SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 2015

SAT 00:00 Simon Bovey - Cold Blood (b007jv49)
The Antarctican
The struggle at the South Pole continues.
Having witnessed the destruction of the Ellsworth Research Centre and the death of several of their colleagues, the survivors prepare to flee...
Conclusion of Simon Bovey's 5-part sci-fi thriller set in 2015 stars Tim McMullan as Bowers, Tom Mannion as Commander Taft, Stuart McLoughlin as Max Bellingfield, Ndidi Del Fatti as Anaya and Helen Longworth as Deborah.
Director: Marc Beeby
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2005.
SAT 00:30 Soul Music (b00763ln)
Series 2
The Lark Ascending
Tasmin Little, Iona Brown and Allan Stephenson reflect on the impact of Ralph Vaughan Williams's most English of works.
Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
Producer: Rosie Boulton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
SAT 01:00 Kingsley Amis - Affairs of Death (b06jtqpg)
Pope Leo's had something on his conscience for 900 years - the confessions of a Scottish King: King Macbeth.
Stars Peter Jeffrey as Pope Leo IX, Ken Stott as Macbeth, Olivier Pierre as Hildebrand and Kim Wall as Desiderius.
Written by Kingsley Amis and dramatised by John Scotney.
Producer: Jane Morgan
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987.
SAT 01:30 Skip (b00sgbl8)
The secret life of the rubbish skip. They are such a familiar sight on our streets that most of us take the common-or-garden skip for granted.
But to some people they are the focal point of their lives, whether for survival, inspiration for art, or the subject of a university Garbology degree. And what is our fascination with not only keeping an eye on what other people put in them, but also maybe having a rummage, or best of all, spiriting away a discarded piece of treasure?
Writer and gardening expert Alys Fowler, herself no stranger to "liberating" skipped curios for her garden and home, builds a picture of our behaviour in and around these metal Aladdin's caves and unearths amusing and amazing tales to add to skip folklore of recent years.
Forget the old floorboards and broken sofas, afficionados see skips as a source of everything from priceless antiques to free food. And if your community needs affordable extra amenities such as a swimming pool or skateboard park, there's an artist who has created these very things - from old skips.
As Alys looks in a fresh way at skips throughout the land, what secrets and treasures are they about to reveal?
Producer: Neil Cargill
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00sp3dx)
Episode 5
Lecturer Jim Dixon is preoccupied about losing his job whilst preparation for the summer ball begins. Read by Martin Jarvis.
SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rdzx0)
The Rise of the Shamans
Around the world charismatic individuals claim the ability to change the weather, heal illness and help crops grow. Professor David Hendy explains how sound - and its manipulation - is central to the shaman's power.
David introduces the eerie rituals of Siberian reindeer herders as they summon spirits, before coming closer to home to hear a mysterious singing angel high in the facade of Wells Cathedral.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01dvzpc)
Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind
Episode 5
Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by Martha King.
Giacinto's behaviour is causing trouble for the Pintor sisters. Noemi disapproves of his relationship with Grixenda and there are rumours that Giacinto is gambling. Will Efix's attempts to put things right work?
EFIX.....John Lynch
NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson
ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew
RUTH/KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt
GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty
PREDU.....Conrad Nelson
Directed by Nadia Molinari.
SAT 02:45 Book of the Week (b00wgznx)
Bettany Hughes - The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
Episode 5
Written by Bettany Hughes.
Socrates lived in a city that nurtured the key ingredients of contemporary civilisation - democracy, liberty, science, drama, rational thought- yet, as he wrote nothing in his lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure. "The Hemlock Cup" tells his story, setting him in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean that was his home, and dealing with him as he himself dealt with the world.
The Spartans break down Athenian walls and Socrates is barred from associating with the city's youth. His card is marked.
Abridged by Libby Spurrier
Reader: Bettany Hughes
Producer: Joanna Green
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 03:00 RD Blackmore - Lorna Doone (b00sp1f1)
Episode 3
When Lorna is taken to London, John fears he’s lost her forever. Meanwhile Carver Doone has murderous plans....
Starring Alison Pettit and David Schofield.
Conclusion of RD Blackmore’s popular and enduring romance set on 17th century Exmoor.
John Ridd …. David Schofield
Lorna Doone …. Alison Pettit
Mother …. Janet Dale
Carver Doone …. Kim Durham
Jeremy Stickles …. Graham Padden
Tom Faggus …. Cornelius Garrett
Lizzie Ridd …. Sunny Ormonde
Annie Ridd …. Katherine Mount
Gwenny …. Susan Jeffrey
Charlie Doon …. David Perks
Counsellor Doone …. Graham Colclough
King James …. Jonathan Wyatt
Dramatised by Barry Letts.
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Brian Lighthill
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in in September 1997.
SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b00z58bg)
Series 1
Stirling
Coming this week from the University of Stirling, host Steve Punt puts questions to students and lecturers of Psychology, Marketing, and English Studies. So if you've got a notion as to who lived at 7 Eccles Street, what is James Bond's family motto, or why on earth a marketer might use a 'semantic cognitive differential tangent' then listen in...
"The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure.
Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the UK.
The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides...
The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more than just glanced at that reading list...
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 04:30 Albert and Me (b007jsbh)
Series 1
Spanner in the Works
Single dad Bryan's son Albert is starting nursery - what could possibly go wrong?
Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With John Junkin as Harry.
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977.
SAT 05:00 The Change (b0076p6t)
Series 3
Episode 4
With George's big birthday looming, he gets two surprises - one from his wife and the other from his mother.
Carol …. Lynda Bellingham
George …. Philip Jackson
Violet ...... Marcia Warren
Maureen …. Maureen Beattie
Ken …. James Vaugnan
Sonia …. Emma Kennedy
Jerry …. Barnaby Kay
Dave …. Mark Powley
Nurse ...... Rosie Armstrong
Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic.
Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004.
SAT 05:30 Shedtown (b01pw3lq)
Series 2
'Til Press Do Us Part
Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some time or other?
Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching oneself out of a long established orbit to head for the deep space of the unknown?
In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol of possibility and change.
Episode 2:
As William weds his blushing, boiler-suited, berk of a bride, old Johnny Edwards takes a turn for the worse.
Barry............................Tony Pitts
Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan
Eleanor.........................Ronni Ancona
Johnny..........................Alan Leith
Colin.............................Johnny Vegas
Deborah........................Emma Fryer
William.........................Adrian Manfredi
Diane...........................Rosina Carbone
Dave............................Shaun Dooley
Father Michael.............James Quinn
Wes............................Warren Brown
Nell.............................Eleanor Samson
Narrator.......................Maxine Peake
Music..........................Paul Heaton and Jonny Lexus
Written and Directed by Tony Pitts
Produced by Sally Harrison
A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 06:00 Miss Marple (b007jvht)
The Body in the Library
Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a pleasant doze when suddenly her dreams take a strange turn.
The housemaid Mary is telling her there's a body in the library. As she wakes up, it turns out to be true. But who is the strange young blonde woman sprawled on the library floor?
Enter St Mary Mead's famous resident sleuth...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss Marple.
Miss Jane Marple ..…. June Whitfield
Colonel Melchett ..…. Richard Todd
Dolly Bantry ..…. Pauline Jameson
Colonel Bantry ..…. Jack Watling
Sir Henry Clithering ..…. Graham Crowden
Conway Jefferson ..…. John Hartley
Inspector Slack ..…. John Baddeley
Adelaide Jefferson ..…. Priyanga Elan
Mark Gaskell ..…. Harry Myers
George Bartlett ..…. Ben Crowe
Josie Turner ..…. Elizabeth Conboy
Basil Blake ..…. Giles Fagan
Dinah Lee ..…. Tilly Gaunt
Florence Small ..…. Eleanor Hodson
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell.
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1999.
SAT 07:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations (b0075y5m)
Lucinda's Rectory
The architectural historian visits a favourite 19th-century rectory, her own house. With Dan Cruickshank. From September 2000.
SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 (b01nk1d0)
Time Travel: The Politics of Time
As we prepare to put the clocks back tonight, Sean Street travels back in time through archive recordings to explore the ways in which we have tried to control time itself - from its standardisation in the 19th century, brought about by the railways, to modern day political decisions about time-zones and when Summer Time should start and end.
Most of us remember we get an extra hour in bed tonight - but when we get up for work on Monday morning will it be lighter or darker? Why do we bother to change the clocks? Should we change our time-zone and join Central European Time and consign GMT to the past? And what exactly is time? Can it be controlled or does it control us as it marches on relentlessly making us older day by day? All these ideas have been debated throughout the years, but are we any nearer being able to define or explain what time is?
With help from curators at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Sean Street's journey into past recordings takes him backwards and forward across the many time-zones of Russia, into China's single time-zone, to Venezuela's deliberately political adoption of a half-hour time-zone and to Samoa, who recently travelled forward in time by losing a whole day.
However, if you want to experience Time Travel yourself, listen to the repeat of this programme tonight on BBC Radio 4 Extra which starts and ends at 1am in the hour the clocks go back!
Producer: Andy Cartwright
A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats (b007jtk4)
The 1960s
Episode 2
Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC.
Six more favourites plucked from the groovy 1960s schedules of the BBC Light Programme:
* Whack-O!
From 15/03/1962
Crooked headmaster Professor Jimmy Edwards holds auditions for Chiselbury School's charity concert in aid of a retiring teacher. With Vera Lynn. From March 1962.
* The Men From the Ministry
Series 2 (2/13) Something about a Soldier
The bumbling civil servants find a 20-year-old demob letter. Stars Richard Murdoch, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Norma Ronald and Warren Mitchell. From August 1965.
* The Ken Dodd Show
From 19/07/1964
The King of Knotty Ash offers tips for nude photography and the hunt for a Scottish lake-bound monster. With Judith Chalmers, John Laurie and Patricia Hayes. From July 1964.
* Steptoe & Son
Series 1 (11/13) The Lead Man Cometh
The rag and bone men get an irresistible offer. Adapted from TV with Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett and Leonard Rossiter. From September 1966.
* The Embassy Lark
Series 1 (6/13) A Trip to London
The staff of the British Embassy panic over the expiry of their lease in Tratvia. Stars Derek Francis, Frank Thornton and Francis de Wolff. From April 1966
* Round the Horne
Series 4 (12/16)
Kenneth Horne makes Fleet Street headlines, and calls round to Julian and Sandy's 'Bona Private Detective Agency'. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. From May 1968.
Produced and scripted by Peter Reed
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2003.
SAT 12:00 To the Manor Born (b007jpzw)
The Rhythms of the Earth
Cash-strapped Lady of the Manor, Audrey fforbes-Hamilton has been forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her husband died.
With her butler Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage.
From this vantage point, Audrey is set to keep a close and disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of Czech descendent.
She must educate the new squire into the ways of the Lord of the Manor...
Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron.
Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script.
Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith
Richard DeVere …. Keith Barron
Marjory Frobisher …. Angela Thorne
Brabinger …. Nicholas McArdle
Mrs Polouvicka …. Margery Withers
Ned …. Frank Middlemass
First piloted for BBC radio, but whisked off to BBC TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1997.
SAT 12:30 Huddwinks (b00b1p9r)
Series 2
The Curse of the Smollett's Curse!
Melissa and Compton win a holiday, but spurn Herne Bay for an adventure in ancient Egypt. Stars Roy Hudd. From June 1988.
SAT 13:00 Virginia Baily - Early One Morning Omnibus (b06j2gqb)
Episode 2
Italy 1943. Chiara and Cecilia are living with their grandmother in a remote farmhouse, where they shelter passing deserters and Daniele, the small Jewish boy Chiara saved from the Nazis.
30 years later, Chiara has lost touch with her troubled adoptive son, but is preparing to host Welsh teenager, Maria, who claims to be Daniele's daughter.
Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in Miranda Emmerson's dramatisation of Virginia Baily's powerful novel, which moves between Nazi-occupied Italy and Rome, 1973.
Omnibus of the last five of ten parts.
Narrator.....Greta Scacchi
Chiara.....Juliet Aubrey
Maria.....Sophie Melville
Cecilia.....Alex Tregear
Daniele.....Adam Thomas Wright
Gennaro/ Adult Daniele.....Cesare Taurasi
Simone/ Nonna.....Jessica Turner
Antonio.....David Hounslow
Gabriele.....David Acton
Tommaso/ Nazi officer/ Brian.....Felix Auer
Edna.....Amelia Lowdell
Barry/ Goffredo.....Chris Pavlo
Gianni.....Sam Dale
Director: Emma Harding
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.
SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06knlbp)
John Thomson
The actor chooses the theme from the TV series 'Rupert the Bear' and 'Life Is Just A Game' by bass virtuoso Stanley Clarke.
SAT 14:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007v0zr)
The Last Obit
Billie Whitelaw stars as an obituarist living in her own very particular world, in a monologue written especially for her by Peter Tinnswood.
Having spent years writing obituaries for the Morning Telegraph, Millicent Doris Clayton's mind wanders as she prepares her final piece before taking retirement. Epitaphs and judgments on the famous, the notorious and the undeserving have passed through her office. She is a middle-aged spinster. So who will prepare Millicent's own obituary? And what will it say?
Directed by Enyd Williams. First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 (b01nk1d0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SAT 16:00 Miss Marple (b007jvht)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations (b0075y5m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 Doctor Who (b06knp8c)
Doing Time
The Doctor does time on the prison planet Folly. Can he endure a year in solitary?
Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Nyssa played by Sarah Sutton.
This episode is one of four generated by Big Finish Productions' 2010 'Opportunity for New Writers' contest, which attracted around 1200 entries,
Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor on BBC TV from 1981 to 1984.
Sarah Sutton played Nyssa between 1981 and 1983. She was first seen on 'The Keeper of Traken' - Traken being Nyssa's home planet, when she starred with the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker)
Written by Rick Briggs.
Original music composed by Richard Fox and Lauren Yason.
Directed by Ken Bentley
Producer: David Richardson
A Big Finish production.
SAT 18:30 The Routemasters by Andrew McGibbon (b007jnry)
3. On the Buses
Bernie is kidnapped by Hildegard and then escapes to the 24th century. Raymond discovers his true identity...
Starring Amanda Donohoe as Hilderghast, Andrew McGibbon as Raymond, Karl Minns as the Conductor, Owen Evans as Bernie, Nick Romero as the Driver, Andy Mulligan as Herr Grubberman, Dan Freedman as Kunitrol, Alex Lowe as the interpolator and Sophie Aldred as Spikea.
Written by Andrew McGibbon. Additional material by Rob Colley and Kevin Greening.
Theme by Ozzy Temple and other music by Nick Romero.
Producer: Julian Mayers
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats (b007jtk4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better (b00dhg7k)
Series 2
Humility
The comedian ponders the virtue of living more modestly. With poetry and songs by Tim Key and Tom Basden. From September 2008.
SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive (b00d10m3)
Series 4
Episode 2
A master chef and his cooks whip up a frenzy of topical comedy. With Dave Gorman, Simon Evans and Will Smith. From August 2008.
SAT 23:00 Saturday Night Fry (b007jt12)
Episode 6
Stephen Fry serves up a final portion of witty banter and sketches.
With Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law.
Written by Stephen Fry with additional material by Ian Brown and James Hendrie.
Producer: Dan Patterson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1988.
SAT 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom (b018zvmk)
Series 3
Reading
Adam Bloom investigates his fear of reading aloud. Just what is the point of books?
After very negative but funny experiences at school, the comedian managed to avoid reading a book for much of his adult life. But he does find one novel that inspires him to start reading again.
Written by and starring Adam Bloom.
With Rob Rouse, Hattie Hayridge and Stefano Polini.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2005.


SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2015

SUN 00:00 Doctor Who (b06knp8c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 00:30 The Routemasters by Andrew McGibbon (b007jnry)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Guy Meredith - Spring Forward, Fall Back (b0084sgw)
Divorcee plumber Maggie Johnson lives in a small Derbyshire village.
One day a stranger arrives and changes her life.
Guy Meredith's romantic, bitter-sweet comedy.
Maggie ...... Samantha Spiro
Dennis ...... Neil Dudgeon
Ted ...... Stephen Moore
Paul ...... Jonathan Forbes
Mark ...... Andrew Harrison
Producer: Cherry Cookson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2003.
SUN 01:00 Virginia Baily - Early One Morning Omnibus (b06knj7b)
Episode 1
Rome 1943. A split-second decision is about to change Chiara's life forever.
Cardiff 1973. Welsh teenager Maria learns some shocking news about her past.
Greta Scacchi, Juliet Aubrey and Sophie Melville star in Miranda Emmerson's dramatisation of Virginia Baily's powerful novel of love, loss and learning to be a mother.
Omnibus of the first five of ten parts. The action moves between Nazi-occupied Rome and 1973.
Narrator.....Greta Scacchi
Chiara.....Juliet Aubrey
Maria.....Sophie Melville
Cecilia.....Alex Tregear
Daniele.....Adam Thomas Wright
Gennaro/ Adult Daniele.....Cesare Taurasi
Simone/ Nonna.....Jessica Turner
Antonio.....David Hounslow
Gabriele.....David Acton
Tommaso/ Nazi officer/ Brian.....Felix Auer
Edna.....Amelia Lowdell
Barry/ Goffredo.....Chris Pavlo
Gianni.....Sam Dale
Director: Emma Harding
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.
SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06knlbp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday]
SUN 02:15 Peter Tinniswood (b007v0zr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday]
SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 (b01nk1d0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Miss Marple (b007jvht)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations (b0075y5m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 Reeds in the Wind - Omnibus (b01f8l87)
Episode 1
Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in 1900's Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.
SUN 07:15 Pier People (b00760pp)
Blackpool's Piers
What does the future hold for Blackpool's piers as visitors demand new forms of entertainment? From February 2001.
SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community (b01phhyf)
Series 8
Hot Desk
Social Worker Clare Barker and her colleagues have to move offices and embrace hot desking. All this while Clare has a new student to wet nurse. Brian is struggling to keep control in the classroom.
Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all the right jargon but never a practical solution.
A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering in other people's lives on both a professional and personal basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of discomfort to her.
Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control both her professional and private life
In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare.
Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden
Clare ...... Sally Phillips
Brian ...... Alex Lowe
Megan ...... Nina Conti
Nali ...... Nina Conti
Ray ...... Richard Lumsden
Helen ...... Liza Tarbuck
Simon ...... Andrew Wincott
Libby ...... Sarah Kendall
Alice ...... Alex Tregear
Abigail ...... Eleanor Crooks
Dexter ...... Will Howard
Bob ...... Robert Blythe
Neighbour ...... Ben Crowe
Terence ...... Ben Crowe
MC ...... Ben Crowe
Simon's girlfriend ...... Bharti Patel
Producer Katie Tyrrell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2013.
SUN 08:00 Educating Archie (b00g9m6d)
From 30/01/1957
Archie Andrews and Brough decide it's to move out to the country and buy a farm.
Radio ventriloquism from Peter Brough and schoolboy, Archie Andrews.
With Dick Emery, Deryck Guyler, Ken Platt, Hilda Braid and Peter Hawkins.
Running from 1950- 1958, Educating Archie introduced a number of soon-to-be household names to listeners, including Tony Hancock, Benny Hill, Harry Secombe, Dick Emery, Hattie Jacques, Bruce Forsyth and Max Bygraves - all taking a turn in tutoring Archie.
Script by George Wadmore, Ronald Wolfe and Pat Dunlop.
Music by Ronald Chesney and the BBC Revue Orchestra conducted by Harry Rabinowitz.
Producer: Roy Speer
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1957.
SUN 08:30 Frankie Howerd Show (b007jn0j)
The king of titters reads some ditties and battles giant animals in a spoof thriller. With Norma Ronald. From November 1975.
SUN 09:00 John Le Carre: The Biography - Omnibus (b06kp85x)
David Cornwell (author John Le Carre) and his family were always under his remarkable father's shadow. Read by Stephen Boxer.
SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06kp9zq)
Kate Mosse
The author chooses Nancy Sinatra's 'These Boots Were Made For Walkin' and Jacques Brel's tender 'La Chanson Des Vieux Amants'.
SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06kp9zv)
Fashion
George Davies
From The Beatles to Luciano Pavarotti.
Retail legend and fashion designer George Davies shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley and talks about his life and work.
In the 1980s George changed the shape of high streets with his chain Next - moving on to successful projects with Asda and Marks and Spencer.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2006.
SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour (b06kpj7n)
Series 2
From Curiosity to Discovery
A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.
Guy Raz investigates why some people spend years trying to answer a question, or risk their lives to discover something new.
With James Cameron, Thomas Thwaites, Wendy Chung, Adam Savage and Nathan Wolfe.
First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio.
SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lyx6f)
Series 1
The Serpent's Stare
Underground animals are very different to the animals that spend their life on the surface. They are a different shape, their senses are tuned in a very different way and they manifestly come from a different world.
Does this explain the stare of the snake?
Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
Producer: Julian Hector
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2009.
SUN 12:00 Educating Archie (b00g9m6d)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
SUN 12:30 Frankie Howerd Show (b007jn0j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
SUN 13:00 Reeds in the Wind - Omnibus (b01f8l87)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SUN 14:15 Pier People (b00760pp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today]
SUN 14:30 A Whole Life (Omnibus) (b06kpk0x)
When Andreas Egger reaches the village on the night that he tries to save Hannes, the goatherd, he goes into the inn and meets Marie - the only love of his life - for the first time. Romance and grief and a sometimes wry stoicism are the touchstones of Egger’s solitary life as the 20th century unfolds around him.
The modern world encroaches slowly on the valley, the forest is carved out for ski lifts, electricity arrives, and tourists too. But throughout it all, Egger remains steadfast in his modest struggle to survive and in his ever constant respect for the landscape around and above him.
Robert Powell reads Austrian Robert Seethaler's novel.
Omnibus of five episodes abridged by Jennie Howarth.
This ‘slim masterpiece’ (Daily Mail) went straight onto the bestseller lists in Germany. Jim Crace called it both 'heart-rending and heart-warming', and over 200,000 people have read and celebrated this book across Europe.
Translated by Charlotte Collins
Producer: Elizabeth Davies
A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in October 2015.
SUN 15:45 Peter Regent - Figs (b06kq0yy)
On a coach journey in Turkey, a man dreams of eating refreshing figs. Can his fellow travellers help? Read by Nigel Anthony.
SUN 16:00 David Pownall (b01sdty0)
I Want to Go Home
And on the eighth day God created language. Little did he expect the confusion that would ensue...
David Pownall's comedy about the evolution of the English language.
I .... David Bamber
Want .... Joanna Monro
To Go .... Ben Crowe
Home .... Georgie Alexander
Cark .... Struan Rodger
Angel of the Eighth Day .... Andrew Scott
With John Hartley as the voice of God
Director: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2000.
SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (b06kq1rv)
Adventures in Poetry - Adlestrop
BBC Radio 4's and 4 Extra's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive.
In Adventures in Poetry, Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting appeal of the 1915 poem 'Adlestrop' about a stop at a Cotswolds railway station.
This poem has long been loved for its evocation of high summer, rural England and the intimation of changes to come.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
SUN 17:30 Clare in the Community (b01phhyf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b007jlpl)
Series 2
The Man Upstairs
A new guest in a boarding house is disliked by the grandson of the lady who runs the house. But why?
The reason soon becomes startingly clear....
Strange and chilling tales from the award-winning master of thrillers Ray Bradbury, who tops and tails these dramatisations in his own inimitable style.
Douglas ...... Geoffrey Lee
Grandma ...... Mary Riggans
Koberman ...... Finlay Welsh
Grandpa ...... Charles Kearney
Dramatised by Catherine Czerkawska.
Producer: Hamish Wilson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997.
SUN 18:30 Terry Pratchett (b007jmk0)
Guards! Guards!
Episode 1
Ankh-Morpork, the elucidated brethren of Ebon Night have turned their hands to magic.
When Zebbo Mooty is mysteriously vaporised in an alley, Captain Vimes of the watch, knows it's time to act.
Can a stolen library book lead to the reinvention of dragons?
Stars John Wood and Martin Jarvis.
First published in 1989, the 8th of Terry's Pratchett's comic fantasy stories set on Discworld.
Narrator …. Martin Jarvis
Captain Vimes …. John Wood
Nobby …. Melvyn Hayes
Sergeant Colon …. Stephen Thorne
Carrot …. Robert Gwilym
The Landlord …. Crawford Logan
Supreme Grand Master …. Brett Usher
Brother Doorkeeper …. Jeff Nuttall
Brother Fingers …. Michael Roberts
Death …. Himself
Dramatised in six parts by Michael Butt.
Director: John Taylor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 5 in November 1992.
SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour (b06kpj7n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lyx6f)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]
SUN 20:00 John Le Carre: The Biography - Omnibus (b06kp85x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks (b06kp9zq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today]
SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited (b06kp9zv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today]
SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community (b01phhyf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SUN 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen (b007k33t)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
It's Christmas! - but which town residents are celebrating?
The first incarnation of the award-winning black comedy, about the "local people" of Spent - before it hit TV.
Starring Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
Written by the cast and Jeremy Dyson.
The League of Gentlemen won a Perrier Edinburgh Fesvital award in 1997 and this radio series debuted in the same year. They also won a Sony Radio Award. The cult series switched to TV for three series on BBC 2 from 1999, plus stage shows and a feature film.
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1997.
SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06nd4z7)
Arthur Smith chats to Russell Howard.
SUN 23:00 Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking (b00bz9zn)
Series 1
Episode 1
Meet a reluctant beekeeper, two feuding librarians and a man determined to strike a deal with Santa.
Perrier award-winning comedian Laura Solon's sketch and character comedy series
With Ben Moor, Katherine Parkinson and Ben Willbond.
Written by Laura Solon. With additional material by the cast, Carl Cooper, Tony Roche and Andy Marlatt.
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2007.
SUN 23:30 Recorded for Training Purposes (b00gm512)
Series 3
Episode 2
Sketch show about modern communication and contemporary obsessions. With Ben Willbond and Rachel Atkins.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2009.


MONDAY 26 OCTOBER 2015

MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury's Tales of the Bizarre (b007jlpl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 Terry Pratchett (b007jmk0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Reeds in the Wind - Omnibus (b01f8l87)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:15 Pier People (b00760pp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday]
MON 02:30 A Whole Life (Omnibus) (b06kpk0x)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday]
MON 03:45 Peter Regent - Figs (b06kq0yy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday]
MON 04:00 David Pownall (b01sdty0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (b06kq1rv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 Clare in the Community (b01phhyf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b01073s1)
Peril at End House
Episode 1
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is on holiday in Cornwall when a bullet lands at his feet at the Majestic Hotel...
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot
From the book first published in 1932 and dramatised in five parts by Michael Bakewell
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Captain Hastings …. Simon Williams
Nick Buckley …. Gemma Saunders
Frederica Rice …. Suzanna Hamilton
George Challenger …. Andrew Wincott
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.
MON 06:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields (b00lrv50)
Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll stars who emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound known as 'Khmer Rock'.
Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, almost all these singers and musicians were killed, but they’re still revered by Cambodians today.
Producer: Sarah Cuddon
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
MON 07:00 Street and Lane (b00v3n2v)
Series 1
Patio Marital
"Up your Street, Down your Lane".
Johnny Street and Arthur Lane are a pair of Yorkshire builders in a white van who battle out their partnership and their future as they tackle a plethora of household repairs.
Sitcom written by Ian McMillan and Dave Sheasby.
In this opening episode, the duo tool up for a patio job at the home of warring couple.
Johnny Street ...... Nick Lane
Arthur Lane ...... Fine Time Fontayne
Christine ...... Becky Hindley
Tom ...... Richard Katz
Great Northern Man ...... Gerard McDermott
Producer: David Hunter
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2005.
MON 07:30 Just a Minute (b06j1kdy)
Series 73
Episode 3
The South Pacific, Conkers and Harvest Festivals are among the subjects on the cards as Andy Hamilton, Sue Perkins, Tony Hawks and Gyles Brandreth join Nicholas Parsons to play another round of the classic panel show. There's deviation, hesitation and repetition a-plenty.
Hayley Sterling blows the whistle.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.
MON 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jpkw)
Series 3
A Man of Action
When a landmine sparks martial law, a reporter catches Captain Mainwaring in charge.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Private Walker ...... Larry Martyn
Town Clerk ...... Julian Orchard
Mr Norris ...... Jonathan Cecil
Inspector Baker ...... Fraser Kerr
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976.
MON 08:30 As Time Goes By (b06kvpdw)
Series 3
Episode 7
Lionel finally seeks to make an 'honest woman' of Jean.
Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. With Moira Brooker as Judith, Philip Bretherton as Alistair and Jenny Funnell as Sandy.
A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series three of his popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 years.
After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his return to England.
Producer: Martin Fisher
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1999.
MON 09:00 The Motion Show (b0075ryv)
Series 1
Episode 5
Everyone should have a therapist - and is it only sad people who have pets?
Dr Phil Hammond watches over proceedings in the quirky debating game.
With Clive Coleman, Rhona Cameron, Niall Ashdown and John Maloney
Producer: Helen Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00mjq8m)
Series 3
Episode 1
An uncle's gift leaves menopausal flower child Merv yearning to discover his inner cowboy. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From May 2004.
MON 10:00 Classic Serial (b01724z2)
Henry James - The Ambassadors
Episode 1
THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel many critics find James' finest.
EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell of Paris. .
Lambert Strether Henry Goodman
Chad Orlando Seale
Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin
Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody
John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton
Waymarsh Paul Moriarty
Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh
Jim Pocock James Lailey
Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles
Andre Carl Prekopp
Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington
Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
MON 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wrk)
Desideratus
First in a series of five short stories by Booker Prize-winner Penelope Fitzgerald. A boy goes in search of a lost keepsake. Read by Robert Glenister. From July 2000.
MON 11:15 Drama (b00scv5n)
Sean Grundy - The Recordist
By Sean Grundy
An illicit affair proves both destructive and a useful teaching aid. Starring John Gordon Sinclair, Sharon Horgan and Gemma Jones.
Stuart is a freelance surveillance expert who teaches covert 'information gathering' to new Intelligence recruits. As part of his work he 'bugs' friends & family, including his wife, Penny. When he discovers that she's having an affair with a man called Neil, his work colleague, Ren, offers her own skills in 'enhanced interview techniques' to help, but Stuart declines. He realises that the secret affair could make an engaging teaching aid. Initially, his students are slightly unsettled but very intrigued. The affair becomes the main focus of the curriculum, and the group study how to 'bug' all manner of difficult situations, such as an impromptu hotel room, a car in a field, busy nightclub, and hot-air balloon. But Penny feels terrible about the affair and Stuart discovers emotions deeply buried and things soon spiral out of control.
'The Recordist' is a dark, offbeat comedy, looking at the price love pays for clear acoustics in Dolby NR.
Cast:
Stuart - John Gordon Sinclair
Penny - Sharon Horgan
Ren - Gemma Jones
Neil - Ed Weeks
Reese - Fergus Craig
Munro - Nick Mohammed
Penny's Mum - Phyllida Nash
Directed / Produced by Alison Crawford.
MON 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jpkw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 As Time Goes By (b06kvpdw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b01073s1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields (b00lrv50)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00spnny)
Episode 6
Jim goes to the ball - where indiscretions are discovered, fantasies indulged in and plans are hatched. Read by Martin Jarvis.
The all-time classic comic novel of academic life written by Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim lists the fortunes - or rather misfortunes - of Jim Dixon, a man of many faces, most of which don't fit his surroundings.
Produced and abridged by Pat McLoughlin.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992.
MON 14:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rgm7k)
Epic Tales
In 1933, a young classics scholar called Milman Parry made a journey through the hill villages of the Balkans to record poets and singers. He captured an oral tradition that has all but died out - peasant performers who recited epic tales over days without any form of prompt.
Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explains how ancient tales were remembered and passed down, and travels to the ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Greece to find out what the audience would have made of it all up in the 'gods'.
Featuring archive extracts of traditional stories from the Balkans, Kyrgyzstan, West Africa, and India.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f5hnl)
Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind
Episode 6
Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by Martha King.
Efix urges Giacinto to put things right following the discovery that he has forged signatures to get credit from Kallina the usurer to pay his gambling debts. Will Giacinto manage to pay everything back in time?
EFIX.....John Lynch
NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson
ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew
RUTH/KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt
GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger
GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty
PREDU.....Conrad Nelson
Directed by Nadia Molinari.
MON 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00k8759)
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
An Unlooked-for Offer
Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in New York in the 1950s.
The novel opens in the small town of Enniscorthy in the south east of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who can find no work. Her three brothers have already left to seek their fortunes in England; she, her sister Rose and her widowed mother are all that remain at home.
When a priest comes home from America for a holiday, he recognises both Eilis' plight and her potential.
MON 15:00 Classic Serial (b01724z2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 16:00 The Motion Show (b0075ryv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00mjq8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 17:00 Street and Lane (b00v3n2v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 17:30 Just a Minute (b06j1kdy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 18:00 Mind's Eye (b007jypg)
Virtuoso
A woman claiming her hands are possessed is met with scepticism, until a father and daughter psychotherapist team decide to investigate...
Five tales of the paranormal written by Gemma McMullan and Gerry Casey.

Lorcan Molloy …. Dermot Crowley
Aoife Molloy …. Cathy Belton
Fergus Rainer …. Mark Lambert
Brian Walsh …. Richard Orr
Maggie Renshaw …. Margaret D'Arcy
Latimer …. Niall Cusack
Rita …. Laura Hughes
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast in 2006
MON 18:30 A Good Read (b0075zl3)
Ray Gaita & Anthea Bell
Louise Doughty and her guests philosopher Ray Gaita and Anthea Bell, translator of the Asterix books, discuss their favourite paperbacks by Inga Clendinnen, Jenny Diski and Robertson Davies. From 2000.
The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies
Publisher: Penguin
Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski
Publisher: Granta
Tiger's Eye by Inga Clendinnen
Publisher: Jonathan Cape.
MON 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jpkw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 As Time Goes By (b06kvpdw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b01073s1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields (b00lrv50)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wrk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:15 Drama (b00scv5n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
MON 22:00 Just a Minute (b06j1kdy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 The Headset Set (b01nq7dx)
Series 2
Episode 2
Sketches set in a call centre called Smile 5, a mail order catalogue company that sells anything and everything. On the Smile 5 call centre floor, Bernie is excessively angry over her missing lunch.
Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu
Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith
Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult
Various characters ..... Lucy Montgomery
Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma
Script editor: James Kettle.
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani.
First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2012.
MON 23:00 The News Quiz Extra (b06kwkqq)
Series 15
Episode 6
A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles Jupp. Jeremy Hardy, Holly Walsh, Yasmine Akram and political sketch writer Michael Deacon are Miles' guests this week.
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Radio Comedy Production.
MON 23:45 Creme de la Crime (b00890lk)
Series 3
The Lies of the Artists
Michael Feydeau -TV's much-loved Inspector Niblett - and crime expert David Pershore probe a case of counterfeit art.
Tales from the vaults of villainy written by and starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
With:
Olivia Colman
Ewan Bailey
Steven Kynman
Director: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2003.


TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2015

TUE 00:00 Mind's Eye (b007jypg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b0075zl3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01073s1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields (b00lrv50)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00spnny)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rgm7k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f5hnl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00k8759)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Classic Serial (b01724z2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 The Motion Show (b0075ryv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast (b00mjq8m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Street and Lane (b00v3n2v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (b06j1kdy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b0107wtp)
Peril at End House
Episode 2
The Belgian sleuth and Captain Hastings attend Maggie Buckley's dinner party and make a startling discovery.
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Captain Hastings …. Simon Williams
Nick Buckley …. Gemma Saunders
Frederica Rice …. Suzanna Hamilton
Mr Croft …. Terence Edmond
Mrs Croft …. Richenda Carey
Charles Vyse …. Stephen Critchlow
Maggie Buckley …. Elizabeth Conboy
Jimmy Lazarus …. Sean Arnold
Dramatist: Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2000.
TUE 06:30 In Search of the Holy Quail (b00mdy17)
Rock musicians and bird watchers Guy Garvey, Martin Noble and Marc Riley go to Shetland in search of the quail. From September 2009.
TUE 07:00 Our Man at Wembley (b00759dn)
Episode 1
Eric Halliday has a talent for impersonation, but can he make it as a sports commentator? Stars Alistair McGowan. From June 1998.
TUE 07:30 There Is No Escape (b06j21c5)
Episode 2
Andrew finds himself, like so many others across the country, having to spend a few hours over Saturday lunchtime with his girlfriend's parents.
But Andrew is determined not to go. He hatches a plan to get his workmate to call him in to an "emergency" at work. But all goes wrong when he gets a flat tyre and the only person who can come to his rescue is his girlfriend's father.
Sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, whose feeble attempts to run away invariably end with him traipsing home defeated.
Starring:
Andrew Lawrence
Diane Morgan
With Janice Connolly, Marek Larwood and Graham Fellows.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2015.
TUE 08:00 Round the Horne (b00lrv62)
Series 3
Episode 5
Kenneth Horne heads a gangster romp 'How The Bullet Proof Vest Was Won' - and can Julian and Sandy find him a Bona Soulmate?
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 March 1967.
TUE 08:30 To the Manor Born (b007k45h)
The Grapevine
Audrey tries to fool Devere that she has been on holiday to Spain.
Starring Penelope Keith and Keith Barron.
Lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate, has decamped to the tiny Old Lodge cottage with her butler in tow. .
From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and disapproving eye on new owner, the nouveau-riche Richard DeVere.
Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his BBC TV script.
Audrey fforbes-Hamilton …. Penelope Keith
Richard DeVere …. Keith Barron
Marjory Frobisher …. Angela Thorne
Brabinger …. Nicholas McArdle
Mrs Polouvicka …. Margery Withers
Ned …. Frank Middlemass
Mrs Plunkett ...... Zulema Dene
First piloted for BBC radio, but whisked off to BBC TV before it ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997.
Producer: Jane Berthoud
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1997.
TUE 09:00 The News Quiz Extra (b06kwkqq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:45 Creme de la Crime (b00890lk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday]
TUE 10:00 Classic Serial (b017c9pc)
Henry James - The Ambassadors
Episode 2
THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry James novel centres on Lambert Strether, a New Englander dispatched to Europe on a mission. Henry Goodman is the hapless protagonist.
EPISODE 2 Strether had hoped to persuade the fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee to return home to New England. But now Strether has fallen under the spell of the beautiful Mme de Vionnet. More ambassadors are sent by the angry fiancee to bring both men home.
Lambert Strether Henry Goodman
Chad Orlando Seale
Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin
Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody
John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton
Waymarsh Paul Moriarty
Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh
Jim Pocock James Lailey
Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles
Andre Carl Prekopp
Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington
Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy
Directed by Peter Kavanagh.
TUE 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075ws7)
The Means of Escape
Set in Tasmania. A convict plots his escape. Read by Claire Skinner. From July 2000.
TUE 11:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World (b0075npw)
Chinese Garden
1895: Lady McCartney, wife of the British Consul in Chinese Turkestan, meets determined Swedish explorer Sven Hedin, intent on mapping the dangerous Taklimakan Desert.
The first of three plays by Ray Jenkins based on the diaries of Catherine, Lady McCartney, a British Consul wife based in one of the loneliest places on earth.
Stars Siobhan Redmond as Catherine McCartney, Alex Jennings as George McCartney, Steve Hodson as Sven Hedin, Stephen Critchlow as Islam Bai, David Allister as James Borland, Tessa Worsley as Mother and Harry Myers as Islam Akhum.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
TUE 12:00 Round the Horne (b00lrv62)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born (b007k45h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b0107wtp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 In Search of the Holy Quail (b00mdy17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00sprfc)
Episode 7
On a whim, lecturer Jim Dixon takes a gamble, steals Professor Barclay's taxi and rides home with Christine. Read by Martin Jarvis.
TUE 14:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rg22g)
Persuasion
From Cicero to Martin Luther King, over the centuries, great orators have changed our minds, given us hope, and sent us to the barricades.
Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex reveals their rhetorical tricks, and explains why President Obama's sharp ear for dialogue is one of his greatest assets as a speaker.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f5lcl)
Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind
Episode 7
Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by Martha King.
Giacinto runs away following Ruth's sudden death leaving Grixenda distraught and Ester and Noemi financially ruined. Efix goes to Don Predu for help.
EFIX.....John Lynch
NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson
GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger
PREDU.....Conrad Nelson
Directed by Nadia Molinari.
TUE 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9jc)
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
Farewell and Adieu
Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in New York in the 1950s.
Prompted by Father Flood, home from America for a holiday, Rose sets about organising her younger sister. Almost before she knows it, or has had time to say goodbye, Eilis is crossing the Atlantic, heading for a job on the shop floor of a Brooklyn department store, lodgings with an Irish landlady and a brand new life.
TUE 15:00 Classic Serial (b017c9pc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 Act Your Age (b00qhrxb)
Series 2
Episode 4
Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic generations against each other to find out which is the funniest.
Team captains Jon Richardson, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson are joined by Mike Wozniak, Robin Ince and Ted Robbins.
Producers: Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2010.
TUE 16:30 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvgy)
Episode 6
Landlord Jack has the flu, so Nicola takes over just as the pub inspectors are due.
If the father-daughter bond can survive this, it could probably survive anything...
Joe Turner’s six-part sitcom stars Michael Williams as Jack, Lisa Coleman as Nicola, Cherry Morris as Mrs Drummond, Simon Greenall as Andy, Sally Grace as the Inspector and Toby Longworth as Joe.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1999.
TUE 17:00 Our Man at Wembley (b00759dn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 17:30 There Is No Escape (b06j21c5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 18:00 Mind's Eye (b007wpnl)
Faith
Father and Daughter psychotherapy team - Lorcan and Aoife Malloy - take on the case of Jake who believes he’s got a guardian angel...
Five tales of paranormal investigations written by Gemma McMullan and Gerry Casey.
Lorcan Molloy …. Dermot Crowley
Aoife Molloy …. Cathy Belton
Fergus Rainer …. Mark Lambert
Brian Walsh …. Richard Orr
Jake Lewis …. Sean Campion
DCI Talbot …. John Hewitt
Father Tom …. Niall Cusack
The Reporter …. Laura Hughes
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast in 2006.
TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me (b007jndb)
Series 2
Humphrey Lyttelton
Musician and radio’s legendary host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue reminisces about his life, career and love of jazz.
Featuring memories of Willie Rushton and his Clue colleagues, as well as the shock he received from George Melly.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2000.
TUE 19:00 Round the Horne (b00lrv62)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born (b007k45h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b0107wtp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 In Search of the Holy Quail (b00mdy17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075ws7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World (b0075npw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
TUE 22:00 There Is No Escape (b06j21c5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Twenty Players (b06kxptb)
Series 1
Frankie Swoop
Forgotten sporting heroes. Barry Davies tells the story of a most precociously talentless footballer. From June 1995.
TUE 22:45 The Music Teacher (b01fcvy0)
Series 2
Episode 1
Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny.
A famous ex-pupil of Nigel's pitches up at the Arts Centre to make a 'where-it-all-began-for-me' documentary, and is keen to interview Nigel.
Whilst Nigel's preparations for the reunion are hampered by the usual array of frustrating pupils, Belinda attempts to use this tenuous connection to a celebrity to generate some much needed revenue for the Arts Centre.
Audio production by Matt Katz
Directed by Nick Walker
Written and produced by Richie Webb
A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06nn9kt)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Brett Goldstein.
TUE 23:00 Delve Special (b007jmzk)
Series 4
Not-So-Supergrasses
Supergrasses are criminals. Criminals are liars. Policeman believe supergrasses Why?
Intrepid reporter David Lander probes the supergrass system and in particular the career of Billy ‘Stick’ Adams
Written by Tony Sarchet.
Starring Stephen Fry as David Lander.
With Brenda Blethyn, Robert Bathurst, Janine Duvitski, Philip Pope, Julia Hills, Mark Arden and Clive Mantle.
Producer: Paul Mayhew Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1987.
TUE 23:30 The Sofa of Time (b00hwyq7)
There's Gravy in My Locker
The epic and timeless tale of two men and their quest to find "The Sofa of Time", the most magical and powerful item of furniture in the entire universe.
It is said that those who sit on the sofa can be transported to anywhere and anytime.
Milford and Parker get sacked and as they are clearing out their lockers they fall into the magical world of Gravy...there Milford is regarded as the chosen one who has come at last to save the people from the emperor warlock Raamen Bod who plans to find the sofa and use it for evil purposes.
Written by Nick Frost and Matt King.
Matt King ...... Milford
Nick Frost ...... Parker
Mark Heap ...... Marmite
Peter Serafinowcz ...... Raamen Bod
With Kevin Eldon, Janei Anderson and Daisy Jones
Producer: Mario Stylianides
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002.


WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2015

WED 00:00 Mind's Eye (b007wpnl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 That Reminds Me (b007jndb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b0107wtp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 In Search of the Holy Quail (b00mdy17)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00sprfc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rg22g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f5lcl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9jc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 Classic Serial (b017c9pc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 Act Your Age (b00qhrxb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Old Dog and Partridge (b007jvgy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Our Man at Wembley (b00759dn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 There Is No Escape (b06j21c5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b01084hc)
Peril at End House
Episode 3
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot discovers the identity of the body - and then turns his attention to some old letters.
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Captain Hasting …. Simon Williams
Nick Buckley …. Gemma Saunders
Frederica Rice …. Suzanna Hamilton
Ellen …. Hilda Schroder
George Challenger …. Andrew Wincott
Police Inspector …. David Thorpe
Dramatist: Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000.
WED 06:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? (b00mgz1m)
Clive Anderson, whose father was a bank manager, investigates the demise of the traditional face of our high street banks.
For decades these reliable Captain Mainwarings kept our money safe, were prominent in the Rotary Club and made it their business to know every detail of the local economy. Yet over the years they were gradually phased out, as cash machines and credit cards changed banking for ever, and their risk-averse DNA stood at odds with the desire to sell, sell, sell.
Clive goes in search of the reasons why his father's profession no longer exists, and asks how this change reflects on today's consumer society and the banking industry's rush to lend money.
Interviewees include Duncan Bannatyne, multi-millionaire of Dragon's Den fame, whose branch bank manager set him on the road to a fortune; Sid Brittin, a former old-style Lloyds bank manager, who describes how he had a nervous breakdown under the pressure to meet new targets; John Hackett, HSBC's Chief Operating Officer of Retail, who says that banks are now far more responsive to their customers' needs.
A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 07:00 Huddwinks (b00b52ch)
Series 2
The Dead Walk at Midnight!
A reporter arrives to investigate mysterious happenings at a haunted manor.
Roy Hudd stars in Laurie Rowley’s comic parodies.
With:
Denise Coffey
Chris Emmett
David Gooderson
Fred Harris
Producer: Jonathan James-Moore
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in June 1988.
WED 07:30 To Hull and Back (b06j57f9)
Series 1
Crying in the Chapel
Songs of Praise are paying a visit to Hull. Sophie sees this as an opportunity to start a successful singing career.
But neglected plumbing and a painting of Elvis at The Last Supper make an impossible task even more difficult...
Series 1 of the sitcom by BBC New Comedy Award winner, Lucy Beaumont.
Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped.
Starring Lucy Beaumont as Sophie and Maureen Lipman as Sheila.
Producer: Carl Cooper
A BBC Radio Comedy Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2015.
WED 08:00 The TV Lark (b01b3flq)
Z Ambulances
A live drama serial could make money for Troutbridge TV. But can they manage to produce it?
After 4 series of 'The Navy Lark', the BBC decided the comedy crew needed a new setting, so where better than brand new independent station, Troutbridge TV?
However, after just 10 episodes, this proved to be only a temporary change of course for the crew of HMS Troutbridge - as the crew were soon back aboard 'The Navy Lark'.
Stars Jon Pertwee as the Floor Manager, Leslie Phillips as The Director, Stephen Murray as the Producer, Ronnie Barker as Fatso Johnson and Richard Caldicote as the Deputy Controller.
Scripted by Lawrie Wyman
Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston.
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1963 .
WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00zfp3n)
Series 6
Episode 11
Back to the Roaring 1920s for a punt on the river - and a one-sided debate.
Starring Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie.
Written by John Cleese 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 Liam Cohen and Bill Oddie.
Producer: David Hatch/Peter Titheradge
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1968.
WED 09:00 Counterpoint (b00f40ly)
1999
Heat 1
Ned Sherrin chairs the music quiz with David Hunt of London, Isabelle Heward of Scunthorpe and Andrew Wall from Frome.
WED 09:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII (b0076j4t)
Episode 4
Venturing away from home for the first time, Anne of Cleves comes to England. Henry thinks he has a demure and compliant wife, but he reckons without Mrs Loew.

An unreliable history, created and written in six parts by Barry Grossman.

Starring Jonathan Coy as Henry VIII, Milton Johns as Thomas Cromwell, Alfred Burke as the Chronicler, Jasmin Hyde as Jane Seymour, Eve Matheson as Lady Margaret, John Webb as Sir John and Jonathan Kydd as Antonio.

Music by Jim Parker.

Producer: John Fawcett Wilson

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
WED 10:00 Rose Tremain (b0214tf2)
Who Was Emily Davison?
Emily Davison has a small, tragic place in British history.
She was the woman who threw herself in front of the King's horse, Anmer, during the running of the Epsom Derby in 1913.
Why did she do it?
Starring Janet Maw, Nigel Anthony, miriam Margolyes and Elizabeth Proud
Rose Tremain’s drama based on historic events.
.
Emily Davison .... Janet Maw
King George V ......Nigel Anthony
Queen Mary.... Miriam Margolyes
Mrs Pankhurst ....Elizabeth Proud
Other parts played by Doreen Hepburn, Tessa Worsley, Melanie Hudson, Stephen Critchlow and John Turner.
Director: Gordon House
First broadcast on the BBC World Service in August 1995.
WED 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wsx)
The Prescription
A Greek widower has lost all ambition except when it comes to his 14-year-old son. Read by John Moffatt. From July 2000.
WED 11:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World (b0075nwj)
The Forger
1900: the brilliant archaeologist Aurel Stein visits Lady McCartney, in search of lost cities on the Silk Road, and to uncover a clever forgery...
The second of three plays by Ray Jenkins based on the diaries of Catherine, Lady McCartney, wife of the British consul in Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan.
Stars Siobhan Redmond as Catherine McCartney, Alex Jennings as George McCartney, Ioan Meredith as Aurel Stein, Harry Myers as Islam Akhun, Stephen Critchlow as Islam, Tessa Worsley as Mrs Borland and David Allister as Mr Borland.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
WED 12:00 The TV Lark (b01b3flq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00zfp3n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b01084hc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? (b00mgz1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00sr304)
Episode 8
Margaret confronts Jim Dixon for leaving her at the summer ball and his response leaves her hysterical. Read by Martin Jarvis.
WED 14:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rgj18)
Babble
As the Roman empire grew, the city at its heart sucked in exotic goods, tastes, smells, colours, and - of course - sounds from all around the world. Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex asks what we would have heard if we'd visited the city in its heyday and walked its streets - passageways so narrow it was possible for upstairs dwellers to reach out and touch their neighbour opposite.
Bellowing animals, street-hawkers, the babble of a dozen languages, many now dead. Some inhabitants loved this sensory overload, but others ran from it. Where could a rich Roman go to get some peace?
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f65w7)
Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind
Episode 8
Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by Martha King.
Following Giacinto's departure and the Pintor sisters' financial ruin, Don Predu comes to the rescue. But will Efix persuade Noemi to accept Predu's offer of marriage?
EFIX.....John Lynch
NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson
KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt
GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty
Directed by Nadia Molinari.
WED 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9k4)
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
Letters from Home
Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in New York in the 1950s.
Eilis has lodgings with an Irish landlady and a job on the shop floor of a department store. Every day a whole world of things are new, but letters from home remind her of just what she is missing.
WED 15:00 Rose Tremain (b0214tf2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Counterpoint (b00f40ly)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 16:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII (b0076j4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 17:00 Huddwinks (b00b52ch)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 17:30 To Hull and Back (b06j57f9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 18:00 Mind's Eye (b007wqdd)
Whispers
A young boy swears he’s under attack by a poltergeist.
Another case for father and daughter psychotherapy team Lorcan and Aoife Malloy...
Five tales of the paranormal written by Gemma McMullan and Gerry Casey.
Lorcan Molloy …. Dermot Crowley
Aoife Molloy …. Cathy Belton
Fergus Rainer …. Mark Lambert
Brian Walsh …. Richard Orr
David McAlease …. Sean Campion
Eamonn McAlease …. Eamonn Owens
Radio Presenter …. Gerard Murphy
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast in 2006.
WED 18:30 Off the Page (b0076tr2)
Your Inner Child
Matthew Parris, Pat Kane, Matt Harvey and Hilary Mantel discuss the idea of being young at heart. From September 2005.
WED 19:00 The TV Lark (b01b3flq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again (b00zfp3n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b01084hc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? (b00mgz1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wsx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 21:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World (b0075nwj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
WED 22:00 To Hull and Back (b06j57f9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Bird Island (b01kbjdg)
Series 1
Episode 4
On one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to Sub-Antartica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the form of an audio 'log'.
Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and ice. Lots of ice.
EPISDE FOUR:
Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An atmospheric 15 minute non audience comedy.
In this final episode Graham gives the shock news that a new member of the team is joining them.
Written by ..... Katy Wix
Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani.
WED 22:45 Before They Were Famous (b01mdgwz)
Series 1
Episode 4
Ian Leslie presents a new Radio 4 comedy show which brings to light the often surprising first literary attempts of some of the world's best known writers. A project of literary archaeology, Leslie has found evidence in the most unlikely of places - within the archives of newspapers, periodicals, corporations and universities-showcasing the early writing examples of writers such as Jilly Cooper-during her brief and unfortunately unsuccessful foray into the world of war reporting, and Hunter S Thompson - in his sadly short-lived phase working in the customer relations department for a major American Airline.
These are the newspaper articles, advertising copy, company correspondence and gardening manuals, that allow us a fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our best loved literary voices - people whom we know today for their novels or poems but who, at the time, were just people with a dream...and a rent bill looming at the end of the month.
Produced by: Anna Silver and Claire Broughton
A Hat Trick Production for BBC Radio 4.
WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06nn9x4)
The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to Brett Goldstein.
WED 23:00 The History Plays (b01dhs1h)
A History of Blair in 9 1/2 Voices
Last in Nigel Smith's series of plays set at key moments in the last five decades.
A History of Tony Blair in 9 1/2 voices stars Jon Culshaw as Tony Blair, lost in the winding corridors of the BBC the day after his resignation. He finds himself sharing a room with Sue (Fiona Allen), a struggling impressionist who assumes he is a Tony Blair lookalike. Blair enjoys the opportunity to talk about himself in the third person, and to show off a few impressions of his own.
A darkly comic but thoughtful exploration of what makes Blair tick, the play gives a compelling explanation for what may have lain behind Blair's early political successes and what prompted his unwavering commitment to the war in Iraq.
Written and directed by Nigel Smith
Produced by Gareth Edwards.
WED 23:30 Revolting People (b0089mbr)
Series 3
Young Love
Captain Brimshaw receives fresh orders from his father - to return to England and marry his cousin...
Sitcom set just before the American War of Independence,
Written by Andy Hamilton and Jay Tarses.
CAST:
McGurk …. Andy Hamilton
Samuel …. Jay Tarses
Captain Brimshaw …. James Fleet
Mary …. Jan Ravens
Joshua …. Tony Maudsley
Lord Brimshaw …. Hugh Dennis
Emily …. Penelope Nice
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.


THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER 2015

THU 00:00 Mind's Eye (b007wqdd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 Off the Page (b0076tr2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b01084hc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? (b00mgz1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00sr304)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rgj18)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f65w7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9k4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 Rose Tremain (b0214tf2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Counterpoint (b00f40ly)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII (b0076j4t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Huddwinks (b00b52ch)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 To Hull and Back (b06j57f9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b010928t)
Peril at End House
Episode 4
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings head to London to meet up with Chief Inspector Japp.
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Captain Hastings …. Simon Williams
Frederica Rice …. Suzanna Hamilton
George Challenger …. Andrew Wincott
Nick Buckley …. Gemma Saunders
Mr Croft …. Terence Edmond
Mrs Croft …. Richenda Carey
Charles Vyse …. Stephen Critchlow
Doctor …. Mark Holloway
Chief Inspector Japp …. Bryan Pringle
Dramatist: Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000.
THU 06:30 The Doll's House (b00sxkv0)
A peek inside the world of the doll's house, by those who had one as a child.
It's the classic little girl's favourite toy and in this programme we hear about the influence the doll's house has had on the imagination of now grown up women and the occasional man, as well as the hobby of doll's houses for adults.
For the children's writer and illustrator, Lauren Child, the first doll's house she saw was made by her friend's mother from a cupboard. It inspired her to make her own which she still is working on today. Many of the textiles which form the back-drop of her successful Charlie and Lola series originated as either wallpapers or fabrics from the doll's house she made in her youth. For her, the doll's house is an environment which you can control. In fact, it's one of the first occasions you get in your childhood to manipulate an environment and make up your own stories.
It's also an area of craftsmanship where Britain leads the world. Whilst it may seem curious, some of the best examples of miniature building and carving are present in the cottage industries of doll's house furniture makers. We hear from some of the best UK miniature artisans who are as well known in the doll's house world of the States, Japan and the rest of Europe as they are in Britain.
Looking at doll's houses from the 18th and 19th centuries in the Museum of Childhood, we hear that when they were built they were rarely intended as children's toys, but as hobbies for the ladies of the house. Queen Mary's dolls house is discussed complete with miniature family portraits of her family and her arrangement of what she thought the domestic home might look like.
And we hear from the increasing number of women who are keeping the miniaturists in business as the vogue for dolls houses for adults grows.
Producer and Presenter: Sarah Taylor.
THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire (b018fmt1)
Series 2
Episode 4
Esther has a big question to ask Ken and Keith, while on the horizon, storm clouds gather...
Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the residents of a small town in Northamptonshire.
Written by Katherine Jakeways.
John Biggins................................Keith
Mackenzie Crook...........................Rod
Kevin Eldon...................Jonathan / Ken
Shelia Hancock....................... Narrator
Jessica Henwick...........................Helen
Katherine Jakeways........ Esther / Jacqui
Felicity Montagu..............................Jan
Geoffrey Palmer........................Norman
Lizzie Roper..............................Angela
Penelope Wilton............................Mary
Rufus Wright................................Frank
Producer: Victoria Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2011.
THU 07:30 The Brig Society (b06j5qd9)
Series 3
GCSE
Please turn your radio over and start listening as Marcus Brigstocke has just thirty minutes to retake his GCSEs. During the show he will be sitting a genuine GCSE exam set by the Producer in an attempt to get the bottom of Grade Inflation and also the class.
The invigilators are Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got No Head") and Justin Edwards ("The Thick Of It") with a secret appearance by The Now Show's Jon Holmes.
Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell.
Produced by David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlt3)
Series 3
Cuckoo in the Nest
Harold Steptoe is shocked to meet his older half-brother from Australia.
Starring Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett.
Following the conclusion of their hugely successful association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in 1962.
The Offer featured the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and son Harold - and was the spark for a run of eight series on TV.
Albert ...... Wilfrid Brambell
Harold ...... Harry H Corbett
Arthur ...... Kenneth J Warren
Other parts played by David Brierly
Adapted for radio from their TV scripts by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Producer: Bobby Jaye
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1971.
THU 08:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0084hzr)
Series 2
Episode 5
Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel tries to bamboozle a millionaire.
Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The scripts were rediscovered in 1988.
Groucho Marx as Waldorf T Flywheel ...... Michael Roberts
Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravellias ...... Frank Lazarus
With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello.
Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark Brisenden.
Music arranged and conducted by David Firman.
Producer: Dirk Maggs
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991.
THU 09:00 Genius (b008gh91)
Series 2
Chris Addison
Buying socks in threes and happy chickens?
Dave Gorman asks comedian Chris Addison to choose the public's best loopy idea.
Award-winning comedian Dave Gorman and a celebrity guest chew over the ridiculous, unworkable but sometimes genius inventions, schemes and policies of the public.
Producer: Simon Nicholls
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2006.
THU 09:30 No Commitments (b007jnv9)
Series 6
Making It Better
Victoria and Charlotte try to help Anna over her recent break-up. Stars Rosemary Leach and Celia Imrie. From July 1999.
THU 10:00 Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940 (b007k4c7)
Over the May bank holiday 1940, Winston Churchill had been prime minister for a fortnight but was already facing up to a possibly devastating defeat at Dunkirk.
Challenged by the War Cabinet over the way he was conducting the war, Britain's fate hung in the balance...
Wartime drama by Robin Glendinning.
Churchill ...... Robert Hardy
Lord Halifax ...... Ronald Pickup.
Neville Chamberlain ...... Jeremy Child
Clement Atlee ...... Bill Wallis
Arthur Greenwood ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
John Martin ...... David Leonard
Signor Bastianini ...... Michael Fenton Stevens
Paul Reynaud ...... Ronald Oliver
General Ismay ...... Mark Buffery
Producer: Jeremy Howe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2004.
THU 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wtk)
At Hiruharama
Mr Tanner is very keen to tell the extraordinary story of how he has a lawyer in the family. Read by Nicholas Farrell. From July 2000.
THU 11:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World (b007w3b8)
Stolen
German archaeologist, Von Le Coq, gets drawn into a race with Aurel Stein to 'steal' treasures from the Buddhist Monasteries and ancient lost oasis towns along the Silk Road crossing the Taklamaken and Gobi Deserts.
Last of three plays by Ray Jenkins based on the diaries of Catherine, Lady McCartney, wife of the British consul in Kashgar, on the roof of the world in Chinese Turkestan.
Stars Siobhan Redmond as Catherine McCartney, Alex Jennings as George McCartney, Sean Baker as Von Le Coq, Ioan Meredith as Aurel Stein, David Tse as Chiang and Stephen Critchlow as Bartus.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999.
THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0084hzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b010928t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:30 The Doll's House (b00sxkv0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00srg4l)
Episode 9
To stop the formidable Mrs Welch catching him out, lecturer Jim must create a plausible diversion. Read by Martin Jarvis.
THU 14:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rgm9z)
The Roaring Crowd
'And the crowd roars...'
The London Olympics were a reminder of the barrage of sound that we noisy humans can make when we get together. Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex travels to one of history's great amphitheatres - the ruins of the Roman Colosseum - to explain the power of the crowd: how it showed approval and what happened when it was displeased.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f67y8)
Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind
Episode 9
Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by Martha King.
Following Giacinto's accusation of murder Efix is haunted by memories of the past. Believing he is to blame for the downfall of the Pintor sisters he is compelled to leave- but where will he go?
EFIX.....John Lynch
GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty
PREDU.....Conrad Nelson
Directed by Nadia Molinari.
THU 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9kj)
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
Christmas Comfort
Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in New York in the 1950s.
Christmas looms, as Eilis struggles to adapt to her new life in a city far from home. But she is not the only member of the Irish diaspora feeling homesick - helping Father Flood tend to his flock brings comfort and cheer.
THU 15:00 Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940 (b007k4c7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 Genius (b008gh91)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
THU 16:30 No Commitments (b007jnv9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire (b018fmt1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 17:30 The Brig Society (b06j5qd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 18:00 Mind's Eye (b007jyt8)
Prophet
Released murderer, Paul Strong, claims he can foresee imminent crimes, but the police aren’t so sure...
Another case for father and daughter psychotherapy team Lorcan and Aoife Molloy.
Five tales of the paranormal written by Gemma McMullan and Gerry Casey.
Lorcan Molloy …. Dermot Crowley
Aoife Molloy …. Cathy Belton
Fergus Rainer …. Mark Lambert
Brian Walsh …. Richard Orr
Paul Strong …. Gerard Murphy
DCI Talbot …. John Hewitt
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
Made by BBC Northern Ireland for Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in February 2006.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b00y2d8c)
Series 23
Marcus Garvey
Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leader of the early twentieth century. Long before Martin Luther King or Malcolm X, Marcus Garvey was trying against all the odds to give black people a sense of pride, and to create the conditions in which they might hope to flourish and prosper. Kwame Kwei-Armah tells the story of Garvey's incredible rise and fall, and brings this impressive yet flawed man to life. He's joined by Colin Grant, the author of Negro with a Hat - a biography of Marcus Garvey. Presenter Matthew Parris contributes his own memories of living in both Jamaica and Africa.
Producer: Beth O'Dea.
THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son (b007jlt3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 The Marx Brothers' Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel (b0084hzr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b010928t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:30 The Doll's House (b00sxkv0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wtk)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
THU 21:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World (b007w3b8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
THU 22:00 The Brig Society (b06j5qd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 The Secret World (b011dkny)
Series 1
Episode 2
From Lord Alan Sugar to Bruce Forsyth - Jon Culshaw explores the bizarre private lives of famous folk.
The comedy impressions series examining the bizarre and private lives of public people.
Starring:
Jon Culshaw
Margaret Cabourn Smith
Julian Dutton
Jess Robinson
Lewis Macleod
Duncan Wisbey
Written by Bill Dare, Julian Dutton, Tom Jameson & Nev Fountain, Rufus Jones and Dan Skinner.
Producer: Bill Dare
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game (b007k1xw)
Series 2
Assistant
With Hell getting overcrowded, Satan decides it's time to hire an assistant demon.
Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell.
It's not easy being Satan. Thrown out of heaven by a vengeful, white-haired God merely for daring to voice the concerns of middle management and condemned for all eternity to listen to Edith Piaf and Elvis Presley. Satan may rule the roost, but he's beset by the poor unfortunates condemned to sit out Eternity with him
Satan ...... Andy Hamilton
The Professor ...... James Grout
Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville
Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan
Other characters played by Philip Pope and Felicity Montagu.
Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998.
THU 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture (b007k482)
Series 1
Charlie Chaplin
Radical comic Mark Steel profile the fascinating life and character of the legendary silent film star, Charlie Chaplin.
Series of humorous lectures covering historical figures who shaped their era.
With Melanie Hudson and Martin Hyder.
Producer: Phil Clarke
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1999.


FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 2015

FRI 00:00 Mind's Eye (b007jyt8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b00y2d8c)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b010928t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 The Doll's House (b00sxkv0)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00srg4l)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rgm9z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f67y8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9kj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 Playing For Time - Three Days In May 1940 (b007k4c7)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 Genius (b008gh91)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 No Commitments (b007jnv9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire (b018fmt1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 The Brig Society (b06j5qd9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 Hercule Poirot (b0109byt)
Peril at End House
Episode 5
Hercule Poirot summons everyone to End House. Can the Belgian sleuth finally unmask the murderer?
Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Captain Hastings …. Simon Williams
Frederica Rice …. Suzanna Hamilton
George Challenger …. Andrew Wincott
Nick Buckley …. Gemma Saunders
Mr Croft …. Terence Edmond
Mrs Croft …. Richenda Carey
Charles Vyse …. Stephen Critchlow
Chief Inspector Japp …. Bryan Pringle
Jimmy Lazarus …. Sean Arnold
Dramatist: Michael Bakewell
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2000.
FRI 06:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo (b00wdgr5)
As his ship was sinking through the Antarctic pack-ice, Ernest Shackleton allowed each member of his expedition to take 2lbs of possessions with them as they abandoned ship. One exception was made; Shackleton saved Leonard Hussey's banjo saying, "We must have that banjo. It's vital mental medicine."
So it proved; when Shackleton set off in a small boat to sail to South Georgia to get help, he left behind on Elephant Island twenty-two men. They lived for months under an upturned boat and some old sails. Every Saturday the banjo-playing meteorologist mounted a concert. He composed songs and whenever they caught a seal to eat brought out his banjo. He played, the men sang - and anger and depression were kept at bay.
Leonard Hussey survived, as did his banjo, now in the National Maritime Museum, its skin marked with a dozen signatures of members of the failed expedition to the South Pole.
Tim van Eyken is best known as a squeeze-box player and singer - he was the Song Man in 'War Horse' at the National Theatre. But he also plays the banjo. Tim explores the character of Hussey and the role he and his banjo played in saving the sanity of the explorers. He plays some of his songs - sadly not on Hussey's banjo, which is too fragile, but on his own, made by Pete Stanley, who sheds some light on the original instrument.
Tim also hears from Pieter van der Merwe of the National Maritime Museum about the importance of music in expeditions and, thanks to some remarkable archive recordings, Hussey himself. He plays the tune Shackleton asked for the night he died. Hussey reveals, too, that his banjo had seen action in warmer climes, "having among other things been played to an audience of cannibals in Africa."
Producer: Julian May.
FRI 07:00 The Change (b06l3287)
Series 3
Episode 5
The family learn about Carol's condition - and Sonia finally confronts Dave about his suspicious behaviour.
Carol …. Lynda Bellingham
George …. Philip Jackson
Violet ...... Marcia Warren
Maureen …. Maureen Beattie
Ken …. James Vaugnan
Sonia …. Emma Kennedy
Jerry …. Barnaby Kay
Dave …. Mark Powley
Nurse ...... Rosie Armstrong
Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic.
Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
Producer: Elizabeth Freestone
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004.
FRI 07:30 Shedtown (b01q03sb)
Series 2
End of the Beginning
In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol of possibility and change.
Episode 3: End of the Beginning
The creosoted community continues into surreal seaside chaos as it hits the headlines.
Father Michael spots a 'shopportunity' and Colin sees his failed dream, of running a successful visitor attraction, re-emerging.
Barry............................Tony Pitts
Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan
Eleanor.......................Ronni Ancona
Colin..........................Johnny Vegas
Deborah.......................Emma Fryer
William.......................Adrian Manfredi
Diane.........................Rosina Carbone
Dave..........................Shaun Dooley
Father Michael............James Quinn
Wes..........................Warren Brown
Margaret....................Gwyneth Powell
Nell.............................Eleanor Samson
Narrator.....................Maxine Peake
Music.......................Paul Heaton & Jonny Lexus
Written and Directed by Tony Pitts
Produced by Sally Harrison
A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jntz)
Series 5
Hancock's Car
Parked outside for ten years - the lad's forced to move his motor car, but hits snags galore.
Stars Tony Hancock.
With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie Jacques and Kenneth Williams.
Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson.
Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott.
Producer: Tom Ronald
First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1958.
FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree (b00zdh7m)
Series 1
Reading
Coming this week from the University of Reading, host Steve Punt quizzes students and lecturers of Food Science & Technology, International Relations, and English and American Literature.
Which is why you're going to find out the meanings of such obscure and outlandish concepts as "interregnum", "Tetrapak", "Spationaute", "Myanmar", "Thermidore", "golem" and "Chris Moyles"
"The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure.
Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities across the UK.
The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides...
The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more than just glanced at that reading list...
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 09:30 Albert and Me (b007jsdl)
Series 1
Holiday
When Bryan and son arrive in Frimlington, their fellow holidaymakers aren't too welcoming.
Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Helen Worth (Gail from ITV's Coronation Street) as Deirdre, Peter Vaughan as Mr Wiggins and Cheryl Hall as Mavis.
Written by Jim Eldridge.
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977.
FRI 10:00 RK Narayan - The Guide (b007jyp4)
Railway Raju is famous for helping tourists above and beyond the call of duty – until Rosie arrives. Stars Nitin Ganatra.
R K Narayan ... Author
Rukhsana Ahmad ... Adaptor
Nitin Ganatra ... Raju
Saeed Jaffrey ... Uncle/Barber
Shaheen Khan ... Rosie/Meena
Sam Dastor ... Marco Polo
Vincent Ebrahim ... Velan/Joseph/Voice 1
Leena Dhingra ... Mother
Shiv Grewal ... Gaffur/Superintendent/Voice 2
FRI 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wv6)
The Red-Haired Girl
In 1882 a group of Parisian art students go to Brittany to work in the open air. Read by Juliet Aubrey. From July 2000.
FRI 11:15 Drama (b00xhhw2)
Sally Griffiths - Haunted
By Sally Griffiths.
Professional illusionist, Will Morgan, is to front a TV show in which he exposes spiritualist mediums as frauds. Hayley Taylor is the spiritualist medium who refuses to back down under Will's scrutiny - a challenge Will can't walk away from. Both are to have their belief systems sorely tested when a voice from one of their pasts refuses to keep silent.
Starring Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey) as Will and Zoe Tapper (Mr Selfridge) as Hayley.
Directed by Gemma Jenkins
(repeat)
The writer
Sally Griffiths is half of a screenwriting partnership (with Rachel Cuperman) which has produced 4 commissioned/funded scripts. Filming is about to start on their third script for the popular, long-running TV drama series, Midsomer Murders. Sally is Senior Script Reader for Working Title and CinemaNX and has worked as a script consultant on films that include 'Tom and Viv', 'Wilde', 'Gabriel and Me' and 'Stormbreaker.'.
FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jntz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 12:30 The Goon Show (m000hwwr)
Series 6
The Lost Emperor
Archaeologist Neddie Seagoon hunts for the missing treasure of Genghis Khan.

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 1955.
FRI 13:00 Hercule Poirot (b0109byt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 13:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo (b00wdgr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim (b00srkkv)
Episode 10
Jim is determined to win Christine from the bearded sportsman, but he will have to fight for her. Read by Martin Jarvis.
FRI 14:15 Noise: A Human History (b01rgm2k)
The Ecstatic Underground
Christianity was just one of several cults that sprang up in ancient Rome. So the sound-world of the first Christians probably wasn't filled with the subdued voices, measured singing and solemn prayers that would later echo through the medieval churches and cathedrals of Western Europe. It was more Eastern in flavour - or more pagan.
Professor David Hendy explores the ecstatic soundscapes of underground house churches in ancient Rome.
30-part series made in collaboration with the British Library Sound Archive.
Producer: Matt Thompson.
A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2013.
FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama (b01f6b05)
Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind
Episode 10
Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by Martha King.
Hearing that Giacinto will marry Grixenda, leaving Noemi free to marry Predu, Efix returns to the village. Will Efix finally be at peace with his conscience?
EFIX.....John Lynch
NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson
ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew
GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty
PREDU.....Conrad Nelson
Directed by Nadia Molinari.
FRI 14:45 Book at Bedtime (b00kb9kv)
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
The Melting Pot
Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life in New York in the 1950s.
As Bartocci's opens its doors to all customers, whatever their colour, Eilis fights the prejudice of her fellow lodgers. Even at Father Flood's Irish dance night, not everyone is Irish.
FRI 15:00 RK Narayan - The Guide (b007jyp4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b00zdh7m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
FRI 16:30 Albert and Me (b007jsdl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
FRI 17:00 The Change (b06l3287)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
FRI 17:30 Shedtown (b01q03sb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 18:00 Mind's Eye (b007jyvk)
Lodgers
Maeve Hamilton runs a busy bed and breakfast in Dublin, but only she seems to be able to see the guests. Psychotherapists Lorcan and Aoife investigate...
Five tales of the paranormal written by Gemma McMullan and Gerry Casey.
CAST:
Lorcan Molloy …. Dermot Crowley
Aoife Molloy …. Cathy Belton
Fergus Rainer …. Mark Lambert
Brian Walsh …. Richard Orr
Maeve Hamilton …. Stella McCusker
Daniel Hamilton …. Miche Doherty
Gillian Power …. Aine McCartney
Director: Eoin O'Callaghan
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Northern Ireland and first broadcast in 2006.
FRI 18:30 Soul Music (b00763px)
Series 2
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye
Anna Blundy, Robert Offord and Colin Murray Parkes reflect on the impact of Cole Porter's song of farewell and parting.
Series about music that makes the hairs stand up on the back of our necks.
Producer: Rosie Boulton
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2001.
FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jntz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
FRI 19:30 The Goon Show (m000hwwr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
FRI 20:00 Hercule Poirot (b0109byt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
FRI 20:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo (b00wdgr5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
FRI 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald (b0075wv6)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
FRI 21:15 Drama (b00xhhw2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today]
FRI 22:00 Shedtown (b01q03sb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
FRI 22:30 Absolute Power (b007t3kk)
Series 2
Episode 1
Prentiss McCabe try to save New Labour from total voter humiliation. Starring Stephen Fry and John Bird. From January 2001.
FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews (b06nd591)
Arthur Smith chats to Sarah Kendall.
FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris (b01n0vhg)
Series 3
Attaboy; In the Waiting Room
The multi-award winning American essayist, David Seadris, brings more of his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a series of audience readings.
Episode 1 (of 6):
This week childhood discipline in the Sedaris household is recalled in "Attaboy" and the perils of agreeing without understanding in a foreign country are examined in "In The Waiting Room".
Produced by Steve Doherty
A Boomerang Production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI 23:30 The Skivers (b00jhmlm)
Series 3
Phillip Schofield
Going Live! Phillip Schofield relives his days on children's television, with Nick Golsen and Tim de Jongh. From January 1997.