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SAT SATURDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit b00yzj5s (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT The family have sad news from Berlin but hope from England. SAT Judith Kerr's semi-autobiographical story. Read by Rosemary SAT Leach. SAT SAT 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00byr2l (Listen) SAT The Celestial Police SAT Astronomer Heather Couper looks at the work of the planet SAT hunter Johann Bode, who patrolled the dark cosmic alleyways. SAT SAT 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xj958 (Listen) SAT The Wedding SAT The Queen proposes to her husband of choice. Drama based on SAT letters and diaries. Stars Imogen Stubbs. SAT SAT 00:45 Richard Ingrams - The Life and Adventures of William SAT Cobbett b0076shs (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Time is nearly up as Cobbett pens a last register. But even SAT on his death bed, some merriment shines through. Biography SAT of the renowned political reformer, read by Oliver Ford. SAT SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute b0183rrm (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 6 SAT Paul Tonkinson, Tom Wrigglesworth, Lloyd Langford and Chris SAT Corcoran join Rhod Gilbert for his comedy quiz. From January SAT 2009. SAT SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books b0124scw (Listen) SAT Series 2, Sue Arnold SAT 2/8 If there is one thing Sue Arnold knows about it is SAT books. SAT As an author and journalist she is known for her sharp SAT social observations and she currently reviews audio books SAT for a national newspaper. Sue made the headlines herself SAT when controversially she wrote about cannabis improving her SAT deteriorating sight. Now she has changed her position on the SAT drug as she explains to Stuart Cosgrove. SAT Sue picks four of her favourite titles and explains about SAT the book she's bought but never finished. SAT Titles: SAT 1: The Aubrey-Maturin nautical series by Patrick O'Brien. SAT 2:: The Simple Subs Guide by Leslie Sellers SAT 3: The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G.Farrell SAT 4: Address Unknown by Kressman Taylor SAT 5: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. SAT SAT 02:00 Ruth Rendell - The Keys to the Street b01nf2h0 (Listen) SAT By His Own Hand SAT Mary Jago is shocked by Alastair's wedding present and Bean, SAT once a suspect, has now vanished. Concluded by Claudie SAT Blakley. SAT SAT 02:30 The Number One Ladies' Opera House b00plfkq (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Pauline McLean follows No 1 Ladies' Detective SAT Agency creator Alexander McCall Smith's opera project in SAT Botswana. From October 2009. SAT SAT 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq3z (Listen) SAT Marriages Remain SAT Jude the stonemason aspires to the spires of Christminster. SAT Starring Constance Chapman and Michael Pennington. SAT SAT 04:00 Stories by Anton Chekhov b00qbb8r (Listen) SAT Bad Weather SAT Or to put it another way, what has the husband been up to in SAT Moscow? Alistair McGowan reads Constance Garnett's SAT translation. SAT SAT 04:15 Aelish Michael - Dreaming of Foxes b01s2yc9 (Listen) SAT Ted Hughes is reunited with a long-lost school friend nearly SAT 50 years on. But what do they have in common? Stars Robert SAT Garrett. SAT SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00l74dt (Listen) SAT Series 4, Turning the Tables SAT It's quiz time, but Mr Maxwell is lacking a team. An SAT ex-pupil has got problems too. With Marlene Sidaway. From SAT April 2005. SAT SAT 05:30 Living With the Enemy b0077154 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth star as a SAT comedian who is now a holistic therapist and a Tory MP who SAT is now a media figure. From November 2006. SAT SAT 06:00 David Pownall b01shn7f (Listen) SAT Under the Table SAT Witnessing the impact of war from under the kitchen table, a SAT boy tackles Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. Stars Kenneth SAT Cranham. SAT SAT 07:30 Freedom Pass b00sgzk6 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Sexagenarians Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew use free SAT travel to venture forth on their local public transport. SAT From September 2004. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00ln0b7 (Listen) SAT Soho! SAT The singer Suggs returns to London's Soho, where he spent SAT much of his unconventional childhood and where his jazz SAT singer mother still lives. He was introduced to the delights SAT of the Colony Club as a six-year-old, and as a musician he SAT continued to haunt the district. Recording on location and SAT mining the BBC archive, Suggs investigates how this unique SAT community, complete with red-light district and village SAT school, functions today, and whether it is still, or indeed SAT ever was, a source of inspiration or merely a creative SAT vacuum. SAT For decades, Soho was regarded as Britain's capital of SAT sleaze and vice, but also a place where artists, writers, SAT musicians and actors came to drink and philosophise. Tales SAT of the area and its inhabitants abound, from painter Francis SAT Bacon and George Melly at Muriel Belcher's infamous Colony SAT Club to Jeffrey Bernard and Keith Waterhouse at the Coach SAT and Horses and Dylan Thomas at The French House. Soho was SAT the birthplace of British pop, with the skifflers, jazzers SAT and early rock 'n' rollers all making their names in the SAT coffee bars of the 1950s. It was also the home of refugees SAT of every type, including political dissidents, foreigners SAT and homosexuals, from Casanova to Karl Marx, and Quentin SAT Crisp to George Melly. SAT Yet in the 1950s, a new phrase was coined: 'Soho-itis'. It SAT was said that if you enter Soho you will never get any work SAT done, and you will never, ever leave. Many books, poems, SAT songs and indeed careers were washed away with drink, but SAT some artists, musicians and writers did survive the late SAT nights, the fights and the booze, and took great inspiration SAT from the place. SAT SAT 09:00 Listening to Les Dawson b03b2n4d (Listen) SAT Ray Peacock is joined by Ken Dodd, Neil Innes, Lee Mack, SAT Robin Ince, Gillian Reynolds and David Nobbs, introducing SAT rare interviews, routines and programmes including In The SAT Psychiatrist's Chair, Les reading his own novel, Come Back SAT With the Wind, Marriott's Monologues, Whirligig and Listen SAT To Les. SAT Producer: Laura Baron SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in Sept 2013. SAT Listening to Les Dawson - Featured programmes SAT The Listening to Les Dawson special features the following SAT archive programmes, alongside specially recorded interviews SAT with people who knew him, worked with him or just love his SAT work, including Robin Ince, Lee Mack, David Nobbs, Ken Dodd, SAT Neil Innes and Gillian Reynolds: SAT In the Psychiatrist's Chair SAT (c. 40 minutes) SAT Les Dawson speaks to Dr. Anthony Clare in an honest and open SAT interview recorded the week before his death in June 1993. SAT Come Back with the Wind SAT (c. 15 minutes) SAT Les Dawson reads the first part of his own novel, published SAT in 1991. You can hear the rest of the story throughout next SAT week, SAT weekday afternoons at 14:45 on BBC Radio 4 Extra SAT Whirligig: Tubby The Tuba SAT (c. 18 minutes) SAT Les Dawson performs the Hans Christian Andersen story Tubby SAT The Tuba with the BBC Concert Orchestra. SAT Marriot’s Monologues SAT (c. 15 minutes) SAT Les Dawson performs Marriot Edgar’s monologues *The Channel SAT Swimmer* and *The Recumbent Posture** SAT ** SAT * SAT Listen to Les SAT (c. 27 minutes) SAT A compilation episode of the Radio 2 series starring Les SAT Dawson with Roy Barraclough, Daphne Oxenford and Colin SAT Edwynn. SAT SAT 12:00 AM Smith - 44 Scotland Street b0528px2 (Listen) SAT The Blue Spode Tea Cup: Omnibus SAT Quirky tales and goings-on as we rejoin the residents of a SAT fictional tenement in Edinburgh's Georgian New Town. SAT SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential b01kn6d8 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Innocence SAT Charles Dickens draws Agnes and Jack into a murky world of SAT prostitution and opium, and an old adversary appears. Stars SAT Jamie Glover. SAT SAT 14:00 Not in Front of the Children b0524hhh (Listen) SAT Series 1, House in a Tree SAT Jennifer berates her headstrong husband Henry who's due in SAT court over his somewhat shaky treehouse. SAT Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as SAT Henry Corner and Fanny Rowe as Mother. SAT The comedy mishaps of the Corner family: Jennifer and Henry SAT and their three children Trudi, Amanda and Robin. Family SAT sitcom, Not in Front of the Children originally ran for four SAT series from 1967 to 1970 on BBC TV. Richard Waring adapted SAT his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored SAT from the original reel-to-reel tapes. SAT Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV SAT version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was SAT the first of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to SAT play on television. Later series included And Mother Makes SAT Three and Butterflies. SAT Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst SAT Producer: Trafford Whitelock. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1969. SAT SAT 14:30 The Navy Lark b00yk0n7 (Listen) SAT The Figurehead SAT Fatso Johnson whittles for all he's worth when Pertwee SAT enters the antique market. Stars Leslie Phillips. From SAT November 1959. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ln0b7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 David Pownall b01shn7f (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Gloomsbury b01n6vn5 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The St Ives School of Painting SAT The writer and transvestite Vera Sackcloth-Vest and her SAT bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox, go down to St Ives in SAT search of the writer of very naughty books Mr D.H. Lollipop. SAT Their husbands, Henry and Lionel, accompany them, hoping to SAT prevent their wives from succumbing to the dangerous animal SAT magnetism of Lollipop, whose book Lady Hattersley's Plover SAT has scandalized and unsettled them all. SAT Vera's persistent and flamboyant admirer Venus Traduces SAT arrives, desperate to re-kindle their Sapphic passion. SAT However she is distracted when, on the cliff path, she meets SAT a thin man with a red beard who exudes animal magnetism. He SAT informs her that his wife is away in London being painted by SAT Augustus John, invites Venus to call him Dave, and ravishes SAT her in the brambles. SAT Meanwhile, though Vera and Ginny seem to search in vain for SAT Lollipop, he is always much closer than they think. SAT Cast: SAT Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes SAT Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy SAT Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks SAT Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman SAT Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer SAT DH Lollipop ..... John Sessions SAT Produced by Jamie Rix SAT A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson b007js8d (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Haensel warns Elise, and Saul is summoned by Selwyn. More SAT time-hopping mystery in Roman Bath, starring Robert SAT Glenister and Sharon Duce. SAT SAT 18:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace b007jpf4 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Fresh from incarceration, 69-year-old George Smith has SAT attracted the attention of OAP terrorists. Stars Stephen SAT Moore. SAT SAT 19:00 Listening to Les Dawson b03b2n4d (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Tim Minchin and Friends b007knth (Listen) SAT A marvellous collision of mirth and piano from the SAT award-winning singer and songwriter. With Justin Edwards. SAT From January 2007. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b053psbg (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SAT to Richard Herring. SAT SAT 23:00 Mark Steel's in Town b00s0g1p (Listen) SAT Series 2, Dumfries SAT Comedian Mark Steel travels to the Scottish border town of SAT Dumfries, where he discovers a bloodthirsty history and SAT seagull-hating inhabitants who are obsessed with the poet SAT Robert Burns. SAT Written and Performed by Mark Steel. SAT Producer Julia Mckenzie. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Julia McKenzie SAT SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show b00mrtdl (Listen) SAT Series 1, Religion SAT Exploring a fresh theme each week, the Irish comedian hosts SAT stand-up and sketches. With Ivan Brackenbury. From July SAT 2008. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson b007js8d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace b007jpf4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b00ln0b7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 AM Smith - 44 Scotland Street b0528px2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Dickens Confidential b01kn6d8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 David Pownall b01shn7f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Gloomsbury b01n6vn5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xlw19 (Listen) SUN Omnibus, part 1 SUN A portrait of the extraordinary Queen's life, marriage and SUN achievements, based on letters and diaries. Stars Imogen SUN Stubbs. SUN SUN 07:15 Snapshots in the Dark b0075qgn (Listen) SUN Four Legs Muybridge SUN Colin Ford discovers how Eadweard Muybridge's photos of SUN animals revolutionised our understanding of movement. From SUN December 1999. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b014qxbj (Listen) SUN Series 7, The Prisoner SUN Clare in the Community returns with Sally Phillips as Clare SUN Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but SUN never a practical solution. SUN A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering SUN in other people's lives on both a professional and personal SUN basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and SUN heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of SUN discomfort to her. SUN Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control SUN both her professional and private life. In her private life SUN Clare is struggling to come to terms with Brian's SUN infidelity. Will their relationship survive? SUN In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out SUN there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. SUN Episode One 'The Prisoner' Cast: SUN Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS SUN Brian: ALEX LOWE SUN Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI SUN Ray: RICHARD LUMSDEN SUN Helen: LIZA TARBUCK SUN Simon: ANDREW WINCOTT SUN Libby: SARAH KENDALL SUN WPC Petherington: SOPHIE THOMPSON SUN Mr. Chisholm: GERARD MCDERMOTT SUN Mr Barton: SIMON BUBB SUN Shuliman Olibaju/Annabel: VICTORIA INEZ HARDY SUN School Girl: GEORGIA LOWE SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Produced by Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 08:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zl7rv (Listen) SUN From 23/06/1963 SUN The popular comedian stars in Johnny Speight's sketches. SUN With Nicholas Parsons, Patricia Hayes and Janie Marden. From SUN June 1963. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00scz3j (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 13 SUN Bona news on the Isle of Man, and it ends with an anthem. SUN Stars Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From SUN July 1970. SUN SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008fdb8 (Listen) SUN Under the Umbrella SUN Jo writes the story of her family's life, and finds true SUN love at last. Stars Buffy Davis and Gayle Hunnicutt. SUN SUN 09:30 Just William - Live! b007jy2q (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Sweet Little Girl in White SUN Violet Elizabeth Bott arrives in the scruffy schoolboy's SUN life. Martin Jarvis plays all of Richmal Crompton's SUN characters. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b052mjsz (Listen) SUN Oscar Winners, Richard Dreyfuss SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Beethoven to Paul Simon, the SUN Oscar-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss makes his castaway SUN choices. With Sue Lawley. From May 1999. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b0100lg3 (Listen) SUN Backwards and in High Heels, Sharing the Joke 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 'Sharing the Joke' by Reginald Hill. A chief constable SUN remembers her big break as she looks back over her career at SUN her retirement dinner. Read by Wendy Seager. SUN Acclaimed novelist and CWA Diamond Dagger winner Reginald SUN Hill is the author of series including the 'Dalziel and SUN Pascoe' novels. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b052mvg1 (Listen) SUN Brand Over Brain SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN In this episode, Guy Raz investigates the seductive power of SUN brands and how we can tell the differences between the real SUN and the created value of things. With filmmaker Morgan SUN Spurlock. SUN SUN 11:45 Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting b01djtls (Listen) SUN Blood SUN An average, normal man comes to terms with his strange SUN midlife addiction - raw steak. Short stories by the Irish SUN novelist, read by Declan Conlon. SUN SUN 12:00 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xlw19 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Snapshots in the Dark b0075qgn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Morse b007k4jl (Listen) SUN Last Seen Wearing SUN Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an SUN old missing person case from a dead colleague, but murder is SUN Morse's speciality and the case soon has complications. SUN Stars John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis. SUN Music by Wilfredo Acosta SUN Dramatised by Guy Meredith SUN Directed by Ned Chaillet SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1994. SUN SUN 15:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zl7rv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00scz3j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b052mwnq (Listen) SUN Mel Giedroyc is back with highlights of the past week on the SUN 4 O'Clock Show including a guide to Star Wars sound effects, SUN why we love superstition and how to eat peanuts in space. SUN SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008fdb8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Just William - Live! b007jy2q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 The Man in Black b0180hnl (Listen) SUN Series 4, The Beaten Track SUN Mark Gatiss introduces Dawn King's tale of a young couple SUN ignoring warnings on a New Zealand getaway. Stars SUN Christopher Webster. SUN SUN 18:30 Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner b007jrr6 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Jarral and his friends head to Prince Mephtik's garden, SUN where a battle awaits them. Stars Eric Allen and Ben SUN Onwukwe. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b052mvg1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting b01djtls (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] SUN SUN 20:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zl7rv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00scz3j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b052mjsz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b0100lg3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b014qxbj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Elvenquest b00wdjz9 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN The search for the Sword of Asnagar is put on hold when SUN Vidar is summoned home by his father. Meanwhile Lord SUN Darkness also returns home from his Necromancer's SUN convention, proud holder of the "Medal of Chang", the prize SUN for being "Necromancer's Necromancer". However, it turns out SUN that Lord Darkness may not have won it entirely fairly so he SUN sets about trying to cover his tracks. SUN The fates of Lord Darkness and the Questers are drawn SUN together when they both end up having to cross the Gorge of SUN Doom. But first they must pass the mysterious Bridge Keeper SUN who controls the only passage across. And he charges a heavy SUN price... SUN An all-star cast, featuring: SUN Stephen Mangan as "Sam", SUN Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", SUN Gus brown as "The Bridge Keeper" 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 Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto (Goodness Gracious SUN Me, The Kumars At No.42) SUN The producer is Sam Michell. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b053psq3 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SUN to Richard Herring. SUN SUN 23:00 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b01hl2gc (Listen) SUN Series 3, Chalet Girl SUN Despite a lack of any obvious qualifications, Giles gets a SUN job on the ski slopes of France. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. SUN From February 2005. SUN SUN 23:30 Meet David Sedaris b00rp3dy (Listen) SUN Series 1, Six-to-Eight Black Men; Just a Quick Email SUN From Carnegie Hall to the BBC Radio Theatre - American SUN humorist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection SUN of published stories and articles. SUN Christmas traditions in the Netherlands attract David's SUN attention in 'Six to Eight Black Men'; some guilty secrets SUN are revealed in Just a Quick Email and we also hear selected SUN extracts from his diary. SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Credits SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 The Man in Black b0180hnl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Douglas Hill - The Blade of the Poisoner b007jrr6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b052mjsz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b0100lg3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 The Arthur Haynes Show b00zl7rv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00scz3j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Clare in the Community b014qxbj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Morse b007k4jl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008fdb8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Just William - Live! b007jy2q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1cwl (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Mark's world spins out of control when someone says they've MON seen the ghost of his dead son. MON American writer Christopher Coake's You Came Back is read by MON John Chancer. MON Thirty-something Mark Fife believes he has moved on from the MON accidental death of his young son Brendan and the subsequent MON break-up of his marriage. He's successful, in love again, MON and he thinks he's mastered his own memories at last. But MON when a strange woman tells him she believes her house is MON haunted by Brendan's ghost, his life is thrown into turmoil. MON Mark doesn't believe in ghosts, but his distressed ex-wife MON does, and he really wants to help her. So much so that he MON begins to doubt his own beliefs - and endanger the MON relationships that really matter to him now - with his MON fiancee and his tough and sceptical father. MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership. MON MON 06:30 Music Feature b00d6zqj (Listen) MON Musical Comedy Was My Dish MON Ben Elton explores a forgotten side of his greatest literary MON hero. PG Wodehouse wrote lyrics for hundreds of songs which MON appeared in many musical comedies. He worked with composers MON such as Jerome Kern and Cole Porter, making an invaluable MON contribution to the development of musical comedy on MON Broadway and in the West End. MON MON 07:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00tt6px (Listen) MON Series 4, The German Pilot MON Stanley Baxter and Rona Munro have been collaborating for MON some years now on the stories in The Stanley Baxter MON Playhouse; last year listeners were full of praise for MON Stanley's performance in Rona's Playhouse story -The Man In MON the Garden. MON This story is a wartime romance set in rural Scotland in the MON second world war. MON Friedrich is a German pilot whose plane is shot down over a MON remote rural area in the west of Scotland. He is a prisoner MON of war, and initially local feelings against him are MON vitriolic; but he, like everyone in the community in which MON he finds himself, is a cattle farmer, and as his English MON improves, he forms strong bonds with his captors, and forges MON an unlikely friendship which, many years later, brings him MON back to Scotland. MON Cast: MON Fred ... Stanley Baxter MON Friedrich ... Sam Peter Jackson MON Beth ... Vicki Liddelle MON George ... John Ramage MON Stanley, a past master in accents and impersonation, plays MON the older Friedrich, looking back over sixty years to tell MON the story. John Ramage and Vicki Liddelle play the other MON parts, with Sam Peter Jackson, [son of the composer Mick MON Jackson who wrote the disco hit 'Blame It On The Boogie'] MON who was brought up in Germany and is completely bi lingual, MON playing the young German pilot. MON Rona Munro is one of Scotland's most highly regarded MON playwrights, with award winning films [Ken Loach's Lady Bird MON Lady Bird] and television dramas [Rehab] and her Edinburgh MON International Festival success The Last Witch to her credit. MON Producer: Marilyn Imrie MON A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Producer: Catherine Bailey MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b051ryqd (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 1 MON It's the return of Radio 4's classic panel game in which the MON contestants are challenged to speak on a given subject for a MON minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, MON Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and MON trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth MON doctor, David Tennant. MON Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in MON Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its MON 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. MON Kicking off this first episode in the series are Julian MON Clary, Stephen Fry, Paul Merton and David Tennant who makes MON his first impressive appearance on the show. Subjects MON include Exit, Pursued by a Bear, which is Shakespeare's most MON famous stage direction. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Julian Clary MON Panellist: Stephen Fry MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: David Tennant MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jlfs (Listen) MON Series 1, The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage MON A machine gun post sparks invasion mayhem for the platoon. MON Adapted from TV, with Arthur Lowe and Clive Dunn. From MON February 1974. MON MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00jjq7x (Listen) MON From 05/02/1984 MON From playing Dame Nellie Drongo to a prehistoric caveman, MON it's the ultimate one-man show, written by the host. From MON February 1984. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b00r0qh9 (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of MON quotations and anecdotes. MON With Ken Bruce, Valerie Grove, Ben Goldacre and Kwame MON Kwei-Armah. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Credits MON Producer: Sam Bryant MON MON 09:30 Mr Blue Sky b011j7v3 (Listen) MON Series 1, Birthday Greetings MON Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal MON optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the MON silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every MON bit of bad news. MON This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass MON is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his MON wife of 19 years, Jacqui or "Jax" (played by Rebecca Front), MON knows all too well. MON In this episode Harvey and Sean's jobs are put in the firing MON line whilst Robbie discovers a new love of birds...for the MON time-being. MON Cast: MON Harvey Easter...Mark Benton MON Jacqui Easter.....Rebecca Front MON Charlie Easter....Antonia Campbell-Hughes MON Robbie Easter....Joe Tracini MON Rakesh Rathi....Navin Chowdhry MON Ray Marsh....Justin Edwards MON Sean Cahoun....Michael Legge MON Mr Bolt....Simon Day MON Writer ..... Andrew Collins MON Title Music performer/arranger ..... Jim Bob MON Producer/Director ..... Anna Madley MON An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq4d (Listen) MON So Near, So Far MON Yearning for a scholarship, stonemason Jude Fawley moves to MON Christminster and meets his cousin Sue. Stars Michael MON Pennington. MON MON 11:00 OxCrimes b052n4df (Listen) MON The Spinster MON This collection of crime writing features a compelling cast MON of suspects. Following the success of OxTales (2009) and MON OxTravels (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of MON crime writing. We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 MON Extra. A Scottish spinster with a buried secret, a man MON obsessed with casual murder and an artist's fascination with MON truth - all figure in this intriguing array of tales. MON Among the readers are Ewan Bailey and Maggie Steed. Writers MON include 2008/2010 Stonewall Writer of the Year Stella Duffy MON (Room Of Lost Things, Theodora), multiple award-winning MON Inspector Rebus creator Ian Rankin OBE, Ann Cleeves (Vera, MON Shetland) and sometime Murder One bookshop MON owner-turned-crime-writer and columnist Maxim Jakubowski. MON 1: Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez interviews a Scottish MON spinster with a buried secret. Read by Sheila Reid. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b0520prf (Listen) MON Maxine Peake, Christopher Biggins, Helen Lederer, Tara Prem, MON Nikki Bedi, Eduardo Niebla, Southern Tenant Folk Union MON Clive's guests are Maxine Peake who stars in 'How To Hold MON Your Breath' written by Zinnie Harris and directed by Vicky MON Featherstone at London's Royal Court; Christopher Biggins - MON host of a special performance of 'Sing-a-long-a Sound of MON Music' at Hackney Empire, London in aid of Comic Relief and MON Helen Lederer, one of Britain's best-loved comediennes - who MON has written 'Losing It' a laugh-out-loud debut novel. Nikki MON Bedi talks to Tara Prem, producer and script editor of film MON and TV drama about the BFI Southbank season of Forgotten MON Dramas - British Television's Neglected Plays. With Music MON from Eduardo Niebla and Southern Tenant Folk Union. MON Producer: Debbie Kilbride. MON Christopher Biggins MON ‘Sing-a-Long-a Sound of Music for Comic Relief’ is at MON London's Hackney Empire on Wednesday 18th February. MON Maxine Peake MON ‘How To Hold Your Breath’ is at London’s Royal Court until MON Saturday 21st March. MON ‘Hamlet’ is in cinemas from Monday 23rd March. MON Tara Prem MON ‘TV’s Forgotten Dramas’ is at London’s BFI until Monday 26th MON February. MON Helen Lederer MON ‘Losing It’ is published by Pan Macmillan and available now. MON Helen is also launching a new comedy prize for female comedy MON writers: Comedy Women In Print (CWIP) later this year. MON Eduardo Niebla MON ‘I Can Fly Now’ is available now on Eduardo’s own label. MON Eduardo is playing at Colchester Arts Centre on Saturday MON 14th February. MON Southern Tenant Folk Union MON ‘The Chuck Norris Project’ is available now on Johnny Rock MON Records. MON Southern Tenant Folk Union are playing at Acorn Theatre, MON Penzance on Saturday 14th, Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham MON on Sunday 15th February and The Spirit Store, Ireland on MON Tuesday 3rd March. MON Credits MON Presenter: Clive Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Maxine Peake MON Interviewed Guest: Christopher Biggins MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Lederer MON Interviewed Guest: Nikki Bedi MON Interviewed Guest: Tara Prem MON Performer: Eduardo Niebla MON Performer: Southern Tenant Folk Union MON Producer: Debbie Kilbride MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jlfs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00jjq7x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1cwl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Music Feature b00d6zqj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2slh (Listen) MON Henry James - The Aspern Papers, Episode 1 MON Henry James took as his inspiration for his tale The Aspern MON Papers the story of a mistress of Byron's who outlived the MON poet into lonely old age. He transposed the setting to MON Venice and cast the city he loved as a character in a taut MON narrative of literary theft and deception. MON Episode 1 MON The lure of previously unseen papers relating to the MON long-dead poet Jeffrey Aspern brings one of his editors to MON Venice in the grip of an obsession. He must see them, he MON must have them; and he will lie and betray in order to do MON so. MON Read by Samuel West. MON Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. MON MON 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c0ny8 (Listen) MON Plumbing the Depths MON Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. MON The science of astrophysics has emerged over the past 300 MON years. It began with the first attempts to measure the MON distances of the stars but took off in late Victorian times MON with the invention of the spectroscope, a device to split MON starlight up into its component wavelengths. This led to an MON understanding of the composition of stars and the discovery MON of a new element on the Sun. MON MON 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xmbyx (Listen) MON The Newly Weds MON The newlyweds return to Buckingham Palace. Based on the MON diaries and letters of Queen Victoria. Stars Imogen Stubbs. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00qzh56 (Listen) MON Patti Smith - Just Kids, Episode 1 MON Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New MON York in the late 1960s and 1970s. MON In 1966, Patti is living in South Jersey with her family and MON seems destined to become a schoolteacher. MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne. MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq4d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b052n79s (Listen) MON Junior JAM, The Witches and Cream Crackers MON Mel Giedroyc introduces the first in a new series of Junior MON Just a Minute and the first episode of Roald Dahl's The MON Witches, read by Kathy Burke. MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b00lmqtv (Listen) MON Series 4, Faint Possibility MON Liza earns cult status after baring her lovelife on Woman's MON Hour. Stars Lynda Bellingham and Belinda Lang. From July MON 1992. MON MON 17:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00tt6px (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 Quote... Unquote b00r0qh9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075jkj (Listen) MON Rob Newman and Sara Wheeler MON Sarah LeFanu, Rob Newman and Sara Wheeler discuss books by MON David C Korten, Robert Byron and Margaret Forster. From MON April 1999. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jlfs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00jjq7x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1cwl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Music Feature b00d6zqj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 OxCrimes b052n4df (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b0520prf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b051ryqd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Mr Blue Sky b011j7v3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b051w4dt (Listen) MON Series 45, Episode 6 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical MON stand-up and sketches featuring Laura Shavin, Jon Holmes, MON John Finnemore and Adam Kay. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Laura Shavin MON Performer: Jon Holmes MON Performer: John Finnemore MON Performer: Adam Kay MON MON 23:30 Listen Against b00fl0gk (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON Time runs away in preparations for the switch-on of the BBC MON Collider. Radio rearranged by Jon Holmes. From November MON 2008. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2slh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c0ny8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xmbyx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b00qzh56 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Quote... Unquote b00r0qh9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b0075jkj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1cwl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Music Feature b00d6zqj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq4d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 OxCrimes b052n4df (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b0520prf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b00lmqtv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00tt6px (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1yr7 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Tracked down by a woman who lives in the house where his son TUE died, Mark's future happiness is threatened. Read by John TUE Chancer. TUE TUE 06:30 Calling Time on Student Bars b00npr8d (Listen) TUE Alcohol sales in student unions have halved in past decade; TUE some bars have closed, and others have downsized. Comedian TUE Ed Byrne returns to the city of his student days, Glasgow, TUE to find out if that notorious institution, the student union TUE bar, has had its day. TUE TUE 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01bwm9f (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Edward wakes up with urgent news, but who will listen? TUE Orwellian sitcom with David Threlfall and Hugh Laurie. From TUE April 1987. TUE TUE 07:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b046ny8j (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Nominated for Best Comedy in the BBC Audio Drama Awards TUE 2015, Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' is a comedy sketch TUE show written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd, TUE stars of Radio 4's Showstoppers. TUE What happens when you put together jaded (sorry, TUE 'experienced') comedy circuit veteran Ruth Bratt (Derek, TUE People Just Do Nothing, Quick Cuts, Ministry of Curious TUE Stuff, Mongrels) and 'serious circuit' enthusiast Lucy Trodd TUE (famous for her fruit impressions)? TUE This week Ruth gets to perform her favourite sketch TUE featuring eight different Kens - she just has to get Lucy to TUE understand it. Meanwhile the 1940's divas who run a TUE lighthouse can't work out whose turn it is to switch on the TUE light; and on Wetumpka's public access radio station, TUE Thandie is trying to find her clumsy and slightly terrifying TUE daughter Lily-Rose-May a date. TUE Written and performed by Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd TUE Supporting cast: Adam Meggido and Oliver Senton TUE Script Editor: Jon Hunter TUE Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Performer: Ruth Bratt TUE Performer: Lucy Trodd TUE Actor: Oliver Senton TUE Actor: Adam Meggido TUE Writer: Ruth Bratt TUE Writer: Lucy Trodd TUE Composer: Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE TUE 08:00 Yes Minister b007jmpx (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Right to Know TUE Jim Hacker tries to excavate himself from problems with TUE badgers. Stars Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne. From TUE November 1983. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b007jx2y (Listen) TUE From 07/06/1964 TUE Doddy reports from the Knotty Ash Eisteddfod and introduces TUE the world's worst uncle. With Judith Chalmers. From June TUE 1964. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b051w4dt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Bristow b007w5jb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Repaying Mr Piper TUE The clerk feels surrounded by incompetents, so bumbles TUE towards proving his theory. Stars Michael Williams. From TUE July 2000. TUE TUE 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq4p (Listen) TUE The Curse of Consciousness TUE Jude's deepening relationship with his cousin Sue threatens TUE her teaching career. Stars Michael Pennington and Elizabeth TUE Garvie. TUE TUE 11:00 OxCrimes b052qyll (Listen) TUE An Afternoon; People Just Don't Listen TUE Sheila Read reads Ian Rankin's tale of match violence. TUE Ewan Bailey reads Peter Robinson's reminder about listening TUE carefully. TUE Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels TUE (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. TUE We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra. TUE Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00fz12l (Listen) TUE Tony Staveacre - Wodehouse in Hollywood TUE In 1930 MGM shipped PG Wodehouse out West and thrust TUE $104,000 into his hand - in return for zilch. The stories TUE and novels that Wodehouse created out of his Hollywood TUE experience were his satiric riposte to those that had made a TUE dishonest man out of him. Comedy combining Wodehouse's own TUE writing with dramatised fictional scenes by Tony Staveacre. TUE PG Wodehouse......Tim McInnerny TUE Ethel Wodehouse.....Fenella Woolgar TUE Sam Marx......Rowe David McClelland TUE Dorothy......Fiona Clarke TUE Clarence......Declan Wilson TUE Thalberg/Bobby......Paul Ryder TUE Directed by Stefan Escreet. TUE TUE 12:00 Yes Minister b007jmpx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b007jx2y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1yr7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Calling Time on Student Bars b00npr8d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2sks (Listen) TUE Henry James - The Aspern Papers, Episode 2 TUE Episode 2 of The Aspern Papers by Henry James, read by TUE Samuel West. TUE Jeffrey Aspern's devoted literary editor has broached the TUE palazzo of Aspern's ancient and discarded lover, Miss TUE Juliana Bordereau. He has deceived the fluttering TUE middle-aged niece, Miss Tina, into believing he wants to TUE lodge with them in order to cultivate the garden. Now he has TUE to convince the old lady herself and with great emotion he TUE comes before the Juliana who inspired some of the dead TUE poet's most exquisite lyrics. TUE Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. TUE TUE 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c3fnn (Listen) TUE The Milky Way TUE Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. TUE Galileo realised that the Milky Way was a glowing band of TUE stars across the sky and philosopher Immanuel Kant TUE recognised that our Sun was just one member of a vast star TUE system. But for centuries, few recognised the true nature of TUE our galaxy. In the late 19th century, William Herschel TUE realised that the Milky Way was a giant body of stars, but TUE still his discovery was ignored. It was not until early in TUE the 20th century that Harlow Shapley began to estimate the TUE distances of the stars and hence map out the Milky Way in TUE three-dimensional detail. Radio astronomy finally yielded TUE the ability to penetrate the dark clouds towards the TUE galactic centre and see the true distribution of matter in TUE the skies. TUE TUE 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xmj92 (Listen) TUE The Family TUE A gunshot alarms the royal couple. Based on the diaries and TUE letters of Queen Victoria. Stars Imogen Stubbs. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00r2jkd (Listen) TUE Patti Smith - Just Kids, Episode 2 TUE Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New TUE York in the late 1960s and 1970s. TUE In 1967, Patti is hungry, homeless and penniless, until a TUE chance encounter in a bookstore changes her life for ever. TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq4p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b052qytp (Listen) TUE Ed Sheeran, Roald Dahl and Writing Sheds TUE Mel Giedroyc gives the birthday bumps to singer Ed Sheeran TUE and hears the second episode of Junior Just a Minute. Plus TUE part two of Roald Dahl's The Witches, read by Kathy Burke. TUE TUE 17:00 Ring Around the Bath b00v7sp7 (Listen) TUE Series 2, All Over Bar the Wrapping Paper TUE Stella is determined to get away, but a moveable feast is on TUE the family Christmas menu. Stars Penny Downie. From December TUE 2004. TUE TUE 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01bwm9f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 The Now Show b051w4dt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 18:30 How Tickled Am I? b007k4jm (Listen) TUE Series 2, Beryl Reid TUE Mark Radcliffe presents a profile of a true all-round TUE performer who was equally at home in straight or comedy TUE roles. TUE TUE 19:00 Yes Minister b007jmpx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b007jx2y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1yr7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Calling Time on Student Bars b00npr8d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 OxCrimes b052qyll (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00fz12l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b046ny8j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00hcr5l (Listen) TUE Series 2, Barry Cryer TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites comedian Barry Cryer to try new TUE experiences, including changing a nappy. From February 2009. TUE TUE 23:00 Delve Special b007k469 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Whose Baby? TUE David Lander reports on the implications of revolutionary TUE methods of baby production. Stephen Fry stars as the spoof TUE investigative reporter. From September 1985. TUE TUE 23:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00xpp6b (Listen) TUE Series 3, It's a Family Affair TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. TUE While attempting a bit of spring cleaning, Adam discovers a TUE bundle of long lost love letters addressed to his late Mum - TUE and they're definitely not from his Dad. TUE Adam ...... Lenny Henry TUE Rudy ...... Larrington Walker TUE Richie ...... Joe Jacobs TUE Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey TUE Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon TUE Doreen ...... Claire Benedict TUE Written by Danny Robins TUE Produced by Lucy Armitage. TUE Music used in this epsiode (in order) TUE Miss Jamaica - Jimmy Cliff TUE Put Yourself In My Place - The Elgins TUE Daddy Pop - Prince & The New Power Generation TUE Family Affair - Sly & The Family Stone TUE The Price Is Too High - Slim Harpo TUE It's You (Ska Version) - Toots & The Maytals TUE All Out To Get You - The Beat TUE Hard Man Fe Dead - Prince Buster TUE Love Me Forever - Carlton & The Shoes TUE Credits TUE Adam: Lenny Henry TUE Rudy: Larrington Walker TUE Richie: Joe Jacobs TUE Tasha: Natasha Godfrey TUE Clifton: Jeffery Kissoon TUE Doreen: Claire Benedict TUE Writer: Paula Hines TUE Producer: Lucy Armitage TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2sks (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c3fnn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xmj92 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b00r2jkd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 The Now Show b051w4dt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] WED WED 01:30 How Tickled Am I? b007k4jm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1yr7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Calling Time on Student Bars b00npr8d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq4p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 OxCrimes b052qyll (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00fz12l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Ring Around the Bath b00v7sp7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01bwm9f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1zk2 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Mark and Chloe must face the news that a child living in WED their old home says he has seen their dead son's ghost. Read WED by John Chancer. WED WED 06:30 Hunting Haydn's Head b00kmgrx (Listen) WED Simon Townley tells the story of the theft of the skull of WED composer Joseph Haydn by over-zealous fans, shortly after WED his death in 1809. WED The man who gave the world The Creation, over a hundred WED symphonies and the blueprint for the string quartet, had his WED head stolen by Karl Rosenbaum, the secretary of Haydn's WED employers, the Esterhazy family, and Johann Nepomuk Peter, WED governor of the provincial prison. Their motivation for WED stealing the skull was, it is believed, 'scientific': there WED was at the time a great interest in phrenology, a WED now-discredited scientific movement that attempted to WED associate mental capacities with aspects of cranial anatomy. WED Simon tracks down what happened to the famous head in the WED next 145 years, through being displayed for years at the WED Gesellschaft für Musikfreunde in Vienna in a specially made WED black wooden casket, until it was finally reunited in 1954 WED with Haydn's other remains in a marble tomb in the WED Bergkirche in Eisenstadt. WED He finds out exactly what the phrenologists were hoping to WED achieve with the head of the late composer and ponders the WED curious enthusiasm that fans of classical music have for WED busts of their favourite composers. WED WED 07:00 The Older Woman b02zfp46 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 6 WED A letter and phone calls lift the lid on Jane's chaotic love WED life. Stars Zoe Wanamaker, Martin Clunes and Toyah Willcox. WED From February 1993. WED WED 07:30 The Sinha Carta b051s4qh (Listen) WED Magna Carta is a document, eight hundred years old this WED year, that surprisingly few people have read, considering WED how important it is. Luckily for you, comedian and quizzer WED Paul Sinha (The Sinha Test, The Sinha Games, Paul Sinha's WED History Revision) has read it, and it turns out it's ace, WED especially if you love keeping your own timber and hate WED fishing traps in the River Medway. WED In The Sinha Carta, Paul will explain why what's in it is in WED it - how it came to be - and guide you through some of its WED 63 clauses of medieval Latin. He will also supply some new, WED modern clauses, for a Magna Carta fit for Britain in 2015. WED Written & performed by ... Paul Sinha WED Produced by ... Ed Morrish. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b00yspj3 (Listen) WED The Charter Trip to Antarctica WED A geographical society from Willesden heads to the Antarctic WED aboard HMS Troutbridge. Starring Leslie Phillips. From WED December 1959. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00sxklf (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED It's bath night for John Cleese, plus a nude surprise in an WED art gallery. Sketches and songs with Bill Oddie. From WED October 1966. WED WED 09:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zf4j7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Charlie Brooker returns to Radio 4 with the comedy panel WED show that seeks the best in wrong answers. He plunders his WED guests' pasts and creativity over a series of rounds in WED which panellists have to be wrong to be right. WED Comedians Frank Skinner, Isy Suttie and Jon Richardson are WED the guests for this edition. The panel's worst experiences WED on a day out - which take in the delights of a Birmingham WED underpass, Gatwick Airport and 2 am in Swindon - is just one WED of topics under the wrong spotlight. There's also the WED wrongest ideas for a smartphone app plus Jon Richardson lets WED rip on his pet hate of twenty-first century - sexual WED liberation... WED Charlie Brooker also presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your WED Life, Channel 4's 10 O'Clock Live and writes for The WED Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British WED Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the WED British Comedy Awards 2009. WED Producer: Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Charlie Brooker WED Panellist: Frank Skinner WED Panellist: Isy Suttie WED Panellist: Jon Richardson WED Producer: Aled Evans WED WED 09:30 Spread a Little Happiness b00z60xt (Listen) WED Series 2, An Inspector Calls WED The arrival of a restaurant reviewer from a posh magazine WED puts Hope in a spin. Debra Stevenson and Nicola Duffet star WED in John Godber and Jane Thornton's comedy set in a sandwich WED bar in Beverley, near Hull. WED Cast: WED Hope ..... Debra Stevenson 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 'Spread A Little Happiness' is sung by Debra Stevenson. WED Producer/Director: Chris Wallis WED An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq5l (Listen) WED The Unusual Tragedy of Love WED Confused Jude Fawley meets his newly married cousin Sue, and WED a plan is hatched. Stars Michael Pennington and Elizabeth WED Garvie. WED WED 11:00 OxCrimes b052r0xp (Listen) WED My Life as a Killer WED Casual murder becomes an obsession for a man whose time is WED running out. Read by Ewan Bailey. WED Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels WED (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. WED We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra. WED Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00wlf5m (Listen) WED How to Be an Internee With No Previous Experience WED How to Be an Internee With No Previous Experience WED by Colin Shindler WED In 1944, PG Wodehouse, the creator of Jeeves and Wooster, WED was questioned by MI5 after broadcasting to America from a WED German internment camp. One of the interrogators was an up WED and coming journalist called Malcolm Muggeridge. The other WED was Major EJP Cussen, who later became a high court judge. WED The stakes were high: one of Britain's best loved authors WED was facing the possibility of the death penalty. WED Wodehouse - Tim McInnerny WED Muggeridge - Alex Jennings WED Cussen - Anton Lesser WED Connor - Stephen Critchlow WED Flannery - Gunnar Cauthery WED Producer/Director Peter Leslie Wild. WED Credits WED Producer: Peter Wild WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b00yspj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00sxklf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1zk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Hunting Haydn's Head b00kmgrx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2skv (Listen) WED Henry James - The Aspern Papers, Episode 3 WED Episode 3 of The Aspern Papers by Henry James, read by WED Samuel West. WED The collector of memorabilia belonging to the long-dead poet WED Jeffrey Aspern has secured rooms in the house of Aspern's WED ancient and withered ex-lover. He has met the old lady and WED has been startled by her unromantic keenness to relieve him WED of his money, but he feels any outlay would be worth making WED to secure the letters and papers he wants. Accordingly, he WED embarks on a campaign of charming Miss Bordereau's WED middle-aged niece in order to get her co-operation. Abridged WED and Produced by Christine Hall. WED WED 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c3h3t (Listen) WED Deep Space WED Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. WED In 1845 the third Earl of Rosse completed the biggest WED telescope in the world at his castle in the centre of WED Ireland. In spite of cloudy skies, this leviathan enabled WED him to see spectacular detail in the sky, including a spiral WED structure in certain fuzzy patches known as nebulae. Some of WED these seemed so big that astronomers thought they must be WED rotating clouds of gas out of which planetary systems are WED born. WED Henrietta Swan Leavitt refuted this, studying variable stars WED and realising that a certain type of star varied at a rate WED that was linked to its brightness. These so-called Cepheid WED variables could be used to estimate the vast distances of WED space. WED In 1919, the young Edwin Hubble used a new telescope in WED California to search for Leavitt's Cepheids in spiral WED nebulae. He discovered, to his astonishment, that the WED nearest, the Andromeda nebula, lay well outside our own WED galaxy and constituted an island universe in its own right. WED Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt WED and John Palmer. WED WED 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xmv24 (Listen) WED Albert's Achievements WED The Prince Regent plans the first international exhibition. WED Based on diaries and letters of Queen Victoria. Stars Imogen WED Stubbs. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf3 (Listen) WED Patti Smith - Just Kids, Episode 3 WED Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New WED York in the late 1960s and 1970s. WED In 1969, Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe have moved to the WED Chelsea Hotel, Brooklyn - a magnet for artists, writers and WED musicians. WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq5l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b052r0zz (Listen) WED Nicholas Parsons, Pop Music and 4D Films WED Mel Giedroyc uncovers the Inheritance Tracks of Nicholas WED Parsons and hears the third in a brand new series of Junior WED Just a Minute. Plus part three of Roald Dahl's The Witches. WED WED 17:00 Miracles R Us b00sm8tq (Listen) WED Lot 243 WED Caroline's car gives up the ghost. It will cost more to have WED it mended than the business can afford. WED They have been asked to attend an auction at a country house WED to bid for a Lot for a client and Sylvia will drive them WED there in her car - a car Caroline knew nothing about. They WED turn left all the way. They find the client's item, but, WED also find Caroline's grand-mother's silver dressing table WED set, sold with everything else when her husband's fraud WED brought their lives crashing down. WED Whilst Caroline reflects with a cigarette outside she bumps WED into Lauren, soon to be ex-wife of the pop star who owns the WED house and all the contents that are being auctioned. The WED women, united by events, strike up a friendship. Meanwhile, WED Sylvia meets Lambourn the Gardener and they realise they are WED kindred spirits. WED Caroline..............................Deborah Findlay WED Sylvia..............................Anna Massey WED Lauren..............................Madeleine Bowyer WED Lambourn..............................Trevor Peacock WED Carl Bailey..............................Nigel Hastings WED Auctioneer..............................Michael Shelford 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 b02zfp46 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zf4j7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076k64 (Listen) WED Multicultural Britain WED Matthew Parris welcomes three writers - Reshma S. Ruia, WED Archie Markham and Leone Ross - to a frank discussion. From WED 2004. 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 b00yspj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00sxklf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1zk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Hunting Haydn's Head b00kmgrx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 OxCrimes b052r0xp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00wlf5m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 The Sinha Carta b051s4qh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00cqtgl (Listen) WED Series 2, Motivational Speech WED The ex-variety star tries motivational speaking with a WED snappy slogan and dunce's caps. Stars Steve Delaney. From WED February 2007. WED WED 23:00 On the Hour b007m9zs (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED An outside broadcast goes down and a bluebottle rampages WED across Essex. Chris Morris fronts the news satire. From May WED 1992. WED WED 23:30 The Skivers b0080rd1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED In the final recording at the famous BBC Paris Studios, Nick WED Golson and Tim de Jongh welcome Spike Milligan. From March WED 1995. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2skv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c3h3t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xmv24 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zf4j7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076k64 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r1zk2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Hunting Haydn's Head b00kmgrx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq5l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 OxCrimes b052r0xp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00wlf5m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Miracles R Us b00sm8tq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 The Older Woman b02zfp46 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r2tnv (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Mark and Chloe don't believe in ghosts, but when they try to THU dispel their fears and hopes, nothing is as it seems. Read THU by John Chancer. THU THU 06:30 Salt City b00f7z1s (Listen) THU Allan Beswick visits the last working inland salt mine left THU in Britain, 500 feet below the plains of Cheshire. He goes THU underground to investigate the unexpected things that reside THU down there, in huge empty caverns that are now being used to THU store archive materials. THU THU 07:00 Any Other Business b0140tzv (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU Star Trek fever erupts as a German delegation tours the THU cultural delights of Chesbury. Stars Toby Longworth. From THU July 1995. THU THU 07:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01m16pr (Listen) THU Series 2, Lessington THU by Bill Dare THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre THU adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in THU Lessington where ignorance reigns. THU Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale THU Sharol ..... Jo Bobin THU Cop ..... Fergus Craig THU Cop ..... Colin Hoult THU Guide ..... Patrick Brennan THU Wife ..... Christine Absalom THU Barman ..... Harry Livingstone THU Robber ..... Sam Alexander THU Producer ..... Steven Canny THU This is the second series of this satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and including, Duncan Wisby, Vicki THU Pepperdine, Lisa Dillon, Colin Hoult, Toby Longworth, Adrian THU Scarborough, Dan Tetsell, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Debra THU Stephenson, Colin Hoult, Nina Conti, Jo Bobin and Marcus THU Brigstocke. THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU 08:00 Brothers in Law b007k33c (Listen) THU Series 1, Judgement Summons THU Rookie barrister Roger Thursby finds himself defending a THU fortunate debtor. THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. THU With guest stars John Junkin as Mr Starling and Thorley THU Walters as Judge Perkins. 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 Not in Front of the Children b052svws (Listen) THU Series 1, Just Pack a Toothbrush THU Mary's surprise news leaves Jennifer broody, much to Henry's THU horror. THU Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as THU Henry Corner and Fanny Rowe as Mother. THU The comedy mishaps of the Corner family: Jennifer and Henry THU and their three children Trudi, Amanda and Robin. Family THU sitcom, Not in Front of the Children originally ran for four THU series from 1967 to 1970 on BBC TV. Richard Waring adapted THU his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored THU from the original reel-to-reel tapes. THU Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV THU version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was THU the first of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to THU play on television. Later series included And Mother Makes THU Three and Butterflies. THU Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst THU Producer: Trafford Whitelock. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1969. THU THU 09:00 The Personality Test b007tzff (Listen) THU Series 3, Toyah Willcox THU Pop sensation and actress Toyah Willcox tests a panel about THU herself. With Sue Perkins and Caroline Quinlan. From August THU 2007. THU THU 09:30 House on Fire b0132p8t (Listen) THU Series 2, Love THU The return of House on Fire. Written by Dan Hine and Chris THU Sussman. Vicky (Emma Pierson) and Matt (Jody Latham) are two THU of the most unlikely people to buy a house together. THU Matt discovers an entirely original use for Vicky's THU coat-hangers whilst Vicky bumps into an old boyfriend and THU finds herself compelled to invite him and his fiancee round THU for dinner. THU In a desperate attempt to hang on to her pride - Vicky feels THU compelled to provide herself with her own love interest. In THU the absence of any suitable candidates - Matt will have to THU do. THU Cast: THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt ..... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU Julie ..... Janine Duvitski THU Conchita ..... Kellie Shirley THU Martin ..... Colin Hoult THU TV show host/pet shop owner ..... Fergus Craig THU Waiter ..... Chris Sussmann THU TV show contestant ..... Joanne Ryan THU Additional characters will be played by Fergus Craig and THU Colin Hoult THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq5z (Listen) THU We Wronged No Man THU Jude attempts to open a new chapter in his life, but THU Arabella poses a threat. Stars Michael Pennington and June THU Barrie. THU THU 11:00 OxCrimes b052sy2z (Listen) THU Face Value, part 1 THU An artist's fascination for the truth in her most notorious THU and spectacular work holds a deadly secret. Read by Maggie THU Steed. THU Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels THU (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. THU We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra. THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00vkyz7 (Listen) THU Gracey and Me THU By Gillian Plowman THU Kate (Harriet Walter) returns to South Africa to meet Gracey THU (Jenny Jules), the woman she betrayed twenty-five years ago THU when she was a ten-year-old staying with her godparents in a THU luxury suburb of Johannesburg during the height of THU apartheid. The repercussions of that betrayal have THU profoundly affected both women, psychologically and THU physically. THU The play takes Kate on a journey into her past. Beauty was THU the daughter of the housemaid, Gracey, who has illegally THU secreted her into the hut in the garden where she lives. The THU two children are swimming together when Kate tells Beauty THU she has made the water dirty because she is black. The THU altercation between the two children escalates and the THU horrific scene becomes a metaphor for the apartheid era as THU Kate plays out what she has observed of the treatment of THU black people by white people, making her drink the dog's THU water from a bowl on the floor. Gracey discovers them and THU unleashes the untold anger of her life upon Kate. Kate THU retaliates by revealing the secret of Beauty's presence in THU the hut to her Godparents, resulting in Gracey and her THU daughter being banished. THU This haunts Kate as an adult but when she finally confronts THU her past, events unfold which threaten her life, as the play THU reveals the brutality of the legacy left by apartheid. THU Directed by Annie Castledine THU Produced by Catherine Bailey THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Kate: Harriet Walter THU Gracey: Jenny Jules THU Peter van Tonder: Henry Goodman THU Katie: Lauren Mote THU Beauty: Lakechia Jeanne THU Godmother: Hannah Boyde THU Stanley: Denton Chikura THU Director: Annie Castledine THU Writer: Gillian Plowman THU Producer: Catherine Bailey THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b007k33c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children b052svws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r2tnv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Salt City b00f7z1s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2skx (Listen) THU Henry James - The Aspern Papers, Episode 4 THU The would-be literary thief is no nearer Aspern's letters. THU Miss Tina's strangeness starts to irritate him. Read by THU Samuel West. THU THU 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c3h8m (Listen) THU Einstein's Biggest Blunder THU Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. THU In 1915, Albert Einstein found that he had to introduce a THU new factor into his equations of gravity to prevent the THU stars from falling in on one another. He called it the THU cosmological constant. But then, astronomers discovered that THU the light from galaxies was stretched in a way that could THU only be explained if the galaxies were flying apart from THU each other and the universe was expanding. THU A recent twist to this tale came in the year 2000, when THU estimates of the rate of the expansion revealed that the THU most distant galaxies are accelerating. The only way to THU explain this was by a force called dark energy - in effect, THU a cosmological constant. THU Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt THU and John Palmer. THU THU 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xn6sy (Listen) THU The Marriage of True Minds THU The Crimean war looms and Victoria has her ninth child. THU Based on diaries and letters of Queen Victoria. Stars Imogen THU Stubbs. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf6 (Listen) THU Patti Smith - Just Kids, Episode 4 THU Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New THU York in the late 1960s and 1970s. THU In 1975, Patti recorded her debut album Horses. It's a THU landmark in rock music - but the cover is just as iconic. THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq5z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b052t3p6 (Listen) THU Scary Mice, Improvising and Tasty Food Pairings THU Mel Giedroyc explores why some people find mice scary and THU celebrates some tasty food pairings. Plus, part four of THU Roald Dahl's The Witches. THU THU 17:00 No Commitments b00st9xc (Listen) THU Series 4, Educated Guesswork THU Victoria and Roger are in crisis when Emily announces that THU she's not going to university. Stars Nicola Pagett. From THU July 1996. THU THU 17:30 Any Other Business b0140tzv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 The Personality Test b007tzff (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b01mdf0d (Listen) THU Series 28, Stan Laurel THU In London in 1910, Stan Jefferson was understudy to Charlie THU Chaplin in comedy impresario Fred Karno's latest production THU Jimmy the Fearless. Chaplin decided it wasn't up-to-scratch THU and pulled out, on the eve of the opening. Stan stepped into THU the breach. The show was a tremendous and immediate hit, and THU Stan Jefferson emerged as one of the great comedy talents of THU the twentieth century. Or Stan Laurel, as he became known: THU the Laurel of Laurel and Hardy. THU Ken Dodd, best-known for his marathon live shows, the Diddy THU men and the jam-butty mines of Knotty Ash cites Stan Laurel THU as his inspiration for going into comedy. He says that good THU comedians are admired, really good comedians are revered, THU but great comedians like Laurel and Hardy are loved. He THU praises his brilliance as a clown and a creator of gags, but THU feels that he was financially exploited and unlucky in love. THU Producer: Toby Field. THU THU 19:00 Brothers in Law b007k33c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children b052svws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r2tnv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Salt City b00f7z1s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 OxCrimes b052sy2z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00vkyz7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01m16pr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Down the Line b00qt2l4 (Listen) THU Series 1, Healthy Eating 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 Old Harry's Game b00hr4lp (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 2 THU Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. THU Satan needs to sort stuff out with God, but God has gone off THU to have some 'me-time'. Then Hell receives its strangest THU visitor yet. THU Satan ...... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ...... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville THU With Michael Fenton Stevens and Philip Pope. THU THU 23:30 Hut 33 b00ljn73 (Listen) THU Series 1, Bridge Too Far THU Three wartime code-breakers tackle Nazi ciphers, but hate THU each other. Bletchley Park romp with Robert Bathurst. From THU June 2007. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2skx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c3h8m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xn6sy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 The Personality Test b007tzff (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b01mdf0d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r2tnv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Salt City b00f7z1s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007jq5z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 OxCrimes b052sy2z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00vkyz7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 No Commitments b00st9xc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Any Other Business b0140tzv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r2wd7 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI With Mark's commitment to Allie called into question, how FRI can he earn a future and lay to rest the past? Read by John FRI Chancer. FRI FRI 06:30 Frequently Asked Questions b00lszh8 (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. Writer Ian Sansom examines the changing FRI nature of the relationship, and contact, between authors and FRI their readers. From July 2009. FRI FRI 07:00 Living With the Enemy b007719g (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Can ex-minister Gyles manage to stay a little longer in FRI Nick's flat? Stars Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth. From FRI November 2006. FRI FRI 07:30 Gloomsbury b01nbt9b (Listen) FRI Series 1, Trying to Avoid Unpleasantness FRI The gardener Vera Sackcloth Vest and her husband Henry are FRI obliged to offer hospitality to the writer of very naughty FRI books Mr D H Lollipop and his new flame, Venus Traduces - FRI who formerly harboured a Sapphic passion for Vera. FRI The guests are accommodated in the dovecote as Henry will FRI not have Lollipop in the house, in case the cook Mrs Gosling FRI is exposed to impertinences. Vera is hoping that Lollipop FRI will be able to improve her prose style, but instead he FRI seems to take pleasure in trashing her garden and FRI redesigning her study. Lollipop is intent on awakening FRI Venus's blood consciousness but, alas, any educational FRI impulse involving Venus is doomed to failure. FRI As Venus's passion for Lollipop begins to flag, she finds FRI consolation with the gardener Gosling on the potting bench. FRI Despite Henry's precautions, Mrs Gosling is exposed to FRI Lollipop's impertinences, and the outcome is unexpected and FRI inconvenient. 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 D H Lollipop ..... John Sessions FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k251 (Listen) FRI The Marrow Contest FRI The green-fingered lad takes on the authorities to save his FRI pride and joy. Stars Tony Hancock and Sid James. From June FRI 1955. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b01109vz (Listen) FRI Thoroughly Modern Ministry FRI Life is a drag for Lamb when a new receptionist isn't all FRI she seems. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From FRI August 1971. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015bxql (Listen) FRI Series 4, Carr, Bellos, Stavrakopoulou FRI The Museum of Curiosity is, as ever, hosted by the Professor FRI of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd FRI (now with added C.B.E). For this, the fourth series, he is FRI joined by the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman as his FRI Curator. Dave is the latest in a line of illustrious Museum FRI curators: Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson. FRI The Museum of Curiosity has a unique method for collecting FRI exhibits. Once a week it welcomes three luminaries from FRI widely different specialist fields and asks them to bring FRI with them their most treasured items to donate. FRI The Museum's collection already boasts The Big Bang When It FRI Was The Size Of A Grapefruit; A Pineapple; A Yard Of FRI Silence; Nothing; A British Railways Bridge Plate; A FRI Telepathic Sheep; A Chimpanzee Rain Dance; An Impossible FRI Rabbit; A Gay Bomb; A Choir Of Singing Sand Dunes; National FRI Ignorance Day (of which we know nothing); and An Icelandic FRI Volcano (long before they were fashionable). FRI In the first of the new series, John and Dave are joined by FRI comedian Jimmy Carr; documentary maker, theologian (and FRI atheist) Francesca Stavrakapoulou; and the mathematician, FRI Guardian South America correspondent and football author FRI Alex Bellos. FRI The museum's guests later in the rest of the series are: FRI Philosopher Alain de Botton FRI Linguist David Crystal FRI Filmmaker Gareth Edwards FRI Comedian Harry Enfield FRI Solar physicist Lucie Green FRI Classically-trained comedian Natalie Haynes FRI New Scientist Editor Roger Highfield FRI Comedian Alex Horne FRI Rational Comedian Robin Ince FRI Graham Linehan FRI Data Miner David McCandless FRI Marine biologist Helen Scales FRI Advertising guru Rory Sutherland FRI Admiral Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead GCB FRI DSC PC FRI Polar explorer Sara Wheeler. FRI FRI 09:30 Gush b052tqx6 (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI Cravate and Pomeroy achieve freedom, but soon find FRI themselves on a collision course. With Caroline Quentin. FRI From December 1994. FRI FRI 10:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007t2h6 (Listen) FRI The Letter Killeth FRI As events devastate Sue, Jude Fawley's life continues to FRI unravel. Stars Michael Pennington and Elizabeth Garvie. FRI FRI 11:00 OxCrimes b052trfx (Listen) FRI Face Value, part 2 FRI A notorious artist recalls her most controversial work, and FRI the night it was unveiled to the public. Read by Maggie FRI Steed. FRI Following the success of OxTales (2009) and OxTravels FRI (2011), Oxfam has produced this collection of crime writing. FRI We have chosen 5 of the best for Radio 4 Extra. FRI Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Partnership. FRI FRI 11:15 Neil Brand - Stan b0076mjl (Listen) FRI As death finally threatens to separate the greatest double FRI act in film comedy, Stan Laurel tries to say the things to FRI Oliver Hardy which have been left unsaid. Stars Tom FRI Courtenay. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k251 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b01109vz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r2wd7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Frequently Asked Questions b00lszh8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00s2skz (Listen) FRI Henry James - The Aspern Papers, Episode 5 FRI Episode 5 of The Aspern Papers by Henry James, read by FRI Samuel West. FRI Aspern's literary editor, having laid out a good deal of FRI money and time in the quest for previously unpublished FRI papers connected with the poet, is growing restless at his FRI lack of results. He has now recruited the pathetic niece FRI Miss Tina to the cause of preserving Aspern's letters from FRI destruction by her aunt; at the same time, he becomes FRI convinced that Miss Bordereau herself has guessed what he's FRI about. FRI Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. FRI FRI 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c3hvl (Listen) FRI How the Universe Began FRI Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. FRI The discovery that the universe is expanding led FRI cosmologists to suggest that its origin lay in a compact, FRI dense, hot fireball. Cambridge astronomer Fred Hoyle thought FRI this so ridiculous that he disparagingly called it the big FRI bang. The name stuck and there followed intense arguments FRI between supporters of the big bang theory and Fred Hoyle and FRI his colleagues, who favoured a steady state universe. FRI A decisive blow to the latter theory came from a radio FRI telescope in New Jersey in the early 1960s that detected a FRI gentle background glow at microwave radio frequencies that FRI theorists had predicted as the dying embers of the big bang FRI itself. FRI Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI and John Palmer. FRI FRI 14:30 Juliet Ace - Young Victoria b00xn8hs (Listen) FRI The Death of Albert FRI Victoria mourns for her mother while Albert is tormented by FRI Bertie. Based on diaries and letters of England's FRI longest-reigning queen. Stars Imogen Stubbs. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf9 (Listen) FRI Patti Smith - Just Kids, Episode 5 FRI Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New FRI York in the late 1960s and 1970s. FRI In 1986, Patti is living with her husband and son in Detroit FRI when she hears bad news about Robert Mapplethorpe. FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure b007t2h6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b052tsps (Listen) FRI Forest Schools, Norway and Stretching Time FRI Mel Giedroyc goes back to nature with a trip to forest FRI school. Plus, the fifth part of Roald Dahl's The Witches and FRI another brand new episode of Junior Just a Minute. FRI FRI 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00lc98v (Listen) FRI Series 4, Centenary FRI Centenary: Two musicians are after the same piano and a boy FRI can't face the special school parade. Stars Brigit Forsyth. FRI From May 2005. FRI FRI 17:30 Living With the Enemy b007719g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015bxql (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books b012fvl0 (Listen) FRI Series 2, James Robertson FRI 3/4 FRI James Robertson is a poet, editor, novelist and publisher FRI and was the first Writer-in-Resident at Hugh MacDiarmid's FRI cottage at Brownsbank near Bigger in Lanarkshire. FRI James explains to Stuart how he first discovered MacDiarmid FRI and how his book of Collected Poems is his life changing FRI book. They also discuss James's favourite reference book, FRI the volume he has looked at most often and the title he'd FRI most like to re-read. FRI These are the 5 books chosen by James. FRI 1: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis FRI Stevenson. FRI 2: Collected Poems by Hugh MacDiarmid. FRI 3: Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable by the Reverend FRI Dr. Ebenezer Cobham FRI 4: At Swim-Two-Bird by Flann O'Brieny FRI 5: Bleak House: Charles Dickens. FRI Producer Mike Walker FRI Presenter Stuart Cosgrove. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k251 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b01109vz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Christopher Coake - You Came Back b01r2wd7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Frequently Asked Questions b00lszh8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 OxCrimes b052trfx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Neil Brand - Stan b0076mjl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Gloomsbury b01nbt9b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 The League Against Tedium b03b4zcz (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Attention scum! Monitoring flatulence and supporting FRI Arsenal. Simon Munnery's comedy and music Radio 1 show. From FRI January 1997. FRI FRI 23:30 The In Crowd b0089jj8 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 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 b01hblzr (Listen) FRI Family FRI Dave's domestic life is still upside down, and so his dad FRI arrives to offer advice. Stars Reece Shearsmith. From FRI October 2007. FRI
13 February, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 14/02/2015 - 20/02/2015
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