SATURDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2008

SAT 00:00 Tanith Lee - Red as Blood (b007jq65)
In a dark Snow White fantasy, the Queen sets out to rescue her stepdaughter from her sinister heritage. Read by Stella Gonet.
SAT 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007k4nz)
Episode 5
Becoming obsessed with his alternative life, Dick is in no state to deal with Vita and her sons. Read by Julian Wadham.
SAT 01:00 Adam Dalgliesh - Cover Her Face (b008yv5r)
4. The Gathering
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh summons the entire household to hear his conclusions about the killer of Sally Jupp.
Robin Ellis stars as Dalgliesh with Sian Phillips and Hugh Grant.
The climax of PD James's debut crime novel about her gentleman detective.
Inspector Adam Dalgliesh …. Robin Ellis
Mrs Maxie …. Sian Phillips
Felix Hearne …. Hugh Grant
Deborah Riscoe …. Beatie Edney
Stephen Maxie …. David Thorpe
Catherine Bowers …. Oona Beeson
Mrs Proctor …. Jillie Meers
Victor Proctor …. John Baddeley
Sgt Martin …. Steve Hodson
James Ritchie …. James Telfer
Johnny Wilcox …. Susan Sheridan
Martha …. Jill Graham
Sally Jupp …. Melanie Hudson
Dramatised by Neville Teller.
Producer: Matthew Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993.
SAT 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4ql)
Wasted Years
Episode 5
A series of armed robberies bears resemblance to a spate of similar crimes DI Resnick investigated ten years ago.
SAT 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008yvfb)
Reaction and Reform
Fred is unexpectedly employed, and there's bad news for the Lydgates. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman-Hill.
SAT 02:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast (b007jqxk)
1940s London: Two women uncover a devastating secret that changes their friendship for ever.
Elsie Haworth and Kathleen James are old school friends, working on the rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge. Elsie is heavily pregnant, but won't reveal the father's name to anyone.
A police inspector begins to follow the two women, asking probing questions about the mysterious father. The plot thickens and then thickens again...
Caroline Gawn's thriller stars Jo Joyner as Elsie, Christine Brennan as Kathleen, Mark Chatterton as the Police Inspector, Martin Reeve as Mr Jackson and Ken Bradshaw as Gerhard.
Director: Polly Thomas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
SAT 03:00 Saturday Night Fry (b008yv5q)
Episode 2
Stephen Fry's surreal, erudite sketch show with humorous banter and sketches.
With Emma Thompson, Jim Broadbent and Robert Bathurst.
Written by Stephen Fry with additional material by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.
Producer: Dan Patterson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988.
SAT 03:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jv2l)
Series 1
Episode 2
Indian students on a gap year enjoy bustling England's smells at the airport, the Indian Neighbours are cooking a roast and Skipinder the Punjabi Kangaroo hops in.
Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Nitin Sawhney, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001.
Scripted by Sharat Sardana, Richard Pinto and the cast.
Produced by Gareth Edwards and Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.
SAT 04:00 The Nimmo Twins in... (b00jh6jt)
Series 1
Exit, Pursued by a Bear
A provincial theatre company comes a cropper at the hands of a mad playwright. Stars Karl Minns. From September 2000.
SAT 04:30 Colin and Fergus's Digi Radio (b007k156)
Series 2
Episode 2
The comedy duo tackle an evil fish. More sketches and crazy characters. Stars Colin Hoult and Fergus Craig. From January 2007.
SAT 05:00 War and Peace (b007jly4)
Country Pleasures
With Russia and France's uneasy peace, all is not well in the Rostov family. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Leo McKern.
SAT 06:00 To the Manor Born (b007n1wj)
An Englishman's Home
When Devere installs new security cameras, Audrey declares war.
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
PC Dottle ...... Kevin Eldon
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 descendent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Written for radio by Peter Spence.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997.
SAT 06:30 Second Thoughts (b007jx1p)
Series 1
Nursing a Conscience
Faith nurses poorly Bill, but he's in for a nasty surprise...
Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe.
Staring Lynda Bellingham and James Bolam.
Series one of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, husband and wife 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 'Faith in the Future'.
Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham
Bill ...... James Bolam
Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes
Joe ...... Mark Denham
Liza ...... ,Belinda Lang
Alex ...... John Samson
Treadwell ...... Richard Tate
Richard ...... John Moffatt
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1988.
SAT 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008z9gn)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
SAT 08:00 Westway Omnibus (b008z9gp)
The BBC World Service drama serial set in and around a busy medical practice in West London.
SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007k0v0)
The 1950s
Episode 2
Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC.
Six more favourite shows plucked from the 1950s schedules of the BBC Home Service and BBC Light Programme:
* Much Binding in the Marsh:
From 28/8/1953
The Weekly Bind brings you Mr Mulch's gardening and Patience Gush's poetry. Stars Kenneth Horne, Richard Murdoch, Maurice Denham, Dora Bryan and Sam Costa. From August 1953.
* Variety Bandbox:
From 22/01/1950
Comedy and songs with Frankie Howerd, Billy Ternent, Jerry Allen, Barbara Leigh, Peter Sellers, Bill Kerr and Philip Slessor. From January 1950.
* Just Fancy:
From 08/03/51
A grumpy neighbour and a helicopter ride. Gentle sketch show starring Eric Barker and his wife Pearl Hackney. From March 1951.
* Educating Archie:
From 01/03/1959
Brough makes a bet that he and Archie Andrews can travel round the British Isles in eight days. Radio ventriloquism with Dick Emery, Bernard Bresslaw and Warren Mitchell. From March 1959.
* Meet The Huggetts:
Loser Pays
Joe and Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson backfires. Stars Jack Warner, Kathleen Harrison and Kenneth Connor. From September 1957.
* Hancock's Half Hour:
Series 5 (7/20) Hancock's School
Inspired by Bill and supplied by Sid, the lad turns his home into a centre of learning. Stars Tony Hancock. With Sid James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams. From March 1958.
Produced and scripted by Peter Reed
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2003.
SAT 12:00 Miss Marple (b007jvfn)
A Pocket Full of Rye
With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a wealthy financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the strangest cases of her life.
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. With Nicky Henson as Inspector Neele, Kristin Miward as Miss Dove, Claira Mackie as Gladys, Joshua Towb as Sergeant Hay, Derek Waring as Rex Fortescue, Peter Yapp as Percival Fortescue, Natasha Pyne as Jennifer Fortescue,
From the book first published in 1953 and dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
SAT 13:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007k13p)
Seal of Office
The blundering civil servants are tasked with organising a military display in London, but there's a terrible mix-up...
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 August 1976.
SAT 14:00 16/02/2008 (b008z9r5)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008z9rx)
The American funny man presents comedy and music from Grand Forks, North Dakota, with the Grammy winning Del McCoury Band.
SAT 18:00 Space Hacks (b007k2bd)
Space Hacks
The Last Postman
Charlie and Moog are discovered. But surely the postman can be trusted? With Dan Mersh and Prunella Scales. From February 2007.
SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn9t)
Series 2
The Horn
Three strangers are trapped in a snowstorm on a remote stretch of motorway.
They find themselves listening for the sound of a horn which they believe will lead them to safety.
They are very much mistaken...
The Man in Black sets the chilling scene...
Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers.
Written by Stephen Gallagher
The Man In Black …. Edward de Souza
Nathan …. John Castle
Mick …. Philip Sully
David …. Peter Gunn
The Snowplough Driver …. Christopher Scott
The Girl (spectral voice) …. Cara Kelly
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1989.
SAT 19:00 Westway Omnibus (b008z9gp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 20:00 Comedy Greats (b007k0v0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008z9rx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today]


SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2008

SUN 00:00 Space Hacks (b007k2bd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 00:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn9t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jvfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:30 The Men from the Ministry (b007k13p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Saturday]
SUN 03:00 Comedy Greats (b007k0v0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b008z9rx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday]
SUN 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008zd8m)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
SUN 08:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch Omnibus (b008zd8s)
Episode 3
Dorothea is shocked to encounter Ladislaw, but delighted to help out Lydgate. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman-Hill.
SUN 09:15 Alan Plater Short Stories - A Brief Encounter With Richard Wagner (b007qzh5)
A teacher faces the task of staging the 'Ring Cycle' in a school ranked bottom of the league tables. Read by Barbara Flynn.
SUN 09:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b008zdb2)
Series 3
Saxon Steel
Did the Saxons make top-notch steel centuries before it was 'invented'? Aubrey Manning investigates. From November 2001.
SUN 10:00 Alan Plater - Who's Jimmy Dickenson? (b007qzh7)
The phrase 'Well, goodnight then....' usually indicates the end of an evening, but in this case it signals the start of an evening - and what an evening.
A mysterious man insinuates himself into the lives of a suburban couple in Hull. Who is the shady Jimmy Dickenson?
Starring Stephanie Turner as Sara, Sam Kelly as Geoff, David Fleeshman as Randolph and Sue Jenkins as Marian.
Written by Alan Platter.
Directed by Caroline Smith.
Recorded in Manchester and first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1986.
SUN 11:30 Tales From the Mausoleum Club (b007k243)
Heart of Skegness
The Honourable Clarence Green becomes more entranced as he listens to a story of a journey into the very darkest part of barbarism.
Starring Jim Broadbent and Matt Frewer.
Star-packed curious and macabre comedy series set in a very exclusive London club.
Written by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.
Curtis ...... Jim Broadbent
Johnson ...... Matt Frewer
Captain White ...... Richard Pearson
Green ...... Royce Mills
Mrs Jeves ...... Sheila Steafel
The Boss ...... BillWallis
Bannister ...... Ron Pember
Welch ...... Michael Ripper
Music by Max Harris.
Producer: Paul Spencer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1987.
SUN 12:00 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw5s)
Jenny Eclair
Professor Alison Oddey talks to the comedian about writing novels, Lucille Ball and motherhood. From February 2001.
SUN 12:30 Radio Roots (b00jqjh0)
Series 1
Hattie Jacques
Russell Davies traces the actress' start in broadcasting, using clips and interview. Featuring Tommy Handley and Beryl Reid.
SUN 13:00 Listen to Les (b007wvgq)
Classic comedy, sketches and monologues from the king of deadpan humour. Cissie urges Ada to get out more.
SUN 13:30 The Al Read Show (b008zdfh)
Episode 4
Hospitals, the Post Office and noisy neighbours.
A compilation of the legendary Northern comic's 1950s monologues.
Originally produced at BBC North by Ronnie Taylor
Compilation produced by Mike Craig.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1998.
SUN 14:00 17/02/2008 (b008zdfj)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
SUN 17:00 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw5s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]
SUN 17:30 Radio Roots (b00jqjh0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b008zdkt)
Series 2
Unwelcome
Edna and Tankerton return to her home town and attend a fete worse than death.
Staring Alex Tregear and Ben Moor.
Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga about magazine editor Edna Turner entering a parallel world where her version of London is replaced with the city of Undone.
Edna Turner ...... Alex Tregear
Tankerton Slopes ...... Ben Moor
Billy/Carlo ..... Duncan Wisbey
Rosie Turner ...... Emma Kennedy
Other parts played by the cast.
Producer: Colin Anderson
Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Radio Comedy and first broadcast in February 2008.
SUN 18:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses (b007k4rp)
Episode 2
Afer discovering she's able to see things that others can't, Marda West fears for her survival in this dangerous new world.
The conclusion of Daphne du Maurier's two-part fantasy thriller exploring the darker aspects of human nature.
Read by Emma Fielding.
Produced and abridged by Gemma Jenkins.
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2007.
SUN 19:00 Listen to Les (b007wvgq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]
SUN 19:30 The Al Read Show (b008zdfh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]
SUN 20:00 Alan Plater - Who's Jimmy Dickenson? (b007qzh7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 21:30 Tales From the Mausoleum Club (b007k243)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today]
SUN 22:00 The News Quiz (b008zdm6)
Fresh from 4 - Catch up as Sandi Toksvig and the teams battle it out over the latest news events.
SUN 22:30 Chain Reaction (b00gsb85)
Series 2
Alexei Sayle Interviews Lenny Henry
One feisty comedian grills another in the tag talk show, where the guest is next week's interviewer.
Based on the original BBC Radio 5 programme of the same name, Chain Reaction is a simple idea of big name stars from the world of entertainment interviewing others whose work they appreciate and admire.
Recorded with an audience, the interviews focus on the life, career and the passions of the interviewee but often prove to be as revealing about the interviewer.
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005.
SUN 23:00 Kenny Everett's Radio Days (b007k36m)
Series 1
Episode 3
Jingles, chat and tunes. Classic clips of the celebrated disc jockey from his commercial radio peak. Featuring Captain Kremmen.


MONDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2008

MON 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b008zdkt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Blue Lenses (b007k4rp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch Omnibus (b008zd8s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Alan Plater Short Stories - A Brief Encounter With Richard Wagner (b007qzh5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Unearthing Mysteries (b008zdb2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 The News Quiz (b008zdm6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Chain Reaction (b00gsb85)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Kenny Everett's Radio Days (b007k36m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Stand Ups and Strumpets (b007jw5s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Radio Roots (b00jqjh0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Listen to Les (b007wvgq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday]
MON 06:30 The Al Read Show (b008zdfh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008zfwd)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf)
Series 7
The Spectre of Tintagel
Neddie Seagoon reveals his Arthurian roots and goes in search of treasure in deepest Cornwall.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1956.
MON 08:30 Mark Tavener - In the Red (b007k0hz)
Episode 5
A crucial by-election result is due, as the murders continue - but reporter George Cragge is on the case.
London is plagued by a series of bizarre murders of bank managers. Hot on the trail of the killer are an old-style Chief Police Inspector and BBC Radio's crime correspondent, George Cragge.
A blackly humorous murder mystery set in the world of City finance, the BBC and political parties. Dramatised in seven-parts by Mark Tavener and Peter Baynham from Mark Tavener's novel.
George Cragge ...... Michael Williams
Frank Jefferson ...... Barry Foster
Geoffrey Crichton-Potter ...... Stephen Moore
Henry ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Max ...... Peter Woodthorpe
Controller Radio 2 ...... Stephen Fry
Controller Radio 4 ...... John Bird
Dominic De'ath ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Hercules Fortescue ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Andrew James ...... Peter Serafinowcz
Laetitia ...... Victoria Carling
Caroline ...... Susie Brann
Home Secretary ...... Peter Yapp
Auntie Agony ...... Eva Stuart
Controller BBC 1 ...... Ian McNiece
PA Woman ...... Annabel Mullion
With Alice Arnold, Richard Turner and Tim Hope.
Music by Paul Mottram
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
MON 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnm7)
At Bertram's Hotel
Episode 1
Deceptively mild amateur sleuth, Jane Marple is being treated to a short holiday in London by her niece. Staying at the dignified, unostentatious Bertram's Hotel, tucked away in a back street of busy Mayfair - here guests can indulge in comforts of a bygone age.
But Miss Marple begins to feel uneasy. Something sinister lurks beneath the polished veneer. Why are so many major crimes associated in some way with the hotel or somehow implicate the eminently respectable people staying there?
Published in 1965, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Marple.
Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon
Raymond West ...... Andrew Branch
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Lady Selina Hazy ...... Margaret Courtenay
Mrs Carpenter ...... Patience Tomlinson
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Henry ...... Garard Green
Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir
Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Mr Bollard ...... David Collings
Dramatised in five-parts by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.
MON 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4t1)
Wasted Years
Episode 6
A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a spate of crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier.
MON 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zg0p)
Revelations
Ladislaw learns the truth about Casaubon's will, and about his family's past. Stars Martin Hyder and Richard Dillane.
MON 10:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jykb)
Episode 1
A young refugee's brave escape from a labour camp sparks a courageous lone journey. Stars Rory Copus and Andrew Wincott.
MON 11:00 War and Peace (b007k444)
Natasha's Crucible
1811: Napoleon's troops mass in Poland - and disaster strikes in Moscow when Natasha is seduced. Stars Simon Russell Beale.
MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b008zhkn)
Featuring 'Tim Brown's Schooldays' and the classic John and Mary 'I love to be alone in the country' sketch.
MON 13:00 Westway (b008zhkp)
It's a busy time at the Health Centre.
MON 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b008zhmd)
Episode 1
Fire-proof grease, happy accidents and the doggy doorbell. Matthew Harvey explores the fascinating world of inventions.
MON 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (b007k05g)
1. Little Water Wanderer
The birth and the beginning of an eventful cubhood in the Devon countryside - seen through the eyes of a young otter.
Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter life, first published in 1927.
Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
MON 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007v1dd)
Episode 1
Playwright and novelist John Mortimer reads from his book and offers lessons in living and growing old disgracefully.
MON 14:00 18/02/2008 (b008zhpm)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
MON 17:00 Beachcomber (b008zhqy)
Silence in court please, the acrobats are here. Seemingly unrelated pieces of humour strung wonderfully together.
MON 17:30 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jrt7)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Terry is not keen to meet any of Bob's snobbish friends.
Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers.
With Sheila Fearn, Olive Milbourne, Julian Holloway and Gretta Gouriet.
Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley.
Producer: John Browell
Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in a BBC Treasure Hunt.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1975.
MON 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w5jc)
1. Lost
An alien princess proves to be problematic for the crew of the Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division.
A five-part sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet.
Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst.
In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers are launched into space – with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, and transmitted back to Earth.
Captain Taylor leads a crew that includes:
* Melissa Patterson: the leather wearing, gun-toting Chief of Security
* Science Officer Clive 55: one of 130 identical brothers cloned from a single lab egg in Margate
* Communications Officer Karen Trex: who just wishes everybody could be friends
* Flight Engineer Stuart Jackson: the new boy on his first six-year stint in space and still a virgin
What you are about to hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light years from home.
Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet
Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce
Karen …. Rose Cavaliero
Stuart …. Paul Barnhill
Clive …. Neil Warhurst
Princess Urrgh …. Stephen Hogan
Urrgh Emperor …. Jason Chan
Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton
Director: Sally Avens
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005.
MON 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007jw07)
Episode 6
Dick, Vita and family set sail across the bay to Chapel Point, the site where Otto Bodrugan once lived. Read by Julian Wadham.
MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b008zhkn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
MON 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4t1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zg0p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 21:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jykb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
MON 22:00 Mark Tavener - In the Red (b007k0hz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 22:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007r4mj)
Series 1
Death and the Afterlife
The sci-fi star and inventor explains life's big mysteries. Stars Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Tom Baker. From October 1992.
MON 23:00 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k4lr)
4. Heroes and Villains
Roger McGough's poetic reflections on relatives and retsina.
With the accompaniment of long-time musical collaborator Andy Roberts.
Recorded at the Bath Festival.
Producer: Sara Davies
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.
MON 23:15 Date With Fate (b008zq34)
Along for the Ride
When Colin impersonates a film producer, it sparks dangerous consequences.
Harold Wing Pinero is your host.
Another of four comic close encounters with fate written by Gary Parker and Phil Whelans.
Colin Bond ...... Michael Troughton
Harold Wing Pinero ...... Charles Gray
Monica Ludlow ...... Jenny Howe
Flores ...... Mandy Knight
Ralph ...... Stephen Critchlow
Hostess/Lauren ...... Debbie Stephenson
All other parts ...... Toby Longworth
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.
MON 23:30 Fellahs Hour with the Cheese Shop (b008zqdx)
Episode 5
Steve 'not the snooker player' Davis has tool news and talks to an American with six wives. With Gerard Foster. From June 2000.


TUESDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2008

TUE 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w5jc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007jw07)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnm7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4t1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zg0p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jykb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Mark Tavener - In the Red (b007k0hz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World (b007r4mj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k4lr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Date With Fate (b008zq34)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:15 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Fellahs Hour with the Cheese Shop (b008zqdx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 War and Peace (b007k444)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (b007jrt7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:30 Beachcomber (b008zhqy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday]
TUE 07:00 Big Toe Books (b008zrx2)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
TUE 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5)
Series 6
The Last Bus Home
It's a long walk home in the rain when Sid, Bill and The Lad Himself get stranded.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Warren Mitchell and Hugo Morton.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1959.
TUE 08:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting (b008zs1b)
Series 2
Neighbourhood Watch
Linda's tortoise, Sir Cliff, has been sprung from his high security facility. Can the Neighbourhood Watch group find the culprit?
Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith.
With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Martin Hyder, Margaret John and Chris Neill.
Special guest: Dillie Keane
Producer: Jon Rolph
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002.
TUE 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnmr)
At Bertram's Hotel
Episode 2
An old acquaintance of amateur sleuth, Miss Marple is about to receive a nasty shock...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Marple.
Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson
Archdeacon Simmons ...... Preston Lockwood
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Ladislaus Malinwoski ...... Gavin Muir
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Colonel Luscombe ...... Geoffrey Bayldon
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Mr Bollard ...... David Collings
Miss Mottley ...... Sandra James Young
Egerton ...... Alan Rowe
Mrs McCrea ...... Zulema Dene
Air Terminal Hostess ...... Louisa Seddon
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.
TUE 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4v7)
Wasted Years
Episode 7
A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a spate of crimes that Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier.
TUE 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zs71)
Love or Money
Lydgate and Rosy drift further apart as the reality of their debts hits home. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman-Hill.
TUE 10:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jvms)
Episode 2
The weary young refugee is in despair - until he meets Signora Bang, who changes everything. Stars Rory Copus and Sarah Badel.
TUE 11:00 War and Peace (b007k45b)
The Old World Lost
1812 - Napoleon has struck in Russia and the Bolkonsky estate is in danger. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Emily Mortimer.
TUE 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6)
Series 4
Is That Your Horse Outside?
Albert Steptoe advises son Harold on the art of seduction.
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 eight series on TV.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
With Jo Manning Wilson and John Samson.
Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972.
TUE 13:00 Westway (b008zt5k)
Drama serial set in and around a busy medical practice in West London.
TUE 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b008zt90)
Episode 2
Apart from creativity, great inventions call for patents and money. Presented by Matthew Harvey, with James Dyson.
TUE 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (b007k06r)
2. Confused and Alone
The young cub becomes confused when his mother abandons him, but a new friend awaits.
Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter life, first published in 1927.
Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
TUE 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jz6h)
Episode 2
Playwright and novelist John Mortimer has a word or two to say about happiness, and how active pursuit of it will fail.
TUE 14:00 19/02/2008 (b008zt9m)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
TUE 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jmmc)
Series 6
Emergency
It's decision time for Miss Lewis and student Adam's home life causes concern. Stars Karl Howman. From July 1991.
TUE 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd)
Series 1
Positive Thinking
Rosie's company goes New Age, promoting the Brighton leg of a lecture tour by a Californian positive-thinking guru.
Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom.
The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company.
Rosie ...... Prunella Scales
Kate ...... Arabella Weir
Jo ...... Rebecca Callard
Bob ...... Duncan Preston
Tess ...... Annette Badland
Darcy Philpotts ...... Alison Skilbeck
Lyndon Merchant ...... Kerry Shale
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.
TUE 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w43k)
2. Indestructible
Ship's doctor Clive 55 meets his identical cloned twin brother, Clive 88.
Sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet.
Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst.
In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, and transmitted back to Earth.
What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light years from home..
Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet
Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce
Karen …. Rose Cavaliero
Stuart …. Paul Barnhill
Clive …. Neil Warhurst
Captain Ponter …. Stephen Hogan
Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton
Director: Sally Avens
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005.
TUE 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007jw0b)
Episode 7
Dick witnesses Roger trying to alert Otto of an ambush, and Magnus warns Dick to stay off the drug. Read by Julian Wadham.
TUE 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jpd5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4v7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
TUE 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zs71)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jvms)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting (b008zs1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Old Harry's Game (b007k1xw)
Series 2
Assistant
With Hell getting overcrowded, Satan decides it's time to hire an assistant demon.
Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell.
It's not easy being Satan. Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, white-haired God merely for daring to voice the concerns of middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to Edith Piaf and Elvis Presley. Satan may rule the roost, but he's beset by the poor unfortunates condemned to sit out Eternity with him
Satan ...... Andy Hamilton
The Professor ...... James Grout
Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville
Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan
Other characters played by Philip Pope and Felicity Montagu.
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998.
TUE 23:00 The Beaton Generation (b008ztqz)
Episode 8
Join Alistair Beaton, Sir Clement Freud, Janet George and co as they try to forecast the news in the coming week.
TUE 23:45 All the World's a Globe (b007jwrt)
From Scythians to Shakespeare
From the Scythians to the Crusades.
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.
With guest star Juliet Stevenson.
Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by Jim Broadbent and Martin Duncan.
With thanks to
Patrick Barlow
Jim Broadbent
Martin Duncan
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990.


WEDNESDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2008

WED 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w43k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007jw0b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4v7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b008zs71)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Anne Holm - I Am David (b007jvms)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting (b008zs1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:30 Old Harry's Game (b007k1xw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 The Beaton Generation (b008ztqz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:45 All the World's a Globe (b007jwrt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 War and Peace (b007k45b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Tuesday]
WED 06:30 King Street Junior (b007jmmc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00901bc)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
WED 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00901dg)
Another comic collection of short sketches from Kenneth Horne and company.
WED 08:30 Dead Ringers (b007jmx4)
Featuring 'Graham Norton presents the 100 Greatest Afternoon Plays' and 'The Simpsons in Afghanistan'.
WED 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnn6)
At Bertram's Hotel
Episode 3
The morning paper brings some very alarming news for Miss Marple - and a police investigation.
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Marple.
Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Mr Humfries ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Henry ...... Garard Green
Rose ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen
Mrs Wheeling ...... Tessa Worsley
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.
WED 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4w8)
Wasted Years
Episode 8
A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years ago.
WED 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00904cg)
Revelations
As Lydgate attends to a sick Raffles, he receives a welcome offer of help. Stars Caroline Martin and Nick Fletcher.
WED 10:15 Glyn Hughes - Glorious John (b007jtm9)
A music-loving retired lecturer rekindles a childhood sweetheart in his imagination. Stars David Hargreaves and Charlie Ryan.
WED 11:00 War and Peace (b007k46d)
Borodino
1812 - as the armies meet outside Moscow, even the Rostovs are preparing to leave the city. Stars Simon Russell Beale.
WED 12:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00901dg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jztn)
The TV Spectacular - A Contradiction in Terms
The veteran of many parts recounts the woeful tale of a 'Gala Night in Venice'.
It's a story that will confirm the truth of a lot of what you'd always suspected, and the place in showbiz history of the liver sausage sandwich.
The doyen of British show business, J Kingston Platt shares reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience from the past 40 years.
Performed and written by Peter Jones.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1986.
WED 13:00 Westway (b00904nk)
Drama serial set in and around a busy medical practice in West London.
WED 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b00904ns)
Episode 3
What are the risks of debt, and when do you give up? Matthew Harvey looks at the characteristics of an inventor.
WED 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (b007jvc4)
3. First Winter
As the winter storms arrive in Devon, fish are increasingly hard to find through the ice.
Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter life, first published in 1927.
Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
WED 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jz8c)
Episode 3
Reading from his book, playwright and novelist John Mortimer holds forth on war and what makes a terrorist a freedom fighter.
WED 14:00 20/02/2008 (b00904s6)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
WED 17:00 My Music (b00904tn)
Steve Race quizzes John Amis, Frank Muir, Ian Wallace and Denis Norden in their 500th edition. From May 1990.
WED 17:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00904tp)
Punch ups between news reporters and adventurer Alan Watermain - all in the mind of Michael Bentine.
WED 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w524)
3. Monster
What are the strange noises coming from the hold? Karen and Melissa investigate.
Sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet.
Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst.
In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, and transmitted back to Earth.
What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light years from home.
Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet
Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce
Karen …. Rose Cavaliero
Stuart …. Paul Barnhill
Clive …. Neil Warhurst
Trevor …. Rob Hastie
Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton
Director: Sally Avens
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005.
WED 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007k4tb)
Episode 8
Magnus fails to disembark, so Dick realises that he got off the train earlier. But there's a discovery. Read by Julian Wadham.
WED 19:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00901dg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jztn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
WED 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4w8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00904cg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 21:15 Glyn Hughes - Glorious John (b007jtm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b007jmx4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 22:30 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller (b007jpyk)
Episode 2
Martin Bain-Jones and Craig Children do battle at a special music awards ceremony.
Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong write and star in their first full-length radio comedy series.
With:
Charlie Condou
Melissa Lloyd
Tony Gardner
Producer: Jon Rolph
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.
WED 23:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b009059h)
Series 2
Tanzania
The bumbling student backpacker sets out on an East African safari. Starring Marcus Brigstocke. From October 2003.
WED 23:30 Hair in the Gate (b007k3zl)
Series 1
Episode 4
The TV arts show team schmooze Hollywood royalty at the Cannes Film Festival. Stars Harriet Thorpe. From October 1993.


THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2008

THU 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w524)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007k4tb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4w8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00904cg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Glyn Hughes - Glorious John (b007jtm9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Dead Ringers (b007jmx4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:30 Children's Hour with Armstrong and Miller (b007jpyk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b009059h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Hair in the Gate (b007k3zl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 War and Peace (b007k46d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 The Michael Bentine Show (b00904tp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:30 My Music (b00904tn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00906cp)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
THU 08:00 Yes Minister (b007jznv)
Series 1
The Devil You Know
Cabinet reshuffle rumours unsettle MP Jim Hacker and Sir Humphrey
Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.
Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.
Jim Hacker ...... Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby ...... Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard ...... Derek Fowlds
Annie ...... Diana Hoddinott
Sir Arnold ...... John Nettleton
George ...... Arthur Cox
Waiter ...... Stuart Organ
Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in December 1983.
THU 08:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7)
Series 3
Episode 3
Change is in the air when Amanda and Richard get happily engaged. But when Lucy and Daniel opt to change their lives, Lucy resolves not to tell anyone.
What Daniel hasn't told Lucy is that he can't keep a secret...
David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non-parents.
Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Tracy-Ann Oberman as Katie, Tony Gardner as Andy, Nasreen Hussain as Amanda and Dave Lamb as Richard.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
THU 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnnq)
At Bertram's Hotel
Episode 4
Just as one mystery is cleared up, Miss Marple becomes involved in another...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Marple.
Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Inspector Campbell ...... David Timson
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Michael Gorman ...... John Hartley
Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen
Miss McCrea ...... Zulema Dene
Hoffman ...... Freddie Jones
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.
THU 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4x2)
Wasted Years
Episode 9
A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a spate of crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier.
THU 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00906v5)
A Test of Faith
With Lydgate's reputation in tatters, Dorothea is determined to clear his name. Stars Caroline Martin and Tom Goodman-Hill.
THU 10:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End (b007jyz3)
Leni makes a surprising discovery at a public swimming pool. Moving drama about the loss of a baby. Stars Michelle Holmes. From December 1999.
THU 11:00 War and Peace (b007jm0v)
At the Gates of Moscow
1812. As Napoleon arrives, the French imprison Pierre, while dying Andrei is reunited with Natasha. Stars Simon Russell Beale.
THU 12:00 Yes Minister (b007jznv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b00jr7fy)
Series 2
Get Off With Life The Burkiss Way
Thrills abound as the RAC do their version of 'Gone With the Wind'.
The Burkiss Way to Dynamic Living
Appearing for the prosecution and defence: Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris.
From briefs prepared by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.
Under the judicial eye of producer: Simon Brett.
Cult sketch show first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1977.
THU 13:00 Westway (b0090b96)
Listen to the latest from our favourite doctors.
THU 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b0090bb6)
Episode 4
Many inventors have poor business skills, but one man is out to build bridges and change perceptions. Matthew Harvey reports.
THU 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (b007jvcb)
4. Prey
Spring arrives in the Devon countryside, with the smell of man and the cry of a she-otter.
Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter life, first published in 1927.
Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
THU 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jwjs)
Episode 4
Playwright and novelist John Mortimer delivers more ruminations on the nature of happiness and religion.
THU 14:00 21/02/2008 (b0090bcf)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
THU 17:00 King Cutler (b0090bdh)
King Cutler VI
The final episode. What more can be said?
Plenty.
Songs, poems and stories from Phyllis King , Ivor Cutler and their visitors.
With Dylan Edwards , Ted Harrison and Craig Murray-Orr.
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 1990.
THU 17:30 Parsley Sidings (b007k1b0)
Series 2
The Secret Agent
Stationmaster Horace Hepplewhite is warned to expect a VIP, but events take a surprising turn.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Kenneth Connor as Valentine/ Bradshaw/Updike and train driver, Liz Fraser as Gloria, Ian Lavender as Bert, John Baddeley as Prince Abdul.
Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop down the line.
Producer: Edward Taylor.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1973.
THU 18:00 The Spaceship (b007w2s1)
4. Dirty
Destruction aboard the ship when Clive 55's thirst for scientific experiment goes wrong.
Sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet.
Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst.
In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, and transmitted back to Earth.
What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light years from home.
Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet
Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce
Karen …. Rose Cavaliero
Stuart …. Paul Barnhill
Clive …. Neil Warhurst
Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton
Director: Sally Avens
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005.
THU 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007k4vj)
Episode 9
Wrestling with his guilt, Dick empties the laboratory of all evidence and sets off on a journey. Read by Julian Wadham.
THU 19:00 Yes Minister (b007jznv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b00jr7fy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
THU 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnnq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
THU 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4x2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
THU 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00906v5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 21:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End (b007jyz3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
THU 22:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 22:30 Radio Active (b007k18c)
Series 4
The BioShow
The station's biographical series pays tribute to the sensational life of celebrated actor, Sir John Lesley.
Radio Active is the one and only local national radio station.
Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens.
Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown.
Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with Jon Canter, John Docherty, Moray Hunter, Helen Murry and Nick Wilton.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984.
THU 23:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b0090br0)
Series 2
Episode 4
Cricketing bickering - and a telephone moan. Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's sharp-edged topical humour. From September 1986.
THU 23:30 On the Hour (b0090br1)
Series 2
Episode 2
Alan Partridge is at the Olympics. Barbara Wintergreen is in America.
All the news as it happens, if it happens from the BBC's urgent and incisive news overview.
Savagely satirical award-winning comedy starring Chris Morris.
With Steve Coogan, David Schneider, Rebecca Front, Patrick Marber and Doon Mackichan.
Written by Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, Richard Herring, Steven Wells, David Quantick, Andrew Glover and Stewart Lee.
Producer: Armando lannucci
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1992.


FRIDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2008

FRI 00:00 The Spaceship (b007w2s1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007k4vj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Miss Marple (b007jnnq)
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FRI 01:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4x2)
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FRI 02:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b00906v5)
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FRI 02:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End (b007jyz3)
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FRI 03:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7)
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FRI 03:30 Radio Active (b007k18c)
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FRI 04:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b0090br0)
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FRI 04:30 On the Hour (b0090br1)
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FRI 05:00 War and Peace (b007jm0v)
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FRI 06:00 Parsley Sidings (b007k1b0)
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FRI 06:30 King Cutler (b0090bdh)
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FRI 07:00 Big Toe Books (b0090by5)
Big Toe Books is a daily children's radio programme on BBC7.
FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
Series 3
Asleep in the Deep
Walker and Godfrey get trapped in a pumping station, but so do their rescuers from the rest of the Home Guard platoon.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976.
FRI 08:30 Saturday Night Fry (b007jt29)
Episode 3
Stephen Fry serves up more witty banter and sketches.
With Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Julia Hills.
Written by Stephen Fry with additional material by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.
Producer: Dan Patterson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988.
FRI 09:00 Miss Marple (b007jnp6)
At Bertram's Hotel
Episode 5
The police ask Miss Marple to take part in a little experiment.
Conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit starring June Whitfield as Miss Marple.
Miss Marple ...... June Whitfield
Inspector Davy ...... Frederick Jaeger
Sir Ronald Graves ...... Patrick Allen
Canon Pennyfather ...... Maurice Denham
Bess Sedgwick ...... Sian Phillips
Miss Gorringe ...... Jillie Meers
Elvira Blake ...... Tracy Wiles
Bridget ...... Sarah Plowright
Ladislaus Malinowski ...... Gavin Muir
Sergeant Waddell ...... Ross Livingstone
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1995.
FRI 09:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4xx)
Wasted Years
Episode 10
A series of armed robberies bears an uncanny resemblance to a spate of crimes Inspector Resnick investigated ten years earlier.
FRI 10:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b0090c8l)
Sunset and Sunrise
Dorothea discovers the truth from Mrs Lydgate, and Ladislaw considers his future. Stars Caroline Martin and Richard Dillane.
FRI 10:15 If Music Be the Food of Love, Mine's a Jam Butty (b007jqsg)
Beth has always looked after her drunken father, but when he dies - she finally discovers her own voice. Stars Sunetra Sarker.
FRI 11:00 War and Peace (b007k48s)
The World Transformed
1812. Napoleon's dream of conquest turns to nightmare - and his army is forced to retreat. Stars Simon Russell Beale.
FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
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FRI 12:30 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition (b0090drr)
Episode 2
Ian McMillan and guests Smug Roberts, Graham Walker, Pauline Daniels and Seymour Mace, play games celebrating vintage comedy.
FRI 13:00 Crossing the Glacier by Berlie Doherty (b007jv9m)
Gerda and Pam are two women who find themselves emotionally frozen in the past. Short story read by Janet Dale.
FRI 13:15 Back to the Drawing Board (b0090f2l)
Episode 5
What happens when you give an inventor time, space and financial support? Matthew Harvey investigates the pitfalls.
FRI 13:30 Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (b007jvch)
5. The Chase
As the otter basks in the sun, a pack of hounds catch his scent, sparking a great chase.
Nicholas Farrell reads Henry Williamson's classic tale of otter life, first published in 1927.
Abridged in five episodes by Sally Marmion.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
FRI 13:45 Where There's a Will (b007jwk1)
Episode 5
Concluding his book readings, playwright and novelist John Mortimer ponders what it actually means to 'make a fuss'.
FRI 14:00 22/02/2008 (b0090f3y)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
FRI 17:00 Second Thoughts (b007jx2l)
Series 1
Negative Vetting
Faith's not impressed to discover what Bill's mum thinks about her...
Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe.
Staring Lynda Bellingham and James Bolam.
Series one of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, husband and wife 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 'Faith in the Future'.
Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham
Bill ...... James Bolam
Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes
Joe ...... Mark Denham
Hilary ...... Celia Imrie
Liza ...... Belinda Lang
Steve ...... Guy Brougham
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1988.
FRI 17:30 To the Manor Born (b007jm4q)
The Honours List
With news of a New Year's Honour for a villager, Audrey is nice to Devere.
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
Brigadier ...... Jonathan Adams
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 descendent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his TV script.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997.
FRI 18:00 The Spaceship (b007jvq8)
5. Enemies
The crew at last make contact with another race, but not before a minor rebellion on board.
Conclusion of the sci-fi comedy starring James Fleet.
Written by Paul Barnhill and Neil Warhurst.
In the year 2104, a fleet of research cruisers were launched into space, with every moment aboard the Really Invincible III, Macclesfield Division preserved by wall-to-wall monitoring, and transmitted back to Earth.
What you hear took place live, four years ago, 70,000 light years from home.
Captain Gordon Taylor …. James Fleet
Melissa Patterson …. Emily Joyce
Karen …. Rose Cavaliero
Stuart …. Paul Barnhill
Clive …. Neil Warhurst
Ion …. Jason Chan
The King of the Dwapeye …. Stephen Hogan
Narrator …. Nicholas Boulton
Director: Sally Avens
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in June 2005.
FRI 18:30 Daphne Du Maurier's The House on the Strand (b007jw0t)
Episode 10
At Sir Oliver Carminowe's house, Roger visits the captive Isolda and comes up with a daring plan. Read by Julian Wadham.
FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
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FRI 19:30 Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition (b0090drr)
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FRI 20:00 Miss Marple (b007jnp6)
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FRI 20:30 Readings to Die For (b007k4xx)
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FRI 21:00 George Eliot - Middlemarch (b0090c8l)
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FRI 21:15 If Music Be the Food of Love, Mine's a Jam Butty (b007jqsg)
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FRI 22:00 Saturday Night Fry (b007jt29)
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FRI 22:30 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jv3v)
Series 1
Episode 3
Bhangraman must save the world - and the downside of keeping a cow as a family pet
Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Nitin Sawhney, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001.
Scripted by Sharat Sardana, Richard Pinto and the cast.
Produced by Gareth Edwards and Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.
FRI 23:00 The Nimmo Twins in... (b00jh6jw)
Series 1
Norwich
The duo desperately seek inspiration for the final script of their series. Stars Karl Minns and Owen Evans. From September 2000.
FRI 23:30 Colin and Fergus's Digi Radio (b007tldk)
Series 2
Episode 3
Is it the end for detective Rutherford Lodge? Crazy sketch comedy with duo Colin Hoult and Fergus Craig. From January 2007.