SATURDAY 20 JUNE 2015

SAT 00:00 Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch (b0076pkb)
Windfall
A woman sells her trinkets to a passing salesman. From Dorothy K Haynes' 1949 collection. Read by Mark McDonnell.
SAT 00:15 John Connolly - Five Ghost Stories (b007jx4s)
Nocturne
Sounds of a piano played at night lead a father and his son into a confrontation with a malign adversary. Read by Tony Doyle.
SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs (b01pf1ng)
Series 5
Seth Lakeman
Seth Lakeman has established himself as a leading folk musician. A celebrated singer he's also a multi-instrumentalist and respected songwriter.
Growing up in Devon with musical parents Geoff and Joy it is little wonder he and his brothers Sam and Sean became musicians.
Seth tells Phil Cunningham how music was always a feature of the family home along with a good dose of healthy rivalry. The annual highlight was when they all went on family busking holidays in France where they performed as the Frantic Five.
Now in demand throughout the country Seth has several albums to his name and recalls playing on BBC Scotland's Hogmanay Live along with Phil.
Phil's association with the family goes back many years having played at Geoff Lakeman's 40th birthday celebrations where a young Seth knew him as Mr Monkey!
Phil opens the show with Seth's song Lady of the Sea before Seth picks these five tracks:
Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli - Shine
Randy Newman - Short People
Richard Thompson - 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
Joan Osborne - St Teresa
Toots and the Maytals - Louie Louie
Phil closes the show with the track Hard Road from Seth's latest album, Tales from the Barrel House.
SAT 01:00 MJ McGrath - White Heat (b01ntrgb)
Exhumation
On the trail of a clue which Inuit hunter and guide Edie has found in stepson Joe's bedroom, she returns with Derek and Willa to his burial place on Craig Island - and they disinter his body.
What they find there leads them to a resolution of the mystery of his death which they could never have imagined possible.
Concluded by Denise Gough.
White Heat is Essex born MJ McGrath's first novel. Abridged by Polly Coles.
Producer: Clive Brill
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pacificus Productions.
SAT 01:30 My Daddy Told Me (b0076xzl)
4 Extra Debut. Jenni Trent Hughes explores paternal advice - the nuggets imparted from fathers to their sons. With Michael Winner. From April 2006.
SAT 02:00 Anne Tyler - A Patchwork Planet (b007jmfv)
Episode 10
Money matters come to a head between Sofia and Barnaby, whose thoughts return to the 'Gaitlin Angel'. Read by William Hope.
SAT 02:15 On the Map (b00rghjt)
The Lie of the Land
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography.
There are lies, damned lies, statistics - and then there are maps. Borders can be moved and countries expanded, shrunk or even left off the map altogether. We'd like to believe that maps are a purely factual representation of the world with no bias or agenda, but in fact every cartographer decides what to include on their map and what to exclude. Mike Parker discovers how maps can be used as tools of power, politics and propaganda.
From 2010.
SAT 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (b007jn05)
Episode 25
As Thenardier attempts to blackmail Marius, can there be a final reconciliation for Valjean and Cosette? Starring Roger Allam.
SAT 02:45 Attention All Shipping: A Journey Around the Shipping Forecast (b0176pbp)
Hebrides, Faeroes, South East Iceland
Charlie Connelly ends his voyage by discovering some legendary whiskey and land younger than himself. Tom Goodman-Hills reads.
SAT 03:00 John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman (b00hk2dv)
Episode 2
Charles's life as a complacent Victorian gent has been overturned by his secret meetings with the mysterious Sarah on the under-cliff at Lyme.
Having vowed to end the liaison he finds himself lured one last time. He kisses Sarah passionately. Then discovers they're being watched...
John Hurt concludes John Fowles' passionate epic of two lovers in conflict with starched Victorian society.
Narrator ...... John Hurt
Charles ...... Jonathan Firth
Sarah ...... Emily Bruni
Ernestina ...... Kelly Reilly
Dr Grogan ...... TP McKenna
Mrs Endicott ...... Susan Jameson
Sam ...... Nick Sayce
Mary ...... Ella Smith
Mr Freeman ...... Gerard McDermott
Mrs Rogers ...... Colleen Prendergast
Montague ...... Wayne Foskett
Prostitute ...... Sophie Roberts
Curate ...... John Cummins
Dramatised by Graham White.
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rmc20)
Series 5
Episode 3
Crazy panel show capers with Sue Perkins, Simon Pegg, Dan Antopolski, Peter Baynham and Armando Iannucci. From September 2004.
SAT 04:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00p8dkd)
Storm Warning
Beagle Team are tasked with the surveillance of a Russian billionaire. The nation's security and gas supply are at stake.
Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
Sharla ...... Nina Conti
Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
Captain Le Clerc ...... Kevin Eldon
Bolkonski ...... Shaban Arifi
Boris ...... John Biggins
Russian Girls ...... Alex Tregear/Kate Layden
Russian Crew ...... Nigel Hastings/Ewan Hooper.
Producer: Katie Tyrrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009
SAT 05:00 Little Blighty on the Down (b00tlmwv)
Series 4
Episode 1
Mrs Roberts has fallen from power and Mr Barnum is the new council leader. Political satire with John Baddeley. From July 1991.
SAT 05:30 The Rivals (b03c482b)
Series 2
The Game Played in the Dark
By Ernest Bramah
Dramatised By Chris Harrald.
Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He finishes the present series with the blind detective Max Carrados who tries to stop international master criminal Fane from selling compromising letters which could derail an upcoming royal wedding.
Producer: Liz Webb.
SAT 06:00 Dick Francis (b007nn4g)
Bonecrack
Trouble abounds when Neil Griffon takes over managing his stricken father's racing stables at Newmarket.
He's forced to break every rule in the trainer's book.
Francis Matthews stars in Dick Francis's blockbuster thriller first published in 1971.
Neil Griffon …. Francis Matthews
Maggie Lake …. Caroline Blakiston
Alessandro Rivera …. Mark Colleano
Etty Craig …. Edwina Wray
Neville Griffon …. Dennis Bowen
Enso Rivera …. Roger Snowdon
Carlo …. Ray Handy
Cal …. Roy Stephens
Vet …. David Sharpe
Tommy Hoylake …. Rex Holdsworth
Dramatised by John Ashe.
Director: Brian Miller
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1976.
SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01kjtfs)
The Reluctant Jester
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad War
More memories from the founding member of The Goon Show, Michael Bentine - recalling how his aspirations to medical success came to a shockingly disastrous end.
Michael Bentine CBE was born in 1922 and died in 1996.
Producer: Andy Aliffe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in October 1993.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01j2bzr)
Houses v Fields
Which is a better use of our land? A beautiful green field, or a human home? We have long tied ourselves in knots trying to answer this question. Anne McElvoy ploughs the BBC archive to unearth the tangled roots of one this country's great, eternal inner conflicts.
Anne listens to a stinging mid-century polemic against new 'ribbon developments'. And she finds out which writer was so incensed at suburban sprawl that she burned cardboard models of suburbs in her garden.
But she also hears interviews with those who had managed to flee the slums and who were enraptured by the fresh air on new estates. One ex-EastEnder is agog simply at the fact that she has running water upstairs.
In this new, planning-friendly world, Prime Minister Winston Churchill broadcast to the nation on the virtues of the new emergency pre-fabricated houses - complete with "excellent baths". He expresses impatience with those who would "plan every acre" to ensure the landscape was not spoiled.
But she also hears the rough reception that greeted the Minister who ventured to Stevenage to extol the virtues of the coming new town.
This opposition to new building on ancient fields came to a new crisis in the 1980s when the boom in the south east led to extraordinary tensions. Environment Secretary Nicholas Ridley backed plans to build new settlements in the Home Counties. Protestors burned him in effigy in a Hampshire field.
And with the Coalition Government trying to encourage development while empowering local communities, Anne asks Planning Minister Nicholas Boles how he is trying to resolve the struggle between houses and fields.
With Nicholas Boles, John Carey, Juliet Gardiner, Tristram Hunt, Roger Scruton, Christine Whitehead
Producer: Phil Tinline.
SAT 09:00 The Burkiss Way (b00jvj68)
Celebrate the Burkiss Way
Happy dynamic living!
It's back to the 1970s and 80s as comedy writers David Renwick and Andrew Marshall – plus original cast members Chris Emmett, Nigel Rees and Fred Harris - recall their cult BBC radio comedy hit.
Discover how Eric Pode of Croydon came to be! Which cast member made the leap from Big Ted and Play School to Radio 4? And why did 'The Burkiss Way' earn itself a mention in the Houses of Parliament?
Enjoy five classic episodes featuring the talents of Jo Kendall, Chris Emmett, Fred Harris and Nigel Rees:
* Skive from School the Burkiss Way:
Can 'Moses Minor' lead the boys of Greyfriars away from the clutches of their oppressors? From February 1977.
* Not the Burkiss Way:
Learn how to offer family planning for rabbits. Michael Parkinson interviews Bugs Bunny. From January 1978.
* Remember the Burkiss Way:
From 3-2-1 to The Generation Game Questions galore in the clash of the game shows! From April 1979.
* Settle out of Court the Burkiss Way:
Find out 'What's My Gender', plus a galactic 'Panorama'. From November 1980.
* Wave Goodbye to CBEs the Burkiss Way
The sketch show team's last-ever episode which provoked controversy. From November 1980.
Producer: Martin Dempsey
Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in April 2009.
SAT 12:00 Marriage Lines (b05yy74l)
Series 2
Episode 1
George Starling is being driven mad by his wife Kate's preparations for their first baby.
Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second series based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young married couple.
Originating on BBC TV, it was adapted for radio due to its popularity by Richard Waring from his own TV scripts.
A decade later, Richard Briers was starring as Tom Good in The Good Life whilst Prunella Scales starred as Sybil in Fawlty Towers. They remained friends until Richard Briers' death in 2013.
Producer: Charles Maxwell
Recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1967.
SAT 12:30 Yes Minister (b007k14t)
Series 2
The Whisky Priest
Facing a moral dilemma over the sale of British-made weapons, Jim Hacker tries to shun Sir Humphrey's advice.
Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.
Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's satirical sitcom centred around the hapless MP Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.
It first ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984.
Jim Hacker …. Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby …. Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard …. Derek Fowlds
Major Saunders …. Anton Rodgers
Annie …. Diana Hoddinott
The Chief Whip …. Edward Jewesbury
Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.
SAT 13:00 Cyrano de Bergerac (Omnibus) (b05zllz3)
Swordsman, Philosopher, Poet Raconteur - Cyrano is all of these things, but none of them make him happy. What he wants more than anything is the love of the beautiful Roxane.
But he has one huge problem that’s as plain as the nose on his face. Is he too ugly to be loved? Especially when the new handsome cadet Christian de Neuvillette also declares his love for her.
Omnibus of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac adapted by Glyn Maxwell.
CYRANO, Tom Burke
ROXANE, Emily Pithon
VALVERT, ..Jonathan Keeble
LE BRET, Christopher Harper
DE GUICHE, Conrad Nelson
CHRISTIAN, Kieran Hodgson
RAGUENEAU, Roger Morlidge
DUENNA, Verity May Henry
Music by Harry Blake
Directed at BBC Salford by Susan Roberts
First broadcast in five parts on BBC Radio 4 in 2015
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05zlmfv)
Iain Banks
Novelist Iain Banks inherits the folk song Shenandoah, sung by Paul Robeson, and passes on For A Dancer by Jackson Browne.
SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b05zlq2t)
Billie Whitelaw
Acclaimed actress Billie Whitelaw tells Anthony Clare about the profound impact that Samuel Beckett had on her life.
Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with prominent people from different walks of life.
Born in Dublin, author Anthony held a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV.
Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1995.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01j2bzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Dick Francis (b007nn4g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01kjtfs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b05zlq6v)
The Oseidon Adventure
The first time the fearsome Kraals attempted to take over the Earth, with the help of their android agents, things didn't go quite according to plan - thanks to the time-travelling alien Doctor and his allies at UNIT.
This time, Marshal Grinmal and his belligerent cohorts are ready for them. This time, they'll make no mistakes. This time, Chief Scientist Tyngworg has not just one plan, but a back-up plan, and a back-up back-up plan worked out...
With the Doctor a prisoner on the Kraals' radiation-blasted home planet of Oseidon, only his companion Leela can save the day - alongside a most unlikely ally.
Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor, with his ancient warrior companion, Leela, played by Louise Jameson.
Written by Alan Barnes and directed by Ken Bentley.
A Big Finish production.
SAT 19:00 The Burkiss Way (b00jvj68)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00kn8k7)
Series 1
Sloth
Mark Watson investigates sloth as he continues his quest to free us from the seven deadly sins via stand-up comedy.
Tim Key and Tim Minchin provide sketches, songs and jealous glances.
Producer: Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2007.
SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (b007wk83)
Series 3
Episode 2
Armando holds the ring for more hard-hitting blarney and outrageous fibs. With guests Jo Brand, Dave Gorman and Will Smith. From August 2007.
SAT 23:00 The Lee Mack Show (b00c075z)
Tom Robinson
Tom Robinson joins the quick-fire comic for stand-up, sketches and music. With Angela McHale and Steve Brown. From March 2005.
SAT 23:30 Innes Own World (b017gwqz)
Episode 3
Neil Innes shares some breakfast dramas and memories of touring the USA with the Bonzo Dog Band.
The Radio Show that spits the Gargle of Existence into the Bathroom Sink of Being and introduces the Man of Substance to the Woman of Intuition.
Script Editor: John Dowie
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2003.


SUNDAY 21 JUNE 2015

SUN 00:00 Doctor Who (b05zlq6v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Cyrano de Bergerac (Omnibus) (b05zllz3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05zlmfv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday]
SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair (b05zlq2t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday]
SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b01j2bzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Dick Francis (b007nn4g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester (b01kjtfs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus (b007jtwl)
Episode 5
Once more Jean Valjean puts his life into Inspector Javert's hands...
Victor Hugo's epic story of social injustice, dramatised in 25 episodes by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Lin Coghlan.
Starring Roger Allam as Jean Valjean, Joss Ackland as Victor Hugo, Lucy Whybrow as Cosette, Jonathan Forbes as Marius, David Schofield as Javert. Leslie Phillips as Gillenormand, Shuna Snow as Mme Gillenormand, Annette Badland as Toussaint and Ewan Bailey as Basque.
Producer: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.
SUN 07:15 Bad Habits (b00f9xm2)
Laziness
Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the bad habits and personal failings which directly or indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives.
Richard explores the problem of laziness. He investigates what Royal Mail did about thousands of staff going off sick each day and visits Google's UK headquarters to find out how having fun can breed success. The programme also features the author of How to Be Idle, Tom Hodgkinson.
SUN 07:30 Another Case of Milton Jones (b012lkzf)
Series 5
Astronomer
Move over Brian Cox - Milton Jones is now a world-famous astronomer and seeker after scientific truth and accuracy. Typical Sagittarian. He's joined in his endeavours by his co-stars Tom Goodman-Hill ("Camelot"), Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories") and Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line").
Milton Jones returns to BBC Radio Four for an amazing 9th series - which means he's been running for longer than Gardeners' Question Time and answered more questions on gardening as well.
Britain's funniest Milton and the king of the one-liner returns with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new jokes for a series of daffy comedy adventures
Each week, Milton is a complete and utter expert at something - brilliant Mathematician, World-Class Cyclist, Aviator, Championship Jockey...
... and each week, with absolutely no ability or competence, he plunges into a big adventure with utterly funny results...
"Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The Guardian.
"King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times
"If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The Daily Mail
Written by Milton with James Cary ("Think The Unthinkable", "Miranda"), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton," returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a shipload of new jokes.
The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( "Spamalot"), Lucy Montgomery ("Down The Line"), Dave Lamb ("Come Dine With Me") and Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories")
Produced & directed by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh (b007js0d)
From 22/11/1949
Ted puts money on Kitty's dream - and reporter George chases down a forger.
Starring Ted Ray.
With Kitty Bluett, Peter Sellers, Patricia Hayes, Fred Yule and Leslie Perrins.
Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, as well as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949 to 1961.
Scripted by Eddie Maguire and Ted Ray.
Music from Bob & Alf Pearson and The Beaux and The Belles.
BBC Dance Orchestra conducted by Stanley Black.
Producer: George Inns
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1949.
SUN 08:30 Whack-O! (b05zltc4)
From 30/05/1961
When a rival school moves next door to Chiselbury, Professor Jimmy Edwards is determined to close it down. With June Whitfield and Arthur Howard.
Starting life on BBC TV before transferring to radio, Chiselbury School is run"for the sons of gentlefolk".
Headmaster, Professor James Edwards, M.A. never misses a trick when it comes to exploiting the students and their parents. Sports pitches are given over to growing vegetables, which the boys nurture for their head to sell. Classes never exceed 95 pupils - 50 if private tuition is paid for at five guineas extra. It's only thanks to the efforts of the devoted deputy head, Mr Pettigrew, that the school exists at all.
Written by Frank Muir and Denis Norden and adapted for radio by David Climie.
Producer: Edward Taylor
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1961.
SUN 09:00 Walking Away Omnibus (b05zlxjp)
Armed with hat and stick, intrepid poet Simon Armitage walks along the South West Coast Path. First stop - Minehead Butlins.
SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05zlxjr)
Grayson Perry
The artist inherits a famous Tom Jones record from his mother and passes on I'd Rather Ride Around With You by Reba McEntire.
SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05zt82k)
Military
Charles Guthrie
From Maria Callas to Liza Minnelli, Field Marshal Sir Charles Guthrie shares his castaway choices. From July 2000.
SUN 11:00 When Doddy Met Ricky (b00bqm6r)
Tattyfilarious king of comedy Ken Dodd chats to actor Ricky Tomlinson about his life and times. Recorded at Liverpool's Royal Academy of Arts. From May 2008.
SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh (b007js0d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 12:30 Whack-O! (b05zltc4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 13:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus (b007jtwl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 14:15 Bad Habits (b00f9xm2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 14:30 Jami Attenberg - Saint Mazie (Omnibus) (b05zt9zv)
Episode 1
Who was Maizie Phillips? A documentarian after a good story aims to find out - after her diary is discovered. By Jami Attenberg.
SUN 15:45 The Great Western Adventure (b0076xs4)
Coursework
By Steve May. Zoe left college in a hurry and is going back home. The train stops on the Tamar Bridge and makes her feel unsteady. Read by Lisa Coleman.
SUN 16:00 Ian Rankin - The Third Gentleman (b02x5wsr)
Another case for the roguish Mr Cullender in the Edinburgh of the 1790s.
As the Press Gang roams the streets looking for likely lads to fight Napoleon, and while the Town Guard finds themselves baffled by a spate of wine cellar murders, Cully gallantly rushes to the assistance of a young lady in distress.
Ian Rankin's period detective story stars Alexander Morton as Cully, Wendy Seager as Mary, Douglas Russell as Horsburgh and Cara Kelly as Jane.
Director Patrick Rayner
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997.
SUN 17:30 Another Case of Milton Jones (b012lkzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Classic Serial (b00zs7v7)
Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost World
Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders
2/2: Our Eyes Have Seen Great Wonders.
By Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised by Chris Harrald. Professor Challenger and his team are marooned on the isolated Amazonian plateau, at the mercy of dinosaurs and a murderous tribe of hominids. Will they survive to satisfy their scientific curiosity? Will they be able to escape and bring home news of their discoveries?
Professor Challenger...David Robb
Dr Diana Summerlee...Jasmine Hyde
Lord John Roxton...Jamie Glover
Edward Malone...Jonathan Forbes
Querioz... Vinicius Salles
Meldrum...Sean Baker
Indian tribesman... Milton Lopes
Directed by Marilyn Imrie
Dramatist Chris Harrald is a writer for radio film and television. He won the 2009 Sony Gold award for radio drama for his play 'Mr Larkin's Awkward Day'.
SUN 19:00 When Doddy Met Ricky (b00bqm6r)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 20:00 Walking Away Omnibus (b05zlxjp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b05zlxjr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today]
SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b05zt82k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
SUN 22:00 Another Case of Milton Jones (b012lkzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 Cowards (b00776sr)
Series 1
Episode 1
Talking coins and cows in the bizarre world of the comedy sketch show team.
Featuring the talents of writers and performers Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski , Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf.
Producer: Victoria Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2007.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b060x967)
Two hours of comedy, plus Arthur Smith chats to Hal Cruttenden again.
SUN 23:00 All the World's a Globe (b007jww5)
7. From Nelson to Women's Emaciation
The emaciation of women.
Continuing the history of mankind.
Presented by the entire cast of the National Theatre of Brent - Desmond Olivier Dingle and Wallace, aided by Mr Barker.
Written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by Jim Broadbent and Martin Duncan.
With guest star Peter Barker.
With thanks to
Patrick Barlow
Jim Broadbent
Martin Duncan
Producer: Lissa Evans
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990.
SUN 23:15 The Shuttleworths (b01ms352)
Series 4
Chrome Alone
Singer/songwriter John Shuttleworth invites sole agent and next door neighbour Ken Worthington round to his lounge to listen to his new stereo system.
He's positioned an easy chair centrally between the speakers so Ken receives the full stereo effect and prepares to play a medley of his best songs to date.
However, something strange is about to take place...
Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
Producer: Dawn Ellis
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.
SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On (b0112g4w)
Series 6
Witch Hunts
Jon Ronson considers the moment when we follow the herd and make accusations. Jon talks to Meredith Maran who at one time believed she was abused by her father. Her beliefs wrecked her family's relationships. Years later she was to question her memory, and ask whether she had been caught up in a wave of accusations that swept America at the same time which was based on false memory syndrome. But what were the consequences of her doubts on her family and her father?
Music writer David Quantick brings a lighter note to the programme with his stories of his time as entertainment officer at the student union where he took part in an evening of humiliation towards the rock society. He is still left with feelings of guilt around his actions.
Producers: Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs
An Unique production for BBC Radio 4.


MONDAY 22 JUNE 2015

MON 00:00 Classic Serial (b00zs7v7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus (b007jtwl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Bad Habits (b00f9xm2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 Jami Attenberg - Saint Mazie (Omnibus) (b05zt9zv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:45 The Great Western Adventure (b0076xs4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 Ian Rankin - The Third Gentleman (b02x5wsr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Another Case of Milton Jones (b012lkzf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Agatha Raisin (b011q9fr)
Series 3
The Murderous Marriage
After pursuing him for nearly four years, Cotswold sleuth Agatha Raisin is finally set to marry James Lacey, the handsome Colonel next door.
But there's just one little problem.
Starring Penelope Keith as Agatha Raisin, Malcolm Sinclair as James Lacey, Liza Sadovy as Mrs Bloxby and Stephen Hogan as DC Wong.
Dramatised by David Semple from the novel by MC Beaton
Producer Carol Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
MON 06:30 The Man from the McCarthy Agency (b00b7r75)
Matthew Sweet reveals the untold story of Harold McCarthy, arguably the most powerful British film critic of the twentieth century despite the fact that his name never appeared in a newspaper byline. From the 1930s to the 1960s, McCarthy supplied reviews of 11,000 films to independent cinema managers from Cork to Calcutta - reviews that shaped what cinemagoers saw on the screen. Yet his importance only became clear recently when a huge archive of his work surfaced at auction.
MON 07:00 The Other Man (b0076xqz)
Getting Hotter
Things are hotting up between Travis and Grace - perhaps too hot for his liking.
When they nearly get caught out twice, Travis wonders if he's really cut out to be the other man.
Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
Travis ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Grace ..... Charlotte Randle
Charlie ..... Paul Reynolds
Serena ..... Alice Lowe
Miss Lambourne ...... Harvey Virdi
Alice ...... Clare Cathcart
Serano ...... Andrew Westfield
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2006.
MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b05xxc00)
Series 72
Episode 5
Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game in which guests Paul Merton, Tim Rice, Lisa Tarbuck & Graham Norton attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Hayley Sterling blows the whistle.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.
A BBC Comedy Production.
MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007s8kl)
Series 2
Put That Light Out
Captain Mainwaring's platoon causes havoc in Walmington-on-Sea during an air-raid.
Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike and Arnold Ridley as Godfrey.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1975.
MON 08:30 Marriage Lines (b05ztl5x)
Series 2
Episode 2
With baby a week overdue, there's frustration for George and Kate.
Richard Briers and Prunella Scales star in their second series based on the mutual love and mistrust of a young married couple.
Originating on BBC TV, it was adapted for radio due to its popularity by Richard Waring from his own TV scripts.
A decade later, Richard Briers was starring as Tom Good in The Good Life whilst Prunella Scales starred as Sybil in Fawlty Towers. They remained friends until Richard Briers' death in 2013.
Producer: Charles Maxwell
Recorded at the BBC Paris Studio in London.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1967.
MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote (b00sznl1)
The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees.
As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they have personally collected on a variety of subjects.
Reader ..... Peter Jefferson.
Produced by Sam Bryant.
MON 09:30 Never Too Late (b011d6rc)
Mildred and the Man
Man-mad Mildred's passions are aroused by the return of an old flame.
A surviving episode from the BBC archive of Terry Gregson's sitcom about a group of highly active pensioners starring Thora Hird.
Hilda Spriggett …. Thora Hird
Mildred Emmett …. Avis Bunnage
Emily Holroyd …. Megs Jenkins
Albert Pickles …. Kenneth Connor
Tommy Preston …. Joe Gladwyn
Producer: Edward Taylor.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1981.
MON 10:00 George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (b00nw25z)
In 1930s London, would-be poet Gordon Comstock tries not to conform. George Orwell drama with Jonathan Tafler and Polly James.
MON 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvdpz)
The Clangers
A young girl turns to her favourite TV programme to make sense of her world.
A powerful collection exploring identity by British born Sri Lankan writer, Roshi Fernando.
Read by Amara Karan.
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2012.
MON 11:15 Ali Smith - The Switch (b00plhpv)
A story in song of an electrician who takes his French bride to set up shop in the Scottish Highlands. Stars Nick Farr.
MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007s8kl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 Marriage Lines (b05ztl5x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Agatha Raisin (b011q9fr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 The Man from the McCarthy Agency (b00b7r75)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b00890l3)
Episode 1
Henry Goodman reads Truman Capote's vivid and witty novel about the relationship between young writer, Paul Varjak and captivating girl-about-town, Holly Golightly, in 1940s New York.
With her tousled blond hair and upturned nose, dark glasses and chic black dresses, Holly Golightly is top notch in style and a sensation wherever she goes. Her brownstone apartment vibrates with martini-soaked parties as she plays hostess to millionaires and gangsters alike. Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate goal - to find a real life place like Tiffany's that makes her feel at home.
Truman Capote's 1958 novella abridged in 10-parts by James Robertston.
Born in New Orleans in 1925, Truman Capote left school at 15 to work for the New Yorker - his first, and last, regular job. He's the author of many highly praised books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories, The Grass Harp, In Cold Blood, Music for Chameleons and Answered Prayers. Truman Capote died in 1984.
Producer: Bruce Young
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
MON 14:15 On the Map (b00rlwxj)
World View
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography.
World View. Mike Parker considers the picture that maps and atlases give us of the wider world and our place in it. He discovers how cartographers always have to keep one eye on the map and the other on the news as territorial disputes rage, borders change and new countries emerge. And he visits Jan Morris to look through a collection of maps and atlases accumulated over sixty years of travel writing.
From 2010.
MON 14:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zv7lt)
P&O
4 Extra Debut. Sailing from the Far East by liner, Somerset Maugham's tale of Mrs Hanley who has left her cheating husband.
MON 14:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00ckd1g)
Episode 1
From Orpington to Cambridge via Marlborough (twice). Reginald Perrin's creator David Nobbs reads from his autobiography.
MON 15:00 George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (b00nw25z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote (b00sznl1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 16:30 Never Too Late (b011d6rc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 17:00 The Other Man (b0076xqz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 17:30 Just a Minute (b05xxc00)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 18:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007jtvm)
Episode 1
A young man, Carl, is beaten up on a train late one night. As he falls into a coma, we travel with him on his journey through the bizarre world of his subconscious as he struggles to wake up.
Tom Goodman-Hill reads Alex Garland's surreal fantasy exploring the lucid, but powerless workings of the mind of a coma patient. This surreal fantasy play tricks on both the story's protagonist and the listener.
Alex Garland is the bestselling author of cult classic, The Beach. He also wrote the screenplay for the zombie hit, 28 Days Later, plus Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and Dredd.
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2004.
MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0075qrs)
Margaret Forster, Joan Bakewell and Gerard McBurney
Margaret Forster and her guests Joan Bakewell and composer Gerard McBurney discuss three of their favourite paperbacks by Benjamin Franklin, VS Naipaul and Andrea Levy. From 1999.


The Fruit of the Lemon by Andrea Levy
Publisher: Headline (Hodder)

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Publisher: Penguin Classics

A Way in the World by VS Naipaul
Publisher: Minerva.
MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007s8kl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 Marriage Lines (b05ztl5x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Agatha Raisin (b011q9fr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 The Man from the McCarthy Agency (b00b7r75)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvdpz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Ali Smith - The Switch (b00plhpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b05xxc00)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 Kerry's List (b01sd5gh)
Series 1
Episode 3
The third in a four-part sketch show co-written by and starring comedian and actress Kerry Godliman.
Kerry is a married mother of two, a stand up comedian and has two children. Her life can only properly function with her daily list - if she didn't compile this vital list, her life would simply fall apart.
Each week, this series looks at a different list and delves into Kerry's madcap world by looking at various elements of that week's list in sketches, narrative and stand up.
In this third episode, Kerry's List involves bleaching mugs, napping, sorting out cobwebs, distressing a chest of drawers, organizing CDs, keeping my friend's secret, growing vegetables and buying Puy Lentils.
Joining Kerry is her husband Ben (played by her real husband Ben Abell) and her five year old daughter Elsie (played by Melissa Bury) together with a range of bizarre characters - including an enthusiastic council environment worker, some disgruntled satsumas, a bored therapist, a Fairy Jeanmother and a very keen gym instructor.
Any busy parent who's ever compiled a list of their own will relate to Kerry Godliman's incident filled world.
The cast includes David Pusey (who co-wrote the series), Bridget Christie, Lucy Briers, Rosie Cavaliero and Nicholas Le Prevost.
Kerry Godliman is fast establishing herself as a highly skilful stand up comic and actress, from her recent appearances on Live at The Apollo (BBC 1), Derek (C4) and Our Girl (BBC 1).
Producer: Paul Russell
An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4.
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b05zvckb)
Series 14
Episode 6
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi Toksvig. With regular panellist Jeremy Hardy, and guests Miles Jupp, Susan Calman and Helen Zaltzman.
MON 23:45 Creme de la Crime (b0080sx1)
Series 1
A Death on the Ocean Wave
Michael Feydeau and David Pershore exhume a murder case on a luxury liner. Stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From October 2001.


TUESDAY 23 JUNE 2015

TUE 00:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007jtvm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0075qrs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Agatha Raisin (b011q9fr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 The Man from the McCarthy Agency (b00b7r75)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b00890l3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 On the Map (b00rlwxj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zv7lt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00ckd1g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying (b00nw25z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote (b00sznl1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Never Too Late (b011d6rc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 The Other Man (b0076xqz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b05xxc00)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qfr6)
Series 3
The Disappearing Trick
With her marriage dreams in tatters, Agatha has the small task of returning all the wedding presents - and the slightly larger one of clearing her name of murder.
Starring Penelope Keith as Agatha Raisin, Malcolm Sinclair as James Lacey, Belinda Lang as Harriet and Liza Sadovy as Mrs Bloxby.
Dramatised by David Semple from the novel by MC Beaton
Producer Carol Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
TUE 06:30 Really Happening! (b00vcqjf)
In the Sixties, the Happening was what was really happening on the international visual art scene. Instead of people visiting galleries to look at art objects, audiences became involved in a series of events that made no distinction between observer and observed, and sometimes didn't seem to have a beginning, middle or end. Happenings paved the way for performance art and live art. And the 60s wouldn't have been half as groovy without them. Early Happenings, like Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, Claes Oldenburg's Snapshots From A City and Al Hansens' Requiem For W.C. Fields, inspired a generation of young artists, and grabbed the attention of the public. In this programme, Bob Dickinson re-imagines the Happening with contemporary artists and writers including RoseLee Goldberg, Ilana Mitchell, Andrea Cusmano, and Lorenzo Fusi. Dickinson also investigates the way Happenings travelled around the world, to Asia and Europe, thanks to Nam June Paik in Korea and Japan, Adrian Henri in Liverpool, the Viennese Aktionists, Joseph Beuys in Germany, and Yves Klein in France.
As Happenings became part of popular culture, they became increasingly spectacular, and in 1967 Britain's biggest ever example of the activity was staged at Alexandra Palace in London - the 24 Hour Technicolour Dream. It was a high-point, in more ways than one, for the hippie counterculture, but it also marked the point when Happenings stopped being art. We meet an eye-witness. Cntemporary artists, such as Tanya Bruguera from Cuba, are revisiting and reviving several of Allan Kaprow's classic Happenings for a new audience - and we find out what happens when she tries them out on the streets and shops of Liverpool.
TUE 07:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cr32p)
Series 4
Episode 4
Tommy and Sheila try sort out their son Murray's career and love-life – and Sheila seems to have a new hobby...
Ageing showbiz couple Tommy Franklin and Sheila Parr battle on with their second stab at fame.
Mike Coleman's sitcom starring Roy Hudd and June Whitfield.
Tommy Franklin …. Roy Hudd
Sheila Parr …. June Whitfield
Hetty Stark …. Pat Coombes
Murray …. Julian Eardley
Louis Elstein …. Edward Halsted
Hilaire …. Paul Rogan.
Music by Frido Ruth.
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2002.
TUE 07:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b05xxkqt)
Series 6
Paisley
"Keep an eye on Paisley..." Benjamin Disraeli
Mark Steel visits the Renfrewshire town of Paisley that's definitely not in Glasgow. The largest town in Scotland, Paisley has a rich history; being at the centre of the weaving industry it gave its name to the famous Paisley pattern, as well as being the site of a landmark legal battle involving a snail in a bottle of ginger beer which led to a change in consumer law. More recently, Paisley elected Mhairi Black, the youngest MP since 1832.
Whilst in town Mark visits a 'Car Park In The Sky', has a wander round a 12th century Abbey with alien gargoyles and ends up having a game of pool with a dog called Murphy.
Mark Steel returns for a sixth series of the award winning show that travels around the country, researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local residents.
Written and performed by ... Mark Steel
Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair
Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Sterling
Producer ... Carl Cooper
A BBC Radio Comedy Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00j7qhl)
Series 1
Episode 16
Kenneth Horne spies cosmic traffic wardens, Charles and Fiona are losing their grip, plus melodramas galore at Bona Productions thanks to Julian and Sandy.
With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee.
Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, London. Announcer: Douglas Smith
Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, catchphrases and double-entendres.
Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser Hayes Four.
Producer: John Simmonds
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1965.
TUE 08:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jsfr)
Series 5
The Man from the Burkiss Way
A deadly game of Russian Roulette Video Cassette and Blake's 7 spoofed.
Starring Fred Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett.
Cult sketch comedy series which originally ran from 1976 to 1980.
Written by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1980.
TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b05zvckb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 Creme de la Crime (b0080sx1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 Saturday Drama (b00k2mfh)
JM Barrie - The Admirable Crichton
Russell Tovey stars in JM Barrie's classic satire about the changing fortunes of Crichton, the perfect butler.
Liberal aristocrat Lord Loam favours a return to nature, with masters and servants living together as equals, but Crichton is the perfect butler and the perfect snob who adores the intricacies of the class system. He cannot help but be horrified by his master's opinions, and it will take a sea change to alter them.
Crichton ...... Russell Tovey
JM Barrie ...... David Bannerman
Lady Mary ...... Beth Chalmers
Lord Loam ...... David Timson
Lady Agatha ...... Martha Howe-Douglas
Ernest Woolley ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Tweeny ...... Lizzy Watts
Rev John Treherne ...... Adrian Grove
Lord Brocklehurst ...... Stephen Hogan
Lady Brocklehurst ...... Tina Gray
Abridged and directed by Fiona Kelcher.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009
TUE 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvkch)
The Turtle
A fractured family finds solace in a newly hatched egg. Stories of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Seeta Indrani.
TUE 11:15 Andy Rashleigh - Kind Hearts (b007703h)
4 Extra Debut. On the set of an Ealing Studios film classic, the producer, director and actors face their personal demons. Stars Anton Lesser.
TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00j7qhl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jsfr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qfr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 Really Happening! (b00vcqjf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b00898s7)
Episode 2
Young writer Paul Varjak gets to know girl-about-town Holly Golightly in 1940s New York. Read by Henry Goodman.
TUE 14:15 On the Map (b00rlwwr)
Off the Map
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography.
Off the Map. The first step to success in any military campaign is a good map. During the Second World War, intelligence officers prepared meticulously detailed maps for the D-Day landings using a combination of aerial photography, old tourist guides and holiday snaps. Mike Parker discovers how Germany, and later the Soviet Union, compiled maps of Britain often more detailed than our own. And he visits a Cold War nuclear bunker, one of the many sites that until recently were simply blank spaces on Ordnance Survey maps.
From 2010.
TUE 14:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zyydm)
The Letter
Singapore 1920s, Leslie Crosbie awaits trial for shooting a family friend. The truth is slowly revealed. With David Fleeshman.
TUE 14:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00ckz8d)
Episode 2
From the Sheffield Evening Star to BBC TV's 'That Was The Week That Was'. Writer David Nobbs reads from his autobiography.
TUE 15:00 Saturday Drama (b00k2mfh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The Write Stuff (b05zyydp)
Series 9
Sylvia Plath
James Walton quizzes the panel in the literary quiz show.
Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh with guests Michèle Roberts and Harry Ritchie.
The Author of the Week and subject for pastiche is Sylvia Plath.
Reader: Beth Chalmers.
Producer Katie Marsden
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006.
TUE 16:30 Electric Ink (b011vmd9)
Series 1
Episode 5
While Freddy introduces buzzwords to the paper, Maddox uncovers a top story about the Prime Minister, will the story be spiked?
Old hacks meet new media in Alistair Beaton’s satire set in the changing world of the newspaper industry.
Maddox ...... Robert Lindsay
Oliver ...... Alex Jennings
Amelia ...... Elizabeth Berrington
Tasneem ...... Zita Sattar
Masha ...... Debbie Chazen
Freddy ...... Ben Willbond
Announcer ...... Matt Addis
PM’s Wife ...... Janice Acquah
With additional material by Tom Mitchelson.
Director: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2009.
TUE 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cr32p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 17:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b05xxkqt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 18:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007m5v9)
Episode 2
Carl fears the attack has caused brain damage, as he keeps having blackouts. Tom Goodman-Hill reads Alex Garland's novel.
TUE 18:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k1mb)
Annabel Meredith
Chic Murray's daughter chats to Sally Magnusson about her life with the legendary Scottish comedian.
Producer: Mike Walker
First broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland in October 2005.
TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00j7qhl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 The Burkiss Way (b007jsfr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qfr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 Really Happening! (b00vcqjf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvkch)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Andy Rashleigh - Kind Hearts (b007703h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 Mark Steel's in Town (b05xxkqt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 The Boosh (b007jmfm)
Jungle
Howard has had enough of the way Bob Fossil is running the zoo, so he sets off in search of his childhood hero and legendary zookeeper, Tommy.
Written by and starring Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt,
The Boosh is a surreal adventure based on the Perrier Award-winning comedy show, featuring Howard and Vince's battles with zoo manager Bob Fossil.
Howard Moon ...... Julian Barrattt
Vince Noir ...... Noel Fielding
Bob Fossil ...... Rich Fulcher
Wirth Richard Ayoade.
After BBC radio gave them their big break with this series, they transferred to BBC TV where The Mighty Boosh ran for three series.
Producer: Danny Wallace.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.
TUE 23:00 Rubbish (b0077128)
Series 1
Outsourcing
Martin's boss Roger is suspended after his computer is taken away following a worldwide FBI sting operation.
Martin finds himself acting head, but when he meets the outsourcing partner from hell, he starts to realise he's in over his head.
Reece Dinsdale stars as local government officer, cynic and manic-depressive, Martin Christmas in Tony Bagley's sitcom.
Martin ...... Reece Dinsdale
Roger ...... Paul Copley
Sarah ...... Nicola Walker
Barney ...... James Lance
Karen ...... Oriane Messina
Darren ...... Mark Maier
Producer: Claire Bartlett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006.
TUE 23:30 King Cutler (b008x3qy)
King Cutler IV
Phyllis King and Ivor Cutler continue to have words. Plus poems, songs and stories....
With Dylan Edwards , David Lloyd, Ted Harrison and Craig Murray-Orr.
Producer: Neil Cargill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in February 1990.


WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2015

WED 00:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007m5v9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Dad Made Me Laugh (b007k1mb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qfr6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 Really Happening! (b00vcqjf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b00898s7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 On the Map (b00rlwwr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zyydm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00ckz8d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 Saturday Drama (b00k2mfh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 The Write Stuff (b05zyydp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Electric Ink (b011vmd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone (b00cr32p)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b05xxkqt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qm8t)
Series 3
The Terrible Tourist
Now that their marriage plans have collapsed, Agatha is furious to discover that James is taking a holiday on the island where they were supposed to honeymoon together. But when she sets out in pursuit of him, she stumbles upon another murder.
Starring Penelope Keith as Agatha Raisin, Malcolm Sinclair as James Lacey, Caroline Harker as Olivia and George Layton as Sam.
Dramatised by David Semple from the novel by MC Beaton
Producer Carol Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
WED 06:30 Portraying the Poor (b00qyw6y)
In Print
The first of two programmes about the image of poverty and of the working class that's been created by writers (Part 1) and by films and TV (Part 2).
Whether it's Friedrich Engels's report on the Salford slums in the 1840s through to George Orwell's account of his expeditions to Wigan and the hop-fields of Kent, our picture of the poor has been painted by members of the middle class.
Paul Mason asks whether this outsider's view gives us a full and fair account - or whether it says more about the attitudes of the literary class than about the poor themselves.
Interviewees include Orwell's biographer DJ Taylor; Polly Toynbee (author of "Hard Work: Life In Low-Pay Britain") and Michael Collins (author of "The Likes Of Us - A Biography Of The White Working Class").
Producer Peter Everett.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
WED 07:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01jltzd)
Plastic Balls and Sewing Machines
Butterthwaite is getting a new museum - can Graham get an exclusive on the opening? Stars Jeffrey Holland. From June 1996.
WED 07:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05y0qkv)
Series 1
Love
Helen looks at love and the problems of finding the perfect mate.
Including the invention of computer dating; how we might chemically engineer love; how the bicycle revolutionised sex; having a row in Ikea; and a pair of romantic prairie voles.
A comic look at the solutions humanity has devised to deal with the fundamental problems of survival, starring Helen Keen, Susy Kane and Peter Serafinowicz.
Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill,
Producer: Gareth Edwards
A BBC Radio Comedy production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in June 2015.
WED 08:00 The Navy Lark (b007vkkf)
Series 3
The Explosive Biscuits
Povey is warned about a bomb on a new frigate while Phillips receives a special gift for a journey.

Starring Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number One, Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Heather and Ronnie Barker and Michael Bates as the Potarneylanders.

Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen series between 1959 and 1976

Scripted by Lawrie Wyman

Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.

First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1960.
WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vt6jy)
Series 5
Episode 7
The transport cafe that discovered Haute Cuisine - and the "Grim" fairy tale of Goldilocks and the Green Witch.
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, Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Andy Smith.
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, Leon Cohen and Bill Oddie.
Producer: Humphrey Barclay
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1967.
WED 09:00 Counterpoint (b05zz536)
1998
Heat 6
Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Ian Gordon of Folkestone, Geoff Padgett of Liverpool and Derek Hall of Manchester. From February 1998.
WED 09:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqm4)
December - Sauce for the Goose
Under the shadow of the Long Mynd, Megan is out to save Gudrun from a plucking.
Sue Limb’s pastoral sitcom follows six months in the life of the Jones family, who live on a small farm in rural Wales.
Mr Jones ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
Ma Jones ...... Lisabeth Miles
Megan Jones ...... Rebecca Front
Owen Jones ...... Matthew Morgan
Bootle ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Mr Jenkins ...... Nickolas Grace
Recorded on location.
Music composed by John Whitehall.
Producer: Jonathan James Moore.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2000.
WED 10:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr2f)
1. Overtures and Beginners
1913: Richard Herncastle leaves his dead-end job to join his Uncle Nick's act in the vulgar world of music halls to experience the glamour, jealousies and romances backstage...
Published in 1965, JB Priestley's classic stars Tom Baker as Nick Ollanton.
Dramatised in three parts by Bert Coules.
Nick Ollanton ...... Tom Baker
Harry Burrard ...... Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies
Old Richard ...... Bryan Pringle
Young Richard ...... Richard Hollick
Tommy Beamish ...... Steven Frost
Julie Blane ...... Brigit Forsyth
Cissie Mapes ...... Deborah McAndrew
Nancy ...... Kathryn Hunt
Jenning ...... Russell Dixon
Johnson ...... John Lloyd Fillingham
Barney ...... Mike Edmunds
Music: Chris Monks
Producer: Kate Rowland
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1994.
WED 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvpc2)
Nil's Wedding
On her wedding day, Nil reflects on the meaning of home. Stories of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Amara Karan.
WED 11:15 John Mortimer - Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven (b007jwfc)
Lewis Luby - lecturer and authority on the poet, Lord Byron - is at one moment enjoying British Council sherry on the balcony of an Italian palazzo and the next moment he's somewhere entirely different...
John Mortimer's play for radio stars John Gielgud as Lewis Luby, Peter Woodthorpe as Tommy Fletcher, Leslie Heritage as the English Guide, Hana-Maria Pravda as Sophie Luby, Robert Rietty as Dr Benjamini, Madi Hedd as Miss Waterlow, Deborah Paige as Jennifer, Gigi Gatti as the Nun, Norma Ronald as English Mother, Michael Shannon as English Father, Gilles Dattas as French Guide, Michael Wolf as German Guide, Yasuko Nagazumi as Japanese Guide and Leonardo Pierroni as Italian Guide.
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 1976.
WED 12:00 The Navy Lark (b007vkkf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vt6jy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qm8t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:30 Portraying the Poor (b00qyw6y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b00899kj)
Episode 3
Fred upsets girl-about-town Holly, while a man from her Hollywood past arrives in New York. Read by Henry Goodman.
WED 14:15 On the Map (b00rlwwt)
Whose Map Is It Anyway?
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography.
Whose Map Is It Anyway? Thanks to Ordnance Survey, the landscape of the British Isles is probably the most comprehensively mapped of any in the world. But pressure is growing for OS to waive their copyright and make their cartographic data free to use for all-comers. Mike Parker asks whether the UK's mapping agency can maintain its hold on the national topography - and its reputation.
From 2010.
WED 14:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zz7qs)
Daisy
Maugham tells of Daisy Griffiths, rejected by her family for making them the target of village gossip. With David Troughton.
WED 14:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00cl7lz)
Episode 3
Recalling Peter Cook, David Frost and the part he played in the Sixties' satire boom, David Nobbs reads from his autobiography.
WED 15:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr2f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Counterpoint (b05zz536)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 16:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqm4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 17:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01jltzd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 17:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05y0qkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 18:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007mw9w)
Episode 3
As Carl gets used to his coma world, he looks for triggers to wake him up. Tom Goodman-Hill reads Alex Garland's novel.
WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076q7b)
Flirting
Fun or risky? Peggy Reynolds, Margi Clarke and Martin Newell join Matthew Parris to discuss the art of flirting. From January 2005.
WED 19:00 The Navy Lark (b007vkkf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00vt6jy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qm8t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:30 Portraying the Poor (b00qyw6y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cvpc2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 John Mortimer - Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven (b007jwfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05y0qkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Cabin Pressure (b0124qtf)
Series 3
Qikiqtarjuaq
When MJN Air flies a party of tourists near the North Pole, Arthur goes hunting for polar bears, Carolyn for a rogue lemon and Martin for a believable French accent.
Meanwhile, Alfred Hitchcock makes a surprise appearance.
John Finnemore's sitcom about the pilots of a tiny charter airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs are too difficult.
Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole
1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam
Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch
Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore
Nancy Dean Liebhart ..... Melanie Hudson
Mrs. Cook ..... Kosha Engler
Mr. Peary ..... Ewan Bailey
Producer/Director: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2011.
WED 23:00 Revolting People (b007jzgq)
Series 1
A Helluva Lot of Storm Clouds
Cora discovers she is pregnant, which is embarrassing as she and Ezekiel haven't yet consummated their marriage.
Meanwhile Mary and Captain Brimshaw can hardly control their passion.
Historical sitcom set in Boston in 1770, written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.
Samuel Oliphant …. Jay Tarses
Sergeant McGurk …. Andy Hamilton
Mary Oliphant …. Sophie Thompson
Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet
Ezekiel Spriggs …. Hugh Dennis
Cora Oliphant …. Felicity Montagu
Joshua Oliphant …. Tony Maudsley
Doctor Rutledge …. Philip Pope
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2000.
WED 23:30 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years (b0085flc)
Incy Wincy Quincy
A case for spider pathologist Incy Wincy Quincy and The Archers abroad
Comedy extravaganza written by and featuring Dan Freedman and Nick Romero.
With Richard Coles.
Music by the Gents.
Producer: Julian Mayers
Pilot for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 1998


THURSDAY 25 JUNE 2015

THU 00:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007mw9w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076q7b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Agatha Raisin (b011qm8t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 Portraying the Poor (b00qyw6y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b00899kj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 On the Map (b00rlwwt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zz7qs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00cl7lz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr2f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b05zz536)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 Four Joneses and a Jenkins (b007jqm4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Are You From the Bugle? (b01jltzd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b05y0qkv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Agatha Raisin (b011tz3y)
Series 3
The Green-Eyed Monster
A murder at the hotel disco has forced the warring Agatha and James to co-habit. But will they be able to solve this sudden death before they end up killing each other?
Starring Penelope Keith as Agatha Raisin, Malcolm Sinclair as James Lacey, Caroline Harker as Olivia and George Layton as Sam.
Dramatised by David Semple from the novel by MC Beaton
Producer Carol Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
THU 06:30 Portraying the Poor (b00r33sl)
In Film and TV
The second of two programmes about the image of poverty and of the working class that's been created by writers.
From 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' to 'Coronation Street' and from 'On The Buses' to 'Big Brother', British film and TV has had plenty to say about the working class. But precious little of it has been written, less of it directed and virtually none of it commissioned by people who have themselves grown up among the poor.
Paul Mason asks how the picture has changed over the decades - and whether we're now any closer to seeing real lives on screen than we were in the days of the Ealing comedies or the 'kitchen sink' dramas.
Interviewees include film director Ken Loach, whose career spans more than half a century from 'Cathy Come Home' (1966) to 'Looking For Eric' (2009); Donna Franceschild, California-born playwright whose 2003 TV series 'The Key' was the story of three generations of working-class Glasgow women; Anthony Wonke, director of the BAFTA-winning documentary series 'The Tower: A Tale Of Two Cities' (BBC TV 2007); John Jewell of Cardiff University who has studied the representation of class in comedy, and TV reality-show presenter Trisha Goddard..
Producer: Peter Everett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
THU 07:00 HR (b00hv33d)
Series 1
A Role-Play
Peter discovers that he has to reapply for his own job. But he's not the only one...
Nigel Williams’ comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.
Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce
Sam ...... Nicholas Le Prevost
Director: Peter Cavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.
THU 07:30 It's a Fair Cop (b05y11w3)
Series 2
Reporting Crime
Policeman turned comic, Alfie Moore asks whether we think ALL crime should be reported and investigated.
You may be surprised at the result....
The return of Alfie Moore's series in which his audience makes the policing decisions as he takes them through a real life crime scenario.
Written and performed by Alfie Moore.
Script Editor: Will Ing
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2015.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b00s7r4n)
Series 1
The Holiday
Harold fancies a holiday by himself in France, but his father Albert is not so keen.
CAST:
Albert .... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold .... Harry H. Corbett
The Doctor .... Colin Gordon
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series for TV.
Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by Gale Pedrick.
Produced by Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1966.
THU 08:30 Yes Minister (b007jnk7)
Series 2
The Death List
A victim of phone tapping, Jim Hacker rebuts state surveillance - until his own life comes under threat.
Starring Paul Eddington, Nigel Hawthorne and Derek Fowlds.
Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's satirical sitcom centred around the hapless MP Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby and obsequious Bernard.
It first ran on BBC TV between 1980 and 1984.
Jim Hacker …. Paul Eddington
Sir Humphrey Appleby …. Nigel Hawthorne
Bernard …. Derek Fowlds
Commander Forrest ...... Graeme Garden
Anne Hacker ...... Diana Hoddinot
Walter Fowler ...... Derek Newark
Detective ...... Peter Acre
Detective ...... William Eadle
Head Waiter ...... John Bott
Brian Perkins ...... Himself
Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1984.
THU 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00vkwg9)
Series 6
Episode 6
David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past their opponents.
Rhod Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy Porter are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Bells, Donkeys, The Police and Mrs Beeton.
The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Producer: Jon Naismith
A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 09:30 Safety Catch (b017gxpv)
Series 2
I Draw the Line
Simon is faced with even more of a moral dilemma than he's grown sadly accustomed to in his line of work and so finds himself finally drawing the line and resigning.
When faced with a particularly tricky moral issue at work Simon finally decides enough is enough and quits his job. It's not great timing though as he and Anna find themselves contemplating having a baby.
Series two of Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern morality set in the world of arms dealing.
Simon McGrath...........Darren Boyd
Anna Grieg............Joanna Page
Boris Kemal...........Lewis Macleod
Judith McGrath..........Sarah Smart
Angela McGrath..........Brigit Forsyth
Madeleine Turnbull..........Rachel Atkins
Marcus...............Dan Mersh
Producer: Dawn Ellis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
THU 10:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr2v)
2. First Night
It's the year before the Great War, and Richard Herncastle 's music-hall apprenticeship continues.
Richard gets closer to Nancy, but Harry Burrard's fears deepen...
Published in 1965, JB Priestley's classic stars Tom Baker as Nick Ollanton.
Nick Ollanton ...... Tom Baker
Harry Burrard ...... Freddie 'Parrot Face' Davies
Old Richard ...... Bryan Pringle
Young Richard ...... Richard Hollick
Tommy Beamish ...... Steven Frost
Julie Blane ...... Brigit Forsyth
Cissie Mapes ...... Deborah McAndrew
Nancy ...... Kathryn Hunt
Jenning ...... Russell Dixon
Johnson ...... John Lloyd Fillingham
Barney ...... Mike Edmunds
Nonnie ...... Ann-Marie Frater
Dramatised by Bert Coules.
Music: Chris Monks
Producer: Kate Rowland
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1994
THU 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwpxn)
At the Barndance
Preethi gets an unexpected glimpse of what might have been. Stories of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Seeta Indrani.
THU 11:15 Martyn Wade - Bodies and Souls (b0075ljz)
Harry's long and tedious marriage to selfish Joyce reaches an all-time low when she begins to experience reincarnation. Stars David Horovitch, Marcia Warren and Gerard McDermott.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b00s7r4n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 Yes Minister (b007jnk7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Agatha Raisin (b011tz3y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:30 Portraying the Poor (b00r33sl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b0089btv)
Episode 4
Holly Golightly throws a party in New York, where Fred meets the glamorous Mag Wildwood. Read by Henry Goodman.
THU 14:15 On the Map (b00rlwww)
Digital Maps
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography.
Digital Maps. Who needs traditional paper maps any more when you can download all the maps you need from the internet? Mike Parker looks at cartography in the digital age and asks whether internet mapping and satellite navigation are actually destroying good map-making and map-reading.
From 2010.
THU 14:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zzn72)
Book Bag
A young man tells Maugham the story of his unhappy engagement, making it a night he'll never forget. With David Troughton.
THU 14:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00cl6vg)
Episode 4
Recalling the birth of his famous comedy creation, Reginald Iolanthe Perrin - writer David Nobbs reads from his autobiography.
THU 15:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr2v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00vkwg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
THU 16:30 Safety Catch (b017gxpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
THU 17:00 HR (b00hv33d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 17:30 It's a Fair Cop (b05y11w3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 18:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007jtw7)
Episode 4
Panic kicks in as Carl's dream-world dissolves into a void. Will he ever wake up? Tom Goodman-Hill reads Alex Garland's novel.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b0076lrq)
Series 5
Joseph Banks
4 Extra Debut. Scientist Lord Robert May nominates the naturalist and botanist, Joseph Banks. With Humphrey Carpenter. From June 2004.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b00s7r4n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 Yes Minister (b007jnk7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Agatha Raisin (b011tz3y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:30 Portraying the Poor (b00r33sl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwpxn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Martyn Wade - Bodies and Souls (b0075ljz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 It's a Fair Cop (b05y11w3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Bleak Expectations (b00ctlhp)
Series 2
A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-kippered
The further remarkable adventures of Pip Bin, inventor of the bin, as he struggles against the cruel plotting of his evil guardian Mr Gently Benevolent, recently returned from the dead.

Mark Evans's epic comedy in the style of Charles Dickens after far too much gin.

Volume Two, Chapter the First: A Happy Life, Cruelly Re-kippered
You're invited to bask in the kindness of St Lovely's school, with its classes of double Definitely-Not-Latin and its School Cakery. But what is that sinister presence lurking with a very large number of horses? Could it be that Mister Benevolent has plans to steal the school?
Sir Philip...........................Richard Johnson
Mr Benevolent.......................Anthony Head
Sternbeater...................Geoffrey Whitehead
Young Pip..................................Tom Allen
Harry Biscuit......................James Bachman
Lily.....................................Sarah Hadland
Mr Parsimonious...............Laurence Howarth
Pippa........................................Susy Kane
Sundry boys..............................Mark Evans
Producer: Gareth Edwards
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2008.
THU 23:00 The Party Party (b007jx11)
Episode 1
It's 1993 and the party of the loony right and centre sweeps to power. Stars Robert Glenister and Rory Bremner. From May 1987.
THU 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b01c19p3)
Series 1
Heroic Failures
More historical heroism - as Gelert the dog, anyone who's played rugby for Wales and William Frost are put to the Totaliser Test.
Comedian Elis James compares key figures in Welsh history to determine the ultimate heroes of Wales.
With Ben Partridge and Nadia Kamil.
Written by Elis James, Gareth Gwyn and Benjamin Partridge.
Producer: Sharif Shahwan
First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in February 2012


FRIDAY 26 JUNE 2015

FRI 00:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007jtw7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b0076lrq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Agatha Raisin (b011tz3y)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 Portraying the Poor (b00r33sl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b0089btv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 On the Map (b00rlwww)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zzn72)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00cl6vg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr2v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth (b00vkwg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Safety Catch (b017gxpv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 HR (b00hv33d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 It's a Fair Cop (b05y11w3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Agatha Raisin (b011vf01)
Series 3
The Fairies of Fryfam
Hurt by James once too often, Agatha takes a trip to the Cornish village of Fryfam, but is soon disturbed by some strange lights at the bottom of her garden.
Starring Penelope Keith as Agatha Raisin, Malcolm Sinclair as James Lacey, Liza Sadovy as Mrs Bloxby and Rebecca Saire as Lucy Danvers.
Dramatised by David Semple from the novel by MC Beaton
Producer Carol Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
FRI 06:30 In Search of the Singing Postman (b00tmlh2)
The writer DJ Taylor grew up in Norfolk. When he was missing his roots, he'd put on a record by Allan Smethurst, The Singing Postman, to remind him of home.
Smethurst is best known for one song - Have You Got A Loight Boy. By the mid 1960's he featured on the pop chart, just behind The Moody Blues. With his goofy smile and postman's uniform, he was the one hit wonder to end all one hit wonders. But DJ Taylor believes he was something far more than that.
Taylor argues that the songs turn out, not to be novelty numbers, but plaintive celebrations of a kind of lost, rural life that had begun to disappear, even as it was committed to vinyl. His songs are firmly rooted in the traditional ballads of Norfolk. His work is the last gasp of a genuinely popular art form, before it went down amid the onslaught of post-war mass culture.
There were even plans to send Smethurst to Nashville, the idea being that 'Country and Eastern' would appeal to the US audience. Smethurst admired the early American greats like Jimmie Rodgers and The Carter Family - their playing influenced his own lilting guitar style.
This programme tells the story of Smethurst's brief dalliance with fame and his steady fall into obscurity as he struggled with alcohol addiction. DJ Taylor pays tribute to the man who loved Norfolk, and through his songs preserved the memories and language of an entire way of life.
The programme is produced in Manchester by Nicola Swords.
FRI 07:00 Little Blighty on the Down (b00tp807)
Series 4
Episode 2
The Parish council needs its money, but will the bank be able to pay out? Political satire with John Baddeley. From July 1991.
FRI 07:30 The Price of Happiness (b05v6gnt)
Series 1
Children
Stand-up poet Kate Fox explores some of the things she doesn't want and has cheerfully failed to achieve in life, despite feeling society constantly reminds her that, as a woman, she should.
Kate kicks off with a look at the subject of children.
Are we all wired to be baby-making machines? Not always, no. Some of us would rather spend our hard earned cash in Mango than Mothercare. Prospective parents are plagued by questions - Would I be a good parent? Would a child change my life beyond all recognition? Would having a child mean I could legitimately buy myself Lego and eat jelly?
Can legislation across the world be used to either encourage or discourage parenthood? And what's the cost of feeling you have to want the same things as everybody else? Kate and the audience draw up a list of pros and cons of having children, and work out whether the average cost of raising a child could be better spent making our lives more fun and meaningful in other ways.
Kate Fox is a comedian and poet from the North East of England. She has contributed poems and comic pieces to many Radio 4 shows including "Saturday Live", "Wondermentalist Cabaret", "From Fact to Fiction", "Woman's Hour" and "Arthur Smith's Balham Bash".
Producer: Lianne Coop
An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007r3dg)
Series 4
The Espresso Bar
Making no money out of being in showbiz, the lad sees his future in selling coffee.
Starring Tony Hancock, Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques.
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 December 1956.
FRI 08:30 The Goon Show (b007jlfp)
Series 5
The Phantom Head Shaver
As baldness breaks out in Brighton, is there a connection to a glut of cheap tobacco

Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan.

Starring:

Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan

First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.

With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.

Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.

Announcer: Wallace Greenslade

Producer: Peter Eton

First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in October 1954.
FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rqnfh)
Series 5
Episode 4
Crazy panel show capers with Sue Perkins, Jon Holmes, Marcus Brigstocke, Rob Rouse and Armando Iannucci. From September 2004.
FRI 09:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pckm1)
Trust
The bungling surveillance team undertakes a top-secret category G surveillance operation.
It's a job so secret even the boss doesn't know about it.
Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives.
Sharla ...... Nina Conti
Bill ...... Richard Lumsden
Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya
Mrs A ...... Kate Layden
Mr A ...... Ewan Hooper
Justine ...... Tessa Nicholson
David ...... Ewan Bailey
Delphine ...... Kate Layden
Producer: Katie Tyrrell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.
FRI 10:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr39)
3. Final Curtain
The glamour of the music halls begins to fade as Richard Herncastle embarks on a dangerous affair - and tragedy strikes the company.
Meanwhile, war is on the horizon...
Conclusion of JB Priestley's classic starring Tom Baker as Nick Ollanton.
Nick Ollanton ...... Tom Baker
Old Richard ...... Bryan Pringle
Young Richard ...... Richard Hollick
Sam ...... Freddie Davies
Tommy Beamish ...... Steven Frost
Julie Blane ...... Brigit Forsyth
Cissie Mapes ...... Deborah McAndrew
Nancy ...... Kathryn Hunt
Jenning ...... Russell Dixon
Johnson ...... John Lloyd Fillingham
Barney ...... Mike Edmunds
Nonnie ...... Ann-Marie Frater
Dramatised by Bert Coules.
Music: Chris Monks
Producer: Kate Rowland
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1994
FRI 11:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwv65)
Test
A day out with his son gives Rohan new understandings of love. Stories of Sri Lankan immigrants in Britain, read by Paul Bazely.
FRI 11:15 Katie Hims - Roberto Sultana (b007586n)
Nine-year-old Shelly's mother lies listless in a darkened room, so she writes to her cowboy hero for help. With Liz Smith.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007r3dg)
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FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (b007jlfp)
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FRI 13:00 Agatha Raisin (b011vf01)
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FRI 13:30 In Search of the Singing Postman (b00tmlh2)
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FRI 14:00 Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's (b008900m)
Episode 5
Budding New York author Paul gets a job, but is still captivated by girl-about-town Holly Golightly. Truman Capote's New York novel. Read by Henry Goodman.
FRI 14:15 On the Map (b00rlwwy)
Maps of the Mind
Self-confessed map addict Mike Parker explores modern cartography.
Maps of the Mind. The most powerful maps aren't found on paper or a computer screen. They're the maps we hold in our memories and imaginations. Mike Parker visits a primary school in his home town to compare the pupils' maps with his own, drawn from childhood recollection. And he takes a trip to Ambridge, home of the Archers, to meet Eddie Grundy and ask him for directions around the village.
From 2010.
FRI 14:30 Mr Maugham's Journey Home (b05zzxjz)
Before the Party
Sailing home from colonial life in Borneo, Millicent tells the story of the death of her husband Harold. With David Troughton.
FRI 14:45 David Nobbs - I Didn't Get Where I Am Today... (b00cl496)
Episode 5
From Perrin and Pratt to 'Going Gently', writer David Nobbs concludes reading from his autobiography.
FRI 15:00 JB Priestley - Lost Empires (b007jr39)
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FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge (b01rqnfh)
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FRI 16:30 Sneakiepeeks (b00pckm1)
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FRI 17:00 Little Blighty on the Down (b00tp807)
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FRI 17:30 The Price of Happiness (b05v6gnt)
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FRI 18:00 Alex Garland - The Coma (b007jtwc)
Episode 5
Fear of never waking up turns to fear of waking up as Carl starts to stir. Tom Goodman-Hill concludes Alex Garland's novel.
FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs (b01q95t1)
Series 5
Craig Armstrong
5/8 Craig Armstrong is a respected composer and arranger and a Royal Academy of Music graduate.
His film credits include the scores for William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet which earned him a BAFTA award and Moulin Rouge which earned him an Ivor Novello award for best original score. He wrote the music for the film Love Actually and has produced his own albums including Piano Works and Film Works.
Phil Cunningham opens the programme with the music to accompany the Balcony Scene from the soundtrack to the film Romeo + Juliet and then they go on to talk about these five tracks.
The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles
Lontano for Orchestra (1967 ) - Ligeti
Safe from Harm - Massive Attack
Lets make our own movies - AGF - Westernization Completed
Because of Toledo - The Blue Nile
Phil closes the programme with Enno Morricone's Love Theme.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007r3dg)
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FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (b007jlfp)
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FRI 20:00 Agatha Raisin (b011vf01)
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FRI 20:30 In Search of the Singing Postman (b00tmlh2)
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FRI 21:00 Roshi Fernando - Homesick (b01cwv65)
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FRI 21:15 Katie Hims - Roberto Sultana (b007586n)
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FRI 22:00 The Price of Happiness (b05v6gnt)
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FRI 22:30 Victor Lewis-Smith (b05zzzgd)
Episode 8
'Local radioland', singing telegrams and original sin. The darkly comic world of Victor Lewis-Smith.
Award-winning controversial comedy surfaced on BBC Radio 1 in 1990 in the shape of Victor Lewis-Smith. The writer and producer took a comedy cudgel to the self-satisfied, mid-Atlantic style of the very network he was appearing on - with hoax phone calls, sketches, plus comic takedowns of high profile celebs. It's all deliciously sandwiched between the original jangly Radio 1 jingles made by JAM Creative Productions in Dallas, USA.
Winner of the British Comedy Awards 1990 for Best Radio Comedy.
After making a series of late night programmes for Radio 1, Victor took aim at TV in 1993 with BBC TWO's Inside Victor Lewis Smith, before sparking another stir on Channel 4 in 1998 with TV Offal.
Written by Victor Lewis Smith and Paul Sparks
Produced by Victor Lewis Smith
First heard on BBC Radio 1 in May 1990.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b0612y5n)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith is joined by John Robbins.
FRI 23:00 The Consultants (b060002m)
Series 4
Episode 2
The series described as "inventive and funny in a way that won't offend normal people, the elderly or children".
Cerebral sketch show written by and starring Justin "Lofty" Edwards, Neil "Professor" Edmond and James "Shortstop" Rawlings.
Producer: Will Saunders
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005.
FRI 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007r4mh)
Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix
Episode 4
Cricketing legend Dave Podmore tries to gauge the English team's success in his own murky way...
Christopher Douglas stars as Pod.
Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds.
Dave ...... Chris Douglas
Andy ...... Andrew Nickolds
With Henry Alan, Keiran Cadweller, William Hicks, David Rogers, Fiona Rowlett and Montanna Thompson.
Producer: Richard Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.