23 October, 2015

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 24/10/2015 - 30/10/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 24 OCTOBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 Simon Bovey - Cold Blood b007jv49 (Listen) SAT The Antarctican SAT The struggle at the South Pole continues, but there's only SAT room for one survivor. Starring Tom Mannion and Tim SAT McMullan. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00763ln (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Lark Ascending SAT Tasmin Little, Iona Brown and Allan Stephenson reflect on SAT the impact of Ralph Vaughan Williams's most English of SAT works. From August 2001. SAT SAT 01:00 Kingsley Amis - Affairs of Death b06jtqpg (Listen) SAT Pope Leo's had something on his conscience for 900 years - SAT the confessions of a Scottish King: King Macbeth. SAT Stars Peter Jeffrey as Pope Leo IX, Ken Stott as Macbeth, SAT Olivier Pierre as Hildebrand and Kim Wall as Desiderius. SAT Written by Kingsley Amis and dramatised by John Scotney. SAT Producer: Jane Morgan SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. SAT SAT 01:30 Skip b00sgbl8 (Listen) SAT The secret life of the rubbish skip. They are such a SAT familiar sight on our streets that most of us take the SAT common-or-garden skip for granted. SAT But to some people they are the focal point of their lives, SAT whether for survival, inspiration for art, or the subject of SAT a university Garbology degree. And what is our fascination SAT with not only keeping an eye on what other people put in SAT them, but also maybe having a rummage, or best of all, SAT spiriting away a discarded piece of treasure? SAT Writer and gardening expert Alys Fowler, herself no stranger SAT to "liberating" skipped curios for her garden and home, SAT builds a picture of our behaviour in and around these metal SAT Aladdin's caves and unearths amusing and amazing tales to SAT add to skip folklore of recent years. SAT Forget the old floorboards and broken sofas, afficionados SAT see skips as a source of everything from priceless antiques SAT to free food. And if your community needs affordable extra SAT amenities such as a swimming pool or skateboard park, SAT there's an artist who has created these very things - from SAT old skips. SAT As Alys looks in a fresh way at skips throughout the land, SAT what secrets and treasures are they about to reveal? SAT Producer: Neil Cargill SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00sp3dx (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Lecturer Jim Dixon is preoccupied about losing his job SAT whilst preparation for the summer ball begins. Read by SAT Martin Jarvis. SAT SAT 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rdzx0 (Listen) SAT The Rise of the Shamans SAT Episode five of a thirty-part series made in collaboration SAT with the British Library Sound Archive. SAT Around the world charismatic individuals claim the ability SAT to change the weather, heal illness and help crops grow. SAT Professor David Hendy explains how sound - and its SAT manipulation - is central to the shaman's power. SAT David introduces the eerie rituals of Siberian reindeer SAT herders as they summon spirits, before coming closer to home SAT to hear a mysterious singing angel high in the facade of SAT Wells Cathedral. SAT Series Producer: Matt Thompson. SAT A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01dvzpc (Listen) SAT Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind, Episode 5 SAT Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and SAT retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. SAT Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by SAT Martha King. SAT Giacinto's behaviour is causing trouble for the Pintor SAT sisters. Noemi disapproves of his relationship with Grixenda SAT and there are rumours that Giacinto is gambling. Will Efix's SAT attempts to put things right work? SAT EFIX.....John Lynch SAT NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson SAT ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew SAT RUTH/KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt SAT GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty SAT PREDU.....Conrad Nelson SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00wgznx (Listen) SAT Bettany Hughes - The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the SAT Search for the Good Life, Episode 5 SAT Written by Bettany Hughes. SAT Socrates lived in a city that nurtured the key ingredients SAT of contemporary civilisation - democracy, liberty, science, SAT drama, rational thought- yet, as he wrote nothing in his SAT lifetime, he himself is an enigmatic figure. "The Hemlock SAT Cup" tells his story, setting him in the context of the SAT Eastern Mediterranean that was his home, and dealing with SAT him as he himself dealt with the world. SAT The Spartans break down Athenian walls and Socrates is SAT barred from associating with the city's youth. His card is SAT marked. SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Reader: Bettany Hughes SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 RD Blackmore - Lorna Doone b00sp1f1 (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT When Lorna is taken to London, John fears he's lost her SAT forever. And Carver has murderous plans. Stars Alison SAT Pettit. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b00z58bg (Listen) SAT Series 1, Stirling SAT Coming this week from the University of Stirling, host Steve SAT Punt puts questions to students and lecturers of Psychology, SAT Marketing, and English Studies. So if you've got a notion as SAT to who lived at 7 Eccles Street, what is James Bond's family SAT motto, or why on earth a marketer might use a 'semantic SAT cognitive differential tangent' then listen in... SAT "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz SAT show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 SAT listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded SAT on location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:30 Albert and Me b007jsbh (Listen) SAT Series 1, Spanner in the Works SAT Single dad Bryan's son Albert is starting nursery - what SAT could possibly go wrong? SAT Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as SAT Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With John Junkin as Harry. SAT Written by Jim Eldridge. SAT Producer: John Fawcett Wilson SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977. SAT SAT 05:00 The Change b0076p6t (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT With George's big birthday looming, he gets two surprises - SAT one from his wife and the other from his mother. SAT Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as SAT George, Maureen Beattie as Maureen, Marcia Warren as Violet, SAT Emma Kennedy as Sonia and James Vaughan as Ken. SAT Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to SAT smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol SAT is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers SAT can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. SAT Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. SAT Producer: Elizabeth Freestone SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2004. SAT SAT 05:30 Shedtown b01pw3lq (Listen) SAT Series 2, 'Til Press Do Us Part SAT Who hasn't thought about running away from it all at some SAT time or other? SAT Throwing caution to the wind, wrenching oneself out of a SAT long established orbit to head for the deep space of the SAT unknown? SAT In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of SAT escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol SAT of possibility and change. SAT Episode 2: SAT As William weds his blushing, boiler-suited, berk of a SAT bride, old Johnny Edwards takes a turn for the worse. SAT Barry............................Tony Pitts SAT Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan SAT Eleanor.........................Ronni Ancona SAT Johnny..........................Alan Leith SAT Colin.............................Johnny Vegas SAT Deborah........................Emma Fryer SAT William.........................Adrian Manfredi SAT Diane...........................Rosina Carbone SAT Dave............................Shaun Dooley SAT Father Michael.............James Quinn SAT Wes............................Warren Brown SAT Nell.............................Eleanor Samson SAT Narrator.......................Maxine Peake SAT Music..........................Paul Heaton and Jonny Lexus SAT Written and Directed by Tony Pitts SAT Produced by Sally Harrison SAT A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 Miss Marple b007jvht (Listen) SAT The Body in the Library SAT Dolly Bantry, mistress of Gossington Hall, is enjoying a SAT pleasant doze when suddenly her dreams take a strange turn. SAT The housemaid Mary is telling her there's a body in the SAT library. As she wakes up, it turns out to be true. But who SAT is the strange young blond woman sprawled on the library SAT floor? Enter St Mary Mead's famous resident sleuth, Miss SAT Jane Marple. SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as Miss SAT Marple, Richard Todd as Colonel Melchett, Pauline Jameson as SAT Dolly Bantry, Jack Watling as Colonel Bantry, Graham Crowden SAT as Sir Henry Clithering and Ben Crowe as George Bartlett. SAT Dramatist: Michael Bakewell SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SAT SAT 07:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075y5m (Listen) SAT Lucinda's Rectory SAT The architectural historian visits a favourite 19th-century SAT rectory, her own house. With Dan Cruickshank. From September SAT 2000. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01nk1d0 (Listen) SAT Time Travel: The Politics of Time SAT As we prepare to put the clocks back tonight, Sean Street SAT travels back in time through archive recordings to explore SAT the ways in which we have tried to control time itself - SAT from its standardisation in the 19th century, brought about SAT by the railways, to modern day political decisions about SAT time-zones and when Summer Time should start and end. SAT Most of us remember we get an extra hour in bed tonight - SAT but when we get up for work on Monday morning will it be SAT lighter or darker? Why do we bother to change the clocks? SAT Should we change our time-zone and join Central European SAT Time and consign GMT to the past? And what exactly is time? SAT Can it be controlled or does it control us as it marches on SAT relentlessly making us older day by day? All these ideas SAT have been debated throughout the years, but are we any SAT nearer being able to define or explain what time is? SAT With help from curators at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, SAT Sean Street's journey into past recordings takes him SAT backwards and forward across the many time-zones of Russia, SAT into China's single time-zone, to Venezuela's deliberately SAT political adoption of a half-hour time-zone and to Samoa, SAT who recently travelled forward in time by losing a whole SAT day. SAT However, if you want to experience Time Travel yourself, SAT listen to the repeat of this programme tonight on BBC Radio SAT 4 Extra which starts and ends at 1am in the hour the clocks SAT go back! SAT Producer: Andy Cartwright SAT A Soundscape production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats b007jtk4 (Listen) SAT The Sixties, Episode 2 SAT Decade by decade, Barry Cryer showcases some of the funniest SAT and finest shows ever broadcast by the BBC. SAT Six more favourites plucked from the groovy 1960s schedules SAT of the BBC Light Programme: SAT * Whack-O! SAT From 15/03/1962 SAT Crooked headmaster Professor Jimmy Edwards holds auditions SAT for Chiselbury School's charity concert in aid of a retiring SAT teacher. With Vera Lynn. From March 1962. SAT * The Men From the Ministry SAT Series 2 (2/13) Something about a Soldier SAT The bumbling civil servants find a 20-year-old demob letter. SAT Stars Richard Murdoch, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Norma Ronald and SAT Warren Mitchell. From August 1965. SAT * The Ken Dodd Show SAT From 19/07/1964 SAT The King of Knotty Ash offers tips for nude photography and SAT the hunt for a Scottish lake-bound monster. With Judith SAT Chalmers, John Laurie and Patricia Hayes. From July 1964. SAT * Steptoe & Son SAT Series 1 (11/13) The Lead Man Cometh SAT The rag and bone men get an irresistible offer. Adapted from SAT TV with Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H Corbett and Leonard SAT Rossiter. From September 1966. SAT * The Embassy Lark SAT Series 1 (6/13) A Trip to London SAT The staff of the British Embassy panic over the expiry of SAT their lease in Tratvia. Stars Derek Francis, Frank Thornton SAT and Francis de Wolff. From April 1966 SAT * Round the Horne SAT Series 4 (12/16) SAT Kenneth Horne makes Fleet Street headlines, and calls round SAT to Julian and Sandy's 'Bona Private Detective Agency'. With SAT Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. From May SAT 1968. SAT Produced and scripted by Peter Reed SAT First broadcast on BBC 7 in 2003. SAT SAT 12:00 To the Manor Born b007jpzw (Listen) SAT The Rhythms of the Earth SAT Audrey educates the new squire into the ways of the Lord of SAT the Manor. Adapted from TV, with Penelope Keith. From SAT January 1997. SAT SAT 12:30 Huddwinks b00b1p9r (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Curse of the Smollett's Curse! SAT Melissa and Compton win a holiday, but spurn Herne Bay for SAT an adventure in ancient Egypt. Stars Roy Hudd. From June SAT 1988. SAT SAT 13:00 Virginia Bailey - Early One Morning Omnibus b06j2gqb (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Italy 1943. Chiara is hiding Daniele, a young Jewish boy, in SAT a remote farmhouse. Stars Greta Scacchi and Juliet Aubrey. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06knlbp (Listen) SAT John Thomson SAT The actor chooses the theme from the TV series 'Rupert the SAT Bear' and 'Life Is Just A Game' by bass virtuoso Stanley SAT Clarke. SAT SAT 14:15 Peter Tinniswood b007v0zr (Listen) SAT The Last Obit SAT Billie Whitelaw stars as an obituarist living in her own SAT very particular world, in a monologue written especially for SAT her by Peter Tinnswood. SAT Having spent years writing obituaries for the Morning SAT Telegraph, Millicent Doris Clayton's mind wanders as she SAT prepares her final piece before taking retirement. Epitaphs SAT and judgments on the famous, the notorious and the SAT undeserving have passed through her office. She is a SAT middle-aged spinster. So who will prepare Millicent's own SAT obituary? And what will it say? SAT Directed by Enyd Williams. First heard on BBC Radio 4 in SAT 1998. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01nk1d0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Miss Marple b007jvht (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SAT b0075y5m (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b06knp8c (Listen) SAT Doing Time SAT The Doctor does time on the prison planet Folly. Can he SAT endure a year in solitary? SAT Peter Davison is the Fifth Doctor with his companion Nyssa SAT played by Sarah Sutton. SAT This episode is one of four generated by Big Finish SAT Productions' 2010 'Opportunity for New Writers' contest, SAT which attracted around 1200 entries, SAT Peter Davison played the Fifth Doctor on BBC TV from 1981 to SAT 1984. SAT Sarah Sutton played Nyssa between 1981 and 1983. She was SAT first seen on 'The Keeper of Traken' - Traken being Nyssa's SAT home planet, when she starred with the Fourth Doctor (Tom SAT Baker) SAT Written by Rick Briggs. SAT Original music composed by Richard Fox and Lauren Yason. SAT Directed by Ken Bentley SAT Producer: David Richardson SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 18:30 Andrew McGibbon - The Routemasters b007jnry (Listen) SAT On the Buses SAT Mistaking it for the night bus, Bernie is a prisoner on the SAT time-travelling double-decker. Stars Amanda Donohoe and Karl SAT Minns. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats b007jtk4 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better SAT b00dhg7k (Listen) SAT Series 2, Humility SAT The comedian ponders the virtue of living more modestly. SAT With poetry and songs by Tim Key and Tom Basden. From SAT September 2008. SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive b00d10m3 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 2 SAT A master chef and his cooks whip up a frenzy of topical SAT comedy. With Dave Gorman, Simon Evans and Will Smith. From SAT August 2008. SAT SAT 23:00 Saturday Night Fry b007jt12 (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT Stephen Fry hosts humorous banter and sketches with Hugh SAT Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law. From SAT June 1988. SAT SAT 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom b018zvmk (Listen) SAT Series 3, Reading SAT The comedian investigates his fear of reading aloud. Just SAT what is the point of books? With Hattie Hayridge. From SAT October 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 25 OCTOBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b06knp8c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Andrew McGibbon - The Routemasters b007jnry (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Guy Meredith - Spring Forward, Fall Back b0084sgw (Listen) SUN Divorcee plumber Maggie lives in a small village. One day a SUN stranger arrives and changes her life. Stars Samantha Spiro. SUN SUN 01:00 Virginia Bailey - Early One Morning Omnibus b06knj7b (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Rome 1943. A split-second decision is about to change SUN Chiara's life forever. Starring Greta Scacchi and Juliet SUN Aubrey. SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06knlbp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Peter Tinniswood b007v0zr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01nk1d0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Miss Marple b007jvht (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Lucinda Lambton's Elevations and Revelations SUN b0075y5m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Reeds in the Wind - Omnibus b01f8l87 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Nobel laureate Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, SUN poverty, honour and retribution set in 1900's Sardinia. SUN Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths. SUN SUN 07:15 Pier People b00760pp (Listen) SUN Blackpool's Piers SUN What does the future hold for Blackpool's piers as visitors SUN demand new forms of entertainment? From February 2001. SUN SUN 07:30 Clare in the Community b01phhyf (Listen) SUN Series 8, Hot Desk SUN Episode One - Hot Desk SUN Social Worker Clare Barker and her colleagues have to move SUN offices and embrace hot desking. All this while Clare has a SUN new student to wet nurse. Brian is struggling to keep SUN control in the classroom. SUN Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all SUN the right jargon but never a practical solution. SUN A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering SUN in other people's lives on both a professional and personal SUN basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and SUN heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of SUN discomfort to her. SUN Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control SUN both her professional and private life SUN In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out SUN there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. SUN Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden SUN Producer Katie Tyrrell. SUN Credits SUN Clare: Sally Phillips SUN Brian: Alex Lowe SUN Megan: Nina Conti SUN Nali: Nina Conti SUN Ray: Richard Lumsden SUN Helen: Liza Tarbuck SUN Simon: Andrew Wincott SUN Libby: Sarah Kendall SUN Alice: Alex Tregear SUN Abigail: Eleanor Crooks SUN Dexter: Will Howard SUN Bob: Robert Blythe SUN Neighbour: Ben Crowe SUN Terence: Ben Crowe SUN MC: Ben Crowe SUN Simon's girlfriend: Bharti Patel SUN Writer: Harry Venning SUN Writer: David Ramsden SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 08:00 Educating Archie b00g9m6d (Listen) SUN From 30/01/1957 SUN Archie Andrews and mentor Peter Brough buy a farm. Radio SUN ventriloquism, with Dick Emery and Deryck Guyler. From SUN January 1957. SUN SUN 08:30 Frankie Howerd Show b007jn0j (Listen) SUN The king of titters reads some ditties and battles giant SUN animals in a spoof thriller. With Norma Ronald. From SUN November 1975. SUN SUN 09:00 John Le Carre: The Biography - Omnibus b06kp85x (Listen) SUN David Cornwell (author John Le Carre) and his family were SUN always under his remarkable father's shadow. Read by Stephen SUN Boxer. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06kp9zq (Listen) SUN Kate Mosse SUN The author chooses Nancy Sinatra's 'These Boots Were Made SUN For Walkin' and Jacques Brel's tender 'La Chanson Des Vieux SUN Amants'. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06kp9zv (Listen) SUN Fashion, George Davies SUN 4 Extra Debut. From The Beatles to Luciano Pavarotti. SUN Fashion designer George Davies shares his castaway choices SUN with Sue Lawley. From April 2006. SUN SUN 11:00 TED Radio Hour b06kpj7n (Listen) SUN Series 2, From Curiosity to Discovery SUN A journey through fascinating ideas based on talks by SUN riveting speakers on the TED (Technology, Entertainment, SUN Design) stage. SUN Guy Raz investigates why some people spend years trying to SUN answer a question, or risk their lives to discover something SUN new. SUN With James Cameron, Thomas Thwaites, Wendy Chung, Adam SUN Savage and Nathan Wolfe. SUN First broadcast in the USA on National Public Radio. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pl95k (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Serpent's Stare SUN The famous naturalist looks at why underground animals have SUN evolved in a very different way from those living on the SUN surface. SUN SUN 12:00 Educating Archie b00g9m6d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Frankie Howerd Show b007jn0j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Reeds in the Wind - Omnibus b01f8l87 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Pier People b00760pp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 A Whole Life - Omnibus b06kpk0x (Listen) SUN A tale of a man's relationship with an ancient landscape, SUN the value of solitude and the arrival of the modern world. SUN Read by Robert Powell. SUN SUN 15:45 Peter Regent - Figs b06kq0yy (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. On a coach journey in Turkey, a man dreams of SUN eating refreshing figs. Can his fellow travellers help? Read SUN by Nigel Anthony. SUN SUN 16:00 David Pownall b01sdty0 (Listen) SUN I Want to Go Home SUN And on the eighth day God created language. Little did he SUN expect the confusion that would ensue... SUN I - David Bamber SUN Want - Joanna Monro SUN To Go - Ben Crowe SUN Home - Georgie Alexander SUN With John Hartley as the voice of God SUN Director: Peter Kavanagh SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra: Poetry of History b06kq1rv (Listen) SUN Adlestrop SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In Adventures in Poetry, Peggy Reynolds explores the SUN background, effect and lasting appeal of the 1915 poem SUN 'Adlestrop' about a stop at a Cotswolds railway station. SUN This poem has long been loved for its evocation of high SUN summer, rural England and the intimation of changes to come. SUN Producer: Tim Dee SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. SUN SUN 17:30 Clare in the Community b01phhyf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jlpl (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Man Upstairs SUN A new guest in a boarding house is disliked by the grandson SUN of the lady who runs the house. But why? The reason soon SUN becomes startingly clear.... SUN Strange and chilling tales from the award-winning master of SUN thrillers Ray Bradbury, who tops and tails these radio SUN dramatisations in his own inimitable style. SUN Starring Geoffrey Lee, Finlay Welsh, and Mary Riggans SUN Producer: Hamish Wilson. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997. SUN SUN 18:30 Terry Pratchett b007jmk0 (Listen) SUN Guards! Guards!, Episode 1 SUN Can a stolen library book lead to the reinvention of SUN dragons? Comic fantasy with Martin Jarvis, John Wood and SUN Melvyn Hayes. SUN SUN 19:00 TED Radio Hour b06kpj7n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pl95k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 John Le Carre: The Biography - Omnibus b06kp85x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06kp9zq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06kp9zv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Clare in the Community b01phhyf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 On the Town with the League of Gentlemen b007k33t (Listen) SUN God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen SUN It's Christmas in the town of Spent, but which residents are SUN celebrating? Comedy for 'local people' with Mark Gatiss, SUN Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton. From December 1997. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06nd4z7 (Listen) SUN Arthur Smith chats to Russell Howard. SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00772rd (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 1 SUN The award-winning performer encounters a reluctant SUN beekeeper, feuding librarians and Santa. With Ben Moor. From SUN January 2007. SUN SUN 23:30 Recorded for Training Purposes b00gm512 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 2 SUN Sketch show about modern communication and contemporary SUN obsessions. With Ben Willbond and Rachel Atkins. From SUN January 2009. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 OCTOBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Ray Bradbury - Tales of the Bizarre b007jlpl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Terry Pratchett b007jmk0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Reeds in the Wind - Omnibus b01f8l87 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Pier People b00760pp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 A Whole Life - Omnibus b06kpk0x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Peter Regent - Figs b06kq0yy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 David Pownall b01sdty0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra: Poetry of History b06kq1rv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Clare in the Community b01phhyf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Poirot b01073s1 (Listen) MON Peril at End House, Episode 1 MON Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is on holiday in Cornwall when MON a bullet lands at his feet at the Majestic Hotel... MON Agatha Christie's whodunit (published in 1932) stars John MON Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Simon Williams as Captain MON Hastings and Gemma Saunders as Nick Buckley. MON Actor John Moffatt (1922-2012) played Hercule Poirot in 25 MON BBC Radio productions. MON Dramatist: Michael Bakewell MON Director: Enyd Williams MON First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. MON MON 06:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen) MON Robin Denselow tells the story of Cambodia's rock and roll MON stars who emerged during the late 1960s with a new sound MON known as Khmer Rock. Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, MON almost all these singers and musicians were killed, but they MON are still revered by Cambodians today. MON MON 07:00 Street and Lane b00v3n2v (Listen) MON Series 1, Patio Marital MON Yorkshire builders Johnny and Arthur tool up for a warring MON couple. Stars Nick Lane and Fine Time Fontayne. From August MON 2005. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b06j1kdy (Listen) MON Series 73, Episode 3 MON The South Pacific, Conkers and Harvest Festivals are among MON the subjects on the cards as Andy Hamilton, Sue Perkins, MON Tony Hawks and Gyles Brandreth join Nicholas Parsons to play MON another round of the classic panel show. There's deviation, MON hesitation and repetition a-plenty. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Andy Hamilton MON Panellist: Sue Perkins MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jpkw (Listen) MON Series 3, A Man of Action MON When a landmine sparks martial law, a reporter catches MON Captain Mainwaring in charge. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier MON as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John MON Laurie as Private Frazer, Ian Lavender as Private Pike, MON Arnold Ridley as Godfrey and Bill Pertwee as Hodges. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 1976. MON MON 08:30 As Time Goes By b06kvpdw (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 7 MON Lionel finally seeks to make an 'honest woman' of Jean. MON Starring Judi Dench as Jean and Geoffrey Palmer as Lionel. MON With Moira Brooker as Judith, Philip Bretherton as Alistair MON and Jenny Funnell as Sandy. MON A six-part adaptation by Bob Larbey of series three 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 March 1999. MON MON 09:00 The Motion Show b0075ryv (Listen) MON Episode 5 MON Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Clive Coleman, MON Rhona Cameron, Niall Ashdown and John Maloney. From November MON 1998. MON MON 09:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mjq8m (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON An uncle's gift leaves menopausal flower child Merv yearning MON to discover his inner cowboy. Stars Mervyn Stutter. From May MON 2004. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b01724z2 (Listen) MON Henry James - The Ambassadors, Episode 1 MON THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry MON James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, MON a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. MON Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel MON many critics find James' finest. MON EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the MON fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett MON to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell MON of Paris. . MON Lambert Strether Henry Goodman MON Chad Orlando Seale MON Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin MON Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody MON John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton MON Waymarsh Paul Moriarty MON Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh MON Jim Pocock James Lailey MON Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles MON Andre Carl Prekopp MON Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington MON Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wrk (Listen) MON Desideratus MON 4 Extra Debut. A series of short stories by the Booker MON Prize-winner. A boy goes in search of a lost keepsake. Read MON by Robert Glenister. MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00scv5n (Listen) MON Sean Grundy - The Recordist MON By Sean Grundy MON An illicit affair proves both destructive and a useful MON teaching aid. Starring John Gordon Sinclair, Sharon Horgan MON and Gemma Jones. MON Stuart is a freelance surveillance expert who teaches covert MON 'information gathering' to new Intelligence recruits. As MON part of his work he 'bugs' friends & family, including his MON wife, Penny. When he discovers that she's having an affair MON with a man called Neil, his work colleague, Ren, offers her MON own skills in 'enhanced interview techniques' to help, but MON Stuart declines. He realises that the secret affair could MON make an engaging teaching aid. Initially, his students are MON slightly unsettled but very intrigued. The affair becomes MON the main focus of the curriculum, and the group study how to MON 'bug' all manner of difficult situations, such as an MON impromptu hotel room, a car in a field, busy nightclub, and MON hot-air balloon. But Penny feels terrible about the affair MON and Stuart discovers emotions deeply buried and things soon MON spiral out of control. MON 'The Recordist' is a dark, offbeat comedy, looking at the MON price love pays for clear acoustics in Dolby NR. MON Cast: MON Stuart - John Gordon Sinclair MON Penny - Sharon Horgan MON Ren - Gemma Jones MON Neil - Ed Weeks MON Reese - Fergus Craig MON Munro - Nick Mohammed MON Penny's Mum - Phyllida Nash MON Directed / Produced by Alison Crawford. MON Credits MON Producer: Alison Crawford MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jpkw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 As Time Goes By b06kvpdw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Poirot b01073s1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00spnny (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Jim goes to the ball - where indiscretions are discovered, MON fantasies indulged in and plans are hatched. Read by Martin MON Jarvis. MON The all-time classic comic novel of academic life written by MON Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim lists the fortunes - or rather MON misfortunes - of Jim Dixon, a man of many faces, most of MON which don't fit his surroundings. MON Produced and abridged by Pat McLoughlin. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. MON MON 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rg1gp (Listen) MON Epic Tales MON Episode Six of a thirty-part series made in collaboration MON with the British Library Sound Archive. MON In 1933, a young classics scholar called Milman Parry made a MON journey through the hill villages of the Balkans to record MON poets and singers. He captured an oral tradition that has MON all but died out - peasant performers who recited epic tales MON over days without any form of prompt. MON Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex explains MON how ancient tales were remembered and passed down, and MON travels to the ancient Theatre of Epidaurus in Greece to MON find out what the audience would have made of it all up in MON the 'gods'. MON Featuring archive extracts of traditional stories from the MON Balkans, Kyrgyzstan, West Africa, and India. MON Series producer: Matt Thompson. MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01f5hnl (Listen) MON Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind, Episode 6 MON Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and MON retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. MON Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by MON Martha King. MON Efix urges Giacinto to put things right following the MON discovery that he has forged signatures to get credit from MON Kallina the usurer to pay his gambling debts. Will Giacinto MON manage to pay everything back in time? MON EFIX.....John Lynch MON NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson MON ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew MON RUTH/KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt MON GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger MON GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty MON PREDU.....Conrad Nelson MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00k8759 (Listen) MON Colm Toibin - Brooklyn, An Unlooked-for Offer MON Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a MON girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life MON in New York in the 1950s. MON The novel opens in the small town of Enniscorthy in the MON south east of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one MON among many of her generation who can find no work. Her three MON brothers have already left to seek their fortunes in MON England; she, her sister Rose and her widowed mother are all MON that remain at home. MON When a priest comes home from America for a holiday, he MON recognises both Eilis' plight and her potential. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b01724z2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Motion Show b0075ryv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mjq8m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Street and Lane b00v3n2v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b06j1kdy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Mind's Eye b007jypg (Listen) MON Virtuoso MON A woman claiming her hands are possessed is met with MON scepticism, until two psychotherapists take a look. Stars MON Dermot Crowley. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075zl3 (Listen) MON Ray Gaita & Anthea Bell MON Louise Doughty and her guests philosopher Ray Gaita and MON Anthea Bell, translator of the Asterix books, discuss their MON favourite paperbacks by Inga Clendinnen, Jenny Diski and MON Robertson Davies. From 2000. MON The Lyre of Orpheus by Robertson Davies MON Publisher: Penguin MON Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski MON Publisher: Granta MON Tiger's Eye by Inga Clendinnen MON Publisher: Jonathan Cape. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jpkw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 As Time Goes By b06kvpdw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Poirot b01073s1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wrk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00scv5n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b06j1kdy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 The Headset Set b01nq7dx (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2, Series 2 MON EPISODE 2 MON Sketches set in a call centre called Smile 5, a mail order MON catalogue company that sells anything and everything. On the MON Smile 5 call centre floor, Bernie is excessively angry over MON her missing lunch. MON Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu MON Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith MON Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult MON Various characters ..... Lucy Montgomery MON Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma MON Writers ..... Various MON Script editor ..... James Kettle. MON Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06kwkqq (Listen) MON Series 15, Episode 6 MON A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Miles MON Jupp. Jeremy Hardy, Holly Walsh, Yasmine Akram and political MON sketch writer Michael Deacon are Miles' guests this week. MON Producer: Richard Morris MON A BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON MON 23:45 Crème de la Crime b00890lk (Listen) MON Series 3, The Lies of the Artists MON Michael Feydeau and David Pershore probe a case of MON counterfeit art. Stars Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis. From MON April 2003. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Mind's Eye b007jypg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075zl3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Poirot b01073s1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Khmer Rock and the Killing Fields b00lrv50 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00spnny (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rg1gp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01f5hnl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00k8759 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b01724z2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Motion Show b0075ryv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Getting Nowhere Fast b00mjq8m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Street and Lane b00v3n2v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b06j1kdy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Poirot b0107wtp (Listen) TUE Peril at End House, Episode 2 TUE Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings attend Maggie Buckley's TUE dinner party and make a startling discovery. TUE Agatha Christie's whodunit (published in 1932) stars John TUE Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Simon Williams as Captain TUE Hastings, Gemma Saunders as Nick Buckley and Elizabeth TUE Conboy as Maggie Buckley. TUE Actor John Moffatt (1922-2012) played Hercule Poirot in 25 TUE BBC Radio productions. TUE Dramatist: Michael Bakewell TUE Director: Enyd Williams TUE First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. TUE TUE 06:30 In Search of the Holy Quail b00mdy17 (Listen) TUE 4 Extra Debut. Rock musicians and bird watchers Guy Garvey, TUE Martin Noble and Marc Riley go to Shetland in search of the TUE quail. From September 2009. TUE Credits TUE Producer: John Leonard TUE TUE 07:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759dn (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE 4 Extra Debut. Eric Halliday has a talent for impersonation TUE but can he make it as a sports commentator? Stars Alistair TUE McGowan. From June 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 There Is No Escape b06j21c5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE An audience sitcom about a man dissatisfied with his life, TUE whose feeble attempts to run away invariably end with him TUE traipsing home defeated. In Episode 2 Andrew finds himself, TUE like so many others across the country, having to spend a TUE few hours over Saturday lunchtime with his girlfriend's TUE parents. But Andrew is determined not to go. He hatches a TUE plan to get his workmate to call him in to an "emergency" at TUE work. But all goes wrong when he gets a flat tyre and the TUE only person who can come to his rescue is his girlfriend's TUE father. Starring Andrew Lawrence and Diane Morgan. TUE Credits TUE Actor: Andrew Lawrence TUE Actor: Diane Morgan TUE Writer: Andrew Lawrence TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00lrv62 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE Kenneth Horne heads a gangster romp 'How The Bullet Proof TUE Vest Was Won' - and can Julian and Sandy find him a Bona TUE Soulmate? TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in March 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 To the Manor Born b007k45h (Listen) TUE The Grapevine TUE Audrey tries to fool Devere that she's been on holiday to TUE Spain. TUE Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, Keith TUE Barron as Richard DeVere, Angela Thorne as Marjory Frobisher TUE and Nicholas McArdle as Brabinger. TUE The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, TUE forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her TUE husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler TUE Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge TUE cottage. TUE From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and TUE disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the TUE nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of TUE Czech descendent. TUE First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it TUE ever appeared, finally arrived home in 1997. TUE Adapted from his TV scripts by Peter Spence. TUE Producer: Jane Berthoud TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1997. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06kwkqq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Crème de la Crime b00890lk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b017c9pc (Listen) TUE Henry James - The Ambassadors, Episode 2 TUE THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry TUE James novel centres on Lambert Strether, a New Englander TUE dispatched to Europe on a mission. Henry Goodman is the TUE hapless protagonist. TUE EPISODE 2 Strether had hoped to persuade the fun-living son TUE of his wealthy fiancee to return home to New England. But TUE now Strether has fallen under the spell of the beautiful Mme TUE de Vionnet. More ambassadors are sent by the angry fiancee TUE to bring both men home. TUE Lambert Strether Henry Goodman TUE Chad Orlando Seale TUE Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin TUE Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody TUE John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton TUE Waymarsh Paul Moriarty TUE Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh TUE Jim Pocock James Lailey TUE Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles TUE Andre Carl Prekopp TUE Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington TUE Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075ws7 (Listen) TUE The Means of Escape TUE Set in Tasmania. A convict plots his escape. Read by Claire TUE Skinner. TUE TUE 11:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World TUE b0075npw (Listen) TUE Chinese Garden TUE In 1895 Lady McCartney, wife of the British Consul in TUE Turkestan, meets the Swedish explorer Sven Hedin. Stars TUE Siobhan Redmond. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00lrv62 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born b007k45h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Poirot b0107wtp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 In Search of the Holy Quail b00mdy17 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00sprfc (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE On a whim, lecturer Jim Dixon takes a gamble, steals TUE Professor Barclay's taxi and rides home with Christine. Read TUE by Martin Jarvis. TUE TUE 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rg22g (Listen) TUE Persuasion TUE Episode seven of a thirty-part series made in collaboration TUE with the British Library Sound Archive. TUE From Cicero to Martin Luther King, over the centuries, great TUE orators have changed our minds, given us hope, and sent us TUE to the barricades. TUE Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex reveals TUE their rhetorical tricks, and explains why President Obama's TUE sharp ear for dialogue is one of his greatest assets as a TUE speaker. TUE Series producer: Matt Thompson. TUE A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01f5lcl (Listen) TUE Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind, Episode 7 TUE Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and TUE retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. TUE Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by TUE Martha King. TUE Giacinto runs away following Ruth's sudden death leaving TUE Grixenda distraught and Ester and Noemi financially ruined. TUE Efix goes to Don Predu for help. TUE EFIX.....John Lynch TUE NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson TUE GRIXENDA.....Holliday Grainger TUE PREDU.....Conrad Nelson TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9jc (Listen) TUE Colm Toibin - Brooklyn, Farewell and Adieu TUE Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a TUE girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life TUE in New York in the 1950s. TUE Prompted by Father Flood, home from America for a holiday, TUE Rose sets about organising her younger sister. Almost before TUE she knows it, or has had time to say goodbye, Eilis is TUE crossing the Atlantic, heading for a job on the shop floor TUE of a Brooklyn department store, lodgings with an Irish TUE landlady and a brand new life. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b017c9pc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00qhrxb (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic TUE generations against each other to find out which is the TUE funniest. TUE Team captains Jon Richardson, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson TUE are joined by Mike Wozniak, Robin Ince and Ted Robbins. TUE TUE 16:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007jvgy (Listen) TUE Episode 6 TUE Jack has flu, so daughter Nicola takes over just as the pub TUE inspectors are due. Stars Michael Williams. From February TUE 1999. TUE TUE 17:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759dn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 There Is No Escape b06j21c5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Mind's Eye b007wpnl (Listen) TUE Faith TUE Jake claims an angel saved his life, but psychotherapist TUE Lorcan proves that he may be telling the truth. Stars Dermot TUE Crowley. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jndb (Listen) TUE Series 2, Humphrey Lyttelton TUE The much-missed host of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue TUE reminisces about his life, career and love of jazz. From TUE October 2000. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00lrv62 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born b007k45h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Poirot b0107wtp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 In Search of the Holy Quail b00mdy17 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075ws7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World TUE b0075npw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 There Is No Escape b06j21c5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Twenty Players b06kxptb (Listen) TUE Frankie Swoop TUE Forgotten sporting heroes. Barry Davies tells the story of a TUE most precociously talentless footballer. From June 1995. TUE TUE 22:45 The Music Teacher b01fcvy0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Richie Webb returns as multi-instrumentalist music teacher TUE Nigel Penny. TUE A famous ex-pupil of Nigel's pitches up at the Arts Centre TUE to make a 'where-it-all-began-for-me' documentary, and is TUE keen to interview Nigel. TUE Whilst Nigel's preparations for the reunion are hampered by TUE the usual array of frustrating pupils, Belinda attempts to TUE use this tenuous connection to a celebrity to generate some TUE much needed revenue for the Arts Centre. TUE Audio production by Matt Katz TUE Directed by Nick Walker TUE Written and produced by Richie Webb TUE A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Nigel Penny: Richie Webb TUE Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine TUE Betty: Isobel Webb TUE Greg: Jim North TUE Damien: Dave Lamb TUE Elsa: Jess Robinson TUE Director: Nick Walker TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE Producer: Richie Webb TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06nn9kt (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to TUE Brett Goldstein. TUE TUE 23:00 Delve Special b007jmzk (Listen) TUE Series 4, Not-So-Supergrasses TUE If criminals are liars, David Lander asks why the police TUE believe crooked informers. Stars Stephen Fry. TUE TUE 23:30 The Sofa of Time b00hwyq7 (Listen) TUE There's Gravy in My Locker TUE Milford and Parker arrive in a magical world and embark on a TUE quest. Stars Nick Frost, Matt King and Mark Heap. From TUE October 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 OCTOBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Mind's Eye b007wpnl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jndb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Poirot b0107wtp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 In Search of the Holy Quail b00mdy17 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00sprfc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rg22g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01f5lcl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9jc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b017c9pc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00qhrxb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Old Dog and Partridge b007jvgy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Our Man At Wembley b00759dn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 There Is No Escape b06j21c5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Poirot b01084hc (Listen) WED Peril at End House, Episode 3 WED Hercule Poirot discovers the identity of the body - and then WED turns his attention to some old letters. WED Agatha Christie's whodunit (published in 1932) stars John WED Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Simon Williams as Captain WED Hastings, Gemma Saunders as Nick Buckley and David Thorpe as WED the Police Inspector. WED Actor John Moffatt (1922-2012) played Hercule Poirot in 25 WED BBC Radio productions. WED Dramatist: Michael Bakewell WED Director: Enyd Williams WED First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. WED WED 06:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen) WED Clive Anderson, whose father was a bank manager, WED investigates the demise of the traditional face of our high WED street banks. WED For decades these reliable Captain Mainwarings kept our WED money safe, were prominent in the Rotary Club and made it WED their business to know every detail of the local economy. WED Yet over the years they were gradually phased out, as cash WED machines and credit cards changed banking for ever, and WED their risk-averse DNA stood at odds with the desire to sell, WED sell, sell. WED Clive goes in search of the reasons why his father's WED profession no longer exists, and asks how this change WED reflects on today's consumer society and the banking WED industry's rush to lend money. WED Interviewees include Duncan Bannatyne, multi-millionaire of WED Dragon's Den fame, whose branch bank manager set him on the WED road to a fortune; Sid Brittin, a former old-style Lloyds WED bank manager, who describes how he had a nervous breakdown WED under the pressure to meet new targets; John Hackett, HSBC's WED Chief Operating Officer of Retail, who says that banks are WED now far more responsive to their customers' needs. WED A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 Huddwinks b00b52ch (Listen) WED Series 2, The Dead Walk at Midnight! WED A reporter arrives to investigate mysterious happenings at a WED haunted manor. Stars Roy Hudd and Denise Coffey. From June WED 1988. WED WED 07:30 To Hull and Back b06j57f9 (Listen) WED Crying in the Chapel WED To Hull and Back is the eagerly anticipated sitcom from BBC WED New Comedy Award winner Lucy Beaumont. WED Sophie still lives at home with her mum in Hull. They make a WED living doing car boot sales at the weekend. Except they WED don't really make a living because her mum can't bear to get WED rid of any of their junk. Plus, they don't have a car. As WED their house gets more cluttered, Sophie feels more trapped. WED "Crying in the Chapel" WED Songs of Praise are paying a visit to Hull. Sophie sees this WED as an opportunity to start a successful singing career but WED neglected plumbing and a painting of Elvis at The Last WED Supper make an impossible task even more difficult. WED Writer ... Lucy Beaumont WED Producer ... Carl Cooper WED This is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED Credits WED Sophie: Lucy Beaumont WED Sheila: Maureen Lipman WED Jean: Kerrie Marsh WED Ernie: Norman Lovett WED DJ Richie: John Richardson WED Heather: Sue McCormick WED Gwen: Annie Sawle WED Roy: Mike Bubbins WED Imogen: Rebecca Hamilton WED Writer: Lucy Beaumont WED Producer: Carl Cooper WED WED 08:00 The TV Lark b01b3flq (Listen) WED Z Ambulances WED A live drama serial could make money for Troutbridge TV. But WED can they manage to produce it? WED After 4 series of 'The Navy Lark', the BBC decided the WED comedy crew needed a new setting, so where better than brand WED new independent station, Troutbridge TV? WED However, after just 10 episodes, this proved to be only a WED temporary change of course for the crew of HMS Troutbridge - WED as the crew were soon back aboard 'The Navy Lark'. WED Stars Jon Pertwee as the Floor Manager, Leslie Phillips as WED The Director, Stephen Murray as the Producer, Ronnie Barker WED as Fatso Johnson and Richard Caldicote as the Deputy WED Controller. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in February 1963 WED . WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00zfp3n (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 11 WED Back to the Roaring 1920s, and a one-sided debate. Songs and WED sketches with John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From June WED 1968. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b00f40ly (Listen) WED 1999, Heat 1 WED Beginning a series of the general knowledge music quiz from WED 1999, as a tribute to the late Ned Sherrin. WED Music details from programme 1 WED Round 1 WED Meyerbeer – Coronation March from Le Prophete WED Elgar – Ave Verum Corpus WED Puccini – Prelude from Gianni Schicchi WED Joni Mitchell – Big Yellow Taxi WED George and Ira Gerswhin – But Not For Me sung by Ella WED Fitzgerald WED Howard Goodall – The Lord is My Shepherd (The Vicar of WED Dibley theme) WED Round 2 WED Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice – Hosanna from Jesus Christ WED Superstar WED Lloyd Webber and David Zippel – You Can Get Away With WED Anything from The Woman In White, performed by Michael WED Crawford WED Richard Strauss – Di rigori armato il seno from Der WED Rosenkavalier Act I WED Verdi– Un di felice eterea from La Traviata Act I WED Shostakovich – Six Romances, Op.62: 'Oh wert thou in the WED cauld blast' John Adams Harmonium Part I ‘Negative Love’ WED WED 09:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076j4t (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED The 'unreliable' historical account of the mother of Anne of WED Cleves, Mrs Loew. Stars Jonathan Coy. From December 2003. WED WED 10:00 Rose Tremain - Who Was Emily Davison? b0214tf2 (Listen) WED The tragic history of the woman who threw herself in front WED of the King's horse Anmer, at the 1913 Epsom Derby. Stars WED Janet Maw. WED WED 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wsx (Listen) WED The Prescription WED A Greek widower has lost all ambition except in the matter WED of his 14-year-old son. Read by John Moffatt. WED WED 11:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World WED b0075nwj (Listen) WED The Forger WED In 1900, archaeologist Aurel Stein visits Lady McCartney, WED hunting lost cities of the Silk Road and a forgery. With WED Siobhan Redmond. WED WED 12:00 The TV Lark b01b3flq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00zfp3n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Poirot b01084hc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00sr304 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Margaret confronts Jim Dixon for leaving her at the summer WED ball and his response leaves her hysterical. Read by Martin WED Jarvis. WED WED 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rgj18 (Listen) WED Babble WED Episode eight of a thirty-part series made in collaboration WED with the British Library Sound Archive. WED As the Roman empire grew, the city at its heart sucked in WED exotic goods, tastes, smells, colours, and - of course - WED sounds from all around the world. Professor David Hendy of WED the University of Sussex asks what we would have heard if WED we'd visited the city in its heyday and walked its streets - WED passageways so narrow it was possible for upstairs dwellers WED to reach out and touch their neighbour opposite. WED Bellowing animals, street-hawkers, the babble of a dozen WED languages, many now dead. Some inhabitants loved this WED sensory overload, but others ran from it. Where could a rich WED Roman go to get some peace? WED Series producer: Matt Thompson. WED A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01f65w7 (Listen) WED Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind, Episode 8 WED Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and WED retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. WED Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by WED Martha King. WED Following Giacinto's departure and the Pintor sisters' WED financial ruin, Don Predu comes to the rescue. But will Efix WED persuade Noemi to accept Predu's offer of marriage? WED EFIX.....John Lynch WED NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson WED KALLINA.....Kathryn Hunt WED GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9k4 (Listen) WED Colm Toibin - Brooklyn, Letters from Home WED Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a WED girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life WED in New York in the 1950s. WED Eilis has lodgings with an Irish landlady and a job on the WED shop floor of a department store. Every day a whole world of WED things are new, but letters from home remind her of just WED what she is missing. WED WED 15:00 Rose Tremain - Who Was Emily Davison? b0214tf2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b00f40ly (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076j4t (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Huddwinks b00b52ch (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 To Hull and Back b06j57f9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Mind's Eye b007wqdd (Listen) WED Whispers WED A boy swears he is under attack by a poltergeist, but his WED determined father blames his son's wilfulness. Stars Dermot WED Crowley. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076tr2 (Listen) WED Your Inner Child WED Matthew Parris, Pat Kane, Matt Harvey and Hilary Mantel WED discuss the idea of being young at heart. From September WED 2005. WED WED 19:00 The TV Lark b01b3flq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00zfp3n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Poirot b01084hc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wsx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World WED b0075nwj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 To Hull and Back b06j57f9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Bird Island b01kbjdg (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED On one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antartica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED EPISDE FOUR: WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non audience comedy. WED In this final episode Graham gives the shock news that a new WED member of the team is joining them. WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED Credits WED Ben: Reece Shearsmith WED Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Jane: Katy Wix WED Writer: Katy Wix WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED WED 22:45 Before They Were Famous b01mdgwz (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED Ian Leslie presents a new Radio 4 comedy show which brings WED to light the often surprising first literary attempts of WED some of the world's best known writers. A project of WED literary archaeology, Leslie has found evidence in the most WED unlikely of places - within the archives of newspapers, WED periodicals, corporations and universities-showcasing the WED early writing examples of writers such as Jilly WED Cooper-during her brief and unfortunately unsuccessful foray WED into the world of war reporting, and Hunter S Thompson - in WED his sadly short-lived phase working in the customer WED relations department for a major American Airline. WED These are the newspaper articles, advertising copy, company WED correspondence and gardening manuals, that allow us a WED fascinating glimpse into the embryonic development of our WED best loved literary voices - people whom we know today for WED their novels or poems but who, at the time, were just people WED with a dream...and a rent bill looming at the end of the WED month. WED Produced by: Anna Silver and Claire Broughton WED A Hat Trick Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Ian Leslie WED Producer: Anna Silver WED Producer: Claire Broughton WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06nn9x4 (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Thom Tuck chats to WED Brett Goldstein. WED WED 23:00 The History Plays b01dhs1h (Listen) WED A History of Blair in 9 1/2 Voices WED Last in Nigel Smith's series of plays set at key moments in WED the last five decades. WED A History of Tony Blair in 9 1/2 voices stars Jon Culshaw as WED Tony Blair, lost in the winding corridors of the BBC the day WED after his resignation. He finds himself sharing a room with WED Sue (Fiona Allen), a struggling impressionist who assumes he WED is a Tony Blair lookalike. Blair enjoys the opportunity to WED talk about himself in the third person, and to show off a WED few impressions of his own. WED A darkly comic but thoughtful exploration of what makes WED Blair tick, the play gives a compelling explanation for what WED may have lain behind Blair's early political successes and WED what prompted his unwavering commitment to the war in Iraq. WED Written and directed by Nigel Smith WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:30 Revolting People b0089mbr (Listen) WED Series 3, Young Love WED Captain Brimshaw's father orders him to marry his cousin in WED England. 1770 America sitcom with Andy Hamilton and Jay WED Tarses. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Mind's Eye b007wqdd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076tr2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Poirot b01084hc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00sr304 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rgj18 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01f65w7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9k4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Rose Tremain - Who Was Emily Davison? b0214tf2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b00f40ly (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Six Mothers-in-Law of Henry VIII b0076j4t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Huddwinks b00b52ch (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 To Hull and Back b06j57f9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Poirot b010928t (Listen) THU Peril at End House, Episode 4 THU Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings head to THU London to meet up with Chief Inspector Japp. THU Agatha Christie's whodunit (published in 1932) stars John THU Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Simon Williams as Captain THU Hastings, Gemma Saunders as Nick Buckley and Bryan Pringle THU as Chief Inspector Japp. THU Actor John Moffatt (1922-2012) played Hercule Poirot in 25 THU BBC Radio productions. THU Dramatist: Michael Bakewell THU Director: Enyd Williams THU First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. THU THU 06:30 The Doll's House b00sxkv0 (Listen) THU A peek inside the world of the doll's house, by those who THU had one as a child. THU It's the classic little girl's favourite toy and in this THU programme we hear about the influence the doll's house has THU had on the imagination of now grown up women and the THU occasional man, as well as the hobby of doll's houses for THU adults. THU For the children's writer and illustrator, Lauren Child, the THU first doll's house she saw was made by her friend's mother THU from a cupboard. It inspired her to make her own which she THU still is working on today. Many of the textiles which form THU the back-drop of her successful Charlie and Lola series THU originated as either wallpapers or fabrics from the doll's THU house she made in her youth. For her, the doll's house is an THU environment which you can control. In fact, it's one of the THU first occasions you get in your childhood to manipulate an THU environment and make up your own stories. THU It's also an area of craftsmanship where Britain leads the THU world. Whilst it may seem curious, some of the best examples THU of miniature building and carving are present in the cottage THU industries of doll's house furniture makers. We hear from THU some of the best UK miniature artisans who are as well known THU in the doll's house world of the States, Japan and the rest THU of Europe as they are in Britain. THU Looking at doll's houses from the 18th and 19th centuries in THU the Museum of Childhood, we hear that when they were built THU they were rarely intended as children's toys, but as hobbies THU for the ladies of the house. Queen Mary's dolls house is THU discussed complete with miniature family portraits of her THU family and her arrangement of what she thought the domestic THU home might look like. THU And we hear from the increasing number of women who are THU keeping the miniaturists in business as the vogue for dolls THU houses for adults grows. THU Producer and Presenter: Sarah Taylor. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b018fmt1 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the THU residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. Esther has a THU big question to ask Ken and Keith, while on the horizon, THU storm clouds gather... THU written by Katherine Jakeways THU produced by Victoria Lloyd THU John Biggins................................Keith THU Mackenzie Crook...........................Rod THU Kevin Eldon...................Jonathan / Ken THU Shelia Hancock....................... Narrator THU Jessica Henwick...........................Helen THU Katherine Jakeways........ Esther / Jacqui THU Felicity Montagu..............................Jan THU Geoffrey Palmer........................Norman THU Lizzie Roper..............................Angela THU Penelope Wilton............................Mary THU Rufus Wright................................Frank. THU THU 07:30 The Brig Society b06j5qd9 (Listen) THU Series 3, GCSE THU Please turn your radio over and start listening as Marcus THU Brigstocke has just thirty minutes to retake his GCSEs. THU During the show he will be sitting a genuine GCSE exam set THU by the Producer in an attempt to get the bottom of Grade THU Inflation and also the class. THU The invigilators are Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda"), THU William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got No Head") and Justin THU Edwards ("The Thick Of It") with a secret appearance by The THU Now Show's Jon Holmes. THU Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, THU Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: William Andrews THU Ensemble: Justin Edwards THU Ensemble: Jon Holmes THU Producer: David Tyler THU Writer: Marcus Brigstocke THU Writer: Jeremy Salsby THU Writer: Toby Davies THU Writer: Nick Doody THU Writer: Steve Punt THU Writer: Dan Tetsell THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlt3 (Listen) THU Series 3, Cuckoo in the Nest THU Harold Steptoe is shocked to meet his older half-brother THU from Australia. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Kenneth J Warren as Arthur. 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 April 1971. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0084hzr (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel tries to bamboozle a THU millionaire. THU Recreation of the Marx Brothers' lost shows charting the THU adventures of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel and his THU assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli. Originally broadcast with THU sponsors on America's NBC radio network in the 1930s. The THU scripts were rediscovered in 1988. THU Starring Michael Roberts as Groucho Marx as Waldorf T THU Flywheel and Frank Lazarus as Chico Marx as Emmanuel Ravelli THU With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent Marzello. THU Written by Nat Perrin and Athur Sheekman. Adapted by Mark THU Brisenden. THU Music arranged and conducted by David Firman. THU Producer: Dirk Maggs THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1991. THU THU 09:00 Genius b008gh91 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU Dave Gorman and Chris Addison chew over ridiculous, THU brilliant but unworkable ideas, and choose the best. From THU September 2006. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007jnv9 (Listen) THU Series 6, Making It Better THU Victoria and Charlotte try to help Anna over her recent THU break-up. Stars Rosemary Leach and Celia Imrie. From July THU 1999. THU THU 10:00 Playing for Time - Three Days in May 1940 b007k4c7 (Listen) THU Facing defeat in Dunkirk, the War Cabinet challenges Winston THU Churchill over May bank holiday weekend 1940. Stars Robert THU Hardy. THU THU 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wtk (Listen) THU Mr Tanner is very keen to tell the extraordinary story of THU how he has a lawyer in the family. Read by Nicholas Farrell. THU THU 11:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World THU b007w3b8 (Listen) THU Stolen THU A German archaeologist is drawn into a race to steal THU Buddhist treasures along the Silk Road. Stars Siobhan THU Redmond. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlt3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0084hzr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Poirot b010928t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Doll's House b00sxkv0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00srg4l (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU To stop the formidable Mrs Welch catching him out, lecturer THU Jim must create a plausible diversion. Read by Martin THU Jarvis. THU THU 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rgm9z (Listen) THU The Roaring Crowd THU Episode nine of a thirty-part series made in collaboration THU with the British Library Sound Archive. THU 'And the crowd roars...' THU The London Olympics were a reminder of the barrage of sound THU that we noisy humans can make when we get together. THU Professor David Hendy of the University of Sussex travels to THU one of history's great amphitheatres - the ruins of the THU Roman Colosseum - to explain the power of the crowd: how it THU showed approval and what happened when it was displeased. THU Series producer: Matt Thompson. THU A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. THU This programme contains geo-blocked content THU There are some types of content where we are restricted from THU distributing overseas, usually because of sports rights. THU THU When parts of a BBC radio programme are recorded or THU broadcast from an Olympic site, the live and on demand THU stream will be blocked to international audiences for the THU duration of that segment. International audiences will hear THU a message informing them of the rights restrictions in THU place. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01f67y8 (Listen) THU Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind, Episode 9 THU Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and THU retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. THU Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by THU Martha King. THU Following Giacinto's accusation of murder Efix is haunted by THU memories of the past. Believing he is to blame for the THU downfall of the Pintor sisters he is compelled to leave- but THU where will he go? THU EFIX.....John Lynch THU GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty THU PREDU.....Conrad Nelson THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9kj (Listen) THU Colm Toibin - Brooklyn, Christmas Comfort THU Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a THU girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life THU in New York in the 1950s. THU Christmas looms, as Eilis struggles to adapt to her new life THU in a city far from home. But she is not the only member of THU the Irish diaspora feeling homesick - helping Father Flood THU tend to his flock brings comfort and cheer. THU THU 15:00 Playing for Time - Three Days in May 1940 b007k4c7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b008gh91 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007jnv9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b018fmt1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 The Brig Society b06j5qd9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Mind's Eye b007jyt8 (Listen) THU Prophet THU Released murderer Paul claims he can foresee imminent THU crimes, but the police think he's the perpetrator. Stars THU Dermot Crowley. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b00y2d8c (Listen) THU Series 23, Marcus Garvey THU Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of THU Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leader of the early THU twentieth century. Long before Martin Luther King or Malcolm THU X, Marcus Garvey was trying against all the odds to give THU black people a sense of pride, and to create the conditions THU in which they might hope to flourish and prosper. Kwame THU Kwei-Armah tells the story of Garvey's incredible rise and THU fall, and brings this impressive yet flawed man to life. THU He's joined by Colin Grant, the author of Negro with a Hat - THU a biography of Marcus Garvey. Presenter Matthew Parris THU contributes his own memories of living in both Jamaica and THU Africa. THU Producer Beth O'Dea. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jlt3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b0084hzr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Poirot b010928t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Doll's House b00sxkv0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wtk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Ray Jenkins - From the House at the Top of the World THU b007w3b8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 The Brig Society b06j5qd9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b011dkny (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU From Lord Alan Sugar to Bruce Forsyth - Jon Culshaw explores THU the bizarre private lives of famous folk. From April 2009. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007k1xw (Listen) THU Series 2, Assistant THU With Hell getting overcrowded, the Devil decides it's time THU to hire a bit of help. Satanic sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. THU From April 1998. THU THU 23:30 The Mark Steel Lecture b007k482 (Listen) THU Series 1, Charlie Chaplin THU The radical comedian profiles the fascinating life and THU character of the legendary silent film star. From September THU 1999. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 OCTOBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Mind's Eye b007jyt8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b00y2d8c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Poirot b010928t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Doll's House b00sxkv0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00srg4l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Noise: A Human History b01rgm9z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01f67y8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9kj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Playing for Time - Three Days in May 1940 b007k4c7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b008gh91 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007jnv9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b018fmt1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 The Brig Society b06j5qd9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Poirot b0109byt (Listen) FRI Peril at End House, Episode 5 FRI Hercule Poirot summons everyone to End House. Can the FRI Belgian sleuth finally unmask the murderer? FRI Agatha Christie's whodunit (published in 1932) stars John FRI Moffatt as Hercule Poirot, Simon Williams as Captain FRI Hastings, Gemma Saunders as Nick Buckley, Andrew Wincott as FRI George Challenger, Terence Edmond as Croft, Sean Arnold as FRI Jimmy Lazarus and Bryan Pringle as Chief Inspector Japp. FRI Actor John Moffatt (1922-2012) played Hercule Poirot in 25 FRI BBC Radio productions. FRI Dramatist: Michael Bakewell FRI Director: Enyd Williams FRI First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. FRI FRI 06:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo b00wdgr5 (Listen) FRI As his ship was sinking through the Antarctic pack-ice, FRI Ernest Shackleton allowed each member of his expedition to FRI take 2lbs of possessions with them as they abandoned ship. FRI One exception was made; Shackleton saved Leonard Hussey's FRI banjo saying, "We must have that banjo. It's vital mental FRI medicine." FRI So it proved; when Shackleton set off in a small boat to FRI sail to South Georgia to get help, he left behind on FRI Elephant Island twenty-two men. They lived for months under FRI an upturned boat and some old sails. Every Saturday the FRI banjo-playing meteorologist mounted a concert. He composed FRI songs and whenever they caught a seal to eat brought out his FRI banjo. He played, the men sang - and anger and depression FRI were kept at bay. FRI Leonard Hussey survived, as did his banjo, now in the FRI National Maritime Museum, its skin marked with a dozen FRI signatures of members of the failed expedition to the South FRI Pole. FRI Tim van Eyken is best known as a squeeze-box player and FRI singer - he was the Song Man in 'War Horse' at the National FRI Theatre. But he also plays the banjo. Tim explores the FRI character of Hussey and the role he and his banjo played in FRI saving the sanity of the explorers. He plays some of his FRI songs - sadly not on Hussey's banjo, which is too fragile, FRI but on his own, made by Pete Stanley, who sheds some light FRI on the original instrument. FRI Tim also hears from Pieter van der Merwe of the National FRI Maritime Museum about the importance of music in expeditions FRI and, thanks to some remarkable archive recordings, Hussey FRI himself. He plays the tune Shackleton asked for the night he FRI died. Hussey reveals, too, that his banjo had seen action in FRI warmer climes, "having among other things been played to an FRI audience of cannibals in Africa." FRI Producer: Julian May. FRI FRI 07:00 The Change b06l3287 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI The family learn about Carol's condition - and Sonia finally FRI confronts Dave about his suspicious behaviour. FRI Starring Lynda Bellingham as Carol, Philip Jackson as FRI George, Maureen Beattie as Maureen, Marcia Warren as Violet, FRI Emma Kennedy as Sonia and James Vaughan as Ken. FRI Series 3 of the sitcom about a married couple's attempts to FRI smooth over their singularly troubled midlife funk - Carol FRI is hormonal and 15-stone George is a transvestite. Onlookers FRI can't quite agree on the nature of their dynamic. FRI Written by Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. FRI Producer: Elizabeth Freestone FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2004. FRI FRI 07:30 Shedtown b01q03sb (Listen) FRI Series 2, End of the Beginning FRI In series two of Shedtown, our wooden 'man-cave', icon of FRI escape and isolation - the shed - continues to be a symbol FRI of possibility and change. FRI Episode 3: End of the Beginning FRI The creosoted community continues into surreal seaside chaos FRI as it hits the headlines. FRI Father Michael spots a 'shopportunity' and Colin sees his FRI failed dream, of running a successful visitor attraction, FRI re-emerging. FRI Barry............................Tony Pitts FRI Jimmy..........................Stephen Mangan FRI Eleanor.......................Ronni Ancona FRI Colin..........................Johnny Vegas FRI Deborah.......................Emma Fryer FRI William.......................Adrian Manfredi FRI Diane.........................Rosina Carbone FRI Dave..........................Shaun Dooley FRI Father Michael............James Quinn FRI Wes..........................Warren Brown FRI Margaret....................Gwyneth Powell FRI Nell.............................Eleanor Samson FRI Narrator.....................Maxine Peake FRI Music.......................Paul Heaton & Jonny Lexus FRI Written and Directed by Tony Pitts FRI Produced by Sally Harrison FRI A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jntz (Listen) FRI Series 5, Hancock's Car FRI Parked outside for ten years - the lad's forced to move his FRI motor car, but hits snags galore. FRI Stars Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Hattie FRI Jacques and Kenneth Williams. FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. FRI Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. FRI Producer: Tom Ronald FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b00r39c5 (Listen) FRI The Lost Emperor FRI Archaeologist Seagoon hunts for the missing treasure of FRI Genghis Khan. Stars Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers. From FRI October 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b00zdh7m (Listen) FRI Series 1, Reading FRI Coming this week from the University of Reading, host Steve FRI Punt quizzes students and lecturers of Food Science & FRI Technology, International Relations, and English and FRI American Literature. FRI Which is why you're going to find out the meanings of such FRI obscure and outlandish concepts as "interregnum", FRI "Tetrapak", "Spationaute", "Myanmar", "Thermidore", "golem" FRI and "Chris Moyles" FRI "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz FRI show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 FRI listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded FRI on location at a different University each week, and it pits FRI three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a FRI genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being FRI a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent FRI standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and FRI jokes thrown in for good measure. FRI Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union FRI buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities FRI across the UK. FRI The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General FRI Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the FRI 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not FRI only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, FRI languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness FRI of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the FRI Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their FRI Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, FRI and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both FRI sides... FRI The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit FRI surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly FRI rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more FRI than just glanced at that reading list... FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b007jsdl (Listen) FRI Series 1, Holiday FRI When Bryan and son arrive in Frimlington, their fellow FRI holidaymakers aren't too welcoming. FRI Stars Richard Beckinsale as Bryan Archer, Pat Coombs as FRI Mum/Albert and John Comer as Dad. With Helen Worth (Gail FRI from ITV's Coronation Street) as Deirdre, Peter Vaughan as FRI Mr Wiggins and Cheryl Hall as Mavis. FRI Written by Jim Eldridge. FRI Producer: John Fawcett Wilson FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in November 1977. FRI FRI 10:00 RK Narayan - The Guide b06l36xy (Listen) FRI Railway Raju is famous for helping tourists above and beyond FRI the call of duty - until Rosie arrives. Stars Nitin Ganatra. FRI FRI 11:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wv6 (Listen) FRI The Red-Haired Girl FRI In 1882, a group of Parisian art students go to Brittany to FRI work in the open air. Read by Juliet Aubrey. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00xhhw2 (Listen) FRI Sally Griffiths - Haunted FRI By Sally Griffiths. FRI Professional illusionist, Will Morgan, is to front a TV show FRI in which he exposes spiritualist mediums as frauds. Hayley FRI Taylor is the spiritualist medium who refuses to back down FRI under Will's scrutiny - a challenge Will can't walk away FRI from. Both are to have their belief systems sorely tested FRI when a voice from one of their pasts refuses to keep silent. FRI Starring Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey) as Will and Zoe FRI Tapper (Mr Selfridge) as Hayley. FRI Directed by Gemma Jenkins FRI (repeat) FRI The writer FRI Sally Griffiths is half of a screenwriting partnership (with FRI Rachel Cuperman) which has produced 4 commissioned/funded FRI scripts. Filming is about to start on their third script for FRI the popular, long-running TV drama series, Midsomer Murders. FRI Sally is Senior Script Reader for Working Title and CinemaNX FRI and has worked as a script consultant on films that include FRI 'Tom and Viv', 'Wilde', 'Gabriel and Me' and FRI 'Stormbreaker.'. FRI Credits FRI Will: Steffan Rhodri FRI Hayley: Zoe Tapper FRI Yasmina: Vineeta Rishi FRI Nick: Henry Devas FRI Callum: Lloyd Thomas FRI Waitress: Joanna Monro FRI Writer: Sally Griffiths FRI Director: Gemma Jenkins FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jntz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b00r39c5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Poirot b0109byt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo b00wdgr5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim b00srkkv (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Jim is determined to win Christine from the bearded FRI sportsman, but he will have to fight for her. Read by Martin FRI Jarvis. FRI FRI 14:15 Noise: A Human History b01rgm2k (Listen) FRI The Ecstatic Underground FRI Episode ten of a thirty-part series made in collaboration FRI with the British Library Sound Archive. FRI Christianity was just one of several cults that sprang up in FRI ancient Rome. So the sound-world of the first Christians FRI probably wasn't filled with the subdued voices, measured FRI singing and solemn prayers that would later echo through the FRI medieval churches and cathedrals of Western Europe. It was FRI more Eastern in flavour - or more pagan. FRI Professor David Hendy explores the ecstatic soundscapes of FRI underground house churches in ancient Rome. FRI Series producer: Matt Thompson. FRI A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01f6b05 (Listen) FRI Grazia Deledda - Reeds in the Wind, Episode 10 FRI Grazia Deledda's powerful story of love, poverty, honour and FRI retribution set in the rugged landscape of 1900's Sardinia. FRI Dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths from a translation by FRI Martha King. FRI Hearing that Giacinto will marry Grixenda, leaving Noemi FRI free to marry Predu, Efix returns to the village. Will Efix FRI finally be at peace with his conscience? FRI EFIX.....John Lynch FRI NOEMI.....Charlotte Emmerson FRI ESTER.....Deborah McAndrew FRI GIACINTO.....Matthew McNulty FRI PREDU.....Conrad Nelson FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00kb9kv (Listen) FRI Colm Toibin - Brooklyn, The Melting Pot FRI Niamh Cusack reads Colm Toibin's story of duty, love and a FRI girl who moved from the south of Ireland to seek a new life FRI in New York in the 1950s. FRI As Bartocci's opens its doors to all customers, whatever FRI their colour, Eilis fights the prejudice of her fellow FRI lodgers. Even at Father Flood's Irish dance night, not FRI everyone is Irish. FRI FRI 15:00 RK Narayan - The Guide b06l36xy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b00zdh7m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b007jsdl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 The Change b06l3287 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Shedtown b01q03sb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Mind's Eye b007jyvk (Listen) FRI Lodgers FRI Psychotherapists Lorcan and Aoife discover something odd FRI about the residents of Maeve's busy Dublin guesthouse. Stars FRI Cathy Belton. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00763px (Listen) FRI Series 2, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye FRI Anna Blundy, Robert Offord and Colin Murray Parkes reflect FRI on the impact of Cole Porter's song of farewell and parting. FRI From August 2001. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jntz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b00r39c5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Poirot b0109byt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Vital Mental Medicine: Shackleton's Banjo b00wdgr5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Five Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald b0075wv6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00xhhw2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Shedtown b01q03sb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007t3kk (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI Prentiss McCabe try to save New Labour from total voter FRI humiliation. Starring Stephen Fry and John Bird. From FRI January 2001. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b06nd591 (Listen) FRI Arthur Smith chats to Sarah Kendall. FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b01n0vhg (Listen) FRI Series 3, Attaboy; In the Waiting Room FRI The multi-award winning American essayist, David Seadris, FRI brings more of his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a FRI series of audience readings. FRI Episode 1 (of 6): FRI This week childhood discipline in the Sedaris household is FRI recalled in "Attaboy" and the perils of agreeing without FRI understanding in a foreign country are examined in "In The FRI Waiting Room". FRI Produced by Steve Doherty FRI A Boomerang Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Sedaris FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: David Sedaris FRI FRI 23:30 The Skivers b00jhmlm (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI Going Live! Phillip Schofield relives his days on children's FRI television, with Nick Golsen and Tim de Jongh. From January FRI 1997. FRI