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SAT SATURDAY 16 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Orbiter X b0784dyd (Listen) SAT Inside the Moon Station SAT Orbiter 2's crew have been taken to the Moon by the shadowy SAT Unity organisation. Stars John Carson and Barrie Gosney. SAT From October 1959. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00djtj8 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Swan Lake SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT 1/4. Swan Lake SAT The story behind Tchaikovsky's ballet and the impact it has SAT had on those who have heard and danced to it. SAT SAT 01:00 The Spying Game b016d8xj (Listen) SAT The Red Carnation SAT The loyalties of a former Russian spy are tested to the SAT limits when she uncovers an assassination plot. Baroness SAT Orczy's thrilling tale, set in 19th century Vienna, is read SAT by Adjoa Andoh. SAT Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2011. SAT SAT 01:30 Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories b00n52l1 (Listen) SAT Armed with little more than a harpsichord and a copy of The SAT Hobbit, musician and comedian Mitch Benn fearlessly uncovers SAT the myths and legends of the symphonic concept album. SAT Meeting some of the leading artists and fans of the genre, SAT including Rick Wakeman, Jeff Wayne, David Bedford, Brian SAT Blessed and Stuart Maconie, he battles capes and keyboard SAT solos to rediscover the wondrous stories behind these epic SAT musical extravaganzas. SAT From Rick Wakeman's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' to SAT Jeff Wayne's 'The War of the Worlds', musicians in the SAT seventies somehow decided that it was a good idea to retell SAT classic tales in the form of symphonic concept albums. SAT Classical music met rock to spawn towering monuments to SAT pretension and excess: gigantic gatefold covers, sleeve SAT notes longer than a 19th century novel, and - surely its SAT defining feature- portentous narration delivered by some of SAT our finest thesps. SAT For a generation of acned youth weaned on Tolkien and SAT Moorcock, these epic compositions were masterpieces, a SAT symphonic escape from dreary mid-70's discontent and SAT economic gloom. They sold millions, but until recently, SAT languished forgotten in the vinyl collections of middle-aged SAT men, gathering dust in the post-punk apocalypse. But with SAT The War of the Worlds now filling stadiums world wide thirty SAT years on, and Rick Wakeman's two tudor-tastic Six Wives of SAT Henry VIII concerts selling out at Hampton Court last year, SAT can Mitch be discovering a symphonic rock renaissance? SAT Produced by Jackie Curthoys and Dave Dodd SAT A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Jackie Curthoys SAT SAT 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s9lcn (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Nick continues to make his clandestine plans for the Post SAT Office, and Elaine isn't happy. Written and read by Michael SAT Palin. SAT SAT 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b0400mh3 (Listen) SAT The Lonely Cyborg SAT Dr Thomas Dixon brings his major new series on the changing SAT face of friendship to a close with a look at how the old and SAT the young are navigating their friendships today through SAT technologies old and new, and at how friendship might look SAT in the future. SAT Episode 15: The Lonely Cyborg SAT A group of Birmingham schoolgirls prove themselves SAT thoughtful and self-aware about how to conduct their SAT friendships online and about the differences between online SAT and face-to-face friendships. Professor Deborah Chambers, an SAT authority on social media and personal relationships from SAT the University of Newcastle, confirms that fears about SAT children's online friendships with strangers have been SAT exaggerated. SAT At the other end of the life-span, Thomas Dixon speaks with SAT the writer Penelope Lively about friendship in her ninth SAT decade, and about why she likes to consider herself part of SAT "the landline generation". SAT Closing the series, Thomas Dixon emphasizes the importance SAT of physical touch and presence for friendship, and presents SAT a final montage of the voices which have featured throughout SAT the series, sharing stories of their own friendships. SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT Related Reading SAT danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked SAT Teens (Yale University Press, 2014) SAT Deborah Chambers, Social Media and Personal Relationships: SAT Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship (Palgrave SAT Macmillan, 2013) SAT Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time SAT (Fig Tree, 2013) SAT Tom Standage, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First SAT 2,000 Years (Bloomsbury, 2013) SAT The History of Emotions blog SAT Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this SAT series. SAT Deborah Chambers, ‘Online friendship’ SAT SAT SAT Beaty Rubens, ‘What makes friendships last?’ SAT SAT 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00svc1h (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT With the baby due, expectant single mother Jane receives SAT unexpected financial help. Stars Lynne Seymour. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b010hd95 (Listen) SAT Edmund De Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 5 SAT By Edmund de Waal.Read by Nicholas Murchie. SAT 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger SAT than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the SAT extraordinary events that overtake one family. SAT Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first SAT encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his SAT great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the SAT 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could SAT ever have imagined. SAT His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time SAT were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, SAT Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation SAT settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; SAT emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists SAT became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire SAT collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to SAT his banker cousin in Vienna. SAT Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would SAT play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. SAT The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to SAT the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their SAT vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved SAT by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was SAT occupied. SAT Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great SAT buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the SAT network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a SAT tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique SAT collection. SAT Abridged by Polly Coles SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b03f87yp (Listen) SAT Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender SAT by Evelyn Waugh SAT Dramatised by Jeremy Front SAT Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: Guy is beginning SAT to lose his idealism about the War. SAT Directed by Sally Avens SAT Waugh's trilogy of WWII novels mark a high point in his SAT literary career. Originally published as three volumes: SAT Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional SAT Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and SAT published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the SAT form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are SAT dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. SAT This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the SAT comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty SAT and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be SAT counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most SAT enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his SAT own experiences during WWII. Sword of Honour effortlessly SAT treads the line between the personal and the political - it SAT is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied SAT war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from SAT isolation to self fulfilment. His adventures are peopled by SAT colourful characters: the eccentric, Apthorpe, one-eyed, SAT Ritchie-Hook, promiscuous, Virginia Troy. At the centre of SAT the novel is Guy for whom we never lose our sympathy as he SAT emerges from his adventures bowed but not broken. From Dakar SAT to Egypt, the Isle of Mugg to the evacuation of Crete, SAT tragedy is leavened by Waugh's acerbic and farcical comedy. SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Tim McInnerny SAT Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready SAT Virginia: Lydia Leonard SAT Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws SAT Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris SAT Kirstie Kilbannock: Polly Frame SAT Mr Crouchback: Sean Murray SAT Ludovic: Carl Prekopp SAT Loot: David Seddon SAT Tommy: Nicholas Boulton SAT Julia Stitch: Christine Kavanagh SAT Everard Spruce: Harry Jardine SAT Major Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Oates: Arthur Hughes SAT Sapper: John Norton SAT Sister: Carolyn Pickles SAT Secretary: Carys Eleri SAT Director: Sally Avens SAT Adaptor: Jeremy Front SAT Author: Evelyn Waugh SAT SAT 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n0xpx (Listen) SAT Series 5, Murray, Bondeson, McAlister SAT The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor SAT of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John SAT Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, SAT Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined SAT by the comedian Jimmy Carr. SAT Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of SAT entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one SAT item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place SAT in the museum. SAT This week, John and Jimmy have invited along the Natural SAT History Museum's resident dipterologist (fly expert) Erica SAT McAlister; Consultant Rheumatologist at the Cardiff SAT University School of Medicine Jan Bondeson and the comedian, SAT historian and fictitious Pub Landlord Al Murray. SAT Guests booked for the rest of the series include: SAT Astronomer Dr Stuart Clark SAT Plant-hunter and former hostage Tom Hart Dyke SAT Comedian, novelist and sitcom writer Jo Brand SAT Physicist and broadcaster Dr Helen Czerski SAT Expert on Ancient Mesopotamia Dr Irving Finkel SAT Comedian Humphrey Ker SAT Magian/actor/comedian Andy Nyman SAT Anatomist author and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts SAT Ig Nobels Prize founder Marc Abrahams SAT Astronaut Buzz Aldrin SAT Comedian Pamela Stephenson SAT Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir Andre Geim. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b016c7c0 (Listen) SAT Series 9, Ill of the Dead SAT There is a death in the family and the ripples from SAT Victoria's insecurities flow outward. With Angela Thorne. SAT From January 2003. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston in Love b007ylvk (Listen) SAT Taking Tea With Roland SAT Nancy wants her new man to meet the family, but will old SAT rogue Winston sabotage the event? Stars Bill Wallis. From SAT January 1991. SAT SAT 05:30 The Rest Is History b0769tsq (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SAT it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to SAT find out more about it. SAT Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate SAT Williams, Frank is joined by a selection of celebrity guests SAT who help him navigate his way through the annals of time, SAT picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and most SAT interesting moments in history. SAT The guests are Al Murray and Isy Suttie, who discuss Robin SAT Hood, wartime slogans, Annie Oakley and a statue-related SAT history mystery. SAT Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard SAT An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Frank Skinner SAT Interviewed Guest: Al Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Isy Suttie SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Williams SAT Producer: Mark Augustyn SAT Producer: Justin Pollard SAT SAT 06:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury b00bqm6w (Listen) SAT The life and times of rock 'n' roll singer, Billy Fury. SAT Stricken with rheumatic fever as a child and not expected to SAT live beyond 20, Billy Fury went on to become Britain's SAT answer to Elvis Presley. But if you thought his story SAT started with the huge hit 'Halfway to Paradise', think SAT again... SAT Inspired by life events, Mike Walker's drama stars Anton SAT Lesser as Billy Fury, Peter Whitman as Larry Parnes, Robert SAT Glenister as Stuart Colman, Rory Bremner as Russell Harty SAT and Alistair McGowan as Joe Brown. SAT Songs performed by Gavin Stanley. SAT Director Andy Jordan SAT Born 17th April 1940 as Ronald Wycherley, Billy Fury died SAT 28th January 1983. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. SAT SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00qps7x (Listen) SAT The Crucible of Capitalism SAT Mark Lawson explores how American writing became the SAT literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the SAT nation's stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. SAT Mark considers how America's post-war playwrights - from SAT Tennessee Williams to David Mamet - have challenged SAT political rhetoric about the triumph of capitalism in the SAT USA. SAT Edward Albee, author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? SAT reveals his candidate for 'the best American play'. Other SAT interviewees include Tony Kushner, author of Angels in SAT America, and the late August Wilson, whose sequence of ten SAT plays about the African-American experience is typical of SAT the structural ambition and political questioning found in SAT so many of the major post-war American plays. SAT Through the theatres of Broadway, the programme also SAT explores the commercial pressures in America's SAT largely-unsubsidised theatre culture, which have led to SAT several of the nation's greatest playwrights - including SAT Albee, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams - facing long SAT periods of neglect. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Robyn Read SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01465z9 (Listen) SAT A Tribute to Robert Robinson SAT We all know Robert Robinson as the chairman of such SAT broadcasting classics as Ask the Family and Brain of Britain SAT but in a career spanning many decades, he also made travel SAT programmes, Points of View, the Today programme and Stop the SAT Week which ran on Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992. In Archive on SAT 4: A Tribute to Robert Robinson, Laurie Taylor takes a look SAT at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting SAT legends in the company of some of the former contributors to SAT Stop the Week; Ann Leslie, Matthew Parris, Sarah Harrison SAT and Nick Tucker. There are also contributions from Will SAT Wyatt, Victor Lewis-Smith and Hunter Davis and a wealth of SAT archive that reveals a complex man, a consummate wordsmith SAT and one of the first TV celebrities. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller b01ngpkl (Listen) SAT Alexei Sayle SAT Alexei Sayle, the original alternative stand-up comedian, SAT actor and writer chooses his favourite comedies from the BBC SAT radio archive. SAT Alexei takes us back to his Liverpool childhood and Sunday SAT lunchtime listening in Round the Horne (1965). There's more SAT illicit childhood listening in I'm Sorry, I'll Read That SAT Again (1966) starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme SAT Garden and Bill Oddie. Alexi's admiration of rule breakers SAT guides his next choices, the logic defying The Burkiss Way SAT (1980) and the news shattering On the Hour (1992), the SAT original radio home of Alan Partridge. SAT The idea of making something seem so real but twisting it SAT deviously has always appealed to Alexei, and is at the core SAT of the award-winning spoof radio phone in show, Down the SAT Line (2007), starring Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson. SAT Alexei's final choice finds him interrogating one of his SAT best friends in comedy, the comedian Lenny Henry in Chain SAT Reaction (2005). But did one of comedy's great talkers allow SAT Lenny to get a word in edgeways? SAT SAT 12:00 The Motion Show b00762c8 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with SAT Hugh Dennis, Arthur Smith, Gyles Brandreth and Henry Naylor. SAT From May 2001. SAT SAT 12:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland b007jlrq (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT The comedian chronicles his life from childhood to SAT fatherhood. Stand-up and sketches, with Dave Lamb. From SAT August 2000. SAT SAT 13:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b077ns7x (Listen) SAT The Secret SAT Muriel Howard's memoir of her Somerset childhood and keeping SAT secrets. Starring Scarlett Brookes and Jeany Spark. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b077nszj (Listen) SAT Cyrille Regis SAT Footballer Cyrille Regis chooses 'Distant Drums' by Jim SAT Reeves and 'How Great Thou Art' by the Canoldir Male Voice SAT Choir. SAT SAT 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011pkg2 (Listen) SAT The 40 Year Twitch SAT Yvonne's having a wobble. Her husband's always been one for SAT the birds and now she's worried she's finally lost him. But SAT do blue tits really lure men into midlife crises? Can SAT sparrows be a bad influence? Comedy drama by Daniel Thurman. SAT Directed by Toby Swift SAT When Yvonne loses her job at the age of 64, she starts to SAT fear that husband Neil's devotion to birding - birdwatching SAT to the uninitiated - is actually all about escaping her and SAT their humdrum life together. Thus begins a somewhat SAT overenthusiastic pursuit of the truth as she trains her SAT binoculars firmly on Neil's every move. Can best friend SAT Wendy bring her back to earth? SAT Credits SAT Yvonne: Paula Wilcox SAT Neil: Philip Jackson SAT Wendy: Anne Reid SAT Austin: Brian Bowles SAT Director: Toby Swift SAT Writer: Daniel Thurman SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01465z9 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury b00bqm6w (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00qps7x (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone b077nvqq (Listen) SAT Series 3, Caesar and Me SAT In desperate need of cash, struggling ventriloquist Jonathan SAT West takes some unsound advice from a surprising source. SAT Starring Jason Alexander. With Zanny Laird, Meg Thalken, SAT Rich Komenich and Lisa Joyce. SAT Narrator: Stacy Keach. SAT Written by Adele Strassfield and adapted by Dennis Etchison. 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 Produced and directed by Carl Amari and Roger Wolkski for SAT Falcon Picture Group. SAT SAT 18:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrqw (Listen) SAT Episode 7 SAT With the town cut off, some of its leaders try and use the SAT crisis to gain more power and status. Read by Nigel Anthony. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller b01ngpkl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Chain Reaction Extra b077nwvq (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig interviews Roy Hudd SAT Specially extended episode for BBC Radio 4 Extra from series SAT 11 of Chain Reaction, with bonus material. Broadcaster and SAT erstwhile News Quiz host Sandi Toksvig turns interviewer as SAT she chats to comedy icon, Roy Hudd. SAT Sandi Toksvig is a prolific writer and broadcaster who SAT chaired the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 for nine years and over SAT 220 episodes. In 2015 she was a founder member of the SAT Women's Equality Party and, later that year was announced as SAT the new host of the long-running BBC television series, QI. SAT Roy Hudd has clocked up more than 50 years in show business, SAT starting out as a Butlins redcoat in the 1950s and then SAT developing a stellar career through numerous successes on SAT stage, radio and screen. BBC Radio listeners know him best SAT as the host of the much loved News Huddlines on Radio 2 for SAT 26 years. More recently, Roy gained plaudits for his moving SAT portrayal of Bud Flanagan in the BBC drama 'We're Doomed! SAT The Dad's Army Story' SAT In this extended version of the original programme, Roy SAT tells Sandi about his showbiz beginnings, reveals how Arthur SAT Askey gave him a leg up in the early days and shares his SAT favourite pantomime story courtesy of Tom O'Connor. SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production SAT The original, un-extended programme was first broadcast on SAT BBC Radio 4 in March 2016. SAT SAT 22:45 Poets' Tree b00snx7d (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Paul Hamilton hears a computer's poetry and meets a poetic SAT legend and his old English teacher. Stars Kevin Eldon. From SAT April 2008. SAT SAT 23:00 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00smngp (Listen) SAT 1990s SAT The cockney comedian charts his life story during the 1990s SAT - returning to education and becoming a teacher. Part of SAT Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club, originally broadcast on Radio 4 SAT in June 2010. SAT SAT 23:30 The Museum of Everything b007k498 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Under New Management SAT The Mock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inducts fresh members, and SAT there's a new curator. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From April SAT 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 APRIL 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone b077nvqq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrqw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b077ns7x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b077nszj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Afternoon Drama b011pkg2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01465z9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Mike Walker - The Sound of Fury b00bqm6w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SUN American Literature b00qps7x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room Omnibus SUN b00sw811 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Lynne Reid Banks' classic tale of 1950s life finds single, SUN pregnant Jane battling prejudice. Starring Lynne Seymour. SUN SUN 07:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048nsms (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 SUN In the last of the series, Roger Law makes his way to Taiwan SUN via Hong Kong. His last museum holds something small but SUN precious - a jade cabbage that Roger has longed to see since SUN he was a young man in the 1960s. Will he finally reach his SUN goal? SUN Producer Mark Rickards. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01fhys6 (Listen) SUN Series 8, Original British Drama SUN Ed reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, SUN complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his SUN never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever SUN scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and SUN cat together. SUN This week, following one of his numerous, pithy, letters of SUN complaint to the BBC, Ed finds himself doing some research SUN for his son, Jake, the only family member left representing SUN the name of Reardon working in the media. The unexpected SUN consequence of this is that Ed finds himself working in SUN harmony with the 12 year- olds both on screen and in the SUN coffee stations and tea points of power, to produce a piece SUN of genuinely water-cooler factutainment. SUN Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas. SUN Produced by Dawn Ellis. SUN Credits SUN Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas SUN Olive: Stephanie Cole SUN Radio DJ: Simon Greenall SUN Policeman: Martin Hyder SUN Pearl: Rita May SUN Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Jake: Sam Pamphillon SUN Pool Manager: Nicola Sanderson SUN Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Writer: Andrew Nickolds SUN Writer: Christopher Douglas SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN SUN 08:00 The Clitheroe Kid b007k1cw (Listen) SUN I Shot an Arrow in the Air SUN Cheeky schoolboy Jimmy has been given a new present, but can SUN he handle it wisely? SUN Starring Jimmy Clitheroe as The Clitheroe Kid. With Peter SUN Sinclair as Grandfather, Patricia Burke as Mother, Diana Day SUN as Susan and Peter Goodwright as Billy Parker. SUN The Clitheroe Kid ran from 1958 - 1972 - gaining audiences SUN above 10 million at its peak. SUN Its Lancashire born star, Jimmy Clitheroe (1921-1973) was SUN just 4'3" tall, with a rather shrill voice making him a very SUN believable naughty schoolboy - despite being 35 when it SUN began as a one-off show. Created by James Casey in 1956, a SUN pilot followed and series 1 proper in 1958. Both writing and SUN producing, James stayed with his creation until it finally SUN came off-air. Jimmy died a year later aged just 51. SUN Theme music by Alan Roper and played by the BBC Northern SUN Dance Orchestra conducted by Alyn Ainsworth - with Jimmy SUN Leach at the Electronic Organ. SUN Scripted by James Casey and Frank Roscoe SUN Produced: James Casey SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959. SUN SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House b007jt20 (Listen) SUN Our First Operation SUN Sir Lancelot Spratt causes alarm for medic Simon Sparrow in SUN the operating theatre. SUN The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted SUN for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor SUN in the House' published in 1952. SUN Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as SUN Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast SUN as Taffy Evans and Ann Murray as Sister. SUN Producer: David Hatch SUN Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968. SUN SUN 09:00 At the Existentialist Café: Omnibus b077s3jj (Listen) SUN Paris, 1933: Three French philosophers, Jean-Paul Sartre, SUN Simone de Beauvoir and Raymond Aron, spark a movement - SUN Existentialism. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b077s3qj (Listen) SUN Phil Tufnell SUN Cricketer Phil Tufnell chooses 'Soul Limbo' by Booker T and SUN the MGs and 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' performed by Gloria SUN Gaynor. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b01mg07z (Listen) SUN James Corden SUN 4 Extra's extended edition. Kirsty Young chats to actor, SUN writer, Broadway star and TV chat show host, James Corden. SUN From February 2012. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b077s57q (Listen) SUN Series 2, Family Photos, Grandmothers, Legos and Revenge SUN True stories told live in the USA: Sarah Austin Jenness with SUN tales about family, school, goodbyes and the perils of SUN revenge. 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 12:00 The Clitheroe Kid b007k1cw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House b007jt20 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room Omnibus SUN b00sw811 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048nsms (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky b05s3nfy (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Nick agrees to Gorsky's plan to arrange a meeting with SUN Natalia, sparking a lavish refurb at the bookshop. Read by SUN Philip Arditti. SUN SUN 15:45 Ruth Rendell - The Astronomical Scarf b077s7n9 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. When a secretary chooses a birthday present SUN for her boss's wife, a series of events unfurl. Mystery SUN story read by Janet Maw. SUN SUN 16:00 Jeremy Front - The Long Weekend b0076cwx (Listen) SUN Former school friends Sophie and Gemma reunite after 20 SUN years for a weekend at Sophie's country estate. However, the SUN idyll takes a turn for the unexpected. Stars Emma Fielding. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b077scj2 (Listen) SUN A Notebook on Aimé Césaire SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with 'A Notebook on Aime Cesaire' SUN When poet and politician Aimé Césaire died at the age of 94 SUN in 2008, it robbed the Caribbean island of Martinique of its SUN most articulate and powerful voice. He was a prolific writer SUN - of poetry, plays and essays - and served as Mayor of SUN Martinique's capital Fort-de-France for over 50 years, as SUN well as representing Martinique in the French National SUN Assembly for 45 years. Aimé Césaire dedicated his life, in SUN print and in public, to his people and his island. SUN Featuring Christian Lapousiniere, director of the Césaire SUN Study and Research Centre, filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, SUN anthropologists Richard and Sally Price, and Dominique SUN Taffin, director of the Martinique National Archive. SUN Includes readings by John Norton. SUN Producer: Martin Williams SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01fhys6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 The Female Ghost b00nj7cx (Listen) SUN The Cold Embrace SUN By Mary Braddon. After a German artist's cool betrayal, his SUN fiancee's retribution is eerily apt. Stars Stephanie Turner SUN and Jonathan Firth. SUN SUN 18:30 Voices From the Grave b007jwn9 (Listen) SUN 50 Berkeley Square SUN The most haunted house in Victorian London is set to give up SUN its dark secret. 100 years back in time, Molly discovers SUN that passion never dies. Dylan Ritson's horror stars Harry SUN Myers, Sophie Roberts and John Cummins. SUN Voices From the Grave is a series of four chilling and SUN intimate dramas, inspired by existing ghost stories from SUN around Britain. The writers make these stories more than SUN simply scary - they are studies of humanity, love, rage and SUN despair, of passion, longing and pain. SUN Writer Dylan Ritson has a long and successful career in SUN theatre, film and radio. His radio work includes The SUN Dream-Workings and Brain-Sayings of James Tilly Matthews and SUN The Hunting of the Snark. Producer: Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b077s57q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:45 At the Existentialist Café: Omnibus b077s3jj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks b077s3qj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b01mg07z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b01fhys6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b00b41k4 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley SUN entertains an audience with his book of verse. From November SUN 1996. SUN SUN 22:45 No Tomatoes b0080jxn (Listen) SUN Train Times SUN Time warnings from Paul Copley and Helen Moon. Sketch show SUN mixing up language and sounds. From October 2007. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b077x357 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats again to SUN Brian Pern, aka Simon Day, and Rhys Thomas. SUN SUN 23:00 I Think I've Got a Problem b00cm91h (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN Tom and the troublesome band in his head set off for the SUN Tower of London. Stars Bob Monkhouse and Suggs. From April SUN 2003. SUN SUN 23:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b007jrq6 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Moscow SUN Cycling solo on a tandem, the inept student is Russia-bound, SUN fundraising for donkeys. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From SUN August 2002. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 APRIL 2016 MON MON 00:00 The Female Ghost b00nj7cx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Voices From the Grave b007jwn9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room Omnibus MON b00sw811 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048nsms (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky b05s3nfy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Ruth Rendell - The Astronomical Scarf b077s7n9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Jeremy Front - The Long Weekend b0076cwx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b077scj2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01fhys6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 The Spying Game b0169ksj (Listen) MON A Demon in My Head MON A troubled spy struggles to stay on top while suffering from MON crippling migraines. Jean-Hugues Oppel's existential tale MON read by Trevor White. MON A gripping series of espionage stories about hired MON assassins, double agents and secret codes. MON Translators: Freddy Michalski and Brad Spurgeon MON Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2011. MON MON 06:30 Henry Moore, My Father b00qckc0 (Listen) MON On the occasion of an important exhibition of Henry Moore's MON early sculpture at Tate Britain, Moore's daughter, Mary, MON refreshes our view of the life and work of Britain's MON foremost 20th-century sculptor. Contributors include Antony MON Gormley, Anthony Caro, Richard Wentworth and Penelope MON Curtis, the newly-appointed Director of Tate Britain. MON Mary takes listeners on a tour of the Moore's home at MON Hoglands in Hertfordshire, a small house crammed with MON extraordinary carvings and paintings from all over the MON world. Being Moore's only child, life for Mary was never MON going to be totally straightforward. Hoglands was besieged MON by people wanting to talk to her father and take photographs MON of the family having tea in the garden. Art students, MON including Gormley, Caro and Wentworth, 'popped up'. 'My MON father was an extremely generous man who had time for anyone MON curious about art, unless of course he was watching the MON tennis,' Mary says. MON The Henry Moore Foundation was formed in the last years of MON Moore's life and it stands as the most important supporter MON for sculpture in Britain. MON Credits MON Producer: Susan Marling MON Producer: Kate Bland MON MON 07:00 Trapped b0076h5p (Listen) MON A Boy in A Well MON A local television news team are desperate for a dramatic MON story to boost their ratings. With Philip Jackson. From MON October 2003. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b076bz3n (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 2 MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON Joe Lycett, Sam Simmons, Richard Osman and Aisling Bea are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as kitchens, pigeons, the Vatican and MON breakfast cereal. MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Joe Lycett MON Panellist: Sam Simmons MON Panellist: Richard Osman MON Panellist: Aisling Bea MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jrnv (Listen) MON Series 3, Ten Seconds From Now MON The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon is set to take part MON in a secret worldwide radio broadcast. 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, Frank Thornton as the BBC MON producer and Larry Martyn as Private Walker. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1976. MON MON 08:30 Listen to Les b01nh8zx (Listen) MON From 10/03/1985 MON Les Dawson with tales of Britain's first space hero, and the MON Cosmo show discusses birds. 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 March 1985. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b01m5fnp (Listen) MON Another edition of the 48th series of Quote... Unquote, the MON popular quotations programme presented and devised by Nigel MON Rees. The guests this week are the broadcaster Samira Ahmed, MON actor Simon Jones, historian Dominic Sandbrook, and MON journalist Dominic Lawson. The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jmns (Listen) MON Series 6, Thursday's Child MON Teaching staff are worried over a controversial new proposal MON from the school governors. Stars James Grout. From July MON 1991. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b03g8gv7 (Listen) MON Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender MON by Evelyn Waugh MON Dramatised by Jeremy Front MON Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: MON Guy's military career is revived when he is MON selected for a mission to Italy. He travels to MON London to await orders. MON Directed by Tracey Neale MON Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of WW2 novels mark a high point in MON his literary career. Originally published as three volumes: MON Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional MON Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and MON published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the MON form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are MON dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. MON This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the MON comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty MON and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be MON counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most MON enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his MON own experiences during WW2. Sword of Honour effortlessly MON treads the line between the personal and the political - it MON is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied MON war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from MON isolation to self fulfilment. MON Credits MON Narrator: Tim McInnerny MON Guy: Paul Ready MON Virginia: Lydia Leonard MON Peregrine: John Rowe MON Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris MON Kirstie Kilbannock: Polly Frame MON Ludovic: Carl Prekopp MON Fremantle: John Norton MON Frank De Souza: Joel MacCormack MON Instructor: Sean Murray MON Youth: Harry Jardine MON C.O.: Arthur Hughes MON Orderly: David Seddon MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Adaptor: Jeremy Front MON Author: Evelyn Waugh MON MON 11:00 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01d23ny (Listen) MON Cleaning the Silver MON This year's Radio 4 stories from the Bath Literature MON Festival were recorded on stage on International Women's Day MON and are all are written by women in the West Country, with MON women at their heart. They all have a slightly edgy feel to MON them, too, as ghosts, shadows and the memories of strange MON events unfold. In Jenni Mills' story, Cleaning the Silver, a MON daughter remembers her childhood under the regime of a MON strict and bullying father, and revisits the circumstances MON around his shocking death. Jenni writes psychological MON thrillers, and is the author of two novels, Crow Stone and MON The Buried Circle - the latter set at Avebury stone circle, MON not far from her home in Wiltshire. Cleaning the Silver is MON set in another place she knows well, one of the smaller MON Channel Islands. MON Before turning to writing, Jenni worked in broadcasting as a MON producer, TV director, and radio presenter, fronting Woman's MON Hour, Famous For Fifteen Minutes and other R4 programmes. MON Further stories in the Bath Festival series are by Morag MON Joss and Patricia Ferguson MON Producer: Sara Davies. MON MON 11:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds MON b042m84m (Listen) MON The Last Move MON Retired detective Bill is powerless to stop Cater's long MON game. However, a new arrival changes the game. Stars Bernard MON Hepton. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jrnv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Listen to Les b01nh8zx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 The Spying Game b0169ksj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Henry Moore, My Father b00qckc0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdcy9 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Nick has an offer for Martin, but will he take it? If so, MON what will it mean for him and Ruth? Written and read by MON Michael Palin. MON MON 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcvz5 (Listen) MON Henry VIII - The King Must Wear Gold MON Tracing male peacockery through the ages - how clothes MON symbolised power, philosophy, taste, sexuality and personal MON expression. MON MON 14:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f3s (Listen) MON Lost Letters MON 4 Extra Debut. Can Tilley, a young postal worker, deliver a MON letter lost in the system since 1960? Stars Grace Stillgrove MON and Val McLane. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00zdbj1 (Listen) MON Edgelands, Episode 1 MON Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a MON wilderness that is much closer than you think: those MON debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These MON two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places MON that we all journey through, but generally fail to MON acknowledge. MON Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this MON Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial MON landscapes of ruined warehouses, landfill sites, retail MON parks, sewage works and power stations. MON Today, the car breaker's yard and the graffitied bridge. MON Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts MON Produced by Emma Harding MON Edgelands is published by Jonathan Cape (27th February MON 2011). It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award MON for non-fiction in 2009. MON Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry - MON including 'Ice Age' - and has received the Forward Prize for MON Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the MON E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and MON Letters. MON Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of MON poetry - including 'Corpus', which won the Whitbread Poetry MON Award - and two novels. He is a frequent collaborator with MON the composer James MacMillan and their opera, 'The MON Sacrifice' won the RPS Award. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b03g8gv7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b01m5fnp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmns (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Trapped b0076h5p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth b076bz3n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Orbiter X b077xnzr (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Captain McLelland and Flight Engineer Hicks plan to use an MON unmanned probe in their desperate bid to return to Earth. MON First broadcast in 1959, a bold plan to conquer space begins MON with prefabricated components of space station 'Orbiter X' MON being transported up from Earth, but the task proves MON perilous... MON BD Chapman's adventure stars John Carson as Captain Bob MON Britton, Andrew Crawford as Captain Douglas McClelland, MON Barrie Gosney as Flight Engineer Hicks, Donald Bisset as MON Colonel Kent, Gerik Schjelderup as Max Kramer and Ian Sadler MON as Neasen. MON Shaped like a giant wheel and code-named 'Orbiter X', the MON space station is designed to circle Earth, travelling in a MON rapid polar orbit - boasting synthetic gravity, produced by MON the rotation around the central hub. MON Fact and fiction were curiously interwoven, as a fortnight MON before broadcast, the Soviet Luna 2 space probe crash landed MON on the Moon. MON Producer: Charles Maxwell MON First broadcast in 14 parts on the BBC Light Programme in MON 1959. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00765d2 (Listen) MON Tim Waterstone & Nicola Horlick MON Louise Doughty and her guests, book store supremo, Tim MON Waterstone, and top city analyst, Nicola Horlick, discuss MON paperbacks by Paolo Coelho, Graham Greene and John Diamond. MON From 2001. MON The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho MON Publisher: HarperCollins MON The End of the Affair by Graham Greene MON Publisher: Penguin MON C: Because Cowards Get Cancer Too by John Diamond MON Publisher: Vermillion. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jrnv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Listen to Les b01nh8zx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 The Spying Game b0169ksj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Henry Moore, My Father b00qckc0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01d23ny (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds MON b042m84m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b076bz3n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01q8np2 (Listen) MON Series 5, Jenni Murray MON Dame Jenni Murray cooks her first ever healthy meal, using MON tofu and lentils, watches her first violent film, and MON samples the delights of controversial comedian Frankie MON Boyle. She gives her verdicts to Marcus. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b077xsd8 (Listen) MON Series 17, Episode 1 MON Made for 4 Extra. Jeremy Hardy and Susan Calman are among MON Miles Jupp's guests for this bumper bonus version of MON Friday's programme. MON MON 23:45 Paperback Hell b0076cd4 (Listen) MON Disco Shoes MON 4 Extra Debut. The first of four chapters by four authors MON from the bestseller charts and none of them very good. Disco MON Shoes with Rebecca Front. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 APRIL 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Orbiter X b077xnzr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00765d2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Spying Game b0169ksj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Henry Moore, My Father b00qckc0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdcy9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcvz5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f3s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00zdbj1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b03g8gv7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b01m5fnp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmns (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Trapped b0076h5p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth b076bz3n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c36bm (Listen) TUE Where's Father Jack? TUE A suspicious death in a pond unites Detective Inspector TUE Cromwell and convent Mother Helen. Are they about to embark TUE on a long and unlikely relationship? TUE Crime and convents, the police and perdition come together TUE in comedy writer and former monk Robert Smith's mystery. TUE Starring Timothy Spall as DI Cromwell, Cheryl Campbell as TUE Mother Helen, Jeremy Finch as DC Kelp and Jonathan Oliver as TUE Father Jack. TUE Producer: Ned Chaillet TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. TUE TUE 06:30 Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists TUE b00gm2y6 (Listen) TUE Art critic Richard Cork tells the story of the Futurist TUE movement and its founder, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. TUE Featuring recordings of Marinetti himself and the music of TUE composer and fellow Futurist Luigi Russolo. TUE TUE 07:00 The Emerald Green Show b077ygkd (Listen) TUE Face Value TUE Emerald's feathers are ruffled when a bright and talented TUE intern arrives on the show. Stars Llewella Gideon. From May TUE 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 Clare in the Community b063dcgb (Listen) TUE Series 10, Things That Go Bump in the Day TUE The Sparrowhawk team are forced to work together to overcome TUE a little problem they discover in the office. Lead by Clare, TUE they're thinking outside the box... TUE Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all TUE the right jargon but never a practical solution. TUE A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering TUE in other people's lives on both a professional and personal TUE basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and TUE heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of TUE discomfort to her. TUE Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control TUE both her professional and private life In today's Big TUE Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an TUE involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer Alexandra Smith. TUE Credits TUE Clare: Sally Phillips TUE Brian: Alex Lowe TUE Nali: Nina Conti TUE Megan: Nina Conti TUE Ray: Richard Lumsden TUE Helen: Pippa Haywood TUE Libby: Sarah Kendall TUE Joan: Sarah Thom TUE Enna: Sarah Thom TUE Mr Mortimer: David Cann TUE Buzzcock: David Cann TUE Jolyon Meryk: Kieran Hodgson TUE Greg: Kieran Hodgson TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00t4qkg (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 10 TUE Kenneth Horne is the wise old chief in 'The Apache Story'. TUE But is Kenneth Williams a pseudonym? And exactly how will TUE Julian and Sandy 'Keep Britain Bona'? TUE With Hugh Paddick and 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. Marty departed after TUE series 3. TUE Scripted by Barry Took, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. TUE Music by the Max Harris Group. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in April 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b0148wfp (Listen) TUE Under the Weather TUE The outlook is stormy for the dotty duo as they arrive at TUE the Met Office. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. TUE From May 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b077xsd8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Paperback Hell b0076cd4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b03gtvty (Listen) TUE Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender TUE by Evelyn Waugh TUE Dramatised by Jeremy Front TUE Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: TUE After injuring his knee during a parachute jump, Guy TUE believes his wartime experience is at an end, but then he TUE receives orders to fly to Italy on a secret mission. TUE Directed by Tracey Neale TUE Evelyn Waugh's trilogy of novels mark a high point in his TUE literary career. Originally published as three volumes: TUE Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional TUE Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and TUE published as the one-volume Sword of honour in 1965, in the TUE form in which Waugh himself wished they to be read. They are TUE dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. TUE This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the TUE comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy TUE Crouchback. Witty and tragic, engaging and insightful, this TUE work must be counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as TUE Waugh's most enduring novel. Sword of Honour effortlessly TUE treads the line between the personal and the political - it TUE is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied TUE war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from TUE isolation to self fulfilment. TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Tim McInnerny TUE Guy: Paul Ready TUE Virginia: Lydia Leonard TUE Peregrine: John Rowe TUE Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris TUE Ritchie-Hook: Tim Pigott-Smith TUE Frank De Souza: Joel MacCormack TUE Angela: Priyanga Burford TUE Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws TUE Eloise: Carolyn Pickles TUE Bakic: Chris Pavlo TUE Madame Kanyi: Mia Soteriou TUE Loot: David Seddon TUE Major Cattermole: Arthur Hughes TUE Squadron Leader: John Norton TUE Dawkins: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Commandant: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Elderberry: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Priest: Sean Murray TUE Gilpin: Sean Murray TUE Orderly: Harry Jardine TUE Director: Tracey Neale TUE Adaptor: Jeremy Front TUE Author: Evelyn Waugh TUE TUE 11:00 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01dd5s4 (Listen) TUE It May be Lalique, by Morag Joss TUE This year's Radio 4 stories from the Bath Literature TUE Festival are all are written by women in the West Country, TUE with women at their heart, recorded on stage on TUE International Women's Day. They all have a slightly edgy TUE feel to them, too, as ghosts, shadows and strange events TUE unfold. The second story is read by Morag Joss, TUE award-winning crime fiction author of the Sara Selkirk TUE series. TUE The last story in the series will be read by Patricia TUE Ferguson TUE Producer: Sara Davies. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b011zn6g (Listen) TUE Shelley Silas - The People Next Door TUE by Shelley Silas. TUE directed by Mary Peate. TUE Sarah has never much liked her next-door-neighbours Samuel TUE and Teresa - he plays his music too loud and she's just TUE plain creepy, but are they as weird as Sarah thinks, or is TUE she just letting her imagination run away with her? Husband TUE James is sure it's the latter. TUE Credits TUE Sarah: Claire Rushbrook TUE James: Nicholas Gleaves TUE Samuel: Sean Baker TUE Teresa: Marlene Sidaway TUE Car mechanic: Alun Raglan TUE Writer: Shelley Silas TUE Producer: Mary Peate TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00t4qkg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b0148wfp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c36bm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists TUE b00gm2y6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdrsn (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Martin finally stirs into action, but has Nick been ahead of TUE him all along? Where is Elaine? Written and read by Michael TUE Palin. TUE TUE 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg1 (Listen) TUE The Stuart Kings - The Crisis in Fashion TUE The radiant clothing at the court of King Charles I, TUE sumptuously painted by Anthony Van Dyck, but showing TUE tensions of the age. TUE TUE 14:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f48 (Listen) TUE Old Letters TUE Retired postal worker Venetia receives a gift from her son, TUE in Australia, but will she use it? Stars Madeleine Moffatt. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00zf6d5 (Listen) TUE Edgelands, Episode 2 TUE Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a TUE wilderness that is much closer than you think: those TUE debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These TUE two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places TUE that we all journey through, but generally fail to TUE acknowledge. TUE Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this TUE Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial TUE landscapes of ruined warehouses, car breaker's yards, retail TUE parks, containers and power stations. TUE Today, landfill sites and sewage treatment works. TUE Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts TUE Produced by Emma Harding TUE Edgelands is published by Jonathan Cape (27th February TUE 2011). It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award TUE for non-fiction in 2009. TUE Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry - TUE including 'Ice Age' - and has received the Forward Prize for TUE Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the TUE E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and TUE Letters. TUE Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of TUE poetry - including 'Corpus', which won the Whitbread Poetry TUE Award - and two novels. He is a frequent collaborator with TUE the composer James MacMillan and their opera, 'The TUE Sacrifice' won the RPS Award. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b03gtvty (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Foul Play b00k7xd6 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Death in Intensive Care TUE Crime writers Frances Fyfield and Peter N Walker try to TUE solve a medical mystery. Chaired by Simon Brett. From TUE January 1998. TUE TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag b00br86w (Listen) TUE Series 3, Whose Rubbish Is It Anyway? TUE Toxic waste is a challenge for Ambassador Mackenzie on his TUE Eastern Bloc posting. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From November TUE 1990. TUE TUE 17:00 The Emerald Green Show b077ygkd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Clare in the Community b063dcgb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Orbiter X b077ypfb (Listen) TUE Price of Survival TUE Unity progress their plans to commandeer the still TUE unassembled Orbiter X for their own evil purposes. Stars TUE Gerik Schjelderup. From November 1959. TUE TUE 18:30 The Palace of Laughter b007k2zj (Listen) TUE Series 2, Bradford Alhambra TUE Geoffrey Wheeler visits Yorkshire's home of pantomime and a TUE steadfast dance troupe. With Bill Pertwee. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00t4qkg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b0148wfp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c36bm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists TUE b00gm2y6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01dd5s4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b011zn6g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Clare in the Community b063dcgb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b00w7dnw (Listen) TUE Series 4, A Painful Life Further Re-Miserabled TUE Mark Evans' Victorian comic epic sees Pip and Harry put to TUE sea with Captain Beehab in a bid to thwart a sea-going TUE Mister Benevolent and rescue Ripely. But fate has other TUE plans and they are shipwrecked. Pip soon finds himself on a TUE desert island that holds many surprising secrets. TUE Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson TUE Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen TUE Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head TUE Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman TUE Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Pippa ..... Susy Kane TUE Writer ..... Mark Evans TUE Producer ..... Gareth Edwards. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b078cwj1 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Thom Tuck chats to Stu TUE Goldsmith. TUE TUE 23:00 Father Figure b01c9b73 (Listen) TUE Power Cut TUE Family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian Jason TUE Byrne. It's a Saturday night for cosying up in front of TUE Strictly Come Dancing but best laid plans are about to be TUE changed - for the better? TUE Tom Whyte.... Jason Byrne TUE Elaine Whyte.... Lucy Montgomery TUE Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite TUE Mary Whyte ....Pauline McLynn TUE Pat Whyte.... Dermot Crowley TUE Roddy .... Michael Smiley TUE Producer.Julia McKenzie. TUE TUE 23:30 Radio 9 b04gnvtq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE It's back to groovy 1960s London and a doctor obsessed with TUE Womble songs. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From July TUE 2005. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 APRIL 2016 WED WED 00:00 Orbiter X b077ypfb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Palace of Laughter b007k2zj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c36bm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Triple Espresso, Marinetti and the Futurists WED b00gm2y6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdrsn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f48 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00zf6d5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b03gtvty (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Foul Play b00k7xd6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b00br86w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 The Emerald Green Show b077ygkd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Clare in the Community b063dcgb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3d42 (Listen) WED Icon, or A Pocketful of Nuns WED A murder brought them together, but for DI Cromwell and WED Mother Helen within her enclosed convent, it's the theft of WED an icon that reunites them. WED And there's also the small problem of Monsignor Nietzsche. WED Crime and convents, the police and perdition come together WED in comedy writer and former monk Robert Smith's mystery. WED Starring Timothy Spall as DI Cromwell, Cheryl Campbell as WED Mother Helen, Jeremy Finch as DC Kelp and Sandor Eles as WED Monsignor Nietzsche. WED Producer: Ned Chaillet WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. WED WED 06:30 Jazz Frenzy b00vxzvk (Listen) WED Poland, August 1956. Rioters had been shot dead in Poznan WED weeks before. The invasion of Hungary is just weeks away. WED The Cold War rages but for 8 young Londoners, newly formed WED as The Dave Burman Jazz Group, their unlikely journey behind WED the Iron Curtain is an overwhelming surprise. Jazz in Poland WED had been banned by first the Nazis and then the Communists, WED but had been played secretly by a faithful few. WED Until the death of Stalin in 1953, playing and listening to WED jazz was illegal. This 'decadent Imperialist music' could WED lead to expulsion from music college, blacklisting or worse. WED But in the 'thaw' that followed Stalin's death, the WED restrictions on jazz began to lift. Now, at the seaside WED resort of Sopot, tens of thousands of young people journeyed WED miles by hitching rides or cramming into trains to hear jazz WED and that rarest of attractions - a British band. WED The Dave Burman Jazz Group had been assembled in just a few WED weeks - it would never play together again. But for a few WED days the Cold War blew hot as they thumped out Tiger Rag, WED Bucket's Got a Hole in It, Sugar and other standards to WED crowds of thousands all over the country. Their contact with WED Polish jazz lovers was minimal, frequently ushered by WED Communist officials during their hectic tour. But for those WED Polish musicians taking part in Sopot '56, this was the WED beginning of their Jazz Frenzy, of freedom. WED Dave Burman and the rest of the musicians returned to WED England never to experience such adulation and success WED again. Now, more than 50 years later, Dave is reunited with WED former band members Alan Teulon and Laurie Chescoe, before WED returning to Poland with his son and producer of the WED programme to meet some of those whose lives were changed WED forever by the events of Sopot '56. WED Producer and Presenter: Mark Burman. WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00pzgps (Listen) WED Series 3, First Aid WED Michael aims to dump his fiancee, Nigel suffers, and Zorro WED wields some murderous crutches. Stars Adam Godley. From WED March 2007. WED WED 07:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04lsl25 (Listen) WED Series 2, Tempting Fete WED 2/6: Tempting Fete. In this second episode of the series, WED Lucy borrows Kat's guitar and finds that this machine WED irritates aliens. Meanwhile tempers are fraught as WED preparations are made for the annual village fete, and WED Richard receives some surprising news from The Computer. WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyperintelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Original music written and performed by Grace Petrie WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Madeleine: Jane Slavin WED Penny: Elaine Claxton WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01l2td2 (Listen) WED Germany's Troutbridge WED HMS Troutbridge's mission to foster good relations with the WED German navy goes awry. 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, Michael Bates as Rear Admiral Ironbridge, Tenniel WED Evens as Taffy Goldstein and Ronnie Barker as Lieutenant WED Queeg. 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 December 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00h38dy (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 11 WED Serving up teapot hysteria and the pun-tastic '20,000 Leaks WED Under the Sea'. With John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From April WED 1970. WED WED 09:00 The Motion Show b00762gh (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with Gyles Brandreth, WED Sue Perkins, Steve Punt and Marcus Brigstocke. From June WED 2001. WED WED 09:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007k3yd (Listen) WED The T Machine WED Copper trousers, murderous intent and a paradoxical tale of WED the villainous Dr Julius Venn and his misbegotten future WED history. Stars Roy Kinnear. From October 1988. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b00jwxv2 (Listen) WED Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde, Episode 1 WED Dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. WED One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, WED compelling story explores love from its first tentative WED beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual WED tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new version for WED radio brings Chaucer's language up-to-date for a modern WED audience while remaining true to his original poetic WED intention. WED After seeing the beautiful widow Criseyde at the temple in WED Troy, Troilus falls instantly in love with her. WED Inexperienced in love, he is unable to act on his feelings WED and locks himself in his room to compose love songs. WED Pandarus, worried for his friend, eventually persuades WED Troilus to tell him why he is so miserable and is delighted WED to hear that the cause is Troilus' love for his niece WED Criseyde. WED Worried about her reputation, Criseyde is at first reluctant WED to enter into a relationship with Troilus. After much WED cajoling and manipulation, she reluctantly comes around to WED the idea. Pandarus is frustrated that the relationship is WED moving too slowly and engineers a complex plan to get WED Criseyde and Troilus in bed together. WED Troilus ...... Tom Ferguson WED Criseyde ...... Maxine Peake WED Pandarus ...... Malcolm Raeburn WED Servant/Friend ...... Kathryn Hunt WED Calchas/Servant ...... Kevin Doyle WED Priam/Servant ...... Terence Mann WED Hector/Diomede ...... Declan Wilson WED With music composed by Gary Yershon and performed by Ehsan WED Emam, Tim Williams and Mike Dale. WED Directed by Susan Roberts. WED WED 11:00 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01dtfs9 (Listen) WED The One I Saw WED This year's Radio 4 stories from the Bath Literature WED Festival are all are written by women in the West Country, WED with women at their heart, recorded on stage on WED International Women's Day. They all have a slightly edgy WED feel to them, too, as ghosts, shadows and strange events WED unfold. In the final story in the series, The One I Saw, by WED award-winning novelist Patricia Ferguson, two strange and WED disturbing events separated by many years bring about a WED profound moment of understanding. WED Producer: Sara Davies. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00mrygf (Listen) WED Nick Leather - Wednesdays with Strangers WED Wednesday with Strangers WED When a welcome pack to the UK offers advice on how to talk WED to strangers, a migrant worker decides to spend his one day WED off each week attempting to get to know the people of WED Britain and prove to his disillusioned flatmate that there WED is such a thing as the British Dream after all. A gentle WED comedy of manners by Nick Leather. WED Mirek...............Matt McGuirk WED Alex............... Eddie Capli WED Andy..............James Quinn WED Frank...............Greg Wood WED Joy.................Sue Kelly WED Producer Gary Brown. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01l2td2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00h38dy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3d42 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Jazz Frenzy b00vxzvk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdvlx (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Martin succumbs more and more to the power of the chair, but WED soon gets his comeuppance. Written and read by Michael WED Palin. WED WED 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg3 (Listen) WED Charles II - Fashion Restored? WED An old sartorial order seemed restored, but French fashions WED prompted a style that would herald the three-piece suit. WED WED 14:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f4r (Listen) WED Letters Home WED Janie, 15, is anorexic. Her mother Grace feels powerless, WED until a library book suggests an idea. Stars Siobhan WED Finneran. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00zf37p (Listen) WED Edgelands, Episode 3 WED Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a WED wilderness that is much closer than you think: those WED debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These WED two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places WED that we all journey through, but generally fail to WED acknowledge. WED Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this WED Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial WED landscapes of ruined warehouses, landfill sites, retail WED parks, sewage works and car breaker's yards. WED Today, container yards and power stations. WED Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts WED Produced by Emma Harding WED Edgelands is published by Jonathan Cape (27th February WED 2011). It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award WED for non-fiction in 2009. WED Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry - WED including 'Ice Age' - and has received the Forward Prize for WED Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the WED E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and WED Letters. WED Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of WED poetry - including 'Corpus', which won the Whitbread Poetry WED Award - and two novels. He is a frequent collaborator with WED the composer James MacMillan and their opera, 'The WED Sacrifice' won the RPS Award. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b00jwxv2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The Motion Show b00762gh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007k3yd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00pzgps (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04lsl25 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Orbiter X b0783p4d (Listen) WED Marooned in Space WED The evil Unity organisation sets about planting an insider WED within the Commonwealth Space Project headquarters. From WED November 1959. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b007sptx (Listen) WED Zeitgeist WED Zeitgeist WED Joe Queenan, Pauline Black and Toby Young discuss one of the WED few German words to find a secure place in the English WED language. WED Though adored by fashion writers and political columnists WED alike, Queenan says: 'If you used words like zeitgeist where WED I grew up, they'd break your legs'. WED Dominic Arkwright presents. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01l2td2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00h38dy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3d42 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Jazz Frenzy b00vxzvk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Bath Festival Stories, Series 3 b01dtfs9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00mrygf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04lsl25 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Seekers b03gghks (Listen) WED Series 1, Seek Hard WED EPISODE 6: SEEK HARD WED It's an unusual day in the Job Centre when armed robbers, WED having been cornered by police after doing a bank job across WED the road, take everyone hostage. This could be Stuart's WED chance to prove to Nicola he's a hero. He needs to do WED something spectacular to compete with her past boyfriend who WED Joe claims was none other than Christian Bale. 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 Written by Steven Burge WED Produced by Katie Tyrrell. WED Terry's CV WED Terry's put his blood, sweat and tears into his CV. WED Literally. WED Credits WED Stuart: Matthew Horne WED Joe: Daniel Mays WED Terry: Tony Way WED Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi WED Mr Harty: Alex Lowe WED Dave Manager: Alex Lowe WED Mrs S: Sally Grace WED Mr A: Ben Crowe WED Mr G: Paul Chequer WED Gary Probert: Steve Oram WED Policeman: Sean Murray WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Steven Burge WED WED 23:00 The Masterson Inheritance b007jswh (Listen) WED Series 1, The Tatting of the Mastersons WED Family revenge in the Wild West over dodgy dental work. WED Improvised comedy with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From WED May 1993. WED WED 23:30 And Now in Colour b00804kc (Listen) WED Series 2, Astronaut Training WED The sketch team take the audience to Nevada for selection by WED Nasa. Stars Tim de Jongh and William Vandyck. From February WED 1991. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 APRIL 2016 THU THU 00:00 Orbiter X b0783p4d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b007sptx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3d42 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Jazz Frenzy b00vxzvk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdvlx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f4r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00zf37p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b00jwxv2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 The Motion Show b00762gh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007k3yd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Brothers b00pzgps (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully THU b04lsl25 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3k9d (Listen) THU Sister, Brother THU When a convicted forger decides on a new career as a nun, THU the sex change is just the beginning of his problems. And DI THU Cromwell is not amused when Mother Helen is put in danger. THU Crime and convents, the police and perdition come together THU in comedy writer and former monk Robert Smith's mystery. THU Starring Timothy Spall as DI Cromwell, Cheryl Campbell as THU Mother Helen, Jeremy Finch as DC Kelp and Stephen Critchlow THU as Sister Paula. THU Producer: Ned Chaillet THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. THU THU 06:30 The Shapes of Things: BB Remembered b00v71w4 (Listen) THU Kate Best looks back at the life and work of 'B.B.' - the THU pen-name of the writer and illustrator Denys THU Wakins-Pitchford. Best known for his children's books which THU include a much-loved classic, The Little Grey Men, B.B. also THU wrote prolifically about the countryside, documenting the THU wildlife which was his lifelong obsession. Kate Best visits THU some of his Northamptonshire haunts and talks to those who THU knew him - and fans including Ian Mcmillan and Philip Ardagh THU explain his lasting appeal. With readings by Sir Derek THU Jacobi. THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes b007r4md (Listen) THU Series 1, Girls Talk THU Patrick and Helen get dragged to a stag and hen night for a THU couple neither of them know. Stars Jim Sweeney. From August THU 2001. THU THU 07:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b076mq2s (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU David Baddiel hosts the second series of the panel show THU where some of the funniest comedians have to go against all THU their instincts and try not to make an audience laugh. THU Featuring Richard Osman, Clive Anderson, Nick Helm and THU Yasmine Akram. THU A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Panellist: Richard Osman THU Panellist: Clive Anderson THU Panellist: Nick Helm THU Panellist: Yasmine Akram THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jthd (Listen) THU Series 2, The Banquet THU Author Gerald writes off his car whilst trying to help his THU wife Diana find inspiration. THU The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring THU Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as THU his wife. THU Written by Basil Boothroyd. THU Producer: Bobby Jaye THU The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter ran from 1976 THU to 1981 THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1977. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b008ythl (Listen) THU Series 4, Minorities Programme THU With their franchise under threat from broadcasting THU authorities, Radio Active must target community relations. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. THU Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with Jon Canter, THU John Docherty and Moray Hunter. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0783q7s (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 5 THU Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Roger McGough, THU Mark Thomas, Miles Kington and Dillie Keane. From November THU 1997. THU THU 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008y6pd (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 6 THU JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, THU Patricia Routledge, June Whitfield and Joan Sims. From THU December 1994. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b00k2qr9 (Listen) THU Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde, Episode 2 THU Dramatisation of Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde. THU One of the great works of English literature, this powerful, THU compelling story explores love from its first tentative THU beginnings through to passionate sensuality and eventual THU tragic disillusionment. Lavinia Greenlaw's new version for THU radio brings Chaucer's language up-to-date for a modern THU audience while remaining true to his original poetic THU intention. THU Criseyde's Uncle Pandarus has been the matchmaker for the THU Trojan hero Troilus and young widow Criseyde, who are THU desperately in love. But what will happen when Criseyde is THU handed over to the Greeks at the gates of Troy to join her THU 'traitor' father? THU Troilus ...... Tom Ferguson THU Criseyde ...... Maxine Peake THU Pandarus ...... Malcolm Raeburn THU Servant/Friend ...... Kathryn Hunt THU Calchas/Servant ...... Kevin Doyle THU Priam/Servant ...... Terence Mann THU Hector/Diomede ...... Declan Wilson THU With music composed by Gary Yershon and performed by Ehsan THU Emam, Tim Williams and Mike Dale. THU Directed by Susan Roberts. THU THU 11:00 John Burnside - Tourists b0075746 (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. A woman goes on holiday with her ex-husband, THU who wants to revisit the past and correct a mistake. Read by THU Tracy-Ann Oberman. THU THU 11:15 Martyn Wade - The Other Constance Chatterley THU b007k0l7 (Listen) THU Mrs Chatterley of Gravesend reveals similar interests to her THU famous namesake. Stars Felicity Montagu and Rachel Atkins. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jthd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b008ythl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3k9d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Shapes of Things: BB Remembered b00v71w4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdzr3 (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Martin's drunken antics lead him into a field of bulls, and THU Ruth starts to worry about him. Written and read by Michael THU Palin. THU THU 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg5 (Listen) THU Beau Nash - The Rise of the Middling Sort THU The impact of an English dandy. The interior designer visits THU Bath, the hub of the 18th-century men's clothing revolution. THU THU 14:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f57 (Listen) THU Letters to God THU Winifred writes letters to God about her marriage to James, THU who will soon be retiring. Stars Judi Earl and Donald THU McBride. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00zf386 (Listen) THU Edgelands, Episode 4 THU Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a THU wilderness that is much closer than you think: those THU debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These THU two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places THU that we all journey through, but generally fail to THU acknowledge. THU Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this THU Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial THU landscapes of ruined warehouses, landfill sites, sewage THU works and power stations. THU Today, retail parks and edgeland hotels. THU Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts THU Produced by Emma Harding THU Edgelands is published by Jonathan Cape (27th February THU 2011). It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award THU for non-fiction in 2009. THU Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry - THU including 'Ice Age' - and has received the Forward Prize for THU Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the THU E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and THU Letters. THU Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of THU poetry - including 'Corpus', which won the Whitbread Poetry THU Award - and two novels. He is a frequent collaborator with THU the composer James MacMillan and their opera, 'The THU Sacrifice' won the RPS Award. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b00k2qr9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0783q7s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008y6pd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes b007r4md (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b076mq2s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Orbiter X b0783r2p (Listen) THU Operation Salvage THU Captain Kent of the CSP embarks on a rescue mission, whilst THU the crew of Orbiter 2 make plans to get home. From November THU 1959. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b012wjd1 (Listen) THU Series 25, Graham Greene THU The Third Man, Brighton Rock, Travels With My Aunt - the THU books of Graham Greene all still have a definite ring. But THU the the man himself was an enigma. He worked both as a spy THU as well as a foreign correspondent, and wrote endlessly THU about shady characters and secret affairs. This programme THU opens with him talking about his love of playing Russian THU Roulette - it turns out that Graham Greene was easily bored. THU Choosing Greene for Great Lives is Tim Butcher, 20 years a THU war reporter for the Daily Telegraph and more recently THU author of Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart, a THU title that suggests the influence of Greeneland. Tim says THU that it's his depiction of seedy life that appeals. THU The programme also features the voices of Beryl Bainbridge, THU Christopher Hampton and Auberon Waugh, along with a classic THU clip of Trevor Howard as Scobie in the Heart of the Matter THU from 1953. THU Matthew Parris is unimpressed with Greene's treatment of his THU wife, Vivienne, and questions whether the image Greene THU created was really true. David Pearce, founding trustee of THU the International Graham Greene Festival offers a robust THU defence. THU Future programmes in the series include editions on THU Shakespeare, Kirsty MacColl, and Antonio Carluccio on the THU sculptor Eduardo Paolozzi. THU The producer is Miles Warde. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jthd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b008ythl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3k9d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Shapes of Things: BB Remembered b00v71w4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 John Burnside - Tourists b0075746 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Martyn Wade - The Other Constance Chatterley THU b007k0l7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Don't Make Me Laugh b076mq2s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Headset Set b012lkzw (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 5 THU An audience sketch show set in the call centre of Smile5, THU the catalogue company that sells anything and everything. THU This week, the Headset Set receive the news that their THU colleague Dan has died. They react in their usual callous THU and manipulative way. Meanwhile, Ralph the trainer has a new THU trainee in Philip the artist. THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh other characters ..... Paul sharma THU Philip and other characters ..... Philip Fox THU Script editor ..... James Kettle THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani THU WELCOME TO SMILE5! THU Smile5 is a mail order catalogue company selling everything THU from Rolex watches to lawnmowers, from financial products to THU phone and broadband, from holidays to health insurance. And THU somewhere in a brown-field wasteland miles from the nearest THU town, it runs one of the largest call centres operating in THU the UK. This is the world of The Headset Set. THU Each episode features a host of sketches set in the call THU centre, eavesdropping on both sides of the bizarre, horrific THU and ludicrous business-customer relationship. While the bulk THU of each show is taken up with standalone sketches, there are THU linked scenes providing a gentle narrative curve to THU proceedings. These scenes feature three of the call centre's THU employees - Bernie, Aleesha and Big Tony - trying the THU patience of their team leader Sailesh. THU This is a team written sketch show series originated by THU Stephen Carlin and James Kettle and script edited by James THU Kettle and Dan Tetsell. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b078cwmp (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Thom Tuck chats to Stu THU Goldsmith. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jmdn (Listen) THU Series 3, The Final Reckoning THU When God hears that rules are being broken in Hell, he sends THU archangels to investigate. Satanic sitcom stars Andy THU Hamilton. From April 1999. THU THU 23:30 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford b007680t (Listen) THU Series 1, Recital Statistics THU The poet-in-residence's mission to bring quiche to the Quays THU comes to its artistic climax. Stars James Quinn. From June THU 2002. THU THU 23:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b00sr30b (Listen) THU Series 2, Normal Things THU The cartoonist has a very removing experience when an expert THU de-clutters his house. Stars Paul McCrink. From March 2003. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Orbiter X b0783r2p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b012wjd1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3k9d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Shapes of Things: BB Remembered b00v71w4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sdzr3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f57 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00zf386 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b00k2qr9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0783q7s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008y6pd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes b007r4md (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b076mq2s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3rlj (Listen) FRI Virtual Saints FRI Despite moving the convent into cyber space, Mother Helen FRI and her nuns are not safe from declining numbers. And DI FRI Cromwell has the small matter of an old murder to solve. FRI Crime and convents, the police and perdition come together FRI in comedy writer and former monk Robert Smith's mystery. FRI Starring Timothy Spall as DI Cromwell, Cheryl Campbell as FRI Mother Helen, Jeremy Finch as DC Kelp and Bryan Pringle as FRI Mr Lord. FRI Producer: Ned Chaillet FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. FRI FRI 06:30 Mapping the Town b0076hbm (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. Julian Richards looks at the colourful FRI village created by Clough William-Ellis in north Wales. From FRI October 2003. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston in Love b007jnbk (Listen) FRI Happy Days in Cawnpore FRI Everyone is in love except William, but is Nancy's ministry FRI man her best choice? Stars Maurice Denham. From January FRI 1991. FRI FRI 07:30 The Rest Is History b0773pcp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of FRI it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to FRI find out more about it. FRI Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate FRI Williams, Frank is joined by a selection of celebrity guests FRI who help him navigate his way through the annals of time, FRI picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and most FRI interesting moments in history. FRI The guests are Holly Walsh and Richard Herring, who discuss FRI Burke and Hare, Mussolini, Catherine Parr and the jokes of FRI yesteryear. FRI Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard FRI An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Frank Skinner FRI Interviewed Guest: Holly Walsh FRI Interviewed Guest: Richard Herring FRI Interviewed Guest: Kate Williams FRI Producer: Mark Augustyn FRI Producer: Justin Pollard FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrcz (Listen) FRI Cold Feet FRI Bob gets the jitters over marrying his fiancée, Thelma. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob FRI Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. With Sheila FRI Fearn and Michael Segal. FRI Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La FRI Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley. FRI Producer: John Browell FRI Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in FRI the BBC's Archive Treasure Hunt in 2003. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1975. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jtj9 (Listen) FRI The Sleeping Prince FRI When Neddie Seagoon is made president of Yakabakoo, he tries FRI to quell a revolution. Stars Spike Milligan. From February FRI 1957. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n7l2h (Listen) FRI Series 5, Brand, Hart Dyke, Clark FRI The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor FRI of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John FRI Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, FRI Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined FRI by the comedian Jimmy Carr. FRI Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of FRI entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one FRI item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place FRI in the museum. Ever since someone gave the Museum the Big FRI Bang it's been expanding at an alarming rate, and now FRI there's no looking back without the aid of a huge telescope. FRI This week, John and Jimmy have invited along Astronomer Dr FRI Stuart Clark; Plant-hunter and former hostage Tom Hart Dyke; FRI and comedian, novelist and sitcom writer Jo Brand. FRI Guests booked for the rest of the series include: FRI Physicist and broadcaster Dr Helen Czerski FRI Expert on Ancient Mesopotamia Dr Irving Finkel FRI Comedian Humphrey Ker FRI Magician/actor/comedian Andy Nyman FRI Anatomist author and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts FRI Comedian Sean Hughes FRI Ig Nobels Prize founder Marc Abrahams FRI Astronaut Buzz Aldrin FRI Comedian, author and sex therapist Pamela Stephenson FRI Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir Andre Geim. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b016n8zl (Listen) FRI Series 9, Changing Lives FRI Roger sees his dad's death as a watershed, while others see FRI it as a chance to redecorate. Stars Bill Nighy. From January FRI 2003. FRI FRI 10:00 Saturday Drama b00fr7kx (Listen) FRI Lynne Truss - Giving Up the Ghost FRI By Lynne Truss. FRI In a house full of carbon monoxide, firefighter Scott gets FRI separated from his colleagues and begins to experience the FRI last terrible moments of his friend Jacko's life, who had FRI died in similar circumstances eight months earlier. FRI Scott ...... Adrian Bower FRI Alan ...... Struan Rodger FRI Philip ...... Jeff Rawle FRI Giggsy ...... Joe Absolom FRI Mike ...... Brendan Charleson FRI H/Jacko ...... Richard Nichols FRI Lucy ...... Sara McGaughey FRI Directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Mat Coward - Famous for One Thing b0783t54 (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. 'I had an idea that writing about what had FRI happened to me would be therapeutic'. A short story read by FRI Chris Harris. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b01292v9 (Listen) FRI Roy Apps - Life Begins at Crawley FRI In Roy Apps's comedy, Penelope Keith plays Eleanor FRI Prendergast - the wife of a newly imprisoned Tory MP who's FRI been fiddling his expenses big time! She's driven to crime FRI to make ends meet (she's got her Porsche to run after all, FRI and the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm to pay) and soon finds FRI herself at the wheel of a stolen articulated lorry full of FRI vodka, facing down an armed Russian mobster and - perhaps FRI most scary of all - eating chips out of a polystyrene tray FRI on Brighton Pier! FRI The trouble begins when she meets young Kerry (Kelly Adams) FRI in the prison car park after her first visiting session. FRI Eleanor's at her wits' end, but Kerry advises her to get a FRI grip and 'take up crime, like the rest of us.' 'But that's FRI just the point, I'm not like the rest of you!' snobby FRI Eleanor complains. However, she decides to pick Kerry's FRI brains and invites her down to her house in deepest Sussex. FRI While Kerry is at Eleanor's discussing the relative merits FRI of armed robbery over demanding money with menaces, an FRI articulated lorry packed with Russian vodka gets stuck FRI outside in the lane, due to sat nav error. The lorry driver FRI trips and cracks his head open on Eleanor's mannequin pis. FRI Eleanor, with years of experience driving horse-boxes for FRI her daughter behind her, moves the lorry so the ambulance FRI can get through. FRI If she is serious about a life of crime, this is an FRI opportunity not to be missed. Kerry gets a text offering a FRI lucrative deal on the vodka and soon, any doubts Eleanor may FRI have had about the venture quickly disappear. With Kerry at FRI her side, and with a crash of gears, Eleanor sets off in the FRI articulated lorry for a 'meet' at a warehouse in Crawley.... FRI Written by Roy Apps FRI Cast: FRI Eleanor ...... Penelope Keith FRI Kerry ...... Kelly Adams FRI Charles ...... David Collings FRI Malky ..... Russell Floyd FRI Andronnikov ..... Richard Attlee FRI Sasha ......Rob Heaps FRI Agency Man ..... Nicholas Boulton FRI Agency Girl ..... Jessica Carroll FRI Kelvin ..... Sam Taylor FRI Producer/Director: David Blount FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrcz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jtj9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3rlj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Mapping the Town b0076hbm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sf1x0 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Martin returns to the Post Office, seeking Geraldine. FRI Meanwhile, Nick anticipates a big day. Written and read by FRI Michael Palin. FRI FRI 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg7 (Listen) FRI Beau Brummell - The Dandy Style FRI Tastemaker to the Regency, Beau Brummell was British FRI fashion's most influential man. The interior designer FRI surveys his impact. FRI FRI 14:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f5r (Listen) FRI Letters to the Dead FRI Albanian asylum seeker Olix turns to his elderly neighbour, FRI Merril, for help. Stars Rad Lazar and Madeleine Moffatt. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00zf5sh (Listen) FRI Edgelands, Episode 5 FRI Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a FRI wilderness that is much closer than you think: those FRI debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These FRI two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places FRI that we all journey through, but generally fail to FRI acknowledge. FRI Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this FRI Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial FRI landscapes of car breaker's yards, landfill sites, retail FRI parks, sewage treatment works and power stations. FRI Today, ruined warehouses and abandoned piers. FRI Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI Edgelands is published by Jonathan Cape (27th February FRI 2011). It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award FRI for non-fiction in 2009. FRI Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry - FRI including 'Ice Age' - and has received the Forward Prize for FRI Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the FRI E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and FRI Letters. FRI Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of FRI poetry - including 'Corpus', which won the Whitbread Poetry FRI Award - and two novels. He is a frequent collaborator with FRI the composer James MacMillan and their opera, 'The FRI Sacrifice' won the RPS Award. FRI FRI 15:00 Saturday Drama b00fr7kx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n7l2h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b016n8zl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston in Love b007jnbk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 The Rest Is History b0773pcp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Orbiter X b0788cnv (Listen) FRI Return to Woomera FRI Patched up Orbiter 2 heads for Earth, but will CSP realise FRI that the incoming incommunicado ship is friendly? Stars John FRI Carson. From November 1959. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00dnjrn (Listen) FRI Series 7, So What FRI Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional FRI appeal. FRI Telling the stories of some of the people whose lives have FRI been affected by So What, the opening track on Miles Davis' FRI seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrcz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jtj9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3rlj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Mapping the Town b0076hbm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Mat Coward - Famous for One Thing b0783t54 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b01292v9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Rest Is History b0773pcp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b039q252 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit FRI sketch show. FRI The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by FRI The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny FRI sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The FRI second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and FRI Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. FRI This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches FRI about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how FRI goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate FRI instead on the the big, serious issues. FRI This second episode of the series addresses making new FRI friends; the problem with polymath bestselling authors; and FRI a brief history of choice. And the show as a whole is... FRI slightly off. FRI Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret FRI Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. FRI Producer: Ed Morrish. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Finnemore FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: Simon Kane FRI Ensemble: Lawry Lewin FRI Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI FRI 23:00 Dave Podmore b007rkg1 (Listen) FRI Dave Podmore's World of Cricket, Episode 1 FRI The cricketer bids to run the 2003 World Cup opening FRI ceremony - on the cheap, of course. Stars Christopher FRI Douglas. From June 2002. FRI FRI 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global b007jvs3 (Listen) FRI Series 1, China FRI Teeming with spittoons and parks packed with people, the FRI comedian visits the bustling city of Shanghai. From April FRI 2002. FRI
15 April, 2016
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 16/04/2016 - 22/04/2016
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