Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved with Children's Hour as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. Her selection in this edition:
The Big Pond: The Unhappy Dragon, by Bertha Lonsdale. A short play first broadcast in 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. With Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Brian Trueman.
The Fishing Bear, written and read by Bob Congdon. From 1954.
Toytown Plays: The Conversion of Mr. Growser, by SG Hulme Beaman. The Parade of the Tin Soldiers introduces a Toytown adventure featuring Larry the Lamb and Dennis the Dachshund. With Derek McCulloch, Arthur Wyan, Ralph de Kohan, Felix Felton, Norman Shelley and Stephen Jack. From 1951.
A cinema trip and some illicit cheese sparks Captain Mainwaring's own Battle of Waterloo.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, Arnold Ridley as Godfrey and Bill Pertwee as Hodges.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Billy is not keen on entertaining round at his place, until someone suggests a game of cards. Starring Jim Sweeney. From August 2001.
By Rona Munro. After many years spreading kindness, veteran hospital porter Archie's world is in disarray. With June Watson. From July 2006.
The Larkins worry when Pop's taken ill. Rural family saga with David Jason and Pam Ferris. From February 1996.
1. Attraction
From the moment their eyes meet across a packed gaming room, Daniel Deronda is as drawn to Gwendolen Harleth as she is to him.
George Eliot's 1876 classic novel of love and idealism, dramatised in three parts by Robert Forrest.
Starring Anna Chancellor and Michael Perceval-Maxwell.
Gwendolen Harleth ...... Anna Chancellor
Deronda ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Grandcourt ...... James Bryce
Mrs Davilow ...... Joanna Tope
Klesmer ...... Finlay Welsh
Mirah ...... Lucy Patterson
Baroness Langen ...... Sarah Collier
Sir Hugo ...... Sandy Neilson
Catherine ...... Katherine Igoe
Lydia ...... Noreen Leighton
Lush ...... Simon Tait
Rex ...... Gregor Powrie
The comedienne looks back on her life: remembering her big break - all thanks to a WI lecture. Recorded in 1977.
The struggles of a man in the thick of an extra-marital affair. Rhys Adrian's play stars Pauline Collins and Ian Richardson.
Bob and Terry take a trip down memory lane.
Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers.
With Robert Gillespie.
Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley.
Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in a BBC Treasure Hunt.
Probing the murder of a conspirator against the Emperor, the Roman sleuth is sent to a fashionable resort.
Anton Lesser stars as Marcus Didius Falco, Lindsey Davis's witty detective, patrolling the streets of 1st-century Rome.
With Ben Crowe as Petronius, Michael Tudor Barnes as Vespasian, Sara Poyzer as Silvia, Christopher Kelham as Larius, Paul Webster as Marcellus and Anna Madeley as Helena Justina,
Dramatised by Mary Cutler.
Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild.
Tommy's casino chain is doing nicely until some new blood muscles in. Jack Ritchie's classic thriller, read by Peter Marinker.
Can daring amateur sleuth, Thorpe Hazell help to intercept a German dispatch-box containing a highly confidential document stolen from the British Government?
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's tales about the speciality detective who uses his locomotive expertise to solve the audacious and ingenious crimes plaguing the Edwardian railways.
Eccentric Thorpe Hazell is in many ways a man before his time: a vegetarian and health fanatic using his encyclopaedic railway knowledge to tackle Britain's most ingenious smugglings, thefts, kidnaps and murders. A man of independent means, he thrives on working to his own whims - and operating outside the law when it suits him.
English reverend, railway enthusiast and popular mystery writer (1868 - 1933) - Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's immaculate plots were much admired by Dorothy L Sayers and Ellery Queen. He was one of the first authors to submit his stories to Scotland Yard so they could vet his police procedures.
Adapted and produced by Fiona Kelcher.
How a generation of women were left without their men - after the carnage of the First World War. Read by Miriam Margolyes.
Peter White explains how blind people experience the concept of beauty. Going for a walk can offer him an 'aural relief map'.
Dr Aziz organises a trip to the Marabar Caves, but not all of the party manage to catch the train. Read by Samuel West.
With all of the Titanic's lifeboats gone, painful decisions remain for those left on the sinking ship. Read by Martin Jarvis.
A monk in Rizla's dream thinks he's two minutes away from death. Fantastical comic serial with David Warner and Elliott Stein.
A chilling vision of a dystopian world of female oppression. Offred looks to her future. Read by Buffy Davis.
Offred ponders an offer made by her doctor. A chilling vision of a dystopian world of female oppression. Read by Buffy Davis.
Steven sells his soul to the Devil in the hope of securing eternal life.
Starring Mark Perry as cartoonist Steven Appleby who takes an abnormal look at everyday life.
Featuring Rachel Atkins, Ewan Bailey, Nigel Betts and Rosalind Paul.
Our hero receives a sexual initiation at the wheel of a Ford Anglia.
Peter Bradshaw continues his hilariously disturbing personal account of one boy's transition into adulthood in 1970s Cambridgeshire at the hands of an eccentric father.
Read by the author.
The host presents a comic lecture and sketches. With Debbie Issit and Stephen Frost. From September 1993.
Caretaker Bob spies on one of Blackpool's top cabaret acts struggling along the pier. Stars David Holt. From August 2001.
TUESDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2010
TUE 00:00 The Brightonomicon (b00dy0wj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b007jl96)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Monday]
TUE 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008d0jh)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Falco (b008klh0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fwcqf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fwcpc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:45 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qmb8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Evelyn (b00qmb8p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (b007k05d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b0076yzp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 HE Bates - A Little of What You Fancy (b00qmb8t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time (b00qmy65)
Series 2
Episode 2
Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much-loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. Her selection in this edition:
The Big Pond: Will o' the Wisp by Bertha Lonsdale. A short play first broadcast in 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. With Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Brian Trueman.
A Story of Bran the Cat: Bran's New Year Resolution. Don Whyte's stories were a popular feature of the BBC's Scottish Children's Hour. From 1953.
Toytown Plays - The Extraordinary Affair of Ernest the Policeman, by SG Hulme Beaman. Dennis the Dachshund causes a "hole" lot of fun. With Derek McCulloch, Peter Claughton, Norman Shelley, Ivan Samson, John Glyn-Jones, Preston Lockwood, Felix Felton and Mary O'Farrell. From 1962.
Produced by Peter Reed.
TUE 06:00 09/02/2010 (b00qmy6r)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
TUE 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007jnz5)
Series 15
The Case of the HGM Mark 5
Senior officers aboard HMS Troutbridge fear the worst when they're summoned to the Admiralty.
Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Commanding Officer, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Rita, Tenniel Evans as Bonzo, Michael Bates as the Admiral, April Walker as Wren Barrett and Pete Murray as Himself.
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 and George Evans.
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1976.
TUE 08:30 Heated Rollers (b007rn40)
Episode 5
Wartime heroines - and Oliver with a twist.
The first ever all-women sketch show made for BBC Radio 2 starring Lynda Bellingham, Gwyneth Strong and Joanna Monro.
With music supplied by the Lorraine Bowen Experience.
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1999.
TUE 09:00 After Henry (b007k1rb)
Series 1
The Spectre at the Feast
Widow Sarah is wary of matchmakers - and her mother Eleanor's interference.
Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.
Starring Prunella Scales as Sarah, Joan Sanderson as Eleanor, Benjamin Whitrow as Russell, Gerry Cowper as Clare and Mark Kingston as Chris.
Four radio series were made, but instead of then moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1985.
TUE 09:30 Up the Garden Path (b007yp9j)
Series 1
The Menage
Izzy struggles to come to terms with some alternative domestic arrangements.
Tumbling from one love entanglement to another, 30-something teacher Izzy Comyn has a predilection for inappropriate men.
Imelda Staunton stars as Izzy.
Adapted by Sue Limb from her 1984 novel into 3 radio series which ran from 1987 to 1993. Granada also adapted the series for ITV.
Izzy ...... Imelda Staunton
Michael ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Dick ...... Mike Grady
Louise ...... Phyllida Nash
Gwyn ...... Sion Probert
Maria ...... Marty Cruickshank
Class 4C:
Kerryann White
Sarah Doyle
Sam Smart
Mark Monero
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1987.
TUE 10:00 George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (b007k06p)
2. Marriage
Gwendolen is now trapped in a cruel and loveless marriage with the philandering Grandcourt.
George Eliot's classic novel of love and idealism dramatised by Robert Forrest.
Starring Anna Chancellor and Michael Perceval-Maxwell.
Gwendolen Harleth ...... Anna Chancellor
Deronda ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Grandcourt ...... James Bryce
Mrs Davilow ...... Joanna Tope
Klesmer ...... Finlay Welsh
Mirah ...... Lucy Patterson
Mrs Arrowpoint ...... Sarah Collier
Sir Hugo ...... Sandy Neilson
Mordecai ...... Mark McDonnell
Mrs Meyrick ...... Gerda Stevenson
Ezra Cohen ...... Steven McNicoll
Director: Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1999.
TUE 11:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qmxy9)
Episode 7
The comedienne looks back: meeting Richard Addinsell, starting to write songs and touring with ENSA. Recorded in 1977.
TUE 11:15 Rhys Adrian - Passing Through (b00qmxyc)
Pat sits behind his newspaper at the same table in the same corner of the same pub every evening. He's a railwayman and functions like a clock. He talks to no one and no one talks to him.
But one evening a stranger enters into conversation with him and the pattern is broken.
Rhys Adrian's drama stars Hugh Burden as Richard, Harry Towb as Patrick and Diana Bishop as Beth.
Director: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1981.
TUE 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007jnz5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Doctor in the House (b007m680)
Women and Wine
Medic Simon Sparrow's efforts to get a date for the hospital ball turn to chaos.
The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.
Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast as Taffy Evans, Norma Ronald as Matron/Vera and Joan Young as Lady Spratt.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1968.
TUE 13:00 Falco (b008kmgp)
Shadows in Bronze
Episode 3
At the villa of Helena's former father-in-law, the Roman sleuth meets old friends of the senator's daughter.
Anton Lesser stars as Marcus Didius Falco, Lindsey Davis's witty detective, patrolling the streets of 1st-century Rome.
With Anna Madeley as Helena Justina, Christopher Kelham as Larius, Paul Webster as Marcellus, Timothy Watson as Aemilius Rufus and Jaimi Barbakoff as Aenelia.
Dramatised by Mary Cutler.
Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.
TUE 13:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fy0y7)
Series 1
Getaway
Vincenti is high. Vincenti is about to make the biggest hit of his career. Gil Brewer's thriller, read by Peter Marinker.
TUE 13:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fy0tm)
Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture
When a goods train carrying valuable paintings arrives at its destination with one missing carriage, the owners turn to amateur sleuth, Thorpe Hazell. How did the thieves remove it from a non-stopping service?
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's tales about the speciality detective who uses his locomotive expertise to solve the audacious and ingenious crimes plaguing the Edwardian railways.
Eccentric Thorpe Hazell is in many ways a man before his time: a vegetarian and health fanatic using his encyclopaedic railway knowledge to tackle Britain's most ingenious smugglings, thefts, kidnaps and murders. A man of independent means, he thrives on working to his own whims - and operating outside the law when it suits him.
English reverend, railway enthusiast and popular mystery writer (1868 - 1933) - Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's immaculate plots were much admired by Dorothy L Sayers and Ellery Queen. He was one of the first authors to submit his stories to Scotland Yard so they could vet his police procedures.
Adapted and produced by Fiona Kelcher.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2008.
TUE 14:00 Singled Out (b00jty36)
Episode 2
True story of spinsters after the Great War. Not all men are happy with the statistical advantage. Read by Miriam Margolyes.
TUE 14:15 Peter White - Blind Man's Beauty (b008qsv7)
Episode 2
Peter White sets off to navigate some buildings in his exploration of how blind people experience beauty.
TUE 14:30 EM Forster - A Passage to India (b007jygm)
Episode 7
Dr Aziz's triumphant mountain expedition to the Marabar Caves ends in disaster and despair. Read by Samuel West.
TUE 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr68)
Episode 7
Crew members of the Titanic organise themselves into a rescue party to find floating survivors. Read by Martin Jarvis.
TUE 15:00 George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (b007k06p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00r40ks)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories.
TUE 17:00 After Henry (b007k1rb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
TUE 17:30 Up the Garden Path (b007yp9j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
TUE 18:00 The Brightonomicon (b00f265m)
The Baffling Business of the Bevendean Bat
Rune and Rizla meet a detonating one-legged seafarer. Robert Rankin's fantastical comic serial with David Warner.
TUE 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008f3nv)
The Ceremony
Offred sees how non-conformists are treated and begins her duty as surrogate child-bearer. Read by Buffy Davis.
TUE 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008f3pt)
Birth Day
Offred sees her friend give birth, evoking memories of her feminist mother. Read by Buffy Davis.
TUE 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007jnz5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Doctor in the House (b007m680)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Falco (b008kmgp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fy0y7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 today]
TUE 20:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fy0tm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:45 today]
TUE 21:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qmxy9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Rhys Adrian - Passing Through (b00qmxyc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Heated Rollers (b007rn40)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Big Town All Stars (b007jvpf)
Series 1
If You Sack Me, I'll Leave
The band must get assertive with scary Lorelei, and Johnny's love life is in tatters. Stars Stephen Tompkinson. From March 2000.
TUE 23:00 The Jason Explanation of... (b007jq4j)
Politics
David Jason and company elect to poke fun at the Houses of Parliament.
With Sheila Steafel, Royce Mills and Chris Emmett.
Following in the footsteps of Lord Clark, Dr Bronowski and Professor Galbraith, David Jason unravels the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of life.
Scripted by Colin Bostock Smith, Andy Hamilton, Barry Pilton and Alastair Beaton.
Music by John Owen Edwards
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in September 1977.
TUE 23:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once (b0082f0w)
Series 1
Barbie
It's school reports time - and Eddie needs a loan to start up his own taxi business.
The lives of the Stockport-based, Conroy family in the first series of Jim Poyser and Damian Lanigan's comedy drama.
Jason ...... Dominic Monaghan
Michael ...... Jason Done
Dave ...... Stefan Escreet
Eddie ...... John McArdle
Collete ...... Emma Clarke
Maureen ...... Beverley Callard
Debbie ...... Jo-Anne Knowles
Music: Big George
Producer: Neil Mossey
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1999.
WEDNESDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2010
WED 00:00 The Brightonomicon (b00f265m)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008f3nv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008f3pt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Falco (b008kmgp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fy0y7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fy0tm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:45 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qmxy9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Rhys Adrian - Passing Through (b00qmxyc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (b007k06p)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 After Henry (b007k1rb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Up the Garden Path (b007yp9j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time (b00qn7b3)
Series 2
Episode 3
Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much-loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. Her selection in this edition:
The Big Pond, Mr Fizzle in Trouble, by Bertha Lonsdale. Duck eggs go missing in this short play from 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. With Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Brian Trueman.
Smokey: A Dragon's Tale, by Margaret Potter. Amazing sound effects (for 1960) with yet more duck dramas! With Graham Roberts, Geoffrey Banks, Patricia Birch, Francis Winfield and Frederick Wilson.
Toytown Plays - A Sea Voyage, by SG Hulme Beaman. While the Mayor is away, Ernest the Policeman makes some changes at the town hall. With Derek McCulloch, John Glyn-Jones, Peter Claughton, Felix Felton, Norman Shelley, Ivan Samson and Preston Lockwood. From 1962.
Produced by Peter Reed.
WED 06:00 10/02/2010 (b00qn7b5)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009rnlw)
Series 6
The Fete
The lad rashly agrees to tempt Sir Laurence Olivier to open the East Cheam Garden Fete.
Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Wilfred Babbage, Jack Watson and Hugh Morton.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1959.
WED 08:30 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience (b007jvk3)
Episode 1
Unhappily married Patrick and Maureen are meant to be presenting a classical music show together, but they just can’t stop bickering...
Starring Imelda Staunton as Maureen Maybe and Patrick Barlow as Patrick Maybe.
Doctor ...... Peter Jones
Professor ...... Stella Gonet
Bill ...... Simon Roberts
Special guest Jack Davenport.
Written by Patrick Barlow.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.
WED 09:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue (b007k281)
Raising the Dead
"I hope you know what you're doing, Miss Tilling. Experimenting with the paranormal can be fraught with danger."
Miss Tilling's getting in touch with her spiritual side, but hapless vicar Timothy Carswell is not so keen.
Stephen Sheridan's six-part series
Reverend Timothy Carswell ...... James Grout
Miss Tilling ...... Margaret Courtenay
Miss Tapp ...... Jean Heywood
Dr Warlock ...... Christopher Good
Mrs Muir ...... Sarah Thomas
Arnold ...... Cyril Shaps
Eric ...... Ian Lindsay
Mrs Garland ...... Rosemary Martin
Producer Lissa Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1991.
WED 09:30 Smelling of Roses (b00d4qky)
Series 3
Private Views
Events organiser Rosie plans a private view for an odious art dealer.
Rosie Burns faces more challenges in running her family's event management company, where the clients are only part of the problem...
The third of four series of Simon Brett's sitcom.
Rosie ..... Prunella Scales
Jo ..... Rebecca Callard
Bob ..... Duncan Preston
Tess ..... Annette Badland
Lindley Gore ..... Jeremy Clyde
Charlie McGunn ..... Kenny Blyth
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
WED 10:00 George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (b007k07z)
3. Tensions
In the sun-drenched port of Genoa, Gwendolen and Daniel's fates become eternally and tragically entwined.
The conclusion of George Eliot's classic novel of love and idealism.
Starring Anna Chancellor and Michael Perceval-Maxwell.
Dramatised by Robert Forrest.
Gwendolen Harleth ...... Anna Chancellor
Deronda ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell
Grandcourt ...... James Bryce
Mrs Davilow ...... Joanna Tope
Klesmer ...... Finlay Welsh
Mirah ...... Lucy Patterson
Lydia ...... Noreen Leighton
Lush ...... Simon Tait
Leonara ...... Vivienne Dixon
Mordecai ...... Mark McDonnell
Director: Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1999.
WED 11:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qn7b7)
Episode 8
The much-loved comedienne recalls her life and career: touring with ENSA and a call from Noel Coward. Recorded in 1977.
WED 11:15 No Charge for Extra Service (b00qn7qm)
A couple meeting through an agency evaluate life past and present. Rhys Adrian's play stars Elizabeth Spriggs and Nigel Stock.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009rnlw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 12:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00936z4)
Series 1
Episode 1
Sweethearts Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr won the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest, but find themselves suddenly thrust back into the limelight when their song is used on TV.
The only snag is they can no longer stand the sight of one another...
Series 1 of Mike Coleman's sitcom starring June Whitfield and Roy Hudd.
Tommy Franklin ...... Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr ...... June Whitfield
With Pat Coombs, Julian Eardley, Joshua Henderson, Chris Pavlo and Terry Wogan.
Music by Frido Ruth.
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1998.
WED 13:00 Falco (b008ktyq)
Shadows in Bronze
Episode 4
The Roman sleuth heads to a party thrown by the wealthy and influential Crispus. Helena gets shocking news and Falco receives a nasty surprise.
Anton Lesser stars as Marcus Didius Falco, Lindsey Davis's witty detective, patrolling the streets of 1st-century Rome.
With Anna Madeley as Helena Justina, Ben Crowe as Petronius, Sara Poyzer as Silvia, Timothy Watson as Aemilius Rufus, Bertie Carvel as Aufidius Crispus, Paul Webster as Marcellus and Jaimi Barbakoff as Aenelia.
Dramatised by Mary Cutler.
Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.
WED 13:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fy2qm)
Series 1
Black
A gang war's raging, but a man called Black is there to get things sorted. Paul Cain's classic thriller, read by Peter Marinker.
WED 13:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fy2qk)
The Affair of the Corridor Express
The son of multi-millionaire is snatched from a moving train, can Thorpe Hazell foil the kidnappers' dastardly plan?
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's tales about the speciality detective who uses his locomotive expertise to solve the audacious and ingenious crimes plaguing the Edwardian railways.
Eccentric Thorpe Hazell is in many ways a man before his time: a vegetarian and health fanatic using his encyclopaedic railway knowledge to tackle Britain's most ingenious smugglings, thefts, kidnaps and murders. A man of independent means, he thrives on working to his own whims - and operating outside the law when it suits him.
English reverend, railway enthusiast and popular mystery writer (1868 - 1933) - Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's immaculate plots were much admired by Dorothy L Sayers and Ellery Queen. He was one of the first authors to submit his stories to Scotland Yard so they could vet his police procedures.
Adapted and produced by Fiona Kelcher.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2008.
WED 14:00 Singled Out (b00jtyrd)
Episode 3
True story of the women left alone after the Great War. For some, the 1920s was a brave new world. Read by Miriam Margolyes.
WED 14:15 Peter White - Blind Man's Beauty (b008rtky)
Episode 3
Peter White sets off to navigate the London tube, shopping and crossing the road, as he explores how blind people experience beauty.
WED 14:30 EM Forster - A Passage to India (b007jyhy)
Episode 8
With Dr Aziz facing trial, Fielding must take sides as Anglo-India rallies behind Adela Quested. Read by Samuel West.
WED 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr77)
Episode 8
With survivors left struggling in the water, fights break out in the Titanic's part-filled lifeboats. Read by Martin Jarvis.
WED 15:00 George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (b007k07z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00r40lm)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories.
WED 17:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue (b007k281)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
WED 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b00d4qky)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
WED 18:00 The Brightonomicon (b00f5x8x)
The Sensational Saga of the Saltdean Stallion
Rizla battles to save Hugo Rune from Otto Black. Fantastical comic serial with David Warner and Rupert Degas.
WED 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008fdxt)
The Commander
Offred responds to a bizarre request from her commander. Chilling vision of female oppression. Read by Buffy Davis.
WED 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008fdxv)
Ofglen
More surprises from the Commander, as Offred reveals how the current situation came about. Read by Buffy Davis.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b009rnlw)
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08:00 today]
WED 19:30 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00936z4)
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12:30 today]
WED 20:00 Falco (b008ktyq)
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13:00 today]
WED 20:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fy2qm)
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13:30 today]
WED 20:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fy2qk)
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13:45 today]
WED 21:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qn7b7)
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11:00 today]
WED 21:15 No Charge for Extra Service (b00qn7qm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
WED 22:00 The Patrick and Maureen Maybe Music Experience (b007jvk3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 22:30 Little Britain (b008p522)
Series 2
Episode 2
Back where it started out. Matt Lucas and David Walliams' oddball TV smash hit without the cameras. From February 2002.
WED 23:00 Eddie Izzard - Glorious (b007mwss)
Episode 2
Eddie Izzard entertains an audience at London's Hammersmith Apollo with more of his unique outlook on life.
THURSDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2010
THU 00:00 The Brightonomicon (b00f5x8x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008fdxt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008fdxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Falco (b008ktyq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fy2qm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fy2qk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:45 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qn7b7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 No Charge for Extra Service (b00qn7qm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 George Eliot - Daniel Deronda (b007k07z)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue (b007k281)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Smelling of Roses (b00d4qky)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time (b00qpjph)
Series 2
Episode 4
Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much-loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. Her selection in this edition:
The Big Pond, Dabchicks in Danger by Bertha Lonsdale: The grumpy farmer is up to no good in this short play from 1960 narrated by Trevor Hill. With Karal Gardner, Joseph Hancock and Tom Harrison.
In Memory of Romany (1944): Romany was the pseudonym of the Rev G Bramwell-Evans, a Methodist minister, who regularly took his young listeners out on radio rambles. Muriel Levy and Doris Gambell played the parts of the two children who always accompanied him. After Romany's death they visited the Margaret Bevan Open-Air Hospital in northern England, where a child's cot was endowed in his memory. One child has been hospitalised for five years.
Toytown Plays: Golf - Toytown Rules by SG Hulme Beaman: The Mayor challenges Mr Growser to a game of golf. With Derek McCulloch, John Glyn-Jones, Peter Claughton, Felix Felton, Norman Shelley, Ivan Samson and Preston Lockwood. From 1962.
Produced by Peter Reed.
THU 06:00 11/02/2010 (b00qpjpk)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
THU 08:00 The Goon Show (b00qpjpm)
Series 5
The China Story
Neddie Seagoon is Britain's ambassador in China, and he's after cash.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Bruce Campbell.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in January 1955.
THU 08:30 In the Chair (b007jsvd)
Episode 3
Hack George Cragge is convinced that the minister for information has something to hide and the BBC Chairman gets implicated...
Mark Tavener's six-part satirical comedy thriller stars Michael Williams as George Cragge, Barry Foster as DCI Frank Jefferson, Hugh Laurie as the Prime Minister, Richard Griffiths as Crichton-Potter, John Bird as Martin, Stephen Fry as Charles Prentiss, Rebecca Front as Marcia Mallon, Kenneth Cranham as Jim Hardie, Geoffrey Whitehead as Director of Personnel, Simon Greehall as the Chancellor, Jonathan Keeble as John and Susie Brann as Caroline.
Music by Paul Mottram.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
THU 09:00 Dinner Ladies (b00fd63x)
Taking the Bull by the Horns
The battling cooks hand in their tender and await the verdict. Stars Barbara Dickson and Brigit Forsyth. From November 1997.
THU 09:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0081b4j)
Series 2
Episode 2
Shady lawyer, Waldorf T Flywheel turns farmer for a wealthy Uncle.
Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were rediscovered in 1988.
Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel ...... Michael Roberts
Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravellias ...... Frank Lazarus
With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello.
Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark Brisenden.
Music arranged and conducted by David Firman.
Producer: Dirk Maggs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991.
THU 10:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007jlbw)
Don't Look Now
John and Laura Bennett are on holiday in Venice, trying to get over the tragic death of their daughter.
They seem to be succeeding, until a blind psychic starts relaying messages from beyond the grave...
Daphne du Maurier's classic tale of slow-dawning terror first published in 1971.
Laura Bennett ...... Anna Chancellor
John Bennett ...... Michael Feast
Sister ...... Colette O'Neil
Elidah ...... Carolyn Pickles
Policeman ...... Sean Baker
Waiter ...... Ewan Bailey
Porter ...... Carl Prekopp
Dramatised by Ronald Frame.
Director: Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
THU 11:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qpjpp)
Episode 9
The comedienne looks back on her life. Monologues - the inspiration of Ruth Draper and how some people just don't get it.
THU 11:15 The Clerks (b00qpjss)
Two men end up on the streets after working in a hush-hush Government department. Rhys Adrian drama with Freddie Jones.
THU 12:00 The Goon Show (b00qpjpm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00qpjy6)
Series 2
Episode 5
Singing dogs - and the tale of Martin Copperwick
More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs plus TV and cinema parodies.
Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by Tim Brooke-Taylor Graeme Garden, Johnnie Mortimer & Brian Cooke and Bill Oddie.
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Songs by Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden with music by Dave Lee.
Producer: Humphrey Barclay
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1965.
THU 13:00 Falco (b008l1cb)
Shadows in Bronze
Episode 5
The Roman sleuth closes in on his man, but gets more than he bargained for from Helena's old school friend.
Anton Lesser stars as Marcus Didius Falco, Lindsey Davis's witty detective, patrolling the streets of 1st-century Rome.
With Anna Madeley as Helena Justina, Sean Connolly as Atius Pertinax, Christopher Kelham as Larius, Sara Poyzer as Silvia, Paul Webster as Marcellus, Bertie Carvel as Aufidius Crispus, Timothy Watson as Aemilius Rufus, Christian Rodska as Gordianus and Jaimi Barbakoff as Aenelia.
Dramatised by Mary Cutler.
Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.
THU 13:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fwq9g)
Series 1
Forever After
Ardis Clinton thinks she has a foolproof plan to kill her husband. Jim Thompson's classic thriller read by Peter Marinker.
THU 13:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fwq9b)
The Stolen Necklace
A passenger begs for Thorpe Hazell's help after her Aunt's valuable diamonds are stolen from her luggage.
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's tales about the speciality detective who uses his locomotive expertise to solve the audacious and ingenious crimes plaguing the Edwardian railways.
Eccentric Thorpe Hazell is in many ways a man before his time: a vegetarian and health fanatic using his encyclopaedic railway knowledge to tackle Britain's most ingenious smugglings, thefts, kidnaps and murders. A man of independent means, he thrives on working to his own whims - and operating outside the law when it suits him.
English reverend, railway enthusiast and popular mystery writer (1868 - 1933) - Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's immaculate plots were much admired by Dorothy L Sayers and Ellery Queen. He was one of the first authors to submit his stories to Scotland Yard so they could vet his police procedures.
Adapted and produced by Fiona Kelcher.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2008.
THU 14:00 Singled Out (b00jvcpk)
Episode 4
True story of the women left alone after the Great War. A sense of exclusion led women to pair up. Read by Miriam Margolyes.
THU 14:15 Peter White - Blind Man's Beauty (b008s3b1)
Episode 4
Peter White tackles sporting events and the game of love in his exploration of what beauty means to blind people.
THU 14:30 EM Forster - A Passage to India (b007jyk7)
Episode 9
As Adela Quested lies in her sick bed, Cyril Fielding attends a meeting at the British club. Read by Samuel West.
THU 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr7q)
Episode 9
As dawn breaks, the Carpathia sets out on a rescue mission for the passengers and crew of the Titanic. Read by Martin Jarvis.
THU 15:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007jlbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00r40m8)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories.
THU 17:00 Dinner Ladies (b00fd63x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
THU 17:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0081b4j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
THU 18:00 The Brightonomicon (b00fbzw3)
The Bizarre Brouhaha of the Birdman of Whitehawk
The future's best unknown. Rune and Rizla find out the hard way. Fantastical comic serial with David Warner and Elliott Stein.
THU 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008flfr)
The Wife's Proposal
Serena Joy reveals a radical solution to help Offred's attempt to bear her a child. Read by Buffy Davis.
THU 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008flfs)
Jezebels
Offred comes across her old friend in very disturbing surroundings. Chilling vision of female oppression. Read by Buffy Davis.
THU 19:00 The Goon Show (b00qpjpm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00qpjy6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
THU 20:00 Falco (b008l1cb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 today]
THU 20:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fwq9g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 today]
THU 20:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fwq9b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:45 today]
THU 21:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qpjpp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 The Clerks (b00qpjss)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 In the Chair (b007jsvd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 22:30 Down the Line (b00qpk37)
Series 1
Crime
Award-winning spoof phone-in show, with talk radio host Gary Bellamy. Stars Rhys Thomas and Paul Whitehouse. From May 2006.
THU 23:00 Newsjack (b00qpk39)
Series 2
Episode 6
Topical sketch show hosted by Miles Jupp seeking to comically scrutinise the news, views and issues of the day.
THU 23:30 Forty Nights in the Wildebeest (b007k0hh)
Episode 1
Dan Freedman and Nick Romero probe the French Revolution, Frankenstein and the Death of the Dinosaurs. From April 2000.
FRIDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2010
FRI 00:00 The Brightonomicon (b00fbzw3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008flfr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 00:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008flfs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Falco (b008l1cb)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fwq9g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fwq9b)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:45 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qpjpp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 The Clerks (b00qpjss)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Daphne Du Maurier (b007jlbw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Dinner Ladies (b00fd63x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0081b4j)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 Children's Hour: Once Upon a Time (b00qpk7f)
Series 2
Episode 5
Sandy Chalmers takes an affectionate look back at the much-loved BBC institution Children's Hour, which ran from 1922 to 1964 on the BBC Home Service. Sandy was first involved as a child from 1953 to close down in 1964. Her selection in this edition:
Storytime: The Nightingale. One of Hans Christian Andersen's loveliest fairy tales translated by KP Keigwin and read by Children's Hour's very own beloved Uncle David - David Davis. From 1968.
Toytown Plays: Dreadful Doings in Ark Street by SG Hulme Beaman. Mr Growser's pipes are blocked, but how much help can he expect from Larry the Lamb and Dennis the Dachshund? With Derek McCulloch, Peter Claughton, Preston Lockwood, John Glyn-Jones, Felix Felton, Charles Maunsell, Wilfred Babbage and Norman Shelley. From 1962.
Produced by Peter Reed.
FRI 06:00 12/02/2010 (b00qpk7h)
Join all your CBeebies friends for songs, rhymes and stories on BBC Radio 7.
FRI 08:00 Stop Messing About! (b00cpvf3)
Series 1
Episode 13
Problem corner - blast off into space the bona way!
Stars Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Joan Sims and announcer, Douglas Smith.
After the unexpected death of Kenneth Horne in 1969, plans for the next series of Round The Horne were axed. Instead - using an old catchphrase of Kenneth Williams as a series title - Kenneth joined Hugh Paddick to continue the comedy tradition and was also reunited with his "Carry On" film co-star Joan Sims.
Written by Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Myles Rudge
With the Max Harris Group.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1969.
FRI 08:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b008ggtc)
Series 2
A Green Unpleasant Land
The couple's German friend Heinrich reveals his thoughts about the war. Written by and starring Kay Stonham and Simon Greenall. From June 2003.
FRI 09:00 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmy)
April - All Hands to the Pump
Megan's still keen to escape the farm and study. But her father's not listening. Stars Geoffrey Whitehead. From September 2000.
FRI 09:30 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (b007k26q)
Episode 1
The Royal Dingle Company versus the Bard. Theatrical spoof with Patrick Barlow and guest Richard E Grant. From September 1995.
FRI 10:00 Bruce Bedford - Mire Farm (b00k08lg)
Simon Shaw's first challenge as a diplomat is to reconcile his eccentric family on their farm with the angry villagers of Butterdale in Yorkshire.
Bruce Bedford’s drama stars Paul Downing as Simon Shaw.
Simon Shaw ...... Paul Downing
John Shaw ...... Stephen Thorne
May Shaw ...... June Barrie
Beatrice Shaw ...... Jane Whittenshaw
Grandad Shaw ...... Howard Goorney
Eric Flow ...... Nigel Betts
Vanessa ...... Julia Hills
Mrs Wentworth ...... Auriol Smith
Vicar ...... Christopher Good
Colonel Wince ...... James Green
Taxi Man ...... John Wood
Directed at BBC Bristol by Andy Jordan.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1990.
FRI 11:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qpkjz)
Episode 10
The much-loved comedienne looks back on her life: how the monologues are created - and some fabulous frocks. Recorded in 1977.
FRI 11:15 Passing Time (b00qpks2)
Two nonagenarians discuss present and times past from their leather armchairs. Rhys Adrian's play stars Sir John Gielgud.
FRI 12:00 Stop Messing About! (b00cpvf3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket (b00fd2my)
Nunton at 70
A 1953 diary uncovers a meaningful anniversary in Billericay. Stars Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket.
FRI 13:00 Falco (b008m17q)
Shadows in Bronze
Episode 6
A final showdown for the Roman sleuth - but his reunion with Helena proves bittersweet.
Anton Lesser stars as Marcus Didius Falco, Lindsey Davis's witty detective, patrolling the streets of 1st-century Rome.
With Ben Crowe as Petronius, Robert Lister as Decimus Camillus, Fiona Clarke as Tullia, Anna Madeley as Helena Justina, Michael Tudor Barnes as Vespasian, Christian Rodska as Gordianus and Sean Connolly as Atius Pertinax,
Dramatised by Mary Cutler.
Directed at BBC Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005.
FRI 13:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fwcsr)
Series 1
A Real Nice Guy
Jimmie is a psycho-sniper stalking Los Angeles for another target. William F Nolan's classic thriller, read by Peter Marinker.
FRI 13:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fwcsp)
The Affair of the Birmingham Bank
Can daring Edwardian sleuth, Thorpe Hazell manage to foil a gold bullion train robbery?
Benedict Cumberbatch reads Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's tales about the speciality detective who uses his locomotive expertise to solve the audacious and ingenious crimes plaguing the Edwardian railways.
Eccentric Thorpe Hazell is in many ways a man before his time: a vegetarian and health fanatic using his encyclopaedic railway knowledge to tackle Britain's most ingenious smugglings, thefts, kidnaps and murders. A man of independent means, he thrives on working to his own whims - and operating outside the law when it suits him.
English reverend, railway enthusiast and popular mystery writer (1868 - 1933) - Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch's immaculate plots were much admired by Dorothy L Sayers and Ellery Queen. He was one of the first authors to submit his stories to Scotland Yard so they could vet his police procedures.
Adapted and produced by Fiona Kelcher.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2008.
FRI 14:00 Singled Out (b00jvsqw)
Episode 5
True story of the women left alone after the Great War. It takes a valiant woman to remain unmarried. Read by Miriam Margolyes.
FRI 14:15 Peter White - Blind Man's Beauty (b008s4c3)
Episode 5
Rain and trees - Peter White encounters mother nature in his exploration of how blind people experience the concept of beauty.
FRI 14:30 EM Forster - A Passage to India (b007jylh)
Episode 10
As the trial of Dr Aziz approaches, Mrs Moore refuses to offer Adela Quested any words of comfort. Read by Samuel West.
FRI 14:45 Walter Lord - A Night to Remember (b007jr83)
Episode 10
As the news of the Titanic's sinking reaches New York, a list of survivors is hastily drawn up. Read by Martin Jarvis.
FRI 15:00 Bruce Bedford - Mire Farm (b00k08lg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 Big Toe Books (b00r40n5)
Kirsten O'Brien presents an hour of children's stories.
FRI 17:00 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqmy)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
FRI 17:30 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (b007k26q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 today]
FRI 18:00 The Brightonomicon (b00fg48q)
The Wondrous One-Off Wiseman of Withdean
Rizla dresses as a woman, but Hugo Rune can't escape his destiny. Fantastical comic serial with David Warner and Elliott Stein.
FRI 18:30 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008f8f5)
Nick
Offred embarks on Serena Joy's plan and witnesses the brutality of the new regime. Read by Buffy Davis.
FRI 18:45 Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale (b008f8f6)
Episode 10
Serena Joy confronts Offred in the climax to the chilling, dystopian vision of female subjugation. Concluded by Buffy Davis.
FRI 19:00 Stop Messing About! (b00cpvf3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Random Jottings of Hinge and Bracket (b00fd2my)
[Repeat of broadcast at
12:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Falco (b008m17q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Pulp Fiction (b00fwcsr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 today]
FRI 20:45 Thrilling Stories of the Railway (b00fwcsp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:45 today]
FRI 21:00 Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure (b00qpkjz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Passing Time (b00qpks2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b008ggtc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Punt and Dennis: It's Been a Bad Week (b008747b)
Series 1
Episode 6
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis spotlight Americans marrying cars and flatulent soda. With guest Rowland Rivron.
FRI 23:00 4 at the Store (b007jw7y)
Series 2
Episode 1
Simon Bligh hosts the Christmas flavoured stand-up from London's Comedy Store.
With:
Luke Ponte
Mitch Benn
Ian Moore.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001.
FRI 23:30 Bleak Expectations (b00djnq3)
Series 1
A Life Sadly Smashed Then, Happily, Restored a Bit
Pip lands in court - can a friend save the day? Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof stars Richard Johnson. From September 2007.