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SAT SATURDAY 09 MAY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b007jvt0 (Listen) SAT Before Eden SAT Scientists stationed on Venus battle to find signs of life, SAT but what about the impact of their quest? Read by Tim SAT Pigott-Smith. SAT SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs b011d5sw (Listen) SAT Judy Collins SAT 1/1 Judy Collins is an American singer and songwriter with a SAT successful career spanning over fifty years. SAT Born is Seattle one of her early influences was her father SAT Chuck who hosted his own radio show in Seattle and then in SAT Los Angeles. SAT Judy enjoyed early chart success with Both Sides Now written SAT by Joni Mitchell and Turn Turn Turn from the pen of Pete SAT Seeger. SAT Known for her political activism she's participated in SAT benefit concerts for many causes including civil rights, the SAT Vietnam War protests and women's rights. SAT The show opens with Both Sides Now and Judy goes on to pick SAT the following five tracks. SAT 1: Diana Krall with Quiet Nights SAT 2: In My Life by The Beatles SAT 3: Gotta Sing High by Kenny White SAT 4: Amy Speace with Weight of the World SAT 5: The Stranger Song by Leonard Cohen SAT Phil also plays a little of Judy's version of Farewell to SAT Tarwathie before closing the conversation with another of SAT Judy's classic tracks, Chelsea Morning. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Phil Cunningham SAT SAT 01:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wf8j (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT Since graduation, Simon has hardly blazed a trail as a SAT plodding Health and Safety executive, so why does his old SAT Cambridge master Gilbert need him? SAT Mark Tavener's comedy thriller stars Geoffrey Palmer as SAT Gilbert, Samuel West as Simon and Rebecca Front as Patricia. SAT Following the death of one of its most prominent Dons, SAT celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti - everyone at a SAT Cambridge College gathers to attend the funeral. Simon, an SAT ex-student and now disillusioned health and safety officer, SAT starts wondering whether his death was not as SAT straightforward as it at first appeared. SAT Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger SAT Producer: Dawn Ellis SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005. SAT SAT 01:30 The Brixmis Story b007nf6t (Listen) SAT Jolyon Jenkins tells a little known story of the Cold War. SAT The Brixmis officers were some of the most effective SAT gatherers of military intelligence behind the Iron Curtain, SAT stealing Soviet military hardware and searching East German SAT rubbish dumps for classified information. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00sr4c5 (Listen) SAT Lucy Kellaway - In Office Hours, Episode 10 SAT In Office Hours is the new novel by Lucy Kellaway about men SAT and women at work, and illicit love. In the concluding SAT episode, personally and professionally things unravel for SAT Stella and Bella. SAT The latest novel from the columnist, Lucy Kellaway, is a SAT witty and sharply observed exploration of today's SAT contemporary corporate world, and what happens when passions SAT run high. The economist Stella Bradberry is at the top of SAT her game, juggling a high powered career with motherhood. SAT Bella Chambers is a bright and pretty single mother who was SAT forced to drop out of college, and is working as a PA to SAT make ends meet. Both women work for Atlantic Energy, a SAT global oil company based in London, where risk taking is a SAT way of life. When the Head of Press resigns unexpectedly, SAT new opportunities and challenges open up for Stella and SAT Bella, which ultimately lead them both to embark on SAT obsessive and destructive affairs. SAT Readers: Haydn Gwynne has recently returned from Broadway SAT where she was appearing in the award winning hit musical SAT "Billy Elliot" after it transferred from London's West End. SAT Award winning actress Lyndsey Marshal has most recently SAT appeared on stage in "Three Days of Rain" and on television SAT in "Being Human" and "Garrow's Law". SAT Writer: Lucy Kellaway is the "Financial Times" management SAT columnist. She lives in London is is married with four SAT children. SAT Abridged by Sally Marmion SAT Producer Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 02:15 The Making of Music b007mnr6 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Renaissance SAT James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the SAT development of classical music.The world was changing: in SAT the Renaissance, man was well as God was celebrated in music SAT and the arts. In Ferrara, Italy, Josquin Desprez wrote as SAT mass that immortalised his patron, the Duke Ecole d'Este I. SAT Missa Hercules dux Ferrariae was based on the syllables of SAT the Dukes name. SAT Reader: Simon Russell Beale SAT Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt. SAT BBC Birmingham. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00tzmqn (Listen) SAT The Beginning of Spring, Episode 5 SAT Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow, SAT adapted by Penny Leicester. The winter of 1913 finds Frank SAT Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife. SAT Frank Reid is not being helped by his accountant, Selwyn. SAT The English Chaplaincy has a scary resident and now a shop SAT girl is taking on the nannying duties. Lisa, the new nanny, SAT is too beautiful for Frank, even with her plaits cut off. SAT Narrator: Clare Higgins; Frank: Richard McCabe; Selwyn: SAT David Bamber; Nellie: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse; Dolly: SAT Charlotte Ellis. Other parts played by Sonia Ritter, Rachel SAT Atkins, Samuel Barnet, Richard Bremmer and David Collins. SAT Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00szv9g (Listen) SAT Hellhound On His Trail, Episode 5 SAT Hampton Sides' compelling new book sheds fresh light on the SAT assassination of Martin Luther King and the hunt for his SAT killer, James Earl Ray. In today's episode, the FBI's SAT manhunt for King's killer has made an exciting breakthrough SAT - they now know that the real name of their prime suspect. SAT But they first need to pursue him to London, where he is SAT hiding out under another new identity - that of 'Ramon SAT Sneyd'. SAT Read by Christian Camargo and Clarke Peters SAT Abridged by Viv Beeby SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT The book: Hellhound on his Trail was published in the UK on SAT 3rd June 2010 by Allen Lane. SAT The readers: Christian Camargo is an American actor, SAT probably best known for his role as Brian Moser in the SAT Showtime drama series Dexter. He also appeared in the Oscar SAT winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker as head psychiatrist SAT Lieutenant Colonel John Cambridge. In summer 2010, he is SAT playing Ariel in the Bridge Project's production of The SAT Tempest at the Old Vic Theatre, London. SAT Clarke Peters is an American actor, singer and director, who SAT is probably best known for playing Detective Lester Freamon SAT in the HBO drama series, The Wire. He also appeared in the SAT second series of Damages. He has numerous West End and SAT Broadway credits and was nominated for a Tony award for SAT writing the book of the musical revue, Five Guys Named Moe. SAT SAT 03:00 Peter Tinniswood b007jx5l (Listen) SAT The House Swap SAT Sid is an American struggling to come to terms with English SAT life. Earthy drama starring Penelope Wilton and William SAT Hootkins. SAT SAT 04:00 All the Way From Memphis b00jnlsm (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 6 SAT James Walton's pop music history quiz with Tracey Macleod, SAT Andrew Collins, Anthony Wilson and Richard Curtis. From SAT January 2005. SAT SAT 04:30 On Baby Street b00dp75j (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT Three women neighbours are set to discover the delights of SAT parenthood. Stars Keith Allen and Kathy Burke. From January SAT 1996. SAT SAT 05:00 Lucky Heather b0075rtm (Listen) SAT Few Dollars More SAT 4 Extra Debut. Living in a run-down community, Heather tries SAT to help a family with a sick child. Stars Lindsey Coulson. SAT From February 2000. SAT SAT 05:30 The Vote Now Show b05s3sth (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve SAT Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by special guests to give SAT their own unique take on the week's election shenanigans. SAT Episode four features Laura Shavin, John Robins, Ben SAT Partridge, Deborah Orr and Adam Kay. SAT Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. SAT Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Presenter: Hugh Dennis SAT Performer: Laura Shavin SAT Performer: John Robins SAT Performer: Benjamin Partridge SAT Performer: Deborah Orr SAT Performer: Adam Kay SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT Producer: Joe Nunnery SAT Producer: Rachel Wheeley SAT Executive Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith SAT SAT 06:00 Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca b007k4b7 (Listen) SAT The new Mrs de Winter is haunted by memories of her SAT husband's first wife. Stars Christopher Cazenove and Janet SAT Maw. SAT SAT 07:30 Fabulous Flops b012qmk3 (Listen) SAT Fabulous Flops, Episode 3 SAT Paul Roseby remembers the pain of short-lived musicals SAT inspired by royalty and religion. With Polly James and SAT Bonnie Langford. SAT SAT 08:00 Liberation 70 with John Nettles b05tqmch (Listen) SAT 70 years after their liberation from Nazi Germany, Bergerac SAT actor John Nettles goes back to the Channel Islands to tell SAT the story of the occupation. Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney and SAT Sark were the only British sovereign territories to be SAT occupied by Nazi Germany. SAT Written and presented by John Nettles, who spent more than SAT ten years of his life living in Jersey making BBC TV SAT detective show Bergerac, and fell in love with the islands. SAT Featuring Joss Ackland, Jolyon Baker, Oliver Ryan and Sean SAT Arnold. SAT Produced for BBC Radio's Devon and Jersey by Oliver Ings and SAT Michael Chequer. SAT SAT 09:00 Salutes You, Sir! Forces Fun from the BBC b0085hk1 (Listen) SAT Dad's Army's very own Private Pike aka Ian Lavender presents SAT an homage to the humour generated for and by the British SAT Armed Forces. Featuring: SAT * Merry-Go-Round - Army edition: 'Stand Easy' With Charlie SAT Chester and Arthur Haynes (14/09/1945) SAT * The Victory edition of ITMA - It's That Man Again. SAT Starring Tommy Handley (10/05/1945) SAT * Merry-Go-Round: Naval edition: 'HMS Waterlogged' With Eric SAT Barker and Jon Pertwee (08/08/1945) SAT * The Navy Lark 'Mysterious Radio Signals' Starring Leslie SAT Phillips, Stephen Murray and Jon Pertwee. (06/06/1971) SAT * Merry-Go-Round - RAF edition: 'Much-Binding-in-the-Marsh' SAT Starring Richard Murdoch, Kenneth Horne and Sam Costa SAT (11/04/1945) SAT * Dad's Army - 'Sergeant, Save My Boy' Stars Arthur Lowe, SAT John Le Mesurier and Ian Lavender (11/03/1975) SAT Ian Lavender played Private Frank Pike in the much-loved BBC SAT TV sitcom Dad's Army (1968-77) and also appeared in the BBC SAT radio adaptations still to be regularly heard on BBC Radio 4 SAT Extra. SAT Producer: Mik Wilkojc SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in November 2006. SAT SAT 12:00 Charles Parker Prize 2015 b05tqnsr (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Sara Parker introduces and meets the winners SAT of the Best Student Radio Feature prizes, awards dedicated SAT to her father's memory. SAT SAT 13:00 An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk - Omnibus b05tqnwy (Listen) SAT Series 4 Omnibus SAT A slice of village life from the wild, mountainous SAT Pakistan-Afghan borders where the only law is tribal SAT law.With Meera Syal. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b0103zmh (Listen) SAT Mary Coughlan SAT The singer reveals how 'I'd Rather Go Blind' spoke to her at SAT age 13, and how she will hand on Jacques Brel's 'Hearts'. SAT SAT 14:15 The Charm Factory b0075swl (Listen) SAT Series 1, You Belong to Me SAT When love and Hollywood come calling, will they scupper SAT Irene's plans to be a comedienne? Stars Tabitha Wady and SAT Dinah Sheridan. SAT SAT 15:00 Liberation 70 with John Nettles b05tqmch (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca b007k4b7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Fabulous Flops b012qmk3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b05tqpjw (Listen) SAT Series 3, Consequences SAT Once upon a time there were two sisters. SAT They were created by beings called the Grace. Both sisters SAT had magic powers. When they were together, they could do SAT anything. Go anywhere and when. Reach into people's minds, SAT even influence their thoughts. SAT They tried to be good. They tried to do what was right. But SAT even when they tried their hardest to help people there were SAT unintended consequences. SAT They still did terrible things. So many people still died. SAT The sisters lost people they loved. There was a man. They SAT thought they'd lost him forever. SAT There are lots of stories about the two sisters. But that SAT story - their last story, about the day they chose to die... SAT Those who knew what really happened are all dead. SAT Except for one. A man. Living by the sea. And he promised SAT never to tell... SAT Stars Ciara Jansonn as Abby, Laura Doddington as Zara, SAT Geraldine James as Chi and Fraser James as Marek. SAT Scripted by Simon Guerrier. Directed by Lisa Bowerman SAT A Big Finish Production. SAT SAT 19:00 Salutes You, Sir! Forces Fun from the BBC b0085hk1 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 4 Extra Stands Up b03xcl8c (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Stands Up, Episode 5 SAT Alistair Barrie introduces a selection of stand up comedians SAT recorded live before a sold-out audience at The Pleasance SAT Theatre in Islington, London at the end of 2013. SAT You can gain useful vocabulary from John Lloyd of things SAT that we don't have words for but should, and Mary Bourke SAT entertains us with a dark response to the unreasonable. John SAT Robins surprises us with an unusual Dickensian condition SAT he's developed, and Nish Kumar explains some of the awkward SAT social situations he's fallen into. SAT Bob Mills explains life as an overweight man and Alistair SAT Barrie celebrates Britain's love of complaining. SAT Made for Radio 4 Extra by Dabster Productions. SAT SAT 23:00 The Simon Day Show b01k2bw9 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Mick Cunningham SAT Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The SAT 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 brings Australian celebrity chef, Mick Cunningham SAT to The Mallard Theatre under the misapprehension that he'll SAT be filming a TV show. SAT Cast list: SAT Mick Cunningham ..... Simon Day SAT Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter SAT Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks SAT Ron Bone / Wozak ..... Simon Greenall SAT Rene ..... Janine Duvitski SAT Written by Simon Day SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show b01f9sm2 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Parents SAT The award-winning comic's lowdown on what being a mum and SAT dad means. With Laurence Howarth and Anna Bengo. From August SAT 2009. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 MAY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b05tqpjw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk - Omnibus b05tqnwy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b0103zmh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 The Charm Factory b0075swl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Liberation 70 with John Nettles b05tqmch (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca b007k4b7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Fabulous Flops b012qmk3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 The Beginning of Spring Omnibus b05tqrlf (Listen) SUN Winter 1913 finds Frank Reid, English owner of a Moscow SUN printing company, abandoned by his wife. Narrated by Clare SUN Higgins. SUN SUN 07:15 The Old Road b0075qxn (Listen) SUN Winchester & Away SUN 4 Extra Debut. Patrick Muirhead retraces writer Hilaire SUN Belloc's 1899 journey from Winchester to Canterbury. From SUN December 1999. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017gntm (Listen) SUN Series 3, Late Review SUN Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur SUN Strong is an expert in everything from the world of SUN entertainment to the origins of the species, all false SUN starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a delicate SUN sheen of bravado and self-assurance. SUN Arthur misplaces his book for the review taking place later SUN that day. Arthur and Geoffrey are sent in pursuit of it. A SUN couple of glasses of wine in the green room prior to the SUN radio show help him review the book in his own unique SUN manner. SUN With Steve Delaney, Sue Perkins, Dave Mounfield and Alastair SUN Kerr. SUN SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpx1 (Listen) SUN The Bishop Has a Rest SUN A peaceful Saturday afternoon at St Oggs is rudely SUN interrupted. Stars William Mervyn. From December 1972. SUN SUN 08:30 Life With the Lyons b00ztcr7 (Listen) SUN Roaming Scandals SUN Holiday shambles as Bebe heads for Loch Lomond and Ben plans SUN a surprise. Stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. From May 1961. SUN SUN 09:00 Antony Sher - Year of the Fat Knight b05tqx0z (Listen) SUN Omnibus: Recounting the year when the actor performed SUN Shakespeare's Falstaff, despite never intending to undertake SUN such an iconic role. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b04dz3p0 (Listen) SUN Tom Jones SUN The Welsh singing legend chooses 'Riders in the Sky' by SUN Vaughn Monroe and 'Whole Lot of Shakin Goin On' by Jerry Lee SUN Lewis. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05tr0tl (Listen) SUN Eurovision at 60, Michael Ball SUN Garth Brooks, Gypsy and Sailing By, singer Michael Ball SUN talks about life and musical moments with Kirsty Young. From SUN March 2008. SUN SUN 11:00 An Hour With... b05vhfpg (Listen) SUN Barry Norman SUN Film critic Barry Norman recalls his career as a journalist SUN and TV presenter and his interviews with Hollywood movie SUN stars such as Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, John SUN Wayne, Peter Sellers and Tom Hanks. SUN Recorded on tour in November 2003, Barry describes how he SUN became Britain's best-known film critic as the presenter of SUN the 'Film ...' series on BBC TV for more than 25 years. He SUN talks about his favourite and his worst films, as well as SUN his personal encounters with Sean Connery, Roger Moore, SUN Laurence Olivier, Bob Hoskins and others. SUN Barry also discloses how he was invited to dance and sing SUN 'There Is Nothing Like a Dame' on the BBC's classic 1977 SUN Morecambe and Wise Christmas TV Show. SUN SUN 12:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jpx1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Life With the Lyons b00ztcr7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 The Beginning of Spring Omnibus b05tqrlf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 The Old Road b0075qxn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 The National Theatre of Brent in the Greatest Story SUN Ever Told b05tv897 (Listen) SUN Celebrated thespian Desmond Olivier Dingle presents his SUN vision of Christ's Passion. With Desmond as Jesus. From SUN December 1996. SUN SUN 15:45 Short Stories by John Mortimer b007jzcv (Listen) SUN The Mysterious Affair SUN Freddy becomes convinced that his father played a grisly SUN part in his grandfather's disappearance. Read by Bernard SUN Cribbins. SUN SUN 16:00 Michael Robson - Intent to Deceive b05tvtzf (Listen) SUN When wealthy Eva Wilderspin is killed by a hit and run SUN driver, her brother Gregory is under suspicion. Not only SUN does he deny being involved, he also denies that the body is SUN that of his sister. SUN Stars Nigel Anthony as Gregory Wilderspin, Zelah Clarke as SUN Kim Fairless, Steve Hodson as Chief Inspector Turnbull and SUN Stephen Tomkinson as PC Newton. SUN Director: Shaun MacLoughlin SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017gntm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde b01hxn39 (Listen) SUN Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale of one man's evil SUN alter ego. Stars Michael Aldridge, James Bryce and Bernard SUN Hepton. SUN SUN 19:00 An Hour With... b05vhfpg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Antony Sher - Year of the Fat Knight b05tqx0z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b04dz3p0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05tr0tl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017gntm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Night Class b00769l9 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Pottery teacher Johnny Vegas takes his class on a sculpture SUN trip but discovers more than he bargained for. From SUN September 2002. SUN SUN 23:00 All the World's a Globe b007jwp2 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN The National Theatre of Brent tells the chaotic story of SUN life on Earth. Stars Patrick Barlow and Jim Broadbent. From SUN May 1990. SUN SUN 23:15 This is Craig Brown b00dwndv (Listen) SUN The Arts SUN How designer Terence Conran 'invented' the chair. The SUN satirist pokes fun, with Rory Bremner and Harry Enfield. SUN From March 2004. SUN SUN 23:30 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea b00jzzg3 (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Fitness Club SUN The Laird challenges Dougal to swim, cycle and run in a SUN MacAthlon. Stars Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. From March SUN 2004. SUN SUN 23:45 One b00771hg (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN The sketch show where no sketch features more than one SUN voice. SUN Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie SUN Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan SUN Antopolski, Simon Greenall and Kate Gielgud, with Bill Oddie SUN and Jeremy Clarkson as themselves. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 MAY 2015 MON MON 00:00 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde b01hxn39 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Beginning of Spring Omnibus b05tqrlf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 The Old Road b0075qxn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 The National Theatre of Brent in the Greatest Story MON Ever Told b05tv897 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Short Stories by John Mortimer b007jzcv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Michael Robson - Intent to Deceive b05tvtzf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017gntm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wmnj (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 2 MON Another mysterious death makes Health and Safety executive MON Simon consider the relevance of cruets. MON Mark Tavener's comedy thriller stars Geoffrey Palmer as MON Gilbert, Samuel West as Simon and Rebecca Front as Patricia. MON Following the death of one of its most prominent Dons, MON celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti - everyone at a MON Cambridge College gathers to attend the funeral. Simon, an MON ex-student and now disillusioned health and safety officer, MON wonders whether his death was not as straightforward as it MON at first appeared. MON Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger MON Producer: Dawn Ellis MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005. MON MON 06:30 How to Write An Instruction Manual b00m4470 (Listen) MON Engineer Mark Miodownik presents an instruction manual on MON how to write an instruction manual, exploring the history MON and the future of product guides and how they chart our MON changing relationship with technology. MON He looks at how product guides have changed over the MON centuries, from the very first examples, written by James MON Watt on his new 'copying' machine, to the latest Ikea MON pictograms. MON In the first half of the 20th century, manuals not only MON described how to use your television, but also how to fix MON it. Now, the first few pages of any TV manual contain stern MON health and safety warnings about the dangers of tinkering MON inside the TV. MON Mark travels to Yeovil to visit Mr Haynes, of Haynes car and MON motorcycle manuals, to ask whether people still need a MON manual to fix their vehicle. As our products get more MON sophisticated, is the instruction manual becoming extinct? MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b007xw0h (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON The sketch show about modern life, with people who've lived MON a bit of it. Stars Eleanor Bron and Clive Swift. From August MON 2001. MON MON 07:30 Dilemma b05sstcb (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts MON the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to MON discern their own personal codes of ethics. This week, it's MON the turn of comedians Nathan Caton and Celia Pacquola, MON historian Dan Snow, and writer and broadcaster Natalie MON Haynes. Up for discussion are unusual meals, lying to MON children, and the best way to deal with noisy, but happy, MON neighbours. Episode five of six. MON Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by MON Danielle Ward. MON Devised by ... Danielle Ward MON Producer ... Ed Morrish. MON Credits MON Presenter: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Nathan Caton MON Panellist: Dan Snow MON Panellist: Natalie Haynes MON Panellist: Celia Pacquola MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007mdr8 (Listen) MON Series 1, Room at the Bottom MON A shock for Captain Mainwaring sparks a platoon upheaval. MON Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier. From MON May 1974. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b007k7dc (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON Will Lionel and Jean's trip to Paris go as planned? Adapted MON from TV with Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. From January MON 1998. MON MON 09:00 Booked b00753z7 (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with Roger McGough, MON Miles Kington, Mark Thomas and Dillie Keane. From November MON 1995. MON MON 09:30 Says on the Tin b00gvhxv (Listen) MON Healthcare MON Comedy by Christopher William Hill. MON Eliott makes a film to encourage US investment in the NHS, MON explaining that 'where there's pain, there's gain'. MON Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon MON Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond MON Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood MON Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey MON Baz ...... Inam Mirza MON Ted ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Carl ...... Jonathan Tafler MON Moses ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Film Director ...... Janice Acquah MON Hospital Exec ...... Dan Starkey MON Other Parts played by Stephen Critchlow, Jonathan Tafler, MON Dan Starkey, Gunnar Cauthery and Donnla Hughes. MON MON 10:00 Marcy Kahan - Our Man in Jamaica b00tdzjv (Listen) MON Fidel Castro is in Cuba - dare Noel Coward turn spy again MON for Great Britain? Adventure with Malcolm Sinclair and MON Eleanor Bron. MON MON 11:00 Tessa Hadley - Married Love b01dtmr0 (Listen) MON Shelley gets to grips with her cleaning job, and her MON thoughts turn to her son who is serving in Afghanistan. MON Short stories on family life and love, read by Julia Ford. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00wqfg9 (Listen) MON Devil in the Fog, Episode 1 MON Highwaymen, duels, swirling fogs, escaped convicts - part MON one of a thrilling two-part dramatisation of Leon Garfield's MON classic 18th C. mystery adventure. MON Dramatised by Martin Jameson MON Episode 1 of 2 MON Directed by Marc Beeby MON 14 year-old George is the oldest of the seven Treet MON children. Captained by their larger-than-life father, the MON Treets are touring thespians, forever on the edge of MON poverty. But their normally happy lives are shadowed by the MON twice yearly arrival of "the Stranger" who hands Mr Treet a MON sum of money and disappears. This year, however, the MON Stranger appears for the last time and Mr Treet reveals to MON George that he is the son of a nobleman, Sir John Dexter. MON Now, George must, reluctantly, be returned to him. MON At the gloomy Dexter family home, George is welcomed by Sir MON John, who is recovering from a pistol wound received in the MON course of a duel with his black-hearted brother Richard. MON Richard has been imprisoned as a result. George does his MON best to settle into life in his forbidding new home. MON But trouble is waiting in the fog that surrounds the house. MON Richard Dexter has escaped from Newgate and is hiding in a MON nearby copse. What's more, it soon becomes clear that MON someone is trying to kill George... MON Credits MON Mr Treet: Tim McMullan MON George: Joe Dempsie MON Lady Dexter: Juliet Aubrey MON Sir John: Sam Dale MON Joseph: Sean Baker MON Dr Newby: Iain Batchelor MON Mrs Montague: Joanna Monro MON Captain Richard: Ben Crowe MON Hotspur: Raymond Karimi Taheri MON Jane: Lauren Mote MON Edward: Hugo Docking MON Rose: Fern Deacon MON Writer: Martin Jameson MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Author: Leon Garfield MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007mdr8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b007k7dc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wmnj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 How to Write An Instruction Manual b00m4470 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx6r (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON A story of thwarted love and ambition set amongst the MON woodsmen and women of Little Hintock. Read by Juliet MON Stevenson. MON MON 14:15 The Making of Music b007nf4j (Listen) MON Series 1, The Reformation MON James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the MON development of classical music. Why should the Devil have MON all the best tunes? Luther changed religion and religious MON music forever. He harnessed secular songs for sacred MON purposes and introduced congregational singing. MON Reader: Benedict Cumberbatch MON Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt MON BBC Birmingham. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00swpqv (Listen) MON The Song House, Episode 1 MON An adaptation of Trezza Azzopardi's new novel, a compelling MON psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret MON in her past. During a rainy summer Maggie arrives for a job MON interview at a large house in the country. The house is MON empty apart from Kenneth, an elderly man, who wants a MON secretary to do an unusual live-in job. He wants someone to MON listen to his music collection, and transcribe his MON impressions and memories connected to each piece of music. MON Kenneth is odd, isolated, perhaps on the edge of dementia, MON slightly threatening. But Maggie is mysterious too and she MON has some hidden plan in taking this job. She knows this MON place, she's been here before. Piece by piece, as the rain MON intensifies and the river begins to flood, we learn about MON Maggie's shocking past. MON Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for MON numerous awards, including the Booker. Critics praise her MON story-telling ability, her psychological acuity and her MON intense poetic atmosphere. MON Cast: MON MAGGIE.............KAY CURRAM MON NARRATOR..........SHARON MORGAN MON KENNETH...........JOHN CASTLE MON ALISON............CAROLINE HARKER MON WILLIAM............ MARK MEADOWS MON RUSTY............ MARILYN LE CONTE MON Adapted by Elizabeth Burke MON Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 14:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178fh6 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The life of Margaretha Zelle, who became one of the most MON notorious women of the 20th century. Read by Juliet MON Stevenson. MON MON 15:00 Marcy Kahan - Our Man in Jamaica b00tdzjv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Booked b00753z7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Says on the Tin b00gvhxv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b007xw0h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Dilemma b05sstcb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007jwnt (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Gregor Samsa wakes one day to find himself hideously MON transformed into a monstrous insect. His family react with MON horror at his bizarre transformation but this slowly turns MON to revulsion - and then monstrous indifference - as he is MON left to quietly waste away in his bedroom. MON First published in 1912, Benedict Cumberbatch reads Franz MON Kafka's classic novel in four parts. MON Franz Kafka (1883-1924) ranks among the 20th century's most MON acclaimed writers. He is often cited as the author whose MON works best evoke the concerns and preoccupations of modern MON life. The world in his stories is portrayed as one in which MON the fantastic is entirely normal, the irrational is MON rational, and the unreasonable seems reasonable. As Ernst MON Pawel wrote in his biography of the writer, "Kafka MON articulates the anguish of being human." MON Kafka, although Czech and living in Prague, which was then MON part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, spoke fluent German and MON Czech and actually wrote in German and thought it his mother MON tongue. The tensions between those who spoke German and MON those who spoke Czech were a direct reflection of the rise MON of nationalism and the quest for national identity. MON Metamorphosis was translated by Richard Stokes. Abridged and MON produced by Gemma Jenkins. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2006. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075n31 (Listen) MON Souad Faress and John Sutherland MON Sarah LeFanu and her guests, actress Souad Faress and writer MON and lecturer Professor John Sutherland, discuss three MON favourite paperbacks. From 1999. MON Midnight's Children - by Salman Rushdie MON Publisher: Vintage MON Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone - by James Baldwin MON Publisher: Penguin MON Christina the Astonishing - by Jane Draycott and Lesley MON Saunders MON Publisher: Two Rivers Press. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007mdr8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b007k7dc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wmnj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 How to Write An Instruction Manual b00m4470 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Drama b05mq8wr (Listen) MON A Fine Balance, Episode 1 MON Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about MON India's underclass. MON Two tailors - uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om - come to the MON city to escape from the caste violence in their native MON village. They are employed by a Parsi woman, Dina Dalal, who MON runs a sweatshop from her apartment and is struggling to MON preserve her independence. She has a lodger too - a MON reluctant student, Maneck, from the mountains. MON As their initial suspicion of each other turns to friendship MON and then love, their lives take dramatic and often shocking MON turns against a backdrop of India in crisis, during "the MON Emergency" of the mid-1970s - a period marked by huge MON political unrest and human rights violations. MON A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human MON spirit under inhuman conditions. MON Music: Sacha Putnam MON Sound Design: Steve Bond MON Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel MON by Rohinton Mistry MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Director: John Dryden MON A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Dina: Shernaz Patel MON Ishvar: Kenneth Desai MON Om: Anand Tiwari MON Maneck: Neil Bhoopalam MON Rustom: Zafar Karachiwala MON Ibrahim: Rajit Kapur MON The Thakur: Jayant Kripalani MON Ashraf: Darshan Jariwala MON Nusswan: Farid Currim MON Ruby: Anahita Uberoi MON Narayan: Vivek Madan MON Young Dina: Tirtha Kotrial MON Young Ishvar: Eshan Savla MON Young Narayan: Samar Uraizee MON Ensemble: Jim Sarbh MON Ensemble: Abhishek Saha MON Ensemble: Meherangiz Acharya-Dar MON Ensemble: Faezeh Jalali MON Ensemble: Shivani Tanksale MON Ensemble: Nadir Khan MON Author: Rohinton Mistry MON Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon MON Adaptor: Kewel Karim MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Director: John Dryden MON MON 22:00 Dilemma b05sstcb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b0075sf5 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 5 MON The Luton poet is by the sea in Aldeburgh, and gets some MON help with limericks from comedian Arnold Brown. From March MON 2000. MON MON 22:45 The Problem With Adam Bloom b007r0c7 (Listen) MON Series 1, Lending Things MON Haunted by his past, the comedian has words of caution on MON the return of personal items. With Rob Rouse. From September MON 2003. MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05vst7z (Listen) MON The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan is MON joined by Ian Hislop. MON MON 23:00 Dead Ringers b05sycdj (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 5 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 b008tsjl (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 4 MON Andrew delivers a Brief Encounter themed date for Lind at MON the office. Dave's former school bully rears his ugly head. MON Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi company. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 MAY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007jwnt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075n31 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wmnj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 How to Write An Instruction Manual b00m4470 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx6r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Making of Music b007nf4j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00swpqv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178fh6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Marcy Kahan - Our Man in Jamaica b00tdzjv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Booked b00753z7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Says on the Tin b00gvhxv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b007xw0h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Dilemma b05sstcb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wzvk (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE As dead don Peter Devanti's sordid side is made public, TUE Simon struggles with his day job. TUE Mark Tavener's comedy thriller stars Geoffrey Palmer as TUE Gilbert, Samuel West as Simon and Rebecca Front as Patricia. TUE Following the death of one of its most prominent Dons, TUE celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti. Simon, an ex-student TUE and disillusioned health and safety officer uncovers more TUE skullduggery. TUE Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger TUE Producer: Dawn Ellis TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005. TUE TUE 06:30 From Dots to Downloads b00lp15m (Listen) TUE Tim van Eyken, award-winning young singer and squeezebox TUE player, reveals how today's musicians are rediscovering TUE 'tune books', small manuscript books of music that were in TUE use from the late-17th to the mid-19th century. TUE They are now sharing them, in the way that musicians always TUE have, but nowadays online, so that all over the world, TUE people are playing these tunes once again in an ongoing TUE global virtual session. TUE TUE 07:00 Dry Slopes b00lr3nz (Listen) TUE The Day of Judgement TUE Perpetually unemployed and friendless loser Angus Dry TUE agonises over the death of a bee. Starring Nick Ball. From TUE April 1995. TUE TUE 07:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05stkr9 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE We all leave. We all migrate from childhood to adulthood, TUE from village to town to city, from single to married. We all TUE hate and love where we are from. We are all immigrants of TUE time. There are problems with home and a need to leave. TUE There is a love of home and a need to leave. Goodbye is who TUE we are. TUE In Lemn Sissay's Homecoming, Lemn Sissay explores what TUE "home" means through stand-up, poetry and conversation. It's TUE surely not just a physical location - it's the people, the TUE memories, the feeling. It's not home if you don't belong TUE there, it's just where you live. TUE The first of these two shows was recorded at the Ghion TUE Hotel, in Addis Ababa. Addis is a place that Lemn feels at TUE home in - but why? He wasn't born there, doesn't live there, TUE and can't even speak the language. Helping Lemn understand TUE this are two Ethiopians who were brought up in Europe but TUE who, unlike Lemn, moved back to Addis in adulthood; a social TUE anthropologist who is an Ethiopian with a famous English TUE name; and his own sister, who is Addis born and bred. TUE Lemn Sissay is the author of five collections of poetry. He TUE has also written plays for stage and BBC radio. He was the TUE first poet to write for the Olympics 2012 and received an TUE MBE from the Queen for Services to Literature. He is TUE associate artist at the Southbank Centre, and an (hon) TUE doctor of letters. His radio documentary Child of the State TUE was nominated for the 2010 Sony Awards. If you should google TUE "Lemn sissay" all the returning hits will be about him. TUE There is only one person named Lemn Sissay in the world. TUE Written and performed by ... Lemn Sissay TUE Produced by ... Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00hzpgy (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 10 TUE Master Spy Kenneth Horne probes why Wilfred Pickles is TUE barking. Plus Bona home-styling from Julian and his friend TUE Sandy. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. 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 May 1965. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05tyv7s (Listen) TUE From 10/08/1975 TUE Doddy and pals on their poor but happy childhoods and we TUE learn of the Legover legacy. With Miriam Margolyes. From TUE August 1975. TUE TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers b05sycdj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Such Rotten Luck b01p0rq5 (Listen) TUE Red Whales in the Funhouse TUE Wordsmith Woodhouse tries an oratorio and some candid TUE writing about a pregnancy. Stars Tim Pigott-Smith. From TUE September 1989. TUE TUE 10:00 Saturday Drama b00hh28z (Listen) TUE Joan of Arc, and How She Became a Saint TUE Written and directed by Patrick Barlow. Comic interpretation TUE of the story of Joan of Arc performed by comic troupe the TUE National Theatre of Brent. TUE Crowd and courtiers played by Beth Nestor, Carrie Quinlan, TUE Humphrey Ker, David Reed & Thom Tuck. TUE Credits TUE Joan of Arc: Dawn French TUE St Catherine: Anne Reid TUE St Margaret: Maggie Steed TUE Madame Dupont: Maggie Steed TUE Bertram: Nell Barlow TUE The Storyteller: Nell Barlow TUE Monsieur Dupont: John Ramm TUE Duke de la Rennes: John Ramm TUE Monsieur D'Arc: Kevin Eldon TUE Bishop de la Tremouille: Kevin Eldon TUE Madame D'Arc: Cheryl Campbell TUE Queen Ysabella: Cheryl Campbell TUE Alphonse Dupont: Marc Wootton TUE Pastor: Patrick Barlow TUE Jean de Metz: Andrew Dunn TUE Dauphin of France: Samuel Barnett TUE Jean du Cauchon, Chief Inquisitor: Jim Broadbent TUE Writer: Patrick Barlow TUE Director: Patrick Barlow TUE TUE 11:00 Tessa Hadley - Married Love b01dts86 (Listen) TUE Because the Night, pt 1 TUE When her parents decide to have a party, Kristen comes up TUE with an escape plan. Coming of age story read by Susie TUE Riddell. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00wqgms (Listen) TUE Devil in the Fog, Episode 2 TUE What murky secrets lie at the heart of the fog? Who is the TUE principal? And who is the Devil? Part two of a dramatisation TUE of Leon Garfield's thrilling 18th C. mystery adventure. TUE Dramatised by Martin Jameson TUE Epiosde 2 of 2 TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE Credits TUE George: Joe Dempsie TUE Mr Treet: Tim McMullan TUE Captain Richard: Ben Crowe TUE Sir John: Sam Dale TUE Joseph: Sean Baker TUE The Stranger: Sean Baker TUE Mrs Montague: Joanna Monro TUE Lady Dexter: Juliet Aubrey TUE Bertram: George Sanderson TUE Aunt Dexter: Claire Harry TUE Hotspur: Raymond Karimi Taheri TUE Rose: Fern Deacon TUE Edward: Hugo Docking TUE Jane: Lauren Mote TUE Highwayman: Henry Devas TUE Writer: Martin Jameson TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE Author: Leon Garfield TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00hzpgy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05tyv7s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wzvk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 From Dots to Downloads b00lp15m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx6z (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Giles Winterbourne is reunited with his childhood sweetheart TUE Grace, but will she return his love? Read by Juliet TUE Stevenson. TUE TUE 14:15 The Making of Music b007nlbn (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Counter Reformation TUE James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the TUE development of classical music. Luther's hymns were TUE accessible - and popular. The Counter Reformation responded TUE to Luther's musical revolution by giving an edict that the TUE words of church music had to be clear and understood. This TUE is the story of the composer Palestrina who became embroiled TUE in the politics of the high church. TUE Reader : Simon Russell Beale TUE Produced by Rosie Boutlon, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt TUE BBC Birmingham. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqbw (Listen) TUE The Song House, Episode 2 TUE An adaptation of Trezza Azzopardi's new novel - a compelling TUE psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret TUE in her past. During a rainy summer, Maggie arrives for a job TUE interview at a large house in the country. The house is TUE empty apart from Kenneth, an elderly man, who wants a TUE secretary to do an unusual live-in job. He wants someone to TUE listen to his vast and eclectic music collection, then TUE transcribe his impressions and memories connected to each TUE piece of music. Kenneth is odd, isolated, perhaps on the TUE edge of dementia. He wants to record what each piece of TUE music means to him while he can still remember. But Maggie TUE is mysterious too and she has some hidden plan in taking TUE this job. Lonely and dependent, Kenneth has no inkling as TUE yet of the real reason she's here. TUE Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for TUE numerous awards, including the Booker. TUE Cast: TUE MAGGIE.............KAY CURRAM TUE NARRATOR..........SHARON MORGAN TUE KENNETH...........JOHN CASTLE TUE ALISON............CAROLINE HARKER TUE WILLIAM............ MARK MEADOWS TUE RUSTY............ MARILYN LE CONTE TUE Adapted by Elizabeth Burke. Produced and Directed by: Kate TUE McAll. TUE TUE 14:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178mlc (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE In the biography of Dutch woman Margaretha Zelle, tragedy TUE stikes her family in Indonesia. Read by Juliet Stevenson. TUE TUE 15:00 Saturday Drama b00hh28z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Whispers b00c3nw7 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Gyles Brandreth's scandals quiz, with Anthony Holden, TUE Valerie Grove, Lucy Moore and Geoffrey Durham. From TUE September 2004. TUE TUE 16:30 Such Rotten Luck b01p0rq5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Dry Slopes b00lr3nz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05stkr9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k3r4 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Gregor is adapting to his new insect form, but his shocked TUE family find it harder to accept. Read by Benedict TUE Cumberbatch. TUE TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking b05tz4q1 (Listen) TUE William Walton TUE British composer Sir William Walton answers the questions TUE from Dilys Powell and Antony Hopkins. TUE Living in Italy at the time, Sir William had not long turned TUE 60. Revealing his regrets and musical influences, he TUE explains how he goes about his work. TUE Asked about getting married late in life, Sir William TUE reveals how love struck when he spotted Susana - who became TUE Lady Walton. 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 1962. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00hzpgy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05tyv7s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wzvk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 From Dots to Downloads b00lp15m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Drama b05nsgbc (Listen) TUE A Fine Balance, Episode 2 TUE Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about TUE India's underclass. TUE Uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om have come to the city to TUE escape the caste violence in their native village. They TUE start working as tailors in the cramped flat of Dina, a TUE middle-aged Parsi widow. Maneck, a reluctant student from TUE the mountains, rents a room from Dina and the four strangers TUE form an unlikely bond against a backdrop of India in crisis TUE - during "the Emergency" of the mid-1970s, a period marked TUE by huge political unrest and human rights violations. TUE A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human TUE spirit under inhuman conditions. TUE Music: Sacha Putnam TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond TUE Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel TUE by Rohinton Mistry TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Dina: Shernaz Patel TUE Ishvar: Kenneth Desai TUE Om: Anand Tiwari TUE Maneck: Neil Bhoopalam TUE Rustom: Zafar Karachiwala TUE Ibrahim: Rajit Kapur TUE The Thakur: Jayant Kripalani TUE Ashraf: Darshan Jariwala TUE Nusswan: Farid Currim TUE Ruby: Anahita Uberoi TUE Narayan: Vivek Madan TUE Young Dina: Tirtha Kotrial TUE Young Ishvar: Eshan Savla TUE Young Narayan: Samar Uraizee TUE Ensemble: Jim Sarbh TUE Ensemble: Abhishek Saha TUE Ensemble: Meherangiz Acharya-Dar TUE Ensemble: Faezeh Jalali TUE Ensemble: Shivani Tanksale TUE Ensemble: Nadir Khan TUE Author: Rohinton Mistry TUE Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon TUE Adaptor: Kewel Karim TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Director: John Dryden TUE TUE 22:00 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05stkr9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rbkyc (Listen) TUE Series 3, Jon Culshaw TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites his guest Jon Culshaw to try five TUE things he's never done before including visiting a casino. TUE Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is TUE about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort TUE zones. TUE The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and TUE creator Bill Dare had never seen Star Wars. TUE Host: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Guest: Jon Culshaw TUE Producer: Bill Dare. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05vstg8 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan is TUE joined by Ian Hislop. TUE TUE 23:00 Big Shot: A Trip Through the Canyons of Viv TUE Stanshall's Mind b007kdyf (Listen) TUE Vivian Stanshall died in his London flat aged only 52 - on TUE 6th March 1995. TUE Stephen Fry presents this tribute to his unique and TUE extraordinary talents - humorist, lyricist, musician, TUE writer, painter, potter, sculptor, lead singer and inspired TUE clown of the Bonzo Dog Band. TUE Featuring Viv's brother Mark Stanshall, Neil Innes, John TUE Peel, Steve Winwood, John Walters and Brian Patten. TUE First broadcast on Radio 2 in 2001. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k3r4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Frankly Speaking b05tz4q1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008wzvk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 From Dots to Downloads b00lp15m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx6z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Making of Music b007nlbn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqbw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178mlc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Saturday Drama b00hh28z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Whispers b00c3nw7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Such Rotten Luck b01p0rq5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Dry Slopes b00lr3nz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05stkr9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x3lv (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED Simon has to investigate the college chapel, while also WED trying to identify Peter Devanti's murderer. But is Zoe the WED next target? WED Mark Tavener's comedy thriller stars Geoffrey Palmer as WED Gilbert, Samuel West as Simon and Rebecca Front as Patricia. WED Following the death of one of its most prominent Dons, WED celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti. Simon, an ex-student WED and disillusioned health and safety officer uncovers more WED skullduggery. WED Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger WED Producer: Dawn Ellis WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005. WED WED 06:30 Arthur Mee: Encyclopaedist b00cdr0g (Listen) WED The story of Arthur Mee, the prolific educationalist, editor WED and writer whose Children's Encyclopaedia and Children's WED Newspaper were bought by millions throughout the first half WED of the 20th century. WED Many children remember fondly the place it occupied on their WED shelves and their knowledge of the world and other cultures WED came in large part filtered through the eclectic and WED eccentric lens of Mee's encyclopaedia - Mee was staunchly WED Christian, patriotic, imperialist and, to present day WED readers, a racist as well as an energetic campaigner for the WED temperance movement. WED Ian Sansom interviews Mee's biographer Maisie Robson, WED publishers who have lovingly curated a huge backlist of WED Arthur Mee titles and people who grew up with his WED encyclopaedia in pride of place on their bookshelves. WED WED 07:00 The Older Woman b039tqfd (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED Roy vies for Jane's affections from the vantage point of a WED caravan in her garden. Stars Martin Clunes. From September WED 1994. WED WED 07:30 Clare in the Community b03pjcyf (Listen) WED Series 9, In Blog We Trust WED Episode Two - In Blog We Trust WED Clare is convinced that the Sparrowhawk Centre is the home WED of a blogger called 'The Secret Social Worker' and sets out WED to track them down. Meanwhile Brian accepts Simon's help to WED find a date. WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Megan: Nina Conti WED Nali: Nina Conti WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Simon: Andrew Wincott WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Delphine: Sarah Thom WED Teacher: Arthur Hughes WED Student: Arthur Hughes WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b05tzgds (Listen) WED Mr Murray Goes Sick WED Stanton thinks Number One looks poorly, but Pertwee acts ill WED to avoid terrible posting. Stars Jon Pertwee. From April WED 1960. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00bwshp (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 1 WED John Cleese's magic tricks, and a talking baboon called WED Dermot. Songs and sketches with Graeme Garden. From April WED 1967. WED WED 09:00 Trivia Test Match b00whw4d (Listen) WED Brian Johnston umpires, as Willie Rushton and Paul Merton WED battle Tim Rice and Alfred Marks. From November 1991. WED WED 09:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007n1wk (Listen) WED Prodigal Son Returns - Veal Off WED Tony returns home to Grimedale and discovers how the town WED has changed. Nick Revell's epic saga with David Swift. From WED May 1997. WED WED 10:00 Home Front b0512lnj (Listen) WED Home Front - Omnibus, 2-6 February 1915 WED Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years WED ago this week, where our focus shifts to industrial WED Tynemouth, experiencing a quite different war from that felt WED in Folkestone. WED Written by Shaun McKenna WED Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED Credits WED Edgar Bates: Sam Dale WED Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles WED Daniel Chadwick: Mark Cameron WED Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart WED Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman WED Malachi Dart: Daniel Weyman WED Travers Fielding: David Acton WED Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn WED Alan Lowther: David Seddon WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell WED Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley WED Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham WED Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones WED Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready WED Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom WED Amy Robinson: Jane Slavin WED Sgt Ryker: Simon Harrison WED Ada Stokoe: Hannah Genesius WED Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan WED Mrs Thorne: Elaine Claxton WED Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone WED Albert Wilson: Harry Myers WED Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook WED Adam Wilson: Leo Montague WED Ticket Inspector: Leon Scott WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 11:00 Tessa Hadley - Married Love b01dvvrw (Listen) WED Because the Night, part two WED Kristen's plan to escape her parents' party hits an annoying WED snag. Coming of age story concluded by Susie Riddell. WED WED 11:15 Stephen Dunstone - The Drought b007jw1l (Listen) WED Submerged in a reservoir, Jean's childhood home is uncovered WED during a drought. But her visit is distressing. Stars WED Kathleen Helme. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b05tzgds (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00bwshp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x3lv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Arthur Mee: Encyclopaedist b00cdr0g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx73 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Grace Melbury's timber merchant father starts doubting WED woodsman Giles's suitability for his daughter. Read by WED Juliet Stevenson. WED WED 14:15 The Making of Music b007njhr (Listen) WED Series 1, Venice WED James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the WED development of classical music. An uncle and nephew, Andrea WED and Giovanni Gabrieli wrote music that filled St Marks WED Basilica, using the space as a stage for many voices. The WED music inspired travellers who passed through the Serene WED City, then the crossroads of the known world. WED Reader: Laurence Fox. WED Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey, Lucy Lunt WED BBC Birmingham. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqr9 (Listen) WED The Song House, Episode 3 WED An adaptation of Trezza Azzopardi's new novel - a compelling WED psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret WED in her past. WED During a rainy summer, Maggie has taken a job as a live-in WED secretary in a large house in the country. Ostensibly she's WED there to catalogue Kenneth's music collection, and to write WED a memoir of the elderly man's life. Kenneth is odd, WED isolated, perhaps on the edge of dementia. He wants to WED record what each piece of music means to him while he can WED still remember. Now he has fallen in love with her. But WED Maggie has a deeper purpose, one she has not yet revealed to WED him. She is trying to find out what happened to her as a WED child, when she was abducted, at the age of four. WED Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for WED numerous awards, including the Booker. WED Cast: WED MAGGIE.............KAY CURRAM WED NARRATOR..........SHARON MORGAN WED KENNETH...........JOHN CASTLE WED ALISON............CAROLINE HARKER WED WILLIAM............ MARK MEADOWS WED RUSTY............ MARILYN LE CONTE WED Adapted by Elizabeth Burke Produced and Directed by: Kate WED McAll. WED WED 14:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178pql (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Margaretha Zelle is heartbroken after the death of her son WED and moves to Paris. Read by Juliet Stevenson. WED WED 15:00 Home Front b0512lnj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Trivia Test Match b00whw4d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007n1wk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Older Woman b039tqfd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Clare in the Community b03pjcyf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k3xn (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Now a monstrous insect, Gregor strives to stay close to his WED family - but his father turns on him. Read by Benedict WED Cumberbatch. WED PROMOTION NOTE WED "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he WED found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous WED insect." WED This shocking opening introduces one of the twentieth WED century's most famous stories. WED Gregor's family react with horror at his bizarre WED transformation but their horror slowly turns to revulsion WED and then monstrous indifference as he is left to quietly WED waste away in his bedroom. WED Metamorphosis was first published in 1912. WED Benedict Cumberbatch reads this surreal classic in four WED parts. WED Stage and screen actor, Benedict Cumberbatch was Bafta WED nominated for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the BBC TV WED drama, "Hawking". Most recently he appeared in the TV WED dramatisation of William Golding's seafaring trilogy, "To WED The Ends of The Earth". He also won critical acclaim playing WED Hedda's husband, George, in last year's West End production WED of "Hedda Gabler". WED Franz Kafka (1883-1924) ranks among the twentieth-century's WED most acclaimed writers. He is often cited as the author WED whose works best evoke the concerns and preoccupations of WED modern life. The world in his stories is portrayed as one in WED which the fantastic is entirely normal, the irrational is WED rational, and the unreasonable seems reasonable. As Ernst WED Pawel wrote in his biography of the writer, "Kafka WED articulates the anguish of being human." WED Translated by Richard Stokes WED (Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins). WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076mrp (Listen) WED Anger: Matthew Parris talks about rage with broadcaster WED Shyama Perera, journalist Cristina Odone and Rouzbeh Pirouz. WED From August 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b05tzgds (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00bwshp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x3lv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Arthur Mee: Encyclopaedist b00cdr0g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Drama b05pl647 (Listen) WED A Fine Balance, Episode 3 WED Dramatisation of Rohinton Mistry's acclaimed novel about WED India's underclass. WED Uncle and nephew, Ishvar and Om have come to the city to WED escape the caste violence in their native village. They WED start working as tailors in the cramped flat of Dina, a WED middle-aged Parsi widow. Maneck, a reluctant student from WED the mountains, rents a room from Dina and the four strangers WED form an unlikely bond against a backdrop of India in crisis WED - during "the Emergency" of the mid-1970s, a period marked WED by huge political unrest and human rights violations. WED A comedy, a tragedy, and a story of the triumph of the human WED spirit under inhuman conditions. WED Music: Sacha Putnam WED Sound Design: Steve Bond WED Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and Kewel Karim from the novel WED by Rohinton Mistry WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Director: John Dryden WED A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Dina: Shernaz Patel WED Ishvar: Kenneth Desai WED Om: Anand Tiwari WED Maneck: Neil Bhoopalam WED Rustom: Zafar Karachiwala WED Ibrahim: Rajit Kapur WED The Thakur: Jayant Kripalani WED Ashraf: Darshan Jariwala WED Nusswan: Farid Currim WED Ruby: Anahita Uberoi WED Narayan: Vivek Madan WED Young Dina: Tirtha Kotrial WED Young Ishvar: Eshan Savla WED Young Narayan: Samar Uraizee WED Ensemble: Jim Sarbh WED Ensemble: Abhishek Saha WED Ensemble: Meherangiz Acharya-Dar WED Ensemble: Faezeh Jalali WED Ensemble: Shivani Tanksale WED Ensemble: Nadir Khan WED Author: Rohinton Mistry WED Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon WED Adaptor: Kewel Karim WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Director: John Dryden WED WED 22:00 Clare in the Community b03pjcyf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b015brnj (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular WED guest on The Now Show and popper-up in things like Miranda WED and That Mitchell and Webb Look returns with half an hour of WED his own sketches, each funnier than the last. Although, hang WED on, that system means starting the whole series with the WED least funny sketch. Might need to rethink that. OK, it's a WED new show filled with sketches written and performed by John WED Finnemore, but now no longer arranged in strict order of WED funniness. Also, he's cut the sketch that would have gone WED first. WED In this third edition, the show visits some WED documentary-makers, has a big debate, and then treats itself WED to a little trophy. WED John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars WED John Finnemore. It also features Carrie Quinlan (The News WED Quiz, The Late Edition), Lawry Lewin (The Life & Times of WED Vivienne Vyle, Horrible Histories) and Simon Kane (Six WED Impossible Things). WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED Credits WED Performer: John Finnemore WED Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan WED Ensemble: Lawry Lewin WED Ensemble: Simon Kane WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: John Finnemore WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05vstjn (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan is WED joined by Ian Hislop. WED WED 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00lp32n (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED The Londoner invites Micky Flanagan and Nat Luurtsema round WED to his place, and there's music from Alabama 3. From July WED 2009. WED WED 23:30 The Harpoon b007k4cc (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED The nostalgic spiffing spoof of adventure story papers for WED boys. With Alistair McGowan and Peter Baynham. From WED September 1991. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 MAY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k3xn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076mrp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x3lv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Arthur Mee: Encyclopaedist b00cdr0g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx73 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Making of Music b007njhr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqr9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178pql (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Home Front b0512lnj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Trivia Test Match b00whw4d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007n1wk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Older Woman b039tqfd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Clare in the Community b03pjcyf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x7tk (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 5 THU After the attempted poisoning of Zoe, Simon steps up the THU search for the killer. THU Mark Tavener's comedy thriller stars Geoffrey Palmer as THU Gilbert, Samuel West as Simon and Rebecca Front as Patricia. THU Following the death of one of its most prominent Dons, THU celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti. Simon, an ex-student THU and disillusioned health and safety officer uncovers more THU skullduggery. THU Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger THU Producer: Dawn Ellis THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005. THU THU 06:30 Poisoned Angel: The Story of Alma Rose b00yyfrq (Listen) THU The controversial life and death of the violinist who led a THU women's orchestra in the Auschwitz death camp. With Alyn THU Shipton. THU THU 07:00 Tomorrow, Today! b012b3dy (Listen) THU Series 1, To the Moon and Back THU Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1961. A THU BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the THU unimaginably futuristic world of 2006. THU The actors callously use the show to secure advertising THU deals. THU Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles THU Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell THU Godfrey Winnard ...... John Fortune THU Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn THU Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska THU Douglas Bennings ...... Jon Glover THU Colin Franks ...... Paul Richard Biggin THU Waitress ...... Miranda Keeling. THU THU 07:30 Best Behaviour b05sy25w (Listen) THU Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show devoted to THU clarifying the etiquette rules for modern life. THU The guest panellists are Clive Anderson, Sarah Millican and THU Joe Lycett, who compete to supply the most entertaining THU ideas for best behaviour in the 21st century. THU Knowing how to conduct yourself used to be simple - there THU were books, finishing schools and often a stern nanny to THU make sure you did the right thing. But nowadays the world is THU such a social minefield - made worse by the fact that every THU time you mess up, someone's inevitably filming it on a THU camera phone. THU In this episode, etiquette at work is under comic scrutiny THU with the notion that 'the customer is NOT always right' THU being one of the main conclusions. The case for never THU sharing food during meals is also up for debate, and the THU panellists solver an etiquette problem from the studio THU audience - 'how can I tell my friends that I'm not as THU interested in their kids as they are?' THU Producer: Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: Holly Walsh THU Panellist: Clive Anderson THU Panellist: Sarah Millican THU Panellist: Joe Lycett THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b00rlb08 (Listen) THU Series 1, Sixty-Five Today THU Albert's 65th birthday outing turns into a disaster for son THU Harold. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by THU Gale Pedrick. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966. THU THU 08:30 Yes Minister b007jzxt (Listen) THU Series 2, The Compassionate Society THU Jim learns from his chauffeur that the new St Edwards THU Hospital has 300 administrators, cooks and cleaners, but no THU doctors, nurses or patients. How can he cure it? As usual THU the Minister doesn't know his ACAS from his NALGO. THU Starring Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker, Nigel Hawthorne as THU Sir Humphrey Appleby and Derek Fowldes as Bernard. Moira THU Stuart plays herself. THU Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV THU between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the THU hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service THU underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby THU and obsequious Bernard. THU Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin. THU First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1984. THU THU 09:00 Who Goes There? b0075zbk (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 6 THU Martin Young presents the biographical quiz show. Francis THU Wheen and Fred Housego captain the teams, with guests Claire THU Rayner and David Aaronovitch. From October 1984. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007jn4z (Listen) THU Series 5, Who You Know THU Budding actress Emily is due on stage, with a large helping THU hand from her Aunt Charlotte. Stars Celia Imrie. From July THU 1998. THU Credits THU Actor: Ann Jobson THU THU 10:00 Home Front b051w4f4 (Listen) THU Home Front - Omnibus, 9-13 February 1915 THU The Mayor of Tynemouth honours the first local soldier to be THU awarded a V.C and Edie shares the town's excitement. THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU Credits THU Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles THU Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart THU Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont THU Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman THU Frederick Dobson: Ben Fiske THU Fannon: Shaun Prendergast THU Mayor Gregg: Joe Caffrey THU Mr Hims: Gerard McDermott THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell THU Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley THU Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell THU Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones THU Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron THU Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips THU Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan THU Ada Stokoe: Hannah Genesius THU Pearl Thornton: Sophie Scott THU Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian THU Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone THU Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield THU Loudhailer Man: Kris Deedigan THU Female Speaker: Elaine Claxton THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Lucy Collingwood THU Producer: Lucy Collingwood THU THU 11:00 Tessa Hadley - Married Love b01dvzd3 (Listen) THU Journey Home THU Snowbound in Paris, Alec worries about why his sister back THU home hasn't replied to his text. Short story read by Adam THU Billington. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00t7h90 (Listen) THU The Barber and the Ark THU by Marcia Layne THU Issachar has been given an ultimatum by Yvonne, either the THU dreadlocks go or she does. But the veteran barber he visits THU has other ideas. Over a bottle of his 'special ingredient THU roots tonic' the barber shares his dream of discovering the THU Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. A dream that will change THU Isaachar's life. THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU Credits THU Issachar: Everal A Walsh THU Errol: Ram John Holder THU Yvonne: Kay Purcell THU Malachi: Tachia Newall THU Abdullah: Faz Singhateh THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Writer: Marcia Layne THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b00rlb08 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Yes Minister b007jzxt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x7tk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Poisoned Angel: The Story of Alma Rose b00yyfrq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx78 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Ambition and attraction coincide when Grace Melbury THU encounters young Doctor Fitzpiers. Read by Juliet Stevenson. THU THU 14:15 The Making of Music b007njht (Listen) THU Series 1, Elizabeth I THU James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the THU development of classical music. Two composers, William Byrd THU and Thomas Tallis, turned the end of the sixteenth century THU into a golden age for English music, despite being on the THU wrong side of the political and religious divide. THU Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey and Lucy Lunt THU BBC Birmingham. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqrc (Listen) THU The Song House, Episode 4 THU An adaptation of Trezza Azzopardi's new novel, a compelling THU psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret THU in her past. During a rainy summer Maggie arrives for a job THU interview at a large house in the country. The house is THU empty apart from Kenneth, an elderly man, who wants a THU secretary to do an unusual live-in job. He wants someone to THU listen to his vast and eclectic music collection, and THU transcribe his impressions and memories connected to each THU piece of music. She is to be a kind of ghostwriter of his THU autobiography, through music. Kenneth is odd, isolated, THU perhaps on the edge of dementia, slightly threatening. But THU Maggie is mysterious too and she has some hidden plan in THU taking this job. She knows this place, she's been here THU before. Piece by piece, as the rain intensifies and the THU river begins to flood, we learn about Maggie's shocking past THU and the childhood trauma that involves Kenneth's son, THU William. THU Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for THU numerous awards, including the Booker. THU Cast: THU MAGGIE.............KAY CURRAM THU NARRATOR..........SHARON MORGAN THU KENNETH...........JOHN CASTLE THU ALISON............CAROLINE HARKER THU WILLIAM............ MARK MEADOWS THU RUSTY............ MARILYN LE CONTE THU Adapted by Elizabeth Burke Produced and Directed by : Kate THU McAll. THU THU 14:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178xl8 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU In the life story of Margaretha Zelle, the reinvented THU sensual dancer senses a plot unfolding against her. Read by THU Juliet Stevenson. THU THU 15:00 Home Front b051w4f4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Who Goes There? b0075zbk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007jn4z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Anything Legal b008fxrd (Listen) THU Episode 8 THU With their business struggling, Charles and George turn to THU nanny. Stars Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles. From THU January 1985. THU THU 17:30 Tomorrow, Today! b012b3dy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k43b (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Now a monstrous insect, Gregor strives to stay close to his THU family - but his father turns on him. Read by Benedict THU Cumberbatch. THU PROMOTION NOTE THU "When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he THU found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous THU insect." THU This shocking opening introduces one of the twentieth THU century's most famous stories. THU Gregor's family react with horror at his bizarre THU transformation but their horror slowly turns to revulsion THU and then monstrous indifference as he is left to quietly THU waste away in his bedroom. THU Metamorphosis was first published in 1912. THU Benedict Cumberbatch reads this surreal classic in four THU parts. THU Stage and screen actor, Benedict Cumberbatch was Bafta THU nominated for his portrayal of Stephen Hawking in the BBC TV THU drama, "Hawking". Most recently he appeared in the TV THU dramatisation of William Golding's seafaring trilogy, "To THU The Ends of The Earth". He also won critical acclaim playing THU Hedda's husband, George, in last year's West End production THU of "Hedda Gabler". THU Franz Kafka (1883-1924) ranks among the twentieth-century's THU most acclaimed writers. He is often cited as the author THU whose works best evoke the concerns and preoccupations of THU modern life. The world in his stories is portrayed as one in THU which the fantastic is entirely normal, the irrational is THU rational, and the unreasonable seems reasonable. As Ernst THU Pawel wrote in his biography of the writer, "Kafka THU articulates the anguish of being human." THU Translated by Richard Stokes THU (Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins). THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076lcs (Listen) THU Veteran journalist Charles Wheeler chooses the USA's 36th THU President, Lyndon Johnson. With Humphrey Carpenter. From May THU 2004. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b00rlb08 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Yes Minister b007jzxt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x7tk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Poisoned Angel: The Story of Alma Rose b00yyfrq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Tessa Hadley - Married Love b01dvzd3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00t7h90 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Best Behaviour b05sy25w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 My Teenage Diary b01l0kc5 (Listen) THU Series 4, Rhona Cameron THU My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities THU ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their THU intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for THU the very first time. In this episode, comedian Rufus Hound THU is joined by Rhona Cameron who revisits her teenage years THU when she struggled to come to terms with her sexuality and THU had to cope with the sudden death of her father. THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 My Booze Hell, by Little Johnny Cartilage b010j4pd (Listen) THU And Cue Supersonic THU The washed-up TV star finds himself 'In the Psychiatrist's THU Chair' with Dr Anthony Clare. With Ben Miller. From October THU 1996. THU THU 23:15 Date With Fate b0090x8s (Listen) THU Nice Little Number THU Vernon Hedges sets out to prove that Lady Luck does not THU exist. Stars Charles Gray and Toby Longworth. From February THU 1996. THU THU 23:30 Hut 33 b00wlldq (Listen) THU Series 2, Yankee Diddle THU The Bletchley Park codebreakers' attempt to fleece a wealthy THU American backfires. Stars Robert Bathurst. From June 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 MAY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Franz Kafka - Metamorphosis b007k43b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076lcs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008x7tk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Poisoned Angel: The Story of Alma Rose b00yyfrq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx78 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Making of Music b007njht (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqrc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0178xl8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Home Front b051w4f4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Who Goes There? b0075zbk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007jn4z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Anything Legal b008fxrd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Tomorrow, Today! b012b3dy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008y4fg (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 6 FRI Exams loom large. Simon Harrison delves into his Health and FRI Safety background for one final ruse. Can he unveil the FRI killer? FRI Mark Tavener's comedy thriller stars Geoffrey Palmer as FRI Gilbert, Samuel West as Simon and Rebecca Front as Patricia. FRI Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger FRI Producer: Dawn Ellis FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005. FRI FRI 06:30 Young, Gifted and Black b00scjx2 (Listen) FRI On the eightieth anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry's birth, FRI Adjoa Andoh reflects on the brief but highly influential FRI career of the African American playwright and social FRI activist. FRI In 1959, Hansberry became the first black woman to have a FRI play produced on Broadway and the youngest recipient of the FRI New York Drama Critics Circle Award. An eloquent and FRI impassioned orator for civil rights, Lorraine Hansberry FRI quickly became one of the most famous women in the country. FRI Friend to the likes of Paul Robeson, James Baldwin and Nina FRI Simone, who composed 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' in her FRI honour, Hansberry's prescient speeches and artfully FRI constructed drama played a key role in the ongoing civil FRI rights struggle. FRI In this programme we hear from her sister Mamie Hansberry, FRI poet and playwright Jackie Kay, Chicago Southside historian FRI Timuel Black and theatre directors Michael Buffong and FRI Paulette Randall. FRI Producer: Eleanor McDowall FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Lucky Heather b0075rz9 (Listen) FRI Wild Bunch FRI Heather helps a neighbour who is being harassed on the FRI estate and also tries line dancing. From February 2000. FRI FRI 07:30 The Vote Now Show b05s2pbq (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve FRI Punt and Hugh Dennis host a series of six shows spread FRI across four weeks in the lead up to the General Election. FRI With the help of Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn, Liam FRI Williams and special guest Danny Finklestein, they'll give FRI their own unique take on the election news and shenanigans. FRI Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley. FRI Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Steve Punt FRI Presenter: Hugh Dennis FRI Panellist: Jon Holmes FRI Panellist: Laura Shavin FRI Panellist: Mitch Benn FRI Panellist: Liam Williams FRI Panellist: Danny Finkelstein FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI Producer: Joe Nunnery FRI Producer: Rachel Wheeley FRI Performer: Holly Walsh FRI Performer: John Finnemore FRI Performer: Pippa Evans FRI Performer: Isabel Hardman FRI Executive Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k4v4 (Listen) FRI The Income Tax Demand FRI With a bill looming, the lad consults crooked chartered FRI accountant Sid. Stars Tony Hancock and Sid James. From FRI November 1956. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jln0 (Listen) FRI The Greatest Mountain in the World FRI Neddie Seagoon attempts to climb a peak even higher than FRI Everest. Stars Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. From March FRI 1954. FRI FRI 09:00 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons FRI b00lsxh0 (Listen) FRI Bob Dylan FRI The multi award winning National Theatre of Brent Artistic FRI Director Desmond Olivier Dingle and the entire acting FRI company (Raymond Box) return, celebrating the living artists FRI deemed by Desmond to be Iconic Icons. FRI The first iconic icon is the legendary singer, songwriter FRI and artist Bob Dylan. Desmond and Raymond will trace his FRI path from his humble beginnings as Robert Zimmerman in FRI Hibbin, Minnesota, through journeying to bohemian New York, FRI finding his inner voice and becoming the icon that is Bob FRI Dylan. FRI Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by John FRI Ramm, and performed by Patrick and John in front of an FRI audience at the Bush Hall in London. FRI Desmond Olivier Dingle ..... Patrick Barlow FRI Raymond Box ..... John Ramm FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 On Baby Street b00drrz9 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI Three expectant mothers prepare for their arrivals in FRI different ways. Stars Kathy Burke and Keith Allen. From FRI January 1996. FRI FRI 10:00 Home Front b052mjzq (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 16-20 February 1915 FRI The country may be at war, and the factories at peak FRI production, but there's time for romance in industrial FRI Tynemouth. FRI Written by Melissa Murray FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI Credits FRI Baxter: Kris Deedigan FRI Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner FRI Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles FRI Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Mhairi Marchant: Jane Slavin FRI Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Joyce O'Leary: Tracy Whitwell FRI Sgt Ryker: Simon Harrison FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Arnold Reynolds: Neil Grainger FRI Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian FRI Martha: Chelsea Halfpenny FRI Teddy: Shaun Mason FRI Woman Worker: Hannah Genesius FRI Writer: Melissa Murray FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 11:00 Tessa Hadley - Married Love b01dw5lw (Listen) FRI Pretending FRI Bittersweet recollections of a childhood friendship founded FRI on pretending games. Short story read by Saskia Wickham. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00770n6 (Listen) FRI Catherine Shepherd - Cats and Monkeys FRI By Catherine Shepherd. FRI Eve has come to India following the recent death of her FRI parents. While everyone around her is seeking enlightenment, FRI she is only concerned with obtaining a legal document which FRI will allow probate on her parents' estate to be granted. FRI Vivanti ...... Anna Carteret FRI Eve ...... Madelaine Brolly FRI Piturbaba ...... Jack Shepherd FRI Xavier ...... Ben Lewis FRI Mette ...... Catherine Shepherd FRI Daniel ...... Paddy Anderson FRI Directed by Lu Kemp. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k4v4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jln0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008y4fg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Young, Gifted and Black b00scjx2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007k0t1 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Doctor Fitzpiers and Grace Melbury's paths cross on FRI Midsummer's Eve in Little Hintock. Read by Juliet Stevenson. FRI FRI 14:15 The Making of Music b007njhw (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Birth of Opera FRI James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the FRI development of classical music. Opera was invented by a FRI group of Italian intellectuals called the Camerata in FRI Florence around 1600. They stumbled across something FRI extraordinary - why not tell a story in music? It took off FRI and soon theatres were springing up all over Italy - forty FRI in Venice alone. FRI Reader Benedict Cumberbatch FRI Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey and Lucy Lunt. FRI BBC Birmingham. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqrf (Listen) FRI The Song House, Episode 5 FRI An adaptation of Trezza Azzopardi's new novel, a compelling FRI psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret FRI in her past. FRI Kenneth has fallen in love with a woman thirty years FRI younger, Maggie,who'd been working for him as a live-in FRI secretary. As for Maggie, she has motives of her own - she's FRI been trying to investigate a traumatic incident in her FRI childhood, when she was abducted by Kenneth's son, William. FRI So far, Kenneth doesn't know what really happened; and FRI William doesn't know who Maggie really is. But as the river FRI floods, all three make their way to the safety of the big FRI house - and a final confrontation. FRI Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for FRI numerous awards, including the Booker. FRI Cast: FRI MAGGIE.............KAY CURRAM FRI NARRATOR..........SHARON MORGAN FRI KENNETH...........JOHN CASTLE FRI ALISON............CAROLINE HARKER FRI WILLIAM............ MARK MEADOWS FRI RUSTY............ MARILYN LE CONTE FRI Adapted by Elizabeth Burke. Produced and Directed by: Kate FRI McAll. FRI FRI 14:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0179w13 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Now under arrest for espionage in Paris, Mata Hari's fate is FRI in the hands of the Grand Inquisitor. Read by Juliet FRI Stevenson. FRI FRI 15:00 Home Front b052mjzq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons FRI b00lsxh0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 On Baby Street b00drrz9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Lucky Heather b0075rz9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 The Vote Now Show b05s2pbq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq83 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI A menacing assignment awaits student sorcerer Arcos. Peter FRI and Jamie Thomson's fantasy adventure, starring Trevor FRI Peacock. FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs b01bmmpq (Listen) FRI Series 4, Elkie Brooks FRI 1/8 With hit singles with songs like 'Pearl's A Singer', FRI 'Fool if You Think it's Over' and 'Lilac Wine', Elkie Brooks FRI is one of our most successful female artists. FRI As a fifteen year old she entered and won a singing FRI competition which launched her professional career. Elkie's FRI first big break came when she joined the Rock/Jazz fusion FRI band Dada and then she joined Robert Palmer in the Rock' n FRI Roll band Vinegar Joe in the early 1970's. She was the The FRI Melody Maker face of 1973 FRI Pearl's a Singer was a million seller for her in 1977 and FRI several hit singles followed. FRI Talking to Phil Cunningham she reveals her love of FRI paragliding, the important part Humphrey Lyttleton played in FRI her life and how she shared a stage with The Beatles. FRI Still singing and touring Elkie has her own band and will be FRI performing in Scotland in February. FRI Phil Cunningham opens the programme with Pearl's a Singer FRI and Elkie goes on to pick these 5 songs. FRI Mavis Staples - Down in Mississippi FRI Buddy Guy - 74 Years Young FRI Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years FRI Ray Charles - Drown In My Own Tears FRI Bad Company - Seagull FRI Phil closes the programme with the track Purple Rain from FRI her 2010 album Powerless. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k4v4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jln0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008y4fg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Young, Gifted and Black b00scjx2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Tessa Hadley - Married Love b01dw5lw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00770n6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Vote Now Show b05s2pbq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Victor Lewis-Smith b05v3fyw (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Learn to be a DJ, the real Antiques Roadshow and is Marcel FRI Proust in? The darkly comic world of Victor Lewis-Smith. FRI Award-winning controversial comedy surfaced on BBC Radio 1 FRI in 1990 in the shape of Victor Lewis-Smith. The writer and FRI producer took a comedy cudgel to the self-satisfied, FRI mid-Atlantic style of the very network he was appearing on - FRI with hoax phone calls, sketches, plus comic takedowns of FRI high profile celebs. It's all deliciously sandwiched between FRI the original jangly Radio 1 jingles made by JAM Creative FRI Productions in Dallas, USA. FRI Winner of the British Comedy Awards 1990 for Best Radio FRI Comedy. FRI After making 12 late night programmes for Radio 1, Victor FRI took aim at TV in 1993 with BBC TWO's Inside Victor Lewis FRI Smith, before sparking another stir on Channel 4 in 1998 FRI with TV Offal. FRI Written by Victor Lewis Smith and Paul Sparks FRI Produced by Victor Lewis Smith FRI First heard on BBC Radio 1 in April 1990. FRI FRI 23:00 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive b007wvrn (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI The comedy guru's radio drop-in centre this week examines FRI croquet and nothing else. With Clive Anderson. From June FRI 2006. FRI FRI 23:30 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford b0076f4x (Listen) FRI Series 2, A View from the Stanza FRI Ralphie advises his student Bob that comedy is the 'foot and FRI mouth' of poetry. By James Quinn with Tony Melody. From May FRI 2003. FRI FRI 23:45 I, Regress b019rqcx (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 FRI A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an FRI unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees FRI Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff FRI Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking FRI unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through FRI their subconscious. FRI Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client FRI who has come to him for a different problem (quitting FRI smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under FRI hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various FRI situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played FRI out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) FRI like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is FRI disturbing. FRI Episode 4: Ray Highknock (Alex Lowe) goes to Dr Matt Berry FRI hoping that his experimental regressive hynotherapy will FRI cure his smoking addiction. The result is a series of FRI strange encounters that all seem strangely familiar... FRI The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT FRI Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall FRI (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes FRI Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's FRI Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter FRI Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, FRI and The Royal Exchange). FRI A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone FRI else's head! FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI
09 May, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 09/05/2015 - 15/05/2015
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