24 October, 2014

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 25/10/2014 - 31/10/2014

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SAT SATURDAY 25 OCTOBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rwx2f (Listen) SAT Naomi Alderman - The Lessons, Love Is Sacrifice SAT Rory Kinnear reads the Orange New Writer's Award Winner, SAT Naomi Alderman's, second novel, 'The Lessons', a story of SAT ambition, friendship, betrayal and desire. Today: Love is SAT Sacrifice. James tries to pay his SAT way, and ties himself to Mark still further, and Mark SAT reveals a darker and more dangerous side to his character. SAT Reader Rory Kinnear SAT Abridger Sally Marmion SAT Producer Di Speirs SAT The Lessons is the second novel from Naomi Alderman, winner SAT of the Orange New Writer's Award and Sunday Times Young SAT Writer of the Year. Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, SAT it follows the progress of a gilded group of under-graduates SAT drawn together by their dazzling and mercurial fellow SAT student Mark Winters. Fuelled by his trust-fund and resident SAT in his Georgian mansion, they live a charmed life of SAT learning and parties and love-affairs. But university is no SAT grounding for real life and none of the friends will be SAT prepared, some years later, when tragedy strikes. SAT The Lessons is a novel about friendship, ambition, betrayal SAT and desire, and the fact that only life can teach the SAT lessons you really need to learn. SAT Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her SAT first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as SAT the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She is a graduate SAT of Lincoln College, Oxford. SAT Rory Kinnear, fresh from playing Angelo at the Almeida and SAT about to play Hamlet at the National Theatre studied at SAT Balliol College, Oxford and reads his first Book at Bedtime. SAT SAT 00:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jrnzd (Listen) SAT The Clothes We're In - The State of Men's Fashion Now SAT With women's hemlines acting as a social and economic SAT barometer, Laurence asks what men's fashion says about the SAT state we're in. SAT SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00pbqv5 (Listen) SAT Mike Walker - Scumdog Millionaires, Episode 5 SAT Financial thriller by Mike Walker. SAT Tim's father appeals to stop the investigations into his SAT alleged unlimited derivatives, but it appears that Tim may SAT already know too much for his own safety. SAT Tim Ng ...... SAT David Tse Ka-Shing SAT Kathy ...... Michelle Tate SAT Father ...... Lobo Chan SAT Gerry ...... Nigel Hastings SAT Selma Giddings ...... Kate Leyden SAT York ...... Rhys Jennings SAT Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT 00:45 Book of the Week b00mffs3 (Listen) SAT William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies, SAT Episode 5 SAT Christian Rodska reads from John Carey's biography of the SAT prize-winning author. SAT In 1983, Golding is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. SAT SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute b012n3rz (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT Justin Moorhouse, Rob Deering, Chris Corcoran and Tom Allen SAT hit London in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From September SAT 2006. SAT SAT 01:30 Pioneers b014gh85 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Prof Sir Alfred Cuschieri SAT 4/6 SAT Clare English speaks to Professor Sir Alfred Cuschieri- one SAT of the world's pioneers of "keyhole" surgery and how this SAT technique revolutionised the medical profession. SAT He explains that Laparoscopic surgery, SAT sometimes called 'key-hole surgery' or 'minimally invasive SAT surgery, involves the surgeon inserting plastic tubes into SAT the abdomen through a small incision in the skin. Surgical SAT instruments and a camera are then passed through the tubes SAT to allow access to the abdomen and for images of the organs SAT inside to be transmitted onto a television monitor for the SAT surgeon to see. SAT SAT 02:00 Cadfael b007k28z (Listen) SAT Dead Man's Ransom, A Helping Hand SAT With a strong case against Ellis, will Brother Cadfael solve SAT the sheriff's murder? Stars Philip Madoc and Susannah York. SAT SAT 02:30 Thanks for the Memory b0076xqg (Listen) SAT Nicholas Parsons asks how and why aging impacts so heavily SAT on our minds and memories. He meets scientists at the SAT forefront of research to find out why our memories diminish SAT and speaks to others trying SAT desperately to stop theirs from fading away. Under expert SAT guidance, he exercises his mind and starts training to SAT improve his remembering techniques. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b00zd92b (Listen) SAT Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns, Episode 2 SAT Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and SAT rebellion set against the vitality and harshness of life in SAT the Staffordshire Potteries in the late nineteenth, SAT dramatised by Helen Edmundson. SAT Having SAT inherited a fortune on her twenty first birthday Anna SAT Tellwright begins to gain independence and freedom. But on SAT her return from an eventful holiday with the Suttons and SAT Henry Mynors her joy is marred by some shocking news about SAT one of her tenant's Titus Price. Anna's growing concern for SAT his son William leads her to a defiant act that threatens SAT everything. SAT Anna.....Charlotte Riley SAT Tellwright.....David Schofield SAT Young Agnes.....Emilia Harker SAT William Price.....Michael Socha SAT Henry Mynors.....Lee Williams SAT Beatrice/Older Agnes.....Rosina Carbone SAT Mrs Sutton.....Olwen May SAT Mr Sutton/Coroner.....Jonathan Keeble SAT Sarah Vodrey.....Jacqueline Redgwell SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari SAT Anna voyages to the Isle of Man with the Suttons where Henry SAT proposes to her. On returning home and receiving her SAT father's blessing, the joy of her engagement is immediately SAT marred by news that Titus Price has hanged himself. Anna SAT feels that she and her father are culpable, despite Henry's SAT insistence to the contrary. Anna sees Willie, who confesses SAT that he has been involved in forgery. Anna understands his SAT desperation and does everything in her power to protect him SAT and his father's reputation, risking her engagement and the SAT wrath of her father in so doing.. SAT SAT 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00n881t (Listen) SAT A Glimpse of Stocking, A Silly Gigolo SAT Series of stories celebrating 70 years of nylon stockings. SAT By Shena Mackay, read by Joanna Tope . SAT A shy schoolgirl feels the pull of the stage after a SAT humiliating encounter with a glamorous fellow pupil. SAT SAT 04:15 From the House at the Top of the World b007w3b8 (Listen) SAT Stolen SAT A German archaeologist is drawn into a race to steal SAT Buddhist treasures along the Silk Road. Stars Siobhan SAT Redmond. SAT SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00k2qm8 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Rumours SAT Unlike the rolling stone, school gossip is virtually SAT guaranteed to gather moss. Starring Marlene Sidaway and Paul SAT Copley. SAT SAT 05:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076hjw (Listen) SAT Series 1, I Could Write a Book SAT Roy must face up to life after the loss of Leonard, his SAT beloved trombone. Stars Ram Jam Holder. From October 2003. SAT SAT 06:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jl84 (Listen) SAT The Adventure of the Speckled Band SAT Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's mystery surrounding Helen Stoner, SAT whose twin sister died in mysterious circumstances on the SAT eve of her wedding. She goes to Holmes and Watson looking SAT for answers. SAT Stars Cedric Hardwicke SAT as Sherlock Holmes and Finlay Currie as Dr Watson. SAT First heard on the BBC Home Service in May 1945. SAT SAT 06:30 The Sound of the Baskervilles b00776s3 (Listen) SAT Russell Davies follows the musical clues to discover what SAT music meant to the Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes. From SAT April 2007. SAT SAT 07:00 Sherlock Holmes b007znn3 (Listen) SAT The Final Problem SAT John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles star in the SAT great detective's encounter at the Reichenbach Falls. SAT In this adventure, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had hoped to kill SAT the sleuth off, but the public outcry SAT was such that he had to resurrect the character. SAT John Gielgud plays Sherlock Holmes with Ralph Richardson as SAT Dr Watson. In the series, Holmes brother - Mycroft - was SAT played by Gielgud's brother, Val. SAT Co-produced with the American Broadcasting Company, the SAT influence of the US producers meant the inclusion of SAT high-ranking American actors, including Orson Welles as SAT Professor Moriarty. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1954. SAT SAT 07:30 Yes Yes Yes b007kvwh (Listen) SAT Series 2, A Shot in the Dark SAT John Rawling recalls the final day of the Third Test in SAT Pakistan in 2000, when captain Hussain lifted English SAT spirits from doom. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01cvcr6 (Listen) SAT Playing Doctors and Nurses SAT Since the broadcasts of the Radio Doctor encouraged the SAT British to open their bowels during the Second World War, SAT the bowels of broadcasting organisations have filled up with SAT factual and fictional series SAT featuring doctors and nurses. SAT Mark Lawson visits the BBC's written archives centre in SAT Caversham and reads through programme files detailing SAT reactions to some of the Radio Doctor scripts, worries about SAT the accuracy of early documentary dramas and behind the SAT scenes information about the making of well known series SAT including Dr Finlay's Casebook, The Singing Detective and SAT Angels. SAT He meets the doctor turned writer Richard Gordon, whose name SAT adorns the jackets of the Doctor in the House books, which SAT have been adapted as film, tv and radio series. And he talks SAT to the former medic Jed Mercurio, who created the TV series SAT Cardiac Arrest, which is regularly voted the most realistic SAT medical drama in polls of medical professionals. SAT Actor Alan Alda explains how his role in Mash helped to save SAT his life and we hear whether Hugh Laurie (star of House) and SAT Helen Baxendale (star of Cardiac Arrest) believe doctors SAT should be seen as heroic figures. Mal Young, the former head SAT of continuing drama serials at the BBC, discusses having to SAT answer complaints about realism, graphic footage and SAT political bias in Casualty and Holby City. Programme makers' SAT responsibilities are debated by Roger Graef, whose many SAT documentaries about aspects of medicine include Inside Great SAT Ormond Street, and who chairs the Mental Health Media SAT Awards: honouring accurate depictions of psychiatric illness SAT in medical fact and fiction. SAT Dramas which have been condemned by the medical profession SAT for giving patients false hopes of salvation or SAT resuscitation are now used to train would be doctors - what SAT does Richard Gordon think of this trend? SAT Producer: Robyn Read. SAT SAT 09:00 I Did It My Way b009qh5q (Listen) SAT Andy Hamilton SAT The devil himself talks! The writer and star of 'Old Harry's SAT Game' talks to Peter Reed about his radio life and times. SAT Featuring The Million Pound Radio Show (July 1991), Old SAT Harry's Game (July 1995 and April SAT 1998), Revolting People (February 2000) and Trevor's World SAT of Sport (Mar 2007). SAT Andy Hamilton has been involved with some of the finest SAT television comedies of the last four decades - Not the Nine SAT O'Clock News, Drop the Dead Donkey and latterly Outnumbered. SAT Television alone is not the only successful arena for Andy- SAT Old Harry's Game, Revolting People and Trevor's World of SAT Sport are just some of his radio triumphs. 2014 saw Andy's SAT film What We Did On Our Holiday reach cinemas featuring SAT David Tennant, Rosamund Pike and Billy Connolly. SAT Produced by Martin Dempsey. SAT SAT 12:00 Rachel Joyce - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy SAT b04mbwdy (Listen) SAT Omnibus edition. A dying woman writes her life secrets down SAT for a man who is trying to see her before it's too late. SAT Rachel Joyce adaptation stars Sophie Thompson. SAT SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential b01mxtjb (Listen) SAT Series 2, Murder in the Red Barn SAT Reporter Dan investigates a disturbing discovery in the SAT Thames, while Charles Dickens has a royal audience. Stars SAT Dan Stevens. SAT SAT 14:00 Doctor at Large b00939rq (Listen) SAT The Deep End SAT Freshly qualified doctors Sparrow, Evans and Benskin's SAT medical mishaps go on and on. Starring Richard Briers. From SAT June 1969. SAT SAT 14:30 The Navy Lark b00vtwxw (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Gun Mechanism Test SAT Povey decides that the island is an ideal spot to try a SAT prototype - on Pertwee's birthday. Stars Dennis Price. From SAT May 1959. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01cvcr6 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jl84 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 16:30 The Sound of the Baskervilles b00776s3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] SAT SAT 17:00 Sherlock Holmes b007znn3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x40p1 (Listen) SAT Series 6, The Curse of Count Arthur SAT With all things 'horror' on his somewhat confused mind, SAT Arthur receives a phone call from his good friend Barry SAT Cryer to say that they have somehow lost Barry's briefcase SAT containing the tickets they require to SAT attend a lunchtime Hammer Horror convention at which they SAT are due. SAT They decide to re-trace their steps from the previous night, SAT which includes taking in a visit to some local haunts and SAT shops, as well as the Shoulder of Mutton. SAT With the briefcase (and thus the tickets) nowhere to be SAT found, Arthur and Barry are left to decide what they should SAT do - try and get in to the convention by relying on their SAT good names and reputations alone, or risk missing out on the SAT Hammer Horror lunch...? SAT Cast: SAT Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney SAT Dracula/Himself ..... Barry Cryer SAT Sally ..... Melanie Giedroyc SAT Gerry/Jack ..... Dave Mounfield SAT Shop Assistant/Wally/ SAT Bouncer/Wilf ..... Alastair Kerr SAT Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard SAT A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for SAT BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k3xn (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Now a monstrous insect, Gregor strives to stay close to his SAT family - but his father turns on him. Read by Benedict SAT Cumberbatch. SAT PROMOTION NOTE SAT "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he SAT found SAT himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect." SAT This shocking opening introduces one of the twentieth SAT century's most famous stories. SAT Gregor's family react with horror at his bizarre SAT transformation but their horror slowly turns to revulsion SAT and then monstrous indifference as he is left to quietly SAT waste away in his bedroom. SAT Metamorphosis was first published in 1912. SAT Benedict Cumberbatch reads this surreal classic in four SAT parts. SAT Stage and screen actor, Benedict Cumberbatch was Bafta SAT nominated for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the BBC TV SAT drama, "Hawking". Most recently he appeared in the TV SAT dramatisation of William Golding's seafaring trilogy, "To SAT The Ends of The Earth". He also won critical acclaim playing SAT Hedda's husband, George, in last year's West End production SAT of "Hedda Gabler". SAT Franz Kafka (1883-1924) ranks among the twentieth-century's SAT most acclaimed writers. He is often cited as the author SAT whose works best evoke the concerns and preoccupations of SAT modern life. The world in his stories is portrayed as one in SAT which the fantastic is entirely normal, the irrational is SAT rational, and the unreasonable seems reasonable. As Ernst SAT Pawel wrote in his biography of the writer, "Kafka SAT articulates the anguish of being human." SAT Translated by Richard Stokes SAT (Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins). SAT SAT 18:30 William Golding - Lord of the Flies b02yl7vs (Listen) SAT Painted Faces SAT The boys' hair has grown and their clothes have begun to SAT fall apart since they were first marooned. Narrated by Ruth SAT Wilson. SAT SAT 19:00 I Did It My Way b009qh5q (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Ross Noble Goes Global b01cvr0t (Listen) SAT Series 2, Egypt SAT The comedian entertains bewildered Bedouins in the desert SAT and ponders the merits of doing a wildlife show. From May SAT 2003. SAT SAT 22:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b01322dm (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing SAT the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. Lucy is a true SAT chameleon who can embrace any character with uncanny SAT accuracy, from a non-stop chattering SAT public school girl to a decrepit and self-abasing charwoman. SAT Lucy is a rare and multifaceted performer her intelligence SAT and Barry Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a SAT smart and distinctive edge SAT Like all big stars, Lucy's worked hard to earn her tilt at SAT the windmill of fame. In her ten years since Footlights SAT she's honed her talents on Radio 4 shows as diverse as the SAT Sony Gold winning Down the Line, The Museum of Everything, SAT The Department, Another Case of Milton Jones, Mastering the SAT Universe, Torchwood, The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook SAT and The Way We Live Right Now. On television she has made SAT her mark on BBC THREE's TittyBangBang, BBC ONE's Armstrong SAT and Miller and BBC TWO's - Bellamy's People. SAT Starring; Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie SAT Walter, Iris Walker and Waen Shepherd SAT Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve SAT Burge, Jon Hunter, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Fay Rusling. SAT Script Editor; Dan Tetsell SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 23:00 Tina C b00f41z2 (Listen) SAT Tina C Goes Down Under: The Aborogynal Monologues, Tamworth SAT Country singer and US presidential hopeful Tina C, the comic SAT creation of Christopher Green, looks at the Australian SAT obsession with country music. SAT Tina looks up Auriel Andrew, famous for her song Truck SAT Drivin' Woman. SAT SAT 23:15 What to Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else SAT b0151pz1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Travel SAT A second series of this popular and critically acclaimed SAT series from Andrew Lawrence which addresses trying to fit in SAT and find your place in society. This week: travel - an SAT episode exploring how we go about the SAT various journeys we take in everyday life, whether it be the SAT journey to work or to a holiday destination, or just down to SAT the shops. SAT SAT 23:30 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b00slvww (Listen) SAT Series 2, Normal Time SAT The cartoonist claims dinosaurs mastered the 3Rs - reading, SAT writing and riding bicycles. Stars Paul McCrink. From SAT February 2003. SAT SAT 23:45 iGod b00xhjry (Listen) SAT Religion SAT iGOD is a highly original and funny new late-night comedy SAT series for Radio 4. It stars Simon Day (The Fast Show) and SAT David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and is written by one of the SAT head writers of the BAFTA SAT award-winning The Thick Of It, Sean Gray and produced by SAT Simon Nicholls (Ed Reardon's Week / News At Bedtime). SAT We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and SAT environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday. iGOD SAT says that trying to predict the end of the world is as SAT pointless as moisturising an elephant's elbow. SAT In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul SAT - Starsky and Hutch) shows us that it is stupid to be SAT worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining SAT apocalypses on parallel Earths. SAT Each week the population of a different parallel world is SAT accidentally wiped out by an ordinary bloke called IAN SAT (Simon Day). SAT In this week's episode a parallel earth is obliterated when SAT Ian inadvertently mucks up global religion. SAT With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and SAT surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. SAT Written by SAT SEAN GRAY SAT Produced by SAT SIMON NICHOLLS. SAT Credits SAT Narrator: David Soul SAT Ian: Simon Day SAT Actor: Rosie Cavaliero SAT Actor: Alex MacQueen SAT Actor: Dan Tetsell SAT Writer: Sean Gray SAT Producer: Simon Nicholls SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 OCTOBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k43b (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Now a monstrous insect, Gregor strives to stay close to his SUN family - but his father turns on him. Read by Benedict SUN Cumberbatch. SUN PROMOTION NOTE SUN "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he SUN found SUN himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect." SUN This shocking opening introduces one of the twentieth SUN century's most famous stories. SUN Gregor's family react with horror at his bizarre SUN transformation but their horror slowly turns to revulsion SUN and then monstrous indifference as he is left to quietly SUN waste away in his bedroom. SUN Metamorphosis was first published in 1912. SUN Benedict Cumberbatch reads this surreal classic in four SUN parts. SUN Stage and screen actor, Benedict Cumberbatch was Bafta SUN nominated for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the BBC TV SUN drama, "Hawking". Most recently he appeared in the TV SUN dramatisation of William Golding's seafaring trilogy, "To SUN The Ends of The Earth". He also won critical acclaim playing SUN Hedda's husband, George, in last year's West End production SUN of "Hedda Gabler". SUN Franz Kafka (1883-1924) ranks among the twentieth-century's SUN most acclaimed writers. He is often cited as the author SUN whose works best evoke the concerns and preoccupations of SUN modern life. The world in his stories is portrayed as one in SUN which the fantastic is entirely normal, the irrational is SUN rational, and the unreasonable seems reasonable. As Ernst SUN Pawel wrote in his biography of the writer, "Kafka SUN articulates the anguish of being human." SUN Translated by Richard Stokes SUN (Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins). SUN SUN 00:30 William Golding - Lord of the Flies b02yl7vs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b01cvcr6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries b0084qwv (Listen) SUN A Surfeit of Lampreys SUN Gentleman sleuth Inspector Alleyn probes a grisly death of SUN the head of a spendthrift aristocratic family. Stars Jeremy SUN Clyde. SUN SUN 02:00 Rachel Joyce - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy SUN b04mbwdy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Dickens Confidential b01mxtjb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jl84 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:30 The Sound of the Baskervilles b00776s3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:00 Sherlock Holmes b007znn3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x40p1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Mike Walker - Scumdog Millionaires Omnibus b04mc1xx (Listen) SUN When disgraced trader Tim Ng strikes a deal with the FSA, he SUN is alarmed to find what it will cost him. Stars David Tse SUN Ka-Shing. SUN SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks b04kfx27 (Listen) SUN Sadie Frost SUN Actress Sadie Frost inherits Here Comes the Sun by the SUN Beatles, and passes on Kooks by David Bowie. SUN SUN 07:15 Student Bibles b0075nwl (Listen) SUN Economics SUN What is the secret to writing a bestselling academic SUN textbook? And will it make you rich? Philippa Budgen SUN examines key student book Begg's Economics. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00x9237 (Listen) SUN Series 7, In the Current Climate SUN Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, SUN complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his SUN never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever SUN scraps his agent, Ping, can SUN offer him to keep body, mind and cat together. SUN Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas SUN Jaz Milvain ..... Philip Jackson SUN Cliff ..... Geoff McGivern SUN Ray ..... Simon Greenall SUN Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Felix ..... John Fortune SUN Ben Herbert ..... Tom Price SUN Pearl ..... Rita May SUN Olive ..... Stephanie Cole SUN Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Functionary ..... Henry Devas SUN Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas SUN Produced by Dawn Ellis SUN Inevitably Ed finds himself once more battling through the SUN week encountering the numerous 12-year olds who run the SUN media; teaching the lively bunch of pensioners who can teach SUN him a thing or two about money making schemes, frugal living SUN and having a good time thank you very much, and regular SUN run-ins with the rather successful Jaz Milvane, director of SUN Ed's only ever book-to-screen adaptation. SUN As we renew our acquaintance with Ed austerity has hit hard. SUN Jaz is eating at austerity themed restaurants, Ping is SUN drawing in stocking seams with magic marker and Ed is SUN picking blackberries from the canal towpath for his SUN breakfast. However, things may be looking up as episode 1 SUN sees Ed working with the most disturbingly fresh and SUN mesmerizingly compelling voice of his generation, Ben SUN Herbert. Ben has a three book deal and no time to write them SUN all, so Ed has been drafted in to help him write one of the SUN books - 'How to Survive With Like No Cash'. Surely a match SUN made in heaven. SUN SUN 08:00 Meet the Huggetts b04mc868 (Listen) SUN All at Sea SUN Joe and Ethel suffer a money headache on the works outing. SUN Popular '50s sitcom with Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. SUN From August 1954. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00cft0x (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 10 SUN Bobby and Butch reveal all about their Holiday Camp, and SUN Tarzan swings in with Jane and Cheetah. Stars Kenneth SUN Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From June 1969. SUN SUN 09:00 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain b00r35y0 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN The Bishop takes the children of the Blue Doors Theatre SUN Company to Stratford. Pamela Brown's adventure stars SUN Caroline Harker. SUN SUN 09:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth b00shkbx (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN As Marcus heads north with Esca, clues appear to the missing SUN Eagle's whereabouts. Stars Tom Smith and Paul Morrow. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04mcf8k (Listen) SUN Nobel Prize Winners, Peter Mansfield SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Perry Como to Purcell, Nobel-winning SUN scientist Peter Mansfield shares his castaway choices. With SUN Sue Lawley. From June 2006. SUN SUN 10:45 HE Bates - Three Country Stories b007jyd8 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Great Uncle Crow SUN A young boy gets to know his eccentric relative with a SUN fondness for moorhen eggs, cress and 'neck oil'. Read by SUN David Neal. SUN SUN 11:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b01bl28v (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 16 SUN From Minnesota, the American funny man welcomes string SUN maestro Sam Bush, plus the latest news from Lake Wobegon. SUN From 2011. SUN SUN 12:00 Mike Walker - Scumdog Millionaires Omnibus b04mc1xx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:10 Inheritance Tracks b04kfx27 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Student Bibles b0075nwl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto b04mcf8m (Listen) SUN When Prince Manfred's only son is killed on the morning of SUN his wedding, he decides to marry the bride himself - but the SUN castle ghost seems to be standing in his way. SUN Horace Walpole's 1764 novel is a dark tale of SUN duplicity and dynastic rivalry in medieval Italy. It's said SUN to be the first ever gothic novel, becoming extremely SUN popular in the 18th and 19th centuries - and the inspiration SUN to authors like Ann Radcliffe, Bram Stoker and Edgar Allan SUN Poe. SUN Starring David Burke, Sylvestra Le Touzel and Gerard Murphy. SUN Dramatised by Michelene Wandor and produced by Chris Wallis. SUN SUN 15:00 Meet the Huggetts b04mc868 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00cft0x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b04mcf8p (Listen) SUN Playground games, animal orchestras and being a blind SUN tourist SUN Mel Giedroyc picks the best of this week's shows including SUN what it's like to be a blind tourist in San Francisco and SUN the joy of a good playground game. SUN SUN 17:00 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain b00r35y0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth b00shkbx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Doctor Who b01pwcys (Listen) SUN Lucie Miller SUN After the Dalek Invasion of Earth - a rematch... SUN Lucie Miller (Sheridan Smith) has had a troubled SUN relationship with the Doctor (Paul McGann). Forced into the SUN TARDIS by the Time Lords, parting company on bad SUN terms, they seemed to patch up their differences. Lucie SUN wound up travelling the world with the Doctor's SUN great-grandson Alex in the 22nd century. SUN However, it isn't long before the Doctor is needed again - SUN the Daleks return for a second attempt after he stopped them SUN invading Earth in his first body. This time, it looks like SUN they might succeed, and the Doctor is nowhere to be seen. SUN What's more, it seems another old foe is part of the Daleks' SUN plans - and so is an old friend. SUN As the odds stack up against Lucie and her human allies, the SUN Doctor finally comes to her aid - but will he get there in SUN time? When he does, will it ultimately matter? SUN First in a two-part story, this is a full-cast audio drama. SUN SUN 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b01bl28v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Meet the Huggetts b04mc868 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00cft0x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04mcf8k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 HE Bates - Three Country Stories b007jyd8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00x9237 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Shedtown b011znlc (Listen) SUN Series 1, Storm SUN A layer-cake of disaster threatens the creosoted community. SUN And where's Colin? SUN Cast: SUN Barry ...... Tony Pitts SUN Jimmy & Johnny ...... Kevin Eldon SUN Colin ....... Johnny Vegas SUN Diane ...... SUN Suranne Jones SUN Dave ....... Shaun Dooley SUN Eleanor ...... Ronni Ancona SUN Deborah Dearden ...... Emma Fryer SUN William ....... Adrian Manfredi SUN Carly ...... Jessica Knappett SUN Father Michael ...... James Quinn SUN Wes ......Warren Brown SUN Petshop Owner ...... Caron May SUN Narrator...Maxine Peake SUN Music......Paul Heaton SUN Written and created by Tony Pitts SUN Directed by Jim Poyser SUN Producer: Sally Harrison SUN A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04nz8b8 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats SUN to Nish Kumar. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b04lxk40 (Listen) SUN Series 11, Episode 5 SUN Made for 4 Extra. The week's stories cobbled together in a SUN scrapbook sketch show. Uninformed, up to the minute, down to SUN the dregs. Presented by Romesh Ranganathan. SUN SUN 23:30 The Wilson Dixon Line b00kr5y1 (Listen) SUN Uncle Wilbur's Advice for Modern Living SUN Another chance to hear this affectionate tribute to the SUN philosophy of country music. Cowboy philosopher Wilson Dixon SUN shares his viewpoints on life, love and relationships SUN through songs and anecdotes. SUN In the SUN final episode, following his break up from Maureen, Wilson SUN saddles up his horse Andrew and heads into the Colorado SUN mountains to seek some guidance from his old Uncle Wilbour. SUN What he gets instead is the the epic tale of "the man with SUN no name", straight from the annals of the Wild West. SUN Wilson Dixon is the comic creation of Jesse Griffin and SUN sidekick Snake Wizzelteats is performed by Jesse Budd. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 OCTOBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Doctor Who b01pwcys (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04mcf8k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 HE Bates - Three Country Stories b007jyd8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Meet the Huggetts b04mc868 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00cft0x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00x9237 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Horace Walpole - The Castle of Otranto b04mcf8m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain b00r35y0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth b00shkbx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007jprs (Listen) MON Series 1, A Case of Making Good MON Redundant pitman turned private investigator Stephen J MON Blackburn is embroiled with Hungarian exiles. Stars Fine MON Time Fontayne. MON MON 06:30 A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto b00rb29b (Listen) MON Rory McGrath explores the origins of gothic horror, manifest MON in the first ever novel about a haunted castle, The Castle MON of Otranto by Horace Walpole. MON The book, published in 1764, became the first gothic novel MON and heralded the start of a new literary genre. MON From 2010. MON Credits MON Producer: Geoff Ballinger MON MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b00vgb3v (Listen) MON Series 2, Charity MON It's Jesters' Relief Week, but must Cornish smuggler Tamsyn MON raise funds for Devonians? Stars Sheridan Smith. From May MON 2004. MON MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity b04lpxxf (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 3 MON Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and curator Phill Jupitus MON discuss some new curiosities. MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Phill Jupitus MON MON 08:00 Marriage Lines b04mh4km (Listen) MON Series 1, The Good Neighbours MON George and Kate step in when they overhear their neighbours MON rowing. Stars Richard Briers and Prunella Scales. From June MON 1965. MON MON 08:30 The Navy Lark b007k088 (Listen) MON Series 1, The Whittlesea Bay Yacht Regatta MON When HMS Troutbridge escorts the admiral to a regatta, MON Pertwee sees a chance to cash in. Stars Leslie Phillips. MON From June 1959. MON MON 09:00 Whispers b007k3jf (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 6 MON Gyles Brandreth's scandals quiz, with Anthony Holden, Stella MON Duffy, Jennie Bond and Geoffrey Durham. From December 2003. MON MON 09:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00ft1cd (Listen) MON Series 3, Health Guru MON Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his field, MON with no ability whatsoever. MON Milton is a health and diet guru who plans to take over the MON world by means of a walnut shell and nettle face scrub. MON With Tom Goodman-Hill, Ingrid Oliver, Ben Willbond. MON MON 10:00 Marcy Kahan - Death at the Desert Inn b00t6v8d (Listen) MON Finding $300,000 in a satchel, Noel Coward turns detective MON in Las Vegas. Murder mystery with Malcolm Sinclair and MON Belinda Lang. MON MON 11:00 Heidi Amsinck - Danish Noir b01hmwjl (Listen) MON Last Train to Helsingor MON In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi MON Amsinck, Denmark is a place of twilight and shadows: a MON mysterious place where strange and often dark things happen. MON In 'Last Train to Helsingor' Henrik Borg MON has done well for himself; he drive a Mercedes to and from MON work though prefers the train from Copenhagen to Helsingor, MON because it is predictable. MON But things start to go wrong when Borg falls asleep, and MON wakes up in a mysterious, deserted railway siding. MON Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, MON has covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992. Heidi MON has written numerous short stories including The MON Chanterelles of Ostvig (2008), Conning Mrs Vinterberg (2007) MON and Detained (2005), all of which were produced by Sweet MON Talk for BBC Radio 4. MON Written by Heidi Amsinck MON Read by Tim McInnerny MON Producer: Ros Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b04m9z8r (Listen) MON Gareth Thomas, Neil Pearson, Miranda Sawyer, Amma Asante, MON John Moloney, Old Crow Medicine Show, My Brightest Diamond MON Actor Neil Pearson co-produces 5 episodes of comedy classic MON Hancock's Half Hour; all-time Rugby hero Gareth Thomas tells MON the story through his memoirs of how he came out as MON gay...comedian John Moloney talks to MON Miranda Sawyer about this year's stellar line-up for the MON annual ADCAF charity event and film writer and director Amma MON Asante talks to Clive about her international hit film MON 'Belle'. With music from Old Crow Medicine Show and My MON Brightest Diamond. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Neil Pearson MON Amma Asante MON Gareth Thomas MON John Moloney MON Old Crow Medicine Show MON My Brightest Diamond MON My Brightest Diamond is performing at Village Underground, MON London on Tuesday 28th, Brudenell Social Club, Leeds on MON Wednesday 29th, Oran Mor, Glasgow on Thursday 30th and The MON Workmans Club, Dublin on Friday 31st October. MON MON 12:00 Marriage Lines b04mh4km (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Navy Lark b007k088 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007jprs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto b00rb29b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw38 (Listen) MON Naomi Alderman - The Lessons, The Last Good Night and a MON Surprise MON Rory Kinnear reads the Orange New Writer's Award Winner, MON Naomi Alderman's, second novel, 'The Lessons', a story of MON ambition, friendship, betrayal and desire. Today: The last MON good night. As the heady Oxford MON existence comes to a golden close, Mark has one last MON surprise in store for James. MON Reader Rory Kinnear MON Abridger Sally Marmion MON Producer Di Speirs MON The Lessons is the second novel from Naomi Alderman, winner MON of the Orange New Writer's Award and Sunday Times Young MON Writer of the Year. Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, MON it follows the progress of a gilded group of under-graduates MON drawn together by their dazzling and mercurial fellow MON student Mark Winters. Fuelled by his trust-fund and resident MON in his Georgian mansion, they live a charmed life of MON learning and parties and love-affairs. But university is no MON grounding for real life and none of the friends will be MON prepared, some years later, when tragedy strikes. MON The Lessons is a novel about friendship, ambition, betrayal MON and desire, and the fact that only life can teach the MON lessons you really need to learn. MON Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her MON first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as MON the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She is a graduate MON of Lincoln College, Oxford. MON Rory Kinnear, fresh from playing Angelo at the Almeida and MON about to play Hamlet at the National Theatre studied at MON Balliol College, Oxford and reads his first Book at Bedtime. MON MON 14:15 Chinese in Britain b0079mby (Listen) MON The First Chinese VIPs MON Anna Chen sets out to uncover the early history of the MON Chinese who came to Britain before the takeaway boom of the MON 1960s. MON 1/10. The First Chinese VIPs MON Shen Fu Tsong was a Christian convert from Nanking whose MON portrait was commissioned by King James II and hung in his MON bedchamber. John Anthony, a go-between for Chinese sailors MON and the East India Company, became the first Chinese to be MON naturalised as a British citizen in 1805. MON From 2007. MON Producer: Mukti Jain Campion MON A Culture Wise Production. MON MON 14:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009qx1x (Listen) MON Gone But Not Forgotten MON The playwright recounts his career through some amazing MON stories he never completed. With Maureen Lipman and Brian MON Blessed. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00hnn57 (Listen) MON Martin Gayford - Constable in Love, Episode 1 MON Passion, money and art - the story of John Constable and his MON pursuit of the love of his life. Read by Anton Lesser. MON MON 15:00 Marcy Kahan - Death at the Desert Inn b00t6v8d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04mlq8d (Listen) MON Elephants, moss and Jamie Rix MON Mel Giedroyc gets the giggles with hilarious children's MON writer Jamie Rix, and introduces the first part of his MON collection of Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids. MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b00k89mf (Listen) MON Series 3, Foreign Exchange MON With daughter Hannah at university, Faith's son Joe wants an MON Italian student to stay. Stars James Bolam and Lynda MON Bellingham. MON MON 17:30 Elephants to Catch Eels b00vgb3v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 Whispers b007k3jf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b04mh70w (Listen) MON Jim Crace and Lorelei King MON Tom Sutcliffe, Jim Crace and Lorelei King discuss books by MON short story writer Grace Paley, Gerald Kersh and Tim Parks. MON From 1998. MON The Collected Stories - Grace Paley MON Publisher : Virago MON Night and the City - Gerald Kersh MON Publisher : Brianiac Books MON Goodness - Tim Parks MON Publisher : Vintage. MON MON 19:00 Marriage Lines b04mh4km (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Navy Lark b007k088 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 The Blackburn Files b007jprs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto b00rb29b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Heidi Amsinck - Danish Noir b01hmwjl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b04m9z8r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity b04lpxxf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00ft1cd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04nz8h0 (Listen) MON The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Tiffany Stevenson MON chats to Katherine Ryan. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b04mh8nw (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 1 MON Made for 4 Extra. Satirical review of the week's news, MON chaired by Sandi Toksvig with regular guest Jeremy Hardy. MON Plus special guests Sarah Millican and Sara Pascoe. MON MON 23:45 Quando, Quando, Quando b007xry7 (Listen) MON Big Head MON The president of Uruguay arrives at the Quando brothers' MON hair salon. Stars Rainer Hersch and Catherine Tate. From MON November 1999. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw38 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Chinese in Britain b0079mby (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009qx1x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b00hnn57 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Whispers b007k3jf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b04mh70w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 The Blackburn Files b007jprs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 A Guided Tour of the Castle of Otranto b00rb29b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Marcy Kahan - Death at the Desert Inn b00t6v8d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Heidi Amsinck - Danish Noir b01hmwjl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b04m9z8r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b00k89mf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Elephants to Catch Eels b00vgb3v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007jps6 (Listen) TUE Series 1, A Case of Parma Violets TUE When a woman suspects her husband is having an affair, she TUE calls in investigator Stephen J Blackburn. Stars Fine Time TUE Fontayne. TUE TUE 06:30 On the Road b007m9xt (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. Greg Proops celebrates Jack Kerouac's classic TUE novel, taking a jazz-infused drive through America. With TUE Gore Vidal. From June 2007. TUE TUE 07:00 Babblewick Hall b04mhc03 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE The well-meaning squire Fenton Babblewick thinks he's a TUE composer of genius. His servants disagree. Stars Nicholas Le TUE Prevost. From September 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life b04lq2lx (Listen) TUE Health and Beauty TUE A new series from multi-award winning comic Mark Watson TUE where he attempts to answer the big questions and make sense TUE of life, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. TUE Mark and his two henchmen tackle academic TUE and abstract topics. Themes will be examined from every TUE angle, torn apart, laughed at and put back together again in TUE an effort to understand ourselves and the world around us, TUE and make it a slightly better place using stand-up, poetry, TUE songs and dippy interactions. TUE This week Mark looks at "Health & Beauty". Our world is full TUE of people telling us how to be healthier and more TUE attractive. But how can we tell if we are well, both TUE mentally and physically? Does living more healthily lead to TUE better mental health, or not so much because you have to eat TUE stuff like cabbage and you wish you were dead? At the same TUE time many people claim to be beautiful, but does beauty TUE really matter or is it, as the popular saying goes, in the TUE eye of the beholder? TUE Why is it so hard to get to the bottom of what will make us TUE look and feel good, and will this eternal quest ever end? TUE Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian - his awards TUE include the inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is TUE assisted by Tim Key, winner of an Edinburgh Comedy Award in TUE 2009, and Tom Basden who won the the If.Comedy Award for TUE Best Newcomer in 2007. TUE Written and performed by Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom Basden TUE Produced by Lianne Coop TUE An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 08:00 The Goon Show b007jv86 (Listen) TUE The White Neddie Trade TUE Fearless Neddie launches a career as a nude piano dancer TUE with a difference. Starring Spike Milligan. From February TUE 1958. TUE TUE 08:30 Doctor at Large b009364g (Listen) TUE The SS Lotus TUE Simon Sparrow soon realises that life as a ship's doctor is TUE far from plain sailing. Starring Richard Briers. From June TUE 1969. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b04mh8nw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Quando, Quando, Quando b007xry7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho b04mhk06 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE It's 1584. A stay in a mysterious chateau impacts on the TUE life of young Emily St Aubert. TUE Starring Deborah Berlin as Emily and Robert Glenister as TUE Valancourt. TUE Ann Radcliffe's fourth novel 'The Mysteries of TUE Udolpho' was published 1794. It follows the fortunes of TUE Emily St Aubert who has to endure the death of her father, TUE supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle and the machinations TUE of an Italian brigand. This quintessential Gothic novel, TUE along with Radcliffe's 'The Romance of the Forest' plays a TUE prominent role in Jane Austen's 'Northanger Abbey'. TUE Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. Directed by David TUE Blount. TUE TUE 11:00 Heidi Amsinck - Danish Noir b01hw4lx (Listen) TUE The Light from Dead Stars TUE In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi TUE Amsinck, Denmark is a place of twilight and shadows: a TUE mysterious place where strange and often dark things happen. TUE Detective Viggo Jensen retires today. For TUE the last 28 years he has asked himself the question: who TUE killed Leif Heinemann? A journalist has described this case TUE as the one significant failure of his career. But as he TUE clears his desk, Viggo receives a mysterious phone call TUE which gives him a new lead. TUE Written by Heidi Amsinck TUE Read by Tim McInnerny TUE Producer: Ros Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:15 Heathcote Williams - Hancock's Last Half Hour TUE b01glrp3 (Listen) TUE An imagining of the comedy legend alone in a Sydney hotel TUE room on the day he died, with a book of newspaper cuttings, TUE a telephone and a bottle of vodka for company. In a tour de TUE force performance Richard Briers TUE plays his great comedy hero, Tony Hancock, looking back over TUE the highs and lows of his career. Heathcote Williams's play TUE reveals a comedy genius, tormented by his own desire to TUE improve himself. A desire which overwhelmed him, when he TUE tragically took his own life in June 1968. TUE Produced by Ned Chaillet for BBC Radio 3 in 1988. TUE TUE 12:00 The Goon Show b007jv86 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Doctor at Large b009364g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007jps6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 On the Road b007m9xt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw2w (Listen) TUE Naomi Alderman - The Lessons, A Wedding TUE Rory Kinnear reads the Orange New Writer's Award Winner, TUE Naomi Alderman's, second novel, 'The Lessons', a story of TUE ambition, friendship, betrayal and desire. Today: For James TUE and Jess, Franny and Simon real TUE life begins, but for Mark there is a new fantasy to play TUE out. TUE Reader Rory Kinnear TUE Abridger Sally Marmion TUE Producer Di Speirs TUE The Lessons is the second novel from Naomi Alderman, winner TUE of the Orange New Writer's Award and Sunday Times Young TUE Writer of the Year. Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, TUE it follows the progress of a gilded group of under-graduates TUE drawn together by their dazzling and mercurial fellow TUE student Mark Winters. Fuelled by his trust-fund and resident TUE in his Georgian mansion, they live a charmed life of TUE learning and parties and love-affairs. But university is no TUE grounding for real life and none of the friends will be TUE prepared, some years later, when tragedy strikes. TUE The Lessons is a novel about friendship, ambition, betrayal TUE and desire, and the fact that only life can teach the TUE lessons you really need to learn. TUE Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her TUE first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as TUE the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She is a graduate TUE of Lincoln College, Oxford. TUE Rory Kinnear, fresh from playing Angelo at the Almeida and TUE about to play Hamlet at the National Theatre studied at TUE Balliol College, Oxford and reads his first Book at Bedtime. TUE TUE 14:15 Chinese in Britain b0079n8k (Listen) TUE The Creation of Chinatown TUE Anna Chen sets out to uncover the early history of the TUE Chinese who came to Britain before the takeaway boom of the TUE 1960s. TUE 2/10. The Creation of Chinatown TUE As the Chinese settlement in ports such as London and TUE Liverpool grew in the early 20th Century, so did the myths TUE and lurid fantasies. Anna investigates how the small TUE Limehouse Chinese community in London became the subject of TUE countless books, songs, films and hysterical headlines TUE during the 1920s. TUE From 2007. TUE Producer: Mukti Jain Campion TUE A Culture Wise Production. TUE TUE 14:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009rp4x (Listen) TUE Alternative Comedy TUE The playwright recalls entertaining the idea of being a TUE comic, and some unusual student shows. With Christian TUE Rodska. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00hslbl (Listen) TUE Martin Gayford - Constable in Love, Episode 2 TUE Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early TUE career of John Constable and his long battle to win the hand TUE of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on correspondence TUE between the pair. TUE Constable first TUE met Maria Bicknell, the daughter of a wealthy lawyer, in the TUE Suffolk village of East Bergholt when he was 24 and she was TUE 12. Nine years later they began courting. TUE TUE 15:00 Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho b04mhk06 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04nd3n3 (Listen) TUE Elephants, spiders and Dan Castellaneta TUE Mel Giedroyc is in finger-licking good form with a history TUE of the doughnut, plus there's the second of our Ghostly TUE Tales for Ghastly Kids. TUE TUE 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04mhkrs (Listen) TUE Series 1, Marigold's Wedding TUE A wedding provides ample opportunity for some trademark TUE gossip. Stars Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From TUE March 1977. TUE TUE 17:30 Babblewick Hall b04mhc03 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Act Your Age b0100gr6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy TUE generations to find out which is the funniest. Will it be TUE the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard who TUE will be crowned, for one week at TUE least, as the Golden Age of Comedy. This week Holly Walsh is TUE joined by Sean Walsh, Lucy Porter teams up with Hal TUE Cruttenden and Tom O'Connor is paired with Dave Spikey. TUE Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b04mhkrv (Listen) TUE Michael Bentine TUE The comic, actor and original Goon tells Robin Ray why TUE certain tracks have the power to send tingles down his TUE spine. From September 1989. TUE TUE 19:00 The Goon Show b007jv86 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Doctor at Large b009364g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Blackburn Files b007jps6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 On the Road b007m9xt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Heidi Amsinck - Danish Noir b01hw4lx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Heathcote Williams - Hancock's Last Half Hour TUE b01glrp3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life b04lq2lx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jrqr1 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 4 TUE In this episode, the team are horrified that the media have TUE been invited to one of Malcolm's citizenship ceremonies, TUE Anita's got problems with childcare and Luke's having a TUE 'quarter life' crisis. TUE Births, Deaths TUE and Marriages is a new sitcom set in a Local Authority TUE Register Office where the staff deal with the three greatest TUE events in anybody's life. TUE Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan TUE Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a TUE stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any TUE wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health TUE and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? TUE He's married thousands of women. TUE Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been TUE parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and TUE Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just TUE about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit TUE in our new age of austerity. TUE There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried TUE he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may TUE get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the TUE only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. TUE Cast: TUE Malcolm ...... David Schneider TUE Lorna ....... Sarah Hadland TUE Anita ........ Sandy McDade TUE Luke ....... Russell Tovey TUE Mary ....... Sally Bretton TUE Mr. Arnold/Peter Stephenson ...... Andrew Brooke TUE Bereaved woman/New Citizen/Mum ...... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Producer: Simon Jacobs TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing b00769tt (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Bergerac and Lovejoy on Leather Island, Ukraine's Eurovision TUE entry, and part two of Austen's lost novella 'Sweet Fanny TUE Adams'. Sketches with Perkins and Giedroyc. From October TUE 2002. TUE TUE 23:30 Masala FM b007zjm8 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE The station is only attracting Z-list Asian celebrities, but TUE then a top 'royal' phones in. Stars Meera Syal. From TUE September 1996. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 OCTOBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw2w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Chinese in Britain b0079n8k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009rp4x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b00hslbl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Act Your Age b0100gr6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Tingle Factor b04mhkrv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 The Blackburn Files b007jps6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 On the Road b007m9xt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho b04mhk06 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Heidi Amsinck - Danish Noir b01hw4lx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Heathcote Williams - Hancock's Last Half Hour WED b01glrp3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04mhkrs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Babblewick Hall b04mhc03 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpsn (Listen) WED Series 1, A Cruel Case of War WED Investigator Stephen J Blackburn hunts for a Canadian's WED long-lost brother, after a cruel separation. Stars Fine Time WED Fontayne. WED WED 06:30 The Life of the Secret Gardener b0076xrj (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. Children's writer Anne Fine investigates the WED complex life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, author of The WED Secret Garden. From April 2006. WED WED 07:00 Change at Oglethorpe b007jzwk (Listen) WED The Thin Controller WED Trouble for the rural railway station's new manager, when he WED sacks a member of staff. Stars Peter Davison. From December WED 1995. WED WED 07:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01q8l39 (Listen) WED Series 2, Valentine's Day WED Tradition in the Trench/MacIlveny household dictates that WED Valentine's Day is the one day of the year when Damien is WED not allowed in the kitchen and Anthony can be left alone to WED cook a special meal to celebrate WED the occasion... much to Damien's chagrin. WED Meanwhile, Damien struggles to finish the links to a new WED series for Sky Arts all about the dietary habits of the WED great poets. And his dad has an unfortunate accident whilst WED walking the dog... WED Produced by: Sam Michell. WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony MacIlveny: Justin Edwards WED Damien's Mother: Selina Cadell WED Builder: Ben Crowe WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED Marion Duffett: Lesley Vickerage WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way b007jrtv (Listen) WED Series 4, Remember the Burkiss Way WED It's the clash of the game shows! Jo Kendall, Chris Emmett, WED Fred Harris and Nigel Rees try to win the car. From April WED 1979. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00rfqxx (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED Swinging London cockney-style - and some incredible ears. WED Sketches and songs with John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim WED Brooke-Taylor, David Hatch and Jo Kendall. Music from Dave WED Lee and his band. WED Now fully restored for WED repeat on BBC Radio 4 Extra. WED Produced by Humphrey Barclay. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1966. WED WED 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00s2w3d (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 5 WED David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians WED are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another WED to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past WED their opponents. WED Tony Hawks, WED Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus and Catherine Tate are the WED panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on WED subjects as varied as ostriches, toast, spectacles and the WED colour red. WED The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the WED team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. WED Producer - Jon Naismith. WED A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Producer: Jon Naismith WED WED 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful b007jsb8 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED Ken and Sandy both suffer marital problems, but at least WED they've won Pink Len's ad account. Stars Martin Jarvis. From WED November 1986. WED WED 10:00 Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho b04mhn26 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Can Emily escape the clutches of the evil Montoni and learn WED her father's secret? WED Starring Deborah Berlin as Emily, Keith Drinkel as Montoni WED and Robert Glenister as Valancourt. WED Ann Radcliffe's fourth novel 'The WED Mysteries of Udolpho' was published 1794. It follows the WED fortunes of Emily St Aubert who has to endure the death of WED her father, supernatural terrors in a gloomy castle and the WED machinations of an Italian brigand. This quintessential WED Gothic novel, along with Radcliffe's 'The Romance of the WED Forest' plays a prominent role in Jane Austen's 'Northanger WED Abbey'. WED Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. Directed by David WED Blount. WED WED 11:00 Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum b007jls2 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED It's 1930 and Hitler's rise to power has begun. Three year WED old Oskar decides to stop growing and stop talking. Instead WED he plays his tin drum. WED Phil Daniels stars as Oskar alongside Kenneth Cranham and WED Lesley WED Manville in this two-part dramatisation of Gunter Grass' WED dark and intriguing story. WED Written in 1959, The Tin Drum is a modern classic of WED post-Second World War literature, telling the story of the WED Third Reich's decline and fall from a most particular WED perspective - that of a dwarf. WED The Tin Drum was published at a time when a generation of WED Germans was seeking to understand the war for the first WED time. WED Gunter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in WED 1999 and the Swedish Academy praised him as a writer 'whose WED frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of WED history'. WED Mike Walker's efforts won him the Writer's Award for Best WED Dramatisation. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. WED WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way b007jrtv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00rfqxx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpsn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Life of the Secret Gardener b0076xrj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw2y (Listen) WED Naomi Alderman - The Lessons, Forbidden Fruit WED Rory Kinnear reads reading the Orange New Writer's Award WED Winner, Naomi Alderman's, second novel, 'The Lessons', a WED story of ambition, friendship, betrayal and desire. Today: WED Forbidden Fruit. Marriage is not the WED answer to Mark's unhappiness. Is James? WED Reader Rory Kinnear WED Abridger Sally Marmion WED Producer Di Speirs WED The Lessons is the second novel from Naomi Alderman, winner WED of the Orange New Writer's Award and Sunday Times Young WED Writer of the Year. Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, WED it follows the progress of a gilded group of under-graduates WED drawn together by their dazzling and mercurial fellow WED student Mark Winters. Fuelled by his trust-fund and resident WED in his Georgian mansion, they live a charmed life of WED learning and parties and love-affairs. But university is no WED grounding for real life and none of the friends will be WED prepared, some years later, when tragedy strikes. WED The Lessons is a novel about friendship, ambition, betrayal WED and desire, and the fact that only life can teach the WED lessons you really need to learn. WED Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her WED first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as WED the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She is a graduate WED of Lincoln College, Oxford. WED Rory Kinnear, fresh from playing Angelo at the Almeida and WED about to play Hamlet at the National Theatre studied at WED Balliol College, Oxford and reads his first Book at Bedtime. WED WED 14:15 Chinese in Britain b0079pcn (Listen) WED From Ship to Shore WED Anna Chen sets out to uncover the early history of the WED Chinese who came to Britain before the takeaway boom of the WED 1960s. WED 3/10. From Ship to Shore WED Most Chinese people who came to Britain were seamen WED recruited to WED work aboard British merchant ships, a practice that dates WED back to the Napoleonic wars. Anna investigates what life was WED like for those sailors and their families who settled in the WED ports of Liverpool and London during the Second World War. WED From 2007. WED Producer: Mukti Jain Campion WED A Culture Wise Production. WED WED 14:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009rr73 (Listen) WED Wild Pigs of Thorngumbald WED The playwright recalls how his career as an architect ended WED early, but not before an animal encounter. With Christian WED Rodska. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00hsl9y (Listen) WED Martin Gayford - Constable in Love, Episode 3 WED Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early WED career of John Constable and his long battle to win the hand WED of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on correspondence WED between the pair. WED Lacking 'that WED necessary article - cash', the courtship between Maria and WED John was never going to be straightforward, particularly WED when Maria's family began to make their disapproval felt. WED WED 15:00 Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho b04mhn26 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04mlqz2 (Listen) WED Marbles, Kate Adie and Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber WED Mel Giedroyc gets a guide to mastering the game of marbles, WED Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber discusses the revival of his WED musical Cats, and there's another Ghostly Tale for Ghastly WED Kids. WED WED 17:00 For Better Or for Worse b00h4lng (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED Iris dreams of hearing Pavarotti in concert, so Bernard WED tries to get tickets. Stars Gorden Kaye and Su Pollard. From WED March 1993. WED WED 17:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007jzwk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00s2w3d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076d68 (Listen) WED Recovery WED Writers Robert McCrum and Laura Thompson join poet Martin WED Newell and host Matthew Parris to talk about healing. WED In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of WED writers of fact and fiction: new talent WED and established names. In the context of a discussion of one WED of the ideas and pre-occupations of our times, each presents WED a piece on this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2003. WED WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way b007jrtv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00rfqxx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpsn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Life of the Secret Gardener b0076xrj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum b007jls2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 22:00 In and Out of the Kitchen b01q8l39 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Down the Line b012lm5p (Listen) WED Series 3, The Elderly, Consumer Rights and the Countryside WED Old people and consumer rights get the Gary Bellamy phone-in WED treatment. Stars Rhys Thomas and Simon Day. From January WED 2008. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04nz8j9 (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Tiffany Stevenson WED chats to Katherine Ryan. WED WED 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b0101g5j (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED Arthur Smith presents music and comedy from his home in WED Balham, South London. There's music in the kitchen, comedy WED in the front room and poetry on the landing. This week, WED finding a decent sized performance WED space amongst the accumulated debris that is Arthur's life WED are Katie Melua, Roisin Conaty, Alun Cochrane and Nick Helm WED Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 23:30 Buy Me Up TV b009jcxh (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED Another chance to hear the comedy series inspired by every WED shopping channel you've ever seen and every product you've WED never wanted to buy. WED Starring Justin Edwards, Colin Hoult, Katherine Jakeways, WED Ewen MacIntosh, Alex MacQueen, Greg Proops and this week's WED special guest, Rich Hall. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw2y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Chinese in Britain b0079pcn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009rr73 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b00hsl9y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00s2w3d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076d68 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpsn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 The Life of the Secret Gardener b0076xrj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho b04mhn26 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum b007jls2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 For Better Or for Worse b00h4lng (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007jzwk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpt3 (Listen) THU Series 1, A Case of Plagiarism THU Investigator Stephen J Blackburn is called in when a writer THU is convinced his TV script has been pinched. Stars Fine Time THU Fontayne. THU THU 06:30 Mirror, Mirror b007rgnl (Listen) THU The eyes might be the windows of the soul, but what happens THU when they see us from the outside? Nina Perry presents as THU various people react. From July 2007. THU THU 07:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b01nht5b (Listen) THU Series 2, Siege THU Can Jason patch up his love life with a last-chance date? THU Stars Andrew Knott and Beverley Callard. From October 2000. THU THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04lss87 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch THU show. THU 2/6: This second edition of the THU fourth series has a sketch that you'll never really own; the THU rudest of awakenings for one particular pet; and a look at THU the often ignored positive side of stereotyping. THU The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was THU described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and THU "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio THU Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was THU nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series THU actually won a Radio Academy award. THU In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like THU the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them THU that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand THU not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to THU completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in THU other words, but about different things and with different THU jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will THU involve talking animals.) THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry THU Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. THU Original music by ... Susannah Pearse. THU Producer ... Ed Morrish. THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 08:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007k1sl (Listen) THU The Bank Loan THU Will a visit to the pier pour cold water on the renovation THU plans? Dad's Army spin-off with John Le Mesurier. From THU November 1983. THU THU 08:25 Inheritance Tracks b04cb4nj (Listen) THU Graham Fellows THU Graham Fellows - aka John Shuttleworth - shares his THU Inheritance Tracks. THU THU 08:30 Listen to Les b007w2n4 (Listen) THU From 11/08/1974 THU Les Dawson presents the debut of comic discovery Justin Jest THU and a wonky piano sing-along. With Colin Edwynn. From August THU 1974. THU THU 09:00 Heresy b017mv2b (Listen) THU Series 8, Episode 1 THU The first in a new series of the programme that dares to THU commit heresy. Victoria Coren and her guests have fun THU exposing the wrong-headedness of received wisdom and THU challenging knee-jerk public reaction to THU events. THU Her guests in the first programme are comedian Mark Steel, THU novelist Jessica Berens and actor and national treasure, THU Christopher Biggins. THU Christopher Biggins gets on his high pantomime horse, THU arguing against the assertion that Panto is an outdated art THU form, Mark Steel comes out in support of public displays of THU drunkenness and former Tatler journalist Jessica Berens THU explains why people are totally misguided if they think it THU would be nice to live in a house like Downton Abbey. THU Producer: Brian King THU An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Alison and Maud b007k244 (Listen) THU Series 1, Lame Ducks THU How can landlady Alison avoid a courtship display without THU hastily inventing a hubby? Stars Denise Coffey and Miriam THU Margolyes. From December 2002. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b00sf8l0 (Listen) THU Neglected Classics: The Snow Goose THU Neglected Classic: The Snow Goose THU by Paul Gallico THU Dramatised by Nick Warburton THU Introduced by Michael Morpurgo THU A wounded bird brings together a disfigured artist and a THU young girl THU and helps in a courageous act THU of bravery in World War II. THU Philip Rhayader ..... Steven Mackintosh THU Fritha ..... Georgia Groome THU Mrs Farnes ..... Deborah Findlay THU Storyteller ..... Sam Dale THU Private Potton ..... Michael Shelford THU Commander Brill-Oudener ..... Malcolm Tierney THU Jock ..... David Seddon THU Composer ..... Roger Goula THU Director ..... Sally Avens THU Steven Mackintosh stars in Paul Gallico's prize winning THU novella in our celebration of Neglected Classics. THU When 'Open Book' asked various authors to champion a THU favourite negelected classic on the programme, Michael THU Morpurgo chose 'The Snow Goose'; perhaps no surprise, with THU his own story 'War Horse' depicting a friendship between a THU boy and his horse which takes them both into the horror of THU World War 1. 'The Snow Goose' won the listeners vote too and THU is now being dramatised for The Classic Serial. THU THU 11:00 Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum b007jlvd (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU As the war rages, Oscar discovers sex, jazz and the black THU market. Will his mad drumming make him a star? THU Phil Daniels stars as Oskar alongside Kenneth Cranham and THU Lesley Manville in this two-part dramatisation THU of Gunter Grass' dark and intriguing story. THU Written in 1959, The Tin Drum is a modern classic of THU post-Second World War literature, telling the story of the THU Third Reich's decline and fall from a most particular THU perspective - that of a dwarf. THU The Tin Drum was published at a time when a generation of THU Germans was seeking to understand the war for the first THU time. THU Gunter Grass was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in THU 1999 and the Swedish Academy praised him as a writer 'whose THU frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of THU history'. THU Mike Walker's efforts won him the Writer's Award for Best THU Dramatisation. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. THU THU 12:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007k1sl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:25 Inheritance Tracks b04cb4nj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:25 today] THU THU 12:30 Listen to Les b007w2n4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpt3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Mirror, Mirror b007rgnl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw30 (Listen) THU Naomi Alderman - The Lessons, Lovely Little Daisy THU Rory Kinnear reads the Orange New Writer's Award Winner, THU Naomi Alderman's, second novel, 'The Lessons', a story of THU ambition, friendship, betrayal and desire. Today: Daisy, THU Daisy.. Mark finds the love of his THU life at last - only to lose it and destroy everything. THU Reader Rory Kinnear THU Abridger Sally Marmion THU Producer Di Speirs THU The Lessons is the second novel from Naomi Alderman, winner THU of the Orange New Writer's Award and Sunday Times Young THU Writer of the Year. Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, THU it follows the progress of a gilded group of under-graduates THU drawn together by their dazzling and mercurial fellow THU student Mark Winters. Fuelled by his trust-fund and resident THU in his Georgian mansion, they live a charmed life of THU learning and parties and love-affairs. But university is no THU grounding for real life and none of the friends will be THU prepared, some years later, when tragedy strikes. THU The Lessons is a novel about friendship, ambition, betrayal THU and desire, and the fact that only life can teach the THU lessons you really need to learn. THU Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her THU first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as THU the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She is a graduate THU of Lincoln College, Oxford. THU Rory Kinnear, fresh from playing Angelo at the Almeida and THU about to play Hamlet at the National Theatre studied at THU Balliol College, Oxford and reads his first Book at Bedtime. THU THU 14:15 Chinese in Britain b0079r4j (Listen) THU Steam and Starch THU Anna Chen sets out to uncover the early history of the THU Chinese who came to Britain before the takeaway boom of the THU 1960s. THU 4/10. Steam and Starch THU Anna learns what it was like to live and work in the Chinese THU laundries which sprung up across the country during the THU first half of the 20th century. THU From 2007. THU Producer: Mukti Jain Campion THU A Culture Wise Production. THU THU 14:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009s8mt (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The playwright recalls a never-realised bleak opera and a THU film meant to star Rex Harrison. With John Woodvine. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00hslb0 (Listen) THU Martin Gayford - Constable in Love, Episode 4 THU Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early THU career of John Constable and his long battle to win the hand THU of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on correspondence THU between the pair. THU Opposition to THU the courtship between John and Maria was particularly fierce THU from her wealthy and influential grandfather, Dr Rhudde. But THU Constable remained as determined that they should marry as THU he was to succeed as a landscape painter. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b00sf8l0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04mlqz4 (Listen) THU Horror stories, exams and chocolate THU Mel Giedroyc is in ghoulishly good form as she explores why THU we love horror stories, and there's another of children's THU author Jamie Rix's Ghostly Tales for Ghastly Kids. THU THU 17:00 Ballylenon b00yj976 (Listen) THU Series 8, Agroturismo in Irlande THU Ballylenon, County Donegal. Pop. 1,999 was founded by St THU Lenon of Padua, when he fell into the river at this spot in THU 953. Ballylenon is situated on the shores of Lough Swilly THU with entrancing views of Muckish THU Mountain, in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe. (Note: THU Ballylenon is a fictional name, but the other landmarks are THU identifiable.) THU In this society, there exists an uneasy balance of THU interests. Communication has all the appearances of power, THU and in Ballylenon, communication means the local Telephone THU Exchange and Post Office. Both these are firmly in the THU control of sisters, Vera and Muriel McConkey, who in cahoots THU with hotelier and funeral undertaker, Phonsie Doherty, would THU seek to rule the roost in Ballylenon. However, other forces THU have their own guiding principles, and where the McConkey THU sisters and Mr Doherty, aided by The Vindicator, would THU dominate reactionary thinking, a dangerous liberal tendency THU is championed by Vivienne and Rev. Samuel Hawthorne, and the THU somewhat unlikely, Guard Gallagher. The antagonism between THU these camps is only ever thinly veiled. THU In this brand new series, Christopher Fitz-Simon takes a THU jocose but jaundiced look at 1960's Ireland, where we THU discover THU Muriel McConachie , 62. Spinster remnant of a family once THU active in politics, Muriel inherited the corner shop and, THU due to her Councillor father's influence, has the Post THU Office franchise. Known as the eyes of Ballylenon, Muriel, THU the Honouree Secretary of the Development Association, has a THU long-term 'understanding' with its Chair, Phonsie Doherty. THU She is a gentle personality, but misses nothing and can see THU a midge on a mare's arse in Tyrone. THU We also discover, Vera McConachie, 61, Muriel's younger and THU more forthright spinster sister who runs the 10-line manual THU Telephone Exchange and is known as the Ears of Ballylenon. THU Every call goes through her switchboard, its content noted, THU discussed and any necessary action taken. She also writes THU the Horoscope anonymously for the Donegal Vindicator. THU The McConkey's closest confidant is Phonsie [Alphonsus] THU Doherty. 58. Phonsie is a widower, proprietor of the Swilly THU Arms Hotel and of Doherty's Estate Agency and Funeral THU Furnishers and Chair of the Development Association. Up to THU the present is politically 'in' and therefore in the way of THU knowing what grants and subsidies are available for all THU manner of projects. His relationship with Muriel McConachie THU is proprietorial rather than romantic. THU If there is a thorn in the side of this trio it is, Vivienne THU Hawthorne, 30, the former Miss Boal. Bright, breezy, busy THU primary schoolteacher. Organist and choir-mistress of the THU Presbyterian congregation. Though seemingly rationalist, THU Vivienne is secretly much influenced by horoscopes. She is THU supporter of cultural causes like the music festival and THU architectural conservation. And though apparently THU straightforward, she achieves certain aims by devious means. THU Ballylenon by Christopher Fitz-Simon THU Muriel McConkey -Margaret D'Arcy THU Vera McConkey -Stella McCusker THU Phonsie Doherty -Gerard Murphy THU Mrs Vivienne Hawthorne -Aine McCartney THU Rev. Samuel Hawthorne -Dermot Crowley THU Kevin 'Stumpy' Bonnar - Gerard McSorley THU Guard Gallagher -Frankie McCafferty THU Daniel O'Searcaigh - James Greene THU Monsignor McFadden - Niall Cusack THU Aubrey Frawley - Chris McHallem THU Polly Acton - Joanna Munro THU Eamonn Doyle - Patrick Fitzsymons THU Mr Boylan - Derek Bailey THU Directed By Eoin O'Callaghan. THU Credits THU Producer: Eoin OCallaghan THU THU 17:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b01nht5b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Heresy b017mv2b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076bbx (Listen) THU Rachel Carson THU Writer Bea Campbell chooses pioneering environmental THU protection scientist Rachel Carson. With Humphrey Carpenter. THU The biographical series in which a distinguished guest THU chooses someone who's inspired their life. THU Will their hero stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the THU description of having led a great life? From 2002. THU THU 19:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007k1sl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:25 Inheritance Tracks b04cb4nj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:25 today] THU THU 19:30 Listen to Les b007w2n4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 RW Fassbinder - No-One Is Evil and No-One Is Good THU b04mm4wc (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. Can the end of the world also spell hope? THU Petrov and Elvira dimly recall all that we take for granted. THU Starring Nigel Anthony. THU THU 20:30 Mirror, Mirror b007rgnl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum b007jlvd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04lss87 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b04mlhm3 (Listen) THU Series 11, Episode 6 THU Made for 4 Extra. The week's stories cobbled together in a THU scrapbook sketch show. Uninformed, up to the minute, down to THU the dregs. Presented by Romesh Ranganathan. THU THU 23:00 At Home With The Snails b007jvlw (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU George and Beverley feign their deaths to see how their THU children cope without them. Stars Geoffrey Palmer and Angela THU Thorne. From July 2002. THU THU 23:30 Dave Podmore b007s7x4 (Listen) THU Dave Podmore's World of Cricket, Episode 2 THU The player battles a case of libel based on an alleged THU encounter in a portable loo. Stars Christopher Douglas. From THU June 2002. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw30 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Chinese in Britain b0079r4j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009s8mt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b00hslb0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Heresy b017mv2b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076bbx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpt3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Mirror, Mirror b007rgnl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b00sf8l0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum b007jlvd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Ballylenon b00yj976 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b01nht5b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007jptk (Listen) FRI Series 1, A Case of Haddock and Plaice FRI An elderly couple's time-share cash con sparks investigator FRI Stephen J Blackburn's first case abroad. Stars Fine Time FRI Fontayne. FRI FRI 06:30 Why Is the 1812 So Popular? b0076ybk (Listen) FRI Tchaikovsky himself said his overture glorying Napoleon's FRI retreat from Moscow had 'no artistic merit', so why is it so FRI popular? Alasdair Malloy investigates. From May 2006. FRI FRI 07:00 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076hn4 (Listen) FRI Series 1, She's Funny That Way FRI Could the return of an old flame mark the end of Roy and FRI George's musical marriage? Stars Ram Jam Holder. From FRI November 2003. FRI FRI 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x97hy (Listen) FRI Series 6, Gone Fishing FRI On a fishing trip to Spiggy Lakes with long suffering FRI friends, Sally, Geoffrey and Wilf, things start to go awry FRI for Arthur after he 'finds' a rowing boat. FRI He thinks may give him the edge in their £5.10 per FRI head sweepstake based on who will catch the most fish, and FRI sets out into the lake unaccompanied. FRI Cast: FRI Steve Delaney FRI Alastair Kerr FRI Dave Mounfield FRI Mel Giedroyc FRI Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard FRI A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for FRI BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Jim the Great b0218l5j (Listen) FRI Series 1, The King Jim Abacus Dating Service FRI The moustachioed monarch has a go at matchmaking, but warm FRI hearts come with cold feet. Stars Jimmy Edwards. From April FRI 1977. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry b00ysk98 (Listen) FRI Four Men in a Wellington FRI The bumbling civil servants investigate a phantom air force FRI base. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From April FRI 1968. FRI FRI 09:00 Jest a Minute b012rys1 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 FRI Rhod Gilbert chairs the Radio Wales comedy quiz. With FRI special guests Roger Monkhouse and Kirsten O'Brien. From FRI September 2006. FRI FRI 09:30 Rent b04mljmt (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI Richard finds himself propelled into the limelight as a FRI superstar DJ. With Patrick Barlow and Barbara Flynn. From FRI February 1995. FRI FRI 10:00 Henry James - The Turn of the Screw b007jvdv (Listen) FRI When a new young Governess arrives at Bly, a remote country FRI house in Essex, she fears that her two young charges, Flora FRI and Miles, may be hiding a dark secret. As the days go by, FRI she witnesses some strange FRI visions which lead her to the conclusion that the house - FRI and the children- are possessed by evil forces. FRI Starring Cathy Sara at the Governess, Tina Gray as Mrs FRI Grose, Joseph Tremain as Miles and FRI Lulu Popplewell as Floral. FRI Dramatised by Neville Teller. Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. FRI FRI 11:00 Heidi Amsinck - Danish Noir b01j2fd7 (Listen) FRI The Wailing Girl FRI In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi FRI Amsinck, Denmark is a mysterious place of twilight and FRI shadows: a mysterious place where strange and sometimes dark FRI things happen. FRI At the castle at FRI Amalieholm, legend has it that you can hear a girl crying at FRI night, supposedly the ghost of a young maid who was drowned FRI in the moat by a nobleman after giving birth to his child. FRI Magnus, the castle guide, doesn't believe in ghosts, but FRI wonders what would happen if the castle owner, 95-year-old FRI Baroness Feltenborg, could be made to believe in the wailing FRI girl? FRI Written by Heidi Amsinck FRI Read by Tim McInnerny FRI Producer: Ros Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:15 Julian MacLaren-Ross - I Had to Go Sick b007f050 (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. Will a soldier ever get signed off sick? FRI Nobel Prize-winner Harold Pinter reads a tale of service FRI life in the Second World War. FRI FRI 11:40 Julian MacLaren-Ross - Second Lieutenant Lewis: A FRI Memoir b007f1qj (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. World War Two - a soldier recalls an unlikely FRI friendship with Welsh poet Alun Lewis. Read by the FRI playwright Harold Pinter. FRI FRI 12:00 The Missing Hancocks b04mlkw2 (Listen) FRI Director's Commentary FRI The Missing Hancocks are five episodes of Hancock's Half FRI Hour either missing or lost from the archive which BBC Radio FRI 4 have remade to celebrate the show's 60th anniversary. FRI In this "directors' commentary" Andy FRI Hamilton introduces the first episode of the series, The FRI Matador. Andy stops the action as he talks to co-producer FRI Neil Pearson and - the actor charged with playing the lad FRI 'imself - Kevin McNally about the challenges, and joys, of FRI recreating a 1950s sitcom in 2014. FRI The conversation takes in the casting, production and even FRI the music of the show, as well as what got changed in these FRI new recordings. FRI A must-listen for fans of good comedy and good radio - and, FRI specifically, Hancock's Half Hour. FRI Producer Ed Morrish. FRI MADE FOR BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA. FRI Credits FRI Hancock: Kevin McNally FRI Actor: Kevin Eldon FRI Actor: Simon Greenall FRI Actor: Robin Sebastian FRI Actor: Susy Kane FRI Writer: Ray Galton FRI Writer: Alan Simpson FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Producer: Neil Pearson FRI FRI 12:45 The New Elizabethans b01k2f7z (Listen) FRI Tony Hancock FRI The New Elizabethans: Tony Hancock the comedy actor and star FRI of radio and TV and film. Best known for Hancock's Half FRI Hour, written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, where he FRI epitomised the little man's struggle FRI against the world. He was always fighting against something, FRI quite often himself. With the advent of TV, his battles with FRI officialdom, and his gloomy reflections on the injustices FRI visited on him, were in every living room. FRI Sadly he began drinking heavily and his personal life FRI unravelled. His vulnerability was exposed in a BBC interview FRI with John Freeman in 1960 called Face to Face. Although he FRI went to Australia in the hope of a revival it wasn't a FRI success and he committed suicide in 1968 at the age of 44. FRI Yet Hancock's Half Hour is still considered one of the most FRI important yardsticks against which British sitcoms are FRI measured and it could be said that Alan Partridge and David FRI Brent owe much of their success to Tony Hancock's character. FRI The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading FRI historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of FRI London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic FRI Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, FRI Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings. FRI They were asked to choose: "Men and women whose actions FRI during the reign of Elizabeth II have had a significant FRI impact on lives in these islands and/or given the age its FRI character, for better or worse." FRI Producer: Clare Walker. FRI FRI 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007jptk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Why Is the 1812 So Popular? b0076ybk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rzw32 (Listen) FRI Naomi Alderman - The Lessons, The Marks of Love FRI Rory Kinnear reads the final epsiode of the Orange New FRI Writer's Award Winner, Naomi Alderman's, second novel, 'The FRI Lessons', a story of ambition, friendship, betrayal and FRI desire. Today: The marks of love. Jess FRI tells James some home truths. FRI Reader Rory Kinnear FRI Abridger Sally Marmion FRI Producer Di Speirs FRI The Lessons is the second novel from Naomi Alderman, winner FRI of the Orange New Writer's Award and Sunday Times Young FRI Writer of the Year. Set among the dreaming spires of Oxford, FRI it follows the progress of a gilded group of under-graduates FRI drawn together by their dazzling and mercurial fellow FRI student Mark Winters. Fuelled by his trust-fund and resident FRI in his Georgian mansion, they live a charmed life of FRI learning and parties and love-affairs. But university is no FRI grounding for real life and none of the friends will be FRI prepared, some years later, when tragedy strikes. FRI The Lessons is a novel about friendship, ambition, betrayal FRI and desire, and the fact that only life can teach the FRI lessons you really need to learn. FRI Naomi Alderman won the Orange New Writers Award for her FRI first novel Disobedience and has subsequently been named as FRI the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. She is a graduate FRI of Lincoln College, Oxford. FRI Rory Kinnear, fresh from playing Angelo at the Almeida and FRI about to play Hamlet at the National Theatre studied at FRI Balliol College, Oxford and reads his first Book at Bedtime. FRI FRI 14:15 Chinese in Britain b0079tf0 (Listen) FRI Educated in Britain FRI Anna Chen sets out to uncover the early history of the FRI Chinese who came to Britain before the takeaway boom of the FRI 1960s. FRI 5/10. Educated in Britain FRI A young man from Canton called Wong Fun became the first FRI recorded Chinese student here when he received his MD at FRI Edinburgh in 1855. Today there are over 50,000 Chinese FRI students in Britain. Anna investigates why so many Chinese FRI sought an education at British universities, particularly FRI those in Scotland. FRI From 2007. FRI Producer: Mukti Jain Campion FRI A Culture Wise Production. FRI FRI 14:30 Alan Plater - Abandoned Projects b009scn3 (Listen) FRI Contrasting Phone Calls and the Beatles FRI Two late-night phone calls bring playwright Alan Plater very FRI different news, as he concludes his own story. With FRI Christian Rodska. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00hslb2 (Listen) FRI Martin Gayford - Constable in Love, Episode 5 FRI Anton Lesser reads Martin Gayford's account of the early FRI career of John Constable and his long battle to win the hand FRI of his future wife, Maria Bicknell, based on correspondence FRI between the pair. FRI After seven FRI years of courtship, Maria and John finally married in a FRI quiet ceremony with no family members in attendance. Now the FRI serious production of paintings and of children could begin FRI in earnest. FRI FRI 15:00 Henry James - The Turn of the Screw b007jvdv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04mlqz6 (Listen) FRI Halloween, cobwebs and kiwi fruit FRI Mel Giedroyc is in high spirits as she presents lots of FRI Halloween fun, including a look at the strength of spider's FRI webs and the final Ghostly Tale for Ghastly Kids, by Jamie FRI Rix. FRI FRI 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00k8x8x (Listen) FRI Series 3, Flaming June FRI A weekend away in the country and under canvas. Memories FRI will be made of this. Stars Marlene Sidaway and Paul Copley. FRI FRI 17:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076hn4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Jest a Minute b012rys1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 Pioneers b014qz46 (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Samaritans FRI 5/6 FRI Clare English speaks to Father Roy Day and Mike Tunstall FRI about the history of The Samaritans and how it provided the FRI first 24 hour helpline in the UK. FRI Roy and Mike talk about their fond memories of working FRI alongside the charity's founder, Chad Varah and how his FRI pioneering service provided a lifeline to many vulnerable FRI people. FRI FRI 19:00 Andrew Maxwell's Hallowe'en Hoolie b04mlpx7 (Listen) FRI The Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell loves Hallowe'en. That's FRI why he's determined to reclaim it from the Americans. Forget FRI pumpkins and plastic fangs, the origins of Halloween lie in FRI the Celtic feast of Samhain, FRI don't they? Well, as he discovers, the answer isn't clear FRI cut! FRI Andrew's investigation involves historians, folklorists, a FRI psychologist, a storyteller, curiously hard cakes, ghoulish FRI root vegetables and the ghost of Dick Turpin. FRI Prepare to be spooked by otherworldly tales along the way. FRI Produced by Moy McGowan. FRI Credits FRI Writer: Andrew Maxwell FRI Performer: Andrew Maxwell FRI Producer: Moy McGowan FRI FRI 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x97hy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b04mlpx9 (Listen) FRI 2014, Heat eight FRI Made for 4 Extra. Eighth heat of the 2014 BBC Radio New FRI Comedy Award. Recorded in London and hosted by Arthur Smith. FRI FRI 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b04nz962 (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats FRI to Holly Burn. FRI FRI 23:30 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller b00933zr (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Martin Bain-Jones is left in the studio, while Craig has a FRI dubious new job. Starring Alexander Armstrong and Ben FRI Miller. From December 1998. FRI

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