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SAT SATURDAY 10 OCTOBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Carey Harrison - A Call From the Dead b01nf2h9 (Listen) SAT It's good to talk, or so they say, but not when you're SAT called from beyond the grave. Stars John Shrapnel and Nick SAT Dunning. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b06g7tf8 (Listen) SAT Series 1, You'll Never Walk Alone: SAT Carl Davis and Gerry Marsden reflect on the impact of Rodger SAT and Hammerstein's Carousel solo which became an anthem. From SAT January 2001. SAT SAT 01:00 Miss Marple b007jpqv (Listen) SAT The Murder at the Vicarage, Episode 5 SAT Amateur sleuth Jane Marple battles to unearth the proof she SAT needs to reveal the murderer's identity - along with a few SAT other surprises. SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss SAT Marple and Francis Matthews as the Rev Leonard Clement, SAT Imelda Staunton as Griselda Clement, Nigel Davenport as Dr SAT Haydock and Rachel Atkins as Lettice Protheroe. SAT Dramatised by Michael Bakewell SAT Director Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. SAT SAT 01:30 Bowling for Love b00mr5r6 (Listen) SAT Following a bowls community, and the friendships and SAT romances formed on and off the green. When Brian and Meryl SAT joined Adastra Bowls Club in Hassocks, they were looking for SAT a new hobby. But as their lives changed, the crown green SAT became the setting for another sort of interest. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00wbqjc (Listen) SAT Dawn French - A Tiny Bit Marvellous, Episode 5 SAT Dawn French's debut novel, A Tiny Bit Marvellous, is told SAT from three very different perspectives. Yet each is a member SAT of the Battle family - perfectly average, perfectly SAT dysfunctional. SAT Dora fixes a secret date on Facebook, but thanks to Oscar, SAT Dad finds out and stirs himself to action. Mo plans to run SAT away with Noel. Will the Battles ever be the same again? SAT Read by: SAT Dawn French SAT Lenny Henry SAT Sam Barnett and SAT Beattie Edmondson SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pcvlb (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and SAT Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a SAT national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an SAT obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. SAT To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and SAT mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and SAT often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part SAT series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we SAT know so well, and introducing us to the charms and SAT challenges of those that we don't. SAT Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales SAT themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely SAT with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of SAT these deceptively complex stories. SAT In the fifth episode, we are drawn into the tales' rich SAT history of illustration. These evocative stories have always SAT stirred vivid images in the minds of artists, from the SAT angular drawings of an early David Hockney to Dickens' SAT Victorian illustrator George Cruikshank. Through these SAT artists' impressions, we paint a new picture of the tales' SAT vital contribution to the long tradition of visual SAT storytelling. SAT Producer: Kevin Dawson SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012ftrn (Listen) SAT Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 5 SAT By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray SAT 5/10 SAT Sociologist Tom McCann is behaving increasingly strangely, SAT much to the frustration of his young assistant Roger. But SAT they're about to hear some news that will make things a SAT great deal stranger. SAT Roger ... Jonathan Forbes SAT McCann ... Nathan Osgood SAT Elsie ... Barbara Barnes SAT Verena ... Alex Tregear SAT Sissy ... Susie Riddell SAT Bill ... Peter Polycarpou SAT Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00dz9v8 (Listen) SAT Thomas Keneally - Searching for Schindler: A Memoir, Episode SAT 5 SAT Thomas Keneally's account of his discovery of the story of SAT Oscar Schindler, which became the basis for his Booker SAT Prize-winning novel Schindler's Ark and the Oscar-winning SAT film Schindler's List. SAT Thomas has finished writing Schindler's Ark and Steven SAT Spielberg is interested in making it into a film. SAT SAT 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7sqn (Listen) SAT The Logic of Events SAT Major Francis White seeks peace with his father before SAT heading into battle. English Civil War drama with Graham SAT Blockey. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b00yqhrp (Listen) SAT Series 1, Southampton SAT Coming this week from the University of Southampton, host SAT Steve Punt quizzes Biology students and Mathematics dons SAT alike on dachshunds, Dante, and Doctor Who. So if you've SAT ever wondered whether "The Golgi Apparatus" refers to part SAT of a eukaryotic cell or is merely a little-read Robert SAT Ludlum novel then this is the show for you. SAT "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz SAT show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 SAT listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded SAT on location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:30 Albert and Me b007jynb (Listen) SAT Series 1, Rate of Decline SAT Struggling to bring up his baby son Albert, single dad Bryan SAT Archer desperately needs cash for his rate arrears. SAT Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as SAT Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Harry Fowler as Joe SAT Billings. SAT Written by Jim Eldridge. SAT Producer: John Fawcett Wilson SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977. SAT SAT 05:00 The Change b0076p0j (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT Ken is surprised to find that he has a new bedmate - but not SAT the one he'd hoped for. SAT Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as SAT George, Maureen Beattie as Maureen and James Vaughan as Ken. SAT Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to SAT smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol SAT is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers SAT can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. SAT Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. SAT Producer: Elizabeth Freestone SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. SAT SAT 05:30 Liam Mullone's Disappointing World b06f54rz (Listen) SAT British comedy's only contrarian libertarian antiquarian, SAT Liam Mullone tackles the universal theme that sums up all SAT human endeavour - disappointment. SAT In this comedy lecture dedicated to history's losers Liam SAT celebrates some enormously bad ideas from the world of SAT technology. SAT He tells the hubristic story of Sweden's 17th Century SAT warship, The Vasa, which was even more disappointing than SAT The Mary Rose. Some of NASA's most inspiration-lacking SAT ventures are laid bare. And Frenchman Marcel Lucont honours SAT countryman Jacques Cousteau and his cigarette smoke-filled SAT Conshelf stations in a song. SAT Liam Mullone with Alexis Dubus and Eri Jackson SAT Writer: Liam Mullone SAT Producer: Aled Evans. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Liam Mullone SAT Performer: Alexis Dubus SAT Performer: Eri Jackson SAT Writer: Liam Mullone SAT Producer: Aled Evans SAT SAT 06:00 Poirot b007qmt9 (Listen) SAT The ABC Murders SAT A chilling letter sets the Belgian sleuth on the trail of an SAT enigmatic killer. Agatha Christie thriller starring John SAT Moffatt. SAT SAT 07:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075y19 (Listen) SAT Mount Stuart SAT The architectural historian marvels at an unfinished SAT Scottish stately home where building work started in 1879. SAT From September 2000. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b0134xn5 (Listen) SAT Raise Your Glasses SAT 4 Extra Debut. Arthur Smith scours the archives for the best SAT and worst after-dinner speeches. Is there a winning formula? SAT From August 2011. SAT SAT 09:00 Knowing Steve, Knowing You b06gx1tz (Listen) SAT Made for 4 Extra. Steve Coogan talks to novelist and SAT screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce about his life and career, SAT accompanied by rare archive and new interviews. SAT SAT 12:00 Genius b0076vc0 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Johnny Vegas SAT Dave Gorman and Johnny Vegas chew over ridiculous, brilliant SAT but unworkable ideas, and choose the best. From September SAT 2006. SAT SAT 12:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076hv6 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. The 'unreliable' historical account of SAT Catherine of Aragon's duenna, Dona Elvira. Stars Sheila SAT Steafel. From November 2003. SAT SAT 13:00 30 Eggs Omnibus b06gx5ph (Listen) SAT Weary of life, blind Modeste must convince his young friend SAT to help him return to the other side of Rwanda. With Jude SAT Akuwudike. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06gx5pk (Listen) SAT Cyndi Lauper SAT The flamboyant singer selects Fats Waller & Louis SAT Armstrong's 'All That Meat And No Potatoes' and Marvin SAT Gaye's 'Mercy, Mercy Me'. SAT SAT 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00z62b1 (Listen) SAT Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster SAT Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is an elegy to SAT the young gap-year student who was attacked in Stubbeylee SAT Park, Bacup, Lancashire. She later died on August 24th 2007. SAT This is an elegy to mark the anniversary of her death, four SAT years later. Aged twenty, Sophie suffered fatal injuries SAT while cradling her boyfriend Rob's head in an attempt to SAT protect him from a ferocious attack by a group of youths. SAT Rob survived but Sophie went into a coma and never SAT recovered. SAT Sophie was an intelligent bookish child who showed signs of SAT wanting to be different from an early age. Political, SAT vegetarian, a pacifist, Sophie had left school with A levels SAT and was thinking about what to do with her future when it SAT was taken so brutally from her. SAT Sophie and Rob dressed in a unique way, expressing their SAT individuality as creative artistic people through goth-style SAT clothes, piercings and make-up, which provoked the fatal SAT attack in the early hours of that Saturday morning. Sophie SAT had been dating Rob Maltby, a 21-year-old art student for SAT three years. SAT I didn't do sport. SAT I didn't do meat. SAT Don't ask me to wear that dress: SAT I shan't. SAT Why ask me to toe the line, SAT I can't. SAT I was slight or small SAT but never petite, SAT and nobody's fool; SAT no Barbie doll; SAT no girlie girl. SAT I was lean and sharp, SAT not an ounce of fat SAT on my thoughts or my limbs. SAT In my difficult teens SAT I was strange, I was odd, SAT - aren't we all - SAT there was something different down at the core. SAT Boy bands and pop tarts left me cold, SAT let's say SAT that I marched to the beat SAT of a different drum, SAT sang another tune, SAT wandered at will SAT through the market stalls SAT humming protest songs. SAT I wore studded dog leads SAT around my wrist, SAT and was pleased as punch SAT in the pit, at the gig, SAT to be singled out SAT by a shooting star SAT of saliva from Marilyn Manson's lips. SAT But for all that stuff SAT in many ways an old fashioned soul, SAT quite at home SAT in my own front room, SAT on my own settee. SAT I read, I wrote, SAT I painted, I drew. SAT Where it came from SAT no one knows SAT but it flowed. It flowed. SAT Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster is a drama SAT documentary in which Sophie tells her own story through a SAT series of poignant poems written by the award-winning poet SAT Simon Armitage alongside her mother, Sylvia Lancaster SAT remembering her daughter's shortened life. SAT Black Roses : The Killing of Sophie Lancaster written by SAT Simon Armitage with an interview with Sylvia Lancaster SAT Cast : SAT SOPHIE ...........Rachel Austin SAT Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0134xn5 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Poirot b007qmt9 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075y19 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b06gxdks (Listen) SAT Demons of Red Lodge, Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Something menacing lurks outside the woodshed SAT on a dark Suffolk night in 1665. Fifth Doctor adventure SAT stars Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. SAT SAT 18:30 Andrew McGibbon - The Routemasters b007jnqx (Listen) SAT Taking the Michelangelo SAT When Bernie catches the wrong bus, he is transported back to SAT 16th century Rome to help out a great artist. Stars Amanda SAT Donohoe. SAT SAT 19:00 Knowing Steve, Knowing You b06gx1tz (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better SAT b00d75nw (Listen) SAT Series 2, Honesty SAT The comedian finds out if telling the truth pays off. With SAT poetry and songs from Tim Key and Tom Basden. From September SAT 2008. SAT SAT 22:30 Tonight b016ljlz (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT A new age of austerity, riots on our streets, phone hacking, SAT the prospect of global economic meltdown...not since the SAT 1980s has Britain needed its sharp-tongued satirists to pour SAT a healthy dollop of scorn on these uncertain and tumultuous SAT times. SAT And who better to do that than the country's most well-known SAT satirical impressionist, Rory Bremner? He hosts Tonight, a SAT brand new topical satire show for Radio 4. SAT Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SAT things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then SAT will people laugh at the truth. So expect a blend of SAT stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and SAT incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who SAT really know what they're talking about. SAT Regular performers will include Political Animal veteran SAT Andy Zaltzman and the multi-talented impressionist Kate SAT O'Sullivan with a special guest each week. SAT Presenter: Rory Bremner SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SAT A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06jpqr9 (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to SAT Jessie Cave. SAT SAT 23:00 Saturday Night Fry b0091t5j (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Stephen Fry serves up more witty banter and sketches. With SAT Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Alison Steadman. From May SAT 1988. SAT SAT 23:30 28 Acts in 28 Minutes b008kmqx (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT John Humphrys gives 28 performers 60 seconds each to SAT entertain with sketches, stand-up, music and surprises. With SAT Arthur Smith and Carrie Quinlan. From January 2008. SAT Featured Acts SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 11 OCTOBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b06gxdks (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Andrew McGibbon - The Routemasters b007jnqx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 30 Eggs Omnibus b06gx5ph (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06gx5pk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Afternoon Drama b00z62b1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b0134xn5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Poirot b007qmt9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SUN b0075y19 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Imaginary Friends Omnibus b012kwzy (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Alison Lurie's comic novel of academia and alien gurus, SUN dramatised by Melissa Murray. New York, 1968. Naive young SUN sociologist Roger Zimmern has just got his first job at SUN university. SUN SUN 07:15 Pier People b00760n7 (Listen) SUN Southwold Pier SUN Storms and a mine explosion wrecked Southwold Pier in SUN Suffolk, but new plans are in place to rebuild it better SUN than before. From February 2001. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h8n6q (Listen) SUN Series 4, Charley Ant SUN Count Arthur Strong prepares to gatecrash an audition for SUN "Charley's Aunt". Unable to find his make-up bag, he enlists SUN the help of his acting student protege, Malcolm, to help put SUN the finishing touches to his costume. Dashing or disastrous, SUN which will it be? SUN We once again follow the one-time Variety Star as he SUN uncompromisingly fulfils his daily list of engagements. SUN Everyday life with Count Arthur Strong is, as always, an SUN enlightening experience! SUN All Tourettic ticks, false starts and nervous fumbling, SUN badly covered up by a delicate sheen of bravado and SUN self-assurance, Arthur is an expert in everything from the SUN world of entertainment to the origins of the species. SUN Cast: SUN Steve Delaney SUN Alastair Kerr SUN David Mounfield SUN Mel Giedroyc SUN Terry Kilkelly SUN Produced by John Leonard and Mark Radcliffe SUN A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for SUN BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Educating Archie b007jx7p (Listen) SUN From 11/02/1954 SUN Schoolboy Archie Andrews gets up to hijinks with inks. Stars SUN Peter Brough, Beryl Reid and Harry Secombe. From February SUN 1954. SUN SUN 08:30 Frankie Howerd Show b007jmtr (Listen) SUN From 17/6/1973 SUN Stand-up and sketches from the legendary boss of big SUN titters, with June Whitfield and Ray Fell. From June 1973. SUN SUN 09:00 Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants - Omnibus SUN b06gy23n (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Snapshots from the Iron Lady, Margaret SUN Thatcher's golden years. Charles Moore meticulously charts SUN the period from 1982 to 1987. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06gy2s1 (Listen) SUN Julian Lennon SUN The Beatle's son chooses 'Hey Jude', written for him by Paul SUN McCartney, and his own poignant composition 'Saltwater'. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06gy2s3 (Listen) SUN Fashion, Mario Testino SUN From Sid Vicious to Caetano Veloso, celebrity photographer SUN Mario Testino makes his castaway choices. With Sue Lawley. SUN From October 2005. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b06h1d11 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Seven Deadly Sins SUN Guy Raz investigates the guilty pleasure of behaving badly SUN and the challenge of confronting sin, and avoiding it. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00ph8rs (Listen) SUN Series 1, Salamander SUN The naturalist recalls his first pet, a fire salamander SUN given to him by his father on his eighth birthday. SUN SUN 12:00 Educating Archie b007jx7p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Frankie Howerd Show b007jmtr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Imaginary Friends Omnibus b012kwzy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Pier People b00760n7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Sascha Arango - Reading Europe: The Truth and Other SUN Lies b06h1fqq (Listen) SUN Brilliant career, elegant wife, grand house - novelist Henry SUN Hayden has it all, or so it seems. Read by Jamie Parker. SUN SUN 15:45 Ronald Frame Short Stories b06h1kpk (Listen) SUN The Railings SUN The removal of railings at the bottom of his garden marks SUN the end of Roy's previously cloistered outlook. Read by SUN Nigel Anthony. SUN SUN 16:00 Geoffrey Parkinson - The Annunciation b06h1nmk (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Do mysterious religious messages delivered SUN via library books foretell the Second Coming? Stars Michael SUN Gambon and Eva Stuart. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra: Poetry of History b06h838s (Listen) SUN The Battle of Maldon SUN A selection of programmes arranged by place, from the SUN Shetlands to the Caribbean via Brixton. Jonathan Bate starts SUN in Essex. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h8n6q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Liz Lochhead - Maleficium b00761fp (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. The terrifying outcome of suspected SUN witchcraft drawn from actual accounts. Stars Clare Corbett, SUN Siobhan Redmond and Freda Dowie. SUN SUN 18:45 E Nesbit - Hurst of Hurstcote b007jmyy (Listen) SUN John Hurst's murky past returns to haunt him when his wife SUN dies unexpectedly of marsh fever. Gothic horror read by SUN Linus Roach. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b06h1d11 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00ph8rs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Margaret Thatcher: Everything She Wants - Omnibus SUN b06gy23n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06gy2s1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06gy2s3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h8n6q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen b007k2qm (Listen) SUN Gunpowder, Treason and Plot SUN The locals get an unusual new guy for the bonfire. Pre-TV SUN sketch show with Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith. From SUN November 1997. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06jpr5y (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to SUN Jessie Cave. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b06g7bpf (Listen) SUN Series 13, Episode 5 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 The Nick Revell Show b007jp45 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN The life of a struggling writer with dysfunctional friends SUN and a talking geranium. With Alistair McGowan. From January SUN 1992. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 12 OCTOBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Liz Lochhead - Maleficium b00761fp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 E Nesbit - Hurst of Hurstcote b007jmyy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Imaginary Friends Omnibus b012kwzy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Pier People b00760n7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Sascha Arango - Reading Europe: The Truth and Other MON Lies b06h1fqq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Ronald Frame Short Stories b06h1kpk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Geoffrey Parkinson - The Annunciation b06h1nmk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra: Poetry of History b06h838s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00h8n6q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Afternoon Drama b03wpc05 (Listen) MON Porcelain: The Trial for the Killing of Sophie Lancaster MON Sophie Lancaster was a young student who was attacked in MON Stubbeylee Park, Bacup, Lancashire. 20, Sophie suffered MON fatal injuries while cradling her boyfriend Rob's head in an MON attempt to protect him from a the attack by a group of MON youths. Rob survived but Sophie went into a coma and never MON recovered. She later died on August 24th 2007. MON Political, vegetarian, a pacifist, Sophie showed signs of MON wanting to be different from an early age. Sophie and Rob MON dressed in a unique way, expressing their individuality as MON creative artistic people through goth-style clothes, MON piercings and make-up, which provoked the fatal attack in MON the early hours of that Saturday morning. Sophie had been MON dating Rob Maltby, an art student for 3 years. MON Porcelain: The Trial for the Killing of Sophie Lancaster is MON a drama documentary with extracts from an interview with MON Sophie's mother Sylvia Lancaster and dramatised scenes, MON including the trial of Brendan Harris based on the court MON transcripts written by Ian Kershaw MON Interview with Sylvia Lancaster MON Dramatised scenes written by Ian Kershaw MON Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts MON When Black Roses: The Killing of Sophie Lancaster was MON broadcast in 2011 there was a huge response from the Radio 4 MON audience. The drama transferred to the stage in Manchester a MON year later using the original poetry by Simon Armitage and MON using the words of Sylvia Lancaster . MON At the time many people asked what happened next . Porcelain MON : The Trial for the Killing of Sophie Lancaster tells the MON next part of this tragic story. MON Credits MON Odette Freeman: Melanie Hill MON Brendan Harris: Robert Haythorne MON Prosecutor: Conrad Nelson MON Judge: Terence Mann MON Doctor: Terence Mann MON Policeman: Henry Devas MON Witness: Henry Devas MON Policeman: Samantha Power MON Witness: Samantha Power MON Witness: Reece Noi MON Writer: Ian Kershaw MON Producer: Susan Roberts MON MON 06:45 Lady Curzon and a Pineapple b00cm6ww (Listen) MON Ian Peacock picks up his spoon and delves into the history MON of 'The King of Fruits'. With comment from Lucinda Lambton. MON MON 07:00 Turf Wars b00zm084 (Listen) MON How's Your Mother? MON MICHAEL MALONEY stars in Simon Brett's short play for this MON comedy drama series: 'TURF WARS'. MON In a gossipy village Humphrey Partridge is reckoned to be MON anti-social, indeed stand-offish. But he always has an MON excuse - namely that he has to look after his ailing elderly MON mother. It raises eyebrows at work. For example when MON Humphrey's boss needs him to stand in for a colleague at a MON conference abroad, Humphrey point blank refuses to go. The MON boss ends up going himself. No-one has ever met the MON legendary matriarch. Not even nosy Raj the local postman. MON But then one morning when Humphrey is at work, Raj notices a MON fire in Humphrey's house, breaks in to put it out and makes MON an extraordinary discovery. Soon police are digging in MON Humphrey's garden. But just what is Humphrey's dark secret? MON HOW'S YOUR MOTHER by Simon Brett MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON Credits MON Humphrey Partridge: Michael Maloney MON Raj: Adeel Akhtar MON Sgt Wallis: Adeel Akhtar MON Mr Denton: Sam Dale MON Trevor: Sam Dale MON Mrs Denton: Sally Orrock MON Mrs Jones: Christine Kavanagh MON Director: Peter Kavanagh MON Writer: Simon Brett MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b06fkm2w (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 1 MON Record breaking, Cologne and Street Performers get the Just MON a Minute treatment in a special edition recorded at the MON Edinburgh Festival in August 2015. Nicholas Parsons is MON joined by Janey Godley, Gyles Brandreth, Joe Lycett, and MON Paul Merton - who disrobes to display his Edinburgh Tattoo. MON Thank goodness it's Radio. Hayley Sterling blows the MON whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Janey Godley MON Panellist: Joe Lycett MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jpcv (Listen) MON Series 2, All Is Safely Gathered In MON The platoon battle to bring in a farmer's harvest with help MON from Hodges. Adapted from TV with Bill Pertwee. From June MON 1975. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b06h311g (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 5 MON Jean and Lionel devise a plan to get rid of Mrs Flack. MON Adapted from TV with Judi Dench and Geoffrey Palmer. From MON March 1999. MON MON 09:00 The Motion Show b0075rmr (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON Phil Hammond chairs the debating game. With Simon Fanshawe MON and Peter Bradshaw, Brian Sewell and Steve Punt. From MON November 1998. MON MON 09:30 Electric Ink b01k9wdn (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. MON A comic satire set in the struggling world of newspapers. MON Freddy punctures Maddox's literary pretensions and uncovers MON a scandal. MON Maddox ..... John Sessions MON Oliver ..... Alex Jennings MON Freddy ..... Stephen Wight MON Carol ..... Polly Frame MON Masha ..... Debbie Chazen MON Miles Deanbrook ..... Sean Baker MON Waiter ..... 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 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7wkj (Listen) MON The Disciplines of the War MON Reynolds and Church see some unexpected faces in the midst MON of battle. English Civil War drama with Kim Wall and Eric MON Allen. MON MON 11:00 Berlie Doherty - Crossing the Glacier b007jv9m (Listen) MON Gerda and Pam are two women who find themselves emotionally MON frozen in the past, but they get to know and help each MON other. Short story read by Janet Dale. MON MON 11:15 Tommies b03thc6p (Listen) MON 27 April 1915 MON by Nick Warburton MON Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. MON Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness MON accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at MON war, exactly 100 years ago. MON Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and MON his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the MON British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense MON machine, one which connects situations across the whole MON theatre of the war, over four long years. MON Under the constant threat of gas attack in the village of La MON Brique just north of Ypres, Mickey Bliss and his signals MON colleagues are trying to work out why the enemy are always MON one step ahead. MON Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter. MON Credits MON Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross MON Commentator: Indira Varma MON Pavan Jodha: Rudi Dharmalingam MON Spiridon: Adrian Scarborough MON Ahmadullah Khan: Danny Rahim MON Pillow Wallah: Mark Edel-Hunt MON Leonie Vergeron: Aurelie Amblard MON Officer: Damian Lynch MON Gilbert Grosse: Matthew Watson MON Signaller: Neet Mohan MON Producer: David Hunter MON Producer: Jonquil Panting MON Producer: Jonathan Ruffle MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Nick Warburton MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jpcv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b06h311g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Afternoon Drama b03wpc05 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:45 Lady Curzon and a Pineapple b00cm6ww (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yqjtl (Listen) MON Virginia Woolf - Flush, Episode 1 MON 1/5 Virginia Woolf's delightfully whimsical biography of the MON Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's beloved spaniel, MON Flush, is read by Jenny Coverack. Flush was given to Miss MON Barrett by a family friend, and the young spaniel very MON quickly became the poet's devoted companion and constant MON atttendant at her bedside in her father's house in Wimpole MON Street. In this first episode, Flush must learn to forget MON his early life in the country, and become used to days spent MON in an invalid's bedroom. MON Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. MON MON 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pftnf (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and MON Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a MON national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an MON obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. MON To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and MON mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and MON often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part MON series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we MON know so well, and introducing us to the charms and MON challenges of those that we don't. MON Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales MON themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely MON with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of MON these deceptively complex stories. MON In the sixth episode, we learn how these tales which had MON been lovingly collected to preserve a sense of national MON identity, were adopted and retold by the Nazis for the MON purposes of their brutal propaganda machine. MON The humour is stripped from The Boy Who Set Out to Learn MON Fear, Red Riding Hood's gallant rescuer is given a swastika MON armband, and the dark undercurrents to the morals we might MON once have innocently accepted become uncomfortably apparent. MON We also explore the tangled post-war effort to reclaim the MON Grimms' tales for a more positive purpose, featuring MON discussion of The Singing Ringing Tree, the East German film MON that thrilled the young and old of German and British MON audiences alike. MON Producer: Kevin Dawson MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012krr7 (Listen) MON Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 6 MON By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray MON 6/10 MON Roger has gone to see Verena, worried that Tom McCann has MON influenced the announcement that the Varnians are about to MON visit earth. MON Roger ... Jonathan Forbes MON McCann ... Nathan Osgood MON Elsie ... Barbara Barnes MON Verena ... Alex Tregear MON Sissy ... Susie Riddell MON Bill ... Peter Polycarpou MON Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw MON Ken ... Simon Bubb MON Peggy Elaine Claxton MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON 14:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r8c9p (Listen) MON Apathy MON Michael Sheen and David Horovitch read a selection of the MON influential critic's outspoken articles - taken from 1944 to MON 1955. MON MON 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7wkj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Motion Show b0075rmr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Electric Ink b01k9wdn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Turf Wars b00zm084 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b06fkm2w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 The Scarifyers b01rs2gv (Listen) MON The Horror of Loch Ness, Episode 1 MON When a speed ace goes missing at the famous loch, can MON Professor Dunning deal with the sinister forces at work? MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075xrd (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Louise Doughty, Rabbi Saul Djanogly and MON Bishop James Jones on Patrick McGrath, John Updike, plus the MON Jewish Torah. From September 2000. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jpcv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b06h311g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Afternoon Drama b03wpc05 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:45 Lady Curzon and a Pineapple b00cm6ww (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today] MON MON 21:00 Berlie Doherty - Crossing the Glacier b007jv9m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Tommies b03thc6p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b06fkm2w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The In Crowd b06h87lz (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON Naming children and computer dating. Manchester sketch show MON with Kate Ward, Smug Roberts and Robin Ince. From July 2004. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06h87s3 (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 4 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles MON Jupp. This week, the programme comes from the Lyceum Theatre MON in Crewe and Miles is joined by Susan Calman, Hugo Rifkind, MON Terry Christian and Holly Walsh. MON Producer: Richard Morris MON A BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON 23:45 Living with Mother b010ms1h (Listen) MON Series 1, Curtains at the Window MON We're in the rural part of deep Devon on a remote cattle MON farm. 79 yr old Patrick has always lived with his 103 year MON old mother Maisy in their humble farm house. Patrick, MON however, is as tight as they come and won't hear of spending MON money on anything but the essentials. MON All's going well until his Maisy's old school friend Susan MON returns home from London to retire and fills Maisy's head MON with all sorts of modern ideas. Will life be the same again MON or will Patrick still not allow curtains at the window? MON Cast: MON Maisy: Stephanie Cole MON Patrick: David Ryall MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 The Scarifyers b01rs2gv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075xrd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Afternoon Drama b03wpc05 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:45 Lady Curzon and a Pineapple b00cm6ww (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yqjtl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pftnf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012krr7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r8c9p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v7wkj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Motion Show b0075rmr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Electric Ink b01k9wdn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Turf Wars b00zm084 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b06fkm2w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbf7g (Listen) TUE Away to Neverland TUE A strange visitor transforms the Darling household one TUE bedtime. Stars Toyah Willcox, Ron Moody and June Whitfield. TUE TUE 06:30 Playing the Salesman b0076wzk (Listen) TUE Christopher Bigsby analyses the role of Willy Loman, the TUE central character in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. TUE Contributors include Dustin Hoffman, Warren Mitchell, Brian TUE Dennehy and Alun Armstrong, all of whom have played the TUE role. TUE TUE 07:00 Arrested Development b0075vs2 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Kate's cottage is in ruins, and dating is proving to be a TUE disaster. Stars Letitia Dean and Phil Cornwell. From June TUE 2000. TUE TUE 07:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06flmfv (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE The final episode of the first series of Edward Rowett's TUE sitcom - and things are looking up for Hardacre's. They may TUE still be London's worst ad agency, but business has begun to TUE trickle in. TUE Moreover, thanks to a herculean effort by accounts chief TUE Amanda Brook, the agency will be featured in an article in TUE industry bible Campaign. It's a chance to answer their TUE critics and take control of their image. A reporter is TUE coming by today to interview the team, and Amanda needs them TUE at their very best. Or - failing that - their least TUE incompetent. TUE But the team has other things on their mind. Like Joe's TUE divorce lawyer, who seems to have developed a sideline as a TUE blacksmith. Or their campaign for Hardacre's mysterious TUE gentlemen's club. Or why Teddy is covered in spiders. TUE Or what to do when the office lift breaks down, stranding TUE Joe, Teddy, Amanda, and Hardacre between floors, with the TUE woman from Campaign due any minute. TUE Starring Nigel Havers, Mathew Baynton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Rasmus Hardiker. 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 Director: Alan Nixon TUE Producer: Gordon Kennedy TUE Writer: Edward Rowett TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007k3n2 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE Kenneth Horne swashbuckles in part two of The Three TUE Musketeers, plus Julian and Sandy go cruising. With Betty TUE Marsden and Kenneth Williams. From February 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 Hello Cheeky b00fglth (Listen) TUE From 04/11/1979 TUE Puntastic sketches with Tim Brooke-Taylor, Barry Cryer, John TUE Junkin and special guest Terry Wogan. From November 1979. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06h87s3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Living with Mother b010ms1h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v8m2n (Listen) TUE The Man of Blood TUE Opposition mounts against the King, but is there enough TUE support to depose him? English Civil War drama starring TUE Nigel Anthony. TUE TUE 11:00 Mordecai Richler - Herr Bambinger b018sxnf (Listen) TUE A refugee proves to be an aggravating and judgemental man of TUE mystery. William Roberts reads Mordecai Richler's short TUE tale. TUE TUE 11:15 Tommies b05sst61 (Listen) TUE 4 May 1915 TUE by Nick Warburton TUE Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. TUE Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness TUE accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at TUE war, exactly 100 years ago. TUE Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and TUE his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the TUE British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense TUE machine, one which connects situations across the whole TUE theatre of the war, over four long years. TUE A day of rest behind the lines is not easy for Mickey Bliss TUE and his Signals colleagues. A time for not only parcels, a TUE haircut, a drink or two, and the sourcing of valuable TUE equipment but also bad temper. TUE Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE Credits TUE Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross TUE Commentator: Indira Varma TUE Pavan Jodha: Rudi Dharmalingam TUE Spiridon: Adrian Scarborough TUE Quartermaster: David Cann TUE Madame Robin: Elaine Claxton TUE Captain Paddon: Damian Lynch TUE Lieutenant Perrin: Matthew Watson TUE Sergeant Nixon: Mark Edel-Hunt TUE Celestine de Tullio: Pippa Nixon TUE Producer: David Hunter TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonathan Ruffle TUE Director: David Hunter TUE Writer: Nick Warburton TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007k3n2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Hello Cheeky b00fglth (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbf7g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Playing the Salesman b0076wzk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yqspp (Listen) TUE Virginia Woolf - Flush, Episode 2 TUE 2/5 Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett TUE Browning's devoted spaniel, Flush, is read by Jenny TUE Coverack. Flush has abandoned the memories of his early days TUE in the country, and is now Miss Barrett's constant companion TUE in her father's house in Wimpole Street. However, when his TUE beloved owner embarks on a very special correspondence, TUE Flush senses change is in the air. His fears are confirmed TUE with the arrival of a new visitor to the invalid's bedroom. TUE When Flush realises he longer occupies the most important TUE place in Miss Barrett's affections, he decides to make his TUE feelings about the usurper Mr Browning clear in the only way TUE he knows. TUE Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pfx02 (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and TUE Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a TUE national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an TUE obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. TUE To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and TUE mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and TUE often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part TUE series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we TUE know so well, and introducing us to the charms and TUE challenges of those that we don't. TUE Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales TUE themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely TUE with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of TUE these deceptively complex stories. TUE Oedipal struggle in Cinderella; oral fixation in Hansel and TUE Gretel; Little Red Riding Hood and attachment complex! TUE Writers, psychologists and therapists have read deeper TUE meanings into the Grimms' fairy tales. They have long been TUE the subject of Freudian and Jungian interpretations and TUE continue to be used by therapists and self-help authors TUE today. In today's seventh episode of the series, we put the TUE tales on the couch and discuss with psychoanalyst Susie TUE Orbach their primal capacity to take on the unreal form of a TUE dream. TUE Producer: Kevin Dawson TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012l1yb (Listen) TUE Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 7 TUE By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray TUE 7/10 TUE It's the moment the Truth Seekers have been waiting for. TUE Their spiritual guides from the planet Varna are about to TUE arrive. TUE Roger ... Jonathan Forbes TUE McCann ... Nathan Osgood TUE Elsie ... Barbara Barnes TUE Verena ... Alex Tregear TUE Sissy ... Susie Riddell TUE Bill ... Peter Polycarpou TUE Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw TUE Ken ... Simon Bubb TUE Peggy Elaine Claxton TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 14:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r8fl7 (Listen) TUE The Voice of the Young TUE The ecstatic 1956 review of John Osborne's kitchen-sink TUE drama Look Back in Anger. Read by Michael Sheen and David TUE Horovitch. TUE TUE 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v8m2n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00q3gjg (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic TUE generations against each other to find out which is the TUE funniest. TUE Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Adrian Walsh TUE are joined by Jack Whitehall, Sarah Kendall and Ronnie TUE Golden. TUE TUE 16:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007w3j9 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Jack is in for a birthday surprise, while a ladykiller woos TUE barmaid Mrs Drummond. Stars Michael Williams. From January TUE 1999. TUE TUE 17:00 Arrested Development b0075vs2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06flmfv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 The Scarifyers b01s0dfq (Listen) TUE The Horror of Loch Ness, Episode 2 TUE Professor Dunning's attempts to find the missing speed ace TUE unleash terrible dangers. Stars David Warner. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jn6n (Listen) TUE Series 2, Roy Hudd TUE The comedian and actor looks back on his showbusiness career TUE on stage, TV and radio, and the famous folk he worked with. TUE From September 2000. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007k3n2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Hello Cheeky b00fglth (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbf7g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Playing the Salesman b0076wzk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Mordecai Richler - Herr Bambinger b018sxnf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Tommies b05sst61 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Reluctant Persuaders b06flmfv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Twenty Players b06h97ts (Listen) TUE Archie McGillivray TUE Forgotten sporting heroes. Tony Gubba tells the story of the TUE world's greatest golfing balloonist. From May 1995. TUE TUE 22:45 Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows b00fl0jv (Listen) TUE Football TUE The incisive reporter focuses on the joys of lower league TUE soccer. Written by and starring Stephen Carlin. From TUE November 2008. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06jprlr (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Diane Morgan chats to Sam TUE Bain. TUE TUE 23:00 Delve Special b007jqcn (Listen) TUE Series 4, There's One Born Again Every Minute TUE Intrepid reporter David Lander investigates the Sincere TUE Repentist Church. Stars Stephen Fry and Harry Enfield. From TUE August 1987. TUE TUE 23:30 Ectoplasm b007wp38 (Listen) TUE The Affair of the Baddie's Niece TUE Lord Zimbabwe and Dr Lilac hit the Wild West to thwart an TUE evil Waffle Baron. With Dan Freedman and Nick Romero. From TUE July 2000. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 14 OCTOBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 The Scarifyers b01s0dfq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jn6n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbf7g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Playing the Salesman b0076wzk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yqspp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pfx02 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012l1yb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r8fl7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v8m2n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00q3gjg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007w3j9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Arrested Development b0075vs2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Reluctant Persuaders b06flmfv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrl0 (Listen) WED In the Mermaid's Lagoon WED The mischievous boy and the children arrive in Neverland. WED Stars Toyah Willcox, Ron Moody, Georgina Cates and Roy Hudd. WED WED 06:30 Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector WED b00x7fd3 (Listen) WED Playwright Arthur Miller taped Blues and spiritual songs of WED North Carolina's poor in 1941. With Christopher Bigsby. From WED February 2005. WED WED 07:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00sx2qt (Listen) WED Series 2, Things Can Only Get Better? WED In the last of the current series, physicist Brian Cox and WED comedian Robin Ince look at the notion of perfection and WED whether the latest advances in the biomedical sciences could WED ever lead us to the perfect body. What are the limitations WED of science, and can we visualise a future where we transcend WED the human form that evolution has led us to, and would we WED want to? WED Producer: Alexandra Feachem. WED WED 07:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06fn26p (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Sami Shah is an award-winning comedian and best-selling WED author, and one of Pakistan's most successful comedians. WED Yes, Pakistan has comedians. In A Beginner's Guide To WED Pakistan he has travelled to Birmingham - or, to give it its WED full name, the Islamic Republic of Birmingham - to give WED Radio 4 a quick guide to the country who have directly WED and/or indirectly provided the UK with 1.8% of its WED population: Pakistan. WED In this second episode he looks at Pakistan's social and WED cultural history, from its music and cinema, to its WED increasing religious conservatism as the nature of Islam in WED the country has changed through the years, all the way to WED the best brewery in Pakistan. Alright, the only brewery in WED Pakistan. WED Written and performed by ... Sami Shah WED The Voice of the Guide ... Anita Anand WED Producer ... Ed Morrish WED A Beginner's Guide To Pakistan is a BBC Radio Comedy WED production. WED WED 08:00 The TV Lark b019f7nb (Listen) WED Opening Night WED Troutbridge TV's new deputy controller, Henry Povey, soon WED spots some familiar faces. Navy Lark spin-off stars Leslie WED Phillips. From January 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00dr9bb (Listen) WED Series 6, Macbeth WED Worries over Bill Oddie's singing voice and Shakespeare's WED funny side. Songs and sketches with John Cleese. From June WED 1968. WED WED 09:00 Puzzle Panel b00yyfmh (Listen) WED Episode 9 WED More fiendish brain teasers with Chris Maslanka, Tony Buzan, WED David Singmaster and Robert Eastway. From July 1998. WED WED 09:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076hy9 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED The 'unreliable' historical account of Anne Boleyn's WED mother's impact on the court of Henry. Stars Diane Fletcher. WED From November 20036. WED WED 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v8rwc (Listen) WED England's New Chains WED Will the execution of King Charles I bring the army its WED longed-for freedom? English Civil War drama with Christian WED Rodska. WED WED 11:00 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fnmw7 (Listen) WED Fame WED Martin Jarvis directs acclaimed actor Alfred Molina in WED Miller's witty story on the nature of celebrity. Meyer WED Berkowitz has two hit plays running on Broadway. WED Suddenly he's a star. And rich. People approach him in the WED street. Cabbies yell and wave at him. His photo is on the WED front cover of magazines. Barmen ply him with drinks on the WED house. But fame can be tiresome. Especially when you are WED accosted by an old high school friend. WED Though anonymity can be oddly unwelcome too. WED Playwright Miller's forensic examination of the dual aspects WED of stardom makes compelling points about human nature and WED the ego. WED Reader: Alfred Molina WED Director: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:15 Tommies b05tkvkb (Listen) WED 11 May 1915 WED by Jonathan Ruffle. WED Series created by Jonathan Ruffle WED Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness WED accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at WED war, exactly 100 years ago. WED Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and WED his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the WED British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense WED machine, one which connects situations across the whole WED theatre of the war, over four long years. WED Indira Varma, Danny Rahim and Avin Shah star in this story, WED as signaller Ahmadullah Khan is posted from the immoveable WED wall of the Western Front, to join the very start of the WED Gallipoli campaign, where the Allies will attempt to dash WED round the back of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and win the WED war from the south. But there's a steep hill to climb from WED Gully Beach to victory - and not all the British forces want WED to climb it. WED Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: Jonquil Panting. WED Credits WED Ahmadullah Khan: Danny Rahim WED Commentator: Indira Varma WED Zarbab Grewal: Avin Shah WED Sidney Mauldon: Nicholas Murchie WED Lieutenant Haston: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Natha Singh: Parth Thakerar WED Copplestone: Neet Mohan WED Washbrook: Deven Modha WED Producer: David Hunter WED Producer: Jonquil Panting WED Producer: Jonathan Ruffle WED Director: Jonquil Panting WED Writer: Nick Warburton WED WED 12:00 The TV Lark b019f7nb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00dr9bb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrl0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector WED b00x7fd3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yqvk8 (Listen) WED Virginia Woolf - Flush, Episode 3 WED 3/5 Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett WED Browning's devoted spaniel, Flush, is read by Jenny WED Coverack. Miss Browning's constant companion Flush has been WED stolen by a gang of dog snatchers who hold their canine WED victims to ransom - and exact a fearful retribution if the WED price is not paid. Flush finds himself imprisoned in WED dreadful conditions in Whitechapel, while Miss Barrett WED becomes increasingly anxious in Wimpole Street. When her WED father tries to prevent her securing Flush's return, and WED even dear Mr Browning advises her against giving in to WED blackmail, she leaves her sickroom and takes matters into WED her own hands. WED Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. WED WED 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pg3r3 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and WED Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a WED national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an WED obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. WED To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and WED mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and WED often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part WED series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we WED know so well, and introducing us to the charms and WED challenges of those that we don't. WED Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales WED themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely WED with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of WED these deceptively complex stories. WED By exposing the role of fairy tales in the cultural struggle WED over gender, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and WED sparked a debate that would change the way society thinks WED about the stories and the words "happily ever after". In the WED eighth episode, we speak to writer Helen Simpson about the WED presentation of the tales' female characters, and how their WED impact and influence still resonates today. WED Producer: Kevin Dawson WED A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012l4nd (Listen) WED Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 8 WED By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray WED 8/10 WED Things have taken a bizarre turn, as sociologist Tom McCann WED has claimed he has been possessed by the spirit of the alien WED guru, Ro of Varna, WED Roger ... Jonathan Forbes WED McCann ... Nathan Osgood WED Elsie ... Barbara Barnes WED Verena ... Alex Tregear WED Bob/Ken... Simon Bubb WED Cop ... Alun Raglan WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 14:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r8jgw (Listen) WED Dodging the Ban WED The critic's passionate campaign against stage censorship WED was fearless and funny. Read by Michael Sheen and David WED Horovitch. WED WED 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v8rwc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Puzzle Panel b00yyfmh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076hy9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00sx2qt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06fn26p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 The Scarifyers b01s4f4m (Listen) WED The Horror of Loch Ness, Episode 3 WED Professor Dunning must face a prehistoric jungle, while WED Crowley discovers further basement terrors. Stars David WED Warner. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076tj9 (Listen) WED The Book By Its Cover WED Matthew Parris wonders why we care about what we wear. With WED Robert Elms, James Delingpole and Joolz Denby. From WED September 2005. WED WED 19:00 The TV Lark b019f7nb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00dr9bb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrl0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector WED b00x7fd3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fnmw7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Tommies b05tkvkb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06fn26p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Bird Island b01jxslg (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED On one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antartica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED EPISDE TWO: WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non audience comedy. WED Ben and Graham are short on food supplies and can't radio WED main base. Tensions rise as they are forced to survive on WED porridge. WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED Credits WED Ben: Reece Shearsmith WED Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED D'Angelo: Jot Davies WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Katy Wix WED WED 22:45 Before They Were Famous b01m179h (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Ian Leslie presents the comedy show which brings to light WED the often surprising first literary attempts of some of the WED world's best known writers. WED A project of literary archaeology, Leslie has found evidence WED in the most unlikely of places - within the archives of WED newspapers, periodicals, corporations and universities - WED showcasing the early examples of work by writers such as WED Jilly Cooper during her brief and unfortunately unsuccessful WED foray into the world of war reporting, and Hunter S Thompson WED in his sadly short-lived phase working in the customer WED relations department for a major American Airline. WED These are the newspaper articles, advertising copy, company WED correspondence and gardening manuals that allow us a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best loved literary voices - people we know today for their WED novels or poems but who, at the time, were just people with WED a dream...and a rent bill looming at the end of the month. WED Produced by Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06jpt06 (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Diane Morgan chats to Sam WED Bain. WED WED 23:00 The History Plays b01cw5p1 (Listen) WED Maggie Heart Galtieri WED The History Play: Maggie Heart Galtieri WED Maggie Watkins (Josie Lawrence) finds a young Argentinean WED soldier, Christian Galtieri (Javier Marzan), in her kitchen, WED wounded and in need of shelter. As she slowly learns why he WED is in hiding the pair fall in love, but as their WED relationship grows the Task Force lands and it becomes WED harder and harder to ignore the larger forces at play around WED them. WED This is the third of Nigel Smith's series The History Plays, WED five two hander plays set at turning points in the history WED of the last five decades. WED Written and directed by Nigel Smith WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:30 Weak at the Top b00rs8gz (Listen) WED Series 1, Knowing Your Unions WED John Weak discovers nothing is legally binding about a WED legally binding contract. Stars Alexander Armstrong. From WED September 2005. WED WED THU THURSDAY 15 OCTOBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 The Scarifyers b01s4f4m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076tj9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrl0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Arthur Miller: The Accidental Music Collector THU b00x7fd3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yqvk8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pg3r3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012l4nd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r8jgw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00v8rwc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Puzzle Panel b00yyfmh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076hy9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00sx2qt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 A Beginner's Guide to Pakistan b06fn26p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrzy (Listen) THU An Awfully Big Adventure THU Captain Hook turns the tables, as the battle between the THU Lost Boys and the Pirates begins. THU Starring Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan, Ron Moody as Mr Darling THU / Hook, Georgina Cates as Wendy, Roy Hudd as Smee and Chris THU Emmett as Starkey. THU Dramatist: Philip Glassborow THU Producer: Dirk Maggs THU First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. THU THU 06:30 What's in Your Head b00jnkdx (Listen) THU Under pressure, when we are on our own, many of us hear the THU words or songs we learnt by heart as a child. This programme THU features people discussing how these songs have helped them THU in situations of extreme pressure and danger. THU Heidi Vincent is a secondary school teacher in Devon whose THU son Theo was born prematurely at 23 weeks. She describes her THU four months of waiting in intensive care as being 'like in THU some kind of shifted reality'. THU Ghias Aljundi was a political prisoner of conscience who was THU tortured and held in a Syrian prison cell for four years THU without charge. He was comforted by a poem he had memorised THU called My Mother. THU Peter Shaw from south Wales was kidnapped while working in THU Georgia and held underground for four months. He found that THU music and songs which he had learned from his father helped THU him. THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b017x4fn (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the THU residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Jan has Helen THU back at home, but is it what she really wants? THU written by Katherine Jakeways THU produced by Victoria Lloyd THU John Biggins............Keith THU Mackenzie Crook.........Rod THU Kevin Eldon.........Jonathan / Ken THU Shelia Hancock........... Narrator THU Jessica Henwick.............Helen THU Katherine Jakeways.... Esther / Jacqui THU Felicity Montagu..............Jan THU Geoffrey Palmer..........Norman THU Lizzie Roper............Angela THU Penelope Wilton............Mary THU Rufus Wright..............Frank. THU THU 07:30 The Brig Society b06fnkdj (Listen) THU Series 3, The Housing Crisis THU In this nicely-furnished affordable programme with very THU attractive views, Marcus Brigstocke decides to solve the THU housing crisis. He'll also be building a basement under the THU studio and knocking down a party wall he shares with The THU Archers. THU With him on the show are stay-at-home twenty-somethings THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), William Andrews ("Sorry THU I've Got No Head") and Tom Crowley, all of whom should THU really have fled the nest by now. 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: Tom Crowley 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 b007jlnf (Listen) THU Series 3, TB or Not TB THU Sixty years of smoking takes its toll on Albert Steptoe. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Jo Manning Wilson as the Receptionist. 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 April 1971. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0081s3d (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Can crooked lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel free his jailed THU assistant Ravelli? 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, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello. 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 May 1991. THU THU 09:00 Genius b008h5bx (Listen) THU Series 2, Carol Vorderman THU Dave Gorman and Carol Vorderman discuss ridiculous, THU brilliant but unworkable ideas, and choose the best. From THU September 2006. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007jntb (Listen) THU Series 6, Make My Day THU It's a big day for Anna's new partner Stuart at his gallery, THU but will her sisters ruin it? Stars Rosemary Leach. From THU July 1999. THU Credits THU Actor: Ann Jobson THU THU 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00vc9ps (Listen) THU The Sea Green Banner THU In 1649, the soldiers' discontent with their leaders rises, THU and London women get marching. English Civil War drama with THU Eric Allen. THU THU 11:00 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fnmx6 (Listen) THU Please Don't Kill Anything THU Acclaimed actor Alfred Molina performs Arthur Miller's THU affecting 'Monroe' story. It has an especial extra resonance THU as it seems the nearest Miller came to characterising THU Marilyn Monroe within a short story. The sweet, dedicated THU girl-wife - and he, the loving older husband - still at the THU beginning of what could be a perfect, idyllic partnership. THU A married couple watch fishermen on a beach at sundown THU unloading their latest catch. She worries over the ones that THU will die needlessly, unacceptable to the fishermen but not THU returned to the sea. She tries to throw some of them back. THU The husband, amused, patiently indulges her childlike THU obsession. THU The generosity of spirit and understanding between the two THU is movingly conveyed and seems to echo aspects of Miller's THU own relationship with Monroe. Written in 1960, its sense of THU contentment and celebration contrasts notably with what we THU know was to happen between them soon afterwards. He doesn't THU foresee the tragedies to come... Or does he? THU Reader: Alfred Molina THU Director: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres Productions for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:15 Tommies b05v7tjm (Listen) THU 18 May 1915 THU by Michael Chaplin. Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. THU Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness THU accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at THU war, exactly 100 years ago. THU We are now in 1915 and continuing to follow the fortunes of THU Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore THU Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an THU immense machine, one which connects situations across the THU whole theatre of the war, over four long years. THU Indira Varma, Pippa Nixon and Parth Thakerar star in this THU story, set on the Eastern Front where the Russian army has THU been routed at Gorlice. The Russians are retreating, but the THU renegade Prince Balashov is determined to wrench some kind THU of victory from defeat. British surgeon Celestine de Tullio THU has found enough new purpose in War, to play a part in this THU plan. THU Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: Nandita Ghose. THU Credits THU Celestine De Tullio: Pippa Nixon THU Marjorie Blaikeley: Elaine Claxton THU Commentator: Indira Varma THU Prince Balashov: Parth Thakerar THU Capt Maxim Frunze: Matthew Watson THU Kolya Stepniak: David Cann THU Mamasha: Jane Slavin THU Reissner: Damian Lynch THU Nikolai: Michael Bertenshaw THU Producer: David Hunter THU Producer: Jonquil Panting THU Producer: Jonathan Ruffle THU Director: Jonquil Panting THU Writer: Michael Chaplin THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlnf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0081s3d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrzy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 What's in Your Head b00jnkdx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yrfwp (Listen) THU Virginia Woolf - Flush, Episode 4 THU 4/5 Virginia Woolf's lighthearted biography of poet THU Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, Flush, is read by THU Jenny Coverack.Flush's life changes dramatically as his THU mistress and her new husband leave Wimpole Street behind THU them and travel to Italy. As the Brownings begin their THU married life in Florence, Flush too finds a new lease of THU life amid the rich sensations and smells of the Florentine THU alleys and fields. Once again, however, a new arrival THU threatens to disturb the enjoyable routine. THU Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. THU THU 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pgh23 (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and THU Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a THU national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an THU obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. THU To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and THU mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and THU often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part THU series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we THU know so well, and introducing us to the charms and THU challenges of those that we don't. THU Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales THU themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely THU with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of THU these deceptively complex stories. THU In the ninth episode, we break the silence on the tales' THU history of censorship. Throughout their lifetime the THU collection's innocent veneer has had its blood, violence, THU and sexual overtones softened or removed altogether by THU successive editors, each reacting to the particular THU sensitivities of the day, and even to the Grimms themselves. THU Even so the stories have found as many champions as censors, THU most notably J.R.R. Tolkien in his defence of The Juniper THU Tree's brutal depiction of murder. Why is it that although THU the details that prove controversial have changed over time THU - each one a telling insight into the temperament of a THU society - the tales' fundamental power to shock remains THU unchanged? THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012lkkb (Listen) THU Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 9 THU By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray THU 9/10 THU Following an argument during which a shot was fired, Tom THU McCann and his fellow Truth Seekers have come to the THU attention of the local police. THU Roger ... Jonathan Forbes THU McCann ... Nathan Osgood THU Elsie ... Barbara Barnes THU Verena ... Alex Tregear THU Bob/Ken... Simon Bubb THU Bill/Cop ... Peter Polycarpou THU Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw THU Cop ... Alun Raglan THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 14:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r92l8 (Listen) THU A Verbal Wizard THU Reviews for The Entertainer, A Taste of Honey and heralding THU Harold Pinter. Read by Michael Sheen and David Horovitch. THU THU 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00vc9ps (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b008h5bx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007jntb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b017x4fn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 The Brig Society b06fnkdj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 The Scarifyers b01s7w2b (Listen) THU The Horror of Loch Ness, Episode 4 THU Can Harry Crow defeat the devilish locals? Can Professor THU Dunning escape the time trap? Stars David Warner. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076rpv (Listen) THU Series 7, John D Rockefeller THU 4 Extra Debut. Financier and arts leader Martin Smith THU chooses American business tycoon, John D Rockerfeller. With THU Francine Stock. From May 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlnf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0081s3d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrzy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 What's in Your Head b00jnkdx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fnmx6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Tommies b05v7tjm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 The Brig Society b06fnkdj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b06hj04z (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 6 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 THU 23:00 We Are Klang: Amazing Lives b007k3p8 (Listen) THU Explorer THU Presumed dead after a 20-year trek, two explorers reveal THU their findings. Stars Greg Davies and Steve Hall. From April THU 2007. THU THU 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture b007jv1g (Listen) THU Series 1, Oliver Cromwell THU Oliver Cromwell: The soldier statesman kicks off the radical THU comic's profile of key English historical figures. From THU September 1999. Episode 1 of 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 16 OCTOBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 The Scarifyers b01s7w2b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076rpv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sbrzy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 What's in Your Head b00jnkdx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yrfwp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pgh23 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b012lkkb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r92l8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00vc9ps (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b008h5bx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007jntb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b017x4fn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Brig Society b06fnkdj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sct9q (Listen) FRI Spring Cleaning Time Again FRI Wendy longs for home, but first she and the brothers must be FRI rescued from Captain Hook. FRI Starring Toyah Willcox as Peter Pan, Ron Moody as Mr Darling FRI / Hook, June Whitfield as Mrs Darling, Georgina Cates as FRI Wendy, Roy Hudd as Smee and Chris Emmett as Starkey. FRI Dramatist: Philip Glassborow FRI Producer: Dirk Maggs FRI First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. FRI FRI 06:30 Merry Widows b00mb9pk (Listen) FRI Women whose much-loved husbands have died describe finding FRI unexpected happiness late in life, and the challenge of FRI creating a new identity. Restarting a life when one suddenly FRI finds oneself alone, having been married for decades, and FRI for all of one's adult life, is never easy. There are FRI contributions from women who had never lived on their own: FRI people who married early, and happily, and stayed married. FRI But then comes the blow of their husbands' death; they FRI explain what happened next - and it surprised everyone FRI A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 The Change b0076p3r (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI A visit to the doctor sparks a bombshell for the FRI not-so-happy mother-to-be. FRI Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as FRI George, Maureen Beattie as Maureen and James Vaughan as Ken. FRI Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to FRI smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol FRI is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers FRI can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. FRI Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. FRI Producer: Elizabeth Freestone FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. FRI FRI 07:30 Shedtown b01ppn91 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Shed Report FRI Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some FRI time or other? Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching FRI oneself out of a long established orbit to head for the deep FRI space of the unknown? FRI In series two of Shedtown, our wooden icon of escape and FRI isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol of FRI possibility and change. Our Sheddists arrived and survived - FRI and, now waking from a beach-baked slumber, the familiar FRI residents find faces old and new on the sand. FRI Episode 1: FRI Deborah Dearden arrives back at the beach. Not such a FRI stranger - yet stranger still. FRI Barry............................Tony Pitts FRI Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan FRI Eleanor..................Ronni Ancona FRI Colin........................Johnny Vegas FRI Deborah.....................Emma Fryer FRI William..................Adrian Manfredi FRI Diane....................Rosina Carbone FRI Dave......................Shaun Dooley FRI Father Michael........James Quinn FRI Wes......................Warren Brown FRI Nell...........................Eleanor Samson FRI Narrator.................Maxine Peake FRI Music....................Paul Heaton and Jonny Lexus FRI Written and Directed by Tony Pitts FRI Produced by Sally Harrison FRI A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jnqr (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Americans Hit Town FRI Visiting servicemen get Griselda excited and Sid all keen to FRI rent out the lad's rooms. 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 March 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b00qyqd7 (Listen) FRI The Man Who Won the War (Seagoon MCC) FRI How Neddie 'invented' the barrage balloon and other wartime FRI (mis)adventures. Stars Spike Milligan. From September 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b00yyc89 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Durham FRI Coming this week from Durham University, host Steve Punt FRI asks Earth Scientists about Philip Larkin, and English FRI Literature professors about Fish from Marillion. So if FRI you're struggling to remember what happened to Solomon FRI Grundy on Saturday, why the witches in Macbeth speak in FRI trochees not iambs and which footballer was sent off during FRI the 2006 World Cup Final for nutting his opponent - this is FRI the quiz show for you. FRI "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz FRI show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 FRI listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded FRI on location at a different University each week, and it pits FRI three Undergraduates against three of their Professors. FRI Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most FRI stringent standards of academic rigour - but with lots of FRI facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. FRI Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union FRI buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities FRI across the UK. FRI The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General FRI Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the FRI 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not FRI only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, FRI languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness FRI of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the FRI Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their FRI Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, FRI and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both FRI sides... FRI The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit FRI surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly FRI rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more FRI than just glanced at that reading list... FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b007js8c (Listen) FRI Series 1, Looking for a Job FRI Single dad Bryan needs a job, but can he find an employer FRI who'll let him bring his young son Albert along? FRI Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as FRI Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Terence Alexander as FRI Rex and Madeline Smith as Stephanie. FRI Written by Jim Eldridge. FRI Producer: John Fawcett Wilson FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977. FRI FRI 10:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00vcwhw (Listen) FRI For the Agreement of the Sword FRI 1649, and Cromwell is determined to foil the soldiers' FRI rebellion. English Civil War drama with Bernard Hepton and FRI Graham Blockey. FRI FRI 11:00 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fhjlr (Listen) FRI Beavers FRI Directed by Martin Jarvis, award-winning American actor FRI Hector Elizondo reads Miller's canny tale of a man trying to FRI rid his pond of beavers. At first he's baffled by their FRI behaviour. Miller uses the idea to examine the mystery of FRI knowing (and perhaps understanding) another creature's FRI motives. Perplexed, the man considers this enigma. FRI The conventional analysis is that beaver dam building has, FRI as its purpose, the blocking of a small stream with a dam, FRI in order to create a pond in which the beaver can build its FRI lodge and raise its family, safe from predators. FRI But this fellow already has a deep pond in which to build FRI its lodge. Indeed, it has already built one. So why does it FRI need to stuff the overflow pipe, and thereby raise the pond FRI level?Why is the beaver creating a pond where a perfect one FRI already exists? Soon the man feels himself weakening before FRI such absolute dedication. FRI He comes to a surprising conclusion which forces him to FRI admire the beavers' complexity, to respect their FRI intelligence - compared to his own doubting nature, his FRI fractured convictions. FRI Producer: Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:15 Tommies b05vx1bv (Listen) FRI 25 May 1915 FRI by Michael Chaplin FRI Series created by Jonathan Ruffle. FRI Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness FRI accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at FRI war, exactly 100 years ago. FRI Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and FRI his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the FRI British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense FRI machine, one which connects situations across the whole FRI theatre of the war, over four long years. FRI Today Mickey Bliss is in London, taking time out from FRI signals training at Aldershot to look up an old friend who FRI might finance his much-needed overhearing device. But he FRI also encounters someone much closer. FRI Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle FRI Director: David Hunter. FRI Credits FRI Mickey Bliss: Lee Ross FRI Robert de Tullio: Patrick Kennedy FRI Commentator: Indira Varma FRI Evadne Hopkins: Clare Corbett FRI Amos Purkiss: Carl Prekopp FRI Bonamy Lidderdale: Clive Hayward FRI Minister: David Cann FRI General Antrobus: Robert Blythe FRI Hermione: Eleanor Howell FRI Producer: David Hunter FRI Producer: Jonquil Panting FRI Producer: Jonathan Ruffle FRI Director: David Hunter FRI Writer: Michael Chaplin FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jnqr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b00qyqd7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sct9q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Merry Widows b00mb9pk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yrgzc (Listen) FRI Virginia Woolf - Flush, Episode 5 FRI 5/5 Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett FRI Browning's beloved spaniel, Flush, is read by Jenny FRI Coverack. FRI The Brownings have settled happily in Florence, their little FRI boy is growing up, and Flush is growing old. He can't FRI understand his mistress's new enthusiasm for summoning the FRI spirits, and he's lost his old passion for roaming the FRI streets and fields of Florence. It's time for him to lie in FRI the shade of a market stall and remember the good times he's FRI lived through. FRI Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 14:15 Grimm Thoughts b01pgll1 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI When the Grimm brothers first published their Children's and FRI Household Tales in 1812, in a scholarly effort to collate a FRI national identity of the people, it was the beginning of an FRI obsessive project of two intricately interwoven lifetimes. FRI To mark the bicentenary of the first edition, writer and FRI mythographer Marina Warner explores the many compelling and FRI often controversial aspects of the tales in a 10-part FRI series, revealing new insights into the stories we think we FRI know so well, and introducing us to the charms and FRI challenges of those that we don't. FRI Alongside beautifully narrated extracts from the tales FRI themselves, renowned academics and artists who work closely FRI with the Grimm's rich heritage add to our understanding of FRI these deceptively complex stories. FRI In the final episode, with fairy tales enjoying a FRI renaissance across film and literature, we look to the FRI future of these tales that have haunted our past and the FRI fundamental appeal of storytelling. FRI Considering Hansel and Gretel, a universal story of the joys FRI and dangers of youth and innocence, we speak to playwright FRI Lucy Kirkwood about her brand new National Theatre FRI adaptation of the tale, and explore what the many FRI contemporary takes on the Grimms' legacy might tell us about FRI the modern world. FRI Producer: Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b012llrv (Listen) FRI Alison Lurie - Imaginary Friends, Episode 10 FRI By Alison Lurie. Dramatised by Melissa Murray FRI 10/10 FRI Roger, on his way to visit Tom McCann in hospital, has FRI stopped off to visit Elsie, where he has heard some terrible FRI news. FRI Roger ... Jonathan Forbes FRI McCann ... Nathan Osgood FRI Elsie ... Barbara Barnes FRI Mrs Munger ... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Nurse ... Elaine Claxton FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 14:45 Kenneth Tynan - Theatre Writings b00r9y0y (Listen) FRI An Open Letter FRI The critic's surprisingly negative 1962 review about his FRI idol Laurence Olivier. Read by Michael Sheen and David FRI Horovitch. FRI FRI 15:00 Don Taylor - God's Revolution b00vcwhw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b00yyc89 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b007js8c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 The Change b0076p3r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Shedtown b01ppn91 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Kurt Vonnegut - Thanasphere b007jqzb (Listen) FRI A pioneering astronaut hears voices in outer space. Kurt FRI Vonnegut reflects on mortality and the Cold War. Read by FRI Kerry Shale. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00763hf (Listen) FRI Series 2, In the Mood FRI 4 Extra Debut. Critic Alyn Shipton and Glenn Miller's FRI trombonist Paul Tanner reflect on the impact of the FRI jitterbug super hit. From August 2001. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jnqr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b00qyqd7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 JM Barrie - Peter Pan b00sct9q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Merry Widows b00mb9pk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Arthur Miller Short Stories b01fhjlr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Tommies b05vx1bv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Shedtown b01ppn91 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b06hjhyc (Listen) FRI 2015, Heat seven FRI The next heat in comedy's most prestigious new talent FRI competition from Birmingham's famous Glee Club. FRI Our host Justin Moorhouse presents some of the best new FRI comedians from across the UK. FRI Judges for this heat are comedian Isy Suttie, BBC Comedy FRI Producer Sam Bryant and editor of comedy website Chortle, FRI Steve Bennett. FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner and Kerry McCarthy. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2015. FRI FRI 23:30 The Skivers b00j5l87 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Nightclubbing in London, courtesy of Peter Stringfellow. FRI Sketch show with Nick Golsen and Tim de Jongh. From January FRI 1997. FRI
09 October, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 10/10/2015 - 16/10/2015
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