SATURDAY 18 APRIL 2015

SAT 00:00 HP Lovecraft - The Shadow Over Innsmouth (b015fv26)
Episode 5
Robert Olmstead flees Innsmouth, only to discover years later a shocking secret linking him to the town. Read by Richard Coyle.
SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs (b00rv6zn)
Series 2
Pat Kane
Hue and Cry's Pat Kane talks to Phil Cunningham about his life as a writer and musician and chooses his five milestone tracks.
Producer: Mike Walker
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in April 2010.
SAT 01:00 Chester Himes - Cotton Comes to Harlem (b01pcz6p)
Episode 4
New York, 1965: detectives Digger and Ed have taken the biggest gamble of their careers and smuggled Iris out of jail hoping she'll lead them to Deke and the money. So why is she going to church?
Grave Digger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson are the most notorious Detectives in the Harlem precinct. Their methods are unorthodox, and some people think they're trigger happy, but ask any law-abiding citizen of Harlem and they'll sing their praises. When the Reverend Deke O'Malleys Back to Africa movement collected $87,000 from poor black families - only to have it stolen from under their noses - Jones and Johnson are determined to get it back.
Hugh Quarshie reads Chester Himes' thriller.
Abridged and produced by Chris Wallis.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Autolycus Productions.
SAT 01:30 Beardyman and the Mimics (b00d61q9)
Champion beatboxer Beardyman, aka Darren Foreman, is a master of vocal artistry. He can make all manner of noises, including entire percussive music tracks, using only his mouth, throat and tongue.
Inspired by the lyrebird, he ventures on a personal journey to unveil the secrets of animal vocal mimicry. He encounters ornithologist and musician Bill Oddie, birdsong scientific experts and a whole new world of sounds.
SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime (b00tzp7h)
Rosamund Lupton - Sister
Episode 10
Beatrice now knows who killed her sister, and why, but has the knowledge come too late? The murderer has her at his mercy and it's clear he's planning to kill again. There's a final shocking twist to this dark and gripping psychological thriller about the bond between two sisters.
Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by hattie Morahan.
Produced by Sara Davies and Christine Hall.
SAT 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country (b00skxgk)
Villadom in the Cotswolds
How the idea of escaping to the countryside, seen as a modern symbol of city dweller angst, is as old as the Romans.
SAT 02:30 Julia Darling - Appointments (b0076qmw)
Carla's Facial
Maureen does not let her tumour diagnosis stop her from going for a facial appointment with her daughter. Stars Val McClane.
SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00tkyx7)
Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl
Episode 5
"Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so while munching on a lobster claw."
The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, Champion of The World.
Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. And of course the man behind the books...
5. Even close to death Dahl was in mischievous mood, and his appeal to children will never fade.
Reader Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl is Ian McDiarmid.
Producer Duncan Minshull.
SAT 03:00 Classic Serial (b01hdyq0)
F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Episode 2
Nick has fallen in with the wealthy crowd on Long Island. His neighbour, Gatsby, asks Nick to engineer a meeting with his lost love, Nick's cousin, Daisy.
Conclusion of F Scott Fitzgerald's seminal novel, a portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, is perhaps the greatest book on the fallibility of the American dream. Dramatised by Robert Forrest.
Nick ..... Bryan Dick
Gatsby ..... Andrew Scott
Tom ..... Andrew Buchan
Daisy ..... Pippa Bennett-Warner
Jordan ..... Melody Grove
Wolfsheim ..... Karl Johnson
Klipspringer/Michaelis ..... Sam Dale
Wilson/Gatz ..... Gerard McDermott
Myrtle ..... Susie Riddell
Alice ..... Amaka Okafor
Director: Gaynor Macfarlane
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2012.
SAT 04:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00j6bh8)
Series 1
Episode 3
James Walton's pop music quiz with Andrew Collins, Tracey MacLeod, Richard Curtis and Anthony Wilson. From December 2004.
SAT 04:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! (b007582j)
Episode 4
Richard's flu is not getting any better. Old Dr Willoughby is called in, and it seems his fondness for whisky hasn't abated in retirement. A herbal remedy made from tree bark that Sally finds in a perfectly reputable health food shop has dramatic if unexpected results - the kind of results that require an immediate antidote. Can his father Dick Barton find the antidote in time?
Joss Ackland guest stars as Dr Willoughby
Richard Barton ...... Robert Bathurst
Old Dick Barton ...... Moray Watson
Jock ...... Iain Cuthbertson
Young Dick Barton ...... Julian Dutton
Sally Phillips ...... Matilda Ziegler
In 1946, Edward J Mason wrote the first episode of Dick Barton - Special Agent. The BBC Light Programme's hugely popular serial followed the adventures of the ex-Commando and his mates Jock Anderson and Snowy White. Despite facing a series of never-ending cliff-hangers at the hands of dastardly villains, our hero always triumphed. "With one bound Dick was free!".
Half a century later, Edward J's son Lol created Richard Barton, son of Dick, in an affectionate homage to one of BBC Radio's most enduring heroes.
Producer: Jo Clegg
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
SAT 05:00 Rent (b00752lq)
Series 3
Episode 4
Maria turns agony aunt, but is Paul finally turning all grown-up and responsible?
Series 3 of Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers.
CAST:
Maria …. Barbara Flynn
Richard …. Patrick Barlow
Amy …. Linda Polan
Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester
Paul …. Dave Lamb
The Mother …. Sally Grace
The Checkout Girl …. Sarah Parkinson
Producer: Liz Anstee.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1997.
SAT 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme (b01nbrjc)
Series 2
Episode 6
John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things like Miranda and Family Guy, presents the last in this second series of his hit sketch show.
The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up.
This week's show starts by going to the dogs and ends with what is surely the oldest hymn in the world.
John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. The original music is by Susannah Pearse. It is produced by Ed Morrish.
SAT 06:00 Ronnie Smith - The Charge of the Boys' Brigade (b05r6bsv)
4 Extra Debut. The affectionate story of a group of friends in the 1950s who face national service. Stars George Cole and Joan Littlewood.
SAT 07:30 The Seeds of Love (b00tvpvc)
Cecil Sharp collected thousands of songs to try and bring English folk music to a wider audience. Malcolm Taylor investigates. From August 2003.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b0076css)
The Liverpool Poets
In 1967, three young poets found fame and popularity with the publication of the anthology, The Mersey Sound. Pete McCarthy looks at the work of Roger McGough, Adrian Henri and Brian Patten.
Contributors include artist and critic George Melly, musician Andy Roberts and writer Phil Bowen.
Produced by Bob Dickinson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.
SAT 09:00 Horne of Plenty: Beyond Our Ken to Round The Horne (b007k2b6)
The fascinating inside story behind two of BBC radio's all-time favourite comedies: 'Beyond Our Ken' and 'Round the Horne'.
Presented by a former BBC Head of Radio Light Entertainment, Jonathan James-Moore
Featuring cast members: Ron Moody and Bill Pertwee. Plus, the son of Beyond Our Ken scriptwriter Eric Merriman - Andy Merriman, Lyn Took - who was married to Barry Took, writer for both series – and the last surviving Round The Horne scriptwriter, Brian Cooke.
Extracts from Kenneth Williams diaries are read by David Benson.
Beyond Our Ken ran for 7 series, while Round The Horne ran for 4. Hear the very first and last editions of both series starring Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden, Bill Pertwee, Ron Moody, Stanley Unwin and Douglas Smith.
The FIRST Beyond Our Ken - 1st July 1958:
Kenneth Horne’s diary, poking fun at tax bills and Horn-o-rama.
The LAST Beyond Our Ken - 16th July 1964:
Kenneth Horne’s week, Horn-o-rama and Drama of the Week
The FIRST Round the Horne - 7th March 1965:
Trends, the BBC's Backroom Boys and part one of 'The Clissold Saga'.
The LAST Round The Horne - 9th June 1968:
Nobody knew it was the last show, but a surprise was in store for Julian and Sandy
Producer: Peter Reed
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2004.
SAT 12:00 The Ken Dodd Show (b05qk2kw)
From 13/06/1965
Building a home gym with Andy Mann and tackling the population explosion.
Starring Ken Dodd.
With John Laurie, Patricia Hayes, Judith Chalmers, Wallas Eaton and Percy Edwards.
Music from The Barry Sisters.
Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Lockyer.
Script by Ken Dodd and Eddie Braben.
Producer: Bill Worsley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1965.
SAT 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kn7yv)
From 13/05/1984
From tackling Britain's recession to Film Extra of the Century.
Michael Bentine stars in the ultimate one man show written and performed by the host.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1984.
SAT 13:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus (b05r6n3n)
The Journal of a Joskin, Part 2
The 20th century as seen through diaries and correspondence. Journals of farm labourer and writer Fred Kitchen, starring Ralph Ineson.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05r6n9j)
Charlie Higson
Comedian Charlie Higson chooses 'Waiting for the Man' by the Velvet Underground and Randy Newman's song 'Rollin'.
SAT 14:15 The Charm Factory (b0075cnb)
Series 1
Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
It's September 1953, and Irene has a shot at stardom, but first she must break up with Eric. Sue Teddern's drama stars Dinah Sheridan.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b0076css)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Ronnie Smith - The Charge of the Boys' Brigade (b05r6bsv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 The Seeds of Love (b00tvpvc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless (b01l7x0m)
Series 2
The Dark
Abby and Zara wind up in a starless, sandstorm-riven place where their powers don't work. Is it a trap? Stars Ciara Janson.
Abby - Ciara Janson
Zara - Laura Doddington
Joy - Susan Brown
Maldon - Joseph Kloska
Written by Simon Guerrier
Directed by Lisa Bowerman
A Big Finish Production.
SAT 19:00 Horne of Plenty: Beyond Our Ken to Round The Horne (b007k2b6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide (b01dtxcn)
Series 1
Standing Tall
Stephen K Amos and his pick of the circuit's best stand-ups build an idiot's guide to life.
Maeve Higgins, Tom Allen and Phil Nichol join Stephen to offer a guide to standing tall.
Producer: Colin Anderson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.
SAT 22:30 It's David O'Doherty Time (b00tlw72)
The comedian combines documentary with song to describe the busy day he spent tidying his Dublin bedsit. From December 2008.
SAT 23:00 The Simon Day Show (b01jhjs3)
Series 2
Billy Bleach
Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. Each week one of Simon's comic characters come to perform at The Mallard while the staff struggle with rivalries, self-doubt and the new owner's vision for the theatre's future.
This week popular, Fast Show favourite Billy Bleach returns to The Mallard, the theatre that last series gave him his first big break.
Cast list:
Billy Bleach ..... Simon Day
Emanuel Akinyemi ..... Felix Dexter
Pat Bennet ... Morwenna Banks
Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall
Written by Simon Day
Produced by Colin Anderson.
SAT 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05sjr6c)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Barry Ferns.
SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show (b01dhnrz)
Series 2
Ageing
Award-winning comedian Jason Byrne tackles the pros and cons of getting older.
Stand up and sketches with Laurence Howarth and Anna Bengo.
Producer: Julia McKenzie
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.


SUNDAY 19 APRIL 2015

SUN 00:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless (b01l7x0m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus (b05r6n3n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05r6n9j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday]
SUN 02:15 The Charm Factory (b0075cnb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday]
SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b0076css)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Ronnie Smith - The Charge of the Boys' Brigade (b05r6bsv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 The Seeds of Love (b00tvpvc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Julia Darling - Appointments (b05r71h3)
Omnibus
Maureen Wetherby is a proud former member of a women's football team. But these days, she keeps seeing a shadow out of the corner of her eye.
She’s set to visit Doctor Merrily for some test results.
Starring Val McClane as Maureen, Carol McGuigan as Carla and Robert Pickavance as Doctor Merrily.
Omnibus. Written by Julia Darling.
Director: Susan Roberts
First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2005
SUN 07:15 Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib (b05r71h5)
Episode 2
Master raconteur Kenneth Williams talks about the famous people and places in London that are dear to him.
More entertaining reminiscences and personal opinions recorded in front of an audience at BBC Pebble Mill.
Producer: Michael Ford
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1982.
SUN 07:30 Beauty of Britain (b00ndxjp)
Series 1
Pastor Dave
Comedy by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson. Beauty Olonga works as a carer for the Featherdown Agency and sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to achieve their goals in the land of semi-skimmed milk.
Beauty is quite taken with the charismatic Pastor Dave, a visiting clergyman at Mrs Blanchard's local church, but is he the real deal? Should she pursue him or the gorgeous double-breasted mini-trench coat she has seen in the Mencap shop?
Beauty ...... Jocelyn Jee Esien
Sister Olu ...... Diveen Henry
Pastor Ndu ...... Javone Prince
Mrs Blanchard ...... Alison Steadman
Sally ...... Felicity Montagu
Karen ...... Nicola Sanderson
Mrs Gupte ...... Indira Joshi
Minister Lee ...... Dan Tetsell
Pastor Dave ...... Felix Dexter
Female Assistant ...... Diveen Henry
Cabbie ...... Dan Tetsel
Music by The West End Gospel Choir.
SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpmz)
When in Rome
The Bishop regrets inviting the Dean to his birthday dinner.
Starring Robertson Hare as the Archdeacon, William Mervyn as the Bishop, Jonathan Cecil as Bishop's Chaplain - the Reverend Mervyn Noote and John Barron as the Dean. With Joan Sanderson as Mrs Pugh-Critchley.
The ecclesiastical sitcom started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971. Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio.
Written for radio by Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps.
Producer: David Hatch.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1972.
SUN 08:30 Life With The Lyons (b014gp01)
Three Blind Dates
The Lyon family have to entertain father Ben's boss - but will they all get along?
Starring real-life American family: Ben Lyon and his wife Bebe Daniels and their children, Barbara and Richard.
With Doris Rogers as Florrie, Molly Weir as Aggie, Horace Percival as Mr Wimple, Richard Bellaers, Gwen Lewis, Dennis Arundell and Bob Block.
Life With The Lyons was one the BBC's most popular radio sitcoms between1950 and 1961. It was also adapted for BBC TV.
Written by Bebe Daniels, Bob Block and Ronnie Hanbury.
BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1955.
SUN 09:00 James Rebanks - The Shepherd's Life (b05rk08v)
Passionate account of growing up in a farming family in the Lake District, a working landscape that needs sheep and its farmers to survive. Read by Bryan Dick.
SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05r71h7)
Khaled Hosseini
Afghan-born American novelist Khaled Hosseini chooses two songs by Ahmad Zahir: 'Madar' and 'Aye Padesha Khuban'.
SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05r71h9)
Theatre Folk
Cameron Mackintosh
4 Extra Debut. Lloyd Webber and Mackintosh senior - impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From December 2001.
SUN 11:00 An Hour With Ned Sherrin (b00yk21p)
From Jeffrey Archer to Pia Zadora in Ned Sherrin's witty A-Z of theatrical anecdotes.
The writer, director, producer and broadcaster was a brilliant raconteur and this hilarious one-man show was recorded live at Brighton's New Venture Theatre in June 1994.
Among many other celebrities, Ned includes tales about Noel Coward, John Gielgud, Rex Harrison, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Maggie Smith.
Ned Sherrin: 18 February 1931 - 1 October 2007.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2011.
SUN 12:00 All Gas and Gaiters (b007jpmz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 12:30 Life With The Lyons (b014gp01)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 13:00 Julia Darling - Appointments (b05r71h3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 14:15 Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib (b05r71h5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 14:30 Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky (b05r71hc)
Episode 1
Chelski, a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky, a story about beauty, money and books. Read by Philip Arditti.
SUN 15:45 Afternoon Reading (b011jv89)
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air and Other Stories
Shadwell
Shadwell is selected from Sylvia Townsend Warner's collection, Winter in the Air. In this story, the death of Mrs Probus threatens a precarious future for her long time servant, Shadwell.
The stories in Winter in the Air were written between 1938 and 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. Sylvia Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her time was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These stories remind us that she was a sharp, insightful, and vivid storyteller.
The reader is Susannah Harker
Abridged by Richard Hamilton
Produced by Elizabeth Allard.
SUN 16:00 Eric Pringle - Gracie (b01g69tb)
Wish Me Luck
From Rochdale to renown, Gracie Fields's rise to fame was not without its traumas. Stars Tracy Wiles and Paul Nicholas. From April 1996.
SUN 17:30 Beauty of Britain (b00ndxjp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 18:00 William Boyd - A Haunting (b00765nx)
A landscape architect finds himself taken over by an unseen presence in an aeroplane and is forced to make a strange drawing which he doesn't recognise.
He begins to act out of character, lusting after waitresses and butcher's assistants, growing a beard and behaving so strangely that he seems to have a breakdown...
Published in 2000, William Boyd's ghost story stars John Sessions.
Alexander Reif …. John Sessions
Stella Reif …. Emma Currie
John-Jo Harrigan …. Liam Brennan
Demarco …. Crawford Logan
Leandra …. Eliza Langland
Stewardessr …. Joanna Tope
Other parts played by the cast.
Director: Dave Batchelor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001.
SUN 18:45 The Smile - Ray Bradbury (b05r71hf)
What would induce a small boy to queue in the cold at five in the morning? And what does it have to do with Leonardo da Vinci?
An enigmatic tale set in a post-apocalyptic city written by Ray Bradbury.
Read by Peter Whitman.
Produced at BBC Bristol by Susan Roberts.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1991.
SUN 19:00 An Hour With Ned Sherrin (b00yk21p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 20:00 Derek Jarman - Blue (b05r71w7)
"You say to the boy open your eyes. When he opens his eyes and sees the light you make him cry out. Saying O Blue come forth...."
Blue is Jarman's moving account of his experiences confronting HIV and Aids.
BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4's unique collaboration was simultaneously broadcast on radio and TV with the voices of John Quentin, Nigel Terry, Derek Jarman and Tilda Swinton.
Music scored by Simon Fisher Turner.
Producer: Jeremy Howe
Director: David Lewis.
A Basilisk Production first broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Channel 4 TV in September 1993.
SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05r71h9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
SUN 22:00 Beauty of Britain (b00ndxjp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 Night Class (b007697r)
Episode 1
Johnny Vegas is a failed Redcoat forced onto extended leave. The job centre insists he accept a job as a pottery teacher. From August 2002.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05sjr70)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats to Barry Ferns.
SUN 23:00 Radio Shuttleworth (b00cq188)
Series 1
Wendy Craig
Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter takes to the airwaves once more from his very own his front room!
Aided by his producer (and sole agent) Ken Worthington, and his hard-to-please wife Mary, the inimitable John Shuttleworth presents celebrity interviews, dodgy keyboard music, and even dodgier jingles.
Special guests: Wendy Craig, Simon Munnery and Lorraine Bowen.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
Producers: Paul Schlesinger and Martin Willis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
SUN 23:30 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea (b007k0x6)
Series 2
The Vampire of the Glen
Suspicions are alerted when the laird asks the duo to dig a hole big enough to fit a coffin-shaped wardrobe.
Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden star as the two Scotsmen famed for their appearances on BBC Radio’s I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
With Alison Steadman as their cleaning-lady-cum-housekeeper, Mrs Naughtie, and Jeremy Hardy as the local Laird.
Hamish ...... Barry Cryer
Dougal ...... Graeme Garden
Mrs Naughtie ...... Alison Steadman
The Laird ...... Jeremy Hardy
Producer: Jon Naismith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2004.
SUN 23:45 One (b007716v)
Series 1
Episode 1
The sketch show where no sketch features more than one voice.
Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan Antopolski and Jeremy Clarkson as himself.


MONDAY 20 APRIL 2015

MON 00:00 William Boyd - A Haunting (b00765nx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:45 The Smile - Ray Bradbury (b05r71hf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Julia Darling - Appointments (b05r71h3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib (b05r71h5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky (b05r71hc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:45 Afternoon Reading (b011jv89)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Eric Pringle - Gracie (b01g69tb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Beauty of Britain (b00ndxjp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016vlc5)
The Coin of Dionysius
Is an old coin real - or a clever fake? An old friend, Louis Carlyle approaches suave sleuth Max Carrados for help. Read by Arthur Darvill ( who played companion Rory Williams to the 11th Doctor Who, Matt Smith).
What Louis doesn't know, is that due to an accident, Max is now blind. But that doesn't stop him from proving, in some style, just how formidable an amateur private detective he could become.
Max Carrados first featured in a series of mystery books in 1914. Carrados also shared top billing alongside Sherlock Holmes in 'The Strand Magazine". The character often boasts how much his blindness means his other senses are heightened.
Ernest Bramah excelled in his detailed writing and uncovering of clues. The beneficiary of a large inheritance from an American relative, Carrados is foremost a gentleman who undertakes sleuthing only as an avocation. Though equipped with a keen observer in the perfect manservant Parkinson, Carrados doesn't just sit around deducing. He makes his own observations with ears, nose and fingertips.
Abridged by Paul Kent.
Producer: Neil Gardner
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Ladbroke Radio Productions and first broadcast in 2011.
MON 06:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j)
An insight into the experiences of people who have written letters to themselves to be opened in years to come. Some have sent letters to a website that acts as a temporary library before emailing them back to be read at a later date. The programme also follows a group of young adults as they open letters that they wrote to themselves years ago as school leavers.
MON 07:00 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.
MON 07:30 Dilemma (b05qg5jh)
Series 4
Episode 2
Sue Perkins presents another edition of the show that puts the big moral and ethical questions to a mixed panel. This week, it's the turn of comedians Lucy Porter and Andy Zaltzman, BBC 6Music DJ Shaun Keaveny, and food writer Jack Monroe, who debate letting your children play with the offspring of racists, going on the minimum wage in exchange for other people's living standards being raised, and how to react to discovering infidelity just before you get married. Episode two of six.
Dilemma is presented by Sue Perkins, and was devised by Danielle Ward.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2015.
MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jm5w)
Series 1
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Walker
Captain Mainwaring's platoon is horrified when their black marketeer, Private Joe Walker, gets his army call up.
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 Michael Knowles and Harold Snoad.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Walker …. Graham Stark
Captain/Mr Rees …. Michael Knowles
Chairwoman …. Judith Furze
Sergeant/The Brigadier …. Jack Watson
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in April 1974.
MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kvkkw)
From 20/05/1984
From a murderous martial art to an unexploded double bass.
Michael Bentine stars in the ultimate one man show written and performed by the host.
Producer: Jamie Rix
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in May 1984
MON 09:00 Booked (b00753g9)
Series 1
Episode 1
Richard III talks to Eeyore and Oedipus shares confessions with Captain Haddock.
Outrageous parody, biting wit and original writing from Roger McGough, Miles Kington, Mark Thomas and Dillie Keane.
Barnsley poet Ian McMillan chairs the first of a six-part series of the irreverent literary game.
Producer: Marc Jobst
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1995.
MON 09:30 Says on the Tin (b00gb0bt)
Cat Food
Comedy by Christopher William Hill.
Eliott struggles to promote gourmet cat food for an intensely conservative company.
Eliott Thurber ...... Michael Brandon
Esther Finn ...... Samantha Bond
Hannah Walker ...... Pippa Haywood
Pippa Walker ...... Manjeet Mann
Zadie ...... Joannah Tincey
Ted ...... Malcolm Tierney
Mrs Braden ...... Rachel Atkins
Other parts played by Stephen Critchlow, Donnla Hughes, Janice Acquah and Jill Cardo.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
MON 10:00 Peter Whalley - The Absent Guest (b0076lcv)
When an absent guest of a dinner party is discovered murdered – one by one, the remaining guests become suspects...
Peter Whalley’s sharp and tense whodunit.
Ian .....Robert Pickavance
Lynn...Deborah Findlay
Mike.....John Thomson
Julie......Katy Cavanagh
Claire....Denise Welch
Alan.....John Kazek
Director: Pauline Harris
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
MON 11:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cq49d)
Peerless
A man's friendship with a penguin helps him come to terms with a friend's death many years before. Read by Oliver Ford Davies.
MON 11:15 Tommies (b03thc2q)
14 October 1914
by Nick Warburton.
Series created by Jonathan Ruffle.
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago.
Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.
Lee Ross, Pippa Nixon and Indira Varma star in this story, set on October 14th, 1914. Walter Oddy, wounded in action, is among thousands arriving today at the hospitals in Boulogne. Among so many casualties - will there be time to save one life?
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: Jonquil Panting.
MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jm5w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kvkkw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016vlc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nh722)
Episode 1
A policeman is dead and Inspector Barlach has a hunch about the murderer. Bernard Hepton reads Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella.
MON 14:15 On Your Bike (b00yqg3z)
The Most Civilised Conveyance
The 19th century velocipedes were heavy, slow and expensive before an English engineer James Starley developed the high bicycle or penny farthing which overcame the difficulties of gearing and weight. Although these 'high bicycles' were dangerous and unstable they were eagerly taken up by fashionable young men who formed cycle clubs and took to the open road with gusto.
In the 1880's the safety bike arrived, it was very similar to the bikes of today, with a chain drive and smaller wheels anyone who could afford it could easily ride. The women who defied the dress codes of the day to ride in culottes or bloomers contributed to the emerging movement for women's suffrage and liberation.
Artists, musicians and writers found inspiration on two wheels and the socialist Clarion Cycle Club cycled to spread their message. Then, in World War One, cycle battalions went to France with bikes adapted to carry kit and rifles to the front. Between the wars mass production delivered bikes cheap enough for everyone and fuelled by the outdoor and fitness movements cycling entered into a golden age, the working classes now had the freedom of the open road.
After the war people once again took the road in freedom on the only transport available in the years of frugality. The 1960's brought prosperity, mass car ownership and a fascination with modernity and speed that didn't include cycling and bikes were left unused and rusting in garden sheds. Then a group of young people in California developed the mountain bike and again cycling became fashionable. A fashion for fitness was back on the agenda and there were the added incentives to reduce pollution and congestion in cities and seek more environmentally friendly ways of getting about. Today the bicycle is once again in the ascendency.
Presenter: Martin Ellis
Producer: Simon Evans
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b011tz8m)
HH Munro - Beasts on the Lawn: Saki
Tobermory
Beasts on the Lawn: Saki 2011
Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)
Adapted by Sean Grundy
Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.
Episode One - Tobermory
Barrister couple Lady Jane and Jean-Michel Blemley hold a dinner party for some of their rich clients. One of their guests, eccentric scientist Cornelius Appin, claims that he has been experimenting with animal behaviour techniques and can teach them to communicate. When he demonstrates on the Blemley's cat, Tobermory, the couple find they have a problem on their hands and seek assistance from security guard Clovis.
Cast:
Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood
Tobermory......................Nick Mohammed
Cornelius Appin....................Alan Coveney
Lady Jane Blemley....................Dolly Wells
Jean-Michel Blemley...................Ed Weeks
Agnes Resker.............Jennifer Lee Jellicorse
Odo Finsberry.......................David Collins
Bertie Van Than....................Paul Dodgson
Director: Alison Crawford.
MON 14:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010n1c8)
Childhood
Adam Nicolson's story of the popular British garden, started in 1932 by grandparents Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson.
MON 15:00 Peter Whalley - The Absent Guest (b0076lcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 Booked (b00753g9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 16:30 Says on the Tin (b00gb0bt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 17:00 Know Your Place (b01b3b6b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 17:30 Dilemma (b05qg5jh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k0v6)
Mort
Episode 1
Hopeless young peasant Mort is hired as an apprentice to Death, and taken to his home beyond time and space to begin his training.
The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Dramatised in four parts by Robin Brooks.
Narrated by Anton Lesser.
Mort ...... Carl Prekopp
Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Lezek ...... Philip Fox
Albert ...... Phillip Jackson
Hames ...... Jon Glover
Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett
Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0075mr5)
Mavis Cheek and Robert Elms
4 Extra Debut. Sarah LeFanu, Mavis Cheeks and Robert Elms discuss books by Jerome K Jerome, Cormac McCarthy and Norman Lewis. From August 1999.
MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jm5w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show (b00kvkkw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016vlc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cq49d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Tommies (b03thc2q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 Dilemma (b05qg5jh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Hearing With Hegley (b0075ryg)
Series 3
Episode 2
The Luton laureate entertains a class of schoolchildren and gets fitted for one of the town's famous hats. From February 2000.
MON 22:45 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b007n101)
Series 1
Gossip
Adam Bloom investigates exactly who starts rumours?
Helping Adam to silence wagging tongues are Sarah Kennedy, Brendon Burns and Stefano Paolini.
Written by Adam Bloom.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2003.
MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05s7db2)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jon Holmes chats to Helen Lederer.
MON 23:00 Dead Ringers (b05qk6zm)
Series 14
Episode 2
The topical impressions show returns just in time to reflect the build up to one of the most important and incisive votes for decades. Will Austria win again or does Britain's Electro Velvet stand a chance? Satire meets silliness in the flagship comedy for hard working families up and down the country.
Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis MacLeod and Debra Stephenson.
Producer: Bill Dare.
MON 23:30 Pick Ups (b008p50r)
Series 1
Episode 2
A crucial darts match in the Manchester cab office, while Rebel offers marital advice. Stars Sally Lindsay. From January 2008.


TUESDAY 21 APRIL 2015

TUE 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k0v6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0075mr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016vlc5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Letters to Myself (b00dx16j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nh722)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 On Your Bike (b00yqg3z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b011tz8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010n1c8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Peter Whalley - The Absent Guest (b0076lcv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Booked (b00753g9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Says on the Tin (b00gb0bt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Know Your Place (b01b3b6b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Dilemma (b05qg5jh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016ywr3)
The Knight's Cross Signal Problem
After a shocking train disaster, blind amateur private detective, Max Carrados is called upon to uncover the truth. Was the driver at fault, or did the signal-man get it wrong?
As Max investigates, it soon becomes clear to him - if not to his friend Louis Carlyle - that something much more nefarious is going on...
Read by Arthur Darvill.
Max Carrados first featured in a series of mystery books in 1914. Carrados also shared top billing alongside Sherlock Holmes in 'The Strand Magazine". The character often boasts how much his blindness means his other senses are heightened.
Ernest Bramah excelled in his detailed writing and uncovering of clues. The beneficiary of a large inheritance from an American relative, Carrados is foremost a gentleman who undertakes sleuthing only as an avocation. Though equipped with a keen observer in the perfect manservant Parkinson, Carrados doesn't just sit around deducing. He makes his own observations with ears, nose and fingertips.
Abridged by Paul Kent.
Producer: Neil Gardner
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Ladbroke Radio Productions and first broadcast in 2011.
TUE 06:30 The Art of Remastering (b00s3h40)
Sara Mohr-Pietsch explores digital re-mastering: is it the art of restoring music to its original glory; or just another way of selling us music we already own?
The whole of the Beatles back catalogue has recently been re-released in re-mastered form; a quick search of any record store or online shop will reveal that a large number of recordings have been re-mastered, from very old crackly recordings to very recent releases. But what do the words 'digitally re-mastered' on a cd actually mean?
Sara Mohr-Pietsch visits London's iconic Abbey Road Studios (recently awarded Grade II listed status) to meet some of the engineers who re-master recordings there. She asks them and others from the music industry what re-mastering actually means. She learns that sometimes re-mastering can be as much about what to leave in as what to leave out. And is it an advantage to have the original artist involved in the process?
Sara also considers the consumer's point of view; we've already bought these recordings on vinyl and cd (and possibly cassette as well) so why do we need to buy them again? Can the average listener hear any difference between the original version of (for instance) a pop song from the 1960s and the re-mastered version?
Sara looks at the technology that is used to clean up very old recordings, where the music is often buried almost completely beneath noise and the sonic distortions caused by very primitive recording equipment.
Whatever your view is of the value of re-mastering, what is clear is that the re-mastering engineers Sara meets treat the work they do with great care and reverence - they are often uncovering moments in history.
TUE 07:00 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat (b00nw3x9)
The Mysterious Portrait
Chertkoff is St Petersburg's most high-minded young artist, until he makes a pact with the devil. With Stephen Moore. From April 2002.
TUE 07:30 The Casebook of Max and Ivan (b05qgcjn)
Series 1
Case #19 - Screen Test
Max and Ivan are private detectives for whom no case is too small......Sorry, for whom no fee is too small. Matt Lucas joins them to solve a showbiz mystery.

Driven by their love of truth, justice (and the need to pay off their terrifying landlord, Malcolm McMichaelmas), they take on crimes that no-one else would consider. In this case, the mysterious disappearance of film impresario Bernie Goldfinkelrubenstein's leading man.

Max and Ivan - comedians and actors Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez - are a critically acclaimed, award-winning double act who have quickly established themselves as one of the most exciting comedy duos on the circuit.

Over the course of the series they are dropped into new worlds, and have to use their skills to penetrate deep into each community. If that means Ivan dressing up as a 14 year old German girl, so be it!

Cast:
Max...............Max Olesker
Ivan..............Ivan Gonzalez
Bernie...........Matt Lucas
Malcolm.........Lewis MacLeod
Norman.........David Reed
Lizzie............Jenny Bede


Produced by Victoria Lloyd
A John Stanley production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00j05vk)
Series 1
Episode 7
The Backroom Boys of the BBC - and Captain Horne tackles a tricky case as that 'Edwin Braden is Missing'.
Starring Kenneth Horne. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London.
Announcer: Douglas Smith
Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.
Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1965.
TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b05rcy5f)
From 04/07/1965
Doddy joins the Invercock-a-leekie Ballet Company and Andy Mann prepares to go on holiday
Starring Ken Dodd.
With John Laurie, Patricia Hayes, Judith Chalmers, Wallas Eaton, Percy Edwards, Alan Curtis and Graham Stark.
Music from The New Faces.
Doddy's Diddy Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Lockyer.
Script by Ken Dodd and Eddie Braben.
Producer: Bill Worsley
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in July 1965.
TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers (b05qk6zm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nqqgn)
Series 1
Keats, Baby, You Done It Wrong
Has Woodhouse been beaten to it, biographically?
The ups and downs of a second class writer
Comedy drama series written by Ronald Hayman.
Woodhouse ...... Tim Pigott-Smith
Gila ...... Zoe Wanamaker
Seamus ...... Stephen Rea
Wilhelmina ...... Susie Bran
Henrietta Masterson ...... Miriam Karlin
Hamish McVomitory ...... Bill Wallis
Mark Grimshaw ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Gila’s Dad ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Gila’s Mum ...... Joan Matheson
With Eva Stuart and Susan Sheridan as Creative Writing Class members.
Music by Elizabeth Parker of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Director: Piers Plowright
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in September 1989.
TUE 10:00 Melissa Murray - The Inheritance (b0075gsn)
Simone has been exiled from her family since her appearance in a TV programme revealing that she is gay.
Now she's seriously ill with leukaemia and her only hope is a bone marrow transplant from a close relative. But will anyone of her estranged family help?
Written by Melissa Murray.
Simone .... Kate Buffery
Claire ... Stella Gonet
Imelda ... Carolyn Pickles
Peter ... Roger Allam
Derek .... Charles Simpson
Nurse/Laura ...Priyanga Alan
Doctor/Mark ....David Allister
Joan .... Amelia Taylor
Gary/Waiter ... Ben Crowe
Director: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1999.
TUE 11:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cqdb1)
Loves Me, Loves Me Not
Sixty years ago, Frank's romantic hopes were dashed on a New York quayside. Will he now confront the past? Read by Dermot Crowley.
TUE 11:15 Tommies (b03thc49)
21 October 1914
by Jonathan Ruffle.
Series created by Jonathan Ruffle
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago.
Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.
Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Alex Wyndham star in this story, set at Ypres during the first Battle of Langemarck. Mickey's signals unit goes forward with the British offensive. And just as no battle plan survives contact with the enemy, so Mickey's plan to be a battlefield tourist is not about to survive contact with an artillery captain on a mission of his own.
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: David Hunter.
TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00j05vk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b05rcy5f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016ywr3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 The Art of Remastering (b00s3h40)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nh8pr)
Episode 2
Barlach and Tschanz are on the trail of the mysterious 'G'. Bernard Hepton reads Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella.
TUE 14:15 On Your Bike (b00yfq5f)
Faster Than Legs
Hobby Horses, velocipedes and penny farthings, the early evolution of the bicycle brought about by Victorian ingenuity and the developing engineering industry.
Presenter: Martin Ellis
Producer: Simon Evans
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b011v1bg)
HH Munro - Beasts on the Lawn: Saki
The Interlopers
Beasts on the Lawn: Saki 2011
Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)
Adapted by Sean Grundy
Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.
Episode Two: The Interlopers
Divorced couple Georgina Znaeym and Ulrich Gradwitz hate each other. Both professors of Socio geoeconomics at rival universities, they are both in line for the prestigious Eisenberg Award. They are high-minded and serious but in their spare time they are devotees of the on-line video game 'Carpathian Empire' where they fight most of their battles. When Ulrich delivers a particularly nasty blow to Georgina she reacts accordingly and their fighting spills out into the real world.
Cast:
Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood
Georgina Znaeym.................Barbara Flynn
Ulrich Gradwitz....................John Sessions
Jeff the Man...................Malcolm Hamilton
Director - Alison Crawford.
TUE 14:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010n4n3)
Family
Adam Nicolson recalls life at the famous Kent garden. His mother leaves the family home, and tourism takes over from farming.
TUE 15:00 Melissa Murray - The Inheritance (b0075gsn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 Whispers (b007k2kr)
Series 2
Episode 1
Revelations about Rasputin and accordion playing from Idi Amin.
Gyles Brandreth hosts the quiz show with scandal on its mind and slander at its heart.
Geoffrey Durham and Valerie Grove join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip.
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2004.
TUE 16:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nqqgn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
TUE 17:00 Stilgoe's Around (b007k3r0)
Guy's Hospital, London
Richard Stilgoe and company are admitted to Guy's Hospital in London for sound tests.
Visiting time is 'now', so, pull up a chair, don't eat all the grapes but put on the headphones and hear the result.
With Emma Thompson and The Cambridge Buskers
Producer: Mike Craig
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1984.
TUE 17:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat (b00nw3x9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k134)
Mort
Episode 2
Death sends his apprentice Mort to collect three lives, but the lad takes a fancy to one of them - a princess.
The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrated by Anton Lesser.
Mort ...... Carl Prekopp
Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Albert ...... Phillip Jackson
Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett
Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart
Cutwell ...... Adam Godley
Abbot ...... John Rowe
Ammeline ...... Sheila Mitchell
Stallholder ...... Jon Glover
Maid ...... Liz Sutherland
Dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Director: Gordon House
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004.
TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking (b05rd9by)
Dr Mary Stocks
Social activist, writer and broadcaster Dr Stocks discusses her career, in the pioneering BBC Home Service series from July 1964.
Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and unscripted, the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing was initially jettisoned for three interviewers firing direct questions. Early critics described it as 'unkempt', 'an inquisition' and described the guest as prey being cornered, quarry being pursued - with calls to axe the unscripted interview. But the format won out and eventually won over its detractors.
Only 40 or so of the original 100 programmes survive.
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1964.
TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00j05vk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show (b05rcy5f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016ywr3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 The Art of Remastering (b00s3h40)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cqdb1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Tommies (b03thc49)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 The Casebook of Max and Ivan (b05qgcjn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Little Britain (b008jdxn)
Series 1
Episode 4
Back where it started out, Matt Lucas and David Walliams' oddball TV smash hit - without the cameras.
TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b05s7db5)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jon Holmes chats again to Helen Lederer.
TUE 23:00 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off (b00pbx22)
Series 4
Lapland
He's back! But this time, he's got a computer! Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen has been grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel ("2 Ms, 2 Gs, 2 Vs - bit of a mix up at the printers").
Run from his bedroom with the help of his long-suffering former Primary School teacher Mr Timmis and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each week his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to D"...), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it all, so you won't want to".
In this special episode, first broadcast at Xmas, Giles takes a trip to Iceland and buys some frozen food for his trip to Lapland. He also learns that when hunting with shotguns, it's good to know the difference between an elk and an elf.
Co-starring Catherine Tate as his long-suffering fiancee Arabella and Celia Imrie as his mother-in-law-to-be - the woman known only as "Mrs Wells" - in a snowbound special that mixes The Wizard Of Oz, It's A Wonderful Life and The Ice Queen in Giles's head, and serves them up with a helping of brandy butter and South Devon-style idiocy.
Starring Marcus Brigstocke as Giles.
Cast:
Giles Wemmbley Hogg ..... Marcus Brigstocke
Bella ..... Catherine Tate
Mrs Wells ..... Celia Imrie
Mr Timmis ..... Adrian Scarborough
Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd
Santa ..... Ewan Bailey
Written by Marcus Brigstocke & Jeremy Salsby.
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 23:30 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.


WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL 2015

WED 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k134)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Frankly Speaking (b05rd9by)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016ywr3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 The Art of Remastering (b00s3h40)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nh8pr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 On Your Bike (b00yfq5f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b011v1bg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010n4n3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 Melissa Murray - The Inheritance (b0075gsn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Whispers (b007k2kr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Such Rotten Luck (b01nqqgn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Stilgoe's Around (b007k3r0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Nikolai Gogol - Three Ivans, Two Aunts and an Overcoat (b00nw3x9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016z2cw)
The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage
Blind amateur sleuth, Max Carrados investigates a dastardly husband's plot to murder his wife.
Out in the London suburbs, mystery piles upon mystery. What does the urgent telegram say? Why is there a metal plate bolted to the floor? Max thinks he knows, but can he halt the deadly machinations?
Read by Arthur Darvill.
Max Carrados first featured in a series of mystery books in 1914. Carrados also shared top billing alongside Sherlock Holmes in 'The Strand Magazine". The character often boasts how much his blindness means his other senses are heightened.
Ernest Bramah excelled in his detailed writing and uncovering of clues. The beneficiary of a large inheritance from an American relative, Carrados is foremost a gentleman who undertakes sleuthing only as an avocation. Though equipped with a keen observer in the perfect manservant Parkinson, Carrados doesn't just sit around deducing. He makes his own observations with ears, nose and fingertips.
Abridged by Paul Kent.
Producer: Neil Gardner
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Ladbroke Radio Productions and first broadcast in 2011.
WED 06:30 Earth to Earth: Potted Immortality (b00lyrb6)
Ceramicist Lars Tharp explores our relationship with the funeral urn. He examines both the history and future of the urn with artist Grayson Perry, using readings from Sir Thomas Browne's treatise, Urn Burial. Lars also talks to funeral directors, ceramic experts and visits the British Museum where, he uncovers the urn which inspired Keats to write his poem, Ode on a Grecian Urn.
WED 07:00 The Older Woman (b0391n2w)
Series 2
Episode 1
On the down side, Roy has lost his job as journalist, blown his chance of romance with his former teacher, Jane and is about to have his house repossessed.
But just when he thought it was safe to retreat into self-pity and fantasies about The Archers, help comes from an unexpected quarter...
Series two of Tony Bagley's romantic comedy drama serial that mixes fantasy with reality.
Starring Martin Clunes as Roy Hitchcock, Geraldine James as Jane Gallaghan, Nicky Henson as Chad Mann., David Troughton as Colin, Rebecca Front as Mrs Churchill and Sue Roderick as Gwyn.
Other parts by Simon Treves and Melanie Hudson
Producer: Paul Schlesinger:
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1994.
WED 07:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05qgm0y)
Series 2
Episode 3
Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates a 19th-century bet.
Can he cook a pudding ten feet under water?
Producer: Joe Nunnery.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b05rdfy2)
Series 2
The Morning After
Commander Povey orders the poorly crew of HMS Troutbridge on to choppy waters in search of a buoy.

Starring Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as Number One, Richard Caldicot as Commander Povey, Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Heather Chasen as Heather, Michael Bates as the Rating and Tenniel Evans as AS Goldstein.

The Navy Lark ran for an impressive 13 series on BBC Radio between 1959 and 1976.

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman.

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1960.
WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tp8gx)
Series 4
Episode 12
Meet the Aristocracy of Britain - and take a driving test with a difference...
More quick-fire sketches, terrible puns, humorous songs and parodies.
Stars Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by Eric Idle, Graeme Garden, David Hatch 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 Dave Lee and Bill Oddie.
Producer: Humphrey Barclay
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1966.
WED 09:00 Trivia Test Match (b00vt76v)
From 15/10/1991
Brian Johnston umpires as Willie Rushton and William Franklyn battle Tim Rice and Bernard Cribbins. From October 1991.
WED 09:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0076283)
Series 2
Episode 3
Second World War stand-up comedian Edie Trinder joins Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine for some Blitz humour - and another war hero literally drops in!
Plus tips on relaxation from the Dirty Sloanes and more from the Gory Nuns and the Goatee Beard Men's Group.
Variety meets sitcom meets sketch show - written and performed by Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine.
With Dave Lamb, Martin Hyder and Jim North.
Additional material by Martin Hyder and Jim North.
Script editor: Graeme Garden
Music by Richard Webb.
Producers: Helen Williams and Claire Jones.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.
WED 10:00 Ronnie Smith - Cherries Hung with Snow (b0075zy2)
Fulham, London, 1958: It's over five years since Tommie was de-mobbed after National Service. Now he's come back in search of some familiar faces
George Cole stars in Ronnie Smith’s poignant comedy which is interspersed with music of the period.
Older Tommie ...... George Cole
Younger Tommie ...... David Thorpe
Lil ...... Becky Hindley
Duckett ...... John Hartley
Doreen ...... Deborah Berlin
Mrs Letts ...... Kate Williams
Hank ...... Matt Podmore
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000.
WED 11:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cqh5g)
The Ebony Hand
Bewildered by the changes in her life, an aunt finds solace in an unexpected place. Read by Penelope Wilton.
WED 11:15 Tommies (b03thc4z)
28 October 1914
by Michael Chaplin.
Series created by Jonathan Ruffle.
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago.
Through it all, we'll follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.
Indira Varma, Danny Rahim and Nicholas Farrell star in this story, as the first Indian Army soldiers arrive on the battlefields of France, and the under-equipped infantry of the 9th Bhopal Regiment find themselves on the front line at the first battle of Neuve Chapelle.
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: Nandita Ghose.
WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b05rdfy2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tp8gx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016z2cw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Earth to Earth: Potted Immortality (b00lyrb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nhg6d)
Episode 3
What is the truth behind the shadowy Gastmann's dinner parties? Bernard Hepton reads Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella.
WED 14:15 On Your Bike (b00ybzn2)
British Genius
Pneumatic tyres and the development of the safety bicycle allow the wealthier middle classes to take to the road in the bicycling craze of the late 19th century.
Presenter: Martin Ellis
Producer: Simon Evans
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b011vg91)
HH Munro - Beasts on the Lawn: Saki
Sredni Vashtar
Beasts on the Lawn: Saki 2011
Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)
Adapted by Sean Grundy
Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.
Episode Three: Sredni Vashtar
When Conrad de Ropp Snr is given 'gardening leave' from his bank, his time at home coincides with his adopted ten year old son's (Conrad Jnr) school holiday. It's a sobering time, mainly because Conrad Snr had almost forgotten the boy existed. Snr thinks Jnr spends far too much time on his own in the garden. He's occupying himself in the shed, and Snr wonders if the boy has found himself an unhealthy habit. But it's not sexual, it's religious. Jnr has got himself an idol. To anyone else it's just a pet ferret, but to little Conrad it's Sredni Vashtar, a vengeful, merciless god. He loves it. He worships it in secret, and he prays each day it will rid him of Conrad Snr.
Cast:
Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood
De Ropp........................Rupert Vansittart
Conrad....................................Olly Bell
Jeff the Man..................Malcolm Hamilton
Inge...................................Amy Clifton
Director: Alison Crawford.
WED 14:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010nn2r)
Dealing With the Trust
Reading his account of the famous Kent garden, Adam Nicolson wants to create an organic farm, but others aren't so sure.
WED 15:00 Ronnie Smith - Cherries Hung with Snow (b0075zy2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Trivia Test Match (b00vt76v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 16:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0076283)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 17:00 The Older Woman (b0391n2w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 17:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05qgm0y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k1c1)
Mort
Episode 3
Death has fun in the real world, leaving his daughter Ysabell and Mort in charge of the life-collecting business.
The fourth of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrated by Anton Lesser.
Mort ...... Carl Prekopp
Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Albert ...... Phillip Jackson
Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett
Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart
Cutwell ...... Adam Godley
Keeble ...... Philip Fox
Landlord ...... Jon Glover
Dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2004.
WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076n30)
Redemption
Matthew Parris knows what he did, and so do Gillian Slovo, Dannie Abse and Paul Burke. They all discuss atonement. From September 2004.
WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b05rdfy2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00tp8gx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016z2cw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Earth to Earth: Potted Immortality (b00lyrb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cqh5g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Tommies (b03thc4z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05qgm0y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (b00yrfwh)
Series 1
Estate Agents
Through the medium of four open letters, the comedian Tom Wrigglesworth investigates the myriad examples of corporate lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain.
In this series his subjects range from traffic wardens to estate agents, with Tom recalling his own funny and ridiculous experiences as well as recounting the absurd encounters of others.
Tom asks why we still bother with estate agents.
WED 23:00 The Maltby Collection (b00mvr2w)
Series 3
Episode 6
Walter continues to be suspicious of his wife's attempts at reconciliation, and the Crumb-Looselys' long-distance relationship steers towards the rocks.
Geoffrey Palmer and Julian Rhind-Tutt star in series 3 of David Nobbs’s 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 ...... Juklia Deakin
Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo
Gloria Brindle ...... Helen Atkinson-Wood
Vicar ...... Stephen K Amos
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.
WED 23:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack (b00w7c95)
Series 1
Episode 2
Meet Daisy, the chattering public school girl's, parents and find out why the Mona Lisa has been dumped by the Laughing Cavalier.
Plus, a Police Officer who can't find the right words, a street survey that probes too far and Candi Karmel's sister makes an appearance.
A multi-paced, showcase for the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery.
With Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen Shepherd and Natalie Walter.
Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steven Burge and Dan Tetsell.
Music by Philip Pope
Producer: Katie Tyrrell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2010.


THURSDAY 23 APRIL 2015

THU 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k1c1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076n30)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b016z2cw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Earth to Earth: Potted Immortality (b00lyrb6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nhg6d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 On Your Bike (b00ybzn2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b011vg91)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010nn2r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Ronnie Smith - Cherries Hung with Snow (b0075zy2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Trivia Test Match (b00vt76v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show (b0076283)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 The Older Woman (b0391n2w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler (b05qgm0y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b017071f)
The Last Exploit of Harry the Actor
After a spate of mysterious thefts from the supposedly impregnable Lucas Street Depository, blind amateur sleuth Max Carrados discovers that infamous American con-man, Harry the Actor's been at work...but to what end?
Read by Arthur Darvill.
Max Carrados first featured in a series of mystery books in 1914. Carrados also shared top billing alongside Sherlock Holmes in 'The Strand Magazine". The character often boasts how much his blindness means his other senses are heightened.
Ernest Bramah excelled in his detailed writing and uncovering of clues. The beneficiary of a large inheritance from an American relative, Carrados is foremost a gentleman who undertakes sleuthing only as an avocation. Though equipped with a keen observer in the perfect manservant Parkinson, Carrados doesn't just sit around deducing. He makes his own observations with ears, nose and fingertips.
Abridged by Paul Kent.
Producer: Neil Gardner
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Ladbroke Radio Productions and first broadcast in 2011.
THU 06:30 Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico (b00gd1t0)
Marc Riley tells the story of Christa Paffgen, the German model and actress who would become better known as Nico, the singer with influential 1960s rock band The Velvet Underground.
Featuring interviews with her son Ari; her manager during her time in Manchester, Alan Wise; her biographer Richard Witts; John Cale, one of her colleagues in The Velvet Underground; and James Young, author and musician who worked with Nico for six years.
Producer: Nicola Swords
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.
THU 07:00 Potting On (b00lblps)
Flab
Noticing both their waistlines are getting bigger, Pam challenges Gordon to a dieting competition.
Sitcom about a couple at odds over running a garden centre and growing older.
Starring Pam Ayres as Pam and Geoffrey Whitehead as Gordon.
Written by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds with Pam Ayres.
With Trevor Bannister, Karl Theobald and Alex Tregear.
Sitcom by Chris Thompson and Peter Reynolds.
Producer Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2008.
THU 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week (b03jz1hz)
Series 9
Blood of the Reardons
Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his never-ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and cat together.
Ed discovers that he has diabetes and his daughter, Eli, turns up to be his calorie counter- in-chief. To escape Eli's gluten free falafel salad, Ed enrols on a clinical trial, and that's when his son, Jake turns up in the hope of a fly-on-the-wall documentary, although as Ping Points out, it will only be marketable if Ed dies!
Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas
Produced by Dawn Ellis.
THU 08:00 Brothers in Law (b007k268)
Series 1
Counsel for the Prosecution
Rookie barrister Roger Thursby confronts a fearsome judge.
Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby and Richard Waring as Henry Blagrove.
Judge Duncannon ...... Andrew Cruickshank
Spicer ...... Roy Kinnear
Grimes ...... John Glyn-Jones
Sally Mannering ...... Ann Davies
Mrs Thursby ...... Jean Anderson
Hindmouth ...... John Baker
Other parts Alan Barry, Hector Ross and Frederick Treves
Adapted for radio by Richard Waring from the BBC TV scripts.
Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally edited for sale abroad.
Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers in Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. It provided the first regular starring role for Richard Briers, who later reprised his role of the idealistic young lawyer Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between 1970 and 1972.
Producer: David Hatch.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1970.
THU 08:30 Not in Front of the Children (b05r7w7g)
Series 1
Spare Time Job
Jen's scheme to make money runs into red tape - and worse.
Starring Wendy Craig and Francis Matthew.
The comedy mishaps of the Corner family - Jennifer and Henry and their three kids Trudi, Amanda and Robin.
Four series were first shown on BBC TV from 1967 to 1970. Richard Waring adapted his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored from the original reel-to-reel tapes. Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969
Jennifer …. Wendy Craig
Henry …. Francis Matthews
Trudi …. Roberta Tovey
Robin …. Hugo Keith-Johnston
Amanda …. Jill Riddick
Mother …. Fanny Rowe
Mary …. Charlotte Mitchell
Bill Perry …. Michael Kilgarriff
Vera Walters …. Aline Waites
Bobby's Daddy …. David Tate
City Man …. Frederick Treves
Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst.
Producer: Trafford Whitelock.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1969.
THU 09:00 Who Goes There? (b0075yzs)
Series 4
Episode 3
Martin Young chairs the quiz which looks at the noteworthy and the notorious from history.
Tackling the biographical teasers are team captains Francis Wheen and Fred Housego with guests Vivienne Parry and Jonathan Meades
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.
THU 09:30 The Sit Crom (b00mbc2k)
Night Exercises
With the sovereign set for a visit, confusion reigns in Lady Anne's bedchamber.
Sue Limb's six-part comedy set during the English Civil War.
Sir John Firebasket ...... Joss Ackland
Lady Anne Firebasket ...... Denise Coffey
Tobias Thynne ...... Clive Merrison
Mercy, alias Melissa ...... Miriam Margoyles
Father Francis ...... Nickolas Grace
Slow Ned ...... Chris Emmett
Gazebo Fogg ...... Jack Klaff
Posthumous ...... Nicky Henson
Counter Tenor ...... Peter Hayward
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990.
THU 10:00 Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm (b01102gl)
1. Suspicions
Mr Dockwrath, attorney by profession and a tenant of Orley Farm, is convinced there are suspicious circumstances regarding the inheritance of the estate, and he's determined to prove it.
Starring Tim Pigott-Smith, Samantha Bond and Ronald Pickup.
First published in 1861, Anthony Trollope’s compelling, emotional tale is a treasure trove of splendidly disreputable lawyers, young lovers, the beautiful Lady Mason and the honourable Sir Peregrine Orme.
Dramatised in three parts by Martyn Wade
Anthony Trollope ...... Tim Pigott-Smith
Lady Mason ...... Samantha Bond
Sir Peregrine ...... Ronald Pickup
Peregrine Orme ...... Dan Stevens
Mrs Edith Orme ...... Amanda Root
Lucius Mason ...... Jonathan Christie
Sophia Furnival ...... Lydia Leonard
Mr Furnival ...... Robert Maskell
Mrs Furnival ...... Joanna Monro
Mr Dockwrath ...... Sam Dale
Miriam Dockwrath ...... Janice Acquah
Joseph Mason ...... Jonathan Tafler
Mr Moulder ...... Stephen Critchlow
Mr Kantwise ...... Pual Rider
Felix Graham ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Augustus Staveley ...... Robert Lonsdale
Matthew Round ...... Dan Starkey
Richard Round ...... Malcolm Tierney
Miss Biggs ...... Jill Cardo
Director: Tracey Neale.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2008.
THU 11:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cqmjl)
Moth
A strange transformation brings attention and tragedy to a trailer park mother. Read by Debora Weston.
THU 11:15 Tommies (b03thc5k)
4 November 1914
by Michael Chaplin.
Series created by Jonathan Ruffle.
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of Tommies traces one real day at war and behind the battlefront, exactly 100 years ago.
And through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.
Indira Varma, Pippa Nixon and Patrick Kennedy star in this story, as Dr Celestine de Tullio returns from France to find that things are amiss with army medicals, while her husband Robert gets embroiled in the realities of financing a war.
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: Jonquil Panting.
THU 12:00 Brothers in Law (b007k268)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children (b05r7w7g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b017071f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico (b00gd1t0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nj0km)
Episode 4
The man known as Gastmann reveals his and Barlach's shared past. Bernard Hepton reads Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella.
THU 14:15 On Your Bike (b00yfq5h)
Politics, Liberation and Emancipation
Cycling, suffragettes and socialism, the new political pioneers of the open road as freedom of movement brings political freedom and the ability to campaign for your cause.
Presenter: Martin Ellis
Producer: Simon Evans
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b011vh4r)
HH Munro - Beasts on the Lawn: Saki
Gabriel Ernest
Beasts on the Lawn: Saki 2011
Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)
Adapted by Sean Grundy
Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.
Episode Four: Gabriel Ernest
Unpleasant celebrity chef Van Cheele has made quite a name for himself with his particular brand of nasty cooking. One day he finds a filthy naked teenager sunbathing in his large garden on the Munro Estate. The boy claims to enjoy hunting animals and also occasionally humans on the estate. Van Cheele believes that this is a prank by a fellow celebrity chef, but soon discovers that he's truly met his match.
Cast:
Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood
Gabriel Ernest.......................Carl Prekopp
Van Cheele..............................Ed Weeks
Ewa Ptorovisch......................Dolly Wells
Jeff the Man..................Malcolm Hamilton
Director: Alison Crawford.
THU 14:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010nrtr)
Setbacks and Struggles
In his account of the famous Kent garden, Adam Nicolson faces opposition to his plan to return to productive farming.
THU 15:00 Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm (b01102gl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 Who Goes There? (b0075yzs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
THU 16:30 The Sit Crom (b00mbc2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
THU 17:00 Anything Legal (b0088z2b)
Episode 5
Charles and George hire a secretary to boost their new business offering anything legal...
Starring Donald Hewlett and Michael Knowles.
A Tale of Two City Gents by Wally K Daly
Charles .... Donald Hewlett
George .... Michael Knowles
Belinda Bustrom .... Sherrie Hewson
Job Applicant .... Helena Breck
Theme music by Jim Parker
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1984.
THU 17:30 Potting On (b00lblps)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 18:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k1l2)
Mort
Episode 4
Death has disappeared, leaving his apprentice Mort, his daughter Ysabell and Albert the cook to carry on the life-collecting operation.
The conclusion of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy set on Discworld.
Narrated by Anton Lesser.
and Jon Glover as the Duke.
Mort ...... Carl Prekopp
Death ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Albert ...... Phillip Jackson
Ysabell ...... Clare Corbett
Princess Keli ...... Alice Hart
Cutwell ...... Adam Godley
Rincewind ...... Philip Fox
Duke ...... Jon Glover
Dramatised by Robin Brooks.
Director: Claire Grove
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076l2c)
Series 5
Tchaikovsky
Economist Ruth Lea chooses the great Russian composer. Music critic and writer Stephen Johnson adds his expertise. With Humphrey Carpenter. From April 2004.
THU 19:00 Brothers in Law (b007k268)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children (b05r7w7g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b017071f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico (b00gd1t0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cqmjl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Tommies (b03thc5k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week (b03jz1hz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 My Teenage Diary (b01kknzp)
Series 4
Jackie Kay
My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for the very first time.
Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by poet Jackie Kay who revisits her politically active student years in the early eighties, when she went on every demo she possibly could. She shares some of her early poetry, and talks about what a revelation it was to finally meet and make friends with other black women when she was at university.
Producer: Harriet Jaine
A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 23:00 My Booze Hell, by Little Johnny Cartilage (b00dwnds)
Malcolm MacDonald's Sideburns
The not-terribly-true autobiography of 1970s idol Little Johnny Cartilage.
His descent into obscurity begins with the launch of Cartilage Family and includes extracts from his infamous appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs with Sue Lawley.
Written by and starring Johnny Meres.
With:
Sue Lawley
Ben Miller
Peter Serafinowicz
Geoff McGivern ,
Rosemary Martin
Deborah Berlin
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1996.
THU 23:15 Date With Fate (b008y7g7)
A Damp Fib
Simon is a junior clerk in a surveyor's office, but when he tells a white lie it sparks disastrous consequences...
Harold Wing Pinero is your host.
The first of four comic close encounters with fate written by Gary Parker and Phil Whelans.
Simon ...... Alex Lowe
Harold Wing Pinero ...... Charles Gray
Naomi ...... Elliot Nicholls
Mr Reynolds ...... James Greene
Mrs Gibson ...... Margaret Stallard
Alan ...... Paul Davies
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1996.
THU 23:30 Hut 33 (b00wbkxg)
Series 2
Where Boffins Dare
The codebreakers are threatened with being sent to Burma after making yet another mistake with a message.
In an attempt to redeem themselves before their superiors, they set out to capture a German spy.
James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home of the Second World War codebreakers.
Charles …. Robert Bathurst
Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Minka …. Olivia Colman
Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley
Gordon …. Fergus Craig
Joshua … Alex McQueen
With Ben Willbond.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.


FRIDAY 24 APRIL 2015

FRI 00:00 Terry Pratchett (b007k1l2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076l2c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b017071f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Femme Fatale: The Story of Nico (b00gd1t0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nj0km)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 On Your Bike (b00yfq5h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b011vh4r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010nrtr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm (b01102gl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Who Goes There? (b0075yzs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 The Sit Crom (b00mbc2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 Anything Legal (b0088z2b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Potting On (b00lblps)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b01709qq)
A Game Played in the Dark
The British Museum contacts blind amateur sleuth, Max Carrados over a horde of stolen ancient coins. Out on his hunt for the currency, Max comes face-to-face with some of his old adversaries. But who will win..?
Read by Arthur Darvill.
Max Carrados first featured in a series of mystery books in 1914. Carrados also shared top billing alongside Sherlock Holmes in 'The Strand Magazine". The character often boasts how much his blindness means his other senses are heightened.
Ernest Bramah excelled in his detailed writing and uncovering of clues. The beneficiary of a large inheritance from an American relative, Carrados is foremost a gentleman who undertakes sleuthing only as an avocation. Though equipped with a keen observer in the perfect manservant Parkinson, Carrados doesn't just sit around deducing. He makes his own observations with ears, nose and fingertips.
Abridged by Paul Kent.
Producer: Neil Gardner
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Ladbroke Radio Productions and first broadcast in 2011.
FRI 06:30 The Lake (b00gs3ks)
An evocative sound portrait of Britain's largest lake, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. With a shoreline measuring over 70 miles long, this vast stretch of water is more like a sea than a lake. Recordings made above and below the waves reveal a moody, stormy, wild and even dangerous place where legends of a buried town, a horse god and three sisters emerge from the shallows, while smoke-like plumes and huge flocks of birds rise from the surface as the seasons unfold.
FRI 07:00 Rent (b00752s3)
Series 3
Episode 5
Paul has a very serious question to ask Ruby, and Maria is developing a serious problem with gambling.
Series 3 of Lucy Flannery's award-winning sitcom about Maria and Richard Reynolds and their lodgers.
CAST:
Maria …. Barbara Flynn
Richard …. Patrick Barlow
Amy …. Linda Polan
Ruby …. Vivienne Rochester
Paul …. Dave Lamb
Betting Shop Assistant …. Amanda Davies
Producer: Liz Anstee.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1997.
FRI 07:30 The Vote Now Show (b05qk706)
Series 2
Episode 1
A series of election specials from the Now Show gang kicks off this evening. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis will host a series of six shows spread across four weeks in the lead up to the General Election. With the help of Jon Holmes, Pippa Evans, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests from across the political spectrum they'll give their own unique take on the election news and shenanigans. In the first show there'll be their critique of the second of the leader's debates.
In the first episode Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Pippa Evans, Mitch Benn, Sean Kemp and Nish Kumar.
Producers; Alexandra Smith, Joe Nunnery and Rachel Wheeley.
Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k456)
Series 3
The Test Match
MCC chairman Sid makes the lad cricket captain for England, but places his bet on Australia to win!
Starring Tony Hancock.
With Bill Kerr, Sidney James, Andree Melly and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music composed by Wally Stott. Recorded by the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1956.
FRI 08:30 Play It Cool (b05r7w7p)
Episode 4
What if the Cannes film festival came to Britain? What might Hollywood stars expect?
Fast-moving sketches starring Ian Carmichael, Joan Sims and Hugh Paddick.
Films like Private's Progress and I'm All Right Jack helped make Ian Carmichael a major star of both British stage and screen. Play it Cool was his first radio comedy series promising a variety of potty and pompous situations.
Written by Eric Merriman - best known for his work on Beyond Our Ken.
With music from Rosemary Squires, The Mike Sammes Singers and The Ken Thorne Orchestra
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1964.
FRI 09:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00jdp93)
Series 1
Episode 4
James Walton's pop music history quiz with Andrew Collins, Martin Freeman, Tracey Macleod and Stewart Lee. From December 2004.
FRI 09:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! (b0075887)
Episode 5
Unretirable special agent Dick Bartno and his son Richard are having no trouble speaking their minds. Which inevitably gets them both into trouble.
Richard Barton ...... Robert Bathurst
Old Dick Barton ...... Moray Watson
Jock ...... Iain Cuthbertson
Young Dick Barton ...... Julian Dutton
Sally Phillips ...... Matilda Ziegler
Other parts played by Fiona Allen and Roger Blake.
In 1946, Edward J Mason wrote the first episode of Dick Barton - Special Agent. The BBC Light Programme's hugely popular serial followed the adventures of the ex-Commando and his mates Jock Anderson and Snowy White. Despite facing a series of never-ending cliff-hangers at the hands of dastardly villains, our hero always triumphed. "With one bound Dick was free!".
Half a century later, Edward J's son Lol created Richard Barton, son of Dick, in an affectionate homage to one of BBC Radio's most enduring heroes.
Producer: Jo Clegg
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1998.
FRI 10:00 Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm (b00g9f9q)
2. Romance
Romance is in the air for the young folk staying at Noningsby, the country home of Judge and Lady Staveley.
Lady Mason accepts Sir Peregrine's invitation to spend Christmas at The Cleeve, and, in the Moulder household, there is business to consider.
Starring Tim Pigott-Smith, Samantha Bond and Ronald Pickup.
Anthony Trollope’s compelling, emotional novel dramatised by Martyn Wade.
Anthony Trollope ...... Tim Pigott-Smith
Lady Mason ...... Samantha Bond
Sir Peregrine ...... Ronald Pickup
Peregrine Orme ...... Dan Stevens
Mrs Edith Orme ...... Amanda Root
Lucius Mason ...... Jonathan Christie
Sophia Furnival ...... Lydia Leonard
Mr Furnival ...... Robert Maskell
Lady Staveley ...... Pamela Miles
Madeline Staveley ...... Manjeet Mann
Augustus Staveley ...... Robert Lonsdale
Felix Graham ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Mr Dockwrath ...... Sam Dale
Miriam Dockwrath ...... Janice Acquah
Joseph Mason ...... Jonathan Tafler
Mr Moulder ...... Stephen Critchlow
Mrs Moulder ...... Jane Whittenshaw
John Kenneby ...... Inam Mirza
Mr Kantwise ...... Paul Rider
Matthew Round ...... Dan Starkey
Director: Tracey Neale.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.
FRI 11:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cr1lq)
How It Stacks Up
A poignant portrait of John McCreedy's 46th birthday celebration. Read by Dermot Crowley.
FRI 11:15 Tommies (b04nrwp2)
11 November 1914
By Nick Warburton.
Series created by Jonathan Ruffle.
Meticulously based on unit war diaries and eye-witness accounts, each episode of TOMMIES traces one real day at war, exactly 100 years ago.
Through it all, we follow the fortunes of Mickey Bliss and his fellow signallers, from the Lahore Division of the British Indian Army. They are the cogs in an immense machine, one which connects situations across the whole theatre of the war, over four long years.
Indira Varma, Lee Ross and Sam Rix star in this story, as Mickey finds himself at Ypres with the exhausted British Expeditionary Force, and no one to defend a vital breach in line, at Nonne Bosschen copse.
Producers: David Hunter, Jonquil Panting, Jonathan Ruffle
Director: Jonquil Panting.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k456)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 Play It Cool (b05r7w7p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 13:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b01709qq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 The Lake (b00gs3ks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Inspector Barlach - The Judge and his Hangman (b01nj2x5)
Episode 5
The surprising truth about Schmied's murder is revealed. Bernard Hepton concludes Friedrich Dürrenmatt's novella.
FRI 14:15 On Your Bike (b00yfq80)
The Open Road
Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger all drew inspiration in the saddle along Conan Doyle whose detective Sherlock Holmes could identify a suspect by his tyre tread
Presenter: Martin Ellis
Producer: Simon Evans
A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b011vhsl)
HH Munro - Beasts on the Lawn: Saki
Mrs Packletide's Tiger
Beasts on the Lawn: Saki 2011
Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)
Adapted by Sean Grundy
Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.
Episode Five: Mrs Packletide's Tiger
Mrs Packletide, ghastly wealthy inheritor of the Gippe perfume empire, needs to shoot a tiger in order to silence her long-time rival Loona Bimberton. She wants it to take place on Munro Estate. Clovis is asked to offer her services, but it doesn't quite go to plan.
Cast:
Clovis...........Pippa Haywood
Mrs Packletide........Marcia Warren
Louisa Mebbin....Jennifer Lee Jellicorse
Director: Alison Crawford.
FRI 14:45 Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History (b010nxrw)
The Way Forward
Concluding his recollections, Adam Nicolson must convince his workers to back the garden's return to a working landscape.
FRI 15:00 Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm (b00g9f9q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 All the Way from Memphis (b00jdp93)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Richard Barton: General Practitioner! (b0075887)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 Rent (b00752s3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 The Vote Now Show (b05qk706)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 18:00 Philip Levene - Cold Storage (b007jxmr)
Cold stores are intended only for perishable goods - so the doors don't always have handles on the inside - as one accident-prone frozen food manufacturer finds out…
Philip Levene's chilling thriller.
Robert Craig …. Nigel Graham
Lucy Craig …. Bonnie Hurren
Alan Scott …. John Forrest
Producer: Margaret Etal
First broadcast in Thirty-Minute Theatre on BBC Radio 4 in October 1973.
FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs (b00yrl8q)
Series 3
Eve Graham
Eve Graham enjoyed worldwide success and recognition as lead singer with The New Seekers.
Forming a school band at Perth Academy in the 1960's Eve was destined for a career as a singer.
Hits with The New Seekers included Never Ending Song of Love, Circles and the international hit I'd Like To Teach the World to Sing.
Chatting to Phil Cunningham she picks 5 tracks that are special to her and tells of her adventures in the world of pop including the time the New Seekers appeared on the same bill as Dionne Warwick who refused to meet her backstage.
Eve's Five Songs:
1: How High the Moon, by Les Paul and Mary Ford
2: Teddy Bear, by Elvis Presley
3: Walk on By, by Dionne Warwick
4: California Girls, by the Beach Boys
5: The Way Old Friends Do, by Eve along with the Glasgow Phoenix Choir.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007k456)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 Play It Cool (b05r7w7p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
FRI 20:00 The Tales of Max Carrados (b01709qq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 The Lake (b00gs3ks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Five Stories by Rose Tremain (b00cr1lq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Tommies (b04nrwp2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 The Vote Now Show (b05qk706)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Sarah Millican's Support Group (b011j6lq)
Series 2
5. 'I'm a mother in need of quiet'
"Sibling Rivalry: The grass is always greener in my brother's massive garden"
"I'm a mother in need of quiet - do drum kits have a mute button?"
Sarah Millican is 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
Melissa ...... Isabel Fay
Michael ...... Miles Jupp
Janet ...... Annie Aldington
Written by Sarah Millican.
Producer: Lianne Coop
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2011
FRI 23:00 The Consultants (b007k37y)
Series 3
Episode 5
Chesney is having a crisis of confidence. Cerebral sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From January 2005.
FRI 23:30 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford (b0076dvc)
Series 2
Treating an Acute Elegy
Can poet-at-large Sir Ralph Stanza spread the healing power of poetry across Salford?
Ralphie, famous for his silk scarf, panama and ability seamlessly to blend in with the locals, is now embarked on a further stage of his work in north-west England.
He’s basing himself in various locations giving individuals the benefit of his couplets. So for starters, he's at a clinic, helping a woman with some poetry about her behind...
Written by and starring James Quinn.
With:
Alison Darling
Tony Melody
Neil Bell
Judy Flynn
Jemma Thompson
Produced in Manchester by Graham Frost
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.
FRI 23:45 I, Regress (b018xs90)
Series 1
Episode 1
A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through their subconscious.
Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client who has come to him for a different problem (quitting smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is disturbing.
Episode 1: Karen House-Water (Katherine Parkinson) visits Dr Berry to treat her fear of water, and finds that the cure can sometimes be worse than the disease - via mermaids, the titanic, and talking dolphins.
The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, and The Royal Exchange).
A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone else's head!
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.