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SAT SATURDAY 09 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01ns0y8 (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Can MacLeod escape the evil that stretches from North Africa SAT to Scotland? The gripping conclusion read by Robert SAT Paterson. SAT SAT 00:15 Book at Bedtime b03xgtsj (Listen) SAT Lynne Truss - Cat Out of Hell, Episode 10 SAT By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the SAT bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of SAT a cat with nine lives, and relationship as ancient as time SAT itself and just as powerful. SAT The scene - an isolated cottage on the coast on a stormy SAT evening. Inside, Alec a recently bereaved widower and his SAT dog. To pass the time Alec explores the contents of a folder SAT of documents emailed to him by an acquaintance at the SAT library where he used to work. What he discovers is an SAT extraordinary story that will change his life forever. SAT Episode 10: SAT The showdown at Harville Manor. But can Alec survive in the SAT face of such evil? SAT Reader: Mike Grady SAT Abridger: Jeremy Osborne SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Mike Grady SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT Abridger: Jeremy Osborne SAT Author: Lynne Truss SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076bst (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Pathétique SAT Biographer Anthony Holden and conductor Vassily Sinaisky SAT explore the cultural impact of Tchaikovsky's final symphony. SAT From December 2002. SAT SAT 01:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jq28 (Listen) SAT The Devil's Foot, Episode 2 SAT Tragedy in a Cornish village leads Sherlock Holmes and SAT Doctor Watson deep into the soul of a man hell bent on SAT revenge. SAT Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story read by James Nickerson. SAT Produced in Manchester by Joanne Reardon. SAT Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2003. SAT SAT 01:30 Kipling and France b0076vnz (Listen) SAT Their Name Liveth for Evermore SAT Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee investigate why Rudyard SAT Kipling became an inspector of war cemeteries in France. SAT From November 2005. SAT SAT 02:00 Evelyn Waugh Short Stories b007k30q (Listen) SAT On Guard, part 2 SAT A small dog called Hector comes to dominate his mistress's SAT life while her fiance is abroad. Read by Crawford Logan. SAT SAT 02:15 The History of the Future b01mqr52 (Listen) SAT The Future from Here SAT Juliet Gardiner concludes her History of the Future with a SAT view of the future from where we stand in 2012. Are we more SAT or less anxious about what's to come than we ever were? SAT Juliet speaks to James Martin and Ian Goldin of the Oxford SAT Martin School, a research community of over 300 scholars SAT working to address the most pressing global challenges and SAT opportunities of the 21st century. From the governance of SAT geo-engineering and the possibilities of quantum physics, to SAT the future of food and the implications of our ageing SAT population. SAT Produced by Victoria Shepherd SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyz (Listen) SAT Episode 20 SAT Becky, Jos, Amelia and William's futures are finally SAT decided. Conclusion of William Makepeace Thackeray's drama, SAT narrated by Stephen Fry. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00xk1zj (Listen) SAT Jane Shilling - Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 5 SAT The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's memoir about SAT middle age, and looks both backwards and forwards to new SAT adventures. Today austere times lie ahead after Jane's SAT working life as a freelance journalist receives a blow. SAT Jane Shilling is a journalist who writes on books for the SAT Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on SAT television for the Evening Standard. This is her second SAT book. She lives in Greenwich with her son. SAT Read by Samantha Bond SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 03:00 Charles Dickens b019lw3y (Listen) SAT Mrs Lirriper, Mrs Lirriper's Legacy SAT Jemmy returns from school for the holidays just in time to SAT join Mrs Lirriper and the Major on a trip to France in SAT search of a mysterious benefactor. When they eventually SAT track him down, he turns out to be the last person anyone SAT could have expected. SAT Charles Dickens's neglected classic dramatised and produced SAT by Ellen Dryden. SAT Starring Julia McKenzie as Mrs Lirriper, John Fortune as the SAT Major, Jordan Clarke as Jemmy, Alison Skilbeck as Miss SAT Wozenham and Gus Brown as Mr Buffle/Consul. SAT Made by First Writes Radio for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast SAT in 2007. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b01dhn6p (Listen) SAT Series 2, Swansea University SAT Coming this week from Swansea University, "The 3rd Degree" SAT is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst SAT delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a SAT different University each week, and it pits three SAT Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:30 Albert and Me b007k0dw (Listen) SAT Series 2, A Moving Story SAT Single dad Bryan tries to get a loan to move house, but it's SAT not simple. Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. SAT Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to SAT find work and raise his baby son. In the original 1977 SAT series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who SAT tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series SAT returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played once SAT again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1983. SAT SAT 05:00 1834 b011db7v (Listen) SAT The Time Machine SAT As Jason attempts to return to 2003, he gets involved with SAT various culinary devices. Stars Michael Begley. From June SAT 2003. SAT SAT 05:30 Pauline Pepys Dowry b00tbkfx (Listen) SAT Samuel Pepys' diaries make occasional mention of his sister SAT Pauline who has come to visit. She appears not to have been SAT an entirely welcome guest. This comedy is inspired by SAT Pauline, and by many other unwelcome love-lorn house-guests SAT throughout human history... SAT Meet Pauline Pepys. Her love life is in tatters, her SAT sister-in-law wants her to move out of the spare room, and SAT her best friend is her worst enemy. Oh, and this being SAT London in the 1660s there's a nasty spot of plague about. SAT This episode sees Pauline fall for a handsome executioner, SAT but when he seems to prefer Charlotte she offers to fix SAT Pauline up with a very romantic poet. Meanwhile Elizabeth SAT has arranged for a lavish portrait of herself and Samuel SAT that is not altogether going to plan. And the maid is doing SAT something awful with a dead fish and a goat. SAT A new historical comedy starring Olivia Colman as hopeless SAT romantic Pauline, Sharon Horgan as her best friend Charlotte SAT the vainest woman in Britain, David Mitchell as a distinctly SAT itchy Samuel Pepys, Katherine Parkinson as Elizabeth his SAT wife, who is very stressed about making the right impression SAT on society; and Tom Hollander as Russell de Bret, a man who SAT in the twenty first century would be a rock star, but has SAT chosen instead the career of public executioner; with SAT Rebekah Staton as the peculiarly fish-obsessed house maid SAT Jane and Dave Lamb as Joth a very angry painter and Wilston, SAT a very sad poet... SAT Pauline Pepys' Dowry is written by Amy Shindler and Beth SAT Chalmers and produced by Gareth Edwards. SAT SAT 06:00 Scott Cherry - The Book of Shadows b06vbd1d (Listen) SAT Journalist Ellie Rogers is sent to Norfolk to investigate SAT witchcraft. Exceedingly sceptical, she soon witnesses some SAT terrifying incidents which just can't be explained... SAT Scott Cherry 's tale of the supernatural stars Jenny Funnell SAT as Ellie Rogers, Terence Edmond as Dickens, John Hartley as SAT Detective Inspector Fowler and Gillian Goodman as Karen. SAT Music composed and played by Anthea Gomez. SAT Producer: Sue Wilson SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. SAT SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075jzv (Listen) SAT Curries and Nut Roasts 1970-1979 SAT Vichyssoise, Avocados, Beef Stroganoff, Sweet and Sour Pork SAT Nut Roast, Chili Con Carne, Chicken Korma, Caramelised SAT Oranges and Carrot Cake. SAT Marguerite Patten mingles diverse recipes of the 1970s with SAT memories of decimalisation, the three-day week, the Silver SAT Jubilee, the election of Margaret Thatcher and the arrival SAT of the first jumbo jet 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 b01c6kr7 (Listen) SAT Attention All Shipping SAT "I love it. It's the nearest thing to poetry that I ever got SAT to read on the radio - wonderful cadences" - Charlotte SAT Green, Radio 4 announcer and newsreader is just one of SAT dozens of professional broadcasters who've been transfixed SAT by the strangely elegiac nature of the curt and abbreviated SAT language of the formal statement of weather conditions SAT around our island. For Archive on 4, Charlotte's former SAT colleague, Peter Jefferson presents an elegy to the Shipping SAT Forecast, travelling via the archive through the history and SAT romance of the sea areas that daily make their weather known SAT to seafarers. SAT The sea is calm tonight. SAT The tide is full, the moon lies fair SAT Upon the Straits; - on the French coast the light SAT Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, SAT Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. SAT But Matthew Arnold's poem 'Dover Beach' also perfectly SAT encapsulates the spirit in which many Radio 4 listeners SAT embrace the Forecast; gazing into the depths of the night, a SAT seascape of indigo swept by a distant lighthouse beam. So is SAT the Shipping Forecast as much a hymn to our former seafaring SAT island as formal meteorological bulletin, to be shared and SAT enjoyed by landlubbers who've long escaped all contact with SAT the sea and ships....? SAT Peter travels to Exeter where the Forecast is compiled from SAT the Met Office's supercomputer's myriad pieces of data... SAT and talks to sailor and radio-lover Libby Purves, national SAT poet of Wales and composer of an ode to the Forecast, SAT Gillian Clarke and to photographer Mark Power, who shot a SAT stunning sequence of black-and-white images of the sea SAT areas. SAT Producer: Simon Elmes. SAT SAT 09:00 Hackers and Humphreys All b06vc0qn (Listen) SAT Yes Prime Minister made its television debut on the same day SAT that Michael Heseltine quit the cabinet. In a celebration of SAT thirty years of one of Britain's best loved sitcoms, BBC SAT Radio 4 Extra explores the relationship between the real SAT world of Whitehall and this timeless satire. SAT In new and exclusive interviews, Sir Antony Jay, a former SAT political speech writer, and Jonathan Lynn, now a Hollywood SAT film director, who between them wrote every word, share the SAT secrets of Yes Prime Minister's success. Shaun Ley hears SAT about the sources who blabbed, how New Labour ministers were SAT influenced by Jim Hacker's serial defeats at the hands of SAT Sir Humphrey, and visits the very heart of the British SAT government, the Cabinet Room, to find out how true to life SAT some of the plotlines really were. SAT A three hour special programme, featuring four classic TV SAT episodes of Yes Prime Minister. SAT Contributors include: Sir Anthony Jay, Jonathan Lynn, Sir SAT Richard Mottram, Edwina Currie, Lord Bernard Donoughue, Lord SAT Peter Hennessey, Graham McCann and Tony Blair. SAT Producer: Adam Bowen for BBC News - Westminster. SAT SAT 12:00 Street and Lane b00vls7z (Listen) SAT Series 2, Ringing the Changes SAT A vicar needs help in his belfry, as the Yorkshire builders SAT get in a flap over an old feud. Stars Shaun Dooley. From SAT January 2007. SAT SAT 12:30 Fat Chance b019fwxg (Listen) SAT Weigh in with Wendy SAT Graham attends Wendy Bottomley's weight loss class. Slimline SAT sitcom about fighting the flab. From February 1999. SAT SAT 13:00 Toni Morrison - Beloved Omnibus b06vc382 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT The spirit of a murdered child haunts the home of a former SAT slave after the Civil War. Seminal novel narrated by Adjoa SAT Andoh. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06vc384 (Listen) SAT Ian Hart SAT Influenced by music from his home town, actor Ian Hart SAT selects The Beatles' 'In My Life' and passes on 'The SAT Message' by Dr Dre. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06vc3zc (Listen) SAT Uri Geller SAT Spoon-bending TV illusionist Uri Geller reflects on his SAT unusual life with Professor Anthony Clare. SAT Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with SAT prominent people from different walks of life. SAT Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, SAT a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the SAT Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on SAT BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became SAT Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own SAT vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. SAT Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also SAT transferred to TV. SAT Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1996. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01c6kr7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Scott Cherry - The Book of Shadows b06vbd1d (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075jzv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Liz Mickery - Adventures of the Soul b06vc3zf (Listen) SAT Theft of a dead person's identity is one the UK's fastest SAT growing crimes. But what if the dead decide it's time to SAT reclaim their souls? SAT A contemporary ghost story by leading TV thriller writer SAT Lizzie Mickery starring Helen Bradbury as Clare, John SAT Hollingworth as Philip and Lucas Smith as Tom. SAT Clare opens her door to a meter reader, guides him to the SAT cellar and watches him go down. But he doesn't come up. How SAT can he have vanished into thin air? Clare doesn't sleep that SAT night. No one believes her, not even the private detective SAT she hires, although he stays on the case. They discover SAT others too have vanished. They're a mix of illegal SAT immigrants, criminals and conmen who left home one morning SAT and never returned. No calls on their mobiles, no SAT transactions on credit cards. It's as if they've been SAT spirited away. The one thing each case has in common is that SAT the vanished have all taken the identity of a dead person. SAT Meanwhile something has taken up residence in Clare's house. SAT It picks her up and shakes her as though needing her to SAT understand. Strange unidentifiable voices speak to her SAT through the airwaves. Clare is terrified but determined to SAT understand what's happening. When she discovers her late SAT father's identity has also been stolen, she realizes whose SAT violent spirit rages in her home. Her mission is no longer SAT to prove her sanity but to save her father and other SAT tortured souls from eternal limbo. SAT With a soundscape incorporating original electronic voice SAT phenomenon (EVP) recordings by collector Raymond Cass. SAT Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SAT Director: Melanie Harris SAT Sparklab Productions for BBC Radio 3. SAT First broadcast in 2012. SAT SAT 19:00 Hackers and Humphreys All b06vc0qn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b036mykr (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT Master character comedian Colin Hoult presents his much SAT anticipated debut comedy series for BBC Radio 4. Enter the SAT Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of SAT sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister SAT Ringmaster. SAT Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: SAT Thwor - the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len SAT Parker - Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers SAT enthusiast; Anna Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten SAT silver screen hits such as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish SAT Delight' and 'A Bowl For My Bottom'; and many more. SAT Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his SAT highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's SAT Too Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his SAT many hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also SAT appeared and written for a number of Radio 4 series SAT including 'The Headset Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' SAT Digi-Radio'. SAT 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully SAT staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out SAT 'Comic gold' - Metro SAT 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Colin Hoult SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 22:30 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00y8yk1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Dating Wizard SAT Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a SAT 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where SAT settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as SAT important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. SAT This week Mordrin decides to join a Wizard dating website SAT after the being convinced by Bernard the Blue, but fails to SAT read the full terms and conditions. SAT Cast: SAT Mordrin ..... David Kay SAT Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty SAT Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy SAT Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson SAT Molly ..... Fiona Morrison SAT Duchess of Bedlam ..... Susan Calman SAT Producer/ Director ..... Gus Beattie SAT A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:45 Warhorses of Letters b01p0s13 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT By Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson SAT The romantic correspondence between two of history's most SAT important horses: Napoleon's mount Marengo and the Duke of SAT Wellington's own Copenhagen. This second series picks up the SAT story of the two lovers sundered by fate as Napoleon returns SAT from Elba. Their letters speak eloquently of love, loss, SAT jealousy and nuts. SAT Produced by Gareth Edwards. SAT Credits SAT Marengo: Stephen Fry SAT Copenhagen: Daniel Rigby SAT Narrator: Tamsin Greig SAT Producer: Gareth Edwards SAT Writer: Marie Phillips SAT Writer: Robbie Hudson SAT SAT 23:00 The Jason Byrne Show b01p9jsb (Listen) SAT Series 3, First I Was a Nurse Then I Became a Roofer SAT The hyper-active humour-boffin scrutinises the realm of SAT employment. With Daisy Haggard and Laurence Howarth. From SAT November 2010. SAT SAT 23:30 Son of Cliché b00pbx1y (Listen) SAT Weird Magazines SAT Spoofing student life and a meaty mammal. Sketch comedy with SAT Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton. From December SAT 1984. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Liz Mickery - Adventures of the Soul b06vc3zf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Toni Morrison - Beloved Omnibus b06vc382 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06vc384 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06vc3zc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01c6kr7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Scott Cherry - The Book of Shadows b06vbd1d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SUN b0075jzv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus SUN b008s959 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Becky Sharp's husband is taken to debtors' prison. William SUN Makepeace Thackeray dramatisation concluded by Stephen Fry. SUN SUN 07:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l1g5t (Listen) SUN A West Coast Monument SUN In the last in the series, Jonathan Glancey visits the west SUN highland town of Oban to find out why a remarkable landmark SUN building never got finished. High on the hill above Oban is SUN McCaig's Tower, built by John Stewart McCaig. It's an SUN impressive sight, with a shape like the Coliseum in Rome. SUN But McCaig planned to build much more than we can see today, SUN and Jonathan sets out to find out why the plans were never SUN followed through. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qp1cf (Listen) SUN Series 6, Elgar Writes SUN Episode 6 : Elgar Writes SUN Whilst Ed is busily teaching grammar to some clumsy, SUN apostrophe-ridden phishers. Elgar finds fame when he becomes SUN an internet hit with his blog. Could Elgar be a more SUN successful writer than Ed? Quite probably. SUN Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas SUN Olive ..... Stephanie Cole SUN Jaz ..... Philip Jackson SUN Pearl ..... Rita May SUN Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessey SUN Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Paul Sharma ..... Nicola Sanderson SUN Writers ..... Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds SUN Producer ..... Dawn Ellis. SUN Credits SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN SUN 08:00 Jim the Great b02x95ky (Listen) SUN Series 2, Fit for a Queen SUN The moustachioed monarch discovers that Boadicea is his SUN sister-in-law. Stars Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From SUN August 1979. SUN SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss b04cfpy2 (Listen) SUN The Flat SUN Shy bachelor David Bliss prepares to move back into his SUN flat, with warnings from Tony ringing in his ears. SUN Stars George Cole as David Bliss, Diana Churchill as Anne SUN Fellows, Colin Gordon as Tony Fellows, Sarah Lawson as SUN Maxine Avery and animal impersonator Percy Edwards as SUN 'Psyche' the Dog. SUN Part of a run of 6 episodes from Godfrey Harrison's sitcom SUN about shy, bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. SUN Beginning in 1953, it ran for six series of 118 episodes SUN concluding in 1969 - but very few survive in the BBC SUN archive. (A TV series was made in 1969). For the first 7 SUN episodes, David Tomlinson played David, but the rest starred SUN the future star of The St Trinian's films, destined to find SUN great fame as the dodgy Arthur Daley in ITV's Minder - the SUN late George Cole. SUN Producer: Leslie Bridgmont SUN First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in August 1957. SUN SUN 09:00 Patrick McGilligan - Young Orson: Omnibus b06vc7pl (Listen) SUN Orson Welles, the defining wunderkind of modern SUN entertainment, gets his due in a new biography of his early SUN years. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06vc7pn (Listen) SUN Alison Goldfrapp SUN The singer chooses 'Carmina Barana' composed by Carl Orff SUN and 'Expecting' by Minnie Riperton. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06vc7y5 (Listen) SUN Absent Friends, Lisa Jardine SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Annie Lennox and Juliette Greco to SUN Mozart, historian Lisa Jardine makes her castaway choices. SUN With Kirsty Young. From June 2015. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06vdjpr (Listen) SUN Astronauts, Family Trees, and Drips SUN True stories told live in the USA: Jay Alison introduces SUN tales themed "around the bend - stories of coming home." 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 b00yrg3g (Listen) SUN Series 2, Kiwi SUN 2/20. David Attenborough tells us New Zealand had several SUN species of flightless bird living across the islands, all of SUN which are now extinct, bar one. The Kiwi has become one of SUN those species iconic of the country, like the Koala to SUN Australia, the Giraffe to Africa and the Alpaca to South SUN America. Historically, New Zealand didn't have ground SUN predators such as wild cats and stoats - which allowed birds SUN to exploit living on the ground. Being flightless in New SUN Zealand was a good way to be a bird. David Attenborough SUN filmed Kiwis and in this Life Story he muses on the niche SUN the Kiwi occupies on the ground. He argues the Kiwi behaves SUN more like a mammal than a bird, but what mammal do you SUN think, in Attenborough's view, the Kiwi most resembles? SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 12:00 Jim the Great b02x95ky (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 A Life of Bliss b04cfpy2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus SUN b008s959 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l1g5t (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Alex Garland - The Beach: Omnibus b06vdjtp (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN English backpacker Richard arrives in Thailand, with a map SUN to a secret, idyllic beach. Can he find it? Read by Joe SUN Dempsie. SUN SUN 15:45 Jenny Boston - Just Depending b007jr1m (Listen) SUN A woman confronts old age, her fear of dependency and SUN finding the resolve to start a new chapter in life. Read by SUN Thora Hird. SUN SUN 16:00 Peter Ling - Moonbeam and Mrs Pat b00756hj (Listen) SUN The most constant and adored companion in the life of the SUN celebrated stage actress Mrs Patrick Campbell was her little SUN dog Moonbeam. SUN With war declared in 1939, 'Mrs Pat' travels with Dorothy, SUN the daughter of her former secretary, on a train journey to SUN Spain. Thus begins Dorothy's voyage of discovery as she SUN learns of her marriages, love letters from George Bernard SUN Shaw - and how she met her beloved Moonbeam. SUN Starring Imelda Staunton as Mrs Patrick Campbell. With Sarah SUN Badel as Egypt, Zulema Dene as Madame Lescaux, Jilly Bond as SUN Mrs Whittall and Oona Beeson as Dorothy Whittall. SUN Written by Peter Ling - who with Hazel Adair - most famously SUN created the Midland-based ITV soap opera, Crossroads. SUN Mrs Patrick Campbell (born Beatrice Stella Tanner in 1865, SUN died 1940) made a name for herself in a variety of diverse SUN theatre roles: Mrs Darling in Peter Pan, Eliza Doolittle in SUN Pygmalion, Roxane in Cyrano de Bergerac and Raina in Arms SUN And The Man. SUN Directed by Enyd Williams. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06vdlb4 (Listen) SUN The Echo Chamber - The Poet, the Poem, and the Savannah SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'The Echo Chamber', Paul Farley talks to Glyn Maxwell, SUN poet and author of On Poetry. White, Black, Form, Pulse, SUN Chime, Space and Time are Glyn's chapter titles. How and why SUN are poems written? With readings by Glyn of his own work, SUN new and old. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qp1cf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Fear on Four b007jvnd (Listen) SUN Series 2, Dead Man's Boots SUN The Man in Black wonders if two neglected boots in a SUN cupboard harbour a malignant soul? SUN Starring Sean Barrett as Richard, Jane Whittenshaw as Myra SUN and Edward de Souza as the Man in Black. SUN Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. SUN Written by William Ingram. SUN Producer: Martin Jenkins SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. SUN SUN 18:30 Martin Jameson - Ice b007jlns (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Swept across the galaxy, two children must battle the evil SUN Ice Queen. 1998 retelling of The Snow Queen, with Tara SUN Prendergast. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06vdjpr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00yrg3g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Patrick McGilligan - Young Orson: Omnibus b06vc7pl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06vc7pn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06vc7y5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00qp1cf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 My Teenage Diary b03bfkb7 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Kate Mosse SUN Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by author Kate Mosse, whose SUN diary tells of a rain-soaked family holiday to the Lake SUN District in the 1970s. SUN Highlights of the trip included getting lost in the Newbury SUN one-way system and a visit to a pencil factory. SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Rufus Hound SUN Interviewed Guest: Kate Mosse SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00bw01s (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN Divorcee Carol has a fruit surplus and Adrian is asked to be SUN a Bond girl. Award-winning comedy with Ben Moor. From June SUN 2008. SUN SUN 23:30 The Harpoon b00cgsrm (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 1 SUN A special wartime edition of the nostalgic spoof of boys' SUN adventure story papers. With Alistair McGowan. From February SUN 1994. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 JANUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Fear on Four b007jvnd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Martin Jameson - Ice b007jlns (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus MON b008s959 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l1g5t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Alex Garland - The Beach: Omnibus b06vdjtp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Jenny Boston - Just Depending b007jr1m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Peter Ling - Moonbeam and Mrs Pat b00756hj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06vdlb4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qp1cf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sw542 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The funeral of Faith Lavender, spinster of the parish, is MON attended by her family and friends and by one stranger - a MON man named Hubert Gaily, who never met Faith in his life... MON Susan Hill's novel of family ties, friendship and MON loneliness, set in the small Midland village of Haverstock. MON Starring Patricia Hayes as Eleanor Thorne, Gwen Watford as MON Dorothea Shottery, Stephanie Cole as Alida Thorne and Sian MON Phillips as Isabel Lavender. MON Adapted by Bill Matthews. MON Music by Peter Salem MON Producer: Lissa Evans MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. MON MON 06:30 Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer b00pqj0x (Listen) MON Food is everywhere in children's literature. From The Famous MON Five, who were constantly eating enormous amounts of food, MON to midnight feasts at St Clares and Hogwarts, squashed fly MON biscuits, and even food which comes to life, children's MON books luxuriate in lavish descriptions of meals, picnics and MON treats. Food is always delicious and written about with such MON enthusiasm that the reader is left wishing they could dive MON into the story and feast on the treats within. But why is MON British children's fiction so preoccupied with all this MON fictional feasting? MON The former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen, among others, MON discusses the meaning of all this gluttony. MON The programme is presented by Sheila McClennon. MON Producer Cecile Wright. MON MON 07:00 Street and Lane b00vt5ry (Listen) MON Series 2, Fade to Black MON The Yorkshire builders work on the home of a faded Hollywood MON star. Stars Shaun Dooley and Sandra Dickinson. From January MON 2007. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06tr6ld (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 6 MON Back for a second week at the Grand Theatre in Blackpool, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the MON chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy MON production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Rob Brydon MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jqh1 (Listen) MON Series 3, The Big Parade MON Captain Mainwaring wants a parade mascot, so he decides his MON Home Guard platoon must catch one. 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, Arnold Ridley as Godfrey, Ian MON Lavender as Private Pike, Bill Pertwee as Hodges, Larry MON Martyn as Private Walker, Edward Sinclair as the Verger and MON Pearl Hackney as Mrs Pike. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976. MON MON 08:30 Brothers in Law b007k1xl (Listen) MON Series 2, Polite Notice MON Parking his car lands bungling barrister Roger in a jam. MON Stars Richard Briers and David Jason. From August 1971. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b012qq83 (Listen) MON Episode 4 in the new series of Quote...Unquote, hosted by MON Nigel Rees. This week's quotation quizzers are former BBC MON Chairman, Michael Grade, comedian Simon Munnery, poet Ian MON McMillan and psychiatrist Dr Sandra Scott. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON Credits MON Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jmhv (Listen) MON Series 5, Work MON If only school problems could be as easily solved as the new MON school governor imagines. Stars Karl Howman and James Grout. MON From June 1990. MON MON 10:00 Plantagenet b011d77j (Listen) MON Series 1, What Is a Man? MON England's first King of the House of Anjou, Henry II faced MON conflict with his sons. Mike Walker's trilogy stars David MON Warner. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b013wnbt (Listen) MON F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories, Teamed with MON Genius MON Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney. MON Studio head Jack Berners calls hack writer Pat Hobby into MON his office. Surprisingly he has a writing job for him. Pat MON seems ready for it. Berners teams him with British writer, MON Rene Wilcox. It's ballet picture. As Pat leaves the office MON Berners calls him back and puts some dollars in his hand. MON 'Get a new hat,' he says, 'You used to be quite a boy around MON the secretaries in the old days. Don't give up at MON forty-nine!' But over in the Writers' Building Pat discovers MON that Wilcox has never written for the cinema before, and MON doesn't want to collaborate. Can Hobby survive? Will he have MON to do some proper writing at last? MON Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis MON A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Director: Martin Jarvis MON Producer: Martin Jarvis MON Adaptor: Archie Scottney MON Author: F Scott Fitzgerald MON MON 11:15 Have Your Cake b011j7kn (Listen) MON Unusual Christening Cake MON The cake club prepares for a christening, as Tess and Maggie MON struggle with secrets. Nicola Baldwin's drama stars Lesley MON Sharp. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jqh1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Brothers in Law b007k1xl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sw542 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer b00pqj0x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b008001s (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Five American college students murder one of their friends, MON but will they get away with it? Thriller read by William MON Hope. MON MON 14:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4mk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Every day planes descend into London, and on board, there is MON likely to be someone who will arrive into the capital for MON their very first time. To most of us, another faceless MON statistic, another visitor from abroad, one of the 120 MON million who fly into the capital every year. But what if we MON choose find out who they are - and what are they thinking of MON as they step off the plane? MON Alan Dein goes to Heathrow airport to greet people who've MON flown in from anywhere in the world, and explores their MON hopes and jet-lagged dreams of London. What does the place MON mean to them, why have they come, who do they know in the MON City? MON Picked out at random as they wearily wait at the baggage MON carousels, his interviewees share revealing, comic, and MON sometimes very moving tales of adventure, family reunions, MON opportunities, romance and tragedy. And then they head off, MON melting into the London crowds. MON Producer Sara Jane Hall. MON Credits MON Producer: Sara Hall MON MON 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0153tq3 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Vic Brown is infatuated with his work colleague Ingrid MON Rothwell, but how will he manage to break the ice? MON Set in Yorkshire, Stan Barstow's iconic 1960s novel is a MON compelling, poignant and humorous account of 20 year-old MON Vic's infatuation for Ingrid - which develops into an MON emotional crisis, thanks in part to her spiteful friend, MON Dorothy. MON Dramatised by Stan Barstow's partner Diana Griffiths. MON Starring Lee Ingleby as Vic Brown, Rebecca Callard as Ingrid MON Rothwell, Kate Layden as Mrs Brown and Fine Time Fontayne as MON Mr Brown MON Director: Pauline Harris MON First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in 2010. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00xpjwr (Listen) MON The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 1 MON Seven year old Ailsa Dunn's Ma is prettier than all the MON other mothers and her Da is the most handsome man in the MON world but when alcohol intrudes unpredictability reigns and MON when the man with the briefcase comes to call she senses the MON family is in trouble. MON Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir set in MON the Glasgow of the late 1960s. MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Plantagenet b011d77j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b012qq83 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmhv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Street and Lane b00vt5ry (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06tr6ld (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone b00dyb0m (Listen) MON Series 1, Mind the Gaps MON Edna Turner has adventures in a bizarre parallel London. Ben MON Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Sarah Solemani and Dan MON Antopolski. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00761tv (Listen) MON Matthew Parris and his guests, former President of the MON National Farmers' Union Ben Gill and author Philippa Pearce MON discuss favourite paperbacks by Gerald Durrell, Rian Mulan MON and Nick Hornby. From 2001. MON Books discussed: MON 'My Family and Other Animals' by Gerald Durrell MON Publisher: Penguin MON 'My Traitor's Heart' by Rian Mulan MON Publisher:Vintage MON High Fidelity by Nick Hornby MON Publisher: Penguin. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jqh1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Brothers in Law b007k1xl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sw542 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer b00pqj0x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b013wnbt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Have Your Cake b011j7kn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06tr6ld (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00zzw1w (Listen) MON Series 4, Foam Wizards MON The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with more MON shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, MON courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. MON Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli MON 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 MON audience with this series picking up a Writers Guild MON nomination for best comedy in 2011. MON This series sees a crop of new shop regulars, and some guest MON appearances along the way from the likes of Mina Anwar and MON Kevin Eldon. MON In this opening episode Ramesh and his son Alok go head to MON head as they enter a competition to design a new sweetie MON favourite. Will the old wise head see off the challenge from MON the young pretender to the corner shop crown? MON So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a MON firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves MON the art of the 'shop'. MON However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to MON all other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by MON his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who MON shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he MON is treated like a slave. MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them MON whether they like it or not! MON Cast: MON Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kohli MON Dave ....... Donald Mcleary MON Sanjay ....... Omar Raza MON Alok ....... Susheel Kumar MON Mrs Begg ........ Marjory Hogarth MON Keith Futures ....... Greg McHugh MON Hilly ....... Kate Brailsford MON Mrs Armstrong ........ Maureen Carr MON Keenan ........ Max Merrill MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06vf76k (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 1 MON Made for 4 Extra. A satirical review of the week's news MON chaired by Miles Jupp. Hear bonus material from the live MON recording that didn't quite make it into the regular weekly MON show. MON MON 23:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b01hkz33 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON Helen Keen stars alongside Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane MON for a second series of the factually-correct but funny MON exploration of the science and history of space travel. This MON week examines the Fermi paradox - if the universe is really MON infinite it should contain infinite life, and yet we have MON had no contact from alien civilisations. It also takes a MON look at different ideas through history of what life might MON be like on other planets, and some of the more surprising MON suggestions scientists have had on how to get in touch with MON it, from giant burning parallelograms in the Sahara to MON sending nude pictures into space.... MON Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill MON Produced by Garth Edwards. MON Credits MON Performer: Helen Keen MON Actor: Peter Serafinowicz MON Actor: Susy Kane MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON Writer: Helen Keen MON Writer: Miriam Underhill MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 JANUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone b00dyb0m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00761tv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sw542 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer b00pqj0x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b008001s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4mk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0153tq3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00xpjwr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Plantagenet b011d77j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b012qq83 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmhv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Street and Lane b00vt5ry (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06tr6ld (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sybr2 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Friendship blossoms at the village laundrette, but will Ma TUE Gaily approve? TUE Susan Hill's novel of family ties, friendship and TUE loneliness, set in the small Midland village of Haverstock. TUE Starring Patricia Hayes as Eleanor Thorne, Gwen Watford as TUE Dorothea Shottery, Stephanie Cole as Alida Thorne, Sian TUE Phillips as Isabel Lavender, Anna Cropper as Florence Ames TUE and Pauline Letts as Ma Gaily. TUE Adapted by Bill Matthews. TUE Music by Peter Salem TUE Producer: Lissa Evans TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. TUE TUE 06:30 Eyes Down on Clubland b00jgv1b (Listen) TUE With working men's clubs on the verge of extinction, Dave TUE Spikey, who co-wrote and appeared in the comedy Phoenix TUE Nights, charts their history. He examines their social, TUE cultural and political impact and celebrates those that TUE continue to bring life to communities on the margins of TUE 21st-century Britain. TUE TUE 07:00 Fat Chance b019m4rs (Listen) TUE Celebrity Square TUE Graham finds himself dating two women, and there's a TUE surprise for the other slimmers. Slimline sitcom stars TUE Michael Troughton. From February 1999. TUE TUE 07:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ts1kz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Winemaker TUE When Milton finally decides to empty his bins he TUE accidentally makes both a delicious sparkling wine and a TUE deadly enemy. TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton, and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners." - The TUE Guardian. TUE "King of the surreal one-liners." - The Times TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The TUE Daily Mail TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda), TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms) the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton", TUE returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a TUE shipload of new jokes. TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Ben Willbond (Horrible Histories). TUE With music by Guy Jackson. TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Himself: Milton Jones TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00n53d4 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 16 TUE Kenneth Horne heads 'The Muffplaster Saga', while Julian and TUE Sandy are offering some bona guided tripettes of London. 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 May 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b0121pt0 (Listen) TUE The Night We Crept Into the Crypt TUE The bumbling bureaucrats land themselves up to their necks TUE in it. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From July TUE 1972. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06vf76k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b01hkz33 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Plantagenet b011dd7h (Listen) TUE Series 1, Lionheart TUE King Henry II refuses to acknowledge Prince Richard as heir TUE apparent, so he turns to the Crusades. Stars David Warner. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b013xm20 (Listen) TUE F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories, Pat Hobby Does TUE His Bit TUE Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney. TUE It is a difficult business, in Hollywood, to borrow money TUE from an actor on a set during the shooting of a moving TUE picture. But Pat Hobby is desperate. TUE It's the stiffest chore Pat has ever undertaken but he's TUE doing it to save his car. His old jalopy might not seem TUE worth saving but, because of Hollywood's great distances, TUE it's an indispensable tool of the writer's trade. But what TUE Pat doesn't foresee is that, because of this financial TUE arrangement, his whole life in pictures is about to change. TUE Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Director: Martin Jarvis TUE Producer: Martin Jarvis TUE Adaptor: Archie Scottney TUE Author: F Scott Fitzgerald TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b012r6v6 (Listen) TUE Georges Simenon - The Other Simenon, In Case of Emergency TUE Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of TUE other novels, often tough, gripping and TUE psychologically-penetrating dissections of small lives TUE confounded by fate. Ronald Frame dramatises three of these TUE stories beginning with the obsessive affair between a lawyer TUE and a jewel thief. When her plan to rob a jeweller's shop TUE goes wrong, Yvette - young, beautiful and dangerously TUE impulsive - asks middle-aged lawyer, Lucien, to defend her TUE in court. When he wins the case they begin an affair but he TUE discovers that Yvette has a boyfriend who has no intention TUE of giving her up. TUE Other parts played by the cast. TUE Producer/director Bruce Young. TUE Credits TUE Lucien: Jimmy Chisholm TUE Yvette: Lisa Gardner TUE Viviane: Sarah Collier TUE Jeanine: Laura Smales TUE Secretary: Laura Smales TUE Mazetti: Kenny Blyth TUE Inspector: Kenny Blyth TUE Writer: Georges Simenon TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00n53d4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b0121pt0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sybr2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Eyes Down on Clubland b00jgv1b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03njkh0 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE A Greek tragedy is set in motion as a new student joins the TUE classics group. Donna Tartt's thriller read by William Hope. TUE TUE 14:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4yw (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Every day planes descend into London, and on board, there is TUE likely to be someone who will arrive into the capital for TUE their very first time. To most of us, another faceless TUE statistic, another visitor from abroad, one of the 120 TUE million who fly into the capital every year. But what if we TUE choose find out who they are - and what are they thinking of TUE as they step off the plane? TUE Alan Dein goes to Heathrow airport to greet people who've TUE flown in from anywhere in the world, and explores their TUE hopes and jet-lagged dreams of London. What does the place TUE mean to them, why have they come, who do they know in the TUE City? TUE Picked out at random as they wearily wait at the baggage TUE carousels, his interviewees share revealing, comic, and TUE sometimes very moving tales of adventure, family reunions, TUE opportunities, romance and tragedy. And then they head off, TUE melting into the London crowds. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Sara Hall TUE TUE 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0154xfd (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Vic's second date with Ingrid doesn't go well. Is their TUE romance doomed before it starts? Stars Lee Ingleby and TUE Rebecca Callard. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx3 (Listen) TUE The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 2 TUE Seven year old Ailsa Dunn adores her handsome Da and her TUE pretty Ma but when alcohol intrudes chaos reigns and she and TUE her sister are removed from home and taken to an orphanage. TUE This is the Glasgow of the late 1960s and the strict regime TUE is fiercely resented by the two feisty girls. Confused and TUE unhappy Ailsa loses her bearings until she meets an TUE inspirational teacher and timidly asks if he will teach her TUE to play the piano. TUE Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Plantagenet b011dd7h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00ftb87 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE Simon Mayo discovers which generation is the funniest. With TUE Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker. From December TUE 2008. TUE TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag b009r202 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Bread and Butter TUE A mystery body strains the Republic's spirit of glasnost at TUE the British Embassy. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From March 1988. TUE TUE 17:00 Fat Chance b019m4rs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ts1kz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone b007jxgx (Listen) TUE Series 1, Unappreciated TUE Edna's adventures in the bizarre parallel London have led to TUE a new job. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Sarah Solemani. TUE Unappreciated TUE Ben Moor’s comic sci-fi adventure continues with Edna TUE putting together her own issue of Get Out. TUE Edna learns more about Undone while putting together an TUE issue of Get Out on her own. So she hardly has time to help TUE Tankerton chase a naughty dog who steals sausages. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jnv6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, George Melly TUE Celebrated raconteur, jazz singer and critic George Melly TUE regales an audience with tales of his eventful life and TUE passions. TUE Aged 75, the bonviveur reveals his short-term memory is TUE faulty, yet his past is crystal clear. As Melly charts his TUE way through a varied career - underpinned by his hunger for TUE entertaining and performing - he recalls his early gay TUE lifestyle, and explains his great passion for surrealism, TUE When George died, BBC News said "With his flamboyant suits, TUE oversize hats and Havana cigars, George Melly was a TUE good-time Renaissance man who indulged, often over-indulged, TUE his passions for jazz, film, art, fishing, writing, drink TUE and sex." TUE George Melly: Born: 17 August 1926. Died: 5 July 2007. TUE Producer: Claire Jones TUE First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in November 2001. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00n53d4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b0121pt0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sybr2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Eyes Down on Clubland b00jgv1b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b013xm20 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b012r6v6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ts1kz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Show What You Wrote b0368nzq (Listen) TUE Series 1, Crime and Thriller TUE The Show What You Wrote is a brand new sketch show, which is TUE made up entirely from sketches sent in by the public. TUE Recorded in Manchester in front of a live audience, and TUE starring John Thomson, Helen Moon, Fiona Clarke and Gavin TUE Webster. TUE We've picked the best sketches from thousands of submissions TUE to make each show, and every week we'll be covering a TUE different theme, from sci fi and fantasy, to kitchen sink TUE drama. This week's episode is Crime and Thriller. TUE Script editor ...... Jon Hunter TUE Producers ..... Carl Cooper and Alexandra Smith TUE Written by ..... Jack Bernhardt, James Boughen. Peter Brush, TUE Dominic Burgess, John Dennett, Richard Felber, Andy Fell, TUE Robert Frimston & Edward Rowett, Stephen Holford, Caspian TUE James, Nathan King, Nick Hall, Matt Oakley, John-Luke TUE Roberts, Eddie Robson, Ash Williamson. TUE Writers TUE This episode of The Show What You Wrote was written by you, TUE (but speaking entirely accurately): TUE TUE Jack Bernhardt TUE James Boughen TUE Peter Brush TUE Dominic Burgess TUE John Dennett TUE Richard Felber TUE Andy Fell TUE Robert Frimston & Edward Rowett TUE Stephen Holford TUE Caspian James TUE Nathan King TUE Nick Hall TUE Matt Oakley TUE John-Luke Roberts TUE Eddie Robson TUE Ash Williamson TUE TUE The script editor was Jon Hunter TUE TUE Credits TUE Ensemble: John Thomson TUE Ensemble: Helen Moon TUE Ensemble: Fiona Clarke TUE Ensemble: Gavin Webster TUE Producer: Carl Cooper TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 23:00 Twenty Players b06vkfjk (Listen) TUE Series 2, Lady Cassandra Moon TUE Forgotten sporting heroes. Ted Lowe tells the story of TUE billiards sensation, Lady Cassandra Moon. From July 1997. TUE TUE 23:15 Jelly Mountain b00fkp5z (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE A visit to the circus heralds arcane amusements. Songs and TUE stories from Ivor Cutler, with Craig Murray-Orr. From May TUE 1996. TUE TUE 23:30 Les Kelly's Britain b016x3h7 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) hosts a magazine show from hell. TUE Les is a cross between Jeremy Kyle and a slap in the face. TUE He claims this is the only radio show for 'normal, decent TUE people'. 'If you aren't decent, this is not the show for TUE you,' says Les. TUE Les meets a father whose daughter needs a new kidney. Well, TUE perhaps 'need' isn't quite the right word. She just wants TUE one more kidney than all her friends. Les also meets an TUE expert on sanglanding. It's the dangerous new craze amongst TUE young people - trouble is, no on knows what it is. TUE Produced & Written by Bill Dare. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 JANUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone b007jxgx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jnv6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00sybr2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Eyes Down on Clubland b00jgv1b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03njkh0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4yw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0154xfd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Plantagenet b011dd7h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00ftb87 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b009r202 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Fat Chance b019m4rs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ts1kz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t0z5z (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The villagers of Haverstock look forward to the annual fete WED and the Gailys make an impression. WED Susan Hill's novel of family ties, friendship and WED loneliness, set in the small Midland village of Haverstock. WED Starring Patricia Hayes as Eleanor Thorne, Gwen Watford as WED Dorothea Shottery, Stephanie Cole as Alida Thorne, Sian WED Phillips as Isabel Lavender and Pauline Letts as Ma Gaily. WED Adapted by Bill Matthews. WED Music by Peter Salem WED Producer: Lissa Evans WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. WED WED 06:30 China, Britain and the Nunzilla Conundrum b00rbpb4 (Listen) WED China - manufacturer of Nunzilla the fire-breathing nun, the WED Egyptian mummy-shaped elastic band holder Mummified Mike, WED and the Dashboard Jesus. WED Britain - home of the creative types who send these ironic, WED sometimes blasphemous, novelty gift designs to the Chinese WED for manufacture. WED What do these throwaway gifts tell us about our own society WED and our relationship with China? While our economic WED relationship flourishes, our respective cultures remain WED poles apart. WED Writer and comedian Anna Chen follows a novelty toy from WED design through manufacture to the gift shops. Workers on the WED production lines in a south Chinese factory give their take WED on what on earth it is they're making and British designers WED try their best to deconstruct the joke. WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00ny721 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED The arrival of Nigel and Michael's father sparks more havoc. WED Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From October 2005. WED WED 07:30 It's Jocelyn b06tvbz1 (Listen) WED It's Jocelyn is the eagerly anticipated new series from WED comedian Jocelyn Jee Esien (3 Non Blondes and Little Miss WED Jocelyn). WED Episode 2 features a raft of brand new characters including WED a terrible shop assistant, a pair of terrible bedroom DJ's WED and an old lady obsessed with dying. WED Jocelyn vents her frustration at the world around her WED through sketches and stand-up. From pedantic dinner dates to WED coping with annoying friends, Jocelyn's life provides a rich WED seam of humour. WED Jocelyn is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis WED Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. WED The producer is John Pocock WED It is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED Credits WED Performer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Ensemble: Curtis Walker WED Ensemble: Ninia Benjamin WED Ensemble: Kevin J WED Producer: John Pocock WED Writer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01g8dd4 (Listen) WED HMS Troutbridge Gets a Rocket WED Paranoia sets in when the crew of HMS Troutbridge are WED charged with a top secret mission. WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Ronnie Barker as Captain Bell, Richard Caldicote as Captain WED Povey and Tenniel Evans as Taffy Goldstein. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011j5lh (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 9 WED Professor Prune is incarcerated, and Bill Oddie rhapsodises WED the flowers in the garden. With John Cleese. From March WED 1969. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b008vrb6 (Listen) WED 1999, Episode 12 WED Ned Sherrin's third semi-final with Louise Powell of WED Berkshire, Yorkshire's Colin Spencer and Len Smith from WED Essex. WED WED 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008d0hd (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, WED Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From July WED 1991. WED WED 10:00 Plantagenet b011djb6 (Listen) WED Series 1, John, by the Grace of God WED Never expecting to succeed to the English throne, Henry II's WED fourth son reveals a talent for making enemies. Stars Neil WED Stuke. WED WED 11:00 New Year, New Writers b0196v3v (Listen) WED Departures WED Stories to mark the New Year by new writers from Scotland. WED 'Departures' by Katy McAulay. WED A woman yearns for some January sun until an encounter at WED the airport changes everything. Read by Julie Duncanson. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b012wxy2 (Listen) WED Georges Simenon - The Other Simenon, The Little Man from WED Archangel WED Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of WED other novels, often tough, gripping and WED psychologically-penetrating stories like this tragic tale of WED a bookseller whose wife goes missing. When Gina fails to WED come home one night, Jonas Milk tells his inquisitive WED neighbours that she's visiting a friend. But the gossips in WED this small country town know Gina has been having flagrant WED affairs and when it becomes clear that she's disappeared the WED bookseller is drawn into a nightmare of police enquiries and WED painful discoveries. Dramatised by Ronald Frame. WED Other parts played by the cast. WED Producer/director Bruce Young. WED Credits WED Jonas: Steven McNicoll WED Supt Devaux: Crawford Logan WED Gina: Francesca Dymond WED Fredo: Kenny Blyth WED Le Bouc: Kenny Blyth WED Angele: Eliza Langland WED Berthe: Eliza Langland WED Louis: Gavin Kean WED Pepito: Gavin Kean WED Writer: Georges Simenon WED Director: Bruce Young WED Producer: Bruce Young WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01g8dd4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011j5lh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t0z5z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 China, Britain and the Nunzilla Conundrum b00rbpb4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03nnlkd (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The American college students are introduced to the WED seductive rituals of Dionysius. Donna Tartt's thriller read WED by William Hope. WED WED 14:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4yy (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Every day planes descend into London, and on board, there is WED likely to be someone who will arrive into the capital for WED their very first time. To most of us, another faceless WED statistic, another visitor from abroad, one of the 120 WED million who fly into the capital every year. But what if we WED choose find out who they are - and what are they thinking of WED as they step off the plane? WED Alan Dein goes to Heathrow airport to greet people who've WED flown in from anywhere in the world, and explores their WED hopes and jet-lagged dreams of London. What does the place WED mean to them, why have they come, who do they know in the WED City? WED Picked out at random as they wearily wait at the baggage WED carousels, his interviewees share revealing, comic, and WED sometimes very moving tales of adventure, family reunions, WED opportunities, romance and tragedy. And then they head off, WED melting into the London crowds. WED Producer Sara Jane Hall. WED WED 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0154z0t (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Vic Brown fears that his big romance with Ingrid may be over WED when she fails to turn up for a night out. Stars Lee WED Ingleby. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx7 (Listen) WED The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 3 WED Removed from the care of loving but alcoholic parents and WED placed in a strict Glasgow orphanage, Ailsa Dunn is WED struggling to cope. Then she meets Mr Shaugnessy and WED inspired by his piano playing she asks for lessons. WED Encouraged by his praise, she discovers a talent she never WED dreamt she had. WED Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Plantagenet b011djb6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b008vrb6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008d0hd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00ny721 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 It's Jocelyn b06tvbz1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone b007jxh5 (Listen) WED Series 1, Unrivalled WED Edna's parallel London life sees a trip to the theatre, or WED is that untheatre? Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Sarah WED Solemani. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076xl3 (Listen) WED Mustn't Grumble WED Dominic Arkwright discusses the art of complaining with Tom WED Winsor, Neil Herron and comic Mark Little. From March 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01g8dd4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011j5lh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t0z5z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 China, Britain and the Nunzilla Conundrum b00rbpb4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 New Year, New Writers b0196v3v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b012wxy2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 It's Jocelyn b06tvbz1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01h77ln (Listen) WED Series 2, Low-Cost Airline Industry WED Sony Award-winning comedian Tom Wrigglesworth performs WED another of his open letters. This week Tom turns his WED attentions to the low-cost airline industry, as he asks WED whether they are all they are cracked up to be. And whether, WED if he does enough online check-in, he can legitimately claim WED to be part-time staff and get an invite to the Christmas do. WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp. WED Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. WED Credits WED Performer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer WED WED 23:00 Listen Against b0088nnz (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED A cheeky round-up of a week's worth of BBC radio that never WED happened. WED Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes rewind and mangle real WED programmes from across the networks - featuring Scott Mills, WED Gordon Brown, Steve Wright and John Humphreys - and put them WED back together the wrong way round. WED The brain-child of writer, comic and broadcaster Jon Holmes. WED Producer: Bill Dare WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007. WED WED 23:30 Beautiful Dreamers b00w7byd (Listen) WED The Stardiver WED Nat travels to Tuscany to meet the Uzbek dissident and WED billionaire Mikhail Azazev, as he prepares freefall from WED beyond the Karman Line - an altitude of over 100 kilometres. WED Featuring contributions from Simon McBurney and Kevin Eldon. WED Writers ..... James Lever and Nat Segnit. WED Producers ..... Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone b007jxh5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076xl3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t0z5z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 China, Britain and the Nunzilla Conundrum b00rbpb4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03nnlkd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4yy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0154z0t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Plantagenet b011djb6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b008vrb6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008d0hd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Brothers b00ny721 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 It's Jocelyn b06tvbz1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t2y90 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Storms break and accidents happen, but can the ladies of THU Haverstock cope with change? THU Susan Hill's novel of family ties, friendship and THU loneliness, set in the small Midland village of Haverstock. THU Starring Patricia Hayes as Eleanor Thorne, Gwen Watford as THU Dorothea Shottery, Stephanie Cole as Alida Thorne, Sian THU Phillips as Isabel Lavender and Pauline Letts as Ma Gaily. THU Adapted by Bill Matthews. THU Music by Peter Salem THU Producer: Lissa Evans THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. THU THU 06:30 Anglomania b00g447z (Listen) THU John F Jungclaussen, Die Zeit's UK correspondent, sets out THU to discover why so many of his fellow countrymen are in THU thrall to all things British. THU Among his travels around Germany he experiences British Day THU in Hamburg, with its very own Last Night of the Proms, an THU evening in a Bayreuth pub where the locals only speak THU English and, in the Ruhr valley, a German rock band called THU Claymore, who perform in full Highland dress. THU THU 07:00 Hazelbeach b00853kb (Listen) THU Series 1, Horse-Racing THU Can a trip to a race course help with Ronnie and Nick's THU perilous finances? Stars Jamie Foreman. From November 2007. THU THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06tvm72 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 1 THU John Finnemore - writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John THU Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and THU The Unbelievable Truth - returns for a fifth series of his THU multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by a cast of THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie THU Quinlan. THU This first episode sees an unlikely wager, a troubled THU bluesman, and, well - since you ask him for a rip-roaring THU adventure on the high seas... THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme won the BBC Audio Drama THU Award for 'Best Scripted Comedy with Live Audience' in 2015; THU and a Radio Academy Silver Award for Comedy in 2014. THU "One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" - The Guardian THU "The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - THU The Radio Times THU "The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the THU goods" - The Daily Mail THU "Superior comedy" - The Observer THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Ensemble ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble ... Simon Kane THU Ensemble ... Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble ... Carrie Quinlan THU Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse THU Original music performed by ... Jason Hazeley THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a BBC Radio Comedy THU production. THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007k27m (Listen) THU Series 5, The Desperate Hours THU After news of a jail break at Wormwood Scrubs, Albert and THU Harold get some unwelcome visitors. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Leonard Rossiter as Johnny Spooner and Paddy THU Joyce as Frank Ferris. 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 Radio 2 in May 1974. THU THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007w2s0 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Picture THU The small-time crime writer and his wife have a clear-out to THU try and make some cash. Stars Ian Carmichael. From June THU 1976. THU THU 09:00 Genius b0081cvq (Listen) THU Series 3, Simon Munnery THU Garments made of human dust fragments? Dave Gorman and THU celebrity guest Simon Munnery chew over more of the public's THU inventions. From October 2007. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007jnzl (Listen) THU Series 7, Reflected Glory THU With Charlotte's celebrity status rising, sister Victoria THU plans to deflate her ego. Stars Celia Imrie. From February THU 2001. THU THU 10:00 Plantagenet b02qf2hv (Listen) THU Series 2, Edward I - Old Soldiers THU By Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles. Edward I THU is a soldier, lover and father of a wayward son. With Philip THU Jackson. THU THU 11:00 New Year, New Writers b019h3pm (Listen) THU Una and Coll Are Not Friends THU Stories to mark the New Year by new writers from Scotland. THU 'Una and Coll are not Friends' by Kirsty Logan. A magical THU island tale in which two squabbling teenagers resist the THU well-meaning forces which push them together. THU Read by Finn den Hertog and Claire Knight. THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0132l72 (Listen) THU Georges Simenon - The Other Simenon, The Cat THU Georges Simenon, best known for Maigret, published scores of THU other novels, often tough, gripping and THU psychologically-penetrating stories like this black comedy THU about a couple whose marriage has foundered. Conversation THU between Emile and Marguerite has given way to a mute THU exchange of vicious notes, a shared life to separate beds THU and separate larders. Meanwhile the sudden deaths of two THU cherished family pets - a poisoned cat and a murdered parrot THU - block all attempts at reconciliation. Emile, at the end of THU his tether, packs his bags and chooses freedom - but he THU quickly makes a discovery that, even when affection has THU gone, a powerful bond still unites a man and his wife. THU Dramatised by Ronald Frame. THU Producer/director Bruce Young. THU Credits THU Emile: Christian Rodska THU Marguerite: Joanna Tope THU Nelly: Irene Allan THU Madame Martin: Carol Ann Crawford THU Nurse: Carol Ann Crawford THU Patron: Mark McDonnell THU Professor: Mark McDonnell THU Writer: Georges Simenon THU Director: Bruce Young THU Producer: Bruce Young THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007k27m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007w2s0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t2y90 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Anglomania b00g447z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03nnqyc (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU American college life - sex, drugs, campus parties and THU country house weekends! Donna Tartt's thriller, read by THU William Hope. THU THU 14:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4z0 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Every day planes descend into London, and on board, there is THU likely to be someone who will arrive into the capital for THU their very first time. To most of us, another faceless THU statistic, another visitor from abroad, one of the 120 THU million who fly into the capital every year. But what if we THU choose find out who they are - and what are they thinking of THU as they step off the plane? THU Alan Dein goes to Heathrow airport to greet people who've THU flown in from anywhere in the world, and explores their THU hopes and jet-lagged dreams of London. What does the place THU mean to them, why have they come, who do they know in the THU City? THU Picked out at random as they wearily wait at the baggage THU carousels, his interviewees share revealing, comic, and THU sometimes very moving tales of adventure, family reunions, THU opportunities, romance and tragedy. And then they head off, THU melting into the London crowds. THU Producer Sara Jane Hall. THU THU 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0153hwv (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Vic and Ingrid's seemingly idyllic romance moves on a pace, THU but are doubts creeping in? Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca THU Callard. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx9 (Listen) THU The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 4 THU Ailsa's older sister has been sent away from the orphanage THU for being too disruptive and now Ailsa has to brave the THU playground alone. But after winning a piano competition in THU Glasgow her piano teacher has entered her for the Saturday THU school at the Glasgow Academy of Music and she throws all THU her energies into her new found passion. THU Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Plantagenet b02qf2hv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b0081cvq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007jnzl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Hazelbeach b00853kb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06tvm72 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone b007jxh9 (Listen) THU Series 1, Unfamiliar THU Genuinely faceless bureaucrats threaten to run London, as THU Edna's mum arrives. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Sarah THU Solemani. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076vlc (Listen) THU Series 8, Thomas Cromwell THU Series of biographical discussions with Francine Stock. THU Author Derek Wilson, with the help of Professor Diarmaid THU MacCulloch, champions the cause of the man who smashed the THU monasteries in the 1530s. Often portrayed as a cynical THU money-grabber, Cromwell ran the country for Henry VIII but THU lost his head after he hitched his King to the wrong wife. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007k27m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007w2s0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t2y90 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Anglomania b00g447z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 New Year, New Writers b019h3pm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0132l72 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06tvm72 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b012gs0y (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU David Beckham tries to hire a rainbow for a party. Jon THU Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From July THU 2010. THU THU 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qjb1y (Listen) THU Series 1, Equal Marriage THU In a brand new series for Radio 4, News Quiz favourite Susan THU Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. THU This week, she examines the current hot political topic of THU Equal Marriage from a personal perspective. THU When Susan was younger, she thought marriage was silly. A THU patriarchal institution which she would never buy into. That THU was until she grew up, fell in love and wanted more than THU anything to get married - except she couldn't. THU Susan relates her own personal experiences on this matter; THU including the minutiae of the legislation governing her THU recent civil partnership ceremony, as well as examining the THU well-trodden arguments against the issue. THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU Credits THU Performer: Susan Calman THU Writer: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU THU 23:30 The Museum of Everything b007k1gw (Listen) THU Series 1, The History of Everything THU The Elgin Tiddlywinks are among the exhibits on display. THU Stars Marcus Brigstocke and Dan Tetsell. From April 2004. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone b007jxh9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076vlc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t2y90 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Anglomania b00g447z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03nnqyc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4z0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b0153hwv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Plantagenet b02qf2hv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b0081cvq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007jnzl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Hazelbeach b00853kb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06tvm72 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t5jml (Listen) FRI 7 Premiere FRI Friendship and family ties are tested as the villagers of FRI Haverstock hear the sound of wedding bells FRI Susan Hill's novel of family ties, friendship and FRI loneliness, set in a small Midland village. FRI Starring Patricia Hayes as Eleanor Thorne, Gwen Watford as FRI Dorothea Shottery, Stephanie Cole as Alida Thorne, Sian FRI Phillips as Isabel Lavender, Anna Cropper as Florence Ames FRI and Pauline Letts as Ma Gaily. FRI Adapted by Bill Matthews. FRI Music by Peter Salem FRI Producer: Lissa Evans FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. FRI FRI 06:30 Fort Dunlop b00qpmgh (Listen) FRI Giles Poyner, a creative director at the iconic Fort Dunlop FRI building, pays tribute to the Birmingham landmark. He, his FRI mother and grandfather talk about their working life there. FRI Drive through Birmingham on the M6 and you can't fail to FRI notice an imposing fort-like building, standing proud FRI against the city's industrial skyline. The Fort Dunlop FRI building was built for the tyre company in the early 20th FRI century to accommodate the thousands of workers needed to FRI supply the growing motoring and aviation industries. The FRI Dunlop Tyre Company, along with the Austin Motor Company and FRI Cadbury's, was Birmingham's biggest employer, and those who FRI worked there had a job for life. But by the end of the FRI century, competition from overseas led to the closure of the FRI site, as Dunlop transferred much of its operation overseas. FRI The Fort was abandoned and stood empty for 20 years, until FRI it was taken over by an innovative urban design company who FRI transformed the vast empty warehouse space into state of the FRI art offices, cafes and shops. FRI This is where Giles Poyner works as design manager. The FRI achingly hip surroundings of his office are a far cry from FRI his 92-year-old grandfather's experience of working at the FRI Fort. He recalls the stench of rubber in the air, the FRI workers arriving by canal boat before the road was built FRI and, above all, the sense of being part of a family, cared FRI for by a benevolent employer. FRI Giles's mother Susan also worked at Fort Dunlop as a typist FRI during the 1960s. She remembers the generous facilities FRI provided for the workers, including a pub, theatre and FRI playing fields. FRI Giles Poyner pays tribute to this iconic Birmingham landmark FRI and discovers how his workplace has changed both physically FRI and culturally over the decades. FRI FRI 07:00 1834 b011klyr (Listen) FRI Strong Continental Lager FRI 21st-century Jason decides 19th-century Macclesfield needs a FRI decent pub with decent beer. Stars Michael Begley. From June FRI 2003. FRI FRI 07:30 So Wrong It's Right b01hkz2n (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show celebrating one FRI of Britain's favourite subjects - failure. FRI He plunders his guests' pasts and creativity over a series FRI of rounds in which panellists have to be wrong to be right. FRI In this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong FRI each other with their ideas and stories are comedians Lee FRI Mack, Susan Calman and "Harry Hill's TV Burp" writer Daniel FRI Maier. FRI In this edition the phrase 'keep calm and carry on' and FRI ridiculous things to get angry about both come under the FRI 'wrong' spotlight - as well as the best ideas for the worst FRI new concept albums. Will anyone beat Susan Calman's pitch FRI for an album based on her cat's bid to take part in the 2012 FRI Olympics? FRI The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also FRI presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You FRI Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The FRI Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year' at the 2009 British FRI Press Awards for his column, and Best Newcomer at the FRI British Comedy Awards 2009. FRI Produced by: Aled Evans FRI A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jp9g (Listen) FRI Series 6, The Childhood Sweetheart FRI The lad sets off for a romantic reunion pledged 25 years FRI before. FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth FRI Williams and Patricia Hayes. 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 October 1959. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jn16 (Listen) FRI The Tales of Montmartre FRI Paris, passion and duplicity abound in the tangled lives of FRI two talented painters. Stars Spike Milligan. From January FRI 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b01dtkjn (Listen) FRI Series 2, Warwick FRI Coming this week from the University of Warwick, "The 3rd FRI Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at FRI cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst FRI delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a FRI different University each week, and it pits three FRI Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a FRI genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being FRI a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent FRI standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and FRI jokes thrown in for good measure. FRI Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union FRI buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities FRI across the UK. FRI The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General FRI Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the FRI 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not FRI only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, FRI languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness FRI of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the FRI Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their FRI Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, FRI and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both FRI sides... FRI The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit FRI surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly FRI rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more FRI than just glanced at that reading list... FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b007jzd2 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do FRI Can Bryan save his sister Vera's marriage from breakdown? FRI Stars Robert Lindsay, Gordon Kaye and Pat Coombs. FRI Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to FRI find work and raise his baby son. In the original 1977 FRI series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who FRI tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series FRI returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played once FRI again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1983. FRI FRI 10:00 Plantagenet b02qnn10 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Edward II - The Greatest Traitor FRI Edward's power is prey to his passions, but his queen and FRI most powerful ally find a passion of their own. With Sam FRI Troughton. FRI FRI 11:00 New Year, New Writers b01b1nkh (Listen) FRI Bread FRI Stories to mark the New Year by new writers from Scotland. FRI 'Bread', by Jane Flett. A remorseful woman clings to the FRI hope that she can mend her broken relationship as she FRI sprinkles flour, kneads dough and coaxes bread to rise. Read FRI by Rosalind Sydney. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b01061ht (Listen) FRI Anita Sullivan - Titanium FRI History rarely remembers who came second. If Yuri Gagarin FRI had so much as sneezed on the 12th of April 1961 the honour FRI of being the first man in orbit would have gone to his FRI training partner, Gherman Titov. But Gagarin didn't sneeze FRI and a disappointed Titov had to climb back down the launch FRI tower. A few months later Titov did launch successfully in FRI Vostock II. He completed 17 earth orbits (got space-sick, FRI ate and slept) and is still the youngest person ever to have FRI gone into space. But he's largely unheard of because he FRI wasn't 'first'. In Anita Sullivan's play, which marks the FRI 50th anniversary of Gagarin's flight, the story of the two FRI cosmonauts - their training, their selection, the flight and FRI its aftermath, is told through Titov's eyes as he waits at FRI Chkalovsky Airbase for Yuri to return from what should have FRI been a routine training flight on the 27th March 1968. FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI Credits FRI Gherman Titov: Derek Riddell FRI Yuri Gagarin: William Ash FRI Private Baskov: Sarah Ovens FRI Nikolai Kaminin: Alun Raglan FRI Sergei Korolev: Stephen Marzella FRI Writer: Anita Sullivan FRI Director: Kate McAll FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jp9g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jn16 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t5jml (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Fort Dunlop b00qpmgh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03npbkf (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Why are four bookworms covered in wounds and bruises? Donna FRI Tartt's thriller, read by William Hope. FRI FRI 14:15 London: Just off the Plane b00sz4z2 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Every day planes descend into London, and on board, there is FRI likely to be someone who will arrive into the capital for FRI their very first time. To most of us, another faceless FRI statistic, another visitor from abroad, one of the 120 FRI million who fly into the capital every year. But what if we FRI choose find out who they are - and what are they thinking of FRI as they step off the plane? FRI Alan Dein goes to Heathrow airport to greet people who've FRI flown in from anywhere in the world, and explores their FRI hopes and jet-lagged dreams of London. What does the place FRI mean to them, why have they come, who do they know in the FRI City? FRI Picked out at random as they wearily wait at the baggage FRI carousels, his interviewees share revealing, comic, and FRI sometimes very moving tales of adventure, family reunions, FRI opportunities, romance and tragedy. And then they head off, FRI melting into the London crowds. FRI Producer Sara Jane Hall. FRI FRI 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b015272f (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Vic is increasingly indifferent towards Ingrid, but can he FRI let her out of his life? Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca FRI Callard. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00xw4y0 (Listen) FRI The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 5 FRI Overwhelmed by both the atmosphere and the other confident FRI students at the Academy of Music, Ailsa has not been FRI attending her Saturday classes. But when the people at the FRI orphanage find out and tell her beloved music teacher she is FRI desperate to make amends. FRI Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Plantagenet b02qnn10 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b01dtkjn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b007jzd2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 1834 b011klyr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 So Wrong It's Right b01hkz2n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone b007jxhj (Listen) FRI Series 1, Unravelled FRI London gets stranger and stranger for Edna, Tankerton and FRI both the Carlos. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Sarah FRI Solemani. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076m2z (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 1 FRI 4 Extra Debut. Noel Coward wrote Mad about the Boy in 1932 FRI to celebrate the powerful appeal of the silent movie star. FRI From June 2004. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jp9g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jn16 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Susan Hill - Gentleman and Ladies b00t5jml (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Fort Dunlop b00qpmgh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 New Year, New Writers b01b1nkh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b01061ht (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 So Wrong It's Right b01hkz2n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World b007jqhc (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Human Mind FRI The sci-fi star and inventor explains life's big mysteries. FRI With Tom Baker, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee. From FRI November 1992. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06ynz0d (Listen) FRI From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club FRI has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Kieran FRI Hodgson. FRI FRI 23:00 The Gobetweenies b01l8qxl (Listen) FRI Series 2, Sex, Guns and Frida Kahlo FRI Mimi and Joe are in a state of conflicted liberal anguish FRI because Lucy is growing up too fast. She wants a sexy FRI Halloween costume to dazzle her boyfriend, but Joe talks her FRI into going to a party dressed as Frida Kahlo. Meanwhile FRI Joe's wily mother sorts out her son's vindictive and most FRI recent ex-wife, the radical rug designer. FRI Written by Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Joe: Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi: Sarah Alexander FRI Tom: Finlay Christie FRI Lucy: Phoebe Abbott FRI Sophia: Juliet Cadzow FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell b015zpdv (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI One of those parties that starts out as a great way to get FRI to know each other better, but promptly gets taken over by FRI fake tans, jerk chicken, insomniac parents and berets. FRI Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny FRI Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). It FRI conjures up characters depicting every relationship from FRI father and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the FRI feller hiding at a party; from the stalker and the stalked FRI to dog owners and their dogs; and from lifelong friends to FRI long term partners and their dearly departed. FRI The series revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny FRI himself), his immediate family (Getting On's Vicki FRI Pepperdine, The Thick Of It's Alex MacQueen and Not Going FRI Out's Katy Wix), and Tom's longed-for-and-lusted-after new FRI girlfriend Ellen (played by Charlotte Ritchie), her best FRI friend Hermione (Him & Her's Sarah Solemani) and Ellen's FRI zealously protective father (Simon Greenall). FRI Tim Key and Tom Basden both make deliciously awkward cameo FRI appearances. FRI Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, FRI contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to FRI pub toilets, themed parties, early morning phone calls and FRI Christmas Editions of Jonathan Creek. FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Tom: Jonny Sweet FRI Paul: Simon Greenall FRI Delivery Man: Tim Key FRI Ashley: Alex Macqueen FRI Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Hermione: Sarah Solemani FRI Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie FRI Maeve: Katy Wix FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI Writer: Jonny Sweet FRI
08 January, 2016
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 09/01/2016 - 15/01/2016
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