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SAT SATURDAY 02 JULY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Simon Clark - The Night of the Triffids b07jwj32 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT The more David Masen learns about Manhattan, the less he SAT likes it. And the island's leader has a dubious past. SAT Simon Clarke's 2001 novel is the sequel to John Wyndham SAT sci-fi classic. At the conclusion of 'The Day of the SAT Triffids', scientist Bill Masen had escaped with his wife SAT and four-year-old son to the island. SAT Now grown up, Bill's son, David wakes up one morning to a SAT world plunged into darkness. Now, the Triffids have an SAT advantage over humanity. SAT Stars Sam Troughton as David Masen, Nicola Bryant as SAT Cerys/Marnie/Rowena, Paul Clayton as Bill Masen/General SAT Fielding, Geff Francis as Gabriel and John Schwab as Sam SAT Dynes. SAT Producer and Script Editor: John Ainsworth. SAT Executive Producers: Jason Haigh-Ellery & Nicholas Briggs. SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 00:30 Sounds Natural b07hwrh5 (Listen) SAT Spike Milligan SAT From Rhesus Monkeys to Kookaburras. Star of The Goon Show, SAT Spike Milligan talks to Derek Jones about his enthusiasm for SAT wild animals and his concern for their future - aided by SAT recordings from the BBC Sound Archives. SAT Spike Milligan KBE: born 1918 - died 2002. SAT Producer: John Burton. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1972. SAT SAT 01:00 Graham Swannell - Hec b07hwpdl (Listen) SAT Now aged 87 and living in a home, old soldier Hector is SAT wheeled into Richmond Park on fine days. There he remembers SAT the Battle of the Somme back in 1916, and a young girl SAT called Ethel. SAT Stars Bill Fraser as Hector. SAT Script by Graham Swannell. SAT Producer: John Tydeman SAT First broadcast in Thirty Minute Theatre on BBC Radio 4 in SAT 1985. SAT SAT 01:30 Down and Out in the City of Angels b0128lmt (Listen) SAT Rob Campbell used to be in charge of a top secret computer SAT system for the US military; he now camps down for the night SAT in a doorway, his hair matted, his fingernails grimy, alert SAT for trouble from cops. Corporal Hernadez left the US SAT Infantry in 2006, and considers himself pretty sorted out; SAT but he still gets jumpy hearing fireworks on the 4th of SAT July. SAT It's Veteran's Day in California. It's a day to celebrate SAT returning heroes, and in true Hollywood style, Arnold SAT Schwarzenegger is giving the address. But Los Angeles, city SAT of sunshine and movie stars, is also the homeless capital of SAT America - estimates vary between 50 and 75 thousand - and SAT returning US veterans from Korea, Vietnam, Iraq and SAT Afghanistan, make up a fifth of that number. SAT Veterans are 50% more likely to become homeless than any SAT other demographic in the US, and to try and end the crisis, SAT one year ago, President Obama gave a speech in which he not SAT only promised to fight the problem, but end homelessness SAT completely amongst veterans by 2015. SAT Can Obama succeed in his plan to avert a human crisis as a SAT flood of newly discharged soldiers, carrying with them the SAT trauma of war, re-enter an economy in recession? SAT Peter Bowes heads out to skid row - more than just a row, SAT actually 50 square blocks of down town LA - to find out what SAT the challenge will be, meeting the down and outs on skid SAT row, a city within a city, to find out where things went SAT wrong for America's heroes, and whether Obama has a hope of SAT turning round America's hidden shame. SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT 02:00 Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever b007jm7m (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Sophia feels she has committed a terrible sin and must pay SAT for it, but how? Read by Emma Fielding and William Gaminara. SAT SAT 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sg3tf (Listen) SAT The Child Is Father of the Man SAT With evangelicals to rationalists battling over Britain's SAT children, Michael Morpurgo searches surviving 18th century SAT records. SAT SAT 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsrt (Listen) SAT A Whistling Woman, part 2 SAT Frederica has doubts about her television career and her SAT brother, Marcus, makes a shocking discovery. Stars Karl SAT Prekopp. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b06j5ycc (Listen) SAT John le Carre: The Biography, Episode 5 SAT The life of John Le Carre by Adam Sisman, is abridged for SAT radio in 5 episodes by Katrin Williams: SAT From The Constant Gardener in the 1990's to the present day, SAT and the author is still very much at work - "I find it very SAT difficult to read my own stuff, but I look at it with SAT satisfaction.." SAT Reader Stephen Boxer SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Stephen Boxer SAT Author: Adam Sisman SAT Abridger: Katrin Williams SAT Producer: Duncan Minshull SAT SAT 03:00 The Complete Smiley b0162n2y (Listen) SAT Smiley's People, Part 1 SAT George finds himself back in harness to the circus when an SAT old friend and colleague is found dead. John le Carre SAT thriller stars Simon Russell Beale. SAT SAT 04:00 The Complete Smiley b0161p5g (Listen) SAT Smiley's People, Part 2 SAT On the trail of the killer, George is reunited with an old SAT colleague and thinks of an old enemy. Stars Simon Russell SAT Beale. SAT SAT 05:00 The Complete Smiley b016c8y7 (Listen) SAT Smiley's People, Part 3 SAT George has a chance to take his nemesis down once and for SAT all. Will he lose himself in the process? Stars Simon SAT Russell Beale. SAT SAT 06:00 The Complete Smiley b011cfjw (Listen) SAT A Murder of Quality SAT A public school in the early 1960s. When the wife of one of SAT the masters is found bludgeoned to death, Smiley, out of SAT loyalty to an old friend, finds himself investigating her SAT death - an investigation that lifts the lid on a world of SAT hidden passions and murderous hatreds. SAT John le Carré's thriller stars Simon Russell Beale as George SAT Smiley, Geoffrey Palmer as Terence Fielding, Marcia Warren SAT as Ailsa, Sam Dale as Inspector Rigby, Geoffrey Streatfield SAT as Stanley Rode, Amanda Lawrence as Janey and Alison Pettitt SAT as Ann Snow. SAT Dramatised by Shaun McKenna. SAT Director: Mark Beeby SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. SAT SAT 07:30 The RSC at 50 b0100218 (Listen) SAT The Ensemble SAT James Naughtie goes backstage as the Royal Shakespeare SAT Company celebrates its 50th birthday and reopens its main SAT theatre in Stratford upon Avon. Part 1.The Ensemble. SAT The RSC is now so much a feature of the British cultural SAT landscape that it is easy to imagine it has been around ever SAT since Shakespeare wrote his plays. Far from it. In this SAT three-part series, James Naughtie explores how the company SAT first came into being in 1961; the creation of its unique SAT ensemble system; its landmark productions; the opening SAT production in April 2011 in its newly built state-of-the-art SAT auditorium within the historic theatre on the banks of the SAT Avon in Stratford. SAT This series has enjoyed an exclusive breadth of access to SAT the key players of the last half century. It includes the SAT voices of all five of the artistic directors - Peter Hall, SAT Trevor Nunn, Terry Hands, Adrian Noble and Michael Boyd; SAT luminaries such as Peter Brook, Cicely Berry, Judi Dench, SAT Patrick Stewart and David Tennant; not to mention many SAT members of the wider team of artists, technicians and SAT crafts-people who support the actors on stage. James SAT Naughtie explores not only the history of the company but SAT also why the work it does matters to the British cultural SAT scene. SAT In the first programme, James follows Michael Boyd and SAT company as they prepare the new production - Macbeth - which SAT will formally open the new theatre in April 2011. SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens SAT Presenter: James Naughtie SAT SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show: A Retrospective SAT b07jgwdm (Listen) SAT With the retirement of American public radio's legendary SAT host Garrison Keillor - a look back at over four decades on SAT the airwaves. SAT Known in the USA as 'A Prairie Home Companion', the first SAT show was performed in 1974 in St. Paul, Minnesota for an SAT audience of 12 adults and children. Over time, APHC grew to SAT become American public radio's most popular entertainment SAT programme with four million weekly listeners on 500 plus SAT radio stations from coast to coast. SAT As the show's founder, Garrison Keillor retires from hosting SAT the show in July 2016, this retrospective, specially created SAT for BBC Radio 4 Extra, features comedy skits, the iconic SAT 'News From Lake Wobegon' monologues and lots of music drawn SAT from over 40 years of weekly broadcasts. SAT Produced and compiled for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Prairie Home SAT Productions. SAT SAT 09:00 The Rudest Man in Britain b03rxc77 (Listen) SAT The Rudest Man in Britain excavates the archives from the SAT perspective of Gilbert Harding - a well-loved radio SAT personality who went on to achieve wider television exposure SAT as star of long-running panel shows such as 'What's My SAT Line?' once watched by millions. Clever, amusing and often SAT outrageous, Harding was a familiar voice of wireless who SAT became a pioneer of popular TV. But behind the public SAT persona, there was a troubled and conflicted character. To SAT create a profile of Gilbert Harding's life and sample his SAT broadcasting work Simon Fanshawe will draw on Stephen SAT Wyatt's play Dr Brighton and Mr Harding, in which Harding SAT (played by Roger Allam) wrestles with his inner demons and SAT fantasies, knowing also that he is in increasingly poor SAT health (hence his reason for moving to the coast to embrace SAT 'Dr Brighton'). SAT Simon samples excerpts from Round Britain Quiz, What's My SAT Line?, and The Brains Trust and a complete edition of Twenty SAT Questions - which, as a format, still stands up well. He SAT also revisits Harding's seminal 1960 Face to Face television SAT interview with John Freeman, where he broke down on camera SAT when the questioner touched a nerve. Simon Fanshawe explores SAT the development of many now familiar formats on Radio and TV SAT - and assembles a fascinating and rounded portrait of this SAT tortured but much loved polymath. SAT Producer: Mike Greenwood. SAT SAT 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jl5j (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Offer SAT After a row with his father Albert, Harold decides to leave SAT their rag and bone business and take up another offer of SAT employment. SAT Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as SAT Harold. SAT Following the conclusion of their hugely successful SAT association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan SAT Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in SAT 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, SAT featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and SAT his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series SAT for TV. SAT Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by SAT Gale Pedrick. SAT Produced by Bobby Jaye SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966. SAT SAT 12:30 King of Bath b045q4t8 (Listen) SAT By Any Other Name SAT Beau Nash generates woe with his farcical predilection for SAT fanciful fabrications. Starring David Bamber. From February SAT 1999. SAT SAT 13:00 How To Have A Perfect Marriage 3:Omnibus b07jgzzf (Listen) SAT Omnibus: Karen and gay husband Jack are still married two SAT years after he came out. But can things remain that way? SAT Starring Greg Wise. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b07jj5fl (Listen) SAT Shaun Keaveny SAT BBC 6 Music presenter Shaun Keaveny chooses 'This Old Heart SAT of Mine' by the Isley Brothers and 'Purple Rain' by Prince. SAT SAT 14:15 Sentimental Journey b007700r (Listen) SAT Annie Nightingale SAT Arthur Smith joins BBC Radio 1's Annie Nightingale on a trip SAT back to Romania where, in 1990 following the revolution that SAT deposed dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, the DJ organised a tour SAT bringing Western music to the youth of Bucharest. SAT Producer: Sharon Banoff SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. SAT SAT 14:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl69 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Man Who Watched Trains Go By SAT Carter's uncle proposes staying at home, where he recalls SAT days of steam and northern food. With Stephen Thorne and SAT Peter Skellern. SAT SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show: A Retrospective SAT b07jgwdm (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 The Complete Smiley b011cfjw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 The RSC at 50 b0100218 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b07jjcxp (Listen) SAT The Curse of Davros, Episode 2 SAT Two sets of adversaries are set to confront each other, SAT south of Brussels in June 1815. Will history be changed at SAT the Battle of Waterloo? . SAT Stars Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Lisa Greenwood as SAT Flip, Terry Molloy as Davros, Ashley Kumar as Jared and SAT Jonathan Owen as Napoleon Bonaparte. SAT Writer: Jonathan Morris SAT Director: Nicholas Briggs. SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 19:00 The Rudest Man in Britain b03rxc77 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Buy Me Up TV b0094k0g (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Another chance to hear Buy Me Up TV. SAT Every shopping channel you've ever seen and every product SAT you've never wanted. SAT Featuring Justin Edwards, Colin Hoult, Katherine Jakeways, SAT Ewen Macintosh, Alex MacQueen and Greg Proops. With special SAT guest Eamonn Holmes. SAT SAT 22:30 Knowing Me, Knowing You b007jzxg (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Host Alan Partridge welcomes a Duchess, an impressionist and SAT an MP back from holiday. Stars Steve Coogan. From December SAT 1992. SAT SAT 23:00 I, Regress b01rvpw6 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Thunder 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 SAT as 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 Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT Credits SAT Actor: Matt Berry SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 23:15 Richard Marsh b01rlrk1 (Listen) SAT Love and Sweets, The Grand Canyon SAT Winner of Best Scripted Comedy in the BBC Audio Awards 2014, SAT poet and playwright Richard Marsh fuses poetry and prose to SAT tell the funny and poignant story of his honeymoon road trip SAT across America with the girl of his dreams. SAT Richard and Siobhan have always wanted to drive across SAT America, and they're doing it in style - in an old banger, SAT covered from top to tail with their favourite sweets, on SAT honeymoon. Their thrilling journey through the States takes SAT them to gun clubs in West Virginia, dying docks in SAT Baltimore, casinos in Las Vegas, moon-lit beaches by the SAT Atlantic and a magnificent sight Richard's always dreamt of SAT seeing - the Grand Canyon. SAT But it turns out America's quite big, and Siobhan's not very SAT good at driving on the right - or asking for directions. SAT It's a lot of hard miles, and they can't drive away from SAT themselves. Is their new marriage strong enough to withstand SAT all those hot, silent mornings - or has the honeymoon period SAT come to an end more quickly than they thought? SAT Contains some explicit language. 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 b00qps81 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 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 The weeks' edition will include policies such as banning SAT cars from city centres; monitoring investment bankers' SAT testosterone levels; and abolishing all forms of SAT self-regulation. SAT Produced by Ed Morrish. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 JULY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b07jjcxp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 How To Have A Perfect Marriage 3:Omnibus b07jgzzf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b07jj5fl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Sentimental Journey b007700r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:45 Uncle Mort's North Country b007jl69 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show: A Retrospective SUN b07jgwdm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 The Complete Smiley b011cfjw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 The RSC at 50 b0100218 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07jl4vz (Listen) SUN Babel Tower and A Whistling Woman SUN Frederica's love life lurches from one complication to SUN another and Marcus makes a shocking discovery. Stars Indira SUN Varma. SUN SUN 07:15 Out of Armenia b04vk72b (Listen) SUN Manchester SUN Writer and historian Charles Emmerson traces the history of SUN the Armenian diaspora through Europe's Armenian communities SUN today. SUN From Manchester, home to Britain's oldest Armenian SUN community, Charles travels to Paris, the largest and most SUN dynamic Armenian diaspora community in Europe, still living SUN in the shadow of the memory of the massacres and SUN deportations of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire in 1915. SUN In Venice, he meets the monks charged with the safe-keeping SUN of Armenian traditions of literature and song on the island SUN of San Lazzaro. In Istanbul, we hear the more recent stories SUN of the city's Armenian community - subtle architects SUN building a new relationship between Turks and Armenians from SUN the foundations up. SUN Finally, at the foot of Mount Ararat, in Yerevan, SUN underground jazz music and Syrian refugees tell a new story SUN - of a new focus for Armenian identity and fresh challenges SUN to its survival. SUN Armenians have long lived in diaspora, struggling to keep SUN their common identity alive in communities dispersed around SUN the world. They became leading figures in Ottoman Istanbul. SUN In the 19th century, some moved to the dirt and damp of the SUN booming textile city of Manchester, establishing themselves SUN in the city's middle-class suburbs and building the first SUN Armenian church in north-west Europe. SUN Over tea and cake in warm family homes, Charles hears the SUN stories of a tiny but close-knit community, now concerned SUN about how to keep alive its identity, language and religion SUN for a new generation of Mancunian Armenians. The church SUN holds services just once a month, when a priest comes up SUN from London. Some ask whether there will be an Armenian SUN community in Manchester at all in 50 years' time. SUN Produced by Cicely Fell SUN An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 07:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01d51th (Listen) SUN Series 1, With David O'Doherty SUN In a new brand music comedy series comedian Alex Horne and SUN his 5 piece band give us a latin lesson; ponder the language SUN that unifies us all and guest comedian David O Doherty takes SUN us for a noisy ride in the 'quiet carriage'. SUN Host .... Alex Horne SUN Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland SUN Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown SUN Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier SUN Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds SUN Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe SUN Guest performer ....David O'Doherty SUN Producer .... Julia McKenzie. SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Alex Horne SUN Performer: David O'Doherty SUN Producer: Julia McKenzie SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b07jl4w7 (Listen) SUN From 23/01/1959 SUN After the loss of the family photo album, Kitty wants to SUN recapture the past so Ted buys a new camera. 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 b007xrf9 (Listen) SUN From 16/11/1956 SUN Village shopkeepers Gert and Daisy take in a lost St Bernard SUN dog, but it doesn't seem to understand English. SUN Starring Elsie and Doris Waters as Gert and Daisy. SUN With Joan Sims, Hugh Paddick, Ronnie Barker, Ron Moody, Iris SUN Vandaleur and Peter Hawkins. 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: Bill Gates SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1956. SUN SUN 09:00 Geoff Dyer - White Sands: Omnibus b07jl6y0 (Listen) SUN Geoff Dyer's travel essays begin with a pilgrimage in Los SUN Angeles to the house of an intellectual hero. Read by Alex SUN Jennings. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b07jl6y2 (Listen) SUN Hayley Mills SUN Actress Hayley Mills chooses 'Blue Skies' by Willie Nelson SUN and the theme from the soundtrack to the film Whistle Down SUN the Wind. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b07jl8vm (Listen) SUN Conductors, Sir Simon Rattle SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Bach to Joni Mitchell, conductor Simon SUN Rattle shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From SUN January 2008. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07jl8vp (Listen) SUN Series 3, Science Hour SUN True stories told live in the USA: Meg Bowles introduces SUN stories about heroic research, prizes and survival against SUN great odds. 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 b07jl4w7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Floggit's b007xrf9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07jl4vz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Out of Armenia b04vk72b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Graham Greene - The Third Man: Omnibus b07jl9mn (Listen) SUN In postwar Vienna, Rollo Martins begins to discover the SUN shocking truth about his friend, Harry Lime. Read by Samuel SUN West. SUN Credits SUN Reader: Rachel Shelley SUN Author: Kazuo Ishiguro SUN Abridger: Lauris Morgan-Griffiths SUN Producer: Mair Bosworth SUN SUN 15:45 Doris Lessing - Flight b0075lgs (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. A capricious granddaughter and a dovecote of SUN birds are an old man's only escape from his cold, family SUN home. Read by Jack Klaff. SUN SUN 16:00 Classic Serial b03mcl9b (Listen) SUN Ernest Hemingway - The Old Man and the Sea SUN The Old Man And The Sea SUN by Ernest Hemingway SUN dramatised by Simon Armitage SUN This Pulitzer prize winning novel is Hemingway's SUN masterpiece; set in Cuba on the Gulf Stream, this is the SUN thrilling and tantalising story of an epic battle between an SUN old, experienced fisherman and a large marlin. Santiago, has SUN gone 84 days without catching a fish, and is considered SUN unlucky; his only friend is young Manolin, the boy whom he's SUN taught how to fish. When on the 85th day, Santiago sets sail SUN again, his luck seems to change when he catches the biggest SUN fish of his life. But the biggest battle of his life is SUN about to commence. SUN Produced and Directed by Pauline Harris SUN Further Information SUN Cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to Hemingway's SUN Nobel Prize in Literature, the novel is a seemingly simple SUN tale, full of emotion and drama. SUN It's the story of the struggle of life - a meditation on SUN life and death, and old age. It's about the challenge of SUN survival and the pitting of one man's ageing body and ageing SUN mind against nature. It's about an ancient culture about to SUN come to an end, and a practice as old as time itself. It's a SUN final act, and the boy is there to remind us that life moves SUN on, and a new generation steps forward. SUN The dramatist is SIMON ARMITAGE CBE, poet, playwright and SUN novelist. SUN Credits SUN Santiago: David Schofield SUN Manolin (narrator): Joseph Balderrama SUN Young Manolin: Damson Idris SUN Director: Pauline Harris SUN Producer: Pauline Harris SUN Adaptor: Simon Armitage SUN Author: Ernest Hemingway SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b07jlcgp (Listen) SUN Tales from Ovid: Echo and Narcissus & Callisto and Arcas SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Tales of Ovid'. SUN Poet Ted Hughes begins reading from his award-winning SUN reworking of Ovid's Metamorphoses - stories of the teeming SUN underworld and overworld of Romanised Greek myth and legend. SUN Starting with 'Echo and Narcissus' and 'Callisto and Arcas', SUN this highly praised collection won the 1997 Whitbread prize SUN for poetry and WH Smith Literary Award. SUN Ted Hughes: born: 1930 and died: 1998. SUN Producer: Susan Roberts SUN First broadcast in two-parts on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. SUN SUN 17:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01d51th (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Simon Bovey - The Voice of God b007jwks (Listen) SUN Silent Roar SUN The colonel persuades Sam and Joshua to help him in his SUN deadly infrasound project. Stars Clare Corbett and Matthew SUN Dyktynski. SUN SUN 18:30 Algernon Blackwood - The Willows b007jvd9 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN The canoe is damaged, and the narrator decides the willow SUN trees are against their presence on the island. Read by SUN Roger Allam. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07jl8vp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Geoff Dyer - White Sands: Omnibus b07jl6y0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b07jl6y2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b07jl8vm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01d51th (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Fabulous b00hhrhm (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN Feeling inferior to stylish women, Fay gets lost in a Dirty SUN Dancing fantasy at work. Stars Daisy Haggard. From May 2007. SUN SUN 22:45 Peter Bradshaw - For One Horrible Moment b0082khk (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Memoirs of a boy growing up in 1970s Cambridgeshire at the SUN hands of his eccentric dad. Written and narrated by Peter SUN Bradshaw. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07kd85j (Listen) SUN From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SUN has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats a little SUN bit more with Felicity Ward. SUN SUN 23:00 Think the Unthinkable b01jt0z0 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 6 SUN The management consultants must make cuts at the firm that SUN insures Ryan's flashy new car. Stars Robin Ince. From August SUN 2004. SUN SUN 23:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00773bh (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN The comedy award-winner enters the Dragon's Den, and brings SUN us the Barn Conversion Couple. With Ben Moor, Katherine SUN Parkinson and Ben Willbond. From January 2007. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 JULY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Simon Bovey - The Voice of God b007jwks (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Algernon Blackwood - The Willows b007jvd9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet Omnibus b07jl4vz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Out of Armenia b04vk72b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Graham Greene - The Third Man: Omnibus b07jl9mn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Doris Lessing - Flight b0075lgs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Classic Serial b03mcl9b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b07jlcgp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01d51th (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Poirot b0076tk5 (Listen) MON The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 1 MON It's 1916 and in a quiet English village, Belgian sleuth, MON Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings become joyously MON re-acquainted. But beneath the seeming tranquillity, murder MON is brewing. MON Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule MON Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Nichola McAuliffe as MON Evie, Jill Balcon as Emily, Hugh Dickson as Alfred and Sean MON Arnold as John. MON Original music composed by Tom Smail. MON Dramatist: Michael Bakewell MON Director: Enyd Williams MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. MON MON 06:30 Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star MON b00mp5zb (Listen) MON Robin Denselow profiles the musician Youssou N'Dour as he MON reaches his 50th birthday, and travels to Senegal to MON interview the singer in his home city of Dakar. MON Denselow analyses not just his music but the way N'Dour has MON used it for the benefit of his country and his continent. He MON had huge success with the duet 7 Seconds with Neneh Cherry MON in 1994, but he has been making music for nearly 40 years MON and has collaborated with many international artists. MON Contributors include Peter Gabriel, Branford Marsalis, DJ MON Charlie Gillett and Senegalese band Orchestra Baobab. MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 07:00 Charles Dickens b00rp9t0 (Listen) MON Sketches by Boz - Series 1, The Private Theatricals or Mrs MON Joseph Porter MON The British love for amateur dramatics takes over a MON household with farcical results. Stars Nicholas Farrell and MON David Antrobus. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07h6qsp (Listen) MON Series 65, Episode 1 MON The 65th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning 'antidote MON to panel games' promises yet more quality, desk-based MON entertainment for all the family. The series starts its run MON at the Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool where regulars Barry MON Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Rory Bremner, with Jack Dee as the programme's MON reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect MON inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the MON piano. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON It is a BBC Studios production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings b04cnsgs (Listen) MON Series 2, Pass the Parcel MON Bert's parcel mix-up at the station's Left Luggage Office MON sparks havoc MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as MON Percy/Bradshaw/Rev, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian Lavender as MON Bert and Douglas Blackwell as the Brigadier. 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 Producer: Edward Taylor MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1973. MON MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k1jm (Listen) MON My Stag Movie, pt 2 MON The veteran auditionee exposes more of his film-making MON exploits. Did he ever hit the big screen? Stars Peter Jones. MON From August 1986. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b039c5dh (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON A host of interesting celebrities will be joining Nigel as MON he 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 quotes they wish they'd said and the family MON sayings that they grew up with. MON This week Nigel is joined by Actress and Singer - Janie Dee, MON former editor of Private Eye and current editor of The Oldie MON - Richard Ingrams, science writer and broadcaster Vivienne MON Parry and comedian and writer Robin Ince. MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Janie Dee MON Panellist: Richard Ingrams MON Panellist: Vivienne Parry MON Panellist: Robin Ince MON Reader: Peter Jefferson MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jnbg (Listen) MON Series 7, Horses for Courses MON A school break-in sparks trouble and it's interview day for MON the Deputy Head's job. With Brenda Blethyn. From April 1992. MON MON 10:00 The Complete Smiley b016d4z8 (Listen) MON The Secret Pilgrim, Part 1 MON Recollections of an eventful secret life when a British spy MON went missing. John le Carre thriller stars Simon Russell MON Beale. MON MON 11:00 Half-Light b01j6wh7 (Listen) MON Henry Drake Goes Home MON By Neil M. Gunn, first published in 1941. MON Read by Robert Jack. MON After three decades living in the north of Scotland, the MON outbreak of World War Two moves an elderly man to return to MON his home county of Devon. MON Short story by Neil M. Gunn, one of Scotland's finest MON writers who is best known for his novel The Silver Darlings. MON Gunn was born in 1891, in the coastal village of Dunbeath, MON in Caithness, and wrote prolifically over a period that MON spanned the recession of the 1920s through to the aftermath MON of the Second World War. He died in 1973. MON The stories in this series are taken from Half-Light, a new MON collection of Gunn's short fiction compiled by his nephew MON Dairmid Gunn and published by Caithness-based Whittles MON Publishing. MON Abridged and produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0076vgl (Listen) MON Louise Wallinger - Cut Me and I Bleed Elvis MON Sarah collects voices on tape, but her microphone is taking MON over her life. Stars Jo McInnes and James Fleet. MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b04cnsgs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k1jm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Poirot b0076tk5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star MON b00mp5zb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox MON b00770mv (Listen) MON Let us begin with two girls at a dance MON 'Let us begin with two girls at a dance. One sits on a MON chair, opening and shutting a dance-card with gloved MON fingers. The other stands beside her, watching the dance MON unfold: the circling couples, the bounce of the floor. It MON begins here'. MON The haunting story of a terrible family secret and a life MON stolen. MON Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron begin Maggie MON O'Farrell's highly acclaimed novel set between the MON conventions of 1930's Edinburgh and the freedoms of today. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion MON Producer: Di Speirs MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. MON MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00shhrj (Listen) MON How I Wish I Were a Boy MON Michael Morpurgo discovers middle-class boys went to 19th MON century public schools as a shield from too much female MON influence. MON MON 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jssj (Listen) MON A Whistling Woman, part 3 MON Frederica reignites an old flame, John, and her new TV MON series starts. Marcus finds a damsel in distress. Stars MON Richard Coyle. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b013f0xk (Listen) MON Fire Season, Episode 1 MON Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. MON For nearly a decade, Philip Connors has spent half of each MON year in a 7 foot by 7 foot room at the top of a tower, on MON top of a mountain, alone in millions of acres of remote MON American wilderness. His job: to look for wildfires. MON Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job MON and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of MON solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire MON at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with MON drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular MON midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening MON above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and MON black bears. Filled with Connors' heartfelt reflections on MON our place in the wild, Fire Season is an instant modern MON classic: a remarkable memoir that is at once a homage to the MON beauty of nature, the blessings of solitude, and the freedom MON of the independent spirit. MON Read by Kerry Shale MON Produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 The Complete Smiley b016d4z8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b039c5dh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jnbg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Charles Dickens b00rp9t0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07h6qsp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Simon Clark - The Night of the Triffids b07jllsy (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON Valiantly trying to save Christina, back in Manhattan - MON David learns the extent of Fielding's megalomania. MON Simon Clarke's 2001 novel is the sequel to John Wyndham MON sci-fi classic. At the conclusion of 'The Day of the MON Triffids', scientist Bill Masen had escaped with his wife MON and four-year-old son to the island. MON Now grown up, Bill's son, David woke up one morning to a MON world plunged into darkness. Now, the Triffids have an MON advantage over humanity. MON Stars Sam Troughton as David Masen, Nicola Bryant as MON Cerys/Marnie/Rowena, Paul Clayton as Bill Masen/General MON Fielding, Geff Francis as Gabriel and John Schwab as Sam MON Dynes. MON Producer and Script Editor: John Ainsworth. MON Executive Producers: Jason Haigh-Ellery & Nicholas Briggs. MON A Big Finish production. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00767ls (Listen) MON Mike Phillips & Joan Bakewell MON Rosie Boycott welcomes thriller writer, Mike Phillips and MON broadcaster, Joan Bakewell to discuss books by Lucian Boia, MON William Maxwell and Mark Kurlansky. From 2002. MON Romania by Lucian Boia MON Publisher: Reaktion Books MON Time Will Darken It by William Maxwell MON Publisher: Panther MON Cod by Mark Kurlansky MON Publisher: Vintage. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b04cnsgs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k1jm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Poirot b0076tk5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star MON b00mp5zb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Half-Light b01j6wh7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0076vgl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b07h6qsp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Concrete Cow b04v8zs2 (Listen) MON Series 2, Art MON Someone goes too far at a murder mystery party. Sketch show MON starring Robert Webb and Beth Chalmers. From January 2004. MON MON 23:00 Dead Ringers b07hj8bn (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 3 MON The main political parties are in meltdown, Britain's future MON is uncertain, the currency has been in free fall. So it's MON probably time to relax and have a laugh at it all. MON The show attempts to make sense of one of the busiest news MON weeks since... well, since last week. MON MON 23:30 Elvenquest b01qm4pp (Listen) MON Series 4, The Magnificent Five MON Whilst waiting for news on the whereabouts of the Sword of MON Asnagar, the Questers stop a pub brawl and in doing so MON attract the attention of some villagers from the small MON village of Mexigaroth who are being terrorised by an evil MON bandit, who goes by the name of "El Maldado". MON Never ones to stand by when a wrong can be righted, the MON Questers promise to help the villagers defeat El Maldado and MON his hordes. MON Meanwhile, Lord Darkness has to make a presentation for an MON assembly of the Dark Lords. Pretty routine stuff, surely...? MON Starring: MON Darren Boyd as Vidar MON Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech MON Dave Lamb as Amis MON Stephen Mangan as Sam MON Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness MON Ingrid Oliver as Penthiselea MON and MON Chris Pavlo as Hilario MON Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto. MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 JULY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Simon Clark - The Night of the Triffids b07jllsy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00767ls (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Poirot b0076tk5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Youssou N'Dour at 50: Africa's Greatest Star TUE b00mp5zb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox TUE b00770mv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00shhrj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jssj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b013f0xk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 The Complete Smiley b016d4z8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Complete Smiley b016d8xl (Listen) TUE The Secret Pilgrim, Part 2 TUE The spymaster addresses new recruits, triggering memories of TUE an eventful life. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Patrick TUE Malahide. TUE TUE 05:00 The Complete Smiley b0169l55 (Listen) TUE The Secret Pilgrim, Part 3 TUE About to take retirement, an experienced agent carries out TUE one final job. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Patrick TUE Malahide. TUE TUE 06:00 Poirot b0076tng (Listen) TUE The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 2 TUE In the blistering summer heat, tensions are mounting at TUE Styles Court. It will not be long before Captain Hastings TUE has to call upon the services of Hercule Poirot. TUE Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule TUE Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Jill Balcon as Emily, TUE Hugh Dickson as Alfred, Susan Jameson as Emily and Nicholas TUE Boulton as Lawrence. TUE Original music composed by Tom Smail. TUE Dramatist: Michael Bakewell TUE Director: Enyd Williams TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. TUE TUE 06:30 Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow b01104bx (Listen) TUE Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow- For centuries hair has been used TUE as a symbol of remembrance; from a simple lock kept to the TUE more intricate practice of weaving hair into bracelets or TUE its use in art and jewellery. In this programme the TUE historian and biographer Juliette Barker traces these TUE practices through history and talks to some modern TUE collectors. Now that it has become apparent that hair offers TUE us the chance to retrieve good quality DNA could it be about TUE to enjoy a renaissance as favoured medium once more by which TUE we remember our loved ones and ancestors? TUE TUE 07:00 Two Doors Down b0089m6j (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Height of the Iguana TUE Horrified Marlborough Road residents do not want cleaner TUE Sally to leave them. Stars Frances Tomelty. From March 2001. TUE TUE 07:30 My Teenage Diary b07hfwrm (Listen) TUE Series 7, Samira Ahmed TUE The journalist Samira Ahmed reads from her teenage diaries TUE and is interviewed about her childhood in 1980s London when TUE she was obsessed with school work, Dallas and learning to TUE drive. TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Rufus Hound TUE Interviewed Guest: Samira Ahmed TUE TUE 08:00 Steptoe and Son b00rdsv7 (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Bird TUE Harold is furious when his date Roxanne is late for dinner. TUE Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert, Harry H Corbett as TUE Harold and Marion Stone as Roxanne. TUE Following the conclusion of their hugely successful TUE association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan TUE Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in TUE 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, TUE featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and TUE his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series TUE for TV. TUE Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by TUE Gale Pedrick. TUE Produced by Bobby Jaye TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1966. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jpb0 (Listen) TUE That's My Baby TUE Love-struck civil servant Lamb is fast-tracked into TUE fatherhood. Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. From TUE June 1975. TUE TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers b07hj8bn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 King of Bath b045xxsw (Listen) TUE Merely Players TUE Beau Nash comes to the aid of a man threatened by a vengeful TUE and jealous German Count. Starring David Bamber. From March TUE 1999. TUE TUE 10:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t2t (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Gentle, intelligent Oblomov completely fails to deal with TUE life. He lives in a flat in St Petersburg. He is always TUE about to go and sort out his estate but he rarely gets out TUE of bed. Never doing today what he can put off till tomorrow, TUE Oblomov is a tragic-comic hero for a couch potato TUE generation. TUE Starring Toby Jones as Oblomov, Trevor Peacock as Zahar and TUE Claire Skinner as Olga. Singer: Olivia Robinson and pianist: TUE Helen Crayford. TUE Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt Director Claire Grove TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005. TUE TUE 11:00 Hidden Agendas b01ghgk9 (Listen) TUE Reading the Signs TUE Three stories from Wales about secrets and lies, even when TUE they're with good intentions. When Gwyn goes to investigate TUE a fire on a Welsh farm, he suspects the owners are hiding TUE something, but discovers they are not the only ones. TUE Alix Nathan's story is read by Keiron Self. TUE A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Nigel Lewis. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Keiron Self TUE Producer: Nigel Lewis TUE Writer: Alix Nathan TUE TUE 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jw6z (Listen) TUE The Duvet Lady TUE Wrapped in a duvet, Edna recalls her younger days. Will she TUE ever emerge for an evening engagement? Stars Billie TUE Whitelaw. TUE TUE 12:00 Steptoe and Son b00rdsv7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jpb0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Poirot b0076tng (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow b01104bx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox TUE b00770nl (Listen) TUE You've Got a Visitor TUE By Maggie O'Farrell, abridged in 10 parts by Sally Marmion. TUE 2: Esme Lennox has been confined to a psychiatric hospital TUE for 60 years. Her great-niece Iris has only just learned of TUE her existence. TUE Read by Hannah Gordon and Frances Grey. TUE TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00shl8f (Listen) TUE Reinstated Divinity TUE Michael Morpurgo discovers the how Victorian obsession with TUE childhood, both real and romanticised, appeared in art and TUE literature. TUE TUE 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jssw (Listen) TUE A Whistling Woman, part 4 TUE Daniel has difficulty communicating with Will and Lucy joins TUE a disreputable religious commune. Stars Shaun Dooley. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b013n5g7 (Listen) TUE Fire Season, Episode 2 TUE Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. TUE In April there's little lightning in the Gila wilderness so TUE a fire is unlikely, meanwhile the fire lookout spies the TUE first hummingbird of the season from his tower and learns TUE once more to embrace the solitary nature of his summer job. TUE Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job TUE and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of TUE solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire TUE at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with TUE drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular TUE midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening TUE above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and TUE black bears. TUE Read by Kerry Shale TUE Produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t2t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00fhrt6 (Listen) TUE 2005, Semi-final 2 TUE Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Peter Ashman of TUE Buckinghamshire, Adrian Clark of London and John Taylor from TUE Lincoln. TUE TUE 16:30 King of Bath b045xxsw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Two Doors Down b0089m6j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 My Teenage Diary b07hfwrm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Simon Clark - The Night of the Triffids b07jlqmy (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE David and the rebels must use desperate tactics to try and TUE halt Fielding. But can they outfight the megalomaniac? TUE Simon Clarke's 2001 novel is the sequel to John Wyndham TUE sci-fi classic. At the conclusion of 'The Day of the TUE Triffids', scientist Bill Masen had escaped with his wife TUE and four-year-old son to the island. TUE Now grown up, Bill's son, David woke up one morning to a TUE world plunged into darkness. Now, the Triffids have an TUE advantage over humanity. TUE Stars Sam Troughton as David Masen, Nicola Bryant as TUE Cerys/Marnie/Rowena, Paul Clayton as Bill Masen/General TUE Fielding, Geff Francis as Gabriel and John Schwab as Sam TUE Dynes. TUE Producer and Script Editor: John Ainsworth. TUE Executive Producers: Jason Haigh-Ellery & Nicholas Briggs. TUE A Big Finish production. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b07jlr2g (Listen) TUE Richard Ingrams TUE 4 Extra Debut. Former Private Eye and The Oldie editor TUE Richard Ingrams tells Robin Ray about music which stirs his TUE emotions. From July 1991. TUE TUE 19:00 Steptoe and Son b00rdsv7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jpb0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Poirot b0076tng (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow b01104bx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Hidden Agendas b01ghgk9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jw6z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 My Teenage Diary b07hfwrm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b01p9l4v (Listen) TUE Series 5, A Terrifying Life Made Even Scarier a Bit Some TUE More TUE Bleak Expectations TUE By Mark Evans TUE Volume 5, chapter 5: 'A Terrifying Life Made Even Scarier A TUE Bit Some More' TUE The Victorian adventure comedy continues. This week a new TUE and terrible danger threatens Victorian Britain as Harry TUE Biscuit becomes possessed by the evil Pen of Penrith which TUE turns his heart to inky black. Pip and Gently Benevolent TUE join forces to take on this new, cruel and cake-obsessed TUE nemesis and his army of robot swans. They also turn out to TUE share a love of antiquing in the Cotswolds. 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 Servewell: James Bachman TUE Clampvulture: Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely: Sarah Hadland TUE Lily: Sarah Hadland TUE Pippa: Susy Kane TUE Hector the Holy Horse: Mark Evans TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 23:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b016lgkl (Listen) TUE Strength TUE Mark Watson reignites his quest to improve the world, nimbly TUE assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. TUE As broadcast live in November 2011 - Mark invites the TUE audience join in via tweets and messages to work out how we TUE can all make the world a better place. TUE Asking the big questions crucial to our understanding of TUE ourselves and society - Mark kicks off with a look at TUE "Strength". TUE Strength comes in many forms. We all need to be strong TUE sometimes in life, whether we're dealing with an emotional TUE fall-out or carrying a really heavy dog to the vet's. Some TUE have inner strength, like people who survive divorce etc; TUE some have outer strength, like guys who pull buses with TUE their teeth in competitions. TUE But can strength be - ironically - a weakness? Strength can TUE have its downsides. Our fondness for displays of strength TUE has led to disastrous episodes like wars breaking out and TUE 'Gladiators' being brought back. Mr Strong, in the Mr Men TUE books, got strong by eating a barn full of eggs, but must TUE have suffered terrible side-effects. How can we be strong, TUE but remain human? TUE Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian, including the TUE inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim TUE Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden TUE who won the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE First broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. TUE TUE 23:30 Danny Robins Music Therapy b00fl0p7 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Danny aids Middlesbrough through the power of melody. Helped TUE by Isy Suttie and tribute band State of Quo. From November TUE 2008. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 JULY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Simon Clark - The Night of the Triffids b07jlqmy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor b07jlr2g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Poirot b0076tng (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Gone Today, Hair Tomorrow b01104bx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox WED b00770nl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00shl8f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jssw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b013n5g7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t2t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00fhrt6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 King of Bath b045xxsw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Two Doors Down b0089m6j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 My Teenage Diary b07hfwrm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Poirot b0076trz (Listen) WED The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 3 WED Emily Inglethorp has suddenly died - apparently of WED strychnine poisoning. Captain Hastings has asked Hercule WED Poirot to investigate and there's a visit from Detective WED Inspector Japp of Scotland Yard. WED Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule WED Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp, WED Nichola McAuliffe as Evie, Hugh Dickson as Alfred and Sean WED Arnold as John. WED Original music composed by Tom Smail. WED Dramatist: Michael Bakewell WED Director: Enyd Williams WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. WED WED 06:30 The Strongest Girl in the World b00tq0x3 (Listen) WED Cerys Matthews celebrates her childhood heroine and the WED rebel of Swedish children's literature, Pippi Longstocking, WED who has captured the imaginations of children all over the WED world, including Cerys' own, for over 60 years. WED Pippi has red hair, freckles and a nose the 'shape of a very WED small potato'. She was invented by the Swedish author, WED Astrid Lindgren, in the 1940s who created the character for WED her daughter before later sending the idea to a publisher. WED Pippi is an orphan - her mother is an angel and her father WED is the king of a cannibal island. She eats pancakes, drinks WED lots of coffee and goes to school when she feels like it. WED She defies all the rules, speaks out against authority and WED she is courageous and loyal. WED Though possibly not an obvious role model for children, WED Cerys Matthews says; 'Pippi has always been my hero and my WED role model. I feel a kinship with her. I like getting my WED boots on, stomping around, and being independent. Even if WED I've sometimes been too independent for my own good'. WED Nothing could have prepared Lindgren for the huge reception WED Pippi received; fiercely criticised on the one hand as WED irresponsible and seditious, and enthusiastically applauded WED on the other as a work of liberation and an outstanding WED artistic accomplishment. WED Today Pippi Longstocking has become a worldwide phenomenon, WED a national treasure and a trade mark. WED In this programme Cerys explores the many layers to the WED Pippi Longstocking character. With contributions from Astrid WED Lindgren's daughter, Karin Nyman; Britain's most famous WED Swede; Ulrika Jonsson; writer Ulla Lundqvist; artist WED Marianne Lindberg de Geer and the voice of Lindgren herself WED from a Swedish Radio interview recorded in 1988. WED Producer: Sarah Cuddon WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b0076457 (Listen) WED I'll Build That Bridge When I Come To It WED Pete is in love with Cassie, but is she in love with him? WED Stars Debra Stephenson and David Lamb. From September 2001. WED WED 07:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04vkl9j (Listen) WED Series 6, Ann Widdecombe WED I've Never Seen Star Wars - Ann Widdecombe WED Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new WED experiences. Ann tries camping in a tent for the first time WED and watches as much of The Thick Of It as she can stand. WED Marcus also offers her a Jagerbomb - but will she accept? WED Credits WED Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke WED Interviewed Guest: Ann Widdecombe WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b00lqzs5 (Listen) WED Captain Povey Reports Sick WED When Captain Povey catches a cold, the Number One takes over WED ensuring chaos aboard 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 Lieutenant Queeg. Michael Bates as WED Lieutenant Dingle and Tenniel Evans as the Admiral. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1965. WED WED 08:30 Hancock's Half Hour b007jygf (Listen) WED The Boxing Champion WED When the lad hits the gym, he knocks down a prize boxer WED completely by chance - which gives Sid an idea... WED Starring Tony Hancock. With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney WED James, Kenneth Williams and Paul Carpenter. WED Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. WED Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. Recorded WED by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz. WED Producer: Dennis Main Wilson WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1954. WED WED 09:00 Dilemma b01747kt (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical WED wringer in this show that looks at the choices we are WED bombarded by in Britain today, as well as some more WED theoretical problems. Salad or chips? Do you buy local WED produce or from co-ops in Africa? Would you rather live in WED perfect happiness for ten years or general contentment for WED thirty? This is a panel show in which there are no "right" WED answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. WED From everyday and even surreal either/or situations, to WED classic philosophical quandaries, Dilemma is a format to get WED witty, intelligent comic voices sparking off one another. WED The edition features comedians Dave Gorman and Richard WED Herring, actress and writer Rebecca Front, and journalist WED Dominic Lawson. They discuss such quandaries as "Would you WED provide an alibi to someone you hate?" and "Would you WED confront an elderly relative about casual racism at a family WED gathering?", and they debate the relative merits of Silvio WED Berlusconi, Vlad the Impaler, L. Ron Hubbard and Amanda WED Holden. The show was devised by award-winning stand-up and WED writer Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The WED Week). WED Producer: Ed Morrish. WED WED 09:30 Rent b04dyv2z (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED It is time to party for students Paul and Ruby, but WED grown-ups Maria and Richard hit a posh hotel. Stars Patrick WED Barlow. From May 1993. WED WED 10:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t6b (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Gentle, intelligent Oblomov completely fails to deal with WED life. He lives in a flat in St Petersburg never doing today WED what he can put off till tomorrow. WED During a summer in the country, he has fallen in love with WED pretty clever Olga. Back in St Petersburg, Olga's patience WED is put to the test. WED Starring Toby Jones as Oblomov, Trevor Peacock as Zahar and WED Claire Skinner as Olga. WED Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt WED Director Claire Grove WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005. WED WED 11:00 Hidden Agendas b01gvwxy (Listen) WED The Invitation WED The second of three stories from Wales about secrets and WED lies, even when they're with good intentions. Chapman is WED attracted to Karlssen's brilliance, but discovers he's on WED the receiving end of his ambition, and it's dark. WED Neil Hartman and Tony Haynes' story is read by Iestyn Jones WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Nigel Lewis. WED Credits WED Reader: Iestyn Jones WED Writer: Neil Hartman WED Writer: Tony Haynes WED Producer: Nigel Lewis WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0156n2y (Listen) WED The Falcon and the Hawk WED Helen Macdonald is a falconer and poet. She keeps a goshawk WED called Mabel. As a child she fell in love with a rare book WED of intense nature writing, J.A. Baker's The Peregrine, which WED records a winter watching wild peregrines on the Essex WED coast. Her new play brings her birds and his together. Baker WED tramps the bleak coastal marshes scanning the skies for WED fleeting moments of bloody drama as a peregrine stoops at WED immense speed after a plover or a pigeon. Helen woos her WED captive-bred goshawk in her spare bedroom - acclimatising it WED to human noise and human movement. Baker crouches over a WED half-dead pigeon and finishes it off for the wild falcon; WED Helen walks the city street with a goshawk on her fist. The WED stories begin to fly closer to one one another. WED Part recorded on location on The Bird of Prey Centre at WED Newent, Gloucestershire. WED Producer: Tim Dee. WED Credits WED JA Baker: David Birrell WED Young Helen: Gemma Lawrence WED Helen: Helen Macdonald WED Writer: Helen Macdonald WED Producer: Tim Dee WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b00lqzs5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 Hancock's Half Hour b007jygf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Poirot b0076trz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Strongest Girl in the World b00tq0x3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox WED b00770p8 (Listen) WED Daughters Who Just Don't Listen WED By Maggie O'Farrell, abridged in 10 parts by Sally Marmion. WED 3: Why was Esme incarcerated in an asylum? Iris goes in WED search of some answers and discovers a shameful past. WED Read by Hannah Gordon and Frances Grey. WED WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00shrwl (Listen) WED Father, Is It Time? WED Michael Morpurgo reveals children's working lives during the WED Industrial Revolution - up chimneys, in factories and down WED mines. WED WED 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jst2 (Listen) WED A Whistling Woman, part 5 WED The religious community in Yorkshire becomes cult-like under WED the influence of its charismatic leader. Stars Ben Thomas. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b013n5hj (Listen) WED Fire Season, Episode 3 WED Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. WED Near the end of April, with the snow melted, the mule WED packers arrive with supplies and ask the fire lookout if he WED ever gets lonely or sad in his wilderness lookout but he's WED not about to confide the near mystical feelings he WED experiences to two guys in leather chaps and cowboy hats. WED Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job WED and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of WED solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire WED at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with WED drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular WED midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening WED above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and WED black bears. WED Read by Kerry Shale WED Produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t6b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Dilemma b01747kt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Rent b04dyv2z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b0076457 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04vkl9j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Oscar Wilde b008hvvx (Listen) WED The Canterville Ghost, Episode 1 WED When American Minister, Hiram B Otis signs the deeds for WED Canterville Chase, he not only buys a piece of English WED history, but he also inherits a troublesome ghost. No sooner WED have Mr Otis and his family moved into their new home than WED they come up against this unruly spirit and a battle of WED wills ensues... WED Read by Alistair McGowan. WED Producer: Gemma Jenkins. WED Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b008kj7x (Listen) WED Fatherhood WED Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. WED 5/6. Fatherhood WED BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson became a father for WED the third time at the age of 61. He joins writer Will Cohu, WED a self-confessed middle-class would-be super dad, and WED charity worker Shaun Bailey, determined to defy the negative WED stereotype of a black father, to discuss the challenges of WED modern fatherhood. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b00lqzs5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Hancock's Half Hour b007jygf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Poirot b0076trz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Strongest Girl in the World b00tq0x3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Hidden Agendas b01gvwxy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0156n2y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04vkl9j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b03y152p (Listen) WED Series 1, Big Farmer 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, Milton Jones is asked for help because there are WED ugly rumours about the local farm going too far with its GM WED crops. At least, that's what the vegetables are saying. 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 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing b0076b0y (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Cinema trips, Jane Austen and a new posh British WED blockbuster. Sketches with Giedroyc and Perkins. From WED October 2002. WED WED 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b07kd89l (Listen) WED From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club WED has two hours of comedy. Plus Cariad Lloyd chats about WED 'improv' with Pippa Evans and Rachel Parris. WED WED 23:30 The Museum of Everything b00gknj8 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Museum Reopens WED A temp with a scary clown face aids the tour guide. Starring WED Marcus Brigstocke, Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell. From July WED 2006. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 JULY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Oscar Wilde b008hvvx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b008kj7x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Poirot b0076trz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Strongest Girl in the World b00tq0x3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox THU b00770p8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00shrwl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jssw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b013n5hj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov b0076t6b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Dilemma b01747kt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Rent b04dyv2z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 A Whole 'Nother Story b0076457 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04vkl9j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Poirot b0076tw5 (Listen) THU The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 4 THU Hercule Poirot, Captain Hastings and Detective Inspector THU Japp have become heavily involved with the case, but THU everyone in the household has an alibi for the time of the THU murder. THU Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule THU Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp, THU Sean Arnold as John, Susan Jameson as Mary, Nichola THU McAuliffe as Evie, Hugh Dickson as Alfred and Nicholas THU Boulton as Lawrence THU Original music composed by Tom Smail. THU Dramatist: Michael Bakewell THU Director: Enyd Williams THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. THU THU 06:30 The Twilight World of Syd Barrett b011plrs (Listen) THU Six years after his death (7th July 2006) Syd Barrett lives THU on freeze framed, still young and a striking lost soul of THU the sixties whose brief moment of creativity outshines those THU long years of solitude shut away in a terraced house in his THU home town of Cambridge. THU This revealing programme hears how his band Pink Floyd (and THU family) coped with Barrett's mental breakdown and explores THU the hurriedly arranged holiday to the Spanish island of THU Formentera - where the star unravelled. In the programme we THU also hear about Barrett's pioneering brand of English THU psychedelic pop typified on early Pink Floyd recordings THU 'Arnold Layne', 'See Emily Play' and the strange songs on THU Pink Floyd's impressive debut album 'The Piper At the Gates THU of Dawn'. THU Undoubtedly Barrett's experimentation with the drug LSD THU affected him mentally and the band members reveal how THU concerned they were when he began to go catatonic on-stage, THU playing music that had little to do with their material, or THU not playing at all. By Spring 1968 Barrett was out of the THU group and after a brief period of hibernation, he re-emerged THU in 1970 with a pair of albums, 'The Madcap Laughs' and THU 'Barrett', but they failed to chart and Barrett retired to a THU hermit life existing under the watchful gaze of his caring THU sister Rosemary (featured in the programme). THU We hear from David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright (one THU of the last interviews before his sad passing) about how THU there was little understanding of mental illness when it THU came to the drug fused culture of the time. These days a THU strung out star is hurriedly booked into the Priory and THU given counselling. As this programme reveals Barrett's THU mental breakdown was not understood and the steps taken to THU help him were inappropriate and still rankle the members of THU Pink Floyd today. THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes b01bmq92 (Listen) THU Series 2, Monday Monday THU Patrick rashly agrees to babysit, and Billy actually gets THU some work. Written by and starring Jim Sweeney. From October THU 2002. THU THU 07:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07hj0q6 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU A new show from the internationally acclaimed master of the THU one-liner Tim Vine sees Tim interview members of his live THU audience as he embarks on a quest to hear the life stories THU of the Great British public while simultaneously showcasing THU his trademark gleeful wordplay and preposterous songs. THU In this first episode of the series Tim talks to a THU death-defying parachutist, hears about a hair-raising brush THU with a Royal Protection Officer and tells at least two jokes THU about chickens. THU Producer: Richard Morris THU A BBC Studios Production. THU Credits THU Presenter: Tim Vine THU Producer: Richard Morris THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jzss (Listen) THU Series 3, The Clock THU Author Gerald and his wife Diana hear some bumps in the THU night. 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 Douglas Blackwell and Patricia Hughes. 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 b007k39v (Listen) THU Series 5, Did You Catch It? THU Sir Norman Tonsil attempts to review his radio station's THU output, including a novel way of choosing the Choir of the THU Year. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope and Richard Curtis. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with Jeremy THU Pascall. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1985. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075sxg (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Mark Thomas, THU Arthur Smith, David Stafford and Dillie Keane. From July THU 1998. THU THU 09:30 When the Dog Dies b0460hzd (Listen) THU Series 4, One Dog and His Man THU The final series of Ronnie Corbett's popular sitcom, written THU 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, leaving THU the attractive Dolores behind. Sandy's children are quite THU sure Dolores is a gold-digger. Meanwhile, 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. But THU keeping the dog alive and 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, things would be a lot simpler and smoother. But a THU lot duller too. THU Episode Five: One Dog And His Man THU Why is Henry chewing a leg of Sandy's piano? Is he losing THU his canine marbles? He needs to go to the Dog Whisperer. To THU get Henry back, Sandy has to take to the skies. THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Sandy: Ronnie Corbett THU Dolores: Liza Tarbuck THU Mrs Pompom: Sally Grace THU Blake: Dave Lamb THU Ellie: Tilly Vosburgh THU Zoe: Grace Vance THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU Writer: Ian Davidson THU Writer: Peter Vincent THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b01jgb92 (Listen) THU Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, THU Episode 1 THU Adapted by Ellen Dryden. THU Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson, one of the most THU infamous and talked-about women of the early 19th century. THU Her lovers included aristocrats, adventurers and even the THU Duke of Wellington himself. And when they all ceased to THU support her after her retirement, she had a simple bargain THU for them - 'pay up, and I'll keep you out of my memoirs'. THU A scandalous bestseller of their time, her memoirs reveal a THU sharp-witted, good-hearted, infinitely adaptable, madcap THU woman who took on the patriarchy of the time and did THU something close to beating them at their own game. THU Harriette's exciting, secretive, unpredictable world is THU brought vividly to life in Ellen Dryden's radio THU dramatization of the book which set the whole country THU gossiping about the behaviour of the men who ran it, and the THU women they loved. THU In the first episode, Harriette escapes from the THU stultifyingly boring household of her first aristocratic THU protector in favour of a more exciting, younger lover. But THU will he be able to keep her in the style to which she has THU become accustomed? THU We also meet Harriette's friends and rivals such as the THU mysterious Julia, her saintly sister Fanny, and her satanic THU sister Amy. Featuring Blake Ritson as the Duke of Argyle, THU Charles Edwards as Lord Ponsonby, and Barnaby Kay as the THU Duke of Wellington. THU Producer: Ellen Dryden THU A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Harriette: Nancy Carroll THU Ponsonby: Charles Edwards THU Melbourne: Charles Edwards THU Wellington: Barnaby Kay THU Argyle: Blake Ritson THU Julia: Leila Hackett THU Fanny: Anna Francolini THU Amy: Abigail Burdess THU Old Woman: Abigail Burdess THU Tom Sheridan: Jonathan Dryden Taylor THU Frederick: Richard Galazka THU Alvanley: Richard Galazka THU Mrs Porter: Sarah Finigan THU Producer: Ellen Dryden THU Adaptor: Ellen Dryden THU THU 11:00 Hidden Agendas b01h7cdy (Listen) THU Christmas '83 in the Rhondda THU The last of three stories from Wales about secrets and lies, THU even those set with good intentions. It's Christmas '83 in THU the Valleys, and Ceri has two young children. She'd like to THU give them toys but their father has other plans. THU Shelley Rees reads a story by Rachel Trezise. THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production, directed by Emma Bodger. THU Credits THU Reader: Shelley Rees THU Director: Emma Bodger THU Writer: Rachel Trezise THU THU 11:15 Hattie Naylor - Chinese Whispers b0076cb5 (Listen) THU Little Cinderellas THU 4 Extra Debut. An unmarried British woman adopting a Chinese THU baby girl has her motivations questioned. Stars Samantha THU Spiro. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jzss (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b007k39v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Poirot b0076tw5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Twilight World of Syd Barrett b011plrs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox THU b00770pv (Listen) THU The Granddaughter of an Advocate THU By Maggie O'Farrell, abridged in 10 parts by Sally Marmion. THU 4: As Esme gets her first taste of freedom for over 60 THU years, forgotten memories of her privileged past are THU reawakened. Meanwhile, Iris must find her a home. THU Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron. THU THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sjp2l (Listen) THU I Ain't a Child THU Michael Morpurgo tells the story of Victorian street THU children and the organisations which grew up to rescue them. THU THU 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jstb (Listen) THU A Whistling Woman, part 6 THU Protesters disrupt the prestigious conference at the THU Yorkshire university where Luke is speaking. Stars Peter THU Marinker. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b013n5jn (Listen) THU Fire Season, Episode 4 THU Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. THU May is relentless with wind, the fire lookout's tower THU vibrates, guy wires scream and the distant hills are THU swallowed in dust. As he spots a cloud rise from the hills THU his eye is drawn to the contours but he decides the spiral THU is just dust, it's colour and movement don't jibe with THU smoke. He quits his post early and finds a spot of early THU evening peace by a mountain pond. THU Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job THU and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of THU solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire THU at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with THU drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular THU midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening THU above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and THU black bears. THU Read by Kerry Shale THU Produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b01jgb92 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075sxg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 When the Dog Dies b0460hzd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes b01bmq92 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07hj0q6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Oscar Wilde b008jw9k (Listen) THU The Canterville Ghost, Episode 2 THU The house's ghost Sir Simon plots a spectacular haunting to THU get rid of the troublesome Otis family. Read by Alistair THU McGowan. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b044h6nq (Listen) THU Series 33, Ernest Hemingway THU Michael Palin first came across his Great Life when he was THU studying for school exams, and his love of Ernest Hemingway THU has never gone away. He, along with expert Naomi Wood, tells THU Matthew Parris why this twentieth century legend is a Great THU Life. THU Producer: Perminder Khatkar. THU Credits THU Presenter: Matthew Parris THU Interviewed Guest: Michael Palin THU Interviewed Guest: Naomi Wood THU Producer: Perminder Khatkar THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jzss (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b007k39v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Poirot b0076tw5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Twilight World of Syd Barrett b011plrs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Hidden Agendas b01h7cdy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Hattie Naylor - Chinese Whispers b0076cb5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07hj0q6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Music Teacher b03bfkcx (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher THU Nigel Penny. THU Nigel is somewhat distracted from his teaching duties by his THU temporary homelessness, his illegally parked rented transit THU van and Arts Centre Manager Belinda's increased security THU measures. 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 Harvey: Dave Lamb THU Holly: Jess Robinson THU Avril: Jess Robinson THU Betty: Isobel Webb THU Director: Nick Walker THU Producer: Richie Webb THU Writer: Richie Webb THU THU 22:45 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01sjj87 (Listen) THU Series 2, About Poorly Relatives THU EPISODE FOUR: ABOUT POORLY RELATIVES 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 - At the end of the day she just wants the THU best for her son. However, she'd also love to brag and show THU her son off to her friends, but with Nathan only telling THU jokes for a living it's kind of hard to do. She loves THU Nathan, but she aint looking embarrassed for nobody! THU Martin a.k.a. Dad - works in the construction industry and THU was looking forward to his son getting a degree so the two THU of them could work together in the same field. But now THU Nathan has blown that dream out of the window. Martin is THU clumsy and hard-headed and leaves running the house to his THU wife (she wouldn't allow it to be any other way). THU Shirley a.k.a. Grandma - cannot believe Nathan turned down THU architecture for comedy. How can her grandson go on stage THU and use foul language and filthy material... it's not the THU good Christian way! THU So with the weight of his family's disappointment will THU Nathan be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or will he THU give in to his family's interference? THU About Poorly Relatives THU Nathan Caton is unsympathetic when his parents are poorly as THU he has an important gig and needs to be on his A game. But THU he agrees not to tell Grandma that they're poorly as she THU doesn't believe in poorly. THU NATHAN ..... NATHAN CATON THU MUM ..... ADJOA ANDOH THU DAD ..... CURTIS WALKER THU GRANDMA ..... MONA HAMMOND THU REVEREND WILLIAMS ..... DON GILÉT 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 b07kd8c9 (Listen) THU From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club THU has two hours of comedy. Plus Cariad Lloyd chats about THU 'improv' again with Pippa Evans and Rachel Parris. THU THU 23:00 The Mark Steel Revolution b007jswj (Listen) THU The French Revolution THU The radical comic turns his analytical mind to the THU guillotine and all things French. With Carla Mendonca. From THU June 1998. THU THU 23:30 Polyoaks b01nxzcl (Listen) THU Series 2, Desperately Seeking Susans THU In the NHS satire by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer, a THU general practice somewhere in Bristol is faced with THU challenges and opportunities in equal measure as they adjust THU to another 'biggest shake-up of the NHS in a lifetime'. THU This week, Polyoaks faces rocketing drugs bills as they try THU to implement 20% cuts. The Practice Manager, Betty, demands THU an audit in the pharmacy. Unfortunately, it appears drugs THU are going missing and it looks like an inside job. Brothers THU Hugh and Roy and celebrity TV doctor Jeremy are all prime THU suspects and Betty and practice nurse Vera turn detectives. 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 Mrs. Strickland........Claire Vousden THU Malcolm...........David Holt THU Written by Dr. Phil Hammond and David Spicer THU Directed by Frank Stirling THU Producer: David Spicer. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 JULY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Oscar Wilde b008jw9k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b044h6nq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Poirot b0076tw5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Twilight World of Syd Barrett b011plrs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox FRI b00770pv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sjp2l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jstb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b013n5jn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b01jgb92 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075sxg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 When the Dog Dies b0460hzd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes b01bmq92 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Tim Vine Chat Show b07hj0q6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Poirot b0076tz9 (Listen) FRI The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Episode 5 FRI Captain Hastings and Detective Inspector Japp are bewildered FRI by the antics of Hercule Poirot as he rushes back to Styles FRI Court in a state of great excitement. FRI Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule FRI Poirot, Simon Williams as Hastings, Philip Jackson as Japp, FRI Susan Jameson as Mary, Nichola McAuliffe as Evie, Annabelle FRI Dowler as Cynthia and Hilda Schroder as Dorcas. FRI Original music composed by Tom Smail. FRI Dramatist: Michael Bakewell FRI Director: Enyd Williams FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. FRI FRI 06:30 Picking Round Apples b014qxbg (Listen) FRI Steve Carver lives the life of a seasonal apple picker on a FRI farm in Herefordshire. FRI In his previous programmes for Radio 4 'Dancing Round the FRI Mediterranean' and 'Touring Round Torquay' , Steve immersed FRI himself in a new line of work, living alongside co-workers FRI and experiencing their way of life. FRI This year he is 'Picking Round Apples' in Herefordshire: FRI For a week in mid-August, Steve gave up his home comforts FRI and moved into a small campervan parked in the corner of a FRI field in rural Herefordshire. FRI Every year a small band of retired people establish a FRI make-shift and temporary, but close community. Every day, FRI all day, they pick apples. The money they earn boosts their FRI pensions, and a simple and quietly sociable life is also a FRI great draw. FRI However it's hard work - bad backs, scratched arms, and sore FRI feet are the wounds that must be borne. FRI The retired pickers live in their motor-homes for the FRI summer, with many over-wintering in Spain when the weather FRI begins to cool. No such luxury (or destination) for Steve - FRI we gave him a basic campervan, with no electrical 'hook-up'; FRI the use of a microwave in a farm-building, which also houses FRI the showers and loos. FRI He was cold at night (trekking socks a necessity in bed, FRI even in August), he got a little sick of microwave meals, FRI but he enjoyed meeting the other pickers, appreciating what FRI they meant by 'getting into the zone' of apple picking: FRI reach... pick... put in bucket... reach... pick... put in FRI bucket... almost - as Steve said - like a form of FRI meditation. FRI Join Steve to find out how he got on 'Picking Round Apples' FRI at Tillington Fruit Farm near Ledbury in Herefordshire. FRI Producer: Karen Gregor. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston in Europe b007tbrv (Listen) FRI Don't Gush, Nancy FRI Father wants to move abroad, but old rogue Winston's not his FRI usual chipper self. Stars Maurice Denham. From March 1992. FRI FRI 07:30 Rumblings from the Rafters b07hwxbk (Listen) FRI House Fly and Soprano Pipistrelle Bat FRI An annoying House Fly played by Lee Mack and a warm-hearted FRI Soprano Pipistrelle Bat played by Pam Ferris, reveal the FRI truth about life in a draughty old attic in a house in FRI Amersham in the second of three very funny tales, written FRI and introduced by Lynne Truss, with additional sound FRI recordings by Chris Watson. FRI The House Fly loves life. "The best bit is the buzzing". He FRI loves the aerobatics, dodging the flypapers in the attic and FRI "... my favourite manoeuvre, settling on the ceiling. It is FRI unbelievably brilliant" He loves to buzz. But he also loves, FRI what to humans, is a disgusting way of life. He loves to FRI walk around on filth and to poo everywhere and to spread FRI disease "And listen, we don't mind! Not at all. It's the FRI least we can do". He would love to spread more diseases and FRI takes great joy in telling us just exactly how he does this FRI ... perhaps best not to listen if you're eating! FRI The Soprano Pipistrelle Bat is a very different creature; a FRI tiny bat with a huge and loving heart. She is nine years old FRI and has given birth to a single pup each year. Her newest FRI pup, Jethro, is her darling; "... such a lovely little face. FRI Chestnut fur. Perfect little ears. He smells like chicken FRI flavour crisps. Ooh, I could eat him." He is six weeks old FRI and weaning - proudly catching insects for himself; and this FRI is always a poignant time for this mother-bat, where pride FRI and sadness mingle. The main concern with Jethro, she finds, FRI is that he can't seem to grasp the idea of torpor, "Oh don't FRI mum. Don't go torpid. It's like you're dying", but as she FRI knows "torpor is nothing to be scared of, .. torpor is your FRI friend". FRI House Fly: Lee Mack FRI Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris FRI Written and introduced by Lynne Truss FRI Wildlife sound recordings Chris Watson FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Lynne Truss FRI House Fly: Lee Mack FRI Soprano Pipstrelle Bat: Pam Ferris FRI Producer: Sarah Blunt FRI Writer: Lynne Truss FRI FRI 08:00 Something to Shout About b07k0tdl (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Scared he'll be sacked if he doesn't find a new client, FRI Michael Lightfoot and the advertising agency team battle to FRI woo an American businessman to win the account for his FRI secret new product. FRI Starring Michael Medwin as account executive Michael, FRI Fenella Fielding as his seductive secretary Janet, Joan Sims FRI as ditzy typist Mavis, Eleanor Summerfield as no frills FRI executive Maggie Tufnell, and Nicholas Phipps as copy writer FRI Adrian and Warren Mitchell as the American businessman, Mr FRI Pimslow. FRI "A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!". Set in a FRI London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, FRI Blythe, Giddy & Partners', Something To Shout About ran to FRI 54 episodes over three series FRI Written by Myles Rudge and Ronnie Wolfe. FRI Music by The Jingle Belles and The Bernie Fenton Quartet, FRI under the direction of Cliff Adams. FRI Producer: John Simmonds FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1960. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jnxg (Listen) FRI Ill Met by Goonlight FRI Neddie Seagoon is sent to capture the German general who FRI commands the island of Crete. Stars Spike Milligan. From FRI March 1957. FRI FRI 09:00 Whispers b007k2sl (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony FRI Holden, Lucy Moore, Dan Tetsell and John O'Farrell. From FRI October 2005. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b01mhqbz (Listen) FRI Series 10, Time With the Family FRI Emily is engaged to Nick, so Roger and Victoria must FRI absolutely meet her fiance's parents. Stars Bill Nighy. From FRI February 2004. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b01jqb92 (Listen) FRI Publish and Be Damn'd: The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, FRI Episode 2 FRI Adapted by Ellen Dryden. FRI Nancy Carroll stars as Harriette Wilson - one of the most FRI infamous and talked-about women of the early 19th century. FRI Her lovers included aristocrats, adventurers and even the FRI Duke of Wellington, and when they all ceased to support her FRI after her retirement, she had a simple bargain for them - FRI 'pay up, and I'll keep you out of my memoirs'. FRI A scandalous bestseller of their time, her memoirs reveal a FRI sharp-witted, good-hearted, infinitely adaptable, madcap FRI woman who took on the patriarchy of the time and did FRI something close to beating them at their own game. FRI Having finally made contact with the mysterious Lord FRI Ponsonby, Harriette finds there are all kinds of obstacles FRI to their blossoming romance - including the small matter of FRI his wife whom everyone agrees is an angel. Harriette's FRI former lovers, the dashing Duke of Argyll and the taciturn FRI but loyal Duke of Wellington, are never far from the picture FRI and are soon joined by a new, passionate young admirer. The FRI Marquis of Worcester is devoted to Harriette as only a 19 FRI year-old can be. FRI Eventually Harriette is persuaded to reveal all in her FRI memoirs - a course of action which leads Wellington to make FRI one of the most famous remarks in the English Language. FRI Cast: FRI Harriette ...... Nancy Carroll FRI Ponsonby ....... Charles Edwards FRI Wellington ....... Barnaby Kay FRI Argyle ...... Blake Ritson FRI Fanny ....... Anna Francolini FRI Amy ....... Abigail Burdess FRI Matthew Lee ...... Jonathan Dryden Taylor FRI Poodle Byng/ Doctor/ Beaufort ..... Gus Brown FRI Porter/ Brougham ....... Jonathan Coote FRI Leinster ....... Andrew Mudie FRI Worcester ....... Nigel Thomas FRI Producer: Ellen Dryden FRI A First Writes Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Harriette: Nancy Carroll FRI Ponsonby: Charles Edwards FRI Wellington: Barnaby Kay FRI Argyle: Blake Ritson FRI Fanny: Anna Francolini FRI Amy: Abigail Burdess FRI Matthew Lee: Jonathan Dryden Taylor FRI Poodle Byng/Doctor/Beaufort: Gus Brown FRI Porter/Brougham: Jonathan Coote FRI Leinster: Andrew Mudie FRI Producer: Ellen Dryden FRI FRI 11:00 RK Narayan Stories b01dc3p8 (Listen) FRI A Willing Slave FRI A contradictory tale of a disciplined but willing servant, FRI who resents and desires her true master. Read by Zia FRI Mohyeddin. FRI FRI 11:15 Hattie Naylor - Chinese Whispers b07k0tld (Listen) FRI Little Emperors FRI A young Chinese boy rebels against traditions, whilst his FRI grandfather reminisces about the days of Mao. Stars Bert FRI Kwouk. FRI FRI 12:00 Something to Shout About b07k0tdl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jnxg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Poirot b0076tz9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Picking Round Apples b014qxbg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Maggie O'Farrell - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox FRI b00770qd (Listen) FRI I Would Like to Go to the Sea FRI By Maggie O'Farrell, abridged by Sally Marmion. FRI 5/10. Esme returns to an old family haunt. FRI Read by Hannah Gordon, Frances Grey and Eleanor Bron. FRI FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood b00sjw36 (Listen) FRI The Habit of Schooling FRI Michael Morpurgo discovers the reaction to the 1870 Forster FRI Education Act, marking the start of compulsory education for FRI all. FRI FRI 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jstn (Listen) FRI Episode 30 FRI Alexander hosts a play to raise cash for repairs and a fire FRI at the farm has dire consequences. Stars Indira Varma. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b013n5k1 (Listen) FRI Fire Season, Episode 5 FRI Written by Philip Connor. Abridged by Jane Marshall. FRI A new relief lookout appears on the mountain but the author FRI is unsure that he has what it takes to cope alone in the FRI wilderness. And some smokejumpers arrive to put out a fire, FRI which reminds the author of the famous tragedy of the Mann FRI Gulch fire which inspired Norman Maclean's famous book. FRI Capturing the wonder and grandeur of this most unusual job FRI and place, Fire Season evokes both the eerie pleasure of FRI solitude and the majesty, might and beauty of untamed fire FRI at its wildest. Connors' time on the peak is filled with FRI drama - there are fires large and small; spectacular FRI midnight lightning storms and silent mornings awakening FRI above the clouds; surprise encounters with smokejumpers and FRI black bears. FRI Read by Kerry Shale FRI Produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b01jqb92 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 Whispers b007k2sl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b01mhqbz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston in Europe b007tbrv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Rumblings from the Rafters b07hwxbk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Oscar Wilde b008lz2g (Listen) FRI The Canterville Ghost, Episode 3 FRI Filled with pity for the ghost of the house, Virginia agrees FRI to help Sir Simon find peace. Read by Alistair McGowan. FRI FRI 18:30 Sounds Natural b07k0ts9 (Listen) FRI Bernard Cribbins FRI From the Meadow Pipit to the Red-Backed Shrike. Actor FRI Bernard Cribbins talks to Derek Jones about his love of bird FRI watching, fishing and the importance of conservation - aided FRI by recordings from the BBC Sound Archive. FRI Producer: John Burton. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1972. FRI FRI 19:00 Something to Shout About b07k0tdl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jnxg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Poirot b0076tz9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Picking Round Apples b014qxbg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 RK Narayan Stories b01dc3p8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Hattie Naylor - Chinese Whispers b07k0tld (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Iguanodon b0075cj0 (Listen) FRI Big Fat Liars FRI O'Reilly is spooked when the boat runs aground on a prison FRI island in the Woe-Betides. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From FRI November 1997. FRI FRI 22:30 BBC Radio New Comedy Award b07k0v3s (Listen) FRI 2016, Heat Four - Manchester FRI Ten new comedians perform in the fourth heat from FRI Manchester's Comedy Store with host Nathan Caton. FRI The BBC Radio New Comedy Award was produced by Suzy Grant, FRI the edit producer was Laura Grimshaw. The production team FRI was Tamara Shilham and Leian John-Baptiste. It was a BBC FRI Studios production. FRI FRI 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global b01c6txd (Listen) FRI Series 2, Belgium FRI The comedian aims to prove Belgium is not dull, with FRI chocolate, odd statues and the legacy of Jean-Claude Van FRI Damme. From May 2003. FRI
01 July, 2016
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 02/07/2016 - 08/07/2016
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