Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
SAT SATURDAY 12 MARCH 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jmx1 (Listen) SAT Operation Luna, Episode 10 SAT Stranded in Earth's past, the Voice tries tempting Jet and SAT his crew out into the city of the aliens. Stars Andrew SAT Faulds. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076xj6 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Widor's Toccata SAT Widor's Toccata display of fireworks at the organ is a SAT favourite for married couples to exit the church by in the SAT UK. From March 2006. SAT SAT 01:00 Craddock and Co b007jsw5 (Listen) SAT My Dear Isabelle SAT Spring, 1900: The reappearance of a woman from his past SAT persuades Victorian private investigator Charles Craddock to SAT help find her kidnapped husband in France, but niece Lucy SAT realises there are hidden perils. SAT Chris Thompson's mystery stars Martin Jarvis as Charles SAT Craddock, Emma Tate as Lucy Greenwood, Struan Rodgers as SAT Grout, Frances Jeater as Isabelle Vallance and Stephen SAT Thorne as Leopold Kransky. SAT Directed by Chris Thompson. SAT Producer: John Taylor SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in 1993. SAT SAT 01:30 Once in a Blue Moon: The Songs of Lal Waterson SAT b00vrvqh (Listen) SAT Lal Waterson's voice was stark but captivating and it's been SAT said that the songs she wrote were close to German cabaret SAT or chanson. They were lyrically ambitious and melodically SAT powerful. Since her death in 1998, her reputation has grown SAT and now she is placed alongside the great singer SAT song-writers like Nick Drake and Richard Thompson. She was a SAT member of the famous Waterson family and numbered among SAT other relatives the folk singer Martin Carthy and his SAT daughter Eliza. SAT In this feature, Robin Denselow explores the life and legacy SAT of Lal Waterson and assesses her impact on song-writers SAT today. SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01nd3jk (Listen) SAT Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 5 SAT By Patricia Ferguson SAT Read by Joanna Tope SAT The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and SAT moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who SAT changes their lives. SAT Violet hears about her sister's overreaction to a SAT description of Grace and suspects that Bea has been keeping SAT a secret from her. SAT Abridged by Robin Brooks SAT Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. SAT SAT 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04cfvg3 (Listen) SAT Botanical Medicine SAT In 1947 Sir Robert Robinson received the Nobel prize for SAT Chemistry "in recognition of his investigations of plant SAT products of biological importance, especially the SAT alkaloids". This powerful family of plant chemicals was SAT proving a potent medical tool. SAT Professor Kathy Willis traces the natural role of alkaloids SAT in plants and the first attempts to isolate one of the best SAT know - quinine, from chinchona bark growing in the Andes. SAT This development gave rise to the emergence of a new kind of SAT laboratory scientist equally able to handle botanical and SAT chemical data. As Mark Nesbitt, Keeper of Kew's Economic SAT Botany Collection explains, this was to eliminate the chance SAT and guesswork in identifying "good" plants from "bad". SAT Professor Monique Simmons of Kew's Jodrell Laboratory, SAT assesses why chemicals from the plant kingdom are still SAT needed in the fight against some of our most challenging SAT diseases, from breast cancer to cardiovascular disease, and SAT how making the nuanced connections between plant species is SAT central to success in this field. SAT Producer Adrian Washbourne. SAT SAT 02:30 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls b00mlxk3 (Listen) SAT Episode 15 SAT Betrayed by Neely and with Lyon becoming more distant, Anne SAT turns to the dolls. Stars Madeleine Potter and Barbara SAT Barnes. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00zm3hq (Listen) SAT John Julius Norwich - The Popes, Episode 5 SAT Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the SAT Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich SAT has now turned his attention to the oldest continuing SAT institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the SAT centuries from St Peter himself - traditionally (though by SAT no means historically) the first pope - to the present day. SAT Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have SAT unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in SAT unspeakable iniquity. SAT In the final episode of The Popes, John Julius Norwich SAT concludes with the election of the people's pope John XXIII SAT a welcome antidote to Pius XII. Expected to be nothing more SAT than a brief, caretaker pope, John turned out to be anything SAT but. Dragging the Church into the twentieth century, he SAT shook the world. SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017h805 (Listen) SAT The Light and the Dark SAT As the Second World War erupts, Lewis Eliot heads to SAT Whitehall where his love life takes an unexpected turn. SAT Stars Adam Godley. SAT SAT 04:00 Wildbrain b07308t6 (Listen) SAT 1997 - Heat 5 SAT Lionel Kelleway visits Arundel to test three contestants' SAT wildlife knowledge in the BBC Natural History Unit's quiz. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b007jp22 (Listen) SAT Series 8, New Age Differences SAT Victoria gets all intellectual, while Charlotte is on a SAT spiritual path. Stars Angela Thorne and Celia Imrie. From SAT January 2002. SAT SAT 05:00 1835 b0125lgl (Listen) SAT All at Sea SAT Aristocrat Belport and servant Ned are called up to serve on SAT the unfortunate HMS Fortunate. Stars Paul Rider. From June SAT 2004. SAT SAT 05:30 Wordaholics b01rvptv (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel. Lloyd SAT Langford & Susie Dent, compete against Dave Gorman & Natalie SAT Haynes to find out who has the most word know-how. SAT This week Dave Gorman guesses the meaning of the phrase SAT 'living on Queen Street' from the late 1800s; Natalie Haynes SAT unravels the word 'autodysomophobia'; Lloyd Langford guesses SAT the meaning of the Yiddish word 'farpotshket'; and Susie SAT Dent shares her love of the current Liverpool word SAT 'twirlies' and explains the meaning of the word SAT 'quockerwodger'. SAT Both teams also have a go at coming up with modern phrases SAT to replace the old cliches 'When life give you lemons, make SAT lemonade' and 'Beauty is only skin deep'. SAT Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. SAT Producer: Claire Jones. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Gyles Brandreth SAT Writer: Jon Hunter SAT Writer: James Kettle SAT Producer: Claire Jones SAT Panellist: Dave Gorman SAT Panellist: Natalie Haynes SAT Panellist: Lloyd Langford SAT Panellist: Susie Dent SAT SAT 06:00 Frederick Bradnum - The Girl Who Didn't Want to Be... SAT b0736s54 (Listen) SAT "Do you know about the crowns? Virgin crowns. Unique to this SAT church, you know. If a person is born, baptised and dies in SAT the parish, above the age of puberty, and is a virgin, then SAT the next of kin ask for a virgin crown. There is a sort of SAT calling of the banns, so that if anyone wants to object they SAT can." SAT When Maggie Bell died, no one did actually object, though SAT there were several who should have done. But Maggie herself SAT objects quite strongly. SAT A serious comedy for radio by Frederick Bradnum. SAT Starring Simon Cadell as Timothy Turner, Joanna David as SAT Pamela Turner, Christopher Benjamin as Harold Thorpe and SAT Angela Pleasence as Maggie Bell. SAT Best remembered as Jeffrey Fairbrother from the BBC's SAT Hi-de-Hi!, Simon Cadell was born: 19th July 1950 and died SAT 6th March 1996. SAT Directed by Jane Morgan SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978. SAT SAT 07:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075w80 (Listen) SAT Paris SAT Testing out the guide books, comedian Tony goes in search of SAT romantic Paris - and where in the city he should kiss. From SAT July 2000. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00yztnk (Listen) SAT Walls of Sound SAT When Nelson Mandela was tried 1964 he famously said, "I have SAT cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in SAT which all persons live together in harmony and with equal SAT opportunity. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and SAT achieve, but, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am SAT prepared to die." Without the British Library's sound SAT conservation work we would never have heard this. The trial SAT was recorded using a Dictabelt system. The recordings soon SAT became unplayable. The Dictabelts were brought to the SAT British Library where digital transfers were made, allowing SAT us to hear what Mandela said, and how. SAT In 1924, in Paris, James Joyce was recorded reading from SAT 'Ulysses' and the British Library's disc is as highly prized SAT as its Blake, Hardy and Lawrence manuscripts. Alas, we'll SAT never hear how they read their work. SAT These are just two of recordings of immense importance that SAT without the work of the Sound Conservation Centre would be SAT lost. And what a loss that would be. The British Library has SAT invested millions in the Centre and appointed its first ever SAT Curator of Radio. Audio is being accorded the conservation SAT effort usually devoted manuscripts and old masters. All SAT this, the radio historian Sean Street argues in this SAT programme, reflects a fundamental change in attitude to SAT sound itself. SAT In a massive undertaking our sound archives are being saved, SAT restored, digitised, catalogued and opened to all. Street SAT observes all this and talks to curators, technicians and SAT users. Throughout we hear amazing recordings from the SAT libraries walls of sound that, until this change in thinking SAT about sound, few knew about, and fewer could listen to. We SAT listen as these recordings find their rightful place in the SAT documentary heritage of the nation. SAT Producer : Julian May. SAT SAT 09:00 Floating in Space b073bhqc (Listen) SAT Made for 4 Extra: Radio presenter and childhood space SAT obsessive Samira Ahmed embarks on a space journey through SAT the radio archives, travelling from launch site to SAT splashdown. SAT This will include; SAT Launch - we take off with the first episode of Charles SAT Chilton's ground breaking drama 'Journey In To Space: SAT Operation Luna'. SAT Space walk - Alexei Leonov describes the first ever EVA, as SAT told in his book 'Two Sides Of The Moon'. SAT Astronaut life - a personal perspective from space with the SAT astronaut Kathryn Thornton in the documentary 'Alone'. SAT Moon landing - find out what really happened in the 1969 SAT Apollo landing in the drama'One Small Step'. SAT Mars adventure - travel to the red planet with the help of SAT Helen Keen's 'It Is Rocket Science', before we touch down in SAT the drama 'Voyage'. SAT Return to Earth - we finish off the mission with a dangerous SAT descent to earth with the astronaut Chris Hadfield, as told SAT in his autobiography 'An Astronaut's Guide To Life On SAT Earth'. SAT Along the way Samira will be joined by the author Simon SAT Guerrier, discover what it feels like to wear a space suit, SAT and get tips about how to create 'space' on the radio from SAT award winning producer Dirk Maggs. SAT SAT 12:00 It's Not What You Know b036v9hd (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT Frank Skinner, Grace Dent and Jonathan Agnew each nominate SAT someone they know well to answer a series of questions and SAT they than have to second guess how they answered. SAT Host Miles Jupp tests Frank on how well he knows his friend SAT and radio co-host Emily Dean, Grace her best friend, the SAT Times columnist Caitlin Moran, and Jonathan his wife's best SAT friend Anne Davies. SAT What is Frank's favourite drink? Who is Grace's favourite SAT writer? And what would Jonathan do if he wasn't a cricket SAT commentator? SAT All answers and more will be revealed. SAT Producer - Sam Michell. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Miles Jupp SAT Panellist: Frank Skinner SAT Panellist: Grace Dent SAT Panellist: Jonathan Agnew SAT Producer: Sam Michell SAT SAT 12:30 Listen to Les b0180fmx (Listen) SAT From 20/01/1985 SAT Les Dawson pays tribute to a feisty barber, Cosmo Smallpiece SAT chairs a chat show and with Les at the piano, the Ink Blots SAT help to murder a song. SAT With Daphne Oxenford, Eli Woods and Colin Edwynn. SAT Music by Brian Fitzgerald. SAT Scripted and produced by James Casey. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1985. SAT SAT 13:00 Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Omnibus b073bkpx (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Charlotte Bronte's most beloved novel - the iconic and SAT dangerous love story starring Amanda Hale and Tom Burke. SAT Credits SAT Writer: Yasmina Reza SAT Michael: Lenny Henry SAT Veronica: Rosie Cavaliero SAT Millson: Joseph Millson SAT Annette: Monica Dolan SAT Director: James Macdonald SAT Producer: Catherine Bailey SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b073c1bc (Listen) SAT Ralph McTell SAT Singer-songwriter Ralph McTell chooses 'I Wonder Who's SAT Kissing Her Now' by the Dinning Sisters and 'Crossroads SAT Blues' by Robert Johnson. SAT SAT 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01169k5 (Listen) SAT Macmillan's Marvellous Motion Machine SAT Written by Jules Horne. SAT Young Scots country blacksmith Kirkpatrick Macmillan is a SAT man of ideas, like the velocipede - a clanking, pedalled SAT contraption that's the ancestor of the modern bike. SAT The cranky, smoky voice of the velocipede is our narrator, SAT and Kirkpatrick's constant companion. Kirkpatrick has been SAT working on the velocipede for the past two years. Dreaming SAT of fame, he's oblivious to girls' attentions, smitten SAT instead with his velocipede, he's going to ride the 70 miles SAT from Dumfries to Glasgow. SAT It's the summer of 1840, and a long way to go cross-country SAT without brakes. But he'll get there quicker than the SAT stagecoach. They'll see. First, he meets Gavin Dalziel, an SAT engineer. Dalziel takes a mighty interest in the velocipede, SAT measures it up and rushes to his workshop, but Pate is too SAT naive to notice. Pate and the velocipede clank to the top of SAT the final hill and then: Glasgow! In the city, he grazes a SAT small girl and is hauled up in court for dangerous driving. SAT The velocipede is seen as a treacherous contraption, and SAT he's found guilty and fined for dangerous driving. He's SAT mortified and finally crushed. When he and the velocipede SAT eventually arrive home, the shameful news has got there SAT before him. Fury drives him out in search of a wife. He SAT strides into the kitchens at Drumlanrig Castle and asks the SAT maids who wants the job. And there's one who laughs and SAT takes him up on it. Gavin Dalziel becomes rich and famous as SAT the inventor of the pedal bicycle. The bicycle is delighted. SAT Kirkpatrick stops inventing and has a grand life. SAT Cast: SAT Kirkpatrick MacMillan ..... Scott Hoatson SAT Machine ..... John Kazek SAT Catherine ..... Gabriel Quigley SAT Duke ..... Gavin Mitchell SAT Duchess ..... Isabella Jarrett SAT Wee Toddy ..... Leo MacNeill SAT Director: Rosie Kellaghe. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00yztnk (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Frederick Bradnum - The Girl Who Didn't Want to Be... SAT b0736s54 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075w80 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone b073c5xm (Listen) SAT Series 3, Black Leather Jackets SAT When newcomers move to a small town, suspicions are aroused. SAT Then one of them falls in love with a local. SAT Starring Marshall Allman. With Elizabeth Ledo, Christian SAT Stolte, Jason Bradley, Doug James and Franette Leibow. SAT Narrator: Stacy Keach. SAT Adapted by Dennis Etchison and written by Earl Hamner Jr. SAT Originally a cult sci-fi and horror TV series created by Rod SAT Serling and broadcast in the USA on CBS from 1959 to 1964, SAT The Twilight Zone was first adapted by American producer SAT Carl Amari in 2002 as a 40-minute radio drama series. SAT Rod Serling had managed to electrify the new medium of SAT television - so armed with a licence from CBS and the SAT Serling estate, Amari's slick adaptions are based on the SAT original TV scripts. SAT Actor Stacy Keach (best known here as TV detective Mike SAT Hammer) takes Serling's original role as narrator - with a SAT full cast, music and sound effects. SAT Directed and produced by Carl Amari and Roger Wolski for SAT Falcon Picture Group. SAT SAT 18:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jr9r (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT After the storm, teenager Vikki Taylor has told no one about SAT the strange crab-like device she has seen. Read by Nigel SAT Anthony. SAT SAT 19:00 Floating in Space b073bhqc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes b04cfgqq (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band singer Vivian Stanshall took to the SAT airwaves of BBC Radio 1 on Saturday 14th August 1971. SAT Over 2 hours, re-live Vivian's mix of zany comedy and music SAT - including his take on Dick Barton's radio serial "Breath SAT from the Pit". Featuring drummer Keith Moon from The Who. SAT Vivian has previously featured on 4 Extra - thanks to his SAT solo comedy 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End', which originated SAT as sessions for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1 in the SAT mid-1970s. SAT With Chris Bowler. Produced by John Walters. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 MARCH 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone b073c5xm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jr9r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre: Omnibus b073bkpx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b073c1bc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Afternoon Drama b01169k5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b00yztnk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Frederick Bradnum - The Girl Who Didn't Want to Be... SUN b0736s54 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075w80 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Omnibus SUN b00mp6nc (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN In dazzling post-war New York, Anne, Jennifer and Neely move SUN in together. Jacqueline Susann drama with Barbara Barnes. SUN SUN 07:15 Definitely Dunn b073ccby (Listen) SUN The Men From Walmington SUN Don't panic! Memories of Dad's Army star Clive Dunn, who SUN played Lance-Corporal Jack Jones for nearly a decade on TV, SUN radio and film between 1968 to 1977. SUN Recalling highlights from his first 50 years in SUN entertainment, Clive recalls joining Dad's Army and his SUN fellow cast members - and playing 'Buttons' in pantomime. SUN Clive was aged 68 at the time of recording. He died in SUN Portugal in 2012, aged 92. SUN Producer: Edward Taylor SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1988. SUN SUN 07:30 Mr Blue Sky b01gf5st (Listen) SUN Series 2, Happy 18th SUN Written by Andrew Collins SUN Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal SUN optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the SUN silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every SUN bit of bad news. SUN This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass SUN is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his SUN wife of 19 years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows SUN all too well. Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter SUN family a series of sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the SUN positive side. It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees SUN it, instead of dealing with the problems of their marriage SUN and their teenage kids, Harvey's optimism is actually his SUN way of avoiding engagement with the big issues. SUN Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in SUN moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with SUN someone who has his head in the clouds. SUN This week, Harvey and Jax stand firm and inform Charlie that SUN they can't afford to throw her an 18th birthday party, much SUN to her displeasure, while Robbie's latest flirtation with SUN drugs does not quite go as planned. SUN Cast SUN Harvey Easter ..... Mark Benton SUN Jacqui Easter ..... Claire Skinner SUN Charlie Easter ..... Rosamund Hanson SUN Robbie Easter ..... Tyger Drew Honey SUN Kill-R ..... Javone Prince SUN Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry SUN Dr Ray Marsh ..... Justin Edwards SUN Sean Calhoun ..... Michael Legge SUN Shop Assistant ..... Susy Kane SUN Producer: Anna Madley SUN An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b073gr83 (Listen) SUN From 24/06/1943 SUN When Tommy Handley finds his wartime hotel is full of SUN animals, he decides to start a circus. SUN ITMA proved to be one of the BBC's most popular radio SUN comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before SUN the start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. SUN Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience SUN worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred SUN Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh SUN created the series named after the phrase newspapers often SUN used to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again! SUN The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once SUN war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, SUN with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries. Other SUN settings followed - a seaside resort, and a war factory SUN which by 1943, for this run of episodes, had been turned SUN into a hotel. SUN Featuring a host of supporting characters including Dorothy SUN Summers as Mrs Mopp and Jack Train as Colonel Humphrey SUN Chinstrap. SUN Producer: Francis Worsley SUN First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1943. SUN SUN 08:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00j2j7c (Listen) SUN A bizarre slice of Shakespeare - and a poem for a man with a SUN plan. SUN A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker. SUN With Terence Brady, Pauline Yates and John Graham. Pianist: SUN Gordon Langford and guitarist: Dick Abell. SUN Written by Chris Allen, Peter Campbell, Ted Clayton and SUN Patrick Ennis, John Graham, Roy Lomax, Donald Monat and June SUN Dixon, Frank A Terry and Harold Arpthorp. SUN Producer John Fawcett-Wilson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1972. SUN SUN 09:00 Seamus Heaney's Aeneid VI: Omnibus b073grjb (Listen) SUN Made for 4 Extra. Poet Seamus Heaney's translation of SUN Virgil's Aeneid, book VI in which Aeneas travels into the SUN underworld to meet the spirit of his father. Read by Ian SUN McKellen. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b073gtrg (Listen) SUN Joan Baez SUN American folk singer Joan Baez chooses 'Tonerna' sung by SUN Jussi Bjorling and her own song 'Diamonds and Rust'. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b073gv0l (Listen) SUN Comedy Writers, Richard Curtis SUN From The Beach Boys to Frank Sinatra, comedy writer Richard SUN Curtis shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From SUN February 1999. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b073gx6j (Listen) SUN Series 2, Rattlesnakes, Wedding Rings and Rescue Missions SUN True stories told live in the USA: Meg Bowles introduces SUN tales of widowhood, overcoming adversity and life and death SUN decisions. 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 b00zt5xr (Listen) SUN Series 2, Wallace SUN 7/20. It was the great travel books written in the 19th SUN century by Alfred Russell Wallace that inspired David SUN Attenborough himself to achieve great things in the realm of SUN natural history. But Attenborough tells us that Wallace was SUN more than just a great travel writer. His power of SUN meticulous observation and recording as he explored many SUN parts of the world were in the highest league imaginable, SUN even for Victorian standards - and his power of analysis SUN very much akin with Darwin, his great contemporary. Wallace SUN independently came up with a theory of evolution that was in SUN parallel to Darwin's thinking - two field naturalists SUN breaking huge conventions of the time and coming up with the SUN single most important theory in Biology. How did they SUN resolve the conflict between themselves? SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 12:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b073gr83 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00j2j7c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Omnibus SUN b00mp6nc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Definitely Dunn b073ccby (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Rachel Joyce - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy SUN b04mbwdy (Listen) SUN Omnibus edition. A dying woman writes her life secrets down SUN for a man who is trying to see her before it is too late. SUN Stars Sophie Thompson. SUN SUN 15:45 Elizabeth Buchan - Submersion b007jwt4 (Listen) SUN Mimi feels her family are drowning her. How can she keep SUN head above water? Read by Patience Tomlinson. SUN SUN 16:00 David Pownall b01sdqzy (Listen) SUN Blitzma SUN Tommy Handley was the man that made the nation laugh during SUN the darkest days of the Second World War in his surreal SUN wartime radio extravaganza ITMA (It's That Man Again) SUN Handley's main target was Adolf Hitler who can't understand SUN why the British continue to defy him - until Goebbels SUN explains it is all down to ITMA. So they decide to create SUN their own Nazi version... SUN David Pownall's drama stars Sam Kelly as Goebbels, Gerard SUN Murphy as Hitler, Stella Gonet as SUN Magda, John Forgeham as Churchill and Carolyn Backhouse as SUN Helga. SUN Director: Martin Jenkins SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra: Visions of Paradise b007rdlz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN 'Visions of Paradise' features one of the towering SUN achievements of world literature: John Milton's Paradise SUN Lost. Written after he went blind, the programme is SUN presented by Peter White, himself blind. Peter begins by SUN talking to John Hull, the theologian, who also became blind, SUN decades ago, at which point he decided to learn the opening SUN section of Paradise Lost. SUN Producer: Mark Smalley SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2007. SUN SUN 17:30 Mr Blue Sky b01gf5st (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Wally K Daly b073h06c (Listen) SUN 2004 SUN Out of a chaotic society generated by crime and violence SUN steps a new Prime Minister with a mission, preaching a SUN high-tech vision of a crime-free nation. SUN Wally K Daly's 1995 dystopian view of the year 2004. SUN Stars Bill Nighy as Quinley, Derek Waring as Lyle, David SUN Collings as Franklin and Michael Cochrane as Jason, SUN Christine Milwood as Petra and Anton Phillips as Quarme. SUN Directed by David Hitchinson SUN First broadcast on the BBC World Service in March 1995. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b073gx6j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00zt5xr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Seamus Heaney's Aeneid VI: Omnibus b073grjb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b073gtrg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b073gv0l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Mr Blue Sky b01gf5st (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Shuttleworths b007jm4t (Listen) SUN Series 2, John Dries Up SUN With the washing-up to be done, Sheffield singer John SUN Shuttleworth needs inspiration. Stars Graham Fellows. From SUN July 1995. SUN SUN 22:45 The In Crowd b008m2b9 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, SUN Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From March 2002. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b07301mk (Listen) SUN Series 14, Episode 5 SUN This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into SUN sketches, one-liners and vox-pops written by the public. SUN Trying to make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. SUN Nish is joined this week by Daniel Barker, Natasia Demetriou SUN and Alison Thea-Skot. SUN The Production Coordinator was Sophie Richardson. SUN Newsjack was produced by Paul Sheehan and Matt Stronge. SUN It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. SUN SUN 23:30 The Nick Revell Show b00d7n9s (Listen) SUN Series 2, All's Well That Ends Well...Well, Well, Well SUN The writer is leading a charmed life, which naturally leaves SUN him feeling anxious. With Alistair McGowan. From July 1993. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 MARCH 2016 MON MON 00:00 Wally K Daly b073h06c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls Omnibus MON b00mp6nc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Definitely Dunn b073ccby (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Rachel Joyce - The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy MON b04mbwdy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Elizabeth Buchan - Submersion b007jwt4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 David Pownall b01sdqzy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra: Visions of Paradise b007rdlz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Mr Blue Sky b01gf5st (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Paul Temple b00rlb29 (Listen) MON Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case, The Unlucky One MON Should Howard Gilbert hang for the murder of a model? The MON victim's father thinks he's innocent. The suave sleuth MON investigates. MON Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple MON and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case MON for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous MON wife. With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes. MON With James Beattie as Charlie, Charles Leno as Wilfred MON Stirling and Duncan McIntyre as Detective Inspector MON Kingston. MON From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective MON Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist MON Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most MON popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of MON chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic MON and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, MON of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest MON tricky case. MON Producer: Martin C Webster MON First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. MON MON 06:30 The Great Architect of Home b00jjjpv (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. Susan Marling pays tribute to the American MON architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and assesses his influence on MON house design. From April 2009. MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b0076mqw (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON A sketch show about modern life, written and performed by MON people who have lived a bit of it. Stars Barry Cryer and MON Eleanor Bron. From August 2004. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b072j3g2 (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 3 MON Stephen Fry, Jenny Eclair, Josie Lawrence and Nish Kumar MON join host Nicholas Parsons to play Britain's longest running MON and best loved panel game. Topics tackled without deviation, MON hesitation or repetition include Salvador Dali, The Great MON Fire of London and The Easter Bunny. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Stephen Fry MON Panellist: Jenny Eclair MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Panellist: Nish Kumar MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jr7l (Listen) MON Series 3, Time on My Hands MON The Home Guard platoon try to capture a German pilot hanging MON off the Town Hall clock in Walmington-on-Sea. 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 Private Godfrey, MON Ian Lavender as Private Pike, Bill Pertwee as Hodges, Frank MON Williams as the Vicar, Larry Martyn as Private Walker, Erik MON Chitty as Mr Parsons and Fraser Kerr as the German pilot. 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 August 1976. MON MON 08:30 Listen to Les b01ms5j6 (Listen) MON From 27/01/1985 MON Les Dawson is Wotan, Man of Steel and Auntie Ada recalls her MON wartime adventures with the troops. MON With Daphne Oxenford, Eli Woods and Colin Edwynn. MON Music by Brian Fitzgerald. MON Scripted and produced by James Casey. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1985. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b01l04d8 (Listen) MON A new series of Radio 4's popular quotations programme MON 'Quote ... Unquote'. MON The show is presented by Nigel Rees, who also devised it, MON and the guests are Samira Ahmed, Simon Jones, Dominic MON Sandbrook and Dominic Lawson. The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jmkq (Listen) MON Series 6, Travellers MON A delicate mission for Mr Sims, and Mrs Rudd gets a shock MON from the school's new sponsor. High school comedy stars Karl MON Howman. From June 1991. MON MON 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017ptch (Listen) MON The New Men MON Lewis Eliot ends up overseeing a secret wartime project with MON implications for the world. Stars David Haig and Claire MON Skinner. MON MON 11:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History MON b015pb1m (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Eleanor Bron reads Michael Holroyd's biography of Henry MON Irving and Ellen Terry, the two greats of the Victorian MON stage. MON When Ellen's first marriage breaks down, she lives up to her MON "fallen woman" reputation by running off with a friend of MON Oscar Wilde and only returns to the stage when debts begin MON to mount. MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton. MON Producer: Justine Willett MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. MON MON 11:15 Sherlock Holmes b007k2cy (Listen) MON The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Beryl Coronet MON Who has stolen jewels from one of the treasures of the MON Empire? The detective investigates snowy Streatham. With MON Clive Merrison. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jr7l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Listen to Les b01ms5j6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Paul Temple b00rlb29 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Great Architect of Home b00jjjpv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01ng4h9 (Listen) MON Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 6 MON By Patricia Ferguson MON Read by Joanna Tope MON The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and MON moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who MON changes their lives. MON Grace has caught the eye of young Tommy Dando. And Violet MON learns the astonishing truth about her adopted daughter. MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d1kvq (Listen) MON Signals of Growth MON When in 1934 botanist Kenneth Thimann isolated the plant MON hormone auxin, he put an end to one of the great botanical MON mysteries - how plants move and respond to their MON surroundings. For decades plant scientists had been MON mystified as to how plants, without any apparent nervous MON system, bent towards light, flowered at the right time of MON year, or grew away from other plants. MON Professor Kathy Willis hears from historian Jim Endersby on MON how the discovery of plant hormones was the culmination of a MON journey that had involved Charles Darwin and a series of MON probing experiments published in his book "The Power of MON Movement in Plants". They discuss how new technologies MON enabled successful isolation of what we now have come to MON recognise as a suite of hormones regulating a whole series MON of plant responses from stem growth to fruiting. MON We hear how another hormone during the 1950s went on to MON steal the limelight - gibberellin whose discovery owes much MON to Japanese rice crops that grew so tall they would simply MON fall over, rendering them useless. The race to harness the MON power of gibberellin would lead to dwarf varieties of key MON crops that transformed global production in what became MON known as the Green Revolution. MON Professor Nick Harberd, a plant geneticist at Oxford MON University, has been researching the molecular basis of MON plants' response to this powerful hormone and he sheds light MON on developing crops suitable for harsher environments in MON future. MON Producer Adrian Washbourne. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b011j48h (Listen) MON Kieran Prendiville - Once More with Feeling, Episode 1 MON By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the MON no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. MON Its protagonist is Les Bone, a plumber who once came within MON sniffing distance of the big time when his band Nuclear Dump MON went mega.....without him. MON Les got fired the day before the band cut its first hit MON single. Which, like the album it came from, went platinum. MON Making it the most expensive sex of Les' life...being the MON price he paid for getting caught with the lead singer's MON girlfriend. MON And now, twenty five years down the line, still unlucky in MON love, single-parent Les has been tossed a second chance. His MON kids have a boyband (even if one of them is a girl) and MON they're a boy short for an upcoming tour of south Yorkshire, MON one of the hardest enclaves in clubland. MON Les and The Family Bone are to share a coach with a spangly MON jacketed blue nosed comic, a bad impressionist and a driver MON who can fart the 1812 overture...if anyone would let him. MON Cast: MON Les ..... Paul Copley MON Sheila ...... Belinda Everett MON Elaine ...... Blue Merrick MON Denny ...... Christian Rodska MON Chris ...... Harry Hepple MON Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson MON Kevin ..... Brogan West MON Troy ..... James Baxter MON Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker MON Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville MON Produced and directed By Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00zzr1h (Listen) MON Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 1 MON Ken Campbell, who died in September 2008, was one of the MON great mavericks of British theatre. MON Ill-suited to a role in conventional theatre, he created a MON risk-taking confrontational style of performance, which MON often explored unlikely subject matter. He became, in MON director Mike Leigh's words, "The outsider's outsider" MON Bob Hoskins, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are amongst the MON performers whose formative years were spent working with MON Campbell. What did the director and producer bring to MON performance that made him such a mesmeric figure? MON Michael Coveney's biography tells the story of Campbell, the MON great adventurer of British theatre. MON Writer Michael Coveney is a long-standing theatre critic, MON who has worked for The Financial Times, The Observer and The MON Daily Mail. Actor Toby Jones played Truman Capote in MON 'Infamous' and Swifty Lazar in 'Frost/Nixon' and recently MON reprised the role of Dobby in the film 'Harry Potter and the MON Deathly Hallows'. Toby has also appeared in a production of MON 'The Warp' by Neil Oram, the 22-hour epic created by Ken MON Campbell. MON Read by Toby Jones MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017ptch (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b01l04d8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmkq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b0076mqw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b072j3g2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jmxh (Listen) MON Operation Luna, Episode 11 MON The Voice invites Jet Morgan and his crew to meet him, but MON Lemmy is soon feeling terrified. Stars Andrew Faulds and MON Alfie Bass. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00763lt (Listen) MON Sir George Martin & Jeremy Clarke MON Louise Doughty and her guests - the late, legendary record MON producer, Sir George Martin and freelance journalist Jeremy MON Clarke - discuss books with a travel theme by John MON Lightfoot, Christopher Lee and Vitaly Vitaliv. From 2001. MON The Spanish Connection by John Lightfoot MON Publisher: Blake's True Crime Library MON Eight Bells and Topmasts by Christopher Lee MON Publisher: Headline MON Borders Up by Vitaly Vitaliv MON Publisher: Scribner. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jr7l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Listen to Les b01ms5j6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Paul Temple b00rlb29 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Great Architect of Home b00jjjpv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History MON b015pb1m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Sherlock Holmes b007k2cy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b072j3g2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Chris Addison's Civilization b00f68lx (Listen) MON A Sense of Identity MON The thinking idiot's anthropologist explains how mankind MON makes society function. With Dan Tetsell. From April 2006. MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b074v8v4 (Listen) MON From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club MON has two hours of comedy. Plus Paul Garner chats to Paul MON Kaye. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b072n8fq (Listen) MON Series 48, Episode 2 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical MON stand-up and sketches. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON MON 23:30 Elvenquest b016c8y5 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 2 MON As they continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar, the MON noble Questers are lead to a quiet town in the countryside, MON which they have heard may hold their prize. But they get MON there only to discover that it has been razed to the ground MON by a band of ruthless barbarians, lead by the blood-thirsty MON Ragnar Half-tooth (Daniel Rigby), who has taken the Sword MON taken as booty. In order to get it back, the Questers decide MON to masquerade as barbarians and enter Ragnar's camp. Can MON they trick Ragnar, deceive his men and get the Sword? MON Well...they give it a jolly good go... MON Meanwhile, Kreech tells Lord Darkness that his annual MON regeneration is coming up and that he needs to get some MON sleep in order to avoid meeting the new Dawn which will send MON his body crumbling into dust. Problem is, getting to sleep MON when it really matters is easier said than done. And Lord MON Darkness is suddenly overcome by a nasty bout of insomnia... MON Cast: MON Darren Boyd as Vidar MON Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech MON Dave Lamb as Amis aka The Chosen One MON Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness MON Stephen Mangan as Sam MON Daniel Rigby as Ragnar Half-tooth MON and MON Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea MON Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 MARCH 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jmxh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00763lt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Paul Temple b00rlb29 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 The Great Architect of Home b00jjjpv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01ng4h9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d1kvq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b011j48h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00zzr1h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017ptch (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b01l04d8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmkq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b0076mqw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b072j3g2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Paul Temple b00rlwgt (Listen) TUE Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case, The Third Shoe TUE Howard Gilbert has been convicted for the murder of his TUE model girlfriend, Brenda - but did he really kill her? The TUE debonair sleuth and his wife Steve pay him a visit in jail. TUE Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple TUE and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case TUE for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous TUE wife. TUE With James Beattie as Charlie, Charles Leno as Wilfred TUE Stirling and Duncan McIntyre as Detective Inspector TUE Kingston. TUE From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective TUE Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist TUE Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most TUE popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of TUE chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic TUE and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, TUE of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest TUE tricky case. TUE Producer: Martin C Webster TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. TUE TUE 06:30 Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime b00vcpbf (Listen) TUE Sara Parker presents a radio portrait of Peggy Seeger, the TUE American folksinger and political activist who was Ewan TUE MacColl's long-time partner. TUE This year, Peggy returns to live once again in Britain, to TUE be near her extended family and to explore new creative TUE avenues. For many years her own 'song-making', as she calls TUE it, was overshadowed by MacColl's, with whom she lived for TUE three decades in this country. Together they produced three TUE children, countless recordings (including the iconic 'First TUE Time Ever I Saw Your Face' with MacColl wrote for her) and, TUE with Sara Parker's father Charles, the celebrated 'Radio TUE Ballads'. TUE Her creative life has also been lived in relation to the TUE success of her folk-singer brothers, Pete and Mike, and TUE partly in the shadow of her parents, the avant-garde TUE composer Ruth Crawford Seeger and the ethnomusicologist TUE Charles Seeger. TUE Now, in her prime, she tells Sara what's brought her to this TUE point, about her growing and creatively energetic family, TUE how she feels about the loss of loved ones and about the TUE strength she gets from her new partner, the Irish singer TUE Irene Pyper-Scott. TUE Producer: Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 55 and Over b01nxh1h (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's TUE comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes made by TUE the modern 50pluser. TUE This week Ray and Jane are both starting over with new TUE paramours half their age. Despite the age gap it seems older TUE does not always mean wiser. Apparently it's not only TUE teenagers that act like love-struck, tongue-tied fools. TUE Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson TUE Ray ..... Philip Jackson TUE Tony ..... Patrick Brennan TUE Heather ..... Liza Sadovy TUE Honey ..... Stephanie Racine TUE Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis TUE Honey's Dad ..... Robert Blythe TUE Portia ..... Sarah Thom TUE Producer/Director ..... Helen Perry. TUE TUE 07:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b007jshj (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 TUE Accompanying her neighbour Betty to a funeral, Linda TUE encounters a mislaid eco warrior. TUE Comedy series written by and starring Linda Smith. TUE With Femi Elufowoju Jr, Jeremy Hardy, Margaret John, Chris TUE Neill and Rob Newman. TUE Producer: Lucy Armitage TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00srqjv (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 5 TUE Announcer Douglas Smith is taken for a spin in 'Relatively TUE Grand Prix' - and at the Bona Male Model Agency, Julian and TUE Sandy sign up some brand new talent. TUE Stars Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and TUE Betty Marsden. 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 For series 4, Marty Feldman was replaced by Brian Cooke & TUE Johnnie Mortimer and Donald Webster TUE Music by the Max Harris Group. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jlvm (Listen) TUE A Private Affair TUE The civil servants cause chaos as London's new airport opens TUE in Scotland. With Deryck Guyler and Clive Dunn. From April TUE 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b072n8fq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b019rpw8 (Listen) TUE The Dinner Party TUE Episode 1 - The Dinner Party TUE An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. TUE Will and Annabelle throw a disastrous dinner party. The TUE quarrelling couple tell their counsellor Guy all about the TUE event, with flashbacks to the dinner party itself. TUE CAST: TUE Will Smith ..... Will Smith TUE Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Guy ..... Paterson Joseph TUE Katrina ..... Tracy Wiles TUE Doug ..... Simon Bubb TUE Heather ..... Morwenna Banks TUE Written by ..... Will Smith TUE Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani TUE ABOUT THE SERIES TUE A year into married life and already things are a little TUE creaky. So, following Will's unimaginative anniversary TUE present (a draining rack), Annabelle has signed them up for TUE a course of marriage counselling. TUE Each week, counsellor Guy mediates a recent dispute between TUE Will and Annabelle, with flashbacks to the events that TUE spawned the argument. By the end, the couple find marital TUE equilibrium once more. Sort of. TUE Guy arbitrates, usually leaning towards Annabelle's more TUE sensible point of view. In contrast to Will's uptightness, TUE Guy is confident and urbane and clearly irritates Will. TUE The writer and comedian Will Smith leads the starry cast of TUE Mr and Mrs.Smith. Sarah Hadland (Miranda, The Mitchell and TUE Webb Look, Moving Wallpaper) stars as Will's wife Annabelle. TUE Paterson Joseph (Peep Show, Survivors, Green Wing) plays TUE Counsellor Guy. The series also includes Geoffrey whitehead TUE (Reggie Perrin, Worst Week of My Life) and Susie Blake TUE (Coronation Street; Victoria Wood as Seen on TV) as Will's TUE mother and father-in-law. TUE Will's writing credits include Armstrong and Miller (BBC1), TUE Harry and Paul (BBC1), Moving Wallpaper (ITV1), Time Trumpet TUE (BBC2), The Thick Of It (BBC2) in which he also appears as TUE Phil Smith, and the upcoming Veep (HBO). TUE TUE 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017pwt0 (Listen) TUE Homecomings TUE As the Cold War intensifies, a spy appears to be at large TUE within Britain's nuclear research programme. Stars David TUE Haig. TUE TUE 11:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History TUE b015pcqk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Weakly John Brodribb's transformation into Victorian stage TUE great Henry Irving. Eleanor Bron reads Michael Holroyd's TUE biography. TUE TUE 11:15 Sherlock Holmes b007k2fc (Listen) TUE The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Copper Beeches TUE A young governess consults the detective in a most sinister TUE case. Starring Clive Merrison, Michael Williams and Imogen TUE Stubbs. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00srqjv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jlvm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Paul Temple b00rlwgt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime b00vcpbf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01ng83m (Listen) TUE Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 7 TUE By Patricia Ferguson TUE Read by Joanna Tope TUE The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and TUE moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who TUE changes their lives. TUE Grace is injured in an unexpected attack while Violet is TUE away. She becomes dangerously ill and is looked after by TUE both her mother and her aunt. TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4hq2 (Listen) TUE Unlocking Biodiversity TUE In 1947 an ambitious project began to survey and catalogue TUE the biodiversity of plants in East Africa. It was to take 60 TUE years and turned out to be one of the largest regional TUE "floras" ever assembled, involving 135 botanists from 21 TUE countries amassing a host of new species to science. TUE Professor Kathy Willis examines the deceptive simplicity of TUE creating Floras - books in which plants are catalogued, TUE described and often lavishly illustrated. She explores how TUE they're proving powerful tools for unlocking the range of TUE newly discovered species for plant enthusiasts and TUE conservationists. TUE And she unlocks the secrets of the rigorous art of botanical TUE illustration, a tradition that goes back as far as when the TUE botanical impresario Sir Joseph Banks first employed an TUE illustrator on board the Endeavour. Kathy Willis discovers TUE why this discipline is unlikely to ever be superseded by TUE photography. TUE With contributions from Henke Beentje, former editor of TUE Flora of Tropical East Africa, senior botanist Iain TUE Darbyshire, Quentin Luke of National Museum of Kenya and TUE illustrator Lucy Smith TUE Producer Adrian Washbourne. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b011ld3s (Listen) TUE Kieran Prendiville - Once More with Feeling, Episode 2 TUE By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the TUE no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. TUE Its protagonist is Les Bone, a plumber who once came within TUE sniffing distance of the big time when his band Nuclear Dump TUE went mega.....without him. TUE And now, twenty five years down the line, still unlucky in TUE love, single-parent Les has been tossed a second chance. His TUE kids have a boyband (even if one of them is a girl) and TUE they're a boy short for an upcoming tour of south Yorkshire, TUE one of the hardest enclaves in clubland. TUE As the family band hits the road, Les meets an old flame and TUE receives devastating news about daughter Sheila. TUE Cast: TUE Les ..... Paul Copley TUE Sheila ...... Belinda Everett TUE Elaine ...... Blue Merrick TUE Denny ...... Christian Rodska TUE Chris ...... Harry Hepple TUE Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson TUE Kevin ..... Brogan West TUE Troy ..... James Baxter TUE Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker TUE Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville TUE Producer/Director: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b0101kyv (Listen) TUE Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 2 TUE Michael Coveney's biography tells the story of Campbell, the TUE great adventurer of British theatre. TUE Campbell's disastrous experience at the Royal Court Theatre TUE in London shapes the direction of his career. With the TUE Roadshow he takes theatre to the people. TUE Ken Campbell, who died in September 2008, was one of the TUE great mavericks of British theatre. TUE Ill-suited to a role in conventional theatre, he created a TUE risk-taking confrontational style of performance, which TUE often explored unlikely subject matter. TUE He became, in director Mike Leigh's words, "The outsider's TUE outsider" TUE Bob Hoskins, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are amongst the TUE performers whose formative years were spent working with TUE Campbell. What did the director and producer bring to TUE performance that made him such a mesmeric figure? TUE Writer Michael Coveney is a long-standing theatre critic, TUE who has worked for The Financial Times, The Observer and The TUE Daily Mail. Actor Toby Jones played Truman Capote in TUE 'Infamous' and Swifty Lazar in 'Frost/Nixon' and recently TUE reprised the role of Dobby in the film 'Harry Potter and the TUE Deathly Hallows'. Toby has also appeared in a production of TUE 'The Warp' by Neil Oram, the 22-hour epic created by Ken TUE Campbell. TUE Read by Toby Jones TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017pwt0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 It's Your Round b00zm32d (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 6 TUE "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format TUE is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the TUE panellists has brought along their own round for the others TUE to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and TUE unpredictable. TUE This episode Johnny Vaughan, Alan Davies, Roisin Conaty and TUE Arthur Smith battle it out to see who can beat each other at TUE their own games. TUE Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure TUE everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. TUE Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell TUE Devised by Benjamin Partridge TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 16:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b019rpw8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 55 and Over b01nxh1h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b007jshj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jmyk (Listen) TUE Operation Luna, Episode 12 TUE After travelling through time, could Jet Morgan and his crew TUE be bound for home at last? Stars Andrew Faulds and David TUE Jacobs. TUE TUE 18:30 The Palace of Laughter b007w2my (Listen) TUE Series 1, Alhambra TUE Geoffrey Wheeler traces the history of the music hall which TUE was once the pride of London's Leicester Square. With Roy TUE Hudd. From April 2002. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00srqjv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jlvm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Paul Temple b00rlwgt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime b00vcpbf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History TUE b015pcqk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Sherlock Holmes b007k2fc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b007jshj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b0414qv8 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 3 TUE Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th TUE Century bet, attempting to outrun a racehorse over a hundred TUE yard dash. Tim turns to Kriss Akabusi and his former school TUE PE teacher for training advice. TUE Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham with Olivia Fitzroy TUE and Bob Slayer. Additional material written by Jon Hunter TUE and Paul Byrne. Produced by Colin Anderson. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Tim FitzHigham TUE Actor: Olivia Fitzroy TUE Actor: Bob Slayer TUE Producer: Colin Anderson TUE Writer: Tim FitzHigham TUE Writer: Jon Hunter TUE Writer: Paul Byrne TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b074v94f (Listen) TUE From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club TUE has two hours of comedy. Plus Paul Garner chats again to TUE Paul Kaye. TUE TUE 23:00 World of Pub b00cm91k (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Dodgy Phil hatches a sporting scheme to improve the fortunes TUE of Barry and Garry's bar. Stars John Thomson. From January TUE 1999. TUE TUE 23:30 Think the Unthinkable b00cqh5b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE The consultants advise an African finance minister, and Ryan TUE carries a package. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From December TUE 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH 2016 WED WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jmyk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Palace of Laughter b007w2my (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Paul Temple b00rlwgt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime b00vcpbf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01ng83m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4hq2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b011ld3s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b0101kyv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017pwt0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 It's Your Round b00zm32d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b019rpw8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 55 and Over b01nxh1h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting WED b007jshj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Paul Temple b00rm20y (Listen) WED Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case, Peter Galino WED After the discovery of the body of key witness, Mary Talbot, WED there's drama back at her flat - and suave sleuth Paul WED worries that wife Steve is in danger. WED Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple WED and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case WED for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous WED wife. WED With Duncan McIntyre as Detective Inspector Kingston, WED Richard Williams as Lance Reynolds, Grizelda Hervey as Betty WED Wayne, James Beattie as Charlie and Robert Rietty as Peter WED Galino. WED From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective WED Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist WED Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of WED chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic WED and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, WED of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest WED tricky case. WED Producer: Martin C Webster WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. WED WED 06:30 A Celestial Star in Piccadilly b00gl694 (Listen) WED Anna Chen presents a tribute to Hollywood's first WED Chinese-American movie star, Anna May Wong, star of the WED classic 1929 silent movie Piccadilly. Filmed in London, it WED made her a celebrity in Britain in the 1930s. Despite her WED talent, Wong struggled against racial prejudice throughout WED her career, and was banned from even kissing her leading WED men. However, her reputation is now enjoying a revival WED thanks to the restoration and re-release of Piccadilly. WED WED 07:00 Married b007wqdc (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 6 WED Branded a wife-beater in his parallel universe, a joke WED backfires for bachelor Robin. Stars Hugh Bonneville. From WED April 1999. WED WED 07:30 Chain Reaction b072my2p (Listen) WED Series 11, Ian Hislop interviews Victoria Coren-Mitchell WED Series 11 of the show where one week's interviewee becomes WED the next week's interviewer. The first episode of Chain WED Reaction was broadcast on BBC Radio Five in 1991 when John WED Cleese was the first comedian in the hot seat. Now, 25 years WED on, a new series sees another raft of the world's best-loved WED comedians and entertainment personalities talking to each WED other about their lives and work. This week, the comedian WED and satirist Ian Hislop turns interviewer as he talks to the WED writer and presenter Victoria Coren-Mitchell. WED Ian Hislop is a long-standing team captain on 'Have I Got WED News for You' and the editor of the satirical magazine WED Private Eye. As a dedicated fan and student of history, he WED has made several acclaimed documentaries on wide-ranging WED subjects including conscientious objectors and The Beeching WED Report. WED Ian's guest Victoria Coren-Mitchell is a columnist for The WED Observer and GQ amongst other publications and has presented WED myriad documentaries on subjects as varied as The Bohemians WED and Mary Poppins. As well as a prolific writing career, she WED keeps order on the popular and fiendishly difficult WED television quiz, 'Only Connect'. She is also well-known as WED one of the world's top professional poker players and has WED achieved huge success at the card table. WED In this link in the chain, Ian talks to Victoria about her WED wide and varied career in writing, quizzing and cards. WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01jzq5k (Listen) WED Navigation By Computer WED HMS Troutbridge sails into the technological age, but can WED the crew keep up? WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as WED Heather and Michael Bates as Lieutenant Bates, Ronnie Barker WED as Mr Merrivale and Tenniel Evans as the Admiral. 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 November 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01321dr (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 6 WED The team sets out to cause offence, plus high drama on the WED rails. Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor and Bill Oddie. From March WED 1970. Episode 6 of 13. WED WED 09:00 It's Not What You Know b0375sfk (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED Justin Moorhouse, Bridget Christie and Ainsley Harriott each WED nominate someone they know well to answer a series of WED questions and they than have to second guess how they WED answered. WED Host Miles Jupp tests Bridget on how well she knows her best WED friend Rebecca Sewell, Ainsley his best friend, pitch doctor WED Paul Boross, and Justin his former radio producer Sean WED Gibson. WED What is the one thing that DJ Justin does not like talking WED about? What is Bridget's worst fear? And who is Ainsley's WED worst habit? WED All answers and more will be revealed. WED Producer: Sam Michell. WED Credits WED Presenter: Miles Jupp WED Panellist: Justin Moorhouse WED Panellist: Bridget Christie WED Panellist: Ainsley Harriott WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 09:30 The Party Line b00sythm (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 6 WED MP Duncan goes on a date - with the Opposition. Stars James WED Fleet. Topical sitcom by Punt and Dennis. From June 2005. WED WED 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017sl4r (Listen) WED The Affair WED Back in Cambridge, a scandal threatens the reputation of WED Lewis Eliot's old college and his best friend. Stars David WED Haig. WED WED 11:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History WED b015sd2s (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED After an American triumph, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry grow WED closer - until a death alters their romance. Read by Eleanor WED Bron. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00zlk09 (Listen) WED The Magnificent Andrea WED The Magnificent Andrea is the first original radio play by WED NIGEL PLANER, famous for appearances in comedy and drama WED ranging from 'The Young Ones' to the recent 'Hairspray' in WED the West End. Nigel has created two wonderful characters, WED both in love with the same woman - who has just - tragically WED - died. One is her former husband, boozy columnist Barry WED (ROGER ALLAM) at the tail end of a career marked by WED low-achievement in pugnacious, snide journalism. The other WED is Andrea's recent partner until her sudden death: WED alternative but ultra-orthodox, politically-correct WED naturopath Nigel (NIGEL PLANER). We join Barry after a WED typically hearty breakfast on his way from Chelsea to attend WED the funeral in South London. (As he succinctly but tellingly WED puts it: 'In former times, a breakfast of egg on toast and WED two glasses of red wine would have cost considerably less WED than fifteen nicker') There he confronts his squeaky-clean WED nemesis Nigel. The lugubrious Barry is appalled at the WED ceremony: 'Andrea would have wanted a troupe of African WED drummers at her sending off, with mytho-poetic speeches by WED the priest, a Guetamalan shaman. What she got is a couple of WED hymns, a bit of Bible and a shunt into the automatic WED incinerator of Wandsworth Crematorium just off the A217') It WED is while milling outside that the basically decent Nigel WED makes the mistake of inviting Barry back to the house - WED Barry's house - for the reception. Now the fireworks really WED start. WED Nigel Planer has created an explosive comedy drama as these WED two moral polarities collide, wrestling over the memory of WED their shared inspirational warrior woman, and of course, her WED home. Also a dark and funny play about mourning, loss and WED recovery as the cantankerous columnist's wit evaporates to WED reveal an unexpected tenderness. WED CAST: WED Barry ..... Roger Allam WED Nigel ..... Nigel Planer WED Tania/Receptionist ..... Sally Orrock WED Taxi Driver ..... Brian Bowles WED Preacher ..... Jane Whittenshaw WED George ..... Sam Dale WED Sarah/Waitress ..... Joanna Monro WED Ambulance Driver ..... Stuart McLoughlin WED Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01jzq5k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01321dr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Paul Temple b00rm20y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 A Celestial Star in Piccadilly b00gl694 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01ngmjw (Listen) WED Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 8 WED By Patricia Ferguson WED Read by Joanna Tope WED The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and WED moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who WED changes their lives. WED The War is taking its toll on the young men of the WED community. Grace is recovering and is offered a job in a WED convalescent home in Patricia Ferguson's story of two WED sisters and the young black orphan who changes their lives. WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4mmq (Listen) WED An Ill Wind WED During the early hours of October 16th 1987, hurricane force WED winds ripped through southern England recording gusts of 110 WED mph. In just a few hours 15 million trees across the country WED were felled. Dawn revealed over 700 of Kew's trees sprawled WED on their sides, their root systems spread in the cool calm WED air after the storm. WED Kathy Willis explores how one Kew oak tree - the Turner Oak WED - that didn't fall, helped transform the understanding of WED tree planting, arboreal care and provided insights into why WED trees stay upright. WED She takes a walk with arborealist Tony Kirkham around Kew WED Gardens to learn how this natural clearout gave a once in a WED generation chance to rethink Kew's arboreal canvas. It also WED created an opportunity for the first ever comprehensive tree WED root survey which has since transformed our approach to tree WED planting and long term care that's now finding its way into WED horticultural practices today. WED Producer Adrian Washbourne. WED The 1987 Storm In The News WED BBC News: The Great Storm - How Weather Forcasting Has WED Changed WED BBC Kent: The Great Storm of16 October 1987 WED BBC Four: Hurricanes and Heatwaves - The Highs and Lows of WED British Weather WED WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b011l9th (Listen) WED Kieran Prendiville - Once More with Feeling, Episode 3 WED By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the WED no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. WED Its protagonist is Les Bone, a plumber who once came within WED sniffing distance of the big time when his band Nuclear Dump WED went mega.....without him. WED And now, twenty five years down the line, still unlucky in WED love, single-parent Les has been tossed a second chance. His WED kids have a boyband (even if one of them is a girl) and WED they're a boy short for an upcoming tour of south Yorkshire, WED one of the hardest enclaves in clubland. WED The revelation about Sheila's real father threatens to WED fracture the family. Meanwhile Chris dies a comedy death, WED and comedian Denny takes full advantage. WED Cast: WED Les ..... Paul Copley WED Sheila ...... Belinda Everett WED Elaine ...... Blue Merrick WED Denny ...... Christian Rodska WED Chris ...... Harry Hepple WED Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson WED Kevin ..... Brogan West WED Troy ..... James Baxter WED Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker WED Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville WED Producer/Director: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b0100x2s (Listen) WED Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 3 WED Michael Coveney's biography tells the story of Campbell, the WED great adventurer of British theatre. WED Campbell's Science Fiction Theatre of Liverpool presents his WED first epic, the nine-hour drama 'Illuminatus'. WED Ken Campbell, who died in September 2008, was one of the WED great mavericks of British theatre. WED Ill-suited to a role in conventional theatre, he created a WED risk-taking confrontational style of performance, which WED often explored unlikely subject matter. WED He became, in director Mike Leigh's words, "The outsider's WED outsider" WED Bob Hoskins, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are amongst the WED performers whose formative years were spent working with WED Campbell. What did the director and producer bring to WED performance that made him such a mesmeric figure? WED Writer Michael Coveney is a long-standing theatre critic, WED who has worked for The Financial Times, The Observer and The WED Daily Mail. Actor Toby Jones played Truman Capote in WED 'Infamous' and Swifty Lazar in 'Frost/Nixon' and recently WED reprised the role of Dobby in the film 'Harry Potter and the WED Deathly Hallows'. Toby has also appeared in a production of WED 'The Warp' by Neil Oram, the 22-hour epic created by Ken WED Campbell. WED Read by Toby Jones WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017sl4r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 It's Not What You Know b0375sfk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Party Line b00sythm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Married b007wqdc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Chain Reaction b072my2p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jmz0 (Listen) WED Operation Luna, Episode 13 WED After blasting off, Jet and his crew try to make sense of WED their mammoth trip through time. Stars Andrew Faulds and WED Alfie Bass. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b007718g (Listen) WED The Snip WED 4 Extra Debut. Dominic Arkwright discusses the pros and cons WED of vasectomy with Toby Young, Rory Clements and Anna WED Raeburn. From November 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01jzq5k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01321dr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Paul Temple b00rm20y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 A Celestial Star in Piccadilly b00gl694 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History WED b015sd2s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00zlk09 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Chain Reaction b072my2p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Seekers b03bs3tf (Listen) WED Series 1, The New Seeker WED Stuart (Mathew Horne) an employee of the job centre who is WED made redundant and is faced with the belittling scenario of WED returning to the place where he worked to find employment WED through people he's pretty sure he can do the job better WED than. He didn't really care about the job very much, but he WED was happy, well, not happy, he was content to work there, WED especially because of Senior Job Seeker Advisor, Nicola WED (Zahra Ahmadi) who he had a one night stand with during half WED time of the England Vs. Portugal game in 2006 and still WED holds out for a relationship to blossom even though it's WED been over seven years and she has shown no sign of wanting WED to. WED Now stuck on the other side of the desk with the unemployed, WED Stuart is reunited with Joe (Daniel Mays) and Terry (Tony WED Way) two old school friends that Stuart outgrew eons ago. WED Seekers, is about the characters that regularly frequent a WED Job Centre in the Essex town of Rayleigh. Be it the WED unfulfilled or aspirational staff that work there, or the WED mixture of jobless people from every walk of life, some WED desperate to get back to work, some trying their best to WED never have to work at all. WED We listen into the mundane, pointless and sometimes WED bewildering conversations, the petty arguments and pointless WED rivalries that people involve themselves in just to relieve WED the boredom in the sterile, air conditioned building, they WED all have to return to day after day. WED Episode One: The New Seeker WED Written by Steven Burge WED Produced by Katie Tyrrell. WED Stuart's CV WED Credits WED Stuart: Matthew Horne WED Joe: Daniel Mays WED Terry: Tony Way WED Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi WED Dave Manager: Alex Lowe WED Mr Dibble: Alex Lowe WED Mr Manford: Alex Lowe WED Mr Everett: Alex Lowe WED Mr Gleason: Michael Bertenshaw WED Mrs Wilcox: Philippa Stanton WED Mrs Rahman: Bharti Patel WED Gary Probert: Steve Oram WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Steven Burge WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b074v9cf (Listen) WED From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club WED has two hours of comedy. Plus Paul Garner chats again to WED Paul Kaye. WED WED 23:00 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qw8m7 (Listen) WED Series 2, On Location WED Damien is sent on location to the Lake District to film a WED chunk of his new series for Sky Arts about "poets and their WED palates". WED But when the sunshine turns to driving rain, Damien's WED spirits are further dampened when it appears Anthony might WED not be missing him quite as much as he had hoped... WED Written by Miles Jupp WED Producer: Sam Michell. WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony MacIlveny: Justin Edwards WED Gary McDade: Ben Crowe WED Sound Man: Ben Crowe WED Bill Trumpetz: Toby Longworth WED The Lady: Sarah Thom WED Marion Duffett: Lesley Vickerage WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 23:30 At Home With The Snails b00c8rbm (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED George and Beverly continue faking their deaths in order to WED bring their family closer. Stars Geoffrey Palmer. From WED August 2002. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2016 THU THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey Into Space b007jmz0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b007718g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Paul Temple b00rm20y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 A Celestial Star in Piccadilly b00gl694 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01ngmjw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4mmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b011l9th (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b0100x2s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017sl4r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 It's Not What You Know b0375sfk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Party Line b00sythm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Married b007wqdc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Chain Reaction b072my2p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Paul Temple b00rm4xk (Listen) THU Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case, La Mortella THU Hot on the heels of a tip from Peter Galino, the debonair THU sleuth and wife Steve head to London's La Mortella club to THU hunt down clues. THU Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple THU and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case THU for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous THU wife. THU With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes, Peggy Hassard as THU Lynn Ferguson, Richard Williams as Lance Reynolds, Grizelda THU Hervey as Betty Wayne and Olaf Olsen as Louis Fabian. THU From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective THU Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist THU Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most THU popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of THU chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic THU and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, THU of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest THU tricky case. THU Producer: Martin C Webster THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. THU THU 06:30 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll b00s77wp (Listen) THU Bob Dylan's biographer Howard Sounes casts new light on a THU song that has haunted two families for nearly 50 years - THU Dylan's account of the killing of a black hotel worker. THU "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" is part of both the THU history of folk music and the Civil Rights struggle, so THU familiar to Dylan fans that it is almost the stuff of THU legend, so shocking in content that it seems like a story THU from the days of slavery. THU Yet this crime took place less than 50 years ago, and only THU few miles from where a black president sits in the White THU House. THU On the evening of Friday 8 February 1963, William THU Zantzinger, 24-year-old owner of an old-style tobacco THU plantation, turned up drunk at a charity ball in Baltimore, THU Maryland. Hattie Carroll was one of the African-Americans THU serving the guests at a time when America was still THU segregated. THU Zantzinger yelled at Carroll for not pouring his drink THU quickly enough and tapped her with his walking cane. Carroll THU collapsed and died of heart failure. She was 51 years old, THU and left 9 orphaned children, not ten as Dylan sang. Dylan THU was correct however in reporting that Zantzinger was lightly THU treated - he received six months for manslaughter. THU Who was William Zantzinger and what is known about his THU victim? Howard Sounes, author of the celebrated Down the THU Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, introduces us to witnesses THU to the crime; we hear dialogue from the trial; and gain a THU fuller appreciation of killer and victim from their THU surviving friends. Sounes even locates Zantzinger's cane, an THU astonishing find which the presenter likens to handling John THU Dillinger's pistol. THU We also hear Zantzinger's voice, cursing Dylan THU unrepentantly, in what is believed to be his only recorded THU interview before his recent death. THU The producer is Sara Parker, and this is a Falling Tree THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning b00bwtw9 (Listen) THU Fancy Dress THU Bertie Wooster helps his fearsome uncle with a spot of THU dressing up. PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and THU Michael Hordern. THU THU 07:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b072n5xp (Listen) THU Susan Calman is the least relaxed person she knows. She has THU no down time, no hobbies (unless you count dressing up your THU cats in silly outfits) and her idea of relaxation is to play THU Grand Theft Auto, an hour into which she is in a murderous THU rage with sky high blood pressure. Her wife had to threaten THU to divorce her to make her go on holiday last year. Her THU first for four years. But she's been told by the same THU long-suffering wife, that unless she finds a way to switch THU off, and soon, she's going to be unbearable. THU So Susan is going to look at her options and try to immerse THU herself in the pursuits that her friends find relaxing, to THU find her inner zen and outer tranquillity. Each week she THU will ditch the old Susan Calman and attempt to find the new THU Susan Calm, in a typically British leisure pursuit; this THU week she visits the Scottish National Portrait Gallery with THU Phill Jupitus, and in other episodes goes hillwalking with THU Muriel Gray, watches a cricket match with Andy Zaltzman and THU takes a spontaneous holiday with John Finnemore. THU Keep Calman Carry On is an audience stand up show in which THU Susan reports on how successful she's been - both at THU relaxing and at the pursuit itself - as well as playing in THU and discussing a handful of illustrative clips from her THU efforts. It's an attempt to find out how people find solace THU or sanctuary in these worlds and how Susan can negotiate her THU own place in them. THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU Credits THU Presenter: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU Writer: Susan Calman THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnv2 (Listen) THU Series 6, Upstairs Downstairs, Upstairs Downstairs THU Albert's laid up with a bad back leaving poor Harold THU overworked. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Michael McClain. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1976. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b007js7f (Listen) THU Series 3, Edinburgh Festival THU Scotland beware! The national local radio station's weekly THU arts programme has special coverage of the Edinburgh THU Festival. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope and Mike Schilling. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon THU Canter, Richard Curtis, Helen Murray, Nick Wilton, Moray THU Hunter, John Docherty and Roger Planer. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1983. THU THU 09:00 The Food Quiz b073qz7y (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU On Jay Rayner's menu are Clement Freud, Charlie Hicks, THU Jennifer Sharp and Angela Hartnett. From October 2003. THU THU 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008m24j (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, John THU Wells, June Whitfield and Joan Sims. From November 1994. THU THU 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017srv7 (Listen) THU The Corridors of Power THU Post-war politics throws up surprises for Lewis Eliot, as a THU rising star enlists his help. Stars David Haig and Iain THU Glen. THU THU 11:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History THU b015pw1l (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Ellen Terry's Lady Macbeth is a controversial success, but THU her relationship with Henry Irving cools off. Read by THU Eleanor Bron. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b010t6jh (Listen) THU Ed Jones - The Janitor THU The Janitor by Ed Jones. THU Kevin is struggling to keep his new restaurant afloat in THU posh Salford Quays. But then Jonno turns up. The boy he was THU a dad to for a couple of years when he was shacked up with THU his mother. He couldn't save the mother, can he now save the THU kid? All fifteen stone of him? THU Kevin............Jason Done THU Jonno............Tachia Newall THU Sandra..........Naomi Radcliffe THU Mikey............Chris Jack THU Amy..............Catherine Kinsella THU Scotty...........Gerard Fletcher THU Producer Gary Brown THU Twenty years ago you wouldn't have found a posh restaurant THU in Salford. Now there's a load of them and a theatre and a THU designer outlet mall. And to top it all there's Media City THU with all those Giles and Jocastas moving in. THU The truth is there's two kinds of Salfords. There's the THU Quays and posh Salford and Salford-Salford; the proper bit, THU that Lowry painted, with the bent over people and the dark THU heart. THU This is the story of Kevin, a talented chef, who wanted to THU open a restaurant in his old stamping ground. To put THU something back - and make some dosh at the same time. Only, THU he isn't very good with figures, and his employees are THU ripping him off. His business is bleeding money. THU When Jonno returns- a kid he used to live with - they both THU try and make things work. Jonno is trying to leave behind THU his old life of drugs and violence. But when it catches up THU with him it has major consequences for both Jonno and Kevin. THU Starring Jason Done from Waterloo Rd, this is a morality THU tale for our times. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnv2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b007js7f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Paul Temple b00rm4xk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll b00s77wp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01ngnwv (Listen) THU Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 9 THU By Patricia Ferguson THU Read by Joanna Tope THU The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and THU moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who THU changes their lives. THU Grace has met the injured soldier, Joe Gilder, and they plan THU their life together - with support from Aunt Bea. THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4t17 (Listen) THU Capsules of Life THU By the end of the 20th century, concerns raised in the 1992 THU Rio Earth Summit about the fate of wild plants and their THU ecosystems meant that conservation in the field now needed THU to be complemented by methods away from a plant's natural THU habitat. THU Professor Kathy Willis pays a visit to the underground THU vaults of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership (MSBP), one THU in a network of 1300 seed banks around the world - and one THU of the main "ex situ" methods for conserving plant genetic THU material. THU Knowing the longevity and quality of seeds is vital if THU they're to be put to good use in the real world. We hear a THU testament to the length of seed survival as head of the MSBP THU reveals recent success in germinating a 200 year old packet THU of seeds collected from the Dutch East India Company Gardens THU in South Africa. And Kathy Willis discovers how research THU into variable climates during crop cycles on seed quality is THU providing new leads into which varieties of crops seeds to THU store, to ensure future sustainable food supplies. THU With contributions from seed morphologist Wolfgang Stuppy, THU MSB seed manager Janet Terry, Paul Smith head of the MSBP, THU and Hugh Pritchard head of MSBP seed conservation. THU Producer Adrian Washbourne. THU Seed Banks in the News THU Key food crops head to Arctic 'doomsday vault' THU Establishing UK tree seed bank 'crucial' THU Climate change seedbank stores crops' wild ancestors THU Science in Action: Syrian Seed Bank Evacuation THU THU THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b011ld41 (Listen) THU Kieran Prendiville - Once More with Feeling, Episode 4 THU By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the THU no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. THU Its protagonist is Les Bone, a plumber who once came within THU sniffing distance of the big time when his band Nuclear Dump THU went mega.....without him. THU And now, twenty five years down the line, still unlucky in THU love, single-parent Les has been tossed a second chance. His THU kids have a boyband (even if one of them is a girl) and THU they're a boy short for an upcoming tour of south Yorkshire, THU one of the hardest enclaves in clubland. THU After a disastrous performance, the band is paid off. Les THU picks up with Elaine where he left off twenty five years ago THU - and gets dumped again. THU Cast: THU Les ..... Paul Copley THU Sheila ...... Belinda Everett THU Elaine ...... Blue Merrick THU Denny ...... Christian Rodska THU Chris ...... Harry Hepple THU Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson THU Kevin ..... Brogan West THU Troy ..... James Baxter THU Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker THU Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville THU Producer/Director: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b0100x2v (Listen) THU Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 4 THU Michael Coveney's biography tells the story of Campbell, the THU great adventurer of British theatre. THU By Michael Coveney. In his production of 'The Warp', THU Campbell made arduous demands on his cast. For actor Russell THU Denton it was a life-changing experience. THU Ken Campbell, who died in September 2008, was one of the THU great mavericks of British theatre. THU Ill-suited to a role in conventional theatre, he created a THU risk-taking confrontational style of performance, which THU often explored unlikely subject matter. THU He became, in director Mike Leigh's words, "The outsider's THU outsider" THU Bob Hoskins, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are amongst the THU performers whose formative years were spent working with THU Campbell. What did the director and producer bring to THU performance that made him such a mesmeric figure? THU Writer Michael Coveney is a long-standing theatre critic, THU who has worked for The Financial Times, The Observer and The THU Daily Mail. Actor Toby Jones played Truman Capote in THU 'Infamous' and Swifty Lazar in 'Frost/Nixon' and recently THU reprised the role of Dobby in the film 'Harry Potter and the THU Deathly Hallows'. Toby has also appeared in a production of THU 'The Warp' by Neil Oram, the 22-hour epic created by Ken THU Campbell. THU Read by Toby Jones THU Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017srv7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The Food Quiz b073qz7y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008m24j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning b00bwtw9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b072n5xp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k0s3 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Earth's last living man takes on hordes of plague-infected THU vampires. 1954 cult classic set in 1976 USA. Read by Angus THU McInnes. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076ymt (Listen) THU Series 9, Robin Day THU Series of biographical discussions with Matthew Parris. News THU presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy nominates his illustrious THU predecessor Robin Day. During the height of his career, Day THU was regarded as Britain's finest political interviewer. Some THU salute him for breaking the mould of deferential THU interviewing but others think he bullied his subjects and THU stole the limelight himself with his mannered performances. THU From June 2006. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnv2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b007js7f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Paul Temple b00rm4xk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll b00s77wp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History THU b015pw1l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b010t6jh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b072n5xp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b073r1c6 (Listen) THU Series 14, Episode 6 THU This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into THU sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to THU make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. THU Nish is joined this week by Jess Ransom, Mike Wozniak and THU Ellie White. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b074v9v6 (Listen) THU From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club THU has two hours of comedy. Plus Paul Garner chats again to THU Paul Kaye. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jm9l (Listen) THU Series 3, This Thing Called Love THU Satan worries about his image, and the Professor is THU concerned over his widow's remarriage. Devilishly funny THU sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From March 1999. THU THU 23:30 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b010hcwk (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU Arthur Smith presents comedy and music from his flat in THU Balham, with stand-up comedy from Sean Lock in the living THU room, Annette Fagon on the landing and music from Squeeze in THU the kitchen. THU Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 MARCH 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k0s3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076ymt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Paul Temple b00rm4xk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll b00s77wp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01ngnwv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4t17 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b011j48h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b0100x2v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017srv7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz b073qz7y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008m24j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning b00bwtw9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Susan Calman - Keep Calman Carry On b072n5xp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Paul Temple b00rmxpm (Listen) FRI Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case, That Good Old Intuition FRI With Lynn Ferguson missing - the suave sleuth heads off to FRI question the owner of the La Mortella club, Louis Fabian. FRI Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple FRI and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case FRI for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous FRI wife. FRI With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes, James Beattie as FRI Charlie, Peggy Hassard as Lynn Ferguson, Charles Leno as FRI Wilfred Stirling and Olaf Olsen as Louis Fabian. FRI From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective FRI Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist FRI Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most FRI popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of FRI chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic FRI and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, FRI of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest FRI tricky case. FRI Producer: Martin C Webster FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954. FRI FRI 06:30 Let's Go to Misterland b00qm467 (Listen) FRI Stephanie Flanders, BBC economics editor and daughter of the FRI actor and singer Michael Flanders, examines the appeal of FRI Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men books and how these bold, colourful FRI drawings and simple stories continue to capture children's FRI hearts. FRI Created in 1971, the Mr Men books have been an important FRI part of many childhoods. Inspired by the author's son Adam, FRI who one day inquired, 'what does a tickle look like?', the FRI first character was born. The Little Miss books followed ten FRI years later, worldwide sales have exceeded 100 million, and FRI today the brand is flourishing under its new owners. FRI Stephanie takes a look at the Mr Men business and its growth FRI over the years. She speaks to Adam Hargreaves, who tells the FRI story behind the books and what inspired his father to FRI create such a simplistic, yet hugely influential brand. FRI Created in the humble surroundings of a small home office, FRI the characters have reached a global audience, and they FRI appeal to today's children as much as they did to their FRI 1970s counterparts. Although he died in 1988, Roger FRI Hargreaves was still the third-best selling author of the FRI past decade, outstripping such feted writers as Jacqueline FRI Wilson, Terry Pratchett and John Grisham. FRI FRI 07:00 1835 b0129v0m (Listen) FRI Haircut Sir? FRI Aristocrat Belport and servant Ned join the police and FRI encounter demon barber Sweeney Todd. Stars Paul Rider. From FRI June 2004. FRI FRI 07:30 Wordaholics b01s6c9z (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Gyles Brandreth chairs the word-obsessed comedy panel game FRI where this week Katy Brand & Alex Horne compete with Richard FRI Herring & Natalie Haynes for wordy supremacy. FRI This week Richard Herring decides to reclaim the word FRI 'middle class' and tries to decipher the 16th century phrase FRI 'a mare's nest'; Natalie Haynes tries to get rid of the word FRI 'decimate' and despite being a vegetarian works out what the FRI very meaty cookery term 'barding' means; Alex Horne comes up FRI with the correct definition for the Victorian phrase 'a FRI scraping castle' and asks to take the word 'a' out of the FRI dictionary. Meanwhile Katy Brand takes a guess at what the FRI unit of measurement 'the Warhol' is and reveals that her FRI favourite word is 'plop'. FRI Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle. FRI Producer: Claire Jones. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Gyles Brandreth FRI Writer: Jon Hunter FRI Writer: James Kettle FRI Producer: Claire Jones FRI Panellist: Richard Herring FRI Panellist: Natalie Haynes FRI Panellist: Alex Horne FRI Panellist: Katy Brand FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jps5 (Listen) FRI Series 6, The Poetry Society FRI The lad's new avant garde friends produce some poetical gems FRI - with a little help from Sid and Bill. FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Fenella FRI Fielding, Warren Mitchell and Fraser Kerr. 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 December 1959. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jtd4 (Listen) FRI The Nasty Affair at the Burami Oasis FRI Admiral Seagoon is dispatched as bandits attack the British FRI garrison. Stars Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. From FRI October 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 Wildbrain b073r48v (Listen) FRI 1997 - Heat 6 FRI Lionel Kelleway visits Edinburgh's Royal Botanic Garden, to FRI test more wildlife knowledge in the BBC Natural History FRI Unit's quiz. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b007jp2j (Listen) FRI Series 8, My Turn Now FRI Anna's sisters Charlotte and Victoria are even more FRI self-absorbed than usual. Stars Rosemary Leach. From January FRI 2002. FRI FRI 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017sv17 (Listen) FRI The Choice FRI As Roger Quaife's political destiny hangs on an FRI extraordinary Commons debate, what future for Lewis Eliot? FRI Stars David Haig. FRI FRI 11:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History FRI b015r2bd (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Suffering a stroke on stage, Henry Irving dies, but Ellen FRI Terry battles on. Eleanor Bron concludes Michael Holroyd's FRI biography. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00j8dk1 (Listen) FRI Peter Souter - Stream, River, Sea FRI By Peter Souter. Hugh and Bella, are running to the same FRI timetable, the timetable you're on if someone you love has FRI just died, and they keep running into each other. FRI They visit the same undertakers at the same time; Hugh's Mum FRI is cremated immediately after Bella's husband; and they even FRI end up in the same bereavement-counselling group. FRI But Hugh and Bella are dealing with very different types of FRI grief. Hugh's heart is like a toy that has never been taken FRI out of the box, Bella's is like a beautiful crystal glass FRI that's been dropped from a 30 storey building. FRI Hugh... Alex Jennings FRI Bella... Juliet Stevenson FRI Daisy... Lizzy Watts FRI Directed by Gordon House. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jps5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jtd4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Paul Temple b00rmxpm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Let's Go to Misterland b00qm467 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01ngrxl (Listen) FRI Patricia Ferguson - The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 10 FRI By Patricia Ferguson FRI Read by Joanna Tope FRI The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and FRI moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who FRI changes their lives. FRI There is wonderful news for Grace but joy is short lived. FRI And the final truth about the past is revealed. FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 14:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04d4ppb (Listen) FRI A Useful Weed FRI At a glance, Arabidopsis thaliana (Mouse ear cress) looks FRI little more than a tiny flowering weed. But this nondescript FRI plant became a Rosetta stone for understanding the molecular FRI processes underpinning many plant traits when in 2000 it FRI became the first plant to have its genome fully sequenced. FRI Professor Kathy Willis hears how Arabidopsis bagged the role FRI in plant genetics research similar to that played by mice FRI and fruit flies in animal research, and how amidst arguments FRI for and against the technique of modification, it became a FRI key to introducing new characteristics in a quicker and more FRI targeted way than traditional plant breeding. FRI The overall size of the Arabidopsis genome however, is not FRI typical of many plants. We hear how a new understanding of FRI the surprisingly diverse range of genome sizes within the FRI plant kingdom is shedding light on the speed of a plant's FRI ability to reproduce and adapt in changing conditions, which FRI could play a fundamental role in decoding the patterns of FRI plant distribution we see around the world. FRI With contributions from historian Jim Endersby, plant FRI scientist Prof Liam Dolan and cytogeneticist Ilia Leitch. FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b011ld49 (Listen) FRI Kieran Prendiville - Once More with Feeling, Episode 5 FRI By Kieran Prendiville. A comedy drama set in the FRI no-prisoners world of northern social clubs. FRI Its protagonist is Les Bone, a plumber who once came within FRI sniffing distance of the big time when his band Nuclear Dump FRI went mega.....without him. FRI And now, twenty five years down the line, still unlucky in FRI love, single-parent Les has been tossed a second chance. His FRI kids have a boyband (even if one of them is a girl) and FRI they're a boy short for an upcoming tour of south Yorkshire, FRI one of the hardest enclaves in clubland. FRI Against all odds, the family band makes the Blackpool FRI showcase and comedian Denny gives the performance of his FRI life. FRI Cast: FRI Les ..... Paul Copley FRI Sheila ...... Belinda Everett FRI Elaine ...... Blue Merrick FRI Denny ...... Christian Rodska FRI Chris ...... Harry Hepple FRI Alan/Scotch Billy ..... Rob Hudson FRI Kevin ..... Brogan West FRI Troy ..... James Baxter FRI Kimberly/Nurse ..... Joan Walker FRI Compere ..... Kieran Prendiville FRI Producer/Director: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b0100x2x (Listen) FRI Ken Campbell: The Great Caper, Episode 5 FRI Michael Coveney's biography tells the story of Campbell, the FRI great adventurer of British theatre. FRI In his later work, Campbell focuses on improvisation; taking FRI the safety-net of the script away from his performers. FRI Ken Campbell, who died in September 2008, was one of the FRI great mavericks of British theatre. FRI Ill-suited to a role in conventional theatre, he created a FRI risk-taking confrontational style of performance, which FRI often explored unlikely subject matter. FRI He became, in director Mike Leigh's words, "The outsider's FRI outsider" FRI Bob Hoskins, Bill Nighy and Jim Broadbent are amongst the FRI performers whose formative years were spent working with FRI Campbell. What did the director and producer bring to FRI performance that made him such a mesmeric figure? FRI Writer Michael Coveney is a long-standing theatre critic, FRI who has worked for The Financial Times, The Observer and The FRI Daily Mail. Actor Toby Jones played Truman Capote in FRI 'Infamous' and Swifty Lazar in 'Frost/Nixon' and recently FRI reprised the role of Dobby in the film 'Harry Potter and the FRI Deathly Hallows'. Toby has also appeared in a production of FRI 'The Warp' by Neil Oram, the 22-hour epic created by Ken FRI Campbell. FRI Read by Toby Jones FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers b017sv17 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 Wildbrain b073r48v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b007jp2j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 1835 b0129v0m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Wordaholics b01s6c9z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k0tb (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Earth's last living man, Robert Neville, discovers that his FRI wife's tomb is a lair for vampires. Read by Angus McInnes. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b008m82d (Listen) FRI Series 6, New York, New York FRI John Kander presents the story behind the classic song New FRI York, New York. Songwriting duo Kander and Ebb wrote the FRI title song for the film. Unfortunately, the star Robert de FRI Niro didn't like it, so they furiously wrote another one. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jps5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jtd4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Paul Temple b00rmxpm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Let's Go to Misterland b00qm467 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Michael Holroyd - A Strange Eventful History FRI b015r2bd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00j8dk1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Wordaholics b01s6c9z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01ng835 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Let It Grow FRI Episode 3: Let It Grow FRI Adam is keen to take on an allotment and work the land with FRI his Dad, Rudy. Rudy would prefer a patio. FRI Adam hopes to bond with his Dad, Rudy, whilst they till the FRI earth together on an allotment. However, Rudy prefers to FRI chill with his best friend Clifton and only takes an FRI interest when they spot a rare and illegal plant growing in FRI the greenhouse. FRI Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record FRI shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker FRI and some terrific tunes. FRI Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record FRI shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real FRI soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if FRI we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the FRI charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), FRI reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son FRI Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly FRI girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently FRI married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) FRI which is leaving his best friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) FRI feeling left out. FRI Adam ............ Lenny Henry FRI Rudy ............ Larrington Walker FRI Tasha ............ Natasha Godfrey FRI Doreen ............ Claire Benedict FRI Clifton ............ Jeffery Kissoon FRI Lucinda ............ Sarah Thom FRI Trader/Customer/Dealer ............ Adam Nagaitis FRI Written by Danny Robins FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell FRI Music featured in this episode: FRI ZUNGGUZUNGGUGUZUNGGUZENG * YELLOW MAN FRI THE GATES OF ZION * THE MIGHTY DIAMONDS FRI INCREDIBLE * M BEAT FEAT. GENERAL LEVY FRI HERBAL DUB * KING TUBBY FRI RUMOURS * GREGORY ISAACS FRI CARRY GO BRING HOME * THE SELECTER FRI GIMME THE LIGHT * SEAN PAUL FRI HARD TIMES * LEO GRAHAM FRI RAPPER'S DELIGHT * SUGARHILL GANG. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b074vb9h (Listen) FRI From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club FRI has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats again to FRI Adam Riches. FRI FRI 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture b007jlwr (Listen) FRI Series 2, Aristotle FRI The radical comedian profiles the Greek philosopher, who he FRI thinks was hard done by. From March 2001. FRI FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell b03h3ybf (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI Second series of the relationship comedy written by Jonny FRI Sweet. FRI It tells its central love story through the couple's FRI individual conversations with their family and friends. In FRI the process, we are introduced to all manner of FRI relationships from a father and his cherished tour van to FRI two women rivalling for the position of Best Friend, from a FRI brother and sister comparing notes on Brazilians to a vicar FRI and his new parish, and from a lodger's historic fling with FRI a local waitress to a mum's lack of control over her desire FRI to monitor her son's life. FRI Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, FRI contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to FRI restaurants, funerals, French dressers and monkey puzzle FRI trees. FRI Jonny Sweet is also the writer of Radio 4's Party and FRI co-writer/co-star of Chickens on Sky 1. FRI Episode 1: FRI Tom and Ellen organize a night out so that their parents can FRI meet. Ellen's Dad's lodger invites herself along, while FRI Tom's Mum and Dad decide to open up about an aspect of Tom's FRI lifestyle that's been troubling them. FRI Producer: Lucy Armintage FRI A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Gillian: Julia Davis FRI Paul: Simon Greenall FRI Ashley: Alex Macqueen FRI Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie FRI Hermione: Sarah Solemani FRI Tom: Jonny Sweet FRI Daisy: Sophie Thompson FRI Maeve: Katy Wix FRI Writer: Jonny Sweet FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI
11 March, 2016
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12/03/2016 - 18/03/2016
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)