16 May, 2015

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16/05/2015 - 22/05/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 16 MAY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq83 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT A menacing assignment awaits student sorcerer Arcos. Peter SAT and Jamie Thomson's fantasy adventure, starring Trevor SAT Peacock. SAT SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs b01bmmpq (Listen) SAT Series 4, Elkie Brooks SAT With hit singles with songs like 'Pearl's A Singer', 'Fool SAT if You Think it's Over' and 'Lilac Wine', Elkie Brooks is SAT one of our most successful female artists. SAT As a fifteen year old she entered and won a singing SAT competition which launched her professional career. Elkie's SAT first big break came when she joined the Rock/Jazz fusion SAT band Dada and then she joined Robert Palmer in the Rock' n SAT Roll band Vinegar Joe in the early 1970's. She was the The SAT Melody Maker face of 1973 SAT Pearl's a Singer was a million seller for her in 1977 and SAT several hit singles followed. SAT Talking to Phil Cunningham she reveals her love of SAT paragliding, the important part Humphrey Lyttleton played in SAT her life and how she shared a stage with The Beatles. SAT Still singing and touring Elkie has her own band and will be SAT performing in Scotland in February. SAT Phil Cunningham opens the programme with Pearl's a Singer SAT and Elkie goes on to pick these 5 songs. SAT Mavis Staples - Down in Mississippi SAT Buddy Guy - 74 Years Young SAT Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years SAT Ray Charles - Drown In My Own Tears SAT Bad Company - Seagull SAT Phil closes the programme with the track Purple Rain from SAT her 2010 album Powerless. SAT SAT 01:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders b008y4fg (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 6 SAT Exams loom large. Simon Harrison delves into his Health and SAT Safety background for one final ruse. Can he unveil the SAT killer? SAT Mark Tavener's comedy thriller stars Geoffrey Palmer as SAT Gilbert, Samuel West as Simon and Rebecca Front as Patricia. SAT Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger SAT Producer: Dawn Ellis SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2005. SAT SAT 01:30 Young, Gifted and Black b00scjx2 (Listen) SAT On the eightieth anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry's birth, SAT Adjoa Andoh reflects on the brief but highly influential SAT career of the African American playwright and social SAT activist. SAT In 1959, Hansberry became the first black woman to have a SAT play produced on Broadway and the youngest recipient of the SAT New York Drama Critics Circle Award. An eloquent and SAT impassioned orator for civil rights, Lorraine Hansberry SAT quickly became one of the most famous women in the country. SAT Friend to the likes of Paul Robeson, James Baldwin and Nina SAT Simone, who composed 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' in her SAT honour, Hansberry's prescient speeches and artfully SAT constructed drama played a key role in the ongoing civil SAT rights struggle. SAT In this programme we hear from her sister Mamie Hansberry, SAT poet and playwright Jackie Kay, Chicago Southside historian SAT Timuel Black and theatre directors Michael Buffong and SAT Paulette Randall. SAT Producer: Eleanor McDowall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007k0t1 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Doctor Fitzpiers and Grace Melbury's paths cross on SAT Midsummer's Eve in Little Hintock. Read by Juliet Stevenson. SAT SAT 02:15 The Making of Music b007njhw (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Birth of Opera SAT James Naughtie discovers how history has shaped the SAT development of classical music. Opera was invented by a SAT group of Italian intellectuals called the Camerata in SAT Florence around 1600. They stumbled across something SAT extraordinary - why not tell a story in music? It took off SAT and soon theatres were springing up all over Italy - forty SAT in Venice alone. SAT Reader Benedict Cumberbatch SAT Produced by Rosie Boulton, Sara Conkey and Lucy Lunt. SAT BBC Birmingham. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00swqrf (Listen) SAT Trezza Azzopardi - The Song House, Episode 5 SAT An adaptation of Trezza Azzopardi's new novel, a compelling SAT psychological thriller involving a young woman with a secret SAT in her past. SAT Kenneth has fallen in love with a woman thirty years SAT younger, Maggie,who'd been working for him as a live-in SAT secretary. As for Maggie, she has motives of her own - she's SAT been trying to investigate a traumatic incident in her SAT childhood, when she was abducted by Kenneth's son, William. SAT So far, Kenneth doesn't know what really happened; and SAT William doesn't know who Maggie really is. But as the river SAT floods, all three make their way to the safety of the big SAT house - and a final confrontation. SAT Trezza Azzopardi's novels have been short-listed for SAT numerous awards, including the Booker. SAT Cast: SAT MAGGIE.............KAY CURRAM SAT NARRATOR..........SHARON MORGAN SAT KENNETH...........JOHN CASTLE SAT ALISON............CAROLINE HARKER SAT WILLIAM............ MARK MEADOWS SAT RUSTY............ MARILYN LE CONTE SAT Adapted by Elizabeth Burke. Produced and Directed by: Kate SAT McAll. SAT SAT 02:45 Femme Fatale: A Biography of Mata Hari b0179w13 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Now under arrest for espionage in Paris, Mata Hari's fate is SAT in the hands of the Grand Inquisitor. Read by Juliet SAT Stevenson. SAT SAT 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b052mjzq (Listen) SAT 16-20 February 1915 SAT The country may be at war, and the factories at peak SAT production, but there's time for romance in industrial SAT Tynemouth. SAT Written by Melissa Murray SAT Story-led by Shaun McKenna SAT Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews SAT Music: Matthew Strachan SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SAT Credits SAT Baxter: Kris Deedigan SAT Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner SAT Maud Burnett: Carolyn Pickles SAT Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart SAT Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman SAT Alan Lowther: David Seddon SAT Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf SAT Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley SAT Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell SAT Mhairi Marchant: Jane Slavin SAT Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones SAT Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready SAT Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham SAT Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron SAT Joyce O'Leary: Tracy Whitwell SAT Sgt Ryker: Simon Harrison SAT Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan SAT Arnold Reynolds: Neil Grainger SAT Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield SAT Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone SAT Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian SAT Martha: Chelsea Halfpenny SAT Teddy: Shaun Mason SAT Woman Worker: Hannah Genesius SAT Writer: Melissa Murray SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT SAT 04:00 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons SAT b00lsxh0 (Listen) SAT Bob Dylan SAT The multi award winning National Theatre of Brent Artistic SAT Director Desmond Olivier Dingle and the entire acting SAT company (Raymond Box) return, celebrating the living artists SAT deemed by Desmond to be Iconic Icons. SAT The first iconic icon is the legendary singer, songwriter SAT and artist Bob Dylan. Desmond and Raymond will trace his SAT path from his humble beginnings as Robert Zimmerman in SAT Hibbin, Minnesota, through journeying to bohemian New York, SAT finding his inner voice and becoming the icon that is Bob SAT Dylan. SAT Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by John SAT Ramm, and performed by Patrick and John in front of an SAT audience at the Bush Hall in London. SAT Desmond Olivier Dingle ..... Patrick Barlow SAT Raymond Box ..... John Ramm SAT Producer: Liz Anstee SAT A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:30 On Baby Street b00drrz9 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT Three expectant mothers prepare for their arrivals in SAT different ways. Stars Kathy Burke and Keith Allen. From SAT January 1996. SAT SAT 05:00 Lucky Heather b0075rz9 (Listen) SAT Wild Bunch SAT Heather helps a neighbour who is being harassed on the SAT estate and also tries line dancing. From February 2000. SAT SAT 05:30 The Vote Now Show b05s2pbq (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT A series of election specials from the Now Show team. Steve SAT Punt and Hugh Dennis host a series of six shows spread SAT across four weeks in the lead up to the General Election. SAT With the help of Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn, Liam SAT Williams and special guest Danny Finklestein, they'll give SAT their own unique take on the election news and shenanigans. 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 Panellist: Jon Holmes SAT Panellist: Laura Shavin SAT Panellist: Mitch Benn SAT Panellist: Liam Williams SAT Panellist: Danny Finkelstein SAT Producer: Alexandra Smith SAT Producer: Joe Nunnery SAT Producer: Rachel Wheeley SAT Performer: Holly Walsh SAT Performer: John Finnemore SAT Performer: Pippa Evans SAT Performer: Isabel Hardman SAT Executive Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith SAT SAT 06:00 Martyn Wade - Gondal b00cpvsq (Listen) SAT Paralleling Emily Bronte's Haworth life, by reconstructing SAT her fantasy world which led to Wuthering Heights. Stars SAT Diana Quick. SAT SAT 07:30 Fabulous Flops b012wz90 (Listen) SAT Fabulous Flops, Episode 4 SAT Paul Roseby recalls doomed musicals about bombing Nagasaki, SAT a travelling executioner and Leonardo da Vinci. With Don SAT Black. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00767cc (Listen) SAT Don't Write, Make a Record SAT 4 Extra Debut. Alan Dein explores how people recorded their SAT own voices on gramophone records before the age of audio SAT cassette. From April 2002. SAT SAT 09:00 Braden Back on the Beat b05vj0c8 (Listen) SAT Oldie magazine founder Richard Ingrams presents a SAT retrospective to reintroduce the pioneering TV and radio SAT superstar Bernard Braden to the airwaves after far too long SAT an absence. This three-hour special has been compiled SAT through scouring the BBC Sound Archive and liaising with SAT Bernard Braden's family and long-term friend Gillian Best. SAT For the first time since their original broadcast the SAT retrospective includes Leave Your Name And Number [1950] and SAT Bedtime With Braden [1951]. These shows attracted burgeoning SAT writing talents such as Frank Muir & Denis Norden and Bob SAT Monkhouse, as well as stars such as Pearl Carr and Ronald SAT Fletcher. SAT Produced by Mik Wilkojc. SAT SAT 11:30 As Time Goes By b007k7dc (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT Will Lionel and Jean's trip to Paris go as planned? Adapted SAT from TV with Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. From January SAT 1998. SAT SAT 12:00 Yes Minister b007jzxt (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Compassionate Society SAT Jim learns from his chauffeur that the new St Edwards SAT Hospital has 300 administrators, cooks and cleaners, but no SAT doctors, nurses or patients. How can he cure it? As usual SAT the Minister doesn't know his ACAS from his NALGO. SAT Starring Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker, Nigel Hawthorne as SAT Sir Humphrey Appleby and Derek Fowldes as Bernard. Moira SAT Stuart plays herself. SAT Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV SAT between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the SAT hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service SAT underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby SAT and obsequious Bernard. SAT Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin. SAT First broadcast on Radio 4 in 1984. SAT SAT 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00bwshp (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 1 SAT John Cleese's magic tricks, and a talking baboon called SAT Dermot. Songs and sketches with Graeme Garden. From April SAT 1967. SAT SAT 13:00 Lunch b05vj34k (Listen) SAT Series 3 Omnibus SAT Stephen Mangan and Claire Skinner star in Marcy Kahan's SAT award-winning comedy about old flatmates Bill and Bella who SAT meet once a month for lunch and talk about everything. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b05vj4w2 (Listen) SAT Gareth Malone SAT 4 Extra Debut. Choirmaster Gareth Malone chooses 'Is My Team SAT Ploughing' by George Butterworth, and 'Dance to Your Daddy' SAT by Nancy Kerr. SAT SAT 14:15 Daunt and Dervish b007jwtk (Listen) SAT Series 1, After the Ball is Over SAT Feeling useless after the Second World War, two women set up SAT their own detective agency. Stars Anna Massey and Imelda SAT Staunton. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00767cc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Martyn Wade - Gondal b00cpvsq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Fabulous Flops b012wz90 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b05vjdd4 (Listen) SAT Destination Nerva SAT After saying their goodbyes to Professor Litefoot and Henry SAT Gordon Jago, the Doctor and Leela respond to an alien SAT distress call beamed direct from Victorian England. It's the SAT beginning of a journey that will take them to the newly SAT built Space Dock Nerva... where a long overdue homecoming is SAT expected. A homecoming that could bring about the end of the SAT human race. SAT Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor, with his ancient warrior SAT companion, Leela, played by Louise Jameson. SAT Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs. SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 19:00 Braden Back on the Beat b05vj0c8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 21:30 As Time Goes By b007k7dc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] SAT SAT 22:00 4 Extra Stands Up b03zhyvw (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Stands Up, Episode 6 SAT Kerry Godliman introduces a selection of stand up comedians SAT recorded live at The Pleasance Theatre in Islington, London SAT in early 2014. SAT David Morgan fascinates in the surprising ways couples have SAT met, whilst Rhys Mathewson struggles with making a good SAT first impression. Michael Fabri gives us an insight into SAT some of the troubles of having dyslexia and Matt Winning SAT tells niche jokes and reminisces of his time working for SAT Robert Mugabe. SAT Plus an insight to the confusing workings of Terry SAT Alderton's mind and Rachel Parris sings away her troubles. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Dabster Productions. SAT SAT 23:00 The Simon Day Show b01kbld1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Brian Pern 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 washed up rocker, Brian Pern the Mallard SAT Theatre as he's interviewed on stage by pretend 6Music SAT journalist, Ben (Rhys Thomas). SAT Cast list: SAT Brian Pern ..... Simon Day SAT Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter SAT Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks SAT Ron Bone / Wozak ..... Simon Greenall SAT Ben ... Rhys Thomas SAT Written by Simon Day with additional material from Rhy SAT Thomas and Felix Dexter SAT Original music arranged by Steve Burge SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show b01fhswh (Listen) SAT Series 2, Money SAT The award-winning comic cracks wise on the cost of living SAT and luxury. With Laurence Howarth and Daisy Haggard. From SAT August 2009. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 MAY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b05vjdd4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Lunch b05vj34k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b05vj4w2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Daunt and Dervish b007jwtk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b00767cc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Martyn Wade - Gondal b00cpvsq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Fabulous Flops b012wz90 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 The Song House Omnibus b05vjgft (Listen) SUN An older man wants a musical ghostwriter. A young woman has SUN a dark secret. Trezza Azzopardi's compelling psychological SUN thriller. SUN SUN 07:15 The Old Road b0075qyf (Listen) SUN On Foot through the Surrey Hills SUN Patrick Muirhead retraces writer Hilaire Belloc's 1899 SUN journey along the Pilgrims' Way, through the Surrey Hills. SUN From December 1999. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017pt8w (Listen) SUN Series 3, Car Boot 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 Ray's a Laugh b007jxbb (Listen) SUN From 11/10/1949 SUN Ted is 'gonged' and argues with Kitty, and reporter George SUN blunders again. Stars Ted Ray and Peter Sellers. From SUN October 1949. SUN SUN 08:30 Life With the Lyons b0138xvx (Listen) SUN Back in the Autumn SUN The family are planning their summer holiday, but will it be SUN plain sailing? Stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon. From May SUN 1954. SUN SUN 09:00 Peter Moore - The Weather Experiment b05vjj7r (Listen) SUN Peter Moore's account of the quest to understand the SUN atmosphere, from storms to creating forecasts. Read by Tim SUN McMullan. Omnibus. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b05vjj7t (Listen) SUN Lulu SUN 4 Extra Debut. Singer Lulu chooses 'Night Time Is the Right SUN Time' by Ray Charles and 'Uptown Funk' by Mark Ronson and SUN Bruno Mars. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05vjjwn (Listen) SUN Eurovision at 60, Sir Terry Wogan SUN 4 Extra Debut. After Roy Plomley and Sue Lawley, Sir Terry SUN shares his third set of castaway choices with Kirsty Young. SUN From January 2012. SUN SUN 11:00 An Hour With... b05vjk1w (Listen) SUN Ranulph Fiennes SUN Sir Ranulph Fiennes has been described by the Guinness Book SUN of Records as 'the world's greatest living explorer'. In his SUN inspirational one-man show Sir Ranulph talks about his life SUN and his career as a member of the SAS and as an adventurer. SUN Recorded on tour in the summer of 2004, Sir Ranulph enthrals SUN his theatre audience with tales of the astonishing feats of SUN physical and mental endurance he has experienced on dozens SUN of expeditions such as the first hovercraft journey up the SUN River Nile and the first polar circumnavigation of the SUN Earth. SUN He also reveals how he finally discovered the legendary Lost SUN City of Ubar after searching for 26 years. SUN SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh b007jxbb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Life With the Lyons b0138xvx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 The Song House Omnibus b05vjgft (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 The Old Road b0075qyf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Giant Ladies That Changed the World - Omnibus SUN b014qt9q (Listen) SUN The National Theatre of Brent, aka Desmond Olivier Dingle SUN and Raymond Box, present the entire epic struggle of the SUN Suffragettes, or the Giant Ladies as they were also known. SUN SUN 15:45 Afternoon Reading b011bz30 (Listen) SUN The Pocket AA Milne, High Jinks at Happy-Thought Hall SUN A hundred years ago, A.A. Milne was honing his writing SUN skills as Assistant Editor of Punch with his regular SUN humorous columns and essays. Perfect gems of the form, his SUN stories not only delight in the spirit of the age, they also SUN transcend the years with their insights. SUN Parodying the country-house weekend, with its uncomfortable SUN joys of evening games such as "Definitions", "The Complete SUN Kitchen" and "High Jinks at Happy-Thought Hall", Milne SUN captures the absurdity and vacuousness of characters in SUN transition from idle youth to the tedium of adulthood. SUN Of course, no country house weekend would have been complete SUN without "the little play for amateurs", perfectly formed SUN examples of which Milne supplies in read-aloud form. SUN He also shares his experience of being out of his depth in SUN the company of those more suited to society gatherings, in SUN the form of survival hints and tips. One such is to become SUN "an Authority" on something, anything, even if you know SUN nothing - it livens things up. SUN Milne's stories might have a frivolous veneer, but each one SUN ends with his customary twinkle in the eye, having given us SUN more to think about than we imagined: "...But if you mix in SUN the right society, and only see the wrong people once, it is SUN really quite easy to be an authority on birds --- or, I SUN imagine, on anything else." SUN When he re-published this collection of his humorous stories SUN much later in his career, he observed that for years his SUN younger self was "a model to which I was failing to live SUN up... in fact he became, as one's past is bound to become, SUN both a rival and a millstone." His talent for comic SUN observation that was to become evident in his tales of SUN Winnie-the-Pooh is obvious in these essays. SUN As he wrote himself by way of introduction: SUN "This little book contains the best of what my rival was SUN writing thirty years ago. I contemplate him now with SUN detachment. I have grown to appreciate his quality. So SUN impartial am I become, that I am torn between a desire to SUN tell him how very, very good he is, and a desire to re-write SUN his book for him. But I shall do neither, leaving him to SUN speak for himself." SUN Read by Ian McNeice SUN Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 The Final Twist b007jsp8 (Listen) SUN A world famous actor manager is about to star in his SUN greatest role - his own murder play. SUN Comedy thriller written by Ken Whitmore and Alfred Bradley. SUN Starring Donald Sinden as Sir Merlin Foster, Amanda Waring SUN as Eden Dundee, Michael Troughton as Charlie Nicholason and SUN John Hartley as Morten Rifles. SUN Directed by Enyd Williams. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017pt8w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Afternoon Drama b015zm9l (Listen) SUN All the Dark Corners, The Desk SUN All the Dark Corners: The Desk by Andrew Readman SUN The first in our chilling series of three plays. Davis Finch SUN is a hack TV writer with aspirations to write a novel. In SUN order to be a real writer he feels he needs a proper desk. SUN The one he buys changes his life. He becomes a success - but SUN at what price? A spooky psychological thriller. SUN Producer/Director Gary Brown SUN Davis Finch covets a desk he has seen in an antique shop. He SUN feels it will somehow magically help him write his novel. SUN Make him complete. He gets sacked for his TV hack work and SUN sets to write his novel at the new desk. Then he finds a SUN secret drawer... SUN Credits SUN Actor: Graeme Hawley SUN Actor: Tim McInnerny SUN Actor: Karen West SUN Actor: Greg Wood SUN Actor: Melissa Jane Sinden SUN Actor: Russell Richardson SUN Director: Gary Brown SUN Producer: Gary Brown SUN Writer: Andrew Readman SUN SUN 18:45 Afternoon Reading b0137xd4 (Listen) SUN Summer Ghosts, All the Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends SUN "Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the SUN auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to SUN die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. SUN Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose deaths SUN were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They SUN were evil while alive..." SUN In this series of commissioned stories, the idea is to SUN present ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of SUN day. Will something 'unexplained' be as scary in a light SUN that is... well, reliable to the eye! SUN 1. All The Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends by Sophie SUN Hannah. SUN Mel makes a friend at the school gates and learns about the SUN different types of ghosts in the world. Then the theories SUN are tested out... SUN Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 19:00 An Hour With... b05vjk1w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Peter Moore - The Weather Experiment b05vjj7r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b05vjj7t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05vjjwn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017pt8w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Night Class b00769ph (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN Johnny Vegas is late on the day of reckoning for his student SUN potters as the examiner grades their unorthodox work. From SUN September 2002. SUN SUN 23:00 All the World's a Globe b007k44p (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN From Egypt to origami, the National Theatre of Brent SUN presents the definitive history of Earth. Stars Patrick SUN Barlow. From May 1990. SUN SUN 23:15 This Is Craig Brown b00dz9jn (Listen) SUN Celebrity SUN Get all the gossip on the Beckhams and Daffy Duck. The SUN satirist pokes fun with Barry Norman and Rory Bremner. From SUN March 2004. SUN SUN 23:30 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea b007k1n1 (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Poison Pen Letters SUN The elderly Scotsmen investigate who's been snitching with SUN green ink. Stars Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. From March SUN 2004. SUN SUN 23:45 One b00771mt (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 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 18 MAY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Afternoon Drama b015zm9l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 Afternoon Reading b0137xd4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Song House Omnibus b05vjgft (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 The Old Road b0075qyf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Giant Ladies That Changed the World - Omnibus MON b014qt9q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Afternoon Reading b011bz30 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 The Final Twist b007jsp8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b017pt8w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Dick Francis b007jpxx (Listen) MON Bolt, Threats and Menaces MON Kit Fielding, champion jockey is engaged to Danielle de MON Brescou the niece of his employer Princess Casilia. The MON Princess recruits Kit to fend off Henri de Brescou, a MON dangerous cousin making threats and trying to involve her in MON the armaments business. But Kit has problems of his own. MON Starring Sian Phillips as Princess Casilia, Eric Allan as MON Kit Fielding, John Bull as Henri de Brescou and Bill Wallis MON as Allardeck. MON Author Dick Francis is acclaimed as one of the greatest MON thriller writers in the world. Dramatised by John Ashe. MON Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill. MON MON 06:30 Ladies of Leisure b00k4gtg (Listen) MON Felicity Finch travels to Saudi Arabia to find out about a MON controversial women-only hotel. With its own bell-women and MON female management team, the Luthan Hotel aims to take MON advantage of a new rule allowing women in Saudi Arabia to MON stay in hotels without a male chaperone. MON Felicity meets some of the staff and guests to hear about MON their lives and experiences. Some people see the hotel as a MON sign of progress, but others say that it simply reinforces MON gender segregation in a nation where women are not even MON allowed to drive. MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b00fvpdt (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 4 MON The sketch show about modern life, with people who've lived MON a bit of it. Stars Eleanor Bron and Clive Swift. From MON September 2001. MON MON 07:30 Dilemma b05tkvkn (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts MON the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel to see MON if she can wreck their moral rectitude. This week, it's the MON turn of comedian Dave Gorman, actor and writer Jessica MON Hynes, poet and playwright Ian McMillan, and musician, MON writer and stand-up (and devisor of Dilemma) Danielle Ward. MON As well as each guest defending something utterly MON indefensible. they also face moral problems related to MON fasting children and West End musicals. Episode six 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: Dave Gorman MON Panellist: Jessica Hynes MON Panellist: Ian McMillan MON Panellist: Danielle Ward MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007nf83 (Listen) MON Series 1, The Menace From the Deep MON With the platoon marooned at the end of Walmington pier, MON Jones gets a shock. Adapted from TV with Clive Dunn. From MON May 1974. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b007k7f9 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON Lionel and Jean agree to move in together, but in to which MON house? MON Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. MON With Moira Brooker as Judith and Philip Bretherton as MON Alistair. MON A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series two of his MON popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel MON have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 MON years. MON After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer MON Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter MON he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had MON lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his MON return to England. MON Producer: Martin Fisher MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1998. MON MON 09:00 Booked b007544j (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with Mark Thomas, MON Roger McGough, Dillie Keane and Miles Kington. From November MON 1995. MON MON 09:30 Says on the Tin b00h62pp (Listen) MON Face Cream MON Comedy by Christopher William Hill. MON Eliott and Esther are on the brink of admitting their MON attraction when a young actress with a father fixation fixes MON on Eliott. MON Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon MON Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond MON Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood MON Pippa Walker ...... Manjeet Mann MON Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey MON Baz ...... Inam Mirza MON Max ...... Robert Lonsdale MON Rutter ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Angelique ...... Donnla Hughes MON Other parts played by Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, Jonathan MON Tafler and Gunnar Cauthery. MON MON 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b053c3q7 (Listen) MON 23-27 February 1915 MON Lunatic asylums were being commandeered by the government MON for use as military hospitals and Robert's careful MON equilibrium is shaken. MON Written by Melissa Murray MON Story-led by Shaun McKenna MON Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. MON Credits MON Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner MON Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart MON Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont MON Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman MON Alan Lowther: David Seddon MON Gladys Lowther: Elaine Claxton MON Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf MON Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley MON Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell MON Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell MON Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille MON Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham MON Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom MON Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready MON Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron MON Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley MON Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips MON Arnold Reynolds: Neil Grainger MON Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan MON Dr Stratham: Sam Dale MON Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott MON Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone MON Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian MON Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor MON Andrew Williams: Neil Grainger MON Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield MON Beth: Hannah Wood MON Telegram: Shaun Mason MON Workman: Gerard McDermott MON Martha: Chelsea Halfpenny MON Clyde: Tom Mannion MON Landlord: Neil Grainger MON Man: Simon Harrison MON Writer: Melissa Murray MON Director: Lucy Collingwood MON MON 11:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y0qx0 (Listen) MON Fewer Things MON A father and son save some chicks from choking. But who will MON save the boy? MON A selection of stories from Adam Marek's dark, often quirky MON collections read by Carl Prekopp.. MON Adam Marek is the award-winning writer of two short story MON collections - Instruction Manual For Swallowing and The MON Stone Thrower. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story MON Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday MON Times EFG Short Story Award. His stories have appeared in MON many magazines, including Prospect and The Sunday Times MON Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry and MON Biopunk and The Best British Short Stories 2011. MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. MON MON 11:15 David Pownall - Assassins b0075hlr (Listen) MON The Virgin Knife MON 4 Extra Debut. On 13 July 1793, why did Charlotte Corday MON travel to Paris with the sole aim of killing Jean-Paul MON Marat? Stars Samantha Bond. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007nf83 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b007k7f9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Dick Francis b007jpxx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Ladies of Leisure b00k4gtg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007k0wp (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Newlywed Grace returns to Little Hintock with Doctor MON Fitzpiers, but not to wedded bliss. Read by Juliet MON Stevenson. MON MON 14:15 The Making of Music b007nt6t (Listen) MON Series 1, The Sun King MON James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical MON influences that affected the course of classical music. MON 11/30. The Sun King MON Jean-Baptiste Lully, despite his reputation as a notorious MON libertine, became the composer to Louis XIV. His music, used MON in extravagant court dances and spectacles, helped to MON establish the Sun King's image as a divine monarch. MON Read by Laurence Fox and Benedict Cumberbatch. MON MON 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmkt (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Shunned on leaving jail, Jean Valjean is tempted back into MON crime. Dramatisation of Victor Hugo's epic novel with Joss MON Ackland. MON MON 14:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zm2ny (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The author and journalist embarks on 'One Man's Struggle MON with the Orchestra's Most Difficult Instrument.' Read by MON Nicholas Boulton. MON MON 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b053c3q7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Booked b007544j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Says on the Tin b00h62pp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b00fvpdt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Dilemma b05tkvkn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007v25z (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Novice sorcerer Arcos is appalled by Kaddah's behaviour. MON Alviza is attacked mentally. Stars Trevor Peacock and MON Francis Thomson. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075n8f (Listen) MON Baroness Blackstone and Julian Le Grand MON Sarah LeFanu and her guests, Minister for Education and MON Employment Baroness Blackstone (1997-2001) and lecturer and MON broadcaster Julian Le Grand, discuss three favourite MON paperbacks by JM Coetzee, Patrick O'Brian and Jane Gardam. MON From 1999. MON Waiting for the Barbarians by JM Coetzee MON Publisher: Vintage MON Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian MON Publisher: HarperCollins MON Going into a Dark House - by Jane Gardam MON Publisher: Abacus. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007nf83 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b007k7f9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Dick Francis b007jpxx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Ladies of Leisure b00k4gtg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y0qx0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 David Pownall - Assassins b0075hlr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Dilemma b05tkvkn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b0075sln (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 6 MON The Luton laureate muses on school puddings and asks his MON audience 'how long is your dog?' From March 2000. MON MON 22:45 The Problem With Adam Bloom b007rgld (Listen) MON Series 1, Cutting Corners MON The frugal comedian features an excerpt from his stand-up MON show at the Edinburgh Festival. With Rob Rouse. From MON September 2003. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b05vnwgv (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 1 MON Made for 4 Extra. A satirical review of the week's news MON chaired by Sandi Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy MON Hardy and guests Susan Calman, Samira Ahmed and Elis James. MON MON 23:45 Crème de la Crime b007jr0x (Listen) MON Series 1, 20,000 Leaks Under the Sea MON Michael Feydeau and David Pershore unravel a case of wartime MON spying skullduggery. Stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From MON September 2001. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 MAY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007v25z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075n8f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Dick Francis b007jpxx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Ladies of Leisure b00k4gtg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007k0wp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Making of Music b007nt6t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmkt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zm2ny (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b053c3q7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Booked b007544j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Says on the Tin b00h62pp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b00fvpdt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Dilemma b05tkvkn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Dick Francis b007jpyf (Listen) TUE Bolt, Horses Begin to Die TUE Henri de Brescou, bent upon obtaining authority from the TUE French Government to make plastic guns, threatens Roland, TUE Princess Casilia's frail and elderly husband. TUE Starring Sian Phillips as Princess Casilia, Eric Allan as TUE Kit Fielding, John Bull as Henri de Brescou and Bill Wallis TUE as Allardeck. TUE Author Dick Francis is acclaimed as one of the greatest TUE thriller writers in the world. Dramatised by John Ashe. TUE Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill. TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. TUE TUE 06:30 That's No Job for an Asian b00fn3fp (Listen) TUE Yasmeen Khan explores the current state of British Asian TUE comedy and asks whether the job of being a comedian has TUE become an acceptable alternative to the more traditional TUE professions of doctor, lawyer and accountant. She hears the TUE views of both new and veteran comedians, including Sanjeev TUE Bhaskar, Paul Sinha, Sajeela Kershi and Ahir Shah. TUE TUE 07:00 Dry Slopes b00lvl1l (Listen) TUE Families and How to Conceive Them TUE Friendless, jobless Angus breaks free from his TUE sheltered-life shackles to go on a date. Starring Nick Ball. TUE From May 1995. TUE TUE 07:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05tl3jt (Listen) TUE Episode 2 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 second of these two shows was recorded in front of an TUE audience in Lemn's adopted home of London. But he is still TUE perhaps more closely associated with Manchester. He arrived TUE there at the age of 18 with a birth certificate, a fist full TUE of poems and a mouth. It was about to become Madchester. He TUE grew into the talented adopted son of a wonderful, TUE dysfunctional family and thrived. His poems have become TUE landmarks throughout the city. He's tattooed its body. And TUE then he left. He just left. TUE Talking to Lemn about his journey are Mancunian broadcaster TUE Terry Christian, and artistic director of the Southbank TUE Centre, Jude Kelly. 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 b00hzphb (Listen) TUE Series 1, Barry Took Tribute TUE Kenneth Horne, Master Spy battles for Britain - and Bona TUE Homes with Julian and 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 b05vrf9c (Listen) TUE From 17/08/1975 TUE Doddy investigates the world of trading and money, as only TUE he can. With Miriam Margoyles and Chris Emmett. From August TUE 1975. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b05vnwgv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Crème de la Crime b007jr0x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b0544072 (Listen) TUE 2-6 March 1915 TUE A hundred years ago this week, Germany declared a submarine TUE blockage of Great Britain, and - for reasons of their own - TUE our characters begin to feel hemmed in. TUE Written by Richard Monks TUE Story-led by Shaun McKenna TUE Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE Credits TUE Josseff al-Assadi: Paul Chahidi TUE Baxter: Kris Deedigan TUE Mrs Baxter: Bettrys Jones TUE Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont TUE Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart TUE Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman TUE Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn TUE Alan Lowther: David Seddon TUE Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf TUE Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley TUE Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell TUE Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell TUE Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready TUE Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham TUE Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones TUE Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom TUE Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron TUE Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips TUE Mr Potter: Sam Dale TUE Amy Robinson: Jane Slavin TUE Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan TUE Mary Threlkeld: Hannah Wood TUE Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone TUE Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian TUE Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook TUE Adam Wilson: Leo Montague TUE Albert Wilson: Harry Myers TUE Stationmaster: Joe Caffrey TUE Writer: Richard Monks TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 11:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y3ylp (Listen) TUE The 40-Litre Monkey TUE A simple pet shop purchase leads to a strange encounter with TUE a shop owner committed to growing super-sized animals. TUE A selection of stories from Adam Marek's dark, often quirky TUE collections read by Carl Prekopp. TUE Adam Marek is the award-winning writer of two short story TUE collections - Instruction Manual For Swallowing and The TUE Stone Thrower. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story TUE Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday TUE Times EFG Short Story Award. His stories have appeared in TUE many magazines, including Prospect and The Sunday Times TUE Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry and TUE Biopunk and The Best British Short Stories 2011. TUE Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. TUE TUE 11:15 David Pownall - Assassins b05vrjr8 (Listen) TUE A Mere Five Thousand Pounds TUE How aggrieved timber merchant John Bellingham shot prime TUE minister Spencer Perceval dead in May 1812. Stars David TUE Horovitch. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00hzphb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05vrf9c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Dick Francis b007jpyf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 That's No Job for an Asian b00fn3fp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx7z (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Grace turns to her former lover Giles, while her husband is TUE devoted elsewhere. Read by Juliet Stevenson. TUE TUE 14:15 The Making of Music b007qczw (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Violin TUE James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical TUE influences that affected the course of classical music. TUE 12/30. The Violin. TUE The design and production of the violin were perfected in TUE Cremona around 1700. The music of Antonio Vivaldi TUE established the instrument's popularity. TUE Read by Laurence Fox. TUE TUE 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmld (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Jean Valjean has broken the terms of his parole, and is on TUE the run. Dramatisation of Victor Hugo's epic novel with Joss TUE Ackland. TUE TUE 14:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zm6g4 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE The scale of the author's ambition dawns on him, so he TUE starts making allies among the cognoscenti. Read by Nicholas TUE Boulton. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b0544072 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Whispers b00c6rnk (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Gyles Brandreth hosts the scandals quiz, with Anthony TUE Holden, Lynne Truss, Lucy Moore and Michelle Brown. From TUE October 2004. TUE TUE 16:30 Such Rotten Luck b01p3l1r (Listen) TUE A Touch of the Whatsits TUE Woodhouse may have to face life alone. Comedy-drama starring TUE Tim Pigott-Smith and Zoe Wanamaker. From September 1989. TUE TUE 17:00 Dry Slopes b00lvl1l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05tl3jt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq8x (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Shaznir calls on the power of the Deadlands, while Arcos TUE meets a strange Brotherhood. Stars Trevor Peacock and Emma TUE Fielding. TUE TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking b05vrnll (Listen) TUE Flora Robson TUE The actress Dame Flora Robson answers questions posed by TUE John Freeman and Philip Hope-Wallace. TUE After she performed a poem at the age of five, Flora was TUE told by her father she'd be "the next Ellen Terry". But the TUE strain of performing caused a breakdown at the age of 12. TUE RADA beckoned - and the actress won fame for her powerful, TUE emotional acting as an adult. Her long career included TUE appearances in 60 films and more than 100 plays. 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 1960. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00hzphb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05vrf9c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Dick Francis b007jpyf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 That's No Job for an Asian b00fn3fp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y3ylp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 David Pownall - Assassins b05vrjr8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05tl3jt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rdzv8 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Jenny Eclair TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites his guest Jenny Eclair to try five TUE things she's never done before including having a bikini TUE wax. 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: Jenny Eclair TUE Producer: Bill Dare. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05wj7w0 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jessica Fostekew TUE chats to Rachel Stubbings. TUE TUE 23:00 Rubbish b00770g2 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Diversity TUE Diversity: Local government officer Martin Christmas wants TUE inner peace, but is feeling held back. Stars Reece Dinsdale. TUE From October 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 Pick Ups b008w3xx (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 TUE A sticky DIY mishap for cabbie Dave, and Mike's first job is TUE with the menacing Jess. Taxi firm sitcom stars John Thomson, TUE Sally Lindsay, Ash Tandon, Phil Rowson. From February 2008. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 2015 WED WED 00:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq8x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Frankly Speaking b05vrnll (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Dick Francis b007jpyf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 That's No Job for an Asian b00fn3fp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx7z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Making of Music b007qczw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmld (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zm6g4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b0544072 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Whispers b00c6rnk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Such Rotten Luck b01p3l1r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Dry Slopes b00lvl1l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Lemn Sissay's Homecoming b05tl3jt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Dick Francis b007jpyx (Listen) WED Bolt, Hostile Intelligence WED Danielle de Brescou is followed and terrified by two men in WED hoods, while two of Princess Casilia's finest racing horses WED are slaughtered with a bolt gun. WED Starring Sian Phillips as Princess Casilia, Eric Allan as WED Kit Fielding, John Bull as Henri de Brescou and Elizabeth WED MacGovern as Danielle de Brescou. WED Author Dick Francis is acclaimed as one of the greatest WED thriller writers in the world. Dramatised by John Ashe. WED Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. WED WED 06:30 Doonesburyland b008md8z (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. BD, Zonker and Duke - an insight into the WED cartoon creations of Gary Trudeau. With Steve Bell and WED Martin Rowson. From January 2008. WED WED 07:00 The Older Woman b039wqbg (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED Roy decides celibacy is the answer. But can he remain true WED to his principles? Stars Martin Clunes. From September 1994. WED WED 07:30 Clare in the Community b03q98yj (Listen) WED Series 9, Away Day Wey Hey WED Episode Three - Away Day Wey Hey WED Clare and the rest of the Sparrowhawk team are forced to WED take part in a team-building away day, much to Clare's WED disapproval. 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 In today's Big WED Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an WED 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 Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Simon: Andrew Wincott WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Student: Alex Tregear WED Young Clare: Alex Tregear WED Jenny: Carolyn Pickles WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b05vrv5r (Listen) WED The Potarneyland Fishing Limit WED Instead of going on leave, the Admiral sends Troutbridge's WED crew on fishery protection. Stars Leslie Phillips. From WED April 1960. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00v3nlg (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 2 WED Celebrating Spring, and 'Champion the Wonder Mouse'. Songs WED and sketches with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From April WED 1967. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b05vrwgw (Listen) WED 1998, Heat 1 from 1998 WED A music quiz chaired by Ned Sherrin with Sue Edwards of WED London, Henry Crocker from the Wirral and Harvey Goodman of WED Nottingham. WED WED 09:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007jv8g (Listen) WED Mum, Will You Shut Up Please Now You're Dead? WED Tony meets wandering corpses and visits a deranged teenage WED sweetheart. Nick Revell's epic saga with Peter Gunn. From WED May 1997. WED WED 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b054tnzn (Listen) WED 9-13 March 1915 WED The Battle of Neuve Chapelle drew to a close while the men WED at Marshalls are spoiling for a fight. WED Written by Richard Monks WED Story-led by Shaun McKenna WED Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. WED Credits WED Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner WED Duncan Chadwick: Mark Stobbart WED Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont WED Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman WED Alan Lowther: David Seddon WED Gladys Lowther: Elaine Claxton WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Robert Lyle: Deka Walmsley WED Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell WED Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell WED Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille WED Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham WED Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom WED Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready WED Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron WED Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley WED Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips WED Arnold Reynolds: Neil Grainger WED Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan WED Dr Stratham: Sam Dale WED Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott WED Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone WED Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian WED Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor WED Andrew Williams: Neil Grainger WED Yevgeny Zamyatin: Simon Scardifield WED Beth: Hannah Wood WED Telegram: Shaun Mason WED Workman: Gerard McDermott WED Martha: Chelsea Halfpenny WED Clyde: Tom Mannion WED Landlord: Neil Grainger WED Man: Simon Harrison WED Writer: Richard Monks WED Director: Lucy Collingwood WED Producer: Lucy Collingwood WED WED 11:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y6v7m (Listen) WED Remember the Bride Who Got Stung? WED A father resorts to drastic measures on a family picnic. WED Carl Prekopp reads a selection of stories from Adam Marek's WED dark and quirky collections. WED Adam Marek is the award-winning writer of two short story WED collections - Instruction Manual For Swallowing and The WED Stone Thrower. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story WED Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday WED Times EFG Short Story Award. His stories have appeared in WED many magazines, including Prospect and The Sunday Times WED Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry and WED Biopunk and The Best British Short Stories 2011. WED Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. WED WED 11:15 David Pownall - Assassins b0075hyg (Listen) WED Sic Semper Tyrannis WED 14 April 1865 at the Ford Theatre, Washington. John Wilkes WED Booth shot President Abraham Lincoln dead. Stars Nathan WED Osgood. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b05vrv5r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00v3nlg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Dick Francis b007jpyx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Doonesburyland b008md8z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx82 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED The injured Doctor Fitzpiers writes to Grace, and hopes are WED raised and dashed. Read by Juliet Stevenson. WED WED 14:15 The Making of Music b007qczy (Listen) WED Series 1, The Puritans WED James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical WED influences that affected the course of classical music. WED 13/30. The Puritans. Despite destroying church organs across WED the land, Oliver Cromwell privately not only appreciated WED music but also employed composers who used to work for the WED king to write for him and his new regime. WED WED 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmly (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Jean Valjean wins respect as the Mayor of Montreuil, but WED life is less rosy for Fantine. Victor Hugo's epic stars Joss WED Ackland. WED WED 14:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zmdk5 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The author heads to America to hone his skills, and picks up WED some bizarre but sound advice. Read by Nicholas Boulton. WED WED 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b054tnzn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b05vrwgw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007jv8g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Older Woman b039wqbg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Clare in the Community b03q98yj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq8l (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED One word is the key to the Grimoire. But is Arcos able to WED harness its magical power? Stars Trevor Peacock and Francis WED Thomson. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076n65 (Listen) WED The Good Life WED Matthew Parris decides between worthy and satisfying. With WED pianist Simon Townley, broadcaster Anita Robinson and WED academic Rogan Taylor. From September 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b05vrv5r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00v3nlg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Dick Francis b007jpyx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Doonesburyland b008md8z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y6v7m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 David Pownall - Assassins b0075hyg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Clare in the Community b03q98yj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b015mvsj (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 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 This week's show features some musical interludes from the WED zoo, and a sketch that only a fool wouldn't find funny. 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 b05wj7z9 (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jessica Fostekew WED chats to Rachel Stubbings. WED WED 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b00ls6bt (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED South Londoner Arthur invites Stewart Lee and Reginald D WED Hunter round, with music from Sophie Ellis-Bextor. From July WED 2009. WED WED 23:30 The Harpoon b007k4lf (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED The meaning of autumn and novelty dance lessons, in the WED spoof boys' adventure paper. Stars Alistair McGowan. From WED September 1991. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 MAY 2015 THU THU 00:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq8l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076n65 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Dick Francis b007jpyx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Doonesburyland b008md8z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx82 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Making of Music b007qczy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmly (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zmdk5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b054tnzn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b05vrwgw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007jv8g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Older Woman b039wqbg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Clare in the Community b03q98yj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Dick Francis b007jpzb (Listen) THU Bolt, The Killing Game THU Prince Litsi faces terror, hanging by his finger tips from THU the top of the old stand at Bradbury race-course. THU Starring Sian Phillips as Princess Casilia, Eric Allan as THU Kit Fielding, John Bull as Henri de Brescou and Bill Wallis THU as Allardeck. THU Author Dick Francis is acclaimed as one of the greatest THU thriller writers in the world. Dramatised by John Ashe. THU Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. THU THU 06:30 Libraries and Labyrinths: Borges and Me b00kdtpy (Listen) THU Peter White gets to grips with Jorge Luis Borges, the THU much-loved Argentinean poet, essayist, and short-story THU writer, whose tales of fantasy and dreamworlds are classics THU of 20th-century world literature. THU As he did to great effect with our Milton documentary, THU 'Visions of Paradise', Peter uses his own blindness as a way THU of probing a great writer's experience of his loss of sight. THU It's a novel and compelling way of opening up Borges' work. THU Labyrinths, intricate puzzles and game-playing characterise THU Borges' short stories such as 'Fictions', 'The Aleph', and THU indeed 'Labyrinths'. We'll relate this to his years of close THU reading of world literature, his playfulness, and the fact THU that through his long years of myopia, he stocked his mind THU with books, preparing for the blindness that he knew would THU come. THU Borges detested the regime of the dictator General Peron. So THU it wasn't until the end of Peronism in 1955 that the author THU was appointed Director of the National Library in Buenos THU Aires. By then he was almost completely blind: "I speak of THU God's splendid irony in granting me at once 800,000 books THU and darkness," he noted. We visit the National Library and THU find out how Borges' work is currently being converted into THU Braille for the country's blind readers. THU To compensate for his loss of vision, Borges turned again to THU poetry, a form of writing that he could more easily revise THU in his head than on paper. He also continued his pursuit of THU knowledge, acquiring a taste for the old Anglo Saxon THU language and Old Norse. THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU Credits THU Producer: Mark Smalley THU THU 07:00 Tomorrow, Today! b012h800 (Listen) THU Series 1, Androids in Love 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 A top Shakespearean actor guests on the show as an android. THU With Peter Bowles, Cheryl Campbell, John Fortune and Leslie THU Phillips. THU THU 07:30 Best Behaviour b05tm8wt (Listen) THU Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show that defines the THU dos and don'ts of modern manners. THU The guest panellists are comedians Mark Steel, Isy Suttie THU and Tom Allen - who are all seeking to supply the top tips THU for best behaviour in the twenty first century. THU In this edition, the social minefield of parties is up for THU debate - including the suggestion of a new rule banning all THU small talk, and the desperate need for the end to THU evening-only wedding invitations. THU The panel also have the opportunity to offer advice on the THU social conundrum from a member of the studio audience: 'My THU friend has hijacked my baby-sitting job. How can I can I win THU it back?' THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: David Mitchell THU Panellist: Mark Steel THU Panellist: Isy Suttie THU Panellist: Tom Allen THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b00rq30b (Listen) THU Series 1, The Stepmother THU Harold's not too happy to meet dad Albert's new girlfriend. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H Corbett as THU Harold and Joan Lovell as Emma. 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 b007jltg (Listen) THU Series 2, The Greasy Pole THU Blending jobs with chemicals makes an explosive mixture for THU Jim Hacker. 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 BBC Radio 4 in 1984. THU THU 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00txgz9 (Listen) THU Series 6, Episode 1 THU David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians THU are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another THU to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past THU their opponents. Chris Addison, Susan Calman, Rufus Hound THU and Armando Iannucci are the panellists obliged to talk with THU deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Henry Ford, THU Biscuits, Rain and Squirrels. THU The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the THU team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. THU Producer: Jon Naismith THU A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Producer: Jon Naismith THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b00wbr92 (Listen) THU Series 5, Charity Begins at Home THU Charlotte decides to give up the theatre to take on THU voluntary work. Stars Rosemary Leach and Celia Imrie. From THU July 1998. THU Credits THU Actor: Ann Jobson THU THU 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b055jyzq (Listen) THU 16-20 March 1915 THU A week of discoveries, and some exotic flotsam that washes THU up on Long Sands. THU Written by Sarah Daniels THU Story-led by Shaun McKenna THU Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU Credits THU Paddy Blackshields: Chris Garner THU Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont THU Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman THU Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn THU Alan Lowther: David Seddon THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell THU Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell THU Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille THU Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones THU Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom THU Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron THU Hannah O'Leary: Bessy Walmsley THU Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips THU Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan THU Pastor Vincent Surtees: Shaun Prendergast THU Lewis Tully: Gerard McDermott THU Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone THU Davy Wardle: Stephen O'Raullian THU Stella Wardle: Ava Bell THU Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor THU Wally Woodthorpe: Kris Deedigan THU Writer: Sarah Daniels THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 11:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y7lmj (Listen) THU The Thorn THU Removing a thorn from Wellie Page's toe turns out strangely THU for Wellie. THU Carl Prekopp reads a selection of stories from Adam Marek's THU dark and quirky collections. THU Adam Marek is the award-winning writer of two short story THU collections - Instruction Manual For Swallowing and The THU Stone Thrower. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story THU Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday THU Times EFG Short Story Award. His stories have appeared in THU many magazines, including Prospect and The Sunday Times THU Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry and THU Biopunk and The Best British Short Stories 2011. THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. THU THU 11:15 Bruce Bedford - Carnival King b00lvyny (Listen) THU A London city slicker tries to win the cup for his float in THU a Somerset village parade. Stars James Grout and Sarah THU Neville. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b00rq30b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Yes Minister b007jltg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Dick Francis b007jpzb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Libraries and Labyrinths: Borges and Me b00kdtpy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx86 (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU With Giles lying desperately ill, Grace believes that only THU one person can save him. Read by Juliet Stevenson. THU THU 14:15 The Making of Music b007qd00 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Restoration THU James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical THU influences that affected the course of classical music. THU 14/30. The Restoration THU The return of Charles II from exile heralded a revival in THU English music. Among several composers to emerge was Henry THU Purcell, who wrote a song for the king's birthday when he THU was only 11. THU Read by Simon Russell Beale. THU THU 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmmg (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Poorly Fantine fears desertion, while Jean Valjean resolves THU to let God decide his fate. Victor Hugo's epic stars Joss THU Ackland. THU THU 14:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zn04d (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The author recalls his school days where his playing skill THU developed, before a disastrous performance. Read by Nicholas THU Boulton. THU THU 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b055jyzq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00txgz9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b00wbr92 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Tomorrow, Today! b012h800 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Best Behaviour b05tm8wt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq9v (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU Young novice sorcerer Arcos learns an unpalatable truth THU about his father from Kaddah. Stars Edward Kelsey and THU Melanie Hudson. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076hpt (Listen) THU Series 4, Octavia Hill THU 4 Extra Debut. Trade unionist and politician Brenda Dean THU chooses National Trust founder Octavia Hill. With Humphrey THU Carpenter. From November 2003. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b00rq30b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Yes Minister b007jltg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Dick Francis b007jpzb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Libraries and Labyrinths: Borges and Me b00kdtpy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y7lmj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Bruce Bedford - Carnival King b00lvyny (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Best Behaviour b05tm8wt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 My Teenage Diary b01l7wtr (Listen) THU Series 4, Julia Donaldson THU Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by THU opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them THU out in public for the very first time. THU This week, comedian Rufus Hound is joined by the author of THU The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson. Donaldson's diaries are a THU vivid account of her obsession with Mick Jagger and the THU lengths she went to in order to meet the elusive Rolling THU Stone. THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 My Booze Hell, by Little Johnny Cartilage b00d67yf (Listen) THU Frank Wignall THU John Waite investigates the shocking claim that the THU Cartilages were not a real family. With Ben Miller. From THU October 1996. THU THU 23:15 Date With Fate b0092wr7 (Listen) THU Love Bites THU Martin's proposal to his girlfriend does not go according to THU plan. Stars Charles Gray and Paul Raffield. From March 1996. THU THU 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes b0196r9b (Listen) THU Series 1, Seafarers THU Seafarers: Prince Madoc? Swansea Jack? Comparing Welsh THU history's key figures to determine Wales's ultimate heroes. THU From January 2012. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 MAY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jq9v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076hpt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Dick Francis b007jpzb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Libraries and Labyrinths: Borges and Me b00kdtpy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx86 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Making of Music b007qd00 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmmg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zn04d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b055jyzq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00txgz9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b00wbr92 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Tomorrow, Today! b012h800 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Best Behaviour b05tm8wt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Dick Francis b007qg3v (Listen) FRI Bolt, Nemesis for Two FRI Champion jockey Kit Fielding gets wind that Henri de Brescou FRI plans to kill more horses. Kit is determined to put a stop FRI to this needless slaughter. FRI Starring Sian Phillips as Princess Casilia, Eric Allan as FRI Kit Fielding, John Bull as Henri de Brescou and Bill Wallis FRI as Allardeck. FRI Author Dick Francis is acclaimed as one of the greatest FRI thriller writers in the world. Dramatised by John Ashe. FRI Directed by Shaun MacLoughlin at BBC Pebble Mill. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. FRI FRI 06:30 Hip-Hop China-Style b009jg3c (Listen) FRI Hip-hop artists in Beijing are unearthing forgotten parts of FRI the Chinese language and traditional instruments. Stephen FRI Armstrong explores this very distinctive fusion of East and FRI West and examines the different generational responses to FRI this music. FRI FRI 07:00 Lucky Heather b0075s45 (Listen) FRI The Searchers FRI Emma thinks that her mother is having an affair so asks FRI Heather to investigate. Stars Lindsey Coulson. From February FRI 2000. FRI FRI 07:30 Boswell's Lives b05vh1p4 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Boswell's Life of Johnson FRI by Jon Canter FRI Comedy as James Boswell, Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer, FRI pursues other legends to immortalise. Today he attempts to FRI write a biography of another famous Johnson - Boris - but FRI finds him a fiendish opponent especially on the whiff-whaff FRI table. FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI Following on from the series that saw other celebrities FRI including Sigmund Freud, Maria Callas and Harold Pinter have FRI their lives penned by James Boswell - a one off special - FRI that sees another Johnson, Boris no less, become the subject FRI of Boswell's musings. FRI Jon Canter is an award winning comedy writer for both FRI television and radio. He recently penned the radio series FRI 'Believe It' starring Richard Wilson but his work goes back FRI to Spitting Image. He is also the author of several books FRI and has been called our greatest living comic novelist. FRI Miles Jupp is an actor and stand up. He is best known for FRI playing Nigel in the series 'Rev' and is a regular FRI contributor to R4 panel games and 'Have I Got News For You' FRI on BBC1. He is currently appearing at the National Theatre FRI in 'Rules For Living'. FRI Alistair McGowan is an impressionist, stand-up comic, actor FRI and writer best known to British audiences for 'The Big FRI Impression'. He has recently been seen. He has also featured FRI on 'Bake Off For Comic Relief', 'Mock The Week', has been FRI seen on 'Live At The Apollo' and began his career by FRI providing voices for the iconic 'Spitting Image'. FRI Credits FRI James Boswell: Miles Jupp FRI Boris Johnson: Alistair McGowan FRI Writer: Jon Canter FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007lrqy (Listen) FRI The New Secretary FRI The lad's plan to hire help is thwarted by the scary FRI Grizelda Pugh. Stars Tony Hancock and Hattie Jacques. From FRI November 1956. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007k31h (Listen) FRI The Collapse of the British Railway Sandwich System FRI Captain Seagoon investigates a mustard-and-cress-flavoured FRI mystery at Clapham Junction. Stars Spike Milligan. From FRI March 1954. FRI FRI 09:00 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons FRI b00tbhbf (Listen) FRI Tracey Emin and How She Done the Bed FRI The multi award winning National Theatre of Brent's Artistic FRI Director; Desmond Olivier Dingle and the entire acting FRI company (Raymond Box) returns triumphantly to Radio 4 in the FRI second of an occasional series celebrating the rare but FRI rarefied beings deemed in Desmond's expert view to be Iconic FRI Icons. FRI The second Iconic Icon is Tracey Emin. FRI Desmond and Raymond enact the controversial story of Tracey FRI Emin and her ground breaking, but unmade, Bed. They also FRI chuck in the entire history of modern art, popular culture FRI in the 1990's and the first ever recreation of the female FRI soul on radio. 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, this latest addition to FRI the Brent canon will be as essential and massive a FRI contribution to the current artistic life of this country as FRI the rest of their work. FRI And, of course it will be very funny. FRI Director: Patrick Barlow FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 On Baby Street b00dyhd1 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 FRI Expectant mum Geraldine is angry, Shona is upset and Yvette FRI feels queasy. Stars Keith Allen and Kathy Burke. From FRI January 1996. FRI FRI 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b05n1m96 (Listen) FRI 23-27 March 1915 FRI Amid appeals for more women to join the workforce, Marshalls FRI loses two of its best employees. FRI Written by Sarah Daniels FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed and produced by Lucy Collingwood FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. FRI Credits FRI Josseff al-Assadi: Paul Chahidi FRI Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont FRI Fraser Chadwick: Edmund Wiseman FRI Sylvia Graham: Barbara Flynn FRI Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford FRI Alan Lowther: David Seddon FRI Joyce Lyle: Tracy Whitwell FRI Luke Lyle: Richard Riddell FRI Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf FRI Adeline Marshall: Anastasia Hille FRI Geoffrey Marshall: Dominic Mafham FRI Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready FRI Cressida Marshall: Bettrys Jones FRI Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom FRI Esther O'Leary: Amy Cameron FRI Violet O'Leary: Jacqueline Phillips FRI Kenny Stokoe: Dean Logan FRI Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone FRI Ray Wardle: Scarlet Bell FRI Stella Wardle: Ava Bell FRI Clara Wedger: Amaka Okafor FRI Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook FRI Guard: Simon Harrison FRI Ticket Collector: Shaun Mason FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Lucy Collingwood FRI Producer: Lucy Collingwood FRI FRI 11:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y83fb (Listen) FRI Dead Fish FRI A boy steals a fish from the marketplace, prompting a chase. FRI But can he be caught? FRI Carl Prekopp reads a selection of stories from Adam Marek's FRI dark and quirky collections. FRI Adam Marek is the award-winning writer of two short story FRI collections - Instruction Manual For Swallowing and The FRI Stone Thrower. He won the 2011 Arts Foundation Short Story FRI Fellowship, and was shortlisted for the inaugural Sunday FRI Times EFG Short Story Award. His stories have appeared in FRI many magazines, including Prospect and The Sunday Times FRI Magazine, and in many anthologies including Lemistry and FRI Biopunk and The Best British Short Stories 2011. FRI Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b011tzkz (Listen) FRI Sarah Daniels - But If You Try Sometimes FRI By Sarah Daniels FRI Chloe has cerebral palsy and is certain she will lose her FRI adored carer Rose, when Rose falls for an apparently perfect FRI man. FRI Rose ..... Lesley Manville FRI Chloe ..... Amy Golden FRI Chloe's voice ..... Alex Tregear FRI Alex ..... Jelena Budimir FRI Director ..... Sally Avens FRI Sarah Daniels is an acclaimed writer for stage, screen and FRI radio. Her play 'Masterpieces' was voted one of the best FRI plays of the last Century. Lesley Manville is an award FRI winning actress best known for her work with Mike Leigh and FRI was recently nominated for several awards for her work on FRI his film 'Another Year'. FRI Amy Golden is a young actor with cerebral palsy who has FRI appeared in several productions for Chicken Shed Theatre FRI Company where she often works with Jelena Budimir. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007lrqy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007k31h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Dick Francis b007qg3v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Hip-Hop China-Style b009jg3c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx8b (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Reconciliation is on the cards, with the recognition of FRI unspoken devotion. Concluded by Juliet Stevenson. FRI FRI 14:15 The Making of Music b007qd02 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Bach in Leipzig FRI James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical FRI influences that affected the course of classical music. FRI 15/30. Bach in Leipzig FRI From a bustling town in Germany, a civic employee produced FRI some of the most sublime church music ever written. Despite FRI being frequently at loggerheads with his employers, Johann FRI Sebastian Bach continued to compose at a prolific rate. FRI FRI 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmmy (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI The Mayor of Montreuil reveals his true identity, while FRI Fantine lies dangerously ill. Victor Hugo's epic stars Joss FRI Ackland. FRI FRI 14:45 Jasper Rees - I Found My Horn b00zn5ch (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI The day of the big performance arrives, but is a year of FRI endeavour enough to impress Jasper's peers? Read by Nicholas FRI Boulton. FRI FRI 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b05n1m96 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons FRI b00tbhbf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 On Baby Street b00dyhd1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Lucky Heather b0075s45 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Boswell's Lives b05vh1p4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Heart of Hark'un b007jqbs (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI Is Shazir the real enemy? Can Arcos and his hero friends FRI escape the Palace of Memory? Fantasy series stars Liz FRI Whiting and Francis Thomson. FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs b01bwgvv (Listen) FRI Series 4, The Proclaimers FRI With hits including 'Letter From America', Craig and Charlie FRI Reid from the Proclaimers select songs for Phil Cunningham. FRI From February 2012. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007lrqy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007k31h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Dick Francis b007qg3v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Hip-Hop China-Style b009jg3c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 The Stories of Adam Marek b03y83fb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b011tzkz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Boswell's Lives b05vh1p4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Victor Lewis-Smith b05vwsw0 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI The power of blowing raspberries and unusual fortune FRI telling. 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 a series of late night programmes for Radio 1, FRI Victor took aim at TV in 1993 with BBC TWO's Inside Victor FRI Lewis Smith, before sparking another stir on Channel 4 in FRI 1998 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 b007xrz7 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI The comedy guru's radio drop-in centre provides live Select FRI Committee action. With Jack Dee and Dave Gorman. From June FRI 2006. FRI FRI 23:30 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford b0076f8c (Listen) FRI Series 2, A Few Bevvies FRI Can the poet-in-residence bring the healing power of poetry FRI to Salford social club? Stars James Quinn. From May 2003. FRI FRI 23:45 I, Regress b01bb70f (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 5 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 Ep 5: Dr Berry's latest patient, Christian Parcel (Nick FRI Lucas) finds himself in the worst place on the planet thanks FRI to some 'experimental hypnotherapy'. But events take a twist FRI that even Dr Berry himself finds hard to control, thanks to FRI a football pitch, a nightclub and a very unusual tattoo... 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 Credits FRI Dr Berry: Matt Berry FRI Christian Parcel: Nick Lucas FRI Producer: Sam Bryant FRI