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SAT SATURDAY 30 MAY 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Mark Gatiss - The Devil in Amber b00vfjsh (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Time is running out for spy-hero Lucifer Box. Can he reach SAT the evil Olympus Mons' lair in time to save the world? SAT Concluded by the author Mark Gatiss. SAT SAT 00:30 My Life in Five Songs b01d2fq2 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Kate Rusby SAT Kate Rusby's been described as one of the most talented folk SAT singers of her generation. SAT Headlining at many national folk festivals and touring SAT widely she's built a loyal following of fans and is one of SAT our best known contemporary folk singers. SAT Her unwavering love of folk music hasn't stopped her SAT collaborating with other well-known musicians and singers SAT including Eddi Reader, Roddie Woomble and Ronan Keating. SAT Kate's recording of the Ray Davis song The Village Green SAT Preservation Society was used as the theme tune for the SAT successful TV series Jam and Jerusalem. SAT Kate tells Phil Cunningham about her five special songs and SAT reveals a newly found skill. She's a dab hand at stripping SAT wallpaper and painting having recently restored a house in SAT her home village which is now her family home. SAT Phil starts with Kate's song 'I Courted a Sailor' and Kate SAT goes on to pick these five songs. SAT 1: Nic Jones - Little Pot Stove SAT 2: Hot Rize- Won't You Come and Sing For Me SAT 3: The Cardigans- Lead Me into the Night SAT 4: Aberfeldy- Slow Me Down SAT 5: Damien O'Kane- Summer Hill. SAT SAT 01:00 Julie Enfield Investigates b007jxtt (Listen) SAT Terminus, Episode 5 SAT The "Lucky Charm" killer has claimed 4 lives. DS Enfield now SAT believes the murderer is female. Then someone sends her a SAT photograph... SAT Atmospheric thriller written by Nick Fisher. SAT Starring Imelda Staunton as Julie Enfield, Nicholas Farrell SAT as Michael Stanley, Dominic Letts as Terminus and Maggie SAT McCarthy as Sarah. SAT Producer: Richard Wortley SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1994. SAT SAT 01:30 Star Wars on the South Bank b00rtbg2 (Listen) SAT Almost thirty years ago serious plans were made to simulate SAT a Mars colony on the Southbank of the River Thames. Such an SAT outrageous idea would be dismissed outright if it wasn't SAT dreamt up by one of Britain's greatest social reformers - SAT Michael Young. SAT Lord Young of Dartington, who died in 2002, was committed to SAT building institutions dedicated to social improvement. He SAT initiated or played a major role in creating the Consumers' SAT Association, the Open University, as well as Labour's 1945 SAT manifesto - Let us face the future. But then in 1984 he SAT launched the Argo Venture, a collective of Britain's finest SAT scientists, thinkers and space experts who were calling for SAT the planting of human colonies in space. His son, the author SAT and journalist Toby Young, asks was the Argo Venture an idea SAT too far? SAT He recruited an amazing cast of volunteers; the Scientist SAT James Lovelock, the astronomer Lord Martin Rees and the SAT Science writer Nigel Calder amongst others. Young's legacy SAT was indisputably great but was this latter-day Georgian SAT folly, born of a grandee legendary enthusiasm? Was the whole SAT project set for failure? Could a serious British Mars SAT Programme exemplify the spirit of the early 21st century? SAT In this programme Toby Young talks to Lord Martin Rees, SAT Professor Colin Pillinger and hears from passionate SAT advocates of Martian colonisation, but what was his father SAT looking for in Space? SAT Produced by Barney Rowntree SAT A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00t5kln (Listen) SAT Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 5 SAT Tishani Doshi's comic yet tender story of four generations SAT of the Patel-Joneses, inspired by her own Welsh-Gujarati SAT background. SAT Babo and Sian are living happily in their own house, with SAT orange and black gates, next door to the Punjab Women's SAT Association. Now they have two small daughters, Mayuri and SAT Bean. When Bean is taken to Grandmother Ba's house for her SAT naming ceremony, Ba warns the young parents that they'd SAT better stop there because Bean will keep their hands full, SAT at which the tiny baby laughs, her first proper laugh. By SAT the time she's six, she's regularly seeing ghosts. Then Sian SAT gets a phone call - it's bad news from Wales. SAT The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the SAT 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello SAT in Torchwood. SAT Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis SAT Producer: Kate McAll. SAT SAT 02:15 The Making of Music b007r038 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Haydn and the Esterhazys SAT James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical SAT influences that affected the course of classical music. SAT 20/30. Haydn and the Esterhazys SAT Employed by the hugely wealthy Esterhazy family, Joseph SAT Haydn lived mainly in their isolated palace and produced SAT music on demand. Of his prolific output, Haydn himself SAT admitted that he was cut off from the outside world and SAT forced to become original. SAT SAT 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmqj (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Marius finds student life is both happy and harsh. Valjean SAT and Cosette have a tough decision to make. With Roger Allam. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00t3cyw (Listen) SAT Jackie Kay - Red Dust Road, Episode 5 SAT Acclaimed poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents in a SAT journey from Scotland to Lagos. SAT Jackie reads the final extract from her memoir, including an SAT emotional conclusion to her Nigerian odyssey. SAT Producer/Abridger: Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited b007k2r7 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Charles is pleased to spot Julia on the ship, but his SAT relationship with the Marchmains faces stormy waters. Stars SAT Jamie Bamber. SAT SAT 04:00 The National Theatre of Brent's Iconic Icons SAT b0132l7g (Listen) SAT The Dalai Lama, or How the West Was Won SAT The multi award winning National Theatre of Brent - Artistic SAT Director Desmond Olivier Dingle and the entire acting SAT company (Raymond Box) - returns triumphantly to Radio 4 in SAT the last of an occasional series celebrating the rare but SAT rarefied beings deemed in Desmond's expert view to be Iconic SAT Icons. Previous celebratees include Bob Dylan and Tracey SAT Emin. SAT The final and climactic iconic icon is his holiness the SAT Dalai Lama. Desmond and Raymond trace his journey from two SAT year old yak boy to disaffected teenage Dalai to the mature SAT Lama, exiled from his country, separated from his people, SAT but spiritually at one with himself and the world, and SAT possessor of a top twinkly smile. They also present Buddhism SAT in a Nutshell. SAT Written and performed by the National Theatre of Brent, who SAT are Patrick Barlow and John Ramm, in front of an audience at SAT the Bush Hall in London, this latest addition to the Brent SAT canon will be as essential and massive a contribution to the SAT current artistic and spiritual life of this country as the SAT rest of their work. And, of course it will be very funny. SAT Desmond Olivier Dingle ..... Patrick Barlow SAT Raymond Box ..... John Ramm SAT Director: Patrick Barlow SAT Producer: Liz Anstee SAT A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:30 On Baby Street b00f3c0g (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 4 SAT Yvette's dad takes Kelly out. Unlike Ian, Shona adores SAT Beatrix Potter. Stars Kathy Burke and Jenny Eclair. From SAT January 1996. SAT SAT 05:00 Lucky Heather b0075s9h (Listen) SAT Unforgiven SAT Western fan and Sutter Estate barmaid Heather looks for a SAT widower's first love. Stars Lindsey Coulson. From February SAT 2000. SAT SAT 05:30 The Rivals b03b2g2b (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Problem of the Superfluous Finger SAT By Jaques Futrelle. SAT Dramatised By Chris Harrald. SAT Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock SAT Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a SAT chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He SAT begins with his collaboration with "The Thinking Machine" SAT Professor SFX Van Dusen, trying to solve a strange case SAT involving self-mutilation. SAT Producer: Liz Webb. SAT Credits SAT Lestrade: Tim Pigott-Smith SAT Van Dusen: Paul Rhys SAT Mrs Morey: Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT Dr Prescott: Sean Murray SAT Miss Marsh: Philippa Stanton SAT Hoskins: Ben Crowe SAT Producer: Liz Webb SAT Adaptor: Chris Harrald SAT Author: Jacques Futrelle SAT SAT 06:00 A Bequest to the Nation b012f8bl (Listen) SAT Lord Nelson's passionate affair with vulgar Emma Hamilton SAT sparks family conflict. Terrence Rattigan's play stars Anna SAT Massey. SAT SAT 07:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01jwk8q (Listen) SAT The Reluctant Jester, From the Ridiculous to the Paranormal SAT More memories of original Goon, Michael Bentine. Australia SAT and New York, plus some outrageous showbiz pals. From SAT November 1994. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b00765kl (Listen) SAT Twice Nightly SAT 4 Extra Debut. Stan Stennett recreates the British variety SAT theatre's heyday, revisiting its greatest moments and SAT enduring stars. From December 2001. SAT SAT 09:00 Brian Johnston - An Innings with Johnners b01kkldw (Listen) SAT Rory Bremner takes to the crease to celebrate the life and SAT career of Brian Johnston with contributions and memories SAT from his colleagues, friends and contacts. SAT The programme selection includes: SAT Summers Will Never Be the Same - from Test Match Special - a SAT look back at the life of Johnners broadcast after he passed SAT away in 1994. SAT Trivia Test Match from Meopham in Kent. Johnners umpires a SAT test of wit and general knowledge. With Tim Rice, Willie SAT Rushton, Barry Cryer and Bernard Cribbins. SAT Hancock's Half Hour. The Monte Carlo Rally SAT Tony Hancock competes in the famous motor race in a very SAT classic car - provided by Sid. The rally commentator is SAT Brian Johnston. SAT Johnners goes 'Down Your Way'. Selected series highlights of SAT wonderful characters and stories. Complied by Barry SAT Johnston. SAT Twenty Questions. Terry Wogan chairs the popular quiz SAT series, featuring Brian Johnston, Willie Rushton, Bettine Le SAT Beau and Anona SAT The End of the Innings - music, mirth and memories SAT celebrating the life of Brian. With Jonathan Agnew, Farokh SAT Engineer, David Essex, Barry Johnston, Neil Durden-Smith, SAT Terry Wogan and Brian himself. Made in 2012. SAT SAT 12:00 The Navy Lark b0109dss (Listen) SAT In Portsmouth for a Refit SAT The crew of HMS Troutbridge are all at sea when the island SAT base is closed. SAT Starring Stephen Murray as the Number One, Jon Pertwee as SAT the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the SAT Sub-Lieutenant and Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and SAT Lieutenant Commander Stanton. SAT Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS SAT Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen SAT series between 1959 and 1976 SAT Scripted by Lawrie Wyman SAT Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1960. SAT SAT 12:30 Dad's Army b007q93v (Listen) SAT Series 1, No Spring for Frazer SAT When Frazer loses a Lewis gun's butterfly spring, he must SAT track down a coffin. Adapted from TV with John Laurie. From SAT June 1974. SAT SAT 13:00 Amicable - Omnibus b05wz3h7 (Listen) SAT Can divorce really be amicable? Sally and Joe are about to SAT find out. Starring Con O'Neill and Christine Bottomley. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b0103zk2 (Listen) SAT Annie Lennox SAT The singer reveals her love of 'Waterloo Sunset' by the SAT Kinks, and the track she would hand on, 'A Whiter Shade of SAT Pale' by Procol Harum. SAT SAT 14:15 Daunt and Dervish b007jwty (Listen) SAT Series 1, A Question of Class SAT The detective duo return to their Covent Garden office in SAT London early one morning to discover an Oxford undergraduate SAT slumped on the doorstep wanting them to find the wallet he SAT left in a Soho house of ill repute. SAT Daunt's knowledge of his past makes her very suspicious of SAT later accusations that he's beaten a woman up. SAT With the Second World War over, former spies Josephine Daunt SAT and Susan Dervish are running their own detective agency. SAT Stars Imelda Staunton as Josephine Daunt, Anna Massey as SAT Susan Dervish, Bill Patterson as Bill Mackie and Scott Handy SAT as James 'Podger' Urquhart. SAT Format by Imelda Staunton and Anna Massey. Written by Guy SAT Meredith. SAT Producer: Cherry Cookson. Director: Janet Whitaker. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b00765kl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 A Bequest to the Nation b012f8bl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01jwk8q (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b05x22d1 (Listen) SAT The Wrath of the Iceni SAT Britain. The height of the Roman occupation. The Doctor has SAT brought Leela to ancient Norfolk to learn about her SAT ancestors... but has no idea how much of an education she is SAT going to get. SAT Because this is the time of Boudica's rebellion. When the SAT tribe of the Iceni rises up and attempts to overthrow the SAT Roman masters. SAT As Leela begins to be swayed by the warrior queen's words, SAT the Doctor has to make a decision: save his friend... or SAT save history itself? SAT Tom Baker is the Fourth Doctor, with his ancient warrior SAT companion, Leela, played by Louise Jameson. SAT Written by John Dorney and directed by Ken Bentley. SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 19:00 Brian Johnston - An Innings with Johnners b01kkldw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better SAT b00k9dc3 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Lust SAT The Welsh comedian sets out on his quest to free us from the SAT seven deadly sins. With Tim Key and Tim Minchin. SAT SAT 22:30 28 Acts in 28 Minutes b01nswqw (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT John Humphrys gives 28 performers 60 seconds to entertain. SAT With Sarah Millican, Scott Capurro and Roger McGough. From SAT June 2006. SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05xv6yf (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith is SAT joined by Jamali Maddix. SAT SAT 23:00 The Lee Mack Show b00bfq1c (Listen) SAT Midge Ure SAT The Ultravox star joins the quick-fire comic for stand-up, SAT sketches and music. With Angela McHale and Steve Brown. From SAT March 2005. SAT SAT 23:30 The Jason Byrne Show b01ghlh2 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Animals SAT The award-winning funny man muses on all beasts, including SAT humans. With Laurence Howarth and Daisy Haggard. From August SAT 2009. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 MAY 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b05x22d1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Amicable - Omnibus b05wz3h7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b0103zk2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Daunt and Dervish b007jwty (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b00765kl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 A Bequest to the Nation b012f8bl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Michael Bentine - The Reluctant Jester b01jwk8q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus b007jtt7 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Determined to rescue Fantine's child Cosette, Jean Valjean SUN begins a new life in Paris. Stars Joss Ackland and Roger SUN Allam. SUN SUN 07:15 The Old Road b0075r05 (Listen) SUN Journey's End SUN Patrick Muirhead retraces Hilaire Belloc's 1899 walk from SUN Winchester to Canterbury. Today he arrives in Canterbury. SUN From December 1999. SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b018jbpr (Listen) SUN Series 3, Arthur Goes Camping SUN The bumbling veteran prepares to face the elements, but can SUN he survive the wilderness? Stars Steve Delaney. From January SUN 2008. SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b007jrr2 (Listen) SUN From 01/11/1949 SUN Ted and Kitty bicker over too much toothpaste, plus news of SUN a curious will. Stars Ted Ray and Kitty Bluett. From SUN November 1949. SUN SUN 08:30 Thirty Minutes Worth b00r7q2v (Listen) SUN From 09/10/1988 SUN The comedian has got a new camera, and havoc awaits at a SUN wedding. Stars Harry Worth and Jacqueline Clarke. From SUN October 1988. SUN SUN 09:00 Channel Shore - Omnibus b05x26xr (Listen) SUN Tom Fort travels from the white cliffs of Dover to Land's SUN End in search of maritime tales. Read by Jonathan Coy. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b0106vf7 (Listen) SUN Colm Toibin SUN The writer inherits 'I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marbled Halls' sung SUN by Joan Sutherland, and passes on Bob Dylan's 'I Threw It SUN All Away'. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05x27d7 (Listen) SUN Eurovision at 60, Lulu SUN From David Bowie to Luciano Pavarotti, the singer shares her SUN choices with Michael Parkinson. From October 1987. SUN SUN 11:00 An Hour With... b05x27ty (Listen) SUN Hinge and Bracket SUN Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket celebrate their 21st SUN anniversary with a sell-out concert on 7th August 1994 at SUN Regent's Park Open Air Theatre in London. Their hilarious SUN performance includes anecdotes about their early days, SUN greetings cards from friends and well-wishers, and some of SUN their favourite songs. SUN The two elderly ladies recall how they got their first break SUN at the Edinburgh Festival, as well as some unfortunate SUN experiences staying at showbiz digs, and Dame Hilda's SUN concerns about her nephew Julian. SUN Their songs include 'We Said We Wouldn't Look Back' from SUN Salad Days, a Gilbert and Sullivan medley, and 'Land of Hope SUN and Glory'. SUN SUN 12:00 Ray's a Laugh b007jrr2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Thirty Minutes Worth b00r7q2v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus b007jtt7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 The Old Road b0075r05 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Sarah Hall - Wolf Border Omnibus b05x29w6 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN All is not well at Pennington Hall as Rachel's worst fears SUN come to pass. Compelling new novel about wilderness, family, SUN power and love. Read by Hattie Morahan. SUN SUN 15:45 Afternoon Reading b011bz70 (Listen) SUN The Pocket AA Milne, The Arrival of Blackman's Warbler SUN How to survive dinner parties by becoming an expert on SUN absolutely anything. SUN A hundred years ago, A.A. Milne was honing his writing SUN skills as Assistant Editor of Punch with his regular SUN humorous columns and essays. Perfect gems of the form, his SUN stories not only delight in the spirit of the age, they also SUN transcend the years with their insights. SUN Parodying the country-house weekend, with its uncomfortable SUN joys of evening games such as "Definitions", "The Complete SUN Kitchen" and "High Jinks at Happy-Thought Hall", Milne SUN captures the absurdity and vacuousness of characters in SUN transition from idle youth to the tedium of adulthood. SUN Of course, no country house weekend would have been complete SUN without "the little play for amateurs", perfectly formed SUN examples of which Milne supplies in read-aloud form. SUN When he re-published this collection of his humorous stories SUN much later in his career, he observed that for years his SUN younger self was "a model to which I was failing to live SUN up... in fact he became, as one's past is bound to become, SUN both a rival and a millstone." His talent for comic SUN observation that was to become evident in his tales of SUN Winnie-the-Pooh is obvious in these essays. SUN As he wrote himself by way of introduction: SUN "This little book contains the best of what my rival was SUN writing thirty years ago. I contemplate him now with SUN detachment. I have grown to appreciate his quality. So SUN impartial am I become, that I am torn between a desire to SUN tell him how very, very good he is, and a desire to re-write SUN his book for him. But I shall do neither, leaving him to SUN speak for himself." SUN Read by Ian McNeice SUN Abridged and Produced by Neil Cargill SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Marie Lloyd, Queen of the Halls b00g46xy (Listen) SUN Three husbands, but an adoring public coming out in SUN thousands for her funeral. Steve Trafford's play stars SUN Elizabeth Mansfield. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b018jbpr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Afternoon Drama b015zrrz (Listen) SUN All the Dark Corners, The Dying Wish SUN The Dying Wish SUN by Rosemary Kay SUN Fran and her partner Abe are befriended by a lonely old SUN woman, Joy, who lives in the flat above. SUN Joy persuades them to perform an ancient ritual after she's SUN died. They unwittingly agree without SUN realising the terrifying consequences of their action. A SUN quest for eternal life and the living dead SUN permeate this chilling horror story. SUN Directed by Pauline Harris. SUN Credits SUN Fran: Sarah Smart SUN Abe: Jonathan Keeble SUN David: Robert Pickavance SUN Joy: Janice McKenzie SUN Jack: James Quinn SUN Director: Pauline Harris SUN Writer: Rosemary Kay SUN SUN 18:45 Afternoon Reading b013857g (Listen) SUN Summer Ghosts, Swings SUN "Yes, the ghosts you see at night, they're the souls - the SUN auras, if you like - of good people who didn't deserve to SUN die. That's why they're full of regret, and frightening. SUN Ghosts we see in broad daylight are the ones whose death SUN were right and fair - they've been redeemed by death. They SUN were evil while alive..." SUN In this series of commissioned stories the aim is to present SUN ghosts or ghostly happenings in the cold light of day. Will SUN something 'unexplained' be as as scary in a light that is... SUN well, reliable to the eye! SUN 3. Swings by Adam Thorpe. SUN Howard is alone when he visits the deserted playground. SUN Then something starts to make a squeaking noise... SUN Reader Kenneth Cranham SUN Producer Duncan Minshull. SUN SUN 19:00 An Hour With... b05x27ty (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Channel Shore - Omnibus b05x26xr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b0106vf7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b05x27d7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b018jbpr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Very Old Pretenders b014qq1t (Listen) SUN In Therapy SUN Written by multi award-winning writer Carl Gorham, creator SUN of cult TV animation show "Stressed Eric", the series SUN explores what happens when two Jacobite soldiers from 1745 SUN are found alive and well in a cave in Perthshire and have to SUN be integrated into modern Scottish society by English SUN academic Andrew Merron. SUN Friction between the two Jacobite soldiers comes to a head SUN and results in a bust-up with broadswords. This prompts SUN anthropologist Andrew Merron to introduce them to the modern SUN world of therapy. The two soldiers can't agree who should SUN have therapy first; they can't even agree how they should SUN decide who should have therapy first. It is only when they SUN are forced to live separately, with a dreary cousin of SUN Merron's and his fussy Uncle that Rab and Macdonald start to SUN realise each other's true merits. SUN Cast: SUN Andrew Merron......................David Haig SUN Denise Merron..................Rebecca Front SUN Rab /Therapist....................................Jack SUN Docherty SUN Macdonald/Uncle Jed........................Gordon Kennedy SUN Dougie / Waiter ......Moray Hunter SUN Keef Van Leer ..... Carl Gorham SUN Producer: Gordon Kennedy SUN An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:00 All the World's a Globe b007jwrt (Listen) SUN The Scythians and Mongols SUN From Vikings to Normans, the National Theatre of Brent SUN present their definitive history of Earth. Stars Patrick SUN Barlow. From May 1990. SUN SUN 23:15 This Is Craig Brown b00f8799 (Listen) SUN Communications SUN The world telephone premiere of Romeo and Juliet. The SUN satirist pokes fun, with Harry Enfield and Rory Bremner. SUN From March 2004. SUN SUN 23:30 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea b007k24f (Listen) SUN Series 2, Trapped SUN The elderly Scotsmen's first trip to London ends in chaos. SUN Stars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden, Alison Steadman and Jeremy SUN Hardy. From March 2004. SUN SUN 23:45 One b0077224 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 6 SUN Spoof shipping forecasts, Top Dog and the hapless SUN yachtswoman. More monologues penned by David Quantick. From SUN December 2006. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 JUNE 2015 MON MON 00:00 Afternoon Drama b015zrrz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 Afternoon Reading b013857g (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables Omnibus b007jtt7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 The Old Road b0075r05 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Sarah Hall - Wolf Border Omnibus b05x29w6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Afternoon Reading b011bz70 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Marie Lloyd, Queen of the Halls b00g46xy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b018jbpr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gyz (Listen) MON The Poetical Policeman MON Mr JG Reeder has the mind of a criminal, using it to uncover MON the peculiar circumstances surrounding a bank robbery, the MON death of the night-watchman and the part in the plot played MON by his beautiful daughter. MON This first story provides useful insight into the past of Mr MON JG Reeder. His novel methods bring the criminals of 1920s MON London to justice. MON Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best MON known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, MON in his lifetime, earned him the title, "King of the Modern MON Thriller." MON Although created at roughly the same time, Mr JG Reeder is MON the diametric opposite of Sam Spade, Philip Marlow and Mike MON Hammer. He is a shabbily dressed, diffident civil servant MON who prefers a cup of tea and a slice of seed cake to a shot MON of something stronger. MON Reeder is a uniquely English detective. An apparent MON fuddy-duddy working in some obscure capacity in the Public MON Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp intellect MON and is a super-sleuth. He solves his mysteries because he MON fully understands the "criminal mind". MON Read by David Horovitch MON Abridged for radio by Neville Teller MON Produced by Gemma Jenkins MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2007. MON MON 06:30 Britain in Their Sites b00khky6 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Tristram Hunt tells the story of architectural change in MON Britain over 60 years, tracing the country's changing idea MON of itself through three controversial public building MON projects. MON In 1948, Peterlee was the future, an exciting New Town MON planned by architect Berthold Lubetkin for the Durham miners MON he idolised. Tristram asks why Lubetkin, most famous for MON London Zoo's Penguin Pool, left Peterlee before a single MON house was built. MON As he looks back at Peterlee's troubled birth, Tristram MON dissects the furious debates which Lubetkin's failure MON sparked, and which marked the beginning of Britain's MON post-war architecture wars. MON MON 07:00 The Other Man b0076xfs (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON 4 Extra Debut. Travis meets Grace, the woman of his dreams. MON But she has one fatal flaw - a husband. Stars Julian MON Rhind-Tutt. From March 2006. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b05vx639 (Listen) MON Series 72, Episode 2 MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the perennially popular panel game in MON which guests Paul Merton, Alun Cochrane, Susan Calman and MON Gyles Brandreth attempt to talk for 60 seconds with no MON hesitation, repetition or deviation on such diverse topics MON as Nelson's Column and Alice in Wonderland. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON A BBC Comedy Production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Alun Cochrane MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007qrzs (Listen) MON Series 1, Sons of the Sea MON On river patrol, Mainwaring's platoon get lost in fog in the MON English Channel. Adapted from TV with Arthur Lowe. From June MON 1974. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b007k7j3 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON Jean and Lionel find that sharing a house is not all MON domestic bliss. MON Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. MON With Moira Brooker as Judith and Philip Bretherton as MON Alistair. MON A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series two of his MON popular BBC TV sitcom. Two former lovers Jean and Lionel MON have been reunited unexpectedly after losing contact for 38 MON years. MON After falling in love in the early 1950s, army officer MON Lionel was sent to Korea, but they lost touch after a letter MON he sent to her never arrived. Both assumed the other had MON lost interest, but their paths have crossed again on his MON return to England. MON Producer: Martin Fisher MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1998. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b00srjdg (Listen) MON From 21/06/2010 MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he MON quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects. MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Sam Bryant. MON MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00805vh (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 2 MON Pam's absent hubby returns, so Merv tries to woo his ex and MON find somewhere to live. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From November MON 2001. MON MON 10:00 Flashman at the Charge b00lh5th (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Renowned cad Sir Harry Flashman is sent terrified to the MON frozen wastes of the Crimea. Stars Angus Wright and Joss MON Ackland. MON MON 11:00 Ballads of Thin Men b0112fnt (Listen) MON Dig Yourself MON Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential MON cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - MON was 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin MON Men were commissioned specially to mark the occasion. MON Written by Nick Walker MON The Savoy Hotel, London, 1965. In the Iolanthe Room, MON Margaret is holding a meeting to prepare for a memorial MON function in honour of the recently-deceased Sir Winston MON Churchill. She uses flash-cards to help her small audience. MON Staying at the Savoy is 'a chap ... who plays the guitar MON which is quite nice,' And he's been using flash-cards too MON ... MON Nick Walker is part of Coventry-based mixed media MON experimentalists Talking Birds whose work has been presented MON extensively in the UK as well as in Sweden, Ireland, and the MON USA. He has worked with some of the country's leading new MON work theatre companies including Stan's Cafe, Insomniac, and MON Theatre Instituut Nederlands both in the UK and abroad. MON He is the author of two critically-acclaimed novels Blackbox MON and Helloland. His plays and short stories are often MON featured on BBC Radio 4 including Arnold In A Purple Haze MON (2009), the 'First King of Mars' stories (2007 - 2010) and MON the Afternoon Play Life Coach (2010), all of them Sweet Talk MON productions. MON Reader: Sarah Hadland MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00bzdgb (Listen) MON Nichola McAuliffe - The Incomparable Witness MON The Incomparable Witness MON Nichola McAuliffe's drama about Sir Bernard Spilsbury, the MON father of modern forensics and the most brilliant scientific MON detective of all time. MON The story focuses on Spilsbury as a young man and the case MON that made his name, the infamous trial of Doctor Crippen in MON 1910. MON Edith (Narrator) ...... Joanna David MON Bernard Spilsbury ...... Timothy Watson MON Edith (1900-1910) ...... Honeysuckle Weeks MON Willcox ...... Dan Starkey MON Lord Chief Justice ...... John Rowe MON Dr Pepper/Muir ...... Sam Dale MON Turnbull ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Tobin ...... Chris Pavlo MON George ...... Nyasha Hatendi MON Gertie ...... Helen Longworth MON Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007qrzs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b007k7j3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gyz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Britain in Their Sites b00khky6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v2w (Listen) MON Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 6 MON Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother MON and a Gujarati father, and this twin inheritance is at the MON heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel MON about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. MON On a perfectly ordinary day in September 1981, while the MON children are dressing up and playing at being Lady Di, Sian MON gets word from Wales - her father has died. When she goes MON back to Tan y Rhos for the funeral, Sian begins to realise MON just how much she has left behind. MON The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the MON 6 part BBC drama Luther. She previously played Suzie MON Costello in Torchwood. MON Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis MON Producer: Kate McAll. MON MON 14:15 The Making of Music b007rt6q (Listen) MON Series 1, Mozart MON James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical MON influences that affected the course of classical music. MON 21/30. Mozart MON In the middle of the 18th century composers needed patrons, MON but by the end of Mozart's life the world had changed. The MON composer as servant was becoming a thing of the past, and MON Mozart both benefited and suffered because of it. MON MON 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmrg (Listen) MON Episode 11 MON Valjean is nervous about Marius' pursuit of Cosette. Joss MON Ackland stars in Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism MON and love. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00t3t90 (Listen) MON Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice, Episode 1 MON It's never a smart idea to get on the bad side of the MON Yamagushi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime group. But MON when Jake Adelstein, a student from New Jersey, decides to MON join Japan's largest daily newspaper as a crime reporter, it MON isn't long before his investigations earn him some powerful MON enemies. MON Jack Klaff reads this gritty memoir by Jake Adelstein. MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC MON Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Flashman at the Charge b00lh5th (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b00srjdg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00805vh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Other Man b0076xfs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b05vx639 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008hvvp (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Tragedy strikes at the Opera House in 19th century Paris - MON home to a fabled ghost. MON Starring Anna Massey as Madame Giry, Peter Guinness as The MON Phantom, James D'Arcy as Raoul de Chagny Helen Goldwyn as MON Christine Daaé MON "The Phantom of the Opera" is a classic tale of murder, MON romance and suspense in 19th-century Paris. Gaston Leroux's MON original novel, "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra" was published in MON 1911 and it's never been out of print since. The subject of MON countless plays, films and musicals - this is the first MON adaptation to remaining utterly faithful to the spirit and MON plot of Leroux's original. There are many sequences here MON which have never appeared before in any adaptation. MON Leroux was a prolific writer in many genres, as well as MON being a playboy and globetrotter. But he started out as a MON journalist, which is how he came across the true stories MON forming the basis for the plot of "The Phantom of the MON Opera": a misshapen skeleton unearthed in the foundations of MON the Paris Opera House, a subterranean lake, a fatal accident MON with the chandelier and, of course, rumours of the Opera MON Ghost. MON This adaptation was the first version to include the correct MON operatic sequences referred to in the novel: arias from MON Charles Gounod's Faust and his Romeo et Juliette, and MON Desdemona's famous aria from Rossini's Otello. These were MON specially recorded by singers from the ENO and Opera Diva. MON In the novel, The Phantom performs a section of his own MON self-penned opera - Don Juan Triumphant - and this too is MON included in this adaptation, composed by classical musician MON Tim Sutton. Tim also wrote a new score for the entire MON adaptation with a theme tune played by violinist Ruth MON Rogers. MON Freshly translated, dramatised and produced by Barnaby MON Edwards. MON A Big Finish Production. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075q96 (Listen) MON Nicola Davies and Max Jarrett MON Bel Mooney and her guests novelist Nicola Davies and MON journalist Max Jarrett choose their three favourite MON paperbacks by Fannie Flagg, Ralph Ellison and Giles Foden. MON From 1999. MON Welcome to the World Baby Girl! by Fannie Flagg MON Publisher: Vintage MON The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden MON Publisher: Faber MON Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison MON Publisher: Penguin. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007qrzs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b007k7j3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gyz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Britain in Their Sites b00khky6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Ballads of Thin Men b0112fnt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00bzdgb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b05vx639 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b0075sym (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 8 MON Recorded in Manchester, John's guests are comedian Andrew MON Bailey, and presenters Mark Radcliffe and Marc Riley. From MON March 2000. MON MON 22:45 What to Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else MON b00tt68z (Listen) MON Series 1, Relationships and Family MON Looking at conventional living and pressures to conform, MON Andrew Lawrence probes settling down and families. From MON September 2010. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b05x8bxv (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 3 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi MON Toksvig, with regular panellist Jeremy Hardy and guests MON Francis Wheen, Helen Zaltzman and Rebecca Front. MON Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. MON A BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON 23:45 Crème de la Crime b007yvm3 (Listen) MON Series 1, The Bells and St Clement MON Michael Feydeau and David Pershore review the curious case MON of a fallen monk. Stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From MON October 2001. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 JUNE 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008hvvp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075q96 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gyz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Britain in Their Sites b00khky6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v2w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The Making of Music b007rt6q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmrg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00t3t90 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Flashman at the Charge b00lh5th (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b00srjdg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00805vh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Other Man b0076xfs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b05vx639 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gzy (Listen) TUE The Troupe TUE Mr Reeder, intrigued by the arrival in London of a TUE transatlantic visitor he knows to have managed a troupe of TUE actors, tries to get to the bottom of a jewellery fraud. TUE Mr JG Reeder has the mind of a criminal, His novel methods TUE bring the criminals of 1920s London to justice. TUE Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best TUE known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, TUE in his lifetime, earned him the title, "King of the Modern TUE Thriller." TUE Although created at roughly the same time, Mr JG Reeder is TUE the diametric opposite of Sam Spade, Philip Marlow and Mike TUE Hammer. He is a shabbily dressed, diffident civil servant TUE who prefers a cup of tea and a slice of seed cake to a shot TUE of something stronger. TUE Reeder is a uniquely English detective. An apparent TUE fuddy-duddy working in some obscure capacity in the Public TUE Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp intellect TUE and is a super-sleuth. He solves his mysteries because he TUE fully understands the "criminal mind". TUE Read by David Horovitch TUE Abridged for radio by Neville Teller TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2007. TUE TUE 06:30 Britain in Their Sites b00kmv8n (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Tristram Hunt tells the story of architectural change in TUE Britain over 60 years, tracing the country's changing idea TUE of itself through three controversial public building TUE projects. TUE In 1961, London's Euston Station and its famous Arch faced TUE demolition. A landmark building in the history of railway TUE architecture, battle raged over Euston's future. Prime TUE Minister Harold Macmillan was lobbied, banners were unfurled TUE and British Rail architects drew up plans for a new, more TUE modern station. TUE As he looks back at Euston's troubled reinvention, Tristram TUE dissects the furious debates sparked by the demolition and TUE asks what Euston tells us about the changing value of TUE Britain's past and our enthusiasm for the future. TUE TUE 07:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b00cfzqy (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 1 TUE Tommy and Sheila's sneaky agent schemes to sell off their TUE back catalogue. Stars Roy Hudd and June Whitfield. From June TUE 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 Mark Steel's in Town b05vy6ps (Listen) TUE Series 6, Melton Mowbray TUE 'Melton Mowbray - Rural Capital of Food' TUE Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a sixth series of the TUE award winning show that travels around the country, TUE researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns TUE that have nothing in common but their uniqueness, and TUE performs a bespoke evening of comedy for the local TUE residents. TUE In the second episode Mark visits the Leicestershire Town of TUE Melton Mowbray where he discovers that as well as being the TUE home of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie and Stilton Cheese, it TUE has also coincidentally, been officially ranked the most TUE obese area of Leicestershire. He looks at the history of fox TUE hunting in the area, meets several eccentric local residents TUE including a crime fighting milk man and he tries to get to TUE the bottom of who and what is the Melton Mowbray Town TUE Estate, a mysterious organisation established in 1549. TUE Written and performed by ... Mark Steel TUE Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair TUE Production co-ordinator ... Hayley Stirling TUE Producer ... Carl Cooper. TUE Credits TUE Performer: Mark Steel TUE Writer: Mark Steel TUE Writer: Pete Sinclair TUE Producer: Carl Cooper TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00j05x7 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 13 TUE Kenneth Horne Master Spy gets an Eiffel, while Julian and TUE Sandy offer some animal advice at their new shop in Chelsea, TUE Bona Pets. Rambling Sid Rumpo sings a special song of TUE Cornwall. 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 May 1965. TUE TUE 08:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05x8q7d (Listen) TUE From 31/08/1975 TUE Doddy looks at the world of togetherness and twosomes, as TUE only he can. With Miriam Margoyles and Chris Emmett. From TUE August 1975. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b05x8bxv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Crème de la Crime b007yvm3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Flashman at the Charge b00ljppj (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Riding onwards, cowardly cad Sir Harry Flashman must face TUE the might of Imperial Russia. Stars Angus Wright and Joss TUE Ackland. TUE TUE 11:00 Ballads of Thin Men b0113fws (Listen) TUE The Night Ride TUE Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential TUE cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - TUE was 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin TUE Men were commissioned specially to mark the occasion. TUE Written by Simone Felice TUE The starting point for this story is the line from Bob TUE Dylan's 'Joey': 'Born in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in the year of TUE who-knows-when.' When the lights in his apartment fuse TUE Adrian Young puts on a dress and takes to his bike to ride TUE the borough's streets on a wintry December night. TUE Simone Felice is the author of two novellas, Goodbye, Amelia TUE and Hail Mary Full Of Holes, and numerous short stories, TUE poems and songs. He is a founding member of The Felice TUE Brothers and his new band The Duke & King's first album TUE 'Nothing Gold Can Stay' has been described as 'Neil Young TUE meets Marvin Gaye on the kind of record that cults are made TUE of.' His new novel, Black Jesus, publishes in April 2011. TUE Simone lives in the Catskill Mountains of New York State. TUE Reader: Madeleine Potter TUE Producer: Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00y8yjd (Listen) TUE Steve Keyworth - The Continuity Man TUE Starring EastEnders' Nitin Ganatra as himself. TUE A new comedy by Stephen Keyworth. TUE Nitin Ganatra is fed up with playing the 'good family man' TUE Masood. He feels there is more to him as an actor than TUE playing the nice guy, the good husband. On the advice of his TUE agent, Crawford Bunch, he sets about making his profile a TUE little more 'edgy' in order to convince Hollywood producers TUE that he really has what it takes to play the baddie. TUE But unfortunately Nitin is just too nice. And he get's more TUE than he bargained for when he finds himself head to head TUE with 'The Continuity Man'. TUE A comedy about getting yourself into deep water and trying TUE to find your way out again. TUE Credits TUE Writer: Stephen Keyworth TUE Nitin: Nitin Ganatra TUE Oliver: Ben Lewis TUE Amy: Julia Innocenti TUE Crawford: Karl Johnson TUE Sally: Sally Orrock TUE Director: Lu Kemp TUE Producer: Lu Kemp TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00j05x7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05x8q7d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gzy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Britain in Their Sites b00kmv8n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v30 (Listen) TUE Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 7 TUE Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother TUE and a Gujarati father, and this twin inheritance is at the TUE heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel TUE about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. TUE On the morning of the 31st of October 1984, the same day TUE that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated, Babo's TUE mother, Trishala, is taken ill with a severe pain in the TUE breast. TUE The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the TUE 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello TUE in Torchwood. TUE Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis TUE Producer: Kate McAll. TUE TUE 14:15 The Making of Music b007rqmf (Listen) TUE Series 1, Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro TUE James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical TUE influences that affected the course of classical music. TUE 22/30. Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro TUE As France teetered towards revolution, the play on which TUE Mozart's masterpiece was based was banned in its original TUE form by Louis XVI. The story of a count being exposed and TUE humiliated by his servant was described by Napoleon as the TUE revolution in action. TUE TUE 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmrx (Listen) TUE Episode 12 TUE Cosette is entangled in a plot hatched by the evil TUE Thenardiers to catch Jean Valjean. Joss Ackland and David TUE Schofield star in Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism TUE and love. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00t3t9s (Listen) TUE Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice, Episode 2 TUE Jake Adelstein seeks advice from a legendary crime writer on TUE how to approach his new job on Japan's largest daily TUE newspaper. He quickly realises that life covering the TUE organised crime beat is likely to be anything but TUE straightforward. TUE Jack Klaff reads this gritty memoir by Jake Adelstein. TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC TUE Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Flashman at the Charge b00ljppj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The Write Stuff b0076yq7 (Listen) TUE Series 9, Alan Bennett TUE James Walton quizzes Sebastian Faulks, John Walsh, Michele TUE Roberts and Harry Ritchie in the literary panel show. From TUE June 2006. TUE TUE 16:30 Electric Ink b011f3pc (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE Circulation is going through the roof as the old newspaper TUE hacks struggle with new media. Stars Robert Lindsay. From TUE June 2009. TUE TUE 17:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b00cfzqy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Mark Steel's in Town b05vy6ps (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008jw9j (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Christine Daae has disappeared. Is she with the mysterious TUE Angel of Music? Stars Anna Massey, Peter Guinness and James TUE D'Arcy. TUE TUE 18:30 Frankly Speaking b05x90z5 (Listen) TUE Gracie Fields TUE Lancashire's actress, singer and comic Gracie Fields answers TUE the questions from Harold Hobson, John Freeman and Patricia TUE Brent. TUE Born Grace Stansfield in 1898, she became one of Britain's TUE biggest box office stars of of both cinema and music hall. TUE Gracie recalls her early years and share her thoughts on TUE stardom. She's also questioned about life during the Second TUE World War and the way British people treated her. The star TUE also talks of her happy life living on the Italian island of TUE Capri. TUE Launched in 1952, Frankly Speaking was a completely novel TUE and ground breaking BBC series. Initially there were three TUE interviewers and the series was both unrehearsed and TUE unscripted. TUE First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1960. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00j05x7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Ken Dodd Show b05x8q7d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gzy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Britain in Their Sites b00kmv8n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Ballads of Thin Men b0113fws (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00y8yjd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Mark Steel's in Town b05vy6ps (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00rt9rk (Listen) TUE Series 3, John Lloyd TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites comedy producer John Lloyd to try TUE doing a few things he's never done before. Watching The TUE Wire, performing stand up comedy and milking a goat are just TUE some of the experiences he'll be having for the first time TUE in I've Never Seen Star Wars. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05y4pzr (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jon Holmes is TUE joined by Felicity Ward. TUE TUE 23:00 Rubbish b00770pw (Listen) TUE Series 1, Excited TUE Local government officer Martin Christmas makes an unusual TUE visit to the fire station. Stars Reece Dinsdale. From TUE October 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 King Cutler b008pbxf (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Phyllis King and Ivor Cutler present offbeat humorous songs, TUE stories and poems. With Glen Baxter. From January 1990. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 JUNE 2015 WED WED 00:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008jw9j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Frankly Speaking b05x90z5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082gzy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Britain in Their Sites b00kmv8n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v30 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The Making of Music b007rqmf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmrx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00t3t9s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Flashman at the Charge b00ljppj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 The Write Stuff b0076yq7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Electric Ink b011f3pc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Like They've Never Been Gone b00cfzqy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Mark Steel's in Town b05vy6ps (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082h2b (Listen) WED The Green Mamba WED The emeralds of Suliman are stolen in North Africa and WED brought to London, but the "mamba" (Mr Reeder) sets out WED thwart the thieves' plans as he hounds a notorious gangland WED villain. WED Mr JG Reeder has the mind of a criminal, His novel methods WED bring the criminals of 1920s London to justice. WED Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best WED known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, WED in his lifetime, earned him the title, "King of the Modern WED Thriller." WED Although created at roughly the same time, Mr JG Reeder is WED the diametric opposite of Sam Spade, Philip Marlow and Mike WED Hammer. He is a shabbily dressed, diffident civil servant WED who prefers a cup of tea and a slice of seed cake to a shot WED of something stronger. WED Reeder is a uniquely English detective. An apparent WED fuddy-duddy working in some obscure capacity in the Public WED Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp intellect WED and is a super-sleuth. He solves his mysteries because he WED fully understands the "criminal mind". WED Read by David Horovitch WED Abridged for radio by Neville Teller WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2007. WED WED 06:30 Britain in Their Sites b00krsyn (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Tristram Hunt tells the story of architectural change in WED Britain over 60 years, tracing the country's changing idea WED of itself through three controversial public building WED projects. WED Tristram tracks the creation of the skyline of Canary Wharf, WED from the old docks of the Isle of Dogs to the new tall WED towers of Canada Square, with insight from architects, WED planners and politicians. WED The Isle of Dogs was the subject of thwarted regeneration WED attempts over the years, until in 1979 Michael Heseltine was WED put in charge of inner city regeneration in Thatcher's new WED administration. The government created the London Docklands WED Development Corporation, introduced 'enterprise zones', WED relaxed planning legislation and axed business rates for 10 WED years in an attempt to get investors to build on this WED near-derelict land. WED But British architects had to stand back and watch as WED American architectural firms won key contracts for the WED buildings - that is, until their grand masterplans collapsed WED in the 1990s when major developers went bankrupt. WED Today, the skyline of Canary Wharf is one of London's WED landmarks. Tristram asks what its story tells us about WED Britain's recent architectural history. WED WED 07:00 Are You From the Bugle? b01hpx3f (Listen) WED The Drama Began WED Graham is starting a new job as local cub reporter. What WED could go wrong? Stars Jeffrey Holland and Mark Gatiss. From WED May 1996. WED WED 07:30 Clare in the Community b03sztry (Listen) WED Series 9, Panic Room WED Episode 5 - Panic Room WED Clare is forced to confront an old phobia after a regular WED home visit takes an unusual turn. Fortunately Helen is on WED hand to help. Back in the office, Joan is left holding the WED babies. WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life In today's Big WED Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an WED involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Alexandra Smith. WED Credits WED Clare: Sally Phillips WED Brian: Alex Lowe WED Nali: Nina Conti WED Megan: Nina Conti WED Ray: Richard Lumsden WED Terry Dobson: Richard Lumsden WED Helen: Liza Tarbuck WED Libby: Sarah Kendall WED Joan: Sarah Thom WED Producer: Alexandra Smith WED Writer: Harry Venning WED Writer: David Ramsden WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b010lywl (Listen) WED Refitting Ebeneezer Pertwee WED Pertwee has to re-think his money-making schemes, whilst his WED Uncle Ebeneezer pulls off a major con. WED Starring Stephen Murray as the Number One, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie Phillips as the WED Sub-Lieutenant and Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson and WED Lieutenant Commander Stanton. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976 WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in November 1960. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00vdc3h (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 4 WED Greyhounds in conversation, and a trip to the South Pole. WED Songs and sketches with John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From May WED 1967. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b05xcwkl (Listen) WED 1998, Heat 3 from 1998 WED Ned Sherrin chairs the music quiz with Tim Butter of London, WED Stephen Gore of Bucks and Dr Alistair Smith of Lymington. WED WED 09:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007jvb4 (Listen) WED Treachery With a Cricket Sock in Its Face WED Tony meets two old flames and some Russian gangsters. Nick WED Revell's epic comedy saga with Alison Steadman. From May WED 1997. WED WED 10:00 Flash for Freedom b00ljz6f (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED It's 1848 and the philandering cad Sir Harry Flashman WED becomes embroiled in slavery. Stars Joss Ackland and Rhys WED Meredith. WED WED 11:00 Ballads of Thin Men b011325p (Listen) WED People Carry Roses WED Bob Dylan - one of the most significant and influential WED cultural figures of the late 20th and early 21st century - WED was 70 on 24 May 2011. The three stories in Ballads Of Thin WED Men were commissioned specially to mark the occasion. WED Written by Toby Litt WED It's 1985. A fifteen-year-old boy finds his entire LP WED collection vandalised after his sister's eighteenth birthday WED party. All except one - his only Bob Dylan record - which WED he'd lent out. But who has it? He goes all over the village WED to track it down, but his reasons for doing so aren't what WED they might seem... WED Toby Litt was born in 1968 and grew up in Bedfordshire. In WED 2003, he was named one of Grant's Best of Young British WED Novelists. His most recent novel, King Death,was published WED in 2010. His story, The Melancholy, formed part of the Sweet WED Talk series Why, Robot? for the Afternoon Reading in 2010. WED Reader: Matt Green WED Producer: Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:15 Nick Warburton - Mustard Seed b007k1hn (Listen) WED A traveller passing through a remote village receives a WED desperate request from a mother to cure her son. Stars Emma WED Fielding. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b010lywl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00vdc3h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082h2b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Britain in Their Sites b00krsyn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v33 (Listen) WED Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 8 WED Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother WED and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the WED heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel WED about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. WED Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother WED and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the WED heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel WED about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. WED It's 1989. Babo and Sian's daughters are growing up fast. WED Bean is sweet sixteen and in love, though her parents are WED completely unaware of it. All that, however, is about to WED change. WED The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the WED 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello WED in Torchwood. WED Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis WED Producer: Kate McAll WED The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the WED 6 part BBC drama Luther. In 2006 she played Suzie Costello WED in Torchwood. WED Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis WED Producer: Kate McAll. WED WED 14:15 The Making of Music b007rhvx (Listen) WED Series 1, The French Revolution WED James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical WED influences that affected the course of classical music. WED 23/30. The French Revolution WED One night in April 1792, a young French captain spent the WED night writing a marching tune. La Marseillaise became a WED national anthem, and music inspired by the revolution was WED everywhere. WED Read by Laurence Fox. WED WED 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmsd (Listen) WED Episode 13 WED Jean Valjean is in mortal danger, but can Marius summon WED Inspector Javert to save him? Stars Joss Ackland and Patsy WED Palmer. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00t3tbk (Listen) WED Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice, Episode 3 WED Crime reporter Jake Adelstein begins to uncover the history WED of the Japanese mafia. He is amazed at how they seem to WED operate in broad daylight, and that their activities affect WED a broad range of businesses in the modern Japanese economy. WED Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein. WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC WED Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Flash for Freedom b00ljz6f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b05xcwkl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007jvb4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Are You From the Bugle? b01hpx3f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Clare in the Community b03sztry (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008lz2f (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED As Christine faces grave danger, a mysterious figure offers WED to help her. Stars Anna Massey, Peter Guinness and Helen WED Goldwyn. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076ncz (Listen) WED Liar Liar WED Economical with the truth? Matthew Parris, Ann Leslie, WED Martin Short and Anne Atkins discuss the complexities of WED lying. From September 2004. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b010lywl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00vdc3h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082h2b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Britain in Their Sites b00krsyn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Ballads of Thin Men b011325p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Nick Warburton - Mustard Seed b007k1hn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Clare in the Community b03sztry (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Will Smith Presents the Tao of Bergerac b007w0j4 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Comedian Will Smith is obsessed with 1980s detective series WED Bergerac, so uses an audio book of its star, John Nettles, WED reading the Tao, to navigate the minefield of his life, with WED the help of a special guest. WED Will wonders how he can be an individual without being WED derided for his choices. WED With Karl Johnson, Simon Greenall, John Nettles, Rachel WED Bavidge and Olivia Poulet. WED Written by Will Smith and Roger Drew. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05y4q9y (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jon Holmes is WED joined by Felicity Ward. WED WED 23:00 Revolting People b007jrt6 (Listen) WED Series 1, More Storm Clouds WED The wedding reception of the year ends in drunken chaos. WED 1770 America sitcom starring Andy Hamilton. From January WED 2000. WED WED 23:30 The Harpoon b007lnx3 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED A veritable fascinating feast from the nostalgic spoof of WED boys' adventure story papers. With Peter Baynham. From WED September 1991. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 JUNE 2015 THU THU 00:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008lz2f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076ncz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082h2b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Britain in Their Sites b00krsyn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v33 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The Making of Music b007rhvx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmsd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00t3tbk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Flash for Freedom b00ljz6f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b05xcwkl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The House of the Spirit Levels b007jvb4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Are You From the Bugle? b01hpx3f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Clare in the Community b03sztry (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082hw0 (Listen) THU The Strange Case THU A wealthy government minister is defrauded of a large sum of THU money and suspects his wastrel nephew. Then he's murdered, THU so Mr Reeder sets out uncover the truth. THU Mr JG Reeder has the mind of a criminal, His novel methods THU bring the criminals of 1920s London to justice. THU Novelist, playwright and journalist, Edgar Wallace, is best THU known for his popular detective and suspense stories which, THU in his lifetime, earned him the title, "King of the Modern THU Thriller." THU Although created at roughly the same time, Mr JG Reeder is THU the diametric opposite of Sam Spade, Philip Marlow and Mike THU Hammer. He is a shabbily dressed, diffident civil servant THU who prefers a cup of tea and a slice of seed cake to a shot THU of something stronger. THU Reeder is a uniquely English detective. An apparent THU fuddy-duddy working in some obscure capacity in the Public THU Prosecutor's office, he actually has a razor-sharp intellect THU and is a super-sleuth. He solves his mysteries because he THU fully understands the "criminal mind". THU Read by David Horovitch THU Abridged for radio by Neville Teller THU Produced by Gemma Jenkins THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2007. THU THU 06:30 The Art of Litter b00hr4lh (Listen) THU John Wilson explores the reasons why some artists use THU rubbish in their work. THU Picasso, Dali, Georges Braque and Joan Miro all used THU discarded objects in their art, and in the last few decades THU there has been an explosion of artists using 'found objects' THU in their work to communicate many different messages about THU waste, consumerism and the dispensability of modern life. THU Some artists are campaigners and artists in equal measure. THU John meets Fran Crowe, who creates installations and engages THU in performance art with the rubbish she finds on the beaches THU near her Suffolk home. He also talks to Sir Peter Blake, who THU celebrates litter and tries to create something of aesthetic THU value from it, and sculptor Gavin Turk, who looks for the THU beauty in objects that have been thrown away. THU THU 07:00 HR b00hg6mz (Listen) THU Series 1, An Appraisal THU Caught verbally abusing a client, an angry senior manager THU faces his HR officer. Stars Jonathan Pryce. From February THU 2009. THU THU 07:30 Best Behaviour b05w4jcq (Listen) THU Holly Walsh presents the comedy panel show that defines THU modern etiquette. THU This week's guests are comedians Sarah Pascoe, Romesh THU Ranganathan and Richard Herring, who are all seeking to THU supply the top tips for best behaviour in the 21st century. THU The panel debates the social minefield of who is best suited THU to host a dinner party, and the correct rules for lane THU discipline in the swimming pool. There's also advice on a THU social conundrum asked by a member of the studio audience - THU 'What should I say when I answer the telephone?'. THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: Holly Walsh THU Panellist: Sara Pascoe THU Panellist: Romesh Ranganathan THU Panellist: Richard Herring THU Producer: Aled Evans THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b00rzkyb (Listen) THU Series 1, Wallah, Wallah, Catsmeat THU The rag and bone business falters when Hercules the horse THU needs a vet. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Adapted for radio from Galton and Simpson's TV script by THU Gale Pedrick. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in August 1966. THU THU 08:30 Yes Minister b007k0nj (Listen) THU Series 2, A Question of Loyalty THU With a war on waste at the Civil Service - what does Jim THU Hacker think? THU Starring Paul Eddington as Jim Hacker, Nigel Hawthorne as THU Sir Humphrey Appleby, Derek Fowldes as Bernard and Judy THU Parfitt as Betty Oldham MP. THU Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's satirical sitcom ran on BBC THU TV between 1980 and 1984. Yes Minister is centred around the THU hapless Jim Hacker and a collection of civil service THU underlings headed by the Machiavellian Sir Humphrey Appleby THU and obsequious Bernard. THU Adapted for radio by producer Pete Atkin. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1984. THU THU 09:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00v6l9y (Listen) THU Series 6, Episode 3 THU David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians THU are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another THU to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past THU their opponents. THU In this edition, recorded at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, Rhod THU Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy Porter THU are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate THU inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Spiders, Mushrooms, THU Eggs and Edinburgh. THU The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the THU team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. THU Producer: Jon Naismith THU A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Producer: Jon Naismith THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007k490 (Listen) THU Series 5, Running in the Family THU The sisters gather to discuss Emily's future, with the help THU of creepy teacher Nigel. Stars Rosemary Leach. From August THU 1998. THU Credits THU Actor: Ann Jobson THU THU 10:00 Flash for Freedom b00lk2c4 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU Now a reluctant secret agent, Sir Harry Flashman finds THU himself fleeing for his life. Stars Joss Ackland and Rhys THU Meredith. THU THU 11:00 Afternoon Reading b00sp1b7 (Listen) THU Midsummer Tales, Count from the Splash THU A series of new short stories - set variously in Finland, THU Shetland and Orkney - exploring the magical light, and white THU nights, of far northern summers. THU "Count From The Splash" by Helen Dunmore. THU Read by Tracy Wiles. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU Midsummer in Finland: a time of feasting and celebration. THU Maija's husband has been invited to a big party in the THU countryside by his boss Frederik - who is high up in the THU television industry. Tiring of the media chatter, Maija goes THU looking for Anna, Frederik's wife and, along the way, bumps THU into a friend from her childhood. She hasn't seen Birgit THU since they were nine and she is almost unrecognisable: badly THU scarred by years of drink and drug addiction. Walking THU together around the lake, away from the party-goers, the THU pair experience long-lost feelings of the excitement and THU energy of their childhood selves. THU Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed novelist, poet and children's THU author. After graduating from the University of York, she THU taught English as a foreign language in Finland. Her novels THU include: A Spell of Winter and The Seige. In March this THU year, her poem "The Malarkey" won the National Poetry THU Competition. Her new novel The Betrayal is set in 1950s THU Leningrad. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0076wly (Listen) THU Stephen Phelps - Once a Friend THU Once a Friend THU By Stephen Phelps. THU John and Leo, inseparable in childhood, meet for the first THU time in over 30 years. They lost touch soon after being THU caught on the fringes of a high-profile murder case. Will THU Leo's need to rake over the past prevent them from THU rekindling their friendship as adults? THU John ...... Jamie Foreman THU Leo ...... Gerard McDermott THU Young John ...... Joseph Tremain THU Young Leo ...... Steven Williams THU Ellie ...... Ella Smith THU Directed by Toby Swift. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b00rzkyb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Yes Minister b007k0nj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082hw0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Art of Litter b00hr4lh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v36 (Listen) THU Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 9 THU Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother THU and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the THU heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel THU about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. THU Now that her older sister Mayuri is married, only Bean THU remains at home. But that won't be for long as Bean has THU plans of her own, plans that will cause Sian to weep until THU she can weep no more, and Babo to wonder what to do with the THU space that children leave behind. THU The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the THU 6 part BBC drama Luther. She also played THU Suzie Costello in Torchwood. THU Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis THU Producer: Kate McAll. THU THU 14:15 The Making of Music b007rhvy (Listen) THU Series 1, Beethoven THU James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical THU influences that affected the course of classical music. THU 24/30. Beethoven THU The great German composer worked at a time of seismic change THU in Europe. He was 19 at the start of the French Revolution THU and at his peak when Napoleon's empire was at its zenith. THU His music matches the ferment of the times. THU Read by Simon Russell Beale. THU THU 14:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmsv (Listen) THU Episode 14 THU Eponine has found out where Cosette is living, but will she THU tell Marius? Stars Joss Ackland, Lucy Whybrow and Patsy THU Palmer. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00t3tcb (Listen) THU Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice, Episode 4 THU When Jake Adelstein is summoned to a meeting with one of the THU bosses of the local yakuza, he is both surprised and more THU than a little wary. And when he arrives at the rendezvous he THU is astonished to be asked to help settle a delicate problem. THU Although he has no intention of getting involved in the THU boss's affairs or ever owing him a favour, he discovers THU there are advantages to having a yakuza in your debt. THU Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein. THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC THU Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Flash for Freedom b00lk2c4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00v6l9y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007k490 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 HR b00hg6mz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Best Behaviour b05w4jcq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008p5cw (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Raoul and the Persian enter the Phantom's lair to search for THU Christine. Stars Peter Guinness, Helen Goldwyn and James THU D'Arcy. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076lgx (Listen) THU Series 5, Edith Wharton THU 4 Extra Debut. Publisher Kimberly Fortier chooses American THU writer Edith Wharton. With Professor Janet Beer and Humphrey THU Carpenter. From May 2004. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b00rzkyb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Yes Minister b007k0nj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082hw0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Art of Litter b00hr4lh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Afternoon Reading b00sp1b7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0076wly (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Best Behaviour b05w4jcq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Don't Start b015p875 (Listen) THU Series 1, Hat THU Neil's approach to sartorial elegance is this week's THU flashpoint for an argument. THU What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new THU comedy from Frank Skinner. A masterclass in the great art of THU arguing. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. THU Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted THU comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each THU week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial THU flashpoint - a text from a friend, a trilby and a bad THU night's sleep. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim THU battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The THU two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, THU unexpected literary references (Androcles and the Lion pop THU up at one point) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's THU weaknesses. THU Cast: THU Neil ..... Frank Skinner THU Kim ..... Katherine Parkinson THU Producer/Director: Polly Thomas THU An Avalon UK production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Neil: Frank Skinner THU Kim: Katherine Parkinson THU Writer: Frank Skinner THU Producer: Polly Thomas THU Director: Polly Thomas THU THU 22:45 Warhorses of Letters b016wzyt (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU This is the world's first epistolary equine love story, THU comprising the recently discovered passionate love letters THU between Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse (played THU by Daniel Rigby), and his hero Marengo (Stephen Fry). It is THU the story of two horses united by an uncommon passion, THU cruelly divided by a brutal conflict. THU Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the THU seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of THU Emperor Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as THU Copenhagen, the frisky young former racehorse ridden by the THU Duke of Wellington. This collection of their moving letters THU to each other is introduced by Tamsin Greig. THU Episode 2 sees Copenhagen becoming a warhorse, and Marengo THU setting out into the vast Russian Steppe as he carries THU Napoleon at the head of his vast army towards Moscow. As THU uncertainty and conflict beset our heroes it puts strains on THU their new relationship, especially when Copenhagen begins to THU explore his physical side with really quite a lot of other THU horses, and things begin to go less well for the French army THU and its horses as winter sets in. THU Written by novelists Robert Hudson (The Kilburn Social Club) THU and Marie Phillips (Gods Behaving Badly - soon to be a THU feature film starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone), THU directed by Steven Canny and produced by Gareth Edwards. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05y4qdm (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Jon Holmes is THU joined by Felicity Ward. THU THU 23:00 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01by7cs (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU Comedian-activist Mark Thomas heads to Sheffield City Hall THU in search of new proposals for his People's Manifesto. THU This week's agenda: THU 1) Councils to plant fruit trees in public spaces THU 2) 3 Years' free education for all between age 25 and THU retirement THU and THU 3) Buckingham Palace to be converted into homeless flats THU Plus lots of "any other business" suggestions for the studio THU audience, including a novel approach to reducing knife THU crime. THU Written and presented by Mark Thomas THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes b019n2m7 (Listen) THU Series 1, Politics THU More historical heroism as Aneurin Bevan, Hywel Dda and the THU Rebecca Rioters are put to the Totaliser. With Ben THU Partridge, Nadia Kamil. From January 2012. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 JUNE 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera b008p5cw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076lgx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Edgar Wallace - The Mind of Mr JG Reeder b0082hw0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Art of Litter b00hr4lh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b00t6v36 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The Making of Music b007rhvy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmsv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00t3tcb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Flash for Freedom b00lk2c4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00v6l9y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007k490 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 HR b00hg6mz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Best Behaviour b05w4jcq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 VI Warshawski b007jzsg (Listen) FRI Publicity Stunts, Episode 1 FRI Private Detective V I Warshawski is being set up for a FRI murder she didn't commit - of a woman she hardly knew. Read FRI by Buffy Davis. FRI The victim is a famous crime fiction writer. Her latest book FRI threatens to uncover the shame of a small American town FRI whose dark secrets and those of her tormentor have been FRI buried for decades. FRI Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female FRI sleuths in modern crime fiction. Her heroine, V I FRI Warshawski, is a strong female character in a male-dominated FRI world. V I is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty FRI suspects but she never loses touch with her basic FRI femininity. Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled FRI by the way women were portrayed in (detective fiction) they FRI always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was FRI time for a tough, smart, likeable female private FRI investigator". FRI Producer: Joanne Reardon FRI Made for BBC Radio 7 and first broadcast in 2003. FRI FRI 06:30 The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc FRI b00sgbcr (Listen) FRI Long before the invention of the MP3, there was a way of FRI getting hold of music, speech, and other audio sensations, FRI free of charge, in the form of flexidiscs. Originally FRI developed in the 1930s to play at 78rpm, by the 1960s, FRI seven-inch, 45rpm flexidiscs were so cheap to produce, and FRI so light and bendy, that they were often given away free FRI with a magazine. In the Soviet Union, though, where FRI flexidiscs were called roentgenizdat, and were recorded on FRI disused medical x-ray sheets, the audio was usually of an FRI illegal nature, such as jazz music, or, later, punk rock. In FRI telling the story of the flexidisc, we'll hear plenty of FRI music, some of which is now valuable (such as the Rolling FRI Stones Exit on Mainstreet Blues, given away with New Musical FRI Express in 1972). FRI In tracking down the story of flexidiscs, presenter Paul FRI Bayley meets collector Jez Randell, journalist Ian Shirley, FRI and the novelist Tim Lott, who co-founded Flexipop magazine FRI in the early 1980s (which gave away a free flexi with every FRI issue). The programme includes extracts from flexidiscs FRI galore, including several advertisements for products as FRI diverse as crisps, hair pieces and rat poison, music from FRI big band jazz to beat groups to punk rock, and some of the FRI most famous recordings made on flexidisc including Beatles FRI fanclub records, Private Eye's satirical flexidiscs and the FRI sound of humpback whales, from the world's biggest FRI circulation flexidisc ever. FRI Presenter Paul Bayley previously presented The Strange FRI Parallel World of Christian Pop for Radio 4, which FRI subsequently inspired Frank Cottrell Boyce's radio play The FRI Believers. The producer is Bob Dickinson. FRI FRI 07:00 Lucky Heather b0075sg8 (Listen) FRI True Grit FRI Angela suspects her teenage daughter is on drugs so asks FRI Heather to investigate. Stars Lindsey Coulson. From March FRI 2000. FRI FRI 07:30 The Rivals b03bdw8c (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Clue of the Silver Spoons FRI By Robert Barr. FRI Dramatised By Chris Harrald. FRI Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock FRI Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memories and has a FRI chance to get his own back, with tales of Holmes' rivals. He FRI continues with Food Connoisseur and Detective Eugene Valmont FRI trying to solve a curious series of thefts from private FRI dinner parties FRI Producer: Liz Webb. FRI Credits FRI Lestrade: Tim Pigott-Smith FRI Valmont: Rupert Vansittart FRI Lionel Dacre: David Seddon FRI Sophia Gibb: Joanna Monro FRI Arletty: Liza Sadovy FRI Boothroyd: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Innis: Michael Watson FRI Maitre D': Sean Murray FRI Author: Robert Barr FRI Adaptor: Chris Harrald FRI Producer: Liz Webb FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007n162 (Listen) FRI Anna and the King of Siam FRI The film of The King and I inspires the lad's own rather FRI unmusical and argumentative version. Stars Tony Hancock. FRI From November 1956. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jl9j (Listen) FRI The Whistling Spy Enigma FRI Spy Neddie must make contact with his informer. But can he FRI whistle the secret tune? Stars Spike Milligan. From FRI September 1954. FRI FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge b01rcg42 (Listen) FRI Series 5, Episode 1 FRI Crazy panel show capers as Sue Perkins tests Jon Holmes, FRI Armando Iannucci, Peter Baynham and Simon Pegg. From August FRI 2004. FRI FRI 13:00 VI Warshawski b007jzsg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc FRI b00sgbcr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:02 Book at Bedtime b00t6v3b (Listen) FRI Tishani Doshi - The Pleasure Seekers, Episode 10 FRI Poet, journalist and dancer Tishani Doshi has a Welsh mother FRI and a Gujurati father, and this twin inheritance is at the FRI heart of her funny, lyrical and tenderly written first novel FRI about four generations of the Patel-Joneses. FRI Babo and Sian's youngest daughter, Bean, has been having an FRI affair with Javier for two years now. She's been waiting all FRI that time for him to leave his wife and three children. Then FRI Javier is involved in a car crash, which changes everything. FRI Back in Anjar, Grandmother Ba's life is coming to an end but FRI first she must be sure that Bean is safe. FRI The reader is Indira Varma. Indira appeared recently in the FRI 6 part BBC drama Luther. She also played Suzie Costello in FRI Torchwood. FRI Abridged and directed by Nigel Lewis FRI Producer: Kate McAll. FRI FRI 14:17 The Making of Music b007rhvz (Listen) FRI Series 1, Beethoven's Eroica FRI James Naughtie presents a series chronicling the historical FRI influences that affected the course of classical music. FRI 25/30. Beethoven's Eroica FRI The original dedication to Napoleon was removed from the FRI manuscript of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, allegedly by the FRI composer's own hand, when Napoleon declared himself Emperor FRI in 1804. FRI Read by Simon Russell Beale. FRI FRI 14:32 Victor Hugo - Les Miserables b007jmtb (Listen) FRI Episode 15 FRI Love is in the air in the Rue Plumet. But why is Jean FRI Valjean so obsessed with secrecy? Stars Joss Ackland and FRI Lucy Whybrow. FRI FRI 14:47 Book of the Week b00t3td1 (Listen) FRI Jake Adelstein - Tokyo Vice, Episode 5 FRI Reporter Jake Adelstein is invited to spend the night as a FRI host in a Japanese night club in the red light district of FRI Tokyo. And he discovers some surprises, not only amongst the FRI type of customers who are willing to pay for the service in FRI modern Japan, but the reasons these women feel the need to FRI pay for company. FRI Jack Klaff reads this revealing memoir by Jake Adelstein. FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall Productions for BBC FRI Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:30 On Baby Street b00f6vv7 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 5 FRI Will Ian get to the hospital on time? Can Geraldine and FRI Yvette get there at all? Stars Jenny Eclair. From February FRI 1996. FRI FRI 17:00 Lucky Heather b0075sg8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 The Rivals b03bdw8c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Francis Turnly - Lullaby b00d7jh3 (Listen) FRI Kate and Patrick face terror from the sinister past of their FRI newly renovated house. Francis Turnly's thriller with Tara FRI Flynn. FRI FRI 18:30 My Life in Five Songs b01p6vbz (Listen) FRI Series 5, Colin Macintyre FRI Colin Macintyre is a Scottish singer, songwriter and FRI multi-instrumentalist. Growing up on the west coast island FRI of Mull he records under his own name and under the name of FRI Mull Historical Society. FRI Colin talks to Phil Cunningham about his musical influences FRI and picks five special songs which are important to him and FRI have helped influence his career. FRI Phil opens the programme with the track The Lights from FRI Colin's latest album City Awakenings. FRI Colin picks these five songs: FRI Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence FRI David Bowie - Changes FRI Radiohead - No Surprises FRI Bob Dylan - Queen Jane Approximately FRI The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize FRI Phil closes the programme with Must You Get Low from the FRI City Awakenings album. FRI FRI 20:00 VI Warshawski b007jzsg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc FRI b00sgbcr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Victor Lewis-Smith b05xh32v (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI A man who is meek wants to know why he has yet to inherit FRI the earth. The darkly comic world of Victor Lewis-Smith. FRI Award-winning controversial comedy surfaced on BBC Radio 1 FRI in 1990 in the shape of Victor Lewis-Smith. The writer and FRI producer took a comedy cudgel to the self-satisfied, FRI mid-Atlantic style of the very network he was appearing on - FRI with hoax phone calls, sketches, plus comic takedowns of FRI high profile celebs. It's all deliciously sandwiched between FRI the original jangly Radio 1 jingles made by JAM Creative FRI Productions in Dallas, USA. FRI Winner of the British Comedy Awards 1990 for Best Radio FRI Comedy. FRI After making a series of late night programmes for Radio 1, FRI Victor took aim at TV in 1993 with BBC TWO's Inside Victor FRI Lewis Smith, before sparking another stir on Channel 4 in FRI 1998 with TV Offal. FRI Written by Victor Lewis Smith and Paul Sparks FRI Produced by Victor Lewis Smith. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b05z5pgl (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith is FRI joined by Ian Smith. FRI
29 May, 2015
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30/05/2015 - 05/06/2015
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