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SAT SATURDAY 28 MARCH 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007jn5v (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Tom plans a third marriage to Elizabeth, but how will they SAT cope with his possessive daughter? Read by Penelope Wilton. SAT SAT 00:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gvwxr (Listen) SAT The Flag That Failed SAT Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues SAT his object-based history. Taking artefacts from William SAT Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean SAT playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing SAT world in which they lived. SAT With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of SAT political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil SAT asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they SAT were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to SAT explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the SAT public and helped shape the works, and he considers what SAT they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of SAT Shakespearean England. SAT Programme 15. THE FLAG THAT FAILED - The problems in uniting SAT Scotland and England and in creating a Great Britain are SAT encapsulated in a set of designs for a common flag. SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 00:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b007jy30 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Twelve-year-old Meena's mother finally gives birth, and she SAT decides to form a gang with Anita. Meera Syal reads her own SAT novel. SAT SAT 00:45 Book of the Week b00rzlt9 (Listen) SAT Douglas Rogers - The Last Resort, Episode 5 SAT 5/5 SAT The Last Resort by Douglas Rogers, read by Jack Klaff. SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions. The SAT author tells the story of his parents fight to stay on their SAT backpacker lodge in Zimbabwe despite the political upheaval SAT of the last decade. SAT The day that Douglas's parents have been dreading finally SAT arrives. SAT SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity b016w83r (Listen) SAT Series 4, Enfield, West, Green SAT Harry Enfield is a comedian and sketch character actor whose SAT creations have made a permanent mark on the nation's psyche SAT and whose catchphrases have echoed around playgrounds and SAT building sites for decades. His monstrous creations include SAT the iconic 80s character Loadsamoney, Stavros the Kebab Shop SAT Owner and Tory Boy. Harry had a bit of a punkish image as a SAT youth, but in fact he's quite posh. So posh that Virginia SAT Woolf once famously referred to his grandparents in a SAT notorious letter to Lytton Strachey. To find out what it was SAT she said about them, either listen in or you could always SAT Google it yourself. SAT Lucie Green is a solar researcher based at the Mullard Space SAT Science Laboratory, University College London's Department SAT of Space and Climate Physics, a Bletchley-like stately pile SAT tucked away in the Surrey countryside that houses 150 of SAT Britain's top space scientists. She studies activity in the SAT atmosphere of the Sun. She takes a strong interest in SAT science education, and in 2009 was awarded the Royal SAT Society's Kohn award for Excellence in Engaging the Public SAT with Science. SAT Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead GCB SAT DSC PC once ran the entire Royal Navy. From June 2007 to May SAT 2010, he was a Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the SAT British Home Office with responsibility for Security and a SAT Security Advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Prior to SAT his ministerial appointment, he was First Sea Lord, the SAT professional head of the Royal Navy, from 2002 to 2006. He SAT has served aboard 14 ships, and in his first post as a SAT captain, was the last to abandon ship as his vessel had been SAT attacked by the Argentine Air Force during the Falklands SAT war. As Head of Military Intelligence, he once had the SAT honour of using a desk that played a unique role in history. SAT SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books b01394vt (Listen) SAT Series 2, Val McDermid SAT 8/8 Val McDermid is the author of 22 best selling novels. SAT Growing up in Kirkcaldy she was accepted to read English at SAT St Hilda's College Oxford when she was only 17. SAT Realising that she wasn't suited to a nine to five job Val SAT became a journalist and after training in Devon she worked SAT on national newspapers in Glasgow and Manchester. SAT Following the success of her book Report for Murder SAT published in 1987 Val was able to give up the day job and SAT concentrate on writing. Her latest book, Trick of the Dark SAT was published in paperback earlier this year. SAT Val picks the following 5 titles and tells Stuart Cosgrove SAT why they are significant books in her life. SAT 1: TREASURE ISLAND by Robert Louis Stevenson SAT 2: THE COLLECTED POEMS by Norman MacCaig SAT 3: THE MURDER AT THE VICARAGE by Agatha Christie SAT 4: SEXUAL POLITICS by Kate Millett SAT 5: INDEMNITY ONLY by Sara Paretsky. SAT SAT 02:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s5l3b (Listen) SAT Series 3, Murder of a Shy Girl SAT Reclusive Joan is found dead, but Brook and Tully wonder how SAT solitary her life really was. SAT Starring Ray Brooks as Detective Sergeant Brook, Stephen SAT Garlick as Detective Constable Tully and Stephen Yardley as SAT Chief Inspector Roach. SAT More tough stories of crime and detection in London written SAT by Robert Barr. SAT Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and SAT Softly Softly. He was also a prize-winning TV producer. SAT Producer: Martin Fisher SAT First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in July 1984. SAT SAT 02:30 The Bond Correspondence b00bfczy (Listen) SAT Lucy Fleming embarks upon a quest to discover more about her SAT mysterious uncle Ian, creator of James Bond. Roger Moore is SAT the voice of Ian Fleming. SAT SAT 03:00 Graham Swannell - Kiss of Life b05n7tp5 (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Married 40 years, Dot tries to make Arthur SAT fully appreciate her and show extra affection. Stars Brenda SAT Bruce and Norman Bird. SAT SAT 04:00 Kate Mosse - The Mistletoe Bride and Other Haunting SAT Tales b03xh0ft (Listen) SAT The Revenant SAT An old man's guilt will haunt him and not release him until SAT the truth is told. Read by Charlotte Emmerson. SAT "The Mistletoe Bride and other Haunting Tales" is a SAT collection of haunting short stories written, abridged and SAT introduced by Kate Mosse. They are all inspired by legends SAT and folktales from the French and Sussex Countryside and SAT each story explores the relationship between landscape and SAT emotion. Grief and Guilt. Loss and happiness. They are SAT timeless in their telling, ranging from the mythical past to SAT the present day. Kate Mosse has chosen 5 out of the SAT collection that exemplify the redemption experienced by the SAT various grief stricken men and women as they come to terms SAT with their destiny. SAT Producer: Celia de Wolff SAT Made for 4 Extra by Pier Productions. SAT SAT 04:15 Frances Byrnes - An Unchoreographed World b01pr7s5 (Listen) SAT Dancer Margot Fonteyn and her lover are trapped in Holland SAT during the German invasion of May 1940. Stars Sophie SAT Jerrold. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Mark Smalley SAT SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way b0084hyx (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 5 SAT JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, SAT Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From April SAT 1989. SAT SAT 05:30 Rent b007522v (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT The new baby needs a name and Richard does not want to SAT reveal one of his. Stars Barbara Flynn and Patrick Barlow. SAT From January 1997. SAT SAT 06:00 David Buck - Barnsdale Wake b05nxrtc (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. King Richard I hears ballad singers recall SAT tales of Robin Hood. Will he be able to capture a legend? SAT Stars Bernard Hill. SAT SAT 07:30 Unearthing Mysteries b00ghyx3 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Kings Valley 55 SAT Professor Aubrey Manning travels to the Valley of the Kings SAT in Egypt to unearth the mystery behind Tomb 55. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00mz53r (Listen) SAT In the Beginning Was the Nerd SAT Stephen Fry recalls how, in the build-up to the year 2000, SAT the world prepared itself to face a terrifying scare - The SAT Millennium Bug. SAT Who or what was to blame for such an expensive and SAT unnecessary panic? With the help of the BBC Archive, Stephen SAT travels back to the dawn of the digital age to argue that a SAT major cause was our attitude to the technology and the SAT people we held responsible for it. SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Inside the Music: From Score to Encore b05nybcs (Listen) SAT Gavin Henderson is passionate about music. Formerly a noted SAT trumpeter in an orchestra, he's been Director of Brighton SAT Arts Festival, Principal of Trinity College of Music and is SAT now Principal of the Central School of Speech and Drama in SAT London. SAT In this sequence of programmes, he explores the complex SAT creative communities that coalesce to bring a piece of music SAT to life in a concert hall. Becoming a member of a musical SAT ensemble has been described as "more like joining a cause SAT than a profession". He talks to members of orchestras and SAT ensembles to get their personal perspectives on music SAT making. What do they feel about their own instrument? What SAT are relations like between members of the orchestra? Or SAT between an orchestra and a conductor? SAT It's a world of titanic egos, and creative humility; where SAT the rigours of touring and performing, the frustrations of SAT forever being the second violin and the vagaries of venue SAT acoustics and audience responsiveness can be forgotten in a SAT feat of collective creative expression. SAT Gavin throws light on some of the less known inner workings SAT of an orchestra and the sometimes intuitive relationships SAT "behind the podium" - such as that between the Orchestral SAT Librarian and Conductor, or piano tuner and pianist. SAT And he tries to understand and convey what motivates a group SAT of individuals to act like an organism greater than the sum SAT of its parts, bringing pleasure and, occasionally, SAT transcendence, to performers and audience alike. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. SAT SAT 12:00 How Does That Make You Feel? b05nybcv (Listen) SAT Series 5 Omnibus SAT Series 5 Omnibus. Meet a group of people who share both a SAT therapist called Martha and a growing set of neuroses. SAT SAT 13:15 Baldi b00wh00x (Listen) SAT Series 5, A Very Neglected Fish SAT The murder of a food critic draws the Franciscan priest deep SAT into the competitive world of celebrity chefs. Stars David SAT Threlfall. SAT SAT 14:00 The Michael Bentine Show b00k9dbv (Listen) SAT From 22/04/1984 SAT From duelling kings to a Commons washroom attendant, it's SAT the ultimate one-man show, written by the host. From April SAT 1984. SAT SAT 14:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05ncjz0 (Listen) SAT From 18/04/1965 SAT Home wine-making tips from Andy Mann, and poetic tributes to SAT those who watch over us at night. With John Laurie. From SAT April 1965. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00mz53r (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 David Buck - Barnsdale Wake b05nxrtc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mx27b (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, SAT regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things SAT like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his SAT hit sketch show. SAT The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by SAT The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny SAT sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It SAT featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive SAT relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people SAT who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr SAT Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. SAT This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it SAT does feature a sketch about messengers, a sketch about the SAT history of alchemy and a sketch... Sketch? "Sketch"? Sorry, SAT you know when you repeat a word so often it starts to go SAT weird? "Sketch". Sketch! Ssssssketch. That's got it, better SAT now. Anyway, there's a sketch about that. SAT John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SAT John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, SAT Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced SAT by Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 18:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l1wsj (Listen) SAT Series 1, The End SAT Space pirate Kreekpolt knows Abby and Zara can save his SAT daughter's life, even at the cost of their own. Stars Ciara SAT Janson. SAT Abby - Ciara Janson SAT Zara - Laura Doddington SAT Marek - Fraser James SAT Earl Kreekpolt - Michael Keating SAT Garstang - Roger Watkins SAT First Pirate - Alex Mallinson SAT Persephone - Lisa Bowerman SAT Daniel - David Warner SAT Uncle Lindsay - Colin Spaull SAT Written by Simon Guerrier SAT Directed by Lisa Bowerman SAT A Big Finish Production. SAT SAT 19:00 Inside the Music: From Score to Encore b05nybcs (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01cwrtd (Listen) SAT Series 1, Dishonesty SAT Stephen K Amos and his pick of the circuit's best stand-ups SAT build an idiot's guide to life. This week Sara Pascoe, Matt SAT Forde, Carey Marx and David O'Doherty offer an idiot's guide SAT to dishonesty. SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 22:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b00klk4r (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 SAT Living by their wits, Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney's SAT improvised sketches, driven by the audience. From March SAT 2007. SAT SAT 23:00 Goodness Gracious Me b007jv3v (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 SAT Bhangraman must save the world, plus the downside of keeping SAT a cow as a family pet. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar. From July SAT 1996. SAT SAT 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b05p6v7t (Listen) SAT From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SAT has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to SAT Doc Brown. SAT SAT 23:30 Wondermentalist Cabaret b00y8vsn (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT 2 of 4. Poet, performer, enemy of all that's difficult and SAT upsetting, Matt Harvey presents this comedy-infused, SAT musically-enhanced, slightly interactive poetry cabaret. SAT Recorded in front of an audience at the Swindon Arts Centre, SAT he's joined by the poet and musician Zena Edwards and one SAT man house band Jerri Hart. Fellow poets AF Harrold and Kate SAT Fox battle it out with Zena in a Dead Poets' Slam, while the SAT audience compose their own highly flavoured poem on the SAT subject of cheese. SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l1wsj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 How Does That Make You Feel? b05nybcv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Baldi b00wh00x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 David Buck - Barnsdale Wake b05nxrtc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mx27b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Meera Syal - Anita and Me Omnibus b007jvtv (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Meera Syal reads her own novel about 12-year-old Meena, SUN growing up in a Black Country village in the 1970s. SUN SUN 07:05 In a Nutshell b00sj8xc (Listen) SUN An Instant Option SUN Leonard Rossiter delivers a satirical musing on the effect SUN of slogans on badges and T-shirts. From 1981, written by SUN Barry Pilton. SUN SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) SUN Sue Townsend SUN The author and creator of Adrian Mole inherits Billie SUN Holliday's version of 'All of Me' and passes on Ben E King's SUN 'Stand By Me'. SUN SUN 07:15 Whatever Happened to the Teapots? b00nt9c5 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to SUN Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty Margaret Thatcher teapots SUN made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the craftsmen who SUN helped him get a handle on Mrs T. SUN Designer pottery and the bottom line. Roger talks to artists SUN about the division in ceramics between art and industry to SUN find out if the two can ever be reconciled. SUN SUN 07:30 Beauty of Britain b00n0prf (Listen) SUN Series 1, Seagulls Over Sue Ryder SUN Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Beauty SUN Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and sees SUN herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to SUN achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed milk. We see SUN Britain through her eyes - its overheated houses, its SUN disappointing church services and its over-fondness for SUN cauliflower cheese. SUN Beauty discovers the glories of Weston-super-Mare's charity SUN shops and experiences the disappointment of her first SUN British funeral. SUN Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien SUN Mr Collinson ...... Malcolm Tierney SUN Jill ...... Pippa Haywood SUN Sally ...... Felicity Montagu SUN Karen/Bus Driver/Shop Assistant ...... Nicola Sanderson SUN Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi SUN Anil ...... Paul Sharma SUN Derek/Waiter/Church Reader ...... Christopher Douglas SUN Minister ...... Dan Tetsell SUN Music by The West End Gospel Choir. SUN SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpbw (Listen) SUN The Bishop Learns the Facts SUN Clerical confusion reigns when Noote's friend asks him to SUN marry her. Adapted from TV with Jonathan Cecil. From July SUN 1972. SUN SUN 08:30 Life With the Lyons b0140dvf (Listen) SUN The New Job SUN An ad in the local paper lands Richard a job as his father's SUN office boy. Stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. From December SUN 1954. SUN SUN 09:00 Alan Garner - Elidor b010tbk9 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Time has run out for the Watsons and Malebron, as the Evil SUN have the Treasures. Can Helen help to save Elidor? Stars SUN Toby Hadoke. SUN SUN 09:30 Michelle Magorian - Back Home b011j237 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN In an emotional climax, both Rusty and her mother decide SUN that their lives have to change. Stars Jessica SUN Marshall-Gardiner. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05nz63l (Listen) SUN Parky at 80, Dennis Potter SUN From Tommy Dorsey to the Pied Pipers, playwright Dennis SUN Potter shares his castaway choices with Michael Parkinson. SUN From February 1988. SUN SUN 10:45 Tim Franks - Through My Own Fault b05p22hl (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. A worldly priest gets more than he bargained SUN for in the Good Friday confessional. Read by Roger May. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b05mq8x8 (Listen) SUN Making Mistakes SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN Guy Raz investigates why sometimes we need to make mistakes SUN and face them head-on. With Brian Goldman. SUN SUN 11:45 Afternoon Reading b0106tjt (Listen) SUN Edna O'Brien - Saints and Sinners, My Two Mothers SUN 'My Two Mothers' by Edna O'Brien SUN Read by Michelle Fairley SUN Abridged by Doreen Estall SUN Produced by Lawrence Jackson SUN Edna O'Brien is one of the most distinguished writers and SUN figures in the world of letters. Since emerging from Ireland SUN in the early 1960s with 'The Country Girls', her many novels SUN including 'Girl with Green Eyes', 'House of Splendid SUN Isolation' and 'In The Forest' have attracted both praise SUN and controversy. 'Saints and Sinners' is her eagerly awaited SUN new collection. SUN Michelle Fairley's acclaimed recent stage performances SUN include 'Othello' at the Donmar Warehouse and 'Dancing at SUN Lughnasa' at the Old Vic, while her TV and film work SUN includes 'Best: His Mother's Son', 'Harry Potter and the SUN Deathly Hallows' and 'Game of Thrones'. SUN Producer Lawrence Jackson's credits for Radio 4 include four SUN series of the popular murder-mystery 'Baldi', two series of SUN John Connolly's 'Ghost Stories' and the Classic Serial SUN 'Barry Lyndon'. For Radio 7 his credits include C.S.Lewis' SUN 'Out of the Silent Planet' and 'Perelandra', SUN G.K.Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday', Daphne Du SUN Maurier's 'The House on the Strand' and classic ghost SUN stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and Algernon Blackwood. SUN SUN 12:00 Meera Syal - Anita and Me Omnibus b007jvtv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:05 In a Nutshell b00sj8xc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:05 today] SUN SUN 13:10 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Whatever Happened to the Teapots? b00nt9c5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Anne Caulfield - Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy SUN b01kq0wh (Listen) SUN A celebration of a classic music hall duo and their immortal SUN gossipy characters. Starring Celia Imrie and Susie Blake. SUN SUN 15:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpbw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Life With the Lyons b0140dvf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b05p29x6 (Listen) SUN Mary Berry's Simnel Cake, Bjork on the Moomins and Sherlock SUN Holmes SUN Mel Giedroyc with the best of this week's shows, including SUN the dawn chorus, Mary Berry's Simnel Cake and Philip Ardagh SUN on Sherlock Holmes. SUN SUN 17:00 Alan Garner - Elidor b010tbk9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Michelle Magorian - Back Home b011j237 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Colin Finbow - Emily's Ghost b05p2h6p (Listen) SUN Young Emily goes to live with her family in an inherited SUN country house. When she begins to see and hear strange SUN things, Emily fears that she is being haunted. SUN Colin Finbow's unusual ghost story is set in Victorian SUN England. SUN Stars Anna Jones as Emily, Kate Buffery as Mama, John Rowe SUN as Papa and Anna Massey as Miss Rabstock. SUN Director: Cherry Cookson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1994. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b05mq8x8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b0106tjt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] SUN SUN 20:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpbw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Life With the Lyons b0140dvf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05nz63l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Tim Franks - Through My Own Fault b05p22hl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Beauty of Britain b00n0prf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Richest Man in Britain b00nz1bk (Listen) SUN The African Village SUN Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock SUN star and his search for fulfilment. SUN Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt contemplates the purchase SUN of an African village to complement his afternoons-only SUN radio station. SUN Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams SUN Dom ...... Russell Tovey SUN Naomi, the Charity Worker ...... Ayesha Antoine SUN Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham SUN Ken, the Maintenance Man ...... Phil Cornwell. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b05nj0yg (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 5 SUN This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into SUN sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to SUN make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. SUN Nish is joined by Natasia Demetriou, London Hughes and Chris SUN Kendall. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00pxng6 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Living in a Movie SUN The journalist and documentary maker Jon Ronson talks to the SUN conflict photographer Jason Howe. Jason had gone to Colombia SUN to photograph both sides of the war when he met a Colombian SUN woman Marilyn at a bus stop. They quickly became SUN romantically involved but then she revealed she was a SUN paramilitary fighter. Suddenly Jason was living his life as SUN if it were a movie, going down a dangerous path that would SUN end in tragedy. SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 MARCH 2015 MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05nz63l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Tim Franks - Through My Own Fault b05p22hl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpbw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Life With the Lyons b0140dvf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Beauty of Britain b00n0prf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Anne Caulfield - Elsie, Doris, Gert and Daisy MON b01kq0wh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Alan Garner - Elidor b010tbk9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Michelle Magorian - Back Home b011j237 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s647t (Listen) MON Series 3, Rough Justice MON A harrowing attack on a child means uncomfortable questions MON about justice. Meanwhile, who robs the robbers? MON Starring Ray Brooks as Detective Sergeant Brook, Stephen MON Garlick as Detective Constable Tully and Stephen Yardley as MON Chief Inspector Roach. MON More tough stories of crime and detection in London written MON by Robert Barr. MON Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and MON Softly Softly. He was also a prize-winning TV producer. MON Producer: Martin Fisher MON First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. MON MON 06:30 Arvon Turns Forty b00fgsg2 (Listen) MON Novelist Mavis Cheek examines the birth and development of MON the Arvon Foundation, the creative writing centres that were MON founded 40 years ago in an obscure North Devon village by a MON group of poets. MON The original course took a group of 16-year-olds and MON expected them to live and work like writers. Galvanised by a MON workshop with Ted Hughes, the Foundation took off and, in MON doing so, arguably gave birth to the modern Creative Writing MON movement. MON MON 07:00 Know Your Place b0195ds4 (Listen) MON Jumpers MON Will caretaker Ramsay have the head for heights for a MON dangerous job? Stars Roy Dotrice and Patricia Hayes. From MON June 1983. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b05mqtj5 (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 7 MON Nicholas Parsons asks Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince, Paul MON Merton and Graham Norton to play Just a Minute this week. MON Subjects include 'Death and Taxes', The count of Monte MON Cristo' and 'Why We are Here'. They are here to attempt to MON speak without hesitation, repetition or deviation of course! MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Robin Ince MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jlw7 (Listen) MON Series 1, Under Fire MON On fire-watch with Godfrey, Frazer thinks someone is MON signalling to the enemy. Adapted from TV with John Laurie. MON From April 1974. MON MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kfx35 (Listen) MON From 29/04/1984 MON From a monastic order to international space relations, it's MON the ultimate one-man show, written by the host. From April MON 1984. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b01bmq2l (Listen) MON Series 15, Terence Rattigan MON The teams examine the life and work of "Author of the Week", MON playwright and creator of "Flare Path", Sir Terence MON Rattigan. MON Regular captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined MON by Sir Andrew Motion and children's author, Sue Limb as they MON answer questions based around Rattigan's life and work, as MON well as more general literary brainteasers, set by host MON James Walton. MON For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine MON Rattigan discarding his stiff-upper-lip-style and writing a MON gritty, kitchen sink-style drama. MON MON 09:30 The Brig Society b0376ncx (Listen) MON Series 1, King of Scotland MON Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! MON Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of MON a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British Fashion, MON a prison - and each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it MON can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - MON turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who MON knew...?" MON This week, he's been volunteered to be the King of Scotland. MON As an Englishmen, Marcus will be going out and about in an MON attempt to understand the arguments for and against MON independence, hopefully without getting himself a kilt. MON Helping him chew the fat, and other Scottish delicacies are MON Rufus Jones ("Hunderby", "Holy Flying Circus"), William MON Andrews ("Sorry I've Got No Head") and Margaret MON Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda") MON The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by MON Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also MON produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles MON Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy MON Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Another Case Of MON Milton Jones, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando MON Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, he 3rd Degree, The MON 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active & Bigipedia. MON His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting MON Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Three Fights MON Two Weddings & A Funeral, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino MON Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. MON Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, MON Nick Doody, Steve Punt & Tom Neenan MON Produced by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for the BBC. MON Credits MON Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke MON Ensemble: Rufus Jones MON Ensemble: William Andrews MON Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith MON Producer: David Tyler MON Writer: Marcus Brigstocke MON Writer: Jeremy Salsby MON Writer: Toby Davies MON Writer: Nick Doody MON Writer: Steve Punt MON Writer: Tom Neenan MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b00hhflv (Listen) MON Scoop, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical MON 1938 novel. MON Hapless journalist William Boot is mistakenly sent to report MON on a war in Africa. MON William Boot ...... Rory Kinnear MON Lord Copper ...... David Warner MON Salter ...... Nicholas Woodeson MON Corker ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Pigge ...... Chris Pavlo MON Erik Olafsen ...... Dan Starkey MON Jakes ...... Paul Rider MON Benito ...... Cyril Nri MON Paleologue ...... Nyasha Hatendi MON Moke ...... Inam Mirza MON Mr Baldwin ...... Jonathan Taffler MON Julia ...... Fenella Woolgar MON John Boot ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Josephine ...... Imogen Front MON Miss Holloway ...... Janice Acquah MON Secretary ...... Manjeet Mann MON Uncle Theodore ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Evelyn Waugh ...... Tim McInnerny MON Directed by Sally Avens. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b010dp0z (Listen) MON Tales from the Casino, Ten Miles High MON 'They say the floor at the Casino is amazing - a sprung wood MON floor! And they can fit 1200 people in the ballroom there. MON Twelve hundred people dancing!' MON David's mate Batty converted him to Northern Soul: lending MON him obscure records, teaching him dance moves and describing MON the legendary club. The plan is to hitch-hike to Wigan to MON experience the Casino for themselves. MON Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate MON venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over MON the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the MON latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were MON sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way MON up the road. MON The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with Russ MON Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three songs MON that became known as the Three Before Eight: "Time Will Pass MON You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is Over" by MON Jimmy Radcliffe and "I'm On My Way" by Dean Parrish. MON These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton MON (herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw MON off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was MON voted 'Best Disco In the World' by American Billboard MON Magazine. MON Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977. She is a MON freelance writer of features and music columns, notably MON 'Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll' for the Guardian. Her first MON story for radio, The Carpenter, was broadcast in 2009 as MON part of Sweet Talk's We Are Stardust, We Are Golden series MON for BBC Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks, her debut novel, was MON published in 2010. Laura lives in London. MON Written by Laura Barton. Read by Bryan Dick. MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Reader: Bryan Dick MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON Writer: Laura Barton MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b05nk3gk (Listen) MON Bill Oddie, Steve Pemberton, Nikki Bedi, Shobana Jeyasingh, MON Simon Reeve, Omara Portuondo, Eliades Ochoa, Awna Teixeira MON Clive Anderson is joined by Bill Oddie, Steve Pemberton, MON Nikki Bedi & Shobana Jeyasingh and Simon Reeve. With music MON from Omara Portuondo & Eliades Ochoa and Awna Teixeira. MON Producer: Debbie Kilbride. MON Simon Reeve MON 'Caribbean with Simon Reeve' continues on March 29. You can MON catch up with the first episode on the MON BBC iPlayer MON Awna Teixeira MON Awna Teixeira performs ‘Blue Heart on Your Sleeve’ from her MON album Wild One. MON Wild One is available now - MON check Awna's website for further details MON Steve Pemberton MON The next episode of ‘Inside No. 9’ is on Thursday 2 April at MON 10pm on BBC Two MON Shobana Jeyasingh MON 'Bayadère - The Ninth Life' has its final show on March 28 MON at the Royal Opera House and is touring the UK during April MON and May - check MON Shobana's website for details MON Bill Oddie MON 'Bill Oddie Unplucked' is published by Bloomsbury and MON available now MON Biil Oddie's official website MON Omara Portuondo & Eliades Ochoa MON ‘Lost & Found’ by MON Buena Vista Social Club MON is out now on World Circuit Records. MON Omara Portuondo MON is performing with Orquesta Buena Vista Social Club on MON their ‘Adios Tour’, which starts at Brighton’s Dome on 4th MON April and finishes at Symphony Hall, Birmingham on13th MON April. MON Eliades Ochoa MON is performing with Omara on 30th July at London’s Royal MON Opera House. MON Credits MON Presenter: Clive Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Bill Oddie MON Interviewed Guest: Steve Pemberton MON Interviewed Guest: Nikki Bedi MON Interviewed Guest: Shobana Jeyasingh MON Interviewed Guest: Simon Reeve MON Performer: Omara Portuondo MON Performer: Eliades Ochoa MON Performer: Awna Teixeira MON Producer: Debbie Kilbride MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jlw7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kfx35 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s647t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Arvon Turns Forty b00fgsg2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007jn71 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Dale disrupts her father's relationship with Elizabeth. MON Continuing the novel about step-family traumas. Read by MON Penelope Wilton. MON MON 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h6461 (Listen) MON A Time of Change, a Change of Time MON Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, enters the MON final week of his object-based history. Taking artefacts MON from William Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan MON and Jacobean playgoers made sense of the unstable and MON rapidly changing world in which they lived. With old MON certainties shifting around them, in a time of political and MON religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil asks what the MON plays would have meant to the public when they were first MON performed. He uses carefully selected objects to explore the MON great issues of the day that preoccupied the public and MON helped shape the works, and he considers what they can MON reveal about the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean MON England. MON Programme 16 A TIME OF CHANGE, A CHANGE OF TIME - A rare MON domestic clock with an equally rare minute hand and MON quarter-hour chimes reveals the changing relationship MON Shakespeare's audiences had to time. MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 14:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b007jy5m (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Meena visits a fortune teller who foretells things about her MON relationship with Anita. Meera Syal reads her own novel. MON MON 14:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzdx (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Recalling her love of swimming, the husband of novelist Iris MON Murdoch tells his wife's story. Read by Oliver Ford Davies. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b00hhflv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b01bmq2l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b0124nql (Listen) MON Series 1, Pilot MON By Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser MON Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse MON Gran ..... Anne Reid MON Ray ..... Paul Copley MON Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley MON Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford MON Tanya ..... Susan Cookson MON Waiter ..... Jim Poyser MON Head ..... Caimh McDonnell MON Produced by Steven Canny MON In one version of his life, Justin is a well-known local MON Manchester radio DJ who is successful, funny, and stopped in MON the street by adoring fans. He's the man who has everything. MON In another version he's a DJ in a slightly shabby local MON radio station who gets hassled by the occasional oddball on MON the street. And he's the man who hopes for everything. The MON truth lies somewhere in between. MON And at home? Well, naturally, his private life is chaotic. MON His wife has left him, taking custody of his 8-year-old son MON Justin jnr, and is in the process of taking him to the MON cleaners. So he's back on the market. As is his house - so MON he's currently living in his father-in-law's spare room in MON Bury. The only person who understands him is his Gran, MON living in luxury in an old folk's home in Warrington. Oh, MON and his producer Bryn but this might not be a good thing. MON Despite all this mess, Justin always remains positive. Every MON new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, MON make lemonade". MON Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. MON Everyone Quite Likes Justin is written by Justin Moorhouse MON and Jim Poyser. Justin is a comedian who sells out gigs MON across the country. He has also written plays and a previous MON show for Radio 4. Jim Poyser is a writer and producer of MON enormous experience in both radio and television. MON Credits MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON 17:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00ck2dq (Listen) MON Series 1, Found Wanting MON Robert decides to save Barbara from biker Andy, so enlists MON Father Benedict as an avenger. Stars Brenda Blethyn. From MON March 1993. MON MON 17:30 Know Your Place b0195ds4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jgf (Listen) MON No Conferring MON By Jonathan Holloway. 4 Extra Debut. A bonding week in an MON isolated moorland cottage for a 1983 University Challenge MON team goes horribly wrong. Features Jeremy Paxman. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075m76 (Listen) MON Simon Hoggart and Jenny Lacey MON Sarah LeFanu and her guests, journalist Simon Hoggart and MON broadcaster Jenny Lacey, talk about three favourite MON paperbacks. MON The Original - Michael Frayn MON Published by Methuen MON Starcarbon - Ellen Gilchrist MON Published by Bloomsbury MON The Valley of Bones - Anthony Powell MON Published by Mandarin. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jlw7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kfx35 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s647t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Arvon Turns Forty b00fgsg2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b010dp0z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b05nk3gk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b05mqtj5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Brig Society b0376ncx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b05p3cjc (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 6 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi MON Toksvig. Fred MacAulay and Hugo Rifkind join regular MON panellist Jeremy Hardy. MON MON 23:45 Elastic Planet b007js6h (Listen) MON The Train MON The Ministry of Furniture and methodist pirates. Patrick MON Moore guest stars in the comedy of connections. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jgf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b007jy5m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzdx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s647t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b0075m76 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007jn71 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h6461 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Arvon Turns Forty b00fgsg2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b00hhflv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b01bmq2l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b0124nql (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00ck2dq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Know Your Place b0195ds4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s697j (Listen) TUE Series 3, A Well Planned Job TUE Tully is rather taken with a new informant who might help TUE them catch Steve Mason. Can she be trusted though? TUE Starring Ray Brooks as Detective Sergeant Brook, Stephen TUE Garlick as Detective Constable Tully and Stephen Yardley as TUE Chief Inspector Roach. TUE More tough stories of crime and detection in London written TUE by Robert Barr. TUE Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and TUE Softly Softly. He was also a prize-winning TV producer. TUE Producer: Martin Fisher TUE First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. TUE TUE 06:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fj2ly (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE British jazz bass player Arnie Somogyi and his friend the TUE Hungarian guitarist Zsolt Bende travel through the TUE Carpathian mountains, only eating what they receive in TUE exchange for playing their music. With Arnie's double bass TUE squeezed into their tiny hire car, they go in search of TUE Hungarian specialities, including the country's staple dish, TUE goulash. TUE TUE 07:00 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat TUE b00nhw1v (Listen) TUE The Overcoat TUE A humble Russian civil servant's career is stuck in a dismal TUE rut, until he buys a new coat. With Stephen Moore. From TUE April 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 Ayres on the Air b03sb0lq (Listen) TUE Series 5, Self-Sufficiency TUE Pam Ayres regales her Radio 4 audience with poems, stories TUE and sketches, this week on a subject close to her heart: TUE self-sufficiency. TUE She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey TUE Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband TUE 'Gordon'. TUE This week Pam talks about her love of allotments, knitting TUE and her more recent love of beekeeping. TUE Poems include: The Allotment Rustler, Over-Penguinisation, TUE Behold My Bold Provider, Stuck on You and The Litter Moron. TUE Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and TUE Tom Neenan. TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00j05wb (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 4 TUE Censors lambast the BBC - and a cursed tomb in 'The Clissold TUE Saga'. TUE Starring Kenneth Horne. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, TUE Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1965. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05p67jy (Listen) TUE From 25/04/1965 TUE The toothy funster serves up some prime chortle morsels, TUE including a stint on a desert island with Man Friday. From TUE April 1965. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b05p3cjc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Elastic Planet b007js6h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b00hmpzk (Listen) TUE Scoop, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical TUE 1938 novel. TUE William finds life as a war correspondent somewhat tedious, TUE but he does fall in love and find himself in the middle of a TUE revolution. TUE William Boot ...... Rory Kinnear TUE Katchen ...... Claudie Blakeley TUE Lord Copper ...... David Warner TUE Salter ...... Nicholas Woodeson TUE Frau Dressler ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Erik Olafsen ...... Dan Starkey TUE Secret Policeman ...... Jude Akuwudike TUE Benito ...... Cyril Nri TUE Moke ...... Inam Mirza TUE Mr Baldwin ...... Jonathan Taffler TUE Uncle Theodore ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock ...... Michael Simkins TUE Corker ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Pigge ...... Chris Pavlo TUE News Editor ...... Paul Rider TUE Hechel ...... Gunnar Cauthery TUE Evelyn Waugh ...... Tim McInnerny TUE Directed by Sally Avens. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b010dq78 (Listen) TUE Tales from the Casino, What Shall I Do? TUE Rita works in the cloakroom of the Casino, and hasn't been TUE on the ballroom floor since the days when it was called the TUE Wigan Empress. But then Frank starts calling. TUE Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate TUE venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over TUE the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the TUE latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were TUE sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way TUE up the road. The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with TUE Russ Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three TUE songs that became known as the Three Before Eight: "Time TUE Will Pass You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is TUE Over" by Jimmy Radcliffe and "I'm On My Way" by Dean TUE Parrish. TUE These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton TUE (herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw TUE off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was TUE voted 'Best Disco In the World' by American Billboard TUE Magazine. TUE Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977. She is a TUE freelance writer of features and music columns, notably TUE 'Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll' for the Guardian. Her first TUE story for radio, The Carpenter, was broadcast in 2009 as TUE part of Sweet Talk's We Are Stardust, We Are Golden series TUE for BBC Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks, her debut novel, was TUE published in 2010. Laura lives in London. TUE Written by Laura Barton. Read by Melanie Kilburn. TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Melanie Kilburn TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE Writer: Laura Barton TUE TUE 11:15 Kelvin Segger - Dead Men Tell No Tales b0075gv4 (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. A 'dead' man views his funeral preparations, TUE advertising 'kills' another and a third delays his dream. TUE With Michael Maloney. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00j05wb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05p67jy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s697j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fj2ly (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007s5ty (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Stepmother Josie struggles when Matthew's three children TUE move in with them. Read by Penelope Wilton. TUE TUE 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h666y (Listen) TUE Plague and the Playhouse TUE Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues TUE his object-based history. Taking artefacts from William TUE Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean TUE playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing TUE world in which they lived. TUE With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of TUE political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil TUE asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they TUE were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to TUE explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the TUE public and helped shape the works, and he considers what TUE they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of TUE Shakespearean England. TUE Programme 17. PLAGUE & THE PLAYHOUSE - May 1603 saw not only TUE a new king but the worst plague outbreak since the Black TUE Death. Its impact and reach is told through a series of TUE early seventeenth century proclamations. TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 14:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b007jy6w (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Meena is called on to help with baby Sunil and sets about TUE healing the rift with Anita. Meera Syal reads her own novel. TUE TUE 14:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzg6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Novelist Iris Murdoch's husband recalls falling in love with TUE the lady on the bicycle in Oxford. Read by Oliver Ford TUE Davies. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b00hmpzk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Hidden Treasures b05p6jmr (Listen) TUE Syon House TUE The antiques quiz visits Syon House in London. With Lars TUE Tharp, John Bly and Christine Lalumia. From May 1998. TUE TUE 16:30 Joyce Grenfell - Hats Off b00qs7m8 (Listen) TUE Farewell to Fun TUE The poems of Joyce Grenfell read by Maureen Lipman. TUE Introduced by Janie Hampton. Including Monday Morning Mail TUE and Hats. TUE TUE 17:00 Stilgoe's Around b00v3yq9 (Listen) TUE From 16/4/1984 TUE Manchester Grammar School welcomes Richard Stilgoe for his TUE amusing look at education. With Sandi Toksvig. From April TUE 1984. TUE TUE 17:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat TUE b00nhw1v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jlc (Listen) TUE Myrtle, Mahonia and Rue TUE By Briony Glassco. In an attempt to escape her recurring TUE nightmares, a young landscape gardener decides on a drastic TUE course of action. Stars Rachel Atkins. TUE TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking b05p6lk7 (Listen) TUE Tennessee Williams TUE American playwright Tennessee Williams faces a three-way TUE interview with John Freeman, John Bowen and Peter Duval TUE Smith. TUE Recorded during a visit to England in 1959, Tennessee had by TUE then written all his major plays - but despite that was TUE seriously questioning his future in the commercial theatre. TUE He talks candidly of the misery of waiting for the reviews TUE after opening night. TUE Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking TUE was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and TUE unscripted, the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing TUE was initially jettisoned for three interviewers firing TUE direct questions - straight to the point. TUE Early critics described it as 'unkempt', 'an inquisition' TUE and described the guest as prey being cornered, quarry being TUE pursued - with calls to axe the unscripted interview. But TUE the format won out and eventually won over its detractors. TUE Unknown or very inexperienced broadcasters were employed as TUE interviewers, notably John Freeman, John Betjeman, Malcolm TUE Muggeridge, Harold Hobson, Penelope Mortimer, Elizabeth TUE Beresford and Katherine Whitehorn. TUE Only about 40 of the original 100 programmes survive. TUE First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1959. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00j05wb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05p67jy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s697j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fj2ly (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b010dq78 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Kelvin Segger - Dead Men Tell No Tales b0075gv4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Ayres on the Air b03sb0lq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Little Britain b007jsvm (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE It became a TV smash hit, but Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TUE oddball comedy premiered first on radio. From February 2001. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05pbk3n (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan is TUE joined by Simon Munnery. TUE TUE 23:00 Strangers on Trains b00dgjgd (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Lone male travellers share their secret feelings about TUE 'home'. With Nat Segnit and Stewart Wright. From August TUE 2008. TUE TUE 23:15 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle b00cqd9z (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Ivor Cutler and friends present poems and songs, including TUE the tale of a yellow fly and shoplifting with a twist. From TUE June 1997. TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b00tr5rv (Listen) TUE Series 2, Things to Do Before You Die TUE Comatose Ben travels back to 1973 to find a 'life coach' to TUE motivate him out of his coma. Stars Neil Pearson. From TUE October 2007. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 APRIL 2015 WED WED 00:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jlc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b007jy6w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzg6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s697j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Frankly Speaking b05p6lk7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007s5ty (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h666y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fj2ly (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b00hmpzk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Hidden Treasures b05p6jmr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Joyce Grenfell - Hats Off b00qs7m8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Stilgoe's Around b00v3yq9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat WED b00nhw1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s8pyv (Listen) WED Series 3, Death at the Weekend WED The sad death of three teenagers is soon overshadowed when WED an escaped prisoner strikes closer to home. WED Starring Ray Brooks as Detective Sergeant Brook, Stephen WED Garlick as Detective Constable Tully and Stephen Yardley as WED Chief Inspector Roach. WED More tough stories of crime and detection in London written WED by Robert Barr. WED Robert Barr also wrote TV scripts for the BBC's Z Cars and WED Softly Softly. He was also a prize-winning TV producer. WED Producer: Martin Fisher WED First broadcast weekly on BBC Radio 2 in August 1984. WED WED 06:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fm6m6 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED British jazz bass player Arnie Somogyi and his friend the WED Hungarian guitarist Zsolt Bende travel through the WED Carpathian mountains, only eating what they are given in WED exchange for playing their music. WED The odd couple head for their final destination, the WED unpromisingly named village of Kommando. WED WED 07:00 London Calling b05p73y9 (Listen) WED It Pays to Advertise WED Back to the BBC's early wireless days of 1922. WED Colonel Beecham and Admiral Carpenter are concerned that all WED their hard work producing the BBC's wireless output is WED beginning to affect their golf swing. Meanwhile, hard-up WED Children's Hour's Uncle Rex is made an offer he really ought WED to refuse. WED Written by Jimmy Perry, the man behind Dad's Army and WED Hi-De-Hi. WED Starring Graham Crowden as John Brown, Jimmy Perry as WED Colonel Beecham, Bill Pertwee as Sergeant Lucas and Jeffrey WED Holland as Roger Eccles. WED Producer: Jo Clegg. WED First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994. WED WED 07:30 Chain Reaction b05mtcjp (Listen) WED Series 10, Sharon Horgan talks to Dennis Kelly WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED In the 6th episode of the series actress Sharon Horgan talks WED to BAFTA nominated & Tony Award winning writer Dennis Kelly- WED creator of shows as varied as "Pulling," "Utopia," and WED "Matilda the Musical." WED Producer: Arnab Chanda. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b0103qmd (Listen) WED Johnson's Diet WED Povey learns there is no official record of HMS Troutbridge, WED and someone is very hungry. Stars Ronnie Barker. From WED February 1960. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00b2kh3 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 9 WED Radio awards time, and John and Mary's intruder. Sketches WED and songs with John Cleese and Jo Kendall. From November WED 1966. WED WED 09:00 Trivia Test Match b00vdc9q (Listen) WED From 24/09/1991 WED Brian Johnston umpires, as Tim Rice and Robin Bailey battle WED Willie Rushton and Bob 'The Cat' Bevan. From September 1991. WED WED 09:30 Edgar Wallace - Educated Evans b03zxqb1 (Listen) WED A Matched Pair WED Can the 1920s tipster avoid police plans and see off a new WED 'educated' rival? Stars Roy Hudd, Andrew Sachs and Pat WED Coombs. From August 1996. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b01m9n85 (Listen) WED John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 1 WED By John Steinbeck WED Dramatised by Donna Franceschild WED A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and WED the endurance of the human spirit. WED Set against the backdrop of America's Great Depression and WED Dust Bowl, a family of farmers from Oklahoma head west in WED search of work, only to discover thousands like them are WED also on the move. WED Credits WED Tom: Robert Sheehan WED Preacher Casy: Zubin Varla WED Ma: Michelle Fairley WED Pa: Steven McNicoll WED Al: Finn den Hertog WED Rosasharn: Melody Grove WED Ruthie: Nicola Jo Cully WED Connie: Nick Underwood WED Grampa: Jim Bryce WED Wilson: Jimmy Chisholm WED Ragged Man: Jimmy Chisholm WED Sairy: Irene MacDougall WED Scrapyard Man: Gavin Mitchell WED Floyd: Gavin Mitchell WED Director: Kirsty Williams WED Producer: Kirsty Williams WED Writer: Donna Franceschild WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b010dsw8 (Listen) WED Tales from the Casino, Three Before Eight WED It is all about ritual. Saturday comes and Rob, a seasoned WED DJ at the Casino, is sorting through and packing his records WED for the night. WED Between 1973 and 1981 Wigan Casino was arguably the ultimate WED venue for Northern Soul music. Young people from all over WED the UK regularly made the trek to Wigan to dance to the WED latest Northern Soul artists. Queues to get in were WED sometimes five or six people deep, and stretched quite a way WED up the road. The highlight was the weekly all-nighter, with WED Russ Winstanley as DJ, which traditionally ended with three WED songs that became known as the Three Before Eight: "Time WED Will Pass You By" by Tobi Legend, "Long After Tonight Is WED Over" by Jimmy Radcliffe and "I'm On My Way" by Dean WED Parrish. WED These three specially-commissioned stories by Laura Barton WED (herself from Wigan) hark back to a time when the town threw WED off the image created by George Orwell and the Casino was WED voted 'Best Disco In the World' by American Billboard WED Magazine. WED Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977. She is a WED freelance writer of features and music columns, notably WED 'Hail, Hail, Rock 'n' Roll' for the Guardian. Her first WED story for radio, The Carpenter, was broadcast in 2009 as WED part of Sweet Talk's We Are Stardust, We Are Golden series WED for BBC Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks, her debut novel, was WED published in 2010. Laura lives in London. WED Written by Laura Barton. Read by Daniel Rigby. WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Reader: Daniel Rigby WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED Writer: Laura Barton WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0076xlv (Listen) WED Natalia Power - The Man Who Built Tunnels WED The Man Who Built Tunnels WED Natalia Power's haunting tale of unrequited love. WED The 79-year-old Duke of Portland receives a visitation from WED a once famous opera singer. WED Duke ...... Alec McCowen WED Adelaide ...... Emma Fielding WED John Hargreaves ...... Anthony Glennon WED Lodge keeper ...... Stephen Critchlow WED Wheatley ...... Kim Wall WED Maisie ...... Ella Smith WED Directed by Martin Jenkins. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b0103qmd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00b2kh3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s8pyv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fm6m6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007s74h (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Matthew's daughter Becky finds an unexpected ally in her WED step-mother Josie. Read by Penelope Wilton. WED WED 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h73pq (Listen) WED London Becomes Rome WED Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues WED his object-based history. Taking artefacts from William WED Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean WED playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing WED world in which they lived. WED With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of WED political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil WED asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they WED were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to WED explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the WED public and helped shape the works, and he considers what WED they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of WED Shakespearean England. WED Programme 18. LONDON BECOMES ROME - A set of designs for the WED Coronation Procession of James I reveals the extent of WED classical knowledge amongst Shakespeare's audience. WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 14:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b00fy2qp (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED With Meena and Anita back on track, the girls begin to WED tackle the tricky subject of sex. Meera Syal reads her own WED novel. WED WED 14:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzhg (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Novelist Iris Murdoch's husband reflects on married life and WED recalls their wedding day in 1956. Read by Oliver Ford WED Davies. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b01m9n85 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Trivia Test Match b00vdc9q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Edgar Wallace - Educated Evans b03zxqb1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Flying the Flag b007jx9v (Listen) WED Series 1, Spy Story WED The British ambassador and his team plan their campaign for WED a diplomatic dinner. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From May 1987. WED WED 17:30 London Calling b05p73y9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jps (Listen) WED Voices From Another Room WED By Philip Martin. An artist hears voices in the future WED discussing a murder involving him. And the murder is about WED to happen. Stars Neil Dudgeon. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076ksg (Listen) WED Obsessive Compulsives WED Matthew Parris repeatedly quizzes Franca Davenport, Stephen WED Foster and Dominic Holland about ceaseless compulsion. From WED March 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b0103qmd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00b2kh3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s8pyv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fm6m6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b010dsw8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0076xlv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Chain Reaction b05mtcjp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00y2sdt (Listen) WED Series 1, Parking Enforcement WED Through the medium of four open letters, the comedian Tom WED Wrigglesworth investigates the myriad examples of corporate WED lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain. WED In this series his subjects range from traffic wardens to WED estate agents, with Tom recalling his own funny and WED ridiculous experiences as well as recounting the absurd WED encounters of others. WED Tom finds himself baffled by the weird world of parking WED enforcement. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05pbk6x (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan is WED joined again by Simon Munnery. WED WED 23:00 The Maltby Collection b00mg0wp (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. WED Warring curators, wedding cleaners and a dodgy alarm system WED all add to the unwanted pressure on Walter. WED Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer WED Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins WED Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond WED Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern WED Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin WED Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley WED Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo. WED WED 23:30 The Iguanodon b0075cj0 (Listen) WED Big Fat Liars WED O'Reilly is spooked when the boat runs aground on a prison WED island in the Woe-Betides. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From WED November 1997. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 APRIL 2015 THU THU 00:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jps (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b00fy2qp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzhg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Robert Barr - Detective b01s8pyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076ksg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007s74h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h73pq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 The Goulash Archipelago b00fm6m6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b01m9n85 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Trivia Test Match b00vdc9q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Edgar Wallace - Educated Evans b03zxqb1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Flying the Flag b007jx9v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 London Calling b05p73y9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Paul Temple b007jr6h (Listen) THU Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Mrs Trevelyan THU The debonair sleuth investigates when three murders are THU linked to 'Alex'. THU Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple THU and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case THU for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. THU With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. THU From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective THU Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist THU Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most THU popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of THU chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic THU and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, THU of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest THU tricky case. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. THU THU 06:30 Passing the Hat b00mqhqr (Listen) THU Jolyon Jenkins explores the world of street performance and THU busking, and takes to the streets of Cardiff as part of a THU course with the School of Busking, founded by Mario Morris. THU Jolyon meets fellow students, including a German juggler and THU a naked unicyclist, and learns tips from the Great Soprendo THU and Gazzo, the world's finest exponent of the cups and THU balls. THU THU 07:00 Potting On b00ksx62 (Listen) THU Taking a Break THU Adventure or caravan? Pam and Gordon argue over how to grow THU old. With Pam Ayres and Geoffrey Whitehead. From March 2008. THU THU 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03gvqlz (Listen) THU Series 9, The Personal Statement THU Episode 1: "The Personal Statement" THU He's back. Despite many thwarted attempts at literary THU success and a lifetime of scrimping and scraping to keep THU mind, soul and cat together, the curmudgeon's curmudgeon can THU never be kept down for long and returns to Radio 4 for a new THU series. THU Ed Reardon once more finds himself grabbing at whatever THU scraps his agent, Ping, throws his way, with his only source THU of regular income coming from teaching the increasingly THU savvy and adventurous pensioners their module in short story THU writing. Jaz Milvane continues to be his nemesis, somehow THU making money out of mad schemes whilst Ed makes nothing and THU his love life remains, like his payment of utility bills, THU erratic to say the least. THU As we renew our acquaintance with Ed we find him grovelling THU to his former girlfriend Fiona, claiming to be a 'changed THU man'. But as she quite rightly points out, he's still THU wearing the same socks and sandals. As Ed tries to get back THU into her good books, he finds himself retiring from the THU writing trade and applying for real jobs. So it is, he THU writes a personal statement and attends his first interview THU for a salaried position since, well, ever........ THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Fiona: Jenny Agutter THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Interviewer: Melanie Hudson THU Waitress: Nicola Sanderson THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 08:00 Brothers in Law b05p9vwd (Listen) THU Series 1, Without Due Care THU Barrister Roger Thursby defends an accident-prone artist. THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. THU With guest star Jon Pertwee as Ford O'Hara. THU Adapted for radio by Richard Waring from the BBC TV scripts. THU Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally THU edited for sale abroad. THU Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers THU in Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and THU Denis Norden. It provided the first regular starring role THU for Richard Briers, who later reprised his role of the THU idealistic young lawyer Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between THU 1970 and 1972. THU Produced by David Hatch. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1970. THU THU 08:30 Not in Front of the Children b05p9vz3 (Listen) THU Series 1, While the Brood's Away THU Sending the children off for a holiday with friends is one THU thing - but what do you do with your life while they're THU away? THU Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner and Francis Matthews THU as Henry Corner. THU The comedy mishaps of the Corner family: Jennifer and Henry THU and their three children Trudi, Amanda and Robin. Family THU sitcom, Not in Front of the Children originally ran for four THU series from 1967 to 1970 on BBC TV. Richard Waring adapted THU his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored THU from the original reel-to-reel tapes. THU Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV THU version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was THU the first of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to THU play on television. Later series included And Mother Makes THU Three and Butterflies. THU Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst THU Producer: Trafford Whitelock. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1969. THU THU 09:00 It's Your Round b019rgtc (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU Angus Deayton hosts the show which is totally different THU every time, as it's the panellists themselves that devise THU the format. Each of the contestants has brought their own THU round for the other panellists to play. But will they be THU beaten at their own games? THU The rounds featured this episode are: THU Lucy Porter's "Who's the Daddy?" in which the other three, THU childless, male panellists must complete the quote from a THU 70's parenting bible. THU Tom Wrigglesworth's "Dodo's Den" in which each contestant THU must pitch their idea for a new invention that they think THU will make them their millions. Examples include the "Herring THU Aid" and the intriguingly titled "Bam". THU Robert Popper's brilliant parlour game, "ORAG" aka "The THU Opposite Rhyming Animal Game", which is pretty much, er, THU self-explanatory... THU And Lloyd Langford devises a quiz based on Welsh talisman THU and eccentric, Dr William Price, in his round "The Price Is THU Right". THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU Credits THU Presenter: Angus Deayton THU Panellist: Lucy Porter THU Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth THU Panellist: Robert Popper THU Panellist: Lloyd Langford THU Producer: Sam Michell THU THU 09:30 The Sit Crom b00ly7z6 (Listen) THU The General Inspection THU Cromwell witnesses an apparition at Firebasket Hall. Civil THU War comedy with Joss Ackland and Denise Coffey. From October THU 1990. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b01mhtd2 (Listen) THU John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 2 THU By John Steinbeck THU Dramatised by Donna Franceschild THU A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and THU the endurance of the human spirit set against the backdrop THU of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl. THU The Joads have travelled from Oklahoma to California in THU search of work, only to discover thousands like them have THU also been on the move. Following a violent altercation with THU some locals, they head back on the road with their dream of THU a promised land temporarily in tatters. THU Director: Kirsty Williams. THU Credits THU Tom: Robert Sheehan THU Ma: Michelle Fairley THU Preacher Casy: Zubin Varla THU Timothy: Gavin Mitchell THU Pa: Steven McNicoll THU Al: Finn den Hertog THU Rosasharn: Melody Grove THU Ruthie: Nicola Jo Cully THU Watchman: Jimmy Chisholm THU Mr Thomas: Jimmy Chisholm THU Jeff: Laurie Brown THU Store Clerk: Laurie Brown THU Willie: Nick Underwood THU Director: Kirsty Williams THU Producer: Kirsty Williams THU Writer: Donna Franceschild THU THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading b0128pyw (Listen) THU Three for My Baby, Awesome Day THU These stories take their cue from the Johnny Mercer classic THU 'One For My Baby' - made famous by Fred Astaire, Ella THU Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and especially Frank Sinatra. THU Each of these specially-commissioned pieces tell of a 'brief THU episode' of the kind the song alludes to but doesn't THU describe. In other words, these are stories about doomed THU love: affairs that turned sour, were thwarted by THU circumstance or were never, ever, going to work. THU Awesome Day by Shena Mackay THU "Rick looked up at the clock above the counter. A quarter to THU three. It was always a quarter to three at the Wooden Nickel THU ... It had been quarter to three when he and Meriel first THU came to the Wooden Nickel and it was still quarter to three THU when they left." Meriel loves the theatre. Rick loves THU Meriel. Or is it New York he's in love with? THU Shena Mackay was born in Edinburgh. She is author of two THU novellas, three collections of short stories and eight THU novels. Her novel Dunedin and the collection of short THU stories, The Laughing Academy, both won Scottish Arts THU Council Book Awards and the bestselling The Orchard On Fire THU was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize and the McVitie's THU Prize. Her most recent book, The Atmospheric Railway: New THU and Collected Stories was published in paperback in 2010. THU Shena lives in Southampton. THU Reader: Burn Gorman THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Reader: Burn Gorman THU Writer: Shena Mackay THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU THU 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b007rfcf (Listen) THU Age Gap THU Two women are thrown together in a rest home. Dark comedy THU about growing older. Stars Phyllida Law and Imelda Staunton. THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b05p9vwd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children b05p9vz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Paul Temple b007jr6h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Passing the Hat b00mqhqr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007jn8h (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Elizabeth faces a dilemma now that Tom's daughter Dale has THU decided to move back into the family home. Read by Penelope THU Wilton. THU THU 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h75y2 (Listen) THU The Theatres of Cruelty THU Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues THU his object-based history. Taking artefacts from William THU Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean THU playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing THU world in which they lived. THU With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of THU political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil THU asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they THU were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to THU explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the THU public and helped shape the works, and he considers what THU they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of THU Shakespearean England. THU Programme 19. THE THEATRES OF CRUELTY - A human eyeball in a THU silver setting provides a striking insight to the theatre of THU cruelty in Elizabethan and Jacobean Britain. THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 14:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b00fwq9n (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Tough times for Meena, with a stay in hospital and major THU changes in her circle of friends. Meera Syal reads her own THU novel. THU THU 14:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzjq (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Iris Murdoch's husband remembers the eerie, early signs of THU Alzheimer's shown by his novelist wife. Read by Oliver Ford THU Davies. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b01mhtd2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 It's Your Round b019rgtc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 The Sit Crom b00ly7z6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Anything Legal b00828m9 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Two city gents finally admit they've been sacked and take THU action. Stars Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles. From THU November 1984. THU THU 17:30 Potting On b00ksx62 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jsy (Listen) THU Sally Go Round the Moon THU By Natalia Power. Are job pressures making Sally hear a THU child's voice that no-one else can hear? Or is she being THU haunted? Stars Jaimi Barbakoff. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076hxj (Listen) THU Charles Dickens THU Satirist and writer Armando Iannucci chooses novelist THU Charles Dickens. With Humphrey Carpenter. From November THU 2003. THU THU 19:00 Brothers in Law b05p9vwd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children b05p9vz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Paul Temple b007jr6h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Passing the Hat b00mqhqr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading b0128pyw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Peter Tinniswood b007rfcf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b03gvqlz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b05pb18b (Listen) THU Series 12, Episode 6 THU Made for 4 Extra. This week's stories bashed, mashed and THU moulded into sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the THU public. Trying to make sense of it all is our host, Nish THU Kumar. THU THU 23:00 In and Out of the Kitchen b016x4sv (Listen) THU Series 1, April 21st to 25th THU Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen comprises the THU entries from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien THU Trench. In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, THU Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day THU life, "no matter how grizzly or, indeed, how gristly". THU This second episode finds Damien reluctantly drawn into THU accepting a job for a supermarket's online magazine, whilst THU Anthony resolves to start the "courgette diet" and lose a THU few pounds. THU The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes THU for: THU - a simple Lobster Bisque THU - comforting Lardy Cake THU - relaxing Nettle Tea THU and THU - easy Wiener Schnitzel. THU Cast: THU Miles Jupp as Damien Trench THU Justin Edwards as Anthony THU with THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith as Geraldine McBeef THU Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney THU Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Hut 33 b00vs38k (Listen) THU Series 2, Royal Visit THU The Bletchley Park codebreakers hit panic stations when a THU royal visitor arrives. Stars Robert Bathurst. From May 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 APRIL 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jsy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b00fwq9n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzjq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Paul Temple b007jr6h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076hxj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007jn8h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h75y2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Passing the Hat b00mqhqr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b01mhtd2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 It's Your Round b019rgtc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 The Sit Crom b00ly7z6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Anything Legal b00828m9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Potting On b00ksx62 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Paul Temple b007jr9b (Listen) FRI Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Dr Kohima FRI The police have asked suave sleuth Paul Temple to help them FRI find the mysterious 'Alex' - but who's tracking whom? FRI Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple FRI and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case FRI for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. FRI With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. FRI From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective FRI Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist FRI Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most FRI popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of FRI chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic FRI and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, FRI of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest FRI tricky case. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. FRI FRI 06:30 The Blues Dance b00b7bcs (Listen) FRI Don Letts tells the story of the Blues Dance or Jamaican FRI private club in Britain. Crowds gathered to listen and dance FRI to heavy bass lines of reggae, pumped out from huge FRI speakers. The first wave of West Indian immigrants set up FRI informal basement parties in West London, but the phenomenon FRI would later gain prominence across the UK. FRI Contributors include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Vivien Goldman, FRI Jazzie B, King Tubby, Trevor Sax, Daddy G, Ali Campbell, FRI Caroline Coon, Lenny Henry and Tippa Irie. FRI FRI 07:00 Rent b05pb40g (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI Maria needs a day out so Paul has to look after the baby, FRI but can he be trusted? Stars Barbara Flynn. From February FRI 1997. FRI FRI 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n1rpw (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his FRI hit sketch show. FRI The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by FRI The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny FRI sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It FRI featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive FRI relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people FRI who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr FRI Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. FRI This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it FRI does feature some other things, and don't worry, they're FRI funny too. FRI John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars FRI John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, FRI Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced FRI by Ed Morrish. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00t3twj (Listen) FRI The Student Prince FRI The lad is lured to Moravia as an unknowing decoy for the FRI endangered Crown Prince. Stars Tony Hancock. From January FRI 1956. FRI FRI 08:30 Play It Cool b05pb52t (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Fast moving sketches and a plethora of comedy characters FRI starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. FRI Films like Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack helped FRI make Ian Carmichael a major star of both British stage and FRI screen. Play it Cool was his first radio comedy series FRI promising a variety of potty and pompous situations. FRI Written by Eric Merriman - best known for his work on FRI numerous series of Beyond Our Ken. FRI With music from Rosemary Squires, The Mike Sammes Singers FRI and The Ken Thorne Orchestra FRI Produced by John Simmonds FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1964. FRI FRI 09:00 All the Way from Memphis b00hy94k (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 1 FRI James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, FRI Tracey MacLeod, Stewart Lee and Martin Freeman. From FRI December 2004. FRI FRI 09:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b00757q4 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Slimey Kenwood-Gore makes Dick's hackles rise. What kind of FRI pressure is he putting on Amanda Cadwallader with Old Archie FRI only just buried? Richard finds out that Kenwood-Gore has FRI designs on the village, Cadwallader Hall included. But for FRI what? Dick realises there's a connection with a shady FRI character in his past. Could Kenwood-Gore's intentions be as FRI dastardly? Dick intends to find out. FRI Starring Robert Bathurst as Richard Barton, Moray Watson as FRI Old Dick Barton, Iain Cuthbertson as Jock, Julian Dutton as FRI Young Dick Barton and Matilda Ziegler as Sally Barton. FRI In 1946, Edward J Mason wrote the first episode of Dick FRI Barton - Special Agent. The BBC Light Programme's hugely FRI popular serial followed the adventures of the ex-Commando FRI and his mates Jock Anderson and Snowy White. Despite facing FRI a series of never-ending cliff-hangers at the hands of FRI dastardly villains, our hero always triumphed. "With one FRI bound Dick was free!". FRI Half a century later, Edward J's son Lol created Richard FRI Barton, son of Dick, in an affectionate homage to one of BBC FRI Radio's most enduring heroes. FRI Producer: Jo Clegg FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b01mnqms (Listen) FRI John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 3 FRI By John Steinbeck FRI Dramatised by Donna Franceschild FRI A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and FRI the endurance of the human spirit set against the backdrop FRI of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl. FRI Just as the Joads money and food run out, they find work on FRI a peach farm. But Tom discovers they're breaking a strike FRI led by their old friend Casy the Preacher. Tom and Casy are FRI ambushed by a Deputy Sheriff and a mob of vigilantes and FRI Casy is killed. In his fury, Tom hits back before running FRI for his life. FRI The Joad family's dream of a promised land is about to end. FRI Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI Credits FRI Tom: Robert Sheehan FRI Ma: Michelle Fairley FRI Rosasharn: Melody Grove FRI Pa: Steven McNicoll FRI Al: Finn den Hertog FRI Ruthie: Nicola Jo Cully FRI Mrs Wainright: Irene MacDougall FRI Mr Wainright: Jimmy Chisholm FRI Guard: Nick Underwood FRI Cotton Boss: Nick Underwood FRI Store Clerk: Laurie Brown FRI Boy: Laurie Brown FRI Director: Kirsty Williams FRI Producer: Kirsty Williams FRI Writer: Donna Franceschild FRI FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading b01292gb (Listen) FRI Three for My Baby, Mighty FRI These stories take their cue from the Johnny Mercer classic FRI 'One For My Baby' - made famous by Fred Astaire, Ella FRI Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and especially Frank Sinatra. FRI Each of these specially-commissioned pieces tell of a 'brief FRI episode' of the kind the song alludes to but doesn't FRI describe. In other words, these are stories about doomed FRI love: affairs that turned sour, were thwarted by FRI circumstance or were never, ever, going to work. FRI Mighty by Tom Connolly FRI It has been going well for the Man and his lover. So much so FRI that they plan to start a family. But the arrival of a cat FRI in the neighbourhood seems to call his lover back to a FRI painful past ... FRI Tom Connolly is a film-maker and writer. His first novel, FRI The Spider Truces, was published in 2010. This is his first FRI story for Radio 4. He lives in a remote corner of the Rother FRI Valley, in East Sussex. FRI Reader: Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Writer: Tom Connolly FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00sfykg (Listen) FRI Nicola Jones - Scorched FRI Nicola Jones's tense, fast-moving thriller follows a man FRI trying to re-interpret his memories of the long hot summer FRI of 1976. Who is to blame for his sister's disappearance, and FRI what really happened to her? FRI In 1976, Mike's sixteen year old sister, Evie, walked out of FRI the house and never came back. There didn't seem to be any FRI explanation, but Mike was thirteen at the time and didn't FRI want to upset his Mum by asking too many questions. Now Mike FRI is in his forties, his Mum is dead and a rare visit to his FRI home town provides him with an opportunity to investigate FRI the events of that scorching summer and reinterpret them FRI from an adult perspective. FRI A meeting with an old school friend forces Mike to question FRI his father more closely. Is he guarding a dark family FRI secret? Is he telling the whole truth? FRI Written by Nicola Jones. FRI Mike - Tom Roberts FRI Bern - Kim Wall FRI Young Mike - Gabriel Towell FRI Evie - Chandeep Uppal FRI Sylvia - Bharti Patel FRI Jason - Robert Wilkinson FRI Taxi driver - Sean Connolly FRI Produced and directed by Peter Leslie Wild FRI Nicola Jones has written one previous radio play, "Angels in FRI Disguise" for Radio 7's Man in Black series. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00t3twj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 Play It Cool b05pb52t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Paul Temple b007jr9b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Blues Dance b00b7bcs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007jn8y (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Relationships falter under the strain of living as a FRI step-family when decisions need to be made. Read by Penelope FRI Wilton. FRI FRI 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h7cdr (Listen) FRI Shakespeare Goes Global FRI Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, brings to an FRI end his object-based history. During the past four weeks he FRI has taken artefacts from William Shakespeare's time and FRI explored how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made sense FRI of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they FRI lived. FRI With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of FRI political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil FRI asked what the plays would have meant to the public when FRI they were first performed. Carefully selected objects shed FRI light on the great issues of the day that preoccupied the FRI public and helped shape the works, and revealed much about FRI the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. FRI In this, the final programme of the series, Neil considers FRI how William Shakespeare made the transition from successful FRI playwright to possibly the greatest dramatist the world has FRI known FRI Programme 20 SHAKESPEARE GOES GLOBAL - The publication of FRI the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected plays in 1623 FRI began the process of turning an early modern playwright into FRI a global phenomenon. An annotated copy of the Collected FRI Works of Shakespeare reveals the extent to which Shakespeare FRI has inspired and influenced audiences across the globe and FRI through the ages. FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 14:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b007jvvd (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI On the eve of her 11-plus, the exam seems to be the least of FRI Meena's worries. Meera Syal reads her own novel. FRI FRI 14:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzl1 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Iris Murdoch's husband reflects on his wife's inner world FRI after the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Read by Oliver Ford FRI Davies. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b01mnqms (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 All the Way from Memphis b00hy94k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b00757q4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way b0085j96 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 6 FRI JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, FRI Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From April FRI 1989. FRI FRI 17:30 Rent b05pb40g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Sting in the Tale b0076jwx (Listen) FRI Ghosting FRI By Gregory Evans. Young novelist Michael ghost-writes FRI supermodel Vita's autobiography, but her life is dangerously FRI seductive. Stars Jimi Mistry. FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs b00nz121 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Lorraine McIntosh FRI Lorraine McIntosh is a singer, actress and now a composer. FRI As female vocalist with Deacon Blue she enjoyed the success FRI that comes when a band sells over 6 million records. Equally FRI at home in front of a camera Lorraine's appeared in films FRI and on TV and she's now turned her hand to writing songs. In FRI conversation with Phil Cunningham she reveals the 5 songs FRI that are really special to her. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00t3twj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 Play It Cool b05pb52t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Paul Temple b007jr9b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Blues Dance b00b7bcs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading b01292gb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00sfykg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n1rpw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b010y7bp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second FRI series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real FRI advice for real people. FRI Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she FRI wants you to live life to the upmost, and she's got tons of FRI ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of FRI the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self FRI qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's FRI problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which FRI normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). FRI This week the team tackle two problems - "I think I'm FRI addicted to plastic surgery" and "My retired Dad has more of FRI a social life than me - how can I get him to swap stripping FRI for slippers?" FRI Sarah Millican Sarah FRI Ruth Bratt Marion FRI Simon Day Terry FRI Rachel Isy Suttie FRI Ian William Andrews FRI Jeff Kevin Eldon FRI Clive Malcolm Tierney. FRI FRI 23:00 The Consultants b008j2v3 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI Chesney throws a festive party for his colleagues. Cerebral FRI sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From FRI December 2004. FRI FRI 23:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01d2hg0 (Listen) FRI Series 1, About Dating FRI Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About Dating - tells the FRI story of young, up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who FRI after becoming the first in his family to graduate from FRI University, opted not to use his architecture degree to try FRI his hand at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his FRI family's annoyance who want him to get a 'proper job.' FRI Each episode is designed to show the criticism, interference FRI and rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his family FRI as he pursues his career. This week in Can't Tell Nathan FRI Caton Nothing About Dating - Nathan struggles with his FRI family who disapprove not only of his career but his FRI girlfriend too. Can he persuade them to accept either? FRI The episodes are a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with FRI scenes from his family life. FRI NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON FRI MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH FRI DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER FRI GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND FRI MONICA..... CHIZZY AKULOLU FRI SAMANTHA ..... ALEX TREGEAR FRI Written by Nathan Caton FRI Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown FRI Script Editor: James Kettle FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 23:45 Tina C b01bb7qh (Listen) FRI Tina C's Global Depression Tour, Europe FRI Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US FRI Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former FRI CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can FRI come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets FRI off on a six country tour to prove it. FRI This week she visits Europe FRI Tina C ...Christopher Green FRI With Paul Mason and Victoria Inez Hardy FRI Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher FRI Green FRI Director Jeremy Mortimer. FRI
27 March, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28/03/2015 - 03/04/2015
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