27 November, 2015

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28/11/2015 - 04/12/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses b007k4rp (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT After a major eye operation, shocked Marda West can see SAT things that others can't. Emma Fielding concludes the dark SAT fantasy. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076b92 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Fever SAT 4 Extra Debut. Legendary singer Peggy Lee's daughter Nicki SAT Foster talks about her mother's life and her unforgettable SAT hit record. From November 2002. SAT SAT 01:00 Front Row Interviews b00761nw (Listen) SAT PD James SAT PD James talks to Mark Lawson on Radio 4's arts programme SAT Front Row about crime writing and her 15th novel 'Death in SAT Holy Orders' featuring her sleuth, Adam Dalgliesh. SAT Her books, often featuring Dalgliesh, sold in their millions SAT around the world. Many were adapted for TV and film. SAT Born Phyllis Dorothy James on 3 August 1920, the author did SAT not publish her first novel, Cover Her Face, until she was SAT 42. Although it was a critical success, she continued SAT working for the Home Office, where she held a job in the SAT forensic science department, and then the criminal law SAT department until 1979. SAT PD James died aged 94 on the 27 November 2014. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. SAT SAT 01:30 Joan Turner: The Highs and Lows of the Wacky Warbler SAT b00wlgg4 (Listen) SAT Lesley Garrett tells the fascinating story of operatic SAT comedienne Joan Turner. SAT Joan Turner was a larger-than-life star who enjoyed a SAT successful stage and television career in the 1960s and 70s. SAT She was born in Belfast in 1922 and made her debut at the SAT Finsbury Empire as a singing comedienne. SAT Joan could perform pop or opera with her SAT four-and-a-half-octave soprano voice, impersonate Judy SAT Garland and Bette Davis, and then change to stand-up comic. SAT In her early career she worked with The Crazy Gang, appeared SAT at many Royal Events, recorded for Pye Records and became SAT the highest-earning female singer in Britain. After touring SAT all the major music halls she was considered a 'female Harry SAT Secombe', and in the States they billed her as "The Wacky SAT Warbler". SAT One reviewer described her as having "the voice of an angel SAT and the wit of a devil". SAT Even though she gained a reputation for being difficult and SAT unpredictable she remained a much loved figure on the show SAT business circuit. SAT Her daughter Susanna Page always believed that "the best way SAT to describe Mum is that she thought every day was SAT Christmas". She was to discover painfully that it was not. SAT By the late nineties an unkind reverse reduced her to the SAT status of a bag lady walking the streets of Las Vegas and SAT Los Angeles searching for work. This downturn in her life SAT and career was a result of a long term battle with gambling SAT and alcoholism. SAT A few film and television roles saw a short revival in her SAT fortunes but her last live comeback attempt ended in a SAT drunken shambles. She spent her final years in sheltered SAT accommodation in Surrey. SAT The programme features interviews with Actor Harry SAT Dickman,Variety entertainer Roy Hudd and Joan's daughter SAT Susanna page. SAT SAT 02:00 Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland SAT b06qdfmv (Listen) SAT Who Stole the Tarts? SAT Join Alice on her surreal adventures in Alice in Wonderland. SAT SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01s0scn (Listen) SAT The Search for Silence SAT The Search for Silence: The final episode of a thirty-part SAT series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound SAT Archive. SAT In the noisy modern world, silence has become an ever more SAT desirable - and fashionable - state. We read books about it, SAT go on retreats to find it, and soundproof our living and SAT working spaces in its name. But when we have it is it what SAT we want? SAT Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex considers SAT the modern quest for quiet and asks whether what really SAT makes us humans happy is a little noise. SAT Signature tune composed by Joe Acheson. SAT Assistant producer: Cathy FitzGerald. SAT Producer: Matt Thompson. SAT A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Readings SAT Series readings director: Cherry Cookson. SAT SAT 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqky (Listen) SAT Episode 15 SAT Mary sets out to find an alibi for Jem, who stands accused SAT of murder. Stars Emma Rydall, Deborah Berlin and Roy Hudd. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b048znq5 (Listen) SAT The Zhivago Affair, Episode 5 SAT By Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. SAT It's 1956 and Boris Pasternak presses a manuscript into the SAT hands of an Italian publishing scout with these words, 'This SAT is Doctor Zhivago. May it make its way around the world.' SAT Pasternak knew his novel would never be published in the SAT Soviet Union as the authorities regarded it as seditious, so SAT instead he allowed it to be published in translation all SAT over the world - a highly dangerous act. SAT By 1958 the life of this extraordinary book enters the SAT realms of the spy novel. The CIA, recognising that the Cold SAT War was primarily an ideological battle, published Doctor SAT Zhivago in Russian and smuggled it into the Soviet Union. It SAT was immediately snapped up on the black market. Pasternak SAT was later forced to renounce the Nobel Prize in Literature, SAT igniting worldwide political scandal. SAT With first access to previously classified CIA files, The SAT Zhivago Affair gives an irresistible portrait of Pasternak, SAT and takes us deep into the Cold War, back to a time when SAT literature had the power to shake the world. SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Read by Nigel Anthony SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Nigel Anthony SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Author: Peter Finn SAT Author: Petra Couvee SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b00gsv4x (Listen) SAT Arnold Bennett - The Grand Babylon Hotel, Episode 2 SAT Murder mystery by Arnold Bennett, adapted in two parts by SAT Chris Harrald. SAT Having bought Europe's most exclusive hotel, American tycoon SAT Theodore Racksole is thrown in to a world of intrigue, SAT espionage and murder. SAT Theodore Racksole ...... John Sessions SAT Nella Racksole ...... Matti Houghton SAT Aribert ...... Joe Kloska SAT Jules ...... Richard Katz SAT Miss Spencer ...... Fenella Woolgar SAT Felix Babylon ...... Stephen Greif SAT Prince Eugen ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Reginald Dimmock ...... Gunnar Cauthery SAT Hazell ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Miss Ferguson ...... Jill Cardo SAT Tomkins ...... Inam Mirza SAT Emperor ...... Malcolm Tierney SAT Sampson Levi ...... Chris Pavlo. SAT SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge b0075w76 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 2 SAT Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon SAT Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Marcus Brigstocke and Peter SAT Serafinowicz. 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 Mind Your Own Business! b00954qd (Listen) SAT She'll Have to Go SAT An accountant tackles a tycoon over his number of women SAT workers. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton. From SAT December 1987. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston Comes to Town b007qzh8 (Listen) SAT Has Anyone Seen Winston? SAT The family has moved to London, and Nancy is worried when SAT the old rogue disappears. Stars Bill Wallis. From January SAT 1990. SAT SAT 05:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06s83jl (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT A fun packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and SAT Ruth Bratt. Sketches and songs from a whole range of new SAT characters, with the occasional appearance from some old SAT favourites. SAT The first series was nominated for Best Comedy at the BBC SAT Audio awards 2014, and all four performers have recently SAT been on the West End stage as part of the smash hit SAT Showstopper: The Improvised Musical - and were part of the SAT show when it graced the Radio 4 airwaves a few years ago. SAT This week we meet the masseuses who might make your visit to SAT their spa more than a little stressful, we find out whether SAT Mary's embarrassing flatulence has got any better (I SAT wouldn't hold your breath - well, actually I might) and find SAT out who Julia is - or was. SAT Performers: SAT Lucy Trodd SAT Ruth Bratt SAT Adam Meggido SAT Oliver Senton SAT Written by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd SAT Script Editor: Jon Hunter SAT Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins SAT Producer: Steve Doherty SAT A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Ruth Bratt SAT Performer: Lucy Trodd SAT Performer: Adam Meggido SAT Performer: Oliver Senton SAT Writer: Ruth Bratt SAT Writer: Lucy Trodd SAT Producer: Steve Doherty SAT SAT 06:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus b06qjp4l (Listen) SAT 1938: Charles and Dora Randolph are celebrating their Golden SAT Wedding. A chance for four generations of the same family to SAT be together - sparking all the problems and surprises that SAT such a gathering inevitably causes. SAT Stars Michael Denison as Charles Randolph, Dulcie Gray as SAT Dora Randolph, Mary Wimbush as Belle, Annette Badland as SAT Margery, Frances Jeater as Edna and Dora Bryan as Nanny. SAT Dodie Smith's play enjoyed a hugely successful run in the SAT theatre before and during the early years of the Second SAT World War. SAT Producer: Glyn Dearman SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. SAT SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075jv4 (Listen) SAT From Champagne to Rationing 1910-1919 SAT Oyster soup, oyster cremeskies, braised pheasant, champagne SAT sorbet, sweet souffle, scotch woodcock, summer lentil soup SAT and nut rissoles. Food guru Marguerite Patten mingles menu SAT of the 1910s with memories of historic events - the sinking SAT of the Titanic, servants' wages, the Epsom Derby and life in SAT First World War trenches. 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 b04mqt7h (Listen) SAT Speaking as a Member of the Public SAT Man on the Street. Tom, Dick and Harry. The Man on the SAT Clapham Omnibus. The Voice of the People. For decades, SAT "ordinary people" have been stopped in the street to give SAT interviewers their opinions on diverse subjects in the SAT ubiquitous format of the vox pop. Why? SAT Comedian and writer Danny Wallace revisits decades of SAT television and radio archives to listen again to the SAT multitude who happened to be walking down the street when a SAT reporter needed a random opinion about soap flakes or SAT capital punishment. SAT It all began in 1930s America, with the programme Vox Pop in SAT Houston, Texas where a presenter literally ran a microphone SAT cable out of the radio station window to interview people on SAT the street. However, the technique didn't become a regular SAT feature of British broadcasting until the 1960s. Now, it's SAT impossible to turn on the news without hearing at least one SAT neatly randomised set of opinions from members of the Great SAT British Public. SAT Danny considers why the vox pop is so omnipresent, what "the SAT public" actually means and why we need the views of so many SAT ordinary people on radio and TV. BBC voxing queen Esther SAT Rantzen looks back on the thousands of people she SAT buttonholed for That's Life. Comedian Charlie Higson SAT considers why comedy ran away with the format. Deputy SAT Director of BBC News Fran Unsworth makes a serious case for SAT the use of seemingly random opinions in news programmes. SAT Deputy Political Editor James Landale, tells Danny about a SAT strange vox he conducted that recently went viral. We also SAT hear from Greg Packer, native New Yorker who's been voxed so SAT many times that the Associated Press had to ban him from SAT being quoted. SAT Produced by Colin McNulty SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks b06qjs0s (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 1 presenter Gemma Cairney is a self-professed SAT 'radio obsessive.' SAT In this 3 hour special she shares the unique, brilliant and SAT often irreverent voices that inspired her teenage self to be SAT a broadcaster. The compelling radio personalities with verve SAT and personality; the presenters that stood out and marked SAT the emergence of a new and exciting youth culture; the SAT presenters who, in some cases, proved controversial. SAT Drawing on her career in music radio, Gemma includes SAT programmes, extracts and personalities from across the BBC: SAT Radio 1, 1xtra, Radio 2, Radio London, 6Music and Radio 4. SAT The Top Ten voices past, present and future who have SAT influenced and continue to inspire Gemma to work in her SAT favourite medium. SAT With contributions from the Today Programme's award-winning SAT John Humphrys, radio presenter, enthusiast and maverick Iain SAT Lee and BBC Radio 1 & 1xtra's fireball Charlie Sloth. SAT Producer: Sarah Wade SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in November SAT 2015. SAT SAT 12:00 The Pasadenas' Almanac: The Mysterious Affair at SAT Harrogate b06qjvqp (Listen) SAT The queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie is missing. SAT Another musical excursion for the Pasadena Roof Orchestra SAT through great moments in 20th Century history. With vocalist SAT Duncan Galloway. SAT Starring June Whitfield, Jeffrey Holland and Chris Emmett. SAT A light-hearted take on the massive 1926 trawl for the SAT missing author, involving 1000 police constables, civilians SAT - and for the first time aeroplanes. Agatha was eventually SAT found mysteriously in Harrogate, so what really happened...? SAT Written by Chris Emmett and Tony Hare. SAT Producer: Richard Wilson SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1992. SAT SAT 12:30 The Right Time b00c90g4 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT Gym shenanigans in the sketch comedy for people growing SAT older disgracefully. Stars Graeme Garden and Pam Ayres. From SAT March 2003. SAT SAT 13:00 Welcome to Zaatari Omnibus b06qjwhm (Listen) SAT One family's story from Zaatari Camp, adapted from a SAT Jordanian audio drama. Made in conjunction with Radio SAT SouriaLi and UNHCR. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06qm7w6 (Listen) SAT Mary Black SAT Folk singer Mary Black chooses Ewan MacColl's 'Schooldays SAT Over' and Bob Dylan's 'Forever Young'. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06qmbqv (Listen) SAT Bernard Knight SAT Forensic pathologist and crime writer Bernard Knight had to SAT do thousands of autopsies in his career, often for grim SAT reasons. He tells Professor Anthony Clare how he coped. 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 August 1994. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b04mqt7h (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus b06qjp4l (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075jv4 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget SAT b06qmcjl (Listen) SAT American writer Edgar Allan Poe was obsessed by the unsolved SAT murder of a woman, Mary Rogers, who he called "Marie Roget" SAT in his fictionalised version of the case. SAT On his last night on earth, Poe has a visitor with a SAT disturbing solution as to who might have killed her. SAT Starring Ed Bishop as Edgar Allan Poe, with Terry Molloy as SAT Dupin, Hedli Niklaus as Muddy and Hu Pryce as Tom White / SAT Reader. SAT Written by Peter Mackie SAT Directed by Philip Martin SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988. SAT SAT 19:00 Gemma Cairney's Top Ten Radio Mavericks b06qjs0s (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Concrete Cow b0076jz1 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 5 SAT Sherlock Holmes plays Cluedo in this sketch comedy starring SAT Robert Webb, Olivia Colman and Sally Hawkins. From September SAT 2002. SAT SAT 22:30 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01hkz35 (Listen) SAT Nigel SAT Strap in for fifteen minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever SAT Peter bring you a pygmy hippo, a mystery voice, some house SAT eyes & the Pope. SAT Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning SAT sketch team - get their own Radio 4 show. SAT From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another SAT Case Of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny SAT Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of SAT tri-coloured jerseys. SAT "If they don't go very far very soon there is no such thing SAT as British justice" - Daily Telegraph SAT "A masterclass in original sketch comedy" - Metro SAT "Pretty much top of the class" - The Scotsman SAT So - SAT Why "Clever"? SAT Dunno SAT Why "Peter"? SAT Not a clue mate SAT Should I listen to the show? SAT Yes, of course! Derrr. SAT Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley SAT and special guest Catriona Knox SAT Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley SAT & Dominic Stone SAT Produced & directed by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Richard dBond SAT Performer: Edward Eales-White SAT Performer: William Hartley SAT Performer: Dominic Stone SAT Actor: Catriona Knox SAT Writer: Richard dBond SAT Writer: Edward Eales-White SAT Writer: William Hartley SAT Writer: Dominic Stone SAT Director: David Tyler SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 22:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b007jmz1 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Normal Love SAT When his wife leaves him for a kettle, the cartoonist looks SAT for love elsewhere. Stars Paul McCrink. From August 2001. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06s9f1d (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 Russell Kane. SAT SAT 23:00 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b017vmfs (Listen) SAT Series 5, Iron Man SAT When Giles accidentally enters an Iron Man triathlon in SAT Spain, he has to enlist the help of Neil Diamond and a SAT donkey... 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 Cast: SAT Mr. Timmis .....Vincent Franklin SAT Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ...... Catherine Shepherd SAT Jose ..... Mitch Benn SAT Mariluz ..... Debbie Chazen SAT Carl ...... Kieran Hodgson SAT Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby & Toby Davies SAT Producer/Director: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 SAT Producer DAVID TYLER. SAT SAT 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom b01b1z4r (Listen) SAT Series 3, Honesty SAT The comedian ponders whether telling the truth is always the SAT best option. With Hattie Heyridge. From November 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Peter Mackie - The Real Mystery of Marie Roget SUN b06qmcjl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Welcome to Zaatari Omnibus b06qjwhm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06qm7w6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06qmbqv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b04mqt7h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Dodie Smith - Dear Octopus b06qjp4l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SUN b0075jv4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b007zcg4 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Aunt Esther reappears worried for her niece's welfare, and SUN the mill workers are angry. Stars David Calder and Roy Hudd. SUN SUN 07:15 Ghost Houses b007604q (Listen) SUN Woodstock SUN Charlotte Smith visits Kilkenny in Ireland to explore the SUN ruins of a romantic stately home which became a prison. From SUN January 2001. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b01qdxwn (Listen) SUN Series 8, The Parent Trap SUN Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all SUN the right jargon but never a practical solution. SUN A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering SUN in other people's lives on both a professional and personal SUN basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and SUN heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of SUN discomfort to her. SUN Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control SUN both her professional and private life SUN In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out SUN there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. SUN In 'The Parent Trap' Clare is relishing the role of acting SUN Team Leader at the Family Centre but at home she's not SUN relishing a visit from Brian's mother. SUN Episode 6 - The Parent Trap 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 Hazel: Hannah Gordon SUN Joan: Sarah Thom SUN Laura: Sarah Thom SUN Joe: Adam Nagaitis SUN Mike: Adam Nagaitis SUN Paul: Paul Stonehouse SUN Frank: Paul Stonehouse SUN Girl: Stephanie Racine SUN Writer: Harry Venning SUN Writer: David Ramsden SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 08:00 The Al Read Show b0090v01 (Listen) SUN From 06/11/1966 SUN Poking fun at fireman and hospitals. Sketches and monologues SUN from the former Salford sausage maker. From November 1966. SUN SUN 08:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b008qq3w (Listen) SUN From 24/05/1950 SUN Elocution lessons are on offer with Brains Amalgamated's new SUN machine. Stars Kenneth Horne and Richard Murdoch. From May SUN 1950. SUN SUN 09:00 Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch b06qmzzd (Listen) SUN Omnibus. Throughout her life, Iris Murdoch wrote thousands SUN of letters, illuminating her life. Read by Imogen Stubbs and SUN Nigel Anthony. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06qn1gl (Listen) SUN Simon Armitage SUN The poet Simon Armitage chooses 'Tonight' from West Side SUN Story and 'Live on a Hot August Night' by Crispy Ambulance. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06qn39x (Listen) SUN Comedians, Miranda Hart SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Mozart to Mama Cass, the actress and SUN comedian Miranda Hart shares her castaway choices with SUN Kirsty Young. From 2013. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06qn3tg (Listen) SUN Mighty: Bull, Pen, Gun SUN True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns SUN introduces tales about Ernest Hemingway and the power of SUN forgiveness. 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 b00pspj0 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Bird's Nest Soup SUN The naturalist recalls the challenge of filming the birds of SUN Borneo, who make their nests of saliva so prized by Chinese SUN chefs. SUN SUN 12:00 The Al Read Show b0090v01 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Much Binding in the Marsh b008qq3w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b007zcg4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Ghost Houses b007604q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Neil Gaiman - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black SUN Mountains b06qncpn (Listen) SUN Omnibus: Inspired by a Hebridean myth of crime and revenge, SUN a dwarf seeks a guide to a Misty Isle cave. Read by Bill SUN Paterson. SUN SUN 15:45 Berlie Doherty - The Bad Boy b06qngjk (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Geraldine is forbidden from seeing a local SUN boy, but her sister observes a tender connection between SUN them. Read by Kathryn Hunt. SUN SUN 16:00 Don Haworth - Ernest's Tower b03b5408 (Listen) SUN Ernest is a fairground stallholder living in his Uncle Leo's SUN baleful shadow, but Ernest has a special dream. Stars Paul SUN Copley. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06rchkr (Listen) SUN Poetry Please: Altered States SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'Poetry Please', Roger McGough presents poetry to take SUN you into altered states, reveries and waking dreams - SUN including Tennyson's strange and magical Lotus-Eaters and SUN Coleridge's Kubla Khan. SUN The readers are Tim Pigott-Smith and Indira Varma. SUN Producer: Beth O'Dea SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. SUN SUN 17:30 Clare in the Community b01qdxwn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b06qnjdj (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Day It Rained Forever SUN The last remaining residents of a drought-stricken hotel SUN receive salvation from an enigmatic source. 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 Michael Mackenzie, Bob Docherty and Gwynneth Guthrie. SUN Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska. SUN Producer: Hamish Wilson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. SUN SUN 18:30 Terry Pratchett b008p506 (Listen) SUN Guards! Guards!, Episode 6 SUN All Captain Vimes needs to save the city is a million-to-one SUN chance. Comic fantasy conclusion with Martin Jarvis and John SUN Wood. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06qn3tg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pspj0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Living On Paper: Letters From Iris Murdoch b06qmzzd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06qn1gl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06qn39x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b01qdxwn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Bussmann and Quantick Kingsize b045gdqt (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN Five things you didn't know about ready meals. Stars Jane SUN Bussmann and David Quantick. With Peter Serafinowicz. From SUN May 1998. SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00y9xdg (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 6 SUN The award-winning comic offers revelations about hats, tents SUN and some disturbing tales from Beatrix Potter. From February SUN 2007. SUN SUN 23:30 A Look Back at the Future b01rh3wq (Listen) SUN 2001 SUN Recorded in June 1994, Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and SUN Jeremy Hardy recall a year of turbulent upheaval that was SUN yet to be. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b06qnjdj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Terry Pratchett b008p506 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton Omnibus b007zcg4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Ghost Houses b007604q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Neil Gaiman - The Truth Is a Cave in the Black MON Mountains b06qncpn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Berlie Doherty - The Bad Boy b06qngjk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Don Haworth - Ernest's Tower b03b5408 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06rchkr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Clare in the Community b01qdxwn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Miss Marple b007jv9w (Listen) MON They Do It With Mirrors, Episode 1 MON Miss Marple is invited to stay with her old school friend, MON Carrie at Stoneygates - a Victorian mansion doubling as a MON rehabilitation centre for delinquents. MON As she mulls over Carrie's life history on the train MON journey, just what is the danger that the sleuth is sensing? MON Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the MON indomitable amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple. With Ursula MON Howells as Carrie Louise, Jill Balcon as Ruth Van Rydock and MON Peter Howell as Lewis Serrocold MON From the book first published in 1952 and dramatised by MON Michael Bakewell. MON Director: Enyd Williams MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. MON MON 06:30 The Generalisimo b0076g7h (Listen) MON The Pre-Democracy Era MON 4 Extra Debut. Miles Kington travels through Spain to MON dissect the early years of Europe's longest-serving dictator MON General Franco. From August 2003. MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b00c693m (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 2 MON It's a facelift fracas on the sketch comedy for people MON growing older disgracefully. Stars Graeme Garden and Neil MON Innes. From March 2003. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b0670gmc (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 8 MON Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, Susan Calman and Tom Allen MON find out just how hard it can be to talk for 60 seconds with MON no hesitation, repetition & deviation in this special MON episode recorded at the Edinburgh Festival. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Tom Allen MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jq0r (Listen) MON Series 3, Round and Round Went the Big Wheel MON The Walmington-on-Sea platoon take action when a new High MON Explosive Attack Device goes haywire. 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, MON John Barron as Colonel Pearce and Michael Knowles as Captain MON Stewart. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1976. MON MON 08:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b007qg0y (Listen) MON Series 2, From 03/10/1976 MON The comedy duo get up to monkey tricks in Ernie's play The MON Mighty Kong. With guest star Nicola Pagett. From October MON 1976. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b009tvdp (Listen) MON Series 11, Hans Christian Andersen MON James Walton hosts the literary quiz with John Walsh, MON Sebastian Faulks, Wendy Holden and John O'Farrell. From MON April 2008. MON MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00n5vsq (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 6 MON Merv has always worn jeans, so why does Pam want to take him MON shopping? Stars Mervyn Stutter and Lill Roughley. From June MON 2004. MON MON 10:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlnk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON When a concert party is marooned in the Midlands, the lives MON of three dissatisfied people are entwined. Stars Philip MON Jackson. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00wldv9 (Listen) MON Julia Blackburn - For the Love of a Child, Chocolate Pudding MON The first of two stories about relationships between adults MON and children, drawn from real-life. MON 1. Chocolate Pudding MON A psychiatrist is perplexed by several cases of coma in a MON young child. With patience and bowls of chocolate pudding he MON manages to wake the child, by describing how delicious the MON pudding is and putting it under the child's nose. The story MON is inspired by conversations with the psychiatrist and his MON descriptions of 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome'. MON Written and read by the Costa-shortlisted writer Julia MON Blackburn. The stories are written with the same mesmerising MON delicacy of touch that Julia brought to her Penn-Ackerley MON prize-winning memoir 'The Three of Us', demonstrating her MON extraordinary capacity to find the best in people while MON encompassing their frailty. MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery MON Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie. MON MON 11:15 Cherie Rogers - An Oddly Complete Understanding MON b06qsngj (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Penelope Wilton and Rosalind Shanks play MON Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield who formed a literary MON friendship. From May 1990. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jq0r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b007qg0y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Miss Marple b007jv9w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Generalisimo b0076g7h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b018cbbr (Listen) MON Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love, Episode 1 MON Nancy Mitford's razor-sharp comic classic on love and MON growing up in the 1930s. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON and read by Diana Quick. MON Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic MON cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is MON beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children MON with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in MON the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching MON tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in MON the First World War. The cousins spend much of their MON childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in MON the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex. MON Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is MON also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading MON to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in MON evoking the painful reality of the times. MON Reader...Diana Quick MON Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 14:15 Disability: A New History b01slvvj (Listen) MON The Only Dwarf in Liverpool MON Across the country, historians are discovering the voices of MON disabled people from the past. In this 10-part series, Peter MON White draws on the latest research to reveal first-hand MON accounts of what it was like to live with physical MON disability in the 18th and 19th centuries. MON The result is moving, revealing, and sometimes very funny: MON "Sirs, I am a dwarf. I have lost my job at the circus and MON what is a dwarf to do in such a situation? In this MON Godforsaken place the snow comes so deep that a MON self-respecting dwarf can't even walk along the street MON without drowning!" MON This document is from a huge archive of letters from MON disabled people in the 19th century, applying to the local MON authorities for money. They are a rich source of what life MON was like with a disability. Sources like this are only now MON being discovered and interpreted by historians across the MON country - it amounts to a new historical movement. MON In the first programme, Peter explores what this new history MON reveals, and challenges our pre-conceptions. MON For Peter, as a blind man, there is a strong sense of MON personal discovery. He says, "I never realised disabled MON people had a history. History was what happened to everyone MON else." MON For him the series is revelatory. This programme, for MON instance, includes 18th century jokes about disability and MON discusses what juicy terms for disability were common in a MON society where there was no political correctness. MON With historians David Turner, Chris Mounsey, Stephen King, MON Judith Hawley, and voices from the past brought vividly to MON life by actors Gerard McDermott, Ewan Bailey and Emily MON Bevan. MON Producer: Elizabeth Burke MON Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqlr (Listen) MON Episode 16 MON Mary's romantic attachment to both the murder victim and the MON accused, make her the centre of gossip and attention. Stars MON Emma Rydal. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00wlbss (Listen) MON Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun, Episode 1 MON "Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the MON universe and that even the sun revolved around us... MON Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most MON basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that MON that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are MON mere specks..." MON Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the MON sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the MON legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun MON figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for MON ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc MON in the sky is now caught in five episodes... MON In the first of five episodes, abridged by Penny Leicester, MON the author highlights some of the astounding myths MON associated with the sun, then he views the pefect sunrise... MON Reader Allan Corduner MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 15:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlnk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b009tvdp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00n5vsq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b00c693m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b0670gmc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007ww76 (Listen) MON The Big Chill MON A museum guard's quest to learn the secrets of the universe MON with a 400-year-old man. Stars Lyndsey Marshal and Peter MON Marinker. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00761f9 (Listen) MON Louise Doughty and her guests solicitor Anthony Julius and MON former MP and ex-war correspondent, Martin Bell - discuss MON three favourite paperbacks by Geoffrey Robertson, William MON Boyd and Adrian Bell. From 2001. MON 'Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global Justice by MON Geoffrey Robertson QC MON Publisher: Penguin MON 'Brazzaville Beach' by William Boyd MON Publisher: Penguin MON 'Corduroy' by Adrian Bell MON Publisher: Penguin. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jq0r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show b007qg0y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Miss Marple b007jv9w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Generalisimo b0076g7h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00wldv9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Cherie Rogers - An Oddly Complete Understanding MON b06qsngj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b0670gmc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Cabin Pressure b01l02j9 (Listen) MON Series 4, Timbuktu MON Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world MON of a tiny, one plane, charter airline; staffed by two MON pilots: one on his way down, and one who was never up to MON start with. Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, MON metal sheets to Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu MON Dhabi, no job is too small, but many, many jobs are too MON difficult... MON Episode 1: MON Hooray hooray, it's Birling Day once more, where the crew MON traditionally swap their dignity for cash! But where have MON all the camels gone? And why is Arthur reading a book? MON Written by John Finnemore MON Produced and directed by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole MON First Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam MON Capt Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch MON Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore MON Mr Birling: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Giancarlo: Steve Brody MON Writer: John Finnemore MON Director: David Tyler MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b06pxzdz (Listen) MON Series 47, Episode 3 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch MON Benn, Sarah Kendall, Robert Peston and Gemma Arrowsmith for MON a comic look at the week's news. MON Written by the cast with additional material from Jane MON Lamacraft, Sarah Morgan, Liam Beirne and Marc Jones. MON Produced by Alexandra Smith. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Jon Holmes MON Performer: Mitch Benn MON Performer: Sarah Kendall MON Performer: Robert Peston MON Performer: Gemma Arrowsmith MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 23:30 The Harpoon b007k4t8 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON Evolution's epic story is revealed in the nostalgic spoof of MON boys' adventure story papers. With Peter Baynham. From MON August 1992. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 DECEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007ww76 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00761f9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Miss Marple b007jv9w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 The Generalisimo b0076g7h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b018cbbr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Disability: A New History b01slvvj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqlr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00wlbss (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlnk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b009tvdp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00n5vsq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b00c693m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b0670gmc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Miss Marple b007jvb0 (Listen) TUE They Do It With Mirrors, Episode 2 TUE Clearly something's wrong at Stoneygates, but for Miss TUE Marple, the most disquieting factors are the jealousies and TUE simmering tensions within the family itself. TUE Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the TUE indomitable amateur detective, Miss Jane Marple. With Ursula TUE Howells as Carrie Louise, Peter Howell as Lewis Serrocold, TUE Paula Jacobs as Juliet Bellever, Rebecca Lacey as Gina Hudd TUE and Stephen Lucas as Walter Hudd. TUE From the book first published in 1952 and dramatised by TUE Michael Bakewell. TUE Director: Enyd Williams TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. TUE TUE 06:30 The Generalisimo b0076gc0 (Listen) TUE Franco's Civil War TUE Miles Kington continues his journey around Spain to uncover TUE the legacy of General Franco's civil war triumph. From TUE August 2003. TUE TUE 07:00 HR b01bm0p7 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Disabled TUE In the return of Nigel Williams' much-praised comedy series TUE the two 60-something chums have just lost their pensions. TUE Sam (Nicholas le Prevost) balks at Peter's (Jonathan Pryce) TUE outrageous survival measures. But will he become embroiled? TUE Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce TUE Sam ..... Nicholas le Prevost TUE Doctor ..... Paul Moriarty TUE Director...Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 07:30 Gloomsbury b040hzz1 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bonfire of the Jealousies TUE Vera is consumed with jealousy, because Ginny has won a TUE literary prize and is going to be photographed for the front TUE cover of Vanity Fair by acclaimed Society photographer Manta TUE Ray. To make matters worse, Venus is getting a teeny crush TUE on Ginny. So, when Ginny asks for style advice in advance of TUE her photographic session, Vera's suggestions have an edge of TUE mockery. TUE Vera, wracked with torment, breaks the habit of a lifetime TUE and unburdens herself to Mrs Gosling. But of course Mrs TUE Gosling's life has been an endless struggle to suppress her TUE jealousy of her employers' wealth and privilege. Even a TUE chance encounter with Sigmund Void on Hampstead Heath fails TUE to shake Vera from her melancholic mood. In the end it falls TUE to Henry and Lionel to try to boost Vera's confidence. TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes TUE Gosling: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy TUE Mrs Gosling: Alison Steadman TUE Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman TUE Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks TUE Manta Ray: John Sessions TUE Dog Owner: Nigel Planer TUE Sigmund Void: John Sessions TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE Writer: Sue Limb TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00mbl7s (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 10 TUE Kenneth Horne probes nocturnal doings in 'Gaslight, Son of TUE Flicker', while Julian and Sandy turn bona film producers 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 b007m9wg (Listen) TUE The Spare Room TUE DeVere takes a shine to Mrs fforbes-Hamilton's guest. Is TUE Audrey jealous?. TUE Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, Keith TUE Barron as Richard DeVere, Angela Thorne as Marjory TUE Frobisher, Nicholas McArdle as Brabinger, Margery Withers as TUE Mrs Polouvicka and Frank Middlemass as Ned. TUE The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, TUE forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her TUE husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler TUE Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge TUE cottage. TUE From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and TUE disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the TUE nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of TUE Czech descent. TUE First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it TUE ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. TUE Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. TUE Producer: Jane Berthoud TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b06pxzdz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007jv2y (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE A hungry albatross inspires Samuel Tailor Cholericke's TUE poetic musings. Lakeland poets parody with Simon Callow. TUE From March 1985. TUE TUE 10:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlnw (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE After three strangers arrive, the marooned concert party TUE start making plans without their manager. Stars Helen TUE Longworth. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00wlg39 (Listen) TUE Julia Blackburn - For the Love of a Child, Call Me and I'll TUE Come to You TUE Written and read by the Costa-shortlisted writer Julia TUE Blackburn, the second of two stories about relationships TUE between adults and children, drawn from real-life. TUE 2. Call me and I'll Come to You TUE At a low ebb, Julia rediscovers a letter her father wrote to TUE her before his death. He describes how the love between a TUE parent and child is not diminished by death. Julia is TUE comforted, as if her father was with her in that moment. TUE The stories are written with the same mesmerising delicacy TUE of touch that Julia brought to her Penn-Ackerley TUE prize-winning memoir 'The Three of Us', demonstrating her TUE extraordinary capacity to find the best in people while TUE encompassing their frailty. TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery TUE Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00s3d1t (Listen) TUE Frances Byrnes - Mercy TUE Carl Prekopp stars in this first world war drama about one TUE of the first major operations by the Red Cross. TUE In 1916, soldiers who had been living terrible, deprived TUE lives in German POW camps were taken to Chateau d'Oex, a TUE holiday resort in Switzerland, to be nursed back to health TUE amongst the clean air and spring flowers, courtesy of the TUE Red Cross. Some of their wives even made the long train TUE journey from Britain to visit them. TUE It sounds like a fairy tale ending to the horrors of war and TUE captivity, and for many it must have been just that. But TUE what if a man doesn't want to be found and what if he thinks TUE he doesn't deserve to be made better? TUE Based on newspaper reports of events at the time, Frances TUE Byrnes' play follows two fictional soldiers: number 2301, an TUE angry young sergeant who is ashamed to have been captured TUE and won't reveal his identity, and Havildar Gurung, a young TUE Ghurka who is going blind and longs for the hills of home. TUE Thrown together in this beautiful, gentle place, and with TUE the winter snows now beginning to fall, is kindness and TUE mercy enough to cure these damaged men? TUE 2301.....Carl Prekopp TUE Nurse.....Siriol Jenkins TUE Special Correspondent.....Richard Mitchley TUE Gurung.....Muzz Khan TUE Officer.....Gareth Pierce TUE BBC/Cymru Wales Production directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00mbl7s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born b007m9wg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Miss Marple b007jvb0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Generalisimo b0076gc0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b018csz9 (Listen) TUE Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love, Episode 2 TUE by Nancy Mitford. Fanny is anxious about meeting her beloved TUE Aunt Emily's husband-to-be. Abridged by Lauris TUE Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick. TUE Fanny Logan tells the story of her aristocratic cousins, the TUE Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is beautiful and TUE loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children with TUE bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in the TUE local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching tool TUE above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in the TUE First World War. The cousins spend much of their childhood TUE in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in the enormous TUE Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex. TUE Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is TUE also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading TUE to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in TUE evoking the painful reality of the times. TUE Reader...Diana Quick TUE Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 14:15 Disability: A New History b01sm70w (Listen) TUE Miracle Cures TUE Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives TUE of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th TUE centuries. In this second episode - the search for Miracle TUE Cures. TUE Peter says, "Every so often in the street someone sees me TUE with my white stick and comes up to me -and offers me my TUE sight back. I'm usually quite rude to them, it depends what TUE kind of day I'm having. But the idea of miracle cures runs TUE very deep." TUE It goes back at least to the Middle Ages, to the earliest TUE accounts we have of disability in Britain. Peter TUE investigates the roots of the idea of the miracle cure, in TUE conversation with medieval historian Irina Metzler. She TUE reveals that having a child with a disability was thought to TUE be the result of "the wrong kind of sex" - and there were TUE many "wrong kinds", such as sex on Feast Days and in TUE daylight. TUE Thousands of people with illnesses and disabilities flocked TUE to their local Cathedral, praying to the Saints for a cure. TUE When that didn't work, they simply moved on to another TUE cathedral. And the belief in miracles lasted at least until TUE the 18th Century - we hear how the infant Samuel Johnson was TUE taken to see Queen Anne, his mother hoping that the Royal TUE touch would cure his skin disease. It didn't work, of TUE course, but the great rationalist wore the amulet the Queen TUE gave him all his life - hoping for a cure for his multiple TUE disabilities. There's a triumph of hope over experience! TUE With historians Irina Metzler and Judith Hawley and voices TUE from the past brought vividly to life by actors Emily Bevan, TUE Ewan Bailey and Gerard McDermott. TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE Academic adviser: David Turner, Swansea University TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqm6 (Listen) TUE Episode 17 TUE As Jem stands accused of murder, desperate Mary goes to TUE Liverpool in search of a witness. Stars Emma Rydal and Simon TUE Trinder. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00wmnby (Listen) TUE Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun, Episode 2 TUE "Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the TUE universe and that even the sun revolved around us... TUE Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most TUE basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that TUE that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are TUE mere specks..." TUE Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the TUE sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the TUE legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun TUE figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for TUE ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc TUE in the sky is now caught in five episodes... TUE 2. How has the sun cast its influence in such diverse TUE activies as warfare and holiday-making? TUE Reader Allan Corduner. TUE TUE 15:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlnw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The Motion Show b0075wtm (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Tony Hawks, TUE Simon Fanshawe, Steve Punt and Arthur Smith. From January TUE 2000. TUE TUE 16:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007jv2y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 HR b01bm0p7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Gloomsbury b040hzz1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007x08b (Listen) TUE Sleight of Mind TUE An electricity company official interrogates the museum TUE guard, but is he helping her or is he an alien? Stars Peter TUE Marinker. TUE TUE 18:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes b06rd13t (Listen) TUE Dhyan Chand TUE Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan's celebrates his personal TUE heroes with a tribute to Indian hockey legend Dhyan Chand. TUE Producer: Ranjit Doal TUE First broadcast on the BBC Asian Network in 2012. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00mbl7s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born b007m9wg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Miss Marple b007jvb0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Generalisimo b0076gc0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00wlg39 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00s3d1t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Gloomsbury b040hzz1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Don't Start b01n1qyz (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Bathroom TUE Kim calls Neil into the bathroom for an impromptu debate TUE about shaving, the Krankies and Phantom of the Opera - but TUE to what end? 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, TUE The Observer TUE Series 2 follows hard on its heels. Well observed, clever TUE and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a TUE deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our TUE couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - TUE the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. Each week, the TUE stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these TUE are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with TUE increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references TUE (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs Rochester, TUE to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's TUE weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an TUE unmistakable tenderness". TUE Frank says: TUE "Having established, in the first series, that Neil and Kim TUE are a childless academic couple who, during their numerous TUE arguments, luxuriate in their own, and each other's, 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 Director: Polly Thomas TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE Writer: Frank Skinner TUE TUE 22:45 The Music Teacher b01h75l2 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 6 TUE Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher TUE Nigel Penny. TUE Nigel finds himself losing pupils as a new music teacher who TUE is able to get outstanding exam results starts working at TUE the Arts Centre. TUE Meanwhile Belinda is keen to put the new income stream to TUE good use. TUE Audio production by Matt Katz TUE Directed by Nick Walker 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 Chloe: Isobel Webb TUE Mrs Taylor: Felicity Montagu TUE Aleesha: Jess Robinson TUE Rachel: Jess Robinson TUE Maurice: Dave Lamb TUE Guy: Jim North TUE Bobby: Joseph Webb TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE Producer: Richie Webb TUE Director: Nick Walker TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06sfqmy (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to TUE Lewis Schaffer. TUE TUE 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b01l8n82 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 4 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 b00j0hqt (Listen) TUE Here Comes Bod TUE Can Milford and Parker overcome Raamen Bod and find the Sofa TUE of Time? Stars Mark Heap and Nick Frost. From November 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 DECEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007x08b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes b06rd13t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Miss Marple b007jvb0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Generalisimo b0076gc0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b018csz9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Disability: A New History b01sm70w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqm6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00wmnby (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlnw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 The Motion Show b0075wtm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere b007jv2y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 HR b01bm0p7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Gloomsbury b040hzz1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Miss Marple b007jvb6 (Listen) WED They Do It With Mirrors, Episode 3 WED At Stoneygates, a murder has taken place in the Victorian WED mansion doubling as a rehabilitation centre for delinquents. WED Amateur sleuth Miss Marple assists the police with their WED inquiries. WED Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss WED Marple. With Keith Barron as Inspector Curry, Ursula Howells WED as Carrie Louise, Peter Howell as Lewis Serrocold and Paula WED Jacobs as Juliet Bellever. WED From the book first published in 1952 and dramatised by WED Michael Bakewell. WED Director: Enyd Williams WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. WED WED 06:30 The Generalisimo b0076ggk (Listen) WED Franco's Final Years WED Miles Kington looks back at the Franco years of the 1960s WED and 70s and life after the death of the Spanish dictator. WED From August 2003. WED WED 07:00 Lenin of the Rovers b007jvcl (Listen) WED Series 2, Ghosts and Ghoolies WED Ricky's new tabloid column teaches him some hard lessons WED about life and Gloria Hunniford. Stars Alexei Sayle. From WED April 1989. WED WED 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pxm45 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Madman in the Attic WED Episode 2, 'The Madman in the Attic'. With Tom's Dad WED advocating some rather drastic "rationalizing", Tom realises WED that it might be time for him to have a clear-out himself. 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 and WED Elizabeth Bennett. 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: Eliza Bennett WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Richard Morris WED WED 08:00 The TV Lark b01cwsl9 (Listen) WED The Potarneyland Election WED Troutbridge TV hitches a lift aboard a destroyer to cover a WED far flung historic ballot. 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 Lt Samuel Pepys Washington WED Birt/Harold MacMillan and Commander Stanton) and Richard WED Caldicote as the Deputy 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 b010hcq2 (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 3 WED New town education, and Professor Prune's time travel WED adventure continues. Stars John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From WED January 1969. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b06qzrp6 (Listen) WED 1999, Heat 6 WED Ned Sherrin chairs the music quiz with Michael Eardley of WED Aylesbury, Bristol's Alexandra Denman and Harry Miller from WED Cardiff. WED WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00s3bcz (Listen) WED Series 2, Salvatore's Apotheosis WED Plethora decides that son and heir Salvatore must be WED ordained as a priest. Stars David Swift and Sian Philips. WED From May 2002. WED WED 10:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlp4 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED As the concert party hits rock bottom, will their manager WED and 'angel' Miss Trant pull the plug on them? Stars Jemma WED Churchill. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00wlgmm (Listen) WED Julia Blackburn - For the Love of a Child, Three Buzzing WED Boys WED The last of three stories about relationships between adults WED and children, drawn from real-life. The stories are written WED and read by Julia Blackburn, whose most recent book 'The WED Three Of Us' has won the 2009 Pen/Ackerley prize for memoir WED and autobiography. The stories have Julia's mesmerising WED delicacy of touch in the way they describe human WED relationships and her capacity to find the best in people WED while encompassing their frailty. WED 3. Three Buzzing Boys WED When Julia meets Dominique she is reminded of naturalist WED Gilbert White's account of a young boy in the village of WED Selbourne. The boy sleeps by the hearth during the winter WED and wakes in the spring, going from hive to hive, eating WED honey, keeping live bees under his shirt, and buzzing with WED strange contentment. WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery WED Music: Trois Morceaux en Forme de Poire by Eric Satie. WED WED 11:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station b06qzsq2 (Listen) WED Tunnel Vision WED Wednesday January 11th 1895. Something sinister lurks in the WED tunnel damaged by the recent derailment at Victoria station WED 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, Julia Ford as WED Josie and Pauline Letts as Ada. 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 b01cwsl9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b010hcq2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Miss Marple b007jvb6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Generalisimo b0076ggk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b018fllp (Listen) WED Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love, Episode 3 WED by Nancy Mitford. Aunt Sadie needs to find some young men to WED invite to Louisa's ball. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED and read by Diana Quick. WED Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic WED cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is WED beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children WED with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in WED the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching WED tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in WED the First World War. The cousins spend much of their WED childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in WED the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex. WED Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is WED also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading WED to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in WED evoking the painful reality of the times. WED Reader...Diana Quick WED Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 14:15 Disability: A New History b01smkq3 (Listen) WED Freaks and Entrepreneurs WED Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives WED of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th WED centuries. In this third episode, he challenges our modern WED ideas of freaks and freak shows. WED Many disabled people who exhibited themselves in the 18th WED century were in fact wealthy entrepreneurs. Historians now WED argue that they were in charge of their own careers, and WED they challenged society's expectations of what disabled WED people could achieve. WED Case studies include the artist Matthew Buchinger, who was WED born without arms or legs but became a performer to Royalty WED and a symbol of virility in the 18th century. Peter also WED discovers that 18th century dwarves could be delivered to WED your door in a box - if you were wealthy enough to pay for a WED private view. WED With historians David Turner, Judith Hawley and Naomi Baker WED and voices from the past brought to life by actors Gerard WED McDermott, Ewan Bailey and Emily Bevan. WED Producer: Elizabeth Burke WED Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqml (Listen) WED Episode 18 WED Jem's defence has little chance of success without an alibi, WED and Mary is lost in Liverpool. Stars Emma Rydal and Roy WED Hudd. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00wmngc (Listen) WED Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun, Episode 3 WED "Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the WED universe and that even the sun revolved around us... WED Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most WED basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that WED that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are WED mere specks..." WED Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the WED sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the WED legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun WED figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for WED ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc WED in the sky is now caught in five episodes... WED 3. The author journeys across the world to witness the most WED dramatic of eclipses... WED Reader Allan Corduner. WED WED 15:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlp4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b06qzrp6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00s3bcz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Lenin of the Rovers b007jvcl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pxm45 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007k26v (Listen) WED A String of Time WED The museum guard ends up in the Texan desert with a dead WED American comic and a 13th-century friar. Stars Lyndsey WED Marshal. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076wzf (Listen) WED Crime Sells WED Victoria Coren discusses the morality of crime writing with WED guests Will Self, Martin Short and Maxim Jakubowski. From WED February 2006. WED WED 19:00 The TV Lark b01cwsl9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b010hcq2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Miss Marple b007jvb6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Generalisimo b0076ggk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00wlgmm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station b06qzsq2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pxm45 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01dht2y (Listen) WED Series 1, Egypt WED This week Tim Key is on a cultural pilgrimage to Cairo, as WED he grapples with the meaning of 'Egypt'. Tom Basden plays WED guitar, while wearing a fez. WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 22:45 Earls of the Court b00rfhpt (Listen) WED The Ides of March WED Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright WED about two Australians down on their luck in London. WED The night of Lloydie's much-publicised toga party is fast WED approaching. But can Johnno raise his game in time, and play WED the crucial role in the Ides of March sketch? WED Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright WED Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale WED Woman 1 ...... Alison Pettitt WED Woman 2 ...... Keely Beresford WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED Credits WED Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED 23:00 Beauty of Britain b0100gqp (Listen) WED Series 2, Citroen UXB WED No professional care-worker can afford to miss Beauty WED Olonga's survival guide to Britain - its overheated houses, WED its disappointing church services and its world-class WED charity shops. Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows WED Beauty's continuing adventures as the Featherdown Agency WED sends her to provide care for those who need it - and some WED who don't, but all of whom have relatives with guilty WED consciences. WED Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls WED hoping to live the dream in Britain. 'There are plenty of WED opportunities here. The professional classes are always off WED sick due to binge drinking and the rest are too lazy to get WED off the couch to answer the pizza delivery man.' WED The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens WED to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. It WED shows the process in all its chaotic, tragi-comedy but it WED does so from the point of view of a migrant worker, Beauty, WED whose Zimbabwean Shona background has taught her to respect WED age. Beauty sees Britain at its best, its worst and also WED sometimes without its clothes on running the wrong way down WED the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' WED In episode one, Beauty is sent to look after Sarah, who WED lives with both her mother and daughter. A perfect, happy WED modern family, like the kind Beauty has seen in feel-good WED British movies. With her own family being very demanding, it WED is understandable when Beauty begins to get too close. WED Episode 1 'Citroen UXB' WED Beauty... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Joyce ... Julia McKenzie WED Sarah ... Jenny Agutter WED Lucy ... Catherine Shepherd WED Sally ... Felicity Montagu WED Karen ... Nicola Sanderson WED The music for the series was provided by The West End Gospel WED Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 23:30 Revolting People b008kmv2 (Listen) WED Series 3, Secrets and Lies WED War is now only two days away. Maybe three if it's wet. 1770 WED America sitcom with Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses. From July WED 2004. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 DECEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007k26v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076wzf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Miss Marple b007jvb6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Generalisimo b0076ggk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b018fllp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Disability: A New History b01smkq3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqml (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00wmngc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 JB Priestley - The Good Companions b007jlp4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b06qzrp6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00s3bcz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Lenin of the Rovers b007jvcl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06pxm45 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Miss Marple b007jvbc (Listen) THU They Do It With Mirrors, Episode 4 THU Someone is systematically trying to poison Miss Marple's old THU friend, Carrie Louise. But who - and why? THU Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss THU Marple. With Ursula Howells as Carrie Louise, Keith Barron THU as Inspector Curry, Rebecca Lacey as Gina Hudd, Natasha Pyne THU as Mildred Strete and Nick Waring as Alexis Restarick. THU From the book first published in 1952 and dramatised by THU Michael Bakewell. THU Director: Enyd Williams THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. THU THU 06:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue b00vv0ds (Listen) THU Sue stands 13 feet high at the hips and 42 feet long from THU head to tail. Her weight is 7 tons, and her skull alone THU weighs 600 pounds. Her teeth are 7 1/2 to 12 inches long. THU Sue MacGregor's fascination with the story of Sue, the T Rex THU began a few years ago when she visited the Field Museum in THU Chicago, and came face to face with her namesake. In this THU programme, she recalls the drama of her discovery, her THU eventual sale for $87 Million and the custody battles that THU raged around her. THU In the summer of 1990, fossil-hunter Sue Hendrickson was in THU South Dakota, working for the Black Hills Institute of THU Geological Research. Whilst waiting for a flat tyre to be THU replaced, she stumbled across the fossils of what would be THU the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus rex yet discovered. THU Sue - as the dinosaur was nicknamed - soon sparked an THU ownership debate that continued for five years, and that THU meant Sue was not unveiled to public exhibition for an THU entire decade. THU The story of the Sue debate began when Maurice Williams, a THU private rancher in the South Dakota region, invited Peter THU Larson, the president of a commercial geology company, onto THU his property to look for fossils. It was on this land that THU Sue was found. Larson claimed to have bought Sue with a THU $5,000 cheque- but Williams denied that he reached any sort THU of agreement with Larson over the sale of the dinosaur. THU Further complicating the debate was the fact that Sue was THU discovered within the boundary of a Sioux Indian reservation THU and Maurice Williams' land, like that of many American THU Indians, was held in trust by the US government. THU In 1992, the government stepped into the argument with a THU search warrant. National Guardsmen and FBI agents raided the THU Black Hills Institute, removing Sue and many other specimens THU and documents. THU Producer: David Prest THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Producer: David Prest THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b03nt1sw (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 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, visitors are expected in Wadenbrook, and a revelation THU is long overdue. THU Producer: Steven Canny THU As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex THU girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and THU Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at THU these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a THU label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. THU Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor THU south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the THU three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each enviously. Now THU Katherine Jakeways is giving Northamptonshire an identity. THU And she waits, eagerly, for her home-county to thank her. THU And possibly make her some kind of Mayor. THU Joined by nearly all of the incredible cast which graced THU Series One and Two - including Sheila Hancock as the THU Narrator, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu, Geoffrey Palmer THU and Kevin Eldon - and with the exciting addition of Tim Key THU and Nathaniel Parker - North by Northamptonshire hopes (and THU promises) to once again delight audience and critics. THU 'The laughs are cruel, but the monsters of suburbia are THU curiously sympathetic, and the characters so well drawn and THU well played that this could run and run.' Time Out. THU Credits THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Rod: Tim Key THU Frank: Rufus Wright THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Keith: John Biggins THU Norman: Geoffrey Palmer THU 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 b01rl1y3 (Listen) THU Series 2, With guests Matt Lucas and Liane Carroll 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 sixth episode explores the theme of the four seasons. THU Guest starring Matt Lucas who performs some songs with the THU band and jazz singer Liane Carroll who is conducted by Alex THU with the aid of a ping pong ball. THU Host .... Alex Horne THU Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland THU Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown THU Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier THU Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds THU Piano/keyboard .... Ed Sheldrake THU Guest performers .... Matt Lucas and Liane Carroll THU Producer .... Julia McKenzie. THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007k0rm (Listen) THU Series 4, The Lodger THU Albert and Harold Steptoe argue over their lack of cash. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With William Eadie. 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 b008g2b9 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel edits a newspaper in THU Chicago. 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, Graham Hoadly and Vincent THU Marzello. THU Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark THU Brisenden. THU Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. THU Producer: Dirk Maggs THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075lq5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with Mark Thomas, THU Dillie Keane, Miles Kington and Roger McGough. From March THU 1997. THU THU 09:30 Be Prepared b0076t6p (Listen) THU St George's Day THU Miles wants his troop to take part in the annual scout THU parade, but can he make up the numbers? Stars Kim Wall. From THU August 2005. THU THU 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries b007k1mf (Listen) THU Wilderness THU The wild and tormented Francis Herries begins a new life in THU Cumberland. 18th century family saga with Gavin Muir. THU THU 11:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01b1lv6 (Listen) THU Eel Pie Island THU Written by Mark Burgess. THU Today's story - Eel Pie Island by Mark Burgess - is set in THU the Summer of 1964 and recalls the heady days when Eel Pie THU Island, in the middle of the Thames near Richmond, was a THU favoured venue for rhythm & blues and rock bands. The Who, THU Rod Stewart, David Bowie and the Rolling Stones all played THU there. THU It's a monologue - and a love story - in which a man in his THU 60's, embracing retirement, remembers his teenage years as a THU resident of Eel Pie Island and a particular, magical summer, THU in which everything fell into place. THU A series of specially commissioned tales inspired by rivers THU and boats. THU Producer: David Blount THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:15 Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas b007jx32 (Listen) THU Staying at home for 25 years, the strange tale of celebrated THU Victorian recluse James Lucas. Stars Anton Lesser and THU Conleth Hill. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007k0rm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b008g2b9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Miss Marple b007jvbc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue b00vv0ds (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b018fmrp (Listen) THU Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love, Episode 4 THU by Nancy Mitford. Linda falls in love, to the dismay of her THU family. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by THU Diana Quick. THU Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic THU cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is THU beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children THU with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in THU the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching THU tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in THU the First World War. The cousins spend much of their THU childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in THU the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex. THU Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is THU also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading THU to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in THU evoking the painful reality of the times. THU Reader...Diana Quick THU Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 14:15 Disability: A New History b01snjq4 (Listen) THU Beauty and Deformity THU Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives THU of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th THU centuries. THU Today, he explores ideas of beauty and deformity which had a THU real impact on the lives of people with disabilities. THU In the 18th century, you could be transformed from beautiful THU to "deformed" overnight. We hear the first-hand account of THU one woman who suffered this transformation - the writer Lady THU Mary Wortley Montagu, a society beauty who caught smallpox THU when she was 26: "How am I changed! Where's my complexion, THU where the bloom that promised happiness for years to come?" THU Mourning loss of beauty was not just natural human vanity, THU because beauty was thought of as a moral quality, not just THU skin-deep - and ugliness was deeply shameful. The belief was THU that outward deformity revealed inner wickedness. THU Peter explores how this idea changed under the impact of a THU greater scientific understanding of the world. But THU surprisingly, science did not encourage more tolerance - in THU fact, it led to a much narrower definition of what was THU "normal". He also discovers that disability was thought to THU be contagious in the 18th century, and that all women were THU believed to be deformed because the ideal body was male. THU With historians Naomi Baker and Judith Hawley, and THU historical sources including manuals for parents to correct THU the appearance of their children as well as 18th century THU doctors' advertisements. Voices from the past are brought THU vividly to life, with actors Emily Bevan, Ewan Bailey and THU Gerard McDermott. THU Producer: Elizabeth Burke THU Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b00805l4 (Listen) THU Episode 19 THU Jem's mother is forced to give evidence against him at his THU trial, and there is no sign of a crucial witness. Stars Emma THU Rydal. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00wmnlj (Listen) THU Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun, Episode 4 THU "Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the THU universe and that even the sun revolved around us... THU Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most THU basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that THU that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are THU mere specks..." THU Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the THU sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the THU legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun THU figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for THU ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc THU in the sky is now caught in five episodes... THU 4. Throughout the ages artists have caught the sun on canvas THU with astonishing results... THU Reader Allan Corduner. THU THU 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries b007k1mf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075lq5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Be Prepared b0076t6p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b03nt1sw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rl1y3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007k284 (Listen) THU The Thing With Two Cappuccinos THU When the museum guard forgets to pay for a coffee, she is THU chased by a multiplying hoard of android waitresses. Stars THU Peter Marinker. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076v8f (Listen) THU Series 8, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor THU 4 Extra Debut. Howard Goodall chooses the pioneering THU 19th-century black composer, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. With THU Francine Stock. From October 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007k0rm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b008g2b9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Miss Marple b007jvbc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue b00vv0ds (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01b1lv6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Martyn Wade - Hermit Lucas b007jx32 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rl1y3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Two Episodes of Mash b01mdl9r (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU The show is a mix of silly, surreal sketches and banter. The THU series also has an absurd narrative, which makes fun of its THU new home at Radio 4. In Episode 1: Diane and Joe discover THU they don't actually have a radio series at all. You can also THU see an animation of one sketch on the Radio 4 website - it's THU a fishy tale. THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Paul THU Harry Allen, Peter Donaldson, Ken Bruce, Bobbie Pryor & Gary THU Newman. Animation: Tom Rourke. Producer: Clair Wordsworth. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06sfqrt (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to THU Lewis Schaffer. THU THU 23:00 Bleak Expectations b00ngz6q (Listen) THU Series 3, A Lovely Life Re-Kippered Again Once More THU In Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof, even death cannot prevent THU an old enemy from returning. Stars Tom Allen. From October THU 2009. THU THU 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls Present b00gpbcz (Listen) THU More Brothers Faversham, Perceus and Lucius Faversham THU The comedy trio's swashbuckling tale of Victorian Britain's THU great twin industrialists, Perceus and Lucius. From October THU 2008. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 DECEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007k284 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076v8f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Miss Marple b007jvbc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 A Dinosaur Called Sue b00vv0ds (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b018fmrp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Disability: A New History b01snjq4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b00805l4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00wmnlj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries b007k1mf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075lq5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Be Prepared b0076t6p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b03nt1sw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01rl1y3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Miss Marple b007jvbg (Listen) FRI They Do It With Mirrors, Episode 5 FRI A chance observation by one of the family gives amateur FRI detective, Miss Marple a key to try and solve the mystery. FRI Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss FRI Marple. With Ursula Howells as Carrie Louise, Keith Barron FRI as Inspector Curry, Rebecca Lacey as Gina Hudd, Natasha Pyne FRI as Mildred Strete, Nick Waring as Alexis Restarick, Stephen FRI Lucas as Walter Hudd, Peter Howell as Lewis Serrocold and FRI Jill Balcon as Ruth Van Rydock. FRI From the book first published in 1952 and dramatised by FRI Michael Bakewell. FRI Director: Enyd Williams FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. FRI FRI 06:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals b00kgfc1 (Listen) FRI Nick Barraclough delves into the world of backing vocalists, FRI from the fluffy 50s to the stunning sophistication of FRI today's jazzers, the innovations brought by The Beatles and FRI The Beach Boys and the multi-tracked world of Joni Mitchell FRI and The Carpenters. FRI A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston Comes to Town b007rdrz (Listen) FRI Repeat After Me FRI William is writing mucky books under a nom de plume, and a FRI decision is taken over Father. Stars Maurice Denham. From FRI January 1990. FRI FRI 07:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06qh4vz (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 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 find out what voguish new venture Huxley and FRI Gulliver have got themselves wrapped up in, we meet the FRI busiest ladies in town and, direct from Paris, a rare FRI appearance by The Centipede Sisters. 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 b008f307 (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Junk Man FRI Griselda's plan to clear out the lad's house backfires FRI spectacularly. 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 May 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jmrj (Listen) FRI Shangri-La Again FRI Neddie Seagoon escapes an invasion, and finds Utopia. FRI Fantasy novel spoof with Spike Milligan and Harry Secombe. FRI From November 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge b06r022t (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 3 FRI Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon FRI Pegg, Armando Iannucci, Jon Holmes and Peter 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! b009hshb (Listen) FRI A Moving Experience FRI With talk of relocating his company, tycoon Jimmy fancies FRI life as a country gent. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From FRI December 1987. FRI FRI 10:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries b007k1nq (Listen) FRI Forty-Five FRI Francis Herries encounters Mirabell again and the Jacobite FRI rebels march on Carlisle. 18th-century family saga with Mark FRI Bonnar. FRI FRI 11:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01b8zw5 (Listen) FRI Broad Reach, by Roy Apps FRI Written by Roy Apps. FRI Today's story - Broad Reach by Roy Apps - is the second in a FRI series of specially commissioned stories which take boats FRI and boating as their theme. FRI Nick has lost both legs in a car crash - and all his FRI confidence as well. With the help of Jamie, his son, he FRI starts sailing again - and manages to get the better of a FRI pompous Yacht Club Commodore into the bargain.... FRI A series of specially commissioned tales inspired by rivers FRI and boats. FRI Producer: David Blount FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b010t7rs (Listen) FRI Peter Souter - That's Mine, This Is Yours FRI That's Mine, This is Yours FRI by Peter Souter FRI Juliet ..... Tamsin Greig FRI Sam ..... Alex Jennings FRI Amanda ..... Eleanor Butters FRI Directed by Gordon House FRI Alex Jennings, who starred in Peter Souter's award-winning FRI 'Goldfish Girl', plays Sam, and Tamsin Greig (star of FRI 'Episodes', 'Love Soup' - and, of course known to R4 FRI listeners as Debbie in 'The Archers') plays Juliet. The FRI director is the former Head of Radio Drama, Gordon House. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b008f307 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jmrj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Miss Marple b007jvbg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals b00kgfc1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b018ft1m (Listen) FRI Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love, Episode 5 FRI By Nancy Mitford. Linda's marriage does not turn out as FRI she'd hoped. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by FRI Diana Quick. FRI Fanny Logan tells the story of her beloved aristocratic FRI cousins, the Radletts, and in particular Linda, who is FRI beautiful and loves animals. Uncle Mathew hunts his children FRI with bloodhounds (to the horror of respectable families in FRI the local village) and keeps a blood-spattered entrenching FRI tool above the fireplace as a relic of his experiences in FRI the First World War. The cousins spend much of their FRI childhood in the airing cupboard - the only warm place in FRI the enormous Alconleigh Hall - discussing love and sex. FRI Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is FRI also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading FRI to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in FRI evoking the painful reality of the times. FRI Reader...Diana Quick FRI Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. FRI FRI 14:15 Disability: A New History b01snxyf (Listen) FRI Finding a Voice FRI Peter White draws on the latest research to reveal the lives FRI of physically disabled people in the 18th and 19th FRI centuries. FRI Today - Finding a Voice: Peter discovers William Hay, an FRI 18th century MP born with spinal curvature who has left us a FRI remarkably revealing account of his life. FRI Peter comments, "This series has been full of surprises for FRI me - surprises even after making programmes about disability FRI for 30 years. But perhaps this discovery has been for me the FRI most startling. It's a book which very few people know FRI about, and even fewer have read - a personal exploration of FRI what it's like to be disabled in the 18th century. It's full FRI of insights we like to think of as modern." FRI In his book "On Deformity", William Hay describes his life FRI as a disabled MP, in Parliament and on the streets. He FRI reveals the daily humiliation of being a man of restricted FRI growth and his fear of rowdy crowds. But he also proudly FRI challenges the conventional thinking of the time that his FRI disability makes him ill. He gives advice to other men in FRI his situation about which careers they should follow. And he FRI excels at self-deprecating humour - sometimes, he confesses, FRI he feels like "a Worm". FRI Hay's essay is seen by historians as ground-breaking - FRI because in William Hay, disability had for the first time FRI found a voice. But Hay is a challenging role model for FRI modern disability activists. FRI With historians David Turner, Naomi Baker, Tim Hitchcock and FRI Chris Mounsey and readings by Jonathan Keeble. FRI Producer: Elizabeth Burke FRI Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 Elizabeth Gaskell - Mary Barton b007jqng (Listen) FRI Episode 20 FRI After the verdict at his murder trial, Jem's thoughts turn FRI to his childhood sweetheart. Stars Emma Rydal and David FRI Calder. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00wmnpy (Listen) FRI Richard Cohen - Chasing the Sun, Episode 5 FRI "Once upon a time we thought that we were the centre of the FRI universe and that even the sun revolved around us... FRI Thousands of years later we know that our earliest, most FRI basic idea about our place in the cosmos was false, and that FRI that cosmos is vastly larger than we ever dreamed. We are FRI mere specks..." FRI Richard Cohen took eight years to write his account of the FRI sun. The sun's biography, in fact. He looks at the myth, the FRI legend, the science. Also the social context and how the sun FRI figures in various art forms. And, will it be with us for FRI ever? We have to hope so. His celebration of that gold disc FRI in the sky is now caught in five episodes... FRI 5. How long will the sun shine? And time for the autor to FRI seek the perfect sunset... FRI Reader Allan Corduner. FRI FRI 15:00 Hugh Walpole - Rogue Herries b007k1nq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge b06r022t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Mind Your Own Business! b009hshb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston Comes to Town b007rdrz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06qh4vz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Robert Easby - Oneira b007k29f (Listen) FRI Mind the Gap FRI The museum guard ends up literally talking to herself, and FRI finds her other self very rude. Stars Lyndsey Marshal. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076bdb (Listen) FRI Series 3, Barber's Adagio for Strings FRI Conductor Leonard Slatkin reflects on the potent impact of FRI the adagio that became America's 'national funeral music'. FRI From November 2002. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b008f307 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jmrj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Miss Marple b007jvbg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 R.E.S.P.E.C.T - The Art of Backing Vocals b00kgfc1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Kenneth Cranham on the Water b01b8zw5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b010t7rs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06qh4vz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007wr7h (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI Charles Prentiss is challenged by a PR rival to wheeze the FRI unwheezable. Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From March FRI 2001. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06t39pg (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to FRI Joseph Morpurgo. FRI Credits FRI Interviewer: Arthur Smith FRI Interviewed Guest: Joseph Morpurgo FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b01npb83 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Rubbish; Jesus Shaves FRI The multi-award winning American essayist brings more of his FRI wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with the final edition in a FRI series of audience readings. This week moving to the British FRI countryside has its downsides exposed in "Rubbish" and the FRI eye-opening experience of learning French at a Paris FRI language school is considered in "Jesus Shaves". 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 Shappi Talk b00wr9q6 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Divorce and the Single Mother FRI Shappi Khorsandi uses her own personal experience by taking FRI an acerbic look at what it's like to go through divorce and FRI to become an unexpected single mother. She reveals the FRI challenges and comic consequences of becoming divorced and FRI what it's like raising a young child. FRI Armed with this experience, Shappi also has a light-hearted FRI chat with model and fellow single mother Jerry Hall, where FRI they find time to compare fascinating notes! FRI Australian comedian Celia Pacquola provides some additional FRI laughs giving her perspective on the subject and there'll be FRI a themed song from Duncan Oakley. FRI Producer: Paul Russell FRI An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. FRI