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SAT SATURDAY 19 JULY 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00sx1w7 (Listen) SAT FM Mayor - The Rector's Daughter, Episode 10 SAT Juliet Stevenson reads the concluding episode of F M Mayor's SAT unfairly Neglected Classic, the story of a plain, reliable SAT parson's daughter whose life of duty and service is thrown SAT into confusion by an unexpected and unsought love affair. SAT Today Mary finds solace in a robin's song and Mr Herbert SAT finally reveals his heart. Reader is Juliet Stevenson SAT Abridger Sally Marmion SAT Producer Di Speirs SAT F M Mayor's masterful novel, The Rector's Daughter, is a SAT rare thing - a novel with a deceptively small canvas, set in SAT the backwaters of a dull East Anglia a century ago, but SAT still as fresh as ever. Much loved by those who have SAT discovered it, it now comes to Radio 4 as one of the Open SAT Book listeners' Neglected Classics. SAT SAT 00:15 Sport and the British b01by9lb (Listen) SAT A Bit of a Flutter SAT Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our SAT relationship with sport as she continues her exploration SAT into how Britain made sport and sport made Britain. SAT Betting has played a crucial role in the way games SAT developed, it gave incentive to competition which in turn SAT necessitated clear rules. Establishing who's won and who's SAT lost is crucial but who managed to have a flutter and where SAT was a matter riven with class distinctions as Clare SAT discovers. SAT Reader, Sean Baker SAT Producer: Sara Conkey. SAT SAT 00:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jngw (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Headmistress Sarah Burton sparks upset when she takes her SAT girls on an educational walk in the snow. Stars Sarah SAT Lancashire. SAT SAT 00:45 Book of the Week b00n58dd (Listen) SAT Michael Palin Diaries - The Python Years, The Life of Brian SAT The actor and writer recalls how the influential comedy SAT group reconvened in 1977 to make their most controversial SAT film. SAT SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00knwyq (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 5 SAT John Lloyd and Sean Lock invite guests Jon Richardson, Roger SAT Law and Kate Adie to increase the collection. From June SAT 2009. SAT SAT 01:30 Fry's English Delight b00d3q63 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Metaphor SAT Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English SAT language. SAT Britain's high coastline/population ratio helps to explain SAT how maritime metaphor shaped the English language. But the SAT sea, and the way it shapes the land, has a special SAT metaphorical meaning. Stephen suggests that language is SAT shaped, like a coastline, by a flow of metaphors, which SAT erode, break down and eventually become part of everyday SAT speech and writing. SAT SAT 02:00 Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer b049mt8r (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Patrick O'Neill's new hotel in Mountfern is nearly finished SAT but the legacy of Kate's accident lingers. Stars David Soul SAT and Anna Healy. SAT SAT 02:30 Bollywood Brass Band b0075szl (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Soprano saxophone player Joe Cohen presents a SAT guide to the history and performance of a unique Indian SAT brass band. From March 2000. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b01946wd (Listen) SAT The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 2 SAT By Ayeesha Menon SAT Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles SAT Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit and sets it amongst the Catholic SAT community in modern-day Mumbai, India. SAT Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old SAT recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, SAT Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit SAT nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost SAT to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey SAT (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans SAT are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers SAT a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the SAT extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his SAT fortune. SAT Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karan Pandit), SAT an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a SAT fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and SAT murder... SAT Disinherited by his grandfather, Mickey Chuzzlewit escapes SAT India and tries to make his fortune in Dubai. In his SAT absence, the scheming Pinto and murderous Joseph join forces SAT in an attempt to get hold of the old man's fortune. And SAT while Thomas's feelings grow for Mickey's fiancĂ©, Mary, a SAT mysterious lodger with a terrible secret moves in next door SAT ... SAT Ayeesha Menon is an award-winning writer who works SAT extensively in film and radio. For BBC Radio 4 she has SAT written several outstanding adaptations including: Q & A SAT (Slumdog Millionaire) which won Gold for Best Drama at the SAT Sony Radio Academy Awards; The Cairo Trilogy, starring Omar SAT Sharif, which won a Bronze at the Sony Awards; My Nane Is SAT Red from the novel by Orhan Pamuk; and Six Suspects from the SAT novel by Vikas Swarup. SAT Cast: SAT Martin ..... Roshan Seth SAT Thomas ..... Karan Pandit SAT Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala SAT Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur SAT Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla SAT Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon SAT Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir SAT Joseph ..... Nadir Khan SAT Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur SAT Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital SAT Louis ..... Rohit Malkani SAT Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel SAT Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri SAT Manek ..... Vivek Madan SAT Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon SAT Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg SAT Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja SAT Sound Design: David Chilton SAT Music: Sacha Puttnam SAT Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan SAT Producer: John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:00 Five Stories by Margaret Drabble b0176nbj (Listen) SAT Faithful Lovers SAT A return to an old stamping ground, with its echoes of love, SAT sets a wheel in motion again. Written in 1968. Read by Adjoa SAT Andoh. SAT SAT 04:15 Kings b007jqwf (Listen) SAT Michal, Saul's Daughter SAT In the monarch's harem, three wives fight their case. Tales SAT from the reign of biblical King David. Stars Caroline SAT Langrishe. SAT SAT 05:00 Ring Around the Bath b00p2hb4 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Car Boot SAT Stella tries to dejunk the house. Everything useless must SAT go, including her grown-up kids. Stars Penny Downie. From SAT August 2003. SAT SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses b00f405t (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 3 SAT Rosie sets up an environmental conference, but is the SAT sponsor as green as he claims? Stars Prunella Scales. From SAT August 2003. SAT SAT 06:00 Don Taylor - Underworld b008wd17 (Listen) SAT An out-of-work ad man is escorted on a special journey by SAT the poet Milton. Starring Stephen Moore and Sara Kestelman. SAT SAT 07:30 Yes Yes Yes b00sydkp (Listen) SAT In the Shadow of the Post SAT John Rawling relives the 1973 Grand National at Aintree, SAT when Red Rum snatched victory from Crisp with just yards SAT left to race. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b049xldv (Listen) SAT Boy, Oh Boy, He's Going Down SAT 4 Extra Debut. Sean Street examines those moments where SAT Radio forgets itself, when laughter, alcohol or sheer SAT emotion overwhelm. From January 2000. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller b00cpqcs (Listen) SAT John Shuttleworth SAT During a day trip to London, Sheffield singer John SAT Shuttleworth takes control of the studios whilst Ken goes SAT down to the BBC vaults in search of his favourite comedies. SAT Mary pops in too. But in reality, they'd all rather be SAT watching Billy Elliot The Musical, but the tickets were too SAT pricey. SAT Featuring comedy from the sisters (Denise Coffey and Miriam SAT Margolyes) living with their difficult father (Geoffrey SAT Whitehead): Alison and Maud (03/01/2003); Stephen Fry, Hugh SAT Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Emma Thompson and special guest SAT Phyllida Law in Saturday Night Fry (28/05/1988); Mark Thomas SAT presents the story of the American double act Bob and Ray in SAT We Interrupt This Programme (03/08/2004); the social worker SAT and her colleagues celebrate Christmas in Clare In The SAT Community (25/12/2006); there's a trip to the garden centre SAT in The Shuttleworths (12/07/1995); Hovis Presley makes the SAT most of John Shuttleworth's Open House (26/09/1996). Plus SAT American shock jock Roy D Mercer makes a few disruptive SAT phone calls. SAT SAT 12:00 Babycakes Omnibus b049xlzv (Listen) SAT Made for 4 Extra. Omnibus of the dramatisation of Armistead SAT Maupin's fourth Tales of the City novel. SAT Credits SAT Mary Ann: Laurel Lefkow SAT Mrs Madrigal: Kate Harper SAT Michael: Jos Slovick SAT Brian: Simon Lee Phillips SAT Theresa: Buffy Davis SAT Connie: Amanda Hale SAT Simon: Kieran Hodgson SAT Ned: Louis Labovitch SAT Waiter: Greg Lockett SAT Director: Susan Roberts SAT Adaptor: Bryony Lavery SAT Author: Armistead Maupin SAT SAT 13:05 Inheritance Tracks b04bw4sd (Listen) SAT Chris Froome SAT Chris Froome shares his Inheritance Tracks: All You Need is SAT Love by the Beatles and Scatterlings of Africa by Johnny SAT Clegg. SAT SAT 13:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b049xlzx (Listen) SAT Hanif Kureishi SAT The novelist and playwright tells Anthony Clare about trying SAT to make sense of his real self through his work. From SAT October 1998. SAT Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with SAT prominent people from different walks of life. SAT Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, SAT a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the SAT Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on SAT BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became SAT Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own SAT vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this SAT series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV. Series SAT highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil SAT Parkinson and Gerry Adams. SAT Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Anthony Clare SAT SAT 14:00 The Navy Lark b049b1nq (Listen) SAT Avoiding Redundancy SAT 4 Extra Debut. Pertwee is aghast to learn that an oversight SAT may bring his naval career to an end. Stars Leslie Phillips. SAT From December 1968. SAT SAT 14:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01rqbf9 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT The much-loved comedy duo are joined by Gayle Hunnicutt, who SAT is desperate to be in one of Ernie's plays. From September SAT 1976. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b049xldv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Don Taylor - Underworld b008wd17 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music b0495t6m (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Since the mid-1980s, aspiring singer/songwriter, John SAT Shuttleworth has been posting audio cassettes of his "finest SAT songs to date" to pop stars throughout the land, in the hope SAT that someone would record his material. But all to no avail. SAT However, the BBC has very kindly given John a series and SAT asked him to invite pop starts to bring their music to his SAT Sheffield home. So it is that Chas and Dave, Heaven 17, SAT Toyah Wilcox and Leee John find themselves in John's lounge SAT having tea with wife Mary, being flirted with by Mary's SAT friend Joan and hassled by John's agent Ken Worthington, as SAT they try and perform not only one their greatest hits but SAT more importantly, one of John's. SAT In the first show John welcomes Chas Hodges from Chas and SAT Dave into the lounge. But where's Dave? Has he heard that SAT Mary won't allow jellied eels in the house or didn't he want SAT to come? SAT Whatever the reason, Chas will have to perform on his own SAT using John's trusty keyboard although, as he's been SAT influenced by Jerry Lee Lewis, John warns him that he won't SAT tolerate any feet on the keyboard. SAT Written and Performed by Graham Fellows. SAT Producer: Dawn Ellis SAT A Chic Ken production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Clips SAT empty SAT empty SAT See all clips from Episode 1 (2) SAT Credits SAT Performer: Graham Fellows SAT Interviewed Guest: Chas Hodges SAT Writer: Graham Fellows SAT Producer: Dawn Ellis SAT SAT 18:00 Saturday Drama b016k89p (Listen) SAT Something Wicked This Way Comes SAT Something Wicked This Way Comes SAT By Ray Bradbury SAT Dramatised by Diana Griffiths SAT Composer ..... David Paul Jones SAT Sound ..... Paul Cargill SAT Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris SAT Set in 1960's Illinois this gem of modern Gothic literature SAT is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and SAT William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small SAT Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one SAT Autumn midnight. These two innocents, both aged 13, (Will is SAT born one minute before Halloween, and Jim one minute after) SAT save the souls of the town (as well as their own). This is a SAT vivid variation on the eternal theme of the fight between SAT Good and Evil. A thrilling, chilling, richly kaleidoscopic SAT sound world ensues; a shimmering mirror maze that reflects SAT your older or younger self, depending on your desires, and a SAT magic carousel that plays Chopin's Funeral March forwards - SAT with each rotation you gain a year, and rotating backwards - SAT you get younger. SAT Credits SAT Writer: Diana Griffiths SAT Director: Pauline Harris SAT Producer: Pauline Harris SAT Will: Theo Gregory SAT Jim: Joseph Lindsay SAT Charlie: Henry Goodman SAT Mr Dark: Kenneth Cranham SAT Mr Coogar: Gerard McDermott SAT Lightening rod salesman: Gerard McDermott SAT Miss Foley: Barbara Barnes SAT Dust Witch: Buffy Davis SAT Robert: Taran Stanzler SAT Young Miss Foley: Amelia Clarkson SAT JED: Ethan Brooke SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller b00cpqcs (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Ross Noble Goes Global b007jvrg (Listen) SAT Series 1, Budapest and Warsaw SAT Kicking off his comedy travelogues in the capital of SAT Hungary, the stand-up then takes the train to Poland. From SAT June 2001. SAT SAT 22:30 The Ape That Got Lucky b0081sw3 (Listen) SAT Man or Monkey SAT Chris Addison's spoof lectures exploring human evolution. SAT With Geoffrey McGivern as Professor Austin Herring. From SAT August 2005. SAT SAT 23:00 The Nick Revell Show b00ct94s (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Promised Land SAT As the writer gets a lucky Hollywood break, his geraniums SAT are terrorised by an old foe. With Alistair McGowan. From SAT July 1993. SAT SAT 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jq3n (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Gangrene of the Mastersons SAT The family's epic Crimean War struggle of carnage, carnality SAT and cads. Improvised saga with Paul Merton. From July 1994. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 JULY 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Saturday Drama b016k89p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b049xldv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Babycakes Omnibus b049xlzv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:05 Inheritance Tracks b04bw4sd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:05 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b049xlzx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Don Taylor - Underworld b008wd17 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music b0495t6m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding Omnibus b007jrn7 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Headmistress Sarah Burton returns to 1930s Yorkshire for a SUN challenging new post. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip SUN Glenister. SUN SUN 07:05 Inheritance Tracks b04cb4nj (Listen) SUN Graham Fellows SUN Graham Fellows - aka John Shuttleworth - shares his SUN Inheritance Tracks. SUN SUN 07:15 A Week at the Pitt Rivers b049xyjh (Listen) SUN The Historian SUN Five views of Oxford's Aladdin's cave, the Pitt Rivers SUN Museum. Historian Christina Hardyment on medieval long bows. SUN SUN 07:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007779x (Listen) SUN Series 2, Barrister SUN The surreal comedian tackles an expert role each week, with SUN no ability whatsoever. With Tom Goodman-Hill. From May 2007. SUN SUN 08:00 Beyond Our Ken b01jjtn1 (Listen) SUN From 15/07/1960 SUN All is revealed in 'The Kenneth Horne Story' and producer SUN Jacques Brown gets a surprise. With Kenneth Williams. From SUN July 1960. SUN SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss b049y7mw (Listen) SUN Maxine SUN 4 Extra Debut. David needs courage to pursue Maxine, while SUN brother-in-law Tony battles to win a contract. Stars George SUN Cole. From August 1957. SUN SUN 09:00 Mary Wesley - Haphazard House b049y7my (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN The Fullers and friends are imperilled and beguiled in equal SUN measure, as well as adrift in time. Stars James Nickerson. SUN SUN 09:30 What's So Great About ...? b00cq7p8 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Life Coaches SUN Lenny Henry questions the iconic status of life coaches. He SUN investigates the work of personal gurus and asks why so many SUN people appear to rely on them. SUN Are they personal trainers or mind gurus? Do they help you SUN double your salary or just sort out your wardrobe? They SUN proliferate on the internet, with legions of testimonials SUN and personal messages of endorsement downloadable from SUN YouTube. But are they any good? Are they about to take you SUN for an expensive financial ride while filling your mind with SUN guff? Are they psychologists or shrinks, moneymen or SUN designer divas? Plenty of big firms seem to think they are SUN the bees' knees as they spend small fortunes offering SUN 'executive coaching' to their senior managers. But Lenny SUN doesn't get it, and in this programme he sets out to get to SUN the bottom of what they do, how they do it, and - not least SUN - how much they are going to charge you for the privilege. SUN SUN 10:00 The Reunion b00776dk (Listen) SUN The Last Debutantes, 1958 SUN The end of a British institution - the Debutantes. Sue SUN MacGregor reunites society girls, now in their 60s and 70s. SUN From April 2007. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b00s0cxy (Listen) SUN Helen Simpson - In-Flight Entertainment, Homework SUN Three short stories taken from Helen Simpson's new SUN collection, In-Flight Entertainment. SUN A boy contemplates a parallel life after asking his mother SUN for help with his creative writing homework. But how much is SUN fact and how much is fiction? SUN Reader: Juliet Aubrey. SUN Abridged and Produced by Joanna Green. SUN This is a Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 11:00 This American Life b049y8c1 (Listen) SUN Held Hostage SUN Criminals, paperwork and, in one man's case, his own body - SUN all of these can hold us captive. US Public Radio Show from SUN 2010. SUN SUN 12:00 Winifred Holtby - South Riding Omnibus b007jrn7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:05 Inheritance Tracks b04cb4nj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:05 today] SUN SUN 13:15 A Week at the Pitt Rivers b049xyjh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jzm1 (Listen) SUN The Return from Mars SUN Captain Jet Morgan and his Discovery crew are hurtling SUN towards 2026. 1950s classic revived in 1981. Stars John SUN Pullen. SUN SUN 15:00 Beyond Our Ken b01jjtn1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 A Life of Bliss b049y7mw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b049y8c3 (Listen) SUN Mel picks some of the highlights of the week's shows. SUN SUN 17:00 Mary Wesley - Haphazard House b049y7my (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 What's So Great About ...? b00cq7p8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ghost Zone b007jtzr (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN The advance party receives a hostile reception from the SUN bizarre occupants of the village. Stars Sandy Neilson. SUN SUN 18:30 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k0y9 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, edges closer to a SUN cure, but then he gets distracted. Read by Angus McInnes. SUN SUN 19:00 This American Life b049y8c1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Beyond Our Ken b01jjtn1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 A Life of Bliss b049y7mw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 The Reunion b00776dk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b00s0cxy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Another Case of Milton Jones b007779x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 I Think I've Got a Problem b007ynmg (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 SUN Tom proposes marriage to Sadie with some help from his SUN 'imaginary' band. Stars Suggs and Bob Monkhouse. From August SUN 2001. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04crskm (Listen) SUN For seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers two hours of SUN comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Rebecca Front. SUN SUN 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b01211y4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Me Talk Pretty One Day; It's Catching SUN The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SUN charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This SUN week the perils of an American learning French in Paris in SUN "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and an essay dealing with a SUN friend's concern for cleanliness; "It's Catching". SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 The Big Booth b007k32y (Listen) SUN Series 2: The Big Booth Too, Episode 2 SUN Boothby Graffoe stays the night in a haunted Scottish SUN castle. With Stephen Frost and Robyn Hitchcock. From SUN February 2001. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 JULY 2014 MON MON 00:00 Ghost Zone b007jtzr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k0y9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Reunion b00776dk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b00s0cxy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Beyond Our Ken b01jjtn1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 A Life of Bliss b049y7mw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Another Case of Milton Jones b007779x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jzm1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Mary Wesley - Haphazard House b049y7my (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 What's So Great About ...? b00cq7p8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer b04b20j7 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON O'Neill's new hotel is due to open, but his son's MON recklessness may ruin everything. Stars David Soul and Anna MON Healy. MON MON 06:30 Peter and the Wolf b0076vxg (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Pianist and entertainer Rainer Hersch MON assesses the classic children's musical. With Terry Wogan MON and Angela Rippon. From December 2005. MON MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qcsv (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON A hairy folk band helps Tamsyn Trelawny and the Cornish MON smugglers to escape the law. Stars Lucy Speed. From February MON 2003. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04969b3 (Listen) MON Series 61, Episode 3 MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit MON to the Assembly Hall in Worthing. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Harry Hill, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON provides piano accompaniment. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON Clip MON empty MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Harry Hill MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k02m (Listen) MON Dick Turpin MON The veteran of many parts recounts a disastrous TV MON adaptation where he experienced robbery of a different kind. MON Stars Peter Jones. From June 1986. MON MON 08:30 The Navy Lark b04b24nq (Listen) MON Have Been Masquerading MON 4 Extra Debut. A mix-up at the dry cleaners leads to an MON unexpected promotion for Sub Lt Phillips. Stars Leslie MON Phillips. From December 1968. MON MON 09:00 The Personality Test b00m16xm (Listen) MON Series 1, Greg Dyke MON The former BBC director-general quizzes a panel about MON himself. With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter and Robin Ince. From MON July 2006. MON MON 09:30 My First Planet b04b261q (Listen) MON Series 2, Sample of Terror MON First on 4 Extra. Day 30 and Brian has to win the Tour De MON France to save the contents of Lillian's freezer. Meanwhile, MON Mason tries to role-play in the nuclear core. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) MON The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 3 MON By Ayeesha Menon MON Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old MON recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, MON Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit MON nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost MON to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey MON (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans MON are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers MON a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the MON extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his MON fortune. MON Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karqn Pandit), MON an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a MON fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and MON murder... MON Mickey returns to India determined to show his grandfather MON he is a changed man and to marry Mary, the love of his life. MON But, in his absence, things have changed; the old man now MON appears to be under the control of the scheming Pinto who MON will not let Mickey near him. And Thomas has fallen in love MON with Mary... Meanwhile the hapless Joseph loses all his MON money in a Ponzi scheme. With his debtors closing in, murder MON seems to be the only way out... MON Ayeesha Menon is an award-winning writer who works MON extensively in film and radio. For BBC Radio 4 she has MON written several outstanding adaptations including: Q & A MON (Slumdog Millionaire) which won Gold for Best Drama at the MON Sony Radio Academy Awards; The Cairo Trilogy, starring Omar MON Sharif, which won a Bronze at the Sony Awards; My Name Is MON Red from the novel by Orhan Pamuk; and Six Suspects from the MON novel by Vikas Swarup. MON Cast: MON Martin ..... Roshan Seth MON Thomas ..... Karan Pandit MON Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala MON Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur MON Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla MON Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon MON Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir MON Joseph ..... Nadir Khan MON Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur MON Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital MON Louis ..... Rohit Malkani MON Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel MON Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri MON Manek ..... Vivek Madan MON Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon MON Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg MON Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja MON Sound Design: David Chilton MON Music: Sacha Puttnam MON Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan MON Producer: John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6v (Listen) MON Michele Roberts - Mud: Stories of Sex and Love, The Lay of MON Bee Wolf MON Michele Roberts explores the old myth of Beowolf from a new MON perspective, offering a take on the story which puts the MON wife and daughters of the legendary hero centre stage. With MON the monster Gren Dell sporting a name tape lovingly sewn on MON by his mother, Ms Dell, and a tragic misunderstanding MON leading to all the bloodshed, the old story takes on an MON enjoyably feminist, if no less heroic turn. The story is MON taken from Michele Roberts new collection, Mud: Stories of MON Love and Sex. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b049xbzz (Listen) MON Nikki Bedi, Adrian Dunbar, Mark Watson, Natalie Young, MON Richard Thompson, Clara Amfo, Sara Cox, Los Campesinos! MON Nikki Mocks The Week with comedian and author Mark Watson. MON His fifth novel 'Hotel Alpha' tells the story of the MON charismatic Howard York, who, three decades ago created the MON finest hotel in London. Here, guests MON are provided with everything they could wish for. And when MON Howard is in the room, there is a sense that anything is MON possible. MON Nikki gets skin deep with Radio 1Xtra DJ Clara Amfo, who's MON new documentary investigates why so many young black people MON are bleaching their skin. In 'Deeper Than Skin', Clara asks MON whether there's a connection between skin colour and MON identity and what drives some young black people to risk MON their health for lighter skin. MON Nikki's in the Line of Duty with actor, screenwriter and MON director Adrian Dunabr, who's appeared in such notable films MON as 'My Left Foot' and 'The Crying Game'. Adrian is directing MON a one-act play by Beckett dedicated to the Czech playwright MON Vaclav Havel, and originally performed when he was MON imprisoned as a dissident. 'Catastrophe' forms part of Happy MON Days: the 3rd International Beckett Festival in Enniskillen. MON Sara Cox cooks up a storm with former Times journalist MON Natalie Young, whose latest novel 'Season to Taste' tells MON the tale of Lizzie, an unhappily married housewife, who, MON overcome by desperation kills her husband, chops him into 16 MON bits, freezes him, then over the course of the narrative MON cooks and eats parts of his body. MON With music from legendary folk artist Richard Thompson, who MON performs 'One Door Opens' from his album 'Acoustic Classics' MON and from Los Campesinos! who play 'What Death Leaves Behind' MON from their album 'No Blues'. MON Producer: Debbie Kilbride. MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from Nikki Bedi, Adrian Dunbar, Mark Watson, MON Natalie Young, Richard Thompson, Clara Amfo, Sara Cox, Los MON Campesinos! (2) MON Mark Watson MON ‘Hotel Alpha’ is published by Picador on 31st July. MON Mark will be talking about ‘Hotel Alpha’ in the Literary MON Arena at Latitude Festival, Suffolk on Sunday 20th July. His MON new stand-up shows ‘Flaws’ and ‘Mark Watson's Comedywealth MON Games’ are at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. Check Mark’s MON website for details. MON Clara Amfo MON ‘Deeper Than Skin’ is on Sunday 20th July at 21.00 on BBC MON Radio 1Xtra. MON Natalie Young MON ‘Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband' is published by MON Tinder Press and available now. MON Adrian Dunbar MON ‘Catastrophe’ is at ‘Happy Days: The 3rd International MON Beckett Festival’ in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland from MON Thursday 31 July to Sunday 10th August. MON Richard Thompson MON ‘Acoustic Classics’ is available now on Beeswing/Proper. MON Richard’s UK tour kicks off at Folk by the Oak, Hatfield on MON Sunday 20th, Hawth, Crawley on Tuesday 22nd and Forum, Bath MON on Wednesday 23rd July. Check his website for further dates. MON Los Campesinos! MON ‘No Blues’ is available now on Turnstile. MON Los Campesinos! are playing One Beat Weekender, Birmingham MON on Saturday 19th July and Festival Number 6, Portmeirion on MON Friday 5th September. MON MON 12:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k02m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Navy Lark b04b24nq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer b04b20j7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Peter and the Wolf b0076vxg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy5h (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Dr Aziz and Mrs Moore's mosque encounter sparks an epic tale MON of divisions under colonial British rule. Read by Samuel MON West. MON MON 14:15 Sport and the British b01c7lkd (Listen) MON Cricket and the English Hero MON Clare Balding continues her investigation into how sport MON shaped Britain and Britain shaped sport. MON In this weeks programmes she looks at how sport unites us MON all when we get behind out national teams and no more so, MON than when the character of that team can be personified by MON one person. MON If there's one sport that embodies Englishness, it's cricket MON and in this programme she looks at how and why W.G.Grace, in MON the nineteenth century and Jack Hobbs, in the twentieth, MON became the epitome of a national sporting hero. Clare visits MON Lords Cricket ground and the Oval to discover more. MON She also talks to Professor Richard Holt from The MON International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De MON Montfort University, Simon Rae, a biographer of W.G.Grace MON and broadcaster David Rayvern Allen. The readers are:Jo MON Munro and Brian Bowles. MON The programme is produced in Birmingham by Garth Brameld. MON Jack Hobbs batting in 1936 MON The Long Room at Lord's during a Test match MON The Formal Empire MON Clare Balding explains how sport, particularly rugby and MON cricket, became a way of transmitting British values around MON the globe. MON A Level Playing Field MON Clare Balding wonders whether the French would have had a MON revolution had they played cricket. MON MON 14:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jnj0 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Headmistress Sarah Burton decides Lydia must not be allowed MON to lose a scholarship. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip MON Glenister. MON MON 14:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9d5c (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Recalling his frenetic 1980s, Michael Palin tells of Monty MON Python, challenging railway journeys and his daughter MON starting school. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04b2lxz (Listen) MON Mel Giedroyc looks forward to the Commonwealth Games, but MON also heads off to famous inventor James Watt's workshop, MON inspired by our story: Malorie Blackman's Operation MON Gadgetman! MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b007jx69 (Listen) MON Series 2, Youth and Consequences MON Bill's new young image leaves birthday girl Faith feeling MON old. Stars James Bolam and Lynda Bellingham. From November MON 1989. MON MON 17:30 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qcsv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 The Personality Test b00m16xm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b04b2m7q (Listen) MON Tony Bullimore and Sophie Hannah MON Tom Sutcliffe, Tony Bullimore and Sophie Hannah discuss Iris MON Murdoch, Primo Levi and Patrick O'Brien. From 1998 MON The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch MON Publisher: Penguin Books MON The Periodic Table by Primo Levi MON Publisher: Abacus MON Post Captain by Patrick O'Brian MON Publisher: Harper Collins. MON MON 19:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k02m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Navy Lark b04b24nq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer b04b20j7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Peter and the Wolf b0076vxg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b049xbzz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04969b3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 My First Planet b04b261q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04crsnb (Listen) MON For seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers two hours of MON comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth chats to Dan Schreiber. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b04b2r24 (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 7 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi MON Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guest MON panellists David Mitchell and Rebecca Front. MON MON 23:45 Crème de la Crime b008f8hc (Listen) MON Series 3, This Carriage for Justice MON Michael Feydeau and David Pershore probe a murder and false MON accusations. Stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From April MON 2003. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 JULY 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy5h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Sport and the British b01c7lkd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jnj0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9d5c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Personality Test b00m16xm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b04b2m7q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Maeve Binchy - Firefly Summer b04b20j7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Peter and the Wolf b0076vxg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b049xbzz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b007jx69 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qcsv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Falco b008kkch (Listen) TUE Shadows in Bronze, Episode 1 TUE After a plot to depose the Emperor, the Roman detective TUE uncovers a nest of vipers. Lindsey Davis's thriller stars TUE Anton Lesser. TUE TUE 06:30 Custodians of the Word b0076g3d (Listen) TUE Martin Wainwright asks who guards literary reputations after TUE a writer dies? With Andrew Motion. From July 2003. TUE TUE 07:00 Safety Catch b00vkyz1 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Better the Devil You Know TUE Simon McGrath is a generally nice chap who just happens to TUE be an arms dealer. It's not something he planned, he just TUE fell into it, and despite all his best intentions he just TUE doesn't seem to be able to leave because he has to pay his TUE mortgage like everyone else. Of course his real love is TUE electronic music and this is just a stop gap until he finds TUE the perfect outlet for his music - okay so the gap has TUE lasted five years but that's not the point. Once he can get TUE himself motivated he'll be out of there and, as his ever TUE supportive mum says, people will always want to kill each TUE other. So that's alright then. TUE This series sees Simon going to some bizarre lengths to TUE excuse his profession: his attempt at gaining redundancy TUE when an American firm puts in a takeover bid somehow winds TUE up with his promotion; he desperately attempts to give TUE himself compassion fatigue so he won't have to feel guilty TUE about all the bloodshed in the world; he unsuccessfully TUE tries to seek forgiveness and he finally tries to TUE self-motivate himself to sit down in front of a keyboard to TUE compose his electronic masterpiece. His personal life is as TUE unsatisfactory as his work life and not only do he and Anna TUE have to try and find reasons why they love each other but TUE they have to survive a visit from her parents and his mum's TUE new job at Heathcote Sanders and, as Judith eloquently puts TUE it, to have one member of the family working in the arms TUE trade may be regarded as misfortune, to have two looks like TUE genetic wickedness. TUE Simon McGrath ...... Darren Boyd TUE Anna Grieg ...... Joanna Page TUE Boris Kemal ...... Lewis Macleod TUE Judith McGrath ...... Sarah Smart TUE Angela McGrath ...... Brigit Forsyth TUE Madeleine Turnbull ...... Rachel Atkins TUE Charles ...... John Schwab TUE Written by Laurence Howarth TUE Produced By Dawn Ellis. TUE TUE 07:30 Beauty of Britain b010mryx (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Delegate TUE No professional care-worker can afford to miss Beauty TUE Olonga's survival guide to Britain - its overheated houses, TUE its disappointing church services and its world-class TUE charity shops. Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows TUE Beauty's continuing adventures as the Featherdown Agency TUE sends her to provide care for the elderly. TUE Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls TUE hoping to live the dream in Britain. The series breaks the TUE embarrassed silence about what happens to us when we get old TUE and start to lose our faculties. It shows the process in all TUE its chaotic, tragi-comedy but it does so from the point of TUE view of Beauty, whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught TUE her to respect age. Beauty sees Britain at its best, its TUE worst and also sometimes without its clothes on running the TUE wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' TUE Episode 4 'The Delegate' TUE Karen of the featherdown agency sends Beauty to the 'End of TUE Life' care conference on her behalf. Beauty struggles to TUE understand the peculiar behaviour of the British at a TUE conference and their obsessions with name tags and lanyards, TUE as well as why she is the only carer in attendance. This TUE must be why the keynote speaker, Professor Smythe takes a TUE shine to her? TUE Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien TUE Jenny ..... Pippa Haywood TUE Rob ..... Tony Gardner TUE Mrs Grace ..... Phyllida Law TUE Sally ..... Felicity Montagu TUE Karen/Keely ..... Nicola Sanderson TUE The music for the series was performed by The West End TUE Gospel Choir. TUE Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson TUE The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 08:00 The Goon Show b00cb8ls (Listen) TUE Spon TUE A certain brown terror awaits Dick Emery, who is filling TUE Harry Secombe's shoes, but not his trousers. From September TUE 1957. TUE TUE 08:30 The Al Read Show b01rlngp (Listen) TUE From 10/12/1998 TUE A look at the fire brigade and the morning after the night TUE before. A collection of the Northern comic's 1950s TUE monologues. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b04b2r24 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Hancock's Half Hour b01l7r67 (Listen) TUE Welcome to London 1958 TUE To entertain athletes on their way home from the 6th British TUE Empire & Commonwealth Games in Cardiff during July 1958, the TUE BBC staged a gala at the London Coliseum. TUE Part of the evening features this rediscovered sketch TUE written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. Master of ceremonies TUE Kenneth Horne introduces Tony Hancock, Sid James and Bill TUE Kerr on stage TUE The audio was recovered from the extraordinary archive of TUE the late Bob Monkhouse. TUE First broadcast by the BBC Light Programme on 3rd August TUE 1958. TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b007j79g (Listen) TUE Henry Fielding - Tom Jones, Episode 1 TUE 4 Extra Debut. Wealthy Squire Allworthy is surprised to find TUE an infant wrapped in his bed sheets. Stars Simon Russell TUE Beale and Michael Legge. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6x (Listen) TUE Michele Roberts - Mud: Stories of Sex and Love, Tristram and TUE Isolde TUE The second of Michele Roberts' stories from her newly TUE published collection, Mud: Stories of Love and Sex, is very TUE much concerned with both these themes. Inspired by the TUE famous love story of Tristram and Isolde, it describes the TUE passion of a girl for her lover, the delight in his company TUE when the rest of the world has been banished, and the desire TUE to keep him to herself for ever. But there's an unexpected TUE twist to this love story that plays on some very deep, and TUE potentially disturbing, emotions. The reader is Siobhan TUE Redmond. TUE TUE 11:15 Kings b007jqwr (Listen) TUE Abishag, the Virgin TUE The monarch is dying. Bathsheba and his new wife attend him. TUE Tales from the reign of biblical King David. Stars Alison TUE Pettitt. TUE TUE 12:00 The Goon Show b00cb8ls (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Al Read Show b01rlngp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Falco b008kkch (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Custodians of the Word b0076g3d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy6r (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE As Adela Quested yearns for the real India, she and Mrs TUE Moore attend a bridge party to meet the locals. Read by TUE Samuel West. TUE TUE 14:15 Sport and the British b01c7rh1 (Listen) TUE Welsh Rugby and its National Heroes TUE Clare Balding's at Cardiff Arms Park for this edition of the TUE series that explores how sport made Britain and Britain made TUE sport. Here she looks at the vital role rugby has played in TUE shaping Welsh identity; the stadium was built to be an TUE emblem of national pride, a fortress for Welsh sport in its TUE capital city. TUE She talks to the legendary Welsh captain and scrum half, TUE Gareth Edwards about Wales' glory days of the sixties and TUE seventies and the impact the introduction of professionalism TUE had on the national side. She also talks to Professor Tony TUE Collins from The International Centre for Sports History and TUE Culture, De Montfort University TUE The reader is Alun Raglan. TUE Producer : Lucy Lunt. TUE Rugby's Great Split TUE Clare Balding explores how rugby became a symbol of class TUE division when it split in two. TUE TUE 14:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jnjk (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE When measles confines Midge to school, her father makes a TUE confession. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. TUE TUE 14:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9qr8 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE The actor recalls bedroom frolics in The Missionary and TUE confusion at an ear specialist, where life reflected comic TUE art. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b007j79g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04b3n4c (Listen) TUE Mel wishes actor Daniel Radcliffe happy birthday and TUE investigates the mystery of the 400 false legs found under TUE the floor of an ordinary suburban house. TUE TUE 17:00 Huddwinks b00941jx (Listen) TUE Series 1, Henry the Vee TUE His Majesty fights the French at Agincourt, but will the TUE Bard or Barbara Cartland win the day? Stars Roy Hudd. From TUE July 1986. TUE TUE 17:30 Safety Catch b00vkyz1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 We've Been Here Before b007r3dd (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE Clive Anderson's panel show of the past with Gyles TUE Brandreth, Jimmy Carr, John O'Farrell and David Quantick. TUE From August 2003. TUE TUE 18:30 Musical Genes b00h9cx9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Margaret Bennett TUE Tom Morton talks to folklorist Margaret Bennett about life TUE with her son Martyn, the visionary piper, fiddler and music TUE producer who died in 2005. TUE TUE 19:00 The Goon Show b00cb8ls (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Al Read Show b01rlngp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Falco b008kkch (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Custodians of the Word b0076g3d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Kings b007jqwr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Beauty of Britain b010mryx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Concrete Cow b0076k1x (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE A war poet is told the troops prefer limericks and a budget TUE directory enquiry service proves disappointing. TUE TUE 23:00 Bleak Expectations b00p3380 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked and Redeemed TUE Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. TUE Pip and Ripely find themselves facing a vast and evil undead TUE army. England has only one hope - that Miss Sweetly TUE Delightful can melt Mr Benevolent's cruel, undead heart. TUE Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson TUE Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen TUE Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head TUE Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman TUE Bishop Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely Bin ...... Sarah Hadland TUE Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy TUE The Duke of Chelsea ...... Mark Evans. TUE TUE 23:30 And Now In Colour b007v2t3 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Mike's House TUE The sketch show team take the audience to Mike's house, but TUE they get lost. With Tim Firth and Michael Rutger. From April TUE 1990. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 JULY 2014 WED WED 00:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy6r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Sport and the British b01c7rh1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jnjk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9qr8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 We've Been Here Before b007r3dd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Musical Genes b00h9cx9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Falco b008kkch (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Custodians of the Word b0076g3d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b007j79g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Kings b007jqwr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Huddwinks b00941jx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Safety Catch b00vkyz1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Falco b008klh0 (Listen) WED Shadows in Bronze, Episode 2 WED Probing the murder of a conspirator against the Emperor, the WED Roman sleuth is sent to a fashionable resort. Stars Anton WED Lesser. WED WED 06:30 My Dad's Diary b04b6bs3 (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. A British prisoner of war's diary is returned WED to the writer's daughter nearly 50 years after it was lost WED in Japan. From March 1999. WED WED 07:00 Absolute Power b007ys7m (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED Roguish Martin enters the Lords, as Charles takes on a Big WED Brother 'star'. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From WED January 2002. WED WED 07:30 It's a Fair Cop b0499dlr (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Policeman turned stand-up comedian Alfie Moore swears his WED audience in and takes them through a real life scenario to WED see what sort of officers they would have made. WED Credits WED Presenter: Alfie Moore WED Writer: Alfie Moore WED Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith WED WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way b00jq7qq (Listen) WED Series 3, Discover Gravity WED Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett refuse WED to mention the unsavoury Eric Pode of Croydon. From November WED 1977. WED WED 08:30 Albert and Me b04b6dbs (Listen) WED Series 2, High Society WED Single dad Bryan attends a garden fete and impresses the WED guest of honour. Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. WED Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to WED find work and raise his baby son. In the original 1977 WED series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who WED tragically died in 1979. WED After a six-year hiatus, the series returned with Bryan's WED mother and baby Albert played once again by the WED ever-versatile Pat Coombs. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1983. WED WED 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n80b1 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED David Mitchell hosts the game show in which panellists are WED encouraged to tell lies and compete to see how many items of WED truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents. WED With Arthur Smith, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks and Graeme WED Garden. WED WED 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful b007jvtb (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED All set for divorce and a new home, ad man Ken Handley gets WED a surprise at the agency. Stars Martin Jarvis. From February WED 1984. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b007lkzg (Listen) WED Henry Fielding - Tom Jones, Episode 2 WED A hero banished from the only home he has ever known. A WED heroine who loves him, shut up in her room by her father. WED Stars Michael Legge. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6z (Listen) WED Michele Roberts - Mud: Stories of Sex and Love, Vegetarian WED in France WED Michele Roberts writes enticingly about France, and equally WED enticingly about food, and this story from her newly WED published collection brings two of her favourite subjects WED together in a tongue-in-cheek cautionary tale about the WED dangers of being fussy about food in a country that regards WED vegetarians with the scorn reserved for a lesser species. It WED was not easy, being a vegetarian in France, Larry found, WED when he and his wife Nicolette finally settled there in WED their retirement. Their hunting, fishing, butchering, WED gutting, stuffing and pickling neighbours tried to WED understand, but their sympathies were all with Nicolette. WED Larry didn't stand a chance. The reader is Siobhan Redmond. WED WED 11:15 Gillian Tindall - The Night House b04b6fy8 (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. When a young bride moves into a former WED school, she starts sensing that tragic events happened there WED in the past. Stars Susie Fugle. WED WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way b00jq7qq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 Albert and Me b04b6dbs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Falco b008klh0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 My Dad's Diary b04b6bs3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy80 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Tensions remain as Principal Fielding invites East and West WED to tea, sparking an ill-considered offer. Read by Samuel WED West. WED WED 14:15 Sport and the British b01c7sn1 (Listen) WED Ireland, Politics on the Pitch WED Clare Balding visits Croke Park in Dublin, to discover the WED story behind the formation of the Gaelic Athletic WED Association and it's founder Michael Cusack. All this week WED in Sport and the British Clare has been exploring how sport WED defined and gave an independence to the nations of the WED British Isles, nowhere is this more evident and vocal than WED in Ireland. The GAA defined what it was to be Irish - WED meaning how far removed that is from being English and WED hurling and Irish football were a way of exemplifying that. WED Clare talks to Dr Paul Rouse of University College Dublin WED and Professor Michael Cronin of Boston College Ireland about WED the history and future of the GAA. WED The reader is Jonathan Forbes WED Producer: Lucy Lunt. WED Ireland, North of the Border WED Clare Balding visits Belfast to explore the impact the WED Troubles had on sport in the region. WED WED 14:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jnk2 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED As the school gossips about Midge, headmistress Sarah feels WED for Lydia. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. WED WED 14:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9sjj (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Michael's mum making it big in America, grappling with a pig WED in 'A Private Function' and a crucial meeting with George WED Harrison. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b007lkzg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04b6nkl (Listen) WED Mel is in conversation with author Anthony Horowitz and, as WED the Commonwealth Games start in Glasgow, she hears from a WED World Champion hurdler: Trinidad and Tobago's Jehue Gordon. WED WED 17:00 The Code of the Woosters b007jzz6 (Listen) WED The Course of True Love WED Bertie comes a cropper while trying to rescue Gussie's WED notebook. PG Wodehouse adventure with Michael Hordern and WED Richard Briers. WED WED 17:30 Absolute Power b007ys7m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n80b1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b04b6nkg (Listen) WED Absence WED Journalist Emma Brockes joins Welsh poet Gwyneth Lewis and WED novelist Jay Basu to discuss gaps with Matthew Parris. WED Each week Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers of WED fact and fiction: new talent and established names. In the WED context of a discussion of one of the ideas and WED pre-occupations of our times, each presents a piece on this WED week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2002. WED WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way b00jq7qq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Albert and Me b04b6dbs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Falco b008klh0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 My Dad's Diary b04b6bs3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Gillian Tindall - The Night House b04b6fy8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 It's a Fair Cop b0499dlr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 A Look Back at the Future b01s5d66 (Listen) WED 2099 WED From August 1994, Brian Perkins, Hugh Dennis and Kate WED Robbins host a retrospective on 2099, the year that time ran WED backwards. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04crspp (Listen) WED For seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers two hours of WED comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth chats to Dan Schreiber. WED WED 23:00 The Harpoon b00ckyjg (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED Handy hints on body language, in the nostalgic spoof of WED boys' adventure story papers. With Alistair McGowan. From WED February 1994. WED WED 23:30 The Secret World b012rf47 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED Prince Charles ends up helping his driver move a sideboard. WED Jon Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From July WED 2010. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 JULY 2014 THU THU 00:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy80 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Sport and the British b01c7sn1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jnk2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9sjj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00n80b1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b04b6nkg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Falco b008klh0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 My Dad's Diary b04b6bs3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b007lkzg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00sjc6z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Gillian Tindall - The Night House b04b6fy8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Code of the Woosters b007jzz6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Absolute Power b007ys7m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Falco b008kmgp (Listen) THU Shadows in Bronze, Episode 3 THU At the villa of Helena's former father-in-law, the Roman THU sleuth meets old friends of the senator's daughter. Stars THU Anton Lesser. THU THU 06:30 Poets Don't Drive b0076wz1 (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. Poet Ian McMillan investigates why poets do THU not seem to like driving. With Simon Armitage and Wendy THU Cope. From February 2006. THU THU 07:00 Ayres on the Air b01cjcmp (Listen) THU Series 2, Food THU Prose and sketches about Pam's world of food, from childhood THU to the present day. With Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey THU Whitehead. From April 2006. THU THU 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01h667d (Listen) THU Series 8, Keeping the Flame Alive THU Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, THU complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his THU never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever THU scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and THU cat together. THU With the Olympics looming Stan spies a golden opportunity - THU renting out Ed's flat for the duration of the games at the THU princely sum of £3,000 a week. So Ed has to pack up his THU newspaper collection, sift through his takeaway trays and THU leave the place he's called home for the last years. But THU where will he go? THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Fiona: Jenny Agutter THU Janie: Rachel Atkins THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Cliff: Geoff McGivern THU Frank: Simon Greenall THU Jaz: Philip Jackson THU Pearl: Rita May THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Lisa: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU THU 08:00 Dad's Army b007jrl4 (Listen) THU Series 3, Is There Honey Still for Tea? THU When plans for building a new airfield in the neighbourhood THU are announced, Godfrey is worried his cottage will be THU demolished. Adapted from TV with Arnold Ridley. From August THU 1976. THU THU 08:30 Take It From Here b0180fds (Listen) THU From 21/02/1956 THU The adventures of The Glums and the Scarlet Pimple! Stars THU Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and June Whitfield. From THU February 1956. THU THU 09:00 The Write Stuff b00qcjwq (Listen) THU Series 9, Irvine Welsh THU James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary THU correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are THU joined by Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre. The author THU of the week and subject for pastiche is Irvine Welsh, and THU the reader is Beth Chalmers. THU THU 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends b008f86w (Listen) THU Series 2, Lassie Go Home THU Wendy adopts a dog which adores her, but hates Robin. Stars THU Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. From June 2003. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b007npgj (Listen) THU Henry Fielding - Tom Jones, Episode 3 THU Tom follows Sophia to the cesspit of immorality that is THU London and is invited to a masked ball. Stars Simon Russell THU Beale. THU THU 11:00 Come Away, Come Away! b00s6t4m (Listen) THU Peanut Butter and Cello, by Geraldine McCaughrean THU A young girl from the favela carries an unexpected burden on THU a cross-city journey. THU Melody Grove reads 'Peanut Butter and Cello' by Geraldine THU McCaughrean. THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU To mark 150 years since J M Barrie's birth, three leading THU writers for young people contribute new stories inspired by THU a chapter title from 'Peter Pan'. The authors have been set THU the task of exploring the joys and the terrors of childhood THU without sentimentality, much as Barrie did in his original THU text. THU Geraldine McCaughrean has been awarded the Carnegie Medal, THU the Whitbread Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award for her THU books written for all ages. In 2004 she fought off fierce THU competition to be selected by the Trustees of Great Ormond THU Street Hospital to write an official sequel to 'Peter Pan'. THU Her novel, 'Peter Pan In Scarlet', was published to critical THU acclaim in 2006. THU THU 11:15 Rachel Joyce - To Be a Pilgrim b008m75s (Listen) THU After six months of retirement, tired Harold opens a letter THU and everything changes. Stars Anna Massey and Anton Rodgers. THU THU 12:00 Dad's Army b007jrl4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Take It From Here b0180fds (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Falco b008kmgp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Poets Don't Drive b0076wz1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy9b (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Adela makes a decision about her future with Ronny, but fate THU intervenes on the Marabar Road. Read by Samuel West. Episode THU 4 of 15. THU THU 14:15 Sport and the British b01c7wxb (Listen) THU Ireland, North of the Border THU While sport is endlessly talked of as a force for unity, in THU today's edition of Sport and the British, Clare Balding's in THU Belfast on the Falls Road, where it's clear that here sport THU was just another arena to reinforce divisions that rent the THU community in two. THU In Northern Ireland the sporting choices for people were, THU for so long, based on their religious and political THU backgrounds. In soccer there was one team for the Catholics, THU Belfast Celtic, Linfield for the Protestants. Clare hears THU about the violent clashes that often ensued when these two THU teams met, finally leading to the disbandment of Celtic. THU Boxer, Barry McGuigan talks about how he tried to be THU identified with neither side and we hear about the only THU sporting hero that did manage to straddle the divide, THU uniting both sides, George Best. THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU Ireland, Politics on the Pitch THU Clare Balding visits Croke Park in Dublin to discover how THU and why Ireland developed its own sports. THU THU 14:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b008747v (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Headmistress Sarah Burton befriends the father of one of her THU pupils. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. THU THU 14:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9wg2 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Recalling the 1980s, Michael Palin shares fond recollections THU of his sister Angela and the germ of A Fish Called Wanda. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b007npgj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04b9gg1 (Listen) THU Mel finds out if church bells can be heard underwater, two THU of author Robert Muchamore's favourite books and the part THU Morris Minors played in the Manchester Commonwealth Games. THU THU 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited b007jxg2 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Spirit of Christmas THU The school show sparks robust religious debate and a THU demonstration of true human kindness. With Carolyn Pickles. THU From July 2003. THU THU 17:30 Ayres on the Air b01cjcmp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 The Write Stuff b00qcjwq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b04b9gfy (Listen) THU George Eliot THU Ex-parliamentary standards commissioner Elizabeth Filkin on THU the novelist George Eliot. With Humphrey Carpenter. From THU 2002. THU The biographical series in which a distinguished guest THU chooses someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero THU stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of THU having led a great life? THU THU 19:00 Dad's Army b007jrl4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Take It From Here b0180fds (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Falco b008kmgp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Poets Don't Drive b0076wz1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Come Away, Come Away! b00s6t4m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Rachel Joyce - To Be a Pilgrim b008m75s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b01h667d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00bz9zn (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Office life, relationships and 'Lossie Come Home'. THU Award-winning monologues and sketches with Rosie Cavaliero. THU From June 2008. THU THU 23:00 Hard to Tell b015zpdv (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU One of those parties that starts out as a great way to get THU to know each other better, but promptly gets taken over by THU fake tans, jerk chicken, insomniac parents and berets. THU Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny THU Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). It THU conjures up characters depicting every relationship from THU father and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the THU feller hiding at a party; from the stalker and the stalked THU to dog owners and their dogs; and from lifelong friends to THU long term partners and their dearly departed. THU The series revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny THU himself), his immediate family (Getting On's Vicki THU Pepperdine, The Thick Of It's Alex MacQueen and Not Going THU Out's Katy Wix), and Tom's longed-for-and-lusted-after new THU girlfriend Ellen (played by Charlotte Ritchie), her best THU friend Hermione (Him & Her's Sarah Solemani) and Ellen's THU zealously protective father (Simon Greenall). THU Tim Key and Tom Basden both make deliciously awkward cameo THU appearances. THU Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, THU contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to THU pub toilets, themed parties, early morning phone calls and THU Christmas Editions of Jonathan Creek. THU Producer: Lucy Armitage THU A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Tom: Jonny Sweet THU Paul: Simon Greenall THU Delivery Man: Tim Key THU Ashley: Alex MacQueen THU Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine THU Hermione: Sarah Solemani THU Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie THU Maeve: Katy Wix THU Producer: Lucy Armitage THU Writer: Jonny Sweet THU THU 23:30 Dave Podmore's Cricket Night b007jyjh (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU The player's ambitions to make money on the after-dinner THU speaker circuit are scuppered. Stars Chris Douglas. From THU April 2004. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 JULY 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jy9b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Sport and the British b01c7wxb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b008747v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9wg2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 The Write Stuff b00qcjwq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b04b9gfy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Falco b008kmgp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Poets Don't Drive b0076wz1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b007npgj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Come Away, Come Away! b00s6t4m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Rachel Joyce - To Be a Pilgrim b008m75s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b007jxg2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Ayres on the Air b01cjcmp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Falco b008ktyq (Listen) FRI Shadows in Bronze, Episode 4 FRI The Roman sleuth heads to a party thrown by the wealthy and FRI influential Crispus. Helena gets shocking news. Stars Anton FRI Lesser. FRI FRI 06:30 My Wizard b0076xpc (Listen) FRI John Aizlewood examines the oft derided genre of Progressive FRI Rock, a catch all term for a variety of bands from Pink FRI Floyd to Yes to Hawkwind to Jethro Tull. He talks to Floyd's FRI David Gilmour, Rick Wakeman of Yes and Keith Emerson, and FRI ponders the subtle difference between 'Prog' and FRI 'Progressive', before asking the difficult question - was FRI any of it any good? FRI FRI 07:00 Smelling of Roses b00f86x3 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 4 FRI Rosie relaunches Radio Gleam in a bid for older listeners FRI and takes pity on a DJ. Stars Prunella Scales. From August FRI 2003. FRI FRI 07:30 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music b049xyhy (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Since the mid-1980s, aspiring singer/songwriter, John FRI Shuttleworth has been posting audio cassettes of his "finest FRI songs to date" to pop stars throughout the land, in the hope FRI that someone would record his material. But all to no avail. FRI However, the BBC has very kindly given John a series and FRI asked him to invite pop starts to bring their music to his FRI Sheffield home. So it is that Chas and Dave, Heaven 17, FRI Toyah Wilcox and Leee John find themselves in John's lounge FRI having tea with wife Mary, being flirted with by Mary's FRI friend Joan and hassled by John's agent Ken Worthington, as FRI they try and perform not only one their greatest hits but FRI more importantly, one of John's. FRI This week John is in a fluster as Kirsty the scottie dog has FRI eaten the tape with all John's jingles on it - so he's FRI having to play them all live and is worried they may all go FRI wrong. FRI Mary has been complaining that the music is too loud - FRI although she doesn't seem to mind when Heaven 17 are FRI playing. And is that a lemon drizzle cake she's brought for FRI them? FRI As Glenn and Martyn settle down to play one of their songs, FRI Come Live With Me, Joan Chitty arrives and quite likes the FRI sound of the title. So while John is fretting that the maths FRI in the song lyrics are all wrong, Joan asks if the boys can FRI give her a massage to ease her sciatica. FRI All this, along with Tina Charles telling John how to sing FRI very high in Top Tips on the Telephone, leaves time short FRI for Ken in the Konservatory - will it happen? FRI Written and Performed by Graham Fellows with special guests FRI Heaven 17 and Tina Charles. FRI Producer: Dawn Ellis FRI A Chic Ken production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Performer: Graham Fellows FRI Interviewed Guest: Martyn Ware FRI Interviewed Guest: Glenn Gregory FRI Interviewed Guest: Tina Charles FRI Writer: Graham Fellows FRI Producer: Dawn Ellis FRI FRI 08:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01rsgrq (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI Eric and Ern get the bird from Percy Edwards, and Nelson FRI gets a phone call from Lady Hamilton. From September 1976. FRI FRI 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jykd (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Leak FRI The author gets obsessed with his wife's sense of smell. FRI Stars Ian Carmichael and Charlotte Mitchell. From September FRI 1979. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00ksvt5 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI John Lloyd and Sean Lock invite guests Tim Minchin, Philip FRI Pullman and Clive James to add to the collection. From June FRI 2009. FRI FRI 09:30 Trevor's World of Sport b00mzslp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI The sports agent's vain French football star client throws a FRI party and wishes he hadn't. Stars Neil Pearson. From January FRI 2006. FRI FRI 10:00 Jane Austen - Persuasion b007jtd1 (Listen) FRI Old Friends and New Meetings FRI Anne Elliott meets her fiance Fredrick Wentworth again after FRI eight years apart. Stars Juliet Stevenson and Tim Brierley. FRI FRI 10:50 Inheritance Tracks b04cb4nj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:05 on Sunday] FRI FRI 11:00 Come Away, Come Away! b00s6t4p (Listen) FRI Daredevil, by Michael Morpurgo FRI A reckless challenge leads to a dark discovery in a tale of FRI nature and brotherhood. FRI James Bryce reads 'Daredevil' by Michael Morpurgo. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI To mark 150 years since author J M Barrie was born, birth, FRI three leading writers for young people contribute stories FRI inspired by a chapter title from 'Peter Pan'. The authors FRI have been set the task of exploring the joys and the terrors FRI of childhood without sentimentality, much as Barrie did in FRI his original text. FRI Award-winning author and former Children's Laureate Michael FRI Morpurgo has written over 100 books including 'The Wreck of FRI the Zanzibar' and 'Kensuke's Kingdom'. The stage production FRI of his 2007 novel, 'War Horse' has just transferred to the FRI West End after an award-winning run at the National Theatre. FRI FRI 11:15 Roger McGough - Summer With Monika b00bws4x (Listen) FRI Dramatisation of poet Roger McGough's iconic, magical tale FRI of love in the 1960s. Stars Mark McGann and Katy Carmichael. FRI FRI 11:50 Roger McGough - Postscript: Summer With Monika FRI b00bwsdj (Listen) FRI Talking about the enigmatic muse for his 1960s magical poem FRI of love, Roger McGough reveals who Monika really was. FRI FRI 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01rsgrq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jykd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Falco b008ktyq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 My Wizard b0076xpc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 EM Forster - A Passage to India b007jybq (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI A remarkable gesture cements the friendship between Dr Aziz FRI and British principal, Cyril Fielding. Read by Samuel West. FRI Episode 5 of 15. FRI FRI 14:15 Sport and the British b01cjm4t (Listen) FRI War Games FRI Week five of the series that explores how sport made Britain FRI and Britain made sport. In this episode Clare Balding visits FRI The Imperial War Museum to discover the vital role sport has FRI played, both on the battle field and on the home front, FRI during both World Wars. She starts in the Hall of FRI Remembrance in front of John Singer Sargent's, Gassed, an FRI oil painting more than twenty feet long, depicting the FRI aftermath of a mustard gas attack during the First World FRI War, with a line of wounded soldiers walking towards a FRI dressing station. Yet in the background there are groups of FRI men playing football. As Prof. Tony Collins of De Montfort FRI University explains, sport became an essential part of army FRI life, alleviating the boredom and the terror, by 1916 there FRI was a football ground in each brigade area of the Western FRI Front. FRI During the Second World War, Prof Tony Mason explains the FRI importance of sport to those captured and detained in German FRI prisoner of war camps, with football, in particular being FRI used as a way of providing entertainment for troops FRI overseas. FRI The series was made in partnership with The International FRI Centre for Sport History and Culture at De Montfort FRI University, Leicester. FRI The Reader is Alun Raglan FRI Technical presentation: John Benton FRI Producer: Garth Brameld. FRI FRI 14:30 Winifred Holtby - South Riding b007jnl0 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI When tragedy strikes pupil Lydia, headmistress Sarah Burton FRI takes action. Stars Sarah Lancashire and Philip Glenister. FRI FRI 14:45 Michael Palin Diaries: Halfway to Hollywood b01q9zl1 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Lots of kissing, the rushes look good, and a career swerve FRI into world travel beckons. Michael Palin concludes his FRI memoirs. FRI FRI 15:00 Jane Austen - Persuasion b007jtd1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 15:50 Inheritance Tracks b04cb4nj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:05 on Sunday] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04b5zz0 (Listen) FRI Mel hears from a man who tastes words and an investigator FRI who tracks down missing moon rocks. FRI FRI 17:00 Ring Around the Bath b00p4yp8 (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Older Man FRI Patrick is delighted with Alison's new boyfriend, but what FRI about the rest of the family? Stars Duncan Preston. From FRI September 2003. FRI FRI 17:30 Smelling of Roses b00f86x3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00ksvt5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 Fry's English Delight b00d6jfx (Listen) FRI Series 1, Quotation FRI Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English FRI language. FRI Stephen examines the thought processes of those who compile FRI quotation dictionaries as well as those who use and abuse FRI them. Such compilers can wield unsuspected power, conferring FRI greatness on the most insignificant text. FRI FRI 19:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01rsgrq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jykd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Falco b008ktyq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 My Wizard b0076xpc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Come Away, Come Away! b00s6t4p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Roger McGough - Summer With Monika b00bws4x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 21:50 Roger McGough - Postscript: Summer With Monika FRI b00bwsdj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] FRI FRI 22:00 John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music b049xyhy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Party b011vg9k (Listen) FRI Series 2, Prison Ain't All That Bad FRI The student politicians of the new political Party use FRI prison-based TV shows as inspiration for forming their FRI policy on crime and punishment. Second series of a satirical FRI comedy written by Tom Basden. FRI Simon ..... Tom Basden FRI Duncan ..... Tim Key FRI Jared ..... Jonny Sweet FRI Mel ..... Ann Crilly FRI Phoebe ..... Katy Wix FRI Produced by Julia McKenzie. FRI FRI 23:00 The Simon Day Show b010mv50 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Tony Beckton FRI British comedy legend and star of The Fast Show, Down the FRI Line and Bellamy's People, Simon Day debut's his own Radio 4 FRI character comedy show. FRI Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The FRI Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. FRI Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The FRI Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show, FRI along with the back stage and front of house goings on at FRI the theatre itself. FRI Episode 2 of 6: Tony Beckton. Reformed violent criminal Tony FRI Beckton visits the Mallard Theatre to read from his memoirs FRI as part of his rehabilitation. FRI Tony Beckton / Peter ..... Simon Day FRI Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd FRI Goose ..... Felix Dexter FRI Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall FRI Stacey ..... Susan Harrison FRI Written by Simon Day FRI Produced by Colin Anderson. FRI FRI 23:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World b007v2y5 (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Future FRI The sci-fi star probes our destinies. With Richard Herring, FRI Stewart Lee and Tom Baker at Glasgow University. From July FRI 1993. FRI
18 July, 2014
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 19/07/2014 - 25/07/2014
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