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SAT SATURDAY 08 NOVEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Book at Bedtime b01p7hf7 (Listen) SAT Julian MacLaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger, Episode 5 SAT 5/5 Julian Maclaren-Ross' darkly comic semi-autobiographical SAT love story about the low life of a struggling salesman in a SAT seaside town. With the shadow of war looming, Richard SAT Fanshawe is eking out an existence SAT selling Sucko vacuum cleaners. He's working for the dubious SAT "Smiler" Barnes. He's looking after his friend Roper's wife SAT Sukie, while Roper is away. They have fallen in love and SAT started a passionate affair. First published in 1947. SAT Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths SAT Reader: Carl Prekopp SAT Producer: Beth O'Dea SAT Music: The Touch Of Your Lips by Hildegarde. SAT SAT 00:15 Chinese in Britain b007cpf2 (Listen) SAT Peking Duck ... and Chips SAT Anna Chen sets out to uncover the early history of the SAT Chinese who came to Britain before the takeaway boom of the SAT 1960s. SAT 10/10. Peking Duck... and Chips SAT In the early days of Chinese restaurants around Britain, SAT the idea of sweet and sour food was enough to make diners SAT laugh. British appetites were gradually won over with chow SAT mein and chop suey, as long as they were served with chips. SAT From 2007. SAT Producer: Mukti Jain Campion SAT A Culture Wise Production. SAT SAT 00:30 Gunpowder Women b0076vgr (Listen) SAT The Wife SAT By Stephanie Dale. Thomas Bates, the servant of conspirator SAT Robert Catesby, faces execution. Stars Peter Meakin and SAT Deborah McAndrew. SAT SAT 00:45 Sheila Hancock - The Two of Us: My Life With John Thaw SAT b0076nr6 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT In the past, John has given up alcohol for good. In the SAT present, Sheila confronts her grief at his death, and learns SAT something new about his life. SAT SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute b012yngz (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT Justin Moorhouse, Alun Cochrane, Chris Corcoran and Tom SAT Wrigglesworth join Rhod Gilbert in the comedy quiz. From SAT September 2006. SAT SAT 01:30 Pioneers b0151wpr (Listen) SAT Series 2, David Gow SAT 6/6 SAT David Gow speaks to Clare English about the huge SAT advancements in prosthetics and how he came up with the idea SAT of the world's first bionic hand. SAT He explains how his bionic hand has now got the ability to SAT grip SAT many more objects than previous prosthetic hands allowed and SAT how this additional mobility is enhancing the lives of SAT amputees. SAT SAT 02:00 Martyn Wade - Lover Come Back b04ndr4h (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Tom is not happy with married life. Will he SAT find true happiness with an old flame? Starring Stephen SAT Moore and Sherrie Hewson. SAT SAT 02:30 The Story of Flowers in the Rain b007zmn7 (Listen) SAT "And good morning everyone. Welcome to the exciting new SAT sound of Radio One". SAT Tony Blackburn recalls the story behind the controversy SAT around the first 45 rpm single that he played on his brand SAT new breakfast show SAT on BBC Radio 1 on Saturday 30th September 1967 - The Move's SAT 'Flowers in the Rain'. SAT Little did Tony know as he spun the record, that thanks to SAT an infamous PR stunt to promote it, the band were to be sued SAT for libel by the then Prime Minister Harold Wilson. SAT Tony takes us through the controversial story with two of SAT the original band members Trevor Burton and Bev Bevan. SAT A Tinderbox production for BBC Radio 4 - first broadcast in SAT September 2007. SAT SAT 03:00 Daphne du Maurier - September Tide b007k4qn (Listen) SAT Stella's daughter comes home to visit, bringing her new SAT husband and a few surprises. Stars Paula Wilcox and Alice SAT Hart. SAT SAT 04:00 15 Minute Drama b01nd3dy (Listen) SAT Heinrich Boll - The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Episode 5 SAT A brilliant exploration of the corrosive impact of tabloid SAT journalism on one young woman. The Lost Honour of Katharina SAT Blum is dissects the power of the press and it's impact on SAT individual freedom. Told in the SAT form of an unofficial report, this intelligent and pacy SAT story from the 1970s tackles issues of press freedom, SAT responsibility and police tactics. SAT It's based on a real incident in the author's own life, when SAT he was publicly accused of being a terrorist sympathiser and SAT hounded by the German press. The subtitle of the book is SAT "how violence develops and where it can lead." SAT Recorded on location in Berlin, The Lost Honour of Katharina SAT Blum also features a soundtrack of 1970s Krautrock from SAT bands such as Can, Neu, La Dusseldorf and Ash Ra Tempel. SAT Heinrich Boll is a Nobel Prize winning writer, a giant of SAT German 20th century literature. SAT Episode 5: SAT The fugitive Ludwig is captured and Katharina is proved SAT innocent of any involvement with his crime. However, this SAT does not deter the press and their headlines grow ever more SAT lurid, blaming her for her mother's death. At last, she SAT cracks under the pressure and reveals exactly how and why SAT she shot Totges, the journalist responsible for the tabloid SAT campaign against her. SAT Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SAT Broadcast assistant: Kath Willgress SAT Executive producer: Joby Waldman SAT Abridged by Helen Meller SAT Produced and directed by Polly Thomas SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Katharina Blum: Nicola Schossler SAT The Narrator: Andre Kaczmarczyk SAT Beizmenne: Matthias Horn SAT Herr Blorna: Elias Arens SAT Trude Blorna: Leslie Malton SAT Totges: Daniel Hoevels SAT Director: Polly Thomas SAT Writer: Heinrich Boll SAT Producer: Polly Thomas SAT Writer: Helen Meller SAT SAT 04:15 David Pownall at 75 b00s0wrb (Listen) SAT Nyama SAT David Pownall's cautionary tale about a money-crazed SAT entrepreneur who transports a pickled whale from the Cape of SAT Good Hope round Southern Africa and makes a fortune. SAT Other parts played by Alison Pettitt, John SAT Biggins, David Seddon, Michael Shelford and Keeley Beresford SAT Music composed and performed by Russell Taylor and Steve SAT Cooke. SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Peter Kavanagh SAT Hudson: Vincent Ebrahim SAT Silas: Jude Akuwudike SAT Arlene: Joanna Monro SAT Bush Hermit: Joseph Marcell SAT Doctor Cass: Bruce Alexander SAT De Soto: Nigel Hastings SAT Cult Leader: Rufus Wright SAT Woman: Pamela Nomvete SAT Ensemble: Alison Pettit SAT Ensemble: John Biggins SAT Ensemble: David Seddon SAT Ensemble: Michael Shelford SAT Ensemble: Keely Beresford SAT Writer: David Pownall SAT Composer: Russell Taylor SAT Composer: Steve Cooke SAT SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00kfsky (Listen) SAT Series 3, This Is Your Life SAT The excited staff and children prepare to celebrate the SAT return of Mrs Devon. Stars Carolyn Pickles and Marlene SAT Sidaway. SAT SAT 05:30 Spangles 'n' Tights b04ndrcb (Listen) SAT Pursued by a Bear SAT 4 Extra Debut. The struggles of a Dublin theatrical SAT costumier. The local nun's drama group offers hope. With SAT Doreen Keogh. From September 1998. SAT SAT 06:00 Sherlock Holmes b04nhm9d (Listen) SAT Sherlock Holmes with Carleton Hobbs, The Solitary Cyclist SAT Who is the strange man following Violet Smith as she cycles SAT to see her mother? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's great detective SAT investigates. SAT Stars Carleton Hobbs as Sherlock Holmes and Norman Shelley SAT as Dr Watson. SAT Adapted for radio by Micheal Hardwick. Producer Graham Gauld SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1964. SAT SAT 06:30 The Radio Detectives b007jp6v (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Voice of Sherlock Holmes SAT Armed with pipe, hansom cab and violin, Professor Jeffrey SAT Richards probes the varied incarnations of the Baker Street SAT sleuth. SAT SAT 07:00 Sherlock Holmes b04nhqp5 (Listen) SAT The Six Napoleons SAT "We have a long way to go. We have some suggestive facts to SAT act upon. The possession of this trifling bust was worth SAT more in the eyes of this strange criminal than a human SAT life." SAT Who is shattering plaster busts SAT of Napoleon? The Baker Street sleuth is soon on the trail of SAT a murder. Read by Nigel Stock. SAT Adapted for radio by Donald Bancroft. Producer Tony Cliff. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1977. SAT SAT 07:30 The House I Grew Up In b00ctl6p (Listen) SAT Series 2, Sir Tom Farmer SAT Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood SAT neighbourhoods of influential Britons. SAT She meets Sir Tom Farmer, Scottish entrepreneur and SAT philanthropist, on his boyhood stamping ground of Leith. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b03nrn9m (Listen) SAT The Long, Long Trail SAT Roy Hudd explores Charles Chilton's forgotten 1961 radio SAT masterpiece which inspired the musical Oh What a Lovely War. SAT Broadcast on the BBC Home Service, The Long, Long Trail told SAT the story of the First World War SAT in a unique way - through the songs sung by soldiers. It was SAT the result of Charles Chilton's personal quest to learn SAT about his father was killed at Arras in March 1918, aged 19, SAT and whom he had never met. SAT In 1962, Chilton, already a renowned pioneering BBC radio SAT producer, adapted the programme with director Joan SAT Littlewood and the cast of Theatre Workshop into the SAT landmark stage musical Oh What a Lovely War. SAT But then the programme disappeared and was never broadcast SAT again. However, shortly before he died in January 2013, SAT Chilton gave a copy to the British Library, so we can now SAT rediscover The Long, Long Trail. SAT For this programme, Roy Hudd, a close friend and SAT collaborator of 'Charlie', is joined by satirist Ian Hislop, SAT radio historian and Chair of the UK Radio Archives Advisory SAT Committee Professor Hugh Chignell, archivist Helen O'Neill SAT at the London Library, singer Pat Whitmore, Charles's widow SAT Penny Chilton, and their children Mary and David Chilton. SAT Together, they tell the story behind Charles Chilton's SAT remarkable musical documentary, reveal why it was SAT revolutionary and reflect on its significance today. SAT Producer: Amber Barnfather SAT Sound design: David Chilton SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Adrian Mole: The Mole Truth with Sue Townsend SAT b007jqr8 (Listen) SAT Sue Townsend chats to the man who brought Adrian Mole to the SAT BBC airwaves, former drama producer John Tydeman. SAT The author - who died in April 2014 - looks back to the SAT beginnings of her creation, who was SAT originally named Nigel Mole for his initial BBC outing. John SAT Tydeman reveals how an impoverished Sue Townsend lacked both SAT the train fare and suitable clothes for their initial SAT meeting in London. SAT The duo discuss Adrian's change of name and his development SAT through adolescence to adulthood - via specially selected SAT radio readings spanning The Secret Diary to The Cappuccino SAT Years. Featuring Nicholas Barnes and Nigel Planer. SAT Produced by Peter Reed. SAT First broadcast on BBC 7 in 2003. SAT SAT 11:00 Sue Townsend - The Diary of Nigel Mole, aged 13 3/4 SAT b008hsf1 (Listen) SAT The first incarnation of Sue Townsend's misunderstood SAT schoolboy originally named Nigel - before he became Adrian. SAT With Nicholas Barnes as the Diarist. SAT On the first day of the New Year, Nigel Mole begins to keep SAT a diary for the first time. But it will be no ordinary SAT diary. Mole is no ordinary child - misunderstood schoolboy, SAT undernourished son, unappreciated intellectual, unrecognised SAT poet, rejected helper of the old, sometime friend of punk SAT rocker Adrian and spurned wooer of Pandora. SAT Now he'll become the detached observer and detailed SAT recordist of the customs and carry-ons of the adult world SAT around him. SAT Scripted by Sue Townsend. Music by Pip Greasley. Directed by SAT John Tydeman. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Thirty Minute Theatre in SAT 1982. SAT SAT 11:30 Chain Reaction b01l1g68 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Jeremy Front interviews Rebecca Front SAT Rebecca Front is interviewed by the man who knows her best, SAT her big Brother Jeremy Front. SAT Producer ..... Carl Cooper SAT "I have a very strong childhood memory of you playing the SAT flute in a concert and falling off SAT stage into a box of fezes." SAT The Chain starts with star of The Thick Of It, Grandma's SAT House, The Day Today and most other comedies of note over SAT the past twenty years, Rebecca Front, speaking to the man SAT who knows her best, her writing partner and big brother SAT Jeremy Front. SAT They cover childhood teasing and being a woman in comedy, SAT reveal how a cough scuppered Rebecca's chances of working SAT with Mike Leigh and end with Jeremy attempting to maker her SAT re-live an amusing childhood trauma. SAT "I've heard all the anecdotes so I'll probably just read a SAT book." SAT The chain continues with: SAT Rebecca Front talking to her Thick Of It co-star and fellow SAT non-nudist, Chris Addison, about working with Armando SAT Iannucci and embracing his middle-classness through SAT stand-up; SAT Chris Addison in a rare interview with the SAT actually-really-nice-and-he-doesn't-do-any-of-that-weird-stu SAT f-in-real-life, Derren Brown; SAT Derren Brown chatting hair, beliefs and Tim Minchin with SAT comedy musical megastar and fellow sceptic Tim Minchin; SAT A poorly Tim Minchin being handed tissues whilst attempting SAT to interview with no questions a not-at-all-poorly and SAT hilarious Caitlin Moran. SAT Caitlin Moran getting to spend time and talk shoes, SAT Bananarama and women with her comedy hero Jennifer Saunders. SAT And... SAT Jennifer Saunders turning up a week later to find the series SAT has ended. Probably. We weren't there because the series had SAT ended. SAT SAT 12:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b04nhqld (Listen) SAT Passages From Empire SAT Two real-life globetrotting nurses, Gwladys Hughes and Ina SAT Crafer, swap 1920s adventure stories. Stars Sara McGaughey. SAT SAT 13:10 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) SAT Sue Townsend SAT The author and creator of Adrian Mole inherits Billie SAT Holliday's version of 'All of Me' and passes on Ben E King's SAT 'Stand By Me'. SAT SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential b01mxxh3 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Why Are We in Afghanistan? SAT Agnes interviews the Russian Cavalry maid, while Charles SAT Dickens investigates the prospect of war overseas. Stars Dan SAT Stevens. SAT SAT 14:00 Radio Active b00805vg (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Midday Show with Anna Dapter SAT The National Local Radio Station prepares to welcome some SAT royal visitors. Stars Helen Atkinson-Wood. From September SAT 1981. SAT SAT 14:30 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007jp9l (Listen) SAT The Business Proposition SAT With war over, Dad's Army veterans Wilson and Pike receive a SAT surprise visitor. Stars John Le Mesurier. From November SAT 1983. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b03nrn9m (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Sherlock Holmes b04nhm9d (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 16:30 The Radio Detectives b007jp6v (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] SAT SAT 17:00 Sherlock Holmes b04nhqp5 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00xhhvm (Listen) SAT Series 6, Ship on a Bottle SAT After problems assembling his model three masted schooner, SAT Arthur goes in search of a free gift. After taking a SAT well-earned break at Gerry's Cafe he sees an advert in the SAT local paper which gives him an idea... SAT All he has to do is express an interest in a 'no obligation' SAT timeshare apartment in the Canary Isles, and the free gift SAT is his! What could possibly go wrong? SAT Cast: SAT Steve Delaney SAT Alastair Kerr SAT Dave Mounfield SAT Mel Giedroyc SAT Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard SAT A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for SAT BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force b007jn4d (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Red Planet SAT The crew make a discovery in Egypt, while stowaways are SAT reported on the Mars-bound ship. Stars Barry Foster. SAT SAT 18:30 William Golding - Lord of the Flies b036j238 (Listen) SAT Gift for Darkness SAT Since the crash, the survivors have maintained a signal SAT fire. A split has developed and tensions rise. Narrated by SAT Ruth Wilson. SAT SAT 19:00 Adrian Mole: The Mole Truth with Sue Townsend SAT b007jqr8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 21:00 Sue Townsend - The Diary of Nigel Mole, aged 13 3/4 SAT b008hsf1 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SAT SAT 21:30 Chain Reaction b01l1g68 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b016lgkl (Listen) SAT Strength SAT Mark Watson reignites his quest to improve the world, nimbly SAT assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. SAT As broadcast live in November 2011 - Mark invites the SAT audience join in via tweets and messages to work out how we SAT can all make the world a better place. SAT Asking the big questions crucial to our understanding of SAT ourselves and society - Mark kicks off with a look at SAT "Strength". SAT Strength comes in many forms. We all need to be strong SAT sometimes in life, whether we're dealing with an emotional SAT fall-out or carrying a really heavy dog to the vet's. Some SAT have inner strength, like people who survive divorce etc; SAT some have outer strength, like guys who pull buses with SAT their teeth in competitions. SAT But can strength be - ironically - a weakness? Strength can SAT have its downsides. Our fondness for displays of strength SAT has led to disastrous episodes like wars breaking out and SAT 'Gladiators' being brought back. Mr Strong, in the Mr Men SAT books, got strong by eating a barn full of eggs, but must SAT have suffered terrible side-effects. How can we be strong, SAT but remain human? SAT Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian, including the SAT inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim SAT Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden SAT who won the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. SAT Produced by Lianne Coop. SAT First broadcast live on BBC Radio 4 in November 2011. SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive b007jzvf (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT The funny man throws open his radio drop-in centre for SAT sketches, chat and big, big fibs. With Phill Jupitus. From SAT May 2005. SAT SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Revolution b00fnnz6 (Listen) SAT The Sexual Revolution SAT From sweetening your breath to the Stonewall Riots, the SAT comedian examines the politics of the bedroom. From July SAT 1998. SAT SAT 23:30 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b00sr30b (Listen) SAT Series 2, Normal Things SAT The cartoonist has a very removing experience when an expert SAT de-clutters his house. Stars Paul McCrink. From March 2003. SAT SAT 23:45 No Tomatoes b0080274 (Listen) SAT Trash Talk SAT Sketch show mixing up language and sounds. Spaghetti SAT spellings with Paul Copley and Helen Moon. From October SAT 2007. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 09 NOVEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Charles Chilton - Space Force b007jn4d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 William Golding - Lord of the Flies b036j238 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b03nrn9m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b04nhqld (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:10 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Dickens Confidential b01mxxh3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Sherlock Holmes b04nhm9d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:30 The Radio Detectives b007jp6v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:00 Sherlock Holmes b04nhqp5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00xhhvm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Gunpowder Women b04njd1x (Listen) SUN Omnibus SUN 1606 - A year after the Gunpowder Plot failed, Ann Vaux, the SUN cousin of a conspirator faces questioning. Stars Carolyn SUN Pickles. SUN SUN 07:10 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 07:15 Roger Deakin - Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees SUN b00j1hzr (Listen) SUN Sapwood SUN Nature writer and conservationist Roger Deakin looks at SUN moths with a group of Essex insect enthusiasts. Read by Sean SUN Baker. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00xpkw7 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Become a Successful Writer SUN Episode 3 SUN "Become a Successful Writer" SUN Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, SUN complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his SUN never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at SUN whatever scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, SUN mind and cat together. SUN This week sees Ed enrolled on a writing course which SUN endeavours to teach him how to 'write successfully'. He SUN naturally feels he's already mastered this art, as testified SUN to in the 1976 issue of Films and Filming, and the fact that SUN he teaches his own course at the local leisure centre. SUN However, much persuasion by Ping and the mention of free SUN food and drink for three days finally sways Ed into SUN attendance. In the event, Ed does learn a thing or two about SUN setting up his very own 'Script Doctor' service at £25 a SUN consultation. SUN Cast list ep 2 SUN Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas SUN Mort Rich ..... Henry Goodman SUN Dave Wang ..... Geoff McGivern SUN Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Municipal woman ..... Nicola Sanderson SUN Sorting Officer ..... Martin Hyder SUN Pearl ..... Rita May SUN Olive ..... Stephanie Cole SUN Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas SUN Produced by Dawn Ellis. SUN SUN 08:00 Meet the Huggetts b00nhq58 (Listen) SUN Loser Pays SUN Joe and Fred's attempt to teach their wives a lesson SUN backfires. Stars Jack Warner and Kathleen Harrison. From SUN September 1957. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00cpvf3 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 13 SUN Blast off into space the bona way! Starring Kenneth SUN Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From June 1969. SUN SUN 09:00 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain b00r3996 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Is it the final curtain for the children of the Blue Doors SUN Theatre Company? Stars Philip Anthony and Caroline Harker. SUN SUN 09:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth b00sjm9c (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Marcus and Esca have retrieved the legion's Eagle, denying SUN their enemies a symbol of defiance. Rosemary Sutcliffe's SUN adventure concludes. Stars Tom Smith and Tony Kearney. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04njhcw (Listen) SUN Legal Eagles, Helena Kennedy QC SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Judy Collins to Puccini, barrister SUN Helena Kennedy shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. SUN From January 1998. SUN SUN 10:45 Lewis Robinson - The Parcel of Dreams b007vcn7 (Listen) SUN In a short detective story set in California, the characters SUN want to be independent of the script. Read by Colin Stinton. SUN SUN 11:00 Charles Chilton - The Long, Long Trail b008hvwk (Listen) SUN Producer and writer Charles Chilton's forgotten radio SUN masterpiece telling the story of the First World War through SUN the songs sung by soldiers. SUN It was inspired by Chilton's personal quest to learn about SUN his SUN father, who was killed in 1918 aged 19 and whom he'd never SUN met. Chilton went on to adapt the programme with Joan SUN Littlewood into the 1963 landmark stage musical Oh What A SUN Lovely War. SUN First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1961. SUN SUN 12:00 Gunpowder Women b04njd1x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:10 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 13:15 Roger Deakin - Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees SUN b00j1hzr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 JB Priestley - Eden End b04njjn5 (Listen) SUN Playwright JB Priestley described this play as one for which SUN he had "a special tenderness like that which some parents SUN feel for a certain child." SUN Although he wrote Eden End in 1934, it's set firmly two SUN years SUN before the Great War. The action takes place in the home of SUN an elderly Yorkshire GP, confronted with a complicated, SUN coincidental family reunion at a time when he sees England SUN and himself coming to the end of an era. SUN Described for the initial broadcast as a "stereophonic radio SUN version", it features the cast of the 1974 National Theatre SUN production in London. SUN Starring Joan Plowright as Stella Kirby, Michael Jayston as SUN Charles Appleby and Geoffrey Palmer as Geoffrey Farrant. SUN Producer Roger Pine. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1974. SUN SUN 15:15 Lewis Robinson - The Parcel of Dreams b007vcn7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00cpvf3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b04njjn7 (Listen) SUN Lauren Child, Neil Gaiman and Loch Lomond SUN Mel Giedroyc picks the best of this week's shows including SUN Neil Gaiman, who chooses two of his favourite books for SUN younger readers, and Lauren Child goes back to school. SUN SUN 17:00 Pamela Brown - The Swish of the Curtain b00r3996 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth b00sjm9c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jpx2 (Listen) SUN Night Call Collect SUN A lone survivor on Mars has waited a lifetime for rescue. SUN Aged 80, his phone finally rings. Ray Bradbury's thriller SUN stars Kerry Shale. SUN SUN 18:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind b007jlt5 (Listen) SUN Island Genesis SUN The death of a man on the remote Scottish island of Luig SUN sparks a sinister discovery. Stars Peter Cushing and Vincent SUN Price. SUN SUN 19:00 Charles Chilton - The Long, Long Trail b008hvwk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Meet the Huggetts b00nhq58 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00cpvf3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04njhcw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Lewis Robinson - The Parcel of Dreams b007vcn7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00xpkw7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Clare in the Community b00fw5jh (Listen) SUN Series 2, Relax SUN Romantic Brian is plotting to surprise the social worker on SUN holiday. Stars Sally Phillips and Gemma Craven. From SUN November 2005. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04stjcx (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats SUN to Sam Simmons. SUN SUN 23:00 The Maltby Collection b00wwj28 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN With the museum stuck in the past, modernising deputy SUN curator Rod wants to make it sexy. Stars Geoffrey Palmer. SUN From June 2008. SUN SUN 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl b007k4p6 (Listen) SUN Cutting Edge SUN Sean Foley and Hamish McColl board Boris' Disco Ship to SUN convert offshore ravers into fresh, young listeners. From SUN June 2000. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 NOVEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jpx2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Robert Holmes - Aliens in the Mind b007jlt5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04njhcw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Lewis Robinson - The Parcel of Dreams b007vcn7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Meet the Huggetts b00nhq58 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00cpvf3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00xpkw7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 JB Priestley - Eden End b04njjn5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:15 Lewis Robinson - The Parcel of Dreams b007vcn7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Rosemary Sutcliff - The Eagle of the Ninth b00sjm9c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Sue Townsend - The Diary of Nigel Mole, aged 13 3/4 MON b008hsf1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Saturday] MON MON 06:30 Zine Scene b008pcbf (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON In the first of two programmes, Jarvis Cocker uncovers the MON history of fanzines - those little home-made publications MON designed and made by fans of popular phenomena. With the MON help of fanzine-makers, collectors MON and experts, including Roger Sabin, Teal Triggs, Jon Savage, MON and John Robb, Jarvis discovers the origin of fanzines in MON science fiction, long before the explosion of home-made MON fanzines during the punk rock days of the late 1970s. MON Presented by Jarvis Cocker MON Produced by Bob Dickinson. MON MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b00vsx4v (Listen) MON Series 2, Mother MON A surprise for 18th-century smuggler Tamsyn, and confusion MON aboard a boat to France. Stars Sheridan Smith. From April MON 2004. MON MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity b04n31cw (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 5 MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Phill Jupitus welcome MON Clive Anderson, a qualified barrister who by his own account MON is not a very good writer, isn't interested in stand-up MON comedy or acting and couldn't give a damn about MON broadcasting, yet has written gags for top comedians, hosted MON a string of hugely successful TV and radio shows like Whose MON Line Is It Anyway? and Loose Ends and is a leading light of MON British Light Entertainment. MON Anne Dudley, an award-winning musician, composer, arranger, MON conductor and producer and a founding member of the MON Grammy-Award-winning, avant-garde, synth-pop "anti-group" MON The Art of Noise; she has collaborated with Elton John, MON Pulp, The Spice Girls, Tom Jones and comedians like Bill MON Bailey, Terry Jones and Stephen Fry. She has produced, MON composed and arranged dozens of TV and movie soundtracks, MON including for Les Misérables and The Full Monty, for which MON she won a Brit Award and an Oscar. MON Richard Williams, a world-famous animator who has won 3 MON Oscars, 3 BAFTAS and over 250 other international awards in MON more than six decades of animating hundreds of adverts and MON dozens of full-length features - and the title sequences of MON major feature films such as The Return of the Pink Panther; MON What's New, Pussycat? and the original Casino Royale. He is MON perhaps best known to the general public as the animation MON director of the smash hit movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit. In MON the movie industry, he is known as "the animator's MON animator".. MON This week, the Museum's Steering Committee discusses how the MON Old Bailey isn't very old; how the Wool Sack was found to be MON a sack of horsehair; and how Disney provided the perfect MON workstation for animators. MON The show was researched by James Harkin and Stevyn Colgan of MON QI. MON The producers were Richard Turner and Dan Schreiber. MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Phill Jupitus MON Interviewed Guest: Clive Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Anne Dudley MON Interviewed Guest: Richard Williams MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: Dan Schreiber MON MON 08:00 Marriage Lines b04nqbmh (Listen) MON Series 1, Four-Part Harmony MON While George is in the pub, Kate worries about what he is MON really up to. Stars Richard Briers and Prunella Scales. From MON June 1965. MON MON 08:30 The Navy Lark b00wbr98 (Listen) MON Series 1, A Watch on the Initiative Test MON Pertwee and Johnson's attempts to use their initiative ends MON in disaster. Stars Jon Pertwee and Ronnie Barker. From June MON 1959. MON MON 09:00 The Personality Test b00mk68l (Listen) MON Series 2, Rick Wakeman MON Rock keyboardist Rick Wakeman quizzes a panel about himself. MON With Sue Perkins, Will Smith and Lucy Porter. From December MON 2006. MON MON 09:30 The Castle b01hxzx3 (Listen) MON Series 4, The Only Way Is Ethics MON Hie ye to The Castle, a rollicking sitcom set way back then, MON starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley"), Neil Dudgeon MON ("Life Of Riley"), Martha Howe-Douglas ("Horrible MON Histories") & Ingrid Oliver ("Watson & MON Oliver") MON Someone - or something - is hacking into peoples' private MON conversations and Master Henry could end up in jail. MON Meanwhile, Lady Anne has taken to nuzzling De Warenne's MON trusty War Horse. MON Written by Kim Fuller & Paul Alexander MON Music by Guy Jackson MON Produced and directed by David Tyler. MON Credits MON Writer: Kim Fuller MON Writer: Paul Alexander MON Sir John Woodstock: James Fleet MON Sir William De Warenne: Neil Dudgeon MON Lady Anne Woodstock: Martha Howe-Douglas MON Cardinal Duncan: Jonathan Kydd MON Lady Charlotte: Ingrid Oliver MON Master Henry Woodstock: Steven Kynman MON Bates: Lewis Macleod MON Director: David Tyler MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 10:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lc4cw (Listen) MON The Princess in the Tower MON A retired merchant embarks on an adventure leading him to a MON deserted Scottish house. Stars Roy Hanlon and David McKail. MON MON 11:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00p1hnx (Listen) MON Swallows MON A young Dublin surveyor meets a country policeman and their MON life choices are ruthlessly compared. Read by Sean McGinley. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b04nqpdb (Listen) MON Mick Fleetwood, Matt Berry, Imtiaz Dharker, Glenn Tilbrook MON and Chris Difford, GoGo Penguin MON Clive talks to Mick Fleetwood about memoir 'Play On' - his MON life with Fleetwood Mac; Actor, comedian writer and MON musician, Matt Berry, best known for his role in The IT MON Crowd, talks to Clive about the new series MON of 'Toast': and Clive's co-host Nikki Bedi chats to poet MON Imtiaz Dharker 'one feels that were there to be a World MON Laureate, Imtiaz Dharker would be the only candidate' - MON (Carol Ann Duffy). With music from Glenn Tilbrook and Chris MON Difford and GoGo Penguin. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Mick Fleetwood MON Imtiaz Dharker MON Matt Berry MON Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford MON GoGo Penguin MON v2.0 is available now on Gondwana Records. MON GoGo Penguin will be touring the UK in March next year. MON Venues include Manchester Royal Northern College of Music MON on 7th February and Union Chapel, London on 27th March. MON Check their website for details. MON MON 12:00 Marriage Lines b04nqbmh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Navy Lark b00wbr98 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Sue Townsend - The Diary of Nigel Mole, aged 13 3/4 MON b008hsf1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Saturday] MON MON 13:30 Zine Scene b008pcbf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged MON 13 3/4 b014r88s (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Adrian Mole starts the new year with a huge spot on his MON chin. Sue Townsend's famous tale of a teenager read by MON Nicholas Barnes. MON MON 14:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jmttw (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The story of ex-convict Eddie Chapman, Britain's most MON extraordinary wartime double agent. Read by Damian Lewis. MON MON 14:30 Ladies of Letters b007jrrd (Listen) MON Ladies of Letters Log On, Episode 1 MON The discovery of email doesn't stop the flow of feminine MON vitriol. With Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From MON April 2001. MON MON 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your MON Father? b04nqf7n (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON 4 Extra Debut. Blake Morrison reads the first episode of his MON award-winning tribute to his father, a cantankerous MON Yorkshire GP. From April 1994. MON MON 15:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lc4cw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04nqfd0 (Listen) MON Tricky water beetles and mysterious Arabian stallions MON Mel Giedroyc embraces all things creepy and crawly as she MON finds out about water beetles in a brand new nature series, MON and we hear part one of Anna Sewell's classic, Black Beauty. MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b00kjsn6 (Listen) MON Series 3, Recipe for Disaster MON Culinary chaos is on the menu when Faith's Aussie friend MON Esther visits. Stars James Bolam and Lynda Bellingham. From MON May 1991. MON MON 17:30 Elephants to Catch Eels b00vsx4v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 The Personality Test b00mk68l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b04nqfjn (Listen) MON Kit Wright and Wendy Cooling MON Tom Sutcliffe, Kit Wright and Wendy Cooling on children's MON books by Philip Pullman, AA Milne and Richmal Crompton. From MON 1998. MON Northern Lights by Philip Pullman MON Publisher: Scholastic Children's Books MON The House at MON Pooh Corner by AA Milne MON Publisher: Methuen MON William the Conqueror by Richmal Crompton MON Publisher: Macmillan. MON MON 19:00 Marriage Lines b04nqbmh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Navy Lark b00wbr98 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Sue Townsend - The Diary of Nigel Mole, aged 13 3/4 MON b008hsf1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Saturday] MON MON 20:30 Zine Scene b008pcbf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement b00766fg (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, 13-year-old Briony MON witnesses a moment by a fountain - and the lives of three MON people are changed forever. Read in 15-parts by Sian Thomas. MON Ian McEwan's Booker MON short-listed novel about love, truth and the difficulty of MON absolution was adapted into a highly-praised film in 2007. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion. Producer Di Spears. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b04nqpdb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity b04n31cw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Castle b01hxzx3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b04nqfwn (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 3 MON Made for 4 Extra. Satirical review of the week's news, MON chaired by Sandi Toksvig with regular guest Jeremy Hardy, MON plus Andy Hamilton and Andrew Maxwell. MON MON 23:45 Quando, Quando, Quando b007zd2c (Listen) MON Fishy Business MON Brother Carlos panics when protection racketeers visit the MON salon. Stars Rainer Hersch and Catherine Tate. From November MON 1999. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged TUE 13 3/4 b014r88s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jmttw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Ladies of Letters b007jrrd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your TUE Father? b04nqf7n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Personality Test b00mk68l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b04nqfjn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Sue Townsend - The Diary of Nigel Mole, aged 13 3/4 TUE b008hsf1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Saturday] TUE TUE 02:30 Zine Scene b008pcbf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lc4cw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00p1hnx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b04nqpdb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b00kjsn6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Elephants to Catch Eels b00vsx4v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0110jbv (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Minor crook Arthur Abdel Simpson spots a likely mark at TUE Athens airport. That's where the trouble starts. Read by TUE David Westhead. TUE TUE 06:30 Zine Scene b008pygw (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Jarvis Cocker explores the history of fanzines, small TUE publications designed and produced by devotees of popular TUE phenomena. TUE He looks at contemporary DIY publications, including a comic TUE strip diary from Brighton TUE called Morgenmuffel and the regional-based zines Mercy and TUE Go! Zinemakers and historians, including Dave Haslam, Liz TUE Naylor, Roger Sabin and Teal Triggs, explain the survival of TUE paper-based fanzines in the age of the internet. TUE TUE 07:00 Babblewick Hall b04njmpm (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Someone upsets the village, but Squire Babblewick tries to TUE enlighten them all. Stars Nicholas Le Prevost. From TUE September 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life b04n3388 (Listen) TUE Longevity TUE A new series from multi-award winning comic Mark Watson TUE where he attempts to answer the big questions and make sense TUE of life, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden. TUE Mark and his two henchmen tackle academic TUE and abstract topics. Themes will be examined from every TUE angle, torn apart, laughed at and put back together again in TUE an effort to understand ourselves and the world around us, TUE and make it a slightly better place using stand-up, poetry, TUE songs and dippy interactions. TUE This week Mark looks at "Longevity". It's the big one - dear TUE old Mr Death. Can we beat him? Since time began, his TUE win/lose record has been around 190 billion/1 (that's TUE accepting Jesus rose from the dead, and maybe allowing a few TUE draws for people who've been cryonically frozen, etc). Much TUE of the world seems to be obsessed with the task of trying to TUE defy age' and deny the inevitable - but is there actually a TUE case for not wanting to live too long, because the world TUE starts to become too confusing and your place in it less and TUE less secure? TUE Mark dishes up some examples of ways this is already TUE happening to him. Key and Basden attempt to persuade Mark TUE the true glory of life is in enjoying it, not drawing it out TUE endlessly. Everyone asks the question - who really wants to TUE live forever? TUE Mark Watson is a multi-award winning comedian - his awards TUE include the inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is TUE assisted by Tim Key, winner of an Edinburgh Comedy Award in TUE 2009, and Tom Basden who won the the If.Comedy Award for TUE Best Newcomer in 2007. TUE Written and performed by Mark Watson, Tim Key and Tom TUE Basden. TUE Produced by Lianne Coop TUE An Impatient production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 08:00 The Goon Show b00fgzr6 (Listen) TUE Tiddlywinks TUE After defeat at the hands of Cambridge, Neddie Seagoon seeks TUE his gameful revenge. Stars Spike Milligan. From March 1958. TUE TUE 08:30 Doctor at Large b009hq0t (Listen) TUE The Doctor's Dilemma TUE Seasick ship's doctor Simon Sparrow attempts emergency TUE surgery using cutlery and brandy. Stars Richard Briers. From TUE July 1969. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b04nqfwn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Quando, Quando, Quando b007zd2c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lc98z (Listen) TUE The First Battle TUE Retired merchant Dickson McCunn sets out to save an TUE imprisoned Russian princess. Stars Roy Hanlon and David TUE McKail. TUE TUE 11:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00nvyzb (Listen) TUE The Stoat TUE A man compares a stoat's steadfast quest for a rabbit to a TUE shy woman's pursuit of his hopeless father. Read by Sean TUE McGinley. TUE TUE 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jz06 (Listen) TUE Dorothy, a Manager's Wife TUE A resentful soccer spouse rants about the game and her TUE football manager husband. Stars Pauline Collins and Timothy TUE West. TUE TUE 12:00 The Goon Show b00fgzr6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Doctor at Large b009hq0t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0110jbv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Zine Scene b008pygw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged TUE 13 3/4 b014skj6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Adrian is heartbroken as new girl Pandora makes a beeline TUE for his best friend. Sue Townsend's book read by Nicholas TUE Barnes. TUE TUE 14:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jn0n6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Recruited by the German enemy, British double agent Eddie TUE Chapman is codenamed Fritz. Read by Damian Lewis. TUE TUE 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01m7w39 (Listen) TUE Ladies of Letters Log On, Episode 2 TUE Vera prepares to host a TV show, while Irene takes a spin. TUE With Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May 2001. TUE TUE 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your TUE Father? b04nqt87 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous TUE father. He recalls the reaction to his academic path. From TUE April 1994. TUE TUE 15:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lc98z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04nqt89 (Listen) TUE Ellie Simmonds OBE and her Brilliant Bakes TUE Mel Giedroyc celebrates the birthday of the Paralympic TUE swimming champion Ellie Simmonds, and introduces the second TUE part of our story, Black Beauty. TUE TUE 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04nqvh4 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Desert Island Discs TUE Roy Plomley joins the dear ladies as they are cast away. TUE Starring Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From April TUE 1977. TUE TUE 17:30 Babblewick Hall b04njmpm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Act Your Age b010dqgb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE Simon Mayo hosts the three-way battle between the comedy TUE generations to find out which is the funniest. Will it be TUE the Up-and-Comers, the Current Crop or the Old Guard who TUE will be crowned, for one week at TUE least, as the Golden Age of Comedy. This week Jon Richardson TUE is joined by Carl Donnelly, Lucy Porter is joined by Justin TUE Edwards and Tom O'Connor teams up with Norman Lovett. TUE Devised and Produced by Ashley Blaker and Bill Matthews. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b04nqvh6 (Listen) TUE Joanna Lumley TUE 4 Extra Debut. Actress and writer Joanna Lumley talks to TUE Robin Ray about the music and even birdsong which stirs TUE strong emotion. From August 1990. TUE TUE 19:00 The Goon Show b00fgzr6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Doctor at Large b009hq0t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0110jbv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Zine Scene b008pygw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement b00766fv (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE As rehearsals falter, Briony witnesses a meeting at the TUE fountain. And the chocolate millionaire arrives. Read by TUE Sian Thomas. TUE TUE 21:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jz06 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Mark Watson Talks a Bit About Life b04n3388 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01k2f7v (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 6 TUE In this episode, the team is thrown into panic as Lorna TUE announces there may be job cuts while Malcolm joins a dating TUE website, fearing that unmarried registrars may be made TUE redundant. TUE Births, Deaths and Marriages TUE is the sitcom set in a Local Authority Register Office where TUE the staff deal with the three greatest events in anybody's TUE life. TUE Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan TUE Partridge), who also stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox - TUE a stickler for rules and willing to interrupt any wedding TUE service if the width of the bride infringes health and TUE safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's TUE married thousands of women. TUE Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been TUE parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and TUE Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just TUE about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit TUE in our new age of austerity. TUE There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried TUE he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may TUE get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the TUE only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. TUE Cast: TUE Malcolm ...... David Schneider TUE Lorna ...... Sarah Hadland TUE Anita ...... Sandy McDade TUE Luke ...... Russell Tovey TUE Mary ....... Sally Bretton TUE Larry, Mr Charalambous ...... Mike Fenton Stevens TUE Malcolm's mum, Client registering birth ....... Mel Hudson TUE Julie, Jessica ...... Gina Peach TUE James ...... Arran Glass TUE Producer: Simon Jacobs TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Mel and Sue Thing b0076b0y (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Part four of Jane Austen's lost novella 'Sweet Fanny Adams', TUE cinema trips and a new posh British blockbuster. Sketches TUE with Giedroyc and Perkins. From October 2002. TUE TUE 23:30 Masala FM b0080p9x (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE It's the Asian station phone-in show's first wedding, but is TUE love blind or stupid? Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar. From October TUE 1996. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged WED 13 3/4 b014skj6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jn0n6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Ladies of Letters b01m7w39 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your WED Father? b04nqt87 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Act Your Age b010dqgb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Tingle Factor b04nqvh6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0110jbv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Zine Scene b008pygw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lc98z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00nvyzb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jz06 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04nqvh4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Babblewick Hall b04njmpm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0112zz7 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Arthur Simpson is arrested and interrogated by Turkish WED security for unintentional arms smuggling. Read by David WED Westhead. WED WED 06:30 Shots from the Hip b007sly8 (Listen) WED Music criticism began as an art form, delivering the kind of WED scathing wit and opinion capable of making or breaking a WED band. Now, with the broadsheets, fans on the internet, and WED even the band themselves weighing WED in, journalist Andrew Collins asks whether the lone voice is WED still relevant, or just another voice trying to be heard. WED WED 07:00 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0dp (Listen) WED Remember, Remember the Fifth of September WED Birthday celebrations go awry for the rural railway WED station's cafe proprietor June. Stars Peter Davison. From WED December 1995. WED WED 07:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qhqg5 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Wedding WED Anthony is cock-a-hoop when asked out of the blue to be best WED man at a friend's wedding. Problem is, he hasn't seen this WED friend since they were at school together and Damien isn't WED entirely convinced that Anthony WED has been invited purely because of his "excellent WED presentation skills". WED Written by Miles Jupp WED Producer: Sam Michell. WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony MacIlveny: Justin Edwards WED Julian, the Groom: Ben Crowe WED Ian Frobisher: Philip Fox WED Fran, the Bride: Sarah Thom WED Lionel: Rupert Vansittart WED The Bride's Mum: Lesley Vickerage WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 08:00 The Burkiss Way b00cm26d (Listen) WED Series 4, Is Britain Going the Burkiss Way, pt 1 WED All about 'things' and spoofing Just a Minute. Stars Fred WED Harris, Jo Kendall, Nigel Rees and Chris Emmett. From April WED 1979. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b008m22m (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED Genghis Khan reincarnated, and an incompetent zoo keeper. WED Sketches and songs with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From WED April 1966. WED WED 09:00 Whispers b00n90xf (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED Gyles Brandreth chairs the scandals quiz with Anthony WED Holden, Lucy Moore, Penny Junor and Julian Fellowes. From WED October 2005. WED WED 09:30 Safety Catch b00fc4vp (Listen) WED Series 1, Show Me You Care WED Guilt-ridden arms dealer Simon McGrath cares about the world WED and his needy girlfriend. Stars Darren Boyd. From September WED 2007. WED WED 10:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lcltj (Listen) WED The Die-Hards Go into Action WED As retired merchant Dickson McCunn's mission is concluded, WED he commits an assault. Stars Roy Hanlon and David McKail. WED WED 11:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00pbv14 (Listen) WED A Slip Up WED Exiled in England, a retired Irishman sustains himself by WED imagining working the farm he lost back home. Read by Sean WED McGinley. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0qy3 (Listen) WED Ed Harris - Troll WED by Ed Harris. WED Adult cares mix with childhood fears, in this comic twisted WED fairytale, which won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Radio WED Drama of 2011. In the middle of a family crisis, Olivia WED discovers a troll WED under her mother's kitchen sink. A troll to whom, in the WED magic days of childhood, she once promised herself as a WED meal. WED Olivia ..... Rosie Cavaliero WED James ..... Ewan Bailey WED Troll ..... Jack Klaff WED Mum ..... Marcia Warren WED Matt ..... Michael Shelford WED Produced and directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 12:00 The Burkiss Way b00cm26d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b008m22m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0112zz7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Shots from the Hip b007sly8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged WED 13 3/4 b014tfxz (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Adrian's parents start to argue and he uncovers a shocking WED secret about his mum. Nicholas Barnes reads Sue Townsend's WED book. WED WED 14:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jn6g2 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Double agent Eddie Chapman - codename 'Fritz' - prepares to WED sabotage a British factory making war planes. Read by Damian WED Lewis. WED WED 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01m7xpk (Listen) WED Ladies of Letters Log On, Episode 3 WED Irene is determined to play a starring role in Vera's TV WED show. With Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May WED 2001. WED WED 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your WED Father? b04nrdc4 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous WED father. Turning 12, Blake has a 'manly' camping trip. From WED April 1994. WED WED 15:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lcltj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04nrdfg (Listen) WED Andy Bell and Hardworking Horses WED Mel Giedroyc uncovers the Inheritance Tracks of Erasure WED singer Andy Bell, and we hear the third part of Anna WED Sewell's classic tale Black Beauty. WED WED 17:00 For Better Or for Worse b00hk2dx (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Iris is proper poorly, but not quite as poorly as Wilf WED thinks she is. Stars Gorden Kaye and Su Pollard. From April WED 1993. WED WED 17:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0dp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 Whispers b00n90xf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076ddq (Listen) WED Obsession WED John Cooper Clarke, Kathryn Flett and Owen Shears are the WED writers with Matthew Parris for a bout of intense interest. WED In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of WED writers of fact and fiction: new WED talent and established names. In the context of a discussion WED of one of the ideas and pre-occupations of our times, each WED presents a piece on this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2003. WED WED 19:00 The Burkiss Way b00cm26d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b008m22m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0112zz7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Shots from the Hip b007sly8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement b00766g9 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The temperature rises as the afternoon turns to evening on WED the Tallis's Surrey estate. Read by Sian Thomas. WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0qy3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 In and Out of the Kitchen b01qhqg5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Down the Line b012xpl8 (Listen) WED Series 3, Bad Manners and Modern Liberal Parenting WED Britain's got bad manners - should we bring back hanging? WED Gary Bellamy takes the calls. Stars Rhys Thomas. From WED February 2008. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04stjgc (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan chats WED to Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer. WED WED 23:00 Arthur Smith's Balham Bash b010hcwk (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED Arthur Smith presents comedy and music from his flat in WED Balham, with stand-up comedy from Sean Lock in the living WED room, Annette Fagon on the landing and music from Squeeze in WED the kitchen. WED Producer Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 23:30 The Skivers b007jpsp (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED Lecturing Leslie Phillips guest stars in Nick Golson and Tim WED de Jongh's skilful sketch show. With Mel Giedroyc. From WED March 1994. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged THU 13 3/4 b014tfxz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jn6g2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Ladies of Letters b01m7xpk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your THU Father? b04nrdc4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Whispers b00n90xf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076ddq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0112zz7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Shots from the Hip b007sly8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 John Buchan - Huntingtower b00lcltj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:55 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] THU THU 04:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00pbv14 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0qy3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 For Better Or for Worse b00hk2dx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0dp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b011367p (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU Arthur Simpson is now seconded to Turkish security. He also THU has to start work at the suspect's villa. Read by David THU Westhead. THU THU 06:30 Pilot b008m5xh (Listen) THU Libby Purves explores the world of the ship's pilot, whose THU job involves guiding the world's biggest ships into port and THU out to sea again in the best and the worst of weathers. THU Aboard a pilot cutter on the River THU Tees in heavy seas, Libby meets Geoff Taylor of the THU International Maritime Pilots Association and his colleagues THU to talk about the life of the men - and one woman - who THU guide our ships safely to shore. THU THU 07:00 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b01nrd26 (Listen) THU Series 2, Spears THU Eddie Conroy leaves home, while the Sweater Girls look set THU for a big break. With Radio 1's Mark and Lard. From November THU 2000. THU THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04n6432 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda, records a fourth series of his hit sketch THU show. THU 4/6: In the fourth edition of the THU series, John tries to present a classic sketch, but the THU others aren't going to help him. We also hear a speech from THU someone who followed their dream, and induct a new employee THU at Vicarstown train station, on the Island of Sodor. THU The first series of John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme was THU described as "sparklingly clever" by The Daily Telegraph and THU "one of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" by The Guardian. The second series won Best Radio THU Comedy at both the Chortle and Comedy.co.uk awards, and was THU nominated for a Radio Academy award. The third series THU actually won a Radio Academy award. THU In this fourth series, John has written more sketches, like THU the sketches from the other series. Not so much like them THU that they feel stale and repetitious; but on the other hand THU not so different that it feels like a misguided attempt to THU completely change the show. Quite like the old sketches, in THU other words, but about different things and with different THU jokes. (Although it's a pretty safe bet some of them will THU involve talking animals.) THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Also featuring ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry THU Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. THU Original music by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally Stares. THU Producer ... Ed Morrish. THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 08:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007k29b (Listen) THU Inspecting the Piles? THU Pike and Uncle Arthur tackle a tricky situation with an THU inflatable dinghy. Starring John Le Mesurier. From December THU 1983. THU THU 08:30 Listen to Les b007jx9g (Listen) THU From 04/01/1981 THU 4 Extra Debut. Les Dawson reveals how the mother-in-law joke THU was invented, and the real Humpty Dumpty. With Daphne THU Oxenford. From January 1981. THU THU 09:00 Heresy b0184s33 (Listen) THU Series 8, Episode 3 THU Victoria Coren presents another edition of the show which THU dares to commit heresy. THU Her guests this week are comedian David Mitchell, the Rev THU Richard Coles and Diane Abbott MP. Together they have fun THU exposing the THU wrong-headedness of received wisdom and challenging THU knee-jerk public reaction to events. THU Diane Abbott is happy to argue against the received wisdom THU that "the Labour Party chose the wrong Miliband" though she THU can't help observing that the party really should have THU chosen her, the Rev Richard Coles is happy to speak in THU defence of parents who go to church just to get their kids THU into the local faith schools, and David Mitchell is THU incredulous that anyone would believe that "if a friend is THU doing something for charity you should sponsor them. THU Producer: Brian King THU An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:30 Alison and Maud b007k2my (Listen) THU Series 1, Tennis Balls and Military Tattoos THU The landladies' accountant and clergy guest discover they THU have something in common. Stars Denise Coffey. From January THU 2003. THU THU 10:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon b00tnrv2 (Listen) THU The Kidnapping THU The 1931 mystery of a hijacked plane, and passenger Hugh THU Conway's arrival at the lamasery of Shangri-La. Stars Derek THU Jacobi. THU THU 10:55 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] THU THU 11:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00p4mc5 (Listen) THU Sierra Leone, part 1 THU Half in love with an aging politician's mistress, a young THU man must assess his capacity for commitment. Read by Sean THU McGinley. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0076vgl (Listen) THU Louise Wallinger - Cut Me and I Bleed Elvis THU Sarah collects voices on tape, but her microphone is taking THU over her life. Stars Jo McInnes and James Fleet. THU THU 12:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007k29b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Listen to Les b007jx9g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b011367p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Pilot b008m5xh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged THU 13 3/4 b014v0wv (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU It is Valentine's Day and there is a card for Adrian, but THU who is it from? Sue Townsend's teen classic read by Nicholas THU Barnes. THU THU 14:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jnls9 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU MI5 send double agent Eddie Chapman to infiltrate Germany's THU Abwehr intelligence. Read by Damian Lewis. THU THU 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01m81sy (Listen) THU Ladies of Letters Log On, Episode 4 THU 'Dales Diaries' takes to the air with two charming THU hostesses. With Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From THU May 2001. THU THU 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your THU Father? b04nv7bd (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous THU father. The Cuban Missile crisis casts a long shadow. From THU April 1994. THU THU 15:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon b00tnrv2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 15:55 Inheritance Tracks b04pqyx3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 13:10 on Saturday] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04nv7bg (Listen) THU Stag's antlers and saddling up THU Mel Giedroyc locks antlers with the stags of Richmond Park, THU and we hear the penultimate part of our story this week, THU Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. THU THU 17:00 Ballylenon b00yync3 (Listen) THU Series 8, The Threat of Television THU Ballylenon, County Donegal. Pop. 1,999 was founded by St THU Lenon of Padua, when he fell into the river at this spot in THU 953. Ballylenon is situated on the shores of Lough Swilly THU with entrancing views of Muckish THU Mountain, in the Diocese of Derry and Raphoe. (Note: THU Ballylenon is a fictional name, but the other landmarks are THU identifiable.) THU In this society, there exists an uneasy balance of THU interests. Communication has all the appearances of power, THU and in Ballylenon, communication means the local Telephone THU Exchange and Post Office. Both these are firmly in the THU control of sisters, Vera and Muriel McConkey, who in cahoots THU with hotelier and funeral undertaker, Phonsie Doherty, would THU seek to rule the roost in Ballylenon. However, other forces THU have their own guiding principles, and where the McConkey THU sisters and Mr Doherty, aided by The Vindicator, would THU dominate reactionary thinking, a dangerous liberal tendency THU is championed by Vivienne and Rev. Samuel Hawthorne, and the THU somewhat unlikely, Guard Gallagher. The antagonism between THU these camps is only ever thinly veiled. THU In this brand new series, Christopher Fitz-Simon takes a THU jocose but jaundiced look at 1960's Ireland, where we THU discover THU Muriel McConachie , 62. Spinster remnant of a family once THU active in politics, Muriel inherited the corner shop and, THU due to her Councillor father's influence, has the Post THU Office franchise. Known as the eyes of Ballylenon, Muriel, THU the Honouree Secretary of the Development Association, has a THU long-term 'understanding' with its Chair, Phonsie Doherty. THU She is a gentle personality, but misses nothing and can see THU a midge on a mare's arse in Tyrone. THU We also discover, Vera McConachie, 61, Muriel's younger and THU more forthright spinster sister who runs the 10-line manual THU Telephone Exchange and is known as the Ears of Ballylenon. THU Every call goes through her switchboard, its content noted, THU discussed and any necessary action taken. She also writes THU the Horoscope anonymously for the Donegal Vindicator. THU The McConkey's closest confidant is Phonsie [Alphonsus] THU Doherty. 58. Phonsie is a widower, proprietor of the Swilly THU Arms Hotel and of Doherty's Estate Agency and Funeral THU Furnishers and Chair of the Development Association. Up to THU the present is politically 'in' and therefore in the way of THU knowing what grants and subsidies are available for all THU manner of projects. His relationship with Muriel McConachie THU is proprietorial rather than romantic. THU If there is a thorn in the side of this trio it is, Vivienne THU Hawthorne, 30, the former Miss Boal. Bright, breezy, busy THU primary schoolteacher. Organist and choir-mistress of the THU Presbyterian congregation. Though seemingly rationalist, THU Vivienne is secretly much influenced by horoscopes. She is THU supporter of cultural causes like the music festival and THU architectural conservation. And though apparently THU straightforward, she achieves certain aims by devious means. THU Ballylenon by Christopher Fitz-Simon THU Muriel McConkey -Margaret D'Arcy THU Vera McConkey -Stella McCusker THU Phonsie Doherty -Gerard Murphy THU Mrs Vivienne Hawthorne -Aine McCartney THU Rev. Samuel Hawthorne -Dermot Crowley THU Kevin 'Stumpy' Bonnar - Gerard McSorley THU Guard Gallagher -Frankie McCafferty THU Daniel O'Searcaigh - James Greene THU Monsignor McFadden - Niall Cusack THU Aubrey Frawley - Chris McHallem THU Polly Acton - Joanna Munro THU Eamonn Doyle - Patrick Fitzsymons THU Mr Boylan - Derek Bailey THU Directed By Eoin O'Callaghan. THU Credits THU Producer: Eoin OCallaghan THU THU 17:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b01nrd26 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 Heresy b0184s33 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076bkh (Listen) THU Umm Kulthum THU Novelist Ahdaf Soueif chooses legendary Egyptian singer, Umm THU Kulthum. With Humphrey Carpenter. THU The biographical series in which a distinguished guest THU chooses someone who's inspired their life. Will their hero THU stand up to intensive scrutiny and merit the description of THU having led a great life? From 2002. THU THU 19:00 It Sticks Out Half A Mile b007k29b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Listen to Les b007jx9g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b011367p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Pilot b008m5xh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement b00766gs (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU As Briony determines to leave childhood behind, Robbie is THU writing a letter that will change his life. Read by Sian THU Thomas. THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0076vgl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b04n6432 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 My Teenage Diary b01462bb (Listen) THU Series 3, Janet Street-Porter THU My Teenage Diary returns with four more brave celebrities THU ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their THU intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for THU the very first time. Comedian THU Rufus Hound is joined by writer and editor Janet THU Street-Porter who revisits her heady teen years at the heart THU of swinging 60's Soho. THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04stjgf (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Diane Morgan chats THU to Mr B, the Gentleman Rhymer. THU THU 23:00 At Home With The Snails b00c8rbm (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU George and Beverly continue faking their deaths in order to THU bring their family closer. Stars Geoffrey Palmer. From THU August 2002. THU THU 23:30 Mark Thomas: My Life in Serious Organised Crime THU b007760g (Listen) THU Mark tells stories of obtaining permits in his campaign THU against the Serious Organised Crime and Policing Act. From THU March 2007. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 NOVEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged FRI 13 3/4 b014v0wv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jnls9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Ladies of Letters b01m81sy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your FRI Father? b04nv7bd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Heresy b0184s33 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076bkh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b011367p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Pilot b008m5xh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon b00tnrv2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00p4mc5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Afternoon Drama b0076vgl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Ballylenon b00yync3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Stockport, So Good They Named It Once b01nrd26 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0116778 (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Unwilling Turkish secret agent Simpson watches a group of FRI 'tourists' while he works as their driver. Read by David FRI Westhead. FRI FRI 06:30 The Poet of Albion b008cr07 (Listen) FRI Jenny Uglow presents a profile of Wiliam Blake. FRI Widely misrepresented as a patriotic conformist, the great FRI poet was a passionate dissident, a political artist deeply FRI at odds with his country whose ideas were FRI formed by the turbulent history of the time. FRI Contributors include Blake's biographer Peter Ackroyd and FRI poet and critic Tom Paulin. FRI FRI 07:00 Spangles 'n' Tights b04nv8v5 (Listen) FRI The Ambassador FRI The Dublin theatrical costumiers have to create a special FRI cloak for Sir Walter Raleigh. With Sylvia Syms. From October FRI 1998. FRI FRI 07:30 Chain Reaction b01l8rbv (Listen) FRI Series 8, Rebecca Front interviews Chris Addison FRI Rebecca Front talks to her Thick Of It co-star and fellow FRI Nude-a-phobe, comedian Chris Addison about working with FRI Armando Iannucci and embracing his middle-classness through FRI stand-up FRI Producer ..... Carl Cooper FRI "In an unclothed state I look like a child has done a FRI collage with some Twiglets". FRI Chris Addison FRI Other episodes in the chain include: FRI Rebecca Front being interviewed by the man who knows her FRI best, her big brother, Jeremy Front. FRI Chris Addison in a rare interview with the FRI actually-really-nice-and-he-doesn't-do-any-of-that-weird-stu FRI f-in-real-life, Derren Brown; FRI Derren Brown chatting hair, beliefs and Tim Minchin with FRI comedy musical megastar and fellow sceptic Tim Minchin; FRI A poorly Tim Minchin being handed tissues whilst attempting FRI to interview with no questions a not-at-all-poorly and FRI hilarious Caitlin Moran. FRI Caitlin Moran getting to spend time and talk shoes, FRI Bananarama and women with her comedy hero Jennifer Saunders. FRI And. FRI Jennifer Saunders turning up a week later to find the series FRI has ended. Probably. We weren't there because the series had FRI ended. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jxyr (Listen) FRI The Idol FRI Tired of the lad's big-headedness, Bill and Moira decide to FRI teach him a lesson. Stars Tony Hancock. From November 1954. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry b00z66dq (Listen) FRI A Sticky Business FRI The bumbling bureaucrats hit the buffers over a London tube FRI station. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From April FRI 1969. FRI FRI 09:00 Jest a Minute b0133g72 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 5 FRI Justin Moorhouse, Sarah Millican, Chris Corcoran and Jeff FRI Green star in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From September FRI 2006. FRI FRI 09:30 Rent b04nvb19 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Richard is less than thrilled when Maria's flighty friend FRI turns up. Stars Patrick Barlow and Barbara Flynn. From FRI February 1995. FRI FRI 10:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon b00tp809 (Listen) FRI Shangri-La FRI Hugh Conway and the others are stranded in the Tibetan FRI wilderness, but a man named Chang comes to their aid. Stars FRI Derek Jacobi. FRI FRI 11:00 Short Stories by John McGahern b00p84px (Listen) FRI Sierra Leone, part 2 FRI Thanks to his tangled lovelife, a young man assesses his FRI capacity for commitment. Conclusion read by Sean McGinley. FRI FRI 11:15 John McGahern - Parachutes b0075x70 (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. Dumped by his girlfriend, a man tries to FRI drown his sorrows in the pubs of 1950s Dublin. With Brendan FRI Gleeson and Pauline McLynn. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jxyr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry b00z66dq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0116778 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Poet of Albion b008cr07 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged FRI 13 3/4 b014tt0r (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Adrian is worried about his mum's new independence, and what FRI about his worsening spots? Nicholas Barnes reads Sue FRI Townsend's book. FRI FRI 14:15 Ben Macintyre - Agent Zigzag b00jp108 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI British wartime double agent and former convict Eddie FRI Chapman arrives back home. Concluded by Damian Lewis. FRI FRI 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01m850q (Listen) FRI Ladies of Letters Log On, Episode 5 FRI Vera has a busy day with a new arrival at Sheepdippers. With FRI Patricia Routledge and Prunella Scales. From May 2001. FRI FRI 14:45 Blake Morrison - And When Did You Last See Your FRI Father? b04nvbfk (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Blake Morrison reads more from his tribute to a cantankerous FRI father. A family holiday does not bring out the best. From FRI April 1994. FRI FRI 15:00 James Hilton - Lost Horizon b00tp809 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04nvbfm (Listen) FRI Creative child prodigies and country life FRI Mel Giedroyc gets inspired to tinkle the ivories by honky FRI tonk jazz musician James Booker, and we hear the final part FRI of this week's story, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. FRI FRI 17:00 After Henry b007jpt4 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Wedding Bells FRI Eleanor has plans for nuptials in the family, but the family FRI has other ideas. Stars Prunella Scales. From September 1987. FRI FRI 17:30 Spangles 'n' Tights b04nv8v5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Jest a Minute b0133g72 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books b00tky4n (Listen) FRI Series 1, Dame Jacqueline Wilson FRI 1/1 FRI Celebrated children's author Dame Jacqueline Wilson has sold FRI over 25 million books and is the most borrowed author of the FRI decade. In conversation with Stuart Cosgrove, Dame FRI Jacqueline reveals the 5 FRI most important books in her life. As well as revealing her FRI literary secrets, she tells Stuart about a childhood with FRI imaginary friends, the impact of a recent health scare and FRI why her mother refuses to call her a Dame! FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jxyr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry b00z66dq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Eric Ambler - Topkapi b0116778 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Poet of Albion b008cr07 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Ian McEwan - Atonement b00766h5 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Three lives draw nearer to the edge. Sian Thomas reads Ian FRI McEwan's compelling portrait of the power of fantasy over FRI reality. FRI FRI 21:15 John McGahern - Parachutes b0075x70 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Chain Reaction b01l8rbv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Party b01mwvkw (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Grundy FRI Series 3 of the satirical comedy about a group of young FRI idealists trying to make waves with their new political FRI party. This week the group visit Phoebe and 'The Grundy' in FRI hospital. Written by Tom Basden. FRI Simon FRI .... Tom Basden FRI Duncan .... Tim Key FRI Jared .... Jonny Sweet FRI Mel .... Anna Crilly FRI Phoebe .... Katy Wix FRI Male Nurse .... Jot Davies FRI Producer .... Julia McKenzie. FRI Credits FRI Simon: Tom Basden FRI Duncan: Tim Key FRI Jared: Jonny Sweet FRI Mel: Anna Crilly FRI Phoebe: Katy Wix FRI Male Nurse: Jot Davies FRI Writer: Tom Basden FRI Producer: Julia McKenzie FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04stjjt (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats FRI to Nick Doody. FRI FRI 23:00 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b01dgh8t (Listen) FRI Series 1, Nick Helm FRI Comedian Alex Horne is joined by his own 5 piece jazz band FRI for a brand new series of music and comedy. The band will be FRI joined by Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee guest Nick Helm, FRI and explore the relationship FRI between man and dog and dinosaurs and puns. FRI Host .... Alex Horne FRI Trumpet/banjo .... Joe Auckland FRI Saxophone/clarinet ....Mark Brown FRI Double Bass/Bass .... Will Collier FRI Drums and Percussion .... Ben Reynolds FRI Piano/keyboard .... Joe Stilgoe FRI Guest performer ....Nick Helm FRI Producer .... Julia McKenzie. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Alex Horne FRI Performer: Nick Helm FRI Producer: Julia McKenzie FRI FRI 23:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01292g0 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser FRI Sitcom starring Justin, Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A FRI Manchester DJ tries to balance love, work and everything FRI else without much success. This week, his job seems to be on FRI the FRI line. FRI Anne Reid ..... Gran FRI Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa FRI Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin FRI Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn FRI Paul Copley ..... Ray FRI Susan Cookson ..... Tanya FRI Produced by Steven Canny FRI In one version of his life, Justin is a well-known local FRI Manchester radio DJ who is successful, funny, and stopped in FRI the street by adoring fans. He's the man who has everything. FRI In another version he's a DJ in a slightly shabby local FRI radio station who gets hassled by the occasional oddball on FRI the street. And he's the man who hopes for everything. The FRI truth lies somewhere inbetween. FRI And at home? Well, naturally, his private life is chaotic. FRI His wife has left him, taking custody of his 8-year-old son FRI Justin jnr, and is in the process of taking him to the FRI cleaners. So he's back on the market. As is his house - so FRI he's currently living in his father-in-law's spare room in FRI Bury. The only person who understands him is his Gran, FRI living in luxury in an old folk's home in Warrington. Oh, FRI and his producer Bryn but this might not be a good thing. FRI Despite all this mess, Justin always remains positive. Every FRI new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, FRI make lemonade". FRI Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. FRI Everyone Quite Likes Justin is written by Justin Moorhouse FRI and Jim Poyser. Justin is a comedian who sells out gigs FRI across the country. He has also written plays and a previous FRI show for Radio 4. Jim Poyser is a writer and producer of FRI enormous experience in both radio and television. FRI
07 November, 2014
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 08/11/2014 - 14/11/2014
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