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SAT SATURDAY 17 JANUARY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Marina Lewycka - A Short History of Tractors in SAT Ukrainian b012hbxt (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Reconciliation and a new arrival as Nikolai prepares for the SAT next phase of a long and chequered life. Concluded by Sian SAT Thomas. SAT SAT 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00ndm9x (Listen) SAT Neat and Not too Showy SAT Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the SAT hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on SAT first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which SAT have never been heard before. Including songs which have SAT been specially recorded for the series. SAT These days we take it for granted that the home is a place SAT of refuge in which we express our true self; that idea was SAT an invention of the 18th century. Prof Vickery explores the SAT invention of taste, and the role of interior decor in SAT creating both social prestige and a successful marriage. SAT Moving into the 19th century, Prof Vickery explores the SAT homes of people lower down the social scale and their ideas SAT about how they wanted them to look. She draws on a series of SAT funny and revealing letters which she discovered in the SAT archive of a wallpaper company. SAT Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly SAT and Simon Tcherniak. SAT Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen SAT Norris at the keyboard. SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00fny8v (Listen) SAT Julian Fellowes - Snobs, Episode 5 SAT Satire on English snobbery, adapted from his own novel by SAT Julian Fellowes. SAT Edith and Simon move in together, leaving Charles SAT devastated. But life with an actor is not as glamorous as SAT Edith had hoped and, when she makes an unfortunate SAT discovery, she is forced to make a choice. SAT Narrator ...... Nicholas Farrell SAT Edith ...... Sophie Roberts SAT Charles ...... Hugh Bonneville SAT Lady Uckfield ...... Celia Imrie SAT Lord Uckfield ...... Richard Mitchley SAT Isabel ...... Sophie Thompson SAT David/Eric ...... Rupert Vansittart SAT Caroline ...... Caroline Harker SAT Simon ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Bella ...... Bernice Stegers SAT Singer ...... David Benson. SAT SAT 00:45 EJ Howard - Odd Girl Out b04xn4dz (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Events finally come to a head as Arabella talks to Anne and SAT Edmund. Revelations and resolutions follow. Read by Claire SAT Skinner. SAT SAT 01:00 Jest a Minute b00fy287 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT Markus Birdman, Lloyd Langford, Chris Corcoran and Steve SAT Williams compete in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz in Cardiff. SAT From December 2008. SAT SAT 01:30 Meet the Parents b01jxxzs (Listen) SAT Series 2, Evelyn Glennie SAT 1/1 SAT Evelyn Glennie talks to her mum about life growing up in SAT Aberdeen and how her parents' musical influences led her to SAT become a musician. She also explains how she had to overcome SAT losing her hearing at the age of 12. SAT SAT 02:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011l9l8 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Civil War SAT Agatha and James's murder hunt leads to Oxford, as intimacy SAT beckons in a cupboard full of special books. Stars Penelope SAT Keith. SAT SAT 02:30 The Jazz Baroness b00cjk3l (Listen) SAT Film maker Hannah Rothschild tells the extraordinary story SAT of her eccentric great aunt Pannonica Rothschild, who SAT settled in New York after World War II and became famous as SAT the Baroness of the Bebop jazz revolution. Such greats as SAT Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk were beneficiaries of her SAT patronage. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b00sl3xz (Listen) SAT JB Priestley - Bright Day, Episode 2 SAT By JB Priestley SAT Disillusioned scriptwriter Gregory Dawson is remembering his SAT youth in 1912, before the slaughter of the First World War SAT when he was an 18-year old in Bruddersford, Yorkshire: Now SAT in 1946, encounters with the same characters from his past SAT unlock secret events, buried yearnings and give potential SAT for the future. SAT Gregory Dawson/Narrator.. Jack Shepherd SAT Elizabeth Earl... Liza Sadovy SAT Young Gregory... Dean Smith SAT Joan Alington.. Sarah Smart SAT Bridget Alington... Sarah Churm SAT Eva Alington.. Lowri Evans SAT Jock / Harfner.... Conrad Nelson SAT Malcolm Nixey... Fred Ridgeway SAT Eleanor Nixey... Janice Mckenzie SAT Mr Alington... David Fleeshman SAT Mr Ackworth..... Fine Time Fontayne SAT Brent / Stanley Mervin... Seamus O'Neill SAT Ben Kerry... Steve Marsh SAT Laura Blackshaw..Megan Winnard SAT Mrs Childs.. Olwen May SAT Hinchcliff... Jake Norton SAT Dramatised by Diana Griffiths SAT Producer/Director - Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 04:00 Mary Costello - The China Factory b01qfs6z (Listen) SAT The China Factory SAT A student regrets holding certain things back at her factory SAT holiday job to fit in with the women workers. Read by Emily SAT Taaffe. SAT SAT 04:15 Afternoon Drama b007729k (Listen) SAT Nicola Baldwin - Edward Alleyn's Devil SAT Edward Alleyn's Devil SAT By Nicola Baldwin. SAT London, 1605. Edward Alleyn was the most famous actor of the SAT Jacobean stage. At the height of his fame, he believed he SAT saw a devil on stage. This snowy, sparkling play SAT investigates what really happened and looks at the SAT consequences that still influence us today. SAT Edward Alleyn ...... Richard McCabe SAT William Grogan ...... Brian McCardie SAT Philip Henslowe ...... Philip Jackson SAT Fardinandoo Black ...... Desmond McNamara SAT Joan Alleyn ...... Christine Kavanagh SAT Sir Francis Calton ...... Sam Dale SAT John Pyg ...... Joe Prospero SAT Robert Shaa ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Miss Wills ...... Bethan Walker SAT Isack Shackerley ...... Paul Richard Biggin. SAT SAT 05:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00kk7pr (Listen) SAT Series 4, Another Year, Another Head SAT A surprise awaits the staff returning from the long summer SAT holiday. Stars Brigit Forsyth and Marlene Sidaway. SAT SAT 05:30 Little Blighty on the Down b007zmx4 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT The editor of the Bugle receives a call from the mysterious SAT Deep Throat, a secret informant at the Parish council. SAT Political satire with Jo Kendall. From July 1990. SAT Credits SAT Actor: Barry Evans SAT Actor: George Layton SAT Actor: Geoffrey Davies SAT SAT 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04y55y8 (Listen) SAT Firing Blanks? It's Not the End of the World SAT What would you do if the universe was to end in two minutes? SAT Our hero has the answer. Kenny Everett's 1976 sci-fi serial SAT starring the world's most fabulous starship captain. SAT SAT 06:00 Elizabeth Morgan - Dear Countess b01shs8c (Listen) SAT A turbulent tale of John Ruskin's marriage to Effie. Love SAT and tension in equal measure. Stars Derek Jacobi and Timothy SAT West. SAT SAT 07:30 Back to Front b007k1p2 (Listen) SAT Series 1, 1990 SAT The 1990 headline-makers kicked off the newspaper front SAT pages by England in the World Cup. With Terry Butcher and SAT Jim White. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00xnyqf (Listen) SAT Going to the Flicks, Episode 2 SAT Continuing his two-part survey of the changing experience of SAT British cinema-going over the last century, Barry Norman SAT starts with cinema at a low ebb in the 1970s and moves up to SAT the exciting innovations of the present. SAT Barry Norman is one of the best-loved critics of film in SAT Britain but for this series he explores not the pictures on SAT the screen but the changing experience of participating in SAT one of the most popular cultural activity of all - simply SAT going to the cinema. SAT He starts in the 1970s, when film was at a particularly low SAT ebb and ticket sales had fallen to an all-time low. In SAT conversation with Sir David Puttnam, he recalls his own SAT pessimism about the future of cinema at the time. Moving SAT onto the 1980s, Barry explores the impact of an American SAT import - the Multiplex - on Britain. He then moves onto the SAT challenge of videos and DVDs in the 1990s and is ultimately SAT surprised to find how positive the picture now looks as SAT British cinemas embrace 3D and other innovations and SAT attendance figures continue to rise. SAT Featuring archive never broadcast before, this series SAT attempts for the first time ever to survey the changing SAT experience of cinema-going in Britain over the last century. SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT 09:00 Permission to Speak, Sir!: Dad's Army on Radio SAT b007jw4r (Listen) SAT They don't like it up 'em! SAT After winning their frontline TV offensive, how did the Home SAT Guard win the war of the ears with a rearguard action for SAT radio? SAT Legendary comedy producer Harold Snoad and actor Michael SAT Knowles reveal how they went about adapting the classic BBC SAT TV hit series for radio - as the writers Jimmy Perry and SAT David Croft were too busy to do it themselves. Over three SAT hours, enjoy six Dad's Army episodes made for radio: SAT The Enemy Within the Gates (1974) SAT Don't Forget the Diver (1975) SAT The Day the Balloon Went Up (1975) SAT When Did You Last See Your Money (1975) SAT If the Cap Fits (1975) SAT Put that Light Out (1975) SAT Snoad and Knowles reflect on how the cast took to SAT re-recording the shows without cameras and discuss the SAT changes that had to be made to make the TV scripts work. SAT The duo's association with Dad's Army continued with their SAT spin off radio comedy series, It Sticks Out Half a Mile - SAT still to be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra. SAT Produced by Martin Dempsey. SAT SAT 12:00 Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections Omnibus b04y9lz1 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT First ever dramatisation of Jonathan Franzen's darkly comic SAT 2001 novel about the tribulations of a dysfunctional SAT Midwestern family, starring Richard Schiff (The West Wing), SAT Maggie Steed, Colin Stinton and Julian Rhind-Tutt. SAT Dramatised by Marcy Kahan. SAT Alfred and Enid Lambert, a Midwestern couple in their SAT seventies, are on board a cruise ship in the North Atlantic. SAT Enid is determined to enjoy this long-awaited holiday, but SAT Alfred's behaviour is increasingly unpredictable. Meanwhile, SAT their three adult children face complications of their own. SAT Cast: SAT Narrator.....Richard Schiff SAT Enid Lambert.....Maggie Steed SAT Alfred Lambert.....Colin Stinton SAT Gary Lambert.....Richard Laing SAT Chip Lambert.....Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT Denise Lambert.....Roslyn Hill SAT Don Armour.....Shaun Mason SAT Brian Callahan.....Ian Conningham SAT Robin Passafaro.....Kelly Burke SAT Mrs Nygren.....Hannah Genesius SAT Sylvia Roth.....Elaine Claxton SAT Ted Roth.....David Acton SAT Gitanas Misevicius.....Sam Dale SAT Caroline Lambert.....Jane Slavin SAT Caleb Lambert.....Adam Thomas Wright SAT Jonah Lambert.....Sean McCrystal SAT Directed by Emma Harding SAT The Corrections was awarded the National Book Award in 2001, SAT the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 2002. It was included SAT in TIME magazine's list of the 100 best English-language SAT novels since 1923. SAT Jonathan Franzen is the author of four novels (Freedom, The SAT Corrections, Strong Motion, and The Twenty-Seventh City), SAT two collections of essays (Farther Away, How to Be Alone), a SAT personal history (The Discomfort Zone). SAT Marcy Kahan is a playwright and radio dramatist. Recent SAT radio work includes two series of Lunch for BBC Radio 4 SAT (starring Claire Skinner and Stephen Mangan) and Mr SAT Bridger's Orphan. Theatre work includes 20 Cigarettes (Soho SAT Theatre) and the stage version of When Harry Met Sally SAT (Theatre Royal Haymarket). SAT SAT 13:15 Dickens Confidential b01kbqjv (Listen) SAT Series 1, Darker Thank You Think SAT Newspaper editor Charles Dickens gets Jack to probe gory SAT deaths in the River Thames blamed on dark spirits. Stars SAT Jamie Glover. SAT SAT 14:00 Yes Minister b007jl60 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Open Government SAT Newly re-elected MP Jim Hacker is summoned to the PM's SAT office. Adapted from TV, starring Paul Eddington. From SAT October 1983. SAT SAT 14:30 Marriage Lines b04xn1vr (Listen) SAT Series 1, A Nice Surprise SAT Can Kate and George cope with an unexpected arrival? Stars SAT Richard Briers and Prunella Scales. From August 1965. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00xnyqf (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Elizabeth Morgan - Dear Countess b01shs8c (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 The Rest Is History b04wrycv (Listen) SAT Episode 5 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 David SAT Mitchell and Steve Hall. SAT Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard SAT An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Frank Skinner SAT Panellist: David Baddiel SAT Panellist: David Mitchell SAT Panellist: Steve Hall SAT Producer: Dan Schreiber SAT Producer: Justin Pollard SAT SAT 18:00 Mike Walker - 2025 b00j0hbm (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Olivia and Irena plot to expose the world of illegal genetic SAT engineering. Stars Alphonsia Emmanuel and Mona Hammond. SAT SAT 19:00 Permission to Speak, Sir!: Dad's Army on Radio SAT b007jw4r (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs b00tw32q (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Welsh comic sensation Rhod Gilbert hosts a brand new SAT audience comedy show for Radio 2 featuring regulars Lloyd SAT Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah SAT Millican who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages of Woman. SAT Episode four features live music from Goldheart Assembly, SAT including hits "King of Rome", "Engravers Daughter" and new SAT single "Under The Waterway", and the guest comedian is SAT Perrier Award winner, Milton Jones. SAT Join Rhod for his Rant on misguided advertising, see what SAT punchlines Lloyd Langford offers up in It's a Set Up and see SAT if Greg Davies can tempt you with a life time supply of SAT chocolate if you accept his Indecent Proposal. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b050hvjt (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Plus, Arthur Smith chats SAT again to Festival of the Spoken Nerd. SAT SAT 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture b00sdyxt (Listen) SAT Series 3, Muhammad Ali SAT The radical comedian offers his humorous assessment of the SAT life and career of the world heavyweight boxer. From October SAT 2002. SAT SAT 23:30 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle b00cgss2 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Ivor Cutler and friends present poems and songs, including SAT 'I Am a Yellow Fly' and the tale of a greasy button. From SAT June 1997. SAT SAT 23:45 Fabulous b00j6jkj (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 6 SAT Faye causes havoc when she decides to gatecrash her boss's SAT wedding. Stars Daisy Haggard and Adam Buxton. From June SAT 2007. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 18 JANUARY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Mike Walker - 2025 b00j0hbm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b00xnyqf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Jonathan Franzen - The Corrections Omnibus b04y9lz1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Dickens Confidential b01kbqjv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Elizabeth Morgan - Dear Countess b01shs8c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 The Rest Is History b04wrycv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Julian Fellowes - Snobs Omnibus b04y9p6z (Listen) SUN On a chance visit to a stately home, accountant's daughter SUN Edith Lavery meets an extremely eligible earl. Stars Hugh SUN Bonneville. SUN SUN 07:15 Terry-Thomas - Top of the Town b012jhg8 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN After a pilot in 1953 - starring the gap-toothed cad playing SUN actor Terry-Thomas - Top of The Town ran for two series of SUN 16 hour-long programmes, broadcast weekly between 1953 and SUN 1955 on the BBC Light Programme. SUN In the first of two surviving series extracts, Terry-Thomas SUN pays homage to the greatest famous face to come out of SUN Finchley - Terry-Thomas! With Joan Sims and Leslie Mitchell. SUN Programme based on an idea by Terry Thomas SUN Script editor: Jimmy Grafton SUN Producer: Dennis Main Wilson. SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1954. SUN SUN 07:30 Sketchorama b01k2h1q (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN Award-winning character comedian and doyen of sketch comedy SUN Humphrey Ker presents the pick of the best live sketch SUN groups currently performing on the UK comedy circuit in this SUN brand new showcase - with character, improv, broken and SUN musical sketch comedy. SUN Humphrey Ker is himself an established sketch performer, SUN writer, actor and comedian who won the Fosters Edinburgh SUN Comedy Award for Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh festival in SUN 2011. For five years he was part of the much-loved sketch SUN trio The Penny Dreadfuls, with whom he wrote and performed SUN in a string of Edinburgh festival smashes, two series on SUN BBC7 and two plays for Radio 4. SUN The sketch groups featured in episode one of Sketchorama SUN are: SUN Delete the Banjax: Writer/performers Caroline May-Jones, SUN Daniel Cook, Gareth Cooper and Samuel Champion. They've SUN enjoyed three critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe SUN Festivals, picking up a ThreeWeeks Editors Award at Ed SUN Fringe 2010 and, with their charmingly chaotic performance SUN style, have become one of the most talked about comedy acts SUN on the circuit. SUN Lady Garden: The all-female group are Beattie Edmondson, SUN Rose Johnson, Eleanor Thom and Camille Ucan. Since their SUN Edinburgh debut in 2008, their fast-paced shows filled with SUN fantastic character creations have received widespread SUN praise from audiences and critics alike. SUN Idiots of Ants: Andrew Spiers, Elliott Tiney, Benjamin SUN Wilson and James Wrighton. Since forming in 2007, they have SUN gone on to sell-out four Edinburgh festivals and a run in SUN London's prestigious West End. They have attracted a SUN staggeringly large internet following, with their 'Facebook SUN in real life' and 'Wii Breakfast' sketches achieving SUN multi-million hits. SUN Producer: Gus Beattie SUN A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dhllx (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN George, Harris and J attempt to navigate Germany, but find SUN their sense of direction sorely tested. Performed by Jeremy SUN Nicholas. SUN SUN 08:30 Stop Messing About! b00s0bj8 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 9 SUN Changing the lodger, and is marriage all wedded bliss? Stars SUN Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Joan Sims. From June SUN 1970. SUN SUN 09:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008czvf (Listen) SUN The Big, Busy World SUN Meg faces marriage troubles, while Jo triumphs in her SUN writing. Stars Buffy Davis, Jemma Redgrave and Gayle SUN Hunnicutt. SUN SUN 09:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00cpqjc (Listen) SUN Tiger! Tiger! SUN Forced out from the jungle, Mowgli must learn to live with SUN humans. Stars Nisha K Nayar, Eartha Kitt and Freddie Jones. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b015zzmv (Listen) SUN Absent Friends, PD James SUN From Janet Baker to Johann Sebastian Bach, crime writer PD SUN James shares her castaway choices with Sue Lawley. From SUN October 2002. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b00zm0hw (Listen) SUN Census 2011, Everyone Who Lives Here SUN Stories to mark the national census. Meg Fraser reads a SUN moving tale of neighbours connecting over a census form, SUN written by Kathryn Simmonds. SUN Kathryn Simmonds is a short story writer and award-winning SUN poet whose play 'Poetry for Beginners' was broadcast on SUN Radio 4 in 2008. Her collected poems, 'Sunday at the Skin SUN Laundrette' was awarded the Forward Prize for best first SUN collection. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b04y9qz7 (Listen) SUN What We Fear SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN Guy Raz investigates what it means to be afraid and how we SUN calm down when we're terrified. With astronaut Chris SUN Hadfield. SUN SUN 11:45 Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels b00cl7lx (Listen) SUN Gastronomicon SUN Disobeying rules for a silver wedding anniversary recipe SUN book sparks unexpected consequences. Short story read by SUN Lynda Baron. SUN SUN 12:00 Julian Fellowes - Snobs Omnibus b04y9p6z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Terry-Thomas - Top of the Town b012jhg8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau b01qqsw3 (Listen) SUN Queen Flavia writes a fateful letter to her true love Rudolf SUN Rassendyll. Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda. Stars Julian SUN Glover. SUN SUN 15:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dhllx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Stop Messing About! b00s0bj8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b04ybn0y (Listen) SUN Orlando Bloom, underwater living and wing-walkers SUN Highlights from the past week on the 4 O'Clock Show, SUN including Orlando Bloom on being a pirate, the research SUN centre at the bottom of the sea and a group of daredevil SUN wing-walkers. SUN SUN 17:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008czvf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00cpqjc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 MR James Stories b007k1j7 (Listen) SUN The Backward Glance SUN "The object he handed me was made of black silk, beautifully SUN worked. I put the period at late 18th-century. Oh, and one SUN more point about the mask ... across the slits which would SUN normally have been left open for the eyes, there had been SUN stitched something which looked like human skin!" SUN The tale of a mysterious mask starring David March as MR SUN James and Paul Meier as Nicholas Pawle. SUN Scripted by Sheila Hodgson, based on an idea by MR James. SUN Directed by David Johnstone. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1977. SUN SUN 18:45 EF Benson - Terror By Night b04ybn10 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Inexplicable moods and smells mar a friendly SUN reunion. What can it mean? From the author of Mapp and SUN Lucia. Read by Brian Gear. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b04y9qz7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Joanne Harris - Jigs and Reels b00cl7lx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dhllx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Stop Messing About! b00s0bj8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b015zzmv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b00zm0hw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Sketchorama b01k2h1q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Bleak Expectations b00djnq3 (Listen) SUN Series 1, A Life Sadly Smashed Then, Happily, Restored a Bit SUN Pip lands in court - can a friend save the day? Mark Evans's SUN Dickensian spoof stars Richard Johnson. From September 2007. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b050hvlb (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Plus, Arthur Smith chats SUN again to Festival of the Spoken Nerd. SUN SUN 23:00 The Cornwell Estate b00w21f3 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Kenny Killigrew SUN Written by Phil Cornwell SUN Kenny was an outdoors pursuit expert and mountaineer, now SUN living on the Cornwell estate whose recent divorce has left SUN him with a touch of agoraphobia. When his old friend Pete SUN "Peggie" McRuan arrives, Kenny realises that he should get SUN out more. SUN Phil Cornwell brings six edgy comic characters to life in a SUN new series of The Cornwell Estate, starring Tony Gardner SUN (Fresh Meat), Roger Lloyd Pack (Only Fools and Horses, Vicar SUN of Dibley), Simon Greenall (Alan Partridge) Daisy Haggard SUN (Psychoville) Ricky Champ (Him and Her, BBC3) Jill Halfpenny SUN (Eastenders, Legally Blonde) and Cyril Nri. SUN Producer/Director: Andrew McGibbon SUN A Curtains for Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:15 Knocker b008hn0k (Listen) SUN Incentativity SUN Market researcher Ian Dunn carries out a delicate SUN immigration survey. Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From SUN December 2007. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00d7b65 (Listen) SUN Series 4, Being Fancy SUN Jon Ronson talks to Elliot Castro, who spent 5 years as a SUN conman, living a 5-star life before his eventual capture. SUN Castro talks about his early school years when he would try SUN to convince his school friends that he had magic powers. SUN Other contributors include writer Charlie Brooker, who SUN offers his thoughts on travelling first class, and wealth SUN counsellor Theyer Willis, who advises rich people on how to SUN cope with their huge wealth. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 19 JANUARY 2015 MON MON 00:00 MR James Stories b007k1j7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 EF Benson - Terror By Night b04ybn10 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b015zzmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b00zm0hw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 Jerome K Jerome - Three Men on the Bummel b01dhllx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Stop Messing About! b00s0bj8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Sketchorama b01k2h1q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Anthony Hope - Rupert of Hentzau b01qqsw3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives b008czvf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book b00cpqjc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011ppfg (Listen) MON Series 2, The Wizard of Evesham MON The alarmed sleuth discovers her new hairdresser and his MON clients are harbouring a dark and magical secret. Stars MON Penelope Keith. MON MON 06:30 The Medal Makers b00cc102 (Listen) MON Former Olympic athlete Allison Curbishley explores the MON secret world of the judges at major sporting events. MON In the build-up to Beijing 2008, she talks to some of the MON men and women from the UK who are off to China to officiate MON at athletic, equestrian and aquatic competitions. Most are MON volunteers, they all feel passionate about their sport and MON put as much effort into judging schoolchildren as they do MON world champions. MON Allison finds out what it's like to be one of these watchful MON and discreet figures whose rulings can decide medal places MON and asks whether they get as nervous before big competitions MON as the sportsmen and women they are scrutinizing. What does MON it feel like to be the person who measures the jump that MON wins the gold? MON Allison also learns about the technology that has changed MON their lives, the pinpoint accuracy of the photo finish, the MON sensitivity of the computers used to identify a false start MON and why, despite all these advances, there's no replacement MON for the naked eye. MON MON 07:00 North East of Eden b01glrp1 (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON Festival time on the island, but will a mystery illness put MON an end to Marcia's fun? Stars Rebecca Front. From July 1997. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b04xnd0c (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 3 MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON Arthur Smith, Sarah Millican, Sandi Toksvig and Graeme MON Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as death, balloons, farming MON and Jane Austen. MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Arthur Smith MON Panellist: Sarah Millican MON Panellist: Sandi Toksvig MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007k1s5 (Listen) MON Series 1, The Man and the Hour MON Bank manager George Mainwaring sets up Walmington-on-Sea's MON Home Guard. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From January MON 1974. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b04y9yzq (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 6 MON Lionel and Jean visit her sister-in-law, but are less than MON frank about their romantic past. Stars Judi Dench and MON Geoffrey Palmer. From April 1997. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b0156mth (Listen) MON Series 14, Edgar Allan Poe MON James Walton and team captains, John Walsh and Sebastian MON Faulks delve into the troubled life of Edgar Allan Poe who MON is this week's "Author of the Week". As well as attempting MON to solve the usual book-based brain-teasers they also MON pastiche Poe's work by imagining what it would have been MON like had Poe attempted to write romantic comedy. MON Joining Sebastian and John this week are the novelists, Sue MON Limb and Philip Kerr. MON MON 09:30 Britain Versus the World b04ybblk (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 5 MON Episode Five: MON The fifth episode of the new comedy panel show - Britain MON Versus The World - that pits two British comedians against a MON team of comics from overseas to find out which side is MON superior. Joining the British captain, Hal Cruttenden, is MON the English comedian Zoe Lyons while the captain of the Rest MON of the World - Henning Wehn - is teamed with Australian MON stand-up Tony Law. 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 Zoe Lyons MON Tony Law MON Programme Associate Bill Matthews MON Devised and produced by Ashley Blaker. MON Credits MON Presenter: Ed Byrne MON Panellist: Hal Cruttenden MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Zoe Lyons MON Panellist: Tony Law MON Producer: Ashley Blaker MON MON 10:00 Dawn Lowe-Watson - Closed to Visitors b04yf35h (Listen) MON 4 Extra Debut. A young man persuades the curator to show him MON around a museum after closing. Sally regrets her decision. MON Stars Deborah Findlay. MON MON 11:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf3h6 (Listen) MON Everything a Parent Needs to Know MON Made for 4 Extra. Carys Bray's collection of short stories, MON Sweet Home, won the 2012 Scott Prize. MON Helen, a single mother, is struggling to bring up her two MON children, Jessica and Paul, following a painful divorce. We MON hear her trying different strategies to cope with little MON Jessica, and her attempts are juxtaposed with extracts from MON a selection of parenting books. Read by Emma Fielding. MON With psychological insight and lightness of touch frequently MON found in fairy tales, Carys Bray delves under the surface of MON ordinary lives to explore loss, disappointment, frustrated MON expectations and regret. Described as 'not just excellent, MON but significant', by poet and critic Robert Sheppard, these MON dark and lyrical stories illuminate extraordinary and MON everyday occurrences with humanity and humour. MON Bray's stories are never afraid to expose the darkness that MON exists behind suburban front doors, but at their heart are MON brave, moving evocations of what it means to be at home with MON those you love. MON Abridged by John Peacock MON Producer David Blount MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b04y6kcp (Listen) MON Emma Freud, Paul Whitehouse, Ross Kemp, Sharon Horgan, Rob MON Delaney, Anita Anand, Ephemerals, Tenterhook MON Ross Kemp talks to Clive about his new series of 'Extreme MON World'; TV and Radio journalist Anita Anand tells the story MON of Sophia Duleep Singh, Queen Victoria's god-daughter, MON suffragette and revolutionary; Sharon Horgan (award-winning MON actress and star/co-writer of 'Pulling') and US comedian and MON best-selling author Rob Delaney discuss their brand new MON comedy series following an Irish woman and an American man MON who make a bloody mess as they struggle to fall in love in MON London. And co-host Emma Freud talks to Paul Whitehouse MON about his new TV sitcom. With music from Ephemerals and more MON music from Tenterhook MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Ross Kemp MON ‘Extreme World’ is on Thursday 22nd January at 21.00 on Sky MON 1. MON Anita Anand MON ‘Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary’ is published MON by Bloomsbury and available now. MON Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney MON ‘Catastrophe’ is on Monday 19th January at 22.00 on Channel MON 4. MON Paul Whitehouse MON ‘Nurse’ is on BBC Two in March. MON Ephemerals MON ‘Nothin Is Easy’ is available now on Jalapeno Records. MON Ephemerals are playing at The Social, London on Monday 9th MON February. MON Tenterhook MON 'Tenterhook 2' is available now on Cartoon Records. MON Tenterhook is playing at The Waiting Room, London on MON Saturday 10th February. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007k1s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b04y9yzq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011ppfg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 The Medal Makers b00cc102 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y3l (Listen) MON Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 1 MON Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new MON novel, Dancing Backwards MON Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she MON decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old MON friend, Edwin, in New York. MON As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins MON to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking MON again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And MON in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood MON as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets MON Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's MON betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to MON see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet MON holds the secret to that betrayal. MON Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a MON critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work MON includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, MON Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's MON Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at MON Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the MON Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's MON Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she MON was a psychoanalyst. MON Produced by Kirsty Williams. MON MON 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctx (Listen) MON Education in the Moral Home MON Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the MON hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on MON first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which MON have never been heard before. Including songs which have MON been specially recorded for the series. MON Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and MON 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution, MON and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they MON remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world. MON Until the late-19th century, home was the only schoolroom MON many British children were to experience, especially if they MON were girls. But was domestic education really so inferior to MON formal schooling? Drawing on diaries she has discovered, MON Prof Vickery explores home education from the perspective of MON both mother and child. MON Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly MON and Simon Tcherniak. MON Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen MON Norris at the keyboard. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00rd9cq (Listen) MON Susan Hill - The Beacon, An Author in the Family MON Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. MON The Prime siblings have grown up on a remote farm. May has MON stayed at home to look after her mother, and Colin and MON Berenice live locally; only Frank has left the area, to MON become a journalist in London. Then Frank has an idea which MON will bring him fame and fortune but have disastrous MON consequences for the rest of the family. MON May Prime ...... Manon Edwards MON Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri MON Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones MON Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas MON Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins MON Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson MON Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley MON TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams MON TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark MON Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum MON Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. MON MON 14:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dh51 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON 4 Extra Debut. Actor and singer Michael Crawford reads from MON his autobiography, including some Frank Spencer-like moments MON at the births of his two daughters. MON MON 15:00 Dawn Lowe-Watson - Closed to Visitors b04yf35h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04yf3p4 (Listen) MON Evan Davies plays the comb, Francois Delaroziere and fur MON seals MON Mel Giedroyc presents Francois Delaroziere's giant MON creatures, John Aitchison goes to the Antarctic to film fur MON seals and baby penguins, and Evan Davies plays the comb. MON MON 17:00 Second Thoughts b00l6gf2 (Listen) MON Series 4, Unhappy Returns MON Bill is back home, but what are the chances of a romantic MON weekend? Sitcom with Lynda Bellingham, James Bolam and Julia MON Sawalha. From June 1992. MON MON 17:30 North East of Eden b01glrp1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yf3z7 (Listen) MON Back to Home Base for Decoration MON Our hero heads home to be decorated. Is there a medal big MON enough for his manly chest? MON Captain Elvis Brandenburg Kremmen is the world's most MON fabulous man. 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 b0156mth (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b04ybcx0 (Listen) MON Bel Mooney and Dr Mark Porter MON Sarah LeFanu and guests, writer Bel Mooney and Dr Mark MON Porter, discuss three favourite paperbacks by Lidiya MON Ginzburg, Jonathan Coe, Randolph Nesse and George Williams. MON From December 1998. MON Blockade Diary, by Lidiya Ginzburg MON Publisher: Harvill MON Evolution and Healing, by Randolph Nesse & George Williams MON Publisher: Phoenix MON The House of Sleep, by Jonathan Coe MON Publisher: Penguin MON Producer: Felicity Goodall. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007k1s5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b04y9yzq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011ppfg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 The Medal Makers b00cc102 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf3h6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b04y6kcp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b04xnd0c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Britain Versus the World b04ybblk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b04xs4bb (Listen) MON Series 45, Episode 2 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical MON stand-up and sketches. Featuring Mitch Benn, Pippa Evans, MON Jon Holmes and Aditi Mittal. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Mitch Benn MON Performer: Pippa Evans MON Performer: Jon Holmes MON Performer: Tez Ilyas MON MON 23:30 As Told to Craig Brown b00b71ds (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 4 MON Craig Brown introduces a mixture of satire, social MON observation and nonsense. MON Narrated by Juliet Stevenson and Steve Wright, with John MON Humphrys, Ronni Ancona, Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Sally MON Grace, Ewan Bailey and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 20 JANUARY 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y3l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00rd9cq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dh51 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Write Stuff b0156mth (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b04ybcx0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011ppfg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 The Medal Makers b00cc102 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Dawn Lowe-Watson - Closed to Visitors b04yf35h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf3h6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b04y6kcp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Second Thoughts b00l6gf2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 North East of Eden b01glrp1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yf3z7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011pv6k (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Moment of Truth TUE Agatha must quickly identify the poisoner, but James is TUE refusing to help. Does he really no longer care? Stars TUE Penelope Keith. TUE TUE 06:30 The Man Who Bought Hendrix's Stage b00czbwl (Listen) TUE Phill Jupitus visits Nashville to meet Joe Chambers and view TUE his extraordinary collection of rock memorabilia housed in TUE the Musicians Hall of Fame, a museum celebrating TUE contemporary music and its creators. Contributors include TUE session men Bobby Woods and Charlie McCoy, country star TUE Nanci Griffith and guitar legend Duane Eddy. TUE TUE 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Four b0148r4n (Listen) TUE Progress Is Power TUE Edward's knack for blunt honesty gets him noticed in a bad TUE way. Orwellian sitcom starring Robert Lindsay. From April TUE 1985. TUE TUE 07:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04xp4wx (Listen) TUE Series 6, Rebecca Front TUE Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new TUE experiences: things they really ought to have done by now. TUE Some experiences are loved, some are loathed, in this show TUE all about embracing the new. TUE This week, Rebecca Front, a self-confessed scaredy cat, is TUE persuaded to take her first ride on a motorbike and read her TUE first book about science. But how much of it did she TUE understand? TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Interviewed Guest: Rebecca Front TUE TUE 08:00 Yes Minister b007jl89 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Big Brother TUE Jim Hacker crosses swords with Sir Humphrey over civil TUE liberties. Adapted from TV, starring Paul Eddington. From TUE October 1983. TUE TUE 08:30 Doctor at Large b00bfpnv (Listen) TUE Marriage and Surgery TUE Simon Sparrow must sit his surgeon's exam and get wed to TUE Wendy all in one morning. Stars Richard Briers. From TUE September 1969. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b04xs4bb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Tickets Please b00p5xc2 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Will the tangled web of love and lust be unpicked before TUE arrival in Exeter St David's? With Alex Kelly. From December TUE 2009. TUE TUE 10:00 Martyn Wade - Burn the Aeneid! b04yf68n (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. The year 19BC, and author Virgil wants his TUE magnum opus to be destroyed after his death, which sparks an TUE unholy row. Stars Clive Merrison. TUE TUE 11:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf6c6 (Listen) TUE Sweet Home TUE An old, German woman arrives in an English village, buys TUE some woodland, and constructs a gingerbread cottage in a TUE clearing. The locals are suspicious, and concerns increase TUE when the weather worsens, VAT goes up to 20%, the Post TUE Office closes, and the high-speed broadband connection date TUE is postponed. Could the old woman have anything to do with TUE these misfortunes? Read by Emma Fielding. TUE Carys Bray's collection of short stories, Sweet Home, won TUE the 2012 Scott Prize. TUE With psychological insight and lightness of touch frequently TUE found in fairy tales, Carys Bray delves under the surface of TUE ordinary lives to explore loss, disappointment, frustrated TUE expectations and regret. Described as 'not just excellent, TUE but significant', by poet and critic Robert Sheppard, these TUE dark and lyrical stories illuminate extraordinary and TUE everyday occurrences with humanity and humour. TUE Bray's stories are never afraid to expose the darkness that TUE exists behind suburban front doors, but at their heart are TUE brave, moving evocations of what it means to be at home with TUE those you love. TUE Abridged by John Peacock TUE Producer David Blount TUE Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00ryklg (Listen) TUE Michael Butt - Albert Speer's Walk Around the World TUE Patrick Malahide stars as Albert Speer or Prisoner Number TUE Five, as he was known throughout his twenty years in Spandau TUE Prison. Michael Butt's play 'Albert Speer's Walk Around the TUE World' takes us on the imaginary journeys Speer devised to TUE engage his mind and keep him from despair. A sympathetic TUE American guard orders him travel books from the library and TUE he plots his routes methodically. But he can't escape from TUE the demons of guilt about Nazi war crimes. Sometimes the TUE scenes he witnesses on his trips are exhilarating; sometimes TUE the people are seductive but sometimes he is glad to be TUE disturbed by the prison guard yelling for him to get back TUE into his tiny cell where he is forbidden to look out of the TUE window. Of the other six inmates, he is closest to Rudolf TUE Hess (Jack Klaff) who he sees as vulnerable and wants to TUE protect, whereas Admiral Karl Donitz (Nicholas Woodeson) TUE constantly baits him and tries to pull rank with him. Donitz TUE can't forgive Speer for his admission of guilt at the TUE Nuremberg Trials. TUE Speer was Hitler's chief architect and his very efficient TUE Minister for Armaments and War Production. In prison, he is TUE rigorously self-disciplined and sets himself a tough TUE regimen. Prison rules are strict but even as they relax and TUE prisoners start to talk to each other, Speer keeps aloof. To TUE distract himself nine years into his sentence, he designs TUE and creates a garden in the spacious yard of Spandau and is TUE particularly fond of his rockery and flowers. As an TUE architect, he enjoys working out how the great buildings he TUE visits were created and planning his routes so that he when TUE he sets off, he will see and hear and meet the people he has TUE carefully researched. However thoughts come unbidden and TUE there is one judgemental voice in his head that travels TUE everywhere with him. TUE Technical production: Peregrine Andrews TUE Director/Producer: Judith Kampfner TUE Exec Producer: Jill Waters TUE This is a Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Albert Speer: Patrick Malahide TUE Narrator: Daniel Weyman TUE McCleod: Daniel Weyman TUE Kuryev: Basher Savage TUE Donitz: Nicholas Woodeson TUE Hess: Jack Klaff TUE Maria: Mia Soteriou TUE Margaret Hess: Mia Soteriou TUE Mr Young: Patrick Brennan TUE American Tourist: Patrick Brennan TUE Writer: Michael Butt TUE Director: Judith Kampfner TUE Producer: Judith Kampfner TUE TUE 12:00 Yes Minister b007jl89 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 Doctor at Large b00bfpnv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011pv6k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Man Who Bought Hendrix's Stage b00czbwl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y23 (Listen) TUE Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 2 TUE Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new TUE novel, Dancing Backwards TUE Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she TUE decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old TUE friend, Edwin, in New York. TUE As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins TUE to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking TUE again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And TUE in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood TUE as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets TUE Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's TUE betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to TUE see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet TUE holds the secret to that betrayal. TUE In tonight's episode, Violet remembers the first time she TUE and Edwin met. TUE Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a TUE critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work TUE includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, TUE Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's TUE Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at TUE Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the TUE Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's TUE Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she TUE was a psychoanalyst. TUE Produced by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njct8 (Listen) TUE The Garden Indoors TUE Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the TUE hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on TUE first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which TUE have never been heard before. Including songs which have TUE been specially recorded for the series. TUE Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and TUE 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution and TUE the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they TUE remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world. TUE By the mid-19th century, the majority of the British TUE population lived in filthy polluted towns. Yet the TUE Victorians contrived increasingly ingenious ways to TUE domesticate nature, capturing ferns and sea anemones under TUE glass in their parlours. TUE Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly TUE and Simon Tcherniak. TUE Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen TUE Norris at the keyboard. TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgt (Listen) TUE Susan Hill - The Beacon, Taking Flight TUE Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. TUE Frank's misery memoir has been published and is a huge TUE success. Back at the farm, now that mother has died, May TUE must inform her siblings. TUE May Prime ...... Manon Edwards TUE Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri TUE Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones TUE Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas TUE Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins TUE Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson TUE Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley TUE TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams TUE TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark TUE Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum TUE Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 14:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dn36 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE 4 Extra Debut. Actor and singer Michael Crawford reads from TUE his autobiography, including some Frank Spencer-like moments TUE at the births of his two daughters. TUE TUE 15:00 Martyn Wade - Burn the Aeneid! b04yf68n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04yf71p (Listen) TUE Christian the Chelsea Lion, whistling and Wallace and Gromit TUE Mel Giedroyc has the next part of 20,000 Leagues Under the TUE Sea by Jules Verne, and she hears some world-class whistling TUE and the incredible story of Christian the Chelsea Lion. TUE TUE 17:00 Ring Around the Bath b00tqqjf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Go With the Flow TUE Stella keeps tabs on her work-shy kids, thanks to Patrick's TUE chart. Stars Penny Downie and Duncan Preston. From November TUE 2004. TUE TUE 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four b0148r4n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yf7k8 (Listen) TUE A Hero's Welcome... An Alien's Threat TUE A rapturous welcome for our hero, but Gort has something up TUE one of his many sleeves. Kenny Everett's 1976 sci-fi serial TUE starring the world's most fabulous starship captain. TUE TUE 18:00 The Now Show b04xs4bb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b04ybftp (Listen) TUE Ned Sherrin TUE Showbiz all-rounder Ned Sherrin tells Jeremy Nicholas about TUE the moments, many word-oriented, which stir his emotions. TUE From September 1995. TUE TUE 19:00 Yes Minister b007jl89 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 Doctor at Large b00bfpnv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011pv6k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Man Who Bought Hendrix's Stage b00czbwl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf6c6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00ryklg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04xp4wx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Flight of the Conchords b007k0r4 (Listen) TUE Pop Song TUE The band want to pen a song for a teen idol without selling TUE out. Stars Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. From September TUE 2005. TUE TUE 23:00 Scrooby Trevithick b00rtfhj (Listen) TUE Councillor TUE Scrooby Trevithick is a six part scripted comedy series TUE written by and starring Andy Parsons following on from the TUE first series aired on Radio 4 18 months ago - The Lost TUE WebLog of Scrooby Trevithick. TUE This second series continues to follow the exploits of the TUE hapless character of Scrooby (Andy Parsons), an enthusiastic TUE but flawed wannabe who having returned from his wanderings TUE is still trying to find himself by zealously posting his web TUE diaries online. TUE Each episode features him attempting to make a dent in the TUE national consciousness, and in this series, he's helped by TUE his good friend Sasha (played by Kerry Godliman). However, TUE his desire for success always takes him one step further TUE than prudence dictates. TUE Episode 4. Councillor. In this episode, Scrooby tries to TUE become a councillor having got into trouble joyriding his TUE wheelie bin. TUE The cast features a variety of talented comedians including TUE Dara O Briain, Russell Howard, Hugh Dennis, Russell Kane, TUE Rufus Hound, Alun Cochrane, Dominic Frisby, Paul Thorne, TUE Martin Coyote and Barunka O'Shaughnessy. TUE As always, listeners are encouraged to share their comments TUE with Scrooby at www.scroobytrevithick.com as he needs all TUE the advice he can get. TUE The producer is Paul Russell, and this is an Open Mike TUE production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE TUE 23:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01nb28b (Listen) TUE Series 5, Carnaptious Scroosh TUE More shop-based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy TUE courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. The TUE staff of Fags, Mags and Bags continue their tireless quest TUE to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with TUE Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. TUE Ramesh Mahju has built the business up over 30 years and TUE loves the art of the shop. However, he does apply the "low TUE return" rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life. TUE Then there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and TUE not keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but TUE Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them TUE whether they like it or not! TUE In this episode, new shop regular Mrs Birkett goes head to TUE head with Lovely Sue as they both enter their cat in the TUE Catticus Cat of the Year competition. Meanwhile, Sanjay and TUE Alok start making music with their new cool friend Grebo, TUE who goes by the rapping name of Carnaptious Scroosh. TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave: Donald McLeary TUE Sanjay: Omar Raza TUE Alok: Susheel Kumar TUE Grebo: Sean Biggerstaff TUE Mrs Birkett: Stewart Cairns TUE Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo TUE Mrs Begg: Marjorie Hogarth TUE Writer: Sanjeev Kohli TUE Writer: Donald McLeary TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 21 JANUARY 2015 WED WED 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y23 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njct8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dn36 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 The Now Show b04xs4bb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] WED WED 01:30 The Tingle Factor b04ybftp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 MC Beaton - Agatha Raisin b011pv6k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 The Man Who Bought Hendrix's Stage b00czbwl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Martyn Wade - Burn the Aeneid! b04yf68n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf6c6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00ryklg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Ring Around the Bath b00tqqjf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nineteen Ninety-Four b0148r4n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yf7k8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Jim Broadbent - A Sense of History b04yf832 (Listen) WED 4 Extra Debut. In keeping his family estate intact, the 23rd WED Earl of Leete has resorted to the odd murder and a degree of WED coercion. Stars Jim Broadbent. WED WED 06:30 QE2: Portrait of an Ocean Liner b00fkbrp (Listen) WED After 40 years as arguably the most elegant ship at sea, QE2 WED docked at her final resting place in Dubai to be converted WED into a floating hotel. The story of the ship's eventful WED life, from construction on the Clyde in the 1960s, through WED refitting as a cruise ship that epitomised a golden age of WED luxury travel, to service in the Falklands, is told through WED the words of serving and former staff and recordings made on WED board the vessel during one of her final cruises. WED A Falling Tree production. WED Credits WED Producer: Alan Hall WED WED 07:00 The Older Woman b01xpy74 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Can Roy impress Jane by joining a green pressure group? WED Meanwhile, Pavarotti appears in his dreams with some WED invaluable advice. Stars Zoe Wanamaker and Martin Clunes. WED From Jan 1993. WED WED 07:30 What Does the K Stand For? b04xrl8k (Listen) WED Series 2, Balham's Got Talent WED Stephen K Amos' sitcom about growing up black, gay and funny WED in 1980s South London. Written by Jonathan Harvey with WED Stephen K Amos. WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED Credits WED Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly WED Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson WED Mary: Nadia Kamil WED Bette: Nadia Kamil WED Sophie: Nadia Kamil WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b007k26r (Listen) WED Bringing Back the Barge WED The Admiral's barge must be moved to Portsmouth, but Pertwee WED has a prior arrangement. Stars Leslie Phillips. From October WED 1959. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00sm5vs (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 12 WED Tim Brown's school days, and John and Mary in the country. WED Sketches and songs with John Cleese and Jo Kendall. From May WED 1966. WED WED 09:00 Foul Play b00zljzj (Listen) WED Series 4, Death and Two Copies, Please WED Crime writers Tim Heald and Margaret Yorke puzzle over a WED case of robbery gone wrong. Chaired by Simon Brett. From WED October 1998. WED WED 09:30 The Atkinson People b007k1z5 (Listen) WED George Dupont WED The French philosopher remains an enigma, despite an WED exhaustive biography. Rowan Atkinson's satirical probe. From WED April 1979. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b00j2j2g (Listen) WED LG Gibbon - Sunset Song, Episode 1 WED Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of the 1932 novel by Lewis WED Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and during WED the First World War. WED Chris Guthrie is torn between her love of the land and her WED ambition to become a teacher. As Chris' domineering father WED struggles with the harshness of the land, her mother's fear WED of childbirth leads her to despair. WED Chris Guthrie ...... Lesely Hart WED John Guthrie ...... Liam Brennan WED Jean Guthrie ...... Bridget McCann WED Will Guthrie ...... Gordon Brandie WED Mistress Munro ...... Estrid Barton WED Long Rob ...... Matthew Zajac WED Chae Strachan ...... Douglas Russell WED Kirsty Strachan ...... Shonagh Price WED Margot Strachan ...... Sally Reid WED Ewan Tavendale ...... Finn Den Hertog WED Directed by David Ian Neville. WED WED 11:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf8jk (Listen) WED Scaling Never WED Young Jacob is the son of a Mormon church leader. When his WED sister Issy dies, he hopes that she might be resurrected - WED in the same way that miracles occur in the Bible and in the WED Book of Mormon. Read by Emma Fielding. WED This story - Scaling Never - was the basis for Carys Bray's WED triumphant first novel, A Song for Issy Bradley, which was WED broadcast on Book At Bedtime on BBC Radio 4. WED Carys Bray's collection of short stories, Sweet Home, won WED the 2012 Scott Prize. WED With psychological insight and lightness of touch frequently WED found in fairy tales, Carys Bray delves under the surface of WED ordinary lives to explore loss, disappointment, frustrated WED expectations and regret. Described as 'not just excellent, WED but significant', by poet and critic Robert Sheppard, these WED dark and lyrical stories illuminate extraordinary and WED everyday occurrences with humanity and humour. WED Bray's stories are never afraid to expose the darkness that WED exists behind suburban front doors, but at their heart are WED brave, moving evocations of what it means to be at home with WED those you love. WED Abridged by John Peacock WED Producer David Blount WED Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00s0fn5 (Listen) WED Richard Lumsden - The Six Loves of Billy Binns WED By Richard Lumsden WED Tom Courtenay stars as a 110-year-old who wants to remember WED what love feels like one last time before he dies. His past WED loves are ready to remind him. WED Director ..... Sally Avens. WED Credits WED Billy Binns: Tom Courtenay WED Evie: Alison Pettitt WED Alice: Tanya Franks WED Vera: Ella Smith WED Dotty: Joanna Monro WED Mrs Coggins: Keely Beresford WED Sylvie: Gbemisola Ikumelo WED Boy: Walter Lumsden WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Richard Lumsden WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b007k26r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00sm5vs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Jim Broadbent - A Sense of History b04yf832 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 QE2: Portrait of an Ocean Liner b00fkbrp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y25 (Listen) WED Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 3 WED Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new WED novel, Dancing Backwards WED Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she WED decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old WED friend, Edwin, in New York. WED As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins WED to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking WED again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And WED in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood WED as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets WED Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's WED betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to WED see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet WED holds the secret to that betrayal. WED In tonight's episode, Violet and Edwin embark on a shared WED career and, aboard ship, one of the dance hosts begins to WED take more than a little interest in her. WED Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a WED critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work WED includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, WED Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's WED Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at WED Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the WED Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's WED Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she WED was a psychoanalyst. WED Produced by Kirsty Williams. WED WED 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctb (Listen) WED Exporting the Home 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 Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and WED 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution and WED the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they WED remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world. WED Prof Vickery explores the kind of homes the British WED struggled to create in India, using the diaries and letters WED of colonial settlers. 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 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgk (Listen) WED Susan Hill - The Beacon, Alone WED Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. WED The death of her mother releases May from her duties but WED triggers memories of an earlier breakdown. Meanwhile, WED Frank's success gathers pace as news breaks that the book is WED to be made into a film. WED May Prime ...... Manon Edwards WED Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri WED Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones WED Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas WED Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins WED Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson WED Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley WED TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams WED TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark WED Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum WED Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 14:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dqsc (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED 4 Extra Debut. Actor and singer Michael Crawford reads from WED his autobiography, including some Frank Spencer-like moments WED at the births of his two daughters. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b00j2j2g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04yfdzk (Listen) WED Channel swimming, hula dancing and Mel C WED Mel Giedroyc follows an attempt to swim across the English WED Channel and has a go at a spot of hula dancing, and former WED Spice Girl Mel C tells us two of her favourite songs. WED WED 17:00 Thinking of Leaving Your Husband? b00s2w20 (Listen) WED A Mathematical Improbability WED Thinking of Leaving Your Husband is a four-part comedy drama WED by Charlotte Cory which explores a middle-aged woman's WED attempts to find herself a new romantic interest by joining WED an internet dating site. The series gives us two virtuoso WED acting performances by Lia Williams, who as Sarah, our WED heroine, appears in every scene, and Henry Goodman who not WED only plays Sarah's ex-husband Malcolm, but every one of her WED would-be lovers. WED Sarah is distraught that she has been so deceived by her WED lying Dutchman. She is all for giving up the search to find WED a perfect partner. But Tania persuades her, for WED self-interested reasons, to go on a 'speed-dating' evening, WED where Sarah finally meets Tony, the mathematics professor WED and lover of ballroom dancing, whom she knows on the WED internet as 'Midnight Magic'. They are immediately attracted WED to each other - but leave without exchanging contact numbers WED and Sarah finds that Tania has wiped her details from the WED internet dating site. What are the mathematical chances of WED Sarah and Tony ever meeting again? WED Sarah ..... Lia Williams WED Tony, and all Sarah's internet dates ..... Henry Goodman WED Mother ..... Miriam Margolyes WED Tania ..... Frances Barber WED Francis Parker ..... Roger Hammond WED Phoebe-Jane ..... Hayley Roberts WED Sound Design by Lucinda Mason Brown & WED Original Music by David Chilton. WED Series initiated by Nick Russell Pavier WED Director: Gordon House WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:30 The Older Woman b01xpy74 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yfdzm (Listen) WED Gort: The Ugly Truth WED Gort gets his bumps felt. Meantime, Carla goes back the WED Kremmen's apartment. Kenny Everett's 1976 sci-fi serial WED starring the world's most fabulous starship captain. WED WED 18:00 Foul Play b00zljzj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076h37 (Listen) WED Winning Prizes WED Musician Martin Isherwood, physicist Len Fisher and WED journalist Lucy Cavendish discuss the winning of prizes and WED awards. 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 The Navy Lark b007k26r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00sm5vs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Jim Broadbent - A Sense of History b04yf832 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 QE2: Portrait of an Ocean Liner b00fkbrp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf8jk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00s0fn5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? b04xrl8k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 The Odd Half Hour b00vy0f0 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Comedy sketch show starring Kevin Bishop, Stephen K Amos, WED Doon Mackichan, Justin Edwards & Jessica Ransom. Answering WED the questions you probably never asked, this week's episode WED explains how the mouse got in the beans and why you should WED think twice before sponsoring a dog. WED Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. WED WED 23:00 On the Hour b0090br1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED Alan Partridge is at the Olympics. Barbara Wintergreen is in WED America. Chris Morris fronts the news satire. From April WED 1992. WED WED 23:30 The Skivers b007xwy1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Dolphins, and Sue Lawley's secret. Nick Golson and Tim de WED Jongh welcome special guest William Franklyn. From February WED 1995. WED WED THU THURSDAY 22 JANUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y25 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dqsc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Foul Play b00zljzj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076h37 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Jim Broadbent - A Sense of History b04yf832 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 QE2: Portrait of an Ocean Liner b00fkbrp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b00j2j2g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yf8jk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00s0fn5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Thinking of Leaving Your Husband? b00s2w20 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 The Older Woman b01xpy74 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yfdzm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wg37w (Listen) THU Series 2, Murder Is Child's Play THU Rival Glasgow gangsters compete for a coveted children's THU book award. Can the police duo halt gang warfare? Alastair THU Jessiman's comedy police drama stars Finlay Welsh. THU THU 06:30 Postcards From the White City b00b71dq (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. Using original postcards, local-born Robert THU Elms discovers how the 1908 exhibition gave the area of THU London its name. From May 2008. THU THU 07:00 Any Other Business b012xws9 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU A hurricane of change in Chesbury, with Labour back in power THU on a wafer-thin majority. Stars June Whitfield. From June THU 1995. THU THU 07:30 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b04xrwhh (Listen) THU Series 2, Ethical Filing THU Bridget Christie returns in another series of her THU multi-award winning series about modern feminism. THU Bridget thought that she'd be able to put her feet up after THU her last Radio 4 series, she expected it to bomb. Sadly it THU was a huge success. But it's OK, because actually she's THU solved the feminist struggle all by herself. In the second THU episode, she's taken her activism to a whole new level. THU Well, sort of. THU She's assisted in this by the series' token man, Fred THU MacAulay. THU The series is written and performed by Bridget Christie and THU the producers are Alison Vernon-Smith and Alexandra Smith. THU Credits THU Presenter: Bridget Christie THU Performer: Fred MacAulay THU Producer: Alison Vernon-Smith THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU THU 08:00 It Sticks Out Half a Mile b007jqc5 (Listen) THU Hidden Treasure THU Pike and Hodges call in a clairvoyant to help them locate THU the pier's rumoured booty. Dad's Army spin-off stars Ian THU Lavender and Betty Marsden. From October 1984. THU THU 08:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq4j (Listen) THU Politics THU David Jason elects to poke fun at the Houses of Parliament. THU With Sheila Steafel and Chris Emmett. From September 1977. THU THU 09:00 The Personality Test b007rlx5 (Listen) THU Series 3, Janet Street-Porter THU Comedy quiz presented by a new guest host every week. All THU the questions are about the host. THU Janet Street-Porter takes the chair, with panellists Sue THU Perkins, Lucy Porter, Nick Doody and Will Smith. THU THU 09:30 Alison and Maud b007k3rx (Listen) THU Series 2, Just Say No THU The landladies' daddy battles with hallucinogenic fungus and THU chips. Stars Miriam Margolyes and Denise Coffey. From April THU 2004. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b00j5tt9 (Listen) THU LG Gibbon - Sunset Song, Episode 2 THU Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of the 1932 novel by Lewis THU Grassic Gibbon, set in north-east Scotland before and during THU the First World War. THU After her father's death, Chris is determined to stay and THU work the farm alone if need be. Joined by Ewan Tavendale in THU marriage and on the farm, Chris gives birth to a son. But THU the outbreak of the First World War brings devastating THU change to her family, the rural landscape and the community. THU Chris Guthrie ...... Lesely Hart THU Ewan Tavendale ...... Finn Den Hertog THU Chae Strachan ...... Douglas Russell THU Long Rob ...... Matthew Zajac THU Mistress Munro ...... Estrid Barton THU Kirsty Strachan ...... Shonagh Price THU Rev Colquohoun ...... Fraser Sivewright THU Rev Gibbon ...... Keith Hutcheon THU Directed by David Ian Neville. THU THU 11:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yfsgy (Listen) THU The Rescue THU While shopping in a large supermarket, a father starts to THU watch the rescue of some miners in Chile on one of the THU televisions on display in the store. He's planning to go and THU visit his drug-addict son, who has hit 'rock bottom'. He THU hopes that, somehow, some day, his son too may be rescued. THU Read by Emma Fielding. THU Carys Bray's collection of short stories, Sweet Home, won THU the 2012 Scott Prize. THU With psychological insight and lightness of touch frequently THU found in fairy tales, Carys Bray delves under the surface of THU ordinary lives to explore loss, disappointment, frustrated THU expectations and regret. Described as 'not just excellent, THU but significant', by poet and critic Robert Sheppard, these THU dark and lyrical stories illuminate extraordinary and THU everyday occurrences with humanity and humour. THU Bray's stories are never afraid to expose the darkness that THU exists behind suburban front doors, but at their heart are THU brave, moving evocations of what it means to be at home with THU those you love. THU Abridged by John Peacock THU Producer David Blount THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. THU THU 11:15 Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood b00pl6sh (Listen) THU Thomas's dreams are like thriller plots. Trevor Preston's THU exploration of a man's complex bipolar disorder. With Rory THU Kinnear. THU THU 12:00 It Sticks Out Half a Mile b007jqc5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq4j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wg37w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Postcards From the White City b00b71dq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y27 (Listen) THU Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 4 THU Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new THU novel, Dancing Backwards THU Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she THU decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old THU friend, Edwin, in New York. THU As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins THU to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking THU again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And THU in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood THU as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets THU Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's THU betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to THU see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet THU holds the secret to that betrayal. THU In tonight's episode, Violet and Edwin's happy life together THU faces its first challenge when an interloper arrives. THU Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a THU critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work THU includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, THU Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's THU Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at THU Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the THU Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's THU Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she THU was a psychoanalyst. THU Produced by Kirsty Williams. THU THU 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctd (Listen) THU Dunroamin THU Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the THU hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on THU first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which THU have never been heard before. Including songs which have THU been specially recorded for the series. THU Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and THU 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution and THU the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they THU remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world. THU The roots of the suburb lie very deep; but for snobs and THU bohemians, the adjective 'suburban' has always been the THU ultimate put-down. Prof Vickery listens to the experiences THU of those who moved there. THU Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly THU and Simon Tcherniak. THU Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen THU Norris at the keyboard. THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgm (Listen) THU Susan Hill - The Beacon, Truth and Lies THU Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. THU Alone at the farm, May remembers how they learned of Frank's THU book. Back in London, Frank is haunted by memories and THU afraid to be alone. THU May Prime ...... Manon Edwards THU Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri THU Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones THU Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas THU Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins THU Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson THU Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley THU TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams THU TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark THU Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum THU Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 14:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dwb6 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU 4 Extra Debut. Actor and singer Michael Crawford reads from THU his autobiography, including some Frank Spencer-like moments THU at the births of his two daughters. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b00j5tt9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04yftdf (Listen) THU Sea Horses, Swazzling and Roger McGough THU Mel Giedroyc hosts the penultimate episode of Jules Verne's THU 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, read by Ray Fearon. Plus the THU Northern Lights and two of Roger McGough's favourite poems. THU THU 17:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue b007jx5n (Listen) THU Miss Willow and the One-Eyed Gentleman THU Hapless vicar Timothy Carswell visits some of the more THU sinister members of his flock. Stars James Grout. From March THU 1991. THU THU 17:30 Any Other Business b012xws9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yftdh (Listen) THU Gort Uncaught THU Kremmen and Carla head for the Pleasure Planet, but what is THU lurking among their smalls? Kenny Everett's 1976 sci-fi THU serial starring the world's most fabulous starship captain. THU THU 18:00 The Personality Test b007rlx5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076f5w (Listen) THU The Man in the Iron Mask THU Military historian Richard Holmes nominates the mysterious THU Man in the Iron Mask. With Humphrey Carpenter and John THU Noone. From May 2003. 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? THU THU 19:00 It Sticks Out Half a Mile b007jqc5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Jason Explanation of... b007jq4j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wg37w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Postcards From the White City b00b71dq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yfsgy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood b00pl6sh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Bridget Christie Minds the Gap b04xrwhh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Down the Line b00q076z (Listen) THU Series 1, Freedom of Speech THU Award-winning spoof phone-in show, with talk radio host Gary THU Bellamy. Stars Rhys Thomas and Paul Whitehouse. From May THU 2006. THU THU 23:00 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tmt9h (Listen) THU Lila THU It's the start of term time, and second year student Lila is THU going to teach the Freshers everything she knows. Featuring THU Nick Mohammed as Lila with Colin Hoult as the reporter and THU Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) as Lila's best friend. THU Bits is a series of character pieces showcasing the best of THU Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters in a series of one THU off comic plays. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU 23:30 Cabin Pressure b00chy5c (Listen) THU Series 1, Cremona THU Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny charter THU airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs are too THU difficult. THU Arthur is struck dumb when a film star joins the flight, and THU Douglas has to disguise 30 knights of Camelot in a hurry. THU Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole THU 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam THU Captain Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch THU Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore THU Hester Macaulay ...... Helen Baxendale THU Percival ...... Rufus Jones THU Gawain ...... Robert Harley THU Lancelot ...... Ali Amadi. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 23 JANUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y27 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019dwb6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 The Personality Test b007rlx5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076f5w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wg37w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Postcards From the White City b00b71dq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b00j5tt9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yfsgy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood b00pl6sh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 The Secret Life of Rosewood Avenue b007jx5n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Any Other Business b012xws9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yftdh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:55 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wh02c (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Black Widow FRI When Bob Boxer falls for a seductive TV presenter, his FRI detective partner Shona Doberman grows suspicious. Stars FRI Anita Vettesse. FRI FRI 06:30 Music Feature b00bc2r4 (Listen) FRI Gershwin's Horns FRI Rainer Hersch explores the musical significance of unusual FRI instruments, including cannons, car horns, anvils, FRI typewriters and salad bowls. All have featured in concert FRI performances over the last two hundred years, but who plays FRI them? FRI With the help of two leading British percussion players, FRI Mick Doran and Neil Percy, Rainer explores the soundscape FRI that can conjured up by bowing a cymbal, rubbing a plastic FRI cup on a gong or hitting a car suspension spring with a FRI hammer. FRI FRI 07:00 Little Blighty on the Down b00805nv (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Mrs Roberts faces fallout from an outspoken member of the FRI parish council. Political satire with Jo Kendall. From July FRI 1990. FRI Credits FRI Actor: Barry Evans FRI Actor: George Layton FRI Actor: Geoffrey Davies FRI FRI 07:30 The Rest Is History b04y9v20 (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of FRI it. FRI The Rest Is History is a new comedy discussion show which FRI promises to help him find out more about it. FRI Along with his historian in residence Dr Kate Williams, each FRI 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 Josh FRI Widdicombe and Roisin Conaty. FRI Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard FRI An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Frank Skinner FRI Panellist: David Baddiel FRI Panellist: Josh Widdicombe FRI Panellist: Roisin Conaty FRI Producer: Dan Schreiber FRI Producer: Justin Pollard FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k15z (Listen) FRI The Holiday Camp FRI Sid hires the lad to run his new venture, but then he FRI discovers a surprise next door. Stars Tony Hancock and Sid FRI James. From May 1955. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men from the Ministry b010nrtm (Listen) FRI Bringing the House Down FRI A new office block is on the agenda. But it is all a bit too FRI close to home for Mildred. With Norma Ronald. From September FRI 1970. FRI FRI 09:00 Jest a Minute b00g22t6 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI Lucy Porter, Milton Jones, Lloyd Langford and Chris Corcoran FRI join Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz from Cardiff. From December FRI 2008. FRI FRI 09:30 Gush b04yg54m (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Could Cravate and Pomeroy's bitter rivalry ruin Prince FRI Saudi's oil deal for world peace? With Martin Jarvis. From FRI November 1994. FRI FRI 10:00 Home Front b04sy4tx (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 1-5 December 1914 FRI Epic drama series set in Great War Britain a hundred years FRI ago this week. The opening week of season two, and everyone FRI is looking to do their bit for the war effort. FRI Written by: Sarah Daniels FRI Story-led by: Katie Hims FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI Credits FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Pallbearer: Clive Haywood FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Lilian: Lisa Brookes FRI Tom: Clive Hayward FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI Ernie: Sean Connolly FRI Hilda: Bella Hamblin FRI Ivy: Lizzy Watts FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson FRI Mervyn: Tom Whitelock FRI Solly: Stephen Critchlow FRI Writer: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 11:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yg5pg (Listen) FRI Under Covers FRI Carol Evans's bra has blown off the washing line into some FRI tall leyandii. As she struggles to retrieve it, two teenage FRI girls next door laugh cruelly at their elderly, widowed FRI neighbour. Their thoughtless comments are juxtaposed with FRI Carol's own recollections of her deceased husband - with FRI whom she continued to enjoy a warm and loving relationship FRI following her mastectomy. Clever and moving story read by FRI Emma Fielding. FRI Carys Bray's collection of short stories, Sweet Home, won FRI the 2012 Scott Prize. FRI With psychological insight and lightness of touch frequently FRI found in fairy tales, Carys Bray delves under the surface of FRI ordinary lives to explore loss, disappointment, frustrated FRI expectations and regret. Described as 'not just excellent, FRI but significant', by poet and critic Robert Sheppard, these FRI dark and lyrical stories illuminate extraordinary and FRI everyday occurrences with humanity and humour. FRI Bray's stories are never afraid to expose the darkness that FRI exists behind suburban front doors, but at their heart are FRI brave, moving evocations of what it means to be at home with FRI those you love. FRI Abridged by John Peacock FRI Producer David Blount FRI Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pier Productions. FRI FRI 11:15 Nan Woodhouse - Now or Never b007jx5f (Listen) FRI Age is no barrier for a group of older people who decide to FRI make their wishes come true. Stars Thelma Barlow and FRI Katherine Parr. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k15z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men from the Ministry b010nrtm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wh02c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Music Feature b00bc2r4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00r9y29 (Listen) FRI Salley Vickers - Dancing Backwards, Episode 5 FRI Eileen Atkins reads from Salley Vickers' acclaimed new FRI novel, Dancing Backwards FRI Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she FRI decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old FRI friend, Edwin, in New York. FRI As she journeys across the Atlantic the quiet Violet begins FRI to blossom - learning to ballroom dance, taking up smoking FRI again, befriending a famously seething theatre critic. And FRI in her time alone she reminisces about her early adulthood FRI as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she meets FRI Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's FRI betrayed and someone she's both terrified and desperate to FRI see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet FRI holds the secret to that betrayal. FRI In tonight's episode, Edwin discovers that Violet's been FRI keeping a rather surprising secret from him. FRI Written and abridged by Salley Vickers. Vickers is a FRI critically acclaimed, best-selling novelist whose work FRI includes Mr Golightly's Holiday, Instances of the Number 3, FRI Miss Garnet's Angel and The Other Side of You. Miss Garnet's FRI Angel and The Other Side of You were both popular Book at FRI Bedtimes. Last year she dramatised her version of the FRI Oedipus myth, Where Three Roads Meet, for Radio 4's FRI Afternoon Play slot. Before becoming a full time writer she FRI was a psychoanalyst. FRI Produced by Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 14:15 Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life b00njctg (Listen) FRI Alternative Homes FRI Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the FRI hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on FRI first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which FRI have never been heard before. Including songs which have FRI been specially recorded for the series. FRI Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and FRI 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution, FRI and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they FRI remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world. FRI 'Home means a place to go to when you are in trouble. A FRI place sadly altered by war. A place to glorify when away and FRI rely on always...' So reported one woman to the Mass FRI Observation survey. Prof Vickery explores the enduring pull FRI of a home of one's own. FRI Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly FRI and Simon Tcherniak. FRI Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen FRI Norris at the keyboard. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b00rkdgq (Listen) FRI Susan Hill - The Beacon, Inheritance FRI Dramatisation by Anita Sullivan of the novel by Susan Hill. FRI Frank turns up unexpectedly at the farm and the will is FRI read. FRI May Prime ...... Manon Edwards FRI Frank Prime ...... Steffan Rhodri FRI Colin Prime ...... Iestyn Jones FRI Elsa ...... Eiry Thomas FRI Berenice Prime ...... Siriol Jenkins FRI Radio Interviewer ...... Mark Lawson FRI Doctor Ford ...... Richard Mitchley FRI TV Interviewer ...... Sian Williams FRI TV Interviewer ...... Kirsty Wark FRI Taxi Driver ...... Dick Bradnum FRI Produced and Directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 14:45 Michael Crawford - Parcel Arrived Safely b019fx7g (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Actor and singer Michael Crawford reads from his FRI autobiography, including the tribulations and ultimate FRI triumph of Phantom of the Opera. FRI FRI 15:00 Home Front b04sy4tx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b04yg61h (Listen) FRI Instruments of Ice, Living in the Wild and Hidden Treasure FRI Mel Giedroyc presents a guide to living in the wilds of FRI Lanarkshire, hears Robert Burns' very own violin and the FRI final chapter in Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. FRI FRI 17:00 King Street Junior Revisited b00kn4l8 (Listen) FRI Series 4, In the News FRI A lesson on facts and opinions is followed by a brutal FRI example at the school gate. Stars Brigit Forsyth and Marlene FRI Sidaway. FRI FRI 17:30 Little Blighty on the Down b00805nv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:55 Kenny Everett - Captain Kremmen b04yg66w (Listen) FRI A Sticky End FRI The thrilling conclusion to this space adventure with the FRI World's Most Fabulous Man. Kenny Everett's sci-fi serial FRI from 1976. FRI FRI 18:00 Jest a Minute b00g22t6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 Meet the Parents b01pmfs6 (Listen) FRI Series 3, AL Kennedy FRI Award-winning, Scottish novelist A L Kennedy returns to her FRI mother's house in Bidford-upon-Avon for a good old blether. FRI Their stories literally take us around the world from FRI Stratford to Australia and back to Dundee. Their shared love FRI of literature and Shakespeare is inherent and their FRI conversation is peppered with lovely anecdotal stories from FRI Alison's childhood and the books they would often read FRI together. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007k15z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men from the Ministry b010nrtm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Boxer and Doberman b00wh02c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Music Feature b00bc2r4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Carys Bray - Sweet Home b04yg5pg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Nan Woodhouse - Now or Never b007jx5f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Rest Is History b04y9v20 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Radio Shuttleworth b007wwdf (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Peter Purves visits Sheffield singer John and gets cast in FRI Ken's production of Peter Pan. With Milton Jones. From March FRI 2000. FRI FRI 23:00 Eric Idle - Radio Five b04yg6ys (Listen) FRI From 26/05/1973 FRI 'Radio 2 has on at the moment a rather lovely blue frock'. FRI Eric Idle's continuity confusion. First on BBC Radio 1 in FRI May 1973. FRI
16 January, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 17/01/2015 - 23/01/2015
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