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SAT SATURDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 15 Minute Drama b03h7grn (Listen) SAT Children in Need: Holding On to You, Episode 5 SAT D.L. Weller's powerful drama about child sexual exploitation SAT and grooming. SAT As Holly is helped to come to terms with the truth, she SAT faces a difficult decision about Jay. SAT D.L. Weller has done extensive research with victims and SAT their families and professionals working in child protection SAT and safeguarding. Holding On To You, although fictional, is SAT informed and inspired by these interviews. It explores a SAT problem thought to affect tens of thousands of children, of SAT all backgrounds, yet that still remains largely hidden and SAT apparently unaddressed in many regions. SAT Credits SAT Holly: Dolly-Rose Campbell SAT Leah: Aimee Kelly SAT Jo: Christine Bottomley SAT Chris: Graeme Hawley SAT Rachel: Carla Henry SAT Director: Nadia Molinari SAT Writer: DL Weller SAT SAT 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c6wpj (Listen) SAT Design or Accident SAT Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. SAT Given all that we now know about the formation of stars and SAT planets and the evolution of life on Earth, it might seem as SAT if the mystery is being taken out of the universe. However, SAT every solution seems to throw up a deeper mystery. Within SAT our understanding of physics, there are no known fundamental SAT reasons for much of the astronomical phenomena that we SAT observe. Of course, we can only observe a universe that SAT supports life. This is known as the anthropic principle and SAT has far-reaching implications. Some argue that it makes the SAT universe very special, as if we were meant to be, while SAT others suggest that we inhabit one of the few bio-friendly SAT corners in an almost infinite multiverse of possibilities. SAT Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT and John Palmer. SAT SAT 00:30 Book at Bedtime b00s5ncd (Listen) SAT A Perpetual Love Affair, Jan Morris's Venice SAT Henry James felt that the inevitable relationship with SAT Venice was "a perpetual love affair", and certainly many SAT writers have found that to be true. SAT In today's piece about the city, travel writer Jan Morris SAT notes particularly the children of Venice - and the cats. SAT The reader is Selina Cadell, and the programme is abridged SAT and produced by Christine Hall. SAT SAT 00:45 Book of the Week b0156mt3 (Listen) SAT Tim Jeal - Explorers of the Nile, Episode 5 SAT Having found Dr Livingstone, Stanley is determined to SAT continue the doctor's quest to find the source of the Nile SAT Nothing obsessed explorers of the mid-nineteenth century SAT more than the quest to discover the source of the White SAT Nile. It was the planet's most elusive secret, the prize SAT coveted above all others. Between 1856 and 1876, six SAT larger-than-life men and one extraordinary woman accepted SAT the challenge. Showing extreme courage and resilience, SAT Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, James Augustus Grant, SAT Samuel Baker, Florence von Sass, David Livingstone, and SAT Henry Morton Stanley risked their lives and reputations in SAT the fierce competition. SAT Award-winning author Tim Jeal deploys fascinating new SAT research to provide a vivid tableau of the unmapped 'Dark SAT Continent', its jungle deprivations, and the courage as well SAT as malicious tactics of the explorers. SAT Jeal weaves the story with authentic new detail and examines SAT the tragic unintended legacy of the Nile search that still SAT casts a long shadow over the people of Uganda and Sudan. SAT Tim Jeal is the author of acclaimed biographies of SAT Livingstone, Baden-Powell, and Stanley, each selected as a SAT Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and the SAT Washington Post. He lives in London. SAT Reader: Alex Jennings SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015mzzd (Listen) SAT Series 4, Linehan, Sutherland, Scales SAT Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of SAT Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious SAT comedian Dave Gorman. SAT This week's guests: SAT Coming from a long line of vicars, Robin Ince is the UK's SAT most rational comedian, and he tests his reason to the limit SAT once every year by performing at least four shows a day at SAT the Edinburgh fringe. His infamous Bad Book Club, which in SAT which he invites his fellow comedians to celebrate awful SAT literature, has become an institution, and his massive SAT Christmas show Nine Lessons and Carols For Godless People is SAT now a huge event, featuring the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Dara SAT O Briain and Richard Dawkins. SAT Roger Highfield is a scientist, science author and the SAT editor of New Scientist, but if you met him, you wouldn't SAT immediately guess that science is his thing. He's jolly and SAT worldly and has the hearty laugh of a comic supervillain. He SAT first made his name as a scientist be being the first person SAT ever to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger has SAT written and co-written 9 best-selling science books, SAT including a book on the hows and whys of Dolly the sheep, an SAT explanation of the science of Harry Potter and a biography SAT of Einstein. SAT Gareth Edwards is a filmmaker whose success and methods of SAT achieving it have sent ripples of fear through the studios SAT of Hollywood. His movie Monsters is an apocalyptic SAT blockbuster which he made for one five hundredth of the SAT budget for Avatar by shooting with a small, mobile team, SAT hiring non-actors on the spot and using dazzling-but-cheap SAT CGI effects. SAT SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books b012lnm1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Joanne Harris SAT Joanna Harris has written eleven novels including Chocolat SAT which was made into an Oscar-nominated film starring SAT Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. SAT Her most recent book, Blueeyedboy has been recently SAT published in paperback. SAT She picks five books that are important in her life and SAT explains to Stuart Cosgrove how she allows her daughter to SAT read books that were banned in her young life. Joanne SAT explains how she draws inspiration for her own writing and SAT how she was pleased with the film adaptation of her most SAT famous novel. SAT Joanne's five books: SAT 1: GORMENGHAST by Mervyn Peake SAT 2: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES by Ray Bradbury SAT 3: PERFUMES by Luca Turin. SAT 4: LES MISERABLES by Victor Hugo SAT 5: SANDMAN SERIES by Neil Gaiman. SAT SAT 02:00 Wimsey b007jvn1 (Listen) SAT The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, At Lady Dormer's SAT Discovering General Fentiman was poisoned, Lord Peter Wimsey SAT decides to probe Miss Dorland's hobby. SAT Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan SAT Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman, Amanda Reiss as Ann Dorland SAT and Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker 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. The Unpleasantness at the SAT Bellona Club was first published in 1928. 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 June 1975. SAT SAT 02:30 Bob Marley: The Chrysler Year b00p3p56 (Listen) SAT Lifelong reggae fan Jonathan Charles traces the missing year SAT when Bob Marley dropped out of the Jamaican music scene and SAT spent a year driving a forklift truck in the Chrysler car SAT factory in Wilmington, Delaware. SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 Dave Sheasby - Donkeys Led By Lions b00vy71t (Listen) SAT Teacher Arthur Willis battles his conscience over fighting SAT in the Great War, with devastating consequences. Stars Ian SAT Dunn. SAT SAT 04:00 Ghost Stories of E Nesbit b01nmjlq (Listen) SAT The Ebony Frame SAT A man inherits a property where he discovers a portrait of a SAT woman that will change his life forever. Read by Anton SAT Lesser. SAT SAT 04:15 Katie Hims - Lila b007632j (Listen) SAT Lila has lost her husband. Only his tactless brothers are SAT left. Will life be the same after Ron's death? Starring SAT Denise Black. SAT SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way b0080jmp (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT The whimsies of JB Morton performed by Richard Ingrams, John SAT Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Routledge. From March SAT 1989. SAT SAT 05:30 Living With the Enemy b00771ft (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Gyles persuades Nick to help him seek revenge on his SAT estranged wife. With Nick Revell and Prunella Scales. From SAT November 2006. SAT SAT 06:00 Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote b007k0m0 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT The intrepid knight embarks on a new adventure with faithful SAT companion Sancho Panza in this 1615 classic. Stars Bob Grant SAT and Bernard Cribbins. SAT SAT 07:30 Freedom Pass b00sn9rn (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Sexagenarians Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew use free SAT travel for another chatty trip on their local buses. From SAT September 2004. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b0076pgg (Listen) SAT The Hills Are Alive SAT 4 Extra Debut. Fifty years after The Sound of Music hit the SAT big screen, Mark Kermode hears from the creative team who SAT made it happen. Includes Julie Andrews. From December 2004. SAT SAT 09:00 The Lives and Work of Somerset Maugham b054051p (Listen) SAT Marking 50 years since the death of William Somerset SAT Maugham, one of the most commercially successful English SAT writers ever. His plays, short stories and novels SAT effortlessly sold in their millions; his work on stage, page SAT and screen drew huge audiences. He remains the English SAT writer most adapted for film and TV. And yet he described SAT himself as possessing only a "knack" for writing and his SAT place among the literary greats as being only "in the first SAT row of the second rate". Despite his huge popularity with a SAT mass audience, the literary establishment dismissed him as SAT "middle brow". SAT Yet the subjects he wrote about, and his complex and exotic SAT lifestyle moulded the image of the successful 20th century SAT writer - a wide circle of famous friends, a villa in the SAT South of France, the adulation of readers across the globe SAT and the ears of the Empire's leaders. His own long life, SAT too, reads like the plot for a novel. Born when Disraeli was SAT Prime Minister, he died when the 60s were in full swing. He SAT trained as a doctor, dedicated himself to being a writer, SAT and spent time as a World War One spy. He travelled the SAT globe in search of material for stories - chronicling the SAT boredom, frustration and scandals of the colonial class of SAT empire builders. SAT His private life was complicated. In England he seemed a SAT pillar of the establishment, yet he set up an exotic and SAT promiscuous lifestyle in a villa on the Cote d'Azur with a SAT succession of gay lovers. His last years were marked by an SAT extraordinary, toxic family quarrel, betrayal and a public SAT fall from grace. SAT Simon Fanshawe examines the literary legacy and complex SAT private lives of Maugham in the company of writers, SAT performers, biographers and family members. SAT Producer Mike Greenwood SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. SAT SAT 12:00 The Henry Experiment - Omnibus b054051r (Listen) SAT A mother worries that a child parenting expert wants her SAT seven-year-old son Henry to be too independent. Stars Emma SAT Fielding. SAT SAT 13:05 Inheritance Tracks b04prp0s (Listen) SAT Ruthie Henshall SAT West End and Broadway star Ruthie Henshall selects Somewhere SAT Over the Rainbow by Judy Garland and Faure's In Paradisum. SAT SAT 13:15 John Peacock - London Particulars b008p9l1 (Listen) SAT A Cuckoo in the Nest SAT A man lost at sea returns to claim his fortune. Bow Street SAT runner Pip and Peeler Thomas investigate. Stars Charles SAT Simpson. SAT SAT 14:00 The Michael Bentine Show b008vnrl (Listen) SAT From 12/02/1984 SAT From an old colonial to a herd of operatic cows, it's the SAT ultimate one-man show, written by the host. From February SAT 1984. SAT SAT 14:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00sz54y (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 4 SAT Can Tim escape the villains? Will Jo do a love scene with SAT King Harold? Sketches and songs with John Cleese. From SAT October 1966. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0076pgg (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote b007k0m0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Gloomsbury b01ngrwf (Listen) SAT Series 1, A Desperate Attempt to Have Fun SAT The writer Vera Sackcloth-Vest has to tear herself away from SAT her beloved garden just at the moment when her mammillarias SAT are about to open. SAT She and her husband Henry have been summoned to London by SAT her bosom chum, the novelist Ginny Fox. Ginny and her SAT husband Lionel have realized that they have never had what SAT is known as "fun" and they beg Vera and Henry to provide it. SAT Simultaneously, Vera's ardent acolyte Venus Traduces asks SAT Vera to educate her, so she can be taken seriously by the SAT Gloomsbury set. Exhausted by her efforts to educate and SAT entertain, and haunted by the fear that her beloved Henry SAT will soon be posted to the Balkans, Vera endures an SAT emotional crisis at a picnic in Kensington Gardens. SAT Rescue arrives unexpectedly, and she escapes back to her SAT beloved Sizzlinghurst, just as her mammillarias lift their SAT saucy little faces to the sun. 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 Produced by Jamie Rix SAT A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson b007js93 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Saul and Elise make a grim discovery in the nursing home. SAT Time-hopping thriller with Robert Glenister and Freddie SAT Jones. SAT SAT 18:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace b007jpgs (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Now a fully fledged OAP, George Smith goes on a mission with SAT Andrea Sunbeam and Mrs Cookson. Stars Stephen Moore. SAT SAT 19:00 The Lives and Work of Somerset Maugham b054051p (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Meera Syal's Asian Comedy Night b01qdwwr (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT A celebration of British Asian stand-up comedy with Shazia SAT Mirza, Imran Yusuf, Kulvinder Ghir, Hyde Panesar and Sami SAT Shah. From July 2012. SAT SAT 22:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008vbbw (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT Making it up as they go along. Josie Lawrence and Jim SAT Sweeney's improvised sketches, driven by the audience. From SAT February 2007. SAT SAT 23:00 Mark Steel's in Town b00s782k (Listen) SAT Series 2, Gateshead SAT Comedian Mark Steel travels to Gateshead to perform to SAT locals who under no circumstances want their town to be SAT confused with Newcastle. SAT Whilst up there Mark enjoys a memorable night out in a local SAT pub; a telling-off in the Baltic Art Gallery, a visit to the SAT Angel of The North and an ugly car park that some people SAT want to preserve because of its role in a grisly murder. SAT SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show b00n1jtw (Listen) SAT Series 1, Medicine SAT Probing a fresh theme each week, the award-winning comic SAT hosts stand-up and sketches. With Ivan Brackenbury. From SAT August 2008. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Bruce Bedford - The Gibson b007js93 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Paradise Lost in Cyberspace b007jpgs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b0076pgg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 The Henry Experiment - Omnibus b054051r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:05 Inheritance Tracks b04prp0s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:05 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 John Peacock - London Particulars b008p9l1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote b007k0m0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Gloomsbury b01ngrwf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Children in Need - Holding On to You, Omnibus SUN b03hmt7l (Listen) SUN Fourteen-year-old Holly can't believe her luck when she is SUN asked out by 20-year-old Jay. Why can't anyone be happy for SUN her? Commissioned by Children in Need. SUN SUN 07:15 Snapshots in the Dark b0075qj2 (Listen) SUN Lennart Nilsson - The Inner Child SUN Colin Ford investigates the impact of Nilsson's photograph SUN of a foetus taken inside its mother's womb. From December SUN 1999. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b015ctw6 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Rude Girl SUN In Episode Three 'Rude Girl'; Social Worker, Clare Barker, SUN is concerned she may be linguistically out of touch with SUN today's youth. Brian fails to impress Clare with numerous SUN romantic gestures. A Heating Engineer causes a stir in the SUN Family Centre and Megan causes chaos. SUN Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all SUN the right jargon but 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 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 Three 'Rude Girl' Cast: SUN SALLY PHILLIPS Clare SUN ALEX LOWE Brian SUN NINA CONTI Megan / Nali / Beautician SUN RICHARD LUMSDEN Ray SUN LIZA TARBUCK Helen SUN ANDREW WINCOTT Simon / John Harris / Youth Leader SUN SARAH KENDALL Libby SUN NATHAN CATON Daniel SUN GERARD McDERMOT Mr Truscott / Barman / Paramedic SUN STEFAN RAMSDEN Thomas SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Producer Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters b0082bbs (Listen) SUN The Bishop Rides Again SUN The Bishop works to secure a bequest. Clerical comedy SUN adapted from TV. SUN Starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon, William Mervyn as SUN the Bishop, Derek Nimmo as Bishop's Chaplain - the Reverend SUN Mervyn Noote and John Barron as the Dean. SUN The ecclesiastical sitcom started life as a TV pilot in SUN Comedy Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. SUN Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for Radio 4. SUN The series revolves around the intrigues and rivalries of SUN the fictional St Ogg's Cathedral. The regular characters are SUN the easy-going Bishop, the elderly Archdeacon who enjoys a SUN tipple with an eye for the ladies; and the naive and SUN accident-prone Bishop's Chaplain. Their wish to live a quiet SUN bachelor life is under continuous threat from the SUN overbearing Dean. SUN Back in the swinging 60s, the series initially aroused some SUN controversy because of its portrayal of senior clergy as SUN bungling incompetents, although some clergy quite enjoyed SUN it. SUN Written by husband-and-wife team Pauline Devaney and Edwin SUN Apps. SUN Produced by David Hatch. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1971. SUN SUN 08:30 Life With the Lyons b013pdbt (Listen) SUN The Play's the Thing SUN Barbara is playing Ophelia in the school show. Could this be SUN her big break? With Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels. From April SUN 1952. SUN SUN 09:00 Ian Fleming - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang b00zzwfj (Listen) SUN Ian Fleming's magical tale of a car saved from the scrapyard SUN that takes the Pott family on a fantastic adventure. Stars SUN Imogen Stubbs. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05408pd (Listen) SUN Parky at 80, Tony Bennett SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Art Tatum to Sinatra and Stravinsky, the SUN singer Tony Bennett shares his castaway choices with Michael SUN Parkinson. From January 1987. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b00tj89v (Listen) SUN Claire Keegan - Foster, Episode 2 SUN By Claire Keegan SUN Abridged by Neville Teller SUN A heartbreaking, haunting story of childhood, loss and love SUN by one of Ireland's most acclaimed writers. A small girl is SUN sent to live with her mother's people on a farm in rural SUN Ireland, without knowing when she will return home. In the SUN strangers' house, she finds a warmth and affection she has SUN not known before and slowly begins to blossom in their care. SUN And then a secret is revealed, and suddenly, she realizes SUN how fragile her idyll is. SUN Winner of the Davy Byrnes Memorial Prize, Foster will be SUN published in a revised and expanded version by Faber on 2nd SUN September 2010. Beautiful, sad and eerie, it is a story of SUN astonishing emotional depth, showcasing Claire Keegan's SUN great accomplishment and talent. SUN Claire Keegan's first collection of short stories, SUN 'Antarctica', was completed in 1998 and was awarded the SUN Rooney Prize for Literature. Her second short story SUN collection, 'Walk the Blue Fields', was published to SUN enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge SUN Hill Prize for Short Stories. Claire Keegan lives in County SUN Louth, Ireland. SUN 'Foster' is read by Evanna Lynch, best known to many for her SUN portrayal of Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films. SUN Producer Heather Larmour. SUN Credits SUN Producer: Heather Larmour SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b05408pg (Listen) SUN Success 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 ideas about what makes us successful. SUN With motivation guru Tony Robbins and writer Alain de SUN Botton. SUN SUN 11:45 Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting b01dlccp (Listen) SUN Teaching SUN As a student questions her teacher, he reflects on 23 years SUN in that room waiting for the bell to ring. Short stories by SUN the Irish novelist, read by Conor Mullen. SUN SUN 12:00 Children in Need - Holding On to You, Omnibus SUN b03hmt7l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Snapshots in the Dark b0075qj2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Van der Valk - King of the Rainy Country b01p6tkh (Listen) SUN A millionaire and a naked girl disappear. Can the Dutch SUN sleuth find them? Nicholas Freeling's thriller stars Martin SUN Jarvis. SUN SUN 15:00 All Gas and Gaiters b0082bbs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Life With the Lyons b013pdbt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b05409q8 (Listen) SUN Blind Stuntman, Jamie Oliver and Sandwiches SUN Mel Giedroyc introduces the highlights of this week's 4 SUN O'Clock Shows including blind stuntman Deano Dunbar, chef SUN Jamie Oliver and a celebration of the sandwich. SUN SUN 17:00 Ian Fleming - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang b00zzwfj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 18:00 The Man in Black b018j7ww (Listen) SUN Series 4, The New Boy SUN Mark Gatiss introduces Matthew Wilkie's tale. Craig has a SUN new job, but how far will he go to impress his boss? Stars SUN Stephen Greif. SUN SUN 18:30 Alex Jones - Lightbulbs b038xn76 (Listen) SUN Steve has been away for a year. Back in Tipton, he finds all SUN is not as it should be with his dead relatives. Stars Terry SUN Molloy. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b05408pg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Roddy Doyle - Bullfighting b01dlccp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] SUN SUN 20:00 All Gas and Gaiters b0082bbs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Life With the Lyons b013pdbt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05408pd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b00tj89v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b015ctw6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Elvenquest b00wqfnn (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 6 SUN The last episode in the series sees the noble band of SUN Questers in a pub and within touching distance of getting SUN their hands on the Sword of Asnagar. However, Lord Darkness SUN still has a few tricks up his sleeve and he's not about to SUN let the possibility of eternal dominion over Lower Earth SUN slip through his fingers without pulling out all the stops. SUN Will the Questers be strong enough to handle the immense SUN power of the Sword. Or, as ever with these things, will they SUN be tempted over to the Dark Side...? SUN An all-star cast, featuring: SUN Stephen Mangan as "Sam", SUN Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", 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 b054c8ld (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats SUN to Ian Moore. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b053n0y9 (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 1 SUN This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into SUN sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to SUN make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. SUN Nish is joined this week by Jess Ransom, Mike Wozniak and SUN Ellie White. SUN This week's writers were: SUN Alex Cox SUN Allan Miller SUN Andrew Stephenson SUN Andrew West SUN Andy Gilderdale SUN Andy Luke SUN Ben Gough SUN Ben Harris & Craig Ainsley SUN Brian Teles SUN Claire Wetton SUN Dan Kiss SUN Daniel Hooper SUN Darron Hargreaves SUN Ed Amsden & Tom Coles SUN Ed Greenwood SUN Emma K Cahill SUN Ian Sawyer SUN Jenny Laville SUN Joe Hamspon SUN Keri Williams SUN Kev Core SUN Matthew Gabrielli SUN Max Davis SUN Michael John Byrne SUN Owen Seddon & Emlyn Williams SUN Paul Lamb SUN Richard Soames SUN Robert Thomas SUN Ross Hay SUN Rowan Vanderberg SUN Steve N Allen SUN Steve Nelson SUN & Trevor Ship SUN SUN 23:30 Meet David Sedaris b00rz0k6 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Picapocketoni; I'll Eat What He's Wearing SUN From Carnegie Hall to the BBC Radio Theatre - American SUN humourist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection SUN of published stories and articles. In show 3 of 4: SUN "Picapocketoni" and "I'll Eat What He's Wearing". SUN The producer is Steve Doherty. This is a Boomerang Plus SUN production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Credits SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 MARCH 2015 MON MON 00:00 The Man in Black b018j7ww (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Alex Jones - Lightbulbs b038xn76 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05408pd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b00tj89v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 All Gas and Gaiters b0082bbs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Life With the Lyons b013pdbt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Clare in the Community b015ctw6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Van der Valk - King of the Rainy Country b01p6tkh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Ian Fleming - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang b00zzwfj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Wimsey b007jvn3 (Listen) MON The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Ann Dorland MON With two suspects missing, Lord Peter Wimsey battles to MON pinpoint the poisoner. MON Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan MON Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman, Martin Jarvis as George MON Fentiman, Amanda Reiss as Ann Dorland and Gabriel Woolf as MON 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. The Unpleasantness at the MON Bellona Club was first published in 1928. 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 July 1975. MON MON 06:30 The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain b00c67jq (Listen) MON Phill Jupitus follows the celebrated ensemble of MON all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players who command a MON cult following. Their unique blend of comedy and music fills MON venues worldwide and boasts many celebrity fans. MON Musicologists explain the finer nuances of their subversive MON and high-quality ukulele playing and arrangements. MON MON 07:00 Know Your Place b01852w0 (Listen) MON Lift Off MON Jobsworth caretaker Ramsay Potts' love of rules sparks MON catastrophe for an MP in a lift. Stars Roy Dotrice. From MON January 1982. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b053721t (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 3 MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? Gyles Brandreth, Marcus MON Brigstocke, Jenny Eclair and Shappi Khorsandi try their MON best. Subjects include 'Animal Husbandry', 'The Rights of MON Spring' and 'The Goons'. MON This is this third episode in series 71 of Radio 4's classic MON panel game in which the contestants are challenged to speak MON on a given subject for a minute without hesitation, MON 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 Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Marcus Brigstocke MON Panellist: Jenny Eclair MON Panellist: Shappi Khorsandi MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jll5 (Listen) MON Series 1, Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret MON Confusion reigns when Mrs Pike reveals her news of a 'new MON arrival'. Adapted from TV, with John Le Mesurier. From March MON 1974. MON MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show b008x0wg (Listen) MON From 19/02/1984 MON From Russian spies to a tour of BBC sound effects, it's the MON ultimate one-man show, written by the host. From February MON 1984. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b00rb16j (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of MON quotations and anecdotes. MON With Mary Beard, Marcel Theroux, Arthur Smith and Ariel MON Leve. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Credits MON Producer: Sam Bryant MON MON 09:30 The Brig Society b02ykygj (Listen) MON Series 1, Fashion MON Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! MON Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of MON a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British fashion, MON a prison. And each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it MON can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - MON turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who MON knew...?" MON This week, Marcus has volunteered to be the face of British MON fashion, which is a feather in his cap - coincidentally MON making his very first fashion mistake there. But as well as MON promoting the corduroy cagoule and inadvertently releasing MON his own fragrance, Marcus will be examining the MON light-hearted topics of Size Zero models and child labour as MON well as pondering the inexorable rise of the Ugg boot. MON Helping him fail to find the answers will be Rufus Jones MON (Hunderby, Holy Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've MON Got No Head) and Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda) MON The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice, MON David Tyler, who also produces Marcus appearances as the MON inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg. MON Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, MON Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Tom Neenan MON Produced by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke MON Performer: Rufus Jones MON Performer: Margaret Cabourn-Smith MON Performer: William Andrews MON Writer: Marcus Brigstocke MON Writer: Jeremy Salsby MON Writer: Toby Davies MON Writer: Nick Doody MON Writer: Steve Punt MON Writer: Tom Neenan MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b04bmtpk (Listen) MON Rose Tremain - Eugenie Grandet, Episode 1 MON Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation, starring Ian MON McKellen, of Balzac's tragic novel revolving around Grandet, MON an ageing vine farmer, and his innocent young daughter MON Eugenie. MON Monsieur Grandet, who has amassed a considerable fortune, is MON a miser who feigns poverty and runs his household along MON miserably frugal lines. All changes with the arrival of MON Eugenie's handsome 22-year-old cousin, Charles Grandet, from MON Paris. Charles has brought with him a shocking letter from MON his father, Guillaume, who has committed suicide. He has MON placed his debts and the care of his son into his brother's MON hands. It is a fatal decision, with ruinous consequences for MON the whole family. MON Eugenie Grandet is considered by many to be the strongest MON novel in Balzac's magnificent series, The Human Comedy. It MON pits a young naive girl against the father she has MON worshipped and this defiance sets us on course for the MON playing out of a heart-rending tragedy. Like King Lear, MON Grandet is a man who deeply loves the daughter who has MON defied him. He has no other child, no hope, no future but MON her. But in Balzac's 'human comedy' the tragic and the comic MON exist side by side and this fruitful conjunction blossoms in MON Rose Tremain's enthralling adaptation. MON Cello and Treble Recorder: Alison Baldwin MON Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown MON Produced and directed by Gordon House MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Grandet: Ian McKellen MON Eugenie: Alison Pettitt MON Nanon: Shirley Dixon MON Madame Grandet: Anna Calder-Marshall MON Charles: Blake Ritson MON Cruchot: Harry Hadden-Paton MON Des Grassins: David Horovitch MON Madame Des Grassins: Jenny Funnell MON Abbe Cruchot: Geoffrey Beevers MON Adolphe: Arthur Hughes MON Director: Gordon House MON Producer: Gordon House MON Adaptor: Rose Tremain MON Author: Honore Balzac MON MON 11:00 Jane Gardam Stories b05447xr (Listen) MON The Great, Grand, Soap-Water Kick MON A tramp, unused to speaking, describes the occasional ritual MON of taking a bath. Remarkable story read by Paul Copley. MON When this volume of short stories was published in May 2014 MON , Christobel Kent in the Guardian described how it is MON Gardam's gift - MON ''for showing us what a place of wonders is the world and MON the hearts that dwell in it, that endows this collection MON with a dangerous and formidable energy, richer and more MON concentrated than any novel. She gives us miracle heaped MON upon miracle, and insists that they should each one be MON handled with care.'. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b053rzvs (Listen) MON John Sergeant, Alex Wheatle, Odaline de la Martinez, Judy MON Finnigan, Emma Freud, Carleen Anderson, Dennis Greaves, MON Mark Feltham MON Clive Anderson is joined by Carleen Anderson, Odaline de la MON Martinez, Judy Finnigan and Alex Wheatle for an eclectic mix MON of conversation, music and comedy. With music from Carleen MON Anderson. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON John Sergeant MON 'Barging Round Britain' by John Sergeant and David Bartley MON is published by Michael Joseph and available now. MON The next episode of 'Barging Round Britain' is on Friday 6th MON March at 20.00 on ITV. You can catch up with previous MON episodes on ITV Player. MON Alex Wheatle MON ‘Liccle Bit’ is published by Atom on 5th March. MON Judy Finnigan MON ‘I Do Not Sleep’ is published by Sphere and available now. MON Odaline de la Martinez MON 'Lontano' perform at Radio 3’s Coffee Concert, live from the MON Broadcasting House Radio Theatre on Sunday 8th March to MON celebrate International Women’s Day. MON Carleen Anderson MON Carleen is performing at the Bristol International Jazz & MON Blues Festival on Saturday 7th March. MON On 22nd May Carleen will be performing at Brighton Festival MON in a special one-off show paying tribute to her hero Sarah MON Vaughan, accompanied by Laura Mvula, the Julian Joseph Trio MON and special guests. MON Dennis Greaves and Mark Feltham MON ‘Duo’ is available now on Zed Records. MON Duo is available now on Zed Records. Dennis and Mark are MON touring in March. They are playing a number of venues MON including Kingskerswell Parish Church, Devon on Saturday MON the 14th and Prince Albert, Stroud on Wednesday 25th MON March. Check the Nine Below Zero website for further dates. MON Credits MON Presenter: Clive Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Carleen Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Odaline de la Martinez MON Interviewed Guest: Judy Finnigan MON Interviewed Guest: Alex Wheatle MON Producer: Sukey Firth MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jll5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show b008x0wg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Wimsey b007jvn3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain b00c67jq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 15 Minute Drama b043wvxj (Listen) MON Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test, The Proposition MON 1) The Proposition MON A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog MON Millionaire". MON Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in MON New Delhi. Being the only breadwinner in the family she MON works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and MON younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an MON extraordinary proposition: pass seven tests and he will make MON her the CEO of his global empire. Sapna is suspicious. MON Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The MON Accidental Apprentice". MON Writers: MON Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling MON novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar MON winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award MON winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . MON Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX MON SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. MON She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, MON UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her MON stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was MON developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged MON by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. MON John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series MON SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won MON the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His MON dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best MON Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A MON HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated MON dramas on R4 Extra. MON Production: MON Sound Design - Steve Bond MON Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera MON Script Editor - Mike Walker MON Assistant Producer - Toral Shah MON Music - Sacha Putnam MON Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel MON "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. MON Producer - Nadir Khan MON Director - John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Sapna: Rasika Dugal MON Acharya: Vijay Chrishna MON Karan: Neil Bhoopalam MON Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital MON Rosie: Radhika Mital MON Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel MON Raja: Sumeet Vyas MON Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur MON Roaji: Rajit Kapur MON Neha: Amrita Puri MON Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza MON Pushpa: Ayesha Raza MON Female Judge: Ayesha Raza MON Badan Singh: Kenny Desai MON Politician: Kenny Desai MON Constable: Kenny Desai MON Madan: Vivek Madan MON Neelam: Prerna Chawla MON Babli: Preetika Chawla MON Janet: Preetika Chawla MON Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik MON Director: John Dryden MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon MON Adaptor: John Dryden MON Author: Vikas Swarup MON MON 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84pv (Listen) MON A Star Is Born MON Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. MON Infrared radiation was discovered by William Herschel two MON centuries ago, but only recently has infrared astronomy come MON of age. Infrared is able to peer inside dark clouds that MON mask regions of the galaxy such as the Orion Nebula from MON optical telescopes. Within these clouds we can now see the MON processes through which the gas clouds contract, heat up and MON ignite to give birth to a new generation of stars. MON Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt MON and John Palmer. MON MON 14:30 Book of the Week b03byzzf (Listen) MON Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, Episode 1 MON In the years after the funeral of the Dane's warrior King MON Shield Sheafson, the evil fiend Grendel rises to prowl the MON land. At the court of Hygelac in Geatland, a great warrior MON prepares to help King Hrothgar. MON Radio 4 pays tribute to Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning MON poet, internationally recognised as one of the greatest MON contemporary voices who passed away earlier this month at MON the age of 74. MON Composed towards the end of the first millennium, the MON Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is one of the great Northern epics MON and a classic of European literature. Seamus Heaney's MON translation , completed near the end of the second MON millennium is both true, line by line, to the original, as MON well as being an expression of his own creative, lyrical MON gift. MON Here, in a recording made ten years ago, Seamus Heaney MON brings his vibrant powerful writing to life as he reads ten MON fifteen minute extracts from the narrative. MON The poem is about encountering the monstrous, defeating it, MON and then living on, physically and psychically exposed, in MON that exhausted aftermath. It is not hard to draw parallels MON between this story and the history of the twentieth century, MON nor can Heaney's Beowulf fail to be read partly in the light MON of his Northern Irish upbringing. MON But it also transcends such considerations, telling us MON psychological and spiritual truths that are permanent and MON liberating. MON Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. MON Radio Drama North. MON Credits MON Reader: Seamus Heaney MON Producer: Susan Roberts MON Author: Seamus Heaney MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00rl6wf (Listen) MON Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones, Episode 1 MON In "Burying The Bones", distinguished biographer Hilary MON Spurling takes as her subject Pearl Buck, the highly MON influential American author whose astonishing life proved MON even more fantastic than her popular novels of the 1930s, MON 40s and 50s. MON Born to Christian missionaries in 1890s China, Buck's MON writing helped change Western perceptions of that country MON forever; in recognition of which she won the Nobel Prize for MON Literature in 1938. MON Pearl's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Good Earth" MON portrayed the lives of ordinary Chinese people and became a MON worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1932 (it still MON sells in its thousands each year). Though her work has MON fallen out of fashion with the public, she is still held in MON high regard by writers such as Jung Chang, the acclaimed MON author of "Wild Swans", who described Buck as "One of the MON greatest writers on China'". MON Hilary Spurling is the author of "The Unknown Matisse", MON listed as one of the New York Times' Ten Best Books of 1998, MON and "Matisse The Master", which was named Whitbread Book of MON the Year, and won the Los Angeles Times biography prize, in MON 2005. MON Reader: Lindsay Duncan. MON Abridger: Alison Joseph. MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b04bmtpk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04svdkc (Listen) MON Slimy Slugs, Slippery Snails and Shipwrecks MON Mel Giedroyc follows the trail of some slimy slugs and MON snails in nature feature In Pursuit of the Ridiculous. And MON we hear the first part of Daniel Defoe's classic Robinson MON Crusoe. MON MON 17:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00b2txd (Listen) MON Series 1, Goodbye Gregory MON A football-crazy priest comforts the bereaved family of a MON stalwart parishioner. Stars Desmond Barritt. From April MON 1992. MON MON 17:30 Know Your Place b01852w0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 Quote... Unquote b00rb16j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075jwn (Listen) MON Gareth Armstrong and Jenny Uglow MON Sarah Lefanu and her guests, actor Gareth Armstrong and MON biographer Jenny Uglow, discuss three favourite paperbacks MON by Bill Bryson, Penelope Fitzgerald and Jonathan Raban. From MON 1999. MON Mother Tongue by Bill Bryson MON Publisher: Penguin MON The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald MON Publisher: Flamingo MON Our Glory by Jonathan Raban MON Publisher: Picador. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jll5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show b008x0wg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Wimsey b007jvn3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain b00c67jq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Jane Gardam Stories b05447xr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b053rzvs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b053721t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Brig Society b02ykygj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b0544j3d (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 2 MON Sandi Toksvig is joined by Andy Hamilton, Sara Pascoe and MON journalist Sam Leith alongside regular panellist Jeremy MON Hardy. MON MON 23:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b00zf34s (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 2 MON Helen Keen presents her off-beat but true account of the MON history of space flight, aided by Peter Serafinowicz and MON Susy Kane. This week how Wernher Von Braun went from SS MON officer to American space supremo to Disney children's MON presenter; America's home-grown rocket genius Jack Parsons MON and his unhealthy interest in Satanism; and the surprising MON story of Fix the French Space Cat. MON Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill MON Produced by Gareth Edwards MON It Is Rocket Science is performed by Helen Keen and stars MON Peter Serafinowicz as the Voice of Space, with all other MON parts played by Susy Kane. MON Credits MON Performer: Helen Keen MON Actor: Peter Serafinowicz MON Actor: Susy Kane MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON Writer: Helen Keen MON Writer: Helen Keen MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 15 Minute Drama b043wvxj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84pv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03byzzf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Book of the Week b00rl6wf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Quote... Unquote b00rb16j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b0075jwn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Wimsey b007jvn3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain b00c67jq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b04bmtpk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Jane Gardam Stories b05447xr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b053rzvs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00b2txd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Know Your Place b01852w0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvg (Listen) TUE Series 2, A Case of Frinks and Moores TUE When an open-air sculpture exhibition is raided, TUE pitman-turned-private eye Steven J Blackburn is thrown into TUE the jungle of international dealing. TUE Starring Finetime Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy TUE Flynn as Tracey Duggan and Christopher Wilkinson as Rollo TUE Oglesby. TUE One of four more cases for the private investigator and his TUE government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South TUE Yorkshire town that's seen better days. TUE Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby TUE Producer: Dave Sheasby TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991. TUE TUE 06:30 Meter Mad b00cwxlr (Listen) TUE Jenny Eclair narrates a eulogy mourning the imminent death TUE of the parking meter, compiled by Josie Barnard. Fifty years TUE after the first parking meter was installed in London in TUE 1958, new methods of paying parking charges by text threaten TUE to make these potent articles of street furniture extinct. TUE TUE 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01cjd41 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Edward Wilson's quest for truth becomes the Movement. TUE Orwellian sitcom with David Threlfall and Hugh Laurie. From TUE April 1987. TUE TUE 07:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b0480352 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 This week a pair of American tourists visit St Paul's TUE cathedral to confess their sins; there's an unexpected TUE rendezvous at the train station waiting for the 4:18 to TUE Hatfield; and a student council meeting unearths some dark TUE secrets. 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: Adam Meggido TUE Actor: Oliver Senton TUE Producer: Ben Worsfield TUE Writer: Ruth Bratt TUE Writer: Lucy Trodd TUE Composer: Duncan Walsh Atkins TUE TUE 08:00 Yes Minister b007jznv (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Devil You Know TUE Cabinet reshuffle rumours unsettle Jim Hacker and Sir TUE Humphrey. Stars Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne. From TUE December 1983. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b0544p8b (Listen) TUE From 05/07/1964 TUE Doddy's gardening tips from Ivor Lupin, and meet the world's TUE worst ape-man. With Judith Chalmers and John Laurie. From TUE July 1964. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b0544j3d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b00zf34s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b04c9xcq (Listen) TUE Rose Tremain - Eugenie Grandet, Episode 2 TUE The final part of Rose Tremain's gripping dramatisation of TUE Balzac's Eugenie Grandet, starring Ian McKellen as Eugenie's TUE miserly father and Alison Pettit as his lovelorn daughter. TUE Monsieur Grandet, who has amassed a considerable fortune, is TUE a miser who feigns poverty and runs his household along TUE miserably frugal lines. All changes with the arrival of TUE Eugenie's handsome 22-year-old cousin, Charles Grandet, from TUE Paris. Charles has brought with him a shocking letter from TUE his father, Guillaume, who has committed suicide. He has TUE placed his debts and the care of his son into his brother's TUE hands. It is a fatal decision, with ruinous consequences for TUE the whole family. TUE Eugenie Grandet is considered by many to be the strongest TUE novel in Balzac's magnificent series, The Human Comedy. It TUE pits a young naive girl against the father she has TUE worshipped and this defiance sets us on course for the TUE playing out of a heart-rending tragedy. Like King Lear, TUE Grandet is a man who deeply loves the daughter who has TUE defied him. He has no other child, no hope, no future but TUE her. But in Balzac's 'human comedy' the tragic and the comic TUE exist side by side and this fruitful conjunction blossoms in TUE Rose Tremain's enthralling adaptation. TUE Cello and Treble Recorder: Alison Baldwin TUE Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown TUE Produced and directed by Gordon House TUE A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Grandet: Ian McKellen TUE Eugenie: Alison Pettitt TUE Nanon: Shirley Dixon TUE Madame Grandet: Anna Calder-Marshall TUE Cruchot: Harry Hadden-Paton TUE Des Grassins: David Horovitch TUE Charles: Blake Ritson TUE Madame Des Grassins: Jenny Funnell TUE Director: Gordon House TUE Producer: Gordon House TUE Adaptor: Rose Tremain TUE Author: Honore Balzac TUE TUE 11:00 Jane Gardam Stories b05467nj (Listen) TUE Stone Trees TUE A widow grieving for her recently dead husband spends an TUE afternoon with some old friends. Read by Sylvestra le TUE Touzel. TUE TUE 11:15 Altaban the Magnificent b007qb93 (Listen) TUE In post-war Berlin, magic is in the air but death is being TUE conjured up. Sebastian Baczkiewicz's drama stars Clive TUE Swift. TUE TUE 12:00 Yes Minister b007jznv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b0544p8b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Meter Mad b00cwxlr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04471l3 (Listen) TUE Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test, The Choice TUE Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in TUE New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she TUE works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and TUE younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an TUE extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his TUE choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the TUE tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. TUE 2) The Choice TUE A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog TUE Millionaire". TUE As Sapna struggles to support her widowed mother and sister, TUE she decides to go ahead and sign a contract which will TUE subject her to a series of "life tests". What the tests are TUE and when they will come, she does not know. TUE Writers: TUE Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling TUE novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar TUE winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award TUE winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . TUE Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX TUE SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. TUE She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, TUE UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her TUE stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was TUE developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged TUE by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. TUE John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series TUE SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won TUE the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His TUE dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best TUE Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A TUE HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated TUE dramas on R4 Extra. TUE Production: TUE Sound Design - Steve Bond TUE Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera TUE Script Editor - Mike Walker TUE Assistant Producer - Toral Shah TUE Music - Sacha Putnam TUE Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel TUE "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. TUE Director - John Dryden TUE Producer - Nadir Khan TUE A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Sapna: Rasika Dugal TUE Acharya: Vijay Chrishna TUE Karan: Neil Bhoopalam TUE Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital TUE Rosie: Radhika Mital TUE Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel TUE Raja: Sumeet Vyas TUE Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur TUE Roaji: Rajit Kapur TUE Neha: Amrita Puri TUE Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza TUE Pushpa: Ayesha Raza TUE Female Judge: Ayesha Raza TUE Badan Singh: Kenny Desai TUE Politician: Kenny Desai TUE Constable: Kenny Desai TUE Madan: Vivek Madan TUE Neelam: Prerna Chawla TUE Babli: Preetika Chawla TUE Janet: Preetika Chawla TUE Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik TUE Director: John Dryden TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon TUE Adaptor: John Dryden TUE Author: Vikas Swarup TUE TUE 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84k8 (Listen) TUE The Life and Death of Stars TUE Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. TUE Until the modern era of astrophysics, nobody knew what made TUE stars shine. The answer arose from the nuclear age. The sun TUE and stars are like giant hydrogen bombs, controlled nuclear TUE explosions. TUE In the 1950s, Fred Hoyle and his colleagues showed how new TUE elements are created in stars as they burn hydrogen and TUE helium. In the case of relatively small stars such as our TUE sun, the fuel eventually runs out, the bloated outer layers TUE are lost into space and a slowly cooling white dwarf TUE remains. But massive stars begin to collapse in on TUE themselves when fuel runs out at the core, creating a huge TUE explosion known as a supernova. TUE Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE and John Palmer. TUE TUE 14:30 Book of the Week b03c31f0 (Listen) TUE Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, Episode 2 TUE Beowulf arrives in the land of the Shieldings and explains TUE his mission to Hrothgar, the Danish King. TUE Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. TUE Radio Drama North. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Seamus Heaney TUE Producer: Susan Roberts TUE Author: Seamus Heaney TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qf (Listen) TUE Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones, Episode 2 TUE Lindsay Duncan reads from "Burying The Bones" - the latest TUE book by acclaimed biographer Hilary Spurling. Her subject is TUE Pearl Buck one of the most successful and popular American TUE novelists of the 20th Century. TUE Though her work has now fallen out of fashion, in her day TUE Pearl was a phenomenal bestseller. The novel that made her TUE name was "The Good Earth" - and it still sells in its TUE thousands - which depicted for the first time the gruelling TUE conditions of China's rural poor. Born to Presbyterian TUE missionaries in 1890s China, Buck's first hand experience of TUE the language and people informed her writing and helped to TUE change Western perceptions of that country forever; in TUE recognition of which she won the Nobel Prize for Literature TUE in 1938. TUE In today's episode, we learn more about Pearl's childhood TUE and the ways in which her father's missionary zeal TUE impoverished his family. A firebrand preacher who was often TUE absent for long periods of time, he invariably spent his TUE meagre wages on a project to translate the New Testament TUE into Chinese. Pearl's mother lost four children to illnesses TUE which could have been treated easily had they better access TUE to food and medicine. This was the potent environment which TUE formed Pearl and inspired her adult imagination. TUE Abridger: Alison Joseph TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b04c9xcq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04sxvfl (Listen) TUE Rollercoasters, Clog Dancing and Extreme Eating TUE Mel Giedroyc revels in the rush of the rollercoaster ride TUE and gets her clogs on for a Lancashire clog dance. Plus we TUE hear the second part of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. TUE TUE 17:00 Capital Gains b007qw7j (Listen) TUE Series 1, Thirty-Minute Theatre TUE Hard-up Julius Hutch's world of retirement is turned upside TUE down by a blundering bank. Stars Peter Jones. From April TUE 1994. TUE TUE 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01cjd41 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Hidden Treasures b0546cwh (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE The antiques quiz visits Harewood House in Yorkshire. With TUE Lars Tharp, Henry Sandon and Philippa Glanville. From April TUE 1998. TUE TUE 18:30 How Tickled Am I? b007lmc0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Robb Wilton TUE Mark Radcliffe profiles the variety star best remembered as TUE Nether Backwash magistrate Mr Muddlecombe JP. With Ken Dodd. TUE TUE 19:00 Yes Minister b007jznv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b0544p8b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Meter Mad b00cwxlr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Jane Gardam Stories b05467nj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Altaban the Magnificent b007qb93 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b0480352 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00hkprc (Listen) TUE Series 2, Dame Joan Bakewell TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. TUE Dame Joan Bakewell listens to the Arctic Monkeys, has a beat TUE boxing lesson and places a horse racing bet. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b0556s3b (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Holly Burn chats to TUE Gina Yashere. TUE TUE 23:00 Delve Special b007k4nj (Listen) TUE Series 2, Double Agent Russell Nicholson TUE Reporter David Lander interviews the notorious spy at his TUE luxury home in Bulgaria. Stars Stephen Fry. From September TUE 1985. TUE TUE 23:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00y8vkb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Rudy's Rare Record TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. TUE With the discovery on one of the rarest records ever TUE recorded on a dusty shelf at the back of the shop, Rudy, TUE Adam and Richie each allow themselves to imagine what life TUE would really be like if they were that rich. Turns out, TUE their dreams are a bit premature... TUE Written by Paula Hines TUE Script Edited by Danny Robins TUE Produced by Lucy Armitage. 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 Producer: Lucy Armitage TUE Writer: Paula Hines TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 MARCH 2015 WED WED 00:00 15 Minute Drama b04471l3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84k8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03c31f0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Hidden Treasures b0546cwh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 How Tickled Am I? b007lmc0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Meter Mad b00cwxlr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b04c9xcq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Jane Gardam Stories b05467nj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Altaban the Magnificent b007qb93 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Capital Gains b007qw7j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01cjd41 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvw (Listen) WED Series 2, A Case of Hearts and Flowers WED When his brother-in-law's Filofax is held to ransom, private WED eye Steven J Blackburn investigates. WED Starring Finetime Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy WED Flynn as Tracey Duggan, Rita May as Mam and Christine Cox as WED Shirley. WED One of four more cases for the private investigator and his WED government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South WED Yorkshire town that's seen better days. WED Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby WED Producer: Dave Sheasby WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. WED WED 06:30 The 19th-Century Greens b00chy3y (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. Professor James Woudhuysen ponders what WED 19th-century Romantic poets like Wordsworth would make of WED modern Greens. From July 2008. WED WED 07:00 Believe It! b03lpjpk (Listen) WED Series 2, Secrets WED Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a WED second series. WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of WED truth, BELIEVE IT is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, WED most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard WED Wilson. WED He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan WED delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his WED fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version WED of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, WED private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester WED United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has WED survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of WED fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, WED charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian WED McKellan (not true). WED The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference his famous catchphrase. WED Credits WED Himself: Richard Wilson WED Doug: David Tennant WED Herself: Celia Imrie WED Suzy Baker: Samantha Spiro WED Egg Wilson: Lewis Macleod WED Teddy: Robert Portal WED Mother: Arabella Weir WED Auntie Rita: Jane Slavin WED Writer: Jon Canter WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 07:30 Chain Reaction b053bq55 (Listen) WED Series 10, Reece Shearsmith talks to Bob Mortimer WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED In the second episode of the series co-creator and star of WED The League of Gentlemen, Psychoville and Inside No.9 Reece WED Shearsmith talks to one half of comedy double-act Vic & Bob, WED creators of Shooting Stars and House of Fools, Bob Mortimer. WED Producer ... Charlie Perkins. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b007k3hg (Listen) WED Strike Up the Band WED When Number One uses the Comfort Fund accounts for a dance, WED Pertwee takes action. Stars Leslie Phillips. From December WED 1959. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00t1tkk (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 5 WED The Spy with My Cold, and cabaret at the Cafe Au Lait. WED Sketches and songs with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From WED October 1966. WED WED 09:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zslfj (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED Charlie Brooker hosts the panel show devoted to the art of WED being wrong with comedians Rufus Hound, Sharon Horgan and WED Fergus Craig competing to give the best in wrong answers. WED Charlie's favourite hobby - the computer game - comes in for WED the So Wrong It's Right treatment this week. Asked to pitch WED a terrible idea for a computer game, who will triumph in the WED battle between Fergus' Football Player Liaison Officer, WED Sharon's Breast Feeding game and Rufus' innovative third WED person shooter - You Should Have Seen It Man Like Wow? WED Also up for examination are the panel's nominations for WED modern woes - how will Charlie react to Rufus' nomination WED for his greatest modern irritant: 'Charlie Brooker'. WED The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also WED writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series WED Newswipe & Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's You Have Been WED Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards WED 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press WED Awards for his newspaper columns. WED Produced by Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Charlie Brooker WED Panellist: Rufus Hound WED Panellist: Sharon Horgan WED Panellist: Fergus Craig WED Producer: Aled Evans WED WED 09:30 Spread a Little Happiness b00zm3hz (Listen) WED Series 2, Hope Is the Thing With a Lorry WED Maria's ex-boyfriend turns up looking for love. WED Debra Stevenson and Nicola Duffet star in episode 5 of John WED Godber and Jane Thornton's comedy set in a sandwich bar in WED Beverley, near Hull WED 'Spread A Little Happiness' is sung by Debra Stevenson. 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 Producer/Director: Chris Wallis WED An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b03vzvmc (Listen) WED Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Episode 1 WED by Jane Austen WED Dramatised by Charlotte Jones WED Mrs Bennet is determined to get her five daughters married WED off and secure a future for them all. WED And when Mr Bingley a wealthy man arrives in the WED neighbourhood she wastes no time in making his acquaintance. WED Director ..... Sally Avens WED Published just over 200 years ago Pride and Prejudice WED remains one of the Nation's favourite novels; with its WED intellect and wit it appeals to a broad range of readers. It WED stands the test of time by dealing with the timeless issues WED of love, social class, money and mistaken judgements and by WED having a witty and clever though flawed heroine at its WED heart. Elizabeth Bennet is a thorough radical for her time WED and perhaps the first heroine to ask is it possible to have WED it all? WED Pippa Nixon takes on the role of Elizabeth; she received WED rave reviews for her Rosalind in 'As You Like It' ' a rising WED young star'. WED Jamie Parker (Darcy) has played Henry V at the National and WED is shortly to portray Hamlet on Radio 4. WED Double Olivier Award winner Samantha Spiro takes on Mrs WED Bennet and Toby Jones Mr Collins. WED Credits WED Narrator: Amanda Root WED Elizabeth Bennet: Pippa Nixon WED Mrs Bennet: Samantha Spiro WED Mr Bennet: David Troughton WED Jane Bennet: Lydia Wilson WED Lydia Bennet: Georgie Fuller WED Kitty Bennet: Carys Eleri WED Mary Bennet: Rosie Wyatt WED Charlotte Lucas: Michelle Terry WED Mr Darcy: Jamie Parker WED Mr Bingley: Joshua Maguire WED Miss Bingley: Fenella Woolgar WED Sir William Lucas: Sean Murray WED Mr Denny: Arthur Hughes WED Mr Wickham: Joel MacCormack WED Director: Sally Avens WED Adaptor: Charlotte Jones WED Author: Jane Austen WED WED 11:00 Jane Gardam Stories b0546zg8 (Listen) WED Grace WED Clockie Gosport has a diamond under the skin at the back of WED his neck. Unlikely mysteries and miracles, read by Paul WED Copley. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00tjf5d (Listen) WED Gavin Mortimer - The Great Swim WED Adapted by Anita Sullivan from the book by Gavin Mortimer. WED In the roaring twenties the world was changing at an WED electric pace. In science, commerce and art, everything WED seemed possible and the challenges were there to be WED confronted. By 1926, only five men had ever conquered the WED English Channel, and the race to become the first woman to WED swim the Channel captivated two continents. Many doubted WED that a woman could do it. WED Gertrude Ederle, a brilliant young swimmer, was the WED 19-year-old daughter of a German migrant to the United WED States. Her father Henry Ederle ran a successful butcher's WED business in New York. Ederle's cross-channel swim was WED sponsored by the New York Daily News. WED The News sent a crime reporter, Julia Harpman, to accompany WED the swimmer and cover the story and this drama is told WED through Julia's eyes. WED Cast WED Julia Harpman ..... Madeleine Potter WED Trudy Ederle ..... Emily Bruni WED Lillian Cannon ..... Samantha Dakin WED Bill Burgess/Rutherford ..... Philip Jackson WED Arthur Sorensen ..... Nathan Nolan WED Joe Costa/Frank Pegler/Williams ..... Sam Dale WED Henry "Pop" Ederle/Abbot ..... Nathan Osgood WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Producer: Karen Rose WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b007k3hg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00t1tkk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The 19th-Century Greens b00chy3y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04471lv (Listen) WED Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test, The Wedding WED Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in WED New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she WED works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and WED younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an WED extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his WED choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the WED tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. WED Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas WED Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". WED 3) The Wedding WED A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog WED Millionaire". WED Sent to a village outside Delhi to install electrical WED appliances, TV sales assistant, Sapna Sinha, discovers a WED wedding about to take place - and that the young bride is WED being married against her will. What Sapna decides to do WED about it will be a matter of life and death. Could this be WED one of the seven tests that she has signed up for? WED Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The WED Accidental Apprentice". WED Writers: WED Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling WED novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar WED winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award WED winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . WED Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX WED SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. WED She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, WED UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her WED stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was WED developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged WED by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. WED John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series WED SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won WED the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His WED dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best WED Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A WED HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated WED dramas on R4 Extra. WED Production: WED Sound Design - Steve Bond WED Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera WED Script Editor - Mike Walker WED Assistant Producer - Toral Shah WED Music - Sacha Putnam WED Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel WED "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. WED Director - John Dryden WED Producer - Nadir Khan WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Sapna: Rasika Dugal WED Acharya: Vijay Chrishna WED Karan: Neil Bhoopalam WED Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital WED Rosie: Radhika Mital WED Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel WED Raja: Sumeet Vyas WED Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur WED Roaji: Rajit Kapur WED Neha: Amrita Puri WED Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza WED Pushpa: Ayesha Raza WED Female Judge: Ayesha Raza WED Badan Singh: Kenny Desai WED Politician: Kenny Desai WED Constable: Kenny Desai WED Madan: Vivek Madan WED Neelam: Prerna Chawla WED Babli: Preetika Chawla WED Janet: Preetika Chawla WED Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon WED Adaptor: John Dryden WED Author: Vikas Swarup WED WED 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84kb (Listen) WED A Plethora of Planets WED Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. WED For centuries, people have been speculating on the origin of WED the Earth and other planets. As long ago as 1755 the WED philosopher Imanuel Kant suggested that our solar system may WED have been born from a rotating cloud or nebula of gas and WED dust. But it was not until an infrared telescope was sent WED into space in 1983 that astronomers began to gather images WED of such dusty discs around other young stars. WED In 1955 Eugene Shoemaker showed that a crater in Arizona was WED blasted out by the impact of a large rock from space. He WED went on to show that most of the craters on the moon WED resulted from similar impacts, early in the history of the WED solar system. The dawn of the space age is enabling us to WED begin to explore the rocks in our cosmic backyard and WED speculate about worlds beyond. WED Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt WED and John Palmer. WED WED 14:30 Book of the Week b03c31kp (Listen) WED Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, Episode 3 WED Beowulf's first encounter with the evil monster Grendel. WED Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. WED Radio Drama North. WED Credits WED Reader: Seamus Heaney WED Producer: Susan Roberts WED Author: Seamus Heaney WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qh (Listen) WED Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones, Episode 3 WED Lindsay Duncan reads another excerpt from Hilary Spurling's WED new book: "Burying The Bones". The distinguished WED biographer's new subject is the astonishing life of Nobel WED Prize-winning author Pearl Buck, one of the most successful WED and popular American novelists of the 20th Century. (She's WED best remembered for her novel "The Good Earth", which is WED still a bestseller.) WED Pearl's desire for independence led her to make a hasty WED marriage of which her family disapproved. Refusing to be WED cowed by a series of personal tragedies, she discovered that WED her imagination offered escape from her difficulties and she WED began to write fiction in earnest. WED Abridger: Alison Joseph WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b03vzvmc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04sxzyy (Listen) WED Goat Kings, Puffin Pianos and Desert Islands WED Mel Giedroyc encounters some piano-playing puffins and a WED town where the goat is literally king. Plus, the third part WED of Daniel Defoe's classic story Robinson Crusoe. WED WED 17:00 Flying the Flag b007jy0c (Listen) WED Series 1, Weather Problems WED Eastern Bloc dissidents seeking refuge descend on the WED British Embassy. Stars Dinsdale Landen as the Ambassador. WED From April 1987. WED WED 17:30 Believe It! b03lpjpk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zslfj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076kcy (Listen) WED Risk WED Matthew Parris takes a gamble on writer David Tremayne, WED journalist Melissa Kite and neurotic novelist Geoff Dyer. WED Matthew Parris introduces a group of writers of fact and WED fiction: new talent and established names. In the context of WED a discussion of one of the ideas and pre-occupations of our WED times, each presents a piece on this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b007k3hg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00t1tkk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The 19th-Century Greens b00chy3y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Jane Gardam Stories b0546zg8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00tjf5d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Chain Reaction b053bq55 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00d4nrv (Listen) WED Series 2, After-Dinner Speech WED The former variety star attempts to get work as an WED after-dinner speaker. Stars Steve Delaney with guest Barry WED Cryer. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b0556s45 (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Holly Burn chats to WED Gina Yashere. WED WED 23:00 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b01j8byl (Listen) WED Series 3, Haiti WED The gap-year student arrives to help rebuild a village, and WED tries out some voodoo. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From WED February 2005. WED WED 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls Present b00gpbcl (Listen) WED The Brothers Faversham, Theseus Faversham WED The story of Victorian Britain's most respected detective. WED Swashbuckling family romp with the comedy trio. From January WED 2008. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 MARCH 2015 THU THU 00:00 15 Minute Drama b04471lv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84kb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03c31kp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 So Wrong It's Right b00zslfj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076kcy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 The Blackburn Files b007jpvw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 The 19th-Century Greens b00chy3y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b03vzvmc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Jane Gardam Stories b0546zg8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00tjf5d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Flying the Flag b007jy0c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Believe It! b03lpjpk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007w5d7 (Listen) THU Series 2, A Case of a Golden Smile THU When Betty Ackroyd sees her husband Archie on a TV quiz THU show, it's for the first time since he walked out 30 years THU ago. Private eye Stephen J Blackburn investigates. THU Starring Finetime Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy THU Flynn as Tracey Duggan and Ann Rye as Mrs Ackroyd. THU One of four more cases for the private investigator and his THU government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South THU Yorkshire town that's seen better days. THU Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby THU Producer: Dave Sheasby THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991. THU THU 06:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen) THU Pianist and broadcaster Simon Townley samples the many THU different ways in which trains and railways have inspired THU composers and songwriters and what it is about this THU particular form of travel that makes it so influential. THU They may be a shadow of their former infrastructural selves, THU but railways still hold a curiously affectionate place in THU our national life. Nowhere is this more true than in the THU world of music, where chuffing, whistling, steaming and THU clackety-clacking have been the inspiration for hundreds of THU songs. Simon has never described himself as a railway THU enthusiast, but he has always had an ear for the things that THU inspire composers and songwriters. THU He explores the rhythms, themes and metaphorical uses of the THU train in music, from Honneger's Pacific 231 to American THU blues tracks such as Love in Vain and Freight Train Blues. THU Country and western star Laura Cantrell, music professor THU Alan Moore and composer Sir Richard Rodney Bennett THU contribute their thoughts on this mass transit system which THU has provided such a rich seam of inspiration over the last THU 200 years. THU THU 07:00 The Pickerskill Reports b012wxxr (Listen) THU Series 2, Patrick Trumball THU Written and Directed by Andrew McGibbon. THU Patrick Trumball's strange fascination for thunderstorms, THU lightening and other epic forces of nature appear to mark THU him out as an unusual, otherworldly child confirmed by THU Pickerskill when he discovers that the boy also possesses a THU perfect photographic memory. THU Cast: THU Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid THU Fintan Grice ....... Toby Longworth THU Patrick Trumball ....... Louis Williams THU A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne THU Stealgroynes ........ Jack Edwards THU Calman .......Kris Saddler THU Moorcroft ...... Joe Cooper THU Matron ....... Mia Soteriou THU Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon THU A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Producer: Andrew McGibbon THU Producer: Nick Romero THU THU 07:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mdg8l (Listen) THU Series 2, Anidara 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 Anidara THU where Brian finds himself put out to stud. THU Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale THU Computer ..... Duncan Wisby THU Gem ..... Gerard McDermot THU Markl ..... Harry Livingstone THU Dorka ..... Vicki Pepperdine THU Liberator ..... Duncan Wisby THU Master ..... Patrick Brennan 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 b007k2pz (Listen) THU Series 1, Special Damages THU New barrister Roger Thursby reckons he's got an easy case, THU but has he? THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. With THU Patrick Cargill as Chapfield. 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 July 1970. THU THU 08:30 Not in Front of the Children b0547v4w (Listen) THU Series 1, Religious Revival THU A dynamic new vicar causes mayhem in the Corner household. THU Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as THU Henry Corner, Charlotte Mitchell as Mary and Edward de Souza THU as the Reverend John Spencer. 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 It's Your Round b018g279 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU The first in a new series in which the panellists bring THU their own round for the other panellists to play. THU Angus Deayton presides over a panel of comedians - Miles THU Jupp, Fred MacAulay, Josie Long and Nick Helm - all trying THU to beat each other at their own games. THU Featured rounds: THU Miles Jupp's "Test Match Specialists", a quiz using the THU rules and regulations of the "world's finest sport" (Miles' THU words) THU Fred MacAulay's "Play Your Various Different Categories THU Right", like "Play Your Cards Right", but with other THU variables such as Scottish landmarks, household accident THU statistics, Radio 4 presenter's heights and, er, the song THU "Do They Know It's Christmas?" by Band Aid. THU Josie Long's "Dream Day Job" in which panellists have to THU guess an audience member's dream day job by asking yes/no THU questions. THU Nick Helm's "Cream Crackered" in which panellists have to THU eat as many cream crackers as they can in a THU minute...commentated on by Test Match Special's very own, THU Henry Blofeld. THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU Credits THU Presenter: Angus Deayton THU Panellist: Miles Jupp THU Panellist: Fred MacAulay THU Panellist: Josie Long THU Panellist: Nick Helm THU Producer: Sam Michell THU THU 09:30 House on Fire b013fmkv (Listen) THU Series 2, Makeover THU Vicky decides she needs a new body and where better to get THU one than down the local gym. One session with Hans - a man THU who put the boot into camp - is enough to convince her she THU never wants to go back. But Hans has other ideas. THU Meanwhile, Matt's parent have other ideas about THU restructuring their lives.... THU Cast: THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt ..... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU Julie ..... Janine Duvitski THU Hans ..... Stephen Mangan THU Receptionist ..... Kellie Shirley THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b03wgzqv (Listen) THU Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Episode 2 THU by Jane Austen THU Dramatised by Charlotte Jones THU Elizabeth is determined to hate the Mr Darcy but finds the THU attentions of her ridiculous cousin, Mr Collins, even more THU vexing. THU Director ...... Sally Avens THU Mrs Bennet has five daughters and is desperate to marry them THU off to eligible men as the family will have no home once THU their father dies. Jane Bennet has been singled out for THU attention by a recent wealthy arrival to Hertfordshire, Mr THU Bingley. Her sister, Elizabeth, has been snubbed by his even THU wealthier friend, Mr Darcy. Elizabeth is determined to hate THU Darcy even more so since she has learnt from a member of the THU militia stationed at Netherfield, a Mr Wickham, that Darcy THU has cheated him out of his rightful inheritance. THU Published just over 200 years ago Pride and Prejudice THU remains one of the Nation's favourite novels; with its THU intellect and wit it appeals to a broad range of readers. It THU stands the test of time by dealing with the timeless issues THU of love, social class, money and mistaken judgements and by THU having a witty and clever though flawed heroine at its THU heart. Elizabeth Bennet is a thorough radical for her time THU and perhaps the first heroine to ask is it possible to have THU it all? THU Pippa Nixon takes on the role of Elizabeth; she received THU rave reviews for her Rosalind in 'As You Like It' ' a rising THU young star'. THU Jamie Parker (Darcy) has played Henry V at the National and THU is shortly to portray Hamlet on Radio 4. THU Double Olivier Award winner Samantha Spiro takes on Mrs THU Bennet and Toby Jones Mr Collins. THU Credits THU Elizabeth Bennet: Pippa Nixon THU Mr Darcy: Jamie Parker THU Mrs Bennet: Samantha Spiro THU Mr Collins: Toby Jones THU Mr Bennet: David Troughton THU Charlotte Lucas: Michelle Terry THU Mr Bingley: Joshua Maguire THU Miss Bingley: Fenella Woolgar THU Jane Bennet: Lydia Wilson THU Lydia Bennet: Georgie Fuller THU Kitty Bennet: Carys Eleri THU Mary Bennet: Rosie Wyatt THU Mrs Gardiner: Priyanga Burford THU Colonel Fitzwilliam: David Seddon THU Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Carolyn Pickles THU Narrator: Amanda Root THU Director: Sally Avens THU Adaptor: Charlotte Jones THU Author: Jane Austen THU THU 11:00 Jane Gardam Stories b0547wvz (Listen) THU Missing the Midnight THU A woman looks back on the train journey when she left THU university and travelled home for Christmas. Read by THU Sylvestra le Touzel. THU THU 11:15 After the Break b00769l5 (Listen) THU Triple spy George Blake's daring defection made headlines. THU But what about life behind the Iron Curtain? Stars Jack THU Klaff. THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b007k2pz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children b0547v4w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007w5d7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04471qc (Listen) THU Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test, The Ring THU Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in THU New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she THU works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and THU younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an THU extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his THU choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the THU tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. THU Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas THU Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". THU 4) The Ring THU A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog THU Millionaire". THU Bollywood actress Priya Capoor arrives at the showroom to THU promote a new range of TV's. But when her diamond ring goes THU missing, the suspicion falls on Sapna. THU Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The THU Accidental Apprentice". THU Writers: THU Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling THU novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar THU winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award THU winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . THU Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX THU SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. THU She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, THU UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her THU stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was THU developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged THU by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. THU John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series THU SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won THU the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His THU dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best THU Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A THU HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated THU dramas on R4 Extra. THU Production: THU Sound Design - Steve Bond THU Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera THU Script Editor - Mike Walker THU Assistant Producer - Toral Shah THU Music - Sacha Putnam THU Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel THU "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. THU Director - John Dryden THU Producer - Nadir Khan THU A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Sapna: Rasika Dugal THU Acharya: Vijay Chrishna THU Karan: Neil Bhoopalam THU Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital THU Rosie: Radhika Mital THU Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel THU Raja: Sumeet Vyas THU Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur THU Roaji: Rajit Kapur THU Neha: Amrita Puri THU Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza THU Pushpa: Ayesha Raza THU Female Judge: Ayesha Raza THU Badan Singh: Kenny Desai THU Politician: Kenny Desai THU Constable: Kenny Desai THU Madan: Vivek Madan THU Neelam: Prerna Chawla THU Babli: Preetika Chawla THU Janet: Preetika Chawla THU Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik THU Director: John Dryden THU Producer: Nadir Khan THU Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon THU Adaptor: John Dryden THU Author: Vikas Swarup THU THU 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84kd (Listen) THU Worlds Beyond THU Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. THU In the 16th century, Giordano Bruno speculated that there THU must be other planets similar to our own in the universe. He THU was burned at the stake for this and other heresies. THU Even today, with the best telescopes in the world, it THU remains impossible to see planets around distant stars. But THU in the last decade, astronomers have gathered indirect THU evidence for many other planetary systems. The easiest to THU detect and hence the first to be found were the most amazing THU - planets bigger than Jupiter orbiting so close to their THU star that they are almost touching. But evidence is now THU emerging that solar systems more like our own exist, some THU with multiple planets and some with planets that may be like THU Earth. THU Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt THU and John Palmer. THU THU 14:30 Book of the Week b03c31lq (Listen) THU Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, Episode 4 THU Hrothgar, King of the Danes, hosts a victory feast to THU celebrate Beowulf's defeat of the evil monster Grendel. THU Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. THU Radio Drama North. THU Credits THU Reader: Seamus Heaney THU Producer: Susan Roberts THU Author: Seamus Heaney THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qk (Listen) THU Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones, Episode 4 THU Lindsay Duncan reads another extract from "Burying The THU Bones", Hilary Spurling's account of the astonishing life of THU Pearl Buck. THU The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for THU Literature (in 1938), Pearl's popular novels were rooted in THU her childhood experiences of growing up in rural China, the THU daughter of missionaries, at the turn of the 20th century. THU Jung Chang, the author of "Wild Swans" has described Pearl THU Buck as "one of the greatest writers on China". THU Today's episode explores the extraordinary effect that THU Pearl's commercial success had on her family. This was most THU powerfully expressed in the freedom she had to secure a THU future for her daughters - including the best healthcare for THU her disabled daughter. But success came at a price: cracks THU began to appear in her marriage and Pearl became the focus THU of a divorce scandal that rocked 1930s America. THU Abridger: Alison Joseph. THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b03wgzqv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04sydnm (Listen) THU Stag's Antlers, Morris Gleitzman and Chocolate Heaven THU Mel treks through the forest in search of stag's antlers and THU chats to children's author Morris Gleitzman about his THU Inheritance Books. Plus the fourth part of Robinson Crusoe. THU THU 17:00 No Commitments b00sytfr (Listen) THU Series 4, One Gets Better THU Just as Victoria thinks her problems with Emily are over, THU Harriet starts playing up. Stars Nicola Pagett. From August THU 1996. THU THU 17:30 The Pickerskill Reports b012wxxr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 It's Your Round b018g279 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076hlp (Listen) THU Bernardo O'Higgins THU Writer Brian Keenan chooses Bernardo O'Higgins who liberated THU Chile in the 19th century. 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 b007k2pz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children b0547v4w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 The Blackburn Files b007w5d7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Jane Gardam Stories b0547wvz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 After the Break b00769l5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mdg8l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b0547zsc (Listen) THU Series 12, Episode 2 THU This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into THU sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to THU make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00j16ky (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 4 THU Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in hell. THU Why has a baby ended up in hell? Only God has the power to THU bring people back to life, but can he be persuaded? THU Satan ...... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ...... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville THU God ...... Timothy West THU With Felicity Montagu. THU THU 23:30 Hut 33 b00lqfm2 (Listen) THU Series 1, Careless Talk THU A security breach at Bletchley Park puts the wartime THU code-breakers under suspicion. Stars Robert Bathurst. From THU July 2007. Episode 3 of 6. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 MARCH 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 15 Minute Drama b04471qc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84kd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03c31lq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 It's Your Round b018g279 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076hlp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 The Blackburn Files b007w5d7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b03wgzqv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Jane Gardam Stories b0547wvz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 After the Break b00769l5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 No Commitments b00sytfr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Pickerskill Reports b012wxxr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 The Blackburn Files b007w3zt (Listen) FRI Series 2, A Case of Whistle and Run FRI A routine case for private eye Stephen J Blackburn starts to FRI look like his final investigation FRI Starring Finetime Fontayne as Stephen J Blackburn, Judy FRI Flynn as Tracey Duggan, Rita May as Mam and Daryl Fishwick FRI as Angela. FRI One of four more cases for the private investigator and his FRI government scheme-funded assistant Tracey. Set in a South FRI Yorkshire town that's seen better days. FRI Scripted by Ian McMillan, Martyn Wiley and Dave Sheasby FRI Producer: Dave Sheasby FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991. FRI FRI 06:30 Freedom Song b008q0sr (Listen) FRI Tony Phillips tells the story of a memorable performance. FRI On 9th April 1939, 75,000 concert-goers heard FRI African-American contralto Marian Anderson give a solo FRI recital at the Lincoln Memorial. Across America, millions FRI more listened to the live radio broadcast. Yet Anderson was FRI a victim of racism, barred from Constitution Hall, the FRI largest indoor location in Washington DC, because of her FRI colour. FRI Contributors include historian John Hope Franklin, concert FRI organiser Dorothy Height, Prof Allan Keiler, soprano Barbara FRI Hendricks and Harry Belafonte. FRI Music includes Schubert's Liebesbotschaft and Ave Maria. FRI FRI 07:00 Living With the Enemy b00771l8 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Sitcom written by and starring Nick Revell and Gyles FRI Brandreth as an alternative comedian turned holistic FRI therapist and a Tory MP turned media figure. FRI 4/6. Gyles takes Nick and Sophie to a swanky art exhibition FRI in Mayfair. FRI FRI 07:30 Gloomsbury b01nlbff (Listen) FRI Series 1, He's Got to Be Stopped FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest is bracing herself for the departure of FRI her adored husband Henry on a Foreign Office posting to FRI Romania. FRI Her friends Ginny and Lionel Fox have come down to FRI Sizzlinghurst to support her, along with her slightly FRI demented devotee Venus Traduces. Whilst maintaining a veneer FRI of cheerful serenity, Vera is inwardly desperate and hatches FRI several intricate plots to detain him: an ominous dream, a FRI succession of spurious telegrams, an extensive repertoire of FRI ailments. She even attempts, disastrously, to persuade the FRI cook to stage a staff crisis. FRI Meanwhile, down in the gazebo at midnight, Venus encourages FRI Henry to resist all Vera's attempts to detain him as she FRI will surely give in at the last moment and go with him to FRI Romania. FRI Cast: FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes FRI Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy FRI Mrs Gosling ..... Alison Steadman FRI Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks FRI Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer FRI Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman FRI Mr Gosling ..... Nigel Planer FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00j283q (Listen) FRI The Jewel Robbery FRI The lad is getting a new car, so Sid makes the most of the FRI opportunity. Stars Tony Hancock, Kenneth Williams and Sid FRI James. From October 1955. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b011f3pf (Listen) FRI The Foolproof Fool FRI Lamb finds his true vocation, then blows his big FRI opportunity. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From FRI August 1971. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015yt4k (Listen) FRI Series 4, Ince, Highfield, Edwards FRI Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of FRI Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious FRI comedian Dave Gorman. FRI This week's guests: FRI Coming from a long line of vicars, Robin Ince is the UK's FRI most rational comedian, and he tests his reason to the limit FRI once every year by performing at least four shows a day at FRI the Edinburgh fringe. His infamous Bad Book Club, which in FRI which he invites his fellow comedians to celebrate awful FRI literature, has become an institution, and his massive FRI Christmas show Nine Lessons and Carols For Godless People is FRI now a huge event, featuring the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Dara FRI O Briain and Richard Dawkins. FRI Roger Highfield is a scientist, science author and the FRI editor of New Scientist, but if you met him, you wouldn't FRI immediately guess that science is his thing. He's jolly and FRI worldly and has the hearty laugh of a comic supervillain. He FRI first made his name as a scientist be being the first person FRI ever to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger has FRI written and co-written 9 best-selling science books, FRI including a book on the hows and whys of Dolly the sheep, an FRI explanation of the science of Harry Potter and a biography FRI of Einstein. FRI Gareth Edwards is a filmmaker whose success and methods of FRI achieving it have sent ripples of fear through the studios FRI of Hollywood. His movie Monsters is an apocalyptic FRI blockbuster which he made for one five hundredth of the FRI budget for Avatar by shooting with a small, mobile team, FRI hiring non-actors on the spot and using dazzling-but-cheap FRI CGI effects. FRI FRI 09:30 The Cavity Within b00770f8 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Marty settles into the newly privatised dental practice, but FRI where are all the patients? A comedy with teeth, starring FRI Chris O'Dowd. From October 2006. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b03xcxdx (Listen) FRI Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice, Episode 3 FRI by Jane Austen FRI Dramatised by Charlotte Jones FRI Elizabeth has misjudged Wickham's character and he is about FRI to bring further shame on her family. Can she hope to ever FRI see Mr Darcy again after rejecting his offer of marriage? FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI Elizabeth has rejected Darcy's offer of marriage but is FRI beginning to reappraise her judgement of his character after FRI she learns of how Wickham attempted to seduce Darcy's FRI sister. Darcy may have put his proposal badly, pointing out FRI their differences in birth and the behaviour of her family. FRI He may also have attempted to separate her sister Jane from FRI Mr Bingley But it appears he believed that Jane did not love FRI Bingley. And Elizabeth knows that her mother and younger FRI sisters do not always behave with the decorum that might be FRI expected of them and her father is too lazy to correct them. FRI Perhaps the fault is not entirely on Darcy's side. FRI Published just over 200 years ago Pride and Prejudice FRI remains one of the Nation's favourite novels; with its FRI intellect and wit it appeals to a broad range of readers. It FRI stands the test of time by dealing with the timeless issues FRI of love, social class, money and mistaken judgements and by FRI having a witty and clever though flawed heroine at its FRI heart. Elizabeth Bennet is a thorough radical for her time FRI and perhaps the first heroine to ask is it possible to have FRI it all? FRI Pippa Nixon takes on the role of Elizabeth; she received FRI rave reviews for her Rosalind in 'As You Like It' ' a rising FRI young star'. FRI Jamie Parker (Darcy) has played Henry V at the National and FRI is shortly to portray Hamlet on Radio 4. FRI Double Olivier Award winner Samantha Spiro takes on Mrs FRI Bennet and Toby Jones Mr Collins. FRI Credits FRI Elizabeth Bennet: Pippa Nixon FRI Mr Darcy: Jamie Parker FRI Jane Bennet: Lydia Wilson FRI Lydia Bennet: Georgie Fuller FRI Mrs Bennet: Samantha Spiro FRI Mr Bennet: David Troughton FRI Kitty Bennet: Carys Eleri FRI Mr Bingley: Joshua Maguire FRI Miss Bingley: Fenella Woolgar FRI Lady Catherine de Bourgh: Carolyn Pickles FRI Mr Wickham: Joel MacCormack FRI Mrs Gardiner: Priyanga Burford FRI Mr Gardiner: Steve Toussaint FRI Mr Collins: Toby Jones FRI Georgiana: Katherine Rose Morley FRI Narrator: Amanda Root FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Adaptor: Charlotte Jones FRI Author: Jane Austen FRI FRI 11:00 Jane Gardam Stories b054c6gr (Listen) FRI Miss Mistletoe FRI A large family 'welcomes' a regular Christmas visitor, but FRI one year Miss Mistletoe doesn't join them. Read by Rachel FRI Atkins. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00771rc (Listen) FRI Juliet Ace - Chocolate Frigates FRI A naval chef plans a grand farewell dinner for his captain, FRI just as his son is sent to fight in the Iraq war. Stars Todd FRI Carty, Lindsey Coulson, Jamie Kenna, Nick Sayce. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00j283q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b011f3pf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 The Blackburn Files b007w3zt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Freedom Song b008q0sr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04471vk (Listen) FRI Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test, The Candy Van FRI Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in FRI New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she FRI works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and FRI younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an FRI extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his FRI choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the FRI tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas FRI Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". FRI 5) The Candy Van FRI A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog FRI Millionaire". FRI A van appears in Sapna's neighbourhood, luring children away FRI with sweets, to work in factories. Sapna intervenes, but in FRI so doing sets off a chain of events that lead her into the FRI path of danger. Dramatised from Vikas Swarup's best-selling FRI novel "The Accidental Apprentice". FRI Writers: FRI Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling FRI novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar FRI winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award FRI winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . FRI Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX FRI SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. FRI She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, FRI UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her FRI stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was FRI developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged FRI by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. FRI John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series FRI SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won FRI the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His FRI dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best FRI Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A FRI HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated FRI dramas on R4 Extra. FRI Overflow and notes: FRI Production: FRI Sound Design - Steve Bond FRI Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera FRI Script Editor - Mike Walker FRI Assistant Producer - Toral Shah FRI Music - Sacha Putnam FRI Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel FRI "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. FRI Director - John Dryden FRI Producer - Nadir Khan FRI A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Sapna: Rasika Dugal FRI Acharya: Vijay Chrishna FRI Karan: Neil Bhoopalam FRI Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital FRI Rosie: Radhika Mital FRI Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel FRI Raja: Sumeet Vyas FRI Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur FRI Roaji: Rajit Kapur FRI Neha: Amrita Puri FRI Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza FRI Pushpa: Ayesha Raza FRI Female Judge: Ayesha Raza FRI Badan Singh: Kenny Desai FRI Politician: Kenny Desai FRI Constable: Kenny Desai FRI Madan: Vivek Madan FRI Neelam: Prerna Chawla FRI Babli: Preetika Chawla FRI Janet: Preetika Chawla FRI Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik FRI Director: John Dryden FRI Producer: Nadir Khan FRI Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon FRI Adaptor: John Dryden FRI Author: Vikas Swarup FRI FRI 14:15 Cosmic Quest b00c84kg (Listen) FRI Are We Alone? FRI Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy. FRI She looks at the prospects for life elsewhere in our own FRI solar system. Could evidence of life have even been FRI discovered already on Mars? She tells the story of the FRI search for extra-terrestrial intelligence as scientists scan FRI the skies for messages from the stars. FRI Readers are Timothy West, Robin Sebastian, Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI and John Palmer. FRI FRI 14:30 Book of the Week b03c31w7 (Listen) FRI Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, Episode 5 FRI After King Hrothgar's great victory feast for Beowulf FRI Grendel's mother appears to avenge the death of her son. FRI Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. FRI Radio Drama North. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Seamus Heaney FRI Producer: Susan Roberts FRI Author: Seamus Heaney FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00rp7qm (Listen) FRI Hilary Spurling - Burying the Bones, Episode 5 FRI Lindsay Duncan reads the final extract from Hilary FRI Spurling's new book: "Burying The Bones". The distinguished FRI biographer's subject is the astonishing life of Pearl Buck, FRI one of the most successful and popular American novelists of FRI the 20th Century. FRI In today's episode we learn that as she entered old age, FRI Pearl's indomitable spirit continued to shine as she shocked FRI and surprised her family with a series of bizarre life FRI choices. Pearl never quite recovered her equilibrium after FRI the death of her second husband and, surrounded by a coterie FRI of flamboyant young men, became increasingly cloistered - FRI receiving visitors in a 'throne' room; a strange echo of the FRI last days of her childhood heroine, the last empress of FRI China. FRI Though her work has now fallen out of fashion, in her day FRI Pearl Buck was a phenomenal bestseller. The novel that made FRI her name was "The Good Earth" which depicted for the first FRI time the gruelling conditions of China's rural poor. Born to FRI Presbyterian missionaries in 1890s China, Buck's first hand FRI experience of the language and people informed her writing FRI and helped to change Western perceptions of that country FRI forever; in recognition of which she won the Nobel Prize for FRI Literature in 1938. FRI Abridger: Alison Joseph. FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b03xcxdx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04sylfh (Listen) FRI Mairi Hedderwick, the Big Apple and Brilliant Baking FRI Mel Giedroyc explores Scotland's islands with Katie Morag FRI creator Mairi Hedderwick and we hear the final part of FRI Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe. FRI FRI 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way b0081b4f (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, John FRI Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Routledge. From March FRI 1989. FRI FRI 17:30 Living With the Enemy b00771l8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015yt4k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books b012rbts (Listen) FRI Series 2, Robin Pilcher FRI Robin Pilcher didn't take up writing until he was 48 years FRI old but he has made up for his late start by publishing many FRI successful books. An Ocean Apart in 1999 was followed by FRI Starting Over and A Risk Worth Taking and all three were FRI adapted for television. His latest novel, A Matter of Trust FRI has now been published in paperback. FRI Robin is also passionate about short stories and is a FRI co-director of the website Shortbread Stories. FRI Chatting to Stuart Cosgrove about his 5 books Robin reveals FRI his love of maps, picks a life changing book and they share FRI a love of John Buchan's books. FRI Robin picks the following five books: FRI 1: Favourite Childhood Book: A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by FRI Richard Hughes FRI 2: Life-Changing book: I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME by FRI Margaret Craven FRI 3: Favourite Reference Book: AA ROAD MAP OF THE BRITISH FRI ISLES FRI 4:Book you've read most often: THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS by John FRI Buchan FRI 5: Favourite novel no one has heard of: LOVESONG by Alex FRI Miller. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00j283q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b011f3pf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 The Blackburn Files b007w3zt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Freedom Song b008q0sr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Jane Gardam Stories b054c6gr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00771rc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Gloomsbury b01nlbff (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 The League Against Tedium b03b5qc9 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI What happens to Oscar Wilde in customs? Cryptic blend of odd FRI comedy and smooth music, with Simon Munnery. From February FRI 1997. FRI FRI 23:30 The In Crowd b008g2dl (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 6 FRI Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, FRI Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From January 2002. FRI FRI 23:45 Self Storage b01hzb14 (Listen) FRI Leaving FRI Could the time have come at long last for Dave to leave FRI behind his peculiar abode? Stars Reece Shearsmith. From FRI October 2007. FRI
27 February, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28/02/2015 - 06/03/2015
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