24 July, 2015

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 25/07/2015 - 31/07/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 25 JULY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Kurt Vonnegut - The Euphio Question b0088zh5 (Listen) SAT Kurt Vonnegut's tale of the dilemmas facing scientists over SAT discovering how to manufacture happiness. Read by Stuart SAT Milligan. SAT SAT 00:30 Fry's English Delight b00tjf52 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Future Conditional SAT Stephen Fry on the future of English. SAT As English continues to grow and spread, the influences of SAT the places around the world where it has been adopted are SAT being reimported. As Stephen puts it, "we exported brown SAT Windsor soup and re-imported mulligatawny. We exported clogs SAT - back came tap dancing". The McDonald's slogan "I'm Loving SAT it" is an example. So is the youth-speak Jafaican. SAT This continual process means we can predict some changes in SAT the way we use language. Dr David Crystal, a world SAT authority, thinks the sound "th" might disappear. The very SAT rhythms of our speech might change, and our vocabulary SAT certainly will. SAT The other huge influence on the way English will change SAT relates to technology. The programme features computer SAT programmes that "read" text. They do this not just to show SAT off. The London School of Economics employs a computer SAT programme to read text in the service of research. So SAT computers will, in some sense, join the swelling billions SAT who use English. SAT But will they - can they - ever "understand" English well SAT enough for them to read and understand a novel? Professor SAT Margaret Boden, a leader in the field is doubtful. She and SAT Microsoft search engineer Ron Kaplan discuss a test for SAT computers, in the shape of this sentence: "Is the duck ready SAT to eat?" SAT Nobody knows exactly how English will change, or whether we SAT might, as time travellers, recognise it 200 years hence. But SAT speculating about it is endless fun. SAT Producer: Nick Baker SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Nick Baker SAT SAT 01:00 Oscar Wilde b007jq42 (Listen) SAT Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, Episode 3 SAT Still thwarted in trying to fulfil his predicted dark SAT destiny, Lord Arthur Savile decides to change his tactics. SAT Michael Maloney concludes Oscar Wilde's mystery written in SAT 1891. SAT Produced in Manchester by Katherine Beacon. SAT Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2003. SAT SAT 01:30 Still Points, Turning Worlds b00sj5z5 (Listen) SAT When WH Davies wrote his celebrated poem 'Leisure' a century SAT ago, the myriad stimuli assaulting people's senses now and SAT the demands that sap humanity's powers of concentration in SAT the digital age were unimaginable. But he rightly gauged the SAT detrimental impacts to the human spirit of failing to find SAT moments of peace in a busy world: 'a poor life this, if, SAT full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'. SAT In this 'composed feature', producer Alan Hall embroiders SAT together the experiences of a range of people for whom still SAT points and daydreaming provide an escape from the SAT increasingly invasive nature of the turning world about us SAT and offer a foundation for reflection, rejuvenation and SAT creativity. SAT Hearing from Canon Lucy Winkett of St Paul's in the heart of SAT the City of London, an installer of 'energy pods' that offer SAT 'corporate fatigue solutions', an hypnotherapist, staff and SAT pupils from a school that champions 'the Pause' and Kieran SAT MacFeely, a singer-songwriter from the world of pop music SAT (or 'high-end racket') who sought out the peace of the SAT countryside. SAT 'Still Points, Turning Worlds' relishes moments of reverie SAT in an attempt to reclaim the powers of concentration. SAT Producer: Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Alan Hall SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Beachtime b01kbz4v (Listen) SAT Marina Lewycka - Various Pets Alive and Dead, Episode 5 SAT As Doro's children reflect on their unconventional lives in SAT a left-wing commune, truths are revealed. Family farce read SAT by Patrick Brennan. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00y8vbb (Listen) SAT MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions, Episode 10 SAT M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana SAT Ahmad. Ash is caught in a dilemma. He cannot bear the SAT thought of losing Anjuli, and yet must negotiate her wedding SAT price. SAT Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi SAT Ash ..... Blake Ritson SAT Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker SAT Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai SAT Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee SAT Guard ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT Rana ..... Kaleem Janjua SAT Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Producer: Marc Beeby SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00tdllr (Listen) SAT Stuart Kelly - Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation, SAT Episode 5 SAT His name, image and influence can be seen everywhere; from SAT Scottish banknotes to place names across the globe. Sir SAT Walter Scott invented the modern novel, began Scotland's SAT tourist industry and was the first celebrity author - a SAT heady mix of JK Rowling and Dan Brown long before the age of SAT mass media hype. Lauded by contemporary critics as well as SAT his massive readership in the 19th century, he's hardly read SAT - and even more rarely enjoyed - today. SAT Stuart Kelly considers the backlash which hit Scott's work SAT after the prolific author's death. Although his critical SAT reputation would never recover, the images of Scotland which SAT Walter Scott created - the romantic landscapes populated by SAT isolated, kilted natives - haunt Scotland to this day. SAT Stuart Kelly was born and brought up in the Scottish SAT Borders. He studied English at Oxford and is the Literary SAT Editor of Scotland on Sunday. SAT Reader: Robin Laing SAT Abridger: Laurence Wareing SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. SAT SAT 03:00 Lew Wallace - Ben Hur b007jr6d (Listen) SAT The King Comes into His Kingdom SAT After the prince's victory in the chariot race, news arrives SAT of his mother and sister. Stars Jamie Glover and Michael SAT Gambon. SAT SAT 04:00 All the Way From Memphis b00m52xh (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT James Walton hosts the pop music history quiz with Andrew SAT Collins, Tracey MacLeod, David Quantick and Stewart Lee. SAT From May 2006. SAT SAT 04:30 Boogie Up the River b007jv65 (Listen) SAT I'll See You on Tower Pier at 11 SAT Mark Wallington and hellish hound Boogie quest to find the SAT source of the Thames. Stars Timothy Spall. From December SAT 1992. SAT SAT 05:00 Rent b062r9w7 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Paul and Ruby have moved out of the Reynolds' SAT house, but not too far away. Stars Dave Lamb and Barbara SAT Flynn. From May 1998. SAT SAT 05:30 The Kindness of Strangers b062j2xy (Listen) SAT Inspired by a random act of kindness, author and poet John SAT Osborne wrestles with the idea of donating one of his SAT kidneys to a virtual stranger in this autobiographical tale. SAT SAT 06:00 William Ingram - Crippen b063hnmy (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. In 1910 Dr Crippen was hanged for the murder SAT of his wife, but what really happened on the night she died? SAT Stars Charles Kay. SAT SAT 07:30 Fabulous Flops b0146g6q (Listen) SAT More Fabulous Flops, Episode 4 SAT Paul Roseby concludes his look at Tinseltown turkeys with SAT shows that got big laughs on Broadway for all the wrong SAT reasons. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00772dx (Listen) SAT The Poles and the Planet SAT The Poles and the Planet SAT It is a story of courage, sacrifice, rivalries and SAT friendships, but 50 years after the first triumphant SAT crossing of Antarctica, the story of the Trans-Antarctic SAT Expedition is nearly forgotten. SAT Set against the scientific frenzy of the International SAT Geophysical Year of 1957 which saw the launch of the space SAT age, Adam Fowler tracks down the survivors of the last great SAT journey on Earth and asks what legacy they have left. SAT SAT 09:00 4 Extra at the British Seaside b038xhc6 (Listen) SAT Seaside entertainer Tony Lidington takes a trip to Brighton SAT for Radio 4 Extra and reflects how this city has inspired a SAT wealth of seaside memories captured in the BBC Sound SAT Archive. SAT Tony came to Brighton in the eighties as a student and set SAT up his own Pierrot Troupe, The Pierroters, named after the SAT rotting West Pier. There are first hand memories of what it SAT was like to go on a seaside holiday between the wars in the SAT 1984 programme called ‘Sand Between the Toes’. SAT Tony meets Max Tyler an expert on the Fol De Rols. He and SAT Tony hear them perform in an extraordinary piece of archive SAT from 1937 when four of the shows, hundreds of miles apart, SAT were brought together live by the magic of wireless. There SAT are also insights into Brighton’s very own Cheeky Chappie, SAT as Tony visits a Fish and Chip Shop in Brighton where the SAT Max Miller Society has set up a museum. SAT ‘Casting Shadows’ a wonderfully evocative play by Mark SAT Burgess conjures up an imaginary meeting between the actor SAT Laurence Oliver, playwright Terence Rattigan and Brighton’s SAT famous seaside entertainer, Max Miller. Roy Hudd headlines SAT as Miller. SAT Gavin Henderson president of the National Piers Society SAT reveals that seaside Piers were initially places of SAT sophistication, almost the arts centres of their day, and SAT Rachel Clark of the West Pier Trust looks to the future and SAT the plans to create a new vertical Pier on Brighton SAT seafront. SAT Tony celebrates the Great Days of the West Pier in his 1995 SAT Archive Hour ‘Oh What a Lovely Pier!’ with contributions SAT from among others the late Corin Redgrave. SAT Featured Programmes SAT The programmes featured within '4 Extra at the British SAT Seaside' in chronological order, with approximate timings SAT are: SAT Pierrotters on Tour SAT (from Kaleidoscope) - 8 minutes SAT Sand Between the Toes SAT - Memories of Seaside holidays between the wars (1984) - 27 SAT minutes SAT Casting Shadows SAT by Mark Burgess, starring Roy Hudd - 44 minutes SAT Oh What a Lovely Pier! SAT (Archive Hour from 1995) - 56 minutes SAT SAT 12:00 Dad's Army b00q9gk2 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Uninvited Guests SAT Calamity strikes when the Home Guard and ARP wardens share SAT the church hall. SAT Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier SAT as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John SAT Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, SAT Arnold Ridley as Godfrey and Bill Pertwee as Hodges. SAT Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV SAT scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. SAT Producer: John Dyas SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1975. SAT SAT 12:30 The Burkiss Way b007jsnb (Listen) SAT Series 5, Settle Out of Court the Burkiss Way SAT Find out What's My Gender, plus a galactic Panorama. With Jo SAT Kendall, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris. From November 1980. SAT SAT 13:00 Rachel's Cousins - Omnibus b063hy4b (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Three drunken women's lives become SAT intertwined when they discover they share the BRCA2 cancer SAT gene. Stars Tamara Kennedy. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b063hz21 (Listen) SAT Bear Grylls SAT Adventurer Bear Grylls inherits 'The Circle of Life' by SAT Elton John and passes on 'I'm a Believer' by The Monkees. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b063hzdr (Listen) SAT Oleg Gordievsky SAT 4 Extra Debut. Former British secret agent Oleg Gordievsky SAT talks frankly to Professor Anthony Clare. From July 1995. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00772dx (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 William Ingram - Crippen b063hnmy (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Fabulous Flops b0146g6q (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Afternoon Drama b012fcym (Listen) SAT Torchwood - The Lost Files, Submission SAT In Ryan Scott's episode, Torchwood are chasing aliens down SAT the M4, when Jack accidentally blows a hole in the Severn SAT Bridge, and the SUV hits the water. Whilst submerged John, SAT Gwen and Ianto hear a strange noise, which, back at the Hub SAT they realise is a cry for help. They track the cry to its SAT source which turns out to be the deepest part of the Ocean - SAT the Mariana Trench. Ianto rings old Torchwood flame, Carlie SAT Roberts, who's an expert in marine geology, and Jack pulls SAT strings with the US government to get them all on board the SAT USS Calvin, an Arleigh Burke class destroyer, which is SAT heading for the Trench. From there they board the Octopus SAT Rock, the only submarine built to withstand the pressure at SAT that depth, and follow the signal. But when the Submarine SAT crashes, the team are left at the mercy of a hungry alien. SAT Recorded at The Invisible Studios, by Mark Holden and mixed SAT at BBC Wales by Nigel Lewis. SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT Credits SAT Captain Jack Harkness: John Barrowman SAT Gwen Cooper: Eve Myles SAT Ianto Jones: Gareth David-Lloyd SAT Carlie Roberts: Erin Bennett SAT Sam Doyle: Angelo Tiffe SAT Captain Cudlow: John Francis Harries SAT Henry Goddard: John Lee SAT Writer: Ryan Scott SAT Producer: Kate McAll SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT SAT 18:45 Brave New Worlds b01n70cj (Listen) SAT Fragments of a Hologram Rose SAT By William Gibson. A tale of virtuality, second lives and SAT online culture. From 2012's Cheltenham Literary Festival. SAT Read by Jon Strickland. SAT SAT 19:00 4 Extra at the British Seaside b038xhc6 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Hardeep at The Stand b01r5v82 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT Join Hardeep Singh Kohli for some hilarious stand up comedy SAT from a selection of the best comedians working in the world SAT right now. Hardeep At The Stand captures the entire comedy SAT experience, there's backstage revelations, jokes, anecdotes SAT and lots and lots of laughter. The masterful Paul Foot SAT delights the crowd and squeezes into a mop cupboard for a SAT chat with Hardeep, Benny Boot knocks out some one liners and SAT Canadian Dana Alexander tells us how she's finding living in SAT the UK. SAT SAT 22:15 The Problem With Adam Bloom b00gswf0 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Comedy SAT The comedian reveals how comics come up with all their witty SAT gags. With Alistair McGowan and Rob Rouse. From November SAT 2004. SAT SAT 22:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008tnzk (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney make it up as they go along SAT in an improvised sketch show driven by suggestions from the SAT studio audience and with a loose grip on reality. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Dawn Ellis SAT SAT 23:00 Alan Parker's 59 Minutes of Truth b00yz8v4 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT An anarchic cocktail of music and comedy mixed by the urban SAT warrior. Do you rave or rock? Stars Simon Munnery. From SAT March 1995. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 JULY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Afternoon Drama b012fcym (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:45 Brave New Worlds b01n70cj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Rachel's Cousins - Omnibus b063hy4b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b063hz21 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b063hzdr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b00772dx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 William Ingram - Crippen b063hnmy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Fabulous Flops b0146g6q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions Omnibus b063j4l7 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN MM Kaye's epic of love and war in 19th-century India. Ash is SUN given a new mission that transforms his life. With Blake SUN Ritson. SUN SUN 07:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01kpzsr (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Balloon SUN Michael Williams stars as 1940s radio star Robb Wilton, SUN negotiating the more difficult aspects of charity SUN fundraising in 1986. SUN SUN 07:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b013fm6m (Listen) SUN Series 5, Undercover Journalist SUN Milton Jones becomes Britain's best-known undercover SUN journalist. Which means that Milton Jones also becomes SUN Britain's most least-effective undercover journalist... SUN He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom SUN Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") SUN and Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"). SUN Milton Jones returns to BBC Radio Four for an amazing 9th SUN series - which means he's been running for longer than SUN Gardeners' Question Time and answered more questions on SUN gardening as well. SUN Britain's funniest Milton and the king of the one-liner SUN returns with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new SUN jokes for a series of daffy comedy adventures SUN Each week, Milton is a complete and utter expert at SUN something - brilliant Mathematician, World-Class Cyclist, SUN Aviator, Championship Jockey... SUN ... and each week, with absolutely no ability or competence, SUN he plunges into a big adventure with utterly funny SUN results... SUN "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a SUN flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The SUN Guardian. SUN "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times SUN "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The SUN Daily Mail SUN Written by Milton with James Cary ("Think The Unthinkable", SUN "Miranda"), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton," SUN returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a SUN shipload of new jokes. SUN The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( "Spamalot"), SUN Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine SUN With Me") and Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories") SUN David Tyler's radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm SUN Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, Another Case Of Milton SUN Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley SUN Hogg Goes Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree SUN and even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits SUN include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, SUN Absolutely, The Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's SUN Run, The Tony Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria SUN Wood's dinnerladies. SUN Produced & directed by David Tyler SUN A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b007jscc (Listen) SUN Ted needs new golf clubs, but the only way he can afford SUN them is via cigarette coupons. With Kitty Bluett. From SUN October 1958. SUN SUN 08:30 Whack-O! b063j9cg (Listen) SUN From 18/07/1961 SUN Professor Jimmy Edwards must deal with outbreaks of shaving SUN and mixed ballroom dancing at school. From July 1961. SUN SUN 09:00 Oliver Sacks - On the Move Omnibus b063jcjz (Listen) SUN Neurologist Oliver Sacks on his passion for motorbikes and SUN his bond with his schizophrenic brother. Read by Oliver Ford SUN Davies. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b063jgb9 (Listen) SUN Pam Ayres SUN The poet Pam Ayres inherits military song 'When the Guards SUN are on Parade' and passes on 'Mars For Evermore' by Johnny SUN Collins. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b063jgrl (Listen) SUN Children's Writers, Julia Donaldson SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Schubert to Malcolm Donaldson. The SUN Guffalo creator shares her castaway choices with Kirsty SUN Young. From November 2009. SUN SUN 11:00 Mystery Theater b063jjxt (Listen) SUN Lifeboat: Tallulah Bankhead SUN July 1943: Survivors are adrift in the Atlantic. Stars SUN Tallulah Bankhead. A Screen Directors Playhouse production SUN for NBC radio. SUN SUN 11:50 Desert Island Discs Revisited b063jkdz (Listen) SUN Tallulah Bankhead SUN American actress Tallulah Bankhead is Roy Plomley's 'lazy' SUN castaway. The only surviving extract from December 1964. SUN SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh b007jscc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Whack-O! b063j9cg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions Omnibus b063j4l7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01kpzsr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train b063jmm1 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Paula Hawkins' international bestseller comes to BBC Radio SUN in this thrilling multi-voice narration starring Sally SUN Hawkins, Lyndsey Marshall and Zoe Tapper. SUN SUN 15:45 Afternoon Reading b011vg9f (Listen) SUN Alexandros Papadiamandis - The Boundless Garden, The Gleaner SUN Mark Williams reads from an anthology of 19th century Greek SUN short stories. It's Christmas and Achtitsa has neither food SUN nor money. Then she hears from her long lost son in SUN America... SUN Alexandros Papadiamandis (1851 - 1911) was born on the SUN western Aegean island of Skiathos, where many of his short SUN stories are set. SUN In these stories he explores the souls of ordinary men and SUN women as they succumb to, or struggle against, the power of SUN evil, and try to deal with life's ambiguities. Aware of the SUN way in which the past breathes life into the present, SUN Papadiamandis also delves into Greek mythology, as it SUN survived through people's belief in supernatural wonders on SUN both land and sea. SUN Mark Williams is well known as one of the stars of the BBC SUN TV's The Fast Show ("Suits you, sir..!!") and for the role SUN of Ron Weasley's father in the Harry Potter films. SUN Translated by Elizabeth Key Fowden SUN Abridged by Roy Apps SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Tony Mulholland - Conan Doyle's Strangest Case SUN b063jp8z (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. A real miscarriage of justice inspired SUN Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, to tackle SUN the case. Stars Peter Jeffrey. SUN SUN 17:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b013fm6m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Jenny Stephens - Jefferson 37 b007k4bh (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Eleanor discovers more about the work of Abbottsville, where SUN the clones reveal very human-like feelings. Stars Alison SUN Carney. SUN SUN 18:30 Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries b007jvxm (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Vezin realises that the cat-like villagers are watching him SUN closely. Philip Madoc reads Algernon Henry Blackwood's dark SUN tale. SUN SUN 19:00 Mystery Theater b063jjxt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 Desert Island Discs Revisited b063jkdz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Oliver Sacks - On the Move Omnibus b063jcjz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b063jgb9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b063jgrl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Another Case of Milton Jones b013fm6m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Cowards b007jf0x (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 6 SUN Moustaches and job interviews in the bizarre world of Tom SUN Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf. From SUN May 2007. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b064fl29 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith is SUN joined by Dane Baptiste. SUN SUN 23:00 Mastering the Universe b00sm64n (Listen) SUN Series 1, Holidays SUN Professor Joy Klamp explores the miserable world of SUN holidaying. Stars Dawn French and Christopher Douglas. From SUN November 2005. SUN SUN 23:15 Where Did It All Go Wrong? b0076gmh (Listen) SUN The True Confessions of Sherlock Holmes SUN Simon Munnery debunks the image of some iconic characters, SUN starting with the 'science man' of Baker Street. From August SUN 2003. SUN SUN 23:30 Inside Alan Francis b00j17xy (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Comedy series in which comedian Alan Francis explores the SUN workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends SUN and long-suffering girlfriend Jane. SUN Alan leaves home. SUN With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 JULY 2015 MON MON 00:00 Jenny Stephens - Jefferson 37 b007k4bh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries b007jvxm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions Omnibus b063j4l7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01kpzsr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train b063jmm1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Afternoon Reading b011vg9f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Tony Mulholland - Conan Doyle's Strangest Case MON b063jp8z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b013fm6m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall MON b007k2vr (Listen) MON The Black Trunk MON Can Britain's most celebrated criminal barrister save Marie MON Herman from the gallows? 1894 true story. Stars Tom Baker. MON Credits MON Actor: Produced MON Actor: (13) MON MON 06:30 Getting the Gongs b00kbyxt (Listen) MON Steve Punt investigates the growing trend for industry MON awards ceremonies which may not be as well known as the MON Oscars, but which aspire to be just as glamorous and MON life-changing. MON Practically every week, some branch of industry holds its MON own awards ceremonies in a top class venue in the UK, MON complete with silver service dinner, champagne and celebrity MON guest speaker. The range of sectors represented is vast. MON There are awards for call centres, for people involved in MON designing packaging components and for people who get MON children to eat more seafood. And for the winner, there is MON the chance to get up on a podium, grasp a trophy and feel MON that, for one glorious moment, you are recognised by your MON peers as being the best. MON Steve goes behind the scenes to find out who takes part in MON awards ceremonies and why. He talks to the winners, losers MON and organisers, scrutinises the most curious categories and MON hears from awards presenters including Gyles Brandreth and MON Stephen K Amos. He looks at the people who contribute to MON awards ceremonies by making the awards themselves, or MON helping to write the category submissions. He also explores MON the human stories behind the growing lists of categories and MON gives a uniquely humorous insight into little-known MON industries with a growing trend for gongs. MON MON 07:00 The World As We Know It b00fks6k (Listen) MON Babytalk MON The last four people on Earth plus the mysterious stranger MON ponder continuing the human race. Stars Meera Syal. From May MON 1999. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b062jy98 (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 2 MON The 63rd series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the White Rock Theatre in Hastings. Regulars MON Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once MON again joined on the panel by Miles Jupp with Jack Dee in the MON chair. At the piano - Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON It is a BBC Radio Comedy production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Miles Jupp MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b00qg7s5 (Listen) MON Series 2, A Brush With the Law MON When a light shines out in a blackout, Hodges hauls MON Mainwaring to court. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From MON April 1975. MON MON 08:30 Marriage Lines b063ml9j (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 7 MON Can Kate and George organise baby Helen's Christening? MON Adapted from TV with Richard Briers and Prunella Scales. MON From April 1967. MON MON 09:00 Genius b00b9nzd (Listen) MON Series 1, John Fortune MON Dave Gorman asks John Fortune to select the public's best MON loopy idea, like using laughing gas for riots. From November MON 2005. MON MON 09:30 The Bricklayer's Lament b01lsqk6 (Listen) MON Back in December 1958, German musician and humourist Gerard MON Hoffnung was asked to speak at the Oxford Union in a debate MON entitled "This House Believes Life Begins At 38". Luckily, MON the BBC was on hand to record the debate and they managed to MON capture Gerard giving a hilarious comic speech, which MON included the now legendary Bricklayer's Lament story. MON This half hour documentary, narrated by Jack Dee, tells the MON story of the speech and how The Bricklayer's Lament really MON came about. It includes contributions from Ian Hislop, who MON was a fan from an early age, and Inspector Morse creator MON Colin Dexter, who was taught by Gerard during the Second MON World War. MON The programme will reveal how an early incarnation of the R4 MON comedy panel show Just a Minute was to play a pivotal role MON in the eventual success of The Bricklayer's Lament. MON The programme also features many classic clips of Gerard MON Hoffnung speaking at the Oxford Union debate, as well as MON other recordings he made in the fifties. These include MON snippets of the hilarious interviews he gave to the Canadian MON broadcaster Charles Richardson. MON Also included are revealing interviews with Gerard's widow, MON Annetta, who shares her memories of this amazingly talented MON man. MON The Bricklayer's Lament is a fascinating insight into how MON this recording came about and a loving tribute to a unique MON personality who entertained so many generations. MON Produced by Paul Russell MON An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Saturday Drama b007t4zn (Listen) MON The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon MON John Fletcher's Edwardian murder story is based on real MON events. MON Frederick and Margaret Seddon take wealthy Mrs Barrow into MON their Islington home as a lodger. The summer of 1911 proves MON scorchingly hot and when Mrs Barrow dies, leaving all her MON money to Fred, suspicions are aroused. Was her death caused MON by the heatwave, or the 'English Cholera' - or could the MON arsenic-laced fly papers have something to do with it? MON Margaret Seddon ...... Lynne Seymour MON Fred Seddon ...... Bertie Carvel MON Miss Barrow ...... Annette Badland MON Hook/Attorney General Isaacs ...... Dick Bradnum MON Benny/Vicar ...... Brendan Charleson MON Dr Sworn/Hangman ...... Dorien Thomas MON Maggie ...... Anwen Carlisle MON Ada ...... Isabel Lewis MON Directed by Nigel Lewis. MON MON 11:00 Book of the Week b00xcd9n (Listen) MON The Invention of Murder, Episode 1 MON By Judith Flanders. MON "We are a trading community - a commercial people. Murder MON is, doubtless, a very shocking offence; nevertheless, as MON what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out MON of it." Punch, 1842 MON Over the course of the nineteenth century, murder - in MON reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into MON novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and MON melodrama. Seeing therein the foundation of modern notions MON of crime, "The Invention of Murder" explores this MON fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the MON century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in MON which they were commercially exploited. MON The Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 were particularly MON dreadful: two separate sets of killings in which seven MON people lost their lives. It was a case that shocked the MON nation - this was half as many people as had been murdered MON in the entire previous year throughout England and Wales - MON and forced the establishment to rethink the policing of MON major cities. MON Read by Robert Glenister. MON Abridged by David Jackson Young. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 11:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music b007qx2y (Listen) MON Roll Jordan Roll MON When Megan keeps playing a mystery melody in rehearsals for MON a jazz festival, she turns musical detective. Stars Rakie MON Ayola. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b00qg7s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Marriage Lines b063ml9j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall MON b007k2vr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Getting the Gongs b00kbyxt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Beachtime b01kt6lr (Listen) MON Sadie Jones - The Uninvited Guests, Episode 1 MON Dark secrets threaten to tear a family apart. Country house MON drama set in Edwardian England, read by Hattie Morahan. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj26c (Listen) MON MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions, Episode 11 MON M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy MON Catherine. Leaving the Karidkote party, Ash rejoins the MON Guides in Rawalpindi. MON Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi MON Ash ..... Blake Ritson MON Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai MON Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee MON Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes MON Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson MON Khoda-Daad ..... Sam Dastor MON Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. MON Credits MON Producer: Jessica Dromgoole MON Producer: Marc Beeby MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b009ppjg (Listen) MON The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Episode 1 MON Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a MON Victorian murder case that gripped the nation. MON 1/5. On a summer night in 1860, a gruesome murder takes MON place in a remote Georgian country house. The household MON reverberates with shock, not least because is seems the MON murderer is still among them. Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard, MON the most celebrated detective of his day, is called to the MON scene. With only an inept local police force to help him, he MON faces an unenviable task. MON MON 15:00 Saturday Drama b007t4zn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Genius b00b9nzd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b008jdf4 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON Pamela has had enough of men, including Merv, so she joins a MON women's group. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From May 2003. MON MON 17:00 The World As We Know It b00fks6k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b062jy98 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Book at Bedtime b00vcnf1 (Listen) MON The Lifted Veil, Episode 1 MON The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first MON published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for MON which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes MON of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, MON the possibility of life after death, and the power of fate. MON The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition MON of horror fiction. MON Latimer recalls the first time he knew for certain he could MON see in to the future. MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Read by Nigel Cooke MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016pyp1 (Listen) MON The Linen Mill MON When 82-year old Ellie revisits her old workplace, she is in MON turn visited by the past. Can she be forgiven? Stars Doreen MON Keogh. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075tfz (Listen) MON Virginia Ironside and Jeremy Lewis MON Louise Doughty, Jeremy Lewis and Virginia Ironside discuss MON books by Truman Capote, Italo Calvino and Patrick Hamilton. MON From April 2000. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b00qg7s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Marriage Lines b063ml9j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Murder Most Foul b03cnf5k (Listen) MON The Surgeon's Knife MON Nick Ross looks back at the case of Dr Buck Ruxton, whose MON wife and maid went missing in 1935. With Mark Zuber and MON Anthony Bate. MON MON 20:30 Getting the Gongs b00kbyxt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Book of the Week b00xcd9n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music b007qx2y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b062jy98 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Bricklayer's Lament b01lsqk6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b064y5qx (Listen) MON The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan is MON joined by Sharon Horgan. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b062n4nq (Listen) MON Series 46, Episode 4 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical MON stand-up and sketches. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON MON 23:30 Pick Ups b00nrrdc (Listen) MON Series 2, All Bar Nun MON Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi company. MON Alan and Lind reveal hidden talents, while Dave seeks a MON nun's advice on infidelity. MON Mike ...... Paul Loughran MON Lind ...... Lesley Sharp MON Dave ...... Phil Rowson MON Alan ...... Parvez Qadir MON Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe MON Drunk ...... Mark E Smith MON Tanya ...... Janie Connolly. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 JULY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00vcnf1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016pyp1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075tfz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall TUE b007k2vr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Getting the Gongs b00kbyxt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Beachtime b01kt6lr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj26c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b009ppjg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Saturday Drama b007t4zn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Genius b00b9nzd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b008jdf4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The World As We Know It b00fks6k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b062jy98 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall TUE b007jlzz (Listen) TUE The Camden Town Murder TUE Did Bob Wood really murder Emily Dimmock by slitting her TUE throat? Tom Baker stars as Britain's celebrated criminal TUE barrister. TUE TUE 06:30 Death by Chocolate b00ybzdh (Listen) TUE From Brighton's chocolate-cream poisoner to chocolate hand TUE grenades, Jo Brand looks at the sinister history of the TUE sweet treat. TUE TUE 07:00 Two Doors Down b0076h5s (Listen) TUE Series 3, All You Need Is Love TUE Saffron is worried because Trevor is staying out after work TUE more frequently. Stars Frances Tomelty. From October 2003. TUE TUE 07:30 It's Not What You Know b062khlc (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE What's Lucy Porter's least favourite town to perform in? Has TUE Cornelius's pal Jonathan ever won any money as a result of a TUE tip from Cornelius? Who is Tom Wrigglesworth's all time TUE hero? TUE All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in TUE the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested TUE on how well they know their nearest and dearest. TUE In this case, comedian Lucy Porter picks her agent, comedian TUE Tom Wrigglesworth picks his father, and Cornelius Lysaght TUE picks an old school friend. TUE Producer: Matt Stronge. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Miles Jupp TUE Panellist: Lucy Porter TUE Panellist: Cornelius Lysaght TUE Panellist: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Producer: Matt Stronge TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007jrlz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Kenneth Horne spies a nuclear banana, and Kenneth Williams TUE throws a tantrum over the show's script. From April 1966. TUE TUE 08:30 The Burkiss Way b00dghc4 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Wave Goodbyes to CBEs the Burkiss Way TUE The sketch show team's last ever episode. With Chris Emmett, TUE Fred Harris and special guest David Jason. From November TUE 1980. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b062n4nq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Romantic Friction b00764mh (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE In Brian's absence, romance writer Anna is hounded by her TUE characters. With Samantha Bond and Hugh Bonneville. From TUE October 2001. TUE TUE 10:00 Saturday Drama b0076x96 (Listen) TUE The Great Chocolate Murders TUE By John Fletcher. TUE When people start falling ill all over 19th-century TUE Brighton, everyone thinks that the lack of proper sewers has TUE caused a cholera epidemic. Little do the police suspect that TUE a middle-aged spinster is responsible. TUE With Sian Thomas, Chris Donnelly, Jennifer Hill, Dorien TUE Thomas, Brendan Charleson. TUE Directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Book of the Week b00x8hl2 (Listen) TUE The Invention of Murder, Episode 2 TUE By Judith Flanders. TUE Over the course of the nineteenth century, murder - in TUE reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into TUE novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and TUE melodrama. "The Invention of Murder" explores the Victorian TUE fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the TUE century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in TUE which they were commercially exploited. TUE Despite rising crime figures - and increasingly crowded TUE cities - the public were reluctant to accept the TUE establishment of an organised police force. This episode TUE examines the reasons for that unwillingness and offers a TUE fascinating insight into the origins of modern policing. TUE Read by Robert Glenister. TUE Abridged by David Jackson Young. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 11:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music b007qvgd (Listen) TUE The Great Pork Pie Mystery TUE Musical detective Megan's mystery melody quest leads her to TUE a 1920s Swansea tearoom. Stars Rakie Ayola and Margaret TUE John. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jrlz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Burkiss Way b00dghc4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall TUE b007jlzz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Death by Chocolate b00ybzdh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Beachtime b01kt9w8 (Listen) TUE Sadie Jones - The Uninvited Guests, Episode 2 TUE A train accident upsets Emerald Torrington's birthday TUE celebrations. Country house drama set in Edwardian England, TUE read by Hattie Morahan. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj25z (Listen) TUE MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions, Episode 12 TUE M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy TUE Catherine. Confronting the bigotry of a fellow officer lands TUE Ash in trouble, and he is sent away to Gujarat to cool his TUE heels. TUE Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi TUE Ash ..... Blake Ritson TUE Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua TUE Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Stiggins ..... Sean Baker TUE Commander ..... Sam Dale TUE Gobind ..... Sam Dastor TUE Raikes ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Sarji ..... Sagar Arya TUE Crimpley ..... Iain Batchelor TUE Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Producer: Marc Beeby TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b009ppjj (Listen) TUE The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Episode 2 TUE Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a TUE Victorian murder case that gripped the nation. TUE 2/5. Certain that the local police's chief suspect is TUE innocent, Whicher begins to piece together the family TUE history of those at Road Hill House. Before long, he TUE uncovers a web of deception and concealment going back TUE decades. Finally, convinced that his instincts are correct, TUE he makes an arrest that shocks disbelieving locals. TUE TUE 15:00 Saturday Drama b0076x96 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Who Goes There? b0076b39 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Episode 3 TUE Martin Young's famous people quiz. With Francis Wheen, Fred TUE Housego, Jenny Colgan and Geoffrey Durham. From October TUE 2002. TUE TUE 16:30 Romantic Friction b00764mh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Two Doors Down b0076h5s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 It's Not What You Know b062khlc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Book at Bedtime b00vfxfg (Listen) TUE The Lifted Veil, Episode 2 TUE Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of TUE clairvoyance and mind-reading. TUE Latimer's brother has fallen in love with Bertha. Her TUE thoughts though are the only ones Latimer cannot read. TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016q309 (Listen) TUE The Wedding Bouquet TUE Could the tale of a tragic marriage from 1677 have TUE implications for a couple tying the knot today? Stars Alison TUE McKenna. TUE TUE 18:30 How Tickled Am I? b007mw9s (Listen) TUE Series 3, Arthur Askey TUE 'Big-Hearted' - but also a comedic radical. Mark Radcliffe TUE profiles one of Britain's most successful comic performers. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jrlz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Burkiss Way b00dghc4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Murder Most Foul b03ddytq (Listen) TUE Cabin 126 TUE Nick Ross looks back at the death of the actress Gay Gibson, TUE on board an ocean liner in 1947. Stars Graham Blockley. TUE TUE 20:30 Death by Chocolate b00ybzdh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Book of the Week b00x8hl2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music b007qvgd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 It's Not What You Know b062khlc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Little Britain b008m9f5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Back where it started out. Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TUE oddball TV smash hit, without the cameras. From February TUE 2002. TUE TUE 23:00 Rubbish b0084j26 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Insomnia TUE Insomnia: Local government worker Martin faces a deadly TUE combo - new boss, cats and wheelie bins. Stars Reece TUE Dinsdale. From October 2007. TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b01f9xz7 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Stirrings in the Night TUE In Ben's mind, Byron offers sweet texts of love. In reality, TUE Mary ponders their marriage. Comatose comedy with Neil TUE Pearson. From December 2009. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 JULY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00vfxfg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016q309 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 How Tickled Am I? b007mw9s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall WED b007jlzz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Death by Chocolate b00ybzdh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Beachtime b01kt9w8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj25z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b009ppjj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Saturday Drama b0076x96 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Who Goes There? b0076b39 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Romantic Friction b00764mh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Two Doors Down b0076h5s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 It's Not What You Know b062khlc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall WED b007jm0j (Listen) WED A Hint of Arsenic WED The barrister is determined to prove Harold Greenwood WED innocent of killing his first wife. Tom Baker stars. WED WED 06:30 Hot House Kids b00gkz12 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Former prima ballerina Deborah Bull investigates the WED advantages and the pitfalls of being an elite performer in WED the arts and sport and what young people need to succeed. WED She also looks at the physiological advantages and problems WED of attaining perfection, discovering the optimum and the WED safe age to begin meaningful training. WED Deborah started ballet training at the age of seven - WED dangerously close to the age at which, however hard she WED worked, she would have been too late to consider a career on WED the international ballet stage today. The ability to excel WED at complex and extreme physical endeavours in ballet and WED other performing arts and sport requires a combination of WED two things: a highly trained body and an expert brain. WED To achieve the levels of excellence necessary to compete on WED the global job market today you have to start young, taking WED advantage of the brain's early plasticity and the increased WED potential for muscle flexibility in pre-adolescents. In the WED UK, most little girls (and some boys) start serious dancing WED and music training at around the age of seven. A UK child WED has some degree of choice and control and, after a few WED years, the ability to decide whether or not to pursue one of WED the activities as a professional career. However, in some WED countries in Eastern Europe and Asia children enter full WED time training as young as three - gymnastics and ballet WED training are key examples - and endure challenging physical WED and mental regimes to ensure that they are ready to compete WED - and achieve the highest standards as soon as they reach WED double figures. WED On a journey that takes Deborah to the Ukraine, she visits WED the National Ballet School in Kiev, the elite football WED training centre at Dynamo Kiev and the National Gymnastics WED centre in Kiev where she discovers why elite athletes are WED achieving such high levels of achievment in Eastern Europe. WED Because of the growing number of top-class performers coming WED out of Asian countries she also has contributions from WED members of the national ballet school in Korea. WED In this first programme Deborah looks at the physiological WED development of a young person, what happens to the body and WED the brain of an elite child and what key things are needed WED to help nurture and realise its potential. She also WED discovers that if a child is to avoid some of the short- and WED long-term injuries which result in top class training he or WED she may have to compromise on standards. WED Credits WED Producer: Neil George WED WED 07:00 Winston b007k4s2 (Listen) WED Series 1, Without a Doubt WED Nancy's brother and sister threaten to leave for London, and WED Father's started drinking again. Stars Bill Wallis. From May WED 1989. WED WED 07:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b062kx4n (Listen) WED Series 2, Coffee WED Comedian Simon Evans returns with a new series about the WED economics of some of the goods - or bads - we are addicted WED to. WED If you crave your daily coffee, can't get by without a WED cigarette, feel that mid-afternoon slump without your WED sugar-fix, or can't face an evening without a glass of wine, WED you are definitely not alone. But have you ever thought WED about the economics that has made your addiction possible? WED Who does it profit? And would you want to make some canny WED investments that take advantage of our human weaknesses? WED In this series, Simon Evans looks at the economics, history WED and health issues behind these oh-so-addictive commodities. WED This week it's coffee. How much are we now drinking as a WED nation? And how much of the price of a cup of coffee is WED actually the coffee beans? Are we giving coffee growers the WED best deal when we buy Fairtrade coffee or should we be WED seeking out Direct trade coffee? And could this be the least WED harmful of all addictions? Perhaps even a positive WED addiction, with the coffee shop being, as Steven Johnson WED said (in his recent 'Where good ideas come from' TED talk), WED 'a place where ideas can have sex'? WED Simon speaks to specialist coffee experts Onny Loisel and WED Michael Cleland. He is also joined by economics guru, More WED Or Less host Tim Harford and the Queen of investment WED know-how, Merryn Somerset-Webb, as he walks us around the WED economics of this very familiar commodity and pokes fun at WED our relationship with it. WED Presented by Simon Evans, with Onny Loisel and Michael WED Cleland, Tim Harford and Merryn Somerset Webb. WED Written by Simon Evans, Benjamin Partridge and Andy Wolton. WED Produced by Claire Jones. WED Credits WED Presenter: Simon Evans WED Interviewed Guest: Onny Loisel WED Interviewed Guest: Michael Cleland WED Interviewed Guest: Tim Harford WED Interviewed Guest: Merryn Somerset Webb WED Writer: Simon Evans WED Writer: Benjamin Partridge WED Writer: Andy Wolton WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b007ys7l (Listen) WED Povey's Unexpected Leave WED It's a case of better the devil you know, when a temporary WED new Captain arrives on board. Stars Jon Pertwee. From WED January 1961. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00wmxgc (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 12 WED The sound archives of the BBC, and noises animals make. WED Songs and sketches with Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie. From WED July 1967. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b063r08q (Listen) WED 1998, Semi-final 2 WED Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Pam Gulliver of WED Reading, London's Thomas Dyer and Dick Hobbs from East WED Sussex. From March 1998. WED WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00bs464 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Caramba Campaign WED The Prince of Monte Guano is badgered by his wife to wade WED into war. Stars David Swift and Sian Phillips. From April WED 2001. WED WED 10:00 Edna Ferber - Show Boat b01nt0gv (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED A whole new world opens up for Magnolia Hawks aboard the WED Cotton Blossom Floating Palace Theatre. Stars Lysette WED Anthony. WED WED 11:00 Book of the Week b00xcdk9 (Listen) WED The Invention of Murder, Episode 3 WED By Judith Flanders. WED Over the course of the nineteenth century, murder - in WED reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into WED novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and WED melodrama. "The Invention of Murder" explores the Victorian WED fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the WED century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in WED which they were commercially exploited. WED The decreasing age of the British population - in the 1820s WED half the country was under 25 - meant there was a lucrative WED market for lively entertainment. Children flocked to penny WED gaffs: unlicensed theatres which offered cheap WED entertainment, often dramatisations of notorious murders. WED One of the most infamous, the Red Barn Murder of 1828, was WED being performed as a melodrama even before the prime suspect WED was put on trial. WED Read by Robert Glenister. WED Abridged by David Jackson Young. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 11:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music b007qss0 (Listen) WED Beacons WED Musical detective Megan's mystery melody quest comes full WED circle when she gets a surprise. Stars Rakie Ayola. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b007ys7l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00wmxgc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall WED b007jm0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Hot House Kids b00gkz12 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Beachtime b01ktfbw (Listen) WED Sadie Jones - The Uninvited Guests, Episode 3 WED Tension mounts following the arrival of another mysterious WED visitor. Country house drama set in Edwardian England, read WED by Hattie Morahan. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj261 (Listen) WED MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions, Episode 13 WED M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy WED Catherine. Ash's peace is shattered by news from Bhithor, WED where the Rana is dangerously ill. WED Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi WED Ash ..... Blake Ritson WED Street Vendor ..... Kaleem Janjua WED Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar WED Commissioner ..... Sam Dale WED Gobind ..... Sam Dastor WED Sarji ..... Sagar Arya WED Manilal ..... Christopher Simpson WED Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. WED Credits WED Producer: Jessica Dromgoole WED Producer: Marc Beeby WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b009ppjl (Listen) WED The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Episode 3 WED Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a WED Victorian murder case that gripped the nation. WED 3/5. Whicher's prime suspect Constance Kent is brought WED before the judge at Temperance Hall to face questions about WED the murder of her younger brother Saville. After a WED convincing performance by her defence team, Whicher's case WED seems to be crumbling. With the release of both Constance WED and the local police's suspect, nursemaid Elizabeth Gough, WED the truth seems as elusive as ever. WED WED 15:00 Edna Ferber - Show Boat b01nt0gv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b063r08q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00bs464 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Winston b007k4s2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b062kx4n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Book at Bedtime b00vfxhb (Listen) WED The Lifted Veil, Episode 3 WED Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of WED clairvoyance and mind-reading. WED Latimer has had a clairvoyant vision that he will marry his WED brother's wife, Bertha. But how can that possibly be? WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016r25v (Listen) WED The Waiting Wall WED Grandmother Sarah returns to the village she grew up in, and WED relives the scandal and tragedy of her sister. Stars Doreen WED Keogh. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076qr3 (Listen) WED Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned WED Matthew Parris, Rachel Royce, Harry Thompson and Libby WED Potter discuss the dangers of a woman scorned. From March WED 2005. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b007ys7l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00wmxgc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Murder Most Foul b03f882y (Listen) WED The Major, the Scone and the Dandelions WED Nick Ross reviews the 1920s Hay-on-Wye case of Major WED Armstrong's weed killer fetish and his poorly wife. Stars WED Aubrey Woods. WED WED 20:30 Hot House Kids b00gkz12 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Book of the Week b00xcdk9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music b007qss0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Simon Evans Goes to Market b062kx4n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Cabin Pressure b012x12f (Listen) WED Series 3, St Petersburg WED Written by John Finnemore. WED Some vodka and an unwary bird could spell the end of the WED line for MJN Air and when Carolyn meets her ex-husband the WED atmosphere turns even icier. WED With special guest Timothy West WED Cast: WED Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole WED 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam WED Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch WED Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore WED Gordon Shappey ..... Timothy West WED Tommo ..... Paul Shearer WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for the BBC. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b064y5tc (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan is WED joined by Sharon Horgan. WED WED 23:00 Revolting People b00fnrmh (Listen) WED Series 2, And Yet Even More Trying Times WED Samuel's aunt leaves him a fortune, subject to her final WED wish. 1770 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From February WED 2001. WED WED 23:30 1966 and All That b01075px (Listen) WED The 1940s WED Big Mac is the Prime Minister. You've never had it so long! WED Craig Brown's satirical history of Britain. From September WED 2006. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 JULY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00vfxhb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016r25v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076qr3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall THU b007jm0j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Hot House Kids b00gkz12 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Beachtime b01ktfbw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj261 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b009ppjl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Edna Ferber - Show Boat b01nt0gv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b063r08q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00bs464 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Winston b007k4s2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market b062kx4n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall THU b007jm10 (Listen) THU A Death at Christmas THU Britain's celebrated criminal barrister faces a complex case THU over a troubled ex-soldier charged with murder. Stars Tom THU Baker. THU THU 06:30 Hot House Kids b00gqzvy (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Former prima ballerina Deborah Bull investigates the THU advantages and the pitfalls of being an elite performer in THU the arts and sport and what young people need to succeed, as THU well as the psychological advantages and problems of THU attaining perfection. THU To achieve the levels of excellence necessary to compete on THU the global job market today a performer needs to start THU young, taking advantage of the brain's early plasticity and THU the increased potential for muscle flexibility in THU pre-adolescents. But in some cases the cost can be the THU stable emotional development of the child. THU In certain countries of Eastern Europe and Asia children can THU enter full-time training as young as three - gymnastics and THU ballet training are key examples - and undergo challenging THU physical and mental regimes in order to ensure that they are THU ready to compete and achieve the highest standards as soon THU as they reach double figures. For the growing child as it THU moves into adolescence, interaction with a parent is vital THU to its emotional development. Yet, as the programme THU discovers, the intense training regime needed to hothouse THU gifted children to the supreme levels of performance THU frequently involves taking the child away for hours of THU training. THU On a journey that takes Deborah to the Ukraine, she visits THU the National Ballet School in Kiev, the elite football THU training centre at Dynamo Kiev and the National Gymnastics THU centre in Kiev, where she discovers why elite athletes are THU achieving such high levels of achievement in Eastern Europe. THU Back in Britain she visits the Chelsea Academy, the Yehudi THU Menuhin School and the Central School of Ballet to find out THU if our softly, softly approach will work in such a THU competitive market. THU The programme also includes contributions from members of THU the National Ballet School of Korea, reflecting the growing THU number of top-class performers today emerging from Asian THU nations. THU Credits THU Producer: Neil George THU THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007rgl7 (Listen) THU Honoria Glossop THU When Bingo's new love lands Bertie in bother, who can save THU the day? PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael THU Hordern. THU THU 07:30 It's a Fair Cop b062n1fc (Listen) THU Series 2, Property THU Last in the series. This week Alfie Moore looks at THU evidential property and the trouble it brings to the police. THU After a successful first series on Radio 4 and a sold-out THU run at the Edinburgh Festival, policeman turned comic, Alfie THU Moore, returns with the series that forces his audience to THU make the policing decisions as he takes them through a real THU life crime scenario. THU Written and performed by Alfie Moore, THU Script Editor ..... Will Ing, THU Producer..... Alison Vernon-Smith. THU Credits THU Performer: Alfie Moore THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Writer: Alfie Moore THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b00t39lf (Listen) THU Series 2, The Siege of Steptoe Street THU Albert and Harold's creditors arrive for payment. Adapted THU from TV, with Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett. From THU June 1967. THU THU 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01jznr9 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU Baby talk and hairy bath-time antics from the much-loved THU comic duo. With guest singer Wilma Reading. From February THU 1975. THU THU 09:00 Guess What? b063r9k0 (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU Animal, vegetable or mineral? Barry Took's revised 20 THU questions. With Geoffrey Durham and Hattie Hayridge. From THU May 1998. THU THU 09:30 Radio Active b007jrkv (Listen) THU Series 2, Good Day Sport THU Get the results you need from your local national radio THU station. Stars Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. From THU August 1982. THU THU 10:00 Edna Ferber - Show Boat b01nt4px (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Parthy has shocking news about Gaylord, as Kim receives a THU telegram in her Cotton Blossom dressing room. Stars Samantha THU Spiro. THU THU 11:00 Book of the Week b00xf8nz (Listen) THU The Invention of Murder, Episode 4 THU By Judith Flanders. THU Over the course of the nineteenth century, murder - in THU reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into THU novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and THU melodrama. "The Invention of Murder" explores the Victorian THU fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the THU century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in THU which they were commercially exploited. THU As the century progressed, so did advances in medical THU knowledge and expert witnesses were soon playing a major THU part in criminal trials. This episode looks at the THU sensational case of Adelaide Bartlett, who was accused of THU murdering her husband with chloroform in 1886. Newspapers THU and magazines pored over lurid details of the Bartletts' THU marriage and the case was responsible for inspiring a rash THU of fiction. THU Read by Robert Glenister. THU Abridged by David Jackson Young. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00xhzbv (Listen) THU Notes to Self THU by Deborah Wain. THU Doreen has been in a care home for two years. Her son Robert THU visits but finds it hard to have a meaningful relationship THU with his mother, unlike his partner Karen. A performance at THU the home reveals music to have a powerful effect on Doreen. THU Can it offer an opportunity for Robert to make a new THU connection with her? A drama about Alzheimer's disease based THU on real experiences and interwoven with recordings of music THU sessions carried out in care homes and day centres. THU Music performed by David Barnard, James Dinsmore and Rebecca THU Watson with participants in the Lost Chord music session at THU The Linney Centre and residents and carers at the Richmond THU Care Home. THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU Credits THU Writer: Deborah Wain THU Doreen: Linda Bassett THU Robert: Jeff Hordley THU Karen: Cherylee Houston THU Dor: Kellie Shirley THU Harry: William Ash THU Care Assistant: Ruth Alexander-Rubin THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b00t39lf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01jznr9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall THU b007jm10 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Hot House Kids b00gqzvy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Beachtime b01kv4lj (Listen) THU Sadie Jones - The Uninvited Guests, Episode 4 THU After shocking revelations, Charlotte plans her escape. THU Country house drama set in Edwardian England, read by Hattie THU Morahan. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj263 (Listen) THU MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions, Episode 14 THU M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy THU Catherine. Ash's plan is diverted at the last minute, and he THU has to decide whether pity justifies the same terrible deed THU as love. THU Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi THU Ash ..... Blake Ritson THU Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar THU Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker THU Gobind ..... Sam Dastor THU Sarji ..... Sagar Arya THU Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. THU Credits THU Producer: Jessica Dromgoole THU Producer: Marc Beeby THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b009ppjn (Listen) THU The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Episode 4 THU Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a THU Victorian murder case that gripped the nation. THU 4/5. Constance Kent confesses to the murder. After a short THU trial, the death sentence is passed, but Queen Victoria THU spares her life. It is only after the trial that Constance's THU motives begin to come to light, and the case is by no means THU satisfactorily concluded. THU THU 15:00 Edna Ferber - Show Boat b01nt4px (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Guess What? b063r9k0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Radio Active b007jrkv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007rgl7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 It's a Fair Cop b062n1fc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Book at Bedtime b00vfxkv (Listen) THU The Lifted Veil, Episode 4 THU Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of THU clairvoyance and mind-reading. THU After his brother's death, Latimer realises that his THU chilling premonition may just come true... THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016r526 (Listen) THU The Shimmering Dress THU In 19th century Ireland, the beautiful Cecilia rejects the THU Squire's advances. But can she ever escape him? Stars Alison THU McKenna. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076nys (Listen) THU Series 5, 05/11/2004 THU 4 Extra Debut. Writer and broadcaster Tim Marlow chooses THU innovative singer Marvin Gaye. With Humphrey Carpenter and THU Norman Jay. From November 2004. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b00t39lf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01jznr9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Murder Most Foul b03g8w4n (Listen) THU The Body in the Trunk THU Nick Ross looks back at the case of Tony Mancini, who faced THU the death penalty in 1934. But was he guilty? With Peter THU Hugo-Daly. THU THU 20:30 Hot House Kids b00gqzvy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Book of the Week b00xf8nz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00xhzbv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 It's a Fair Cop b062n1fc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Bleak Expectations b00db5bt (Listen) THU Series 2, A Happy Life Broken and Then Mended a Bit THU By Mark Evans THU Chapter the Last: A Happy Life Broken and then Mended a Bit THU This week in the Victorian comic epic listeners are THU cordially invited to cower before the terrifying spectacle THU of the Martian invasion, where only Pip and some geese stand THU between Mr Benevolent's army of long-eared purple space THU villains and all that is good and true.... THU The final chapter of the Victorian comic epic, and the whole THU planet is in terrible danger when Pip's evil ex-guardian Mr THU Gently Benevolent summons a massive Martian invasion. Is THU this the end for Pip, Harry and the rest of the human race? THU And will Pippa's goose sanctuary be all right? Listeners are THU cordially invited to cower before the terrifying spectacle THU of the army of long-eared purple space villains... THU Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson THU Mr Benevolent........................Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman THU Young Pip..................................Tom Allen THU Sternbeater...................Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely Fecund......................Sarah Hadland THU Mr Parsimonious...............Laurence Howarth THU Pippa........................................Susy Kane THU Sundry learned gentlemen...........Mark Evans THU Produced by Gareth Edwards. THU THU 23:00 The Party Party b007jx5p (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU Microcosm is host to revenge, greed, and attempted murder. THU Hugh Laurie, Robert Glenister and Clive Mantle star. From THU June 1987. THU THU 23:30 Miranda Hart's Joke Shop b00mvfw1 (Listen) THU What an Excuse THU The shopkeeper's mother plans a wedding, but the prospective THU bride has other ideas. With Patricia Hodge. From September THU 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 JULY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00vfxkv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016r526 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076nys (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall FRI b007jm10 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Hot House Kids b00gqzvy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Beachtime b01kv4lj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj263 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b009ppjn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Edna Ferber - Show Boat b01nt4px (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Guess What? b063r9k0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Radio Active b007jrkv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007rgl7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 It's a Fair Cop b062n1fc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall FRI b007k2zd (Listen) FRI The Case of the Green Bicycle FRI Did Ronald Light shoot a woman cyclist dead? The feted FRI barrister sets out to prove the man's innocence. Tom Baker FRI stars. FRI FRI 06:30 A Thor in One's Side b00772pf (Listen) FRI It’s 60 years since a crew of intrepid and hard-bitten FRI Norwegians first set out on what was, on the face of it, a FRI pretty flimsy premise - that you could cross the mighty FRI Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia with nothing more solid FRI than a balsa wood raft. FRI That raft, the Kon Tikki, and the exploits of those FRI Norwegians, led by the visionary Thor Heyerdahl, were to FRI become world renowned. Tony Robinson tells the story of FRI Heyerdahl’s epic journey, and its lasting effect on popular FRI archaeology. FRI FRI 07:00 Rent b063rvm6 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 2 FRI Maria and Richard receive a windfall, whilst Paul and Ruby FRI are busy house-hunting. Stars Barbara Flynn. From June 1998. FRI FRI 07:30 Wordaholics b01c7lk6 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 1 FRI Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all FRI about words. FRI Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and FRI comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat FRI star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and FRI Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. FRI Gyles is the longest-serving wordsmith in Countdown's FRI Dictionary Corner and the author of numerous wordplay books. FRI But now it's time for him to encourage other people to show FRI off their knowledge of words and playfulness with language. FRI Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. FRI There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, FRI new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus FRI the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful FRI words: the whole world of words in twenty-eight minutes. FRI Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler FRI and buckfitches - the difference between French marbles, FRI French velvet and the French ache - hear the glorious poetry FRI of the English language, as practiced from writers varying FRI from William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice - and spend half an FRI hour laughing and learning with some of the finest FRI Wordaholics in the business. FRI Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle FRI Producer: Claire Jones. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007v1p4 (Listen) FRI Agricultural 'Ancock FRI The lad starts farming, unaware that Sid has sold him a top FRI cricket ground. With Tony Hancock and Sid James. From FRI February 1957. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jlsh (Listen) FRI The Last Tram (from Clapham) FRI London's trams are no more, but boss Seagoon must pursue the FRI one that got away. Stars Spike Milligan. From November 1954. FRI FRI 09:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mb1r1 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, FRI Tracey MacLeod, Danny Kelly and Clare Grogan. From May 2006. FRI FRI 09:30 Boogie Up the River b007jv6z (Listen) FRI Sonning, I'll Definitely Meet You in Sonning FRI Mark and his manic mutt are rowing up the Thames, but will FRI Jennifer ever come on board? Stars Timothy Spall. From FRI December 1992. FRI FRI 10:00 Stephen Fagan - The Intersection b01fhjrq (Listen) FRI A chance meeting at work means an awkward family reunion for FRI a young man and his absentee father. Starring John Le FRI Mesurier. FRI FRI 11:00 Book of the Week b00xf9t2 (Listen) FRI The Invention of Murder, Episode 5 FRI By Judith Flanders. FRI Over the course of the nineteenth century, murder - in FRI reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into FRI novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and FRI melodrama. "The Invention of Murder" explores the Victorian FRI fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the FRI century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in FRI which they were commercially exploited. FRI The public imagination was particularly stirred when new FRI technology was used to bring criminals to justice. This FRI episode looks at one such case in which an enterprising FRI railway clerk used the electric telegraph to send a FRI description of a suspected murderer ahead of the train he FRI was travelling on, so that the suspect could be met by FRI police at his journey's end. And, bringing us right up to FRI the final years of the century, how the funeral of an FRI acclaimed actor - and murder victim - was captured on film FRI for posterity. FRI Read by Robert Glenister. FRI Abridged by David Jackson Young. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 11:15 Carolyn Bonnyman - Talking Latin b0076kc6 (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. Five years after vanishing, Karen meets with FRI her husband and facts have to be faced. Stars Julie FRI Duncanson and Billy McElhaney. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007v1p4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jlsh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 John Mortimer Presents the Trials of Marshall Hall FRI b007k2zd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 A Thor in One's Side b00772pf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Beachtime b01kv7wq (Listen) FRI Sadie Jones - The Uninvited Guests, Episode 5 FRI A horse and child cause chaos and the train crash survivors FRI demand release. Hattie Morahan concludes the country house FRI drama set in Edwardian England. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00yj265 (Listen) FRI MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions, Episode 15 FRI M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy FRI Catherine. Safe and with the woman he loves, Ash cannot work FRI out how to marry her. FRI Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI Ash ..... Blake Ritson FRI Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua FRI Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar FRI Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker FRI Stiggins ..... Sean Baker FRI Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson FRI Mrs Viccary ..... Joanna Monro FRI Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Producer: Marc Beeby FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b009ppjq (Listen) FRI The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Episode 5 FRI Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a FRI Victorian murder case that gripped the nation. FRI 5/5. Only in 1928, with the arrival of an anonymous letter FRI from Sydney, do the real events at Road Hill House back in FRI 1860 finally come to light. FRI FRI 15:00 Stephen Fagan - The Intersection b01fhjrq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mb1r1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Boogie Up the River b007jv6z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Rent b063rvm6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Wordaholics b01c7lk6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Book at Bedtime b00vfxmc (Listen) FRI The Lifted Veil, Episode 5 FRI Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of FRI clairvoyance and mind-reading. FRI As Latimer begins to lose his mind-reading powers - an old FRI friend persuades him to take part in an extraordinary FRI experiment. FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:15 Dermot Bolger - Haunting Women b016q02f (Listen) FRI The Riding Crop FRI A bitter dispute between sisters 200 years ago means a FRI precious wedding gift must be cared for in the present. FRI FRI 18:30 Fry's English Delight b012fbpn (Listen) FRI Series 4, The Mouth FRI "If you were an intelligent designer, would you combine the FRI food processor and the word processor in the same unit?" FRI asks Stephen Fry in this intimate portrait of the most FRI important part of speech. FRI Evolutionary biologists can't agree whether the complexities FRI of eating and speaking are linked. But the evolution of the FRI mouth is important. It date stamps the start of language and FRI of modern humanity. As soon as we had the equipment to FRI speak, we started, for example, to make art. We hear from a FRI lipreader, who explains why we all hear mouths with our FRI eyes. Ventriloquist Nina Conti explains how she has learned FRI to over-rule the automatic functions of her mouth. A facial FRI surgeon gives us the tour of the inside of the mouth and a FRI psychologist discusses humanity's earliest form of happy FRI oral communication - or language. The smile. But are smiles FRI conscious or unconscious? The psychologist and the lipreader FRI also explain what distinguishes English mouths. And it's not FRI the stiff upper lip. FRI The programme gives us key information about the development FRI of language. The human mouth's structure is unique among FRI primates. If chimpanzee or neanderthal mouths had developed FRI the same physical structure, would they be able to speak? FRI The answer comes with the help of a monkey, interviewed by FRI Stephen in the studio. He just happened to come along with FRI Nina Conti. FRI We also learn of a design fault unique to human mouths. The FRI benefit of the power of speech has a potentially fatal FRI downside. FRI Producer: Nick Baker FRI A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007v1p4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jlsh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Murder Most Foul b03h3kxy (Listen) FRI Sheer Plod FRI Nick Ross looks back to the murder of Irene Manton, whose FRI body was discovered in the River Lea in 1943. With Norman FRI Jones. FRI FRI 20:30 A Thor in One's Side b00772pf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Book of the Week b00xf9t2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Carolyn Bonnyman - Talking Latin b0076kc6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Shappi Talk b00lh4yp (Listen) FRI Series 1, Racism FRI Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi was brought to this FRI country and a child and grew up in a very unusual and un FRI British family. FRI Her father was one of Iran's top satirists and the family FRI were forced to leave their home country as her father was FRI termed a political dissident. As she grew up, it became FRI apparent that the Khorsandi household was a little different FRI from some of the families that Shappi had been friends with. FRI Shappi Talk takes this alternative background for Shappi to FRI host a four part comedy series where she takes four elements FRI of this upbringing to hilariously reveal what it was like FRI growing up in a non-British family. FRI Joining Shappi will be comedian Felix Dexter who was born in FRI St Kitts and moved to the UK as a child and each week Shappi FRI also chats to another guest 'on location' and this time FRI she's joined by Meera Syal. FRI There'll also be a song from comedian Hils Barker. FRI Producer: Paul Russell FRI An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Paul Russell FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007q93w (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 FRI Spin doctors Prentiss and McCabe get involved in the race FRI for London Mayor. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From FRI January 2000. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06542lt (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith is joined by FRI Iain Stirling. FRI FRI 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014gmfm (Listen) FRI Series 4, Ian Hislop FRI Marcus Brigstocke invites Ian Hislop to try new experiences, FRI including buying his first ever pair of jeans. From FRI September 2011. FRI FRI 23:30 Down the Line b010626t (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 5 FRI The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by FRI the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators FRI of The Fast Show. FRI Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia FRI Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy FRI Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse. FRI Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Dave Cummings and Adil FRI Ray FRI Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse FRI A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Gary Bellamy: Rhys Thomas FRI Actor: Amelia Bullmore FRI Actor: Simon Day FRI Actor: Felix Dexter FRI Actor: Charlie Higson FRI Actor: Lucy Montgomery FRI Actor: Paul Whitehouse FRI Actor: Rosie Cavaliero FRI Actor: Dave Cummings FRI Actor: Adil Ray FRI Producer: Charlie Higson FRI Producer: Paul Whitehouse FRI