SATURDAY 12 JANUARY 2008

SAT 00:00 Ghost Zone (b007jx3q)
Episode 5
As the army closes in on the Highland village of Inchbrae, can the alien presence be defeated?
Conclusion of the sci-fi thriller specially-written for the BBC by Marty Ross.
Stars Simon Tait as Dan Collins, Gayanne Potter as Jill Logan, Joanna Tope as Dr Beth Granger, Sandy Neilson as Captain Cairns, Lesley Hart as Heather Logan, Stevie Hannan as Soldier/Pilot/Jamie and John Paul Hurley as the Technician.
Producer: Bruce Young
Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2004.
SAT 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007jmk0)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 1
Ankh-Morpork, the elucidated brethren of Ebon Night have turned their hands to magic.
When Zebbo Mooty is mysteriously vaporised in an alley, Captain Vimes of the watch, knows it's time to act.
Can a stolen library book lead to the reinvention of dragons?
Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis.
First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
The Landlord …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall
Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself
Dramatised in six parts by Michael Butt.
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in November 1992.
SAT 01:00 Trueman and Riley (b00j272j)
Series 1
4. Speed
Detective Riley is feeling angry for being sent on a 'speed awareness' workshop.
But that puts him on the trail of ex-con from the old days in Hull - womanising rip-off merchant Frank Butters...
Brian B Thompson's detective series about the ill-matched duo is set in Leeds.
CAST:
D.I. Trueman …. Robert Daws
D.S. Riley …. Duncan Preston
Frank Butters …. Sam Dale
Melanie …. Christine Kavanagh
Eric Simonelli …. John Dougal
Inez …. Miranda Keeling
Svetlana …. Jasmine Callan
The duo began life on BBC Radio 4 in 2002, with Detective Inspector Trueman called back to work after a nervous breakdown in order to solve a high profile murder case, backed up by Detective Superintendent Riley. This was followed by three new plays in 2005.
Director: Toby Swift
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007.
SAT 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr3f)
Episode 4
Back in England after battling to escape - the Englishman soon realises that even in London, he's still not safe from his hostile pursuers.
Geoffrey Household's classic British thriller was first published shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939.
Read by Michael Jayston.
Producer: David Jackson Young.
Made for BBC 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in January 2004.
SAT 02:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (b007jvxl)
Episode 10
1815, the Battle of Waterloo. As George and Rawdon fight, Becky and Amelia wait for news. Narrated by Stephen Fry.
SAT 02:15 Dave Sheasby - The Amazing Ratman Story (b007mb5v)
An old man has a tale to tell about a piper, a mare and a town plagued with rats.
But no one wants to listen, unless his story makes good TV...
Dave Sheasby's drama stars Bernard Cribbins as Jack, Geraldine Fitzgerald as Kate, Colin Salmon as Gruchen, Giles Fagan as Dave and Andrew Wincott as Nurse Downs.
Music composed and performed by Keith Waite.
Director: Pam Fraser Solomon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
SAT 03:00 Nigel and Earl Sort Out the World (b007jx2d)
Episode 2
The surreal duo try solving the globe's topical problems. Stars Andrew Livingstone and Fine Time Fontayne. From July 1992.
SAT 03:30 Little Britain (b008m9f5)
Series 2
Episode 1
Back where it started out. Matt Lucas and David Walliams' oddball TV smash hit, without the cameras. From February 2002.
SAT 04:00 Genius (b008m9f6)
Series 1
Stewart Lee
From a self-cleaning fish tank with a twist to a CD player-cum-microwave oven?
Dave Gorman asks comedian Stewart Lee to select the public's best loopy idea.
The first of three radio comedy series where award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005.
SAT 04:30 The Penny Dreadfuls (b00gpbcj)
The Brothers Faversham
Horatius Faversham
The tale of Victorian Britain's most decorated soldier - Horatius Faversham.
The comedy sketch trio present swashbuckling tales of four brothers born into the same privileged aristocratic family - Horatius, Theseus, Leonidas and Augustus,
Written by and starring Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck.
Alexandra Faversham ... Ingrid Oliver
Narrator... Miles Jupp.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in January 2008.
SAT 05:00 Not Talking (b008m8hl)
A Mike Bartlett drama about two interleaved stories of men's experiences of the army, and how their lives are linked.
SAT 06:00 To the Manor Born (b007k4dj)
What's in a Name?
Hard-up Audrey needs a secret job - but what on earth is she qualified to do?
Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron.
Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage with her butler in tow.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere.
Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, finally arrived home in 1997.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1997.
SAT 06:30 Second Thoughts (b007jvh3)
Series 1
Found and Lost
Bill and Faith are late in love but new to each other - and Bill has already got himself into Faith's bad books...
Starring Lynda Bellingham as Faith and James Bolam as Bill.
Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe.
Series one of four inspired by the real lives of husband and wife writers, Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran for four series, with a spin-off series Faith in the Future.
Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham
Bill ...... James Bolam
Hilary ...... Celia Imrie
Liza ...... Belinda Lang
Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes
Joe ...... Mark Denham
Grace ...... Moir Leslie
Alex ...... John Samson
Ray ...... Nicholas Courtney
Ted ...... Norman Bird
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988.
SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00fgt2c)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
SAT 08:00 Westway (b00fgt2f)
Another chance to hear the omnibus episodes of the BBC World Service drama serial set in and around a busy medical practice in West London.
SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller (b007jq4z)
Justin Moorhouse
Justin Moorhouse, Young Kenny from Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, follows in a fine tradition of Northern comics. In addition to comedian, he's also an actor and writer, and according to his official website "vegetarian, dog owner, father of two and I like Batman quite a bit".
He's written and starred in his own BBC Radio 4 sitcom - Everyone Quite Likes Justin - and has performed in plays at Manchester's Royal Exchange.
Justin has been on Celebrity Mastermind, where his chosen subject was Les Dawson. He's popped up on BBC Radio 5 Live's '7 Day Sunday' and 'Fighting Talk'. He's also been a regular presence on Manchester's Key 103.
Taking control of our comedy for 3 hours, Justin talks about his upbringing, comedy influences and the day Judith Chalmers didn't put him on Wish You Were Here.
His choices are: Knowing Me Knowing You (22.12.92), Ken Dodd's Palace of Laughter (3.9.87), On The Town With The League of Gentlemen (6.11.97), Ross Noble Goes Global - South Africa (18.4.02), Radio Shuttleworth (with Vanessa Feltz) (24.11.98) and Listen to Les (18.3.95).
SAT 12:00 Inspector Morse (b007k4jl)
Last Seen Wearing
Inspector Morse is reluctant to take over an old missing person case from a dead colleague, but murder is Morse's speciality and the case soon has complications.
Stars John Shrapnel as Morse and Robert Glenister as Lewis
First published in 1976, Colin Dexter's second Morse crime novel dramatised by Guy Meredith.
Inspector Morse ...... John Shrapnel
Sergeant Lewis ...... Robert Glenister
Donald Philipson ...... Miles Anderson
Sheila Philipson ...... Melinda Walker
Gwen Taylor ...... Frances Jeater
George Taylor ...... Donald Sumpter
Valerie Taylor ...... Tamsin Greig
Reginald Baines ...... Terence Edmond
Chief Supt. Strange ...... John Hartley
Mrs Ainley ...... Auriol Smith
John McGuire ..... Paul Panting
Sergeant Dickson ..... Lyndam Gregory
David Acum ...... David Jarvis
Joe ...... James Taylor
Versatile Vera ...... Emily Woof
Police Surgeon ...... Don McCorkindale
Sergeant Onslow ...... Michael Onslow
Radio 3 announcer ...... Catriona Young
Theme music by Wilfredo Acosta.
Director: Ned Chaillet
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1994.
SAT 13:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jphs)
A Problem Shared
The blundering bureaucrats get in a jam over traffic - and an agony aunt...
Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler.
With Norma Ronald and Ronald Baddiley.
Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.
'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in July 1976.
SAT 14:00 12/01/2008 (b00fgtvr)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008p4x5)
It's June in Ohio
Garrison and the team consider the nature of waterfalls, the Power of Prophecy and host a Vocal Quartet Fest.
SAT 18:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble (b007jwnl)
Episode 1
With music banned by the government of a totalitarian Britain, a battle ensues between good and evil. Stars Clare Corbett.
SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jmv9)
Series 2
Snipe 3909
The telephone can be a vital lifeline in our lives. A lifeline, however, that can become horribly tangled.
The Man in Black reveals how a phone instils growing fear in house seller Mary Luckham.
Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers.
Written by Graeme Fife
The Man in Black …. Edward de Souza
Mary …. Hannah Gordon
Hampton …. Peter Tuddenham
Rachel …. Caroline John
Craig …. Gregory de Polnay
Simon …. Michael Deacon
James Elwin …. Peter Sowerbutts
P C Martin …. Peter Craze
Police sergeant …. Joe Dunlop
Bloggs …. Dominic Rickhards
P.C. …. Christopher Scott
Director: Gerry Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1989.
SAT 19:00 Westway (b00fgt2f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 20:00 Comedy Controller (b007jq4z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008p4x5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today]