SATURDAY 19 JANUARY 2008

SAT 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007nfs5)
625Y
2. Elixir of Life
Scientist Kate Brown's attempt to bring her dramatic new gene discovery into the public domain doesn't go to plan...
Conclusion of Wally K Daly intriguing sci-fi drama.
Kate Brown …. Amanda Root
Professor Slingsby …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Joe Barnard …. Jon Strickland
Reporter …. Elizabeth Conboy
Prime Minister …. Chris Tranchell
Minister of Defence …. Ian Masters
Major Peters …. Brett Usher
Danny Flowers …. Stuart Milligan
Lab Technician …. Harry Myers
Minister of Health …. Sandra Clark
Director: Gordon House.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.
SAT 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p506)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 6
"Last Desperate Chances always work. Besides, I'll be using my lucky arrow..."
All Captain Vimes needs to save the city is a million-to-one chance.
First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld. Conclusion of six parts dramatized by Michael Butt.
CAST:
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
First Guard …. Jeff Nuttall
Joint First Guard …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992.
SAT 01:00 Dick Francis (b007mcnx)
Proof
3. The Boss
The fraud plot thickens, as Tony Beach meets the boss of whisky hauliers Charter Carriers. Stars Nigel Havers.
Nigel Havers stars as Tony Beach.
Dick Francis's thriller dramatised by Ernest Dudley
Tony Beach …. Nigel Havers
Gerard …. George Parsons
Flora …. Jennifer Piercey
Sgt. Ridger …. Stephen Hattersley
P.C. Horton …. James Goode
Charter …. Chas Bryer
Director: Matthew Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1987.
SAT 01:30 Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household (b007jr61)
Episode 9
The English fugitive is on the run - with another would-be assassin lurking dangerously near his den.
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 2004.
SAT 02:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair (b007jvyc)
Episode 15
Becky is delighted to be presented at court, but Rawdon is not happy. With Stephen Fry, Emma Fielding and Stephen Wyatt.
SAT 02:15 Paul Farley - The English Civil War (b007lz4p)
A Cavalier walks into an out of town supermarket and holds the customers to ransom. Is he a genuine time traveller or an ecological warrior with a unique campaign style?
Paul Farley's drama stars Robert Bathurst as the Cavalier, Petra Letang as Delphinium, Becky Hindley as the Manager, Tom George as Student/Negotiator, Ben Crowe as the Security Guard and Margaret Cabourn-Smith as the Second Customer
Producer: Rob Ketteridge
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
SAT 03:00 Nigel and Earl Sort Out the World (b007jx3b)
Episode 3
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 (b008p522)
Series 2
Episode 2
Back where it started out. Matt Lucas and David Walliams' oddball TV smash hit without the cameras. From February 2002.
SAT 04:00 The Nimmo Twins in... (b00jgzfs)
Series 1
Stiff Up a Lip
The tale of Victorian social climber Edwin and his awful secret. Stars Kath Burlinson and Owen Evans. From August 2000.
SAT 04:30 The Penny Dreadfuls (b00gpbcl)
The Brothers Faversham
Theseus Faversham
The story of Victorian Britain's most respected detective - Theseus 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 Wilkie Collins - No Name (b007jrhz)
March 1846
A mysterious letter from New Orleans arrives to disturb the untroubled existence of Combe Raven House in West Somersetshire.
What is the secret being kept by Mr and Mrs Vanstone from their devoted daughters, Magdalen and Norah?
Published in 1862, Wilkie Collins novel dramatised in six parts by Ray Jenkins.
Magdalen Vanstone ...... Sophie Thompson
Captain Wragge ...... Jack May
Norah Vanstone ...... Elizabeth Mansfield
Miss Garth ...... Kathleen Helme
Mrs Vanstone ...... Jo Kendall
Mr Vanstone ...... Michael Graham Cox
Mr Clare ...... Peter Woodthorpe
Frank Clare ...... Paul Downing
Manager ...... Christopher Good
Miss Marable ...... Susan Sheridan
Mrs Marable ...... Joanna Mackie
Mr Pendril ...... John Moffatt
Narrator ...... Philip Sully
Music by Peter Brewis and played by Maurice Cambridge.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1989.
SAT 06:00 To the Manor Born (b007k4mq)
Vive Le Sport
When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being taken for a ride.
Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Dr Horton
Melanie Hudson ..... Receptionist
The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997.
SAT 06:30 Second Thoughts (b008p4zq)
Series 1
Match of the Day
Jealous Faith is swamped with advice over how best to deal with Bill and his ex-wife Liza
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
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988.
SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00fjdhb)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
SAT 08:00 Westway Omnibus (b00fjdhd)
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 (b007jpjt)
Boothby Graffoe
Boothby Graffoe is a stand-up comedian with a talent and a penchant for cerebral funny songs. In this special alone he composes an impromptu ditty about being Comedy Controller.
He also has a long and treasured history with BBC Radio 4 Comedy - The Big Booth begat In No Particular order -as well as a notable collaboration with Omid Djalili for TV. Boothby's worked with Art Malik, Steve Frost, Jason Isaacs, Pauline McLynn, Glenn Tilbrook, Kevin Eldon, Dean Friedman and Robyn Hitchcock.
He's also a playwright with three productions to his name and has appeared in The Bill and Casualty.
Named after a Lincolnshire market town, the comedian makes his selection of BBC radio comedy: The Goon Show - The Evils of Bushey Spon (17/03/1958); Round the Horne Ser.1 ep11 (16/05/1965); Steptoe and Son - Two's Company (28/03/1971); The Burkiss Way (26/12/1979); The Big Booth (29/01/2000); Hancock's Half Hour - The Conjuror (22/02/1956).
SAT 12:00 Inspector Morse (b007k4rk)
The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn
Inspector Morse faces a puzzling trip into the world of the hearing impaired - with a murder investigation into the death of an invigilator in an Oxford exam syndicate...
Colin Dexter's thriller adapted by Guy Meredith.
Starring John Shrapnel as Inspector Morse, Robert Glenister as Sgt. Lewis, Richard Pasco as Dr Bartlett, Meg Davies as Monica Height, Stephen Critchlow as Donald Martin, David Timson as Phillip Ogleby, John Hartley as Chief Supt. Strange, Lyndham Gregory as Sgt. Dickson, Roger May as Nicholas Quinn, Alix Refaie as the Sheik, Denys Hawthorne as the Pathologist,Jane Whittenshaw as Mrs Evans, Patience Tomlinson as Elsie, Tracy Wiles as the Waitress, Zulema Dene as Mrs Bartlett, David Holt as Noakes, Ahmed Mustapha as the Arab voice, Alice Arnold as Ms Inga Nielssen, Caroline Strong as the Supermarket Manager and Geoffrey Whitehead.
Producer: Ned Chaillet
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996.
SAT 13:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007jplx)
The Whitehall Castaways
When the bungling bureaucrats tackle London's parks, they soon get in a flap.
Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler.
With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham.
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 19/01/2008 (b00fjdhg)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008qprt)
The American funny man presents comedy and music from Purdue University in Indiana, featuring The Purdue Varsity Glee Club.
SAT 18:00 Martin Kiszko - Scramble (b007jwp8)
Episode 2
In a Britain where music is banned, Mel discovers some uncomfortable truths about herself and her past. Stars Clare Corbett.
SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jmy3)
Series 2
The Dead Drummer
It's a stormy night on Salisbury Plain, but it's not the wind and rain that terrifies, but the sound of a distant drum.
The Man in Black reveals the terror of two Napoleonic sailors who lose their way...
Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers.
Written by David Buck
The Man in Black …. Edward de Souza
The Landlord …. Glyn Houston
Undertaker …. David Buck
Matthew …. Ray Smith
Billy Boy …. Christian Rodska
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1989.
SAT 19:00 Westway Omnibus (b00fjdhd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 20:00 Comedy Controller (b007jpjt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008qprt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today]