tilusha Ghelani FRI Writer: Katy Wix FRI FRI 07:45 Don't Start b01mqqg1 (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Toenail FRI What do long term partners really argue about? The sharp new FRI comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. FRI Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted FRI comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each FRI week our couple fall out over another apparently trivial FRI flashpoint - the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. FRI The stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But FRI these are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other FRI with increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary FRI references (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs FRI Rochester, to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their FRI beloved's weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, FRI there is an unmistakable tenderness. FRI Frank says: FRI "Having established in the first series that Neil and Kim FRI are a childless academic couple who during their numerous FRI arguments luxuriate in their own and each other's learning FRI and wit, I've tried in the second series to dig a little FRI deeper into their relationship. Love and affection FRI occasionally splutter into view, like a Higgs boson in a big FRI tunnel-thing, but can such emotions ever prevail in a FRI relationship where the couple prefers to wear their brains, FRI rather than their hearts, on their sleeves? Is that too much FRI offal imagery?" FRI Episode 2: The Toenail FRI Frank's attempts at recycling strike Kim as an unhealthy FRI obsession with death. FRI Produced and directed by Polly Thomas FRI Executive Producer: Jon Thoday FRI An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Neil: Frank Skinner FRI Kim: Katherine Parkinson FRI Director: Polly Thomas FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI Writer: Frank Skinner FRI FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnfd (Listen) FRI Series 5, Men of Letters FRI Albert butts in on Harold's church magazine article. Adapted FRI from TV, with Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From FRI June 1974. FRI FRI 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007w2s0 (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Picture FRI The small-time crime writer and his wife have a clear-out to FRI try and make some cash. Stars Ian Carmichael. From June FRI 1976. FRI FRI 09:00 Act Your Age b00qvm9f (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic FRI generations against each other to find out which is the FRI funniest. FRI Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker are FRI joined by Hills Barker and Cannon and Ball. FRI FRI 09:30 Coming Alive b00gdw1p (Listen) FRI Series 2, Just One Night FRI Terry and Sandra come to blows when his ex winds up staying FRI at the community centre. Stars Karl Howman. From August FRI 2000. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen) FRI Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower, Episode 2 FRI Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of FRI star-crossed lovers in the West Country. FRI Viviette and Swithin have married in secret, but chance and FRI convention conspire against them and painful sacrifices have FRI to be made. FRI Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill FRI Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson FRI Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson FRI Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys FRI Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin FRI Louis ...... Richard Heap FRI Bishop Helmsdale ...... Russell Dixon FRI Joshua ...... Carter Thomas FRI Directed by Stefan Escreet. FRI FRI 11:00 Martin Sorrell - Accrington Stanley b010tbkm (Listen) FRI Not the football club, but a one-legged, partially sighted FRI wheeler-dealer from Lancashire. Bernard Cribbins tells the FRI tale. FRI FRI 11:15 James Follett - The Twisted Image b007mf16 (Listen) FRI A woman is found dead in a Rolls Royce, but the clues don't FRI add up. Futuristic whodunnit with Douglas Blackwell and FRI Peter Wickham. FRI FRI 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnfd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007w2s0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00899j7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The People's Palace b0076lt4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Jane Austen - Mansfield Park b0076gzw (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Sir Thomas returns to Mansfield Park to find the house in FRI disarray. Stars Felicity Jones, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tim FRI Pigott-Smith and David Tennant. FRI FRI 14:15 A Short History of Ireland b007tc4f (Listen) FRI Is Them'uns Bate?; The Belfast Riots of 1886 FRI The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With FRI Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty. FRI FRI 14:30 The Paradoxes of Mr Pond b0133lv0 (Listen) FRI The Terrible Troubadour FRI Another GK Chesterton mystery - 'In nature you must go very FRI low to find things that go so high'. Concluded by Martin FRI Jarvis. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00kvg9j (Listen) FRI Claire Harman - Jane's Fame, Episode 5 FRI Alice Krige reads from Claire Harman's exploration of Jane FRI Austen's rise to pre-eminence from humble family scribblings FRI to Hollywood movies. FRI The use of Jane Austen's name knows no generic boundaries. FRI At the beginning of the 21st century we are witness to the FRI spectacle of the young woman who happily limited her scope FRI to 'three or four families in a country village' being FRI marketed as a global brand. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b043bkyw (Listen) FRI Mel Giedroyc wraps up our short story fortnight with the FRI last of Paul Jenning's Unpredictable Tales, and three more FRI of the top 50 short stories from BBC Radio 2's 500 Words. FRI FRI 17:00 Second Holmes b0169ljq (Listen) FRI The Case of the Neglected Farm FRI The grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson go to Dorset, FRI where a wife is in danger. Stars Peter Egan. From January FRI 1983. FRI FRI 17:30 Smelling of Roses b00dh89p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Act Your Age b00qvm9f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 Humphrey Lyttelton - Play As I Please b01g6khg (Listen) FRI Leaving Home FRI Humphrey Lyttelton tells June Knox-Mawer about life at a FRI steelworks and heading to war - with his trumpet. From FRI December 1993. FRI FRI 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnfd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007w2s0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence b00899j7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The People's Palace b0076lt4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Martin Sorrell - Accrington Stanley b010tbkm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 James Follett - The Twisted Image b007mf16 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Bird Island b042z66l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:15 Don't Start b01mqqg1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] FRI FRI 22:30 My Teenage Diary b00x3ywb (Listen) FRI Series 2, Julian Clary FRI Rufus Hound invites Julian Clary to read embarrassing FRI extracts from his teenage diary and read it out in public FRI for the very first time. FRI Producer: Victoria Payne FRI A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Victoria Payne FRI FRI 23:00 The Mary Whitehouse Experience b043bldw (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 1 FRI 4 Extra Debut. Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt, Rob Newman and David FRI Baddiel scrutinise horse racing and party conferences. From FRI October 1990. FRI FRI 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World b007qx6z (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Universe FRI The spoof TV sci-fi star explains life's big mysteries. FRI Stars Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Tom Baker. From FRI October 1992. FRI
09 May, 2014
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10/05/2014 - 16/05/2014
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