SATURDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2011

SAT 00:00 Planet B (b00j2j7k)
Series 1
10. Death's Door
John and Lioba aim to meet in the real world, but can they really escape their virtual reality?
Conclusion of series one of three about a mystery virtual world.
Written by Matthew Broughton.
John ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Medley ...... Lizzy Watts
Cerberus ...... Chris Pavlo
Lioba ...... Donnla Hughes
All other parts played by Janice Acquah, Jill Cardo, Stephen Critchlow,Paul Rider, Manjeet Mann, Matthew Broughton and Adjoa Andoh.
Director: Jessica Dromgoole
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in March 2009.
SAT 00:30 The Devil in Amber by Mark Gatiss (b00vfjsh)
5. Desperation
Will spy hero Lucifer Box reach cult leader Olympus Mons' Satanic lair, deep beneath the Swiss Alps, in time to prevent the sacrifice of the "perfect victim"?
Mark Gatiss concludes his own fiendishly gripping adventure.
Abridged by David Jackson Young.
Producer: Kirsteen Cameron.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2010.
SAT 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jltq)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2
The Three Students
The Baker Street sleuth investigates the theft of important exam papers. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.
SAT 01:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b0178z7n)
Series 1
Pathologist to the Rescue
A young man is accused of murder, but the crime scene compels the detective to look for another culprit. Read by Jim Norton.
SAT 02:00 Semi Circles (b007jtv2)
Series 2
A Liberal Education
Ben would like to swap his daughter for a Porsche. Or is private education the answer?
The improving story of life and improving times in an improving neighbourhood.
Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben
Written by Simon Brett
Helen ...... Paula Wilcox
Ben ...... David Wood
Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood
Alastair ...... Tony Millan
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1982
SAT 02:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b00k8fdv)
Series 2
Episode 2
John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary museum.
Tim FitzHigham, Simon Singh and Gavin Pretor-Pinney donate Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely rare cloud.
SAT 03:00 Man of All Work (b00n4ff9)
USA: A black man dresses as a maid to find work in 1950s Chicago. Richard Wright's thought-provoking comedy with Paterson Joseph.
SAT 04:00 Five Stories by James Ellis (b00ljmsm)
The Umbrella
When a man's new umbrella is ruined, his wife cunningly replaces it within budget. A French story adapted to an Irish setting.
SAT 04:15 Pete Lawson - The Deep End (b007jyz3)
Leni makes a surprising discovery at a public swimming pool. Moving drama about the loss of a baby. Stars Michelle Holmes. From December 1999.
SAT 05:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00tqqjf)
Series 2
Go With the Flow
When Patrick makes a chart to show where all the children are at any one time, it dawns on Stella that one of them isn't always where her little arrow says she is.
Series 2 of Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson's sitcom about topsy-turvy family life.
Stars Duncan Preston as Patrick, Penny Downie as Stella, Claudie Blakley as Alison, Bruce MacKinnon as Rick, Catherine Shepherd as Xanthe, Daniela Denby-Ashe as Egg and Rosie Armstrong as Mrs Fox.
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.
SAT 05:30 The Alan Davies Show (b007jsk4)
Episode 6
Struggling actor Alan has a date with an X-rated actress, whilst Peruvian Flu strikes at the Gazette.
Alan Davies stars in his own sitcom.
Written by Ben Silburn, Tony Roche and Alan Davies.
Alan ...... Alan Davies
Murray ...... Alan Francis
Kate ...... Ronni Ancona
With Debra Stephenson and Kevin Eldon.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.
SAT 06:00 Alan Ayckbourn - A Pageant (b007jrtq)
Marital tensions and midlife crises erupt for Toby and Celia. Part of Alan Ayckbourn's Intimate Exchanges multi-play project, stars Robin Herford and Lavinia Bertram.
SAT 07:30 Five Meet to Make Up Myths (b00xchg6)
Gyles Brandreth explores the creative connections between five Victorian authors. Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, JM Barrie and Bram Stoker all knew each other and used to frequent many of the same venues in London in the 1880s and 90s. Gyles Brandreth enlists the help of Freudian psychotherapist Brett Kahr and others to find out why their fictional creations remain compelling to this day.
SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b017gcmb)
Series 7
Episode 6
From Cincinnati in Ohio, the American funny man welcomes the Punch Brothers and veteran stand-up Paula Poundstone. From 2010.
SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller (b007jpx5)
Helen Lederer
The 'Absolutely Fabulous' actress chooses Arthur Smith Sings Leonard Cohen, Life with Lederer, Hearing with Hegley, Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation and Ross Noble Goes Global.
SAT 12:00 How Does That Make You Feel? (b017gfwk)
Therapist Martha is losing patience with her clients who seem desperate to be something they are not and lack even the merest degree of self-knowledge in Shelagh Stephenson's drama.
SAT 13:15 Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True (b00tvmjt)
The Crooked Branch
Farmers Nathan and Hester Huntroyd shower love and money on their handsome son Benjamin.
But he has ambitions above their humble station, and the result is unexpected to say the least...
Elizabeth Gaskell's collection of intriguing "true" tales dramatised by Sally Hedges.
Stars Elizabeth Spriggs as Mrs Gaskell, Peter Meakin as Nathan, Mary Randle as Hester, Kathryn Hunt as Bessy, Crispin Bonham-Carter as Benjamin.
With David Holt, Richard Mitchley and Brett Usher.
Producer: Nigel Bryant
An Armada production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 1998.
SAT 14:00 The Goon Show (b0081rvd)
Series 6
The Mighty Wurlitzer
Neddie Seagoon propels his mighty organ across the Sahara
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.
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 January 1956.
SAT 14:30 Dad's Army (b007q93v)
Series 1
No Spring for Frazer
When Private Frazer loses a Lewis gun's butterfly spring, he must track down a coffin.
Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with the original cast.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John Laurie as Private Fraser, Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey, Bill Pertwee as ARP Warden Hodges, Joan Cooper as Miss Barker and Timothy Bateson as Mr Blewitt. With John Snagge as the announcer.
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 June 1974.
SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b017gcmb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Alan Ayckbourn - A Pageant (b007jrtq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 What's So Funny? (b0178z9x)
Series 2
Episode 8
Robin Williams is on the red carpet, while Brendon Burns and Veronica Lee review the best of British comedy. With Ed Byrne.
SAT 18:00 Torchwood (b010gqsc)
Golden Age
On the trail of a dangerous energy field, Cardiff's crack team are faced with telephonic terror in Delhi. Stars John Barrowman.
SAT 18:45 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b010721b)
The Nine Billion Names of God
The Star
A priest's faith is severely tested during an expedition on a burnt planet. John Shrapnel reads Arthur C Clarke's short story.
SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller (b007jpx5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Comedy on the Boat (b017gk95)
Episode 7
Devonian Charlie Baker and Irish improv duo Abandoman are rocking the Tattershall Castle with laughter on London's River Thames.
SAT 22:45 Comic to Comic (b007tcbj)
Series 1
Chris Green
Writer-performer Chris Green talks to Bruce Morton about his character driven comedy, including American country and western singing sensation, Tina C.
Series in which Bruce Morton talks to top stand-up comedians about life, the universe and comedy.
Producer: Carol Purcell
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in August 2005.
SAT 23:00 VI Warshawski (b007jnmq)
Deadlock
The Long Goodbye
Clayton Phillips's body could only have got into the hold of the Gertrude Rutton one way. VI uses the same vehicle to confront the villain and ends up swimming for her life.
Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Kathleen Turner as VI Warshawski. With Bill Nighy as Roger Ferrant, Peter Marinker as Nils Greyfalk and Kerry Shale as Murray.
Eleanor Bron as Lottie, William Hootkins as Bobby Mallory, James Aubrey as Martin Bledsoe, Peter Marinker as Nils Greyfalk, Teresa Gallagher as Paige Carrington and William Roberts as Clayton Phillips.
Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime-fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator".
Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 film 'VI Warshawski'.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993.
SAT 23:30 Pulp Fiction (b017gk97)
Series 2
So Young, So Fair, So Dead
Good honest toil versus strutting, arrogant criminality. Who will win? Peter Marinker reads John Lutz's tale of base betrayal.


SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2011

SUN 00:00 Torchwood (b010gqsc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 00:45 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b010721b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b017gcmb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:00 How Does That Make You Feel? (b017gfwk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday]
SUN 03:15 Elizabeth Gaskell - Curious, If True (b00tvmjt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Alan Ayckbourn - A Pageant (b007jrtq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 What's So Funny? (b0178z9x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 On the Edge (b015yn7x)
When a dead body is found on Alderley Edge, witnesses are interviewed by DS Lynch. But when you're on the Edge, nothing is quite as it seems. Written by Bafta-winning Neil McKay.
SUN 07:15 Redesigning the Human Body (b00pn48p)
The Skin We're In
Len Fisher confronts his reflection, and dreams about what he could do to make his skin more appealing.
SUN 07:30 Elvenquest (b017757w)
Series 3
Episode 6
When the Questers get drunk to celebrate Vidar's birthday, Sam tries once again to gain (albeit with customary cack-handedness) the affections of Penthiselea, much to her consternation. Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is anxious to get one over his old nemesis, Kaybar the Maleficent, and so decides to do something really newsworthy and light the "Beacon of Doom".
If the "Beacon of Doom" is lit then the runes dictate that one of the Questers must do battle in hand-hand combat with Lord Darkness himself. And so, to impress Penthiselea, Sam volunteers to be that Quester. Problem is, Sam doesn't have the first idea how to fight hand-to-hand. Fortunately, nor it seems, does Lord Darkness. Should make for an interesting showdown then...
Starring:
Darren Boyd as Vidar
Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech
Dave Lamb as Amis, aka the "Chosen One"
Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness
Stephen Mangan as Sam
and
Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea
Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto
Producer: Sam Michell.
SUN 08:00 Take It From Here (b017gl1f)
From 26/05/1955
As their wedding looms, Eth worries she will make a bad wife for Ron Glum. Stars Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From May 1955.
SUN 08:30 Listen to Les (b00cz801)
From 24/07/1983
Les Dawson's line-up including snobby Cissie Braithwaite instructing Ada Shufflebotham on the etiquette of fox hunting.
With Roy Barraclough, Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn.
Music by Brian Fitzgerald.
Scripted and produced by James Casey.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1983.
SUN 09:00 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvcv)
Series 1
Tintin in Tibet
News of a plane crash sends the intrepid boy reporter on a desperate search. Stars Richard Pearce, Andrew Sachs and Leo McKern.
SUN 09:30 Alf Proysen - Mrs Pepperpot (b00p7qb4)
Episode 2
The incredible shrinking woman gets in big trouble at a Christmas market. Based on the popular books. Stars Alison Steadman.
SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b017glb0)
Jon Snow
Jon Snow: Kirsty Young explores the choices of the Channel 4 News anchor in the third of a series featuring journalists.
SUN 10:50 Front Row Interviews (b017glcw)
Sir Terry Pratchett
The famed fantasy writer reflects on his writing career and living with Alzheimer's, in conversation with Mark Lawson.
SUN 11:00 Back to the Drawing Board (b00904ns)
Episode 3
What are the risks of debt, and when do you give up? Matthew Harvey looks at the characteristics of an inventor.
SUN 11:15 Ambridge Extra (b017glh5)
Series 2 - Omnibus
Series 2, Episodes 15-16
In the Archers spin-off, Daniel is hoping that Erin hasn't changed her tune, Clive is all set, and Alice and Amy meet for a drink.
SUN 11:45 Postscripts: JB Priestley (b00nsp7n)
Episode 3
Comparing his current and previous wartime experiences, broadcaster JB Priestley's 1940 observations. Read by Patrick Stewart.
SUN 12:00 On the Edge (b015yn7x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 13:15 Redesigning the Human Body (b00pn48p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 13:30 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
Fast-moving thriller set in 1990s Paris. Prison official Yvette Lalande is kidnapped on her way to work by a notorious group of terrorists. But what is the link to events in Algeria thirty years before? It appears 'someone in authority' has good reason to hamper Commissaire Grosset's police investigations.
Starring David Calder as Commissaire Grosset, Peter Jeffrey as Michel Corbillard, Alex Jennings as Jean Lenoir, Patti Holloway as Yvette Lalande and Natasha Pyne as Danielle Lesueur.
Scripted by Roger Danes
Directed by Glyn Dearman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
SUN 15:00 Take It From Here (b017gl1f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 15:30 Listen to Les (b00cz801)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 16:00 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 16:30 Alf Proysen - Mrs Pepperpot (b00p7qb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
SUN 17:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects (b00r7rlv)
After the Ice Age
Another chance to hear the Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, retell the history of human development using 100 selected objects from the Museum. This week he explores the profound changes that humans experienced at the end of the Ice Age. By this period, humanity is reconsidering its place in the world and turning its attention to food, power, worship, and human relationships.
But then, as now, one of the most important parts of human existence was finding enough food to survive. Taking a pestle from Papua New Guinea as an example, Neil asks why our ancestors decided to grow and cook new foods. The answer provides us with a telling insight into the way early humans settled on the land. Becoming farmers and eating food that was harder for other animals to digest made us a formidable force in the food chain. The impact on our environment of this shift to cookery and cultivation is still being felt. Neil is joined by Indian food writer Madhur Jaffrey, campaigner Sir Bob Geldof and archaeologist Professor Martin Jones.
Neil then goes on to investigate a palm-sized stone sculpture that was found near Bethlehem. It clearly shows a couple entwined in the act of love. The contemporary sculptor Marc Quinn responds to the stone as art and the archaeologist Dr Ian Hodder considers the Natufian society that produced it. What was human life and society actually like all those years ago? Possibly a lot more sophisticated than we imagine!
For his third item in the programme Neil selects four miniature clay cows made from Nile mud in Egypt 5,500 years ago, way before the time of the pyramids or the pharaohs. Why did the Egyptians start burying objects like this one with their dead? Neil goes in search life and death on the Nile and discovers how the domestication of cattle made the humble cow transformed human existence.
Neil then switches his focus to the world of the Mayan civilisation and a stone Maize God, discovered on the site of a major Mayan city in present day Honduras. This large statue is wearing a headdress in the shape of a giant corn cob. Maize was not only worshipped at that time but the Maya also believed that all their ancestors were descended from maize. Neil MacGregor reveals why maize, which is notoriously difficult to refine for human consumption, becomes so important to the emerging agriculture of the region. Neil is joined by the anthropologist Professor John Staller and the restaurateur Santiago Calva who explain the complexity of Mayan mythological belief and the ongoing power of maize in Central America today
And for his final item this week Neil moves to Japan and the story of a 7,000 year old clay pot which has managed to remain almost perfectly intact. Pots began in Japan around 17, 000 years ago and by the time this pot was made had achieved a remarkable sophistication. The archaeologists ProfessorTakeshi Doi and Simon Kaner describe the significance of agriculture to the Jomon and the way in which they made their pots and used decorations from the natural world around them. This particular pot is remarkable in that it was lined with gold leaf in perhaps the 18th century and used in that quintessentially Japanese ritual, the tea ceremony. This simple clay object makes a fascinating connection between the Japan of today and the emerging world of people in Japan at the end of the Ice Age
Producers: Anthony Denselow and Paul Kobrak
SUN 18:00 The Man in Black (b017glqm)
Series 4
1. Containment by David Lemon
A self-storage facility off the A12 offers hope to a lost soul, but there's a sinister price attached.
Mark Gatiss returns as the sinister raconteur, The Man in Black, to introduce David Lemon's unsettling tale.
Helen ...... Clare Corbett
Andy ...... Rikki Lawton
Tom ...... Carl Prekopp
Peter ...... Gabriel Brody
Lucy ...... Katie Angelou
More horrifying tales from The Man in Black. You might meet him at a luggage carousel in an airport, or behind the desk at an employment agency or he might approach you in the corridor of a care home. Wherever you encounter him, he's eager to pass on his stories. Stories to unsettle and horrify. Stories to haunt you.
Director: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in November 2011.
SUN 18:30 David Garnett - Lady into Fox (b00cmz8m)
2. Escape
Despite Richard Tebrick's increased security for their new home, his vixen wife escapes to begin a new family life in the woods...
David Garnett's terrifying novel of transformation is concluded by Ben Miles.
Abridged by Doreen Estall
Directed at BBC Northern Ireland by Lawrence Jackson.
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in July 2008.
SUN 19:00 Back to the Drawing Board (b00904ns)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 19:15 Ambridge Extra (b017glh5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
SUN 19:45 Postscripts: JB Priestley (b00nsp7n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today]
SUN 20:00 Take It From Here (b017gl1f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 20:30 Listen to Les (b00cz801)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b017glb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 21:50 Front Row Interviews (b017glcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:50 today]
SUN 22:00 Elvenquest (b017757w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 Rigor Mortis (b007k4q2)
Series 1
Episode 4
The pathologists face doing a holistic, non-invasive autopsy. Stars Peter Davison and Tracy-Ann Oberman. From June 2003.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b017gm3n)
Andi Osho and her guest chat about life and laughs.
SUN 23:00 The Hare Lane Diaries (b00lyt9t)
Episode 4
Jessica's barbecue for the neighbours sees Rex struggling to keep control. Stars Frances Barber. From September 2001.
SUN 23:30 Ivor Cutler - A Stuggy Pren (b00d45qp)
Episode 5
Songster Ivor Cutler slips a disc and shares his secrets about moonshine, housemaids and a bully called Smith. From 1994.
SUN 23:45 Peter Bradshaw - For One Horrible Moment (b0089jzh)
Episode 5
The full and hideous truth is revealed.
Peter Bradshaw concludes 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
Producer: Jon Naismith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.


MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2011

MON 00:00 The Man in Black (b017glqm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 David Garnett - Lady into Fox (b00cmz8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b017glb0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:50 Front Row Interviews (b017glcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:50 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 Back to the Drawing Board (b00904ns)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Ambridge Extra (b017glh5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:45 Postscripts: JB Priestley (b00nsp7n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 Take It From Here (b017gl1f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Roger Danes - Scarlet on Black (b007jwvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Alf Proysen - Mrs Pepperpot (b00p7qb4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlv2)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2
The Golden Pince-Nez
The sleuth tackles a motiveless murder, with just a pair of specs and the victim's dying words to go on. Stars Clive Merrison.
MON 06:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gnhp)
Series 1
The Secret of the Urn
A man's death piques the detective's curiousity, but is it suicide, murder, or something much stranger? Read by Jim Norton.
MON 07:00 No Commitments (b017gnkt)
Series 9
Coming Clean
The love lives of sisters Anna and Charlotte take some unexpected twists and turns. Stars Angela Thorne. From February 2003.
MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b017cb10)
Series 56
Episode 2
The 56th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a return visit to G-Live in Guildford. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. Regular listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith.
MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b007zkzy)
Series 4
Episode 7
Kenneth Horne hits The Celluloid Jungle and waltzes off for some strictly Bona Ballroom tuition from Julian and Sandy.
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.
Written by Barry Took, Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke and Donald Webster.
Music by the Max Harris Group.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in April 1968.
MON 08:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv)
From 23/06/1963
Lead-swinging Arthur visits his doctor - and will a dodgy couple really buy a posh mansion?
The comic characters of popular comedian Arthur Haynes in Johnny Speight's sketches.
After originally working with Charlie Chester on a number of series for BBC Radio, Arthur Haynes (1914-1966) became a big star on ITV in the late 1950s/early 1960s
With Nicholas Parsons and Patricia Hayes.
Songs by Janie Marden.
Producer: Richard Dingley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1963.
MON 09:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b017gntm)
Series 3
Late Review
Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur Strong is an expert in everything from the world of entertainment to the origins of the species, all false starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance.
Arthur misplaces his book for the review taking place later that day. Arthur and Geoffrey are sent in pursuit of it. A couple of glasses of wine in the green room prior to the radio show help him review the book in his own unique manner.
With Steve Delaney, Sue Perkins, Dave Mounfield and Alastair Kerr.
MON 09:30 Jest a Minute (b017gnw5)
Series 2
Episode 4
Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from the Glee Club in Cardiff.
With Elis James, Jon Richardson, Lloyd Langford and Chris Corcoran
Producers: Paul Forde and Gareth Gwynn.
First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in 2006.
MON 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gq5y)
Time of Hope
Lewis Eliot starts his rise to power by escaping from the drudgery of a council clerk's office in Leicester in the 1920s by passing exams to study at the Bar in this first episode of CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway
With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig
George Passant ... Bill Wallis
Marion ... Laura Doddington
Sheila Knight ... Anastasia Hille
Herbert Getliffe ... Stephen Moore
Percy Hall ... Danny Webb
Charles March ... Jamie Glover
Leonard March ... John Standing
Katherine March ... Carla Simpson
Ann Simon .... Emma Woolliams
Mrs Getliffe ... Suzanna Hamilton
Revd Knight ...Brett Usher
Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
MON 11:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gqvz)
The Story of the Siren
The Story of the Siren is the first in our series of short fiction by EM Forster. It is an unsettling story about a sea nymph and an ill fated young Sicilian. The novelist best known for twentieth century classics including A Passage to India, A Room with a View and Maurice was also a prolific writer of short stories. In them he explored many of the themes central to his novels, including the morals of the middle classes in the early twentieth century, and his fascination with culture and mores of the beguiling South. The reader is Dan Stevens.
Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b017l76l)
Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.
Award-winning actor and author Terence Stamp will be talking to Clive about his extraordinary acting career, which has spanned over fifty years and has seen him appear in over sixty films. From Superman villain to transgender showgirl, Terence has played a variety of roles. His memoir 'Rare Stamps, Reflections on Living, Breathing and Acting' takes an introspective journey into the life of a British icon.
Author and historian Simon Sebag Montefiore will be making a pilgrimage to the Loose Ends studio to tell us about his new BBC Four series 'Jerusalem - The Making of A Holy City'. Simon explores how this unique city came into being and illuminates its sacred history.
Rachael Stirling will be getting her skates on and talking to ice legends Jane Torvill and Christopher Dean about their dazzling Olympic gold win dancing to 'Bolero' at the 1984 games. This year, Jane and Chris joined a host of celebrities for 'Torvill & Dean's Dancing on Ice - The Live Tour 2011', which is now available on DVD.
Clive will be posing for the UK's leading fashion photographer, Rankin, whose snap-happy career has seen him photograph countless celebrities. In BBC Four's 'America in Pictures', Rankin examines the work of the iconic 'LIFE' magazine's legendary photographers and how they pioneered new forms of photojournalism. Say 'cheese' Clive!
8 piece Mariachi El Bronx will have their trumpets at the ready to perform '48 Roses' and 'Revolution Girls' from their album 'Mariachi El Bronx (II)'. Olé!
Producer: Cathie Mahoney.
MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b007zkzy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlv2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gnhp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
MON 14:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007jq0h)
Episode 1
Christine de Pizan's allegorical fantasy about building a fortress for women from valour, virtue and wisdom. Stars Kathryn Hunt.
MON 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b00b0qmc)
Henry and the Scottish Kings
The repercussions of the Conqueror are still being felt, as Henry marries Matilda. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles.
MON 14:30 Book of the Week (b00n46wt)
Michael Palin Diaries - The Python Years
The Holy Grail
The Monty Pyton star recalls the making of their first film, 'The Holy Grail'.
Michael Palin reads five scintillating extracts from his diaries - as the success of the influential comedy troupe Monty Python escalates during the 1970s.
Producer: Louise Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
MON 14:45 Bogarde on Film (b007js9n)
Visconti and Venice
Reading more extracts from his memoirs, Dirk Bogarde recalls the dramas of filming Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice.
MON 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gq5y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b017gr5k)
Mel Giedroyc explores the secret language of whistling and the continuing tales of a seal called Selkie. Plus the sixth part of the celebrated David Almond story Skellig.
MON 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00s3jtn)
Series 1
The Jubilee
Can the dear ladies save the day at the community centre?
Starring Dame Hilda Bracket and her lifelong companion Dr Evadne Hinge.
With Duggie Brown.
The dear ladies reside in the Suffolk village of Stackton Tressel. This was the genteel setting for three Radio 4 series between 1977 and 1979, with further spin-off seasons on Radio 2 until 1990. In the early 1980s, they expanded over to BBC TV with the series Dear Ladies.
Dame Hilda Bracket ...... George Logan
Dr Evadne Hinge ...... Patrick Fyffe
Scripted by Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley and Ron McDonnell.
Producer: James Casey.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1977.
MON 17:30 No Commitments (b017gnkt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b010ns71)
Night Watch
Episode 1
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy.
Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch falls through time and arrives in the city of his youth.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel dramatised in five parts by Robin Brooks.
Stars Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes, Carl Prekopp as Young Sam, Paul Ritter as Carcer, Peter Marinker as Willikins, Clare Corbett as Rosie, Sam Dale as Fred Colon, Ben Onwukwe as Dr Lawn and Matt Addis as Sergeant Knock.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
MON 18:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k36c)
Episode 1
Biochemist Diana Brackley has stumbled across something earth-shattering - but why does no-one want to know?
The scientific world, government, media and the beauty salon are set to collide...
Read by Joanna Tope.
John Wyndham's 1960 sci-fi novel abridged by Scott Stainton Miller.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2007.
MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b007zkzy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 The Arthur Haynes Show (b00zl7rv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlv2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gnhp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
MON 21:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gqvz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b017l76l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b017cb10)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b017gntm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 23:00 Now Show Extra (b017gsb6)
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present an extended version of this week's Now Show, with material not featured in the Radio 4 programme.
MON 23:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea (b007ynlv)
Series 1
The Murder Mystery
Hamish and Dougal set about solving the mystery of Mrs Naughtie's surprise disappearance and several unsavoury rumours about her past.
Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden star as the two elderly Scotsmen famed for their appearances on BBC Radio’s I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
With Alison Steadman as their cleaning-lady-cum-housekeeper, Mrs Naughtie.
And Jeremy Hardy as the local Laird.
Producer: Jon Naismith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2002.


TUESDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2011

TUE 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b010ns71)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k36c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlv2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gnhp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b017gntm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Jest a Minute (b017gnw5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gq5y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gqvz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b017l76l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00s3jtn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 No Commitments (b017gnkt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlw0)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2
The Missing Three Quarter
The sleuth investigates when a vital player disappears on the eve of an Oxford v Cambridge rugby match. Stars Clive Merrison.
TUE 06:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gtbx)
Series 1
Pandora's Box
When a travelling salesman's box reveals a ghastly secret, the detective must prove him innocent of murder. Read by Jim Norton.
TUE 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00vcx38)
Series 2
France
Captured by French revolutionaries, Tamsyn faces an excruciating torture involving a shuttlecock, some badminton rackets and two fat naked Germans.
It's 1793 and in the small Cornish village of Drumlin Bay, heroic smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny is still running rings around the customs men, assisted by her drunken father Jago.
Written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain.
Starring Sheridan Smith as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire Bascombe, Mark Felgate as Dewey and Mark Perry as Hobbs.
Producer: Jan Ravens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
TUE 07:30 Richard Herring's Objective (b017cfkv)
Series 2
Page 3
'Page 3' has been the cause of controversy, so Richard debates whether it's something that we should celebrate, or consign to the dustbin of history.
Series in which Richard Herring pokes and prods a variety controversial objects and see if the controversy falls out. Through vox pops, interviews and stand up comedy Richard examines the objects' history, meaning and significance and challenges our assumed logic and stereotypes.
Can we reclaim these objects away from their unfortunate associations?
Written by and starring Richard Herring.
With Emma Kennedy and special guest, the glamour model Lucy Pinder.
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jn16)
Series 6
The Tales of Montmartre
Paris, passion and duplicity abound in the tangled lives of two talented painters.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.
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 January 1956.
TUE 08:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jshz)
Series 5
Love Big Brother the Burkiss Way
It's Big Brother with a twist as the team spoof George Orwell's '1984'.
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 October 1980.
TUE 09:00 Now Show Extra (b017gsb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea (b007ynlv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gtdx)
The Conscience of the Rich
1920s
Lewis Eliot gets caught up in a political scandal that engulfs the family of his best friend Charles March.
CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway
With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig
George Passant ... Bill Wallis
Marion ... Laura Doddington
Sheila Knight ... Anastasia Hille
Herbert Getliffe ... Stephen Moore
Percy Hall ... Danny Webb
Charles March ... Jamie Glover
Leonard March ... John Standing
Katherine March ... Carla Simpson
Ann Simon .... Emma Woolliams
Mrs Getliffe ... Suzanna Hamilton
Revd Knight ...Brett Usher
Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
TUE 11:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gvd8)
The Road From Colonus
Mr Lucas's tiresome family thwart his plans for a sojourn in the idyllic Greek countryside. Read by Andrew Sachs.
TUE 11:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gvl8)
Looks Like Rain
Following their mother's funeral, Joyce and Stan unearth some dodgy family secrets. Stars Dora Bryan and Bernard Cribbins.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jn16)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jshz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gtbx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
TUE 14:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007m9j0)
Episode 2
Building the walls and visions of valour. Christine de Pizan's allegorical fantasy of a fortress for women. With Kathryn Hunt.
TUE 14:15 Ambridge Extra (b017gvrp)
Series 2
Episode 17
In the Archers spin-off, Daniel plucks up courage and Alan makes a discovery.
TUE 14:30 Book of the Week (b00n4907)
Michael Palin Diaries - The Python Years
Branching Out
The actor and travel writer recalls the Monty Python team's success in America, their break-up and the start of his solo projects. From October 2006.
TUE 14:45 Bogarde on Film (b007jsb2)
The Patricia Neal Story
Reading more extracts from his memoirs - the actor recalls how working with Glenda Jackson was the pinnacle of his career.
TUE 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gtdx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b017gw8m)
Mel Giedroyc gives Woody Allen the birthday bumps and gives a teddy bear the cuddles. Plus the seventh part of the celebrated David Almond story Skellig.
TUE 17:00 For Better or for Worse (b00h9t2d)
Series 1
Episode 7
A day trip to France brings buried memories to the surface for Bernard. Stars Su Pollard and Gorden Kaye. From March 1993.
TUE 17:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00vcx38)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b010nyk4)
Night Watch
Episode 2
Chasing a villain called Carcer, Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch has been thrown back in time. The Old Watch are a lack-lustre bunch and they've taken him prisoner.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Stars Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes, Carl Prekopp as Young Sam, Paul Ritter as Carcer, Peter Marinker as Tilden, Clare Corbett as Rosie, Sam Dale as Colon, Ben Onwukwe as Dr Lawn and Matt Addis as Knock.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
TUE 18:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k3cz)
Episode 2
Perturbed by her boss's silence over the mysterious properties of the lichen, biochemist Diana Brackley secretly begins her own investigation
The scientific world, government, media and the beauty salon collide in John Wyndham's 1960 sci-fi novel.
Read by Joanna Tope.
Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2007.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jn16)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jshz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gtbx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
TUE 21:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gvd8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gvl8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Richard Herring's Objective (b017cfkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Innes Own World (b017gwqz)
Episode 3
Neil Innes shares some breakfast dramas and memories of touring the USA with the Bonzo Dog Band.
The Radio Show that spits the Gargle of Existence into the Bathroom Sink of Being and introduces the Man of Substance to the Woman of Intuition.
Script Editor: John Dowie
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
TUE 23:00 Knowing Me, Knowing You (b009h7n0)
Episode 3
A-ha! Alan Partridge meets France's second-best racing driver Michel Lambert, saucy East End glamour girl Shirley Dee and looks for the lighter side of being held hostage...
Classic chat from On the Hour's supreme sports reporter and his guests from the world of theatre, politics and emotional tragedy.
With thanks to Alan's chief researcher Steve Coogan
Assistant researchers:
Patrick Marber
Rebecca Front
Doon Mackichan
David Schneider
Producer: Armando lannucci
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1992.
TUE 23:30 Doon Your Way (b007jzrw)
Episode 2
Bryony the Brownie and DJ Chantal join Doon Mackichan's parade of comic characters. With Alastair McGowan. From August 1996.


WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2011

WED 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b010nyk4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k3cz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlw0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:45 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator (b017gtbx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Now Show Extra (b017gsb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
WED 02:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea (b007ynlv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
WED 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gtdx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gvd8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gvl8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 For Better or for Worse (b00h9t2d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00vcx38)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlwk)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2
The Abbey Grange
Inspector Hopkins blames burglars for murdering Sir Eustace Brackenstall, but the sleuth is not so sure. Stars Clive Merrison.
WED 06:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g2ch3)
Episode 1
George is dead, but he's got a con job for Blaze, who can still hear him. William Hope reads Stephen King's 'lost' thriller.
WED 07:00 Safety Catch (b017gxpv)
Series 2
I Draw the Line
Simon is faced with even more of a moral dilemma than he's grown sadly accustomed to in his line of work and so finds himself finally drawing the line and resigning.
When faced with a particularly tricky moral issue at work Simon finally decides enough is enough and quits his job. It's not great timing though as he and Anna find themselves contemplating having a baby.
Series two of Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern morality set in the world of arms dealing.
Simon McGrath...........Darren Boyd
Anna Grieg............Joanna Page
Boris Kemal...........Lewis Macleod
Judith McGrath..........Sarah Smart
Angela McGrath..........Brigit Forsyth
Madeleine Turnbull..........Rachel Atkins
Marcus...............Dan Mersh
Producer: Dawn Ellis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
WED 07:30 The Write Stuff (b015p86q)
Cheltenham Literature Festival Special
James Walton presents a special edition of the programme recorded at 2011's Cheltenham Literature Festival. With guests Rachel Johnson and Sue Limb.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j1wj3)
Series 3
The Pet Dog
The lad buys Andree a puppy for her birthday, but to his alarm - it won't stop growing!
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955.
WED 08:30 Harry Worth (b00r2jxk)
Thirty Minutes Worth
The Holiday
Harry Worth's doctor prescribes him a sunshine holiday.
Starring Harry Worth.
With Jacqueline Clarke, Charles Collingwood, Julie Higginson and Milton Johns.
Script by Vince Powell.
Producer: Mike Craig
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1988.
WED 09:00 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008klgb)
Up the Pole
When Harold Perkins befriends the Carnival Queen, the workmates plot a little sabotage.
Six anarchic tales from those demob days “when we was going to build the new Jerusalem - you know, before the world turned lax and sour”.
Stars Norman Rossington as Big Jim, Roland Curram as Harold Perkins, Harold Goodwin as Old Ned, David John as Nimrod, Sylvester McCoy as Turps, David Beckett as Chick, Steven Harrold as Harry and Carol Hawkins as Miss James.
Narrated by Bernard Cribbins.
Written by Ted Walker.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1987.
WED 09:30 The Personality Test (b00n02yq)
Series 2
Claire Rayner
Agony aunt Claire Rayner quizzes a panel about herself.
With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Will Smith and Robin Ince.
Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel.
Script by Richard Turner and Simon LIttlefield
Devised and produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.
WED 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gyjd)
The Masters, Part 1
1920s. Lewis Eliot is teaching in a Cambridge College when an election is called for a new Master.
CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway
With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig
Francis Getliffe ... Andy Taylor
Winslow ... Clive Merrison
Brown ... Philip Franks
Calvert ... Adam Levy
Jago ... David Calder
Nightingale ... Jeremy Child
Chrystal ... Matthew Marsh
Crawford ... Hugh Quarshie
Mrs Jago... Joanna Monroe
SIr Horace Timberlake... Ian Hogg
Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
WED 11:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gyls)
The Obelisk
The Story of the Siren is the first in our series of short fiction by EM Forster. It is an unsettling story about a sea nymph and an ill fated young Sicilian. The novelist best known for twentieth century classics including A Passage to India, A Room with a View and Maurice was also a prolific writer of short stories. In them he explored many of the themes central to his novels, including the morals of the middle classes in the early twentieth century, and his fascination with culture and mores of the beguiling South. The reader is Dan Stevens.
Abridged by Richard Hamilton. Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
WED 11:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gzt3)
Looks Like Rain Again
After their mother's funeral, the return of a missing brother stirs up big trouble. Stars Roy Barraclough and Bernard Cribbins.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j1wj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 Harry Worth (b00r2jxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlwk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g2ch3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
WED 14:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mb45)
Episode 3
The brilliance of women's minds, and a Temple of Female Learning. Christine de Pizan's allegorical fantasy. With Kathryn Hunt.
WED 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b00b2ncr)
Justice, Power and the Death of Henry
It is the 12th century and in an Anglo Saxon England, Henry is king. Anna Massey narrates the history of the British Isles.
WED 14:30 Book of the Week (b00n4ffh)
Michael Palin Diaries - The Python Years
My Father
The comic actor and travel writer shares more poignant memories from the 70s, reflecting on his relationship with his ailing father. From October 2006.
WED 14:45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00sm5xn)
Episode 1
Junior lecturer Jim Dixon takes recovering academic Margaret out on a date. Read by Martin Jarvis.
The all-time classic comic novel of academic life written by Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim lists the fortunes - or rather misfortunes - of Jim Dixon, a man of many faces, most of which don't fit his surroundings.
Produced and abridged by Pat McLoughlin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
WED 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gyjd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b017gyt8)
Mel Giedroyc starts a sing-a-long and seeks out ghostly apparitions. Plus there's the final part of the celebrated David Almond story Skellig.
WED 17:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvgy)
Episode 6
Landlord Jack has the flu, so Nicola takes over just as the pub inspectors are due.
If the father-daughter bond can survive this, it could probably survive anything...
Joe Turner’s six-part sitcom stars Michael Williams as Jack, Lisa Coleman as Nicola, Cherry Morris as Mrs Drummond, Simon Greenall as Andy, Sally Grace as the Inspector and Toby Longworth as Joe.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999.
WED 17:30 Safety Catch (b017gxpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b010tzfb)
Night Watch
Episode 3
Thrown back in time, Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch is training his young self in the art of policing - then runs into his old enemy, Carcer.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Stars Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes, Carl Prekopp as Young Sam, Paul Ritter as Carcer, Clare Corbett as Rosie, Sam Dale as Colon, Ben Onwukwe as Dr Lawn, Peter Marinker as Tilden and Rachel Atkins as Lady Meserole.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
WED 18:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k3kn)
Episode 3
Biochemist Diana's compensation payout catches the attention of Fleet Street.
Meanwhile, Paul has told his wife about the antigerone
The scientific world, government, media and the beauty salon collide in John Wyndham's 1960 sci-fi novel.
Read by Joanna Tope.
Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2007.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b00j1wj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 Harry Worth (b00r2jxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlwk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g2ch3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
WED 21:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gyls)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gzt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 The Write Stuff (b015p86q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Nebulous (b00hxnfj)
Series 2
I Nebulous
At a peace conference, the Professor is forced to swap minds with the evil Dr Klench. Stars Mark Gatiss. From April 2006.
WED 23:00 Goodness Gracious Me (b007jv3v)
Series 1
Episode 3
Bhangraman must save the world - and the downside of keeping a cow as a family pet
Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kulvinder Ghir, Nitin Sawhney, Meera Syal and Nina Wadia.
Gold Winner of the Sony Radio Academy Awards. The sketch comedy show originally ran on BBC Radio 4 from 1996 to 1998, later transferring to TV on BBC Two from 1998 to 2001.
Scripted by Sharat Sardana, Richard Pinto and the cast.
Produced by Gareth Edwards and Anil Gupta.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1996.
WED 23:30 Dial M for Pizza (b017gz8q)
Series 2
Episode 6
Foul play at the panto, and Mr Makeaslotofmistakes is now Mr President - scary! Stars Morweena Banks. From December 1988.


THURSDAY 01 DECEMBER 2011

THU 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b010tzfb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k3kn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlwk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g2ch3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Big Jim and the Figaro Club (b008klgb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 The Personality Test (b00n02yq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gyjd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 EM Forster Short Stories (b017gyls)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gzt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Safety Catch (b017gxpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlx3)
The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Series 2
The Second Stain
The Prime Minister asks the sleuth to recover a letter vital to national security. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.
THU 06:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g36d9)
Episode 2
The small-time con acquires equipment to honour George's kidnap plan. William Hope reads Stephen King's 'lost' thriller.
THU 07:00 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (b00b01jz)
The Case of the Clockwork Fiend
Baker Street’s Great Detective Sherlock Holmes investigates mystery deaths from some new fangled inventions.
Roy Hudd spoofs the famous sleuth in Tony Hare’s comedy series.
With Chris Emmett as Dr Watson, Jeffrey Holland as Inspector Lestrade and June Whitfield as Mrs Hudson.
Musical accompaniment: Ian Smith.
Producer: Chris Neill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1999.
THU 07:30 Listen Against (b017cjmx)
Series 4
Episode 4
A week of radio that never happened.
Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes rewind and mangle real programmes for you to enjoy the wrong way round.
Written and created by Jon Holmes
With:
Kevin Eldon
Justin Edwards
Sarah Hadland
James Bachman
Kim Wall
David Mara
Producer: Sam Bryant.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.
THU 08:00 The Men from the Ministry (b017gzgl)
All Change
Struggling with the new metric system - will the dopey duo measure up in fancy new jobs?
Stars Richard Murdoch and Deryck Guyler.
With Norma Ronald, Ronald Baddiley and John Graham.
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 July 1975.
THU 08:30 Dad's Army (b007qrzs)
Series 1
Sons of the Sea
Out on river patrol, Captain Mainwaring's Home Guard platoon gets lost in fog in the English Channel...
Six years after legendary sitcom Dad's Army started on BBC TV, these specially adapted radio versions began recording with the original cast.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John Laurie as Private Fraser, Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and Timothy Bateson as Various. With John Snagge as the announcer.
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 June 1974.
THU 09:00 Potting On (b00lblps)
Flab
Noticing both their waistlines are getting bigger, Pam challenges Gordon to a dieting competition.
Sitcom about a couple at odds over running a garden centre and growing older.
Starring Pam Ayres as Pam and Geoffrey Whitehead as Gordon.
Written by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds with Pam Ayres.
With Trevor Bannister, Karl Theobald and Alex Tregear.
Sitcom by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds.
Producer Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2008.
THU 09:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b017gzj8)
Series 2
Countess Natasha and the Red Menace
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan guest stars in the same week that the programme is infiltrated by a spy.
Series two of Christopher William Hill's sitcom set in 1962. A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the unimaginably futuristic world of 2008.
Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles
Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell
Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune
Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn
Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska
Douglas Bennings/Harold Macmillan ...... Jon Glover
Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon
Roger Aspinall ...... Simon Treves
Secretary ...... Laura Molyneux
Miss Thurwell ...... Anna Bengo.
Producer: Liz Webb
First broadcast on Radio 4 in February 2008.
THU 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gzk8)
The Masters, Part 2
The politics of the Cambridge college where Lewis teaches becomes poisonous as the country stands on the brink of war.
CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway
With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig
Francis Getliffe ... Andy Taylor
Winslow ... Clive Merrison
Brown ... Philip Franks
Calvert ... Adam Levy
Jago ... David Calder
Nightingale ... Jeremy Child
Chrystal ... Matthew Marsh
Crawford ... Hugh Quarshie
Mrs Jago... Joanna Monroe
SIr Horace Timberlake... Ian Hogg
Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
THU 11:00 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k19s)
The Trinket Box
To her observers, Mrs Bradley always seemed that bit too glamorous for a small gift shop owner...
John Gordon Sinclair reads Ronald Frame's short story.
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.
THU 11:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gzxg)
Rain on the Just
Dark family secrets and a severe case of sibling rivalry lead to murder. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Roy Barraclough.
THU 12:00 The Men from the Ministry (b017gzgl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Dad's Army (b007qrzs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlx3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g36d9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
THU 14:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007md2c)
Episode 4
The female virtues of loyalty and faithfulness. Christine de Pizan's allegorical fortress fantasy. With Kathryn Hunt.
THU 14:15 Ambridge Extra (b017h00m)
Series 2
Episode 18
In the Archers spin-off, Alistair has a helper and Alan makes a visit.
THU 14:30 Book of the Week (b00n51g1)
Michael Palin Diaries - The Python Years
Saturday Night Live
The comic actor shares his surreal experience of guest hosting a big American TV show and going to a party at New York's Studio 54. From October 2006.
THU 14:45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00sm8nh)
Episode 2
Will an 'arty' weekend at the Welches give lecturer Jim an opportunity to impress his colleagues? Read by Martin Jarvis.
THU 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gzk8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b017h137)
Mel Giedroyc opens the first door on her advent calendar to find snowflakes and knitting needles. Plus the opening chapter of a new story: The Tulip Touch by Anne Fine.
THU 17:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k19l)
My Stag Movie, part 1/2
The veteran auditionee recalls how sometimes talent can be found in the unlikeliest places - and sometimes it can't be found at all...
British show business doyen, J Kingston Platt shares reminiscences drawn from the wealth and the poverty of his experience from the past 40 years.
Performed and written by Peter Jones.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1986
THU 17:30 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (b00b01jz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b010v3d7)
Night Watch
Episode 4
Thrown back in time, Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch relives the glorious revolution of his youth. But he must also protect his younger self from arch-enemy Carcer.
Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Stars Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes, Carl Prekopp as Young Sam, Paul Ritter as Carcer, Clare Corbett as Rosie, Sam Dale as Colon, Ben Onwukwe as Dr Lawn, Joseph Kloska as Reg Shoe and Peter Marinker as Major Clive.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
THU 18:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k3r3)
Episode 4
Biochemist Diana Brackley's attempts to conceal the true source of the antigerone are finally overcome.
The scientific world, government, media and the beauty salon collide in John Wyndham's 1960 sci-fi novel.
Read by Joanna Tope.
Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2007
THU 19:00 The Men from the Ministry (b017gzgl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Dad's Army (b007qrzs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlx3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g36d9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
THU 21:00 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k19s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gzxg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Listen Against (b017cjmx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Ross Noble Goes Global (b007jvs3)
Series 1
China
The stand-up comic discovers the bustling city of Shanghai, performs in front of the locals and marvels at the wonders of a thousand pensioners in a park.
Producer: Danny Wallace
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2001.
THU 23:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b00kfdtp)
Series 3
The Libel Action
As grumpy writer Ed updates obituaries, he produces a savage profile of an old friend.
The comical world of Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive e-mail.
Christopher Douglas stars as Ed Reardon.
Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds.
Featuring:
John Fortune
Stephanie Cole
Geoffrey Whitehead
Rita May
Simon Greenall
Sally Hawkins
Philip Jackson
David Cann
Morwenna Banks
Alice Lowe
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.
THU 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007jm2g)
Series 1
Longley's Bank
Longley's Bank recruits consultants Unthinkable Solutions to transform its image.
Daisy, Sophie and Ryan persuade Longleys to change its name, its logo and even the design of its bank. At least they can say no company they've ever worked with was ever the same again.
James Cary’s award-winning sitcom about management consultants.
Sophie Stott ...... Emma Kennedy
Ryan Packer ...... Marcus Brigstocke
Daisy de Vere ...... Catherine Shepherd
John ...... Stephen Moore
Derek ...... Kim Wall
Vanessa ...... Olivia Colman.
Script associates: Paul Mayhew-Archer and Ed Drew.
Music by John Whitehall.
Producer: Adam Bromley.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.


FRIDAY 02 DECEMBER 2011

FRI 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b010v3d7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k3r3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlx3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g36d9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Potting On (b00lblps)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b017gzj8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017gzk8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k19s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Jimmie Chinn (b017gzxg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook (b007k19l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes (b00b01jz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlxn)
His Last Bow
Wisteria Lodge
Voodoo rituals and mystery disappearances spark a gruesome riddle for the detective. Stars Clive Merrison and Michael Williams.
FRI 06:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g3g1c)
Episode 3
Back in his childhood, Blaze's first con was to help another pupil. William Hope reads Stephen King's 'lost' thriller.
FRI 07:00 The Little World of Don Camillo (b00tnrzp)
Series 3
The 13th Century Angel
With his church damaged, the Italian priest sparks a commotion over repairs. Stars Joss Ackland and Ian Hogg. From March 2003.
FRI 07:30 What's So Funny? (b017h7cm)
Series 2
Episode 9
Ed Byrne speaks to Milton Jones, and Lucy Porter learns about Lloyd Langford's pessimism. With Danielle Ward and Bruce Dessau.
FRI 08:00 The Navy Lark (b017h7cp)
Impressions for Survival
The crew of HMS Troutbridge is set to be disbanded if Povey gets his way, but Pertwee has a cunning plan.
Stars Leslie Phillips, Jon Pertwee and Stephen Murray.
Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series between 1959 and 1976.
The Sub-Lieutenant ...... Leslie Phillips
The Chief Petty Officer ...... Jon Pertwee
The Number One ...... Stephen Murray
Captain Povey ...... Richard Caldicot
Heather ...... Heather Chasen
The Admiral ...... Tenniel Evans
Lieutenant Burkett . ....... Michael Bates
Written by Lawrie Wyman.
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
First broadcast on BBC Radio2 in May 1971.
FRI 08:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6)
Series 4
Is That Your Horse Outside?
Albert Steptoe advises son Harold on the art of seduction.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold. With Martin Friend, Douglas Blackwell and Michael Kilgarriff.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV.
Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Produced by Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972.
FRI 09:00 Semi Circles (b007jtw6)
Series 2
The Liberated Generation
"Ours is the generation of freedom, of permissiveness. We aren't shocked by anything. I mean, we may not want to participate, but there's nothing we actually disapprove of..".
Ben and Helen's marriage is at a standstill. Will Dick and Marian get it moving?
The improving story of life and improving times in an improving neighbourhood.
Starring Paula Wilcox as Helen and David Wood as Ben
Written by Simon Brett
Helen ...... Paula Wilcox
Ben ...... David Wood
Mrs Kelly ...... Pay Heywood
Alastair ...... Tony Millan
Dick ...... David Gooderson
Marian ...... Jean Trend
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1982
FRI 09:30 The Museum of Curiosity (b00kdr57)
Series 2
Episode 3
John Lloyd and Sean Lock host a panel show in which three distinguished guests donate fascinating exhibits to a vast imaginary museum.
Chris Addison, Rupert Sheldrake and Bettany Hughes donate objects of extreme interest to the world's most eclectic museum.
FRI 10:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017h805)
The Light and the Dark
As the Second World War erupts, Lewis Eliot heads to Whitehall and his love life takes an unexpected turn.
CP Snow's epic novel sequence about the English Establishment and Power.
Dramatised by Jonathan Holloway
With Adam Godley as Lewis Eliot and narrated by David Haig
Hector Rose ...Rupert Vansittart
Roy Calvert .... Adam Levy
Houston Eggar ... Peter Marinker
Willy Romantovski ... Kenneth Collard
Gilbert Cooke ... Anthony Calf
Margaret Davidson ...Juliet Aubrey
Rosalind ... Anne-Marie Duff
Betty Vane ... Carla Simpson
Directed by Jeremy Howe and Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.
FRI 11:00 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k1lf)
The End of the Season
Rhona has run away from her relationship problems. At her hotel, she comes to an understanding.
Jilly Bond reads Ronald Frame's short story.
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1995.
FRI 11:15 Jimmie Chinn - Perfect Timing (b017h8g5)
A struggling music hall duo try to make a decent fist of a cruise ship booking. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Roy Barraclough.
FRI 12:00 The Navy Lark (b017h7cp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlxn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 13:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g3g1c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
FRI 14:00 Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies (b007mdzb)
Episode 5
There's jubilant singing at the Chapel of Women, as Kathryn Hunt completes Christine de Pizan's book of fantasy.
FRI 14:15 This Sceptred Isle (b00b2t09)
Anarchy
With the death of Henry, his nephew becomes King. Anna Massey narrates the history of Britain, with Paul Eddington.
FRI 14:30 Book of the Week (b00n58dd)
Michael Palin Diaries - The Python Years
The Life of Brian
The actor and writer recalls how the influential comedy group reconvened in 1977 to make their most controversial film. From October 2006.
FRI 14:45 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00snq96)
Episode 3
At a party, lecturer Dixon gets into a fight and spies something unsettling through the curtains. Read by Martin Jarvis.
FRI 15:00 CP Snow - Strangers and Brothers (b017h805)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b017h924)
Mel hears from an air guitar champion, goes skateboarding, and starts to write her Christmas cards. Plus the second chapter of Anne Fine's The Tulip Touch.
FRI 17:00 Ring Around the Bath (b00ttmvh)
Series 2
Brideshead Unvisited
Rick's ex-girlfriend is getting married and the whole family is invited. Stella's doubts about an occasion involving the entire Bartholomew clan prove to be justified...
Series 2 of Lucy Clare and Ian Davidson's sitcom about topsy-turvy family life.
Stars Duncan Preston as Patrick, Penny Downie as Stella, Claudie Blakley as Alison, Bruce MacKinnon as Rick, Catherine Shepherd as Xanthe, Daniela Denby-Ashe as Egg and Terence Frisch as the photographer.
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.
FRI 17:30 The Little World of Don Camillo (b00tnrzp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b010v5f8)
Night Watch
Episode 5
Commander Sam Vimes of the City Watch, thrown back into his own past, has little time left there to undo the harm done by his arch-enemy Carcer, before coming back to his present...
The conclusion of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Stars Philip Jackson as Sam Vimes, Carl Prekopp as Young Sam, Paul Ritter as Carcer, Clare Corbett as Rosie, Sam Dale as Colon, Ben Onwukwe as Dr Lawn, Joseph Kloska as Reg Shoe, Peter Marinker as Major Clive and Rachel Atkins as Lady Mesarole.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
FRI 18:30 John Wyndham - Trouble with Lichen (b007k3xm)
Episode 5
The secret of long life is out, but with a reticent boss, Diana must face intense media pressure alone.
The scientific world, government, media and the beauty salon collide in John Wyndham's 1960 sci-fi novel.
Concluded by Joanna Tope.
Abridged by Scott Stainton Miller.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Scotland and first broadcast in 2007.
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FRI 19:00 The Navy Lark (b017h7cp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Steptoe and Son (b007k0k6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Sherlock Holmes (b007jlxn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 20:45 Stephen King - Blaze (b00g3g1c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:45 today]
FRI 21:00 Ronald Frame Short Stories (b007k1lf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Jimmie Chinn - Perfect Timing (b017h8g5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 What's So Funny? (b017h7cm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 The Best of in One Ear (b00g38nn)
The very best of series one of the live sketch show starring Nick Wilton, Clive Mantle and Helen Lederer. From January 1985.
FRI 23:00 Mastering the Universe (b00sm64n)
Series 1
Holidays
Professor Joy Klamp explores the miserable world of holidaying. Stars Dawn French and Christopher Douglas. From November 2005.
FRI 23:15 Quando, Quando, Quando (b007zd2c)
Fishy Business
When the racketeering Fish Brothers pay the Quandos a visit, Carlo is in turmoil, Anthony is in Timbuktu and Charlie is in a world of his own.
Brothers Rene, Carlo and Charlie Quando chop, snip and crimp their lucky clients into shape at London's finest hair salon.
Six-part comedy written and performed by Rainer Hersch and Mark Maie. With Stephen Greif and Catherine Tate.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1999.
FRI 23:30 Vent (b00tx4tb)
Series 2
Wednesday Morning 3am
A journey through the thoughts and feelings of every character in turn at the darkest hour of the night.
Dark sitcom following the thoughts of comatose patient Ben written by Nigel Smith.
Starring Neil Pearson as Ben Smith, Fiona Allen as Mary, Josie Lawrence as Mum and Leslie Ash as Blitzkrieg.
With Nicholas Hutchison, Jo Martin and Mark Perry.
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.