When a new young Governess arrives at Bly, a remote country house in Essex, she fears that her two young charges, Flora and Miles, may be hiding a dark secret. As the days go by, she witnesses some strange visions which lead her to the conclusion that the house - and the children- are possessed by evil forces.
Starring Cathy Sara at the Governess, Tina Gray as Mrs Grose, Joseph Tremain as Miles and Lulu Popplewell as Floral.
Dramatised by Neville Teller. Directed by Peter Leslie Wild.
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Same Stuff as Stars.
1945 and war is over. Set on showbiz careers in New York, Anne, Jennifer and Neely move in together
Jacqueline Susann's 1960s best seller. Three beautiful young women become best friends as they carve out careers in the entertainment industry.
Stars Madeleine Potter, Barbara Barnes, Julia Ford, Susan Jameson, Jamie Glover and Harry Myers.
Omnibus of episodes six to ten of fifteen - dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus.
To remind her of him while he is abroad, a young man buys his fiancee a snappy puppy called Hector. Read by Crawford Logan. From March 2003.
As the Chester-Perry clerk writes for the house journal, he learns the meaning of poetic justice.
Michael Williams stars as Bristow, the buying clerk from Frank Dickens' famous newspaper cartoon strip. Syndicated internationally, it ran for 41 years in London's Evening Standard.
Bristow ...... Michael Williams
Jones ...... Rodney Bewes
Mrs Purdy ...... Dora Bryan
Hewitt ...... Owen Brenman
Miss Sunman ...... Katy Odey
Fudge ...... Jon Glover
Postboy ...... Simon Schatzberger
Hickford ...... Roger Lloyd Pack
Liftboy ...... Ian Kelland
The end of The Goon Show hailed a fresh decade of change. Russell Davies reveals how broadcasting in the 60s had a bona future.
The Grand Theatre Swansea is a South Wales success story.
It's said to be the theatre where Hollywood star Catherine Zeta Jones first stepped on to a stage, and it's now home to the Swansea Ballet Russe and a thriving community theatre programme.
Geoffrey Wheeler discovers the stories behind the Grand's unassuming façade.
Series visiting variety theatres around the United Kingdom.
The bumbling civil servants scale new heights for grumpy Sir Gregory's latest poster campaign.
A weekly tribute to all those who work in government departments.
Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler. With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and Jo Manning Wilson.
Written by Edward Taylor and John Graham.
'The Men from the Ministry' ran for 14 series between 1962 and 1977. Deryck Guyler replaced Wilfrid Hyde-White from 1966. Sadly many episodes didn't survive in the archive, however the BBC's Transcription Service re-recorded 14 shows in 1980 - never broadcast in the UK, until the arrival of BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Single dad Bryan gets wrapped in red tape at the benefits office.
Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Dilys Laye as the Welfare Lady/Mrs Featherstone-Haugh.
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Zesty sketch show with Alison Steadman, Paul B Davies, Julia Hills, Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer. From June 1989.
The impressionists take a right royal look back over 50 years of British cultural life. With John Culshaw. From June 2002.
The story of Victorian Britain's most decorated soldier. The comedy trio's swashbuckling family romp. With guest Miles Jupp.
Joke-shop owner Miranda has much to learn about retail and men. With Patricia Hodge. From August 2008.
Confusion reigns when Mrs Pike reveals her news of a 'new arrival'. Adapted from TV. With John Le Mesurier. From March 1974.
When a couple inherit a mansion, the wife is strangely captivated. Stars Nicola Pagett, with with the Man in Black, Edward De Souza.
The manipulative Morel fungus guides Gren and Poyly's lives without their tribe.
Millions of years in the future, a colossal banyan tree covers much of the Earth. In its boughs, the last remnants of humanity are fighting for survival, terrorized by carnivorous plants and grotesque insect life.
The Earth has stopped rotating and the Sun's output has increased. Plants are engaged in a constant tropical forest-style frenzy of growth driving other life forms to extinction...
Brian Aldiss's 1962 sci-fi fantasy read by Gareth Thomas.
Abridged in five parts by Lu Kemp.
Fresh from 4, Fred MacAulay's new topical panel show inspired by the latest headlines. With Andy Parsons and Justin Edwards.
The comedian and comic poet get chatting in the tag talk show, where one week's guest is the following week's interviewer.
The story of Victorian Britain's most respected detective - Theseus Faversham.
The comedy sketch trio present swashbuckling tales of four brothers born into the same privileged aristocratic family - Horatius, Theseus, Leonidas and Augustus.
Written by and starring Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck.
Alexandra Faversham ... Ingrid Oliver
Narrator... Miles Jupp.
BBC Radio 7's showcase for up-and-coming comedy writer/performers. Features Jack Bernhardt and Katy Cavanagh. From November 2007.
MONDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2009
MON 00:00 Fear on 4 (b007jmgn)
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MON 00:30 Brian Aldiss - Hothouse (b00mj3gd)
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MON 01:00 Henry James - The Turn of the Screw (b007jvdv)
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MON 02:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00mq4xz)
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MON 03:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00mj3g4)
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MON 03:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00mj3g6)
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MON 04:00 Comedy Catch-Up (b00mj3g8)
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MON 04:30 Comedy Catch-Up (b00mj3gb)
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MON 05:00 07/09/2009 (b00mjjt2)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC7.
MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007js9w)
Series 1
A Stripe for Frazer
When Captain Mainwaring promotes Private Frazer, his new powers go straight to his head...
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Walker …. James Beck
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Captain Bailey …. Michael Knowles
Colonel Square …. Geoffrey Lumsden
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1974.
MON 08:30 Dead Ringers (b007k1xv)
Series 6
Episode 4
More celeb sound-alikes with Del Boy's 'Changing Rooms' makeover and Alan Bennett's party. With Mark Perry. From January 2002.
MON 09:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bbmfj)
What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning
Tribulations of an Uncle By Marriage
After the cottage inferno in Steeple Bumpleigh, Bertie Wooster plots a fake burglary.
A P.G. Wodehouse romp adapted in seven-parts by Chris Miller.
CAST:
Jeeves …. Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster …. Richard Briers
Stilton Cheeswright …. Michael Kilgarriff
Boko Fittleworth …. Jonathan Cecil
Percy, Lord Worplesdon …. Peter Woodthorpe
Nobby Hopwood …. Rosalind Adams
Edwin the Boy Scout …. Denise Bryer
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1978.
MON 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvtb)
Series 2
Episode 1
All set for divorce and a new home, ad man Ken Handley gets a surprise at the agency.
Martin Jarvis stars in Guy Jenkin and Jon Canter’s satire set in the competitive world of advertising
Ken Handley ...... Martin Jarvis
Sandy ...... Christopher Godwin
Freddie ...... Lockwood West
Deborah ...... Rosalind Ayres
Ambrose ...... Paul Jesson
Angus ...... Michael Jenner
Receptionist ...... Stacey Tendeter
Mr Cheater ...... James Griffiths
With Joss Ackland, Miriam Margolyes, John Shrapnel, Imelda Staunton and David Tate.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1984.
MON 10:00 Far from the Madding Crowd (b007jldx)
Autumn
Sergeant Troy's cruel treatment of Fanny comes back to haunt him. Thomas Hardy dramatisation with Janet Maw and Tim McInnerny.
MON 11:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjktk)
Episode 11
1956: Neely's Hollywood career has collapsed. Back in New York she and Anne go to see Neely's old rival Helen Lawson in a new show.
Jacqueline Susann's 1960s best seller. Three beautiful young women are best friends carving out careers in the entertainment industry.
Stars Madeleine Potter, Barbara Barnes, Kerry Shale, Sally Dexter and Coleen Prendergast.
Dramatised in fifteen parts by Yvonne Antrobus.
Producer: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.
MON 11:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qx2y)
Roll Jordan Roll
Rehearsing for the Brecon Jazz Festival, Megan keeps playing a certain melody but where does it come from?
Her musical detective trail leads to the 1880s and the visit to Swansea of a choir of emancipated slaves...
Stars Rakie Ayola as Megan the Fifth, Margaret John as Megan the Third, Helen Griffin as Megan the First, Don Warrington as Frederick Loudin, Phylip Harries as Owan and Rhodri Hugh as the Rev Davies.
Written by Alan Plater.
Stories based on original material researched and collected by Jen Wilson of the Women's Jazz Archive, Swansea.
Composer and Musical Director: Paula Gardiner
Music: Aula Gardiner, Richard Roberts, Peter Churchill, Nia Lynn, Dyfrig Morris and Lee Williams.
Directed in Wales by Alison Hindell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007js9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 12:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00mjktm)
Series 2
Episode 5
James Walton tests and tickles the knowledge of industry pundits and people passionate about pop music.
Team captains Tracey MacLeod and Andrew Collins are joined by Stewart Lee and David Quantick to be put through their musical paces
Reader: Beth Chalmers
Written and researched by James Walton.
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
MON 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvmm)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
2. The General's Last Evening
Lord Peter Wimsey probes the mysterious Mr Oliver - and a pair of tricky wills.
Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Martin Jarvis as George Fentiman and Allan Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman.
British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was first published in 1928.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller.
Producer: Simon Brett.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.
MON 13:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmrk)
Floater
Hitler has won the war...and the totalitarian Nazi regime in Germany has a terrible secret it needs to hide at all costs.
Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei called to investigate a suspicious death.
Best-selling thriller by Robert Harris - dramatised in five-parts by John Dryden.
Xavier March ...... Anton Lesser
Max Jaeger ...... Peter Ellis
Rudi ...... Andrew Sachs
Krause ...... Graham Padden
Jost ...... Robert Portal
Pili ...... Thomas Copeland
Frau Trinkl ...... Amanda Walker
Globus ...... Michael Byrne
Fiebes ...... Ian Gelder
Newsreader ...... Trevor Nichols
Newsreader ...... Alice Arnold
Chat Show Host ...... Ned Sherrin
Author Robert Harris is a former BBC reporter and newspaper journalist.
Producer: John Dryden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
MON 14:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mjm29)
1952 - The Death of George VI
Across the decades, Christopher Lee's vivid account of Britain's fast-paced history. Narrated by Anna Massey, with Robert Powell.
MON 14:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009x1jx)
George Russell
Clive James muses on the influence of one of his university lecturers, and the contents of his cellar.
MON 14:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx6r)
The Return
After finishing school, Grace Melbury returns to her small woodland village, where her childhood sweetheart Giles Winterbourne is waiting for her...
First published in 1887, Thomas Hardy's classic tale of thwarted love and ambition set amongst the woodsmen and women of Little Hintock.
Read by Juliet Stevenson.
Producer: Di Speirs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
MON 14:45 Joy Adamson's Born Free (b007k3lf)
Episode 6
Virginia McKenna, star of the film, reads the classic tale of a lion. The call of the wild starts luring Elsa to her own kind.
MON 15:00 Far from the Madding Crowd (b007jldx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
MON 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00mjm2c)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, Jerry and the Inventions, Dream Master Nightmare and Dizzy.
MON 17:00 PG Wodehouse (b00bbmfj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
MON 17:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvtb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
MON 18:00 The Heart of Hark'un (b007jqbs)
Episode 6
Is Shazir the real enemy? Can Arcos and his hero friends escape the Palace of Memory?
Conclusion of the fantasy-adventure by Peter Thomson and Jamie Thomson.
Arcos ..... Francis Thomson
Kaddah ..... Trevor Peacock
Vanna ..... Liz Whiting
Shazir ..... Crawford Logan
Bereneth ..... Edward Kelsey
Va ..... Melanie Hudson
Alviza ..... Emma Fielding
Rashiq ..... Theresa Streatfeild
Xander ...... Robert Portal
Producer: Peter Hutchings
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in October 1991.
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 Dad's Army (b007js9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 19:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00mjktm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
MON 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 today]
MON 20:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmrk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 today]
MON 21:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjktk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qx2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
MON 22:00 Dead Ringers (b007k1xv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 22:30 Revolting People (b007jzgq)
Series 1
A Helluva Lot of Storm Clouds
Cora discovers she is pregnant, which is embarrassing as she and Ezekiel haven't yet consummated their marriage.
Meanwhile Mary and Captain Brimshaw can hardly control their passion.
Historical sitcom set in Boston in 1770, written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.
Samuel Oliphant …. Jay Tarses
Sergeant McGurk …. Andy Hamilton
Mary Oliphant …. Sophie Thompson
Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet
Ezekiel Spriggs …. Hugh Dennis
Cora Oliphant …. Felicity Montagu
Joshua Oliphant …. Tony Maudsley
Doctor Rutledge …. Philip Pope
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.
MON 23:00 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0075t8y)
Series 1
Episode 3
Being a 'breatharian' sparks disaster for host Mel.
Variety meets sitcom meets sketch show - written and performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine.
With Martin Hyder, Keith Wickham and Jim North.
Script editor: Graeme Garden
Producers: Claire Jones and Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2000.
MON 23:30 The In Crowd (b0089jj8)
Series 1
Episode 4
Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From August 2001.
MON 23:45 The Shuttleworths (b007jmn5)
Series 1
One Foot in the Gravy
Sheffield singer John Shuttleworth must cope while wife Mary is visiting Auntie Janet. Stars Graham Fellows. From March 1994.
TUESDAY 08 SEPTEMBER 2009
TUE 00:00 The Heart of Hark'un (b007jqbs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmrk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjktk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qx2y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Far from the Madding Crowd (b007jldx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mjm29)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009x1jx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx6r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Monday]
TUE 04:45 Joy Adamson's Born Free (b007k3lf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 08/09/2009 (b00mjnwd)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
TUE 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007jlts)
The Redundancy Drive
Captain Povey is keen to clear the decks of Troutbridge, but Number One fights back. Stars Stephen Murray. From October 1968.
TUE 08:30 The Long Hot Satsuma (b00mjnwg)
Episode 3
Aliens take over the BBC! Zesty sketch show with Paul B Davies, Julia Hills, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden. From June 1989.
TUE 09:00 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg)
The Spare Room
DeVere takes a shine to Mrs fforbes-Hamilton's guest. Is Audrey jealous?.
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
Podge Hodge ..... Zulema Dene
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 March 1997.
TUE 09:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jthd)
Series 2
The Banquet
Author Gerald writes off his car whilst trying to help his wife Diana find inspiration.
The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as his wife.
Written by Basil Boothroyd.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter ran from 1976 to 1981
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1977.
TUE 10:00 Far from the Madding Crowd (b007jlfl)
Gathering In
Still courted by her would-be suitors, will Bathsheba ever find love? Thomas Hardy drama with Janet Maw and Tim McInnerny.
TUE 11:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjnwj)
Episode 12
Just as Jennifer finds love and happiness, tragedy strikes. Stars Madeleine Potter, Kerry Shale and Nathan Osgood.
TUE 11:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qvgd)
The Great Pork Pie Mystery
Musical detective Megan's mystery melody quest leads her to a 1920s Swansea tearoom. Stars Rakie Ayola and Margaret John.
TUE 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007jlts)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Counterpoint (b00dbdnr)
2005
Episode 2
Ned Sherrin's music quiz with Worcester's Alan Douglas, Christine Lumsden of Edinburgh and Chris Moore-Bridger from Oswestry.
TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvmr)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
3. Mr Oliver
Probing the last hours of the life of General Fentiman, upper class sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey seeks out his grandson.
Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman and Martin Jarvis as George Fentiman.
British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was first published in 1928.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller.
Producer: Simon Brett.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.
TUE 13:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jms0)
Stuckart
The Berlin detective fraternises with an American journalist. Together they try to unravel the secret at the heart of a post-war Nazi state.
Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei called to investigate a suspicious death.
Robert Harris's thriller dramatised by John Dryden.
Xavier March ...... Anton Lesser
Charlotte Maguire ...... Angeline Ball
Nebe ...... Stratford Johns
Frau Luther ...... Eleanor Bron
Globus ...... Michael Byrne
Krebs William ...... Scott Masson
Stuckart ...... Michael Culver
Producer: John Dryden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
TUE 14:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mjpv3)
1953 - The New Elizabeth Age
Across the decades, Christopher Lee's vivid account of Britain's fast-paced history. Narrated by Anna Massey, with Robert Powell.
TUE 14:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009x4jd)
A Voice Is Born
Clive muses on taking singing lessons. It's all about support and the booby trap in The Flower Song. From July 2001.
TUE 14:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx6z)
Reunited?
Giles Winterbourne is reunited with his childhood sweetheart Grace, but will she return his love? Read by Juliet Stevenson.
TUE 14:45 Joy Adamson's Born Free (b008hq34)
Episode 7
Virginia McKenna reads the classic story of Elsa the lion, as Joy and George try to reintroduce her to the wild.
TUE 15:00 Far from the Madding Crowd (b007jlfl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00mjq8h)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, Jerry and the Inventions, Dream Master Nightmare and Dizzy.
TUE 17:00 To the Manor Born (b007m9wg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
TUE 17:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter (b007jthd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
TUE 18:00 The Laxian Key (b007k2c1)
Episode 1
Mystery space tourist deaths land two planet cleaners with a new contract.
Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.
The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.
CAST:
Arnold …. Chris Larner
Gregor …. Mark Bonner
Evan …. Trevor Cooper
Office …. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum …. Sam Dale
Jo …. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores …. Virge Gilchrist
The Virtual Newsreader …. Bethan Walker
with Paul Biggin, Emma Noakes and Joseph Kloska.
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2007.
TUE 18:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxm)
2. Feeling Watched
On impulse, Vesin gets off his train home and decides to spend the night in a small, sleepy, medieval village town whose mysterious inhabitants surreptitiously watch him.
He intends to stay one night but he stays longer than planned and gets to know the streets of the town. He feels watched even though no one appears to take any notice of him.
Vesin starts wondering whether the people actually come alive at night and wonders if the town is in the hands of cats. Vesin begins to feel uneasy and that strange forces are tugging at his very being.
by Algernon Blackwood
An Unabridged Reading in 4 episodes for Radio 4 Extra's The 7th Dimension
Read by Philip Madoc
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.
TUE 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007jlts)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Counterpoint (b00dbdnr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jms0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjnwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qvgd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 The Long Hot Satsuma (b00mjnwg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 22:30 The Million Pound Radio Show (b007k0sb)
Series 2
Episode 5
Danger sports - and chicken terrorists. Andy Hamilton and Nick Revell's sharp-edged topical humour. From September 1986.
TUE 23:00 Trevor's World of Sport (b00mjq8k)
Series 2
Episode 3
The sports agent's hellish client Ralph acquires every celeb's must have - a stalker. Stars Neil Pearson. From December 2005.
TUE 23:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00mjq8m)
Series 3
Episode 1
An uncle's gift leaves menopausal flower child Merv yearning to discover his inner cowboy. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From May 2004.
WEDNESDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 2009
WED 00:00 The Laxian Key (b007k2c1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jms0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjnwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qvgd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 Far from the Madding Crowd (b007jlfl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mjpv3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009x4jd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx6z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 04:45 Joy Adamson's Born Free (b008hq34)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 09/09/2009 (b00mjs2j)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jsvk)
Series 5
The Election Candidate
The electioneering lad battles to represent East Cheam in the Houses of Parliament.
Stars Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1958.
WED 08:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00dkxjl)
Series 1
Episode 1
It's Daniel's birthday and to soften the blow of his impending middle age, Lucy tries to arrange a birthday party for him. However, it seems all their friends are too busy being parents to attend.
David Tennant and Liz Carling star in David Spicer's sitcom.
Modern life and parenthood, as seen through the eyes of a 30-something couple with no kids.
Daniel ...... David Tennant
Lucy ...... Liz Carling
Katie ...... Meera Syal
Charlotte ...... Polly Frame
Bob ...... Toby Longworth
Andy ...... Tony Gardner
Alison ...... Joanna Brookes
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001.
WED 09:00 No Commitments (b007jmrw)
Series 1
Old Embers
Victoria reunites sister Anna with an old flame.
Simon Brett’s sitcom about the lives and squabbles of three very different sisters.
Anna …. Rosemary Leach
Victoria …. Nicola Pagett
Charlotte …. Celia Imrie
Delia …. Maxine Audley
Guy …. David Swift
Wilson/The Waiter …. Neil Roberts
Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992.
WED 09:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007js4t)
Series 1
Episode 1
An Everyday Story of Towering Genius.
Sue Limb’s four-part soap opera set in and around the Lake District at the turn of the 18th century
Dorothy is worried about William. Stinking Iris concocts herbal remedies. The Leechpedlar delivers a letter and Samuel Tailor Cholericke arrives....
Dorothy Wordsmith ...... Denise Coffey
William Wordsmith ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Samuel Tailor Cholericke ...... Simon Callow
Stinking Iris ...... Miriam Margolyes
The Leechpedlar ...... Chris Emmett
Music by Stephen Oliver and sung by Cantabile
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1985.
WED 10:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jphk)
Episode 1
Cornish parson's daughter Elfride becomes the object of affection for two very different men. Stars Janet Maw and Sean Arnold.
WED 11:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjs2l)
Episode 13
After the tragedy, Neely gets agitated and Anne gets a visit from an old flame. Stars Madeleine Potter and Susan Jameson.
WED 11:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qss0)
Beacons
Musical detective Megan's mystery melody quest comes full circle when she gets a surprise. Stars Rakie Ayola.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jsvk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jsnb)
Series 5
Settle Out of Court the Burkiss Way
Find out 'What's My Gender', plus a galactic 'Panorama'.
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: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980.
WED 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvmz)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
4. Exhumation
Lord Peter Wimsey awaits Doctor Horner's verdict. At a party thrown by pal Margery, the upper class sleuth does a little more digging.
Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman and Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker.
British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was first published in 1928.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller.
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.
WED 13:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007r49s)
Switzerland
Probing the deaths of senior party officials in Adolf Hitler's post-war Germany, detective Xavier March gets a fresh lead...
Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei.
Robert Harris's thriller dramatised by John Dryden.
Xavier March ...... Anton Lesser
Charlotte Maguire ...... Angeline Ball
Nebe ...... Stratford Johns
Rudi ...... Andrew Sachs
Max Jaeger ...... Peter Ellis
Zaugg ...... Patrick Godfrey
Swiss Detective ...... Dan Fineman
Producer: John Dryden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.
WED 14:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mjs2n)
1954 - The Four-Minute Mile, the H-Bomb and Eden's Frustration
Across the decades, Christopher Lee's vivid account of Britain's fast-paced history. Narrated by Anna Massey, with Robert Powell.
WED 14:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009x79j)
Noble Talking Heads
Clive James muses on the first day of televising the House of Lords in 1985. Is parliament the right place for comedy?
WED 14:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx73)
Doubts
Grace Melbury's timber merchant father starts doubting woodsman Giles's suitability for his daughter. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
WED 14:45 Joy Adamson's Born Free (b007k3n6)
Episode 8
Elsa the Lion is adapting to the wild, but it's not all plain sailing. Virginia McKenna concludes Joy Adamson's classic story.
WED 15:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jphk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00mjs2q)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, Jerry and the Inventions, Dream Master Nightmare, Flat Stanley and Dizzy.
WED 17:00 No Commitments (b007jmrw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 17:30 The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (b007js4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
WED 18:00 The Laxian Key (b007k2m3)
Episode 2
London is melting, but planetary decontaminationists Arnold and Gregor get the blame and go on the run.
Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.
The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.
CAST:
Arnold …. Chris Larner
Gregor …. Mark Bonner
Evan …. Trevor Cooper
Office …. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum …. Sam Dale
Jo …. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores …. Virge Gilchrist
Virtual Newsreader …. Bethan Walker
with Paul Biggin, Emma Noakes and Joseph Kloska
Music by Mark Stevens and Chris Larner
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2007.
WED 18:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxy)
3. Ancient Forces
Vesin has been travelling in France when he finds himself stopping off for one night in a sleepy medieval town. There he meets Ilse the beautiful innkeeper's daughter and becomes bewitched by her.
Vesin starts wondering whether the people actually come alive at night and wonders if the town is in the hands of cats. Vesin begins to feel uneasy and that strange forces are tugging at his very being.
by Algernon Blackwood
An Unabridged Reading in 4 episodes for Radio 4 Extra's The 7th Dimension
Read by Philip Madoc
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jsvk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jsnb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
WED 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvmz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 today]
WED 20:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007r49s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 today]
WED 21:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjs2l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qss0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
WED 22:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00dkxjl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 22:30 Miranda Hart's Joke Shop (b00mk4bz)
What a Job!
The tall, life-embracing shopkeeper tries to prove that she can get a proper job. With Patricia Hodge. From August 2008.
WED 23:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b00fnfnq)
Series 1
China
The naive gap year student lands in Beijing for his Duke of Edinburgh Award challenge. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From July 2002.
WED 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jspx)
Series 1
The Mastersons and Johnson
The French Revolution is in full swing and the fate of the Masterson family is inextricably linked with that of a tumble dryer.
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.
Producer: Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993.
THURSDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2009
THU 00:00 The Laxian Key (b007k2m3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvxy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvmz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007r49s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mjs2l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Alan Plater - The Devil's Music (b007qss0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jphk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mjs2n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009x79j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx73)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 04:45 Joy Adamson's Born Free (b007k3n6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 10/09/2009 (b00mk68h)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
THU 08:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00cyywj)
Jenny Secombe
Harry Secombe's daughter chats to Sally Magnusson about growing up with her versatile, funny father - singer, actor and comic.
Producer: Mike Walker
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in August 2006.
THU 08:30 Chambers (b007jp6n)
Series 2
The Phantom Barrister
Fuller-Carp sets about recruiting new blood with a puzzling new worker - and Ruth's mum pays a visit.
Clive Coleman’s sitcom set in perhaps the country's least spectacular law chambers.
John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird
Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet
Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd
Ruth Quirke ...... Sarah Lancashire
With Robert Bathurst, Susan Johnston and Chris Pavlo.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
THU 09:00 The Brothers (b007mc8t)
Series 1
Episode 4
Arson and revolving bow ties - just another day for Nigel and Michael. Stars Adam Godley and Raymond Coulthard. From June 2004.
THU 09:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue (b007jq4v)
Series 1
Shopaholics
Radio's sofa-bound daytime presenter duo look at shopaholics and dangerous ducks.
Bill Dare's sitcom starring Robert Duncan as Mike and Julia Hills as Sue.
With Debbie Isitt, Lee Cornes and Martin Hyder.
Music by Mark Burton.
Producer: Pete Sinclair
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1996.
THU 10:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jpj0)
Episode 2
After failing to marry Stephen, Elfride meets and falls in love with his mentor Henry. Stars Jeremy Irons and Janet Maw.
THU 11:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mk688)
Episode 14
Lyon is back and Anne still has feelings for him, despite being engaged to Kevin. Stars Madeleine Potter and Barbara Barnes.
THU 11:15 Alan Plater - Only a Matter of Time (b007qrqk)
When time was standardised in the 19th century, not everyone was convinced by the idea. Alan Plater drama starring James Bolam.
THU 12:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00cyywj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Personality Test (b00mk68l)
Series 2
Rick Wakeman
Progressive rock legend Rick Wakeman quizzes a panel about all things Wakeman.
With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Will Smith and Robin Ince.
Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel.
Script by Richard Turner and Simon LIttlefield
Devised and produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
THU 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
5. At Lady Dormer's
Discovering General Fentiman was poisoned, Lord Peter Wimsey decides to probe Miss Dorland's hobby.
Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman, Amanda Reiss as Ann Dorland and Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker.
British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was first published in 1928.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller.
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.
THU 13:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmsy)
Discovery
As the 75th birthday of Adolf Hitler nears, detective Xavier March hits trouble with his terrifying investigation...
Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei.
Robert Harris's thriller dramatised by John Dryden.
Xavier March ...... Anton Lesser
Charlotte Maguire ...... Angeline Ball
Globus ...... Michael Byrne
Krebs ...... William Scott Masson
Max Jaeger ...... Peter Ellis
Hotel Manager ...... Ian Gelder
Pili ...... Thomas Copeland
Friedman ...... Michael Culver
Car-hire Rep ...... Dan Fineman
Nazi Music Critic ...... Jonathan Coleman
Producer: John Dryden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.
THU 14:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mk68b)
1955 - The Warsaw Pact and the Departure of Churchill
Across the decades, Christopher Lee's vivid account of Britain's fast-paced history. Narrated by Anna Massey, with Robert Powell.
THU 14:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009xxq9)
Thorpie, Hoogie and the Golden Lolly
The essayist cogitates on the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the mania surrounding the swimmer they called the 'Thorpedo'.
THU 14:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx78)
The Doctor
Ambition and attraction coincide when Grace Melbury encounters young Doctor Fitzpiers. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
THU 14:45 How to Beat Sir Humphrey (b007js17)
Episode 1
From public protests to action committees - Derek Fowlds reads Anthony Jay's guide to beating bureaucracy and officialdom.
THU 15:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jpj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00mk8gw)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, Jerry and the Inventions, Flat Stanley and Dizzy.
THU 17:00 The Brothers (b007mc8t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 17:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue (b007jq4v)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
THU 18:00 The Laxian Key (b007k2tx)
Episode 3
With the planetary decontaminationists on the run, Arnold's apologetic call for melting Earth is traced.
Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.
The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.
CAST:
Arnold …. Chris Larner
Gregor …. Mark Bonner
Evan …. Trevor Cooper
Office …. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum …. Sam Dale
Jo …. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores …. Virge Gilchrist
Virtual Newsreader …. Bethan Walker
with Paul Biggin, Emma Noakes and Joseph Kloska
Music by Mark Stevens and Chris Larner
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2007.
THU 18:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvy3)
4. Ancient Magic
Vezin is wary over a mother and daughter's invitation to witches' Sabbath. Philip Madoc reads Algernon Henry Blackwood's dark tale.
THU 19:00 Dad Made Me Laugh (b00cyywj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 The Personality Test (b00mk68l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
THU 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 today]
THU 20:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 today]
THU 21:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mk688)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Alan Plater - Only a Matter of Time (b007qrqk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Chambers (b007jp6n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 22:30 Quando, Quando, Quando (b00800m4)
Spies
Spies steal the Quando brothers' secret formula - upsetting the delicate equilibrium that's existed for so long between them and the Quandos.
Brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp their lucky clients into shape at London's finest hair salon.
Six-part comedy written and performed by Rainer Hersch and Mark Maie. With Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.
THU 22:45 Jelly Mountain (b00ftk74)
Episode 5
Musings on a footkerchief and a forest full of girls. Songs and stories from Ivor Cutler, with Beverley Crew. From May 1996.
THU 23:00 Rigor Mortis (b007k4xd)
Series 1
Episode 5
Dr Webster is looking after his 13 year old daughter for the weekend but can't understand why she doesn't find an evening in the path lab an exciting prospect?
Laurence Howarth’s sitcom set in the fascinating, but misunderstood world of the pathology lab.
Dr Anthony Webster ...... Peter Davison
Dr Ruth Anderson ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Professor Donaldson ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Gordon ...... Tom Price
Chloe ...... Marianne Levy
Simon ...... Gus Brown
Margaret ...... Lauren Bird
Other parts ...... Stephen Critchlow
Music by Paul Mottram and Stephanie Benavente.
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.
THU 23:30 Spike Milligan - Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall (b00g27cc)
Episode 3
As the conflict rages, feet get sore with some noxious nocturnal bodily habits...
Spike Milligan shares memories of his wartime service.
Published in 1971, Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall is the first volume of the Spike Milligan's idiosyncratic military memoir.
Reversioned into eight parts by BBC Radio 4 Extra.
FRIDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2009
FRI 00:00 The Laxian Key (b007k2tx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Ancient Sorceries by Algernon Blackwood (b007jvy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Wimsey (b007jvn1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmsy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mk688)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Alan Plater - Only a Matter of Time (b007qrqk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jpj0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mk68b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009xxq9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007jx78)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 04:45 How to Beat Sir Humphrey (b007js17)
[Repeat of broadcast at
14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 11/09/2009 (b00mlps7)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
FRI 08:00 Round the Horne (b00mlxk1)
Series 3
Episode 12
Kenneth Williams saddles up as a jockey in 'A Man Is Two Foot Tall', but Kenneth Horne is after some advice on Bona Bijou Tourettes from 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 April 1967.
FRI 08:30 Married (b007wqdc)
Series 1
Episode 6
Robin is accused of murdering his "new" family.
Two small questions: how is he going to win his "new" wife back and how is he going to avoid the death penalty?
Hugh Bonneville stars in the conclusion of series one of Tony Bagley's comedy.
Robin ...... Hugh Bonneville
Lesley ...... Josie Lawrence
Dirk ...... Steve Frost
Julia ...... Barbara Murray
Elaine ...... Janet Ellis
DS Cotton ...... Simon Roberts
Murdo ...... Lewis MacLeod
Maxine ...... Ann Gosling
Ned ...... Sam Bradley
Producer Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1999.
FRI 09:00 Tony's (b007k2tv)
Series 1
Is This True Love?
Still single at 41, the barber's mother - and fate - seem determined to take a hand. Stars Victor Spinetti. From November 1979.
FRI 09:30 Millport (b0076258)
Series 2
Story
Everyone's telling tales and making up stories - while Moira's acting oddly, no-one's listening to Bob, Agnes has discovered the medicinal benefits of alcohol - and for once Irene doesn't know what to do...
Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce who hankers after a better life on the mainland.
Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Robert/Doctor ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Bob/Minister ...... Robert Patterson
Dougie ...... Matt Costello
Music arranged by Olly Fox.
Producer: Lucy Bacon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
FRI 10:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jpjg)
Episode 3
After seeing Stephen at the church, Elfride procrastinates over telling Henry of her past. Stars Jeremy Irons and Janet Maw.
FRI 11:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mlxk3)
Episode 15
Betrayed by Neely, and with Lyon becoming more distant, Anne turns to the dolls. Stars Madeleine Potter and Barbara Barnes.
FRI 11:15 Alan Plater - Time Added On for Injuries (b007qw0x)
Passengers on a train uncover the story that linked their families 150 years ago. Stars James Bolam and Alan David.
FRI 12:00 Round the Horne (b00mlxk1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009sczf)
Two Fingers of Suspicion
Secrets from Brightco's defence job are reaching a foreign power. But who is responsible for a leak?
Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton star in Andrew Palmer’s sitcom
Jimmy Bright ...... Bernard Cribbins
Russell Farrow ...... Frank Thornton
Nan Forbes ...... Annette Crosbie
Sue Plant ...... Annee Blott
With John Graham
Written by Andrew Palmer.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1988.
FRI 13:00 Wimsey (b007jvn3)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
6. Ann Dorland
With two suspects missing, Lord Peter Wimsey battles to pinpoint the poisoner.
Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, Allan Cuthbertson as Robert Fentiman, Martin Jarvis as George Fentiman, Amanda Reiss as Ann Dorland and Gabriel Woolf as Inspector Parker.
British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club was first published in 1928.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
Adapted for radio in six episodes by Chris Miller.
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1975.
FRI 13:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmtf)
Closing In
Detective Xavier March uncovers the terrible secret of Adolf Hitler's totalitarian state.
Anton Lesser stars as Xavier March, homicide investigator with the Berlin Kriminalpolizei.
Conclusion of Robert Harris's thriller dramatised by John Dryde.
Xavier March ...... Anton Lesser
Charlotte Maguire ...... Angeline Ball
Globus ...... Michael Byrne
Krebs ...... William Scott Masson
Max Jaeger ...... Peter Ellis
Nebe ...... Stratford Johns
Border Guard ...... Dan Fineman
Commentator ...... Alan Dedicoat
Producer: John Dryden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1998.
FRI 14:00 This Sceptred Isle: The 20th Century (b00mlxk5)
1956 - The Suez Crisis
Across the decades, Christopher Lee's vivid account of Britain's fast-paced history. Narrated by Anna Massey, with Robert Powell.
FRI 14:15 Clive James - Even As We Speak (b009xyzb)
Destination Europe; Running Beside Ron Clarke
In the last of his essays, the writer shares thoughts on European unity and the joy of gyms. From July 2001.
FRI 14:30 Thomas Hardy - The Woodlanders (b007k0t1)
Midsummer Evening
Doctor Fitzpiers and Grace Melbury's paths cross on Midsummer's Eve in Little Hintock. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
FRI 14:45 How to Beat Sir Humphrey (b007js1n)
Episode 2
How to fund a protest and acquire a good legal team - Derek Fowlds reads Anthony Jay's guide to beating bureaucracy.
FRI 15:00 Thomas Hardy - A Pair of Blue Eyes (b007jpjg)
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FRI 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00mlxk7)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories, featuring The Five Lost Aunts of Harriet Bean, The Twitches: Bath Day, Flat Stanley and Dizzy.
FRI 17:00 Tony's (b007k2tv)
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FRI 17:30 Millport (b0076258)
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FRI 18:00 The Laxian Key (b007k30w)
Episode 4
Evans the Welsh vigilante aims to senselessly bomb the planetary decontaminationists for melting Earth.
Stephen Hawking once warned us that our species could soon be wiped out by plagues, asteroids and our tendency to destroy ourselves. The solution, he suggested, was for us to colonise other planets. But Chris Larner and David Gilbert's sci-fi comedy sees the truth as a little more complicated.
The Laxian Key shows how, as soon as Man steps onto another planet, he promptly fouls it up just as he did earth. The heroes of this wonderfully wacky tale are two interplanetary decontaminationists.
CAST:
Arnold …. Chris Larner
Gregor …. Mark Bonner
Evan …. Trevor Cooper
Office …. Alex Lowe
Ferngraum …. Sam Dale
Jo …. Christine Kavanagh
Dolores …. Virge Gilchrist
Virtual Newsreader …. Bethan Walker
with Paul Biggin, Emma Noakes and Joseph Kloska
Music by Mark Stevens and Chris Larner
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2007.
FRI 18:30 Isaac Asimov's Jokester (b007jwnj)
Vast computer Multivac runs global affairs, but can it explain where man's sense of humour comes from? Read by Henry Goodman.
FRI 19:00 Round the Horne (b00mlxk1)
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FRI 19:30 Mind Your Own Business! (b009sczf)
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FRI 20:00 Wimsey (b007jvn3)
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FRI 20:30 Robert Harris - Fatherland (b007jmtf)
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FRI 21:00 Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls (b00mlxk3)
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FRI 21:15 Alan Plater - Time Added On for Injuries (b007qw0x)
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FRI 22:00 Married (b007wqdc)
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FRI 22:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b00mlxk9)
Series 1
Relationships
Exploring a fresh theme each week, the Irish comedian hosts stand-up and sketches. With guest Ivan Brackenbury. From July 2008.
FRI 23:00 And Now in Colour (b007jscz)
Series 2
Stately Home
The team take the audience on a posh day out. Starring Tim de Jongh, William Vandyck and Tim Firth. From January 1991.
FRI 23:30 Naked Radio (b00mlxkc)
The Scottish comedy team pokes fun at topical events. From Glasgow's Citizens Theatre. With Gregor Fisher. From April 2000.