19 December, 2014

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 20/12/2014 - 26/12/2014

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SAT SATURDAY 20 DECEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years SAT b007jqtd (Listen) SAT Pensioners SAT Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years is the fifth book of the SAT Mole series and is set between 30th April 1997 and 2nd May SAT 1998. He is now 30 years-old. SAT Adrian is Head Chef in a Soho restaurant, estranged from his SAT Nigerian wife, Jo Jo, and is the father of a three year-old SAT called William. During the course of the book Adrian loses SAT his job, moves back to Ashby-de-la-Zouche, his mother moves SAT in with Pandora's father and Pandora herself becomes an MP. SAT Adrian also discovers he has another - disruptive - son and SAT inherits a house. He and his two sons move in together, but SAT the house is burned to the ground by a woman who is SAT infatuated by him. SAT SAT 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mvg01 (Listen) SAT Every Man's Home Is His Castle SAT Elaborate rituals of locking up at night, plus records of SAT Old Bailey trials. Amanda Vickery's hidden history of the SAT home over 400 years. SAT SAT 00:30 Charles Dickens b00x544m (Listen) SAT A House to Let, Episode 5 SAT The derelict house finally reveals its sad secrets, but SAT Trottle is determined to make it a happy ending. Stars SAT Marcia Warren. SAT SAT 00:45 Book of the Week b0077613 (Listen) SAT Brian Thompson - Clever Girl: A Sentimental Education, SAT Sausages for Tea SAT Having come down from Cambridge, Brian Thompson marries his SAT sensible girlfriend. 1950s memoir concluded by David SAT Troughton. SAT SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00sj6ts (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT John Lloyd invites guests Sarah Bakewell, Michael Welland SAT and Simon Evans to add to the collection. From May 2010. SAT SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books b00v3cyk (Listen) SAT Series 1, Sir Terry Pratchett SAT Acclaimed author Sir Terry Pratchett has sold over 65 SAT million books worldwide. In conversation with Stuart SAT Cosgrove, Sir Terry reveals the five most important books in SAT his life. As well as revealing his literary secrets he tells SAT Stuart about his life as a journalist, how he copes living SAT with Alzheimer's and why he really wanted to be an SAT astronomer. SAT SAT 02:00 Doctor Who b01852w8 (Listen) SAT Hornets' Nest, The Dead Shoes, pt 2 SAT The Time Lord concludes his tale of the alien-infested SAT ballet pumps in 1930s Cromer. Stars Tom Baker and Richard SAT Franklin. SAT SAT 02:30 Bette in Britain b00bzdg8 (Listen) SAT Susan George profiles Hollywood legend Miss Bette Davis, SAT recalling her visits to Britain and the impact she had on SAT British actors, directors and producers. SAT Reflecting the plotlines of characters she played on screen, SAT Bette Davis's visits across the Atlantic left behind stories SAT of success, mystery, court battles, failed marriages and SAT sadness. SAT Miss Davis starred in several British films and was inspired SAT by our history and influenced by our culture. She came here SAT in the 1970s to tour her one-woman show where it has been SAT claimed on a visit to Cardiff she searched for and found her SAT relatives. SAT The programme features Davis's memorable appearance at the SAT National Film Theatre and looks at the time she came to the SAT UK to record an album of songs. SAT With extracts from her British interviews spanning 30 years SAT the programme includes contributions from actor Wendy Craig, SAT broadcaster Wyn Calvin and director Jimmy Sangster. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 to mark the centenary of the SAT birth of Miss Bette Davis in 2008. SAT SAT 03:00 The Master Of Ballantrae b00cbcpd (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT A buccaneering tale of a family with divided loyalties SAT during the Jacobite uprising. Stars David Rintoul and Liam SAT Brennan. SAT Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising, The Master of SAT Ballantrae tells of a family divided. James Durie, Master of SAT Ballantrae, abandons his ancestral home to support the SAT Scottish rebellion - leaving his younger brother Henry, who SAT is faithful to the English crown, to inherit the title of SAT Lord Durrisdeer. SAT But he is to return years later, embittered by battles and a SAT savage life of piracy on the high seas, to demand his SAT inheritance. Turning the people against the Lord, he begins SAT a savage feud with his brother that will lead the pair from SAT the Scottish Highlands to the American Wilderness. SAT Robert Louis Stevenson's buccaneering tale stars David SAT Rintoul and Liam Brennan. First broadcast in 2004. SAT Credits SAT Actor: Susan Hampshire SAT Actor: Philip Latham SAT Actor: Roland Culver SAT Actor: John Nettleton SAT Actor: Kenneth Benda SAT Actor: Gary Watson SAT SAT 04:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076m9w (Listen) SAT Episode 8 SAT A gale is blowing up in the mouth of the Channel when HMS SAT Ariel sights a French frigate on the windward side. Read by SAT Benedict Cumberbatch. SAT SAT 04:15 Gideon Fell - The Blind Barber b04v36dw (Listen) SAT There is only one clue to a brutal killing on an ocean liner SAT - the engraving on the murder weapon. SAT Thriller starring Donald Sinden as Dr Gideon Fell, John SAT Hartley as Superintendent Hadley and Patrick Allen as Lord SAT Sturton. SAT Amateur sleuth, Dr Gideon Fell is an archetypal English SAT eccentric created by American-born John Dickson Carr. SAT Dramatised by Peter Ling. Director Enyd Williams. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. SAT SAT 05:00 After Henry b007jq6v (Listen) SAT Series 3, A Box of Chocolates SAT When Sarah sees an old flame 30 years on, her mother SAT interrupts them once again. Stars Prunella Scales. From SAT October 1987. SAT SAT 05:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076shv (Listen) SAT Series 2, I Get Along Without You Very Well SAT When Barry's wife leaves him for another man, Roy of course SAT thinks he knows the best way to get her back. But at 2am and SAT after many fortifying glasses of rum, it's not looking so SAT hopeful. SAT Don Warrington........... Roy SAT Yvonne Brewster.........Vi SAT Sam Kelly.......................George SAT George Layton..............Barry SAT Caroline Lee Johnson...Bernadette SAT Mike Kearsey..................Trombonist SAT Written by Marcus Powell SAT Producer Carol Smith. SAT SAT 06:00 Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth SAT b007jtt8 (Listen) SAT Ancient runes spark a geologist's exploration of an SAT impossible realm. Jules Verne's adventure stars Nathaniel SAT Parker and Nicholas Le Prevost. SAT SAT 07:30 The House I Grew Up In b00dgjg0 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Baroness Mary Warnock SAT Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood SAT neighbourhoods of influential Britons. SAT Baroness Mary Warnock has been a moral referee for 30 years. SAT Her judgement has often been relied upon to steer a path SAT through a tangle of controversies from human embryo research SAT to euthanasia. She takes Wendy back to her idyllic childhood SAT in Winchester, where she was brought up by her beloved nanny SAT and an eccentric mother. SAT SAT 08:00 Kenny Everett - Here's Kenny b01n4h2n (Listen) SAT Music journalist Mark Paytress re-assesses the pioneering SAT Kenny Everett and his place in broadcasting history - using SAT a host of clips of the genius at work. SAT Through interviews with friends, fans and colleagues along SAT with unheard examples of his maverick style on the BBC and SAT pirate ship airwaves, we delve into Everett's colourful SAT style - and restore his name amongst the radio greats. SAT We also look at the little-known work with his great SAT friends, The Beatles. Everett was the first to play SAT Strawberry Fields, toured America with them, and even SAT produced 2 Fan Club Albums! SAT Produced by Sian Price. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. SAT SAT 09:00 Barry Cryer's Christmas Selection Box b007jqqy (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Avoiding all the hard centres - our jovial host Barry Cryer SAT plunders his Christmas selection box to bring you some SAT shining examples of Auntie's festive jewels: SAT Radio Active's Christmas Turkey. With Geoffrey Perkins and SAT Angus Deayton. From 1983 SAT The Masterson Inheritance. With Paul Merton and Josie SAT Lawrence. Christmas Special 1993 SAT Christmas Night with Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. SAT From 1983 SAT Round the Horne: Cinderella. With Kenneth Horne and Kenneth SAT Williams. From 1967 SAT Lines from my Grandfather Christmas's Forehead. With Ronnie SAT Barker. From 1971 SAT The Goon Show: Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest. With Spike SAT Milligan. From 1954 SAT Mr Cryer's Santa hat and baubles (not shown) artiste's own. SAT Mr Cryer's egg nog provided by his producer: Peter Reed SAT First broadcast on BBC 7 in December 2003. SAT SAT 12:00 Just a Girl - Omnibus b04v89nl (Listen) SAT How would you cope if your child was born into the wrong SAT body? Powerful new drama by Mark Davies Markham. SAT SAT 13:15 The Lady Detectives b00cq611 (Listen) SAT Mr Bovey's Unexpected Will SAT By L Meade. Victorian detective Florence Cusack investigates SAT a man whose fate depends on his weight in gold. Stars SAT Elizabeth Conboy. SAT SAT 14:00 The Goon Show b007jl4y (Listen) SAT Operation Christmas Duff SAT In light of a festive pudding shortage for forces overseas, SAT Neddie Seagoon takes action. Soon Richard Dimbleby is SAT reporting on the giant Christmas pudding being mixed at dry SAT dock in Chatham. SAT With Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. SAT Written by Spike Milligan and Larry Stephens. SAT This programmes was made for BBC General Overseas Service SAT and broadcast as a Christmas Special for troops in 1956. It SAT did not gain a UK broadcast until 25/12/1986 on BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 14:30 Take It From Here b0186dsr (Listen) SAT From 17/12/1953 SAT Pa Glum mediates between Ron and Eth - who gets which SAT presents? Stars Jimmy Edwards and June Whitfield. From SAT December 1953. SAT SAT 15:00 Kenny Everett - Here's Kenny b01n4h2n (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth SAT b007jtt8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 The Rest Is History b04v2ssq (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SAT it. SAT The Rest Is History is a new comedy discussion show which SAT promises to help him find out more about it. SAT Along with his historian in residence Dr Kate Williams, each SAT episode sees Frank joined by a selection of celebrity SAT guests, who will help him navigate his way through the SAT annals of time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, SAT oddest, and most interesting moments in history. SAT Frank's guests in this edition of the programme are Dave SAT Gorman and Sara Pascoe SAT Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard SAT An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Frank Skinner SAT Panellist: Dave Gorman SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT Panellist: Kate Williams SAT Producer: Dan Schreiber SAT Producer: Justin Pollard SAT SAT 18:00 MR James Stories b007jtk7 (Listen) SAT The Hex SAT A play by Gregory Evans based on MR James's short story, The SAT Casting of the Runes. SAT Embroiled in a public controversy with a black magic SAT charlatan called Gardini, Montague receives an unexpected SAT apology from the man - an apology which masks a strange and SAT inexorable curse: Montague has been hexed. SAT Stars Conrad Phillips as Montague and Peter Copley as SAT Rhodes. SAT Producer: Brian Miller. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Afternoon Theatre in SAT January 1981. SAT SAT 18:55 The Scarifyers b00wv6vz (Listen) SAT Mr Crowley's Christmas SAT It's 24 December 1937, and the world's foremost satanist SAT Aleister Crowley is full of dread. Stars Nicholas Courtney SAT and David Benson. SAT SAT 19:00 Barry Cryer's Christmas Selection Box b007jqqy (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs b00tkmcl (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Another chance to hear Rhod Gilbert's comedy show featuring SAT comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies, along with SAT Sarah Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of SAT Woman. SAT This first episode features live music from Scouting for SAT Girls, including their hit She's So Lovely, and the guest SAT comedian is country and western singer Wilson Dixon. Find SAT out whether whales can paint and what annoys Rhod about SAT supermarket potatoes. SAT This series first broadcast on Radio 2 in September 2010 and SAT was nominated for a Sony Award. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b04xtdlz (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith chats SAT again to James Acaster. SAT SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture b007qw7m (Listen) SAT Series 3, Ludwig van Beethoven SAT The radical comedian offers his humorous assessment of the SAT influential German composer. From September 2002. SAT SAT 23:30 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00hkrbb (Listen) SAT Astronomy for Dummies SAT Josie unravels greater mysteries of the cosmos in her quest SAT to better herself through learning and books. From February SAT 2009. SAT SAT 23:45 Fabulous b00hlxwn (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT Faye fancies a day under her duvet, but perhaps it would be SAT more peaceful at the office? Stars Daisy Haggard. From May SAT 2007. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 DECEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 MR James Stories b007jtk7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:55 The Scarifyers b00wv6vz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:55 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Kenny Everett - Here's Kenny b01n4h2n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Just a Girl - Omnibus b04v89nl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 The Lady Detectives b00cq611 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth SUN b007jtt8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 The Rest Is History b04v2ssq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Charles Dickens b00x8c60 (Listen) SUN A House to Let, Omnibus SUN Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Elizabeth Gaskell's tale SUN of a woman worried about a derelict house. Stars Marcia SUN Warren. SUN SUN 07:15 The Snowman b0075zpl (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. From pagan times to contemporary creations, a SUN look at the myths and history surrounding the figure of the SUN snowman. From December 2000. SUN SUN 07:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00z58bb (Listen) SUN Series 1, Osminia SUN Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel SUN documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit SUN after claiming to have had a number of bizarre adventures. SUN This week he travels to Osminia, a land where marriage is SUN outlawed. SUN Produced by Steven Canny SUN Brian Gulliver's Travels is a new satirical adventure story SUN from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast SUN led by Neil Pearson and award winning star of the RSC's SUN current season, Mariah Gale. Cast includes fantastic actors SUN Tamsin Greig, John Standing, Paul Bhattacharjee, Christopher SUN Douglas, Catherine Shepherd, Vicky Pepperdine, Phil SUN Cornwell, Antonia Campbell Hughes, Jo Bobin and Katherine SUN Jakeways. SUN For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about SUN different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, SUN 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand SUN our own'. But science fiction and space ships never SUN interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian SUN Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a SUN fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. SUN Satirical targets over the series: the medical profession SUN and its need to pathologize everything; the effect of SUN marriage on children; spirituality and pseudo-science; SUN compensation culture; sexism; the affect of our obsession SUN with fame. SUN Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at SUN university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly SUN peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the SUN Galaxy. SUN Credits SUN Brian Gulliver: Neil Pearson SUN Rachel Gulliver: Mariah Gale SUN Dr Malik: Paul Bhattacharjee SUN Tandia: Joanna Bobin SUN Gigia: Jane Whittenshaw SUN Seldon: Brian Bowles SUN Mayor: Sam Dale SUN Sancti: Sally Orrock SUN Producer: Steven Canny SUN Writer: Bill Dare SUN SUN 08:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat b01c6h6v (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN George, Harris and J enjoy a holiday on the River Thames SUN from Kingston to Oxford, with Montmorency the dog. Stars SUN Jeremy Nicholas. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00rgltx (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 SUN Two Hell's Angels woo a waitress, and love is in the air. SUN Stars Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From May SUN 1970. SUN SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women b007jqrn (Listen) SUN Aunt March Settles the Question SUN Father returns for Christmas and Meg gets a proposal. Stars SUN Buffy Davis, Jemma Redgrave and Gayle Hunnicutt. SUN SUN 09:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen b04v8j57 (Listen) SUN Episode 6 SUN Harry's health is failing fast, while Captain Kidd thinks he SUN has cheated justice. Stars Polly James and Philip Voss. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04v8j59 (Listen) SUN Children's Writers, Michael Rosen SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Ewan MacColl to Smiley Culture, SUN children's author Michael Rosen shares his castaway choices SUN with Sue Lawley. From August 2006. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b00t3z7n (Listen) SUN Just William - Pursuin' Happiness, The Knight at Arms SUN He's back! Who? Just William. SUN Richmal Crompton's grubby, tousled, William Brown occupies SUN his usual would-be-heroic starring role in three stories new SUN to BBC Radio 4, brought to definitive life, as ever, by SUN Martin Jarvis. SUN In this opening tale, William, inspired by his history SUN teacher's accounts of medieval derring-do, sets out with his SUN faithful squire Ginger to succour the oppressed. They come SUN upon a beautiful damsel who is unquestionably oppressed, and SUN therefore clearly in need of helpful succouring! SUN But as so often with William, things aren't quite what they SUN seem. SUN Director: Pete Atkin SUN Producer: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 11:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b018j117 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Christmas Compilation SUN The festive funny man's highlights from Christmases past. SUN Including legendary folk singer Odetta and soprano Renee SUN Fleming. SUN SUN 12:00 Charles Dickens b00x8c60 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 The Snowman b0075zpl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Michael Frayn - Clouds b00d9ywg (Listen) SUN Coffee and literature or art and sugar? Rival Sunday SUN supplement writers clash under 1970s Cuban skies. Stars SUN Dinsdale Landen. SUN SUN 15:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat b01c6h6v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00rgltx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b04v8kwg (Listen) SUN Sir Quentin Blake and Christmas Crackers SUN Mel Giedroyc brings you some of best bits of the past week SUN on the 4 O'Clock Show, including a tour of Sir Quentin SUN Blake's studio and the reason why Christmas crackers go SUN bang! SUN SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women b007jqrn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen b04v8j57 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Weird Tales b00vknmp (Listen) SUN Series 2, Connected SUN WEIRD TALES: Connected SUN By Melissa Murray SUN Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns for a new series to SUN share more of his chilling tales. SUN When her brother-in-law is killed in a car crash, Steph is SUN overcome with sadness. One day, feeling maudlin, she rings SUN his mobile number. She just wants to hear his voice really. SUN The next day he rings her back... SUN Steph ..... Fiona Glascott SUN Ray ..... Joseph Kloska SUN Jamie ..... Piers Wehner SUN Lovecraft ..... Stephen Hogan SUN Mother ..... Kate Layden SUN Jan / Flight Attendant ..... Melissa Advani SUN Passenger ..... Ewan Hooper SUN Shop Assistant ..... Rhys Jennings SUN Passerby ..... John Biggins SUN Passerby 2 / Estate Agent ..... Tessa Nicholson SUN Directed by Mary Peate SUN Introduced by the mysterious H.P. Lovecraft, Weird Tales is SUN a series of three chilling and intimate plays for the late SUN night slot on Radio 4. SUN Drawing the audience into a claustrophobic and disturbing SUN world, the plays set out to explore the characters' deepest SUN fears and torments. The series will concentrate on the SUN psychological element of the horror genre stirring the SUN imagination of the listener. SUN One hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created The SUN Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and SUN forbidden lore. Locked away, he is after new stories, new SUN blood, to add to his collection. From ghosts to demons, the SUN plays draw the audience into a claustrophobic and disturbing SUN world, exploring the audience's deepest fears and neuroses. SUN SUN 18:30 The Scarifyers b01b1y01 (Listen) SUN The Magic Circle, Episode 1 SUN Uncanny investigators MI-13 are back on the case. David SUN Warner joins the regular cast for a brand new Scarifyers SUN adventure, The Magic Circle. SUN Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) is finding the business of SUN single-handedly saving Great Britain from the forces of SUN darkness rather taxing. SUN And Lionheart? Lionheart is missing. SUN When the only clue to his disappearance seems to lie in a SUN twenty-year-old murder investigation, Dunning turns to the SUN one man who might have the answers: Lionheart's erstwhile SUN colleague Harry 'Thumper' Crow (David Warner). SUN Harry doesn't hold with supernaturalism, but over the next SUN few days he's going to see some very strange things indeed: SUN a string of murdered magicians, a dead music-hall star come SUN back to life, and a pensioner from the depths of hell. SUN Can Crow and Dunning find Lionheart? A terrible truth SUN awaits, as they unearth the long-buried secrets of The Magic SUN Circle. SUN This is the sixth story in supernatural comedy series 'The SUN Scarifyers.' The series follows the exploits of 1930s SUN ghost-story writer Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) and SUN Detective Inspector Lionheart (Nicholas Courtney), who SUN together investigate weird mysteries under the auspices of SUN top-secret government department MI-13. SUN In 2011, Nicholas Courtney passed away. 'The Magic Circle' SUN introduces a new lead character, played by David Warner, and SUN serves as a farewell to both Lionheart and to the actor who SUN played him. SUN PRODUCER SUN Name: Simon Barnard SUN Tel: 07771657529 SUN Email: simon@cosmichobo.com SUN Indie Company Name: Cosmic Hobo Productions. SUN SUN 19:00 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show b018j117 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat b01c6h6v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00rgltx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04v8j59 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b00t3z7n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00z58bb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Bleak Expectations b00d3rm9 (Listen) SUN Series 1, An Adolescence Utterly Trashed SUN Young Pip aims to escape school, with a crone's help. Mark SUN Evans' Dickensian spoof stars Richard Johnson. From August SUN 2007. SUN SUN 23:00 The Cornwell Estate b00vhhnj (Listen) SUN Series 2, Colin Oberon SUN Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon. Six new, edgy SUN comic characters are brought to life in a brand new series SUN of The Cornwell Estate, starring Jill Halfpenny (Strictly SUN Come Dancing, Eastenders), Roger Lloyd Pack (Only Fools and SUN Horses, Vicar of Dibley), Simon Greenall (Alan Partridge) SUN and Ricky Champ (Him and Her, BBC3). SUN Colin Oberon is a primary school English teacher determined SUN to teach his class anything but how to speak English. He SUN wants them to learn his new language "Globe-ish" The school SUN and governors are not impressed. SUN Cast: SUN Colin Oberon ..... Phil Cornwell SUN Head Teacher ..... Mia Soteriou SUN School Govenor ..... Cyril Nri SUN Parents ..... Damola Adelaja, Lashana Lynch, Daniel York, SUN Amy Ip, Tom Reed, Harvey Virdi SUN Written and directed by Andrew McGibbon SUN Additional material by Nick Romero SUN Producer: Andrew McGibbon SUN A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:15 Knocker b00890vp (Listen) SUN Privinvasionacy SUN Market researcher Ian Dunn seeks the opinions of a hostile SUN public. Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From November SUN 2007. SUN Everybody hates market researchers. Ian Dunn doesn't know SUN that he's doing the worst job in the world. As International SUN Query Board UK's only long-serving door-to-door interviewer, SUN Ian - armed with a broken clipboard, puny incentives, SUN inappropriate footwear and an unflagging commitment to the SUN Market Researcher's Code Of Conduct - must persuade a SUN hostile public to part with their precious opinions. SUN At the ugly end of the business stick - rained on, rejected, SUN and ignored - Ian has faith. Faith in the importance of his SUN work, faith in a public that are pretending to be out by SUN hiding in their bins, faith that - were he to cheat - SUN civilisation would crumble within hours. Possibly even SUN minutes. For Ian, filling in a survey about flannels is more SUN democratic than voting. And he might be right. SUN Ian's source for help and guidance is International Query SUN Board UK's disinterested Field Manager Mary, who dispenses SUN tough love and surveys by phone and post. She burnt her copy SUN of the Code Of Conduct back in '76. She can't actually tell SUN Ian to cheat - and he's unlikely to take the hint - but, as SUN 80% of her interviewers disintegrate within 3 months, she SUN can't afford to sack him either. He's never met her, but SUN reports in to her at the start of each episode. SUN Most important of all are The Respondents. From the sniffy SUN suburbs to the stagnant sinkholes he is sent to, Ian blankly SUN appeals to the better side of a suspicious populace. After a SUN series of daft, brisk rejections, each episode will result SUN in a single showcased interviewee - each with their own SUN strange reason to cooperate. Every location he's posted to, SUN every home he's let into, has a distinct ambience and story SUN and each episode its own illogical unwieldy an archaically SUN worded survey. SUN Knocker is a playful, absurdist trot through the instantly SUN recognisable, but nonetheless mysterious labours of a SUN hapless, low-waged door-knocker. Spilling from the SUN knuckle-bruising rigmarole of cold calling are a wealth of SUN ridiculous situations, ensuring a lively, compact 15 minutes SUN of intelligent silliness performed by a cast of comedy SUN veterans. SUN Cast SUN Ian Dunn NEIL EDMOND Mary PAULA WILCOX SUN All other roles in the series are played by JULIA DEAKIN, SUN TINA GRAY, SIMON GREENALL, BEN ONWUKWE, SIMON TREVES, PAUL SUN WILCOX and ROSIE WILKINSON. SUN Writer SUN Neil Edmond is co-founder and member of the comedy sketch SUN group The Consultants, who have a Perrier Award and four BBC SUN Radio 4 series to their name. He's performed in Green Wing, SUN Peep Show, Man Stroke Woman, Hyperdrive, Modern Men and Lead SUN Balloon. He's recently completed filming the semi-improvised SUN 'Where are the Joneses?', a daily online sitcom made by Baby SUN cow. Neil trudged through three years of door-to-door Market SUN Research interviewing more than 3000 people. He still gets SUN Christmas cards from two of them. SUN Episode 1 - Privinvasionacy SUN Shivering in a leafy, unadopted road of long gravel SUN driveways and mini-mansions, Ian politely asks Mary if he SUN can go home - his clipboard's gone wonky in the wet and SUN today's survey is the embarrassingly invasive 'Lower Body SUN Hygiene Study Phase 1'. Mary says no. As Ian discovers what SUN every door-knocker knows - that the chance of an interview SUN is inversely proportional to length of the drive - he SUN embarks on an unwinnable debate as to why he's not covered SUN by a 'No canvassers, no hawkers, no circulars' sign, before SUN finally discovering a woman who's all too willing to talk - SUN about anything but the survey... SUN SUN 23:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jr0v (Listen) SUN Series 3, The Masterson Bunch SUN Suffragettes split the family, sparking drama at the races. SUN Improvised historical saga with Paul Merton. From July 1995. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Weird Tales b00vknmp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 The Scarifyers b01b1y01 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b04v8j59 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b00t3z7n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat b01c6h6v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00rgltx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00z58bb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Michael Frayn - Clouds b00d9ywg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Little Women b007jqrn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Captain Kidd and the First Fifteen b04v8j57 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Doctor Who b0185cks (Listen) MON Hornets' Nest, The Circus of Doom, pt 1 MON The Time Lord re-encounters the alien swarm in early MON 19th-century rural England. Stars Tom Baker and Richard MON Franklin. MON MON 06:30 Not Now Arthur b007vzml (Listen) MON Stewart Henderson tells the colourful life story of Arthur MON Tolcher, the man made famous for not playing his harmonica MON on The Morecambe and Wise Show. A veteran of music hall and MON variety theatre, Arthur survived through his versatility and MON professionalism. MON MON 07:00 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b007524c (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 6 MON The lifestyle show turns its attention to relationships and MON money. Stars Robert Duncan and Jan Ravens. From October MON 1999. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04v3103 (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 5 MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to The Marlowe MON Theatre in Canterbury. Old-timers Barry Cryer and Graeme MON Garden are joined on the panel by Susan Calman and Tony MON Hawks, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on MON the piano. MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Over the Garden Wall b04v986b (Listen) MON From 07/10/1948 MON 4 Extra Debut. Norman Evans plays toothless Lancastrian MON housewife Fanny Fairbottom, later inspiring Les Dawson's MON homage Ada. From October 1948. MON MON 08:30 Spike Milligan b04vdhcw (Listen) MON The Army Show MON Spike Milligan's military merrymaking with Barry Humphries, MON John Bluthal, John Bird, Alan Clare, Roddy Maude-Roxby and MON Phillipe Le Bars. Recorded before an audience of soldiers. MON Written by Spike Milligan. Produced by Charles Chilton. MON Audio courtesy of The Goon Show Preservation Society MON First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in June 1965. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00v72ft (Listen) MON Series 14, Tennessee Williams MON This week the "Author of the Week" is American playwright MON and twice Pulitzer Prize-winner, Tennessee Williams. The MON teams answer questions about his immensely colourful life MON and work, as well as solve the usual literary brain-teasers MON as posed to them by Write Stuff host, James Walton. MON Joining Sebastian Faulks on his team this week is MON bestselling children's author and "Horrid Henry" creator, MON Francesca Simon. Opposite them, on John Walsh's team will be MON award-winning crime writer, Mark Billingham. MON The show will end, as ever, on the hilarious pastiches that MON the panellists have written of Williams' work. This week MON their brief is to imagine what Williams' plays might be like MON if he had set them, not in the American Deep South, but in MON the British Home Counties. MON MON 09:30 Britain Versus the World b04v992d (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 1 MON Episode One: MON The start of a new comedy panel show - Britain Versus The MON World - that pits two British comedians against a team of MON comics from overseas to find out which side is superior. MON Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is the Scottish MON comedian Susan Calman while the captain of the Rest of the MON World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Malawian stand-up MON Daliso Chaponda. The contest is overseen by Irishman Ed MON Byrne who does his very best to stay impartial. MON Host MON Ed Byrne MON Guests MON Hal Cruttenden MON Henning Wehn MON Susan Calman MON Daliso Chaponda MON Programme Associate Bill Matthews MON Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker. MON Credits MON Presenter: Ed Byrne MON Panellist: Hal Cruttenden MON Panellist: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Katherine Ryan MON Producer: Ashley Blaker MON MON 10:00 The Master Of Ballantrae b00cbmp9 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON After the brother's bitter duel, the body of James Durie has MON mysteriously disappeared. Stars David Rintoul and Liam MON Brennan. MON Credits MON Actor: Susan Hampshire MON Actor: Philip Latham MON Actor: Roland Culver MON Actor: John Nettleton MON Actor: Kenneth Benda MON Actor: Gary Watson MON MON 11:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076mbh (Listen) MON Episode 9 MON Shipwrecked on the treacherous Breton coast, Aubrey and MON Maturin pass once more into captivity. Read by Benedict MON Cumberbatch. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b04v9r5c (Listen) MON Nikki Bedi, David Jason, Jennifer Saunders, Joan Bakewell, MON Clive Rowe, Annie Eve, Johnny Sly MON Clive catches up with Derek "Del Boy" Trotter, Detective MON Inspector Jack Frost, Granville and Pop Larkin... in fact, MON just with Sir David Jason.... a bona fide national treasure, MON about his new series 'Still Open All Hours'. Joan Bakewell MON DBE tells Clive of the pleasures of working for the second MON year in a row, with entertainer Frank Skinner, on Sky Arts MON 'Portrait of the Year'. Clive's co-host Nikki Bedi's guest MON is 'bloke in a frock', celebrated grande dame of pantomime MON Clive Rowe who makes his much-anticipated return to Hackney MON Empire this Christmas in Mother Goose. And in a similar MON vein, we feature a 'boy in a dress' - the Christmas TV MON adaptation of David Walliams' children's novel stars Clive's MON guest Jennifer Saunders. MON With music from Johnny Sly who perform 'Peace of Mine from MON their 'Lost Thoughts' EP, and from Annie Eve who performs MON 'Basement' from her album 'Sunday 91'. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Sir David Jason MON ‘Still Open All Hours’ starts on Friday 26th December at MON 19.30 on BBC One. MON Dame Joan Bakewell MON The final of ‘Portrait Artist of the Year’ is on Tuesday MON 23rd December at 20.00 on Sky Arts. MON Clive Rowe MON ‘Mother Goose’ is at London’s Hackney Empire until Sunday MON 4th January. MON Jennifer Saunders MON ‘The Boy in A Dress’ is on Friday 26th December at 18.55 on MON BBC One. MON Annie Eve MON ‘Sunday ‘91’ is available now on Red UK. MON Johnny Sly MON ‘Lost Thoughts EP' is available on Bandcamp. MON MON 12:00 Over the Garden Wall b04v986b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Spike Milligan b04vdhcw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Doctor Who b0185cks (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Not Now Arthur b007vzml (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole at Christmas b008hzgk (Listen) MON Art, Culture and Politics MON Adrian speaks to the nation and plans a political party. MON What is Pandora's present? Read by Nicholas Barnes. MON MON 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4f (Listen) MON All My Life Is a Struggle With Dirt MON Women's struggle to clean and care for their families in a MON household moral mission. Amanda Vickery's hidden history of MON the home. MON MON 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01pc2kb (Listen) MON Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 1 MON Vera faces homelessness and Irene is inundated. Carole MON Hayman and Lou Wakefield's missives star Anne Reid and MON Prunella Scales. MON MON 14:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w1d (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The writer's quest to discover the real St Nicholas takes MON him from Santa's Kingdom in Birmingham to Turkey. Read by MON Alan Cox. MON MON 15:00 The Master Of Ballantrae b00cbmp9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04v99v4 (Listen) MON Antarctica, Keep It in the Family, Howl's Moving Castle MON Mel Giedroyc goes to Antarctica with wildlife cameraman John MON Aitchison for the first episode of A View Through a Lens, MON and Fred MacAulay returns with Keep It in the Family. MON MON 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b00c075x (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 3 MON Sheila and Tommy tackle their memoirs, but are their MON memories up to it? Stars Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. From MON May 2001. MON MON 17:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b007524c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f5t (Listen) MON There's Something Up There MON Evil monsters await the supreme spaceman and his crew, the MON voluptuous Carla and boffin Dr Gitfinger. MON It's blast off for the world's most fabulous man, Captain MON Elvis Brandenburg Kremmen. MON With an IQ of 498 and a height of 6ft 10 inches, he's a MON Supreme Athlete, a Concert Pianist, Concorde Pilot, Mountain MON Climber, Diplomat, Space Captain and Genius. MON Just like Kenny, Captain Kremmen was born in Liverpool on MON Christmas Day in 1950. MON Kenny Everett's lovingly crafted sci-fi serial made its MON debut on London's Capital Radio in 1976. MON MON 18:00 The Write Stuff b00v72ft (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b04v9b75 (Listen) MON Sir Ernest Hall and Gillian Tindall MON Sarah LeFanu and her guests, pianist and entrepreneur Sir MON Ernest Hall and writer Gillian Tindall, discuss paperbacks MON by Evelyn Waugh, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Marguerite MON Yourcenar. From December 1998. MON Decline and Fall, by Evelyn Waugh MON Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics MON The Worst Journey in the World, by Apsley Cherry-Garrard MON Publisher: Carroll & Graf, Imported by Biblios MON Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar MON Publisher: Penguin 20th Century Classics. MON MON 19:00 Over the Garden Wall b04v986b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Spike Milligan b04vdhcw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Doctor Who b0185cks (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Not Now Arthur b007vzml (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 GM Fraser - Royal Flash b00y8yrk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Celebrated cavalry officer Harry Flashman is caught with his MON trousers down in a London club. Read by Iain Cuthbertson. MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b04v9r5c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04v3103 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Britain Versus the World b04v992d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b04v9bn3 (Listen) MON Series 12, Episode 9 MON Made for 4 Extra. Satirical review of the week's news, MON chaired by Sandi Toksvig with regular guest Jeremy Hardy, MON plus Bob Mills, Mark Steel and Rebecca Front. MON MON 23:45 Hearing With Hegley b00b41k4 (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley MON entertains an audience with his book of verse. From November MON 1996. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole at Christmas b008hzgk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Ladies of Letters b01pc2kb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w1d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Write Stuff b00v72ft (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b04v9b75 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Doctor Who b0185cks (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Not Now Arthur b007vzml (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 The Master Of Ballantrae b00cbmp9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076mbh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b04v9r5c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b00c075x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Life, Death and Sex with Mike and Sue b007524c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f5t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Doctor Who b0186ldb (Listen) TUE Hornets' Nest, The Circus of Doom, pt 2 TUE The Time Lord concludes his tale of battling alien bugs in a TUE 19th-century big top. Stars Tom Baker and Richard Franklin. TUE TUE 06:30 Letters to Father Christmas b00765hw (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. Carole Boyd explores the tradition of writing TUE letters to Father Christmas, featuring some by Dickens and TUE Tolkien. From December 2001. TUE TUE 07:00 Bristow b007sxvq (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Girl in the Yellow Overcoat TUE It's the office party and Jones thinks all his Christmases TUE have come at once. Stars Michael Williams. From December TUE 1999. TUE TUE 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04v3838 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Well of Loneliness TUE When Tom's father uncovers some potentially life-changing TUE news through his research into the family tree, Tom is TUE pressganged into helping him find a church which could be TUE devastating for the Wrigglesworth name. TUE Meanwhile, Tom's mum and gran enter the cut-throat world of TUE competitive well-dressing. TUE Credits TUE Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Granny: Judy Parfitt TUE Dad: Paul Copley TUE Mum: Kate Anthony TUE Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth TUE Writer: James Kettle TUE Writer: Miles Jupp TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 08:00 Blackpool Night b04v9p0q (Listen) TUE From 18/08/1963 TUE Morecambe and Wise head a star-spangled bill from TUE Blackpool's Jubilee Theatre - now sadly demolished. TUE With Ronnie Hilton, Reginald Dixon, Bill Waddington, Rawicz TUE and Landauer, Elizabeth Larner, Tony Melody and The Four TUE Ramblers. TUE And the BBC Northern Dance Orchestra directed by Bernard TUE Hermann. Deputy: M Davis TUE Introduced by Jack Watson TUE Produced by James Casey TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1963. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b04v9bn3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Hearing With Hegley b00b41k4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 WM Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring b0075g8s (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Unable to find any Christmas entertainment, Thackeray TUE invents his own fireside pantomime - a story of kings, TUE princesses, lions and battles. Stars Prunella Scales and TUE Maureen Lipman. TUE TUE 11:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076mc0 (Listen) TUE Episode 10 TUE Dr Maturin's greatest enemy has tracked him to Paris. He and TUE Captain Aubrey must lose not a minute to make their escape. TUE Concluded by Benedict Cumberbatch. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00s3h42 (Listen) TUE Tracy-Ann Oberman - Bette and Joan and Baby Jane TUE Written by Tracy-Ann Oberman. TUE On 23 July 1961, filming started on "Whatever Happened To TUE Baby Jane?" at the Producers Studio, Hollywood. It was a TUE film that industry insiders thought would never be made, as TUE its two female stars had an ongoing feud as famous and as TUE long lasting as both of their glittering screen careers. TUE Bette Davis "the actress" and Joan Crawford "the movie star" TUE both arrived on set determined to prove everyone wrong, TUE including each other... TUE Tracy-Ann's first radio play tells the story of the making TUE of a legendary film, of the creation of two iconic stars and TUE of the origins of a deep seated hatred that spanned five TUE decades. TUE Producer: Liz Anstee. TUE A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Bette Davis: Catherine Tate TUE Joan Crawford: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Billy Miller: Matt Addis TUE Hedda Hopper: Lorelei King TUE Writer: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE TUE 12:00 Blackpool Night b04v9p0q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Doctor Who b0186ldb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Letters to Father Christmas b00765hw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole at Christmas b008j08b (Listen) TUE A Mole in Moscow TUE When Mr Braithwaite has a spare ticket to Moscow, Adrian TUE jumps at the chance to experience 'revolution in the raw'. TUE Read by Nicholas Barnes. TUE TUE 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4j (Listen) TUE Pots and Pans TUE What do letters and diaries tell us about running the home TUE in the 16th and 17th centuries? Why do pots and pans matter? TUE TUE 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01pcs3j (Listen) TUE Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 2 TUE Aggrieved Irene must bite her tongue when Vera's daughter TUE Karen has a serious health scare. Stars Anne Reid and TUE Prunella Scales. TUE TUE 14:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w1x (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Tracing the myth of Saint Nicholas back to Turkey, Jeremy TUE Seal finds mysterious relics, including a finger. Read by TUE Alan Cox. TUE TUE 15:00 WM Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring b0075g8s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04v9kl5 (Listen) TUE Howl's Moving Castle, Keep It in the Family, Glasgow Central TUE Station TUE Mel Giedroyc is joined by Fred MacAulay for the next episode TUE in our quiz Keep It in the Family, and we go to the hidden TUE world above and below Central Station in Glasgow. TUE TUE 17:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04v8y6p (Listen) TUE Series 1, French Week in Stackton TUE A Gallic visitor allows Hilda to rehearse her language TUE skills. Stars Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket. From TUE May 1977. TUE TUE 17:30 Bristow b007sxvq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f6l (Listen) TUE Inside the Thing TUE Donning spacesuits, Kremmen and Carla tread boldly to TUE investigate the mysterious thing. Kenny Everett's 1970s TUE sci-fi serial starring the world's most fabulous starship TUE captain. TUE TUE 18:00 Chain Reaction b01lv7ys (Listen) TUE Series 8, Derren Brown interviews Tim Minchin TUE Last week's interviewee, Illusionist Derren Brown, dispenses TUE with the trickery and gets inside the mind of Tim Minchin by TUE cleverly asking him some questions then listening to the TUE answers. They talk beliefs, magic, music and Minchin. TUE Producer ..... Carl Cooper TUE The chain continues with: TUE A poorly Tim Minchin being handed tissues whilst attempting TUE to interview with no questions and no voice, the hilarious TUE Caitlin Moran. TUE Caitlin Moran getting to spend time and talk shoes, TUE Bananarama and women with her comedy hero Jennifer Saunders. TUE And. TUE Jennifer Saunders turning up a week later to find the series TUE has ended. Probably. We weren't there because the series had TUE ended. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b04v9kl7 (Listen) TUE Ken Russell TUE Ken Russell: Film director Ken Russell talks to Jeremy TUE Nicholas about the music that stirs strong emotions, TUE including Elgar. From September 1992. TUE TUE 19:00 Blackpool Night b04v9p0q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Doctor Who b0186ldb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Letters to Father Christmas b00765hw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 GM Fraser - Royal Flash b00yhvw0 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Celebrated cavalry officer Harry Flashman is pursued by TUE London police, and falls in love. Read by Iain Cuthbertson. TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00s3h42 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b04v3838 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Headset Set b012r7v2 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 6 TUE An audience sketch show set in the call centre of Smile5, TUE the catalogue company that sells anything and everything. TUE Sailesh missing a customer order leads him to reveal the TUE reason he left Bangalore to join The Headset Set. TUE Aleesha, Lorraine and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu TUE Bernie, Denise and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn TUE Smith TUE Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult TUE Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul sharma TUE Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell TUE Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani TUE WELCOME TO SMILE5! TUE Smile5 is a mail order catalogue company selling everything TUE from Rolex watches to lawnmowers, from financial products to TUE phone and broadband, from holidays to health insurance. And TUE somewhere in a brown-field wasteland miles from the nearest TUE town, it runs one of the largest call centres operating in TUE the UK. This is the world of The Headset Set. TUE Each episode features a host of sketches set in the call TUE centre, eavesdropping on both sides of the bizarre, horrific TUE and ludicrous business-customer relationship. While the bulk TUE of each show is taken up with standalone sketches, there are TUE linked scenes providing a gentle narrative curve to TUE proceedings. These scenes feature three of the call centre's TUE employees - Bernie, Aleesha and Big Tony - trying the TUE patience of their team leader Sailesh. TUE This is a team written sketch show series originated by TUE Stephen Carlin and James Kettle and script edited by James TUE Kettle and Dan Tetsell. TUE TUE 23:00 Delve Special b00t5zzv (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Shifton Scandal, pt 4 TUE In his town demolition expose, David Lander looks at the TUE trial and disturbing aftermath. Stephen Fry stars as the TUE spoof investigative journalist. From August 1984. TUE TUE 23:30 Vent b00t6v4j (Listen) TUE Series 1, Switching Off TUE Comatose Ben journeys across his brain's landscape, TUE reminding him of Tolkien's Mordor. Stars Neil Pearson. From TUE August 2006. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole at Christmas b008j08b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Ladies of Letters b01pcs3j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w1x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Chain Reaction b01lv7ys (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Tingle Factor b04v9kl7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Doctor Who b0186ldb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Letters to Father Christmas b00765hw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 WM Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring b0075g8s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Patrick O'Brian - The Surgeon's Mate b0076mc0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00s3h42 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 The Enchanting World of Hinge and Bracket b04v8y6p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Bristow b007sxvq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f6l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Doctor Who b0186szp (Listen) WED Hornets' Nest, A Sting in the Tale, pt 1 WED In his next alien insect encounter, the Time Lord travels WED back to medieval England. Stars Tom Baker and Richard WED Franklin. WED WED 06:30 Crib City b0076pnq (Listen) WED Susannah Clapp investigates Naples's claim to be the home of WED the Christmas crib. The Italian city has been making WED miniature model holy stables for centuries with great WED craftsmanship and the tradition has continued to the present WED day. She visits the great churches of the city where WED spectacular cribs are on show and mingles with Christmas WED shoppers down the city centre street of crib makers to WED explore the survival of this true folk art. WED WED 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b018fmt1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the WED residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Esther has a WED big question to ask Ken and Keith, while on the horizon, WED storm clouds gather... WED written by Katherine Jakeways WED produced by Victoria Lloyd WED John Biggins................................Keith WED Mackenzie Crook...........................Rod WED Kevin Eldon...................Jonathan / Ken WED Shelia Hancock....................... Narrator WED Jessica Henwick...........................Helen WED Katherine Jakeways........ Esther / Jacqui WED Felicity Montagu..............................Jan WED Geoffrey Palmer........................Norman WED Lizzie Roper..............................Angela WED Penelope Wilton............................Mary WED Rufus Wright................................Frank. WED WED 07:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04v3cxr (Listen) WED Communication WED In Paul Sinha's History Revision the acclaimed stand-up and WED eleventh best UK quizzer Paul Sinha looks through all of WED human history and examines how we came to be where we are. WED He starts with something everyday, something we all know to WED be true; he then reveals the quirks of history and the WED fascinating stories that led up to this point. WED In this first edition, Paul looks at the modern's youth's WED obsession with a device that can be used to email, text, WED surf the web, play games and, very occasionally, make WED telephone calls - the telephone. The story of how it came, WED legally, into being obviously involves electro-shock therapy WED and an exploding boat. Paul also looks at a more positive WED aspect of young people, and tells a story of how the WED introduction of gin to the United Kingdom inspired the WED seventeenth century equivalent of the Ice Bucket Challenge. WED Paul Sinha is an acclaimed stand-up who was nominated for WED the Edinburgh Comedy award for his show Saint or Sinha?. He WED frequently appears on The News Quiz, The Now Show, and WED Fighting Talk. He is a resident 'chaser' on the ITV quiz WED show The Chase. He wrote and starred in one-offs The Sinha WED Test (2011) and The Sinha Games (2012) on Radio 4 and in WED 2013 had his own four-part series, Paul Sinha's Citizenship WED Test. WED Written and performed by Paul Sinha. WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED Credits WED Writer: Paul Sinha WED Performer: Paul Sinha WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 08:00 Up the Pole b04v9dlg (Listen) WED From 01/11/1948 WED 4 Extra Debut. Popular double act Jimmy Jewel and Ben WED Warriss settle into a new flat over a disused fire station. WED With Jon Pertwee. From November 1948. WED WED 08:30 Spike Milligan b04vd21s (Listen) WED The Naughty Navy Show WED Spike Milligan's one-off festive show with John Bird, WED Bernard Miles, Bob Todd, Phillipe Le Bars, Roddy Maude-Roxby WED and Alan Clare's Naughty Navy Quartet. WED Recorded before an audience of students at the Royal Naval WED College, Greenwich. By permission of the Admiral President, WED Rear-Admiral P U. Bayley C.B.D.S.C. WED Written by Spike Milligan. Produced by Charles Chilton. WED Audio courtesy of The Goon Show Preservation Society. WED First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in December 1965. WED WED 09:00 Foul Play b00jm6kb (Listen) WED Series 3, The Proof of the Pudding WED Crime writers PD James and HRF Keating probe death at WED dinnertime. Simon Brett hosts the murder quiz. From December WED 1997. WED WED 09:30 The Hudson and Pepperdine Show b0075t8y (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Becoming a 'breatharian' has disastrous consequences. WED Sketches and songs with Mel Hudson and Vicki Pepperdine. WED From April 2000. WED WED 10:00 WM Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring b0075ggj (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Countess Gruddanuff and Fairy Blackstick make plans for the WED four royal young lovers. Stars Prunella Scales and Maureen WED Lipman. WED WED 11:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01n956s (Listen) WED A Peacock in Sulphur WED The first of three specially commissioned stories by James WED Hopkin. Niko Pirosmani was one of Georgia's greatest WED artists, but was it his art that killed him? WED Read by Allan Corduner WED Producer:Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:15 PL Travers - The Fox at the Manger b00g227d (Listen) WED When a fox meets the Messiah at the Nativity, he offers up WED his cunning. Magical story starring Wendy Hiller and Alec WED McCowen. WED WED 12:00 Up the Pole b04v9dlg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 Spike Milligan b04vd21s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Doctor Who b0186szp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Crib City b0076pnq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole at Christmas b008j0km (Listen) WED Mole on Lifestyle WED Adrian reveals all about his fascinating way of life, WED including socks, soaps, kissing and parents. Read by WED Nicholas Barnes. WED WED 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4l (Listen) WED Kitchen Physic WED Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the WED hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on WED first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which WED have never been heard before. Including songs which have WED been specially recorded for the series. WED From rabies to madness and piles, the housewives of the past WED were expected to concoct medicines which would cure any WED condition. WED Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly WED and Simon Tcherniak. WED Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen WED Norris at the keyboard. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01pcxq3 (Listen) WED Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 3 WED There is a major fallout when Vera's theories over Irene's WED relations spark family uproar. Stars Anne Reid and Prunella WED Scales. WED WED 14:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w2f (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED From Myra to Bari, Jeremy Seal tracks the 11th-century WED European battles for the bones of Saint Nicholas. Read by WED Alan Cox. WED WED 15:00 WM Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring b0075ggj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04v9qcz (Listen) WED Mary Berry, Sanjeev Singh Kohli in Pantoland WED Mel Giedroyc presents her Bake Off chum Mary Berry's WED Inheritance Tracks, and Sanjeev Singh Kohli finds out how to WED create panto magic! WED WED 17:00 Life in London b0121lz3 (Listen) WED An End to Life in London WED Some years on, Pierce Egan must adapt the city adventures of WED Tom, Bob and Jerry to new rules. Stars Greg Wise. From June WED 2006. WED WED 17:30 North by Northamptonshire b018fmt1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f89 (Listen) WED Trust Me, I'm a Doctor WED Inside the strange vessel, Kremmen and Carla embark on a WED mystery trip with Dr Gitfinger. Kenny Everett's 1970s sci-fi WED serial starring the world's most fabulous starship captain. WED WED 18:00 Foul Play b00jm6kb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076gp0 (Listen) WED Nostalgia WED Cricketer Ed Smith, his father Jonathan Smith and novelist WED Sarah Harrison get all nostalgic with Matthew Parris. WED In each programme, Matthew Parris introduces a group of WED writers of fact and fiction: new talent and established WED names. In the context of a discussion of one of the ideas WED and pre-occupations of our times, each presents a piece on WED this week's topic. WED The best new writing and the freshest conversation from WED 2003. WED WED 19:00 Up the Pole b04v9dlg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 Spike Milligan b04vd21s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Doctor Who b0186szp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Crib City b0076pnq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01n956s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 PL Travers - The Fox at the Manger b00g227d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Paul Sinha's History Revision b04v3cxr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Old Harry's Game b007jzzh (Listen) WED Christmas Special 2002, The Roll of the Dice WED The saintly Hope Fraser arrives in Hell, throwing Satan into WED confusion. Devilish comedy stars Andy Hamilton and James WED Grout. From December 2002. WED WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths b008hzry (Listen) WED Specials, Christmas Eve With the Shuttleworths WED Sheffield singer John Shuttleworth's plans for a festive WED family gathering go awry. Stars Graham Fellows. From WED December 1993. WED Retired Sheffield security guard, John Shuttleworth is a WED "versatile singer-songwriter" living in a semi detached WED world with wife Mary, and teenage kids Karen and Darren. WED Unfortunately, his plans for a festive family gathering go WED awry. Written and performed by Graham Fellows. WED WED 23:15 The News at Bedtime b00pft4y (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present WED in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories happening WED this 'once upon a time'. WED A festive hamper of treats including the Queen of Hearts' WED traditional Christmas message. WED With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Lewis MacLeod, Alex MacQueen, WED Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine. WED Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. WED WED 23:30 4 at the Store b007jw7y (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Simon Bligh hosts a Christmas flavoured stand-up comedy WED show, with Luke Ponte, Mitch Benn and Ian Moore. From WED December 2001. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 DECEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Sue Townsend - Adrian Mole at Christmas b008j0km (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Ladies of Letters b01pcxq3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w2f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Foul Play b00jm6kb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076gp0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Doctor Who b0186szp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Crib City b0076pnq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 WM Thackeray - The Rose and the Ring b0075ggj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01n956s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 PL Travers - The Fox at the Manger b00g227d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Life in London b0121lz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 North by Northamptonshire b018fmt1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f89 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Doctor Who b01871wk (Listen) THU Hornets' Nest, A Sting in the Tale, pt 2 THU The Time Lord concludes his tale of encountering the deadly THU insects in medieval England. Stars Tom Baker and Richard THU Franklin. THU THU 06:30 We Three Kings b00g1rmq (Listen) THU Ian Hislop examines the myths and realities surrounding the THU Three Kings of the Christmas story. THU They merit only a small mention in the Bible but they have THU had a huge impact on our understanding of Christ's birth THU story, so much so that they even have their own feast day. THU Ian examines 2,000 years of the telling of their story to THU see how history has shaped the legend of the Kings. Along THU the way he meets theologians, historians, the Archbishop of THU Canterbury and, curiously, a lot of people from Colchester. THU THU 07:00 The Elephant Man b04v8qcq (Listen) THU Labour Pains THU Terry's bank balance is redder than a baboon's bottom, so he THU starts a paper round. Stars Peter Serafinowicz. From October THU 1996. THU THU 07:30 My Teenage Diary b04v5fk2 (Listen) THU Series 6, Robert Newman THU Rufus Hound is joined by the comedian and author Robert THU Newman, who reads from his 1981 teenage diaries. The young THU Newman goes on a CND rally, meets Tony Benn and Joe THU Strummer, and falls in love on the bus... twice. THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Robert Newman THU Producer: Harriet Jaine THU THU 08:00 It's Great to Be Young b04v9dlj (Listen) THU From 14/11/1960 THU 4 Extra Debut. Gags and songs from 'young' Ken Dodd, THU featuring a trip to Doddyland. With Peter Goodwright and THU Judith Chalmers. From November 1960. THU THU 08:30 Sid and Dora b04vd29z (Listen) THU From 25/12/1965 THU Celebrating Christmas doesn't quite go to plan for Sid and THU Dora Edge. Starring Sid James and Dora Bryan. With Pat THU Coombs and Derek Lanyon. THU Incidental music by Jack Emblow THU Script by Eddie Maguire THU Produced by John Browell THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1965. THU THU 09:00 Who Goes There? b00fks6r (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU Martin Young's famous people quiz. With Francis Wheen, Carol THU Sarler, Fred Housego and Rachel Holmes. From January 2000. THU THU 09:30 Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends b0076t5h (Listen) THU Series 4, Ground Control to Major Derek THU Sitcom by Kay Stonham. THU Wendy and Maureen take the weekend off while Robin and Derek THU receive unexpected visitors. THU Robin ...... Brian Capron THU Wendy ...... Kay Stonham THU Derek ...... Martin Trenaman THU Maureen ...... Amelia Bullmore. THU THU 10:00 Happy Birthday Maurice Cole b00wv3xy (Listen) THU A look at the early life of Kenny Everett, who was born on THU Christmas Day 1944. THU BBC Political Correspondent Paul Rowley tells the story of a THU quiet Catholic boy from Merseyside called Maurice Cole who THU became Britain's most creative, innovative DJ. THU Deliberately, the programme is not about his TV work, his THU gay lifestyle, or his brief flirtation into politics, all of THU which have been widely covered. There are no celebrity THU interviews. Rowley went back to the home where he was born, THU speaking to neighbours, friends and family including the man THU who first showed him how to use a tape-recorder. There are THU extracts from a little-heard but very revealing interview he THU did with Radio Merseyside in 1976 when he talks about his THU schooldays, his failed attempts to become a missionary, and THU his first job "scraping gunk off sausage rolls" in a bakery. THU He talks about his pioneering work on pirate radio, the THU Light Programme, and BBC Radio 1, illustrated with rare THU recordings from Rowley's extensive personal archive. You THU hear about his sackings, his love of classical music, and THU some of the jingles from his time on BBC Local Radio in the THU 1970s after he fired from Radio 1. THU With Rosemarie Robertshaw, Tony Ormesher Dora Hirons and Lee THU Everett Alkin THU Produced by Paul Rowley. THU First broadcast on 20 BBC Local Radio stations at Christmas THU 2009. THU THU 11:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01n98tx (Listen) THU The Wurst Express From Kakheti THU The second of three specially commissioned stories by James THU Hopkin, inspired by his travels in Georgia. THU It is summer 2008 and an impoverished Georgian poet is THU living in Berlin for three months. He is not expecting to THU hear shattering news from his homeland. THU Read by Tom Goodman-Hill. THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:15 Poirot b008j05h (Listen) THU The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding THU Hercule Poirot must try to retrieve a priceless stolen ruby THU as he attends a Christmas house party. Agatha Christie's THU whodunnit stars John Moffatt. THU THU 12:00 It's Great to Be Young b04v9dlj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Sid and Dora b04vd29z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Doctor Who b01871wk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 We Three Kings b00g1rmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Sue Townsend - Mole Cooks His Goose b007jty0 (Listen) THU Adrian Mole takes charge of the family's festive lunch. Sue THU Townsend's festive tale is read by Nicholas Barnes. THU THU 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4n (Listen) THU Ornamenting the Home THU Exploring life at home in the past, historian Amanda Vickery THU reveals sewing was a housewife's duty and also acted as THU valuable therapy. THU THU 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01pd62t (Listen) THU Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 4 THU Daughter Karen mediates after her mum Vera and Irene's THU vitriolic falling out. Stars Anne Reid, Prunella Scales and THU Mia Soteriou. THU THU 14:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w2z (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Leaving southern Europe behind, Jeremy Seal tracks Saint THU Nicholas to Amsterdam where he becomes Sinterklaas, and THU onwards across the Atlantic. Read by Alan Cox. THU THU 15:00 Happy Birthday Maurice Cole b00wv3xy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04vdfpj (Listen) THU Lemurs in Edinburgh Zoo, WWI Christmas Truce THU Mel Giedroyc celebrates Christmas with a visit to Edinburgh THU Zoo, and commemorates the famous truce during World War One. THU THU 17:00 No Commitments b00sp1qg (Listen) THU Series 3, A Man Who Cares THU Victoria fumes jealously as Charlotte proudly parades her THU new lover. Stars Celia Imrie and Nicola Pagett. From THU December 1994. THU THU 17:30 The Elephant Man b04v8qcq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f9f (Listen) THU Crashing at the Thargoids' THU Crash landing on the mystery planet, Kremmen and his crew THU meet their horrible hosts. Kenny Everett's 1970s sci-fi THU serial starring the world's most fabulous starship captain. THU THU 18:00 Who Goes There? b00fks6r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076dls (Listen) THU Rachmaninov THU Conductor Leonard Slatkin proposes composer Sergei THU Rachmaninov for great life status. 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 2003. THU THU 19:00 It's Great to Be Young b04v9dlj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Sid and Dora b04vd29z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Doctor Who b01871wk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 We Three Kings b00g1rmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01n98tx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Poirot b008j05h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 My Teenage Diary b04v5fk2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Shuttleworths b0075t54 (Listen) THU Shuttleworth Showtime THU Singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth holds a Christmas Party THU at his house in Sheffield. THU Janet le Roe (Paula Kit) comes to the door with a card for THU John and the family and Mary serves her Christmas lunch. The THU wandering bard, Hovis Presley, sits down with John over some THU poetic thoughts for Christmas and a mince pie. THU Jo Brand tries to make Mary merry and Bonnie Tyler drops by THU for a game of Buckeroo and agrees to sing a duet. THU Script writer: Michael Redmond. Produced by Paul THU Schlesinger. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in December 1994. THU THU 23:30 Pleased to Meet You b018j463 (Listen) THU A Very Dora Christmas, Episode 1 THU Theatre veteran Dora Dale puts the 'X' into Xmas with saucy THU festive yarns. Written and produced by Jake Yapp and Martin THU Kelner. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 DECEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Sue Townsend - Mole Cooks His Goose b007jty0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Ladies of Letters b01pd62t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w2z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Who Goes There? b00fks6r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076dls (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Doctor Who b01871wk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 We Three Kings b00g1rmq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Happy Birthday Maurice Cole b00wv3xy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01n98tx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Poirot b008j05h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 No Commitments b00sp1qg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Elephant Man b04v8qcq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f9f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Doctor Who b01875j2 (Listen) FRI Hornets' Nest, Hive of Horror, pt 1 FRI Now up to speed, Mike Yates joins forces with the Time Lord FRI to tackle the alien swarm. Stars Tom Baker and Richard FRI Franklin. FRI FRI 06:30 Ainsley's First Kitchen b0076w78 (Listen) FRI Ainsley Harriott takes us back to some of the culinary FRI milestones of his South London youth - the market stalls FRI still selling their global range of fruit and veg; the Greek FRI matriarch and magnificent cook, now in her nineties, who FRI treated Ainsley as an addition to her copious family; the FRI kitchen in his childhood home, kindly lent for the occasion FRI by the present occupants, now completely transformed but FRI redolent with memories. In that kitchen, where his mother FRI taught him how to cook, Ainsley prepares some Christmas FRI favourites from forty years ago and invites along a few FRI friends to share the moment, including another South London FRI boy, comedian Arthur Smith. FRI Ainsley's parents emigrated from Jamaica in the late 1950's FRI and made a new life for themselves in Balham, South London. FRI By the time Ainsley and his siblings were born a few years FRI later, the area was already home to a vibrant and diverse FRI community. People newly arrived from the Caribbean, Greece FRI or Hong Kong and their English-born children lived alongside FRI Londoners who had been in the area for generations. Parents FRI swapped neighbourly small talk, children were in and out of FRI each other's houses sampling the national cuisine of their FRI hosts. The local shops and markets began to reflect this FRI culinary cornucopia, stocking mangoes and sweet potatoes as FRI well as apples and sprouts, and some of Ainsley's earliest FRI memories are of going shopping with his mother, her basket FRI crammed with exotic produce. FRI FRI 07:00 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076sm2 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Swingin' Down the Lane FRI No Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me FRI Series 2 FRI Episode 3 of 4 - Swingin' Down the Lane FRI Roy and George hear that an old bandleader, Gillie Truman, FRI is on his deathbed and George is keen to visit. But Roy fell FRI out with Gillie fifty years earlier and sees no reason to FRI bury the hatchet. FRI Don Warrington..... Roy FRI Yvonne Brewster..... Vi FRI Sam Kelly..... George FRI George Layton..... Barry FRI Caroline Lee Johnson..... Bernadette FRI Marcus Powell..... Victor FRI Michael Bertenshaw..... Gillie FRI Angie Wallis..... Laura FRI Mike Kearsey..... Trombonist FRI Written by Marcus Powell FRI Producer Carol Smith. FRI FRI 07:30 The Rest Is History b04vd88y (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI A new, six-part comedy discussion show hosted by Frank FRI Skinner. FRI Frank loves history, but just doesn't know much of it, so FRI he's devised The Rest Is History to find out more about it. FRI Along with his historian in residence, Dr Kate Williams, FRI each episode sees Frank joined by a selection of celebrity FRI guests, who will help him navigate his way through the FRI annals of time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, FRI oddest, and most interesting moments in history. FRI Frank's guests in this edition of the programme are John FRI Lloyd and Katy Brand. FRI Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard FRI An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Frank Skinner FRI Panellist: John Lloyd FRI Panellist: Katy Brand FRI Panellist: Kate Williams FRI Producer: Dan Schreiber FRI Producer: Justin Pollard FRI FRI 08:00 A Date With Nurse Dugdale b04v986f (Listen) FRI From 12/05/1944 FRI 4 Extra Debut. Arthur Marshall plays the ever-efficient FRI Nurse Dugdale, battling to arrange the hospital pageant. FRI With Jack Jackson. From May 1944. FRI FRI 08:30 Spike Milligan b04vdhcy (Listen) FRI The GPO Show FRI 4 Extra Debut. Spike Milligan delivers first-class fun to FRI postmaster general Tony Benn and other Post Office staff. FRI With Bob Todd. From December 1964. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00slqw1 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI John receives offerings from polymath Daniel Tammet, FRI explorer Robin Hanbury-Tenison and comedian Ronni Ancona. FRI From June 2010. FRI FRI 09:30 Big Jim and the Figaro Club b008klgb (Listen) FRI Up the Pole FRI When Perkins befriends the Carnival Queen, the workmates FRI plot a little sabotage. With Norman Rossington. From March FRI 1987. FRI FRI 10:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries b0084sb1 (Listen) FRI When in Rome FRI Trailing a vast 1970s drugs syndicate, Inspector Alleyn FRI heads incognito to Italy. But he hasn't reckoned on murder. FRI Stars Jeremy Clyde. FRI FRI 11:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01ng1hz (Listen) FRI The Soul Is Missing Fairy Tales! FRI The third of three specially commissioned stories by James FRI Hopkin, inspired by his travels in Georgia in Autumn 2008. FRI A tour bus of journalists, writers and artists breaks down FRI on the infamous military highway from Vladikavkaz to FRI Tbilisi. It is only nine days since the Russian army FRI withdrew from parts of Georgia, but there are rumours of a FRI return. FRI Read by Ben Miles. FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:15 The Sorcerer's Apprentice b008j0gn (Listen) FRI A young magician is left alone in his master's workshop. FRI Judith French updates Goethe's tale. Starring Paul Rhys and FRI Harry Towb. FRI FRI 12:00 A Date With Nurse Dugdale b04v986f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 Spike Milligan b04vdhcy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Doctor Who b01875j2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Ainsley's First Kitchen b0076w78 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Charles Dickens b00pdkdp (Listen) FRI The Signalman FRI The famous spine-chilling tale about a railway worker FRI haunted by a spectre, warning him of danger on the rails. FRI Read by Emlyn Williams. FRI FRI 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00mzw4q (Listen) FRI Mistress and Servants FRI Historian Amanda Vickery on the perils of running a house in FRI Lancashire with unreliable servants. From Elizabeth FRI Shackleton's diaries. FRI FRI 14:30 Ladies of Letters b01pdy7x (Listen) FRI Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 5 FRI Irene discovers her daughter-in-law's awful secret plan, FRI while Vera's future looks bleak. Stars Anne Reid and FRI Prunella Scales. FRI FRI 14:45 Jeremy Seal - Santa: A Life b0076w3f (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Writer Jeremy Seal's quest to discover the real Santa Claus FRI concludes at the northernmost point of the globe. Read by FRI Alan Cox. FRI FRI 15:00 The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries b0084sb1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04vdm14 (Listen) FRI Animal Impersonations, Howl's Moving Castle, Keep It in the FRI Family FRI Mel Giedroyc hears from a man with an amazing talent for FRI impersonating animals, and has the last in our family quiz FRI Keep It in the Family. FRI FRI 17:00 After Henry b007k01q (Listen) FRI The Season of Relative Goodwill FRI Sarah's mother makes everyone follow her strict timetable FRI for Christmas Day. Stars Prunella Scales. From December FRI 1987. FRI Christmas Special 1987 - The Season of Relative Goodwill FRI "Even doing what you always do at Christmas presupposes FRI agreement about exactly what it is that you always do". FRI Sarah's mother makes everyone follow her strict timetable FRI for Christmas Day. Starring Prunella Scales and Joan FRI Sanderson. Simon Brett's sitcom, from December 1987. FRI FRI 17:30 Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me b0076sm2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b01n4f9y (Listen) FRI The Pain of Strain Falls Mainly on the Brain FRI Held hostage for their brains, can Kremmen and his crew FRI evade their evil captors? Kenny Everett's 1970s sci-fi FRI serial starring the world's most fabulous starship captain. FRI FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00slqw1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books b00v6kfk (Listen) FRI Series 1, Tony Parsons FRI In this series Stuart Cosgrove meets guests from the FRI literary world and beyond to hear about the five very FRI special books in their lives. FRI Tony Parsons is a bestselling author, a newspaper columnist FRI and an outspoken commentator. FRI He published his first novel, The Kids in 1976 while working FRI in a Gin factory. Making a name for himself as a journalist FRI on the New Musical Express he went on to publish several FRI semi-autobiographical novels including Man and Boy in 1999. FRI His latest book, Tony Parsons on Life, Death and Breakfast FRI has just been published. FRI Talking to Stuart Cosgrove, Tony picks five significant FRI books from his book shelves including a memorable title from FRI his childhood, a book he would describe as life changing and FRI the tome he has bought but has never finished. FRI FRI 19:00 A Date With Nurse Dugdale b04v986f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 Spike Milligan b04vdhcy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Doctor Who b01875j2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Ainsley's First Kitchen b0076w78 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 James Hopkin - A Georgian Trilogy b01ng1hz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 The Sorcerer's Apprentice b008j0gn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Rest Is History b04vd88y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Cowards b00fq6rq (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Sketch show with a comic slant on human frailties. With Tom FRI Basden, Tim Key and Lloyd Woolf. From December 2008. FRI FRI 23:00 Blue Jam b04v8zs4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Cult dark comedy from the imagination of Chris Morris. With FRI Kevin Eldon, Sally Phillips, Phil Cornwell, Mark Heap, Peter FRI Baynham, David Cann, Amelia Bullmore and Julia Davis. FRI Are you still lying curare-still, seeking relief in feigning FRI dead? Then welcome, oo-tazz welcome. Chris Morris is here to FRI help you wallow in the melancholy, for the second series of FRI this subversive radio classic. FRI Immediately prior to Blue Jam's initial burst on radio, FRI Chris Morris had caused a furore with Channel 4's Brass Eye. FRI Yet Blue Jam managed to be a total departure from his FRI previous work. Originally airing late at night on BBC Radio FRI 1, it's a blend of ambient music, deadpan ( sometimes brutal FRI ) sketches and offbeat monologues. A whole audio landscape FRI of the subconscious, the ad-hoc low-fi sheen of production FRI lending it a kind of verisimilitude. FRI In sharp contrast with the personality-led comedies of FRI recent years, Blue Jam makes a virtue of anonymity. Borat FRI scribe Pater Baynham is one of the writers, and Julia Davis FRI and Amelia Bulmore are among the cast. Rightly winning a FRI clutch of Sony Awards, it remains unique - nothing before or FRI after was remotely like it. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in April 1998. FRI