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SAT SATURDAY 14 MARCH 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 15 Minute Drama b044jh6l (Listen) SAT Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test, The Noose SAT Sapna Sinha works as a sales assistant in a TV showroom in SAT New Delhi. Being the only bread-winner in the family she SAT works long hours to provide for her widowed mother and SAT younger sister. But then a man walks into her life with an SAT extraordinary proposition: pass seven "life" tests of his SAT choosing and she will have wealth and power. At first the SAT tests seem easy, but things are not quite as they seem. SAT Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from Vikas SAT Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental Apprentice". SAT 10) The Noose SAT A thriller set in India from the author of "Slumdog SAT Millionaire". SAT Sapna must revisit her past to make sense of her present. SAT But nothing can prepare her what she finds there. Dramatised SAT from Vikas Swarup's best-selling novel "The Accidental SAT Apprentice". SAT Writers: SAT Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and a best-selling SAT novelist. His first novel "Q & A" was made into the Oscar SAT winning film "Slumdog Millionaire" as well as Sony Award SAT winning radio drama serial for BBC Radio . SAT Ayeesha Menon dramatized Vikas Swarup's other novels SIX SAT SUSPECTS and Q & A, which won a Sony Award for Best Drama. SAT She also wrote for Radio 4 THE MUMBAI CHUZZLEWITS, SAT UNDERCOVER MUMBAI, THE CAIRO TRILOGY and MY NAME IS RED. Her SAT stage play PEREIRA'S BAKERY AT 76 CHAPEL ROAD, which was SAT developed with the Royal Court Theatre, was recently staged SAT by the Curve Theatre, Leicester. SAT John Dryden wrote the original three-part dramas series SAT SEVERED THREADS, THE RELUCTANT SPY and PANDEMIC, which won SAT the Writer's Guild Award for best radio drama script. His SAT dramatisation of BLEAK HOUSE won a Sony Award for Best SAT Drama. Other dramatisations include A SUITABLE BOY, A SAT HANDMAID'S TALE and FATHERLAND one of the most repeated SAT dramas on R4 Extra. SAT Cast: SAT Sapna ... Rasika Dugal SAT Acharya ... Vijay Chrishna SAT Karan ... Neil Bhoopalam SAT Nirmila Ben / Rosie ... Radhika Mittal SAT Sapna's Mother ... Shernaz Patel SAT Raja ... Sumeet Vyas SAT Kuldeep Singh / Roaji ... Rajit Kapur SAT Neha ... Amrita Puri SAT Priya Capoor / Pushpa / Female Judge ... Ayesha Raza SAT Badan Singh / Politician / Constable ... Kenny Desai SAT Madan ... Vivek Madan SAT Neelam / Babli ... Prerna Chawla SAT Rent Collector ... Satchit Puranik SAT Production: SAT Sound Design - Steve Bond SAT Editing Assistant - Varun Bangera SAT Script Editor - Mike Walker SAT Assistant Producer - Toral Shah SAT Music - Sacha Putnam SAT Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon and John Dryden from the novel SAT "ACCIDENTAL APPRENTICE" by Vikas Swarup. SAT Director - John Dryden SAT Producer - Nadir Khan SAT A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Sapna: Rasika Dugal SAT Acharya: Vijay Chrishna SAT Karan: Neil Bhoopalam SAT Nirmila Ben: Radhika Mital SAT Rosie: Radhika Mital SAT Sapna's Mother: Shernaz Patel SAT Raja: Sumeet Vyas SAT Kuldeep Singh: Rajit Kapur SAT Roaji: Rajit Kapur SAT Neha: Amrita Puri SAT Priya Capoor: Ayesha Raza SAT Pushpa: Ayesha Raza SAT Female Judge: Ayesha Raza SAT Badan Singh: Kenny Desai SAT Politician: Kenny Desai SAT Constable: Kenny Desai SAT Madan: Vivek Madan SAT Neelam: Prerna Chawla SAT Babli: Preetika Chawla SAT Janet: Preetika Chawla SAT Rent Collector: Satchit Puranik SAT Director: John Dryden SAT Producer: Nadir Khan SAT Adaptor: Ayeesha Menon SAT Adaptor: John Dryden SAT Author: Vikas Swarup SAT SAT 00:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01g65gz (Listen) SAT Swordplay and Swagger SAT Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues SAT his new object-based history. Taking artefacts from William SAT Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean SAT playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing SAT world in which they lived. SAT With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of SAT political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil SAT asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they SAT were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to SAT explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the SAT public and helped shape the works, and he considers what SAT they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of SAT Shakespearean England. SAT Programme 5. SWORDPLAY AND SWAGGER - The essential SAT accoutrements of any self-respecting gentleman illustrate SAT the extent of violence in Elizabethan London - both onstage SAT and off. SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03c46nt (Listen) SAT Seamus Heaney - Beowulf, Episode 10 SAT The funeral of Beowulf. SAT Produced in Salford by Susan Roberts. SAT Radio Drama North. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Seamus Heaney SAT Producer: Susan Roberts SAT Author: Seamus Heaney SAT SAT 00:45 Book of the Week b00rqqpj (Listen) SAT Graham Robb - Parisians, Episode 5 SAT "The idea was to create a kind of mini Human Comedy of SAT Paris, in which the history of the city would be illumined SAT by the real experiences of its inhabitants." SAT So says the author Graham Robb about his new book SAT 'Parisians'. And a whole host of characters walk, scuttle SAT jump, run and flounce across his pages, beginning with the SAT French Revolution and ending in more current times. These SAT inhabitants are natives and visitors, and it is the likes of SAT Charles Axel Guillaumot, Marie Antoinette, Alexandrine Zola, SAT Adolf Hitler and Charles de Gaulle who lighten and darken SAT the city's streets SAT in five episodes for BOOK OF THE WEEK. The series narrator SAT is Stephen Boxer. SAT In this final episode, we witness gunshots at Notre Dame, SAT which heralds decades of danger for SAT a new French leader... Reader Stephen Boxer. SAT SAT 01:00 The Museum of Curiosity b0167zkv (Listen) SAT Series 4, Haynes, McCandless, Crystal SAT Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of SAT Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious SAT comedian Dave Gorman. SAT This week's guests: SAT Natalie Haynes is an author, comedian and critic. Her book, SAT The Ancient Guide To Modern Life is all about the wisdom and SAT lifestyles of the ancient Greeks and Romans and uses them to SAT give us a better perspective of our own time. Natalie is SAT bubbling with facts and loves busting cherished myths about SAT the classical past. Natalie is also a massive fan of SAT detective fiction, to which she has applied her prodigious SAT intellect. An obsessive Diagnosis Murder fan, Natalie would SAT give up a year of her life to live in the time in which Dick SAT Van Dyke was the "biggest star in the world". SAT David McCandless is a journalist and the author of SAT Information Is Beautiful, a book which uses imaginative new SAT ways to display complex statistical information, using novel SAT graphics. David was also once the UK's Doom video game SAT champion, narrowly beaten in the world final by a SAT 14-year-old boy with a moustache. SAT David Crystal is the Professor of Linguistics at the SAT University of Wales, Bangor. He is without doubt Britain's SAT top linguist. He has written over a hundred books on the SAT subject, including the standard texts read by every SAT linguistics student in the country, and edited the Cambridge SAT Encyclopaedia of the English language. He knows exactly how SAT many different words there are in an average edition of the SAT Sun, because he's counted them, knows just why people are SAT wrong when they say that txtspk is the death of English, and SAT once sold two dozen adjectives at a shilling each. SAT SAT 01:30 My Life in Five Books b012x1hy (Listen) SAT Series 2, Andy Merriman SAT 6/8 Andy Merriman was born into a life of comedy. His father SAT Eric was one of the first radio comedy writer's producing SAT scripts for the likes of Kenneth Horne and Dave Allen. SAT Andy has written biographies of Margaret Rutherford and SAT Hattie Jacques but it is his book called A Minor Adjustment SAT which is the story of his daughter Sarah who has Down's SAT syndrome which has had the biggest impact on him. SAT Talking to Stuart Cosgrove he explains why he's loves these SAT books. SAT THE IDYLL OF MISS SARAH BROWN by DAMON RUNYON SAT THE RADIO TIMES GUIDE TO TV COMEDY by MARK LEWISOHN SAT A MINOR ADJUSTMENT by ANDY MERRIMAN SAT THE GLORY GAME by HUNTER DAVIES SAT BIRD LIVES by ROSS RUSSELL. SAT SAT 02:00 Jedediah Berry - The Manual of Detection b01q1h08 (Listen) SAT Chapter 18 SAT All Unwin's dreams of returning to his day job rest on SAT rescuing his boss Travis. But will he make it in time? The SAT dark forces of Enoch Hoffmann are closing in. Concluded by SAT Toby Jones. SAT Somewhere in an unnamed, rainy city, Charles Unwin, a lowly SAT but efficient clerk in a big detective agency, has found his SAT world turned upside down when his detective boss, Travis SAT Sivart, disappears. SAT Suddenly promoted to the role - Unwin's been forced out into SAT the field for the first time in his life. Unprepared and SAT untrained, armed only with his trusty umbrella and The SAT Manual of Detection. His first mission is to find out what SAT happened to his boss. SAT Abridged by Eileen Horne SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Pacificus Productions. SAT SAT 02:30 The Man Who Was Bojangles b00d1ypt (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Kwame Kwei-Armah unravels the myths behind SAT the man and soubriquet bestowed on tap dancer Bill SAT 'Bojangles' Robinson. From August 2008. SAT SAT 03:00 RL Stevenson - Kidnapped b01cj9yd (Listen) SAT Across the Forth SAT Still a fugitive, David Balfour is near Edinburgh and looks SAT to the law to help him claim his inheritance. Robert Louis SAT Stevenson's historical adventure stars Paul Young. SAT SAT 04:00 Winston Graham Short Stories b03yqp4r (Listen) SAT Meeting Demelza SAT Shortly before his death in 2003, Winston Graham wrote a SAT story for the Cornish magazine, Scryfa. He recounts an SAT imaginary meeting with his best-loved and most spirited SAT creation. Read by Ewan Bailey SAT Winston Graham was one of the most successful and prolific SAT novelists of the 20th century. He wrote in many genres but SAT his best known body of work was undoubtedly the 12 SAT historical novels set in Cornwall at the end of the 18th and SAT beginning of the 19th centuries which became known as The SAT Poldarks. SAT Although it's the Poldarks that brought Winston Graham the SAT most fame, he also wrote more than 30 other novels, six of SAT which have been filmed including the thriller, Marnie SAT directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1964. SAT This selection celebrates the range of his work and offers a SAT glimpse into the enduring appeal of his most famous SAT characters, Ross and Demelza who are set to return to BBC SAT screens in a new adaptation. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by The Waters Partnership. SAT SAT 04:15 Neil Brand - Joanna b00r9xm6 (Listen) SAT An old piano recalls the hands that played her, and the SAT passion and pain she has observed. Musical drama starring SAT Haydn Gwynne. SAT SAT 05:00 Beachcomber... By the Way b0081s34 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 SAT JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, SAT Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From April SAT 1989. SAT SAT 05:30 Living With the Enemy b00771qx (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Sophie is mistaken for an asylum seeker. Can Nick and Gyles SAT help her? Stars Nick Revell and Gyles Brandreth. From SAT February 2006. SAT SAT 06:00 Noel Coward - Nude With Violin b055f6vq (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. In Paris 1956, artist Paul Sorodin dies. His SAT hoax on the art world shocks his family, but his valet knows SAT all. Stars Aubrey Woods. SAT SAT 07:30 Freedom Pass b00ssn7l (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT Alan Coren and Christopher Matthew take the train to SAT Southend-on-Sea to recall the holidays of their youth. From SAT September 2005. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b03g89cl (Listen) SAT Gloria and Me SAT Growing up in Belfast, the writer Glenn Patterson assumed SAT that everything that moved him musically came from afar. To SAT begin with, it was England and Glam Rock, but gradually SAT strange sounds began to infiltrate from even further afield. SAT A school friend introduced him to Patti Smith. Patti Smith SAT introduced him to 'Gloria'. It was a convoluted route by SAT which the song finally reached him - only a couple of miles SAT from where it was written. SAT At a gig in the USA in 1988, Bruce Springsteen shouted "lets SAT take it back to where it all started" as he launched into a SAT version of Gloria. It's a song that's been covered by SAT everyone from Simple Minds to Ricky Lee Jones to The Doors. SAT Glenn talks to Mickey Bradley, bass player with the SAT Undertones, who remembers Gloria being one of the first SAT songs the band learned to play. The simple three chord SAT structure makes it deceptively straightforward - although SAT Glenn's attempt to learn it might disprove that theory - but SAT the song has always held a strange magic for him. Even now, SAT he says, he would fight his corner to say it's one of the SAT best songs Van Morrison has ever written. SAT Mickey and his fellow Undertones were learning to play SAT Gloria while listening to Nuggets, an album of garage rock SAT highlights put together by Patti Smith's guitarist, Lenny SAT Kaye. His relationship with Gloria starts with the Patti SAT Smith band and both he and Patti talk about why they picked SAT this song to re-work. SAT And Glenn unearths a rare recording of the famously taciturn SAT Van Morrison discussing the song, with a young Rolling Stone SAT journalist, Cameron Crowe. SAT Produced by Rachel Hooper SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio Four. SAT SAT 09:00 Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much? b055fy0h (Listen) SAT How can a writer, whose publisher declared him the 'King of SAT Thrillers', and was thought to be responsible for a quarter SAT of all new books read in Britain by the late 1920s, be SAT largely forgotten today? In this 3 hour archive special, SAT crime writer Mark Billingham investigates the life of the SAT man called the 'fiction factory', the best-selling author, SAT journalist, playwright, film director and creator of King SAT Kong - Edgar Wallace. SAT Wallace's life seems the stuff of fantasy. An illegitimate SAT child in London, largely self-educated, he was the newspaper SAT boy who became one of the most famous writers in the world. SAT He sold millions of books, but he was plagued by debts. He SAT died in Hollywood in 1932, aged 56, after writing the SAT original story for King Kong. His body was returned by ocean SAT liner in honour to Britain, only to be reunited with an SAT ocean of outstanding bills. SAT Crime writer Mark Billingham presents some of the best SAT adaptations and documentaries about Edgar Wallace from the SAT BBC Radio archive: a 1951 version of one of Wallace's SAT biggest successes, The Ringer; one of his best crime SAT creations, The Mind of Mr JG Reeder; and the loveable racing SAT 'turf tipster' Educated Evans, starring Roy Hudd and Andrew SAT Sachs. And though he died in 1932, Mark has a hunch that he SAT may be able to hear from Edgar Wallace himself. SAT His work was the source of countless 50s and 60s TV and film SAT adaptions. His books have sold in their multi-millions. But SAT from the 'Golden Age' of crime fiction it is Dorothy L SAT Sayers and Agatha Christie who are really remembered today. SAT Was Edgar Wallace just a man who wrote, and did, too much? SAT Producer: Peter McHugh. SAT Producer Peter McHugh's Blog SAT Writer Mark Billingham investigates why Edgar Wallace is SAT fast becoming a literary unknown. SAT SAT 12:00 Anne Tyler - Ladder of Years b055fy0k (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Omnibus: Delia's story starts with a welcome romantic SAT encounter in the grocery aisle. It leads to a new life in SAT the town of Bay Borough. SAT SAT 13:15 John Peacock - London Particulars b008pbr7 (Listen) SAT The Kitten Houser SAT With a frightened young girl in danger, Pip and Thomas SAT investigate a sophisticated vice ring. Stars Charles SAT Simpson. SAT SAT 14:00 Round the Horne b00j05vh (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT The bona beginnings of one of the BBC's most popular SAT comedies. The story so far, the BBC's Backroom Boys and part SAT one of The Clissold Saga. SAT Starring Kenneth Horne. With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, SAT Betty Marsden and Bill Pertwee. SAT Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, SAT London. Announcer: Douglas Smith SAT Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio SAT comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric SAT Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, SAT Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the SAT scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and SAT 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, SAT catchphrases and double-entendres. SAT Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser SAT Hayes Four. SAT Producer: John Simmonds SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1965. SAT SAT 14:30 Not in Front of the Children b0552w74 (Listen) SAT Series 1, A Drop of the Soft Stuff SAT The facts-of-life conversation is enough to drive Henry to SAT drink. SAT Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as SAT Henry Corner, Charlotte Mitchell as Mary and Felix Felton as SAT Mr Barratt. SAT The comedy mishaps of the Corner family: Jennifer and Henry SAT and their three children Trudi, Amanda and Robin. Family SAT sitcom, Not in Front of the Children originally ran for four SAT series from 1967 to 1970 on BBC TV. Richard Waring adapted SAT his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored SAT from the original reel-to-reel tapes. SAT Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV SAT version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was SAT the first of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to SAT play on television. Later series included And Mother Makes SAT Three and Butterflies. SAT Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst SAT Producer: Trafford Whitelock. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1969. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b03g89cl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Noel Coward - Nude With Violin b055f6vq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01l1dl0 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, SAT regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things SAT like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his SAT hit sketch show. SAT The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by SAT The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny SAT sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It SAT featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive SAT relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people SAT who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr SAT Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. SAT This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it SAT does feature an awkward celestial relationship, surprisingly SAT easy contract negotiations, and a trailer for a film about SAT the only mode of transport that hasn't had a film made about SAT it yet. SAT John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SAT John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, SAT Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced SAT by Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 18:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l1h2g (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Sphere SAT Abby and Zara are not real. They were created by SAT pan-dimensional beings to help save space and time. Starring SAT Ciara Janson. SAT Abby - Ciara Janson SAT Zara - Laura Doddington SAT Marek - Fraser James SAT Daniel - David Warner SAT Nan - Patricia Brake SAT Nicholas - Alex Mallinson SAT Written by Simon Guerrier SAT Directed by Lisa Bowerman SAT A Big Finish Production. SAT SAT 19:00 Edgar Wallace: The Man Who Wrote Too Much? b055fy0h (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 4 Extra Stands Up b055g0kz (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 2 SAT Richard Melvin introduces a selection of more exciting stand SAT up comedians. SAT Tiff Stevenson reveals her experience at a cinema in New SAT York with her particularly Scottish boyfriend, whilst SAT Boothby Graffoe discovers that he may have psychic ability. SAT Scottish comedian Jojo Sutherland reveals how she spies on SAT her own children and her countryman Raymond Mearns is SAT bemoaning his children as they leave home for the first (and SAT last) time. SAT Having moved to London, Fern Brady explains how she seeks SAT revenge on her friends who imitate her broad accent and SAT distinguished headliner Fred MacAulay proves himself to be SAT the Godfather of Scottish comedy. SAT Recorded at Edinburgh's comedy club The Stand. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Dabster Productions. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05h7t3c (Listen) SAT From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SAT has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Margaret SAT Thatcher: Queen of Soho. SAT SAT 23:00 Goodness Gracious Me b008x8fx (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT The hungry comedy team go for an English. Gold Winner of the SAT Sony Radio Academy Awards. Stars Sanjeev Bhaskar. From July SAT 1996. SAT SAT 23:30 The Last Hurrah - Interview With the Snowman SAT b055g0pl (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Rik Mayall is Elton, the last remaining talking Snowman - an SAT alcoholic, war-mongering, immortal, immoral tyrant. Duncan SAT Pow is Ed Mullet. SAT Elton's interview with Ed sprawls onwards, in the depths of SAT the dangerously secret and disgusting gentlemen's club, The SAT Last Hurrah, moving gracelessly from the time he invented SAT Y-Fronts to his highly suspicious escape from East Germany. SAT Specially adapted for radio from the original series "The SAT Last Hurrah" - the late Rik Mayall is at his anarchic best, SAT in his last great leading role. SAT Produced by Sweetchuck Productions. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 MARCH 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Simon Guerrier - Graceless b01l1h2g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Archive on 4 b03g89cl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Anne Tyler - Ladder of Years b055fy0k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 John Peacock - London Particulars b008pbr7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Noel Coward - Nude With Violin b055f6vq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01l1dl0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 17:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test Omnibus b044vfsx (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Can sales assistant Sapna Sinha pass seven tests to change SUN her life? From Vikas Swarup's novel The Accidental SUN Apprentice. SUN SUN 07:15 Whatever Happened to the Teapots? b00nt9cy (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN In the 1980s, Roger Law of Spitting Image went to SUN Stoke-on-Trent to get some novelty Margaret Thatcher teapots SUN made. Now Roger returns to meet up with the craftsmen who SUN helped him get a handle on Mrs T. SUN Roger visits the Barleston Estate to find out if there is SUN anything left of Wedgwood apart from its award-winning SUN museum. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b015zswt (Listen) SUN Series 7, Heroes SUN In Episode Five - 'Heroes'; Clare encounters Bradley Bigg - SUN Pop's tub-thumping troubadour and Blue Collar balladeer SUN whose music influenced and shaped her as a teenager. SUN Meanwhile, Brian has to break some bad news to Nali and SUN Helen takes on the role of Health and Safety Officer with SUN uncharacteristic vigour. SUN Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all SUN the right jargon but never a practical solution. SUN A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering SUN in other people's lives on both a professional and personal SUN basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and SUN heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of SUN discomfort to her. SUN Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control SUN both her professional and private life SUN In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out SUN there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. SUN Episode Five - Heroes SUN Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS SUN Brian: ALEX LOWE SUN Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI SUN Ray/Mr Trueman: RICHARD LUMSDEN SUN Helen: LIZA TARBUCK SUN Simon/Bradley: ANDREW WINCOTT SUN Libby: SARAH KENDALL SUN Chelsy: VICTORIA INEZ HARDY SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Producer Katie Tyrrell. SUN SUN 08:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jp5l (Listen) SUN Only Three Can Play SUN Will Noote's playing away ruin the clerics' game? Adapted SUN from TV with Derek Nimmo and William Mervyn. From February SUN 1971. SUN SUN 08:30 Life With the Lyons b0131zxx (Listen) SUN Lovely to Look At SUN Lovely to Look At: Ben's pal Tex arrives for the Queen's SUN Coronation. Will he succumb to Olde England's charms? With SUN Bebe Daniels. From June 1953. SUN SUN 09:00 Alan Garner - Elidor b010gls9 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Roland arrives to discover his brothers and sister have SUN disappeared into the Mound, and the wounded King Malebron SUN says only he can save them. Stars Toby Hadoke. SUN SUN 09:30 Michelle Magorian - Back Home b0112flv (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN The war is over but the battle is only just beginning for SUN Rusty, as she moves to Guildford to face her acid-tongued SUN grandmother. Stars Mary Wimbush. SUN SUN 10:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b055g89c (Listen) SUN Parky at 80, Kingsley Amis SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Johann Strauss to Sidney Bechet, the SUN novelist shares his castaway choices with Michael Parkinson. SUN From November 1986. SUN SUN 10:45 Afternoon Reading b00zdl26 (Listen) SUN Extremely Entertaining Short Stories, The Brown Wallet SUN Stacy Aumonier's life as a stage performer, 'society SUN entertainer', World War One private and draughtsman all SUN contributed to his unrivalled reputation as a short-story SUN writer in the 1920's. SUN Nobel Prize winner and Forsyte Saga author John Galsworthy SUN described Stacy Aumonier as "one of the best short-story SUN writers of all time." Other famous admirers included Alfred SUN Hitchcock, who had several of his stories adapted for SUN television, and James Hilton, author of Goodbye, Mr Chips, SUN who once said of Aumonier: "I think his very best works SUN ought to be included in any anthology of the best short SUN stories ever written." SUN However since his untimely death at the age of 51, Aumonier SUN has been rather forgotten. This is particularly ironic SUN considering Galsworthy's belief - expressed in his foreword SUN to a posthumously published collection of short stories - SUN that Aumonier would, through his writing, "outlive nearly SUN all the writers of his day." SUN Sadly, this did not happen. Yet the recently published SUN collection of Aumonier's Extremely Entertaining Short SUN Stories has certainly helped bring this overlooked talent to SUN a new audience. Aumonier's stories are not only hilarious, SUN full of wit and genuine warmth for his subjects, but also SUN beautifully constructed insights into the various SUN absurdities of human behaviour; be it in the drawing rooms SUN of London high society or the trenches of World War I. SUN 'The Brown Wallet' read by Mark Heap. SUN Mark Heap has appeared widely across television, radio and SUN film; he recently appeared on TV as Thomas Brown in the SUN returning BBC series 'Lark Rise to Candleford'. His SUN acclaimed comedic performances include 'Spaced', 'Green SUN Wing' and BBC series 'The Great Outdoors' SUN 'The Brown Wallet' by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by Neville SUN Teller and read by Mark Heap. It was recorded in Belfast and SUN the Producer/Director was Laura Conway. SUN 'A Source Of Irritation' read by Mark Addy. SUN Mark Addy has worked extensively in film, television and on SUN stage. His many credits include 'The Full Monty', 'Red SUN Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1983' and the upcoming HBO SUN television series 'Game of Thrones'. SUN 'A Source of Irritation' by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by SUN Neville Teller and read by Mark Addy. It was recorded in SUN Belfast and the Producer/Director was Michael Shannon. SUN 'The Room' read by Mathew Horne SUN Mathew Horne's many television credits include 'The SUN Catherine Tate Show', 'Teachers' and '20 Things to Do before SUN You're Thirty'. Mathew is best known to many for his SUN portrayal of Gavin in the hit BBC series 'Gavin and Stacey'. SUN 'The Room by Stacy Aumonier was abridged by Neville Teler SUN and read by Mathew Horne. It was recorded in Belfast and the SUN Producer/Director was Laura Conway. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b055jymq (Listen) SUN Identities 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 the journeys some people make in order SUN to answer the question: who am I? With the writer Pico Iyer. SUN SUN 11:45 Afternoon Reading b01061hy (Listen) SUN Edna O'Brien - Saints and Sinners, Madame Cassandra SUN 'Madame Cassandra' by Edna O'Brien. SUN Read by Sorcha Cusack. SUN Abridged by Doreen Estall SUN Produced by Lawrence Jackson SUN Edna O'Brien is one of the most distinguished writers and SUN figures in the world of letters. Since emerging from Ireland SUN in the early 1960s with 'The Country Girls', her many novels SUN including 'Girl with Green Eyes', 'House of Splendid SUN Isolation' and 'In The Forest' have attracted both praise SUN and controversy. 'Saints and Sinners' is her eagerly awaited SUN new collection. SUN Sorcha Cusack's numerous theatre credits range from plays SUN with the RSC and National Theatre to Frank McGuinness's SUN 'Baglady' to 'Bloody Sunday' at the Tricycle. Her many TV SUN and film credits include 'Eureka Street', 'Snatch' and SUN 'Middletown'. SUN Producer Lawrence Jackson's credits for Radio 4 include four SUN series of the popular murder-mystery 'Baldi', two series of SUN John Connolly's 'Ghost Stories' and the Classic Serial SUN 'Barry Lyndon'. For Radio 7 his credits include C.S.Lewis' SUN 'Out of the Silent Planet' and 'Perelandra', SUN G.K.Chesterton's 'The Man Who Was Thursday', Daphne Du SUN Maurier's 'The House on the Strand' and classic ghost SUN stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and Algernon Blackwood. SUN SUN 12:00 Vikas Swarup - The Seventh Test Omnibus b044vfsx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 13:15 Whatever Happened to the Teapots? b00nt9cy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 13:30 Noel Coward - A Song at Twilight b055jzjh (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Hugo Latymer's reunion with an old flame SUN proves to be more than nostalgia. Stars Michael Denison, SUN Jill Bennett and Dulcie Gray. SUN SUN 15:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jp5l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 15:30 Life With the Lyons b0131zxx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 16:00 Mel's Mix: The Best of The 4 O'Clock Show b055jzwp (Listen) SUN Dick and Dom, Just So Science and Wellington Boots SUN Mel Giedroyc recalls the best of this week's 4 O'Clock Show, SUN including Dick and Dom, Just So Science and a celebration of SUN wellington boots. SUN SUN 17:00 Alan Garner - Elidor b010gls9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 17:30 Michelle Magorian - Back Home b0112flv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Edgar Allan Poe b00grs8w (Listen) SUN The Gold Bug SUN The famous tale of piracy and slavery by the American master SUN of suspense. Stars Clarke Peters, John Sharlan and Rhashan SUN Stone. From December 2001. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b055jymq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b01061hy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:45 today] SUN SUN 20:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jp5l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 20:30 Life With the Lyons b0131zxx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b055g89c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] SUN SUN 21:45 Afternoon Reading b00zdl26 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b015zswt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Richest Man in Britain b00nrrq8 (Listen) SUN The Elephant in the Room SUN Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock SUN star and his search for fulfilment. SUN Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt introduces ex-lead singer SUN Andy to his new best friend and personal assistant, Mr SUN Tumble the elephant. SUN Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams SUN Dom ...... Russell Tovey SUN Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham SUN Andy ...... Noddy Holder SUN The Lawyer ...... Gus Brown. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05h7vjz (Listen) SUN From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club SUN has two hours of comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats to the men SUN behind Margaret Thatcher: Queen of Soho. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b054t8pr (Listen) SUN Series 12, Episode 3 SUN This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into SUN sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to SUN make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. SUN SUN 23:30 Jon Ronson On b00pnt6h (Listen) SUN Series 5, Fear of Flying SUN The writer Jon Ronson looks at one of our deepest fears. SUN When Vicky Coren realised her fear of flying was stopping SUN her travelling, she sought help from a specialist SUN councillor. He cured her - only to die a year later in an SUN air crash. SUN Mike Thexton tells Jon of his ordeal on board a hijacked SUN plane, waiting to be shot for 12 hours. And comedian Danny SUN Robins is terrified of death - so terrified that Jon decides SUN to send him to a near death experience festival in Spain in SUN order to try to cure his phobia. Finally, Jon finds a SUN scientist who is working on finding an answer to eternal SUN life. SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 MARCH 2015 MON MON 00:00 Edgar Allan Poe b00grs8w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Desert Island Discs Revisited b055g89c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:45 Afternoon Reading b00zdl26 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Sunday] MON MON 02:00 All Gas and Gaiters b007jp5l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Life With the Lyons b0131zxx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:00 Clare in the Community b015zswt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:30 Noel Coward - A Song at Twilight b055jzjh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Alan Garner - Elidor b010gls9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Michelle Magorian - Back Home b0112flv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jctjf (Listen) MON Series 1, Headless in Glasgow MON Two unlikely cops Detective Inspector Bob Boxer and MON Detective Constable Shona Doberman probe an academics MON killing spree in Glasgow. MON Alastair Jessiman's gritty comedy police drama stars Finlay MON Welsh as DI Bob Boxer, Anita Vettesse as DC Shona Doberman MON and James Bryce as DCI Paton. MON DC Shauna Doberman is regarded as the smart one in the MON crime-fighting duo, whilst DI Bob Boxer is the plodding MON old-school cop, who aims to reach the right conclusion. MON Producer: David Jackson Young. MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Radio Scotland. MON First broadcast in March 2009. MON MON 06:30 Looking for Ripley b00hrk2v (Listen) MON Crime writer Mark Billingham investigates Tom Ripley, the MON suave and amoral central character in Patricia Highsmith's MON novel The Talented Mr Ripley. MON Mark tracks down those with a real insight into Ripley's MON ambiguities. Opera director Jonathan Kent once played Ripley MON and was thought to be perfect in the role by Highsmith MON herself. Professor Dinesh Bhugra, President of The Royal MON College of Psychiatrists, is an avid fan and uses the Ripley MON books to teach medical students about psychopathy. MON Andrew Wilson, Highsmith's biographer, thinks the elusive MON Ripley is to be found in the unpublished notebooks of his MON creator. The readings are by Ian Hart. MON MON 07:00 Know Your Place b018jpjy (Listen) MON Room to Manoeuvre MON Cleaner Elsie borrows a flat for a night, but must keep MON caretaker Ramsay out of the way. Stars Roy Dotrice. From MON February 1982. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b054pq25 (Listen) MON Series 71, Episode 5 MON Nicholas Parsons hosts this classic comedy panel game with MON Alun Cochrane, Tony Hawks, Josie Lawrence and Paul Merton, MON recorded in Canterbury. So naturally, the subjects include MON 'Canterbury Tales' and 'The Garden of England'. MON This is series 71 of Radio 4's classic panel game in which MON the contestants are challenged to speak on a given subject MON for a minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON This series, the guests include Jenny Eclair, Stephen Fry, MON Sheila Hancock, Robin Ince Paul Merton, Graham Norton, and MON trying his hand at the game for the first time, the tenth MON doctor, David Tennant. MON Recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre and Marlowe Theatre in MON Canterbury, this long running and popular series enters its MON 47th year with the same wonderful host, Nicholas Parsons. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Sheila Hancock MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Robin Ince MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jscw (Listen) MON Series 1, Operation Kilt MON The platoon are challenged to capture the Highland Unit's MON headquarters. Adapted from TV, with Arthur Lowe. From March MON 1974. MON MON 08:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00k3myf (Listen) MON From 15/04/1984 MON From his own father to a huge hairy mountain gorilla, it's MON the ultimate one-man show, written by the host. From April MON 1984. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b01b1nk7 (Listen) MON Series 15, Daniel Defoe MON Daniel Defoe is the Author of the Week this episode - a man MON who both helped establish modern journalism and modern MON espionage, as well as being the creator of such literary MON classics as "Moll Flanders" and "Robinson Crusoe", a book MON that, the Bible excepted, has been translated into more MON languages than any other. MON Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by MON journalist, Jane Thynne, and creator of the DI Thorne MON novels, Mark Billingham. MON For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine MON Robinson Crusoe's observations were he to be marooned on an MON island today...the Isle of Dogs or Ibiza, for example. MON MON 09:30 The Brig Society b036ksd8 (Listen) MON Series 1, Prison MON Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! MON Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of MON a big old thing - a hospital, the railways, British fashion, MON a prison. And each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it MON can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - MON turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who MON knew...?" MON This week, Marcus has been volunteered to run a prison - so MON while he's serving his thirty-minute term, he'll be looking MON into such urgent issues as overcrowding, rehabilitation, MON radicalisation and the difficulties of dining-hall protest MON tray-banging syncopation. MON Banged up with him are Rufus Jones (Hunderby, Holy Flying MON Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've Got No Head) and MON Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda). MON The show is produced by Marcus's long-standing accomplice, MON David Tyler, who also produces Marcus' appearances as the MON inimitable as Giles Wemmbley Hogg. MON Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, MON Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Tom Neenan. MON Produced by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke MON Ensemble: Rufus Jones MON Ensemble: William Andrews MON Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith MON Writer: Marcus Brigstocke MON Writer: Jeremy Salsby MON Writer: Toby Davies MON Writer: Nick Doody MON Writer: Steve Punt MON Writer: Tom Neenan MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 10:00 Keith Waterhouse - Mr and Mrs Nobody b055knqf (Listen) MON The diary doings of Charles Pooter, a London clerk and his MON long-suffering wife Carrie. Stars Judi Dench and Michael MON Williams. MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b0081ck7 (Listen) MON Alan Howard Reads, On Dover Beach MON The popular veteran actor reads specially commissioned short MON stories. MON Matthew Arnold engages in animated internal debate with MON himself about his poem On Dover Beach and its place in MON history. MON By Tom Stoppard. MON MON 11:15 Loose Ends b055ddk8 (Listen) MON Scottee, Esther Rantzen, Danny Brocklehurst, Rick Edwards, MON Tyrone Huggins, Jose Gonzalez, C Duncan MON Clive Anderson is joined by Esther Rantzen, Danny MON Brocklehurst, Rick Edwards, and Tyrone Huggins for an MON eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. With music MON from José González and C Duncan. MON Producer: Sukey Firth. MON Esther Rantzen MON ‘Silver Linings’ is available now on U.M.T.V. MON Tyrone Huggins MON ‘The Honey Man’ is at The Old Town Hall, Hemel Hempstead on MON Tuesday 17th, Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London on Wednesday MON 18th and Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds on Thursday 19th MON March. MON Danny Brocklehurst MON ‘Ordinary Lies’ is on Tuesday 17th March at 21.00 on BBC MON One. MON Rick Edwards MON ‘None Of The Above’ is published by Simon & Schuster and MON available now. MON C Duncan MON C Duncan’s playing at The Lock Tavern, London on Thursday MON 2nd and The Poetry Club, Glasgow on Friday 3rd April. MON José González MON ‘Vestiges And Claws’ is out now on Peacefrog Records. MON Credits MON Presenter: Clive Anderson MON Interviewed Guest: Scottee MON Interviewed Guest: Esther Rantzen MON Interviewed Guest: Danny Brocklehurst MON Interviewed Guest: Rick Edwards MON Interviewed Guest: Tyrone Huggins MON Performer: Jose Gonzalez MON Performer: C Duncan MON Producer: Sukey Firth MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jscw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00k3myf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jctjf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Looking for Ripley b00hrk2v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04htrnt (Listen) MON Marcy Kahan - Lunch, Humiliation MON by Marcy Kahan MON Bill and Bella meet every month for lunch and swap news. MON It's March 2014 and whilst Bella has been walking across the MON Sahara Bill has been busy humiliating himself. MON Directed by Sally Avens. MON Credits MON Bill: Stephen Mangan MON Bella: Claire Skinner MON Director: Sally Avens MON Writer: Marcy Kahan MON MON 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gf5t0 (Listen) MON Europe: Triumphs of the Past MON Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues MON his new object-based history. Taking artefacts from William MON Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean MON playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing MON world in which they lived. MON With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of MON political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil MON asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they MON were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to MON explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the MON public and helped shape the works, and he considers what MON they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of MON Shakespearean England. MON Programme 6. EUROPE: TRIUMPHS OF THE PAST - As a tourist MON attraction in Westminster Abbey, Henry V's instruments of MON battle reflect the view of English history as depicted on MON the Elizabeth stage. MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 14:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01f9y2q (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Stephen Tompkinson reads Keith Waterhouse's classic comic MON story about a young dreamer who fantasises about a more MON exciting life. MON MON 14:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b0147g9m (Listen) MON Childhood Memories MON The Goon Show star Sir Harry Secombe recalls his Swansea MON childhood and why a raffle was one of his greatest MON disappointments. MON MON 15:00 Keith Waterhouse - Mr and Mrs Nobody b055knqf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b055ks9n (Listen) MON BBC School Report, Keep It In The Family & A Monster Calls MON Mel Giedroyc dusts off her buzzer for another series of the MON 4 O'Clock Show quiz, Keep It in the Family. Plus, there's MON the first part of A Monster Calls, written by Patrick Ness. MON MON 17:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00cb1m8 (Listen) MON Series 1, Hungry MON With his mum very busy at the church, hungry Robert takes MON action. With Brenda Blethyn and Desmond Barritt. From MON February 1993. MON MON 17:30 Know Your Place b018jpjy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 18:00 The Write Stuff b01b1nk7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075lw5 (Listen) MON Howard Brenton and Alexander Walker MON Sarah LeFanu and her guests playwright Howard Brenton and MON film critic Alexander Walker discuss books by Primo Levi, MON Stefan Zweig and George Orwell. From 1999. MON The Truce by Primo Levi MON Publisher: Abacus MON Casanova: A Study in Self-Portraiture by Stefan Zweig MON Publisher: Puskin Press MON Keep The Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell MON Publisher: Penguin Books. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jscw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 The Michael Bentine Show b00k3myf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jctjf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Looking for Ripley b00hrk2v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b0081ck7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Loose Ends b055ddk8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b054pq25 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Brig Society b036ksd8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b055kt2k (Listen) MON Series 13, Episode 4 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi MON Toksvig. Andy Hamilton, Sara Pascoe and Andrew Maxwell join MON regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. MON MON 23:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b00zt22n (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 4 MON Helen Keen presents her off-beat comic take on the history MON of rocket science starring Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane. MON Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill MON Produced by Gareth Edwards MON This week Helen asks if humanity will ever make it to the MON stars, and ponders some of the greater mysteries of the MON universe, such as time travel, parallel universes and faster MON than light travel. And have aliens ever made it here? And if MON so have they been tempted to use their vastly superior MON intelligence to really clean up in pub quizzes. MON Performed by Helen Keen and stars Peter Serafinowicz as the MON Voice of Space with other parts played by Susy Kane. MON Credits MON Performer: Helen Keen MON Actor: Peter Serafinowicz MON Actor: Susy Kane MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON Writer: Helen Keen MON Writer: Miriam Underhill MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 MARCH 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 15 Minute Drama b04htrnt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gf5t0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01f9y2q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b0147g9m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 The Write Stuff b01b1nk7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 A Good Read b0075lw5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jctjf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Looking for Ripley b00hrk2v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Keith Waterhouse - Mr and Mrs Nobody b055knqf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Afternoon Reading b0081ck7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:15 Loose Ends b055ddk8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 A Whole New Ball Game b00cb1m8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Know Your Place b018jpjy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd6wp (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Killings in Kirkibrae TUE DI Bob Boxer and DC Shona Doberman probe a link between some TUE nasty serial killings in Glasgow and some gruesome murders TUE in an idyllic village in the remote Scottish Highlands. TUE Alastair Jessiman's gritty comedy police drama stars Finlay TUE Welsh as DI Bob Boxer, Anita Vettesse as DC Shona Doberman TUE and James Bryce as DCI Paton. TUE DC Shauna Doberman is regarded as the smart one in the TUE crime-fighting duo, whilst DI Bob Boxer is the grizzled TUE old-school cop, who aims to reach the right conclusion. TUE Producer: David Jackson Young. TUE Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Radio Scotland. TUE First broadcast in March 2009. TUE TUE 06:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055pgp2 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE 4 Extra Debut. Extracts read by Simon Cadell reveal the TUE playwright's strong opinions on England and Englishness. TUE With Graham Payne. From April 1996. TUE TUE 07:00 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01dbfn3 (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE Edward and Tabitha finally face their foe, Colonel Brad. TUE Orwellian sitcom with David Threlfall and Hugh Laurie. From TUE May 1987. TUE TUE 07:30 Ayres on the Air b03pmk77 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Home TUE Pam Ayres regales her Radio 4 audience with poems, stories TUE and sketches, this week on the subject of Home. TUE She is joined on stage by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey TUE Whitehead, with Geoffrey playing her long-suffering husband TUE 'Gordon'. TUE This week Pam talks about her first home, about the impact TUE of her grown up sons leaving home and about the unwelcome TUE prospect of downsizing. There are also looks at how making TUE your home more 'vintage' can go too far, some handy hints on TUE how to make your child feel more at home if they have to TUE return to the nest post-university, and how your homelife TUE changes when both partners have retired. We are also treated TUE to some wry observations on how our homes have now become so TUE hi-tech we can barely change channels on the TV, and how to TUE approach the thorny issue of moving into single beds when TUE your partner's snoring becomes too much to bear. TUE Poems include: A September Song, My Little Grandson & Pollen TUE on the Wind TUE Sketch writers: James Bugg, Jan Etherington, Claire Jones, TUE Grainne McGuire, Andy Wolton and Tom Neenan. TUE Producer: Claire Jones. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00j05w2 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE Kenneth Horne's secrets from the BBC backroom boys and TUE continuing 'The Clissold Saga'. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1965. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b00hwyq9 (Listen) TUE From 19/07/1964 TUE The creature of Invercockieleekie wreaks a special kind of TUE havoc when confronted with Doddy's singing. From July 1964. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b055kt2k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b00zt22n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Pamela Branch - The Wooden Overcoat b00sybp8 (Listen) TUE London 1951: Newly acquitted killer Benji Cann finds refuge TUE at the Asterisk Club, but then turns up dead. Stars David TUE Tennant. TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cs (Listen) TUE Alan Howard Reads, Marriage Lines TUE The popular veteran actor reads specially commissioned short TUE stories. TUE A return visit to the island of Barra brings back memories TUE of decades past, holidays and young love. TUE By Julian Barnes. TUE TUE 11:15 Kathryn Simmonds - Poetry for Beginners b01q0v64 (Listen) TUE Poetry sparks lust, ruthless ambition and simmering TUE rivalries at a residential writing course in Shropshire. TUE Stars Joanna Tope. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00j05w2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b00hwyq9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd6wp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055pgp2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04hvxb7 (Listen) TUE Marcy Kahan - Lunch, The Wonderful Guy TUE by Marcy Kahan TUE Bill and Bella meet up once a month and swap news. TUE Bella has a new man but he happens to be half her age. TUE Directed by Sally Avens. TUE Credits TUE Bill: Stephen Mangan TUE Bella: Claire Skinner TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Writer: Marcy Kahan TUE TUE 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg7dt (Listen) TUE Ireland: Failures in the Present TUE Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues TUE his new object-based history. Taking artefacts from William TUE Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean TUE playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing TUE world in which they lived. TUE With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of TUE political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil TUE asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they TUE were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to TUE explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the TUE public and helped shape the works, and he considers what TUE they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of TUE Shakespearean England. TUE Programme 7. IRELAND: FAILURES IN THE PRESENT - A rare TUE woodcut offers a equally rare visual impression of the TUE troubles and tragedies of Elizabethan Ireland. TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 14:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01fb3ps (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Billy is now engaged to two girls in his Yorkshire home TUE town, but he imagines an escape to London. Read by Stephen TUE Tompkinson. TUE TUE 14:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b014b98y (Listen) TUE Holidays TUE Sir Harry recalls his travels, tummy troubles and an TUE unfortunate series of events at sea. TUE TUE 15:00 Pamela Branch - The Wooden Overcoat b00sybp8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b055q36g (Listen) TUE David Thewlis, Keep It in the Family and A Monster Calls TUE Mel Giedroyc says happy birthday to Harry Potter actor David TUE Thewlis and presents the next episode of A Monster Calls, by TUE award-winning author Patrick Ness. TUE TUE 17:00 Capital Gains b007rq8b (Listen) TUE Series 1, Capital Return TUE Home at last, how will Julius Hutch come to terms with the TUE bank that made him rich? Stars Peter Jones. From April 1995. TUE TUE 17:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01dbfn3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Hidden Treasures b055q39m (Listen) TUE Harewood House TUE The antiques quiz visits Harewood House in Yorkshire. With TUE Lars Tharp, Henry Sandon and Sally Kevill-Davies. From April TUE 1998. TUE TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking b055q3p1 (Listen) TUE Maurice Chevalier TUE French entertainer Maurice Chevalier is interviewed about TUE his life and career by Penelope Mortimer, Colin MacInnes and TUE Carl Wildman. TUE Sadly the full programme from 1963 no longer exists, but TUE this is a long extract. Then in his 70s, he speaks openly TUE about how much he owes to English vaudeville and music hall. TUE Chevalier reveals his use of the then new-fangled stage TUE microphone, touches on his working class roots, his adored TUE mother and two bouts of depression. He's also questioned TUE about his stage persona as the sophisticated, romantic, TUE Frenchman versus the real Chevalier. TUE Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking TUE was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and TUE unscripted, the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing TUE was initially jettisoned for three interviewers firing TUE direct questions - straight to the point. TUE Early critics described it as 'unkempt', 'an inquisition' TUE and described the guest as prey being cornered, quarry being TUE pursued - with calls to axe the unscripted interview. But TUE the format won out and eventually won over its detractors. TUE Unknown or very inexperienced broadcasters were employed as TUE interviewers, notably John Freeman, John Betjeman, Malcolm TUE Muggeridge, Harold Hobson, Penelope Mortimer, Elizabeth TUE Beresford and Katherine Whitehorn. TUE Only about 40 of the original 100 programmes survive. TUE First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1963. TUE TUE 18:50 Inheritance Tracks b05p9mlq (Listen) TUE Judith Kerr TUE Children's writer and illustrator Judith Kerr inherits a TUE lullaby by Brahms and Gershwin's hit from Porgy and Bess. TUE From 2013. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00j05w2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b00hwyq9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd6wp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055pgp2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Kathryn Simmonds - Poetry for Beginners b01q0v64 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Ayres on the Air b03pmk77 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00htwhd (Listen) TUE Series 2, Suggs TUE Suggs reads A Brief History of Time, listens to Vivaldi, TUE changes the oil in a car and has his first tap-dancing TUE lesson. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05njlkm (Listen) TUE From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club TUE has two hours of comedy. Plus Tiff Stevenson chats to Joel TUE Dommett. TUE TUE 23:00 Strangers on Trains b00d75p2 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Heated views on climate as travellers reveal their faith and TUE beliefs. Stars Nat Segnit and Stewart Wright. From September TUE 2008. TUE TUE 23:15 Ivor Cutler - A Wet Handle b00cl648 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Music, prosaic idiosyncrasy and whimsy from the unique Ivor TUE Cutler. With Alison O'Kill and Craig Murray-Orr. From June TUE 1997. TUE TUE 23:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00yqsj3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Girls and Boys TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. TUE With Rudy about to tie the knot, it's party time - Adam TUE style. Adam has created a wedding spreadsheet, and it's down TUE to Richie to intervene to ensure that both the Stag Do, and TUE Doreen's hen night, go off with a Rudy Sharpe Sizzle. TUE Written by Danny Robins and Paula Hines TUE Produced by Lucy Armitage. TUE Credits TUE Adam: Lenny Henry TUE Rudy: Larrington Walker TUE Richie: Larry Jacobs TUE Tasha: Natasha Godfrey TUE Clifton: Jeffery Kissoon TUE Doreen: Claire Benedict TUE Producer: Lucy Armitage TUE Writer: Danny Robins TUE Writer: Paula Hines TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 MARCH 2015 WED WED 00:00 15 Minute Drama b04hvxb7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg7dt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01fb3ps (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b014b98y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Hidden Treasures b055q39m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Frankly Speaking b055q3p1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:50 Inheritance Tracks b05p9mlq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:50 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd6wp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055pgp2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Pamela Branch - The Wooden Overcoat b00sybp8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:15 Kathryn Simmonds - Poetry for Beginners b01q0v64 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Capital Gains b007rq8b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Nineteen Ninety-Eight b01dbfn3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd9h8 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Big Cheese WED Detective Inspector Bob Boxer falls into the clutches of an WED old sadistic adversary. At first he resists the pressure to WED go over to the "other side" and swell the ranks of Villains WED Incorporated. But when his enemies exploit one of his WED deepest childhood fears, even Bob's cast-iron will begins to WED crack like a caramel log. Might a good cop go to the bad? WED Alastair Jessiman's gritty comedy police drama stars Finlay WED Welsh as DI Bob Boxer, Anita Vettesse as DC Shona Doberman WED and James Bryce as DCI Paton. WED DC Shauna Doberman is regarded as the smart one in the WED crime-fighting duo, whilst DI Bob Boxer is the grizzled WED old-school cop, who aims to reach the right conclusion. WED Producer: David Jackson Young. WED Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Radio Scotland. WED First broadcast in March 2009. WED WED 06:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055qt0k (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED The extracts read by Simon Cadell deal with sex, sexuality, WED health and a Las Vegas triumph. Presenter Tony Staveacre. WED From April 1996. WED WED 07:00 Believe It! b03mg87c (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a WED second series. WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of WED truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, WED most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard WED Wilson. WED He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan WED delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his WED fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version WED of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, WED private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester WED United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has WED survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of WED fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, WED charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian WED McKellan (not true). WED The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference his famous catchphrase. WED Written by Jon Canter WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Himself: Richard Wilson WED The Grim Reaper: Michael Eaves WED Rev Grey: Michael Eaves WED Sean Connery: Lewis Macleod WED Gordon Brown: Lewis Macleod WED David Beckham: Lewis Macleod WED Egg Wilson: Lewis Macleod WED Cussin Colin: Forbes Masson WED Herself: Celia Imrie WED Himself: Ian McKellan WED Mother: Arabella Weir WED Young Richard: Michael Higgins WED Director: Clive Brill WED Producer: Clive Brill WED Writer: Jon Canter WED WED 07:30 Chain Reaction b054qfjd (Listen) WED Series 10, Vic Reeves talks to Olivia Colman WED Chain Reaction is Radio 4's long running hostless chat show WED where last week's interviewee becomes this week's WED interviewer. WED In the fourth episode of the series one half of comedy WED double-act Vic & Bob, Vic Reeves, talks to three-time BAFTA WED Award winning actress Olivia Colman. WED Producer ... Arnab Chanda. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b00zn2fv (Listen) WED The Lighthouse Lark WED Povey probes smuggling aboard HMS Troutbridge, as she sets WED sail on a rescue mission. Stars Leslie Phillips. From WED January 1960. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00t9zpz (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 7 WED Making movie news this week, The Lone Hydrangea and The WED Sound of Monks. Sketches and songs with John Cleese. From WED November 1966. WED WED 09:00 So Wrong It's Right b0106v13 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show that sees comics WED Lee Mack, Sarah Millican and Graham Linehan battle to supply WED the finest wrong answers. WED Charlie's tests see the guests recall 'the worst thing WED they've done on their own'. Who will win between Lee Mack's WED story of avoiding Anthea Turner, Sarah Millican's tale of WED woe whilst stuck on the side of motorway, or Graham WED Linehan's calamity in a hotel shower? WED Added to this are the panel's ideas for a terrible new WED gameshow. Will anyone spot the fatal flaw in Graham's pitch WED - the futuristic word quiz 'Scrabble 2000'? WED The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also WED writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series WED Newswipe & Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's 10 O'Clock WED Live. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009 WED and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards WED for his Guardian newspaper columns. WED Produced by Aled Evans WED A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Charlie Brooker WED Panellist: Lee Mack WED Panellist: Sarah Millican WED Panellist: Graham Linehan WED Producer: Aled Evans WED WED 09:30 Edgar Wallace - Educated Evans b03yh0dk (Listen) WED The Snout WED Can the skint 1920s tipster plot revenge on a local WED informant and end up a winner too? Stars Roy Hudd and Andrew WED Sachs. From July 1996. WED WED 10:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlqq (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Conflicts grow for Nottinghamshire mining family, Gertrude WED and Walter Morel and their sons. Stars Benedict Sandiford. WED WED 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00826ct (Listen) WED Alan Howard Reads, The Tipping Point WED The popular veteran actor reads specially commissioned short WED stories. WED A car journey and a CD of Schubert Lieder offer an English WED academic the opportunity to reflect on the painful WED conclusion to a love affair with a German environmentalist. WED By Helen Simpson. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0fzn (Listen) WED Alex Shearer - The Diabolical Gourmet WED Death by fine dining: the true story of Pere Gourier and his WED string of perfectly legal murders in the finest restaurants WED of 1790s Paris. WED Bored with his wife and home life, the well-off landowner WED begins to amuse himself by taking hard-up acquaintances WED every day to the best restaurants in Paris and dining them WED to death. Everyone knows about it but - as he isn't doing WED anything against the law - no one can stop him. WED Dealing with a succulent batch of topics - food, wine, fine WED dining, the effects of over-indulgence, a loophole in the WED law and a murderer who can't be stopped - this true story WED unfolds from the perspective of Ameline, the executioner's WED assistant who volunteers to take on the murdering bon vivant WED Gourier at his own game in the richest restaurants in Paris. WED The intensity and opulence of Gourier's deadly feasts (he WED would order 15 steaks at a sitting, trying to kill off his WED fellow diner) lead to a final dining-room confrontation WED between him and Ameline, the table groaning under the weight WED of course after course of rich, deadly food - the murder WED weapon of a rich, deadly gourmet. WED Historical drama, written by Alex Shearer. WED Ameline ..... Mark Benton WED Gourier ..... Ian McNeice WED Chavette ..... Royce Mills WED Gaston/Bayard/Antoine/Victor/Hubert/Henri/Charles ..... Jon WED Glover WED Widow/Magdalene/Madame Cambertin ..... Rachel Atkins WED Director: Neil Cargill WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Producer: Neil Cargill WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b00zn2fv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00t9zpz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd9h8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055qt0k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04hyrpx (Listen) WED Marcy Kahan - Lunch, The Spotlight WED by Marcy Kahan WED Bill is in a state he has been invited on Newsnight to WED debate the economy. WED Bella decides to give him a mock interview. WED Director ..... Sally Avens. WED Credits WED Bill: Stephen Mangan WED Bella: Claire Skinner WED Director: Sally Avens WED Writer: Marcy Kahan WED WED 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg8h6 (Listen) WED City Life, Urban Strife WED Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues WED his new object-based history. Taking artefacts from William WED Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean WED playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing WED world in which they lived. WED With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of WED political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil WED asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they WED were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to WED explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the WED public and helped shape the works, and he considers what WED they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of WED Shakespearean England. WED Programme 8. CITY LIFE, URBAN STRIFE - The life of London's WED apprentices and Shakespeare's groundlings told through a WED rare woollen cap. WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED 14:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01fbfx5 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Billy is in big trouble both at work and home, so he returns WED to his dreams of London and Ambrosia. Read by Stephen WED Tompkinson. WED WED 14:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b0148rvv (Listen) WED Majorca WED Sir Harry Secombe recalls his idyllic holiday home in WED Majorca and his not-so-idyllic command of Spanish. WED WED 15:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlqq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b055v4s6 (Listen) WED Cerys Matthews, BBC School Report and A Monster Calls WED Musician and broadcaster Cerys Matthews reveals her WED Inheritance Tracks and there's more from current story A WED Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness. WED WED 17:00 Flying the Flag b007jx83 (Listen) WED Series 1, Compromising Positions WED The British ambassador is suspicious over an embarrassing WED photo of William. Stars Dinsdale Landen and Peter Acre. From WED May 1987. WED WED 17:30 Believe It! b03mg87c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 18:00 So Wrong It's Right b0106v13 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076kl4 (Listen) WED Alter Egos WED Matthew Parris welcomes three guests. Or is it more? John WED Fortune, Martin Newell and Pauline Black explore identity. WED From March 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b00zn2fv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00t9zpz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd9h8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055qt0k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00826ct (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0fzn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Chain Reaction b054qfjd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00dbsqc (Listen) WED Series 2, Hospital Appointment WED The showbiz legend has got hospital tests, and says his WED goodbyes in case the worst happens. Stars Steve Delaney. WED From March 2007. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05njlqm (Listen) WED From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club WED has two hours of comedy. Plus Tiff Stevenson chats again to WED Joel Dommett. WED WED 23:00 The Maltby Collection b00m67w1 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. WED Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer WED Prunella Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins WED Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond WED Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern WED Eva Tattle ...... Julia Deakin WED Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley WED Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo WED Gloria Brindle ...... Helen Atkinson Wood. WED WED 23:30 The Penny Dreadfuls Present b00gpbcq (Listen) WED The Brothers Faversham, Augustus Faversham WED The story of Victorian Britain's most celebrated magician. WED The comedy trio's swashbuckling family romp. From February WED 2008. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 MARCH 2015 THU THU 00:00 15 Minute Drama b04hyrpx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01gg8h6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01fbfx5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b0148rvv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 So Wrong It's Right b0106v13 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Off the Page b0076kl4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jd9h8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b055qt0k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlqq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00826ct (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:15 Afternoon Drama b00t0fzn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Flying the Flag b007jx83 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Believe It! b03mg87c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jdp91 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Seat of Evil THU When a much-loved Scottish comic is killed in the street by THU a falling safe, it looks like an unlucky one-off accident. THU But then there are more celebrity killings and a pattern THU starts to emerge. THU Is it a brand new case for Boxer and Doberman - or a THU continuation of the one they're on already? The plot THU thickens like fog on the Clyde..... THU Alastair Jessiman's gritty comedy police drama stars Finlay THU Welsh as DI Bob Boxer, Anita Vettesse as DC Shona Doberman THU and James Bryce as DCI Paton. THU DC Shauna Doberman is regarded as the smart one in the THU crime-fighting duo, whilst DI Bob Boxer is the grizzled THU old-school cop, who aims to reach the right conclusion. THU Producer: David Jackson Young. THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Radio Scotland. THU First broadcast in March 2009. THU THU 06:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b05925gr (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU The playwright endures drama with the press and new wave THU theatre, but enjoys his 70th birthday. Reader Simon Cadell. THU From May 1996. THU THU 07:00 The Pickerskill Reports b01381nf (Listen) THU Series 2, Richard and Gregory Severin THU Written by Andrew McGibbon. THU It is the late forties and Gregory and Richard Severin, soon THU to head off to university, become entranced by the in-vogue THU teachings of Lenin, Marx, Engels and Trotsky and the Soviet THU experiment. THU In a bid to save himself from being bored to death by their THU endless Spartist dogma, Pickerskill uses a detention with THU them to say that he is secretly one of them - a communist, THU and that they must remain silent until he gives them the THU signal to join him in the vanguard of the great British THU workers proletarian rebellion. Unfortunately, his false THU pledge of allegiance is overheard by the cook of Castlereagh THU House who happens to be the daughter of a murdered White THU Russian anti-communist. THU Cast: THU Dr Henry Pickerskill ....... Ian McDiarmid THU Richard Severin ........Tom Kane THU Gregory Severin ...... James Rowland THU A.R.F. Somerset Stephenson ....... Mike Sarne THU Mrs Stroove ...... Mia Soteriou THU Cartwright/Dawson .......Toby Longworth THU The Colonel/Pyotr Stroove ...... Andrew McGibbon THU Producers: Nick Romero and Andrew McGibbon THU Directed by Andrew McGibbon THU A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mqq6h (Listen) THU Series 2, Kognitia THU by Bill Dare THU Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel THU documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit THU after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre THU adventures. This week, he relives his experiences in THU Kognitia where selective memory is taken to a new extreme. THU Brian Gulliver ..... Neil Pearson THU Rachel Gulliver ..... Mariah Gale THU Kalmena ..... Debra Stephenson THU Lamet ..... Duncan Wisbey THU Door ..... Harry Livingstone THU PA ..... Amaka Okafor THU Producer ..... Steven Canny THU This is the second series of this satirical adventure story THU from Bill Dare. The series has attracted an excellent cast THU led by Neil Pearson and including, Duncan Wisby, Vicki THU Pepperdine, Lisa Dillon, Colin Hoult, Toby Longworth, Adrian THU Scarborough, Dan Tetsell, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Debra THU Stephenson, Colin Hoult, Nina Conti, Jo Bobin and Marcus THU Brigstocke. THU For years Bill Dare wanted to create a satire about THU different worlds exploring Kipling's idea that we travel, THU 'not just to explore civilizations, but to better understand THU our own'. But science fiction and space ships never THU interested him, so he put the idea on ice. Then Brian THU Gulliver arrived and meant that our hero could be lost in a THU fictional world without the need for any sci-fi. THU Gulliver's Travels is the only book Bill Dare read at THU university. His father, Peter Jones, narrated a similarly THU peripatetic radio series: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the THU Galaxy. THU THU 08:00 Brothers in Law b0599zby (Listen) THU Series 1, Reasonable Doubt THU Can rookie barrister Roger Thursby cope with his first case THU using a jury? THU Starring Richard Briers as Roger Thursby, Richard Waring as THU Henry Blagrove and Ann Davies as Sally Mannering. THU With guest star Peter Jones as Daniel Wright. THU Adapted for radio by Richard Waring from the BBC TV scripts. THU Restored from BBC Transcription Service tapes - originally THU edited for sale abroad. THU Published in 1955, Henry Cecil's comic legal novel Brothers THU in Law was adapted first for TV in 1962 by Frank Muir and THU Denis Norden. It provided the first regular starring role THU for Richard Briers, who later reprised his role of the THU idealistic young lawyer Roger Thursby for BBC Radio between THU 1970 and 1972. THU Produced by David Hatch. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1970. THU THU 08:30 Not in Front of the Children b059c408 (Listen) THU Series 1, The George Washington Complex THU Can the idea of honesty gain sway in the Corner household? THU Starring Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, Francis Matthews as THU Henry Corner, Charlotte Mitchell as Mary and Fanny Rowe as THU Mother. THU The comedy mishaps of the Corner family: Jennifer and Henry THU and their three children Trudi, Amanda and Robin. Family THU sitcom, Not in Front of the Children originally ran for four THU series from 1967 to 1970 on BBC TV. Richard Waring adapted THU his own scripts for this radio version, now fully restored THU from the original reel-to-reel tapes. THU Wendy Craig won a Best Actress BAFTA award for the TV THU version of Not in Front of the Children in 1969. This was THU the first of several housewife roles that Wendy Craig was to THU play on television. Later series included And Mother Makes THU Three and Butterflies. THU Music by Ronnie Hazlehurst THU Producer: Trafford Whitelock. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1969. THU THU 09:00 It's Your Round b01946wq (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Another panel of comedians endeavour to beat each other at THU their own games, watched over by Angus Deayton. THU The rounds this episode include: THU Will Self's "What's In My Hand?"...further explanation THU unnecessary. THU Glyes Brandreth's "It's My Party", in which panellists must THU all pitch their own, new political party. THU Sara Pascoe's "Tax Loss Entertainment", in which panellists THU must improvise the worst play in history. THU Arthur Smith's "How Much Would It Cost For You To?", a THU refinement of a game he's played before in which panellists THU must guess the money they'd require in order to complete THU various unpleasant tasks. THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU Credits THU Presenter: Angus Deayton THU Panellist: Will Self THU Panellist: Gyles Brandreth THU Panellist: Sara Pascoe THU Panellist: Arthur Smith THU Producer: Sam Michell THU THU 09:30 House on Fire b01462bv (Listen) THU Series 2, Death THU The return of the comedy series written by Dan Hine and THU Chris Sussman. THU Times are hard and the mortgage is overdue. Matt and Vicky THU believe the only logical thing to do is to fake Matt's death THU and claim on the insurance. Meanwhile, Colonel Bill receives THU an offer he absolutely cannot refuse -from The Queen. THU Cast: THU Vicky ..... Emma Pierson THU Matt .... Jody Latham THU Colonel Bill ..... Rupert Vansittart THU Peter ..... Philip Jackson THU Julie ..... Janine Duvitski THU Hans ...... Stephen Mangan THU Insurance/Driving Instructor/ THU Royal Attendant/Priest ..... Colin Hoult THU Additional characters will be played by Colin Hoult THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlr6 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Clinging to her sons, unhappy Gertrude is jealous of Paul's THU success and friendship with Miriam. Stars Elizabeth THU Estensen. THU Credits THU Actor: Repeated 2.30pm(13) THU THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cv (Listen) THU Alan Howard Reads, The Family Friend THU By Marina Warner. Egypt 1901, some English army officers THU indulge in fox-hunting. Read by popular veteran actor Alan THU Howard. THU THU 11:15 Mrs Bradley - The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop THU b00943r6 (Listen) THU An Offal Discovery THU When Rupert Sethleigh vanishes, Gladys Mitchell's amateur THU sleuth Mrs Bradley probes alarming village events. Stars THU Mary Wimbush. THU THU 12:00 Brothers in Law b0599zby (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Not in Front of the Children b059c408 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jdp91 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b05925gr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04hz49m (Listen) THU Marcy Kahan - Lunch, Other People THU by Marcy Kahan THU Whilst Bella contemplates potential motherhood Bill is THU having parental problems of his own. THU Directed by Sally Avens. THU Credits THU Bill: Stephen Mangan THU Bella: Claire Skinner THU Director: Sally Avens THU Writer: Marcy Kahan THU THU 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01ghc4h (Listen) THU New Science, Old Magic THU Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues THU his new object-based history. Taking artefacts from William THU Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean THU playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing THU world in which they lived. THU With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of THU political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil THU asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they THU were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to THU explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the THU public and helped shape the works, and he considers what THU they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of THU Shakespearean England. THU Programme 9. NEW SCIENCE, OLD MAGIC - Dr Dee's Mirror was THU actually a highly polished disk of black obsidian from THU Mexico but it reflects the Elizabethan fascination with the THU new sciences of cosmology and astrology. THU Producer: Paul Kobrak. THU THU 14:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01fcqlh (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU As he goes to perform his pub act, things get even more THU complicated for the three-timing romeo. Read by Stephen THU Tompkinson. THU THU 14:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b0148wfr (Listen) THU Variety and Comedians THU Sir Harry Secombe remembers his early stage career in THU variety and recalls his friendship with a young Tony THU Hancock. THU THU 15:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlr6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b05gtzwv (Listen) THU Children's Dens, Keep It in the Family and A Monster Calls THU Mel Giedroyc goes into hiding with a guide to building the THU perfect children's den, and David Hayman reads the next THU episode of A Monster Calls, by Patrick Ness. THU THU 17:00 No Commitments b00t3twn (Listen) THU Series 4, Two at a Time THU Victoria is convinced Anna is having a secret affair, while THU Charlotte heads for a fall. Stars Celia Imrie. From August THU 1996. THU THU 17:30 The Pickerskill Reports b01381nf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 18:00 It's Your Round b01946wq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076h63 (Listen) THU Noel Coward THU 4 Extra Debut. TV producer Peter Bazalgette chooses the THU actor, lyricist and playwright, Noel Coward. With Humphrey THU Carpenter. From October 2003. THU THU 19:00 Brothers in Law b0599zby (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Not in Front of the Children b059c408 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jdp91 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b05925gr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Mrs Bradley - The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop THU b00943r6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Brian Gulliver's Travels b01mqq6h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b05gv7zm (Listen) THU Series 12, Episode 4 THU This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into THU sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to THU make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00j7vtm (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 6 THU Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in hell. THU Satan has worked out how to return Baby Patrick to Earth THU behind God's back. But God has eyes in his back and is now THU feeling pretty wrathful. THU Satan ...... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ...... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville THU God ...... Timothy West THU With Mike Fenton Stevens, Philip Pope and Felicity Montagu. THU THU 23:30 Hut 33 b00lxzyd (Listen) THU Series 1, Food THU The Bletchley Park code-breakers think of some new ways to THU improve wartime rations. Stars Robert Bathurst. From July THU 2007. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 MARCH 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 15 Minute Drama b04hz49m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01ghc4h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01fcqlh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b0148wfr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 It's Your Round b01946wq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Great Lives b0076h63 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Boxer and Doberman b00jdp91 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Noel Coward - From His Diaries b05925gr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlr6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:15 Mrs Bradley - The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop FRI b00943r6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 No Commitments b00t3twn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Pickerskill Reports b01381nf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Steve May - Last Man Out b00755g9 (Listen) FRI At the end of a night of jazz, only the drummer and the bar FRI manager remain, packing up and picking over the ruins of FRI their lives. FRI Starring Louise Lombard as Gill and Donald Sumpter as Henry. FRI Drums: Damian Grant FRI Director: Ned Chaillet FRI First broadcast in BBC Radio 4's Thirty Minute Theatre in FRI January 1998. FRI FRI 06:30 City Messengers b00d028s (Listen) FRI Documentary following the lives of two of London's 400 cycle FRI couriers, whose working day is spent delivering packages FRI across the city. The job is badly paid and the risk of FRI serious injury is relatively high, yet there is a thriving FRI sub-culture of people who have chosen the freedom of the FRI road above the security of the office. FRI FRI 07:00 Living With the Enemy b00771zg (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI Sitcom written by and starring Nick Revell and Gyles FRI Brandreth as an alternative comedian turned holistic FRI therapist and a Tory MP turned media figure. FRI 6/6. A night out celebrating turns to disaster for everyone. FRI FRI 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mqqb1 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his FRI hit sketch show. FRI The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by FRI The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny FRI sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It FRI featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive FRI relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people FRI who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr FRI Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. FRI Of those things, this episode includes another sketch about FRI how the Archers sounds to people who don't listen to the FRI Archers, as well a song about a dog and a sketch about a FRI mathematician's agent. FRI John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars FRI John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, FRI Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. Original music FRI is by Susannah Pearse. It is produced by Ed Morrish. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0186wj0 (Listen) FRI The Blackboard Jungle FRI The lad becomes a young schoolmaster in a school full of FRI juvenile delinquents. Stars Tony Hancock. Recovered episode FRI from November 1955. FRI FRI 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b011qfrb (Listen) FRI The Finger of Suspicion FRI Civil servant Lamb is inconvenienced over collecting takings FRI from the public loos. Stars Richard Murdoch. From September FRI 1971. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b016lbpt (Listen) FRI Series 4, Horne, Wheeler, De Botton FRI Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of FRI Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and the intensely curious FRI comedian Dave Gorman. FRI This week's guests: FRI Alex Horne is a comedian and writer. He co-presents the FRI anarchic BBC4 comedy panel show We Need Answers with Tim Key FRI and Mark Watson. Alex may have started his career as a FRI stand-up comic by winning a Christmas cracker joke writing FRI competition. Since then, his life has been one long FRI experiment, the biggest of which is a project to become the FRI oldest man in the world. He is still alive to this day and FRI climbing up the chart by a hundred places every minute. Alex FRI is also developing his own unique form of beard and has been FRI trying for some time to get a new word of his own invention FRI into the Oxford English Dictionary. FRI Sara Wheeler is a traveller and travel writer who has been FRI described as the new Eric Newby. Her travel books include FRI Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica; Travels in a Thin FRI Country; and the biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, a polar FRI explorer who himself wrote a moving account of his own FRI experience as a survivor of Scott's disastrous 1912 FRI Antarctic expedition. Sara often speaks on behalf of the FRI disenfranchised nomadic peoples of the arctic, such as the FRI Chukchi, who live in the far North Eastern tip of Siberia. FRI When not travelling, Wheeler lives with her family in FRI London. FRI Alain de Botton is a writer of essayistic books that have FRI been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life' and have FRI been bestsellers in 30 countries. Alain also started and FRI helps to run The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision FRI of education. Alain started writing at a young age. His FRI first book, Essays in Love [titled On Love in the US], was FRI published when he was 23.Alain's next book is titled FRI Religion for Atheists. FRI FRI 09:30 The Cavity Within b00770ns (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Dentist Marty has high hopes for a relationship. The zoo FRI brings out the animal in Pete. Stars Chris O'Dowd. From FRI October 2006. FRI FRI 10:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlrk (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI Gertrude clings to her son Paul, who now turns to a new FRI lover, yet his first love is not forgotten. Stars Benedict FRI Sandiford. FRI Credits FRI Actor: Repeated 2.30pm(13) FRI FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cw (Listen) FRI Alan Howard Reads, The Sentence FRI By Nina Raine. A judge looks back on his childhood and a FRI story that he told his children. Read by Alan Howard. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Alan Howard FRI Writer: Nina Raine FRI FRI 11:15 Mrs Bradley - The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop FRI b00947vh (Listen) FRI The Bones of the Matter FRI With Rupert Sethleigh still missing, can amateur sleuth Mrs FRI Bradley solve the mystery of a headless corpse? Stars Mary FRI Wimbush. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0186wj0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b011qfrb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Steve May - Last Man Out b00755g9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 City Messengers b00d028s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 15 Minute Drama b04hyvtm (Listen) FRI Marcy Kahan - Lunch, The Whole Enchilada FRI by Marcy Kahan FRI Bella has made some life changing decisions but Bill has an FRI announcement of his own. FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI Credits FRI Bill: Stephen Mangan FRI Bella: Claire Skinner FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Writer: Marcy Kahan FRI FRI 14:15 Shakespeare's Restless World b01ghgk3 (Listen) FRI Toil and Trouble FRI Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, continues FRI his object-based history. Taking artefacts from William FRI Shakespeare's time, he explores how Elizabethan and Jacobean FRI playgoers made sense of the unstable and rapidly changing FRI world in which they lived. FRI With old certainties shifting around them, in a time of FRI political and religious unrest and economic expansion, Neil FRI asks what the plays would have meant to the public when they FRI were first performed. He uses carefully selected objects to FRI explore the great issues of the day that preoccupied the FRI public and helped shape the works, and he considers what FRI they can reveal about the concerns and beliefs of FRI Shakespearean England. FRI Programme 10. TOIL AND TROUBLE - The differences between FRI Scottish and English witches are revealed by a model ship, FRI made to be hung in a church. FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 14:30 Keith Waterhouse - Billy Liar b01f9wj6 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Billy's fantasies have all been exposed. Will he leave to FRI start a new life in London? Concluded by Stephen Tompkinson. FRI FRI 14:45 Sir Harry Secombe - Goon Abroad b01494gh (Listen) FRI Sports and Swansea FRI Goon Show star Sir Harry Secombe recalls his school days in FRI Wales and lessons in sportsmanship, and makes a few FRI confessions. FRI FRI 15:00 DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers b007jlrk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 4 O'Clock Show b05h3c3q (Listen) FRI Danny Wallace, Keep It in the Family and A Monster Calls FRI Author Danny Wallace discusses his debut children's novel FRI Hamish and the Worldstoppers. Plus the next chapter of A FRI Monster Calls, by award-winning author Patrick Ness. FRI FRI 17:00 Beachcomber... By the Way b0082ckc (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 4 FRI JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, FRI Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From April FRI 1989. FRI FRI 17:30 Living With the Enemy b00771zg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 18:00 The Museum of Curiosity b016lbpt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Books b0132tgd (Listen) FRI Series 2, Zoe Wicomb FRI 2/4 FRI Zoe Wicomb was born and raised in South Africa and has lived FRI in Scotland since 1994. She's taught in the Department of FRI English Studies at the University of Strathclyde and now FRI concentrates on writing. FRI Her latest book, You Can't get Lost in Cape Town is a FRI collection of short stories about growing up as a young FRI coloured woman in South Africa. FRI Zoe talked to Stuart about these five books: FRI 1. The Children's Bible FRI 2. Toni Morrison - Beloved. FRI 3. Flannery O'Connor -A Good Man Is Hard to Find. FRI 4. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart. FRI 5. Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b0186wj0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b011qfrb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Steve May - Last Man Out b00755g9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 City Messengers b00d028s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00826cw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Mrs Bradley - The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop FRI b00947vh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mqqb1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 The League Against Tedium b007tm2l (Listen) FRI Episode 6 FRI A message from the holy land! Bamboozling blur of oddball FRI comedy and easy listening, with Simon Munnery. From February FRI 1997. FRI FRI 23:30 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01ckgh4 (Listen) FRI Series 1, About Moving Out FRI Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing tells the story of young, FRI up-and-coming comedian Nathan Caton, who becomes the first FRI in his family to graduate from University - only to opt for FRI a career in comedy - much to his family's annoyance who want FRI him to get a 'proper job' using his architecture degree. FRI Each episode is designed to show the criticism, interference FRI and rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his family FRI as he pursues his career against their wishes. The series is FRI a mix of Nathan's stand-up intercut with scenes from his FRI family life. FRI In Episode Two; Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About Moving FRI Out, Nathan decides it's time to leave home. But, can he FRI find somewhere to live and will his mother allow him to FRI leave? FRI Cast FRI Nathan ..... Nathan Caton FRI Grandma ..... Mona Hammond FRI Mum ..... Adjoa Andoh FRI Dad ..... Curtis Walker FRI Reverend Williams ..... Don Gilet FRI James ..... Ola FRI Written by: Nathan Caton FRI Additional material by: Ola and Maff Brown FRI Script Editor: James Kettle FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 23:45 Tina C b019fyqw (Listen) FRI Tina C's Global Depression Tour, Iceland FRI Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US FRI Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former FRI CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can FRI come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets FRI off on a six country tour to prove it. FRI This week she visits Iceland. FRI Tina C ...Christopher Green FRI With Sigrun Davidsdottir and Victoria Inez Hardy FRI Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher FRI Green FRI Director Jeremy Mortimer. FRI
13 March, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 14/03/2015 - 20/03/2015
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