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SAT SATURDAY 21 JUNE 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Ian Rankin - Rebus b00mw69h (Listen) SAT Beggar's Banquet, The Hanged Man SAT The sinister workings of a serial killer's mind are exposed SAT when a fair arrives in Kirkcaldy. Read by Steven McNicoll. SAT SAT 00:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zft89 (Listen) SAT Women SAT Winston Churchill never knew the names of his secretaries SAT calling 'get me a miss', when he needed dictation. Yet such SAT was his charm that women fell in love with him over the SAT dinner table. How much was he interested in women, or sex? SAT In this programme, historian Sir David Cannadine explores SAT Churchill's attitude to women, his relationship with his SAT nanny, Mrs. Everest, and with the other central woman in his SAT life, his wife Clementine. SAT With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. SAT Producer: Melissa FitzGerald SAT A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b009xysg (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT War plays havoc with Muriel Hammond's aspirations and her SAT experiences of love. Stars Claire Goose and Brigit Forsyth. SAT SAT 00:45 Hilary Spurling - Matisse the Master b0076r51 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Post-1945, Matisse applies his extraordinary scissor and SAT paper technique to the design of the interior of the chapel SAT at Vence. Concluded by Eleanor Bron. SAT SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00k3x21 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three SAT distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast SAT imaginary museum. SAT John and Sean's guests are Brian Eno, Chris Donald and Dave SAT Gorman. SAT SAT 01:30 How Tickled Am I? b007jp11 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Les Dawson SAT Mark Radcliffe reviews the career of the Mancunian SAT wordsmith, who started out playing piano in a Parisian SAT brothel. SAT SAT 02:00 Monsieur Pamplemousse Investigates b007jtfx (Listen) SAT The Final Print-Out SAT The trail leads the detective and his trusty hound to Père SAT Lachaise Cemetery before a final watery showdown. Stars SAT Gorden Kaye. SAT SAT 02:30 Mannequins b0075zhk (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Sue Limb uncovers the secret world of SAT mannequins - their early history, changing shapes and SAT styles. With Mary Quant. From October 1998. SAT SAT 03:00 Charles Dickens b007k02r (Listen) SAT The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Redress SAT Neville Landless, whom Jasper thinks killed Edwin, has been SAT found stabbed to death. But Datchery has a plan. Stars John SAT Moffatt. SAT SAT 04:00 EM Forster Short Stories b017gyls (Listen) SAT The Obelisk SAT The Story of the Siren is the first in our series of short SAT fiction by EM Forster. It is an unsettling story about a sea SAT nymph and an ill fated young Sicilian. The novelist best SAT known for twentieth century classics including A Passage to SAT India, A Room with a View and Maurice was also a prolific SAT writer of short stories. In them he explored many of the SAT themes central to his novels, including the morals of the SAT middle classes in the early twentieth century, and his SAT fascination with culture and mores of the beguiling South. SAT The reader is Dan Stevens. SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 04:15 The Recall Man b00kkdkk (Listen) SAT Stepping Out SAT Dr Joe Aston feels threatened when a rival psychologist is SAT hired to investigate baffling attacks on women. Stars Jeremy SAT Swift. SAT SAT 05:00 The Brothers b007mc8t (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT Arson and revolving bow ties - just another day for Nigel SAT and Michael. Stars Adam Godley and Raymond Coulthard. From SAT June 2004. SAT SAT 05:30 Chambers b007jyzz (Listen) SAT Series 3, Outward Bound SAT A legal firm invites John, Ruth and Hilary to a SAT team-building exercise in the country. Starring John Bird, SAT Sarah Lancashire and James Fleet. From March 1999. SAT SAT 06:00 Laurie Lee - I Call Me Adam b047bsjl (Listen) SAT The story of the fugitive crewmen of The Bounty, as they try SAT to create a new life on the island of Pitcairn. Stars Ralph SAT Truman. SAT A bloodthirsty take on what happened to Fletcher Christian SAT and the crew after the mutiny. Lee even penned a 'foreword' SAT for the drama, explaining: "I had always wanted to write a SAT play of this story, but not as a history of Pitcairn. What SAT I've tried to do here is to adapt the legend - which reads SAT like some primitive saga - and to extend the theme in more SAT general terms, to make it anywhere, anytime." SAT First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1959. SAT SAT 07:20 Through My Window - Laurie Lee b047bsjn (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. 'A deep green channel of comfort'. Laurie Lee SAT waxes lyrical over his view of Slad that inspired his most SAT famous work. From August 1981. SAT SAT 07:30 Footlight Fairies b007k2n0 (Listen) SAT The story of 19th-century reformer Millicent Fawcett, who SAT campaigned to remove children from the stage. With Susannah SAT Clapp. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b0183glm (Listen) SAT Ted Hughes: Memorial Tones SAT On the 6th December a memorial stone to the poet Ted Hughes SAT will be unveiled in poet's corner at Westminster Abbey. To SAT mark the occasion Melvyn Bragg presents a special edition of SAT Archive on 4. With poets, writers and those who knew him SAT well, Melvyn will look back over Ted Hughes' life and work SAT to fashion a memorial in sound to accompany that of stone. SAT The programme will centre on the many facets of Hughes' own SAT voice; not only reading and discussing his work but in his SAT many radio talks and his advocacy of other poets. It will SAT make a critical appreciation of Hughes work; from his first SAT poetry collection, A Hawk in the Rain, in 1957 to his last, SAT Birthday Letters, in 1998. SAT But Melvyn will also speak to those who saw at first hand a SAT life touched by both great success and searing tragedy. SAT Producer: James Cook. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller b007jpjt (Listen) SAT Boothby Graffoe SAT Boothby Graffoe is a stand-up comedian with a talent and a SAT penchant for cerebral funny songs. In this special alone he SAT composes an impromptu ditty about being Comedy Controller. SAT He also has a long and treasured history with BBC Radio 4 SAT Comedy - The Big Booth begat In No Particular order -as well SAT as a notable collaboration with Omid Djalili for TV. SAT Boothby's worked with Art Malik, Steve Frost, Jason Isaacs, SAT Pauline McLynn, Glenn Tilbrook, Kevin Eldon, Dean Friedman SAT and Robyn Hitchcock. SAT He's also a playwright with three productions to his name SAT and has appeared in The Bill and Casualty. SAT Named after a Lincolnshire market town, the comedian makes SAT his selection of BBC radio comedy: The Goon Show - The Evils SAT of Bushey Spon (17/03/1958); Round the Horne Ser.1 ep11 SAT (16/05/1965); Steptoe and Son - Two's Company (28/03/1971); SAT The Burkiss Way (26/12/1979); The Big Booth (29/01/2000); SAT Hancock's Half Hour - The Conjuror (22/02/1956). SAT SAT 12:00 Modesty Blaise b047btt6 (Listen) SAT Series 2 Omnibus SAT In their first assignment for British Intelligence, Modesty SAT Blaise and right-hand man Willie Garvin must foil a plot to SAT carry out a multi-million pound diamond heist. SAT SAT 13:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b047bvj5 (Listen) SAT Gitta Sereny SAT 4 Extra Debut. Gitta Sereny chose controversial figures for SAT biographies and held the belief that we are all born 'good'. SAT From September 1998. SAT SAT 14:00 Dad's Army b007jr4t (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Cricket Match SAT Mainwaring goes into bat when the platoon are challenged to SAT play the wardens. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From SAT July 1976. SAT SAT 14:30 The Navy Lark b007jnvy (Listen) SAT NANA SAT HMS Troutbridge sets sail, with Phillips let loose on a new SAT navigational aid. Stars Jon Pertwee. From November 1975. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0183glm (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Laurie Lee - I Call Me Adam b047bsjl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:20 Through My Window - Laurie Lee b047bsjn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:20 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01hl29y (Listen) SAT Series 2, Compensation Culture SAT Sony Award-winning comedian Tom Wrigglesworth delivers an SAT open letter to Ken Clarke MP and asks whether compensation SAT culture is actually directly opposed to the theory of SAT evolution. SAT Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp SAT Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Writer: James Kettle SAT Writer: Miles Jupp SAT Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer SAT SAT 18:00 Dangerous Visions b02x5j6k (Listen) SAT The Drowned World SAT As part of Radio 4's Dangerous Visions season, Graham SAT White's adaptation shows a future in which the earth's SAT atmosphere is destroyed. As a scientific mission surveys SAT England's drowned capitals before their final abandonment, SAT two lovers find themselves reverting to a primitive state of SAT consciousness. SAT In a future in which solar flares have wreaked havoc with SAT the earth's atmosphere, Dr Robert Kerans is part of a SAT scientific mission to survey the drowned cities of what was SAT once the temperate zone before they are abandoned for good. SAT The de-evolution that the ecological crisis has provoked SAT seems to have affected the expedition's crew. Kerans, SAT alongside his enigmatic lover Beatrice, whom he is trying to SAT persuade to leave, attempts to make sense of the SAT disappearance of a crew member who has succumbed to the lure SAT of the emerging new water world. SAT Kerans and Beatrice also start to embrace the breakdown they SAT see around them, until an encounter with the maverick SAT scavenger Strangman and his piratical crew forces them to SAT face what de-evolution may really mean, as he drains the SAT drowned city in search of the powers of civilization it may SAT once have held. Ballard's vivid futurescape imagines the SAT surreal results of Darwin's theories going into reverse. SAT Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the SAT present reflected in the glass SAT of an uneasy future. SAT Dangerous Visions SAT Credits SAT Beatrice: Hattie Morahan SAT Kerans: James D'Arcy SAT Strangman: Tim McInnerny SAT Colonel Riggs: Robert Blythe SAT Dr Alan Bryant: Paul Stonehouse SAT Lieutenant Hardman: Ben Crowe SAT Daley: Matthew Watson SAT Caesar: Don Gilet SAT Producer: Peter Kavanagh SAT Writer: J.G. Ballard SAT Adaptor: Graham White SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller b007jpjt (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 The Mark Steel Solution b007k0s8 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Sexual Politics SAT The comedian has more radical advice for his fellow man - SAT get yourself a boyfriend. With Maria McErlane. From August SAT 1995. SAT SAT 22:30 The Jason Byrne Show b01phj38 (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Irish and the Scottish Are Black-Belts in SAT Misery SAT The award-winning funny man revels in misery. With Laurence SAT Howarth and Daisy Haggard. From December 2010. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b047wksb (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith is SAT joined by Suzi Ruffell. SAT SAT 23:00 The Nick Revell Show b007k1n0 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Homeless SAT The writer and his talking geraniums outstay their welcome SAT at Craig and Shona's place. With Alistair McGowan. From June SAT 1993. SAT SAT 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jps7 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Beware the Ides of Masterson SAT Ancient Rome witnesses terror, tyrants and togas. Improvised SAT family saga with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From June SAT 1994. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 JUNE 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Dangerous Visions b02x5j6k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b0183glm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Modesty Blaise b047btt6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b047bvj5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Laurie Lee - I Call Me Adam b047bsjl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:20 Through My Window - Laurie Lee b047bsjn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:20 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01hl29y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street Omnibus SUN b00fvpdw (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Winifred Holtby's tale of a woman's journey to independence, SUN set in wartime Yorkshire. Stars Claire Goose and Brigit SUN Forsyth. SUN SUN 07:15 Redesigning the Human Body b00pn48p (Listen) SUN The Skin We're In SUN Len Fisher confronts his reflection, and dreams about what SUN he could do to make his skin more appealing. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b00snrjy (Listen) SUN Series 6, Some Others Do 'Ave 'Em SUN Sally Phillips plays Social Worker Clare Barker who has SUN entered a caring profession so that she can sort out other SUN peoples' problems rather than deal with her own. Clare is in SUN her early thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, SUN all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her. SUN Clare is back on the social work frontline as a vomiting bug SUN hits her colleagues. Brian and Nali take baby Thomas out for SUN the day and Helen attends the police liaison meeting. SUN Clare ..... Sally Phillips SUN Brian ..... Alex Lowe SUN Ray ..... Richard Lumsden SUN Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck SUN Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti SUN Libby ..... Sarah Kendall SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 08:00 Beyond Our Ken b00vy80f (Listen) SUN From 27/05/1960 SUN Kenneth Horne's busy week, and check out the latest film SUN releases in Picture Go Round. With Kenneth Williams. From SUN May 1960. SUN SUN 08:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b008qq3w (Listen) SUN From 24/05/1950 SUN Elocution lessons are on offer with Brains Amalgamated's new SUN machine. Stars Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch. From May SUN 1950. SUN SUN 09:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrzy (Listen) SUN An Awfully Big Adventure SUN Captain Hook turns the tables, as the battle between the SUN Lost Boys and the pirates begins. Stars Toyah Willcox and SUN Ron Moody. SUN SUN 09:30 E Nesbit - The Railway Children b00qy473 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN An avalanche poses a problem on the line, and even a fishing SUN trip takes a dramatic turn. Stars Paul Copley and Victoria SUN Carling. SUN SUN 10:00 The Reunion b009s0yw (Listen) SUN The National Lottery SUN Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group of SUN people intimately involved in a moment of modern history. SUN She explores tales of pressure and accusations of underhand SUN dealings as she gathers together five key players in the SUN foundation of the UK National Lottery. SUN SUN 10:45 Love Stories b010tbkk (Listen) SUN Fish and Chips SUN By Freya North. An inheritance by the sea broadens a young SUN woman's horizons. Stories from bestselling romantic SUN novelists. Read by Melody Grove. SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN 11:00 This American Life b047byjk (Listen) SUN Testosterone SUN Some people get more testosterone and regret it. Some lose SUN it and appreciate life without it. US public radio show from SUN 2002. 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 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street Omnibus SUN b00fvpdw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Redesigning the Human Body b00pn48p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Agatha Christie b007jwwc (Listen) SUN The Pale Horse SUN Historian Mark Easterbrook is drawn into a series of strange SUN deaths linked to the occult. Stars Jeremy Clyde and SUN Stephanie Cole. SUN SUN 15:00 Beyond Our Ken b00vy80f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b008qq3w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b047bzjv (Listen) SUN Mel Giedroyc introduces highlights from the past week on the SUN 4 O'Clock Show, including the early musical memories of Sir SUN Paul McCartney and a celebration of the famous Beetle car. SUN SUN 17:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrzy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 E Nesbit - The Railway Children b00qy473 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Dangerous Visions b02y0wpp (Listen) SUN Concrete Island SUN By J.G. Ballard SUN Adapted by Graham White SUN Driving home one Friday rush hour, a cocky young architect SUN crashes down a motorway embankment. At first he seems bound SUN to be rescued, but as he fails to make the passing commuters SUN notice him, he finds himself trapped on a strange, neglected SUN island between the highways. Can this modern day Crusoe SUN survive in a strange new world? SUN Directed by Mary Peate SUN Radio 4's Dangerous Visions Season: SUN The adjective Ballardian refers to the writer 'JG Ballard's SUN fearful imaginings of what the near future might be like. SUN Even though the master creator of dystopian futures died SUN four years ago, his vision of what our future might become SUN feels as relevant, satirical and as scary as ever. Radio 4's SUN Dangerous Visions is a season of dramas that explore SUN contemporary takes on future dystopias. Dramatisations of SUN Ballard's seminal works, Drowned World and Concrete Island, SUN straddle the season, and we have asked five leading radio SUN writers - Nick Perry, Ed Harris, Michael Symmonds Roberts, SUN Michael Butt and Philip Palmer - to imagine what life might SUN be like in the near future if everything goes wrong - and SUN their Dangerous Visions form the bedrock of the series: SUN clever, imaginative and disturbing takes on just what might SUN happen. What happens if sleep is outlawed? If cloning SUN becomes a matter of course, and your loved ones are capable SUN of being cloned? If North London declares UDI on South SUN London, which has become a wasteland? If human sacrifice SUN becomes a part of society? We are also running a 5 part SUN dramatisation of Jane Roger's award winning terrifying novel SUN The Testament of Jessie Lamb, dramatised by the author SUN Dangerous Visions - you will be disturbed as you see the SUN present reflected in the glass SUN of an uneasy future. SUN Dangerous Visions SUN Credits SUN Writer: J.G. Ballard SUN Adaptor: Graham White SUN Maitland: Andrew Scott SUN Jane: Georgia Groome SUN Proctor: Ben Crowe SUN Catherine: Joanna Brookes SUN Helen: Philippa Stanton SUN David: Matthew Watson SUN Director: Mary Peate SUN Producer: Mary Peate SUN SUN 19:00 This American Life b047byjk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Beyond Our Ken b00vy80f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b008qq3w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 The Reunion b009s0yw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Love Stories b010tbkk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b00snrjy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Beautiful Dreamers b00w7byd (Listen) SUN The Stardiver SUN Nat travels to Tuscany to meet the Uzbek dissident and SUN billionaire Mikhail Azazev, as he prepares freefall from SUN beyond the Karman Line - an altitude of over 100 kilometres. SUN Featuring contributions from Simon McBurney and Kevin Eldon. SUN Writers ..... James Lever and Nat Segnit. SUN Producers ..... Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN 23:00 Jon Ronson On b0076x13 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Waiting SUN Journalist and broadcaster Jon Ronson asks why should we SUN wait for the things we want? With Alain De Botton. From SUN February 2006. SUN SUN 23:30 We Are Klang: Amazing Lives b007k3p8 (Listen) SUN Explorer SUN Presumed dead after a 20-year trek, two explorers reveal SUN their findings. Stars Greg Davies and Steve Hall. From April SUN 2007. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 JUNE 2014 MON MON 00:00 Dangerous Visions b02y0wpp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Reunion b009s0yw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Love Stories b010tbkk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Beyond Our Ken b00vy80f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b008qq3w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Clare in the Community b00snrjy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Agatha Christie b007jwwc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrzy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 E Nesbit - The Railway Children b00qy473 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p4y6p (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Being hypnotised by his brother-in-law at a dinner party MON awakens strange abilities in Tom Wallace. Read by Trevor MON White. MON MON 06:30 No One Left and No One Came b00762s5 (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Anne Harvey explores how Edward Thomas's poem MON 'Adlestrop' came to be written, and the fascination of a MON short poem in which nothing happens. From June 2001. MON MON 07:00 Fat Chance b01bn4qm (Listen) MON Secrets and Lies MON Will Graham be the next Blue Peter presenter, and why did MON Tina's husband leave her? Slimline sitcom about fighting the MON flab stars Michael Troughton. From March 1999. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b046kr4b (Listen) MON Series 69, Episode 5 MON How hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without MON hesitation, repetition and deviation? Very! As Paul Sinha, MON Patrick Kielty, Shappi Khorsandi, and Gyles Brandreth find MON out. Nicholas Parsons keeps the score and the peace. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Sinha MON Panellist: Patrick Kielty MON Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 08:00 Listen to Les b01nlzcy (Listen) MON From 17/03/1985 MON Lugubrious Les Dawson with a tale of when the worm turned, MON and Cosmo discusses modern art. With Eli Woods. From March MON 1985. MON MON 08:30 The Navy Lark b007jnz5 (Listen) MON The Case of the HGM Mark 5 MON Senior Troutbridge officers fear the worst when they are MON summoned to the Admiralty. Stars Stephen Murray. From MON January 1976. MON MON 09:00 North by Northamptonshire b00ss2cq (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 2 MON Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie MON Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. MON This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small MON town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a MON talent night. It is written by and also stars Katherine MON Jakeways. MON Rehearsals for the town talent night are well underway, with MON some of the worst acts ever seen on stage. MON Recently divorced Jan has a surprise visit from neighbour MON and ex-teacher Mary and finds they have more than an untidy MON hedge in common. MON Jan's ex, Frank, thinks his new love Angela may be eating MON too many peanuts. MON Esther knocks Jan to the floor in her self-defence class but MON wait - could this be Jonathan coming to Jan's rescue? MON And meanwhile supermarket manager Rod (Mackenzie Crook) gets MON trapped in an upturned shopping trolley. MON Written by Katherine Jakeways MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON Credits MON Writer: Katherine Jakeways MON Narrator: Sheila Hancock MON Rod: Mackenzie Crook MON Mary: Penelope Wilton MON Jan: Felicity Montagu MON Jonathan: Kevin Eldon MON Esther: Katherine Jakeways MON Keith: John Biggins MON Frank: Rufus Wright MON Angela: Lizzie Roper MON Producer: Claire Jones MON MON 09:30 Sketchorama b047c7x4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON First on 4 Extra. Comedian Thom Tuck presents three groups MON making their mark on the UK sketch comedy scene featuring MON character, broken and musical sketch comedy. MON Credits MON Presenter: Thom Tuck MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON MON 10:00 Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie b007jmq4 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Evocative tale of a West Country childhood. The Lee family MON arrive in their new home. Recorded on location. Stars Tim MON McInnerny. MON MON 11:00 Just So Stories b047c8nt (Listen) MON How the Camel Got His Hump MON Made for 4 Extra. A grumpy camel gets the hump for his MON laziness in Kipling's fantastical tale, read by Samuel West. MON MON 11:05 Inheritance Tracks b010m3ql (Listen) MON Jilly Cooper MON The writer inherits Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and passes MON on 'Something Good' from The Sound of Music. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b046j2jk (Listen) MON Lenny Henry, Lindsey Coulson, John Gordon Sinclair, Leonie MON Orton, Emma Freud, Klaxons, ESKA MON Lenny Henry talks to Clive about taking on the role of MON Groucho Marx in a musical fantasy, woven round the real-life MON 1964 dinner party encounter between the English poet, TS MON Eliot, and the legendary Groucho, speculating on the men's MON seemingly unlikely passion for the other's work. MON Lindsey Coulson is best known for her long-running role as MON Carol Jackson in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. Her MON character has been through many harrowing life events in 21 MON years - but none quiet as dramatic as Carol's recent MON discovery that she has multi-focal breast cancer. Lindsey MON speaks candidly about the cancer storyline for which she was MON recently nominated for Best Actress in the British Soap MON Awards. MON Joe Orton was one of the most original and important MON playwrights of the post-war period with his scandalous black MON comedies. Emma Freud talks to Leonie Orton, Joe's younger MON sister, about her memories of her brother, his writing, and MON the celebrations and events taking place in Leicester to MON mark the 50th Anniversary of his first play 'Entertaining Mr MON Sloane'. MON A starring role in the iconic 1980s movie Gregory's Girl set MON John Gordon Sinclair on course for a successful acting MON career, winning Best Actor in the musical 'She Loves Me', MON starring alongside Brad Pitt in the film 'World War Z', and MON soon to be Jeeves in 'Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect MON Nonsense' at the Duke of York. But he is a man of many parts MON as he explains to Clive, with the recent release of 'Blood MON Whispers', a sequel to his highly acclaimed debut crime MON fiction novel, 'Seventy Times Seven'. MON With music from ESKA who performs 'She's In The Flowers' MON from her album 'Gatekeeper' and Klaxons perform 'There Is No MON Other Time' from their new album 'Love Frequency'. MON Producer Sukey Firth. MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from Lenny Henry, Lindsey Coulson, John Gordon MON Sinclair, Leonie Orton, Emma Freud, Klaxons, ESKA (2) MON Lenny Henry MON ‘Between The Ears: Dear Mr Eliot: When Groucho Met Tom’ is MON on Saturday 14th June at 21.30 on BBC Radio 3. MON ESKA MON ‘Gatekeeper’ EP is available now on Earthling. MON ESKA’s performing at Meltdown Festival at London’s Southbank MON on Sunday 15th June. MON Lindsey Coulson MON ‘Eastenders’ is on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 19.00 MON and Fridays at 20.00 on BBC One. MON Leonie Orton MON Leonie has just completed writing her memoir, I Had It In MON Me. The 50th anniversary edition of ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’ MON by Joe Orton is published by Bloomsbury and available now. MON And Leicester University will be holding a Celebration of MON the 50th Anniversary of 'Entertaining Mr Sloane' - which MON will be a free event - on the 29th June. MON Klaxons MON ‘Love Frequency’ is available on Monday 16th June on RED UK. MON Klaxons are playing at Reading & Leeds Festival on Friday MON 22nd August and Jersey Live on Sunday 31st August. MON John Gordon Sinclair MON ‘Blood Whispers’ is published by Faber & Faber and available MON now. MON John will be starring in ‘Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect MON Nonsense’ at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London, from 30th MON June until 20th September, then touring the UK until MON December. MON MON 12:00 Listen to Les b01nlzcy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Navy Lark b007jnz5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p4y6p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 No One Left and No One Came b00762s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00b128n (Listen) MON Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture, Episode 1 MON The Secret Scripture MON By Sebastian Barry, abridged by Neville Teller. MON 1/10. Nearing her 100th birthday, Roseanne McNulty faces an MON uncertain future at the soon to be closed Roscommon Regional MON Mental Hospital. Her only solace is her psychiatrist Dr MON Grene, with whom she has an intense and increasingly MON complicated relationship. MON Read by Doreen Keogh and Alex Jennings. MON MON 14:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zlcpw (Listen) MON Cinema MON Historian Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's MON love affair with the movies. Churchill was a film fanatic MON and sought an active role in the movie business. He became MON friends with Charlie Chaplin and collaborated as a MON screenwriter in the 1930s with the great Hungarian-born MON director Alexander Korda. MON A scene set in the trenches of World War One from MON Churchill's screenplay - never made into a film - is MON dramatised here for the first time. David Cannadine also MON explores Churchill's growing awareness of the propaganda MON power of the moving image. MON With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. MON Written and Presented by Professor Sir David Cannadine MON Producer: Melissa FitzGerald MON A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b01yk (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON September 1915. Connie Hammond makes a dramatic return and MON Muriel gets worrying news. Stars Claire Goose and Brigit MON Forsyth. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00pls5b (Listen) MON Willie Daly - The Last Matchmaker, Episode 1 MON Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish MON matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, MON this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland MON and its recent past. MON Abridged by David Jackson Young. MON MON 15:00 Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie b007jmq4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b047cb0h (Listen) MON Mel Giedroyc has the first story from Chris Milne's 'Naughty MON Stories for Good Boys and Girls', plus the last in the MON series A Guide to Garden Wildlife, and we're off to MON Wimbledon. MON MON 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b009prt3 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 5 MON Duo Tommy and Sheila's comeback faces jeopardy from his MON dodgy past. Stars Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. From August MON 1998. MON MON 17:30 Fat Chance b01bn4qm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 North by Northamptonshire b00ss2cq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b047cd1r (Listen) MON Ann Widdecombe and Helen Wilkinson MON Tom Sutcliffe, Ann Widdecombe and Helen Wilkinson compare MON books by Richard Dawkins, Brian Moore and Antonia Fraser. MON From 1997. MON The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins MON Publisher: Oxford University Press MON The Gunpowder Plot by Antonia Fraser MON Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson MON Lies of Silence by Brian Moore MON Publisher: Vintage. MON MON 19:00 Listen to Les b01nlzcy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Navy Lark b007jnz5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p4y6p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 No One Left and No One Came b00762s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Just So Stories b047c8nt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:05 Inheritance Tracks b010m3ql (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:05 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b046j2jk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b046kr4b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Sketchorama b047c7x4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b047cds5 (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 3 MON Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi MON Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest MON panellists including Susan Calman, Romesh Ranganathan and MON Holly Walsh. MON MON 23:45 Foley and McColl: The Interview b0076d23 (Listen) MON Cool As You Like MON After a rift in the partnership, Sean moves to the MON Antarctic. Ten years later, Hamish decides to go and find MON him. With Sean Foley, Hamish McColl, Michael Parkinson. From MON March 2003. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 JUNE 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00b128n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zlcpw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b01yk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b00pls5b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 North by Northamptonshire b00ss2cq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b047cd1r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p4y6p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 No One Left and No One Came b00762s5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie b007jmq4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Just So Stories b047c8nt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:05 Inheritance Tracks b010m3ql (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:05 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b046j2jk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b009prt3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Fat Chance b01bn4qm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p5x2f (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE On an evening out, Tom faces a vision of a woman. Is he TUE hallucinating, dreaming or seeing ghosts? Read by Trevor TUE White. TUE TUE 06:30 Laurie Lee - Long Sleep b047ct5p (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. The Cider With Rosie author's views on TUE mortality, with extracts from his 1997 Thanksgiving Service. TUE Features John Mortimer. TUE TUE 07:00 Snap b012s2gf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE Divorced Doug and Molly come to blows over his mum Annie, TUE who seems to be going senile. Stars Robin Weaver. From TUE August 2005. TUE TUE 07:30 Dilemma b01m0f2n (Listen) TUE Edinburgh 2012 TUE Sue Perkins presents a special edition of the panel show TUE that puts moral and ethical dilemmas to a panel of guests TUE until they admit that they'd behave appallingly, recorded at TUE the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Guests include Marcus TUE Brigstocke and Bridget Christie, and subjects include TUE disabled parking spaces, adverts, and life imprisonment. TUE This is a show where there are no 'right' answers - but TUE there are, however, some deeply damning ones. TUE Dilemma was devised by Danielle Ward. TUE Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 08:00 The Goon Show b00b5pg1 (Listen) TUE The Mysterious Punch-up-the Conker TUE The Mysterious Punch-up-the Conker: From Feb 1957. Spike TUE Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe star in a TUE thrilling pursuit of a mysterious nose assailant! TUE TUE 08:30 The Al Read Show b00cq63d (Listen) TUE From 07/10/1995 TUE Telling all on courting, marriage, kids and football. A TUE compilation of the northern comic's 1950s monologues. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b047cds5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Foley and McColl: The Interview b0076d23 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie b007jmqh (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Young Loll's first taste of the world. 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TUE TUE 12:00 The Goon Show b00b5pg1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Al Read Show b00cq63d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p5x2f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Laurie Lee - Long Sleep b047ct5p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00b123t (Listen) TUE Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture, Episode 2 TUE The Secret Scripture TUE By Sebastian Barry, abridged by Neville Teller. TUE 2/10. Roseanne has been a patient in Roscommon Mental TUE Hospital for many years. Dr Grene has begun investigating TUE whether any of his patients were originally incarcerated for TUE social, rather than medical, reasons. TUE Read by Doreen Keogh and Alex Jennings. TUE TUE 14:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zlk0h (Listen) TUE Money TUE Churchill's finances were never comfortable. Despite being TUE born in a palace, he had to work as a writer to fund his TUE lavish lifestyle, and lack of money was a constant source of TUE anxiety. TUE He spent more than he earned for most of his life, gambled TUE in Monte Carlo casinos and was prevented from selling TUE Chartwell by the generous intervention of supporters. In TUE this programme, historian Sir David Cannadine explores TUE Churchill's vexed relationship with money. TUE With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. TUE Written and Presented by Professor Sir David Cannadine TUE Producer: Melissa FitzGerald TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b0fxj (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Muriel tries to help her pregnant sister Connie unravel her TUE complicated love life. Stars Claire Goose and Joanne TUE Froggatt. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00pmbws (Listen) TUE Willie Daly - The Last Matchmaker, Episode 2 TUE Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish TUE matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, TUE this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland TUE and its recent past. TUE Willie is inducted into the family business by his TUE grandfather. TUE Abridged by David Jackson Young. TUE TUE 15:00 Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie b007jmqh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b047lfmd (Listen) TUE In today's show Mel finds out how to dig like an TUE archaeologist, and she wishes Scottish singer-songwriter KT TUE Tunstall a very Happy Birthday in her birthday week. TUE TUE 17:00 Up the Garden Path b0084qnz (Listen) TUE Series 2, You Shall Go to the Ball TUE Izzy gets invited to a ball in Cambridge, but she could do TUE with a fairy godmother. Stars Imelda Staunton. From November TUE 1998. TUE TUE 17:30 Snap b012s2gf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Act Your Age b00ftb87 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE Simon Mayo discovers which generation is the funniest. With TUE Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker. From December TUE 2008. TUE TUE 18:30 Musical Genes b00dyknm (Listen) TUE Series 1, Phil Cunningham TUE Phil Cunningham: In search of the true story, Tom Morton TUE meets the brother of the late Scottish folk music legend TUE John Cunningham. From October 2008. TUE TUE 19:00 The Goon Show b00b5pg1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Al Read Show b00cq63d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p5x2f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Laurie Lee - Long Sleep b047ct5p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Just So Stories b047ldl9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:20 Inheritance Tracks b010gbwd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:20 today] TUE TUE 21:30 Agatha Christie b00jzckt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Dilemma b01m0f2n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Concrete Cow b0076jns (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Temping at Nasa and planning permission for the Death Star. TUE Sketch show with Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. From August TUE 2002. TUE TUE 23:00 Bleak Expectations b00nkv3r (Listen) TUE Series 3, A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified TUE Young Pip is betrayed, and receives a spectral visitor. Mark TUE Evans's Dickensian spoof. Stars Tom Allen. From November TUE 2009. TUE TUE 23:30 Son of Cliché b00p4mcr (Listen) TUE Freddie Fortune TUE From a spoof Melvyn Bragg to a signing chimp. Sketch comedy TUE with Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton. From TUE November 1984. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 JUNE 2014 WED WED 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00b123t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zlk0h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b0fxj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b00pmbws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Act Your Age b00ftb87 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Musical Genes b00dyknm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p5x2f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Laurie Lee - Long Sleep b047ct5p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Laurie Lee - Cider With Rosie b007jmqh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Just So Stories b047ldl9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:20 Inheritance Tracks b010gbwd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:20 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Agatha Christie b00jzckt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Up the Garden Path b0084qnz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Snap b012s2gf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p6125 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Who is the strange woman that Tom Wallace sees in his living WED room? Why can he sense other people's emotions? Read by WED Trevor White. WED WED 06:30 The Art of Travel - Laurie Lee b047lhwg (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. 'I haven't suffered shock from the obvious'. WED Laurie Lee reveals his first taste of life beyond Slad to WED Annette Kobak. From January 1997. WED WED 07:00 An Actor's Life for Me b008j0ln (Listen) WED Series 2, Puppets WED Robert discovers the pitfalls of working with hypnotists and WED ventriloquists. Stars John Gordon Sinclair. From March 1990. WED WED 07:30 Start/Stop b03bg4vk (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED by Jack Docherty WED A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the WED sunset. And sinking. This week a Barbecue proves painful for WED everyone. WED Jack Docherty WED Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. WED He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe WED with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to WED write for radio and television including: Spitting Image, WED Alas Smith and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, WED The Lenny Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News WED Huddlines and a ton of other things. WED He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows WED including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks WED Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and WED Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies WED Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has WED appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got WED News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented WED his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on WED Channel 5. WED Credits WED Barney: Jack Docherty WED Cathy: Kerry Godliman WED Fiona: Fiona Allen WED David: Charlie Higson WED Evan: John Thomson WED Alice: Katherine Parkinson WED Producer: Steven Canny WED Writer: Jack Docherty WED WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b009rnlw (Listen) WED Series 6, The Fete WED The lad rashly agrees to tempt Sir Laurence Olivier to open WED the East Cheam Garden Fete. Stars Tony Hancock. From WED December 1959. WED WED 08:30 Albert and Me b007jzdc (Listen) WED Series 2, Minder WED Bryan is offered a job at last, but where will he find a WED babysitter? Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. WED Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to WED find work and raise his baby son. In the original 1977 WED series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who WED tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series WED returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played once WED again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1983. WED WED 09:00 All the Young Dudes b01c7rsl (Listen) WED Series 2, Communication Breakdown WED The couples need to talk, but is a cosy chat really what's WED on the agenda? With Jim Sweeney and Stephen Frost. From WED October 2002. WED WED 09:30 King of Bath b047ljr2 (Listen) WED Ars Brevis WED Beau Nash tries to hides his Welsh origins to get royal WED approval for his cordial. Starring David Bamber. From March WED 1999. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b019rgnv (Listen) WED James Fenimore Cooper - The Spy, Episode 1 WED By James Fenimore Cooper, dramatised by DJ Britton. WED Episode One WED New York State, 1778. Henry Wharton, a young soldier for the WED British in the American War of Independence, creeps into WED no-man's land to spend an evening with his family. But the WED happy reunion is cut short when American troops surround the WED house. Can the mysterious peddler Harvey Birch provide Henry WED with a means of escape? WED Cast: WED Harvey Birch . . . . . Burn Gorman WED Frances . . . . . Rose Leslie WED Henry . . . . . Alex Waldmann WED Mr Wharton . . . . . James Lailey WED Sarah . . . . . Francine Chamberlain WED Mr Harper . . . . . Timothy Watson WED Caesar . . . . . Richard Pepple WED Peyton Dunwoodie . . . . . Simon Bubb WED Captain Lawton . . . . . Gerard McDermott WED Colonel Wellmere . . . . . Adam Billington WED Isabella Singleton . . . . . Victoria Inez Hardy WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED Team: WED Studio managers: Anne Bunting, Jenni Burnett, Alison Craig. WED Editor: Anne Bunting WED Production Co-ordinator: Beverly Tagg WED Published in 1821, The Spy was the first commercially WED successful American work of popular fiction. On top of that, WED it is also generally regarded as the world's first espionage WED novel. Until Fenimore Cooper, spies in fiction had been WED villains, the lowest of the low. But in creating Harvey WED Birch (played here by Burn Gorman), a double agent during WED the American War of Independence, Cooper began the tradition WED of spy-as-hero, leading to the great genre novels of the WED late 19th and 20th centuries. WED Set in Westchester County, New York State, in 1778, we meet WED Harvey Birch, a mysterious pedlar, when he turns up WED unexpectedly at The Locusts, a house in no-man's-land WED between British and American forces, owned by the wealthy WED Wharton family. The Whartons are a family of divided WED loyalties: one of the daughters, Frances, is engaged to an WED American officer. The other, Sarah, is a romantic royalist. WED Birch who, with his father, lives in a small house nearby WED is, it is rumoured, a double agent and both sides have put a WED price on his head. His house has been attacked by British WED forces, and Birch has been forced to take to the dangerous WED road... WED Travelling on foot with his salesman's pack on his back, WED Birch appears to steer clear of political or military WED allegiances, trading with both sides. Yet whenever the WED honour and the safety of decent people is in danger, Birch WED is at hand. He suffers appalling indignities, is robbed, WED burnt out of his home by the terrifying Skinners - American WED outlaws posing as Patriot irregulars - and is sentenced to WED death by the American forces. He never uses his privileged WED position to save his own skin, for, only at the very end of WED the story is it revealed, that he has a personal commission WED - from George Washington himself. WED WED 11:00 Just So Stories b047lk7w (Listen) WED The Sing Song of Old Man Kangaroo WED Made for 4 Extra. Samuel West reads Kipling's fantastical WED tale of the kangaroo who was chased all over Australia by a WED dingo and found his hop. WED WED 11:05 Inheritance Tracks b010t4pk (Listen) WED Peter Hook WED The musician inherits 'Strangers in the Night' sung by Frank WED Sinatra and passes on Candi Staton's 'You Got the Love'. WED WED 11:15 MR James Stories b01pg64z (Listen) WED Inspired by a fragment of his writing, Sheila Hodgson WED provides MR James with a ghostly encounter at Christmas. WED With David March. WED WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b009rnlw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 Albert and Me b007jzdc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p6125 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Art of Travel - Laurie Lee b047lhwg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00b1242 (Listen) WED Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture, Episode 3 WED The Secret Scripture WED By Sebastian Barry, abridged by Neville Teller. WED 3/10. Roseanne, an elderly patient in a mental hospital, is WED writing her life story. Her psychiatrist is astounded at WED what she recounts. WED Read by Doreen Keogh and Alex Jennings. WED WED 14:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zllkb (Listen) WED Painting WED Despite not taking up painting until he was forty, Winston WED Churchill produced more than 500 canvasses in his lifetime, WED became an honorary member of the Royal Academy. And his show WED there in 1959 outsold every previous exhibition except one WED dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. So why was painting such an WED important part of Churchill's life? In this programme, WED historian Sir David Cannadine, explores the hobby that meant WED most to Churchill. WED With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b0gyt (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED As the war comes to an end, Muriel hears news of Delia and WED comes to a decision. Stars Claire Goose and Deborah WED McAndrew. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw4 (Listen) WED Willie Daly - The Last Matchmaker, Episode 3 WED Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish WED matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, WED this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland WED and its recent past. WED How the cultural and social changes of the 1960s began to WED impact on life in rural Ireland. WED Abridged by David Jackson Young. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b019rgnv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b047lqx6 (Listen) WED Mel is back in Wimbledon today but gets sidetracked by the WED Wombles. Plus two of Jimmy Osmond's favourite tracks, and WED why did elephants help with ploughing during World War One? WED WED 17:00 The Code of the Woosters b007wnzd (Listen) WED The Small Leather-Covered Notebook WED Gussie Fink-Nottle causes botheration for Bertie Wooster. PG WED Wodehouse adventure with Michael Hordern and Richard Briers. WED WED 17:30 An Actor's Life for Me b008j0ln (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 All the Young Dudes b01c7rsl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b007670t (Listen) WED Seven Deadly Sins WED Playwright Amy Rosenthal and sociologist Frank Furedi join WED Chris Bigsby to discuss Pride, Lust and the other vices. WED In each programme, Professor Bigsby introduces a duo of WED writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established WED names. In the context of a discussion of one of the ideas WED and pre-occupations of our times, each presents a piece on WED this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2002. WED WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b009rnlw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Albert and Me b007jzdc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p6125 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Art of Travel - Laurie Lee b047lhwg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Just So Stories b047lk7w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:05 Inheritance Tracks b010t4pk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:05 today] WED WED 21:15 MR James Stories b01pg64z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Start/Stop b03bg4vk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 A Look Back at the Future b01rlngt (Listen) WED 2005 WED Recorded in June 1994, Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and John WED O'Farrell look forward to the Year of the Telepathone. WED WED 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00cbpy7 (Listen) WED Series 5, The Crusade WED Satan starts a quest to improve mankind by infiltrating the WED world's great religions. Devilish comedy stars Andy WED Hamilton. From September 2005. WED WED 23:30 The Secret World b0125n5t (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED From Al Pacino to Keith Harris and Orville, Jon Culshaw and WED friends probe the private lives of the famous. From July WED 2010. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 JUNE 2014 THU THU 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00b1242 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zllkb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b0gyt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 All the Young Dudes b01c7rsl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b007670t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p6125 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 The Art of Travel - Laurie Lee b047lhwg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b019rgnv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Just So Stories b047lk7w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:05 Inheritance Tracks b010t4pk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:05 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 MR James Stories b01pg64z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Code of the Woosters b007wnzd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 An Actor's Life for Me b008j0ln (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p684p (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Tom Wallace feels sure the woman he sees once lived in the THU house, but what does she want? Read by Trevor White. THU THU 06:30 Literary Walks - Laurie Lee b047lrjd (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. A premature wake? Laurie Lee takes THU Christopher Somerville on a tour of the village of Slad, THU where he grew up. From September 1985. THU THU 07:00 Ayres on the Air b01b30dr (Listen) THU Series 2, Animals THU Parrots, limpets and highland cattle are in Pam Ayres's THU poetic zoo. Stanzas and sketches with Felicity Montagu. From THU March 2006. THU THU 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01fhys6 (Listen) THU Series 8, Original British Drama THU Ed reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, THU complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his THU never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever THU scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and THU cat together. THU This week, following one of his numerous, pithy, letters of THU complaint to the BBC, Ed finds himself doing some research THU for his son, Jake, the only family member left representing THU the name of Reardon working in the media. The unexpected THU consequence of this is that Ed finds himself working in THU harmony with the 12 year- olds both on screen and in the THU coffee stations and tea points of power, to produce a piece THU of genuinely water-cooler factutainment. THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Radio DJ: Simon Greenall THU Policeman: Martin Hyder THU Pearl: Rita May THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Jake: Sam Pamphillon THU Pool Manager: Nicola Sanderson THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 08:00 Dad's Army b007jr7l (Listen) THU Series 3, Time on My Hands THU The platoon battle to rescue a German pilot stranded on the THU Town Hall clock. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From July THU 1976. THU THU 08:30 Take It From Here b0170720 (Listen) THU From 12/05/1955 THU Can Eth get all she wants on her wedding present list? THU Starring Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. THU From May 1955. THU THU 09:00 Dead Ringers b00j5hpx (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU More celeb sound-alikes, as the Turner Prize interests THU Harold and Albert Steptoe. With Jon Culshaw. From December THU 2000. THU THU 09:30 Bristow b00ct8w3 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Great Escape THU The Chester-Perry buying clerk plots his summer holiday. THU Stars Michael Williams, Rodney Bewes and Dora Bryan. From THU May 1999. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b01b8yyb (Listen) THU James Fenimore Cooper - The Spy, Episode 2 THU By James Fenimore Cooper, dramatised by DJ Britton. THU Episode Two THU New York State, 1778. Henry Wharton, a young soldier for the THU British, has been captured by American forces while wearing THU a disguise in no-man's land. He must stand trial as a spy, THU and if found guilty, he will hang. Can General Washington be THU found in time to issue a pardon? THU Cast: THU Harvey Birch . . . . . Burn Gorman THU Frances . . . . . Rose Leslie THU Henry . . . . . Alex Waldmann THU Mr Wharton . . . . . James Lailey THU Sarah . . . . . Francine Chamberlain THU Mr Harper . . . . . Timothy Watson THU Caesar . . . . . Richard Pepple THU Peyton Dunwoodie . . . . . Simon Bubb THU Captain Lawton . . . . . Gerard McDermott THU Skinner . . . . . Adam Billington THU Isabella Singleton . . . . . Victoria Inez Hardy THU Colonel Martin . . . . . Paul Moriarty THU Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. THU THU 11:00 Just So Stories b047lrz1 (Listen) THU The Butterfly That Stamped THU Made for 4 Extra. Samuel West tells the tale of THU Suleiman-bin-Daoud, who used his wisdom and cunning to help THU a lowly butterfly settle an argument. THU THU 11:20 Inheritance Tracks b010gj9c (Listen) THU Andrea Levy THU The author inherits 'Magic Moments' by Perry Como and passes THU on 'London Is the Place for Me' by Lord Kitchener. THU THU 12:00 Dad's Army b007jr7l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Take It From Here b0170720 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p684p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Literary Walks - Laurie Lee b047lrjd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00b124b (Listen) THU Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture, Episode 4 THU The Secret Scripture THU By Sebastian Barry, abridged by Neville Teller. THU 4/10. Roseanne, a long-time patient in a mental hospital, is THU writing her traumatic yet colourful life story. Dr Grene, THU the senior psychiatrist at the hospital, is keeping his own THU record. THU Read by Doreen Keogh and Alex Jennings. THU THU 14:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zllm4 (Listen) THU Horses THU Winston Churchill took part in Britain's last imperial THU cavalry charge at Omdurman, had a passion for polo, hunting, THU and racing, which brought him into friendly competition with THU the Queen later in his life. THU In this programme, historian Sir David Cannadine explores THU Churchill's sentimental connection to the horse as a symbol THU of the fast disappearing, aristocratic world he so strongly THU believed in. THU With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. THU Producer: Melissa FitzGerald THU A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b0jqd (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Muriel arrives in London to help Delia with her reformist THU work, and Godfrey pays a visit. Stars Claire Goose and James THU D'Arcy. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw6 (Listen) THU Willie Daly - The Last Matchmaker, Episode 4 THU Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish THU matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, THU this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland THU and its recent past. THU Coming from a line of traditional Irish matchmakers, THU Willie's father made his last match a month before he died - THU finding a wife for his son. THU Abridged by David Jackson Young. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b01b8yyb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b047lsx8 (Listen) THU Mel Giedroyc finds out how to make fake bananas from British THU cookery doyenne Marguerite Patten, and author Lucy Hawking THU chooses two of her favourite books for younger readers. THU THU 17:00 No Commitments b007jmrd (Listen) THU Series 1, Cracks in the Varnish THU Caring and sharing can be hard work for Victoria. Stars THU Rosemary Leach, Celia Imrie and Nicola Pagett. From January THU 1992. THU THU 17:30 Ayres on the Air b01b30dr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Dead Ringers b00j5hpx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b00763nj (Listen) THU Clement Attlee THU 4 Extra Debut. Bookseller Tim Waterstone and biographer Ben THU Pimlott discuss former prime minister Clement Attlee. With THU Joan Bakewell. From August 2001. THU THU 19:00 Dad's Army b007jr7l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Take It From Here b0170720 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p684p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Literary Walks - Laurie Lee b047lrjd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Just So Stories b047lrz1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:20 Inheritance Tracks b010gj9c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:20 today] THU THU 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b01fhys6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Revolting People b00wr9v4 (Listen) THU Series 4, Reunion THU Samuel and company hit London, where McGurk has a family THU get-together. 1775 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From THU May 2006. THU THU 23:00 The Penny Dreadfuls Present b00gpbcv (Listen) THU More Brothers Faversham, Maximillian Faversham THU The story of Victorian Britain's greatest horror writer. The THU comedy trio's swashbuckling family romp. From October 2008. THU THU 23:30 Think the Unthinkable b01hznxh (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU The management consultants try to help an investment bank THU with some bad financing. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From July THU 2004. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 JUNE 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00b124b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zllm4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b0jqd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Dead Ringers b00j1c4h (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI More celeb sound-alikes, as Victor Meldrew phones 5 Live and FRI 'Panorama' with Graham Norton. With Jan Ravens. From FRI November 2000. FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b00763nj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p684p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Literary Walks - Laurie Lee b047lrjd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b01b8yyb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Just So Stories b047lrz1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:20 Inheritance Tracks b010gj9c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:20 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 No Commitments b007jmrd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Ayres on the Air b01b30dr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p689c (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI After his series of terrifying premonitions, Tom battles to FRI discover what Helen wants. Concluded by Trevor White. FRI FRI 06:30 The Unsettled Dust: The Strange Stories of Robert FRI Aickman b0184v2s (Listen) FRI Screenwriter Jeremy Dyson praises the supernatural stories FRI of British author and conservationist Robert Aickman and FRI argues they should receive greater recognition for their FRI contribution to literature. FRI Robert Aickman was the grandson of the prolific Victorian FRI novelist Richard Marsh whose occult thriller The Beetle FRI (1897) was in its time as popular as Bram Stoker's Dracula. FRI Aickman is best remembered today for co-founding the Inland FRI Waterways Association, but his Grandfather's work influenced FRI him to write around fifty so called "strange" stories FRI involving the supernatural and macabre over a thirty year FRI period starting in the late forties. FRI In recent years League of Gentlemen writer Dyson has adapted FRI Aickman's work into various forms of Drama including the BBC FRI Radio Four play 'Ringing the Changes'. FRI By speaking with fans of Aickman and introducing students to FRI his work for the first time, Dyson argues that Aickman's FRI literary gifts have been undervalued and during his lifetime FRI he should have received greater critical acclaim. FRI Contributions from horror writer Ramsey Campbell, FRI Broadcaster Stuart Maconie and televisions Mark Gatiss. FRI Written and presented by Jeremy Dyson. FRI With readings by Jayne Ashbourne the programme is produced FRI in Salford by Stephen Garner. FRI Robert Aickman FRI The strange stories of Aickman are praised by Screenwriter FRI Jeremy Dyson. FRI FRI 07:00 Chambers b007jz7m (Listen) FRI Series 3, It's Only Words FRI John Fuller-Carp gets embroiled in a bet with a rival FRI barrister, and Ruth joins a dating agency. Stars John Bird. FRI From March 1999. FRI FRI 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01hxpy6 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Junk Mail FRI Sony Award-winning comic Tom Wrigglesworth performs the last FRI in his series of open letters. This week, he takes issue FRI with his local curry house and their addiction to junk mail. FRI Tom also tracks the development of advertising and marketing FRI - a development trajectory which has now led us to the FRI rather ridiculous stage where we can be "Facebook friends" FRI with Jacob's Crackers. FRI Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp. FRI Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Tom Wrigglesworth FRI Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth FRI Writer: James Kettle FRI Writer: Miles Jupp FRI Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer FRI FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp1c (Listen) FRI Series 6, Porn Yesterday FRI Harold is aghast when he sees 'What the Butler Saw'. Adapted FRI from TV with Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From FRI March 1976. FRI FRI 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jxjk (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Club FRI The author has money worries, while his wife Diana bids to FRI join a ladies' club. Stars Ian Carmichael and Charlotte FRI Mitchell. From November 1977. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00k8fdv (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three FRI distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast FRI imaginary museum. FRI Tim FitzHigham, Simon Singh and Gavin Pretor-Pinney donate FRI Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely FRI rare cloud. FRI FRI 09:30 Trevor's World of Sport b00mdz9v (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI The sports agent with a conscience tries to cope with some FRI nightmare clients. Stars Neil Pearson. From December 2005. FRI FRI 10:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth b00tx095 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI A pretty orphan is apprenticed to a dressmaker. Attending a FRI ball, the elegant Bellingham becomes enchanted. Stars Rory FRI Kinnear. FRI FRI 11:00 Just So Stories b047lxgt (Listen) FRI The Elephant's Child FRI Made for 4 Extra. Curiosity can get you into a lot of FRI trouble, as one young elephant discovers in this fantastical FRI tale read by Samuel West. FRI FRI 11:15 MR James Stories b01pglt9 (Listen) FRI Turn, Turn, Turn FRI James tells a cautionary tale of witchcraft in Cambridge, to FRI help heal a rift between a vicar and his son. Stars David FRI March. FRI FRI 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp1c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jxjk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p689c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Unsettled Dust: The Strange Stories of Robert FRI Aickman b0184v2s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00b124l (Listen) FRI Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture, Episode 5 FRI The Secret Scripture FRI By Sebastian Barry, abridged by Neville Teller. FRI 5/10. Dr Grene has found a document claiming that Roseanne's FRI father was a member of the Royal Irish Constabulary and was FRI killed by the IRA. But this is totally at odds with her own FRI memories of her father and the way he died. FRI Read by Doreen Keogh and Alex Jennings. FRI FRI 14:15 Churchill's Other Lives b00zllpz (Listen) FRI Religion FRI Churchill once admitted he did not support the Church from FRI the inside like a 'pillar' but from the outside more like a FRI 'flying buttress'. His relationship with God blew hot and FRI cold and yet he had a sense of himself as a man gifted by FRI fate with a higher purpose, as he called it, a 'glow worm'. FRI In this programme, historian Sir David Cannadine explores FRI Churchill's faith and his powerful and driving sense of FRI destiny. FRI With Roger Allam as Winston Churchill. FRI Written and Presented by Professor Sir David Cannadine FRI Producer: Melissa FitzGerald FRI A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 Winifred Holtby - The Crowded Street b00b0qj8 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Muriel and Godfrey have an emotional encounter in FRI Marshington. Winifred Holtby dramatisation concludes with FRI Claire Goose. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00pmbw8 (Listen) FRI Willie Daly - The Last Matchmaker, Episode 5 FRI Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish FRI matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, FRI this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland FRI and its recent past. FRI A salutary tale warning against messing with the path of FRI true love. FRI Abridged by David Jackson Young. FRI FRI 15:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Ruth b00tx095 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b047ly46 (Listen) FRI Mel has the last in our week of Chris Milne's Naughty FRI Stories for Good Boys and Girls, and she finds out how to FRI train a dog to be a Hollywood star. FRI FRI 17:00 Ring Around the Bath b00nm9sj (Listen) FRI Series 1, Return of the Kidi FRI Middle-aged Stella battles to get her grown-up children to FRI leave home. Stars Duncan Preston and Penny Downie. From FRI August 2003. FRI FRI 17:30 Chambers b007jz7m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00k8fdv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 How Tickled Am I? b007jp3v (Listen) FRI Series 1, Sandy Powell FRI 'Can You Hear Me Mother?' Famed for his catchphrase and FRI comic ventriloquism, Mark Radcliffe remembers the Rotherham FRI comedian. FRI FRI 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp1c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jxjk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Richard Matheson - A Stir of Echoes b00p689c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Unsettled Dust: The Strange Stories of Robert FRI Aickman b0184v2s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Just So Stories b047lxgt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 MR James Stories b01pglt9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01hxpy6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Party b00rfhjq (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 FRI Satirical sitcom by Tom Basden about a group of young FRI idealists trying to set up a new political party. FRI The Party clarifies its policies on climate change, while FRI Duncan deals with the aftermath of under-cooked chicken FRI sausages from a BBQ. Before long, murder is committed and FRI the young idealists are placed in a compromising position. FRI Simon ...... Tom Basden FRI Mel ...... Anna Crilly FRI Duncan ...... Tim Key FRI Jared ...... Johnny Sweet FRI Phoebe ...... Katy Wix. FRI FRI 23:00 The Mary Whitehouse Experience b047lyck (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 7 FRI Cinderella is stuck watching Catchphrase. Stars Hugh Dennis, FRI Steve Punt, Robert Newman and David Baddiel. From December FRI 1990. FRI FRI 23:30 Weak at the Top b00tgch7 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Booty FRI Marketeer John Weak has got a chocolate bar crisis. How to FRI improve sales - fast? Stars Alexander Armstrong. From July FRI 2006. FRI
20 June, 2014
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 21/06/2014 - 27/06/2014
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