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SAT SATURDAY 31 JANUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00rdv5n (Listen) SAT Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 10 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, Violet and Edwin will finally put SAT their demons to rest. 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 SAT 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bfpzw (Listen) SAT Three Wise Men SAT Astronomer Heather Couper reviews ancient associations of SAT stars and planets with deities, and astrology's link to SAT maths and the 24-hour day. SAT SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00qxzbd (Listen) SAT MD Markham - Absent, Departure SAT By Mark Davies Markham. SAT Tony has proved himself as a father but his access to his SAT children remains the same. His wife wants a new start 200 SAT miles away. SAT Tony ...... Craige Els SAT Clare ...... Gillian Kearney SAT Miss Farrow ...... Alison Pettitt SAT Josh ...... Alfie Davies SAT Ryan ...... Michael Shelford SAT Nick ...... Robert Hitchmough SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Claire Grove SAT SAT 00:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk8 (Listen) SAT Max Hastings - Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode SAT 5 SAT Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street SAT parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. SAT More trouble for Mac, and Anne's later 'business' with the SAT small Picasso. SAT With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna SAT Monro as Anne. SAT Abridged by Penny Leicester. SAT SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute b00g4vzx (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT Elis James, Jon Richardson, Lloyd Langford and Chris SAT Corcoran join Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from Cardiff. From SAT December 2008. SAT SAT 01:30 Meet the Parents b037z6mq (Listen) SAT Series 4, Michelle McManus SAT 1/3 SAT Michelle McManus talks to her parents about how her dreams SAT of becoming a pop princess turned to reality when she won SAT Pop Idol back in 2003. They discuss what Michelle's success SAT has had on the family and the highlights of her career which SAT include singing for the Pope and the Queen. SAT SAT 02:00 Wimsey b007jvn6 (Listen) SAT Strong Poison, Old Bailey SAT Lord Peter Wimsey attends the trial of Harriet Vane, a young SAT mystery writer accused of poisoning her former lover with SAT arsenic. The evidence against her seems overwhelming, but SAT the shrewd, debonair sleuth harbours doubts over her guilt. SAT Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Carleton Hobbs SAT as the Judge, Charlotte Mitchell as the Dowager Duchess, Ann SAT Bell as Harriet Vane and Stephen Thorne as the SAT Attorney-General. SAT British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a SAT number of detective novels and short stories by English SAT crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Strong Poison was first SAT published in 1930. SAT Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord SAT Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton SAT and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First SAT World War. SAT Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio SAT from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations SAT that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. SAT Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller. SAT Producer: Simon Brett. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1976. SAT SAT 02:30 Let Me Entertain You b00dpw98 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT The last port of call in John Sessions' history of mass SAT amusements is the industrial centres of Victorian Britain, SAT with its circus attractions and music hall entertainments SAT and the odd high diving elk. SAT High-diving elks, the sporting munificence of Charles SAT Dickens and the explosion in music hall entertainment all SAT help bring to a close the merry little stroll John Sessions SAT has been taking through the history of popular entertainment SAT in the UK. Having joined the restoration celebrations of SAT 1660 and witnessed the rise of a new popular entertainment SAT phenomenon, the sporting hero, John now ventures into the SAT industrial heartlands of Victorian Britain to see how the SAT masses were kept amused before the dawn of cinema and the SAT emergence of a global entertainment industry worth billions SAT of pounds. SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 03:00 Home Front b04wwwcc (Listen) SAT Home Front - Omnibus, 5-9 January 1915 SAT Folkestone mourns one of its missing and the Grahams await a SAT special delivery... SAT Written by Katie Hims SAT Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews SAT Music: Matthew Strachan SAT Directed and produced by: Lucy Collingwood SAT Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. SAT Credits SAT Phyllis: Christine Absalom SAT Esme: Katie Angelou SAT Isabel: Keely Beresford SAT Juliet: Lizzie Bourne SAT Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown SAT Dolly: Elaine Claxton SAT Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell SAT Bill: Ben Crowe SAT Sylvia: Deborah Findlay SAT Archie: Arthur Hughes SAT Jack: Ashley Kumar SAT Connie: Felix Lailey SAT Frank: Robert Lonsdale SAT Captain Maltby: Damian Lynch SAT Walter: Joel MacCormack SAT Kitty: Ami Metcalf SAT Adam: Leo Montague SAT Albert: Harry Myers SAT Ralph: Nicholas Murchie SAT Mickey: Ben Pettengell SAT Florrie: Claire Rushbrook SAT Dorothea: Rachel Shelley SAT Joe: Lloyd Thomas SAT Maggie: Hollie Thoupos SAT Ivy: Lizzy Watts SAT Edna: Lara West SAT Writer: Katie Hims SAT Director: Lucy Collingwood SAT SAT 04:00 Thomas Hardy Short Stories b01rcw0n (Listen) SAT An Incident in the Life of Georgy Crookhill SAT Anxious not to be outdone, the registrar relates a story of SAT treachery among thieves. Read by Richard Mitchley. SAT SAT 04:15 Steve Walker - Haunted by More Cake b04xf4pw (Listen) SAT With a tea party going on in his stomach, Lionel has fallen SAT in love with a guest. How can Uncle Ginger help? Stars SAT Graham Crowden. SAT SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00ktvvt (Listen) SAT Series 4, It's Behind You SAT Christmas is coming but goodwill is in short supply among SAT the staff panto cast. Stars Marlene Sidaway and Brigit SAT Forsyth. SAT SAT 05:30 Little Blighty on the Down b0080qvk (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT Council leader Mrs Roberts insists an electrical substation SAT be raffled off. 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 06:00 Ronald Harwood - The Dresser b01s82g4 (Listen) SAT "What do we play tomorrow, Norman?" SAT "King Lear, sir." SAT "Then I shall wake with the storm clouds in my head." SAT Norman has his work cut out, as 'Sir' prepares to tackle yet SAT another performance of Lear. SAT Starring Freddie Jones as Sir, Michael Palin as Norman and SAT Melinda Walker as Her Ladyship. SAT Percussionist: Roy Sinclair SAT Written by Ronald Harwood. Adapted and directed for radio by SAT David Blount. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1993. SAT SAT 07:30 Faking the Classics b00t6sjb (Listen) SAT Mozart SAT How tricksters have tampered with the composer's musical SAT legacy. Jonathan Bate sounds out the real notes from the SAT duff ones. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b008d1mm (Listen) SAT Maids and Mistresses SAT 4 Extra Debut. Christina Hardyment re-evaluates life below SAT stairs in interwar Britain, particularly for maids in SAT middle-class homes. From December 2007. SAT SAT 09:00 Alexander Armstrong's Radio Heroes b01qdwl5 (Listen) SAT The X-Men? Pah! Superman? Bah! Give us Jet Morgan any day - SAT as Alexander Armstrong celebrates those fine gentleman SAT adventurers of the wireless SAT Big screen do-gooders like the Avengers have the glam and SAT the moves, but you don't have to be superhuman to be a hero. SAT Enjoy our very own British brand of intrepid adventurer, for SAT whom style, panache, wit and guile serve just as well as SAT x-ray vision, awesome strength or vivid underpants. SAT Guiding us through this modern pantheon is Alexander SAT Armstrong - no stranger to style, panache and wit himself - SAT although he assures us his underpants are suitably subdued. SAT Along the way, we'll ponder what makes these characters so SAT enduringly heroic? - and what qualities does a hero need? SAT Featuring: SAT RAFFLES: SAT EW Hornung's gentleman cracksman seizes a challenge. Stars SAT Jeremy Clyde. SAT JOURNEY INTO SPACE: SAT Captain Jet Morgan in the classic 1950s sci-fi from Charles SAT Chilton. Stars Andrew Faulds. SAT SEXTON BLAKE SAT The comic strip crime fighter devised for radio in the 1960s SAT by Philip Ridgeway. Starring William Franklyn. SAT DICK BARTON: SPECIAL AGENT: SAT The BBC Light Programme's hugely popular radio hero revived SAT in 1972 and starring Noel Johnson. SAT JUDGE DREDD: SAT Gary Martin stars as the legendary law enforcement officer. SAT Produced by Dirk Maggs. SAT THE DEVIL IN AMBER SAT The decadent Edwardian dandy and defender of the realm, SAT Lucifer Box. Written and read by Mark Gatiss. SAT Produced by Martin Dempsey. SAT SAT 12:00 Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip - Omnibus b050xkyy (Listen) SAT Uplifting comedy drama about the life, loves and SAT misadventures of wheelchair user Maz. Starring and inspired SAT by Cherylee Houston. Written by Lou Ramsden. SAT SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential b01kkwq8 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Captain Swing SAT Can Charles Dickens help workers overcome the tyranny of SAT Victorian landowners? What of Captain Swing? Stars Jamie SAT Glover. SAT SAT 14:00 Brothers in Law b007k0z0 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The First Brief SAT Rookie barrister Roger Thursby unwittingly aids a habitual SAT fraudster. SAT Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as SAT Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. SAT With guest stars Kenneth Connor as Green and John Le SAT Mesurier as The Judge SAT Adapted for radio by Richard Waring from the BBC TV scripts. SAT Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally SAT edited for sale abroad. SAT Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers SAT in Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and SAT Denis Norden. It provided the first regular starring role SAT for Richard Briers, who later reprised his role of the SAT idealistic young lawyer Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between SAT 1970 and 1972. SAT Produced by David Hatch. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970. SAT SAT 14:30 The Ken Dodd Show b050cx7p (Listen) SAT From 20/10/1963 SAT Down Your Way is in the village of Knotty Ash, Doddy croons SAT a ditty and the World's Worst. SAT Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally SAT edited for sale abroad. SAT Starring Ken Dodd. With Judith Chalmers (Wish You Were SAT Here), John Laurie (Dad's Army), Wallas Eaton, Percy SAT Edwards, Peter Hudson and The Barry Sisters. SAT BBC Revue Orchestra, Conducted by Malcolm Lockyer SAT Script by Ken Dodd and Eddie Braben. SAT Produced by Bill Worsley SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1963. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b008d1mm (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Ronald Harwood - The Dresser b01s82g4 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Gloomsbury b01mx2sp (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Trials of Attempting an Elopement SAT A stellar cast of Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel SAT Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions SAT breathes life into the colourfully chaotic characters of SAT Gloomsbury, a riotous comedy about the Bloomsbury Group. SAT The six-part series from the pen of Sue Limb is an SAT affectionate send up of the infamous literary group whose SAT arty and adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene SAT in the early 20th century. SAT The series follows the fortunes of Vera Sackcloth-Vest SAT (Margolyes) - writer, gardener and transvestite - and her SAT urge to escape from the tranquillity of her rather cramped SAT little castle in Kent which she shares with her doting but SAT ambiguous husband Henry (Coy), who is 'something in the SAT Foreign Office'. Vera's heart is forever surging with exotic SAT passion for Ginny Fox (Steadman), a highly-strung novelist SAT who adores her, or the beautiful but shallow Venus Traduces SAT (Banks). SAT As the scene shifts from Kent to London, and Cornwall to SAT Monaco, this close-knit coterie is divided by SAT misunderstandings, jealousies and rows. SAT In episode one, Vera longs to elope to Mediterranean SAT sunshine with one of her bosom chums. But her first choice, SAT Ginny, is stubbornly impervious to adventure and Venus SAT Traduces is fully booked for elopements until next April. SAT Will Vera run off instead with the perky waitress at Lyons' SAT Corner house? Meanwhile, what is Vera's husband Henry up to SAT as telegrams fly between him and Archie Pinkerton-Poker at SAT the Foreign Office? SAT Produced by Jamie Rix SAT A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson b007js7p (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT An aspiring poet gets drawn into a web of dark and SAT mysterious forces. Robert Glenister stars in the SAT time-hopping thriller. SAT SAT 18:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace b007jpdb (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT A 22nd-century clerical error sets George Smith's demise for SAT 69, not 70. Colin Swash's dystopian comedy stars Stephen SAT Moore. SAT SAT 19:00 Alexander Armstrong's Radio Heroes b01qdwl5 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 4 Extra Stands Up b050xv4p (Listen) SAT Richard Melvin introduces a selection of the best stand up SAT comedians currently working in the UK. SAT Alun Cochrane shares with us some of his family troubles, SAT Gary Little explains how walking his dog isn't always the SAT easiest thing and Harriet Dyer and Jo Caulfield share their SAT unique views on the world. SAT Recorded at Edinburgh's comedy club The Stand. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Dabster Productions. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b051vjbq (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SAT to Mark Thomas. SAT SAT 23:00 Mark Steel's in Town b00rtbyy (Listen) SAT Series 2, Dartford SAT In this second series comedian Mark Steel visits 6 more UK SAT towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants SAT distinctive. SAT He creates a bespoke stand-up show for that town and SAT performs the show in front of a local audience. SAT As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of SAT Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate SAT with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British SAT way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and SAT people who have shaped where we live. SAT During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit SAT Dartford in Kent, Wilmslow and Alderley Edge in Cheshire, SAT Dumfries in the Borders, Penzance in Cornwall, Gateshead in SAT Tyne and Wear, and Kirkwall in the Orkneys. SAT Episode 1 - In this first episode Mark performs a show for SAT the residents of Dartford in Kent where he talks about the SAT peasants' revolt, gypsy tart, Mick Jagger and what one SAT resident calls the Road To Hell. SAT Written by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete SAT Sinclair. SAT Produced by Julia McKenzie. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Julia McKenzie SAT SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show b00mgxcn (Listen) SAT Series 1, Law SAT Exploring a fresh theme each week, the Irish comedian hosts SAT stand-up and sketches. With guest Ivan Brackenbury. From SAT July 2008. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson b007js7p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace b007jpdb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b008d1mm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Tinsel Girl and the Tropical Trip - Omnibus b050xkyy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Dickens Confidential b01kkwq8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Ronald Harwood - The Dresser b01s82g4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Gloomsbury b01mx2sp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 MD Markham - Absent Omnibus b05126qf (Listen) SUN Self-employed electrician Tony from Liverpool has no idea SUN that his wife of 11 years wants him to leave. Stars Craige SUN Els and Gillian Kearney. SUN SUN 07:15 Snapshots in the Dark b0075qf8 (Listen) SUN Jacob A Riis - Police Lodging Room, Church Street Station, SUN 1895 SUN Colin Ford explains how Riis's photographs of the New York SUN slum had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society. SUN From December 1999. SUN SUN 07:30 Sketchorama b01kjt9h (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN Humphrey Ker with new sketch group talent from the circuit: SUN The Three Englishmen, Max & Ivan and Frisky & Mannish. From SUN July 2012. SUN SUN 08:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zdbmj (Listen) SUN From 26/11/1962 SUN The popular comedian stars in Johnny Speight's sketches. SUN With Nicholas Parsons and Patricia Hayes. From November SUN 1962. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00s6rcj (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 11 SUN A poetic young talent, and the funny business of commerce. SUN Stars Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From SUN June 1970. SUN SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008f3cs (Listen) SUN Heartache SUN Jo and Laurie must face their futures, while Beth tells Jo SUN the truth at last. Stars Buffy Davis and Gayle Hunnicutt. SUN SUN 09:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00cyywl (Listen) SUN The Wild Dogs SUN Mowgli and Kaa plan a jungle attack against the wild dogs. SUN Stars Nisha K Nayar, Eartha Kitt and Freddie Jones. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b0512j5y (Listen) SUN Absent Friends, Maya Angelou SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Mahalia Jackson to Ray Charles, author SUN and poet Maya Angelou shares her castaway choices with SUN Michael Parkinson. From August 1987. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b010023q (Listen) SUN Backwards and in High Heels, Fascinating Marion SUN Stories of women quietly outperforming the men in their SUN lives. Commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of SUN Ginger Rogers, who famously did everything that Fred Astaire SUN did - only backwards and in high heels. SUN 'Fascinating Marion' by Joan Smith. Teenager Stella is SUN horrified when her practical mother invests in an outlandish SUN hat. Read by Melody Grove. SUN Journalist, critic and novelist Joan Smith is the author of SUN the 'Loretta Lawson' detective novels and writes a regular SUN column for The Independent. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b0505t34 (Listen) SUN Transformation 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 if we are the sum of our experiences, SUN or can we choose our own path? With Zak Ebrahim. SUN SUN 11:45 Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels b00cl32x (Listen) SUN Fule's Gold SUN After 40 years teaching creative writing, sneaky Mr Fisher SUN discovers a masterpiece. Short story read by Stephen Moore. SUN SUN 12:00 MD Markham - Absent Omnibus b05126qf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Snapshots in the Dark b0075qf8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 b00vs0f0 (Listen) SUN Firefighters in the future no longer stop fires, but start SUN them by burning books. But one has forbidden doubts. Dark SUN futuristic tale starring Michael Pennington. SUN SUN 15:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zdbmj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00s6rcj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b0512pxn (Listen) SUN Iain Stirling, Castle Ruins SUN Mel Giedroyc presents the best of this week's 4 O'Clock SUN Shows, including a chat with The Dog Ate My Homework SUN presenter Iain Stirling and a trip round some fantastic SUN castle ruins. SUN SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008f3cs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00cyywl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 The Man in Black b017glqm (Listen) SUN Series 4, Containment SUN A self-storage facility off the A12 offers hope to a lost SUN soul, but there's a sinister price attached. SUN Mark Gatiss returns as the sinister raconteur, The Man in SUN Black, to introduce David Lemon's tale. Starring Clare SUN Corbett as Helen, Rikki Lawton as Andy and Carl Prekopp as SUN Tom. SUN More horrifying tales from The Man in Black. You might meet SUN him at a luggage carousel in an airport, or behind the desk SUN at an employment agency or he might approach you in the SUN corridor of a care home. Wherever you encounter him, he's SUN eager to pass on his stories. Stories to unsettle and SUN horrify. Stories to haunt you. SUN Director: Gemma Jenkins SUN THE WRITER: SUN David's first feature 'Faintheart', a Film4 production SUN starring Eddie Marsan, was the closing film at the 2008 SUN Edinburgh International Film Festival and nominated for the SUN Michael Powell award. David also wrote the short films SUN 'Monsters and Rabbits' (for FilmLondon) and 'Dead Happy' SUN (for Sky Movies). He has also written for the BBC1 daytime SUN TV drama "Doctors" and the Nickelodeon children's comedy SUN 'Summer In Transylvania'. 'Containment' is David's radio SUN debut. SUN Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra. First broadcast in February SUN 2011. SUN SUN 18:30 Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner b007jrkq (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Three allies with psychic powers help 12-year-old Jarral SUN fight an evil prince. Douglas Hill's sci-fi fantasy stars SUN Eric Allen. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b0505t34 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels b00cl32x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] SUN SUN 20:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zdbmj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00s6rcj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b0512j5y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b010023q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Sketchorama b01kjt9h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Elvenquest b00w22h6 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN Amis' over-eating has forced him to put on weight. Which SUN would be fine, were it not for the fact that he is the SUN "Chosen One" and everyone knows Chosen Ones cannot be seen SUN to be too pudgy. He is a role model after all. So the SUN Questers take him to see the sorcerer, Dietica, where he is SUN put on a punishing new regime - along with the rest of our SUN noble band of heroes. SUN But, as ever, danger lurks round every corner in Lower Earth SUN and it is not long until Dietica reveals his true plans for SUN the Questers. And it involves more than just staying away SUN from carbs. SUN An all-star cast, featuring: SUN Stephen Mangan as "Sam", SUN Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", SUN Sanjeev Bhaskar as "Dietica", SUN Kevin Eldon as "Dean/Kreech", SUN Darren Boyd as "Vidar", SUN Dave Lamb as "Amis - The Chosen One" SUN Sophie Winkleman as "Penthiselea" SUN The producer is Sam Michell. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b051vl16 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SUN to Mark Thomas. SUN SUN 23:00 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b01gw5lw (Listen) SUN Series 3, Oil Rig SUN The footloose upper-class student finds himself slumming it SUN with Scottish roughnecks. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From SUN January 2005. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00dhlff (Listen) SUN Series 4, How to Stop Time SUN Jon Ronson wonders how we slow down or even stop time in a SUN world which seems to be constantly accelerating. He talks to SUN the scientist who claims to be developing a method of time SUN travel and eventually hopes to visit the father who died in SUN his childhood. He also talks to a man who holds the world SUN record for staying awake the longest, thereby doubling his SUN time. Guests include comedian Danny Robins. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 The Man in Black b017glqm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner b007jrkq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b0512j5y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b010023q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zdbmj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00s6rcj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Sketchorama b01kjt9h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451 b00vs0f0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008f3cs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00cyywl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Wimsey b007jvn8 (Listen) MON Strong Poison, Ten Minutes in Bloomsbury MON Upper crust sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey enlists inside help to MON try and clear authoress Harriet Vane. MON Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Ambrosine MON Phillpotts as Miss Climpson, Ann Bell as Harriet Vane and MON Gabriel Woolf as Chief Inspector Parker. MON British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a MON number of detective novels and short stories by English MON crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. Strong Poison was first MON published in 1930. MON Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord MON Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton MON and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First MON World War. MON Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio MON from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations MON that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. MON Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller. MON Producer: Simon Brett. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1976. MON MON 06:30 The Funny Thing About Muslims b007qwzz (Listen) MON Sarfraz Manzoor explores the view that Muslims lack a sense MON of humour. MON Writer and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor, himself a practising MON Muslim, talks to Muslim comics, comedy writers and scholars MON about what makes their fellow-believers laugh. How far can MON Muslim humour go about their faith? How does it compare to MON the way other religions and cultures laugh at themselves ? MON And what subjects - if any - are off-limits? MON Producer: Mohini Patel. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2008. MON MON 07:00 North East of Eden b01hc5tl (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Marcia's errant boyfriend makes his presence felt, and MON religious fever grips the island. Stars Rebecca Front. From MON July 1997. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b04yfssy (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 5 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. Lloyd Langford, Josh Widdicombe, Susan MON Calman and David O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to MON talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as MON fakes, holes, cats and Marie Antoinette. 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: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: Josh Widdicombe MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: David O'Doherty MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jl9m (Listen) MON Series 1, Command Decision MON Mainwaring's platoon gets an offer of weapons, but there's a MON catch. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From February 1974. MON MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show b007js4v (Listen) MON From 22/01/1984 MON From a Tibetan mystic to the entire United Nations, the MON ultimate one-man show written by the host. From January MON 1984. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b00qp1ch (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of MON quotations and anecdotes. With David Nobbs, Justin Webb, MON Marcel Berlins and Naomi Gryn. The reader is Peter MON Jefferson. MON Credits MON Producer: Sam Bryant MON MON 09:30 Mr Blue Sky b01132yy (Listen) MON Series 1, Get Well Soon MON Harvey Easter is a family man, tone-deaf piano seller and MON eternal optimist. Bittersweet sitcom with Mark Benton. From MON May 2011. MON MON 10:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00sr4hr (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Prince Myshkin courageously returns to Russian society, MON after years abroad being treated for epilepsy. Stars Paul MON Rhys. MON MON 11:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories MON b03w3071 (Listen) MON Helicopter Jean MON A father and daughter take a poignant woodland walk. MON Ruth Gemmell reads a selection of stories from Alison MON Moore's atmospheric, and sometimes dark, debut collection. MON Alison Moore was born in Manchester in 1971. Her stories MON have been published in various magazines and anthologies MON including Best British Short Stories 2011. She has been MON shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Manchester MON Fiction Prize, and won first prize in the novella category MON of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes. Her first novel, MON The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize MON 2012. MON Abridged and produced by Jeremy Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4 Extra. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b050sbzh (Listen) MON Rory Bremner, Kris Marshall, Pauline Black, Peter Duncan, MON David McAlmont, Nadine Shah MON Clive Anderson is joined by Sara Cox, Rory Bremner, Kris MON Marshall, Pauline Black and Peter Duncan for an eclectic mix MON of conversation, music and comedy. With music from David MON McAlmont and Nadine Shah. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Kris Marshall MON ‘Death in Paradise’ is on Thursday 5th February at 21.00 on MON BBC One. MON Rory Bremner MON 'Rory Bremner's Coalition Report: From Here To Austerity' is MON on Tuesday 3rd February at 22.00 on BBC Two. MON Pauline Black MON The Selecter are touring until 28th March. They’re playing MON at Guildhall, Gloucester on Thursday 19th, City Hall, MON Salisbury on Friday 20th and The Brook, Southampton on MON Saturday 21st February. Check their website for details. MON Pauline’s last BBC Radio 6 Music show is currently available MON on BBC iPlayer. MON Peter Duncan MON ‘Birdsong’ is at Fairfield Halls, Croydon from Wednesday 4th MON to Saturday 7th February and then touring until Saturday 4th MON July. Check the website for further dates. MON David McAlmont MON ‘David McAlmont & Guy Davies: Fingersnap Live’ is on MON Thursday 5th February at Manchester’s Contact Theatre. MON Fingersnap are playing at The Barn at The Railway Inn, MON Winchester on Saturday 11th April. MON Nadine Shah MON ‘Fast Food’ is available on 6th April on Apollo. MON Nadine is playing at The Haunt, Brighton on Friday 10th, MON King Tut's, Glasgow on Monday 13th and The Deaf Institute, MON Manchester on Tuesday 14th April. MON Credits MON Presenter: Clive Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Sara Cox MON Interviewed Guest: Rory Bremner MON Interviewed Guest: Kris Marshall MON Interviewed Guest: Pauline Black MON Interviewed Guest: Peter Duncan MON Performer: David McAlmont MON Performer: Nadine Shah MON Producer: Sukey Firth MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jl9m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show b007js4v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Wimsey b007jvn8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Funny Thing About Muslims b007qwzz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00y9y8k (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Judith Kerr's classic novel for children set in Berlin in MON 1933, as Adolf Hitler's election campaign is underway. Read MON by Rosemary Leach. MON First published in 1971, Judith's semi-autobiographical MON story tells the story of nine year-old Jewish girl Anna and MON her family's attempt to escape from the Nazis - passing MON through Switzerland and France - before arriving in England MON in 1936. MON Judith wrote it for her son to explain her own story of her MON family fleeing Nazi Germany. Her father was a drama critic MON and a distinguished writer whose books were burned by the MON Nazis. MON Kerr found herself a fairly willing refugee, seeing her long MON travels as a great adventure. A view her parents went to MON great pains to confirm, often hiding their own personal and MON professional privations and struggles from their young MON children. MON Abridged by Elizabeth Bradbury and produced by Peter MON Hutchings. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1991. MON MON 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvsd2 (Listen) MON Philosopher Scientists MON Heather Couper considers Greek Philosopher Thales's idea MON that natural forces, not actions by gods, caused natural MON disasters. MON MON 14:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w46nz (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The villagers enjoy Sarah's inaugural creamy creation as she MON recalls life selling chocolate. Stars Eleanor Bron and MON Sylvia Sims. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00r93pj (Listen) MON Chopin: Prince of the Romantics, Episode 1 MON Adam Zamoyski's biography of the brief but eventful life of MON the great Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, from Polish MON child prodigy to Paris dandy, his turbulent relationship MON with George Sand and his early death, penniless in Paris. MON Chopin's prodigious talent as a pianist is recognised early MON on. But despite being lauded as the great nationalist hope MON in his native Poland, where his polonaises and mazurkas are MON inspired by the harmonies of Polish folk songs, the teenage MON Chopin soon becomes stifled by the provincialism of Warsaw. MON At 19, he leaves Poland for the temptations of bohemian MON Paris, never to live in his homeland again. MON Abridged by Doreen Estall. MON MON 15:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00sr4hr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b0513x56 (Listen) MON Five Children on the Western Front and Just So Science MON Mel Giedroyc presents the winner of the Costa Children's MON Book Award, Five Children on the Western Front, by Kate MON Saunders. Read exclusively by Sharon Rooney. MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b00lh0tj (Listen) MON Series 4, Sobering Thoughts MON Dennis renews his pursuit of Liza, and the demon drink MON presents a problem for Bill and Faith. Stars James Bolam. MON From July 1992. MON MON 17:30 North East of Eden b01hc5tl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 Quote... Unquote b00qp1ch (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b05166kz (Listen) MON Brian Aldiss and Richard Fortey MON Sarah LeFanu is joined by award-winning sci-fi writer Brian MON Aldiss and author and palaeontologist Dr Richard Fortey to MON discuss three favourite paperbacks by T Coraghesson Boyle, MON Bernhard Schlink and Graham Greene. From 1999. MON The Tortilla Curtain by T. Coraghesson Boyle MON Publisher: Bloomsbury MON The Reader by Bernhard Schlink MON Publisher: Phoenix MON Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene MON Publisher: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jl9m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show b007js4v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Wimsey b007jvn8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Funny Thing About Muslims b007qwzz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories MON b03w3071 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b050sbzh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b04yfssy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Mr Blue Sky b01132yy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b050c4sq (Listen) MON Series 45, Episode 4 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a comic take on the MON week's news. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON MON 23:30 As Told to Craig Brown b00bfp2j (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 6 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 03 FEBRUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00y9y8k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvsd2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w46nz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b00r93pj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Quote... Unquote b00qp1ch (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b05166kz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Wimsey b007jvn8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 The Funny Thing About Muslims b007qwzz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00sr4hr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories TUE b03w3071 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b050sbzh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b00lh0tj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 North East of Eden b01hc5tl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Wimsey b007jvng (Listen) TUE Strong Poison, Norman Urquhart TUE Lord Peter Wimsey ponders a changed will, and whether TUE Harriet's lover took his own life. Stars Ian Carmichael and TUE Peter Jones. TUE TUE 06:30 Caught on Film b00d44xj (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. At Bologna's festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, TUE Matthew Sweet discovers how our cinematic heritage is TUE disintegrating. From August 2008. TUE TUE 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Four b014sntd (Listen) TUE Happiness Is Work TUE Edward is now in charge of the environment, but for how TUE long? Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay. From April TUE 1985. TUE TUE 07:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b05077kz (Listen) TUE Series 6, Reece Shearsmith TUE Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests 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 Reece Shearsmith had never had a driving lesson - until now. TUE Marcus also persuades him to try wallpapering for the first TUE time. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Interviewed Guest: Reece Shearsmith TUE TUE 08:00 Yes Minister b007jmj1 (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Writing on the Wall TUE Jim's big plans to slim down the Civil Service come home to TUE roost. Stars Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne. From TUE November 1983. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b0516tq7 (Listen) TUE From 24/05/1964 TUE It's the tickling season with Dickie Mint, and meet the TUE world's worst! With Patricia Hayes and Val Doonican. From TUE May 1964. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b050c4sq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Bristow b007v1dg (Listen) TUE Series 3, The Good, the Bad and the Temporary TUE With a new girl in town, the clerk knows his office isn't TUE big enough for both of them. Stars Michael Williams. From TUE July 2000. TUE TUE 10:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srkfz (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Despite the dark tales he has heard about her, Prince TUE Myshkin eagerly heads to Nastasya's birthday party. Stars TUE Alex Jennings. TUE TUE 11:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories TUE b03w3jdx (Listen) TUE Jetsam TUE A lonely man takes his father's old diving equipment out to TUE sea. TUE Ruth Gemmell reads a selection of stories from Alison TUE Moore's atmospheric, and sometimes dark, debut collection. TUE Alison Moore was born in Manchester in 1971. Her stories TUE have been published in various magazines and anthologies TUE including Best British Short Stories 2011. She has been TUE shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Manchester TUE Fiction Prize, and won first prize in the novella category TUE of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes. Her first novel, TUE The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize TUE 2012. TUE Abridged and produced by Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4 Extra. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00qx43c (Listen) TUE Robin Glendinning - Edith's Story TUE 4 Extra Debut. The true story of 16-year-old Edith Scholem, TUE forced to flee Berlin in 1934 as her family was arrested. TUE Stars Emerald O'Hanrahan. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Eoin OCallaghan TUE TUE 12:00 Yes Minister b007jmj1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b0516tq7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Wimsey b007jvng (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Caught on Film b00d44xj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00y9ycj (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story set in Berlin. As TUE elections loom, Anna's father disappears. Read by Rosemary TUE Leach. TUE TUE 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvsc7 (Listen) TUE Wheels Within Wheels TUE Heather Couper reflects on astronomer Ptolomy, who wrote 13 TUE volumes listing over 1000 stars and 48 constellations around TUE AD150. TUE TUE 14:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w4lt1 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Rosie harks back to her 21st birthday to reveal a shameful TUE chocolate memory. Stars Sylvia Syms, Paula Wilcox and TUE Eleanor Bron. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00r93pg (Listen) TUE Chopin: Prince of the Romantics, Episode 2 TUE Adam Zamoyski's biography of the brief but eventful life of TUE the great Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, from Polish TUE child prodigy to Paris dandy, his turbulent relationship TUE with George Sand and his early death, penniless in Paris. TUE The young Chopin arrives in bohemian Paris, capital of the TUE artistic world and home of the Romantic movement. Before TUE long he becomes one of the most celebrated figures in TUE Parisian society, and something of a dandy. But he longs for TUE Poland, realising that it is unlikely he will return to his TUE homeland again. TUE Abridged by Doreen Estall. TUE TUE 15:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srkfz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b05178t0 (Listen) TUE Gemma Arterton, Tony Robinson and 'Five Children on the TUE Western Front' TUE Mel Giedroyc wishes star Gemma Arterton a happy birthday, TUE Tony Robinson chooses two top books for younger readers and TUE we hear the very moving story of WWI's Chocolate Soldieri. TUE TUE 17:00 Ring Around the Bath b00tvqmr (Listen) TUE Series 2, Space Perception TUE Desperate to move house, Stella tries burying the hatchet TUE with the neighbours. Stars Penny Downie. From November 2004. TUE TUE 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four b014sntd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 The Now Show b050c4sq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 18:30 Comedy's Coming Home b00800by (Listen) TUE Curtis Walker TUE The comedian travels from south London to Jamaica, TUE birthplace of his parents, to find out how universal TUE laughter really is. From March 2002. TUE TUE 19:00 Yes Minister b007jmj1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b0516tq7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Wimsey b007jvng (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Caught on Film b00d44xj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories TUE b03w3jdx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00qx43c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b05077kz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Flight of the Conchords b007k17r (Listen) TUE Neil Finn Saves the Day! TUE After the band splits, Jemaine holds auditions in the TUE toilets. Stars Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. From TUE October 2005. TUE TUE 23:00 Scrooby Trevithick b00s0vd8 (Listen) TUE Performer TUE Flawed wannabe Scrooby tries to become a performer, having TUE had a surprise internet hit with some dodgy karaoke. Stars TUE Andy Parsons. From April 2010. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE TUE 23:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01nl7wn (Listen) TUE Series 5, Meter Reading Chic TUE Fifth series of the hit Radio 4 series, with more shop-based TUE shenanigans and over the counter philosophy courtesy of TUE 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 final episode of the series, Ramesh decides it's TUE time to ponder retirement from the corner shop game, but has TUE to decide who will carry on his shop legacy and take over TUE the Fags, Mags and Bags empire. 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 Mr Hepworth: Tom Urie TUE Hilly: Kate Brailsford TUE Bras Jeff: Steven McNicol TUE Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE Writer: Sanjeev Kohli TUE Writer: Donald McLeary TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00y9ycj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvsc7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w4lt1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b00r93pg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 The Now Show b050c4sq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] WED WED 01:30 Comedy's Coming Home b00800by (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Wimsey b007jvng (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Caught on Film b00d44xj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srkfz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories WED b03w3jdx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00qx43c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Ring Around the Bath b00tvqmr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four b014sntd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Wimsey b007jvnj (Listen) WED Strong Poison, Miss Murchison WED Christmas interrupts Lord Peter Wimsey's investigation, but WED some suspicious powder isn't what it seems. Stars Ian WED Carmichael. WED WED 06:30 The Singer and the Song b010n408 (Listen) WED Comic legend Norman Wisdom discusses Don't Laugh at Me and WED other tunes from his career. With Mike Craig. From February WED 1993. WED WED 07:00 The Older Woman b02qt773 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED Roy tries to impress Jane with some campaigning local WED journalism. With Zoë Wanamaker and Martin Clunes. From WED February 1993. WED WED 07:30 What Does the K Stand For? b0507mbg (Listen) WED Series 2, A Royal Visit WED Stephen K Amos' sitcom about his own teenage years, growing WED up 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 Fergie: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Moira S: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Ms Hunt: Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b00yc3jt (Listen) WED Going Dutch WED Sent to Whittlesea Bay, Troutbridge runs out of fuel near WED some windmills in Holland. Stars Jon Pertwee. From November WED 1959. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00srqfn (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED The explosive Flying Wombat - and insulted Italians. Series WED 4 kick off with more sketches and songs. WED Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally WED edited for sale abroad. WED Starring John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, David WED Hatch and Jo Kendall. WED Scripted by John Cleese, Bill Oddie, Clive James, David WED Hatch, Eric Idle and Graeme Garden. WED With music from Dave Lee and his band. WED Produced by Humphrey Barclay WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1966. WED WED 09:00 Foul Play b00zshr5 (Listen) WED Series 4, Dead as a Parrot WED Crime writers Ian Rankin and Stella Duffy ponder a case of WED footballers and models. Chaired by Simon Brett. From October WED 1998. WED WED 09:30 Spread a Little Happiness b00z09bn (Listen) WED Series 2, What Are We Going to Do About Maria? WED Written by John Godber and Jane Thornton. WED Debra Stephenson plays Hope, newly divorced and helping her WED old schoolfriend Jodie with her new project, bringing WED designer sandwiches to the hinterland of Hull. But Hull WED seems more interested in bumper breakfast baps than smoked WED salmon bagels, and Jodie's had to go to Portugal in a hurry, WED leaving Hope to hold the fort. So the arrival of Hope's WED cousin Maria, from Dagenham (Nicola Duffett) is a bonus, WED until she starts bringing her southern ideas to a northern WED makeover, and her advice to Hope's relationship with WED ex-husband Gavin. WED Jodie's husband Dave is none too pleased with the makeover WED either, but comes round when Hope and Maria agree to look WED after his Mam while he plumbs in toilets in Goole. Add in a WED persistent swain in the form of passionate roadmender Ray , WED triumphant divorcee and anxious would-be poet Jenny, posh WED restaurant reviewer Anita and Hope's moody teenage daughter WED Carrie, and you have all the ingredients for six episodes of WED radio bliss. WED Cast: WED Hope ..... Debra Stephenson WED Maria ..... Nicola Duffett WED Dave ..... Neil Dudgeon WED Mam ..... Anne Reid WED Ray ..... Shaun Prendergast WED Gavin ..... Ralph Brown WED Jenny ..... Sarah Moyle WED Anita ..... Sherry Baines WED Carrie ..... Elizabeth Godber WED Eve ..... Helen Longworth WED Bob ..... Ben Crowe WED Monty ..... Stephen Critchlow WED Blinds man ..... James Weaver WED Producer/Director: Chris Wallis WED An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srqfj (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Prince Myshkin analyses his feelings for the spoilt but WED captivating Nastasya and the more timid Aglaya. Stars Paul WED Rhys. WED WED 11:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories WED b03w3v6n (Listen) WED Small Animals WED Why has Kath been avoiding people, shut away in her remotely WED situated house? Her friends Marilyn and Hannah investigate. WED Ruth Gemmell reads a selection of stories from Alison WED Moore's atmospheric, and sometimes dark, debut collection. WED Alison Moore was born in Manchester in 1971. Her stories WED have been published in various magazines and anthologies WED including Best British Short Stories 2011. She has been WED shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Manchester WED Fiction Prize, and won first prize in the novella category WED of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes. Her first novel, WED The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize WED 2012. WED Abridged and produced by Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4 Extra. WED WED 11:15 Katie Hims - Lulu b0075xsx (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. Lonely Lulu is the tallest at school, with a WED terrible secret. She made a wish about her sister and it WED came true. Stars Polly Lister. From September 2000. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b00yc3jt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00srqfn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Wimsey b007jvnj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Singer and the Song b010n408 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00yb45z (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Tension mounts as Anna and her family leave Berlin. Judith WED Kerr's semi-autobiographical story, read by Rosemary Leach. WED WED 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvscc (Listen) WED Mathematics of the Sky WED Astronomer Heather Couper considers the contribution of the WED Islamic scholar, poet and mathematician Omar Khayyam. WED WED 14:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w5jbt (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Charlotte recalls how chocolate led to a French adventure WED with a stranger. Stars Sylvia Syms, Paula Wilcox and Carolyn WED Pickles. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00r93vv (Listen) WED Chopin: Prince of the Romantics, Episode 3 WED Adam Zamoyski's biography of the brief but eventful life of WED the great Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, from Polish WED child prodigy to Paris dandy, his turbulent relationship WED with George Sand and his early death, penniless in Paris. WED Chopin meets the most notorious woman of the day, the WED cigar-toting, cross-dressing writer George Sand. Not long WED after, the two raise eyebrows in Parisian society when they WED become lovers. The unlikely couple set out for Majorca where WED ill health and the suspicions of the locals almost result in WED Chopin's early demise. WED Abridged by Doreen Estall. WED WED 15:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srqfj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b051cl1x (Listen) WED Five Children on the Western Front and Stephen Fry's WED Inheritance Tracks WED Mel Giedroyc finds out how to make musical instruments from WED vegetables, Stephen Fry chooses his Inheritance Tracks and WED we hear the amazing true story of the Cottingley Fairies. WED WED 17:00 Miracles R Us b00sg1hh (Listen) WED Domestic Arrangements WED The man lurking outside turns out not to be the private WED detective Sylvia supposes, but a potential client. He has WED inadvertently encouraged a middle-aged American academic, in WED whom he has no romantic interest, to have hopes of a shared WED future. She is arriving next week. Can MiraclesRus help? WED Caroline...............................Deborah Findlay WED Sylvia...............................Anna Massey WED James Linnet ...........................David Horovitch WED Mary Beth Haldeman............... Laura Shavin WED Pianist...............................Jeremy Limb WED Written by Lesley Bruce WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Music and stings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: "When WED the Day is Done" and stings: "Time of No Reply" and "Cello WED Song". WED WED 17:30 The Older Woman b02qt773 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 Foul Play b00zshr5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076k0b (Listen) WED Rogues WED Jake Arnott, Katie Hickman and Michael Dobbs dissect the WED cliché about rogues being 'lovable'. With Mathew Parris. 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 b00yc3jt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00srqfn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Wimsey b007jvnj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Singer and the Song b010n408 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories WED b03w3v6n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Katie Hims - Lulu b0075xsx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? b0507mbg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 The Odd Half Hour b00w7bv1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED Comedy sketch show starring Kevin Bishop, Stephen K Amos, WED Doon Mackichan, Justin Edwards & Jessica Ransom. In this WED third episode, we meet a woman who believes crystals solve WED everything, learn about a brand new pension plan and also WED hear Madeline the naughty cellist upset yet another WED conductor. WED Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. WED WED 23:00 On the Hour b007k4vr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED Reports of a right royal shocker, plus Alan Partridge with WED all the sport. Chris Morris fronts the news satire. From May WED 1992. WED WED 23:30 The Skivers b007zn0j (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED Peter Sissons and Alan Hansen's secrets are revealed. Nick WED Golson and Tim de Jongh welcome guest Henry Cooper. From WED February 1995. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00yb45z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvscc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w5jbt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b00r93vv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Foul Play b00zshr5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076k0b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Wimsey b007jvnj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 The Singer and the Song b010n408 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srqfj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories THU b03w3v6n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Katie Hims - Lulu b0075xsx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Miracles R Us b00sg1hh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 The Older Woman b02qt773 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Wimsey b007jvnm (Listen) THU Strong Poison, Pongo THU Lord Peter Wimsey's trail goes cold, until a stolen will THU brings fresh enlightenment. Stars Ian Carmichael and Peter THU Jones. THU THU 06:30 Music Feature b00chw4k (Listen) THU Vaughan Williams: Late Love, Late Life THU Julian Lloyd Webber examines the impact of composer Ralph THU Vaughan Williams's affair with Ursula Wood on his life and THU music. The affair began in March 1938, when he was 66 and THU Ursula 25, and lasted until 1951, when they were able to THU marry following the death of his wife Adeline. THU THU 07:00 Any Other Business b013cnyp (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Chesbury FC is in dire straits, but Lady Mayoress Graham is THU determined to save the day. Stars June Whitfield. From June THU 1995. THU THU 07:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b050bhnq (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 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, perform two sell-out runs at the Edinburgh THU festival and win lots of awards. 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 In this final episode, she talks about why she's not THU grateful Russell Brand has stopped being a sexist, what THU happens when you wear an end FGM badge on a popular TV show THU and why politics has a women problem. 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 b007jrs5 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Expert Witness THU Rookie barrister Roger Thursby must bone up for a medical THU case. THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. With John THU Le 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... b007jq9g (Listen) THU The Unknown THU David Jason explores fork bending, time travel and things THU that go bump in the night. With Sheila Steafel. From October THU 1977. THU THU 09:00 The Personality Test b007sq67 (Listen) THU Series 3, Andrew Neil THU Comedy quiz presented by a new guest host, with broadcaster THU and former Sunday Times Editor Andrew Neil taking the chair THU in this edition. Facing Andrew's quirky quiz are comedians THU Sue Perkins, Caroline Quinlan, Robin Ince and Will Smith. THU THU 09:30 Alison and Maud b007k449 (Listen) THU Series 2, Men Misbehaving But Only Slightly THU The landlady sisters plan a celebration for Father's 85th THU birthday. Stars Miriam Margolyes, Denise Coffey and Joss THU Ackland. From April 2004. THU THU 10:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srvkn (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Nastasya and Aglaya meet to talk over their feelings for THU Prince Myshkin, as he begins to fear for his life. Stars THU Paul Rhys. THU THU 11:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories THU b03w3y3x (Listen) THU The Egg THU William's impressive collection of birds' eggs lacks only THU one thing: an egg from a mute swan. THU Ruth Gemmell reads a selection of stories from Alison THU Moore's atmospheric, and sometimes dark, debut collection. THU Alison Moore was born in Manchester in 1971. Her stories THU have been published in various magazines and anthologies THU including Best British Short Stories 2011. She has been THU shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Manchester THU Fiction Prize, and won first prize in the novella category THU of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes. Her first novel, THU The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize THU 2012. THU Abridged and produced by Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4 Extra. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b011p607 (Listen) THU Andy Merriman - A Monstrous Vitality THU by Andy Merriman THU June Whitfield stars as the indomitable actress Margaret THU Rutherford in a tale of chimpanzees, Jordanian Princes, an THU adoring husband and falling in love with a musician 30 years THU her junior. THU Director: David Hunter. THU Credits THU Margaret: June Whitfield THU Malcolm: Ryan McCluskey THU Stringer: Sean Baker THU Rumer: Gabrielle Lloyd THU Prince Juan: Adeel Akhtar THU Driver: Lloyd Thomas THU Chimp trainer: Sally Orrock THU Doctor: Sam Dale THU Writer: Andy Merriman THU Director: David Hunter THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b007jrs5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq9g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Wimsey b007jvnm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Music Feature b00chw4k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00yb490 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story. Anna and her THU family become refugees in Zurich. Read by Rosemary Leach. THU THU 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvsch (Listen) THU The Earth Moves THU Astronomer Heather Couper considers the impact of THU Copernicus's idea that the Earth was not at the centre of THU the universe. THU THU 14:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w5rkw (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Clementine remembers her stint as the owner of the Muchly THU Bottom village chocolate shop. Stars Paula Wilcox and THU Eleanor Bron. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00r93vx (Listen) THU Chopin: Prince of the Romantics, Episode 4 THU Adam Zamoyski's biography of the brief but eventful life of THU the great Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, from Polish THU child prodigy to Paris dandy, his turbulent relationship THU with George Sand and his early death, penniless in Paris. THU Though Chopin is at the height of his musical powers, he is THU constantly plagued by ill health. And when his relationship THU with the notorious George Sand breaks down, he begins to THU lose his inspiration. THU Abridged by Doreen Estall. THU THU 15:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srvkn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b051d901 (Listen) THU JK Rowling, Harry Potter and Sherlock Holmes THU Mel Giedroyc celebrates the first Harry Potter Night, THU uncovers the secrets of super sleuth Sherlock Holmes and THU hears from a girl who is determined to go to Mars. THU THU 17:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue b007jx7h (Listen) THU The Resurrection of Reverend Carswell THU Shocks galore for the hapless vicar, with his congregation THU stolen and his shock new title. Stars James Grout. From THU April 1991. THU THU 17:30 Any Other Business b013cnyp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 The Personality Test b007sq67 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076f9j (Listen) THU David Lloyd George THU Athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson chooses her Welsh compatriot, THU politician David Lloyd George. With Humphrey Carpenter. THU The biographical series in which a distinguished guest THU chooses someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero THU stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of THU having led a great life? From 2003. THU THU 19:00 Brothers in Law b007jrs5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq9g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Wimsey b007jvnm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Music Feature b00chw4k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories THU b03w3y3x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b011p607 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b050bhnq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Down the Line b00qhqvb (Listen) THU Series 1, Animals at War 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 b00tt5pw (Listen) THU Mr Swallow THU Nick Mohammed (Reggie Perrin, I'm Sorry I've Got No Head) THU stars as lifestyle guru Mr Swallow as he presents his memory THU technique to a live studio audience. 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 b00cqhr3 (Listen) THU Series 1, Edinburgh 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 A very special passenger makes Douglas grovel, Martin crawl, THU Carolyn frisk and Arthur cry and drink nail varnish. 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 Mr Birling ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Philip ...... Adam G Goodwin. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00yb490 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvsch (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w5rkw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b00r93vx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 The Personality Test b007sq67 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076f9j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Wimsey b007jvnm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Music Feature b00chw4k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Fyodor Dostoevsky - The Idiot b00srvkn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories FRI b03w3y3x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Afternoon Drama b011p607 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue b007jx7h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Any Other Business b013cnyp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Wimsey b007k440 (Listen) FRI Strong Poison, Turkish Delight FRI Can Lord Peter Wimsey finally clear Harriet Vane's name and FRI persuade her to take his? Stars Ian Carmichael and Peter FRI Jones. FRI FRI 06:30 Music Feature b00c5j0l (Listen) FRI Why Do We Sing? FRI Gareth Malone explores how man developed the vocal FRI capability to sing. He investigates how singing as we know FRI it today began hundreds of millions of years ago and how FRI prehistoric man used a type of vocal communication which FRI could be called the precursor of singing. He finds out how FRI this changed and developed as man evolved and explores what FRI this tells us about human communication and how our FRI relationship with song has grown out of moments in early FRI history. FRI FRI 07:00 Little Blighty on the Down b0081l6c (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI Leader Mrs Roberts experiences the poor state of local FRI trains first-hand. Political satire with Jo Kendall. From FRI August 1990. FRI Credits FRI Actor: Barry Evans FRI Actor: George Layton FRI Actor: Geoffrey Davies FRI FRI 07:30 Gloomsbury b01n1vlc (Listen) FRI Series 1, Desperately Seeking Peace and Quiet 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 new 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 In Episode Two, the novelist Ginny Fox is visiting her FRI friends Vera Sackcloth-Vest and Henry Mickleton, who live in FRI a modest unassuming little castle in Kent. FRI Ginny has writer's block, so Vera tries desperately to FRI provide peace and quiet, gagging the blackbirds and cloaking FRI the gravel paths in velvet. But their tranquil idyll is FRI shattered by the explosive arrival of Venus Traduces, FRI hell-bent on recapturing Vera's heart with a series of FRI appalling musical serenades. FRI Ginny's tiresome husband Lionel has followed her incognito FRI with a portfolio of herbal remedies, but Henry manages to FRI detain him in the pantry whilst Ginny and Vera dive under FRI the covers to devour a steamy new book, Lady Hattersley's FRI Plover by the intriguing proletarian writer D.H. Lollipop. FRI The chums emerge flushed and enthralled, convinced that they FRI must meet D.H. Lollipop and experience his dangerous animal FRI magnetism at first hand. FRI Cast: FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes FRI Gosling, her Gardener ..... Nigel Planer FRI Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy FRI Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks FRI Mrs Gosling, Housekeeper ..... Alison Steadman FRI Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman FRI Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k1nm (Listen) FRI The Rail Strike FRI The lad gets a green signal, but a bumpy ride lies ahead. FRI Stars Tony Hancock, Sid James and Kenneth Williams. From FRI June 1955. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry b007jnrc (Listen) FRI Bill Stickers Is Innocent FRI The bumbling civil servants scale new heights for Sir FRI Gregory's poster campaign. With Deryck Guyler. From FRI September 1970. FRI FRI 09:00 Jest a Minute b017ptbk (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI Greg Davies, Eggsy, Lloyd Langford and Chris Corcoran join FRI Rhod Gilbert for the comedy quiz from Cardiff. From January FRI 2009. FRI FRI 09:30 Gush b051h0n6 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Cravate and Pomeroy are joined by another prisoner and they FRI plan their escape. With Caroline Quentin. From December FRI 1994. FRI FRI 10:00 Jill Paton Walsh - The Wyndham Case b007jsrd (Listen) FRI When a Cambridge student is found dead, is it just a tragic FRI accident or is something sinister afoot? Stars Carolyn FRI Pickles. FRI FRI 11:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories FRI b03w46lf (Listen) FRI Static FRI Over the last 40 years, Wilfred has never wanted anyone but FRI Dorothy. But he's never been a great romantic. FRI Ruth Gemmell reads a selection of stories from Alison FRI Moore's atmospheric, and sometimes dark, debut collection. FRI Alison Moore was born in Manchester in 1971. Her stories FRI have been published in various magazines and anthologies FRI including Best British Short Stories 2011. She has been FRI shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Manchester FRI Fiction Prize, and won first prize in the novella category FRI of The New Writer Prose and Poetry Prizes. Her first novel, FRI The Lighthouse, was shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize FRI 2012. FRI Abridged and produced by Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4 Extra. FRI FRI 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b036y49b (Listen) FRI The Sitter FRI Bulldog is 82 when a new visitor inspires memories of his FRI death-defying flights and exotic love affairs. Stars Maurice FRI Denham. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k1nm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry b007jnrc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Wimsey b007k440 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Music Feature b00c5j0l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00yb61d (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Unable to get published in Zurich, Papa travels to Paris. FRI Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story. Read by Rosemary FRI Leach. FRI FRI 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00bvscm (Listen) FRI The Imperfect Cosmos FRI Astronomer Heather Couper looks at Tycho Brahe's realisation FRI that the heavens change, but that a planet's orbit could be FRI predicted. FRI FRI 14:30 Moya O'Shea - The Chocolate Lovers' Club b00w6f7p (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Mysterious Mrs Drexl is last to share a chocolate tale, and FRI the members soon discover why. Moya O'Shea's tale with FRI Sylvia Syms and Paula Wilcox. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00r93vz (Listen) FRI Chopin: Prince of the Romantics, Episode 5 FRI Adam Zamoyski's biography of the brief but eventful life of FRI the great Romantic composer Frederic Chopin, from Polish FRI child prodigy to Paris dandy, his turbulent relationship FRI with George Sand and his early death, penniless in Paris. FRI As Paris is shaken by revolution, Chopin seeks refuge in FRI Scotland, where he is forced to fend off the attentions of FRI several well-meaning 'Scottish Ladies'. Returning to Paris, FRI his health deteriorates rapidly and, relying on the FRI benevolence and support of his friends, he retreats to his FRI apartment, where he begins to make plans for his own FRI sumptuous funeral. FRI Abridged by Doreen Estall. FRI FRI 15:00 Jill Paton Walsh - The Wyndham Case b007jsrd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b051h5qp (Listen) FRI Five Children, Frank Cottrell Boyce and JM Barrie FRI Mel Giedroyc presents the final chapter of the Costa-winning FRI Five Children on the Western Front, by Kate Saunders, read FRI by Sharon Rooney. Plus walking in JM Barrie's footsteps. FRI FRI 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00l2jgz (Listen) FRI Series 4, To the Barricades FRI Miss Featherstone gets arrested. Is she the right sort of FRI person to teach children? Stars Marlene Sidaway and Brigit FRI Forsyth. FRI FRI 17:30 Little Blighty on the Down b0081l6c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Jest a Minute b017ptbk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books b0120w1q (Listen) FRI Series 2, Dr Tony Pollard FRI 1/8 Dr Tony Pollard is a renowned archaeologist, academic FRI and writer. His novel The Minutes of the Lazarus Club was FRI described by one reviewer as a rip-roaring historical FRI thriller. He's presented television programs and used his FRI skills to help find a mass war grave. FRI Talking to Stuart Cosgrove he explains how the book Ring of FRI Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell directly led to his father FRI up-routing the family and moving them to the west coast of FRI Scotland. FRI Tony goes on to pick these books. FRI The Washing of The Spears by Donald R Morris. FRI An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. FRI Dilys Powell's memoir The Villa Ariadne. FRI Le Grand Meulnes by Alain Fournier. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k1nm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry b007jnrc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Wimsey b007k440 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Music Feature b00c5j0l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Alison Moore - The Pre-War House and Other Stories FRI b03w46lf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Peter Tinniswood b036y49b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Gloomsbury b01n1vlc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Radio Shuttleworth b007ynmh (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI Matthew Kelly joins Sheffield singer John for a special FRI edition of Stars in Their Eyes. With Mitch Benn. From March FRI 2000. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b052kwwp (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats FRI to Nick Mohammed. FRI FRI 23:00 Daydream Believers b007kq40 (Listen) FRI Written by and starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, this FRI comedy follows the parallel stories of flatmates tetchy Ray FRI and aimless Colin, and the mighty alien empire of Baron FRI Amstrad and his hi-tech android, Info. FRI Colin starts attending ante-natal classes in the hope of FRI finding a girlfriend, and Colin and Ray's kitchen is FRI suddenly infested with ants. Meanwhile, in the infinite FRI reaches of space, Baron Amstrad is feeling a bit broody, and FRI the galaxy is suddenly invaded by ruthless alien hordes. FRI FRI 23:30 The In Crowd b0085jgt (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 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 b01gk2wm (Listen) FRI Househunting FRI Separated and homeless, Dave muses on life outside his FRI temporary storage pod home. Stars Reece Shearsmith. From FRI September 2007. FRI
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