03 April, 2015

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 04/04/2015 - 10/04/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 04 APRIL 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 A Sting in the Tale b0076jwx (Listen) SAT Ghosting SAT By Gregory Evans. Young novelist Michael ghost-writes SAT supermodel Vita's autobiography, but her life is dangerously SAT seductive. Stars Jimi Mistry. SAT SAT 00:30 Meera Syal - Anita and Me b007jvvd (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT On the eve of her 11-plus, the exam seems to be the least of SAT Meena's worries. Meera Syal reads her own novel. SAT SAT 00:45 John Bayley - Iris b007jzl1 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Iris Murdoch's husband reflects on his wife's inner world SAT after the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Read by Oliver Ford SAT Davies. SAT SAT 01:00 Paul Temple b007jr9b (Listen) SAT Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Dr Kohima SAT The police have asked suave sleuth Paul Temple to help them SAT find the mysterious 'Alex' - but who's tracking whom? SAT Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple SAT and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case SAT for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. SAT With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. SAT From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective SAT Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist SAT Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most SAT popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of SAT chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic SAT and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, SAT of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest SAT tricky case. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. SAT SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Songs b00nz121 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Lorraine McIntosh SAT Lorraine McIntosh is a singer, actress and now a composer. SAT As female vocalist with Deacon Blue she enjoyed the success SAT that comes when a band sells over 6 million records. Equally SAT at home in front of a camera Lorraine's appeared in films SAT and on TV and she's now turned her hand to writing songs. In SAT conversation with Phil Cunningham she reveals the 5 songs SAT that are really special to her. SAT SAT 02:00 Joanna Trollope - Other People's Children b007jn8y (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Relationships falter under the strain of living as a SAT step-family when decisions need to be made. Read by Penelope SAT Wilton. SAT SAT 02:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01h7cdr (Listen) SAT Shakespeare Goes Global SAT Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, brings to an SAT end his object-based history. During the past four weeks he SAT has taken artefacts from William Shakespeare's time and SAT explored how Elizabethan and Jacobean playgoers made sense SAT of the unstable and rapidly changing world in which they SAT lived. SAT With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of SAT political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil SAT asked what the plays would have meant to the public when SAT they were first performed. Carefully selected objects shed SAT light on the great issues of the day that preoccupied the SAT public and helped shape the works, and revealed much about SAT the concerns and beliefs of Shakespearean England. SAT In this, the final programme of the series, Neil considers SAT how William Shakespeare made the transition from successful SAT playwright to possibly the greatest dramatist the world has SAT known SAT Programme 20 SHAKESPEARE GOES GLOBAL - The publication of SAT the First Folio of Shakespeare's collected plays in 1623 SAT began the process of turning an early modern playwright into SAT a global phenomenon. An annotated copy of the Collected SAT Works of Shakespeare reveals the extent to which Shakespeare SAT has inspired and influenced audiences across the globe and SAT through the ages. SAT SAT 02:30 The Blues Dance b00b7bcs (Listen) SAT Don Letts tells the story of the Blues Dance or Jamaican SAT private club in Britain. Crowds gathered to listen and dance SAT to heavy bass lines of reggae, pumped out from huge SAT speakers. The first wave of West Indian immigrants set up SAT informal basement parties in West London, but the phenomenon SAT would later gain prominence across the UK. SAT Contributors include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Vivien Goldman, SAT Jazzie B, King Tubby, Trevor Sax, Daddy G, Ali Campbell, SAT Caroline Coon, Lenny Henry and Tippa Irie. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b01mnqms (Listen) SAT John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 3 SAT By John Steinbeck SAT Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SAT A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and SAT the endurance of the human spirit set against the backdrop SAT of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl. SAT Just as the Joads money and food run out, they find work on SAT a peach farm. But Tom discovers they're breaking a strike SAT led by their old friend Casy the Preacher. Tom and Casy are SAT ambushed by a Deputy Sheriff and a mob of vigilantes and SAT Casy is killed. In his fury, Tom hits back before running SAT for his life. SAT The Joad family's dream of a promised land is about to end. SAT Director: Kirsty Williams. SAT Credits SAT Tom: Robert Sheehan SAT Ma: Michelle Fairley SAT Rosasharn: Melody Grove SAT Pa: Steven McNicoll SAT Al: Finn den Hertog SAT Ruthie: Nicola Jo Cully SAT Mrs Wainright: Irene MacDougall SAT Mr Wainright: Jimmy Chisholm SAT Guard: Nick Underwood SAT Cotton Boss: Nick Underwood SAT Store Clerk: Laurie Brown SAT Boy: Laurie Brown SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT Producer: Kirsty Williams SAT Writer: Donna Franceschild SAT SAT 04:00 All the Way From Memphis b00hy94k (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, SAT Tracey MacLeod, Stewart Lee and Martin Freeman. From SAT December 2004. SAT SAT 04:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b00757q4 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Slimey Kenwood-Gore makes Dick's hackles rise. What kind of SAT pressure is he putting on Amanda Cadwallader with Old Archie SAT only just buried? Richard finds out that Kenwood-Gore has SAT designs on the village, Cadwallader Hall included. But for SAT what? Dick realises there's a connection with a shady SAT character in his past. Could Kenwood-Gore's intentions be as SAT dastardly? Dick intends to find out. SAT Starring Robert Bathurst as Richard Barton, Moray Watson as SAT Old Dick Barton, Iain Cuthbertson as Jock, Julian Dutton as SAT Young Dick Barton and Matilda Ziegler as Sally Barton. SAT In 1946, Edward J Mason wrote the first episode of Dick SAT Barton - Special Agent. The BBC Light Programme's hugely SAT popular serial followed the adventures of the ex-Commando SAT and his mates Jock Anderson and Snowy White. Despite facing SAT a series of never-ending cliff-hangers at the hands of SAT dastardly villains, our hero always triumphed. "With one SAT bound Dick was free!". SAT Half a century later, Edward J's son Lol created Richard SAT Barton, son of Dick, in an affectionate homage to one of BBC SAT Radio's most enduring heroes. SAT Producer: Jo Clegg SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998. SAT SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way b0085j96 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 6 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 b05pb40g (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT Maria needs a day out so Paul has to look after the baby, SAT but can he be trusted? Stars Barbara Flynn. From February SAT 1997. SAT SAT 06:00 John Buchan - Witch Wood b05pmjb6 (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. A fervent Scottish minister takes on Satan SAT and his own church elders. John Buchan's 17th-century SAT witching tale stars Paul Young. SAT SAT 07:30 Unearthing Mysteries b007m65z (Listen) SAT Series 1, Glozel SAT Professor Aubrey Manning visits a controversial SAT archaeological site near Vichy that has caused a huge SAT scandal for the French since 1924. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b0076z7t (Listen) SAT Wriggling With Eels SAT Lee Hurst looks back at a century of cockney comics, from SAT Albert Chevalier and Max Miller to Alf Garnett and Ricky SAT Grover. From July 2006. SAT SAT 09:00 I Did It My Way b00s5lbn (Listen) SAT Andrew Sachs SAT Best loved as Spanish waiter Manuel in BBC TV's 'Fawlty SAT Towers' - actor and writer Andrew Sachs chats to Peter Reed SAT about his radio life and times. Featuring: SAT Father Brown Stories: SAT Actor and Alibi: GK Chesterton's clerical sleuth hopes that SAT the farce is with him in solving a theatre-land mystery. SAT Stars Andrew Sachs. First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1986 SAT Wiggly Park: SAT Bigwigs in the Park: The residents of the city park are SAT under threat. All characters voiced by Andrew Sachs. First SAT heard on BBC Radio 5 in 1994 SAT The Revenge: SAT Written and interpreted by Andrew Sachs, this was the SAT world's first radio drama without words. Featuring sound SAT effects and 11 actors, all recorded on location. First heard SAT on BBC Radio 3 in 1978. SAT Running Away: SAT Andrew Sachs takes time out from writing his autobiography SAT to enjoy a grand day out at the zoo, and a stroll down SAT memory lane with Tim Samuels. First heard on BBC Radio 4 in SAT 2008. SAT Cash Me a Portrait: SAT Third play in a trilogy of plays about the world of Art by SAT Andrew Sachs. Trudi Snape has inherited a portrait which may SAT turn out to be a Da Vinci. First heard on BBC Radio 4 in SAT 1985 SAT Produced by Sarah Wade and Mik Wilkojc. SAT SAT 12:00 Dad's Army b007jlw7 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Under Fire SAT On fire-watch with Godfrey, Frazer thinks someone is SAT signalling to the enemy. Adapted from TV with John Laurie. SAT From April 1974. SAT SAT 12:30 Play It Cool b05pb52t (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Fast moving sketches and a plethora of comedy characters SAT starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. SAT Films like Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack helped SAT make Ian Carmichael a major star of both British stage and SAT screen. Play it Cool was his first radio comedy series SAT promising a variety of potty and pompous situations. SAT Written by Eric Merriman - best known for his work on SAT numerous series of Beyond Our Ken. SAT With music from Rosemary Squires, The Mike Sammes Singers SAT and The Ken Thorne Orchestra SAT Produced by John Simmonds SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1964. SAT SAT 13:00 Mike Bartlett - A Steal b05pmn0h (Listen) SAT Omnibus. Shop assistant Hanna tries to help a couple of SAT friends, and it turns into a mission. Will anyone listen? SAT Stars Laura Dos Santos. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b05pmn0k (Listen) SAT Nick Hornby SAT Author of High Fidelity, Nick Hornby chooses 'Ring of Fire' SAT by Johnny Cash and James Brown's '(Do the) Mashed Potatoes'. SAT SAT 14:15 Baldi b00wh649 (Listen) SAT Series 5, A Green Murder SAT Franciscan priest Paolo Baldi sets out to solve the killing SAT of an environmental campaigner on a mountain. Stars David SAT Threlfall. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0076z7t (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 John Buchan - Witch Wood b05pmjb6 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Unearthing Mysteries b007m65z (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l1zzx (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Line SAT Fleeing the past, Abby and Zara arrive in Marek's home city. SAT Why is everyone so scared of Manchu Golding? Stars Ciara SAT Janson. SAT Abby - Ciara Janson SAT Zara - Laura Doddington SAT Marek - Fraser James SAT Manchu Golding - Derek Griffiths SAT Surly Steve - John Banks SAT Helen - Daisy Ashford SAT Written by Simon Guerrier SAT Directed by Lisa Bowerman SAT A Big Finish Production. SAT SAT 19:00 I Did It My Way b00s5lbn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01d2fsj (Listen) SAT Series 1, First Impressions SAT Stephen K Amos and his pick of the circuit's best stand-ups SAT build an idiot's guide to life. This week Miss London, Jess SAT Fostekew and Craig Campbell join Stephen to offer an idiot's SAT guide to first impressions. SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 22:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b00kpybx (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT Invention as it happens. Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney's SAT improvised sketches, driven by the audience. From March SAT 2007. SAT SAT 23:00 Goodness Gracious Me b007jwn0 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT The multi-talented Mrs Bedi lands in hospital, and meet the SAT Six Million Rupee Man. Stars Meera Syal. From July 1996. SAT SAT 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b05rc91f (Listen) SAT From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SAT has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Susan SAT Murray about 'Warming Up'. SAT SAT 23:30 Wondermentalist Cabaret b00yj96p (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 SAT 3 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 Royal Seven Stars in SAT Totnes, South Devon, he's joined by the poet Murray Lachlan SAT Young and one man house band Jerri Hart. Fellow poets Liv SAT Torc and Nathan Filer battle it out with Murray in a Dead SAT Poets' Slam, while the audience compose their own poem on SAT the subject of gerbils. SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 05 APRIL 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l1zzx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Mike Bartlett - A Steal b05pmn0h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b05pmn0k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Baldi b00wh649 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b0076z7t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 John Buchan - Witch Wood b05pmjb6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Unearthing Mysteries b007m65z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Meera Syal - Anita and Me Omnibus b00fyp9l (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Meera Syal concludes her novel about an Asian girl coping SUN with the mix of British and Punjabi cultures in the Black SUN Country. SUN SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks b05ql31l (Listen) SUN Meera Syal SUN Actor and writer Meera Syal MBE chooses 'Dum Maro Dum' from SUN the soundtrack of the film Hare Rama Hare Krishna and 'A SUN Case of You' by Joni Mitchell. SUN SUN 07:15 Whatever Happened to the Teapots? b00nt9c7 (Listen) SUN Episode 5 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 After a week in Stoke-on-Trent, Roger reads the tea leaves SUN to see what the future holds for the city of six towns. SUN SUN 07:30 Beauty of Britain b00n4zgv (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Lord Lieutenant's Lady 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 is caught between a warring couple, which is a good SUN distraction from her disastrous crush on worship leader SUN Wayne. SUN Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien SUN Nancy Snow ...... Rosemary Leach SUN Miss Macleod ...... Anne Reid SUN Worship Leader Wayne ...... Javone Prince SUN Sally ...... Felicity Montagu SUN Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson SUN Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi SUN Anil ...... Paul Sharma SUN Mrs Daly/Choir Member ...... Nicola Sanderson SUN Music by The West End Gospel Choir. SUN SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpfl (Listen) SUN The Bishop Takes a Holiday SUN A clerical outing to a dwindling community parish causes SUN chaos. Adapted from TV, with Jonathan Cecil. From July 1972. SUN SUN 08:30 Life With the Lyons b00zfbbv (Listen) SUN A Crooner in the House SUN Daughter Barbara is in love with Ronnie Harris, and father SUN Ben is not happy. Stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. From SUN January 1955. SUN SUN 09:00 Robert Macfarlane - Landmarks b05qdqsq (Listen) SUN Omnibus. Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places to SUN meet the people and 'collect' the words that evoke the area. SUN Read by Tobias Menzies and the author. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b05pr3rj (Listen) SUN Cerys Matthews SUN Singer and DJ Cerys Matthews chooses Snooks Eaglin's 'I'm a SUN Country Boy' and Hozier's 'Take Me to Church'. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05pr3rl (Listen) SUN Theatre Folk, Sir Trevor Nunn SUN Brahms, Britten and Hallelujah. Theatre director Sir Trevor SUN Nunn shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From SUN January 2003. SUN SUN 11:00 Brian Johnston - An Hour With Johnners b008jw8h (Listen) SUN Much-loved cricket commentator Brian Johnston performs his SUN hilarious one-man show in front of a sell-out audience at SUN London's Richmond Theatre. SUN Recorded on the 21st November 1993, he sparks gales of SUN laughter with anecdotes about his early life at Oxford, in SUN the Guards and his BBC career, including behind-the-scenes SUN tales of 'In Town Tonight', 'Down Your Way' and 'Test Match SUN Special'. Talking about fellow broadcasters like John SUN Snagge, John Arlott and Fred Trueman, Brian reveals many of SUN their gaffes and mistakes, plus his very own 'Leg Over' SUN incident, when he and Jonathan Agnew had a fit of the SUN giggles. SUN Sadly this was to be Brian's final recording. Ten days later SUN he suffered a major heart attack and died aged 81 on 5th SUN January 1994. The Prime Minister, John Major, said: 'Summers SUN will never be the same.' SUN Brian Johnston had always wanted to go on the stage but SUN after Eton and Oxford he was persuaded to join the family SUN coffee business in the City. During the war, he served in SUN the Grenadier Guards, then joined the BBC Outside Broadcasts SUN Department in 1946. For the next 48 years he commentated on SUN everything from the funeral of King George VI to the annual SUN Boat Race. He became the first BBC Cricket Correspondent and SUN also presented 733 editions of 'Down Your Way' for the BBC SUN Home Service and Radio 4. SUN Brian's eldest son Barry Johnston introduces this programme SUN and also produced the original concert recording. SUN SUN 12:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpfl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Life With the Lyons b00zfbbv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Meera Syal - Anita and Me Omnibus b00fyp9l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b05ql31l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Whatever Happened to the Teapots? b00nt9c7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Molly McGrann - The Ladies of the House b05pr3rn (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Made for 4 Extra. A woman reads a news story about the SUN deaths of three people and knows deep down that she is to SUN blame. Read by Susan Jameson. SUN SUN 15:45 Afternoon Reading b00zf4j3 (Listen) SUN Extremely Entertaining Short Stories, The Room SUN Stacey Aumonier's life as a stage performer, 'society SUN entertainer', World War One private and draughtsman all SUN contributed to his unrivalled reputation as a short-story SUN writer in the 1920's. SUN Nobel Prize winner and Forsyte Saga author John Galsworthy SUN described Stacy Aumonier as "one of the best short-story SUN writers of all time." Other famous admirers included Alfred SUN Hitchcock, who had several of his stories adapted for SUN television, and James Hilton, author of Goodbye, Mr Chips, SUN who once said of Aumonier: "I think his very best works SUN ought to be included in any anthology of the best short SUN stories ever written." SUN However since his untimely death at the age of 51, Aumonier SUN has been rather forgotten. This is particularly ironic SUN considering Galsworthy's belief - expressed in his foreword SUN to a posthumously published collection of short stories - SUN that Aumonier would, through his writing, "outlive nearly SUN all the writers of his day." SUN Sadly, this did not happen. Yet the recently published SUN collection of Aumonier's Extremely Entertaining Short SUN Stories has certainly helped bring this overlooked talent to SUN a new audience. Aumonier's stories are not only hilarious, SUN full of wit and genuine warmth for his subjects, but also SUN beautifully constructed insights into the various SUN absurdities of human behaviour; be it in the drawing rooms SUN of London high society or the trenches of World War I. SUN 'The Brown Wallet' read by Mark Heap. SUN Mark Heap has appeared widely across television, radio and SUN film; he recently appeared on TV as Thomas Brown in the SUN returning BBC series 'Lark Rise to Candleford'. His SUN acclaimed comedic performances include 'Spaced', 'Green SUN Wing' and BBC series 'The Great Outdoors' SUN 'The Brown Wallet' by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by Neville SUN Teller and read by Mark Heap. It was recorded in Belfast and SUN the Producer/Director was Laura Conway. SUN 'A Source Of Irritation' read by Mark Addy. SUN Mark Addy has worked extensively in film, television and on SUN stage. His many credits include 'The Full Monty', 'Red SUN Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983' and the upcoming HBO SUN television series 'Game of Thrones'. SUN 'A Source of Irritation' by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by SUN Neville Teller and read by Mark Addy. It was recorded in SUN Belfast and the Producer/Director was Michael Shannon. SUN 'The Room' read by Mathew Horne SUN Mathew Horne's many television credits include 'The SUN Catherine Tate Show', 'Teachers' and '20 Things to Do before SUN You're Thirty'. Mathew is best known to many for his SUN portrayal of Gavin in the hit BBC series 'Gavin and Stacey'. SUN 'The Room by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by Neville Teller SUN and read by Mathew Horne. It was recorded in Belfast and the SUN Producer/Director was Laura Conway. SUN SUN 16:00 Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate b007jp62 (Listen) SUN A glamorous invitation sees Fanny emerge into the 1920s SUN world of an aristocratic family. Stars Amanda Root and SUN Barbara Jefford. SUN SUN 17:30 Beauty of Britain b00n4zgv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Nevil Shute - On the Beach b0120ykk (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN In the aftermath of a nuclear war, a deadly radioactive SUN cloud is moving slowly towards Australia. Stars Claudia SUN Harrison. SUN SUN 19:00 Brian Johnston - An Hour With Johnners b008jw8h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Robert Macfarlane - Landmarks b05qdqsq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b05pr3rj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05pr3rl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Beauty of Britain b00n4zgv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Richest Man in Britain b00p346t (Listen) SUN The Cultural Attache SUN Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock SUN star and his search for fulfilment. SUN Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt and his personal assistant SUN Dom come to blows over the one thing money can't buy. SUN Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams SUN Dom ...... Russell Tovey. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b05pb18b (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 6 SUN Made for 4 Extra. This week's stories bashed, mashed and SUN moulded into sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the SUN public. Trying to make sense of it all is our host, Nish SUN Kumar. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00q3gjq (Listen) SUN Series 5, Being Alone SUN The writer Jon Ronson asks are we more ourselves or less SUN ourselves when we are alone? He confronts David Quantick, SUN who Jon noticed avoiding him in the street one day. SUN Father Ted writer Graham Linehan reveals the moment he was SUN ignored. We also talk to Yoshiro Nakamatsu, the world's most SUN prolific inventor about the moment he invents - alone and SUN under water. Finally we hear of the British man who was SUN jailed in Japan and wasn't allowed to speak to anyone in his SUN daily life for nearly 3 years. SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 06 APRIL 2015 MON MON 00:00 Nevil Shute - On the Beach b0120ykk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Meera Syal - Anita and Me Omnibus b00fyp9l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b05ql31l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Whatever Happened to the Teapots? b00nt9c7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Molly McGrann - The Ladies of the House b05pr3rn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Afternoon Reading b00zf4j3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate b007jp62 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Beauty of Britain b00n4zgv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Paul Temple b007jrcx (Listen) MON Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Mr Carl Lathom MON Despite an attempt on his life, debonair detective Paul MON Temple remains hot on the trail of the elusive 'Alex'. MON Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple MON and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case MON for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. MON With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. MON From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective MON Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist MON Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most MON popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of MON chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic MON and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, MON of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest MON tricky case. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. MON MON 06:30 The House That Jazz Built b00p315y (Listen) MON Celebrating 50 years of Ronnie Scott's, Paul Merton looks MON back at the origins of Ronnie Scott's, Britain's most famous MON jazz venue, and examines its impact in the world of music. MON Ever since his trips in the late-1940s to the jazz clubs of MON New York's 52nd Street, Ronnie Scott dreamt of opening his MON own London venue. His vision came true when the first Ronnie MON Scott's club opened on Gerrard Street, Soho, in 1959. MON The initial plan was purely to provide a base for British MON jazz musicians to jam. However, the club quickly developed a MON reputation for featuring the best in modern jazz and soon MON provided a platform for the world's greatest jazz musicians. MON It became a Mecca for jazz music fans and a popular hang-out MON for politicians, comedians and actors. MON In 1965 it relocated a short distance to Frith Street, where MON it remains one of the world's most celebrated jazz rooms, MON complete with its own studio and record label. MON Recorded on location at Ronnie Scott's, the programme MON features interviews with leading jazz artists Salena Jones, MON Ian Shaw, Jay Phelps and James Pearson, and features music MON and archive from personalities associated with the venue MON during its 50-year history. MON MON 07:00 Know Your Place b019dvsb (Listen) MON Sisterly Feelings MON Cleaner Elsie is facing eviction. Can caretaker Ramsay save MON the day? Stars Roy Dotrice and Patricia Hayes. From July MON 1983. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b05nt9bf (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 8 MON After an incredibly successful debut earlier in this series, MON David Tennant is back on the show, joining Julian Clary, MON Stephen Fry and Paul Merton. MON But will he manage to speak for an entire minute this MON time..? Subjects include "To Be or Not to Be" and "My Dog's MON Got No Nose". MON Nicholas Parsons rules over BBC Radio 4's classic panel game MON in which the contestants are challenged to speak on a given MON subject for a minute without hesitation, repetition or MON deviation. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007k48l (Listen) MON Series 1, Something Nasty in the Vault MON An unexploded bomb puts Mainwaring and Wilson in a jam. MON Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier. From MON April 1974. MON MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kkdkm (Listen) MON From 06/05/1984 MON From Moscow to the mudflats of Muk Muk via a grand stately MON home, it's the ultimate one-man show, written by the host. MON From May 1984. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b01by9l4 (Listen) MON Series 15, Jackie Collins MON Author of the Week this episode is million-selling author MON and steadfast purveyor of "bonkbusters", Jackie Collins. MON Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by MON journalist, Jane Thynne, and creator of the DI Thorne MON novels, Mark Billingham as they attempt to answer questions MON based on her life and work. MON For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine MON Jackie Collins' version of a literary classic, such as MON Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre. MON MON 09:30 The Brig Society b037jbtz (Listen) MON Series 1, Railway 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, Marcus has been given his own railway franchise MON to run. Please note, this programme may be running late; MON change at Tiverton Parkway for The Archers MON Travelling with him in the Noisy Coach are Rufus Jones MON ("Hunderby", "Holy Flying Circus"), William Andrews ("Sorry MON I've Got No Head") and Margaret 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 Dinner Ladies. 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 BBC Radio 4. 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 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00grysh (Listen) MON Boy and Girl MON Boy and Girl: Young, impulsive Maggie causes ructions in her MON family. Nineteenth-century classic stars Michael Fitzgerald MON and Terry Molloy. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b01292vc (Listen) MON Three for My Baby, Harold Lloyd Is Not the Man of My Dreams MON These stories take their cue from the Johnny Mercer classic MON 'One For My Baby' - made famous by Fred Astaire, Ella MON Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and especially Frank Sinatra. MON Each of these specially-commissioned pieces tell of a 'brief MON episode' of the kind the song alludes to but doesn't MON describe. In other words, these are stories about doomed MON love: affairs that turned sour, were thwarted by MON circumstance or were never, ever, going to work. MON Harold Lloyd Is Not The Man Of My Dreams by Morven Crumlish MON She met Walter on the day she was supposed to fall in love. MON But Walter had no inkling of the conflicting emotions that MON could be aroused by silent comedians ... MON Morven Crumlish's stories have been published and broadcast MON widely, and she also contributes to the Guardian. Her work MON has featured in three previous Sweet Talk productions for MON BBC Radio 4. 'Loulou and Barbie and the Seven Deadly Sins' MON appeared in Curly Tales 2 (2005); Dilemmas of Modern Martyrs MON - five of her stories - in 2008; and most recently 'A Good MON Impression' (Platform 3, 2010). Morven lives in Edinburgh. MON Reader: Morven Christie MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON A Sweet talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:15 Nick Warburton - A Soldier's Debt b00b0hkx (Listen) MON A missing recording of Macbeth creates a tie between three MON people in war-torn West Africa. Powerful drama starring MON Amanda Root. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007k48l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kkdkm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Paul Temple b007jrcx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The House That Jazz Built b00p315y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt577 (Listen) MON Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 1 MON When Beatrice hears that her younger sister, Tess, is MON missing, she leaves her job in New York and returns home to MON London on the first available flight. Having already lost MON her little brother, who died of Cystic Fibrosis as a child, MON Bee cannot bear the thought of losing her sister. When she MON tells the police that Tess had been getting nuisance calls, MON and that she was pregnant by a lecturer at her college who MON hadn't wanted her to have the baby, the police decide to do MON a reconstruction of Tess's last known movements. MON This is Rosamund Lupton's first novel, a tense psychological MON thriller that explores the powerful bond between sisters MON that endures beyond death. The abridger is Lauris Morgan MON Griffiths and the reader is Hattie Morahan. MON Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. MON MON 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country MON b00rql6f (Listen) MON Humphry Repton MON Laurence explores changing ideas about the countryside, MON starting with early 19th-century landscape designer Humphrey MON Repton. MON MON 14:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3rs (Listen) MON Ladies of Letters Go Global, Episode 1 MON Vera nabs a package to Ibiza, and Irene aims to save her MON friend from seduction. Stars Prunella Scales and Patricia MON Routledge. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsn (Listen) MON Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs, Episode 1 MON Jason Butler Harner reads from Pulitzer prize-winning author MON Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty memoir about life as MON a husband, father and son. MON In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon MON reflects on the personal and family history that haunts him MON even as it's being written every day. At the centre of a MON large and complex family, and with four young children, MON Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' MON marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent MON comedy. MON In this first episode an encounter in a supermarket leads MON him to remember his own father and considers the changing MON nature of fatherhood today. Why is it that, even as a father MON completely involved in the day-to-day lives of his children, MON so much less expected of him than of his wife? MON Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven MON novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The MON Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the MON Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times MON as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'. MON Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The MON Changeling with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV MON series including Law and Order and John Adams. An MON accomplished stage actor, he has just appeared on the London MON stage in Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse. MON Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for MON BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00grysh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b01by9l4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Happy Tuesdays b00tdm88 (Listen) MON Antiquity MON Antiquity is a lively audience sitcom about the staff of an MON antiques shop in the fictional town of Newby-On-Wye. MON Sassy, cutting, clever, perceptive and in desperate need of MON a job, Faye Chambers is new to the team. She joins Rupert MON Bull, an old school bounder and cad who has somehow managed MON to survive into the 21st Century, and Toby Atkins, his MON useless but enthusiastic assistant manager. MON Rupert won the shop in a poker competition many years ago, MON and sees it as little more than a way to make a fast buck. MON In this pilot episode, the immeasurably lovely local MON shop-owner Mr Richards has a set of priceless Faberge eggs MON that need restoring. MON Rupert Bull -------------------------------------------- Tim MON McInnerny MON Toby ----------------------------------------------------- MON William Andrews MON Faye ----------------------------------------------------- MON Nadia Kamil MON Mr Richards ------------------------------------------- MON Andrew Sachs MON Chicken Seller --------------------------------------- David MON Reed MON Amulet Seller ----------------------------------------- MON Christine Kavanagh MON John-Luke Roberts and Gareth Gwynn have written for a wide MON variety of Radio 4 shows including The News Quiz, The Now MON Show, Listen Against, Laura Solon - Talking And Not Talking, MON Laurence And Gus - Hearts And Minds and many more. Gareth MON Gwynn was a finalist in the BBC New Talent contest "Show Me MON The Funny" in 2007 and won the Channel 4 Talent award for MON radio comedy. John-Luke Roberts wrote and performed the MON Radio 7 series Spats ("more entertaining than the whole of MON Live Earth... lovely, peculiar stuff" - The Guardian). He MON currently has a play in development with the Hampstead MON Theatre. MON MON 17:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00cmypt (Listen) MON Series 1, The Final Supper MON Destiny calls the Pattersons and Father Benedict's team, but MON the post-cup match menu awaits. Stars Paul Parris. From MON March 1993. MON MON 17:30 Know Your Place b019dvsb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 Doctor Who b01hy35y (Listen) MON A Thousand Tiny Wings, Episode 1 MON 1950s Kenya: The Mau Mau uprising. A disparate group of MON women lie low in a remote house in the jungle, waiting for a MON resolution or for rescue. Among these British imperialists MON is Elizabeth Klein, a refugee from a timeline that no longer MON exists - thanks to the Doctor. MON Reunited, the Doctor and Klein are forced to set aside their MON differences by terrifying circumstances. People are dying in MON this remote place. One by one. And there's something out MON there, in the jungle, accompanied only by the flutter of a MON thousand tiny wings... MON Starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, Tracey Childs as MON Elizabeth Klein, Ann Bell as Mrs Sylvia O'Donnell and MON Abigail McKern as Mrs Denise Waterford. MON Written by Andy Lane. MON Directed by Lisa Bowerman. MON Made by Big Finish. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075md9 (Listen) MON Pippa Greenwood and Phill Jupitus MON Gardener Pippa Greenwood and comedian Phill Jupitus discuss MON their three favourite paperbacks with Sarah LeFanu. From MON 1999. MON 84 Charing Cross Road - by Helene Hanff MON Published by Warner MON The Liar - by Stephen Fry MON Published by Arrow MON The Joy Luck Club - by Amy Tan MON Published by Minerva. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007k48l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kkdkm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Paul Temple b007jrcx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The House That Jazz Built b00p315y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b01292vc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Nick Warburton - A Soldier's Debt b00b0hkx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b05nt9bf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Brig Society b037jbtz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b05ps82f (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 7 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi MON Toksvig. Holly Walsh, Mark Steel and Romesh Ranganathan join MON regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. MON MON 23:45 Elastic Planet b0089jhr (Listen) MON The Shape MON Drugged electricity and artificial icebergs. Johnny Ball MON guest stars in the cosmic comedy of connections. From May MON 1995. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 07 APRIL 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Doctor Who b01hy35y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075md9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Paul Temple b007jrcx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 The House That Jazz Built b00p315y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt577 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country TUE b00rql6f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3rs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00grysh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b01by9l4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Happy Tuesdays b00tdm88 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00cmypt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Know Your Place b019dvsb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Paul Temple b007w5cq (Listen) TUE Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Mr 'Spider' Williams TUE The enigmatic 'Alex' claims another victim - but the plot TUE thickens as the sleuth survives a car crash. TUE Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple TUE and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case TUE for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. TUE With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. TUE From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective TUE Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist TUE Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most TUE popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of TUE chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic TUE and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, TUE of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest TUE tricky case. TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. TUE TUE 06:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b0088nd9 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Misha Glenny traces the career of Italian nationalist hero TUE Giuseppe Garibaldi. TUE 1/2. Born in Nice in 1807, Garibaldi became a merchant TUE seaman, a guerrilla fighter in South America, a defeated TUE hero of the Roman Republic and the man who liberated the TUE south of Italy before giving up all of his powers to the TUE north. TUE Misha's journey takes him to Sicily, Rome, Sardinia and TUE Milan. Among the people he meets is Anita Garibaldi, a TUE descendant of the General himself. TUE TUE 07:00 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat TUE b00nm9sg (Listen) TUE Ivan Fyodorovich Shponka and His Aunt TUE Home from military service, Ivan finds his aunt's efforts to TUE marry him off intolerable. With Griff Rhys Jones. From April TUE 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 Ayres on the Air b03t37cz (Listen) TUE Series 5, Beauty TUE Poet Pam Ayres brings her Radio 4 audience half an hour TUE packed with poems, stories and sketches, this week on the TUE subject of beauty and, that newly-coined term, wellness. 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 meeting Phyllis Diller and finding TUE out about 'chin brown', she recalls buying a very unsuitable TUE outfit having admired it on someone else and explains how TUE you know when you've put on a little too much weight. TUE Poems include: Too much of a Fag, Did I Turn off My Tongs?, TUE Had a Little Work Done, Pilates, Once I Was a Looker And So TUE Was My Spouse, and the legendary I Wish I'd Looked After Me TUE Teeth. TUE Sketch writers: James Bugg, Grainne McGuire, Claire Jones, TUE Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00j05wj (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 TUE Saluting a puddings inventor - and Gruntfuttock's after a TUE job at the BBC. 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. TUE 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 April 1965. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05pwkxc (Listen) TUE From 02/05/1965 TUE How not to fix a gas leak with Andy Mann, and the Great TUE Train Robbery's 'unknown man' revealed. With John Laurie. TUE From May 1965. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b05ps82f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Elastic Planet b0089jhr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gs5x8 (Listen) TUE Home and School TUE Maggie Tulliver has run away, but will a passion for TUE litigation prove to be her father's undoing? Stars Terry TUE Molloy. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b010mv4r (Listen) TUE Malachi Whitaker - The Crystal Fountain, Landlord of the TUE Crystal Fountain TUE Martin Jarvis directs Imelda Staunton in Malachi Whitaker's TUE moving story, written in the 1930s. Attractive red-headed TUE teacher, Brenda Millgate, meets five jolly men on a train TUE from King's Cross going north. What happens to her on the TUE journey is a life-changing experience. They're very friendly TUE and helpful. All northerners. Where have they been? Who are TUE they? Eventually it's revealed that they're all landlords. TUE Brenda, unhappy in London away from her northern roots, is TUE beguiled by their talk, their humour and their courtesy. TUE Then one of them says something which changes her whole TUE life. TUE Malachi Whitaker was a prolific writer in the 1920s and TUE '30s, writing with great perception and care about ordinary TUE folk, invariably setting the stories in her native TUE Yorkshire. She became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' TUE because of her sympathetic observation of the minutiae of TUE human beings and their (often comic and surprising) TUE behaviour. TUE Imelda Staunton biography: Oscar nominated and Bafta TUE award-winning for her title role performance in 'Vera TUE Drake'. She has had a long and distinguished career in the TUE theatre, RNT and West End, performing A Man for all Seasons, TUE Mack & Mabel, Side by Side, and Elektra. Also BBC TV Series: TUE Cranford. TUE Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Imelda Staunton TUE Director: Martin Jarvis TUE Producer: Martin Jarvis TUE Writer: Malachi Whitaker TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00wqbb8 (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson - What Do You Know? TUE When Natasha Lonsdale, loving mother and respected TUE businesswoman goes missing, neither her husband, her family TUE or even her lover have any idea why. Natasha it appears had TUE a secret life; a life which is now starting to unfold in TUE both the newspapers and on the worldwide web with TUE devastating results. Do any of us ever really know who any TUE one else is - even after 20 years of marriage? Mark TUE Lawson's, 'What do you Know?', suggests not. TUE Cast TUE DCI Parsons - Roger Allam TUE Natasha Lonsdale - Rebecca Saire TUE Barbara - Margot Leicester TUE Desmond - Andrew Sachs TUE Dan - John McAndrew TUE Nick - Richard Dormer TUE Peter - Nick Dunning TUE Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00j05wj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05pwkxc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Paul Temple b007w5cq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b0088nd9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt5pt (Listen) TUE Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 2 TUE Beatrice Hemming has returned from the US because her TUE younger sister Tess has gone missing from her home in TUE London. The two have always been very close and the TUE abruptness of her disappearance, without a word to her TUE beloved sister, makes Beatrice believe something terrible TUE must have happened to Tess. Could it have been linked to TUE Tess's pregnancy by her college lecturer? Beatrice quickly TUE becomes heavily involved, taking part in a police TUE reconstruction and meeting one of Tess's new friends. Then TUE she hears two momentous pieces of news about Tess. TUE The abridger is Lauris Morgan Griffiths and the reader is TUE Hattie Morahan. TUE Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. TUE TUE 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country TUE b00rvzb9 (Listen) TUE William Wordsworth and the Sublime Landscape TUE How Wordsworth expressed a sense of nature's powers in his TUE poetry that has influenced thinking about the countryside TUE ever since. TUE TUE 14:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3sq (Listen) TUE Ladies of Letters Go Global, Episode 2 TUE Irene is forced into casual labour in Ibiza when she TUE inherits Vera's debts. Stars Prunella Scales and Patricia TUE Routledge. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsq (Listen) TUE Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs, Episode 2 TUE Jason Butler Harner continues to read from Pulitzer TUE prize-winning author Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty TUE memoir about life as a husband, father and son. TUE In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon TUE reflects on the personal and family history that haunts him TUE even as it's being written every day. At the centre of a TUE large and complex family, and with four young children, TUE Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' TUE marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent TUE comedy. TUE Despite having very little in common, Michael Chabon formed TUE a very close relationship with the father of his first wife. TUE Today he reflects on the different world his father-in-law TUE opened up for him, the joy he felt in being part of a much TUE more stable family than his own, and the complex emotions TUE both men felt when his marriage broke down. TUE Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven TUE novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The TUE Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the TUE Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times TUE as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'. TUE Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The TUE Changeling with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV TUE series including Law and Order and John Adams. An TUE accomplished stage actor, he has just appeared on the London TUE stage in Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse. TUE Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for TUE BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gs5x8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Hidden Treasures b05pwn3r (Listen) TUE Parham House TUE The antiques quiz visits Parham House in West Sussex. With TUE Lars Tharp, Stella Beddoe and Henry Sandon. From May 1998. TUE TUE 16:30 Joyce Grenfell - Hats Off b00qs7mb (Listen) TUE Song of Gladness TUE Maureen Lipman reads more of Joyce Grenfell's poems. TUE Introduced by Janie Hampton. Including The Bumble Bee and My TUE Boy. TUE TUE 17:00 Stilgoe's Around b007k36s (Listen) TUE From 23/04/1984 TUE Bristol's World Wine Fair is host to Richard Stilgoe's wit, TUE flair and musings on booze. With Emma Thompson. From April TUE 1984. TUE TUE 17:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat TUE b00nm9sg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Doctor Who b01hz71f (Listen) TUE A Thousand Tiny Wings, Episode 2 TUE 1950s Kenya: Reunited by terrifying circumstances, the Time TUE Lord is forced to enlist the help of Nazi scientist, Doctor TUE Elizabeth Klein. The Doctor is also worried about Lucy. TUE Starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, Tracey Childs as TUE Elizabeth Klein, Ann Bell as Mrs Sylvia O'Donnell and TUE Joannah Tincey as Lucy Watts. TUE Written by Andy Lane. TUE Directed by Lisa Bowerman. TUE Made by Big Finish. TUE TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking b05pwnvh (Listen) TUE Dr Jacob Bronowski TUE Dr Jacob Bronowski discusses his career as a mathematician, TUE scientist, writer and broadcaster with Mary Stocks and John TUE Maddox. Recorded in January1964, shortly before he left TUE England to take up a new research post in California. 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 1964. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00j05wj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05pwkxc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Paul Temple b007w5cq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b0088nd9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b010mv4r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00wqbb8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Ayres on the Air b03t37cz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Little Britain b008gh5h (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE Back where it premiered, Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TUE oddball TV smash hit without the cameras. From March 2001. TUE TUE 23:00 Strangers on Trains b00dp2h1 (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE Series of character comedies by Nat Segnit and Stewart TUE Wright, in which Nat talks to people sitting alone on TUE trains. TUE Nat asks strange men about marriage and family. TUE TUE 23:15 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle b00ctkty (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE Ivor Cutler and friends present surreal songs and poems, TUE including grass seed, mud and digging ditches. From June TUE 1997. TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b00tv7x3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, I Want You TUE Ben's unconscious mind puts him in a compromising situation TUE with a fellow coma patient. Stars Neil Pearson. From October TUE 2007. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 08 APRIL 2015 WED WED 00:00 Doctor Who b01hz71f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Frankly Speaking b05pwnvh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Paul Temple b007w5cq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b0088nd9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt5pt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country WED b00rvzb9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3sq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gs5x8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Hidden Treasures b05pwn3r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Joyce Grenfell - Hats Off b00qs7mb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Stilgoe's Around b007k36s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat WED b00nm9sg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Paul Temple b007jrk0 (Listen) WED Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Mr Wilfred Davis WED Lathom is blackmailed and the sleuth stakes-out the drop-off WED - where a surprising figure collects the cash. WED Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple WED and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case WED for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. WED With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. WED From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective WED Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist WED Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of WED chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic WED and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, WED of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest WED tricky case. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. WED WED 06:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b00899f1 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Misha Glenny traces the career of Italian nationalist hero WED Giuseppe Garibaldi. WED He explores the background to Garibaldi's most glorious WED exploit, the landing of a thousand men on Sicily and the WED heroic efforts that liberated all of southern Italy. On his WED travels, he meets former mayor of Palermo Leoluca Orlando, WED the man who stood up to the mafia. WED WED 07:00 London Calling b05ps2ns (Listen) WED Little Willie Saves the Day WED Back to the BBC's early wireless days of 1922. WED The Daily Sketch says the BBC's programmes are boring. Will WED DG John Brown finally agree to broadcast some light WED entertainment, or will his peccadillo with Auntie Phyllis WED force him over the edge? Either way, Fred "Keep 'Em WED Laughing" Hicks has got an unusual new act for radio. 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, Jeffrey WED Holland as Roger Eccles and Roy Hudd as Fred "Keep 'Em WED Laughing" Hicks. WED Producer: Jo Clegg. WED First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994. WED WED 07:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th WED century bet; can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the WED Royal Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour? WED Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham. Additional material WED written by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne. Produced by Joe WED Nunnery. WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Producer: Joe Nunnery WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: Paul Byrne WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b05px8vr (Listen) WED Tug-of-War WED Troutbridge sails on escort duty, but Mr Phillips is WED assigned as the lone officer. Stars Leslie Phillips. From WED February 1960. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00thy17 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 10 WED British seafarers, and John Cleese in reverse. Sketches and WED songs with Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From December WED 1966. WED WED 09:00 Trivia Test Match b007jsrv (Listen) WED From 01/10/1991 WED Brian Johnston umpires as team captains Tim Rice and Stephen WED Fry battle guest panellists Willie Rushton and Rachel WED Heyhoe-Flint. From October 1991. WED WED 09:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b007621y (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine stay on air despite WED interruptions. 'Madonna' and 'Roy Walker' perform a duet. WED From May 2001. WED WED 10:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gsj50 (Listen) WED Home and Work WED Mr Tulliver is offered an unlikely escape route from his WED troubles. Philip is enamoured of Maggie. Stars Sylvestra Le WED Touzel. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b010m9t6 (Listen) WED Malachi Whitaker - The Crystal Fountain, Strange Music WED Martin Jarvis directs Moira Quirk in Malachi Whitaker's WED moving short story of a young girl's visit to a dance hall WED on a rainy night with her friend. But why does Cora send WED Joyce though to the dance-floor alone. Why does she remain WED outside? Is she waiting for someone? Then the young man WED she's come to see is standing in front of her. WED It's Danny Dunne, the band leader. He tells her she WED shouldn't have come. She tells him urgently that she wants WED to see him again. 'I want us to be alone again together,' WED she says. 'You know what I want.' He nervous, telling her WED he's got to be careful. But what is the real story between WED these two? Does Cora have a hidden agenda? And is there more WED to diffident Danny than there seems? WED Malachi Whitaker was prolific in the 1920s and '30, writing WED with compassion and perception about ordinary folk, WED invariably setting the stories in her native Yorkshire. She WED became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' because of her WED sympathetic observation of the minutiae of human beings and WED their (often comic) behaviour. WED Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Writer: Malachi Whitaker WED Actor: Moira Quirk WED Director: Martin Jarvis WED Producer: Martin Jarvis WED WED 11:15 Jennie Buckman - Goodbye Moses b0075gq8 (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. Moses Perkes, a Trinidadian WED ghost-turned-detective, embarks upon a quest to find his WED killers. Stars Rudolph Walker. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b05px8vr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00thy17 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Paul Temple b007jrk0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b00899f1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt66z (Listen) WED Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 3 WED Beatrice has discovered that her little sister Tess and her WED unborn baby were involved in a gene trial because of their WED family history of Cystic Fibrosis. With Tess still missing, WED she gets the news that Tess had already had the baby before WED her disappearance, but that the child died. Bee is WED distraught to think that Tess hadn't told her, and her WED suspicions increase that there is something sinister behind WED Tess's disappearance. An unsettling encounter with Tess' WED friend Simon, who claims to have been in love with her, only WED heightens her anxiety, and then she hears the dreadful news WED that Tess has been found dead in the snow outside a toilet WED block in a London park. Now, Beatrice must identify her WED sister's body and embark on her own hunt for Tess's WED murderer. WED The reader is Hattie Morahan and the book is abridged by WED Lauris Morgan Griffiths. WED Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. WED WED 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country WED b00rzmkj (Listen) WED The Sporting Estate WED The stylist explores how field sports contributed to the WED idea of the country house as a seat of social and political WED power. WED WED 14:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3tn (Listen) WED Ladies of Letters Go Global, Episode 3 WED Still on her package holiday, Vera is abducted by WED Transylvanian separatists. Stars Patricia Routledge and WED Prunella Scales. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00rzrss (Listen) WED Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs, Episode 3 WED Jason Butler Harner continues to read from Pulitzer WED prize-winning author Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty WED memoir about life as a husband, father and son. WED In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon WED reflects on the personal and family history that haunts him WED even as it's being written every day. At the centre of a WED large and complex family, and with four young children, WED Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' WED marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent WED comedy. WED When Michael Chabon was growing up the 1970s, he and his WED bicycle had the freedom of the neighbourhood. He and his WED friends played in the woods and explored the streets and WED empty lots of his Maryland town. But his own children, like WED all their contemporaries, are driven everywhere by WED over-protective parents and are never seen out on the WED streets. Chabon reflects on why has this happened and WED wonders what effect it is having on children's imaginations. WED Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven WED novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The WED Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the WED Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times WED as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'. WED Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The WED Changeling with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV WED series including Law and Order and John Adams. An WED accomplished stage actor, he has just appeared on the London WED stage in Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse. WED Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for WED BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gsj50 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Trivia Test Match b007jsrv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b007621y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 London Calling b05ps2ns (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Doctor Who b01hzb12 (Listen) WED A Thousand Tiny Wings, Episode 3 WED Holed-up in a remote farmhouse in 1950s Kenya, the Time Lord WED and his would-be Nazi nemesis, Elizabeth Klein discover the WED true nature of their foe - but how should they tackle it? WED Starring Sylvester McCoy as The Doctor, Tracey Childs as WED Elizabeth Klein, Ann Bell as Mrs Sylvia O'Donnell and Chuk WED Iwuji as Joshua Sembeke. WED Written by Andy Lane. WED Directed by Lisa Bowerman. WED Made by Big Finish. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076mjy (Listen) WED Smoking WED Journalist Amanda Mitchison, novelist Maureen Freely and WED American comic Lewis Schaffer join Matthew Parris to discuss WED smoking. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b05px8vr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00thy17 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Paul Temple b007jrk0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b00899f1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b010m9t6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Jennie Buckman - Goodbye Moses b0075gq8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00y92mb (Listen) WED Series 1, Utilities Companies 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 bemused by the peculiar practices of WED utilities companies. WED WED 23:00 The Maltby Collection b00mjrxp (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. WED Museum cleaner Eva Tattle has been interviewed 'in depth' by WED Cleaners' Weekly (incorporating The Scrubbers' Gazette) and WED has managed to offend the entire museum in the process. 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 Mike ...... Stephen K Amos WED Hypnotist ...... Julia Deakin. WED WED 23:30 The Iguanodon b0075cpk (Listen) WED Two Sausage Rolls Between the Seven of Us WED A startling revelation for Sam after he survives a sinking WED and the pirates - again. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From WED December 1997. WED WED THU THURSDAY 09 APRIL 2015 THU THU 00:00 Doctor Who b01hzb12 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076mjy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Paul Temple b007jrk0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Garibaldi's Grand Scheme b00899f1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt66z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country THU b00rzmkj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3tn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00rzrss (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gsj50 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Trivia Test Match b007jsrv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b007621y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 London Calling b05ps2ns (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Paul Temple b007w4dh (Listen) THU Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Mr Lee Brent THU Mrs Trevelyan's confession doesn't ring true, so the sleuth THU seeks assistance from an American counterpart. 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 Metal at 40 b008kjc4 (Listen) THU Emily Booth tells the story of the loudest and darkest form THU of rock. Heavy metal began in Britain in 1968, pioneered by THU such exponents as Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep THU Purple. Each had their own unique sound, but shared an THU approach that embraced loud guitar riffs, powerful lead THU vocals and thunderous percussion. Since then, the music has THU flourished and diversified, spawning sub-genres such as THU grindcore, thrash and death metal, ever eager to embrace THU extreme subject matter. THU THU 07:00 Potting On b00l1pkk (Listen) THU Curse of the Pharaoh THU Computer games or a dog? Pam and Gordon run a garden centre, THU but argue over growing old. With Pam Ayres and Geoffrey THU Whitehead. THU THU 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03hnhjw (Listen) THU Series 9, The Intern THU Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, THU complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and the THU curmudgeonly attitude to life that he's mastered over years THU of failure. THU This week, the council is taking a holistic approach to THU cost-cutting and decides that Ed's writing class needs to THU get paid for some of their work. When it transpires that the THU class feels that they are wasting their time and thinking of THU joining the 'Bonkers About Baking' class Ed decides to set THU them the task of writing 'Hedgerow Jottings' and 'Tales from THU the Towpath' in an attempt to earn money and become real THU writers. Meanwhile, when the new intern at the agency turns THU out to be more than he seems, Ed finds himself maintaining THU his non-tax paying status by becoming the oldest intern in THU town and sharing an office with Ping. THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Alex: Jonathan Bailey THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Keely: Nicola Sanderson THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 08:00 Brothers in Law b007jryl (Listen) THU Series 1, Solicitor's Instructions THU Barrister Roger Thursby takes on an elaborate drink-driving THU case. THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. THU With guest stars James Hayter as Tewkesbury and Geoffrey THU Sumner as the Magistrate. 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 b05ps3ht (Listen) THU Series 1, Look for the Crystal Lining THU Jennifer puts in a lot of subtle work to remind Henry of THU their Crystal Wedding Anniversary ... and then makes a THU discovery which causes her to do a bit of back pedalling - THU like crazy! 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 b01b8zw3 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU Angus Deayton presides over another episode of the show THU where the format is, there isn't one. Instead, each of the THU four panellists has brought their own round for the other THU panellists to play. How will each round play out? And, more THU importantly, who will be beaten at their own game? THU The rounds featured this episode are: THU Alex Horne's "Font, Fighter or Fragrance" in which THU panellists are given a word and they must guess whether that THU word refers to a typographical font, the name of a Gladiator THU from ITV's show "Gladiators" or a "Lynx deodorant" THU fragrance. THU Roisin Conaty's "Four Second Pitch" in which panellists have THU but four seconds to pitch Angus the elements of an idea for THU a blockbuster film and a new religion. THU Paul Sinha's "World Record Recall" in which panellists have THU to fill in the missing details from the description of a THU real record from the Guinness Book of World Records. THU And Rufus Hound's "Which Lady Done Say That Thing" in which THU panellists must guess which audience member said a certain THU phrase. As the title suggests. THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU Credits THU Presenter: Angus Deayton THU Panellist: Alex Horne THU Panellist: Roisin Conaty THU Panellist: Paul Sinha THU Panellist: Rufus Hound THU Producer: Sam Michell THU THU 09:30 The Sit Crom b00m0zyl (Listen) THU Thick Fog in All Areas THU Thynne finds a way to avoid the devil's vegetables. Civil THU War comedy with Chris Emmett and Jack Klaff. From October THU 1990. THU THU 10:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gsr6p (Listen) THU Loss and Love THU Tom feels betrayed by Maggie, and tragedy is looming for the THU Tullivers. Stars Sylvestra Le Touzel and Michael Fitzgerald. THU THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading b010mrz7 (Listen) THU Malachi Whitaker - The Crystal Fountain, Home to THU Waggonhouses THU Martin Jarvis directs Rosalind Ayres in Malachi Whitaker's THU moving story, written in the 1930s. Sarah has been cycling THU for two hours. Where's she going? And why? She's determined THU to see the husband who deserted her. She has heard he is THU lying ill at Ebesham. THU Three years ago he had come into some money and it had THU turned his head. Then the farm seemed too small for him. He THU went to look at bigger farms miles away. On one of his THU journeys he met an attractive widow. One day they left THU quietly together, and later Sarah heard that they had set up THU house at Ebesham. And now Sarah is riding there, where David THU is lying ill. But she arrives to find an unexpected THU situation. What she does next could probably only have come THU from Malachi Whitaker compassionate pen. THU Malachi Whitaker was prolific in the 1920s and '30s, writing THU with great perception and care about ordinary folk, THU invariably setting the stories in her native Yorkshire. She THU became known as 'the Chekhov of the north' because of her THU sympathetic observation of the minutiae of human beings and THU their (often comic) behaviour. THU Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Reader: Rosalind Ayres THU Director: Martin Jarvis THU Producer: Martin Jarvis THU Writer: Malachi Whitaker THU THU 11:15 Glyn Jones - Glorious John b007jtm9 (Listen) THU A music-loving retired lecturer rekindles a childhood THU sweetheart in his imagination. Stars David Hargreaves and THU Charlie Ryan. THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b007jryl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children b05ps3ht (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Paul Temple b007w4dh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Metal at 40 b008kjc4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt671 (Listen) THU Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 4 THU Rosamund Lupton's first novel is a gripping psychological THU thriller about the bonds between two sisters. After Bee has THU identified the body of her sister, Tess, she returns to THU Tess' flat to find Emilio Codi, the lecturer who Tess said THU was the father of her stillborn child, trying to remove his THU paintings from the flat. When the post mortem results come THU through, the police are convinced that Tess must have taken THU her own life and that she had been suffering from post-natal THU psychosis. Bee refuses to accept the diagnosis, and remains THU adamant that someone must have killed her. Feeling isolated THU in her grief, and unable to persuade anyone to trust her THU instincts about Tess' death, Bee determines to find out the THU truth. THU The reader is Hattie Morahan, the abridger Lauris Morgan THU Griffiths. THU Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. THU THU 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country THU b00s1pds (Listen) THU Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Land Plan THU The legacy of O'Connor's 1842 plan for poor Britons to THU plough their own furrow for financial independence and THU social dignity. THU THU 14:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3vh (Listen) THU Ladies of Letters Go Global, Episode 4 THU Irene is livid when she hears about Vera's planned MI6 THU assignment with her son. Stars Patricia Routledge and THU Prunella Scales. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsv (Listen) THU Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs, Episode 4 THU Jason Butler Harner continues to read from Pulitzer THU prize-winning author Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty THU memoir about life as a husband, father and son. THU In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon THU reflects on the personal and family history that haunts him THU even as it's being written every day. At the centre of a THU large and complex family, and with four young children, THU Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' THU marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent THU comedy. THU In today's episode, the need to put up a new towel rail THU leads Michael Chabon to wonder why men can never admit to THU being out of their depth. "This is an essential element of THU being a man: to flood everyone around you in a great radiant THU arc of bullshit, one whose source and object of greatest THU intensity is yourself. To behave as if you have everything THU firmly under control even when you have just sailed your THU boat over the falls." THU Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven THU novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The THU Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the THU Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times THU as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'. THU Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The THU Changeling with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV THU series including Law and Order and John Adams. An THU accomplished stage actor, he has just appeared on the London THU stage in Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse. THU Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for THU BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gsr6p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 It's Your Round b01b8zw3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 The Sit Crom b00m0zyl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Anything Legal b0084hrs (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU The city gents' new business makes them money, but at what THU cost? Stars Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles. From THU November 1984. THU THU 17:30 Potting On b00l1pkk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Schalken the Painter b007jvp4 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU A visitor places a young Flemish painter's love for his THU master's niece in jeopardy. 17th-century mystery read by Ian THU McDiarmid. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076j0c (Listen) THU Series 4, Ian Dury THU Comedian Linda Smith nominates musician, actor and artist THU Ian Dury as her choice of a life well-lived. Humphrey THU Carpenter is in the chair, while writer, broadcaster and THU Dury's former manager Charlie Gillett fills in the THU biographical details. THU Credits THU Presenter: Humphrey Carpenter THU Interviewed Guest: Linda Smith THU Interviewed Guest: Charlie Gillett THU THU 19:00 Brothers in Law b007jryl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children b05ps3ht (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Paul Temple b007w4dh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Metal at 40 b008kjc4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading b010mrz7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Glyn Jones - Glorious John b007jtm9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b03hnhjw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 My Teenage Diary b01k290n (Listen) THU Series 4, Robert Webb THU Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by THU opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them THU out in public for the very first time. THU Rufus Hound is joined by actor Robert Webb whose hilarious THU and sometimes abrasive teenage diary documents the highs and THU lows of being seventeen - and the perils of kissing a girl THU at a party when you don't really fancy her. THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 In and Out of the Kitchen b017551m (Listen) THU Series 1, July 15th to 19th THU Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen features a few 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 life, "no THU matter how grizzly" as he puts it "or, indeed, how gristly". THU This episode sees Damien and his partner, Anthony, setting THU off for the warm embrace of the Italian countryside so that THU Damien can do some writing for a new book, and their builder THU Mr Mullaney can have space to properly fit the granite THU worktops that Damien's been dreaming of "from what seems THU like the beginning of the Jurassic era". But there's trouble THU in paradise when Damien receives a call to tell him their THU Umbrian villa has collapsed and they will have to go THU somewhere else. Luckily, Damien's agent, Ian, is quick to THU the rescue... THU The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes THU for: THU - a perfect pasta puttanesca THU - comforting Cornish Pasties THU and THU - something for the more experimental, "pilchards al THU limone". THU Cast: THU Miles Jupp as Damien Trench THU with THU Justin Edwards as Anthony THU Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney THU Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher THU Alex Tregear as the BA Lady/Helpful Student THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Hut 33 b00vy861 (Listen) THU Series 2, Pigs n Spivs THU The codebreakers run out of rations. Can special new recruit THU Willis save their bacon? Stars Robert Bathurst. From May THU 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 10 APRIL 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Schalken the Painter b007jvp4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076j0c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Paul Temple b007w4dh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Metal at 40 b008kjc4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt671 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country FRI b00s1pds (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3vh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gsr6p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 It's Your Round b01b8zw3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 The Sit Crom b00m0zyl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Anything Legal b0084hrs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Potting On b00l1pkk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Paul Temple b007w2hz (Listen) FRI Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, The Girl in Brown FRI The debonair detective returns to Canterbury in search of FRI 'Alex', when Leo Brent looks to be in danger. 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 Going to Pieces in the Box b00p61zg (Listen) FRI Janet Ellis, host of the 1980s Children's BBC series Jigsaw, FRI presents a celebration of the history and the art of the FRI jigsaw puzzle. FRI More art - typically sentimental, traditional art - has made FRI its way into more homes via the jigsaw puzzle than virtually FRI any other medium. While it has since become the purveyor of FRI comforting landscapes to the masses, it started life as an FRI educational tool championed by the likes of philosopher John FRI Locke. In 1760, London mapmaker John Spilsbury mounted one FRI of his maps on hardboard and cut it into pieces to help FRI children learn geography. FRI Janet tells the story of how, since then, it has become such FRI a core feature of childhoods across the world. She hears how FRI jigsaws hit their first major peak during the Great FRI Depression, when 10 million a week were bought by families FRI looking for cheap pastimes, and how they were used by FRI immigration officers on Ellis Island to determine who should FRI be allowed into the land of the free. Janet also explores FRI how popular culture has flirted with the jigsaw, in novels FRI and films as diverse as Mansfield Park, Citizen Kane and, FRI most powerfully, Georges Perec's novel, Life: A User's FRI Manual. She hears from academics and enthusiasts including FRI Margaret Drabble, who explain the jigsaw's great allure. FRI Janet hears how jigsaws continue to be incredibly popular, FRI having evolved into 3-D puzzles and of course made their way FRI onto the internet, where no young children's games site is FRI without one. FRI FRI 07:00 Rent b00752fm (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Havoc in the Reynolds household as all prepare for baby FRI Piglet's naming ceremony. Stars Barbara Flynn, Patrick FRI Barlow and Linda Polan. From February 1997. FRI FRI 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n6sjq (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 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 week sees some moth-based lunacy, and a heartwarming FRI tale of the days before health and safety. All of which is, FRI as you'll see, "awesome". 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 b00t5xc7 (Listen) FRI The Greyhound Track FRI Sid wants the lad evicted, so he reopens a public footpath FRI through his country mansion. Stars Tony Hancock. From FRI February 1956. FRI FRI 08:30 Play It Cool b05ps3hw (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Days out and big business inspire a plethora of comedy FRI characters galore in fast-moving sketches. 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 August 1964. FRI FRI 09:00 All the Way From Memphis b00j26h0 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, FRI Tracey MacLeod, Carol Decker and David Hepworth. From FRI December 2004. FRI FRI 09:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b00757wt (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Richard and Sally take a well-earned break in Bratov, "the FRI jewel behind the iron curtain", but it soon becomes apparent FRI that they should've dissuaded Dick from joining them. FRI Before they can reach the hotel, he's raced off in a taxi FRI chase, convinced someone's taken his bag. They have. But as FRI Dick's bag contains three drip-dry shirts and a week's FRI supply of tea-bags, and theirs contains something quite FRI different, one can assume it's an accident. Things are FRI looking rather dangerous. 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 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gszmm (Listen) FRI Loving and Losing FRI As Philip hatches a plan, Maggie Tulliver's loyalties are FRI sorely tested. With Sylvestra Le Touzel and Richard Pearce. FRI FRI 11:00 Stella Duffy - From the River's Mouth b012ry00 (Listen) FRI A cautionary tale of how the malign and sultry River Thames FRI exacts a watery revenge. Short story read by Samantha Bond. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00v72fk (Listen) FRI Swings and Roundabouts FRI By Dana Fainaru and James O'Neill. Comedy drama about FRI first-time parenthood. Abi has been taken hostage - by her FRI baby. But neither her husband nor the other shell-shocked FRI parents in the playground seem to have noticed. FRI Abi ..... Lucy Liemann FRI David ..... Mark Bonnar FRI Niamh/Lucy ..... Tessa Nicholson FRI Eleanor ..... Tina Gray FRI Julie ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Sam ..... Leah Brotherhead FRI Jordan ..... Lloyd Thomas FRI Peter ..... Tony Bell FRI Directed by Abigail le Fleming. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Abigail le Fleming FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00t5xc7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 Play It Cool b05ps3hw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Paul Temple b007w2hz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Going to Pieces in the Box b00p61zg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt673 (Listen) FRI Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 5 FRI Bee's struggle to persuade the police that her sister Tess FRI didn't commit suicide continues as she goes to meet the FRI psychiatrist who saw Tess shortly before her death. Bee FRI discovers that he changed his diagnosis of post-natal FRI depression to one of psychosis, but only after he learnt of FRI her death. But Bee's efforts to convince him that Tess FRI wouldn't have taken her own life meet with a professional FRI stonewall. Bee also learns, from Tess' phone bill, that Tess FRI had tried to call her in the States fifteen times in the FRI twenty-four hours before she died, and her guilt over Tess' FRI death increases with the knowledge that she had failed Tess FRI in her time of need. Spurred on by this, she visits Tess's FRI fellow student Simon in his flat, and there makes a sinister FRI discovery. FRI The abridger is Lauris Morgan Griffiths, the reader is FRI Hattie Morahan. FRI Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. FRI FRI 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country FRI b00s54j7 (Listen) FRI Octavia Hill FRI How Octavia set up the National Trust, based on her belief FRI in the importance of nature for the working class. FRI FRI 14:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3wb (Listen) FRI Ladies of Letters Go Global, Episode 5 FRI Vera joins Irene's son to undertake a life-threatening FRI undercover operation for MI6. Stars Patricia Routledge and FRI Prunella Scales. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsx (Listen) FRI Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs, Episode 5 FRI Jason Butler Harner continues to read from Pulitzer FRI prize-winning author Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty FRI memoir about life as a husband, father and son. FRI In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon FRI reflects on the personal and family history that haunts him FRI even as it's being written every day. At the centre of a FRI large and complex family, and with four young children, FRI Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' FRI marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent FRI comedy. FRI In the final episode, Michael Chabon is forced to confront FRI his teenage daughter's emerging sexuality, and his own FRI feelings of protectiveness and helplessness towards her. FRI "For a while everything about my daughter's entrance into FRI puberty, her emerging new self and the concomitant interest FRI of boys in her, discomfited me. And the part of it that made FRI me squirm the most was how depressingly trite my discomfort FRI was. Was that the kind of father I had turned out to be? FRI Standing on the front porch with my shotgun under one arm, FRI cartoonishly interrogating my daughter's cartoonish dates?" FRI Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven FRI novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The FRI Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the FRI Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times FRI as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'. FRI Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The FRI Changeling with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV FRI series including Law and Order and John Adams. An FRI accomplished stage actor, he has just appeared on the London FRI stage in Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse. FRI Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for FRI BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gszmm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 All the Way From Memphis b00j26h0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b00757wt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Rent b00752fm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n6sjq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Schalken the Painter b007sw35 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI The ghoulish Vanderhausen seals his deal with Rose's uncle FRI and takes her away. 17th-century mystery concluded by Ian FRI McDiarmid. FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs b00p6v33 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Edwyn Collins FRI The Corries signing Sally Free and Easy and David Bowie's FRI Conversation Piece are two of the songs Edwyn Collins has FRI chosen as being really important to him. He talks to Phil FRI Cunningham about the significance of these songs and the FRI three others he's picked in My Life in 5 Songs. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00t5xc7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 Play It Cool b05ps3hw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Paul Temple b007w2hz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Going to Pieces in the Box b00p61zg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Stella Duffy - From the River's Mouth b012ry00 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00v72fk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n6sjq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b0113086 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 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'm a cherry FRI childless and proud of it" and "I'd like to be romantic but FRI I have a voice that makes children cry" FRI Sarah Millican Sarah FRI Ruth Bratt Marion FRI Simon Day Terry FRI Bridget Christie Jenny FRI Joe Wilkinson Keith. FRI FRI 23:00 The Consultants b007k37k (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Chesney brings his daughter to work. Or does he? Cerebral FRI sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From FRI December 2004. FRI FRI 23:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01dht5l (Listen) FRI Series 1, About Proud Mums FRI Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About Proud Mums - 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.' Or FRI did, until success beckoned. 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 Proud Mums - Nathan's TV appearance make FRI his family re-think. Finally, they're proud of him and are FRI full of encouragement which does wonders for Nathan and his FRI ego. 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 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 b01bm0q4 (Listen) FRI Tina C's Global Depression Tour, China 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's in China. FRI Tina C...Christopher Green FRI With Will Hutton, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey. FRI Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher FRI Green FRI Director Jeremy Mortimer. FRI

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