SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2014

SAT 00:00 Ghost Stories of Walter De La Mare (b00wwd8m)
The Almond Tree
A man looks back on the complex relationship between his parents and a female friend of his father's. It's one that will influence the rest of his life...
Read by Julian Wadham.
Walter de la Mare (1873-1956) was a popular award-wining poet, short story writer and novelist. He wrote for both children and adults.
Abridged by Doreen Estall.
Producer: Lawrence Jackson
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in December 2010.
SAT 00:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrgw)
The World in Peril
Episode 6
Captain Jet and Lemmy are not the only ones to heed the mysterious voice.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955.
SAT 01:00 Falco (b01bn1yg)
Poseidon's Gold
Episode 5
The Roman detective hopes maritime matters can clear him, but Geminus brings bad news. Stars Anton Lesser and Trevor Peacock.
SAT 01:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mrhdk)
Episode 5
News from Poona makes Dawkins think his wife was mad, but the detective isn't so sure. Sam Dastor reads HRF Keating's mystery.
SAT 01:30 Paul Temple (b007jqt1)
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
Too Young to Die
When Paul and Steve are asked to investigate a case of blackmail and murder, they soon discover violence has been brought right to their own doorstep...
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With John Baddeley as Charlie, Wilfrid Carter as Inspector Lloyd, Patrick Barr as Maurice Lonsdale, Isabel Dean as Margaret Milbourne, Isabel Rennie as Dolly Brazer, Frederick Treves as Stone, Pat Connell as Lucas, Alan Haines as Den Roberts, James Thomason as the Doctor, Malcolm Terris as the Police Conctable and Bruce Beeby as the Taxi Driver.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with tricky cases.
Producer: Martin C. Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
SAT 02:00 Millport (b0076bfv)
Series 3
Wild Rover
The Cumbrae Club is up and running and the islanders are already arguing over how it should be run.
Meanwhile back at Bruce House, Moira is in hysterics over her missing pet pooch. But will Irene risk missing the ferry and losing her job to help her unhappy sister?
Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a better life on the mainland.
Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Dr Hume/Ferryman/Robert the Dog /Morris ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Minister/Bob ...... Robert Patterson
Dougie ...... Kenneth Bryans
Producer: Lucy Bacon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002.
SAT 02:30 Trevor's World of Sport (b007k43j)
Series 1
Episode 6
A charity quiz night gives Trev the chance to boost office morale, or possibly destroy it. Stars Neil Pearson. From September 2004.
SAT 03:00 Robert Graves - I, Claudius (b01jt2sf)
Claudius
How the Sibyl's prophecy came true, for the most unwilling Emperor of them all.
Robert Graves' scandalous histories of Roman political vice dramatised in six-parts by Robin Brooks.
Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill
Caligula ..... Samuel Barnett
Herod Agrippa ..... Zubin Varla
Messalina ..... Jessica Raine
Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock
Cassius Chaerea ..... Jude Akuwudike
Gratus ..... Sam Dale
Cornelius ..... Iain Batchelor
Bassus ..... Lloyd Thomas
Asiaticus ..... Sean Baker
Lupus ..... Henry Devas
Sentius ..... Tony Bell
The Executioner ..... Adeel Akhtar
Specially composed music by David Pickvance.
Director: Jonquil Panting.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
SAT 04:00 Elizabeth Jane Howard Short Stories (b01ps9w4)
Child's Play
Kate is not appreciated by her husband or daughter, but receives affection from an unusual source. Read by Matilda Ziegler.
SAT 04:15 Charlotte Jones - Airswimming (b0075ck2)
Persephone is just planning for her coming out ball, when she finds herself consigned to a rather puzzling finishing school: St Dymphna's Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
An uplifting comedy of friendship; fantasy and freedom by Charlotte Jones.
Stars Charlotte Jones as Dora, Sophie Thompson as Persephone, Marcia Warren as Porph, Elizabeth Bradley as Dorph and Geoffrey Whitehead as the Dastardly Man.
Director: Jonquil Panting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
SAT 05:00 Instant Sunshine (b00lh3hd)
From 29/08/1988
Humorous songs performed by the comedy musical cabaret group, Instant Sunshine:
Featuring David Barlow, Peter Christie, Miles Kington and Alan Maryon-Davis
Producer: David Rayvern Allen
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988.
SAT 05:30 Chambers (b007jp9b)
Series 2
A Case With a View
When barrister John Fuller-Carp's ambitions take a downward turn, he takes some extreme action. Stars John Bird. From June 1998.
SAT 06:00 Alan Ayckbourn - Relatively Speaking (b040h4vn)
Ginny and Greg are a young couple who want to marry, but she's got 'a past' that she wants to discard. Her attempts to do so spark a series of superbly funny mistaken identities.
Alan Ayckbourn's comic masterpiece of misunderstanding opened at London's Duke of York's Theatre in 1967 and helped to establish him as one of the UK's leading comic dramatists.
Starring Rosemary Leach as Sheila, Michael Aldridge as Philip, Nigel Lambert as Greg and Joanna Wake as Ginny.
Producer: Kay Patrick
First broadcast as one of BBC Radio 4's West End Winners series of plays in 1975.
SAT 07:30 Fowles in Dorset (b00x7frz)
Chris Ledgard explores a series of previously unheard recordings of the novelist John Fowles at work during his time as the curator of Lyme Regis Museum.
The recordings, made in 1978 with some of the oldest residents of Lyme Regis, provide a fascinating record of Dorset life in the early 20th century, including fishermen recalling the sinking of HMS Formidable off Lyme in 1915.
Former colleagues talk about working with Folwes and give an insight into how his reputation amongst those who knew him well in Lyme compared to his public persona.
SAT 08:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01j8733)
Series 7
Episode 32
From Illinois, the American funny man welcomes soprano Kiri Deonarine and author Jack Zimmerman. From 2011. Last in the series.
SAT 09:00 2's Comedy (b00808ql)
Radio 2 - 40 Years of Laughter, with Ken Bruce
Ken Bruce toasts Radio 2's 40th birthday with the News Huddlines, Hinge and Bracket, The Grumbleweeds, An Actor's Life for Me and the winner of the 2's Comedy webvote of 2007.
SAT 12:00 The Cazalets - Omnibus (b040h5ry)
All Change
Episode 1
Made for 4 Extra. It is 1956, and the Cazalet family face emotional and financial upheaval as the old order is threatened. Narrated by Penelope Wilton.
SAT 13:15 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jpj1)
Series 2
Old Dog
Richard Mills - a vulnerable old man - is attacked and burgled. He seems lonely so Detective Inspector Gwen Danbury decides to introduce him to her mother, Joan...
Sue Rodwell's three-part detective mystery stars Annette Badland as DI Gwen Danbury, Stephanie Cole as Joan Danbury, Ian Hogg as Richard Mills, Richard Frame as Darren Peters and John Duttine as Detective Sergeant Henry Jacobs
Director: Rosemary Watts
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
SAT 14:00 Albert and Me (b007jv04)
Series 1
Pilot Episode
Single dad Bryan Archer struggles to work as well as bringing up his baby son, Albert.
Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Frank Thornton as Vernon Wordsworth.
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1977.
SAT 14:30 The Navy Lark (b007jmzt)
Series 13
The TV Documentary
Confusion abounds when HMS Troutbridge gets a telly makeover as a German wartime frigate

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Commanding Officer, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Mrs Povey, Michael Bates as the Rear Admiral and Tenniel Evans as the Admiral.

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 and George Evans.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1972.
SAT 15:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01j8733)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Alan Ayckbourn - Relatively Speaking (b040h4vn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b03zxw0q)
Series 1
Episode 1
Tim recreates Sir John Throckmorton's 1811 attempt to have a coat made from scratch - going from the sheep's back to his own back in a single day.
Award-winning comedian-author-adventurer Tim FitzHigham recreates a series of bizarre bets from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham.
Additional material by Jon Hunter & Paul Byrne, and literal material from the Derbyshire Guild of Spinners, Weavers and Dyers.
Producer: Colin Anderson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
SAT 18:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm2k)
The Primary Phase
Fit The Sixth
Arthur and company escape from a war, but exactly when have they escaped to? By Douglas Adams. From April 1978.
Arthur Dent is one of only two survivors from Earth, demolished to make way for a by-pass. He survived thanks to his friend, Ford Prefect (who hails not from Guildford, but somewhere near Betelgeuse), a writer for the Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, "the most successful book ever to have come out of the great publishing corporations of Ursa Minor". They've managed to escape from Restaurant at the End of Universe on the Black Ship only to find themselves where they never thought they'd be, only 2 million years earlier. What on earth are they going to do when face to face with 'how, why and where phases' of galactic development?
The global multi-media success story that is "Hitchhiker's" started life as a Radio 4 series in March 1978. The original scripts by the late Douglas Adams then went on to spawn a series of novels, a feature film, at least three stage shows, a TV series, a computer game, a collection of comic books - and various towels.
The Guide helpfully informs us that the most obscene expletive in the Galaxy is "Belgium".
Douglas Adams was born in Cambridge and died in 2001 aged 49, after a fatal heart attack in his gym in California.
The answer to the meaning of life, the universe and everything is 42.
With Peter Jones, Simon Jones, Geoffrey McGivern and Jo Kendall. Produced by the late Geoffrey Perkins.
SAT 18:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn9t)
Series 2
The Horn
Three strangers are trapped in a snowstorm on a remote stretch of motorway.
They find themselves listening for the sound of a horn which they believe will lead them to safety.
They are very much mistaken...
The Man in Black sets the chilling scene...
Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers.
Written by Stephen Gallagher
The Man In Black …. Edward de Souza
Nathan …. John Castle
Mick …. Philip Sully
David …. Peter Gunn
The Snowplough Driver …. Christopher Scott
The Girl (spectral voice) …. Cara Kelly
Director: Martin Jenkins
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1989.
SAT 19:00 2's Comedy (b00808ql)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Saturday Night Fry (b00936hz)
Episode 5
Stephen Fry shares some fishy thoughts as he serves up more witty banter and sketches.
With Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson and her mother Phyllida Law.
Written by Stephen Fry with additional material by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.
Producer: Dan Patterson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988.
SAT 22:30 Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (b00s8lgd)
The Hatching
The surreal saga of a dynasty delicately balanced on the edge of sanity.
Written by and starring Viv Stanshall.
Contains an edit of an original John Peel session as first heard on BBC Radio 1.
Music composed and performed by Viv Stanshall using additional musicians.
Producer: John Walters
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1996.
SAT 22:45 Tina C (b00771b9)
State of the Union Tour
Eastern Europe
Can the country singing sensation get a better understanding of Baltic Europe? Stars Christopher Green. From November 2006.
SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0425xcw)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith talks to Christian O'Connell.
SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Solution (b007js6t)
Series 2
Housing
Another deceptively subversive proposal as Mark Steel calls for people to be re-housed at random.
Alternative solutions written and performed by Mark Steel and Pete Sinclair.
With Kim Wall and Maria McErlane.
Producer Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994.
SAT 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance (b007jspx)
Series 1
The Mastersons and Johnson
The French Revolution is in full swing and the fate of the Masterson family is inextricably linked with that of a tumble dryer.
An improvised historical saga of a family at war with itself - based entirely on audience suggestions.
Starring Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Caroline Quentin, Jim Sweeney and Phelim McDermott.
Producer: Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1993.


SUNDAY 13 APRIL 2014

SUN 00:00 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (b007jm2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 00:30 Fear on 4 (b007jn9t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show (b01j8733)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:00 The Cazalets - Omnibus (b040h5ry)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday]
SUN 03:15 DI Gwen Danbury - An Odd Body (b007jpj1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Alan Ayckbourn - Relatively Speaking (b040h4vn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b03zxw0q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Jane Gardam - The Man in the Wooden Hat Omnibus (b040hqdt)
Made for 4 Extra. Dramatisation of award-winning author Jane Gardam's novel. Marriage and secrets begin in 1950s Hong Kong. Stars Michael York.
SUN 07:15 A Box of Wittgensteins (b00g9dgp)
The Survivors
The great-niece of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, Margaret Stonborough, talks to the artist and historian Michael Huey as she delves into six boxes of newly-inherited family archives and investigates the lives of her talented, but tortured, forbears.
Margaret and her brother, Jerome Stonborough, discover documents which stir childhood memories of their talented, stylish but difficult family.
SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b00qgxxb)
Series 6
A Bottle of Ulterio Motivo
ED REARDON'S WEEK
Episode 5 : A Bottle of Ulterio Motivo
Ed finds himself in the money when he sells most of his possessions to a themed wine bar owned by the lovely Violet Carson.
With Christopher Douglas as Ed Reardon and
Stephanie Cole as Olive
Simon Greenall as Ray
Geoff McGivern as Cliff
Philip Jackson as Jaz
Rita May as Pearl
Barunka O'Shaughnessey as Ping
And Geoffrey Whitehead as Stan
With Dan Tetsell and Emma Fryer.
Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds
Producer: Dawn Ellis.
SUN 08:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
From 19/08/1958
Kenneth Horne flicks through his diary - and 'Hornerama' probes Love and Marriage.
Starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Ron Moody.
Written by Eric Merriman and Barry Took
Music from Pat Lancaster, the Malcolm Mitchell Trio and the BBC Review Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet.
Announcer: Douglas Smith
A madcap mix of sketches and songs, Beyond Our Ken hit the airwaves in 1958 and ran to 1964 - featuring regulars like Arthur Fallowfield, Cecil Snaith and Rodney and Charles.
The precursor to 'Round The Horne' - sadly only 13 shows survive from the original run of 21 episodes in Series 1. Audio restored using both home and overseas (BBC Transcription Service) recordings.
Producer: Jacques Brown
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1958.
SUN 08:30 To the Manor Born (b007lzww)
A Wife's Prerogative
Audrey makes the most of helping Devere - by pretending she's his wife.
Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton.
Keith Barron ..... Richard DeVere
Angela Thorne ..... Marjory Frobisher
Nicholas McArdle ..... Brabinger
Margery Withers ..... Mrs Polouvicka
Frank Middlemass ..... Ned
Mademoiselle Dutoit ..... Rula Lenska
The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descent.
First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997.
SUN 09:00 Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers (b00sfbgj)
The Mark of Satan
D'Artagnan gets involved with both Milady and her maid. But this is a dangerous game. Stars Jamie Glover, Robert Glenister and Anton Lesser.
SUN 09:30 Charles Dickens (b007tcgx)
Oliver Twist
Dark Secrets
As the orphan recovers from his injuries, a dying woman reveals the truth about his past. Dickens dramatisation with Pam Ferris and John Grillo.
SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b040hr5x)
Psychologists
Steven Pinker
4 Extra Debut. From Clapton to Cohen, cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker shares his castaway choices with Kirsty Young. From June 2013.
SUN 10:45 Dawn Lowe-Watson - Jasonland (b040hr5z)
Three school friends imagine their perfect fantasy worlds, but what will their adult lives bring them? Read by Robert Glenister.
SUN 11:00 Spoon, Jar, Jar, Spoon - The Two Sides of Tommy Cooper (b00jm66h)
Rob Brydon explores two sides to comedian Tommy Cooper - his humour and his love of magic. On stage, Cooper assumed a manic and bumbling persona, but behind this was a man with a genuine talent for magic, as revealed by contributions from magicans Paul Daniels, Alan Alan and Ali Bongo.
SUN 11:30 The Chaplin Archive (b00yqhrh)
Episode 1
An exclusive look into Charlie Chaplin's life through his personal archives. Some of this material has never been revealed before so it's a wonderful opportunity for the Radio 4 audience.
In 1952 America turned it's back on Charlie Chaplin. His had been the classic American story: from rags to riches and from street boy to millionaire. But, in the McCarthy era, Chaplin wasn't regarded as patriotic enough for some and he decided to leave. He chose exile in Vevey, Switzerland where he lived on the shores of Lake Geneva, seeking sanctuary from the hostile atmosphere of Hollywood. Vevey was where he brought up his children and found peace but always waiting for the America's authorities to realise the mistake they had made. He died on Christmas Day in 1977 and is buried on the slopes above the lake. However his archival remains are there too - letters, photos, scripts, recordings, scrap-books - the written legacy of one of the iconic figures of the 20th century.
Writer, broadcaster and film buff Matthew Sweet travels to Vevey in Switzerland where he meets Chaplin's son, Michael, to explore the house and get unprecedented access to some of the amazing revelations of the archive. We hear recordings of Chaplin composing and Michael Chaplin shows Matthew a document, found in a locked drawer after his death, which could lead experts to revise one of the most basic assumptions made about his famous father.
Helping to guide us and explain the significance of these discoveries through Chaplin's music, his Victorian Poverty and his women are Timothy Brock, composer, conductor and restorer of Chaplin's music, Dinah Birch, historian and Neil Brand, a respected authority on Chaplin.
SUN 12:00 Jane Gardam - The Man in the Wooden Hat Omnibus (b040hqdt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 13:15 A Box of Wittgensteins (b00g9dgp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 13:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Years Between (b00qm3c3)
In the early 1940s, Diana Wentworth's MP husband, Michael, is reported missing - presumed killed in action.
Once over the shock, she builds a new life - taking over Michael's seat in parliament, and falling in love with a much more suitable man.
But on the eve of their wedding, a phone call brings Diana shattering news....
Daphne du Maurier's 1945 stage play dramatised for radio by Jill Hyem.
Stars Diana Quick as Diana Wentworth, Roger Allam as Michael Wentworth, David Collings as Richard Llewelyn, Peter England as Robin Wentworth, Frederick Treves as Sir Ernest Foster and Derek Waring as the Vicar.
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995.
SUN 15:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 15:30 To the Manor Born (b007lzww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show (b040hrmd)
Mel Giedroyc presents her highlights of the 4 O'Clock Show week, including why older sisters are bossy, how to make sausages, and the joys of stationery.
SUN 17:00 Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers (b00sfbgj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 17:30 Charles Dickens (b007tcgx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Doctor Who (b0116kls)
Cobwebs
Episode 4
With the base facing destruction, the Time Lord and his companions battle to secure the anti-virus. Fifth Doctor adventure stars Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton.
SUN 18:30 Bradbury 13 (b01294pm)
There Was an Old Woman
Five men with a wicker basket arrive at Tildy's house, but not to do her shopping. Ray Bradbury's comic-horror tale stars Ruth Hale.
SUN 19:00 Spoon, Jar, Jar, Spoon - The Two Sides of Tommy Cooper (b00jm66h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 19:30 The Chaplin Archive (b00yqhrh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today]
SUN 20:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 20:30 To the Manor Born (b007lzww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b040hr5x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 21:45 Dawn Lowe-Watson - Jasonland (b040hr5z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]
SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b00qgxxb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries (b01g6l4z)
March and April
A second chance to hear satirist Craig Brown dip into the private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the present day.
March and April: Gyles Brandreth celebrates his birthday through the years, and Sharon Osbourne auditions some handsome young singers.
Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells.
Written by Craig Brown.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2010.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0425zy7)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith rounds off his weekend with Christian O'Connell.
SUN 23:00 Newsjack (b0401k7n)
Series 10
Episode 6
Made for 4 Extra. The week's stories cobbled together in a scrapbook sketch show. Presented by Romesh Ranganathan, with Lewis MacLeod, Pippa Evans and Alice Levine.
SUN 23:30 Ivor Cutler - Cutler the Lax (b040hrx4)
Episode 3
Legendary Scottish surrealist Ivor Cutler samples the archives and enjoys some Marabut music and a jolly Japanese ditty
With Fiona MacDonald.
Producer: Mark Savage
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1991.
SUN 23:45 World of Pub (b008pb2m)
Series 1
Episode 3
Dodgy Phil builds the world's biggest pub named after the Titanic, but is it undrinkable? Stars John Thomson. From March 1998.


MONDAY 14 APRIL 2014

MON 00:00 Doctor Who (b0116kls)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Bradbury 13 (b01294pm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b040hr5x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:45 Dawn Lowe-Watson - Jasonland (b040hr5z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]
MON 02:00 Spoon, Jar, Jar, Spoon - The Two Sides of Tommy Cooper (b00jm66h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 The Chaplin Archive (b00yqhrh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:00 Beyond Our Ken (b00tn8kq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Daphne du Maurier - The Years Between (b00qm3c3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Alexandre Dumas - The Three Musketeers (b00sfbgj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Charles Dickens (b007tcgx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Falco (b01bwbr7)
Poseidon's Gold
Episode 6
Battling a murder charge, the Roman detective visits a drunken fresco artist who knew his dead brother. Stars Anton Lesser and Trevor Peacock.
MON 06:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mtr87)
Episode 6
Why did Dawkins' servant threaten the little garden boy if he spoke to the detective? Sam Dastor reads HRF Keating's mystery.
MON 06:30 Paul Temple (b007jqtj)
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
Concerning Mrs Milbourne
Paul Temple probes the mysterious circumstances surrounding the apparent death of Mrs Milbourne’s husband Carl in a car crash in Switzerland. But it's a case he may soon regret taking on...
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With John Baddeley as Charlie, Wilfrid Carter as Inspector Lloyd, Patrick Barr as Maurice Lonsdale, Isabel Dean as Margaret Milbourne, Isabel Rennie as Dolly Brazer, Anthony Hall as Green, Nigel Graham as Danny Clayton, James Thomason as the Doctor, Simon Lack as Vince Langham, Hamlyn Benson as Inspector Jenkins, Fraser Kerr as Mr Gadd and Barbara Barnett as Mrs Langham.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with tricky cases.
Producer: Martin C. Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
MON 07:00 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (b007jqnr)
Game, Set and Match to Jeeves
Bertie Wooster's in a mess - can his valet Jeeves save his bacon?
PG Wodehouse romp adapted in six parts by Richard Usborne.
Starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves, Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster, Paul Eddington as Lord Sidcup, John Le Mesurier as Sir Watkyn Bassett, Denise Coffey as Stiffy Bing, Ronald Fraser as Major Plank Aimi MacDonald as Madeline Bassett, Douglas Blackwell as the Reverend Harold Pinker and Graham Faulkner as the Constable.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980.
MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth (b03zy1cd)
Series 13
Episode 1
David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.
Alex Horne, Lucy Beaumont, John Finnemore and Jack Dee are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as birds, witches, pubs and shoes.
The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Producer: Jon Naismith
A Random production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 08:00 Listen to Les (b00ttpnd)
From 28/12/1980
Les Dawson presents mafia mayhem, randy Cosmo Smallpiece plus another piano sing-along.
With Daphne Oxenford and Colin Edwynn.
Music by Brian Fitzgerald.
Scripted and produced by James Casey.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1980.
MON 08:30 The Navy Lark (b007jn5l)
Series 13
Number One's Married Quarters
As Commander Murray adapts to wedded life, a newly installed navigation aid sparks problems for Phillips.

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Commanding Officer, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Mrs Povey, Michael Bates as AS Ginger and Tenniel Evans as the LS Goldstein.

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 and George Evans.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1972.
MON 09:00 Chain Reaction (b00mwrhk)
Series 5
Alastair Campbell interviews Alistair McGowan
Former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell chats to impressionist, comedian and actor Alistair McGowan.
Chain Reaction is the tag talk show, where the guest becomes the interviewer in the next episode.
Producer: Sam Bryant
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.
MON 09:30 Dead Ringers (b00899df)
Series 2
Episode 6
More celebrity soundalikes, as Tony Blair suffers a leak and Ross Kemp gets a shock new role. Stars Jan Ravens. From July 2000.
MON 10:00 Robert Graves - I, Claudius (b01jyq9f)
Messalina
The ageing Emperor Claudius works to restore the Republic. But his beautiful young wife Messalina has other plans.
The conclusion of Robert Graves' scandalous histories of Roman political vice dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill
Messalina ..... Jessica Raine
Narcissus ..... Robin Soans
Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock
Burrhus ..... Jude Akuwudike
Britannicus ..... Ryan Watson
Euodus ..... Adeel Akhtar
Asiaticus ..... Sean Baker
Frontinus ..... Tony Bell
Tacitus ..... Sam Dale
Callistus ..... Henry Devas
Agrippinilla ..... Claire Harry
Soldier ..... Iain Batchelor
Specially composed music by David Pickvance.
Director: Jonquil Panting.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8cph)
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Free Radicals
Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro.
A newly widowed woman, who is herself dying, is alone in the home she and her husband made their own after she had played the role of 'home wrecker' and replaced his first wife. But it is the first wife that she must look to when a stranger threatens at her own kitchen table.
Read by Barbara Barnes.
Abridged by Sally Marmion.
MON 11:15 Loose Ends (b040h1d1)
Rufus Hound, Cathy Tyson, Andrea Calderwood, Paul Mayhew-Archer, Nikki Bedi, Walk, Lyla Foy
Prepare to be transported to the French Riviera, where the decadent world of sophisticated conman Lawrence Jameson is set to come crashing down with the arrival of larger-than-life Freddy Benson - a conman of an entirely different order. Clive talks to actor and comedian Rufus Hound about starring in the West End musical 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels'.
Clive talks to film producer Andrea Calderwood, whose film credits include 'The Last King of Scotland' and 'An Ideal Husband'. Her new film 'Half of a Yellow Sun' is an epic love-story weaving together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war in newly independent 1960s Nigeria.
Nikki Bedi has a trim with 'Band of Gold' star Cathy Tyson, who shot to fame starring alongside Bob Hoskins in 'Mona Lisa'. Cathy returns to the stage in bitter sweet black hair salon drama 'Snakes and Ladders'; the story of three mixed race sisters and their relationship with their hair.
Christmas TV audiences have got a treat in store this year when Roald Dahl's 'Esio Trot', starring Dustin Hoffman and Judi Dench premieres on BBC One. Clive talks to one of the screenplay writers, Paul Mayhew-Archer about his work, and in Parkinson's Awareness week, about the disease he's recently been coming to terms with.
With Music from Walk, who perform Please from their self titled EP. And more music from Lyla Foy, who performs 'Impossible' from her album 'Mirrors the Sky.'
Producer: Sukey Firth.
MON 12:00 Listen to Les (b00ttpnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 The Navy Lark (b007jn5l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Falco (b01bwbr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mtr87)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
MON 13:30 Paul Temple (b007jqtj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00d43cv)
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Episode 1
Doris Lessing's 20th-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.
In the summer of 1957, writer Anna Wulf is welcoming home her friend Molly, just returned from a year's travelling. The two friends have a lot to catch up on.
Anna ...... Susannah Harker
Molly ...... Fenella Woolgar
Richard ...... Ron Cook
Tommy ...... Adam Paulden
Saul ...... Peter Brooke
Directed by Polly Thomas.
MON 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007r02y)
Croppies Lie Down; Rouse Hibernians from Your Slumbers
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
MON 14:30 Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing (b007jnq2)
A Murder
In 1940s Rhodesia, Mary Turner, the wife of a failed white farmer, is trapped by increasing poverty and tragedy. Read by Janet Suzman.
MON 14:45 Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen (b00mttts)
Episode 1
The story of Mariette Helene Delangle, model and dancer turned Grand Prix racing driver. Read by Harriet Walter.
MON 15:00 Robert Graves - I, Claudius (b01jyq9f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b040lzyr)
Mel Giedroyc introduces a new (and true) story about an Ethiopian slave who became one of Russia's greatest military leaders. Plus a trip to Ethiopia, and drum machines.
MON 17:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Black Bag (b008fld5)
Series 1
The Catch
Doctor Cameron gets two arch enemies to look after each other, while Doctor Finlay moons over Nurse Angus.
Ready with his black bag, Dr Finlay sets out to remedy all manner of ailments suffered by his patients in the Scottish Highland town of Levenford.
AJ Cronin's stories about Scotland's most celebrated doctor dramatised by Sue Rodwell.
Stars John Gordon Sinclair as Dr Finlay, Brian Pettifer as Dr Cameron, Celia Imrie as Janet, Stella Gonet as Nurse Angus, Phyllis Logan as the Widow Robb and David Ashton as Tam.
Produced and directed at BBC Bristol by Jeremy Howe and Viv Beeby.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002.
MON 17:30 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (b007jqnr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 18:00 Planet B (b00p4mck)
Series 2
The Tender Trap
Kip is looking for love on the dating site, The Spark. But he gets more than he bargained for when a mysterious woman explodes into his world. Series 2 opens with a bang as we log back on to the virtual world where you can be whoever you want to be.
Lioba …. Tessa Nicholson
Kip …. Joseph Cohen-Cole
Noush …. Emerald O'Hanrahan
Cerberus …. Chris Pavlo
Loris21 …. Melissa Advani
Voice of Planet B …. Adjoa Andoh
Other Parts …. Rhys Jennings, Piers Wehner and John Biggins
Written by Matthew Broughton.
Director: James Robinson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
MON 18:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrkp)
The World in Peril
Episode 7
Frank Rodger's messages continue to arrive, but whereabouts on Mars is he?
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1955.
MON 19:00 Listen to Les (b00ttpnd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 The Navy Lark (b007jn5l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Falco (b01bwbr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mtr87)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
MON 20:30 Paul Temple (b007jqtj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8cph)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Loose Ends (b040h1d1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b03zy1cd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Chain Reaction (b00mwrhk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b040m05y)
Series 10
Episode 9
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Susan Calman, with regular Jeremy Hardy and guest panellists Andrew Maxwell, Tom Wrigglesworth and Holly Walsh.
MON 23:45 Creme de la Crime (b007jr3j)
Series 1
The Cheese Killer
Michael Feydeau and David Pershore review the murderous case of Charles Sparrow. Stars Punt and Dennis. From September 2001.


TUESDAY 15 APRIL 2014

TUE 00:00 Planet B (b00p4mck)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrkp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Falco (b01bwbr7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mtr87)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Paul Temple (b007jqtj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Chain Reaction (b00mwrhk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Dead Ringers (b00899df)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Robert Graves - I, Claudius (b01jyq9f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8cph)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:15 Loose Ends (b040h1d1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Doctor Finlay: The Further Adventures of a Black Bag (b008fld5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 PG Wodehouse - Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (b007jqnr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Falco (b01bwgjb)
Poseidon's Gold
Episode 7
The Roman detective visits his father's creditors, and starts to doubt Varga's veracity. Stars Anton Lesser and Trevor Peacock.
TUE 06:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mv1sj)
Episode 7
Dawkins' servant's splendid turban - that's the problem. The detective is on track again. Sam Dastor reads HRF Keating's mystery.
TUE 06:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvg)
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
A Note for Danny
Danny Clayton is after reward money – but the suave sleuth discovers his story and Mrs Milbourne's stories don't tally...
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With John Baddeley as Charlie, Patrick Barr as Maurice Lonsdale, Isabel Dean as Margaret Milbourne, Nigel Graham as Danny Clayton, Frederick Treves as the Officer, Rex Graham as Norman Wallace, Peter Marinker as the Taxi Driver, Madi Hedd and Mrs Rhodes, LeRoy Lingwood as the Steward, Garard Green as Gustav and Simon Lack as Vince Langham.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with tricky cases.
Producer: Martin C. Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
TUE 07:00 Snap (b00tzw0w)
Series 2
Episode 5
Doug is dating Kaz's PE teacher but just when the relationship gets a bit more intimate he begins to feel uncomfortable.
Grannie Annie and Ernie are hunky dory so that just leaves Kaz on her own. If Kaz is cool with that why isn't anyone else happy?
Paul Mendelson’s sitcom stars Rebecca Lacey as Molly, Paul Venables as Doug, Soumaya Keynes as Kaz, Jessie Sullivan as Ryan, Marlene Sidaway as Annie, Samantha Spiro as Dawn and Jonathan Tafler as Raymond.
Producer: David Ian Neville
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2004.
TUE 07:30 Down the Line (b0100241)
Series 4
Episode 4
The return of the ground-breaking, Radio 4 show, hosted by the legendary Gary Bellamy; brought to you by the creators of The Fast Show.
Down The Line stars Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy, with Amelia Bullmore, Simon Day, Felix Dexter, Charlie Higson, Lucy Montgomery, and Paul Whitehouse.
Special guests are Rosie Cavaliero, Robert Popper, Adil Ray and Louis Vause.
Producers: Charlie Higson and Paul Whitehouse
A Down The Line production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf)
Series 7
The Spectre of Tintagel
Neddie Seagoon reveals his Arthurian roots and goes in search of treasure in deepest Cornwall.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1956.
TUE 08:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0084hzr)
Series 2
Episode 5
Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel tries to bamboozle a millionaire.
Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were rediscovered in 1988.
Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel ...... Michael Roberts
Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravellias ...... Frank Lazarus
With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello.
Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark Brisenden.
Music arranged and conducted by David Firman.
Producer: Dirk Maggs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991.
TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b040m05y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 Creme de la Crime (b007jr3j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection (b00772ff)
Episode 1
Katerina Maslova is a young prostitute on trial for the murder of one of her clients.
Serving on the jury, Prince Dmitri recognises the young woman as the girl he seduced many years before. Believing himself partly responsible for her predicament, he embarks upon a complex legal attempt to reverse the sentence passed upon her.
Leo Tolstoy's last major work dramatised in two parts by Robert Forrest.
Katerina Maslova ...... Katherine Igoe
Dmitri Nikhloydov ...... Richard Dillane
Lydia Menshova ...... Vivienne Dixon
Vera Bogovskaya ...... Joanna Tope
Princess Marya ...... Lesley Hart
Anatoly Krylstov/Rizin ...... Joe Arkley
Gudz/Makar Dyerkin ...... John Buick
Director: Lu Kemp.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2006.
TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8d9s)
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Some Women
Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro.
Set in a time when 'the streets were sprinkled with water to lay the dust in the summer' and 'people with leukemia went to bed, and after some weeks' or months' decline in a tragic atmosphere, they died.'
At the Crozier house a man lies dying. When his wife is at work, his stepmother lays on a form of distraction and the young girl brought in to help care for him begins to understand the complexities of adult life.
Read by Barbara Barnes.
Abridged by Sally Marmion.
TUE 11:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast (b007jqxk)
1940s London: Two women uncover a devastating secret that changes their friendship for ever.
Elsie Haworth and Kathleen James are old school friends, working on the rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge. Elsie is heavily pregnant, but won't reveal the father's name to anyone.
A police inspector begins to follow the two women, asking probing questions about the mysterious father. The plot thickens and then thickens again...
Caroline Gawn's thriller stars Jo Joyner as Elsie, Christine Brennan as Kathleen, Mark Chatterton as the Police Inspector, Martin Reeve as Mr Jackson and Ken Bradshaw as Gerhard.
Director: Polly Thomas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0084hzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Falco (b01bwgjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mv1sj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
TUE 13:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00d4g09)
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Episode 2
Doris Lessing's 20th-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.
Anna becomes embroiled in the conflict between Molly and her ex-husband Richard over their son Tommy's future.
Anna ...... Susannah Harker
Molly ...... Fenella Woolgar
Richard ...... Ron Cook
Tommy ...... Adam Paulden
Ella ...... Emma Fielding
Janet ...... Ellie Sager
Mr Mathlong ...... Wyllie Longmore
Mrs Marks ...... Brigit Forsyth
Saul ...... Peter Brooke
Dick ...... Marc Parry
Directed by Polly Thomas.
TUE 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007r42s)
The Boys of Wexford; The Battle of New Ross
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
TUE 14:30 Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing (b007jnqk)
Back to the Past
Mary Turner likes her single life in 1940s Rhodesia, but cutting remarks make her reconsider her future. Read by Janet Suzman.
TUE 14:45 Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen (b00mv1sq)
Episode 2
Mariette Hélène Delangle becomes Hellé Nice and enters the first Grand Prix for women. Read by Harriet Walter.
TUE 15:00 Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection (b00772ff)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b040mjmw)
Why go bird-watching in infrared? Mel finds out. Plus Dame Kelly Holmes on her sporting life growing up, and the next chapter in this week's story.
TUE 17:00 Second Thoughts (b007jwzt)
Series 1
She Who Hesitates
Still trying to find their feet together, Bill and Faith end up bickering, as she struggles to act impulsively...
Sitcom about the battles of divorcees Bill MacGregor and Faith Greyshott trying to forge a relationship whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and her teenage children, Hannah and Joe.
Stars Lynda Bellingham as Faith and James Bolam as Bill.
Series one of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'.
Faith ...... Lynda Bellingham
Bill ...... James Bolam
Hannah ...... Kelda Holmes
Joe ...... Mark Denham
Hilary ...... Celia Imrie
Alex ...... John Samson
Treadwell ...... Richard Tate
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1988.
TUE 17:30 Snap (b00tzw0w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 Planet B (b00p84q9)
Series 2
Make a Wish
If Kip is confused by the soldiers in Desert Killzone practising magic words, that's nothing compared to Lioba's confusion at Sinbad's understanding of shock and awe. She helped design this site, didn't she?
Lioba …. Tessa Nicholson
Kip …. Joseph Cohen-Cole
Nugent …. Rhys Jennings
Abanaazer …. Bruce Alexander
Barks …. Piers Wehner
Ifrit …. Nigel Hastings
Voice of Planet B …. Adjoa Andoh
Written by Mike Carey.
Director: Jessica Dromgoole.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
TUE 18:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrnf)
The World in Peril
Episode 8
Overwhelmed by the Martian attack, Jet Morgan and his crew wake up in the dark.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1955.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b008zfwf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0084hzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Falco (b01bwgjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mv1sj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
TUE 20:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8d9s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast (b007jqxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Down the Line (b0100241)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 So Wrong It's Right (b00sg13n)
Series 1
Episode 3
Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show that revels in glorious failure. He is joined for this edition by comics Richard Herring and Holly Walsh plus Iain Morris - the writer of hit TV sitcom 'The Inbetweeners'.
'So Wrong It's Right' is a comedy contest to give the wrongest answer to each of Charlie's challenges. The worst idea for an internet business (including Richard Herring's 'life comparison' website ranking the entire human race in order of success), and the problem with Richard Hammond are just two of targets that come under the wrong examination in this edition.
The host of 'So Wrong It's Right', Charlie Brooker, also presents BBC4's award - winning series 'Newswipe' and 'You Have Been Watching' on Channel 4 - plus writing for 'The Guardian'. He won 'Best Newcomer' at the British Comedy Awards 2009 and 'Columnist of the Year' at the 2009 British Press Awards for his column.
Produced by Aled Evans
A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 23:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00dhg7k)
Series 2
Humility
The comedian ponders the virtue of living more modestly. With poetry and songs by Tim Key and Tom Basden. From September 2008.
TUE 23:30 The Shuttleworths (b007jp2b)
Series 3
Caravan Capers
While on a romantic break in Derbyshire, John and Mary discover a surprise guest. Stars Graham Fellows. From October 1997.
TUE 23:45 All the World's a Globe (b007jwrt)
From Scythians to Shakespeare
From the Scythians to the Crusades.
The history of mankind from the first amoeba to the Second World War.
Presented by the entire cast of the National Theatre of Brent - Desmond Olivier Dingle and Wallace, aided by Mr Barker.
With guest star Juliet Stevenson.
Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by Jim Broadbent and Martin Duncan.
With thanks to
Patrick Barlow
Jim Broadbent
Martin Duncan
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1990.


WEDNESDAY 16 APRIL 2014

WED 00:00 Planet B (b00p84q9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrnf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Falco (b01bwgjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mv1sj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 The News Quiz Extra (b040m05y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
WED 02:45 Creme de la Crime (b007jr3j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
WED 03:00 Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection (b00772ff)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8d9s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast (b007jqxk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Second Thoughts (b007jwzt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Snap (b00tzw0w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Falco (b01bwkww)
Poseidon's Gold
Episode 8
The Roman detective hunts for an elusive sculptor; a chance encounter gives him the edge. Stars Anton Lesser and Trevor Peacock.
WED 06:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvd3w)
Episode 8
It's time for the Bombay detective to test the theory that he's been building for days. Sam Dastor reads HRF Keating's mystery.
WED 06:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvw)
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
A Change of Mind
After a curious train journey to Geneva for his investigation, the suave sleuth gets a surprise revelation...
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With Patrick Barr as Maurice Lonsdale, Isabel Dean as Margaret Milbourne, Polly Murch as Julia Carrington, Noel Howlett as Walter Neider, Garard Green as Gustav, Hamlyn Benson as the Concierge, Gordon Faith as the Doctor, Nigel Graham as Danny Clayton and Simon Lack as Vince Langham.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with tricky cases.
Producer: Martin C. Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
WED 07:00 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k371)
Series 3
The Eager Young Student
'It's not easy being a Jew' - as young Mikhail will soon discover.
Barry Grossman’s comedy-drama about the collision between the old and the new in the Jewish community of Hillfield.
Rabbi Abraham Fine ...... David De Keyser
Rabbi Su Jacobs ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Melvin ...... Henry Goodman
Sadie Fine ...... Doreen Mantle
Brian ...... Jonathan Kydd
Mikhail ...... Dragan Micanovic
Glen Curtis ...... Mark Perry
Music: Max Harris.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2002.
WED 07:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b04001kn)
Series 2
Appearance
Susan Calman explores issues on which she has strong opinions. This week, she looks at society's obsession with appearance and explains why it has taken her so many years to feel happy with the way she looks.
Produced by Lyndsay Fenner.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2014.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b008v13d)
Series 5
The Sleepless Night
The lad tries to get a good night's sleep, but everybody else keeps him awake.
Starring 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 June 1958.
WED 08:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb)
Series 1
Rate of Decline
Struggling to bring up his baby son Albert, single dad Bryan Archer desperately needs cash for his rate arrears.
Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Harry Fowler as Joe Billings.
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977.
WED 09:00 Country Matters (b00lk9mb)
Episode 3
Dave tackles the local traffic problem, but will the villagers support him? Stars Jonathan Tafler and Lesley Sharp. From May 1994.
WED 09:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvq2)
Series 1
Episode 1
Ken Handley pitches to a motorway services chain. Advertising satire with Martin Jarvis and Wendy Richard. From January 1982.
WED 10:00 Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection (b00772m2)
Episode 2
Prince Dmitri follows the young prostitute Katerina Maslova to Siberia.
Having been unable to reverse the sentence for murder served in error upon her, he proposes marriage in the hope of redeeming the wrongs he did to her as a girl.
But he finds his proposal contested by a fellow prisoner Simonson, a man who has already made all the sacrifices in life that Prince Dmitri only threatens to make.
Conclusion of Robert Forrest's dramatisation of Leo Tolstoy's last major work.
Katerina Maslova ...... Katherine Igoe
Dmitri Nikhloydov ...... Richard Dillane
Lydia Menshova ...... Vivienne Dixon
Vera Bogovskaya ...... Joanna Tope
Princess Marya ...... Lesley Hart
Anatoly Krylstov ...... Joe Arkley
Nabatov/Ivan ...... Phil McKee
Simonson ...... Tom Brooke
Old Man ...... Finlay Welsh
Director: Lu Kemp.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.
WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8d9v)
Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness
Wood
Series of short stories from the new collection by Canadian author Alice Munro.
The story of a marriage and a moment in time when what was lost is regained, and the mixed emotions that engenders. A late afternoon in a snowy wood and a casual, careless slip are all it takes
Read by Barbara Barnes.
Abridged by Sally Marmion.
WED 11:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dtsgz)
Free-Minded Albion's Daughter
The life of Victorian journalist pioneer, feminist and campaigner, Bessie Rayner Parkes.
The first of a trilogy of plays examining the lives and writing of three pioneering women journalists.
Introduced by Kate Perry.
Bessie Parkes 1829-1925 (mother of Hilaire Belloc) and her close friend Barbara Bodichon were the founders of The English Women's Journal, the first newspaper owned, written and printed by women.
Based on Bessie's own writing, Lavinia Murray's play tells her story, joining her as she waits to vote in the 1918 election.
Starring Sarah Parks as Bessie, Amanda Root as Barbara Leigh Smith, Kathryn Hunt as Miss Ingle, Russell Dixon as The Teller and James Nickerson as Mr Brattigan/Eugene.
Director: Sue Roberts
Produced at BBC Manchester by Felicity Goodall.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b008v13d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Falco (b01bwkww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvd3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
WED 13:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00d4g0h)
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Episode 3
Doris Lessing's 20th-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.
As Anna tries to shake off the painful memories of her unhappy affair with a married man, she finds herself turning them into a story about her alter ego Ella.
Anna ...... Susannah Harker
Molly ...... Fenella Woolgar
Ella ...... Emma Fielding
Paul ...... Sean Gallagher
Dr West ...... Mark Chatterton
Mrs West ...... Christine Brennan
Directed by Polly Thomas.
WED 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007r4m9)
The Rebellion Spreads North; Rebellion in County Antrim
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
WED 14:30 Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing (b007jnr2)
Marriage and the Homestead
Mary Turner no longer wants to be single, but can she find a husband who she can live with? Read by Janet Suzman.
WED 14:45 Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen (b00mvd42)
Episode 3
Can Hellé Nice, risqué dancer turned Grand Prix racing driver, break the world record? Read by Harriet Walter.
WED 15:00 Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection (b00772m2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b040n4dx)
Mel Giedroyc hears the story of Welsh quilts being made in... Ethiopia. Plus the eye tracker that can tell what you're thinking before you even know it yourself.
WED 17:00 Mind Your Own Business! (b009xyw7)
The Premature Berth
Head of finance Russell Farrow insists on the strictest economy. So tycoon Jimmy Bright must keep quiet about the firm’s £2,000,000 yacht.
But you can't keep anything quiet with Mum around...
Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton star in Andrew Palmer’s sitcom
Jimmy Bright ...... Bernard Cribbins
Russell Farrow ...... Frank Thornton
Nan Forbes ...... Annette Crosbie
Sue Plant ...... Annee Blott
Griselda Bright ...... Patricia Hayes
Written by Andrew Palmer.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1988.
WED 17:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k371)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 18:00 Planet B (b00pbx1r)
Series 2
Paradise Hazard
Welcome to Happy Valley, the perfect environment for Planet B residents to live forever! Lioba and Kip marry, move in, and begin to raise a family. But it's harder to live the dream in this thoroughly modern community than it looks.
Lioba …. Tessa Nicholson
Kip …. Joseph Cohen-Cole
Cerberus …. Chris Pavlo
Vicar …. Ewan Hooper
Everett …. Bruce Alexander
Tom …. Nigel Hastings
Brenda …. Melissa Advani
Madeline …. Keely Beresford
Doctor …. Rhys Jennings
Voice of Planet B …. Adjoa Andoh
Written by Steve Sunderland.
Director: Jessica Dromgoole.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
WED 18:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrr5)
The World in Peril
Episode 9
Frank Rodgers' memory starts to return, but he remembers something terrible.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Other Parts …. Pat Campbell
Other Parts and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1955.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b008v13d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 Albert and Me (b007jynb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Falco (b01bwkww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvd3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
WED 20:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8d9v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dtsgz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted (b04001kn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Radio 9 (b0421tlp)
Series 1
Episode 2
Welcome to Radio 9 – the notional and irrational home of the terminally strange.
More from the Gay Board Game Olympics, plus Radiohead's happy single.
Written and performed by Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker.
With Sarah Walton, John Stevenson, Stefan Frank, Janice Vee, Matt Wilkinson and Michelle Gomez.
Producers: Johnny Daukes and Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2003.
WED 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b00bf9z0)
Series 4
Beautiful England
As Satan sets out to prove England is the worst nation, Scumspawn tackles a lager lout. Satanic sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From April 2001.
WED 23:30 Hut 33 (b01js406)
Series 3
Back to Your Post
Everything German's under suspicion in 1942, especially in Bletchley Park. When it's discovered Charles has German relatives, he' threatened with internment.
Will Archie help him, and can he avoid Minka's attention now she knows a true German is among them?
James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home of the Second World War codebreakers.
Professor Charles Gardner …. Robert Bathurst
Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Gordon ...... Fergus Craig
3rd Lieutenant Joshua Fanshawe-Marshall …. Alex MacQueen
Minka …. Olivia Coleman
Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.


THURSDAY 17 APRIL 2014

THU 00:00 Planet B (b00pbx1r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Falco (b01bwkww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvd3w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Paul Temple (b007jqvw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Country Matters (b00lk9mb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful (b007jvq2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Leo Tolstoy - Resurrection (b00772m2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00p8d9v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dtsgz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Mind Your Own Business! (b009xyw7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi (b007k371)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Falco (b01by3mw)
Poseidon's Gold
Episode 9
The detective makes a grisly discovery back in Rome, but is he ready to reconcile with his father? Stars Anton Lesser and Trevor Peacock.
THU 06:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvqs4)
Episode 9
Now that the detective has the khansamah at his mercy, what will the servant reveal? Sam Dastor reads HRF Keating's mystery.
THU 06:30 Paul Temple (b007jqw7)
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
A Surprise for Mrs Milbourne
After the Geneva revelations, the suave sleuth heads to St Moritz, where danger lurks in the snow.
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With Patrick Barr as Maurice Lonsdale, Isabel Dean as Margaret Milbourne, Gordon Faith as Hans Schmidt, Peter Bartlett as the Waiter, Gordon Gardner as the Driver, Antony Viccars as the Doctor, Nigel Graham as Danny Clayton, Simon Lack as Vince Langham, Michael McLain as the Man on the Phone, Noel Howlett as Walter Neider, Malcolm Terris as Kroner and Bruce Beeby as Ferdy.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with tricky cases.
Producer: Martin C. Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
THU 07:00 The Little World of Don Camillo (b00t3twl)
Series 1
Episode 2
With no cash for a community centre, the priest turns detective over the mayor's plans. Stars Alun Armstrong. From March 2001.
THU 07:30 Cabin Pressure (b01ptztf)
Series 4
Uskerty
Comedy by John Finnemore about the wing and a prayer world of a tiny, one plane, charter airline staffed by two pilots: one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, metal sheets to Mozambique, or an oil exec's cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too small - but many, many jobs are too difficult.
Episode 2:
As Carolyn and Martin turn a short hop into a long climb, Douglas and Arthur get to play with an airport.
Written by John Finnemore
Produced and directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jqdz)
Series 3
Big Guns
Captain Mainwaring's platoon sparks havoc in Walmington-on-Sea when they try to fire a large naval gun.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Town Councillor/Mr. Upton …. Julian Orchard
The Pickford's Man …. Michael Middleton
Announcer/Newsreader … John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1976.
THU 08:30 Take It From Here (b01479kd)
From 27/01/1955
A thick pea souper leaves Eth stranded at the Glums' house. Stars Dick Bentley, Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From January 1955.
THU 09:00 The Young Postmen (b00fkp61)
Tour de France
Everyone goes on and on about how boring professional cycling is compared to the 1980s. So if Brian, Derek and Sue have to leave the Post Office to look after itself for a bit, and do something about it then it's really ungrateful to start complaining.
Anyway, sorting mail is much harder than it looks, so they probably need a break. And it'll be loads better than some of the rubbish on telly these days.
The surreal escapades of a trio of 'posties' written by and starring Ben Miller. With John Thompson and Felicity Montagu.
Brian ...... Ben Miller
Derek ...... John Thomson
Sue ...... Felicity Montagu
Mr Tilbury ...... Jim Barclay
Captain ...... Alastair McGowan
Melinda ...... Joanna Brooks
Jack Finlay ...... David Mellor
Music by Murray Gold
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1992.
THU 09:30 Puzzle Panel (b00yjr5c)
Episode 7
More testing brain teasers with Chris Maslanka, Victor Bryant, Val Gilbert and Professor David Singmaster. From July 1998.
THU 10:00 Drama (b00pg5ts)
Marcy Kahan - Big in Samoa
By Marcy Kahan. Dog walker Caleb's life is about to change - an album he cut in his twenties and forgot about now has a huge online following.
Caleb Swander ...... Tom Goodman-Hill
Rafe Swander ...... Hugh Bonneville
Lori Swander ...... Barbara Barnes
Theo Swander ...... Jack Crutch
Dina ...... Gbemisola Ikumelo
Jez ...... Sani Muliaumaseali'I
Molly ...... Janice Acquah
Guitarist ...... Louis Bamber
Original songs by Tarek Merchant.
Directed by Sally Avens.
THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00lyf65)
We Are Stardust, We Are Golden...
Dreams of Milk and Honey
Read by Mark Bazeley
These three short stories were commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of the famous Woodstock Music Festival. With different themes reflecting that momentous time, We Are Stardust We Are Golden begins with Dreams of Milk and Honey by Patrick Neate.
The narrator, Tommy, is a child of Woodstock whose parents' relationship blossomed during the festival. On his way to visit his rather remarkable mother, still in some ways a child of the 60's, he has to break some news to her about his personal life and finds himself contemplating how she will take it. But it is not at all as he had imagined.
Producer: Cherry Cookson
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 11:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dvvt3)
Change of Heart
Mea Allan (1909-1982) was the first woman war correspondent to be permanently accredited to the British Forces and the first woman news editor in Fleet Street. During the Second World War she kept up a remarkable correspondence with her mentor May Chalmers which gives a picture of daily life in the Blitz and on the home front in London and Scotland.
Felicity Goodall's play opens with Mea looking back over her life and friendship with May, beginning with her arrival in Fleet Street in December 1938.
Stars Siobhan Redmond as Mea Allan, Brigit Forsyth as May Chalmers and Steven Deproost as Archie.
Second of a trilogy of plays examining the lives and writing of three pioneering women journalists.
Director: Felicity Goodall
Produced at BBC Manchester by Sue Roberts.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
THU 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jqdz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Take It From Here (b01479kd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Falco (b01by3mw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvqs4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
THU 13:30 Paul Temple (b007jqw7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00d4g0p)
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Episode 4
Doris Lessing's twentieth-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.
Anna finally exorcises the painful memory of her affair as she concludes the story of her alter ego Ella being left by her married lover.
Anna ...... Susannah Harker
Molly/Julia ...... Fenella Woolgar
Ella ...... Emma Fielding
Paul ...... Sean Gallagher
Janet ...... Ellie Sagar
Directed by Polly Thomas.
THU 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007r524)
Rebellion in County Down; Vinegar Hill
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
THU 14:30 Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing (b007jnrl)
Mary's Problems With Houseboys
Mary Turner struggles to come to terms with her new marriage under the hot African sun of 1940s Rhodesia. Read by Janet Suzman.
THU 14:45 Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen (b00mvqsb)
Episode 4
Model-turned-Grand Prix driver Hellé Nice survives racing accidents and World War II. Read by Harriet Walter.
THU 15:00 Drama (b00pg5ts)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b040qtjn)
Homemade Greek-style yoghurt, what to focus on if you want to be an astronaut, and the wonderful world of names. Plus the next chapter in this week's story.
THU 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b007jx80)
Series 1
A Good Heart
The long summer holiday is over - and it's D-day minus one for the school teachers of King Street Junior.
School comedy created and written by Jim Eldridge. Ten series of this King Street Junior ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.
Stars Carolyn Pickles as Mrs Devon, Marlene Sidaway as Miss Lewis, Michael Cochrane as Mr Maxwell, Paul Copley as Mr Long, Teresa Gallagher as Miss Featherstone, Jacqueline Beatty as Miss Reid, Janice Acquah as Mrs Khan and Elliot Gonzalez as Peter.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2002.
THU 17:30 The Little World of Don Camillo (b00t3twl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Planet B (b00pdkf2)
Series 2
Light City
In Light City you are either with the police or against them. Whichever side you're on, there are points to be earned. But when an uncompromising vigilante arrives it looks like the rules are changing.
Lioba …. Tessa Nicholson
Kip …. Joseph Cohen-Cole
Ed66 …. Rhys Jennings
Shiver …. Nigel Hastings
Clairesquare …. Melissa Advani
Reva …. Emerald O'Hanrahan
Trent …. John Biggins
Hand …. Bruce Alexander
Pauly …. Piers Wehner
Homeless Man …. Ewan Hooper
Voice of Planet B …. Adjoa Andoh
Written by Dawn King.
Director: Colin Guthrie.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
THU 18:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrts)
The World in Peril
Episode 10
The enigmatic Paddy Flynn reveals more about the hierarchy of asteroid crews.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Other Parts …. Pat Campbell
Other Parts and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1955.
THU 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jqdz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Take It From Here (b01479kd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Falco (b01by3mw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvqs4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
THU 20:30 Paul Temple (b007jqw7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00lyf65)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dvvt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Cabin Pressure (b01ptztf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking (b00bz9zn)
Series 1
Episode 1
Meet a reluctant beekeeper, two feuding librarians and a man determined to strike a deal with Santa.
Perrier award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and character comedy series
With Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond.
Written by Laura Solon. With additional material by the cast, Carl Cooper, Tony Roche and Andy Marlatt.
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.
THU 23:00 The Nick Revell Show (b007k24d)
Series 1
Episode 4
Struggling writer Nick has quit smoking and is jetting off, but the geraniums don't want him to go.
A sitcom for the 1990s, written by and starring comedian Nick Revell.
With Alistair McGowan, Caroline Gruber, Brian Bowles, Doon Mackichan and Alison Sterling.
Producer: Jon Magnusson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1992.
THU 23:30 Think the Unthinkable (b007m4dz)
Series 2
Riddlington Plastic
The consultants marvel at the world wide web, and Ryan gets embroiled in a protest. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2002.


FRIDAY 18 APRIL 2014

FRI 00:00 Planet B (b00pdkf2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrts)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Falco (b01by3mw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mvqs4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Paul Temple (b007jqw7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 The Young Postmen (b00fkp61)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Puzzle Panel (b00yjr5c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Drama (b00pg5ts)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Afternoon Reading (b00lyf65)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dvvt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited (b007jx80)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 The Little World of Don Camillo (b00t3twl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Falco (b01by6mb)
Poseidon's Gold
Episode 10
The Roman detective has discovered a hidden room, but can he solve the lingering mystery? Stars Anton Lesser and Trevor Peacock.
FRI 06:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mw69f)
Episode 10
What was the gunshot heard by the detective as the khansamah was being driven to jail? Sam Dastor reads HRF Keating's mystery.
FRI 06:30 Paul Temple (b007jqwh)
Paul Temple and the Geneva Mystery
See You in London
A stabbing in the snow, a fatal fire, blackmail and hush money.
Can the suave sleuth unravel the deadly mystery?
Francis Durbridge's thriller stars Peter Coke as Paul Temple and Marjorie Westbury as Steve in another intriguing case for BBC radio's smoothest investigator and his glamorous wife.
With John Baddeley as Charlie, Wilfrid Carter as Inspector Lloyd, Patrick Barr as Maurice Lonsdale, Isabel Dean as Margaret Milbourne, Frederick Treves as Stone, Nigel Graham as Danny Clayton, Simon Lack as Vince Graham, Polly Murch as Julia Carrington, Alan Haines as the Sergeant, Bryan Colvin as Luigi, Malcom Terris as the Doctor and LeRoy Longwood as the Waiter.
From 1938 to 1969 the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and the men wore cravats - a world where Scotland Yard usually needed Paul's help with tricky cases.
Producer: Martin C. Webster.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in 1965.
FRI 07:00 Chambers (b007jpd0)
Series 2
Conditional Fees
John Fuller-Carp wants victory in a 'no win, no fee' case of a broken thumb involving a can of figs
Clive Coleman’s sitcom set in perhaps the country's least spectacular law chambers.
John Fuller Carp ...... John Bird
Hilary Tripping ...... James Fleet
Vince ...... Jonathan Kydd
Ruth Quirke ...... Sarah Lancashire
Philip James ...... Chris Pavlo
Shearing ...... Peter Gunn
Masterson ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1998.
FRI 07:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b040h6xq)
Series 1
Episode 2
Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 'gamble Anglaise' from 1811. He's attempting to get a cheeseboard to travel a distance of four and a half miles in under 100 throws.
Challenge number one? Getting permission to have the A151 closed down for the purposes of cheeseboard tossing.
Comedian-author-adventurer Tim FitzHigham recreates a series of bizarre bets from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham.
Additional material by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne and sums and support from Joe Oldak.
Produced by Colin Anderson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.
FRI 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s)
Series 5
Come Dancing
Albert sets out to help son Harold to conquer his fear of ballroom dancing.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as Harold. With Clifford Norgate as the Milkman.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV.
Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Produced by Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1974.
FRI 08:30 The Betty Witherspoon Show (b01mrq07)
From 15/06/1974
Kenneth Williams and Ted Ray probe the world of booze and do battle the legend of Lord Nelson.
Characters, songs and sketches with Miriam Margolyes and Nigel Rees
Music by Neil Innes.
Script by Michael Wale and Joe Steeples.
Producer: Simon Brett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1974.
FRI 09:00 Millport (b0076bk4)
Series 3
The Siege
Millport's under siege by the neighbouring islands, furious that this little insignificant town has its own independent public house.
Amidst the madness Irene and Moira find romance where they least expect it - and Alberto unveils an unusual secret defence system.
Bittersweet comedy written by and starring Lynn Ferguson as 30-something barmaid Irene Bruce, who hankers after a better life on the mainland.
Irene ...... Lynn Ferguson
Moira/Agnes ...... Janet Brown
Alberto/Dr Hume/Robert the Dog/Mr Shetland /Mr Sky ...... Lewis McLeod
Ena/Bunty ...... Gabriel Quigley
Minister/Bob/Mr Dunoon/Mr Orkney ...... Robert Patterson
Dougie/Mr Arran ...... Kenneth Bryans
Producer: Lucy Bacon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2002.
FRI 09:30 Act Your Age (b00q3gjg)
Series 2
Episode 2
Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic generations against each other to find out which is the funniest.
Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Adrian Walsh are joined by Jack Whitehall, Sarah Kendall and Ronnie Golden.
Producers: Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2010.
FRI 10:00 Louis Robinson - Julie and the Prince (b0076kd0)
Julie and the Prince
by Louis Robinson
The intriguing and romantic story of Queen Victoria's father, Prince Edward, and his long-term mistress, Julie, "Madame de St Laurent". Edward, the fourth son of George III, lived in the colonies with Julie until he was put under pressure to marry a German Princess and produce an heir to throne. He faced a choice between giving up his true love or giving up his status as Prince.
Julie Julia Hills
Edward Timothy Watson
Lord Sefton David Timson
Lady Sefton Janet Dale
Crawford Sam Graham
Mr Murchison/Philippe Paul Clarkson
Mrs Murchison Buffy Davis
Queen Victoria Jaimi Barbakoff
Directed by Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2004.
FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading (b00lyf67)
We Are Stardust, We Are Golden...
Arnold in a Purple Haze
Read by Conleth Hill
These three short stories were commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the 40th anniversary of the famous Woodstock Music Festival. With different themes, which reflect that momentous time, We Are Stardust We Are Golden continues with Arnold in a Purple Haze by Nick Walker.
Still damaged by his Vietnam experiences, Arnold is trying to arrange transport for a band due to perform at the Woodstock Festival. But the sounds of the city and the noise of the helicopters begin to unbalance him and blur things in his mind.
Producer: Cherry Cookson
A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 11:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dvzm8)
Miss Thingummybob
Emille Peacocke (1882-1964) - daughter of a well-respected Northern newspaper family - takes Edwardian Fleet Street by storm, as she refuses to take no for an answer in her quest to become a real journalist.
Her subjects range from Suffragettes to Archbishops, trousseaux to the Telegraph, as she makes her mark as the first woman journalist on the Daily Express.
The final play in a trilogy examining the lives and writing of three pioneering women journalists.
Janys Chambers' dramatised account stars Kathryn Hunt as Emilie, Melissa Sinden as Mary McArthur, Sarah Parks as Lady Lytton, Morgan George as Herbert Peacocke, Russell Dixon as Ralph D Blumenfield, Alice French as Young Emilie, James Nickerson as Randal Charlton and Geoffrey Banks as Arnold Bennett.
Directed at BBC Manchester by Polly Thomas.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
FRI 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s)
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FRI 12:30 The Betty Witherspoon Show (b01mrq07)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 Falco (b01by6mb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 13:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mw69f)
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FRI 13:30 Paul Temple (b007jqwh)
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FRI 14:00 15 Minute Drama (b00d4g0w)
Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook
Episode 5
Doris Lessing's twentieth-century classic, dramatised by Sarah Daniels.
Anna is bombarded by her friends' problems as she continues to struggle with her own. Then Tommy takes dramatic action that shocks them all.
Anna ...... Susannah Harker
Molly ...... Fenella Woolgar
Dick ...... Marc Parry
Tommy ...... Adam Paulden
Marion ...... Julia Rounthwaite
Janet ...... Ellie Sager
Directed by Polly Thomas.
FRI 14:15 A Short History of Ireland (b007r3l5)
The Races of Castlebar; The Union Proposed
The country's rich and turbulent story continues. With Richard Dormer, James Greene and Frances Tomelty.
FRI 14:30 Doris Lessing - The Grass Is Singing (b007jns4)
Trying to Build a Future
Mary Turner struggles with her husband's ever more desperate plans for the farm in 1940s Rhodesia. Read by Janet Suzman.
FRI 14:45 Miranda Seymour - The Bugatti Queen (b00mw69m)
Episode 5
Personal, political and financial problems dog Hellé Nice as her glamorous racing years fade. Read by Harriet Walter.
FRI 15:00 Louis Robinson - Julie and the Prince (b0076kd0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show (b040r2c8)
The Hungarian railway run entirely by children, the story of Disney music, and think you've had a tough week? Mel hears about the intricate work of a brain surgeon.
FRI 17:00 Second Holmes (b0151ycp)
1. The Case of the Grandfather's Client
The grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson head to Baskerville Hall in a canine caper.
Six light-hearted adventures involving the grandsons of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson written by Grant Eustace
Starring Peter Egan as Stamford Holmes, Jeremy Nicholas as Dr Watson, Anthony Newlands as Baskerville, Steve Hodson as Fred, Rosalind Hinds as Mrs Garcia, David Gooderson as Michael and Jean Trend as the Doctor.
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1983.
FRI 17:30 Chambers (b007jpd0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 18:00 Planet B (b00pgqf0)
Series 2
Dark Star
In Light City you are either with the police or against them. Whichever side you're on, there are points to be earned. But when an uncompromising vigilante arrives it looks like the rules are changing.
Lioba …. Tessa Nicholson
Kip …. Joseph Cohen-Cole
Blend …. Emerald O'Hanrahan
Fabian …. Ewan Hooper
Cerberus …. Chris Pavlo
Voice of Planet B …. Adjoa Andoh
Other Parts …. Melissa Advani, Kate Layden, Rhys Jennings and Piers Wehner
Written by Matthew Broughton.
Director: Jeremy Mortimer.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
FRI 18:30 Charles Chilton - Journey into Space (b007jrxn)
The World in Peril
Episode 11
In Paddy's absence, Captain Jet Morgan and the crew of the Discovery set out to explore the asteroid.
It’s April 1972, and Jet and his crew return to Mars in an attempt to avert the impending Martian invasion.
Completing the sci-fi trilogy, the third series in the adventures of Jet Morgan, Mitch, Doc and Lemmy is a continuation of the preceding stories, ‘Operation Luna’ and ‘The Red Planet’.
Jet Morgan …. Andrew Faulds
Stephen ‘Mitch’ Mitchell …. Don Sharp
Doc Matthews …. Guy Kingsley-Poynter
Lemmy Barnet …. Alfie Bass
Flynn …. Pat Campbell
Various and Announcer …. David Jacobs
Music composed by Van Phillips
Written and produced by Charles Chilton.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1955.
FRI 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jn1s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Betty Witherspoon Show (b01mrq07)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Falco (b01by6mb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 20:15 HRF Keating - Inspector Ghote's First Case (b00mw69f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:15 today]
FRI 20:30 Paul Temple (b007jqwh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading (b00lyf67)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Sirens of Fleet Street (b01dvzm8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b040h6xq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 The Machynlleth Comedy Festival (b01hbxsr)
2012
Elis James hosts highlights of 2012's Machynlleth Comedy Festival in Wales, featuring James Acaster and Bridget Christie.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b042rcc9)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Angela Barnes.
FRI 23:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound (b00mg8mx)
Series 4
Episode 3
A horse makes his own packed lunch and there's advice on how to become the next Zorro.
Plus a boy's effectiveness as a wolf early-warning system is compromised, and an evangelist refuses to tell people about Jesus.
Sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb.
With Olivia Colman,Sarah Hadland and James Bachman.
Producer Gareth Edwards
Firs broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.
FRI 23:30 Weak at the Top (b00rs8gz)
Series 1
Knowing Your Unions
Mean marketing director, John Weak discovers there's nothing legally binding about a legally binding contract.
Alexander Armstrong stars as John Weak in Guy Browning’s sitcom.
Randy, devious, sexist and workshy, John Weak puts the man into management.
John Weak ...... Alexander Armstrong
Hayley ...... Clare Perkins
Sir Marcus ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Bill Peters ...... Ron Cook
Gary Peyton ...... Ewan Bailey
Giles ...... Stephen Critchlow
Producer: Jonquil Panting
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2005.