SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER 2013

SAT 00:00 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.
SAT 00:30 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.
SAT 01:00 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.
SAT 01:30 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.
SAT 02:00 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.
SAT 02:30 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.
SAT 03:00 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.
SAT 04:00 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.
SAT 04:15 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.
SAT 05:00 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.
SAT 05:30 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.
SAT 06:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb)
It's a Long Way From Talavera
The 1808-1813 peninsular campaign of the Duke of Wellington. First of Peter Luke's two linked plays with Michael Pennington.
SAT 07:30 Sitting for Fay (b00lb6q7)
Christine Finn discovers a rich seam of literary life in photographer Fay Godwin's work.
Best known for her later landscape work, Godwin spent the 1970s and 80s taking portraits of some of the leading figures of the literary scene. Many iconic book-jacket images were taken by her, including a sultry Ted Hughes with that lock of hair falling over his face, Philip Larkin and the rubber plant, Seamus Heaney and the tree, Desmond Morris in a safari suit, a pensive Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Keith Waterhouse slumped in a basket chair and Salman Rushdie with a hookah.
Christine gained access to Godwin's home and studio as it was being prepared for sale, and with Godwin's friend, photographic historian Roger Taylor, examined the archive. It shows that many of Godwin's later collaborations on books of landscapes - most notably with Ted Hughes, but also with Richard Ingrams and Philip Larkin - were born in the portrait sittings and the relationships that grew out of them.
The programme also hears from poet Alan Brownjohn about the experience of sitting for Fay, and examines an archive of prints, contact sheets and letters from her sitters, held in the British Library since her death in 2005, with photo critic and editor Sue Steward.
SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019jqtz)
Series 7
Episode 14
From Minnesota, the American funny man presents the VocalEssence ensemble, plus news from deeply frozen Lake Wobegon. From 2011.
SAT 09:00 A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden (b007s6p7)
From Jimmy Durante and Jack Benny - via Beyond The Fringe - to Alan Coren, Linda Smith and Victoria Wood.
Comedy writer Denis Norden curates three hours of personally-chosen comedy listening, based on his own collection of comedy albums, and from wading through nine decades of his own accumulated radio memories.
Denis explains to Nick Baker how as a young serviceman, the humour on the American Forces Network played a huge part in widening his comedy horizons. Whether it was Bette Davis sparring with Jimmy Durante or Judy Garland joking with Bob Hope, he salutes the one-liners, irreverent put downs and insults on shows like 'Command Performance'.
Denis also recalls the first American comedy vinyl in Britain and reflects on the topical, improvisational tones of Mort Sahl's jazz-inflected comedic riffs. He and Frank Muir booked Mort on the BBC. We also hear some Shelley Berman and routines chronicling 1960s changing gender relations, with male/female duos like Mike Nichols and Elaine May.
Returning to his British comedy roots, Denis enlarges on his penchant for "acoustic humour" and his love of language-based laughter.
Plus highlights of Denis's own material - leading to a masterclass in the construction of jokes as well as a tribute to his late writing partner, Frank Muir.
Denis Norden's influence on the British comedy landscape includes not only co-creating British sitcom's first dysfunctional family, the Glums (Take it From Here) but also a period as Comedy Consultant for BBC TV, alongside Frank Muir. Later, he and Frank spent decades on BBC Radio's My Word! and My Music! Denis was also ITV's long-serving presenter of comedy cock-ups for 'It'll Be Alright on The Night'.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Test Bed Productions.
First broadcast in 2013.
SAT 12:00 Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: Omnibus (b03jrz8d)
As Pushkin prepares to fight a duel, his wife begs to hear his most famous story. Based on the poem. Stars Geoffrey Streatfeild.
SAT 13:10 Chain Gang (b03jpqpj)
Series 4
Episode 9
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 (b00jzy3k)
Series 2
A Farewell to Ingleby
Detective Daunt's country weekend at an old friend's house doesn't go quite as planned. Stars Anna Massey and Frances Barber.
SAT 14:00 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.
SAT 14:30 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.
SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019jqtz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 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.
SAT 18:00 Fear on 4 (b007jmcr)
Series 1
The Face
A woman's terrifying dream turns into reality. Stars Rosalind Ayres. Introduced by the Man in Black, Edward De Souza.
SAT 18:30 HG Wells (b007jwgt)
A Dream of Armageddon
Stranger
A stranger on a train reveals his secret. When he dreams, he enters a future reality of an advanced civilization descending into senseless war. Read in two-parts by Robert Bathurst.
Written in 1901, this is a disturbing vision of the future - as Wells comes uncannily close to predicting the horrors of the Second World War.
English author and political philosopher, HG Wells is recognised as one of sci-fi's founding-fathers. Within his own lifetime, he became a literary celebrity, earning praise from contemporaries such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad. His influence was wide reaching; George Orwell in particular - "The minds of all of us, and therefore the physical world, would be perceptibly different if Wells never existed." In recent years his work has enjoyed a renaissance, including Steven Spielberg's 2005 film of War Of The Worlds.
Wells died on August 13th, 1946, aged 79.
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2006.
SAT 19:00 A Taste of Funny with Denis Norden (b007s6p7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Sabotage (b007jwv4)
Series 1
Episode 1
Mark Talbot hosts Sabotage's exciting comedy night with top performers: Aisling Bea, Mike Wozniak, Ben Mellor, James Acaster and Liam Williams at London's historic Hoxton Hall in Hackney.
Producer: Anna Silver.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Hat Trick Productions.
First broadcast in November 2013.
SAT 23:00 Adam Baron - Shut Eye (b00snbw5)
Episode 4
A fresh discovery in the hunt for a serial killer turns private eye Billy Rucker into a suspect. Stars David Morrissey.
SAT 23:30 Scandinavian Chiller (b0112d7g)
Hakan Nesser - Woman With Birthmark
Episode 2
Inspector Van Veeteren investigates a man's apparently motiveless murder. Scandinavian chiller read by Michael Maloney.


SUNDAY 01 DECEMBER 2013

SUN 00:00 Fear on 4 (b007jmcr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 00:30 HG Wells (b007jwgt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b019jqtz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:00 Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin: Omnibus (b03jrz8d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday]
SUN 03:10 Chain Gang (b03jpqpj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday]
SUN 03:15 Daunt and Dervish (b00jzy3k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 The Other Side of the Hill (b010t4pb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 My Teenage Diary (b01k290n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b010gkq4)
Omnibus, part 2
The busybody of the small English village of Tilling continues to observe the Major and Captain Puffin. Stars Frances Barber.
SUN 07:15 Food for Thought (b00mz8tj)
Series 1
Rabbi Lionel Blue
Journalist Nina Myskow discovers how attitudes to food, shape and affect individual lives.
With the table set for Shabbat-eve, Lionel Blue looks back on his unorthodox life. As Britain's first openly gay Rabbi, often referred to as "cherub-faced", he tells Nina how food has been inextricably linked with personal transformation, from changing tastes and a fluctuating waistline to transformed circumstances and shifting beliefs. However, he still remembers watching his grandmother cooking potato latkes and eating them on toast or with apple sauce. It was the kind of food that fed the family, the neighbours and, he implies, the soul.
The producer is Tamsin Hughes, and this is a Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN 07:30 Cabin Pressure (b00lxh3r)
Series 2
Johannesburg
When Carolyn makes a foolish bet with her pilots, what better place for a race against time than a sleepy Spanish airfield? Plus we learn about the thermodynamic properties of boiled sweets and the kinetic thrust of white wine.
Starring
Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole
1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam
Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch
Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore
Senor Quintanilla ..... Michael Fenton-Stevens
Diego ..... Javier Marzan
Written by John Finnemore.
Produced & directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4
SUN 08:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c)
Series 1
Escape from Prison the Burkiss Way
Improve your IQ and go on the Auntie Quiz in the cult sketch show.
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 (b007k13n)
Series 8
Help, It's a Girl
The cheeky schoolboy faces his biggest fear when he has to take a girl to school. Stars Jimmy Clitheroe. From January 1965.
SUN 09:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttmnj)
I Should Be So Lucky
Teenager Ellie has trouble adjusting after her mother's death. Jean Alexander stars in this modern retelling of Cinderella.
SUN 09:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvd0)
Series 2
The Seven Crystal Balls
When explorers return from Peru and fall mysteriously ill, the intrepid boy reporter is on the case. Stars Richard Pearce.
SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03jss9k)
TV Writers
Andrew Davies
4 Extra Debut. From Beethoven to Bonnie Tyler, screenwriter Andrew Davies shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From August 2007.
SUN 10:45 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life (b007k4br)
When a person sees their life going the other way on the back of a lorry, what can they do?
Brian Parr reads Alex Shearer’s short story.
Producer: Pauline Stone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1997.
SUN 11:00 It's a Funny Business (b01h7p9d)
John Inman
'I'm free!'. The popular sitcom star recalls his showbusiness career in conversation with Mike Craig. From February 1986.
SUN 11:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4)
Michael Sellers
Peter Sellers' son Michael chats to Sally Magnusson about the ups and downs of growing up with a famous funny father.
Producer: Mike Walker
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in September 2005.
SUN 12:00 EF Benson - Miss Mapp (b010gkq4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 13:15 Food for Thought (b00mz8tj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 13:30 Hercule Poirot (b009z4c6)
Death in the Clouds
Hercule Poirot investigates a murder high in the sky.
On a flight from Le Bourget to Croydon, on which the Belgian sleuth is an apprehensive passenger, a woman is found dead.
A doctor on board is inclined to put it down to a wasp-sting, but Poirot suspects it's a case of murder...
First published in 1935, Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule.
Philip Jackson ..... Chief Inspector Japp
Geoffrey Whitehead ..... Monsieur Fournier
Murray Melvin ..... Daniel Clancy
Teresa Gallagher ..... Jane Grey
Carolyn Jones ..... Lady Horbury
Ben Crowe ..... Norman Gale
Andrew Harrison ..... Jean Dupont
Bruce Purchase ..... Dr Bryant
Liza Sadovy ..... Elise Grandier
Priyanga Elan ..... Anne Richards
Steven Critchlow ..... Airline Steward
Dramatist: Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
SUN 15:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 15:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k13n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show (b03jsf3w)
Mel Giedroyc presents the best of the 4 O'Clock Show, including Dick and Dom's How Dangerous Is Your School and Chris Hadfield, the astronaut who played Space Oddity in space.
SUN 17:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttmnj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 17:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvd0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Stanislaw Lem - Solaris (b00pf12m)
Episode 1
A psychologist is sent to a rundown space station to find out what has happened to its crew. When his long-dead young wife turns up, he suddenly finds himself in serious trouble.
Stanislaw Lem's famous modern sci-fi classic dramatised by Hattie Naylor.
Starring Ron Cook as Kris, Stuart Richman as Sartoris, Tim McMullan as Snow, Joanne Froggatt as Rheya and Maxine Burth as the Woman.
Music by Alice Trueman
Sound Design: Steve Brooke
Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.
SUN 19:00 It's a Funny Business (b01h7p9d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 19:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today]
SUN 20:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 20:30 The Clitheroe Kid (b007k13n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03jss9k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 21:45 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life (b007k4br)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]
SUN 22:00 Cabin Pressure (b00lxh3r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl (b007m4dx)
Subtle
Sean Foley and Hamish McColl investigate the art of subtlety by visiting a Jane Austen novel.
Surreal comedy starring award-winning double act Sean Foley and Hamish McColl, the Right Size.
With:
Rose English
Count Arthur Strong
Chris Larner
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2000.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03my8zn)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Noman Hosni.
SUN 23:00 Vent (b00v3qsn)
Series 2
Alternatives
What would comatose Ben's life be like if it was a Hollywood movie?
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 (b00mbbkh)
Series 3
Episode 2
Walter has staff to fire and a broken heart to mend, but worst of all, his wife's come back to him and seems intent on pandering to his every whim...
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 02 DECEMBER 2013

MON 00:00 Stanislaw Lem - Solaris (b00pf12m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b03jss9k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:45 Alex Shearer - Getting a Life (b007k4br)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 It's a Funny Business (b01h7p9d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k0n4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 The Burkiss Way (b007jm5c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Hercule Poirot (b009z4c6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Bill Taylor - Likely Stories (b00ttmnj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Herge - The Adventures of Tintin (b007jvd0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Wimsey (b007jznj)
The Nine Tailors
6 A Damnable Business
Lord Peter Wimsey identifies the mystery body, but he's yet to name the killer.
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery dramatised by Alistair Beaton.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham
Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson
Nobby Cranton …. Stephen Greiff
Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell
Mary Thoday …. Claire Clifford
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980.
MON 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr)
1. Advertising
Bulldog Hugh Drummond is a hero, patriot, sportsman and quintessential English gentleman.
A de-mobilised army officer in the First World War, Drummond knows how to fight hard and play fair and there is precious little that can shake him.
Finding peace unbearably tedious, he puts an ad in the newspaper offering his services to any client who can offer adventure.
Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Written by "Sapper" (Herman McNeile) and abridged by Neville Teller
Producer: John Simpson
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in November 2009.
MON 07:00 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7)
Series 3
Episode 3
Change is in the air when Amanda and Richard get happily engaged. But when Lucy and Daniel opt to change their lives, Lucy resolves not to tell anyone.
What Daniel hasn't told Lucy is that he can't keep a secret...
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, Nasreen Hussain as Amanda and Dave Lamb as Richard.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h)
Series 60
Episode 3
The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit to the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by special guest Victoria Wood, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment.
This programme was originally broadcast in November 2013.
Producer - Jon Naismith.
MON 08:00 Round the Horne (b007w4df)
Series 4
Episode 2
Kenneth Horne stars in a roaring 1920s film spoof 'Thoroughly Modern Willy', Rambling Syd Rumpo sings of a nadger and Julian and Sandy come over all transcendental with Bona Gurumat.
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 March 1968.
MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b007xwmd)
Series 9
Deliberately Abandoned
Can the inept crew of HMS Troutbridge discover where the rest of the fleet has gone?

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, Ronnie Barker as Commander Bell, Tenniel Evans as Uncle and Michael Bates as the Sea Lord.

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

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1967.
MON 09:00 Heresy (b00k3zzb)
Series 6
Episode 4
Victoria Coren hosts the show that thinks the unthinkable. With journalists Euan Ferguson and Tanya Gold, and comedian David Mitchell. From May 2009.
MON 09:30 House on Fire (b00qf6ls)
Series 1
Filth
"Filth"
A return to Hogarth Road to see how Vicky and Matt are getting on with their house-sharing arrangements. Unfortunately they are having a slight disagreement over who should do the clearing up. In fact, the only thing they do agree on is that no one should do the clearing up. So what do you do when the very last bowl has been used up?
Vicky - Emma Pierson
Matt - JODY LATHAM
Julie - JANINE DUVITSKI
Peter - PHILIP JACKSON
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 (b07pt1v0)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Episode 1
Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic novel featuring intelligence officer George Smiley.
Ever since the capture and torture of their agent in Czechoslovakia, the British Secret Intelligence Service has been in trouble. Now, the government has been forced to call George Smiley back from retirement to investigate the whole incident and to seek out the mole they believe to be at the heart of the service.
George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
Jim Prideaux ...... Anthony Calf
Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey
Oliver Lacon ...... Alex Jennings
Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman
Irina ...... Vera Filatova
Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham
Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed
Magyar ...... Peter Majer
Roddy Martindale ...... Philip Fox
Bill Roach ...... Ryan Watson.
MON 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b00757f0)
Episode 1
4 Extra Debut. Wartime in Broadcasting House, and myriad hopes and fears come and go in the course of newsgathering. Read by Penelope Wilton.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b03jssmv)
Kathy Burke, Robert Webb, Sara Cox, Kim Wilde, Arthur Smith, Tindersticks
It's Nil by Mouth for Clive, who talks to award-winning actress, comedian and director Kathy Burke, who's directing riotous comedy 'Once a Catholic'. Set in a convent girls' school in 1957, where the nuns at Our Lady of Fatima preach chastity and diligence as the swinging sixties approach. Final exams loom. The day of reckoning is nigh. But for the girls in class 5A, their last year in uniform is set to be one of discovery of the less holy kind. 'Once a Catholic' is at London's Tricycle Theatre until 18th January 2014.
Clive's Kept Hangin' On by singer and presenter Kim Wilde, who shot to fame in 1981 with her smash hit 'Kids In America' and is the most-charted British solo female act of the 1980s. Kim's in a festive mood with a new album of part original songs / part classic Yuletide tunes. She sings 'Hey Mr Snowman' from 'Wilde Winter Songbook'.
Arthur Smith's Born Sloppy with DJ Sara Cox, whose new Radio 2 show 'Sounds of the '80s' looks at a decade that saw synthesizers, ghetto blasters and the moonwalk explode on to the music scene. It was the age of New wave and synth pop, hip-hop, hard rock and glam metal, leaving a legacy of shellsuits, mobile phones, the CD, the Yuppie and even ET. 'Sounds of the '80s' is on 30th November at 22.00.
Clive's tuned in to comedian and actor Robert Webb, who returns to the Radio 4 airwaves alongside David Mitchell with their distinctive and lopsided views on the world through satirical sketches and surreal characters. The second episode of 'That Mitchell and Webb Sound' is on 3rd December at 18.30.
With more music from Nottingham's gloriously lugubrious pop-noir balladeers Tindersticks, who perform 'This Fire Of Autumn' from their album 'The Something Rain'.
Producer: Sukey Firth.
MON 12:00 Round the Horne (b007w4df)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007xwmd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Wimsey (b007jznj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011j6lv)
Two Suitors
Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she choose wisely between passion and virtue?
Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson.
.
In the opening episode, Colonel Hargrave's sexual advances are too much for Laura - and she places her suitor on a two-year probation.
Narrated by Maureen Beattie.
Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson
Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott
Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law
Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil
Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall
Mary Brunton was a Scottish novelist much admired by Jane Austen; and Self Control, first published in 1811, deals with similar themes to Sense and Sensibility.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
MON 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00shhrj)
How I Wish I Were a Boy
Michael Morpurgo discovers middle-class boys went to 19th-century public schools as a shield from too much female influence.
MON 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007tdnk)
Episode 6
As judge Guy Stockdale pursues his affair with Merrion, his family are affected in unexpected ways. Read by Barbara Flynn.
MON 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m0w31)
Episode 1
Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Hardeep joins a group enjoying tea and biscuits before they take part in their British Citizenship ceremony at Brent Town Hall.
A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b34m4)
This week, Mel hears how to prepare food with the taste of paradise. Today, she hears how to slice into a coconut like an expert to produce an exotic fruit salad.
MON 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00scz3l)
Series 1
Episode 4
The dear ladies attempt to stage Evadne's murder mystery. Stars Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From September 1979.
MON 17:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 18:00 The Scarifyers (b018sltw)
The Secret Weapon of Doom
Episode 1
Dunning has literary trouble, while Lionheart searches for a mysterious object. Stars Nicholas Courtney and Terry Molloy, with guests Leslie Phillips and Nigel Havers.
MON 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p506)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 6
"Last Desperate Chances always work. Besides, I'll be using my lucky arrow..."
All Captain Vimes needs to save the city is a million-to-one chance.
First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld. Conclusion of six parts dramatized by Michael Butt.
CAST:
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
First Guard …. Jeff Nuttall
Joint First Guard …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in December 1992.
MON 19:00 Round the Horne (b007w4df)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b007xwmd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Wimsey (b007jznj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b00757f0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b03jssmv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (b03j9m1h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Heresy (b00k3zzb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03jtgc4)
Series 9
Episode 4
A satirical review of the week's news chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With guest panellists Grace Dent, Fred MacAulay and Justin Edwards, joining regular Jeremy Hardy.
MON 23:45 Hearing With Hegley (b03jpvjt)
Series 3
Episode 4
The Luton laureate visits the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and finds that some poems just don't want to be read. From February 2000.


TUESDAY 03 DECEMBER 2013

TUE 00:00 The Scarifyers (b018sltw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b008p506)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Wimsey (b007jznj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm5wr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Heresy (b00k3zzb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 House on Fire (b00qf6ls)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b00757f0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b03jssmv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket (b00scz3l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Double Income, No Kids Yet (b00906d7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw)
The Nine Tailors
7 All Is Not Explained
Lord Peter Wimsey goes snooping to try and establish who killed Geoffrey Deacon - and how.
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
Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell
Jim Thoday …. Malcolm Terris
Engineer …. Leonard Fenton
Hezekiah Lavender …. Michael Spice
Sluice Keeper …. Peter Tudenham
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1980.
TUE 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4)
2. Warning
Tricked into abducting the wrong man, dangerous Peterson gives a stern warning to the ex-officer. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
TUE 07:00 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf)
Episode 2
Mr Finchley runs into an ancient mariner who has many tales to tell of his life at sea, each one taller than the last. Meanwhile, following hot on his tail is Oliver Watt-Anselm, the worst private eye in the world...
Victor Canning's novel about the adventures of a man and his horse-drawn caravan touring the 1930s countryside of Kent.
CAST:
Mr Finchley .... Richard Griffiths
Horace Blane …. John Bird
Bob Trilby …. Chris Emmett
Oliver Watt-Anselm …. Jon Glover
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 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03jb1wp)
Series 5
Episode 1
The future of farming - battery penguins; Thomas Hardy's exciting idea to make his books even sadder; and the very confusing goings on in a cash-register shop.
Comedy from the lopsided world of David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
With Olivia Colman and James Bachman.
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jmrj)
Series 6
Shangri-La Again
Neddie Seagoon escapes an invasion and finds Utopia.

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 (b00r7q2v)
Thirty Minutes Worth
The Camera
Harry Worth's got a new camera - and havoc awaits at a wedding.
The amiable, woolly-minded bumbler, causes more confusion!
Starring Harry Worth.
With Jacqueline Clarke, Charles Collingwood, Julie Higginson and John Savident.
Written by Vince Powell.
Producer: Mike Craig
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1988.
TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03jtgc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley (b03jpvjt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v7)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Episode 2
Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic novel.
George Smiley, called back from retirement, tries to piece together the events of the past to find the mole he believes is tearing apart the British Secret Intelligence Service.
George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
Control ...... John Rowe
Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey
Percy Alleline ...... Bill Paterson
Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman
Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale
Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast
Roy Bland...... David Hargreaves
Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton.
TUE 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007k2n4)
Episode 2
Wartime in Broadcasting House sees a visit from a boozy French General with misguided words of hope. Read by Penelope Wilton.
TUE 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z)
Series 1
The Troubles of This Life
The lively events in the parish of Over Stowey, from the 1799 diary of Somerset parson, William Holland. Stars Ronald Pickup.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jmrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 Harry Worth (b00r7q2v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011km7g)
A Future Lost
Laura's skills as a painter are praised by a London artist - but her father receives some terrible news about his investments...
Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson.
Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she choose wisely between passion and virtue?
Narrated by Maureen Beattie.
Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott
Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law
Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson
Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil
Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall
Mr Foster ...... David Timson
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
TUE 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00shl8f)
Reinstated Divinity
Michael Morpurgo discovers how the Victorian obsession with childhood, both real and romanticised, appeared in art and literature.
TUE 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007tkgf)
Episode 7
Taking Merrion to dinner at Simon and Carrie's house, Guy realises that his grandson Jack is unhappy. Read by Barbara Flynn.
TUE 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjb)
Episode 2
Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
After you give blood at one of the National Blood Service Centres, tea and biscuits are on the menu to restore the donors. Hardeep meets those about to offer their own life-giving liquid, and enjoy the warm offering afterwards.
A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b01rb2j2)
Mel joins California's Meteorite Zombies, hears from The Tiger Who Came to Tea author Judith Kerr, and introduces the next episode of Philip Ridley's book Meteorite Spoon.
TUE 17:00 A Whole New Ball Game (b00ck2dq)
Series 1
Found Wanting
To Robert's dismay, his sister, Barbara, is about to succumb to temptation in the shape of biker Andy Hunt.
His mother can't help to save her, so he enlists the help of Father Benedict as an avenger...
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 and Claire Skinner as Janet.
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1993.
TUE 17:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 The Scarifyers (b018zvmf)
The Secret Weapon of Doom
Episode 2
The plot thickens as the Fantasists' creations seem to be coming to life. Stars Nicholas Courtney and Nigel Havers.
TUE 18:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b0092n8g)
The Night Owls
Assembled monster turned B&B landlady, Brenda investigates a mysterious Whitby radio host. Stars Joanna Tope and Monica Gibb.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jmrj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 Harry Worth (b00r7q2v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007k2n4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b03jb1wp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 The Castle (b0080xwh)
Series 1
Episode 6
Sitcom by Kim Fuller, set in a medieval castle with some remarkably modern trappings.
Featuring an art exhibition, a strolling footpad, a dodgy flat-pack scaffold and a lawnmower.
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 (b03my8zq)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats to Carl Donnelly.
TUE 23:00 Delve Special (b007jq1p)
Series 3
A Rocket for Defence
Reporter David Lander investigates whether we really need the new 'Sea Snake' torpedo.
Every year each British taxpayer gives £700 to the Ministry of Defence for new nuclear weapons.
Would we be better off putting an extra lock on the door and having a fortnight in Bermuda?
Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.
Studio production by Jack Klaff, Brenda Blethyn and Harry Enfield.
Dramatic reconstructions by Felicity Montagu, Robert Bathurst and Mark Arden.
Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.
Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer
Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later transferred to TV as: This is David Lander.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1986.
TUE 23:30 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard (b00y2sq7)
Series 2
The Root of All Evil
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.
This week Mordrin recruits ally and former Wizard activist Ben The Brown to settle a garden dispute with his neighbour Jill.
Cast:
Mordrin: David Kay
Bernard The Blue: Jack Doherty
Ben The Brown: Arnold Brown
Jill: Katrina Bryan
Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson
Ash: Greg McHugh
Sickie-More: Johnny Austin
Producer/Director: Gus Beattie
A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 23:45 Date With Fate (b0090x8s)
Nice Little Number
Vernon Hedges sets out to disprove the existence of Lady Luck.
Harold Wing Pinero is your host.
Another of four comic close encounters with fate written by Gary Parker and Phil Whelans.
Vernon ...... Philip Jackson
Harold Wing Pinero ...... Charles Gray
Arthur ...... Michael Troughton
Dory/Shelley ...... Tracy Wiles
All other parts played by Toby Longworth.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.


WEDNESDAY 04 DECEMBER 2013

WED 00:00 The Scarifyers (b018zvmf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b0092n8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzpw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nm9s4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b03jtgc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
WED 02:45 Hearing With Hegley (b03jpvjt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
WED 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1v7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007k2n4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 A Whole New Ball Game (b00ck2dq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Mr Finchley Takes the Road (b007k0zf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6)
The Nine Tailors
8 Nine Tailors Make a Man
Can upper class sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey finally solve the baffling mystery of the murder of Geoffrey Deacon?
Ian Carmichael stars as the aristocratic sleuth.
The conclusion of Dorothy L Sayers' detective mystery.
Lord Peter Wimsey …. Ian Carmichael
Bunter …. Peter Jones
Supt Blundell …. Timothy Bateson
Rev Theodore Venables …. Phillip Latham
Mrs Venables...Noel Dyson
Will Thoday …. Keith Drinkell
Harry Gotobed …. Alexander John
First Sluice Keeper …. Michael Spice
Second Sluice Keeper …. Peter Tudenham
Narrator …. John Westbrook
Dramatised by Alistair Beaton.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1980.
WED 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3)
3. Grappling
In his ongoing battle with the evil Peterson, our hero has to grapple with a gorilla. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
WED 07:00 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c)
Series 1
Plethora Princess Regent
Awaiting news of a new pope, Plethora takes over Monte Guano and Ludovico takes to his bed.
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 Father Ignazio.
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
WED 07:30 What Does the K Stand For? (b03jdw6r)
Series 1
Who Am I?
Young Stephen wrestles with his identity and gets some career advice from his useless but enthusiastic teacher.
Stephen K Amos's sitcom about his own teenage years, growing up black, gay and funny in 1980s South London.
Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos.
Stephen K Amos ... Stephen K Amos
Young Stephen ... Shaquille Ali-Yebuah
Stephanie Amos ... Fatou Sohna
Virginia Amos ... Ellen Thomas
Vincent Amos ... Don Gilet
Miss Collins ... Gemma Whelan
Jayson ... Frankie Wilson
PE Teacher ... Harry Jardine
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnbl)
Series 5
The Scandal Magazine
The lad takes action over scandal rag Blabbermouth's scurrilous claims of him cavorting with Mabel Biggs the cigarette girl.
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 (b012lm9q)
Series 8
Episode 3
Hard times for Radio Prune - are ads the answer? Plus one woman's struggle to get a phone.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Sketches written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
Originating from the Cambridge University Footlights revue 'Cambridge Circus', ISIRTA ran for 8 years on BBC Radio and quickly developed a cult following.
Music and songs by Graeme Garden, 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 (b01b3b6b)
Out of the Closet
Ramsay needs help after a close call with the local gangster.
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 John Graham, John Blythe and James Taylor.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August 1983.
WED 09:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00jj529)
Series 1
Episode 5
James Walton's pop music history quiz with Tracey MacLeod, Andrew Collins, David Hepworth and Carol Decker. From January 2005.
WED 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1w3)
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Episode 3
Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's classic novel.
George Smiley, called back from retirement, is reaching the end of his hunt to find the mole he believes is tearing the British Secret Intelligence Service apart.
George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
Control ...... John Rowe
Peter Guillam ...... Ewan Bailey
Jim Prideaux ...... Anthony Calf
Mendel ...... Kenneth Cranham
Magyar ...... Peter Majer
Ricki Tarr ...... Jamie Foreman
Toby Esterhase ...... Sam Dale
Bill Haydon ...... Michael Feast
Karla ...... Philip Fox
Polyakov ...... Stephen Greif
Steve Mackelvore ...... Piers Wehner
Mrs McCraig ...... Kate Layden
Bill Roach ...... Ryan Watson.
WED 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ypbc)
Episode 3
Wartime in Broadcasting House. American reporters arrive from France, and odd living arrangements are made. Read by Penelope Wilton.
WED 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44)
Series 1
The Fruits of the Earth
In the year 1800, parson William Holland battles with the Somerset farmers and sees the harvest in. Stars Ronald Pickup.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011kqj4)
London
Laura and her father travel to London in search of their lost annuity - and meet a man who talks like a parrot, dresses like a monkey, and smells like a civet-cat.
Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson.
Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she choose wisely between passion and virtue?
Narrated by Maureen Beattie.
Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott
Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law
Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson
Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil
Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall
Montague De Courcy ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
Wilkins ...... David Timson
Warren ...... Thomas Arnold
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
WED 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00shrwl)
Father, Is It Time?
Michael Morpurgo reveals children's working lives during the Industrial Revolution - up chimneys, in factories and down mines.
WED 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007tm4d)
Episode 8
Guy tries to reassure Merrion about their future, but all his family problems prove a big distraction. Read by Barbara Flynn.
WED 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjd)
Episode 3
Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
John Chapple keeps thousands of bees in his garden and looks after hives all over London, from the Royal Parks to housetops in Hackney. But at least twice a day, everything stops for a cup of tea and a biscuit. Ringing a bell to alert his neighbour that the kettle is on the boil, John invites Hardeep to join him and neighbour Dennis in his daily ritual.
A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1w3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b4lrr)
Mel's Taste of Paradise is the Perfect Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream. Plus she hears from the first man in space and has the next chapter of Philip Ridley's Meteorite Spoon.
WED 17:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007vgg5)
Bingo and the Little Woman
Bertie Wooster turns into a romantic novelist (again) when Bingo Little falls in love (again).
PG Wodehouse romp starring Richard Briers and Michael Hordern.
Jeeves ...... Michael Hordern
Bertie Wooster ..... Richard Briers
Lord Bittlesham ..... Ronald Fraser
Bingo Little ..... Jonathan Cecil
Adapted by Chris Miller.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1973.
WED 17:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 18:00 The Scarifyers (b019chhw)
The Secret Weapon of Doom
Episode 3
Lionheart and Bright believe they've tracked down the deadly object. But have they? Stars Nicholas Courtney and Leslie Phillips.
WED 18:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b00941pb)
The Vintage Costumed Hero Ball
Monstrous B&B landlady Brenda gets a murderous surprise at a superheroes convention. Stars Joanna Tope and John Paul Hurley.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnbl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b012lm9q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ypbc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? (b03jdw6r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Act Your Age (b0100gr6)
Series 3
Episode 3
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?
Holly Walsh is joined by Sean Walsh, Lucy Porter teams up with Hal Cruttenden and Tom O'Connor is paired with Dave Spikey.
Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.
WED 23:00 Pick Ups (b00nkxfc)
Series 2
Carpe Diem
Sitcom by Ian Kershaw, set around a Manchester taxi company.
Lind endures a dinner date in a bid to secure the future of Irwell Cars, while Mike's pick-up is on a quest for sexual and personal liberation.
Mike ...... Paul Loughran
Lind ...... Lesley Sharp
Dave ...... Phil Rowson
Alan ...... Parvez Qadir
Simon De Vere ...... James Quinn
Shelly ...... Naomi Radcliffe
Johnny ...... Peter Keeley.
WED 23:30 Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun (b007k1qh)
Belfast
Goldilocks, Robert the Bruce and body awareness.
From Queen's University, Belfast.
Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s mix of sharp sketches and situations, stand up topical gags and banter.
With Peter Baynham, Ronni Ancona and John Thomson.
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 05 DECEMBER 2013

THU 00:00 The Scarifyers (b019chhw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b00941pb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Wimsey (b007jzr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nmzm3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Know Your Place (b01b3b6b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 All the Way from Memphis (b00jj529)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07pt1w3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ypbc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx44)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 PG Wodehouse - The Inimitable Jeeves (b007vgg5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 The Leopard in Autumn (b00cbm6c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrq3)
1. Trouble for Sale
The Honourable Richard Rollison (the Toff) is offered the chance to buy a small farm in Sussex.
But when a man mysteriously disappears, the amateur sleuth soon realises something is amiss...
John Creasey's thriller starring Terence Alexander.
Dramatised in six parts by Roy Lomax
The Toff ...... Terence Alexander
Jolly ...... Robert Dorning
Gillian Selby ...... Heather Stoney
Vicar ...... Jeffrey Segal
Monty Morne ...... Terrence Hardiman
Bert ...... Frank Jarvis
Mr Brandt ...... Ed Bishop
Other parts played by the cast
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in March 1977.
THU 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8)
4. Following
Britain is in peril and Potts is in danger. Our hero follows his enemy to Paris. Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
THU 07:00 Bookcases (b00srvks)
Series 1
Bronte Country
London 1853: The orderly life of religious publishers, Spavin and Spavin, is set to transformed by an actress and her son.
Cordelia is setting her sights on one of the partners, while her son Primus fancies taking over the firm, starting with hopes of 'acquiring' Charlotte Bronte...
Series 1 of Martyn Wade's Victorian era comedy stars Michael Cochrane and Maggie Steed.
Primus …. Michael Cochrane
Cordelia …. Maggie Steed
Gerald …. David Horovitch
Edith …. Elizabeth Spriggs
The Reverend Bronte …. Geoffrey Whitehead
Charlotte …. Sarah Jane Holm
Mrs Gaskell/Emily Bronte …. Frances Jeater
Equity …. David Antrobus
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1998.
THU 07:30 The Secret World (b03jfc4f)
Series 4
Episode 1
From Al Pacino to Jenni Murray - the show that shines a light on the private world of public people is back!
MP William Hague is at a loose end so volunteers to do some cleaning for his colleagues.
Hollywood’s Al Pacino is convinced that Jools Holland is an alien sending secret messages with his music.
It can only be the strange goings on in the impression comedy with a difference.
With
Jon Culshaw
Julian Dutton
Lewis MacLeod
Jess Robinson
Debra Stephenson
Duncan Wisbey
Producer: Bill Dare
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2013.
THU 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jnqc)
Series 2
Mum's Army
When Captain Mainwaring decides to open up his Home Guard unit to women, Mrs Gray catches his eye.
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 Martyn
Mrs Fox …. Mollie Sugden
Mrs Gray …. Carmen Silvera
Edith Parish ....... Wendy Richard
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1975.
THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs)
From 15/06/1953
Fun afloat, aboard aircraft carrier HMS Indefatigable. Stars Jimmy Edwards, Dick Bentley and Joy Nichols. From June 1953.
THU 09:00 Hazelbeach (b0084hvy)
Series 1
Mother
Nick's worst fears come true, while Ronnie tries to sell heart-rate monitors to fans of Monty Python.
Caroline and David Stafford's comedy stars Jamie Forman as Ronnie Hazelbeach.
Ronnie ...... Jamie Foreman
Nick ...... Paul Bazely
Chloe ...... Tracy Wiles
James ...... John Dougall
Vince ...... Simon Treves
Andrea ...... Liza Sadovy
Producer: Marc Beeby
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2007.
THU 09:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pqn27)
Two of Our Spies Are Missing
When Bill meets the organisation's most effective but least sane assassin, it's up to Sharla and Mark to find them.
Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
Sharla ...... Nina Conti
Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
Ian ...... Paterson Joseph
Mrs Davies ...... Lucy Montgomery
Channing ...... Ewan Bailey
Tim the Tea Boy ...... Joe Thomas
Secretary ...... Tessa Nicholson
Other parts played by the cast.
Producer: Katie Tyrrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.
THU 10:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20)
The Honourable Schoolboy
Episode 1
It's 1975, and spymaster George Smiley takes charge of dealing with a betrayal. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Hugh Bonneville.
THU 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ys09)
Episode 4
Wartime in Broadcasting House. We learn of Annie, her piano tuner Dad and her spirited first day. Read by Penelope Wilton.
THU 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4d)
Series 1
Pastoral
Poor parishioners revolt and curious medical problems in the diary of Somerset parson William Holland. Stars Ronald Pickup.
THU 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jnqc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrq3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011kw71)
A New Admirer
Colonel Hargrave pursues Laura from Perthshire to London - where Laura meets a new admirer.
Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson.
Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she choose wisely between passion and virtue?
Narrated by Maureen Beattie.
Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson
Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott
Lady Harriet Montreville ...... Phyllida Law
Jeannie ...... Colette O'Neil
Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall
Montague De Courcy ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
Wilkins ...... David Timson
Warren ...... Thomas Arnold
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.
THU 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sjp2l)
I Ain't a Child
Michael Morpurgo tells the story of Victorian street children and the organisations that grew up to rescue them.
THU 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007tcj1)
Episode 9
Simon makes a stand against his mother Laura over her divorce battle with her unfaithful husband Guy. Read by Barbara Flynn.
THU 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjg)
Episode 4
Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
The sounds of the waltz, jive and rumba bring couples to their feet as they glide round the ballroom. But it is the tea break when the conversation really flows, as Hardeep finds out when he visits the Bushey Tea Dance Club.
A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b4trt)
Mel hears from the astronaut who played the flute in orbit, learns how to power a mobile phone with urine, and finds out how birds got their names.
THU 17:00 Ballylenon (b007znmy)
Series 5
Episode 4
Guard Gallagher gets new lodgings, as arguments rage over the cottage.
Series set in the sleepy town of Ballylenon, Co Donegal in 1956.
Written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Starring TP McKenna as Phonsie Doherty, Margaret D'Arcy as Muriel McConkey, Stella McCusker as Vera McConkey, Aine McCartney as Vivienne Hawthorne, Gerard Murphy as Rev Hawthorne, Marcella Riordan as Peg Sweeney, John Guiney as Father O'Flatley and Charlie Bonnar as Packy McGoldrick.
Music arranged and performed by Stephanie Hughes.
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
THU 17:30 Bookcases (b00srvks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 18:00 The Scarifyers (b019jt64)
The Secret Weapon of Doom
Episode 4
Will the Colonel open Pandora's Box? Will the writers' inventions be their downfall? Stars Nicholas Courtney, Nigel Havers and Leslie Phillips.
THU 18:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b009gctd)
Our Frank
A cliff-top drama for Whitby landlady Brenda, when her monstrous old fiance appears. Stars Joanna Tope and Monica Gibb.
THU 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jnqc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01nrmxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrq3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ys09)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 The Secret World (b03jfc4f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Elvenquest (b00w22h6)
Series 2
Episode 2
Amis' over-eating has forced him to put on weight.
This would be fine, were it not for the fact that he is the "Chosen One" and everyone knows Chosen Ones cannot be seen to be too pudgy. He is a role model after all. So the Questers take him to see the sorcerer, Dietica, where he is put on a punishing new regime - along with the rest of our noble band of heroes.
But, as ever, danger lurks round every corner in Lower Earth and it is not long until Dietica reveals his true plans for the Questers. And it involves more than just staying away from carbs.
Fantasy-based sitcom set in Lower Earth written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto.
Sam …. Stephen Mangan
Lord Darkness …. Alistair McGowan
Dietica …. Sanjeev Bhaskar
Dean/Kreech …. Kevin Eldon
Vidar …. Darren Boyd
Amis – The Chosen One …. Dave Lamb
Penthiselea …. Sophie Winkleman
Producer: Sam Michell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2010.
THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03my8zt)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats to Carl Donnelly.
THU 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group (b010twf6)
Series 2
1. 'My partner is too controlling - a fight for the TV remote'
"My partner is too controlling - a fight for the television remote"
"I'm a non drinker with no friends - should I just buy a cat?"
Sarah Millican returns as a life counsellor and modern-day agony aunt tackling the nation's problems head on, dishing out real advice for real people.
Assisted by her very own team of experts of the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self qualified counsellor Marion,
Sarah tackles the nation's problems head on and has a solution for everything.
Sarah ...... Sarah Millican
Marion ...... Ruth Bratt
Terry ...... Simon Daye
Linda ...... Diane Morgan
Matthew ...... Will Smith
Written by Sarah Millican.
Producer: Lianne Coop
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011.
THU 23:30 Rubbish (b00770g2)
Series 1
Diversity
Meet Martin Christmas, local government officer, cynic and manic-depressive.
Martin is in search for inner peace but is held back by his yearly visit to the diversity workshop, by having to come up with slogans for a rubbish bus and by pagans in the Youth and Leisure department trying to recruit him. Then to top it all he keeps seeing the image of a bloke with metal plate in his jaw.
Reece Dinsdale stars in the first of two series by Tony Bagley.
Martin ...... Reece Dinsdale
Karen ...... Oriane Messina
Roger ...... Paul Copley
Don ...... Mark Maier
Sarah ...... Nicola Walker
Bryan ...... Neil Edmond
Barney ...... James Lance
Chris ...... Jim North
Adam ...... Paul Reynolds
Producer: Claire Bartlett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2006.


FRIDAY 06 DECEMBER 2013

FRI 00:00 The Scarifyers (b019jt64)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride (b009gctd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrq3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nn7s8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Hazelbeach (b0084hvy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pqn27)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz20)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ys09)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 Ballylenon (b007znmy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Bookcases (b00srvks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrsr)
2. Dead On Arrival
Someone is very keen to acquire Selby Farm, where the owner's brother has disappeared.
Can amateur sleuth, the Toff - the Honourable Richard Rollison- find out what's really going on?
John Creasey's thriller starring Terence Alexander.
Dramatised by Roy Lomax
The Toff ...... Terence Alexander
Jolly ...... Robert Dorning
Gillian Selby ...... Heather Stoney
Monty Morne ...... Terrence Hardiman
Bert ...... Frank Jarvis
Mr Brandt ...... Ed Bishop
Other parts played by the cast
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in March 1977.
FRI 06:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nnpb3)
5. Godalming
The ex-officer heads to Godalming to protect Phyllis. And are the Duchess' pearls safe? Read by Julian Rhind-Tutt.
FRI 07:00 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd)
Series 1
Positive Thinking
Rosie's company goes New Age, promoting the Brighton leg of a lecture tour by a Californian positive-thinking guru.
Prunella Scales stars in Simon Brett's sitcom.
The trials and tribulations of Rosie Burns and her event management company.
Rosie ...... Prunella Scales
Kate ...... Arabella Weir
Jo ...... Rebecca Callard
Bob ...... Duncan Preston
Tess ...... Annette Badland
Darcy Philpotts ...... Alison Skilbeck
Lyndon Merchant ...... Kerry Shale
Producer: Maria Esposito
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2000.
FRI 07:30 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6)
Series 4
Episode 1
One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC Radio 4 doing what he does best.
There are two stories, this week: "The Happy Place", dealing with the ups and downs of a colonoscopy; and "The Shadow of Your Smile", about how the right lighting can make us all look good.
Producer: Steve Doherty
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2)
Series 2
Homes Fit for Heroes
Harold quarrels with his Dad Albert over his plan to pack him off to travel the world.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962.
The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight series on TV.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Miss Lottersby ...... Marie Makino
Matron ...... Olwen Brookes.
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 (b007jlgh)
Series 1
Jobs for the Boys
As Sir Humphrey warns on Public-Private Partnership, MP Jim Hacker learns it takes two to Quango.
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 Desmond ...... Richard Vernon
Joe Morgan ...... Richard Davies
George ...... Arthur Cox
Conway ...... Kerry Francis
Himself ...... Gordon Clough
Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in November 1983.
FRI 09:00 Girls Will Be Girls (b0081vs4)
From 02/12/1989
The Bobo girls take to the stage with music and comedy. Starring Rebecca Front and Sioned Wiliam. From December 1989.
FRI 09:30 The Change (b00p2jn5)
Series 1
When a Man Loves a Woman
Ken drops into comfort Carol, but is soon in despair over her transvestite hubby George.
Can she ever accept his new life choices?
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 (b07psz64)
The Honourable Schoolboy
Episode 2
The Americans make their presence felt, and tragedy strikes in Hong Kong. Stars Simon Russell Beale and Hugh Bonneville.
FRI 11:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ynnm)
Episode 5
Wartime in Broadcasting House. Annie's hard musical expertise wins her few friends among top brass. Read by Penelope Wilton.
FRI 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4j)
Series 2
Don't Look Down Your Nose at Me, Sir
Unruly parishioners, lazy farmers and a bucolic manservant - the life of Somerset parson William Holland. Stars Ronald Pickup.
FRI 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Yes Minister (b007jlgh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrsr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nnpb3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Mary Brunton - Self Control (b011lcx2)
Desperation
Laura's father is ill, their money is running out and Colonel Hargrave is growing desperate.
Published in 1811, Mary Brunton’s romantic tale set in Perthshire and London - dramatised in ten parts by Gerda Stevenson.
Laura Montreville is loved by two men - a reckless libertine and a dignified but reserved landowner. In a world where polite society and sexual hypocrisy rub shoulders easily, can she choose wisely between passion and virtue?
Narrated by Maureen Beattie.
Laura ...... Gerda Stevenson
Hargrave ...... Andrew Wincott
Mrs Stubbs ...... Phyllida Law
Beggar ...... Colette O'Neil
Montreville ...... Bernard Horsfall
Montague De Courcy ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
FRI 14:15 The Invention of Childhood (b00sjw36)
The Habit of Schooling
Michael Morpurgo discovers the reaction to the 1870 Forster Education Act, marking the start of compulsory education for all.
FRI 14:30 Joanna Trollope - Marrying the Mistress (b007tcbf)
Episode 10
As Guy and Merrion make decisions, the Stockdale family must come to terms with all the changes. Read by Barbara Flynn.
FRI 14:45 Tea and Biscuits (b00m5qjj)
Episode 5
Hardeep Singh Kohli joins people as they meet and indulge in that very British ritual, a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Specialist palliative care is offered at the Peace Hospice, and on the social side that includes the chance to chat over a cup of tea and a biscuit. Hardeep joins the patients, staff and volunteers.
A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 15:00 The Complete Smiley (b07psz64)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b03b55jx)
Mel finds out what it's like on a real volcanic island, hears from one of the last astronauts to walk on the moon, and has the final chapter in Philip Ridley's Meteorite Spoon.
FRI 17:00 Capital Gains (b007qgnq)
Series 1
Risk Capital
Amateur philosopher, Julius Hutch is looking forward to spending his retirement just "pottering".
But one morning, he wakes early to find that his life is changed forever...
Peter Jones stars as Julius Hutch.
First of two series written by Collin Johnson.
Julius Hutch ...... Peter Jones
Mrs Pauline Tone ...... Celestine Randall
Kate ...... Justine Midda
Sexton Lewis ...... Jeffrey Wickham
News Reader ...... Collin Johnson
Producer: Andy Jordan.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995.
FRI 17:30 Smelling of Roses (b007jrhd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 Arthur C Clarke Stories (b008h44x)
The Parasite
A man starts having terrifying dreams in which he's plagued by a monstrous creature.
Yet - although hideously repellent - the parasite seems strangely familiar to him...
First published in 1953, Arthur C Clarke's tale is read by Nicholas Boulton.
Arthur C Clarke, along with Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov, are known as Science-Fiction's "Big Three". Their work was key to the 1950s and 60s being recognised as the genre's Golden Age.
Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2007.
FRI 18:30 JG Ballard - The Recognition (b007jqxc)
What is the story behind the bizarre circus that rolls into town one Midsummer's eve? Fantastical tale read by Michael Maloney.
FRI 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jld2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Yes Minister (b007jlgh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 John Creasey - The Toff on the Farm (b007jrsr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Bulldog Drummond by Sapper (b00nnpb3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Penelope Fitzgerald - Human Voices (b007ynnm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers (b007jx4j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Meet David Sedaris (b03jysr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 The Consultants (b007k2w7)
Series 3
Episode 6
Unisex barbers and wrong telephone numbers. Cerebral sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From January 2005.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b03myb3q)
For two hours, six nights a week, the Comedy Club offers the best laughs around. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Ed Byrne.
FRI 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007jpdn)
Series 2
G.U.T.
For centuries, scientists have tried in vain to work out the grand unifying theory behind the universe.
Satan sits the Professor down and teaches it to him...
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 May 1998.
FRI 23:30 The Mary Whitehouse Experience (b007jmp2)
From 24/02/1990
Manchester's 1996 Olympic bid is mocked. Sketches, stand-up and general ranting from David Baddiel, Rob Newman, Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and others. From February 1990.