17 June, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 18/06/2016 - 24/06/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrll (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT With most of the population blinded, Bill Masen is SAT determined to find Josella. But where does he start? Cult SAT novel read by Roger May. SAT SAT 00:30 Sounds Natural b01slst0 (Listen) SAT Peter Cushing SAT Award-winning actor Peter Cushing takes a break from making SAT horror films to discuss his enthusiasm for the British SAT countryside and its wildlife - aided by recordings from the SAT BBC Sound Archive. SAT Peter tells Derek Jones how he used to spend hours with his SAT late wife Helen watching wild birds from their home on the SAT estuary at Whitstable in Kent. SAT Peter Cushing, OBE: born 1913 - died 1994. SAT Producer: John Burton. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1972. SAT SAT 01:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p10th (Listen) SAT Series 1, A Costume Piece SAT Reuben Rosenthall has made his millions in the diamond SAT fields of South Africa, and it seems only right and proper SAT to Raffles that some of this wealth should be redistributed. SAT But his attempts to seize the diamonds don't quite go SAT according to plan, as a low-key stakeout spirals into a SAT terrifying scramble for survival. SAT Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as SAT Bunny, Geoffrey Matthews as Reuben Rosenthall and John SAT Hollis as 'Slammer' Purvis. SAT EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. SAT Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. SAT Directed by Gordon House SAT A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast SAT in 1985. SAT SAT 01:30 The Manchester Writers b00tbck6 (Listen) SAT John Harris explores the work of a group of authors who SAT captured a northern social realism in the 1930s with writing SAT that went on to shape the views of northern living for SAT generations. SAT Walter Greenwood, Howard Spring and Louis Golding wrote SAT about Greater Manchester at a time of severe economic SAT depression and great poverty and their novel's describe SAT conditions that have resonances with our life today - cuts SAT in welfare, increased unemployment and a coalition SAT government. SAT Greenwood's 'Love on the Dole', Golding's 'Magnolia Street' SAT and Spring's 'Fame is the Spur' depict a tough, working SAT class life and although the three authors wrote from SAT slightly different perspectives, they describe people SAT enduring a grim, hard existence in an industrial landscape. SAT As the final parts of industrial Manchester and Salford are SAT finally transformed by investment and modernisation, 'The SAT Manchester Writers' visits the streets that inspired these SAT authors and hears how their work has endured and influenced SAT ideas of northern England. SAT SAT 02:00 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders b007jx8b (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Reconciliation is on the cards, with the recognition of SAT unspoken devotion. Concluded by Juliet Stevenson. SAT SAT 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00s9f4y (Listen) SAT A Thousand Histories and Fables SAT Michael Morpurgo learns about the impact of printing, and SAT how it raised fears among adults that it was corrupting SAT children. SAT SAT 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsmm (Listen) SAT Episode 15 SAT Daniel becomes disillusioned with home and the church, and SAT there is some disturbing news for Stephanie. With Rosemary SAT Leach. SAT SAT 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gk2qv (Listen) SAT A Triumphant Evening SAT With the conference underway, Stevens' abilities as a butler SAT are tested when his father is taken ill. Read by John SAT Moffatt. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b07jgrhb (Listen) SAT Silas Marner, Episode 2 SAT Silas Marner by George Eliot SAT dramatised by Richard Cameron SAT Episode 1/2 SAT Outcast from the church, community, and closest friends for SAT a crime he did not commit, Silas Marner's trust and faith SAT falls away. A broken, disillusioned man, exiled, he builds a SAT new faith, that will never let him down: gold. He weaves his SAT cloths, counts his money, baptises himself with the coins of SAT his new religion. When tragedy strikes again and all his SAT money is stolen he's bereft and grief stricken. Then on New SAT Year's Eve a vision of gold flickers before the flames. SAT Spilling locks are tumbling coins. For a moment Silas is SAT reunited with his lovely sovereigns. And then he sees a SAT little child. SAT SILAS MARNER.............George Costigan SAT SARAH/PRISCILLA ............................Fiona Clarke SAT WILLIAM/JEM/GODFREY...........Conrad Nelson SAT MINISTER/MACEY.............Seamus O'Neill SAT SNELL/BRYCE..............Leigh Symonds SAT DUNSEY/DOWLAS..............James Nickerson SAT SQUIRE ............. ......Terence Wilton SAT DOLLY............. ...Deborah McAndrew SAT AARON (child).............................George Herbert SAT NANCY/MOLLY........ ........Maeve Larkin SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 04:00 We've Been Here Before b00g1rsp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT Clive Anderson's yesteryear quiz, with Helen Atkinson-Wood, SAT John O'Farrell, Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth. From July SAT 2004. SAT SAT 04:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k1mc (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Engagement SAT Rabbi Sue's announcement sparks fury from her rival Abraham. SAT Stars Tracy-Ann Oberman and David de Keyser. From December SAT 1999. SAT SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds b00q9px6 (Listen) SAT A Comedy of Arrows SAT King John gets ambushed. Roy Hudd's historical royal romp, SAT with June Whitfield and Jeffrey Holland. From August 1995. SAT SAT 05:30 Meet David Sedaris b0125g85 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Nuit of the Living Dead and The End of the Affair SAT The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SAT charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This SAT week: what not to do with a mouse, in front of strangers in SAT "Nuit of the Living Dead" and the ups and downs of along SAT term relationship get the Sedaris treatment in "The End of SAT the Affair" SAT Producer: Steve Doherty SAT A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 Death at Broadcasting House b07grh62 (Listen) SAT An actor is strangled during the live broadcast of a murder SAT mystery play at the BBC's London HQ. Once the broadcast SAT ends, it's discovered that the victim really is dead - and SAT millions of listeners must have heard the crime being SAT committed! SAT Starring John Moffatt as Julian Caird, Peter Sallis as SAT Detective Inspector Spears, Graham Crowden as the Director SAT General, Jeremy Clyde as Rodney Fleming, Diana Quick as SAT Isabel Dryden and Nicky Henson as Detective Sergeant Ring. SAT Whodunit first adapted for the cinema in 1934 by Val Gielgud SAT and Holt Marvell from their book of the same name. Adapted SAT for radio by Sue Rodwell and recorded on location. SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. SAT SAT 07:30 Three Rivers b00lc66g (Listen) SAT The Mersey SAT Hardeep Singh Kohli travels from source to sea of three SAT major rivers that are being regenerated after years of SAT neglect and industrial use. SAT Hardeep begins his journey along the Mersey beside the River SAT Goyt in the Peak District, the main tributary of the Mersey. SAT He visits Stockport, which is the official beginning of the SAT Mersey, and spots the plaque which announces that fact SAT hidden behind a Sainsbury's store. From there, Hardeep SAT ventures on to the Manchester Ship Canal and eventually SAT reaches Liverpool's Albert Dock. SAT A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01s02zb (Listen) SAT Dr K SAT Henry Kissinger is the most celebrated figure in US foreign SAT policy, despite having left office over thirty-five years SAT ago. SAT His much-vaunted "opening to China" with President Nixon in SAT 1972, his détente policy with the Soviet Union during the SAT Cold War and his shuttle diplomacy across the Middle East, SAT all saw Dr. Kissinger guiding American interests and seeking SAT durable power balances. Ever since then, each US president SAT has sought out Kissinger's sage advice. SAT But Kissinger's reputation has a darker side. Some critics SAT still find inexcusable the Americans' bombing of Cambodia SAT and involvement in Chile's 1973 military coup. They also SAT deplore what they see as his indifference to human rights. SAT In this programme, Mark Malloch Brown, a former Foreign SAT Office minister and top official at the United Nations, SAT presents a personal perspective on Dr. K. SAT As a young man in the 1960s and 1970s, Mark was repelled by SAT what he saw as Kissinger's ruthless realpolitik and apparent SAT downplaying of the plight of peoples from IndoChina to Latin SAT America. SAT However, over the course of his own long career, Mark's view SAT of Dr K has changed. The collapse of communism, the rise of SAT China and the problems left unresolved by the invasions of SAT Afghanistan and Iraq have led Mark to view Kissinger's SAT insights into foreign policy - and how to achieve stability SAT and security - more sympathetically. SAT As Kissinger's 90th birthday nears, Mark asks: what are the SAT lessons of Dr K's thinking and practice for our own times? SAT Also taking part are the historian, Margaret MacMillan; the SAT colleague and critic of Henry Kissinger, Morton Halperin; SAT the long-standing Kissinger aide, Winston Lord; and the SAT author of the award-winning critique of America's bombing of SAT Cambodia, William Shawcross. SAT Producer Simon Coates. SAT SAT 09:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings b04n61gw (Listen) SAT Tony Hancock fan Steve Punt presents oddities and rarities SAT featuring the lad himself: SAT * BBC TV's Face To Face interview (1960) SAT Episode from the TV series in which John Freeman SAT cross-examined leading personalities of the day. Here he SAT interviews the radio and TV comedian, Tony Hancock. SAT * 'Ancock's Anthology - the BBC Light Programme's Christmas SAT Day miscellany of the comic's favourite music, readings and SAT an interview with Stirling Moss (25/12/1964) SAT * The Missing Page - the Pye Records re-recording of the TV SAT episode (1965) On a visit to Cheam Library, the lad is SAT appalled to be told he has some outstanding fines to pay. SAT With Graham Stark, Clive Dunn and Frank Thornton. Written by SAT Ray Galton & Alan Simpson. SAT * Educating Archie (19/10/1951) SAT Tony Hancock, Julie Andrews and Hattie Jacques join SAT wisecracking schoolboy Archie Andrews. Cinema high-jinks and SAT Dr Hancock lets Archie use his 'Wishing Chair'. Radio SAT ventriloquism from Peter Brough. Written by Eric Sykes. SAT * The first ever episode of Hancock's Half Hour - 'The First SAT Night Party' (BBC Light Programme 02/11/1954) The lad throws SAT a launch party for his new series, but things don't quite go SAT to plan. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Kenneth SAT Williams and Gerald Campion. Written by Ray Galton & Alan SAT Simpson. SAT Producer: Mik Wilkojc. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2014. SAT SAT 12:00 Charles Dickens b00r66xt (Listen) SAT Sketches by Boz - Series 1, The Tuggses at Ramsgate SAT It seems that money cannot buy you love. A comic story SAT starring Nicholas Farrell, Christopher Hancock and Frances SAT Jeater. SAT SAT 12:30 A Whole 'Nother Story b00763tm (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Cassie and Pete would be a great couple, if SAT they were not so busy being friends. Stars Debra Stephenson SAT and Dave Lamb. From September 2001. Episode 1 of 4. SAT SAT 13:00 Unsuitable Men With Familiar Smiles b07grp8f (Listen) SAT Omnibus. Christine's hidden past of adventures with a string SAT of unsuitable men must now be revealed to her family. SAT Starring Eleanor Bron. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b07grpkd (Listen) SAT Ray Quinn SAT Actor, singer, dancer Ray Quinn chooses 'My Special Angel' SAT by Malcolm Vaughan and 'Eye of the Tiger' by Survivor. SAT SAT 14:15 Sentimental Journey b007563l (Listen) SAT Ingrid Pitt SAT Arthur Smith accompanies the star of numerous 'Hammer House SAT of Horror' films, Ingrid Pitt, on a trip back to Argentina. SAT Producer: Sharon Banoff SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. SAT SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl5d (Listen) SAT Series 1, Fallen Comrades SAT Carter Brandon and his uncle sup a poignant pint at the Old SAT Comrades Club. Peter Tinniswood's adventures with Peter SAT Skellern. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01s02zb (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Death at Broadcasting House b07grh62 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Three Rivers b00lc66g (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b07grtrz (Listen) SAT Industrial Evolution, Episode 2 SAT The Doctor discovers there's more than one alien interfering SAT with industrial progress of 19th century Earth. SAT After following Thomas Brewster to Samuel Belfrage's brass SAT mill in Ackleton, the Doctor and Evelyn have discovered some SAT unexpected truth about his business. SAT Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables as SAT Evelyn Smythe, John Pickard as Thomas Brewster, Rory Kinnear SAT as Samuel Belfrage, Stephen Gibson as Warren Brown and SAT Joannah Tincey as Clara Stretton. SAT Writer: Eddie Robson SAT Producer: Nicholas Briggs. SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 19:00 Steve Punt's Hancock Cuttings b04n61gw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03hwbrr (Listen) SAT Series 1, Out of Our Tree SAT Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the SAT Wrigglesworth Family Tree which is leaving Tom's mother at a SAT loose end. Tom suggests she gets in a lodger for company. SAT Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from SAT Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the SAT conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call SAT to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate SAT various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his SAT family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off SAT about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday SAT annoyances. SAT A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, SAT his family background and the influences that have shaped SAT his temperament,opinions and hang-ups. SAT During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from SAT 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from SAT our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in SAT a 30 minute phone call. SAT 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of SAT Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a SAT bit of totally legal phone hacking. SAT Cast: SAT Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom SAT Judy Parfitt ... Granny SAT Paul Copley ... Dad SAT Kate Anthony ... Mum SAT David Reed ... Henry SAT Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle SAT Additional Material by Miles Jupp SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT Credits SAT Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Granny: Judy Parfitt SAT Dad: Paul Copley SAT Mum: Kate Anthony SAT Amy: Amy Wrigglesworth SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell SAT Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Writer: James Kettle SAT Writer: Miles Jupp SAT SAT 22:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You b007jsdd (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT A-ha! Host Alan Partridge faces up to a nine-year-old SAT prodigy, a hypnotist and a bad boy lawyer. Stars Steve SAT Coogan. From December 1992. SAT SAT 23:00 I, Regress b01rlnj4 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Rubber SAT A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an SAT unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees SAT Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff SAT Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking SAT unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through SAT their subconscious. SAT Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client SAT who has come to him for a different phobia. As the patient SAT is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the SAT various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are SAT played out for us to hear. The result is a dream (or SAT nightmare-like) trip through the patient's mind, as funny as SAT it is disturbing. SAT The cast across the series include Bob Mortimer, Daisy SAT Haggard, Steve Furst and Tracy-Ann Oberman. SAT A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone SAT else's head! SAT Credits SAT Performer: Matt Berry SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 23:15 Richard Marsh b01rl8p1 (Listen) SAT Love and Sweets, Love From Afar SAT Richard Marsh plays a character called Richard ("We're not SAT exactly alike, although we do look similar") and fuses SAT poetry and prose to tell witty and honest tales of his SAT whirlwind romance with Siobhan. From the excitement and SAT silliness of young love, to cars covered in sweets, broken SAT dreams, trans-American road trips and a seductive-looking SAT lady called Sorrow. SAT Richard is an award-winning poet and playwright, and a new SAT voice for Radio 4. He's a magnetic personality whose SAT beautifully crafted stories are hilarious one moment and SAT heart-breaking the next. SAT Richard and Siobhan meet sharing sweets at their dead-end SAT temp job. They quickly become friends, but Richard's nervous SAT of taking the plunge and declaring that he has feelings for SAT her. After he finally plucks up the courage to (drunkenly) SAT woo her, they embark on an exhilarating new relationship. SAT Richard begins to fall for Siobhan, but he's worried - she SAT wants to keep their relationship a secret at work. Will a SAT grand romantic gesture in the corner shop win her heart? SAT Written and performed by Richard Marsh SAT Producer: Ben Worsfield SAT A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Richard Marsh SAT Writer: Richard Marsh SAT Producer: Ben Worsfield SAT SAT 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qcn23 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas SAT creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his SAT studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. SAT The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay SAT attention. SAT This edition includes policies such as restricting Prime SAT Ministers to two full terms of office; the introduction of a SAT maximum wage; and making all 4x4s transparent. SAT Produced by Ed Morrish. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 JUNE 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b07grtrz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Unsuitable Men With Familiar Smiles b07grp8f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b07grpkd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Sentimental Journey b007563l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl5d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01s02zb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Death at Broadcasting House b07grh62 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Three Rivers b00lc66g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07gry2w (Listen) SUN Still Life SUN The arrivals of a new baby and a singular new vicar have big SUN impacts on the lives of the Potter family. With Rosemary SUN Leach. SUN SUN 07:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b039bbjz (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Hospital SUN Michael Williams stars as 1940s comic Robb Wilton, had he SUN been around in 1988. Can the eternal pessimist lend a SUN medical hand? SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01dhrn5 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Spanish Elvis SUN Arthur puts on en event in an ill friends Spanish bar. With SUN Liza Minelli and a Spanish Elvis auditioning, Arthur can do SUN nothing other than perform himself to make sure the night SUN goes off with a real bang. SUN Count Arthur Strong - one time Variety Star, now sole SUN proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of Performance - SUN is a show business legend, raconteur, and lecturer SUN extraordinaire. He stars in a Sitcom with regular sidekick SUN Wilfred Taylor, Master Butcher, and a host of other SUN characters. SUN All false starts and nervous fumbling, badly covered up by a SUN delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance, and an expert SUN in everything from the world of entertainment to the origin SUN of the species, everyday life with Arthur is an enlightening SUN experience. SUN Cast: SUN Steve Delaney SUN Mel Giedroyc SUN Alastair Kerr SUN Martin Marquez SUN David Mounfield SUN Producer: John Leonard SUN A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b07gt434 (Listen) SUN From 02/01/1959 SUN A clerical error means Ted thinks his bachelor days have SUN returned - will he be able to cope? SUN Starring Ted Ray. With Kitty Bluett and Kenneth Connor. SUN Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy SUN exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, SUN as well as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961. SUN Scripted by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart. SUN BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet. SUN Producer: Leslie Bridgmont SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959. SUN SUN 08:30 Floggit's b007jxmk (Listen) SUN From 24/08/1956 SUN Chaos strikes village shopkeepers Gert and Daisy over a SUN troublesome tree. SUN Stars Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. SUN With Joan Sims, Anthony Newley, Ronnie Barker, Hugh Paddick SUN and Iris Vandaleur. SUN Originally popular regulars in 'Workers' Playtime' on the SUN BBC Home Service during wartime, Gert and Daisy won their SUN own series, Floggit's, where they've inherited a village SUN general store in Russett Green. with a ragbag of local SUN characters to deal with. It ran for 2 series between 1956 SUN and 1957. SUN Scripted by Terry Nation, John Junkin and Dave Freeman. SUN Producer: Alastair Scott -Johnston SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1956. SUN SUN 09:00 Margo Jefferson - Negroland: Omnibus b07gt7zp (Listen) SUN Margo Jefferson was born in Chicago in 1947. 'Negroland is SUN my name for a small region of Negro America where residents SUN were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b07jm6cz (Listen) SUN Natascha McElhone SUN Actress Natascha McElhone chooses 'Jamming' by Bob Marley & SUN the Wailers and 'Lean on Me' by Bill Withers. SUN SUN 10:15 World Book Club b07gt7zy (Listen) SUN Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever SUN 4 Extra Debut. Deborah Moggach talks about her novel set SUN during a speculative bubble in 1630s Amsterdam. With SUN Harriett Gilbert. From October 2015. SUN SUN 11:05 Inheritance Tracks b046csgp (Listen) SUN Nicholas Parsons SUN Nicholas Parsons reminisces to 'In the Mood' by Glenn Miller SUN and passes on 'Children Will Listen' by Stephen Sondheim. SUN SUN 11:10 The Moth Radio Hour b07gt804 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Women in the World SUN True stories told live in the USA: Sarah Austin Jenness SUN introduces tales of survival, swimming and personal SUN independence. 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 Ray's a Laugh b07gt434 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Floggit's b007jxmk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07gry2w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b039bbjz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Anne Tyler - Vinegar Girl: Omnibus b07gtdmh (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN A modern take on The Taming of the Shrew. Kate and her SUN sister Bianca live with their scientist father. Read by Liza SUN Ross. SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rachel Shelley SUN Author: Kazuo Ishiguro SUN Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth SUN SUN 15:45 Lewis Robinson - The Parcel of Dreams b007vcn7 (Listen) SUN In a short detective story set in California, the characters SUN want to be independent of the script. Read by Colin Stinton. SUN SUN 16:00 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wakefield b00rs19x (Listen) SUN A dull middle-aged man whose life has been monotonously SUN ordinary for years, devises a plot to temporarily leave home SUN and observe the effect on his wife from a flat opposite. But SUN he stays away much longer than expected - and it becomes SUN more and more difficult for him to return. SUN Starring David Haig as Wakefield, John Rowe as Nathaniel SUN Hawthorne, Richenda Carey as Mrs Wakefield and Jonathan SUN Keeble as Lucas Ferris. SUN Dramatised by Martyn Wade from a short story by Nathaniel SUN Hawthorne. SUN Producer: Cherry Cookson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b07gtdmk (Listen) SUN Beacons and Blue Remembered Hills SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Beacons and Blue Remembered SUN Hills'. SUN An examination of the enduring popularity of AE Housman in a SUN journey through the Shropshire of his most famous sequence SUN of poems. SUN Actor, poet and broadcaster Elvis McGonagall (aka Richard SUN Smith) takes Housman's longest sequence (written when he was SUN in London) to the places that the poet was remembering as he SUN explored some of the themes at the core of his work. At the SUN heart of 'A Shropshire Lad' is a real sense of Englishness, SUN unusual in a collection that concerns itself with personal SUN and political themes in such a raw and vulnerable way - SUN loss, grief, suicide, sexuality, nature and joy. What did SUN the settings of 'A Shropshire Lad' - Shropshire and SUN Worcestershire - mean to Housman? SUN Elvis visits many of the locations that inspired Housman's SUN verse - London, Bromsgrove, Bredon Hill, Ludlow, The Wrekin SUN and talks to people along the way about these evocative SUN landscapes, asking them to read their favourite poems on the SUN way. SUN Contributors include Andrew Motion, Martin Newell, Wendy SUN Cope, Colin Dexter, Antique Roadshow's Henry Sandon and the SUN many Housman fans of Worcestershire and Shropshire. Elvis SUN attempts to meet Housman himself, listens to the bells of SUN Bredon, goes in search of the loveliest of cherry trees and SUN even finds poetry in a Brewery. SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in SUN 2011. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01dhrn5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Afternoon Drama b014f9qf (Listen) SUN Paul Evans - The Shining Guest SUN Following an anonymous tip off, a body is discovered in the SUN Welsh hills. At first thought to be recent murder victim SUN because of items found with the body, analysis reveals it to SUN be thousands of years old. A series of events are triggered SUN which appear to reveal a parallel world. Like the Shining SUN Guest ants which inhabit Wood ants' nests and seem invisible SUN to their highly aggressive hosts, the inhabitants of this SUN secret world, the guests, have existed at the edges of our SUN reality throughout time. Recorded on location, this haunting SUN and atmospheric drama is written and narrated by Paul Evans. SUN Gwen : Alex Tregear SUN Voice: Maria Jardardottir SUN Wildlife sound recordist: Chris Watson SUN Sound editor: Mike Burgess SUN Producer / Director: Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN 18:45 Diana Hendry - The Lady of the Sea b07gtgsc (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Saul takes his daughter out for long evening SUN drives and tells his wife that it helps to settle them both. SUN Read by Lin Sagovsky. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07gt804 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:10 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Margo Jefferson - Negroland: Omnibus b07gt7zp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks b07jm6cz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:00 World Book Club b07gt7zy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 21:55 Inheritance Tracks b046csgp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:05 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01dhrn5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jq3n (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Gangrene of the Mastersons SUN The family's epic Crimean War struggle of carnage, carnality SUN and cads. Improvised saga with Paul Merton. From July 1994. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07hxb5s (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Steve SUN Bugeja. SUN SUN 23:00 Think the Unthinkable b01jb1xy (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 4 SUN Can the management consultants charge up an ailing SUN electrical retailer? Stars Marcus Brigstocke and Robin Ince. SUN From August 2004. SUN SUN 23:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00772rd (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN The award-winning performer encounters a reluctant SUN beekeeper, feuding librarians and Santa. With Ben Moor. From SUN January 2007. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 JUNE 2016 MON MON 00:00 Afternoon Drama b014f9qf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 Diana Hendry - The Lady of the Sea b07gtgsc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07gry2w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Allen Saddler - I Should Say So b039bbjz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Anne Tyler - Vinegar Girl: Omnibus b07gtdmh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Lewis Robinson - The Parcel of Dreams b007vcn7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Nathaniel Hawthorne - Wakefield b00rs19x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b07gtdmk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01dhrn5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3d3w (Listen) MON Series 1, Nine Points of the Law MON Bunny is forced to extemporise when Raffles' theft of a MON valuable painting seems to go wrong. MON Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as MON Bunny, David Buck as Addenbrooke and Nigel Graham as Craggs. MON EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. MON Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. MON Directed by Gordon House MON A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast MON in 1985. MON MON 06:30 Overexposed b00q3cm3 (Listen) MON Twenty years ago, a small group of photojournalists set out MON to witness world events. They went to Yugoslavia, Angola, MON Rwanda, Iraq. Two were shot dead, and everyone was changed. MON All of the contributors, including the presenter Miles MON Warde, were students at the London College of Printing in MON 1990. They went to work for Reuters, the Observer and the MON New York Times, and won numerous awards, including the MON Pulitzer, World Press Photo and several Emmys. They began MON work in an era when access was still easy, and the dangers MON perhaps not fully understood. MON Producer Miles Ware (rpt) MON "While I was doing this course I did a work placement and MON stayed in touch with the picture editor. So when the war MON started in former Yugoslavia, I went to see him. He gave me MON the accreditation, he gave me the film and I drove to war in MON my little Renault Five." MON The programme follows up what happened next, providing an MON intimate, authoritative account of life as a MON photojournalist. Contributors include James Hill, Gary MON Calton, Sandra Balsells, Paul Lowe - the current course MON director of the LCC - and Colin Jacobson, former picture MON editor at the Independent Magazine. MON MON 07:00 Charles Dickens b00rd444 (Listen) MON Sketches by Boz - Series 1, The Bloomsbury Christening MON The arrival of a bouncing boy is good news indeed, but not MON for miserable bachelor Nicodemus Dumps. Stars Nicholas MON Farrell. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b07ffj3k (Listen) MON Series 75, Episode 5 MON Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of MON the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 MON seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No MON repetition? That's no small order after nearly 50 years. MON Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Alexei Sayle and Graham Norton MON join Nicholas Parsons, and try to avoid hesitation, MON deviation or repetition as they talk about diverse subjects MON like Virginia Wade, Beef Wellington, and Physics for MON Beginners. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Panellist: Alexei Sayle MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings b01prccq (Listen) MON Series 1, The Concert MON Can showbiz seduce Station Master Horace Hepplewhite away MON from the railways? MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, Liz MON Fraser as Gloria, Kenneth Connor as Percy and Charlotte MON Mitchell as Miss Pennyfeather. MON Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway MON station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station MON for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, MON hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. MON Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but MON on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria MON Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an MON archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, MON Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in MON equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas MON Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop MON down the line. MON Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. MON Producer: Edward Taylor MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. MON MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k11m (Listen) MON An 'Ep' in the Country MON The showbiz survivor finds himself the unwitting stooge in MON some spin for a popular TV soap actress. Stars Peter Jones. MON From July 1986. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b038c0f2 (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects, MON including quotations they wish they'd said and family MON sayings they have grown up with. MON This week Nigel is joined by Woman's Hour's Jenni Murray, MON News presenter Matt Barbet, Children's Playwright David Wood MON and Journalist and writer Katharine Whitehorn. MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Jenni Murray MON Panellist: Matt Barbet MON Panellist: David Wood MON Panellist: Katharine Whitehorn MON Reader: Peter Jefferson MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jn8j (Listen) MON Series 7, Witch Hunt MON A peeved parent asks whether teacher knows best, and Mrs MON Rudd won't take no for an answer. Stars James Grout. From MON April 1992. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b00chj5g (Listen) MON Portrait of a Lady, Innocence MON Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce. MON Young and beautiful, Isabel Archer thinks that she is in MON control of her fate. Little does she know, however, that MON others behind the scenes are pulling the strings. MON Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin MON Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne MON Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst MON Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt MON Mr Touchett ...... Peter Marinker MON Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables MON Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow MON Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson MON Mr Bantling ...... Dan Starkey MON Narrator ...... William Hope MON Pianist ...... Duncan Walsh Atkins MON Directed by Tracey Neale. MON MON 11:00 Book of the Week b0135q6c (Listen) MON Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 1 MON A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's MON most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who MON is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. MON Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's MON final five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring MON friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. MON Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, MON Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age MON of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he MON regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with MON depression and by his marriage. MON But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote MON poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. MON The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would MON produce some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth MON century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: MON Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas MON stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and MON those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable MON book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter MON Monday 1917. MON Read by Tobias Menzies MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Emma Harding MON 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and MON Faber. MON Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, 'Ground MON Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize for MON Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the Forward Prize MON for Best First Collection. This is his first prose book. MON MON 11:15 Cafe Royal b07gxfjb (Listen) MON London's Cafe Royal has long been famous as a meeting-place MON for writers, artists, and colourful personalities. This is a MON fascinating cultural history of conversation capturing the MON period flavour of a unique venue. MON Featuring well-known figures in the literary and artistic MON world of the 1950s: Sir Max Beerbohm, John Betjeman, Sir MON Compton Mackenzie, Alan Dent, Nina Hamnett, Wyndham Lewis, MON Edgar Lustgarten, Louis Golding, Eric Maschwitz, Hebert MON Marshall, Malcolm Muggeridge, Beverley Nichols, Hesketh MON Pearson, Alan Pryce-Jones, Sir John Rothenstein and Dilys MON Powell. MON Narrated by Roger Livesey. MON Arranged by Guy Deghy and edited by Sasha Moorsom. MON Producer: DG Bridson MON First broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 28th December MON 1955. MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b01prccq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k11m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3d3w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Overexposed b00q3cm3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm27 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON An artist falls for his married subject during 17th century MON Holland's tulipomania. Read by Emma Fielding and William MON Gaminara. MON MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sbpg0 (Listen) MON Learn to Die MON Exploring a thousand years of British childhood, Michael MON Morpurgo examines Puritanism and the effects of the MON Reformation. MON MON 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsnk (Listen) MON Babel Tower, part 1 MON Frederica has given up her care-free, independent Cambridge MON lifestyle. Will settling down bring happiness? Stars Indira MON Varma. MON MON 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gxhrv (Listen) MON On Into Dorset MON On his trip to Cornwall to see Miss Kenton, Stevens faces MON some awkward questions about his former employer. Read by MON John Moffatt. MON Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 Booker Prize winner abridged by MON Catherine Czerkawska. After a lifetime of service as butler MON in one of the great stately homes of England, Stevens MON belatedly puts his life into perspective. MON Producer: Marilyn Imrie MON A BBC Radio 4 Book At Bedtime from January 1990. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b00chj5g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b038c0f2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jn8j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Charles Dickens b00rd444 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b07ffj3k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrm1 (Listen) MON Episode 11 MON Bill and Coker are reunited with some of the original MON University group - but Josella isn't with them. MON Roger May continues a 17-part unabridged reading of John MON Wyndham's cult sci-fi novel - an unsettlingly vivid and MON thrillingly realised tale of ecological apocalypse. MON Producer: Susan Carson MON Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast MON in 2004. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00767cz (Listen) MON Frank Delaney & Jackie Kay MON Rosie Boycott and fellow writers Frank Delaney and Jackie MON Kay discuss books by Kate Grenville, Ernest Hemingway and MON Jean Rhys. From 2002. MON Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys MON Publisher: Penguin MON Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway MON Publisher: Arrow MON The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville MON Publisher: Picador. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b01prccq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k11m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3d3w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Overexposed b00q3cm3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Book of the Week b0135q6c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Cafe Royal b07gxfjb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b07ffj3k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Concrete Cow b04t6vjy (Listen) MON Series 2, Marriage MON Thirteenth-century furniture sales and the hi-fi extremist. MON Sketch show with Robert Webb and Beth Chalmers. From January MON 2004. MON MON 23:00 Dead Ringers b07flhlm (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 1 MON The topical satirical show that mixes political vituperation MON with media savaging is back. With a referendum on Europe, a MON presidential election in America and the BBC in crisis, the MON team will focus on the things that matter, and quite a few MON things that don't, like Top Gear and most things on BBC MON Three. MON MON 23:30 The Vote Now Show b07gdlkf (Listen) MON EU and Yours MON The Now Show: EU & Yours, is a comic take on the EU MON Referendum, recorded just hours before broadcast, four days MON before polling stations open. Should we stay or should we MON go? We definitely won't be giving a definitive answer, but MON Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis, Jon Holmes, Mitch Benn and some MON special guests will be here to help you make up your mind. MON Presenter ... Steve Punt MON Presenter ... Hugh Dennis MON Guest ... Jon Holmes MON Guest ... Mitch Benn MON Producer ... Ed Morrish MON A BBC Studios Production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Ensemble: Jon Holmes MON Ensemble: Mitch Benn MON Producer: Ed Morrish MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 JUNE 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrm1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00767cz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3d3w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Overexposed b00q3cm3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm27 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sbpg0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsnk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07gxhrv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b00chj5g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b038c0f2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jn8j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Charles Dickens b00rd444 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b07ffj3k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3hkh (Listen) TUE Series 1, Wilful Murder TUE Bunny is horrified when gentleman thief Raffles calmly TUE declares he wants to try a different crime - by planning to TUE commit a murder. TUE Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as TUE Bunny, Henry Stamper as Inspector MacKenzie, Ron Pember as TUE Crawshay and John Church as Sergeant/Waiter. TUE EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. TUE Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. TUE Directed by Gordon House TUE A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast TUE in 1985. TUE TUE 06:30 A House for the End of Life b00wr7rp (Listen) TUE Once upon a time architects made magnificent buildings in TUE the name of health and wellbeing. The Greeks built spas TUE around the great theatres, the medievals made cathedrals of TUE their hospitals and opened them to pilgrims. TUE In this programme Susan Marling looks at work architects are TUE doing now to dramatically enhance small healthcare buildings TUE - especially Maggie centres which are for cancer sufferers TUE and hospices for people with life-shortening diseases. Many TUE of these buildings are inspirational. They show the power of TUE good design and beautiful gardens in lifting the human TUE spirit and restoring to the patient a sense of dignity and TUE individuality. TUE Susan speaks to leading architects Rem Koolhaus, Zaha Hadid TUE and Richard Murphy . She visits the award winning St TUE Oswald's hospice in Newcastle, and the Maggie centre by TUE Frank Gehry in Dundee. Julia Neuberger talks about our TUE contemporary attitude to death and ways in which architects TUE are confronting it. TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 Two Doors Down b0086dhm (Listen) TUE Series 1, Ranting and Railings TUE Miss Black wants new railings for her lodging house, with TUE help from cleaner Sally. Stars Frances Tomelty. From TUE February 2001. TUE TUE 07:30 My Teenage Diary b07ffxtj (Listen) TUE Series 7, Michael Rosen TUE Poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen reads from his teenage TUE diaries which focus on growing up as a naughty schoolboy in TUE the 1960s, his early enthusiasm for politics and his warm, TUE loving and unusual family life. TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE Executive Producer: Aled Evans TUE A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Michael Rosen TUE Producer: Harriet Jaine TUE TUE 08:00 Over the Garden Wall b04v986b (Listen) TUE From 07/10/1948 TUE Norman Evans plays toothless Lancastrian housewife Fanny TUE Fairbottom, later inspiring Les Dawson's homage Ada. From TUE October 1948. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b016dgvc (Listen) TUE She'll Have To Go TUE Can the bungling duo save their secretary from the scrap TUE heap? Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From TUE September 1974. TUE TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers b07flhlm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Ayres on the Air b01n6yj5 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Winter TUE Popular poet Pam Ayres is joined in her poetry and sketch TUE series by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead. This week TUE they focus on Winter. TUE This week she looks at subjects including that magic TUE combination of cold weather and broken boilers; the art of TUE comparing ailments; she updates the Yuletide song The 12 TUE Days of Christmas and, as we reach the end of the Winter TUE season tells how to fan the dying flame of passion, come TUE Valentine's Day. TUE Her poems this week include: Who's Had My Scissors, Ever TUE Since I Had Me Op and Insomnia. TUE Produced by Claire Jones. TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b00cly4q (Listen) TUE Portrait of a Lady, Deceit TUE Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce. TUE The beautiful and free-spirited Isabel Archer is now a very TUE rich woman. Two men have declared their love for her but she TUE does not want to be married. Resolved to enjoy her fortune, TUE she begins her travels. TUE Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin TUE Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne TUE Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst TUE Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt TUE Gilbert Osmond ...... Colin Stinton TUE Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables TUE Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow TUE Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson TUE Mr Bantling ...... Dan Starkey TUE Countess Gemini ...... Barbara Barnes TUE Pansy Osmond ...... Penelope Rawlins TUE Edward Rosier ...... Nyasha Hatendi TUE Mother Catherine ...... Joan Walker TUE Mother Justine ...... Liz Sutherland TUE Narrator ...... William Hope TUE Duncan Walsh Atkins (piano) TUE Directed by Tracey Neale. TUE TUE 11:00 Book of the Week b0135z1h (Listen) TUE Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 2 TUE A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's TUE most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who TUE is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. TUE Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's TUE final five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring TUE friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. TUE Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, TUE Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age TUE of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he TUE regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with TUE depression and by his marriage. TUE But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote TUE poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. TUE The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would TUE produce some of the most memorable verse of the twentieth TUE century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: TUE Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas TUE stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and TUE those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable TUE book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter TUE Monday 1917. TUE In today's episode, the first meeting of Edward Thomas and TUE Robert Frost marks the start of a life-changing friendship. TUE Read by Tobias Menzies TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Emma Harding TUE 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and TUE Faber. TUE AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, TUE 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread TUE Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the TUE Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first TUE prose book. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b007748q (Listen) TUE Annamaria Murphy - Rosie's Beauty TUE By Annamaria Murphy. TUE Rosie runs a beauty parlour in her village. Most of her TUE clients come to talk and Rosie is invited to share some of TUE the dark secrets that make up the community in which she TUE lives. TUE Rosie Craze ...... Mary Woodvine TUE Martha Taper ...... Barbara Jefford TUE Lily Harvey ...... Amanda Lawrence TUE Ellen Hosken ...... Mandy Simons TUE Michael Harvey ...... Stephen Hall TUE Irish Reilly ...... Charles Barnecut TUE Directed by Claire Grove. TUE TUE 12:00 Over the Garden Wall b04v986b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b016dgvc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3hkh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 A House for the End of Life b00wr7rp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm2s (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE As tulipomania grips Amsterdam, Sophia's attraction to Jan TUE increases. Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. TUE TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sbrlb (Listen) TUE It Was a Precious Child TUE Michael Morpurgo explores how the Puritan ethos affected TUE children and the way of family life. TUE TUE 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsnw (Listen) TUE Babel Tower, part 2 TUE Daniel gets an urgent phone call about his daughter and has TUE to face up to the consequences of his actions. Stars Shaun TUE Dooley. TUE TUE 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07h0tnj (Listen) TUE At Moscombe Near Tavistock TUE Lord Darlington asks Stevens to make changes to the staff, TUE which leads to a clash with Miss Kenton. Read by John TUE Moffatt. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b00cly4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00f6sw0 (Listen) TUE 2005, Heat 9 TUE Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Adrian Clark of TUE London, Richard De Lacey from Suffolk and John Hambley from TUE London. TUE TUE 16:30 Ayres on the Air b01n6yj5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Two Doors Down b0086dhm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 My Teenage Diary b07ffxtj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrmd (Listen) TUE Episode 12 TUE Bill and Coker check out of Tynsham Manor and set out to TUE track down the rest of the University group. Cult novel read TUE by Roger May. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b07h0z8v (Listen) TUE Peter Skellern TUE Singer-songwriter and pianist, Peter Skellern talks to Robin TUE Ray about the sounds which stirs his emotions. TUE Recalling his life and career, Peter's selection includes TUE Ketty Lester, Phil Harris and commentary from a legendary TUE Apollo spaceflight. TUE Producer: Andrew Mussett TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991,. TUE TUE 19:00 Over the Garden Wall b04v986b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b016dgvc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3hkh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 A House for the End of Life b00wr7rp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Book of the Week b0135z1h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b007748q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 My Teenage Diary b07ffxtj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b01p41hd (Listen) TUE Series 5, An Alrightish Life Savagely Frozen to Bits TUE by Mark Evans TUE Episode Three: An Alrightish Life Savagely Frozen To Bits TUE The Victorian comedy adventure continues as Pip races to TUE Antarctica to thwart another fiendish plot by his evil TUE ex-guardian, Mr Gently Benevolent. TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE Credits TUE Writer: Mark Evans TUE Sir Philip: Richard Johnson TUE Young Pip Bin: Tom Allen TUE Gently Benevolent: Anthony Head TUE Harry Biscuit: James Bachman TUE Clampvulture: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely: Sarah Hadland TUE Pippa: Susy Kane TUE Explorer: Mark Evans TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 23:00 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller b00911f4 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Craig and Martin throw a Come As You Aren't party. Stars TUE Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller. From December 1998. TUE TUE 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl b007m4dx (Listen) TUE Subtle TUE Sean Foley and Hamish McColl investigate the art of subtlety TUE by visiting a Jane Austen novel. Surreal comedy from July TUE 2000. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE 2016 WED WED 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrmd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor b07h0z8v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3hkh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 A House for the End of Life b00wr7rp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm2s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sbrlb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsnw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07h0tnj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b00cly4q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00f6sw0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Ayres on the Air b01n6yj5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Two Doors Down b0086dhm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 My Teenage Diary b07ffxtj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3mq2 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Chest of Silver WED With Inspector MacKenzie's suspicions about Raffles' WED professional life growing, AJ decides it's time to visit WED Scotland. But Bunny is not to go with him: he has the WED responsibility of guarding Raffles' illegally-acquired WED silver plate. WED Starring Jeremy Clyde as AJ Raffles, Michael Cochrane as WED Bunny, Henry Stamper as Inspector MacKenzie, Brian Smith as WED the Clerk and Adrian Egan as the Porter. WED EW Hornung's early Raffles stories dramatised by David Buck. WED Signature tune composed by Jim Parker. WED Directed by Gordon House WED A BBC Radio 4/ BBC World Service production first broadcast WED in 1985. WED WED 06:30 3D in Perspective b00wdgmq (Listen) WED Bringing together the science of 3D television with a WED wide-ranging history of art and entertainment, Andrew WED Collins examines our centuries-old fascination with WED representing the world that exists in three visual WED dimensions. In modern 3D entertainment, today's WED technologists are fighting the same battles with geometry, WED depth of field, light and texture as 15th Century painters. WED Award-winning visual effects supervisor, Paddy Eason WED discusses the debt that 3D imaging owes to its painterly WED predecessors. WED At The National Gallery, art historian Professor David WED Ekserdjian explains how, from the changing shape of a canvas WED to the arrival of oil paint, the architects and artists of WED the Renaissance, challenged our notions of reality. Andrew WED enters a world of optical illusion, trawling piles of WED perspective pictures and stereo photographs at The Bill WED Douglas Centre for The History of Cinema and Popular WED Culture. Lecturer in Victorian Studies, John Plunkett WED explains, the appeal of 18th and 19th century optical or WED 'philosophical' toys, made possible by good lenses and WED mirrors. Often dismissed as novelty, they emerged from WED groundbreaking research on the physiology of vision. WED The history of 3D is littered with failed technologies, WED including 3D films that predate cinema sound. Professor Neil WED Dodgson from The Computer Laboratory in Cambridge is a 3D WED expert. He outlines the obstacles, in particular the poorly WED paid projectionist and ultimately the limitations of human WED vision. Neuroscientist Dr Sue Barry, understands the WED visceral appeal of 3D. Aged fifty, she experienced her first WED thrilling sense of 3D immersion after years of being WED 'stereoblind' and suggests why we are so preoccupied with WED experiencing virtual 3D space. WED Producer: Tamsin Hughes WED A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b00763xr (Listen) WED Velvet Pants and Padded Bras WED Cassie is upset after her dating agency rejection. Can Pete WED cheer her up? Stars Debra Stephenson and David Lamb. From WED September 2001. WED WED 07:30 Heresy b07fg6tt (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 5 WED Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show WED which dares to commit heresy. WED Her guests this week are comedians Lee Mack and David WED Baddiel and performer and QI elf Andrew Hunter Murray. WED Together they discuss Netflix, father figures and Katie WED Hopkins. WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Victoria Coren Mitchell WED Panellist: Lee Mack WED Panellist: David Baddiel WED Panellist: Andrew Hunter Murray WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b00lmqts (Listen) WED Mr Murray Is Victimised WED Captain Povey decides 'divide and rule' is the best way to WED deal with the crew of HMS Troutbridge. WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as WED Heather, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and Tenniel Evans as WED the Admiral. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1965. WED WED 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour b00b9k82 (Listen) WED The First Night Party WED The lad throws a launch party - with cocktails and dinner - WED for his very first half hour, but things don't quite go to WED plan. WED Starring Tony Hancock. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney WED James, Gerald Campion and Kenneth Williams. WED Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. WED Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. WED Producer: Dennis Main Wilson WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1954. WED WED 09:00 Jest a Minute b0133g72 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 5 WED Justin Moorhouse, Sarah Millican, Chris Corcoran and Jeff WED Green star in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From September WED 2006. WED WED 09:30 Rent b04crvbz (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Maria and Richard get to know Paul and Ruby just a little WED too well. Stars Diane Louise Jordan and Barbara Flynn. From WED May 1993. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b00cq3jj (Listen) WED Portrait of a Lady, Truth WED Henry James's novel, dramatised by Rachel Joyce. WED Isabel has been married to the handsome and urbane Gilbert WED Osmond for three years. Like a sparkling and brilliant WED jewel, she is part of his collection of beautiful things, WED but she is about to discover a startling truth. WED Isabel Archer ...... Anna Maxwell Martin WED Madame Merle ...... Haydn Gwynne WED Lord Warburton ...... Robert Bathurst WED Mrs Touchett ...... Gayle Hunnicutt WED Gilbert Osmond ...... Colin Stinton WED Ralph Touchett ...... Paul Venables WED Henrietta Stackpole ...... Laurel Lefkow WED Caspar Goodwood ...... Corey Johnson WED Countess Gemini ...... Barbara Barnes WED Edward Rosier ...... Nyasha Hatendi WED Mother Catherine ...... Joan Walker WED Narrator ...... William Hope WED Pianist ...... Duncan Walsh Atkins WED Directed by Tracey Neale. WED WED 11:00 Book of the Week b01381n5 (Listen) WED Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 3 WED A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's WED most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who WED is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. WED Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's WED final five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring WED friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. WED Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, WED Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age WED of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he WED regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with WED depression and by his marriage. WED But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote WED poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. WED The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would WED produce some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth WED century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: WED Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas WED stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and WED those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable WED book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter WED Monday 1917. WED In today's episode, Edward Thomas and Robert Frost have an WED emotional encounter with a hostile gamekeeper, and Thomas WED sits down to write his first poem. WED Read by Tobias Menzies WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Emma Harding WED 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and WED Faber. WED AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, WED 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread WED Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the WED Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first WED prose book. WED WED 11:15 Dave Sheasby - The Amazing Ratman Story b007mb5v (Listen) WED A TV crew susses out old man Jack, who claims he knew the WED Pied Piper of Hamlin. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Geraldine WED Fitzgerald. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b00lmqts (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour b00b9k82 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3mq2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 3D in Perspective b00wdgmq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm38 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Jan and Sophia's attraction to each other is overwhelming, WED but can it stay secret? Read by Emma Fielding and William WED Gaminara. WED WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sbx09 (Listen) WED The Vast Usefulness of Reading WED Michael Morpurgo explores education's expansion for boys in WED the 17th century, and when boyhood ended and manhood began. WED WED 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsp4 (Listen) WED Babel Tower, part 3 WED Frederica's fraught marriage is put under even greater WED strain when she makes a shocking discovery. Stars Indira WED Varma. WED WED 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07h166x (Listen) WED A Trying Situation WED As Stevens reflects on his service to Lord Darlington, he WED begins to question if it was in a worthy cause. Read by John WED Moffatt. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b00cq3jj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Jest a Minute b0133g72 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Rent b04crvbz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b00763xr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Heresy b07fg6tt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrmt (Listen) WED Episode 13 WED More determined than ever to find his friend Josella, Bill WED Masen faces a tough decision. Cult novel read by Roger May. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b008h4rc (Listen) WED Anything But Shy WED 4 Extra Debut. Dominic Arkwright, Susie Scott, Carl Honoré WED and Olivia Stewart-Liberty discuss why shyness is now a WED social stigma. From December 2007. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b00lmqts (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour b00b9k82 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3mq2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 3D in Perspective b00wdgmq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Book of the Week b01381n5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Dave Sheasby - The Amazing Ratman Story b007mb5v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Heresy b07fg6tt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03wq26m (Listen) WED Series 1, Smugglers WED Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they WED think is 'Help!'. WED King of the one-liners, Milton Jones returns BBC to Radio 4 WED for an amazing 10th series in a new format where he has WED decided to set himself up as a man who can help anyone WED anywhere - whether they need it or not. Because, in his own WED words, "No problem too problemy". WED But each week, Milton and his trusty assistant Anton set out WED to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a new WED adventure. So when you're close to the edge, then Milton can WED give you a push. WED This week, the local seafarers' pub starts serving only WED coffee, there's no denying it's rum....the coffee, that is. WED So who better than Milton to sort it out? WED Written by Milton with James Cary ("Bluestone 42", WED "Miranda") and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 WED show "House Of Rooms") the man they call "Britain's funniest WED Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and WED a shipload of new jokes. WED The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Spamalot", WED "Mr. Selfridge") as the ever-faithful Anton, and Dan Tetsell WED ("Newsjack"), and features the one and only Josie Lawrence WED working with Milton for the first time. WED Producer David Tyler's radio credits include Armando WED Iannucci's Charm Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, WED Another Case Of Milton Jones, Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The WED Nation, The Brig Society, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off, The WED 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, going WED back a bit, Radio Active. WED Produced and Directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Himself: Milton Jones WED Anton: Tom Goodman-Hill WED Actor: Dan Tetsell WED Actor: Josie Lawrence WED Director: David Tyler WED Producer: David Tyler WED Writer: Milton Jones WED Writer: James Cary WED Writer: Dan Evans WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07hxbjg (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to WED Alice Fraser. WED WED 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing b00769tt (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Bergerac and Lovejoy on Leather Island, Ukraine's Eurovision WED entry, and part two of Austen's lost novella 'Sweet Fanny WED Adams'. Sketches with Perkins and Giedroyc. From October WED 2002. WED WED 23:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b0075t8y (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 3 WED Becoming a 'breatharian' has disastrous consequences. WED Sketches and songs with Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine. WED From April 2000. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 JUNE 2016 THU THU 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrmt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b008h4rc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 EW Hornung - Raffles b01p3mq2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 3D in Perspective b00wdgmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm38 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sbx09 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsp4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07h166x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b00cq3jj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Jest a Minute b0133g72 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Rent b04crvbz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b00763xr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Heresy b07fg6tt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Father Brown Stories b00f0sgw (Listen) THU Series 2, The Perishing of the Pendragons THU Mystery afloat as a Cornish family's curse starts to THU unravel. Who will come into his rightful inheritance - and THU will Father Brown be in time to avert a tragedy? THU GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with THU an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. THU Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown, Olivier Pierre as THU Flambeau, Edward Kelsey as the Admiral and Brian Hewlett as THU Sir Cecil Fanshaw. THU Dramatised by John Scotney THU Directed in Bristol by Alec Reid. THU First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in 1986. THU THU 06:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Widdecombe THU Investigates b010xzzf (Listen) THU 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of The THU Innocence of Father Brown. Ann Widdecombe goes on the trail THU of G.K.Chesterton's crime solving priest whose unlikely THU methods make him one of the great heroes of the Golden Age THU of Detective Fiction. She talks to fans A.N.Wilson and Simon THU Brett, and traces the creation of Father Brown to the THU friendship between Chesterton and Mgr John O'Connor, an THU Irish Priest who later converted Chesterton to Catholicism. THU THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes b019m2ys (Listen) THU Series 2, Still Crazy THU Patrick wonders who Green Day are, and Joe turns into a THU doting daddy. Written by and starring Jim Sweeney. From THU September 2002. THU THU 07:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07fl6sk (Listen) THU Series 2, Planes, Trains and Automobiles THU Paul Sinha returns for a second series of his History THU Revision, the show that uncovers the fascinating stories THU that we've forgotten in our onward march of progress. In the THU last series we learned how Alexander Graham Bell did NOT THU invent the telephone, and that the World Cup final of 2014 THU could only have happened because of the 1415 invasion of THU Morocco. THU 4/4: Planes, Trains & Automobiles. THU This week, Paul asks "How did we get here?", quite THU literally, getting the studio audience to tell him how they THU got to the BBC Radio Theatre, and then regaling them with THU stories from the history of transport. From the area of THU London that became a Russian train station, to the man who THU revolutionised both the motor industry and the music charts, THU to the names of airports around the world, this programme THU about the world of planes, trains and automobiles will THU provide fascinating facts and surprising stories (unless you THU listen on a weekend, when a bus replacement service is in THU operation). THU "Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a THU listen" - The Telegraph THU Written and performed by Paul Sinha THU Produced by Ed Morrish THU A BBC Radio Comedy Production. THU Credits THU Writer: Paul Sinha THU Performer: Paul Sinha THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jz94 (Listen) THU Series 3, The Flat THU Author Gerald and his wife Diana's holiday abroad is far THU from relaxing. THU The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring THU Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as THU his wife, Diana. THU With Michael McClain, Fiona Mathieson and Garard Green. THU Written by Basil Boothroyd. THU Producer: Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b07h1k5h (Listen) THU Series 5, Wey Hey, It's Saturday THU A special train gets named, while Aaron the Aardvark very THU grudgingly joins the Saturday kids show. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Steve Brown, Philip Pope and Geoffrey Perkins. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John THU Cantor, John Docherty and Moray Hunter. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1985. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075skq (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Mark Thomas, THU Dillie Keane, Arthur Smith and David Stafford. From July THU 1998. THU THU 09:30 When the Dog Dies b044h9bk (Listen) THU Series 4, Ships That Pass THU Ronnie Corbett returns for the final series of his popular THU sitcom by Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent. THU Ronnie is granddad Sandy and his old dog is Henry. If the THU dog dies or his lodger moves on, Sandy's children want him THU to downsize. He doesn't. THU To help his finances, Sandy, still in the family home, took THU in a young couple as lodgers. But then the man left - THU leaving the attractive Dolores behind. And she, Sandy's THU children are quite sure, is a gold-digger. Sandy's opinion THU that it would be inhuman to move Henry somewhere unfamiliar THU is wearing a bit thin - as is the old dog himself. Keeping THU the dog alive and keeping the lodger happy are one thing; THU what really concerns Sandy deeply is providing a guiding THU hand to his whole family, advising here, prompting there, THU responding to any emergency callout... If he kept himself to THU himself, of course, things would be a lot simpler and THU smoother. But a lot duller too... THU Episode Three - Ships That Pass THU Sandy is worried about memory loss. His son has a morbid THU fear of sofas. Sandy could help but he's booked a holiday in THU an igloo with a man he doesn't really like. When Sandy takes THU a fashionable memory cure he remembers some things that were THU better left forgotten... THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4 THU Pronunciations: Liza - Leeza. THU Credits THU Sandy: Ronnie Corbett THU Dolores: Liza Tarbuck THU Mrs Pompom: Sally Grace THU Lance: Philip Bird THU Roy: Paul Chapman THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU Writer: Ian Davidson THU Writer: Peter Vincent THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) THU Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower, Episode 1 THU Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of THU star-crossed lovers in the West Country. THU When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the handsome young THU astronomer Swithin St Cleeve on the lonely tower on her THU estate, a story of passion and sacrifice begins. THU Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill THU Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson THU Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson THU Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys THU Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin THU Granny Martin ...... Pauline Jefferson THU Louis ...... Richard Heap THU Joshua ...... Carter Dowland THU Directed by Stefan Escreet. THU THU 11:00 Book of the Week b0138521 (Listen) THU Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 4 THU A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's THU most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who THU is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. THU Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's THU final five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring THU friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. THU Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, THU Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age THU of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he THU regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with THU depression and by his marriage. THU But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote THU poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. THU The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would THU produce some of the most remarkable verse of the twentieth THU century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: THU Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas THU stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and THU those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable THU book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter THU Monday 1917. THU In today's episode, Thomas wrestles with the conundrum of THU whether to enlist. A poem by his friend Robert Frost forces THU his hand. THU Read by Tobias Menzies THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Emma Harding THU 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and THU Faber. THU AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, THU 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread THU Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the THU Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first THU prose book. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00cc9hh (Listen) THU Nell Leyshon - War Bride THU By Nell Leyshon. THU The Second World War is over and Eleanor and Clarence are on THU a ship, emigrating to Canada. Young Eleanor is running away THU from the farm she grew up on - and her parents don't know. THU When Eleanor discovers that her childhood sweetheart Frank THU is also on board, she starts to retreat from Clarence into THU the world of her imagination. Eleanor is vulnerable a long THU way from home. Who can she trust? THU Eleanor ...... Charlotte Emmerson THU Clarence ...... Simon Lee Phillips THU Frank ...... Joseph Kloska THU Directed by Susan Roberts. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jz94 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b07h1k5h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Father Brown Stories b00f0sgw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Widdecombe THU Investigates b010xzzf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm3t (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Sophia must act quickly to stop her affair being revealed to THU her husband. Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. THU THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00scw5x (Listen) THU But Can She Spin? THU Michael Morpurgo learns how girls' education regressed in THU the 16th century, with the sinful Eve as the main female THU archetype. THU THU 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jspg (Listen) THU Babel Tower, part 4 THU Nigel goes in search of Frederica, who has left, taking Leo THU with her. But was that the correct decision? Stars Mark THU Bazeley. THU THU 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07h1gvt (Listen) THU Little Compton, Cornwall THU Stevens's professional calm is interrupted by a new guest, THU and a momentous meeting with Miss Kenton. Read by John THU Moffatt. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075skq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 When the Dog Dies b044h9bk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes b019m2ys (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07fl6sk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrnw (Listen) THU Episode 14 THU As his hunt for Josella continues, Bill Masen also tries to THU help the orphaned Susan. Cult novel read by Roger May. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b007766p (Listen) THU Series 12, Joe Strummer THU Comedian and broadcaster Phill Jupitus chooses the lead THU singer of The Clash, Joe Strummer. With Matthew Parris. From THU April 2007. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jz94 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b07h1k5h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Father Brown Stories b00f0sgw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Widdecombe THU Investigates b010xzzf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Book of the Week b0138521 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00cc9hh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07fl6sk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Music Teacher b039q5ft (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher THU Nigel Penny. THU Belinda's decision to allow the Arts Centre to be a wedding THU venue means Nigel is charged with providing the music. But THU his efforts to soundtrack the happiest day of Ebony's life THU are somewhat hampered by a tone deaf bridesmaid, a pupil THU with a phobia of sharps and flats and the need to have his THU piano re-tuned every five minutes. THU Directed by Nick Walker THU Audio production by Matt Katz THU Written and produced by Richie Webb THU A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Nigel Penny: Richie Webb THU Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine THU Keith: Dave Lamb THU Chris: Jim North THU Yvonne: Jess Robinson THU Ebony: Doreene Blackstock THU Ivor: Adrian Decosta THU Amber: Isobel Webb THU Director: Nick Walker THU Producer: Richie Webb THU Writer: Richie Webb THU THU 22:45 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01s8mpr (Listen) THU Series 2, About Careful Driving THU EPISODE TWO: ABOUT CAREFUL DRIVING THU Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing - tells the story of young, THU up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who after becoming the THU first in his family to graduate from University, opted not THU to use his architecture degree but instead to try his hand THU at being a full-time stand-up comedian, much to his family's THU annoyance who desperately want him to get a 'proper job.' THU Each episode illustrates the criticism, interference and THU rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his disapproving THU family as he tries to pursue his chosen career. THU The series is a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with THU scenes from his family life. THU Janet a.k.a. Mum is probably the kindest and most lenient of THU the disappointed family members. At the end of the day she THU just wants the best for her son. However, she aint looking THU embarrassed for nobody! THU Martin a.k.a. Dad is clumsy and hard-headed and leaves THU running the house to his wife (she wouldn't allow it to be THU any other way). THU Shirley a.k.a. Grandma cannot believe she left the paradise THU in the West Indies and came to the freezing United Kingdom THU for a better life so that years later her grandson could THU 'tell jokes!' It's not the good Christian way! THU So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan THU do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or THU will he give in to his family's interference? THU About Careful Driving THU Nathan Caton acknowledges that his Dad loves his car more THU than him. THU NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON THU MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH THU DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER THU GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND THU SUE ..... CHIZZY AKUDOLU THU POLICE OFFICER ..... DON GILÉT THU POLICE OFFICER 2 ..... OLA THU Written by Nathan Caton and James Kettle THU Additional Material by Ola and Maff Brown THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell. THU Credits THU Nathan: Nathan Caton THU Mum: Adjoa Andoh THU Dad: Curtis Walker THU Grandma: Mona Hammond THU Sue: Chizzy Akudolu THU Police Officer: Don Gilet THU Police Officer 2: Ola THU Writer: Nathan Caton THU Writer: James Kettle THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU Writer: Ola THU Writer: Maff Brown THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07hxbn1 (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to THU Alice Fraser. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jvj6 (Listen) THU Series 4, Sleep THU Satan has never been to sleep, so Thomas and the Professor THU try to give him forty winks. Devilish sitcom stars Andy THU Hamilton. From April 2001. THU THU 23:30 Polyoaks b01ns7vz (Listen) THU Series 2, A Question of Psychology THU Have you ever wondered about the profitability of mental THU health? Or why your locum looks familiar? Or what's so THU fascinating on your doctor's computer? Or what that funny THU rash is? And how long he's had it? These and other questions THU may well be answered in this brand new series of the Radio 4 THU satire set in Polyoaks, that flagship of enlightened West THU Country General Practice at the forefront of a constantly THU reforming NHS. THU Nigel Planer stars as Dr. Roy Thornton and Simon Greenall as THU his brother Dr. Hugh Thornton in a clinic always at odds THU with itself over diagnoses, funding, clinical commissioning THU groups, Jeremy Hunt and the ever more dubious commercial THU activities of their associate, TV's Dr. Jeremy (David THU Westhead), who's still diagnosing with Google, selling THU patent remedies and generally teetering on the brink of any THU number of malpractice suits. THU If you want to know what it's really like to live and work THU in the brave new world of modern health care - or why your THU GP often has that confused expression on their face - visit THU Polyoaks and ask for a second opinion. THU CAST: THU Dr. Roy Thornton .................... Nigel Planer THU Dr. Hugh Thornton .................. Simon Greenall THU TV's Dr. Jeremy ...................... David Westhead THU Betty Crossfield ...................... Jane Whittenshaw THU Nurse Vera Duplessis .............. Polly Frame THU Mr. Devlin ............................... Phil Cornwell THU The Practice's patients and associates were played by Mel THU Hudson and Duncan Wisbey. THU Polyoaks is written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer and THU directed by Frank Stirling. THU Producer: Frank Stirling THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 JUNE 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrnw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b007766p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Father Brown Stories b00f0sgw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Mystery of Father Brown: Ann Widdecombe FRI Investigates b010xzzf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm3t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00scw5x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jspg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07h1gvt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075skq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 When the Dog Dies b044h9bk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes b019m2ys (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07fl6sk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Father Brown Stories b00f0sgy (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Arrow of Heaven FRI An American millionaire safe in his fortress, death threats, FRI a murky past and a bolt from the blue. Father Brown, on his FRI first visit to the United States, unravels the mystery and FRI exposes thereby a mire of hypocrisy. FRI GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with FRI an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. FRI Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown, Ed Bishop as Barnard, FRI Guy Gregory as Harris, Andrew Branch as Wendell and Sean FRI Prendergast as Norman Drage. FRI Dramatised by John Scotney FRI Directed in Bristol by Alec Reid. FRI First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in 1986. FRI FRI 06:30 Based on a True Story b00g63pz (Listen) FRI The first production of Howard Brenton's play Never So Good FRI brought to life on stage the experiences of Harold FRI Macmillan. In this programme, which reflects on real life FRI events set against their fictional portrayal, Peter Curran FRI discusses the production with Brenton, Jeremy Irons, who FRI played Macmillan, and Lord Alexander Stockton, the grandson FRI of Macmillan and his close companion in later life. FRI Producer Kevin Dawson FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Crowned Hudds b00qh0lv (Listen) FRI Grecian 2001 FRI Liberation for Helen of Troy? Roy Hudd's historical royal FRI romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From September FRI 1995. FRI FRI 07:30 Clare in the Community b038xtdd (Listen) FRI Edinburgh Special: In Treatment FRI Clare and Brian's relationship has always been fraught but FRI with communication at an all time low the couple try FRI relationship counselling. A one-off episode recorded in FRI Edinburgh at the Festival. FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. A control FRI freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other FRI people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. FRI Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI Clare struggles to control both her professional and private FRI life and in this special one-off episode recorded at the FRI Edinburgh Fringe Festival - Clare's professional life is FRI impacting on her personal life as she and Brian seek help FRI with their relationship. After all, Clare gives of herself FRI everyday at work - is it her fault there's little left for FRI Brian's dreary problems at the end of the day? FRI In Treatment - Cast FRI Written by Harry Venning FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI Credits FRI Clare: Sally Phillips FRI Brian: Alex Lowe FRI Robin: Peter Mitchell FRI Writer: Harry Venning FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007md8j (Listen) FRI Boys' Night In FRI Terry's in despair over his mate Bob's stag night. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier and Rodney Bewes as FRI Bob Ferris. With Michael Stainton. FRI Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La FRI Frenais. FRI Adapted for radio and produced by John Browell. FRI Audio recovered from a BBC Treasure Hunt. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1975. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b00b5pg1 (Listen) FRI The Mysterious Punch-up-the Conker FRI Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers and Harry Secombe star in a FRI thrilling pursuit of a mysterious nose assailant! From FRI February 1957. FRI FRI 09:00 Whispers b00n90xf (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony FRI Holden, Lucy Moore, Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes. From FRI October 2005. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b01m431l (Listen) FRI Series 10, The Real World FRI Charlotte de-clutters and Anna provides a love nest. Simon FRI Brett's tale of three sisters. Stars Bill Nighy. From FRI January 2004. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen) FRI Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower, Episode 2 FRI Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of FRI star-crossed lovers in the West Country. FRI Viviette and Swithin have married in secret, but chance and FRI convention conspire against them and painful sacrifices have FRI to be made. FRI Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill FRI Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson FRI Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson FRI Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys FRI Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin FRI Louis ...... Richard Heap FRI Bishop Helmsdale ...... Russell Dixon FRI Joshua ...... Carter Thomas FRI Directed by Stefan Escreet. FRI FRI 11:00 Book of the Week b0138yky (Listen) FRI Matthew Hollis - Now All Roads Lead to France, Episode 5 FRI A compelling exploration of the making of one of Britain's FRI most influential First World War poets - Edward Thomas, who FRI is perhaps best-remembered for his poem 'Adlestrop'. FRI Matthew Hollis's new biography is an account of Thomas's FRI final five years and of his momentous and mutually-inspiring FRI friendship with the American poet, Robert Frost. FRI Although an accomplished prose-writer and literary critic, FRI Edward Thomas only began writing poetry in 1914, at the age FRI of 36. Before then, Thomas had been tormented by what he FRI regarded as the banality of his work, by his struggle with FRI depression and by his marriage. FRI But as his friendship with Frost blossomed, Thomas wrote FRI poem after poem, and his emotional affliction began to lift. FRI The two friends began to formulate poetic ideas that would FRI produce some of the most memorable verse of the twentieth FRI century. But the First World War put an ocean between them: FRI Frost returned to the safety of New England, while Thomas FRI stayed to fight for the Old. It is these roads taken - and FRI those not taken - that are at the heart of this remarkable FRI book, which culminates in Thomas's tragic death on Easter FRI Monday 1917. FRI In today's episode, Thomas says a final farewell to his FRI friends and family in early 1917 and leaves for France, just FRI as his first collection of poems nears publication. FRI Read by Tobias Menzies FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI 'Now All Roads Lead to France' is published by Faber and FRI Faber. FRI AUTHOR: Matthew Hollis is the author of a volume of poetry, FRI 'Ground Water', which was shortlisted for the Whitbread FRI Prize for Poetry, the Guardian First Book Award and the FRI Forward Prize for Best First Collection. This is his first FRI prose book. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0156n74 (Listen) FRI The Kneebone Cadillac FRI by Carl Grose. United Downs is a little known area of FRI Cornwall with derelict engine-houses, vast scrap yards and FRI apocalyptic dumping grounds. It is also the home of the FRI legendary Boneshaker Stock Car Races. Scrap dealer Jed FRI Kneebone has left his prized 1956 Cadillac Eldorado, to his FRI children. When one of them decides to enter it in the FRI Boneshaker the family are set on a collision course. FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI The Kneebones have hard lives, weird vehicles and a love of FRI Country and Western music. When scrap dealer Jed Kneebone FRI dies his three children are left in serious trouble. Could FRI the legendary Boneshaker Stock Car Races be the answer? The FRI Kneebone Cadillac is a wry Cornish comedy about family, FRI death, love and hope by outstanding Cornish writer Carl FRI Grose. FRI The United Downs Stock Car Races near St Day in Cornwall FRI really does exist. Lots of old bangers, armoured trucks and FRI souped-up hearses enter the Blockbuster . The play takes a FRI little license in terms of the prize-money but everything FRI else is for real. And the Kneebone Cadillac has a FRI predominantly Cornish cast including Amanda Lawrence FRI (Government Inspector, Young Vic), Ed Gaughan (Bafta FRI nominated film Skeletons) and Charles Barnecut and Carl FRI Grose from Kneehigh Theatre Company. FRI Credits FRI Maddy: Alex Tregear FRI Slick: Carl Grose FRI Dwight: Ed Gaughan FRI Hooper Munroe: Charles Barnecut FRI Phylis Vanloo: Amanda Lawrence FRI Ennis: Joseph Kloska FRI Writer: Carl Grose FRI Director: Claire Grove FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007md8j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b00b5pg1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Father Brown Stories b00f0sgy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Based on a True Story b00g63pz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm4d (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Can Sophia's plan fool her husband and keep her affair a FRI secret? Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. FRI FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00scz3n (Listen) FRI Overburdened With Children FRI Michael Morpurgo tells the story of the Poor Law, a FRI forerunner of the welfare state and a safety net for many FRI poor children. FRI FRI 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsps (Listen) FRI Babel Tower, part 5 FRI Frederica visits the doctor and makes a major decision. FRI Daniel learns the identity of his mystery caller. Stars FRI Shaun Dooley. FRI FRI 14:45 Kazuo Ishiguro - The Remains of the Day b07h1gyj (Listen) FRI Evening, Weymouth FRI Stevens finally meets Miss Kenton, but the event makes him FRI question the worthiness of his life's work. Read by John FRI Moffatt. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b00m8pvn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 Whispers b00n90xf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b01m431l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Crowned Hudds b00qh0lv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Clare in the Community b038xtdd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids b007jrp9 (Listen) FRI Episode 15 FRI In a world ravaged by the Triffids, survivor Bill Masen FRI works hard to make a new home for his new family. Read by FRI Roger May. FRI FRI 18:30 Sounds Natural b07h4xwy (Listen) FRI Percy Edwards FRI From Willow Warblers to Little Crakes. Bird-imitator, animal FRI impersonator and entertainer, Percy Edwards discusses his FRI love of the British countryside and, in particular, its FRI birdlife with Derek Jones - aided by recordings from the BBC FRI Sound Archive. FRI Percy Edwards MBE: born 1908 - died 1996. FRI Producer: John Burton. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1972. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007md8j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b00b5pg1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Father Brown Stories b00f0sgy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Based on a True Story b00g63pz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Book of the Week b0138yky (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0156n74 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Clare in the Community b038xtdd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b07h4y3n (Listen) FRI 2016, Episode 2 FRI Ten new comedians compete in the second heat. Nish Kumar is FRI your host from Up The Creek Comedy Club in London. FRI FRI 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b07hxdvp (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Barry FRI Ferns. FRI FRI 23:30 The Consultants b0076pz9 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI The Adventure-Bakers make a time-strudel and travel through FRI history. With Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From December FRI 2003. FRI