SATURDAY 22 JULY 2023

SAT 00:00 Bram Stoker - The Lair of the White Worm (b07lp80p)
It’s 1870 in Derbyshire’s High Peak district.

While on a visit to his elderly uncle in the tiny village of Penda's Dale, Adam Salton - already shocked by the oppressive melancholic atmosphere in the village - quickly realises that the disappearance of several local men is not accidental.

His investigations lead him to the discovery of a terrifying and ancient secret: a malevolent force is at work in Penda's Dale.

Bram Stoker’s gothic tale of horror, first published in 1911.

Dramatised by Brian Wright.

Adam Salton .... Jimi Mistry
Dr Daniel Salton .... Peter Marinker
Frank Davenport .... Ben Crowe
Dick Watford …. Ian Masters
Mother …. Richenda Carey
Lila …. Eleanor Howell
Mary …. Lydia Leonard
Ned …. Stuart McLoughlin
Jackson …. Robert Hastie
Lady Arabella March …. Juliet Aubrey
Michael O'Langan …. Jonathan Keeble
Lord Edgar Caswall …. Stephen Critchlow
Policeman …. Jason Chan

Soundtrack specially commissioned from the San Francisco-based sound sculptors Matmos.

Producer: Rishi Shankar

First broadcast on the BBC World Service in December 2004.


SAT 01:00 Trevor Lloyd - The MacGuffin (m0007dfv)
An homage to Alfred Hitchcock's script editor, Angus MacPhail, who - according to the influential film director - coined the name for the movie plot device, the MacGuffin.

Starring Ian McDiarmid.

Trevor Lloyd's drama takes place on the day of the Queen's Coronation in 1953.

Angus MacPhail .... Ian McDiarmid
Robert Hamer ... Peter Blythe
Katrin Eisler .... Indira Varma
Frank .... Ben Crowe
Monique ... Alison Pettitt
Freda .... Carolyn Jones
Jack ..... Bruce Purchase
Geoffrey .... Stephen Critchlow
Isobel .... Liza Sadovy
PC .... Andrew Harrison
Hitchcock..... Ewan Bailey

Director: Janet Whitaker.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2003.


SAT 02:00 Little Novels by Wilkie Collins (m0011l97)
2. Miss Jeromette & The Clergyman

Stephen Wheatmeal is to take holy orders, but what should he do about his mistress living in Chelsea?

One of five Victorian mysteries by Wilkie Collins.

Dramatised by John Arden.

Wilkie Collins...Ronald Pickup
Rev Wheatmeal...John Rowe
Young Wheatmeal...David Brooks
Jeromette...Alison Pettitt
Blacklock...David Bannerman.

Pianist: Colin Guthrie

Director: David Blount

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1998.


SAT 02:30 Whodunnits (b007jwc3)
Hercule Poirot - Taken at the Flood

Episode 5

The Belgian sleuth is going to have to think very fast to unravel the enigma if he's going to prevent another murder in the village...

Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunnit starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.

Dramatised by Michael Bakewell

Lynn Marchmont ...... Susannah Corbett
Rowley CloadeIfan ...... Ifan Meredith
Superintendent Spence ...... Robert Lang
David Hunter ...... Tom George
The Maid ...... Debbie Hunt

Producer: Enyd Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003


SAT 03:00 Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín (m0000z6p)
5. Romance

Colm Tóibín concludes his exploration of the complex relationships between three of Ireland's literary giants and their fathers:

Tóibín turns to the romantic and occasionally erotic correspondence between John B Yeats and Rosa Butt, when the pair were in their sixties.

He then reflects on the influence that the father's boyish romance had on the writings of his son, the literary giant WB Yeats.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.


SAT 03:15 Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (m0001y8v)
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

Episode 5

On Maya's return from Berlin Malcolm X writes asking for her to work for him back in the USA.

She goes on one last journey in Ghana and makes a startling discovery about her family's descent.

Conclusion of the fifth volume of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary memoirs.

Dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Narrator, Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Dieter ...... Erich Redman
Torvash ...... Uriel Emil
Nana Nketsia ...... Cyril Nri
Ewe Woman ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2019.


SAT 03:30 Reluctant Persuaders (m0000xrp)
Series 3

5. The Appliance of Science

Hardacre’s ad agency are pitching to the University of Oxfordshire, an online-only institution dedicated to internet learning.

Their efforts are complicated by the arrival at the agency of Elgin Hardacre, hired by his father as a copywriter – despite having no relevant skills or experience.

While Hardacre shows no interest in his son and Amanda dismisses him as an idiot and resolves to fire him by the end of the week, Joe and Teddy take pity on Elgin and take him under their wing.

In the process, they discover that however bad Hardacre might be as a boss, he’s infinitely worse as a father – and Elgin in turn reveals some peculiar beliefs.

Edward Rowett's award-winning sitcom.

Hardacre ...... Nigel Havers
Joe ...... Mathew Baynton
Amanda ...... Josie Lawrence
Teddy ...... Rasmus Hardiker
Laura ...... Olivia Nixon
Elgin ...... James Northcote

An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2018.


SAT 04:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jzjx)
Series 3

The Fridge

Author Gerald and his wife Diana blow hot and cold over refrigeration.

The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author who's married to a more successful writer.

Starring Ian Carmichael and Charlotte Mitchell.

Written by Basil Boothroyd.

Gerald C Potter ...... Ian Carmichael
Diana Potter ...... Charlotte Mitchell

Other parts played by:

Brian Carroll
Danny Schiller

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1979.


SAT 04:30 Rent (b04c34yr)
Series 1

Episode 1

Maria and Richard have a happy marriage, no children, but their house is falling down.

It looks like there's only one thing for it - they'll have to start taking in lodgers...

House share comedy about taking in lodgers.

Written by Lucy Flannery.

Maria ...... Barbara Flynn
Richard ...... Patrick Barlow
Amy ...... Linda Polan
Ruby ...... Diane Louise-Jordan
Paul ...... Toby Longworth
Bank Manager ...... Francesca Ryan
Shop Assistant ...... Sarah Parkinson

Producer: Liz Anstee.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1993.


SAT 05:00 Genius (b008m9f6)
Series 1

Stewart Lee

From a self-cleaning fish tank with a twist to a CD player-cum-microwave oven?

Dave Gorman asks comedian Stewart Lee to select the public's best loopy idea.

The first of three radio comedy series where award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.

Producer: Simon Nicholls

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005.


SAT 05:30 Bleak Expectations (b01p0fz3)
Series 5

A Re-Excited Life Made Distinctly Dangerous

The Victorian comedy adventure sees Pip and his friends travel to India in their quest to thwart the evil machinations of smooth but sinister genius Mr Gently Benevolent.

Gasp as our heroes struggle with super-intelligent tigers, giant snakes, and secret gin!

Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy in the style of Charles Dickens.

Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson
Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen
Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head
Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman
Clampvulture ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland
Pippa ...... Susy Kane
Viceroy Roy Weiss ...... Mark Evans

Producer: Gareth Edwards.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2012.


SAT 06:00 Whodunnits (b097lnkn)
Anthony Berkeley - The Poisoned Chocolates Case

A woman has died from eating poisoned chocolates intended for somebody else...

Can the amateur brains of Roger Sheringham's Crime Circle solve this intriguing crime that’s stumped Scotland Yard over the past year?

Starring Neil Stacy.

Anthony Berkeley's murder mystery, first published in 1929.

Dramatised by Neville Teller.

Roger Sheringham ...... Neil Stacy
Mrs Fielder- Flamming ...... Hilda Schroder
Sir Charles Wildman ...... Conrad Phillips
Moresby ...... Victor Winding
Chitterwick ...... Michael Bilton
Bradley/Smithson ...... Geoffrey Collins
Alicia ...... Jane Wenham
Lockwood ...... William Eedle
Bendix ...... Mark Straker
Sir Eustace ...... Clive Panto
Mrs Bendix ...... Eileen Tully
Marguerite ...... Deborah Cranston

Director: Brian Miller

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1984.


SAT 07:30 Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Omnibus) (m0002h2k)
Clare Hunter travels through the centuries and across continents uncovering the lives of women and men who have used sewing and embroidery to tell their stories - sometimes in the most unlikely and hardest of circumstances.

This is a treasure trove, featuring:

* The political storytelling of the Bayeux tapestry's anonymous embroiderers
* Prisoners of War memorializing their lives in the harshest of conditions during the Second World War,
* The marches celebrating 100 years’ of women's suffrage.

Textile artist and curator, Clare reveals how sewing and embroidery are as much about identity, politics and memory as they are about craft and art.

Threads of Life is also peppered throughout with moments from Clare's own life as a textile artist, for instance, her first adventures with needle and thread, or the discovery of a beautifully worked patchwork quilt in an aunt's attic decades later.

This is a delightful celebration of sewing as an intimate and powerful medium for telling stories.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Julian Wilkinson.

Read by Siobhan Redmond.

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2019.


SAT 08:45 The Fosdyke Saga (b007js01)
11. Blackmail

"He's blackmailing me. We're done for!" Roger Ditchley starts menacing the Fosdyke family.

A classic tale of struggle, power, personalities and tripe.

Bill Tidy and John Junkin's family saga - based on Tidy's Daily Mirror cartoon strip [1971-1985] parodying John Galsworthy's 'The Forsyte Saga' novels.

Rebecca Fosdyke …. Stephanie Turner
Josiah Fosdyke …. Philip Lowrie
Victoria Fosdyke …. Miriam Margolyes
Tom Fosdyke …. David Threlfall
Albert Fosdyke …. Enn Reitel
Roger Ditchley …. Christian Rodska
von Richtofen …. Larry Lamb

With:

Trevor Cooper
David English
Nick Maloney
Nick Revell

Producer: Alan Nixon

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1983.


SAT 09:00 Not in Front of the Children (b059c408)
Series 1

The George Washington Complex

Can the idea of honesty gain sway in the Corner household?

Starring Wendy Craig and Francis Matthews.

The comedy mishaps of the Corner family - Jennifer and Henry and their three kids Trudi, Amanda and Robin.

Four series were first shown on BBC TV from 1967 to 1970.

Richard Waring adapted his own TV scripts for this radio version, now fully restored from the original reel-to-reel tapes.

Jennifer Corner ...... Wendy Craig
Henry Corner ...... Francis Matthews
Mary ...... Charlotte Mitchell
Mother ...... Fanny Rowe
Father ...... Noel Howlett
Ferris ...... Alexander John
Trudi ...... Roberta Tovey
Robin ...... Hugo Keith-Johnston
Amanda: ...... Jill Riddick

Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst

Producer: Trafford Whitelock

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1969.


SAT 09:30 Something to Shout About (b07l0y14)
Series 3

Episode 2

Will the team manage to behave themselves at the annual Advertising Executive Guild dinner?

'A light-hearted exposé of the advertising world!'

Set in a London ad agency called 'Apsley, Addis, Cohen, Barbican, Blythe, Giddy & Partners'.

Written by Myles Rudge with Ronnie Wolfe.

Michael …. Michael Medwin
Janet …. Fenella Fielding
Mavis …. Joan Sims
Maggie …. Eleanor Summerfield
Adrian …. Nicholas Phipps
Mr Podmore …. Warren Mitchell

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1961.


SAT 10:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m0014gt0)
Origins

2. The Goon Show & The Navy Lark

BBC Comedy Controllers from across the decades look back at radio shows from the past.

Clocking up over 150 years on the job between them, Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville reveal what they do, why they do it and what makes them laugh.

From London's iconic BBC Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House - the home of British Radio comedy.

In the second of three programmes, our foursome discuss the 1950s and a Golden Age of BBC radio comedy.

Featuring:

* ‘THE GOON SHOW: The Phantom Head Shaver (of Brighton)
As baldness breaks out in Brighton, is there a connection to a glut of cheap tobacco? From 1954.

* ‘THE NAVY LARK: The Multiple Mines.
A drunken night out sparks chaos when an old mine used as a collection box is set adrift. From 1959

Plus extracts from:

Al Read
Chic Murray

Series Producers: Paul Kobrak and Dixi Stewart.

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2017.


SAT 11:00 Whodunnits (b097lnkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 12:30 Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Omnibus) (m0002h2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 13:45 The Fosdyke Saga (b007js01)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]


SAT 14:00 Not in Front of the Children (b059c408)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 14:30 Something to Shout About (b07l0y14)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


SAT 15:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m0014gt0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SAT 16:00 Bram Stoker - The Lair of the White Worm (b07lp80p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:00 today]


SAT 17:00 Whodunnits (b097lnkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SAT 18:30 Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Omnibus) (m0002h2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


SAT 19:45 The Fosdyke Saga (b007js01)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 today]


SAT 20:00 Not in Front of the Children (b059c408)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SAT 20:30 Something to Shout About (b07l0y14)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


SAT 21:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m0014gt0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SAT 22:00 The Mitch Benn Music Show (b007tdvz)
Series 1

3. Hils Baker

From Eric Idle to Peter Sellers.

Musical comedian Mitch Benn presents his selection of some of the finest comic songs by other performers.

With guest Hils Baker.

Producer: Ed Morrish

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in July 2005.


SAT 22:30 Talking to Strangers (b0717j28)
Episode 4

Comic monologues in which a range of characters find themselves engaging in that most un-British of activities: talking to a stranger.

Each piece is a character study: funny, frank, absurd, moving... Characters include a sex councillor who loves to draw, a spy who loves to share, a woman who likes to help too much ('I'm a serial helpist...'), a frustrated falconer, and a cheater who has to call her cheatee the morning after. And in this show, the listener themselves 'plays' the silent stranger in the piece...

Written and performed by Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan.

Guest stars include:

Emma Thompson
Olivia Colman
Jessica Hynes
Steve Evets
Sinead Matthews
Joel Fry

Producer: Sam Bryan

A BBC Comedy production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in February 2016.


SAT 23:00 Ross Noble Goes Global (b007jvv4)
Series 1

Singapore

Ross Noble concludes his first series of comedy travelogues.

Spotting a monkey and shopping malls galore - the globetrotting comedian is having a bad hair day in the city's incredible humidity.

Producer: Danny Wallace

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2002.


SAT 23:30 Old Harry's Game (b00wnp6m)
Series 6

Investigation

Still keen to know who killed her, Edith discovers why Satan resented Jesus - he didn't like his "holier than thou" attitude.

Andy Hamilton’s devilishly funny sitcom set in Hell.

Satan …. Andy Hamilton
Scumspawn …. Robert Duncan
Thomas …. Jimmy Mulville
Edith Barrington …. Annette Crosbie
DI Scott …. Michael Fenton Stevens
Sgt Harrison/Napoleon …. Phillip Pope
Jane Austen …. Felicity Montagu
Police Inspector …. Nick Revell

Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.

SUNDAY 23 JULY 2023

SUN 00:00 Nightfall (m000v1r9)
Series 4

4. Eye of the Beholder

Ill-tempered old farmer, Jack, refuses to have surgery for his cataracts.

Then a mysterious young man shows up to help him - as the curmudgeon's past comes back to haunt him...

Written by Burke Campbell.

Jack Almond .... Wayne Robson
Dan .... Geoff Bowes
Miss Baker .... Marian Waldron
Doctor Graham .... Budd Knapp
Snooper .... John D. Beresford

‘Nightfall’ is a series of supernatural and horror dramas - one of Canada’s CBC Radio's most popular shows in the network’s history.

Running to over 100 episodes between 1980 and 1983, it features a mix of original stories and adaptations of classic tales.

Produced in Toronto by Stephen Katz.

First broadcast on CBC Radio in November 1981.


SUN 00:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k14x)
8. Regret

Worried that Ruth has the vampire plague, last man on Earth Robert Neville regrets being so candid.

1954 cult classic set in the United States of America in 1976.

Read by Angus McInnes.

One of the 20th century's most significant vampire novels, Richard Matheson's 'I Am Legend' combines the worlds of sci-fi and horror.

Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller.

Producer: Eilidh McCreadie

Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in January 2006.


SUN 01:00 Whodunnits (b097lnkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]


SUN 02:30 Threads of Life: A History of the World Through the Eye of a Needle (Omnibus) (m0002h2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]


SUN 03:45 The Fosdyke Saga (b007js01)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:45 on Saturday]


SUN 04:00 Not in Front of the Children (b059c408)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]


SUN 04:30 Something to Shout About (b07l0y14)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Saturday]


SUN 05:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m0014gt0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Saturday]


SUN 06:00 Poetry Extra (m001p0mz)
Between the Ears - The Milk Way

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects The Milk Way.

This features poet Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch and composer Nina Perry as they create a radiophonic poem exploring the sounds and stories surrounding the flow of milk out of west Wales while the Welsh landscape flows into the sea.

We hear the voice of the path itself “The Milk Walk” (Y Wac Laeth in Welsh) the route that both the milk and the Cardiganshire dairy workers took to London during the last century.

We meet Mae, a young girl who took the milk train to work in a dairy in London in the 1960’s, and Jac Alun, a sailor from a local farming family who moved to the city to sell milk during the Depression.

These three monologues are interwoven with personal testimony from those who currently live and work on the edge of the land:

* Jon Meirion Jones (son of Jac Alun)
* Local farmer, Steffan Rees
* Artist, Lilwen Lewis
* Marine biology student, Tom Malpas
* Nia Haf Jones from the North Wales Wildlife Trust

Stories of migration and milk both past and present are woven into a musical soundscape that paints a picture of humming dairy farms, strange underwater worlds where dolphins echo-locate, coral ticks, and where houses are ‘tippling’ into the sea.

The Path is performed by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
Mae the girl by Sara Gregory
Jac Alun the sailor by Matthew Gravelle

Written by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch

Composed and Produced by Nina Perry

Painting by Lilwen Lewis

An Open Audio Production for BBC Radio 3, first broadcast in 2018.


SUN 06:30 Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín (Omnibus) (b0bqfh65)
Award-winning writer Colm Tóibín explores the complex relationships between three of Ireland's literary giants and their fathers

From Oscar Wilde's polymath father who was a doctor specialising in diseases of the eye and ear; an amateur architect, as well as a statistician who was knighted for his work; to WB Yeats's father a brilliant correspondent and impoverish artist who struggled to complete a painting; to John Stanislaus Joyce, a drinker and storyteller who was unwilling to provide for his family.

Colm takes a literary walk around Dublin, stopping off at a variety of landmarks immortalised in the works of some of Ireland's most famous writers. At the same time he reflects on his own writing life.

Omnibus of five parts abridged by Richard Hamilton

Producer: Elizabeth Allard

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2018.


SUN 07:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001p0n3)
Mathew Baynton

‘Ghosts’ and ‘Horrible Histories’ star Mathew Baynton chooses ‘Everybody Knows’ by Leonard Cohen and ‘Change’ by Big Thief.


SUN 07:50 Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (Omnibus) (m0001ztc)
All God's Children Need Travelling Shoes

After her son’s road accident, Maya’s helped by the kindness of Ghana’s famous poet and playwright Efua Sutherland.

She’s also helped by ex-pat’s living close by, whom she names as the ‘revolutionary returnees’. As a group of Black Americans they are all hoping to assimilate into Ghanaian life, but it’s not quite as they expected.

The fifth volume of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary memoirs.

Omnibus of five parts dramatised by Patricia Cumper.

Narrator – Maya ...... Adjoa Andoh
Maya ...... Pippa Bennett Warner
Guy ...... Tristan Slowly
Julian Mayfield ...... Cyril Nri
Efua Sutherland ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo

Director: Pauline Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2019.


SUN 09:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00ns2m9)
What Unusual Wallpaper

The poor Huggett family are suffering in a summer heat wave.

Starring Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison.

The popular working-class Huggett family first hit the cinema screen with a series of Gainsborough films between 1947 and 1949.

This subsequent BBC radio series ran from 1953 to 1962.

Selection of surviving episodes in the BBC Archive.

Written by Eddie Maguire.

Joe ...... Jack Warner
Ethel ...... Kathleen Harrison
Jane ...... Marion Collins
Bobby ...... George Howell
Fred Stebbings ...... Charles Leno
Various ...... Kenneth Connor

Producer: Jacques Brown

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1957.


SUN 09:30 The Navy Lark (m001p0n7)
Series 9

The Bugged and Burgled Beer

Chief Petty Officer Pertwee sells crates of knock-off beer to his thirsty crewmates.

But it’s misdelivered to Captain Povey!

Starring Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray.

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge.

Written by Lawrie Wyman

The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips
The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee
The Number One ...... Stephen Murray
Captain Povey .... Richard Caldicot
WREN Chasen …. Heather Chasen
Uncle Ebenezer …. Tenniel Evans
Able Seaman Johnson …. Ronnie Barker
The Padre …. Michael Bates

The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series between 1959 and 1976.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1967.

*** This was the first episode on Radio 2, after the network's name change from the BBC Light Programme


SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001p0nd)
Pride

Inga Beale

Kirsty Young’s castaway is the business woman, Inga Beale.

She has been the CEO of Lloyd’s of London since January 2014 and was the first woman to hold the post in the 325 years since the insurer was founded in 1688.

She is the middle child of a Norwegian mother and an English father and grew up in Newbury, Berkshire. Her career in insurance began in London in the early 1980s, but she tired of the predominantly male culture of the industry and left the City in 1989 to go travelling for a year. On her return she worked for the Prudential and then for GE Solutions, the insurance arm of General Electrics, where the work took her abroad.

She left GE in 2006 to turn around a failing Swiss company, before joining the Zurich Insurance Group. Her last role before joining Lloyd’s as CEO in 2014 was as chief executive of Canopius, a privately held Lloyd’s insurer.

In 2015, she topped a power list of the world’s leading 100 LGBT executives. She is openly bisexual after coming out in 2008 and has been married to her husband since 2013.

DISC ONE: Respect - Aretha Franklin
DISC TWO: Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five
DISC THREE: Edvard Grieg’s Morning Mood from Peer Gynt, Suite No. 1, Op. 46 - Performer: Ulster Orchestra, conductor: Vernon Handley
DISC FOUR: Could You Be Loved - Bob Marley & The Wailers
DISC FIVE: A Man is in Love - The Waterboys
DISC SIX: Don’t Stop Me Now - Members of the cast of We Will Rock You
DISC SEVEN: Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba
DISC EIGHT: Sweet About Me - Gabriella Cilmi

BOOK CHOICE: The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
LUXURY CHOICE: Daily supply of warm, sweet, milky tea
CASTAWAY'S FAVOURITE: Pata Pata - Miriam Makeba

Producer: Cathy Drysdale

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2016.


SUN 10:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lt16w)
Series 1

Salamander

Sir David's first pet was a fire salamander, given to him by his father on his 8th birthday.

He also gave his own son a salamander on his 8th birthday, the legacy of which is very much alive and kicking today.

Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.

Producer: Julian Hector

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.


SUN 11:00 Poetry Extra (m001p0mz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SUN 11:30 Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín (Omnibus) (b0bqfh65)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


SUN 12:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001p0n3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:40 today]


SUN 12:50 Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (Omnibus) (m0001ztc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:50 today]


SUN 14:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00ns2m9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SUN 14:30 The Navy Lark (m001p0n7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


SUN 15:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001p0nd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SUN 15:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lt16w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]


SUN 16:00 Nightfall (m000v1r9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:00 today]


SUN 16:30 I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (b007k14x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 00:30 today]


SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m001p0mz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


SUN 17:30 Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín (Omnibus) (b0bqfh65)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


SUN 18:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001p0n3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:40 today]


SUN 18:50 Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (Omnibus) (m0001ztc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:50 today]


SUN 20:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00ns2m9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


SUN 20:30 The Navy Lark (m001p0n7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001p0nd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]


SUN 21:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lt16w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]


SUN 22:00 Start/Stop (b04prh93)
Series 2

Pregnancy

Jack Docherty’s sitcom about three marriages in various states of disrepair.

Cathy reveals to a shocked Barney that she is pregnant. Fiona suggests to a shocked Evan that he get a vasectomy. And David suggests to a shocked Alice that they adopt.

Starring:

Couple 1:

Barney ...... Jack Docherty
Cathy ...... Kerry Godliman

Couple 2:

Evan ...... John Thomson
Fiona ...... Fiona Allen

Couple 3:

David ...... Charlie Higson
Alice ...... Sally Bretton

Producer ..... Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.


SUN 22:30 Chain Reaction (b01m6crv)
Series 8

Caitlin Moran talks to Jennifer Saunders

The journalist and the comic actress in the talk tag show where the guest is the next interviewer.

Caitlin Moran chats to her comedy hero, Jennifer Saunders.

They talk shoes, Bananarama and women in comedy.

Recorded with an audience, the interviews focus on the life, career and the passions of the interviewee, but often prove to be as revealing about the interviewer.

Producer: Carl Cooper

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2012.


SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m001pb8z)
Jordan Gray 1/2

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Athena Kugblenu chats to Jordan Gray.


SUN 23:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting (b007jvf7)
Series 1

The Carpet Sweeper

Buying a new carpet sweeper for her elderly neighbour Betty sparks a major operation for Linda.

The first of two comedy series written by and starring Linda Smith.

Linda takes on the mantle of the United Nations as she tries to broker a fragile peace between her morbid elderly neighbour Betty and her live-in builder Chris.

In the strife-torn streets of East London, can bingo and musical theatre ever be reconciled?

Linda ...... Linda Smith
Chris ...... Chris Neill
Betty ...... Margaret John
Worra ...... Femi Elufowoju Jr

Other parts played by:

Jeremy Hardy
Martin Hyder

Guest appearances from:

Rabbi Lionel Blue
Jenni Murray

Producer: Lucy Armitage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2001.


SUN 23:30 Radio 9 (b04fgtgy)
Series 2

Episode 2

An unusual travel diary, very dangerous racing and faking skiing downhill.

In a world where presentation is at the wheel, and content is firmly bound and gagged in the back, Radio 9 finds itself with so much to say - but no idea how to say it.

Written and performed by Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker.

With:

Jonathan Kydd
Katherine Jakeways
Max Digby
Sarah Daukes
Matt Wilkinson
Robert Johnston
Jon Stevenson
Carine Harris
Esther Phillips
Donnie Masters

Producers: Johnny Daukes and Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2005.

MONDAY 24 JULY 2023

MON 00:00 Poetry Extra (m001p0mz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]


MON 00:30 Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know by Colm Tóibín (Omnibus) (b0bqfh65)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Sunday]


MON 01:40 Inheritance Tracks (m001p0n3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:40 on Sunday]


MON 01:50 Maya Angelou's Autobiographies (Omnibus) (m0001ztc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:50 on Sunday]


MON 03:00 Meet the Huggetts (b00ns2m9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]


MON 03:30 The Navy Lark (m001p0n7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]


MON 04:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m001p0nd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]


MON 04:45 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lt16w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]


MON 05:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k05d)
1. Attraction

From the moment their eyes meet across a packed gaming room, Daniel Deronda is as drawn to Gwendolen Harleth as she is to him.

George Eliot's 1876 classic novel of love and idealism.

Starring Anna Chancellor and Michael Perceval-Maxwell.

Dramatised in three parts by Robert Forrest.

Gwendolen Harleth ...... Anna Chancellor
Deronda ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Grandcourt ...... James Bryce
Mrs Davilow ...... Joanna Tope
Klesmer ...... Finlay Welsh
Mirah ...... Lucy Patterson
Baroness Langen ...... Sarah Collier
Sir Hugo ...... Sandy Neilson
Catherine ...... Katherine Igoe
Lydia ...... Noreen Leighton
Lush ...... Simon Tait
Rex ...... Gregor Powrie

Director: Patrick Rayner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.


MON 06:00 Good Omens (b04knthd)
1. The Arrival

The demon Crowley is tasked with the delivery of a baby to St Beryl's hospital, initiating a chain of events that will lead to Armageddon.

But things don't quite go to plan.

This is the first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.

Starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap,

Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, the world will end on a Saturday. A Saturday quite soon, on Radio 4.

Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.

Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.

Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.

Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.

There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...

Crowley ...... Peter Serafinowicz
Aziraphale ...... Mark Heap
Sister Patricia Prattle ...... Tracy Wiles
Dagon ...... Ben Crowe
Mr Young ...... Simon Jones
Ligur ...... Neil Maskell
Warlock ...... Rudi Goodman
Agnes Nutter ...... Josie Lawrence
Sister Grace Voluble ...... Marcella Riordan
Sister Mary Loquacious ...... Louise Brealey
Hastur ...... Phil Davis
Policeman ...... Terry Pratchett
Policeman ...... Neil Gaiman
Young Anathema ...... Lily-Rose Aslandogdu

Producer: Heather Larmour

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.


MON 06:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y1j1)
Cordoba

1. Written Off

DT Mitchell's life is dogged by alcohol, divorce and a dull job on a newspaper in Swansea.

But her cynicism evaporates when she stumbles on a chain of murders...

Starring Alison Steadman.

Nigel Baldwin’s six part thriller set in south Wales.

DT Mitchell …. Alison Steadman
Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart
Thomas …. Alan Towner
Geraint …. Robin Griffith
Ieuan …. Robert Pugh
Alex …. Leslie Rooney
Turner …. Tony Leader
Jenny …. Ruth Jones
Charlene …. Louise Holland
Richard …. Ian Targett
Coastguard …. Rhodri Hugh

Directed at BBC Wales by Jane Dauncey.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.


MON 07:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f3b)
1. The English

Tracy Ann Oberman reads Damian Barr's blistering debut novel, spanning 100 years of South Africa's dark past and present, from the 1901 Boer War to 2010.

Inspired by real events, it explores South Africa's hidden colonial history as well as its shocking present-day darkness.

Beginning in 1901, the height of the second Boer War, and Sarah van der Watt and her son wait in fear for the English to arrive at their farm....

Abridged in five parts by Richard Hamilton

Producer: Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.


MON 07:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phf4k)
The Light Years

1. Summer

The Light Years tells the story of the extended Cazalet family.

Set in the lead up to the outbreak of the Second World War, it appears that the Cazalets have it all.

But we soon discover that infidelity, indiscretions, jealousies and misplaced loyalties lurk just beneath the surface.
In the hot summer of 1938, Home Place in the beautiful Sussex countryside is frantically being opened up and prepared for another Cazalet family holiday, as siblings Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel - and their respective families - are reunited.

Rupert is trying not to think about whether he married the beautiful but rather petulant Zoe too soon after his first wife's death; Hugh and his wife Sybil each try to put the other first, not necessarily to their mutual advantage; Edward is mulling on how he might be able to get away from his wife, Villy, to spend time with his mistress and Rachel is trying to find a private place to read her letter in secret.

But the wider world is about to intrude on their lives forever and each is increasingly to wonder what their future may hold - for themselves and their children.

Written by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Dramatised in ten parts by Sarah Daniels

Narrator ...... Penelope Wilton
Rupert ...... Raymond Coulthard
Zoe ...... Zoe Tapper
Clary ...... Georgia Groome
Rachel ...... Naomi Frederick
The Duchy ...... Shirley Dixon
Sid ...... Helen Schlesinger

Producers & Directors: Sally Avens & Marion Nancarrow

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2012.


MON 07:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m0004mgp)
Series 5

Karl Marx

BBC Radio 4's premier comedy-economics hybrid tackles the big, competing theories of macroeconomics.

These are little short of religions to their proponents, and the figures who devised them dominate the intellectual landscape in a way that mere politicians can only dream of. These are the Big Beards, the Glinting Eyes, the Bristling Moustaches and Eyebrows of "Worldly Philosophy" and their insights, calculations and hallucinations remain as contentious today as they were when first inked into place.

In this series Simon Evans, with the help of Undercover Economist, Tim Harford will advance through the modern industrial era using three great beacons as their guide - Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes - and reflect on how they continue to shape our world today.
In this episode, we leap forward 100 years to Karl Marx.

A towering figure in world, let alone economic, history, and endlessly fascinating as much as for his personal foibles as for his vast influence on the course of 20th-century history. Few figures are more divisive.

Yet is he fully or even remotely understood by one tenth of those who have strong views on him? Are his central ideas now discredited by history, or are we still waiting for his philosophy to stop merely describing the world, as for many it still does, and instead, as he famously declared, to start changing it? Is Marxism genuinely gaining ground even as his economic predictions gather dust? And what exactly is dialectical materialism?

All this plus jokes in 28 minutes.

Presenters: Simon Evans and Tim Harford

Writers: Simon Evans, Tim Harford, Dan Evans and Robert Ledger

Producer: Richard Morris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.


MON 08:00 Stop Messing About! (b00bqv41)
Series 1

Episode 5

On the menu - struggling restaurateurs, Gaston and Jacque - and the tale of orphan Oliver Stick who asks for more...

Starring:

Kenneth Williams
Hugh Paddick
Joan Sims

Announcer: Douglas Smith

After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan Sims.

Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge

With the Max Harris Group.

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1969.


MON 08:30 Taking It Up the Octave (b087q4sx)
Episode 3

Should local council cash be spent on Opera Sunderland, or a public convenience?

Comedy drama series written by Fintan Coyle and Tom Miles.

The mishaps and adventures of the acting troupe at Opera Sunderland

Derek …. Andrew Branch
Keyboard Ken …. Tom Miles
Cilla …. Carolyn Bonnyman
Gareth …. Godfrey James
James …. Simon Butteriss
Natasha …. Caz Weller
Dwight …. Jonathan Kydd
Claire Long …. Sally Grace

Singers:

Alison Porter
Susan Jelley
Henrik Wager
Benjamin Davies

Producer: Chris Neill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1997.


MON 09:00 It's Your Round (b00zm32d)
Series 1

Episode 6

Angus Deayton hosts the comedy panel show with no format.

Battling it out to see who can beat each other at their own games:

Johnny Vaughan
Alan Davies
Roisin Conaty
Arthur Smith

Angus valiantly tries to make sure everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact.

Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell

Devised by Benjamin Partridge

Producer: Sam Michell.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.


MON 09:30 The Change (b00nsnhx)
Series 1

Over the Rainbow

Transvestite George sparks confusion for Ken when he sees him wearing a dress.

Comedy about troubled hormonal Carol whose husband George has revealed that he's a transvestite.

Starring Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison.

Sitcom by Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington.

Carol ...... Lynda Bellingham
George ...... Chris Ellison
Violet ...... Sylvia Syms
Maureen ...... Maureen Beattie
Dave ...... Mark Powley
Ken ...... James Vaughan
Jerry ...... Richard Standing
Sonia ...... Emma Kennedy

Producer: Maria Esposito

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001.


MON 10:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k05d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]


MON 11:00 Good Omens (b04knthd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 11:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y1j1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 12:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 12:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phf4k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]


MON 12:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m0004mgp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 13:00 Stop Messing About! (b00bqv41)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 13:30 Taking It Up the Octave (b087q4sx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 14:00 It's Your Round (b00zm32d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 14:30 The Change (b00nsnhx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


MON 15:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k05d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]


MON 16:00 Good Omens (b04knthd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


MON 16:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y1j1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


MON 17:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


MON 17:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phf4k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]


MON 17:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m0004mgp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


MON 18:00 Stop Messing About! (b00bqv41)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


MON 18:30 Taking It Up the Octave (b087q4sx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


MON 19:00 It's Your Round (b00zm32d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 19:30 The Change (b00nsnhx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


MON 20:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m00193kd)
Series 13

The Games We Play

True stories told live in the USA: Sarah Austin Jenness introduces stories with a win, lose or draw feeling.

The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room.

The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts of the world.

The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year.

Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the humorous to the heart-breaking.

The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed by the Public Radio Exchange.

First heard on PRX in the USA in 2020.


MON 20:50 Inheritance Tracks (b0813ljf)
Amanda Holden

Actress, singer and presenter Amanda Holden chooses Meat Loaf's 'Dead Ringer for Love' and Dolly Parton's '9 to 5'.


MON 21:00 Mastertapes (b04p7ygp)
Series 4

Manic Street Preachers (the A-Side)

Manic Street Preachers talk about their third, career-defining, 1994 album The Holy Bible.

Series in which leading performers and songwriters talk about the album that made them or changed them.

Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios, each edition includes two episodes - the A-side and B-side.

In the A-side, Manic Street Preachers - Sean Moore, James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire.- talk to John Wilson.

Released a mere five months before the disappearance of main lyricist and rhythm guitarist Richey Edwards, The Holy Bible reflects his fragile mental state.

On its release, Q said "even a cursory glance at the titles will confirm that this is not the new Gloria Estefan album". And with tracks like "Yes", "Of Walking Abortion", "Mausoleum" and "4st 7lb", the lyrics deal with everything from prostitution and serial killers to the Holocaust and self-starvation.

For the first time in two decades, Nicky, James and Sean from Manic Street Preachers play songs from 'The Holy Bible' in front of an audience.

In the B-side of the programme, it's the turn of the audience to ask the questions.

Producer: Paul Kobrak

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.


MON 21:30 The Sons of Dermot Mulligan (m001p0w5)
1. It was Henry Fonda's Fault

Young Frankie falls in love with Hollywood and heads to Tinseltown.

But his dream becomes a nightmare...

Darkly comic dramas written by, and starring, Owen O'Neill.

Starring:

James Ellis
Josie Lawrence
Kerry Shale
Luke O'Reilly

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005.


MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (m001nvsz)
Series 79

Episode 2

This series of Radio 4's multi award-winning ‘antidote to panel games’ promises more homespun wireless entertainment for the young at heart.

This week the programme pays a return visit to the Bath Forum where Tony Hawks and Pippa Evans are pitched against Marcus Brigstocke and Rory Bremner, with Jack Dee in the chair.

At the piano - Colin Sell.

Producer - Jon Naismith.

It is a BBC Studios production.


MON 22:30 And Now in Colour (b007jscz)
Series 2

Stately Home

The sketch show team take their audience on a posh day out.

Precision comedy written and performed by:

Tim Firth
Tim de Jongh
Michael Rutger
William Vandyck

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1991.


MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (m001nw5b)
Series 23

Episode 6

As the by-election results pour in the reactions are only slightly less predictable than the results themselves. Plus Chris Packham finds that his new series, Earth, is not a hit with everyone and The Repair Shop team face their biggest challenge yet.

This week's impressionists are Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Jason Forbes, Jess Robinson and Duncan Wisbey.

This episode was written by: Nev Fountain & Tom Jamieson, Laurence Howarth, Ed Amsden & Tom Coles, Edward Tew, Peter Tellouche, Robert Darke, Sophie Dickson, Christine Riggs and Nicki Roberts

Sound Design for the series by Rich Evans

Production Coordinators for the series were Dan Marchini and Caroline Barlow

Produced and created by Bill Dare


MON 23:30 Concrete Cow (b0076jns)
Series 1

Episode 2

Mr Punch's parole board, Hitler and Wittgenstein playing Monopoly, new product lines for Faberge, temping for NASA and Batman's schedule.

Sketch show relying on a mixture of words, actors, jokes and noises all done in the right order.

Starring

Olivia Colman
Robert Webb
Sally Hawkins
Steven Kynman
Chris Pavlo

Written by James Cary, Sally Hawkins, Catherine Shepherd, Ashley Blake, Jon Holmes, Adam Bromley and Williams Ennes-Borlance.

Producer: Adam Bromley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002

TUESDAY 25 JULY 2023

TUE 00:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k05d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:00 Good Omens (b04knthd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]


TUE 01:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y1j1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]


TUE 02:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]


TUE 02:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phf4k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Monday]


TUE 02:30 Simon Evans Goes to Market (m0004mgp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]


TUE 03:00 Stop Messing About! (b00bqv41)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Monday]


TUE 03:30 Taking It Up the Octave (b087q4sx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]


TUE 04:00 It's Your Round (b00zm32d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]


TUE 04:30 The Change (b00nsnhx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]


TUE 05:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k06p)
2. Marriage

Gwendolen is now trapped in a cruel and loveless marriage with the philandering Grandcourt.

George Eliot's 1876 classic novel of love and idealism.

Starring Anna Chancellor and Michael Perceval-Maxwell.

Dramatised by Robert Forrest.

Gwendolen Harleth ...... Anna Chancellor
Deronda ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Grandcourt ...... James Bryce
Mrs Davilow ...... Joanna Tope
Klesmer ...... Finlay Welsh
Mirah ...... Lucy Patterson
Mrs Arrowpoint ...... Sarah Collier
Sir Hugo ...... Sandy Neilson
Mordecai ...... Mark McDonnell
Mrs Meyrick ...... Gerda Stevenson
Ezra Cohen ...... Steven McNicoll

Director: Patrick Rayner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1999.


TUE 06:00 Good Omens (b04vdqpp)
2. End of Days

Realising they have been protecting and corrupting the wrong child, Aziraphale and Crowley set out to discover what happened to the real son of Satan.

With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap, this is the first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.

Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.

Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.

Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.

Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.

There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...

Crowley ...... Peter Serafinowicz
Aziraphale ...... Mark Heap
Marie ...... Tracy Wiles
Dagon ...... Ben Crowe
Agnes Nutter ...... Josie Lawrence
Shadwell ...... Clive Russell
Madame Tracy ...... Julia Deakin
Prout ...... Ben Crowe
Newton Pulsifer ...... Colin Morgan
Anathema Device ...... Charlotte Ritchie
Raven Sable ...... Paterson Joseph
Mary Hodges ...... Louise Brealey
Ami ...... Christy Meyers
Elvis The Cook ...... Mitch Benn
Blenkinsop ...... Paul Stonehouse
Tomkins ...... Theo Maggs
Wethered ...... Tom Alexander
Jane Garvey ...... Herself
Adam ...... Adam Thomas Wright
Pepper ...... Hollie Burgess
Wensleydale ...... Bobby Fuller
Brian ...... Lewis Andrews

Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.

Producer: Heather Larmour

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.


TUE 06:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y6q1)
Cordoba

2. Hidden Motives

Traumatised by Jenny's death, reporter DT Mitchell is not convinced that it's just an open and shut case of suicide...

Starring Alison Steadman.

Nigel Baldwin’s thriller serial set in south Wales.

DT Mitchell …. Alison Steadman
Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart
Thomas …. Alan Towner
Geraint …. Robin Griffith
Alex …. Leslie Rooney
Ieuan …. Robert Pugh
Jenny …. Ruth Jones
Charlene …. Louise Holland
'Tina' Turner …. Gudrun Ure
Barry Jones …. Laurence Allan
Rachel …. Helen Griffin
Coroner …. Dillwyn Owen

Original music by Laurie Scott Baker.

Directed at BBC Wales by Jane Dauncey.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.


TUE 07:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f0n)
2. Bloemenfontein

Tracy Ann Oberman reads Damian Barr's blistering debut novel, spanning a hundred years of South Africa's dark past and present, from the 1901 Boer War to 2010.

After destroying her farm, the English take Sarah van der Watt and her son to the Bloemfontein Camp, where, all too soon, it becomes clear it'll be a matter of survival...

Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.


TUE 07:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phft0)
The Light Years

2. Deceit

The Light Years tells the story of the extended Cazalet family. Set in the lead up to the outbreak of World War II, it appears that the Cazalets have it all but we soon discover that infidelity, indiscretions, jealousies and misplaced loyalties lurk just beneath the surface.

As the long summer holiday continues for the Cazalet family Edward heads up to London for a secret liaison.

Narrator ...... Penelope Wilton
Edward ...... Pip Torrens
Villy ..... Ruth Gemmell
Polly ...... Flora Spencer-Longhurst
Louise ...... Alix Wilton Regan
Hugh ...... Dominic Mafham
Diana ...... Lisa Dillon

Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow
Written by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Dramatised by Sarah Daniels and Lin Coghlan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.


TUE 07:30 Gloomsbury (m0000z52)
Series 5

Warning Contains Strong Language, Violence and Nuts

In the middle of a General Election in which he is standing for the Labour Party, Henry begins to wonder what socialism is. He puts out a general invitation for a brainstorming session. Vera, who has refused to attend any of his meetings, simply wants to spend the day gardening.

Ginny is still keen to repair relations with Vera and she and Lionel, accompanied by Scratchey and Barrington, go down to Sizzlinghurst to talk about socialism. George Gurnard Shaw also turns up accompanied by his crazy wife Charlotte.

They are not liked by Mrs Gosling, who takes vociferous exception to vegetarians who go skinny-dipping in Madam's pond.

Vera …… Miriam Margolyes
Henry …… Jonathan Coy
Mrs Gosling/Ginny Fox …… Alison Steadman
Gosling/Lionel Fox/Lytton Scratchy …… Nigel Planer
Barrington/Charlotte, his wife/Raymond …… Morwenna Banks
George Gurnard Shaw/Heckler …... John Sessions

A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in November 2018.


TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jq80)
Series 9

The Million Pound Penny

Two tales for the price of one - The Sockjelly Murder and the story of Ned The Miser!

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: John Browell

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1958.


TUE 08:30 In the End (b007s6js)
Episode 6

Maverick BBC Reporter, George Cragge, and Superintendent Frank Jefferson investigate a series of murders of journalists.

Maverick hack George Cragge thinks he is next on the murderer's list.

Starring Michael Williams and Barry Foster.

The fourth of Mark Taverner’s black comedies set in the worlds of the BBC and politics.

Dramatised in six parts by from his novel by Mark Taverner, and Peter Baynham.

George Cragge …. Michael Williams
Superintendent Frank Jefferson …. Barry Foster
Charles Prentiss...Stephen Fry
Martin Griffiths.....John Bird
Prime Minister …. Jonathan Coy
Crichton-Potter …. Anton Rogers
Marcia Mallon …. Rebecca Front
Chancellor …. Simon Greenall
Maria …. Jessica Oyelowo
Rupert Thresher........Michael Fenton Stevens
Barney.........Harry Towb
.Coco St Martin......Phil Cornwell
Radio 4 Newsreader …. Harriet Cass

With:

Peter Woodthorpe
Hugh Parker
Neil McCaul
Chris Pavlo
Beth Chalmers
David Holt

Producer: Dawn Ellis

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.


TUE 09:00 The Motion Show (b071k5vf)
Series 3

Episode 5

Debates galore over mature students and putting daughters on the stage.

Graeme Garden chairs the quirky battle of words and wit.

From the Pleasance Theatre during the Edinburgh Festival.

With Hugh Dennis, Gyles Brandreth, Chris Neill and Stuart Maconie.

Producer: Helen Williams

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000.


TUE 09:30 Trapped (m001p12f)
Series 2

3. Smarting Up

Frustrated intellectual, Jenny Green, is going nowhere as a staff-writer on the popular, but struggling, TV soap ‘Jesmond Road’. Then one day, she is presented with the opportunity to take out her frustrations on the soap's script - and in the process unwittingly starts a cultural revolution.

The second series of one-off comedy dramas written by, and sometimes featuring, Daniel and Mark Maier.

CAST:

Jenny …. Alice Lowe
Callum/Director …. Matthew Horne
Sam/Reporter …. Steve Furst
Angela/Old Lady…. Jenny Eclair
Dr Berringer/Chunky/Cabbie …. Jim Barclay
Naomi …. Angela Lonsdale
Tyler/Mike/Newsreader/Karl …. Daniel Maier
Nick/Quizmaster/Trey …. Mark Maier

Producer: Claire Bartlett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.


TUE 10:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k06p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]


TUE 11:00 Good Omens (b04vdqpp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 11:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y6q1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 12:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


TUE 12:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phft0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]


TUE 12:30 Gloomsbury (m0000z52)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 13:00 The Goon Show (b007jq80)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 13:30 In the End (b007s6js)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 14:00 The Motion Show (b071k5vf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 14:30 Trapped (m001p12f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


TUE 15:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k06p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]


TUE 16:00 Good Omens (b04vdqpp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


TUE 16:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y6q1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


TUE 17:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


TUE 17:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phft0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]


TUE 17:30 Gloomsbury (m0000z52)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


TUE 18:00 The Goon Show (b007jq80)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


TUE 18:30 In the End (b007s6js)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


TUE 19:00 The Motion Show (b071k5vf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


TUE 19:30 Trapped (m001p12f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


TUE 20:00 TED Radio Hour (m0014fk6)
Series 8

Through The Looking Glass

A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.

Manoush Zomorodi explores how we can, with the right tools, go beyond our limited senses to explore our world and beyond.

First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2021.


TUE 20:50 Inheritance Tracks (m000gn56)
Duff McKagan

Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan chooses 'Funk 49' by The James Gang and 'Little Doll' by The Stooges.


TUE 21:00 Mastertapes (b04ps5pz)
Series 4

Manic Street Preachers (the B-Side)

Manic Street Preachers answers audience questions about their 1994 album, 'The Holy Bible’.

John Wilson talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them.

Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios, each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature exclusive live performances

Programme 2, the B-side: Manic Street Preachers on their 1994 album, 'The Holy Bible'.

Having discussed the making of 'The Holy Bible', the career defining third album (in the A-side of the programme) James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire and Sean Moore respond to questions from the audience and performs acoustic live versions of some to the tracks from the album.

Producer: Paul Kobrak

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.


TUE 21:30 The Sons of Dermot Mulligan (m001p12w)
2. My Son the Footballer

Nathan risks his life, family and friends when his only son becomes the focus for his obsession with the 'beautiful game'.

Darkly comic dramas written by, and starring, Owen O'Neill.

With Jon Glover, Beth Fitzgerald, Richard Firth, Stephen Hogan, Luke O'Reilly and Patrick Simpson.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.


TUE 22:00 The Ultimate Choice (m0019bx3)
Pilot: Flatmates and Zombies

Steph McGovern leads a pair of seriously funny minds through some devious Would You Rather dilemmas, to find definitive answers to the great questions of our age. Or not.

In this episode, comedians Russell Kane and Ria Lina step up to the plate, with their fates to be decided by the wise and all-powerful studio audience, who will make the ultimate choice.

Starring Steph McGovern, Russell Kane and Ria Lina
Devised by Jon Harvey and Joseph Morpurgo
Mixed by David Thomas
Production Support: Leah Marks
Associate Producer: Joseph Morpurgo
Produced and edited by Jon Harvey
Executive Producer: Ed Morrish

A Naked production for BBC Radio 4


TUE 22:30 The Lee Mack Show (b00c075z)
Tom Robinson

Lee Mack presents stand-up comedy, sketches and music.

With:

Tom Robinson
Mike Wilmot
Angela McHale

Music by Steve Brown, Mark Allis, David Catlin-Birch and Adam Phillips.

Written by Lee Mack and Neil Webster.

Additional material by Paul Kerensa and Tom Robinson.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 2005.


TUE 23:00 Father Figure (b01c9b73)
Series 1

Power Cut

It's a Saturday night for cosying up in front of Strictly Come Dancing but best laid plans are about to be changed - for the better?

Family sitcom written by and starring Jason Byrne.

Tom Whyte.... Jason Byrne
Elaine Whyte.... Lucy Montgomery
Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite
Mary Whyte ....Pauline McLynn
Pat Whyte.... Dermot Crowley
Roddy .... Michael Smiley

Producer: Julia McKenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2012.


TUE 23:30 Elvenquest (b016vn8f)
Series 3

Episode 4

As they continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar, the noble Questers find themselves coming to the rescue of King Baldwin the Jovial whose mead hall is being terrorised by a terrible creature called "The Grundle".

But when Amis, the Chosen One, starts to question whether he is actually all that special after all, the Questers hatch a plan to kill the beast and restore Amis' self-worth.

Meanwhile, time is running out for Lord Darkness. Kreech tells he must find a girlfriend to keep him young, or he'll find his incorporeal essence once more slowly shrivelling and turning to dust. So Darkness starts off on the dating game. Trouble is, it's been a bit of time since he last met a girl, let alone chatted one up...

Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.

Vidar ...... Darren Boyd
Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon
Amis, aka The Chosen One ...... Dave Lamb
Sam ...... Stephen Mangan
Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan
King Baldwin The Jovial ...... Daniel Rigby
Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman

Producer: Sam Michell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.

WEDNESDAY 26 JULY 2023

WED 00:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k06p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 on Tuesday]


WED 01:00 Good Omens (b04vdqpp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]


WED 01:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y6q1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]


WED 02:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f0n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]


WED 02:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phft0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Tuesday]


WED 02:30 Gloomsbury (m0000z52)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]


WED 03:00 The Goon Show (b007jq80)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Tuesday]


WED 03:30 In the End (b007s6js)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday]


WED 04:00 The Motion Show (b071k5vf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday]


WED 04:30 Trapped (m001p12f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]


WED 05:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k07z)
3. Tensions

In the sun-drenched port of Genoa, Gwendolen and Daniel's fates become eternally and tragically entwined.

Conclusion of George Eliot's classic novel of love and idealism.

Starring Anna Chancellor and Michael Perceval-Maxwell.

Dramatised by Robert Forrest.

Gwendolen Harleth ...... Anna Chancellor
Deronda ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Grandcourt ...... James Bryce
Mrs Davilow ...... Joanna Tope
Klesmer ...... Finlay Welsh
Mirah ...... Lucy Patterson
Lydia ...... Noreen Leighton
Lush ...... Simon Tait
Leonara ...... Vivienne Dixon
Mordecai ...... Mark McDonnell

Director: Patrick Rayner

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1999.


WED 06:00 Good Omens (b04vf43c)
3. The Hunt for the Antichrist

Aziraphale consults Agnes's prophesies in the hunt for the antichrist, the Witchfinder Army send Newt to Tadfield, and the Horsepersons of the Apocalypse continue to be summoned.

With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap, this is the first ever dramatisation of Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens.

Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling.

Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly where the impending Apocalypse will take place.

Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan.

Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself.

There's just one small problem: someone seems to have mislaid him...

Crowley ...... Peter Serafinowicz
Aziraphale ...... Mark Heap
Major Pulsifer ...... Ben Crowe
Agnes Nutter ...... Josie Lawrence
Anathema Device ...... Charlotte Ritchie
Newton Pulsifer ...... Colin Morgan
Shadwell ...... Clive Russell
Madame Tracy ...... Julia Deakin
Lopez ...... Mitch Benn
Blake ...... Theo Maggs
Wasabi Computer ...... Andy Secombe
Carmine Zuigiber ...... Rachael Stirling
Chalk ...... Harry Lloyd
Death ...... Jim Norton
International Express ...... Ron Cook
Anforth ...... Nicholas Briggs
Nick Grimshaw ...... Himself
Martha Kearney ...... Herself
Neil Sleat ...... Himself
Adam ...... Adam Thomas Wright
Pepper ...... Hollie Burgess
Wensleydale ...... Bobby Fuller
Brian ...... Lewis Andrews

Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs.

Producer: Heather Larmour

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2014.


WED 06:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y68t)
Cordoba

3. Warned Off

When the reprisals start against her, reporter DT recalls why she is so driven to get to the truth.

Starring Alison Steadman.

Nigel Baldwin’s thriller serial set in south Wales.

DT Mitchell …. Alison Steadman
Conrad De’Ath …. Bill Stewart
Geraint …. Robin Griffith
Alex …. Leslie Rooney
Ieuan …. Robert Pugh
Tina Turner …. Gudrun Ure
Rachel …. Helen Griffin
Raymond Turner …. Tony Leader
Press Officer …. Stacey Jefferson
Landlord …. Brendan Charleson

Original music by Laurie Scott Baker.

Directed at BBC Wales by Jane Dauncey.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.


WED 07:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f53)
3. Decisions

Tracy Ann Oberman reads Damian Barr's blistering debut novel, spanning a hundred years of South Africa's dark past and present.

After nearly a month in the Bloemenfontein Camp, life is becoming increasingly desperate. And Sarah must decide how far she's prepared to go to save her son.

Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Justine Willett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.


WED 07:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phhy9)
The Light Years

3. Labour

The Light Years tells the story of the extended Cazalet family. Set in the lead up to the outbreak of World War II, it appears that the Cazalets have it all but we soon discover that infidelity, indiscretions, jealousies and misplaced loyalties lurk just beneath the surface.

Sid and Rachel's day together is threatened by Sybil's pregnancy.

Narrator ...... Penelope Wilton
Sybil ...... Sarah-Jane Holm
Hugh ...... Dominic Mafham
Rachel ...... Naomi Frederick
Sid ...... Helen Schlesinger
The Duchy ...... Shirley Dixon
Dr. Carr ...... Robert Blythe

Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow
Written by Elizabeth Jane Howard
Dramatised by Sarah Daniels and Lin Coghlan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.


WED 07:30 Dot (b0bd7rw0)
Series 3

Saucepans for Spitfires!

A national initiative to boost morale causes havoc in the personnel team, as Dot and the gals turn on each other.

Retro adventures with Dot and the gals from personnel in the rollicking Cabinet War Rooms comedy by Ed Harris.

Dot ...... Fenella Woolgar
Myrtle ...... Kate O'Flynn
Peg ...... Freya Parker
Peabody ...... David Acton
Mrs Background ...... Emma Handy
Ding Dong ...... Ryan Whittle

Director: Sasha Yevtushenko

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2018.


WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007s5g6)
Series 4

Almost a Gentleman

Overlooked in the New Year's Honours, the Lad brushes up on his social etiquette skills.

Starring Tony Hancock.

With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.

Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.

Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.

Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1957.


WED 08:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007k3yd)
The T Machine

Time is running out for the oddest club in London. The Stranger has given the ineffectual Mr Tilly the task of destroying Dr Julius Venn, an evil scientist.

Starring Roy Kinnear.

Dark comedy series written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.

Mr Tilly......Roy Kinnear
Julius Venn.....Patrick Allen
Mrs Boyle.....Patti Coombs
The Stranger.........Peter Howell
Felch................Michael Ripper

with:
Polly James
John Baddeley
Michael Ripper

Music: Max Harris

Producer: Paul Spencer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1988.


WED 09:00 It's Not What You Know (b0639w41)
Series 3

Episode 5

Which particular football match is Elis James obsessed with?

What's Penny Smith's worst habit?

What was the worst thing Russell Grant did as a child?

All these burning questions, and more, will be answered in the show hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how well they know their nearest and dearest.

In this case, comedian Elis James picks his radio show co-host, presenter Penny Smith picks her brother-in-law and astrologer Russell Grant picks his mum.

Producer: Matt Stronge.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2015.


WED 09:30 People In Cars (b00qx1m7)
Getaway

Gilly's 14 year old son Ben complains that nothing exciting ever happens to them.

Until a gangster on the run jumps into their car.

One of three comedies set in cars written by Simon Brett.

Gilly .... Samantha Bond
Ben .... Angus Imrie
Nigel .... Stephen Critchlow
Policewoman .... Tessa Nicholson

Director: Peter Kavanagh

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.


WED 10:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k07z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]


WED 11:00 Good Omens (b04vf43c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 11:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y68t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 12:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f53)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


WED 12:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phhy9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]


WED 12:30 Dot (b0bd7rw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 13:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007s5g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 13:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007k3yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 14:00 It's Not What You Know (b0639w41)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 14:30 People In Cars (b00qx1m7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


WED 15:00 Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (b007k07z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today]


WED 16:00 Good Omens (b04vf43c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]


WED 16:30 Dee Mitchell (m000y68t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]


WED 17:00 You Will Be Safe Here by Damian Barr (m0005f53)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]


WED 17:15 Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalets (b01phhy9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]


WED 17:30 Dot (b0bd7rw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]


WED 18:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007s5g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]


WED 18:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club (b007k3yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]


WED 19:00 It's Not What You Know (b0639w41)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


WED 19:30 People In Cars (b00qx1m7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]


WED 20:00 Archive on 4 (m00082zr)
Beating Hitler with Humour

German writer Timur Vermes examines how the BBC used humour throughout the war to counter Nazi propaganda.

Historians have poured over Joseph Goebbels and his reputedly efficient propaganda machine - particularly the Nazi manipulation of radio to gain and maintain power. But few have explored the leading opponent of his propaganda - the German Service of the BBC. Fewer still have acknowledged that the BBC's radio transmissions to Germany contained not only news and comment but also drew on an unusual method of British psychological warfare, satire and humour, as a form of counter-propaganda.

From mid-1940 until the very end of the war, pioneering satire feature programmes were written by German exiles under the close supervision of British authorities. They included Frau Wernecke - a sketch fronted by a fictional Berlin housewife, Kurt and Willi - a double act depicting two bungling Nazi propagandists, and Letters from Corporal Hirnschal - a soldier writing to his wife. Meanwhile another popular feature, Hitler on Hitler tried to point out inconsistencies in the Fuhrer's rhetoric.

What did the authors of these programmes, the BBC officials and the relevant governmental institutions hope to achieve with satire as a weapon of war?

Timur Vermes pours over the archive with experts, hears testimony from those who risked their lives listening to the satire, and tries to work out if satire is effective as wartime propaganda.

Producers: Ashley Byrne, Iain Mackness, Kristina Moorehead

A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2019.


WED 21:00 Short Cuts (b06gr4b7)
Series 8

The Other

Josie Long presents stories of 'others' and outsiders.

John Osborne explores how your identity can become inextricably linked with someone you've never met, two academics discover how a piece of theatre can push you outside of society and a homicide detective talks about how you communicate with someone whose actions are outside of your understanding.

Series Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2015.


WED 21:30 The Sons of Dermot Mulligan (m001p0x4)
3. Shouting from the Scaffold

Danny has ended up working on a building site, trapped in a dead-end world of drink, hard work and drink. In the end, it takes a tragic turn of events to help him find his poetic muse and the road to freedom.

Darkly comic dramas written by, and starring, Owen O'Neill.

With Pauline Goldsmith, Ford Kiernan, Colin Murphy and Michael Smiley.

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.


WED 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (m000571d)
Series 8

Episode 1

John Finnemore returns to Radio 4 with an eighth series of his multi-award-winning sketch show, joined by his regular ensemble cast of Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan.

In this episode, John cooks a particularly good lasagne, and we hear a legendary swansong and, well... since you ask him for a ghost story...

John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was described by The Radio Times as "the best sketch show in years, on television or radio", and by The Daily Telegraph as "funny enough to make even the surliest cat laugh". Already the winner of a Radio Academy Silver Award and a Broadcasting Press Guild award, this year Souvenir Programme won its second BBC Audio Drama award.

Written by & starring ... John Finnemore
Cast ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Cast ... Simon Kane
Cast ... Lawry Lewin
Cast ... Carrie Quinlan

Original music & piano ... Susannah Pearse
Cello ... Sally Stares

Production Coordinator ... Beverly Tagg
Producer ... Ed Morrish
A BBC Studios production


WED 22:30 Pick Ups (b00ngzck)
Series 2

Stags and Bucks

An old school friend rocks Dave's world, while Mike gets involved in a gay stag night - on the straight side of town.

Comedy set in a run-down taxi office in Manchester.

Written by Ian Kershaw.

Mike ...... Paul Loughran
Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
Dave ...... Phil Rowson
Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe
Ashley ...... Jonathan Mayor
Darren ...... Chris Hoyle

Producer: Paul Hardy

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.


WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (m001p8m6)
Jordan Gray 2/2

From 10pm until midnight, seven days a week, The Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. And tonight, Athena Kugblenu chats again to Jordan Gray.


WED 23:00 Holland's Shorts (m001p0xk)
Episode 5

Dominic Holland’s thoughts on satnav, the pro-celebrity golf circuit, room service, and the charming and peaceful holiday destination of Austria.

Written and presented by Dominic Holland

With support from Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Martin Hyder and Ed Weeks.

Music by Jim Howard.

Producer: Victoria Lloyd

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.


WED 23:15 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren (b00bxv1v)
Episode 1

Doing the Bathroom.

Succulent insights into life as it unfolds in one man's sitting room.

Humorist Ivor Cutler dispenses a concoction of songs, poetry, stories and a Stuggy Pren to his visitors: New Zealand sculptor Craig Murray-Orr and Orpington penciller Alison O'Kill.

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in May 1994.


WED 23:30 The Young Postmen (b00fz7bp)
Top of the Pops

The eager threesome attempt to record a number one record for Christmas.

More surreal escapades of a trio of 'posties'.

Written by and starring Ben Miller. With John Thomson and Felicity Montagu.

Brian .... Ben Miller
Derek .... John Thomson
Sue/Madonna .... Felicity Montagu
Mr Tilbury/George Michael/Burton .... Jim Barclay
Simon Bates/Gary Lineker/DJ .... Alastair McGowan

Music by Murray Gold

Producer: Gareth Edwards

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992.