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SAT SATURDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream b009mbjn (Listen) SAT Fight for the Future SAT Jurgen and Kate are desperate to get the weapon away before SAT all is lost. Stars Rory Kinnear and Rachel Atkins. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00763xd (Listen) SAT Series 2, Over the Rainbow SAT Ernie and Ena Harburg, Jane Horrocks and Steve Nallon SAT reflect on the impact of The Wizard of Oz's 'Over the SAT Rainbow'. From September 2001. SAT SAT 01:00 Agatha Christie b00jz7jj (Listen) SAT Philomel Cottage SAT When Alex meets Terry she's swept off her feet. He persuades SAT her to leave her job with a dot com company and set up a SAT business with him - based in an out of the way cottage in SAT the country... SAT A new spin on the Queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie's SAT classic story, dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. SAT Stars Lizzie McInnerny as Alex, Tom Hollander as Terry, Adam SAT Godley as Richard and Struan Rodger as Merlin. SAT Producer: Jeremy Mortimer SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. SAT SAT 01:30 Bill Mitchell: The Man Who Wrestled Pumas... Probably SAT b00l1q7h (Listen) SAT Miriam Margolyes presents a documentary charting the life SAT and career of her late colleague and friend Bill Mitchell, SAT the voice-over artist who informed us the latest SAT blockbusters would be 'at cinemas near you from Sunday', SAT told us 'Carlsberg was probably the best lager in the SAT world', and that Denim was 'for men who didn't have to try SAT too hard'. SAT Born in Canada, he admitted that heavy drinking and smoking SAT from his teens helped preserve the voice, and indeed drove SAT his excessive lifestyle. He 'had to' abuse his body to SAT maintain the voice and he 'had to' be in a Soho pub because SAT it was handy for the recording studios. SAT Bill's career spanned acting, voice-over work, plus a brief SAT spell as 1970s pop outfit Yin and Yan with friend Chris SAT Sandford. His remains ranked as one of the greats within the SAT advertising industry. SAT Featuring contributions from Bill's daughter Amanda SAT McAllister, musicians and friends Zoot Money and Kenny SAT Clayton, and industry moguls Nick Angell and Rob Townsend. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00ybw77 (Listen) SAT David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 5 SAT Caribou Island is set in David Vann's native Alaska, amid SAT the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in SAT alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from SAT any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska SAT thirty years before with his young wife Irene, in search of SAT an unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once SAT again. He will build a simple cabin there and at last find SAT peace. Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, SAT unlike her husband, that there are costs. SAT Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a SAT dentist suffering his own 'mid-life crisis'. SAT Fluid,sometimes funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores SAT the depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes SAT the young still entertain. SAT Today: Jim's dreams are dashed while Irene wonders if hers SAT were ever realistic. SAT The reader is William Hope SAT The abridger is Sally Marmion SAT The producer is Di Speirs. SAT Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose SAT groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a SAT best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix SAT Medicis Etranger. Caribou Island is broadcast just after SAT publication. SAT SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rrc1c (Listen) SAT Revolution and War SAT Revolution and War: Episode twenty of a thirty-part series SAT made in collaboration with the British Library Sound SAT Archive. SAT Paris 1789: Politics moves out of the palaces and into the SAT streets - as the hushed voice of court diplomacy gives way SAT to the angry howls of the crowd. SAT Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex introduces SAT the noises of revolutionary Paris, before travelling to the SAT USA to explain how an 'acoustic shadow' helped the SAT Confederate forces launch a surprise attack during the SAT American Civil War. Also, there's the eerie sound of the SAT 'rebel yell'. SAT Produced by Matt Thompson SAT A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqg8 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Mill workers are laid off, and a desperately poor family is SAT found barely alive in a cellar. Stars Emma Rydal and Roy SAT Hudd. SAT SAT 02:45 Ben Macintyre - A Foreign Field b00vtycl (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT May 1916: The last days of British soldier Robert Digby and SAT the looming Battle of the Somme. Read by Tom Goodman-Hill. SAT SAT 03:00 Jack London - The Sea Wolf b007jmcl (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Humphrey and Maud dash for freedom from the cruel captain, SAT but Japan is 600 miles away. Stars Jack Klaff and Shelley SAT Thompson. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b00zsc2g (Listen) SAT Series 1, Middlesex SAT This episode of 'The 3rd Degree' is brought to you from SAT Middlesex University, where host Steve Punt puts the SAT questions to students and dons of Child Nursing, Design & SAT Art, Biology and Biomedical Sciences. Topics for questions SAT include whirling astronauts, Wagner's operas, and 300 SAT billion copies of the Queen. So if you've ever wondered SAT which exponential function's derivative is equal to the SAT function itself or what are the exact contents of a SAT Jägerbomb cocktail, then this is the quiz show for you. SAT "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz SAT show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 SAT listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded SAT on location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT 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 b007jzwr (Listen) SAT Series 1, Where There's a Will SAT With a trip to hospital looming, single dad Bryan must make SAT contingency plans. SAT Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as SAT Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With John Arnatt as the SAT Bank Manager. SAT Written by Jim Eldridge. SAT Producer: John Fawcett Wilson SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1977. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston Comes to Town b007np4w (Listen) SAT A Tweak of Thread SAT Poorly Father decides the family should return to London, SAT but Nancy is fretting over Winston. Stars Maurice Denham. SAT From January 1990. SAT SAT 05:30 Instant Sunshine b007jxgk (Listen) SAT From 17/12/1986 SAT More humorous songs from the quartet of David Barlow, Peter SAT Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis. From December SAT 1986. SAT SAT 06:00 James Bond - You Only Live Twice b00fbzkg (Listen) SAT James Bond's wife, Tracey, has been murdered by his deadly SAT enemy Blofeld. SAT Agent 007 has gone completely to pieces and is drafting his SAT resignation. But 'M' is prepared to give him one last chance SAT to prove himself - on a mission which will lead him to a SAT fatal encounter in a Japanese Garden of Death. SAT Starring Michael Jayston as James Bond, Clive Merrison as SAT Tanaka, James Laurenson as Henderson, David King as M, Sayo SAT Inaba as Kissy, Burt Kwouk as Ando and Maxine Audley as SAT Irma. SAT Ian Fleming's classic story dramatised for radio by Michael SAT Bakewell. SAT Director: Michael Bakewell. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. SAT SAT 07:30 Misfits in France b00f85ky (Listen) SAT Impressions of Honfleur, Reunions in Rouen 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 The series ends in Rouen, where Oscar Wilde rekindled his SAT relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas after a lonely summer SAT in exile outside Dieppe. The museum in Rouen also holds a SAT collection of paintings by Monet, Sisley and Walter SAT Sickert's friend and patron - Jacques Emile Blanche. SAT Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Claude Monet ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Walter Sickert ...... Stephen Critchlow. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00fr75c (Listen) SAT Studs Terkel - Back in the Wax Museum SAT Alan Dein looks back at the life of the American oral SAT historian Studs Terkel, who died earlier this month. SAT Includes unique archive material from Terkel's own SAT collection of recordings covering almost 50 years of SAT interviews and broadcasts. SAT SAT 09:00 Dr John Cooper Clarke: Complete Control b06p4syp (Listen) SAT Made for 4 Extra. The poet and cultural icon Dr John Cooper SAT Clarke has been given Complete Control of Radio 4 Extra to SAT select three hours of his favourite programmes from the BBC SAT Radio Archives. SAT This Includes; SAT Stand-up from Bob Hope, recorded at the London Palladium in SAT 1953 SAT A collection of comedy from the golden age of radio variety SAT with Vic Oliver, Al Read and Jimmy 'Wheel 'em in' Wheeler. SAT Some audio interference from the pioneering DJ Jack Jackson. SAT An episode of 'The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole 13 ¾ SAT A creepy reading of Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’ by SAT James Stewart (yes, that James Stewart) SAT Vincent Price and Peter Cushing coming face-to-face in ‘The SAT Price Of Fear’ SAT The classic Western ‘The Shootist’, starring Brian Cox and SAT Michelle Fairley SAT So enjoy three hours of thrills, chills and laughs, all SAT introduced by the man who is in Complete Control, Dr John SAT Cooper Clarke. SAT SAT 12:00 Dad's Army b007jprv (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Godiva Affair SAT The platoon holds a Spitfire fundraiser, but Corporal Jones SAT is pining for Mrs Fox. SAT Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier SAT as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John SAT Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, SAT Arnold Ridley as Godfrey, Bill Pertwee as Hodges and Mollie SAT Sugden as Mrs Fox. SAT Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV SAT scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. SAT Additional music by Dennis Gomm. SAT Producer: John Dyas SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976. SAT SAT 12:30 To the Manor Born b007k4mq (Listen) SAT Vive Le Sport SAT When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being SAT taken for a ride. SAT Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, Keith SAT Barron as Richard DeVere, Angela Thorne as Marjory SAT Frobisher, Nicholas McArdle as Brabinger, Margery Withers as SAT Mrs Polouvicka and Geoffrey Whitehead as Dr Horton. SAT The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, SAT forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her SAT husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler SAT Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge SAT cottage. SAT From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and SAT disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the SAT nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of SAT Czech descent. SAT First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it SAT ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. SAT Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. SAT Producer: Jane Berthoud SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997. SAT Credits SAT Actor: Penelope Keith SAT Actor: Peter Bowles SAT SAT 13:00 Children in Need: D for Dexter b06p4syr (Listen) SAT Series 2 Omnibus SAT Skye hates to leave Dexter, but come Thursday, they will be SAT together again. Amanda Whittington's heartwarming story with SAT Sydney Wade. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06p4vz4 (Listen) SAT John Craven SAT Broadcaster John Craven chooses 'You Are My Sunshine' by SAT Gene Autry and the Children in Need single 'Wake Me Up'. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b0075yfg (Listen) SAT Gore Vidal SAT Fastidious, unforgiving, disdainful, aphoristic, bellicose SAT and wickedly compelling. Legendary American writer and SAT critic Gore Vidal discusses his extraordinary life and SAT career with Professor Anthony Clare. From October 2000. SAT Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with SAT prominent people from different walks of life. SAT Born in Dublin, author Anthony Clare held a doctorate in SAT medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow SAT of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a SAT regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he SAT became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own SAT vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this SAT series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV. Series SAT highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil SAT Parkinson and Gerry Adams. SAT Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00fr75c (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 James Bond - You Only Live Twice b00fbzkg (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Misfits in France b00f85ky (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Wally K Daly b007k41c (Listen) SAT Nightmare World SAT Gary Henderson and old man Jenkins head up a mountain road SAT to Hill House every November 13th. But on their ascent this SAT year, the mountain begins to shake like hell on earth. And SAT Gary? He meets himself coming back... SAT As a world-wide power failure brings chaos and terror to SAT Earth, one town in every country undergoes a curious and SAT startling transformation. SAT Wally K Daly's sci-fi thriller stars James Laurenson as Gary SAT Henderson, Nigel Anthony as Jenkins, Peter Jeffrey as AP SAT Smith and Geoffrey Whitehead as the Prime Minister. SAT Director: David Hitchinson SAT First broadcast on the BBC World Service in 1989 . SAT SAT 19:00 Dr John Cooper Clarke: Complete Control b06p4syp (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Concrete Cow b0076js0 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 SAT The complication of ordering coffee and finding Captain SAT Oates. Sketch show with Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. From SAT August 2002. SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive b00dbcw2 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 5 SAT Comic pilot Armando Iannucci flies Air Hilarious. With SAT Marcus Brigstocke, Andy Parsons and Justin Edwards. From SAT September 2008. SAT SAT 23:00 BBC Radio New Comedy Award Extra b06qqvtp (Listen) SAT Semi-Final 2 SAT Patrick Kielty hosts the second semi-final of the 2015 BBC SAT Radio New Comedy Award, recorded at the Comedy Store in SAT Manchester. 750 entrants have been whittled down across 8 SAT heats to our 12 semi-finalists, and tonight features Russ SAT Peers, Yuriko Kotani, Michael Stranney, Tom Taylor, Sophie SAT Willan and Adam Hastings. 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 b00fh6vz (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Ivor Cutler's unique views on how to promote a child's SAT growth. Songs and stories, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May SAT 1996. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Wally K Daly b007k41c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Children in Need: D for Dexter b06p4syr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06p4vz4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b0075yfg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b00fr75c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 James Bond - You Only Live Twice b00fbzkg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Misfits in France b00f85ky (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b007yltk (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN A cotton weaver's daughter is wooed and her Aunt goes SUN missing. Elizabeth Gaskell's novel frankly depicts life in SUN the lower classes of Manchester in the 1840s. Stars Emma SUN Rydal. SUN SUN 07:15 Ghost Houses b007603s (Listen) SUN Workington Hall SUN Charlotte Smith visits Workington Hall in Cumbria to meet SUN the people who witnessed the ruination of this ancient SUN family seat. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b01pztrn (Listen) SUN Series 8, Nanny State 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 Brian and Clare are struggling with childcare for their son SUN Thomas when Clare bumps into their beloved Nanny, Nali - who SUN they sacked. SUN Episode 4 - Nanny State SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Producer Katie Tyrrell. SUN Credits SUN Clare: Sally Phillips SUN Brian: Alex Lowe SUN Nali: Nina Conti SUN Stan: Richard Lumsden SUN Mrs Pope: Sarah Thom SUN Writer: Harry Venning SUN Writer: David Ramsden SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 08:00 The Al Read Show b00tf065 (Listen) SUN From 25/11/1954 SUN A nagging wife and secrets of the boys in blue. Monologues SUN and sketches from the legendary Northern comic. From SUN November 1954. SUN SUN 08:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b015f9b7 (Listen) SUN From 03/05/1950 SUN With fresh London premises, the staff must recruit a new SUN secretary. Stars Richard Murdoch and Kenneth Horne. From May SUN 1950. SUN SUN 09:00 Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: SUN The Life of Gore Vidal - Omnibus b06p4zp2 (Listen) SUN Author Jay Parini recalls his first encounter with Gore SUN Vidal and describes a privileged, lonely childhood. Read by SUN Toby Jones. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06p4zp4 (Listen) SUN Anita Dobson SUN The actress Anita Dobson chooses 'No One But You' by Billy SUN Eckstine and 'Young at Heart' by Frank Sinatra. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06p52bx (Listen) SUN Comedians, Jackie Mason SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Patsy Cline to Dina Washington, the SUN American comedian shares his castaway choices with Kirsty SUN Young. From March 2012. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06p52bz (Listen) SUN Doctors, Prom and Ellen SUN True stories told live in the USA: Sarah Austin Jenness SUN introduces tales about decisions, from citizen tests to SUN 'coming out'. 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, the UK and other parts SUN of 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 Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN 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 b00pn48m (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Dodo SUN Slaughtered into oblivion, the naturalist asks what lessons SUN can be learned from the case of the most famous of extinct SUN species. SUN SUN 12:00 The Al Read Show b00tf065 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b015f9b7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b007yltk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Ghost Houses b007603s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Death in the Fifth Position Omnibus b06p52c3 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Drama omnibus. McCarthyite New York - Gore Vidal (as Edgar SUN Box) entertains with the mysterious death of a ballerina. SUN Read by Jamie Parker. SUN SUN 15:45 JG Ballard - The Largest Theme Park in the World SUN b06p52c5 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Europe has exchanged work for perpetual SUN sun-bathing on the beaches of the Mediterranean Sea. Read by SUN Patrick Malahide. SUN SUN 16:00 The Day of the Locust: LA Apocalypse b06r5ft6 (Listen) SUN When the novelist Nathanael West died in a car crash in SUN 1940, he thought his last book 'The Day of the Locust' was a SUN humiliating failure. But today, it's heralded as a major SUN 20th century classic. SUN West was a New Yorker who'd gone to Hollywood to earn money SUN turning out scripts. And Day of the Locust is his dark, SUN sardonic take on the promise of Hollywood, and of California SUN - which attracted thousands to the Golden State in the SUN Depression years of the 1930s. Amidst the sunshine and the SUN oranges, West saw a middle class boiling with frustration. SUN His early title for the novel was The Cheated. The book ends SUN with a movie premiere transmogrifying into a murderous riot SUN - at the heart of which is a character called Homer Simpson. SUN Historian Adam Smith travels to Los Angeles to unearth the SUN roots of the novel in the political turmoil of the time. SUN West saw his climactic mob scene as a prophecy of America SUN descending into civil war. Adam traces how two young men SUN living in Los Angeles as West wrote the novel were to go on SUN to channel the resentments West divined into a political SUN movement which swept America. A young would-be film star SUN turned down work at the studio where West worked - and was SUN living four blocks away from West as he wrote Locust. Ronald SUN Reagan would go on to become Governor of California by SUN tapping into middle class fears and loathings. And a few SUN miles away, a young, awkward lawyer, Richard Nixon, was SUN already shaping his skills at 'doing the people's hating for SUN them' - a talent that would take him, too, all the way to SUN the White House. SUN Adam visits West's old haunts and mingles with the crowd at SUN a contemporary movie premiere, in a bid to understand the SUN very Californian frustrations West saw all around him. And SUN he explores how, finally, in the 1980s, Reagan, once a SUN thwarted actor, was able to fuse middle-class resentments SUN with a sunny Hollywood optimism, in a political alchemy that SUN transformed America. SUN With: Lisa McGirr, Steve Ross, Rick Perlstein, Stephen SUN Schwartz, Jay Martin, Joe Woodward, Becky Nicolaides, Mark SUN Feeney SUN Producer: Phil Tinline SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 2015. SUN SUN 16:45 Crème de la Crime b00824r5 (Listen) SUN Series 2, A Pyramid Scheme SUN Michael Feydeau and David Pershore probe the mysterious SUN curse of a mummy. Stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From May SUN 2002. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06p52c7 (Listen) SUN Poetry of History - Di Great Insohreckshan SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'The Poetry of History' written in the aftermath of great SUN historic events, Jonathan Bate brings us close to our own SUN times and the Brixton riots of 1981. He talks to Linton SUN Kwesi Johnson whose poem Di Great Insohreckshan now stands SUN alongside TV and radio archive as a primary source, helping SUN future generations understand the cultural and political SUN upheaval that spilt onto the streets of south London in SUN April 1981. SUN Producer: Tom Alban SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007. SUN SUN 17:30 Clare in the Community b01pztrn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jlyq (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Wind SUN A man fears for his frantic friend, who claims he's being SUN pursued by enraged winds out to exact revenge. 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 Vincent Marzello, Stuart Milligan, Liza Ross, Gerard SUN McDermott and Carolyn Jones. SUN Dramatised by Brian Sibley SUN Producer: Adrian Bean SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. SUN SUN 18:30 Terry Pratchett b008pc2z (Listen) SUN Guards! Guards!, Episode 4 SUN Captain Vimes tries tracking the dragon, and the Librarian SUN travels in time. Comic fantasy with Martin Jarvis and Melvyn SUN Hayes. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06p52bz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pn48m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: SUN The Life of Gore Vidal - Omnibus b06p4zp2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06p4zp4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06p52bx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b01pztrn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize b044vhlq (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN A Puritan vet dishes out tough love to ill pets. Stars Jane SUN Bussmann and David Quantick. With Peter Serafinowicz. From SUN May 1998. SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00773md (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 SUN Perrier Award winning comedian Laura Solon continues her new SUN sketch and character comedy series, aided by the voices of SUN Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond. Plus more SUN from the China Lion, the new barn conversion couple and a SUN return to Chingley Hall. SUN SUN 23:30 Recorded for Training Purposes b00h8x2m (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 5 SUN Sketch show about modern communication and contemporary SUN obsessions. With Ben Willbond and Rachel Atkins. From SUN February 2009. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jlyq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Terry Pratchett b008pc2z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b007yltk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Ghost Houses b007603s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Death in the Fifth Position Omnibus b06p52c3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 JG Ballard - The Largest Theme Park in the World MON b06p52c5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 The Day of the Locust: LA Apocalypse b06r5ft6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 04:45 Crème de la Crime b00824r5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:45 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06p52c7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Clare in the Community b01pztrn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Miss Marple b007jnj3 (Listen) MON A Murder Is Announced, Episode 1 MON The villagers of Chipping Cleghorn, including Miss Jane MON Marple, are agog with curiosity over an advertisement in the MON local gazette which reads: 'A murder is announced and will MON take place on Friday October 29th at Little Paddocks at MON 6.30pm'. As the time approaches, the crowds gather at Little MON Paddocks and then the lights go out. Surely it must be a MON hoax...? MON Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the MON deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Marple. With Ian Lavender as MON Inspector Craddock, Graham Crowden as Sir Henry Clithering, MON Sarah Lawson as Letty Blacklock, Judy Cornwell as Dora MON Bunner and Jamie Glove as Patrick Simmons. MON From the book first published in 1950 and dramatised by MON Michael Bakewell. MON Director: Enyd Williams MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. MON MON 06:30 Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament b00bw51n (Listen) MON Zina Saro-Wiwa explores the legacy of Africa's first great MON post-colonial novel. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is a MON novel set at the turn of the century in what is now Nigeria, MON telling the story of a society which lives close to the MON rhythms and drumbeats of nature. Fifty years after its MON publication, the book still enjoys a huge worldwide appeal. MON MON 07:00 Street and Lane b00vhw43 (Listen) MON Series 1, Hitting the Highs MON The Yorkshire builders need specialist help to fix a MON penthouse roof leak. Stars Fine Time Fontayne. From MON September 2005. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b06nnnlk (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 6 MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the long running panel show where MON guests must try to speak without hesitation, deviation or MON repetition. MON Sue Perkins, Tony Hawks and Gyles Brandreth are joined by MON newcomer to the game Andy Hamilton, who has a few problems MON with the rules. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jpvh (Listen) MON Series 3, Keep Young and Beautiful MON New War Office policy sparks drastic action amongst the MON platoon's old guard. 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, Larry Martyn as Private Walker amd MON Michael Burlington as the Wig Maker. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. Additional MON music by Dennis Gomm. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976. MON MON 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01s254c (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON Larks from the much-loved comedy duo. Private Morecambe is a MON hero and the guest is singer Clodagh Rogers. From September MON 1976. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b009md8r (Listen) MON Series 11, John Grisham MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John MON Walsh with guests Mark Billingham and Jane Thynne. The MON author of the week and subject for pastiche is John Grisham MON and the reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mzslr (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 4 MON Fat is a feminist issue for Pam, and for everyone else when MON she declares war on gravity. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From May MON 2004. MON MON 10:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qc0 (Listen) MON Swann's Way MON A writer journey's back into his childhood recalls the sad MON affair of Charles Swann. Stars James Wilby and Imogen MON Stubbs. MON MON 11:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00n3ptx (Listen) MON A Bit on the Side MON The tale of a middle-aged accountant and the end of an MON intense love affair that began as an office romance. Read by MON Niamh Cusack. MON MON 11:15 Baldi b007jlmx (Listen) MON Series 2, Twilight of a God MON An invitation to an operatic wedding turns into a dramatic MON murder trail for the priestly sleuth. Stars David Threlfall. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jpvh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01s254c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Miss Marple b007jnj3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament b00bw51n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhxk0 (Listen) MON David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 6 MON Caribou Island is set in David 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 mediaevalist who fled to Alaska MON thirty years with his young wife Irene, in search of an MON unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. MON He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. MON Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her MON husband, that 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 and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an MON unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young MON still entertain. MON Today: Irene's headaches seem to have no physical cause. Can MON it be the strain of the cabin project? And can it really be MON that small? Meanwhile without Monique, Jim plans to make it MON up to Rhoda and make a new life plan. MON The reader is William Hope MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. 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. Caribou Island is broadcast just after MON publication. MON MON 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rvnx1 (Listen) MON The Conquering Engines MON The Conquering Engines - Industrial Revolution: Episode MON twenty-one of a thirty-part series made in collaboration MON with the British Library Sound Archive. MON Henry David Thoreau is one of history's great listeners. His MON classic work Walden is dense with descriptions of the MON natural sounds he discovered when he swapped his Concord MON home for a simple cabin in the woods. But his peace was MON disturbed by a noise that presaged the age to come: the MON snort of the iron horse. MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explains MON how the sounds of nature gave way before the industrial din. MON Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. MON Producer: Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007yn9k (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Tragedy strikes for Jem, but will occupied Mary offer any MON comfort? Frank portrayal of 1840s Manchester life with Emma MON Rydal. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00w15w2 (Listen) MON Giles Tremlett - Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, MON Episode 1 MON A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who MON became Queen of England, then changed the course of Tudor MON history by refusing to grant Henry VIII the divorce he MON needed to marry Anne Boleyn. MON Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of MON Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage MON lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives MON put together. MON Abridged by Alison Joseph MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON 15:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qc0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b009md8r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mzslr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Street and Lane b00vhw43 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b06nnnlk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ylq3 (Listen) MON Allergy MON Caledonian creepiness, as Scottish writer Elspeth Davie MON spins a strange yarn of ovulatory revenge. Read by Edith MON Macarthur. MON MON 18:15 MR James Stories b00pdxrw (Listen) MON Oh Whistle and I'll Come to You My Lad MON Derek Jacobi introduces the tale of a curious artefact found MON in the ruins of a Knights Templar church. Stars Jamie MON Glover. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b007755k (Listen) MON Chinua Achebe and Doris Lessing MON Edward Blishen and his guests, novelists Doris Lessing and MON Chinua Achebe discuss books by Tsitsi Dangarembga, RK MON Narayan and Nawal El Sadawi. From 1993. MON Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga MON Publisher: The Women's Press MON The Talkative Man by RK Narayan MON Publisher: Penguin MON God Dies on the Nile by Nawal El Sadawi MON Publisher: Zed Books. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jpvh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01s254c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Miss Marple b007jnj3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament b00bw51n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00n3ptx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Baldi b007jlmx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b06nnnlk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Headset Set b01p0t39 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON EPISODE 5 MON Audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre MON called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything. MON Bernie brings her dog in to the office and starts a craze. MON Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu MON Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith MON Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult MON Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma MON Writers ..... Various MON Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06r1519 (Listen) MON The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee chats to Mackenzie MON Crook. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b06ns27q (Listen) MON Series 47, Episode 1 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Freya Parker, Holly MON Walsh, Dr Phil Hammond, Grace Petrie and Jon Holmes for a MON comic romp through the week's news. MON Written by the cast, with additional material from Gareth MON Gwynn, Sarah Morgan, Liam Beirne and Rose Biggin. MON Produced by Alexandra Smith. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Freya Parker MON Performer: Holly Walsh MON Performer: Phil Hammond MON Performer: Grace Petrie MON Performer: Jon Holmes MON Writer: Gareth Gwynn MON Writer: Sarah Morgan MON Writer: Liam Beirne MON Writer: Rose Biggin MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 23:30 The Harpoon b007m747 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON A ripping, bumper summer edition of the nostalgic spoof of MON boys' adventure story papers. With Alistair McGowan. From MON July 1992. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 NOVEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ylq3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 MR James Stories b00pdxrw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b007755k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Miss Marple b007jnj3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Things Fall Apart: Chinua Achebe's Lament b00bw51n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhxk0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rvnx1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007yn9k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00w15w2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qc0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b009md8r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mzslr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Street and Lane b00vhw43 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b06nnnlk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Miss Marple b007jnjp (Listen) TUE A Murder Is Announced, Episode 2 TUE Who wants Letty Blacklock dead? What did Mitzi overhear in TUE the summerhouse? TUE Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss TUE Marple. With Ian Lavender as Inspector Craddock, Jenny TUE Funnell as Mitzi, Sarah Lawson as Letty Blacklock and Judy TUE Cornwell as Dora Bunner. TUE Dramatist: Michael Bakewell TUE Director: Enyd Williams TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. TUE TUE 06:30 Smash Hit of 1453 b00rt921 (Listen) TUE In the musical powerhouse of Europe in the 15th century, one TUE tune caught the imagination of the court composers. This was TUE The Armed Man (or in its original French "L'Homme Arme"). A TUE rousing first line warns that "the armed man must be feared" TUE and goes on to tell everyone to arm themselves with a coat TUE of mail. The musician and broadcaster Rainer Hersch unpicks TUE the facts we know of the tune and its words, making his way TUE through 40 odd church masses by as many composers, who used TUE the melody as a base. TUE Early music specialists Catherine Bott and Andrew Kirkman TUE think the original song may have been a warning against the TUE threat of the warring Turks, following the fall of TUE Constantinople in 1453, but it could equally have been a TUE popular children's or even a pub song. Whatever its origin TUE it became literally the "Smash Hit" of that time, but then, TUE like much of pop music, it just went out of fashion and TUE disappeared. TUE Rainer leaves the 15th century behind to find out why the TUE song suddenly burst back into life in the 20th century. TUE Christopher Marshall heard it in his New Zealand school and TUE composed a lively piece for wind band. Karl Jenkins came TUE across it during the Kosovo crisis 10 years ago, and TUE composed his popular Mass for Peace. This begins with the TUE sounds of an approaching army, with the original tune TUE bursting out at the climax. The Master of the Queen's Music, TUE Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, encountered it while studying in TUE Italy, and composed a theatre piece where it becomes TUE anything from a hymn to a foxtrot. And this year the TUE folk-group Mawkin:Causley released their first album and TUE turned it into a fast-moving riff, which gets audiences on TUE their feet. TUE Rainer traces the journey of the tune and the words, as it TUE appears in these very different musical clothes. TUE The producers are Richard Bannerman and Merilyn Harris, and TUE it is a Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759xc (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Eric Halliday's secret has been discovered by his TUE arch-rival. Can he avert disaster? Stars Alistair McGowan, TUE Jon Glover and John Salthouse. From July 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 Gloomsbury b03zby85 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Anarchy Looms over Staplehurst TUE Talk of a General Strike is in the air as Lionel and Ginny TUE Fox pay a visit to Sizzlinghurst Castle to see Vera TUE Sackcloth-Vest and Henry Mickleton. TUE Green-fingered Sapphist Vera Sackcloth-Vest shares a bijou TUE castle in Kent with her devoted husband Henry, but longs for TUE exotic adventures with nervy novelist Ginny Fox and wilful TUE beauty Venus Traduces. It's 1921, the dawn of modern love, TUE life and lingerie, but Vera still hasn't learnt how to boil TUE a kettle. TUE Ginny is writing a new book and wants to pick Vera's brains TUE about her aristocratic childhood. But all is not well. Henry TUE thinks that Ginny is a bad influence on Vera because Ginny TUE is so highly strung and Lionel thinks that Vera is too TUE aristocratic and not socialist enough for Ginny. TUE Terrified that the oppressed people of Staplehurst will rise TUE up and storm the castle, they flirt with a posh kind of TUE socialism until the working class DH Lollipop pops in with TUE his demi-mondaine Venus Traduces and tells them that he TUE likes them just the way they are. TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes TUE Gosling: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy TUE Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman TUE Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman TUE Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks TUE DH Lollipop: John Sessions TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE Writer: Sue Limb TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00m1d2k (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 8 TUE Kenneth Horne's all at sea, and drops into the Bona Nature TUE Clinic for advice from homeopathic practitioners Julian and TUE Sandy. Plus Rambling Syd Rumpo sings 'The Highland Lament' 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 April 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 To the Manor Born b007k4vh (Listen) TUE Sons of the Fathers TUE Clearing out the cellar - Audrey finds more than she'd TUE bargained for. 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 Frank Middlemass as Ned. 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 TUE 09:00 The Now Show b06ns27q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007js4t (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE William and Dorothy settle in their sublime cottage. Sue TUE Limb's Lakeland poets parody with Denise Coffey. From TUE February 1985. TUE TUE 10:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qgd (Listen) TUE The Budding Grove TUE Marcel recalls the awakening of passion and his painful TUE transition from boy to man. Stars James Wilby and Imogen TUE Stubbs. TUE TUE 11:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00n5plg (Listen) TUE Solitude TUE A child's impetuous act is finally resolved on a seafront TUE some 50 years later. Read by Penelope Wilton. TUE TUE 11:15 Baldi b007jln9 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Schecter's Knot TUE The priestly sleuth wonders if extreme professional jealousy TUE is behind a talented professor's death. Stars David TUE Threlfall. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00m1d2k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born b007k4vh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Miss Marple b007jnjp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Smash Hit of 1453 b00rt921 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhxk2 (Listen) TUE David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 7 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 with his young wife Irene, in search of an TUE unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. TUE He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. TUE Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her TUE 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 and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an TUE unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young TUE still entertain. TUE Today: Rhoda ponders on love and marriage and the TUE hopelessness of Jim, while, on the island as the first storm TUE of winter rages, Gary communes with his Viking heroes. 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 b01rvpkl (Listen) TUE The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly TUE The Beat of a Heart, the Tramp of a Fly: Episode twenty-two TUE of a thirty-part series made in collaboration with the TUE British Library Sound Archive. TUE In the early years of the nineteenth century, new technology TUE allowed people to hear sounds that had always existed - but TUE below the threshold of normal human perception. Professor TUE David Hendy of the University of Sussex tells the story of TUE medicine's listening revolution: the discovery of the TUE stethoscope. TUE Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. TUE Producer: Matt Thompson TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007yp2k (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE There is bad news for Jem, while Mary is teased about her TUE flirtation with the mill owner's son, Henry Carson. Stars TUE Emma Rydal. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00w4858 (Listen) TUE Giles Tremlett - Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, TUE Episode 2 TUE A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who TUE became Queen of England, then changed the course of Tudor TUE history. TUE Prince Arthur has died after only six months of marriage, TUE and Catherine is about to become a pawn in the complicated TUE game of European politics. TUE Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of TUE Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage TUE lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives TUE put together. TUE Abridged by Alison Joseph TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 15:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qgd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The Motion Show b0075wj0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE 4 Extra Debut. Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with TUE Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks, Jo Caulfield and Arthur Smith. TUE From January 2000. TUE TUE 16:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007js4t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759xc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Gloomsbury b03zby85 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ylrg (Listen) TUE The Swans TUE Staff in a paint shop start seeing mortality in a row of TUE houses. It has a melancholy effect on sales. Read by Edith TUE MacArthur. TUE TUE 18:15 MR James Stories b00pdzg5 (Listen) TUE The Tractate Middoth TUE Derek Jacobi introduces the classic ghost story of Doctor TUE Rant and the strange goings-on in the library. Stars Sam TUE Dale. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jnps (Listen) TUE Series 2, Dora Bryan TUE From ENSA to Hello Dolly, the veteran actress reminisces TUE about her stage, film and television career. From October TUE 2000. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00m1d2k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born b007k4vh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Miss Marple b007jnjp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Smash Hit of 1453 b00rt921 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00n5plg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Baldi b007jln9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Gloomsbury b03zby85 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Don't Start b01mqqg1 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Toenail TUE What do long term partners really argue about? The sharp new TUE comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. TUE Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted TUE comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each TUE week our couple fall out over another apparently trivial TUE flashpoint - the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. TUE The stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But TUE these are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other TUE with increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary TUE references (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs TUE Rochester, to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their TUE beloved's weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, TUE there is an 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 2: The Toenail TUE Frank's attempts at recycling strike Kim as an unhealthy TUE obsession with death. TUE Produced and directed by Polly Thomas TUE Executive Producer: Jon Thoday 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 b01gh8nb (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher TUE Nigel Penny. TUE Nigel's attempts to field calls from a dating agency whilst TUE teaching don't go quite as planned. Meanwhile Belinda is TUE attempting to track down the elusive Arts Centre Cleaner, TUE who has taken refuge in Nigel's room. 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 Cedric: Dave Lamb TUE Keith: Dave Lamb TUE Mark: Jim North TUE Jasveer: Jim North TUE Varinka: Jess Robinson TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE Producer: Richie Webb TUE Director: Nick Walker TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b01kt4ck (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 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 b00hxzc8 (Listen) TUE Captain Chapel and the Crabs TUE Milford sets out to rescue the Crab Prince. Stars Mark Heap, TUE Nick Frost, Kevin Eldon and Peter Serafinowicz. From TUE November 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 NOVEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ylrg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 MR James Stories b00pdzg5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jnps (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Miss Marple b007jnjp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Smash Hit of 1453 b00rt921 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhxk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rvpkl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007yp2k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00w4858 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qgd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 The Motion Show b0075wj0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007js4t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759xc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Gloomsbury b03zby85 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Miss Marple b007jnk6 (Listen) WED A Murder Is Announced, Episode 3 WED There is little doubt that the intended murder victim was WED Miss Blacklock. Will a second attempt be made on her life? WED Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the WED deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Marple. With Ian Lavender as WED Inspector Craddock, Jenny Funnell as Mitzi, Jamie Glove as WED Patrick Simmons, Sarah Lawson as Letty Blacklock and Judy WED Cornwell as Dora Bunner. WED Dramatist: Michael Bakewell WED Director: Enyd Williams WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. WED WED 06:30 Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow b00fhp89 (Listen) WED Mark Haworth-Booth tells the story of the French WED photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson's journey to the Soviet WED Union in 1954, when he was the first Western photographer to WED be admitted behind the Iron Curtain since WWII. WED His aim was to photograph the daily realities of life in the WED Sovet Union, and the subsequent exhibition of the work he WED did there represented the first glimpse of real life behing WED the Iron Curtain. WED Mark investigates the circumstances surrounding his visit WED and considers its wider significance, with the help of WED interviews with his widow, Martine Franck, photographers WED Annie Leibovitz and David Hurn and some of the Russian WED photographers whose work was directly influenced by WED Cartier-Bresson's time in the Soviet Union. WED WED 07:00 Huddwinks b00fsmzb (Listen) WED Series 2, Tom Smollet's Schooldays WED A young pupil faces up to boarding school life with a WED fearsome headmaster and a head boy bully. Stars Roy Hudd. WED From July 1988. WED WED 07:30 To Hull and Back b06nq26y (Listen) WED It's My Party 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 "It's My Party" WED Last episode in the series. Sophie finally comes in to some WED money. It's her chance to get away at last. However, her WED mother's birthday is imminent and a surprise party takes WED precedence. The party turns out to be more of a surprise to WED Sophie than her mother. 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 DJ Ritchie: Jon Richardson WED Debs: Jemma Walker WED Receptionist: Debra Baker WED Nurse: Debra Baker WED Glenda: Debra Baker WED Car Boot Johnny: Ewan Bailey WED Vidal Sassoon: Ewan Bailey WED Writer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 08:00 The TV Lark b01c7wj3 (Listen) WED On Safari WED The Troutbridge TV team heads to Africa for 'Up The Creek' WED with naturalists Maggie and Arnold Crump. 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 March 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b0100lqz (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 1 WED Professor Prune dons his electrical time trousers. Songs and WED sketches with John Cleese and Graeme Garden. From January WED 1969. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b0089ht7 (Listen) WED 1999, Heat 4 WED The fourth heat of Ned Sherrin's music quiz with Adam Nagel WED of Birmingham, Lucinda Sparrow from Cambridge and Swindon's WED Roderick Lawford. WED WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00rvzkq (Listen) WED Series 2, Considering the Lillies of the Field WED In Renaissance Italy, Prince Ludovico must raise cash for a WED Papal tribute. Stars David Swift and Sian Phillips. From May WED 2002. WED WED 10:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qkb (Listen) WED The Guermantes Way WED Marcel discovers the staggering gulf between the fantasy and WED the reality of childhood enchantments. Stars James Wilby. WED WED 11:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00ncf5p (Listen) WED Traditions WED A strange recognition across the generations for a schoolboy WED and an enigmatic maid. Read by Dermot Crowley. WED WED 11:15 Baldi b007jlnl (Listen) WED Series 2, Not for Life WED A young girl's suicide sends the priestly sleuth on an WED internet murder trail. Starring David Threlfall and Robert WED Bathurst. WED WED 12:00 The TV Lark b01c7wj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b0100lqz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Miss Marple b007jnk6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow b00fhp89 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhxmj (Listen) WED David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 8 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 mediaevalist who fled to Alaska WED thirty years 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 and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an WED unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young WED still entertain. WED Today: Jim finally has a question for Rhoda, but is it too WED late? And is it too late, as the storm rages round the WED island, for Gary and Irene to succeed? 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 b01rvpv1 (Listen) WED The New Art of Listening WED The New Art of Listening: Episode twenty-three of a WED thirty-part series made in collaboration with the British WED Library Sound Archive. WED In the eighteenth century, musical performances were a WED relaxed affair. Most audience members were so busy chatting, WED flirting and eating they didn't do much listening at all. WED But then came the era of grand concert halls. Professor WED David Hendy of the University of Sussex explores how the WED Victorians stopped shuffling and learned to hush. WED Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. WED Producer: Matt Thompson WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqhj (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Mr Barton is desperate for work, and a long-lost relative WED warns him over Mary. 1840s Manchester tale stars David WED Calder, Emma Rydal and Fiona Clarke. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00w487n (Listen) WED Giles Tremlett - Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, WED Episode 3 WED A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who WED changed the course of Tudor history. After years of waiting, WED Catherine is now officially bride of Henry VIII and Queen of WED England. WED Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of WED Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage WED lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives WED put together. WED Abridged by Alison Joseph WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 15:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qkb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b0089ht7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00rvzkq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Huddwinks b00fsmzb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 To Hull and Back b06nq26y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ymgs (Listen) WED A Field in Space WED An affecting story of 'the fields of the sky', and one WED expert whose speciality stuns a whole meeting. Read by WED Crawford Logan. WED WED 18:15 MR James Stories b00pf12h (Listen) WED Lost Hearts WED Derek Jacobi introduces the classic tale of orphan Stephen's WED haunted dreams of two ghostly figures. Stars James D'Arcy. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076wrz (Listen) WED Kissing Arse WED Dominic Arkwright presents the series featuring new writing WED and stimulating discussion. Guy Browning, Amanda Mitchison WED and Wilfred Emmanuel Jones take on the brown-nosers and WED lickspittles of the corporate world. WED WED 19:00 The TV Lark b01c7wj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b0100lqz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Miss Marple b007jnk6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow b00fhp89 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00ncf5p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Baldi b007jlnl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 To Hull and Back b06nq26y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01cws2j (Listen) WED Series 1, Chance WED This week Tim tackles the dicey issue of 'chance' via a WED selection of poems including: 'The Wrong Number that Led to WED a Marriage' and 'Probably Gay'. 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 b00r7lpz (Listen) WED Crisis Management WED Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright WED about two Australians down on their luck in London. WED Lloydie and Johnno need money fast to pay the rent, but will WED the contents of Lloydie's trusty backpack be enough to save WED the day? WED Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright WED Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED Credits WED Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED 23:00 Richard Herring's Objective b00vhgc7 (Listen) WED Series 1, The St George's Flag WED Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we have given WED a bad name to. This week he's reclaiming the English WED National Flag from any associations with far right WED extremists. Why does the man and woman on the street have no WED idea when St George's day is? Who is St George? Richard asks WED a vexillologist (flag expert) about how flags have come to WED symbolise nations.He also talks to anthropologist Kate Fox WED who has studied the behaviour of the English, about why the WED English are not natural flag waving patriots. The show was WED recorded in front of an audience. WED Producer ..... Alison Vernon-Smith ". WED Credits WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED WED 23:30 Revolting People b008h6np (Listen) WED Series 3, Over the Rainbow WED Mary discovers that there's no place like home. 1770 America WED sitcom stars Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. From June 2004. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ymgs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 MR James Stories b00pf12h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076wrz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Miss Marple b007jnk6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Shooting Soviets: Cartier-Bresson in Moscow b00fhp89 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhxmj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rvpv1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqhj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00w487n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qkb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b0089ht7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00rvzkq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Huddwinks b00fsmzb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 To Hull and Back b06nq26y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Miss Marple b007jnkp (Listen) THU A Murder Is Announced, Episode 4 THU Everyone realises that the poison was meant for Miss THU Blacklock, not Dora Bunner. Suspicion falls on the members THU of the group. THU Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss THU Marple. With Ian Lavender as Inspector Craddock, Elizabeth THU Bell as Miss Hinchliffe, Jamie Glove as Patrick Simmons and THU Sarah Lawson as Letty Blacklock. THU Dramatist: Michael Bakewell THU Director: Enyd Williams THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. THU THU 06:30 Oulipo b00nvzys (Listen) THU Writer and typographer Ben Schott investigates Oulipo, the THU French experimental literary group. Founded in 1960 and THU still in existence, Oulipo create work by imposing playful THU restrictions the way a text will be produced. Oulipo stands THU for Ouvroir de Litterature Potentielle, meaning Workshop for THU Potential Literature. In this humourous history of the THU French literary group, Ben discovers that recently, Oulipo THU have even made a bridgehead into English-speaking territory. THU In November 2008, for instance, the Canadian experimental THU poet Christian Bok published a novel called Eunoia (meaning THU 'beautiful thinking'), consisting of five chapters, each THU highlighting one vowel. Bok, who has previously created THU artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry, creator of Star THU Trek, says his new novel pays direct homage to Oulipo. THU Oulipo's President, Paul Fournel, describes how Oulipo was THU founded by Raymond Queneau and Francois Le Lionnais as a THU reaction to the Surrealist movement to which Queneau in THU particular had previously attached himself. Instead of THU freely following the whims of the subconscious, Oulipians THU deliberately introduced conscious constraints, and THU discovered the results could be not only plentiful but also THU intriguing. Oulipians, according to Queneau, are 'rats, who THU build the labyrinth from which they will escape'. Queneau's THU works included Cent Mille Milliards de Poemes, or THU 100,000,000,000,000 Poems, in which each page contains a THU 14-line sonnet, split into 14 strips, which can be separated THU and re-combined in any order. Queneau thought it would take THU 190,258,751 years for someone to read every combination. THU One of Oulipo's most famous members, George Perec, wrote an THU entire novel, La Disparition, as a lipogram, avoiding the THU use of the letter E. Translated into English under the title THU A Void, the novel is now required reading on some academic THU courses for computer programmers. Later, Perec devised a THU 'story-writing machine' based on the knight's tour of the THU chessboard, in the writing of his 1970 novel, Life: A User's THU Manual, which links every occupant in every room of a Paris THU apartment block. THU Some other techniques used by Oulipians to generate work THU include the N+7 method (where every noun is replaced by the THU noun found seven entries further on in a dictionary), Cento THU (a poem patched together out of lines written by other THU poets), palindromes and multiple choice narratives. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b03m40zv (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU by Katherine Jakeways THU Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the THU residents of a small market town in Northamptonshire. THU Relationships have come and gone but life continues in THU Wadenbrook and Ken and Keith have a birthday to celebrate. THU Producer: Steven Canny THU As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex THU girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and THU Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at THU these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a THU label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. THU Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor THU south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the THU three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each enviously. Now THU Katherine Jakeways is giving Northamptonshire an identity. THU And she waits, eagerly, for her home-county to thank her. THU And possibly make her some kind of Mayor. THU Joined by nearly all of the incredible cast which graced THU Series One and Two - including Sheila Hancock as the THU Narrator, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu, Geoffrey Palmer THU and Kevin Eldon - and with the exciting addition of Tim Key THU and Nathaniel Parker - North by Northamptonshire hopes (and THU promises) to once again delight audience and critics. THU 'The laughs are cruel, but the monsters of suburbia are THU curiously sympathetic, and the characters so well drawn and THU well played that this could run and run.' Time Out. THU Credits THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Rod: Tim Key THU Frank: Rufus Wright THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Keith: John Biggins THU Norman: Geoffrey Palmer THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Producer: Steven Canny THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU THU 07:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r0c5r (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 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 This second episode explores the theme of 'the body' THU including songs on shampoo, beards and catarrh. Guest THU starring Phill Jupitus who sings with the band and reads a THU poem, plus a rap from Lady Lykez. 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 .... Phill Jupitus and Lady Lykez THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007k094 (Listen) THU Series 4, Full House THU Card sharks fleece Harold Steptoe, so father Albert steps THU in. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Martin Friend, Douglas Blackwell and Michael THU Kilgarriff. 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 Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1972. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0089jcz (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU An escaped murderer is after the shady lawyer Waldorf T THU Flywheel. THU Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the THU adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his THU assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with THU sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The THU scripts were rediscovered in 1988. THU Starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T THU Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel THU Ravelli. THU With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello. THU Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark THU Brisenden. THU Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. THU Producer: Dirk Maggs THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075lcp (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU 4 Extra Debut. Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with THU Mark Thomas, Dillie Keane, Miles Kington and Roger McGough. THU From February 1997. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007q9k6 (Listen) THU Series 6, Growing Away THU As Emily flies the nest, Victoria and Roger assess their THU marriage. Stars Rosemary Leach and Angela Thorne. From THU August 1999. THU THU 10:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qnd (Listen) THU Sodom and Gomorrah THU Desperate to avoid the tortures of love, Marcel tries to THU make himself unavailable to Albertine. Meanwhile, the Baron THU de Charlus suffers heartbreak. Stars James Wilby. THU THU 11:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00nhq56 (Listen) THU Sacred Statues THU Can a statue maker's wife help her neighbours and herself, THU or is her husband being more realistic? Read by Niamh THU Cusack. THU THU 11:15 Baldi b007k01n (Listen) THU Series 2, Scratching the Surface THU The priest-cum-sleuth gets embroiled in mystery and death on THU a pot-holing expedition. Stars David Threlfall and Tina THU Kellegher. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007k094 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0089jcz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Miss Marple b007jnkp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Oulipo b00nvzys (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhyfw (Listen) THU David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 9 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 about to enter his own 'mid-life crisis'. THU Fluid and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an THU unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young THU still entertain. THU Today: In a powerful and uncompromising episode, as the THU cabin nears its faltering completion, Irene understands how THU alone she really is. THU The reader is William Hope THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rw2zq (Listen) THU Life in the City THU Life in the City: Episode twenty-four of a thirty-part THU series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound THU Archive. THU As cities grew, next-door's noise became increasingly hard THU to escape. Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex THU follows the writer Thomas Carlyle's grumpy attempts at THU soundproofing, before travelling to New York to imagine the THU teaming, noisy world of the Lower East Side tenements in the THU early twentieth century. THU Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. THU Producer: Matt Thompson THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqht (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Mary is worried about her father's savage behaviour, and Jem THU makes his intentions clear. Stars Emma Rydal and David THU Calder. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00w48fn (Listen) THU Giles Tremlett - Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, THU Episode 4 THU A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who THU changed the course of Tudor history. Henry VIII is THU determined to marry Anne Boleyn and has instituted divorce THU proceedings against Catherine. THU Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of THU Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage THU lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives THU put together. THU Abridged by Alison Joseph THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 15:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qnd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075lcp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007q9k6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b03m40zv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r0c5r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ysn7 (Listen) THU A Collection of Bones THU A troubling tale of a man with an obsessive hobby, and what THU happens when it suddenly comes to an end. Read by Crawford THU Logan. THU THU 18:15 MR James Stories b00pf4xf (Listen) THU The Rose Garden THU Derek Jacobi introduces a ghostly tale of the Goodmans, who THU unwittingly open a doorway to a turbulent past. Stars Anton THU Lesser. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076v1v (Listen) THU Series 8, Mae West THU 4 Extra Debut. Writer Kathy Lette proposes the blondest THU bombshell of them all, Mae West, and discusses the queen of THU the quip with biographer Simon Louvish. From October 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007k094 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0089jcz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Miss Marple b007jnkp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Oulipo b00nvzys (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00nhq56 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Baldi b007k01n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r0c5r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b011vld9 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 5 THU From Sir Alan Sugar to Boy George, Jon Culshaw explores the THU bizarre private lives of famous folk. From May 2009. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06r158z (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Iain Lee chats to Mackenzie THU Crook. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jpd8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Computers THU There's trouble in hell, thanks to a fundamentalist and a THU pushy computer. Satanic sitcom stars Andy Hamilton and James THU Grout. From April 1998. THU THU 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls Present b00gpbcv (Listen) THU More Brothers Faversham, Maximillian Faversham THU The story of Victorian Britain's greatest horror writer. The THU comedy trio's swashbuckling family romp. From October 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012ysn7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 MR James Stories b00pf4xf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076v1v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Miss Marple b007jnkp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Oulipo b00nvzys (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhyfw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rw2zq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqht (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00w48fn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qnd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075lcp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007q9k6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b03m40zv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01r0c5r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Miss Marple b007jnl4 (Listen) FRI A Murder Is Announced, Episode 5 FRI A further murder has been committed, but just as Miss Marple FRI is piecing her thoughts together - she disappears... FRI Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Jane FRI Marple. With Ian Lavender as Inspector Craddock, Jack Hedley FRI as Colonel Easterbrook, Jamie Glove as Patrick Simmons, FRI Sarah Rice as Phillipa Haymes, Jenny Funnell as Mitzi and FRI Sarah Lawson as Letty Blacklock. FRI Dramatist: Michael Bakewell FRI Director: Enyd Williams FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. FRI FRI 06:30 The Ghost Trains of Old England b00vhhcf (Listen) FRI Just one train a week runs between Stockport and FRI Stalybridge. It never returns. "There is no service from FRI Stalybridge to Stockport", says a platform sign, FRI cryptically. The Stockport-Stalybridge service is what's FRI known as a "parliamentary train" and exists only so that the FRI rail company can avoid going through formal closure FRI proceedings. Running the single weekly service costs only FRI £50, but to close it down would cost far more. Of the FRI intermediate stops on the line, Network Rail notes: "Data FRI collection including observation has been unable to record FRI any use of these stations". FRI In this programme, Ian Marchant travels these little used FRI lines and forgotten stations. There is Teesside Airport FRI station, the least-used stop in Britain, with just 44 FRI passengers a year. It has only one train a week, is a 20 FRI minutes walk from the airport (a journey which involves FRI negotiating a locked gate), and the airport has a different FRI name anyway. FRI Then there is the train that goes from Manchester to FRI Brighton - except that since the Manchester to Brighton FRI direct service has been abolished, a semi-secret replacement FRI bus travels once a week from Ealing Broadway to Wandsworth FRI Road, two stations that were never on the FRI Manchester-Brighton route anyway. FRI Most bizarre is the case of Newhaven Marine, a station which FRI is technically open, and is served by one train a day. But FRI the station is behind a locked fence and passengers are FRI forbidden to get on the train, which does not appear on any FRI timetable. The company offers to provide a taxi service to FRI any passenger "in possession of a valid ticket". But it is FRI impossible to buy a ticket. FRI Who are the people who use these secret trains which are FRI also buses and taxis? Mostly rail enthusiasts and hobbyists FRI who collect rail tickets. But occasionally a real passenger FRI stumbles across a service and uses it almost by accident. FRI And what does it say about the British attitude to rules FRI that we stick within the letter of the law while entirely FRI subverting their intention? FRI FRI 07:00 Winston Comes to Town b007qq36 (Listen) FRI Line of Communication FRI The cunning rogue has stowed away in a removal van to follow FRI the family to London. Stars Maurice Denham. From January FRI 1990. FRI FRI 07:30 Instant Sunshine b00lh3hd (Listen) FRI From 29/08/1988 FRI Humorous songs from the quartet of David Barlow, Peter FRI Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis. From August FRI 1988. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jsys (Listen) FRI Series 5, Sunday Afternoon at Home FRI Bored and miserable, the lad tries to decide what to do. FRI Classic episode starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, FRI Bill Kerr, Hattie 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 b007yn6x (Listen) FRI Rommel's Treasure FRI Fleeing from Tobruk in 1942, the military leader leaves FRI behind a precious box. Stars Spike Milligan. From October FRI 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge b0075w2m (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 1 FRI Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon FRI Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Bill Bailey and David Quantick. FRI The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer FRI than when they came in. FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b007jsm1 (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Homecoming FRI Single dad Bryan gets worried when his son's mum wants to FRI visit. FRI Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as FRI Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Robert Gillespie as FRI the Police Sergeant and Diana Berriman as Rose. FRI Written by Jim Eldridge. FRI Producer: John Fawcett Wilson FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1977. FRI FRI 10:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qrn (Listen) FRI The Prisoner and the Fugitive FRI Hiding away from his turbulent love affair with Albertine, FRI Marcel receives a devastating telegram. Stars James Wilby. FRI FRI 11:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00nm0k3 (Listen) FRI Graillis's Legacy FRI The touching and compassionate story of one man's guilt over FRI his love for two women. Read by Dermot Crowley. FRI FRI 11:15 Baldi b007jlp5 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Early Retirement FRI A retired policeman, a fatal shooting, Thomas Hardy and a FRI murky past revealed. With David Threlfall as the FRI priest-cum-sleuth. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jsys (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007yn6x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Miss Marple b007jnl4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Ghost Trains of Old England b00vhhcf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhygl (Listen) FRI David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 10 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 ago with his young wife Irene, in search of an FRI unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. FRI He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. FRI Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her FRI husband, that there are costs. FRI Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a FRI dentist, who is about to enter his own 'mid-life crisis'. FRI Fluid and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an FRI unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young FRI still entertain. FRI Today: While Rhoda fears for her parents on the island and FRI tries to find a way reach them, Irene confronts her FRI loneliness and finds a stark and uncompromising solution. FRI The reader is William Hope FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rw8xt (Listen) FRI Capturing Sound FRI Capturing Sound: Episode twenty-five of a thirty-part series FRI made in collaboration with the British Library Sound FRI Archive. FRI Sounds were ephemeral until recording technology made it FRI possible to capture them. Professor David Hendy of the FRI University of Sussex introduces bottled moments from the FRI past, including the voices of Robert Browning and Florence FRI Nightingale and 9/11 answerphone messages. FRI Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. FRI Producer: Matt Thompson FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqj4 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Margaret has an admirer, and Jem hears Mary's secret via a FRI mysterious stranger. 1840s Manchester tale stars Emma Rydal, FRI Roy Hudd and Teresa Gallagher. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00w48g8 (Listen) FRI Giles Tremlett - Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, FRI Episode 5 FRI A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who FRI changed the course of Tudor history. At Henry's urging, FRI Parliament has passed the Act of Succession annulling the FRI marriage of the king and queen. However Catherine still has FRI influential allies across Europe. FRI Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of FRI Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage FRI lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives FRI put together. FRI Abridged by Alison Joseph FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 15:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qrn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge b0075w2m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b007jsm1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston Comes to Town b007qq36 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Instant Sunshine b00lh3hd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012yym2 (Listen) FRI The Eyelash FRI A humorous diversion into an evening meal, ruined by a small FRI matter which prompts a big discussion. Read by Edith FRI MacArthur. FRI FRI 18:15 MR James Stories b00pfljb (Listen) FRI Number 13 FRI Derek Jacobi introduces another classic ghost tale. Why FRI doesn't Doctor Anderson's hotel have a room 13? Stars Julian FRI Rhind-Tutt. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076412 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Amazing Grace FRI John Newton's near-death experience at sea prompted his hymn FRI 'Amazing Grace'. With Martin Bell, Judy Collins and Bob FRI Zellner. From September 2001. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jsys (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007yn6x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Miss Marple b007jnl4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Ghost Trains of Old England b00vhhcf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 William Trevor - A Bit on the Side b00nm0k3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Baldi b007jlp5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Instant Sunshine b00lh3hd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007vkmz (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI The prime minister wants Charles and Martin to discredit the FRI chancellor. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From February FRI 2001. FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b01ng26n (Listen) FRI Series 3, Put a Lid on It 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 we encounter his sister, Tiffany, in a FRI story called "Put A Lid On It" and hear some more extracts FRI from his diaries. 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 b01r9swd (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 3 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 three Bridget considers women and their FRI relationship with their bodies via a lap dance, TOWIE and a FRI fish called Michael. FRI Fred MacAuley helps her remember some of the key incidents FRI which brought her to an epiphany and a call to arms. FRI Producer; Alison Vernon-Smith. FRI
14 November, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 14/11/2015 - 20/11/2015
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