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SAT SATURDAY 07 NOVEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 The Man in Black b00zd7gz (Listen) SAT Series 3, Perfect Home SAT Mark Gatiss introduces Nick Warburton's chilling tale of a SAT couple's late-night meeting on a dark city street. Stars SAT Toby Jones. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00763t6 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Zadok SAT Simon Halsey, Mary Davies and the Duke of Devonshire reflect SAT on the impact of Handel's Zadok the Priest. From September SAT 2001. SAT SAT 01:00 Charles Paris: Cast, in Order of Disappearance SAT b007jvhq (Listen) SAT Slapstick Scene SAT Marius Steen has been found dead. His lover Jacqui Mitchell SAT suspects foul play and now that a new will has been found SAT made in her favour, Charles Paris begins to believe her. SAT Movie making becomes a horror story. SAT Assuming a variety of roles, the lothario thespian employs SAT his skills to try and solve a murder. Set during the UK's SAT winter fuel crisis of 1973. SAT Stars Francis Matthews as Charles Paris and Fiona Hendley as SAT Jacqui Mitchell, Harry Fowler as Jean-Luc Roussel, Richard SAT Morant as Nigel Steen and Jeremy Child as Gerald Venables. SAT Adapted by Simon Brett from his book SAT Producer: Martin Fisher SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1984. SAT SAT 01:30 Gormley on Epstein b00n86t3 (Listen) SAT Artist Jacob Epstein attracted criticism during his SAT turbulent career - his work was seen as too graphic or hard SAT hitting, too 'ugly' or 'distorted', even 'cannibal'. After SAT his death, the younger sculptor Henry Moore paid tribute to SAT his courage as a pioneering artist who bore the brunt of SAT critical derision, but even today, Epstein has never been SAT properly celebrated for his work at the vanguard of British SAT art. SAT In this programme, which marks the 50th anniversary of SAT Epstein's death, contemporary artist Antony Gormley SAT redresses the balance, to show Epstein's vital position in SAT art. SAT SAT 02:00 Afternoon Reading b00mp4fj (Listen) SAT Agatha Christie - The Mysterious Mr Quin, At the Bells and SAT Motley SAT Martin Jarvis reads another story concerning investigations SAT by the mysterious Mr Quin. For Mr Satterthwaite, a punctured SAT car tyre on a cold winter's evening is the start of another SAT mystery-solving encounter with the enigmatic Mr Harley Quin. SAT Taking refuge at a country inn Mr Satterthwaite discovers SAT his friend Mr Quin, who invites him to re-examine the SAT strange case of a wealthy young local woman and her new SAT husband's disappearance. Was it murder? Or is there some SAT other game afoot? SAT Producer/Director : Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rlsvg (Listen) SAT Restraint SAT Restraint: Episode fifteen of a thirty-part series made in SAT collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. SAT The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought a new SAT emphasis on self-discipline in every day life - and with it SAT a revulsion against noise of every kind. City authorities SAT banned singing and feasting from public squares and tore SAT down maypoles, while town-dwellers raised petitions against SAT noisy neighbours. Spitting, snorting and breaking wind - SAT once part of everyday life - were now a cause for wrinkled SAT noses and dismay. Professor David Hendy of the University of SAT Sussex cocks a genteel ear to the polite sound-world of the SAT sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. SAT Series producer: Matt Thompson SAT A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b013gcn9 (Listen) SAT Village SOS, Episode 5 SAT By Val McDermid. SAT DCI Bettany fears she's no closer to finding Colin Arnott's SAT murderer. Colin's plans to convert a United Reformed chapel SAT into a performing arts centre made him enemies in the SAT village. Bettany hopes that spending a night in the village SAT pub will bring her closer to the killer. SAT Val McDermid is a multi-award winning crime writer, and SAT creator of TV's Wire in the Blood, which stars Robson Green. SAT Set in Shilwick, Village SOS is a fictional version of the SAT BBC One series of the same name. SAT DCI Marion Bettany ..... Helen Baxendale SAT DS John Hodgson ..... David Seddon SAT Peter Robson ..... Shaun Prendergast SAT Kai Ling Arnott ..... Liz Sutherland SAT Pamela McIntosh ..... Elaine Claxton SAT Tom Briggs ..... Christian Rodska SAT Producer / Director ..... Fiona Kelcher SAT www.bbc.co.uk/villagesos. SAT SAT 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00kd1q9 (Listen) SAT Colm Toibin - Brooklyn, Torn in Two SAT Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a SAT girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life SAT in New York in the 1950s. SAT Home for a holiday and to comfort her grieving mother, Eilis SAT has been unable to resist the lure of the familiar. SAT Meanwhile, Tony waits for her in Brooklyn. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b01gf4lq (Listen) SAT Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Episode 1 SAT Dramatised by Archie Scottney SAT Joyous all-star spring fever, led by Alfred Molina, Patricia SAT Hodge, Jared Harris, Martin Jarvis and Rufus Sewell. A SAT pig-napping romantic thriller! PGW's dialogue dances across SAT the Blandings Castle lawns. Charming Earl of Ickenham (Uncle SAT Fred) has received a plea from affably dotty Lord Emsworth SAT to help foil a plot to steal his prize-winning pig. And to SAT examine the sanity of eccentric Duke of Dunstable. SAT Delighting in such entertainment, Uncle Fred arrives at SAT Blandings in the guise of "brain specialist" Glossop, with SAT nephew Pongo posing as his secretary. Lively Polly Pott is SAT the third imposter, secretly engaged to Dunstable's nephew SAT Ricky and hoping to charm her prospective uncle-in-law. SAT Emsworth's devious secretary Rupert Baxter (Jared Harris) SAT spots them but can't call their bluff for fear of blackmail. SAT Emsworth's sister Connie suspects they are jewel thieves. SAT Bosham, Emsworth's son, thinks all is above board. But then SAT Polly's detective Dad is called in. Will the pig-napping SAT happen? SAT Cast: SAT Uncle Fred ..... Alfred Molina SAT Lady Constance ..... Patricia Hodge SAT The Duke of Dunstable ..... Christopher Neame SAT Rupert Baxter ..... Jared Harris SAT Ricky Gilpin ..... Rufus Sewell SAT Horace Davenport ..... Lloyd Owen SAT Mustard Pott ..... Julian Holloway SAT Polly Pott ..... Sophie Winkleman SAT Lord Emsworth ..... Martin Jarvis SAT P.G. Wodehouse ..... Ian Ogilvy SAT Lord Bosham ..... Simon Templeman SAT Pongo Twistleton ..... Matthew Wolf SAT Beach ..... Kenneth Danziger SAT Valerie Twistleton ..... Moira Quirk SAT Webster/Footmen ..... Darren Richardson SAT Singing Gardener ..... Mark Holden SAT Director: Martin Jarvis SAT Producer: Rosalind Ayres SAT A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b00zlfhf (Listen) SAT Series 1, Salford SAT Coming this week from the University of Salford, host Steve SAT Punt puts the questions to lecturers and students alike. So SAT if you'd like to hear a Military Historian humming Beatles SAT songs, a Senior Lecturer in Criminology trying to identify SAT Rihanna, or students trying to list types of fruit that SAT begin with the letter 'P', then this is the quiz show for SAT you. Plus the only time in recording history that the word SAT "pebble" has earned a massive cheer. 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. 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 b007jsgr (Listen) SAT Series 1, Mind That Baby SAT Single dad Bryan gets wrapped in red tape at the benefits SAT office. SAT Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as SAT Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Dilys Laye as the SAT Welfare Lady/Mrs Featherstone-Haugh. 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 b0076pdx (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 6 SAT Tensions mount as Carol approaches full term and she and SAT George appear on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. SAT Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as SAT George, Maureen Beattie as Maureen, Marcia Warren as Violet, SAT Emma Kennedy as Sonia and Jenni Murray as herself. 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 December 2004. SAT SAT 05:30 Shedtown b01q977h (Listen) SAT Series 2, Death in the Afternoon SAT In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of SAT escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol SAT of possibility and change. SAT Episode 4: Death in the Afternoon SAT Shedtown Mark II rings its own death knell to the tune of SAT Deborah Dearden's meticulously planned merry-go-round and SAT Jimmy asks where hearts lie. SAT Barry............................Tony Pitts SAT Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan SAT Eleanor..............Ronni Ancona SAT Colin...............Johnny Vegas SAT Deborah........................Emma Fryer SAT William..............Adrian Manfredi SAT Diane..............Rosina Carbone SAT Dave...............Shaun Dooley SAT Father Michael.........James Quinn SAT Wes.............Warren Brown SAT Protestor...........Sian Breckin SAT Nell..............................Eleanor Samson SAT The Wesleyans............Isabelle Sykes & Dorothy Collins SAT Narrator............Maxine Peake SAT Music........Paul Heaton & Jonny Lexus SAT Written and Directed by Tony Pitts SAT Produced by Sally Harrison SAT A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 Miss Marple b007jvjj (Listen) SAT The Moving Finger SAT The sleepy little market town of Lymstock harbours more than SAT its share of shameful secrets. A town where even a sudden SAT outbreak of anonymous hate-mail causes only a minor stir. SAT But all of that changes when one of the recipients SAT tragically commits suicide. SAT Miss Marple's knowledge of wickedness and her nose for evil SAT are desperately needed. Can she manage to prevent another SAT suicide - or even, murder...? SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss SAT Marple. With Nicholas Boulton as Jerry Burton, Clare Corbett SAT as Joanna Burton, Patricia Scott as Mrs Calthrop, Annabelle SAT Dowler as Megan Hunter, Hugh Dickson as Mr Symmington and SAT Sion Probert as Superintendent Nash. SAT Dramatist: Michael Bakewell SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. SAT SAT 07:30 Misfits in France b00f4prv (Listen) SAT Broken in Berneval, Soaked in the Sea SAT Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the SAT connections between a group of Victorian writers and artists SAT who crossed the English Channel for different reasons. SAT Julian and Hermione travel to the north coast of France, SAT where, in the late 1860s, the poet Algernon Swinburne spent SAT time, as did the exiled Oscar Wilde some 30 years later. SAT They examine French attitudes to the life and work of both SAT men and the religious themes that link their writing. SAT In the summer of 1868, local fishermen saved a drunken SAT Swinburne from drowning off the cliffs of Etretat. The SAT bizarre lunch to celebrate his survival was attended by the SAT teenage French writer Guy de Maupassant. SAT In 1897, an exiled Oscar Wilde held a fete for the locals in SAT Berneval and invited friends including Ernest Dowson to SAT distract him from working on his poem, The Ballad of Reading SAT Gaol. But as Wilde became progressively more lonely, he SAT started corresponding once more with Lord Alfred Douglas. SAT Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Algernon Swinburne ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Guy de Maupassant ...... Stephen Critchlow. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b0171yk2 (Listen) SAT Remembrance SAT There are now no living survivors of the First World War, SAT yet Remembrance Day has gained a new and powerful SAT significance in the nation's life. Today we not only SAT commemorate the war dead on Remembrance Sunday, we also mark SAT the anniversary of the actual moment in 1918 when the guns SAT stopped firing with a two minute silence. SAT This custom, which ceased in 1939, was reinstated in 1995, SAT meaning that today we remember the war dead more actively SAT than any previous post war generation, and arguably more SAT than at any time since the First World War itself. As SAT Professor Jay Winter says, Remembrance is "the spinal column SAT that connects 1918 with 2011". SAT While the ceremonial rituals of Remembrance have remained SAT constant, their social and emotional meaning has changed SAT over the years, mirroring the massive shifts in British SAT society since their creation more than ninety years ago. SAT Remembrance is now pivotal to British identity, as shaped by SAT the collective memories of two great conflicts. The Second SAT World War especially has infused our culture with feelings SAT of pride, moral worth and British exceptionalism. The SAT Remembrance ceremony has become a crucial moment to sustain SAT this sense of ourselves, despite the more controversial SAT legacy of modern wars. SAT In this programme, Denys Blakeway explores the Act of SAT Remembrance through recordings of the ceremony, and the SAT debates surrounding it, and asks why Remembrance Day has SAT become so important in the life of the modern British SAT nation, despite the relatively few who have fallen in recent SAT conflicts. SAT With Professor David Cannadine, Professor Jay Winter, Dr. SAT Adrian Gregory, Dr. Dan Todman, author Juliet Nicholson and SAT forces chaplain, Padre Mark Christian. SAT Producer: Melissa FitzGerald SAT A Blakeway Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Take It From June b011p0j2 (Listen) SAT Comedy legend June Whitfield talks to radio drama director SAT Enyd Williams about her amazing career in BBC radio - SAT spanning over 60 years. Though June is a star of BBC TV, SAT from Absolutely Fabulous to Terry and June, radio remains SAT June's true love. SAT June picks some of her very favourite performances - as we SAT journey with her from her big break on radio, joining the SAT team of Take it From Here in 1953, to working with comedy SAT greats like Ronnie Barker, Frankie Howerd and Bob Monkhouse SAT - to playing Mrs Thatcher on Radio 2's The News Huddlines - SAT and being cast as Radio 4's Miss Marple, by drama director SAT Enyd Williams: SAT *Take it From Here SAT From 24/04/1957 SAT Can Mr Glum stop Ron and Eth marrying in a court of law? SAT Stars Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From April 1957. SAT *Crowther's Crowd SAT From 07/12/1963 SAT Comedy sketches at the ready with June Whitfield, Ronnie SAT Barker and Leslie Crowther. From December 1963. SAT *The Frankie Howerd Show SAT From 07/01/1966 SAT Titters galore from the comedy legend, with June Whitfield, SAT Wallas Eaton and Robertson Hare. From August 1966. SAT *Punch Line SAT From 21/05/1980 SAT Can the stars come up with just the right punch line? SAT Starring June Whitfield, Kenneth Connor and Bob Monkhouse. SAT From May 1980. SAT *The News Huddlines SAT 19/10/2000 SAT Roy Hudd's topical sketch show that ran for 26 years on BBC SAT Radio 2. With June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From October SAT 2000. SAT *Murder At The Vicarage SAT From 28/12/1993 SAT The amateur sleuth looks into the Colonel's murder in the SAT vicar's study. Agatha Christie's thriller stars June SAT Whitfield. SAT Produced by Peter McHugh SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in 2011. SAT SAT 12:00 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0085j9l (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 6 SAT Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel heads to Hollywood and makes SAT a movie. SAT Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the SAT adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his SAT assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with SAT sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The SAT scripts were rediscovered in 1988. SAT Starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T SAT Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravelli SAT With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello. SAT Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark SAT Brisenden. SAT Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. SAT Producer: Dirk Maggs SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991. SAT SAT 12:30 The Goon Show b007wvvh (Listen) SAT Napoleon's Piano SAT Neddie Seagoon is conned into pinching the keyboard played SAT at the Battle of Waterloo. Stars Spike Milligan. From SAT October 1955. SAT SAT 13:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b06nsv3t (Listen) SAT View From the Windows SAT Made for 4 Extra. Heart-warming drama based on the real-life SAT diaries of artist and goose-breeder Monica Rawlins. SAT Dramatised by Bethan Roberts. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06nsvty (Listen) SAT Cliff Richard SAT The 'Peter Pan of Pop' chooses 'Chewing A Piece of Straw' by SAT Jack Payne and His Orchestra and his own 'We Don't Talk Any SAT More'. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b0075p35 (Listen) SAT John Bayley SAT 4 Extra Debut. Writer and critic John Bayley reveals his SAT life and relationship with Iris Murdoch to Professor Anthony SAT Clare. From October 1999. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0171yk2 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Miss Marple b007jvjj (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Misfits in France b00f4prv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b06nsy8k (Listen) SAT Special Features SAT The Doctor contributes a DVD commentary to a cult 1970s SAT horror movie re-release. SAT Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Nyssa SAT played by Sarah Sutton. With James Fleet as Sir Jack SAT Merrivale. SAT This episode is one of four generated by Big Finish SAT Productions' 2010 'Opportunity for New Writers' contest, SAT which attracted around 1200 entries, SAT Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor on BBC TV from 1981 to SAT 1984. SAT Sarah Sutton played Nyssa between 1981 and 1983. She was SAT first seen on 'The Keeper of Traken' - Traken being Nyssa's SAT home planet, when she starred with the Fourth Doctor (Tom SAT Baker) SAT Written by John Dorney. SAT Original music composed by Richard Fox and Lauren Yason. SAT Directed by Ken Bentley SAT Producer: David Richardson SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 18:30 Andrew McGibbon - The Routemasters b007jnsh (Listen) SAT Wolfie and Beetie SAT Hildegard wants to make music, while Bernie finds out who, SAT or what, is driving the bus. Stars Amanda Donohoe and Karl SAT Minns. SAT SAT 19:00 Take It From June b011p0j2 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Concrete Cow b0076jns (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT Temping at Nasa and planning permission for the Death Star. SAT Sketch show with Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. From August SAT 2002. SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive b00d7bf5 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 4 SAT The comedy strongman wrestles the news into submission with SAT the help of Andy Zaltzman, Matt Kirshen and Will Smith. From SAT September 2008. SAT SAT 23:00 BBC Radio New Comedy Award Extra b06qrjb0 (Listen) SAT Patrick Kielty hosts the first semi-final of the 2015 BBC SAT Radio New Comedy Award, recorded at the Glee Club in SAT Cardiff. 750 applicants have been whittled down across 8 SAT heats to our 12 semi-finalists, and tonight features Daniel SAT Cook, Athena Kugblenu, Andy Storey, Ken Cheng, Sean Morley SAT and Zahra Barri. SAT With extended sets and backstage interviews with the SAT contestants and judges. SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner and Laura Baron. SAT SAT 23:45 Jelly Mountain b00fd63q (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Ivor Cutler's unique views on language, justice and SAT scratching people's backs. With Craig Murray-Orr. From May SAT 1996. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b06nsy8k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Andrew McGibbon - The Routemasters b007jnsh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b06nsv3t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06nsvty (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b0075p35 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b0171yk2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Miss Marple b007jvjj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Misfits in France b00f4prv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Val McDermid - Village SOS b013zdg4 (Listen) SUN DCI Marion Bettany investigates a murder in the sleepy SUN Northumbrian village of Shilwick. Stars Helen Baxendale and SUN David Seddon. SUN SUN 07:15 Ghost Houses b0076037 (Listen) SUN Clumber Park SUN 4 Extra Debut. Charlotte Smith outlines the Nottinghamshire SUN stately home that boasted cornices from the Doge's Palace SUN and a frigate. From January 2001. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b01ptzm9 (Listen) SUN Series 8, Fifty Shades of Ray SUN Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all SUN the right jargon but never a practical solution. SUN A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering SUN in other people's lives on both a professional and personal SUN basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and SUN heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of SUN discomfort to her. SUN Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control SUN both her professional and private life SUN In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out SUN there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. SUN In Episode Three 'Fifty Shades of Ray'; the team's anxiety SUN over possible redundancies is overshadowed when they hear SUN some shattering news concerning Ray. SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Producer Katie Tyrrell. SUN Credits SUN Clare: Sally Phillips SUN Brian: Alex Lowe SUN Megan: Nina Conti SUN Ray: Richard Lumsden SUN Helen: Liza Tarbuck SUN Simon: Andrew Wincott SUN Libby: Sarah Kendall SUN Peter: Patrick Brennan SUN Fireman: Patrick Brennan SUN Major: Robert Blythe SUN Writer: Harry Venning SUN Writer: David Ramsden SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 08:00 Educating Archie b007jsv1 (Listen) SUN Brough makes a bet that he can travel round the British SUN Isles in eight days. Radio ventriloquism from March 1959. SUN SUN 08:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b007jx21 (Listen) SUN From 1/2/1949 SUN A proposed Bindebourne Festival needs some famous guests. SUN Stars Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch. From February 1949. SUN SUN 09:00 Charlotte Bronte: A Life - Omnibus b06nwj4j (Listen) SUN Made for 4 Extra. How the often tragic events of Charlotte SUN Bronte's life inspired her writing. Hattie Morahan reads SUN Claire Harman's biography. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b061xs4z (Listen) SUN Vera Lynn SUN The Second World War forces' sweetheart chooses Nat Travers' SUN 'What Is a Mammy, Daddy?' and her own 'We'll Meet Again'. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06nwj4l (Listen) SUN Comedians, Ruby Wax SUN 4 Extra Debut. From the Doors to West Side Story, writer and SUN comedian Ruby Wax shares her castaway choices with Sue SUN Lawley. From June 2005. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06nwk8q (Listen) SUN Live at Town Hall, New York SUN True stories told live - Adam Gopnik introduces tales from SUN New York City: fashion, tough guys and expectant mothers. SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA and the world. SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN The Moth Radio Hour features true stories told live on stage SUN without scripts, from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pmgxg (Listen) SUN Series 1, Coelacanth SUN The naturalist showed the first live specimen of the SUN primitive bony fish on TV. But is it a living fossil, as SUN first claimed? SUN SUN 12:00 Educating Archie b007jsv1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b007jx21 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Val McDermid - Village SOS b013zdg4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Ghost Houses b0076037 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Trigger Mortis - Omnibus b06nwkm6 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Made for 4 Extra. Can 007 convince the US Navy to delay a SUN rocket launch? With previously unseen Ian Fleming material. SUN Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. SUN SUN 15:45 Rudyard Kipling - The Gardener b00nrvp3 (Listen) SUN An aunt's grief for her nephew, killed by a splinter shell SUN on the Somme. A poignant tale of remembrance read by SUN Patricia Hodge. SUN SUN 16:00 John Mortimer - Glasnost b007jwds (Listen) SUN Whilst on an official visit to Moscow, novelist Anthea SUN Denham begins to find the attentions of the young Russian SUN guide and interpreter something more than just flattering. SUN But is he harbouring other motives? SUN John Mortimer's drama stars Anna Massey as Anthea Denham, SUN Boris Isarov as Vladimir Pinchevski, Clive Merrison as Brian SUN Worsfold and Philip Voss as Charles Hathaway. SUN Producer: John Tydeman SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06nwnnc (Listen) SUN Adventures in Poetry - Kubla Khan SUN BBC Radio 4's and 4Extra's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra SUN revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In Adventures in Poetry, Peggy Reynolds explores Samuel SUN Taylor Coleridge's celebrated poem Kubla Khan. SUN Written in 1797 in a remote farmhouse in the Quantock Hills, SUN the poem came to Coleridge as a vision in an opium-induced SUN dream, which was famously interrupted by a visitor from the SUN nearby village of Porlock. Peggy is fascinated by the SUN fragmentary nature of the poem and the way in which phrases SUN from it have resonated through literature, and even music, SUN ever since. SUN Peggy is joined by Coleridge's biographer Richard Holmes; SUN James Watt, an expert on the real Kubla Khan; Tim Clayton an SUN expert in 18th culture; and by Martyn Ware, a sound artist SUN who has been inspired by the poem to create a new, and SUN vividly evocative soundscape based on the poem. SUN Produced by Jane Greenwood SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011. SUN SUN 17:30 Clare in the Community b01ptzm9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jlvj (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Scythe SUN A young farmer gets more than he bargained for when he SUN stumbles across a seemingly deserted farm. SUN Strange and chilling tales from the award-winning master of SUN thrillers Ray Bradbury, who tops and tails these radio SUN dramatisations in his own inimitable style. SUN Stars John Guerrasio, Briony Glassco, Brian Sibley, Hugh SUN Dickson and Barbara Barnes. SUN Producer: Tabitha Potts. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. SUN SUN 18:30 Terry Pratchett b008p9wy (Listen) SUN Guards! Guards!, Episode 3 SUN A young prince tackles the dragon attacks, but why is SUN Captain Vimes suspicious? Comic fantasy with Martin Jarvis SUN and John Wood. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06nwk8q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pmgxg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Charlotte Bronte: A Life - Omnibus b06nwj4j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b061xs4z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06nwj4l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b01ptzm9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize b007587z (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Featuring the Ike Turner and Melvyn Bragg Story. Stars Jane SUN Bussmann and David Quantick. With Peter Serafinowicz. From SUN April 1998. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06qbj7k (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Dan SUN Clark. SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00773bh (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN The comedy award-winner enters the Dragon's Den, and brings SUN us the Barn Conversion Couple. With Ben Moor, Katherine SUN Parkinson and Ben Willbond. From January 2007. SUN SUN 23:30 Recorded for Training Purposes b00h37x9 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 4 SUN Sketch show about modern communication and contemporary SUN obsessions. With Ben Willbond and Rachel Atkins. From SUN January 2009. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jlvj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Terry Pratchett b008p9wy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Val McDermid - Village SOS b013zdg4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Ghost Houses b0076037 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Trigger Mortis - Omnibus b06nwkm6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Rudyard Kipling - The Gardener b00nrvp3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 John Mortimer - Glasnost b007jwds (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06nwnnc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Clare in the Community b01ptzm9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Charles Paris: Cast, in Order of Disappearance MON b007jvj1 (Listen) MON King Rat MON Charles has been shot - was it an accident or did someone MON try to murder him? MON Charles Paris is a middle-aged actor down on his luck, but MON his whole life has changed after a chance meeting with a MON chorus girl named Jacqui. MON Assuming a variety of roles, the lothario thespian employs MON his skills to try and solve a murder. Set during the UK's MON winter fuel crisis of 1973. MON Stars Francis Matthews as Charles Paris and Fiona Hendley as MON Jacqui Mitchell, Jeremy Child as Gerald Venables, Sandra MON Clark as Joanne Menzies and Richard Morant as Nigel Steen. MON Adapted by Simon Brett from his book. MON Producer: Martin Fisher MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1984. MON MON 06:30 Rosa and Leos b00vhg35 (Listen) MON In 1926, the Czech composer Leos Janacek was in Britain on a MON short visit. Addressing the Czechoslovak Club in London, he MON thanked the person who had been responsible for inviting MON him, discovering his music and championing him in Britain - MON not a conductor or a performer, but an elderly Englishwoman MON named Rosa Newmarch. MON Although little known today, Rosa Newmarch was a pivotal MON figure in making concert-goers in early 20th century Britain MON appreciate and understand new music from Czechoslovakia, MON Russia and Finland. She travelled extensively abroad, MON hearing new works performed and later getting them played in MON English concert halls. She was friends with composers such MON as Sibelius and Elgar and she wrote copious programme notes MON and books on musical trends abroad. MON In 1920 Rosa visited Prague for the first time and was MON immediately taken with the music of Leos Janacek. She MON eventually met the composer in person and, on her return to MON England, she began writing about him. She also began MON mounting performances of his work. In 1926, she managed to MON persuade Janacek to come to London. Rosa booked the Wigmore MON Hall and planned an ambitious programme of her friend's MON music. However, the visit coincided with the beginning of MON the General Strike. Although the concert of Janacek's work MON took place, there was little publicity surrounding it, as MON there were no newspapers being printed. Still, it was an MON introduction for concert-goers. Rosa had also planned MON excursions for Janacek which couldn't take place because of MON the lack of transport. But he did manage to get to London MON Zoo, where he took down notes of the noises that the monkeys MON made. MON The friendship between Janacek and Rosa continued until his MON death two years later and was cemented when he dedicated his MON well-loved "Sinfonietta" to her. MON In this programme, music writer and lecturer Peter Avis MON tells the remarkable and unknown story of Rosa Newmarch and MON her friendship with Leos Janacek. With contributions from MON Rosa's grand-daughter, musical experts and extracts from MON correspondence of the time, he re-evaluates the significance MON of Rosa's place in musical history. MON Producer: Emma Kingsley. MON MON 07:00 Street and Lane b00vdbvk (Listen) MON Series 1, Singing Detectives MON The intrepid Yorkshire builders take on work experience MON Tina, but how will the lass do? Stars Nick Lane. From MON September 2005. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b06mccq7 (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 5 MON Durdle Dor, Back to the Future, and The First Cheque I Ever MON Wrote are among the topics on the cards as Julian Clary, MON Susan Calman, Josie Lawrence & Paul Merton take on the Just MON a Minute challenge. Just how hard is it to speak for 60 MON seconds on a given topic without deviation, hesitation or MON repetition? Nicholas Parsons adjudicates. Hayley Sterling MON blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Julian Clary MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jprv (Listen) MON Series 3, The Godiva Affair MON The platoon holds a Spitfire fundraiser, but Corporal Jones MON is pining for Mrs Fox. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier MON as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John MON Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, MON Arnold Ridley as Godfrey, Bill Pertwee as Hodges and Mollie MON Sugden as Mrs Fox. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Additional music by Dennis Gomm. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976. MON MON 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01rsgrq (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON Eric and Ern get the bird from Percy Edwards, and Nelson MON gets a phone call from Lady Hamilton. From September 1976. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b009j9cd (Listen) MON Series 11, EM Forster MON 4 Extra Debut. James Walton hosts the literary quiz with MON John Walsh, Sebastian Faulks, Wendy Holden and John MON O'Farrell. From March 2008. MON MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mv1sx (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 3 MON The CyberPass cafe is shaken by Neville's shock news that MON his girlfriend has dumped him. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From MON May 2004. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b01gnjw9 (Listen) MON Uncle Fred in the Springtime, Episode 2 MON Dramatised by Archie Scottney MON Charismatic Uncle Fred (Alfred Molina) is still at Blandings MON Castle masquerading as a 'brain doctor'. The Duke of MON Dunstable's lunatic pig-napping scheme continues. He calls MON in nephew Ricky. Money is involved, and maybe a chance for MON Ricky to marry Polly Pott. Lord Emsworth's prize-pig Empress MON of Blandings is purloined - and hidden. MON Will all end happily? Will true love triumph? Even happiness MON for the Pig? Will our ageing hero, Uncle Fred, be able to MON leave for London, feeling that 'there are no limits to what MON I can accomplish - in the Springtime'? All-star cast MON directed by Martin Jarvis. MON Cast: MON Uncle Fred ..... Alfred Molina MON Lady Constance ..... Patricia Hodge MON The Duke of Dunstable ..... Christopher Neame MON Rupert Baxter ..... Jared Harris MON Ricky Gilpin ..... Rufus Sewell MON Horace Davenport ..... Lloyd Owen MON Mustard Pott ..... Julian Holloway MON Polly Pott ..... Sophie Winkleman MON Lord Emsworth ..... Martin Jarvis MON P.G. Wodehouse ..... Ian Ogilvy MON Lord Bosham ..... Simon Templeman MON Pongo Twistleton ..... Matthew Wolf MON Beach ..... Kenneth Danziger MON Valerie Twistleton ..... Moira Quirk MON Webster/Footmen ..... Darren Richardson MON Singing Gardener ..... Mark Holden MON Director: Martin Jarvis MON Producers: Rosalind Ayres and Martin Jarvis MON A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06nxb16 (Listen) MON Bullet Catch MON 1920s Vienna: Showman Victor Dahl is developing a dangerous MON obsession. Read by Lloyd Hutchinson. MON An ambitious debut collection of short stories by Rebecca F MON John, dipping into the shadows and spotlights of life. MON Rebecca F John is from Pwll, a village on the South Wales MON coast, and works as a Ski Instructor. Her short story The MON Dog Track was broadcast on Radio 4 as part of The Time Being MON series in 2013, and Crow Road was broadcast in the Nights Of MON The Hunter series in 2015. MON The Glove Maker's Numbers was shortlisted for The Sunday MON Times EFG Short Story Award in 2015. Rebecca won the PEN MON International New Voices Award for her story Moon Dog in MON October 2015. MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. MON MON 11:15 Pam Leeson - The Unhearable b007jttg (Listen) MON Michelle has Meniere's disease, with the prospect of MON deafness. How will the young and vibrant woman cope? Stars MON Gillian Kearney. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jprv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01rsgrq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Charles Paris: Cast, in Order of Disappearance MON b007jvj1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Rosa and Leos b00vhg35 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00y6qtg (Listen) MON David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 1 MON Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose MON groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a MON best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix MON Medicis Etranger. It will be broadcast just after MON publication. MON Caribou Island is again set in Vann's native Alaska, amid MON the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in MON alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from MON any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska MON thirty years ago with his young wife Irene, in search of an MON idyll, is now determined to begin once again. He will build MON a simple cabin there and at last find peace. Irene joins him MON in his endeavour but there are costs. MON Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a MON dentist, who is about to enter his own 'mid-life crisis'. MON Fluid, often funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores MON the depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes MON the young still entertain. MON In the first episode of Caribou Island Gary and Irene load MON up with logs and set out to build their own piece of MON paradise. MON The reader is William Hope MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON Caribou Island is published by Viking. MON MON 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rqndz (Listen) MON Colonists MON Colonists: Episode Sixteen of a thirty-part series made in MON collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. MON Settlers arriving in America in the 17th century decreed the MON songs and sounds of native American Indians to be barbaric MON and wild - bloodcurdling hollering that might presage the MON most brutal of deaths. MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores MON the colonial politics of sound. MON Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. MON Produced by Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON Jamestown Settlement MON The image used to illustrate this episode shows MON the recreation of early 17th Century English ships at MON Jamestown Settlement, Virginia MON (© Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation). MON MON 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqdv (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON A cotton weaver's daughter is wooed and her aunt goes MON missing. Frank portrayal of 1840s Manchester life with Emma MON Rydal. MON MON 14:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vs5s7 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON August 1914: After British decimation at the Battle of Mons, MON four soldiers hide out in rural France. Read by Tom MON Goodman-Hill. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b01gnjw9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b009j9cd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mv1sx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Street and Lane b00vdbvk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b06mccq7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009l6sv (Listen) MON Into the Wolf's Lair MON It's 1945, and the Allies are certain to win the war. Then MON an unidentified aircraft appears. Sci-fi adventure series MON set during World War II. Stars Rory Kinnear and Tim MON McMullan. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075zzw (Listen) MON Benedict Allen and Matthew Parris MON Louise Doughty and her guests, journalist Matthew Paris and MON adventurer Benedict Allen, share their favourite MON travel-themed books by Peter Mattiessen, Thornton Wilder and MON Anna Reid. From 2001. MON 'The Snow Leopard' by Peter Mattiessen MON Publisher: Vintage MON 'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' by Thornton Wilder. MON Publisher: Penguin Classics MON 'Borderland: A Journey Through the History of The Ukraine' MON by Anna Reid MON Publisher: Pheonix. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jprv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01rsgrq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Charles Paris: Cast, in Order of Disappearance MON b007jvj1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Rosa and Leos b00vhg35 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06nxb16 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Pam Leeson - The Unhearable b007jttg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b06mccq7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Headset Set b01nxx17 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON EPISODE 4 MON Audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre MON called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything. MON The Headsetters have been asked to remove the massive hole MON in the middle of their office. It's health and safety gone MON mad. MON Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith MON Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult MON Various ..... Lucy Montgomery MON Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma MON Writers ..... Various MON Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06nxhjc (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 8 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles MON Jupp. With Susan Calman, Francis Wheen and Elis James. MON MON 23:45 Crème de la Crime b008f8hc (Listen) MON Series 3, This Carriage for Justice MON Michael Feydeau and David Pershore probe a murder and false MON accusations. Stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From April MON 2003. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009l6sv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075zzw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Charles Paris: Cast, in Order of Disappearance TUE b007jvj1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Rosa and Leos b00vhg35 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00y6qtg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rqndz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqdv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vs5s7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b01gnjw9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b009j9cd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mv1sx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Street and Lane b00vdbvk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b06mccq7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Agatha Christie b01b9h75 (Listen) TUE Sparkling Cyanide, Rosemary TUE by Agatha Christie TUE adapted by Joy Wilkinson. TUE Part 1: Rosemary TUE 21 year old Rosemary dies at her birthday party after TUE drinking from a glass of cyanide-laced champagne. The small TUE group of friends and family who were present struggle to TUE understand - was it suicide, or could one of them possibly TUE have murdered her? An ex-lover, a younger sister who stood TUE to inherit, a jealous husband? It seems almost all the TUE guests had a motive. TUE IRIS ..... Naomi Frederick TUE ROSEMARY ..... Jasmine Hyde TUE GEORGE ..... Peter Wight TUE ANTHONY ..... Colin Tierney TUE RUTH ..... Amanda Drew TUE STEPHEN ..... James Lailey TUE SANDRA ..... Tracy Wiles TUE VICTOR ..... Simon Bubb TUE directed by Mary Peate. TUE TUE 06:30 The Radical and the Emperor b00771r9 (Listen) TUE Sylvia Pankhurst was a deeply committed feminist, TUE anti-racist and anti-fascist. What is less well known is the TUE fact that these anti-fascist views led her in later life to TUE campaign on behalf of one of Africa's most conservative and TUE autocratic monarchs, the Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. TUE Sylvia's relentless campaign for the restoration of TUE Ethiopian independence after the Italian invasion of 1935 TUE led her to launch a weekly newspaper, The New Times and TUE Ethiopia News. Later she also campaigned against British TUE involvement in Ethiopia, and her efforts were warmly TUE appreciated by the Emperor. TUE In 1956, aged 74, she accepted Haile Selassie's invitation TUE to live in Addis Ababa. When she died there in 1960 at the TUE age of 78, she was given a state funeral and buried in front TUE of the cathedral - the only foreigner buried in an area TUE reserved for patriots of the Italian war. TUE Her son, Dr Richard Pankhurst, accompanied his mother to TUE Ethiopia in 1956 and has continued to live there for almost TUE 50 years. He recounts the story of his mother's involvement TUE with Haile Selassie, and talks about how her passion TUE influenced his own life-long commitment to Ethiopia. TUE TUE 07:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759r3 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Eric's increasing popularity makes a dangerous enemy of his TUE colleague Gordon McKay. Stars Alistair McGowan. From July TUE 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 There Is No Escape b06mft8b (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE An audience sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, TUE whose feeble attempts to improve his lot invariably end with TUE him defeated. In Episode 4 Andrew's girlfriend announces TUE that she is pregnant and Andrew has to face one of the TUE biggest decisions of his life: should he stay or should he TUE go. Starring Andrew Lawrence and Diane Morgan. TUE Credits TUE Actor: Andrew Lawrence TUE Actor: Diane Morgan TUE Writer: Andrew Lawrence TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00lysh3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 7 TUE Kenneth Horne sets sail in seafaring romp 'The Admirable TUE Loom Bucket and Rambling Syd Rumpo sings his Song Of The TUE Hobo. Are Charles and Fiona home at last? and Bona Caterers TUE Julian and Sandy are planning a 'do'. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 To the Manor Born b007k4mq (Listen) TUE Vive Le Sport TUE When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being TUE taken for a ride. TUE Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, Keith TUE Barron as Richard DeVere, Angela Thorne as Marjory TUE Frobisher, Nicholas McArdle as Brabinger, Margery Withers as TUE Mrs Polouvicka and Geoffrey Whitehead as Dr Horton. TUE The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, TUE forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her TUE husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler TUE Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge TUE cottage. TUE From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and TUE disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the TUE nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of TUE Czech descent. TUE First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it TUE ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. TUE Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. TUE Producer: Jane Berthoud TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997. TUE Credits TUE Actor: Penelope Keith TUE Actor: Peter Bowles TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06nxhjc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Crème de la Crime b008f8hc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jm85 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Shipwrecked literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued TUE by demonic skipper and seal hunter Wolf Larsen. Stars Jack TUE Klaff. TUE TUE 11:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06nxwlk (Listen) TUE The Glove Maker's Numbers, part 1 TUE Convinced the Devil visited her after she was traumatised by TUE the death of her brother, Christina has been recovering in a TUE sanatorium, and must have her photograph taken before she TUE leaves. Read by Ruth Gemmell. TUE An ambitious debut collection of short stories by Rebecca F TUE John, dipping into the shadows and spotlights of life. TUE Rebecca F John is from Pwll, a village on the South Wales TUE coast, and works as a Ski Instructor. Her short story The TUE Dog Track was broadcast on Radio 4 as part of The Time Being TUE series in 2013, and Crow Road was broadcast in the Nights Of TUE The Hunter series in 2015. TUE The Glove Maker's Numbers was shortlisted for The Sunday TUE Times EFG Short Story Award in 2015. Rebecca won the PEN TUE International New Voices Award for her story Moon Dog in TUE October 2015. TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. TUE TUE 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b007rpry (Listen) TUE On the Train to Chemnitz TUE Vivid storytellers Aubrey and Dorinda inhabit a TUE claustrophobic world fuelled by guilt. Stars Paul Scofield TUE and Fiona Shaw. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00lysh3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born b007k4mq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Agatha Christie b01b9h75 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Radical and the Emperor b00771r9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yc8dm (Listen) TUE David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 2 TUE Caribou Island is set in David Vann's native Alaska, amid TUE the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in TUE alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from TUE any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska TUE thirty years before with his young wife Irene, in search of TUE an unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once TUE again. He will build a simple cabin there and at last find TUE peace. Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, TUE unlike her husband, that there are costs. TUE Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a TUE dentist, who is about to enter his own 'mid-life crisis'. TUE Fluid, often funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores TUE the depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes TUE the young still entertain. TUE Today: Gary's first shot at building the log retreat of his TUE dreams is already having consequences. Meanwhile Jim, the TUE dentist, is conjuring his own fantasy. TUE The reader is William Hope TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose TUE groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a TUE best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix TUE Medicis Etranger. Caribou Island is broadcast just after TUE publication. TUE TUE 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rqpkp (Listen) TUE Shutting In TUE Shutting In: Episode seventeen of a thirty-part series made TUE in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. TUE In the eighteenth century, Edinburgh was one of most TUE overcrowded cities in Europe. Narrow alleys or 'wynds' TUE separated looming tenement buildings, each housing multiple TUE families. Individuals of very different classes and ways of TUE life had to rub along in cramped conditions. Professor David TUE Hendy of the University of Sussex squeezes in among them, TUE and explains how a similar situation in Paris led to a TUE surreal and brutal massacre of cats. TUE Produced by Matt Thompson TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Gladstone's Land TUE The photograph used to illustrate this episode was taken at TUE Gladstone's Land TUE an authentically restored 17th Century Edinburgh tenement (© TUE National Trust for Scotland.) TUE TUE 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqf5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Mary grows up and takes over the running of the Manchester TUE household. Stars Emma Rydal and David Calder. TUE TUE 14:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vsvfk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Suspecting that enemy soldiers are posing as civilians, the TUE Germans warn the French not to hide them. Read by Tom TUE Goodman-Hill. TUE TUE 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jm85 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00qvm9f (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 6 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 Roy Walker are TUE joined by Hills Barker and Cannon and Ball. TUE TUE 16:30 Chain Reaction b01l8rbv (Listen) TUE Series 8, Rebecca Front interviews Chris Addison TUE Rebecca Front talks to her Thick Of It co-star and fellow TUE Nude-a-phobe, comedian Chris Addison about working with TUE Armando Iannucci and embracing his middle-classness through TUE stand-up TUE Producer ..... Carl Cooper TUE "In an unclothed state I look like a child has done a TUE collage with some Twiglets". TUE Chris Addison TUE Other episodes in the chain include: TUE Rebecca Front being interviewed by the man who knows her TUE best, her big brother, Jeremy Front. TUE Chris Addison in a rare interview with the TUE actually-really-nice-and-he-doesn't-do-any-of-that-weird-stu TUE f-in-real-life, Derren Brown; TUE Derren Brown chatting hair, beliefs and Tim Minchin with TUE comedy musical megastar and fellow sceptic Tim Minchin; TUE A poorly Tim Minchin being handed tissues whilst attempting TUE to interview with no questions a not-at-all-poorly and TUE hilarious Caitlin Moran. TUE Caitlin Moran getting to spend time and talk shoes, TUE Bananarama and women with her comedy hero Jennifer Saunders. TUE And. TUE Jennifer Saunders turning up a week later to find the series TUE has ended. Probably. We weren't there because the series had TUE ended. TUE TUE 17:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759r3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 There Is No Escape b06mft8b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009lw5f (Listen) TUE The Eagle's Nest TUE Barton and his team head deep behind German lines to track TUE down a terrifying new weapon. Stars Rory Kinnear and Rachel TUE Atkins. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jnlp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Victor Spinetti TUE From the Beatles to Sir Laurence Olivier, the stage and TUE screen veteran reminisces about his acting career. From TUE October 2000. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00lysh3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born b007k4mq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Agatha Christie b01b9h75 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Radical and the Emperor b00771r9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06nxwlk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Peter Tinniswood b007rpry (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 There Is No Escape b06mft8b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Don't Start b01ml8b3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Notebook TUE What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new TUE comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. TUE Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. TUE The first series of Don't Start met with instant critical TUE and audience acclaim: "That he can deliver such a heavy TUE premise for a series with such a lightness of touch is TUE testament to his skills as a writer and, given that the TUE protagonists are both bookworms, he's also permitted to use TUE a flourish of fine words that would be lost in his stand-up TUE routines". Jane Anderson, Radio Times. TUE "Writing and starring in the four-parter Don't Start (Radio TUE 4) Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic TUE comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a TUE bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly TUE precise dissection of a relationship". Daily Mail TUE ... "a lesson in relationship ping-pong" - Miranda Sawyer, TUE The Observer. TUE Series 2 follows hard on its heels. Well observed, clever TUE and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a TUE deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our TUE couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - TUE the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. Each week, the TUE stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these TUE are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with TUE increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references TUE (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs Rochester, TUE to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's TUE weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an TUE unmistakable tenderness". TUE Frank says: TUE "Having established in the first series that Neil and Kim TUE are a childless academic couple who during their numerous TUE arguments, luxuriate in their own and each other's learning TUE and wit, I've tried in the second series to dig a little TUE deeper into their relationship. Love and affection TUE occasionally splutter into view, like a Higgs boson in a big TUE tunnel-thing, but can such emotions ever prevail in a TUE relationship where the couple prefers to wear their brains, TUE rather than their hearts, on their sleeves? Is that too much TUE offal imagery? TUE Episode 1: The Notebook TUE Frank's apparently innocent discovery of an old notebook TUE strangely rekindles Kim's former enthusiasm for Frisbee TUE throwing. TUE Directed and produced by Polly Thomas TUE An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Neil: Frank Skinner TUE Kim: Katherine Parkinson TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE Writer: Frank Skinner TUE TUE 22:45 The Music Teacher b01drtfn (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher TUE Nigel Penny. TUE Nigel is offered a reconciliation meeting with local youths TUE after they have run riot in the Arts Centre. And asked to TUE teach them three part harmony into the bargain. TUE Directed by Nick Walker TUE Audio production by Matt Katz TUE Written and produced by Richie Webb TUE A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Nigel Penny: Richie Webb TUE Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine TUE Steve: Nick Walker TUE Edwina: Felicity Montagu TUE Peter: Dave Lamb TUE Alan: Jim North TUE T'Shawn: Jim North TUE Mary: Jess Robinson TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE Producer: Richie Webb TUE Director: Nick Walker TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06qbjx9 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth chats to TUE Alfie Brown. TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b01kkr59 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE A trip round Wunderland, the Poundland of magical realms. TUE It's a kingdom much like our own, and also nothing like it TUE in the slightest. Stay a while and meet waifs and strays, TUE wigshops and witches, murderous pensioners and squirrels of TUE this delightful land as they go about their bizarre TUE business. TUE A sketch show written and performed by Alice Lowe. TUE Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel TUE Stubbings, Clare Thompson and Marcia Warren. TUE Produced by Sam Bryant. TUE TUE 23:30 The Sofa of Time b00hxqnm (Listen) TUE And the Hackett March on... TUE The magical quest is helped by a tiny gold samurai who TUE points. Stars Mark Heap, Nick Frost and Kevin Eldon. From TUE November 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009lw5f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jnlp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Agatha Christie b01b9h75 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Radical and the Emperor b00771r9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yc8dm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rqpkp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqf5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vsvfk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jm85 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00qvm9f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Chain Reaction b01l8rbv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759r3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 There Is No Escape b06mft8b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Agatha Christie b01bldpv (Listen) WED Sparkling Cyanide, All Souls' Day WED by Agatha Christie WED adapted by Joy Wilkinson. WED Part 2: All Souls' Day WED It's a year since Rosemary died horribly at her 21st WED birthday party after drinking from a glass of cyanide-laced WED champagne. Convinced that the coroner's verdict of suicide WED is wrong, her widower George is hatching a plan to discover WED the truth... WED IRIS ..... Naomi Frederick WED GEORGE ..... Peter Wight WED LUCILLA ..... Adjoa Andoh WED ANTHONY ..... Colin Tierney WED RUTH ..... Amanda Drew WED COLONEL RACE ..... Sean Baker WED STEPHEN ..... James Lailey WED SANDRA ..... Tracy Wiles WED GIUSEPPE ..... Gerard McDermott WED directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 06:30 Motownship b00jkhkn (Listen) WED Midge Ure travels to Cape Town to meet a group of young WED township musicians who are using traditional African WED instruments to record covers of classic Motown and soul WED hits. WED Abavuki is a group of 10 aspiring young musicians from WED Langa, Cape Town's oldest, and one of South Africa's WED toughest, black townships. The project is produced by WED London-based Barney Rattle, who has been fusing diverse WED music styles for many years to bring the sounds of Cape WED Town's townships to the world. WED Midge meets the musicians in Langa township and learns about WED the project and Abavuki's tough backgrounds. WED WED 07:00 Huddwinks b00fsmz8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Dead Dames Don't Dance with Danger WED Top American cop Bert Chisel is called in to solve a murder WED mystery for Scotland Yard. Stars Roy Hudd. From June 1988. WED WED 07:30 To Hull and Back b06mg9fp (Listen) WED My Casa Is Your Casa WED To Hull and Back is the eagerly anticipated sitcom from BBC WED New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont. WED Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a WED living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they WED don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get WED rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As WED their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. WED "My Casa Is Your Casa" WED A call from Auntie Pamela who lives abroad gets Sophie fired WED up about the life she could be living, a life of hot tubs WED and wood fired lobster. Her mother tries go compete with her WED sister, Pamela, but ends up filling the back yard with WED bubbles and sleeping downstairs on a lilo. WED Writer ... Lucy Beaumont WED Producer ... Carl Cooper WED This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED Credits WED Sophie: Lucy Beaumont WED Sheila: Maureen Lipman WED Jean: Kerrie Marsh WED Ernie: Norman Lovett WED Anika: Jemma Walker WED Seedy Ian: Ewan Bailey WED Susanna: Debra Baker WED Writer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 08:00 The TV Lark b01by95t (Listen) WED Back to Portsmouth WED Troutbridge TV is offered coverage of the arrival of WED Potarneyland's retiring governor. WED After 4 series of 'The Navy Lark', the BBC decided the WED comedy crew needed a new setting, so where better than brand WED new independent station, Troutbridge TV? WED However, after just 10 episodes, this proved to be only a WED temporary change of course for the crew of HMS Troutbridge - WED as the crew were soon back aboard 'The Navy Lark'. WED Stars Jon Pertwee as the Floor Manager, Leslie Phillips as WED The Director, Stephen Murray as the Producer, Ronnie Barker WED as Fatso Johnson and Richard Caldicote as the Deputy WED Controller. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00zvcmn (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 13 WED J Arthur Bile recalls the golden age of cinema. Songs and WED sketches with John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From July WED 1968. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b0088zyb (Listen) WED 1999, Heat 3 WED Ned Sherrin's music quiz with Tim Williams of Sussex, Andrew WED Taylor of Cambridge and Christine Watson from Hertfordshire. WED WED 09:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076jd8 (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED An alternative historical account of the impact of Catherine WED Parr's mother on Henry's court. Stars Sally Grace. From WED December 2003. WED WED 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jm8h (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED The schooner 'Ghost' journeys on to the seal herds. WED High-seas tale of brutality and survival with Jack Klaff and WED Kerry Shale. WED WED 11:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06nzlt0 (Listen) WED The Glove Maker's Numbers, part 2 WED Christina is released and returns home, but tries finding WED refuge from her thoughts in the imagery of numbers. WED Concluded by Ruth Gemmell. WED An ambitious debut collection of short stories by Rebecca F WED John, dipping into the shadows and spotlights of life. WED Rebecca F John is from Pwll, a village on the South Wales WED coast, and works as a Ski Instructor. Her short story The WED Dog Track was broadcast on Radio 4 as part of The Time Being WED series in 2013, and Crow Road was broadcast in the Nights Of WED The Hunter series in 2015. WED The Glove Maker's Numbers was shortlisted for The Sunday WED Times EFG Short Story Award in 2015. Rebecca won the PEN WED International New Voices Award for her story Moon Dog in WED October 2015. WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. WED WED 11:15 Evelyn Waugh - Mr Loveday's Little Outing b0075bbg (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. Visiting her dad in the asylum, Angela is WED curiously affected by the situation of his loyal secretary. WED Stars Barbara Leigh-Hunt. WED WED 12:00 The TV Lark b01by95t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00zvcmn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Agatha Christie b01bldpv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Motownship b00jkhkn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00ybw73 (Listen) WED David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 3 WED Caribou Island is set in David Vann's native Alaska, amid WED the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in WED alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from WED any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska WED thirty years ago with his young wife Irene, in search of an WED unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. WED He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. WED Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her WED husband, that there are costs. WED Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a WED dentist, who is about to enter his own 'mid-life crisis'. WED Fluid, often funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores WED the depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes WED the young, and young at heart, still entertain. WED Today: As Gary grapples with the very foundations of his WED dream, Jim is entering a world of delight, and deceit, far WED from his dentist's chair. WED The reader is William Hope WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose WED groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a WED best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix WED Medicis Etranger. Caribou Island is broadcast just after WED publication. WED WED 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rr4w4 (Listen) WED Master and Servant WED Master and Servant: Episode eighteen of a thirty-part series WED made in collaboration with the British Library Sound WED Archive. WED Grand town houses in the eighteenth century seemed to WED promise privacy. But in fact they offered anything but - the WED family home often included not just parents and children, WED but also elderly relatives, unmarried sisters, paying WED lodgers, and the nosiest neighbours of the lot, the WED servants. WED Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex eavesdrops WED on the whispers, gossip and scandal of the eighteenth WED century house, and tells the salacious tale of John Burt, a WED navy captain from Canterbury, who took his young wife WED Harriet to court for impropriety - on the evidence of his WED cook. WED Produced by Matt Thompson WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqfk (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Dreaming of a better life, Mary turns dressmaker and meets WED Margaret and her eccentric grandfather. Stars Emma Rydal. WED WED 14:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vt374 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED As the British soldiers settle into the French village, WED complications arise when one falls in love. Read by Tom WED Goodman-Hill. WED WED 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jm8h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b0088zyb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076jd8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Huddwinks b00fsmz8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 To Hull and Back b06mg9fp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009m2ff (Listen) WED The Tomorrow World WED Barton and the team have found the Germans' secret weapon. WED But what exactly is it? Stars Rory Kinnear and Tim McMullan. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076tyk (Listen) WED Living on the Edge WED Matthew Parris considers a life lived on the margins, with WED Marjorie Wallace, Bernie Hare and Dermot Healy. From WED September 2005. WED WED 19:00 The TV Lark b01by95t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00zvcmn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Agatha Christie b01bldpv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Motownship b00jkhkn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06nzlt0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Evelyn Waugh - Mr Loveday's Little Outing b0075bbg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 To Hull and Back b06mg9fp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01ckgh2 (Listen) WED Series 1, Death WED In the second in the series, Tim Key takes on the biggest WED imponderable of them all - death - via his narrative poem: WED The Boy Who Faked His Own Death. Musical accompaniment is WED provided by Tom Basden. WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 22:45 Earls of the Court b00r0yt2 (Listen) WED The Eklov Experience WED Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright WED about two Australians down on their luck in London. WED Now living with his girlfriend, Johnno is steadying himself WED for a couples' day out. But his sofa-crashing best mate WED Lloydie has other plans WED Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright WED Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale WED Nadine ...... Keely Beresford WED Security ...... Rufus Wright WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED Credits WED Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06qbkgg (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tom Wrigglesworth chats to WED Alfie Brown. WED WED 23:00 Richard Herring's Objective b00vcqm7 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Hoodie WED Richard Herring reclaims objects that we've grown to hate - WED a tracksuit top with a hood. With Emma Kennedy. From October WED 2010. WED WED 23:30 Revolting People b008gc13 (Listen) WED Series 3, The God-Given Talent WED Joshua chops logs, while Cora discovers a gift for penning WED pornography. 1770 America sitcom with Andy Hamilton and Jay WED Tarses. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009m2ff (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076tyk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Agatha Christie b01bldpv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Motownship b00jkhkn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00ybw73 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rr4w4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqfk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vt374 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jm8h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b0088zyb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076jd8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Huddwinks b00fsmz8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 To Hull and Back b06mg9fp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Agatha Christie b01bwfy6 (Listen) THU Sparkling Cyanide, Iris THU by Agatha Christie THU adapted by Joy Wilkinson THU Part 3: Iris THU Now George Barton has died in exactly the same way as his THU wife did a year earlier, by drinking cyanide-laced THU champagne, Colonel Race steps in to investigate. The second THU death throws the first verdict of suicide into question... THU IRIS ..... Naomi Frederick THU ANTHONY ..... Colin Tierney THU RUTH ..... Amanda Drew THU COLONEL RACE ..... Sean Baker THU STEPHEN ..... James Lailey THU SANDRA ..... Tracy Wiles THU LUCILLA ..... Adjoa Andoh THU GIUSEPPE ..... Gerard McDermott THU CHLOE ..... Alex Rivers THU directed by Mary Peate. THU THU 06:30 Almanacs: The Oldest Guides to Everything b00t2mhs (Listen) THU Ben Schott charts the history of the most influential form THU of mass publication in the 16th and 17th centuries. At their THU height, apart from the bible, almanacs were the bestselling THU books on the market, with over 400,000 sold annually. THU Behind the scenes at The British Museum, Dr Irving Finkel THU outlines the almanac tradition from Babylonian clay tablet THU to Gutenberg's earliest printed material. The British THU Library's Moira Goff lets Ben loose in the archives to THU peruse The Kalender of Shepherdes and the oldest Old Moore's THU Almanack. THU Combining the characteristics of calendar, self-help manual THU & pocket encyclopaedia, almanacs contained utilitarian THU information on just about everything: feast days, when to THU sow crops, let blood, how to write an IOU, even advice on THU amateur surgery and DIY abortion. They also included THU dramatic astrological prophesies about the likelihood of THU plague, famine and war. Passages were read to boost THU soldiers' morale in battle and by MPs in the House of THU Commons. THU Almanac compilers were arrested & grilled by parliamentary THU committees. Did one actually predict the Great Fire of THU London? Professor Bernard Capp assesses their powerful role THU in revolutionary politics. THU Almanacs played a central part in spreading knowledge, THU literacy, popular journalism and advertising. Ben digs up THU early adverts for pills, potions and all manner of quackery. THU But they were also mocked in all kinds of ways, as Dr Adam THU Smyth explains. THU The blank pages inserted into almanacs were used for THU jottings of accounts and personal memos, so they also gave THU us the personal written diary. THU The statistical has replaced the astrological but its THU influence lingers on. THU Producer: Tamsin Hughes THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b0196tyh (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the THU residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Norman may THU have stopped the parade, but the festival must go on. THU Meanwhile Helen has news for Jan and Frank, and love THU blossoms for a most unlikely couple. 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 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01f883m (Listen) THU Series 2, With guest Danny Baker THU New series of the comedy show hosted by Alex Horne and his THU five piece band and specially written, original music. THU Guests across this series include Phill Jupitus, Charlie THU Baker, Nick Mohammed, Doc Brown, Matt Lucas and Danny Baker. THU The first epsiode explores the theme of 'games' and guest THU stars Danny Baker who sings with the band and champions an THU instrument that can't fail to put a smile on your face. Plus THU the funkiest song you're ever likely to hear about Chess; an THU Ode to Chris Hoy and music to exercise to. THU Host .... Alex Horne THU Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland THU Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown THU Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier THU Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds THU Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake THU Guest performers .... Danny Baker and Ben Jones THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007k01b (Listen) THU Series 3, Robbery With Violence THU Terrified Albert lies to son Harold after accidentally THU breaking his treasured porcelain collection. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Gwendolyn Watts and Richard Griffiths. 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 May 1971. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00f9y6d (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel stays in a haunted mansion. THU With guest star Spike Milligan as The Mayor of Witchfield. 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 THU Ravelli. THU With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Dick Vosburgh. THU Written by Nat Perrin and Arthur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark THU Brisenden. THU Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. THU Producer: Dirk Maggs THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992. THU THU 09:00 Genius b008jf2r (Listen) THU Series 2, Armando lannucci THU Dave Gorman and Armando Iannucci chew over ridiculous, THU brilliant but unworkable ideas, and choose the best. From THU October 2006. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b00y37bh (Listen) THU Series 6, Spreading Wings THU Emily's A-level results make mum Victoria realise she is THU growing up. Stars Celia Imrie and Angela Thorne. From August THU 1999. THU THU 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jmc9 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU With Maud Brewster aboard, the real danger on the schooner's THU voyage is yet to begin. Stars Jack Klaff and Shelley THU Thompson. THU THU 11:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06p01qd (Listen) THU Matchstick Girls THU Warsaw, 1943: Ewa tries to protect her little sister Zofia THU from the cold, dangerous life on the street. Read by Ruth THU Gemmell. THU An ambitious debut collection of short stories by Rebecca F THU John, dipping into the shadows and spotlights of life. THU Rebecca F John is from Pwll, a village on the South Wales THU coast, and works as a Ski Instructor. Her short story The THU Dog Track was broadcast on Radio 4 as part of The Time Being THU series in 2013, and Crow Road was broadcast in the Nights Of THU The Hunter series in 2015. THU The Glove Maker's Numbers was shortlisted for The Sunday THU Times EFG Short Story Award in 2015. Rebecca won the PEN THU International New Voices Award for her story Moon Dog in THU October 2015. THU Producer: Jeremy Osborne THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. THU THU 11:15 Charlotte Fyfe - The Tears of War b0076bcw (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. The true First World War love story of May THU Wedderburn Cannan and Bevil Quiller-Couch. Stars Jasmine THU Hyde and James Purefoy. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007k01b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00f9y6d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Agatha Christie b01bwfy6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Almanacs: The Oldest Guides to Everything b00t2mhs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00ybw75 (Listen) THU David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 4 THU Caribou Island is set in David Vann's native Alaska, amid THU the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in THU alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from THU any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska THU thirty years ago with his young wife Irene, in search of an THU unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. THU He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. THU Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her THU husband, that there are costs. THU Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a THU dentist, who is entering his own 'mid-life crisis'. THU Fluid, funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the THU depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the THU young, and the young at heart, still entertain. THU Today: Rhoda surprises Jim with unexpected guests and Gary THU faces another hurdle in the construction of his cabin home. THU The reader is William Hope THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose THU groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a THU best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix THU Medicis Etranger. Caribou Island is broadcast just after THU publication. THU THU 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rr7rp (Listen) THU Slavery and Rebellion THU Slavery and Rebellion: Episode nineteen of a thirty-part THU series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound THU Archive. THU Many slaves would have heard the sounds of home for the last THU time as they waited at Ghana's Gate of No Return to be THU herded onto a ship to the new world. Far away on the THU Carolina plantations, they were expected to be quiet or to THU sing to demonstrate contentment with their lot. But in 1739, THU one of the largest and most violent revolts in American THU history took place - and for a brief time the slaves were THU anything but silent. THU Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex tells the THU story of the Stono River revolt. THU Produced by: Matt Thompson THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqfw (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Jem longs for any sign of affection from Mary, and Carson's THU Mill catches fire. Stars Emma Rydal and David Calder. THU THU 14:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vt7dj (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The German hold on the French village intensifies, but the THU British soldiers are determined to escape. Read by Tom THU Goodman-Hill. THU THU 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jmc9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b008jf2r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b00y37bh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b0196tyh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01f883m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009m464 (Listen) THU This Island Earth THU Things can't get much worse for Barton and his team in their THU wartime efforts. Or can they? Stars Rory Kinnear and Tim THU McMullan. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076s3l (Listen) THU Series 7, Duke of Wellington THU 4 Extra Debut. Novelist Frederick Forsyth chooses the 'Iron THU Duke', the Duke of Wellington. With Andrew Roberts and THU Francine Stock. From June 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007k01b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00f9y6d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Agatha Christie b01bwfy6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Almanacs: The Oldest Guides to Everything b00t2mhs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06p01qd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Charlotte Fyfe - The Tears of War b0076bcw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01f883m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b011qdpd (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU From Steve Wright to Ken Dodd, Jon Culshaw explores the THU bizarre private lives of famous folk. From May 2009. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jpct (Listen) THU Series 2, Nero THU Satan takes Thomas on a tour of his life and recruits a THU famous, brutal tormentor. Satanic sitcom stars Andy THU Hamilton. From April 1998. THU THU 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls Present b00gpbcs (Listen) THU More Brothers Faversham, Titus Faversham THU The story of Victorian Britain's greatest sporting hero. The THU comedy trio's swashbuckling family romp. From October 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009m464 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076s3l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Agatha Christie b01bwfy6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Almanacs: The Oldest Guides to Everything b00t2mhs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00ybw75 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rr7rp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqfw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vt7dj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jmc9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b008jf2r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b00y37bh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b0196tyh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01f883m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Agatha Christie b00jz7jj (Listen) FRI Philomel Cottage FRI When Alex meets Terry she's swept off her feet. He persuades FRI her to leave her job with a dot com company and set up a FRI business with him - based in an out of the way cottage in FRI the country... FRI A new spin on the Queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie's FRI classic story, dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. FRI Stars Lizzie McInnerny as Alex, Tom Hollander as Terry, Adam FRI Godley as Richard and Struan Rodger as Merlin. FRI Producer: Jeremy Mortimer FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. FRI FRI 06:30 Bill Mitchell: The Man Who Wrestled Pumas... Probably FRI b00l1q7h (Listen) FRI Miriam Margolyes presents a documentary charting the life FRI and career of her late colleague and friend Bill Mitchell, FRI the voice-over artist who informed us the latest FRI blockbusters would be 'at cinemas near you from Sunday', FRI told us 'Carlsberg was probably the best lager in the FRI world', and that Denim was 'for men who didn't have to try FRI too hard'. FRI Born in Canada, he admitted that heavy drinking and smoking FRI from his teens helped preserve the voice, and indeed drove FRI his excessive lifestyle. He 'had to' abuse his body to FRI maintain the voice and he 'had to' be in a Soho pub because FRI it was handy for the recording studios. FRI Bill's career spanned acting, voice-over work, plus a brief FRI spell as 1970s pop outfit Yin and Yan with friend Chris FRI Sandford. His remains ranked as one of the greats within the FRI advertising industry. FRI Featuring contributions from Bill's daughter Amanda FRI McAllister, musicians and friends Zoot Money and Kenny FRI Clayton, and industry moguls Nick Angell and Rob Townsend. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston Comes to Town b007np4w (Listen) FRI A Tweak of Thread FRI Poorly Father decides the family should return to London, FRI but Nancy is fretting over Winston. Stars Maurice Denham. FRI From January 1990. FRI FRI 07:30 Instant Sunshine b007jxgk (Listen) FRI From 17/12/1986 FRI More humorous songs from the quartet of David Barlow, Peter FRI Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis. From December FRI 1986. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0089k50 (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Foreign Legion FRI The lad is set to entertain troops in Malta, but he's duped FRI into making an appearance on the frontline. 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 April 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007xt2f (Listen) FRI The Case of the Missing CD Plates FRI Mown down and flattened, frustrated Neddie Seagoon falls FRI foul of diplomatic immunity. Stars Spike Milligan. From FRI October 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b00zsc2g (Listen) FRI Series 1, Middlesex FRI This episode of 'The 3rd Degree' is brought to you from FRI Middlesex University, where host Steve Punt puts the FRI questions to students and dons of Child Nursing, Design & FRI Art, Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Topics for questions FRI include whirling astronauts, Wagner's operas, and 300 FRI billion copies of the Queen. So if you've ever wondered FRI which exponential function's derivative is equal to the FRI function itself or what are the exact contents of a FRI Jägerbomb cocktail, then this is 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 in a FRI genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being FRI a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent FRI standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and FRI jokes thrown in for good measure. 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 b007jzwr (Listen) FRI Series 1, Where There's a Will FRI With a trip to hospital looming, single dad Bryan must make FRI contingency plans. FRI Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as FRI Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With John Arnatt as the FRI Bank Manager. FRI Written by Jim Eldridge. FRI Producer: John Fawcett Wilson FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1977. FRI FRI 10:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jmcl (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Humphrey and Maud dash for freedom from the cruel captain, FRI but Japan is 600 miles away. Stars Jack Klaff and Shelley FRI Thompson. FRI FRI 11:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06p09x1 (Listen) FRI Clown's Shoes FRI 1930s London. Every night in the theatre, a young woman FRI performs a reluctant striptease. Read by Ruth Gemmell. FRI An ambitious debut collection of short stories by Rebecca F FRI John, dipping into the shadows and spotlights of life. FRI Rebecca F John is from Pwll, a village on the South Wales FRI coast, and works as a Ski Instructor. Her short story The FRI Dog Track was broadcast on Radio 4 as part of The Time Being FRI series in 2013, and Crow Road was broadcast in the Nights Of FRI The Hunter series in 2015. FRI The Glove Maker's Numbers was shortlisted for The Sunday FRI Times EFG Short Story Award in 2015. Rebecca won the PEN FRI International New Voices Award for her story Moon Dog in FRI October 2015. FRI Producer: Jeremy Osborne FRI Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk Productions. FRI FRI 11:15 Baldi b007jlm8 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Three in One FRI The crime-solving priest goes horse racing and uncovers the FRI 'SP' on an ex-jockey's murder. Starring David Threlfall. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0089k50 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007xt2f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Agatha Christie b00jz7jj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Bill Mitchell: The Man Who Wrestled Pumas... Probably FRI b00l1q7h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00ybw77 (Listen) FRI David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 5 FRI Caribou Island is set in David Vann's native Alaska, amid FRI the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in FRI alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from FRI any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska FRI thirty years before with his young wife Irene, in search of FRI an unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once FRI again. He will build a simple cabin there and at last find FRI peace. Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, FRI unlike her husband, that there are costs. FRI Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a FRI dentist suffering his own 'mid-life crisis'. FRI Fluid,sometimes funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores FRI the depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes FRI the young still entertain. FRI Today: Jim's dreams are dashed while Irene wonders if hers FRI were ever realistic. FRI The reader is William Hope FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose FRI groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a FRI best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix FRI Medicis Etranger. Caribou Island is broadcast just after FRI publication. FRI FRI 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rrc1c (Listen) FRI Revolution and War FRI Revolution and War: Episode twenty of a thirty-part series FRI made in collaboration with the British Library Sound FRI Archive. FRI Paris 1789: Politics moves out of the palaces and into the FRI streets - as the hushed voice of court diplomacy gives way FRI to the angry howls of the crowd. FRI Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex introduces FRI the noises of revolutionary Paris, before travelling to the FRI USA to explain how an 'acoustic shadow' helped the FRI Confederate forces launch a surprise attack during the FRI American Civil War. Also, there's the eerie sound of the FRI 'rebel yell'. FRI Produced by Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqg8 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Mill workers are laid off, and a desperately poor family is FRI found barely alive in a cellar. Stars Emma Rydal and Roy FRI Hudd. FRI FRI 14:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vtycl (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI May 1916: The last days of British soldier Robert Digby and FRI the looming Battle of the Somme. Read by Tom Goodman-Hill. FRI FRI 15:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jmcl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b00zsc2g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b007jzwr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston Comes to Town b007np4w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Instant Sunshine b007jxgk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009mbjn (Listen) FRI Fight for the Future FRI Jurgen and Kate are desperate to get the weapon away before FRI all is lost. Stars Rory Kinnear and Rachel Atkins. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00763xd (Listen) FRI Series 2, Over the Rainbow FRI Ernie and Ena Harburg, Jane Horrocks and Steve Nallon FRI reflect on the impact of The Wizard of Oz's 'Over the FRI Rainbow'. From September 2001. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0089k50 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007xt2f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Agatha Christie b00jz7jj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Bill Mitchell: The Man Who Wrestled Pumas... Probably FRI b00l1q7h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Rebecca F John - Clown's Shoes b06p09x1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Baldi b007jlm8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Instant Sunshine b007jxgk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007v1pd (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI Can spin kings Prentiss McCabe turn a failed novelist into a FRI best seller? Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From February FRI 2001. FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b01n9whw (Listen) FRI Series 3, Memory Lapse; If I Ruled the World FRI The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his FRI wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience FRI readings. This week, the stories include childhood memories FRI of competitive parenting in "Memory Lapse", and a character FRI monologue imagining what life would be like "If I Ruled The FRI World!" FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Boom Pictures Cymru production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Sedaris FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: David Sedaris FRI FRI 23:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b01r5s2l (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI Last year, comedian Bridget Christie noticed that misogyny, FRI like shiny leggings, had made an unexpected comeback. But FRI did it ever really go away? Bridget Christie Minds the Gap FRI is a new four-part stand up comedy series on the state of FRI British feminism today. FRI In episode two Bridget considers women and their day-to-day FRI relationships with each other, via an organic herb puff FRI snack, a church pew and a bag of dirty laundry. FRI Fred MacAulay helps her remember some of the key incidents FRI which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms. FRI Producers; Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Bridget Christie FRI Performer: Fred MacAulay FRI Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI
06 November, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 07/11/2015 - 13/11/2015
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