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SAT SATURDAY 19 SEPTEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007s19b (Listen) SAT Earthsearch I, The Pools of Time SAT The starship Challenger closes in on Zelda 5, where Darv and SAT Astra face danger. Stars Sean Arnold and Amanda Murray. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0075znq (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Last Post SAT Officer AD Bridges and former WWII prisoner John Wyatt SAT reflect on the impact of the final bugle call before lights SAT out. From December 2000. SAT SAT 01:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzf9 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Kim Drake is retracing her dead boyfriend's journey across SAT Europe in an attempt to discover why he apparently killed SAT himself on their wedding day. In the tough city of Hamburg SAT she discovers that Mike had been economical with the truth SAT ... SAT Stars Siriol Jenkins as Kim Drake, Neil Roberts as Mike SAT Fisher, Kate Binchy as Anne, Shaun Prendergast as Otto/Burns SAT and Kenneth Cranham as Stone. SAT Shaun Prendergast's techno thriller in six parts. SAT Directed by Adrian Bean SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. SAT SAT 01:30 The FAE Sonata b00sjbsx (Listen) SAT Frei Aber Einsam - 'free but lonely' - was the motto of the SAT great 19th century violinist Joseph Joachim. It's also the SAT name of a Violin Sonata played by Joachim, accompanied by SAT Clara Schumann, that resulted from a collaboration between SAT the composer Robert Schumann and two of his pupils, Johannes SAT Brahms and Albert Dietrich. SAT On the 200th anniversary of Schumann's birth, Tom Robinson SAT examines the complex relationships between these romantic SAT artists through the prism of this piece of music. Schumann's SAT passionate love for his wife Clara is matched only by SAT Brahms' devotion to her during and following Schumann's SAT decline into mental illness. SAT Brahms was also a close champion of Joachim, until the SAT violinist's divorce, when they fell out over the composer's SAT support for Joachims' wife. And the FAE Sonata itself was SAT neglected - an innocent victim - until long after Brahms' SAT death. SAT Tom unpicks the romantic and turbulent story of a musical SAT collaboration with the help of pianist and Schumann champion SAT Lucy Parham, violinist Tasmin Little, Robert John Godfrey of SAT 'The Enid' and Radio 3's Andrew McGregor. SAT Producer: Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:00 Afternoon Reading b014qt0b (Listen) SAT Face It, Confirm/Ignore SAT The third of three short story commissions on the theme of SAT social networking. SAT Confirm/Ignore, by Nikesh Shukla, is a moving story about SAT coping with grief in the age of social media. SAT Read by Nikesh Shukla SAT Produced by Robert Howells SAT Nikesh Shukla is a London-based author and poet. His first SAT book, 'Coconut Unlimited' was shortlisted for the Costa SAT First Book Award 2010. SAT Credits SAT Writer: Nikesh Shukla SAT Reader: Nikesh Shukla SAT Producer: Robert Howells SAT SAT 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b0376jy0 (Listen) SAT The Career Ladder SAT Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of SAT today's corporate culture. SAT Part 3 of 10: Lucy charts the emergence of the career ladder SAT as a way to motivate staff. The late 19th century saw a huge SAT growth in office clerks. With the increase in staff, came SAT the concept of a career ladder as a way to make up for the SAT drudgery. Lucy looks at the Scottish banks and their early SAT version of the annual appraisal, which often included SAT strikingly personal comments. With Alan McKinlay of SAT Newcastle University SAT Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry SAT Shale SAT Historical Consultant: Michael Heller SAT Producer: Russell Finch SAT A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01cqx0h (Listen) SAT Christopher William Hill - Angarrack, Autumn SAT Sir Richard is dead, and a fire has destroyed Angarrack's SAT library. But are the two events connected - and will Lady SAT Helen be able to use them to her advantage? SAT Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around the SAT future of a crumbling Cornish ancestral estate in the SAT immediate aftermath of the Second World War. Sir Richard SAT Penwerris (Richard Jonson), mired in debt, wishes to SAT bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his SAT wife, Lady Helen (Lia Williams) who plans to drag the SAT estate, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century. SAT Matters are complicated further by the sudden emergence of SAT an heir to the estate, Rafe Penwerris (Henry Hadden-Paton), SAT whom his father believed to have died in the war. A clash of SAT Titans ensues - with only one winner. SAT Cast: SAT Sir Richard Penwerris ...... Richard Johnson SAT Lady Helen ...... Lia Williams SAT Rafe ....... Harry Hadden-Paton SAT Tregunna ...... Tony Haygarth SAT Ralston ....... Nicholas Boulton SAT Jepson ...... Peter Cadwell SAT Prideaux ...... Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Incidental Music: composed by David Chilton SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00kwqqq (Listen) SAT David Nicholls - One Day, Episode 10 SAT Julian Rhind-Tutt reads from the bittersweet novel by David SAT Nicholls. SAT Seventeen years after the one night they spent together in SAT 1988, memories of that fateful day are still strong - SAT perhaps even stronger, given the events that have shaped and SAT changed their lives for ever. SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b01j2ff2 (Listen) SAT Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway, From Afternoon to Nightfall SAT Dramatised by Michelene Wandor SAT Virginia Woolf's classic novel set on a single day in June. SAT As Clarissa Dalloway makes her final preparations for an SAT important party, Septimus visits another doctor and becomes SAT increasingly troubled. SAT 2 of 2: From afternoon to nightfall SAT Mrs Dalloway ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT Richard ..... Sam Dale SAT Septimus ..... Paul Ready SAT Rezia ..... Susie Riddell SAT Peter ..... Scott Handy SAT Sally ..... Liza Sadovy SAT Elizabeth ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Lucy ..... Amaka Okafor SAT Sir William ..... Patrick Brennan, SAT Miss Kilman ..... Christine Absalom SAT Dr Holmes ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer, SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge b007js9y (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins grills Tom Binns, SAT Peter Serafinowicz, Nick Frost and Marcus Brigstocke. From SAT August 2001. SAT SAT 04:30 The Adventures of John and Tony b009pn8p (Listen) SAT The Total Hotel Experience SAT The duo find themselves on a seaside murder-mystery weekend. SAT Stars John Hegley and Simon Munnery. From September 1999. SAT SAT 05:00 Bookcases b00sxt6h (Listen) SAT The Man in White SAT Bored by Gerald, Cordelia is having fun with struggling SAT novelist Wilkie Collins. Stars Maggie Steed. From September SAT 1998. SAT SAT 05:30 The Absolutely Radio Show b069h77m (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch SAT show Absolutely reunite for a brand new radio series. SAT Pete Baikie, Morwenna SAT Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy and John Sparkes are SAT back together with all new material. They are revisiting SAT some of their much loved sketch characters, while also SAT introducing some newcomers to the show. SAT In 2013, the group got back together for Radio 4's SAT Sketchorama: Absolutely Special, which won a BBC Audio Drama SAT Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy category. SAT This second episode of the series features The Stoneybridge SAT Town Council attempting to cover up a possible bribery SAT scandal, Denzil and Gwynned discussing son Codfyl's starring SAT role in a nativity play, the Little Girl's very personal SAT take on having her Tonsils out and Calum Gilhooley trying to SAT get an appointment with a doctor for something "quite SAT urgent". SAT Mr Muzak sings about the joys of being alone with your SAT computer and the Commissionaire very nearly undergoes an SAT appendectomy. Ther's more from Talking Facebook and the SAT People's War, with stories from those who were nearly there. SAT Produced by Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy SAT An Absolutely/Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Peter Baikie SAT Performer: Morwenna Banks SAT Performer: Moray Hunter SAT Performer: Gordon Kennedy SAT Performer: John Sparkes SAT Producer: Gus Beattie SAT Producer: Gordon Kennedy SAT SAT 06:00 William Trevor - My House in Umbria b00bqv3x (Listen) SAT A train journey in Italy sparks devastation, but a new SAT purpose for one passenger - Mrs Delahunty. SAT Starring Prunella Scales as Mrs Delahunty, Peter Jeffrey as SAT The General, Richard Pearce as Ocmar and Sean Barrett as SAT Quinty. SAT Mrs Delahunty - she's never actually been married, but 'Mrs' SAT suits her better than 'Miss' - has been a Madame in Africa SAT and is now a succesful romantic novelist. When a young SAT American girl, an elderly British general and a German SAT traveller survive a terrorist bomb attack on an Italian SAT train, Mrs Delahunty finds a new purpose in life caring for SAT this unlikely group. SAT Written and dramatised by William Trevor. SAT Producer: Shaun MacLoughlin SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. SAT SAT 07:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075xj9 (Listen) SAT Tower House SAT An extraordinary Victorian town house. Architectural SAT historian Lucinda Lambton tours designer William Burges's SAT London home. From August 2000. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01qkwhd (Listen) SAT Embracing Idleness SAT The writer, Oliver Burkeman, wanders through the archives, SAT thinking about the pros and cons of idleness. SAT In these goal obsessed, triple-dip recession conscious days, SAT the merest hint of idleness can send politicians and SAT headline writers into a state of near apoplexy. SAT Front-benchers from all political parties seem to be SAT tripping over themselves in a bid to establish the supremacy SAT of their moral devotion to the 'hard working families' and SAT upstanding citizens of 'alarm clock Britain'. SAT Oliver Burkeman steps back from the fray to unravel the SAT complications of idleness and even discover some of its SAT merits. As a non-idler who confesses to that feeling of SAT smugness at having achieved tasks before breakfast time, SAT Oliver nonetheless questions whether our target driven SAT culture can ever bring any sense of contentment or SAT happiness. The crux of the conflict seems to be that SAT although idleness may be the dream, we spend most of our SAT lives actively rejecting it. SAT And so we admire, despise and envy the idler, all at once. SAT Oliver consults a diverse range of characters from the SAT archive to untangle some of the complications. These include SAT Bagpuss, Rab C Nesbitt, Tony Hancock, Waynetta Slob and SAT Ronald Reagan, who all help Oliver examine idleness and its SAT relation to childhood, creativity, boredom, social class and SAT subversion. SAT There are also wonderful insights from 'real people'. SAT There's the testimony of a schoolboy from 1960s Birmingham, SAT dreaming of the island life. Unbothered by the noise of SAT everyday life (including The Queen chasing him for rates) he SAT is able to compose opera by seeking inspiration from nature. SAT A gloriously grand Colonel's wife flagrantly tells of her SAT life of luxury, being fed and watered by her husband with SAT bath time Brandy and Ginger Ales, iced coffees, only SAT occasionally talking to the children through the intercom if SAT she is particularly bored. Then there's the fisherman who SAT believes that idleness and death go hand in hand and that SAT the introduction of the Welfare State could only turn him SAT into a sluggard. And there's the moving testimony of a SAT former miner, who began work in the pits during his school SAT holidays in 1925, and then paradoxically found the greatest SAT moments of happiness and freedom during the months of SAT idleness brought about by the General Strike. SAT Oliver also meets with the founder of The Idler magazine, SAT Tom Hodgkinson, for a whistle stop history of idleness and SAT the philosophical debate, to discover how the work ethic SAT became so inculcated. Tom argues that at least part of the SAT reason for this is because, by their very nature, pro-idlers SAT are bound to be less zealous in spreading the idleness word. SAT There's also an appealing aside, when Oliver observes that SAT in the right person, idleness and that special insouciance SAT that can go with it, is simply 'cool'. SAT With fantastic music, enquiry, and laughter, join Oliver SAT Burkeman, Embracing Idleness. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT 09:00 Do Tell Them Pike: Arthur Lowe on the Radio b06chqrb (Listen) SAT The radio legacy of iconic British comedy actor Arthur Lowe SAT - best loved as Dad's Army's very own Captain Mainwaring. SAT Arthur's friend, and Dad's Army co-star, Ian Lavender SAT (Private Pike) is our guide over 3 hours: SAT * Desert Island Discs - Arthur Lowe: SAT Lost to the BBC archives, but saved by a listener's off air SAT recording, Arthur Lowe's castaway choices heard for the SAT first time since 1970. Arthur tells Roy Plomley about his SAT childhood, his early acting days whilst serving in the SAT Second World War, his time on ITV's Coronation Street, and SAT his joy at being part of the BBC's Dad's Army team - then in SAT its relative infancy. SAT * Dad's Army: SAT Ian chooses his favourite episode from the many radio SAT adaptations. SAT * Billy's Last Stand: SAT From 1965, Arthur stars in a startling drama, the first play SAT from Barry Hines (who later wrote the novel 'A Kestrel For A SAT Knave' - filmed by Ken Loach as 'Kes') In this darkly comic SAT tale, Arthur Lowe plays casual labourer Billy who becomes SAT the target of the schemes of parasitic Darkly, played by SAT 'The Men From The Ministry' star, Ronald Baddiley. First SAT heard on the BBC Third Programme. SAT * With Great Pleasure: SAT Not heard since 1976, Arthur Lowe's own choice of favourite SAT readings and sketches. Helped by Martin Jarvis, hear SAT Arthur's take on one of his favourite writers, PG Wodhouse, SAT as he plays the ultimate British butler, Jeeves. SAT Arthur Lowe was born on 22nd September 1915 and died 15th SAT April 1982. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Peter McHugh. SAT First broadcast in September 2015. SAT SAT 12:00 As Time Goes By b007k9fq (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT Lionel gets a surprise from Alistair, while Jean interviews SAT a manager for the new branch of her agency. SAT Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. SAT With Moira Brooker as Judith and Philip Bretherton as SAT Alistair. SAT A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series three of his SAT popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel SAT have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 SAT years. SAT After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer SAT Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter SAT he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had SAT lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his SAT return to England. SAT Producer: Martin Fisher SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1999. SAT SAT 12:30 Hello Cheeky b00dy523 (Listen) SAT From 09/06/1973 SAT Fast-moving fun from a Slough phone box. Tim Brooke-Taylor, SAT John Junkin and Barry Cryer welcome Michael Aspel. SAT SAT 13:00 AL Kennedy - Subterranean Homesick Blues Omnibus SAT b06chs3d (Listen) SAT After a disastrous affair 20 years ago, are John and Maggie SAT old enough to try again? Stars Bill Nighy and Anna SAT Calder-Marshall. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06chsm1 (Listen) SAT Bill Nighy SAT Actor Bill Nighy chooses 'Well Did You Evah' by Bing Crosby SAT and Frank Sinatra and 'Sign On A Window' by Bob Dylan. SAT SAT 14:15 Tanika Gupta - The Whispering Tree b007jy9f (Listen) SAT Fourteen-year-old Sharmila avoids the grief from her SAT mother's death by losing herself in Hindu mythology. Stars SAT Parminder Nagra. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01qkwhd (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 William Trevor - My House in Umbria b00bqv3x (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075xj9 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Friday Drama b01ghgtg (Listen) SAT Julian Simpson - Bad Memories SAT In 2004, a successful architect and his family mysteriously SAT disappear from their home. Six years later five bodies are SAT found in the cellar of their house. They are identified as SAT Jonathan and Imogen Blake and their son, Matthew; Philip SAT Gibson, who was on the missing person's register and a SAT woman, identity unknown. Forensics determine that not only SAT were they murdered, but the time of death was1926. Can audio SAT files found with the bodies solve the mystery? SAT Cast: SAT Rachel Weir ..... Nicola Walker SAT Jim Marquez ..... Rupert Graves SAT Phillip Gibson ..... Steven Mackintosh SAT Jonathan Blake ..... Anthony Calf SAT Imogen Blake ..... Jana Carpenter SAT Matthew Blake ..... Oscar Richardson SAT Mary Marston ..... Imogen MCCurdy SAT Boy 1 ...... Ashley Cook SAT Boy 2 ...... Marcus Webb SAT Written and directed by Julian Simpson. SAT Recorded by Lucinda Mason Brown and David Chilton at Stanmer SAT House in Brighton. SAT Sound design by David Chilton SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT SAT 19:00 Do Tell Them Pike: Arthur Lowe on the Radio b06chqrb (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better SAT b00cxr1s (Listen) SAT Series 2, Courage SAT The comedian promotes the virtue of courage, with Tim Key SAT and Tom Basden providing feats of cowardice. From August SAT 2008. SAT SAT 22:30 Tonight b015pb11 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Opinion polls, party conferences and SAT political sat nav. Rory Bremner and Andy Zaltzman's topical SAT sketch show. From October 2011. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06djgnl (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith talks to Mark SAT Billingham. SAT SAT 23:00 Saturday Night Fry b00kvq7w (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Stephen Fry hosts humorous banter and sketches. With Hugh SAT Laurie and Emma Thompson. Pilot episode, from December 1987. SAT SAT 23:30 Chain Reaction b00tmtfp (Listen) SAT Series 6, Harry Shearer interviews Stephen Merchant SAT The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last SAT week's guest, voice of The Simpsons, face of Derek Smalls SAT and political satirist Harry Shearer takes the microphone to SAT interview multi award-winning co-creator of The Office and SAT Extras, and famously tall funny man Stephen Merchant. SAT Harry asks Stephen what its like to be part of a creative SAT double act with Ricky Gervais, broadcasting radio from the SAT bushes and sharing a hot tub with playboy bunnies. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Friday Drama b01ghgtg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 AL Kennedy - Subterranean Homesick Blues Omnibus SUN b06chs3d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06chsm1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Tanika Gupta - The Whispering Tree b007jy9f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01qkwhd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 William Trevor - My House in Umbria b00bqv3x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SUN b0075xj9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Angarrack - Omnibus b01cv8h2 (Listen) SUN Christopher William Hill's black comedy revolves around a SUN crumbling Cornish ancestral home. Sir Richard wishes to SUN bequeath it to the National Trust, much to the fury of his SUN wife. SUN SUN 07:15 In Drovers' Boots b06cj5j7 (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN Huw Williams arrives at London's Smithfield Market and ends SUN his journey along 17th-century cattle herding routes. From SUN June 2004. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gllnq (Listen) SUN Series 4, An Audience With SUN Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur SUN Strong is an expert in everything from the world of SUN entertainment to the origins of the species, all false SUN starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a delicate SUN sheen of bravado and self-assurance. SUN A timely visit from the vicar interrupts Arthur's artistic SUN flow as he pens a new novel, and reminds him that he needs SUN to organise entertainment for a fundraiser that night. SUN The choice of headliner is obvious, but who will he get to SUN support? Surely some auditions in the Shoulder of Mutton SUN will tempt some local talent out of the woodwork. SUN With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and SUN Alastair Kerr. SUN A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for BBC SUN Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Educating Archie b06cjglq (Listen) SUN From 30/10/1950 SUN Max Bygraves, Julie Andrews and Hattie Jacques join Archie SUN Andrews. Radio ventriloquism from Peter Brough. From October SUN 1950. SUN SUN 08:30 Whack-O! b06cjj2l (Listen) SUN From 26/09/1961 SUN Scheming school Headmaster Jim needs the cost of an airfare SUN from Australia. Stars Professor Jimmy Edwards and Eamonn SUN Andrews. 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 September SUN 1961. SUN SUN 09:00 Misha Glenny - Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for SUN Rio: Omnibus b06cjjb5 (Listen) SUN A story of drugs and guns. Modest young man Nem becomes don SUN of Brazil's largest favela in Rio. Read by the author, Misha SUN Glenny. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06cjk8l (Listen) SUN Maxine Peake SUN Actress Maxine Peake chooses 'The Unicorn Song' by SUN Brobdingnadian Bards and 'Alone Again Or' by Love. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06cjl1n (Listen) SUN Coding, Dame Wendy Hall SUN From Adele to Handel, computer scientist Wendy Hall makes SUN her castaway choices. With Kirsty Young. From July 2014. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b06cjlch (Listen) SUN Series 2, How It All Began 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 our origins as a species - who are we, SUN where do we come from and where are we headed? SUN With Spencer Wells, David Christian, Jack Horner, Louise SUN Leakey and Juan Enriquez. SUN First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pgydg (Listen) SUN Series 1, Dragons SUN The famous naturalist recalls meeting a ten-foot-long grey SUN scaled reptile, with a long, yellow forked tongue - the SUN Komodo dragon. SUN SUN 12:00 Educating Archie b06cjglq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Whack-O! b06cjj2l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Angarrack - Omnibus b01cv8h2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 In Drovers' Boots b06cj5j7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Tessa Hadley - The Past b06cjlxm (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN 1968: Jill, mother to Harriet, Roland and Alice, arrives SUN unexpectedly at her parents' home, children in tow. Read by SUN Sian Thomas. SUN SUN 15:45 Katherine Mansfield - The Montana Stories b007648f (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN The Burnell children invite their classmates to see their SUN new toy, all except the pauper Kelsey girls. Read by Emilia SUN Fox. SUN SUN 16:00 Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest b0089hkg (Listen) SUN Committed to a mental institution in 1950s America, the SUN rebellious and psychopathic McMurphy confronts the harsh, SUN unforgiving discipline of Nurse Ratched. SUN Starring Bob Sherman as Randle Patrick McMurphy, Margaret SUN Robertson as Nurse Ratched, William Roberts as Dale Harding SUN and Kerry Shale as Billy Bibbet. SUN Martyn Read was commissioned in 1987 by the BBC World SUN Service to adapt the play from Dale Wasserman's stage show SUN based on Ken Kesey's novel. SUN Produced by David Hitchinson for the BBC World Service. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1989. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gllnq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Rosemary Timperley - Shadows of the Past b06cjr80 (Listen) SUN An amnesiac seeks answers in the house where he was SUN traumatised as a child. Stars Trader Faulkner and Kate SUN Binchy. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b06cjlch (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pgydg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Misha Glenny - Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for SUN Rio: Omnibus b06cjjb5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06cjk8l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06cjl1n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gllnq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen b007k1z7 (Listen) SUN A Guest at the Dentons SUN The dark comedy about the 'local people' of Spent, before it SUN hit TV. With Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton. From November SUN 1997. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06djjmt (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith talks to Mark SUN Billingham. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b069nrnn (Listen) SUN Series 13, Episode 2 SUN This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into SUN sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to SUN make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. SUN SUN 23:30 Tina C b0076q68 (Listen) SUN Tina C's Tiny Island Tour, Scotland SUN The country singer and global activist promotes her new SUN album in Glasgow and traces her tartan in Edinburgh. Stars SUN Christopher Green. From January 2005. SUN SUN 23:45 2000 Years of Radio b00769xp (Listen) SUN Series 2, Greensleeves FM SUN It's a right royal knockabout as Henry VIII wants a son. SUN Recreation of the wireless archives with Al Holloway. From SUN October 2002. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Rosemary Timperley - Shadows of the Past b06cjr80 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Angarrack - Omnibus b01cv8h2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 In Drovers' Boots b06cj5j7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Tessa Hadley - The Past b06cjlxm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Katherine Mansfield - The Montana Stories b007648f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest b0089hkg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gllnq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzfm (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON Ex-Stasi Agent, Otto, has sent Kim to Copenhagen in search MON of clues to solve her fiance's death. Will the mysterious MON Victor solve the riddle, and why does Charles always turn up MON like a bad penny? MON Shaun Prendergast's techo thriller in six-parts stars Siriol MON Jenkins as Kim Drake, Neil Roberts as Mike Fisher, Kate MON Binchy as Anne, Shaun Prendergast as Frank and Kenneth as MON Stone. MON Directed by Adrian Bean MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. MON MON 06:30 Calling Hereford b00mwrh9 (Listen) MON For the last 30 years, staff at the world's largest earth MON satellite station in Herefordshire have watched global news MON unfold - immediate, uncensored and unedited. Foreign MON correspondent Hugh Sykes visits the site and meets the MON workers who have seen world history in the raw. MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b00fvbgz (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON B&B holidays with a twist. The sketch comedy show for people MON growing older disgracefully. Stars Paula Wilcox. From May MON 2002. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b069r813 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 4 MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON Sarah Millican, Victoria Coren Mitchell, Holly Walsh and MON Katherine Ryan are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as princesses, MON diets, sauce and paper. MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Sarah Millican MON Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell MON Panellist: Holly Walsh MON Panellist: Katherine Ryan MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jp3q (Listen) MON Series 2, When Did You Last See Your Money? MON Corporal Jones panics when he misplaces £500 for the MON servicemen's canteen. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier MON as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John MON Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and MON Arnold Ridley as Godfrey. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1975. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b007k9gs (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 2 MON Lionel needs a secretary for his new TV mini-series and Jean MON discovers jetlag doesn't improve relations with her new MON manager. MON Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. MON With Moira Brooker as Judith and Philip Bretherton as MON Alistair. MON A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series three of his MON popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel MON have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 MON years. MON After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer MON Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter MON he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had MON lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his MON return to England. MON Producer: Martin Fisher MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1999. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00776r3 (Listen) MON Series 6, John Keats MON James Walton chairs the literary quiz with John Walsh, MON Sebastian Faulks, Peter Kemp and Sue Limb. From April 2007. MON MON 09:30 Electric Ink b01jrt6d (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. MON A comic satire set in the struggling world of newspapers. MON Maddox refuses to give up a source. Could he really face MON prison. MON Maddox ..... John Sessions MON Oliver ..... Alex Jennings MON Freddy ..... Stephen Wight MON Carol ..... Polly Frame MON Masha ..... Debbie Chazen MON Policeman ..... Henry Devas MON Warder ..... Adeel Akhtar MON Producer ..... Sally Avens MON Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson's satire is set in the MON world of modern newspapers. MON A group of dysfunctional journalists attempt to cover major MON news stories at the same time as grappling with the demands MON of working in a multi-platform environment, watching MON circulation figures plummet and the recession causing half MON the workforce to be laid off. MON At the heart of the comedy is the relationship between MON Maddox Bradley, a journalist who mourns the day of proper MON investigative journalism, and Freddy, the online editor who MON will regurgitate a press release quite happily and call it a MON story. But they have a grudging respect for the each other MON as Freddy helps Maddox stay afloat in the world of Twitter, MON Facebook and podcasting and Maddox shows Freddy how to sniff MON out the real story. Both are at the mercy of Oliver, the MON pragmatic editor more concerned with keeping his job, and MON Carol, the news editor who believes that circulation will MON increase if they run pieces on Big Mac eating orang-utans MON and 'intelligent' skunks rather than Maddox's moral MON crusading diatribes. And only Masha, the Russian head of MON online communities, who wants to give away all their content MON because that is true democracy, knows Freddy's secret; that MON he's a posh boy from Eton rather than a hypercool kid from MON the street; well that's what Freddy thinks anyway. MON MON 10:00 Saturday Drama b0077415 (Listen) MON Backtrack MON A volunteer helper at a temporary centre for the homeless MON finds herself oddly interested in one of the down-and-outs, MON and for once allows herself to follow her instincts. MON Starring Maxine Peake as Jan, Joseph Kloska as Fiz, Mark MON Straker as Matt and Marcella Riordan as Molly. MON Director: Jane Morgan MON Writer Jill Hyem (1937-2015) was a major contributor on BBC MON TV's serial 'Tenko'. This led to her writing for BBC Radio MON 2's daily soap 'The Dales', 'Waggoner's Walk' and a number MON of other single radio plays including 'A Shape Like MON Piccadilly' and 'Equal Terms'. MON First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2007. MON MON 11:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r746w (Listen) MON The Skelper MON An outsider in Beannagreaghan instigates a poaching contest MON to ingratiate himself with town locals. Read by Adrian MON Dunbar. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00xpn9y (Listen) MON Market, Loco Parentis MON Market: Loco Parentis MON Jim can't sleep cos his daughter's left for uni, his MON business is going belly up, and his father is going gaga. MON Oh, and to top it all he suspects his wife is having an MON affair with her boss. He needs to escape - but where to? A MON bitter sweet empty nester comedy by Gary Brown. MON Jim...Reece Dinsdale MON Market Manager...Gerard Fletcher MON Ken...Bobby Knutt MON Lisa...Sue Kelly MON Robin...Kathryn Hunt MON Jenny...Ellie Meigan-Rose MON Steve...Joncie Elmore MON Nurse...Szilvi Naray Davey MON Student...Sam Hevicon MON Original Music by Steven D Reid MON Produced by Peter Leslie Wild MON If you want owt - go down the market... They sell everything MON from pins to pearl earrings, from peaches to pig's trotters, MON from tripe to tiramisu. See the hanging, marbled haunches of MON beef down Butchers' Row. Smell the flowers, a fragrant MON dream. Taste the fresh silvery fish motorwayed down from the MON North Sea. MON Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the MON city centre. This northern city once textured by textiles MON has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre - MON it bristles with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, MON twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre is a MON shard of another city. And after countless makeovers, the MON Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a MON place where you can get anything and see anything - a place MON teeming with life. A place bristling with stories. The MON market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural MON and magnificent. MON 'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays about people who MON work in and around its stalls. Each story is a MON self-contained quirky tale. Modern morality plays, with a MON whiff of the fantastical about them. MON Credits MON Producer: Peter Wild MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jp3q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b007k9gs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzfm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Calling Hereford b00mwrh9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khnl (Listen) MON The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel MON September 1792: the elusive Scarlet Pimpernel and his men MON snatch another innocent victim from the jaws of the MON guillotine - but for the Comtesse de Tournay, old enemies MON are to be found in England, even in the highest places. MON Baroness Orczy's enduring story first published in 1905 is a MON tale of high adventure and romantic heroism set at the time MON of the French Revolution. Read by Damian Lewis. MON The hero, real identity Sir Percy Blakeney, is a formidable MON swordsman, master of disguise and always one step ahead of MON his pursuers, prompting the well-known retort, "They seek MON him here, they seek him there, those Frenchies seek him MON everywhere. Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned MON elusive Pimpernel." MON The author, herself born into Hungarian nobility, reveals MON her sympathies towards royalty with a hero who takes on MON French revolutionaries, rescuing royalists condemned to die MON on the guillotine. Orczy's parents, themselves, abandoned MON their baronial estate in Hungary, in 1868, when there were MON fears of a peasant revolution. She married a struggling MON English artist, Montague MacLean Barstow, and began writing MON to supplement their meagre income. Together, they wrote The MON Scarlet Pimpernel as a stage play and then went on to MON novelise it. MON Whilst awaiting replies from various publishers, The Scarlet MON Pimpernel went into production in the West End, where it ran MON for four years and broke several box-office records. It was MON the start of a successful writing career which eventually MON enabled Orczy to buy an estate in Monte Carlo. She died in MON Henley-on Thames in 1947. MON Abridged in 8-parts by Sarah Kilgarriff MON Producer: Clive Stanhope MON Made for BBC Radio 2 by CSA Word Productions MON First broadcast in 2003. MON MON 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037706p (Listen) MON The Arrival of Women in the Office MON Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of MON today's corporate culture. MON Part 4 of 10: The Arrival of Women in the Office MON Lucy describes how women entered the white-collar workforce MON in the late 19th century. She visits the Bank of England to MON find out the story of their first female employee, Janet MON Hogarth. Such was the concern about women that offices MON featured different male and female entrances, staggered MON starting times, separated lunch areas and cordoned MON workspaces. MON Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry MON Shale MON Historical Consultant: Michael Heller MON Producer: Russell Finch MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b019rhzn (Listen) MON W Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil, Episode 1 MON by Somerset Maugham MON dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery MON First published in 1925 to a storm of protest this is a MON haunting and poignant drama of a woman's spiritual MON awakening. MON Kitty marries for the wrong reasons and is living with her MON husband, Walter, in Hong Kong. She's in love with another MON man and when her husband discovers her infidelity he, in an MON act of vengeance, poses a terrible ultimatum. MON Kitty ....... Sarah Smart MON Walter ..... Nicholas Farrell MON Charles ....... James Nickerson MON Shop worker ....... Chris Li MON Directed by Pauline Harris. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00vrcwp (Listen) MON Autobiography of Mark Twain, Episode 1 MON Read by Kerry Shale. After dozens of false starts Mark Twain MON embarked on his "Final (and Right) Plan" for telling the MON story of his life. His innovative notion to "Talk only about MON the thing which interests you for the moment" meant that his MON thoughts could range freely. MON The strict instruction that these texts remain unpublished MON for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be MON "dead, and unaware, and indifferent" and therefore free to MON speak his "whole frank mind". MON In celebration of the centenary of his death, the University MON of California Press have released his uncensored MON autobiography for the first time, exactly as he left it. The MON author's authentic and unsuppressed voice speaks clearly MON from the grave as he intended, brimming with humour, ideas MON and opinions. MON Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Saturday Drama b0077415 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00776r3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Electric Ink b01jrt6d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b00fvbgz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth b069r813 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007sw34 (Listen) MON Earthsearch I, Across the Abyss MON Searching for Earth, the starship Challenger heads towards MON star cluster Tersus 9. Stars Sean Arnold and Amanda Murray. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075x7t (Listen) MON Professor Alan Cook and Siobhan Davies MON Louise Doughty, Alan Cook and Siobhan Davies discuss books MON by AS Byatt, Haruki Murakami and Imogen De La Bere. From MON August 2000. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jp3q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b007k9gs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzfm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Calling Hereford b00mwrh9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r746w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00xpn9y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b069r813 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The In Crowd b06cqzvm (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 MON Predicting the future and sequin waste. Manchester sketch MON show with Kate Ward, Smug Roberts and Robin Ince. From June MON 2004. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06cr6rw (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 1 MON Made for 4 Extra. A satirical review of the week's news, MON chaired by Miles Jupp. MON MON 23:45 Living with Mother b0100grq (Listen) MON Series 1, Spilt Milk MON Michael has never had a girlfriend and his mum Susan decides MON it's time for him to buck his ideas up and get a woman. She MON wants him out of the house for both their sakes, he's 41 MON after all! MON But Michael is a lazy dreamer. No woman in her right mind MON would want him. Still, Susan has a plan. Her friend's got a MON single niece and if needs be, Susan will drag Michael over MON there. Perhaps the niece will take pity on him. But maybe MON Michael has plans of his own... MON Cast: MON Susan: Alison Steadman MON Michael: Alexander Kirk MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007sw34 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075x7t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzfm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Calling Hereford b00mwrh9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khnl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037706p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b019rhzn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00vrcwp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Saturday Drama b0077415 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00776r3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Electric Ink b01jrt6d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b00fvbgz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth b069r813 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgl (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Following the unsuccessful attempt on Kim's life at Elsinor TUE by Miss Gee, Kim turns to Todd for help. In Paris, Kim and TUE Charles meet Seeta, a fugitive with a dreadful secret. TUE Shaun Prendergast's techo thriller in six-parts stars Siriol TUE Jenkins as Kim Drake, Neil Roberts as Mike Fisher, Kate TUE Binchy as Anne, Shaun Prendergast as Frank and Kenneth as TUE Stone. TUE Shaun Prendergast's techo thriller in six parts. TUE Directed by Adrian Bean TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. TUE TUE 06:30 Written in Stone b00lyfl3 (Listen) TUE Llewelyn Morgan tells the story of how an ancient stone TUE inscription came to the National Museum of Afghanistan in TUE Kabul. TUE The journey that the Rabatak Inscription took is a tale of TUE determination and bravery, passing through the hands of an TUE Afghan warlord called Sayad Jafar Naderi, British TUE archaeologist Jonathan Lee and also the Taliban. It is now TUE the job of Omar Khan Masoudi, director of the National TUE Museum, to keep it safe and reunite it with other Afghan TUE treasures that are currently abroad. TUE The programme explores the lengths to which people have gone TUE to protect the archaeological and cultural heritage of TUE Afghanistan, and the role that history may play in the TUE country's future. TUE TUE 07:00 Lenin of the Rovers b007jplc (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 4 TUE Britain's first communist football team tackles Germany. But TUE what about the revolution? Stars Alexei Sayle. From March TUE 1988. TUE TUE 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06bhk9h (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Episode 1 TUE Welcome to Hardacres, the worst advertising agency in TUE London, and setting of Edward Rowett's new series. TUE In this first episode, the agency is shaken by the arrival TUE of a new accounts chief, Amanda Brook who is determined to TUE rebrand and re-launch the agency as a legitimate business. TUE Inept creative team Joe and Teddy, two recent graduates who TUE are still not entirely sure what it is they're supposed to TUE be doing, find themselves fighting to save their jobs and TUE prove they are not quite as clueless as they appear. TUE Meanwhile, creative director and advertising legend Rupert TUE Hardacre is appalled to discover Amanda expects him to do TUE slightly more than play golf and drink whisky all day. TUE And receptionist Laura...well, she doesn't care what TUE happens. TUE The team must work together as they head to the Advertise TUE NOW! Awards and find an answer to the question - how do you TUE advertise yourself? TUE Rupert Hardacre - Nigel Havers TUE Amanda Brook - Josie Lawrence TUE Joe - Matthew Baynton TUE Teddy - Rasmus Hardiker TUE Laura - Olivia Nixon TUE Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Rupert Hardacre: Nigel Havers TUE Amanda Brook: Josie Lawrence TUE Joe: Matthew Baynton TUE Teddy: Rasmus Hardiker TUE Actor: Olivia Nixon TUE Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE Writer: Edward Rowett TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007js8b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 13 TUE Sea bound drama with Moby Duck and Kenneth Horne seeks a TUE bona performer for the BBC's DG courtesy of Julian and TUE Sandy. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1966. TUE TUE 08:30 Hello Cheeky b0133g70 (Listen) TUE From 16/06/1973 TUE Tim Brooke-Taylor is sick of playing women in the pun-packed TUE sketch show. With John Junkin and Barry Cryer. From June TUE 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06cr6rw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Living with Mother b0100grq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 George Bernard Shaw - Press Cuttings b06crcr1 (Listen) TUE Arthur Lowe stars as General Mitchener in an adaptation of TUE George Bernard Shaw's Press Cuttings. TUE Written in 1909, Shaw pokes fun at the suffragettes' British TUE campaign for votes for women. General Mitchener (Lowe) is a TUE veteran of the North West Frontier, but how is he going to TUE cope with a suffragette found chained outside to a door TUE scraper - who turns out to be the Prime Minister in TUE disguise, dressed in women's clothing? TUE But Michener has a plan: "The Suffragettes are a very small TUE body; but they are numerous enough to be troublesome - even TUE dangerous - when they are all concentrated in one place.... TUE but by making a two-mile radius and pushing them beyond it, TUE you scatter their attack over a circular line 12 miles long. TUE Just what Wellington would have done." TUE Co-starring Joan Sanderson as Mrs Banger and Gerald Cross as TUE Mr Balsquith. TUE Adapted by Jack Willis and produced by David H Godfrey. TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1971. TUE TUE 11:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r7bm7 (Listen) TUE My True Kinsman TUE Tom Burke's surprise encounter with his garrulous, forbidden TUE grandfather sparks an unexpected connection. Read by Adrian TUE Dunbar. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00y28qf (Listen) TUE Market, Phonebreaker TUE by Steve Sunderland TUE Matt's going off the rails. School was a washout and working TUE on his dad's market stall is a dead end job. But when he TUE hears a call for help on a stolen mobile phone, it's a call TUE to action. The trail leads him to an apparently glamorous TUE crowd, and he wades in way out of his depth. An arresting TUE morality tale by Steve Sunderland. TUE Matt. . . . . Stephen Hoyle TUE Paul . . . . . Joseph Kloska TUE Jennifer . . . . . Jessica Blake TUE Tom . . . . .James Cartwright TUE Ian . . . . . Conrad Nelson TUE Ruth . . . . . Fiona Clarke TUE Andy . . . . . Oliver Lee TUE Original Music by Steven D Reid TUE Produced by Peter Leslie Wild TUE If you want owt - go down the market... They sell everything TUE from pins to pearl earrings, from peaches to pig's trotters, TUE from tripe to tiramisu. See the hanging, marbled haunches of TUE beef down Butchers' Row. Smell the flowers, a fragrant TUE dream. Taste the fresh silvery fish motorwayed down from the TUE North Sea. TUE Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the TUE city centre. This northern city once textured by textiles TUE has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre - TUE it bristles with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, TUE twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre is a TUE shard of another city. And after countless makeovers, the TUE Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a TUE place where you can get anything and see anything - a place TUE teeming with life. A place bristling with stories. The TUE market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural TUE and magnificent. TUE 'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays about people who TUE work in and around its stalls. Each story is a TUE self-contained quirky tale. Modern morality plays, with a TUE whiff of the fantastical about them. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Peter Wild TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007js8b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Hello Cheeky b0133g70 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Written in Stone b00lyfl3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khpg (Listen) TUE Marguerite St Just TUE A French republican spy arrives in England. Is the elusive TUE hero's secret identity about to be compromised? Read by TUE Damian Lewis. TUE TUE 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b03775g6 (Listen) TUE The Telephone and New Office Technology TUE Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of TUE today's corporate culture. TUE Part 5 of 10: The Telephone And New Office Technology TUE New technology including the telephone, telegraph, TUE typewriters, adding machines, and even filing cabinets TUE revolutionised office work in the late 19th century. In TUE particular the telephone was looked on suspiciously in the TUE UK. Britain's chief post office engineer, Sir William TUE Preece, told a House of Commons committee : 'I have one in TUE my office, but more for show. If I want to send a message, I TUE employ a boy to take it.'. Lucy visits the stores of the TUE museum of London to see early examples of office technology, TUE including an early private telephone belonging to the TUE Rothschilds. TUE Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry TUE Shale TUE Historical Consultant: Michael Heller TUE Producer: Russell Finch TUE A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01b1pym (Listen) TUE W Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil, Episode 2 TUE by Somerset Maugham TUE dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery TUE First published in 1925 to a storm of protest this is a TUE haunting and poignant drama of a woman's spiritual TUE awakening. TUE Set in 1920's China. Kitty runs to her lover seeking solace TUE and the promise of marriage. Instead she is faced with the TUE terrible truth and is forced to leave for the cholera TUE infested island of Mei-Fan-Tu with husband, Walter. TUE Kitty ....... Sarah Smart TUE Walter ..... Nicholas Farrell TUE Charles ....... James Nickerson TUE Waddington ..... Conrad Nelson TUE Chinese worker ....... Chris Li TUE Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00vs4jk (Listen) TUE Autobiography of Mark Twain, Episode 2 TUE Read by Kerry Shale. Mark Twain remembers the annual boyhood TUE visits to his Uncle's farm in Florida. He admits TUE transporting the farm to several other locations in his TUE later work, and his memories of his time there and the TUE characters he met are every bit as vibrant in his newly TUE published autobiography as the writing in the classic TUE stories he based on them. TUE Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 George Bernard Shaw - Press Cuttings b06crcr1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? b008s32f (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE Clive Anderson marshals more improvisations with Stephen TUE Fry, John Sessions, John Bird and Jimmy Mulville. From TUE January 1988. TUE TUE 16:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007jq9s (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE When a landlord's daughter offers to help run the pub, his TUE reaction is unexpected. Stars Michael Williams. From TUE December 1998. TUE TUE 17:00 Lenin of the Rovers b007jplc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06bhk9h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007jld3 (Listen) TUE Earthsearch I, New Blood TUE The Challenger has found its sister starship, but the crew TUE are living in total isolation. Stars Sean Arnold and Haydn TUE Wood. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jmxz (Listen) TUE Series 1, Peter Jones TUE Much-loved actor and broadcaster Peter Jones looks back over TUE his showbiz career in both theatre and on radio. From April TUE 1999. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007js8b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Hello Cheeky b0133g70 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Written in Stone b00lyfl3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r7bm7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00y28qf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders b06bhk9h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bigipedia b012wjdp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bigipedia 2.0 - BigiHype! TUE This episode sees the launch of BigiHype - the surefire way TUE to raise the profile of a new event or an unpopular charity. TUE At last, the long-awaited release of Bigipedia 2.0 - the TUE infallible, ever-present cyberfriend is back. Now with all TUE errors and mistakes. TUE Bigipedia was conceived by Nick Doody and written by Nick TUE Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan with Carey Marx. It TUE features Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, TUE Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Martha Howe-Douglas, Lewis Macleod TUE and Jess Robinson. Occasionally you can hear Matt Kirshen. TUE Guy Jackson has done some music and that. TUE Bigipedia is a Pozzitive production, produced by David TUE Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm TUE Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Another Case Of Milton Jones, TUE Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes TUE Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, TUE going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include Paul TUE Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul TUE and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony TUE Ferrino Phenomenon and Executive Producer of Victoria Wood's TUE Dinnerladies. TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06dpx82 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth chats to TUE Nick Coyle. TUE TUE 23:00 On the Hour b008s3k9 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE Biting news satire. Campaigning to tighten the letter of the TUE law, and war is declared. Stars Chris Morris. From August TUE 1991. TUE TUE 23:30 As Told to Craig Brown b00vrssk (Listen) TUE Craig Brown's Lost Diaries, November and December TUE November & December. As winter sets in, John Prescott, TUE Germaine Greer and Nigella Lawson's thoughts turn to home. TUE A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the TUE private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the TUE present day. TUE Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan TUE Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. TUE Written by Craig Brown. TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Victoria Lloyd TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007jld3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jmxz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Written in Stone b00lyfl3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khpg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b03775g6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01b1pym (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00vs4jk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 George Bernard Shaw - Press Cuttings b06crcr1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? b008s32f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007jq9s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Lenin of the Rovers b007jplc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06bhk9h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgw (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Acting on information from Seeta, Kim and DS Love follow the WED trail towards "Bird in Hand". But what secrets will their WED digging unearth? WED Shaun Prendergast's techo thriller in six-parts stars Siriol WED Jenkins as Kim Drake, Jack Klaff as Todd, Kenneth Cranham as WED Stone, Okon Jones as Charles and Jonathan Tafler as DS Love. WED Directed by Adrian Bean WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. WED WED 06:30 A Funny Sort of Sound b00l92sr (Listen) WED Julian Clary pays tribute to the wit and ingenuity of comedy WED musical acts. He considers the appeal of acts like TV's Mr WED Muscle, Tony Holland, who won Opportunity Knocks six times WED in a row by flexing his biceps to the tune of Wheels Cha WED Cha, and Bob - AKA Tray - Blackman, whose act consisted of WED bashing a tea tray on his head while singing Mule Train. WED Julian also considers how the genre has evolved from the WED heyday of music hall theatre, and talks to Ken Dodd and Jim WED Tavare. WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00snrk2 (Listen) WED Series 2, Popular Science WED Physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return for a new WED series of Radio 4's witty, irreverent and unashamedly WED rational look at the world according to science. In a WED special programme recorded as part of this year's Cheltenham WED Science Festival, Brian and Robin are joined by special WED guests Ben Miller and Robert Winston to explore the choppy WED waters of science and fame. Are we are entering a golden age WED of science popularity? Is there a genuine interest in the WED wonder of science and is science the real star or is it WED simply being dumbed down as a result of our celebrity WED obsessed culture? They'll be asking whether science needs to WED be popular and whether this new wave of enthusiasm has any WED real impact on science policy, or the quality of science WED being done in this country. Has science finally found the S WED Factor? WED Producer: Alexandra Feachem. WED WED 07:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03kqg03 (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 3 WED Comedy sketches from the quirky world of David Mitchell and WED Robert Webb. WED Credits WED Performer: David Mitchell WED Performer: Robert Webb WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b008746b (Listen) WED Mr Phillips Has Navigation Tuition WED Left hand down a bit! HMS Troutbridge's bumbling navigator WED attempts to pass an examination. 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 Franklin Pettigreaves, Richard WED Caldicote as Captain Povey and Heather Chasen as Ramona WED 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 February 1961. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00df6ls (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 6 WED The great Sir Ruddy Shame, and the Ghost of McMuckle Manse. WED Songs and sketches with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From May WED 1968. WED WED 09:00 Puzzle Panel b00yb2vg (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED More testing brain teasers with Chris Maslanka, Paul WED Lamford, Val Gilbert and Professor David Singmaster. From WED July 1998. WED WED 09:30 One Foot in the Grave b007jn39 (Listen) WED In Luton Airport No-One Can Hear You Scream WED The Meldrews' holiday homecoming from Greece proves to be WED very eventful. WED Starring Richard Wilson as Victor, Annette Crosbie as WED Margaret and Doreen Mantle as Mrs Warboys. WED Adapted for radio by David Renwick from this TV script. WED Producer: Diane Messias WED First broadcast in February 1995 on BBC Radio 2. WED WED 10:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpd3 (Listen) WED The Horse Fair WED Thomas Hardy's powerful tale of the repercussions from a WED drunken act by the respectable Michael Henchard. Stars David WED Calder. WED WED 11:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r7ml8 (Listen) WED Everything Neat and Tidy WED Driving his mother-in-law to the clinic each week allows WED Johnny Barr to grieve for the ambitions of his youth, while WED Mrs Mac struggles to escape her own grief. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00y5jdw (Listen) WED Market, The Joey WED Sean's family own a fish stall down the market. Except Sean WED doesn't want to join them. He's become a 'Joey' for his best WED friend Darren who's a highly paid footballer. A Joey is a WED sort of friendly factotum, a 'Go to Guy'. No way is he WED dogsbody. A comedy by Jim Poyser. WED Sean.... John Catterall WED Darren.... Greg Wood WED Tony.....Ben Crompton WED Shaneice/Sharon.... Danielle Henry WED Dad/Halibut.....Peter Slater WED Ronny....Bernard Wrigley WED Original Music by Steven D Reid WED Produced by Gary Brown WED If you want owt - go down the market... They sell everything WED from pins to pearl earrings, from peaches to pig's trotters, WED from tripe to tiramisu. See the hanging, marbled haunches of WED beef down Butchers' Row. Smell the flowers, a fragrant WED dream. Taste the fresh silvery fish motorwayed down from the WED North Sea. WED Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the WED city centre. This northern city once textured by textiles WED has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre - WED it bristles with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, WED twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre is a WED shard of another city. And after countless makeovers, the WED Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a WED place where you can get anything and see anything - a place WED teeming with life. A place bristling with stories. The WED market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural WED and magnificent. WED 'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays about people who WED work in and around its stalls. Each story is a WED self-contained quirky tale. Modern morality plays, with a WED whiff of the fantastical about them. WED Credits WED Producer: Gary Brown WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b008746b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00df6ls (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 A Funny Sort of Sound b00l92sr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khq5 (Listen) WED Lord Grenville's Ball WED Lady Marguerite Blakeney is blackmailed into uncovering the WED identity of the elusive hero. Who could it be? Read by WED Damian Lewis. WED WED 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037gypk (Listen) WED The Invention of the Manager WED Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of WED today's corporate culture. WED Part 6 of 10: The Invention Of The Manager WED Before the 20th century the manager had a rather shady WED reputation with writers like Adam Smith voicing their WED suspicions. At the turn of the 20th century, American WED engineer Frederick Taylor attempted to use science to WED systematise the principles of management. Taylorist ideas WED began to be applied to offices, making them 'factories of WED administration'. WED Meanwhile the numbers of managers were increasing in large WED corporations. But by the fifties, there was dissatisfaction WED with the plight of the 'organisation man'. Lucy speaks to WED Alex Werner of the Museum of London and Chris Grey of Royal WED Holloway, University of London. WED Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry WED Shale WED Historical Consultant: Michael Heller WED Producer: Russell Finch WED A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01b1g90 (Listen) WED W Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil, Episode 3 WED by Somerset Maugham WED dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery WED First published in 1925 to a storm of protest this is a WED haunting and poignant drama of a woman's spiritual WED awakening. WED Set in 1920's China. Kitty. after being virtually forced to WED live in the cholera infested island of Mei-Fan-Tu with WED husband, Walter, visits the orphanage where he works as a WED doctor and bacteriologist. She see Walter in a new light WED after she discovers how hard he is working, how the locals WED adore and admire him, and how he is helping to rid the WED island of the epidemic . WED Kitty Fane ...... Sarah Smart WED Walter Fane ...... Nicholas Farrell WED Waddington ... Conrad Nelson WED Souer St Joseph..... Isabelle Defaut WED Mother Superior ..... Caroline Loncq WED Beggar man ....... Chris Lee WED Chinese consultant - Jing Griffin WED Directed by Pauline Harris. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00vs4k2 (Listen) WED Autobiography of Mark Twain, Episode 3 WED Read by Kerry Shale. In Nevada in 1864 there was a sudden WED fashion for duelling. At the time Samuel L. Clemens, better WED known now as Mark Twain, was City Editor on the Virginia WED City Enterprise. He was just 29 years-old and though WED ambitious, he claims he had no desire to fight a duel, even WED for the honour of his paper. But somehow, in spite of his WED intentions, he managed to provoke the proprietor of the WED rival Virginia Union. WED Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpd3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Puzzle Panel b00yb2vg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 One Foot in the Grave b007jn39 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00snrk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03kqg03 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007jldg (Listen) WED Earthsearch I, Marooned WED The crew of Challenger have mounted an escape, but their WED starship has vanished. Stars Sean Arnold and Amanda Murray. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076t5v (Listen) WED The Sum Is Greater than the Parts WED Are Matthew Parris, Julian Baggini, Judith Palmer and David WED Boyle obsessed by small print or just the bigger picture? WED From August 2005. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b008746b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00df6ls (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 A Funny Sort of Sound b00l92sr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r7ml8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00y5jdw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03kqg03 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Meanwhile, It's Will & Greg b0196tnh (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Comedy performers William Andrews and Greg McHugh explore WED the surreal and the absurd through characters and everyday WED situations in their first sketch show for BBC Radio 4. Along WED with live sketches recorded in front of an appreciative WED Glasgow audience, the show also features studio based WED sketches with Will & Greg as "themselves" exploring a WED particular scenario and utilising their hilarious WED relationship with each other and their trademark skew-whiff WED logic. The studio based sketches allows them to play with WED sound and atmosphere of the radio sketch form and blend them WED with the live audience material. WED Together with brand new regulars and one-off sketches, the WED series explores the bizarrely familiar, the recognisably odd WED and the upbeat offbeat way of life that only exists when the WED planet is touched by Will and Greg. WED Stars William Andrews and Greg McHugh with Gavin Mitchell WED and Kirsten Mclean. WED Director: Iain Davidson WED Script Editor: Chris Grady WED Original music by Alex Attwood. WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06dpxf9 (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth chats WED again to Nick Coyle. WED WED 23:00 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes b01pp6xb (Listen) WED Series 2, Showbiz 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 23:30 Hut 33 b01kbhx3 (Listen) WED Series 3, Entente Cordiale WED Can the wartime codebreakers improve Anglo-French relations WED with a little derring-do? Stars Robert Bathurst. From WED November 2009. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007jldg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076t5v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jzgw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 A Funny Sort of Sound b00l92sr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khq5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037gypk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01b1g90 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00vs4k2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpd3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Puzzle Panel b00yb2vg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 One Foot in the Grave b007jn39 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00snrk2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03kqg03 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jn1q (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU As Miss Gee persuades Kim to tell all about "Bird in Hand". THU Wilson plays an unexpected hand and Todd approaches his THU final hour. Will he take the world with him? THU Shaun Prendergast's techo thriller in six-parts stars Siriol THU Jenkins as Kim Drake, Jack Klaff as Todd, Kenneth Cranham as THU Stone, Ann Davies as Miss Gee and Jonathan Tafler as DS THU Love. THU Directed by Adrian Bean THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. THU THU 06:30 Tribal Gathering b00c1q5s (Listen) THU Jane Little visits the world's biggest casino at Foxwoods THU Resort in Connecticut, owned and run by a tribe of Native THU Americans once threatened by extinction. The casino was THU built by the Mashantucket Pequot tribe, who reclaimed the THU land taken from them by 17th-century colonists and THU established a sovereign nation. THU The doors are permanently open to the thousands of people THU who gamble billions of dollars every year on the 8,000 slot THU machines and hundreds of roulette wheels and gaming tables. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b00sv6fw (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU Sheila Hancock heads a stunning cast including Mackenzie THU Crook, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu and Kevin Eldon. THU This is a clever, funny and touching series about a small THU town in the middle of Northamptonshire as it prepares for a THU talent night. It is written by and also stars Katherine THU Jakeways. THU Recently divorced Jan gets two compliments in one day. THU Meanwhile her ex husband Frank performs the most THU embarrassing version of Je T'Aime ever heard, with his new THU love, Angela. THU Across town Rod the local supermarket manager (Mackenzie THU Crook) is still sharing rather more than is usual about his THU private life over the store's tannoy system. Could he be THU getting closer to Tanya on till 4? THU Written by Katherine Jakeways THU Produced by Claire Jones. THU Credits THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Rod: Mackenzie Crook THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Keith: John Biggins THU Frank: Rufus Wright THU Angela: Lizzie Roper THU Producer: Claire Jones THU THU 07:30 The Brig Society b069xxg5 (Listen) THU Series 3, Football Manager THU Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has decided to find out about the THU pure, noble and honest game of football - and also FIFA. THU He'll be tackling some of the sport's biggest problems, like THU racism and homophobia - and also FIFA. THU And as a football manager, he'll be taking his amateur side THU all the way to the Premier League. And possibly beyond, if THU Qatar pay him enough. THU Helping him to kick it out of the park will be Margaret THU Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got THU No Head") and Colin Hoult ("Derek") THU Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, THU Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: William Andrews THU Ensemble: Colin Hoult THU Producer: David Tyler THU Writer: Marcus Brigstocke THU Writer: Jeremy Salsby THU Writer: Toby Davies THU Writer: Nick Doody THU Writer: Steve Punt THU Writer: Dan Tetsell THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlws (Listen) THU Series 3, Death in the Family THU Distraught Harold must break some sad news to his father, THU Albert. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by THU Gale Pedrick. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1971. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00801nf (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 6 THU Judgement day dawns for the shady lawyer, Waldorf T THU Flywheel. 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 July 1990. THU THU 09:00 It's Not What You Know b01cwvbf (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU Miles Jupp hosts the show in which it's not what you know THU that matters, but who. And more importantly, how well you THU know them. THU Roisin Conaty, Ed Byrne and Richard Madeley nominate one of THU their intimate circle to answer a series of questions and THU they then have to second-guess how their nominees responded. THU Roisin picks her best friend, Caroline, Ed chooses his mum, THU Jill, and Richard Madeley opts for his daughter, Chloe - all THU with varying degrees of success. THU The panel also have to try and predict the responses of THU legendary football commentator, John Motson, as he is asked THU "what's your favourite film?", "what would you have been if THU you weren't a football commentator?" and "which other famous THU TV coat-wearer would you be? The Fonz, Columbo, or THU Paddington Bear?" THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 09:30 After Henry b007s8gm (Listen) THU Series 4, Family Album THU Eleanor's old snaps spark arguments with Sarah over the THU past. Stars Prunella Scales and Joan Sanderson. From THU February 1989. THU THU 10:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpdj (Listen) THU Rivals THU After 19 years apart, mayor Michael Henchard is reunited THU with his wife. Thomas Hardy drama starring David Calder and THU Janet Dale. THU THU 11:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r80ry (Listen) THU The Gold in the Sea THU Old farmer Con's fishing trip off the Donegal coast sparks a THU story of a sunken ship and elusive treasure. Read by Adrian THU Dunbar. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00yj3mq (Listen) THU Market, Castaway THU By Michael Stewart THU Andrew is proud of his beard and his liberal attitudes. Then THU Akram Khan buys some computers off his stall. He is a THU successful businessman, he lives in a house Andrew admires. THU Andrew is sanguine about this - until he fits a wi-fi router THU in Mr Khan's house. THU Andrew.....Kevin Eldon THU Tom.........Marshall Lancaster THU Sarah.......Deborah McAndrew THU Akram......Ian Aspinall THU Mrs Khan...Balvinder Sopal THU Original Music by Steven D Reid THU Produced by Gary Brown THU If you want owt - go down the market... They sell everything THU from pins to pearl earrings, from peaches to pig's trotters, THU from tripe to tiramisu. See the hanging, marbled haunches of THU beef down Butchers' Row. Smell the flowers, a fragrant THU dream. Taste the fresh silvery fish motorwayed down from the THU North Sea. THU Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the THU city centre. This northern city once textured by textiles THU has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre - THU it bristles with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, THU twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre is a THU shard of another city. And after countless makeovers, the THU Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a THU place where you can get anything and see anything - a place THU teeming with life. A place bristling with stories. The THU market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural THU and magnificent. THU 'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays about people who THU work in and around its stalls. Each story is a THU self-contained quirky tale. Modern morality plays, with a THU whiff of the fantastical about them. THU Credits THU Producer: Gary Brown THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00801nf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jn1q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Tribal Gathering b00c1q5s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khqz (Listen) THU Richmond THU Lady Marguerite is obliged to condemn to death one of two THU innocent men, her brother or the elusive hero? Read by THU Damian Lewis. THU THU 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037hmxy (Listen) THU Sex and the Office THU Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of THU today's corporate culture. THU Part 7 of 10: Lucy charts the changes in workplace attitudes THU to sex. In the thirties and forties, secretaries were THU popularly seen as 'office wives' fulfilling similar duties THU to the wife in the domestic sphere. In the early sixties, THU the American writer Helen Gurley Brown argued for more THU equality with her controversial book Sex and The Single THU Girl. By the seventies, feminism brought new criticisms of THU the role of women in the office. Lucy talks to Julie THU Berebitsky of Sewanee, University of the South. THU Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry THU Shale THU Historical Consultant: Michael Heller THU Producer: Russell Finch THU A Somethin' Else production for Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01b1ljr (Listen) THU W Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil, Episode 4 THU by Somerset Maugham THU dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery THU Set in 1920's China. Kitty has started working in the THU orphanage run by the French nuns. When she collapses one day THU she fears it is cholera but discovers she's pregnant. Her THU husband Walter, who adores children, demands to know if it's THU his child. THU Kitty Fane ...... Sarah Smart THU Walter Fane ...... Nicholas Farrell THU Waddington ... Conrad Nelson THU Souer St Joseph..... Isabelle Defaut THU Mother Superior ..... Caroline Loncq THU Girl in orphanage - Shamae Griffin THU Chinese consultant - Jing Griffin THU Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00vs4kd (Listen) THU Autobiography of Mark Twain, Episode 4 THU Read by Kerry Shale.The Morris Incident was a cause celebre THU which blasted apparently far bigger stories off the front THU pages of the American Press. For Mark Twain, the fascination THU of the incident lies in what it tells you about the THU character of President Roosevelt. THU Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpdj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 It's Not What You Know b01cwvbf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 After Henry b007s8gm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b00sv6fw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 The Brig Society b069xxg5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007jldt (Listen) THU Earthsearch I, Star Cluster THU The starship Challenger's crew act on suspicions in their THU battle to find Earth. James Follett's space epic stars Sean THU Arnold. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076rh9 (Listen) THU Series 7, Robert Louis Stevenson THU Series of biographical discussions with Francine Stock. Poet THU Douglas Dunn nominates Robert Louis Stevenson, explaining THU that the first book he ever read was Treasure Island and THU that he has loved its author ever since. Biographer Claire THU Harman fills in the details of a short but energetic life THU that began in Edinburgh and ended on the island of Samoa. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00801nf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jn1q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Tribal Gathering b00c1q5s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r80ry (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00yj3mq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 The Brig Society b069xxg5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b06cwl1z (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 3 THU This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into THU sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to THU make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. THU Nish is joined this week by Jess Ransom, Mike Wozniak and THU Ellie White. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007k1p9 (Listen) THU Series 1, Redemption THU The Wrath of God is invoked, sparking a heart-to-heart with THU Satan. Stars Andy Hamilton and Jimmy Mulville. From December THU 1995. THU THU 23:30 Sounding Off with McGough b007k4lr (Listen) THU Heroes and Villains THU Poetic reflections from Roger McGough, featuring tales of THU relatives and retsina. Recorded at the Bath Festival. From THU May 2000. THU THU 23:45 The Shuttleworths b007k2df (Listen) THU Series 1, Pillock of the Community THU It's a frustrating day for Sheffield singer John THU Shuttleworth, but solace awaits. Stars Graham Fellows. From THU October 1993. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b007jldt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076rh9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Shaun Prendergast - Only the Good Die Young b007jn1q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Tribal Gathering b00c1q5s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khqz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037hmxy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01b1ljr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00vs4kd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpdj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 It's Not What You Know b01cwvbf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 After Henry b007s8gm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b00sv6fw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Brig Society b069xxg5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 VI Warshawski - Bitter Medicine b007jl4z (Listen) FRI Private eye VI Warshawski suspects all is not well at a FRI hospital after a young pregnant girl dies. FRI Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Sharon Gless as VI FRI Warshawski. With Robert Harper as Fabiano and Chris Scott as FRI Alan Humphries. FRI Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female FRI sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, FRI is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI FRI is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but FRI she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky FRI says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women FRI were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed FRI either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, FRI smart, likeable female private investigator". FRI Producer: Janet Whitaker FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. FRI FRI 06:30 Secrets of Stonehenge b00850mr (Listen) FRI Francis Pryor reports on a vast archaeological project in FRI Wiltshire, where a team led by Prof Mike Parker Pearson FRI challenged existing theories about the Neolithic society FRI that built Stonehenge, the reason for the site's location FRI and its purpose. FRI FRI 07:00 Bookcases b00szhvl (Listen) FRI The Prosser Prize FRI Primus does his utmost to ensure one of his books will win a FRI literary award. Stars Michael Cochrane. From September 1998. FRI FRI 07:30 The Absolutely Radio Show b06bfd59 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Members of the cast of Channel 4's hugely popular sketch FRI show Absolutely reunite for a brand new series on BBC Radio FRI 4. Pete Baikie, Morwenna Banks, Moray Hunter, Gordon Kennedy FRI and John Sparkes are back together with all new material. FRI They are revisiting some of their much loved sketch FRI characters for four half hour shows, whilst also introducing FRI some newcomers to the show. FRI In 2013, the group got back together for the Sketchorama: FRI Absolutely Special for BBC Radio 4 which subsequently won a FRI BBC Audio Drama Award in the Best Live Scripted Comedy FRI category. FRI The third episode of the series will feature another meeting FRI of the highly confused Stoneybridge Town Council as well as FRI Denzil and Gwynedd, the far from devoted Swansea couple. FRI Also appearing will be the Little Girl with her own take on FRI Tea, Mr Muzak on just how busy and important he is and Calum FRI Gilhooley pontificating on the weirdness of road signs. FRI There is also a talking version of Facebook and more from FRI the NEWS NEWS NEWS team. FRI Produced by Gus Beattie and Gordon Kennedy. FRI An Absolutely/Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Performer: Peter Baikie FRI Performer: Morwenna Banks FRI Performer: Moray Hunter FRI Performer: Gordon Kennedy FRI Performer: John Sparkes FRI Producer: Gus Beattie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00802l8 (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Publicity Photograph FRI The lad's new image leads to a major makeover away from the FRI camera. FRI Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie FRI Jacques and Kenneth Williams. FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. FRI Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. FRI Producer: Tom Ronald FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007swcz (Listen) FRI The Sinking of Westminster Pier FRI Oyster-loving Neddie Seagoon takes to the River Thames, FRI which is soon draining away. Stars Harry Secombe. From FRI February 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge b007jw52 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, FRI Peter Baynham, Armando Iannucci and Nick Frost. From August FRI 2001. FRI FRI 09:30 The Adventures of John and Tony b007k1s6 (Listen) FRI The Hiking Holiday FRI The duo face dodgy hotels and sinister monks, but love is in FRI the air. Stars John Hegley and Simon Munnery. From September FRI 1999. FRI FRI 10:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpdx (Listen) FRI The Conjuror and the Choir FRI Battling regrets from his drunken actions two decades FRI before, Michael Henchard reaches breaking point. Stars David FRI Calder. FRI FRI 11:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r81tx (Listen) FRI The Death of a Scientific Humanist FRI When her brother Cormac is refused burial on consecrated FRI ground, Angela Cassidy must make other plans. Read by Adrian FRI Dunbar. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00yqhrr (Listen) FRI Market, Eclipse FRI Carrie runs a flower stall. She also has a birthmark on her FRI face. Maybe that's the reason she has never married. But Mrs FRI Kaminsky knows she has an ardent admirer. A tender romantic FRI comedy by Sharon Oakes. FRI Carrie.....Michelle Holmes FRI Gordon....Andrew Westfield FRI Mrs Kaminski....Melissa Jane Sinden FRI Maurice......Ian Champion FRI Lisa.........Claire Lever FRI Original Music by Steven D Reid FRI Produced by Gary Brown FRI If you want owt - go down the market... They sell everything FRI from pins to pearl earrings, from peaches to pig's trotters, FRI from tripe to tiramisu. See the hanging, marbled haunches of FRI beef down Butchers' Row. Smell the flowers, a fragrant FRI dream. Taste the fresh silvery fish motorwayed down from the FRI North Sea. FRI Some would say the Market is the last authentic part of the FRI city centre. This northern city once textured by textiles FRI has reinvented itself as a business and financial centre - FRI it bristles with designer shops and bars. A cosmopolitan, FRI twenty-four hour city. Yet slap bang in the centre is a FRI shard of another city. And after countless makeovers, the FRI Victorian City Market remains what it has always been; a FRI place where you can get anything and see anything - a place FRI teeming with life. A place bristling with stories. The FRI market is the real face of the city - mucky, multicultural FRI and magnificent. FRI 'Market' is an umbrella series of six plays about people who FRI work in and around its stalls. Each story is a FRI self-contained quirky tale. Modern morality plays, with a FRI whiff of the fantastical about them. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00802l8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007swcz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 VI Warshawski - Bitter Medicine b007jl4z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Secrets of Stonehenge b00850mr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Baroness Orczy - The Scarlet Pimpernel b007khrs (Listen) FRI Calais FRI Lady Marguerite realises that Sir Percy is the elusive hero FRI and that she may have condemned him to death. Read by Damian FRI Lewis. FRI FRI 14:15 Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life b037jbtl (Listen) FRI Designing Office Space FRI Writer and satirist Lucy Kellaway traces the origins of FRI today's corporate culture. FRI Part 8 of 10: Designing Office Space FRI Lucy looks at changes in office layout. FRI The architect Frank Lloyd Wright pioneered open plan office FRI space with the Larkin building in 1904. One result was that FRI the open plan office began to resemble a factory, allowing FRI easier supervision of staff by managers. FRI By the Sixties offices were made to appear more democratic FRI with the development of 'office landscaping' in Germany and FRI the Action Office in America. Lucy talks to Jeremy Myerson FRI professor of design at the Royal College of Art. FRI Readings by Richard Katz, Sasha Pick, Adam Rojko and Kerry FRI Shale FRI Historical Consultant: Michael Heller FRI Producer: Russell Finch FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01b1nk5 (Listen) FRI W Somerset Maugham - The Painted Veil, Episode 5 FRI by Somerset Maugham FRI dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery FRI First published in 1925 to a storm of protest this is a FRI haunting and poignant drama of a woman's spiritual FRI awakening. FRI Set in 1920's China. Walter has cholera and Kitty is FRI horrified and heartbroken. She leaves Mei-Fan-Tu and back in FRI Hong Kong finds herself in the same house as her ex-lover FRI Charles Townsend. FRI Kitty Fane ...... Sarah Smart FRI Walter Fane ...... Nicholas Farrell FRI Waddington ... Conrad Nelson FRI Dorothy Townsend ..... Julia Rounthwaite FRI Charles Townsend ..... James Nickerson FRI Officer/Doctor ....... Chris Lee FRI Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00vs4lh (Listen) FRI Autobiography of Mark Twain, Episode 5 FRI Read by Kerry Shale. Mark Twain maintained that the proper FRI material for an autobiography was to talk about the things FRI that interest you for the moment, as your views on this or FRI that would give an insight into your character. FRI He also decreed that his autobiography should not be FRI published until he'd been dead for 100 years so that he FRI could feel free to speak his "whole frank mind." And his FRI outspoken views on the Moro incident, and the conduct of the FRI American forces in the Philippines, certainly show a very FRI different side to the man who is famous for his childhood FRI classics. FRI Abridged by Jane Marshall Productions FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Thomas Hardy - The Mayor of Casterbridge b007jpdx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge b007jw52 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 The Adventures of John and Tony b007k1s6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Bookcases b00szhvl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 The Absolutely Radio Show b06bfd59 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 James Follett - Earthsearch b00cfzsp (Listen) FRI Earthsearch I, Earthfall FRI Earthfall: The crew locate an Earth-like planet, but the FRI Angels are not beaten yet. Stars Sean Arnold, Sonia Fraser FRI and Gordon Reid. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0075zyd (Listen) FRI Series 1, Beethoven's Ode to Joy FRI John Suchet, Hans Rhieburg and Susan Greenfield reflect on FRI the impact of Beethoven's last symphony 'Ode to Joy'. From FRI December 2000. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b00802l8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007swcz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 VI Warshawski - Bitter Medicine b007jl4z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Secrets of Stonehenge b00850mr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Brian Friel Stories b01r81tx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00yqhrr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Absolutely Radio Show b06bfd59 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b06cx1cl (Listen) FRI 2015, Heat four FRI The next heat in comedy's most prestigious new talent FRI competition from The Komedia in Bath. FRI Our host, Lucy Porter presents some of the best new FRI comedians from across the UK. FRI Judges for this heat are comedian Elis James, BBC Comedy FRI Producer Sam Bryant and editor of comedy website Chortle, FRI Steve Bennett FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner and Sophie Black. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in September 2015. FRI FRI 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b06g0c09 (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith is FRI joined by Liam Williams. FRI FRI 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun b007k272 (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI The cult BBC Radio 1 series hits the BBC Paris Studio in FRI London. Starring Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. From FRI November 1993. FRI
18 September, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 19/09/2015 - 25/09/2015
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