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
The house shakes as though destroying itself and Eleanor's mind thinks to when the experiments end.
Shirley Jackson’s spine-chilling Gothic Horror continued by Emma Fielding.
Abridged in 8-parts by Alison Joseph.
Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
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.
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?"
A kissogram girl is found murdered and P Division find that the investigation takes a religious turn.
In the darkness of her prison cell, preacher Dinah struggles for Hetty's soul.
George Eliot's haunting story of love betrayed and love rewarded dramatised in 15 episodes by Robert Forrest.
An immediate bestseller in 1859, Eliot's second novel established her reputation and paved the way for masterpieces such as The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.
Starring Katherine Igoe as Hetty, Victoria Liddelle as Dinah and Crawford Logan as Mr Irwine.
Director: Patrick Rayner.
Paolo Baldi, - priest, philosophy lecturer and accidental sleuth - is caught up in solving the murder of a leading University academic. He follows a trail leading into the past of one of Ireland's most cherished literary figures.
Starring David Threlfall as Paolo Baldi, Tina Kellegher as Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father Troy, Gerard McSorley as Doctor Graham, Owen Roe as Superintendent Rynne and Margaret D'Arcy as Mrs Reid.
Murder mystery written by Simon Brett.
Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.
Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.
The story of Brian Epstein during his hectic, turbulent years of managing The Beatles. Stars Jonathan Keeble and Kerry Shale.
August 1939 – the last summer of peace before the Second World War.
Oliver, Calypso, Polly and Walter are on a holiday visit to their Aunt Helena and Uncle Richard Cuthbertson, and their 10-year-old cousin Sophy.
The house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten-parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Sian Phillips.
The Royle Family actor reads from his autobiography. Growing up near Anfield, he discovers football, girls and rock 'n' roll.
It's 1327 and Edward II has been killed, so Roger Mortimer takes control. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles.
Jo Morris meets two boardroom headhunters Jill Carrick and Andrew Garner, who bring workers and businesses together. From 1998.
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
"Lights going up, walls coming down - the West is starting to look a bit lost without someone to blame for all its troubles".
Her Majesty's Ambassador Mackenzie continues to dispense his own blend of British Foreign Policy, despite the arrival of Glasnost, Perestroika - and a container ship of toxic waste...
Series 3 of Alex Shearer's Eastern bloc embassy sitcom.
Starring Dinsdale Landen as HM Ambassador Mackenzie, Peter Acre as William Frost, Moir Leslie as Helen Waterson, Stephen Greif as Spiro and Christopher Benjamin as Colonel Surikov.
Maud seeks solace in Test Match Special while Alison gets in a flap over a bird fancier.
Second of two series of Sue Limb's Bed and Breakfast sitcom about sisters Alison and Maud and their guests at the Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich.
Starring Denise Coffey as Alison, Miriam Margolyes as Maud, Chris Emmett as Mr Mullett and Geoffrey Whitehead as Bernard.
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore.
Scientists stationed on Venus battle to find signs of life, but what about the impact of their quest? Read by Tim Pigott-Smith.
As they battle to avoid the deadly plants and the blinded population, Bill gets to know Josella better.
Roger May continues a 17-part unabridged reading of John Wyndham's cult sci-fi novel - an unsettlingly vivid and thrillingly realised tale of ecological apocalypse.
The spoof sleuth probes a shoe clue connection in two mystery murders. Stars Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. From February 1999.
Eat the Dream. Pod makes a bid to run the opening ceremony of the 2003 Cricket World Cup - on the cheap, of course.
Sitcom about the exploits of talentless, amateurish, smug, inept and self-deluding English cricketer Dave Podmore.
Starring Chris Douglas and Andrew Nickolds with Chris Pavlo and Nicola Sanderson.
Written by Chris Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick Newman.
Snail obsessed Alex’s plan to rescue snails by bringing them home hits a snag..,
George and Beverly continue faking their deaths in order to bring their family closer.
George ..... Geoffrey Palmer
Beverley ..... Angela Thorne
Alex ..... Gerard Foster
Rose ..... Miranda Hart
Hosana ..... Debra Stephenson
Roger ..... Richie Webb
An improvised historical saga of a family at war with itself - based entirely on audience suggestions.
Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Caroline Quentin, Jim Sweeney and Phelim McDermott.
TUESDAY 27 MAY 2008
TUE 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b007jvt0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrj5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 P Division (b007jnv0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnxd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Baldi (b007jlk6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (b00brb8n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:00 on Monday]
TUE 03:30 Dave Podmore (b007rkg1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:30 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 At Home With The Snails (b00c8rbm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jswh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Frances McNeil - With a Little Help From My Friends (b00br7x6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Alison and Maud (b007k3lg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:30 Flying the Flag (b00br86w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Monday]
TUE 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00brws0)
Contact us at:
Big Toe Books
BBC Broadcasting House
London
W1A 1AA
Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jyn7)
Tommy Handley tries to set up a newspaper with Mrs Mopp as the Domestic Correspondent. Wartime comedy from 1945.
ITMA proved to be one of the BBC's most popular radio comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before the start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh created the series named after the phrase newspapers often used to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again!
The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries.
With:
Jack Train
Dorothy Summers
Horace Percival
Dino Galvani
Sydney Keith
Fred Yule
Jean Capra
Paula Green
Music from the BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Charles Shadwell.
Script written by Ted Kavanagh.
Producer: Francis Worsley
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in March 1945
TUE 08:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00bs464)
Series 1
The Caramba Campaign
Ludovico - the henpecked Prince of Monte Guano - hears two neighbouring states are set to go to war. His wife Plethora badgers him into leading his ragbag of conscripts in search of booty, accompanied by his sons and mistress Rosalie...
Neal Anthony's comedy drama set in Renaissance Italy.
Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco, Paul Bigley as Alessandro, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatori, Christopher Kelham as Guido and Kim Wall as Brother Michael.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2001.
TUE 09:00 P Division (b007jnvg)
Code Four One, Series 2
Secret Affair
A case from the seventies rears its head again as a similar murder occurs and people from the past reappear.
TUE 10:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnxz)
Episode 12
Hetty confesses the full horror of her crime, but Dinah makes her own admission. Stars Katherine Igoe and Vicki Liddelle.
TUE 10:15 Baldi (b007jlkz)
Series 1
Miss Lonelyhearts
Paolo Baldi and Tina investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of a nurse at an old people's home and uncover an unlikely case of voyeurism.
Starring David Threlfall as Paolo Baldi, Tina Kellegher as Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father Troy, Owen Roe as Superintendent Rynne, Margaret D'Arcy as Mrs Reid and Marie Jones as Thelma.
Murder mystery written by Barry Devlin.
Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.
Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
TUE 11:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love (b007jr8r)
Springtime
Gudrun returns to the Midlands mining town of Beldover, intending to join her sister, Ursula in teaching.
At a society wedding, the sisters attract the attention of Gerald Critch and Rupert Birkin. Both are very different gentlemen - with very different responses to love.
Starring Clare Holman, Stella Gonet, Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Farrell.
DH Lawrence's passionate novel was first published in 1920.
Dramatised in four parts by Elaine Feinstein.
Ursula …. Clare Holman
Gudrun …. Stella Gonet
Gerald …. Douglas Hodge
Rupert …. Nicholas Farrell
Hermione …. Geraldine Fitzgerald
Pussum …. Sunny Ormonde
Halliday …. John Webb
Sir Joshua …. Simon Carter
Mrs Critch …. Ann Beech
With Tracy Wiles, Robert Harper, Peter Meakin, Richard Curnow, David Timson, Zoe Ganjavi, Bethan Ganjavi, Stephanie Luxton and Steven Blakeley
Music composed by Anthea Gomez.
Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.
TUE 12:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jyn7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jnms)
Series 6
Oh, What a Beautiful Mourning
The Steptoe family clash over the will at the funeral of Albert's brother, George.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold.
Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Arthur ...... George A Cooper
With Michael Burlington, David Graham, Anne Jameson, Norma Ronald and Marianne Stone.
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 was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1976.
TUE 13:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00803g6)
Episode 2
As the sirens sound for the Second World War, Monica has good reason to be worried.
A house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten-parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Sian Phillips.
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
TUE 13:15 Ricky (b00bs466)
Episode 2
Reading from his autobiography, the actor recalls starting his showbiz career on Liverpool's pub circuit - and falling in love.
TUE 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jrvl)
Edward III and the Start of The 100 Years War
Edward III has his eye on the thrones of both Scotland and France. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles.
TUE 13:45 Matchmakers (b007k256)
Bone Marrow
Jo Morris hears how leukaemia sufferer Anna Lisa found a bone marrow match from 40-year-old Howard from Yorkshire. From 1998.
TUE 14:00 27/05/2008 (b00bs468)
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TUE 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jnfn)
Series 8
Beginnings and Endings
He's newly retired, but Mr Holliday is soon back at school for a day of drama.
Created by Jim Eldridge, ten series of this comedy about a junior school ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.
Written by Ivan Shakespeare and Dave Single.
Stars Karl Howman as Mr Sims, James Grout as the Headmaster, Tom Watson as Mr Holliday, Margaret John as Mrs Stone, Paul Copley as Mr Long, Deirdre Costello as Mrs Patterson, Vivienne Martin as Mrs Rudd, Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Moya O'Shea as Adele McAfee and Ian Gostling as Anwar.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1995.
TUE 17:30 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn08)
Timeless Time
Follwing his enforced retirement, grumpy Victor Meldrew's insomnia keeps Margaret awake.
Richard Wilson stars as Victor and Annette Crosbie as his long-suffering wife Margaret.
Adapted for radio by David Renwick from his BBC TV script.
Victor Meldrew ...... Richard Wilson
Margaret Meldrew ...... Annette Crosbie
Winning numerous awards, six series were made for TV plus numerous specials on BBC ONE from 1990 to 2000.
Producer: Diane Messias
First broadcast in January 1995 on BBC Radio 2.
TUE 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b007jv5s)
Summertime on Icarus
At the break of dawn, an astronaut and engineer is stranded on an asteroid too close to the sun.
It's a race against time for Colin Sherrard. After an accident, he wakes up on the asteroid, Icarus, which orbits close to the sun. Dawn is only moments away and it's set to get very hot.
With nowhere to hide and his communication is down, can Colin escape before the first rays of the sun find him..?
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith
Arthur C Clarke is one of the world's best-known and most celebrated Sci-Fi writers. His short story "The Sentinel" was the inspiration for Kubrick's seminal film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Since he began publishing in the 1940s, Clarke displayed an uncanny ability to predict the future. Alongside his literary achievements, he's recognised as the inventor of the communication satellite, a theory he first expounded in a 1945 article, "Extraterrestrial Relays".
Arthur C Clarke: 1917 - 2008
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2005.
TUE 18:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrjm)
Episode 7
Bill and Josella join the University group and discover how the new community expects to survive. Cult novel read by Roger May.
TUE 19:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again (b007jyn7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jnms)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
TUE 20:00 P Division (b007jnvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
TUE 21:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Baldi (b007jlkz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 today]
TUE 22:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00bs464)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Old Harry's Game (b007jvgp)
Series 4
Health and Safety
Hell's latest arrival is a health and safety officer who moans to Satan about the lighting. Devilish comedy stars Andy Hamilton. From April 2001.
TUE 23:00 Chewin' the Fat (b00bt3z8)
The Fat's back! Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan with World Cup banter and sketches from Scotland - first heard in 1998.
TUE 23:30 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.
WEDNESDAY 28 MAY 2008
WED 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b007jv5s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 P Division (b007jnvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnxz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Baldi (b007jlkz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00bs464)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:30 Old Harry's Game (b007jvgp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:30 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Chewin' the Fat (b00bt3z8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Genius (b008m9f6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love (b007jr8r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 One Foot in the Grave (b007jn08)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:30 on Tuesday]
WED 06:30 King Street Junior (b007jnfn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00bt3zx)
Contact us at:
Big Toe Books
BBC Broadcasting House
London
W1A 1AA
Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
WED 08:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b007jx51)
Doddy's Daft Half Hour (20/08/1972)
The King of Knotty Ash examines black magic and lands a part in a horror movie. Or does he?
Starring Ken Dodd.
With Hugh Paddick, Miriam Margolyes, Talfryn Thomas, John Graham and Jo Manning Wilson.
Devised and written by Ken Dodd with Malcolm Cameron, Stewart Campbell, Norman Beedle, Peter Tonkinson and John Pye.
Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Geoff Alderson.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in August 1972.
WED 08:30 Dead Ringers (b007k457)
Series 10
Episode 1
More celeb sound-alikes with Dame Judi Dench's appeal, plus Chris Eubank calls a builder. With Jan Ravens. From September 2003.
WED 09:00 P Division (b007jnvz)
Code Four One, Series 2
The Good Thief
During a burglary a well-known TV personality is murdered. But has the missing painting anything to do with it?
WED 10:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnyk)
Episode 13
As the day of the hanging arrives, Adam pays a visit. Stars Thomas Arnold, Katherine Igoe and Vicki Liddelle.
WED 10:15 Baldi (b007jlld)
Series 1
The Emerald Style
Priestly sleuth Paolo Baldi's attempt to wine and dine his spiritual director Father Troy at a leading Dublin hotel is interrupted by a murder taking place behind-the-scenes that very evening.
Starring David Threlfall as Paolo Baldi, Tina Kellegher as Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father Troy, Owen Roe as Superintendent Rynne, Margaret D'Arcy as Mrs Reid and Cathy Belton as Mona.
Murder mystery written by Simon Brett.
Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.
Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
WED 11:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love (b007jrcj)
Water Games
Gerald excites Gudrun with his physical brutality, but Ursula is infuriated by Rupert's prevarication.
Starring Clare Holman, Stella Gonet, Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Farrell.
DH Lawrence's passionate novel was first published in 1920.
Ursula …. Clare Holman
Gudrun …. Stella Gonet
Gerald …. Douglas Hodge
Rupert …. Nicholas Farrell
Hermione …. Geraldine Fitzgerald
Mr. Critch …. Norman Bird
Winnie …. Tracy Wiles
Mr Brangwen …. Christopher Scott
Mrs Brangwen …. Gillian Goodman
With Lennox Greaves and Shirley Dixon
Dramatised by Elaine Feinstein.
Music composed by Anthea Gomez.
Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.
WED 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b007jx51)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 12:30 Whispers (b007k2kr)
Series 2
Episode 1
Revelations about Rasputin and accordion playing from Idi Amin.
Gyles Brandreth hosts the quiz show with scandal on its mind and slander at its heart.
Geoffrey Durham and Valerie Grove join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip.
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004.
WED 13:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00804b2)
Episode 3
As Calypso weds wealthy Scotsman Hector Grant, the other cousins must move on.
A house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten-parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Sian Phillips.
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
WED 13:15 Ricky (b00bt566)
Episode 3
Reading from his autobiography, the actor recalls his arrest for strike action - and being detained at Her Majesty's pleasure.
WED 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jrw1)
Crecy, Calais and the Garter
Edward III instigates the Order of the Garter, a 'Camelot' for Knights. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles.
WED 13:45 Matchmakers (b007k26h)
The Rosebreeder
Jo Morris spends a spring with Amanda Beales, who spends hours hybridising roses for commercial growing. From 1998.
WED 14:00 28/05/2008 (b00bt568)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
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WED 17:00 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jshm)
Series 2
27 July 1799
Stinking Iris brews Laburnum Tea. Cholericke returns secretly. Dorothy's arrangement for the wedding feast are disturbed. And a honeymoon is embarked upon...
An everyday story of towering genius in Sue Limb's six part soap opera, set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the 18th century.
Stars Geoffrey Whitehead as William Wordsmith, Denise Coffey as Dorothy Wordsmith, Simon Callow as Samuel Tailor Cholericke, Nickolas Grace as Thomas de Quinine, Miriam Margolyes as Stinking Iris and Chris Emmett as the Leechpedlar.
Music by Stephen Oliver and performed by Cantabile.
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1987.
WED 17:30 After Henry (b007k204)
Series 1
Going Away
Sarah's keen to book a holiday, but can't get away from her family.
Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.
Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare and Mary Maddox as Alison.
Four radio series were made, but instead of then moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1985.
WED 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h36w)
All the Time in the World
Professional thief Robert Ashton receives an unexpected visit... Time is altered so the world's treasures can be stolen - but who is behind it?
Arthur C Clarke's 1952 short story read by Nicholas Boulton.
Somerset-born author Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008) achieved his greatest fame in 1968 when his short story The Sentinel was turned into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. His visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of readers and scientists alike.
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.
WED 18:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrk3)
Episode 8
The University group with Bill and Josella are ready to begin a new life together, but some have other ideas. Cult novel read by Roger May.
WED 19:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b007jx51)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 19:30 Whispers (b007k2kr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
WED 20:00 P Division (b007jnvz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 21:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnyk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 21:15 Baldi (b007jlld)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 today]
WED 22:00 Dead Ringers (b007k457)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 22:30 Acropolis Now (b007jwv0)
Series 2
Food
The Athens restaurant regulars set up a 'last supper' menu of hemlock. Stars Stephen Moore. From April 2002.
WED 23:00 Think the Unthinkable (b007jm2g)
Series 1
Longley's Bank
Longley's Bank recruits consultants Unthinkable Solutions to transform its image.
Daisy, Sophie and Ryan persuade Longleys to change its name, its logo and even the design of its bank. At least they can say no company they've ever worked with was ever the same again.
James Cary’s award-winning sitcom about management consultants.
Sophie Stott ...... Emma Kennedy
Ryan Packer ...... Marcus Brigstocke
Daisy de Vere ...... Catherine Shepherd
John ...... Stephen Moore
Derek ...... Kim Wall
Vanessa ...... Olivia Colman.
Script associates: Paul Mayhew-Archer and Ed Drew.
Music by John Whitehall.
Producer: Adam Bromley.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.
WED 23:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b007jzvg)
Series 1
Fans
Fans... who needs them? Well, pop stars, if they want to be, well, pop stars...
Mitch Benn sets out on a musical journey through the showbiz glitz and backstage litter of pop music.
With Robert Ince, Alfie Joey, Tash Baylis and Kirsty Newton
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2004.
THURSDAY 29 MAY 2008
THU 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h36w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrk3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 P Division (b007jnvz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnyk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Baldi (b007jlld)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Dead Ringers (b007k457)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:30 Acropolis Now (b007jwv0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:30 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Think the Unthinkable (b007jm2g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music (b007jzvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love (b007jrcj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 After Henry (b007k204)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007jshm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00bv2cx)
Contact us at:
Big Toe Books
BBC Broadcasting House
London
W1A 1AA
Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
THU 08:00 Radio Tarbuck (b00bv2cz)
Jimmy Tarbuck stars as the boss of his own radio station. With guests David Hamilton and Peter Goodwright. First heard in 1971.
THU 08:30 The Harpoon (b007k4t8)
Series 2
Episode 3
The complete story of evolution from Little Blobby Thing to Homo Erectus Britishus Imperius.
Plus an advert for some sticks.
All in your nostalgic spoof of boys' adventure story papers.
With Susie Brann , Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson, Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham.
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1992.
THU 09:00 P Division (b007jnwf)
Code Four One, Series 2
Hooked
A man who is seen as a pillar of the community has been murdered in his office. P Division uncover a sordid past.
THU 10:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnz3)
Episode 14
As the journey to the hanging scaffold begins, a visitor arrives. Stars Katherine Igoe, Vicki Liddelle and Thomas Arnold.
THU 10:15 Baldi (b00803g1)
Series 1
Death Cap
At a monastic retreat far out in County Cork, a sudden death among the Franciscan brothers causes Paolo Baldi to suspect foul play.
Starring David Threlfall as Paolo Baldi, Tina Kellegher as Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father Troy, Patrick Ryecart as Father Cyril, Barry Cassin as Abbot Frederick and Rudolph Walker as Brother Vincent.
Murder mystery written by Simon Brett.
Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.
Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
THU 11:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love (b007k1yl)
Moonlight
Rupert proposes, but this decisive action leads to more questions rather than answers.
Starring Clare Holman, Stella Gonet, Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Farrell.
DH Lawrence's passionate novel was first published in 1920
Ursula …. Clare Holman
Gudrun …. Stella Gonet
Gerald …. Douglas Hodge
Rupert …. Nicholas Farrell
Hermione …. Geraldine Fitzgerald
Mr. Brangwen …. Christopher Scott
Winnie …. Tracy Wiles
Mrs Critch …. Ann Beech
Mr Critch …. Norman Bird
With Shirley Dixon, Rebecca Wright, Robert Harper and Gillian Goodman
Dramatised by Elaine Feinstein.
Music composed by Anthea Gomez.
Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.
THU 12:00 Radio Tarbuck (b00bv2cz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b00bx006)
Series 3
Not the Burkiss Way
Learn how to offer family planning for rabbits, plus in World of Sport, it's racing from Doncaster and live furniture-eating.
Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett.
Cult sketch comedy series, which originally ran from 1976 to 1980.
Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.
Producer: John Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1978.
THU 13:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00805nd)
Episode 4
The cousins' relationships blossom in London, but the Second World War starts to take its toll.
A house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten-parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Sian Phillips.
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
THU 13:15 Ricky (b00bv2mx)
Episode 4
Reading from his autobiography, the actor recalls his release from jail and being a TV extra, ahead of landing his big break.
THU 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jrwh)
The Black Death
The Black Death: The Black Death blazes through Europe. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles, with Paul Eddington. Episode 49 of 216.
THU 13:45 Matchmakers (b007k27s)
Adoption
Jo Morris follows Rod and Dee as they embark on adopting disabled twins, with their social worker's help. From 1998.
THU 14:00 29/05/2008 (b00bv34j)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
Contact us at:
CBeebies Radio
London, W12 7RJ
Phone: 08700 100 700.
THU 17:00 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvq2)
Series 1
Episode 1
Ken Handley pitches to a motorway services chain. Advertising satire with Martin Jarvis and Wendy Richard. From January 1982.
THU 17:30 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (b007k2gs)
Episode 2
The Royal Dingle Company tackles the verse of the Bard. Stars Patrick Barlow, with guest Juliet Stevenson. From September 1995.
THU 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h44x)
The Parasite
A man starts having terrifying dreams in which he's plagued by a monstrous creature.
Yet - although hideously repellent - the parasite seems strangely familiar to him...
First published in 1953, Arthur C Clarke's tale is read by Nicholas Boulton.
Arthur C Clarke, along with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, are known as Science-Fiction's "Big Three". Their work was key to the 1950s and 60s being recognised as the genre's Golden Age.
Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.
THU 18:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrl5)
Episode 9
Bill Masen tries his best to support his blind group, but some problems prove to be insurmountable. Cult novel read by Roger May.
THU 19:00 Radio Tarbuck (b00bv2cz)
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08:00 today]
THU 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b00bx006)
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12:30 today]
THU 20:00 P Division (b007jnwf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 21:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnz3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 21:15 Baldi (b00803g1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 today]
THU 22:00 The Harpoon (b007k4t8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 22:30 Rigor Mortis (b007rq8g)
Series 2
Episode 6
A department store drama means the mortuary team must work on Christmas Day. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead. From December 2004.
THU 23:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b007k3p9)
Series 4
Episode 5
The secret of Stonehenge, and the day truth broke out. Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's sharp humour, with Felicity Montagu. From April 1989.
THU 23:30 Bearded Ladies (b00bv482)
Series 2
Episode 4
Quick-fire sketch show starring Susie Donkin, Charlotte MacDougal, Oriane Messina and Faye Rusling. From August 2005.
FRIDAY 30 MAY 2008
FRI 00:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h44x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrl5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 P Division (b007jnwf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnz3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Baldi (b00803g1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 The Harpoon (b007k4t8)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:30 Rigor Mortis (b007rq8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
22:30 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 The Million Pound Radio Show (b007k3p9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Bearded Ladies (b00bv482)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love (b007k1yl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (b007k2gs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvq2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00bt42f)
Contact us at:
Big Toe Books
BBC Broadcasting House
London
W1A 1AA
Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 08:00 Six Characters in Search of an Answer (b007js74)
Mr Muddlecombe JP
A look at Robb Wilton's best known character, a Justice of the Peace more interested in profit than administering the law.
FRI 08:30 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections (b007qzry)
Series 2
Episode 3
Parsons and Naylor run amok with the week's news in their heady blend of sketches. From July 2001.
FRI 09:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (b0084qwv)
A Surfeit of Lampreys
Gentleman sleuth Inspector Alleyn probes a grisly death of the head of a spendthrift aristocratic family. Stars Jeremy Clyde.
FRI 10:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnzn)
Episode 15
The time arrives for Dinah to decide where her heart really lies. Stars Katherine Igoe, Vicki Liddelle and Thomas Arnold.
FRI 10:15 Baldi (b0080483)
Series 1
Devil Take the Hindmost
Crime-solving priest Paolo Baldi investigates the death of a student on campus, following the trail to an arrogant clique that dabbled in the occult. Is there a rational explanation, or was the Devil really involved?
Starring David Threlfall as Paolo Baldi, Tina Kellegher as Tina Mahon, TP McKenna as Father Troy, Gerard McSorley as Doctor Graham, Owen Roe as Superintendent Rynne and Margaret D'Arcy as Mrs Reid.
Murder mystery written by Annie Caulfield.
Format by Barry Devlin. Developed and produced by BBC Northern Ireland.
Directed in Belfast by Lawrence Jackson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
FRI 11:00 DH Lawrence - Women in Love (b007k1zw)
Mountain Snows
A looming tragedy cements the future of Rupert, Gerald, Ursula and Gudrun.
Starring Clare Holman, Stella Gonet, Douglas Hodge and Nicholas Farrell.
The conclusion of DH Lawrence's 1920s passionate novel.
Ursula …. Clare Holman
Gudrun …. Stella Gonet
Gerald …. Douglas Hodge
Rupert …. Nicholas Farrell
Loerke …. Keith Drinkel
Pussum …. Sunny Ormonde
Halliday …. John Webb
Mrs Critch …. Ann Beech
Mr Brangwen …. Christopher Scott
Mrs Brangwen …. Gillian Goodman
With Robert Harper and Steven Critchlow
Dramatised by Elaine Feinstein.
Music composed by Anthea Gomez.
Director: Sue Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.
FRI 12:00 Six Characters in Search of an Answer (b007js74)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Just a Minute (b00bt4jy)
Maria McErlane, Stephen Frost, Peter Jones and Paul Merton join Nicholas Parsons at the Town Hall, Loughborough in June 1998.
FRI 13:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00807gp)
Episode 5
Helena leaves her lover to help Richard. A gun shot causes a commotion.
A house - with a fragrant lawn stretching down to the Cornish cliffs - is the link between the five cousins which neither the war nor adulthood can break.
Published in 1984, Mary Wesley novel abridged in ten parts by Elizabeth Bradbury.
Read by Sian Phillips.
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
FRI 13:15 Ricky (b00bt4lt)
Episode 5
Concluding his autobiography, the actor recalls how disaster followed TV success in Brookside - until Jim Royle barged in.
FRI 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jrwy)
The Black Prince and the Death of Edward III
In 14th-Century England, the plague shows signs of abating, and the war between the French and English resumes. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles.
FRI 13:45 Matchmakers (b007k291)
Millionaires' Cupid
Jo Morris meets headhunter Heather Heber Percy, who runs an exclusive dating agency for the wealthy - but lonely. From 1998.
FRI 14:00 30/05/2008 (b00bt4s5)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
Contact us at:
CBeebies Radio
London, W12 7RJ
Phone: 08700 100 700.
FRI 17:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bt4vw)
What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning
Schemes and Ruses
Bertie Wooster is much in demand, but his best-laid plans go awry as he lands in a bit of pickle...
P.G. Wodehouse’s romp adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller.
CAST:
Jeeves …. Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster …. Richard Briers
Boko Fittleworth …. Jonathan Cecil
Percy, Lord Worplesden …. Peter Woodthorpe
Florence Craye …. Bronwen Williams
Nobby Hopwood …. Rosalind Adams
Edwin the Boy Scout …. Denise Bryer
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
FRI 17:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00bt51z)
Series 3
Episode 1
Singers Tommy and Sheila have a supermarket to open - and go silver surfing.
Sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, but now they're back in the big time. The problem is, they can’t stand each other…
Third series of Mike Coleman's six-part sitcom.
CAST:
Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield
Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes
Murray …. Julian Eardley
Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted
Music by Frido Ruth.
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
FRI 18:00 Isaac Asimov - The Last Question (b007jwp4)
Can entropy be reversed? The sci-fi guru's proposed answer takes in infinity, immortality and creation. Read by Henry Goodman.
FRI 18:30 John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids (b007jrll)
Episode 10
With most of the population blinded, Bill Masen is determined to find Josella. But where does he start? Cult novel read by Roger May.
FRI 19:00 Six Characters in Search of an Answer (b007js74)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Just a Minute (b00bt4jy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
FRI 20:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries (b0084qwv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 21:00 George Eliot - Adam Bede (b007jnzn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Baldi (b0080483)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Sections (b007qzry)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Dial M for Pizza (b007k2sr)
Series 2
Episode 3
Sketch show featuring Beethoven's 15th Symphony and Mr Makesalotofmistakes. Brenda Blethyn and Robert Bathurst star.
FRI 23:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jpj6)
Series 1
Episode 1
Midfield football maestro Ricky Lenin's battle for Britain's first all-communist football team. Ricky introduces his radical thinking to Felchester Rovers.
Starring Alexei Sayle as Ricky Lenin, Keith Allen as Terry Trotsky, Andrew McClean as Stevie Stalin and Maurice Colbourne as Ray of the Rovers.
Legendary BBC football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme is Frank Lee Brian.
Written by Marcus Berkmann.
Producer: Harry Thompson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1988.
FRI 23:30 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.