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SAT SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories b010tbkp (Listen) SAT The Nine Billion Names of God, The Sentinel SAT The story from which Arthur C Clarke developed the film SAT '2001: A Space Odyssey' with Stanley Kubrick. Read by John SAT Shrapnel. SAT SAT 00:15 Patrick McGrath - The Smell b007jm2c (Listen) SAT A father exerts demonic control over his family but at what SAT cost? Written and read by Patrick McGrath. SAT SAT 00:30 Fry's English Delight b012qq7l (Listen) SAT Series 4, Persuasion SAT The language of persuasion interrogated. Advertisers, SAT lawyers, cold callers and politicians are all, in a way, SAT language experts. And we are all targets for people who try SAT to persuade us of something, whether to buy a particular SAT brand of soap powder, change our car insurance, or vote for SAT a political party, for instance. And most of us at one time SAT or another try to persuade other people to do something that SAT we want them to do for us. It might be that it's to give us SAT a job, come on holiday with us, or lend us a fiver until pay SAT day. Is it possible to maximize your chances of success with SAT the right approach, and by simply using the right words SAT control someone else's behaviour? SAT How did the great persuaders of the past sway their SAT audiences? We look at rhetoric and gesture, as well as SAT hearing from an advertising executive, a professor of SAT political history, a legal expert, and someone who runs one SAT of the country's most successful telemarketing companies. SAT Just how good do you have to be to sell someone something SAT over the telephone? How hard is it to sell anything SAT face-face with your client? We hear what happens when SAT someone from one of Britain's most influential management SAT training institutions observes a man selling sausages for SAT his living from a stall in a London market. Does a humble SAT street trader use the same devices as a vast multi-national SAT corporation when it comes to getting you to put your hand in SAT your pocket? You will listen, won't you? You know you SAT deserve it. SAT Producer: Ian Gardhouse SAT A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 01:00 Nikolai Gogol - The Government Inspector b00fvg6f (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT The "Inspector" becomes plied with cash and love. SAT A two-part adaptation by Rene Basilico of Gogol's classic SAT comedy - a picture of municipal 'sleaze' and corruption in SAT 19th century Russia. SAT Stars Julian Rhind-Tutt as Khlestakov, Trevor Peacock as SAT Osip, Bill Wallis as The Mayor and David Gant as The Judge. SAT Music by Max Harris. SAT Producer: John Fawcett Wilson SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. SAT SAT 01:30 Put Your Hands Together b00sq1vv (Listen) SAT In a self-consciously clap-happy exploration of one of the SAT most delightful and satisfying forms of human action and SAT expression, Nick Baker investigates the meanings and SAT motivations, the sounds and symbolism, the elation and SAT frustration of ritually striking one hand with another. SAT The clapping rhythms of football, flamenco, the nursery and SAT the Pentecostal church are all biologically linked yet SAT subtly different. In this anatomy of a basic human ritual, SAT Nick has collected claps as far apart as Fiji - where a SAT clapping ritual accompanies a narcotic-taking ceremony - and SAT China, where young women on busy high streets clap to SAT attract attention to what's on offer in the stores. SAT Choreographer Luke Creswell, an expert clapper, collects SAT clap-routines in bars all over the world. SAT What's linked in all cases, according to Professor Colwyn SAT Trevarthen, is humanity's attunement to one of its many SAT internal biological clocks - the one that gives us walking, SAT chewing and nodding our head. He invites listeners to join SAT in with a simple experiment to demonstrate the rhythm of SAT life. SAT Babies clap early & show awareness of hands in the womb. The SAT clap is not the basis of language development, it is SAT language development. It is display, performance, shared SAT meaning & shared time. Gospel singer Ruby Turner provides SAT musical commentary on how the hand clap moves from babies, SAT through Sunday School, the playground and the church towards SAT soul and R and B. SAT Do our biological predecessors clap? Perhaps we've been SAT exposed to too many tea commercials. Or maybe chimpanzees SAT have been too exposed to us, primatologist Alison Fletcher SAT explains. SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00v8m6n (Listen) SAT Rebecca Hunt - Mr Chartwell, Episode 10 SAT Written by Rebecca Hunt SAT Sunday evening, Esther returns home to find Black Pat SAT waiting for her. 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 b00qzrjg (Listen) SAT Series 2: Sex, Prostitution SAT Series in which two people from different generations SAT discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of Britain. SAT The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. SAT Helen worked as a bar hostess and prostitute in the 1970s. SAT She talks to Maria, who is currently funding her way through SAT university by being a sex worker. How do their experiences SAT differ? SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b039rwcc (Listen) SAT Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai, Five-Star Death SAT A dead glamour model in a five-star hotel leads Police SAT inspector Alia Khan on the trail of Bollywood's leading SAT heart-throb. SAT Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this is a fast paced SAT six-part police thriller. It follows Alia Khan, a young SAT woman inspector in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police SAT Force, as she attempts to solve a series of crimes, make SAT sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a SAT male-dominated and chauvinistic police force. SAT Sound Recordist: Hitesh Chaurasia SAT Sound Design: Steve Bond SAT Editing Assistants: Andrew Lewis and Aditya Khanna. SAT Script Editor: Mike Walker SAT Assistant Producer: Toral Shah SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Music: Sacha Putnam. SAT Writer: Ayeesha Menon SAT Director: John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Alia: Prerna Chawla SAT Nakul: Anand Tiwari SAT Inspector Desai: Rajit Kapur SAT Mrs Gomes: Radhika Mittal SAT Popo: Rohit Malkani SAT Alia's Father: Zafar Karachiwala SAT Vikram Naresh: Darius Shroff SAT Commissioner Kripalani: Jayant Kripalani SAT Actor: Karan Pandit SAT Actor: Faezeh Jalali SAT Actor: Anahita Oberoi SAT Actor: Devika Shahani-Punjabi SAT Actor: Sohrab Ardeshir SAT Actor: Kenny Desai SAT Actor: Nadir Khan SAT Actor: Vivek Madan SAT Actor: Ayeesha Menon SAT Actor: Ankur Vikal SAT Director: John Dryden SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Writer: Ayeesha Menon SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00tffmx (Listen) SAT Elena Gorokhova - A Mountain of Crumbs, Episode 5 SAT Robert has returned to Texas but he writes to Elena every SAT week and wonders if she might visit him. SAT He explains that he can get her a visitors' visa if she goes SAT as his fiancée but Elena explains that it is not getting SAT into America that is the difficult part but getting out of SAT the USSR. SAT They both understand that there is only one way to achieve SAT this - but are they ready to get married? SAT Read by Sian Thomas SAT A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Barry Lyndon b00t1bsd (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Pursuing widowed Lady Lyndon, Redmond Barry becomes a titled SAT country squire. But then his luck changes. Stars Gerard SAT McSorley. SAT SAT 04:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mjktm (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 5 SAT James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, SAT Tracey MacLeod, Stewart Lee and David Quantick. From June SAT 2006. SAT SAT 04:30 Boogie Up the River b007jv8w (Listen) SAT A Curry at Kelmscot SAT Jennifer joins Mark and his mutt's Thames quest, but there SAT is a surprise on their menu. Stars Timothy Spall. From SAT January 1993. SAT SAT 05:00 Rent b065k7zn (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 4 SAT Can Maria and Richard help Paul and Ruby get rid of an SAT unwanted guest? Stars Barbara Flynn. From June 1998. SAT SAT 05:30 Wordaholics b01cvk8d (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 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 vie for supremacy in the ring. SAT Today's show features Fresh Meat star Jack Whitehall, Radio SAT 4 regular Milton Jones and Countdown stalwart Susie Dent as SAT well as Greek scholar and all-round clever clogs Natalie SAT Haynes. SAT Today they reveal their least favourite words, attempt to SAT decipher Cockney rhyming slang and try to guess the meaning SAT of some words no longer in our common parlance, taken from SAT the 1736 Dictionary of Canting Slang. 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 Shirley Gee - Moonshine b065x8fy (Listen) SAT London, 1937: Harriet Carmichael must battle new nanny Ada SAT Molesbridge for the love of her young daughter: SAT ADA: When it comes to whose child, Flora might decide. Who SAT she cleaves to. Whose bed she chooses in the middle of the SAT night. Who she loves. SAT HARRIET: Don't be ludicrous. She's my daughter, my flesh and SAT blood. She belongs to me. SAT ADA: Flesh and blood is one thing. But belongs. Slippers, SAT candlesticks, necklaces, they belong. Ask her who she SAT chooses. Go on, wake her. Ask her. We're all people, aren't SAT we. All human beings... Not mistress and servant, you said. SAT Let her choose. SAT Starring Rosemary Leach as Ada Molesbridge, Carole Boyd as SAT Harriet Carmichael, Katherine Hughes as Flora and John Rowe SAT as David Carmichael. SAT For her performance as Ada Molesbridge , Rosemary Leach won SAT the 1977 Imperial Tobacco Award for the Best Actress. SAT Special music by Roger Limb, BBC Radiophonic Workshop SAT Director: David Spenser SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. SAT SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01r1cc0 (Listen) SAT The Reluctant Jester Strikes Back, Episode 3 SAT Michael Bentine recalls the start of The Goon Show and SAT characters who inspired his friend Peter Sellers. From SAT November 1994. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01h2c9p (Listen) SAT One Way Ticket - The Beeching Cuts Revisited! SAT When Dr Richard Beeching unveiled his little book 'Reshaping SAT Britain's Railways' in the early 1960s the nation was left SAT in shock at the scale of the cutbacks he was suggesting. SAT Britain's railways were losing millions every year. The rise SAT of the car didn't help matters and the Government decided it SAT was time to look afresh at the railways. SAT The original plan was to close 5,000 miles of railway and SAT 2,000 stations. Around 70,000 people would eventually lose SAT their jobs. SAT It's acknowledged that Dr Beeching's cuts were seismic but SAT what impact did the decisions made in the early 60s have on SAT future rail policy in the UK? And how much of Beeching's SAT vision for the railways, including more focus on Inter City SAT services, has been realised? SAT Here Michael Portillo revisits the archives and the events SAT of 1963, hears from some of those working in the industry at SAT the time and looks at how some lines were eventually SAT resurrected and revitalised while others weren't. SAT As part of the programme Michael travels along the scenic SAT Settle to Carlisle line which lost many of its stations SAT during the Beeching cuts, he hears from rail expert SAT Christian Wolmar and speaks to Richard Spendlove - writer SAT and creator of TV series Oh Dr Beeching who at the time of SAT the cuts was a Station Master in Cambridgeshire. SAT He also hears from former Transport ministers and SAT secretaries about how the Beeching cuts impacted on SAT Government rail plans and policy over the past five decades. SAT Finally given the recent huge rise in rail usage, the SAT programme assesses what Dr Beeching would have made of the SAT state of Britain's railways today. SAT Produced by: Ashley Byrne SAT A Made in Manchester Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Peter Ustinov - The Radio Years b065xb02 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the radio archives of Sir Peter SAT Ustinov and reveals the actor and raconteur's fascinating SAT contributions to an eclectic mix of programmes. SAT Sir Peter Ustinov was a renaissance man whose talents SAT included writing plays, novels and acting. He appeared in SAT over 90 films with memorable roles in Quo Vadis, Spartacus SAT and Death on the Nile. SAT He was also a theatre director and a much-admired raconteur. SAT Less well remembered are his diverse and often enthralling SAT radio contributions which started in the 1940's. SAT For the 60 years which followed Ustinov was a regular BBC SAT radio guest interviewed on various topics including SAT politics, religion, humour and film. He appeared in SAT comedies, dramas, panel games, told absorbing stories about SAT his extraordinary and colourful family history and humorous SAT tales of his eventful tours around the world. SAT Featuring a collection of Ustinov's radio work along with an SAT illuminating exclusive interview with his daughter: SAT * In All Directions (1952) SAT Comedy teaming Ustinov with Peter Jones SAT * Appointment with Daughter SAT An exclusive interview with John McCarthy and Sir Peter SAT Ustinov's eldest daughter Tamara SAT * Encounter in the Balkan Express (1956) SAT A comedy by Wolfgang Hildesheimer starring Peter Ustinov as SAT Robert Guiscard SAT * Down Your Way (1991) SAT A special edition with Ustinov in Leningrad SAT * Quote Unquote (1992) SAT A memorable appearance by Ustinov on the popular quotation SAT quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT 12:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01kbqjl (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 6 SAT Arty Eric bags a bargain and an industrial espionage drama SAT what Ern wrote. SAT Special singing guest: Lynsey de Paul SAT Written by Eddie Braben SAT With Ann Hamilton and Arthur Tolcher. SAT Music by Dennis Wilson & His Orchestra. SAT Producer: John Browell SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1975. SAT SAT 12:30 The Goon Show b007mwv5 (Listen) SAT The Spanish Suitcase SAT Neddie Seagoon's brave act lands him in prison, and a jewel SAT thief is on the loose. Stars Spike Milligan. From December SAT 1954. SAT SAT 13:00 How to Have a Perfect Marriage Omnibus b065xbjq (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Karen knows her much-loved husband of 19 years is gay. Now SAT it's time to tell the kids. Stars Julia Ford and Greg Wise. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b065xjzp (Listen) SAT Rafe Spall SAT Actor Rafe Spall chooses 'Cherry Coloured Funk' by the SAT Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush's 'And So Is Love'. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b065xq81 (Listen) SAT Sir Colin Davis SAT Sir Colin Davis explores the psychological aspects of life SAT as a music conductor with Professor Anthony Clare. 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 August 1994. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01h2c9p (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Shirley Gee - Moonshine b065x8fy (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01r1cc0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space b007jnpy (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Norman and Max are welcomed by the incurably friendly SAT Oblivions and are soon offering priceless gifts. Stars SAT Louise Lombard. SAT SAT 18:30 Atomic Tales b007jx70 (Listen) SAT And Mother Makes Millions SAT A dashing male stranger enters a world where human women can SAT no longer have children, but is he all that he seems? 1950s SAT American sci-fi spoof with John Guerrasio. From August 2006. SAT SAT 19:00 Peter Ustinov - The Radio Years b065xb02 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 4 Extra Stands Up with Fred MacAulay b065xqhy (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Host Fred MacAulay with the best of 2015's comedy Fringe SAT festival in Edinburgh. SAT Fred welcomes festival favourite performers Janey Godley, SAT Tom Stade and Mark Nelson. SAT Plus Michael Che, Felicity Ward, Dana Alexander, Robin SAT Grainger and Liam Withnail. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Dabster Productions. SAT SAT 23:00 4 at the Store b00cpvsk (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT From London's Comedy Store, Simon Bligh introduces stand-ups SAT Dominic Holland, Sue Beard and Felix Dexter. From December SAT 1998. SAT SAT 23:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008z5ld (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT Invention as it happens as Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney SAT perform improvised sketches driven by the audience. From SAT February 2008. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Dawn Ellis SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 AUGUST 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Colin Swash - Paradise Lost in Space b007jnpy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Atomic Tales b007jx70 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 How to Have a Perfect Marriage Omnibus b065xbjq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b065xjzp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b065xq81 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01h2c9p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Shirley Gee - Moonshine b065x8fy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01r1cc0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai Omnibus b03b2nlv (Listen) SUN Alia Khan, a female police officer, tries to solve a series SUN of crimes and make sense of her troubled past. Recorded in SUN Mumbai. SUN SUN 07:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01lk6wp (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Bigamist SUN Michael Williams stars as 1940s radio star Robb Wilton. Can SUN the eternal pessimist solve a tricky marital problem in SUN 1986? SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00dz8ls (Listen) SUN Series 5, Anger Management SUN Comedy series by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. SUN After a run-in with the Head of Stakeholder Communications SUN Engagement at a local council meeting, Ed finds himself in SUN anger management classes. Could he turn over a new leaf and SUN become a gentler person? SUN Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas SUN Sue Fishpool ...... Rachel Atkins SUN Olive ...... Stephanie Cole SUN Felix ...... John Fortune SUN Pearl ...... Rita May SUN Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Steve Williams ...... Tom Price SUN Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead. SUN SUN 08:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00g42td (Listen) SUN From 08/03/1971 SUN A eulogy to Beethoven - and the epic tale of the building of SUN a new bus shelter. 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 Chris Allen, JHB Peel, John Graham, Allan Scott SUN and Chris Bryant, Peter Spence and Gerald Wiley ( Ronnie's SUN Barker's pseudonym) SUN Producer John Fawcett-Wilson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1971. SUN SUN 08:30 Whack-O! b065y6qz (Listen) SUN From 08/08/1961 SUN A sneaky Sunday tabloid is after a school expose. Can SUN Professor Jimmy Edwards fight back? With June Whitfield. 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, M.A. never misses a SUN trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their SUN parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing SUN vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. SUN Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is SUN paid for at five guineas extra. It's only thanks to the SUN efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the SUN school exists at 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 Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary SUN Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley b065y7d8 (Listen) SUN Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick read Charlotte Gordon's SUN biography of the pioneering feminist and her novelist SUN daughter. SUN Mary Wollstonecraft, famous for her polemic A Vindication on SUN the Rights of Woman, died ten days after giving birth to her SUN daughter who wrote one of the nineteenth century's most SUN significant novels, Frankenstein. Though she never knew her SUN mother, Mary Shelley was inspired and influenced by the way SUN Wollstonecraft had lived her life, and her philosophy on SUN freedom. Charlotte Gordon's dual biography brings together SUN these visionary women and illuminates the many similarities SUN between the two. Both acquired fame and notoriety through SUN their writing, they married difficult men, had children out SUN of wedlock and were assailed by tragedy. Above all both left SUN legacies that continue to endure. SUN Read by Juliet Aubrey and Ellie Kendrick SUN Abridged by Sara Davies SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b065y92m (Listen) SUN Patrick Grant SUN Savile Row designer Patrick Grant chooses 'Sympathy for the SUN Devil' by the Rolling Stones and Radiohead's 'Packt Like SUN Sardines'. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b038l908 (Listen) SUN Edinburgh Winners, Emma Thompson SUN From Joe Cocker to Eric Thompson, actress and writer Emma SUN Thompson shares her castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From SUN March 2010. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b065ydsc (Listen) SUN Series 2, Memory Games SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN Guy Raz investigates whether a nimble memory can improve SUN your life, and how a frail one might ruin someone else's. SUN With Scott Fraser, Daniel Kahneman and Joshua Foer. SUN First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pf12c (Listen) SUN Series 1, Monstrous Flowers SUN The naturalist and broadcaster muses on the world's largest SUN blooms found deep in the steamy forests of Sumatra. SUN SUN 12:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00g42td (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Whack-O! b065y6qz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai Omnibus b03b2nlv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01lk6wp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman b065yqml (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Harper Lee's explosive second novel revisits the much-loved SUN characters from To Kill a Mockingbird. Read by Fenella SUN Woolgar. SUN SUN 15:45 Alex Ferguson - Where the Kids Are At b065ys33 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. A resented young teacher re-enacts the events SUN of Eyam, the Derbyshire Plague Village, in a history SUN project. Read by Avril Elgar. SUN SUN 16:00 Eric Pringle - The Voyage of the Swallow b0662tqb (Listen) SUN Published in 1930, the classic adventure novel Swallows and SUN Amazons was written by "the man who hated children", SUN journalist Arthur Ransome. SUN Eric Pringle 's play is about the events leading up to the SUN publication of the book. SUN Starring Richard Briers as Arthur Ransome and Susannah York SUN star as his second wife, Evgenia Ransome. SUN Music by Steafan Hannigan and Simon Care SUN Director: Adrian Bean SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00dz8ls (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Brian Aldiss - Song of the Silencer b007jrb2 (Listen) SUN 'We have invented God' - will the creation of the Ultimate SUN Machine wreak havoc on the universe? Read by Nigel Anthony. SUN SUN 18:30 Berlie Doherty - The Drowned Village b008kl8w (Listen) SUN Kate has been troubled by the voices of children. Will she SUN find an answer returning to her childhood village? Stars SUN Kate Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b065ydsc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pf12c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary SUN Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley b065y7d8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b065y92m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b038l908 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00dz8ls (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Mark Steel's in Town b0184rgq (Listen) SUN Series 3, Holyhead 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 2 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the SUN residents of Holyhead in Anglesey, where he talks about SUN sinking ships, fishy foot nibbling, the town's newest SUN locals, Kate and Wills, and a mayor whose eccentricity puts SUN Boris to shame... 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 b01mygzv (Listen) SUN For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offer the SUN best of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to the Kurupt SUN FM crew. SUN SUN 23:00 Curiosity Killed the Cabaret b00tgct1 (Listen) SUN The Edinburgh Fringe is the home to some of the best cabaret SUN acts the world has to offer and back in 2010 Fringe Radio 4 SUN bought you a selection of some of the most talked about SUN cabaret acts who appeared over the Festival. SUN Australian cabaret legend Ali McGregor (La Clique and Opera SUN Burlesque), who recently hosted a Late-Nite Variety-Nite SUN Night at The Assembly Rooms, hosted a special Radio 4 late SUN night review show Curiosity Killed The Cabaret. SUN She introduced the cream of the cabaret acts appearing at SUN the 2010 Fringe including Frisky and Mannish, Oompah Brass, SUN Asher Treleaven and Fitzrovia Radio Hour. SUN Producer: Paul Russell SUN A Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea b0077007 (Listen) SUN Series 3, The Subsidence Adventure SUN Will Hamish and Dougal make a success of a new business SUN idea? Stars Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden, with Alison SUN Steadman and Jeremy Hardy. From September 2006. SUN SUN 23:45 Armstrong and Miller b00t5x2s (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Australian lifestyle, and a Euro rock band. Sketches and SUN songs with Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller. From March SUN 1998. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 AUGUST 2015 MON MON 00:00 Brian Aldiss - Song of the Silencer b007jrb2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Berlie Doherty - The Drowned Village b008kl8w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai Omnibus b03b2nlv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b01lk6wp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman b065yqml (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Alex Ferguson - Where the Kids Are At b065ys33 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Eric Pringle - The Voyage of the Swallow b0662tqb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00dz8ls (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy MON b008g278 (Listen) MON 'R' MON Ashenden, a writer by profession, has returned from the MON First World War and is approached by a colonel who offers MON him a position in the Secret Service. MON Ashenden is perfect due to his profession and his knowledge MON of many European languages. He's despatched to Geneva the MON next day with the warning that "if he does well, he'll get MON no thanks, and if he gets into trouble, he'll get no help". MON A series of short stories based on William Somerset MON Maugham's own First World War experiences MON Read by Alex Jennings MON Abridged by Neville Teller MON Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan MON Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. MON MON 06:30 Serbian Trumpets b00tj82f (Listen) MON With composer and musician, Llywelyn Ap Myrddin we travel to MON Guca, officially the Dragacevo Trumpet Festival, a hundred MON miles south of Belgrade, to explore the sound and culture of MON this distinctly Balkan music. Played by Roma and Serbs MON alike, Guca is about the only place the two cultures MON tolerate one another. MON With BBC correspondent Allan Little, the programme reports MON on the culture and character of the Serbs; following the MON history of trumpet music which, at the Guca Festival runs MON parallel with the history of Serbia. The festival began as MON an expression of Serbian culture, which the founders wanted MON to celebrate and which had, to some extent, along with other MON ethnic music through Yugoslavia, been suppressed in the big, MON "we are one people" efforts of Tito . MON With great emotion for their heritage set against the MON absorption of Serbian traditions into wider Yugoslavia, the MON festival became a focus for Serbian trumpeters, but since MON the recent civil war, other nations in the Balkans have been MON invited to take part. MON The different styles of music create an incredible musical MON range; the slower, heavier Kolo originating in the West of MON Serbia, to the heady swirl of dissonant melodies with an MON oriental flavour, that comes with the Roma Orchestras in the MON South, to the faster Romanian dance music that originates in MON the east. MON Crucially, music is centre stage - neither Tito or Milosevic MON were permitted to attend Guca Festival. We will record the MON great Roma trumpet players: Boban Markovic, famous worldwide MON for his music in Emir Kusturica's films; along with his son MON Marco. Sarajevo born, Goran Bregovic along with Golden MON trumpet winners and musicians who gather at this MON extraordinary event. MON Producer: Kate Bland MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 07:00 The World As We Know It b00fy2qt (Listen) MON Donna's Leaving Do MON Will the housemates finally discover what caused the end of MON the world? Stars Meera Syal and Simon Greenall. From June MON 1999. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b064ygll (Listen) MON Series 63, Episode 5 MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to Sheffield MON City Hall. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim MON Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Susan Calman, with MON Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the piano. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy MON production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b00qxh17 (Listen) MON Series 2, War Dance MON Captain Mainwaring's platoon dance is disrupted by an MON announcement from Private Pike. 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, MON Arnold Ridley as Godfrey, and Larry Martyn as Private MON Walker. With Wendy Richards as Violet Gibbons. 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 b0663ftq (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 10 MON Can a job abroad solve George and Kate's housing crisis? 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 The Write Stuff b007759c (Listen) MON Series 6, William Shakespeare MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John MON Walsh with guests Sabrina Broadbent and Mark Billingham. MON Author of the week and subject for pastiche is William MON Shakespeare and the reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b00tk76w (Listen) MON Series 1, Crime and Punishment MON Sam Simmons is truly unruly, but Mr Brown uncovers more than MON just a bad school attitude. Stars Peter Davison. From April MON 1985. MON MON 10:00 15 Minute Drama b039yp0r (Listen) MON Ayeesha Menon - Undercover Mumbai, One Last Sacrifice MON As India's general elections draw near, and the world's MON largest democracy decides its future, A murder and a MON political scandal leads Police Inspector Alia Khan to MON unravelling the truth about her policeman father's death. A MON climactic hour-long final episode of the police detective MON serial set in Mumbai. MON Set and recorded on location in Mumbai, this six-part police MON detective serial stars Alia Khan, as a young woman officer MON in the Bandra Division of the Mumbai Police Force, who MON attempts to solve a series of crimes as she tries to make MON sense of her troubled past and cope with being a woman in a MON male dominated and chauvinistic police force. Written by MON Ayeesha Menon and directed by John Dryden. MON PRODUCTION MON Sound Recordist - Hitesh Chaurasia MON Sound Design - Steve Bond MON Editing Assistants - Andrew Lewis & 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 www.goldhawk.eu. 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 11:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wpvq8 (Listen) MON The Expensive Delicate Ship MON An eerie story within a story, set in some not too distant MON future but looking back on an ancient biblical flood. Read MON by Nicholas Farrell. MON Brian Aldiss (b. 18 August 1925) is one of Britain's most MON prolific writers of speculative fiction, still writing MON today, his first book was written when he was 14. This MON selection of his shorter fiction celebrates the range of his MON interests from futuristic creation myths to biting social MON satire. MON Greatly influenced by the science fiction pioneer HG Wells, MON his writings have been compared to those of Isaac Asimov, MON Greg Bear and Arthur C Clarke. His complete works are MON currently being republished. MON Produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Company. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00v1rlh (Listen) MON Emma Smith - Maidens' Trip MON By Emma Smith. Dramatised for radio by David Ashton (writer MON of the popular Radio 4 detective series McLevy). MON First published in 1948, this adaptation of Emma Smith's MON fictionalised memoir opens in 1943 and relates the MON adventures of three eighteen-year-old girls who'd signed on MON with the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company to replace MON workers drafted overseas. MON Quite literally thrown in at the deep end Emma, Charity and MON Nanette embark on their maiden voyage - carrying steel north MON by canal from London to Birmingham - surmounting the MON dangerous, back-breaking work thanks largely to an endearing MON mix of youthful bravado and blissful ignorance. Steering MON their way through the 'other world' of the boat people, the MON girls, often out of their depth, face up to an assortment of MON challenges with courage and good cheer. MON Cast: MON Tilly.......... Greta Scacchi MON Emma...... Emily Wachter MON Charity..... Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Nanette.... Georgia Groome MON Wilfred..... Rufus Wright MON Mr Silver... Sean Baker MON Eli Silver... Lloyd Thomas MON Director.... Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b00qxh17 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Marriage Lines b0663ftq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy MON b008g278 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Serbian Trumpets b00tj82f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c13tx (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON A pig called Old Major has a dream and speaks to the other MON animals. The world-famous cautionary fable read by Bill MON Nighy. MON MON 14:15 The Generation Gap b00t6p21 (Listen) MON Series 3: Health Industry, Dentists MON Two people from different generations who work in the health MON industry or have experience of the health industry discuss MON how technology has changed over their lifetimes. MON The series takes a look at a broad spectrum of the health MON professions from surgeons to nurses, dentists to birthing MON specialists, and looks at how technology has changed during MON the course of their working lives. MON How does the new technology affect our society? What social MON changes does our approach to technology reveal? MON The series begins with two dentists. Alistair McClean, now MON retired, worked in Perth as a dentist for 40 years, MON qualifying in 1964. Elaine Halley also works in Perth but MON qualified in 1992. They compare notes on the vast change in MON dental techniques and social changes such as the NHS, MON fluoride in water and views on cosmetic dentistry. MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b019f8bc (Listen) MON Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome, Episode 1 MON by Edith Wharton MON Dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON Why does Ethan Frome walk with a limp? MON And what is the tragedy that befell him over twenty years MON earlier? MON A visitor to the town attempts to find out. MON Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham MON Mattie .....Jessica Raine MON Zeena .....Laurel Lefkow MON Denis Eady ..... Christopher Webster MON Post Mistress ..... Adjoa Andoh MON Andrew Hale ..... Paul Moriarty MON Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar MON Directed by Sally Avens MON Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and MON powerful stories. MON Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England MON winter. Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst MON trapped in an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, MON Zeena. A ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's MON cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he MON falls in love with Mattie but their fate is determined by MON their circumstances and the stifling conventions of the MON time. MON Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it MON appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not MON know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real MON events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told MON in an accompanying play 'The Jinx Element' that explores her MON own sexless marriage and a passionate affair that begun when MON she was 47. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00thw3j (Listen) MON Chris Mullin - Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode MON 1 MON The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect MON irreverently and humorously on New Labour's last term in MON office. Today, dismissed from government Mullin contemplates MON a future at the lower foothills of political life. MON Chris Mullin is the former MP for Sunderland South, a MON journalist and author. His books include the first volume of MON his acclaimed diaries, "A View From the Foothills." He also MON wrote the thriller, "A Very British Coup", with the MON television version winning BAFTA and Emmy awards. He was a MON minister in three departments, Environment, Transport and MON Regions, International Development and The Foreign Office. MON The reader is Sam Dale. MON The abridger is Penny Leicester. MON The producer is Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 15:00 15 Minute Drama b039yp0r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b007759c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b00tk76w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The World As We Know It b00fy2qt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b064ygll (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vkxxk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON High in the Antarctic, a team of scientists make an MON unexpected discovery. HP Lovecraft's tale of terror read by MON Richard Coyle. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075tzh (Listen) MON Lyn MacDonald and Colin Blakemore MON Louise Doughty and her guests neurobiologist Sir Colin MON Blakemore and historian Lyn MacDonald discuss favourite MON paperbacks by Francoise Sagan, Antony Beevor and Allan MON Gurganus. From 2000. MON Stalingrad by Antony Beevor MON Publisher: Penguin MON Bonjour Tristesse by Francoise Sagan MON Publisher: Penguin MON Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All by Allan Gurganus MON Publisher: Faber. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b00qxh17 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Marriage Lines b0663ftq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy MON b008g278 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Serbian Trumpets b00tj82f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wpvq8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00v1rlh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b064ygll (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Party b011vg9k (Listen) MON Series 2, Prison Ain't All That Bad MON The student politicians of the new political Party use MON prison-based TV shows as inspiration for forming their MON policy on crime and punishment. Second series of a satirical MON comedy written by Tom Basden. MON Simon ..... Tom Basden MON Duncan ..... Tim Key MON Jared ..... Jonny Sweet MON Mel ..... Ann Crilly MON Phoebe ..... Katy Wix MON Produced by Julia McKenzie. MON MON 23:00 Dead Ringers b0650623 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 1 MON A satirical take on politics, media and celebrity. MON Featuring Jon Culshaw, Debra Stephenson, Jan Ravens, Lewis MON MacLeod and Duncan Wisbey. MON Produced by Bill Dare. MON Credits MON Performer: Jon Culshaw MON Performer: Debra Stephenson MON Performer: Jan Ravens MON Performer: Lewis Macleod MON Performer: Duncan Wisbey MON MON 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b018pd6q (Listen) MON For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the MON best in laughs. Plus Jessica Fostekew chats to 'French' MON comedian Marcel Lucont. MON MON 23:30 As Told to Craig Brown b00v1nhb (Listen) MON Craig Brown's Lost Diaries, January and February MON January and February. Satirist Craig Brown dips into the MON private lives of public figures from the 1960s to the MON present day. MON As the New Year begins, great thinkers like Barack Obama, MON John Prescott and Barbara Cartland turn their thoughts to MON new beginnings. MON Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan MON Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. MON Written by Craig Brown. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 AUGUST 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vkxxk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075tzh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy TUE b008g278 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Serbian Trumpets b00tj82f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c13tx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Generation Gap b00t6p21 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b019f8bc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00thw3j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 15 Minute Drama b039yp0r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b007759c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b00tk76w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The World As We Know It b00fy2qt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b064ygll (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy TUE b008g6v9 (Listen) TUE The Traitor TUE Ashenden is despatched to a small hotel in Lucerne, TUE Switzerland to try and buy the allegiance of a German TUE informant - English charmer Grantley Caypor. But when it TUE transpires that he's not to be bought, Ashenden has few TUE options left and is forced to try and turn him in. TUE A series of short stories based on William Somerset TUE Maugham's own First World War experiences TUE Read by Alex Jennings TUE Abridged by Neville Teller TUE Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan TUE Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. TUE TUE 06:30 Sud-U-Like b00tbcdt (Listen) TUE From the very first UK laundrette in Queensway, West London TUE (opened in 1949) to present day laundry-services, the TUE laundrette has played a vital part in the UK's modern TUE history. But is the popular opinion of laundrettes as TUE unsavoury places to visit only when you are at your lowest a TUE fair assertion? TUE As Yasmeen Khan discovers, not everyone finds laundrettes TUE depressing places - for many, the local laundrette is as TUE much a community centre and social hub as the pub - more TUE Dot.com than Dot Cotton - such as Manchester's first TUE Internet launderette, where customers can surf the net and TUE watch films while washing their smalls! TUE Yasmeen also visits the Liverpool offices of Associated TUE Liver Laundrettes, the UK's largest chain of laundrettes, TUE and learns first-hand what business is really like in the TUE clothes-cleaning industry - and what the future holds. The TUE programme will also hear from Yasmeen's family - about why TUE and how they ended up in the laundrette business (5 shops TUE across Huddersfield), what the ups and downs of owning TUE laundrettes were and just how much the people, machines and TUE washing powder impacted on their lives. TUE Yasmeen takes a trip back to her Yorkshire home town of TUE Huddersfield to visit the only one that has remained as a TUE laundrette. And then there's "that advert", with the guy TUE stripping off in the laundrette in front of the admiring TUE ladies - did it only sell jeans, or did the laundrette TUE business profit as well? TUE And of course, what programme about laundrettes would be TUE complete without a trip to the most famous laundrette in the TUE country? Yasmeen pops down to Albert Square to learn all TUE about the role the Eastenders washeteria has had in the TUE history of the soap-opera, and to find out why it has TUE remained a key location for so many years. TUE Produced by Neil Gardner and Yasmeen Khan TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 HR b00tj5qm (Listen) TUE Series 2, Dogging TUE Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the TUE misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his TUE trouble-making colleague. TUE Sam, determined to help depressed Peter find a sense of TUE purpose in his retirement, gets him a dog. But will the TUE scruffy mongrel help Peter? Or will it add to his aggression TUE and sense of injustice? TUE Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce TUE Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost TUE Nasty Man ..... Tony Bell TUE Woman ..... Christine Kavanagh TUE Man ..... Sam Dale TUE Director: Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 07:30 Mitch Benn Is the 37th Beatle b03szxdh (Listen) TUE Musical satirist Mitch Benn explores his comedy connections TUE to the story of The Beatles. TUE Mitch has realised that over the years many people have TUE claimed the title The Fifth Beatle. In fact, so many of them TUE have been described as such that there are now at least 36 TUE of them. They can't all be right. But some of them are TUE righter than others... TUE Fifty years on from the release of 'Please, Please Me', TUE Mitch presents his own definitive list of the Beatles. He TUE presents a whistlestop tour through musical history and the TUE enduring legacy of the Fab Four, whilst shamelessly milking TUE his own - incredibly tenuous- connection to it. TUE Written by and starring Mitch Benn TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007jrw6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 8 TUE Kenneth Horne is on the mystery trail of a giant mouse - and TUE down the end of the pier, it's the amazing Gruntfuttock and TUE Julian and Sandy being telepathic. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1966. TUE TUE 08:30 Hello Cheeky b012b8hz (Listen) TUE From 28/04/1973 TUE TV newsreaders and Radio 1 DJs lampooned. Sketches galore TUE with Barry Cryer, John Junkin and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From TUE April 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers b0650623 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Such Rotten Luck b0667t0l (Listen) TUE Series 2, We Poets All Rejoice TUE Determined to scoop a rival biographer, the struggling TUE writer visits Berlin. Stars Tim Pigott-Smith. From December TUE 1991. TUE TUE 10:00 Stella Gibbons - Westwood b012yw3g (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE In 1943 bomb-hit London, teacher Margaret Steggles falls TUE under the spell of the wealthy Challis family. Stars Juliet TUE Aubrey. TUE TUE 11:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03ws9lr (Listen) TUE Stillthorpe; Headless TUE Stillthorpe is a gentle fable. Followed by Headless - a TUE blistering satire depicting a world where entertainment has TUE replaced common-sense. Read by Clare Corbett. TUE Brian Aldiss (b. 18 August 1925) is one of Britain's most TUE prolific writers of speculative fiction, still writing TUE today, his first book was written when he was 14. This TUE selection of his shorter fiction celebrates the range of his TUE interests from futuristic creation myths to biting social TUE satire. TUE Greatly influenced by the science fiction pioneer HG Wells, TUE his writings have been compared to those of Isaac Asimov, TUE Greg Bear and Arthur C. Clarke. His complete works are TUE currently being republished. TUE Produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Company. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00fq1br (Listen) TUE Michael Butt - The Babington Plot TUE Documentary-style drama by Michael Butt that tells the story TUE of the 1586 plot to assassinate Elizabeth I and return TUE England to Catholic rule under Mary, Queen of Scots. The TUE story is told from the perspective of several of the TUE conspirators - some genuine, some government spies that had TUE infiltrated the group. TUE Presenter ...... Stephen Greif TUE Robert Poley ...... Burn Gorman TUE Thomas Salisbury ...... Sam Barnett TUE Aloysius Skeres ...... Chris Pavlo TUE Thomas Phelippes ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE Robert Bull ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Gilbert Gifford ...... Inam Mirza TUE Don Mendoza ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Mistress Bellamy ...... Marlene Sidaway TUE Jane Tichbourne ...... Janice Acquah TUE Agnes Lauren ...... Jill Cardo TUE Shepherd ...... Dan Starkey TUE Casey ...... Paul Rider TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jrw6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Hello Cheeky b012b8hz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy TUE b008g6v9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Sud-U-Like b00tbcdt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c0r24 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Snowball has big plans for the farmyard revolution, but how TUE will fellow pig Napoleon react? Read by Bill Nighy. TUE TUE 14:15 The Generation Gap b00t6rby (Listen) TUE Series 3: Health Industry, Birth TUE Two people from different generations who work in the health TUE industry or have experience of the health industry discuss TUE how technology has changed over their lifetimes. TUE St Mary's Hospital has a cutting edge birthing centre for TUE new mothers. Daughter and mother Sarah and Jean compare TUE notes on their experiences of how technology helped their TUE birth experience, and how our attitudes have shifted towards TUE a more natural approach. TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b019f9hc (Listen) TUE Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome, Episode 2 TUE by Edith Wharton TUE Dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE Zeena goes away to visit a Doctor and Ethan and Mattie are TUE left alone together for the first time. TUE Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham TUE Mattie ..... Jessica Raine TUE Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow TUE Andrew Hale ..... Paul Moriarty TUE Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and TUE powerful stories. Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a TUE New England winter. Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his TUE woodlot whilst trapped in an unhappy marriage with his TUE hypochondriac wife, Zeena. A ray of light enters Ethan's TUE life when his wife's cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life TUE is transformed as he falls in love with Mattie but their TUE fate is determined by their circumstances and the stifling TUE conventions of the time. TUE Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it TUE appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not TUE know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real TUE events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told TUE in an accompanying play 'The Jinx Element' which explores TUE her own sexless marriage and a passionate affair that begun TUE when she was 47. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00thw3l (Listen) TUE Chris Mullin - Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode TUE 2 TUE The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect TUE irreverently and humorously on New Labour's last term in TUE office. Today, it is 2006 and Mullin looks back on Tony TUE Blair's premiership, and the events leading up to Labour's TUE Black Wednesday. TUE Chris Mullin is the former MP for Sunderland South, a TUE journalist and author. His books include the first volume of TUE his acclaimed diaries, "A View From the Foothills." He also TUE wrote the thriller, "A Very British Coup", with the TUE television version winning BAFTA and Emmy awards. He was a TUE minister in three departments, Environment, Transport and TUE Regions, International Development and The Foreign Office. TUE The reader is Sam Dale. TUE The abridger is Penny Leicester. TUE The producer is Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 15:00 Stella Gibbons - Westwood b012yw3g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Who Goes There? b0076bdv (Listen) TUE Series 6, Episode 6 TUE Martin Young's famous people quiz. With Francis Wheen, Fred TUE Housego, Geoffrey Durham and Jenny Colgan. From November TUE 2002. TUE TUE 16:30 Such Rotten Luck b0667t0l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 HR b00tj5qm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Mitch Benn Is the 37th Beatle b03szxdh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vl2hh (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE A grisly discovery at Professor Lake's camp sparks a TUE perilous two-man flight over monstrous mountains. Read by TUE Richard Coyle. TUE TUE 18:30 How Tickled Am I? b00f670x (Listen) TUE Series 3, Harry Worth TUE Mark Radcliffe profiles comedian Harry Worth, who was a TUE miner in Barnsley before taking to the stage and a life in TUE showbiz. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jrw6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Hello Cheeky b012b8hz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy TUE b008g6v9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Sud-U-Like b00tbcdt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03ws9lr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00fq1br (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Mitch Benn Is the 37th Beatle b03szxdh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Little Britain b008vt68 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Back where it started out. Matt Lucas and David Walliams' TUE oddball TV smash hit, without the cameras. From March 2002. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b01h0f40 (Listen) TUE For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the TUE best in laughs. Plus Jessica Fostekew chats again to TUE 'French' comedian Marcel Lucont. TUE TUE 23:00 Rubbish b00899qv (Listen) TUE Series 2, Surveillance TUE Comedy series by Tony Bagley about Martin Christmas, local TUE government officer, cynic and manic depressive. TUE 4/6. Surveillance TUE While testing out his latest initiative, a tannoy system TUE that works in conjunction with the CCTV system, Martin TUE becomes its next victim. Will he be able to clear his name? TUE Martin ...... Reece Dinsdale TUE Barney ...... Matthew Cottle TUE John ...... Neil Dudgeon TUE Banks/Binbagger ...... Ewan Bailey TUE Tannoy ...... Martin Trenaman. TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b01glrp7 (Listen) TUE Series 3, The Stand-In TUE Ben vows to do something alone, but buying an envelope isn't TUE that easy. Stars Neil Pearson and Fiona Allen. From December TUE 2009. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 AUGUST 2015 WED WED 00:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vl2hh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 How Tickled Am I? b00f670x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy WED b008g6v9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Sud-U-Like b00tbcdt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c0r24 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Generation Gap b00t6rby (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b019f9hc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00thw3l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Stella Gibbons - Westwood b012yw3g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Who Goes There? b0076bdv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Such Rotten Luck b0667t0l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 HR b00tj5qm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Mitch Benn Is the 37th Beatle b03szxdh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy WED b008gbq1 (Listen) WED Mr Harrington's Washing WED In Petrograd, Ashenden encounters a fastidious American WED businessman called Mr Harrington, whose penchant for WED spotless laundry has ugly consequences when the Bolsheviks WED revolt. WED Ashenden also crosses paths with his former Russian lover, WED Anastacia, who's only too eager to help him in his biggest WED and most important mission yet. WED A series of short stories based on William Somerset WED Maugham's own First World War experiences WED Read by Alex Jennings WED Abridged by Neville Teller WED Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan WED Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. WED WED 06:30 Gauguin: The Right to Dare b00txhf5 (Listen) WED Paul Gauguin asked August Strindberg to write an WED introduction to his catalogue exhibition. WED In response, Strindberg wrote passionately, but regretfully WED that he couldn't as he didn't like Gauguin's work and while WED he struggled to explain his antipathy, he wrote "What is he WED then? He is Gauguin, the savage who hates the restraints of WED civilisation, who has something of the Titan who, jealous of WED the creator, makes his own little creation in his spare WED time, the child who takes toys apart to make others, the one WED who renounces and defies, preferring to see the sky red, WED rather than blue with the crowd." WED By the time he's written these words he begins to understand WED this controversial artist's work and exclaims "Upon my word, WED it seems to me that, now I've become excited writing, I'm WED starting to have a certain understanding of Gauguin's art. WED The last romantic, the leading light in Symbolist painting, WED the primitive sophisticate, 'decivilising' painter of the WED French colonial tropics and revolutionary colourist - Paul WED Gauguin's work shaped modern art. His rejection of the WED bourgeois Parisian lifestyle of a stockbroker and wild WED escape to an archipelago of tiny, remote Pacific islands is WED the stuff of modern artistic legend. But to this day he WED remains a very controversial figure, lauded on the one hand WED and vilified by critics on the other. WED Our title is taken from Gauguin's life-maxim - that he WED demanded "The right to dare to do anything." The 'right to WED dare' goes to the heart of our argument here - and of our WED assessment of the contemporary importance of Gauguin's art . WED We investigate the ways in which Gauguin pushed at the WED boundaries of convention both in art and life and explore WED the legacy of that daring in terms of Gauguin's influence WED today. WED Producer: Kate Bland WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 Winston b007mwhn (Listen) WED Series 1, The Village Fete WED Father enjoys a remarkable recovery, while Nancy makes a big WED decision over the old rogue. Stars Bill Wallis. From May WED 1989. WED WED 07:30 Listen Against b00fq2sw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED More radio ridicule from Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes, WED including Thought for the Day... for Satanists. From WED December 2008. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b0080qlm (Listen) WED Onabushkan Flu WED With her crew battling flu, HMS Troutbridge must take on WED board half an Onabushkan crew for a special royal mission. 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 Able Seaman Johnson and Richard WED Caldicote as Captain Povey 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 b00cylbh (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 1 WED Radio's Dave the Rave and The Legend of Bunny and Claude. WED Songs and sketches with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From WED April 1968. WED WED 09:00 Puzzle Panel b00x7lb5 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Agitate your grey matter with Chris Maslanka, David WED Singmaster, William Harston and Professor Angela Newing. WED From June 1998. WED WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00c3b7g (Listen) WED Series 1, The Pride and the Peacemaker WED Renaissance Italy's Prince Ludovico buys a cannon, and WED Princess Plethora wants to confess. Stars David Swift. From WED April 2001. WED WED 10:00 Stella Gibbons - Westwood b01322b0 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Teacher Margaret Steggles wonders if pompous playwright WED Gerald Challis really is the man of her dreams. Stars Juliet WED Aubrey. WED WED 11:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wt584 (Listen) WED Galaxy Zee WED Life in a galaxy where every planet and every city is like a WED billion others, the controlling Unicrat who created them WED feels his plan has gone awry. Read by Jack Klaff. WED Brian Aldiss (b. 18 August 1925) is one of Britain's most WED prolific writers of speculative fiction, still writing WED today, his first book was written when he was 14. This WED selection of his shorter fiction celebrates the range of his WED interests from futuristic creation myths to biting social WED satire. WED Greatly influenced by the science fiction pioneer HG Wells, WED his writings have been compared to those of Isaac Asimov, WED Greg Bear and Arthur C. Clarke. His complete works are WED currently being republished. WED Produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Company. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b009mtcf (Listen) WED Peter Souter - Goldfish Girl WED By Peter Souter WED What if you couldn't remember a single minute of the ten WED years you'd spent with the love of your life? Joe can WED remember everything about Ally; Ally remembers nothing about WED Joe. WED Joe ..... Alex Jennings WED Ally ..... Juliet Stevenson WED Directed by Gordon House. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b0080qlm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00cylbh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy WED b008gbq1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Gauguin: The Right to Dare b00txhf5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c0grc (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The windmill is smashed, with Squealer blaming Snowball, as WED Napoleon cements his position on the farm. Read by Bill WED Nighy. WED WED 14:15 The Generation Gap b00t6rc0 (Listen) WED Series 3: Health Industry, Community Nurses WED Two people from different generations who work in the health WED industry or have experience of the health industry discuss WED how technology has changed over their lifetimes. WED Sharon Dempsey nurses in the community, as did Merle Parke. WED They compare notes on how technology in their jobs affects WED the relationship with the patient. From computerising WED records and using high tech equipment to having machinery WED that can help patients monitor their own symptoms and help WED nurses make remote diagnoses. WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b019fxjc (Listen) WED Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome, Episode 3 WED by Edith Wharton WED Dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED Ethan and Mattie's idyll is shattered by the return of WED Zeena. WED Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham WED Mattie ..... Jessica Raine WED Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow WED Jotham Powell ..... Adam Billington WED Denis Eady ..... Christopher Webster WED Widow Homan ...... Victoria Inez Hardy WED Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar WED Directed by Sally Avens WED Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and WED powerful stories. WED Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England WED winter. Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst WED trapped in an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, WED Zeena. A ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's WED cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he WED falls in love with Mattie but their fate is determined by WED their circumstances and the stifling conventions of the WED time. WED Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it WED appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not WED know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real WED events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told WED in the play 'The Jinx Element' which explores her own WED sexless marriage and a passionate affair that begun when she WED was 47. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00thw3n (Listen) WED Chris Mullin - Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode WED 3 WED The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect WED irreverently and humorously on New Labour's last term in WED office. Today, Tony Blair's final days as Prime Minister. WED Chris Mullin is the former MP for Sunderland South, a WED journalist and author. His books include the first volume of WED his acclaimed diaries, "A View From the Foothills." He also WED wrote the thriller, "A Very British Coup", with the WED television version winning BAFTA and Emmy awards. He was a WED minister in three departments, Environment, Transport and WED Regions, International Development and The Foreign Office. WED The reader is Sam Dale. WED The abridger is Penny Leicester. WED The producer is Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 15:00 Stella Gibbons - Westwood b01322b0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Puzzle Panel b00x7lb5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00c3b7g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Winston b007mwhn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Listen Against b00fq2sw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vlq6b (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Dyer and student geologist Danforth discover sprawling WED evidence of an incredible ancient civilisation. Read by WED Richard Coyle. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076r24 (Listen) WED Suspicion WED Matthew Parris, Julian Baggini, Will Pavia and Anthony WED McGowan discuss the impact of suspicious thoughts. From WED March 2005. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b0080qlm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00cylbh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy WED b008gbq1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Gauguin: The Right to Dare b00txhf5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wt584 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b009mtcf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Listen Against b00fq2sw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Will Smith's Midlife Crisis Management b00g502t (Listen) WED Episode 3 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 American rap star 10 WED Shot to help Will with his confidence and Will joins a self WED defence class to stop him being bullied by teenage girls. WED With Roger Allam, Jimmy Akingbola, Jill Cardo. WED WED 23:00 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes b01p4734 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Welsh Abroad WED Comedian Elis James compares key figures in Welsh history to WED determine Wales' ultimate heroes. Also starring Benjamin WED Partridge and Nadia Kamil. WED WED 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b01dtjg9 (Listen) WED For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the WED best laughs. Plus Jessica Fostekew chats to Andy Hamilton. WED WED 23:30 Hut 33 b01j9hsk (Listen) WED Series 3, Know Thyne Enemy WED Bletchley Park codebreaker Gordon gets carried away trying WED to think like a German. Stars Robert Bathurst. From October WED 2009. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 AUGUST 2015 THU THU 00:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vlq6b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076r24 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy THU b008gbq1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Gauguin: The Right to Dare b00txhf5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c0grc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Generation Gap b00t6rc0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b019fxjc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00thw3n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Stella Gibbons - Westwood b01322b0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Puzzle Panel b00x7lb5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00c3b7g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Winston b007mwhn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Listen Against b00fq2sw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy THU b008gcmq (Listen) THU Miss King THU Agent Ashenden finds his Swiss hotel is a hive of activity THU for spies from both sides of the war and is summoned to the THU deathbed of an English governess who wants the ear of one of THU her countrymen before she dies. THU A series of short stories based on William Somerset THU Maugham's own First World War experiences THU Read by Alex Jennings THU Abridged by Neville Teller THU Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan THU Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. THU THU 06:30 Juggling Chainsaws with Archaos b00tmtxs (Listen) THU Chainsaws, fork lift trucks and semtex - twenty years ago THU the French ripped into the traditional circus format with a THU demented vitality that outraged authorities across the UK. THU Archaos were the creation of Pierrot Bidon, "part gypsy, THU part street urchin, very hairy" according to Mark Borkowski. THU He was their British publicist, and saw it as his job to get THU them out of the cultural pages and onto the front pages THU instead. THU "The Human Circus Hides Sick Secrets" - a typical tabloid THU headline that followed Archaos wherever they went. As a THU result local councils banned them again and again, a cunning THU ploy to sell huge numbers of tickets wherever they went. THU In Juggling Chainsaws with Archaos, presenter Miles Warde THU tracks down the British participants who made Archaos more THU successful here than anywhere else - including their THU producer Adrian Evans, and performers like Mischa Eligoloff THU who moved from backstage to fire-eater, hiccupped during a THU performance, and felt all his paraffin enter his lungs. Or THU as Pierrot Bidon used to say, "A life without danger is not THU a life; a show without danger is not a show.". THU THU 07:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007tdnm (Listen) THU The Metropolitan Touch THU Bingo's in love again, so Bertie and his valet are summoned THU to help. 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 Jonathan Cecil as Bingo Little and Edwin Apps as THU Steggles. THU Producer: David Hatch THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973. THU THU 07:30 Meet David Sedaris b064zp7v (Listen) THU Series 5, Leviathan THU One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC THU Radio 4 doing what he does best. This week: Leviathan deals THU with a family gathering for Thanksgiving at the seaside and THU there's another instalment from his diary (3/6) THU Produced by 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 b00t3tws (Listen) THU Series 2, Sunday for Seven Days THU Harold lives to regret taking his dad Albert to the cinema. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Peter Hawkins and Nigel Clayton. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by THU Gale Pedrick. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b007jv6w (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant Ravelli THU get themselves hired to guard a Rembrandt painting. THU Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the THU adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his THU assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with THU sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The THU scripts were rediscovered in 1988. THU Starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T THU Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravelli THU With Lorelei King and Graham Hoadly. THU Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark THU Brisenden. THU Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. THU Producer: Dirk Maggs THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990. THU THU 09:00 Guess What? b066f71q (Listen) THU Episode 8 THU Animal, vegetable or mineral? Barry Took's revised 20 THU questions. With Geoffrey Durham, Chris Serle and Clare THU Francis. From May 1998. THU THU 09:30 After Henry b007nf1y (Listen) THU Series 4, Dependent Relatives THU Sarah is missing daughter Clare, and her mother Eleanor is THU still very irritating. Stars Prunella Scales. From January THU 1989. THU THU 10:00 Judith French - The Dutch Mariner b0076dm8 (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. The myth that inspired the Flying Dutchman. A THU classic tale of the power of love and the strength of evil. THU Stars Gerard Murphy. THU THU 11:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wtf7z (Listen) THU The Light Really; Apology THU Two Brian Aldiss stories: first, a philandering journalist THU is confined to home; whilst in Apology an elderly THU aristocrat's memory returns him to an incident that moved THU him greatly. Read by Ewan Bailey. THU Brian Aldiss (b. 18 August 1925) is one of Britain's most THU prolific writers of speculative fiction, still writing THU today, his first book was written when he was 14. This THU selection of his shorter fiction celebrates the range of his THU interests from futuristic creation myths to biting social THU satire. THU Greatly influenced by the science fiction pioneer HG Wells, THU his writings have been compared to those of Isaac Asimov, THU Greg Bear and Arthur C Clarke. His complete works are THU currently being republished. THU Produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Company. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00x44l6 (Listen) THU Chris Wilson - I Before Bee THU I Before Bee THU by Chris Wilson THU A comic and heartwarming play about teenager Michael Croxley THU whose stammer has contributed to his fear of public THU speaking. To his horror, Michael finds that he's competing THU in the national school spelling bee's; when the girl he THU adores, Lynne Hargreaves, reads a composition of his in THU double English and discovers he's a whizz with words and his THU spelling is stupendous she asks him to be part of the school THU spelling-bee team. How can he refuse? He accepts gallantly. THU Secretly he sobs to his nana terrified at the prospect. His THU Scottish Nana comes to the rescue with the help of Robert THU The Bruce. THU Michael ....... Mykola Allen THU Lynne ....... Sophie McShera THU Nana............Maureen Beattie THU Michael Senior....Paul Copley THU Serena ....... Poppy Rush THU Andre ...... Jack Ryan THU Moderator.....Seamus O'Neill THU Speech Consultant....Sue Addlestone THU Producer/Director - Pauline Harris THU The Writer - Chris Wilson is a sports journalist from Hull, THU who won a BBC Northern Radio writer for new writers -Alfred THU Bradley Bursary Award. His first play, Lump Boy Logan, THU starring Annette Badland and William Rush was broadcast on THU BBC Radio 3 in The Wire strand. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b00t3tws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b007jv6w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy THU b008gcmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Juggling Chainsaws with Archaos b00tmtxs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c0c38 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The farmyard's commandments continue to change. Meanwhile, THU Napoleon gains a new title. Read by Bill Nighy. THU THU 14:15 The Generation Gap b00t6rc2 (Listen) THU Series 3: Health Industry, Mental Health THU Two people from different generations who work in the health THU industry or have experience of the health industry discuss THU how technology has changed over their lifetimes. THU Una Parker had ECT treatment for severe depression in the THU 1970s. She talks to Andrew Smith who is in his twenties and THU is being treated for depression by drug therapy. However, THU ECT is still used today, though there is much greater THU knowledge around it. How has technology changed our approach THU to the treatment of mental health? THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b019gy9t (Listen) THU Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome, Episode 4 THU by Edith Wharton THU Dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU Ethan becomes determined to escape his marriage and runaway THU with Mattie. THU Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham THU Mattie ..... Jessica Raine THU Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow THU Edith Wharton .... Fenella Woolgar THU Directed by Sally Avens THU Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and THU powerful stories. THU Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England THU winter. Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst THU trapped in an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, THU Zeena. A ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's THU cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he THU falls in love with Mattie but their fate is determined by THU their circumstances and the stifling conventions of the THU time. THU Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it THU appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not THU know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real THU events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told THU in a play 'The Jinx Element' which explores her own sexless THU marriage and a passionate affair that begun when she was 47. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00thw3q (Listen) THU Chris Mullin - Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode THU 4 THU The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect THU irreverently and humorously on New Labour's last term in THU office. Today, 2008 approaches, and there is mounting THU disquiet over Gordon Brown's leadership. THU Chris Mullin is the former MP for Sunderland South, a THU journalist and author. His books include the first volume of THU his acclaimed diaries, "A View From the Foothills." He also THU wrote the thriller, "A Very British Coup", with the THU television version winning BAFTA and Emmy awards. He was a THU minister in three departments, Environment, Transport and THU Regions, International Development and The Foreign Office. THU The reader is Sam Dale. THU The abridger is Penny Leicester. THU The producer is Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 15:00 Judith French - The Dutch Mariner b0076dm8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Guess What? b066f71q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 After Henry b007nf1y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007tdnm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Meet David Sedaris b064zp7v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vlw5s (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Investigating fantastic ancient structures high in the THU Antarctic, Dyer and Danforth face pure terror. Read by THU Richard Coyle. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b01mqpgh (Listen) THU Series 28, George Orwell THU Whilst at school, a young Alan Johnson was given some money THU by a teacher and told to go and buy four copies of any book THU for the school library. He headed down the Kings Road in THU Chelsea, stopping only for a sly cigarette along the way. THU Having already read 'Animal Farm', he picked 'Keep the THU Aspidistra Flying' and yearned for the life of lead THU character Gordon Comstock. THU In conversation with Matthew Parris, former Home Secretary THU Alan Johnson explains why Orwell was crucial to his THU education and political development. He's surprised to learn THU that Orwell is not on the National Curriculum, and insists THU that Orwell would have hated I.D. cards. They're joined by THU Jean Seaton, Professor of Media History at the University of THU Westminster and Chair of the Orwell Prize. THU Orwell was in the news recently when the outgoing THU Director-General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, turned down a THU proposal to erect a statue of George Orwell outside BBC THU Broadcasting House, reportedly telling Joan Bakewell that it THU was 'far too Left-wing an idea.' THU Producers: Beatrice Fenton and Toby Field. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b00t3tws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b007jv6w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy THU b008gcmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Juggling Chainsaws with Archaos b00tmtxs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wtf7z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00x44l6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Meet David Sedaris b064zp7v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 My First Planet b01gg8h2 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Noticeboard of Doom THU Written by Phil Whelans THU Day 27 and the colonists are torn between Richard's THU newsletter and Archer's hot pants. And which is more THU dangerous - Brian's monkey wrench or Lillian's "vitamin" THU drink"? THU A sitcom set on a shiny new planet where we ask the question THU - if humankind were to colonise 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 Personnel 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 colonise space, is it THU destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and THU infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) THU Produced & directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Writer: Phil Whelans 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 Director: David Tyler THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b018pd6l (Listen) THU For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the THU best in laughs. Plus Jessica Fostekew chats again to Andy THU Hamilton. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b008m4f8 (Listen) THU Series 1, Introduction THU Fed up with eternity, Satan decides hell needs some new THU guests. Satanic sitcom stars Andy Hamilton and Jimmy THU Mulville. From November 1995. THU THU 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me b007jwqc (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU A phone-in to matchmake partners, and an Asian Babe fancies THU a job on TV's Newsnight. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar. From July THU 1997. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 AUGUST 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vlw5s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b01mqpgh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy FRI b008gcmq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Juggling Chainsaws with Archaos b00tmtxs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c0c38 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Generation Gap b00t6rc2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b019gy9t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00thw3q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Judith French - The Dutch Mariner b0076dm8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Guess What? b066f71q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 After Henry b007nf1y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves b007tdnm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Meet David Sedaris b064zp7v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy FRI b008ggv1 (Listen) FRI Giulia Lazzari FRI Agent Ashenden's summoned to a Paris hotel and tasked with FRI ensnaring a known agitator - Indian lawyer, Chandra Lal FRI who's caused much trouble for the British war effort. FRI When a large reward was offered for his arrest, Chandra fled FRI to Berlin and where he fell in love with an Italian dancer, FRI Giulia Lazzari. But Intelligence Head R has intercepted FRI their love letters sparking a plan to trap him. FRI A series of short stories based on William Somerset FRI Maugham's own First World War experiences FRI Read by Alex Jennings FRI Abridged by Neville Teller FRI Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan FRI Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007. FRI FRI 06:30 Philip Pullman and Miss Jones b00775zz (Listen) FRI Terry Jones presides over a conversation between FRI best-selling author Philip Pullman and his former FRI schoolteacher Enid Jones. In an intimate and revealing FRI setting in the Welsh coast town of Harlech, they talk about FRI Philip's first day in school, his early attempts at FRI storytelling, the craft of poetry, reading, writing and FRI other memories. FRI They reveal how their pupil-teacher relationship has ripened FRI into a friendship that has endured nearly fifty years. FRI Pullman explains the reasons behind his acknowledgement of FRI his former teacher at the end of the His Dark Materials FRI trilogy. FRI FRI 07:00 Rent b066fy4b (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 5 FRI Dave's band gets a paying gig and heads for Manchester, but FRI where does that leave Eva? Stars Toby Longworth. From June FRI 1998. FRI FRI 07:30 Wordaholics b01d0prh (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 FRI Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all FRI about words. FRI Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and FRI comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat FRI star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and FRI Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. FRI This week linguistic brainbox Natalie Haynes and poet FRI Michael Rosen vie for wordy supremacy with comedians Arthur FRI Smith and Paul Sinha. FRI Today the panel unravel the meanings of Cockney rhyming FRI slang, attempt to reduce some long pieces of prose and FRI poetry to the length of a tweet and try to guess the FRI meanings of some words no longer in common parlance, taken FRI from this week's guest dictionary compiled by Dr Samuel FRI Johnson. 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 b007wp6j (Listen) FRI The Last of the McHancocks FRI The lad inherits a Scottish castle and starts feuding with FRI his nasty neighbour. FRI Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie FRI Jacques and Kenneth Williams. FRI With special guest James Robertson Justice as Seamus FRI McNasty. 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 b007jlzb (Listen) FRI Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest FRI Neddie Seagoon wants to be rich and famous, but does he want FRI it enough to risk life and limb helping Maid Marion? FRI FRI 09:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mpqkn (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, FRI Tracey MacLeod, Clare Grogan and Danny Kelly. From June FRI 2006. FRI FRI 09:30 Boogie Up the River b007jz40 (Listen) FRI Lechlade, Twinned with Zanzibar FRI Mark is celebrating, but with dog hair in the champers. Can FRI a living legend save the day? Stars Timothy Spall. From FRI January 1993. FRI FRI 10:00 Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener b007jx95 (Listen) FRI A law firm's copyist 'prefers' not to do parts of his job, FRI but then his list of things to avoid turns sinister. Stars FRI Ian Holm. FRI FRI 11:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wtr47 (Listen) FRI Supertoys Last All Summer Long FRI The short story which became the basis for the Stanley FRI Kubrick-developed Steven Spielberg film A.I. What is real? FRI What is artificial intelligence? Read by Zoe Waites. FRI Brian Aldiss (b. 18 August 1925) is one of Britain's most FRI prolific writers of speculative fiction, still writing FRI today, his first book was written when he was 14. This FRI selection of his shorter fiction celebrates the range of his FRI interests from futuristic creation myths to biting social FRI satire. FRI Greatly influenced by the science fiction pioneer HG Wells, FRI his writings have been compared to those of Isaac Asimov, FRI Greg Bear and Arthur C Clarke. His complete works are FRI currently being republished. FRI Produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by the Waters Company. FRI FRI 11:15 Helen Cooper - A9 b01q19ty (Listen) FRI War hero Bernard Bottomly's three children expect to inherit FRI his millions. But there are strings attached. Stars David FRI Warner. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007wp6j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jlzb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy FRI b008ggv1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Philip Pullman and Miss Jones b00775zz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 George Orwell - Animal Farm b00c02sc (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI As Boxer becomes gravely ill, are all the residents of the FRI farmyard really equal? Concluded by Bill Nighy. FRI FRI 14:15 The Generation Gap b00t6rc4 (Listen) FRI Series 3: Health Industry, Heart Surgeons FRI Two people from different generations who work in the health FRI industry or have experience of the health industry discuss FRI how technology has changed over their lifetimes. FRI Mr Terence Lewis is one of the country's pioneering heart FRI surgeons. He recently retired but he returns to the building FRI named after him at Derriford Hospital in Plymouth to meet FRI heart surgeon Clinton Loyd, who is conducting cutting-edge FRI surgery using minimally invasive techniques. Technology has FRI moved on quickly in the last 50 years, but technology has FRI also got to be measured against cost. FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b019h2b6 (Listen) FRI Edith Wharton - Ethan Frome, Episode 5 FRI by Edith Wharton FRI dramatised by Lin Coghlan FRI Mattie and Ethan take desperate measures not to be FRI separated. FRI Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham FRI Mattie ..... Jessica Raine FRI Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow FRI Mrs Hale ..... Tracy Wiles FRI Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar FRI Ethan Frome is one of Edith Wharton's most enduring and FRI powerful stories. FRI Set against the cold, grey, bleakness of a New England FRI winter. Ethan Frome scrapes a living from his woodlot whilst FRI trapped in an unhappy marriage with his hypochondriac wife, FRI Zeena. A ray of light enters Ethan's life when his wife's FRI cousin Mattie arrives to help. His life is transformed as he FRI falls in love with Mattie but their fate is determined by FRI their circumstances and the stifling conventions of the FRI time. FRI Ethan Frome was deemed shocking when first published as it FRI appeared to condone infidelity. What many readers did not FRI know was that many of the novella's themes mirrored real FRI events in the life of Edith Wharton. Her own story is told FRI in 'The Jinx Element' that explores her own sexless marriage FRI and a passionate affair that begun when she was 47. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00thw3s (Listen) FRI Chris Mullin - Decline and Fall: Diaries 2005-2010, Episode FRI 5 FRI The second volume of Chris Mullin's diaries reflect FRI irreverently and humorously on New Labour's last term in FRI office. Today, the 2010 election approaches, and Mullin FRI anticipates the inevitable outcome, as well as his own last FRI days as an MP. FRI Chris Mullin is the former MP for Sunderland South, a FRI journalist and author. His books include the first volume of FRI his acclaimed diaries, "A View From the Foothills." He also FRI wrote the thriller, "A Very British Coup", with the FRI television version winning BAFTA and Emmy awards. He was a FRI minister in three departments, Environment, Transport and FRI Regions, International Development and The Foreign Office. FRI The reader is Sam Dale. FRI The abridger is Penny Leicester. FRI The producer is Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 15:00 Herman Melville - Bartleby the Scrivener b007jx95 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 All the Way From Memphis b00mpqkn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Boogie Up the River b007jz40 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Rent b066fy4b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Wordaholics b01d0prh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 HP Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness b00vnf09 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Battling in the Antarctic, can Dyer and Danforth escape with FRI their lives? Richard Coyle concludes HP Lovecraft's tale of FRI terror. FRI FRI 18:30 Fry's English Delight b012wdjh (Listen) FRI Series 4, Class FRI Stephen Fry's idiosyncratic meander along the byways of FRI English takes him into dangerous territory: Language and FRI Class. Is it still the contentious issue it used to be? FRI In the Nineteen Fifties a famous distinction was drawn FRI between what came to be called "U" and "Non-U" words, FRI expressions and pronunciations that were supposed to give a FRI pretty clear indication as to which class the speaker FRI belonged. That's all old hat now surely? Or are there still FRI differences between the way the social classes speak, and FRI are perceived? FRI Once the social boundaries were very clear. Now they seem a FRI lot more porous. So have we changed the way we speak to cope FRI with social changes? The answer - according to experts in FRI the programme seems to be "yes, but not as much as you might FRI think". FRI With the help of a socio-linguist, a waspish columnist, a FRI professional voice coach and Yorkshire poet Ian Macmillan, FRI Stephen looks at the history of class and speech, and finds FRI that changes have been subtle. Yet for many old tribalisms FRI remain. FRI Macmillan helps show how the issues always seem to be FRI debated in a metropolitan context. They take on a very FRI different hue if seen from elsewhere. FRI Producer: Ian Gardhouse FRI A Testbed Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007wp6j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jlzb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 W Somerset Maugham - Ashenden, Gentleman Spy FRI b008ggv1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Philip Pullman and Miss Jones b00775zz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Brian Aldiss Short Stories b03wtr47 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Helen Cooper - A9 b01q19ty (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Shappi Talk b00lszhj (Listen) FRI Series 1, Growing Up in the UK FRI Shappi is joined with black comedian Ava Vidal who'll be FRI looking back at her unusual childhood. Shappi also chats FRI with another 'related' guest- and this week she talks to FRI author Ben Okri who reveals some amazing story from his FRI childhood with a very alternative father and some childhood FRI challenges. FRI There'll also be a chance for Shappi to chat with the FRI audience and there'll be 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 b007jr82 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 6 FRI Spin doctors Prentiss and McCabe tackle a sporting victory FRI for England. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From February FRI 2000. FRI FRI 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b0153pml (Listen) FRI Series 4, Giles Coren FRI Marcus Brigstocke invites restaurant critic and die-hard FRI carnivore Giles Coren to be a vegan for a week. From FRI September 2011. FRI FRI 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun b007zmh6 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI The cult BBC Radio 1 series hosted by Stewart Lee and FRI Richard Herring, first broadcast in October 1993 but FRI recorded at the Pleasance Theatre during the Edinburgh FRI Fringe Festival the previous August. FRI It's a showcase mix of sharp sketches and situations, stand FRI up topical gags and banter. The rest of the series was taped FRI before student audiences at university venues, including FRI Plymouth, Lancaster and Belfast. FRI In the opening episode, Stewart berates Richard for his lack FRI of street cred, Peter Baynham shares some unusual recipes FRI and is Radio 1 really the youth-friendly station it pretends FRI to be? There's also an early appearance from Alistair FRI McGowan - then best known for doing voices on Spitting FRI Image. They're also joined by Rebecca Front. FRI Lee and Herring went to write and star in their successful FRI TV transfer to BBC TWO in 1995. FRI
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