SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2013

SAT 00:00 Doctor Who (b007k0mj)
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Episode 1
The Daleks have WON. The Earth has fallen. Propaganda broadcasts, regular patrols, collaborators, black marketeers - all of this before the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan have even arrived. When they do, they are separated and find themselves fighting not just for their survival, but that of the entire planet.
You can't keep a good man down - so the Daleks discover when they make the grievous error of invading the Doctor's favourite planet... but it's a battle with a life-changing outcome for the Doctor's grand-daughter, Susan.
Read by William Russell, who played Ian Chesterton in the original television serial on which this reading is based. Broadcast only 18 years after the end of World War II, this classic story addresses a very wartime anxiety... what would Britain have been like as an occupied nation?
SAT 01:00 Doctor Who (b007k0ms)
The Dalek Invasion of Earth
Episode 2
The Daleks have WON. The Earth has fallen. Propaganda broadcasts, regular patrols, collaborators, black marketeers - all of this before the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan have even arrived. When they do, they are separated and find themselves fighting not just for their survival, but that of the entire planet.
You can't keep a good man down - so the Daleks discover when they make the grievous error of invading the Doctor's favourite planet... but it's a battle with a life-changing outcome for the Doctor's grand-daughter, Susan.
Read by William Russell, who played Ian Chesterton in the original television serial on which this reading is based. Broadcast only 18 years after the end of World War II, this classic story addresses a very wartime anxiety... what would Britain have been like as an occupied nation?
SAT 04:15 Martyn Wade - Blue Veils and Golden Sands (b007jvh7)
The remarkable story of pioneering BBC Radiophonic Workshop music composer Delia Derbyshire. Starring Sophie Thompson.
SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b007jqgs)
Series 2
Episode 5
JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August 1991.
SAT 05:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jzcd)
Series 1
Wise after the Event
The lives of Rosie and her granddaughter Jo are shaken by the return of Rosie's daughter Kate after a long spell working abroad.
The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company, based in Brighton.
Prunella Scales in the first of four series of Simon Brett's sitcom
Rosie ...... Prunella Scales
Kate ...... Arabella Weir
Jo ...... Rebecca Callard
Bob ...... Duncan Preston
Tess ...... Annette Badland
Mr Blantyre ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Mr Joost ...... Stephen Thorne
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000
SAT 06:00 The Complete Smiley (b0112csv)
Call for the Dead
Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's first novel.
London, the late 1950s, and a disenchanted George Smiley is engaged in the routine job of security vetting. When a Foreign Office civil servant commits suicide not long after being cleared of Communist sympathies, Smiley investigates and uncovers a deadly conspiracy with its roots in his own wartime past.
George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Inspector Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham
Elsa Fennan ...... Eleanor Bron
Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
Maston ...... James Laurenson
Dieter Frey ...... Henry Goodman
Adam Starr/Mundt ...... Sam Dale
Ludo Oriel ...... Janice Acquah
Nursing Sister ...... Caroline Guthrie
With Benjamin Askew and Jonathan Tafler.
SAT 07:30 Jackie and Me (b00v7znc)
Jackie Clune celebrates the teen magazine that was friend, guide and agony aunt to generations of teenage girls.
From 1964 - 1993, 'Jackie' advised its massive readership on matters of vital importance, like how to apply blusher properly, what colour to wear if you met Donny Osmond, how to conceal spots and - most crucially of all - how to get that boy.
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019cbck)
Series 7
Episode 13
Sara Watkins sits in for Garrison Keillor with American musical storyteller Tom Brosseau, plus Guy Noir and deep winter news from Lake Wobegon. From 2011.
SAT 09:00 Doctor Who (b0076jh7)
Who Made Who
Five decades doesn't mean much to a time traveller, but after fifty years, the Doctor is still a mystery.
Radio 4 Extra doesn't have all the answers, but we can shed a little light. Not just a TV phenomenon, Doctor Who has also taken us into strange new sonic realms and the written word. Mark Gatiss examines the Target novels, which offered a glimpse into those early stories before video. We hear from surviving cast and crew of the original pilot episode, the people who gave the show its unique sound in Dance of the Daleks, and finally we catch up with Susan - the Doctor's Granddaughter, last seen on 22nd-century Earth.
In between, John Lloyd, AL Kennedy and others who recall those monochrome early years examine what makes them so special. Hosting it is Tracy-Ann Oberman, not only a star of Friday Night Dinner and Eastenders but a Doctor Who villainess in her own right.
Tracy-Ann Oberman is an actor and writer with an extensive variety of diverse credits; Big Train, Toast of London and Monroe to name but three. For Doctor Who fans she will be known as Yvonne Hartman - the woman who saw off Rose and set up Torchwood.
SAT 12:00 Love and Mettle - Omnibus (b03j50nx)
Comic and touching true story of the writer's own experience of building a house.
SAT 13:10 Chain Gang (b03j50qb)
Series 4
Episode 8
Made for 4 Extra. The story told by its listeners, which began with a mistimed proposal and a wrong turning. Join in at bbc.co.uk/radio4extra.
SAT 13:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzggl)
Series 2
Some Commandment or Other
When the detectives watch a divorce lawyer's wife, their operation takes a sinister turn. Stars Anna Massey and Frances Barber.
SAT 14:00 Round the Horne (b00nnpz7)
Series 3
Episode 20
Kenneth Horne in the sinister tale of 'The Head of the BBC Who Came From Out of the Cold' - and Julian and Sandy reveal how to get massive lallies at Body Bona.
With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith
Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.
Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1967.
SAT 14:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b007jqws)
Series 8
Episode 1
The BBC's "Plans for Broadcasting in the 70's" - and full frontal radio.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Sketches written by Bill Oddie
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee.
Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1970.
SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019cbck)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Doctor Who (b0076jh7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 19:00 The Complete Smiley (b0112csv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 20:30 I'm Dave Podmore, Get Me Out There (b03hn2rt)
After his over-exuberant victory celebrations at the Oval, Dave Podmore finds himself in the celebrity doghouse.
A brush with death at his local reservoir then annoys Pod even more, if only for thwarting his plan to get on series 2 of "Splash!" with Tom Daley. It's a good job Radio One County's Andy Hamer is on hand to take his speeding points, as not even Pod would do that to his wife. (She's already banned after she covered for him last time).
With Ashes fever upon us again, Pod knows that Down Under is the place to be, but the big question is will he get picked... for a juicy jungle payday on "I'm a Celebrity"?
Producer: Jon Harvey
A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 21:00 Jackie and Me (b00v7znc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 21:30 The New Elizabethans (b01k2cqp)
Benjamin Britten
The New Elizabethans: Benjamin Britten. One of the greatest composers of the 20th century. A conductor and musician of gifted brilliance, Britten was writing symphonies from the age of twelve and learning from the composer Frank Bridge in his early teens.
A pacifist during WWII he travelled through America with the singer Peter Pears (who would later become his life-long companion) and befriended writers like W.H.Auden and Christopher Isherwood.
He is famous for operas like Peter Grimes, choral works such as The War Requiem which he wrote for the reconsecration of Coventry Cathedral and enjoyed composing for children: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is one of his best known pieces.
He founded the Aldeburgh Festival on the Suffolk coast, which continues to this day, and the Britten-Pears Foundation still promotes his work with Peter Pears. He refused a knighthood but was a member of the Order of Merit and accepted a life peerage in 1976.
The New Elizabethans have been chosen by a panel of leading historians, chaired by Lord (Tony) Hall, Chief Executive of London's Royal Opera House. The panellists were Dominic Sandbrook, Bamber Gascoigne, Sally Alexander, Jonathan Agar, Maria Misra and Sir Max Hastings.
Producer: Clare Walker.
SAT 21:45 Afternoon Reading (b00srnv8)
Welsh Accent
St Therese's Bone
Jane Saotome's story, set on the Llyn Peninsula in North West Wales, showcases one of the many voices of the nation.
Sian was homeless in London, but having inherited her mother's derelict cottage in North Wales, she returns to her Welsh roots.
Jane Saotome was brought up in the Black Country but identified with her Mother's Welsh rural heritage. She is an artist working in mental health in the NHS. This her first broadcast for radio.
Read by Sharon Morgan
Director Nigel Lewis
Producer Kate McAll
BBC Wales Radio Drama.
SAT 22:00 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix (b008vbbw)
Series 1
Episode 1
No script and making it up as they go along!
Faced with a live studio audience and a couple of microphones - masters of improv, Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney create sketches from shouted out suggestions.
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2007.
SAT 22:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01dtjh4)
Series 2
Food
Award-winning comedian Jason Byrne grills the topic of food - revealing his love for an animated rabbit, and his hatred of baguette nibbling.
Stand up and sketches with Laurence Howarth and Anna Bengo.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
SAT 23:00 Adam Baron - Shut Eye (b00skb16)
Episode 3
Private eye Billy Rucker gets a high-profile suspect in his hunt for the serial killer. Stars David Morrissey and Danny Webb.
SAT 23:30 Scandinavian Chiller (b010x8rr)
Hakan Nesser - Woman With Birthmark
Episode 1
Scandinavian chiller featuring a serial killer with a fascination for 1960s group The Shadows. Read by Michael Maloney.


SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2013

SUN 00:00 Doctor Who (b01pwcys)
Lucie Miller
After the Dalek Invasion of Earth - a rematch...
Lucie Miller (Sheridan Smith) has had a troubled relationship with the Doctor (Paul McGann). Forced into the TARDIS by the Time Lords, parting company on bad terms, they seemed to patch up their differences. Lucie wound up travelling the world with the Doctor's great-grandson Alex in the 22nd century.
However, it isn't long before the Doctor is needed again - the Daleks return for a second attempt after he stopped them invading Earth in his first body. This time, it looks like they might succeed, and the Doctor is nowhere to be seen. What's more, it seems another old foe is part of the Daleks' plans - and so is an old friend.
As the odds stack up against Lucie and her human allies, the Doctor finally comes to her aid - but will he get there in time? When he does, will it ultimately matter?
First in a two-part story, this is a full-cast audio drama.
SUN 01:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019cbck)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:00 Love and Mettle - Omnibus (b03j50nx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday]
SUN 03:10 Chain Gang (b03j50qb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday]
SUN 03:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzggl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 The Complete Smiley (b0112csv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 I'm Dave Podmore, Get Me Out There (b03hn2rt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b0106w1z)
Omnibus, part 1
Elizabeth Mapp rules the small English village of Tilling sitting at her window spying on her neighbours. Stars Frances Barber.
SUN 07:15 Food for Thought (b00mtvgt)
Series 1
Nigella Lawson
Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food, shape and affect individual lives.
At home in her kitchen, cookery writer Nigella Lawson recalls her early experiences of food, as a chamber maid in Italy, whisking white sauces for her mother and making veal stew and rabbit with prunes on a teenage visit to France. She tells Nina Myskow how they transformed her from a quiet, introverted child who resisted her mother's appeals to eat at mealtimes into a passionate cook with a lust for food and an incredibly healthy appetite.
The producer is Tamsin Hughes, and this is a Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN 07:30 Cabin Pressure (b00lt16c)
Series 2
Ipswich
When the crew have to go on a refresher Safety & Emergency Procedures course, it spells trouble for Douglas's inner dog and Martin's inner ear. Plus Arthur gets a chance to show off his exceptional eating skills.
With special guests Phil Davis ('Vera Drake') and Alex MacQueen ('The Thick Of It').
Starring
Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole
1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam
Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch
Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore
Mr Sargent ..... Phil Davis
Dr Peter Duncan ..... Alex MacQueen
Written by John Finnemore.
Produced & Directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4
SUN 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm1y)
Series 1
Pass Examinations the Burkiss Way
Improve your IQ and go on the Auntie Quiz in the cult sketch show.
Continuing the Burkiss Way to dynamic living - radio's first correspondence course. No stamp needed.
Dynamic instruction from Denise Coffey, Nigel Rees, Chris Emmett and Fred Harris.
Dynamic scripts by Andrew Marshall, John Mason and David Renwick with dynamic production by Simon Brett.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1976.
SUN 08:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jzcz)
Series 7
One Hundred Not Out
Cheeky schoolboy Jimmy Clitheroe looks back over his past misdemeanours in the 100th episode.
Just 4 feet 3 inches tall, the success of comic entertainer Jimmy Clitheroe (1921-1973) sprang from a BBC Variety Playhouse try-out in the late 1950s. His naughty schoolboy act was a smash and he even wore school uniform during recordings! At its peak, ten million fans were tuning into 'The Clitheroe Kid'. Every week, the Kid's schemes sparked havoc - with the ever present threat of a good spanking from Grandad. The Clitheroe Kid clocked up 16 series in its run from 1956 to 1972.
With Peter Sinclair as Grandfather, Patricia Burke as Mother, Danny Ross as Alfie, Diana Day as Susan, Deryck Guyler as Mr Holroyd and Tony Melody as Mr Higginbottom.
Scripted by James Casey and Frank Roscoe.
Pianist: Harry Hayward
Producer: James Casey
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1964.
SUN 09:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttntw)
Rumpleduck
Young Bernie takes on his most challenging computer game yet. Modern retelling of a Brothers Grimm tale with Mike McShane.
SUN 09:30 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 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03j5dgy)
TV Writers
Julian Fellowes
4 Extra Debut. From Gray to Puccini, Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From December 2011.
SUN 10:45 Nan Woodhouse (b03j5dh0)
Nightingale
Young maid Sarah poses for a famous 19th-century photographer. But how long can her enchantment last? Read by Elizabeth Conboy.
SUN 11:00 It's a Funny Business (b01hxtc6)
Doris Hare
Mum from 'On the Buses' chats to Mike Craig about the highs and lows of a lifetime spent in performance. From October 1987.
SUN 11:30 The Palace of Laughter (b0076xj5)
Stateside
Episode 3
How did some of the finest vaudeville theatres reinvent themselves in order to survive after vaudeville itself withered and died in the 1930s?
Geoffrey Wheeler concludes his series about the history of American vaudeville
The Boston Opera House, the Orpheum and the Pantages in Minneapolis are now flourishing theatrical and musical venues, but it took millions of dollars of investment and many long years of painstaking restoration and rebuilding, as well as a change of attitude towards the preservation of the past.
Producer Libby Cross
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2006.
SUN 12:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b0106w1z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 13:15 Food for Thought (b00mtvgt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 13:30 The Complete Smiley (b011cfjw)
A Murder of Quality
A public school in the early 1960s. When the wife of one of the masters is found bludgeoned to death, Smiley, out of loyalty to an old friend, finds himself investigating her death - an investigation that lifts the lid on a world of hidden passions and murderous hatreds.
John le Carré's thriller stars Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley, Geoffrey Palmer as Terence Fielding, Marcia Warren as Ailsa, Sam Dale as Inspector Rigby, Geoffrey Streatfield as Stanley Rode, Amanda Lawrence as Janey and Alison Pettitt as Ann Snow.
Dramatised by Shaun McKenna.
Director: Mark Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
SUN 15:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 15:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jzcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show (b03j5f9z)
Mel Giedroyc presents highlights from the week on the 4 O'Clock Show, including a guide to blowing up buildings and a trip to the top of the tallest tree in the world.
SUN 17:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttntw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 17:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Doctor Who (b01pwg2t)
To the Death
After the Dalek Invasion of Earth - a rematch...
The Doctor (Paul McGann) can't possibly be dead - but at the end of 'Lucie Miller' he was on board a Dalek spacecraft when it was destroyed...
Lucie (Sheridan Smith) and her friends get him to the TARDIS, but the full extent of the Daleks' new plans for the Earth become clear. It also becomes apparent that the Dalek Time Controller is very much alive and seeking revenge on the Time Lord for an earlier encounter. The chances of victory seem slim, and as rebel forces slowly gather their resources for an attack, the division between friends and enemies isn't so clear cut.
When the final confrontation occurs, the Doctor finds the cost is high and uncomfortably close to home...
Second in a two-part story, this is a full-cast.
SUN 19:00 It's a Funny Business (b01hxtc6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 19:30 The Palace of Laughter (b0076xj5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today]
SUN 20:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 20:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007jzcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03j5dgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 21:45 Nan Woodhouse (b03j5dh0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]
SUN 22:00 Cabin Pressure (b00lt16c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007jrrn)
Snuff Radio
Sean and Hamish compete in a European Radio Drama competition.
Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act Sean Foley and Hamish McColl, the Right Size.
With:
Rose English
Count Arthur Strong
Chris Larner
Mark Stevens
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03jszy7)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Arthur Smith is joined by Adam Hills.
SUN 23:00 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.
SUN 23:30 The Maltby Collection (b00m67w1)
Series 3
Episode 1
Massive budget cuts are needed – so who will museum director Walter put forward for the chop?
Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in series 3 of David Nobbs’ sitcom about a small museum of paintings and sculpture.
Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins
Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond
Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern
Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin
Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo
Gloria Brindle ...... Helen Atkinson Wood.
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2009.


MONDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2013

MON 00:00 Doctor Who (b01pwg2t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03j5dgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:45 Nan Woodhouse (b03j5dh0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 It's a Funny Business (b01hxtc6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 The Palace of Laughter (b0076xj5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm1y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 The Complete Smiley (b011cfjw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttntw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzdt)
The Nine Tailors
1 The Bells are Rung Up
The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey is drawn into the case of an unsolved jewel theft - which turns into a grave mystery.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a number of detective novels and short stories by English crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first published in 1934.
Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First World War.
Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975.
Adapted for radio in eight episodes by Alistair Beaton.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Bunter …. Peter Jones
Ezra Wilderspin …. John Church
Mrs Venables …. Noel Dyson
Stephen Driver …. Stephen Greiff
The Rev Theodore Venable …. Phillip Latham
Emily …. Jenny Twigg
Mr Godfrey/Johnson …. Hayden Wood
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1980.
MON 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw)
Series 2
The Perishing of the Pendragons
Mystery afloat as a Cornish family's curse starts to unravel. Who will come into his rightful inheritance - and will Father Brown be in time to avert a tragedy?
Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.
GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.
Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs
Flambeau ...... Olivier Pierre
The Admiral ...... Edward Kelsey
Sir Cecil Fanshaw ...... Brian Hewlett
Tregear ...... Keith Kraushaar
Tommy/Walter ...... James Goode
Dramatised by John Scotney
Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986
MON 07:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008yszx)
Series 3
Episode 2
Golf, holidays with friends and having a baby are the three things that Daniel and Lucy have always sworn they'll never do in life.
But when they end up on a golfing holiday with their unbearable friends, they start to realise life doesn't always turn out how you plan it...
David Spicer's comedy drama about modern life and parenthood, as seen through the eyes of two 30-something non-parents.
Starring David Tennant as Daniel, Liz Carling as Lucy, Tracy-Ann Oberman as Katie, Tony Gardner as Andy, Joanna Brookes as Alison, Robert Harley as Peter, Carla Mendonca as Linda, Jonathan Aris as Steve and Martin Marquez as the Waiter.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03hvn68)
Series 60
Episode 2
The 60th 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 the Playhouse Theatre in Weston-super-Mare. Regulars Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the panel by John Finnemore with Jack Dee in the chair. At the piano - Colin Sell.
Producer - Jon Naismith.
MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15)
Series 4
Episode 1
Kenneth Horne is a doctor who talks to animals, tune into wonderful Radio Balls Pond Road and Julian and Sandy troll west to The Lazy Bona Ranch.
With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden.
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith
Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.
Marty Feldman had moved on so series 4 is written by Barry Took with Brian Cooke & Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Webster
Music by the Max Harris Group.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1968.
MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b007k2xj)
Series 9
Doing a Disastrical
Will Phillips' pursuit of the new WREN in Captain Povey's office end happily ever after?

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
Second Officer McCluty, ...... Heather Chasen
Captain Hardcastle ...... Ronnie Barker
Taffy Goldstein ...... Tenniel Evans
The Padre....... Michael Bates

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967.
MON 09:00 Heresy (b00jyc77)
Series 6
Episode 3
Victoria Coren hosts the show that thinks the unthinkable. With comedians Frank Skinner and Arthur Smith, and journalist Lucy Mangan. From April 2009.
MON 09:30 House on Fire (b00q439k)
Series 1
Emergency
"EMERGENCY"
Another visit to Hogarth Road, where Matt and Vicky continue in their attempts to live together in tranquillity - a tranquillity guaranteed to be disturbed when the bills don't get paid. Is life worth living when the phone gets cut off?
Vicky - Emma Pierson
Matt - JODY LATHAM
Col. Bill - RUPERT VANSITTART
Donny - Sebastian Cardinal
With Fergus Craig & Colin Hoult
Directed by Clive Brill & Dan Hine
Produced by Clive Brill
A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt2lr)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Episode 1
Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley.
Berlin, the early 1960s - the Wall is up between East and West and the Cold War is at freezing point. Alec Leamas is Circus Head of Station in Berlin, and his network of agents in East Germany is in great danger.
Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox
Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell
Control ...... John Rowe
Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
Elsie/Elvira ...... Siobhan Redmond
Ashe ...... Jamie Newall
Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy
Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox
Grocer ...... David Hargreaves
CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew.
MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00srnty)
Welsh Accent
A Giant's Tears
Math Bird's story, set near Rhyl in North East Wales, showcases one of the many voices of the nation.
A teenage friendship between two boys over the summer holidays has a powerful and lasting effect on one of them.
Math Bird is from North East Wales close to the border with England. His work has appeared in a number of magazines and short-story anthologies.
Read by Craig Ryder
Director Nigel Lewis
Producer Kate McAll
BBC Wales Radio Drama.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b03j64xz)
Michael Grade, Bill Bailey, Colman Domingo, Josie Long, Nikki Bedi, Local Natives, Chloe Charles
Clive tunes in to TV exec Michael Grade, who's been hooked on musicals since he saw 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a boy in the 50s. One question has always fascinated him: does the musical create the star or is it the star who makes the musical? Michael interviews stars and directors both sides of the Atlantic. 'Michael Grade On Musicals' is on Wednesday 11th December at 21.00 on BBC Four.
Clive gets adventurous with Josie Long, who's made two comedy films with director Doug King. In 'Let's Go Swimming', Josie leaves London life for a better one in Glasgow. But sitting in cafes and going to gigs alone isn't as fulfilling as she'd hoped. And in 'Romance and Adventure' best friends Darren and Josie wonder why their friends are becoming old and boring. But how much can you rely on friends who don't want to grow up? 'Doug & Josie: The Let's Go Adventure Tour' is at selected cinemas until 2nd December.
Nikki Bedi talks to actor Colman Domingo, who's starring in 'The Scottsboro Boys'. It's 1931 and nine black teenagers board a train in Scottsboro, Alabama, in search of a new life. By the end of the journey, their lives - and those of every American would be changed forever. 'The Scottsboro Boys' is at London's Young Vic until Saturday 21st December.
Clive's does Das Hokey Kokey with comedian, musician and Part Troll Bill Bailey, whose world doubts have grown into qualms. In his new show, Bill channels his feelings of unease through religious dubstep, folk bouzouki, horntallica and a dub version of Downton Abbey. 'Qualmpeddler' is at London's Wembley Arena on 29th November and on DVD now.
Music: Canadian Chloe Charles performs 'Business' from her album 'Break The Balance' and Local Natives perform 'Ceilings' from album Hummingbird.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007k2xj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzdt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b0107rc2)
The Cowards
Ruling the village of Tilling, Elizabeth Mapp wonders if the Major is being as truthful as he should be. Stars Frances Barber.
MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sf1tp)
Like an Angelic Choir
Michael Morpurgo explains how Britain's first foundling hospital met with great acclaim in 1741, but some children were still neglected.
MON 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007sxvm)
Episode 1
Respected judge Guy Stockdale leaves his wife for his mistress, causing ructions for the whole family. Read by Barbara Flynn.
MON 14:45 Diana Souhami - Coconut Chaos (b00xmh63)
Episode 1
Ruminating on the Bounty's fateful voyage to Polynesia, Diana Souhami journeys to the Pitcairn Island. Read by Eleanor Bron.
MON 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt2lr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03j8l19)
EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick joins Mel Giedroyc to read Sally Gardner's award-winning Maggot Moon. Plus, Dick and Dom begin their science series How Dangerous Is Your School?
MON 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00s9f4t)
Series 1
Episode 3
The dear ladies reminisce about the day they moved in. Stars Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From February 1978.
MON 17:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008yszx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009l6sv)
Into the Wolf's Lair
It's 1945, and the Allies are certain to win the war. Then an unidentified aircraft appears sparking a a dangerous mission...
Simon Bovey's sci-fi adventure series set during the Second World War.
Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Barton, Ben Crowe as Lieutenant Dundas, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey and Peter Marinker as Brigadier Erskine.
Producer: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008.
MON 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b007jmk0)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 1
Ankh-Morpork, the elucidated brethren of Ebon Night have turned their hands to magic.
When Zebbo Mooty is mysteriously vaporised in an alley, Captain Vimes of the watch, knows it's time to act.
Can a stolen library book lead to the reinvention of dragons?
Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis.
First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
The Landlord …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall
Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself
Dramatised in six parts by Michael Butt.
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in November 1992.
MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b00nth15)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b007k2xj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzdt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00srnty)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b03j64xz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03hvn68)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Heresy (b00jyc77)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03j8p5n)
Series 9
Episode 3
A satirical review of the week's news chaired by Sandi Toksvig, with panellists Rebecca Front and Phill Jupitus.
MON 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b0075s8l)
Series 3
Episode 3
The Luton poet bikes north for a brimful of Birmingham and some bookshop capers. With musician Nigel Piper. From 2000.


TUESDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2013

TUE 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009l6sv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007jmk0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzdt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Heresy (b00jyc77)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 House on Fire (b00q439k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt2lr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00srnty)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b03j64xz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00s9f4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b008yszx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzg3)
The Nine Tailors
2 Lord Peter Is Called In
Back in Fenchurch St Paul, Lord Peter Wimsey speculates on the mystery of the unidentified and badly battered body...
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Beaton.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson
Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham
Ezra Wilderspin …. John Church
Liz Widerspin …. Diana Bishop
Coroner …. Martin Friend
Harry Gotobed …. Alexander John
Dr Baines …. Brian Haynes
Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell
Hilary Thorpe …. Fiona Matheson
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1980.
TUE 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy)
Series 2
The Arrow of Heaven
An American millionaire safe in his fortress, death threats, a murky past and a bolt from the blue. Father Brown, on his first visit to the United States, unravels the mystery and exposes thereby a mire of hypocrisy.
Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.
GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.
Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs
Barnard ...... Ed Bishop
Harris ...... Guy Gregory
Wendell ...... Andrew Branch
Norman Drage ...... Sean Prendergast
Brander Merton ...... Richard Durden
Peter Wayne ...... Johnny Myers
Matt ...... Harry Towb
Customs Officer ...... Tim Reynolds
Dramatised by John Scotney
Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986.
TUE 07:00 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0qs)
Episode 1
Mr Finchley falls in love with a canary-coloured caravan and a rather stubborn horse.
Victor Canning's novel about the adventures of a man and his horse-drawn caravan touring the 1930s countryside of Kent.
Richard Griffiths stars as Mr Finchley.
With Dinah Sheridan as Mrs Finchley, Ron Pember as Mr Rivers, Peter Vaughan as Turk.James Grout as Mr Sprake and Alan Thompson as Mr Harricot.
Narrated by James Villiers.
Adapted in six parts by Andy and Eric Merriman.
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1993.
TUE 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cm91m)
Series 1
Piccalilli
The former variety star makes piccalilli and 'helps' Malcolm with an important audition. Stars Steve Delaney. From January 2006.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jmny)
Series 6
Foiled by President Fred
Gas meter inspector Neddie Seagoon heads to South America over an unpaid bill.

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 November 1955.
TUE 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.
TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03j8p5n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley (b0075s8l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51g)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Episode 2
Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley.
The trap is set to catch the East German spymaster who has ruthlessly destroyed Alec Leamas's Berlin network - and the bait is Leamas himself.
Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox
Fiedler ...... Henry Goodman
Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell
Control ...... John Rowe
Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
Mundt ...... Sam Dale
Ashe ...... Jamie Newall
Doorman ...... Stephen Hogan
Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy
Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox
Grocer ...... David Hargreaves
CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew.
TUE 11:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbgqv)
Maia in Yonkers
An immigrant worker eagerly anticipates a visit from the teenage son she left behind in her home country. Read by Sian Thomas.
TUE 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007jqxv)
May Belfort
The Irish singer turned lady of the night. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Starring Bonnie Langford.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jmny)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Harry Worth (b00r2jxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzg3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b0107x4c)
Humble Pie
Embarrassed at having been caught drunk by Elizabeth Mapp, Major Flint attempts to make it up to her. Stars Frances Barber.
TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sf8t9)
Mr Locke and Mr Rousseau
Michael Morpurgo tells the story of two great 18th century philosophers, whose child-rearing ideas are influential to this day.
TUE 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007szmf)
Episode 2
Guy Stockdale's sons learn of his decision to leave their mother after 40 years together. Read by Barbara Flynn.
TUE 14:45 Diana Souhami - Coconut Chaos (b00xmljt)
Episode 2
The writer explores how Fletcher Christian and the mutineers became Pitcairn Island's lawless colonisers. Read by Eleanor Bron.
TUE 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03j9g8f)
EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick continues his reading of Sally Gardner's award-winning Maggot Moon, and Dick and Dom investigate the world of bugs and germs.
TUE 17:00 A Whole New Ball Game (b00cfsz9)
Series 1
Tactics
It's the semi-final of the Frewitt Cup, but Father Benedict's tactics manual falls into enemy hands.
Robert Patterson knows that victory will come only with the help of the Angel of the Lord.
A six-part black comedy by Martin Davies
Stars Desmond Barrit as Father Benedict, Brenda Blethyn as Mrs Patterson, Paul Parris as Robert Patterson, Charlotte Coleman as Barbara Patterson, Martino Lazzeri as Guy Entwhistle, Mark Straker as Andy, Claire Skinner as Janet and Gordon Reid as Mr Plant,
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993.
TUE 17:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0qs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009lw5f)
The Eagle's Nest
Major Barton and his team head deep behind German lines to track down a terrifying new weapon...
Simon Bovey's sci-fi adventure series set during the Second World War.
Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Barton, Ben Crowe as Lieutenant Dundas, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey, Sam Pamphilon as Teazle and Rachel Atkins as Trudi Schenk.
Other parts played by Simon Treves, Alex Lanipekun and Lloyd Woolf.
Producer: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008.
TUE 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p7x8)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 2
Could a long-extinct beast have carried out recent crimes?
Will Captain Vimes get any joy from dragonologist and society heavyweight Lady Ramkin?
Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis.
The 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall
Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts
Dramatised by Michael Butt.
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in November 1992.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jmny)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Harry Worth (b00r2jxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzg3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbgqv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007jqxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! (b00cm91m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 The Castle (b00809z8)
Series 1
Episode 5
Sitcom by Kim Fuller, set in a medieval castle with some remarkably modern trappings.
The village pub acquires two new mysterious barmaids as Anne and Charlotte plot to ensnare Sam Tree. De Warenne gets in touch with his feminine side whilst Duncan gets in touch with his masculine one.
Sir John Woodstock ...... James Fleet
Sir William De Warenne ...... Neil Dudgeon
Lady Anne Woodstock ...... Susan Earl
Cardinal Duncan ...... Jonathan Kydd
Lady Charlotte ...... Ingrid Oliver
Master Henry Woodstock ...... Steven Kynman
Sam Tree ...... Toby Ross-Bryant.
TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03m821z)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Sara Pascoe chats to Milton Jones.
TUE 23:00 The Penny Dreadfuls (b00gpbcq)
The Brothers Faversham
Augustus Faversham
The story of Victorian Britain's most celebrated magician - Augustus Faversham.
The comedy sketch trio present swashbuckling tales of four brothers born into the same privileged aristocratic family - Horatius, Theseus, Leonidas and Augustus.
Written by and starring Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck.
Alexandra Faversham ... Ingrid Oliver
Narrator... Miles Jupp.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in February 2008.
TUE 23:30 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard (b00xw1th)
Series 2
Billirock the Black
Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon.
Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of 21st century wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated 2000-year-old sorcerer with enough power in his small finger to destroy a town, yet not even enough clout to get his bins emptied on time by the local council. Even for such a skilful sorcerer - modern life is rubbish!
Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He initially set up as a plc for income tax relief, but has found it a useful vehicle to help him bolster his Wizard skill set and his range of services. (Even a wizard has to diversify).
He's been running Fruity Potions from his cave for the past few years, in between completing the odd quest as instructed by the Wizard Council. In the past his services were to help kings in battles of good and evil, or as he prefers to put it, 'assisting with neighbour disputes.'
In this episode Mordrin is recruited to help re-capture evil sorcerer Billirock the Black who has escaped from his prison under Stirling Castle and is hell-bent on exacting his revenge.
Cast:
Mordrin ..... David Kay
Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty
Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy
Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson
Jill ..... Katrina Bryan
Billirock The Black ..... Greg Hemphill
Producer/Director: Gus Beattie
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 23:45 Date With Fate (b008zq34)
Along for the Ride
When Colin impersonates a film producer, it sparks dangerous consequences.
Harold Wing Pinero is your host.
Another of four comic close encounters with fate written by Gary Parker and Phil Whelans.
Colin Bond ...... Michael Troughton
Harold Wing Pinero ...... Charles Gray
Monica Ludlow ...... Jenny Howe
Flores ...... Mandy Knight
Ralph ...... Stephen Critchlow
Hostess/Lauren ...... Debbie Stephenson
All other parts ...... Toby Longworth
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.


WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2013

WED 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009lw5f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p7x8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzg3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b00f0sgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03j8p5n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
WED 02:45 Hearing With Hegley (b0075s8l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
WED 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbgqv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007jqxv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 A Whole New Ball Game (b00cfsz9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0qs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzhc)
The Nine Tailors
3 Bunter Breaks the Law
As Lord Peter Wimsey's murder probe moves to the church bell tower, his manservant Bunter uses his initiative.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Beaton.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Bunter …. Peter Jones
Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson
Mrs Venables …. Noel Dyson
Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell
Mary Thoday …. Claire Clifford
Potty Peak …. Anthony Hyde
Mrs Ashton …. Marjorie Withers
Mr Ashton …. Brian Haynes
Sluice Keeper …. Peter Tudenham
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980.
WED 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p)
Series 2
The Mistake of the Machine
A suspect is locked away, but has a prison governor got the right man? Can Father Brown discover the answer as he makes his way across America?
Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.
GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.
Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs
O'Connor ...... TP McKenna
McGurk ...... Billy Boyle
Usher ...... Don Fellows
Prisoner ...... Brian Haines
Todd ...... Ed Bishop
Butler ...... Manning Wilson
Convict ...... Stuart Organ
Dramatised by John Scotney
Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986.
WED 07:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00c683t)
Series 1
The Future Begins Here
Prince Ludovico battles his enemies in the local tavern while his wife Princess Plethora tries to reconcile her quarrel-some sons.
Neal Anthony's 16th century comedy drama about the chaotic lives of the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most inconsequential city-state.
Stars David Swift as Ludovico, Sian Phillips as Plethora, Graham Crowden as Francesco, Paul Bigley as Alessandro, Saskia Wickham as Rosalie, Nick Romero as Salvatore, Christopher Kelham as Guido and Kim Wall as Doctor Dolfini.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
WED 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b03hwbrr)
Series 1
Out of Our Tree
Tom's father is engrossed in putting together the Wrigglesworth Family Tree which is leaving Tom's mother at a loose end. Tom suggests she gets in a lodger for company.
Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday annoyances.
A fascinating and hilarious glimpse into Tom Wrigglesworth, his family background and the influences that have shaped his temperament,opinions and hang-ups.
During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in a 30 minute phone call.
'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a bit of totally legal phone hacking.
Cast:
Tom Wrigglesworth ...Tom
Judy Parfitt ... Granny
Paul Copley ... Dad
Kate Anthony ... Mum
David Reed ... Henry
Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle
Additional Material by Miles Jupp
Producer: Katie Tyrrell.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007x041)
Series 5
The New Radio Series
Big-headed from his success on TV, the lad's had enough of radio and is set to retire - until he discovers the plan for his replacement.
Stars Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1958.
WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b0139bkv)
Series 8
Episode 7
The show's listeners go on strike - and a legendary royal's in marrying mode.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Sketches written by Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Jo Kendall
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Music and songs by Bill Oddie, Liam Cohen and Dave Lee.
Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1970.
WED 09:00 Know Your Place (b019m16k)
Health Can Damage Your Smoking
Can caretaker Ramsay manage to quit cigarettes to keep his job?
Ramsay Potts is the jobsworth caretaker at a crumbling Edwardian block of flats, pursued by the over-amorous cleaner Elsie.
Starring Roy Dotrice as Ramsay and Patricia Hayes as Elspeth Spurgeon.
Sitcom written by Andrew Palmer and Nell Brennan.
With Jon Glover and James Taylor.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in July 1983.
WED 09:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00jdp93)
Series 1
Episode 4
James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, Martin Freeman, Tracey Macleod and Stewart Lee. From December 2004.
WED 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51j)
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Episode 3
Dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carre's classic novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley.
The deadly game of deceit and betrayal reaches its climax at the foot of the Berlin Wall.
Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Alec Leamas ...... Brian Cox
Fiedler ...... Henry Goodman
Mundt ...... Sam Dale
Liz Gold ...... Ruth Gemmell
Ashe ...... Jamie Newall
Tribunal President ...... Siobhan Redmond
Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
Commissar ...... Liza Sadovy
Agent ...... Stephen Hogan
Miss Crail ...... Liza Sadovy
Mr Pitt ...... Philip Fox
Grocer ...... David Hargreaves
CIA Man ...... Benjamin Askew.
WED 11:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbq2j)
Companion
Ilona Siegal left conflict-riven Georgia in the hopes of a brighter future in America. Read by Sian Thomas.
WED 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n1hp)
Footitt and Chocolat
A circus double-act is in jeopardy. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Starring Clarence Smith.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007x041)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b0139bkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzhc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b01091p7)
Crimson Lake
Determined to outshine darling Diva's party outfit, Tilling's busybody has her dress specially dyed. Stars Frances Barber.
WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sfcy9)
'Dear Papa, Dear Mama'
Michael Morpurgo discovers how middle and upper-class children enjoyed more informal upbringings by the late 18th century.
WED 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007t2v4)
Episode 3
As the shock reverberates for the Stockdales, Guy's son Alan decides to meet his father's lover Merrion. Read by Barbara Flynn.
WED 14:45 Diana Souhami - Coconut Chaos (b00xmv2d)
Episode 3
Exploring the isolated Pitcairn Island, the author and Lady Myre's preconceptions are blown away. Read by Eleanor Bron.
WED 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03j9swh)
EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick continues his reading of Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon, and Dick and Dom continue their fun science series 'How Dangerous is Your School?'.
WED 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007v1df)
The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace
Trouble looms for Bertie Wooster when his wild cousins arrive.
PG Wodehouse romp starring Richard Briers and Michael Hordern.
Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers
Eustace ..... David Jason
Claude ..... Jonathan Lynn
Aunt Agatha ..... Joan Sanderson
Marianne ...... Bridget Armstrong
Adapted by Chris Miller.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973.
WED 17:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00c683t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009m2ff)
The Tomorrow World
Major Barton and his team have located the Germans' secret weapon. But what exactly is it?
Simon Bovey's five-part sci-fi adventure series set during the Second World War.
Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Barton, Ben Crowe as Lieutenant Dundas, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey and Rachel Atkins as Trudi Schenk.
Producer: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008.
WED 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p9wy)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 3
The people of Ankh-Morpork have a no-nonsense approach to entertainment.
While they're looking forward to seeing a dragon slain, they'd be happy to settle instead for seeing the avenging warrior baked in his own armour.
Why is Captain Vimes suspicious?
Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis.
The 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall
Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself
Dramatised by Michael Butt.
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007x041)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b0139bkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzhc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbq2j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n1hp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups (b03hwbrr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Act Your Age (b00zsjz7)
Series 3
Episode 2
Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy generations to find out which is the funniest.
Will it be the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard who will be crowned, for one week at least, as the Golden Age of Comedy?
Jon Richardson is joined by Andi Osho, Rufus Hound teams up with Andrew Maxwell and Ted Robbins is paired with both Roger De Courcey and Nookie Bear.
Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2011.
WED 23:00 Pick Ups (b00nrrdc)
Series 2
All Bar Nun
Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi company.
Alan and Lind reveal hidden talents, while Dave seeks a nun's advice on infidelity.
Mike ...... Paul Loughran
Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
Dave ...... Phil Rowson
Alan ...... Parvez Qadir
Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe
Drunk ...... Mark E Smith
Tanya ...... Janie Connolly.
WED 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b0080qgm)
Lancaster
Sexually transmitted diseases, Simon Bates and chef tips.
Recorded at Lancaster University.
With Peter Baynham, Rebecca Front and Jo Unwin.
Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s mix of sharp sketches and situations, stand up topical gags and banter.
Lee and Herring went to write and star in their successful TV transfer to BBC TWO in 1995.
Cult BBC Radio 1 series first broadcast in October 1993.


THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER 2013

THU 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009m2ff)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p9wy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzhc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp3p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Know Your Place (b019m16k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00jdp93)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbq2j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n1hp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007v1df)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00c683t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzjm)
The Nine Tailors
4 The Hunt Moves to France
After intercepting the mystery letter, Lord Peter Wimsey decides it's time to head across the English Channel.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers's detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Beaton.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Bunter …. Peter Jones
Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson
Commissaire Rozier …. Andre Maranne
Mme Le Gros …. Lolly Cockerill
Waiter …. Hayden Wood
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980.
THU 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44)
Series 2
The Curse of the Golden Cross
What do an itinerant gambler, an English lady, a steward, a vicar and a professor have in common? And who has the right to it? Father Brown finds the answer.
Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.
GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.
Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs
Professor Smail ...... Tim Reynolds
Mr Tarrant ...... Peter Marinker
Lady Diana ...... Natasha Pyne
Leonard Smythe ...... Peter Wickham
Steward ...... Terry O'Brien
Driver ...... Jonathan Tafler
Doctor ...... Eric Stovell
Dramatised by John Scotney
Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1986.
THU 07:00 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jplc)
Series 1
Episode 4
Britain's first communist football team tackles Germany. But what about the revolution? Stars Alexei Sayle. From March 1988.
THU 07:30 Clare in the Community (b01qdxwn)
Series 8
The Parent Trap
Clare is relishing the role of acting Team Leader at the Family Centre but at home she's not relishing a visit from Brian's mother.
Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.
A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.
Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life
In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.
Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden
Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Megan ...... Nina Conti
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
Hazel ...... Hannah Gordon
Joan ...... Sarah Thom
Laura ...... Sarah Thom
Joe ...... Adam Nagaitis
Mike ...... Adam Nagaitis
Paul ...... Paul Stonehouse
Frank ...... Paul Stonehouse
Girl ...... Stephanie Racine
Producer Katie Tyrrell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.
THU 08:00 Dad's Army (b00qxh17)
Series 2
War Dance
Captain Mainwaring's platoon dance is disrupted by an announcement from Private Pike.
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 Fraser …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Walker …. Larry Martin
Mrs Pike …. Pearl Hackney
Violet Gibbons …. Wendy Richard
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1975.
THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01nm56t)
From 31/10/1950
Professor Jimmy Edwards is not keen to employ Dick Bentley as a lecturer at the BBC Research College. From October 1950.
THU 09:00 Hazelbeach (b0082dtq)
Series 1
Wine
Returning to England, Nick's life descends into surreal chaos when he discovers the mysterious Ronnie Hazelbeach living in the house owned by his late Dad...
Caroline and David Stafford's first of three comedy series starring Jamie Forman as Ronnie Hazelbeach.
Ronnie ...... Jamie Foreman
Nick ...... Paul Bazely
Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles
James ...... John Dougall
Producer: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.
THU 09:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pkbmh)
Echo
When the members of the Beagle Team take on their next mission, they find themselves in competition with old rivals, the Terrier Team.
Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
Sharla ...... Nina Conti
Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
Mrs Davies ...... Tessa Nicholson
Customer 2 ...... Ewan Bailey
Edward Barraclough MP ...... Paterson Joseph
Norris ...... Joe Thomas
Ros ...... Lucy Montgomery
Customer 1 ...... Harry Venning
Customer 3 ...... Neil Brandr
Other parts played by the cast.
Producer: Katie Tyrrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.
THU 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt2m0)
The Looking Glass War
Episode 1
Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley.
When word reaches The Department that Soviet missiles are being installed close to the West German border, they seize the opportunity to relive former glories.
Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid
George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy
Haldane ...... Philip Jackson
Woodford ...... David Hargeaves
Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar
Control ...... John Rowe
Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler
Taylor/Sutherland ...... Philip Fox
Peersen ...... Stephen Hogan
Lansen ...... Matt Addis
Girl ...... Lizzy Watts
Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann
Directed by Marc Beeby.
THU 11:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbq2l)
The Repatriates
After years in America, Grisha and Lera return to Moscow, but find Russia has changed beyond recognition. Read by Sian Thomas.
THU 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n9px)
Casque d'Or
Paris revolutionaries make a fatal stand. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Stars Miranda Richardson and Nicholas Farrell.
THU 12:00 Dad's Army (b00qxh17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01nm56t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b01096xd)
Faraddiddlony
The Contessa Faragleoni eventually arrives in Tilling, and the ladies eagerly await a dinner invitation. Stars Frances Barber.
THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sg1gn)
Babies, Dressed or Undressed, Jointed, Wax or Common
Michael Morpurgo traces the rise of the British toy shop in the 18th century, and the beginnings of pester power.
THU 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007t59b)
Episode 4
Guy Stockdale's dumped wife Laura starts making demands, while his lover Merrion's mother is worried. Read by Barbara Flynn.
THU 14:45 Diana Souhami - Coconut Chaos (b00xn7d6)
Episode 4
The writer addresses the complex issues of the isolated islanders, while Lady Myre feels frustrated. Read by Eleanor Bron.
THU 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt2m0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03j9xb6)
Mel Giedroyc presents Sally Gardner's award-winning Maggot Moon, read exclusively by EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick. Plus, Dick and Dom investigate sport in 'How Dangerous'.
THU 17:00 Ballylenon (b007jx6s)
Series 5
Episode 3
How far will some Ballylenon residents go to make sure that the sale of a certain cottage goes ahead without a hitch? It's 1956 in the sleepy Irish town. Stars TP McKenna.
THU 17:30 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jplc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009m464)
This Island Earth
Things can't get much worse for Major Barton and his team in their wartime efforts. Or can they?
Simon Bovey's sci-fi adventure series set during the Second World War.
Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Barton, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey, Ben Crowe as Lieutenant Dundas, Rachel Atkins as Trudi Schenk and Laura Molyneux as Slipstream.
Other parts played by Simon Treves, Sam Pamphilon, Alex Lanipekun and Lloyd Woolf.
Producer: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008.
THU 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b008pc2z)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 4
"The Dewey system has its fine points" reflected the librarian, picking a parasite from its fur, "But when you're setting out to look for a crucial stolen book within the multi-dimensional folds of L-space, what you really need is a ball of string."
Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis.
The 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
Lord Vetinari … Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall
Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992.
THU 19:00 Dad's Army (b00qxh17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01nm56t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbq2l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n9px)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Clare in the Community (b01qdxwn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Elvenquest (b00vy3n6)
Series 2
Episode 1
The return of the fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth. The intrepid band of Questers, led by Elven Lord, Vidar, set off once again on their search for the Sword of Asnagar which is the only thing that can free them from the tyranny of the evil Lord Darkness.
Joining Vidar on the Quest is Dean, the dwarf, Penthiselea, an Amazon warrior princess, Sam, the human, and Amis, the Chosen One (formerly Sam's dog who took human form when he arrived in Lower Earth - he alone can wield the Sword of Asnagar that will defeat Lord Darkness).
In this opening episode, the Questers are saved from near certain death by a strong and charming loner, who goes by the name of Byorthnoth the Brave. But is Byorthnoth quite what he seems? And does it really matter when he has such lovely hair?
Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is back from the Void and has discovered that he's lost his immortality...
Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.
Sam ...... Stephen Mangan
Lord Darkness ...... Alistair McGowan
Dean/Kreech ...... Kevin Eldon
Elf Lord, Vidar ...... Darren Boyd
Byorthnoth ...... Ben Miles
Amazon Princess, Penthiselea ...... Sophie Winkleman
Amis, The Chosen One ...... Dave Lamb
Producer: Sam Michell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03m8223)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Sara Pascoe chats to Milton Jones.
THU 23:00 Armando Iannucci (b007jym0)
Series 2
Episode 5
Armando lannucci’s best bits including spoof interviews and phone calls.
With Rebecca Front, Dave Schneider, Peter Baynham, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee.
Music from Morrissey.
Written by Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham, Richard Herring and Stewart Lee.
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in April 1994.


FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2013

FRI 00:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009m464)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008pc2z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Father Brown Stories (b007jp44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Hazelbeach (b0082dtq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pkbmh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt2m0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Sana Krasikov - One More Year (b00lbq2l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007n9px)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 Ballylenon (b007jx6s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Lenin of the Rovers (b007jplc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzky)
The Nine Tailors
5 A Question of Identity
Following his trip to France, Lord Peter Wimsey takes a step closer to identifying the killer.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Beaton.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Bunter …. Peter Jones
Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham
Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson
Mrs Venables …. Noel Dyson
Nobby Cranton …. Stephen Greiff
Emily …. Jenny Twigg
Potty Peak …. Anthony Hyde
Donnington …. John Church
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980.
FRI 06:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr)
Series 2
Actor and Alibi
A theatrical murder amid much back-stabbing is announced in the Chop-House. Father Brown finds himself in the midst of a School for Scandal.
Stars Andrew Sachs as Father Brown.
GK Chesterton's stories of an amateur clerical sleuth with an uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work.
Father Brown ...... Andrew Sachs
Mundon Mandeville ...... Peter Jeffrey
Mrs Mandeville ...... Sheila Grant
Inspector Bagshaw ...... Bill Wallis
Ashton Jarvis ...... David Brierly
Norman Knight ...... Charles Baillie
Lady Miriam Talbot ...... Fleur Chandler
Miss Maroni ...... Karen Ascoe
Mrs Sans ...... Pauline Letts
House Manager ...... Jonathan Scott
Dramatised by John Scotney
Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1986.
FRI 07:00 Smelling of Roses (b007jzm2)
Series 1
Out To Launch
Rosie's company is set to launch the autobiography of the country's most famous footballer, Lloyd Gratton.
The lives of Rosie and her granddaughter Jo are shaken by the return to Rosie's daughter Kate after a long spell working abroad.
Prunella Scales in the first of four series of Simon Brett's sitcom following the trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event-management company based in Brighton.
With Arabella Weir as Kate, Rebecca Callard as Jo, Duncan Preston as Bob, Annette Badland as Tess, Jon Glover as Greg Turnball, Tracy-Ann Oberman as Lalage Croxton-Sackville and Will Ing as Lloyd Gratton.
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.
FRI 07:30 My Teenage Diary (b01k290n)
Series 4
Robert Webb
Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for the very first time.
Rufus Hound is joined by actor Robert Webb whose hilarious and sometimes abrasive teenage diary documents the highs and lows of being seventeen - and the perils of kissing a girl at a party when you don't really fancy her.
Producer: Harriet Jaine
A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b00t4qmv)
Series 2
My Old Man's a Tory
Angry Albert disrupts Harold's Labour party meeting.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold. With Dudley Foster as Stonelake and Beth Boyd as Miss Frobisher.
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.
Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Produced by Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967.
FRI 08:30 Yes Minister (b007jmj1)
Series 1
The Writing on the Wall
Finally losing patience with Sir Humphrey, MP Jim Hacker's big plans to slim down the Civil Service come home to roost.
Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.
Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn satirical sitcom ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.
Jim Hacker ...... Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby ...... Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard ...... Derek Fowlds
Frank Weisel ...... Bill Nighy
Sir Frederick ...... Peter Cellier
Foreign Secretary ...... Tenniel Evans
Dr Donald Hughes ...... Edward Petherbridge
Butler ...... Kerry Francis
Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1983.
FRI 09:00 Millport (b0075ttx)
Series 1
The Letter
It's turnip season - and a letter arrives for Irene promising to change her life for ever.
But when push comes to shove, is she ready to leave the dismal island backwater she so unlovingly calls home?
Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something island barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a better life on the mainland.
Stars Lynn Ferguson as Irene, Janet Brown as Moira/Agnes, Lewis McLeod as Alberto/Robert/Bob, Gabriel Quigley as Ena/Bunty/Betty, Matt Costello as Doogie and Robert Paterson as the Minister.
Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Robert/Bob ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty/Betty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Doogie ...... Matt Costello
The Minister ...... Robert Paterson
Producers: Lucy Bacon and Kathy Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.
FRI 09:30 The Change (b00nxcbs)
Series 1
Lipstick
Carol's attempts at keeping George's little hobby a secret are thwarted when they bump into Maureen...
Lynda Bellingham and Chris Ellison star as troubled hormonal wife Carol whose husband George has revealed that he's a transvestite.
Sitcom by Gavin Petrie and Jan Etherington.
Carol ...... Lynda Bellingham
George ...... Chris Ellison
Violet ...... Sylvia Syms
Maureen ...... Maureen Beattie
Dave ...... Mark Powley
Ken ...... James Vaughan
Jerry ...... Richard Standing
Sonia ...... Emma Kennedy
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001.
FRI 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51p)
The Looking Glass War
Episode 2
Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley.
As Leiser's clandestine mission into East German territory proceeds, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what it seems.
Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid
George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy
Haldane ...... Philip Jackson
Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann
Jack Johnson ...... Ben Crowe
Anna ...... Ania Sowinski
Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar
Control ...... John Rowe
Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler
Official ...... Philip Fox
Soldiers ...... Matt Addis, Benjamin Askew
Directed by Marc Beeby.
FRI 11:00 Enid Bagnold - The Amorous Ghost (b00m9jbl)
Mr Templeman's wife is away, but it seems someone is sleeping in her nightgowns. Read by Paul Daneman.
FRI 11:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007ncyz)
Aristide Bruant
The socialist club owner questions his success. John Peacock's play based on Toulouse-Lautrec's characters. Stars Bernard Hill and Julie Covington.
FRI 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b00t4qmv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Yes Minister (b007jmj1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzky)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b0109gq7)
Alas, Poor Puffin
The festive season in the village of Tilling is blighted by news of an untimely death. Stars Frances Barber and Nickolas Grace.
FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sg3tf)
The Child Is Father of the Man
With evangelicals to rationalists battling over Britain's children, Michael Morpurgo searches surviving 18th-century records.
FRI 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007sygk)
Episode 5
Cajoled by his wife Carrie, Simon Stockdale finally meets his father's lover, Merrion. Read by Barbara Flynn.
FRI 14:45 Diana Souhami - Coconut Chaos (b00xn8r0)
Episode 5
Leaving Pitcairn Island aboard a catamaran, a huge storm threatens the lives of Diana and Lady Myre. Concluded by Eleanor Bron.
FRI 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt51p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03j9zfj)
EastEnders actor Jamie Borthwick reads the final episode of Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon and Dick and Dom do mind-bending experiments at London's Cardinal Wiseman School.
FRI 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way (b008kkz1)
Series 2
Episode 6
JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From August 1991.
FRI 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jzm2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 Simon Bovey - Slipstream (b009mbjn)
Fight for the Future
Jurgen and Kate are desperate to get the weapon away before all is lost...
Conclusion of Simon Bovey's sci-fi adventure series set during the Second World War.
Stars Rory Kinnear as Jurgen Rall, Tim McMullan as Major Barton, Joannah Tincey as Kate Richey, Ben Crowe as Lieutenant Dundas, Rachel Atkins as Trudi Schenk, Peter Marinker as Brigadier Erskine and Laura Molyneux as Slipstream.
Other parts played by Simon Treves, Sam Pamphilon, Alex Lanipekun and Lloyd Woolf.
Producer: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2008.
FRI 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b008pc0b)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 5
"That dragon isn't going to accept any mealy-mouthed, wishy-washy liberal nonsense.... Do you know what you're getting with a dragon? Unashamed strong leadership."
The dragon strikes. But will Captain Vimes triumph?
Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis.
The 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Lady Ramkin …. Helen Atkinson-Wood
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
Lord Vetinari …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
Chief Merchant …. Jeff Nuttall
Librarian …. Michael Roberts
Little Girl …. Kate McEnery
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992.
FRI 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b00t4qmv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Yes Minister (b007jmj1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzky)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Father Brown Stories (b0081lvr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Enid Bagnold - The Amorous Ghost (b00m9jbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 John Peacock - Posters of Montmartre (b007ncyz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 My Teenage Diary (b01k290n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b007k37y)
Series 3
Episode 5
Chesney is having a crisis of confidence. Cerebral sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From January 2005.
FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007jpd8)
Series 2
Computers
Satan has trouble with a fundamentalist and Scumspawn has trouble with a pushy computer.
Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell.
Satan ...... Andy Hamilton
The Professor ...... James Grout
Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville
Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan
Other characters played by Philip Pope, Felicity Montagu and Nick Revell.
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998.
FRI 23:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto (b00qx43h)
Series 2
Episode 4
Mark Thomas: The Manifesto. Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas creates a People's Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and then getting them to vote for the best. The winner of each show will be enforceable by law, so pay attention.
This episode will include policies such as crushing the cars of anyone illegally parked in a disabled space; the legalisation of Viking-style funerals; and consolidating the United Kingdom's national debt into one easy-to-pay loan.
Produced by Ed Morrish.