SATURDAY 23 MAY 2009

SAT 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrts)
The World in Peril
Episode 10
The enigmatic Paddy Flynn reveals more about the hierarchy of asteroid crews.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Other Parts …. Pat Campbell
Other Parts and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1955.
SAT 00:30 A Stone Woman by AS Byatt (m000nmn9)
3. A New World
As Ines' petrification continues, she can now no longer speak and can barely make out Thorsteinn's form with her fading vision.
But another world is opening up to her - a world she finds both terrifying and compelling.
Penelope Wilton reads the powerful conclusion of AS Byatt's sensuous and ultimately uplifting account of one woman's transformation into stone.
Producer: Claudine Toutoungi
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in December 2004
SAT 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007znms)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 6
9. The Final Problem
The Baker Street sleuth's greatest enemy, Professor Moriarty, pursues him across Europe - towards the ultimate confrontation.
Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson
Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and adapted by Michael Hardwick.
Sherlock Holmes …. Carleton Hobbs
Dr Watson …. Norman Shelley
Professor Moriarty …. Rolf Lefebvre
Peter Steiler …. Alan Dudley
Swiss Boy …. Gordon Gardner
Produced by Martyn C Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1967.
SAT 01:30 Sherlock Holmes (b00kkdkp)
The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger
A long-buried secret induces pity and sorrow in the Great Detective.
Holmes and Watson learn the truth about the death of a lion tamer many years before, which left his wife horribly mutilated and hidden behind a veil. A tale of abuse and revenge fuelled by the ultimate betrayal of a lover and the physical and emotional scars it has left behind.
Taken from 'The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes' published in 1927 some years after Holmes' death at the hands of Moriarty, this a story from the latter period of Sherlock Holmes mysteries.
Read by James Nickerson.
Producer: Joanne Reardon
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004.
SAT 02:00 Dave Sheasby - The Real Dennis Truelove (b007jt9x)
Episode 5
The police start closing in on the fugitive bank employee, on the run at a Cornish hotel. Stars Fine Time Fontayne.
SAT 02:15 The Recall Man (b00kkdkk)
Stepping Out
Dr Joe Aston feels threatened when a rival psychologist is hired to investigate baffling attacks on women. Stars Jeremy Swift.
SAT 03:00 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 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007s8d9)
A Nation Once Again; The Very Extreme of Human Wretchedness
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
SAT 04:15 Cutting a Dash (b007k0t0)
Punctuating the Future
Are email and the internet influencing how we punctuate? Lynne Truss concludes her investigation.
SAT 04:30 Alan Bennett - Telling Tales (b007jnnz)
No Mean City
The writer concludes his reminiscences of post-war Leeds, and describes the hold it's always maintained on him into adulthood.
SAT 04:45 The Wind in the Willows (b007jxkw)
The Return of Ulysses
Mole, Ratty, Badger and Toad attempt to recapture Toad Hall. Alan Bennett reads Kenneth Grahame's classic tale.
SAT 05:00 23/05/2009 (b00kmjmy)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
SAT 08:00 Big Toe Books (b00kmjn0)
A daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Contact address: Big Toe Books BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
SAT 09:00 Unearthing Mysteries (b007tzqc)
Series 5
Tri Radial Cairns
Professor Aubrey Manning examines possible astronomical alignments in prehistoric stone piles discovered in Northumberland.
SAT 09:30 Doctor Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag (b0084rs7)
The Day Dandini Came to Town
Finlay finds that a touring Cinderella has more in common with La Traviata than a pantomime.
Sue Rodwell's six-part dramatisation of AJ Cronin's stories about the early years of the celebrated doctor.
Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.
Stars John Gordon Sinclair as Dr Finlay, Brian Pettifer as Dr Cameron, Katy Murphy as Janet, Beverley Klein as Lettie Le Brun, Shaun Scott as Samuels, David Bannerman as Doggy and David Tennant as Jackson.
Producer: Jeremy Howe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
SAT 10:00 Dad's Army (b007jw4r)
Permission to Speak, Sir!: Dad's Army on Radio
They don't like it up 'em!
After winning their frontline TV offensive, how did the Home Guard win the war of the ears with a rear-guard action for radio?
Legendary comedy producer Harold Snoad and actor Michael Knowles reveal how they went about adapting the classic BBC TV hit series for radio – as the writers Jimmy Perry and David Croft were too busy to do it themselves.
Over three hours, enjoy six Dad's Army episodes made for radio:
* The Enemy Within the Gates: Captain Mainwaring's platoon try to capture Germans for a reward. From February 1974.
* Don't Forget the Diver: The platoon don crazy camouflage in a drill to attack Captain Square's HQ. From February 1975.
* The Day the Balloon Went Up: Captain Mainwaring gets carried away with the platoon's war effort. From June 1975.
* When Did You Last See Your Money?: Corporal Jones panics when he misplaces £500 collected for the servicemen's canteen. From May 1975.
* If the Cap Fits: Captain Mainwaring promotes fractious Private Frazer, with unexpected results. February 1975.
* Put That Light Out: Captain Mainwaring's platoon causes havoc in Walmington-on-Sea during an air-raid. From February 1975.
Snoad and Knowles reflect on how the cast took to re-recording the shows without cameras and discuss the changes that had to be made to make the TV scripts work.
The duo's association with Dad's Army continued with their spin off radio comedy series, It Sticks Out Half A Mile.
Producer: Martin Dempsey
Made for BBC 7 and first brodcast in November 2005.
SAT 13:00 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
Fast-moving thriller set in 1990s Paris. Prison official Yvette Lalande is kidnapped on her way to work by a notorious group of terrorists. But what is the link to events in Algeria thirty years before? It appears 'someone in authority' has good reason to hamper Commissaire Grosset's police investigations.
Starring David Calder as Commissaire Grosset, Peter Jeffrey as Michel Corbillard, Alex Jennings as Jean Lenoir, Patti Holloway as Yvette Lalande and Natasha Pyne as Danielle Lesueur.
Scripted by Roger Danes
Directed by Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
SAT 14:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00kmls2)
The Radio Detectives: The Voice of Sherlock Holmes
Armed with pipe, hansom cab and violin, Professor Jeffrey Richards probes the varied incarnations of the Baker Street sleuth.
SAT 15:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00kmls4)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs: The Crooked Man
The sleuth probes a death in Aldershot, but this tale of love and treachery begins during 'The Indian Mutiny'. From 1966.
SAT 15:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00kmls6)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs: The Copper Beeches
Violet can work at the sinister Rucastle home, on the condition that she cuts her hair. The sleuth is intrigued. From 1959.
SAT 16:00 Crime Catch-Up (b00kn4m9)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs: The Red-Headed League
The sleuth's visitor is asked to copy out the 'Encyclopaedia Britannica' for four pounds a week. But is it a hoax? From 1964.
SAT 16:30 Crime Catch-Up (b00kmls8)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs: The Final Problem
The sleuth's enemy Professor Moriarty pursues him across Europe - towards the ultimate confrontation. From 1967.
SAT 17:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00kmlrp)
Series 5
Episode 31
The American funny man is in Durham, North Carolina, with southern string band Big Medicine and Linda and Robin Williams.
SAT 18:00 The Price of Fear (b007jmty)
Not Wanted on the Voyage
Horror legend Vincent Price introduces a tale of the despotic Henrietta Forsythe's sway over her secretary and new husband.
Stars Margaret Courtenay as Henriette Forsythe, Sandor Eles as Carlos Mendoza, Henry Stamper as The Captain and Sheila Grant as Evelyn.
Scripted by William Ingram.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1983.
SAT 18:30 A Short Journey into Space Force, with Charles Chilton (b00kmlrm)
Episode 2
The BBC producer Charles Chilton talks about his 1950s sci-fi trilogy 'Journey into Space', and its revival 30 years later.
SAT 18:40 James Follett - The Silent Vulcan (b007jsky)
Episode 2
In a new development, the town of Pentworth's mystery wall appears to have vanished at Sister Mary's cottage. Detective Sergeant Mike Malone continues to keep the whereabouts of Ellen, Vikki and Claire secret from cult leader Adrian Roscoe. Meantime the morning starts quietly...
After a UFO crash landed, the Sussex town of Pentworth was cut off by a mysterious invisible and impenetrable wall.
'The Silent Vulcan' is the final book in James Follett's sci-fi trilogy of the same name.
Read by Nigel Anthony.
Producer: Elizabeth Allard.
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004.
SAT 19:00 Unearthing Mysteries (b007tzqc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 19:30 Doctor Finlay: Adventures of a Black Bag (b0084rs7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
SAT 20:00 Dad's Army (b007jw4r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SAT 23:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00kmlrp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 today]


SUNDAY 24 MAY 2009

SUN 00:00 The Price of Fear (b007jmty)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 00:30 A Short Journey into Space Force, with Charles Chilton (b00kmlrm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]
SUN 00:40 James Follett - The Silent Vulcan (b007jsky)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:30 Andrew Rissik - Troy (b007jv5p)
The Death of Achilles
With the bloody Trojan War at stalemate, Agamemnon hits on a cunning plan. City downfall trilogy with Paul Scofield.
SUN 04:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b00kmlrp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:00 24/05/2009 (b00kmn12)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
SUN 08:00 Big Toe Books (b00kmn14)
A daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Contact address: Big Toe Books BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
SUN 09:00 Dave Sheasby - The Real Dennis Truelove (b007jtb8)
A bank employee escapes his job to head off on an adventure, hoping the police don't catch him. Stars Fine Time Fontayne.
SUN 10:15 Rose Tremain (b00kmn16)
Peerless
A man's friendship with a penguin helps him come to terms with a friend's death many years ago. Read by Oliver Ford Davies.
SUN 10:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jzcw)
I'll See You at the Source
As their Thames quest climaxes, Jennifer attempts to drink Sam under the table. Stars Timothy Spall. From January 1993.
SUN 11:00 That Reminds Me (b007jn6n)
Series 2
Roy Hudd
Entertainer Roy Hudd looks back at his long and varied career on stage, TV and radio, as he entertains an audience.
Featuring memories of stars he has worked with from Billy Dainty to Arthur Askey, plus his love of music hall.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2000.
SUN 11:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jpcs)
Series 3
Sam Spade - The Original Private Eye
An exploration of the development of Dashiell Hammett’s tough, hard-boiled, wisecracking - but principled - investigator Sam Spade.
Series about classic detectives presented by Professor Jeffrey Richards.
With Peter Stead.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
SUN 12:00 Potting On (b00kmn18)
Stones
Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a garden centre.
While Pam still feels young, Gordon wants to dive, slippers first, into middle age. She wants to go to a rock gig, but he wants to join the bowls club.
Let battle among the begonias commence!
Starring Pam Ayres and Geoffrey Whitehead as Pam and Gordon Grant.
With Trevor Bannister, Karl Theobald and Alex Tregear.
Sitcom by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds.
Producer Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2008.
SUN 12:30 Listen to Les (b00kmn1b)
From 11/09/1983
Cissie Braithwaite is in despair as she instructs Ada Shufflebotham on the finer points of ballet.
Starring Les Dawson. With Roy Barraclough, Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn.
Music by Brian Fitzgerald.
Scripted and produced by James Casey.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in September 1983.
SUN 13:00 Andrew Rissik - Troy (b007jv5p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 today]
SUN 14:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1d)
Stand-up on 7: The World of Pete and Dud
The pioneering duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore perform some of their greatest sketches from 'A Bit of a Chat' to 'Art Gallery'.
SUN 15:15 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1g)
Sounding Off with McGough
Roger McGough's poetic reflections on the world's inhabitants. Recorded at the Bath Festival.
SUN 15:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1j)
J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook: The Rich Brothers
The veteran of many parts recalls a slapstick act, as he uncovers the truth and falsity of showbiz cliches. Stars Peter Jones.
SUN 16:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1l)
Round the Horne: The Curse of the Black Stumps
Dark doings for Kenneth Horne in 'The Curse of the Blackstumps', plus a very bona ballet. With Kenneth Williams. From May 1966.
SUN 16:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1n)
Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better: Envy
The Welsh comedian continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins. With Tim Key and Tim Minchin.
SUN 17:00 That Reminds Me (b007jn6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 17:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jpcs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Voices From the Grave (b007jwn1)
The Lie
Lisa gives up everything for her lover - and wanders a disused Victorian psychiatric hospital.
Series of four chilling and intimate dramas inspired by existing ghost stories from around Britain.
Lynn Ferguson's horror stars Leslie Ash as Angela, Ian Dunn as Colin, Leslie Ash as Angela, Janet Brown as Martha/Lisa's Mother, Geoffrey Beevers as the Caretaker and Lynn Ferguson as Lisa.
Producers: Luke Fresle/Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2006.
SUN 18:30 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 (b007jwnm)
Episode 4
Billy Pilgrim arrives in Dresden on the eve of its destruction by Allied bombing. Concluded by Robert Jezek.
SUN 19:00 Potting On (b00kmn18)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]
SUN 19:30 Listen to Les (b00kmn1b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
SUN 20:00 Dave Sheasby - The Real Dennis Truelove (b007jtb8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 21:15 Rose Tremain (b00kmn16)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
SUN 21:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jzcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 today]
SUN 22:00 The News Quiz (b00kmnfl)
Fresh from 4 - Catch up as Sandi Toksvig and the teams battle it out over the latest news events. First heard on Radio 4 on 15th May 2009.
SUN 22:30 Chain Reaction (b00kwf75)
Series 1
Jimmy Carr Interviews Matt Lucas
Deadpan comedian, Jimmy Carr and 'Little Britain' funny man, Matt Lucas in the tag talk show, where this week's guest is next week's interviewer.
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005.
SUN 23:00 Four Sad Faces (b00g1825)
Episode 1
Quirky sketches from Jack Bernhardt, Tobi Wilson, Tom Crowley and Rachel Lerman - who all met at school. From December 2008.
SUN 23:30 Spats (b007jzp6)
Mankind v Nature
Are we with Mother Nature - or against her?
Luke Roberts tackles the big arguments and solves them using light entertainment.
Producer: Ed Morrish
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2006


MONDAY 25 MAY 2009

MON 00:00 Voices From the Grave (b007jwn1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5 (b007jwnm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Andrew Rissik - Troy (b007jv5p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:15 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:15 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]
MON 04:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00kmn1n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 25/05/2009 (b00kmp3s)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
MON 08:00 The Goon Show (b007k0fk)
Series 10
The Last Smoking Seagoon
Ned is quitting nicotine, but Grytpype-Thynne has other ideas. End of the regular series. With Spike Milligan. From January 1960.
MON 08:30 The Harpoon (b007lnx3)
Series 1
Episode 4
Nostalgia galore in the Empire's favourite weekly magazine.
With Susie Brann, Julian Dutton, Peter Baynham, Alistair McGowan, Mary Elliot-Nelson and Bryonie Pritchard.
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1991.
MON 09:00 Ballylenon (b00890fc)
Series 6
Episode 6
Do Muriel's visions bode prosperity and will the Hawthornes move on?
Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine McCartney as Vivienne Hawthorne, Gerard Murphy as Rev Samuel Hawthorne, Charlie Bonnar as Packy McGoldrick, Ali White as Josie Doherty and John Hewitt as Guard Gallagher.
Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes.
Directed at BBC Belfast by Peter Kavanagh.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
MON 09:30 Unnatural Acts (b00kmtcc)
Series 2
Monkey Business
A lion with poor cuticles? A trip to a safari park trip throws up unexpected attractions. Stars Jeremy Hardy. From April 1988.
MON 10:00 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 11:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007jq0h)
Episode 1
Christine de Pizan's allegorical fantasy about building a fortress for women from valour, virtue and wisdom. Stars Kathryn Hunt.
MON 11:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007rfcf)
Age Gap
Two women are thrown together in a rest home. Dark comedy about growing older. Stars Phyllida Law and Imelda Staunton.
MON 12:00 The Goon Show (b007k0fk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 Who Goes There? (b00kmtcf)
Series 2
Episode 3
Martin Young chairs the quiz looking at lives of the noteworthy and notorious from the history books.
Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego with guests Carmen Callil and Victoria Glendinning.
Producer: Aled Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July1998.
MON 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (m0009cbv)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Three Gables
The Baker Street sleuth faces threats as he investigates a house buyer, who's also after all of its contents...
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective investigates.
Stars Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson.
Steve Dixie ...... Frank Singuineau
Mary Maberly ...... Grizelda Hervey
Susan ...... Nicolette Bernard
Sutro ...... Allan Haines
Isadora Klein ...... Selma Vas Dias
Inspector Lestrade ...... Humphrey Morton
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1964.
MON 13:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp3qg)
Episode 1
On a foggy London night, a chance meeting for MP John Chilcote looks set to become life changing. Read by Nicholas Boulton.
MON 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007s9rl)
The Far-Seeing Merchants of Northern Venice; So Much Wretchedness
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
MON 14:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2cs)
Restoring the Ghosts
Leslie Forbes explores the links between artists and gardens.
In the first programme, the daughter of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, Angelica Garnett returns to the garden of her childhood in Sussex.
Charleston inspired the Bloomsbury set, but can the garden match her memory?
Producer: Sally Flatman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
MON 14:30 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00801nd)
Episode 1
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.
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989.
MON 14:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kmtmn)
Wanting to Go Unnoticed
The much-loved writer reads tales of his Yorkshire family. Retiring to a village in the Dales, his mam is hugely intimidated.
MON 15:00 War and Peace (b007k444)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00kmtmq)
A daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Contact address: Big Toe Books BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
MON 17:00 Ballylenon (b00890fc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 17:30 Unnatural Acts (b00kmtcc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrxn)
The World in Peril
Episode 11
In Paddy's absence, Captain Jet Morgan and the crew of the Discovery set out to explore the asteroid.
It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Flynn …. Pat Campbell
Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1955.
MON 18:30 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 19:00 The Goon Show (b007k0fk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 Who Goes There? (b00kmtcf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
MON 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (m0009cbv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]
MON 20:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp3qg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]
MON 21:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007jq0h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007rfcf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 The Harpoon (b007lnx3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 22:30 Acropolis Now (b007szvj)
Series 2
Plays
Heraclitus' chance to escape Athens could expose Xanthippe to scorn and ridicule. Stars Stephen Moore. From March 2002.
MON 23:00 Chewin' the Fat (b00kmtms)
Greg Hemphill and Ford Kiernan present Radio Scotland's 'topical' banter and sketch show. From April 1998.
MON 23:30 The Nick Revell Show (b00cnhys)
Series 2
The Wedding
Preparing for his old flame's nuptials, writer Nick is seething over the way she dumped him.
A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.
With:
Alistair McGowan
Doon MacKichan
Brian Bowles
Leslie Sharp
Joanna Brookes
Elizabeth Bennet
Stephen Tomkinson
Producer: Ioan Magnusson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993.


TUESDAY 26 MAY 2009

TUE 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrxn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv0y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (m0009cbv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp3qg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007jq0h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007rfcf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 War and Peace (b007k444)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007s9rl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2cs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00801nd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]
TUE 04:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kmtmn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 26/05/2009 (b00kmys4)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7. Contact: CBeebies Radio London, W12 7RJ. Phone: 08700 100 700.
TUE 08:00 The Navy Lark (b0082hrc)
Series 3
The Hitch-Hiking Counterfeiter
A retired 'Major' cadges a lift on HMS Troutbridge, but the crew soon pay the price.

Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Ronnie Barker as Major Piecraft and Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey.

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976.

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1961.
TUE 08:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c)
Series 1
Plethora Princess Regent
Awaiting news of a new pope, Plethora takes over Monte Guano and Ludovico takes to his bed.
Neal Anthony's 16th-century comedy drama about the chaotic lives of the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most inconsequential city-state.
Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco, Paul Bigley as Alessandro, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatore, Christopher Kelham as Guido and Kim Wall as Father Ignazio.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
TUE 09:00 Second Thoughts (b00kmys6)
Series 3
Come as You Were
Bill tries to disrupt Liza and Richard's affair, and gets involved with 'Emma Peel'.
Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith beginning married life, whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and Faith's teenage children.
Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Belinda Lang as Liza, Geoffrey Whitehead as Richard, Jo Kendall as Marjorie, Brian Bowles as Dennis and Ian Lindsay as Ray.
Series three 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'.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991.
TUE 09:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmz2)
Series 1
Voodoo Island
A missionary expedition leads to peril in the far flung Caribbean. Stars Roy Hudd and Denise Coffey. From August 1986.
TUE 10:00 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 11:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007m9j0)
Episode 2
Building the walls and visions of valour. Christine de Pizan's allegorical fantasy of a fortress for women. With Kathryn Hunt.
TUE 11:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007q9f4)
Anton in Eastbourne
Mr Anton arrives for a sojourn. He expects to meet a young lady with a little dog. He knows her stories well. But he doesn't yet seem to know his own.
Peter Tinniswood's last play was created as a tribute for Chekhov admirer, Paul Scofield.
Anton ...... Paul Scofield
Miss Mansfield ...... Emma Fielding
Mr Kember ...... Stephen Thorne
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
TUE 12:00 The Navy Lark (b0082hrc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m)
Series 5
The Desperate Hours
After news of a jailbreak at Wormwood Scrubs, Albert and Harold get some unwelcome visitors.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold. With Leonard Rossiter as Johnny Spooner and Paddy Joyce as Frank Ferris.
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 eight series for TV.
Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Produced by Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in May 1974.
TUE 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (m0009cq5)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Retired Colourman
"Burglary has always been an alternative profession and I have little doubt that I should have come to the front."
A simple case of adultery and theft turns sinister for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective.
Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson.
Josiah Amberle ...... John Ruddock
Reverend Elman ...... Garard Green
Inspector MacKinnon ...... Michael Kilgarriff
Mrs Hudson ...... Janet Morrison
Barker ...... Denis Goacher
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1964.
TUE 13:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp62r)
Episode 2
MP John Chilcote and his dead ringer John Loder set out to exchange identities, but can they succeed? Read by Nicholas Boulton.
TUE 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007sxvl)
The Census of 1841; Phytophthora Infestans
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
TUE 14:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2f6)
A Photographer's Eye
Leslie Forbes meets Don McCullin, who moved from war photography to fighting battles for the Somerset countryside.
TUE 14:30 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 14:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kmys8)
Dad
Recalling tales of his Yorkshire family, the writer reflects on his Dad - who Mam says never pushes himself forward.
TUE 15:00 War and Peace (b007k45b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00kmysb)
A daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Contact address: Big Toe Books BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
TUE 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00kmys6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
TUE 17:30 Huddwinks (b00fsmz2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
TUE 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js0f)
The World in Peril
Episode 12
Jet and Lemmy ignore sinister audio warnings as they approach the centre of the asteroid.
It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Various …. Pat Campbell
Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1955.
TUE 18:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv16)
The Children of Witchwood
Episode 2
Jackie Lamont has now, just as mysteriously, re-appeared. She seems to have somehow been given special telepathic powers.
TUE 19:00 The Navy Lark (b0082hrc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k27m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (m0009cq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp62r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007m9j0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007q9f4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Ectoplasm (b007wwd6)
The Adventure of the Stupid Ignorant Americans
Lord Zimbabwe faces his greatest challenge yet - a voyage to the moon to rescue an American who has been subject to a cruel alien snatch.
This could only mean one thing.......
Dan Freedman and Nick Romero’s comedy about the swashbuckling exploits of Lord Zimbabwe, occultist and adventurer.
Lord Zimbabwe ...... Nick Romero
Dr Lilac ...... Dan Freedman
Cletus ...... Owen Oakeshott
Marylou Coyotecock ...... Sophie Aldred
Vicar ...... Colin Guthrie
Theremin ...... Peter Donaldson
Other parts played by the cast.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000.
TUE 23:00 The End of the Road Show (b00kmysd)
Episode 2
The sketch comedy hits Edinburgh, with Nick Hancock, Tony Hawks and Neil Mullarkey entertaining local students. From December 1991.
TUE 23:30 At Home With The Snails (b00cbcpb)
Series 2
Episode 4
After faking their deaths, can George and Beverly finally manage to reunite their family?
Conclusion of Gerard Foster's comedy drama
George ..... Geoffrey Palmer
Beverley ..... Angela Thorne
Alex ..... Gerard Foster
Rose ..... Miranda Hart
Hosana ..... Debra Stephenson
Leboeuf ..... Dave Lamb
Yates ..... Tim Verrinder
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2002.


WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2009

WED 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js0f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv16)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (m0009cq5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp62r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007m9j0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007q9f4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 War and Peace (b007k45b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007sxvl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2f6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00803g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 04:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kmys8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 27/05/2009 (b00kn1hw)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007synp)
Series 4
The Old School Reunion
Surprises are in store as the lad heads back for prize-giving day at his old school.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1957.
WED 08:30 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience (b007k4qk)
Episode 2
Unhappily married Patrick and Maureen should have split long ago, but snipe at each other during their classical music show instead.
Starring Imelda Staunton as Maureen Maybe and Patrick Barlow as Patrick Maybe.
Special guest star Juliet Stevenson is not impressed.
Doctor ...... Peter Jones
Irina ...... Leonie Mellinger
John ...... John Ramm.
Written by Patrick Barlow.
Script associate: Nev Fountain
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.
WED 09:00 After Henry (b007jq6v)
Series 3
A Box of Chocolates
"Any treaty drawn up with my mother would have to include strict boundary agreements. I'm afraid she has the same attitude to frontiers as Genghis Khan. And now I come to think of it, the similarities don't end there."
When Sarah meets an old flame 30 years on, her mother manages to interrupt them once again.
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.
Sarah ...... Prunella Scales
Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson
Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Clare ...... Gerry Cowper
Peter ...... Tom Wilkinson
Doctor ...... Julie Berry
Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1987.
WED 09:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2my)
Series 1
Tennis Balls and Military Tattoos
The landladies' accountant and guest from the clergy discover they've got something in common...
Sue Limb's sitcom about events at the Abbeyfield Guest House in Norwich.
Denise Coffey and Miriam Margolyes star as sisters Alison and Maud.
Alison …. Denise Coffey
Maud …. Miriam Margolyes
Mr Mullett …. Chris Emmett
Bernard …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Leslie …. Nickolas Grace
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003
WED 10:00 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 11:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mb45)
Episode 3
The brilliance of women's minds, and a Temple of Female Learning. Christine de Pizan's allegorical fantasy. With Kathryn Hunt.
WED 11:15 Peter Tinniswood - On the Whole It's Been Jolly Good (b007jqrr)
Maurice Denham is former MP Sir Plympton Makepeace reflecting on 60 glorious years in power. Peter Tinniswood's comic monologue.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007synp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 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.
WED 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0bnv4wn)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 3
The Problem of Thor Bridge
An American asks the Great Detective to help him clear the name of a governess charged with murdering his wife.
Starring Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes. The actor played the Baker Street sleuth in 80 radio dramas between 1952 and 1969.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's tale was first published in 1922 as part of the 'Case Book of Sherlock Holmes' stories. Adapted by Michael Hardwick.
With Norman Shelley as Dr Watson, Humphrey Morton as Sergeant Coventry, Robert Ayres as Neil Gibson and Beryl Calder as Grace Dunbar and Mrs Hudson.
Producer: Robin Midgley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1962.
WED 13:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp7xf)
Episode 3
Attending Lady Bramfell's reception as Chilcote, Loder partakes in the night's crystal ball gazing. Read by Nicholas Boulton.
WED 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007szmd)
Famine; The Famine in Skibbereen
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
WED 14:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2gk)
The Holy Suburb - Cookham
Leslie Forbes peers behind the Berkshire privet hedges in search of renowned artist Stanley Spencer's personal Eden.
WED 14:30 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 14:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kn1hy)
Aunty Myra
The writer recalls tales of his Yorkshire family. Visiting his mother's sister, she always shared her military service memories.
WED 15:00 War and Peace (b007k46d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00kn1j0)
A daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Contact address: Big Toe Books BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
WED 17:00 After Henry (b007jq6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 17:30 Alison and Maud (b007k2my)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js2r)
The World in Peril
Episode 13
As the asteroid ship flounders, Mitch and Lemmy make a shocking discovery.
It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Flynn …. Pat Campbell
Various …. Alan Tilvern
Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1955.
WED 18:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv1f)
The Children of Witchwood
Episode 3
The Cranford Family have a carefully guarded secret - their surviving descendants possess incredible supernatural powers.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007synp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b00bx006)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
WED 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0bnv4wn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]
WED 20:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp7xf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]
WED 21:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mb45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Peter Tinniswood - On the Whole It's Been Jolly Good (b007jqrr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience (b007k4qk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 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.
WED 23:00 Stand-Up on 7 (b008h5z8)
Sean Hughes - Live
The frank and funny Irish comedian - captured at the end of his 1995 tour, entertaining an audience in Glasgow.
WED 23:45 Sounding Off with McGough (b007k4cn)
Episode 3
Roger McGough's poetic reflections on 'the meaning of life'
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.


THURSDAY 28 MAY 2009

THU 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js2r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv1f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b0bnv4wn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dp7xf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mb45)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Peter Tinniswood - On the Whole It's Been Jolly Good (b007jqrr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 War and Peace (b007k46d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007szmd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2gk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00804b2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 04:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kn1hy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 28/05/2009 (b00kn4l6)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
THU 08:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k0st)
Bravo Chantal!
The veteran reveals how hunting for financial backing can lead a film producer into many interesting and unusual by-ways of the entertainment industry.
British show business doyen, 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 July 1986.
THU 08:30 An Actor's Life for Me (b007szmj)
Series 1
Separate Troubles
Robert and Sue have fallen out and she’s chucked him out. What could possibly bring them together again?
John Gordon Sinclair stars in Paul Mayhew-Archer's sitcom.
Robert Wilson ..... John Gordon Sinclair
Desmond Shaw ..... Gary Waldhorn
Sue ..... Caroline Quentin
With:
Sally Grace
Rosemary Martin
Jean Campbell-Dallas
Christopher Scott
Jonathan Kydd
John Baddeley
Producer: Paul Spencer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1989.
THU 09:00 Doctor at Large (b00b6z49)
Disengagement
Simon Sparrow gets inadvertently betrothed, so it's up to Benskin and Spratt to help him out.
The misadventures of newly qualified doctor, Simon Sparrow - adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor at Large' published in 1955.
Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Alethea Charlton as Anthea de Beere-Sidebotham, Ambrosine Phillpotts as Mrs de Beere-Sidebotham and Peter Williams as Mr de Beere-Sidebotham.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1969.
THU 09:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kn4l8)
Series 4
In the News
The difference between fact and fiction and opinion...that's easily defined isn't it? Ask Miss Reid.
School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.
Stars Brigitte Forsythe as Mrs Eastwood, Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Michael Cochrane as Mr Maxwell, Teresa Gallagher as Miss Featherstone, Jacqueline Beatty as Miss Reid, Janice Acquah as Mrs Khan, Paul Copley as Mr Long and Amanda Gordon as Miss Spivey.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2005.
THU 10:00 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 11:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007md2c)
Episode 4
The female virtues of loyalty and faithfulness. Christine de Pizan's allegorical fortress fantasy. With Kathryn Hunt.
THU 11:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jw6t)
Mr Reliable
It's Mr Openshaw's job to listen to people. He goes to their houses to listen to them talk.
Mrs Flenswick is one of his visitees. But he doesn't listen to her at all...
Peter Tinniswood's drama stars Peter Sallis as Mr Oakenshaw and Edna Dore as Mrs Flenswick.
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
THU 12:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k0st)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 My Music (b00kn4lb)
Steve Race quizzes John Amis, Frank Muir, Ian Wallace and Denis Norden on Strauss and Cole Porter. From May 1990.
THU 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (m00094zr)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Sussex Vampire
A Peruvian woman is accused of sucking her children's blood.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective investigates.
Stars Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson.
Ferguson ...... Stephen Jack
Dolores ...... Gladys Spencer
Mrs Ferguson ...... Josefina Ray
Mrs Mason ...... Margaret Welfit
Jack ...... Peter Bartlett
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1964.
THU 13:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dpl2p)
Episode 4
Acclaimed in the Commons as MP Chilcote, will an event from Loder's past unmask his true identity? Read by Nicholas Boulton.
THU 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007t2v3)
Fever; Emigration
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
THU 14:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2hz)
The Plant Hunters
Leslie Forbes pays a visit to London's Kew Gardens to investigate the enthusiasm of plant hunters and botanical artists.
THU 14:30 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 14:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kn5x3)
Aunty Kathleen
Recalling tales of his Yorkshire family, the writer reflects on the brisk marriage of his Mam's sister.
THU 15:00 War and Peace (b007jm0v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00kn5x5)
A daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Contact address: Big Toe Books BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
THU 17:00 Doctor at Large (b00b6z49)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
THU 17:30 King Street Junior Revisited (b00kn4l8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
THU 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js56)
The World in Peril
Episode 14
Jack Evans reveals the Martians' Earth invasion plans to Lemmy and Mitch.
It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
CAST:
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Various …. Alan Tilvern
Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1955.
THU 18:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv1m)
The Children of Witchwood
Episode 4
Is there a connection between the six children that were burnt as witches in the 17th century and Jackie Lamont's disappearance?
THU 19:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k0st)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 My Music (b00kn4lb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
THU 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (m00094zr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]
THU 20:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dpl2p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]
THU 21:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007md2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jw6t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 An Actor's Life for Me (b007szmj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 22:30 All the World's a Globe (b007jwt1)
5. The Male Nude and Charlton Heston
From St Francis to Buddhism
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.
Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by Jim Broadbent and Martin Duncan.
With guest star Peter Barker.
With thanks to
Patrick Barlow
Jim Broadbent
Martin Duncan
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990.
THU 22:45 Creme de la Crime (b007jr3j)
Series 1
The Cheese Killer
Michael Feydeau and David Pershore review the murderous case of Charles Sparrow. Stars Punt and Dennis. From September 2001.
THU 23:00 The Long Hot Satsuma (b007jwxv)
Episode 1
The zesty Graeme Garden, Alison Steadman and Barry Cryer star in this citrus fruit of a sketch show. From May 1989.
THU 23:30 Masala FM (b007jyfv)
Episode 2
Maz Mazoo gets an offer from Radio Fun FM, Madoona, the Asian Madonna is intent on making her mark on Masala FM, and Shanta's sick of the pair of them.
Six-part sitcom written by Meera Syal
Starring Sanjeev Bhaskar, Nitin Sawheny, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Music by Nitin Sawhney.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1996.


FRIDAY 29 MAY 2009

FRI 00:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js56)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (m00094zr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dpl2p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007md2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jw6t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 War and Peace (b007jm0v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007t2v3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2hz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn (b00805nd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 04:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kn5x3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 29/05/2009 (b00kn7ys)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
FRI 08:00 Round the Horne (b007k2gd)
Series 2
Episode 10
Suspense in Kenneth Horne's 'The Portrait of Florian Thrust', plus a bout of bona wrestling for Julian and Sandy.
With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith
Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.
Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1966.
FRI 08:30 The Alan Davies Show (b00898wy)
Episode 3
After playing a gay miner, struggling actor Alan finds greater fame dressed as a strawberry.
Alan Davies stars in his own six-part sitcom.
Written by Ben Silburn, Tony Roche and Alan Davies.
Alan ...... Alan Davies
Murray ...... Alan Francis
Kate ...... Ronni Ancona
With Debra Stephenson and Dave Lamb.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.
FRI 09:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jv6b)
Series 2
Episode 1
The further adventures of Mr Justice Cocklecarrot, Captain Foulenough, Dr Strabismus (whom God preserve) of Utrecht and Big White Carstairs.
Richard Ingrams, John Wells, John Sessions and Patricia Routledge recreate the world of the JB Morton.
Running in the Daily Express from 1924 to 1975 – JB Morton’s surreally comic ‘Beachcomber’ column paved the way for a great deal of modern humour.
Adapted by Michael Barfield with Richard Ingrams.
Announcer: Brian Perkins
Producer: Harry Thompson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1991.
FRI 09:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008g6v4)
Transport of Delight
Demobbed Old Ned heads south after the war and joins a special construction team.
Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned lax and sour”.
Stars Norman Rossington as Big Jim, Roland Curram as Harold Perkins, Harold Goodwin as Old Ned, David John as Nimrod, Sylvester McCoy as Turps, David Beckett as Chick, Douglas Blackwell as the Farmer and Karen Ascoe as the Farmer’s Daughter.
Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.
Written by Ted Walker.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1987.
FRI 10:00 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 11:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mdzb)
Episode 5
There's jubilant singing at the Chapel of Women, as Kathryn Hunt completes Christine de Pizan's book of fantasy.
FRI 11:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jw6z)
The Duvet Lady
Wrapped in a duvet, Edna recalls her younger days. Will she ever emerge for an evening engagement? Stars Billie Whitelaw.
FRI 12:00 Round the Horne (b007k2gd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kn7yv)
From 13/05/1984
From tackling Britain's recession to Film Extra of the Century.
Michael Bentine stars in the ultimate one man show written and performed by the host.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1984.
FRI 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (m00094ml)
Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs - Series 5
The Three Garridebs
To inherit a fortune, an American asks the sleuth to find two men with his surname.
Another case for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective.
Stars Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley as Dr Watson.
Mrs Hudson ...... Janet Morrison
Inspector Lestrade ...... Humphrey Morton
John Garrideb ...... Eric Anderson
Nathan Garrideb ...... Charles E Stickill
Holloway ...... Harold Reese
Adapted for radio by Michael Hardwick.
Producer Graham Gauld
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in September 1964.
FRI 13:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dps76)
Episode 5
After exchanging identities, MP John Chilcote and John Loder's masquerade is in danger of discovery. Read by Nicholas Boulton.
FRI 14:00 A Short History of Ireland (b007t599)
The Battle of Widow McCormack's Cabbage Patch; The Fenian Brotherhood
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
FRI 14:15 Paper Gardens (b007k2kb)
Subverting the Lawn
Leslie Forbes meets the artists who hung a 'living tapestry' amongst a museum's 15th-century textiles.
FRI 14:30 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 14:45 Alan Bennett - Untold Stories (b00kn8k3)
Mam
Recalling tales of his Yorkshire family, the writer explains how his Mam's memory is beginning to fail.
FRI 15:00 War and Peace (b007k48s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00kn8k5)
A daily children's radio programme on BBC Radio 7. Contact address: Big Toe Books BBC Broadcasting House, London, W1A 1AA. Email: bigtoe@bbc.co.uk.
FRI 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jv6b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
FRI 17:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008g6v4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
FRI 18:00 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007js79)
The World in Peril
Episode 15
Stranded on the surface of the asteroid, Jet Morgan and Doc fight desperately to be rescued.
It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
CAST:
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Flynn …. Pat Campbell
Various …. Alan Tilvern
Rogers/The Martian/Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1956.
FRI 18:30 Wally K Daly (b007jv1s)
The Children of Witchwood
Episode 5
Jackie's extraordinary telepathic powers attract the evil attentions of the eerie Cranford family.
FRI 19:00 Round the Horne (b007k2gd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kn7yv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (m00094ml)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Katherine Thurston - The Masquerader (b00dps76)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mdzb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007jw6z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 The Alan Davies Show (b00898wy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00kn8k7)
Series 1
Sloth
Mark Watson investigates sloth as he continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy.
Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and jealous glances.
Producer: Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007.
FRI 23:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00dgjl0)
Series 2
Episode 6
The showbiz legend gives a lecture to impress the Egyptology Society, but there's a strict dress code. Stars Steve Delaney.
FRI 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007tm7h)
Dave Podmore's World of Cricket
Episode 4
The star player joins a host of Z-list celebrities on a charity walk for mauled dog, Shep.
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.
Producer: Richard Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002.