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SAT SATURDAY 11 APRIL 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Sheridan Le Fanu - Schalken the Painter b007sw35 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT The ghoulish Vanderhausen seals his deal with Rose's uncle SAT and takes her away. 17th-century mystery concluded by Ian SAT McDiarmid. SAT SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs b00p6v33 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Edwyn Collins SAT The Corries signing Sally Free and Easy and David Bowie's SAT Conversation Piece are two of the songs Edwyn Collins has SAT chosen as being really important to him. He talks to Phil SAT Cunningham about the significance of these songs and the SAT three others he's picked in My Life in 5 Songs. SAT SAT 01:00 Paul Temple b007w2hz (Listen) SAT Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, The Girl in Brown SAT The debonair detective returns to Canterbury in search of SAT 'Alex', when Leo Brent looks to be in danger. SAT Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple SAT and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case SAT for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. SAT With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. SAT From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective SAT Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist SAT Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most SAT popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of SAT chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic SAT and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, SAT of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest SAT tricky case. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. SAT SAT 01:30 Going to Pieces in the Box b00p61zg (Listen) SAT Janet Ellis, host of the 1980s Children's BBC series Jigsaw, SAT presents a celebration of the history and the art of the SAT jigsaw puzzle. SAT More art - typically sentimental, traditional art - has made SAT its way into more homes via the jigsaw puzzle than virtually SAT any other medium. While it has since become the purveyor of SAT comforting landscapes to the masses, it started life as an SAT educational tool championed by the likes of philosopher John SAT Locke. In 1760, London mapmaker John Spilsbury mounted one SAT of his maps on hardboard and cut it into pieces to help SAT children learn geography. SAT Janet tells the story of how, since then, it has become such SAT a core feature of childhoods across the world. She hears how SAT jigsaws hit their first major peak during the Great SAT Depression, when 10 million a week were bought by families SAT looking for cheap pastimes, and how they were used by SAT immigration officers on Ellis Island to determine who should SAT be allowed into the land of the free. Janet also explores SAT how popular culture has flirted with the jigsaw, in novels SAT and films as diverse as Mansfield Park, Citizen Kane and, SAT most powerfully, Georges Perec's novel, Life: A User's SAT Manual. She hears from academics and enthusiasts including SAT Margaret Drabble, who explain the jigsaw's great allure. SAT Janet hears how jigsaws continue to be incredibly popular, SAT having evolved into 3-D puzzles and of course made their way SAT onto the internet, where no young children's games site is SAT without one. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tt673 (Listen) SAT Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 5 SAT Bee's struggle to persuade the police that her sister Tess SAT didn't commit suicide continues as she goes to meet the SAT psychiatrist who saw Tess shortly before her death. Bee SAT discovers that he changed his diagnosis of post-natal SAT depression to one of psychosis, but only after he learnt of SAT her death. But Bee's efforts to convince him that Tess SAT wouldn't have taken her own life meet with a professional SAT stonewall. Bee also learns, from Tess' phone bill, that Tess SAT had tried to call her in the States fifteen times in the SAT twenty-four hours before she died, and her guilt over Tess' SAT death increases with the knowledge that she had failed Tess SAT in her time of need. Spurred on by this, she visits Tess's SAT fellow student Simon in his flat, and there makes a sinister SAT discovery. SAT The abridger is Lauris Morgan Griffiths, the reader is SAT Hattie Morahan. SAT Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. SAT SAT 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country SAT b00s54j7 (Listen) SAT Octavia Hill SAT How Octavia set up the National Trust, based on her belief SAT in the importance of nature for the working class. SAT SAT 02:30 Ladies of Letters b007k3wb (Listen) SAT Ladies of Letters Go Global, Episode 5 SAT Vera joins Irene's son to undertake a life-threatening SAT undercover operation for MI6. Stars Patricia Routledge and SAT Prunella Scales. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00rzrsx (Listen) SAT Michael Chabon - Manhood for Amateurs, Episode 5 SAT Jason Butler Harner continues to read from Pulitzer SAT prize-winning author Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty SAT memoir about life as a husband, father and son. SAT In exploring what it means to be a man today, Chabon SAT reflects on the personal and family history that haunts him SAT even as it's being written every day. At the centre of a SAT large and complex family, and with four young children, SAT Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' SAT marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent SAT comedy. SAT In the final episode, Michael Chabon is forced to confront SAT his teenage daughter's emerging sexuality, and his own SAT feelings of protectiveness and helplessness towards her. SAT "For a while everything about my daughter's entrance into SAT puberty, her emerging new self and the concomitant interest SAT of boys in her, discomfited me. And the part of it that made SAT me squirm the most was how depressingly trite my discomfort SAT was. Was that the kind of father I had turned out to be? SAT Standing on the front porch with my shotgun under one arm, SAT cartoonishly interrogating my daughter's cartoonish dates?" SAT Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven SAT novels including The Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, and The SAT Yiddish Policeman's Union. He has been described by the SAT Guardian as 'a spectacular writer' and by the New York Times SAT as 'one of his generation's most eloquent voices'. SAT Jason Butler Harner has starred in films such as The SAT Changeling with Angelina Jolie, as well as numerous TV SAT series including Law and Order and John Adams. An SAT accomplished stage actor, he has just appeared on the London SAT stage in Serenading Louie at the Donmar Warehouse. SAT Producer: Jane Greenwood. This is a Loftus production for SAT BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss b00gszmm (Listen) SAT Loving and Losing SAT As Philip hatches a plan, Maggie Tulliver's loyalties are SAT sorely tested. With Sylvestra Le Touzel and Richard Pearce. SAT SAT 04:00 All the Way From Memphis b00j26h0 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, SAT Tracey MacLeod, Carol Decker and David Hepworth. From SAT December 2004. SAT SAT 04:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b00757wt (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Richard and Sally take a well-earned break in Bratov, "the SAT jewel behind the iron curtain", but it soon becomes apparent SAT that they should've dissuaded Dick from joining them. SAT Before they can reach the hotel, he's raced off in a taxi SAT chase, convinced someone's taken his bag. They have. But as SAT Dick's bag contains three drip-dry shirts and a week's SAT supply of tea-bags, and theirs contains something quite SAT different, one can assume it's an accident. Things are SAT looking rather dangerous. SAT Starring Robert Bathurst as Richard Barton, Moray Watson as SAT Old Dick Barton, Iain Cuthbertson as Jock, Julian Dutton as SAT Young Dick Barton and Matilda Ziegler as Sally Barton SAT In 1946, Edward J Mason wrote the first episode of Dick SAT Barton - Special Agent. The BBC Light Programme's hugely SAT popular serial followed the adventures of the ex-Commando SAT and his mates Jock Anderson and Snowy White. Despite facing SAT a series of never-ending cliff-hangers at the hands of SAT dastardly villains, our hero always triumphed. "With one SAT bound Dick was free!". SAT Half a century later, Edward J's son Lol created Richard SAT Barton, son of Dick, in an affectionate homage to one of BBC SAT Radio's most enduring heroes. SAT Producer: Jo Clegg SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998. SAT SAT 05:00 Rent b00752fm (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT Havoc in the Reynolds household as all prepare for baby SAT Piglet's naming ceremony. Stars Barbara Flynn, Patrick SAT Barlow and Linda Polan. From February 1997. SAT SAT 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n6sjq (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 5 SAT John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, SAT regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things SAT like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his SAT hit sketch show. SAT The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by SAT The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny SAT sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It SAT featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive SAT relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people SAT who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr SAT Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. SAT This week sees some moth-based lunacy, and a heartwarming SAT tale of the days before health and safety. All of which is, SAT as you'll see, "awesome". SAT John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SAT John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, SAT Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced SAT by Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 06:00 Black Bartlemy's Treasure b007jwdn (Listen) SAT Jeffrey Farnol's swashbuckling tale of piracy, love and SAT death on a desert island. Starring Steven Pacey and Julia SAT Swift. SAT SAT 07:30 Unearthing Mysteries b007mwg6 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Lost Map of London SAT With no surviving copies of London's oldest known map, SAT Professor Aubrey Manning traces its Tudor origins. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01pt74f (Listen) SAT Rural Rides SAT Mark Steel's review of reporters' journeys round Britain, SAT starting with William Cobbett, the great English journalist SAT and radical campaigner who was born 250 years ago. Mark SAT talks to veteran horseman Dylan Winter and analyses a SAT classic radio and TV genre that owes more than it realises SAT to Cobbett - the tradition of going out and taking a look at SAT Britain. SAT The formula is a simple one: a hired hack goes on a SAT whistle-stop tour of a part of the country that's unfamiliar SAT to him (it's usually a him) and then publishes his SAT ill-informed impressions together with any wild SAT generalisations he cares to base upon them. SAT In print, it starts with Cobbett's 'Rural Rides' and ends SAT with the likes of Bill Bryson, Beryl Bainbridge and of SAT course Mark Steel, taking in along the way such scribblers SAT as James Boswell, J.B.Priestley and George Orwell. In radio SAT it's Tom Vernon ('Fat Man on a Bicycle'), Ray Gosling, the SAT many incarnations of 'Down Your Way'... and Mark Steel SAT (again). In TV it runs from Alan Whicker to Clare Balding SAT and Griff Rhys Jones. SAT When it's done well, Cobbettry can celebrate the differences SAT between us. It can give us an insight into people and places SAT we might be interested to know more about; it can illuminate SAT the human condition by shining a light on particular SAT examples. SAT When it's done badly - as it often is - Cobbettry can be SAT feeble, patronising and full of cliches. In his own SAT prejudiced and over-simplified whistle-stop tour, Mark Steel SAT demonstrates that Cobbett's legacy has been a mixed SAT blessing. SAT Producer: Peter Everett SAT A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Again b01r5495 (Listen) SAT Bill Oddie celebrates the BBC radio comedy series that SAT originated from the Cambridge University Footlights - I'm SAT Sorry, I'll Read That Again - with three hours of history SAT and hysteria. With Humphrey Barclay. Featuring: SAT Clips of Cambridge Circus. SAT I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Series 2 (5/9) SAT Singing dogs - and the tale of Martin Copperwick. Starring SAT Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall SAT and Bill Oddie. From November 1965. SAT I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Series 6 (9/13) SAT Worries over Bill Oddie's singing voice - and Shakespeare's SAT funny side. Starring John Cleese, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme SAT Garden : Acting (adult) Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo SAT Kendall and Bill Oddie. From June 1968. SAT I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: Series 7 (13/13) SAT A look at love, sex and marriage - plus the tense climax to SAT the hunt for the Time Trousers. Stars John Cleese, Tim SAT Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and SAT Bill Oddie. From April 1969. SAT I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again: 25th Anniversary Edition SAT The original cast of John Cleese, Tim Brook Taylor, Graeme SAT Garden and Bill Oddie reunite to celebrate 25 years of the SAT programme. From December 1989 SAT Produced by Nick St George SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2013. SAT SAT 12:00 Round the Horne b00j05wj (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 5 SAT Saluting a puddings inventor - and Gruntfuttock's after a SAT job at the BBC. SAT Starring Kenneth Horne. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, SAT Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. SAT Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, SAT London. SAT Announcer: Douglas Smith SAT Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio SAT comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric SAT Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, SAT Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the SAT scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and SAT 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, SAT catchphrases and double-entendres. SAT Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser SAT Hayes Four. SAT Producer: John Simmonds SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1965. SAT SAT 12:30 The Navy Lark b05px8vr (Listen) SAT Tug-of-War SAT Troutbridge sails on escort duty, but Mr Phillips is SAT assigned as the lone officer. Stars Leslie Phillips. From SAT February 1960. SAT SAT 13:00 Chris Fallon - Le Donne b05qdlnm (Listen) SAT Series 3 Omnibus SAT Caterina is now head of the Riccardi clan. As dissent grows SAT among the ranks, she tries to find her daughter Antonella. SAT With Indira Varma, Anton Lesser, Juliet Aubrey. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b05qdlnp (Listen) SAT Ryan Molloy SAT Singer Ryan Molloy chooses 'The Night' by Frankie Valli and SAT the Four Seasons, and Donny Hathaway's 'A Song for You'. SAT SAT 14:15 Baldi b00whw3t (Listen) SAT Series 5, Food of the Blue SAT The priest's retreat proves far from peaceful thanks to SAT mysterious murders linked to ancient traditions. Stars David SAT Threlfall. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01pt74f (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Black Bartlemy's Treasure b007jwdn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Unearthing Mysteries b007mwg6 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l2wcw (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Flood SAT Have Abby and Zara found a safe haven at last? A flood SAT threatens the townspeople, but something's behind it. Stars SAT Ciara Janson. SAT Abby - Ciara Janson SAT Zara - Laura Doddington SAT Brondle - Michael Cochrane SAT Wing - Joanna Van Gyseghem SAT Nina - Daisy Ashford SAT Soldier - John Banks SAT Written by Simon Guerrier SAT Directed by Lisa Bowerman SAT A Big Finish Production. SAT SAT 19:00 I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again, Again b01r5495 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01dht2h (Listen) SAT Series 1, Raising Children SAT Stephen K Amos and his pick of the circuit's best stand-ups SAT build an idiot's guide to life. This week Ava Vidal, Howard SAT Read, Andy Wilkinson and Lucy Porter offer a guide to SAT raising children. SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 22:30 Rhod Gilbert's Leaving Llanbobl b00g66s2 (Listen) SAT Flying high as a successful shoe shop manager, Rhod is SAT brought down by family woes. With Greg Davies. From December SAT 2008. SAT SAT 23:00 The Simon Day Show b01j6t0s (Listen) SAT Series 2, Tommy Cockles SAT Simon Day and his characters once again welcome listeners to SAT The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. SAT Each week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at SAT The Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, SAT self-doubt and the new owner's vision for the theatre's SAT future. SAT This week popular, blazered entertainer Tommy Cockles SAT arrives at the theatre to find it transformed. There's a new SAT Nigerian owner, soundman Goose has been replaced by an SAT authoritarian ex-copper and receptionist Catherine has SAT disappeared off to India to find herself. SAT Cast list: SAT Tommy Cockles ..... Simon Day SAT Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd SAT Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter SAT Pat Bennet ..... Morwenna Banks SAT Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall SAT Written by Simon Day SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 23:30 Wondermentalist Cabaret b00yqspr (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT Matt Harvey's warm-hearted poetry cabaret, Wondermentalist, SAT is today in the company of fellow poets Les Barker, Pete SAT Hunter and Jude Simpson. Supported by one man house band, SAT Jerri Hart, they vie for the audience's approval at the SAT Comedy Box, Bristol, in the Dead Poets' Slam, wooing us with SAT the deathless words of their best-loved poets from the past. SAT The audience too play their part, composing their own SAT crowd-sourced poem (the subjects of which can vary wildly, SAT from reflecting on the delights and demerits of cheese, to SAT Sunday mornings, and the winter habits of gerbils). SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 APRIL 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l2wcw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Chris Fallon - Le Donne b05qdlnm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b05qdlnp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Baldi b00whw3t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01pt74f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Black Bartlemy's Treasure b007jwdn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Unearthing Mysteries b007mwg6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Ladies of Letters b007k3xg (Listen) SUN Ladies of Letters Go Global, Omnibus SUN Vera nabs a package to Ibiza, while Irene aims to save her SUN friend from seduction. Stars Prunella Scales and Patricia SUN Routledge. SUN SUN 07:15 Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib b05qdpnl (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Kenneth Williams presents the first of a compendium of SUN entertaining reminiscences and personal opinions recorded in SUN front of an audience at BBC Pebble Mill. SUN Beginning with the tale of his trip to Lichfield - the SUN literary home of Samuel Johnson - the master raconteur SUN shares tales of historical people and places. SUN Williams winds his way through stories of writers, SUN buildings, the death of Thomas Cromwell and the funding of SUN wars - and touches on the monarchy, the legal system and SUN anecdotes of Prime Ministers past. SUN Produced by Michael Ford SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982. SUN SUN 07:30 Beauty of Britain b00n7zd1 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Girl With a Polycotton Tabard SUN Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Beauty SUN Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and sees SUN herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to SUN achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed milk. SUN Beauty wonders why so many British men get stuck in the SUN emotional wilderness and find it hard to communicate with SUN each other, as she deals with an elderly gentleman and his SUN son. Beauty's dreams of becoming a model are given a boost SUN when she applies to be the Face of the Social Services. SUN Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien SUN Mr Clark ...... Geoffrey Palmer SUN Julian ...... Christopher Douglas SUN Georgie ...... Emma Fryer SUN Sally ...... Felicity Montagu SUN Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson SUN Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi SUN Anil ...... Paul Sharma SUN Race Commentator ...... Christopher Douglas SUN Music by The West End Gospel Choir. SUN SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpjp (Listen) SUN The Bishop Gains a Reputation SUN Clerical confusion abounds over the Archdeacon's tell-all SUN book. Written for radio. Stars Robertson Hare. From July SUN 1972. SUN SUN 08:30 Life With the Lyons b01479kj (Listen) SUN An Afternoon on the Thames SUN Barbara and her boyfriend Derek try to enjoy some time alone SUN on a river trip, with little success. Stars Bebe Daniels and SUN Ben Lyons. From April 1955. SUN SUN 09:00 Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - The Story of Alice SUN b05qzg61 (Listen) SUN Omnibus. On 4 July 1862, Lewis Carroll begins to tell the SUN three Liddell girls a fairy tale about a little girl called SUN Alice. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b05qdqss (Listen) SUN Fatboy Slim SUN DJ and musician Fatboy Slim chooses 'Something' by the SUN Beatles and 'Sowing the Seeds of Love' by Tears for Fears. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05qdrlx (Listen) SUN Theatre Folk, Jude Kelly SUN Sir Yehudi Menuhin, Bob Dylan and John Cage. Theatre SUN director Jude Kelly shares her castaway choices with Sue SUN Lawley. From May 2002. SUN SUN 11:00 An Hour With Jon Pertwee b00bdjh3 (Listen) SUN The star of 'Doctor Who', 'The Navy Lark' and 'Worzel SUN Gummidge', actor Jon Pertwee entertains an audience with his SUN one-man biographical show - sharing tales from his very SUN early days through to his career highlights. SUN Jon recalls life at school and in the navy during the war. SUN Staying afloat, he moves onto working on popular BBC radio SUN comedy The Navy Lark - and reveals how one of his co-stars SUN was instrumental in him taking over from Patrick Troughton SUN as Doctor Who for BBC TV in the 1970s. SUN Later when playing Worzel Gummidge for Southern TV, Jon SUN loved being able to change heads - and he also reveals how SUN he stood up to Kenneth Williams on a 'Carry On' film! SUN SUN 12:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpjp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Life With the Lyons b01479kj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Ladies of Letters b007k3xg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib b05qdpnl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Molly McGrann - The Ladies of the House b05qdv1y (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Made for 4 Extra. Molly McGrann's novel about the discovery SUN of a dead man's double life and its dark secrets. Read by SUN Susan Jameson. SUN SUN 15:45 Afternoon Reading b011j8zn (Listen) SUN Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other SUN Stories, Winter in the Air SUN Winter in the Air is the title story from Sylvia Townsend SUN Warner's recently republished collection in which a woman SUN reflects on the final and difficult days of her marriage. At SUN the same time she looks ahead to her new life in her SUN solitary flat in 1950s London. SUN The stories in this collection were written between 1938 and SUN 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and SUN the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. Sylvia SUN Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her time SUN was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. SUN She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These stories SUN illustrate her talent for sharp, insightful, and vivid SUN storytelling. SUN The reader is Susannah Harker SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 16:00 Stephen Lowe - Touched b05qdv20 (Listen) SUN 8th May 1945, Nottingham: three sisters gather to hear SUN Churchill pronounce the end of the war in Europe. In the SUN hundred days that follow, before VJ Day, they come to face SUN the haunting reality of the future. SUN Starring Sian Thomas as Sandra, Joanne Pearce as Joan, Sara SUN Mair-Thomas as Betty and Mary Wimbush as their mother. SUN Winner of the 1977 George Devine Award SUN Directed by Caroline Raphael SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985. SUN SUN 17:30 Beauty of Britain b00n7zd1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Nevil Shute - On the Beach b0124y0r (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN As the deadly radioactive cloud approaches Australia, a SUN desperate submarine mission is launched. Stars Richard SUN Dillane. SUN SUN 19:00 An Hour With Jon Pertwee b00bdjh3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - The Story of Alice SUN b05qzg61 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b05qdqss (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05qdrlx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Beauty of Britain b00n7zd1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Richest Man in Britain b00p6v3r (Listen) SUN The Meltdown SUN Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock SUN star and his search for fulfilment. SUN Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt buys some last-minute SUN holiday Euros and promptly brings down the entire SUN international monetary system. SUN Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams SUN Dom ...... Russell Tovey. SUN SUN 23:00 Radio Shuttleworth b007qs2x (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth SUN takes over the BBC airwaves. With Leo Sayer. From November SUN 1998. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00qcj8w (Listen) SUN Series 5, Ambition SUN The writer Jon Ronson asks how our driving ambitions shape SUN us. By interviewing several people at different points in SUN their lives, he sees how ambition can make and break people. SUN He talks to an 11 year old boy who has plans to be a world SUN class architect, a young woman who has set her sites on SUN being Prime Minister and an ambitious stock broker whose SUN success led him down a dangerous path towards a high SUN security prison in the US. SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 APRIL 2015 MON MON 00:00 Nevil Shute - On the Beach b0124y0r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Ladies of Letters b007k3xg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib b05qdpnl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Molly McGrann - The Ladies of the House b05qdv1y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Afternoon Reading b011j8zn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Stephen Lowe - Touched b05qdv20 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Beauty of Britain b00n7zd1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Paul Temple b007w39f (Listen) MON Paul Temple and the Alex Affair, Introducing Alex MON The suave sleuth invites the key players to his home, but MON has he identified who the blackmailing murderer is? MON Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple MON and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case MON for BBC radio's smoothest sleuth and his glamorous wife. MON With James Thomason as Sir Graham Forbes. MON From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective MON Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist MON Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most MON popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of MON chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic MON and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, MON of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest MON tricky case. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1968. MON MON 06:30 Sleeve Notes b00htmzr (Listen) MON Music writer Laura Barton explains her love of the sleeve MON note, which was once, for many, the cherished gateway into a MON musical world but has now been diminished by the MON digitalisation of music. MON She considers how the sleeve note can act as a declaration MON of intent from the artist, as epitomised by Johnny Cash's MON sleeve notes for his classic 1968 live album, At Folsom MON Prison, or by the inclusion of the founding declaration of MON the Rock Against Racism movement on the sleeve of Tom MON Robinson's debut album Power in the Darkness. MON Poet Simon Armitage talks about being commissioned by Paul MON Weller to write the sleeve notes for his latest album. MON MON 07:00 Know Your Place b019m16k (Listen) MON Health Can Damage Your Smoking MON Can caretaker Ramsay quit cigarettes to keep his job? Stars MON Roy Dotrice and Patricia Hayes. From July 1983. MON MON 07:30 Dilemma b05pmrtt (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON Sue Perkins returns with a fourth series of the show that MON puts the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel. MON This week, it's the turn of comedians Sarah Millican and MON John Robins, journalist Michael Deacon and former Blue Peter MON presenter Janet Ellis, who discuss how to deal with sexist MON wedding DJs, answer an audience question about coming out MON for a second time, and pit themselves against the moral MON clock in the Quickfire Round, where shades of gray are MON discarded in favour of immediate, black-or-white responses. MON Episode one of six. MON Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by MON Danielle Ward. MON Presenter ... Sue Perkins MON Guest ... Sarah Millican MON Guest ... Michael Deacon MON Guest ... Janet Ellis MON Guest ... John Robins MON Devised by ... Danielle Ward MON Producer ... Ed Morrish. MON Credits MON Presenter: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Sarah Millican MON Panellist: Michael Deacon MON Panellist: Janet Ellis MON Panellist: John Robins MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jm2h (Listen) MON Series 1, The Showing Up of Corporal Jones MON The butcher must retire unless he completes an assault MON course in 15 minutes. Adapted from TV with Clive Dunn. From MON April 1974. MON MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kn7yv (Listen) MON From 13/05/1984 MON From tackling Britain's recession to Film Extra of the MON Century, it's the ultimate one-man show, written by the MON host. From May 1984. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b01c7wx4 (Listen) MON Series 15, HG Wells MON This week the teams look at the life and work of one of the MON father's of Science Fiction and creator of such famous works MON as "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds", H.G. Wells. MON Team captains, Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh, are helped MON out by journalist and critic, Alex Clark and comedy writer, MON John O'Farrell as they are set more literary challenges by MON host, James Walton. MON For the finale, the teams must also put themselves in Wells' MON shoes (he was famous for making predictions about the MON future, some prescient, some very much not so) and make MON their own prophesies for 2012. MON MON 09:30 Says on the Tin b00g4fv7 (Listen) MON Toothpaste MON Comedy by Christopher William Hill. MON Disgraced American ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to MON transfer to the new London branch of Parabola Media. MON Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon MON Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond MON Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood MON Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey MON Ted ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Other parts played by Chris Pavlo, Stephen Critchlow, Janice MON Acquah, Inam Mirza, Donnla Hughes and Manjeet Mann. MON MON 10:00 Rose Tremain - The End of Love b0075nk4 (Listen) MON Olga and Bertie's 30-year-old daughter Lottie wishes to MON marry her Irish poet boyfriend Michael. But Michael is a MON dreamer, fearful of commitment. He reminds Olga of the love MON of her life - a Polish pianist. Their love was not enough; MON why should Lottie's fare any better? With Miriam Margolyes MON and Nigel Anthony. Director Gordon House. Director Gordon MON House. MON MON 11:00 William Trevor Short Stories b007jtw9 (Listen) MON Teresa's Wedding MON At a bleak wedding reception, a young pregnant bride MON discovers why her marriage might just work. Read by Denys MON Hawthorne. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00772zm (Listen) MON Julia Darling - The Waiting Room MON The writer Julia Darling began a web diary in 2002 to chart MON her journey through breast cancer. MON Poignant, honest, funny - filled with everyday life looking MON after teenagers, staying in hotels living in Newcastle - the MON diary also charts the ups and downs of being ill, until her MON death 3 years later. MON With poems set to music and performed by Tim Dalling, Pete MON Challower and Charlie Harwick. MON And contributions from Bev Robinson. MON Producer: Sue Roberts. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jm2h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kn7yv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Paul Temple b007w39f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Sleeve Notes b00htmzr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00txh86 (Listen) MON Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 6 MON Tess's funeral has taken place. Beatrice has learned about MON the three drugs which were found in her sister's body during MON the post-mortem. During a visit to Tess's friend Simon's MON flat to ask him about his last meeting with Tess, Bee MON discovered in his bedroom a collection of photographs of MON Tess. Tess's Polish friend Kasia reveals for the first time MON that both women had been given money during the course of MON the Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy trial. Now, Bee decides to MON find out more about the trial from Professor Rosen who is MON running it. MON Hattie Morahan reads Rosamund Lupton's novel, abridged by MON Lauris Morgan Griffiths. MON Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. MON MON 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country MON b00s8djt (Listen) MON Healing in the Open Air MON How the rural landscape came to be seen as a place of moral, MON physical and spiritual healing for First World War veterans. MON MON 14:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qkw (Listen) MON Diagnosis MON Maureen Wetherby keeps seeing a shadow out of the corner of MON her eye. She visits Doctor Merrily for some test results. MON With Val McLane. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00tkymr (Listen) MON Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, Episode 1 MON "Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so MON while munching on a lobster claw." MON The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made MON a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very MON well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter MON pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then MON wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains MON hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on MON their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as MON Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, MON Champion of The World. MON Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. MON And of course the man behind the books... MON 1.In the first of five episodes, abridged by Alison Joseph, MON the biographer sits at the Dahl dinner table and recounts a MON memorable visit to the writer's hut, where certain treasures MON are unearthed. MON The reader is Julian Rhind-Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian MON McDiarmid MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 15:00 Rose Tremain - The End of Love b0075nk4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b01c7wx4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Says on the Tin b00g4fv7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Know Your Place b019m16k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Dilemma b05pmrtt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015flq5 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Young historian Robert Olmstead journeys to the mysterious MON shunned town of Innsmouth in New England. Read by Richard MON Coyle. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075ml2 (Listen) MON Anne Harvey and Peter Preston MON Peter Preston from The Guardian and anthologist Anne Harvey MON talk about their favourite paperbacks with Sarah LeFanu. MON From 1999. MON William, An Englishman - by Cicely Hamilton MON Publisher: Persephone Books MON Playback the last novel by Raymond Chandler MON Publisher: Penguin Books MON The Way I Found Her a thriller set in France by Rose Tremain MON Publisher: Vintage. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jm2h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00kn7yv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Paul Temple b007w39f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Sleeve Notes b00htmzr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 William Trevor Short Stories b007jtw9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00772zm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Dilemma b05pmrtt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b0075rsh (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON The poet visits Southampton to unravel the mystery of King MON Canute, plus poems on egg cosies and flannels. From February MON 2000. MON MON 22:45 The Problem With Adam Bloom b007m94n (Listen) MON Series 1, Restaurants MON The comedian goes on a mission to investigate bad customer MON service. With Brendan Burns and Sarah Kennedy. From August MON 2003. MON MON 23:00 Dead Ringers b05prpcq (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 1 MON The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect MON the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes MON for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's MON Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the MON flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the MON country. MON Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis MON MacLeod, Debra Stephenson. MON Producer: Bill Dare. MON Credits MON Performer: Jon Culshaw MON Performer: Jan Ravens MON Performer: Duncan Wisbey MON Performer: Lewis Macleod MON Performer: Debra Stephenson MON Producer: Bill Dare MON MON 23:30 Pick Ups b008mdd0 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 1 MON Life at a rundown Manchester taxi office. Dave's first job MON is to take Ivy to Blackpool. Stars John Thomson. From MON January 2008. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 APRIL 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015flq5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075ml2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Paul Temple b007w39f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Sleeve Notes b00htmzr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00txh86 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country TUE b00s8djt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qkw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00tkymr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Rose Tremain - The End of Love b0075nk4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b01c7wx4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Says on the Tin b00g4fv7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Know Your Place b019m16k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Dilemma b05pmrtt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pbp6y (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Harlem, 1965: Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are TUE the most notorious Detectives in the Harlem precinct. Their TUE methods are unorthodox, and some people think they're TUE trigger happy, but ask any law-abiding citizen of Harlem and TUE they'll sing their praises. So when the Reverend Deke TUE O'Malleys Back to Africa movement collects $87,000 from poor TUE black families - only to have it stolen from under their TUE noses - Jones and Johnson get put on the case. TUE Read by Hugh Quarshie. TUE Chester Himes' fantastically atmospheric novel is not just a TUE great thriller it reveals the lives of black people in a TUE white city at a time, three years before the death of Martin TUE Luther King, when under Alabama law killing a Negro did not TUE constitute murder. It was filmed in 1970 and has become a TUE cult classic. TUE Chester Himes was born in 1909, and grew up in a middle TUE class home in Missouri. His first real experience of racism TUE was when a white hospital refused to treat his brother who TUE had damaged his eyes in a schoolboy prank. He went to Ohio TUE state University but was expelled. In 1928 he was arrested TUE and sentenced to 25 years hard labour for armed robbery. He TUE started writing in prison and sold stories to magazines TUE including Esquire. He was released in 1936, lived in Los TUE Angeles for a time - the basis of his novel If He Hollers TUE Let Him Go, and moved to Paris in the 1950s where his Harlem TUE precinct novels were first published. His novel For Love of TUE Imabelle became very successful film A Rage in Harlem. TUE Hugh Quarshie is a TV regular in Holby City playing Ric TUE Griffin. He has extensive film, tv and radio credits. TUE Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis. TUE Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Autolycus Productions. TUE TUE 06:30 Burl Ives b00ktgkl (Listen) TUE Musician and writer CP Lee celebrates the life, career and TUE music of singer and Oscar-winning actor Burl Ives, in the TUE centenary year of his birth. TUE CP Lee also explores Ives's co-operation in the 1950s with TUE the anti-communist trials held by the House Un-American TUE Activities Committee, and how he informed against his fellow TUE folk musicians, notably Pete Seeger, in order to preserve TUE his film career. TUE Burl Ives came from Illinois, where he sang folk songs as a TUE child, dropping out of school in the late 1920s to become an TUE itinerant banjo player during the economic depression. By TUE the 1930s he was appearing on radio, singing the songs he TUE made famous, such as Foggy Foggy Dew, The Bluetail Fly and TUE the hobo ballad Big Rock Candy Mountain. TUE Along with Woody Guthrie, Ives was one of a generation of TUE musicians who were rediscovering American folk music, TUE performing it to politicise their audiences as well as TUE entertain them. Ives was also a talented actor, and during TUE the Second World War he found success in several roles in TUE Broadway productions. Subsequently he won an Oscar for his TUE role in the 1958 film, The Big Country. TUE Like many other left-wing artists, Ives faced blacklisting TUE in the late 1940s, when he was listed in a McCarthyite TUE publication as having possible communist connections. But TUE Ives survived the House Un-American Activities Committee two TUE years later, by informing against other folk musicians, TUE notably Pete Seeger. In 1993, however, two years before TUE Ives's death, Seeger forgave him and the two were reunited TUE and sang at a benefit concert in New York. TUE CP Lee explores Ives's rise to fame, his music, and the TUE dilemmas he faced, with the help of veteran American folk TUE singer Julie Felix. They recall the music and the influence TUE of a man whose career spanned more than one troubled period TUE in American history, and who is best remembered today for TUE the songs he recorded for children. TUE TUE 07:00 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat TUE b00nsnhd (Listen) TUE The Nose TUE Major Kovalyov's nose vanishes and reappears in St TUE Petersburg disguised as a councillor. With Stephen Moore. TUE From April 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan b05pnsr2 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE British Comedy legend June Whitfield makes a guest TUE appearance as a beauty pageant judge in this new sitcom. TUE Max and Ivan are private detectives for whom no case is too TUE small.....Sorry, for whom no fee is too small. Driven by TUE their love of truth, justice (and the need to pay off their TUE terrifying landlord, Malcolm McMichaelmas), they take on TUE crimes that no-one else would consider. In this case, they TUE investigate why 10-year-old Ophelia Hamilton always comes TUE last in the beauty pageants her mother enters her for. TUE Max and Ivan - comedians and actors Max Olesker and Ivan TUE Gonzalez - are a critically acclaimed, award-winning double TUE act who have quickly established themselves as one of the TUE most exciting comedy duos on the circuit. TUE Over the course of the series they are dropped into new TUE worlds, and have to use their skills to penetrate deep into TUE each community. If that means Ivan dressing up as a 14 year TUE old German girl, so be it! TUE They are joined across the series by four star guests from TUE the world of comedy - June Whitfield, Reece Shearsmith, TUE Jessica Hynes, and Matt Lucas. TUE Cast: TUE Max..................Max Olesker TUE Ivan.................Ivan Gonzalez TUE Dame Celia......June Whitfield TUE Malcolm............Lewis MacLeod TUE Crosby.............David Reed TUE Sandra.............Jessica Ransom TUE Producer: Victoria Lloyd TUE A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00j05wn (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 6 TUE Complaints to the BBC - and Kenneth Horne heads to a new TUE bona bistro courtesy of Julian and his friend Sandy. TUE Starring Kenneth Horne. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, TUE Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. TUE Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1965. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05qk2kw (Listen) TUE From 13/06/1965 TUE Building a home gym with Andy Mann, and tackling the TUE population explosion. With John Laurie and Patricia Hayes. TUE From June 1965. TUE TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers b05prpcq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Such Rotten Luck b01nm0f2 (Listen) TUE The Little Grey Man TUE The ups and downs of a second-class writer. Comedy drama TUE starring Tim Pigott-Smith and Zoe Wanamaker. From September TUE 1989. TUE TUE 10:00 Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel b01096ch (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Ambrose is a hero to his young ward Philip, but things TUE change when he meets Philip's cousin. Stars Damien Lewis and TUE Lia Williams. TUE TUE 11:00 AS Byatt - Gode's Story b007jtb6 (Listen) TUE The tragic tale of the sailor who dances and the miller's TUE daughter who waits. Read by Sheila Mitchell. TUE TUE 11:15 Peter Wolf - Ghost on the Moor b00sr5qc (Listen) TUE Haunted by a painful break-up, moors recluse Graham begins TUE an unexpected relationship. Romantic drama starring Robert TUE Glenister. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00j05wn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05qk2kw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pbp6y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Burl Ives b00ktgkl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tyqws (Listen) TUE Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 7 TUE The realisation that Tess's baby did not have Cystic TUE Fibrosis has set Beatrice on the trail of the murderer. TUE Knowing the police won't take her seriously, she is on her TUE own: her next move is to interview another of the mothers TUE who took part in the CF gene therapy trial. TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths from Rosamund Lupton's TUE novel. Read by Hattie Morahan. TUE Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. TUE TUE 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country TUE b00sbcdh (Listen) TUE Gertrude Jekyll and the Suburban Countryside TUE How gardens became more than just lawns and borders, and TUE transformed instead into a microcosm of the natural world. TUE TUE 14:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qlc (Listen) TUE The House of Spirits TUE Maureen has recently learned that she has a tumour behind TUE her eye. Undaunted, she wants to know what the future holds. TUE Stars Val McClane. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00tkymm (Listen) TUE Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, Episode 2 TUE "Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so TUE while munching on a lobster claw." TUE The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made TUE a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very TUE well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter TUE pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then TUE wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains TUE hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on TUE their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as TUE Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, TUE Champion of The World. TUE Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. TUE And of course the man behind the books... TUE 2. According to Dahl, it was a dramatic war-time plane crash TUE that steered him towards being a writer. TUE The reader is Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian TUE McDiarmid TUE Producer Duncan Minshull. TUE TUE 15:00 Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel b01096ch (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Hidden Treasures b05qf1cg (Listen) TUE Parham House TUE The antiques quiz visits Parham House in West Sussex. With TUE Lars Tharp, Stella Beddoe and Henry Sandon. From May 1998. TUE TUE 16:30 Such Rotten Luck b01nm0f2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Stilgoe's Around b007k3kj (Listen) TUE From 30/04/1984 TUE A Hertfordshire health farm gets the full comic and tuneful TUE treatment from Richard Stilgoe. With Emma Thompson. From TUE April 1984. TUE TUE 17:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat TUE b00nsnhd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015gsc4 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Robert Olmstead explores the dark, decrepit town of TUE Innsmouth with a growing sense of unease and terror. Read by TUE Richard Coyle. TUE TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking b05qkhm4 (Listen) TUE Bette Davis - Self-Portrait of a Star TUE Actor George Coulouris and BBC producer Peter Duval Smith TUE interview Hollywood icon Bette Davis. TUE In an occasionally heated conversation about her career, TUE Oscar-winning Davis shares her opinions on what it means to TUE be a star after 30 years in the business. TUE Davis shoots down the "misconception" that she creates TUE frictions on her movie sets. Her arguments were always with TUE the front office. The actress also strongly counters Duvall TUE Smith's claim that she uses the same mannerisms in every TUE performance - blaming instead her imitators. TUE Films discussed include 'Dark Victory' (1939), 'Juarez' TUE (1939), 'Watch on the Rhine' (1943) and Davis's most recent TUE hit at the time, 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' with TUE Joan Crawford (1962). TUE George Coulouris had previously starred alongside Bette TUE Davis in the films 'All This, and Heaven Too' (1940), 'Watch TUE on the Rhine' (1943) and 'Mr Skeffington' (1944). He's best TUE known for playing Walter Parks Thatcher in the Orson Welles TUE drama 'Citizen Kane' (1941). TUE Launched in 1952, Frankly Speaking was a completely novel TUE and ground breaking BBC series. Initially there were three TUE interviewers and the series was both unrehearsed and TUE unscripted. TUE First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1963. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00j05wn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05qk2kw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pbp6y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Burl Ives b00ktgkl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 AS Byatt - Gode's Story b007jtb6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Peter Wolf - Ghost on the Moor b00sr5qc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 The Casebook of Max and Ivan b05pnsr2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Little Britain b008h569 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE Back where it started out - Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TUE oddball TV smash hit, without the cameras. From March 2001. TUE TUE 23:00 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00p87r0 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Greece TUE He's back! But this time, he's got a computer! Budleigh TUE Salterton's most famous citizen has been grounded by both TUE the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel TUE ("2 Ms, 2 Gs, 2 Vs - bit of a mix up at the printers"). TUE Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of TUE his long-suffering former Primary School teacher Mr Timmis TUE and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop TUE Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each TUE week his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming TUE the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a TUE rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or TUE finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll TUE look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to TUE D"...), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, TUE so you won't want to". TUE In this episode we see the struggle between the Apollonian TUE and Dionysian principles as Giles travels to Greece on a TUE desperate rescue mission and eats far too much halloumi. TUE Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles. TUE Cast: TUE Giles Wemmbley Hogg ..... Marcus Brigstocke TUE Professor Bakoyannis ..... Jack Klaff TUE Mr Timmis ..... Adrian Scarborough TUE Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd TUE Jeremy ..... James Bachman TUE Luke ..... Mark Evans TUE Aphrodite ..... Nina Millns TUE Colonel Yiannis ..... Chris Pavlo TUE Written by Marcus Brigstocke & Jeremy Salsby. TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b00tx4tb (Listen) TUE Series 2, Wednesday Morning 3am TUE Comatose Ben shares his thoughts with those awake at the TUE darkest hour of the night. Stars Neil Pearson. From October TUE 2007. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 APRIL 2015 WED WED 00:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015gsc4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Frankly Speaking b05qkhm4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pbp6y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Burl Ives b00ktgkl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tyqws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country WED b00sbcdh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qlc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00tkymm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel b01096ch (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Hidden Treasures b05qf1cg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Such Rotten Luck b01nm0f2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Stilgoe's Around b007k3kj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat WED b00nsnhd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcs3d (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED New York, 1965: detectives Grave Digger and Coffin Ed chase WED the masterminds behind the missing money. WED Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the most WED notorious Detectives in the Harlem precinct. Their methods WED are unorthodox, and some people think they're trigger happy, WED but ask any law-abiding citizen of Harlem and they'll sing WED their praises. When the Reverend Deke O'Malleys Back to WED Africa movement collected $87,000 from poor black families - WED only to have it stolen from under their noses - Jones and WED Johnson are determined to get it back. WED Hugh Quarshie reads Chester Himes' thriller. WED Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis. WED Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Autolycus Productions. WED WED 06:30 The Matinee: The Creation of a Theatrical Institution WED b00xgc64 (Listen) WED Ned Sherrin investigates the lore and history of matinees in WED theatres. With June Whitfield, Donald Sinden and Sandy WED Wilson. WED WED 07:00 London Calling b05qdw48 (Listen) WED The Great Race WED DG John Brown has decided that the BBC will broadcast the WED 1923 Boat Race. So the rest of the staff must rally round to WED find a way to bring off the transmission. WED Written by Jimmy Perry, the man behind Dad's Army and WED Hi-De-Hi. WED Starring Graham Crowden as John Brown, Jimmy Perry as WED Colonel Beecham, Bill Pertwee as Sergeant Lucas, Jeffrey WED Holland as Roger Eccles and Roy Hudd as Fred "Keep 'Em WED Laughing" Hicks. WED Producer: Jo Clegg. WED First broadcast nightly on BBC Radio 2 in September 1994. WED WED 07:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05pnw2q (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 19th century WED bet; can his pig (Gwladys) cross a bridge quicker than a WED waterman can row the width of the river beneath? WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b05qkzgv (Listen) WED The Cross Country Run WED Rumour abounds that empire-building Commander Povey is after WED Captain Stanton's job. Starring Leslie Phillips. From March WED 1960. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00tln6g (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 11 WED Comedy launch of 'For Better and for Worse and Son'. WED Sketches and songs with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From WED December 1966. WED WED 09:00 Trivia Test Match b007jshf (Listen) WED From 08/10/1991 WED Brian Johnston umpires as team captains Willie Rushton and WED Alfred Marks battle guests Tim Rice and Paul Merton. From WED October 1991. WED WED 09:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b0076254 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine have a diabolical visitor, WED while 'Eminem' and 'Lesley Garrett' perform a duet. From May WED 2001. WED WED 10:00 Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel b0109gdh (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Philip experiences more than one revelation when he finally WED faces his guardian's widow. Stars Damien Lewis and Lia WED Williams. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00z5c8h (Listen) WED Good Show Clarissa, A Midnight Revel WED Martin Jarvis directs Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley and Lisa WED Dillon as 'The Girls' in 'Good Show Clarissa!' from Jarvis & WED Ayres Productions - a series of three 'jolly hockey stick' WED stories for Radio 4 - performed by stars. These classic WED tales represent some of the best of popular 20th Century WED 'girls school fiction'. WED The first story, 'A Midnight Revel', written in 1926 and WED performed with girlish relish by Dame Helen Mirren, is a WED neat thriller in which the boarders at Hardwick High are WED prevented by the rainy weather from playing a hockey match. WED Bored at such inactivity, they decide to think of an WED adventurous alternative entertainment. It's left to Nan WED Stevenson, the one who usually has 'blossomy' ideas to come WED up with something exciting. "I've got it!" she exclaimed at WED last, triumphantly. "There's one thing we've never tried yet WED (and jolly fun it would be, too!) a midnight supper. WED Scrumptious! But how will they organise it? And will the WED girls' daring midnight spree proceed according to plan? What WED could possibly go wrong? WED Producer: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00hvgbt (Listen) WED Brett Goldstein - Success Story WED When Ray's low-budget film is picked up by a major studio WED his dreams of Hollywood start to become a reality. Then, WED holed up in a hotel room doing endless publicity interviews, WED he finds the past coming back to bite him. By Brett WED Goldstein. WED Ray ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild WED Tara ..... Caroline Catz WED Emily ..... Sasha Pick WED Kristen ..... Laurel Lefkow WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED Credits WED Producer: Toby Swift WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b05qkzgv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00tln6g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcs3d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Matinee: The Creation of a Theatrical Institution WED b00xgc64 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tyvwq (Listen) WED Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 8 WED After visiting a second mother who had taken part in the WED same Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy trial as Tess, and whose WED baby also died at birth, Beatrice is convinced there is a WED link between the trial and the her sister's death. She is WED given hope by the fact the the police have finally accepted WED her belief that Tess was murdered, but she must still try to WED find further evidence before she can prove her theory to WED them. WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths and read by Hattie WED Morahan. WED Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. WED WED 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country WED b00sf8ky (Listen) WED The Brotherhood of Ruralists, part 1 WED The designer explains how Mother Nature inspired a group of WED 1970s artists to paint rural life in the countryside. WED WED 14:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qlw (Listen) WED The Nurse WED Maureen can't understand what all the fuss is about. A nurse WED is due at her house any minute, and she is not looking WED forward to it. Stars Val McLane. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00tkymp (Listen) WED Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, Episode 3 WED "Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so WED while munching on a lobster claw." WED The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made WED a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very WED well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter WED pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then WED wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains WED hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on WED their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as WED Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, WED Champion of The World. WED Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. WED And of course the man behind the books... WED 3. Living in New York gave the author a premonition of a WED family disaster, which was vividly realized all too soon. WED Read by Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian WED McDiarmid WED Producer Duncan Minshull. WED WED 15:00 Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel b0109gdh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Trivia Test Match b007jshf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b0076254 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 London Calling b05qdw48 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05pnw2q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015h0y0 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Robert Olmstead listens to aged local drunk Zadok Allen, who WED reveals the terrifying history of the town. Read by Richard WED Coyle. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076mn5 (Listen) WED Pomp and Circumstance WED Matthew Parris performs his formalised radio ritual with WED Times editor Mary Ann Sieghart, sports writer Mihir Bose and WED actor Tom Mitchelson. From August 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b05qkzgv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00tln6g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcs3d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Matinee: The Creation of a Theatrical Institution WED b00xgc64 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00z5c8h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00hvgbt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05pnw2q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00yjs4c (Listen) WED Series 1, Bankers WED Through the medium of four open letters, the comedian Tom WED Wrigglesworth investigates the myriad examples of corporate WED lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain. WED In this series his subjects range from traffic wardens to WED estate agents, with Tom recalling his own funny and WED ridiculous experiences as well as recounting the absurd WED encounters of others. WED Tom wonders how the bankers keep getting away with it. WED WED 23:00 The Maltby Collection b00mqhqt (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 5 WED Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. WED The museum is due to send an exhibition of its finest WED artefacts around Europe, but can Walter find a suitably WED experienced and diplomatic staff member to curate it? WED Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer WED Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins WED Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond WED Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern WED Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin WED Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley WED Stelios Constantinopoulis/Van Driver ...... Chris Pavlo WED Barman ...... Stephen Hogan. WED WED 23:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00w20zg (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED The 'one-woman Fast Show' performs an array of comic WED characters, including a fame-hungry celebrity mother. From WED November 2010. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 APRIL 2015 THU THU 00:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015h0y0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076mn5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcs3d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Matinee: The Creation of a Theatrical Institution THU b00xgc64 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tyvwq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country THU b00sf8ky (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qlw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00tkymp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Daphne du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel b0109gdh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Trivia Test Match b007jshf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b0076254 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 London Calling b05qdw48 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05pnw2q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcxq1 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU New York, 1965: detectives Digger and Coffin's search for THU the missing money is getting dangerous. THU Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the most THU notorious Detectives in the Harlem precinct. Their methods THU are unorthodox, and some people think they're trigger happy, THU but ask any law-abiding citizen of Harlem and they'll sing THU their praises. When the Reverend Deke O'Malleys Back to THU Africa movement collected $87,000 from poor black families - THU only to have it stolen from under their noses - Jones and THU Johnson are determined to get it back. THU Hugh Quarshie reads Chester Himes' thriller. THU Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis. THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Autolycus Productions. THU THU 06:30 King-Size Papas and Mighty Tight Women b007yn7d (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. Julian Clary, best known for his own brand of THU sexual humour, celebrates the clever use of double entendre THU in 1920s and 30s blues songs. THU THU 07:00 Potting On b00l3pxx (Listen) THU Wedding THU Cut back or cash splash? Pam and Gordon run a garden centre, THU but argue over growing old. With Pam Ayres and Geoffrey THU Whitehead. From March 2008. THU THU 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03j9h7c (Listen) THU Series 9, The Berkhamstead Job THU Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, THU complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his THU never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever THU scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and THU cat together. THU When Ed's flat burns down his old nemesis, Jaz Milvain, THU rides to the rescue. As a "National Treasure" lots of people THU want to work with Jaz (or so he says) and he's got some THU serious investors who want him to make a movie - an THU action-adventure with a quirky sci-fi twist. Ed is not keen THU until Alex offers him a rather nice hotel to work from. So THU it is that Ed starts writing 'Doctor Bond', or is it 'Harry THU Hobbit'..... THU Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas THU Produced by Dawn Ellis. THU Credits THU Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas THU Alex: Jonathan Bailey THU Olive: Stephanie Cole THU Call Centre Voice: Carys Eleri THU Ray: Simon Greenall THU Phil: Simon Greenall THU Cliff: Geoffrey McGivern THU Jaz: Philip Jackson THU Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy THU Pearl: Alison Steadman THU Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU Writer: Andrew Nickolds THU Writer: Christopher Douglas THU THU 08:00 Brothers in Law b007k38w (Listen) THU Series 1, Special Examiner THU Barrister Roger Thursby is sent to Rome to check on a case. THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. THU With guest stars Fenella Fielding as Nina Zoffany and THU Terence Alexander 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 August 1970. THU THU 08:30 Not in Front of the Children b05qdylk (Listen) THU Series 1, Echo of the Past THU Jen gets jealous when she sees Henry talking to an old THU girlfriend. THU Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner and Francis Matthews THU as Henry Corner. 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 December 1969. THU THU 09:00 Who Goes There? b0075yw8 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU Martin Young presents the famous people quiz, with team THU captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego and guests Gyles THU Brandreth and Sheridan Morley. From November 2000. THU THU 09:30 The Sit Crom b00m5qlg (Listen) THU A Draught of Malmesy THU The household needs a new steward, and Lady Anne is THU desperate for a drink. Civil War comedy with Joss Ackland. THU From October 1990. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b01h2kvn (Listen) THU F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, Episode 1 THU by F Scott Fitzgerald. THU Dramatised by Robert Forrest. THU F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz THU Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the THU greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. Nick THU Carraway arrives in Long Island and is reacquainted with his THU distant cousin, Daisy Buchanan. He falls in with her wealthy THU crowd. His neighbour, the self-made and self-invented THU millionaire, Gatsby, is the man who has everything - but one THU thing will always be out of his reach. THU Nick ..... Bryan Dick THU Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott THU Tom ..... Andrew Buchan THU Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner THU Jordan ..... Melody Grove THU Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson THU Klipspringer ..... Sam Dale THU Wilson ..... Gerard McDermott THU Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell THU Catherine ..... Tracy Wiles THU Chester ..... Patrick Brennan THU Lucille ..... Christine Absalom THU Alice ..... Amaka Okafor THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00z5hrb (Listen) THU Good Show Clarissa, Jemima Gets Them Guessing THU Martin Jarvis directs Lisa Dillon's humorous performance as THU the entire Fourth Form of Cliff House School in 'Jemima Gets THU Them Guessing'. THU Written by Hilda Richards in 1939, eccentric, monocled THU Jemima Carstairs (a sort of female fourteen year-old Bertie THU Wooster with brains) is presented with a problem. One of THU their class-mates, Frances Frost - the icicle of the Fourth THU - threatens to blackmail decent Clara Trevlyn for visiting THU the Palais de Danse, thereby jeopardising Clara's position THU as Captain of Games. THU But Clara may have had a perfectly proper motive for THU breaking bounds. To save her chum, Jemima concocts a plan THU involving a beach-side confrontation and a mysterious THU boat-trip. Can Jemima rescue Clara's reputation and prevent THU her from disgrace? THU Producer: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:15 Julia Blackburn - The Need for Nonsense b01hn1q4 (Listen) THU The sad, contradictory tale of Edward Lear, famed Victorian THU artist and scribe of gleefully silly verse. Stars Andrew THU Sachs. THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b007k38w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children b05qdylk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcxq1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 King-Size Papas and Mighty Tight Women b007yn7d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tzlrm (Listen) THU Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 9 THU The police have finally acknowledged that Bea's sister Tessa THU was murdered, and didn't commit suicide whilst in the grip THU of post-natal psychosis. Bea is convinced that the key to THU her death lies with the Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy trial THU she had taken part in, and has been given hope by William, a THU doctor from the hospital where Tess had her baby, who has THU not only become a partner in the hunt for the truth, but has THU made his attraction to Bea quite clear. As she closes in on THU the killer, there's a dreadful shock in store for Bea. THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Hattie THU Morahan. THU Produced by Sara Davies and Christine Hall. THU THU 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country THU b00shgb5 (Listen) THU The Brotherhood of Ruralists, part 2 THU How John Seymour's 1976 Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency THU proved a huge hit with disaffected city dwellers keen on a THU rural life. THU THU 14:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qmd (Listen) THU The Turkish Bath THU Diagnosed with a tumour behind her eye, Maureen plans to THU meet her old football-playing pal Maud. Stars Val McLane. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00tkyx5 (Listen) THU Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, Episode 4 THU "Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so THU while munching on a lobster claw." THU The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made THU a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very THU well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter THU pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then THU wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains THU hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on THU their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as THU Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, THU Champion of The World. THU Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. THU And of course the man behind the books... THU 4. Aged fifty six, it's suddenly all change for Dahl, and THU then there is his manifesto for entertaining children. THU Reader Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian THU McDiarmid. THU Producer Duncan Minshull. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b01h2kvn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Who Goes There? b0075yw8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 The Sit Crom b00m5qlg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Anything Legal b0085hnm (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU George and Charles tackle a horrid child and a bizarre THU giant. Starring Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles. THU THU 17:30 Potting On b00l3pxx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015f7b6 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Robert Olmstead must spend a night in Innsmouth, but the THU town locals ensure he doesn't get much sleep. Read by THU Richard Coyle. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076j3v (Listen) THU Series 4, Mary Kingsley THU Journalist Ann Leslie chooses the pioneering writer and THU explorer Mary Kingsley. With Humphrey Carpenter. From THU December 2003. THU THU 19:00 Brothers in Law b007k38w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children b05qdylk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcxq1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 King-Size Papas and Mighty Tight Women b007yn7d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00z5hrb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Julia Blackburn - The Need for Nonsense b01hn1q4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b03j9h7c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 My Teenage Diary b01kbhkd (Listen) THU Series 4, Caitlin Moran THU My Teenage Diary returns with six brave celebrities ready to THU revisit their formative years by opening up their intimate THU teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for the very THU first time. THU Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by writer Caitlin Moran, who THU relives her teenage years when she was home-schooled in THU Wolverhampton, shared a small house with her seven brothers THU and sisters, and had a novel published at only 15. THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 In and Out of the Kitchen b017ckf5 (Listen) THU Series 1, September 18th to 24th THU Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen features a few THU entries from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien THU Trench. In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, THU Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day THU life, "no matter how grizzly" as he puts it "or, indeed, how THU gristly". THU Damien 's routine is thrown into disarray when Anthony's THU goddaughter, Libby, is sent to stay with them for "respite". THU Meanwhile, Anthony finally has his long-awaited job THU interview and Damien is offered the chance to front his own THU TV cookery show. THU The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes THU for: THU - cracking crepes Suzette THU - Spanish-as-sangria, "chorizo und patatas" THU and THU - a tastebud tantalising, Beef Oxford. THU Cast: THU Miles Jupp as Damien Trench THU with THU Justin Edwards as Anthony THU Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney THU Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher THU and THU Maggie Service as Libby/Angie THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Hut 33 b00w2c91 (Listen) THU Series 2, Yellow THU The codebreakers must get jabs, but they all rustle up THU excuses to avoid the needle. Stars Robert Bathurst. From THU June 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 APRIL 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015f7b6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076j3v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcxq1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 King-Size Papas and Mighty Tight Women b007yn7d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00tzlrm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country FRI b00shgb5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qmd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00tkyx5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b01h2kvn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Who Goes There? b0075yw8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 The Sit Crom b00m5qlg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Anything Legal b0085hnm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Potting On b00l3pxx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcz6p (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI New York, 1965: detectives Digger and Ed have taken the FRI biggest gamble of their careers and smuggled Iris out of FRI jail hoping she'll lead them to Deke and the money. So why FRI is she going to church? FRI Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the most FRI notorious Detectives in the Harlem precinct. Their methods FRI are unorthodox, and some people think they're trigger happy, FRI but ask any law-abiding citizen of Harlem and they'll sing FRI their praises. When the Reverend Deke O'Malleys Back to FRI Africa movement collected $87,000 from poor black families - FRI only to have it stolen from under their noses - Jones and FRI Johnson are determined to get it back. FRI Hugh Quarshie reads Chester Himes' thriller. FRI Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis. FRI Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Autolycus Productions. FRI FRI 06:30 Beardyman and the Mimics b00d61q9 (Listen) FRI Champion beatboxer Beardyman, aka Darren Foreman, is a FRI master of vocal artistry. He can make all manner of noises, FRI including entire percussive music tracks, using only his FRI mouth, throat and tongue. FRI Inspired by the lyrebird, he ventures on a personal journey FRI to unveil the secrets of animal vocal mimicry. He encounters FRI ornithologist and musician Bill Oddie, birdsong scientific FRI experts and a whole new world of sounds. FRI FRI 07:00 Rent b00752lq (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI Maria turns agony aunt, but is Paul finally turning all FRI grown-up and responsible? Stars Barbara Flynn. From February FRI 1997. FRI FRI 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01nbrjc (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda and Family Guy, presents the last in this FRI second series of his hit sketch show. FRI The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by FRI The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny FRI sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It FRI featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive FRI relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people FRI who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr FRI Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. FRI This week's show starts by going to the dogs and ends with FRI what is surely the oldest hymn in the world. FRI John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars FRI John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, FRI Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. The original FRI music is by Susannah Pearse. It is produced by Ed Morrish. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jm2y (Listen) FRI The Conjurer FRI The lad takes up conjuring and is booked for Dartmoor FRI Prison, unaware of Sid's plan. Stars Tony Hancock. From FRI February 1956. FRI FRI 08:30 Play It Cool b05qdylm (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Women's magazines and ballroom dancing inspire comedy FRI characters galore in fast-moving sketches. FRI Starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick. FRI Films like Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack helped FRI make Ian Carmichael a major star of both British stage and FRI screen. Play it Cool was his first radio comedy series FRI promising a variety of potty and pompous situations. FRI Written by Eric Merriman - best known for his work on FRI numerous series of Beyond Our Ken. FRI With music from Rosemary Squires, The Mike Sammes Singers FRI and The Ken Thorne Orchestra FRI Produced by John Simmonds FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1964. FRI FRI 09:00 All the Way From Memphis b00j6bh8 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 FRI James Walton's pop music quiz with Andrew Collins, Tracey FRI MacLeod, Richard Curtis and Anthony Wilson. From December FRI 2004. FRI FRI 09:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b007582j (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Richard's flu is not getting any better. Old Dr Willoughby FRI is called in, and it seems his fondness for whisky hasn't FRI abated in retirement. A herbal remedy made from tree bark FRI that Sally finds in a perfectly reputable health food shop FRI has dramatic if unexpected results - the kind of results FRI that require an immediate antidote. Can his father Dick FRI Barton find the antidote in time? FRI Starring Robert Bathurst as Richard Barton, Moray Watson as FRI Old Dick Barton, Iain Cuthbertson as Jock, Julian Dutton as FRI Young Dick Barton and Matilda Ziegler as Sally Barton. FRI Guest star: Joss Ackland as Dr Willoughby FRI In 1946, Edward J Mason wrote the first episode of Dick FRI Barton - Special Agent. The BBC Light Programme's hugely FRI popular serial followed the adventures of the ex-Commando FRI and his mates Jock Anderson and Snowy White. Despite facing FRI a series of never-ending cliff-hangers at the hands of FRI dastardly villains, our hero always triumphed. "With one FRI bound Dick was free!". FRI Half a century later, Edward J's son Lol created Richard FRI Barton, son of Dick, in an affectionate homage to one of BBC FRI Radio's most enduring heroes. FRI Producer: Jo Clegg FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b01hdyq0 (Listen) FRI F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby, Episode 2 FRI by F Scott Fitzgerald. FRI Dramatised by Robert Forrest. FRI F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz FRI Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the FRI greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. FRI Nick has fallen in with the wealthy crowd on Long Island. FRI His neighbour, Gatsby, asks Nick to engineer a meeting with FRI his lost love, Nick's cousin, Daisy. FRI Nick ..... Bryan Dick FRI Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott FRI Tom ..... Andrew Buchan FRI Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner FRI Jordan ..... Melody Grove FRI Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson FRI Klipspringer/Michaelis ..... Sam Dale FRI Wilson/Gatz ..... Gerard McDermott FRI Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell FRI Alice ..... Amaka Okafor FRI Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00z5zxz (Listen) FRI Good Show Clarissa, The Cheat FRI Martin Jarvis directs Joanna Lumley's performance of this FRI intriguing 'moral' tale from the prolific pen of Enid FRI Blyton. FRI Written in 1947 Susan, less fortunate than most of the other FRI girls - and certainly not from their well-heeled backgrounds FRI - must win the scholarship in order to continue her FRI education. Then an opportunity occurs for her to cheat in FRI the exam. Joanna Lumley tells this surprisingly serious FRI story with great humanity and compassion. FRI The story takes the form of both a thriller and a FRI psychological account of an inner turmoil. Blyton and FRI Lumley, in an ideal partnership, make us feel what it must FRI be like, in this situation, to carry such a potentially FRI heavy burden of guilt. And of course we are keen to know FRI whether there might be a way out for Susan. Can she escape FRI expulsion? Could she possibly avoid the stigma of being a FRI cheat? FRI Producer: Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:15 Tommies b03thbp3 (Listen) FRI 7 October 1914 FRI by Michael Chaplin. FRI Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. FRI Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness FRI accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at FRI war, exactly 100 years ago. FRI And through it all, we'll follow the fortunes of Mickey FRI Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of FRI the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense FRI machine, one which connects situations across the whole FRI theatre of the war, over four long years. FRI Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Alex Wyndham star in this story, FRI based on events in the valley of the Aisne, on October 7th, FRI 1914. The German advance is just being held 60 miles FRI north-east of Paris, on the day Mickey Bliss arrives at war. FRI Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI Credits FRI Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross FRI Commentator: Indira Varma FRI Walter Oddy: Tony Pitts FRI Horace Greenwood: Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Maberley Dunster: Alex Wyndham FRI Catherine O'Neill: Anneika Rose FRI Billy Seymour: Matthew Wernham FRI Alphonse Minet: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Producer: David Hunter FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonathan Ruffle FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Writer: Michael Chaplin FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jm2y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 Play It Cool b05qdylm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcz6p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Beardyman and the Mimics b00d61q9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00tzp7h (Listen) FRI Rosamund Lupton - Sister, Episode 10 FRI Beatrice now knows who killed her sister, and why, but has FRI the knowledge come too late? The murderer has her at his FRI mercy and it's clear he's planning to kill again. There's a FRI final shocking twist to this dark and gripping psychological FRI thriller about the bond between two sisters. FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by hattie FRI Morahan. FRI Produced by Sara Davies and Christine Hall. FRI FRI 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country FRI b00skxgk (Listen) FRI Villadom in the Cotswolds FRI How the idea of escaping to the countryside, seen as a FRI modern symbol of city dweller angst, is as old as the FRI Romans. FRI FRI 14:30 Julia Darling - Appointments b0076qmw (Listen) FRI Carla's Facial FRI Maureen does not let her tumour diagnosis stop her from FRI going for a facial appointment with her daughter. Stars Val FRI McClane. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00tkyx7 (Listen) FRI Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, Episode 5 FRI "Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so FRI while munching on a lobster claw." FRI The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made FRI a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very FRI well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter FRI pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then FRI wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains FRI hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on FRI their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as FRI Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, FRI Champion of The World. FRI Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. FRI And of course the man behind the books... FRI 5. Even close to death Dahl was in mischievous mood, and his FRI appeal to children will never fade. FRI Reader Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian FRI McDiarmid. FRI Producer Duncan Minshull. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b01hdyq0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 All the Way From Memphis b00j6bh8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! b007582j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Rent b00752lq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01nbrjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth b015fv26 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Robert Olmstead flees Innsmouth, only to discover years FRI later a shocking secret linking him to the town. Read by FRI Richard Coyle. FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs b00rv6zn (Listen) FRI Series 2, Pate Kane FRI Phil Cunningham talks to the writer and musician Pat Kane of FRI Hue and Cry about his life and asks him to pick five songs FRI that are milestones along the way. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jm2y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 Play It Cool b05qdylm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem b01pcz6p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Beardyman and the Mimics b00d61q9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00z5zxz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Tommies b03thbp3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01nbrjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group b011d6rf (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second FRI series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real FRI advice for real people. FRI Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she FRI wants you to live life to the utmost, and she's got tons of FRI ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of FRI the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self FRI qualified counsellor Marion - Sarah tackles the nation's FRI problems head on and has a solution for everything, (which FRI normally encompasses cake, tea and hugs). FRI This week the team tackle two problems - "It's me or the FRI dog!" and "My phobias are out of control but I'm too scared FRI to even admit it" FRI Sarah Millican Sarah FRI Ruth Bratt Marion FRI Simon Day Terry FRI Margaret Cabourn-Smith Laura FRI Harry Peacock Barry FRI Tim Key John. FRI FRI 23:00 The Consultants b007k3fh (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI The boys of St Battery's get their own back on the school FRI bully. Sketches and songs with Justin Edwards. From January FRI 2005. FRI FRI 23:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01dtxh3 (Listen) FRI Series 1, About Angry Grandmas FRI Can't Tell Me Nothing About Angry Grandmas - tells the story FRI of young, up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after FRI becoming the first in his family to graduate from FRI University, opted not to use his architecture degree to try FRI his hand at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his FRI family's annoyance who want him to get a 'proper job.' FRI Each episode is designed to show the criticism, interference FRI and rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his family FRI as he pursues his career. This week Nathan's family plan a FRI surprise birthday party for Grandma. But, the party isn't FRI the only surprise when the police come looking for Nathan. FRI The episodes are a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with FRI scenes from his family life. FRI Nathan Caton ..... Nathan FRI Adjoa Andoh ..... Mum FRI Curtis Walker ..... Dad FRI Mona Hammond ..... Grandma FRI PC Scott ..... Don Gilet FRI Written by: Nathan Caton FRI Additional material by: Ola and Maff Brown FRI Script Editor: James Kettle FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell FRI Supermarket Checkout Girl ..... Alex Tregear. FRI FRI 23:45 Tina C b01by7d5 (Listen) FRI Tina C's Global Depression Tour, United Kingdom FRI Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US FRI Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former FRI CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can FRI come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets FRI off on a six country tour to prove it. FRI This week she is camping outside St Pauls. FRI Tina C...Christopher Green FRI With Paul Mason, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey FRI Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher FRI Green FRI Director Jeremy Mortimer. FRI
10 April, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 11/04/2015 - 17/04/2015
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