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RADIO-LISTS: BBC RADIO 4 Extra
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SATURDAY 06 JUNE 2015

SAT 00:00 Francis Turnly - Lullaby (b00d7jh3)
Kate and Patrick face terror from the sinister past of their newly renovated house. Francis Turnly's thriller with Tara Flynn.

SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs (b01p6vbz)
Series 5

Colin Macintyre

Colin Macintyre is a Scottish singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Growing up on the west coast island of Mull he records under his own name and under the name of Mull Historical Society.

Colin talks to Phil Cunningham about his musical influences and picks five special songs which are important to him and have helped influence his career.

Phil opens the programme with the track The Lights from Colin's latest album City Awakenings.

Colin picks these five songs:

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence

David Bowie - Changes

Radiohead - No Surprises

Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately

The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize

Phil closes the programme with Must You Get Low from the City Awakenings album.

SAT 01:00 VI Warshawski (b007jzsg)
Publicity Stunts

Episode 1

Private Detective V I Warshawski is being set up for a murder she didn't commit - of a woman she hardly knew. Read by Buffy Davis.

The victim is a famous crime fiction writer. Her latest book threatens to uncover the shame of a small American town whose dark secrets and those of her tormentor have been buried for decades.

Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, V I Warshawski, is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. V I is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator".

Producer: Joanne Reardon

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2003.

SAT 01:30 The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc (b00sgbcr)
Long before the invention of the MP3, there was a way of getting hold of music, speech, and other audio sensations, free of charge, in the form of flexidiscs. Originally developed in the 1930s to play at 78rpm, by the 1960s, seven-inch, 45rpm flexidiscs were so cheap to produce, and so light and bendy, that they were often given away free with a magazine. In the Soviet Union, though, where flexidiscs were called roentgenizdat, and were recorded on disused medical x-ray sheets, the audio was usually of an illegal nature, such as jazz music, or, later, punk rock. In telling the story of the flexidisc, we'll hear plenty of music, some of which is now valuable (such as the Rolling Stones Exit on Mainstreet Blues, given away with New Musical Express in 1972).

In tracking down the story of flexidiscs, presenter Paul Bayley meets collector Jez Randell, journalist Ian Shirley, and the novelist Tim Lott, who co-founded Flexipop magazine in the early 1980s (which gave away a free flexi with every issue). The programme includes extracts from flexidiscs galore, including several advertisements for products as diverse as crisps, hair pieces and rat poison, music from big band jazz to beat groups to punk rock, and some of the most famous recordings made on flexidisc including Beatles fanclub records, Private Eye's satirical flexidiscs and the sound of humpback whales, from the world's biggest circulation flexidisc ever.

Presenter Paul Bayley previously presented The Strange Parallel World of Christian Pop for Radio 4, which subsequently inspired Frank Cottrell Boyce's radio play The Believers. The producer is Bob Dickinson.

SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b00t6v3b)
Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers

Episode 10

Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel about four generations of the Patel-Joneses.

Babo and Sian's youngest daughter, Bean, has been having an affair with Javier for two years now. She's been waiting all that time for him to leave his wife and three children. Then Javier is involved in a car crash, which changes everything. Back in Anjar, Grandmother Ba's life is coming to an end but first she must be sure that Bean is safe.

The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the 6 part BBC drama Luther. She also played Suzie Costello in Torchwood.

Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis

Producer: Kate McAll.

SAT 02:15 The Making of Music (b007rhvz)
Series 1

Beethoven's Eroica

James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.

25/30. Beethoven's Eroica

The original dedication to Napoleon was removed from the manuscript of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, allegedly by the composer's own hand, when Napoleon declared himself Emperor in 1804.

Read by Simon Russell Beale.

SAT 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmtb)
Episode 15

Love is in the air in the Rue Plumet. But why is Jean Valjean so obsessed with secrecy? Stars Joss Ackland and Lucy Whybrow.

SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00t3td1)
Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice

Episode 5

Reporter Jake Adelstein is invited to spend the night as a host in a Japanese night club in the red light district of Tokyo. And he discovers some surprises, not only amongst the type of customers who are willing to pay for the service in modern Japan, but the reasons these women feel the need to pay for company.

Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein.

Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC Radio 4.

SAT 03:00 Peter Tinniswood (b05xgv09)
Crossing the Frontier

Jean is 38, attractive and married. She decides to go on a cruise without her husband.

On the first night out, she sees a row of lights sticking straight out to sea. She feels as if she's entering a strange land with different customs, different values. As if she is becoming a different person.

Written by Peter Tinniswood.

Jean …. Shirley Dixon
Roy …. David Buck
Richard …. Stephen Thorne

Producer: Shaun McLoughlin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985.

SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rcg42)
Series 5

Episode 1

Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins tests Jon Holmes, Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham and Simon Pegg. From August 2004.

SAT 04:30 On Baby Street (b00f6vv7)
Series 1

Episode 5

Will Ian get to the hospital on time? Can Geraldine and Yvette get there at all? Stars Jenny Eclair. From February 1996.

SAT 05:00 Lucky Heather (b0075sg8)
True Grit

Heather used to clean for Angela. Now Angela suspects her teenage daughter is on drugs so asks Heather to investigate.

Just this side of nosey, Heather is western movie-mad. She's also the Sherlock Holmes of the rundown Sutter Estate.

Sue Teddern's six-part comedy series star Lindsey Coulson as Heather. (Carol Jackson in BBC TV's EastEnders until 2015)

With Abigail Hart as Natalie, Ben Crowe as Ryan, Gavin Muir as Joe, Lisa Kay as Charlotte, Jilly Bond as Angela and Tim Treloar as the Barman.

Director: David Hunter

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.

SAT 05:30 The Rivals (b03bdw8c)
Series 2

The Clue of the Silver Spoons

By Robert Barr.

Dramatised By Chris Harrald.

Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with Food Connoisseur and Detective Eugene Valmont trying to solve a curious series of thefts from private dinner parties

Producer: Liz Webb.

SAT 06:00 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
Fast-moving thriller set in 1990s Paris. Prison official Yvette Lalande is kidnapped on her way to work by a notorious group of terrorists. But what is the link to events in Algeria thirty years before? It appears 'someone in authority' has good reason to hamper Commissaire Grosset's police investigations.

Starring David Calder as Commissaire Grosset, Peter Jeffrey as Michel Corbillard, Alex Jennings as Jean Lenoir, Patti Holloway as Yvette Lalande and Natasha Pyne as Danielle Lesueur.

Scripted by Roger Danes

Directed by Glyn Dearman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.

SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01k2gxl)
The Reluctant Jester

We Can't Have Non-Europeans in the Royal Air Force

The founding Goon Show member and comic actor looks back to his repeated efforts to sign up for the war. From September 1993.

SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b00rl155)
Leaders Under the Lights

It's 50 years since Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F Kennedy made history with the first ever presidential TV debate. The idea was quickly adopted around the world. But how much do voters really learn from these encounters, and do they ever make the difference between winning ald losing?

The BBC's political correspondent Reeta Chakrabarti unearths some memorable moments from the archives and talks to politicians, television producers, academics and journalists about the heated negotiations, meticulous preparation and sometimes painful gaffes which have had millions glued to their sets at election time. She also asks what Britain's party leaders can learn.

SAT 09:00 Barry Humphries: Gladdies All Over (b05xwsnj)
Kathy Lette celebrates Barry Humphries. An interesting, inspiring, true creative, treasured for his outrageous characters, acerbic wit and sharp tongue. Humphries has collaborated with some of the most revered creative minds of the last century.

The man himself is a considered intellectual with a life immersed in music, literature and arts. For his delivery of Dadaist and absurdist humour to millions, biographer Anne Pender described Humphries as not only "the most significant theatrical figure of our time ... [but] the most significant comedian to emerge since Charlie Chaplin"

In this three hour compilation, self-styled 'deranged author' Kathy Lette chats to Barry Humphries about his relationship with Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone and Dame Edna Everage.

Kathy also introduces rare performances, interviews and programmes from the BBC archive including:

* Barry and Dame Edna's appearances on Front Row, In Tune, Profile, and Nightwave

* Early performances alongside Spike Milligan

* A discussion of working with Emily Perry, who played Dame Edna's bridesmaid Madge.

* Interviews with Dame Edna shortly after her escape from Mooney Ponds.

There's also a look at the people and things that have influenced Humphries' work and life:

* His passion for literature is discussed in Open Book

* His passion for the decadent world of art, music and satire is delved into in Barry Humphries In Weimar.

Producer: Laura Baron

Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in June 2015.

SAT 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05x8q7d)
From 31/08/1975

Doddy and chums turn their attention to cowboys and heroes of the past.

Starring Ken Dodd.

With Jo Manning Wilson, Gretchen Franklin, Talfryn Thomas, Chris Emmett and Michael McClain.

Devised and written by Ken Dodd with Dave Dutton, David McKellar, Norman Beadle and Philip & Alan Bessell.

Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Geoff Alderson.

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in August 1975.

SAT 12:30 Round the Horne (b00j05x7)
Series 1

Episode 13

Kenneth Horne Master Spy gets an Eiffel while Julian and Sandy offer some animal advice at their new shop in Chelsea, Bona Pets. Rambling Sid Rumpo sings a special song of Cornwall.

With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith

Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.

Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1965.

SAT 13:00 Michael Butt - Chronicles of Ait (b05xx1c9)
Life in the remote East Coast village of Ait appears to be determined by inexplicable influences. With Greg Wise as Linus Scott.

SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05xx1nt)
Barry Humphries

4 Extra Debut. Comedian Barry Humphries inherits 'Oh Mona' by Nat Gonella, and passes 'Love Song' by Josef Suk.

SAT 14:15 Daunt and Dervish (b007s8d7)
Series 1

Games of Chance

The detective duo are called in on a 'sporting' assignment to keep a 24 hour watch on a young East End boy who's about to fight for a place in the 1948 boxing team. The local Catholic priest has been taking a special interest in the boy's progress, but why?

With the Second World War over, former spies Josephine Daunt and Susan Dervish are running their own detective agency.

Stars Imelda Staunton as Josephine Daunt, Anna Massey as Susan Dervish, Bill Patterson as Bill Mackie, Dermot Crowley as Father Mike Finucan and Carl Prekopp as Tommy.

Format by Imelda Staunton and Anna Massey. Written by Guy Meredith.

Producer: Cherry Cookson. Director: Janet Whitaker.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b00rl155)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

SAT 16:00 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SAT 17:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01k2gxl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b05xx1w5)
Energy of the Daleks

The Doctor and Leela find themselves in the middle of London at the time of a new energy crisis. The GlobeSphere Corporation seems to have all the answers - but several thousand protestors beg to differ.

What is the connection between the National Gallery and a base on the Moon? Has radical thinker Damien Stephens simply sold out, or does he have a more sinister agenda?

The Doctor has detected a mysterious energy reading. Could it be that the most evil creatures in the universe have returned to claim ultimate victory once and for all?

Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor, with his ancient warrior companion, Leela, played by Louise Jameson.

Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs.

A Big Finish production.

SAT 19:00 Barry Humphries: Gladdies All Over (b05xwsnj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00kfx3c)
Series 1

Pride

Mark Watson investigates pride as he continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy.

Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and distractions.

Producer: Katie Marsden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007.

SAT 22:30 28 Acts in 28 Minutes (b01nv97y)
Series 1

Episode 3

John Humphrys gives 28 acts 60 seconds to entertain an audience:

Kit and the Widow
Frankie Boyle
The Hollow Men
Lucy Porter
Rob Rouse
Toby Foster
Mrs Barbara Nice
Rob Deering
Neil Edmond
Adam Buxton
Anna Crilley & Katie Wix
Mick Ferry
Pete Gold
Susan Murray

Charlie Chuck
Jarred Christmas
Marcus Cummins
Tom Allen
Justin Moorhouse
Will Hodgson
Stephen Carlin
Steve Oram and Tom Meeten
Isy Suttie
Alex Horne
Phil Kay
Nick Revell
John Hegley
Marcus Brigstocke & Danny Robins

Producers: Rohan Acharya and Ed Morrish

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.

SAT 23:00 The Lee Mack Show (b00bt53m)
Suggs

Singer Suggs joins the quick-fire comic for stand-up, sketches and music. With Angela McHale and Steve Brown. From March 2005.

SAT 23:30 Innes Own World (b0170r0p)
Episode 1

Famed for The Rutles and The Bonzo Dog Band, Neil Innes ruminates wryly on the nature of civilisation.

An opportunity to climb inside Neil Innes's head to find songs, atmospheric musings and some very irritating commercial breaks.

Script Editor: John Dowie

Producer: Claire Jones

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.

SUNDAY 07 JUNE 2015

SUN 00:00 Doctor Who (b05xx1w5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]

SUN 01:00 Michael Butt - Chronicles of Ait (b05xx1c9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]

SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05xx1nt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday]

SUN 02:15 Daunt and Dervish (b007s8d7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday]

SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b00rl155)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]

SUN 04:00 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]

SUN 05:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01k2gxl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]

SUN 06:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus (b007jtsc)
Episode 3

Marius is walking in the Luxembourg Gardens and sees Cosette. Just one glance and his life is changed forever! But Valjean is nervous...

Victor Hugo's epic story of social injustice, dramatised in 25 episodes by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Lin Coghlan.

Starring Roger Allam as Jean Valjean, Joss Ackland as Victor Hugo, Lucy Whybrow as Cosette, Jonathan Forbes as Marius, Carl Prekopp as Combeferre and Annette Badland as Toussaint.

Producer: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.

SUN 07:15 Another String: So Long as Lobsters Swim the Sea (b00755kf)
4 Extra Debut. RSC and National Theatre playwright, fisherman and wrecker Nick Darke looks to his nets and pots off Padstow. From June 1997.

SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b018sqp3)
Series 3

2001: A Space Idiocy

Arthur's mobile phone lines get crossed, and his hospital radio show sparks disaster. Stars Steve Delaney. From January 2008.

SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh (b007jrtp)
From 08/11/1949

Ted's wife Kitty buys a dog, while George interviews a double-octogenarian.

Starring Ted Ray.

With Kitty Bluett, Peter Sellers, Patricia Hayes, Fred Yule and Leslie Perrins.

Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, as well as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961.

Scripted by Eddie Maguire and Ted Ray.

Music from Bob and Alf Pearson and The Beaux and The Belles.

BBC Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black.

Producer: George Inns

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1949.

SUN 08:30 Harry Worth (b00rd6p0)
Thirty Minutes Worth

The Old Flame

Just as Harry Worth is feeling lonely, a long lost love turns up.

Starring Harry Worth.

With Jacqueline Clarke and Joan Sanderson.

The amiable, woolly-minded bumbler, causes more confusion!

Written by Vince Powell.

Producer: Mike Craig

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1988.

SUN 09:00 Ghettoside Omnibus (b05xxd6j)
An account of the murder of 18-year-old Bryant Tennelle, which sheds light on LA's homicide epidemic. Read by Rhashan Stone.

SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05xxf96)
Suzanne Vega

The singer Suzanne Vega inherits 'Where Have All the Flowers Gone?' by Pete Seeger, and passes on 'Masters of War' by Bob Dylan.

SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05xxf98)
Military

Tony Iveson

From Albinoni to Sinatra, Battle of Britain veteran Tony Iveson makes his castaway choices. With Kirsty Young. From January 2011.

SUN 11:00 The Arthur Askey Variety Show (b00br30g)
Hallo playmates! "Big-hearted" comedian Arthur Askey hosts a series of variety shows to celebrate his 80th birthday year.

His guests this week are old 'Band Waggon' chum Richard "Stinker" Murdoch, American singer Vic Damone, Midlands comic Lee Wilson and "recent" Eurovision UK winners Bucks Fizz.

Music by the Max Harris Orchestra.

Scripted by Tony Hare.

Producer: Richard Willcox

Arthur Askey CBE was born 6th June 1900 and died 16th November 1982. The BBC Light Programme's variety show Band Waggon propelled Arthur to stardom in 1938, leading to film roles like Charley's Aunt, as well as regular stage, panto and TV roles. The veteran performer was still working, before illness struck in the months before he died. He was famed for numerous catchphrases, including "Ay-Thang-Yew" and "Doesn't it make you want to spit?"

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1981.

SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh (b007jrtp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

SUN 12:30 Harry Worth (b00rd6p0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

SUN 13:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus (b007jtsc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

SUN 14:15 Another String: So Long as Lobsters Swim the Sea (b00755kf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]

SUN 14:30 Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man (Omnibus) (b05xxj2y)
Episode 1

After the sudden loss of his wife, Michael Turner develops a close friendship with the family next door. Read by Mark Bazeley. From June 2015.

SUN 15:45 The Great Western Adventure (b0076xq3)
London Terminal

By Richard Francis. 4 Extra Debut. Colin's hypochondria colours how he reacts to a fellow passenger whilst waiting at Paddington station. Read by Rupert Wickham.

SUN 16:00 George Bernard Shaw - Candida (b007jtk5)
"If I haven't got what you call British pluck, I haven't British cowardice either: I'm not afraid of a clergyman's ideas. I'll fight your ideas.”

The life of a vicar's wife is turned upside down by a young poet.

Candida has a choice between her devoted but complacent husband and a young poet who passionately adores her. She needs all her resources of wit and candour to resolve a potentially explosive situation

George Bernard Shaw's romantic comedy stars Hannah Gordon and Edward Petherbridge.

Candida ..... Hannah Gordon
The Rev James Morell .... Edward Petherbridge
Eugene Marchbanks .... Christopher Guard
Mr Burgess .... Ray Smith
The Rev Alexander (Lexy) Mill .... Neville Jason
Miss Proserpine Garnett .... Irene Sutcliffe

Director: Ronald Mason

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1977

SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b018sqp3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 18:00 Saturday Drama (b00zhc3t)
Mike Walker - Landfall

Five misfits travel to a mysterious planet to recover ore left by a mining operation and encounter a truly extraordinary intelligence. An original Science Fiction adventure by Mike Walker.

Cally ... Nicola Miles-Wilden
Intaba ... Cyril Nri
Hudson ... Clare Perkins
JD ... Alex Tregear
Hussam ... Adeel Akhtar

Sound design by Pete Ringrose and Colin Guthrie

The director is Marc Beeby

When five lost souls, recruited by the Company travel to an abandoned planet, all they know is that they are to retrieve the only known sample of an ore left over from an old mining operation. But their task becomes considerably more complicated when one of their party has a close encounter with the indigenous plant life - plant life which seems to have some very odd, very powerful properties. Soon they are battling not only to stay alive, but to hang on to the very things that make them human.

SUN 19:00 The Arthur Askey Variety Show (b00br30g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

SUN 20:00 Ghettoside Omnibus (b05xxd6j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05xxf96)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today]

SUN 21:15 Between the Ears: Underground (b007f6hc)
4 Extra Debut. South Crofty was the last tin mine to close in Cornwall - and Europe. Voices of miners woven with Nick Darke's text. From January 2000.

SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b018sqp3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

SUN 22:30 Very Old Pretenders (b0151t4j)
The Dating Game

This week in Carl Gorham's culture clash comedy anthropologist Andrew Merron takes his two Jacobite soldiers from 1745 into the modern world of speed - dating. There, a super confident Macdonald fails spectacularly to attract anyone whilst a nervous Rab is mistaken for the strong silent type and overwhelmed with offers. With Rab already on a date, Merron manages to fix Macdonald up with someone via the internet then succeeds in arranging a special evening out for himself and long suffering wife Denise. But far from pleasing everyone, the three dates quickly prove a nightmare for all concerned.

Cast:
Andrew Merron......................David Haig
Denise Merron..................Rebecca Front
Rab ....................................Jack Docherty
Macdonald........................Gordon Kennedy
Gail ......... Morwenna Banks
Speed daters ....... Lucy Barter / Rebecca Front /Sinead Merron
Taxi Driver/Rita ....... Moray Hunter

Producer: Gordon Kennedy
An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4.

SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05z5pt6)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith is joined by Ian Smith.

SUN 23:00 All the World's a Globe (b007jwt1)
5. The Male Nude and Charlton Heston

From St Francis to Buddhism

The history of mankind from the first amoeba to the Second World War.

Presented by the entire cast of the National Theatre of Brent - Desmond Olivier Dingle and Wallace, aided by Mr Barker.

Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by Jim Broadbent and Martin Duncan.

With guest star Peter Barker.

With thanks to

Patrick Barlow
Jim Broadbent
Martin Duncan

Producer: Lissa Evans

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990.

SUN 23:15 This Is Craig Brown (b00fd63s)
Hallucinations

Revealing all on narcotics and Top of the Pops. The satirist pokes fun with Rory Bremner and John Humphrys. From March 2004.

SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On (b010mrsk)
Series 6

Voices in the Head

Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another 5 part series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition.

Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects. Now she is a high achieving academic. What started the voices and how did she get to a point where she not only lives happily with the voices that still exist but also works with others who have the same experience? With contributions from writer Graham Linehan and comedian Josie Long.

Producer: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs
An Unique production for BBC Radio 4.

MONDAY 08 JUNE 2015

MON 00:00 Saturday Drama (b00zhc3t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]

MON 01:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus (b007jtsc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]

MON 02:15 Another String: So Long as Lobsters Swim the Sea (b00755kf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday]

MON 02:30 Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man (Omnibus) (b05xxj2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]

MON 03:45 The Great Western Adventure (b0076xq3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday]

MON 04:00 George Bernard Shaw - Candida (b007jtk5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]

MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b018sqp3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]

MON 06:00 VI Warshawski (b007jztq)
Publicity Stunts

Episode 2

Tough private eye VI Warshawski continues the battle to clear herself of a murder that she didn't commit. Concluded by Buffy Davis.

The victim is a famous crime fiction writer. Her latest book threatens to uncover the shame of a small American town whose dark secrets and those of her tormentor have been buried for decades.

Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, V I Warshawski, is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. V I is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator".

Producer: Joanne Reardon

Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2003.

MON 06:30 Fly Me to the Reverend Moon (b00s08g6)
When American Studies student John Waite was approached in Manchester in the early 1970s and offered the chance of a free trip to America, he jumped at the opportunity. Only once he, and a plane load of other sudents, actually arrived at a large estate in upstate New York, did he learn that the people footing the bill were the Unification Church, known to tabloid readers across the world as The Moonies. Over the course of the following days and weeks John and the students were kept on the estate as the Church tried to win them over, in order that its message might be taken back to Britain with these bright young things. In "Fly Me to the Moon", John goes back for the first time to tell the story of what happened to him and the rest of the students when they were taken in by one of the most controversial religious groups of the day. He meets up with people who went on the trip with him as well as former Church members who were active in the organisation at the time - and reflects on how the experience as a young man ready for adventure has shaped him in the decades since.

MON 07:00 The Other Man (b0076xjm)
A Night In?

Travis and Grace plan a night in together.

But will events - and Travis's brother Charlie, Charlie's ex-girlfriend Alice, and Travis's not-so-secret admirer Serena - conspire to keep them apart..?

Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.

Travis ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Grace ..... Charlotte Randle
Charlie ..... Paul Reynolds
Serena ..... Alice Lowe
Alice ..... Clare Cathcart
Goosey ..... Andrew Westfield
Annie ...... Harvey Virdi

Producer: Elizabeth Freestone

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.

MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b05wxx6n)
Series 72

Episode 3

Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game in which guests Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, Mike McShane and Pam Ayres attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition or deviation.

Hayley Sterling blows the whistle.

Produced by Victoria Lloyd.

A BBC Comedy Production.

MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jmp0)
Series 2

Don't Forget the Diver

Enlisting the additional services of a bird warbler, a scarecrow and a flock of sheep, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard platoon mount a river attack on Captain Square's HQ.

Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, John Laurie as Private Frazer and Arnold Ridley as Godfrey.

Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975.

MON 08:30 As Time Goes By (b007k7k7)
Series 2

Episode 6

Jean expands her business and Lionel hears some unexpected news from America.

Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. With Moira Brooker as Judith and Philip Bretherton as Alistair.

A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series two of his popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 years.

After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his return to England.

Producer: Martin Fisher

First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1998.

MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b00stq0l)
The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees.

As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they have personally collected on a variety of subjects.

Reader ..... Peter Jefferson.

Produced by Sam Bryant.

MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b0080r6y)
Series 1

Episode 3

Pam tries online dating and Merv offers a cafe cyber pass for 'Love Byte Night'. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From December 2001.

MON 10:00 David Goodland - Making Up (b05y0848)
Darcy White is a Drag Queen whose act is in need of a little inspiration.

When his ex-partner Dennis turns up after 20 years, it's not only the act that gets pulled apart.

David Goodland's play is set against the background of 'The Old Queen' gay club in Bristol.

Darcy......Ronald Pickup
Dennis .... John Duttine
Doreen.... Constance Chapman
The M.C. .... David Monico
Ragnor ... Richard Pearce

Producer: Sue Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.

MON 11:00 Midsummer Tales (b01kjjng)
The Longest Day

By Alison Miller. Returning home to Orkney after decades in Glasgow, lonely Jan seeks diversion in a blind date. Read by Tracy Wiles.

MON 11:15 Drama (b02m7fzz)
Abigail Docherty - Ursula and Boy

Inspired by the true story of Ursula Kemp whose eight year-old son testified against her for witchcraft in St. Osyth, Essex, in 1582.

In Elizabethan England, Jean Bodin, a French aristocrat brings news to Queen Elizabeth of 'Sorcieres and Wytches' abroad in her country. The luminaries of her court - and those who wanted to find favour - set out to root out witches within their wards. Brian Darcy, Justice of the Peace in St. Osyth, arrives in the town of his birth. He is here to do his duty, and at church on Sunday he watches the women of the town with a sharp eye.

Some days later, Grace Thurlowe, arrives in his drawing room with the news he is hoping for. Ursula Kemp, a local apothecary, has bewitched Grace's family. She sent familiars into Grace's house to rock the cradle where her ten-month old baby lay - the child fell, smashing her head on the stone floor. And now the child is dead. Ursula cursed Grace, and now Grace is lame. Ursula will have to pay.

Ursula's illegitimate son does not know his name, or who his father is. His mother will not tell him. So he imagines instead. And his wild imaginings fuel the fire underneath Ursula. Ursula is bought before Brian Darcy, and Darcy presents her with an impossible choice.

Abigail Docherty won the Tron Open Stage Playwrighting Competition 2010 for her play Sea, Land and Sky.

Natalie Press is best known for playing the lead in Andrea Arnold's Oscar-winning short Wasp. She also appears in Arnold's Red Road and in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love with Emily Blunt.

Sound Design: Nigel Lewis
A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Lu Kemp.

MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jmp0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 12:30 As Time Goes By (b007k7k7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 13:00 VI Warshawski (b007jztq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 13:30 Fly Me to the Reverend Moon (b00s08g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 14:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jm8s)
Episode 1

Black sheep of his philanthropic Baltimore family, Barnaby Gaitlin, takes a train to Philadelphia. Read by William Hope.

MON 14:15 The Making of Music (b007s0k2)
Series 1

Schubert and the Piano

James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.

26/30. Schubert and the Piano

Vienna in the 1820s. The piano became mass manufactured and improved in quality. Schubert gave the piano personality, and his pieces were the lifeblood of a new kind of music making.

MON 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmvl)
Episode 16

Can Marius persuade his Grandfather to let him marry Cosette before Valjean takes her to England?

Victor Hugo's epic story of social injustice, dramatised in 25 episodes by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Lin Coghlan.

Starring Roger Allam as Jean Valjean, Joss Ackland as Victor Hugo, Lucy Whybrow as Cosette, Jonathan Forbes as Marius, Leslie Phillips as Gillenormand, Patsy Palmer as Eponine, Peter Darney as Enjolras, Carl Prekopp as Combeferre, Annette Badland as Toussaint, Leagh Conwell as Gavroche and Sean Baker as Vendor.

Producer: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.

MON 14:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00swkvj)
Episode 1

Uncovering the early forms of the game, the former prime minister John Major reads from his vivid book about cricket's rich past.

MON 15:00 David Goodland - Making Up (b05y0848)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b00stq0l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b0080r6y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

MON 17:00 The Other Man (b0076xjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

MON 17:30 Just a Minute (b05wxx6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 18:00 James Follett - Rules of Asylum (b007k17k)
Episode 1

"This is the first escape from one of our maximum security sanatoriums. And there might be another.... Are all the prisoners housed in this block?"

"We prefer to call them patients."

Starring James Beattie.

James Follett's political thriller explores dissention and danger in a repressive state in the Eastern Bloc.

Jan Valery …. James Beattie
Suskin …. Vernon Joyner
Secretary/ Librarian …. Betty Huntley-Wright
Guard/Alex/Student …. Neville Jason
Governor …. Manning Wilson
Suskin's Chief …. Brian Haines
Anna …. Caroline John
Zoe/1st Girl …. Rosalyn Slater
Woman in Sanatorium/2nd Girl …. Diana Bishop
Danski …. Cyril Shaps
Nero …. Francis de Wolff
Interrogator …. John Challis
Restaurant Manager …. Godfrey Kenton

The original audio was lost from the BBC archive, so our thanks to James Follett for the donation from his personal collection of his first radio play.

Producer: Margaret Hall

First broadcast as a 90 minute drama on BBC Radio 4 in November 1973.

MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0075qg1)
Sir Jeremy Isaacs and Professor Mary Douglas

Bonnie Greer and her guests TV executive Sir Jeremy Isaacs and anthropologist professor Mary Douglas discuss favourite paperbacks by Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson and Barbara Reynolds. From 1999.

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Publisher: Penguin

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Penguin

Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul by Barbara Reynolds
Publisher: Sceptre.

MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jmp0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

MON 19:30 As Time Goes By (b007k7k7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

MON 20:00 VI Warshawski (b007jztq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

MON 20:30 Fly Me to the Reverend Moon (b00s08g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

MON 21:00 Midsummer Tales (b01kjjng)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

MON 21:15 Drama (b02m7fzz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b05wxx6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

MON 22:30 Kerry's List (b01s46vd)
Series 1

Episode 1

The first in a four-part sketch show co-written by and starring comedian and actress Kerry Godliman.

Kerry is a married mother of two, a stand up comedian and has two children. Her life can only properly function with her daily list - if she didn't compile this vital list, her life would simply fall apart.

Each week, this series looks at a different list and delves into Kerry's madcap world by looking at various elements of that week's list in sketches, narrative and stand up.

In this first episode, Kerry's List includes avoiding eBay, de-scaling the kettle, looking good and being romantic for Valentine's Day, buying jeans, retrieving an asthma pump from the Hoover, toning her upper arms and reviewing the plumber!

Joining Kerry is her husband Ben (played by her real husband Ben Abell) and her five year old daughter Elsie (played by Melissa Bury) together with a range of bizarre characters - including an enthusiastic council environment worker, some disgruntled satsumas, a bored therapist, a Fairy Jeanmother and a very keen gym instructor.

Any busy parent who's ever compiled a list of their own will relate to Kerry Godliman's incident filled world.

The cast includes David Pusey (who co-wrote the series), Bridget Christie, Lucy Briers, Rosie Cavaliero and Nicholas Le Prevost.

Kerry Godliman is fast establishing herself as a highly skilful stand up comic and actress, from her recent appearances on Live at The Apollo (BBC 1), Derek (C4) and Our Girl (BBC 1).

Producer: Paul Russell
An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4.

MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b05y0n0z)
Series 14

Episode 4

A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests Fred Macaulay, Justin Moorhouse and Lucy Porter.

MON 23:45 Creme de la Crime (b007znpf)
Series 1

A Bowl Full of Serial Killers

A melange of multi-murderers for Michael Feydeau -TV's much-loved Inspector Niblett - and crime expert David Pershore

Tales from the vaults of villainy written by and starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.

With:

Emma Kennedy
Chris Pavlo

Director: Adam Bromley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.

TUESDAY 09 JUNE 2015

TUE 00:00 James Follett - Rules of Asylum (b007k17k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]

TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0075qg1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]

TUE 01:00 VI Warshawski (b007jztq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]

TUE 01:30 Fly Me to the Reverend Moon (b00s08g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]

TUE 02:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jm8s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]

TUE 02:15 The Making of Music (b007s0k2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]

TUE 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]

TUE 02:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00swkvj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]

TUE 03:00 David Goodland - Making Up (b05y0848)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b00stq0l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]

TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b0080r6y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]

TUE 05:00 The Other Man (b0076xjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]

TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b05wxx6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]

TUE 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z3b)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice

The Beekeeper's Apprentice

The Great Detective, Sherlock Holmes comes out of retirement, takes on a young apprentice and tackles a spy - in this witty and humorous homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Starring James Fox as Holmes, Shaun Prendergast as Watson, Monica Dolan as Mary Russell and Sian Thomas as Donleavy.

Written by Laurie King. Dramatised for radio by Shaun Prendergast.

Directed in Manchester by Melanie Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.

TUE 06:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw)
When he was four, food writer Stefan Gates appeared on the cover of Led Zeppelin's classic album Houses of the Holy. This deeply personal programme follows him as he investigates for the first time the story behind this iconic cover.

It is a famously unsettling image. Taken at the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, Stefan and his sister Samantha appear naked climbing up the eerie landscape against a bright orange apocalyptic sky.

It's a photo that's dogged Stefan all his life. Ever since he was a child, the picture has disturbed him, even scared him. He's ambivalent about it; should he be proud of it or is there something to be ashamed of? He's purposely never found out the story behind it. He has never even listened to the record.

Now he sets out to revisit that chapter in his life and to confront his own mixed emotions about it, discovering the story behind the image, and its ideas and ethics. He discovers his sister's memories of the difficulties in getting it made, confronts his mother about why she let him pose naked as a child and meets Aubrey Powell, the cover art's photographer, from the famous graphic design team Hipgnosis. Finally, he makes an emotional journey back to the Giants Causeway to listen to the album for the very first time.

TUE 07:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cl49j)
Series 4

Episode 2

Tommy and Sheila's devious agent opens his own train company – on the cheap naturally – and needs his top talent to help him launch it.

But will there be anything worth launching?

Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle on with their second stab at fame.

Series 4 of Mike Coleman’s six-part sitcom starring June Whitfield and Roy Hudd.

With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley, Edward Halstead and Emma Kennedy.

Music by Frido Ruth.

Producer: Steve Doherty

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002.

TUE 07:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b05wy64j)
Series 6

Shrewsbury

"Floreat Salopia - May Shrewsbury Flourish"

Mark visits the Shropshire Town of Shrewsbury, birthplace of Charles Darwin and home to the oldest building in the world to house a McDonalds.

Mark finds Shrewsbury to be a beautiful place with an identity crisis. Once in Wales, but now in England, Shrewsbury is a peaceful town with a bloody history. As one local points out, "We killed Owain Glyndwr outside WH Smith".

An Idyllic setting in a loop of the river Severn, with its beautiful public gardens designed by Percy Thrower, patrolled daily by a Croatian nightclub bouncer.

Voted the politest town in Britain, the locals have very little to complain about. Apart from the disagreements over the buildings... and the statues... and the one-way system... and most of all, how to pronounce the name of the place.

Mark Steel's sixth series of the award winning show that travels around the country, researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents.

Written and performed by ... Mark Steel
Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair
Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Sterling
Producer ... Carl Cooper
A BBC Radio Comedy Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015. .

TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39)
Series 1

Episode 14

Special agent Kenneth Horne probes a pirate invasion of the BBC, while Kenneth Williams throws a hissy fit.

How sure are Binkie Huckaback and Dame Celia Molestrangler about their latest movie revival?

And at the Studio Bona, is Mr Horne up to flexing his deltoids for photographers Julian and Sandy?

With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.

Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith

Round the Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.

Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.

Producer: John Simmonds

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1965.

TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b05y0vd9)
From 07/09/1975

Doddy and chums friends set out to celebrate all the good things in life...

Starring Ken Dodd.

With Jo Manning Wilson, Gretchen Franklin, Talfryn Thomas, Chris Emmett and Michael McClain.

Devised and written by Ken Dodd with Dave Dutton, David McKellar, Norman Beadle and Philip.

Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Geoff Alderson.

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in September 1975.

TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b05y0n0z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]

TUE 09:45 Creme de la Crime (b007znpf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]

TUE 10:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007jrwj)
1. Yvette Guilbert

Singer Yvette Guilbert is drawn to a brand new venue in the capital city of France.

Starring Julie Covington.

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Montmartre, Paris in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to paint a series of posters. A performer's career was made if they secured an appearance.

John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec's poster characters to life, in the first of four plays about those entertainers, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Yvette Guilbert ...... Julie Covington
Zidler ...... Norman Jones
Albine Guilbert ...... Pauline Letts
Oller ...... Carlos Douglas
Louise Weber ...... Frances Barber
Maxine ...... Valerie Sarruf
Jean Lorrain ...... John Moffatt
Leon Forneau ...... Simon Treves
Gabrielle ....... Sue Broomfield
Driver ....... Michael Graham Cox
Marie ....... Alice Arnold
Lamplighter ....... John Bull

Music by Stephen Warbeck.

Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1989.

TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00tmmb6)
Susie Maguire - I Got the Dog

Andria's Story

Susie Maguire's trilogy of comic stories about the fallout from a break up. Who gets left with what? Music, water, transportation, arithmetic...possessions, separations...and Love. Rebecca Front reads Andria's story.

Andria fell hook, line and sinker for the enigmatic and brooding Russian pianist, Boris. They met at a street market and the attraction was instant. He posted a little Russian doll through her letterbox with his phone number attached. How could she resist?

She decides to buy a bed. A 'lit bateau'; a boat bed, which she hoped was going to be a metaphor for the fantastic voyage the two of them were about to embark on together.

Sure enough, nine months later, the sound of Boris's piano playing is punctuated by the patter of feet across the parquet floor. Well, they are paws to be precise, belonging to an Italian greyhound that Andria found on the street. They name her Mimi.

Boris's passion for his art, once the very thing that attracted Andria, is becoming a source of friction. That intensity that was once directed to her is now being poured into his music. He's playing piano at 4am in the morning, Andria is angry and Mimi is confused.

After one particularly blazing row, Andria wakes to the realisation that her bed that was once so symbolic of the dreams she held for their future, now resembled the raft of the Medusa. Things can't go on - but what about poor Mimi? Beds, pianos, dogs and shipwrecks as Rebecca Front reads Andria's story.

Producer: Sarah Langan.

TUE 11:15 Nick Darke - Hooked (b0076hky)
A play about the Bass by Nick Darke

A stranger from London comes to Cornwall to seek advice on how to fish for bass, one of the most elusive, beautiful and tasty fish in the Atlantic. Peter and Myrna air their none too complimentary views on a man they call the Fanatic. A drama documentary.

The Fanatic: Mark Bazeley
Peter: Charlie Barnecut
Myrna: Diana Berriman

Produced in Bristol by Jeremy Howe

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003

TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b05y0vd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 13:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 14:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jm9b)
Episode 2

Uncovering the source of his family's fortune, Barnaby Gaitlin hopes for the same angelic intervention. Read by William Hope.

TUE 14:15 The Making of Music (b007s1bt)
Series 1

Weber and German Romanticism

James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.

27/30. Weber and German Romanticism

Carl Maria Von Weber gave audiences what they wanted - storms and disasters, wild beasts and blood. Although German unification was a generation away, by drawing on folk tales, Weber wanted to create a German sensibility.

Read by Simon Russell Beale and Benedict Cumberbatch.

TUE 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmw2)
Episode 17

Valjean confronts Cosette about her love for Marius. Joss Ackland stars in Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism and love.

TUE 14:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00swmt6)
Episode 2

Tracing the game through the revolutionary 18th century, the former prime minister John Major reads from his book about cricket's past.

TUE 15:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007jrwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

TUE 16:00 The Write Stuff (b0076ytb)
Series 9

Henry James

James Walton quizzes the panel in the literary quiz show.

Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh with guests Peter Kemp and Miles Kington.

The Author of the Week and subject for pastiche is Henry James.

Reader: Beth Chalmers.

Producer Katie Marsden

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2006.

TUE 16:30 Electric Ink (b011kvmn)
Series 1

Episode 3

Editor Oliver wants Terry from Tottenham, as 'street boy' Freddy inadvertently breaks a top story in the Treasury.

Old hacks meet new media in Alistair Beaton’s satire set in the changing world of the newspaper industry.

Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
Announcer ...... Matt Addis

With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.

Director: Sally Avens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2009.

TUE 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cl49j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

TUE 17:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b05wy64j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 18:00 James Follett - Rules of Asylum (b007k18v)
Episode 2

Considered a threat to the state because of an unpublished manuscript, political prisoner Jan Valeri has escaped from the Sanatorium. The police have just picked him up...

Starring James Beattie.

James Follett's exploration of dissention and danger in a repressive state in the Eastern Bloc.

Jan Valery …. James Beattie
Suskin …. Vernon Joyner
Secretary/ Librarian …. Betty Huntley-Wright
Guard/Alex/Student …. Neville Jason
Governor …. Manning Wilson
Suskin's Chief …. Brian Haines
Anna …. Caroline John
Zoe/1st Girl …. Rosalyn Slater
Woman in Sanatorium/2nd Girl …. Diana Bishop
Danski …. Cyril Shaps
Nero …. Francis de Wolff
Interrogator …. John Challis
Restaurant Manager …. Godfrey Kenton

The original audio was lost from the BBC archive, so our thanks to James Follett for the donation from his personal collection.

Producer: Margaret Hall

First broadcast as a 90 minute drama on BBC Radio 4 in November 1973.

TUE 18:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4)
Michael Sellers

Peter Sellers' son Michael chats to Sally Magnusson about the ups and downs of growing up with a famous funny father.

Producer: Mike Walker

First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in September 2005.

TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00hzh39)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b05y0vd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

TUE 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

TUE 20:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00tmmb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

TUE 21:15 Nick Darke - Hooked (b0076hky)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

TUE 22:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b05wy64j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b00yz3hs)
Series 3

Kate Adie

Kate Adie has a reputation for fearless BBC reporting from wars zones, riots and natural disasters. But, of all things, she has a mild fear of porridge.

Marcus Brigstocke helps Kate to overcome this fear for the very first time, and has a small taste of the traditional breakfast food.

She tries some other things entirely new to her too - yoga, the TV series The Sopranos, bingo and reading Swallows and Amazons.

Created and produced by Bill Dare.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.

TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05z5qph)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Holly Burn is joined by Sofie Hagen.

TUE 23:00 Rubbish (b00770sz)
Series 1

Chilling

Martin is horrified to hear that certain individuals are doing despicable things to council waste bins.

He makes the mistake of lying in-wait for them with community ranger Matt Jessop.

Reece Dinsdale stars as local government officer, cynic and manic-depressive, Martin Christmas in Tony Bagley's sitcom.

Martin ...... Reece Dinsdale
Matt ...... Robert Wilfort
Sarah ...... Nicola Walker
Andrea ...... Susie Donkin
Barney ...... James Lance
Barry ...... James Lance

Producer: Claire Bartlett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2006.

TUE 23:30 King Cutler (b008s3cc)
King Cutler II

A succulent batch of poems, songs and stories from Phyllis King and Ivor Cutler.

With wood-carver's words from Craig Murray-Orr.

Translation by Dylan Edwards and page-turning by David Lloyd.

Producer: Neil Cargill

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in January 1990.

WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 2015

WED 00:00 James Follett - Rules of Asylum (b007k18v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]

WED 00:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]

WED 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z3b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]

WED 01:30 Stefan Gates's Cover Story (b00qfzbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]

WED 02:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jm9b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]

WED 02:15 The Making of Music (b007s1bt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]

WED 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmw2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]

WED 02:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00swmt6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]

WED 03:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007jrwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:00 The Write Stuff (b0076ytb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]

WED 04:30 Electric Ink (b011kvmn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday]

WED 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cl49j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]

WED 05:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b05wy64j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]

WED 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z6v)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice

The Affair of the Senator's Daughter

A more dangerous case for the Baker Street sleuth and his new apprentice requires deep disguise to rescue a kidnapped child.

Starring James Fox as Holmes, Monica Dolan as Mary Russell and Sian Thomas as Donleavy.

Laurie King's witty and humorous homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - dramatised for radio by Shaun Prendergast.

Directed in Manchester by Melanie Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.

WED 06:30 It's My Story (b0076c70)
Dumbstruck

Cornish playwright, Nick Darke, suffered a serious stroke in 2001. He was paralysed at first down his right side.

But - far worse still for a man whose very life as well as his livelihood depends on being able to express himself through words - he found himself struck virtually dumb. He knew what he wanted to say, but the saying was near impossible. So too writing ... and reading.

Now he is working on his first play since falling ill. In a remarkable audio diary, Nick charts his painful, painstaking and at times hilarious path to the full recovery of his dramatic voice.

Producer Simon Elmes.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.

WED 07:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01j0sfh)
Royal Flush

Frustrated reporter Graham Carpenter lands an unexpected scoop.

John Gradwell's six-part sitcom about life in Butterthwaite's local newspaper office.

Bert Ball …. Jeffrey Holland
Graham Carpenter …. Robert Beck
Brenda Thistlethwaite …. Frances Jeater
Arnold Beasley …. David Ryall
Vicky Cox …. Sue Devaney
Lawrence Stevens …. Dean Williamson

All other parts played by Mark Gatiss, Peter Serafinowicz, Peter Silverleaf and Margaret Stallard.

Producer: Kathy Smith.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1996.

WED 07:30 Clare in the Community (b03ts6jg)
Series 9

Come Dine With Me

Clare has finally managed to find some time for romance.

Meanwhile Brian discovers that a cheap flat comes with some unusual conditions and Nali has an eventful first day in her new job.

Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.

A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.

Clare continually struggles to control both her professional and private life

In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.

Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden.

Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Leonard ...... Richard Lumsden
Howard ...... Richard Lumsden
Simon ...... Andrew Wincott
Libby ...... Sarah Kendall
Joan ...... Sarah Thom
Miss Braithwaite ...... Carolyn Pickles
Mrs Scudimore ...... Carolyn Pickles

Producer: Alexandra Smith.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2014.

WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007tcd9)
Series 3

Sea Trials of the Poppadom

It's hands across the sea - as the crew of HMS Troutbridge help to commission a foreign frigate.

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, Tenniel Evans as the Admiral and Ronnie Barker and Michael Bates as the Potarneylanders.

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976.

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1960.

WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vhx36)
Series 5

Episode 5

Britain through the wars - and singing in the bath.

More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and parodies.

Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.

Written by Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.

Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.

Music and songs by Dave Lee, Leon Cohen and Bill Oddie.

Producer: Humphrey Barclay

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967.

WED 09:00 Counterpoint (b05y3x6s)
1998

Heat 4

Ned Sherrin chairs the music quiz with Rona Topaz from London, Dennis Hodgson from Cumbria and Tim Sedgwick-Jell from Berkshire. From January 1998.

WED 09:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007rhx1)
The End - At Last

Disgraced member of the Hardstaff family, Tony jets to Venezuela, where he discovers the pleasures of tequila.

But can he escape the clutches of his family once and for all?

Nick Revell's epic comedy saga concludes.

Tony ...... Nick Revell
Jane ...... Alison Steadman
Emily ...... Claire Skinner
Obadiah ...... David Swift
Alice ...... Maggie Steed
Mrs Womersley ...... Joanna Brooks
Joanna ...... Natalie Walter
Jeff ...... Peter Gunn
Dave ...... Peter Seranfinowcz
Shrink ...... Chris Pavlo
The Narrator ...... Alistair McGowan

Music composed by Paul Mottram.

Producer: Paul Schlesinger

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1997.

WED 10:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007jrz8)
2. The Boneless Wonder

Only a shadow on a poster - what is Valentin Renaudin in real life?

Starring Stephen Thorne.

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Montmartre, Paris in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to paint a series of posters. A performer's career was made if they secured an appearance.

John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec's poster characters to life, in four plays about those entertainers whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Valentin Renaudin ...... Stephen Thorne
Celine Renaudin ...... Margaretta Scott
Louise Weber ...... Frances Barber
La Mome Fromage ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel
Alice Goujon ...... Anna Cropper
Zidler ...... Norman Jones
Monsieur Goujon ...... Michael Graham Cox
Theo Renaudin ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Georges Tabards ...... David Goudge
Joseph Oller ...... Carlos Douglas
Adele ...... Sue Broomfield
Gerard ...... John Bull
Michel Renaudin ...... Brian Miller
Annie ...... Jo Kendall
Shop Assistant ...... Marcia King
Nini ...... Alice Arnold

Music by Stephen Warbeck.
Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989.

WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00tmmyn)
Susie Maguire - I Got the Dog

Boris's Story

Boris is an artist - a pianist. When he's working on a piece, time becomes meaningless; he will play all through the night and not notice. That enigmatic passion, once the very thing that attracted Andria to him, eventually caused their break up.Boris left, taking his piano and their dog Mimi with him.

Things begin to look up for him when he starts seeing another artist Chiara. Surely she will understand the creative drive? Chiara is a performance artist. When she asks Boris to compose a piece of music for her next 'project', it seems that perhaps they are kindred spirits.

He's also pleased that Chiara is getting along very well with Mimi, until one he's shocked to discover that Mimi has been co-opted into Chiara's performance! Tensions mount further as Boris's obsessive drive to work takes over, and poor Mimi is caught in the cross-fire again. Who'll get the dog this time?

John McGlynn reads Boris's story
Producer: Sarah Langan.

WED 11:15 Nick Darke - Bawcock's Eve (b05y3yj2)
It's a Cornish mid-winter in Mousehole, and Gran has taken in a mysterious stranger. Stars Barbara Jefford and Ben Crowe.

WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007tcd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vhx36)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 13:30 It's My Story (b0076c70)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

WED 14:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jm9t)
Episode 3

Has Barnaby found his very own fabled 'Gaitlin Angel' aboard the train? Read by William Hope.

WED 14:15 The Making of Music (b007s1vj)
Series 1

Virtuosi

James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.

28/30. Virtuosi

In the 1820s and 30s, audiences craved virtuosi performances. Lizst, Paganini and Chopin thrilled on stage - the performer as magician had arrived.

WED 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmwk)
Episode 18

Tragedy stalks the streets and a familiar face is discovered spying on the Revolutionaries. Starring Joss Ackland.

WED 14:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00sx347)
Episode 3

Charting the rise of the institutions that still dominate, former prime minister John Major reads from his book about cricket's past.

WED 15:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007jrz8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

WED 16:00 Counterpoint (b05y3x6s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

WED 16:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007rhx1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

WED 17:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01j0sfh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

WED 17:30 Clare in the Community (b03ts6jg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 18:00 James Follett - Rules of Asylum (b007k1b3)
Episode 3

How did Jan Valery make his latest escape? Will Suskin ever uncover the truth?

Starring James Beattie.

Conclusion of James Follett's political thriller exploring dissention and danger in a repressive state in the Eastern Bloc.

Jan Valery …. James Beattie
Suskin …. Vernon Joyner
Secretary/ Librarian …. Betty Huntley-Wright
Guard/Alex/Student …. Neville Jason
Governor …. Manning Wilson
Suskin's Chief …. Brian Haines
Anna …. Caroline John
Zoe/1st Girl …. Rosalyn Slater
Woman in Sanatorium/2nd Girl …. Diana Bishop
Danski …. Cyril Shaps
Nero …. Francis de Wolff
Interrogator …. John Challis
Restaurant Manager …. Godfrey Kenton

The original audio was lost from the BBC archive, so our thanks to James Follett for the donation from his personal collection.

Producer: Margaret Hall

First broadcast as a 90 minute drama on BBC Radio 4 in November 1973.

WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076mfv)
England, their England

4 Extra Debut. Sukhdev Sandhu, Jude Collins and James Delingpope join Matthew Parris for a debate about what makes a nation. From July 2004.

WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007tcd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vhx36)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

WED 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

WED 20:30 It's My Story (b0076c70)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00tmmyn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

WED 21:15 Nick Darke - Bawcock's Eve (b05y3yj2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

WED 22:00 Clare in the Community (b03ts6jg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

WED 22:30 Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac (b007vl20)
Episode 3

Jersey-born comedian Will Smith continues his obsession with 1980s BBC TV detective series Bergerac.

He's using an audio book of its star, John Nettles, reading the Tao, to navigate the minefield of his life, with the help of a special guest.

Now Will is exploring his bad luck with romance.

With Amelia Bullmore, John Nettles, Dan Tetsell, Olivia Poulet and Tara Blaise.

Written by Will Smith and Roger Drew.

Producer: Tilusha Ghelani

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2007.

WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05z5r3t)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Holly Burn is joined by Sofie Hagen.

WED 23:00 Revolting People (b007jrx3)
Series 1

Even More Storm Clouds

Samuel's crooked brother lures Joshua into fighting the 'Cockney Monster'.

Historical sitcom, set in 1770 Boston, written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.

CAST:

Samuel Oliphant …. Jay Tarses
Sergeant McGurk …. Andy Hamilton
Mary Oliphant …. Sophie Thompson
Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet
Ezekiel Spriggs …. Hugh Dennis
Cora Oliphant …. Felicity Montagu
Joshua Oliphant …. Tony Maudsley
Mrs Arbuthnot …. Susie Blake
Uncle Dan Oliphant …. William Hootkins
Michael Fenton Stevens (Announcer/Various)

Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.

WED 23:30 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years (b007jsmf)
Cold Turkey with Dan and Nick

Fish Gordon has only 48 hours to save the aquarium.

A comedy extravaganza written by and featuring Dan Freedman and Nick Romero

Meet characters including Incy Wincy Quincy, spider pathologist.

Music by the Gents.

Producer: Julian Mayers

Pilot for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 1998

THURSDAY 11 JUNE 2015

THU 00:00 James Follett - Rules of Asylum (b007k1b3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]

THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076mfv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]

THU 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075z6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]

THU 01:30 It's My Story (b0076c70)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]

THU 02:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jm9t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]

THU 02:15 The Making of Music (b007s1vj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]

THU 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmwk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]

THU 02:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00sx347)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]

THU 03:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007jrz8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b05y3x6s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]

THU 04:30 The House of the Spirit Levels (b007rhx1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]

THU 05:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01j0sfh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]

THU 05:30 Clare in the Community (b03ts6jg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]

THU 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zbj)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice

The Segregation of the Queen

Miss Donleavy is ill and somebody is trying to kill both Holmes and Mary.

The question is: which of the Baker Street sleuth's enemies would hate him enough to not only try and kill him, but his friends as well?

Starring James Fox as Holmes, Shaun Prendergast as Watson and Monica Dolan as Mary Russell.

Laurie King's witty and humorous homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - dramatised by Shaun Prendergast.

Directed in Manchester by Melanie Harris.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.

THU 06:30 The Price of a Pint of Milk (b00jhfx6)
Following Derrick Weaver, who has been a milkman in Birmingham for 44 years, as he makes his deliveries around the Harborne area of the city. His day starts at 2.15am when he loads his float at the depot, and he delivers milk until 10.30am. On the way he has been known to be chased by poodles, asked to change old peoples' light bulbs and even find the odd corpse.

THU 07:00 HR (b00hls1b)
Series 1

An Away-Day

Senior manager Peter and his HR officer Sam hate team away-days, but equally fear performing badly and putting their jobs at risk.

But is it a good idea to practise bonding skills while inebriated?

Nigel Williams’ comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.

Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ...... Nicholas Le Prevost

Director: Peter Cavanagh

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009.

THU 07:30 Best Behaviour (b05wyq6l)
Episode 5

Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show that defines the do's and don'ts of modern manners.

The guest panellists are comedians Sarah Kendall, Justin Edwards and Phil Wang, who are all competing to deliver the best new ideas for navigating the minefield of modern manners.

In this edition, the etiquette of new technology comes under comic examination - from emoticons to mobiles in theatres - and there are tips on how to compliment your friend's new tattoo. The panel also tackles a problem from a member of the studio audience: 'How can I tell my co-worker that they have really bad breath?'

Produced by Aled Evans
A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4.

THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b00s3cgj)
Series 1

The Diploma

Harold Steptoe drops a bombshell by quitting the family rag and bone business for a new career as a TV repair man.

Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.

Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962.

The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of 8 series on TV.

Albert …. Wilfrid Brambell
Harold …. Harry H. Corbett

Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.

Producer: Bobby Jaye

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1966.

THU 08:30 Yes Minister (b007k0ww)
Series 2

The Quality of Life

Jim Hacker gets floored by the high rise world of property business.

Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.

Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's satirical sitcom centred around the hapless MP Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.

It first ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984.

Jim Hacker …. Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby …. Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard Woolley …. Derek Fowlds
Sir Desmond …. Richard
Selina Scott …. Herself
Sir Frank …. Jeffrey Wickham
Bill Pritchard …. Antony Carrick
Mrs Philips …. Zulema Dene

Other parts played by:

Helen Atkinson-Wood
Colin Starkey
Mark Straker
Helena Breck
Maggie McCarthy
Robin Summers

Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.

THU 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00vcnbx)
Series 6

Episode 4

David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.

Chris Addison, Susan Calman, Rufus Hound and Armando Iannucci are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Clocks, Funerals, Goldfish and Joseph Stalin.

The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Producer: Jon Naismith
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.

THU 09:30 No Commitments (b007jn7l)
Series 5

Rallying Around

Victoria and Charlotte jump to wrong conclusions, but Anna has plans. Stars Rosemary Leach and Celia Imrie. From August 1998.

THU 10:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007js1q)
3. La Goulue

Dancer Louise's nickname of La Goulue is singularly appropriate - she's a glutton for food and life...

Starring Frances Barber.

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Montmartre, Paris in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to paint a series of posters. A performer's career was made if they secured an appearance.

John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec's poster characters to life, in the first of four plays about those entertainers, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Louise Weber ...... Frances Barber
La Mome Fromage ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel
Zidler ...... Norman Jones
Annie ...... Jo Kendall
Joseph Oller ...... Carlos Douglas
Henri Lassin ...... Michael Graham Cox
Mme Gillottes ...... Margaret Courtenay
Gerard ...... John Bull
Mme Grille ...... Marcia King
Tremolada ...... Donald Gee
Jeanne Faes ...... Maria Miles
Jacques ...... Joe Dunlop
Guy Benoits ...... Michael Kilgarriff
Nini ...... Alice Arnold

Music by Stephen Warbeck.
Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.

THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00tmmyj)
Susie Maguire - I Got the Dog

Chiara's Story

Susie Maguire's trilogy of comic stories about the fallout from a break up. Who gets left with what? Music, water, dogs, arithmetic, possessions... and love. Vicki Pepperdine reads Chiara's story.

Chiara is a performance artist. She does a little bit of dance, singing, theatre and mime.

Boris was her first Russian. Dimitri was her second, although he was more Hampstead than St Petersburg.

All she has left from these relationships is a selection of battle scars. Surely she can salvage something from this? Never one to under-analyse the events in her life, she convinces herself that she can create something from this mess: "Yes," she decides, "I can workshop this." Pretty quickly she's mapped out an entire performance project complete with Rimsky Korsakov, some 'Eugene Onegin-y' type music, with Boris represented by a Nosferatu figure, whilst Andria and Dimitri are played by a pair of coats and hats. With references to film noir, Dali and Eisenstein all chucked into the melting pot for luck.

Will Chiara's creativity bring her salvation? And what happened to the dog?

Vicki Pepperdine reads Chiara's story

Producer: Sarah Langan.

THU 11:15 Lavinia Murray - By the Coast of Coromandel (b0186yvm)
A surreal tale of Edward Lear in search of his creations. Songs by Nina Perry. Stars Derek Jacobi and Floella Benjamin.

THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b00s3cgj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 12:30 Yes Minister (b007k0ww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zbj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 13:30 The Price of a Pint of Milk (b00jhfx6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 14:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jmb8)
Episode 4

As family black sheep Barnaby Gaitlin turns 30, he receives an envelope from his despairing parents. Read by William Hope.

THU 14:15 The Making of Music (b007s267)
Series 1

Grand Opera

James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.

29/30. Grand Opera

In the first half of the 19th Century, Italy consummated its love affair with opera. Donizetti, Rossini and Bellini's new operas were greeted with frenzy on the streets.

Read by Simon Russell Beale.

THU 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmwz)
Episode 19

Marius and the rebels face the cannons while Valjean and Javert face each other. Who will survive? Starring Joss Ackland.

THU 14:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00sxklh)
Episode 4

Recalling one of the game's most enduring figures, WG Grace, the former prime minister John Major reads from his book about cricket's past.

THU 15:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007js1q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

THU 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00vcnbx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

THU 16:30 No Commitments (b007jn7l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

THU 17:00 HR (b00hls1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

THU 17:30 Best Behaviour (b05wyq6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 18:00 Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (b007jpky)
Episode 1

The story behind Total Recall by sci-fi master Philip K Dick. Hidden beneath false memories, a disturbing truth is revealed. Read by William Hootkins.

THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076lkz)
Series 5

Anton Chekhov

4 Extra Debut. Theatre director Sir Richard Eyre nominates Russian writer Anton Chekhov. With Humphrey Carpenter. From May 2004.

THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b00s3cgj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

THU 19:30 Yes Minister (b007k0ww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]

THU 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zbj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

THU 20:30 The Price of a Pint of Milk (b00jhfx6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00tmmyj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

THU 21:15 Lavinia Murray - By the Coast of Coromandel (b0186yvm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

THU 22:00 Best Behaviour (b05wyq6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

THU 22:30 Don't Start (b015zrks)
Series 1

Dream

Kim's bad dream sparks a heated debate that incorporates Elvis on fire, Stoke on Trent car washes and the literary merits of the New Testament.

What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp comedy from Frank Skinner. A masterclass in the great art of arguing. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson.

Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial flashpoint - a text from a friend, a trilby and a bad night's sleep. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references (Androcles and the Lion pop up at one point) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's weaknesses.

Cast:
Neil ..... Frank Skinner
Kim ..... Katherine Parkinson

Producer/Director: Polly Thomas
An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4.

THU 22:45 Warhorses of Letters (b01nccjb)
Series 1

Episode 3

Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of extraordinary letters has been discovered.

"Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've never written a letter like this before...."

Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse, to his hero Marengo in this epistolary equine love story. A story of two horses united by an uncommon passion, cruelly divided by a brutal conflict.

Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of Emperor Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as Copenhagen, the frisky young racehorse who as our story begins is about to be the new mount for the Duke of Wellington. This collection of their moving letters to each other is introduced by Tamsin Greig.

Episode 3 sees our heroes' fortunes fluctuate as the Napoleonic Wars get bloodier and colder making it much harder to send Valentine's cards.

Written by novelists Robert Hudson (The Kilburn Social Club) and Marie Phillips (Gods Behaving Badly - soon to be a feature film starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone).

Directed by Steven Canny
Produced by Gareth Edwards.

THU 23:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b01c7rqd)
Series 4

Episode 3

Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience consider proposals for a People's Manifesto.

The Agenda:
1) Cancel out everyone's debt.
2) Sue Goldman Sachs for their part in the Greek economic collapse.
and
3) Increase the indicated speed on car speedometers.

Plus throughout the show there are "any other business" policy suggestions from the studio audience.

Produced by Colin Anderson.

THU 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b01b5yyr)
Series 1

Adventurers

More historical heroism - as adventurers Henry Morton Stanley, the 1958 Wales World Cup team and Alfred Russell Wallace are put to the Totaliser Test.

Comedian Elis James compares key figures in Welsh history to determine the ultimate heroes of Wales.

With Ben Partridge and Nadia Kamil.

Written by Elis James, Gareth Gwyn and Benjamin Partridge.

Producer: Sharif Shahwan

First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in February 2012

FRIDAY 12 JUNE 2015

FRI 00:00 Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (b007jpky)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]

FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076lkz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]

FRI 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zbj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]

FRI 01:30 The Price of a Pint of Milk (b00jhfx6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]

FRI 02:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jmb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]

FRI 02:15 The Making of Music (b007s267)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]

FRI 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmwz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]

FRI 02:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00sxklh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]

FRI 03:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007js1q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00vcnbx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]

FRI 04:30 No Commitments (b007jn7l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]

FRI 05:00 HR (b00hls1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]

FRI 05:30 Best Behaviour (b05wyq6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]

FRI 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zg4)
The Beekeeper's Apprentice

A Battle Royal

In the aftermath of another bomb - with their lives in grave danger - Holmes and Mary formulate a tactical plan to catch the killer. But can they outwit the devious mind behind the bombs?

Starring James Fox as Holmes, Shaun Prendergast as Watson, Monica Dolan as Mary Russell and Sian Thomas as Donleavy.

Laurie King's witty and humorous homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - dramatised by Shaun Prendergast.

Directed in Manchester by Melanie Harris

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.

FRI 06:30 It's About Time... (b00h62pm)
Comedian and writer Dave Cohen seeks help from experts in trying to achieve a 'work-life balance'. He hardly sees his family - during any 'downtime' he is actually looking for more work. Years of freelancing and the current economic climate make it hard to say no to any offer.

FRI 07:00 Lucky Heather (b0075smn)
High Noon

16 years ago, Heather's best friend Dawn ran off with Heather's man Joe. Now Dawn has the cheek to ask Heather to check if Joe is having an affair!

Just this side of nosey, Heather is western movie-mad. She's also the Sherlock Holmes of the rundown Sutter Estate.

Sue Teddern's six-part comedy series star Lindsey Coulson as Heather. (Carol Jackson in BBC TV's EastEnders until 2015)

With Tessa Peake-Jones as Dawn, Dearbhla Molloy as Maev, Abigail Hart as Natalie, Ben Crowe as Ryan, Gavin Muir as Joe, Gerard McDermott as Lou and David Holt as the Waiter.

Director: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.

FRI 07:30 The Rivals (b03brnrj)
Series 2

The Intangible Clue

By Anna Katharine Green

Dramatised By Chris Harrald.

Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with gifted amateur sleuth Lady Violet Strange trying to solve a horrific murder with apparently no clues.

Producer: Liz Webb.

FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jrp7)
Series 4

Cyrano de Hancock

Chaos looms when Sid confesses he's in love with the lad's secretary, Grizelda.

Starring Tony Hancock, 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 December 1956.

FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rhdwk)
Series 5

Episode 2

Crazy panel show capers with Sue Perkins, Miranda Hart, Peter Serafinowicz, Armando Iannucci and Rob Rouse. From September 2004.

FRI 09:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00p6307)
Honeytrap Hotel

Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.

Beagle Team infringe every civil liberty in the book in the name of national security.

Bill .... Richard Lumsden
Sharla .... Nina Conti
Mark .... Daniel Kaluuya
Tony Savage .... Kevin Eldon
Geoff .... John Biggins
Ted .... Shaban Arifi
Nanny/Milij .... Alex Tregear
Mr Smith .... Nigel Hastings
Mrs Smith .... Kate Layden
Bishop .... Ewan Hooper

Producer: Katie Tyrrell

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009

FRI 10:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007js47)
4. Jane Avril

They called her Crazy Jane because of the way she danced, but it was not an affectionate nickname. Jane Avril used people all her life and reaped the consequences...

Starring Angela Pleasence.

When the Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Montmartre, Paris in 1889, Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned to paint a series of posters. A performer's career was made if they secured an appearance.

John Peacock brings Toulouse Lautrec's poster characters to life, in the first of four plays about those entertainers, whose lives were as vivid as Lautrec's paint.

Jane Avril ...... Angela Pleasence
Gazelle ...... Vivian Pickles
Andre Vaubert ...... Jack Galloway
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ...... Clive Merrison
Arsene Ondet ...... David King
Charles Zidler ...... Norman Jones
Annine ...... Jo Kendall
Chairman ...... John Bull
Alain Marais ...... Brian Miller
Madeleine ...... Anne Carroll
Cleaner ...... Tara Dominic
Matron ...... Anna Cropper
Maxine ...... Valerie Sarruf
Claire Cortin ...... Alice Arnold
Gazelle (at 17) ...... Elizabeth Mansfield

Music by Stephen Warbeck.
Director: Jane Morgan

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1989.

FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b011p60c)
Lido

To Brixton Beach

by Stella Duffy.

Three stories that explore the most evocative experience of summer - outdoor swimming.
A mysterious swimmer spends all day in the pool at Brockwell Lido. Read by Adjoa Andoh.

Stella Duffy is an award winning novelist, short story writer and playwright. In addition to her writing work, Stella is an actor, comedian and improviser. She has performed in Improbable Theatre's highly acclaimed Lifegame throughout Britain, off-Broadway in New York, and in Australia. She has also recorded several plays and the sitcom Losers for BBC Radio 4.

FRI 11:15 Drama (b00wdkfd)
Guy Meredith - Sky High

43'59"
SKY HIGH
The clock is ticking away in this cat and mouse game of twists, turns and subterfuge by Guy Meredith.

It is the early hours of a new day and in a tall office block in London there is a woman working. She thinks she is alone but then she hears the lift doors open ....

Emma...................Claire Harry
Mark.....................Chris Pavlo
Charlie...................Lloyd Thomas

Directed by Tracey Neale

A tall office block. Way below a police siren; passing above a helicopter. Emma hammers with frustration at a computer. Whatever she's trying to do, it isn't working. Suddenly, a noise behind her - a Security Guard. Is everything ok? It's the early hours of a new day, no-one else is in the building. He's made her jump and she's spilt her coffee. All's fine and he leaves her alone once more. A little while later another coffee is spilt as another man bursts in. How did he get in? What does he want? The two are connected and as the tale unfolds we discover why he is there and what is going on. But are things quite what they seem?

As we listen to the action the clock is ticking away in real time. Emma needs to unravel a mystery code in the computer and she hasn't got much time. Will Mark agree to help her or is he more interested in revenge? He used to work there and would like to settle a score or two. Can Emma trust him and will she find the code in time? The tension mounts as the minutes tick by ...

The Writer
Guy Meredith writes for radio, TV and the stage. He has had over 25 plays broadcast on Radio 3 & 4. Including, "The Surprise Symphony", "La Peste" and "Run, Man, Run". He has written all of the "Daunt and Dervish" that have been broadcast on Radio 4. For TV he has written "Ruth Rendell Mysteries", "Heartbeat" and "The Bill".

FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jrp7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zg4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 13:30 It's About Time... (b00h62pm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 14:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jmbr)
Episode 5

Barnaby takes his mother to visit his daughter, while his 'angel' Sofia leaves a message on his machine. Read by William Hope.

FRI 14:15 The Making of Music (b007s42x)
Series 1

Albertopolis

James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical influences that affected the course of classical music.

30/30. Albertopolis

The Royal Albert Hall opened in 1871 and celebrated a Prince Consort who championed both music and culture.

FRI 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jmxc)
Episode 20

With Marius in his arms and barely alive, Valjean struggles to find a way out of the Parisian sewers. Starring Roger Allam.

FRI 14:45 John Major - More Than a Game (b00sy253)
Episode 5

Moving on to the 20th century and the threat of war, the former prime minister reads from his book about cricket's rich past.

FRI 15:00 John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge (b007js47)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]

FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rhdwk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]

FRI 16:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00p6307)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]

FRI 17:00 Lucky Heather (b0075smn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]

FRI 17:30 The Rivals (b03brnrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 18:00 Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale (b007mfgq)
Episode 2

Does a childhood fantasy hold the key to the human race's survival? Philip K Dick's classic tale concluded by William Hootkins.

FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs (b01p97pr)
Series 5

Eleanor McEvoy

Eleanor McEvoy is one of Ireland's most successful and popular singers.

She wrote the song Only A Woman's Heart which was on the album A Woman's Heart which also featured fellow musicians Mary Black, Dolores Keane, Sharon Shannon, Frances Black and Maura O'Connell and was the biggest selling album in Irish musical history.

In the 20 years since the album's release Eleanor has made her mark on the music scene at home in Ireland and abroad.

Born in Dublin she took an interest in music and song from an early age, joined the Junior Irish Youth Orchestra as a young teenager and for four years played with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland before pursuing her career in popular music.

Eleanor tells Phil Cunningham about her love of both pop and classical music and she picks five tracks that have been milestones along her musical journey.

Phil opens the show with the track Only a Woman's Heart and Eleanor goes on to pick these five songs:

Mama Weer All Crazee Now" by Slade

Sylvia's Mother from Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show

Music For a While - Henry Purcell. Sung by countertenor James Bowman.

Memphis Tennesseeby by Chuck Berry

Someone Like You by Adele

Phil closes the programme with Eleanor's song You'll Hear Better Songs (Than This).

FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jrp7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]

FRI 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0075zg4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]

FRI 20:30 It's About Time... (b00h62pm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]

FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b011p60c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]

FRI 21:15 Drama (b00wdkfd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]

FRI 22:00 The Rivals (b03brnrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]

FRI 22:30 Victor Lewis-Smith (b05y41c3)
Episode 6

Economy holidays, unusual phone calls and a very special edition of Crimewatch. The darkly comic world of Victor Lewis-Smith.

Award-winning controversial comedy surfaced on BBC Radio 1 in 1990 in the shape of Victor Lewis-Smith. The writer and producer took a comedy cudgel to the self-satisfied, mid-Atlantic style of the very network he was appearing on - with hoax phone calls, sketches, plus comic takedowns of high profile celebs. It's all deliciously sandwiched between the original jangly Radio 1 jingles made by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas, USA.

Winner of the British Comedy Awards 1990 for Best Radio Comedy.

After making a series of late night programmes for Radio 1, Victor took aim at TV in 1993 with BBC TWO's Inside Victor Lewis Smith, before sparking another stir on Channel 4 in 1998 with TV Offal.

Written by Victor Lewis Smith and Paul Sparks

Produced by Victor Lewis Smith

First heard on BBC Radio 1 in May 1990.

FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05zh0qv)
From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Kieran Hodgson.

FRI 23:00 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (b007zgcb)
Series 2

Episode 6

The comedy ace and chums ponder why some sporty types resemble vegetables. With Mark Watson and Stewart Lee. From July 2006.

FRI 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007qcsw)
Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix

Episode 2

Dave Podmore, the cricketer's cricketer is due to get the call any day now. But will it be from the Test selectors or VAT inspectors?

And Felicity Kendall had better watch out...

Christopher Douglas stars as Pod.

Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds.

Dave ...... Chris Douglas
Andy ...... Andrew Nickolds

Producer: Richard Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.

LIST OF THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMMES
(Note: the times link back to the details; the pids link to the BBC page, including iPlayer)

28 Acts in 28 Minutes 22:30 SAT (b01nv97y)

A Good Read 18:30 MON (b0075qg1)

A Good Read 00:30 TUE (b0075qg1)

Afternoon Reading 11:00 TUE (b00tmmb6)

Afternoon Reading 21:00 TUE (b00tmmb6)

Afternoon Reading 11:00 WED (b00tmmyn)

Afternoon Reading 21:00 WED (b00tmmyn)

Afternoon Reading 11:00 THU (b00tmmyj)

Afternoon Reading 21:00 THU (b00tmmyj)

Afternoon Reading 11:00 FRI (b011p60c)

Afternoon Reading 21:00 FRI (b011p60c)

All the World's a Globe 23:00 SUN (b007jwt1)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 14:00 MON (b007jm8s)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 02:00 TUE (b007jm8s)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 14:00 TUE (b007jm9b)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 02:00 WED (b007jm9b)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 14:00 WED (b007jm9t)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 02:00 THU (b007jm9t)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 14:00 THU (b007jmb8)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 02:00 FRI (b007jmb8)

Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet 14:00 FRI (b007jmbr)

Another String: So Long as Lobsters Swim the Sea 07:15 SUN (b00755kf)

Another String: So Long as Lobsters Swim the Sea 14:15 SUN (b00755kf)

Another String: So Long as Lobsters Swim the Sea 02:15 MON (b00755kf)

Archive on 4 08:00 SAT (b00rl155)

Archive on 4 15:00 SAT (b00rl155)

Archive on 4 03:00 SUN (b00rl155)

Are You From the Bugle? 07:00 WED (b01j0sfh)

Are You From the Bugle? 17:00 WED (b01j0sfh)

Are You From the Bugle? 05:00 THU (b01j0sfh)

Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive 23:00 FRI (b007zgcb)

As Time Goes By 08:30 MON (b007k7k7)

As Time Goes By 12:30 MON (b007k7k7)

As Time Goes By 19:30 MON (b007k7k7)

Barry Humphries: Gladdies All Over 09:00 SAT (b05xwsnj)

Barry Humphries: Gladdies All Over 19:00 SAT (b05xwsnj)

Best Behaviour 07:30 THU (b05wyq6l)

Best Behaviour 17:30 THU (b05wyq6l)

Best Behaviour 22:00 THU (b05wyq6l)

Best Behaviour 05:30 FRI (b05wyq6l)

Between the Ears: Underground 21:15 SUN (b007f6hc)

Book at Bedtime 02:00 SAT (b00t6v3b)

Book of the Week 02:45 SAT (b00t3td1)

Clare in the Community 07:30 WED (b03ts6jg)

Clare in the Community 17:30 WED (b03ts6jg)

Clare in the Community 22:00 WED (b03ts6jg)

Clare in the Community 05:30 THU (b03ts6jg)

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! 07:30 SUN (b018sqp3)

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! 17:30 SUN (b018sqp3)

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! 22:00 SUN (b018sqp3)

Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! 05:30 MON (b018sqp3)

Counterpoint 09:00 WED (b05y3x6s)

Counterpoint 16:00 WED (b05y3x6s)

Counterpoint 04:00 THU (b05y3x6s)

Creme de la Crime 23:45 MON (b007znpf)

Creme de la Crime 09:45 TUE (b007znpf)

Dad Made Me Laugh 18:30 TUE (b007k0n4)

Dad Made Me Laugh 00:30 WED (b007k0n4)

Dad's Army 08:00 MON (b007jmp0)

Dad's Army 12:00 MON (b007jmp0)

Dad's Army 19:00 MON (b007jmp0)

Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years 23:30 WED (b007jsmf)

Daunt and Dervish 14:15 SAT (b007s8d7)

Daunt and Dervish 02:15 SUN (b007s8d7)

Dave Podmore 23:30 FRI (b007qcsw)

David Goodland - Making Up 10:00 MON (b05y0848)

David Goodland - Making Up 15:00 MON (b05y0848)

David Goodland - Making Up 03:00 TUE (b05y0848)

Desert Island Discs Revisited 10:15 SUN (b05xxf98)

Doctor Who 18:00 SAT (b05xx1w5)

Doctor Who 00:00 SUN (b05xx1w5)

Don't Start 22:30 THU (b015zrks)

Drama 11:15 MON (b02m7fzz)

Drama 21:15 MON (b02m7fzz)

Drama 11:15 FRI (b00wdkfd)

Drama 21:15 FRI (b00wdkfd)

Electric Ink 16:30 TUE (b011kvmn)

Electric Ink 04:30 WED (b011kvmn)

Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes 23:30 THU (b01b5yyr)

Fly Me to the Reverend Moon 06:30 MON (b00s08g6)

Fly Me to the Reverend Moon 13:30 MON (b00s08g6)

Fly Me to the Reverend Moon 20:30 MON (b00s08g6)

Fly Me to the Reverend Moon 01:30 TUE (b00s08g6)

Francis Turnly - Lullaby 00:00 SAT (b00d7jh3)

George Bernard Shaw - Candida 16:00 SUN (b007jtk5)

George Bernard Shaw - Candida 04:00 MON (b007jtk5)

Getting Nowhere Fast 09:30 MON (b0080r6y)

Getting Nowhere Fast 16:30 MON (b0080r6y)

Getting Nowhere Fast 04:30 TUE (b0080r6y)

Ghettoside Omnibus 09:00 SUN (b05xxd6j)

Ghettoside Omnibus 20:00 SUN (b05xxd6j)

Great Lives 18:30 THU (b0076lkz)

Great Lives 00:30 FRI (b0076lkz)

HR 07:00 THU (b00hls1b)

HR 17:00 THU (b00hls1b)

HR 05:00 FRI (b00hls1b)

Hancock's Half Hour 08:00 FRI (b007jrp7)

Hancock's Half Hour 12:00 FRI (b007jrp7)

Hancock's Half Hour 19:00 FRI (b007jrp7)

Harry Worth 08:30 SUN (b00rd6p0)

Harry Worth 12:30 SUN (b00rd6p0)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 08:30 WED (b00vhx36)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 12:30 WED (b00vhx36)

I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again 19:30 WED (b00vhx36)

I've Never Seen Star Wars 22:30 TUE (b00yz3hs)

Inheritance Tracks 14:10 SAT (b05xx1nt)

Inheritance Tracks 02:10 SUN (b05xx1nt)

Inheritance Tracks 10:10 SUN (b05xxf96)

Inheritance Tracks 21:10 SUN (b05xxf96)

Innes Own World 23:30 SAT (b0170r0p)

It's About Time... 06:30 FRI (b00h62pm)

It's About Time... 13:30 FRI (b00h62pm)

It's About Time... 20:30 FRI (b00h62pm)

It's My Story 06:30 WED (b0076c70)

It's My Story 13:30 WED (b0076c70)

It's My Story 20:30 WED (b0076c70)

It's My Story 01:30 THU (b0076c70)

James Follett - Rules of Asylum 18:00 MON (b007k17k)

James Follett - Rules of Asylum 00:00 TUE (b007k17k)

James Follett - Rules of Asylum 18:00 TUE (b007k18v)

James Follett - Rules of Asylum 00:00 WED (b007k18v)

James Follett - Rules of Asylum 18:00 WED (b007k1b3)

James Follett - Rules of Asylum 00:00 THU (b007k1b3)

John Major - More Than a Game 14:45 MON (b00swkvj)

John Major - More Than a Game 02:45 TUE (b00swkvj)

John Major - More Than a Game 14:45 TUE (b00swmt6)

John Major - More Than a Game 02:45 WED (b00swmt6)

John Major - More Than a Game 14:45 WED (b00sx347)

John Major - More Than a Game 02:45 THU (b00sx347)

John Major - More Than a Game 14:45 THU (b00sxklh)

John Major - More Than a Game 02:45 FRI (b00sxklh)

John Major - More Than a Game 14:45 FRI (b00sy253)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 10:00 TUE (b007jrwj)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 15:00 TUE (b007jrwj)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 03:00 WED (b007jrwj)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 10:00 WED (b007jrz8)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 15:00 WED (b007jrz8)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 03:00 THU (b007jrz8)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 10:00 THU (b007js1q)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 15:00 THU (b007js1q)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 03:00 FRI (b007js1q)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 10:00 FRI (b007js47)

John Peacock - Posters of the Moulin Rouge 15:00 FRI (b007js47)

Jon Ronson On 23:30 SUN (b010mrsk)

Just a Minute 07:30 MON (b05wxx6n)

Just a Minute 17:30 MON (b05wxx6n)

Just a Minute 22:00 MON (b05wxx6n)

Just a Minute 05:30 TUE (b05wxx6n)

Kerry's List 22:30 MON (b01s46vd)

King Cutler 23:30 TUE (b008s3cc)

Lavinia Murray - By the Coast of Coromandel 11:15 THU (b0186yvm)

Lavinia Murray - By the Coast of Coromandel 21:15 THU (b0186yvm)

Like They've Never Been Gone 07:00 TUE (b00cl49j)

Like They've Never Been Gone 17:00 TUE (b00cl49j)

Like They've Never Been Gone 05:00 WED (b00cl49j)

Lucky Heather 05:00 SAT (b0075sg8)

Lucky Heather 07:00 FRI (b0075smn)

Lucky Heather 17:00 FRI (b0075smn)

Mark Steel's in Town 07:30 TUE (b05wy64j)

Mark Steel's in Town 17:30 TUE (b05wy64j)

Mark Steel's in Town 22:00 TUE (b05wy64j)

Mark Steel's in Town 05:30 WED (b05wy64j)

Mark Thomas: The Manifesto 23:00 THU (b01c7rqd)

Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better 22:00 SAT (b00kfx3c)

Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester 07:30 SAT (b01k2gxl)

Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester 17:30 SAT (b01k2gxl)

Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester 05:30 SUN (b01k2gxl)

Michael Butt - Chronicles of Ait 13:00 SAT (b05xx1c9)

Michael Butt - Chronicles of Ait 01:00 SUN (b05xx1c9)

Midsummer Tales 11:00 MON (b01kjjng)

Midsummer Tales 21:00 MON (b01kjjng)

My Life in Five Songs 00:30 SAT (b01p6vbz)

My Life in Five Songs 18:30 FRI (b01p97pr)

Nick Darke - Bawcock's Eve 11:15 WED (b05y3yj2)

Nick Darke - Bawcock's Eve 21:15 WED (b05y3yj2)

Nick Darke - Hooked 11:15 TUE (b0076hky)

Nick Darke - Hooked 21:15 TUE (b0076hky)

No Commitments 09:30 THU (b007jn7l)

No Commitments 16:30 THU (b007jn7l)

No Commitments 04:30 FRI (b007jn7l)

Off the Page 18:30 WED (b0076mfv)

Off the Page 00:30 THU (b0076mfv)

On Baby Street 04:30 SAT (b00f6vv7)

Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man (Omnibus) 14:30 SUN (b05xxj2y)

Owen Sheers - I Saw a Man (Omnibus) 02:30 MON (b05xxj2y)

Peter Tinniswood 03:00 SAT (b05xgv09)

Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale 18:00 THU (b007jpky)

Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale 00:00 FRI (b007jpky)

Philip K Dick - We Can Remember It for You Wholesale 18:00 FRI (b007mfgq)

Quote... Unquote 09:00 MON (b00stq0l)

Quote... Unquote 16:00 MON (b00stq0l)

Quote... Unquote 04:00 TUE (b00stq0l)

Ray's a Laugh 08:00 SUN (b007jrtp)

Ray's a Laugh 12:00 SUN (b007jrtp)

Revolting People 23:00 WED (b007jrx3)

Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black 06:00 SAT (b007jwvg)

Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black 16:00 SAT (b007jwvg)

Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black 04:00 SUN (b007jwvg)

Round the Horne 12:30 SAT (b00j05x7)

Round the Horne 08:00 TUE (b00hzh39)

Round the Horne 12:00 TUE (b00hzh39)

Round the Horne 19:00 TUE (b00hzh39)

Rubbish 23:00 TUE (b00770sz)

Saturday Drama 18:00 SUN (b00zhc3t)

Saturday Drama 00:00 MON (b00zhc3t)

Sherlock Holmes 06:00 TUE (b0075z3b)

Sherlock Holmes 13:00 TUE (b0075z3b)

Sherlock Holmes 20:00 TUE (b0075z3b)

Sherlock Holmes 01:00 WED (b0075z3b)

Sherlock Holmes 06:00 WED (b0075z6v)

Sherlock Holmes 13:00 WED (b0075z6v)

Sherlock Holmes 20:00 WED (b0075z6v)

Sherlock Holmes 01:00 THU (b0075z6v)

Sherlock Holmes 06:00 THU (b0075zbj)

Sherlock Holmes 13:00 THU (b0075zbj)

Sherlock Holmes 20:00 THU (b0075zbj)

Sherlock Holmes 01:00 FRI (b0075zbj)

Sherlock Holmes 06:00 FRI (b0075zg4)

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Sneakiepeeks 09:30 FRI (b00p6307)

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Stefan Gates's Cover Story 06:30 TUE (b00qfzbw)

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Steptoe and Son 08:00 THU (b00s3cgj)

Steptoe and Son 12:00 THU (b00s3cgj)

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The 99p Challenge 04:00 SAT (b01rcg42)

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The 99p Challenge 16:00 FRI (b01rhdwk)

The Arthur Askey Variety Show 11:00 SUN (b00br30g)

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The Comedy Club Interviews 22:55 SUN (b05z5pt6)

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The Great Western Adventure 15:45 SUN (b0076xq3)

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The House of the Spirit Levels 09:30 WED (b007rhx1)

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The Ken Dodd Show 12:00 SAT (b05x8q7d)

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The Lee Mack Show 23:00 SAT (b00bt53m)

The Making of Music 02:15 SAT (b007rhvz)

The Making of Music 14:15 MON (b007s0k2)

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The Making of Music 14:15 TUE (b007s1bt)

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The Making of Music 14:15 THU (b007s267)

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The Making of Music 14:15 FRI (b007s42x)

The Navy Lark 08:00 WED (b007tcd9)

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The News Quiz Extra 23:00 MON (b05y0n0z)

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The Other Man 07:00 MON (b0076xjm)

The Other Man 17:00 MON (b0076xjm)

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The Price of a Pint of Milk 06:30 THU (b00jhfx6)

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The Rivals 05:30 SAT (b03bdw8c)

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The Rivals 22:00 FRI (b03brnrj)

The Unbelievable Truth 09:00 THU (b00vcnbx)

The Unbelievable Truth 16:00 THU (b00vcnbx)

The Unbelievable Truth 04:00 FRI (b00vcnbx)

The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc 01:30 SAT (b00sgbcr)

The Write Stuff 16:00 TUE (b0076ytb)

The Write Stuff 04:00 WED (b0076ytb)

This Is Craig Brown 23:15 SUN (b00fd63s)

VI Warshawski 01:00 SAT (b007jzsg)

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Very Old Pretenders 22:30 SUN (b0151t4j)

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus 06:00 SUN (b007jtsc)

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Victor Lewis-Smith 22:30 FRI (b05y41c3)

Warhorses of Letters 22:45 THU (b01nccjb)

Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac 22:30 WED (b007vl20)

Yes Minister 08:30 THU (b007k0ww)

Yes Minister 12:30 THU (b007k0ww)

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