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SAT SATURDAY 03 OCTOBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 A Canticle for Leibowitz b01p1pl8 (Listen) SAT Fiat Homo, Episode 5 SAT Brother Francis heads to New Rome for the canonisation of SAT Saint Leibowitz, his greatest hope fulfilled. 1960 SAT post-apocalyptic alternate history read by Nigel Lindsay. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b007602h (Listen) SAT Series 1, Summertime SAT Rodney Greenberg, Harolyn Blackwell and Lesley Garrett SAT reflect on the impact of George Gershwin's classic lullaby. SAT From January 2001. SAT SAT 01:00 VI Warshawski - Bitter Medicine b007jl7g (Listen) SAT Public Health SAT With her murder probe expanding, private detective VI SAT Warshawski opts to employ some unusual methods in an attempt SAT to trap the perpetrators. SAT Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Sharon Gless as VI SAT Warshawski. With Eleanor Bron as Lottie Herschel, Bill SAT Hootkins as Lt Bobby Mallory, William Dufris as Peter SAT Burgoyne and Kerry Shale as Murray Ryerson. SAT Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female SAT sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, SAT is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI SAT is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but SAT she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky SAT says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women SAT were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed SAT either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, SAT smart, likeable female private investigator". SAT Dramatist: Michelene Wandor SAT Producer: Janet Whitaker SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. SAT SAT 01:30 Inside the Elephant Mind b00qxgzw (Listen) SAT Everyone knows that elephants are clever but science is only SAT now beginning to reveal just how smart they are. Andrew SAT Luck-Baker joins British and Kenyan researchers on the East SAT African savannah who are revealing the depths of the SAT elephant mind with the help of a huge loudspeaker in the SAT back of a Land Rover. SAT By playing different sound recordings (of elephants, lions SAT and people) at elephant family groups, the scientists are SAT probing the sophistication of elephant memory and pachyderm SAT numerical skills. They are also testing whether elephants SAT can distinguish between different human languages. Anecdotes SAT suggest they can. SAT Another team of British researchers have been using urine SAT samples and smelly clothes in other experiments to probe the SAT agility of elephant grey matter. SAT All this has been taking place on the plains of Amboseli SAT National Park in Kenya, under the looming presence of Mount SAT Kilimanjaro. Amboseli is home to the world's longest running SAT study of a single elephant population. Started by SAT journalist-turned-biologist Cynthia Moss almost forty years SAT ago, the study is a continuing record of every facet of the SAT lives of every elephant living there. Cynthia Moss says the SAT Amboseli data is like "gold" for the visiting animal SAT psychologists to make sense of their experiments. SAT It turns out that that elephants are more intelligent than SAT humans in some respects. For example, elephants have a much SAT better short-term working memory than we do and out-perform SAT people on at least one numerical skill. But why might they SAT need to distinguish between the English language and the SAT language of the local Masaai people? And what does this SAT research tell us about the evolution of animal intelligence SAT in general? SAT SAT 02:00 AL Barker - Something of Fancy b06f3sxc (Listen) SAT A woman's routine is disturbed when she meets a young man SAT near a cathedral. Read by Joanna Myers and Clarence Smith. SAT SAT 02:15 Forgotten Female Fossilists b0076g1m (Listen) SAT Anna Thynne SAT Presenter Rebecca Stott looks at Anna Thynne's fascination SAT for madrepores, which led to the invention of the marine SAT aquarium. From July 2003. SAT SAT 02:30 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater b007jtfb (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Simon and Sennen lose contact under water, and the mystery SAT of Sennen's paternity is revealed. Stars Susannah Doyle. SAT SAT 02:45 You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like SAT This b00srwx8 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT A salute to the ending of a 'great comic moralist'. Stephen SAT Boxer concludes Terence Blacker's celebration of William SAT Donaldson. SAT SAT 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00tzwyw (Listen) SAT The Soldiers' Voice SAT 1647 - Parliament gets tough on army dissenters, but how SAT will Cromwell react? English Civil War drama with Bernard SAT Hepton. SAT SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge b00ph8rz (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 6 SAT Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins grills Tom Binns, Ben SAT Moor, Nick Frost and Peter Serafinowicz. From August 2001. SAT SAT 04:30 Albert and Me b007jv04 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Pilot Episode SAT Single dad Bryan Archer struggles to work as well as SAT bringing up his baby son, Albert. SAT Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as SAT Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Frank Thornton as SAT Vernon Wordsworth. SAT Written by Jim Eldridge. SAT Producer: John Fawcett Wilson SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1977. SAT SAT 05:00 The Change b0076nxd (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT Convinced that his wife's having an affair with transvestite SAT George, Ken targets Carol. SAT Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as SAT George, Maureen Beattie as Maureen and James Vaughan as Ken. SAT Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to SAT smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol SAT is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers SAT can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. SAT Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. SAT Producer: Elizabeth Freestone SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. SAT SAT 05:30 The Absolutely Radio Show b06d29by (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch SAT show Absolutely reunite for a brand new series on BBC Radio SAT 4. Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy SAT and John Sparkes are back together with all new material. SAT They revisit some of their much loved sketch characters for SAT four half hour shows, whilst also introducing some newcomers SAT to the show. SAT In 2013, the group got back together for the Sketchorama: SAT Absolutely Special for BBC Radio 4 which subsequently won a SAT BBC Audio Drama Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy SAT category. SAT The fourth and final episode of the series will feature SAT another meeting of the highly confused Stoneybridge Town SAT Council as well as pearls of nonsense from Calum Gilhooley, SAT Edinburgh's most boring man, and the ever popular Little SAT Girl, telling us what is true about teenagers. Frank Hovis SAT makes an appearance, there will be more stories from those SAT who were nearly there in The People's War, talking Facebook SAT will return and we'll meet an angsting Actor who is very SAT concerned about the length of his co-star's credits. SAT Produced by Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy. SAT An Absolutely/Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Peter Baikie SAT Performer: Morwenna Banks SAT Performer: Moray Hunter SAT Performer: Gordon Kennedy SAT Performer: John Sparkes SAT Producer: Gus Beattie SAT Producer: Gordon Kennedy SAT SAT 06:00 Poirot b009z4c6 (Listen) SAT Death in the Clouds SAT Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot investigates a murder high in SAT the sky. SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule SAT Poirot, Philip Jackson as Chief Inspector Japp, Geoffrey SAT Whitehead as Monsieur Fournier and Teresa Gallagher as Jane SAT Grey. SAT On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which Poirot is SAT an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead. A doctor SAT on board is inclined to put it down to a wasp-sting, but SAT Poirot suspects that a poisoned dart is the real cause - SAT and, perhaps rather too conveniently, a blow pipe is SAT discovered stuffed down the back of his seat. SAT Clearly the murder can only have been committed by one of SAT the passengers or crew on the plane. But which one? Poirot, SAT Japp and M. Fournier of the Sûreté will make their way SAT through shoals of red herrings before reaching an utterly SAT unexpected conclusion. SAT Dramatist: Michael Bakewell SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. SAT SAT 07:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075xpp (Listen) SAT Chillingham Castle SAT The architectural historian revels in a fabulous restoration SAT in Alnwick, Northumberland. From September 2000. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b007lkyc (Listen) SAT Test Match Special: Ball by Ball SAT Rory Bremner looks back at fifty years of BBC Radio coverage SAT of test match cricket in this country. SAT The programme has seen a rich variety of commentators, SAT including the poetic elegance of John Arlott, the japes of SAT Brian Johnston and the exuberance of Jonathan Agnew. For SAT some the atmosphere has resembled that of an elite club, but SAT for thousands of others the experience has been as vivid a SAT depiction of summer as the smell of cut grass. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats b007k0v0 (Listen) SAT The Fifties, Episode 2 SAT Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest SAT and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. SAT Six more favourite shows plucked from the 1950s schedules of SAT the BBC Home Service and BBC Light Programme: SAT * Much Binding in the Marsh: SAT From 28/8/1953 SAT The Weekly Bind brings you Mr Mulch's gardening and Patience SAT Gush's poetry. Stars Kenneth Horne, Richard Murdoch, Maurice SAT Denham, Dora Bryan and Sam Costa. From August 1953. SAT * Variety Bandbox: SAT From 22/01/1950 SAT Comedy and songs with Frankie Howerd, Billy Ternent, Jerry SAT Allen, Barbara Leigh, Peter Sellers, Bill Kerr and Philip SAT Slessor. From January 1950. SAT * Just Fancy: SAT From 08/03/51 SAT A grumpy neighbour and a helicopter ride. Gentle sketch show SAT starring Eric Barker and his wife Pearl Hackney. From March SAT 1951. SAT * Educating Archie: SAT From 01/03/1959 SAT Brough makes a bet that he and Archie Andrews can travel SAT round the British Isles in eight days. Radio ventriloquism SAT with Dick Emery, Bernard Bresslaw and Warren Mitchell. From SAT March 1959. SAT * Meet The Huggetts: SAT Loser Pays SAT Joe and Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson SAT backfires. Stars Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison and Kenneth SAT Connor. From September 1957. SAT * Hancock's Half Hour: SAT Series 5 (7/20) Hancock's School SAT Inspired by Bill and supplied by Sid, the lad turns his home SAT into a centre of learning. Stars Tony Hancock. With Sid SAT James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams. From SAT March 1958. SAT Produced and scripted by Peter Reed SAT First broadcast on BBC 7 in 2003. SAT SAT 12:00 Dad's Army b007jp6h (Listen) SAT Series 2, Fallen Idol SAT During platoon training, fellow officers lead Captain SAT Mainwaring astray. SAT Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier SAT as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John SAT Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and SAT Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. SAT Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV SAT scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. SAT Producer: John Dyas SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. SAT SAT 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b007jncs (Listen) SAT Series 6, Episode 7 SAT Operation Chocolate, and an ode to Julie Andrews. Songs and SAT sketches with John Cleese and Graeme Garden. From May 1968. SAT SAT 13:00 CJ Sansom - Sovereign b06fq5nt (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Autumn 1541, Henry VIII arrives in York and lawyer Matthew SAT Shardlake is put to task. Tudor crime novel starring Justin SAT Salinger. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06fq76h (Listen) SAT John Waters SAT 4 Extra Debut. Writer, director, actor and comedian John SAT Waters chooses 'Transfusion' by Nervous Norvus and 'Hot SAT Wheels' by Stan Farlow. SAT SAT 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00b54z7 (Listen) SAT Landscape SAT Two plays by Harold Pinter. SAT 1/2. Landscape SAT A man and a woman sit deep in recollection. While the man's SAT thoughts are of his day in the park and a quarrel in the SAT pub, the woman's are of an idyllic day spent many years ago SAT on a beach with the man she loved. SAT Duff ...... Harold Pinter SAT Beth ...... Penelope Wilton SAT 2/2. The Examination SAT A chilling yet playful monologue in which a man about to be SAT questioned summons up every mental resource to empower SAT himself over his interrogator. SAT With Michael Gambon. SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b007lkyc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Poirot b009z4c6 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075xpp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b06fvndx (Listen) SAT Heroes of Sontar, Episode 2 SAT The Time Lord is on the planet Samur, with three enemies SAT after him. Nyssa hints at some intriguing secrets. SAT Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Tegan SAT Jovanka played by Janet Fielding. SAT Planet Samur was once a peaceful haven. Pilgrims journeyed SAT across the seven galaxies to meditate in the courtyards of SAT the vast Citadel that spanned its equator. It was Samur's SAT misfortune, however, to find itself situated on the SAT furthermost frontier in the eternal war between the amoeboid SAT Rutan Host and the belligerent, troll-like Sontarans... SAT Twenty years after detonating a bacteriological weapon over SAT Samur, rendering it uninhabitable, the Sontarans are back: a SAT select platoon of seven has landed here on a secret mission, SAT carrying sealed orders given to them by Fleet Marshal Stabb. SAT The TARDIS has landed here, too, bringing the Doctor, Tegan, SAT Turlough and Nyssa into the second great Battle of Samur. SAT Fighting not only the Sontarans, but mystical mercenaries... SAT and a deadly, decades-old curse. SAT Written by Alan Barnes. SAT Director: Ken Bentley. SAT Producer: David Richardson SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats b007k0v0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better SAT b00d45ny (Listen) SAT Series 2, Generosity SAT The comedian examines the virtue of generosity. With poetry SAT and songs by Tom Basden and Tim Key. From August 2008. SAT SAT 22:30 Tonight b01692g0 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 SAT A new age of austerity, riots on our streets, phone hacking, SAT the prospect of global economic meltdown...not since the SAT 1980s has Britain needed its sharp-tongued satirists to pour SAT a healthy dollop of scorn on these uncertain and tumultuous SAT times. SAT And who better to do that than the country's most well-known SAT satirical impressionist, Rory Bremner? He hosts Tonight, a SAT brand new topical satire show for Radio 4. SAT Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SAT things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then SAT will people laugh at the truth. So expect a blend of SAT stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and SAT incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who SAT really know what they're talking about. SAT Regular performers will include Political Animal veteran SAT Andy Zaltzman and the multi-talented impressionist Kate SAT O'Sullivan with a special guest each week. SAT Presenter: Rory Bremner SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SAT A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06g0cc4 (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SAT to Ahir Shah. SAT SAT 23:00 Saturday Night Fry b007jt29 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Stephen Fry serves up more witty banter and sketches with SAT Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Julia Hills. From May 1988. SAT SAT 23:30 28 Acts in 28 Minutes b008khpv (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT John Humphrys gives 28 performers 60 seconds each to SAT entertain. With Shappi Khorsandi and Stephen K Amos. From SAT December 2007. SAT Featured Acts SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 04 OCTOBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b06fvndx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 CJ Sansom - Sovereign b06fq5nt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06fq76h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Afternoon Drama b00b54z7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b007lkyc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Poirot b009z4c6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SUN b0075xpp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater b007jtfm (Listen) SUN Omnibus SUN Diver Sennen is set to explore a Tudor ship wreck off SUN Cornwall's Porthant Bay, but there's a bumpy start. Stars SUN Susannah Doyle. SUN SUN 07:15 Pier People b00760mr (Listen) SUN Llandudno Pier SUN Llandudno Pier is half a mile of Victorian splendour, but it SUN eats money, something its supporters know too well. From SUN February 2001. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h34d1 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Coach Trip SUN Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur SUN Strong is an expert in everything from the world of SUN entertainment to the origins of the species, all false SUN starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a delicate SUN sheen of bravado and self-assurance. SUN After an attempted coach trip to Bridlington goes terribly SUN wrong, Arthur decides the only way out of a sticky situation SUN is to go 'native'. SUN With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and SUN Alastair Kerr. SUN SUN 08:00 Educating Archie b01s4cwl (Listen) SUN From 07/12/1952 SUN Schoolboy Archie Andrews creates mayhem with radio SUN ventriloquist Peter Brough, Beryl Reid and Max Bygraves. SUN From December 1952. SUN SUN 08:30 Frankie Howerd Show b007jlh8 (Listen) SUN From 7/8/1966 SUN Titters galore from the comedy legend, with June Whitfield, SUN Wallas Eaton and Robertson Hare. From August 1966. SUN SUN 09:00 Reading Europe Omnibus b06fvzrl (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. The French writer Alba Arikha looks at how SUN long-term immigration is being reflected in her country's SUN contemporary fiction. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06fw1vl (Listen) SUN Dame Kiri Te Kanawa SUN 4 Extra Debut. Singer Kiri Te Kanawa chooses 'O Mio Babbino SUN Caro' by Puccini and Marschallin's aria from Der SUN Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06fw2lm (Listen) SUN Fashion, Dame Zandra Rhodes SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Pink Floyd to Ravel, fashion designer SUN Dame Zandra Rhodes makes her castaway choices. With Roy SUN Plomley. From February 1983. SUN SUN 11:10 TED Radio Hour b06fw2pf (Listen) SUN Series 2, Animals and Us SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN Guy Raz investigates our complicated relationship with SUN animals which we fear, hunt, consume and protect. SUN With Jon Mooallem, Ian Dunbar, Billy Collins, Laurel SUN Braitman and Frans de Waal. SUN First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio. SUN SUN 12:00 Educating Archie b01s4cwl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Frankie Howerd Show b007jlh8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater b007jtfm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Pier People b00760mr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 William Boyd - Sweet Caress b06fw3zw (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Photographer Amory Clay learns the full consequences of the SUN Maroon Street riot. Read by Barbara Flynn. SUN SUN 15:45 Katherine Mansfield - The Montana Stories b00764b0 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN By the Mediterranean sea, Fanny contemplates her future with SUN George, a 'man of the world'. Read by Emilia Fox. SUN SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama b00w6lqz (Listen) SUN The Caretaker SUN Davies... David Warner SUN Aston... Tony Bell SUN Mick... Daniel Mays SUN David Warner and Daniel Mays star in Harold Pinter's dark SUN comedy. Two brothers shelter an elderly, homeless man after SUN a fight in a café. But his problems are far from over. SUN Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h34d1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 H Rider-Haggard - She b0076z26 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN The beguiling White Queen believes Leo to be the lover for SUN whom she has waited 2,000 years. Stars Tim McInnerny. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b06fw2pf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:10 today] SUN SUN 19:50 Reading Europe Omnibus b06fvzrl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Inheritance Tracks b06fw1vl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:05 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06fw2lm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h34d1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen b0080p90 (Listen) SUN Go to Joan Glover SUN A theatre troupe visit the school. Pre-TV sitcom with Steve SUN Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith and Mark Gatiss. From November SUN 1997. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06g0cfd (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SUN to Ahir Shah. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b06f3dcy (Listen) SUN Series 13, Episode 4 SUN This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into SUN sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to SUN make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nish Kumar SUN Performer: Celeste Dring SUN Performer: Jason Forbes SUN Performer: Lorna Shaw SUN Script Editor: James Bugg SUN Script Editor: Gabby Hutchinson Crouch SUN Producer: Suzy Grant SUN Producer: Matt Stronge SUN Production Coordinator: Sophie Richardson SUN Editor: Chris Morris SUN SUN 23:30 Tina C b0076qds (Listen) SUN Tina C's Tiny Island Tour, Wales SUN Arriving in Cardiff, the country singer and global activist SUN has a very special announcement to make. Stars Christopher SUN Green. From February 2005. SUN SUN 23:45 2000 Years of Radio b06fwync (Listen) SUN Series 2, Olympic FM SUN How will the British Olympic team fair in 776 BC? Recreation SUN of the wireless archives with Al Holloway. From October SUN 2002. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 05 OCTOBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 H Rider-Haggard - She b0076z26 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Bryony Lavery - Breathing Underwater b007jtfm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Pier People b00760mr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 William Boyd - Sweet Caress b06fw3zw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Katherine Mansfield - The Montana Stories b00764b0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Saturday Drama b00w6lqz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h34d1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Miss Marple b007jpp2 (Listen) MON The Murder at the Vicarage, Episode 1 MON Even the vicar of St. Mary Mead detests a certain member of MON his flock. But murder seems to be carrying things a bit far? MON Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss MON Marple and Francis Matthews as the Rev Leonard Clement, MON Imelda Staunton as Griselda Clement and Nigel Davenport as MON Dr Haydock. MON Dramatised by Michael Bakewell MON Director Enyd Williams MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. MON MON 06:30 Deep in the Heart of Texas b00cdtxt (Listen) MON Peter Curran explores the history of Austin, Texas. The city MON famously hosts the SXSW festival and remains liberal, MON progressive and bohemian, and continues to struggle against MON conservatives and developers, despite being the capital of a MON state renowned for rednecks, oil barons and George W Bush. MON MON 07:00 Turf Wars b00zf33t (Listen) MON An Incident at the Border MON Nigel Planer stars as a border-guard in Kieran Lynn's comedy MON about boundaries that are both territorial and personal. MON Arthur and Olivia take the sun in their local park on a MON beautiful summer's day. Olivia is reading a newspaper MON article on their country's new-found independence. It seems MON that no-one knows quite what the terms are for the MON secession. Arthur couldn't care less. He's apolitical and MON just enjoying watching the ducks. MON Suddenly a soldier arrives, dragging a tape across the MON ground, marking out the new border. He barges between the MON two young lovers. Now one is on one side of the new border, MON and one on the other! MON Arthur's attempt to cross is met with a stun-gun jolt from MON the guard, who has as little understanding of the new rules MON as the couple. He just knows he has been trained to be MON suspicious of everyone who isn't from 'this country' which MON now includes Arthur! MON How can our lovers be reunited? MON Reiver ..... Nigel Planer MON Olivia ..... Leah Brotherhead MON Arthur ..... Joseph Kloska MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON Credits MON Producer: Peter Kavanagh MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b06d2g56 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 6 MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and MON Katherine Ryan are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as IKEA, MON marriage, Switzerland and chewing gum. MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Sarah Millican MON Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Katherine Ryan MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jp95 (Listen) MON Series 2, A Wilson (Manager) MON Captain Mainwaring is aghast when his chief clerk comes up MON in the world. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier MON as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John MON Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and MON Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b06fxcmj (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 4 MON Lionel's office becomes Sandy's bedroom. Time to move? MON Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. MON With Moira Brooker as Judith, Philip Bretherton as Alistair MON and Jenny Funnell as Sandy. MON A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series three of his MON popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel MON have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 MON years. MON After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer MON Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter MON he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had MON lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his MON return to England. MON Producer: Martin Fisher MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1999. MON MON 09:00 The Motion Show b0075rh9 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game. With Steve Punt, MON John O'Farrell, Derek Draper and Rhona Cameron. From October MON 1998. MON MON 09:30 Electric Ink b01k68hg (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. MON A comic satire set in the struggling world of newspapers. MON The paper gets a hot tip about a Lib-Dem MP. Could they be MON about to unseat the coalition? MON Maddox ..... John Sessions MON Oliver ..... Alex Jennings MON Freddy ..... Stephen Wight MON Carol ..... Polly Frame MON Masha ..... Debbie Chazen MON Julie Compton ..... Joanna Monro MON Producer ..... Sally Avens MON Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's satire is set in the MON world of modern newspapers. MON A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major MON news stories at the same time as grappling with the demands MON of working in a multi-platform environment, watching MON circulation figures plummet and the recession causing half MON the workforce to be laid off. MON At the heart of the comedy is the relationship between MON Maddox Bradley; a journalist who mourns the day of proper MON investigative journalism and Freddy, the online editor who MON will regurgitate a press release quite happily and call it a MON story. But they have a grudging respect for the each other MON as Freddy helps Maddox stay afloat in the world of Twitter, MON Facebook and podcasting and Maddox shows Freddy how to sniff MON out the real story. Both are at the mercy of Oliver, the MON pragmatic editor more concerned with keeping his job, and MON Carol, the news editor who believes that circulation will MON increase if they run pieces on Big Mac eating orang-utans MON and 'intelligent' skunks rather than Maddox's moral MON crusading diatribes. And only Masha, the Russian head of MON online communities, who wants to give away all their content MON because that is true democracy, knows Freddy's secret; that MON he's a posh boy from Eton rather than a hypercool kid from MON the street; well that's what Freddy thinks anyway. MON MON 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v2rv4 (Listen) MON Insurrection MON Provoked by Parliament, the resolute army aim to get higher MON ranks on their side. English Civil War drama with Nigel MON Anthony. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b0154y6q (Listen) MON One Hundred and Forty Characters, Would You Like To MON Reconnect? MON By Joanne Harris. MON A grieving woman retreats into the world of social MON networking, finding comfort in the traces left behind there MON by her dead son. Then, one afternoon, as she scrolls through MON her timeline, she receives an unsettling message, apparently MON sent from beyond the grave. MON Last in a series of specially commissioned short stories MON inspired by the social networking phenomenon, Twitter. (For MON non "tweeters", the title derives from Twitter's format MON where "tweets" - the postings - can be no longer than 140 MON characters.) MON Read by Monica Gibb. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 11:15 Simon Brett - Cleopatra's Nose b00p85xz (Listen) MON Can James overcome his lifelong Egyptian Queen obsession and MON find a real girlfriend? Stars Benjamin Whitrow and Susan MON Jameson. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jp95 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b06fxcmj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Miss Marple b007jpp2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Deep in the Heart of Texas b00cdtxt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00w794s (Listen) MON Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 1 MON Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told MON from three very different perspectives. MON Yet each is a member of the Battle family - perfectly MON average, perfectly dysfunctional. Mo is about to hit the big MON 50, and some uncomfortable truths are becoming quite MON apparent: she doesn't understand either of her teenage MON children, which as a child psychologist, is fairly MON embarrassing. She has become entirely grey. Inside, and out. MON Her face has surrendered, and is frightening children. Dora MON is about to hit the big 18 . . . and about to hit anyone who MON annoys her, especially her precocious younger brother Peter MON who has an incurable Oscar Wilde fixation. MON A Tiny Bit Marvellous is the story of a modern family whose MON members all live in their own separate bubbles sinking MON towards meltdown. It is for anyone who has ever shared a MON home with that weird group of strangers we call 'relations'. MON Read by: MON Dawn French MON Lenny Henry MON Sam Barnett and MON Beattie Edmondson MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01p3hql (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and MON Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a MON national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an MON obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. MON To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and MON mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and MON often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part MON series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we MON know so well, and introducing us to the charms and MON challenges of those that we don't. MON Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales MON themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely MON with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of MON these deceptively complex stories. MON In the opening episode, we are introduced to the Grimm MON brothers themselves and the context in which they collected MON these tales, in parallel with the story of The Frog King - a MON tale of transformation and sexual favour that has opened the MON collection since it was first published and has played a MON central role in the Romantic attraction to the tradition of MON Volkspoesie. MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012fbvp (Listen) MON Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 1 MON Alison Lurie's comic novel of academia and alien gurus, MON dramatised by Melissa Murray. MON New York in 1968, and naive young sociology graduate, Roger MON Zimmern, has just got his first job at a university. MON 1/10 MON Roger ... Jonathan Forbes MON McCann ... Nathan Osgood MON Elsie ... Barbara Barnes MON Verena ... Alex Tregear MON Bob ... Simon Bubb MON Directed by Marc Beeby MON 1968. New York State. Newly graduated sociologist Roger MON Zimmern is delighted to be asked work with his academic hero MON Tom McCann. They are to investigate the Truth Seekers, a MON small cult group who believe they are receiving spiritual MON guidance from the planet Varna. The group is run by MON middle-aged Elsie and her beautiful niece, Verena. Under MON cover, the two academics join the Truth Seekers. But things MON quickly begin to go wrong. Roger's objectivity is tested MON when he begins to fall in love with Verena. And what is MON happening to Tom McCann? Why is he behaving so strangely? MON Poor Roger, desperate to be a success, desperate to be MON noticed, doesn't know who to trust.. MON Imaginary Friends is a devastatingly funny look at the MON foibles of modern times. It's driven by a story that works MON brilliantly on a number of levels - in part a sharp social MON satire of the academic profession, in part a witty MON exploration of the wilder reaches of ' spirituality'. It is MON also a tender - if slightly skewed - love story, and a MON touching take on a young man's coming of age. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00dywr9 (Listen) MON Thomas Keneally - Searching for Schindler: A Memoir, Episode MON 1 MON Thomas Keneally's account of his discovery of the story of MON Oskar Schindler, which became the basis for his Booker MON Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark and the Oscar-winning MON film Schindler's List. MON MON 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v2rv4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Motion Show b0075rh9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Electric Ink b01k68hg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Turf Wars b00zf33t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth b06d2g56 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007jtyf (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON A coma patient's treatment for a horrific accident has MON unexpected benefits. Ted Chiang's thriller read by Rhashan MON Stone. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075xkx (Listen) MON Louise Doughty and her guests art historian and gardener, MON Sir Roy Strong and journalist and campaigner on racial MON equality, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown discuss favourite books by MON Eugenie Fraser, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Ian McEwan. From 2000. MON The House by the Dvina by Eugenie Fraser MON Pub: Corgi MON Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah MON Pub: Penguin MON The Child in Time by Ian McEwan MON Pub: Vintage. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jp95 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b06fxcmj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Miss Marple b007jpp2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Deep in the Heart of Texas b00cdtxt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b0154y6q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Simon Brett - Cleopatra's Nose b00p85xz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b06d2g56 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The In Crowd b06g26t0 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON Unsympathetic beauty therapy and renting videos. Manchester MON sketch show with Kate Ward, Smug Roberts and Robin Ince. MON From June 2004. MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06hk8r2 (Listen) MON The best in contemporary comedy. Isy Suttie chats to John MON Finnemore. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06g26t2 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 3 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles MON Jupp. Sara Pascoe, Jeremy Hardy and Samira Ahmed are among MON the panellists joining Miles to dissect the week's big (and MON not so big) news stories. MON Producer: Richard Morris. MON MON 23:45 Living with Mother b010drrl (Listen) MON Series 1, Wild Card MON This mother and son are as posh as posh can be. An old MON established family and proud of it. Unfortunately Xander is MON a drunken idiot who is always getting into all sorts of MON scrapes. MON His mother has run the family home with a rod of iron ever MON since her husband was imprisoned for dodgy dealings. Has her MON foolish son inherited his father's genes? When he loses the MON family jewels, will she be able to bail him out? MON Cast: MON Mother: Penelope Keith MON Xander: Kevin Eldon MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 06 OCTOBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007jtyf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075xkx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Miss Marple b007jpp2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Deep in the Heart of Texas b00cdtxt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00w794s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01p3hql (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012fbvp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00dywr9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v2rv4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Motion Show b0075rh9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Electric Ink b01k68hg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Turf Wars b00zf33t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth b06d2g56 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:30 Blondin of Niagara Falls and Ealing b00lg72f (Listen) TUE Hardeep Singh Kohli walks in the footsteps of the famous TUE tightrope walker Blondin to mark his first crossing of TUE Niagara Falls 150 years ago. TUE Hardeep discovers the continuing appeal of defying gravity TUE from the experiences of circus acrobat Chico, the celebrated TUE 'man on wire' Philippe Petit and the slack-liner Jon Ritson. TUE Tightrope walking hit the big time 150 years ago when TUE Blondin made 16 crossings over the Niagara River. His career TUE lasted until he was 73, when he retired to Niagara House in TUE Ealing, west London. TUE A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 Arrested Development b0075vmg (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Jilted by Dave on her wedding day, can Penny's sister Kate TUE help her come to terms with it? TUE Stars Letitia Dean as Penny, Phil Cornwell as Dave, Julian TUE Rhind-Tutt as Andy and Susannah Doyle as Kate. TUE Simon Warne's 4 part-comedy serial. TUE Producer: Tracey Neale TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000. TUE TUE 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06d2lz5 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Episode 3 TUE Things are getting desperate for the staff of Hardacre's, TUE London's worst advertising agency. The work isn't coming in TUE and accounts chief Amanda Brook finds herself reduced to TUE pleading for the business of old friend/nemesis, India. TUE Back at the office, hopeless creative team Joe and Teddy TUE devise a campaign for an anti-aging cream for men. Worse, TUE they must grapple with the most difficult and least TUE glamorous form of advertising of all - radio work. TUE They find themselves unexpectedly assisted by creative TUE director Rupert Hardacre who descends from on high at TUE Amanda's instruction to give the little people the benefit TUE of his creative wisdom. The only trouble is, he seems to TUE have forgotten most of it. Fortunately, he wrote it all down TUE in a book entitled Hardacre on Advertising and he sets out TUE to find a copy for Joe and Teddy. TUE Director Alan Nixon TUE Producer Gordon Kennedy TUE An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Rupert Hardacre: Nigel Havers TUE Amanda Brook: Josie Lawrence TUE Joe: Matthew Baynton TUE Teddy: Rasmus Hardiker TUE Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE Writer: Edward Rowett TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007jlqv (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE Kenneth Horne crosses swords in 'The Three Musketeers' and TUE thanks to Julian and Sandy, 'Bona Law' handles his briefs. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 Hello Cheeky b013qzgn (Listen) TUE From 21/10/1979 TUE Red Rum, sound effects galore and rapid pun-tastic fun. TUE Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Barry Cryer. From TUE October 1979. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06g26t2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Living with Mother b010drrl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v3n3p (Listen) TUE Summer Manoeuvres TUE 1674, and a spontaneous revolution in army ranks sees troops TUE heading towards London. English Civil War drama with Bernard TUE Hepton. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b016ldsy (Listen) TUE Moments Past, The Night Eleanor Roosevelt Became Eleanor TUE Roosevelt TUE Written by Ellen Feldman. TUE Read by Miriam Margolyes. TUE First in a series of new short stories in which leading TUE historical authors write about a particular moment from the TUE past, one which went on to influence the future. TUE Today, how a shocking discovery changed the course of TUE Eleanor Roosevelt's life. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00lc9ff (Listen) TUE The King of Sootland TUE By Richard Hurford. In the early days of Queen Victoria's TUE reign, a boy and a teenage girl - who he assumes to be a new TUE maidservant but is in fact the young Victoria - go on an TUE adventure through the chimneys of Buckingham Palace. TUE Queen Victoria ...... Daisy Marsden TUE Boy Cotton ...... Aidan Parsons TUE Duchess Of Kent ...... Olwen May TUE Sir John Conroy ...... Jonathan Keeble TUE Mr Diggle ...... Malcolm Raeburn TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jlqv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Hello Cheeky b013qzgn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Miss Marple b007jppk (Listen) TUE The Murder at the Vicarage, Episode 2 TUE Much to the Vicar's embarrassment, a murder has been TUE committed in his study. But who killed Colonel Protheroe? TUE Jane Marple is on the case. TUE Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss TUE Marple and Francis Matthews as the Rev Leonard Clement, TUE Imelda Staunton as Griselda Clement and Nigel Davenport as TUE Dr Haydock. TUE Dramatised by Michael Bakewell TUE Director Enyd Williams TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. TUE TUE 13:30 Blondin of Niagara Falls and Ealing b00lg72f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbq1x (Listen) TUE Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 2 TUE Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told TUE from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member TUE of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly TUE dysfunctional. TUE Life gets more complicated for Mo and Peter whose respective TUE attraction to Noel grows apace. Meanwhile, the dog is TUE pregnant, and Dora wants to be on X Factor. TUE Read by: TUE Dawn French TUE Lenny Henry TUE Sam Barnett and TUE Beattie Edmondson TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pc2td (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and TUE Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a TUE national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an TUE obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. TUE To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and TUE mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and TUE often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part TUE series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we TUE know so well, and introducing us to the charms and TUE challenges of those that we don't. TUE Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales TUE themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely TUE with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of TUE these deceptively complex stories. TUE In the second episode, Marina traces the tales right back to TUE their ancient origins, hoping to answer the question of why TUE we find parallels with the Grimms' stories in texts across TUE cultures throughout time. Her search centres on Cinderella TUE as she visits the tale's oldest known incarnation - an TUE ancient Egyptian manuscript that tells the rags-to-riches TUE story of the 'rosy-cheeked' Rhodopis and was a (perhaps TUE fittingly) precious find, recovered from a rubbish dump. TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012fvnf (Listen) TUE Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 2 TUE By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray TUE 2/10 TUE Young sociologist Roger Zimmern has made contact with the TUE small cult known as the Truth Seekers. But are they crazy TUE enough for a ground breaking sociological study? TUE Roger ... Jonathan Forbes TUE McCann ... Nathan Osgood TUE Elsie ... Barbara Barnes TUE Verena ... Alex Tregear TUE Sissy ... Susie Riddell TUE Bill ... Peter Polycarpou TUE Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v0 (Listen) TUE Thomas Keneally - Searching for Schindler: A Memoir, Episode TUE 2 TUE Thomas Keneally's account of his discovery of the story of TUE Oscar Schindler, which became the basis for his Booker TUE Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark and the Oscar-winning TUE film Schindler's List. TUE Poldek and Thomas set out to meet the Australian and TUE American Schindlerjuden, the Jews saved by Oskar. TUE TUE 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v3n3p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00pxn13 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic TUE generations against each other to find out which is the TUE funniest. TUE Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Adrian Walsh TUE are joined by Kevin Bridges, Jason Byrne and Johnnie Casson. TUE TUE 16:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007vmbx (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Nicola is on the verge of romance, while pub customer Andy TUE faces being found out. Stars Michael Williams. From January TUE 1999. TUE TUE 17:00 Arrested Development b0075vmg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06d2lz5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007s7x3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE With his heightened intelligence, Leon develops ingenious TUE ways to outwit the CIA. Ted Chiang's thriller read by TUE Rhashan Stone. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jn3t (Listen) TUE Series 1, Ned Sherrin TUE From Noel Coward to the Oliviers, the late broadcaster and TUE writer recalls his career highs and lows. From April 1999. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jlqv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Hello Cheeky b013qzgn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Miss Marple b007jppk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Blondin of Niagara Falls and Ealing b00lg72f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b016ldsy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00lc9ff (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders b06d2lz5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Twenty Players b06g65m6 (Listen) TUE Doug and Demelza Davidson TUE Forgotten sporting heroes. David Vine tells the story of TUE Britain's most intrepid mixed lugers. From May 1995. TUE TUE 22:45 Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows b00fgq45 (Listen) TUE Bank Hols TUE The incisive reporter on the pros and cons of bank holidays. TUE Written by and starring Stephen Carlin. From November 2008. TUE TUE 23:00 On the Hour b007k45s (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 TUE The latest on the 'Penelope Keith riots', and just 38 weeks TUE to Wimbledon. Chris Morris hosts the news spoof. From June TUE 1991. TUE TUE 23:30 Ectoplasm b007w5l4 (Listen) TUE The Case of the Missing Lost Soul TUE A countess begs Lord Zimbabwe's help to skip eternity as a TUE Barry Manilow fan. With Dan Freedman and Nick Romero. From TUE July 2000. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 07 OCTOBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007s7x3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jn3t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Miss Marple b007jppk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Blondin of Niagara Falls and Ealing b00lg72f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbq1x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pc2td (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012fvnf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v3n3p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00pxn13 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007vmbx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Arrested Development b0075vmg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06d2lz5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Miss Marple b007jpq1 (Listen) WED The Murder at the Vicarage, Episode 3 WED Multiple confessions to the murder of Colonel Protheroe WED mount up in the village of St. Mary Mead. But who does WED amateur sleuth Jane Marple believe? WED Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss WED Marple and Francis Matthews as the Rev Leonard Clement, WED Imelda Staunton as Griselda Clement and Nigel Davenport as WED Dr Haydock. WED Dramatised by Michael Bakewell WED Director Enyd Williams WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. WED WED 06:30 Oktoberfest! b00vkl0j (Listen) WED John F. Jungclaussen, UK correspondent for German newspaper WED Die Zeit, travels to Munich to join the millions of WED revellers celebrating 200 years of the Oktoberfest- the WED largest folk festival in the World. When he was a student, WED Jungclaussen spent three years working at the festival WED selling cigarettes in one of the big beer tents- an WED experience he describes as 'somewhat traumatic'. He was born WED in the northern city of Hamburg and found Bavaria to be an WED alien land- a place of strange customs where people wear WED lederhosen and dirndl dresses, drink beer out of huge mugs WED and where brass bands play Oom-pah music. WED In this programme, Jungclaussen returns to the festival to WED ask what it means for Bavarian identity and why over 6 WED million tourists come from across the globe to join in. He WED speaks to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria whose WED great-great-great-grandfather King Ludwig I founded the WED Oktoberfest in 1810 and who has had a long argument with the WED city of Munich over his right to sell beer at the festival. WED He also meets a tent owner who sells thousands of litres of WED beer for 12 hours a day to increasingly inebriated WED party-goers. WED He speaks to locals who come with their families dressed in WED traditional clothing and are very proud of their distinctive WED culture. He goes inside the beer tents and meets tourists WED from many different countries and from the rest of Germany - WED many of whom also come in traditional dress. He asks how WED Bavarian symbols and customs have come to represent the WED German stereotype and considers why many are still wary of WED celebrating their national and local identity since the War. WED Producer: Susie Warhurst WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00strwf (Listen) WED Series 2, Science Fiction, Science Fact WED Special guests Jonathan Ross, graphic novelist Alan Moore WED and string theorist Brian Greene, join Brian Cox and Robin WED Ince on stage for a special edition of the science show that WED boldly goes where no other science show has been before. In WED a special science fiction themed programme, recorded in WED front of an audience at London's Southbank Centre, Brian, WED Robin and guests discuss multiple dimensions, alternate WED universes and look at whether science fact is far more WED outrageous than anything Hollywood or science fiction WED authors could ever come up with. WED Producer: Alexandra Feachem. WED WED 07:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06d8pql (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Sami Shah is an award-winning comedian and best-selling WED author, and one of Pakistan's most successful comedians. WED Yes, Pakistan has comedians. In A Beginner's Guide To WED Pakistan he has traveled to Birmingham - or, to give it its WED full name, the Islamic Republic of Birmingham - to give WED Radio 4 a quick guide to the country who have directly WED and/or indirectly provided the UK with 1.8% of its WED population: Pakistan. WED In this first episode he looks at the country's political WED history, from its foundations in British-ruled India right WED up to the present day. It's a litany of coups and WED assassinations, in the middle of which Sami was grew up, WED moved away and came home - to a very different Pakistan from WED the one he left. Which isn't to say that there weren't more WED coups and/or assassinations. WED Written and performed by ... Sami Shah WED The Voice of the Guide ... Anita Anand WED Producer ... Ed Morrish WED A Beginner's Guide To Pakistan is a BBC Radio Comedy WED production. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b013bzbf (Listen) WED The Northampton Hunt Ball WED Chief Petty Officer Pertwee receives an invitation and WED hatches another cunning plan. WED Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie WED Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number WED One, Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson, Richard Caldicote WED as Captain Povey and Heather Chasen as Ramona Povey. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1961. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00dp3qq (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 8 WED A dandy's revenge with Beau Legs, and persecuting pigeons. WED Songs and sketches with John Cleese and Jo Kendal. From June WED 1968. WED WED 09:00 Puzzle Panel b00yrrgg (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Scratch your head along with Chris Maslanka, Dr Victor WED Bryant, Dr Doreen Baxter and William Hartston. From July WED 1998. WED WED 09:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076hv6 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED 4 Extra Debut. The 'unreliable' historical account of WED Catherine of Aragon's duenna, Dona Elvira. Stars Sheila WED Steafel. From November 2003. WED WED 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v3vw7 (Listen) WED The Power of the Sword WED The Model Army easily reaches London, but with sinking WED confidence in Cromwell. English Civil War drama with Deborah WED Makepeace. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b016pkq1 (Listen) WED Moments Past, A Black Dog WED Written by Philippa Gregory. WED Read by Maureen Beattie. WED Short story series in which leading historical authors write WED about a particular moment from the past, one which went on WED to influence the future. WED Today, bestselling author Philippa Gregory examines the life WED and trial of of Eleanor Cobham: the unlucky Duchess of WED Gloucester, who married Duke Humphrey, uncle to Henry VI of WED England, in 1428 and was accused of treasonable necromancy - WED using magic to destroy the king. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00q3kw2 (Listen) WED The Journey WED By Richard Monks. A chance sighting on a news report leads WED to an extraordinary reunion between two siblings and the WED father they cremated four years previously. A play exploring WED the emotional hinterland of reconciliation. WED Stephen ...... Robert Glenister WED Clare ...... Suranne Jones WED Sophie ...... Joanne Mitchell WED Alan ...... David Hargreaves WED Nurse/Reporter/TV Reporter/Custody Sergeant/Mechanic ...... WED Terence Mann WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED Credits WED Producer: Nadia Molinari WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b013bzbf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00dp3qq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Miss Marple b007jpq1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Oktoberfest! b00vkl0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbq87 (Listen) WED Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 3 WED Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told WED from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member WED of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly WED dysfunctional. WED Dora sits her A-Level exams but focuses on her social life. WED Noel flirts with Mo, and Peter flirts with Noel, with WED dramatic consequences. WED Read by: WED Dawn French WED Lenny Henry WED Sam Barnett and WED Beattie Edmondson WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pc2q7 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and WED Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a WED national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an WED obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. WED To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and WED mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and WED often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part WED series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we WED know so well, and introducing us to the charms and WED challenges of those that we don't. WED Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales WED themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely WED with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of WED these deceptively complex stories. WED In the third episode we enter the magical worlds of the WED fairy tale, immersing ourselves in the spellbound WED transformations, landscapes and objects that have charmed WED generations. When magic rubs against the grain of reality WED and the impossible is naturalised, the stories' unique WED character comes alive. WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012fqn6 (Listen) WED Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 3 WED By Alison Lurie, dramatised by Melissa Murray WED 3/10 WED Sociologists Roger Zimmern and his boss, Tom McCann, have WED managed to infiltrate the small cult of the Truth Seekers. WED But now their reasons for being there are about to be WED exposed. WED Roger ... Jonathan Forbes WED McCann ... Nathan Osgood WED Elsie ... Barbara Barnes WED Verena ... Alex Tregear WED Ken ... Simon Bubb WED Bill ... Peter Polycarpou WED Felicia... Susie Riddell WED Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v3 (Listen) WED Thomas Keneally - Searching for Schindler: A Memoir, Episode WED 3 WED Thomas Keneally's account of his discovery of the story of WED Oscar Schindler, which became the basis for his Booker WED Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark and the Oscar-winning WED film Schindler's List. WED Poldek takes Thomas to Poland to witness 'the intimacy of WED horror' in the Krakow ghetto. WED WED 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v3vw7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Puzzle Panel b00yrrgg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076hv6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00strwf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06d8pql (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007s8gp (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Leon plans for the exciting new way of life that his WED enhanced mind has revealed. Ted Chiang's thriller read by WED Rhashan Stone. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076tdr (Listen) WED The Road to Hell WED Matthew Parris asks Helen Walsh, Jay Benedict and poet WED Attila the Stockbroker about the sulphurous road to hell. WED From August 2005. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b013bzbf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00dp3qq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Miss Marple b007jpq1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Oktoberfest! b00vkl0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b016pkq1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00q3kw2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06d8pql (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Bird Island b01jrknt (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED On the one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antarctica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED Bird Island is written by Katy Wix, one half of the sketch WED Duo 'Anna and Katy'. Katy is a writer performer who has made WED appearances in 'Miranda', 'Outnumbered' and stars regularly WED as Daisy in 'Not Going Out'. WED EPISODE ONE: WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non-audience comedy. In episode 1, Ben WED loses his watch and logs on to a dating website. WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED Credits WED Ben: Reece Shearsmith WED Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Katy Wix WED WED 22:45 Before They Were Famous b01lv38v (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED Ian Leslie presents a new Radio 4 comedy show which brings WED to light the often surprising first literary attempts of WED some of the world's best known writers. A project of WED literary archaeology, Leslie has found evidence in the most WED unlikely of places - within the archives of newspapers, WED periodicals, corporations and universities - showcasing the WED early examples of work by writers such as Jilly Cooper WED during her brief and unfortunately unsuccessful foray into WED the world of war reporting, and Hunter S Thompson in his WED sadly short-lived phase working in the customer relations WED department for a major American Airline. WED These are the newspaper articles, advertising copy, company WED correspondence and gardening manuals that allow us a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best loved literary voices - people we know today for their WED novels or poems but who, at the time, were just people with WED a dream...and a rent bill looming at the end of the month. WED Produced by Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06hk9mq (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Isy Suttie chats to John WED Finnemore. WED WED 23:00 The History Plays b01cdvb7 (Listen) WED Stonehouse in Alice WED Written and directed by Nigel Smith and starring Tim WED McInnerny as John Stonehouse and Daniel Rigby as Ed WED Jennings. Stonehouse in Alice is the second of The History WED Plays, imaginary conversations set against the backdrop of WED real events. WED It's 1974 and Ed Jennings, a cub reporter from a local paper WED has stumbled upon the scoop of a lifetime while on holiday WED in Australia. Because Leonard has found missing maverick MP, WED John Stonehouse. WED Stonehouse recently faked his death to escape from a sea of WED debt, the fraud squad, his wife, and a series of WED misadventures back home in the UK. A charmer, a snob, an WED aesthete, a writer and a con man, the Walsall North MP, once WED one of the greatest loose cannons of his political WED generation, is now in hiding, shacked up with his mistress WED in one of the loneliest places on earth. What will be kept WED secret for decades, however, is that he's also a communist WED spy. WED Ed is bright enough to know this story will make his name. WED It has all the ingredients; celebrity, notoriety, sex, WED politics and sleaze. But what it's fundamentally about is WED greed. And that is still seen as shocking in an MP. Chisholm WED knows no post-war English politician will have had such a WED fall from grace. Profumo only erred for lust. This is WED something new... and thrilling. And it turns out Stonehouse WED has an offer for the young reporter. One that will change WED both their lives. WED WED 23:30 Weak at the Top b00rmygl (Listen) WED Series 1, Smoked Meat WED Mean marketing director John Weak battles to roll out an WED urgent global website. Stars Alexander Armstrong. From WED September 2005. WED WED THU THURSDAY 08 OCTOBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007s8gp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076tdr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Miss Marple b007jpq1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Oktoberfest! b00vkl0j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbq87 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pc2q7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012fqn6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v3vw7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Puzzle Panel b00yrrgg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076hv6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00strwf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06d8pql (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Miss Marple b007jpqf (Listen) THU The Murder at the Vicarage, Episode 4 THU Investigations into the murder of Colonel Protheroe don't go THU at all to plan. Who is the killer? THU Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss THU Marple and Francis Matthews as the Rev Leonard Clement, THU Imelda Staunton as Griselda Clement, Nigel Davenport as Dr THU Haydock and Frances Jeater as Anne Protheroe. THU Dramatised by Michael Bakewell THU Director Enyd Williams THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. THU THU 06:30 Gurinder, The Movie b00ldblk (Listen) THU On the set of her new film, director Gurinder Chadha tells THU the story of her 'dual nationality'. She discusses how her THU early life in Southall in west London, where she grew up THU conscious of both her Asian and British inheritance, has THU informed and enriched her hit films including Bend It Like THU Beckham. THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b017mx3z (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex THU girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and THU Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at THU these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a THU label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. THU Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor THU south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the THU three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each with envious THU eyes. Now Katherine Jakeways is giving Northamptonshire an THU identity. And she waits, benevolently, for her home-county THU to thank her. And possibly make her some kind of Mayor. THU Joined by the same incredible cast which graced Series One - THU including Sheila Hancock as the Narrator, Penelope Wilton, THU Mackenzie Crook, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon - and with THU the exciting addition of Geoffrey Palmer, North by THU Northamptonshire promises once again to delight audience and THU critics. THU Wadenbrook is a small market town in a corner of THU Northamptonshire, and will be familiar to anyone who has THU ever lived anywhere. This year, its residents are building THU up to a Dickensian Festival weekend, so expect mob caps, THU cravats and shawls which are usually used as cat-blankets. THU Also expect a great many laughs, a certain amount of THU loneliness, and the same warmth and affection which THU underpinned the widely-praised first series. THU Written by Katherine Jakeways THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd THU John Biggins............Keith THU Mackenzie Crook.........Rod THU Kevin Eldon.........Jonathan / Ken THU Shelia Hancock........... Narrator THU Jessica Henwick.............Helen THU Katherine Jakeways.... Esther / Jacqui THU Felicity Montagu..............Jan THU Geoffrey Palmer..........Norman THU Lizzie Roper............Angela THU Penelope Wilton............Mary THU Rufus Wright..............Frank. THU THU 07:30 The Brig Society b06d9lhx (Listen) THU Series 3, Diplomat THU Ahem. Marcus Brigstocke coughs politely, dons a crumpled THU linen suit and fibs for Britain as he tries his hand at THU becoming a diplomat. On the way, he'll look at the history THU and origins of diplomacy, the training required and the fact THU that approximately 60% of the modern British diplomat's work THU is spent apologising for Jeremy Clarkson. THU Helping him to foster mutually beneficial relationships will THU be Margaret Cabourn-Smith, William Andrews and Colin Hoult. THU Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, THU Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: William Andrews THU Ensemble: Tom Crowley THU Ensemble: Freya Parker THU Producer: David Tyler THU Writer: Marcus Brigstocke THU Writer: Jeremy Salsby THU Writer: Toby Davies THU Writer: Nick Doody THU Writer: Steve Punt THU Writer: Dan Tetsell THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlll (Listen) THU Series 3, Tea for Two THU A famous by-election visitor sparks party wars for the rag THU and bone duo. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With John Rye and Edward Kelsey. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by THU Gale Pedrick. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1971. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0081b4j (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU Shady lawyer, Waldorf T Flywheel turns farmer for a wealthy THU Uncle. THU Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the THU adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his THU assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with THU sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The THU scripts were rediscovered in 1988. THU Starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T THU Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravelli THU With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello. THU Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark THU Brisenden. THU Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. THU Producer: Dirk Maggs THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991. THU THU 09:00 Genius b0076vc0 (Listen) THU Series 2, Johnny Vegas THU Dave Gorman and Johnny Vegas chew over ridiculous, brilliant THU but unworkable ideas, and choose the best. From September THU 2006. THU THU 09:30 After Henry b007tcmk (Listen) THU Series 4, Positive Thinking THU With Julian back on the scene, Clare is ecstatic. But her THU mother Sarah is worried. Starring Prunella Scales and Joan THU Sanderson. THU THU 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7r8n (Listen) THU Discussions at Putney THU 1647, the Model Army attempt to bring Cromwell round to THU their way of thinking. English Civil War drama with Nigel THU Anthony. THU THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading b016pktn (Listen) THU Moments Past, Hare Dreamer THU Written by Manda Scott. THU Read by Colette O'Neil. THU Short story series in which leading historical authors write THU about a particular moment from the past, one which went on THU to influence the future. THU Manda Scott's story takes us back to 61AD and imagines the THU mood of the Eceni elders on the eve of the final battle of THU the Boudican revolt - which came tantalisingly close to THU ridding Britain of the Roman legions. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00xb0sf (Listen) THU Marcy Kahan - Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable THU by Marcy Kahan THU Ed Hanson didn't mean to put Penhaligon Rhinehart into a THU coma; THU after all he's a National Treasure. THU Now Ed's life is about to change forever. THU Directed by Sally Avens THU It's an important day for Ed Hanson; he has to do two THU things, present a 'vision statement' to keep hold of his job THU and propose marriage to his girlfriend, Lucinda. What isn't THU on Ed's list of things to do is put Penhaligon Rhinehart, THU author, barrister, circus clown and National Treasure into a THU coma. Ed's life will never be quite the same again. THU Stephen Mangan is one of our leading comic actors from THU playing roles such as 'Adrian Mole' on television and Norman THU in 'The Norman Conquests' on Stage and most recently Dirk THU Gently on BBC4 THU Marcy Kahan is an award winning screen and stage dramatist. THU Credits THU Ed Hanson: Stephen Mangan THU Lucinda: Naomi Frederick THU Penhaligon Rhinehart: Sean Baker THU Marion Spooner: Joanna Monro THU Sanjay Patel: Adeel Akhtar THU Bella McFadden: Naomi Sheldon THU Rhett Rhinehart: Lloyd Thomas THU Nick: Iain Batchelor THU Kitty: Deeivya Meir THU Ed's Mother: Christine Kavanagh THU Writer: Marcy Kahan THU Director: Sally Avens THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlll (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0081b4j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Miss Marple b007jpqf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Gurinder, The Movie b00ldblk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbqcb (Listen) THU Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 4 THU Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told THU from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member THU of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly THU dysfunctional. THU Oscar confides in Nana Pamela, Dora celebrates her 18th THU birthday but Mo is a far from dutiful mother, on account of THU a date with Noel. THU Read by: THU Dawn French THU Lenny Henry THU Sam Barnett and THU Beattie Edmondson THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pcs5z (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and THU Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a THU national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an THU obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. THU To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and THU mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and THU often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part THU series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we THU know so well, and introducing us to the charms and THU challenges of those that we don't. THU Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales THU themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely THU with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of THU these deceptively complex stories. THU In the fourth episode, Marina tells the latent truth from THU the familiar fiction in the tales, identifying the real THU people and places that some believe to have inspired the THU Grimms brothers' collection. Was Bluebeard inspired by the THU real-life serial killer Giles de Rais, a 15th century French THU lord who served under Joan of Arc? Was Snow White based on THU truth? Leading academics discuss what these parallels tell THU us about the dormant human anxieties that transcend time and THU place. THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012fs6c (Listen) THU Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 4 THU By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray THU 4/10 THU Verena, leader of the Truth Seekers, seems to have lost her THU way. Her aunt Elsie has persuaded professor Tom McCann to THU speak to her. But McCann has an agenda of his own. THU Roger ... Jonathan Forbes THU McCann ... Nathan Osgood THU Elsie ... Barbara Barnes THU Verena ... Alex Tregear THU Bill ... Peter Polycarpou THU Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v5 (Listen) THU Thomas Keneally - Searching for Schindler: A Memoir, Episode THU 4 THU Thomas Keneally's account of his discovery of the story of THU Oscar Schindler, which became the basis for his Booker THU Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark and the Oscar-winning THU film Schindler's List. THU The journey ends in Israel and Thomas goes home to write his THU book. THU THU 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7r8n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b0076vc0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 After Henry b007tcmk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b017mx3z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 The Brig Society b06d9lhx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007scyn (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Reynolds and Leon prepare for a battle of minds. Who will THU survive? The climax of Ted Chiang's thriller read by Rhashan THU Stone. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076rln (Listen) THU Series 7, Mozart THU 4 Extra Debut. Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo THU selects composer Wolfgang Mozart. With Francine Stock and THU Stephen Johnson. From April 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlll (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0081b4j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Miss Marple b007jpqf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Gurinder, The Movie b00ldblk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading b016pktn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00xb0sf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 The Brig Society b06d9lhx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b06g7bpf (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 5 THU This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into THU sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to THU make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. THU THU 23:00 We Are Klang: Amazing Lives b007k3hw (Listen) THU Max Phantasmo THU The controversial American comedian, by those who know him. THU Spoof starring Greg Davies and Steve Hall. From April 2007. THU THU 23:30 Sounding Off with McGough b007jvnp (Listen) THU The Way Things Are THU Roger McGough's reflections on life, death and the 'Today' THU programme. Recorded at the Bath Festival. From June 2000. THU THU 23:45 The Shuttleworths b007jm2l (Listen) THU Series 1, John Goes to London THU Sheffield singer John Shuttleworth's efforts to find Big THU City fame don't go to plan. Stars Graham Fellows. From April THU 1994. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 09 OCTOBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Ted Chiang - Understand b007scyn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076rln (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Miss Marple b007jpqf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Gurinder, The Movie b00ldblk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbqcb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pcs5z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012fs6c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7r8n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b0076vc0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 After Henry b007tcmk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b017mx3z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Brig Society b06d9lhx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Miss Marple b007jpqv (Listen) FRI The Murder at the Vicarage, Episode 5 FRI Amateur sleuth Jane Marple battles to unearth the proof she FRI needs to reveal the murderer's identity - along with a few FRI other surprises. FRI Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss FRI Marple and Francis Matthews as the Rev Leonard Clement, FRI Imelda Staunton as Griselda Clement, Nigel Davenport as Dr FRI Haydock and Rachel Atkins as Lettice Protheroe. FRI Dramatised by Michael Bakewell FRI Director Enyd Williams FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. FRI FRI 06:30 Bowling for Love b00mr5r6 (Listen) FRI Following a bowls community, and the friendships and FRI romances formed on and off the green. When Brian and Meryl FRI joined Adastra Bowls Club in Hassocks, they were looking for FRI a new hobby. But as their lives changed, the crown green FRI became the setting for another sort of interest. FRI FRI 07:00 The Change b0076p0j (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI Ken is surprised to find that he has a new bedmate - but not FRI the one he'd hoped for. FRI Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as FRI George, Maureen Beattie as Maureen and James Vaughan as Ken. FRI Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to FRI smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol FRI is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers FRI can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. FRI Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. FRI Producer: Elizabeth Freestone FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. FRI FRI 07:30 Liam Mullone's Disappointing World b06f54rz (Listen) FRI British comedy's only contrarian libertarian antiquarian, FRI Liam Mullone tackles the universal theme that sums up all FRI human endeavour - disappointment. FRI In this comedy lecture dedicated to history's losers Liam FRI celebrates some enormously bad ideas from the world of FRI technology. FRI He tells the hubristic story of Sweden's 17th Century FRI warship, The Vasa, which was even more disappointing than FRI The Mary Rose. Some of NASA's most inspiration-lacking FRI ventures are laid bare. And Frenchman Marcel Lucont honours FRI countryman Jacques Cousteau and his cigarette smoke-filled FRI Conshelf stations in a song. FRI Liam Mullone with Alexis Dubus and Eri Jackson FRI Writer: Liam Mullone FRI Producer: Aled Evans. FRI Credits FRI Performer: Liam Mullone FRI Performer: Alexis Dubus FRI Performer: Eri Jackson FRI Writer: Liam Mullone FRI Producer: Aled Evans FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jsqv (Listen) FRI Series 5, Around the World in 80 Days FRI The lad accepts a bet when challenged to copy Phileas Fogg's FRI trip - but in far less time. FRI Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie FRI Jacques and Kenneth Williams. FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. FRI Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. FRI Producer: Tom Ronald FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jslg (Listen) FRI The White Box of Great Bardfield FRI Can Neddie Seagoon get rich quick by exporting Britain's FRI surfeit of snow? Stars Peter Sellers and Spike Milligan. FRI From March 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b00yqhrp (Listen) FRI Series 1, Southampton FRI Coming this week from the University of Southampton, host FRI Steve Punt quizzes Biology students and Mathematics dons FRI alike on dachshunds, Dante, and Doctor Who. So if you've FRI ever wondered whether "The Golgi Apparatus" refers to part FRI of a eukaryotic cell or is merely a little-read Robert FRI Ludlum novel then this is the show for you. FRI "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz FRI show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 FRI listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded FRI on location at a different University each week, and it pits FRI three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a FRI genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being FRI a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent FRI standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and FRI jokes thrown in for good measure. FRI Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union FRI buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities FRI across the UK. FRI The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General FRI Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the FRI 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not FRI only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, FRI languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness FRI of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the FRI Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their FRI Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, FRI and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both FRI sides... FRI The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit FRI surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly FRI rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more FRI than just glanced at that reading list... FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b007jynb (Listen) FRI Series 1, Rate of Decline FRI Struggling to bring up his baby son Albert, single dad Bryan FRI Archer desperately needs cash for his rate arrears. FRI Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as FRI Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Harry Fowler as Joe FRI Billings. FRI Written by Jim Eldridge. FRI Producer: John Fawcett Wilson FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977. FRI FRI 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7sqn (Listen) FRI The Logic of Events FRI Major Francis White seeks peace with his father before FRI heading into battle. English Civil War drama with Graham FRI Blockey. FRI FRI 11:00 Mat Coward - The Hampstead Vegetable Heist b06g7r3j (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. A former yuppie decides to rob a betting FRI shop, using an unusual fake gun. A stick-up and a frame-up, FRI read by Larry Lamb. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b007ycm8 (Listen) FRI Rachel Joyce - Feather FRI By Rachel Joyce. FRI Fern believes in magic, Father Christmas and the Tooth FRI Fairy. She is collecting feathers because they can make FRI wishes come true, and Fern has a very big and important FRI wish. FRI Fern ...... Maisie Cowell FRI Lucy ...... Claire Price FRI Flyn ...... Shaun Dooley FRI Lloyd ...... Jot Davies FRI Grandma ...... Richenda Carey FRI Sam ...... Rachel Bavidge FRI Cayleigh ...... Morgan Gayle FRI Directed by Tracey Neale. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jsqv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jslg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Miss Marple b007jpqv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Bowling for Love b00mr5r6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbqjc (Listen) FRI Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 5 FRI Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told FRI from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member FRI of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly FRI dysfunctional. FRI Dora fixes a secret date on Facebook, but thanks to Oscar, FRI Dad finds out and stirs himself to action. Mo plans to run FRI away with Noel. Will the Battles ever be the same again? FRI Read by: FRI Dawn French FRI Lenny Henry FRI Sam Barnett and FRI Beattie Edmondson FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pcvlb (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and FRI Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a FRI national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an FRI obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. FRI To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and FRI mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and FRI often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part FRI series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we FRI know so well, and introducing us to the charms and FRI challenges of those that we don't. FRI Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales FRI themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely FRI with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of FRI these deceptively complex stories. FRI In the fifth episode, we are drawn into the tales' rich FRI history of illustration. These evocative stories have always FRI stirred vivid images in the minds of artists, from the FRI angular drawings of an early David Hockney to Dickens' FRI Victorian illustrator George Cruikshank. Through these FRI artists' impressions, we paint a new picture of the tales' FRI vital contribution to the long tradition of visual FRI storytelling. FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012ftrn (Listen) FRI Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 5 FRI By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray FRI 5/10 FRI Sociologist Tom McCann is behaving increasingly strangely, FRI much to the frustration of his young assistant Roger. But FRI they're about to hear some news that will make things a FRI great deal stranger. FRI Roger ... Jonathan Forbes FRI McCann ... Nathan Osgood FRI Elsie ... Barbara Barnes FRI Verena ... Alex Tregear FRI Sissy ... Susie Riddell FRI Bill ... Peter Polycarpou FRI Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v8 (Listen) FRI Thomas Keneally - Searching for Schindler: A Memoir, Episode FRI 5 FRI Thomas Keneally's account of his discovery of the story of FRI Oscar Schindler, which became the basis for his Booker FRI Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark and the Oscar-winning FRI film Schindler's List. FRI Thomas has finished writing Schindler's Ark and Steven FRI Spielberg is interested in making it into a film. FRI FRI 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7sqn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b00yqhrp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b007jynb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 The Change b0076p0j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Liam Mullone's Disappointing World b06f54rz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Carey Harrison - A Call From the Dead b01nf2h9 (Listen) FRI It's good to talk, or so they say, but not when you're FRI called from beyond the grave. Stars John Shrapnel and Nick FRI Dunning. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b06g7tf8 (Listen) FRI Series 1, You'll Never Walk Alone: FRI Carl Davis and Gerry Marsden reflect on the impact of Rodger FRI and Hammerstein's Carousel solo which became an anthem. From FRI January 2001. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jsqv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jslg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Miss Marple b007jpqv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Bowling for Love b00mr5r6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Mat Coward - The Hampstead Vegetable Heist b06g7r3j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b007ycm8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Liam Mullone's Disappointing World b06f54rz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b06gptvc (Listen) FRI 2015, Heat six FRI The next heat in comedy's most prestigious new talent FRI competition from London's famous Up The Creek comedy club. FRI Our host Jessica Fostekew presents some of the best new FRI comedians from across the UK. FRI Judges for this heat are comedian Jocelyn Esien, BBC Comedy FRI Producer Sam Bryant and editor of comedy website Chortle, FRI Steve Bennett. FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner and Laura Baron. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2015. FRI FRI 23:30 The Skivers b00j1ff4 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI High winds alert! Weatherman Michael Fish bids for stardom. FRI Sketch show with Nick Golsen and Tim de Jongh. From January FRI 1997. FRI
02 October, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 03/10/2015 - 09/10/2015
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