22 January, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23/01/2016 - 29/01/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 23 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Bill Murphy - Vostok b007jzm4 (Listen) SAT Three intrepid divers plunge into the world's last SAT unexplored Antarctic lake. Stars Stuart Milligan and Ingvar SAT Sigurdsson. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076m60 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Swing Low Sweet Chariot SAT An exploration of the spiritual song, from its origins in SAT slavery in America, to its role in English rugby. From July SAT 2004. SAT SAT 01:00 Cadfael b007jldz (Listen) SAT The Virgin in the Ice, Discoveries SAT Detective monk, Brother Cadfael discovers outlaws have taken SAT Ives Hugonin prisoner. SAT Ellis Peters' thriller narrated by Sir Michael Hordern and SAT starring Philip Madoc as Brother Cadfael, Douglas Hodge as SAT Hugh, Leonard Fenton as Leonard, Moira Buffini as Ermina, SAT Dean Magri as Ives, Peter Laird as Le Gaucher and Crispin SAT Letts as Elyas. SAT This is the second series of the Chronicles of Brother SAT Cadfael. SAT Dramatised by Bert Coules. SAT Music by Peter Salem. SAT Producer: Phil Clarke. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. SAT SAT 01:30 Open the Vaults b00p6rr0 (Listen) SAT The Royal bank of Scotland, now majority-owned by the SAT taxpayer, has been under increased presure to make its art SAT collection more accessible to the public. Now, in its first SAT interview about the collection, the bank agree to share SAT their work more widely, and also admit that some of the art SAT will go on sale. Razia Iqbal examines the tradition of banks SAT as patrons of art - a role which dates back to 14th-century SAT Italy - and asks what responsibility comes with owning great SAT art. SAT SAT 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03pm1hw (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT The murder has finally been committed. However, a phone call SAT complicates things. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by William SAT Hope. SAT SAT 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05tpy82 (Listen) SAT Ashoka: Power and Persuasion SAT Professor Sunil Khilnani of the King's India Institute in SAT London looks at the life and legacy of the emperor Ashoka, SAT who ruled over a large part of the Indian sub-continent. He SAT came to power around the time the Romans were fighting SAT Carthage and the Chinese were building their Great Wall but SAT faded from view over time. Rediscovered by the British, he SAT went on to become an inspiration to India's nationalists. SAT Ashoka's symbol of four lions, each facing in a different SAT direction, can be found on official Indian documents and the SAT nation's currency. His most remarkable legacy is the rock SAT edicts, public instructions to his people on correct SAT behaviour - including religious tolerance and his own SAT principle of Dhamma. "Dhamma described the ruler's duty to SAT interest himself in the welfare of his people, their health SAT and happiness. It even committed him to planting banyan SAT trees and mango groves along the roads, to provide water and SAT resting places for travellers . . an early statement about SAT the private faith of a leader and the responsibilities of SAT public office" SAT Producer: Mark Savage. SAT Researcher: Manu Pillai SAT With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. SAT Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of SAT remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. SAT SAT 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving b015fv20 (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Things come to a head in Vic and Ingrid's marriage. Who can SAT Vic turn to for advice? Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca SAT Callard. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b03k2gqd (Listen) SAT Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, Episode 5 SAT Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, SAT self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker SAT Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The SAT Blue Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. SAT The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the SAT Thames in the 1960s, the BBC in war-time, a failing bookshop SAT in Suffolk, an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened SAT out to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she SAT seemed to possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution, SAT post-war Italy, Germany in the time of the Romantic writer SAT Novalis. SAT Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her SAT fiction. It spans most of the twentieth century, and moves SAT from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding SAT intellectual family to hardship and poverty, from a life of SAT teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. SAT She was first published at sixty and became famous at SAT eighty. This is a story of lateness, patience and SAT persistence - a private form of heroism. SAT Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the SAT outstanding novelists of her time, she remains also SAT mysterious and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with SAT a good imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under SAT that scatty front was a steel-sharp brain and an imagination SAT of wonderful reach. SAT This biography by Hermione Lee pursues Fitzgerald's life, SAT her writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest. SAT Read by Penelope Wilton SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Penelope Wilton SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Author: Hermione Lee SAT SAT 03:00 Jill Paton Walsh - A Piece of Justice b010vyt7 (Listen) SAT Mystery and danger threaten Fran when she takes over the SAT biography of mathematician Gideon Summerfield. Stars Barbara SAT Flynn. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b01f5hp1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, University of Sussex SAT Coming this week from the University of Sussex, "The 3rd SAT Degree" 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 b007jzdc (Listen) SAT Series 2, Minder SAT Bryan is offered a job at last, but where will he find a SAT babysitter? 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 b011pw52 (Listen) SAT Dentists and Lovers SAT Ned needs root canal work, but 21st-century Jason needs SAT lessons in 19th-century courting. Stars Michael Begley. From SAT July 2003. SAT SAT 05:30 So Wrong It's Right b01hxmws (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT Presented by Charlie Brooker, 'So Wrong It's Right' is a SAT competitive game of failure where coming up with the wrong SAT answer is the right thing to do. SAT Over a series of rounds, Charlie asks three guests a number SAT of questions to rummage through their pasts and test their SAT creativity. So Wrong It's Right celebrates the pungent taste SAT of disappointment by turning embarrassing mistakes into SAT perverse triumphs. SAT In this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong SAT each other are comedians Lee Mack, Holly Walsh and panel SAT show legend Barry Cryer. SAT The panel's worst experiences at school and the best ideas SAT for the worst TV News gimmicks are put to the panel. Will SAT anyone surpass Barry Cryer's suggestion of a revamped SAT 'Newsnight' presented by tabloid darling and reality TV SAT superstar Katie Price? SAT The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also SAT presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You SAT Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The SAT Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British SAT Press Awards and Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards SAT 2009. SAT Produced by Aled Evans SAT A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall b06y048x (Listen) SAT Winter, 1815: Harry Headlong, like all Welsh squires, is SAT fond of shooting, hunting and drinking. But he becomes SAT seized with a passion to form the acquaintance of SAT philosophers and dilettanti. SAT Narrated by Sir Michael Hordern. Starring Daniel Massey as SAT Escot, Ronald Lacey as Foster, John Grillo as Jenkison, John SAT Horsley as Cranium and William Simons as Headlong. SAT Thomas Love Peacock's novella dramatised by James Saunders. SAT Producer: Matthew Walters SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988. SAT SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075plw (Listen) SAT Pesto With Chips - 1990 to 1999 SAT Hummus, couscous, polenta, prawns in lime and coconut, Thai SAT curries, pesto, pork satay, tempura, passion fruit and kiwi SAT sorbet and pistachio and pineapple ice cream. SAT Marguerite Patten mingles diverse recipes of the 1990s with SAT memories of the Queen's "annus horribilis", Margaret SAT Thatcher stepping down as Prime Minister, the freeing of SAT Nelson Mandela, the opening of the Channel Tunnel, the SAT handing back of Hong Kong to China and Labour elected to SAT power with their biggest majority ever. 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 b0075vj7 (Listen) SAT Metropolis SAT Novelist Paul Bailey takes an autobiographical journey SAT through the BBC sound archive in celebration of London as SAT documented by the microphone from 1930 onwards. He recalls SAT aspects of the city that have disappeared for ever, such as SAT horse traffic, and considers how the radio has represented SAT the average Londoner. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats b007k228 (Listen) SAT The Eighties, Episode 2 SAT Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest SAT and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. SAT OK, yah? The original Sloane Ranger - complete with SAT leg-warmers and shoulder-pads - presents six favourite shows SAT plucked from the 1980s schedules of BBC Radio Scotland, SAT Radio 2 and Radio 4:- SAT * Naked Radio SAT 23/3/1985 SAT The Scottish comedy team pokes fun at topical events. SAT Recorded at the Glasgow Theatre Club at the Tron. Stars Ian SAT Aldred, Ron Bain, Andy Gray, Tony Roper and Elaine C Smith. SAT From 1985. SAT * The Grumbleweeds SAT 10/08/1980 SAT Impressions and sketches in an episode of the long-running SAT series featuring the musical comedy band of Graham Walker, SAT Albert Sutcliffe, Carl Sutcliffe, Maurice Lee and Robin SAT Colvill. From 1980. SAT * The Jason Explanation... of Myths and Legends SAT Does the Loch Ness monster really exist? Is there life after SAT death? Why do fingers and toes go all crinkly in the bath? SAT David Jason explains all with Sheila Steafel and Jon Glover. SAT From 1981. SAT * The Million Pound Radio Show SAT Series 2 (8/8) SAT Back to the days of Mrs Thatcher, Sir Clive Sinclair and SAT Brookside courtesy of Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's SAT sharp-edged topical humour. From 1986. SAT * The Big Fun Show SAT Series 1 (5/6) SAT Sketches galore in the series starring Paul Merton, Julian SAT Clary, Tony Hawks and Josie Lawrence - before they hit the SAT big time. From 1988. SAT * Whose Line Is It Anyway? SAT Ep 4/6 SAT The improv game before it moved to TV. Clive Anderson hosts SAT more ad-lib fun with Stephen Fry, John Sessions, Kate SAT Robbins and Griff Rhys-Jones. From 1988. SAT Produced and scripted by Peter Reed SAT First broadcast on BBC 7 in 2003. SAT SAT 12:00 Round the Horne b00n905p (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 17 SAT 'What Shall We Do With The Drunken Nurker?' Rambling Syd SAT Rumpo sings - and it's a Horne from home for Kenneth at SAT Julian and Sandy's Bona Guest House. SAT With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill SAT Pertwee. SAT Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, SAT London. Announcer: Douglas Smith SAT Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio SAT comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric SAT Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, SAT Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the SAT scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and SAT 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, SAT catchphrases and double-entendres. SAT Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser SAT Hayes Four. SAT Producer: John Simmonds SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967. SAT SAT 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011ppvg (Listen) SAT Series 7, Episode 10 SAT Listen out for some excellent advice regarding gooseberries SAT and Centurion tanks in Arthur Price's shopping news. With SAT John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From March 1969. SAT SAT 13:00 The One About the Social Worker: Omnibus b06y0mfj (Listen) SAT How did the boy in boxers become wanted for an armed siege? SAT A tough case for social worker, Liz Beecham. Stars Claire SAT Skinner. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06y0mqj (Listen) SAT Tessa Peake-Jones SAT Actress Tessa Peake-Jones chooses 'She Loves You' by The SAT Beatles, and 'Every Breath You Take' by The Police. SAT SAT 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03c3cn6 (Listen) SAT Anita Sullivan - The Octopus SAT By Anita Sullivan SAT Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have eight SAT legs, no bones, and skin that changes colour? SAT Hester is a Marine Biologist seeking to discover what it SAT means to be an octopus. When she's called in to help the SAT local aquarium try to breed two Giant Pacific Octopus (GPO), SAT she uses the opportunity to carry out a social recognition SAT experiment. Can an octopus recognise an individual human SAT being? As Hester delves deeper into questions of cephalopod SAT consciousness, she develops an attachment with 'Monster' - SAT the male GPO. SAT "Four-hundred million years ago, when we shared the ocean, I SAT was a bony fish, a prototype. But you... were already you. SAT An octopus. Now I stand here, human. Confounded by you." SAT A strange and compelling journey into the mind of an ancient SAT creature. SAT Directed by James Robinson SAT A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SAT Credits SAT Hester: Amy Manson SAT Jenny: Riann Steele SAT Simon: Ronan Summers SAT Richie: Aled Pugh SAT Director: James Robinson SAT Writer: Anita Sullivan SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0075vj7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall b06y048x (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075plw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Planet B b00y1whc (Listen) SAT Series 3, Haunted SAT As the rogues face their biggest threat yet, a familiar face SAT returns. Virtual reality saga by Dawn King. Stars Lloyd SAT Thomas. SAT SAT 18:30 Ghost Zone b007k31r (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Surrounded by devastation and a radioactive cloud, a SAT Highland village appears to have survived a meteor strike. SAT Stars Gayanne Potter. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats b007k228 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b0375b3z (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 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 b00yqvkb (Listen) SAT Series 2, Team Building 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 is convinced by Councillor Campbell to SAT take part in a team building exercise. SAT Featuring and co-written by Scottish stand up David Kay, and SAT starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty with this week's SAT guest star Brian Pettifer. Mordrin McDonald mixes the SAT magical with the mundane and offers a hilarious take on the SAT life of a modern day Wizard. SAT Cast: SAT Mordrin ..... David Kay SAT Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy SAT Councillor Campbell ..... Callum Cuthbertson SAT Pete The Pict ..... Brian Pettifer SAT Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson SAT Producer/Director: Gus Beattie SAT A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:45 Warhorses of Letters b01p7by2 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 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. The opposing armies are on the SAT march through Belgium, but our lovers face a more immediate SAT challenge to their relationship as Marengo's stablemate SAT Marcy turns out to be a stalking horse. 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 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06ynztp (Listen) SAT From 10.00pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SAT has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to SAT Jon Ronson. SAT SAT 23:00 The Jason Byrne Show b01phj38 (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Irish and the Scottish Are Black-Belts in SAT Misery SAT The award-winning funny man revels in misery. With Laurence SAT Howarth and Daisy Haggard. From December 2010. SAT SAT 23:30 The Big Booth b007k32y (Listen) SAT Series 2: The Big Booth Too, Episode 2 SAT Boothby Graffoe stays the night in a haunted Scottish SAT castle. With Stephen Frost and Robyn Hitchcock. From SAT February 2001. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Planet B b00y1whc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Ghost Zone b007k31r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 The One About the Social Worker: Omnibus b06y0mfj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06y0mqj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Afternoon Drama b03c3cn6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b0075vj7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall b06y048x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SUN b0075plw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus b015p5xj (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Vic and Ingrid face more than their fair share of issues as SUN their relationship matures. Stars Lee Ingleby and Rebecca SUN Callard. SUN SUN 07:15 Tony Hawks Gets Lost in the Afternoon b007j8cy (Listen) SUN How do we manage to lose things we held in our hands only SUN minutes ago? Neuroscientists and psychologists suggest it SUN may be more complicated than we think. From May 2007. SUN SUN 07:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q03l3 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Facing Your Fears SUN Stephen K Amos is joined by stand-ups Michael Redmond, Holly SUN Walsh, Boothby Graffoe and a particularly nervous audience SUN member to compile and Idiot's Guide to Facing Your Fears. SUN SUN 08:00 Jim the Great b011kvms (Listen) SUN Series 3, Oh, Claudius! SUN After losing his Kingdom, the King is now a grumpy galley SUN slave rowing to Rome. Starring Jimmy Edwards. From September SUN 1979. SUN SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss b04dmnc5 (Listen) SUN United They Stay SUN Shy bachelor David Bliss fears the worst when a replacement SUN manager pressurises him to chase an invoice. SUN Stars George Cole as David Bliss, Diana Churchill as Anne SUN Fellows, Colin Gordon as Tony Fellows and 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 February 1959. SUN SUN 09:00 Amy Liptrot - The Outrun: Omnibus b06y11w3 (Listen) SUN Amy Liptrot's incisive memoir of fleeing London to battle SUN her alcoholism amid Orkney's luminous landscape. Read by SUN Tracy Wiles. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06y11yg (Listen) SUN Roger Lloyd Pack SUN Actor Roger Lloyd Pack chooses 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' by SUN Mozart and 'Forever Young' by Bob Dylan. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06y123h (Listen) SUN Absent Friends, Charles Kennedy SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Bowie to his father playing fiddle, SUN Charles Kennedy's castaway choices during his stint as Lib SUN Dem Leader. With Sue Lawley. From October 2003. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06y148k (Listen) SUN Hitchhiking, a Mosh Pit and Iggy Pop SUN True stories told live in the USA: Jenifer Hixson introduces SUN stories about revelations, nightmares and meeting your SUN idols. 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 b00z62ns (Listen) SUN Series 2, Foreign Fare SUN 4/20. We sometimes forget that vegetables that we see as SUN common-place today in all their varieties have wild origins. SUN The potato for example is a name given to a tuber that both SUN comes from Africa and South America - And the history of SUN their discovery and export into our European markets can be SUN traced by examining how those first explorers named the SUN plants. In Foreign Fare, David Attenborough traces the SUN discovery of some common vegetables to their wild beginnings SUN - and the fascinating natural history of their use as food. SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 12:00 Jim the Great b011kvms (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 A Life of Bliss b04dmnc5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus b015p5xj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Tony Hawks Gets Lost in the Afternoon b007j8cy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus b06y14c1 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN A once wealthy landowner, Abd el-Aziz, has fallen into SUN penury. Alaa Al Aswany's novel is read by Raad Rawi, Amir SUN El-Masry and Emerald O'Hanrahan. SUN SUN 15:45 Vincent McInerney - Bringing Home a Budgie for Mum SUN b0389s5c (Listen) SUN A young sailor's loyalty to his family is tested after his SUN mother makes a seemingly innocent request. Read by Keith SUN Drinkel. SUN SUN 16:00 Louis Robinson - Julie and the Prince b0076kd0 (Listen) SUN Louis Robinson's intriguing and romantic story of Queen SUN Victoria's father, Prince Edward, and his long-term SUN mistress. The fourth son of George III, Edward lived in the SUN colonies with Julie until he was put under pressure to marry SUN a German Princess and produce an heir to throne. He faced a SUN choice between giving up his true love or his royal status. SUN With Julia Hills, Timothy Watson, David Timson, Janet Dale. SUN Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06y14yg (Listen) SUN With Great Pleasure - Don Paterson SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN 'With Great Pleasure' from Summer 2006, when the Ledbury SUN Poetry Festival featured Don Paterson as poet-in-residence. SUN He entertained an audience at the festival with the work of SUN some of his favourite fellow poets, including Douglas Dunn, SUN Tony Harrison, Billy Collins, Seamus Heaney and William SUN Topaz McGonagall. SUN Producer: Viv Beeby SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. SUN SUN 17:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q03l3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Fear on Four b007jzd5 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Dance in the Underworld SUN The Man in Black wonders whether teenager Tony really was SUN dead when they buried him? SUN Starring Bryan Pringle as Victor, Maggie McCarthy as Avril, SUN Angus Wright as Tony and Edward de Souza as the Man in SUN Black. SUN Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. SUN Written by Stuart Kerr. SUN Producer: Martin Jenkins SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. SUN SUN 18:30 Martin Jameson - Ice b007jlpb (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Michelle comes face-to-face with the evil Ice Queen, Novod SUN Scaa. But is she too late to save Travis? Stars Alan SUN Halsall. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06y148k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00z62ns (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Amy Liptrot - The Outrun: Omnibus b06y11w3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06y11yg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06y123h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q03l3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Clayton Grange b01n11xj (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 2 SUN by Neil Warhurst with additional material by Paul Barnhill SUN Episode 2 SUN In Clayton Grange, Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly SUN stupid scientists who have a mission to think the SUN unthinkable. But can't. This week, they attempt to solve the SUN global fuel crisis. With a hamster. SUN Saunders ..... Anthony Head SUN Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst SUN Roger ..... Paul Barnhill SUN Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine SUN Helen/Lionel ..... Don Gilet SUN Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse SUN Director ..... Sally Avens. SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00c1d22 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN 'China Lion', pepping up your sex life and why it is not a SUN good idea to tell lies on your CV. With Ben Willbond. From SUN June 2008. SUN SUN 23:30 The Harpoon b00cmgpb (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 3 SUN Great beverages from history, in the nostalgic spoof of SUN boys' adventure story papers. With Alistair McGowan. From SUN March 1994. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 JANUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Fear on Four b007jzd5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Martin Jameson - Ice b007jlpb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Stan Barstow - A Kind of Loving Omnibus b015p5xj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Tony Hawks Gets Lost in the Afternoon b007j8cy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus b06y14c1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Vincent McInerney - Bringing Home a Budgie for Mum MON b0389s5c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Louis Robinson - Julie and the Prince b0076kd0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06y14yg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q03l3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpf (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The Dutch police arrive at Martin's house just as he's MON thinking of going to bed. He has to leave his wife Sophia MON and travel with them to Amsterdam's central police station, MON where Inspector Van der Valk breaks the news. MON Martin is the chief suspect in the murder of the seductive MON Elsa de Charmoy - his former lover and manipulator of men... MON Nicholas Freeling's crime thriller read by David Troughton. MON Piet Van der Valk is the much-copied prototype detective, 'a MON cranky, gentle, bumbling, brilliant, non-conformist student MON of human behaviour whose primary concern is why rather than MON how crimes are committed'. MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. MON Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2006. MON MON 06:30 Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries b00n3mq4 (Listen) MON Errol Flynn was cinema's brightest Hollywood star, with a MON series of unforgettable swashbuckling epics to his name. MON However, Flynn spent his last year with girlfriend Beverley MON Aadland on the island of Cuba, mixing with Castro, Che MON Guevara and the Cuban rebels. We hear about the pair's MON two-year relationship and their time together in Cuba. MON Errol's daughter Rory Flynn saw Beverley as a positive force MON in her father's life and key in their final adventure to MON Cuba in 1958. Flynn secured a commission from Hearst MON newspapers to file reports and secure an interview with MON Castro. The programme explores these articles filed by Flynn MON - many which have lain unseen in a Texan archive for 50 MON years. MON On his return from the mountains, Flynn set about capturing MON his adventures on film and secured the funds to star MON alongside Beverley in "Cuban Rebel Girls". The film MON disappeared without trace, but Flynn set about recording the MON events of the revolution with producer Victor Pahlen, and MON their documentary film "Cuban Story" was the result. Hear MON clips from both of these films in this programme. MON Fifty years after his passing, Errol Flynn is famous for his MON epic films, womanising, and hard-living lifestyle. However, MON his strange venture into the world of Cuban politics and MON flirtation with the flowering of Castro's brand of communism MON is as an untold story. Now, we address this oversight. MON Presented by Patrick Humphries. MON Producer: John Sugar MON A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Producer: John Sugar MON MON 07:00 Street and Lane b00w5rgj (Listen) MON Series 2, Going for Broke MON The Yorkshire builders are warned over a dodgy landlord, and MON a birth is imminent. Stars Fine Time Fontayne. From January MON 2007. MON MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06wcsnl (Listen) MON Series 8, Dodd, Fry, Jenner MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome the singer, photographic MON playboy and failed accountant Ken Dodd; the University MON College London lecturer who took up mathematical modelling MON to get to grips with the dating scene, Dr Hannah Fry; and MON the man with the enviable task of overseeing the historical MON accuracy of over 1,200 songs and sketches that make up MON Horrible Histories, Greg Jenner. MON This week, the Museum's peripatetic scholars reveal how the MON first ever alcoholic drinks were guzzled from a spitton; why MON the equation Wt+l =a +r.W,+IHW(H) and Hl+l = b + r2Ht + MON IWH(Wt), is the formula for a happy marriage; and why you MON can tell a joke in Liverpool that that won't get a laugh in MON London. MON The show was researched by Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of MON QI. MON The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. MON It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Sarah Millican MON Interviewed Guest: Ken Dodd MON Interviewed Guest: Hannah Fry MON Interviewed Guest: Greg Jenner MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: James Harkin MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jqlx (Listen) MON Series 3, We Know Our Onions MON Jones's van is commandeered for the platoon's anti-tank gun MON exercise - but the trouble is that it's also full of Hodges' MON consignment of onions. 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 and Larry MON Martyn as Private Walker. 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 b007k2fg (Listen) MON Series 2, In Reverse MON Lawyer Roger is touting for work, which means some MON sweet-talking to both Joy and Sally. Stars Richard Briers. MON From August 1971. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b013214d (Listen) MON Last in the current series of Quote...Unquote, presented by MON the renowned Nigel Rees. Joining Nigel to wave au revoir are MON the comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty, MON writer Brian Sibley and actor Martin Jarvis. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON Credits MON Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer MON MON 09:30 Tomorrow, Today! b016r51y (Listen) MON Series 2, Dr Chaotica and the Rise of the Atomic Man-Bees MON Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1962. MON A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the MON unimaginably futuristic world of 2008. MON Suspicious deaths provoke mixed reactions. MON Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles MON Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell MON Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune MON Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn MON Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska MON Douglas Bennings ...... Jon Glover MON Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon MON Mrs Tinkler ...... Rachel Atkins MON Graham Tinkler ...... Lloyd Thomas MON Delivery Boy ...... Alex Lamipekun. MON MON 10:00 Charles Dickens b01b20s5 (Listen) MON Little Dorrit, Episode 1 MON Arthur Clennam befriends seamstress Amy Dorrit and meets her MON extraordinary family at a debtor's prison. Dickens MON adaptation stars Ian McKellen. MON MON 11:00 Don Haworth - In Mr Bruin's Time b007k3xy (Listen) MON The brief tale of a bus driver whose philanthropic nature MON means bad timekeeping but general goodwill. Read by Bernard MON Cribbins. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b010m9t2 (Listen) MON Jon Canter - The Vertigo Trust MON By Jon Canter. MON Ronnie Sax is a sixty something multi-millionaire MON businessman, abrasive, cocky, three times divorced but on MON wife number four. He's egotistical and high energy and very MON much afraid of heights. He lives in a bungalow. His very MON large office is on the ground floor. Branson keeps inviting MON him into his balloon but Ronnie always has an excuse. MON He gives an interview to Deborah - a journalist with some MON serious copy to fill - and her searching questions turn into MON a flirtation that Ronnie feels can only be consummated by MON conquering his phobia. MON Enter Martin - a 'Vertigo Counsellor' who has read Deborah's MON article and thinks he can help. Martin's done his research MON and Ronnie, impressed, quickly hires him as his very own MON counsellor (as long as no one knows finds out what he's MON doing in Ronnie's office.) MON Over a series of sessions, Ronnie gets attached to Martin MON and quite dependent on him. Martin helps him overcome his MON deepest fears. MON But Martin has a secret. A big secret. One that threatens to MON turn Ronnie's world completely upside down. MON Produced and directed by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Ronnie: Gerard Murphy MON Martin: James Fleet MON Deborah: Daisy Haggard MON Uncle Ray: Trevor Martin MON Tanya: Kellie Shirley MON Mother: Helen Ryan MON Writer: Jon Canter MON Director: Clive Brill MON Producer: Clive Brill MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jqlx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Brothers in Law b007k2fg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries b00n3mq4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q8q66 (Listen) MON Episode 11 MON A reward is offered for Bunny, while Charles and Henry find MON themselves under scrutiny. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by MON William Hope. MON MON 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05v7th2 (Listen) MON Charaka: On Not Violating Good Judgement MON Professor Sunil Khilnani visits a modern-day clinic which MON follows the practices set out by Charaka, a medical pioneer MON whose handbook is still widely used in India today. His MON text, known as the Charaka Samhita or 'Compendium of MON Charaka', is an encyclopaedic work covering different MON aspects of health and how to live a good life. Ayurveda is MON the best known of the Indian subcontinent's three indigenous MON medical traditions and continues to be an important adjunct MON to India's national health system. Today, it is part of MON government policy and a ministry funds Ayurvedic training MON and care. Charaka believed that health depended on the MON balance of basic humours - wind, bile, phlegm - and that "if MON these elements are disturbed from their proper bodily MON locations, illness follows. Such disturbance often occurs MON through our own thoughtlessness, what Charaka calls MON 'violations of good judgement'." MON Produced by Mark Savage MON With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh. MON Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of MON remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. MON MON 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767d8 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Andrea meets Philip, a married man. The warnings are all MON about lust but tenderness is the real enemy. MON A gritty double love story set in Yorkshire in the 1960's, MON dramatised by Stan Barstow's partner Diana Griffiths. MON Starring Deborah McAndrew as Andrea, Robert Glenister as MON Philip, David Calder as Tom and John Griffin as George. MON Director: Pauline Harris MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. MON MON 14:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy5g (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The touching correspondence between the young Indira Gandhi MON and her father Nehru. Read by Nina Wadia and Paul MON Bhattacharjee. MON MON 15:00 Charles Dickens b01b20s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b013214d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Tomorrow, Today! b016r51y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Street and Lane b00w5rgj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06wcsnl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 The Laxian Key b007k2c1 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Mystery space tourist deaths land two planet cleaners with a MON new contract. Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi MON comedy. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b007620x (Listen) MON Sue Gaisford and Kimberly Fortier MON Kirsty Wark and her guests, journalist Sue Gaisford and MON former publisher of The Spectator, Kimberly Fortier, discuss MON paperbacks by Suzanne Cleminshaw, Henry Mayhew and Alistair MON MacCleod. From 2001. MON The Great Ideas by Suzanne Cleminshaw MON Publisher: Fourth Estate MON London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew MON Publisher: Penguin MON No Great Mischief by Alistair MacCleod MON Publisher: Vintage. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jqlx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Brothers in Law b007k2fg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries b00n3mq4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Don Haworth - In Mr Bruin's Time b007k3xy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b010m9t2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity b06wcsnl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010dhcy (Listen) MON Series 4, The Bewerdine Spectrum 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 In this episode Sanjay goes on work experience at the local MON paper, The Lenzie Trumpet, and ends up writing the problem MON page which spells disaster for Ramesh and his loyal MON customers. 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 Keith Futures ...... Greg McHugh MON Hilly ..... Kate Brailsford MON Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Mutton Jeff ..... Sean Scanlan MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06z94rq (Listen) MON For two hours six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the MON best laughs. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Mark Watson. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06y9r47 (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 3 MON A satirical review of the week's news chaired by Miles Jupp. MON Tune in to hear some bonus material from the live recording MON that didn't quite make it into the regular weekly show. MON MON 23:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b01j5nxt (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane star in the MON funny but true history of space exploration. MON This week, given that on a rocket every ounce of saved MON weight is crucial, an astronaut who weighs 15% less and MON breathes less oxygen should have a tremendous advantage. So MON where were all of NASA's female astronauts? The story of MON Soviet pioneer Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in MON space, who at one time logged more hours in orbit than all MON the male American astronauts put together makes a MON thought-provoking contrast to the marginalised female MON astronauts of the USA, the so called Mercury 13, none of MON whom ever got to go into space. MON Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill MON Produced by Gareth 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 26 JANUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 The Laxian Key b007k2c1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b007620x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Robin Hood and the Cuban Revolutionaries b00n3mq4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q8q66 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05v7th2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767d8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy5g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Charles Dickens b01b20s5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b013214d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Tomorrow, Today! b016r51y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Street and Lane b00w5rgj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06wcsnl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpm (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Martin's finally admitted the truth: he met Elsa de Charmoy TUE shortly before her death - and he attempted to visit her on TUE the night she died, but claims he didn't kill her. Martin's TUE alibi is thin and there are no other suspects, but Van der TUE Valk takes a chance on him. Together they visit Elsa's TUE apartment to try and find evidence... TUE Nicholas Freeling's crime thriller read by David Troughton. TUE Piet Van der Valk is the much-copied prototype detective, 'a TUE cranky, gentle, bumbling, brilliant, non-conformist student TUE of human behaviour whose primary concern is why rather than TUE how crimes are committed'. TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. TUE Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2006. TUE TUE 06:30 The Gorbals Vampire b00rmt00 (Listen) TUE Glasgow's Southern Necropolis is an eerie place at the best TUE of times but when two local policemen answered a call there TUE in September 1954 they encountered a bizarre sight. Hundreds TUE of local children, ranging in ages from 4 to 14, were TUE crammed inside, roaming between the crypts. They were armed TUE with sharpened sticks, knives stolen from home and stakes. TUE They said they were hunting down "A Vampire with Iron Teeth" TUE that had kidnapped and eaten two local boys. TUE The policemen dispersed the crowd, but they came back at TUE sundown the next night and the next. The local press got TUE hold of the story and it soon went national. There were no TUE missing boys in Glasgow at that time, and press and TUE politicians cast around for an explanation. They soon found TUE one in the wave of American Horror comics with names like TUE "Astounding Stories" and "Tales from the Crypt" which had TUE recently flooded into the West of Scotland. Academics TUE pointed out that none of the comics featured a vampire with TUE iron teeth, though there was a monster with iron teeth in TUE the bible (Daniel 7.7) and in a poem taught in local TUE schools. Their voices were drowned out in a full-blown moral TUE panic about the effect that terrifying comics were having on TUE children. Soon the case of the "Gorbals Vampire" was TUE international news. TUE The British Press raged against the "terrifying, corrupt" TUE comics and after a heated debate in the House of Commons TUE where the case of Gorbals Vampire was cited, Britain passed TUE the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act TUE 1955 which, for the first time, specifically banned the sale TUE of magazines and comics portraying "incidents of a repulsive TUE or horrible nature" to minors. TUE Writer Louise Welsh explores how the Gorbals Vampire helped TUE bring the censorship of comic books onto the statute books. TUE TUE 07:00 Fat Chance b01bn4qm (Listen) TUE Secrets and Lies TUE Will Graham be the next Blue Peter presenter, and why did TUE Tina's husband leave her? Slimline sitcom about fighting the TUE flab stars Michael Troughton. From March 1999. TUE TUE 07:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06wd7dt (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Employment Agency TUE When Milton launches a job agency, it turns out that getting TUE people into work actually is rocket science. Which is why TUE his best client suddenly goes ballistic. 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 returns TUE to the radio with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new TUE jokes. TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Ben Willbond. 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 Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Actor: Josie Lawrence TUE Actor: Ben Willbond TUE Director: David Tyler TUE Producer: David Tyler TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007jn85 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 18 TUE Ole! Kenneth Horne heads to a Spanish bullring, while Julian TUE and Sandy get switched on for Bona TV. 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 June 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b0085hmk (Listen) TUE The Desk Job TUE Can the bungling duo manage to sell off some old office TUE furniture? Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From TUE August 1972. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06y9r47 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b01j5nxt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Charles Dickens b01b2wb5 (Listen) TUE Little Dorrit, Episode 2 TUE Arthur Clannam worries about his parents, but thinks he's TUE found a new love. Amy receives a proposal. Dickens TUE adaptation stars Ian McKellen. TUE TUE 11:00 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life b007k4br (Listen) TUE When a person sees their life going the other way on the TUE back of a lorry, what can they do? Read by Brian Parr. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00jzf6b (Listen) TUE Ed Harris - The Moment You Feel It TUE The Moment You Feel It TUE By Ed Harris TUE Alf's memories come in flashes and great blank holes, along TUE with a running commentary from the voices of his past. So TUE how does finding a strange coat in his kitchen, remind Alf TUE why he doesn't want a bath today? A tender, sad comedy about TUE re-remembering your past. TUE Alf ..... Richard Briers TUE Young Alf ..... Rory Kinnear TUE Pru ..... Tracy Wiles TUE Steven ..... Hugh Ross TUE Marina ..... Caroline Guthrie TUE with Janice Acquah TUE Producer/Director: Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jn85 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b0085hmk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Gorbals Vampire b00rmt00 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q8tcc (Listen) TUE Episode 12 TUE Lurking in a mailbox is a typewritten revelation which TUE proves to be a shock to all. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by TUE William Hope. TUE TUE 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05v7tqh (Listen) TUE Aryabhata: The Boat of Intellect TUE Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in TUE London, explores the life and legacy of Aryabhata, the TUE legendary Indian mathematician and astronomer. Unknown in TUE the West until a few decades ago, he is said by some to rank TUE with Euclid and the great Greek mathematicians and TUE astronomers such as Ptolemy. But unlike Euclid, Aryabhata TUE left no proofs, explaining how to recreate his findings. TUE "His ideas, translated into Arabic, influenced Islamic TUE astronomers and mathematicians. But he wasn't working in the TUE idiom of his Western counterparts, so his ideas didn't feed TUE into the global stream of scientific discovery, and TUE eventually Indians forgot Aryabhata too. It was only when TUE science and technology began to flourish in modern India TUE that his reputation got a relaunch," says Professor TUE Khilnani. TUE Producer: Mark Savage TUE Researcher: Manu Pillai TUE Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of TUE remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. TUE TUE 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767ds (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE In 1960s Yorkshire, town councillor Tom discovers unsettling TUE news about his lover Norma's husband. Stars David Calder. TUE TUE 14:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy6q (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE In prison, Nehru relies on daughter Indira Gandhi's letters TUE to learn about India's struggle for freedom. Read by Nina TUE Wadia. TUE TUE 15:00 Charles Dickens b01b2wb5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00g3hr8 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 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 b00b0317 (Listen) TUE Series 2, A Tooth for a Tooth TUE Extradition agreements are on the agenda, and some TUE accusations can't be brushed aside. Stars Dinsdale Landen. TUE From March 1988. TUE TUE 17:00 Fat Chance b01bn4qm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06wd7dt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 The Laxian Key b007k2m3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE London is melting, but planetary decontaminationists Arnold TUE and Gregor get the blame and go on the run. Stars Chris TUE Larner. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jp1h (Listen) TUE Series 3, Sheila Steafel TUE Actress Sheila Steafel shares memories of her stage, film TUE and TV career with an audience. TUE From 'drowning' for Michael Bentine, the unpredictability of TUE Robert Morley to the perils of dancing topless! TUE Producer: Claire Jones TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jn85 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b0085hmk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Gorbals Vampire b00rmt00 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life b007k4br (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00jzf6b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06wd7dt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Show What You Wrote b036w3pn (Listen) TUE Series 1, Kitchen Sink 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 historical. TUE This week's episode is Kitchen Sink. TUE Script editor ...... Jon Hunter TUE Producers ..... Carl Cooper and Alexandra Smith TUE Writers ..... Chris Allen, Elise Bramich, Alex Buchanan, TUE Steve Bugeja, Alex Clissold-Jones, Alex Collier, Andy Fury, TUE Jez Gee, Lucy Guy, Mike Haskins, Katherine Knowles, Maeve TUE Larkin, Sarah Page, Ash Williamson. TUE Writers TUE This episode of The Show What You Wrote was written by TUE you... Actually, it was written by the following people so TUE if your name is on the list, the previous sentence is TUE totally acurate: TUE Chris Allen TUE Elise Bramich TUE Alex Buchanan TUE Steve Bugeja TUE Alex Clissold-Jones TUE Alex Collier TUE Andy Fury TUE Jez Gee TUE Lucy Guy TUE Mike Haskins TUE Katherine Knowles TUE Maeve Larkin TUE Sarah Page TUE Ash Williamson TUE The script editor was Jon Hunter TUE Credits TUE Performer: John Thomson TUE Performer: Helen Moon TUE Performer: Fiona Clarke TUE Performer: Gavin Webster TUE Producer: Carl Cooper TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06z94vp (Listen) TUE For two hours six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the TUE best laughs. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Mark Watson. TUE TUE 23:00 Revolting People b00wbnb0 (Listen) TUE Series 4, McGurk Runs the Shop TUE Samuel is reunited with his sister and Ezekiel is dressed as TUE a bear. 1775 America sitcom. Stars Andy Hamilton. From May TUE 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 Les Kelly's Britain b017cjy8 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 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 normal or decent, this is not the TUE show for you,' says Les. TUE Should able bodied people have the same rights as the TUE disabled when it comes to having mobility scooters, guide TUE dogs and hearing aides. This and other outrageous questions TUE are put by Les Kelly, radio's most insensitive presenter. TUE Also on the show - a preacher whose religious education TUE lessons involves twisting balloons into the shape of Moses TUE and Jesus, and a woman with an obsessive hatred of Belgians. TUE Written by Bill Dare and Julian Dutton. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 The Laxian Key b007k2m3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jp1h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Gorbals Vampire b00rmt00 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q8tcc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05v7tqh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767ds (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy6q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Charles Dickens b01b2wb5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00g3hr8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b00b0317 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Fat Chance b01bn4qm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06wd7dt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The Dutch detective has finally discovered murder victim WED Elsa de Charmoy's secret. A decoy is needed to snare the WED killer, but it's a very risky assignment. Tension mounts as WED the murderer makes his presence felt. WED Nicholas Freeling's crime thriller concluded by David WED Troughton. WED Piet Van der Valk is the much-copied prototype detective, 'a WED cranky, gentle, bumbling, brilliant, non-conformist student WED of human behaviour whose primary concern is why rather than WED how crimes are committed'. WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths. WED Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2006. WED WED 06:30 It's My Story b00hpj9d (Listen) WED The Boxing Civil Servant WED Journalist Jackie Ashley tells the story of how her WED fifty-something friend Miranda Carter, a high-flying civil WED servant at the Department of Transport, astonished friends WED and family when she announced that she was applying for a WED licence as a boxing promoter. WED By day she continues to work in the corridors of power in WED Whitehall, but in the evenings and at weekends she mixes WED with the raucous boxing crowd of York Hall, Bethnal Green, WED in the East End of London. WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00p6b1t (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED Oonagh makes a discovery and Nigel is at last pushed to the WED brink. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From October WED 2005. WED WED 07:30 It's Jocelyn b06wg7rw (Listen) WED Episode 4 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 Back with a raft of brand new characters including a WED monosyllabic shop assistant, a pair of terrible African WED Drummers and a 2 terrible bedroom DJ's called 'Uncooth Youth WED FM'. Jocelyn vents her frustrations at the world around her WED through sketches and stand-up - from pedantic dinner dates WED to coping with annoying friends, Jocelyn's life provides a WED rich 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 Performer: Curtis Walker WED Performer: Ninia Benjamin WED Performer: Kevin J WED Writer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Producer: John Pocock WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01h0kpk (Listen) WED Wren Chasen Returns WED The crew are back from some eventful leave, but Heather's WED surprise return from Scotland gives her fiancé Phillips a WED nasty shock. WED Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie WED Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number WED One, Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson, Richard Caldicote WED as Captain Povey and Heather Chasen as Heather. 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 September WED 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011tzml (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 11 WED A complete guide to London, and the Time Trousers WED materialise in gangster-ridden Chicago. Stars John Cleese. WED From March 1969. WED WED 09:00 The Motion Show b00768f5 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED 4 Extra Debut. Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with WED Steve Punt, Simon Fanshawe, Dan Gaster and Jenny Eclair. WED From July 2000. WED WED 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b007jqgs (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, WED Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From WED August 1991. WED WED 10:00 Charles Dickens b01b311m (Listen) WED Little Dorrit, Episode 3 WED Surprising discoveries about the Dorrits are revealed, but WED Arthur is yet to solve his family's secret. Dickens WED adaptation stars Ian McKellen. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00y8v97 (Listen) WED Womanly Wiles, Ties That Bind WED American star Kathleen Turner reads this specially WED commissioned story of family tension. WED After the death of her husband, a New York writer decides to WED move to Cape Cod where her younger sister has a house on the WED Bay. Their mother lives in a nearby assisted-living WED facility. Neither sister has children; the father died many WED years ago. Only the three women are left. How nice, our WED storyteller feels, for them to regain some of the closeness WED of former years; to recapture the fun and memories of WED childhood summers - when the family had happily vacationed WED there. WED But what if ties that are supposed be binding turn out to be WED less than secure - even fraying at the edges? What if a WED house-purchase becomes problematic? And where are the WED difficulties actually coming from? Mother? Or the sisters? WED Could 'family', perhaps, exist only in the mind? WED Producer/Director: Rosalind Ayres. WED WED 11:15 Renny Krupinski - No Problem b007jw1g (Listen) WED An idyllic holiday runs into problems as Beth and Simon get WED stuck in an airport. Stars Renny Krupinski and Belinda WED Sinclair. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01h0kpk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011tzml (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 It's My Story b00hpj9d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q957k (Listen) WED Episode 13 WED Despite their best efforts, Richard and Henry cannot stop WED their role being exposed. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by WED William Hope. WED WED 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vct0r (Listen) WED Shankaracharya: A God Without Qualities WED Is that a snake or a coiled rope? Intriguingly, that is the WED question which starts Professor Sunil Khilnani's look at the WED life and legacy of Adi Shankaracharya, the philosopher and WED theologian who set Hinduism - the third largest religion in WED the world - on a new course. Shankaracharya's ambition was WED to provide a unified, coherent, single reading of the Hindu WED scriptures. His teachings were not universally embraced but WED they were revived by Indian nationalists looking for a WED muscular response to the monotheistic religions of WED Christianity and Islam. His efforts to capture the oneness WED of the universe produced beautiful, sometimes enigmatic WED sentences - as elusive as the man himself. "I am neither WED earth nor water nor fire nor air nor sense-organ nor the WED aggregate of all these," wrote Shankaracharya, "for all WED these are transient, variable by nature." WED Produced by Mark Savage WED Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of WED remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. WED WED 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767f4 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED In 1960s Yorkshire, with their affair still a secret, Andrea WED meets Philip's wife, Kate. Stars Deborah McAndrew and Robert WED Glenister. WED WED 14:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy7z (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Indira Gandhi's father Nehru learns of her search abroad to WED cure her sick mother. Read by Nina Wadia. and Paul WED Bhattacharjee. WED WED 15:00 Charles Dickens b01b311m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The Motion Show b00768f5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b007jqgs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00p6b1t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 It's Jocelyn b06wg7rw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 The Laxian Key b007k2tx (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED With the planetary decontaminationists on the run, Arnold's WED apologetic call for melting Earth is traced. Stars Mark WED Bonnar. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076z54 (Listen) WED My Brilliant Baby WED 4 Extra Debut. Dominic Arkwright discusses the joys of WED parenting with Amanda Mitchison, Tom Hodgkinson and Caroline WED Oulton. From July 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01h0kpk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011tzml (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 It's My Story b00hpj9d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00y8v97 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Renny Krupinski - No Problem b007jw1g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 It's Jocelyn b06wg7rw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01hxpy6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Junk Mail WED Sony Award-winning comic Tom Wrigglesworth performs the last WED in his series of open letters. This week, he takes issue WED with his local curry house and their addiction to junk mail. WED Tom also tracks the development of advertising and marketing WED - a development trajectory which has now led us to the WED rather ridiculous stage where we can be "Facebook friends" WED with Jacob's Crackers. WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp. WED Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. WED Credits WED Presenter: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06z94yd (Listen) WED For two hours six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the WED best laughs. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Mark Watson. WED WED 23:00 Listen Against b008crj0 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED The show that prises the back off your radio, fiddles around WED with the programmes inside and then puts it all back WED together the wrong way round. WED Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take liberties with Laurie WED Taylor, BBC Radio 1Xtra and Melvyn Bragg WED The brain-child of writer, comic and broadcaster Jon Holmes. WED Producer: Bill Dare and Jon Holmes WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2007. WED WED 23:30 And Now in Colour b007v2t3 (Listen) WED Series 1, Mike's House WED The sketch show team take the audience to Mike's house, but WED they get lost. With Tim Firth and Michael Rutger. From April WED 1990. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 JANUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 The Laxian Key b007k2tx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076z54 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Van der Valk - Love in Amsterdam b007jwpq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 It's My Story b00hpj9d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q957k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vct0r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767f4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy7z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Charles Dickens b01b311m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 The Motion Show b00768f5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b007jqgs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Brothers b00p6b1t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 It's Jocelyn b06wg7rw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator THU b01r73qn (Listen) THU Series 2, The Stolen Ingots THU At first glance it looked like a simple bullion robbery, but THU Thorndyke's investigations reveal that nothing is as it THU first appeared. Read by William Gaminara. THU John Thorndyke, barrister and doctor of medicine, possesses THU an armoury of skills that equip him as the first THU scientifically plausible "forensic" detective. R. Austin THU Freeman, his creator, was himself a medic with an extensive THU knowledge of forensic medicine, and the solutions to the THU puzzles are completely plausible. In fact the scientific THU detail and authenticity of Thorndyke's investigations go THU much further than anything in the Holmes stories, though THU Freeman was happy to acknowledge his debt to Arthur Conan THU Doyle: THU "A fellow doctor, Conan Doyle, had made a brilliant and THU well-deserved success by the creation of the immortal THU Sherlock Holmes. Considering that achievement, I asked THU myself whether it might not be possible to devise a THU detective story of a slightly different kind; one based on THU the science of Medical Jurisprudence, in which, by the THU sacrifice of a certain amount of dramatic effect, one could THU keep entirely within the facts of real life, with nothing THU fictitious excepting the persons and the events. I came to THU the conclusion that it was, and began to turn the idea over THU in my mind." THU Thorndyke's work-life stretches over four decades from the THU early 1900s until the Second World War, a period during THU which Freeman wrote more than 20 novels and several THU collections of short stories, from which the six in this THU series are selected. THU The reader William Gaminara is best known as pathologist Leo THU Dalton in the BBC's long-running series 'Silent Witness'. THU Producer: John Taylor THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Fiction Factory and first THU broadcast in 2013. THU THU 06:30 The Oxbridge Murder b00mtm9c (Listen) THU To mark Cambridge University's 800th anniversary, David THU Baddiel investigates the events which led to its foundation THU and trace its origins to a crime committed in the 13th THU century. THU With the help of Cambridge University archivist Dr Patrick THU Zutshi, medieval historian Henrietta Leyser and Detective THU Inspector Ted East, David discovers that the reason for a THU mass exodus of scholars from Oxford to Cambridge can be THU traced back to a murder. He walks the very streets where the THU murder took place and visits Oxford Castle, where some THU believe those accused of the murder were hanged. THU He then takes a punt up the River Cam, where he is joined by THU members of the Cambridge Historical Society for a discussion THU about town and gown rivalry and also some of the amusing THU myths surrounding the university's foundation. THU Finally, David visits St Mary's Church, where Cambridge's THU new student body met for their first lectures and THU ceremonies. THU THU 07:00 Hazelbeach b00899mt (Listen) THU Series 1, Language Teacher THU Nick gets a job with a dominatrix, and Ronnie buys an THU extraordinary number of sinks. Stars Jamie Foreman. From THU November 2007. THU THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06whsx1 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 3 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 week we look back at a career in accounting, hear of an THU over-rated experience and, we're sorry to say, Patsy THU Straightwoman returns with an interview sketch. 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 Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse THU Original music performed by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally THU Stares 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 b007jn4t (Listen) THU Series 5, A Star Is Born THU Harold falls for the leading lady from his drama society - THU and Albert makes an entrance. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H Corbett as THU Harold and Trevor Bannister as Rupert. With Jo Manning THU Wilson, Michael McClain and Nicolette MacKenzie. 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 BBC Radio 2 in June 1974. THU THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007wwg9 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Dog THU The author is alarmed to find a four-legged friend in his THU car. Stars Ian Carmichael and Charlotte Mitchell. From April THU 1976. THU THU 09:00 Genius b0084ffq (Listen) THU Series 3, Matthew Wright THU Dave Gorman and celebrity guest Matthew Wright chew over THU ridiculous and unworkable inventions and ideas, and choose THU the best. From October 2007. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007jp15 (Listen) THU Series 7, Soap Bubbles THU Charlotte discovers that starring in a soap opera is a THU cut-throat business. Starring Angela Thorne and Celia Imrie. THU THU 10:00 Charles Dickens b01b3clm (Listen) THU Little Dorrit, Episode 4 THU The newly wealthy Dorrits set off on a tour of Europe, but THU Amy is feeling homesick. Dickens adaptation stars Ian THU McKellen. THU THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00y9yc2 (Listen) THU Womanly Wiles, The Weighing Up THU Jeremy plainly cares deeply for his family. His business THU takes him all over the world but when he is home he gives THU them his full attention. THU He calls occasionally at inconvenient hours from various THU places abroad, though the sound of his voice is never THU inconvenient. THU His comfortably overweight wife, Avril, always gets a decent THU warning of his actual homecoming, so she can be sure of THU having ready his favourite food and wine. THU But what if, this time, he's been delayed in Tokyo and THU won't, after all, be back by the weekend? And what if, THU suddenly, there's a young woman on the line to Avril with THU some surprising news that could disturb the pattern of a THU contented family life? THU In Angela Huth's cannily observant tale of comfort food and THU feminine rivalry, which of the two women is likely to come THU off best when there are no more 'soft centres' left in the THU chocolate box? Who has the ultimate 'hard-centre'? Will THU Jeremy leave his wife for a younger, more streamlined, THU model? Or is there a way to keep him content? THU Reader: Gemma Jones THU Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:15 Michael Butt - Harry in the Underworld b00rdspc (Listen) THU A novelist is losing readers. But then he encounters two THU hardened criminals breaking into his house. Starring Richard THU E Grant. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jn4t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007wwg9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator THU b01r73qn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Oxbridge Murder b00mtm9c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q9k59 (Listen) THU Episode 14 THU With their tutor mysteriously absent, things go from bad to THU worse for the Greek class. Donna Tartt's thriller, read by THU William Hope. THU THU 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vffp8 (Listen) THU Rajaraja Chola: Cults of the Imagination THU Rajaraja was not the first of the Chola dynasty but he took THU their empire to its zenith - from a relatively small kingdom THU to the dominant empire in India. Professor Sunil Khilnani, THU from the King's India Institute in London, visits Tamil Nadu THU where he finds modern day connections with the ruler whose THU name means 'king of kings'. Professor Khilnani visits the THU temple at Thanjavur which Rajaraja built a thousand years THU ago and named after himself, utilising the profits of trade. THU "For Raja Raja had pulled off something that no Indian ruler THU before him seems to have done," says Professor Khilnani. THU "He'd commandeered trading boats, timber sailed craft and THU launched maritime expeditions, bringing far flung wealth THU back home." The king was lavish with his gifts and used his THU wealth to capture the imaginations of those he ruled. His THU most important gift to art history came at the temple's THU consecration: 60 portable icons of Lord Shiva, the Hindu THU deity. THU Producer: Mark Savage THU Researcher: Manu Pillai THU With incidental music by the composer Talvin Singh THU Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of THU remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. THU THU 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767fk (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU 1960s Yorkshire: The tragic news of Norma's husband draws THU Tom closer, but at what cost to her kids? Stars John Calder. THU THU 14:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy99 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Nehru feels cut off from Indira, as tragic events threaten THU to overtake his family. Read by Nina Wadia. and Paul THU Bhattacharjee. THU THU 15:00 Charles Dickens b01b3clm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b0084ffq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007jp15 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Hazelbeach b00899mt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06whsx1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 No Point Talking b06yk7w1 (Listen) THU Award-winning sci-fi writer Geoff Ryman's new story for the THU BBC, imagining a future world where California has been THU split in two, each half with very different political THU outlooks. THU His conservative hero finds himself in a place he doesn't THU like or understand, where everything he holds dear is THU challenged: relations between men and women, and even the THU very definitions of 'he' and 'her'. THU This story was written as Geoff was investigating the THU portrayal of gender in utopian science fiction, as part of THU BBC Radio 4's Utopia season. That documentary which THU accompanies 'No Point Talking' is called 'Herland'. THU THU 18:15 James Follett - Devil To Pay b06yk87w (Listen) THU A car crash on a hot deserted road. A camper on hand to drag THU the driver from the wreckage. What's the story? Stars Derek THU Seaton. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076w0n (Listen) THU Series 8, Dorothy Parker THU 4 Extra Debut. Actress and comedian Helen Lederer chooses THU writer, poet and barbed wit, Dorothy Parker. With Francine THU Stock. From December 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jn4t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007wwg9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator THU b01r73qn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Oxbridge Murder b00mtm9c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00y9yc2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Michael Butt - Harry in the Underworld b00rdspc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06whsx1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b012rf47 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU Prince Charles ends up helping his driver move a sideboard. THU Jon Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From July THU 2010. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06z94zg (Listen) THU For two hours six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the THU best laughs. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Mark Watson. THU THU 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qwc92 (Listen) THU Series 1, Depression THU In a brand new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores THU issues on which she has strong opinions. THU When Susan was younger (and more than a little THU self-obsessed), she thought that the brooding, silent type THU was the best way to be. Then, whilst trying to deal with THU depression, she went on a journey of counselling, self-help. THU even writing poetry - you name it, she did it all. Now she THU is convinced that bottling things up makes things worse and THU that we should all talk about everything all the time. Well, THU not quite. But nearly. THU But does counselling help or does it encourage self-pity? THU Should we all just pull ourselves together? THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU Credits THU Performer: Susan Calman THU Writer: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU THU 23:30 The Consultants b007k2vv (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU A lifestyle presentation conference - and sketch show, with THU Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings. From THU February 2003. THU THU 23:45 World of Pub b007jlwx (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU Dodgy Phil revamps an East End boozer with some animatronic THU dinosaurs and Edith Piaf. Stars John Thomson. From March THU 1998. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 No Point Talking b06yk7w1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 James Follett - Devil To Pay b06yk87w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076w0n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator FRI b01r73qn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Oxbridge Murder b00mtm9c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q9k59 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vffp8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767fk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jy99 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Charles Dickens b01b3clm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b0084ffq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007jp15 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Hazelbeach b00899mt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06whsx1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator FRI b01r7bhp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Rex v Burnaby FRI At first glance it looked like a simple bullion robbery, but FRI Thorndyke's investigations reveal that nothing is as it FRI first appeared. Read by William Gaminara. FRI John Thorndyke, barrister and doctor of medicine, possesses FRI an armoury of skills that equip him as the first FRI scientifically plausible "forensic" detective. R. Austin FRI Freeman, his creator, was himself a medic with an extensive FRI knowledge of forensic medicine, and the solutions to the FRI puzzles are completely plausible. In fact the scientific FRI detail and authenticity of Thorndyke's investigations go FRI much further than anything in the Holmes stories, though FRI Freeman was happy to acknowledge his debt to Arthur Conan FRI Doyle: FRI "A fellow doctor, Conan Doyle, had made a brilliant and FRI well-deserved success by the creation of the immortal FRI Sherlock Holmes. Considering that achievement, I asked FRI myself whether it might not be possible to devise a FRI detective story of a slightly different kind; one based on FRI the science of Medical Jurisprudence, in which, by the FRI sacrifice of a certain amount of dramatic effect, one could FRI keep entirely within the facts of real life, with nothing FRI fictitious excepting the persons and the events. I came to FRI the conclusion that it was, and began to turn the idea over FRI in my mind." FRI Thorndyke's work-life stretches over four decades from the FRI early 1900s until the Second World War, a period during FRI which Freeman wrote more than 20 novels and several FRI collections of short stories, from which the six in this FRI series are selected. FRI The reader William Gaminara is best known as pathologist Leo FRI Dalton in the BBC's long-running series 'Silent Witness'. FRI Producer: John Taylor FRI Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Fiction Factory and first FRI broadcast in 2013. FRI FRI 06:30 Bandits of the Blitz b00tmtj8 (Listen) FRI With Britain at war and London under siege from the FRI Luftwaffe, everyone's pulling together. Or are they? Whilst FRI bombs rained down and long-suffering Brits helped each FRI other, some people were simply helping themselves - FRI stealing, looting, and making money on the black market. FRI World War II created vast opportunities for crime. FRI Warehouses were robbed, army stores rifled and forgers kept FRI busy providing false identity documents, ration books and FRI clothing coupons. Looters, stealing anything of value, FRI cleaned out blitzed houses. FRI The blackout and bombing provided perfect cover for safe FRI cracking and Post Office raids. Professional criminals FRI thrived. People like Billy Hill, who despite prison terms FRI used his wartime muscle to become, in his words, "Boss of FRI Britain's Underworld". FRI Complex emergency rules left normally-law-abiding citizens FRI facing the courts. Shopkeepers who fell foul of the tangle FRI of red tape faced heavy fines. FRI Even as the war ended, rationing continued, and the black FRI market flourished. Presenter Duncan Campbell unearths FRI once-secret papers that put Billy Hill at the centre of FRI London's organised crime in the 1950s. FRI Using archive accounts and talking to people who were there, FRI Campbell tells the tale of crime on the home front. With FRI interviews from Billy Hill's son, Justin Hill, former jewel FRI thief Peter Scott, veteran ex police officers, and FRI historians and academics. FRI Presenter Duncan Campbell is a former crime correspondent FRI for the Guardian. FRI Producer: Liz Carney FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 1834 b011vffj (Listen) FRI London FRI Trapped in Macclesfield in 1834, a bored Jason heads to FRI London, but is waylaid by a mint-loving highwayman. Stars FRI Michael Begley. From July 2003. FRI FRI 07:30 So Wrong It's Right b01j5nws (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong FRI side of life. Guests Father Ted and IT Crowd writer Graham FRI Linehan, comedian Matthew Crosby and Sony-award winning FRI podcaster Helen Zaltzman compete to suggest the best in bad FRI ideas. FRI So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask three guests a number FRI of questions testing their powers of creativity and FRI revealing the best embarrassing stories from their lives. FRI This week, the panel's worst experiences with a stranger and FRI the best ideas for the worst new gadget are just two of the FRI challenges faced by the panel. FRI Can anyone top Helen's nomination for most annoying modern FRI irritant, 'constructed reality TV'? And will anyone beat FRI Graham Linehan's suggestion for a terrible new gadget, the FRI 'exciting ladder'? FRI The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also FRI presents BBC4s acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series, and FRI is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also won FRI Best Newcomer at the 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 b0090xjy (Listen) FRI Series 6, The Picnic FRI The lad, Bill and Sid eat al fresco to impress their dates FRI from the local Palais. FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, FRI Patricia Hayes, Ann Lancaster, Elizabeth Fraser and Wilfred FRI Babbage. 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 b018jjzf (Listen) FRI The House of Teeth FRI Neddie investigates a dastardly denture-stealing plan. But FRI who wants them and why? With Valentine Dyall. From January FRI 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b01fhrjh (Listen) FRI Series 2, Queen Mary, University of London FRI Coming this week from Queen Mary, University of London, "The FRI 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed FRI at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners FRI whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on FRI location at a different University each week, and it pits FRI three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a FRI genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being FRI a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent FRI standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and FRI jokes thrown in for good measure. FRI 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 b0480vfp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Casual Labour FRI Single dad Bryan tries to find work by advertising in a shop FRI window. Stars Robert Lindsay 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 FRI once-again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1983. FRI FRI 10:00 Charles Dickens b01b3fqd (Listen) FRI Little Dorrit, Episode 5 FRI Arthur is struck by disaster, and Mrs Clennam is finally FRI forced into revealing the family secret. Dickens adaptation FRI stars Ian McKellen. FRI FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00yb2s6 (Listen) FRI Womanly Wiles, Mrs Windermere FRI Elizabeth Bowen's mysterious story of power and control - as FRI compelling today as when written in 1925. FRI Two woman - one young, one older - come face to face in the FRI doorway of a Regent Street restaurant. The older woman, Mrs FRI Windermere, grasps Esme's wrists, draws them towards her FRI bosom, and cries in her deep tremolo, 'My dear!' She regards FRI the younger woman with a strange intensity and gently FRI massages the wrists with her thumbs. Unsettling! These two FRI have previously met in Italy. FRI But there's something decidedly odd about Mrs Windermere - FRI her effect on Esme is almost hypnotic. They take a table FRI upstairs and soon Mrs Windermere is discussing Esme's FRI marriage, and suggesting some surprising changes to her FRI marital status quo. The young woman finds herself being FRI unwillingly drawn in to something peculiar and distasteful. FRI But can she escape the clutches of this strangely FRI controlling personality? FRI Reader: Sarah Badel FRI Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00xpp21 (Listen) FRI Jerome Vincent - Ciao Bella! FRI Written by by Jerome Vincent. FRI Eleanor Bron plays Nonna Grazia, and Cherie Lunghi, plays FRI her daughter, Theresa, in Jerome Vincent's play set in and FRI around an Italian delicatessen in Brighton. FRI The action turns around the fate of the deli following the FRI death of Theresa's husband, Carlo - who had worked hard to FRI build up his business and stop it falling into the hands of FRI Salvatore Iaquinta, the owner of a chain of cheap Italian FRI coffee shops. Sal is smooth, ruthless and good-looking; and FRI he's after Theresa, as well as her shop. FRI But in steps Theresa's daughter, Toni - recently made FRI redundant from a high-powered job in the City - who decides FRI to put her business acumen to good use and drag the deli FRI into the 21st century, while making sure it still retains FRI the old world charm and wonderful food, the customers love. FRI Toni's grandmother, Nonna Grazia, is a fiery old woman who FRI was once a child-partisan in the hills around Benevento, and FRI fought the Germans during the war, even though she was only FRI 13. As well as handing out advice to all and sundry (whether FRI they want it or not!) she's also a fantastic cook. In one FRI scene of the play she cooks a garlic and pasta dish FRI guaranteed to have listeners licking their lips! FRI Throughout the production we use specially recorded Italian FRI popular music, performed by cousin Immacolata (played by FRI Rita Ullo). Based on the real-life experiences of the FRI writer's extended, deli-owning family, the play is rich in FRI detail and humour - and the very distinct aural flavour of FRI the Italian community in Britain. FRI Cast: FRI Nonna ..... Eleanor Bron FRI Theresa ..... Cherie Lunghi FRI Salvatore / Kiriakov ..... Richard Attlee FRI Toni ..... Alison Pettit FRI Nino / Fiorello ..... Gunnar Cauthery FRI Emilio ..... Adrian Grove FRI Aldo / Carlo ...... John Evitts FRI Immacolata .....Rita Ullo FRI Guitarist: Paolo Vanoncini FRI Producer/Director: David Blount FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0090xjy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b018jjzf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator FRI b01r7bhp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Bandits of the Blitz b00tmtj8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q9ng3 (Listen) FRI Episode 15 FRI Richard has been shot, and as events escalate, not everyone FRI will get out alive. Donna Tartt's thriller, concluded by FRI William Hope. FRI FRI 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vhh4d (Listen) FRI Basavana: A Voice in the Air FRI A portrait of Basavana, the radical poet and religious guru FRI from the 12th century, whose words have inspired many other FRI Indian poets, writers and dramatists. Professor Sunil FRI Khilnani tells the story of a man whose deceptively simple FRI verses protest against the immorality of the caste system FRI and proclaim the intrinsic value of people who happen to be FRI born poor. "His verses ... are what best explain him. They FRI have a directness that reveals to us a free thinker, social FRI reformer and religious evangelist who sometimes struggled to FRI resist worldly temptations," says Professor Khilnani. FRI Basavana was an inspiration to his followers yet his life FRI came to a bitter end. His teachings are kept alive by a FRI substantial religious community called the Lingayats who are FRI concentrated in Northern Karnataka. FRI Produced by Mark Savage FRI Researcher: Manu Pillai FRI Readings by Sagar Arya FRI Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of FRI remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. FRI FRI 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767g1 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI In 1960s Yorkshire, can Andrea and Philip, a married man, FRI keep their affair a secret? Stars Deborah McAndrew and FRI Robert Glenister. FRI FRI 14:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jybp (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Nehru is released from jail, while Indira Gandhi's political FRI views are developing. Read by Nina Wadia. and Paul FRI Bhattacharjee. FRI FRI 15:00 Charles Dickens b01b3fqd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b01fhrjh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b0480vfp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 1834 b011vffj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 So Wrong It's Right b01j5nws (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Laxian Key b007k30w (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Evans the Welsh vigilante aims to senselessly bomb the FRI planetary decontaminationists for melting Earth. Stars Chris FRI Larner. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076m94 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Stand By Me FRI Singer-songwriter Ben E King talks about writing the classic FRI song, and others reflect on its lasting emotional power. FRI From July 2004. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0090xjy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b018jjzf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator FRI b01r7bhp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Bandits of the Blitz b00tmtj8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00yb2s6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00xpp21 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 So Wrong It's Right b01j5nws (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007wwf1 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI The government retainer is under threat when Prentiss McCabe FRI faces a very tricky task. Stars Stephen Fry. From January FRI 2002. FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b03jysr6 (Listen) FRI Series 4, The Happy Place; The Shadow of Your Smile FRI One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC FRI Radio 4 doing what he does best. FRI There are two stories, this week: "The Happy Place", dealing FRI with the ups and downs of a colonoscopy; and "The Shadow of FRI Your Smile", about how the right lighting can make us all FRI look good. FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Sedaris FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: David Sedaris FRI FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell b016ldt6 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 FRI Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny FRI Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). who 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 In episode 4, Tom's loyalty is tested to the full when he's FRI forced to choose between supporting Ellen as a bridesmaid or FRI indulging in an uninterrupted TV marathon of Jonathan Creek, FRI season 2. FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Luke: Tom Basden FRI Paul: Simon Greenall FRI Ashley: Alex Macqueen FRI Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie FRI Hermione: Sarah Solemani FRI Tom: Jonny Sweet FRI Maeve: Katy Wix FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI Writer: Jonny Sweet FRI