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SAT SATURDAY 06 DECEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years SAT b007jtgh (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Adrian moves house again, becomes a cat and babysitter, and SAT finally gets rid of his blazer. Read by Nicholas Barnes. SAT SAT 00:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009j65v (Listen) SAT David Hicks SAT Laurence looks at the career of a flamboyant and influential SAT decorator, who became a superstar of the 1960s, in his SAT history of our homes from the 1920s to the present day. SAT SAT 00:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnwb (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Preacher Dinah visits her cousin Hetty, who languishes under SAT sentence of death in jail. Stars Katherine Igoe and Vicki SAT Liddelle. SAT SAT 00:45 Simon Gray - Coda b00t2cn6 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Coming to terms with his terminal cancer, the playwright SAT experiences the joys of a christening, then goes to collect SAT the results of his scan. Read by Toby Stephens. SAT SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00schhg (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT While Jon Richardson is detained by the volcano SAT Eyjafjallajokull, John Lloyd is joined by emergency guest SAT curator Dave Gorman to welcome poet Ruth Padel, Madness SAT frontman Suggs and Bo Selecta comedian Leigh Francis, who SAT are offering us the Great Exhibition of 1851, a tiger SAT reserve and some Spidermans, and all for public display. SAT SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books b00tt607 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Anthony Horowitz SAT 1/1 SAT Anthony Horowitz is the creator of the best-selling Alex SAT Rider novels and was identified by Labour's then Education SAT Secretary Alan Johnson as the secret weapon to get boys SAT reading. In conversation with Stuart Cosgrove, Anthony SAT reveals the five most significant books in his life. From SAT Tin Tin to War and Peace we hear what books have shaped the SAT life of this acclaimed author. SAT SAT 02:00 Cadfael b007jlbz (Listen) SAT With Edwin arrested for murder, Brother Cadfael seeks SAT justice in the local court. Stars Philip Madoc and Sir SAT Michael Hordern. SAT SAT 02:30 Shake It, Baby b0076yxd (Listen) SAT Libby Purves meets leading figures in the UK's neo-burlesque SAT revolution, combining titillation with saucy humour whilst SAT divesting themselves of elaborate costumes. From June 2006. SAT SAT 03:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t2t (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Gentle, intelligent Oblomov completely fails to deal with SAT life. He lives in a flat in St Petersburg. He is always SAT about to go and sort out his estate but he rarely gets out SAT of bed. Never doing today what he can put off till tomorrow, SAT Oblomov is a tragic-comic hero for a couch potato SAT generation. SAT Starring Toby Jones as Oblomov, Trevor Peacock as Zahar and SAT Claire Skinner as Olga. Singer: Olivia Robinson and pianist: SAT Helen Crayford. SAT Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Director Claire Grove SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005. SAT SAT 04:00 Elizabeth Taylor - Dangerous Calm b0076h31 (Listen) SAT Hotel du Commerce SAT An overheard argument in a French hotel exposes the SAT fragility of a honeymooning couple's own relationship. Read SAT by Joanna David. SAT SAT 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00770hp (Listen) SAT RK Narayan - A Tiger for Malgudi SAT By R K Narayan, dramatised by Ronald Frame. SAT Now the companion of a Sadu, an ageing tiger looks back on SAT his life. A rich evocation of Indian life in the 1970s, this SAT comic narrative views human absurdities through the eyes of SAT a wild animal. SAT Directed by Lu Kemp. SAT Credits SAT Author: R.K. Narayan SAT Writer: Ronald Frame SAT Deputy: Paul Bazely SAT Zookeeper: Paul Bazely SAT Captain: Paul Bazely SAT Jaddu: Paul Bazely SAT Teacher: Meneka Das SAT Alphonse: Kulvinder Ghir SAT Mandan: Kulvinder Ghir SAT Shekar: Raman Goyal SAT Wife: Indira Joshi SAT Raja, the Tiger: Raad Rawi SAT The Master: Nadim Sawalha SAT Director: Lu Kemp SAT SAT 05:00 After Henry b007k4gw (Listen) SAT Series 3, Lines of Communication SAT Sarah and her mother Eleanor wage a war of attrition, until SAT Russell steps in. Stars Prunella Scales. From October 1987. SAT SAT 05:30 Spangles 'n' Tights b04stqd5 (Listen) SAT The Movie SAT A US film company needs old uniforms from Dublin's SAT theatrical costumiers. With David Kelly and Pauline McLynn. SAT From October 1998. SAT SAT 06:00 Oscar Wilde b007jv0p (Listen) SAT The Importance of Being Earnest SAT London, 1895: crafty friends Jack and Algernon are living a SAT double life. SAT This production of Oscar Wilde's comedy was mounted to SAT celebrate the centenary of the play's first night at SAT London's Haymarket Theatre on 14th February 1895. SAT Starring Dame Judi Dench as Lady Bracknell, Martin Clunes as SAT Algernon Moncrieff, Michael Sheen as Jack Worthing, Miriam SAT Margolyes as Miss Prism, John Moffatt as Canon Chasuble and SAT Michael Hordern as Lane. SAT Pianist: Terence Allbright. Produced by Glyn Dearman SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01m49vh (Listen) SAT Your Starter for Ten: 50 Years of University Challenge SAT Fifty years after episode one was shown on ITV, the geek SAT fest that is University Challenge has not only survived but SAT also flourished. SAT In this Archive on 4, former Radio 4 controller now Master SAT of St Peter's college Oxford, Mark Damazer, pays tribute to SAT his favourite quiz. SAT Delving into its history he uncovers a programme that began SAT against the backdrop of a shake up in Britain's university SAT system and came from the entrepreneurial spirit of SAT Manchester's Granada studios. SAT Mark meets former contestants like Gail Trimble, Sean SAT Blanchflower and Luke Pitcher who have all won the coveted SAT University Challenge title. Through personal anecdotes from SAT the archives from Bamber Gascoigne and in a new interview SAT with Jeremy Paxman, Mark discovers how competing students SAT have, across the decades, delighted its hosts. SAT BBC Director General Mark Thompson and ITV's John Whiston SAT debate how University Challenge works as piece of television SAT and why it has endured for half a century. SAT The show has ever been controversial. In a protest about SAT Oxbridge being allowed to enter so many college teams, SAT Manchester University, which included future broadcaster SAT David Aaronovitch, answered most of the questions with silly SAT answers. David tells Mark why he regretted taking his place SAT on the team. Quentin Smith, now a lawyer, was the man behind SAT the Manchester University controversy and tells his version SAT of the story for the first time. SAT There are also plenty of starters for ten: What sort of SAT brain do you need to be good at it? Has it got deliberately SAT easier or harder? And how do you put together the best team? SAT Answers will be revealed in this loving homage to one of SAT Britain's most admired television shows. SAT Produced by: Jo Meek SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller b007jpfr (Listen) SAT Stephen Fry SAT Stephen Fry, actor, writer, wit and naughty national SAT treasure chooses his favourite comedies from the BBC radio SAT archive. SAT For Stephen, radio comedy inhabits the very way 'I write and SAT think'. He takes us back to his childhood, curled up and SAT listening to programmes like Men From the Ministry (1972). SAT He remembers his friend Douglas Adams, who Stephen recalls SAT thought the whole world through...only backwards, no better SAT displayed than in the very first Hitchhikers Guide to the SAT Galaxy (1978). SAT He relives the thrill of being offered the chance to write SAT his very own radio show, and asking his friends Hugh Laurie SAT and Emma Thompson to help out in Saturday Night Fry (1988). SAT Stephen marvels at the brilliance of the team behind the SAT ultimate news show On the Hour (1992) including Armando SAT Iannucci, Chris Morris and Steve Coogan. SAT He explains what it's like to experience, from the comedy SAT coal face, an absolute radio classic, the antidote to panel SAT games: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (2003). And chooses his SAT own antidote to radio phone in shows, the award winning Down SAT The Line (2007), starring Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson SAT - who Stephen knew as comedy saplings. SAT For Stephen, TV is often a greedy, one dimensional medium. SAT For him listening to radio "is so much more". SAT Producer: Peter McHugh. SAT SAT 12:00 Patricia Highsmith - Carol Omnibus b04t1yt8 (Listen) SAT A tender, unsettling love story of two very different women SAT who risk everything to be together. Stars Miranda SAT Richardson. SAT SAT 13:15 Rumpole of the Bailey b007jz92 (Listen) SAT Rumpole Redeemed SAT The barrister faces a conundrum over whether offenders can SAT ever go straight. John Mortimer's drama stars Timothy West. SAT SAT 14:00 The Consultants b0076pvy (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT Taking register at stunt school, and Tarzan learns the SAT alphabet. Sketch comedy with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. SAT From December 2003. SAT SAT 14:30 Dead Ringers b0076jx6 (Listen) SAT The Best of Dead Ringers SAT Overseas versions of The Archers and David Beckham in SAT Brazil. Highlights with Jon Culshaw and Kate Robbins. From SAT January 2004. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01m49vh (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Oscar Wilde b007jv0p (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force b007jn65 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Unto Death and Beyond SAT Stranded on the Golden Planet, the crew must find a way to SAT return to Mars. Stars Barry Foster, Nicky Henson and Tony SAT Osoba. SAT SAT 18:30 Planet B b00yqqs6 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Disaster! SAT In the last hours of Planet B, what is better than a SAT farewell party? Virtual reality saga by Matthew Wilkie. SAT Stars Lloyd Thomas. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller b007jpfr (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b017mv2v (Listen) SAT Tolerance SAT Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly SAT assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden and with the additional SAT help of the listening audience as we broadcast live and SAT invite them to join in. SAT Mark will be asking the big questions that are crucial to SAT our understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic SAT and thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the SAT live audience and asks them to jump into the conversation SAT via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the SAT world a better place. SAT This week Mark looks at "Tolerance" - Religious tolerance, SAT moral tolerance, not striking the person next to you on the SAT bus because they haven't worked out you can send a text SAT without your phone beeping every time you press a key. It's SAT important to tolerate others' faults, their little quirks, SAT and their massive despicable crimes. But can tolerance make SAT us into doormats, allowing evil to thrive? Probably. Shame, SAT that. SAT Mark Watson is a multi award winning comedian, including the SAT inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim SAT Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden SAT who won the the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. SAT Produced by Lianne Coop. SAT SAT 22:30 The Mark Steel Revolution b00g1zs8 (Listen) SAT The Theory of Evolution SAT The radical comedian reassesses Darwin's description of the SAT development of life. With Carla Mendonca. From August 1998. SAT SAT 23:00 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b04t6pqs (Listen) SAT 2014, Semi-final, part 1 - Extended SAT Extended edition, made for 4 Extra. Patrick Kielty presents SAT this first semi-final of the 2014 BBC Radio New Comedy Award SAT from the Birmingham Glee Club. SAT SAT 23:45 No Tomatoes b0082dsm (Listen) SAT Retro Rocket SAT A harp goes back in time with Paul Copley and Helen Moon. SAT Sketch show mixing up language and sounds. From October SAT 2007. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 07 DECEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force b007jn65 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Planet B b00yqqs6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b01m49vh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Patricia Highsmith - Carol Omnibus b04t1yt8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Rumpole of the Bailey b007jz92 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Oscar Wilde b007jv0p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede Omnibus b00t13s4 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Staffordshire, 1799. Will the captain's military career, or SUN someone else, prevent a marriage to Hetty? Stars Katherine SUN Igoe. SUN SUN 07:15 Byron Rogers - The Last Human Cannonball b00fwdfc (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Byron Rogers embarks on a visit to the packed treasure house SUN of a costume store. Read by Crawford Logan. SUN SUN 07:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00yqhrk (Listen) SUN Series 1, Gelbetia SUN by Bill Dare SUN Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel SUN documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit SUN after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre SUN adventures. SUN This week we hear about his travels in Gelbetia, a country SUN run by doctors. SUN Produced by Steven Canny SUN Brian Gulliver's Travels is a new satirical adventure story SUN from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast SUN led by Neil Pearson and award winning star of the RSC's SUN current season, Mariah Gale. Cast includes fantastic actors SUN Tamsin Greig, John Standing, Paul Bhattacharjee, Christopher SUN Douglas, Catherine Shepherd, Vicky Pepperdine, Phil SUN Cornwell, Antonia Campbell Hughes, Jo Bobin and Katherine SUN Jakeways. SUN For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about SUN different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, SUN 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand SUN our own'. But science fiction and space ships never SUN interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian SUN Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a SUN fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. SUN Satirical targets over the series: the medical profession SUN and its need to pathologize everything; the effect of SUN marriage on children; spirituality and pseudo-science; SUN compensation culture; sexism; the affect of our obsession SUN with fame. SUN Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at SUN university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly SUN peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the SUN Galaxy. SUN Credits SUN Brian: Neil Pearson SUN Rachel: Mariah Gale SUN Brendal: Katherine Jakeways SUN Dr Malik: Paul Bhattacharjee SUN Nurse Hill: Sean Baker SUN Judge: Sam Dale SUN Juror: Nyasha Hatendi SUN Cliptin: Jane Whittenshaw SUN Nurse Suzy: Sally Orrock SUN Producer: Steven Canny SUN Writer: Bill Dare SUN SUN 08:00 Meet the Huggetts b00nvyzd (Listen) SUN Clean Linen SUN A mix-up at the launderette causes embarrassment for Joe and SUN Ethel. Stars Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. From June SUN 1959. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00r3s1n (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN The team investigate travel - does it get you anywhere? SUN Stars Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From May SUN 1970. SUN SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women b007jqq9 (Listen) SUN Secrets SUN The March sisters go on an outing with Laurie's English SUN friends. Stars Buffy Davis, Jemma Redgrave and Gayle SUN Hunnicutt. SUN SUN 09:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen b04t6jvq (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN As Harry health deteriorates, Captain Kidd's diabolical SUN plans are coming to fruition. Stars Polly James and Philip SUN Voss. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04t6k33 (Listen) SUN Children's Writers, Anne Fine SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Mozart to Dire Straits, children's SUN writer Anne Fine shares her castaway choices with Sue SUN Lawley. From December 2001. SUN SUN 10:45 Patrick O'Brian - Samphire b04t6k35 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Hunting a samphire plant on a cliff edge, SUN Molly and her husband plumb the depths of their SUN relationship. Read by Diana Bishop. SUN SUN 11:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b01dh70q (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 22 SUN Back at the Town Hall in New York City, the American funny SUN man welcomes singers Leon Redbone and Heather Masse. From SUN 2011. SUN SUN 12:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede Omnibus b00t13s4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Byron Rogers - The Last Human Cannonball b00fwdfc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Wally K Daly - A Right Royal Rip-Off b007jqz6 (Listen) SUN Inmates Charles and George have a nice little scam going on SUN behind bars. The last thing they want is to be released from SUN prison, so they plot an outrageously daring heist - SUN involving the Crown Jewels. SUN Starring Peter Jones as Charles Forbes, Lockwood West as SUN George Evans, Bernard Bresslaw as Bullet Head, Charles SUN Hawtrey as Fingers and Donald Hewlett as Governor Smith. SUN The second of Wally K Daly's trilogy of criminal gang capers SUN produced in the style of old British comedy films. Listen SUN out for The Bigger They Are. SUN Produced by Martin Jenkins. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1982. SUN SUN 15:00 Meet the Huggetts b00nvyzd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00r3s1n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b04t6kxr (Listen) SUN Puffin pianos, Morris Gleitzman and island life SUN Mel Giedroyc introduces highlights from this week's 4 SUN O'Clock Shows including puffin pianos, author Morris SUN Gleitzman's Inheritance Books and a celebration of island SUN life. SUN SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women b007jqq9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen b04t6jvq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jm54 (Listen) SUN I Sing the Body Electric SUN When a young mother dies, she is replaced by a Mark V SUN 110-volt AC/DC Electrical Grandmother. What else? Stars SUN Joanna Tope. SUN SUN 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind b007jlw9 (Listen) SUN Genetic Revelation SUN A colony of mutants exists in the heart of London, and the SUN only person who could fight them is dead. Stars Vincent SUN Price and Peter Cushing. SUN SUN 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b01dh70q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Meet the Huggetts b00nvyzd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00r3s1n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Serial b04wzrs9 (Listen) SUN The Alibi SUN Sarah investigates how a potential alibi surfaced and then SUN disappeared again at the worst possible time for Adnan's SUN case. SUN SUN 22:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00yqhrk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Clare in the Community b00gkktk (Listen) SUN Series 2, Doolah's Choice SUN The bossy social worker sticks her oar in Helen's wedding SUN and Megan's home birth. Starring Sally Phillips. From SUN October 2005. SUN SUN 23:00 The Maltby Collection b00xmvwb (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 SUN The museum staff pitch their ideas for a special exhibition. SUN Stars Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt. From June 2008. SUN SUN 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jqwj (Listen) SUN Series 3, The Masterson's Magical Marquee, pt 2 SUN The improvised historical family saga's two-part romp about SUN a Victorian travelling circus. With Josie Lawrence. From SUN July 1995. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 08 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jm54 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind b007jlw9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04t6k33 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Patrick O'Brian - Samphire b04t6k35 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Meet the Huggetts b00nvyzd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00r3s1n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00yqhrk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Wally K Daly - A Right Royal Rip-Off b007jqz6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women b007jqq9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen b04t6jvq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q17 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON September 1800, Rosia Bay, Gibraltar. Newly commissioned, MON Jack Aubrey nervously awaits the verdict in his Court MON Martial for the loss of his ship, the Sophie. MON Dramatisation of Patrick O'Brian's popular Napoleonic MON seafaring adventure. MON Starring Michael Troughton as Jack Aubrey and Nigel Anthony MON as Stephen Maturin. MON Dramatised by Roger Danes. Directed by Adrian Bean. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. MON MON 06:30 Third Ear b04t6ys4 (Listen) MON Patrick O'Brian MON 4 Extra Debut. Novelist Patrick O'Brian talks to Alan Judd MON about his work and his fascination with the historical MON novel. From March 1992. MON MON 07:00 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b00751s5 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 4 MON The lifestyle show turns its attention to fame and MON entertaining. Stars Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. From MON October 1999. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04stzf5 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 3 MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit MON to the Victoria Hall in Stoke-on-Trent. Regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Omid Djalili, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin MON Sell provides piano accompaniment. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Marriage Lines b04t6qly (Listen) MON Series 1, The Convention MON Kate is concerned when George heads to Birmingham with his MON colleagues. Stars Richard Briers and Prunella Scales. From MON July 1965. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b04t6qm0 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 1 MON Former sweethearts Jean and Lionel meet up again after many MON years, but true love fails to rekindle. MON Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. MON With Jon Glover and Simon Greenall. MON Adapted from his original television series by Bob Larbey. MON Produced by Martin Fisher. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. MON MON 09:00 The Personality Test b00n51fv (Listen) MON Series 2, Esther Rantzen MON The TV star and consumer champ quizzes a panel about MON herself. With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter and Will Smith. From MON January 2007. MON MON 09:30 The Castle b01jyq99 (Listen) MON Series 4, A Term for the Worse MON Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, MON starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley"), Neil Dudgeon MON ("Life Of Riley"), Martha Howe-Douglas ("Horrible MON Histories") & Ingrid Oliver MON Anne's off to Cambridge but Charlotte doesn't know the MON meaning of the word "thick". Literally. Is this the end of a MON beautiful friendship? And what will Sir Warenne do? MON Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander MON Music by Guy Jackson MON Produced and directed by David Tyler. MON Credits MON Sir John Woodstock: James Fleet MON Sir William De Warenne: Neil Dudgeon MON Lady Anne Woodstock: Martha Howe-Douglas MON Cardinal Duncan: Jonathan Kydd MON Lady Charlotte: Ingrid Oliver MON Master Henry Woodstock: Steven Kynman MON Bates: Lewis Macleod MON Writer: Kim Fuller MON Writer: Paul Alexander MON MON 10:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t6b (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Gentle, intelligent Oblomov completely fails to deal with MON life. He lives in a flat in St Petersburg never doing today MON what he can put off till tomorrow. MON During a summer in the country, he has fallen in love with MON pretty clever Olga. Back in St Petersburg, Olga's patience MON is put to the test. MON Starring Toby Jones as Oblomov, Trevor Peacock as Zahar and MON Claire Skinner as Olga. MON Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Director Claire Grove MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005. MON MON 11:00 Patrick O'Brian - Little Death b04t7kjc (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Haunted by World War Two and vowing not to MON kill again, an ex-fighter pilot is invited to shoot pigeons. MON Read by Liam O'Callaghan. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b04tcbcy (Listen) MON Sara Cox, Richard Curtis, Lee Mack, Josie Lawrence, Andrew MON O'Neill, Hiss Golden Messenger, Francesca Belmonte MON Clive talks to Richard Curtis, award-winning, international MON film-director and script writer, and the creator of 'Four MON Weddings and a Funeral', 'Love Actually', 'Notting Hill' and MON 'Mr Bean', about his new children's book 'Snow Day' and his MON adaptation with Paul Mayhew Archer of Roald Dahl's 'Esio MON Trot', as part of the BBC's Xmas programming. MON In new film 'Bonobo' comedienne and actress Josie Lawrence MON leads a commune whose social structure, like that of the MON Bonobo ape, centres around recreational sex. Hilarity MON ensues. MON Clive's co-host Sara Cox meets comic Andrew O'Neill; MON transvestite, and 'pharmacist baffler'. He is also married MON and in a steam-punk band, and his current Radio 4 show MON examines gender identity, using his own experiences. MON And mid sell-out tour, multi-award winning star of 'Not MON Going Out' and 'Would I Lie To You'? Lee Mack talks sitcoms, MON well-crafted gags and sharp one-liners. MON With music from Hiss Golden Messenger who performs MON 'Saturday's Song' from his album 'Lateness of Dancers', MON available now on Merge Records. And more music from MON Francesca Belmonte who performs her new single 'Stole', MON available on Monday 29th December on False Idols. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Josie Lawrence MON ‘Bonobo’ is in cinemas now. MON Richard Curtis MON ‘Snow Day’, written by Richard Curtis, illustrated by MON Rebecca Cobb, is out now in Puffin Hardback. MON Roald Dahl's Esio Trot is on Thursday 1st January at 18.30 MON on BBC One. MON Andrew O'Neill MON ‘Andrew O'Neill: ‘Pharmacist Baffler’ is on Tuesday 16th MON December at 23.00 on BBC Radio 4. MON 'History of Heavy Metal' is at Thekla, Bristol on Wednesday MON 10th and 'Mindspiders' is at NN Cafe, Northampton on MON Thursday 11th December. MON MON MON Lee Mack MON Series six of ‘Not Going Out’ and the Christmas specials are MON available now on DVD. MON Lee is touring ‘Hit The Road Mack’ until Monday 22nd MON December. He’s at Apollo Manchester from Tuesday 9th to MON Sunday 14th November. Check Lee’s website for further dates. MON Hiss Golden Messenger MON ‘Lateness of Dancers’ is available now on Merge Records. MON Hiss Golden Messenger are playing Bleach, Brighton on Friday MON 6th, Independent, Sunderland on Saturday 7th and Leeds, MON Brudenell Social Club on Sunday 8th February. Check their MON website for further dates. MON Francesca Belmonte MON ‘Stole’ is available on Monday 29th December on False Idols. MON MON 12:00 Marriage Lines b04t6qly (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b04t6qm0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q17 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Third Ear b04t6ys4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years MON b007jth1 (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON Adrian has a near-miss, but manages to lose his job and his MON psychotherapist in the process. Read by Nicholas Barnes. MON MON 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc8w (Listen) MON Country House MON Laurence plots the rise of the country house style in the MON disquieting years of the '70s and '80s, when the past became MON a consolation and an escape from the present. MON MON 14:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnxd (Listen) MON Episode 11 MON In the darkness of her prison cell, preacher Dinah struggles MON for Hetty's soul. Stars Katherine Igoe and Vicki Liddelle. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b01l30yg (Listen) MON Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 1 MON "One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality MON I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own MON version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich MON Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist MON Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the MON slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, MON Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a MON makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering MON luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Boo tells MON the tale of those she met there, from the garbage scavenger MON to the wannabe slumlord, the corrupt police officers to the MON slum's first female college graduate, as she looks at what MON it takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's MON great, unequal cities. MON Today: while local teenage boys see a job in the luxury MON hotels as a way out, one woman sets her sights on becoming MON the slum's first female slumlord. MON Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist MON who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is MON her first book. MON Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director MON of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and MON playwright. MON Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 15:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t6b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0366kyb (Listen) MON On today's show, ringmaster Mel Giedroyc takes us on a tour MON of a modern circus, and author David Almond reads the first MON part of his own story The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas. MON MON 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b00bt51z (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON Singers Tommy and Sheila have a supermarket to open, and go MON silver-surfing. Stars Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. From May MON 2001. MON MON 17:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b00751s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 The Personality Test b00n51fv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b04t7rry (Listen) MON Peter Firth and Judith Palmer MON Sarah LeFanu, the Rt Rev Peter Firth and Judith Palmer MON discuss books by Rohinton Mistry, Cecil Lewis and John MON Banville. From November 1998. MON Tales from Firozsha Baag, by Rohinton Mistry MON Publisher: Faber & Faber MON Sagittarius Rising, by Cecil Lewis MON Publisher: Warner Books MON The Untouchable, by John Banville MON Publisher: Picador. MON MON 19:00 Marriage Lines b04t6qly (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b04t6qm0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q17 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Third Ear b04t6ys4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Serial b04wzs3g (Listen) MON The Break Up MON Friends say Adnan was sad when Hae dumped him, but not crazy MON sad - normal sad. The prosecutors say he was rage-filled and MON vengeful. Which is it? MON MON 21:40 Inheritance Tracks b04khrzx (Listen) MON Trevor Nunn MON Theatre director Trevor Nunn inherits the Paul Temple radio MON theme, and passes on 'All You Need Is Love' by the Beatles. MON MON 21:45 Back to the Drawing Board b008zhmd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Fire-proof grease, happy accidents and the doggy doorbell. MON Matthew Harvey explores the fascinating world of inventions. MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04stzf5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Castle b01jyq99 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b04t7tx3 (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 7 MON Made for 4 Extra. Satirical review of the week's news, MON chaired by Sandi Toksvig with regular guest Jeremy Hardy, MON plus Fred Macaulay, Bob Mills and Holly Walsh. MON MON 23:45 Hearing With Hegley b009y1s3 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 1 MON The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley MON presents a selection of his work. From November 1996. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 09 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years TUE b007jth1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc8w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnxd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b01l30yg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Personality Test b00n51fv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b04t7rry (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q17 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Third Ear b04t6ys4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t6b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Patrick O'Brian - Little Death b04t7kjc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b04tcbcy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b00bt51z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b00751s5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q19 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Jack tests the Sophie under sail, and Stephen's romantic TUE notions of naval life are distinctly tarnished. With Michael TUE Troughton and Nigel Anthony. TUE TUE 06:30 The Perfect House b008jz4w (Listen) TUE Charlie Luxton visits Venice to celebrate the 500th TUE anniversary of the birth of Andrea Palladio, known as the TUE father of western architecture. The symmetry and grace of TUE the Villa Emo, completed in 1565, explain the reputation TUE Palladio acquired as the ultimate domestic architect. TUE TUE 07:00 Two Doors Down b008h68b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Druids and Draws TUE Edith Black's poet lodger is back with his druid lover, and TUE Sally is sorting again. Stars Stella McCusker. From August TUE 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04svfsc (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Separatists TUE When the lights from a new zebra crossing outside Tom's TUE parent's house causes insomnia in the Wrigglesworth TUE household, Tom's dad is forced to take matters into his own TUE hands and cause a fuss. Not perhaps in the way everyone else TUE would though... TUE Meanwhile, Tom is down in London preparing himself for a TUE visit from the bailiffs. TUE Credits TUE Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Granny: Judy Parfitt TUE Dad: Paul Copley TUE Mum: Kate Anthony TUE Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Writer: James Kettle TUE Writer: Miles Jupp TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 08:00 The Goon Show b007jr24 (Listen) TUE Tales of Men's Shirts TUE It is 1942, and Neddie Seagoon must stop the Germans' secret TUE weapon. Stars Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. From TUE December 1959. TUE TUE 08:30 Doctor at Large b009xxrs (Listen) TUE In General Practice TUE Sparrow lands a job in Aberdeen, where he is forced to TUE tackle a pepped-up port-loving lady. With Richard Briers. TUE From July 1969. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b04t7tx3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley b009y1s3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrhz (Listen) TUE March 1846 TUE A mystery letter from New Orleans. But what is the secret of TUE Magdalen and Norah Vanstone's parents? Stars Sophie TUE Thompson. TUE TUE 11:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Stag at Bay b04t922f (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. He is writing an article on marriage. She has TUE retreated to her mother's. And the horned beast? Read by TUE Sean Barrett. TUE TUE 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b007rfd0 (Listen) TUE I Always Take Long Walks TUE Dame Judi Dench plays Enid, the wife of a man addicted to TUE cricket. TUE She shares with us her private thoughts - many of which she TUE has while taking walks - on cricket, kitchen units and life TUE with her husband. TUE Written by Peter Tinniswood. Director: John Tydeman TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. TUE TUE 11:50 Ken Whitmore - Brown's Bull b01709h1 (Listen) TUE Mr Rosemount is not happy. But he has a plan to gain revenge TUE on the man responsible. Read by Bernard Cribbins. TUE TUE 12:00 The Goon Show b007jr24 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Doctor at Large b009xxrs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q19 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Perfect House b008jz4w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years TUE b007jth5 (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE Adrian 'enjoys' a Russian holiday, desperately seeks TUE accommodation and keeps in touch with Bianca. Read by TUE Nicholas Barnes. TUE TUE 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc90 (Listen) TUE Loft Living TUE Bowen hits Manchester to explore the rise of lofts during TUE the 1980s, a change in people's expectations of what homes TUE could be. TUE TUE 14:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnxz (Listen) TUE Episode 12 TUE Hetty confesses the full horror of her crime, but Dinah TUE makes her own admission. Stars Katherine Igoe and Vicki TUE Liddelle. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b01l314l (Listen) TUE Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 2 TUE "One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality TUE I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own TUE version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich TUE Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist TUE Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the TUE slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, TUE Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a TUE makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering TUE luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through TUE the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it TUE takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, TUE unequal cities. TUE Today: a young teacher banks on education as a way out of TUE the slums, while a young garbage scavenger is tempted into TUE theft. TUE Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist TUE who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is TUE her first book. TUE Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director TUE of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and TUE playwright. TUE Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 15:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrhz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0366nk3 (Listen) TUE Mel Giedroyc hears about the 'The Headless Lady' sideshow TUE illusion, and author David Almond reads the second part of TUE his story The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas. TUE TUE 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04t6tf8 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Daily Rehearsals TUE A driving lesson sparks problems aplenty for the dear TUE ladies. Stars Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From TUE May 1977. TUE TUE 17:30 Two Doors Down b008h68b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 We've Been Here Before b00fz84k (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Clive Anderson's yesteryear quiz, with Mark Steel, John TUE O'Farrell, Chris Addison and David Quantick. From June 2004. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b04t96jg (Listen) TUE Dudley Moore TUE 4 Extra Debut. Comedian Dudley Moore talks to Jeremy TUE Nicholas about the music that stirs strong emotions, TUE including Bach. From July 1992. TUE TUE 19:00 The Goon Show b007jr24 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Doctor at Large b009xxrs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q19 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Perfect House b008jz4w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Serial b04wzslj (Listen) TUE Leakin Park TUE Three weeks after Hae went missing, a man found her body in TUE a city forest. But his story is strange and his past is even TUE stranger. Did he really just stumble on her by accident? TUE TUE 21:30 Moy McCrory - The Mermaid and the Rat Catcher TUE b00vknkp (Listen) TUE Can a lonely rat catcher keep his promise to a mermaid, or TUE lose her forever? Read by Gerard McSorley. TUE TUE 21:45 Back to the Drawing Board b008zt90 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Apart from creativity, great inventions call for patents and TUE money. Presented by Matthew Harvey, with James Dyson. TUE TUE 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04svfsc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Headset Set b012fs7b (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE A new audience sketch show set in a call centre. Today is TUE appraisal day in the offices of Smile5, the catalogue TUE company that sells anything and everything. Only Sailesh has TUE prepared, the others plan to use various other crackpot TUE methods to sail through. TUE Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu TUE Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith TUE Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult TUE Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul sharma TUE Various ..... Philip Fox TUE Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell TUE Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani TUE WELCOME TO SMILE5! TUE Smile5 is a mail order catalogue company selling everything TUE from Rolex watches to lawnmowers, from financial products to TUE phone and broadband, from holidays to health insurance. And TUE somewhere in a brown-field wasteland miles from the nearest TUE town, it runs one of the largest call centres operating in TUE the UK. This is the world of The Headset Set. TUE Each episode features a host of sketches set in the call TUE centre, eavesdropping on both sides of the bizarre, horrific TUE and ludicrous business-customer relationship. While the bulk TUE of each show is taken up with standalone sketches, there are TUE linked scenes providing a gentle narrative curve to TUE proceedings. These scenes feature three of the call centre's TUE employees - Bernie, Aleesha and Big Tony - trying the TUE patience of their team leader Sailesh. TUE This is a team written sketch show series originated by TUE Stephen Carlin and James Kettle and script edited by James TUE Kettle and Dan Tetsell. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04wx2vg (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth TUE chats to Adam Riches. TUE TUE 23:00 Delve Special b00t1qsy (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Shifton Scandal, pt 2 TUE In his town demolition expose, David Lander examines the TUE influence of a holiday company. Stephen Fry stars as the TUE spoof investigative reporter. From August 1984. TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b00t2crk (Listen) TUE Series 1, Switching Off TUE Comatose Ben's doctors bring in a psychiatrist, as he TUE recalls his therapy from the past. Stars Neil Pearson. From TUE August 2006. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years WED b007jth5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc90 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnxz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b01l314l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 We've Been Here Before b00fz84k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Tingle Factor b04t96jg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q19 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 The Perfect House b008jz4w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrhz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Stag at Bay b04t922f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Peter Tinniswood b007rfd0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:50 Ken Whitmore - Brown's Bull b01709h1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04t6tf8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Two Doors Down b008h68b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1c (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The discipline of HMS Sophie's crew is tested and found to WED be wanting. Stars Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony. WED WED 06:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yfn (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED 4 Extra Debut. John Bird examines how a Chicago theatre WED project became arguably the world's most famous and WED influential comedy club. From May 2006. WED WED 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b017x4fn (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the WED residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Jan has Helen WED back at home, but is it what she really wants? WED written by Katherine Jakeways WED produced by Victoria Lloyd WED John Biggins............Keith WED Mackenzie Crook.........Rod WED Kevin Eldon.........Jonathan / Ken WED Shelia Hancock........... Narrator WED Jessica Henwick.............Helen WED Katherine Jakeways.... Esther / Jacqui WED Felicity Montagu..............Jan WED Geoffrey Palmer..........Norman WED Lizzie Roper............Angela WED Penelope Wilton............Mary WED Rufus Wright..............Frank. WED WED 07:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04sxr8s (Listen) WED Food WED In Paul Sinha's History Revision the acclaimed stand-up and WED eleventh best UK quizzer Paul Sinha looks through all of WED human history and examines how we came to be where we are. WED He starts with something everyday, something we all know to WED be true; he then reveals the quirks of history and the WED fascinating stories that led up to this point. WED In this first edition, Paul takes as his starting point his WED own high street in south London. Firstly, what historical WED evens gave his hometown its name? But more than that - how WED did it end up being culinarily dominated by Chinese and WED Indian restaurants? The story starts in 1600 and takes in WED trade, invasion, opium, a bloody civil war that left thirty WED million people dead, giant greenhouses and the cultivation WED of saffron. WED Paul Sinha is an acclaimed stand-up who was nominated for WED the Edinburgh Comedy award for his show Saint or Sinha?. He WED frequently appears on The News Quiz, The Now Show, and WED Fighting Talk. He is a resident 'chaser' on the ITV quiz WED show The Chase. He wrote and starred in one-offs The Sinha WED Test (2011) and The Sinha Games (2012) on Radio 4 and in WED 2013 had his own four-part series, Paul Sinha's Citizenship WED Test. WED Written and performed by Paul Sinha. WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED Credits WED Writer: Paul Sinha WED Performer: Paul Sinha WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way b007js9k (Listen) WED Series 4, Avoid Like the Plague the Burkiss Way WED The Grim Reaper arrives, keen to spread the Red Death. WED Featuring Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred WED Harris. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00s6n2b (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 7 WED Scary wannabes in Opportunity Flops, and a whodunnit. WED Sketches and songs with John Cleese and David Hatch. From WED April 1966. WED WED 09:00 Whispers b007k3bv (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED Gyles Brandreth hosts the scandals quiz with Lucy Moore, WED Anthony Holden, Richard Herring and Louise Doughty. From WED November 2005. WED WED 09:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b007jnyr (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Variety meets sitcom meets sketch show, as Mel Hudson and WED Vicki Pepperdine face a barrage of interruptions. From March WED 2000. WED WED 10:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrlw (Listen) WED July 1846 WED What next for Magdalen and Norah, suddenly orphaned with no WED name and no inheritance? Stars Sophie Thompson and Jack May. WED WED 11:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076m5x (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Benedict Cumberbatch reads the seventh historical novel in WED Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series. WED In the early summer of 1812, Captain Jack Aubrey and Dr WED Stephen Maturin arrive in Canada on HMS Shannon after WED escaping their American captors. WED Produced and abridged by Lisa Osborne. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. WED WED 11:15 Blunt Speaking b00764qp (Listen) WED Losing his knighthood in 1979, Sir Anthony Blunt reflects on WED his life and shame of his exposure. Written and performed by WED Corin Redgrave. WED WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way b007js9k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00s6n2b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yfn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years WED b007jth9 (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED Adrian finds 'true lurv' in a Soho bedsit, gets a job in the WED catering trade and undergoes a makeover. Read by Nicholas WED Barnes. WED WED 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc94 (Listen) WED Retail WED Laurence looks at the history of shopping for the home, from WED items imported from India in the colonial period, through a WED passion for European design, to the current celebrity wares. WED WED 14:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnyk (Listen) WED Episode 13 WED As the day of the hanging arrives, Adam pays a visit. Stars WED Thomas Arnold, Katherine Igoe and Vicki Liddelle. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b01l317b (Listen) WED Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 3 WED "One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality WED I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own WED version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich WED Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist WED Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the WED slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, WED Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a WED makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering WED luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through WED the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it WED takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, WED unequal cities. WED Today: a feud between two Muslim neighbours ends tragically, WED and threatens to bring down both families. WED Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist WED who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is WED her first book. WED Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director WED of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and WED playwright. WED Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 15:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrlw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0366x4q (Listen) WED Mel Giedroyc spins a yarn about the history of the hula WED hoop, and author David Almond reads the third part of his WED story The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas. WED WED 17:00 Life in London b011q9fw (Listen) WED High and Low Life WED Rather than pawn himself, Pierce Egan tries sharing Tom, Bob WED and Jerry's adventures around town. Stars Greg Wise. From WED May 2006. WED WED 17:30 North by Northamptonshire b017x4fn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 Whispers b007k3bv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076ggf (Listen) WED Wickedness WED Matthew Parris talks to writers Philip Burley, Mimi Thebo WED and Richard Morton Jack about the nature of good and evil. WED From August 2003. WED In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of WED writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established WED names. In the context of a discussion of one of the ideas WED and pre-occupations of our times, each presents a piece on WED this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2003. WED WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way b007js9k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00s6n2b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yfn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Serial b04wzsrg (Listen) WED Inconsistencies WED The detectives find a lead and bring Jay in for questioning. WED He tells them what happened on January 13th, but a few weeks WED later his story changes. WED WED 21:35 Inheritance Tracks b04kjhnw (Listen) WED Chris Hadfield WED Astronaut Chris Hadfield inherits 'Where Have All the WED Flowers Gone', and passes on 'The Story' by Brandi Carlile. WED WED 21:45 Back to the Drawing Board b00904ns (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED What are the risks of debt, and when do you give up? Matthew WED Harvey looks at the characteristics of an inventor. WED WED 22:00 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04sxr8s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Danny Robins Music Therapy b00ft476 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Danny Robins harnesses the power of music to improve the WED world and solve listeners' problems. WED Danny campaigns for bagpipes to be celebrated rather than WED reviled and tries his hand at writing a 'Winterval' No 1 hit WED single. With Isy Suttie and special musical guest rapper Doc WED Brown. WED WED 23:00 Concrete Cow b04t6vjy (Listen) WED Series 2, Marriage WED Thirteenth-century furniture sales and the hi-fi extremist. WED Sketch show with Robert Webb and Beth Chalmers. From January WED 2004. WED WED 23:30 The Skivers b007jq44 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 WED New age DIY, and Sinatra sings punk. Nick Golson and Tim de WED Jongh welcome special guest Britt Ekland. From April 1994. WED WED THU THURSDAY 11 DECEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years THU b007jth9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc94 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnyk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b01l317b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Whispers b007k3bv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076ggf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yfn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrlw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076m5x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Blunt Speaking b00764qp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Life in London b011q9fw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 North by Northamptonshire b017x4fn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1f (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Money is shown to be the root of all evil, and Captain Jack THU Aubrey divides the men from the goats. Stars Michael THU Troughton and Nigel Anthony. THU THU 06:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yjn (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU John Bird examines the impact Second City's theatre project THU has had on TV comedy and how the organisation has evolved. THU From May 2006. THU THU 07:00 The Elephant Man b007k2cj (Listen) THU While the Cat's Away THU Leonard and Adam go to Frankfurt for the sake of the polar THU bear and the zoo's future. Stars Peter Serafinowicz. From THU September 1996. THU THU 07:30 My Teenage Diary b04sxzqx (Listen) THU Series 6, Chris Difford THU Rufus Hound is joined by the musician and Squeeze founder THU member Chris Difford. His 1974 diary talks about the very THU early days of the band and describes life behind the scenes THU - including a wild ride down the A20 on the back of a THU motorbike. THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio. THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Chris Difford THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU THU 08:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007jpyj (Listen) THU Marooned THU A visit to the pier theatre ends in disaster for Arthur THU Wilson and Miss Perkins. Dad's Army spin-off stars John Le THU Mesurier. From January 1984. THU THU 08:30 Listen to Les b007wvm2 (Listen) THU From 25/09/1983 THU Les Dawson's life as a spy, and a rare interview with boxer THU Sugar Albert Ackroyd. With Daphne Oxenford. From September THU 1983. THU THU 09:00 Who Goes There? b00fj1rj (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU Martin Young hosts the famous people quiz. With Francis THU Wheen, Fred Housego, Sue Cook and Annabel Giles. From THU January 2000. THU THU 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends b0076syq (Listen) THU Series 4, Congratulations, It's a Hob Nob THU Wendy is busy preparing for the baby's arrival. THU Unfortunately, Robin isn't feeling very well and takes to THU his bed, much to the frustration of everyone. THU Robin ...... Brian Capron THU Wendy ...... Kay Stonham THU Derek ...... Martin Trenaman THU Maureen ...... Amelia Bullmore. THU THU 10:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrpm (Listen) THU June 1847 THU Aided by the swindler Captain Wragge, Magdalen is determined THU to retrieve her inheritance from cousin Noel, but has to THU deal with the devious Mrs Lecount. Stars Eleanor Bron. THU THU 11:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076m69 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU After long years at sea, Aubrey and Maturin are on their way THU home on HMS Diligence. But a dangerous enemy is hard behind. THU Read by Benedict Cumberbatch. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0077605 (Listen) THU Robin Mukherjee - A Fire in the Sun THU By Robin Mukherjee. THU A woman visits her elderly parents in Spain after a fire THU which has destroyed their retirement home and hospitalised THU her mother. She discovers that her perceptions of her THU family's history are not the full story. THU Directed by Peter Kavanagh. THU Credits THU Esmee: Haydn Gwynne THU Mother: Angela Pleasence THU Father: David Calder THU Joje: David Sant THU Writer: Robin Mukherjee THU Director: Peter Kavanagh THU THU 12:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007jpyj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Listen to Les b007wvm2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yjn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years THU b007jthj (Listen) THU Episode 7 THU Adrian's romance with Bianca in the Soho bedsit is THU threatened, as are other things he holds dear. Read by THU Nicholas Barnes. THU THU 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc98 (Listen) THU Eco-Houses THU Laurence explores new ways to build and run a home for the THU mass market by visiting an eco-community in Nottingham. THU THU 14:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnz3 (Listen) THU Episode 14 THU As the journey to the hanging scaffold begins, a visitor THU arrives. Stars Katherine Igoe, Vicki Liddelle and Thomas THU Arnold. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b01ky5r9 (Listen) THU Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 4 THU "One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality THU I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own THU version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich THU Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist THU Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the THU slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, THU Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a THU makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering THU luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through THU the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it THU takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, THU unequal cities. THU Today: while some slum dwellers are forging their way up THU into the overcity, others are fighting for their lives back THU in the slum. THU Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist THU who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is THU her first book. THU Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director THU of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and THU playwright. THU Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 15:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrpm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b03677bb (Listen) THU Roll up roll up, as Mel Giedroyc goes in search of the THU history of the flea circus, and author David Almond reads THU the fourth part of his own story The Boy Who Swam With THU Piranhas. THU THU 17:00 No Commitments b00shr9h (Listen) THU Series 3, An Ill Wind THU Victoria's illness makes Roger squeamish. Charlotte THU overreacts, but Anna is a rock. Stars Rosemary Leach. From THU December 1994. THU THU 17:30 The Elephant Man b007k2cj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Who Goes There? b00fj1rj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076byx (Listen) THU Captain James Cook THU 4 Extra Debut. Media executive and broadcaster Greg Dyke THU chooses explorer Captain James Cook. With Humphrey THU Carpenter. From December 2002. THU The biographical series in which a distinguished guest THU chooses someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero THU stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of THU having led a great life? THU THU 19:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007jpyj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Listen to Les b007wvm2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yjn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Serial b04wzsy5 (Listen) THU Route Talk THU Adnan challenges Sarah to recreate the state's timeline by THU driving from Woodlawn High School to Best Buy in 21 minutes. THU THU 21:45 Back to the Drawing Board b0090bb6 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Many inventors have poor business skills, but one man is out THU to build bridges and change perceptions. Matthew Harvey THU reports. THU THU 22:00 My Teenage Diary b04sxzqx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00nywl0 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU Perrier Award-winning comedian, Laura Solon continues her THU series of sketches, monologues and one-liners. THU Olga the ex-tyrannt takes on a British Post Office, a man THU tries to buy his mother a gift in an expensive department THU store and Sandrine, the Parisien radio host, chats about why THU French culture is much better then the culture of say, THU Britiain. THU Producer: Colin Anderson. THU Credits THU Producer: Colin Anderson THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04wx2vl (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth THU chats again to Adam Riches. THU THU 23:00 Continuity b00tjq8m (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU A Continuity Announcer's booth can be a lonely place - THU especially on the late shift, when you've barely seen your THU wife and children for a week. Still, this Radio 4 Continuity THU Announcer is nothing, if not a consummate professional and THU he's not going to let his own insignificant little problems THU get in the way of your listening pleasure. Especially when THU there are so many exciting programmes coming up in the next THU week, which he's got to tell you about. At least some of THU them are exciting. Some of them aren't quite his cup of tea, THU if he's honest, but that's not really the point, is it? They THU may be right up your street. It's not really his place to THU express an opinion. Even if it is tempting. This may be a THU come-down from heady days spent announcing on the Today THU programme, but he's got a job to do. Though sometimes it is THU rather difficult to concentrate ..... THU Alistair McGowan stars in a new subversive sitcom about a THU Continuity Announcer brooding on the escalating disasters of THU his private and professional life; at the same time as THU attempting to give us a preview of the programmes on offer THU in the coming week on Radio 4. Or what might be Radio 4 in a THU parallel universe. Trails for 'The Ethical Enigma', THU 'Britain's Favourite Sound' and 'The History of Britain One THU Year at a Time' are just some of the strange delights on THU offer in the world of this 'radio professional', who THU harbours a slightly inappropriate relationship with his THU audience. THU Written by Hugh Rycroft a stalwart of 'The News Quiz' and THU co-creator of 'Parliamentary Questions' and 'Life, Death and THU Sex with Mike and Sue', the series also features the voices THU of Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David THU Holt. THU Produced by David Spicer and Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:15 Guy Browning's Small Talk b0076n25 (Listen) THU Series 2, How to Pack THU Start naked and pretend to get dressed - bad luck if the THU taxi comes early. The writer shares travel tips. From THU September 2004. THU THU 23:30 A Look Back at the Nineties b007jqvx (Listen) THU 1998 THU Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and Chris Barrie 'look back' at THU the decade that was yet to happen. Recorded in July 1993. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 12 DECEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years FRI b007jthj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc98 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnz3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b01ky5r9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Who Goes There? b00fj1rj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076byx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Second City: Comedy Central b0076yjn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrpm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076m69 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Afternoon Drama b0077605 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 No Commitments b00shr9h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Elephant Man b007k2cj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1h (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI A difficult decision for Jack Aubrey, as the life of a FRI member of the crew is weighed against prize money. Stars FRI Michael Troughton and Nigel Anthony. FRI FRI 06:30 The Kiss at 100 b007yvl9 (Listen) FRI Rowan Pelling visits Vienna to explore the enduring appeal FRI of Gustav Klimt's The Kiss, which has become one of the FRI world's most reproduced paintings since it was first FRI exhibited 100 years ago. Who are the couple depicted in the FRI famous clinch? FRI FRI 07:00 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076sdr (Listen) FRI Series 2, Lulu's Back in Town FRI Musician Roy panics when his wife's vivacious sister takes FRI best pal George out for dinner. Stars Don Warrington. From FRI June 2005. FRI FRI 07:30 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) FRI Fidelity FRI Hal Cruttenden stars as a forty-something husband and father FRI who, years ago, decided to give up his job and become a stay FRI at home father. His wife, Sam, has a successful business FRI career which makes her travel more and more. His children, FRI Lilly and Molly, are growing up fast, and his role as their FRI father and mentor is diminishing by the day. FRI So what can Hal do as he reaches a crossroads in his life? FRI Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - FRI Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local FRI curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly FRI never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs. FRI Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of FRI his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to FRI engage in increasingly frustrating conversations. FRI In this last episode of the series, Hal faces a new FRI challenge - unwanted romantic attention. Happily married to FRI Sam and with two adoring daughters, life is a picture of FRI roses at home. But how will Hal cope with the romantic FRI attention of a new, attractive neighbour Angie? FRI The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Ronni FRI Ancona, Anna Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel FRI Caseley and Emily and Lucy Robbins. FRI Produced by Paul Russell FRI An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jz69 (Listen) FRI A Trip to France FRI The lad is longing to sample life across the English FRI Channel, but Sid has other ideas. Stars Tony Hancock and Sid FRI James. From January 1955. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry b00zmxnq (Listen) FRI Storm in a Tea Urn FRI Trouble starts brewing when Sir Gregory bans the duo from FRI making tea. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From FRI July 1970. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00sfwmp (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI John Lloyd invites guests Kevin Eldon, John Ronson and FRI Richard Wiseman to add to the imaginary collection. From May FRI 2010. FRI FRI 09:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club b008hpzv (Listen) FRI The French Connection FRI The post-war construction team's Potts and Perkins hurl FRI insults - and then onions. Stars Norman Rossington. From FRI February 1987. FRI FRI 10:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrs9 (Listen) FRI July 1847 FRI Disguised as Susan Bygrave, Magdalen begins to suffer at the FRI prospect of marrying Noel. But Mrs Lecount suspects her true FRI identity. Stars Jack May and Sophie Thompson. FRI FRI 11:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076m6t (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Dr Stephen Maturin takes a trip to Paris to address the FRI Institute on scientific matters. Read by Benedict FRI Cumberbatch. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0076wy0 (Listen) FRI Jane Beeson - The Discourse of Two Once-Young Women FRI The Discourse of Two Once-Young Women FRI By Jane Beeson. FRI Three old friends from schooldays during the war plan to FRI meet up. Why are the two women so nervous, and what can have FRI changed so radically? Their male friend acts as a conduit FRI but the circumstance of their meeting is something none of FRI them could have anticipated. FRI Daisy ...... Lynn Farleigh FRI Gerald ...... Oliver Ford Davies FRI Ida ...... Eleanor Bron FRI Matt ...... Geoffrey Beevers FRI Mother ...... Ella Smith FRI Young Daisy ...... Anna Lanyon FRI Young Ida ...... Tessa Montague FRI Boy ...... John Cummins FRI Directed by Cherry Cookson. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jz69 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry b00zmxnq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Kiss at 100 b007yvl9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years FRI b007jthp (Listen) FRI Episode 8 FRI Adrian inherits some money and decides to take a creative FRI writing holiday in Greece. Read by Nicholas Barnes. FRI FRI 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's History of Home b009mc9d (Listen) FRI Ideal Home Show FRI Laurence talks to philosopher Alain de Botton about how our FRI ideas of the home have changed and what the future holds, FRI while taking a look around the 100th Ideal Home Exhibition. FRI FRI 14:30 George Eliot - Adam Bede b007jnzn (Listen) FRI Episode 15 FRI The time arrives for Dinah to decide where her heart really FRI lies. Stars Katherine Igoe, Vicki Liddelle and Thomas FRI Arnold. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b01l3049 (Listen) FRI Katherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Episode 5 FRI "One of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality FRI I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own FRI version of The Wire, this would be it." Barbara Ehrenreich FRI Sudha Bhuchar reads Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist FRI Katherine Boo's landmark work of life, death and hope in the FRI slums of Mumbai. Based on years of uncompromising reporting, FRI Behind the Beautiful Forevers tells the story of Annawadi, a FRI makeshift slum sitting in the shadow of Mumbai's glittering FRI luxury hotels and shiny new international airport. Through FRI the stories of the characters she meets, Boo reveals what it FRI takes to escape poverty in one of the 21st century's great, FRI unequal cities. FRI Today: while some slum dwellers are forging their way up FRI into the overcity, others are fighting for their lives back FRI in the slum. FRI Author: Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist FRI who is currently a staff writer at the New Yorker. This is FRI her first book. FRI Reader: Sudha Bhuchar is joint founder and Artistic Director FRI of the theatre company, Tamasha, and is both an actor and FRI playwright. FRI Abridger: Richard Hamilton-Jones FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 15:00 Wilkie Collins - No Name b007jrs9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0367bcz (Listen) FRI Mel Giedroyc gets spooked by scary sounds, takes a tumble FRI with an Ethiopian circus, and introduces the final part of FRI David Almond's story The Boy Who Swam With Piranhas. FRI FRI 17:00 After Henry b007jq4g (Listen) FRI Series 3, Intellectual Aspirations FRI Clare is seeing graduate Julian, but his brainy parents make FRI her feel inadequate. Stars Prunella Scales. From October FRI 1987. FRI FRI 17:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076sdr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00sfwmp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books b00txh41 (Listen) FRI Series 1, AL Kennedy FRI 4/4 FRI A L Kennedy is an award winning writer whose first published FRI book 'Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains' hit the FRI bookshops in 1991. FRI Now established as a novelist and short story writer Alison FRI Louise Kennedy is also a stand-up comedian. FRI In conversation with Stuart Cosgrove she reveals her FRI favourite book from childhood and the book she has bought FRI but has never finished. Stuart also enquires about her FRI favourite bedside book, the novel she wishes she had bought FRI as a teenager and the book she has returned to most often. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jz69 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry b00zmxnq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander b04t6q1h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Kiss at 100 b007yvl9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Serial b04wzt43 (Listen) FRI The Case Against Adnan Syed FRI Sarah weighs all the other circumstantial evidence FRI prosecutors had against Adnan, including curious behaviour, FRI a dramatic note, and an unexpected mid-afternoon phone call. FRI FRI 21:45 Back to the Drawing Board b0090f2l (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI What happens when you give an inventor time, space and FRI financial support? Matthew Harvey investigates the pitfalls. FRI FRI 22:00 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Cowards b00fhtm0 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI Cowards: Sketch show with a comic slant on human frailties. FRI With Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski and Tim Key. Part of FRI Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast on Radio 4 FRI in November 2008. FRI FRI 23:00 Blue Jam b04t6vkc (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI The mind of Chris Morris leaks onto radio in this dreamlike FRI combination of comedy and music. With Kevin Eldon, Amelia FRI Bullmore, David Cann and Mark Heap. FRI Are you still lying curare-still, seeking relief in feigning FRI dead? Then welcome, oo-tazz welcome. Chris Morris is here to FRI help you wallow in the melancholy, for the second series of FRI this subversive radio classic. FRI Immediately prior to Blue Jam's initial burst on radio, FRI Chris Morris had caused a furore with Channel 4's Brass Eye. FRI Yet Blue Jam managed to be a total departure from his FRI previous work. Originally airing in the early hours on BBC FRI Radio 1, it's a blend of ambient music, deadpan ( sometimes FRI brutal ) sketches and offbeat monologues. A whole audio FRI landscape of the subconscious, the ad-hoc low-fi sheen of FRI production lending it a kind of verisimilitude. FRI In sharp contrast with the personality-led comedies of FRI recent years, Blue Jam makes a virtue of anonymity. Borat FRI scribe Pater Baynham is one of the writers, and Julia Davis FRI and Amelia Bulmore are among the cast. Rightly winning a FRI clutch of Sony Awards, it remains unique - nothing before or FRI after was remotely like it. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in March 1998. FRI
05 December, 2014
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 06/12/2014 - 12/12/2014
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