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SAT SATURDAY 08 AUGUST 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Marty Ross - Catch My Breath b007k3bt (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT The truth about Isla is revealed, and aid arrives from an SAT unexpected quarter. Stars Claire Knight and Suzanne SAT Donaldson. SAT SAT 00:30 Fry's English Delight b012krqz (Listen) SAT Series 4, Brevity SAT Stephen Fry explores 'Brevity' - from lyrics to headlines SAT and epitaphs to telegrams. SAT We've always had a taste for the tweet-sized. Proverbs and SAT aphorisms go back to the ancient Greeks. We explore the SAT possible links between the Tweet and the Haiku - including SAT that tiny rarity, an English Haiku. We visit Bunhill SAT Cemetery in London with writer Kevin Jackson to enjoy the SAT necessary terseness of epitaphs and reflect on a poetic SAT exponent, William Blake. SAT The concision of telegrams created poetry and humour born of SAT economy. We recall Oscar Wilde's famous telegram exchange SAT with his publisher in which he enquires about sales of his SAT recent book with a lone '?' The response was of course, '!' SAT One liner-machine Tim Vine joins Stephen in the studio to SAT discuss his affinity with brevity and 'his passion for small SAT hand grenades of wit' as one reviewer put it. He describes SAT the liberation of the bite-size joke and reflects on why he SAT would make the perfect headline writer. SAT 'The pun is the life blood of the headline' according to SAT Kelvin Mackenzie who recalls the origins of his famous SAT headline from the 1980s - 'Gotcha' and reflects on the SAT importance of short words for any tabloid newspaper editor. SAT Laura Barton, writer for the Guardian, explores her love of SAT short writing and of neologisms in pop lyrics. If 'la la' SAT means 'I love you' and 'wop-bop-a-loop-a' was an expression SAT which captured the freedom of 50s rock and roll, what short SAT word sums up the world today? SAT Alex Krotoski chooses the word 'Meme' and examines the way SAT technology has given us the means to create ever smaller SAT bespoke packages of information. And more of them. The SAT chopped up doesn't necessarily mean the dumbed down. SAT Producer: Nick Baker SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b064fmwy (Listen) SAT The Dead Candidate SAT The con artist tries going straight, but still manages to SAT become embroiled in a dictatorship's shenanigans. SAT Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. SAT The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The SAT Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his SAT place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes. SAT In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's SAT novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduce as one of SAT cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war SAT Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and SAT British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to SAT steal the show despite being absent for much of it! SAT This radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry Lime' SAT earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones had SAT already served him well as the radio voice of 'The Shadow' SAT between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the crusader with SAT distinctly questionable means of thwarting crime. SAT Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is SAT not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out SAT rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry SAT - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The SAT Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series SAT travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on SAT Radio Luxembourg. SAT The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man. SAT Produced by Towers of London. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1951. SAT SAT 01:20 Inheritance Tracks b064fmx0 (Listen) SAT Beverley Knight SAT The singer and actress chooses 'Touch the Hem of His SAT Garment' and 'A Change Gonna Come' by Sam Cooke. SAT SAT 01:30 Percy Edwards Showdown b00htwx7 (Listen) SAT David Attenborough hosts a celebration of bird impersonator SAT Percy Edwards, who enjoyed a 70-year career impersonating SAT birds and beasts. The programme combines the strange story SAT of Percy's life with archive of his impersonations, SAT interviews with those who knew him and a quiz. Guests SAT include Bill Oddie and the comedian Alex Horne. SAT Percy Edwards discovered his talent for talking like animals SAT when he was seven. Dozing under a tree, he heard what he SAT thought was a wolf-whistle and discovered that it was a SAT bird. For several weeks, Edwards kept hearing this SAT greenfinch and found that he could imitate it. He even took SAT to eating canary seed before going to bed in the hope that SAT he would wake in the morning singing like a bird. SAT Eventually Percy was able to produce the sound of more than SAT 600 birds, and some other animals. His was the voice of the SAT killer whale in Orca, the alien in Alien and he provided SAT sheep noises for Kate Bush's song The Dreaming. SAT Percy took to the stage aged 11, was a stalwart of the SAT Generation Game in the 1970s and gave his final performance SAT aged 80 at the London Palladium in 1989. His repertoire was SAT extraordinary - all 13 calls of the chaffinch, the strangely SAT grinding sound of the amorous capercaille and corgis barking SAT in Welsh accents. SAT Quizmaster David Attenborough plays bird calls for the teams SAT to identify, some of which will not be the birds but Percy's SAT impressions - can they tell the difference? Woven into the SAT rounds will be snippets about Percy's life from the BBC SAT archive, including appearances on Parkinson, Wogan and SAT Morecambe and Wise, revealing the importance of his work in SAT raising the public's awareness of wildlife and the SAT significance of his role as an ornithologist. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00v4m42 (Listen) SAT Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell, Episode 5 SAT Written by Rebecca Hunt SAT The weekend is approaching, together with the imminent SAT anniversary of Esther's husband's death. But an unexpected SAT task is set for Esther by her boss at the Westminster SAT Library. SAT The reader is Miriam Margolyes. SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:15 The Generation Gap b00qsz6f (Listen) SAT Series 1: Respect, Funeral Directors SAT Series of programmes in which two people from different SAT generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature SAT of Britain. SAT The theme of the first five programmes is Respect. SAT Michael Ryan, a funeral director in Newport, and his SAT daughter Louise - who, at 21, is the youngest female funeral SAT director in the world - discuss whether changes in funeral SAT styles mean that our respect for the dead has changed. SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00yqn7f (Listen) SAT MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions, Episode 20 SAT M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy SAT Catherine. The Guides' heroic last stand at the British SAT Mission in Kabul is watched helplessly by an imprisoned Ash. SAT Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi SAT Ash ..... Blake Ritson SAT Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale SAT Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker SAT Jenkyns ..... Sean Baker SAT Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes SAT Ambrose ..... Iain Batchelor SAT Nakshband Khan ..... Mozaffar Shafeie SAT Hassan Gul ..... Sagar Arya SAT Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Producer: Marc Beeby SAT SAT 02:45 Nella Last's Peace: Housewife 49 b012m9yp (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT In 1947's bitter winter, the housewife looks back - and SAT ponders the next generation's prospects. Concluded by Imelda SAT Staunton. SAT SAT 03:00 Herman Melville - Moby Dick b00tycss (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Fedullah's enigmatic prophecy is revealed, as Captain Ahab's SAT obsessive pursuit reaches a terrifying climax. Stars Garrick SAT Hagon. SAT SAT 04:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mdyl9 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, SAT Tracey MacLeod, Dave Gorman and Mary Anne Hobbs. From June SAT 2006. SAT SAT 04:30 Boogie Up the River b007jv7w (Listen) SAT See You Outside Boots in Oxford SAT Mark and his manic mutt look for the enigmatic Jennifer in SAT the city of dreaming spires. Stars Timothy Spall. From SAT December 1992. SAT SAT 05:00 Rent b064fnvq (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 3 SAT Maria and Richard hire a nanny, while Paul and Ruby move SAT into their new home. Stars Barbara Flynn. From June 1998. SAT SAT 05:30 Wordaholics b01cjm4p (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all SAT about words. SAT Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and SAT comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat SAT star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and SAT Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. SAT This week linguistic brainbox Natalie Haynes and poet SAT Michael Rosen vie for wordy supremacy with comedians Arthur SAT Smith and Paul Sinha. SAT Gyles is the longest-serving wordsmith in Countdown's SAT Dictionary Corner and the author of numerous wordplay books. SAT But now it's time for him to encourage other people to show SAT off their knowledge of words and playfulness with language. SAT Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. SAT There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, SAT new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus SAT the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful SAT words: the whole world of words in twenty-eight minutes. SAT Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler SAT and buckfitches - the difference between French marbles, SAT French velvet and the French ache - hear the glorious poetry SAT of the English language, as practiced from writers varying SAT from William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice - and spend half an SAT hour laughing and learning with some of the finest SAT Wordaholics in the business. SAT Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle SAT Producer: Claire Jones. SAT SAT 06:00 Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck b007k1v3 (Listen) SAT Pretty but shrewd Judith Taverner gallops in from the SAT provinces and daringly defies the gaming, drinking and SAT brawling world of Regency London to claim her rights, her SAT fortune - and who knows, perhaps her happiness? SAT Starring Elizabeth Proud as Judith Taverner, Simon Shepherd SAT as Peregrine Taverner, Steve Hodson as Lord Worth and Gary SAT Cady as Bernard Taverner. SAT Written by Georgette Heyer. Dramatised by Neville Teller. SAT Producer: David Johnston SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986. SAT SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01qxrv7 (Listen) SAT The Reluctant Jester Strikes Back, Episode 2 SAT Michael Bentine entertains an audience with tales about the SAT hazards of live TV and working with animals. From November SAT 1994. SAT SAT 08:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b00thcn8 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Sir Jonathan Miller SAT He became famous as a member of the Beyond the Fringe cast SAT and went on to present television programmes and direct SAT opera and theatre productions around the world. Now, in the SAT last of the series "Meeting Myself Coming Back", Sir SAT Jonathan Miller explores his life and work through the BBC SAT Sound archive. In conversation with John Wilson, he looks SAT back at his younger self and discusses the ways in which he SAT has changed and developed. SAT Revered as a polymath, Jonathan Miller's life has taken in SAT medical studies at university, comedy performing and SAT television presenting with series like "The Body in SAT Question". Throughout his career there has been a tension SAT between his medical career and his reputation as a satirist SAT and director. In this programme he explores the pull of the SAT two worlds upon him and the guilt that he still feels at SAT having abandoned his work as a doctor. SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 09:00 Up the Workers b03zhx5n (Listen) SAT Homeworker Nick Baker immerses himself in a study of work - SAT from the hard at it, to the work shy. In his archive SAT exploration, Nick enjoys a choice staffroom edition of King SAT Street Junior and sympathises with a fellow who also works SAT at home in Ed Reardon's Week. SAT Fascinating facts about offices of the future are revealed, SAT along with the truth about working from home. And work as a SAT form of madness is depicted in a series called You Don't SAT Have to Work to be Mad Here. This features whimsical SAT sackings (sometimes by answering machine message) and a SAT careers adviser who hates her job so much she hides in a SAT strange way. SAT Plus choice episodes from Kate Kellaway's History of Office SAT Life - and Ricky Gervais reveals how his creation David SAT Brent came to be. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Testbed Productions. SAT SAT 12:00 Hello Cheeky b007jnx4 (Listen) SAT From 14/04/1973 SAT Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Junkin and Barry Cryer punctuate SAT fast-moving short sketches with excruciating puns. SAT SAT 12:30 The Navy Lark b007zmrl (Listen) SAT Families' Day SAT As the Chief raises funds, Cedric Phillips arrives on board SAT HMS Troutbridge to see his brother "the Captain"! SAT Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie SAT Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number SAT One, Ronnie Barker as Lt Commander Stanton, Richard SAT Caldicote as Captain Povey and Michael Bates as Cedric SAT Phillips. SAT Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS SAT Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen SAT series between 1959 and 1976. SAT Scripted by Lawrie Wyman SAT Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1961. SAT SAT 13:00 Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater: Omnibus SAT b064yjnh (Listen) SAT Helen McCrory stars in Penelope Mortimer's dark, dreamlike SAT study of a marriage, dramatised by Georgia Fitch. Mrs SAT Armitage talks to a psychiatrist about her desire for more SAT children. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b064yjqn (Listen) SAT Alex Polizzi SAT Hotelier and TV presenter Alex Polizzi chooses 'Brindisi' SAT from La Traviata and Nina Simone's 'I Put a Spell on You'. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b064yk5p (Listen) SAT RD Laing SAT A key figure in the 60s, influential psychiatrist RD Laing SAT tells Professor Anthony Clare about the major influences on SAT his life. SAT Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with SAT prominent people from different walks of life. Born in SAT Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, a SAT master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal SAT College of Psychiatrists. SAT After becoming a regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in SAT the 1980s, he became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and SAT earned his own vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. SAT Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also SAT transferred to TV. SAT Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985. SAT SAT 15:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b00thcn8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck b007k1v3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01qxrv7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space b007jnlt (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Armed idealist Norman and cheerful bore Max are set to ruin SAT the lives of some friendly aliens. Forever. Stars Michael SAT Troughton. SAT SAT 18:30 Atomic Tales b007jx6v (Listen) SAT Their Gaze Was Green SAT Space heroes Jack and Chip tackle green Venusian terrorists. SAT 1950s American sci-fi spoof with John Guerrasio. From July SAT 2006. SAT SAT 19:00 Up the Workers b03zhx5n (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Hardeep at The Stand b01rh4qv (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 6 SAT We're back at The Stand comedy club for more jokes, stories SAT and revelations from some of the world's best comedians. SAT Hardeep Singh Kohli takes to The Stand's tiny stage to SAT introduce a selection of the world's greatest comedians. SAT There are many comedians that travel up and down the country SAT using guitars and ukuleles to add in the odd musical number, SAT but Mitch Benn never takes his off and brings not one but SAT two of his joke packed songs to the show, and finds himself SAT on the end of a wonderful interview backstage straight from SAT the stage. On a flying visit to Scotland old friends Hardeep SAT Singh Kohli and Marcus Brigstocke managed to find time for a SAT quick chat, where Marcus shared his vision for the next SAT generation of responsible and open comedy for the country. SAT SAT 22:15 The Problem With Adam Bloom b00hhrhp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Stress SAT The comedian muses on coping strategies, and how stressful SAT this series was to make. With Brendon Burns. From December SAT 2004. SAT SAT 22:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008xf49 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Invention as it happens. Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney's SAT improvised sketches driven by the audience. From February SAT 2008. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Dawn Ellis SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b0654bdn (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith is joined by SAT Jess Robinson and Kirsty Newton. SAT SAT 23:00 Alan Parker's 59 Minutes of Truth b00zfk7g (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT Last hurrah for the Che Guevara of radio, with contraband SAT comedy, music and Mark E Smith. Stars Simon Munnery. From SAT March 1995. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 09 AUGUST 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space b007jnlt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Atomic Tales b007jx6v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Penelope Mortimer - The Pumpkin Eater: Omnibus SUN b064yjnh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b064yjqn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b064yk5p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b00thcn8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck b007k1v3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01qxrv7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions Omnibus b0651j0k (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN British attention turns to Afghanistan, and the Guides need SUN the services of a man who could pass for a Shinwari. With SUN Blake Ritson. SUN SUN 07:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01l7rsc (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Carnival SUN Michael Williams stars as 1940s radio star Robb Wilton. Can SUN the eternal pessimist solve an unusual problem in 1986? SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00dv2p1 (Listen) SUN Series 5, The CV of Dorian Gray SUN Comedy series by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. SUN Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and SUN master of the abusive email, attempts to survive in a world SUN where the media seems to be run by idiots and lying SUN charlatans. SUN It's time for Ed to drag out the old jeans, buy a mobile SUN phone and cut ten years off the CV as the new Head of New SUN Media Development is a genuine 12 year old. SUN Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas SUN Olive ...... Stephanie Cole SUN Felix ...... John Fortune SUN George ...... Simon Greenall SUN Copper ...... Martin Hyder SUN Jaz ...... Philip Jackson SUN Pearl ...... Rita May SUN Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Market Researcher ...... Nicola Sanderson SUN Marcus ...... Richard Smith SUN Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead. SUN SUN 08:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00g2gm2 (Listen) SUN From 22/02/1971 SUN Trouble at sea, a laughing tax inspector and a right royal SUN surprise. SUN A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker. SUN With Terence Brady, Pauline Yates and Josephine Gordon. SUN Pianist: Gordon Langford SUN Written by Terence Brady, John Graham, Allan Scott and Chris SUN Bryant, Gerald Wiley ( Ronnie's Barker's pseudonym) and SUN Gordon Langford. SUN Producer John Fawcett-Wilson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1971. SUN SUN 08:30 Whack-O! b0651n98 (Listen) SUN From 01/08/1961 SUN Professor Jimmy Edwards hatches an elaborate plan to win a SUN cash prize in a school popularity contest. With Roddy SUN Maude-Roxby. SUN Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, SUN Chiselbury School is run "for the sons of gentlefolk". SUN Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, MA never misses a trick SUN when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. SUN Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which SUN the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never SUN exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five SUN guineas extra. It's only thanks to the efforts of the SUN devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the school exists at SUN all. SUN Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden and adapted for radio SUN by David Climie. SUN Producer: Edward Taylor SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1961. SUN SUN 09:00 Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife SUN of Seashells - Omnibus b0651nwf (Listen) SUN Marine biologist Dr Helen Scales tells the story of SUN seashells, from the molluscs that create them to humans that SUN use them. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b0651qrc (Listen) SUN Helena Bonham Carter SUN Actress Helena Bonham Carter chooses 'Look Mummy, No Hands' SUN by Fascinating Aida and 'Not While I'm Around' by Stephen SUN Sondheim. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b03857ff (Listen) SUN Edinburgh Winners, Stephen Fry SUN From Mozart to Meat Loaf, the actor, comic and writer shares SUN his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From November 1988. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b0654kxf (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Next Greatest Generation? SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN Guy Raz hears from the 'Millennials' - people born between SUN 1981-2000 - searching to define themselves and their SUN generation. SUN With Neil Howe, Natalie Warne, Meg Jay, Charlie Hoehn, Kevin SUN Allocca and Tavi Gevinson. SUN First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pdzg1 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Sloths SUN The naturalist and broadcaster muses on the natural history SUN of perhaps the most lethargic beast in the animal world. SUN SUN 12:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00g2gm2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Whack-O! b0651n98 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions Omnibus b0651j0k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01l7rsc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void b0654llv (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN A bank collapses, a heist is averted and Claude makes a SUN daring decision. SUN SUN 15:45 Ronald Frame Short Stories b0654lwf (Listen) SUN The Good Life SUN 4 Extra Debut. A man recalls his illusive past and ruminates SUN on his diminishing creative powers. Read by Nigel Anthony. SUN SUN 16:00 The Other Side of the Hill b010x8rh (Listen) SUN The Long Road to Waterloo SUN The 1808-1813 peninsular campaign of the Duke of Wellington SUN continues. Peter Luke's two linked plays, with Michael SUN Pennington. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00dv2p1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Jenny Stephens - Jefferson 37 b007k4s9 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Dr Abbotts finds his 'party trick' used against him, and SUN Paul Smith takes full advantage of the chaos. Stars David SUN Birrell. SUN SUN 18:30 Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries b007jvy3 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Vezin is wary over a mother and daughter's invitation to SUN witches' Sabbath. Philip Madoc reads Algernon Henry SUN Blackwood's dark tale. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b0654kxf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pdzg1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife SUN of Seashells - Omnibus b0651nwf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b0651qrc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b03857ff (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00dv2p1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Mark Steel's in Town b017wyyf (Listen) SUN Series 3, Berwick-Upon-Tweed SUN In this third series comedian Mark Steel visits 6 more UK SUN towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants SUN distinctive. SUN He creates a bespoke stand-up show for that town and SUN performs the show in front of a local audience. SUN As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of SUN Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate SUN with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British SUN way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and SUN people who have shaped where we live. SUN During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit SUN Berwick-Upon Tweed, Holyhead, Basingstoke, Douglas (Isle of SUN Man), Bungay and Wigan. SUN Episode 1 - In this first episode Mark performs a show for SUN the residents of Berwick-Upon Tweed where he talks about war SUN with Russia, Scottish rivalries and rather unusual local SUN slang. SUN Written by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete SUN Sinclair. SUN Produced by Sam Bryant. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b0654cy6 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith is joined by SUN Jess Robinson and Kirsty Newton. SUN SUN 23:00 Mastering the Universe b00wstg6 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Christmas SUN Professor Joy Klamp explores ways to make the festive season SUN truly miserable. Stars Dawn French. From December 2005. SUN SUN 23:15 Where Did It All Go Wrong? b0076gv2 (Listen) SUN Heinrich Prikk's Considered Conclusions SUN The world's greatest philosopher conjures all sorts of SUN conundrums and demolishes every philosophy known to man - SUN including his own. Stars Simon Munnery. From September 2003. SUN SUN 23:30 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea b0076zx3 (Listen) SUN Series 3, There's Something About Mrs Naughtie SUN Mrs Naughtie's news has Hamish, Dougal and the Laird all a SUN fluster. Stars Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. From August SUN 2006. SUN SUN 23:45 Armstrong and Miller b00t3vjx (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Battles recreated, and National Trousers Day. Sketches and SUN songs with Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller. From March SUN 1998. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 AUGUST 2015 MON MON 00:00 Jenny Stephens - Jefferson 37 b007k4s9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Algernon Blackwood - Ancient Sorceries b007jvy3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 MM Kaye - The Far Pavilions Omnibus b0651j0k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01l7rsc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Paul Murray - The Mark and the Void b0654llv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Ronald Frame Short Stories b0654lwf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 The Other Side of the Hill b010x8rh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00dv2p1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b0654qby (Listen) MON Five Thousand Pengoes and a Kiss MON A dissident's wife engages the con artist to help her to MON escape from Hungary to Austria. MON Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. MON The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The MON Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his MON place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes. MON In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's MON novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduce as one of MON cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war MON Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and MON British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to MON steal the show despite being absent for much of it! MON This 1951-52 radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry MON Lime' earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones MON had already served him well as the radio voice of 'The MON Shadow' between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the MON crusader with distinctly questionable means of thwarting MON crime. MON Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is MON not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out MON rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry MON - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The MON Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series MON travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on MON Radio Luxembourg. MON The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man. MON Produced by Towers of London. MON First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September MON 1951. MON MON 06:20 Inheritance Tracks b0654qk6 (Listen) MON Mari Wilson MON Singer Mari Wilson chooses 'The Folks Who Live on the Hill' MON by Peggy Lee and 'How Can You Mend a Broken Heart' by the MON Bee Gees. MON MON 06:30 Camel Train b0076yyp (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Matthew Parris joins the traders and their MON camels following the ancient salt route in Ethiopia's MON Danakil Depression. From June 2006. MON MON 07:00 The World As We Know It b00ftbx1 (Listen) MON The Murderer Is in This Very Room MON The last people on Earth play a murder mystery game, MON organised by The Stranger. Stars Meera Syal and Toby MON Longworth. From June 1999. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b063zxkx (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 4 MON The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the Alban MON Arena in St Albans. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and MON Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Omid Djalili MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts piano MON accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio MON Comedy production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Omid Djalili MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jnj5 (Listen) MON Series 2, Brain Versus Brawn MON Disguised as firemen for an exercise, the Walmington-on-Sea MON platoon must tackle a real blaze. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier MON as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John MON Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and MON Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1975. MON MON 08:30 Marriage Lines b0654tx1 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 9 MON Can Kate and George agree on a place to live together with MON baby Helen? MON Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second MON series based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young MON married couple. MON Originating on BBC TV, it was adapted for radio due to its MON popularity by Richard Waring from his own TV scripts. MON A decade later, Richard Briers was starring as Tom Good in MON The Good Life whilst Prunella Scales starred as Sybil in MON Fawlty Towers. They remained friends until Richard Briers' MON death in 2013. MON Producer: Charles Maxwell MON Recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London. MON First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967. MON MON 09:00 Genius b008m9f6 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 5 MON Dave Gorman asks Stewart Lee to select the public's best MON loopy idea, like a CD player/microwave oven. From November MON 2005. MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b00th9m3 (Listen) MON Series 1, Redeployment MON It's only the second day of term and already trouble is MON afoot. Plus Mrs Rudd has lost her teacup. Stars Peter MON Davison. From April 1985. MON MON 10:00 Shelagh Stephenson - Nemesis b0076vl9 (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Having led the race to make the atomic bomb, MON Robert Oppenheimer soon finds himself isolated and reviled MON in a paranoid post-war America. MON Stars Colin Stinton as Oppenheimer, Amanda Donohoe as MON Frances Tyler, Julian Wadham as George Tyler and Andrew MON Sachs as Bernard Peters. MON Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. MON MON 11:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00l16tj (Listen) MON The Devil MON Old Granny Greer outwits a miserly son by striking a deal MON with his ailing mother. A French story adapted to an Irish MON setting. MON MON 11:15 Baldi b0080483 (Listen) MON Series 1, Devil Take the Hindmost MON Crime-solving priest Paolo Baldi investigates the death of a MON student on campus, following the trail to an arrogant clique MON that dabbled in the occult. Is there a rational explanation, MON or was the Devil really involved? MON Starring David Threlfall as Paolo Baldi, Tina Kellegher as MON Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father Troy, Gerard McSorley as MON Doctor Graham, Owen Roe as Superintendent Rynne and Margaret MON D'Arcy as Mrs Reid. MON Murder mystery written by Annie Caulfield. MON Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC MON Northern Ireland. MON Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jnj5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Marriage Lines b0654tx1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b0654qby (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:20 Inheritance Tracks b0654qk6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] MON MON 13:30 Camel Train b0076yyp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00v6ln8 (Listen) MON Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell, Episode 6 MON Written by Rebecca Hunt MON Black Pat continues to lay siege to Esther and Beth issues MON an invitation to a lunch party. MON The reader is Miriam Margolyes. MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrl7 (Listen) MON Series 2: Sex, Agony Aunts MON Series of programmes in which two people from different MON generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature MON of Britain. MON The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. MON Irma Kurtz, the original Cosmopolitan agony aunt, talks to MON her younger counterpart Simone Bienne, who works as a sex MON and relationship expert for various publications. How has MON the nature of problems changed? MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b039pdt0 (Listen) MON Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai, Gutter Baby MON Police detective serial set and recorded on location in MON Mumbai. MON When a baby is rescued from a gutter, it falls on the only MON female police officer on hand, Alia Khan, to look after it. MON Stuck with a new partner and a boss who is determined to put MON her in her place, Alia has to fight to be noticed. MON This fast-paced, six-part police thriller follows Alia Khan, MON a young woman inspector in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai MON Police Force, as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, MON make sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman MON in a male-dominated and chauvinistic police force. MON Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia MON Sound Design: Steve Bond MON Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. MON Script Editor: Mike Walker MON Assistant Producer: Toral Shah MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Music: Sacha Putnam. MON Writer: Ayeesha Menon MON Director: John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Alia: Prerna Chawla MON Nakul: Anand Tiwari MON Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur MON Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mittal MON Popo: Rohit Malkani MON Alia's Father: Zafar Karachiwala MON Vikram Naresh: Darius Shroff MON Commissioner Kripalani: Jayant Kripalani MON Actor: Karan Pandit MON Actor: Faezeh Jalali MON Actor: Anahita Oberoi MON Actor: Devika Shahani-Punjabi MON Actor: Sohrab Ardeshir MON Actor: Kenny Desai MON Actor: Nadir Khan MON Actor: Vivek Madan MON Actor: Ayeesha Menon MON Actor: Ankur Vikal MON Director: John Dryden MON Producer: Nadir Khan MON Writer: Ayeesha Menon MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00tff34 (Listen) MON Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 1 MON Elena Gorokhova wishes her mother had come from Leningrad, MON the world of Pushkin and the tsars, lace ironwork and pearly MON domes. Its sophistication might have left a permanent mark MON of refinement on her soul. MON But she didn't. MON She came from the provincial town of Ivanovo in central MON Russia, where chickens lived in the kitchen and a pig MON squatted under the stairs. MON She came from where they lick plates. MON Read by Sian Thomas MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Shelagh Stephenson - Nemesis b0076vl9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Genius b008m9f6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b00th9m3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The World As We Know It b00ftbx1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b063zxkx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b00zzwfq (Listen) MON The Nine Billion Names of God, The Nine Billion Names of God MON A Tibetan monastery's new computer sparks fears that the MON world will end. Arthur C Clarke's short story read by John MON Shrapnel. MON MON 18:15 Terry Pratchett b01r0zb9 (Listen) MON Eric, Episode 1 MON Adapted by Robin Brooks. MON Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a MON Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially MON when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric. MON 1/ 4 When precocious young Eric Thursley summons a demon MON from the loathsome pit to fulfil his every wish, he MON certainly gets what he asked for. Just... not exactly what MON he asked for. That's the problem with wishes. MON Rincewind ..... Mark Heap MON Eric ..... Will Howard MON Death ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Archchancellor ..... Robert Blythe MON Parrot ..... Ben Crowe MON Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie MON Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford MON Mother ..... Christine Absalom MON Narrator ..... Rick Warden MON Director ..... Jonquil Panting. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075ttd (Listen) MON Michael Barber and Zadie Smith MON Louise Doughty and her guests, education adviser Michael MON Barber and acclaimed first-time novelist Zadie Smith, MON discuss favourite paperbacks by Sebastian Junger, Stephen E MON Ambrose and Vladimir Nabokov. From April 2000. MON Undaunted Courage, by Stephen E Ambrose MON Publisher: Simon and Schuster MON Pnin, by Vladimir Nabokov MON Publisher: Penguin MON The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger MON Publisher: Fourth Estate. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jnj5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Marriage Lines b0654tx1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b0654qby (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:20 Inheritance Tracks b0654qk6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] MON MON 20:30 Camel Train b0076yyp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00l16tj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Baldi b0080483 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b063zxkx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Party b011pkqg (Listen) MON Series 2, It's Technology, Stupid MON The young aspiring politicians of the new political Party MON get to grips with technology and whether it is making people MON stupid. Meanwhile, they launch a recruiting campaign on the MON internet. Second series of a satirical comedy written by Tom MON Basden. MON Simon ..... Tom Basden MON Duncan ..... Tim Key MON Jared ..... Jonny Sweet MON Mel ..... Ann Crilly MON Phoebe ..... Katy Wix MON Jared's Mum ..... Jane Whittenshaw MON Produced by Julia McKenzie. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b064448c (Listen) MON Series 46, Episode 6 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical MON stand-up and sketches along with Laura Shavin, Alice Lowe, MON David Quantick, Jake Yapp and Harry The Piano. Sports MON journalist Tom Peck discusses the prevalence of doping in MON professional sports. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Laura Shavin MON Performer: Alice Lowe MON Performer: David Quantick MON Performer: Jake Yapp MON Performer: Harry the Piano MON Interviewed Guest: Tom Peck MON MON 23:30 Pick Ups b00nw3s1 (Listen) MON Series 2, Heroes and Villains MON Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi company. MON It's decision time - will Simon De Vere call time on Irwell MON Cars, and will Dave choose Milan over Lower Broughton MON Working Men's Club? MON Mike ...... Paul Loughran MON Lind ...... Lesley Sharp MON Dave ...... Phil Rowson MON Alan ...... Parvez Qadir MON Simon De Vere ...... James Quinn MON Stevie ...... Suranne Jones MON Pat the Butcher ...... Andrew Grose. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b00zzwfq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Terry Pratchett b01r0zb9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075ttd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b0654qby (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:20 Inheritance Tracks b0654qk6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Camel Train b0076yyp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00v6ln8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrl7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b039pdt0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00tff34 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Shelagh Stephenson - Nemesis b0076vl9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Genius b008m9f6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b00th9m3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The World As We Know It b00ftbx1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b063zxkx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065c8jq (Listen) TUE Love Affair TUE The conman is in Saudi Arabia, hoping to make a killing on TUE oil leases, and acquires a wife. TUE Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. TUE The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The TUE Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his TUE place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes. TUE In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's TUE novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduce as one of TUE cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war TUE Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and TUE British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to TUE steal the show despite being absent for much of it! TUE This radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry Lime' TUE earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones had TUE already served him well as the radio voice of 'The Shadow' TUE between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the crusader with TUE distinctly questionable means of thwarting crime. TUE Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is TUE not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out TUE rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry TUE - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The TUE Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series TUE travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on TUE Radio Luxembourg. TUE The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man. TUE Produced by Towers of London. TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September TUE 1951. TUE TUE 06:20 Inheritance Tracks b065c8js (Listen) TUE Graham Nash TUE Musician Graham Nash chooses Samuel Barber's 'Adagio for TUE Strings' and 'Judy Blue Eyes' by Crosby, Stills and Nash. TUE TUE 06:30 A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton b00fm031 (Listen) TUE Children's author Anne Fine examines the enduring appeal of TUE the stories of Enid Blyton. TUE Rereading some of the stories that she had loved as a child, TUE Anne is reminded that, despite the years of disapproval and TUE accusations of sexism and racism that have dogged the books, TUE they remain real page turners. TUE Including extracts from an interview with Blyton's only TUE surviving daughter, Imogen Smallwood, and contributions from TUE Blyton's biographer, Barbara Stoney, and leading Blyton TUE scholar Dr David Rudd, Professor of Children's literature at TUE Bolton University. Plus archive recordings of Blyton TUE herself, her elder daughter Gillian Baverstock, and her TUE brother Hanley. TUE The reader is Miriam Margolyes. TUE TUE 07:00 HR b00tg1c3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Gassing TUE Sam is battling retirement blues with a part-time job TUE working for the Saviours, manning telephone lines to help TUE those in distress. And today's first client is of course TUE Peter, in distress about their faulty boiler. TUE Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce TUE Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost TUE George ..... Sam Dale TUE Voice ..... Alison Pettitt TUE Director: Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 07:30 It's Not What You Know b0640pnx (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 6 TUE Who does Susan Calman often get mistaken for? What does TUE Vernon Kay consider his career lowlight? What's the TUE naughtiest thing Sara Pascoe did as a child? 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 Susan Calman picks her friend, TUE presenter Vernon Kay picks his old university pal, and TUE comedian Sara Pascoe chooses her mum. TUE Producer: Matt Stronge. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Miles Jupp TUE Panellist: Susan Calman TUE Panellist: Vernon Kay TUE Panellist: Sara Pascoe TUE Producer: Matt Stronge TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007k1pt (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 7 TUE 'Dr McKinlay's Scrapbook'. a special musical comedy TUE extravaganza in a spoof eulogy for a TV screen doctor. TUE Starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, TUE Betty Marsden and Bill 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 April 1966. TUE TUE 08:30 Hello Cheeky b0124yrn (Listen) TUE From 21/04/1973 TUE The Sexiest Man called Nicholas Parsons. Sketches galore TUE with Barry Cryer, John Junkin and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From TUE April 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b064448c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Such Rotten Luck b065cbyv (Listen) TUE Series 2, Meet My New Agent TUE Will struggling writer Woodhouse get a break when he is TUE taken on by a new agent? Stars Tim Pigott-Smith. From TUE December 1991. TUE TUE 10:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day b0076fvb (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE 4 Extra Debut. Katherine and Mary are challenged over their TUE assumptions about love, in pre-First World War London. With TUE Kristin Scott Thomas. TUE TUE 11:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00l3pxv (Listen) TUE Scully's Goat TUE What befalls an unsuspecting goat when she escapes to pursue TUE her freedom? A French story adapted to an Irish setting. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00rm21n (Listen) TUE Arabian Afternoons, The Casper Logue Affair TUE The Casper Logue Affair TUE by Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE An absurd black comedy thriller, set in Baghdad. The first TUE of three Arabian Afternoons - contemporary plays inspired by TUE tales from The Arabian Nights. TUE Junior diplomat Bob Goldacre is in trouble: the American TUE businessman he was looking after has vanished from a Baghdad TUE street. As the suspects pile up, Goldacre is going to have TUE his work cut out if he wants to save his career and make TUE sure that justice is done. TUE Directed by Abigail le Fleming. TUE Credits TUE Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz TUE Shahrazad: Sirine Saba TUE Shahrayar: Kevork Malikyan TUE Aseera: Betsabeh Emran TUE Rahim: Sargon Yelda TUE Goldacre: Trevor White TUE Hammond: Bruce Alexander TUE Casper: Nathan Osgood TUE Kindermann: Rufus Wright TUE Carlton: John Biggins TUE Charlene: Alison Pettit TUE Director: Abigail le Fleming TUE Producer: Abigail le Fleming TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007k1pt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Hello Cheeky b0124yrn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065c8jq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:20 Inheritance Tracks b065c8js (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] TUE TUE 13:30 A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton b00fm031 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00v7ygq (Listen) TUE Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell, Episode 7 TUE Written by Rebecca Hunt TUE Saturday 25th July 1964: Esther and Corkbowl are both TUE preparing for the trip to Chartwell. But Esther is dreading TUE Sunday for other reasons. TUE The reader is Miriam Margolyes. TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrj7 (Listen) TUE Series 2: Sex, Gay Protest TUE Series of programmes in which two people from different TUE generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature TUE of Britain. TUE The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. TUE 82-year-old gay rights campaigner Antony Grey was a pioneer. TUE His counterpart is Bobby, a 22-year-old volunteer who goes TUE into schools to help combat homophobic bullying. Laws about TUE homosexuality may have changed, but have attitudes? TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b039rn3w (Listen) TUE Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai, What's Cooking? TUE The search for a missing husband leads Police Inspector Alia TUE Khan to the door of the Tandoori restaurant where he was TUE last seen. TUE Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this fast-paced TUE six-part police thriller continues throughout this week. It TUE follows Alia Khan, a young woman inspector in the Bandra TUE Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts to TUE solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past TUE and cope with being a woman in a male-dominated and TUE chauvinistic police force. TUE Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia TUE Sound Design: Steve Bond TUE Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. TUE Script Editor: Mike Walker TUE Assistant Producer: Toral Shah TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Music: Sacha Putnam. TUE Writer: Ayeesha Menon TUE Director: John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Alia: Prerna Chawla TUE Nakul: Anand Tiwari TUE Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur TUE Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mittal TUE Popo: Rohit Malkani TUE Alia's Father: Zafar Karachiwala TUE Vikram Naresh: Darius Shroff TUE Commissioner Kripalani: Jayant Kripalani TUE Actor: Karan Pandit TUE Actor: Faezeh Jalali TUE Actor: Anahita Oberoi TUE Actor: Devika Shahani-Punjabi TUE Actor: Sohrab Ardeshir TUE Actor: Kenny Desai TUE Actor: Nadir Khan TUE Actor: Vivek Madan TUE Actor: Ayeesha Menon TUE Actor: Ankur Vikal TUE Director: John Dryden TUE Producer: Nadir Khan TUE Writer: Ayeesha Menon TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00tffmq (Listen) TUE Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 2 TUE From the moment she goes to nursery school in the Soviet TUE Union of the 1960s, Elena Gorokhova begins to rebel against TUE being part of the collective and is threatened by the TUE redoubtable Aunt Polya, with a dvoika, in behaviour. TUE And as she progresses to proper school she knows that TUE membership of the Young Pioneers and later the Komsomol TUE awaits her as it awaits all her fellow students. TUE Read by Sian Thomas TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day b0076fvb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Who Goes There? b065ckfx (Listen) TUE Series 6, From 6/11/2002 TUE Martin Young's famous people quiz. With Francis Wheen, Fred TUE Housego, Claire Rayner and David Aaronovitch. From November TUE 2002. TUE TUE 16:30 Such Rotten Luck b065cbyv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 HR b00tg1c3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 It's Not What You Know b0640pnx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010721b (Listen) TUE The Nine Billion Names of God, The Star TUE A priest's faith is severely tested during an expedition on TUE a burnt planet. John Shrapnel reads Arthur C Clarke's short TUE story. TUE TUE 18:15 Terry Pratchett b01r5pxv (Listen) TUE Eric, Episode 2 TUE Adapted by Robin Brooks. TUE Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a TUE Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially TUE when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric. TUE 2/ 4 Young Eric Thursley wants to rule the world, and junior TUE wizard Rincewind actually manages to magic him up a tribal TUE kingdom among the Tezumen, in the rainforests of Klatch. But TUE all that changes when they meet the Tezumen's bloodthirsty TUE deity: Quetzovercoatl. TUE Rincewind ..... Mark Heap TUE Eric ..... Will Howard TUE Parrot ..... Ben Crowe TUE Ponce Da Quirm ..... Jack Klaff TUE Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie TUE Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford TUE Quetzovercoatl ..... Robert Blythe TUE Narrator ..... Rick Warden TUE Director ..... Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 18:30 How Tickled Am I? b007jt2k (Listen) TUE Series 3, Norman Evans TUE Mark Radcliffe looks back at the life and career of northern TUE comic Norman Evans, famed for his sketches over the garden TUE wall. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007k1pt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Hello Cheeky b0124yrn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065c8jq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:20 Inheritance Tracks b065c8js (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] TUE TUE 20:30 A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton b00fm031 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00l3pxv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00rm21n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 It's Not What You Know b0640pnx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Little Britain b008s4w8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 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 b0088np3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Rant TUE Local government worker Martin attempts a sponsored walk and TUE upsets some Bronte fans. Stars Reece Dinsdale. From November TUE 2007. TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b01g98f4 (Listen) TUE Series 3, When Was the Last Time You Saw Your Godfather? TUE Ben is set to be a godfather, but Mary is not happy about it TUE at all. Comatose comedy with Neil Pearson and Matthew Kelly. TUE From December 2009. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 AUGUST 2015 WED WED 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010721b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Terry Pratchett b01r5pxv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 How Tickled Am I? b007jt2k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065c8jq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:20 Inheritance Tracks b065c8js (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 A Fine Defence of Enid Blyton b00fm031 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00v7ygq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrj7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b039rn3w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00tffmq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day b0076fvb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Who Goes There? b065ckfx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Such Rotten Luck b065cbyv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 HR b00tg1c3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 It's Not What You Know b0640pnx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065h4z3 (Listen) WED Hyacinth Patrol WED The conman is in Cristobal, Panama where an accidental WED sock-on-the-jaw leads to a spy adventure. WED Starring Orson Welles as Harry Lime. WED The films of Orson Welles, such as 'Citizen Kane', 'The WED Magnificent Ambersons' and 'Touch of Evil' guaranteed his WED place in the pantheon of silver-screen heroes. WED In the celebrated 1949 film adaptation of Graham Greene's WED novel 'The Third Man', Harry Lime is introduce as one of WED cinema's most notorious anti-heroes. Sought in post-war WED Vienna by pulp writer Holly Martins [Joseph Cotton] and WED British Army Major Calloway [Trevor Howard], Lime manages to WED steal the show despite being absent for much of it! WED This radio prequel to the film, 'The Lives of Harry Lime' WED earned Welles even more acclaim. His distinctive tones had WED already served him well as the radio voice of 'The Shadow' WED between 1937 and 1938, where he portrayed the crusader with WED distinctly questionable means of thwarting crime. WED Stripped of the film cameras, the character of Harry Lime is WED not ameliorated for this radio outing. He's an out and out WED rogue. Lime made it to the airwaves thanks to another Harry WED - Harry Alan Towers, with whom Welles collaborated on 'The WED Black Museum'. Like its eponymous anti-hero, this series WED travelled widely, being syndicated across the USA and on WED Radio Luxembourg. WED The music is by Anton Karas, the zither man. WED Produced by Towers of London. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September WED 1951. WED WED 06:20 Inheritance Tracks b065h6s7 (Listen) WED Claudia Winkelman WED Broadcaster Claudia Winkleman chooses the theme from the WED film ET and 'As' by Stevie Wonder. WED WED 06:30 Art Attack b00nf33j (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED An assault on the Mona Lisa with a teacup raises the WED question, why do people attack art? In two programmes the WED art historian and broadcasters Tim Marlow (programme one) WED and Lawrence Pollard (programme two) investigate centuries WED of attacks on art works from the earliest times to the WED present day. Charting the reasons why and telling the WED stories of some of the most sensational and provocative WED attacks, they explore how the wilful destruction of art is WED as old as art itself and how it shows no signs of stopping. WED Statues are demolished in the name of religion, photographs WED doctored for political reasons, paintings are slashed and WED protestors even urinate on art works. Art is attacked so WED that the power of a particular work is nullified, in order WED to eradicate the art's subject from the face of the earth, WED as a publicity seeking stunt and even - and increasingly - WED to make an artistic comment on the existing artwork. Do WED these attacks have anything in common? Can art be made by WED breaking existing art? Why are art attacks continuing? WED Programme 1 WED Tim Marlow looks at some of the most renowned attacks on art WED carried out in the name of politics and religion. He speaks WED to Professor Eamon Duffy in the Lady Chapel at Ely WED Cathedral, which was desecrated in the sixteenth century WED during the Reformation. A place which is beautiful in its WED brokenness, with the damage (defaced figures and empty WED pedestals) clearly visible. WED On 10th March 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacked WED Velazquez's Rokeby Venus with an axe at the National Gallery WED in London. Her motive for the attack was to bring to public WED attention the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Government's WED treatment of Emily Pankhurst. Professor Lynn Nead discusses WED the wider political issues of this act and the public WED outrage that followed. WED For the past three decades, author and photo-historian David WED King has assembled the world's largest archive of WED photographs, posters and paintings from the Soviet era. Tim WED takes a look at his collection and discusses the doctoring WED of photographs by the Communists for propaganda purposes. WED The Bamiyan Buddhas, which were arguably Afghanistan's most WED important historical monument, were destroyed by the Taliban WED in 2001 causing an international outcry. What does it mean WED to destroy art for your beliefs? WED WED 07:00 Winston b007m660 (Listen) WED Series 1, Whacko Jolly Dee WED The wily poacher's plans for a life of bliss with Nancy hit WED a snag. Stars Bill Wallis and Maurice Denham. From May 1989. WED WED 07:30 Chain Reaction b00m508g (Listen) WED Series 3, Marcus Brigstocke interviews Clive Anderson WED Comedian Marcus Brigstocke and lawyer-turned-presenter Clive WED Anderson get chatting in the tag-team talk show, where this WED week's guest is next week's interviewer. From January 2007. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b00805k9 (Listen) WED The Falmouth Ghost Ship WED As the Chief fund-raises, Cedric Phillips arrives on board WED HMS Troutbridge to see his brother "the Captain"! WED Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie WED Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number WED One, Ronnie Barker as Lt Commander Stanton, Richard WED Caldicote as Captain Povey and Michael Bates as Cedric WED Phillips. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1961. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00wwn0j (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 14 WED The Incredible Singing Blancmange, or the Dessert Song. A WED musical comedy with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From July WED 1967. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b065hdjl (Listen) WED 1998, Final WED The Great Crescendo - rounds include Noel Coward, Great WED Buildings in Music and Schubert. With Ned Sherrin in the WED chair. WED WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00c0r22 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Coining of the Capricorn WED The ruling family of Renaissance Italy's puniest city-state WED aims to introduce a new currency. Stars David Swift. From WED April 2001. WED WED 10:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day b0076fym (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Katharine is engaged, but her secret admirer is also in WED Norfolk, invited by torn suffrage campaigner Mary. With WED Dervla Kirwan. WED WED 11:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00lbgr5 (Listen) WED My Uncle Julius WED The Davenport family's boat fails to come in, in more ways WED than one. A French story adapted to an Irish setting. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00rmrpw (Listen) WED Arabian Afternoons, The Porter and the Three Ladies WED The Porter and the Three Ladies WED by Rachel Joyce WED A wild, dark modern fairytale, set in Damascus. The second WED in a series of contemporary plays inspired by stories from WED the Arabian Nights. WED It is time for Shahrazad to tell another tale to save her WED life. In this story within a story, we find out that if Joe WED doesn't find the exclusive to satisfy his ruthless editor, WED he will lose his job. He finds three beautiful women in WED Damascus but what is the truth behind their secret life? WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED Credits WED Writer: Rachel Joyce WED Shahrazad: Sirine Saba WED Shahrayar: Kevork Malikyan WED Joe: Stephen Tompkinson WED Margot: Joanna Monro WED Mira: Indira Varma WED Affyah: Jasmine Jones WED Juliba: Melissa Advani WED Director: Tracey Neale WED Producer: Abigail le Fleming WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b00805k9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00wwn0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065h4z3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:20 Inheritance Tracks b065h6s7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] WED WED 13:30 Art Attack b00nf33j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00v8212 (Listen) WED Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell, Episode 8 WED Written by Rebecca Hunt WED Clementine Churchill takes a stand. Beth and Big Oliver host WED Sunday lunch. WED The reader is Miriam Margolyes. WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrj9 (Listen) WED Series 2: Sex, Beauty Queens WED Series of programmes in which two people from different WED generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature WED of Britain. WED The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. WED Lesley Langley, who was Miss UK and crowned Miss World in WED 1965, compares notes about her experiences with the 2010 WED Miss England, Katrina Hodge, who is known as Combat Barbie WED as she is a lance corporal in the army. WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b039rmyj (Listen) WED Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai, Body of Christ WED The body of a young girl is washed up on a beach. A tattoo WED on her ankle leads police inspector Alia Khan on the trail WED of a child prostitution ring. WED Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this fast-paced WED six-part police thriller continues throughout this week. It WED follows Alia Khan, a young woman inspector in the Bandra WED Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts to WED solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past WED and cope with being a woman in a male-dominated and WED chauvinistic police force. WED Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia WED Sound Design: Steve Bond WED Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. WED Script Editor: Mike Walker WED Assistant Producer: Toral Shah WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Music: Sacha Putnam. WED Writer: Ayeesha Menon WED Director: John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Alia: Prerna Chawla WED Nakul: Anand Tiwari WED Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur WED Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mittal WED Popo: Rohit Malkani WED Alia's Father: Zafar Karachiwala WED Vikram Naresh: Darius Shroff WED Commissioner Kripalani: Jayant Kripalani WED Actor: Karan Pandit WED Actor: Faezeh Jalali WED Actor: Anahita Oberoi WED Actor: Devika Shahani-Punjabi WED Actor: Sohrab Ardeshir WED Actor: Kenny Desai WED Actor: Nadir Khan WED Actor: Vivek Madan WED Actor: Ayeesha Menon WED Actor: Ankur Vikal WED Director: John Dryden WED Producer: Nadir Khan WED Writer: Ayeesha Menon WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00tffms (Listen) WED Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 3 WED Elena Gorokhova has strong doubts about joining the Young WED Communist League but she knows she can't go to college WED unless she is a member, and she longs to read English at WED Leningrad University. WED She loves the romanticism of literature and yearns for a WED dacha with white gauzy curtains; she wishes her family WED discussed etiquette instead of lugging buckets of water to WED beds of tomatoes and dill. WED And then her Aunt Mila arrives from Minsk. WED Read by Sian Thomas WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day b0076fym (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b065hdjl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00c0r22 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Winston b007m660 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Chain Reaction b00m508g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010gqsf (Listen) WED The Nine Billion Names of God, Death and the Senator WED If a medical space station can cure cardiac conditions, who WED gets treatment? John Shrapnel reads Arthur C Clarke's short WED story. WED WED 18:15 Terry Pratchett b01r9rtv (Listen) WED Eric, Episode 3 WED Adapted by Robin Brooks. WED Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a WED Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially WED when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric. WED 3/ 4 Eric has summoned a demon and wished to meet the most WED beautiful woman in the world. Unfortunately, this lands him WED in a wooden horse in the middle of a rather famous siege. WED Fortunately, he is accompanied by junior wizard Rincewind, WED and his indefatigable Luggage. WED Rincewind ..... Mark Heap WED Death ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Eric ..... Will Howard WED Lavaeolus ..... Rick Warden WED Elenor ..... Christine Absalom WED Sergeant ..... Ben Crowe WED Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie WED Creator ..... Robert Blythe WED Director ..... Jonquil Panting. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076qyv (Listen) WED Lost Opportunities WED Matthew Parris chews over the one that got away with writers WED Patrick Neate, Ros Taylor and Zinovy Zinik. From March 2005. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b00805k9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00wwn0j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065h4z3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:20 Inheritance Tracks b065h6s7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 today] WED WED 20:30 Art Attack b00nf33j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00lbgr5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00rmrpw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Chain Reaction b00m508g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management b00g3dcp (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Comedy series in which comedian Will Smith seeks help and WED advice - primarily from his godfather Peter - on coping with WED the onset of middle age. Peter invites Fashion presenter WED Kathy to help Will dress better. WED With Roger Allam, Morwenna Banks, Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, WED Gunnar Cauthery, Lobo Chan, Donnla Hughes, Dan Starkey, Tom WED Wu. WED WED 23:00 Revolting People b00fy2qr (Listen) WED Series 2, Still in Trying Times WED Ezekiel sets out to uncover who is his new son's real WED father. 1770 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton and Jay WED Tarses. From February 2001. WED WED 23:30 1966 and All That b01phm54 (Listen) WED The 1980s and 90s WED Neil Knock-Knock and John Minor make the political WED headlines. Craig Brown's satirical history of Britain. From WED September 2006. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 AUGUST 2015 THU THU 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010gqsf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Terry Pratchett b01r9rtv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076qyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 The Lives of Harry Lime b065h4z3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:20 Inheritance Tracks b065h6s7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:20 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Art Attack b00nf33j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00v8212 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrj9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b039rmyj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00tffms (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Virginia Woolf - Night and Day b0076fym (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b065hdjl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00c0r22 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Winston b007m660 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Chain Reaction b00m508g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6c (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU A VIP visitor to a village is soon the target of love and THU gossip. THU A two-part adaptation by Rene Basilico of Gogol's classic THU comedy - a picture of municipal 'sleaze' and corruption in THU 19th century Russia. THU Stars Julian Rhind-Tutt as Khlestakov, Trevor Peacock as THU Osip, Bill Wallis as The Mayor and David Gant as The Judge. THU Music by Max Harris. THU Producer: John Fawcett Wilson THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. THU THU 06:30 Art Attack b00nk2xr (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU An assault on the Mona Lisa with a teacup raises the THU question, why do people attack art? In two programmes the THU art historians and broadcasters Tim Marlow (programme one) THU and Lawrence Pollard (programme two) investigate centuries THU of attacks on art works from the earliest times to the THU present day. Charting the reasons why and telling the THU stories of some of the most sensational and provocative THU attacks, they explore how the wilful destruction of art is THU as old as art itself and how it shows no signs of stopping. THU Statues are demolished in the name of religion, photographs THU doctored for political reasons, paintings are slashed and THU protestors even urinate on art works. Art is attacked so THU that the power of a particular work is nullified, in order THU to eradicate the art's subject from the face of the earth, THU as a publicity seeking stunt and even - and increasingly - THU to make an artistic comment on the existing artwork. Do THU these attacks have anything in common? Can art be made by THU breaking existing art? Why are art attacks continuing? THU Programme 2 - THU Lawrence Pollard investigates some of the more bizarre THU assaults on contemporary art including attacks on Marcel THU Duchamp's 'Fountain' which has been both urinated on and THU whacked with a hammer. In this age of anti-art, it is THU increasingly common for vandals to claim their actions as THU 'art'. THU Lawrence also visits the Tate Liverpool for their 'Joyous THU Machines' exhibition which features the work of Jean THU Tinguely - one of the most radical, inventive and subversive THU sculptors of the mid twentieth-century. Discussing his work THU with Lawrence is Michael Landy, artist and co-curator of the THU exhibition whose own work has been influenced by the artist THU and his constructive and destructive tendencies. In 'Break THU Down' (2001) Landy catalogued and destroyed every single one THU of his possessions from his birth certificate to his car. THU THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007sxvp (Listen) THU The Purity of the Turf THU After the syndicate disaster, Bertie Wooster ponders what to THU bet on next. THU PG Wodehouse romp dramatised by Chris Miller from the book. THU Starring Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster and Michael THU Hordern as Jeeves. THU With Maurice Denham as the Reverend Heppenstall, Jonathan THU Cecil as Bingo Little and Edwin Apps as Steggles. THU Producer: David Hatch THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. THU THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris b064418w (Listen) THU Series 5, Stepping Out; The Vigilant Rabbit THU One of the world's best storytellers, back on BBC Radio 4 THU doing what he does best. THU This week: THU how a quest for fitness can become an obsession in "Stepping THU Out"; THU an anthropomorphic tale of over zealous security in "The THU Vigilant Rabbit"; THU and some questions from the studio audience. THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Reader: David Sedaris THU Writer: David Sedaris THU Producer: Steve Doherty THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b013fj7r (Listen) THU Series 2, The Wooden Overcoats THU Trouble ensues when Harold brings home coffins on the cart, THU sparking a burst of manic superstition from Albert. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by THU Gale Pedrick. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1967. THU THU 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01kbqjl (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 6 THU Arty Eric bags a bargain and an industrial espionage drama THU what Ern wrote. THU Special singing guest: Lynsey de Paul THU Written by Eddie Braben THU With Ann Hamilton and Arthur Tolcher. THU Music by Dennis Wilson & His Orchestra. THU Producer: John Browell THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1975. THU THU 09:00 Guess What? b065jht1 (Listen) THU Episode 7 THU Animal, vegetable or mineral? Barry Took's revised 20 THU questions. With Geoffrey Durham, Nigel Dempster and Frances THU Edmonds. From May 1998. THU THU 09:30 Radio Active b007jrrb (Listen) THU Series 2, Pick of the Week THU The best of the station's output, including the one-minute THU playwright and 'Spot the Sexist'. With Philip Pope. From THU September 1982. THU THU 10:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon b00t18j1 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU A duel forces 18th-century Irish adventurer Redmond Barry to THU leave home and serve in the Seven Years War. Stars Gerard THU McSorley. THU THU 11:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00lg8gr (Listen) THU The Miller's Tale THU A priest goes to desperate lengths to entice his erring THU flock back to the fold. A French story adapted to an Irish THU setting. From July 2007. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00rmxb8 (Listen) THU Arabian Afternoons, A Dish of Pomegranates THU A Dish of Pomegranates THU by Peter Jukes THU The third in a series of plays inspired by stories from the THU Arabian Nights. THU Shared roots and scattered families in the melting pot of THU modern Jerusalem. Tired after a stressful trip, Ajib is THU stopped by security officers as he tries to fly out of Ben THU Gurion airport on his way home to the U.S. They don't think THU his story adds up. Can he make them believe him? And does he THU actually know the whole story himself? THU Directed by Mary Peate. THU Credits THU Writer: Peter Jukes THU Shahrazad: Sirine Saba THU Shahrayar: Kevork Malikyan THU Vardan: Kevork Malikyan THU Ajib: William El-Gardi THU Orit: Betsabeh Emran THU Rafi: Zubin Varla THU Howard: Allan Corduner THU Julia: Keely Beresford THU Café Owner: Stefan Kalipha THU Tawfik: Mozaffar Shafeie THU Trader 2: Mozaffar Shafeie THU Trader 1: David Seddon THU Flight Attendant: David Seddon THU Protestor: Rufus Wright THU Director: Mary Peate THU Producer: Abigail le Fleming THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b013fj7r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01kbqjl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Art Attack b00nk2xr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00v8lpy (Listen) THU Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell, Episode 9 THU Written by Rebecca Hunt THU Sunday afternoon : Churchill's study is the scene of a THU delicate conversation. THU The reader is Miriam Margolyes. THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrjc (Listen) THU Series 2: Sex, Underwear and Sex Shop Entrepreneur THU Series of programmes in which two people from different THU generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature THU of Britain. THU The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. THU Jane runs an underwear shop in a seaside town, and has THU recently started stocking sex toys for the older generation. THU Her son helps out in the shop, and they discuss attitudes to THU sex across the generations. THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b039rqpl (Listen) THU Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai, Mad Women THU Police Inspector Alia Khan investigates a psychiatric THU hospital where women are admitted but never seem to come THU out. THU Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this fast-paced THU six-part police thriller continues throughout this week. It THU follows Alia Khan, a young woman inspector in the Bandra THU Division of the Mumbai Police Force, as she attempts to THU solve a series of crimes, make sense of her troubled past THU and cope with being a woman in a male-dominated and THU chauvinistic police force. THU Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia THU Sound Design: Steve Bond THU Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. THU Script Editor: Mike Walker THU Assistant Producer: Toral Shah THU Producer: Nadir Khan THU Music: Sacha Putnam. THU Writer: Ayeesha Menon THU Director: John Dryden THU A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Alia: Prerna Chawla THU Nakul: Anand Tiwari THU Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur THU Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mittal THU Popo: Rohit Malkani THU Alia's Father: Zafar Karachiwala THU Vikram Naresh: Darius Shroff THU Commissioner Kripalani: Jayant Kripalani THU Actor: Karan Pandit THU Actor: Faezeh Jalali THU Actor: Anahita Oberoi THU Actor: Devika Shahani-Punjabi THU Actor: Sohrab Ardeshir THU Actor: Kenny Desai THU Actor: Nadir Khan THU Actor: Vivek Madan THU Actor: Ayeesha Menon THU Actor: Ankur Vikal THU Director: John Dryden THU Producer: Nadir Khan THU Writer: Ayeesha Menon THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00tffmv (Listen) THU Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 4 THU Elena Gorokhova is understandably nervous when the THU university authorities select her to teach English to THU visiting American students during the summer break. THU It is the first time she has seen a live American and now THU she is faced with fourteen of them, staring at her with the THU same intense curiosity with which she stares at them. THU And she likes what she sees, especially when she is THU introduced to Robert. THU Read by Sian Thomas THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon b00t18j1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Guess What? b065jht1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Radio Active b007jrrb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007sxvp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris b064418w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010m6lf (Listen) THU The Nine Billion Names of God, Superiority THU In war, the more technologically advanced side can still be THU defeated. John Shrapnel reads Arthur C Clarke's short story. THU THU 18:15 Terry Pratchett b01rgj25 (Listen) THU Eric, Episode 4 THU Adapted by Robin Brooks. THU Terry Pratchett's many Discworld novels combine a THU Technicolor imagination with a razor sharp wit, especially THU when he rewrites Faust as spotty teenage demonologist Eric. THU 4/ 4 Demon King Astfgl surfs the space-time continuum in a THU rage, determined to lure Eric and Rincewind finally to Hell. THU But when they arrive at the Dread Portal, there's a bit of a THU staff motivation issue. THU Rincewind ..... Mark Heap THU Eric ..... Will Howard THU Demon King Astfgl ..... Nicholas Murchie THU Urglefloggah ..... Jack Klaff THU Duke Vassenego ..... Ben Crowe THU Screwpate ..... Michael Shelford THU Drazometh ..... Robert Blythe THU Narrator ..... Rick Warden THU Director ..... Jonquil Panting. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076p87 (Listen) THU Series 5, Michael Collins THU Film producer Lord Puttnam chooses the Irish nationalist THU leader Michael Collins. With Humphrey Carpenter. From THU November 2004. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b013fj7r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01kbqjl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Art Attack b00nk2xr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00lg8gr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00rmxb8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris b064418w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 My First Planet b01dfnc6 (Listen) THU Series 1, Hairdresser from Space THU Day 7 on the colony, and Mason stirs up an ethical nightmare THU involving a clone, a murder and some dreadlocks. Meanwhile, THU Archer the handyman attempts some repairs on his own head. THU A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question THU - if humankind were to colonize space, is it destined to THU succumb to self-interest, prejudice and infighting? (By the THU way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) THU Welcome to the colony. We're aware that having been in deep THU cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some THU supplementary information. THU Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on THU the voyage, so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst) is THU now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, THU and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly THU meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian THU (Vicki Pepperdine - "Getting On"), who'd really rather THU everyone was walking round in tight colour-coded tunics and THU saluting each other. She's also in charge of Project Adam, THU the plan to conceive and give birth to the first colony-born THU baby. Unfortunately, the two people hand-picked for this THU purpose - Carol and Richard - were rather fibbing about THU being a couple, just to get on the trip. THU Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and THU also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an THU "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer THU the question - if humankind were to colonize space, is it THU destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and THU infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) THU Written by Phil Whelans THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Brian: Nicholas Lyndhurst THU Lillian: Vicki Pepperdine THU Mason: Tom Goodman-Hill THU Archer: Phil Whelans THU Carol: Cariad Lloyd THU Richard: John Dorney THU Scalding: Gus Brown THU Writer: Phil Whelans THU Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 23:00 Lee Mack and Friends at the Fringe b007klvl (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU The cheeky chappy is joined by Andy Parsons, Lucy Porter, THU Tim Minchin, Alan Cochran and Jimeoin. From August 2005, THU recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe. THU THU 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me b007jwpj (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU The Marriage Emporium is running low on Indian brides, plus THU a version of the classic song 'Fifty Ways to Leave Your THU Mother'. British-Asian sitcom with Nina Wadia. From July THU 1997. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 AUGUST 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010m6lf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Terry Pratchett b01rgj25 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076p87 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Art Attack b00nk2xr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00v8lpy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b039rqpl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00tffmv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon b00t18j1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Guess What? b065jht1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Radio Active b007jrrb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007sxvp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris b064418w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6f (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI The "Inspector" becomes plied with cash and love. FRI A two-part adaptation by Rene Basilico of Gogol's classic FRI comedy - a picture of municipal 'sleaze' and corruption in FRI 19th century Russia. FRI Stars Julian Rhind-Tutt as Khlestakov, Trevor Peacock as FRI Osip, Bill Wallis as The Mayor and David Gant as The Judge. FRI Music by Max Harris. FRI Producer: John Fawcett Wilson FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. FRI FRI 06:30 Put Your Hands Together b00sq1vv (Listen) FRI In a self-consciously clap-happy exploration of one of the FRI most delightful and satisfying forms of human action and FRI expression, Nick Baker investigates the meanings and FRI motivations, the sounds and symbolism, the elation and FRI frustration of ritually striking one hand with another. FRI The clapping rhythms of football, flamenco, the nursery and FRI the Pentecostal church are all biologically linked yet FRI subtly different. In this anatomy of a basic human ritual, FRI Nick has collected claps as far apart as Fiji - where a FRI clapping ritual accompanies a narcotic-taking ceremony - and FRI China, where young women on busy high streets clap to FRI attract attention to what's on offer in the stores. FRI Choreographer Luke Creswell, an expert clapper, collects FRI clap-routines in bars all over the world. FRI What's linked in all cases, according to Professor Colwyn FRI Trevarthen, is humanity's attunement to one of its many FRI internal biological clocks - the one that gives us walking, FRI chewing and nodding our head. He invites listeners to join FRI in with a simple experiment to demonstrate the rhythm of FRI life. FRI Babies clap early & show awareness of hands in the womb. The FRI clap is not the basis of language development, it is FRI language development. It is display, performance, shared FRI meaning & shared time. Gospel singer Ruby Turner provides FRI musical commentary on how the hand clap moves from babies, FRI through Sunday School, the playground and the church towards FRI soul and R and B. FRI Do our biological predecessors clap? Perhaps we've been FRI exposed to too many tea commercials. Or maybe chimpanzees FRI have been too exposed to us, primatologist Alison Fletcher FRI explains. FRI Producer: Tamsin Hughes FRI A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Rent b065k7zn (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 4 FRI Can Maria and Richard help Paul and Ruby get rid of an FRI unwanted guest? Stars Barbara Flynn. From June 1998. FRI FRI 07:30 Wordaholics b01cvk8d (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 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 vie for supremacy in the ring. FRI Today's show features Fresh Meat star Jack Whitehall, Radio FRI 4 regular Milton Jones and Countdown stalwart Susie Dent as FRI well as Greek scholar and all-round clever clogs Natalie FRI Haynes. FRI Today they reveal their least favourite words, attempt to FRI decipher Cockney rhyming slang and try to guess the meaning FRI of some words no longer in our common parlance, taken from FRI the 1736 Dictionary of Canting Slang. 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 b007w3y4 (Listen) FRI The Emigrant FRI Hancock is keen to emigrate, but is met with refusals from FRI other countries including Australia and Canada. Can Sid help FRI him to leave Britain? FRI Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie FRI Jacques and Kenneth Williams. FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. FRI Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. FRI Producer: Denis Main Wilson FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1957. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007mwv5 (Listen) FRI The Spanish Suitcase FRI Neddie Seagoon's brave act lands him in prison, and a jewel FRI thief is on the loose. Stars Spike Milligan. From December FRI 1954. FRI FRI 09:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mjktm (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, FRI Tracey MacLeod, Stewart Lee and David Quantick. From June FRI 2006. FRI FRI 09:30 Boogie Up the River b007jv8w (Listen) FRI A Curry at Kelmscot FRI Jennifer joins Mark and his mutt's Thames quest, but there's FRI a surprise on their menu. Stars Timothy Spall. From January FRI 1993. FRI FRI 10:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon b00t1bsd (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Pursuing widowed Lady Lyndon, Redmond Barry becomes a titled FRI country squire. But then his luck changes. Stars Gerard FRI McSorley. FRI FRI 11:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00ljmsm (Listen) FRI The Umbrella FRI When a man's new umbrella is ruined, his wife cunningly FRI replaces it within budget. A French story adapted to an FRI Irish setting. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00vcqld (Listen) FRI Andrea Earl - The Climb FRI The Climb by Andrea Earl FRI A feel good drama about three men who venture on a climb of FRI their lives. FRI Ropes, crampons, grappling irons at the ready; D-day has FRI arrived. Frankie, John and Bud are ready, well as ready as FRI they'll ever be . But this is not a mountain, nor a great FRI hill they are preparing to climb tonight - it's Blackpool FRI Tower. Furthermore, Frankie has Down's syndrome, John is FRI blind and Bud is only 3'6". It was Frankie's idea as he FRI wants to follow in the footsteps of his hero Sherpa Tenzing. FRI The men are forced to pull together as a team in a race FRI against time in an attempt to reach the top as the police FRI try to intercept their highly dangerous (and highly FRI illegal!) deed. FRI Producer/Director - Pauline Harris. FRI Credits FRI Frankie: Tommy Jessop FRI Bud: Warwick Davis FRI John: Liam O'Carroll FRI Frankie's Mum: Olwen May FRI Policeman: Gerard Fletcher FRI Director: Pauline Harris FRI Producer: Pauline Harris FRI Writer: Andrea Earl FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007w3y4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007mwv5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Put Your Hands Together b00sq1vv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00v8m6n (Listen) FRI Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell, Episode 10 FRI Written by Rebecca Hunt FRI Sunday evening, Esther returns home to find Black Pat FRI waiting for her. FRI The reader is Miriam Margolyes. FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:15 The Generation Gap b00qzrjg (Listen) FRI Series 2: Sex, Prostitution FRI Series in which two people from different generations FRI discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain. FRI The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. FRI Helen worked as a bar hostess and prostitute in the 1970s. FRI She talks to Maria, who is currently funding her way through FRI university by being a sex worker. How do their experiences FRI differ? FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b039rwcc (Listen) FRI Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai, Five-Star Death FRI A dead glamour model in a five-star hotel leads Police FRI inspector Alia Khan on the trail of Bollywood's leading FRI heart-throb. FRI Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this is a fast paced FRI six-part police thriller. It follows Alia Khan, a young FRI woman inspector in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police FRI Force, as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, make FRI sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a FRI male-dominated and chauvinistic police force. FRI Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia FRI Sound Design: Steve Bond FRI Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. FRI Script Editor: Mike Walker FRI Assistant Producer: Toral Shah FRI Producer: Nadir Khan FRI Music: Sacha Putnam. FRI Writer: Ayeesha Menon FRI Director: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Alia: Prerna Chawla FRI Nakul: Anand Tiwari FRI Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur FRI Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mittal FRI Popo: Rohit Malkani FRI Alia's Father: Zafar Karachiwala FRI Vikram Naresh: Darius Shroff FRI Commissioner Kripalani: Jayant Kripalani FRI Actor: Karan Pandit FRI Actor: Faezeh Jalali FRI Actor: Anahita Oberoi FRI Actor: Devika Shahani-Punjabi FRI Actor: Sohrab Ardeshir FRI Actor: Kenny Desai FRI Actor: Nadir Khan FRI Actor: Vivek Madan FRI Actor: Ayeesha Menon FRI Actor: Ankur Vikal FRI Director: John Dryden FRI Producer: Nadir Khan FRI Writer: Ayeesha Menon FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00tffmx (Listen) FRI Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 5 FRI Robert has returned to Texas but he writes to Elena every FRI week and wonders if she might visit him. FRI He explains that he can get her a visitors' visa if she goes FRI as his fiancée but Elena explains that it is not getting FRI into America that is the difficult part but getting out of FRI the USSR. FRI They both understand that there is only one way to achieve FRI this - but are they ready to get married? FRI Read by Sian Thomas FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon b00t1bsd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mjktm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Boogie Up the River b007jv8w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Rent b065k7zn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Wordaholics b01cvk8d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010tbkp (Listen) FRI The Nine Billion Names of God, The Sentinel FRI The story from which Arthur C Clarke developed the film FRI '2001: A Space Odyssey' with Stanley Kubrick. Read by John FRI Shrapnel. FRI FRI 18:15 Patrick McGrath - The Smell b007jm2c (Listen) FRI A father exerts demonic control over his family but at what FRI cost? Written and read by Patrick McGrath. FRI FRI 18:30 Fry's English Delight b012qq7l (Listen) FRI Series 4, Persuasion FRI The language of persuasion interrogated. Advertisers, FRI lawyers, cold callers and politicians are all, in a way, FRI language experts. And we are all targets for people who try FRI to persuade us of something, whether to buy a particular FRI brand of soap powder, change our car insurance, or vote for FRI a political party, for instance. And most of us at one time FRI or another try to persuade other people to do something that FRI we want them to do for us. It might be that it's to give us FRI a job, come on holiday with us, or lend us a fiver until pay FRI day. Is it possible to maximize your chances of success with FRI the right approach, and by simply using the right words FRI control someone else's behaviour? FRI How did the great persuaders of the past sway their FRI audiences? We look at rhetoric and gesture, as well as FRI hearing from an advertising executive, a professor of FRI political history, a legal expert, and someone who runs one FRI of the country's most successful telemarketing companies. FRI Just how good do you have to be to sell someone something FRI over the telephone? How hard is it to sell anything FRI face-face with your client? We hear what happens when FRI someone from one of Britain's most influential management FRI training institutions observes a man selling sausages for FRI his living from a stall in a London market. Does a humble FRI street trader use the same devices as a vast multi-national FRI corporation when it comes to getting you to put your hand in FRI your pocket? You will listen, won't you? You know you FRI deserve it. FRI Producer: Ian Gardhouse FRI A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007w3y4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007mwv5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Put Your Hands Together b00sq1vv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Five Stories by James Ellis b00ljmsm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00vcqld (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Shappi Talk b00lpmz7 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Religion FRI Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it is FRI like growing up in multi-cultural families. FRI Joining Shappi is Bengali comic Paul Sinha sharing his FRI experiences of religion in his family. Shappi will also be FRI joined by another 'related' guest- and she chats to ex Mayor FRI of London Ken Livingstone. FRI There'll also be a chance for Shappi to chat with the FRI audience and a song from 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 b007r395 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 5 FRI Spin doctors Prentiss and McCabe land at the BBC to tackle FRI Radio 3. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From February FRI 2000. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b01qn1xq (Listen) FRI For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the FRI best comedy around. Tonight Arthur Smith chats to MC FRI Grindah, DJ Beatz and Chabuddy G from People Just Do FRI Nothing. FRI FRI 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b014r5qh (Listen) FRI Series 4, Alan Davies FRI Marcus Brigstocke invites reluctant vocalist Alan Davies to FRI sing in public for the first time. From September 2011. FRI FRI 23:30 Down the Line b010m9tg (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 7 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, Julia Davis, Robert FRI Popper, Adil Ray and Arabella Weir. 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: Julia Davis FRI Actor: Robert Popper FRI Actor: Adil Ray FRI Actor: Arabella Weir FRI Producer: Charlie Higson FRI Producer: Paul Whitehouse FRI
07 August, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 08/08/2015 - 14/08/2015
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