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SAT SATURDAY 24 JANUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y29 (Listen) SAT Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 5 SAT Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new SAT novel, Dancing Backwards SAT Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she SAT decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old SAT friend, Edwin, in New York. SAT As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins SAT to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking SAT again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And SAT in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood SAT as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets SAT Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's SAT betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to SAT see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet SAT holds the secret to that betrayal. SAT In tonight's episode, Edwin discovers that Violet's been SAT keeping a rather surprising secret from him. SAT Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a SAT critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work SAT includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, SAT Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's SAT Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at SAT Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the SAT Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's SAT Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she SAT was a psychoanalyst. SAT Produced by Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctg (Listen) SAT Alternative Homes SAT Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the SAT hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on SAT first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which SAT have never been heard before. Including songs which have SAT been specially recorded for the series. SAT Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and SAT 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution, SAT and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they SAT remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world. SAT 'Home means a place to go to when you are in trouble. A SAT place sadly altered by war. A place to glorify when away and SAT rely on always...' So reported one woman to the Mass SAT Observation survey. Prof Vickery explores the enduring pull SAT of a home of one's own. SAT Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly SAT and Simon Tcherniak. SAT Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen SAT Norris at the keyboard. SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgq (Listen) SAT Susan Hill - The Beacon, Inheritance SAT Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. SAT Frank turns up unexpectedly at the farm and the will is SAT read. SAT May Prime ...... Manon Edwards SAT Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri SAT Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones SAT Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas SAT Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins SAT Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson SAT Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley SAT TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams SAT TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark SAT Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum SAT Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 00:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019fx7g (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Actor and singer Michael Crawford reads from his SAT autobiography, including the tribulations and ultimate SAT triumph of Phantom of the Opera. SAT SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute b00g22t6 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT Lucy Porter, Milton Jones, Lloyd Langford and Chris Corcoran SAT join Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from Cardiff. From December SAT 2008. SAT SAT 01:30 Meet the Parents b01pmfs6 (Listen) SAT Series 3, AL Kennedy SAT Award-winning, Scottish novelist A L Kennedy returns to her SAT mother's house in Bidford-upon-Avon for a good old blether. SAT Their stories literally take us around the world from SAT Stratford to Australia and back to Dundee. Their shared love SAT of literature and Shakespeare is inherent and their SAT conversation is peppered with lovely anecdotal stories from SAT Alison's childhood and the books they would often read SAT together. SAT SAT 02:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wh02c (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Black Widow SAT When Bob Boxer falls for a seductive TV presenter, his SAT detective partner Shona Doberman grows suspicious. Stars SAT Anita Vettesse. SAT SAT 02:30 Music Feature b00bc2r4 (Listen) SAT Gershwin's Horns SAT Rainer Hersch explores the musical significance of unusual SAT instruments, including cannons, car horns, anvils, SAT typewriters and salad bowls. All have featured in concert SAT performances over the last two hundred years, but who plays SAT them? SAT With the help of two leading British percussion players, SAT Mick Doran and Neil Percy, Rainer explores the soundscape SAT that can conjured up by bowing a cymbal, rubbing a plastic SAT cup on a gong or hitting a car suspension spring with a SAT hammer. SAT SAT 03:00 Home Front b04sy4tx (Listen) SAT Home Front - Omnibus, 1-5 December 1914 SAT Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years SAT ago this week. The opening week of season two, and everyone SAT is looking to do their bit for the war effort. SAT Written by: Sarah Daniels SAT Story-led by: Katie Hims SAT Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews SAT Music: Matthew Strachan SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SAT Credits SAT Sylvia: Deborah Findlay SAT Dorothea: Rachel Shelley SAT Esme: Katie Angelou SAT Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Hilary: Craige Els SAT Isabel: Keely Beresford SAT Juliet: Lizzie Bourne SAT Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw SAT Ralph: Nicholas Murchie SAT Pallbearer: Clive Haywood SAT Kitty: Ami Metcalf SAT Adam: Leo Montague SAT Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies SAT Florrie: Claire Rushbrook SAT Lilian: Lisa Brookes SAT Tom: Clive Hayward SAT Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown SAT Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson SAT Ernie: Sean Connolly SAT Hilda: Bella Hamblin SAT Ivy: Lizzy Watts SAT Mickey: Ben Pettengell SAT Joe: Lloyd Thomas SAT Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell SAT Bill: Ben Crowe SAT Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson SAT Mervyn: Tom Whitelock SAT Solly: Stephen Critchlow SAT Writer: Sarah Daniels SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT SAT 04:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yg5pg (Listen) SAT Under Covers SAT Carol Evans's bra has blown off the washing line into some SAT tall leyandii. As she struggles to retrieve it, two teenage SAT girls next door laugh cruelly at their elderly, widowed SAT neighbour. Their thoughtless comments are juxtaposed with SAT Carol's own recollections of her deceased husband - with SAT whom she continued to enjoy a warm and loving relationship SAT following her mastectomy. Clever and moving story read by SAT Emma Fielding. SAT Carys Bray's collection of short stories, Sweet Home, won SAT the 2012 Scott Prize. SAT With psychological insight and lightness of touch frequently SAT found in fairy tales, Carys Bray delves under the surface of SAT ordinary lives to explore loss, disappointment, frustrated SAT expectations and regret. Described as 'not just excellent, SAT but significant', by poet and critic Robert Sheppard, these SAT dark and lyrical stories illuminate extraordinary and SAT everyday occurrences with humanity and humour. SAT Bray's stories are never afraid to expose the darkness that SAT exists behind suburban front doors, but at their heart are SAT brave, moving evocations of what it means to be at home with SAT those you love. SAT Abridged by John Peacock SAT Producer David Blount SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. SAT SAT 04:15 Nan Woodhouse - Now or Never b007jx5f (Listen) SAT Age is no barrier for a group of older people who decide to SAT make their wishes come true. Stars Thelma Barlow and SAT Katherine Parr. SAT SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00kn4l8 (Listen) SAT Series 4, In the News SAT A lesson on facts and opinions is followed by a brutal SAT example at the school gate. Stars Brigit Forsyth and Marlene SAT Sidaway. SAT SAT 05:30 Little Blighty on the Down b00805nv (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT Mrs Roberts faces fallout from an outspoken member of the SAT parish council. Political satire with Jo Kendall. From July SAT 1990. SAT Credits SAT Actor: Barry Evans SAT Actor: George Layton SAT Actor: Geoffrey Davies SAT SAT 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yg66w (Listen) SAT A Sticky End SAT The thrilling conclusion to this space adventure with the SAT World's Most Fabulous Man. Kenny Everett's sci-fi serial SAT from 1976. SAT SAT 06:00 Dario Fo - Accidental Death of an Anarchist b01s63cx (Listen) SAT What is the truth when a railway worker dies at a police HQ? SAT Dario Fo's world famous comic masterpiece adapted by Jeremy SAT Hardy. SAT Stars Adrian Edmondson as the Maniac, Jennifer Saunders as SAT Maria Feletti and Jill Gascoine as the Superintendant. With SAT Stephen Frost and Mark Steel. SAT From Gillian Hanna's translaton and Gavin Richards' stage SAT adaptation. SAT Produced by Turan Ali SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1992. SAT SAT 07:15 RD Wingfield b00sw79x (Listen) SAT The Cellar SAT Behind a bricked-up entrance lurks a suspenseful tale of SAT horror below stairs. Stars John Pullen and Rosalind Ayres. SAT SAT 07:30 Faking the Classics b00t5z90 (Listen) SAT Shakespeare SAT How fraudsters and tricksters have set out to fool us with SAT counterfeits passed off as the work of the Bard. Jonathan SAT Bate investigates. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b0076q7j (Listen) SAT Farewell to Winston SAT Nicholas Witchell remembers the winter's day on 30th January SAT 1965 when the sleet fell - and a generation who had lived SAT and served through the Second World War lost an iconic SAT leader. SAT The grandeur of Churchill's state funeral saw a procession SAT through the City of London, plus the coffin's final voyage SAT down the River Thames to the Royal Festival Hall and on to SAT Waterloo Station. From there the coffin was taken by train SAT to its final resting place at Bladon Parish Church, SAT Oxfordshire. SAT With excerpts from the original BBC commentary by Richard SAT Dimbleby and Raymond Baxter, the programme recollects the SAT thoughts and feelings of the wartime generation. With SAT interviews with those were in the crowd or part of the SAT procession. Features: Winston S Churchill, Nicholas Soames, SAT Lord Deedes, Lady Soames, and Peter Dimmock. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005. SAT SAT 09:00 Poetry Puh-lease b050bh69 (Listen) SAT Comedy and poetry have always had strong links, with many SAT comics and poets blurring the boundaries. Now, comedian SAT Kevin Eldon takes us on a three hour walk along the fine SAT line between the two. SAT With the occasional input of his poet alter-ego, Paul SAT Hamilton, Eldon presents a rich collection of radio comedy SAT that celebrates the risible and funny side of poetry, SAT including Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme; The Simon SAT Day Show; Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter From Salford and the SAT classic episode of Hancock's Half Hour, The Poetry Society. SAT There is also a look back at the life of the cult poet Hovis SAT Presley, some scholarly input from Cariad Lloyd, and a brand SAT new interview between Kevin Eldon and the magnificent John SAT Cooper Clarke. SAT Along the way there is a rich mix of poetry that might be SAT funny, sometimes cringe-worthy, occasionally absurd, SAT sporadically nonsensical, but often brilliant. SAT SAT 12:00 Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections Omnibus b050bhnz (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT First ever dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's darkly comic SAT 2001 novel about the tribulations of a dysfunctional SAT Midwestern family, starring Richard Schiff (The West Wing), SAT Maggie Steed, Colin Stinton and Julian Rhind-Tutt. SAT Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. SAT Alfred and Enid Lambert, a Midwestern couple in their SAT seventies, are on board a cruise ship in the North Atlantic. SAT Enid is determined to enjoy this long-awaited holiday, but SAT Alfred's behaviour is increasingly unpredictable. Meanwhile, SAT their three adult children face complications of their own. SAT Cast: SAT Narrator.....Richard Schiff SAT Enid Lambert.....Maggie Steed SAT Alfred Lambert.....Colin Stinton SAT Gary Lambert.....Richard Laing SAT Chip Lambert.....Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Denise Lambert.....Roslyn Hill SAT Don Armour.....Shaun Mason SAT Brian Callahan.....Ian Conningham SAT Robin Passafaro.....Kelly Burke SAT Mrs Nygren.....Hannah Genesius SAT Sylvia Roth.....Elaine Claxton SAT Ted Roth.....David Acton SAT Gitanas Misevicius.....Sam Dale SAT Caroline Lambert.....Jane Slavin SAT Caleb Lambert.....Adam Thomas Wright SAT Jonah Lambert.....Sean McCrystal SAT Directed by Emma Harding SAT The Corrections was awarded the National Book Award in 2001, SAT the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002. It was included SAT in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language SAT novels since 1923. SAT Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The SAT Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), SAT two collections of essays (Farther Away, How to Be Alone), a SAT personal history (The Discomfort Zone). SAT Marcy Kahan is a playwright and radio dramatist. Recent SAT radio work includes two series of Lunch for BBC Radio 4 SAT (starring Claire Skinner and Stephen Mangan) and Mr SAT Bridger's Orphan. Theatre work includes 20 Cigarettes (Soho SAT Theatre) and the stage version of When Harry Met Sally SAT (Theatre Royal Haymarket). SAT SAT 13:05 Inheritance Tracks b04dq55n (Listen) SAT Jennifer Saunders SAT Comedian Jennifer Saunders chooses the Q5 theme by Spike SAT Milligan, and Kate and Anna McGarrigle's song 'Talk to Me of SAT Mendocino' sung by Kate and her children Rufus and Martha SAT Wainwright. SAT SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential b01kbz4s (Listen) SAT Series 1, High Society SAT At the opening of Parliament, Charles Dickens meets Lady SAT Kames and his editorial judgement is scrutinised. Stars SAT Jamie Glover. SAT SAT 14:00 Dad's Army b007k1s5 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Man and the Hour SAT Bank manager George Mainwaring sets up Walmington-on-Sea's SAT Home Guard. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From January SAT 1974. SAT SAT 14:30 It Sticks Out Half a Mile b007jqc5 (Listen) SAT Hidden Treasure SAT Pike and Hodges call in a clairvoyant to help them locate SAT the pier's rumoured booty. Dad's Army spin-off stars Ian SAT Lavender and Betty Marsden. From October 1984. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0076q7j (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Dario Fo - Accidental Death of an Anarchist b01s63cx (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:15 RD Wingfield b00sw79x (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SAT SAT 17:30 The Rest Is History b04y9v20 (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SAT it. SAT The Rest Is History is a new comedy discussion show which SAT promises to help him find out more about it. SAT Along with his historian in residence Dr Kate Williams, each SAT episode sees Frank joined by a selection of celebrity SAT guests, who will help him navigate his way through the SAT annals of time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, SAT oddest, and most interesting moments in history. SAT Frank's guests in this edition of the programme are Josh SAT Widdicombe and Roisin Conaty. SAT Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard SAT An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Frank Skinner SAT Panellist: David Baddiel SAT Panellist: Josh Widdicombe SAT Panellist: Roisin Conaty SAT Producer: Dan Schreiber SAT Producer: Justin Pollard SAT SAT 18:00 Wally K Daly - Time Slip b007jt88 (Listen) SAT Paul Williamson arrives home, only to find himself already SAT there. What exactly is going on? Stars Paul Daneman and SAT Norma Ronald. SAT SAT 19:00 Poetry Puh-lease b050bh69 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs b00tysvb (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Welsh stand-up Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new audience SAT comedy show featuring comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and SAT Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who SAT takes a look at the Fifth Stage of Woman - the hoarder. SAT This fifth episode features live music from Divine Comedy, SAT including the hit National Express, and the guest comedian SAT is Shappi Khorsandi. Find out whether animals can have human SAT faces; what annoys Rhod about considerate builders; and the SAT most surprising location for a postage stamp. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b051vgvt (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SAT to Josie Long. SAT SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture b00sh2f1 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Napoleon Bonaparte SAT The radical comedian offers his humorous assessment of the SAT life and career of the battling French emperor. From October SAT 2002. SAT SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show b00mbvf7 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Education SAT Exploring a fresh theme each week, the award-winning SAT comedian hosts stand-up and sketches. With Ivan Brackenbury. SAT From July 2008. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 25 JANUARY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Wally K Daly - Time Slip b007jt88 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b0076q7j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections Omnibus b050bhnz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:05 Inheritance Tracks b04dq55n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:05 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Dickens Confidential b01kbz4s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Dario Fo - Accidental Death of an Anarchist b01s63cx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:15 RD Wingfield b00sw79x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 The Rest Is History b04y9v20 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Susan Hill - The Beacon Omnibus b050bmmw (Listen) SUN Frank Prime's quest for fame and fortune is about to spark SUN disaster for his family back at their remote farm. Stars SUN Manon Edwards. SUN SUN 07:15 Terry-Thomas - Top of the Town b012lk2m (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Poking fun at bands in a surviving series extract from SUN gap-toothed comic Terry-Thomas, born in 1911. With Leslie SUN Mitchell. From January 1954. SUN SUN 07:30 Sketchorama b01kbg7m (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 2 SUN Award-winning character comedian and doyen of sketch comedy SUN Humphrey Ker presents the pick of the best live sketch SUN groups currently performing on the UK comedy circuit in this SUN brand new showcase - with character, improv, broken and SUN musical sketch comedy. SUN Humphrey Ker is himself an established sketch performer, SUN writer, actor and comedian who won the Fosters Edinburgh SUN Comedy Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh festival in SUN 2011. For five years he was part of the much-loved sketch SUN trio The Penny Dreadfuls, with whom he wrote and performed SUN in a string of Edinburgh festival smashes, two series on SUN BBC7 and two plays for Radio 4. SUN The sketch groups featured in episode two of Sketchorama SUN are: SUN The Noise Next Door: Tom Houghton, Charlie Granville, Matt SUN Grant, Tom Livingstone and Sam Pacelli have been performing SUN their own distinctive brand of off-the-cuff comedy for over SUN six years. They have an uncanny knack of transforming SUN audience suggestions into fantastically funny scenes and SUN songs in the blink of an eye, with a perfect blend of SUN ludicrous characters, witty one-liners and epic stories. SUN The Boom Jennies: A trio featuring Lizzie Bates, Anna SUN Emerson and Catriona Knox who produce fun, fast-paced, SUN inventive sketch comedy mixed up with some top-notch tunes. SUN Jigsaw: Dan Antopolski (Triple Perrier Award Nominee, BBC SUN New Comedy Award Winner and Dave's Funniest Joke of the SUN Fringe Award Winner 2009), Tom Craine (BBC National Student SUN Award Winner 2006) and Nat Luurtsema (Chortle Best Newcomer SUN Nominee 2008) have joined forces to create a hydra-headed SUN sketch monster. They enjoyed a self-titled Fringe debut in SUN 2011 featuring well honed, fast paced material. SUN Producer: Gus Beattie SUN A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dtj7q (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN George, Harris and J approach the end of their journey and SUN contemplate the Germans as a nation. Performed by Jeremy SUN Nicholas. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00s3jtl (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 10 SUN Bona news about a new LP, and who killed Cock Robin? Stars SUN Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From June SUN 1970. SUN SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008f3c2 (Listen) SUN Our Foreign Correspondent SUN Our Foreign Correspondent: Amy heads to Europe, while Jo SUN makes a friend in New York. Stars Buffy Davis, Gayle SUN Hunnicutt and Anne Marie Zola. SUN SUN 09:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00csypl (Listen) SUN Letting in the Jungle SUN Mowgli mounts a rescue and meets the Father of the Cobras. SUN Stars Nisha K Nayar, Eartha Kitt and Jonathan Hyde. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b050bny6 (Listen) SUN Absent Friends, Sue Townsend SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Jack Teagarden to Tchaikovsky, the SUN Adrian Mole author shares her castaway choices with Sue SUN Lawley. From December 1991. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b00zm31t (Listen) SUN Census 2011, Realm of the Census SUN Rebecca Elise reads a new story by Louise Welsh, written to SUN mark the national census. A lonely girl takes a low-paid SUN job, chasing census evaders, which leads to a disturbing SUN encounter in a dark tenement. SUN Louise Welsh is an award-winning novelist, short story SUN writer, playwright and journalist. Her works include novels SUN 'The Cutting Room' and 'Naming the Bones', and stage plays SUN 'Panic Patterns' and 'Memory Cells'. Louise Welsh is Writer SUN in Residence at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow School SUN of Art. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b050bs79 (Listen) SUN Peering Into Space SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN Guy Raz investigates our sense of wonder and curiosity about SUN our place in the universe. With physicist Brian Greene. SUN SUN 11:45 Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels b00cl6vd (Listen) SUN The Ugly Sister SUN A Cinderella pantomime character wonders if her own Prince SUN Charming is in the audience. Short story read by Lesley SUN Sharp. SUN SUN 12:00 Susan Hill - The Beacon Omnibus b050bmmw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Terry-Thomas - Top of the Town b012lk2m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Saturday Drama b00tjw5p (Listen) SUN Brian Friel - Translations SUN A new production of Brian Friel's masterpiece about language SUN and power. SUN It's the summer of 1833. In a hedge-school in Donegal, the SUN schoolmaster's prodigal son is about to return from Dublin. SUN With him are two army officers. Their aim is to create a map SUN of the area, and, in the process, replace the Irish place SUN names with English equivalents. It's an act with unexpected SUN and violent consequences. SUN Thirty years ago playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen SUN Rea founded the Field Day Theatre Company in Northern SUN Ireland. A company that aimed to provide a 'fifth province' SUN in which Ireland's political and social troubles could be SUN explored and re-imagined. Translations was its first SUN production and became an instant classic. To mark its SUN anniversary, BBC Radio 4 has commissioned a new production, SUN specially adapted for radio by Michael Duke. SUN Cast: SUN Yolland.....Samuel Barnett SUN Lancey......Mark Bazeley SUN Doalty......John Paul Connolly SUN Jimmy Jack......Dermot Crowley SUN Sarah........Roisin Gallagher SUN Manus......David Ireland SUN Bridget.....Aoife McMahon SUN Hugh........Gerard McSorley SUN Owen......Eugene O'Hare SUN Maire......Eileen Walsh SUN Director: Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN 15:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dtj7q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00s3jtl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b050bs7f (Listen) SUN Christian the Chelsea Lion, the Kalina Balalaika Band and SUN Channel Swimming SUN Highlights from the past week on the 4 O'Clock Show, SUN including Evan Davies playing the comb, Christian the SUN Chelsea Lion and an inventor of unusual musical instruments. SUN SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008f3c2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00csypl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappaccini's Daughter b00qxcff (Listen) SUN Student Giovanni becomes obsessed with a mysterious girl SUN living next door. Dark sci-fi romance starring Joseph SUN Cohen-Cole. SUN SUN 18:30 HG Wells b007jzbk (Listen) SUN The New Accelerator SUN In the name of science, HG Wells agrees to sample a new drug SUN designed to speed up both body and mind. Read by Robert SUN Bathurst. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b050bs79 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels b00cl6vd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dtj7q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00s3jtl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b050bny6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b00zm31t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Sketchorama b01kbg7m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Elvenquest b00vy3n6 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN A new series of the fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth. SUN The intrepid band of Questers, led by Elven Lord, Vidar, set SUN off once again on their search for the Sword of Asnagar SUN which is the only thing that can free them from the tyranny SUN of the evil Lord Darkness. Joining Vidar on the Quest is SUN Dean, the dwarf, Penthiselea, an Amazon warrior princess, SUN Sam, the human, and Amis, the Chosen One (formerly Sam's dog SUN who took human form when he arrived in Lower Earth - he SUN alone can wield the Sword of Asnagar that will defeat Lord SUN Darkness). Each episode sees the valiant team on another SUN adventure as they heroically try their best not to get SUN killed. SUN Episode 1 sees the Questers saved from near certain death by SUN a strong and charming loner, who goes by the name of SUN Byorthnoth the Brave. But is Byorthnoth quite what he seems? SUN And does it really matter when he has such lovely hair? SUN Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is back from the Void and has SUN discovered that he's lost his immortality... SUN An all-star cast, featuring Stephen Mangan as "Sam", SUN Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", Kevin Eldon as SUN "Dean/Kreech", Darren Boyd as "Vidar", Ben Miles as SUN "Byorthnoth", Sophie Winkleman as "Penthiselea" and Dave SUN Lamb as "Amis".". SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b051vh7c (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SUN to Josie Long. SUN SUN 23:00 The Cornwell Estate b00w7cgy (Listen) SUN Series 2, Switzerland McNaughtiehorse SUN Written by Phil Cornwell. SUN Phil Cornwell brings six edgy comic characters to life in a SUN new series of The Cornwell Estate, starring Tony Gardner SUN (Fresh Meat), Roger Lloyd Pack (Only Fools and Horses, Vicar SUN of Dibley), Simon Greenall (Alan Partridge) Daisy Haggard SUN (Psychoville) Ricky Champ (Him and Her, BBC3) Jill Halfpenny SUN (Eastenders, Legally Blonde) and Cyril Nri. SUN Switzerland McNaughtiehorse, Switzy to his associates is a SUN Bronx, New York ex-pat living on the Cornwell Estate. He is SUN a dedicated anglophile too and finds the differences in SUN American and British culture fascinating, especially when it SUN comes to his special line of work - 'waste disposal'. Phil SUN Cornwell stars. SUN Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon. SUN Additional material by Nick Romero SUN Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon SUN A Curtains For Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:15 Knocker b008j006 (Listen) SUN Profitch SUN Market researcher Ian Dunn suffers a shocking epiphany. SUN Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From December 2007. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00db64g (Listen) SUN Series 4, States of Mind SUN Jon Ronson looks at how we all exist in different states of SUN reality, according to the balance of our minds. SUN He talks to ex-Labour spin doctor and psychoanalyst Derek SUN Draper about the sociopathic behaviour in Parliament. Jon SUN also interviews the ex-Norwegian prime minister who resigned SUN after announcing he was depressed and who later went on to SUN be re-elected. SUN There is also an update on a previous story involving ex-MI5 SUN officer David Shayler, who announced he is the Messiah and SUN invites Jon along to his first press conference. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 JANUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Rappaccini's Daughter b00qxcff (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 HG Wells b007jzbk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b050bny6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b00zm31t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dtj7q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00s3jtl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Sketchorama b01kbg7m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Saturday Drama b00tjw5p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008f3c2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00csypl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms34p (Listen) MON Callan's Return MON Ex-killer David Callan, now a dead-end book-keeper, is hired MON for one last hit on businessman Schneider. Read by Ben MON Miles. MON Originally published in 1969 under the title 'A Magnum for MON Schneider', James Mitchell's novel tells the story of his MON infamous TV character, David Callan (originally played by MON Edward Woodward) and features the other regulars, Hunter, MON Meres and Lonely. MON Callan is washed up. The most efficient killer in Europe is MON now working in a dead-end job as a book-keeper for an MON ungrateful and miserable boss. But circumstances force MON British intelligence chief 'Charlie' Hunter to re-employ him MON for one last operation. His target - German businessman MON Rudolf Schneider who works in an office opposite Callan. Is MON the fact that the two men work in such close proximity a MON mere coincidence? Or is it all an elaborate plan by Hunter? MON Callan has his suspicions... MON Hunter has given Schneider a red file and Callan is all too MON aware of the significance of this. Cheerful, friendly, MON affluent Schneider with his innocent passion for model MON soldiers must die. Once again Callan's means to an end is MON petty criminal Lonely, the most frightened little man in the MON underworld. It is Lonely who gets him the gun, a Noguchi MON Magnum 38 calibre. A magnum for Schneider. MON The operation is fraught with complications, but Callan's MON own inhibitions are the most dangerous. MON Abridged by Adrian Bean MON Producer: Joanna Green MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. MON MON 06:30 The Bard of Salford b00b4wtl (Listen) MON Paul Morley traces the life and works of Manchester punk MON poet John Cooper Clarke. MON Paul looks back at the punk movement in the mid 1970s, its MON DIY ethic and popular appeal and how Cooper Clarke, as the MON poet of the people, fit into the scene. MON Through exclusive new interviews with Cooper Clarke, Paul MON delves into the most significant moments of his life and MON career, from his first job as a lab technician at Salford MON University to touring with some of the world's most famous MON punk bands, his domestic partnership and shared heroin MON addiction with Nico, the use of one of his songs in The MON Sopranos, his signing to the same label as Bob Dylan and his MON appearance in a Sugar Puffs advert. MON Cooper Clarke has continued to tour and write new work for MON 30 years and despite being exasperated by the 1980s' MON flamboyant reaction to punk's DIY ethic, his influence today MON should not be underestimated. Jarvis Cocker, Noel Gallagher, MON Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen and Kate Nash MON have all cited Clarke as an influence, as his distinctive MON style continues to pervade popular music. MON Contributors include Mark E Smith, Pete Shelly, Kate Nash, MON Phill Jupitus and Clarke himself. MON An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 07:00 North East of Eden b01h0kpm (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON Mad Max versus the French resistance. Or rather, two rival MON island film nights fight it out. Stars Rebecca Front. From MON July 1997. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b05061zg (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 4 MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON Ed Byrne, Holly Walsh, Richard Osman and Henning Wehn are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as Ancient Egypt, ice, rubbish and MON British food. MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Ed Byrne MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Richard Osman MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jrv9 (Listen) MON Series 1, Museum Piece MON Mainwaring's platoon set off to grab some much-needed MON weapons. Adapted from TV, with Arthur Lowe. From February MON 1974. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b050c2sf (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 7 MON Lionel invites Jean to share a cruise with him, but is MON puzzled when she resists his invitation. Stars Judi Dench MON and Geoffrey Palmer. From April 1997. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b00qgxxd (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of MON quotations and anecdotes. MON With guests Ken Bruce, Valerie Grove, Dr Ben Goldacre and MON Kwame Kwei-Armah. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Credits MON Producer: Sam Bryant MON MON 09:30 Britain Versus the World b050crxj (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 6 MON Episode Five: MON The fifth episode of the new comedy panel show - Britain MON Versus The World - that pits two British comedians against a MON team of comics from overseas to find out which side is MON superior. Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is MON the English comedian Zoe Lyons while the captain of the Rest MON of the World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Australian MON stand-up Tony Law. The contest is overseen by Irishman Ed MON Byrne who does his very best to stay impartial. MON Host MON Ed Byrne MON Guests MON Hal Cruttenden MON Henning Wehn MON Zoe Lyons MON Tony Law MON Programme Associate Bill Matthews MON Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker. MON Credits MON Presenter: Ed Byrne MON Panellist: Hal Cruttenden MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Zoe Lyons MON Panellist: Tony Law MON Producer: Ashley Blaker MON MON 10:00 Home Front b04tlr0j (Listen) MON Home Front - Omnibus, 8-12 December 1914 MON This week, newcomers spell trouble for St Jude's and the MON police are unprepared for a crime wave... MON Story-led by: Katie Hims MON Written by: Sarah Daniels MON Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON Credits MON Esme: Katie Angelou MON Norman: Sean Baker MON Toby: Joe Bannister MON Isabel: Keely Beresford MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown MON Ramesh: Navin Chowdhry MON Dolly Clout: Elaine Claxton MON Bill: Ben Crowe MON Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies MON Barry: Kris Deedigan MON Mademoiselle De Lisle: Annabelle Dowler MON Sylvia: Deborah Findlay MON Wolfgang: Clive Hayward MON Syd: Gerry Hinks MON Laurie: Will Howard MON Archie: Arthur Hughes MON Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson MON Telegraph Messenger: Damian Lynch MON Victor: Joel MacCormack MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Henrietta: Stephanie Racine MON Ivor: Alun Raglan MON George: Ronan Raftery MON Florrie: Claire Rushbrook MON Marieke: Olivia Ross MON Dorothea: Rachel Shelley MON PC Monk: Sam Swann MON Ivy: Lizzy Watts MON Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON Producer: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rb1t7 (Listen) MON Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir MON As a stranger returns, Hardy's inimitable Wessex characters MON recount village tales of Longpuddle life. Read by Richard MON Mitchley. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b0501kvb (Listen) MON Nikki Bedi, Tom Conti, Simon Nicol, Sue Webster, Bidisha, MON Fairport Convention and Rhiannon Giddens MON Clive Anderson is joined by Nikki Bedi, Tom Conti, Simon MON Nicol, Sue Webster and Bidisha for an eclectic mix of MON conversation, music and comedy. With music from Fairport MON Convention and Rhiannon Giddens. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Tom Conti MON ‘Twelve Angry Men’ is at Theatre Royal, Windsor until MON Saturday 7th February and then touring until Wednesday 17th MON June. MON Simon Nicol MON ‘Myths & Heroes’ is available on 2nd March on Matty Grooves. MON Sue Webster MON ‘The Folly Acres Cook Book’ is published by Other Criteria MON and available now. MON Bidisha MON ‘Musn’t Grumble: The Noble British Art Of Complaining’ is on MON Saturday 17th January at 20.00 on BBC Radio 4. MON ‘Asylum and Exile: The Hidden Voices of London’ is published MON by Seagull Books on Wednesday 11th February. MON Fairport Convention MON ‘Myths & Heroes’ is available on 2nd March on Matty Grooves. MON The band are touring until 1st of March. They’re playing MON Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury on Thursday 29th, The Cathedral, MON Lichfield on Friday 30th and The Atkinson, Southport on MON Saturday 31st January. Check their website for further MON dates. MON Rhiannon Giddens MON ‘Tomorrow Is My Turn’ is available now on Nonesuch. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jrv9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b050c2sf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms34p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Bard of Salford b00b4wtl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5d (Listen) MON Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 6 MON Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new MON novel, Dancing Backwards MON Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she MON decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old MON friend, Edwin, in New York. MON As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins MON to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking MON again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And MON in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood MON as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets MON Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's MON betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to MON see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet MON holds the secret to that betrayal. MON In tonight's episode, Violet will recall how, despite MON Edwin's protestations, she and Bruno made their relationship MON official. And, aboard ship, she'll make a worrying MON discovery. MON Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a MON critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work MON includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, MON Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's MON Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at MON Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the MON Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's MON Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she MON was a psychoanalyst. MON Produced by Kirsty Williams. MON MON 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzk (Listen) MON The Sky's the Limit MON Astronomer Heather Couper charts the history of our growing MON understanding of the universe and the progress of astronomy. MON From May 2008. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00qsw2h (Listen) MON MD Markham - Absent, Separation MON By Mark Davies Markham. MON Tony, a self-employed electrician from Liverpool, has no MON idea that his wife of eleven years has had enough of him and MON wants him out of her and their children's lives for good. MON Tony ...... Craige Els MON Clare ...... Gillian Kearney MON Nick ...... Robert Hitchmough MON Aggy ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Josh ...... Alfie Davies MON Sean ...... Carl Prekopp MON Directed by Claire Grove. MON Credits MON Producer: Claire Grove MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00r3ykb (Listen) MON Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode MON 1 MON Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street MON parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. MON He came into this world as 'the elephant'. Was everyone MON prepared? MON With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna MON Monro as Anne. MON Abridged by Penny Leicester. MON MON 15:00 Home Front b04tlr0j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b050cvd2 (Listen) MON Hurricanes, Nail Polish and a Psammead MON Mel Giedroyc goes behind the scenes of a London beauty salon MON and we get introduced to the Psammead in the first part of E MON Nesbit's classic tale Five Children and It. MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b00lbtl2 (Listen) MON Series 4, Short Change MON Bill and Faith's dream of riverside luxury is thwarted by MON her children. Stars James Bolam and Lynda Bellingham. From MON June 1992. MON MON 17:30 North East of Eden b01h0kpm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 Quote... Unquote b00qgxxd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075gbk (Listen) MON Mick Aston and Penelope Leach MON Sarah LeFanu and her guests, archaeologist Mick Aston and MON childcare specialist Penelope Leach, discuss three favourite MON paperbacks by Oliver Rackham, RL Stevenson and William MON Golding. From 1999. MON The Illustrated History of the Countryside by Oliver Rackham MON Publisher: Phoenix MON Travels with a Donkey by RL Stevenson MON Publisher: Everyman MON Lord of the Flies by William Golding MON Publisher: Faber & Faber. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jrv9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b050c2sf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms34p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Bard of Salford b00b4wtl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rb1t7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b0501kvb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b05061zg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Britain Versus the World b050crxj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b051vhll (Listen) MON The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Diane Morgan chats MON to Phil Wang. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b04yk373 (Listen) MON Series 45, Episode 3 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week's news via MON topical stand-up and sketches featuring guests Marcus MON Brigstocke and Nish Kumar. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Marcus Brigstocke MON Performer: Nish Kumar MON MON 23:30 As Told to Craig Brown b00bbnxt (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 5 MON Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social MON observation and nonsense. MON Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and Steve Wright, with John MON Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Sally MON Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 JANUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00qsw2h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b00r3ykb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Quote... Unquote b00qgxxd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b0075gbk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms34p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 The Bard of Salford b00b4wtl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Home Front b04tlr0j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rb1t7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b0501kvb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b00lbtl2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 North East of Eden b01h0kpm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms576 (Listen) TUE Preparation TUE Hunter has tasked Callan to kill German businessman Rudolf TUE Schneider. Now all he needs is a gun from Lonely. Read by TUE Ben Miles. TUE TUE 06:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dc2mt (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE John Sessions launches a new series charting the history of TUE popular entertainment in the UK. But rather than the usual TUE wade through the shifting sands of film and television TUE celebrity, John is covering the period before electronic TUE media. He starts with our medieval ancestors and attempts to TUE unpick a few myths about wandering minstrels and motley TUE fools keeping the toiling peasants entertained. TUE TUE 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Four b014hq46 (Listen) TUE Power Is Happiness TUE Edward could be up for promotion, but will it go to his TUE head? Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay. From April TUE 1985. TUE TUE 07:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04yk55d (Listen) TUE Series 6, Gyles Brandreth TUE Marcus Brigstocke persuades his reluctant guest to try new TUE experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. TUE Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show TUE all about embracing the new. TUE This week, Gyles Brandreth is persuaded to spend a day doing TUE absolutely nothing, and writes his first ever pop song. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Interviewed Guest: Gyles Brandreth TUE TUE 08:00 Yes Minister b007jlbc (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Economy Drive TUE Jim Hacker sets an example in his plans for a slimmer Civil TUE Service. Adapted from TV. Stars Paul Eddington. From TUE November 1983. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b050cx7p (Listen) TUE From 20/10/1963 TUE Down Your Way is in the village of Knotty Ash, Doddy croons TUE a ditty and the World's Worst. TUE Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally TUE edited for sale abroad. TUE Starring Ken Dodd. With Judith Chalmers (Wish You Were TUE Here), John Laurie (Dad's Army), Wallas Eaton, Percy TUE Edwards, Peter Hudson and The Barry Sisters. TUE BBC Revue Orchestra, Conducted by Malcolm Lockyer TUE Script by Ken Dodd and Eddie Braben. TUE Produced by Bill Worsley TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1963. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b04yk373 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Bristow b007tdnn (Listen) TUE Series 3, Of Moles and Men TUE The Chester-Perry clerk fancies a promotion when he TUE overhears some inside information. Stars Michael Williams. TUE From July 2000. TUE TUE 10:00 Home Front b04v5r6y (Listen) TUE Home Front - Omnibus, 15-19 December 1914 TUE As Christmas approaches, a spirit of generosity and TUE recklessness fills the air, as all Folkestone is encouraged TUE to give themselves to the war. TUE Written by: Shaun McKenna TUE Story led by: Katie Hims TUE Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE Credits TUE Hilary: Craige Els TUE Laurie: Will Howard TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Mr Tench: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Mr Hawkes: Gerry Hinks TUE Ralph: Nicholas Murchie TUE Dorothea: Rachel Shelley TUE George: Ronan Raftery TUE Barry: Kris Deedigan TUE Marieke: Olivia Ross TUE Nurse Betts: Jane Slavin TUE Douglas Conroy: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Archie: Arthur Hughes TUE Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson TUE Ivy: Lizzy Watts TUE Maisie: Cassie Layton TUE Bill: Ben Crowe TUE Hilda: Bella Hamblin TUE Ivor: Alun Raglan TUE Joe: Lloyd Thomas TUE Mervyn: Tom Whitelock TUE Admiral Fitzgerald: John Woodvine TUE Arthur: Jacob Beswick TUE Cyril: Perry Moore TUE Jerry: Kieran Hardcastle TUE Bernard: Ian Brooker TUE Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Maggie: Hollie Thoupos TUE Mickey: Ben Pettengell TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rbqc6 (Listen) TUE Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver TUE A comic tale of a local swain who courts rather too many TUE maids at once. Read by Richard Mitchley. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b010y0sr (Listen) TUE Father Brown - The Secret Garden TUE By G. K. Chesterton. TUE Dramatised by Bert Coules. TUE Paris, 1911. A dinner party given by Aristide Valentin, TUE Chief of the Paris Police, is disturbed by the discovery of TUE a stranger lying murdered within the grounds of his TUE high-walled garden. Who is he? How did he get there? And TUE which of the distinguished guests has committed the gruesome TUE crime? TUE Time for Father Brown to step forward. Intuitive and TUE unassuming, his unremarkable exterior conceals a profound TUE knowledge of human frailty. Who better than a priest to TUE understand the nature and prevalence of evil? TUE Directed by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE Credits TUE Father Brown: Richard Greenwood TUE Brayne: Angus MacInnes TUE Valentin: Liam Brennan TUE Dr Simon: Jimmy Chisholm TUE Lord Galloway: Paul Young TUE Lady Galloway: Eliza Langland TUE Dymond: Francesca Dymond TUE O'Brien: Robin Laing TUE Author: GK Chesterton TUE Adaptor: Bert Coules TUE Director: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 12:00 Yes Minister b007jlbc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b050cx7p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms576 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dc2mt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5g (Listen) TUE Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 7 TUE Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new TUE novel, Dancing Backwards TUE Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she TUE decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old TUE friend, Edwin, in New York. TUE As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins TUE to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking TUE again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And TUE in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood TUE as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets TUE Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's TUE betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to TUE see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet TUE holds the secret to that betrayal. TUE In tonight's episode, Violet and Bruno's recent marriage is TUE beginning to look rocky. TUE Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a TUE critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work TUE includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, TUE Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's TUE Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at TUE Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the TUE Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's TUE Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she TUE was a psychoanalyst. TUE TUE 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzp (Listen) TUE Cathedrals of the Cosmos TUE Astronomer Heather Couper reflects on the importance of the TUE sun to ancient agrarian society. With Timothy West. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzb6 (Listen) TUE MD Markham - Absent, Mediation TUE By Mark Davies Markham. TUE Tony has left his wife assuming that he can see his children TUE whenever he wants to, but Clare has other ideas. TUE Tony ...... Craige Els TUE Clare ...... Gillian Kearney TUE Diane ...... Alison Pettitt TUE Paul ...... David Seddon TUE Sean ...... Carl Prekopp TUE Directed by Claire Grove. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Claire Grove TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk2 (Listen) TUE Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode TUE 2 TUE Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street TUE parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. TUE Mac is made a star contributor of Eagle magazine and his TUE gifts for delusion soar. TUE With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna TUE Monro as Anne. TUE Abridged by Penny Leicester. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Front b04v5r6y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b050g7ty (Listen) TUE Iain Stirling, Rabbits and £10 Notes TUE Mel Giedroyc chats to comedian and ex-CBBC presenter Iain TUE Stirling and we hear the second part of Five Children and TUE It, by E Nesbit. TUE TUE 17:00 Ring Around the Bath b00ttmvh (Listen) TUE Series 2, Brideshead Unvisited TUE Patrick makes the family attend a wedding, but will Stella's TUE doubts prove justified? Stars Duncan Preston. From November TUE 2004. TUE TUE 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four b014hq46 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 The Now Show b04yk373 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 18:30 Comedy's Coming Home b008142h (Listen) TUE Kulvinder Ghir TUE One of the stars of Goodness Gracious Me attempts to bring TUE stand-up to his homeland. But will he get a rude awakening? TUE From March 2002. TUE TUE 19:00 Yes Minister b007jlbc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b050cx7p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms576 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dc2mt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rbqc6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b010y0sr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04yk55d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Flight of the Conchords b007k0zr (Listen) TUE Suzanne TUE The band's future is threatened when Bret goes on a date. TUE Stars Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. From September TUE 2005. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b0528332 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Diane Morgan chats TUE to Phil Wang. TUE TUE 23:00 Scrooby Trevithick b00rz06w (Listen) TUE Journalist TUE Scrooby Trevithick is a six part scripted comedy series TUE written by and starring Andy Parsons following on from the TUE first series aired on Radio 4 18 months ago - The Lost TUE WebLog of Scrooby Trevithick. TUE This second series continues to follow the exploits of the TUE hapless character of Scrooby (Andy Parsons), an enthusiastic TUE but flawed wannabe who having returned from his wanderings TUE is still trying to find himself by zealously posting his web TUE diaries online. TUE Each episode features him attempting to make a dent in the TUE national consciousness, and in this series, he's helped by TUE his good friend Sasha (played by Kerry Godliman). However, TUE his desire for success always takes him one step further TUE than prudence dictates. TUE Episode 5. Journalist. In this episode, Scrooby tries to TUE become a journalist having had a mishap with an inflatable. TUE The cast features a variety of talented comedians including TUE Dara O Briain, Russell Howard, Hugh Dennis, Russell Kane, TUE Rufus Hound, Alun Cochrane, Dominic Frisby, Paul Thorne, TUE Martin Coyote and Barunka O'Shaughnessy. TUE As always, listeners are encouraged to share their comments TUE with Scrooby at www.scroobytrevithick.com as he needs all TUE the advice he can get. TUE The producer is Paul Russell, and this is an Open Mike TUE production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE TUE 23:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01ng89q (Listen) TUE Series 5, Turn Around Dave Eyes TUE More shop-based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy TUE courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. TUE The staff of Fags, Mags and Bags continue their tireless TUE quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke TUE with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh TUE Mahju has built the business up over 30 years and loves the TUE art of the shop. However, he does apply the "low return" TUE rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life. Then TUE there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not TUE keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but Ramesh TUE is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them whether TUE they like it or not! TUE In this episode, Dave embraces internet dating and gets TUE close to someone who is passing themselves off as 80s rock TUE goddess Bonnie Tyler. Meanwhile Ramesh has a wobble about TUE his Meat Loaf date with Malcolm as it falls on a delicate TUE family anniversary. TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave: Donald McLeary TUE Sanjay: Omar Raza TUE Alok: Susheel Kumar TUE Malcolm: Mina Anwar TUE Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns TUE Keith Futures: Gavin Mitchell TUE Mrs Begg: Marjorie Hogarth TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE Writer: Sanjeev Kohli TUE Writer: Donald McLeary TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 JANUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzb6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 The Now Show b04yk373 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] WED WED 01:30 Comedy's Coming Home b008142h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01ms576 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dc2mt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Home Front b04v5r6y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rbqc6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Afternoon Drama b010y0sr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Ring Around the Bath b00ttmvh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four b014hq46 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01msf8g (Listen) WED Doubt WED Callan is keen to know why Hunter wants Schneider dead, so WED he conducts some background research of his own. Read by Ben WED Miles. WED WED 06:30 Let Me Entertain You b00djlcr (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED John Sessions presents a series charting the history of WED popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to WED Victorian freakshows. WED He looks at Elizabethan London, from Bankside theatre to WED ringside gambling, from merry jigs to brutal bear-baiting. WED WED 07:00 The Older Woman b021n6sq (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED Roy's quest to insinuate himself further into Jane's good WED books gets a new lease of life when she requests his help to WED save a tree. Stars Zoe Wanamaker. From January 1993. WED WED 07:30 What Does the K Stand For? b04ykd7f (Listen) WED Series 2, The BFF WED Stephen K Amos sitcom about his own teenage years growing up WED black, gay and funny in 1980s South London. WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. Produced by WED Colin Anderson. WED Credits WED Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly WED Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson WED Roy: Frankie Wilson WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b00y37bf (Listen) WED The Mock Action WED HMS Troutbridge heads to an exercise off Dover, but Mr WED Phillips gets lost in fog. Stars Leslie Phillips. From WED November 1959. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00spmnm (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 13 WED Merry cross the Mersey - the team poke fun at Liverpool. WED Sketches and songs with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. WED WED 09:00 Foul Play b00zshr3 (Listen) WED Series 4, Murder for Starters WED Crime writers Robert Barnard and Lindsey Davis Davis probe WED who wielded a deadly skewer. Chaired by Simon Brett. From WED October 1998. WED WED 09:30 The Atkinson People b007k271 (Listen) WED Barry Good WED A wry, startling, in-depth probe into the life of a spoof WED pop star. Stars Rowan Atkinson. From November 1979. WED WED 10:00 Home Front b04vjl7f (Listen) WED Home Front - Omnibus, 22-26 December 1914 WED This week, the Grahams host a family Christmas and WED Folkestone's yuletide festivities don't go entirely to plan. WED Story-led by: Katie Hims WED Written by: Shaun McKenna WED Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED Credits WED Phyllis: Christine Absalom WED Esme: Katie Angelou WED Norman: Sean Baker WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown WED Juliet: Lizzie Bourne WED Ramesh: Navin Chowdhry WED Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell WED Barry: Kris Deedigan WED Hilary: Craige Els WED Sylvia: Deborah Findlay WED Forrester: Nigel Hastings WED Herbert Loxley: Clive Hayward WED Laurie: Will Howard WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Adam: Leo Montague WED Albert: Harry Myers WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Mickey: Ben Pettengell WED George: Ronan Raftery WED Marieke: Olivia Ross WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Nurse Betts: Jane Slavin WED Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson WED Joe: Lloyd Thomas WED Maggie: Hollie Thoupos WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rbw3r (Listen) WED The History of the Hardcomes WED Recollections of Tony Kytes' wedding bring to mind the WED unusual circumstances of the Hardcomes. Read by Richard WED Mitchley. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00txj8j (Listen) WED A Nice Little Holiday WED By Sarah Wooley WED 1961. The South of France. On holiday with his mistress, WED Jocelyn Rickards, John Osborne has embarked on a passionate WED affair with his future third wife while, in London, WED Osborne's current wife gives birth to a son. WED From the idyllic French farmhouse, Osborne penned his WED infamous 'Damn you, England' letter which caused such a WED furore back home that they found themselves under siege and WED their nice little holiday turned into a nightmare - with WED Osborne only just escaping alive. WED Jocelyn Rickards ... Tracy Wiles WED John Osborne ... Robin Laing WED Tony Richardson ... Tobias Menzies WED Christopher Isherwood .. Richard Greenwood WED Don Bachardy ... James Anthony Pearson WED Major ... Matthew Zajac WED Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED Credits WED Jocelyn Rickards: Tracy Wiles WED John Osborne: Robin Laing WED Tony Richardson: Tobias Menzies WED Christopher Isherwood: Richard Greenwood WED Don Bachardy: James Anthony Pearson WED Major: Matthew Zajac WED Writer: Sarah Wooley WED Producer: Gaynor Macfarlane WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b00y37bf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00spmnm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01msf8g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Let Me Entertain You b00djlcr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5j (Listen) WED Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 8 WED Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new WED novel, Dancing Backwards WED Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she WED decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old WED friend, Edwin, in New York. WED As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins WED to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking WED again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And WED in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood WED as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets WED Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's WED betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to WED see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet WED holds the secret to that betrayal. WED In tonight's episode, Violet's faced with a difficult choice WED - help her dear friend Edwin when he needs her most, or WED stand by her marriage to Bruno. WED Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a WED critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work WED includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, WED Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's WED Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at WED Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the WED Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's WED Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she WED was a psychoanalyst. WED WED 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzr (Listen) WED Stories of the Sky WED Astronomer Heather Couper reflects on how early man mapped WED the stories of his mythology onto the constellations in the WED sky. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzb8 (Listen) WED MD Markham - Absent, Assessment WED By Mark Davies Markham. WED Tony goes to a solicitor. He wants 50-50 access to his WED children, but his wife threatens to fight him all the way. WED Tony ...... Craige Els WED Clare ...... Gillian Kearney WED Helen ...... Joanna Monro WED Morley ...... Bruce Alexander WED Sean ...... Carl Prekopp WED Josh ...... Alfie Davies WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED Credits WED Producer: Claire Grove WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk4 (Listen) WED Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode WED 3 WED Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street WED parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. WED Mac leaves for Africa in the footsteps of his relation, WED Lewis: there's Stone Age Man to track down. WED With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna WED Monro as Anne. WED Abridged by Penny Leicester. WED WED 15:00 Home Front b04vjl7f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b050gqb8 (Listen) WED Richard Branson, Raspberry Jam and Invisible Wings WED Mel Giedroyc gets out her pots to find out how to make the WED perfect raspberry jam, and Richard Branson shares his WED Inheritance Tracks. Plus the third part of Five Children and WED It. WED WED 17:00 Miracles R Us b00scx37 (Listen) WED Flux WED Caroline (Deborah Findlay) is running Household Solutions on WED her own from the student rooms she is renting - just WED leaflets through doors, offering a family back-up service. WED After a chance meeting with Sylvia (Anna Massey), Sylvia is WED sure she could be helpful to the business. Caroline is sure WED she couldn't. WED Sylvia persists and, against her better judgement, Caroline WED gets drawn in. And gradually, gradually, throughout the WED series, a mutual respect is formed and a strong business, WED MiraclesRus, is built up. WED Sylvia ..... Anna Massey WED Caroline ..... Deborah Findlay WED Tanya ..... Alison Pettitt WED Written by Lesley Bruce. WED WED 17:30 The Older Woman b021n6sq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 Foul Play b00zshr3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076jxf (Listen) WED Middle Age WED Novelist Carol Clewlow, TV writer and novelist David WED Nicholls and veteran soul singer Tony Cassidy discuss WED 'middle age'. WED In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of WED writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established WED names. In the context of a discussion of one of the ideas WED and pre-occupations of our times, each presents a piece on WED this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b00y37bf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00spmnm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01msf8g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Let Me Entertain You b00djlcr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rbw3r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00txj8j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? b04ykd7f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 The Odd Half Hour b00w1zxc (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Comedy sketch show starring Kevin Bishop, Stephen K Amos, WED Doon Mackichan, Justin Edwards & Jessica Ransom. Answering WED the questions you probably never asked, this week's episode WED explains why Bagpuss is a bad influence for children, how a WED seance can go badly wrong and why the vikings never used WED consumer focus groups. WED Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b051vhnp (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Diane Morgan chats WED to Phil Wang. WED WED 23:00 On the Hour b007jmnp (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED The Tube system goes berserk, an earthquake in Corinth and WED the anniversary of space. Chris Morris fronts the news WED satire. Part of Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally WED broadcast on Radio 4 in May 1992. WED WED 23:30 The Skivers b007yt85 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Des Lynham and Sue Cook's secrets are revealed, plus Nick WED Golson and Tim de Jongh welcome special guest Adam Ant. From WED February 1995. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 JANUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzb8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Foul Play b00zshr3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076jxf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01msf8g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Let Me Entertain You b00djlcr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Home Front b04vjl7f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rbw3r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00txj8j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Miracles R Us b00scx37 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 The Older Woman b021n6sq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01mthst (Listen) THU The Job THU Schneider invites Callan round for dinner on Sunday. Callan THU has the gun. Sunday is the day he must use it. Read by Ben THU Miles. THU THU 06:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dl98j (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU John Sessions presents a series charting the history of THU popular entertainment in Britain, from medieval minstrels to THU Victorian freakshows. THU He looks at the hundred-year period from the Restoration of THU 1660 onwards, and the rise of a new figure in popular THU entertainment: the sporting hero. Also the importance of the THU increasing use of printing, as a way of spreading popular THU entertainment around the country and of establishing popular THU tunes and songs. THU THU 07:00 Any Other Business b0132mxz (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU The new mayor has to chair his very first council meeting THU and he's scared witless. Stars June Whitfield. From June THU 1995. THU THU 07:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b04ykk5j (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Bridget Christie returns in another series of her THU multi-award winning series about modern feminism. THU Bridget thought that she'd be able to put her feet up after THU her last Radio 4 series, she expected it to bomb. Sadly it THU was a huge success and she's had to bang on about feminism THU ever since. THU But she hasn't managed to single-handedly eradicate sexism THU so she's made a whole new four-part series about it for THU Radio 4 THU This week Bridget tries to find a feminist icon who doesn't THU want to replace the word 'feminism' with 'bootylicious', THU discusses how adverts have ruined her sex life, and why THU twitter is a sexist's natural habitat. THU She's assisted in this by the series' token man, Fred THU MacAulay. THU The series is written and performed by Bridget Christie and THU the producers are Alexandra Smith and Alison Vernon Smith. THU Credits THU Presenter: Bridget Christie THU Performer: Fred MacAulay THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Writer: Bridget Christie THU THU 08:00 Brothers in Law b007k0z0 (Listen) THU Series 1, The First Brief THU Rookie barrister Roger Thursby unwittingly aids a habitual THU fraudster. THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. THU With guest stars Kenneth Connor as Green and John Le THU Mesurier as The Judge THU Adapted for radio by Richard Waring from the BBC TV scripts. THU Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally THU edited for sale abroad. THU Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers THU in Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and THU Denis Norden. It provided the first regular starring role THU for Richard Briers, who later reprised his role of the THU idealistic young lawyer Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between THU 1970 and 1972. THU Produced by David Hatch. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970. THU THU 08:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq6z (Listen) THU Travel and Leisure THU David Jason and chums go fishing, trainspotting and THU skateboarding. Writers include Andy Hamilton. From September THU 1977. THU THU 09:00 The Personality Test b007s27h (Listen) THU Series 3, Lorraine Kelly THU Breakfast TV queen Lorraine Kelly quizzes a panel about THU herself. With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince and Will THU Smith. From July 2007. THU THU 09:30 Alison and Maud b007k3yc (Listen) THU Series 2, Free-Range Angels THU The landlady sisters make merry with a Thai takeaway. Stars THU Miriam Margolyes, Denise Coffey and Joss Ackland. From April THU 2004. THU THU 10:00 Home Front b04vr10n (Listen) THU Home Front - Omnibus, 29 December 1914 to 2 January 1915 THU Folkestone is uneasy about the move from 1914, and all its THU hope and fear, into 1915 with all its hope and fear. THU Written by: Katie Hims THU Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU Credits THU Joe: Lloyd Thomas THU Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson THU Laurie: Will Howard THU Colin Blythe: Jim Troughton THU Albert: Harry Myers THU Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Hilary: Craige Els THU Mickey: Ben Pettengell THU Norman: Sean Baker THU Ivor: Alun Raglan THU Esme: Katie Angelou THU Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw THU Sylvia: Deborah Findlay THU Phyllis: Christine Absalom THU Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Juliet: Lizzie Bourne THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Adam: Leo Montague THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU PC Monk: Sam Swann THU Queenie: Lorna Nickson Brown THU Writer: Katie Hims THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rch8j (Listen) THU Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk THU The master thatcher regales the travellers with Andrey's THU attempt to get married while still in his cups. Read by THU Richard Mitchley. THU THU 11:15 Bruce Bedford - Black Ice b01hbdcc (Listen) THU A gripping account of a 1911 expedition prior to Scott's THU doomed Antarctic trip. Stars Crawford Logan and Richard THU Greenwood. THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b007k0z0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq6z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01mthst (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dl98j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5l (Listen) THU Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 9 THU Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new THU novel, Dancing Backwards THU Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she THU decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old THU friend, Edwin, in New York. THU As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins THU to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking THU again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And THU in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood THU as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets THU Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's THU betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to THU see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet THU holds the secret to that betrayal. THU In tonight's episode, Violet arrives in New York and, in THU some trepidation, sees Edwin face to face again at last. THU Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a THU critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work THU includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, THU Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's THU Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at THU Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the THU Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's THU Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she THU was a psychoanalyst. THU THU 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzt (Listen) THU Mirror of the Earth THU Astronomer Heather Couper looks at the history of astrology, THU which began as a way of advising rulers on their military THU campaigns. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzbb (Listen) THU MD Markham - Absent, Reality THU By Mark Davies Markham. THU Tony is outraged when his parenting skills are assessed THU during his children's visits. But his son Josh has a THU solution: that his parents spend half the week each in their THU house. THU Tony ...... Craige Els THU Clare ...... Gillian Kearney THU Helen ...... Joanna Monro THU Morley ...... Bruce Alexander THU Sean ...... Carl Prekopp THU Ryan ...... Michael Shelford THU Nick ...... Robert Hitchmough THU Directed by Claire Grove. THU Credits THU Producer: Claire Grove THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk6 (Listen) THU Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode THU 4 THU Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street THU parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. THU At last, the story of the family's beleaguered TV set. THU With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna THU Monro as Anne. THU Abridged by Penny Leicester. THU THU 15:00 Home Front b04vr10n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b050gzw3 (Listen) THU Harry Potter Fan Power, Magnificent Castles and Shuffling THU Songs THU Mel Giedroyc discovers the true power of Harry Potter and THU vlogging fandom, and visits some incredible castle ruins. THU Plus the fourth part of Five Children and It, by E Nesbit. THU THU 17:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue b007jx6f (Listen) THU Mrs Garland's Good Deeds THU Hapless vicar Timothy Carswell steps in when the over-70s THU keep fit club gets out of hand. Stars James Grout. From THU March 1991. THU THU 17:30 Any Other Business b0132mxz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 The Personality Test b007s27h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b00tpsvk (Listen) THU Series 22, Winston Churchill THU Winston Churchill's is the Great Life chosen by Lord Digby THU Jones, former Director General of the CBI. Expert THU contribution comes from Professor David Reynolds. Both men THU have vivid memories of the day in 1965 when, as children, THU they heard that Churchill had died. Surprisingly this is the THU first time that Churchill has been nominated in the series. THU Considered by many a busted flush in the 1930s, Churchill is THU now remembered as our greatest wartime leader - his speech THU before the Battle of Britain still sends a shiver down the THU spine. But his great qualities and personal flaws remained THU inextricably linked. David Reynolds has uncovered a stark THU revelation about Churchill's real state of mind at the time THU he made that speech, while Digby Jones argues that the THU ability to instil confidence in people even when there is THU little rational hope of victory is one of the signs of a THU great leader. He believes that no one made his mark on the THU last century in the way that Churchill did. THU David Reynolds does not subscribe to the Great Man theory of THU history. He is the Professor of International History at THU Cambridge University. Known to Radio 4 listeners as the THU writer and presenter of "America, Empire of Liberty", he has THU also written extensively on Churchill, including the book THU "In Command of History" about Churchill's memoirs of World THU War Two. The presenter is Matthew Parris. THU THU 19:00 Brothers in Law b007k0z0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq6z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01mthst (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dl98j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rch8j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Bruce Bedford - Black Ice b01hbdcc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b04ykk5j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Down the Line b00q9ztf (Listen) THU Series 1, Religion and the Decline in Anglican Congregations THU Award-winning spoof phone-in show, with talk radio host Gary THU Bellamy. Stars Rhys Thomas and Charlie Higson. From May THU 2006. THU THU 23:00 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tpn6r (Listen) THU Daniel Thornthwaite THU Character comedian Nick Mohammed (Reggie Perrin, I'm Sorry THU I've Got No Head) plays a wildlife expert on the edge of THU sanity in this fly on the wall look at the making of a major THU new documentary series. Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) and Colin THU Hoult co-star as his hapless colleagues. THU Bits showcases the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic THU characters in a series of one off comic plays. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU 23:30 Cabin Pressure b00cm9p6 (Listen) THU Series 1, Douz THU Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny charter THU airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs are too THU difficult. THU Carolyn finds that she has taken more on board than she THU meant to. THU Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole THU 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam THU Captain Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch THU Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore THU Yves Jutteau ...... John Sessions THU Captain Jessop ...... Rufus Jones THU Lachlan ...... Robert Harley THU Habib ...... Ali Amadi. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 JANUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzbb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 The Personality Test b007s27h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b00tpsvk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 James Mitchell - Red File for Callan b01mthst (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dl98j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Home Front b04vr10n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rch8j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Bruce Bedford - Black Ice b01hbdcc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue b007jx6f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Any Other Business b0132mxz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Wimsey b007jvn6 (Listen) FRI Strong Poison, Old Bailey FRI Lord Peter Wimsey attends the trial of Harriet Vane, a young FRI mystery writer accused of poisoning her former lover with FRI arsenic. The evidence against her seems overwhelming, but FRI the shrewd, debonair sleuth harbours doubts over her guilt. FRI Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Carleton Hobbs FRI as the Judge, Charlotte Mitchell as the Dowager Duchess, Ann FRI Bell as Harriet Vane and Stephen Thorne as the FRI Attorney-General. FRI British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a FRI number of detective novels and short stories by English FRI crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Strong Poison was first FRI published in 1930. FRI Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord FRI Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton FRI and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First FRI World War. FRI Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio FRI from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations FRI that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. FRI Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller. FRI Producer: Simon Brett. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1976. FRI FRI 06:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dpw98 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI The last port of call in John Sessions' history of mass FRI amusements is the industrial centres of Victorian Britain, FRI with its circus attractions and music hall entertainments FRI and the odd high diving elk. FRI High-diving elks, the sporting munificence of Charles FRI Dickens and the explosion in music hall entertainment all FRI help bring to a close the merry little stroll John Sessions FRI has been taking through the history of popular entertainment FRI in the UK. Having joined the restoration celebrations of FRI 1660 and witnessed the rise of a new popular entertainment FRI phenomenon, the sporting hero, John now ventures into the FRI industrial heartlands of Victorian Britain to see how the FRI masses were kept amused before the dawn of cinema and the FRI emergence of a global entertainment industry worth billions FRI of pounds. FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 07:00 Little Blighty on the Down b0080qvk (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI Council leader Mrs Roberts insists an electrical substation FRI be raffled off. Political satire with Jo Kendall. From July FRI 1990. FRI Credits FRI Actor: Barry Evans FRI Actor: George Layton FRI Actor: Geoffrey Davies FRI FRI 07:30 Gloomsbury b01mx2sp (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Trials of Attempting an Elopement FRI A stellar cast of Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel FRI Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions FRI breathes life into the colourfully chaotic characters of FRI Gloomsbury, a riotous comedy about the Bloomsbury Group. FRI The six-part series from the pen of Sue Limb is an FRI affectionate send up of the infamous literary group whose FRI arty and adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene FRI in the early 20th century. FRI The series follows the fortunes of Vera Sackcloth-Vest FRI (Margolyes) - writer, gardener and transvestite - and her FRI urge to escape from the tranquillity of her rather cramped FRI little castle in Kent which she shares with her doting but FRI ambiguous husband Henry (Coy), who is 'something in the FRI Foreign Office'. Vera's heart is forever surging with exotic FRI passion for Ginny Fox (Steadman), a highly-strung novelist FRI who adores her, or the beautiful but shallow Venus Traduces FRI (Banks). FRI As the scene shifts from Kent to London, and Cornwall to FRI Monaco, this close-knit coterie is divided by FRI misunderstandings, jealousies and rows. FRI In episode one, Vera longs to elope to Mediterranean FRI sunshine with one of her bosom chums. But her first choice, FRI Ginny, is stubbornly impervious to adventure and Venus FRI Traduces is fully booked for elopements until next April. FRI Will Vera run off instead with the perky waitress at Lyons' FRI Corner house? Meanwhile, what is Vera's husband Henry up to FRI as telegrams fly between him and Archie Pinkerton-Poker at FRI the Foreign Office? FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k1f3 (Listen) FRI The Chef That Died of Shame FRI The regular cast play different characters in the FRI rise-and-fall saga of a pie-stall cook. Stars Tony Hancock. FRI From May 1955. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry b010v747 (Listen) FRI Fair Exchange FRI The bungling duo mix up the designs for the new pound note. FRI Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From September FRI 1970. FRI FRI 09:00 Jest a Minute b00g4vzx (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI Elis James, Jon Richardson, Lloyd Langford and Chris FRI Corcoran join Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from Cardiff. From FRI December 2008. FRI FRI 09:30 Gush b050h4wd (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Cravate and Pomeroy face execution. Can Lady Arabella win FRI them a last-minute reprieve? Stars Martin Jarvis. From FRI December 1994. FRI FRI 10:00 Home Front b04wwwcc (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 5-9 January 1915 FRI Folkestone mourns one of its missing and the Grahams await a FRI special delivery... FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI Credits FRI Phyllis: Christine Absalom FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Dolly: Elaine Claxton FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Archie: Arthur Hughes FRI Jack: Ashley Kumar FRI Connie: Felix Lailey FRI Frank: Robert Lonsdale FRI Captain Maltby: Damian Lynch FRI Walter: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Maggie: Hollie Thoupos FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Edna: Lara West FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 11:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rcw0n (Listen) FRI An Incident in the Life of Georgy Crookhill FRI Anxious not to be outdone, the registrar relates a story of FRI treachery among thieves. Read by Richard Mitchley. FRI FRI 11:15 Steve Walker - Haunted by More Cake b04xf4pw (Listen) FRI With a tea party going on in his stomach, Lionel has fallen FRI in love with a guest. How can Uncle Ginger help? Stars FRI Graham Crowden. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k1f3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry b010v747 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Wimsey b007jvn6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dpw98 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5n (Listen) FRI Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 10 FRI Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new FRI novel, Dancing Backwards FRI Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she FRI decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old FRI friend, Edwin, in New York. FRI As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins FRI to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking FRI again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And FRI in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood FRI as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets FRI Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's FRI betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to FRI see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet FRI holds the secret to that betrayal. FRI In tonight's episode, Violet and Edwin will finally put FRI their demons to rest. FRI Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a FRI critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work FRI includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, FRI Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's FRI Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at FRI Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the FRI Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's FRI Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she FRI was a psychoanalyst. FRI FRI 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzw (Listen) FRI Three Wise Men FRI Astronomer Heather Couper reviews ancient associations of FRI stars and planets with deities, and astrology's link to FRI maths and the 24-hour day. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzbd (Listen) FRI MD Markham - Absent, Departure FRI By Mark Davies Markham. FRI Tony has proved himself as a father but his access to his FRI children remains the same. His wife wants a new start 200 FRI miles away. FRI Tony ...... Craige Els FRI Clare ...... Gillian Kearney FRI Miss Farrow ...... Alison Pettitt FRI Josh ...... Alfie Davies FRI Ryan ...... Michael Shelford FRI Nick ...... Robert Hitchmough FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Claire Grove FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk8 (Listen) FRI Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode FRI 5 FRI Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street FRI parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. FRI More trouble for Mac, and Anne's later 'business' with the FRI small Picasso. FRI With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna FRI Monro as Anne. FRI Abridged by Penny Leicester. FRI FRI 15:00 Home Front b04wwwcc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b050h6yf (Listen) FRI Idina Menzel, Tall Stories and Stolen Jewels FRI Mel Giedroyc hears from the star of Frozen and Wicked, Idina FRI Menzel, and listens to some true-life tall stories. And we FRI hear the final part of Five Children and It, by E Nesbit. FRI FRI 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00ktvvt (Listen) FRI Series 4, It's Behind You FRI Christmas is coming but goodwill is in short supply among FRI the staff panto cast. Stars Marlene Sidaway and Brigit FRI Forsyth. FRI FRI 17:30 Little Blighty on the Down b0080qvk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Jest a Minute b00g4vzx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 Meet the Parents b037z6mq (Listen) FRI Series 4, Michelle McManus FRI 1/3 FRI Michelle McManus talks to her parents about how her dreams FRI of becoming a pop princess turned to reality when she won FRI Pop Idol back in 2003. They discuss what Michelle's success FRI has had on the family and the highlights of her career which FRI include singing for the Pope and the Queen. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k1f3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry b010v747 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Wimsey b007jvn6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dpw98 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rcw0n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Steve Walker - Haunted by More Cake b04xf4pw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Gloomsbury b01mx2sp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Radio Shuttleworth b007jqkk (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI 1997 Eurovision winner Katrina Leskanich visits the FRI Sheffield singer, but wife Mary gets the ironing board out. FRI From March 2000. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b051vj15 (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats FRI to Mark Thomas. FRI FRI 23:00 Radio 2's Comedy Showcase b007kc0k (Listen) FRI Hey Hey We're the Monks FRI 4 Extra Debut. An abbey that is running out of monks FRI advertises for new recruits, and a young man decides to swap FRI the dole queue for holy orders. The brothers will never be FRI the same again. Catechismal comedy starring Bill Bailey and FRI Catherine Tate. From January 2000. FRI FRI 23:30 The In Crowd b00fbcc2 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 1 FRI Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, FRI Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From August 2001. FRI FRI 23:45 Self Storage b01g97vg (Listen) FRI The Storage Unit FRI No woman, no job. Dave has no choice but to stow everything. FRI With Reece Shearsmith and Mark Heap. From September 2007. FRI
24 January, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24/01/2015 - 30/01/2015
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