When a convicted forger decides on a new career as a nun, the sex change is just the beginning of his problems. And DI Cromwell is not amused when Mother Helen is put in danger.
Crime and convents, the police and perdition come together in comedy writer and former monk Robert Smith's mystery.
Starring Timothy Spall as DI Cromwell, Cheryl Campbell as Mother Helen, Jeremy Finch as DC Kelp and Stephen Critchlow as Sister Paula.
2. The General's Last Evening
Lord Peter Wimsey probes the mysterious Mr Oliver - and a pair of tricky wills.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Chris Miller.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson
George Fentiman ...... Martin Jarvis
Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf
Mr Murbles ...... John Gabriel
Sheila Fentiman ...... Frances Jeater
Woodward/Collins ...... James Thomason
Pritchard/Hinkins ...... Antony Higginson
Producer: Simon Brett.
Chertkoff is St Petersburg's most high-minded young artist, until he makes a pact with the devil. With Stephen Moore. From April 2002.
Written by Kevin Eldon. Colin (Johnny Vegas) is all at sea as the foundations of Jimmy's dream take shape on the beach. Wes and Father Michael witness the profits of some not-so-spiritual meat.
Jimmy & Johnny ...... Kevin Eldon
Colin ..... Johnny Vegas
Diane ..... Suranne Jones
Dave ..... Shaun Dooley
Eleanor ..... Ronni Ancona
Maureen ..... Emma Fryer
William ..... Adrian Manfredi
Carly ..... Jessica Knappett
Father Michael ..... James Quinn
Wes ...... Warren Brown
Narrator ..... Maxine Peake
Music ..... Paul Heaton
Created by Tony Pitts. Directed by Jim Poyser
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.
Nappy Days - and Britain's entry for 'The Eurovision Pun Contest'.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by Bill Oddie, Tim Brooke-Taylor and Douglas Young.
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 Dave Lee and Bill Oddie.
Now that Nancy has fallen in love with Roland from the Ministry of Whatsisname, she doesn't like to remember what happened with Winston under the old beech tree at Winterleaf Gunner...
Peter Tinniswood's bawdy comedy serial stars Bill Wallis as Winston, Maurice Denham as Father, Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Liz Goulding as Rosie and Christian Rodska as William.
Will Charles Prentiss manage to scupper his rival's bid for the job of DG? Maverick hack George Cragge thinks an unrelated murder may be connected after all.
Mark Tavener's six-part satirical comedy thriller stars Michael Williams as George Cragge, Barry Foster as DCI Frank Jefferson, Hugh Laurie as the Prime Minister, Richard Griffiths as Crichton-Potter, John Bird as Martin, Stephen Fry as Charles Prentiss, Rebecca Front as Marcia Mallon, Kenneth Cranham as Jim Hardie, Geoffrey Whitehead as Director of Personnel, Simon Greehall as the Chancellor, Jonathan Keeble as John and Susie Brann as Caroline.
Music by Paul Mottram.
While Edward's power is prey to his passions, his queen, Isabella, and his most powerful ally, Roger Mortimer, find a passion of their own.
Mike Walker's trilogy - inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles.
Stars Sam Troughton as Edward the Second, Hattie Morahan as Isabella, Trystan Gravelle as Mortimer, Joseph Samrai as Prince Edward and Jonathan Forbes as Despenser.
Other parts were played by Sean Baker, Simon Bubb, James Lailey, Peter Polycarpou, Daniel Rabin, and Alun Raglan.
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole.
By Freya North. An inheritance by the sea broadens a young woman's horizons. Stories from bestselling romantic novelists. Read by Melody Grove.
By Nicola Baldwin.
London, 1605. Edward Alleyn was the most famous actor of the Jacobean stage. At the height of his fame, he believed he saw a devil on stage. This snowy, sparkling play investigates what really happened and looks at the consequences that still influence us today.
Edward Alleyn ...... Richard McCabe
William Grogan ...... Brian McCardie
Philip Henslowe ...... Philip Jackson
Fardinandoo Black ...... Desmond McNamara
Joan Alleyn ...... Christine Kavanagh
Sir Francis Calton ...... Sam Dale
John Pyg ...... Joe Prospero
Robert Shaa ...... Joseph Kloska
Miss Wills ...... Bethan Walker
Isack Shackerley ...... Paul Richard Biggin.
When Fabian hosts a tea party, Prudence hopes she will get to pour the tea. Comedy of rural relationships stars Susie Blake and Emma Fielding.
Heather Couper presents a narrative history of astronomy.
She looks at the prospects for life elsewhere in our own solar system. Could evidence of life have even been discovered already on Mars? She tells the story of the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence as scientists scan the skies for messages from the stars.
Remembering the past, Hope Clearwater journeys for provisions, until disaster strikes back at the camp. Read by Fiona Shaw.
"Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so while munching on a lobster claw."
The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, Champion of The World.
Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. And of course the man behind the books...
3. Living in New York gave the author a premonition of a family disaster, which was vividly realized all too soon.
The Royal Dingle Company versus the Bard. Theatrical spoof with Patrick Barlow and guest Richard E Grant. From September 1995.
Edna faces her childhood possessions and probes London's Low Quality Expedition. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Alex Tregear and Emma Kennedy.
By Ray Bradbury. Written 50 years ago, anticipating virtual lives and avatars. From 2012's Cheltenham Literary Festival. Read by Jon Strickland.
A story by Toby Litt inspired by Issac Asimov's three laws of robotics.
It is 2068 AD. Local application 13/13 has disappeared mysteriously on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. In her official report, Chief Engineer Chandi Kane arrives at an all-too-human set of conclusions.
Writer Toby Litt was born in 1968 and grew up in Bedfordshire. In 2003, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. His eleventh novel, King Death, will be published in May 2010.
Continuing his journey through the vast and rich subject of civilisation, Chris Addison explains exactly what we need to create a new one.
Samuel's emporium faces competition from a new super-emporium and Mary climbs into bed with Captain Brimshaw.
Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence.
Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.
Samuel Oliphant …. Jay Tarses
Sergeant McGurk …. Andy Hamilton
Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet
Mary Oliphant …. Jan Ravens
Ezekiel Spriggs …. Hugh Dennis
Cora Oliphant …. Penelope Nice
Joshua Oliphant …. Tony Maudsley
Elizabeth Oliphant …. Susie Blake
Agnes …. Selina Griffiths
Isaac …. Michael Fenton-Stevens
Helping Adam to silence wagging tongues are Sarah Kennedy, Brendon Burns and Stefano Paolini.
Written by Adam Bloom.
Faye's cooker is beeping, work deadlines are looming and flat-hunting sucks...
Daisy Haggard stars as Faye in Lucy Clarke’s sitcom about a woman who wants to be fabulous but can't cope.
Music by Osymyso.
THURSDAY 13 JUNE 2013
THU 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b00pbtv6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Brave New Worlds (b01n6yj3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 00:45 Why, Robot? (b01n6yng)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer (b00c3k9d)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Wimsey (b007jvmm)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Winston (b007jn9c)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 In the Chair (b007jsx5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Plantagenet (b02qnn10)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Love Stories (b010tbkk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Drama (b007729k)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Desmond Olivier Dingle's Compleat Life and Works of William Shakespeare (b007k26q)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat (b00nw3x9)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer (b00c3rlj)
Virtual Saints
Despite moving the convent into cyber space, Mother Helen and her nuns are not safe from declining numbers. And DI Cromwell has the small matter of an old murder to solve.
Timothy Spall stars as DI Cromwell and Cheryl Campbell as Mother Helen.
Crime and convents, the police and perdition come together in comedy writer and former monk Robert Smith's series of mysteries.
DI Cromwell ...... Timothy Spall
Mother Helen ...... Cheryl Campbell
DC Kelp ...... Jeremy Finch
Mr Lord ...... Bryan Pringle
Carer/Sister ...... Elizabeth Conboy
Youth ...... Tom George
Producer: Ned Chaillet
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.
THU 06:30 Wimsey (b007jvmr)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
3. Mr Oliver
Probing the last hours of the life of General Fentiman, Lord Peter Wimsey seeks out his grandson.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Chris Miller.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson
George Fentiman ...... Martin Jarvis
Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf
Mr Murbles ...... John Gabriel
Culyer ...... Blain Fairman
Producer: Simon Brett.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.
THU 07:00 The Older Woman (b02qt773)
Series 1
Episode 4
When journalist Roy spots a planning application for a barn next to Jane's house, his knight in shining armour fantasies seem to have become a reality.
Meanwhile his boss has set up home in the office, complete with dog and soap-on-a-rope.
Tony Bagley's romantic comedy drama serial with a twist.
Starring Zoe Wanamaker as Miss Callaghan, Martin Clunes as Roy Hitchcock, Toyah Wilcox as Elsa, David Troughton as Mr Say, Nicky Henson as Chad, Sue Roderick as Wyn, Geoff McGivern as Dick, Bryan Dick as Leland, Paul; Vaughan as himself, David Holt as Hannibul Lecter and Melanie Hudson as Helen.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger:
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993.
THU 07:30 Heresy (b021480y)
Series 9
Episode 4
Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show which dares to commit heresy.
Her guests this week are newspaper columnist Julia Hartley-Brewer, the Rev. Richard Coles and food critic, television presenter and novelist Giles Coren.
Producers: Victoria Coren Mitchell and Daisy Knight
An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jll5)
Series 1
Sergeant Wilson's Little Secret
Confusion reigns for Sergeant Wilson when Mrs Pike reveals news of a "new arrival".
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Walker …. James Beck
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1974.
THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01bw857)
From 09/04/1958
King Charles II fancies sampling saucy Nell Gwynn's oranges - and in 'The Glums', how did Pa Glum get his black eye?
Starring Professor Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and June Whitfield.
Music from Wallace Eaton and the Keynotes and the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Scripted by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
Producer: Charles Maxwell
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1958.
THU 09:00 Potting On (b00kmn18)
Stones
Pam and Gordon Grant are a couple at odds running a garden centre.
While Pam still feels young, Gordon wants to dive, slippers first, into middle age. She wants to go to a rock gig, but he wants to join the bowls club.
Let battle among the begonias commence!
Starring Pam Ayres and Geoffrey Whitehead as Pam and Gordon Grant.
With Trevor Bannister, Karl Theobald and Alex Tregear.
Sitcom by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds.
Producer Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2008.
THU 09:30 The Personality Test (b00mf3kk)
Series 2
Roy Hattersley
Former Labour Deputy Leader and writer, Roy Hattersley quizzes a panel about his own career, whims and interests.
With Sue Perkins, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince and Mark Dolan
Series with changing hosts who quiz the panel.
Script by Richard Turner and Simon LIttlefield
Devised and produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
THU 10:00 Plantagenet (b02qtfn6)
Series 2
Richard II - And All Our Dreams Will End in Death
Richard II, having proved his mettle in quelling the Peasants' Revolt, disappoints his courtiers as he pursues peace and culture as an alternative to fighting and swiving.
Mike Walker's trilogy - inspired by Holinshed's Chronicles.
'Plantagenet' tells the story of the birth of a new Europe after the dark ages. The issues of control, of freedom, of belief, above all, perhaps, the temptations of power which are so familiar to us now were new to an age which had no template for domination on this scale.
Stars Patrick Kennedy as Richard II, Blake Ritson as Henry Bolingbroke, Alex Tregear as Queen Ann, Peter Polycarpou as Gloucester, Sean Baker as John of Gaunt, James Lailey as DeVere, Stuart McLoughlin as Burley, Simon Bubb as Tyler, Daniel Rabin as Walworth, Jonathan Forbes as John Ball, Claire Harry as Joan and Alun Raglan as Welshman.
Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2011.
THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b0137xd4)
Summer Ghosts
All the Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends
"Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose deaths were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They were evil while alive..."
In this series of commissioned stories, the idea is to present ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of day. Will something 'unexplained' be as scary in a light that is... well, reliable to the eye!
1. All The Dead Mothers of My Daughter's Friends by Sophie Hannah.
Mel makes a friend at the school gates and learns about the different types of ghosts in the world. Then the theories are tested out...
Reader Tracy-Ann Oberman
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 11:15 Drama (b00t0qy3)
Ed Harris - Troll
by Ed Harris.
Adult cares mix with childhood fears, in this comic twisted fairytale, which won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio Drama of 2011. In the middle of a family crisis, Olivia discovers a troll under her mother's kitchen sink. A troll to whom, in the magic days of childhood, she once promised herself as a meal.
Olivia ..... Rosie Cavaliero
James ..... Ewan Bailey
Troll ..... Jack Klaff
Mum ..... Marcia Warren
Matt ..... Michael Shelford
Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting.
THU 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jll5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01bw857)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 13:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer (b00c3rlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Wimsey (b007jvmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00bwrhg)
Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence
Episode 9
Miss Doggett needs to be careful what she is looking for. She might just find it. Comedy of rural relationships stars Susie Blake and Emma Fielding.
THU 14:15 Life at 24 Frames a Second (b00xhd7q)
In the Dark
David Thomson, author of the Biographical Dictionary of Film, takes a highly personal journey through how cinema has changed both him and us.
Film has changed us. It is all too easy to forget what a shock the coming of the moving image was to our world. First we could see ourselves and then we could imagine ourselves and then we could hear ourselves. How we kissed, fought, dreamed and died have all been projected around the world.
David Thomson writes:
"Do you want a map for the dark? By now you either know the history of the movies or you have it wrong and all mixed up. It doesn't matter, the mixture is in your unconscious and your nervous system, and one of the consequences of the movies is that we trust nothing and imagine everything. That's why the dark is so important."
Producer: Mark Burman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011.
THU 14:30 William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach (b007k1r5)
Episode 4
Hope sees chimp violence, but her superior Eugene refuses to believe her. The past still haunts her. Read by Fiona Shaw.
THU 14:45 Book of the Week (b00tkyx5)
Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
Episode 4
"Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so while munching on a lobster claw."
The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, Champion of The World.
Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. And of course the man behind the books...
4. Aged fifty six, it's suddenly all change for Dahl, and then there is his manifesto for entertaining children.
Reader Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian McDiarmid.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
THU 15:00 Plantagenet (b02qtfn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b02qthzj)
Afternoon chat with Mel Giedroyc.
THU 17:00 King Street Junior (b007jnn0)
Series 9
Financial Times
Who'd be a school crime reporter? Young Rafat learns the hard way.
Created by Jim Eldridge, ten series of this comedy about a junior school ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.
Written by Paul Copley.
Stars Karl Howman as Mr Sims, James Grout as the Headmaster, Margaret John as Mrs Stone, Deirdre Costello as Mrs Patterson, Paul Copley as Mr Long, Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Vivienne Martin as Mrs Rudd, Tom Watson as Mr Holliday, Danny Webb as Bill Clay, Tilly Vosburgh as Sandra Clay, Dax O'Callaghan as Damon Clay, Robert Thomas as Jamie, Anthony Hamblin as Rafat and Sara French as Shireen.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1997.
THU 17:30 The Older Woman (b02qt773)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b00pd7ck)
Series 3
Underground
Edna and Tankerton traverse the Tube to stop someone changing the realities. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Alex Tregear, Ben Moor and Al Murray.
THU 18:30 Brave New Worlds (b01n70cj)
Fragments of a Hologram Rose
By William Gibson. A tale of virtuality, second lives and online culture. From 2012's Cheltenham Literary Festival. Read by Jon Strickland.
THU 18:45 Why, Robot? (b01n70cl)
Algorithms
Scarlet Thomas has a very different take on a brief which asked writers to use Issac Asimov's 'three laws of robotics' as the starting point for a story.
An algorithm is a step-by-step method for solving a problem. Rebecca's life is full of them. Trouble is, they tend to solve one problem while creating a new one.
Scarlett Thomas was born in 1972. Her work featured in the New Puritans anthology of 2002. Her novel 'The End Of Mr Y' was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction in 2008. Her new novel 'Our Tragic Universe' will be published in May 2010.
Scarlett's previous work for Radio 4 includes 'Why My Grandmother Learned To Play The Flute' (2003) and 'Brother and Sister Foot' (2005). She teaches Creative Writing at The University of Kent.
Written by Scarlett Thomas.
Read by Siobhan Redmond.
Producer - Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jll5)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01bw857)
[Repeat of broadcast at
08:30 today]
THU 20:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer (b00c3rlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Wimsey (b007jvmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b0137xd4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Drama (b00t0qy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Heresy (b021480y)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:30 today]
THU 22:30 The Shuttleworths (b00scy0g)
Series 5
Smells Like White Spirit
Ken Worthington needs Jon to write a catchy pop song at short notice, but John's DIY duties prove a serious obstacle. Will he be able to complete the song in time to meet Ken's deadline?
John is created and performed by Graham Fellows, and the series is produced by Dawn Ellis.
THU 22:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea (b007k154)
Series 2
Fame Idol
Hamish and Dougal are extremely anxious to enter Fay MacAdemy - the famous Highland talent Contest.
Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden star as the two 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.
Hamish ...... Barry Cryer
Dougal ...... Graeme Garden
Mrs Naughtie ...... Alison Steadman
The Laird ...... Jeremy Hardy
Producer: Jon Naismith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b02yx0g4)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Isy Suttie has more from her chat with Josh Widdicombe.
THU 23:00 The Secret World (b012gs0y)
Series 2
Episode 3
David Beckham tries to hire a rainbow for a party. Jon Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From July 2010.
THU 23:30 The Big Booth (b007jv50)
Series 2: The Big Booth Too
Episode 3
Boothby Graffoe meets a man with a replacement tongue and a man in a washing machine.
More guitar-flavoured songs and surreal laughs from Boothby Graffoe.
With Stephen Frost , Vivienne Soan, Big Al, Jim Sweeney and guitarist Antonio Forcione.
Written by Boothby Graffoe and Dave Thompson.
Producer: Lucy Armitage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.
FRIDAY 14 JUNE 2013
FRI 00:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b00pd7ck)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Brave New Worlds (b01n70cj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 00:45 Why, Robot? (b01n70cl)
[Repeat of broadcast at
18:45 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer (b00c3rlj)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Wimsey (b007jvmr)
[Repeat of broadcast at
06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Potting On (b00kmn18)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 The Personality Test (b00mf3kk)
[Repeat of broadcast at
09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Plantagenet (b02qtfn6)
[Repeat of broadcast at
10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b0137xd4)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Drama (b00t0qy3)
[Repeat of broadcast at
11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 King Street Junior (b007jnn0)
[Repeat of broadcast at
17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 The Older Woman (b02qt773)
[Repeat of broadcast at
07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders (b008wf8j)
Series 1
Episode 1
Since graduation, Simon has hardly blazed a trail as a plodding Health and Safety executive, so why does his old Cambridge master Gilbert need him?
Following the death of one of its most prominent Dons, celebrity TV historian Peter Devanti - everyone at a Cambridge College gathers to attend the funeral. Simon, an ex-student and now disillusioned health and safety officer, starts wondering whether his death was not as straightforward as it at first appeared.
CAST:
Gilbert …. Geoffrey Palmer
Simon …. Samuel West
Patricia …. Rebecca Front
with Sharon Small, Michael Maloney, Jonathan Coy, Emily Wachter, Nicholas Boulton, Hugh Dickson, and Beth Chalmers
Script Editor: Paul Schlesinger
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005.
FRI 06:30 Wimsey (b007jvmz)
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
4. Exhumation
Lord Peter Wimsey awaits Doctor Horner's verdict.
At a party thrown by pal Margery, the upper class sleuth does a little more digging.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Chris Miller.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Robert Fentiman ...... Allan Cuthbertson
Inspector Parker ...... Gabriel Woolf
Mr Murbles ...... John Gabriel
Dr Horner ...... Blain Fairman
Dr Penberthy ...... Christopher Emmett
Marjorie Phelps ...... Rosalind Adams
Mrs Rushworth ...... Olwen Griffiths
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1975.
FRI 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b013plyd)
Freedom Is Choice
"The Sellingfield Project: 'We'll take care of you alright!' "
Sub-Officer Edward Wilson probes a mysterious incident in Cumbria.
Starring Robert Lindsay.
Futuristic sitcom by Richard Turner and William Osborne with a nod to George Orwell.
Edward ...... Robert Lindsay
Sophie ...... Siobhan Redmond
Charles ...... Paul Shearer
With Pam Ferris, Richard Turner, Mark Knox and David Goodland.
Producer: Nick Symons
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1985.
FRI 07:30 The Write Stuff (b02lyb11)
Series 16
William Blake
Radio 4's literary panel show, hosted by James Walton, with team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh and guests John O'Farrell and Jane Thynne.
Produced by Alexandra Smith.
FRI 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007s848)
Series 8
Buying Tickets
Uncle Ebenezer's booking agency creates havoc aboard HMS Troughtbridge. Courting Heather, Commander Murray is not a happy man...
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 Uncle Ebenezer, Michael Bates as the Padre 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 The Michael Bentine Show (b008x0wg)
From 19/02/1984
From Russian spies to a tour of BBC sound effects department.
Michael Bentine in the ultimate one-man show written and performed by the host.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1984.
FRI 09:00 Clare in the Community (b00gkktk)
Series 2
Doolah's Choice
The bossy social worker sticks her oar in Helen's wedding and Megan's home birth. Starring Sally Phillips. From October 2005.
FRI 09:30 The Brothers (b00pzgps)
Series 3
First Aid
Michael aims to dump his fiancee, Nigel suffers, and Zorro wields some murderous crutches. Stars Adam Godley. From March 2007.
FRI 10:00 DH Lawrence - Daughters of the Vicar (b0075s4x)
Louisa and Mary, daughters of the impoverished vicar of Aldecross, see only marriage as a means of escape from their routine lives.
The arrival of a new young curate fills them with anticipation, but will his intellectual qualities match up to the more physical attractions of Alfred Durant, the son of a local miner?
DH Lawrence's novella - written at around the same time as Sons and Lovers - is a classic tale of the struggle between emotion and intellect.
Louisa ...... Rachel Atkins
Mary ...... Cathy Sara
Mrs Lindley ...... Gillian Goodman
Mr Lindley ...... David Timson
Mr Massey ...... Robert Pickavance
Alfred Durant ...... Peter Meakin
Mrs Durant ...... Ann Rye
Miner ...... Sean Connolly
Dramatised by Jane Beeson.
Director: Peter Leslie Wild.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.
FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b013835j)
Summer Ghosts
The Queen of Craigielee
"Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose death were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They were evil while alive..."
In this series of commissioned stories the aim is to present ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of day. Will something 'unexplained' be as scary in a light that is... well, reliable to the eye!
2. The Queen of Craigielee by Louise Welsh
Photographing the deserted tower block means going to its thirtieth floor, which isn't really the place to be...
Reader Tracy Wiles
Producer Duncan Minshull.
FRI 11:15 Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla (b016q2l5)
Laura is a lonely girl living in a solitary castle in the south east of Austria.
Into her life comes the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla, with whom Laura strikes up, what will prove to be, a dangerous friendship...
Starring Anne-Marie Duff as Laura, Brana Bajic as Carmilla, David Warner as Father and Celia Imrie as Madame.
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s gothic novella was first published in 1871.
Dramatised by Don McCamphill.
Producer: Lawrence Jackson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003
FRI 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007s848)
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FRI 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b008x0wg)
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FRI 13:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders (b008wf8j)
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FRI 13:30 Wimsey (b007jvmz)
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FRI 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00bwrhl)
Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence
Episode 10
Mr Manifold comes to the rescue. Comedy of rural relationships narrated by Penelope Wilton, starring Susie Blake and Emma Fielding.
FRI 14:15 Life at 24 Frames a Second (b00xhff4)
Fear and Desire
Film is many things, but its ability to carry us into the darkest dreams and fiercest desires of its characters via the magic of the score and the sound binds us all in the dark.
Author and film critic David Thomson takes a highly personal journey through the lasting impact and power of cinema.
Producer: Mark Burman.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2011.
FRI 14:30 William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach (b007k1sd)
Episode 5
Hope tries to understand the violence shown by the chimpanzees, and also recalls John's behaviour. Read by Fiona Shaw.
FRI 14:45 Book of the Week (b00tkyx7)
Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
Episode 5
"Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so while munching on a lobster claw."
The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, Champion of The World.
Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. And of course the man behind the books...
5. Even close to death Dahl was in mischievous mood, and his appeal to children will never fade.
Reader Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian McDiarmid.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
FRI 15:00 DH Lawrence - Daughters of the Vicar (b0075s4x)
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FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b02qwlxp)
Afternoon chat with Mel Giedroyc.
FRI 17:00 Second Thoughts (b00kmys6)
Series 3
Come as You Were
Bill tries to disrupt Liza and Richard's affair, and gets involved with 'Emma Peel'.
Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill and Faith beginning married life, whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and Faith's teenage children.
Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith, James Bolam as Bill, Belinda Lang as Liza, Geoffrey Whitehead as Richard, Jo Kendall as Marjorie, Brian Bowles as Dennis and Ian Lindsay as Ray.
Series three of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1991.
FRI 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four (b013plyd)
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FRI 18:00 Ben Moor - Undone (b00pgnql)
Series 3
United
Edna sees a hypnotherapist, as her friends take up the worlds-protecting slack. Ben Moor's comic sci-fi saga with Alex Tregear, Ben Moor and Duncan Wisbey.
FRI 18:30 Brave New Worlds (b01n7jpv)
Tomorrow's News Yesterday
By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The towering double act's funny yet sinister sci-fi story. From 2012's Cheltenham Literary Festival. Read by Jon Strickland.
FRI 18:45 Why, Robot? (b01n7jpx)
The Companion
Story by Anita Sullivan inspired by Issac Asimov's three laws of robotics, read by Sheila Steafel. Colin - a medically-trained, 'Companion-series' humanoid - watches over Eunice's old age with an unorthodox interpretation of 'The Three Laws of Robotics'.
Anita Sullivan lives in Sussex. Her first play for radio, commissioned by Sweet Talk, was runner up in the Richard Imison Awards. Recent work includes Homesick and Torchwood: Asylum in 2009 and The Beacon (a five-part adaptation of Susan Hill's novel) in March 2010. She has also written for theatre companies as diverse as the Royal Shakespeare Company, Plymouth Theatre Royal, Pop-Up children's theatre, Eastern Angles and Borderline. The Companion is Anita's second short story for Sweet Talk, following The Phantom Cosmonaut, part of the 'Sputnik' series, in 2007.
Written by Anita Sullivan
Read by Sheila Steafel
Producer - Jeremy Osborne
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007s848)
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FRI 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b008x0wg)
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FRI 20:00 Mark Tavener - High Table, Lower Orders (b008wf8j)
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FRI 20:30 Wimsey (b007jvmz)
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FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b013835j)
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FRI 21:15 Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla (b016q2l5)
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FRI 22:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b00jsykr)
Series 1
Portland
In the last show of this repeated series Comedian Mark Steel gets to grips with the bird observatory, stone quarries and customs of the Isle of Portland in order to find out what makes it so distinctive. Find out why the locals are obsessed with obelisks and why you must never say the 'r' word. From April 2009.
Producer - Julia McKenzie.
FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b0076q2b)
Series 2
Episode 6
Crossword challenges and dinner with the devil. Offbeat songs and sketches with Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings. From May 2004.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b02yx0qc)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Plus Arthur Smith has music from Jonny and the Baptists.
FRI 23:00 Alan Parker's 59 Minutes of Truth (b00zfk7g)
Episode 6
The Che Guevara of radio, with contraband comedy, music and Mark E Smith.
More undeniable truths to a nation crying out for direction and guidance.
Comedy-music mix written by and starring Simon Munnery.
With:
Peter Serafinowicz
Mandy Knight
Dermot Carmody.
Producer: Aled Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in March 1995.