MONDAY 28 JULY 2008

MON 00:00 Jenny Stephens - Project Raphael (b008p9wx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Children of the Corn (b007jr1t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mwc7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Evelyn Waugh Short Stories (b007k30q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Take It From the Chorus (b007k2j9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 The Now Show (b00cpvdz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 The Maltby Collection (b00crj7j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 22:30 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Knocker (b00890vp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Sunday]
MON 04:15 No Tomatoes (b007zh4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:15 on Sunday]
MON 04:30 4 at the Store (b00cpvsk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Comediennes (b007np4z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 How Tickled Am I? (b007jp11)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jzcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday]
MON 06:30 Stop Messing About! (b00cpvf3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 07:00 Big Toe Books (b00cq186)
Contact us at:
Big Toe Books
BBC Broadcasting House
London
W1A 1AA
Phone: 08700 100 700 [national rates]. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jp91)
Series 8
The Treasure in the Tower
Neddie Seagoon and friends are on the London trail of long-buried valuables. Stars Spike Milligan. From October 1957.
MON 08:30 Radio Shuttleworth (b00cq188)
Series 1
Wendy Craig
Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter takes to the airwaves once more from his very own his front room!
Aided by his producer (and sole agent) Ken Worthington, and his hard-to-please wife Mary, the inimitable John Shuttleworth presents celebrity interviews, dodgy keyboard music, and even dodgier jingles.
Special guests: Wendy Craig, Simon Munnery and Lorraine Bowen.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
Producers: Paul Schlesinger and Martin Willis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
MON 09:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jm2f)
Evil Under the Sun
Episode 1
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot allows himself to be tempted by an English summer holiday at the seaside.
But he soon senses the presence of evil on Smugglers' Island...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot
From the book first published in 1941 and dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell.
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Carrie Gardener …. Wendy Craig
Odell Gardener …. John Rowe
Miss Brewster …. Joan Littlewood
Rev Stephen Lane …. Iwan Thomas
Christine Redfern …. Susannah Corbett
Patrick Redfern …. Iain Glen
Arlena Stuart/Marshall …. Fiona Fullerton
Rosamund Darnley …. Sabina Franklyn
Linda Marshall …. Lindsey Fawcett
Captain Kenneth Marshall …. Robin Ellis
Horace Blatt …. John Hartley
Producer: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998.
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 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00cq1d4)
The Marriage
Beautiful Emma meets and marries Doctor Charles Bovary. He's happy for the first time in his life - unlike Emma, who's distraught that her marriage lacks the passion and excitement of her fantasies.
A French masterpiece of betrayal and wantonness; the first great novel of adultery starring John Hurt.
Narrator ...... John Hurt
Charles ...... Conrad Nelson
Emma ...... Sarah Smart
Madame Bovary Snr ...... Brigit Forsyth
Monsieur Rouault ...... Russell Dixon
Gustave Flaubert's novel is dramatised by Diana Griffiths from a translation by Margaret Mauldon.
Producer: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
MON 10:15 The Lady Detectives (b00cq1d6)
The Redhill Sisterhood
Autumn,1897: Victorian undercover agent Loveday Brooke investigates a group of nuns who appear to have forsaken their vows - and taken to burglary.
From the Golden Age of the crime short story, 'The Lady Detectives' is a series of four female sleuths to rival the great Sherlock himself.
Catherine Louisa Pirkis' mystery stars Gayanne Potter as Loveday Brooke, Paul Young as Inspector Gunning, Neil McKinven as Sergeant Blaine, Noreen Leighton as Sister Monica and Lucy Paterson as Sister Anna.
Dramatised by Roger Danes.
Producer: Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.
MON 11:00 Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights (b007jlky)
Episode 1
1801, and Mr Lockwood visits brooding Heathcliff's unwelcoming house on the Yorkshire moors. Stars John Duttine and Amanda Root.
MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jp91)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b007jv64)
Sketches and mayhem with Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Jo Kendal and David Hatch.
MON 13:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cq49d)
Peerless
A man's friendship with a penguin helps him come to terms with a friend's death many years before. Read by Oliver Ford Davies.
MON 13:15 Waugh on Five More Fronts (b007jwyd)
Blondy and Pollen
The Lygon sisters were the recipients of some of Waugh's racier letters, written during his adventures abroad as a young man.
MON 13:30 This Sceptred Isle (b007jsj4)
James II and the Monmouth Rebellion
England has a new monarch and the English are now drinking tea. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles.
MON 13:45 Sound Bites: Eating on Tour with Franz Ferdinand (b00cq49h)
Episode 1
The rock band's front man Alex Kapranos reveals that there's more to world touring than just eating pizzas and burgers.
MON 14:00 28/07/2008 (b00cq49k)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
Contact us at:
CBeebies Radio
London, W12 7RJ
Phone: 08700 100 700.
MON 17:00 To the Manor Born (b007k4mq)
Vive Le Sport
When Devere invites Audrey to go skiing, he ends up being taken for a ride.
Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Dr Horton
Melanie Hudson ..... Receptionist
The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1997.
MON 17:30 Bristow (b00cq588)
Series 1
Stranger on a Train
Bristow helps his colleague, Jones, to plan an escape from Chester Perry
Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the Chester-Perry buying clerk. He is but a small cog in a gigantic wheel... and he knows it.
Adapted from by Frank Dickens from his famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 51 years from 1961.
Bristow …. Michael Williams
Jones …. Rodney Bewes
Fudge, Mr Frost, Station Master and the Stranger on the Train …. Jon Glover
Miss Sunman …. Katie Odie
Post Boy and Godfrey …. Simon Schatsberger
Tea Lady …. Sarah Huntley
Music: John Whitehall
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.
MON 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007jv0y)
The Children of Witchwood
Episode 1
Jackie Lamont, a student at a local college, goes missing mysteriously. And when she reappears, just as mysteriously, she seems to have somehow been given special telepathic powers.
Meanwhile, the Cranford Family have guarded a secret for hundreds of years - and Jackie Lamont is a threat.
But BQ Brown of the Ministry of Defence is investigating a possible link between the burning of six children as witches in the 17th century and Jackie's disappearance.
Starring Wendy Baxter as Jackie Lamont, Emily Chennery as Mandy Lamont and Michael Cochrane as the Sergeant.
Director: Jenny Stephens.
A five- part story originally made for BBC7 in 2005.
MON 18:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxh)
1. Arthur's Journey
Timid commuter, Arthur Vezin becomes too enchanted with a sleepy and strange French town and its people to leave.
He's slowly drawn more and more into their realm of secrets and talk of ancient memories...and is struck by how the people there resemble cats, both in looks and behaviour...
Algernon Blackwood's dark tale read in four parts by Philip Madoc.
Born in Shooter's Hill and educated at Wellington College, Algernon Blackwood had a varied career, farming in Canada, operating a hotel, and working as a newspaper reporter in New York City before moving to England and starting to write horror stories.
He was very successful, writing 10 books of short stories and appearing on both radio and TV to tell them. He also wrote 14 novels and a number of plays, most of which were produced but not published. He was an avid nature lover and many of his stories reflect this.
Producer: Lawrence Jackson
Made for BBC 7 by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast in 2005.
MON 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jp91)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b007jv64)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
MON 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jm2f)
[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 Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary (b00cq1d4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 21:15 The Lady Detectives (b00cq1d6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
MON 22:00 Radio Shuttleworth (b00cq188)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 22:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b007vd6t)
Series 1
Pulp Non-Fiction
The Berkhamsted author's 'sideways look at celebrity pets' is soaring up the ratings.
Welcome to the world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail.
He may have only one pair of trousers and a seven-figure Amazon sales ranking, but no writer knows more about freeloading than Ed Reardon.
Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon.
Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds.
Featuring:
Stephanie Cole
John Fortune
Sally Grace
Sally Hawkins
Mel Hudson
Martin Hyder
Emma Kennedy
Rita May
Geoffrey McGivern
Dan Tetsell
Alice Lowe
Vicki Pepperdine
Geoffrey Whitehead
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005
MON 23:00 The Nick Revell Show (b00cq58b)
Series 2
Health and Fitness
When his geraniums laugh at his puny physique, the writer overdoes his new fitness regime.
A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.
With:
Alistair McGowan
Doon MacKichan
Brian Bowles
Charles McKeown
Producer: Ioan Magnusson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993
MON 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jqwj)
Series 3
The Masterson's Magical Marquee, pt 2
The improvised historical family saga's two-part romp about a Victorian travelling circus. With Josie Lawrence. From July 1995.