SATURDAY 12 MARCH 2022

SAT 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jkrm)
Episode 5
Has Heawood found a connection between the murder of Lucy Hawthorne and the disappearance of Charles Dexter Ward?
Julian Simpson's HP Lovecraft-inspired universe as seen through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story began with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Matthew Heawood …… Barnaby Kay
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Ezra Wheedon …… Alun Armstrong
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in December 2018.
SAT 00:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b012yym0)
Episode 5
Zaphod accidentally sets off Asgard's defence system, but gets in to see Thor anyway.
And Random "borrows" Ford's credit card...
Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Abridged by Penny Leicester.
Read by Stephen Mangan.
With Peter Serafinowicz as the Guide.
Producer: Heather Larmour
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
SAT 00:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b01qctqr)
Series 4
On The Waterfront
Paul Gambaccini returns with the series about how some of the greatest Best Picture Oscar winning films were made, and what they tell us about the history of the time.
The 27th Academy Awards, for films released in 1954, were dominated by 'On The Waterfront', a gritty, black and white masterpiece, set at the highly unionised New Jersey docks, then controlled by the mob.
A real tale of corruption and murder on the waterfront is transformed into a fiction - as a simple minded ex-boxer, played by Marlon Brando, wrestles with his conscience as he turns informer to win the girl he loves.
This film not only gives us the most famous scene ever to take place in the back of a taxi, ("I coulda been a contender!"), it also showcases the talents of director Elia Kazan, and an astonishingly strong support cast - Rod Steiger, Karl Malden, Lee J Cobb and newcomer Eva Marie Saint- Method Acting at its height.
It also marks the end of the powerful team of director Elia Kazan and Method actor Marlon Brando - blown apart by Brando's horror at Kazan's decision to testify in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, HUAC - then investigating the red-scare in Hollywood.
Is it a coincidence that ‘On the Waterfront’ tells the story of a man who informs - snitches on his friends - but holds the moral high ground?
Featuring a rich mix of archive and original interviews with actors, screen writers and film critics, and a revelatory interview with Thomas Hanley, a real life longshoreman who played Brando's young friend Tommy back in 1954.
Producer: Sara Jane Hall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.
SAT 01:00 Hercule Poirot (b007jpmw)
Death on the Nile
5. Suspicions
The Belgian sleuth's holiday has become a hideous nightmare.
Can he finally fathom out the murderous events afloat?
The conclusion of Agatha Christie's whodunit.
Starring John Moffatt as Hercule Poirot.
Dramatised by Michael Bakewell
Hercule Poirot …. John Moffatt
Colonel Race …. Donald Sinden
Mrs Allerton …. Rosemary Leach
Pennington …. Stratford Johns
Linnet Ridgeway …. Elaine Pyke
Simon Doyle …. Robert Daws
Tim Allerton …. Nicholas Boulton
Jacqueline de Bellefort …. Amanda Barton-Chapple
Mrs Otterbourne …. Shirley Dixon
Rosalie Otterbourne …. Emma Woodvine
Joanna Southwood …. Joanna Monro
Monsieur Blondin …. Sean Baker
Rockford …. Ed Bishop
Fanthorp …. Robert May
Miss Van Schuyler …. Irene Sutcliffe
Dr Bessner …. Keith Drinkel
Thomas Cook Agent …. Timothy Alcock
Waiter …. Chris Pavlo
Director: Enyd Williams
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1997.
SAT 01:30 VI Warshawski (b0089j85)
Killing Orders
1. Remembrance of Things Past
Chicago private eye, VI Warshawski, is not happy to be asked for help by her Aunt Rosa who hates her - and the feeling's mutual.
Sara Paretsky's thriller about a feisty Chicago private investigator.
Kathleen Turner stars as VI Warshawski.
With Martin Shaw.
Dramatised in six parts by Michelene Wandor.
VI Warshawski .… Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant …. Martin Shaw
Gabriella …. Avril Clark
Albert …. William Hootkins
Rosa …. Eileen Way
Father Carroll …. Don Fellows
Father Pelly …. Colin Stinton
Father Jablonski …. Peter Penry-Jones
Sara Paretsky created one of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but she never loses touch with her basic femininity.
Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women were portrayed, [in detective fiction] they always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator".
Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 film 'VI Warshawski'.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991.
SAT 02:00 The Librarian by Salley Vickers (b0b7hr0d)
Episode 10
Sylvia's good work in inspiring the youngsters of East Mole threatens to be overshadowed.
Salley Vickers' lyrical tribute to the power of children's literature.
Concluded by Barbara Flynn.
Abridged by the author.
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.
SAT 02:15 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room (b00svc1h)
10. The Birth
With the baby due, expectant single mother Jane receives unexpected financial help.
Conclusion of Lynne Reid Banks' groundbreaking story of middle-class Jane - pregnant and unmarried - and trying to cope with her life in the 1950s.
Dramatised by Juliet Ace.
Jane …… Lynne Seymour
John …… Trevor Laird
Mavis …… Marie Gordon-Price
Toby …… John McAndrew
Dr Maxwell …… John Rowe
Producer: Alison Hindell.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2004.
SAT 02:30 Tempus Fugit (b00p2cbz)
Why does time seem to speed up the older you get?
Ian Peacock finds out what is going on in our brain when we perceive time.
He discovers why, when we're young, summer holidays seem to stretch forever. But as we age, those precious two weeks in the sun are over in a flash.
Ian looks at how we measure time and how it can be distorted in our minds, and asks what we can do to make the most of the precious time we have.
Producer: Fiona Roberts
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.
SAT 03:00 John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman (b00hk2dv)
2. Conflicts
Charles's life as a complacent Victorian gent has been overturned by his secret meetings with the mysterious Sarah on the under-cliff at Lyme.
Having vowed to end the liaison he finds himself lured one last time. He kisses Sarah passionately. Then discovers they're being watched...
Conclusion of John Fowles' passionate epic of two lovers in conflict with starched Victorian society.
Starring Jonathan Firth and Emily Bruni.
With John Hurt as the narrator.
Dramatised by Graham White. .
Narrator ...... John Hurt
Charles ...... Jonathan Firth
Sarah ...... Emily Bruni
Ernestina ...... Kelly Reilly
Dr Grogan ...... TP McKenna
Mrs Endicott ...... Susan Jameson
Sam ...... Nick Sayce
Mary ...... Ella Smith
Mr Freeman ...... Gerard McDermott
Mrs Rogers ...... Colleen Prendergast
Montague ...... Wayne Foskett
Prostitute ...... Sophie Roberts
Curate ...... John Cummins
Dramatised by Graham White.
Producer: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2006.
SAT 04:00 Whispers (b007k3jj)
Series 3
Episode 6
Gyles Brandreth hosts the quiz show with scandal on its mind and slander at its heart.
John O'Farrell and Dan Tetsell join team captains Lucy Moore and Anthony Holden to run the gauntlet of gossip.
Producer: Victoria Lloyd
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2005.
SAT 04:30 Girlies (b08kgzq5)
Series 1
Episode 3
Dan and Sonal move house. Vinny and Ali try to assert some control over their young son, who's causing havoc because Vinny's pregnant.
Ramesh turns up unannounced...
Five 30-something Asian women get together for "girlie" evenings
Comedy serial written by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan.
Tula …. Zita Sattar
Ramesh …. Ameet Chaana
Vinny …. Bharti Patel
Jabeen …. Shaheen Khan
Sonal …. Sudha Bhuchar
Samina …. Sakuntala Ramanee
Dan …. Roger Liddle
Marianne …. Alice Arnold
Alia …. Sophie Levy
Sara …. Nyla Levy
Masi …. Charubala Chokshi
Karan …. Susan Sheridan
Salim …. Shiv Grewal
Ali … Burt Caesar
Javed …. Omar Salimi
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Kristine Landon-Smith.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1997.
SAT 05:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04nv6m8)
Series 2
Testing Times
It's the day after Lucy's 18th birthday, and her parents aren't happy, and not only because she took that bottle of rum from their drinks cabinet.
They think she is wasting her life being part of the resistance, so unless she can pass her A Levels they're going to stop her coming to the meetings.
Does it really take a village to raise a child? Or will they make things worse?
Eddie Robson's sitcom about aliens invading the village of Cresdon Green.
Starring Hattie Morahan and Peter Davison.
Aliens have locked villagers behind an impenetrable force-field in order to study human behaviour and to decide if Earth is worth invading.
The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for a weekend to borrow the deposit for a flat.
So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she formed The Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard.
This is also much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who is trying to actually run the alien invasion.
Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis
Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray
Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts
Carl ...... Don Gilet
Colin ...... Don Gilet
Script-edited by Arthur Mathews.
Original music written and performed by Grace Petrie.
Producer: Ed Morrish.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.
SAT 05:30 Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn (m00153yw)
The Shoplifter Problem
Marian and Tara tackle front-fastening bras, anxiety, conspiracy theorists and a shoplifting mother with trademark kindness and good humour.
Marian Keyes is a multi award-winning writer, with a total of over 30 million of her books sold to date in 33 languages. Her close friend Tara Flynn is an actress, comedian and writer. Together, these two friends have been through a lot, and now want to use their considerable life experience to help solve your biggest - and smallest - problems.
From dilemmas about life, love and grief, to the perils of laundry or knowing what to say at a boring dinner, we’ll find out what Marian and Tara would recommend - which might not solve the problem exactly, but will make us all feel a bit better.
Recorded in Dublin with emails received from listeners around the world, the hosts invite you to pull up a chair at their virtual kitchen table as they read and digest their inbox.
Got a problem you want Marian and Tara to solve? Email: marianandtara@bbc.co.uk.
Producer: Steve Doherty.
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
SAT 06:00 Grant Eustace - Absolute Discretion (b067wz55)
2nd October 1873: Chemistry student Arthur Vernet travels to Dorset to investigate a mystery surrounding the home of the Earl of Warminster and his family.
Starring Ben Daniels, Brett Usher and Maxine Audley.
Written by Grant Eustace.
Arthur Vernet …. Ben Daniels
The Earl of Warminster …. Brett Usher
Lady Edith Gratton …. Maxine Audley
Lady Maude Gratton …. Elizabeth Kelly
Alice Selwood …. Jane Slavin
Mrs Selwood …. Auriol Smith
Miss Staples …. Jane Whittenshaw
Reverend Denison …. Timothy Carlton
Mrs Denison …. Danielle Allen
William …. Stephen Garlick
Blaine …. Terence Edmond
Walters …. Timothy Bateson
Amos Sadler …. Michael Turner
Buckmaster …. Ronald Herdman
Mitchell …. David Bannerman
Mrs Lamont …. Jenny Howe
Directed at BBC Bristol by Alec Reid.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1991
SAT 07:30 Great Lives (b0bk1mg2)
Series 46
Mark Carwardine on Douglas Adams
"Imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, this is an interesting world I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, don't you think?"
Douglas Noel Adams wasn't even 50 when he died in 2001, but his imagination had already roamed far.
He created The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Meaning of Liff and several episodes of Doctor Who, plus the Dirk Gently character and Last Chance to See.
Nominating him is his co-writer on Last Chance to See, the zoologist Mark Carwardine.
Mark's role, Adams said later, was to be the one who knew what he was talking about. "My role was to be an extremely ignorant non-zoologist to whom everything that happened would come as a complete surprise."
Joining Mark and Matthew Parris in the bar where this was recorded, is Douglas Adam's biographer, Jem Roberts.
With archive of Stephen Fry, John Lloyd, Naomi Alderman, Griff Rhys Jones and Geoffrey Perkins.
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2018.
SAT 08:00 Booked (b00753z7)
Series 1
Episode 4
It's the Cat in the Hat and the Mellors meet Captain Hornblower.
Outrageous parody, biting wit and bizarre couplings from:
Mark Thomas
Dillie Keane
Miles Kington
Roger McGough
Ian McMillan chairs the irreverent literary game.
Producer: Marc Jobst
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995.
SAT 08:30 All the Young Dudes (b01c7rsl)
Series 2
Communication Breakdown
The couples need to talk, but is a cosy chat really what's on the agenda?
If only everyone would just listen...
The lives of Patrick and Helen back in the town where he was born.
Comedy drama written by and starring Jim Sweeney.
Patrick ...... Jim Sweeney
Helen ...... Cathryn Harrison
Billy ...... Steve Steen
Moira ...... Sadie Shimmin
Joe ...... Stephen Frost
Maria ...... Flaminia Cinque
Charlie ...... Izzy De Rosario
Producer: Steve Doherty
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2002.
SAT 09:00 The Navy Lark: Left Hand Down A Bit with Leslie Phillips (b00sdrj2)
Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Phillips roams the high seas of comedy, with a three hour celebration of the long-running BBC radio favourite.
The Navy Lark is almost as much of a national institution as the Navy itself. With a worldwide following, it remains one of BBC radio's most fondly remembered comedies, and continues to entertain new generations of listeners on BBC Radio 4 Extra.
Find out how The Navy Lark got started; discover who might have been in starring roles; learn how the cast of the radio series were invited to take large bits of a real-life ship!
Discover which other popular "Larks" appeared on radio?
How did the Troutbridge crew come to run their own TV company?
How exactly did Sub-Lieutenant Phillips get through his training in Dartmouth?
Climb aboard the infamous HMS Troutbridge, as Leslie sets sail for a voyage through six classic episodes in the life and times of a legendary comic flagship.
* Operation Fag End
As the top brass turn up for an inspection, 50,000 duty-free cigarettes are on their way to the island. From 1959.
* The Hank of Heather
HMS Troutbridge launches an anti-invasion exercise for the visit of Heather's old flame. From 1959.
* The Lighthouse Lark
Povey probes smuggling aboard HMS Troutbridge, as she sets sail on a rescue mission. From 1960.
* A Deliberate Bashing
Desperate to escape his mother-in-law, can Captain Povey rely on the crew to assist? From 1963.
* Sub Lt. Phillips at Dartmouth
Just how did lovely Leslie become a sub-Lieutenant on HMS Troutbridge? From 1967.
* The Jubilee Navy Lark
Chaos looms on the Royal Yacht Britannia when an unexpected crew arrives. From 1977.
Starring:
Leslie Phillips
Jon Pertwee
Dennis Price
Stephen Murray
Richard Caldicot
Heather Chasen
Ronnie Barker
Tenniel Evans
Producer: Martin Dempsey
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in May 2006.
SAT 12:00 After Henry (b007jpt4)
Series 3
Wedding Bells
'Well, I think it's a mother's duty to keep a maternal eye on her daughter's emotional entanglements. That's what I always tried to do with you. You know, subtly. At a distance.'
Eleanor has plans for nuptials in the family, but the family has other ideas...
Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.
Sarah ...... Prunella Scales
Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson
Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Clare ...... Gerry Cowper
Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987.
SAT 12:30 It's a Fair Cop (b05y11w3)
Series 2
Reporting Crime
Policeman turned comic, Alfie Moore asks whether we think ALL crime should be reported and investigated.
You may be surprised at the result...
Alfie Moore's series in which his audience makes the policing decisions as he takes them through a real-life crime scenario.
Written and performed by Alfie Moore
Script Editor: Will Ing
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2015.
SAT 13:00 Archive on 4 (b011zkly)
The Light Music Festival
Although many of us grew up tuning in to light orchestral music on the radio, it's now largely been forgotten.
Most of us will be still be familiar with at least one very famous piece of light music: 'By The Sleepy Lagoon' - better known as the theme tune to the BBC's 'Desert Island Discs' and composed by Eric Coates.
When BBC Radio was much slimmer than it is today - made up of just the Home Service, the Light Programme and the Third Programme - listeners tuned in to hear a live concert for the Festival of Light Music. It began in 1953 and was broadcast every June.
With the disappearance of the Light Programme in 1967 when it split into BBC Radios 1 and 2, light music began to disappear from the airwaves. Eventually its only home was a single slot 'Friday Night is Music Night'.
So why did such a popular style of music fade away?
Music journalist and broadcaster Paul Morley uses BBC archive to explore light music at its peak, including interviews with some of the major composers of British light music - Eric Coates, Ronald Binge and Ernest Tomlinson. He traces its decline, and looks at its possible resurgence in 2011, with events like the 'Light Fantastic Festival'.
Paul travels to Preston to meet Ernest Tomlinson and takes a tour around the Light Music Society's remarkable archive of thousands of pieces of light music - all rescued by Tomlinson and his daughter Hilary after the BBC and music publishers threw it away.
Paul also meets Christopher Austin at the Royal Academy of Music and the young conductor John Wilson, who is passionate about light music: for him, this music is not about nostalgia but beautifully written miniatures of orchestral music.
Producer: Nick Holmes
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2011.
SAT 14:00 The Simon Day Show (b010dw09)
Series 1
Geoffrey Allerton
Simon Day and his characters welcome you to The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK.
Each week one of them comes to perform - with highlights of that night's show along plus all the backstage and front-of-house happenings.
First on stage, it's the acclaimed Yorkshire poet, Geoffrey Allerton.
Geoffrey reads poems and excerpts from his recent memoir "Marking Time", as well as struggling to get a hot meal from sound and lighting technician, Goose.
Meanwhile in the bar, two local mums are getting to know each other over several bottles of wine.
Written by Simon Day.
Geoffrey Allerton ..... Simon Day
Anna / Claire ..... Catherine Shepherd
Sarah ..... Arabella Weir
Goose ..... Felix Dexter
Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.
SAT 14:30 Delve Special (b007jm3s)
Series 2
The Archibald Gallery Robbery
Reporter David Lander reopens the investigation into 1983's Archibald Gallery robbery.
Kevin Watts is the key suspect, but was he framed?
Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.
Studio production by:
Brenda Bleythn
Tony Robinson
Jack Klaff
Felicity Montagu
Dramatic reconstruction by:
Mark Arden
Stephen Frost
Phil Nice
Arthur Smith
Peter Acre
Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.
Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer
Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later transferred to TV as: This is David Lander.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.
SAT 15:00 The Maltby Collection (b00wwj28)
Series 2
Episode 1
The museum is stuck in the past, so deputy curator Rod decides its time to modernise.
Starring Julian Rhind-Tutt and Geoffrey Palmer.
David Nobbs’ sitcom about a small art museum staffed by eccentrics and obsessives.
Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer
Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins
Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond
Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern
Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin
Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley
Stelios Constantinopoulis/Vicar ...... Chris Pavlo
Peter Warrender/Old Man ...... John Rowe
Producer: Colin Anderson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.
SAT 15:30 A Look Back at the Future (b01rh3wq)
2001
From the World Cup to the future NHS.
Recorded in 1994, the futuristic show recalls the turbulent upheaval of 2001 - that was yet to happen.:
Starring:
Brian Perkins
Kate Robbin
Jeremy Hardy
Series revealing everything you wanted to know back then, about the future 21st century.
Written by Mark Burton, John O'Farrell and Pete Sinclair.
Producer: Caroline Leddy
First broadcast (with the aid of a crystal ball) on BBC Radio 4 in July 1994.
SAT 16:00 Grant Eustace - Absolute Discretion (b067wz55)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
SAT 17:30 Great Lives (b0bk1mg2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
SAT 18:00 The Prisoner (m0003skj)
Series 2
4. Hammer into Anvil
The new Number 2 acts sadistically towards Number 6. But which of them is the hammer and which the anvil?
The original 17 episode TV series of The Prisoner created intrigue and controversy in equal measure when it first aired in the UK in 1967.
In a taut psychological spy thriller the main character, dehumanised as ‘Number 6’, has committed no crime, save for having resigned from some unspecified branch of the British Secret Service. His prison was an ornate heavily-guarded coastal village.
Under constant surveillance, Number 6 can trust no-one and relentlessly works to establish who his captors are. As the audio re-imagining continues, we discover more about the enigma of the personal life of Number 6.
Number 6 …. Mark Elstob
Number 2 …. John Heffernan
Number 26/Village Voice/Observation Controller …. Helen Goldwyn
Number 48 …. Jez Fielder
Shopkeeper …. Barnaby Edwards
Original music by Jamie Robertson.
Script Editor: Jamie Anderson
Written and directed by Nicholas Briggs.
A Big Finish Production - based on the classic ITV series.
SAT 19:00 The Navy Lark: Left Hand Down A Bit with Leslie Phillips (b00sdrj2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
SAT 22:00 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair (b06rzbwt)
Series 2
A Slight Alteration
A dressmaker finds herself doing a dress alteration for a young woman who is on the verge of getting married.
But the dress is fated never to be worn.
Starring Tessa Peake-Jones.
Leading actresses star in Jenny Eclair's comic series about women facing a crisis in their lives.
Produce: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2015.
SAT 22:15 Earls of the Court (b00rfhpt)
The Ides of March
The night of Lloydie's much-publicised toga party is fast approaching.
But can Johnno raise his game in time, and play the crucial role in the Ides of March sketch?
Comedy drama series about two Australians down on their luck in London.
Written by and starring Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright.
Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright
Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale
Woman 1 ...... Alison Pettitt
Woman 2 ...... Keely Beresford
Director: Sasha Yevtushenko
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2010.
SAT 22:30 Chain Reaction (b00gsb83)
Series 2
Mark Thomas Interviews Alexei Sayle
Political comedian Mark Thomas interviews the tough-talking godfather of alternative comedy, Alexei Sayle.
This is the tag talk show series where the guest turns interviewer in the next show.
Recorded with an audience, the interviews focus on the life, career and the passions of the interviewee but often prove to be as revealing about the interviewer.
Producer: Tilusha Ghelani
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2005.
SAT 23:00 The Simon Day Show (b010mv50)
Series 1
Tony Beckton
Reformed violent criminal Tony Beckton visits the Mallard Theatre to read from his memoirs as part of his rehabilitation.
Simon Day and his characters welcome you to The Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK.
Each week one of them comes to perform - with highlights of that night's show plus all the backstage and front-of-house happenings.
Written by Simon Day.
Tony Beckton / Peter ..... Simon Day
Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd
Goose ..... Felix Dexter
Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall
Stacey ..... Susan Harrison
Produce: Colin Anderson.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2011.
SAT 23:30 Hut 33 (b00wbkxg)
Series 2
Where Boffins Dare
The codebreakers are threatened with being sent to Burma after making yet another mistake with a message.
In an attempt to redeem themselves before their superiors, they set out to capture a German spy.
James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home of the Second World War codebreakers.
Charles …. Robert Bathurst
Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill
Minka …. Olivia Colman
Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley
Gordon …. Fergus Craig
Joshua … Alex McQueen
With Ben Willbond.
Producer: Adam Bromley
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2008.


SUNDAY 13 MARCH 2022

SUN 00:00 The Prisoner (m0003skj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday]
SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 (b011zkly)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:00 The Simon Day Show (b010dw09)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Saturday]
SUN 02:30 Delve Special (b007jm3s)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Saturday]
SUN 03:00 The Maltby Collection (b00wwj28)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:00 on Saturday]
SUN 03:30 A Look Back at the Future (b01rh3wq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Saturday]
SUN 04:00 Grant Eustace - Absolute Discretion (b067wz55)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday]
SUN 05:30 Great Lives (b0bk1mg2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday]
SUN 06:00 The Librarian by Salley Vickers (Omnibus) (b0b89kd6)
Episode 2
As winter approaches, the library roof remains unrepaired and a friendship is about to cross a line forever.
Salley Vickers' lyrical tribute to the power of children's literature - as she casts her clear psychoanalytic gaze on small town, post-war England.
Omnibus of the last five of ten parts abridged by the author.
Concluded by Barbara Flynn
Producer: Eilidh McCreadie
First broadcast in 10-parts on BBC Radio 4 in June 2018.
SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07jl6y2)
Hayley Mills
Actress Hayley Mills chooses 'Blue Skies' by Willie Nelson and the theme from the soundtrack to the film Whistle Down the Wind.
SUN 07:20 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room (Omnibus) (b00sw811)
Episode 2
Battling 1950s social prejudices, single mother-to-be Jane is in hospital with a threatened miscarriage.
Lynne Reid Banks' groundbreaking story of middle-class Jane, pregnant and unmarried, has remained in print ever since it was first published in 1960.
Omnibus of the last five of ten episodes dramatised by Juliet Ace.
Jane …… Lynne Seymour
Dr Graham …… Richard Mitchley
Mavis …… Marie Gordon-Price
Doris …… Nickie Rainsford
Father …… Bill Wallis
James …… Simon Armstrong
Dr Maxwell …… John Rowe
Jane 2 …… Rachel Atkins
John …… Trevor Laird
Toby …… John McAndrew
Producer: Alison Hindell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2004.
SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House (b007jt20)
Our First Operation
Sir Lancelot Spratt causes alarm for medic Simon Sparrow in the operating theatre.
The misadventures of student doctor, Simon Sparrow.
Starring Richard Briers.
Adapted for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's 'Doctor in the House' published in 1952.
Simon Sparrow …. Richard Briers
Sir Lancelot Spratt …. Geoffrey Sumner
Tony Benskin …. Ray Cooney
Taffy Evans …. Edward Cast
Sister …. Ann Murray
Producer: David Hatch
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968.
SUN 09:00 All Gas and Gaiters (m0015bqv)
Series 2
The Bishop Entertains
The lovestruck Bishop hopes to pop the question at the cathedral garden party.
Ecclesiastical sitcom which started life on BBC TV.
Written and adapted by husband-and-wife team, Pauline Devaney and Edwin Apps.
The Archdeacon …. Robertson Hare
The Bishop …. William Mervyn
The Bishop's Chaplain …. Jonathan Cecil
The Dean …. John Barron
Mrs Pugh-Critchley …. Joan Sanderson
Poppy …. Betty Huntley-Wright
Geoffrey …. Allan Cuthbertson
Mrs Russell …. Pat Keene
All Gas and Gaiters started life as a TV pilot in Comedy Playhouse, ahead of a run on BBC1 from 1966 to 1971.
Selected scripts were revised and re-recorded for radio.
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1972.
SUN 09:30 Boswell's Lives (b0547ntj)
Series 1
Boswell's Life of Pinter
James Boswell attempts to write the biography of Harold Pinter but finds himself the victim of a betrayal.
Jon Canter’s sitcom sees Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer, James Boswell pursue other legends to immortalise.
James Boswell ..... Miles Jupp
Harold Pinter ..... Harry Enfield
Director: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2015.
SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015bqx)
Oscar Winners 2
George Clooney
From Hank Williams to William Shatner.
American actor George Clooney shares his castaway choices with Sue Lawley
George was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1961, the son of Nick Clooney, a TV newscaster. From the age of five, George spent time pottering round his father's sets, joining in where possible, shouting out the temperature during the weather report.
After an initial plan to follow his father into broadcasting, then studying for a short while at Northern Kentucky University, George failed to join the Cincinnati Reds baseball team. But then he got a part in a small film through his uncle, the actor Jose Ferrer. The film was never released, but it had persuaded George of his vocation.
Since this programme was made, George has become a family man and more involved in political and humanitarian work.
His Academy Awards include Best Supporting Actor for Syriana in 2005 and Best Picture for Argo in 2012.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003.
SUN 10:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bnb3)
Series 14
The Trouble Sum Weather
"Why is it so difficult to predict the weather?" asks Isabella Webber, aged 21 from Vienna.
"I am sure there are many intelligent meteorologists and it seems rather straight forward to calculate wind speed, look at the clouds, and data from the past to make accurate predictions, but yet it’s not possible."
Adam delves into the history of forecasting with author Andrew Blum, beginning with the mystery of a lost hot air balloon full of Arctic explorers.
Hannah visits the BBC Weather Centre to talk to meteorologist and presenter Helen Willetts about how forecasting has changed, and whether people get annoyed at her if she gets the forecast wrong.
Plus mathematician Steven Strogatz suggests a chaotic explanation as to why we can't produce the perfect forecast.
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford
Producer: Michelle Martin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m0015bqz)
Series 12
It's the Little Things
True stories told live in the USA: Jenifer Hixson introduces tales full of questions, from pleas to childhood curiosity.
The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and the storytelling novice, who has lived through something extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts of the world.
The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year.
Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, from the humorous to the heart-breaking.
The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed by the Public Radio Exchange.
First heard on PRX in 2020.
SUN 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (b07jl6y2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]
SUN 12:00 Poetry Extra (m0015br1)
Poetry Societies - The Rumi Society
Daljit Nagra chooses Poetry Societies - The Rumi Society - featuring the mystic poet. Presented by Judith Palmer.
Sufism is a mystical branch of the Muslim religion which, 800 years ago, produced one of its greatest poets - Rumi, the founder of the whirling dervishes.
Judith Palmer reports from a meeting of the Rumi Society held in Paddington Library - the unlikely setting for an evening of transcendental music, dance and poetry, featuring Vida Kashizadeh.
Presenter - Judith Palmer
Producer - Peter Everett
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.
SUN 12:30 HR (b00tmkg9)
Series 2
Wandering
Sam and Peter wile away retirement blues with a holiday in Spain.
Suddenly Sam, a lifelong virgin, seems to be presented with a life-changing opportunity.
Nigel Williams’ comedy drama series charting the misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his trouble-making colleague.
Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost
Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce
Miguel ..... Sam Dale
Gwenda ..... Christine Kavanagh
Director: Peter Kavanagh
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2010.
SUN 13:00 Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman (Omnibus) (b09c1y3m)
In these personal, entertaining and deeply thoughtful essays, writer Sir Philip Pullman CBE examines the art of storytelling.
Written over a period of 30 years, they reflect on a wide range of topics including the origins of his own stories, the practice of writing and the storytellers who have most inspired him.
He opens by describing how his days at Oxford in the 1960s provided the inspiration for the setting of His Dark Materials.
Omnibus of five parts
Adapted and produced by Kate McAll
A Pier production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2017.
SUN 14:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07pwy9b)
Jack Vettriano
The popular Scottish artist Jack Vettriano chooses Kitty Kallen's 'Little Things Mean a Lot' and 'My Father' by Judy Collins.
SUN 14:20 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (Omnibus) (b007jtwl)
Episode 5
Once more Jean Valjean puts his life into Inspector Javert's hands...
Conclusion of Victor Hugo's epic story of social injustice.
Starring Joss Ackland, Roger Allam and David Schofield.
Omnibus of episodes 21 to 25 of 25.
Dramatised by Sebastian Baczkiewicz and Lin Coghlan.
Jean Valjean .... Roger Allam
Victor Hugo... Joss Ackland
Cosette ... Lucy Whybrow
Marius ... Jonathan Forbes
Javert ... David Schofield
Gillenormand ... Leslie Phillips
Toussaint ... Annette Badland
Mme Gillenormand ... Shuna Snow
Basque ... Ewan Bailey.
Producer: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2001.
SUN 15:30 Tempus Fugit (b00p2cbz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday]
SUN 16:00 Garbo and Gilbert in Love (m000h896)
The dramatised story of legendary Hollywood actress Greta Garbo's celebrated affair with silent movie star John Gilbert.
As the talkies supersede the silents, the brilliant and enigmatic Swedish actress is destined for superstardom.
But her lover descends into drunken obscurity...
Starring Kristin Milward and Henry Goodman.
Colin Shindler's classic celebrity love story.
Greta Garbo ....Kristin Milward
John Gilbert .... Henry Goodman
Louis B Mayer .... Lou Hirsch
King Vidor ..... William Hope
Eleanor .... Amy Shindler
Thalberg .... Lewis Hancock
Winchell .... John Guerrasio
Stiller .... Andrew Wincott
Marlene Dietrich .... Bella Merlin
Director: Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2005.
SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra (m0015br1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today]
SUN 17:30 HR (b00tmkg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
SUN 18:00 Agatha Christie (b00jzy3m)
The Dressmaker's Doll
A creepy doll with a mind of its own causes alarm along London's catwalks.
Stars Juliet Aubrey.
Mike Walker revamps Agatha Christie's whodunit, first published in 1971.
Octavia ...... Juliet Aubrey
Sally ...... Beth Chalmers
Jeremy ...... Stephen Critchlow
Carrie ...... Gemma Saunders
Model ...... Emma Woolliams
Amber ...... Connie Gurie
Music by Ben Wallfisch.
Director: Ned Chaillet
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003.
SUN 18:30 The Tomb by HP Lovecraft (b007jzmv)
The obsessive Jervas Dudley reveals the sinister events leading up to his incarceration in an asylum.
First published in 1917, HP Lovecraft’s chilling tale is read by Ryan McCluskey.
American writer, H P Lovecraft (1890-1937) is recognised as one of the most significant figures in 20th century supernatural fiction. Contemporary horror writers, including Stephen King, often cite him as a major influence. His own outlook on life is mirrored in his writing.
"I am so beastly tired of mankind and the world that nothing can interest me unless it contains a couple of murders on each page or deals with the horrors unnameable and unaccountable that leer down from the external universes."
Lovecraft found living, the everyday stuff of life a painful experience. At every turn he felt disillusioned by what life had to offer. Through his writing he sought to put into words these sentiments.
Producer: Gemma Jenkins
Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in November 2005.
SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour (m0015bqz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
SUN 19:50 Inheritance Tracks (b07jl6y2)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:10 today]
SUN 20:00 Garbo and Gilbert in Love (m000h896)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 today]
SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015bqx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
SUN 21:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bnb3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]
SUN 22:00 HR (b00tmkg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 today]
SUN 22:30 Delve Special (b007k469)
Series 2
Whose Baby?
David Lander reports on the implications of revolutionary methods of baby production
Presented by David Lander with assistance from Stephen Fry.
Studio production by:
Tony Robinson
Julia Hills
Stephen Frost
Felicity Montagu
Dramatic reconstruction by:
Jack Klaff
Phil Nice
Robert Bathurst
Researched and compiled by Tony Sarchet.
Editor: Paul Mayhew-Archer
Delve Special ran for four series from 1984 to 1987 and later transferred to TV as: This is David Lander.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1985.
SUN 23:00 In and Out of the Kitchen (b01qw8m7)
Series 2
On Location
Damien is sent on location to the Lake District to film a chunk of his new series for Sky Arts about "poets and their palates".
But when the sunshine turns to driving rain, Damien's spirits are further dampened when it appears Anthony might not be missing him quite as much as he had hoped...
Sitcom written by and starring Miles Jupp, charting the life of cookery writer Damien Trench and his partner Anthony.
Damien Trench ...... Miles Jupp
Anthony MacIlveny ...... Justin Edwards
Gary McDade ...... Ben Crowe
Sound Man ...... Ben Crowe
Mr Mullaney ...... Brendan Dempsey
Marion Duffett ...... Lesley Vickerage
Producer: Sam Michell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2013.
SUN 23:30 Dan and Nick: The Wildebeest Years (b007jsmf)
Pilot: Cold Turkey with Dan and Nick
Fish Gordon has only 48 hours to save the aquarium.
A comedy extravaganza written by and featuring Dan Freedman and Nick Romero
Meet characters including Incy Wincy Quincy, spider pathologist.
Music by the Gents.
Producer: Julian Mayers
Pilot for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in August 1998


MONDAY 14 MARCH 2022

MON 00:00 Agatha Christie (b00jzy3m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday]
MON 00:30 The Tomb by HP Lovecraft (b007jzmv)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday]
MON 01:00 Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman (Omnibus) (b09c1y3m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Sunday]
MON 02:10 Inheritance Tracks (b07pwy9b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Sunday]
MON 02:20 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables (Omnibus) (b007jtwl)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:20 on Sunday]
MON 03:30 Tempus Fugit (b00p2cbz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 02:30 on Saturday]
MON 04:00 Garbo and Gilbert in Love (m000h896)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:00 Poetry Extra (m0015br1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Sunday]
MON 05:30 HR (b00tmkg9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:30 on Sunday]
MON 06:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l24b)
1. Reception
Hilary is a woman of exceptional talent.
She's set to be discharged from hospital after seeing the psychiatrist.
But then Hilary discovers she's the target of a shadowy group keen to use her computer talents...
Starring Angela Pleasance, Nigel Anthony and Margaret Wolfit.
Christopher Bidmead's six part thrilling spy adventure.
Hilary ...... Angela Pleasance
Beresford ...... Rolf Lefebvre
Cannon ...... Nigel Anthony
Jean ...... Hilda Kriseman
Dr. Reece ...... John Pullen
Matron. ...... Margaret Wolfit
Dr. Wormald ...... Malcolm Hayes
Nurse ...... Deborah Dallas
Rick ...... Andrew Sachs
Mortimer ...... Dinsdale Landen
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.
MON 06:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqc3)
Killing Orders
2. Forging Ahead
Cousin Albert has called private eye VI Warshawski off the investigation into the forged securities at the Priory.
But she doesn't give up so easily...
Sara Paretsky's thriller about a feisty Chicago private investigator.
Kathleen Turner stars as VI Warshawski.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
VI Warshawski .… Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant …. Martin Shaw
Gabriella …. Avril Clark
Albert …. William Hootkins
Rosa …. Eileen Way
Father Carroll …. Don Fellows
Uncle Stefan …. Maurice Denham
Lotty Herschel …. Miriam Karlin
O'Faolin …. John Bennett
Agnes Paciorek …. Lorelei King
Murray Ryerson …. Kerry Shale
Sal …. Adjoa Andoh
Derek Hatfield …. Andrew Wincott
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991.
MON 07:00 Boswell's Lives (b05vh1p4)
Series 1
Boswell's Life of Johnson
James Boswell attempts to write a biography of another famous Johnson - Boris - when he is Mayor of London.
But he finds him a fiendish opponent especially on the whiff-whaff table.
Jon Canter’s sitcom sees Dr Johnson's celebrated biographer, James Boswell pursue other legends to immortalise.
James Boswell ..... Miles Jupp
Boris Johnson ...... Alistair McGowan
Director: Sally Avens
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2015.
MON 07:30 Just a Minute (m001547k)
Series 88
Episode 3
Sue Perkins challenges Dane Baptiste, Stephen Fry, Sheila Hancock and Paul Merton to speak for 60 seconds without repetition, deviation or hesitation.
This week's panellists prove that it can be much more difficult than you would think to talk about brushing your teeth.
Production co-ordinator: Caroline Barlow
Sound editor: Marc Willcox
Producer: Richard Morris
A BBC Studios Production
MON 08:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00hmb64)
Series 2
Episode 3
Mystery in a spoof of smooth sleuth Paul Temple - and wires get crossed on the telephone.
A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker.
With:
Terence Brady
Pauline Yates
Ann Beach
Pianist: Gordon Langford
Written by Arnold Brown, Donald Churchill, Peter Spence, Don Currell and Andy Kelvin, John Graham, Charles Griffin, JG Sacks, Myles Rudge and Ted Dicks, and Gerald Wiley.
Producer John Fawcett-Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972.
MON 08:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jzcw)
I'll See You at the Source
As their Thames quest climaxes, Jennifer attempts to drink Sam under the table
Starring Timothy Spall.
One man’s quest to discover the true source of the River Thames with his faithful hound, Boogie.
Adapted by Mark Wallington from his own novel.
Mark …. Timothy Spall
Jennifer Conway …. Carla Mendonca
Boogie …. Ronald Herdman
Sam Tucker …. Geoffrey McGivern
Delia Smith …. Melinda Walker
Michael ...... Gary Parker
Canoeist ...... Nicholas Murchie
Barman ...... Jonathan Adams
PA …. Ainslie Foster
Adolescent Girl ...... Julie Gibbs
Cricketer ...... John Fleming
Old Lady ...... Jillie Meers
Other parts played by the cast.
Producer: Caroline Leddy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1993.
MON 09:00 Wordaholics (b01dhhps)
Series 1
Episode 5
Gyles Brandreth hosts the comedy panel show in which guests are challenged to display their knowledge of words and language.
On the panel: Jack Whitehall, Milton Jones, Natalie Haynes and Countdown's Susie Dent.
Letter of the week is P which really packs a punch.
We learn why Susie Dent's favourite word is 'blurb', we find out what a Chicago Piano was and we listen as Jack Whitehall struggles to reduce to a tweet a particularly fruity passage from his father's autobiography.
Writers: James Kettle and Jon Hunter.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2012.
MON 09:30 Arrested Development (b0075vxs)
Episode 4
Can Bob manage to woo Kate back? What future for jilted bride Penny?
Starring Letitia Dean, Phil Cornwell and Julian Rhind-Tutt.
Conclusion of Simon Warne's comedy serial.
Penny ...... Letitia Dean
Bob ...... Phil Cornwell
Andy ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt
Kate ...... Susannah Doyle
Joy ...... Maggie McCarthy
Frank ...... Roger Walker
Producer: Tracey Neale
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2000.
MON 10:00 Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft (m0001137)
The strangest story of all HP Lovecraft's 'weird tales' isn't fiction at all: it's true.
It concerns his marriage to Sonia Greene, a successful businesswoman whose family had fled Ukraine to make a life in the USA.
The story is revealed through interviews with Lovecraft and his friends and family by producer Mary Ward-Lowery.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft's horror fiction has achieved cult status in recent decades, but was admired only by a small circle of friends in his lifetime.
Lovecraft's eminent New England family indulged his genius, his eccentricities and his prejudices. He favoured human contact by letter, rarely left his home, and even then, only at night, delighting to walk streets empty of people. He preferred the company of men and hated foreigners and Jews.
But his relationship with Sonia Greene transcended these prejudices, for a while at least. She swept Lovecraft up in her enthusiasm for his work and her romantic ideas about the man himself, rationalising his beliefs in pursuit of her own beautiful, idealised creation, a fiction of a husband.
To the shock and dismay of his family, they married and moved into Sonia’s New York apartment, where she planned to create him anew, as a glittering literary success. But it seems the horrors that make Lovecraft’s fiction so skin-crawlingly effective were not simply a product of his imagination: they have their origins in a terrible family secret.
Bad blood will out.
Written by Sara Davies and Abigail Youngman.
HP Lovecraft ...... John MacKay
Sonia Greene ...... Tracy Wiles
Samuel Loveman ...... Carl Prekopp
Lilian Clarke ...... Sarah Parks
Florence Greene ...... Martha Godber
Music by Tom Constantine
Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2018.
MON 10:45 Just Depending by Jenny Boston (b007jr1m)
'"You're as strong as an ox, Mother," she tells me sometimes. "You'll see us both out!" She laughs as she says it and I laugh too, but neither of us is fooled.'
A woman confronts old age, her fear of dependency and finding the resolve to start a new chapter in life.
Thora Hird reads Jenny Boston's short story.
Producer: Harriet Lang
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1995.
MON 11:00 TED Radio Hour (m0015bvq)
Series 8
The Artist's Voice
A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) stage.
Manoush Zomorodi explores how art, from dance to poetry to film, can shift beliefs and empower creative expression.
First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio in 2021.
MON 11:50 Inheritance Tracks (m0015bvs)
Sir Kenneth Branagh
Belfast born actor and director Sir Kenneth Branagh, chooses ‘Cyprus Avenue’ by Van Morrison and ‘Rio’ by Michael Nesmith.
MON 12:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00hmb64)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 12:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jzcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 13:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l24b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 13:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 14:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08r1lj8)
Episode 1
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf aged 28.
Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away.
She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next 12 years deafness shaped her life.
Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
Bella embarks on a sailing trip with friends. She doesn't want to admit her hearing is getting worse, but out at sea even more sound gets lost. As the weather worsens and Bella mishears instructions from the captain, has she put the whole boat in danger?
Abridged in five parts by Jo Coombs.
Read by Adjoa Andoh.
Producer: Hannah Marshall
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.
MON 14:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b0076481)
First Stirrings
Jane Beeson tells the story of the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
As the first impressionist exhibition opens to the ridicule of the critics, the first stirrings of Berthe's talent are recalled with an early encounter with Édouard Manet.
Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.
MON 14:30 Brandreth's Pills (b00pdk2q)
Gyles Brandreth tells the tale of one of the most influential people you've never heard of - his great great grandfather, Benjamin.
It's a story that takes us from Liverpool in the 1830s to New York, with a cast of hucksters, quacks, politicians, millionaires, and medics -- not to mention the founders of tabloid journalism and mass advertising.
Benjamin Brandreth set sail from Liverpool in 1835 with nothing. By the time of his death in 1887 he was a New York senator, a landowner, the owner of one of New York's biggest hotels, and one of the richest men in the country. He had invented the giant billboard, financed Gordon Bennett's yellow press and developed mass advertising.
How?
Brandreth's vegetable pills! They were a powerful laxative.
Benjamin Brandreth claimed they could cure almost anything. He spent a fortune on advertising, and people believed him.
Producer: Chris Bond
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2009.
MON 15:00 Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft (m0001137)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
MON 15:45 Just Depending by Jenny Boston (b007jr1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today]
MON 16:00 Wordaholics (b01dhhps)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
MON 16:30 Arrested Development (b0075vxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
MON 17:00 Boswell's Lives (b05vh1p4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
MON 17:30 Just a Minute (m001547k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jp34)
Episode 6
Heawood discovers more about the culture of witchcraft and sorcery from Doctor Eleanor Peck, the author of several books on the history of witchcraft in Britain and Europe.
Award-winning Julian Simpson's HP Lovecraft-inspired universe as seen through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story began with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Charles Dexter Ward …… Samuel Barnett
Doctor Willett …… Mark Bazeley
Eleanor Peck …… Nicola Walker
Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

A Sweet Talk Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.
MON 18:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0132ll5)
Episode 6
Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Zaphod finally gets to see Thor and we also learn how he sold Nano to Hillman Hunter.
Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz.
Abridged by Penny Leicester.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
MON 18:30 A Good Read (b03h3fwy)
Kate Silverton and Johnnie Walker
R2 presenter Johnnie Walker and BBC newsreader Kate Silverton talk about their favourite books with Harriett Gilbert.
Johnnie Walker's choice: Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig
Published by Vintage
Kate Silverton's choice: Daughter of the Desert - the Remarkable Life of Gertrude Bell by Georgina Howell
Published by Pan MacMillan
Harriett Gilbert's choice: Excellent Women by Barbara Pym
Published by Virago
Producer Beth O'Dea
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.
MON 19:00 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead (b00hmb64)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
MON 19:30 Boogie Up the River (b007jzcw)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
MON 20:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l24b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
MON 20:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
MON 21:00 TED Radio Hour (m0015bvq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
MON 21:50 Inheritance Tracks (m0015bvs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]
MON 22:00 Just a Minute (m001547k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
MON 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen (b007k2qm)
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot
The locals of the remote northern town get an unusual new guy for the bonfire.
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 Festival 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 November 1997.
MON 23:00 The Now Show (m00154qd)
Series 60
Episode 1
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical stand-up and sketches.
MON 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes (b01pbxz2)
Series 2
Myths
The Red Dragon, Merlin, and Fireman Sam.
Comedian Elis James compares key figures in Welsh history to determine the ultimate heroes of Wales.
With Ben Partridge and Nadia Kamil.
Written by Elis James, Gareth Gwyn and Benjamin Partridge.
Producer: Sharif Shahwan
First broadcast on BBC Radio Wales in December 2012.


TUESDAY 15 MARCH 2022

TUE 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jp34)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday]
TUE 00:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0132ll5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday]
TUE 00:30 A Good Read (b03h3fwy)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday]
TUE 01:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l24b)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday]
TUE 01:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqc3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday]
TUE 02:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08r1lj8)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday]
TUE 02:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b0076481)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday]
TUE 02:30 Brandreth's Pills (b00pdk2q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday]
TUE 03:00 Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft (m0001137)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday]
TUE 03:45 Just Depending by Jenny Boston (b007jr1m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday]
TUE 04:00 Wordaholics (b01dhhps)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday]
TUE 04:30 Arrested Development (b0075vxs)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday]
TUE 05:00 Boswell's Lives (b05vh1p4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday]
TUE 05:30 Just a Minute (m001547k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday]
TUE 06:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l1fx)
2. Pandora Close
Hilary meets a gentleman who tells her that the dead are living and the living dead.
Then because of her exceptional talent, he asks her to do a job for him...
Christopher Bidmead's spy adventure stars Angela Pleasance.
Hilary ....... Angela Pleasance
Beresford ....... Rolf Lefebvre
Cannon ....... Nigel Anthony
Jean ....... Hilda Kriseman
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.
TUE 06:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqcj)
Killing Orders
3. Acid Test
VI Warshawski's best friend, Agnes Paciorek, has been murdered, but is there a connection with her investigation at the Priory and the anonymous phone calls?
Sara Paretsky's thriller featuring feisty Chicago private eye, VI Warshawski.
CAST:
VI Warshawski .… Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant …. Martin Shaw
Lotty Herschel …. Miriam Karlin
Bobby Mallory …. William Hootkins
O'Faolin …. John Bennett
Gabriella …. Avril Clark
Alicia …. Lorelei King
Mrs Paciorek …. Helen Horton
Father Pelly …. Colin Stinton
Phil …. Stuart Milligan
Murray Ryerson …. Kerry Shale
Regina …. Adjoa Andoh
Dr Paciorek …. Norman Jones
Phyllis Lording …. Theresa Streatfield
Sara Paretsky created one of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but she never loses touch with her basic femininity.
Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women were portrayed, [in detective fiction] they always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator".
Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 film 'VI Warshawski'.
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991.
TUE 07:00 Ayres on the Air (b007k0pq)
Series 1
Human Deterioration
Pam Ayres kicks off her own poetry and sketch show starting with the theme of deterioration.. of eyesight, figure, memory......the list goes on.
With poems about being Too Fat and buying a Wonderbra.
Plus sketches about being Topless at 60 and how to spice up your love life with a little celebrity fantasy in a sketch called Me and Michael Aspel.
With Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity Montagu.
Producer: Claire Jones
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2004.
TUE 07:30 The World of Simon Rich (m00154bg)
Series 3
Episode 1
Simon Rich is a one-man comedy phenomenon, described by The Guardian as "the funniest man in America" and with credits including The Simpsons, Pixar movies and Saturday Night Live. He created the hit sitcom Miracle Workers starring Steve Buscemi and Daniel Radcliffe, and his debut movie An American Pickle was released in 2020, starring Seth Rogen.
Now Simon returns to Radio 4 with a third series of his charmingly absurd stories, performed by a top-drawer British cast. Featuring parenting pirates, a baby detective, an unlikely retelling of Beauty And The Beast, and a super monster being promoted into management, this is unlike anything else you’ll hear this year.
Starring Mat Baynton, Ed Eales-White, Kieran Hodgson, Cariad Lloyd, Claire Price and Adjani Salmon
Produced by Jon Harvey and Clarissa Maycock
Editor: David Thomas
Executive Producer: Polly Thomas
A Naked production for BBC Radio 4
TUE 08:00 The Goon Show (b007jlsh)
The Last Tram (from Clapham)
London's trams are no more, but boss Neddie Seagoon must pursue the one that got away.
Groundbreaking, surreal BBC radio comedy written by Spike Milligan and Eric Sykes.
Starring:
Peter Sellers
Harry Secombe
Spike Milligan
First billed as Crazy People, ten series of The Goon Show were recorded between 1951 and 1960, but sadly many of the earliest shows weren’t kept in the archive.
With the Ray Ellington Quartet and Max Geldray.
Orchestra conducted by Wally Stott.
Announcer: Wallace Greenslade
Producer: Peter Eton
First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in November 1954.
TUE 08:30 King Street Junior (b007jmgt)
Series 5
Choices
Parent Power means troubled times for Mr Sims, while Mrs Rudd falls foul of the law.
Created and written by Jim Eldridge.
Ten series of this comedy about King Street Junior School ran between 1985 and 1998. King Street Junior Revisited ran from 2002 to 2005.
Mr Sims …............... Karl Howman
Mr Beeston …........ James Grout
Mr Holliday …........Tom Watson
Mr Stone …. ...........Margaret John
Mr Long …............. Paul Copley
Miss Lewis …........ Marlene Sidaway
Monsieur Chantal...Andre Maranne
Yvette.....................Carolle Rousseau
Coach driver.........Donald Gee
Joanne....................Claire Hearnden
Asam.......................Nicholas Greenshields
Neil...........................Sebastian Brennan
Jason........................Trevor Thomas
Producer: John Fawcett Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1990.
TUE 09:00 The Now Show (m00154qd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday]
TUE 09:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v2pbf)
Series 2
Awards
18th century smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny wants to win win the coveted Smuggling Personality of the Year award at the annual Jethro awards.
It's 1793 and in the small Cornish village of Drumlin Bay, heroic smuggler Tamsyn Trelawny is still running rings around the customs men, assisted by her drunken father Jago.
Written by Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain.
Starring Sheridan Smith as Tamsyn Trelawny, John Bowe as Jago Trelawny, Cameron Stewart as Major Thomas Falconer, Andrew McGibbon as Captain Marriot, Martin Hyder as Squire Bascombe, Mark Felgate as Dewey, Mark Perry as Hobbs and India Fisher as Mum.
Producer: Jan Ravens.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2004.
TUE 10:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014r622)
1. A Most Desirable Address
A Most Desirable Address is how Durham Square is unerringly described by its inhabitants; but is this treasured status soon to be eroded by the arrival of Miss Susan Leg?
Pauline Collins stars as Miss Susan Leg.
First published in 1932, EF Benson’s novel dramatised in three parts by Aubrey Woods.
Susan Leg ...... Pauline Collins
Margaret Mantrip ...... Margot Boyd
Jimmie Mason ...... Ronald Herdman
Elizabeth Conklin ...... Rachel Gurney
Lady Eva Lowndes ...... Pauline Letts
Mr Cartwright ...... Peter Howell
Arthur Armstrong MP ...... Edward de Souza
Bosanquet ...... John Church
Vicar ...... Tim Reynolds
Miss Ascham ...... Sheila Grant
Mr Woodstock ...... Manning Wilson
Figus ...... George Parsons
Ellen ...... Jennifer Piercey
Foreman ...... Gordon Reid
Receptionist ...... Jonathan Tafler
Dealer ...... Andrew Branch
Narrated by Aubrey Woods.
Assorted dogs played by the cast.
Music by John Owen Edwards.
Producer: Ian Cotterell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1987
TUE 11:00 Archive on 4 (b01465z9)
Robert Robinson
Robert Robinson is best remembered as the chairman of BBC TV's classic quiz 'Ask the Family' and BBC Radio 4's 'Brain of Britain'.
But in a career spanning many decades, he also made travel programmes, Points of View, the Today programme and Stop the Week which ran on Radio 4 from 1974 to 1992.
Laurie Taylor takes a look at the life and work of one of Britain's broadcasting legends in the company of some of the former contributors to Stop the Week; Ann Leslie, Matthew Parris, Sarah Harrison and Nick Tucker.
There are also contributions from Will Wyatt, Victor Lewis-Smith and Hunter Davis and a wealth of archive that reveals a complex man, a consummate wordsmith and one of the first TV celebrities.
Robert died aged 83 in 2011.
Producer: Helen Lee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 2011.
TUE 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
Series 1
Songsters
Humans aren't the only species who sing. Many birds do and even another ape.
What messages are conveyed in the syllables, melodies and repeated phrases, and who is listening?
Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural histories of creatures and plants from around the world.
Produce: Julian Hector
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009.
TUE 12:00 The Goon Show (b007jlsh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 12:30 King Street Junior (b007jmgt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 13:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l1fx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 13:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqcj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 14:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg37g)
Episode 2
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf at the age of 28. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life.
Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
Bella tries to find her deaf identity. Can someone who's losing her hearing at the age of 28 ever be part of the deaf-from-birth community? And how can she continue to relate to her friends and family if she can't work out what they're saying?
Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged by Jo Coombs
Produced by Hannah Marshall
A Loftus production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.
TUE 14:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b007648k)
Passion
Berthe compares herself to Baudelaire, and Manet is impressed with her passion. As her sister settles into married domesticity, Berthe encounters a slightly more comical suitor of her own.
Jane Beeson's five-part series looking at the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
TUE 14:30 Kitch! (b04xp15m)
June 1948. The Empire Windrush docks at Tilbury carrying 492 West Indian "citizens of the British Empire". Newsreel footage captures forever the suited new arrivals waiting to alight. As the reporter introduces one young man as "their spokesman", a gently smiling Aldwyn Roberts sings a Calypso he wrote on the the voyage, 'London is the place for me, London, this lovely city...'
Aldwyn Roberts was 26 years old and already well known in Trinidad as Calypso star Lord Kitchener. He lived in England for almost 15 years, married a girl in Manchester, was celebrated by glamorous upper class English society and became the voice of a generation of Caribbean immigrants far from home.
Poet and musician Anthony Joseph also left Trinidad for London in his twenties and has always felt a powerful connection to Kitch. He spoke to him just once, when he saw Kitch standing alone for a moment at Carnival in Trinidad. Now, fifteen years after Kitchener's death Anthony Joseph tries to get to the heart of the man behind the famous footage.
Presenter: Anthony Joseph
Producer: Allegra McIlroy
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2015.
TUE 15:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014r622)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
TUE 16:00 The 3rd Degree (b0b86r8n)
Series 8
University of Hertfordshire
A funny and dynamic quiz show hosted by Steve Punt - this week from the University of Hertfordshire.
Specialist subjects include Aerospace Engineering, English Language and Communication and Computer Sciences, and questions ranging from DOS Commands and derivatives to Captain Hook and why eating detergent is wrong.
Recorded on location at a different University each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in an original and fresh take on an academic quiz.
The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the Highbrow and 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, sport, and quite possibly Justin Bieber. In addition, the Head-to-Head rounds see students take on their Professors in their own subjects, offering plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both sides.
Producer: David Tyler
A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in July 2018.
TUE 16:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v2pbf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
TUE 17:00 Ayres on the Air (b007k0pq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
TUE 17:30 The World of Simon Rich (m00154bg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jmtr)
Episode 7
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Heawood interviews Amelia Fenner, the last surviving member of Joseph Curwen’s coven.
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Matthew Heawood ...... Barnaby Kay
Doctor Willett …… Mark Bazeley
Charles Dexter Ward …… Samuel Barnett
Amelia Fenner …… Susan Jameson
Nurse …… Cherrelle Skeete
Hard man …… Ben Crowe
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.
TUE 18:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0132plq)
Episode 7
Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
There's a confrontation between the tyromancers and the Nanites - and Thor arrives on Nano.
Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz.
Abridged by Penny Leicester.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
TUE 18:30 Soul Music (b05s2x2k)
Series 20
First Cut Is the Deepest
Long before it was a worldwide hit for Rod Stewart, the Cat Stevens song 'First Cut is the Deepest' made a name for the former Ike and Tina Turner backing singer, PP Arnold.
In an interview for Soul Music she describes the emotional connection she felt to the lyrics, having emerged from an abusive marriage shortly before recording it.
Also contributing to the programme is the song's original producer, Mike Hurst. He describes how he achieved the huge 'wall of sound' production using double drums, a huge string section, and a harp instead of a guitar to play the signature riff at the the start of the track.
There are many personal stories associated with the track: Carsten Knauff recalls a childhood sweetheart - his first true love - and explains why the Cat Stevens' version brings back bitter-sweet memories for him.
Rosemarie Purdy saw PP Arnold give an extraordinary live rendition at a club in Portsmouth in 1967. Never before had she seen such a heartfelt, emotionally charged performance. It's something she's never forgotten.
The Sheryl Crow version reminds Rachel Batson of a very difficult phase in her life; it's a song she says reflects her own faith journey.
And former Radio Caroline DJ, Keith Hampshire, describes the circumstances that led to him having a No.1 hit with the song in Canada. It was the first time 'First Cut' reached No.1 anywhere in the world.
Producer: Karen Gregor
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015.
TUE 19:00 The Goon Show (b007jlsh)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
TUE 19:30 King Street Junior (b007jmgt)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
TUE 20:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l1fx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
TUE 20:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqcj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
TUE 21:00 Archive on 4 (b01465z9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
TUE 21:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories (b00lcmcq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today]
TUE 22:00 The World of Simon Rich (m00154bg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
TUE 22:30 Mark Steel's in Town (b018xs8f)
Series 3
Bungay
Mark Steel continues his tour of six UK towns as he performs for the residents of Bungay in Suffolk.
His bespoke stand-up show covers non-existent castles, haunted pubs and chicken roundabouts.
As well as shedding light on less visited areas, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and people who have shaped where we live.
Written by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete Sinclair.
Producer: Sam Bryant
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2012.
TUE 23:00 The Harpoon (b007m747)
Series 2
Episode 1
Yes, Madam! The Empire's favourite weekly is back on the shelves!
Nostalgia galore in the first of four lovingly hand-tooled issues of this acclaimed comedy series awaits your collection - this one a bumper summer edition.
With Susie Brann, Alistair McGowan , Mary Elliot-Nelson, Julian Dutton and Peter Baynham.
Producer: Sarah Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992.
TUE 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars (b00htwhd)
Series 2
Suggs
Suggs reads A Brief History of Time, listens to Vivaldi, changes the oil in a car and has his first tap-dancing lesson. From 2009.


WEDNESDAY 16 MARCH 2022

WED 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jmtr)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday]
WED 00:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0132plq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday]
WED 00:30 Soul Music (b05s2x2k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday]
WED 01:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l1fx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday]
WED 01:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqcj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday]
WED 02:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg37g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday]
WED 02:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b007648k)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday]
WED 02:30 Kitch! (b04xp15m)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday]
WED 03:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014r622)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:00 The 3rd Degree (b0b86r8n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday]
WED 04:30 Elephants to Catch Eels (b00v2pbf)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday]
WED 05:00 Ayres on the Air (b007k0pq)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday]
WED 05:30 The World of Simon Rich (m00154bg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday]
WED 06:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2yd)
3. Zeus
Hilary meets an agent who is not what he seems, and together they climb a bridge to rob a computer.
Christopher Bidmead's spy adventure about a woman with exceptional talent starring Angela Pleasance.
Hilary .... Angela Pleasence
Beresford ... Rolf Lefebvre
Jean: Hilda ... Kriseman
Mortimer ... Dinsdale Landen
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.
WED 06:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqct)
Killing Orders
4. The Fire Next Time
The private eye is convinced Agnes's murder is linked to a covert takeover bid for Ajax insurance, but can she prove it?
Sara Paretsky's thriller featuring feisty Chicago private eye, VI Warshawski.
CAST:
VI Warshawski .… Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant …. Martin Shaw
Gabriella …. Avril Clark
Father Carroll …. Don Fellows
Rosa …. Eileen Way
Barbara Paciorek …. Lorelei King
Mrs Paciorek …. Helen Horton
Bobby Mallory …. William Hootkins
O'Faolin …. John Bennett
Murray Ryerson …. Kerry Shale
Father Pelly …. Colin Stinton
Father Jablonski …. Peter Penry-Jones
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991.
WED 07:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar (m0008p3v)
Series 3
Rage and Resentment
Alexei considers the roots of his rage and resentment, explores the dangers of magical thinking and contemplates what the philosophies of Bertholt Brecht could offer Premier League football.
Written by Alexei Sayle
Performed by Alexei Sayle
Produced by Joe Nunnery
A BBC Studios Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2019.
WED 07:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m00154dj)
Series 3
Heroes and Villains
Joanna Lumley & Roger Allam star in Jan Etherington’s award-winning comedy, as a couple who are passionate about life and each other. This week: Roger is obsessed with his new power hose and is cleaning up the neighbourhood. But their peace is shattered when noisy new neighbours move in.
Conversations from a Long Marriage won the Voice of the Listener & Viewer Award for Best Radio Comedy in 2020.
‘Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam have had illustrious acting careers but can they ever have done anything better than Jan Etherington’s two hander? This is a work of supreme craftsmanship.’ RADIO TIMES
‘Peppered with nostalgic 60s hits and especially written for the pair, it’s an endearing portrait of exasperation, laced with hard won tolerance – and something like love.’ THE GUARDIAN
‘The delicious fruit of the writer, Jan Etherington’s experience of writing lots of TV and radio, blessed by being acted by Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam. Treasure this one, produced by Claire Jones. Unlike many a current Radio 4 ‘comedy’, this series makes people laugh’ GILLIAN REYNOLDS. SUNDAY TIMES
‘You’ve been listening at my window, Jan’. JOANNA LUMLEY
‘The writing is spot on and Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam exquisite. So real, so entertaining. Please never stop making such terrific radio’. BBC DUTY LOG
‘Absolutely brilliant!! May it never end!’ BBC DUTY LOG
Conversations from a Long Marriage is written by Jan Etherington and produced by Claire Jones. It is a BBC Studios Production.
WED 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnjm)
Series 5
The Unexploded Bomb
When the Lad gets a surprise in the cellar, Sid sees his chance to make some money.
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 February 1958.
WED 08:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00scw6t)
Series 2
Market Forces
Surprised Giles advertises a pie, while Judith and David get unexpected opportunities. Stars Douglas Hodge.
Stars Douglas Hodge, Paul Bigley and Amanda Root.
Comedy drama series about three promising graduates still underachieving in their 30s.
Written by Paul Shearer and Richard Turner.
Giles.............................Douglas Hodge
Judith..........................Amanda Root
David...........................Paul Bigley
Other parts played by Simon Greenall, Abigail McKern, Nick Holder, Colleen Prendergast, Colin McFarlane and Geoffrey Whitehead.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1996
WED 09:00 Booked (b007544j)
Series 1
Episode 5
The Dong with the luminous nose honks hooters with Cyrano de Bergerac, and Obelix encounters the mighty Goliath. Sniff versus biff?
Mark Thomas, Roger McGough, Dillie Keane and Miles Kington deliver their wicked thoughts in the irreverent literary game.
Chaired by Ian McMillan.
Producer: Marc Jobst
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1995.
WED 09:30 All the Young Dudes (b01cjmb5)
Series 2
Summer Holiday
An unexpected reversal for Patrick, Helen, Billy and Moira brings equally unexpected joy. Stars Jim Sweeney. From October 2002.
WED 10:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014sh4w)
2. A Most Salubrious Seaside Resort
'A most salubrious seaside resort' is an apt description of Brighton.
But will the arrival of Mr Arthur Armstrong - critic, poet, novelist and Labour Member of Parliament - make it even more attractive to Miss Susan Leg ?
Pauline Collins stars as Miss Susan Leg.
EF Benson’s novel dramatised by Aubrey Woods.
Miss Susan Leg ...... Pauline Collins
Margaret Mantrip ...... Margot Boyd
Jimmie Mason ...... Ronald Herdman
Elizabeth Conklin ...... Rachel Gurney
Lady Eva Lowndes ...... Pauline Letts
Mr Cartwright ...... Peter Howell
Arthur Armstrong MP ...... Edward de Souza
Bosanquet ...... John Church
Vicar ...... Tim Reynolds
Minnie Mimps ...... Sheila Grant
Head Waiter...... Manning Wilson
Mr Puffy ...... George Parsons
Doctor ...... Gordon Reid
Receptionist ...... Jonathan Tafler
Augustus ...... Andrew Branch
Vicar ...... Tim Reynolds
Narrated by Aubrey Woods.
Music by John Owen Edwards.
Producer: Ian Cotterell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1987
WED 11:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m0015c0z)
Satire and Sitcoms
3. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Instead of guest Comedy Controllers, choosing their comedy favourites, it is now the turn of Paul Jackson, Beryl Vertue, John Lloyd and Jimmy Mulville who have between them well over a 150 years of gut-busting, side-aching woofers, gags - and the occasional horrific mistimed silence.
In front of an audience in the iconic Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House - the home of British Radio comedy - they reveal why they do it and what makes them laugh.
This time, they travel back to the 1960s and 70s to celebrate the satire boom, to trace the development of sitcoms both here and abroad, and to remember the golden years of BBC Entertainment. Featuring:
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: Fit the Sixth [S1 6/6] 12/04/1978
Extracts from Frankie Howerd and The Goon Show ‘The Great Regent’s Park Swim’
Series Producers: Paul Kobrak and Dixi Stewart.
Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in March 2017.
WED 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 12:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00scw6t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 13:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 13:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqct)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 14:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg3ln)
Episode 3
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf at the age of 28. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life.
Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
Bella continues to try to fight her deafness - and herself. Her loneliness and isolation is typical of people who have lost their hearing, she finds. Depression and social anxiety are very common.
Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged by Jo Coombs
Produced by Hannah Marshall
A Loftus production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.
WED 14:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b0076491)
Rivalry
Berthe poses for a portrait by Manet entitled Rest, but she finds his admiration is beginning to grow for another gifted painter, Eva Gonzales.
Jane Beeson's five-part series looking at the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
WED 14:30 A Sound British Adventure (b01lsyjg)
Comedian Stewart Lee is passionate about electronic music and he take us on a remarkable musical journey. We discover how, after the Second World War, a small group of electronic pioneers began tinkering with their army surplus kit to create new sounds and music.
Tristram Cary started the first electronic music studio in Britain but, while France, Germany, Italy and the USA had lavishly funded research centres, British electronic music remained the preserve of boffins on a budget.
As the programme reveals, this make do and mend approach prevailed long after austerity Britain had given way to the swinging 60s, with Peter Zinovieff developing EMS synthesizers from a shed at the bottom of his garden in Putney. (Paul McCartney put on his wellies and took a look). Zinovieff is interviewed about his experiments in sound.
Unsurprisingly, the electronic community in Britain was a small, intimate group and joining Cary and Zinovieff was Daphne Oram, who devoted decades to developing a 'drawn sound' electronic composition system that never really quite worked.
Brian Hodgson tells us about 1960s experimental and electronic festivals, including The Million Volt Light and Sound Rave (1967) at which The Beatles' electronic piece Carnival Of Light had its only public airing. We shall also hear how the radiophonic workshop broke new musical ground with Dr. Who.
Experts in the history of electronic music, including author and musician Mark Ayers and Goldsmiths College lecturer in computer studies Dr. Michael Grierson give the boffins' view and Portishead's Adrian Utley explains why the early forays in electronics are still relevant today.
Produced by John Sugar
A Sugar Production
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.
WED 15:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014sh4w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
WED 16:00 Booked (b007544j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
WED 16:30 All the Young Dudes (b01cjmb5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
WED 17:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar (m0008p3v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
WED 17:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m00154dj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jmp1)
Episode 8
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Kennedy is prepping a series of interviews for the next episode of the podcast
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Warden ...… Ben Crowe
Doctor Lyman …… Steven MackIntosh
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.
WED 18:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0132vvd)
Episode 8
Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Thor and Wowbagger fight, but the love of Trillian saves Wowbagger from destruction. The Vogons approach Nano...
Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz.
Abridged by Penny Leicester.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
WED 18:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jy1q)
Series 3
Stand By For West
A profile of John Creasey's Scotland Yard Inspector Roger West, played by Patrick Allen.
Series about classic detectives presented by Professor Jeffrey Richards.
With Richard Creasey, Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson.
Producer: Liz Anstee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000.
WED 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour (b007jnjm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
WED 19:30 If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich? (b00scw6t)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
WED 20:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
WED 20:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqct)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
WED 21:00 The Real Comedy Controllers: The Things That Made Us Laugh (m0015c0z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today]
WED 22:00 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m00154dj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
WED 22:30 Bunk Bed (m0003z9l)
Series 6
Episode 4
Everyone craves a place where their mind and body are not applied to a particular task. The nearest faraway place. Somewhere for drifting and lighting upon strange thoughts which don't have to be shooed into context, but which can be followed like balloons escaping onto the air.
Late at night, in the dark and in a bunk bed, your tired mind can wander.
This is the nearest faraway place for Patrick Marber and Peter Curran. Here they endeavour to get the heart of things in an entertainingly vague and indirect way. This is not the place for typical male banter.
From under the bed clothes, they wrestle life's challenges - examining the etiquette of Farmers, David Bowie sex fantasies, hair transplants and the dangerous charm of the song The Air That I Breathe.
Produced by Peter Curran.
A Foghorn production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2019.
WED 22:45 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders (b00j0pp8)
Propriety, Plants, Grandparents and Growing Your Own
In her continuing quest to better herself through learning and discovering things in reference books, comedian Josie Long presents a show about propriety, plants, grandparents, being connected to the world around you and growing your own.
With Josie's comedic cohort Maeve Higgins
And guest Isy Suttie.
Producer Colin Anderson
First broadcast BBC Radio 4 in March 2009.
WED 23:00 Radio Active (b007jw18)
Series 7
God Alone Knows
The Right Reverend Reverend Wright brings you all the very latest from around the parish.
Starring Helen Atkinson Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens.
Music by Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens.
Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins.
Producer: David Tyler
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987.
WED 23:30 Dave Podmore (b007ncns)
Dave Podmore's Cricket Fix
Episode 1
What's gone wrong with English cricket recently?
Er.... nothing. But Dave Podmore is going to put that right.
County cricket's arrogant, politically-incorrect, money-grabbing, medium-paced trundler par excellence has a plan and it involves our children.
Christopher Douglas stars as Pod.
Written by Christopher Douglas, Nick Newman and Andrew Nickolds.
Dave ...... Chris Douglas
Andy ...... Andrew Nickolds
With Henry Allen, Keiran Cadweller, William Hicks, David Rogers, Fiona Howlett and Montanna Thompson.
Producer: Richard Wilson
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2001.


THURSDAY 17 MARCH 2022

THU 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jmp1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday]
THU 00:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0132vvd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday]
THU 00:30 The Radio Detectives (b007jy1q)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday]
THU 01:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2yd)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday]
THU 01:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqct)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday]
THU 02:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg3ln)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday]
THU 02:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b0076491)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday]
THU 02:30 A Sound British Adventure (b01lsyjg)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday]
THU 03:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014sh4w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:00 Booked (b007544j)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday]
THU 04:30 All the Young Dudes (b01cjmb5)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday]
THU 05:00 Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar (m0008p3v)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday]
THU 05:30 Conversations from a Long Marriage (m00154dj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday]
THU 06:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2hc)
4. The Proctor File
Hilary gets things taped, but has to take a jump to get back in the swim of things.
Christopher Bidmead's spy adventure about a woman with exceptional talent starring Angela Pleasance.
Hilary ... Angela Pleasence
Beresford. ... Rolf Lefebvre
Jean .... Hilda Kriseman
Mortimer .... Dinsdale Landen
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.
THU 06:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqd4)
Killing Orders
5. Dinner Date
First an acid attack, then her flat burns down: the anonymous menacing phone caller will go to any lengths to get VI Warshawski to quit.
Sara Paretsky's thriller featuring feisty Chicago private eye, VI Warshawski.
CAST:
VI Warshawski .… Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant …. Martin Shaw
Uncle Stefan …. Maurice Denham
Lotty Herschel …. Miriam Karlin
O'Faolin …. John Bennett
Gabriella …. Avril Clark
Father Carroll …. Don Fellows
Barbara Paciorek …. Lorelei King
Bobby Mallory …. William Hootkins
Murray Ryerson …. Kerry Shale
Rosa …. Eileen Way
Sal …. Adjoa Andoh
Derek Hatfield …. Andrew Wincott
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991.
THU 07:00 It's a Fair Cop (b05zld8g)
Series 2
An Englishman’s Home
Policeman turned comic Alfie Moore asks what is 'reasonable force'? How far can you go to defend yourself?
Series in which the audience makes the policing decisions as Alfie takes them through a real-life crime scenario.
Written and performed by Alfie Moore.
Script Editor: Will Ing
Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2015.
THU 07:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b098nlcz)
Series 2
Food
This week's Big Problem with Helen Keen is; Food
Natural resources are dwindling so how can we make sure everyone is fed? How has our food shopping and food production changed? Can science help? Will the future be meals in a pill? But, most importantly, what will Helen have for her tea?
As humanity faces a very big raft of very varied problems, many of them of its own making, here is a series of optimistic, scientifically literate yet comically nimble shows that offer a sweeping overview of the biggest challenges we face and the science behind them. We look at the often surprising solutions of past generations and the likely and unlikely solutions of the future and present a scrupulously researched comedy celebrating human ingenuity.
Written by Helen Keen, Jenny Laville, Lloyd Langford and Carrie Quinlan and special thanks to Laura-Alexandra Smith.
Cast: Helen Keen, Jon Culshaw and Susy Kane.
Producer was Katie Tyrrell and it was a BBC Studios Production.
THU 08:00 The Jason Explanation of... (b007jq9g)
The Unknown
David Jason and company explore fork bending, time travel and things that go bump in the night.
With Sheila Steafel, Royce Mills and John Owen Edwards.
Following in the footsteps of Lord Clark, Dr Bronowski and Professor Galbraith, David Jason unravels the mysteries of the universe and the meaning of life.
Scripted by Colin Bostock Smith, Andy Hamilton, Barry Pilton and Alastair Beaton.
Music by John Owen Edwards
Producer: Geoffrey Perkins
First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in September 1977.
THU 08:30 After Henry (b007jpwp)
Series 3
Poor Relations
"No, they're lovely. They'd never make me feel awkward. They'll keep inviting me, even if I never ask them back. That's not the problem. It's my pride. I want to be equal with them. I don't want to traipse around in their wake like something out of Anita Brookner."
Proud Sarah suffers her mother's nosiness, as well as some unexpected advances.
Simon Brett's comedy about three generations of women - struggling to cope after the death of Sarah's GP husband - who never quite manage to see eye to eye.
Sarah ...... Prunella Scales
Eleanor ...... Joan Sanderson
Russell ...... Benjamin Whitrow
Clare ...... Gerry Cowper
Neville ...... Ian Thompson
Four radio series were made, but instead of moving to BBC TV - Thames Television produced 'After Henry' for the ITV network.
Producer: Pete Atkin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1987.
THU 09:00 The Personality Test (b00m5tks)
Series 1
Gyles Brandreth
Broadcaster, author and ex-MP Gyles Brandreth quizzes a panel about himself.
Sue Perkins, Alan Carr and Lucy Porter battle with queries based on Gyle's life, whims and interests
Series in which a fresh host every episode quizzes a comedy panel about themselves.
Script by Richard Turner
Devised & produced by Aled Evans.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006.
THU 09:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012h800)
Series 1
Androids in Love
Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1961.
A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the unimaginably futuristic world of 2006.
A top Shakespearean actor guests on the show as an android.
With Peter Bowles, Cheryl Campbell, John Fortune and Leslie Phillips.
By Christopher William Hill.
Nigel ... Peter Bowles
Hugo ... Joseph Kloska
Sylvia ... Cheryl Campbell
Douglas ... Jon Glover
Godfrey ... John Fortune
Colin Paul ... Richard Biggin
Sir Monty ... Leslie Phillips
Advert voice ... Miranda Keeling
Producer: Liz Webb
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.
THU 10:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014tcjb)
3. A Most Treasured Home
"A most treasured home is exactly what 25 Durham Square has become for Miss Susan Leg.
But will its treasure turn to dross with the threatened unravelling of the mystery surrounding her secret life?
Pauline Collins stars as Miss Susan Leg.
Conclusion of EF Benson’s 1932 novel dramatised iby Aubrey Woods
Miss Susan Leg ...... Pauline Collins
Margaret Mantrip ...... Margot Boyd
Jimmie Mason ...... Ronald Herdman
Elizabeth Conklin ...... Rachel Gurney
Lady Eva Lowndes ...... Pauline Letts
Mr Cartwright ...... Peter Howell
Bosanquet ...... John Church
Vicar ...... Tim Reynolds
Minnie Mimps ...... Sheila Grant
Head Waiter...... Manning Wilson
Mr Gandish ...... George Parsons
Ellen ...... Jennifer Piercey
Doctor ...... Gordon Reid
Mr Salt ...... Jonathan Tafler
Augustus ...... Andrew Branch
Vicar ...... Tim Reynolds
Narrated by Aubrey Woods.
Music by John Owen Edwards.
Producer: Ian Cotterell
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1987.
THU 11:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015bqx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
THU 11:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bnb3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]
THU 12:00 The Jason Explanation of... (b007jq9g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 12:30 After Henry (b007jpwp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 13:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2hc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 13:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqd4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 14:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg3zj)
Episode 4
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf at the age of 28. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life.
Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
Deafness dramatically changes Bella's experience of the busy streets of London. But, as she sits on the top deck of a bus, she realises that while she can't hear the sounds of the crowd, she has a new way to read the interactions she sees on the street below.
Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged by Jo Coombs
Produced by Hannah Marshall
A Loftus production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.
THU 14:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b007649n)
Agonising
Berthe agonises over whether or not to exhibit her latest painting, while Paris becomes overrun by militia preparing for the forthcoming war with Prussia.
Jane Beeson's five-part series looking at the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
THU 14:30 Shipping Songs (b05r401h)
The Shipping Forecast has long provided essential, potentially life-saving, information for those at sea around the British Isles. But the forecast also has a history of sparking the imagination and creativity of those firmly on land - music, poetry and artworks of all kinds have been inspired by it.
Award-winning folk artist Lisa Knapp, who has herself written a song inspired by the daily forecast, takes a musical and poetic voyage through the watery regions of the Shipping Forecast and examines the appeal it holds for land-bound musicians, poets and writers.
From the poetry of Seamus Heaney and Carol Ann Duffy to the music of Radiohead, Blur and Jethro Tull, the forecast has ingrained itself into Britain's creative arts. Many have employed the Shipping Forecast's natural rhythm and multitude of connotations to conjure up feelings of familiarity and strangeness, of community and alienation, of safety and danger.
Lisa reflects on her own fondness for a forecast for which, in reality, she has no need, but which has ignited her imagination and taken her off to distant mythical lands. She hears from fellow musicians and writers who have been influenced by the Shipping Forecast and finds out how this regular informational broadcast captured their imaginations.
Poet Sean Street, songwriter Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull and composer Cecilia McDowall are among those to share their thoughts on the forecast's appeal.
Producer: Lorna Skingley
A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in April 2015.
THU 15:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014tcjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today]
THU 16:00 The Personality Test (b00m5tks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]
THU 16:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012h800)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today]
THU 17:00 It's a Fair Cop (b05zld8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today]
THU 17:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b098nlcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jnb9)
Episode 9
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Kennedy makes a break through with the investigation.
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Warden ...… Ben Crowe
Doctor Lyman …… Steven MackIntosh
Esra Wheedon …… Alun Armstrong
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas

Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.
THU 18:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0133hgn)
Episode 9
Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
The Vogons attack Nano. Thor does his contractual duty by protecting the planet, until Jeltz unleashes the Q.U.E.S.T.
Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz.
Abridged by Penny Leicester.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
THU 18:30 Great Lives (b09z4k9z)
Series 45
Adrian Utley of Portishead on Miles Davis
Miles Davis - trumpeter, composer, bandleader - is championed by Adrian Utley of Portishead.
"He's always been really important in my life, right from early on when my dad used to play him. It was part of the atmosphere of our house."
From the early years with Charlie Parker and on via Kind of Blue to playing in front of 600,000 hippies on the Isle of Wight, Miles Davis was a musician who never stood still. "Always listen for what you can leave out," he used to say, and Portishead's seminal nineties album Dummy seems to have taken advice from the man. According to Adrian Utley, "The darkness and the sense of space is the thing that I have assimilated from Miles ... he's in my DNA."
With Richard Williams, author of The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Music.
Presenter: Matthew Parris
Producer: Miles Warde
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2018.
THU 19:00 The Jason Explanation of... (b007jq9g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today]
THU 19:30 After Henry (b007jpwp)
[Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today]
THU 20:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2hc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today]
THU 20:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqd4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today]
THU 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited (m0015bqx)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday]
THU 21:45 The Curious Cases of Rutherford & Fry (m000bnb3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday]
THU 22:00 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b098nlcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today]
THU 22:30 Listen Against (b00tt5mb)
Series 3
Episode 3
The programme that looks back at a week's worth of radio and TV that never happened.
Michael Burke becomes trapped in the Moral Maze, and Any Answers gets a game show makeover.
Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes.
Producers: Sam Bryant & Jon Holmes.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.
THU 23:00 The Maltby Collection (b00x7glw)
Series 2
Episode 2
Deputy curator Rod holds a museum press conference, and Walter hits on Susie Maltby. Stars Geoffrey Palmer. From June 2008.
THU 23:30 A Look Back at the Future (b01rlngt)
2005
It's the year of the Telepathone.
Recorded in June 1994, Brian Perkins, Kate Robbins and John O'Farrell recall the turbulent upheaval of 2005 - a year that was yet to happen.
Everything you wanted to know then, about the 21st century.
Written by Mark Burton, John O'Farrell and Pete Sinclair.
Producer: Caroline Leddy
First broadcast (with the aid of a crystal ball) on Radio 4 in July 1994.


FRIDAY 18 MARCH 2022

FRI 00:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jnb9)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday]
FRI 00:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0133hgn)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday]
FRI 00:30 Great Lives (b09z4k9z)
[Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday]
FRI 01:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l2hc)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday]
FRI 01:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqd4)
[Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday]
FRI 02:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg3zj)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday]
FRI 02:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b007649n)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday]
FRI 02:30 Shipping Songs (b05r401h)
[Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday]
FRI 03:00 EF Benson - Secret Lives (b014tcjb)
[Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:00 The Personality Test (b00m5tks)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday]
FRI 04:30 Tomorrow, Today! (b012h800)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday]
FRI 05:00 It's a Fair Cop (b05zld8g)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday]
FRI 05:30 Big Problems with Helen Keen (b098nlcz)
[Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday]
FRI 06:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l9mm)
5. Universal General Hire
As the danger mounts, Hilary is forced to hang on for rescue from the sky. Stars Angela Pleasence and Nigel Anthony.
Christopher Bidmead's spy adventure about a woman with exceptional computing skills starring Angela Pleasance.
Hilary …. Angela Pleasance
Beresford …. Rolf Lefebvre
Cannon …. Nigel Anthony
Jean …. Hilda Kriseman
Dr Reece …. John Pullen
Mortimer …. Dinsdale Landen
Le Noir …. Charles Hyatt
Matron …. Margaret Wolfit
Williams …. Peter Tuddenham
Dr Wormald …. Malcolm Hayes
Girl …. Jo Manning Wilson
Nurse …. Deborah Dallas
Rick …. Andrew Sachs
Michael …. Brian Hewlett
Technician …. James Thompson
Fernberg …. Kerry Francis
Policeman / Guard …. Brian Haines
Producer: John Tydeman
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1970.
FRI 06:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqdy)
Killing Orders
6. No One Is Lucky Forever
Battling to finally confront her attacker, private eye VI Warshawski goes undercover.
Sara Paretsky's thriller featuring feisty Chicago private eye, VI Warshawski.
CAST:
VI Warshawski .… Kathleen Turner
Roger Ferrant …. Martin Shaw
Uncle Stefan …. Maurice Denham
O'Faolin …. John Bennett
Gabriella …. Avril Clark
Lotty Herschel …. Miriam Karlin
Mrs Paciorek …. Helen Horton
Father Carroll …. Don Fellows
Walter Novick …. Colin McFarlane
Murray Ryerson …. Kerry Shale
Rosa …. Eileen Way
Father Pelly …. Colin Stinton
Dr Paciorek …. Norman Jones
Dramatised by Michelene Wandor.
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1991.
FRI 07:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04p87r7)
Series 2
Exit Strategy
Uljabaan is determined to fail his annual inspection, in order to be sent to a better posting.
But he'll need Kat and Lucy's help in order to make it work - and he can do without any surprises, such as the identity of the Zone Commander who'll be conducting the inspection...
The conclusion of series two of Eddie Robson's sitcom about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green behind an impenetrable force field in order to study human behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading.
The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when the force field went up.
So along with Lucy Alexander (the only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his unintelligible minions and The Computer (his hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run the invasion.
Katrina Lyons ...... Hattie Morahan
Richard Lyons ...... Peter Davison
Margaret Lyons ...... Jan Francis
Lucy Alexander ...... Hannah Murray
Field Commander Uljabaan ...... Charles Edwards
The Computer ...... John-Luke Roberts
Zone Commander Ravella ...... Nina Sosanya
Script-edited by Arthur Mathews.
Producer: Ed Morrish
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2014.
FRI 07:30 Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn (m0015c0s)
The High School Problem
Marian and Tara tackle tackle an over-familiar flatmate, a caustic mother-in-law, love at at distance and high school anxieties with trademark kindness and good humour in the final episode of the series
Marian Keyes is a multi award-winning writer, with a total of over 30 million of her books sold to date in 33 languages. Her close friend Tara Flynn is an actress, comedian and writer. Together, these two friends have been through a lot, and now want to use their considerable life experience to help solve your biggest - and smallest - problems.
From dilemmas about life, love and grief, to the perils of laundry or knowing what to say at a boring dinner, we’ll find out what Marian and Tara would recommend - which might not solve the problem exactly, but will make us all feel a bit better.
Recorded in Dublin with emails received from listeners around the world, the hosts invite you to pull up a chair at their virtual kitchen table as they read and digest their inbox.
Got a problem you want Marian and Tara to solve for series 2, which is due in the autumn? Email: marianandtara@bbc.co.uk.
Producer: Steve Doherty.
A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds
FRI 08:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
Series 3
Asleep in the Deep
Walker and Godfrey get trapped in a pumping station, but so do their rescuers from the rest of the Home Guard platoon.
The comic exploits of a Second World War Home Guard platoon in Walmington-on-Sea.
Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles.
Captain Mainwaring …. Arthur Lowe
Sergeant Wilson …. John Le Mesurier
Corporal Jones …. Clive Dunn
Private Pike …. Ian Lavender
Private Godfrey …. Arnold Ridley
Private Frazer …. John Laurie
Private Walker …. Larry Martyn
Warden Hodges …. Bill Pertwee
Announcer …. John Snagge
Producer: John Dyas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976.
FRI 08:30 Second Thoughts (b00lqzs9)
Series 4
Just Managing
Bill and Faith face new pressures on their marriage and Liza shows just how vulnerable she really is.
Sitcom about the battles of married life for ex-divorcees Bill and Faith, whilst balancing the demands of his ex-wife, Liza and Faith's teenage children.
Stars James Bolam as Bill, Lynda Bellingham as Faith, Belinda Lang as Liza, Julia Sawalha as Hannah, Mark Denham as Joe, Melanie Hudson as Louise and Nick Murchie as Duncan.
Series three of four inspired by the real lives of its writers, husband and wife Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie.
A TV version made by LWT for ITV appeared in 1991 and ran for four series, with a spin-off 'Faith in the Future'.
Producer: Paul Schlesinger
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1992.
FRI 09:00 Guess What? (b00757gr)
Episode 1
Animal, vegetable or mineral?
Barry Took hosts a revised version of popular radio parlour game of 20 questions.
Regular Geoffrey Durham is joined by Sir Jeremy Hanley and Helen Atkinson Wood.
Written by Michael Dines.
Producer: Andy Aliffe
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 1998.
FRI 09:30 Girlies (b08lb7rd)
Series 1
Episode 4
Sonal calls on Samina's legal expertise and Jabeen gets welcome news from husband, Joe.
Four-part comedy serial written by Sudha Bhuchar and Shaheen Khan.
CAST:
Tula …. Zita Sattar
Vinny …. Bharti Patel
Jabeen …. Shaheen Khan
Sonal …. Sudha Bhuchar
Samina …. Sakuntala Ramanee
Ramesh …. Ameet Chaana
Dan …. Roger Liddle
Marianne …. Alice Arnold
Alia …. Sophie Levy
Sara …. Nyla Levy
Masi …. Charubala Chokshi
Karan …. Susan Sheridan
Salim …. Shiv Grewal
Ali …. Burt Caesar
Javed …. Omar Salimi
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Kristine Landon-Smith.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 1977.
FRI 10:00 Jill Paton Walsh - A Piece of Justice (b010vyt7)
When Fran gets the chance to take over the biography of the great mathematician Gideon Summerfield, she rapidly discovers there's a mystery over a few days he went missing in August 1978.
Her friend Imogen is the first to realise she may be in danger...
Dramatised by Neville Teller from the novel by Jill Paton Walsh.
Imogen Quy ..... Barbara Flynn
Janet Somerfield ..... Rosemary Leach
Francis Bullion ..... Tracy Wiles
Josh ..... Robert Harper
Dr Mistral ..... James Greene
Lady Buckmote ..... Marlene Sidaway
Sir William Buckmote ..... Geoffrey Whitehead
Professor Maverack ..... Colin Starkey
Meredith Bagadeuce ..... Peter Howell(
Pamela Zephyr ..... Di Botcher
David Swann ..... Iwan Thomas
Director: Janet Whitaker
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998.
FRI 11:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0015c0v)
Mourn The Dead and Fight Like Hell For The Living
Laura Grimshaw and Salena Godden present podcasts about death, grief and celebrating life.
FRI 12:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
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FRI 12:30 Second Thoughts (b00lqzs9)
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FRI 13:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l9mm)
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FRI 13:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqdy)
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FRI 14:00 Sound by Bella Bathurst (b08rg43m)
Episode 5
In 1997, Bella Bathurst began to go deaf at the age of 28. Within a few months, she had lost half her hearing, and the rest was slipping away. She wasn't just missing punchlines, she was missing most of the conversation - and all of the jokes. For the next twelve years deafness shaped her life.
Sound draws on this experience, exploring the practical and emotional impact of losing your hearing, and what it teaches you about listening and silence, music and noise.
By 2009, Bella has made her peace with her hearing loss. She's found ways to cope, and ways to be happy. And she assumes this is the way life will always be. Then a routine visit to her audiologist changes everything.
Read by Adjoa Andoh
Abridged by Jo Coombs
Produced by Hannah Marshall
A Loftus production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2017.
FRI 14:15 A Monkey With a Box of Paints: Berthe Morisot (b00764b5)
Opening
The first Impressionist exhibition finally opens, and Berthe has to face the wrath of the reactionary critics. But her sister Edma offers a glimmer of light.
Conclusion of Jane Beeson's five-part series looking at the female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.
Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker
Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001.
FRI 14:30 The Balancing Bluebottle (b00jz7cc)
Percy Smith was the greatest pioneer of the natural history film tackling subjects like flies and slime mould. During the 1920s in his principal studio, the back garden of his home in north London, he developed innovative microscope and time-lapse photography which still looks impressive today.
Tim Boon of the Science Museum talks to historians and Sir David Attenborough.
Producer: Tim Dee
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.
FRI 15:00 Jill Paton Walsh - A Piece of Justice (b010vyt7)
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FRI 16:00 Guess What? (b00757gr)
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FRI 16:30 Girlies (b08lb7rd)
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FRI 17:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully (b04p87r7)
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FRI 17:30 Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn (m0015c0s)
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FRI 18:00 The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by HP Lovecraft (m000jpgm)
Episode 10
Award-winning writer/director Julian Simpson creates an HP Lovecraft-inspired universe through the prism of podcasters Matthew Heawood and Kennedy Fisher.
The story begins with a missing-person investigation; Charles Dexter Ward has vanished from a secure psychiatric hospital in Rhode Island. Two months later his psychiatrist Doctor Willett murders a woman in Highgate, England. Are the two events connected?
Kennedy goes to the Devil’s Reef trailer park in search of Charles Ward’s books and experiments.
Kennedy Fisher ...... Jana Carpenter
Tregorre …… Nathan Osgood
Producer: Karen Rose

Director/Writer: Julian Simpson

Sound Recordist and Designer: David Thomas
Music by Tim Elsenburg
A Sweet Talk Production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2018.
FRI 18:15 And Another Thing by Eoin Colfer (b0133m09)
Episode 10
Eoin Colfer's sequel to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series.
Constant Moan saves the Earthlings, Ford decides he likes life on Nano, Zaphod heads off into improbability and Arthur goes on a research trip...
Read by Stephen Mangan, with Peter Serafinowicz.
Abridged by Penny Leicester.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.
FRI 18:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b00h3wlv)
Series 2
The Godfather and The Godfather Part II
And the Academy Award Goes To... The Godfather & Godfather II.
Paul Gambaccini's series on Oscar-winning films and what they can tell us of the culture and times that gave birth to them.
He explores the potboiler novel that spawned not only one of the most violent 'family' movies ever, but also led to an even more successful sequel.
An offer that can't be refused..,
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009.
FRI 19:00 Dad's Army (b007jqjv)
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FRI 19:30 Second Thoughts (b00lqzs9)
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FRI 20:00 The Joke About Hilary Spite (m000l9mm)
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FRI 20:30 VI Warshawski (b007jqdy)
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FRI 21:00 Podcast Radio Hour (m0015c0v)
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FRI 22:00 Now You're Asking with Marian Keyes and Tara Flynn (m0015c0s)
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FRI 22:30 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation (b0174hvv)
Intelligence
Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden.
As broadcast live in November 2011 - Mark invites the audience join in via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the world a better place.
Mark asks the big questions that are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic and thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the live audience and asks them to jump into the conversation via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the world a better place.
This time Mark looks at "Intelligence" - A certain amount of intelligence is pretty useful. Without the ability to reflect and calculate, we would all be setting fire to our shoes and buying those novels about women who shop and have relationship issues. Yet intelligence has been something of a curse to many. Galileo was tortured for knowing more about science than the church leaders, and Paxman sighs an awful lot when he's hosting University Challenge.
We all know the phrase 'a little learning is a dangerous thing, but then so is a lot of learning, but then again you wouldn't want none at all. So... oh dear, we're basically ruined. We'd better knock down all our schools and universities.' Are we sometimes too smart for our own good?
Producer: Lianne Coop.
First broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011.
FRI 23:00 Radio Shuttleworth (b007s5ds)
Series 1
Vanessa Feltz
Sheffield's aspiring singer-songwriter takes to the airwaves once more from his very own his front room!
Aided by his producer (and sole agent) Ken Worthington, and his hard-to-please wife Mary, the inimitable John Shuttleworth presents celebrity interviews, dodgy keyboard music, and even dodgier jingles.
Can special guest Vanessa Feltz help sort out a tricky domestic problem between him and Mary?
With Boothby Graffoe.
Written and performed by Graham Fellows.
Producers: Paul Schlesinger and Martin Willis.
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1998.
FRI 23:30 My Teenage Diary (b0b9wsb1)
Series 8
Helen Lederer
Helen Lederer reads from her teenage diaries and talks about her school days in South-East London, when she was far more interested in boys than in school work.
Presenter: Rufus Hound
Producer: Harriet Jaine
A Talkback production, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2018.