20 November, 2015

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 21/11/2015 - 27/11/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Elspeth Davie - A Collection of Bones b012yym2 (Listen) SAT The Eyelash SAT A humorous diversion into an evening meal, ruined by a small SAT matter which prompts a big discussion. Read by Edith SAT MacArthur. SAT SAT 00:15 MR James Stories b00pfljb (Listen) SAT Number 13 SAT Derek Jacobi introduces another classic ghost tale. Why SAT doesn't Doctor Anderson's hotel have a room 13? Stars Julian SAT Rhind-Tutt. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076412 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Amazing Grace SAT John Newton's near-death experience at sea prompted his hymn SAT 'Amazing Grace'. With Martin Bell, Judy Collins and Bob SAT Zellner. From September 2001. SAT SAT 01:00 Miss Marple b007jnl4 (Listen) SAT A Murder Is Announced, Episode 5 SAT A further murder has been committed, but just as Miss Marple SAT is piecing her thoughts together - she disappears... SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Jane SAT Marple. With Ian Lavender as Inspector Craddock, Jack Hedley SAT as Colonel Easterbrook, Jamie Glove as Patrick Simmons, SAT Sarah Rice as Phillipa Haymes, Jenny Funnell as Mitzi and SAT Sarah Lawson as Letty Blacklock. SAT Dramatist: Michael Bakewell SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SAT SAT 01:30 The Ghost Trains of Old England b00vhhcf (Listen) SAT Just one train a week runs between Stockport and SAT Stalybridge. It never returns. "There is no service from SAT Stalybridge to Stockport", says a platform sign, SAT cryptically. The Stockport-Stalybridge service is what's SAT known as a "parliamentary train" and exists only so that the SAT rail company can avoid going through formal closure SAT proceedings. Running the single weekly service costs only SAT £50, but to close it down would cost far more. Of the SAT intermediate stops on the line, Network Rail notes: "Data SAT collection including observation has been unable to record SAT any use of these stations". SAT In this programme, Ian Marchant travels these little used SAT lines and forgotten stations. There is Teesside Airport SAT station, the least-used stop in Britain, with just 44 SAT passengers a year. It has only one train a week, is a 20 SAT minutes walk from the airport (a journey which involves SAT negotiating a locked gate), and the airport has a different SAT name anyway. SAT Then there is the train that goes from Manchester to SAT Brighton - except that since the Manchester to Brighton SAT direct service has been abolished, a semi-secret replacement SAT bus travels once a week from Ealing Broadway to Wandsworth SAT Road, two stations that were never on the SAT Manchester-Brighton route anyway. SAT Most bizarre is the case of Newhaven Marine, a station which SAT is technically open, and is served by one train a day. But SAT the station is behind a locked fence and passengers are SAT forbidden to get on the train, which does not appear on any SAT timetable. The company offers to provide a taxi service to SAT any passenger "in possession of a valid ticket". But it is SAT impossible to buy a ticket. SAT Who are the people who use these secret trains which are SAT also buses and taxis? Mostly rail enthusiasts and hobbyists SAT who collect rail tickets. But occasionally a real passenger SAT stumbles across a service and uses it almost by accident. SAT And what does it say about the British attitude to rules SAT that we stick within the letter of the law while entirely SAT subverting their intention? SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00yhygl (Listen) SAT David Vann - Caribou Island, Episode 10 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 ago with his young wife Irene, in search of an SAT unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. SAT He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. SAT Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her SAT husband, that there are costs. SAT Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a SAT dentist, who is about to enter his own 'mid-life crisis'. SAT Fluid and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an SAT unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young SAT still entertain. SAT Today: While Rhoda fears for her parents on the island and SAT tries to find a way reach them, Irene confronts her SAT loneliness and finds a stark and uncompromising solution. SAT The reader is William Hope SAT The abridger is Sally Marmion SAT The producer is Di Speirs. SAT SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rw8xt (Listen) SAT Capturing Sound SAT Capturing Sound: Episode twenty-five of a thirty-part series SAT made in collaboration with the British Library Sound SAT Archive. SAT Sounds were ephemeral until recording technology made it SAT possible to capture them. Professor David Hendy of the SAT University of Sussex introduces bottled moments from the SAT past, including the voices of Robert Browning and Florence SAT Nightingale and 9/11 answerphone messages. SAT Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. SAT Producer: Matt Thompson SAT A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqj4 (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Margaret has an admirer, and Jem hears Mary's secret via a SAT mysterious stranger. 1840s Manchester tale stars Emma Rydal, SAT Roy Hudd and Teresa Gallagher. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00w48g8 (Listen) SAT Giles Tremlett - Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, SAT Episode 5 SAT A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who SAT changed the course of Tudor history. At Henry's urging, SAT Parliament has passed the Act of Succession annulling the SAT marriage of the king and queen. However Catherine still has SAT influential allies across Europe. SAT Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of SAT Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage SAT lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives SAT put together. SAT Abridged by Alison Joseph SAT Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. SAT SAT 03:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qrn (Listen) SAT The Prisoner and the Fugitive SAT Hiding away from his turbulent love affair with Albertine, SAT Marcel receives a devastating telegram. Stars James Wilby. SAT SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge b0075w2m (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 1 SAT Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon SAT Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Bill Bailey and David Quantick. SAT The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer SAT than when they came in. SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003. SAT SAT 04:30 Albert and Me b007jsm1 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Homecoming SAT Single dad Bryan gets worried when his son's mum wants to SAT visit. SAT Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as SAT Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Robert Gillespie as SAT the Police Sergeant and Diana Berriman as Rose. 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 b007qq36 (Listen) SAT Line of Communication SAT The cunning rogue has stowed away in a removal van to follow SAT the family to London. Stars Maurice Denham. From January SAT 1990. SAT SAT 05:30 Instant Sunshine b00lh3hd (Listen) SAT From 29/08/1988 SAT Humorous songs from the quartet of David Barlow, Peter SAT Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis. From August SAT 1988. SAT SAT 06:00 Poirot b00rl44w (Listen) SAT Five Little Pigs SAT Carla Lemarchant was just five when her mother Caroline was SAT accused and convicted of poisoning her father - the famous SAT painter Amyas Crale - and she dies in jail. Carla is sent to SAT live with her uncle and aunt in Canada. Only when she turns SAT 21, does she discover her family history in a letter from SAT Caroline denying her husband's murder. But if Carla's mother SAT didn't kill Amyas Crale, who did? SAT Desperate to find out the truth, Carla seeks the help of SAT Hercule Poirot. But this is a formidable challenge even for SAT the remarkable Belgian detective - especially as he's SAT nothing to go on - except five suspects who fit strangely SAT into the pattern of a children's nursery rhyme... SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit (published in 1943) stars John SAT Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Graham Crowden as Meredith Blake, SAT Derek Waring as Philip Blake, Carmel McSharry as Miss SAT Williams and Clare Heyhoe as Carla Lemarchant. SAT Actor John Moffatt (1922-2012) played Hercule Poirot in 25 SAT BBC Radio productions. SAT Dramatist: Michael Bakewell SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. SAT SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075jp1 (Listen) SAT The End of an Era: 1900-1909 SAT Kedgeree, Devilled Kidneys, Stuffed Mutton, Lamb Cutlets SAT Reform, Peach Melba and Victoria Sponge. Food guru SAT Marguerite Patten demonstrates classic recipes from the SAT first decade of the 20th Century in her 10-part history of SAT British cooking. SAT Marguerite told us how to make the most of our rations SAT during the Second World War in 'Kitchen Front' on the BBC SAT Home Service. She fronted her first BBC TV cookery show in SAT 1947. SAT Born in Bath, the home economist was widely considered to be SAT the first celebrity cook, and wrote more than 170 books with SAT worldwide sales of 17 million. SAT A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour SAT programme from 1946, Marguerite's final appearance was in SAT 2011. She was awarded the OBE in 1991 and CBE in 2011. SAT Born November 4th 1915, Marguerite Patten died just a few SAT months short of her 100th birthday in June 2015. SAT Producer: Ian Willox. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00jwqlg (Listen) SAT Working for Margaret SAT Matthew Parris, who worked for Margaret Thatcher before SAT becoming a political journalist, delves into the Brook SAT Lapping archive to hear from some of her former staff, SAT ministers, civil servants, speechwriters and advisors about SAT what she was like to work for. SAT Was she any gentler with her staff than she was with her SAT Cabinet colleagues? Matthew finds out about the Margaret SAT Thatcher that only her closest circle saw. SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Inspiring Alice b06q43pl (Listen) SAT 'I can't go back to yesterday, because I was a different SAT person then.' - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland. SAT Lewis Carroll's book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' is SAT one of the most influential, best loved Victorian English SAT novels. 150 years after the first book was published, it is SAT still inspiring film makers, artists, poets and even chefs. SAT But who or what inspired Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), SAT and just why has the book been so inspirational to others? SAT Mel Giedroyc and her guest, children's author Philip Ardagh SAT dive headlong into the rabbit hole after the secret of SAT Carroll's spell. SAT Archive includes: SAT * Gyles Brandreth, Just A Minute SAT * Lewis Carroll, Great Lives SAT * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland part 1, read by Alan SAT Bennett SAT * Christchurch, Open Book SAT * Mad Hatter's Tea Party, The Food Programme SAT * Mock Turtle Soup, Historic Heston SAT * The Hatter, Digging Up Your Roots SAT * The Dodo, Science in Action SAT * Shrinking Heads, Questions Questions SAT * The Crying Game SAT * Lewis Carroll, The Unbelievable Truth SAT * Alice in Wonderland around the world, The Fifth Floor SAT * After Wonderland SAT * Wonder.land, Front Row SAT * The Sleep Diaries SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in November SAT 2015. SAT SAT 12:00 Booked b0075lcp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with SAT Mark Thomas, Dillie Keane, Miles Kington and Roger McGough. SAT From February 1997. SAT SAT 12:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00rvzkq (Listen) SAT Series 2, Considering the Lillies of the Field SAT In Renaissance Italy, Prince Ludovico must raise cash for a SAT Papal tribute. Stars David Swift and Sian Phillips. From May SAT 2002. SAT SAT 13:00 How Does That Make You Feel? b06q4402 (Listen) SAT Series 6 Omnibus SAT Made for 4 Extra. Therapist Martha braces herself for the SAT arrival of the newly re-elected Richard Fallon MP. With SAT Roger Allam and Frances Tomelty. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06q444c (Listen) SAT Guy Chambers SAT Songwriter Guy Chambers chooses 'Tomorrow Never Knows' by SAT The Beatles and Ravel's 'Piano Concerto in G', second SAT movement. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06q4568 (Listen) SAT Joanna Lumley SAT The Absolutely Fabulous actress and activist Joanna Lumley SAT shares her anxieties and regrets with Professor Anthony SAT Clare. 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 July 1994. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00jwqlg (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Poirot b00rl44w (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075jp1 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Mike Walker - Alpha b0080p6l (Listen) SAT An all-knowing computer seems to have an independent life of SAT its own. Award-winning drama with David Calder and John SAT Moffatt. SAT SAT 19:00 Inspiring Alice b06q43pl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Concrete Cow b0076jvx (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT King Midas is not sure whether life is as good as gold. SAT Sketch show with Robert Webb and Olivia Colman. From SAT September 2002. SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive b00dhxn7 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 6 SAT The comedy banker awards laughter bonuses. With Chris SAT Addison, Miranda Hart and David Quantick. From September SAT 2008. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06s98x1 (Listen) SAT From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SAT has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to SAT Rory McGrath. SAT SAT 23:00 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b017m14c (Listen) SAT Series 5, Local Hero SAT When an American mogul tries to buy up every last pebble in SAT lovely Budleigh, Giles decides to run for Mayor. Meanwhile SAT his sister Charlotte goes on a tent protest... SAT Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen is back! But this SAT time, he's got a computer! Giles Wemmbley Hogg has been SAT grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set SAT up GWH Travvel ("2m's 2g's 2v's, bit of a mix up at the SAT printers"). SAT Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of SAT his long-suffering former Primary Schoolteacher Mr Timmis SAT and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop SAT Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each SAT week, his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming SAT the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a SAT rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or SAT finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll SAT look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to SAT D".....), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it SAT all, so you won't want to". SAT Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles SAT And featuring - SAT Mr. Timmis ...... Vincent Franklin SAT Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd SAT Annie ...... Rebecca Front SAT Ronald Crump ..... Stuart Milligan SAT Mayor Netherclap ..... Flip Webster SAT Gabe Bjesterveldt ...... David Armand SAT Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby & Toby Davies SAT Producer/Director: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom b019jtl7 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Technology SAT The comedian celebrates and chastises the various marvels of SAT the modern age. With Hattie Hayridge. From November 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Mike Walker - Alpha b0080p6l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 How Does That Make You Feel? b06q4402 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06q444c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06q4568 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b00jwqlg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Poirot b00rl44w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SUN b0075jp1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b008003l (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Tragedy strikes for Jem, but will occupied Mary offer any SUN comfort? Frank portrayal of 1840s Manchester life with Emma SUN Rydal. SUN SUN 07:15 Ghost Houses b0076047 (Listen) SUN Berrymead Priory SUN Charlotte Smith visits a car park in Acton to find out about SUN the grand old house that stood there until 1985. From SUN January 2001. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b01q8qpv (Listen) SUN Series 8, The Scapegoat 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 After an unprofessional mishap at the Sparrowhawk Family SUN Centre one of the Social Workers needs to fall on their SUN sword. SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Producer Katie Tyrrell. SUN Credits SUN Clare: Sally Phillips SUN Brian: Alex Lowe SUN Megan: Nina Conti SUN Nali: Nina Conti SUN Ray: Richard Lumsden SUN Helen: Liza Tarbuck SUN Simon: Andrew Wincott SUN Libby: Sarah Kendall SUN Man: Robert Blythe SUN Mr Needham: Patrick Brennan SUN Trudi: Sarah Thom SUN Writer: Harry Venning SUN Writer: David Ramsden SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 08:00 The Al Read Show b008p576 (Listen) SUN From 15/11/1955 SUN Starring the Salford sausage maker turned monarch of the SUN monologue. With Louise Traill and Albert Franks. From SUN November 1955. SUN SUN 08:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b018sjr1 (Listen) SUN From 10/05/1950 SUN Still looking for work, the ex-RAF gang turns its hand to SUN babysitting. Stars Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch. From SUN May 1950. SUN SUN 09:00 Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink: Omnibus SUN b06q469s (Listen) SUN Elvis Costello's witty and irreverent account of 40 years at SUN the top of the music business. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06q5swt (Listen) SUN Sheila Ravenscroft SUN John Peel's widow, Sheila Ravenscroft, chooses 'Panis SUN Angelicus' by César Franck and 'You Little Thief' by Feargal SUN Sharkey. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06q5sww (Listen) SUN Comedians, Tim Minchin SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Deep Purple to Muddy Waters. Comedian SUN and musician Tim Minchin shares his castaway choices with SUN Kirsty Young. From May 2012. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06q5tts (Listen) SUN Live from Dublin SUN True stories told live: the American show travels to Dublin SUN with Lynn Ferguson introducing tales cautioning 'don't look SUN back'. 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 b00ps5hp (Listen) SUN Series 1, Tracks SUN The naturalist examines the extraordinary revelations found SUN from following fossilised animal tracks. SUN SUN 12:00 The Al Read Show b008p576 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b018sjr1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b008003l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Ghost Houses b0076047 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Death in the Fifth Position Omnibus b06q5vvg (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN McCarthyite New York. There's shocking news as conductor SUN Miles Sutton faces arrest for his wife's murder. Read by SUN Jamie Parker. SUN SUN 15:45 JG Ballard - Having a Wonderful Time b06q5wmv (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. An extended Las Palmas holiday, at someone SUN else's expense, seems ideal. But is there a hidden agenda? SUN Read by Patricia Brake. SUN SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama b00p1k88 (Listen) SUN Michael Dobbs - A Family Affair SUN On 22nd November 1990, following dissention in the SUN Conservative ranks and an equivocal leadership ballot, SUN Margaret Thatcher made the dramatic decision to offer her SUN resignation as prime minister. Michael Dobbs' play follows SUN Thatcher's last traumatic days in power, seen from the SUN perspective of her husband, Denis, and her family. SUN Margaret Thatcher ...... Clare Higgins SUN Denis Thatcher ...... Stephen Moore SUN Carol Thatcher ...... Monica Dolan SUN Mark Thatcher ...... William McGeogh SUN Bill ...... Benjamin Whitrow SUN Sir Geoffrey Howe ...... John McEnery SUN Anthony ...... Kevin Doyle SUN Minister ...... Sean Campion SUN Christine ...... Sara Stewart SUN Directed by Roland Jaquerello SUN A Fiction Factory production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06q5yh4 (Listen) SUN Poetry Please: Goblin Market SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'Poetry Please' Roger McGough features the poems of SUN Christina Rossetti. Shirley Henderson gives a beguiling SUN rendition of what is arguably Rossetti's most famous poem SUN 'Goblin Market', published in 1862. It's a heady fairy tale SUN about temptation involving two sisters, Laura and Lizzie. SUN The poem has a sexual undertone and a menacing quality that SUN lurks among the persistent pleas of the fruit selling Goblin SUN men to 'come buy, come buy.' Visits to your greengrocer may SUN never be the same again. SUN There is also a reading of another of Rossetti's much SUN requested and moving poems 'Remember,' as well as a lesser SUN known poem of pilgrimage, 'Up-hill'. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014 . SUN SUN 17:30 Clare in the Community b01q8qpv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jm1r (Listen) SUN Series 2, And So Died Riabouchinska SUN A man lies murdered in a basement - but there's a surprising SUN non-human witness. 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 Liam Brennan and Vari Sylvester. SUN Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. SUN Producer: Hamish Wilson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. SUN SUN 18:30 Terry Pratchett b008pc0b (Listen) SUN Guards! Guards!, Episode 5 SUN The dragon strikes. Captain Vimes gets his man, but can he SUN hang onto him? Comic fantasy with Martin Jarvis and John SUN Wood. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06q5tts (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00ps5hp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Nuremberg Trials b0076vq1 (Listen) SUN On 20th November 1945, the most significant trial of the SUN 20th century began - as Germany's Nazi leaders were indicted SUN for waging aggressive war, crimes against humanity and SUN inciting racial hatred - issues still of profound concern SUN today. SUN This programme combines extracts from the trial with SUN eye-witness accounts from victims, relatives, lawyers and SUN prosecutors. SUN With Bernard Hepton as Geoffrey Lawrence, Henry Goodman as SUN Robert Jackson, David Timson as Hartley Shawcross David SUN Timson, Geoffrey Whitehead as David Maxwell-Fyfe, Mike SUN Nussbaum as Dr Gilbert, Gerard Murphy as Hermann Goering, SUN David Collings as Ribbentrop and Ian Hogg as Kaltenbrunner. SUN Trial sequences selected by Peter Goodchild SUN Produced and directed by Martin Jenkins and John Theocharis SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b01q8qpv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize b044w4v4 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Buy a compendium of fairy tales from Boney M. Stars Jane SUN Bussmann and David Quantick. With Peter Serafinowicz. From SUN May 1998. SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00773xs (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 5 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. SUN SUN 23:30 Recorded for Training Purposes b00hdd69 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 6 SUN Sketch show about modern communication and contemporary SUN obsessions. With Ben Willbond and Rachel Atkins. From SUN February 2009. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jm1r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Terry Pratchett b008pc0b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b008003l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Ghost Houses b0076047 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Death in the Fifth Position Omnibus b06q5vvg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 JG Ballard - Having a Wonderful Time b06q5wmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Saturday Drama b00p1k88 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06q5yh4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Clare in the Community b01q8qpv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ycyr (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON A murder in an East Anglian village reveals hidden passions MON beneath the calm surface. MON PD James's first novel, in which she created her famous MON detective Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. MON Starring Robin Ellis as Adam Dalgliesh, Sian Phillips as Mrs MON Maxie, Hugh Grant as Felix and Beatie Edney as Deborah. MON Dramatised by Neville Teller. MON Producer: Matthew Walters MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. MON MON 06:30 The Art of The Public Address b00s50mc (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor investigates the pain - and occasional MON pleasure - of the UK's public address announcements and goes MON on a mission to improve people who make these announcements. MON It's a form of broadcasting that often has very little or no MON training whatsoever, yet it's heard by millions each day. MON Laurie discovers what elements are needed to make us listen MON to public messages and asks if the people who make them MON simply get handed a microphone and told to speak. What MON causes the un-natural pronunciation with the stress nearly MON always in the wrong place? Why is the language often so MON archaic? Laurie holds a master-class for shop workers eager MON to improve their announcements and tests the before and MON after results. MON Comedian Arthur Smith, who has trained train workers to MON speak, challenges Laurie to master the tannoy himself and we MON hear what happens when he takes over making the MON announcements on the 12.03 to Birmingham. MON The producer is Howie Shannon, and this is a White Pebble MON production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b00c90g4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON Gym shenanigans in the sketch comedy for people growing MON older disgracefully. Stars Graeme Garden and Pam Ayres. From MON March 2003. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b06p7cz0 (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 7 MON Swimming, clementines, and festive spirits are amongst the MON subjects on the cards as Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Josh MON Widdicombe and Jenny Eclair try to avoid repetition, MON hesitation and deviation in the fiendishly simple panel MON game. Host Nicholas Parsons adjudicates. Hayley Sterling MON blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Josh Widdicombe's new sitcom Josh premiers on BBC3 this MON week. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Josh Widdicombe MON Panellist: Jenny Eclair MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b008h50c (Listen) MON Series 3, Absent Friends MON Captain Mainwaring returns to platoon insubordination - and MON an escaped convict. 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 and MON Pearl Hackney as Mrs Pike. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Additional music by Dennis Gomm. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976. MON MON 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01s5crm (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON The popular double act visit their comic-loving bank manager MON and Ernie looks set to win at tennis. From September 1976. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b009rjdh (Listen) MON Series 11, Jonathan Swift MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John MON Walsh with guests Peter Kemp and Andrew Davies. The author MON of the week and subject for pastiche is Jonathan Swift and MON the reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00n490h (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 5 MON Reunions top the agenda at the CyberPass bistro, but are MON they such a good idea? Stars Mervyn Stutter. From June 2004. MON MON 10:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qw1 (Listen) MON Time Regained MON Paris is ravaged by the Great War. Marcel despairs at his MON own failures, but the simplest of discoveries awakens MON astonishing possibilities. Stars James Wilby. MON MON 11:00 15 Minute Drama b03s6mdy (Listen) MON Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 1 MON By Amanda Whittington. In January 1946, at the age of MON sixty-eight, renowned artist Dame Laura Knight takes a MON life-changing commission as war artist to the Nuremberg MON Trials. MON Dame Laura meets Major Peter Casson, Deputy Assistant MON Adjutant-General of the British War Crimes Executive, who is MON charged with smoothing her path through bureaucracy. He MON helps her to settle into her suite in the Grand Hotel MON (originally built for Hitler); to deal with the MON international social whirl that attends the trials and to MON cope with coming face-to-face with Hitler's henchmen for the MON first time in court. MON Writing the Century is an ongoing series of dramas MON reflecting on the 20th Century through diaries and letters. MON This serial is based on the diaries of Dame Laura Knight, MON whose painting 'The Dock' has become a classic image of the MON Nazi War Crime Trials. MON Writer...Amanda Whittington MON Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON Credits MON Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick MON Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery MON Penny Ayres: Kate Sobey MON William Dean: Patrick Keeler MON French Prosecutor: Mark Meadows MON Director: Mary Ward-Lowery MON Writer: Amanda Whittington MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00zzy2g (Listen) MON Dan Rebellato - My Life Is a Series of People Saying Goodbye MON How many ways are there to say goodbye? Why do we say MON goodbye? And what does it really feel like? Is it always MON forever? An adventurous new play about parting by Dan MON Rebellato. MON Scott and Ben are climbing a mountain. When Scott falls, Ben MON has to leave him to get help. Sean and Nathan turned the MON company around but today, Nathan has to make his colleague MON redundant. Richard has been with Dawn for years, but he MON knows tonight's evening out is make or break. Sarah is MON expecting her girlfriend Lou for dinner, so the call from MON the airport comes as a shock. Nikki is nervous about leaving MON London to start a new life as a student in Cardiff. MP MON Andrew has survived a media storm about his expenses claims, MON with the support of his constituency party - until now. MON Blurring distinctions between time, place and people, My MON Life is a Series of People Saying Goodbye explores the pain, MON poignancy and new possibilities of parting. MON Dan Rebellato is a playwright and academic. He has been MON shortlisted twice for a Sony award. His new stage play, MON Chekov in Hell, will be at the Soho Theatre London 20 April MON to 14 May, after a successful run at The Drum, Plymouth. MON Other radio work includes an adaptation of Gogol's Dead MON Souls starring Michael Palin and Mark Heap. He is Professor MON of Contemporary Theatre at Royal Holloway University of MON London and a regular contributor to The Guardian theatre MON website. MON Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON A Crosslab production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Andrew: Sean Gallagher MON Richard: David Annen MON Matty: Will Payne MON Nikki: Fenella Woolgar MON Sarah: Frances Grey MON Lou: Jenny Jules MON Writer: Dan Rebellato MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b008h50c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01s5crm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ycyr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Art of The Public Address b00s50mc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland MON b06q6r9t (Listen) MON Down the Rabbit Hole MON By a river bank, young Alice sees a talking white rabbit MON scuttling down a hole - should she follow? MON Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's 1865 novel (published under the MON pseudonym Lewis Carroll) tells the story of how Alice falls MON through a rabbit hole and begins an adventure through a MON strange world of fantasy. MON Read by Alan Bennett. MON Abridged and produced by Colin Smith. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1985. MON MON 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01s09k9 (Listen) MON Shell Shock MON Shell Shock: Episode twenty-six of a thirty-part series made MON in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive. MON The rumble of artillery bombardment in Northern France could MON be heard as far away as Kent during the First World War. Up MON close in the trenches, soldiers experienced a sonic MON onslaught that continued night and day: howling shells, the MON machine gun's rattle, and the screams of injured men. MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex visits MON Flanders to relay echoes from the Front. 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 b007jqjr (Listen) MON Episode 11 MON Aunt Esther reappears worried for her niece's welfare, and MON the mill workers are angry. Stars David Calder and Roy Hudd. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b048jflr (Listen) MON The Zhivago Affair, Episode 1 MON By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. MON It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the MON hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This MON is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' MON Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the MON Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so MON instead he allowed it to be published in translation all MON over the world - a highly dangerous act. MON By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the MON realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold MON War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor MON Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It MON was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak MON was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, MON igniting worldwide political scandal. MON With first access to previously classified CIA files, The MON Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, MON and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when MON literature had the power to shake the world. MON Abridged by Libby Spurrier MON Read by Nigel Anthony MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Reader: Nigel Anthony MON Producer: Joanna Green MON Abridger: Libby Spurrier MON Author: Peter Finn MON Author: Petra Couvee MON MON 15:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qw1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b009rjdh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00n490h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b00c90g4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b06p7cz0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble b007jwnl (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON With music banned by the government of a totalitarian MON Britain, a battle ensues between good and evil. Stars Clare MON Corbett. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b007603t (Listen) MON Louise Doughty, novelist Candida Clark and journalist Robert MON McCrum discuss three books by PG Wodehouse, William Faulkner MON and Margaret Attwood. From 2001. MON 'The Code of the Woosters' by PG Wodehouse MON Publisher: Penguin MON 'The Wild Palms' by William Faulkner MON Publisher: Vintage Classics MON 'Alias Grace' by Margaret Attwood MON Publisher: Virago. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b008h50c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b01s5crm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ycyr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Art of The Public Address b00s50mc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 15 Minute Drama b03s6mdy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00zzy2g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b06p7cz0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Headset Set b01p436v (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 6 MON EPISODE 6 MON Audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre MON called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything. MON The call centre installs a thermostat, which causes MON conflict. 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 Various ..... Lucy Montgomery MON Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma MON Writers ..... Various MON Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b06pdjhc (Listen) MON Series 47, Episode 2 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Freya Parker, Mitch MON Benn and Mae Martin for a comedy take on the week's news. MON Written by the cast with additional material from Gareth MON Gwynn, Andy Wolton, Sarah Campbell and Kiri MON Pritchard-McClean. MON Produced by Alexandra Smith. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Freya Parker MON Performer: Mitch Benn MON Performer: Mae Martin MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 23:30 The Harpoon b007n0st (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON Broadcasting secrets are revealed in the nostalgic spoof of MON boys' adventure story papers. With Alistair McGowan. From MON July 1992. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble b007jwnl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b007603t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ycyr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 The Art of The Public Address b00s50mc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland TUE b06q6r9t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01s09k9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqjr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b048jflr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time b0076qw1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b009rjdh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00n490h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b00c90g4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b06p7cz0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ypyg (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Adam Dalgliesh arrives on the scene to investigate the TUE murder of Sally Jupp in a peaceful Essex village. TUE PD James's first novel, in which she created her famous TUE detective Adam Dalgliesh. TUE Starring Robin Ellis as Adam Dalgliesh, Sian Phillips as Mrs TUE Maxie, Hugh Grant as Felix and Beatie Edney as Deborah. TUE Dramatised by Neville Teller. TUE Producer: Matthew Walters TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. TUE TUE 06:30 Hallelujah b00jhpp8 (Listen) TUE Composer Jocelyn Pook celebrates the music and meaning of TUE the word Hallelujah through history and creates a new TUE composition inspired by the word. This exuberant exclamation TUE of joy and gratitude has survived the passage of centuries, TUE transcending the barriers of language, religion and culture, TUE and has inspired composers and songwriters from the Psalms TUE through Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Nick Cave and Leonard TUE Cohen. TUE Featuring contributions from composer Julian Anderson and TUE singer-songwriter kd lang. TUE TUE 07:00 HR b01bb7jh (Listen) TUE Series 3, Naked TUE Nigel Williams' comedy series returns for a third run of six TUE new hilarious episodes. Jonathan Pryce and Nicholas le TUE Prevost star as two 60-something chums enjoying a TUE comfortable retirement. Until, that is, in the first episode TUE they get a chilly warning about an imminent danger to their TUE pensions. Will they soon be joining the army of dispossessed TUE older folk? TUE Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce TUE Sam ..... Nicholas le Prevost TUE Man ..... James Lailey TUE Director....Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 07:30 Gloomsbury b040014b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Desperate for a Thumbs-Up TUE At last, Ginny Fox has finished her rewrite of Borlando and TUE rushes it off to her friend and confidante, Vera TUE Sackcloth-Vest, for appraisal. Meanwhile, DH Lollipop has TUE just completed a rewrite of Lady Hattersley's Plover and is TUE nervously awaiting the critical verdict of Lionel Fox. TUE Never have two literary giants been so eager to have their TUE geniuses confirmed, but self-doubt plagues their every TUE waking hour. TUE Due to a series of unfortunate coincidences, involving TUE Lionel's inability to remember addresses and Vera's TUE obsession with creating a new Blue Garden at Sizzlinghust, TUE which involves her sending off for hundreds of new plants by TUE mail order and storing them in Gosling's shed, the TUE manuscripts go missing. TUE What the writers interpret as a literary thumbs-down from TUE their readers is nothing more than misdirected-mail. TUE Friendships are strained to breaking point, while Ginny and TUE Vera try to guess what the other is thinking and Mrs Gosling TUE burns DH Lollipop's filthy manuscript when she accidentally TUE comes across it and reads it from cover to cover. TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes TUE Mrs Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman TUE Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy TUE Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks TUE DH Lollipop: John Sessions TUE Gosling: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE Writer: Sue Limb TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007jsvw (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 9 TUE Kenneth Horne hosts a special tribute to the passing of J TUE Peasmold Gruntfuttock. Mr Horne also pops into Bona Press to TUE varda the tomes of Julian and Sandy. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 To the Manor Born b007lzww (Listen) TUE A Wife's Prerogative TUE Audrey makes the most of helping Devere - by pretending TUE she's his wife. 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 Rula Lenska as Mademoiselle Dutoit. 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 March 1997. TUE Credits TUE Actor: Penelope Keith TUE Actor: Peter Bowles TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b06pdjhc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007js6w (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE William pledges to protect his sister from the philandering TUE Lord Byro. Lakeland poets parody with Tim Curry. From March TUE 1985. TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b00djvtl (Listen) TUE Apsley Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World, TUE Episode 1 TUE The Worst Journey in the World TUE Apsley Cherry-Garrard's gripping account of his experiences TUE as the youngest member of Captain Scott's polar expedition TUE team, adapted by Stef Penney. TUE In the austerely beautiful icescapes of Antarctica, things TUE go disastrously wrong. TUE Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...... Matt Green TUE Captain Robert Falcon Scott ...... John McAndrew TUE Dr Atkinson ...... Carl Prekopp TUE Captain Oates ...... Mark Meadows TUE Lieutenant Bowers ...... Peter Callaghan TUE Charles Wright ...... Simon Lee Phillips TUE Dr Edward Wilson ...... Richard Mitchley TUE PO Tom Crean ...... Jack Reynolds TUE Taff Evans ...... Huw Davies TUE Specially composed music by Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, TUE orchestrated by Ian Gardiner and performed by the BBC TUE National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn. TUE Directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgp6d (Listen) TUE Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 2 TUE By Amanda Whittington. In a break from painting the Trial, TUE Dame Laura explores the city of Nuremberg. She meets TUE citizens who have lost everything in the bombing and visits TUE the stadium where Hitler addressed five hundred thousand TUE people, now home to a baseball team. TUE Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE Credits TUE Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick TUE Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery TUE Sarah: Kate Sobey TUE Guy: Martin Bonger TUE Ella: Cristina Catalina TUE Director: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE Writer: Amanda Whittington TUE TUE 11:15 Lucy Catherine - Starry Eyes b007jtf9 (Listen) TUE Amateur astronomer Leanne finds consolation in the TUE constellations while washing up in an all-night café. Stars TUE Robin Weaver. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jsvw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born b007lzww (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ypyg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Hallelujah b00jhpp8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland TUE b06q77n3 (Listen) TUE The Caucus-Race, the White Rabbit and the Caterpillar TUE After following the White Rabbit, and an impromptu swim, TUE Alice finds herself drenched. Read by Alan Bennett. TUE TUE 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01s09zw (Listen) TUE Radio Everywhere TUE Radio Everywhere! Episode twenty-seven of a thirty-part TUE series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound TUE Archive. TUE In the early days, listening to radio was a magical, uncanny TUE experience. Voices arrived out of thin air from hundreds of TUE miles away. In time, the radio became a trusted part of TUE family life - and by the 1930s and 40s, the perfect medium TUE for propaganda, as Joseph Goebbels recognized. TUE Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers TUE the seductive power of the disembodied voice. 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 b007jqk2 (Listen) TUE Episode 12 TUE Mill owner Mr Carson is unsympathetic to his workers' plight TUE and their demands. Stars David Calder and Emma Rydal. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b048zk89 (Listen) TUE The Zhivago Affair, Episode 2 TUE By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. TUE It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the TUE hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This TUE is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' TUE Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the TUE Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so TUE instead he allowed it to be published in translation all TUE over the world - a highly dangerous act. TUE By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the TUE realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold TUE War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor TUE Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It TUE was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak TUE was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, TUE igniting worldwide political scandal. TUE With first access to previously classified CIA files, The TUE Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, TUE and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when TUE literature had the power to shake the world. TUE Abridged by Libby Spurrier TUE Read by Nigel Anthony TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Nigel Anthony TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE Abridger: Libby Spurrier TUE Author: Peter Finn TUE Author: Petra Couvee TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b00djvtl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The Motion Show b0075wnx (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Tony Hawks, TUE Simon Fanshawe, Stuart Maconie and Steve Punt. From January TUE 2000. TUE TUE 16:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007js6w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 HR b01bb7jh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Gloomsbury b040014b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble b007jwp8 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE In a Britain where music is banned, Mel discovers some TUE uncomfortable truths about herself and her past. Stars Clare TUE Corbett. TUE TUE 18:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes b06rcwtd (Listen) TUE Taj Mohammed Khan TUE Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan's selection of his personal TUE heroes, starts with a tribute to his late father, Taj TUE Mohammed Khan who died when he was just a teenager. TUE First broadcast on the BBC Asian Network in 2012. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jsvw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born b007lzww (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ypyg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Hallelujah b00jhpp8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgp6d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Lucy Catherine - Starry Eyes b007jtf9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Gloomsbury b040014b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Don't Start b01mwvld (Listen) TUE Series 2, Pillow Talk TUE A potential burglary brings out Frank's inner hero. TUE What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new TUE comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. TUE Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. TUE The first series of Don't Start met with instant critical TUE and audience acclaim: TUE "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with TUE such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a TUE writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, TUE he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that TUE would be lost in his stand-up routines" - Jane Anderson, TUE Radio Times. TUE "Writing and starring in the four-parter Don't Start (Radio TUE 4) Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic TUE comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a TUE bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly TUE precise dissection of a relationship" - Daily Mail. TUE "a lesson in relationship ping-pong".. - Miranda Sawyer, The TUE Observer. TUE Series 2 follows hard on its heels. Well observed, clever TUE and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a TUE deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our TUE couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - TUE the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. Each week, the TUE stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these TUE are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with TUE increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references TUE (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs Rochester, TUE to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's TUE weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an TUE unmistakable tenderness. TUE Frank says: TUE "Having established, in the first series, that Neil and Kim TUE are a childless academic couple who, during their numerous TUE arguments, luxuriate in their own, and each other's, TUE learning and wit, I've tried, in the second series, to dig a TUE little 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 Directed and Produced 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 Writer: Frank Skinner TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE TUE 22:45 The Music Teacher b01gvryw (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher TUE Nigel Penny. TUE Nigel finds himself agreeing to join an unusual Simon and TUE Garfunkel tribute act. Meanwhile Belinda is attempting to TUE keep a coachload of pensioners captive in the Arts Centre TUE Gift Shop. 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 Alf: Dave Lamb TUE Jonathan: Dave Lamb TUE Eric: Jim North TUE Steve: Jim North TUE Jemima: Jess Robinson TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE Producer: Richie Webb TUE Director: Nick Walker TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06s9920 (Listen) TUE From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club TUE has two hours of comedy. Plus Tom Wrigglesworth chats to TUE Elis James about the sitcom 'Josh'. TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b01l1dlg (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 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 b00hy949 (Listen) TUE Night of the Sexicle TUE Sexy assassin Morpheena is called in, while Milford and TUE Parker grab a cab. Stars Mark Heap and Nick Frost. From TUE November 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble b007jwp8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes b06rcwtd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008ypyg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Hallelujah b00jhpp8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland WED b06q77n3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01s09zw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b048zk89 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b00djvtl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 The Motion Show b0075wnx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007js6w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 HR b01bb7jh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Gloomsbury b040014b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yszy (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED As Inspector Dalgliesh continues his investigation, the WED evidence points to one of the family. But which one? WED PD James's first novel, in which she created her famous WED detective Adam Dalgliesh. WED Starring Robin Ellis as Adam Dalgliesh, Sian Phillips as Mrs WED Maxie, Hugh Grant as Felix and Beatie Edney as Deborah. WED Dramatised by Neville Teller. WED Producer: Matthew Walters WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. WED WED 06:30 The Counterfeiter's Tale b00j1dvs (Listen) WED Historian Tristram Hunt delves into the story of the biggest WED money counterfeiting operation in history, through its only WED surviving participant: 93-year-old Adolf Burger. WED For the last three years of the Second World War, 142 WED prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north of WED Berlin, were forced by their captors to forge millions of WED pounds-worth of British banknotes, which the Nazis planned WED to use to ruin Britain's wartime economy. Tristram learns WED more from historians and sees the original counterfeited WED notes, which are now held in the archives of the Bank of WED England. WED WED 07:00 Huddwinks b00fsmzd (Listen) WED Series 2, The Fall of the House of Slaithwaite WED A northern black pudding maker must deal with the WED consequences of some unexpected ingredients. Stars Roy Hudd. WED From July 1988. WED WED 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pbwzh (Listen) WED Series 3, Broadband on the Run WED Episode 1, 'Broadband on the Run'. Tom and his Dad fret WED about some potentially uncomfortable brushes with the law WED while Mum prepares for the arrival of a new lodger. WED Series 3 of the sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home WED for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran, giving WED listeners a glimpse into his family background and the WED influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and WED hang-ups. WED Starring Tom Wrigglesworth, Paul Copley, Kate Anthony, WED Elizabeth Bennett and Chris Pavlo. WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle with WED additional material by Miles Jupp WED Produced by Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED Credits WED Actor: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Actor: Paul Copley WED Actor: Kate Anthony WED Actor: Elizabeth Bennett WED Actor: Chris Pavlo WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Richard Morris WED WED 08:00 The TV Lark b01ckdll (Listen) WED Ship Ahoy WED Troutbridge TV's new naval show is set to film a mine WED sweeper sailing to the breakers' yard. 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 b01075d1 (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 2 WED Truthful army recruitment, and Professor Prune's travels in WED his trousers. Stars John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From January WED 1969. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b008f89h (Listen) WED 1999, Heat 5 WED Ned Sherrin chairs the music quiz with Philip Robinson of WED Hatfield, Northampton's Catherine Wills and John Tracey of WED Argyll. WED WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00rzky4 (Listen) WED Series 2, An Englishman Abroad WED An Englishman visits and Ludovico hopes he might help him WED out of his cash crisis, but is he a true blue-blood? From WED May 2002. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b00dm7q7 (Listen) WED Apsley Cherry-Garrard - The Worst Journey in the World, WED Episode 2 WED Apsley Cherry-Garrard's gripping account of his experiences WED as the youngest member of Captain Scott's polar expedition WED team, adapted by Stef Penney. WED After two months of hard marching, Scott must tell four of WED the surviving twelve men that they must turn back. WED Apsley Cherry-Garrard ...... Matt Green WED Captain Robert Falcon Scott ...... John McAndrew WED Dr Atkinson ...... Carl Prekopp WED Captain Oates ...... Mark Meadows WED Lieutenant Bowers ...... Peter Callaghan WED Charles Wright ...... Simon Lee Phillips WED Dr Edward Wilson ...... Richard Mitchley WED PO Tom Crean ...... Jack Reynolds WED Taff Evans ...... Huw Davies WED PO Keohane/Dimitri ...... Andrew Byron WED Specially composed music by Will Gregory of Goldfrapp, WED orchestrated by Ian Gardiner and performed by the BBC WED National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Grant Llewellyn. WED Directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgpj3 (Listen) WED Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 3 WED By Amanda Whittington. Even though her press box at the WED court in Nuremberg is so tiny, Dame Laura decides to bring WED in her enormous canvas and paint the trial in situ. But the WED United States Civil Broadcasting Company has other ideas. WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED Credits WED Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick WED Major Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery WED Colonel Clark: Mark Meadows WED Elizabeth Endes: Cristina Catalina WED French Prosecutor: Patrick Keeler WED Director: Mary Ward-Lowery WED Writer: Amanda Whittington WED WED 11:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station b06qc290 (Listen) WED Signal Failure WED Wednesday January 4th 1895: A derailed goods train and the WED arrival of a VIP General Booth expose enmities at Victoria WED station in Bridgford. WED Nottingham born author Steve Chambers' 5-part set in WED Victoria Station, Bridgford in 1895 each with a WED self-contained drama , as well as the day-to-day shenanigans WED and goings on of the station staff. WED Stars Sean Baker as Station Master Joe Braddock, Philip WED Jackson as Tidmarsh, John Hartley as Union activist Fred WED Roberts, Gavin Muir as Area Manager Mr Cripps and Frances WED Jeater as Mrs Brook Hammond. WED Director: Celia de Wolff WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1995 and set a WED century before. WED WED 12:00 The TV Lark b01ckdll (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01075d1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yszy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Counterfeiter's Tale b00j1dvs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland WED b06qc33b (Listen) WED Pig, Pepper, and the Hatter's Tea-party WED How will Alice fair when her curious journey leads to WED royalty and a cat with a very wide smile? Read by Alan WED Bennett. WED WED 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01s0dk7 (Listen) WED Music While You Shop, Music While You Work WED Music While You Shop, Music While You Work: Episode WED twenty-eight of a thirty-part series made in collaboration WED with the British Library Sound Archive. WED Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers WED how music has been used to soothe us, cheer us, and make us WED productive over the past hundred years. Featuring extremely WED rare recordings of wartime episodes of the much-loved BBC WED series, Music While You Work. 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 b007jqkd (Listen) WED Episode 13 WED Jem's beloved Aunt Alice falls ill, and John Barton's trip WED ends in tragedy. Stars David Calder, Emma Rydal and Roy WED Hudd. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b048zld9 (Listen) WED The Zhivago Affair, Episode 3 WED By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. WED It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the WED hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This WED is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' WED Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the WED Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so WED instead he allowed it to be published in translation all WED over the world - a highly dangerous act. WED By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the WED realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold WED War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor WED Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It WED was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak WED was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, WED igniting worldwide political scandal. WED With first access to previously classified CIA files, The WED Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, WED and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when WED literature had the power to shake the world. WED Abridged by Libby Spurrier WED Read by Nigel Anthony WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Reader: Nigel Anthony WED Producer: Joanna Green WED Abridger: Libby Spurrier WED Author: Peter Finn WED Author: Petra Couvee WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b00dm7q7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b008f89h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00rzky4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Huddwinks b00fsmzd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pbwzh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble b007jwq4 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Racing against time, Mel battles to use music to thwart a WED crucial government project. Stars Clare Corbett and WED Christian Rodska. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076ww3 (Listen) WED Am I My Brother's Keeper? WED Dominic Arkwright and guests Mary Loudon, Morag Joss and Pip WED Utton discuss brothers, sisters and sibling rivalry. From WED February 2006. WED WED 19:00 The TV Lark b01ckdll (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01075d1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yszy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Counterfeiter's Tale b00j1dvs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgpj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station b06qc290 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pbwzh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01d2hf1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Superstition WED Tim Key tells the tale of Mike Figg, an intensely WED superstitious man. Tom Basden plays the xylophone and has WED brought his own beaters. WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 22:45 Earls of the Court b00rbmgt (Listen) WED Downward Inflection WED Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright WED about two Australians down on their luck in London. WED Johnno's so sick and tired of London that he's even lost his WED upward inflection. If only Lloydie could make the city more WED like Australia. WED Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright WED Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale WED Reporter ...... Keely Beresford WED TV Anchor ...... David Seddon WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06s994j (Listen) WED From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club WED has two hours of comedy. Plus Tom Wrigglesworth chats again WED to Elis James about the sitcom 'Josh'. WED WED 23:00 Richard Herring's Objective b01f6stz (Listen) WED Series 1, Dolly the Sheep WED Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we've grown WED to hate. In the final show of the series Richard reclaims WED Dolly the sheep as he examines why we are fearful and WED suspicious of the idea of cloning without really WED understanding it. WED Richard talks to a genetics professor about how cloning WED works and what it was like to meet Dolly. Richard also asks WED science writer Dr Ben Goldacre whether evil scientists exist WED and whether he is allowed to clone Dr Who assistant Amy WED Pond. WED The show was recorded in front of an audience. Producer WED ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED Credits WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED WED 23:30 Revolting People b008j10d (Listen) WED Series 3, Them Thar Hills WED Samuel and McGurk follow a prospector named Mad Pete, to WED hunt for gold. 1770 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From WED June 2004. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble b007jwq4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076ww3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yszy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Counterfeiter's Tale b00j1dvs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland THU b06qc33b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01s0dk7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqkd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b048zld9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b00dm7q7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b008f89h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00rzky4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Huddwinks b00fsmzd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pbwzh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yv5r (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Dalgliesh has summoned the entire household to hear his THU conclusions about Sally Jupp's killer. THU PD James's first novel, in which she created her famous THU detective Adam Dalgliesh. THU Starring Robin Ellis as Adam Dalgliesh, Sian Phillips as Mrs THU Maxie, Hugh Grant as Felix and Beatie Edney as Deborah. With THU Melanie Hudson, Susan Sheridan and Jill Graham THU Dramatised by Neville Teller. THU Producer: Matthew Walters THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. THU THU 06:30 Madwomen in the Attic b00s0cn3 (Listen) THU Following on from the positive response to Vivienne Parry's THU 'A Nasty Case of the Vapours' in which the ailments of THU literature's great heroines were dissected and finally THU diagnosed using modern medicine (and a good deal of THU hindsight), 'Madwomen in the Attic' will consider bedside THU analysis from afar for the mad, bad and sad heroines of THU classic fiction through the eyes of modern medicine and THU psychiatry. THU Aided by psychiatrists and literary critics Vivienne Parry THU will steer a course through classic fiction's fascinating THU depictions of madness and mental illness, including the THU first Mrs Rochester in 'Jane Eyre', Lady Glyde in Wilkie THU Collins' 'A Woman in White' and the (undoubtedly maddening) THU Emma Bovary in 'Madame Bovary'. The literary and the medical THU intersect and the programme draws on both strands of THU expertise. 'Jane Eyre' Bertha Rochester's madness is THU animalistic, violent and feral - the archetypal 'madwoman in THU the attic' whereas 'The Woman In White' evokes the asylum as THU a sinister place, 'bins' where women could be interred THU against their will. Meanwhile Freud once said that wherever THU his work took him, the great works of literature had got THU there first: some psychoanalysts read 'Madame Bovary' as THU close to a Freudian case history as a novel can get. THU What does the depiction of their illness say about the THU author's, or wider societal views of madness at the time of THU publication? And what does their situation say to us today? THU These are texts situated between 19th century, THU physician-driven notions of mental and - by implication - THU moral health and the origins of mental health as a science, THU the (thankfully) short-lived 'mental hygiene' movement and THU the beginnings of modern psychoanalysis, a body of thought THU which has itself influenced literary criticism. Contributors THU include Adam Phillips, Sandra Gilbert, Professor John THU Sutherland and Dinesh Bhugra, president of the Royal College THU of Psychiatrists. THU The producer is Simon Hollis. This is a Brook Lapping THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b03mflth (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU by Katherine Jakeways THU Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the THU residents of a small market town in Northamptonshire. This THU week, against her better judgement, Jan has dinner with her THU ex-husband, and Mary and Jonathan have crossed wires. 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 and entertain audiences and THU critics alike. 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 Orson: Nathaniel Parker THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Producer: Steven Canny THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU THU 07:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rfy5w (Listen) THU Series 2, With guest Doc Brown 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 fifth episode explores the theme of children including THU songs on George Formby, the alphabet and Rastafarians. Guest THU starring Doc Brown who raps with the band and talks to THU whales. 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 performer .... Doc Brown THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007k0k6 (Listen) THU Series 4, Is That Your Horse Outside? THU Albert Steptoe advises son Harold on the art of seduction. 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 February 1972. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00890mh (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel starts a bus tour of New THU York. 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. With Lorelei King and Graham Hoadly. THU Special guest stars Spike Milligan and Dick Vosburgh. 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 b0075lk3 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with Miles Kington, THU Dillie Keane, Mark Thomas and John Hegley. From February THU 1997. THU THU 09:30 Be Prepared b0076t37 (Listen) THU Survival THU 4 Extra Debut. Miles Rummings combines his dream of running THU a scout troop with his son's birthday weekend. Stars Kim THU Wall. From August 2005. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b00gq4nd (Listen) THU Arnold Bennett - The Grand Babylon Hotel, Episode 1 THU Murder mystery by Arnold Bennett, adapted in two parts by THU Chris Harrald. THU American tycoon Theodore Racksole buys Europe's most THU exclusive hotel on a whim, but is warned by the seller that THU he will live to regret it. Soon, a mysterious death occurs THU and Theodore and his daughter Nella find themselves in THU danger in their own hotel. THU Theodore Racksole ...... John Sessions THU Nella Racksole ...... Matti Houghton THU Aribert ...... Joe Kloska THU Jules ...... Richard Katz THU Miss Spencer ...... Fenella Woolgar THU Felix Babylon ...... Stephen Greif THU Reginald Dimmock ...... Gunnar Cauthery THU Miss Ferguson ...... Jill Cardo THU Servant ...... Inam Mirza. THU THU 11:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgpz8 (Listen) THU Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 4 THU By Amanda Whittington. THU Dame Laura takes Peter on a visit to her old circus friends, THU the Carollis, who are also living, by coincidence, in THU Nuremberg. THU Meanwhile there is a hitch with the press box at court and THU Laura's eminence as a painter cuts no ice with the American THU colonel. THU Flamenco music by The Thumping Tommys THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU Credits THU Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick THU Major Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery THU Francesco Carolli: Mark Meadows THU Elizabeth Endes: Cristina Catalina THU Director: Mary Ward-Lowery THU Writer: Amanda Whittington THU THU 11:15 Sue Rodwell - The Last Trace b00lbnyv (Listen) THU Tracing your ancestors can be fun, as long as they are THU quite, quite dead. Stars Elizabeth Mansfield and Peter THU Dahlsen. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007k0k6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00890mh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yv5r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Madwomen in the Attic b00s0cn3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland THU b06qcgw3 (Listen) THU The Queen's Croquet and the Lobster Quadrille THU Join Alice on her surreal adventures in Alice in Wonderland. THU THU 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01s0qmz (Listen) THU An Ever Noisier World THU An Ever Noisier World: Episode twenty-nine of a thirty-part THU series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound THU Archive. THU The twentieth century brought attempts to distinguish THU between 'necessary' and 'unnecessary' noise. In New York, THU the authorities tried to clean up Coney Island fairground, THU banning barkers from using megaphones and targeting street THU sellers, newspaper boys, and buskers. But the volume of THU modern life has risen inexorably. THU Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex travels to THU Ghana's capital, Accra, a city so loud that visitors THU describe its streets as a visceral shock, and introduces an THU elegiac recording of the wild soundscape we've lost, THU captured by the celebrated naturalist, Bernie Krause. 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 b007jqkp (Listen) THU Episode 14 THU Jem is arrested for murder, while Mary is accused of THU bringing about his downfall. Stars Emma Rydal and Fiona THU Clarke. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b048znkd (Listen) THU The Zhivago Affair, Episode 4 THU By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. THU It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the THU hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This THU is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' THU Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the THU Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so THU instead he allowed it to be published in translation all THU over the world - a highly dangerous act. THU By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the THU realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold THU War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor THU Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It THU was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak THU was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, THU igniting worldwide political scandal. THU With first access to previously classified CIA files, The THU Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, THU and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when THU literature had the power to shake the world. THU Abridged by Libby Spurrier THU Read by Nigel Anthony THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Reader: Nigel Anthony THU Producer: Joanna Green THU Abridger: Libby Spurrier THU Author: Peter Finn THU Author: Petra Couvee THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b00gq4nd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075lk3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Be Prepared b0076t37 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b03mflth (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rfy5w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Daphne duMaurier - The Blue Lenses b007k4jq (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU After major eye surgery, Marda West discovers that her THU vision has frighteningly new clarity. Dark fantasy read by THU Emma Fielding. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076v56 (Listen) THU Series 8, RD Laing THU Carole Stone and RD Laing's son Adrian discuss the THU charismatic guru hailed during the 60s as one of the THU greatest philosophers of his age. From October 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007k0k6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b00890mh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yv5r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Madwomen in the Attic b00s0cn3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgpz8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Sue Rodwell - The Last Trace b00lbnyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rfy5w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b0121myp (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 6 THU From William Hague to Simon Cowell, Jon Culshaw explores the THU bizarre private lives of famous folk. From May 2009. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jpf2 (Listen) THU Series 2, Too Far THU Mischievous Satan instructs demon Scumspawn to partake in a THU very unusual meal. Devilish comedy stars Andy Hamilton. From THU May 1998. THU THU 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls Present b00gpbcx (Listen) THU More Brothers Faversham, Marcus Faversham THU The comedy trio's swashbuckling family romp reaches the THU story of Victorian Britain's greatest actor. From October THU 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Daphne duMaurier - The Blue Lenses b007k4jq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076v56 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face b008yv5r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Madwomen in the Attic b00s0cn3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland FRI b06qcgw3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01s0qmz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqkp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b048znkd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b00gq4nd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075lk3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Be Prepared b0076t37 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b03mflth (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rfy5w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Front Row Interviews b00761nw (Listen) FRI PD James FRI PD James talks to Mark Lawson on Radio 4's arts programme FRI Front Row about crime writing and her 15th novel 'Death in FRI Holy Orders' featuring her sleuth, Adam Dalgliesh. FRI Her books, often featuring Dalgliesh, sold in their millions FRI around the world. Many were adapted for TV and film. FRI Born Phyllis Dorothy James on 3 August 1920, the author did FRI not publish her first novel, Cover Her Face, until she was FRI 42. Although it was a critical success, she continued FRI working for the Home Office, where she held a job in the FRI forensic science department, and then the criminal law FRI department until 1979. FRI PD James died aged 94 on the 27 November 2014. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. FRI FRI 06:30 Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler FRI b00wlgg4 (Listen) FRI Lesley Garrett tells the fascinating story of operatic FRI comedienne Joan Turner. FRI Joan Turner was a larger-than-life star who enjoyed a FRI successful stage and television career in the 1960s and 70s. FRI She was born in Belfast in 1922 and made her debut at the FRI Finsbury Empire as a singing comedienne. FRI Joan could perform pop or opera with her FRI four-and-a-half-octave soprano voice, impersonate Judy FRI Garland and Bette Davis, and then change to stand-up comic. FRI In her early career she worked with The Crazy Gang, appeared FRI at many Royal Events, recorded for Pye Records and became FRI the highest-earning female singer in Britain. After touring FRI all the major music halls she was considered a 'female Harry FRI Secombe', and in the States they billed her as "The Wacky FRI Warbler". FRI One reviewer described her as having "the voice of an angel FRI and the wit of a devil". FRI Even though she gained a reputation for being difficult and FRI unpredictable she remained a much loved figure on the show FRI business circuit. FRI Her daughter Susanna Page always believed that "the best way FRI to describe Mum is that she thought every day was FRI Christmas". She was to discover painfully that it was not. FRI By the late nineties an unkind reverse reduced her to the FRI status of a bag lady walking the streets of Las Vegas and FRI Los Angeles searching for work. This downturn in her life FRI and career was a result of a long term battle with gambling FRI and alcoholism. FRI A few film and television roles saw a short revival in her FRI fortunes but her last live comeback attempt ended in a FRI drunken shambles. She spent her final years in sheltered FRI accommodation in Surrey. FRI The programme features interviews with Actor Harry FRI Dickman,Variety entertainer Roy Hudd and Joan's daughter FRI Susanna page. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston Comes to Town b007qzh8 (Listen) FRI Has Anyone Seen Winston? FRI The family has moved to London, and Nancy is worried when FRI the old rogue disappears. Stars Bill Wallis. From January FRI 1990. FRI FRI 07:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06s83jl (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI A fun packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and FRI Ruth Bratt. Sketches and songs from a whole range of new FRI characters, with the occasional appearance from some old FRI favourites. FRI The first series was nominated for Best Comedy at the BBC FRI Audio awards 2014, and all four performers have recently FRI been on the West End stage as part of the smash hit FRI Showstopper: The Improvised Musical - and were part of the FRI show when it graced the Radio 4 airwaves a few years ago. FRI This week we meet the masseuses who might make your visit to FRI their spa more than a little stressful, we find out whether FRI Mary's embarrassing flatulence has got any better (I FRI wouldn't hold your breath - well, actually I might) and find FRI out who Julia is - or was. FRI Performers: FRI Lucy Trodd FRI Ruth Bratt FRI Adam Meggido FRI Oliver Senton FRI Written by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd FRI Script Editor: Jon Hunter FRI Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Performer: Ruth Bratt FRI Performer: Lucy Trodd FRI Performer: Adam Meggido FRI Performer: Oliver Senton FRI Writer: Ruth Bratt FRI Writer: Lucy Trodd FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jny1 (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Grappling Game FRI The lad and Miss Pugh head to a wrestling match at Cheam FRI Baths - with a shock result! FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie FRI Jacques and Kenneth Williams. FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. FRI Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. FRI Producer: Tom Ronald FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jmny (Listen) FRI Foiled by President Fred FRI Gas meter inspector Neddie Seagoon heads to South America FRI over an unpaid bill. Stars Harry Secombe. From November FRI 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge b0075w76 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 2 FRI Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon FRI Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Marcus Brigstocke and Peter FRI Serafinowicz. 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 Mind Your Own Business! b00954qd (Listen) FRI She'll Have to Go FRI An accountant tackles a tycoon over his number of women FRI workers. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton. From FRI December 1987. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b00gsv4x (Listen) FRI Arnold Bennett - The Grand Babylon Hotel, Episode 2 FRI Murder mystery by Arnold Bennett, adapted in two parts by FRI Chris Harrald. FRI Having bought Europe's most exclusive hotel, American tycoon FRI Theodore Racksole is thrown in to a world of intrigue, FRI espionage and murder. FRI Theodore Racksole ...... John Sessions FRI Nella Racksole ...... Matti Houghton FRI Aribert ...... Joe Kloska FRI Jules ...... Richard Katz FRI Miss Spencer ...... Fenella Woolgar FRI Felix Babylon ...... Stephen Greif FRI Prince Eugen ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Reginald Dimmock ...... Gunnar Cauthery FRI Hazell ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Miss Ferguson ...... Jill Cardo FRI Tomkins ...... Inam Mirza FRI Emperor ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Sampson Levi ...... Chris Pavlo. FRI FRI 11:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgq3n (Listen) FRI Writing the Century: The Dock, Nuremberg, Episode 5 FRI By Amanda Whittington. FRI Dame Laura's painting of the Nuremberg Trial is almost FRI complete. When she was commissioned as war artist by the FRI British government, they were not expecting this: a vision FRI of the courtroom as a kind of hell, with a mirage of the FRI ruined city in the background. FRI Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI Credits FRI Dame Laura Knight: Diana Quick FRI Major Peter Casson: Gunnar Cauthery FRI Hans: Patrick Keeler FRI Director: Mary Ward-Lowery FRI Writer: Amanda Whittington FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00h8nh9 (Listen) FRI Alexis Zegerman - Deja Vu FRI Performed in French and English, Alexis Zegerman's drama FRI tells the story of a love affair between a woman from London FRI and a Paris-based French Algerian. When Claire and Ahmed FRI meet, it is language that stands between them. But when FRI Ahmed is stopped and searched in London under section 44 of FRI the Terrorism Act, the seed of a much larger difference is FRI sown. FRI Claire ...... Caroline Catz FRI Ahmed ...... Karim Saleh FRI French Policeman ...... Richard Sanda FRI French Policeman ...... Hovnatan Avedikian FRI British Policeman ...... Chris Pavlo FRI Translator ...... Helen Longworth FRI Directed by Lu Kemp and Christophe Rault. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Lu Kemp FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jny1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jmny (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Front Row Interviews b00761nw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler FRI b00wlgg4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland FRI b06qdfmv (Listen) FRI Who Stole the Tarts? FRI Join Alice on her surreal adventures in Alice in Wonderland. FRI FRI 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01s0scn (Listen) FRI The Search for Silence FRI The Search for Silence: The final episode of a thirty-part FRI series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound FRI Archive. FRI In the noisy modern world, silence has become an ever more FRI desirable - and fashionable - state. We read books about it, FRI go on retreats to find it, and soundproof our living and FRI working spaces in its name. But when we have it is it what FRI we want? FRI Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers FRI the modern quest for quiet and asks whether what really FRI makes us humans happy is a little noise. FRI Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. FRI Assistant producer: Cathy FitzGerald. FRI Producer: Matt Thompson. FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Readings FRI Series readings director: Cherry Cookson. FRI FRI 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqky (Listen) FRI Episode 15 FRI Mary sets out to find an alibi for Jem, who stands accused FRI of murder. Stars Emma Rydall, Deborah Berlin and Roy Hudd. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b048znq5 (Listen) FRI The Zhivago Affair, Episode 5 FRI By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. FRI It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the FRI hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This FRI is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' FRI Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the FRI Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so FRI instead he allowed it to be published in translation all FRI over the world - a highly dangerous act. FRI By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the FRI realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold FRI War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor FRI Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It FRI was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak FRI was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, FRI igniting worldwide political scandal. FRI With first access to previously classified CIA files, The FRI Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, FRI and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when FRI literature had the power to shake the world. FRI Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI Read by Nigel Anthony FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Nigel Anthony FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI Abridger: Libby Spurrier FRI Author: Peter Finn FRI Author: Petra Couvee FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b00gsv4x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge b0075w76 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Mind Your Own Business! b00954qd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston Comes to Town b007qzh8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06s83jl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Daphne duMaurier - The Blue Lenses b007k4rp (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI After a major eye operation, shocked Marda West can see FRI things that others can't. Emma Fielding concludes the dark FRI fantasy. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076b92 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Fever FRI 4 Extra Debut. Legendary singer Peggy Lee's daughter Nicki FRI Foster talks about her mother's life and her unforgettable FRI hit record. From November 2002. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jny1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jmny (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Front Row Interviews b00761nw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler FRI b00wlgg4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 15 Minute Drama b03sgq3n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00h8nh9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06s83jl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b06s9dr2 (Listen) FRI From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club FRI has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Russell FRI Kane. FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007w32v (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI Charles tackles prison reform, as Martin helps Delia Smith FRI with a new image. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From FRI February 2001. FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b01nkt53 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Easy Tiger; Possession FRI The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his FRI wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience FRI readings. This week the perils of learning a foreign FRI language by audio tape in "Easy Tiger" and when crossing the FRI line in property desire in "Possession". 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 b01rgmfd (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 FRI The last in the series of Bridget Christie on the state of FRI modern feminism. This week it's women in comedy as she FRI answers that old chestnut 'Are Women Funny?' Featuring Fred FRI MacAulay. FRI Credits FRI Performer: Bridget Christie FRI Performer: Fred MacAulay FRI Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith FRI Producer: Alexandra Smith FRI Writer: Bridget Christie FRI