London 1958: Teacher Braithwaite faces prejudice as a child welfare officer. 'To Sir With Love' sequel, with Kwame Kwei Armah.
In Jimmy Richards' tale, a bad boy of British football gets his own back on the sport's golden boy. Read by Nicholas Boulton.
A strange transformation brings attention and tragedy to a trailer park mother. Read by Debora Weston.
Marcus Brigstocke invites comic Sarah Millican to eat Chinese food with chopsticks and read The Joy of Sex.
Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show is about embracing the new and getting out of our comfort zones.
The title comes from the fact that the show's producer and creator Bill Dare had never seen the film Star Wars.
Does Eth still fan the flames of Ron Glum's passion? Stars Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From April 1955.
Les Dawson presents 'Love in the Dole Queue', Cosmo Smallpiece and brace yourself for another piano sing-along with Les.
With Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn.
Music by Brian Fitzgerald.
Scripted and produced by James Casey.
A well-bred horse hits hard times and poor health due to overwork.
Black Beauty …. Adam Godley
Ginger/Dolly/Servant …. Liza Sadovy
Master/John Manley/Skinner …. Ewan Bailey
Langley/Reuben Smith/Mr Bond/Bob …. Jon Glover
Doctor/Larry/Hard Face/Father …. Philip Fox
Squire Gordon/Mr Clay/Ostler/Seller …. Ioan Meredith
Lady Gordon/Polly/Grace …. Helen Longworth
Beauty's Mother/Lady Two …. Ndidi Del Fatti
Carter/Driver/York …. Stephen Hogan
Joe Green/Robert/Gentleman …. Stuart McLoughlin
Jerry/Ned/Farrier …. Robert Hastie
Merrylegs/Man …. Jason Chan
Written by Anna Sewell and dramatised by Katie Hims.
Producer: Liz Webb.
From Antonio Vivaldi to Oscar Wilde. Crime writer PD James shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley.
PD James was born in Oxford, later moving to Ludlow on the Welsh Borders where she experienced a childhood which she says had more in common with a Victorian childhood than anything today. She was a well-behaved, quiet child who entertained herself and her siblings by telling and writing stories. Phyllis attended an old-fashioned grammar school where she enjoyed English lessons. She says "I knew I was going to write books".
Because of financial pressures at home, she had to leave school at 16, first following her father into the tax office, then in a theatre where she met her husband, who was training to be a doctor. World War Two intervened and, because her husband returned from work in the Medical Corps with a severe mental illness, Phyllis had to be the main breadwinner, working as principal hospital administrator at the North West Regional Hospital Board, London in charge of five psychiatric hospitals.
It wasn't until she was 39, whilst working in the hospital, that Phyllis began her first novel, Cover Her Face. "I knew it was something I was going to do, and it was just that life was so busy I didn't get round to it". She chose the name PD James because it looked good on a book jacket, and crime genre because she didn't want to draw on autobiographical details.
The book was immediately accepted by a publisher, and in 1979 she gave up her other jobs to become a full-time writer, focusing on Detective Adam Dalgleish of Scotland Yard as her main character. P D James was awarded the OBE in 1982 and made a Life Peer in 1992.
Actor Andy Serkis reveals how he plays apes on screen, using motion capture technology - in conversation with John Wilson.
Leslie Forbes meets Don McCullin, who moved from war photography to fighting battles for the Somerset countryside.
In the Archers spin-off, disturbing rumours have reached Daniel's ears, Susan is uneasy and Matt is unexpectedly benevolent.
The art of construction deconstructed. Len Fisher and fellow experts reveal how to sharpen and use your tools properly.
The last steam train from London to Cornwall carries a disparate group of travellers: a pair of newlyweds, a couple whose marriage is on the rocks and a lady with a parrot called Joey.
The last thing any of them needs is to be stranded on a Fal Vale's deserted railway station - which is the object of local superstition.
Written in 1925 by Arnold Ridley - best known for playing Private Godfrey in Dad's Army.
Starring Adam Godfrey as Teddie Deakin, Christopher Wright as Richard Winthrop and Tracy-Ann Oberman as Elsie Winthrop
Adapted by Shaun McKenna. Producer Marion Nancarrow.
Using free over-60s travel, Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew head to London Zoo and Regents Park's boating pond. From September 2005.
Geoffrey Wheeler visits the scene of the infamous Windmill Theatre in London.
Famed for its female nude tableaux, the Windmill was also known as the "comics' graveyard" - audiences being more interested in the girls than the gags.
Barry Cryer, Arthur English, Pearl Hackney and Eric Barker are among those recalling their Windmill days with a mixture of affection and horror.
Series featuring Variety theatres from all over the United Kingdom.
With Lionheart captured by Cromwell's skeleton army, can Dunning save the King's coronation? Stars Terry Molloy.
The ultimate killing machines.
Natalie Haynes introduces another dark story, as she examines why the vampire - an iconic figure in horror-fiction - continues to exert such a powerful hold on our imaginations...
David Horovitch reads Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s tale: Vampire slayer Bram is getting old and tired so starts the search for his successor.
A popular TV detective series comes to film at the museum and its super-suave star takes a fancy to Prunella, leaving Rod and Julian feeling marginalised.
Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in David Nobbs’ sitcom about a small museum of paintings and sculpture.
Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins
Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond
Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin
Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern
Stelios Constantinopolis ...... Chris Pavlo
Jeremy Noone ...... Hugh Dennis
Clive ...... Neil Fitzmaurice
Arabella ...... Eve Dallas
Nick ...... Jot Davies
Charlie Tattle ...... Barry Cryer
Justin Edwards and the team tastefully make fun of the news stories from the last seven days.
The complete story of evolution from Little Blobby Thing to Homo Erectus Britishus Imperius.
Plus an advert for some sticks.
All in your nostalgic spoof of boys' adventure story papers.
With Susie Brann , Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson, Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham.
MONDAY 17 OCTOBER 2011
MON 00:00 The Scarifyers (b00j59gd)
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18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 A Short History of Vampires (b00yqqs8)
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18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0001x1q)
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10:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:50 Front Row Interviews (b015zzmz)
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10:50 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 Paper Gardens (b007k2f6)
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11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Ambridge Extra Omnibus (b015zzn5)
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11:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:45 The Science of DIY (b008wmws)
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11:45 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 Take It From Here (b015zzmn)
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08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Arnold Ridley - The Ghost Train (b007jyx0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (b00mdyl3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
The Third Shoe
Howard Gilbert has been convicted for the murder of his model girlfriend, Brenda - but did he really kill her? The debonair sleuth and his wife Steve pay him a visit in jail.
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With James Beattie as Charlie, Charles Leno as Wilfred Stirling and Duncan McIntyre as Detective Inspector Kingston.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
Producer: Martin C Webster
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954.
MON 06:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b01614qr)
1. Taking Action
It's 1953. Our hero Lucifer Box is approaching retirement and dismayed to find that he's now more used to veneration than exhilaration. Patronised by his successor and generally feeling jaded, Box decides to take action.
What better to put the spring back in his step than a date with his charming young secretary Miss Beveridge? There's also the glimmer of an exciting new case, as Box begins to investigate what - or who - caused his oldest friend Christopher Miracle to drive his car off a cliff and plunge to his death.
The third in a trilogy of spoof spy novels detailing the devilishly daring adventures of debonair secret agent, Lucifer Box.
Written and read by Mark Gatiss.
Abridged by David Jackson Young.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in October 2011.
MON 07:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00dbsqc)
Series 2
Hospital Appointment
The showbiz legend has got hospital tests, and says his goodbyes in case the worst happens. Stars Steve Delaney. From March 2007.
MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b015mzzd)
Series 4
Linehan, Sutherland, Scales
Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman.
This week's guests:
Coming from a long line of vicars, Robin Ince is the UK's most rational comedian, and he tests his reason to the limit once every year by performing at least four shows a day at the Edinburgh fringe. His infamous Bad Book Club, which in which he invites his fellow comedians to celebrate awful literature, has become an institution, and his massive Christmas show Nine Lessons and Carols For Godless People is now a huge event, featuring the likes of Jarvis Cocker, Dara O Briain and Richard Dawkins.
Roger Highfield is a scientist, science author and the editor of New Scientist, but if you met him, you wouldn't immediately guess that science is his thing. He's jolly and worldly and has the hearty laugh of a comic supervillain. He first made his name as a scientist be being the first person ever to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger has written and co-written 9 best-selling science books, including a book on the hows and whys of Dolly the sheep, an explanation of the science of Harry Potter and a biography of Einstein.
Gareth Edwards is a filmmaker whose success and methods of achieving it have sent ripples of fear through the studios of Hollywood. His movie Monsters is an apocalyptic blockbuster which he made for one five hundredth of the budget for Avatar by shooting with a small, mobile team, hiring non-actors on the spot and using dazzling-but-cheap CGI effects.
MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15)
Series 4
Episode 1
Kenneth Horne is a doctor who talks to animals, tune into wonderful Radio Balls Pond Road and Julian and Sandy troll west to The Lazy Bona Ranch.
With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden.
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.
Marty Feldman had moved on so series 4 is written by Barry Took with Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Webster
Music by the Max Harris Group.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1968.
MON 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j3pnr)
Series 9
Episode 3
Radio Prune takes a pop at Radio 1 DJs, and James T Kink camps it up in Star Trek.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Sketches written by Graeme Garden 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.
Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee.
Producers: David Hatch/Bob Oliver Rogers
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in November 1973.
MON 09:00 Elvenquest (b01616lj)
Series 3
Episode 1
When Sam is left behind to "guard the stuff" whilst the others are off killing the Man-munching Giant of Rankor he is accosted by a beautiful maiden, Eirwen, who has been kept captive in the giant's castle and takes Sam to be her rescuer. She promptly proposes, throwing the future of the Questers' Fellowship into jeopardy.
Meanwhile, Lord Darkness' attempts to conquer Lower Earth take a new turn when Kreech discovers an ancient prophesy enabling Lord Darkness to create the "UnChosen One", an evil spirit that is the only being that can defeat the Chosen One. Problem is, it means Lord Darkness has to impregnate a hideous, misshapen creature. If only there was one of those close to hand...
Starring:
Darren Boyd as Vidar
Kevin Eldon as Kreech/Dean
Martha Howe-Douglas as Eirwen
Dave Lamb as Amis/The Chosen One
Stephen Mangan as Sam
Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness
and Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea
The producer is Sam Michell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2011.
MON 09:30 HR (b00hv33d)
Series 1
A Role-Play
Peter discovers that he has to reapply for his own job. But he's not the only one...
Nigel Williams’ comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.
Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Director: Peter Cavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.
MON 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20)
The Honourable Schoolboy
Episode 1
It's 1975, and spymaster George Smiley takes charge of dealing with a betrayal. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Hugh Bonneville.
MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x07y)
William Trevor - Cheating at Canasta
Folie a Deux
A chance meeting in Paris revives powerful memories of a shared past on an Irish beach. Story collection read by William Trevor.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b015ygj3)
Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
Clive will be finding out whether British Comedy Award winner Bill Bailey is indeed 'Part Troll', as one of his previous shows suggests and will be talking to him about his new tour 'Dandelion Mind', in which Bill laments about punk heroes, Iranian hip-hop and revisits the music of his youth with some Wurzels-based remixes of German techno. Just your normal Bill Bailey gig then!
The man of mystery himself Derren Brown will appear in the studio, as if by magic to talk about his new Channel 4 series 'The Experiments'. The first show investigates hypnosis and asks whether someone could be hypnotised into killing a celebrity. Will Clive and his guests survive the programme? 3, 2, 1, you're back in the room!
Hopefully there won't be any skeletons in the closet of anatomist and 'Coast'ess with the mostess Alice Roberts, who's new BBC2 series 'Origins Of Us' tells the evolutionary tale of humans.
Emma Freud will be doodling with Perrier Award winning stand-up comedian Demetri Martin, whose book of drawings and riotous prose titled 'This Is A Book' swings from a melodrama about a clinic of doctors who treat only the flesh wounds of Hollywood action heroes to the occupational hazard of human cannonballs.
Music from artist and bluesy rock 'n' roller Marcus Foster, who performs 'Memory Of Your Arms' on the Loose Ends grand piano. And not content with tickling the conventional ivories, singer-songwriter Jo Hamilton is the first artist in the world to work with the AirPiano, also known as the 'magic plank', which she will gracefully demonstrate by performing 'There It Is'.
Producer: Cathie Mahoney.
MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15)
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08:00 today]
MON 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j3pnr)
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08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt)
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06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b01614qr)
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06:30 today]
MON 14:00 Soloparentpals.com (b016xbpz)
A Clean Slate
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern.
Episode 1. A Clean Slate.
After a year cyberpals Rosie and Tom still haven't met in the flesh. Rosie discovers that she quite likes her ex's new girlfriend and that Tom has a new love interest.
Rosie - Maxine Peake
Tom - Kris Marshall
Tash - Karina Jones
Calum - Thomas Rolinson
Gill - Christine Kavanagh
Barb - Alison Pettitt
Bazz - Sam Dale
Scott - David Seddon
Director: David Hunter
Rosie (Maxine Peake) is a Bolton care-worker whose ex-husband Phil traded her in for a younger model four years ago leaving her to bring up Calum, now 12, alone.
Tom (Kris Marshall) is a housing officer in Exeter whose wife and confidence walked out on him eighteen months ago. He only sees his daughter Lily at weekends.
In the first series despite a succession of twists and turns, mistimings and misunderstandings between the rather nervous, disorganised Tom and the mouthy, controlling Rosie, an underlying friendship and dependence seemed to emerge - but an actual meeting in the flesh failed to take place.
Now, a year later, Rosie is coming to terms with the fact that Phil has had a baby with his new partner Debbie - a woman that she finds, to her surprise, that she has much in common with, perhaps too much? Tom has meanwhile being going steady with Siobhan, a work colleague and while he enjoys the regular sex, fresh veg and clean towels he can't help thinking things are going a little too fast.
Communications between the two are still long-distance, by email, telephone or through the website. Other SPP.COM participants chip in with their own perspectives and concerns - Baz is still the Neanderthal male, Tash the Lash in Wales is trying hard to rein in her party girl style, Gillybean has stashed her OU books in the attic and Gok Wanned her wardrobe and Scott is still coping with three teenage daughters and an obsession with poultry. And blunt newcomer Brummie Barb introduces a same-sex relationship into the mix.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM will continue to strike a chord with single parents throughout the land and listeners will be able to readily identify with the situations that concern Rosie and Tom and their website friends.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM is Sue Teddern's home territory. Her natural comic touch and her ear for domestic and emotional detail combines with a convincing touch of the absurd to create an involving and moving take on the love story - albeit one fraught with a multiplicity of misunderstandings and misinterpretations along the way.
MAXINE PEAKE's recent radio includes BETSY COLEMAN, A SMALL PIECE OF SILENCE and THAT REPULSIVE WOMAN. Television work includes DINNER LADIES, SHAMELESS, THE STREET and CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
MON 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b009nlxv)
Camelot
Anna Massey takes us back to the Dark Ages to examine whether there is any truth behind the legend of King Arthur.
MON 14:30 Stella Rimington - Open Secret (b016171y)
Episode 1
Adaptation of the former head of MI5's intriguing memoir. Stella recounts her first job within the service. Read by Jenny Howe.
MON 14:45 James Bond - Casino Royale (b01617db)
Episode 1
The stakes are high in a dangerous game of chance, as secret agent 007 prepares to meet his enemy, the lethal Russian operative, 'Le Chiffre'.
Alex Jennings reads Ian Fleming's classic spy novel that first brought James Bond to life in 1953.
Abridged by Sally Marmion
Producer: Di Spiers
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
MON 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01617dd)
Mel Giedroyc begins a week of daydreams and diaries, celebrating the stories of Jacqueline Wilson. Plus a look at the natural world in Autumn.
MON 17:00 Ballylenon (b008751g)
Series 6
Episode 5
Following Guard Gallagher's successful performance in New York, Phonsie’s lured back a tourist executive to promote the town...
Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal in 1956.
Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine McCartney as Vivienne Hawthorne, Gerard Murphy as Rev Samuel Hawthorne, Gerard McSorley as Stumpy Bonnar, Charlie Bonnar as Packy McGoldrick and John Hewitt as Guard Gallagher.
Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes.
Directed at BBC Belfast by Peter Kavanagh.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
MON 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00dbsqc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
MON 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007k406)
The Silent Scream
Episode 3
As the alien takeover deadline approaches, can humanity fend off enemies from without and within?
Wally K. Daly's sequel to 'Before the Screaming Begins'.
CAST:
Tom Harris …. James Laurenson
A.P. Smith …. Donald Hewlett
Prime Minister …. Colin Douglas
Silkin …. Peter Wickham
Sally Harris …. Hannah Gordon
Opposition MP/Colonel …. Peter Williams
Andy …. Elizabeth Lindsay
Gloria/Cabinet Minister …. Brenda Kaye
Second Pilot/PC …. Gregory de Polnay
Alien Controller/Cabinet Minister …. Manning Wilson
Second Boy …. Tim Bentinck
First Girl …. Alison Draper
Audio from Wally K. Daly's own collection and reversioned into three parts by BBC Radio 4 Extra
Producer: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast as a ninety-minute Saturday Night Drama on BBC Radio 4 in 1979.
MON 18:30 Blood Lines (b007k2n1)
Cthul-You
A lonely occultist signs up to a special internet chat room to attract some demons. Adam Sims reads Damien G Walter's tale.
MON 18:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy5s)
Pizza Marguerita
When divorced Nora moves home, her daughter makes a disturbing new friend. Saskia Reeves reads Frances Tomelty's spooky tale.
MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
MON 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00j3pnr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b01614qr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x07y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b015ygj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity (b015mzzd)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Elvenquest (b01616lj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 today]
MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b016k848)
David O'Doherty talks to Arthur about, amongst other things, his new book.
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01617dg)
Featuring jokes that you won't have heard in this week's News Quiz, some clips from the archives and exclusive behind-the-scenes material.
MON 23:45 The Tape Recorded Highlights of a Humble Bee (b00pcd1q)
'The Pandeban' and 'Feeling Iffy'
A hapless, jazz-loving insect's audio diary of his mainly uneventful life. With Mark Williams and Tim Whitnall. From July 2003.
TUESDAY 18 OCTOBER 2011
TUE 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007k406)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Blood Lines (b007k2n1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Monday]
TUE 00:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy5s)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Paul Temple (b00rlwgt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b01614qr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Elvenquest (b01616lj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 HR (b00hv33d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x07y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b015ygj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Ballylenon (b008751g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00dbsqc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Paul Temple (b00rm20y)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
Peter Galino
After the discovery of the body of key witness, Mary Talbot, there's drama back at her flat - and suave sleuth Paul worries that wife Steve is in danger.
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With Duncan McIntyre as Detective Inspector Kingston, Richard Williams as Lance Reynolds, Grizelda Hervey as Betty Wayne, James Beattie as Charlie and Robert Rietty as Peter Galino.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
Producer: Martin C Webster
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954.
TUE 06:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161cl2)
2. Oblivion
Of an indeterminate age, Lucifer Box is heading towards retirement as Head of the Royal Academy, aka the very secret, Secret Service.
Having had his advances rejected by his successor's secretary, Box heads to Soho in search of oblivion. There, he's shaken out of his self-pity when he witnesses a most curious assassination; soon he's heading across Europe, in the wake of the mysterious killer.
Written and read by Mark Gatiss.
Set in the 1950s, this is the third in a trilogy of spoof spy novels featuring the adventures of debonair - if now slightly decrepit - secret agent Lucifer Box.
Abridged by David Jackson Young.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in October 2011.
TUE 07:00 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0076svc)
Series 4
Autumn Crocus
Sitcom by Kay Stonham.
1/4. Autumn Crocus
Wendy is pregnant and extremely excited at the prospect of becoming a mother at last. Robin is panicking and trying to cram in all those things he wished he'd done before having a baby, like buy a motorbike!
Their next door neighbours, manic depressive Derek, and his bored younger wife, Maureen, are as ever being supportive, in their own special way.
Robin ...... Brian Capron
Wendy ...... Kay Stonham
Derek ...... Martin Trenaman
Maureen ...... Amelia Bullmore.
TUE 07:30 Hard to Tell (b015p5g6)
Series 1
Episode 1
Thanks to a bike accident that's landed him in A&E, Tom Sheffield is about to go for a pizza with Ellen, a woman with the most noble of foreheads and - it turns out - the most attentive of dads.
Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). He conjures up characters depicting every relationship from father and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the feller hiding at a party; from the stalker and the stalked to dog owners and their dogs; and from lifelong friends to long term partners and their dearly departed.
The series revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny himself), his immediate family (Getting On's Vicki Pepperdine, The Thick Of It's Alex MacQueen and Not Going Out's Katy Wix), and Tom's longed-for-and-lusted-after new girlfriend, Ellen (played by Charlotte Ritchie), her best friend Hermione (Him & Her's Sarah Solemani) and Ellen's zealously protective father (Simon Greenall).
Tim Key and Tom Basden both make deliciously awkward cameo appearances.
Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to pub toilets, themed parties, early morning phone calls and Christmas Editions of Jonathan Creek.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007yn6x)
Series 6
Rommel's Treasure
Fleeing from Tobruk in 1942, the military leader leaves behind a precious box.
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 Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1955.
TUE 08:30 The Burkiss Way (b007js2t)
Series 4
Is Britain Going the Burkiss Way? Part 2
The Martians Are Coming! Or are they? Is this a spoof? Or a spoof of a spoof?
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 April 1979.
TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01617dg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 The Tape Recorded Highlights of a Humble Bee (b00pcd1q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz64)
The Honourable Schoolboy
Episode 2
The Americans make their presence felt, and tragedy strikes in Hong Kong. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Hugh Bonneville.
TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x286)
William Trevor - Cheating at Canasta
Cheating at Canasta
A promise honoured, as William Trevor reads his story, Cheating at Canasta. Produced by Di Speirs.
TUE 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007jqxv)
May Belfort
The Irish singer turned lady of the night. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Starring Bonnie Langford.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007yn6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007js2t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Paul Temple (b00rm20y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161cl2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Soloparentpals.com (b016xbvk)
Dating For Beginners
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern.
Episode 2. Dating For Beginners.
After a year cyberpals Rosie and Tom still haven't met in the flesh. Tom's revelation that he is "seeing" Siobhan spurs Rosie into the dating game.
Rosie - Maxine Peake
Tom - Kris Marshall
Tash - Karina Jones
Calum - Thomas Rolinson
Gill - Christine Kavanagh
Barb - Alison Pettitt
Bazz - Sam Dale
Scott - David Seddon
Director: David Hunter
Rosie (Maxine Peake) is a Bolton care-worker whose ex-husband Phil traded her in for a younger model four years ago leaving her to bring up Calum, now 12, alone.
Tom (Kris Marshall) is a housing officer in Exeter whose wife and confidence walked out on him eighteen months ago. He only sees his daughter Lily at weekends.
In the first series despite a succession of twists and turns, mistimings and misunderstandings between the rather nervous, disorganised Tom and the mouthy, controlling Rosie, an underlying friendship and dependence seemed to emerge - but an actual meeting in the flesh failed to take place.
Now, a year later, Rosie is coming to terms with the fact that Phil has had a baby with his new partner Debbie - a woman that she finds, to her surprise, that she has much in common with, perhaps too much? Tom has meanwhile being going steady with Siobhan, a work colleague and while he enjoys the regular sex, fresh veg and clean towels he can't help thinking things are going a little too fast.
Communications between the two are still long-distance, by email, telephone or through the website. Other SPP.COM participants chip in with their own perspectives and concerns - Baz is still the Neanderthal male, Tash the Lash in Wales is trying hard to rein in her party girl style, Gillybean has stashed her OU books in the attic and Gok Wanned her wardrobe and Scott is still coping with three teenage daughters and an obsession with poultry. And blunt newcomer Brummie Barb introduces a same-sex relationship into the mix.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM will continue to strike a chord with single parents throughout the land and listeners will be able to readily identify with the situations that concern Rosie and Tom and their website friends.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM is Sue Teddern's home territory. Her natural comic touch and her ear for domestic and emotional detail combines with a convincing touch of the absurd to create an involving and moving take on the love story - albeit one fraught with a multiplicity of misunderstandings and misinterpretations along the way.
MAXINE PEAKE's recent radio includes BETSY COLEMAN, A SMALL PIECE OF SILENCE and THAT REPULSIVE WOMAN. Television work includes DINNER LADIES, SHAMELESS, THE STREET and CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
TUE 14:15 Ambridge Extra (b0161dh7)
Series 2
Episode 5
In The Archers spin-off, it's half term but Daniel is a bit low.
TUE 14:30 Stella Rimington - Open Secret (b0161dh9)
Episode 2
The counter-intelligence officer's two lives collide. Jenny Howe reads the memoir of MI5's former chief, Stella Rimington.
TUE 14:45 James Bond - Casino Royale (b0161hhs)
Episode 2
Bond is unhappy with his new sidekick, but can she find a way to thaw him out? Alex Jennings reads Ian Fleming's classic novel.
TUE 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz64)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b0161hhv)
Mel Giedroyc hears about Jacqueline Wilson's favourite books, asks why rabbits have white tails, and finds out whether we could all learn from the humble penguin.
TUE 17:00 For Better or for Worse (b00g2glt)
Series 1
Episode 1
Dithering Bernard tries to get engaged to his flighty partner Iris. Will she manage to persuade Bernard to buy her an engagement ring at last?
Gorden Kaye and Su Pollard star in Vince Powell’s sitcom about the turbulent relationship of an odd couple.
Iris ...... Su Pollard
Bernard ...... Gorden Kaye
Wilf ...... David Ross
Daisy ...... Paula Tilbrook
Mr Foley ...... Peter Wheeler
Mr Matthews ...... John Jardine
Miss Parker ...... Julie Higginson
Writer Vince Powell (1928–2009) scripted a number of popular TV sitcoms including Love Thy Neighbour, For the Love of Ada and Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width.
Producer: Mike Craig
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1993.
TUE 17:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0076svc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007jtcx)
With a Whimper to the Grave
Episode 1
To combat the threat of an alien invasion, the nations of Earth formed a World Council.
The aliens gave selected humans extraordinary 'sixth-sense' powers, but these were abused. The British Government is ready to give an update on their plans...
Third in Wally K Daly's sci-fi trilogy starring James Shrapnel and Donald Hewlett.
Tom Harris …. John Shrapnel
Sally Harris …. Maureen O'Brien
A. P. Smith …. Donald Hewlett
George …. Patrick Troughton
Marge …. Angela Thorne
'642' …. Timothy West
Doctor …. Arnold Diamond
Ray/Pilot …. Clive Panto
David/Paul …. Crawford Logan
Charles …. Henry Stamper
Sally's mother …. Katherine Parr
Alien Controller …. Manning Wilson
Vera …. Margot Boyd
Foreign Pilot/Barry …. Mark Rolston
Corporal/Vince …. Michael Jenner
Geoffrey Palmer …. Robert Dawes
Baby Sam/Gloria …. Moir Leslie
Alien …. Peter Acre
Silkin …. Peter Wickham
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1984.
TUE 18:30 Blood Lines (b007xrff)
The Quick and the Dead
Discovering how to keep death at bay, a Victorian scientist starts resurrecting. Christine Kavanagh reads Nick Moulton's tale.
TUE 18:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy71)
The Wall
A widowed mother takes her children to Ireland to try and ease their grief. Juliet Aubrey reads Annie McCartney's spooky tale.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007yn6x)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b007js2t)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Paul Temple (b00rm20y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161cl2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x286)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007jqxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Hard to Tell (b015p5g6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Miranda Hart's Joke Shop (b00mf2n3)
What a Flirt
The tall, life-embracing, self-effacing clown has much to learn about retail and men. With Patricia Hodge. From August 2008.
TUE 23:00 At Home With The Snails (b007jvlw)
Series 2
Episode 1
George and Beverley decide to feign their deaths to see how their children will cope with the grief.
He wants to write a book about it all and she hopes they’ll realise how much they miss them, so that they can become one big happy reunited family.
But will their plan actually work?
Second series of Gerard Foster's comedy drama
George ..... Geoffrey Palmer
Beverley ..... Angela Thorne
Alex ..... Gerard Foster
Rose ..... Miranda Hart
Hosana ..... Debra Stephenson
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
TUE 23:30 Hair in the Gate (b007k3mm)
Series 1
Episode 2
Camilla revamps the TV arts show when budgets must be slashed. Stars Harriet Thorpe and Alistair McGowan. From September 1993.
WEDNESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2011
WED 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007jtcx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Blood Lines (b007xrff)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 00:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy71)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Paul Temple (b00rm20y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161cl2)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b01617dg)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:00 on Monday]
WED 02:45 The Tape Recorded Highlights of a Humble Bee (b00pcd1q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
23:45 on Monday]
WED 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz64)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x286)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007jqxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 For Better or for Worse (b00g2glt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends (b0076svc)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Paul Temple (b00rm4xk)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
La Mortella
Hot on the heels of a tip from Peter Galino, the debonair sleuth and wife Steve head to London's La Mortella club to hunt down clues.
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes, Peggy Hassard as Lynn Ferguson, Richard Williams as Lance Reynolds, Grizelda Hervey as Betty Wayne and Olaf Olsen as Louis Fabian.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
Producer: Martin C Webster
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954.
WED 06:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162lr1)
3. The Trail
The debonair, if now slightly decrepit, Lucifer Box has followed the trail of the mysterious assassin, Kingdom Kum, to Istanbul.
Box must discover who the young man's paymaster is and the culprit behind the production of the deadly hallucinogenic drug, Black Butterfly.
Written and read by Mark Gatiss.
Set in 1953, this is the third in a trilogy of spoof spy novels detailing the devilishly daring adventures of secret agent, Lucifer Box.
Abridged by David Jackson Young.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in October 2011.
WED 07:00 Clare in the Community (b008cy0w)
Series 1
Adoption
The social worker gets noisy new neighbours - but what is her rich sister Emma after? Stars Sally Phillips. From December 2004.
WED 07:30 The Return of Inspector Steine (b015yt41)
Towards the End
A comedy series written by Lynne Truss set in and around a Brighton police station in the 1950s a few years after the end of World War Two.
Second World war Bomb disposal hero Captain 'mad Hoagy' Hoagland, now fallen on hard times, appears at Brighton Police Station to deliver two boxes. One contains a silver truncheon; an award for valour for Sergeant Brunswick. The other contains the head of one of Mrs Groynes' old criminal accomplices Birthmark Potter. It is a warning to them all that Mrs G's criminal nemesis Adelaide Vine is heading back to Brighton, and that the sadistic criminal Terence Chambers is heading for town too ; both hell bent on havoc and revenge..
Cast:
Inspector Steine ....... Michael Fenton Stevens
Mrs Groynes ........ Samantha Spiro
Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm
Twitten ....... Matt Green
Captain Hoagland ....... Robert Bathhurst
Sound design: David Thomas
Music: Anthony May
Director: Marilyn Imrie
Producer: Karen Rose
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k0xt)
Series 1
The End of the Series
The lad himself and the gang reminisce over how they first all first met.
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Moira Lister, Bill Kerr, Sidney James and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Augmented Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1955.
WED 08:30 Doctor at Large (b009xxrs)
In General Practice
Simon Sparrow lands a job in Aberdeen, where he's forced to tackle a pepped-up port loving lady.
The misadventures of newly qualified doctor, Simon Sparrow - adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor at Large' published in 1955.
Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as Captain Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Joan Sanderson as Mrs Russell, Stanley Baxter as Dr Hockett and Joan Sims as Dora.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1969.
WED 09:00 The Brothers (b00psscz)
Series 3
The One True Yoghurt
Nigel stutters, Michael proposes, and Zorro seeks the meaning of life in a dessert. Stars Raymond Coulthard. From March 2007.
WED 09:30 Whispers (b007k3br)
Series 1
Episode 5
The ins and outs of the abdication crisis in the quiz show that loves scandals.
Biographer Anthony Holden and actress Stella Duffy are joined by writer Lynne Truss and journalist Rowan Pelling.
Hosted by the least discreet man in Britain, Gyles Brandreth.
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2003.
WED 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz6l)
The Honourable Schoolboy
Episode 3
Can George Smiley keep the situation under control? Can Jerry Westerby be trusted? Stars Simon Russell Beale and Daisy Haggard.
WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23d)
William Trevor - Cheating at Canasta
Old Flame
William Trevor reads stories from his new collection.
Zoe's marriage has been haunted by Audrey, with whom her husband once had an affair, and also Grace. But Grace is now dead.
Abridged by Sally Marmion.
WED 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n1hp)
Footitt and Chocolat
A circus double-act is in jeopardy. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Starring Clarence Smith.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k0xt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 12:30 Doctor at Large (b009xxrs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Paul Temple (b00rm4xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162lr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Soloparentpals.com (b016xbwg)
Doormats
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern.
Episode 3. Doormats
Not only has Rosie been sleeping with her ex-husband but she has become good friends with his girlfriend. Meanwhile Tom's ex treats him like a doormat.
Rosie - Maxine Peake
Tom - Kris Marshall
Tash - Karina Jones
Calum - Thomas Rolinson
Gill - Christine Kavanagh
Barb - Alison Pettitt
Bazz - Sam Dale
Scott - David Seddon
Director: David Hunter
Rosie (Maxine Peake) is a Bolton care-worker whose ex-husband Phil traded her in for a younger model four years ago leaving her to bring up Calum, now 12, alone.
Tom (Kris Marshall) is a housing officer in Exeter whose wife and confidence walked out on him eighteen months ago. He only sees his daughter Lily at weekends.
In the first series despite a succession of twists and turns, mistimings and misunderstandings between the rather nervous, disorganised Tom and the mouthy, controlling Rosie, an underlying friendship and dependence seemed to emerge - but an actual meeting in the flesh failed to take place.
Now, a year later, Rosie is coming to terms with the fact that Phil has had a baby with his new partner Debbie - a woman that she finds, to her surprise, that she has much in common with, perhaps too much? Tom has meanwhile being going steady with Siobhan, a work colleague and while he enjoys the regular sex, fresh veg and clean towels he can't help thinking things are going a little too fast.
Communications between the two are still long-distance, by email, telephone or through the website. Other SPP.COM participants chip in with their own perspectives and concerns - Baz is still the Neanderthal male, Tash the Lash in Wales is trying hard to rein in her party girl style, Gillybean has stashed her OU books in the attic and Gok Wanned her wardrobe and Scott is still coping with three teenage daughters and an obsession with poultry. And blunt newcomer Brummie Barb introduces a same-sex relationship into the mix.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM will continue to strike a chord with single parents throughout the land and listeners will be able to readily identify with the situations that concern Rosie and Tom and their website friends.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM is Sue Teddern's home territory. Her natural comic touch and her ear for domestic and emotional detail combines with a convincing touch of the absurd to create an involving and moving take on the love story - albeit one fraught with a multiplicity of misunderstandings and misinterpretations along the way.
MAXINE PEAKE's recent radio includes BETSY COLEMAN, A SMALL PIECE OF SILENCE and THAT REPULSIVE WOMAN. Television work includes DINNER LADIES, SHAMELESS, THE STREET and CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
WED 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b009nqdx)
Who Are the English?
Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, revealing how the invading Angles, Saxons and Jutes became the English.
WED 14:30 Stella Rimington - Open Secret (b0162qv0)
Episode 3
Stella Rimington and her family are hounded by the press. Jenny Howe continues the memoir of the former head of MI5.
WED 14:45 James Bond - Casino Royale (b0162qv2)
Episode 3
Bond deals with a bomb attack, but can he fend off the charms of his new colleague? Alex Jennings reads Ian Fleming's classic spy novel.
WED 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b0162qv4)
Mel Giedroyc picnics with the world's first teddy bear, sings along to Queen with Dame Jacqueline Wilson, and hears about a transatlantic journey by pedalo.
WED 17:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b00bx21q)
From 25/03/1978
The duo welcome Penelope Keith, who does her own intro before performing in Ern's sketch what he wrote. From October 1977.
WED 17:30 Clare in the Community (b008cy0w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
WED 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007jtfs)
With a Whimper to the Grave
Episode 2
With Tom trapped amongst the aliens, desperate Sally finds a Government ally.
Third in Wally K Daly's sci-fi trilogy starring James Shrapnel and Donald Hewlett.
To combat the threat of an alien invasion, the nations of the Earth have formed a World Council. The aliens have given selected humans extraordinary 'sixth-sense' powers.
But when these powers are abused the aliens prepare to leave and abandon the Earth to its fate. But are they really going? And what is the fate awaiting the peoples of the Earth?
Marge …. Angela Thorne
Doctor …. Arnold Diamond
Ray/Pilot …. Clive Panto
David/Paul …. Crawford Logan
A. P. Smith …. Donald Hewlett
Charles …. Henry Stamper
Tom Harris …. John Shrapnel
Sally's mother …. Katherine Parr
Alien Controller …. Manning Wilson
Vera …. Margot Boyd
Foreign Pilot/Barry …. Mark Rolston
Sally Harris …. Maureen O'Brien
Corporal/Vince …. Michael Jenner
Geoffrey Palmer …. Robert Dawes
Baby Sam/Gloria …. Moir Leslie
George …. Patrick Troughton
Alien …. Peter Acre
Silkin …. Peter Wickham
'642' …. Timothy West
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1984.
WED 18:30 Blood Lines (b007ylqw)
Elegy Underground
Angels have returned, but to a world where only one person remembers who they are. Bethan Walker reads Fiona McFarlane's tale.
WED 18:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy89)
The Toilets at the End of the Hemisphere
A man's quest for a sole surviving family member lands him in Tasmania. Lloyd Hutchinson reads Glenn Patterson's spooky tale.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k0xt)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
WED 19:30 Doctor at Large (b009xxrs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Paul Temple (b00rm4xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162lr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
WED 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n1hp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
WED 22:00 The Return of Inspector Steine (b015yt41)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00d45ny)
Series 2
Generosity
The comedian examines the virtue of generosity. With poetry and songs by Tom Basden and Tim Key. From August 2008.
WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b016k84q)
David O'Doherty joins us in the Comedy Club to tell us about what he's been up to lately.
WED 23:00 Revolting People (b007jrx3)
Series 1
Even More Storm Clouds
Samuel's crooked brother lures Joshua into fighting the 'Cockney Monster'.
Historical sitcom, set in 1770 Boston, written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.
CAST:
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
Mrs Arbuthnot …. Susie Blake
Uncle Dan Oliphant …. William Hootkins
Michael Fenton Stevens (Announcer/Various)
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.
WED 23:30 Tickets Please (b00p5xc2)
Episode 4
After delays caused by lightning, a 20-piece orchestra in coach G practices. This offers Robin a plangent background for his declaration of love.
But can he seize his chance before the train arrives at Exeter St David's?
Sitcom on rails by Mark Maier.
Robin........Jeremy Swift
Nadine.......Alex Kelly
Peter......Malcolm Tierney
Carol......Tessa Nicholson
Carl........Nicholas Boulton
Diana.......Melissa Advani
Linda.........Kate Layden
Keith.....Stephen Hogan
Other parts played by Philip Fox, Piers Wehner and Joseph Cohen-Cole
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER 2011
THU 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007jtfs)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Blood Lines (b007ylqw)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 00:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy89)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Paul Temple (b00rm4xk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162lr1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 The Brothers (b00psscz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Whispers (b007k3br)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz6l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n1hp)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 The Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise Show (b00bx21q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Clare in the Community (b008cy0w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Paul Temple (b00rmxpm)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
That Good Old Intuition
With Lynn Ferguson missing - the suave sleuth heads off to question the owner of the La Mortella club, Louis Fabian.
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes, James Beattie as Charlie, Peggy Hassard as Lynn Ferguson, Charles Leno as Wilfred Stirling and Olaf Olsen as Louis Fabian.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
Producer: Martin C Webster
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954.
THU 06:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162k8q)
4. Jamaica
Lucifer Box has learned that Kingdom Kum is a CIA operative, and that they are both investigating the same case: the poisoning of obscure members of the British establishment with a deadly hallucinogenic drug called Black Butterfly.
The killer's trail has led the men to Jamaica, where the suspected next victim, Lord Battenburg, is about to chair the World Government Summit. Will they reach him in time?
Written and read by Mark Gatiss.
Set in 1953, this is the third in a trilogy of spoof spy novels detailing the devilishly daring adventures of secret agent, Lucifer Box.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in October 2011.
THU 07:00 Artists (b00x59wq)
Series 1
Moor Will Mean Worse
A community of artists in Cornwall bicker over each others' work - and with each other. Stars Pauline McLynn. From March 2003.
THU 07:30 So Wrong It's Right (b00sg13n)
Series 1
Episode 3
Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show that revels in glorious failure. He is joined for this edition by comics Richard Herring and Holly Walsh plus Iain Morris - the writer of hit TV sitcom 'The Inbetweeners'.
'So Wrong It's Right' is a comedy contest to give the wrongest answer to each of Charlie's challenges. The worst idea for an internet business (including Richard Herring's 'life comparison' website ranking the entire human race in order of success), and the problem with Richard Hammond are just two of targets that come under the wrong examination in this edition.
The host of 'So Wrong It's Right', Charlie Brooker, also presents BBC4's award - winning series 'Newswipe' and 'You Have Been Watching' on Channel 4 - plus writing for 'The Guardian'. He won 'Best Newcomer' at the British Comedy Awards 2009 and 'Columnist of the Year' at the 2009 British Press Awards for his column.
Produced by Aled Evans
A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 08:00 The Men from the Ministry (b0162mzj)
Health and Deficiency
The bird-brained bureaucrats mind a budgie - what could possibly go wrong?
Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler.
With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley, John Graham and Mandy Cuthbert.
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.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in August 1974.
THU 08:30 Dad's Army (b007jm5w)
Series 1
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker
The Home Guard platoon is horrified when their black marketeer, Private Joe Walker, gets his army call up.
Six years after classic wartime sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC TV, these specially adapted radio versions were recorded with the original cast. James Beck [Private Walker], sadly died in August 1973, part way through the making of this series, and was replaced by Graham Stark.
CAST:
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Walker …. Graham Stark
The Captain/Mr Rees …. Michael Knowles
The Chairwoman …. Judith Furze
The Sergeant/The Brigadier …. Jack Watson
The Announcer …. John Snagge
Adapted from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original BBC TV scripts by Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in April 1974.
THU 09:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cvjvf)
Series 4
Episode 5
Will singers Tommy and Sheila finally achieve the recognition they deserve – a Golden Goblet?
Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle on with their second stab at fame.
Mike Coleman's sitcom starring Roy Hudd and June Whitfield.
Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield
Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes
Murray …. Julian Eardley
Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted
Laura Chapel …. Nicola Blake
Music by Frido Ruth.
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
THU 09:30 The 99p Challenge (b00ntnb7)
Series 2
Episode 5
Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Simon Pegg, Peter Baynham, David Schneider and Tom Binns.
The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer than when they came in.
Producer: David Tyler
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000.
THU 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz6r)
Smiley's People
Episode 1
George finds himself back in harness to the circus when an old friend and colleague is found dead. John le Carre thriller stars Simon Russell Beale.
THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23f)
William Trevor - Cheating at Canasta
The Children
As her father plans to remarry, Connie fights to honour a love as important as her father's new one. Read by William Trevor.
THU 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n9px)
Casque d'Or
Paris revolutionaries make a fatal stand. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Stars Miranda Richardson and Nicholas Farrell.
THU 12:00 The Men from the Ministry (b0162mzj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Dad's Army (b007jm5w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Paul Temple (b00rmxpm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162k8q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Soloparentpals.com (b016xby2)
Emotional Quicksand
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern.
Episode 4. Emotional Quicksand.
Rosie's love-life is in a tangle and Tom is getting cold feet about Siobhan.
Rosie - Maxine Peake
Tom - Kris Marshall
Tash - Karina Jones
Calum - Thomas Rolinson
Gill - Christine Kavanagh
Barb - Alison Pettitt
Bazz - Sam Dale
Scott - David Seddon
Director: David Hunter
Rosie (Maxine Peake) is a Bolton care-worker whose ex-husband Phil traded her in for a younger model four years ago leaving her to bring up Calum, now 12, alone.
Tom (Kris Marshall) is a housing officer in Exeter whose wife and confidence walked out on him eighteen months ago. He only sees his daughter Lily at weekends.
In the first series despite a succession of twists and turns, mistimings and misunderstandings between the rather nervous, disorganised Tom and the mouthy, controlling Rosie, an underlying friendship and dependence seemed to emerge - but an actual meeting in the flesh failed to take place.
Now, a year later, Rosie is coming to terms with the fact that Phil has had a baby with his new partner Debbie - a woman that she finds, to her surprise, that she has much in common with, perhaps too much? Tom has meanwhile being going steady with Siobhan, a work colleague and while he enjoys the regular sex, fresh veg and clean towels he can't help thinking things are going a little too fast.
Communications between the two are still long-distance, by email, telephone or through the website. Other SPP.COM participants chip in with their own perspectives and concerns - Baz is still the Neanderthal male, Tash the Lash in Wales is trying hard to rein in her party girl style, Gillybean has stashed her OU books in the attic and Gok Wanned her wardrobe and Scott is still coping with three teenage daughters and an obsession with poultry. And blunt newcomer Brummie Barb introduces a same-sex relationship into the mix.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM will continue to strike a chord with single parents throughout the land and listeners will be able to readily identify with the situations that concern Rosie and Tom and their website friends.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM is Sue Teddern's home territory. Her natural comic touch and her ear for domestic and emotional detail combines with a convincing touch of the absurd to create an involving and moving take on the love story - albeit one fraught with a multiplicity of misunderstandings and misinterpretations along the way.
MAXINE PEAKE's recent radio includes BETSY COLEMAN, A SMALL PIECE OF SILENCE and THAT REPULSIVE WOMAN. Television work includes DINNER LADIES, SHAMELESS, THE STREET and CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
THU 14:15 Ambridge Extra (b0162rd9)
Series 2
Episode 6
In The Archers spin-off, Daniel is getting the third degree.
THU 14:30 Stella Rimington - Open Secret (b0162rf6)
Episode 4
Stella Rimington has two very different meetings with former Prime Ministers. Jenny Howe reads the memoir of the former head of MI5.
THU 14:45 James Bond - Casino Royale (b0162rgr)
Episode 4
Bond is at the baccarat table, but will his enemy Le Chiffre have the winning hand? Alex Jennings reads Ian Fleming's novel.
THU 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz6r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b0162rl1)
Mel Giedroyc eats biscuits, gets lost in a maze, and talks books with Dame Jacqueline Wilson.
THU 17:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jztn)
The TV Spectacular - A Contradiction in Terms
The veteran of many parts recounts the woeful tale of a 'Gala Night in Venice'.
It's a story that will confirm the truth of a lot of what you'd always suspected, and the place in showbiz history of the liver sausage sandwich.
The doyen of British show business, J Kingston Platt shares reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience from the past 40 years.
Performed and written by Peter Jones.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1986.
THU 17:30 Artists (b00x59wq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Wally K Daly (b007k44c)
With a Whimper to the Grave
Episode 3
The World Council takes action - as the aliens' plans are revealed. Stars Patrick Troughton, Angela Thorne and Timothy West.
Marge …. Angela Thorne
Doctor …. Arnold Diamond
Ray/Pilot …. Clive Panto
David/Paul …. Crawford Logan
A. P. Smith …. Donald Hewlett
Charles …. Henry Stamper
Tom Harris …. John Shrapnel
Sally's mother …. Katherine Parr
Alien Controller …. Manning Wilson
Vera …. Margot Boyd
Foreign Pilot/Barry …. Mark Rolston
Sally Harris …. Maureen O'Brien
Corporal/Vince …. Michael Jenner
Geoffrey Palmer …. Robert Dawes
Baby Sam/Gloria …. Moir Leslie
George …. Patrick Troughton
Alien …. Peter Acre
Silkin …. Peter Wickham
'642' …. Timothy West
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1984.
THU 18:30 Blood Lines (b007zcd6)
A Lasting Impression
The new writing series continues. Following a terrible row with her boyfriend, a woman receives a chilling supernatural message.
THU 18:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy9l)
The Last Words of Van Helsing
A doctor attends the famous vampire-slayer and hears a deathbed confession. James D'Arcy reads James McAleavey's spooky tale.
THU 19:00 The Men from the Ministry (b0162mzj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Dad's Army (b007jm5w)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Paul Temple (b00rmxpm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162k8q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n9px)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 So Wrong It's Right (b00sg13n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Newsjack (b0162tj3)
Series 5
Episode 6
Justin Edwards and the team tastefully make fun of the news stories from the last seven days.
THU 23:00 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.
THU 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00qps81)
Series 2
Episode 3
Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay attention.
The weeks' edition will include policies such as banning cars from city centres; monitoring investment bankers' testosterone levels; and abolishing all forms of self-regulation.
Produced by Ed Morrish.
FRIDAY 21 OCTOBER 2011
FRI 00:00 Wally K Daly (b007k44c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Blood Lines (b007zcd6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 00:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jy9l)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Paul Temple (b00rmxpm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0162k8q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cvjvf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 The 99p Challenge (b00ntnb7)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz6r)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23f)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n9px)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007jztn)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Artists (b00x59wq)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Paul Temple (b00rq27n)
Paul Temple and the Gilbert Case
A Warning from Miss Wayne
Lynn Ferguson recounts her ordeal of being kidnapped - while suave sleuth Paul Temple gets some drunken advice from Betty Wayne.
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With Peggy Hassard as Lynn Ferguson, James Beattie as Charlie, Lester Mudditt as Sir Graham Forbes, Grizelda Hervey as Betty Wayne and Duncan McIntyre as Detective Inspector Kingston.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Sir Graham Forbes, of Scotland Yard, usually needed Paul's help with his latest tricky case.
Producer: Martin C Webster
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1954.
FRI 06:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161mpx)
5. Deadly Adversary
Having followed a trail that led from Soho to Jamaica, via Istanbul, Lucifer Box has finally come face to face with a deadly adversary from his past.
Will our hero prevent him from carrying out his evil plan?
Written and concluded by Mark Gatiss.
Set in 1953, this is the third in a trilogy of spoof spy novels detailing the devilishly daring adventures of secret agent, Lucifer Box.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra in October 2011.
FRI 07:00 The Alan Davies Show (b007js69)
Episode 1
Struggling actor Alan and his friends Kate and Murray find themselves locked in - a lot!
Alan Davies stars in his own six-part sitcom.
Written by Alan Davies, Ben Silburn and Tony Roche.
Alan Francis and Ronnie Ancona play his long-suffering friends.
Alan ...... Alan Davies
Murray ...... Alan Francis
Kate ...... Ronni Ancona
With Caroline Loncq and Kevin Eldon.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
FRI 07:30 What's So Funny? (b0161nt1)
Series 2
Episode 3
Ed Byrne, Veronica Lee and Ian Stone debate British comedy, Rafe Spall talks comic acting and Lucy Porter meets Phil Nichol.
FRI 08:00 The Navy Lark (b0161ny3)
Series 8
Mr Phillips' Promotion
The oldest Sub-Lieutenant in the navy sparks upset when he gets ideas above his station.
Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather, Tenniel Evans as Taffy, Michael Bates as Captain Aitchison and Ronnie Barker as Lieutenant Queag.
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
Incidental Music by Tommy Riley and James Moody.
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1966.
FRI 08:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf)
Series 3
TB or Not TB
Sixty years of smoking takes its toll on Albert Steptoe.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962.
The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight series on TV.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Receptionist ...... Jo Manning Wilson
Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971.
FRI 09:00 Second Holmes (b0161p3d)
The Case of the Shadowed Minister
The grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson help a member of Parliament who claims he's being followed...
Six light-hearted adventures involving the grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson written by Grant Eustace
Starring Peter Egan as Stamford Holmes, Jeremy Nicholas as Dr Watson, Angela Down as Alex Messinger, Stuart Organ as Mr Belling, Jim Reid as Michael, Wendy Murray as Mrs Waterfield and Miranda Forbes as Mrs Belling.
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1983.
FRI 09:30 Foul Play (b0080shw)
Series 1
The Corpse in the Car Park
Crime writers John Harvey and Margaret Yorke try to solve a woman's death in a car park. Written and chaired by Simon Brett.
FRI 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pszqr)
Smiley's People
Episode 2
On the trail of the killer, George is reunited with an old colleague and thinks of an old enemy. Stars Simon Russell Beale.
FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23g)
William Trevor - Cheating at Canasta
The Dressmaker's Child
Cahal's plans to dupe a gullible young couple backfire tragically. Read by the author, William Trevor.
FRI 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007ncyz)
Aristide Bruant
The socialist club owner questions his success. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Stars Bernard Hill and Julie Covington.
FRI 12:00 The Navy Lark (b0161ny3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Paul Temple (b00rq27n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161mpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Soloparentpals.com (b016xbz1)
Happy Now?
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM by Sue Teddern.
Episode 5. Happy Now?
Rosie and Tom meet.
Rosie ..... Maxine Peake
Tom ..... Kris Marshall
SPP voice ..... Karina Jones
Calum ..... Thomas Rolinson
Gill ..... Christine Kavanagh
Scott ..... David Seddon
Director: David Hunter
Rosie (Maxine Peake) is a Bolton care-worker whose ex-husband Phil traded her in for a younger model four years ago leaving her to bring up Calum, now 12, alone.
Tom (Kris Marshall) is a housing officer in Exeter whose wife and confidence walked out on him eighteen months ago. He only sees his daughter Lily at weekends.
In the first series despite a succession of twists and turns, mistimings and misunderstandings between the rather nervous, disorganised Tom and the mouthy, controlling Rosie, an underlying friendship and dependence seemed to emerge - but an actual meeting in the flesh failed to take place.
Now, a year later, Rosie is coming to terms with the fact that Phil has had a baby with his new partner Debbie - a woman that she finds, to her surprise, that she has much in common with, perhaps too much? Tom has meanwhile being going steady with Siobhan, a work colleague and while he enjoys the regular sex, fresh veg and clean towels he can't help thinking things are going a little too fast.
Communications between the two are still long-distance, by email, telephone or through the website. Other SPP.COM participants chip in with their own perspectives and concerns - Baz is still the Neanderthal male, Tash the Lash in Wales is trying hard to rein in her party girl style, Gillybean has stashed her OU books in the attic and Gok Wanned her wardrobe and Scott is still coping with three teenage daughters and an obsession with poultry. And blunt newcomer Brummie Barb introduces a same-sex relationship into the mix.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM will continue to strike a chord with single parents throughout the land and listeners will be able to readily identify with the situations that concern Rosie and Tom and their website friends.
SOLOPARENTPALS.COM is Sue Teddern's home territory. Her natural comic touch and her ear for domestic and emotional detail combines with a convincing touch of the absurd to create an involving and moving take on the love story - albeit one fraught with a multiplicity of misunderstandings and misinterpretations along the way.
MAXINE PEAKE's recent radio includes BETSY COLEMAN, A SMALL PIECE OF SILENCE and THAT REPULSIVE WOMAN. Television work includes DINNER LADIES, SHAMELESS, THE STREET and CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
FRI 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b009pp7w)
The Arrogant Saint
Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain. Augustine is sent over from Rome to preach the word of God.
FRI 14:30 Stella Rimington - Open Secret (b0161pw9)
Episode 5
Stella Rimington is sent to Russia to meet her KGB counterpart. Jenny Howe concludes the memoir of the former head of MI5.
FRI 14:45 James Bond - Casino Royale (b0161pxg)
Episode 5
Locked in a battle of wills, Bond's salvation comes from an unexpected quarter. Alex Jennings reads Ian Fleming's classic novel.
FRI 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pszqr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b0161pz8)
Friday laughs with Mel Giedroyc, a much-loved magician, and why allotments are the perfect place for children.
FRI 17:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00nwsh4)
Series 1
Pregnancy
A pregnancy scare sparks Bartholomew family chaos. Who is expecting and where will the baby sleep? Stars Duncan Preston. From August 2003.
FRI 17:30 The Alan Davies Show (b007js69)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 Tanith Lee - Red as Blood (b007jq65)
In a dark Snow White fantasy, the Queen sets out to rescue her stepdaughter from her sinister heritage. Read by Stella Gonet.
FRI 18:30 Blood Lines (b007k2sj)
Father's Day
An estranged father and daughter's reunion is threatened by sinister state forces. Jasmine Callan reads Ian Dudley's tale.
FRI 18:45 The Ghostbuster Diaries (b007jyc9)
My Three Ladies
The past misdeeds of the infamous King Henry VIII come back to haunt him. Read by Paul Darrow.
FRI 19:00 The Navy Lark (b0161ny3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007jlnf)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Paul Temple (b00rq27n)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Mark Gatiss - Black Butterfly (b0161mpx)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b007x23g)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007ncyz)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 What's So Funny? (b0161nt1)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 The Nick Revell Show (b00cnhys)
Series 2
The Wedding
Preparing for his old flame's nuptials, writer Nick is seething over the way she dumped him.
A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.
With:
Alistair McGowan
Doon MacKichan
Brian Bowles
Leslie Sharp
Joanna Brookes
Elizabeth Bennet
Stephen Tomkinson
Producer: Ioan Magnusson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1993.
FRI 23:00 The Lee Mack Show (b00bt53m)
Suggs
Singer Suggs joins the quick-fire comic for stand-up, sketches and music. With Angela McHale and Steve Brown. From March 2005.
FRI 23:30 And Now in Colour (b007wqf1)
Series 1
Salisbury Plain
The sketch show team take their audience on Territorial Army manoeuvres – and a surprise Book at Bedtime.
Precision comedy written and performed by Tim Firth, Tim de Jongh, Michael Rutger and William Vandyck.
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1990