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SAT SATURDAY 23 AUGUST 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Book at Beachtime b012216d (Listen) SAT Joanna Trollope - Daughters-in-Law, Episode 5 SAT Tensions rise as the truth about the suspected affair SAT emerges and Rachel makes plans for the future. Read by Jane SAT Whittenshaw. SAT SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama b015cslf (Listen) SAT The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Series 2, Episode 5 SAT Pepys plays a trick on Sir William by stealing his silver SAT tankard and sending an anonymous ransom note demanding SAT thirty shillings for its return. The diarist ends 1661 as he SAT began, worrying that he's spending too much money on going SAT to see plays and drinking wine. He makes a resolution to be SAT much more restrained in his pleasures next year. SAT Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall SAT Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways SAT Will . . . John Biddle SAT Captain Ferrers . . . Ewan Bailey SAT Sir William . . . Richard Mitchley SAT Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by SAT Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany SAT Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David SAT Miller. Violin and viola by Annika Gray, and recorders by SAT Alice Baxter. SAT Historical consultant: Liza Picard SAT Sound by Nigel Lewis SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 00:45 God's Architect b00xjv0n (Listen) SAT Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain SAT Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain: The architect SAT finds a new love, but his professional life declines and SAT personal misery beckons. Read by Haydn Gwynne. SAT SAT 01:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00s7dw0 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT Arthur Smith invites the audience into his home for comedy SAT and entertainment from Nine Below Zero, Phill Jupitus, Josh SAT Widdecombe and Marlon Davies. SAT SAT 01:30 Fry's English Delight b00m68s5 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Hallo! SAT Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the English SAT language. SAT Hallo! Stephen says 'goodbye' with a programme about SAT 'hallo', and how it came to be one of the world's favourite SAT words. SAT SAT 02:00 Agatha Christie b00qcjl3 (Listen) SAT Towards Zero, Episode 4 SAT Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective SAT novel. SAT Now Nevile is in the clear, suspicion has turned on Audrey SAT for the murder of Lady Tresselian. But no-one can find her, SAT and MacWhirter is convinced she's innocent. SAT Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville SAT MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion SAT Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook SAT Mary ...... Julia Ford SAT Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Kay ...... Lizzy Watts SAT Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox SAT Royde ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Sergeant ...... Matt Addis SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT 02:30 Ladybird, Ladybird b00765nt (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. The story of Ladybird children's books, SAT including the Peter and Jane series - what is the future for SAT the publishing company? With Clare Jenkins. From December SAT 2001. SAT SAT 03:00 Charles Dickens b007jnwx (Listen) SAT Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend, The Trap Springs SAT On his deathbed, Wrayburn proposes to Lizzie. Others also SAT prepare to meet their maker. Stars Simon Cadell and Pippa SAT Guard. SAT SAT 04:00 Lucy Wood - Diving Belles b019m333 (Listen) SAT Countless Stones SAT Questioning her past decisions, Rita sees her future bound SAT to the standing stones above her village. Read by Amanda SAT Lawrence. SAT SAT 04:15 Afternoon Drama b01l1dkp (Listen) SAT Atching Tan by Dan Allum SAT Atching Tan: A Gypsy Wife SAT Colourful and authentic drama set around the goings-on of SAT Long Summer Traveller Site. When young couple Charity and SAT Sol arrive on the site, their new neighbours Lovvie and SAT Nelius are forced to make some difficult decisions when they SAT discover Sol's dark secret. Starring Candis Nergarrd and SAT written by Traveller Dan Allum. SAT Written by Dan Allum SAT Produced/Directed by Charlotte Riches. SAT Credits SAT Lovvie: Candis Nergaard SAT Nelius: Damian Le Bas SAT Queenie: Patricia Keegan SAT Solomon: Danny Dalton SAT Charity: Sian Willett SAT Writer: Dan Allum SAT Director: Charlotte Riches SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches SAT SAT 05:00 After Henry b007jnh1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Cold SAT Sarah, her mother Eleanor and daughter Clare battle with SAT colds - and each other. Stars Prunella Scales. From August SAT 1986. SAT SAT 05:30 Bangers and Mash b0075gnn (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT The catering team are desperate for new orders, a new van SAT and a bookkeeping genius. Stars Gerard McDermott. From SAT January 1999. SAT SAT 06:00 Adam Dalgliesh - A Certain Justice b00lbgqz (Listen) SAT Gentleman Commander Adam Dalgliesh probes the murder of a SAT brilliant criminal lawyer. PD James thriller starring Philip SAT Franks and Geraldine James. SAT SAT 07:30 Yes Yes Yes b00t8xfp (Listen) SAT The Last Stand SAT John Rawling relives the cricket-packed drama of the second SAT Test between England and West Indies at Lord's in 1963. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00qfzcw (Listen) SAT Open Sesame SAT Konnie Huq looks back at four decades of Sesame Street, the SAT experimental American children's television show which mixed SAT radical educational techniques with extraordinary subject SAT matter and subversive humour. SAT SAT 09:00 The Big Steptoe Radio Show: Ray Galton and Alan SAT Simpson b007jwm9 (Listen) SAT The men behind the legendary rag-and-bone men comedy, SAT writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, present their favourite SAT Steptoe and Son episodes. SAT This includes the very first episode, 'The Offer', SAT originally featured in the first series of BBC1 TV's SAT long-running 'Comedy Playhouse'. All ten episodes were SAT penned by Ray and Alan. The series was seen as a sweetener SAT for the writers, who'd recently parted company with Tony SAT Hancock. Despite the series of one-offs containing several SAT strong concepts, 'The Offer' was the only one to progress SAT from pilot to development. This aired in January 1962, SAT followed by the first Steptoe series in June. SAT Revealing how the series was created, the duo also explain SAT why it prompted concerns in Parliament. SAT Featuring: The Offer (03/7/66), Pilgrim's Progress SAT (18/06/67), Crossed Swords (30/07/67), The Desperate Hours SAT (26/5/74), Oh What a Beautiful Mourning (15/02/76), and SAT Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard (28/03/76) SAT Produced by Sarah Wade. First broadcast in 2006. SAT SAT 12:00 Kate Chopin - The Awakening Omnibus b04f80fz (Listen) SAT Made for 4 Extra. Pippa Bennett-Warner and Petra Letang star SAT in this steamy adaptation of the Kate Chopin novel which SAT shocked America in 1899. SAT SAT 13:15 Baldi b007k4nn (Listen) SAT Series 4, The Devil's Eye SAT The priestly sleuth is confronted by shipwrecks and a remote SAT Irish island community's mysterious past. Stars David SAT Threlfall. SAT SAT 14:00 The Navy Lark b00bzfsf (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Missing Jeep SAT Pertwee is in a pickle over Commander Shaw's inspection. SAT Stars Dennis Price, Jon Pertwee and Leslie Phillips. From SAT March 1959. SAT SAT 14:30 Doctor in the House b007jt0n (Listen) SAT In the Wards SAT Unleashed on the patients, the medics are unprepared for the SAT formidable Sister Virtue. Stars Richard Briers. From July SAT 1968. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00qfzcw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Adam Dalgliesh - A Certain Justice b00lbgqz (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00x9zdj (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas collates policies suggested SAT by the studio audience to add to his People's Manifesto. SAT These policies are intended to improve our world, nation or SAT just our own lives, with tonight's agenda including: SAT 1. 50% Minimum Participation in Elections SAT 2. Converting Fast Food into Renewable Gas SAT 3. Imposing an Earning Cap of £30k on All Bank Employees SAT Plus there are plenty of "any other business?" suggestions SAT from the studio audience. SAT Mark researches ideas sent in advance of the show SAT Mark finds out how to convert fast-food into fuel SAT Converting fast-food into biogas sounded like quite a wacky SAT idea, until Mark called an expert. A conversation with SAT Stephen McCulloch, of Chesterfield BioGas, introduced the SAT prospect of passenger-powered buses and biogas filling up to SAT 50% of our national gas needs. SAT SAT 18:00 Space Force b007jmc2 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Silver Strangers SAT After drifting without power, the crew receives a mysterious SAT message and spots a spacecraft. Stars Nicky Henson and Barry SAT Foster. SAT SAT 18:30 Ben Moor - Undone b00f6ddb (Listen) SAT Series 2, Unrelated SAT Edna interrogates the Prince and takes on the public SAT information porn industry. Comic sci-fi saga with Alex SAT Tregear and Sophie Duval. SAT SAT 19:00 The Big Steptoe Radio Show: Ray Galton and Alan SAT Simpson b007jwm9 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Ross Noble Goes Global b007jvsn (Listen) SAT Series 1, South Africa SAT The comedian tries to climb up Table Mountain and discovers SAT that Cape Town has some very posh monkeys. From April 2002. SAT SAT 22:30 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe SAT b04f825c (Listen) SAT 2014, Episode 1 SAT Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in SAT Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe and SAT beyond. SAT SAT 22:35 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren b00bxv1v (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Poems, songs and relaxation tips from Ivor Cutler and SAT friends. Including fishy verse and how to jazz up mince. SAT From May 1994. SAT SAT 22:50 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe SAT b04f828m (Listen) SAT 2014, Episode 2 SAT Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in SAT Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe and SAT beyond. SAT SAT 22:55 Chris Addison's Civilization b00dy51z (Listen) SAT Cities and Laws SAT The thinking idiot's anthropologist explains flaws in the SAT urban democratic system. With Geoffrey McGivern. From April SAT 2006. SAT SAT 23:25 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe SAT b04f831q (Listen) SAT 2014, Episode 3 SAT Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in SAT Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe and SAT beyond. SAT SAT 23:30 Richard Herring's Objective b016wzrz (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Golliwog SAT Should the golliwog be reclaimed, or consigned to the SAT dustbin of history? With Emma Kennedy and Ava Vidal. From SAT November 2011. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 AUGUST 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Space Force b007jmc2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Ben Moor - Undone b00f6ddb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b00qfzcw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Kate Chopin - The Awakening Omnibus b04f80fz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Baldi b007k4nn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Adam Dalgliesh - A Certain Justice b00lbgqz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00x9zdj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Omnibus b0162jg4 (Listen) SUN 1661 SUN In an attempt to save money, Pepys makes a new year SUN resolution to cut back on theatre-going and drinking. He SUN fails for a whole year. Kris Marshall returns as the famous SUN diarist. SUN SUN 07:15 The Piano Lesson b0075q3w (Listen) SUN Behind Bars SUN Jeremy Nicholas finds out what learning the piano means to SUN Paul, a prisoner serving a life sentence for murder. From SUN November 1999. SUN SUN 07:30 Chain Reaction b00mtpl4 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Jack Dee interviews Jeremy Hardy SUN The two comedians get chatting in the tag-team talk show, SUN where this week's guest is next week's interviewer. From SUN February 2007. SUN SUN 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b007jynj (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Will a compromising photo put Tommy Handley's SUN political ambitions at risk? With Dorothy Summers. From SUN November 1944. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00b1p9t (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims go beyond Round SUN the Horne, with nude announcer Douglas Smith. From April SUN 1969. SUN SUN 09:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time b00qmbkt (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much SUN loved BBC institution Childen's Hour, which ran from 1922 to SUN 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved with SUN Children's Hour as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. SUN Her selection in this edition: SUN The Big Pond: The Unhappy Dragon, by Bertha Lonsdale. A SUN short play first broadcast in 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. SUN With Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Brian Trueman. SUN The Fishing Bear, written and read by Bob Congdon. From SUN 1954. SUN Toytown Plays: The Conversion of Mr. Growser, by SG Hulme SUN Beaman. The Parade of the Tin Soldiers introduces a Toytown SUN adventure featuring Larry the Lamb and Dennis the Dachshund. SUN With Derek McCulloch, Arthur Wyan, Ralph de Kohan, Felix SUN Felton, Norman Shelley and Stephen Jack. From 1951. SUN Produced by Peter Reed. SUN SUN 10:00 The Reunion b00tf9bl (Listen) SUN The Dome SUN Sue MacGregor gathers together the key people responsible SUN for building, co-ordinating and realising the creative SUN concepts that became The Millennium Dome at Greenwich. SUN Following Labour's landslide election victory in May 1997, SUN the Prime Minister Tony Blair was determined to change the SUN way Britain saw itself and he seized upon the idea - mooted SUN under the outgoing Tory government - to have a major event SUN to celebrate the forthcoming new millennium. SUN After much discussion and heated argument it was decided to SUN build a dome on the site of a disused gasworks on East SUN London's Greenwich peninsular. It would stage a grand SUN millennium extravaganza and house a year-long exhibition to SUN rival the 1951 Festival of Britain. SUN It was a hugely controversial decision from the very start, SUN and became a project rife with argument, sackings and SUN constant flack from the press. SUN The person who took the brunt of the criticism was Chief SUN Executive Jennie Page, who was eventually sacked - shortly SUN after the opening night. This is the first time she has SUN spoken publically about her personal millennium experience. SUN Sue also hears some hitherto unreported and little known SUN stories of both the pain and the excitement of life under SUN the Dome. SUN Sue is joined by: SUN Jennie Page, the Dome's former Chief Executive. SUN Mike Davies, the flamboyant architect who designed the Dome SUN structure. SUN Lord Charles Falconer, the Minister for the Dome who SUN succeeded Peter Mandelson. SUN Eva Jiricna, designer of the Dome's 'Spirit Zone'. SUN Peter Higgins, who created the 'Play Zone'. SUN Producer: Dilly Barlow SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 10:45 Colin Dexter Short Stories b007lnpx (Listen) SUN When a special gun is auctioned, one collector is alarmed to SUN end up facing the wrong end of the barrel. Read by Joe SUN Dunlop. SUN SUN 11:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b01704sz (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 4 SUN From St Augustine in Florida, the American funny man SUN welcomes the Nashville Bluegrass Band and local vocalist JJ SUN Grey. From 2010. SUN SUN 12:00 The Diary of Samuel Pepys Omnibus b0162jg4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 The Piano Lesson b0075q3w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Dick Francis b007mw9r (Listen) SUN Enquiry SUN When a jockey is framed and loses his licence, he is SUN determined to clear his name. Thriller starring Tony Osoba, SUN Robert Lang and Bill Nighy. SUN SUN 15:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b007jynj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00b1p9t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b04f8bq2 (Listen) SUN Cave Girl, Liverpool and Accents SUN Mel's highlights from the past week on the 4 O'Clock Show, SUN including the wonderful whistling language of the Canary SUN Islands and the art of putting on a fireworks display. SUN SUN 17:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time b00qmbkt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein b00lblq5 (Listen) SUN The Green Hills of Earth SUN A fantastic tale about the heroic adventures of Rhysling, SUN the blind singer of the spaceways. Read by Adam Sims. SUN SUN 18:30 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k167 (Listen) SUN Episode 9 SUN With the new society on the attack, Robert Neville refuses SUN to leave his house. Read by Richard Matheson. SUN SUN 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b01704sz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b007jynj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00b1p9t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 The Reunion b00tf9bl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Colin Dexter Short Stories b007lnpx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Chain Reaction b00mtpl4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe SUN b04f8czm (Listen) SUN 2014, Episode 4 SUN Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in SUN Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe and SUN beyond. SUN SUN 22:35 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren b00cmjv9 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Alison O'Kill wants to read Ivor Cutler a poem, while SUN Murray-Orr can't think with the sun in his eyes. From May SUN 1994. SUN SUN 22:50 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe SUN b04f8czp (Listen) SUN 2014, Episode 5 SUN Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in SUN Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe and SUN beyond. SUN SUN 22:55 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b007jrq6 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Moscow SUN Cycling solo on a tandem, the inept student is Russia-bound, SUN fundraising for donkeys. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From SUN August 2002. SUN SUN 23:25 The Comedy Club at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe SUN b04f8czr (Listen) SUN 2014, Episode 6 SUN Arthur Smith looks back across the biggest arts festival in SUN Europe, with news, reviews and much more from the Fringe and SUN beyond. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b007lz6n (Listen) SUN Series 3, The Internet Date from Hell SUN Journalist Jon Ronson investigates the extraordinary story SUN of Mary Turner Thompson, who experienced the worst internet SUN date ever which lasted seven years and was to cause the SUN total devastation of her life. SUN Edinburgh-based Mary met and married a man who told her he SUN was a CIA agent. Jon visits her in Scotland and hears the SUN incredible twisting and turning love story of Will and Mary. SUN Will carried a gun and had to dash off to Israel at a SUN moment's notice; Mary was left holding the baby, never SUN knowing when he would come back, and was unable to contact SUN him. She even feared a terrorist attack on her home. But the SUN most bizarre twist was still to come. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 AUGUST 2014 MON MON 00:00 Short Stories by Robert Heinlein b00lblq5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k167 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Reunion b00tf9bl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Colin Dexter Short Stories b007lnpx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b007jynj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00b1p9t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Chain Reaction b00mtpl4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Dick Francis b007mw9r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time b00qmbkt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04f8g8h (Listen) MON Series 2, A Dream of Riches MON 4 Extra Debut. Detective Sergeant Dave Brook is back. Is a MON quiet student all he seems? What about Mr Carson's missing MON scrap? Stars Ray Brooks. MON MON 06:30 The Last Picture Show b0076xk5 (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. John Wilson meets behind-the-scenes staff and MON visitors to major art exhibitions in London, as they come to MON a close. From March 2006. MON MON 07:00 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b0075ng9 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON 4 Extra Debut. The lifestyle show takes on party food, MON reading and therapy. With Robert Duncan, Jan Ravens and MON Steve Punt. From September 1998. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b04dk891 (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 2 MON Hosted by the legendary Nicholas Parsons and recorded at the MON Edinburgh Festival - how hard can it be to talk for 60 MON seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation? Gyles MON Brandreth, Paul Merton and Sue Perkins find out. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 08:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k19l (Listen) MON My Stag Movie, pt 1 MON The veteran auditionee recalls how talent lurks in the MON unlikeliest places, or sometimes not at all. Stars Peter MON Jones. From July 1986. MON MON 08:30 The Navy Lark b007jsdx (Listen) MON Series 1, Operation Fag End MON As the top brass turn up for an inspection, 50,000 duty-free MON cigarettes are on their way to the island. Stars Leslie MON Phillips. From April 1959. MON MON 09:00 It's Your Round b00yz3t4 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format MON is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the MON panellists has brought along their own round for the others MON to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and MON unpredictable. MON This episode Arthur Smith, Lucy Montgomery, Tom MON Wrigglesworth and Will Smith battle it out to see who can MON beat each other at their own games. MON Find out the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the MON games they've brought along. What will Arthur make of Tom's MON "Re-wound, Sped Up Played Backwards"? How will Twitter-fan MON Will Smith get on with Lucy's "Twitter-witter-witter-who" MON game? And how much would it take for Tom Wrigglesworth to MON change his name to Adolf Hitler when he plays Arthur Smith's MON round? MON Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure MON everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. MON Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell MON Devised by Benjamin Partridge MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON 09:30 My First Planet b04fc5pq (Listen) MON Series 2, Day Trip to Terror! MON What better time for social media to kick in than on a MON dangerous search-and-rescue mission on the planet's surface? MON And just why is Lillian replacing her nose? MON MON 10:00 Jane Austen b008h3ns (Listen) MON Emma, Episode 1 MON Emma Woodhouse is a woman so blessed by life that she MON declares she will never marry. Stars Eve Best and Robert MON Bathurst. MON MON 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fbr (Listen) MON Shaft MON By Anne Enright. 4 Extra Debut. An awkward encounter between MON a suited American and a pregnant woman in a stuck lift. Read MON by the author. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b04f8fbd (Listen) MON Danny Wallace, Rodney P, Robin Hobb, Matthew Parker, Leo MON Leigh, Luke Sital-Singh, Bitter Ruin MON From 1946 until the end of his life, Ian Fleming lived for MON two months of every year at the house he built on Jamaica's MON north coast. All the Bond novels and stories were written MON here. In his new book Goldeneye, Matthew Parker tells Danny MON how for Fleming, Jamaica was the perfect mix of British MON old-fashioned imperial values, and of the dangerous and MON sensual; the same curious combination that made the Bond MON novels so appealing and successful. MON Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler MON is a chronicle of the final three years of Marty Reisman's MON life, a former international table tennis MON champion-turned-money player. Pursuing notoriety through his MON idiosyncratic lifestyle and motivated by his love of fame MON and Ping Pong, he inadvertently has to face his biggest MON fear: mortality. Film maker Leo Leigh chronicle Marty's MON complex mix of childlike excitement, eccentric narcissism MON and constant charm. MON Twenty years after the publication of classic novel MON Assassin's Apprentice, Robin Hobb returns to her best-loved MON characters with Fool's Assassin. One of the world's finest MON writers of epic fiction, Robin was raised in Alaska, where MON she learned how to raise a wolf cub, skin a moose and MON survive in the wilderness. MON Why hasn't the food-obsessed British public caught on to MON curry goat or ackee and salt fish like it has korma, kebab MON and chicken chow-mein? For Notting Hill Carnival weekend, MON Rodney P, the Godfather of UK Rap, talks to Nikki Bedi about MON his mission to get to the bottom of this multicultural MON mystery. MON With music from BITTER RUIN who perform Diggers from their MON album Waves and more music from LUKE SITAL-SINGH who MON performs Nothing Stays The Same from his album The Fire MON Inside MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Clips MON empty MON empty MON See all clips from Danny Wallace, Rodney P, Robin Hobb, MON Matthew Parker, Leo Leigh, Luke Sital-Singh, Bitter Ruin (2) MON Matthew Parker MON ‘Goldeneye: Where Bond was Born: Ian Fleming's Jamaica’is MON published by Random House and available now. MON Leo Leigh MON ‘Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler’ MON is available now on iTunes. MON Rodney P MON ‘Notting Hill Carnival: Hard Food’ is available on BBC MON iPlayer. MON Robin Hobb MON ‘Fool’s Assassin’ is published by Harper Collins and MON available now. MON Bitter Ruin MON ‘Waves’ is available now on Bitter Recordings. MON Luke Sital-Singh MON ‘The Fire Inside’ is available now on Parlophone UK. MON Luke is playing at Norwich Arts Centre on Monday 8th, The MON Haunt, Brighton on Tuesday 9th and Scala, London on MON Wednesday 10th September. Check his website for further MON dates. MON MON 12:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k19l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Navy Lark b007jsdx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04f8g8h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Last Picture Show b0076xk5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Beachtime b0125j6y (Listen) MON SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep, Episode 1 MON Each morning Christine relearns her personal history as she MON forgets it all when she sleeps. Debut thriller read by MON Stella Gonet. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01b9b7s (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 1 MON Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways return as Mr and Mrs MON Pepys in Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662 MON - a year which begins badly when Sam accidentally whacks MON Elizabeth in the eye with his elbow as he's waking up. On MON Twelfth Night they enjoy a feast, including eighteen mince MON pies, with their neighbours, Lord and Lady Batten, who are MON also celebrating their 18th wedding anniversary on that day. MON There's more entertainment on a night out at the theatre MON when they see Romeo and Juliet - but decide it's the worst MON play - and the worst acted - they've ever seen. MON Cast MON Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways MON Captain Holmes . . . Andrew Wincott MON Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley MON Lady Batten . . . Marilyn le Conte MON Will . . . John Biddle MON Captain Cook/Mr Saville . . . Matthew Gravelle MON Jane . . . Rebecca Newman MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON Samuel Pepys MON Samuel Pepys' Diary and Biography. MON MON 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00yqtxr (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Memoirs of Tory grandee and Thatcher adviser, Ferdinand MON Mount. Italy and mysteries of cold cream. Read by Oliver MON Ford Davies. MON MON 15:00 Jane Austen b008h3ns (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04fc6tb (Listen) MON Richard Hammond reads the next episode of Chitty Chitty Bang MON Bang Flies Again, Mel meets some unusual mummies, and MON listeners learn how to make some very tasty pancakes. MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b00fnfp3 (Listen) MON Series 2, There Goes the Bride MON Faith and Bill's wedding day has arrived. Can they manage to MON tie the knot? Stars Lynda Bellingham and James Bolam. From MON December 1989. MON MON 17:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b0075ng9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 It's Your Round b00yz3t4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b04fc6y4 (Listen) MON Mavis Nicholson and Toyah Willcox MON 4 Extra Debut. Tom Sutcliffe, Mavis Nicholson and Toyah MON Willcox discuss books by Anne Tyler, Ben Okri and F Scott MON Fitzgerald. From March 1998. MON The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald MON Publisher: Penguin MON The Famished Road by Ben Okri MON Publisher: Vintage MON Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler MON Publisher: Vintage. MON MON 19:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k19l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Navy Lark b007jsdx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04f8g8h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Last Picture Show b0076xk5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fbr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b04f8fbd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b04dk891 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 My First Planet b04fc5pq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00whwzs (Listen) MON Series 6, Psychiatry MON Edith quizzes Satan about The Fall, but Satan sees it more MON as The Push. Satanic sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From MON October 2007. MON MON 23:30 World of Pub b007v1dk (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON Dodgy Phil lays on an unusual awards ceremony to improve MON Barry and Garry's fortunes. Stars John Thomson. From January MON 1999. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 AUGUST 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Book at Beachtime b0125j6y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 15 Minute Drama b01b9b7s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00yqtxr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 It's Your Round b00yz3t4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b04fc6y4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04f8g8h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 The Last Picture Show b0076xk5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Jane Austen b008h3ns (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fbr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b04f8fbd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b00fnfp3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b0075ng9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fc958 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Two on the Run TUE DS Dave Brook finds himself pursuing a pair of foolish TUE students and fighting for a share of police resources. Stars TUE Ray Brooks. TUE TUE 06:30 The Storytellers b00770r5 (Listen) TUE Adrian Chiles investigates the growing ranks of Britain's TUE professional storytellers, guardians of our oral tradition TUE and performers of hundreds of ancient fables that resonate TUE with modern meaning. TUE TUE 07:00 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqjk (Listen) TUE The Charge of the Boys' Brigade TUE Miss Primrose is ordered to travel to South Africa and TUE murder General Cheeseman. With Alison Steadman. From TUE September 1988. TUE TUE 07:30 Meet David Sedaris b03lnprh (Listen) TUE Series 4, #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad TUE One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC TUE Radio 4 doing what he does best. TUE This week, in "#2 to Go", a trip to China does not work out TUE well for David - especially on the food front. TUE The second story is called "Innocents Abroad" and tackles TUE the tricky tightrope of "going native" when learning a TUE foreign language. TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Clips TUE empty TUE empty TUE See all clips from #2 to Go; Innocents Abroad (2) TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Sedaris TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE Writer: David Sedaris TUE TUE 08:00 The Goon Show b007jpcq (Listen) TUE The Space Age TUE Neddy and Crun attempt to launch Min into space, but she TUE gets stuck up the chimney. Stars Spike Milligan. From TUE November 1957. TUE TUE 08:30 Doctor in the House b007jt20 (Listen) TUE Our First Operation TUE Sir Lancelot Spratt causes alarm for medic Simon Sparrow in TUE the operating theatre. Stars Richard Briers. From July 1968. TUE TUE 09:00 Who Goes There? b007w4f8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Martin Young's famous people quiz. With Francis Wheen, Fred TUE Housego, Polly Toynbee and Miles Kington. From July 1998. TUE TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007jsn0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, 2nd October 1799 TUE John Sheets makes a welcome arrival and a game of cricket is TUE proposed. Lakeland poets parody with Simon Callow. From June TUE 1987. TUE TUE 10:00 Jane Austen b008h4xg (Listen) TUE Emma, Episode 2 TUE A ball, a picnic and a marriage proposal. Concluding part of TUE classic novel with Eve Best, Tom Hollander and Robert TUE Bathurst. TUE TUE 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fc5 (Listen) TUE Tiger Man TUE By Mimi Thebo. As the second Gulf War erupts, Simon wants to TUE 'retard thought implantation'. Read by Stephen Perring. TUE TUE 11:15 John Graham - Resting b01p7j2n (Listen) TUE Murder, theft and romance in a home for elderly actors. TUE Stars Googie Withers, Wendy Hiller, Michael Dennison and TUE Jimmy Jewel. TUE TUE 12:00 The Goon Show b007jpcq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Doctor in the House b007jt20 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fc958 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Storytellers b00770r5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Beachtime b0125m78 (Listen) TUE SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep, Episode 2 TUE Losing her memory when she sleeps, Christine's doctor has TUE suggested keeping a journal could help her. Read by Stella TUE Gonet. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01b9jnw (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 2 TUE In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of Pepys' diary for 1662, TUE Sam wants to go on a jaunt to Portsmouth with Captain Cook - TUE a trip combining navy business with pleasure. But Elizabeth TUE is not so keen on him going without her, especially as he TUE insists on sending her away from London to the country where TUE she'll get no visitors. On Sam's return they see a puppet TUE show at Covent Garden, and catch up on court gossip with TUE Lord Sandwich - the new Queen is about to arrive from TUE Portugal but the King is still spending most nights with his TUE mistress, Lady Castlemaine. TUE CAST TUE Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall TUE Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways TUE Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley TUE Sir William Coventry . . . Andrew Wincott TUE Jane . . . Rebecca Newman TUE Captain Cook . . . Matthew Gravelle TUE Mr Hollier . . . Gareth Pierce TUE Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson TUE Will . . . John Biddle TUE Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by TUE Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany TUE Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David TUE Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by TUE Alice Baxter. TUE Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE Sound by Nigel Lewis TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00yrshz (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Shooting with father leads to farce and tragedy. Tory TUE grandee Ferdinand Mount's memoir, read by Oliver Ford TUE Davies. TUE TUE 15:00 Jane Austen b008h4xg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04fcczd (Listen) TUE Inventions galore on today's show as Mel visits the British TUE Inventions Show and hears about how some familiar things TUE were invented. Plus a visit to the workshop of a goldsmith. TUE TUE 17:00 Up the Garden Path b0089kjs (Listen) TUE Series 3, New Men TUE Awkward moments for Izzy with a new school colleague, and TUE she can't forget Bill. Stars Imelda Staunton. From November TUE 1993. TUE TUE 17:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqjk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Who Goes There? b007w4f8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 18:30 Musical Legends b016wzww (Listen) TUE Gerry Marsden TUE 1/1 Gerry and the Pacemakers made pop history when their TUE first three singles reached the top of the pop charts in the TUE 1960's. TUE Signed by Brian Epstein their first single 'How Do You Do TUE It' was originally given to The Beatles but the Fab Four TUE decided against it and the song, which was recorded in the TUE famous Abbey Road Studio in London, launched Gerry and the TUE Pacemakers in 1963. Later that year 'I Like It' and 'You'll TUE Never Walk Along' secured their place in pop history. TUE The group featured in the film Ferry Cross The Mersey which TUE showed the sights and sounds of Liverpool at the time. The TUE group's leader Gerry Marsden wrote the title song which was TUE a top ten hit for the band. TUE Gerry went on to star on the West End Stage in Charlie Girl TUE with Anna Neagle and Derek Nimmo. TUE Gerry's still touring and playing the hits and will be TUE appearing this month in Perth, Glasgow and Aberdeen. TUE Talking to Tom Morton, Gerry recalls his friendship with TUE John Lennon, those extraordinary days when they topped the TUE pop charts and Tom asks him how, after nearly fifty years in TUE the business , how do you do it? TUE Gerry & The Pacemakers - Ferry Cross The Mersey TUE TUE 19:00 The Goon Show b007jpcq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Doctor in the House b007jt20 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fc958 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Storytellers b00770r5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fc5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 John Graham - Resting b01p7j2n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Meet David Sedaris b03lnprh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010t5wm (Listen) TUE Series 4, Ayabassa Alan TUE More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, TUE courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. TUE Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli, TUE Fags, Mags & Bags has proved a hit with the Radio 4 audience TUE with this series picking up a Writers' Guild nomination for TUE best comedy in 2011. TUE In this episode, which guest stars Kevin Eldon, the new TUE dance craze Ayabassa sweeps the town. Meanwhile Dave finds a TUE new friend in the shape of the local doctor which puts TUE Ramesh's nose out. TUE So join the staff of Fags, Mags and Bags in their tireless TUE quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke TUE with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. TUE Ramesh Mahju has built up the business over the course of TUE thirty years, and is a firmly entrenched feature of the TUE local area. However, he does apply the "low return" rules of TUE the shop to all other aspects of his life. TUE He is ably assisted by his shop sidekick Dave, a TUE forty-something underachiever who shares Ramesh's love of TUE the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave. TUE Then of course there are Ramesh's sons, Sanjay and Alok, TUE both surly and not particularly keen on the old school TUE approach to shopkeeping. But they are natural successors to TUE the business and Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly TUE wisdom onto them - whether they like it or not. TUE Cast: TUE Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave ..... Donald Mcleary TUE Sanjay ..... Omar Raza TUE Alok ..... Susheel Kumar TUE Dr Southwell ..... Kevin Eldon TUE Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth TUE Mrs Armstrong ..... Maureen Carr TUE Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo TUE Bra Jeff ..... Steven McNicol TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Kevin Eldon on Fags, Mags and Bags TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04g4mwr (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Aisling Bea chats TUE to Sharon Horgan. TUE TUE 23:00 The Maltby Collection b00ct1wk (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 TUE Senior museum staff head to a conference on the Isle of TUE Wight, leaving Rod in charge. Stars Geoffrey Palmer. From TUE July 2007. TUE TUE 23:30 And Now In Colour b007jscz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Stately Home TUE The team take the audience on a posh day out. Starring Tim TUE de Jongh, William Vandyck and Tim Firth. From January 1991. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 AUGUST 2014 WED WED 00:00 Book at Beachtime b0125m78 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 15 Minute Drama b01b9jnw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00yrshz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Who Goes There? b007w4f8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Musical Legends b016wzww (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fc958 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 The Storytellers b00770r5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Jane Austen b008h4xg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fc5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 John Graham - Resting b01p7j2n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Up the Garden Path b0089kjs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqjk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fcx1d (Listen) WED Series 2, A Meeting With Anna WED The tension is showing between Dave Brook and Sam Kelly. WED Meanwhile Anna asks for help. Can she be trusted? Starring WED Ray Brooks. WED WED 06:30 School of Rock b0076ypk (Listen) WED Folk, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll WED 4 Extra Debut. Andy Kershaw goes back to Leeds University to WED see how jazz, folk and rock went to college. With Pete WED Townshend. From June 2006. WED WED 07:00 An Actor's Life for Me b00rzqpw (Listen) WED Series 3, The Police Farce WED Robert Wilson is acting in a disorderly manner. Stars John WED Gordon Sinclair and Gina McKee. From January 1993. WED WED 07:30 Dead Ringers b04dn1ry (Listen) WED Series 12, Episode 4 WED After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning WED impressions show is back with a new cast of characters. WED No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show WED takes down every programme, institution and politician you WED hold dear. WED Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis WED MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. WED Producer: Bill Dare. WED Credits WED Performer: Jon Culshaw WED Performer: Jan Ravens WED Performer: Duncan Wisbey WED Performer: Duncan Macleod WED Performer: Debra Stevenson WED Producer: Bill Dare WED WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way b007jr1v (Listen) WED Series 3, Not to Be Unwrapped the Burkiss Way WED Queen Victoria complains, and all is revealed in Upstairs WED Downstairs. With Chris Emmett and Fred Harris. From December WED 1977. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00f6r5f (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED A trendy couple, and a two-headed giant. Sketches and songs WED with John Cleese, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. From October WED 1965. WED WED 09:00 Dilemma b017c9pp (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical WED wringer in this show show in which there are no "right" WED answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. WED This edition features comedians Nick Revell and Danielle WED Ward, journalist Grace Dent, and the lead singer of the WED Kaiser Chiefs, Ricky Wilson. They discuss such quandaries as WED "Would you let an annoying colleague take credit for your WED work if it meant they would get a job elsewhere" and "Would WED you take part in a sham marriage?", and they solve some WED Dilemmas from the audience. The show was devised by WED award-winning stand-up and writer Danielle Ward (The News WED Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED Credits WED Presenter: Sue Perkins WED Panellist: Nick Revell WED Panellist: Danielle Ward WED Panellist: Grace Dent WED Panellist: Ricky Wilson WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful b007jv5j (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED Ad man Ken Handley faces his own emergency when he is WED coerced into a Samaritans campaign. Stars Martin Jarvis. WED From March 1984. WED WED 10:00 David Cook - Walter Now b00gh9dg (Listen) WED by David Cook. In 1982 Channel 4 launched with "Walter", WED directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian McKellen as a WED man with learning difficulties. More than 25 years later WED award-winning writer David Cook brings us up to date with WED Walter's life and Ian McKellen recreates his extraordinary WED performance. WED Walter.....Ian McKellen WED Steph.....Becky Hindley WED Mr Herd.....Malcolm Tierney WED Mary.....Anna-Marie Heslop WED Bernard.....Robert Londsdale WED Terry.....Gunnar Cauthery WED Tom.....Edmund Davies WED Mrs Hall.....Jill Cardo WED Boy.....Ceallach Spellman WED Director Claire Grove WED In November 1982, a Channel 4 launched with "Walter" by WED David Cook, directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian WED McKellen as a man with learning difficulties. It was an WED outstandingly truthful social commentary, heartbreaking and WED thought provoking. More than 25 years later award-winning WED writer David Cook brings us up to date with Walter's life in WED 'Walter Now' and Sir Ian McKellen recreates his WED extraordinary performance. WED Walter is now a pensioner. Following the death of his mother WED Walter spent many years living in a psychiatric hospital. WED When that was closed down he moved to hostel accommodation WED where he is isolated and lonely. When his support worker WED hears of a house share with three others he suggests Walter. WED But Walter is twice the age of the rest. Will they accept WED him? Will he cope with independent living? Will they WED integrate with the community around them? WED Sir Ian McKellen is best known for Gandalf in The Lord of WED the Rings. Other recent films include The Da Vinci Code and WED The X-Men. His portrayal of King Lear for the RSC in 2006-7 WED was much acclaimed and was released on DVD in January 2009. WED David Cook is a stage and television actor who began to WED write novels in the early 1970s. WED WED 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fcp (Listen) WED Putting It Across WED By Matt Harvey. Can Colin command authority when he becomes WED the manager of an over-35s amateur football team? Read by WED the author. WED WED 11:15 Annie Caulfield - On the Field b01pkmq6 (Listen) WED Craig has joined the army to get away from football, but WED somehow the game has followed him to Basra. Stars Daniel WED Abelson. WED WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way b007jr1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00f6r5f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fcx1d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 School of Rock b0076ypk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Beachtime b0125mth (Listen) WED SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep, Episode 3 WED Losing her memory when she sleeps, Christine has tracked WED down an old friend to try and recall her past. Read by WED Stella Gonet. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01bb7jc (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 3 WED In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of 1662, Samuel witnesses WED the death of Henry Vane, a Puritan executed after an unfair WED trial. At home he tends to his appearance, by having Jane WED comb out his hair which is 'foul with powdering and other WED troubles', and bathe his feet in herbs. There is much WED discussion of the new Queen's poor fashion sense - she wears WED old fashioned farthingales and has a hairstyle not seen in WED England for years. Elizabeth, meanwhile, appears to be going WED deaf - until Mr Hollier, the doctor, comes to the rescue. WED CAST WED Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall WED Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways WED Henry Vane/Swan . . . Matthew Gravelle WED Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson WED Jane . . . Rebecca Newman WED Mr Hollier . . . Gareth Pierce WED Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by WED Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany WED Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David WED Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by WED Alice Baxter. WED Historical consultant: Liza Picard WED Sound by Nigel Lewis WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00yrw87 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED After a letter from the bank manager, Ferdinand needs WED employment. The writer and politician's memoir read by WED Oliver Ford Davies. WED WED 15:00 David Cook - Walter Now b00gh9dg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04fd4q2 (Listen) WED Mel visits the Museum of Flight and learns how to fly, meets WED the Red Arrows and learns about ejector seats. Plus, sing WED along with the man who wrote the music for Mary Poppins. WED WED 17:00 Hats Off b00n4901 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Maureen Lipman compiles and reinterprets monologues, letters WED and songs originally written and performed by Joyce WED Grenfell. WED WED 17:30 An Actor's Life for Me b00rzqpw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 Dilemma b017c9pp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b00769n0 (Listen) WED Style WED 4 Extra Debut. Novelists Richard Francis and Michael WED Bracewell and former Design Museum director Alice Rawsthorn WED debate 'style'. From September 2002. WED Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers of fact and WED fiction: new talent and established names. In the context of WED a discussion of one of the ideas and pre-occupations of our WED times, each presents a piece on this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2002. WED WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way b007jr1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00f6r5f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fcx1d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 School of Rock b0076ypk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fcp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Annie Caulfield - On the Field b01pkmq6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Dead Ringers b04dn1ry (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Elvenquest b01616lj (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED When Sam is left behind to "guard the stuff" whilst the WED others are off killing the Man-munching Giant of Rankor he WED is accosted by a beautiful maiden, Eirwen, who has been kept WED captive in the giant's castle and takes Sam to be her WED rescuer. She promptly proposes, throwing the future of the WED Questers' Fellowship into jeopardy. WED Meanwhile, Lord Darkness' attempts to conquer Lower Earth WED take a new turn when Kreech discovers an ancient prophesy WED enabling Lord Darkness to create the "UnChosen One", an evil WED spirit that is the only being that can defeat the Chosen WED One. Problem is, it means Lord Darkness has to impregnate a WED hideous, misshapen creature. If only there was one of those WED close to hand... WED Starring: WED Darren Boyd as Vidar WED Kevin Eldon as Kreech/Dean WED Martha Howe-Douglas as Eirwen WED Dave Lamb as Amis/The Chosen One WED Stephen Mangan as Sam WED Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness WED and Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea WED The producer is Sam Michell. WED WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths b007m950 (Listen) WED John Shuttleworth's Open Mind, Vampires WED Sheffield's premier singer-songwriter goes in search of the WED blood-suckers of Whitby, with Fame Academy's Alistair WED Griffin. From April 2006. WED WED 23:30 Sarah at the Stand b014qt9s (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Sarah Millican is in Edinburgh for stand-up and backstage WED chat with Stephen Carlin and Jim Jefferies. From October WED 2010. WED WED 23:45 Poets' Tree b00srg4q (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Paul Hamilton looks at pop music's poetic merits, and a WED tribute to an unheralded genius. Stars Kevin Eldon. From WED April 2008. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 AUGUST 2014 THU THU 00:00 Book at Beachtime b0125mth (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 15 Minute Drama b01bb7jc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00yrw87 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Dilemma b017c9pp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b00769n0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fcx1d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 School of Rock b0076ypk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 David Cook - Walter Now b00gh9dg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fcp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Annie Caulfield - On the Field b01pkmq6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Hats Off b00n4901 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 An Actor's Life for Me b00rzqpw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fgp85 (Listen) THU Series 2, Contract to Kill THU Maxton finds himself in line for a possible promotion, while THU Brook gets a visit from a mystery woman. Starring Ray THU Brooks. THU THU 06:30 School of Rock b0076ysk (Listen) THU From Glory Days to Disco THU Andy Kershaw investigates how the arrival of punk and disco THU affected the student music scene. With Captain Sensible. THU From June 2006. THU THU 07:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b007jrfl (Listen) THU Series 1, Focus THU Jason reckons his cheating ex-girlfriend wants him back, but THU he can't forgive her. Stars Dominic Monaghan. From September THU 1999. THU THU 07:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qjb1y (Listen) THU Series 1, Equal Marriage THU In a brand new series for Radio 4, News Quiz favourite Susan THU Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. THU This week, she examines the current hot political topic of THU Equal Marriage from a personal perspective. THU When Susan was younger, she thought marriage was silly. A THU patriarchal institution which she would never buy into. That THU was until she grew up, fell in love and wanted more than THU anything to get married - except she couldn't. THU Susan relates her own personal experiences on this matter; THU including the minutiae of the legislation governing her THU recent civil partnership ceremony, as well as examining the THU well-trodden arguments against the issue. THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU Clip THU empty THU Credits THU Performer: Susan Calman THU Writer: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU THU 08:00 Parsley Sidings b007jp7p (Listen) THU Series 2, A Night Out THU A stranded railway passenger sparks a chain of disasters. THU Stars Arthur Lowe, Kenneth Connor and Liz Fraser. From THU October 1973. THU THU 08:30 Take It From Here b01b1s9l (Listen) THU From 26/03/1958 THU The 10th anniversary show, with a Pygmalion spoof and the THU Operatic Weather Forecast. Stars Jimmy Edwards. From March THU 1958. THU THU 09:00 Too Much Information b00n1023 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU "Too Much Information" is a comedy about the idiosyncratic THU world of Tourist Information Offices. THU Jeff Rawle stars as Warren, the much put upon manager of THU Waft Tourist Information. The ancient northern town of Waft THU appears in the Lonely Planet Guide with the advice: "Don't THU bother". It has more people in the cemetery than living in THU it, is twinned with a town near Chernobyl and is most often THU visited by people using the toilet on the way to Alton THU Towers. So Waft Tourist Information Centre is hardly a hive THU of activity! But Warren along with the other members of the THU "Friends of Waft" each week attempt to solve the endless THU conundrum of how on earth they can attract visitors to Waft! THU In the first episode Waft Tourist Information staff attempt THU to justify a huge donation from the Heritage Lottery Fund THU with a hastily erected papier-mâchĂ© historical model - but THU it turns out disastrously sexual! THU Cast: THU WARREN ............................................ JEFF THU RAWLE THU DOUGLAS ................................. MALCOLM TIERNEY THU HEATHER........................................... LIZA THU SADOVY THU LUCY........................................... JOANNAH THU TINCEY THU BRYAN............................................ PAUL THU BARNHILL THU MR JEFFERSON............................ STEPHEN HOGAN THU Written by: Neil Warhurst THU Producer: Liz Webb. THU THU 09:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland b007v2f5 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU The comedian shares his thoughts on money and shopping. THU Stand-up and sketches with Dave Lamb. From August 2000. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b01pt998 (Listen) THU Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table, Episode 1 THU Janet Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public THU author. The author of twelve novels, four story collections, THU one book of poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even THU at the height of her success Frame shunned publicity, which THU had the effect of making the media and her readership even THU more intrusively interested. THU Frame's story is extraordinary. As her biographer Michael THU King said, "her family was an anvil on which disasters THU fell". But it was the issue of Frame's mental health which THU generated the most conjecture. To set the record straight THU about the circumstances of her committal to mental hospitals THU and being diagnosed with schizophrenia, in the early 80's THU Janet Frame wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled THU 'To The Island (1982), An Angel At My Table and The Envoy THU From Mirror City (both 1984). THU It was after the publication of "An Angel At My Table", at a THU time when several of her books had gone out of print, that THU Frame's literary status was cemented. When later the books THU were made into an award winning film by Jane Campion, her THU writing was introduced to an international audience. THU This two-part radio adaptation is by Anita Sullivan. THU With students from Houghton Valley School and Wellington THU High School, New Zealand THU Adapted for radio by - Anita Sullivan THU Music: Simon Russell THU Sound Design: David Thomas THU Production Assistants: Sarah Tombling and Kathy Caton THU Associate Producer: Andrew Foster (New Zealand) THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Janet as narrator: Lorraine Ashbourne THU Young Janet: Bella Goode THU Janet as a teenager: Anna Skellen THU Mother: Barbara Ewing THU Father: Denis Lill THU Miss Botting: Federay Holmes THU John Forrest: Mike Sengelow THU High School Girl: Brianna Cox THU High School Girl: Georgia Rippon THU Student: Tara Goulding-Weston-Webb THU Student: Geraldine Wilkins THU Myrtle: Isabel Stewart THU Poppy: Leila Barber THU Young Isabel: Molly Doyle THU Older Isabel: Celeste Wong THU Young Bruddie: Peter McKenzie THU Older Bruddie: William Alexander THU Writer: Anita Sullivan THU Director: Karen Rose THU Producer: Karen Rose THU THU 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fd3 (Listen) THU Enough Said THU By Philip Gross. Michael is worried that he might not be THU able to have children with his wife, but he has a plan. Read THU by Andrew Hilton. THU THU 11:15 Georgia Pritchett - Stay b007jw2n (Listen) THU A comedy about a dog-loving mum, her saint-obsessed daughter THU and a new doctor. Stars Sophie Thompson and Duncan Preston. THU THU 12:00 Parsley Sidings b007jp7p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Take It From Here b01b1s9l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fgp85 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 School of Rock b0076ysk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Beachtime b0125070 (Listen) THU SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep, Episode 4 THU In her quest to hold on to her memory, Christine recalls THU more of her past. But who can she trust? Read by Stella THU Gonet. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01bb9ch (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 4 THU In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662, Sir THU William Batten is having a storey added to his house - so THU Sam decides to keep up with the neighbours and do the same. THU Sir William is becoming tiresome in more ways than one - THU he's untidy in the office, and pays too much for materials. THU In August the Queen comes to town by barge and Samuel goes THU to watch - it's so busy and crowded he can't get a boat, THU even for 8 shillings. Then some scaffolding collapses and THU people are injured. Sam notes that the only person of THU 'quality' who tries to help is the King's mistress, Lady THU Castlemaine, who tends to an injured child. Sam is also THU worried about his new neighbour, Sir John Minnes, who keeps THU questioning him over their shared boundaries. THU CAST THU Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall THU Elizabeth Pepys . . Katherine Jakeways THU Jane . . . Rebecca Newman THU Sir William Batten . . . Richard Mitchley THU Sir John Minnes . . . Alun Raglan THU Captain Cook . . . Matthew Gravelle THU Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson THU Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by THU Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany THU Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David THU Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by THU Alice Baxter. THU Historical consultant: Liza Picard THU Sound by Nigel Lewis THU A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00ysn2n (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU A surprise new job at the heart of the Thatcher government. THU Tory grandee Ferdinand Mount's memoir, read by Oliver Ford THU Davies. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b01pt998 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04fgskw (Listen) THU Mel heads out with the cowboys of Madagascar, learns all THU about aerobatics with a stunt pilot, takes a tour of a THU submarine and meets a man who makes a living with Lego. THU THU 17:00 No Commitments b007jmst (Listen) THU Series 2, Frail Memories THU Sisterly sparring erupts when Anna organises a service for a THU friend. Stars Rosemary Leach and Josie Lawrence. From July THU 1993. THU Credits THU Actor: Ann Jobson THU THU 17:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b007jrfl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Too Much Information b00n1023 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b019fx9s (Listen) THU Series 26, Gracie Allen THU Matthew Parris is joined by the actress Emma Kennedy to THU explore the life of the American comedienne Gracie Allen. THU George Burns and Gracie Allen were a hugely successful stage THU act who went on to conquer the new media of radio and THU television. But, unusually for the time, it was Gracie who THU was getting all the laughs, whilst George played the THU straight man. For actress and comic Emma Kennedy, Gracie was THU a pioneering female comic who, with her energy, wit and THU "illogical logic", paved the way for the likes of Lucille THU Ball and Roseanne Barr. Professor Brian Ward provides the THU expert analysis. THU THU 19:00 Parsley Sidings b007jp7p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Take It From Here b01b1s9l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fgp85 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 School of Rock b0076ysk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fd3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Georgia Pritchett - Stay b007jw2n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qjb1y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Radio 9 b04fgtgy (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU An unusual travel diary, very dangerous racing and faking THU skiing downhill. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From THU July 2005. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04g4mwt (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Aisling Bea chats THU to Sharon Horgan. THU THU 23:00 At Home With The Snails b007k2xv (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU Alex is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice when his mum THU thinks she's pregnant. Stars Gerard Foster. From July 2001. THU THU 23:30 Think the Unthinkable b01mtkqn (Listen) THU Series 4, Be Happy THU The bumbling management consultants grapple with physical THU perfection for Phil's gym. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From THU October 2005. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 AUGUST 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Book at Beachtime b0125070 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 15 Minute Drama b01bb9ch (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00ysn2n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Too Much Information b00n1023 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b019fx9s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fgp85 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 School of Rock b0076ysk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b01pt998 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fd3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Georgia Pritchett - Stay b007jw2n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 No Commitments b007jmst (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b007jrfl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fgwcj (Listen) FRI Series 2, Four Faces of Crime FRI Brook and Harrison meet the eccentric Mr Parsons. Meanwhile, FRI a gruesome meat axe murder is investigated. Starring Ray FRI Brooks. FRI FRI 06:30 School of Rock b0076ywb (Listen) FRI Live at Leeds Again FRI Andy Kershaw is backstage as The Who return to play a gig at FRI Leeds University. With Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. FRI From June 2006. FRI FRI 07:00 Bangers and Mash b0075gv1 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI A health inspector calls. Will the catering team have to FRI halt pie production? Stars Jane Whittenshaw. From January FRI 1999. FRI FRI 07:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00xhzjc (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas, considers the blue-sky FRI political policy suggestions of the public. FRI This week's agenda: FRI 1) Nationalise British Music Festivals FRI 2) Abolish Stamp Duty FRI 3) Reduce Voting Age to 16 FRI Plus more weird and wonderful suggestions from the studio FRI audience, submitted as "Any Other Business". FRI Mark and the Red Rector FRI Mark meets up with Father Paul Butler to discuss the FRI theological arguments for bringing back St Mondays. FRI Can we bring back St. Monday? FRI One of the show's previous winning policies was that Mark FRI should bring back St. Mondays. This was the historical FRI practice of workers taking Mondays off, generally after FRI they'd enjoyed a particularly raucous weekend. But how to FRI bring it back? Mark decided he'd need the support of the FRI church and so headed to Deptford for a chat with Father Paul FRI Butler. FRI FRI 08:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b007qv81 (Listen) FRI Series 3, From 04/12/1977 FRI The legendary duo taste wine, pay tribute to marriage FRI guidance and head to the garden. With Anita Harris. From FRI December 1977. FRI FRI 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jzss (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Clock FRI The author and his wife Diana hear some bumps in the night. FRI Stars Ian Carmichael and Charlotte Mitchell. From October FRI 1979. FRI FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge b007js0s (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins grills Jack Docherty, FRI Pater Baynam, Armando Iannucci and Simon Pegg. From March FRI 2004. FRI FRI 09:30 Rent b04fh18w (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI It's a full moon, Ruby is away and Paul is lovelorn. Will FRI Maria's matchmaking succeed? Stars Patrick Barlow. From June FRI 1993. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b01q76l0 (Listen) FRI Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table, Episode 2 FRI The autobiography of Janet Frame, dramatised for radio by FRI Anita Sullivan. FRI Frame was New Zealand's best known but least public writer. FRI The author of 12 novels, four story collections, one book of FRI poetry and three volumes of autobiography, even at the FRI height of her success Frame shunned publicity - which had FRI the effect of making the media and her readership even more FRI intrusively interested. It was the issue of her mental FRI health which generated the most conjecture. FRI In her twenties she spent four and a half years in mental FRI hospitals and was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia. Her FRI writing saved her; the success of her first collection of FRI short stories (The Lagoon and Other Stories) convincing FRI doctors that she did not need a planned lobotomy. FRI To "set the record straight" about the circumstances of her FRI committal to mental hospitals, in the early 80's Janet Frame FRI wrote her autobiography; three volumes entitled 'To The FRI Is-land (1982) An Angel At My Table and The Envoy From FRI Mirror City (both 1984). It was after the publication of "An FRI Angel At My Table", at a time when several of her books had FRI gone out of print, that Frame's literary status was FRI cemented. FRI An Angel At My Table Episode 2 of 2 FRI In episode two, after a failed suicide attempt, Janet agrees FRI to a short period in hospital to recuperate. But the arrival FRI of her mother to take her home triggers a reaction in Janet FRI that will have calamitous repercussions for years to come. FRI All other roles were played by members of the cast. FRI With thanks to Houghton Valley School and Wellington High FRI School, New Zealand. FRI Adapted for radio by Anita Sullivan FRI Music - Simon Russell FRI Sound design - David Thomas FRI Productions assistants -Sarah Tombling and Kathy Caton FRI Associate producer - Andrew Foster (New Zealand) FRI Producer/Director - Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Janet Frame, the narrator: Lorraine Ashbourne FRI Janet Frame 22-38: Anna Skellen FRI Mother: Barbara Ewing FRI Father: Denis Lill FRI Miss Botting: Federay Holmes FRI June: Celeste Wong FRI John Forrest: Mike Sengelow FRI Patrick Riley: Ruairi Conaghan FRI Edwin: Richard Laing FRI Doctor Cawley: Richard Laing FRI El Vici: Daniel Philpott FRI Femin: Daniel Philpott FRI Catalina: Celia Meiras FRI Bruddie: William Alexander FRI Doctor Cump: William Alexander FRI Writer: Anita Sullivan FRI Director: Karen Rose FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI FRI 11:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fdm (Listen) FRI A Steady Chap FRI By Gillian Tindall. A daughter starts to worry after her FRI divorced mother meets a new man. Is he too good to be true? FRI Read by Clare Corbett. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b01ngrwp (Listen) FRI Andy Walker - The Man Who Jumped From Space FRI The real life story of Captain Joe Kittinger and Project FRI Excelsior. As jet planes flew higher and faster in the FRI 1950s, the USAF became increasingly worried about the safety FRI of flight crew who had to eject at high altitude. So Project FRI Excelsior was initiated to perfect a parachute system that FRI would allow a safe, controlled descent after a high-altitude FRI ejection. FRI Producer Gary Brown FRI Project Excelsior was initiated in 1958 to design a FRI parachute system that would allow a safe, controlled descent FRI after a high-altitude ejection. FRI To test the parachute system, staff at Wright Field built a FRI 200 ft (61 m) high helium balloon with a capacity of nearly FRI 3 million cubic feet (85,000 m³) that could lift an open FRI gondola and test pilot into the stratosphere. Joe Kittinger, FRI who was test director for the project, made three ascents FRI and test jumps. This is the story of the three jumps. FRI Credits FRI Joe Kittinger: Simon Lee Phillips FRI Beau: David Fleeshman FRI Stapp: Garrick Hagon FRI Bobby: Kerry Shale FRI Grubitz: Andrew Westfield FRI Technician: Hamilton Berstock FRI Writer: Andy Walker FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI FRI 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b007qv81 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jzss (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fgwcj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 School of Rock b0076ywb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Beachtime b0124v3t (Listen) FRI SJ Watson - Before I Go to Sleep, Episode 5 FRI As Christine struggles to regain her memory, who is the man FRI who calls himself Ben? Concluded by Stella Gonet. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01bbb68 (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Series 3, Episode 5 FRI In Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of the diary for 1662, FRI Samuel's brother, Tom, is in love and hoping to marry. But FRI he has exaggerated his income and after some toing and FRI froing, his fiancĂ©e breaks the engagement, much to Tom's FRI distress. Lord Sandwich tells Sam that there is hidden FRI treasure undiscovered in the Tower - and charges Samuel with FRI trying to find it. The year ends with Elizabeth unwell in FRI bed and Sam feeding her Christmas treats. FRI CAST FRI Samuel Pepys . . . Kris Marshall FRI Elizabeth Pepys . . . Katherine Jakeways FRI Lord Sandwich . . . Blake Ritson FRI Tom . . . Gareth Pierce FRI Mr Wade . . . Matthew Gravelle FRI Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by FRI Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David FRI Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by FRI Alice Baxter. FRI Historical consultant: Liza Picard FRI Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI A BBC Cymru Wales production directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 14:45 Ferdinand Mount - Cold Cream b00ysqf2 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI A dramatic moment in political history and a return to FRI damsons. Ferdinand Mount's memoir concluded by Oliver Ford FRI Davies. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b01q76l0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04fh1qs (Listen) FRI Mel Giedroyc meets a parachuting teddy bear, takes a trip FRI around the world in a camper van, visits the National Motor FRI Museum and cooks up a tasty tattie scone. FRI FRI 17:00 After Henry b007k2z7 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Bedside Manners FRI Poorly Sarah is in hospital and must cope with visits from FRI her mother and daughter. Stars Prunella Scales. From FRI September 1986. FRI FRI 17:30 Bangers and Mash b0075gv1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The 99p Challenge b007js0s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 Pioneers b00wmvmt (Listen) FRI Series 1, David Blunkett FRI 1/5 FRI David Blunkett talks about how failure wasn't an option FRI during his rise to political high office. FRI Blind from birth, he talks openly about the isolation of FRI attending boarding school from the age of four, as well as FRI the trauma of losing his father at the age of twelve. FRI Coming from a deprived background, David recognised very FRI quickly that his route out of poverty was through education FRI and against all odds, he graduated from Sheffield University FRI at the age of 22. FRI David went on to become the youngest-ever councillor on FRI Sheffield City Council, and climbed his way through the FRI political ladder to become the first ever blind Home FRI Secretary. FRI FRI 19:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b007qv81 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter FRI b007jzss (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Robert Barr - Detective b04fgwcj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 School of Rock b0076ywb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 He Would, Wouldn't He? b0076fdm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b01ngrwp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00xhzjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Father Figure b01c3dlh (Listen) FRI The Wake FRI New family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian FRI Jason Byrne. Much to Tom's squeamish alarm he is at an FRI Uncle's wake and expected to play a full part in FRI proceedings. It doesn't look as though the priest or his FRI family are going to be especially comforting either. FRI Tom Whyte.... Jason Byrne FRI Elaine Whyte.... Lucy Montgomery FRI Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite FRI Mary Whyte ....Pauline McLynn FRI Pat Whyte.... Dermot Crowley FRI Roddy .... Michael Smiley FRI Producer...Julia McKenzie. FRI FRI 23:00 Chain Reaction b012x130 (Listen) FRI Series 7, Simon Day interviews Peter Hook FRI Chain Reaction is Radio 4's tag-team interview show. Each FRI week, a figure from the world of entertainment chooses FRI another to interview; the next week, the interviewee turns FRI interviewer, and they in turn pass the baton on to someone FRI else - creating a 'chain' throughout the series. FRI This seventh series started with Rhys Thomas interviewing FRI Simon Day. This week, Simon is asking the questions, and has FRI chosen one of his musical heroes: Peter Hook, best known for FRI playing bass in Joy Divison and New Order, and for co-owning FRI and running one of the most famous nightclubs in the world - FRI which lost £10 for every punter who walked through the door FRI for over a decade. The interview skips through the early FRI days of punk, Joy Division's transformation into New Order, FRI and Peter's new career as a DJ. "I thought DJs were arrogant FRI and overpaid", he says, "So when I became one I fitted right FRI in". FRI FRI 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me b01nwbhk (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI The Kapoors visit a stately home, plus food for thought from FRI Smeeta Smitten, Showbiz Kitten. Stars Meera Syal. From May FRI 1998. FRI
22 August, 2014
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23/08/2014 - 29/08/2014
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