11 December, 2015

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 12/12/2015 - 18/12/2015

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SAT SATURDAY 12 DECEMBER 2015 SAT SAT 00:00 HH Munro - Five Tales By Saki b0076rpr (Listen) SAT The Open Window SAT Framton Nuttel arrives at the Sappletons' house with a SAT letter of introduction. It little prepares him for the tale SAT he is about to hear. Stars Paul Brooke and Emily Chennery. SAT SAT 00:15 A Night With a Vampire b017mws7 (Listen) SAT Series 2, A Lot of Mince Pies SAT Written by Robert Swindells. SAT Swindells is a British author known mainly for his SAT children's books and indeed, this tale first appeared in a SAT collection of haunted tales for the young adult. But it has SAT a macabre and chilling undertone - set at Xmas and focussing SAT on a group of carollers who visit the same cottage every SAT year - and receive a special treat in return..... SAT David Tennant returns with another selection of chilling SAT Vampire stories. SAT Last year in the first series we concentrated on Victorian SAT Vampire output but in these five tales we enter the 20th SAT Century and introduce stories with a little twist from the SAT UK and the USA. SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076bhq (Listen) SAT Series 3, Moon River SAT Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's film theme for 'Breakfast SAT at Tiffany's' starring Audrey Hepburn. With Chay Blyth. From SAT November 2002. SAT SAT 01:00 Colvil and Soames b007jtbm (Listen) SAT Bad Apples, Episode 5 SAT While Colvil and Soames are searching the flat of murder SAT victim Norman Tate , who should walk through the door but SAT ... Norman Tate. SAT Christopher Lee's six-part thriller stars Christopher SAT Benjamin as Henry Colvil and Amanda Redman as Alix Soames. SAT With Dudley Sutton as DCI Guscott, Sheila Reid as Miranda SAT Peel, Tom Cotcher as Tom Margeson, Alistair McGowan as SAT Charlie Lofthouse, Alphonsia Emmanuel as Maggie Lindley, SAT Brian Bowles as Norman Tate and Sue Jones Davies as Det Sgt SAT Gwen Jenkins. SAT Producer: Pete Atkin SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. SAT SAT 01:30 The Alchemist Himself b00txj8g (Listen) SAT The Alchemist is a worldwide bestseller. From San Francisco SAT to Mumbai, huge stacks of the book can be found in any SAT store, along with the author's many other inspirational SAT works. The man behind The Alchemist is Paulo Coelho, and SAT around the world many claim that his books have changed SAT their lives. SAT Despite his global success, few know the true story of Paulo SAT Coelho's steep rise to fame. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he SAT spent a childhood struggling to find an outlet for his SAT creative energies. His behaviour seemed so disturbed to his SAT parents that they decided that the only option was to have SAT him locked up in a mental institution, an episode which left SAT an indelible mark on the young writer. SAT Later he began to experiment with drugs and developed his SAT interest in black magic, activities which brought him to the SAT notice of the Brazilian Military Police. At a dark time in SAT Brazilian history, he found himself in the dungeons of the SAT country's military dictatorship facing torture. SAT Mark Rickards goes in search of the man behind The Alchemist SAT to find the inspiration for a book which has in turn SAT inspired its readers. Meeting Paulo Coelho, he talks to the SAT author about both the good and the bad times in a remarkable SAT life. SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b018h2hv (Listen) SAT Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love, Episode 10 SAT by Nancy Mitford. Now certain of Fabrice's feelings, Linda SAT returns to the family home to await the end of the war. SAT Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Diana Quick. SAT Fanny Logan tells the story of her beautiful, beloved and SAT aristocratic cousin Linda Radlett. Linda's marriages have SAT failed and she is separated by war from the true love of her SAT life, Fabrice, Duc de Sauveterre. She is also expecting his SAT baby. SAT Beautifully observed and hilariously funny, the novel is SAT also a fascinating hinterland account of the period leading SAT to the Second World War and never pulls its punches in SAT evoking the painful reality of the times. SAT Reader...Diana Quick SAT Abridger...Lauris Morgan-Griffiths SAT Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 02:15 Disability: A New History b02140ny (Listen) SAT A Disabled Identity SAT In the final part of his series, Peter White reveals the SAT birth of a modern disabled identity in the 19th century - SAT through the lives of some extraordinary independent blind SAT women. SAT Peter says, "I'm used to people describing me as "disabled". SAT Fair enough, I can't see. But I do wonder sometimes whether SAT putting me into a disabled category really makes much sense. SAT Some of my best friends use wheelchairs, but the truth is SAT our needs could hardly be more different. I fall over them, SAT they run over me! But over the last 40 years, disabled SAT people have needed a collective identity to make change SAT possible, to break down discrimination in jobs, transport, SAT in people's attitudes generally. SAT People have tended to think that this sense of collective SAT identity in Britain began after the First World War, when so SAT many men returned with very visible injuries. But the SAT evidence I've uncovered making this series reveals it to SAT have begun much earlier." SAT This evidence comes from new research into the lives of SAT blind women in the 19th century. We hear the stories of two SAT extraordinary women who fought the conventions of their SAT time, Adele Husson and Hippolyte van Lendegem. Independent, SAT critical, angry - their voices are very modern, and research SAT into their lives challenges accepted wisdom about the SAT history of the disability movement. SAT With historians Selina Mills, David Turner and Julie SAT Anderson, and readings by Emily Bevan and Madeleine Brolly. SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT Academic adviser: David Turner of Swansea University SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b00hb644 (Listen) SAT Alexandre Dumas - The Lady of the Camellias, Episode 5 SAT By Alexandre Dumas. The story of Marguerite Gauthier, a SAT Parisian courtesan who goes on a journey through SAT worldliness, love, renunciation and atonement, thanks to the SAT love of young Armand Duval. SAT Armand finally reveals the hidden sacrifice that Marguerite SAT made for him, and how nobly she acted for love. SAT Duval ...... Dan Stevens SAT Dumas ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Marguerite ...... Ruth Wilson SAT Porter ...... Keiron Self SAT Olympe ...... Lynne Seymour SAT Prudence/Maid ...... Manon Edwards SAT Duval Senior ...... Steffan Rhodri SAT Directed by Polly Thomas. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00vh958 (Listen) SAT Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles, Episode 5 SAT Today Stephen reveals the origins of his enduring love of SAT technology and his great friendship with Douglas Adams. SAT The Fry Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront SAT the aching chasm that separates public image from private SAT feeling. SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06495lk (Listen) SAT 21-25 September 1915 SAT Omnibus edition of the Epic drama series set in Great War SAT Britain a hundred years ago this week, when Folkestone seems SAT to be poisoned by the war. SAT CAST SAT Esme ..... Katie Angelou SAT Boy ..... Alexander Aze SAT Edie Kathryn Beaumont SAT Stella Ava Bell SAT Ray Scarlett Bell SAT Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw SAT Juliet ..... Lizzie Bourne SAT Mrs Grimes ..... Amelda Brown SAT Peggy ..... Victoria Brazier SAT Howard ..... Gunnar Cauthery SAT Dolly ..... Elaine Claxton SAT Sylvia Joanna David SAT Marion Laura Elphinstone SAT Adam ..... Billy Kennedy SAT Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf SAT Clemmie ..... Joanna Monro SAT Ralph ..... Nicholas Murchie SAT Albert ..... Harry Myers SAT Johnnie ..... Paul Ready SAT Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook SAT Adeline ..... Helen Schlesinger SAT Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley SAT Woman ..... Jane Slavin SAT Alec ..... Tom Stuart SAT Lillian ..... Alex Tregear SAT Mayor ..... John Woodvine SAT Written by Katie Hims SAT Story-led by Sarah Daniels SAT Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews SAT Music: Matthew Strachan SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SAT Credits SAT Esme: Katie Angelou SAT Boy: Alexander Aze SAT Edie: Kathryn Beaumont SAT Stella: Ava Bell SAT Ray: Scarlet Bell SAT Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Juliet: Lizzie Bourne SAT Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown SAT Peggy: Victoria Brazier SAT Howard: Gunnar Cauthery SAT Dolly: Elaine Claxton SAT Sylvia: Joanna David SAT Marion: Laura Elphinstone SAT Adam: Billy Kennedy SAT Kitty: Ami Metcalf SAT Clemmie: Joanna Monro SAT Ralph: Nicholas Murchie SAT Albert: Harry Myers SAT Johnnie: Paul Ready SAT Florrie: Claire Rushbrook SAT Adeline: Helen Schlesinger SAT Dorothea: Rachel Shelley SAT Woman: Jane Slavin SAT Alec: Tom Stuart SAT Lilian: Alex Tregear SAT Mayor: John Woodvine SAT Writer: Katie Hims SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT SAT 04:00 The 99p Challenge b0075wj9 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 4 SAT Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Armando SAT Iannucci, Marcus Brigstocke, Nick Frost and Peter Baynham. SAT The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer SAT than when they came in. SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2003. SAT SAT 04:30 Mind Your Own Business! b009mbdc (Listen) SAT The Big Bang SAT James is suspicious when Russell stays late in the office SAT with saucy secretary Sue. Stars Bernard Cribbins. From SAT January 1988. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston Comes to Town b007s165 (Listen) SAT Easy to Love SAT The old rogue's newfound wealth goes to his head, and what SAT is to be done about Father? Stars Bill Wallis. From January SAT 1990. SAT SAT 05:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06r1cvy (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT A fun packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and SAT Ruth Bratt. Sketches and songs from a whole range of new SAT characters, with the occasional appearance from some old SAT favourites. SAT The first series was nominated for Best Comedy at the BBC SAT Audio awards 2014, and all four performers have recently SAT been on the West End stage as part of the smash hit SAT Showstopper: The Improvised Musical - and were part of the SAT show when it graced the Radio 4 airwaves a few years ago. SAT Performers: SAT Lucy Trodd SAT Ruth Bratt SAT Adam Meggido SAT Oliver Senton SAT Written by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd SAT Script Editor: Jon Hunter SAT Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins SAT Producer: Steve Doherty SAT A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Lucy Trodd SAT Performer: Ruth Bratt SAT Performer: Adam Meggido SAT Performer: Oliver Senton SAT Writer: Ruth Bratt SAT Writer: Lucy Trodd SAT Producer: Steve Doherty SAT SAT 06:00 Miss Marple b007jvfn (Listen) SAT A Pocket Full of Rye SAT With only one bizarre clue to the agonizing death of a SAT wealthy financier, Miss Marple must unravel a mystery hidden SAT in a child's nursery rhyme that is to prove one of the SAT strangest cases of her life. SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars June Whitfield as the SAT deceptively mild sleuth, Miss Jane Marple. With Nicky Henson SAT as Inspector Neele, Kristin Miward as Miss Dove, Claira SAT Mackie as Gladys, Joshua Towb as Sergeant Hay, Derek Waring SAT as Rex Fortescue, Peter Yapp as Percival Fortescue, Natasha SAT Pyne as Jennifer Fortescue, SAT From the book first published in 1953 and dramatised by SAT Michael Bakewell. SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995. SAT SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075k4q (Listen) SAT Hard Times and Omelettes, 1930-1939 SAT Perfect Roast Chicken, Cod's Roe and Bacon, Mock Fish Cakes, SAT Poached Salmon, Coconut Pyramids and an Omelette en SAT Surprise. SAT Marguerite Patten mingles recipes of the 1930s with memories SAT of the abdication of Edward VIII, the Graf Zeppelin and the SAT Depression - in her 10-part history of British cooking. SAT Marguerite told us how to make the most of our rations SAT during the Second World War in 'Kitchen Front' on the BBC SAT Home Service. She fronted her first BBC TV cookery show in SAT 1947. SAT Born in Bath, the home economist was widely considered to be SAT the first celebrity cook, and wrote more than 170 books with SAT worldwide sales of 17 million. SAT A regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour SAT programme from 1946, Marguerite's final appearance was in SAT 2011. She was awarded the OBE in 1991 and CBE in 2011. SAT Born November 4th 1915, Marguerite Patten died just a few SAT months short of her 100th birthday in June 2015. SAT Producer: Ian Willox SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SAT SAT 08:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b012f77c (Listen) SAT Series 3, Michael Heseltine SAT From backbench novice MP to the challenger for the party SAT leadership and the man credited with ousting Margaret SAT Thatcher, Michael Heseltine - now Lord Heseltine - has SAT commanded more headlines than most. SAT In the 1970s he won a reputation as a maverick when he took SAT up the mace in the House of Commons after being enraged at SAT the Labour Party's voting tactics. He began the 1980s with a SAT rousing speech to the Conservative Party Conference SAT reminding members about the rights of ethnic minorities, but SAT he ended the decade on the backbenches after walking out of SAT a Cabinet meeting and resigning over the Westland Affair. In SAT 1990 he challenged Margaret Thatcher for the party SAT leadership. She eventually resigned, but Heseltine did not SAT succeed her. SAT In the second programme of the series 'Meeting Myself Coming SAT Back', Lord Heseltine listens back to his younger self in SAT conversation with John Wilson. He talks frankly about the SAT mace incident and relives the moment when he walked out of SAT Cabinet. He discusses whether he could have been persuaded SAT to return if his departure had not been witnessed by a SAT cameraman outside Number 10. He also talks about the moment SAT when Margaret Thatcher resigned as Prime Minister and he SAT knew that his chances of becoming Conservative leader were SAT at an end. SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 09:00 The BBC Tour b04d0kl7 (Listen) SAT Savoy Hill, Broadcasting House, Lime Grove, TV Centre, Maida SAT Vale and Bush House are just some of the iconic BBC SAT buildings brought alive by Nick Baker in this fascinating SAT tour of the archives from 1922 to the present. SAT After the Queen opened the new extension to London SAT Broadcasting House in 2013, regular guided public tours have SAT taken place. Sculptor Eric Gill's statue of Prospero and SAT Ariel over the 1932 art deco front entrance sparked SAT controversy over part of the latter's anatomy. BBC buildings SAT have made news ever since. SAT The BBC's first home in Savoy Hill was described by DG Lord SAT Reith as a miserable sort of place, but for ten years it SAT broadcast a variety of talks and even some agonisingly slow SAT Wimbledon commentaries. SAT Lime Grove in Shepherd's Bush was bought by the BBC in 1949 SAT to temporarily house its fledgling TV service, but it SAT remained in use for 42 years. Ludovic Kennedy shares its SAT history. TV Centre is recalled by perhaps the most celebrity SAT vox pop ever assembled. BBC music studio, Maida Vale, is SAT visited by Cerys Matthews. Terry Waite returns to Bush SAT House, former home to BBC World Service which sustained him SAT during his Lebanon captivity. SAT Members of the public experience the new Broadcasting House SAT tour and BBC Head of History Robert Seatter shares all the SAT facts. SAT Produced by Merilyn Harris. Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by SAT Testbed. SAT SAT 12:00 To the Manor Born b007n1wj (Listen) SAT An Englishman's Home SAT When Devere installs new security cameras, Audrey declares SAT war. SAT Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, Keith SAT Barron as Richard DeVere, Angela Thorne as Marjory SAT Frobisher, Nicholas McArdle as Brabinger, Margery Withers as SAT Mrs Polouvicka, Frank Middlemass as Ned and Kevin Eldon as SAT PC Dottle. SAT The tale of lady of the manor Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, SAT forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Estate when her SAT husband's death leaves her financially strapped. With butler SAT Brabinger in tow, they've decamped to the tiny Old Lodge SAT cottage. SAT From this vantage point, Audrey keeps a close and SAT disapproving eye on the estate's new owner, the SAT nouveau-riche Richard DeVere, a wholesale foods magnate of SAT Czech descendent. SAT First piloted on radio and then whisked off to TV before it SAT ever appeared, before finally arriving home in 1997. Written SAT for radio by Peter Spence. SAT Producer: Jane Berthoud SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. SAT Credits SAT Actor: Penelope Keith SAT Actor: Peter Bowles SAT SAT 12:30 Steptoe and Son b007jmhk (Listen) SAT Series 4, A Box in Town SAT Albert hinders son Harold's romantic endeavours. SAT Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as SAT Harold. With Yootha Joyce, Katherine Parr and Sheila Grant. SAT Following the conclusion of their hugely successful SAT association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan SAT Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in SAT 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, SAT featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and SAT his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series SAT for TV. SAT Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan SAT Simpson. SAT Produced by Bobby Jaye SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1972. SAT SAT 13:00 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and Dust Omnibus SAT b06rtzxx (Listen) SAT A beguiling story of two English women living in India more SAT than fifty years apart. Starring Pippa Bennett-Warner. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06s1gbw (Listen) SAT Rory McGrath SAT Comedian Rory McGrath chooses Tchaikovsky's 'Swan Lake', and SAT 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b0075pdh (Listen) SAT Professor Robert Winston SAT Pioneering human fertility expert, Professor Robert Winston SAT tells Professor Anthony Clare about his life and research SAT career. SAT Forensic pathologist and crime writer Bernard Knight had to SAT do thousands of autopsies in his career, often for grim SAT reasons. He tells Professor Anthony Clare how he coped. SAT Psychiatrist Dr Anthony Clare's in depth interviews with SAT prominent people from different walks of life. SAT Born in Dublin, author Anthony Clare held a doctorate in SAT medicine, a master's degree in philosophy and was a fellow SAT of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. After becoming a SAT regular on BBC Radio 4's Stop the Week in the 1980s, he SAT became Britain's best-known psychiatrist and earned his own SAT vehicle, In the Psychiatrist's Chair. Starting in 1982, this SAT series ran until 2001 and also transferred to TV. Series SAT highlights include conversations with Bob Monkhouse, Cecil SAT Parkinson and Gerry Adams. SAT Anthony Clare died suddenly in Paris aged 64 in 2007. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1994. SAT SAT 15:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b012f77c (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Miss Marple b007jvfn (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075k4q (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 HG Wells b00761jh (Listen) SAT The Door in the Wall SAT A mountaineer gets lost in a strange valley in The Andes and SAT finds himself surrounded by a race of sightless people, SAT another is transported to Fairyland - and a third spends his SAT life searching for a lost world behind a door in a white SAT wall in London. SAT Three mysterious stories of different Utopias by the master SAT of the genre, HG Wells brought together in a single play by SAT Kelvin Segger. A mix of adventure, comedy and suspense. SAT Stars Paul Webster as Nunez, Christian Rodska as SAT Redmond/Pedro, Gillian Goodman as Agnes Thackeray and Ben SAT Crowe as the Mountaineer and Skelmersdale. SAT Directed in Birmingham by Peter Leslie Wild. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2001. SAT SAT 18:45 Jane Gardam - Soul Mates b06rv2kw (Listen) SAT A retired couple's trip to the Isles of Scilly proves to be SAT unnerving. First read live at the London Book Fair by Jillie SAT Meers. From March 1996. SAT SAT 19:00 The BBC Tour b04d0kl7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Irish Micks and Legends b01nl8gr (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Salmon of Knowledge SAT Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram become Ais and Yaz and are the SAT very best pals. They are taking their role as Ireland's SAT freshest story-tellers to the British nation very seriously SAT indeed but they haven't had the time to do much research, SAT learn their lines or work out who is doing which parts. SAT The girls' unconventional way of telling stories involves a SAT concoction of thoroughly inappropriate modern-day metaphors SAT and references to many of the ancient Irish stories. SAT With a natural knack for both comedy and character voices SAT Yasmine Akram and Aisling Bea will bring you warm, modern SAT re-workings of popular ancient Irish stories. SAT Today it's the Salmon of Knowledge. SAT Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram SAT Producer: Raymond Lau. SAT SAT 22:15 Mission Improbable b01p0s15 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Jungle! SAT A brand new series of fast-paced mini-adventures written by SAT and starring Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox, SAT known collectively as The Boom Jennies. SAT Prompted by the pine-fresh fragrance of zoo keeper Amelia's SAT new perfume, adventure journalist Jane is reminded of a SAT story her uncle Norman once told her about a rare midnight SAT orchid found only in the Guatemalan jungle. This is no SAT ordinary flower, but one that gives off a scent with such SAT aphrodisiac properties it makes the person wielding it SAT utterly irresistible. SAT That's more than enough to convince perennial singleton Lucy SAT that it is high time they all headed to South America. There SAT follows a roller coaster ride of an adventure taking in SAT waterfalls, crocodiles and a gang of ruthless drug SAT smugglers. But our heroes remain unbowed. Each and every SAT challenge thrown at them is met head-on with courage, SAT determination and deeply inappropriate footwear. SAT Jane.................Catriona Knox SAT Lucy.................Lizzie Bates SAT Amelia..............Anna Emerson SAT Norman.............Paul Ryan SAT Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox SAT Audio production by Matt Katz SAT Produced by Dave Lamb and Richie Webb SAT A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:30 Strap In - It's Clever Peter b01j5nxw (Listen) SAT Douglas SAT Strap in for fifteen minutes of rip-roaring comedy as Clever SAT Peter bring you a swimming rat, a talking fly and a Mexican SAT stand-off SAT Clever Peter - the wild and brilliantly funny award-winning SAT sketch team get their own Radio 4 show. SAT From the team that brought you Cabin Pressure and Another SAT Case Of Milton Jones comes the massively bonkers and funny SAT Clever Peter, hot off the Edinburgh Fringe and wearers of SAT tri-coloured jerseys. SAT "If they don't go very far very soon there is no such thing SAT as British justice" - Daily Telegraph SAT "A masterclass in original sketch comedy" - Metro SAT "Pretty much top of the class"- The Scotsman SAT So - SAT Why "Clever"? SAT Dunno SAT Why "Peter"? SAT Not a clue mate SAT Should I listen to the show? SAT Yes, of course! Derrr. SAT Starring Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley SAT and special guest Catriona Knox SAT Written by Richard Bond, Edward Eales-White, William Hartley SAT & Dominic Stone SAT Produced & directed by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive Television Ltd Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Writer: Richard dBond SAT Writer: Edward Eales-White SAT Writer: William Hartley SAT Writer: Dominic Stone SAT Performer: Richard dBond SAT Performer: Edward Eales-White SAT Performer: William Hartley SAT Performer: Catriona Knox SAT Director: David Tyler SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 22:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b007jmzw (Listen) SAT Series 1, Normal Death SAT The cartoonist sells his soul to the devil in the hope of SAT securing eternal life. Stars Paul McCrink. From August 2001. SAT SAT 23:00 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b018b6yb (Listen) SAT Series 5, Rocket Man SAT In this episode, Giles meets some leftover post-Soviet SAT rocket fuel. What could possibly go wrong? And how will he SAT react to the world's first weightless pasty? SAT Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen is back! But this SAT time, he's got a computer! Giles Wemmbley Hogg has been SAT grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set SAT up GWH Travvel ("2m's 2g's 2v's, bit of a mix up at the SAT printers"). SAT Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of SAT his long-suffering former Primary Schoolteacher Mr Timmis SAT and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop SAT Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each SAT week, his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming SAT the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a SAT rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or SAT finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll SAT look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to SAT D".....), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it SAT all, so you won't want to". SAT Cast SAT Giles ..... Marcus Brigstocke SAT Mr. Timmis ..... Vincent Franklin SAT Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd SAT Callum ..... David Fynn SAT Sergei ..... Jack Klaff SAT Russkov ..... Paul Shearer SAT Professor Komarov ..... Lorelei King SAT Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby & Toby Davies SAT Produced & directed by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:30 The Problem With Adam Bloom b01bwbgs (Listen) SAT Series 3, Friendship and Stress SAT A double dose, as the funnyman ponders why we choose our SAT pals and what causes pressure. With Brendon Burns. From SAT November 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 DECEMBER 2015 SUN SUN 00:00 HG Wells b00761jh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:45 Jane Gardam - Soul Mates b06rv2kw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Heat and Dust Omnibus SUN b06rtzxx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06s1gbw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b0075pdh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b012f77c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Miss Marple b007jvfn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SUN b0075k4q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Alexandre Dumas - The Lady of the Camellias Omnibus SUN b06rv3j3 (Listen) SUN Armand is too late to see the love of his life Marguerite SUN before she dies. Inspiration for Verdi's La Traviata. With SUN Ruth Wilson. SUN SUN 07:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l044n (Listen) SUN Liverpool's Other Cathedral SUN In the first in the series. architectural writer and SUN historian Jonathan Glancey goes in search of some of the SUN most fantastic building projects in Britain which didn't SUN make it off the drawing board. In Liverpool, he discovers SUN the story of a great cathedral designed by Sir Edwin SUN Lutyens. The foundation stone was laid in 1933 for this SUN monumental building which would have dominated the city SUN skyline, and Jonathan finds that the crypt was actually SUN built. SUN But why wasn't the cathedral ever finished? Jonathan Glancey SUN visits Liverpool to find out. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00pxjpr (Listen) SUN Series 6, Charity Begins Next Door SUN Ed applies for help from a hardship fund, and acquires an SUN enthusiastic new student. With Philip Jackson. From January SUN 2010. SUN SUN 08:00 The Al Read Show b00ctjz6 (Listen) SUN From 14/10/1995 SUN Arriving home late, Al's wife thwarts his efforts to relax. SUN A compilation of the northern comic's 1950s monologues. SUN SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss b048nbwt (Listen) SUN Finding a Girlfriend SUN Matchmakers galore target shy bachelor David Bliss. Stars SUN George Cole, Petula Clark and Percy Edwards as the dog. From SUN 1954. SUN Beginning a run of 6 episodes from the sitcom about shy, SUN bumbling bachelor David Alexander Bliss. It began in 1953 on SUN the BBC Home Service and ran for six series of 118 episodes SUN concluding in 1969 - but sadly only 6 episodes survive in SUN the BBC archive. (A TV series was made in 1969). SUN For the first 7 episodes, David Tomlinson played David, but SUN the rest starred the future star of The St, Trinian's films, SUN destined to find great fame as the dodgy Arthur Daley in SUN ITV's Minder - George Cole. SUN David's best friend is a wired-haired terrier called Pysche SUN played by animal impersonator Percy Edwards and in this SUN episode - the bachelor has his eye on a fellow dog-walker SUN played by future international recording star Petula Clark. SUN Written by Godfrey Harrison. SUN SUN 09:00 Diana Athill - Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That SUN Matter b06rv3j5 (Listen) SUN Omnibus. Stephanie Cole reads Diana Athill's essay SUN collection, debunking the myth that life in 1940s and 50s SUN Britain was dreary. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06s1h2v (Listen) SUN Shirley Williams SUN Politician Shirley Williams chooses Benjamin Britten's 'War SUN Requiem', and 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' by Simon and SUN Garfunkel. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06rv3j7 (Listen) SUN Singers, Maria Ewing SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Frank Sinatra to Round the Horne, opera SUN singer Maria Ewing shares her castaway choices with Sue SUN Lawley. From February 1999. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06rv3j9 (Listen) SUN Hand Transplant, DNA, and a Backwards Heart SUN True stories told live in the USA: Jay Alison hosts tales SUN from a live event in collaboration with the World Science SUN Festival. SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pswyb (Listen) SUN Series 1, Amber SUN The naturalist wonders if it is possible to extract the DNA SUN from a blood-sucking fly trapped in amber to recreate a SUN dinosaur. SUN SUN 12:00 The Al Read Show b00ctjz6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 A Life of Bliss b048nbwt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Alexandre Dumas - The Lady of the Camellias Omnibus SUN b06rv3j3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l044n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Ruth Rendell - Dark Corners b06rv3jc (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Omnibus: Penniless and desperate, Carl is pushed to breaking SUN point by his blackmailing tenant, Dermot. Read by Patricia SUN Hodge. SUN SUN 15:45 Nan Woodhouse - Nightingale b03j5dh0 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Young maid Sarah poses for a famous SUN 19th-century photographer. But how long can her enchantment SUN last? Read by Elizabeth Conboy. SUN SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama b00x88bs (Listen) SUN David Dodge - To Catch a Thief SUN David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining SUN page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable SUN film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace SUN Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's dramatisation brings it to SUN radio. American John Robie is living quietly in the South of SUN France, trying to put his career as a notorious jewel thief SUN behind him. However, when a series of huge jewel thefts SUN begins on the Riviera, targetting rich Americans, the police SUN immediately suspect he's returned to his old ways. To prove SUN his innocence, and trap the real thief, Robie must resort to SUN subterfuge. But his plans go awry when the daughter of one SUN of the rich American tourists takes rather too close an SUN interest in him - and his past. SUN Credits SUN John Robie: Jeff Harding SUN Francie Stevens: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse SUN Mrs Stevens: Laura Brook SUN Paul: Alun Raglan SUN Bellini: Simon Armstrong SUN Danielle: Aurelie Amblard SUN French Extras: Martin Sorrell SUN Director: Sarah Davies SUN Writer: Jean Buchanan SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06s7dsz (Listen) SUN Poetry Please: The Eve of St Agnes SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'Poetry Please', Roger McGough introduces Keats's erotic SUN and magical poem The Eve of St Agnes read by actress Lindsay SUN Duncan. SUN January 20th is the Eve of St Agnes. SUN Producer Beth O'Dea SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00pxjpr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Fear on Four b00c82hm (Listen) SUN Green and Pleasant SUN The Man in Black's cautionary tale of the kidnapping of a SUN "green" pop star with something to hide. SUN A woman is alone in a room that was once a nursery. Soon it SUN becomes a kind of hell for her... SUN Starring Karen Archer as Lisa, Nigel Carrington as Stephen, SUN Rebecca Jones as Sarah and Edward de Souza as the Man in SUN Black. SUN Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. SUN Written by Bert Coules. SUN Producer: Gerry Jones SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. SUN SUN 18:30 Susan Hill - The Woman in Black b007jlps (Listen) SUN A Causeway and a Pony Trap SUN Solicitor Arthur Kipps is rattled while spending the night SUN in an eerie house. Stars Robert Glenister and John Woodvine. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06rv3j9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00pswyb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Diana Athill - Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That SUN Matter b06rv3j5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06s1h2v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06rv3j7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00pxjpr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 My Teenage Diary b038yk71 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Vanessa Feltz SUN Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by SUN opening up their intimate teenage diaries and reading them SUN out in public for the very first time. SUN Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by broadcaster Vanessa Feltz, SUN who revisits her teenage years in North London. She spent SUN her holidays packing knickers for her father's lingerie SUN firm, and a lot of the rest of the time daydreaming about SUN being married to her teenage boyfriend. SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Rufus Hound SUN Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Feltz SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN SUN 23:00 I Think I've Got a Problem b007wwdc (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 2 SUN Tom's inappropriate singing at a football match has SUN unexpected consequences. Stars Suggs and Bob Monkhouse. From SUN July 2001. SUN SUN 23:30 A Look Back at the Future b01rqbqk (Listen) SUN 2010 SUN Recorded in July 1994, Griff Rhys Jones, Kate Robbins and SUN Brian Perkins look forward to the Year of the Toddler Power. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 DECEMBER 2015 MON MON 00:00 Fear on Four b00c82hm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Susan Hill - The Woman in Black b007jlps (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Alexandre Dumas - The Lady of the Camellias Omnibus MON b06rv3j3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l044n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Ruth Rendell - Dark Corners b06rv3jc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Nan Woodhouse - Nightingale b03j5dh0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Saturday Drama b00x88bs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06s7dsz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00pxjpr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Colvil and Soames b007jtbv (Listen) MON Bad Apples, Episode 6 MON The precise relationship between the Home Secretary, the MON Prime Minister's Press Secretary, and the man murdered on MON Brighton beach is made uncomfortably clear. MON Christopher Lee's six-part thriller stars Christopher MON Benjamin as Henry Colvil and Amanda Redman as Alix Soames. MON With Dudley Sutton as DCI Guscott, Sheila Reid as Miranda MON Peel, Tom Cotcher as Tom Margeson, Alistair McGowan as MON Charlie Lofthouse, Alphonsia Emmanuel as Maggie Lindley, MON Brian Bowles as Norman Tate and Sue Jones Davies as Det Sgt MON Gwen Jenkins. MON Producer: Pete Atkin MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. MON MON 06:30 Tin Men b00j0h05 (Listen) MON Jolyon Jenkins explores the story of the last working tin MON mine in Cornwall, South Crofty near Redruth, which has MON re-opened for business but is not yet producing ore. MON He meets the businessmen who are committed to once again MON raising tin from Cornish ground, hears from the Cornishmen MON divided on where Cornwall's future lies and why tin remains MON at the heart of Cornish politics. MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b00c34ks (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 4 MON There's a dinner surprise on the sketch comedy for people MON growing older disgracefully. Stars Neil Innes and Paula MON Wilcox. From April 2003. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06r4gps (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 2 MON The 64th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to the Dorking Halls. Regulars Graeme Garden, MON Barry Cryer and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on MON the panel by Tony Hawks with Jack Dee in the chair. At the MON piano - Colin Sell. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC MON Radio Comedy production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jq5q (Listen) MON Series 3, The Deadly Attachment MON As the Walmington-on-Sea platoon attempt to guard a German MON U-boat crew, their captain starts making a list. 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, Arnold Ridley as Godfrey, Ian MON Lavender as Private Pike, Larry Martyn as Private Walker, MON Frank Williams as the Vicar and Philip Madoc as Captain MON Muller. 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 May 1976. MON MON 08:30 Brothers in Law b007k0y6 (Listen) MON Series 2, Look It Up MON Newly qualified lawyer Roger annoys his girlfriend Sally by MON defending a wife-beater. Stars Richard Briers. From July MON 1971. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00b0z0c (Listen) MON Series 11, Episode 6 MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John MON Walsh with guests Peter Kemp and Andrew Davies. MON The author of the week and subject for pastiche is George MON Eliot and the reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jmfd (Listen) MON Series 5, Is This a Career I See Before Me? MON Crossed swords in the school staff room and a bombshell for MON headmaster, Mr Beeston. Stars James Grout. From May 1990. MON MON 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064969f (Listen) MON 28 September - 2 October 1915 MON Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War MON Britain a hundred years ago this week. A week that the MON Wilson family could never have dreamed of. MON CAST MON Esme ..... Katie Angelou MON Sam ..... Alexander Aze MON Edie ..... Kathryn Beaumont MON Stella ..... Ava Bell MON Ray ..... Scarlett Bell MON Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw MON Juliet ..... Lizzie Bourne MON Howard ..... Gunnar Cauthery MON Dolly ..... Elaine Claxton MON Station Master ..... Stephen Critchlow MON Sylvia ..... Joanna David MON Harry ..... Alec Fellows-Bennett MON Roland ..... Jack Holden MON Adam ..... Billy Kennedy MON Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf MON Clemmie ..... Joanna Monro MON Ralph ..... Nicholas Murchie MON Albert ..... Harry Myers MON Matron ..... Rhiannon Neads MON Johnnie ..... Paul Ready MON Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook MON Adeline ..... Helen Schlesinger MON Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley MON Ken ..... Joe Sims MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON Credits MON Esme: Katie Angelou MON Sam: Alexander Aze MON Edie: Kathryn Beaumont MON Stella: Ava Bell MON Ray: Scarlet Bell MON Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw MON Juliet: Lizzie Bourne MON Howard: Gunnar Cauthery MON Dolly: Elaine Claxton MON Station master: Stephen Critchlow MON Sylvia: Joanna David MON Harry: Alec Fellows-Bennett MON Roland: Jack Holden MON Adam: Billy Kennedy MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Clemmie: Joanna Monro MON Ralph: Nicholas Murchie MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Sister: Rhiannon Neads MON Johnnie: Paul Ready MON Florrie: Claire Rushbrook MON Adeline: Helen Schlesinger MON Dorothea: Rachel Shelley MON Ken: Joe Sims MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 11:00 Afternoon Reading b012036k (Listen) MON New Welsh Writing from Ty Newydd, Translation MON Ty Newydd, near Snowdonia, is the National Writing Centre MON for Wales as well as being the former home of Lloyd George. MON These three stories were created there on a Writing for MON Radio course, and showcase both new and established Welsh MON writers. MON Translation is Julie Ma's story about a young Chinese girl MON having to translate sensitive information for her mother. MON It's read by Liz Sutherland. MON Director Kate McAll MON BBC Cymru Wales. MON MON 11:15 Baldi b007k0ft (Listen) MON Series 3, The Dig MON The priest makes a fascinating discovery as an MON archaeological excavation becomes a battlefield. Stars David MON Threlfall and Martin Clunes. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jq5q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Brothers in Law b007k0y6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Colvil and Soames b007jtbv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Tin Men b00j0h05 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nm5ww (Listen) MON Mrs Miniver Comes Home; On Hampstead Heath MON First appearing in The Times in 1937 and immortalised on MON film, the engaging stories of an English housewife. Read by MON Penelope Wilton. MON MON 14:15 A Cause for Caroling b03kpnk3 (Listen) MON A Carol's a Carol, to Begin With MON The first programme in a ten part series in which choral MON conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly tells the story of the MON Christmas Carol in Britain. He begins by trying to capture MON something of the caroling traditions of today and then heads MON back into the misty caroling past discovering what he MON believes is the first carol in the English language. MON Series Description: MON The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when MON carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back MON then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots MON in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would MON quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song. MON But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music MON history because each shift in the story has been preserved MON in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now MON and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and MON modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that MON happening in any other situation. MON In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol MON journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into MON the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the MON byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery MON musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the MON carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol MON veer between the sacred and secular even before there was MON any understanding of those terms. For long periods the MON church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the MON virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. MON Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by MON the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge. MON He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the MON carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, MON some of which survive to this day and many others which MON languish unloved but ready for re-discovery. MON It's a journey full of song describing the history of a MON people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the MON coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the MON heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. MON Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this MON music. MON That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are MON one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather MON than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for MON Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar MON example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on MON the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the MON uninhibited world of folk song and ballad. MON The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which MON he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing MON - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - MON is the question asked. This series is an attempt to answer MON why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In MON fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood MON Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he MON described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on MON Christmas Eve: MON 'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time MON worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally MON transmitted from father to son through several generations MON down to the present characters, who sang them out right MON earnestly." MON Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the MON famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC MON since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service MON that commands a worldwide audience measured in many MON millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance MON in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition MON that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the MON choir stalls. MON Producer:Tom Alban. MON MON 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvvx (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Orphan Becky Sharp and her friend Amelia Sedley leave MON school. Stephen Fry narrates the Victorian comic tale. With MON Emma Fielding. MON MON 14:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrnm (Listen) MON Cricklewood - A Scene Setter MON Humorist, writer and broadcaster Alan Coren muses on his MON beloved part of London, home to potato crisps and the MON machine gun. MON MON 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064969f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00b0z0c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmfd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b00c34ks (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06r4gps (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Wally K Daly b007k3v1 (Listen) MON Before the Screaming Begins, Episode 1 MON An invasion by aliens interrupts an idyllic wedding MON anniversary celebration. The first of a sci-fi trilogy with MON Donald Hewlett. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00761mb (Listen) MON Misha Glenny and Anne Marie Huby MON Louise Doughty and her guests - writer, Misha Glenny and MON co-founder and managing director of the online charity MON Justgiving, Anne Marie Huby discuss their favourite MON paperbacks by James Lee Burke, EM Forster and Robert Musil. MON From 2001. MON Purple Cane Road, by James Lee Burke MON Publisher: Orion MON The Man Without Qualities, by Robert Musil MON Publisher: Picador MON Howard's End, by EM Forster MON Publisher: Penguin. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jq5q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Brothers in Law b007k0y6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Colvil and Soames b007jtbv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Tin Men b00j0h05 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Afternoon Reading b012036k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Baldi b007k0ft (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06r4gps (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Cabin Pressure b01pzv5r (Listen) MON Series 4, Vaduz MON Episode 3: MON It's a bad time for Carolyn to take a holiday as the crew of MON MJN Air have to face a real live King and a mythical fax MON machine. MON Cabin Pressure is a sitcom about the wing and a prayer world MON of a tiny, one plane, charter airline staffed by two pilots: MON one on his way down, and one who was never up to start with. MON Whether they're flying squaddies to Hamburg, metal sheets to MON Mozambique or an oil exec's cat to Abu Dhabi, no job is too MON small but many, many jobs are too difficult. MON Written by John Finnemore MON Produced and directed by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole MON First Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam MON Captain Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch MON Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore MON Captain Hercules 'Herc' Shipwright: Anthony Head MON Princess Theresa: Matilda Ziegler MON Maximilian: Kieran Hodgson MON Karl: Dan Tetsell MON Otto: Dan Tetsell MON Writer: John Finnemore MON Director: David Tyler MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b06r8gn3 (Listen) MON Series 47, Episode 5 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Mitch MON Benn, Andy Zaltzman, Tez Ilyas and Pippa Evans for a comic MON look at the week's news. MON Written by the cast with additional material from Jon MON Hunter, Max Davies, Sarah Campbell and Tom Whalley. MON Produced by Alexandra Smith. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON Performer: Jon Holmes MON Performer: Mitch Benn MON Performer: Tez Ilyas MON Performer: Pippa Evans MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 23:30 Weak at the Top b00tbb7d (Listen) MON Series 2, Conference MON With no morals and little brain, aggressive marketing MON director John Weak is back. Stars Alexander Armstrong. From MON June 2006. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 DECEMBER 2015 TUE TUE 00:00 Wally K Daly b007k3v1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00761mb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Colvil and Soames b007jtbv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Tin Men b00j0h05 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nm5ww (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 A Cause for Caroling b03kpnk3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvvx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrnm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064969f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00b0z0c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmfd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b00c34ks (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06r4gps (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 P Division b00rdypv (Listen) TUE Two Way Cut, Episode 1 TUE Discovering a corpse early one morning on Glasgow's Maryhill TUE Road is not out of the ordinary - but one that PC Hamilton TUE finds very different. TUE Stars Martin McCardie as PC Phil Hamilton, Jake D'Arcy as DS TUE Sussock, Crawford Logan as DI Donoghue, Edith Ruddick as Mrs TUE MacIntyre and Joyce Falconer as Mrs Douglas, TUE Published in 1988, this is Peter Turnbull's fifth 'P' TUE Division novel about his Glaswegian cops. TUE Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. TUE Producer: Hamish Wilson TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. TUE TUE 06:30 Music From Beyond the Veil b00ljyn0 (Listen) TUE Prof Paul Robertson examines the claims and counter-claims TUE for musical mediumship and asks whether musical inspiration TUE comes from within ourselves or if it could come from TUE somewhere beyond. TUE He recounts the story of how, 40 years ago, a Balham TUE housewife and medium with little musical training created a TUE sensation when she claimed to have received new works from TUE beyond the grave from Liszt, Brahms, Beethoven, Rachmaninov TUE and other great composers. Rosemary Brown's abilities TUE divided the musical world, with her supporters convinced TUE that the works were genuine while her critics dismissed them TUE as pastiche. TUE TUE 07:00 HR b01c7rgv (Listen) TUE Series 3, Disinherited TUE In Nigel Williams' comedy series the two 60-something chums TUE have just lost their pensions. Sam (Nicholas lePrevost) and TUE Peter (Jonathan Pryce) resort to desperate measures. Which TUE now include visiting an aged - very wealthy - aunt. TUE Sam....Nicholas le Prevost TUE Peter...Jonathan Pryce TUE Aunt Norah... Dillie Keane TUE Maud...Kate Layden TUE Directed by...Peter Kavanagh. TUE TUE 07:30 Gloomsbury b041xyk6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Theory and Practice of Hanky Panky TUE Vera and Henry are undecided about whether it is time for TUE their Eton-educated sons, Charlie and Fred, to be told the TUE facts of life. Neither parent feels that they are TUE sufficiently qualified to discuss the birds and bees with TUE their sons, so they go in search of somebody who is. Ginny TUE and Lionel, conveniently staying, are invited to contribute, TUE but it soon becomes clear that they are urgently in need of TUE sex education themselves. TUE The Goslings deliver conflicting opinions: Mrs Gosling is TUE affronted by the very mention of the facts of life, whilst TUE Gosling, dealing with pollination on a daily basis, would TUE happily talk of nothing else all year. TUE Finally a willing educator is found. Venus, deeply broody TUE for her first child, volunteers to rush down to Eton and TUE enlighten Charlie and Fred over ginger beer and crumpets. TUE Worried lest they should suddenly become grandparents before TUE their time, Henry and Vera swiftly call a halt to the whole TUE scheme and pack Venus off to climb Everest instead. TUE GLOOMSBURY - THE SERIES TUE Green-fingered Sapphist Vera Sackcloth-Vest shares a bijou TUE castle in Kent with her devoted husband Henry, but longs for TUE exotic adventures with nervy novelist Ginny Fox and wilful TUE beauty Venus Traduces. It's 1921, the dawn of modern love, TUE life and lingerie, but Vera still hasn't learnt how to boil TUE a kettle. TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Vera Sackcloth-Vest: Miriam Margolyes TUE Henry Mickleton: Jonathan Coy TUE Mrs Ginny Fox: Alison Steadman TUE Lionel Fox: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Mrs Gosling, Vera's Housekeeper: Alison Steadman TUE Gosling, Vera's Gardener: Roger Lloyd Pack TUE Venus Traduces: Morwenna Banks TUE Producer: Jamie Rix TUE Writer: Sue Limb TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00mlxk1 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 12 TUE Kenneth Williams saddles up as a jockey in 'A Man Is Two TUE Foot Tall', but Kenneth Horne is after some advice on Bona TUE Bijou Tourettes from Julian and Sandy. 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 April 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 To the Manor Born b007jm4q (Listen) TUE The Honours List TUE With news of a New Year's Honour for a villager, Audrey is TUE nice to Devere. TUE Starring Penelope Keith as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton, Keith TUE Barron as Richard DeVere, Angela Thorne as Marjory TUE Frobisher, Nicholas McArdle as Brabinger, Margery Withers as TUE Mrs Polouvicka, Frank Middlemass as Ned/Lord Shaw and TUE Jonathan Adams as the Brigadier. 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, before finally arriving home in 1997. TUE Adapted for radio by Peter Spence from his TV script. TUE Producer: Jane Berthoud TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1997. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b06r8gn3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Capital Gains b00shdzt (Listen) TUE Series 2, Seed Capital TUE Accidental billionaire Julius Hutch turns to politics over a TUE compulsory purchase order. Stars Peter Jones. From July TUE 1997. TUE TUE 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g17k (Listen) TUE 5-9 October 1915 TUE Omnibus edition of the Epic drama series set in Great War TUE Britain a hundred years ago this week, as individual losses TUE in Folkestone increasingly fuelled an interest in TUE spiritualism. TUE Credits TUE Adam: Billy Kennedy TUE Adeline: Helen Schlesinger TUE Alec: Tom Stuart TUE Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Audience 1: Rhiannon Neads TUE Audience 2: Jane Slavin TUE Audience 3: Alex Tregear TUE Audience 4: Clive Hayward TUE Basil: Gerry Hinks TUE Dolly: Elaine Claxton TUE Dorothea: Rachel Shelley TUE Esme: Katie Angelou TUE Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Ivy: Lizzy Watts TUE Juliet: Lizzie Bourne TUE Lilian: Alex Tregear TUE Maggie: Hollie Thoupos TUE Maisie: Cassie Layton TUE Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown TUE Norman Harris: Sean Baker TUE Percy: Chris Pavlo TUE Roland: Jack Holden TUE Roy: Tim Beckmann TUE Pearl: Tim Beckmann TUE Sam: Alexander Aze TUE Sid: Gerry Hinks TUE Solly: Stephen Critchlow TUE Sylvia: Joanna David TUE Tom: Clive Hayward TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Allegra McIlroy TUE TUE 11:00 Afternoon Reading b01204xl (Listen) TUE New Welsh Writing from Ty Newydd, The Wake TUE Ty Newydd, near Snowdonia, is the National Writing Centre TUE for Wales and these three stories created there on a Writing TUE for Radio course, showcase new and established Welsh TUE writers. TUE A woman returns to Aberystwyth for her mother's funeral and TUE finds the past is still very much present. Beth Robert reads TUE a story by Francesca Rhydderch. TUE Director: Willa King TUE Executive Producer: Kate McAll TUE BBC Cymru Wales. TUE TUE 11:15 Baldi b007k0h2 (Listen) TUE Series 3, The Far Pavilions TUE The priestly sleuth comes across foul play at a distinctly TUE unfriendly cricket match. With David Threlfall and Michael TUE Maloney. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00mlxk1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 To the Manor Born b007jm4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 P Division b00rdypv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Music From Beyond the Veil b00ljyn0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nm9sb (Listen) TUE The New Car; Guy Fawkes Day TUE The engaging stories of an English housewife, created for TUE The Times in 1937 and immortalised on film. Read by Penelope TUE Wilton. TUE TUE 14:15 A Cause for Caroling b03kqf08 (Listen) TUE Spreading the Medieval Word Made Flesh TUE The second programme in Jeremy Summerly's ten part series TUE tracing the history of the Christmas Carol in Britain. Today TUE he discovers the impact of the Franciscans in using the TUE carol to make the birth of Jesus a focus for the church and TUE harnessing the energy of popular music to that end. TUE Series Description: TUE The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when TUE carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back TUE then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots TUE in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would TUE quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song. TUE But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music TUE history because each shift in the story has been preserved TUE in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now TUE and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and TUE modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that TUE happening in any other situation. TUE In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol TUE journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into TUE the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the TUE byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery TUE musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the TUE carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol TUE veer between the sacred and secular even before there was TUE any understanding of those terms. For long periods the TUE church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the TUE virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. TUE Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by TUE the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge. TUE He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the TUE carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, TUE some of which survive to this day and many others which TUE languish unloved but ready for re-discovery. TUE It's a journey full of song describing the history of a TUE people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the TUE coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the TUE heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. TUE Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this TUE music. TUE That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are TUE one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather TUE than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for TUE Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar TUE example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on TUE the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the TUE uninhibited world of folk song and ballad. TUE The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which TUE he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing TUE - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - TUE is the question asked. This series is an attempt to answer TUE why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In TUE fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood TUE Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he TUE described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on TUE Christmas Eve: TUE 'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time TUE worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally TUE transmitted from father to son through several generations TUE down to the present characters, who sang them out right TUE earnestly." TUE Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the TUE famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC TUE since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service TUE that commands a worldwide audience measured in many TUE millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance TUE in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition TUE that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the TUE choir stalls. TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvw5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Ambitious Becky awaits a marriage proposal, while Amelia TUE meets old friend Dobbin. Narrated by Stephen Fry. With Emma TUE Fielding. TUE TUE 14:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrp1 (Listen) TUE Suburban Fauna TUE The humorist, writer and broadcaster muses on his beloved TUE London district's goldfish, geese and foxes. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g17k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 The Motion Show b06s1bnp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Dr Phil Hammond chairs the debating game with Hugh Dennis, TUE Jon Plowman, Jenny Eclair and Nick Revell. From February TUE 2000. TUE TUE 16:30 Capital Gains b00shdzt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 HR b01c7rgv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Gloomsbury b041xyk6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Wally K Daly b007js5w (Listen) TUE Before the Screaming Begins, Episode 2 TUE Tom Harris's new mental powers interest the authorities. TUE Stars Donald Hewlett and James Laurenson. TUE TUE 18:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes b06s1hxd (Listen) TUE Leading Ladies TUE Bollywood film star Shah Rukh Khan's celebrates his personal TUE heroes with a tribute to his key leading ladies including TUE Sridevi, Madhuri Dixit and Kajol. TUE He says he's lucky to have worked with three generations of TUE actresses - it's been "a great learning experience" and that TUE the "heroines have made me the star that I am." TUE Producer: Ranjit Doal TUE First broadcast on the BBC Asian Network in 2012. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00mlxk1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 To the Manor Born b007jm4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 P Division b00rdypv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Music From Beyond the Veil b00ljyn0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Afternoon Reading b01204xl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Baldi b007k0h2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Gloomsbury b041xyk6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Ape That Got Lucky b0080nk7 (Listen) TUE Social Development TUE Chris Addison's spoof lectures exploring human evolution. TUE With Geoffrey McGivern as Professor Austin Herring. From TUE August 2005. TUE TUE 23:00 Twenty Players b06s1jk0 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Terry Framwell TUE Forgotten sporting heroes. Dougie Donnelly tells the story TUE of probably the best one-legged bowls player ever. From June TUE 1997. TUE TUE 23:15 Sir Henry at Rawlinson End b00s3j26 (Listen) TUE Cabbage Looking in Mufti TUE Surreal saga of a dynasty delicately balanced on the edge of TUE sanity. Written by and stars Viv Stanshall. From December TUE 1996. TUE TUE 23:30 Think the Unthinkable b007jm31 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE Barrington council's Refuse Services turn to the management TUE consultants to axe staff. Stars Emma Kennedy. From October TUE 2001. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 DECEMBER 2015 WED WED 00:00 Wally K Daly b007js5w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 Shah Rukh Khan's Heroes b06s1hxd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 P Division b00rdypv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Music From Beyond the Veil b00ljyn0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nm9sb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 A Cause for Caroling b03kqf08 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvw5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrp1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g17k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 The Motion Show b06s1bnp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Capital Gains b00shdzt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 HR b01c7rgv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Gloomsbury b041xyk6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 P Division b00rfgz6 (Listen) WED Two Way Cut, Episode 2 WED A headless body without a speck of blood on it has Glasgow's WED 'P' Division cops puzzled. Just who was the strange hunched WED figure that PC Hamilton saw running along by the canal...? WED Stars Alec Monteath as DCI Finnlater, Crawford Logan as DI WED Donoghue, Andrew Conlan as DC Tony Abernethy and Robert WED Carlyle as DC King. WED Published in 1988, this is Peter Turnbull's fifth P Division WED novel about his Glaswegian police force. WED Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. WED Producer: Hamish Wilson WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. WED WED 06:30 Juvenile Jane b00w1yqk (Listen) WED Jane Austen's surprisingly neglected but delightfully WED precocious and revealing early works celebrated by Austen WED expert Janet Todd with the help of the writer and WED illustrator Posy Simmonds and the actor Anna Maxwell Martin. WED Considering how frequently Jane Austen's six great novels WED are adapted for film, radio and television, it is perhaps WED surprising that the three small exercise books containing WED twenty two little stories and plays written during her teen WED years have not received more notice. Some of these stories - WED with titles such as "The Adventures of Mr Harley", "The WED Generous Curate" and "The Beautiful Cassandra" - are only a WED few lines long but others run to many pages and provide both WED entertainment and surprising insights into the development WED of the mature writer. WED Austen expert Janet Todd leafs through two of the precious WED volumes which are held at the British Library in London and WED discusses their wonderfully uninhibited style and content WED with the writer and illustrator Posy Simmonds who has long WED been a fan of Austen and fascinated by juvenilia in general. WED It is well documented that, during her lifetime, the adult WED Jane Austen used to read from these books to her close WED family. For this programme, the actor Anna Maxwell Martin WED reads extensive extracts from three stories - "Frederick and WED Elfrida", "Henry and Eliza" and "love and Freindship" (sic) WED to reanimate them for a contemporary radio audience. WED Producer Beaty Rubens. WED WED 07:00 Lenin of the Rovers b00cfzz8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Apocalypse Des WED Felchester Rovers take a break in the socialist idyll of El WED Telvador, but a war is raging. Stars Alexei Sayle. From WED April 1989. WED WED 07:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06r81v3 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Animal Lovers WED Episode 4, 'The Animal Lovers'. Mr and Mrs Wrigglesworth WED think about getting a pet while Tom plans a weekend getaway. WED Series 3 of the sitcom where Tom Wrigglesworth phones home WED for his weekly check-in with his Mum, Dad and Gran, giving WED listeners a glimpse into his family background and the WED influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and WED hang-ups. WED Starring Tom Wrigglesworth, Paul Copley, Kate Anthony and WED Elizabeth Bennett. WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle with WED additional material by Miles Jupp WED Produced by Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED Credits WED Actor: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Actor: Paul Copley WED Actor: Kate Anthony WED Actor: Elizabeth Bennett WED Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth WED Writer: James Kettle WED Writer: Miles Jupp WED Producer: Richard Morris WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01dldrl (Listen) WED First Day Out of Dock WED After their TV excursion, the crew of HMS Troutbridge set WED sail with a new commander. WED Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie WED Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number WED One, Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson and Richard WED Caldicote as Captain Povey. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 19. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b010tcrn (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 5 WED The history of transport, and Professor Prune's time WED adventures continue as he hunts for a lost city. Stars John WED Cleese and Bill Oddie. From February 1969. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b008l1vn (Listen) WED 1999, Heat 8 WED Ned Sherrin's music quiz with Gareth Ribbon of Middlesex, WED West Yorkshire's Colin Spencer and Alan Williams from WED mid-Glamorgan. WED WED 09:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00s7n40 (Listen) WED Series 2, Confessions WED Salvatore is hell bent on making his family take confession, WED and covering up the cherubs. Stars David Swift. From June WED 2002. WED WED 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g3jt (Listen) WED 12-16 October 1915 WED Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War WED Britain a hundred years ago this week, when the dead seem WED more present than ever. WED Written by Sarah Daniels WED Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED Credits WED Sergeant: David Acton WED Esme: Katie Angelou WED Sam: Alexander Aze WED Norman Harris: Sean Baker WED Edie: Kathryn Beaumont WED Stella: Ava Bell WED Ray: Scarlet Bell WED Isabel: Keely Beresford WED Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw WED Sylvia: Joanna David WED Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies WED Passer-by 1: Mark Edel-Hunt WED Marion: Laura Elphinstone WED Sergeant Major: David Hounslow WED Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson WED Adam: Billy Kennedy WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Soldier: Neet Mohan WED Clemmie: Joanna Monro WED Olive: Rhiannon Neads WED Albert: Harry Myers WED Johnnie: Paul Ready WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Adeline: Helen Schlesinger WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Ken: Joe Sims WED Margaret: Jane Slavin WED Flora: Jessica Turner WED Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw WED Writer: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 11:00 Winifred Holtby - The Celebrity Who Failed b01bn5wr (Listen) WED Can Amelia deal with the public attention after she learns WED to walk on water? Stars Alice Arnold. WED WED 11:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station b06s2mpc (Listen) WED Fog Warnings WED Wednesday January 25th 1895. Eyes are being tested for the WED accident enquiry but who is the mystery blind man? WED Nottingham born author Steve Chambers' 5-part set in WED Victoria Station, Bridgford in 1895 each with a WED self-contained drama , as well as the day-to-day shenanigans WED and goings on of the station staff. WED Stars Sean Baker as Station Master Joe Braddock, Philip WED Jackson as Tidmarsh, John Hartley as Union activist Fred WED Roberts, Gavin Muir as Area Manager Mr Cripps, Julia Ford as WED Josie and Pauline Letts as Ada. WED Director: Celia de Wolff WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 1995 and set a WED century before. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01dldrl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b010tcrn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 P Division b00rfgz6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Juvenile Jane b00w1yqk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nmzm7 (Listen) WED Married Couples; At the Dentist's WED Created in The Times of 1937 and immortalised on film, the WED engaging stories of an English housewife. Read by Penelope WED Wilton. WED WED 14:15 A Cause for Caroling b03ktz0k (Listen) WED From Coventry to Agincourt WED In the third programme in the series Jeremy finds a WED developing professionalism in carol singing and writing in WED the details of a manuscript held by Cambridge University, WED and he reveals the background of the Coventry carol's WED mystery play setting. The combination of energetic drama and WED more refined singing men makes this period a caroling golden WED age but with clouds on the horizon. WED Series Description: WED The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when WED carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back WED then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots WED in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would WED quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song. WED But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music WED history because each shift in the story has been preserved WED in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now WED and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and WED modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that WED happening in any other situation. WED In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol WED journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into WED the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the WED byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery WED musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the WED carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol WED veer between the sacred and secular even before there was WED any understanding of those terms. For long periods the WED church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the WED virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. WED Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by WED the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge. WED He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the WED carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, WED some of which survive to this day and many others which WED languish unloved but ready for re-discovery. WED It's a journey full of song describing the history of a WED people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the WED coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the WED heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. WED Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this WED music. WED That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are WED one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather WED than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for WED Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar WED example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on WED the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the WED uninhibited world of folk song and ballad. WED The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which WED he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing WED - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - WED is the question asked. THis series is an attempt to answer WED why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In WED fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood WED Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he WED described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on WED Christmas Eve: WED 'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time WED worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally WED transmitted from father to son through several generations WED down to the present characters, who sang them out right WED earnestly." WED Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the WED famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC WED since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service WED that commands a worldwide audience measured in many WED millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance WED in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition WED that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the WED choir stalls. WED Producer: Tom Alban. WED WED 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvwb (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED A lascivious lawyer and a dashing captain - Becky Sharp WED continues to attract admirers. Stephen Fry narrates. With WED Emma Fielding. WED WED 14:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrph (Listen) WED Away From It All WED The humorist, writer and broadcaster muses on travelling, WED and considers acting lessons for posing in holiday snaps. WED WED 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g3jt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b008l1vn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00s7n40 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Lenin of the Rovers b00cfzz8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06r81v3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Wally K Daly b007js66 (Listen) WED Before the Screaming Begins, Episode 3 WED The alien intent is revealed. Can the Earth fight back? The WED first of a sci-fi trilogy with Donald Hewlett and James WED Laurenson. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076x5w (Listen) WED Money WED Victoria Coren discusses filthy lucre with the aptly named WED William Cash, Anna Raeburn and actor Jay Benedict. From WED February 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01dldrl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b010tcrn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 P Division b00rfgz6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Juvenile Jane b00w1yqk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Winifred Holtby - The Celebrity Who Failed b01bn5wr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Steve Chambers - Victoria Station b06s2mpc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06r81v3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 49 Cedar Street b010t7x5 (Listen) WED As far as the residents of 49 Cedar Street are concerned, WED this is one place where the Outside World need not apply. WED Laurence and Elliot have been living together for some time WED now - and it shows. They've settled into a sort of father WED and son role, with regular game nights and the occasional WED song and dance routine. WED Laurence does his best to look after Elliot and read him WED bedtime stories, in return Elliot tries to keep his room WED tidy and always eats his greens before pudding. Their home WED is a haven of peace and contentment, with comfy sofas, WED crayon drawings on the fridge and nice homemade biscuits. WED That is, until Hannah moves into the spare room. A walking WED collection of neuroses, emotions and non-stop jabbering WED about her ex, she crowbars her way into their life and WED threatens to turn everything upside down with her crazy WED woman's brain. However, the bond with her dysfunctional new WED family develops and she gradually lets go of some of her WED more destructive compulsions. WED And so it becomes the three of them against the world, WED battling side by side through the strange adventures WED surrounding the house at 49 Cedar Street, in a ludicrous but WED ultimately lovely world. WED Laurence ..... Colin Hoult WED Elliot ..... Tom Parry WED Hannah ..... Isabel Fay WED Cupid ..... Duncan Wisbey WED Victorian Orphan Boy ..... Alix Dunmore WED Original music was composed and performed by Alexander Rudd, WED with Natalie Rosario on cello. WED Written by Julie Bower WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED Credits WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b016vkmg (Listen) WED For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers WED the best in comedy. Tonight, Iain Lee chats to Paul Garner. WED WED 23:00 Beauty of Britain b010dq6w (Listen) WED Series 2, The Little Black Shorts WED No professional care-worker can afford to miss Beauty WED Olonga's survival guide to Britain - its overheated houses, WED its disappointing church services and its world-class WED charity shops. Series 2 of this comedy follows Beauty's WED continuing adventures as the Featherdown Agency send her to WED provide care for the elderly. WED Beauty sees herself as an inspiration to other African girls WED hoping to live the dream in Britain. Beauty sees Britain at WED its best, its worst and also sometimes without its clothes WED on running the wrong way down the M6 with a toy dog shouting WED 'Come on!' WED Episode 3 'The Little Black Shorts' WED Beauty starts a romance with the handsome but somewhat WED immature Leon. She also deals with a relationship at the WED other end of life's journey when she is sent by her agency WED to look after a warring elderly couple. WED Beauty ... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Frank ... Geoffrey Palmer WED Joan ... Phyllida Law WED Leon ... Lloyd Thomas WED Mrs Gupte ... Indira Joshi WED Anil ... Paul Sharma WED The music was performed by The West End Gospel Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 23:30 Beautiful Dreamers b00vkxm8 (Listen) WED The Traitor of the Zazalcara WED By James Lever and Nat Segnit WED In this series documentary maker Nat Segnit investigates the WED untold stories of visionary mavericks. This week Nat WED explores the difficult life of a Uruguayan footballer who WED made an ingenious attempt to counter one of world football's WED worst scandals. With Contributions from Andrew Sachs, Javier WED Marzan, Kevin Eldon, David Sant, Sean Baker, Tony Bell and WED Iain Batchelor. WED Produced by Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko WED Nat Segnit's short stories and journalism have appeared in WED The Times and The Independent on Sunday. For Radio 4 he has WED written Dolphin Therapy and Strangers on Trains. WED James Lever is author of the best-selling Me Cheeta, which WED Lynne Truss loved so much she said, "It will subtly change WED forever the way we think not only about Hollywood but also WED about our own species" (The Sunday Times). WED Credits WED Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 DECEMBER 2015 THU THU 00:00 Wally K Daly b007js66 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076x5w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 P Division b00rfgz6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Juvenile Jane b00w1yqk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nmzm7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 A Cause for Caroling b03ktz0k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvwb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrph (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g3jt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b008l1vn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Leopard in Autumn b00s7n40 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Lenin of the Rovers b00cfzz8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b06r81v3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 P Division b00rfr3b (Listen) THU Two Way Cut, Episode 3 THU Samuel Lurinaky was a law abiding accountant and deeply in THU love with a lady from the Orient. So why was he murdered and THU what does the owner of the Zambesi nightclub have to do with THU it? THU Stars Eliza Langland as WPC Elka Willems, Jake D'Arcy as DS THU Ray Sussock, Frank Gallagher as DC Malcolm Montgomery, Paul THU Morrow as PC Wanless, Sedhar Chozam as Chi Chiu Lorinksi and THU Crawford Logan as DI Donoghue. THU Published in 1988, this is Peter Turnbull's fifth P Division THU novel about his Glaswegian cops. THU Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. THU Producer: Hamish Wilson THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. THU THU 06:30 Fu Manchu in Edinburgh b00rt91z (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. Miles Jupp probes evil mastermind Fu Manchu's THU Scottish connections. Did his doctorate come from Edinburgh THU University? From April 2010. THU THU 07:00 North by Northamptonshire b03q69c1 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 5 THU by Katherine Jakeways THU Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the THU residents of a small market town in Northamptonshire. This THU week, it's Jan's birthday and she's determined to do THU something unexpected. THU Producer: Steven Canny THU As is well-known: Yorkshiremen wear flat caps and Essex THU girls wear short skirts; Liverpudlians are scallies and THU Cockneys are wideboys. Northamptonians gaze wistfully at THU these stereotypes and wish for an identity of any kind and a THU label less ridiculous than Northamptonians. THU Northamptonshire, let us be clear, is neither north, nor THU south nor in the Midlands. It floats somewhere between the THU three eyeing up the distinctiveness of each enviously. Now THU Katherine Jakeways is giving Northamptonshire an identity. THU And she waits, eagerly, for her home-county to thank her. THU And possibly make her some kind of Mayor. THU Joined by nearly all of the incredible cast which graced THU Series One and Two - including Sheila Hancock as the THU Narrator, Penelope Wilton, Felicity Montagu, Geoffrey Palmer THU and Kevin Eldon - and with the exciting addition of Tim Key THU and Nathaniel Parker - North by Northamptonshire hopes (and THU promises) to once again delight audience and critics. THU 'The laughs are cruel, but the monsters of suburbia are THU curiously sympathetic, and the characters so well drawn and THU well played that this could run and run.' Time Out. THU Credits THU Narrator: Sheila Hancock THU Rod: Tim Key THU Frank: Rufus Wright THU Orson: Nathaniel Parker THU Mary: Penelope Wilton THU Jonathan: Kevin Eldon THU Esther: Katherine Jakeways THU Norman: Geoffrey Palmer THU Jan: Felicity Montagu THU Producer: Steven Canny THU Writer: Katherine Jakeways THU THU 07:30 Tina C: Herstory b06r885k (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU 1999 sees Tina C established as a global icon, and exploring THU her feminist side. Jenni Murray quizzes Tina about the highs THU and lows of finding your feet as a woman in Nashville. THU Written & performed by Christopher Green. THU Additional voices: Susan Jameson & Leo Wan. THU The Band: Duncan Walsh-Atkins, Mark Hardisty & Phil Wraith. THU Special guest interviewer: Jenni Murray. THU Produced by Victoria Lloyd. THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jmlj (Listen) THU Series 4, The Three Feathers THU Harold Steptoe is convinced a commode will make him rich. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Douglas Blackwell and Leslie Heritage 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 Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1972. THU THU 08:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b008hzh9 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 6 THU Shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel is collecting for "charity" THU in a seasonal scam. 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 THU Ravelli. With Lorelei King, Graham Hoadly and Vincent THU 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 August 1992. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075m1d (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with Mark Thomas, THU Dillie Keane, Miles Kington and Roger McGough. From March THU 1997. THU THU 09:30 Be Prepared b0076tft (Listen) THU Girl Guides and Caves THU Could Miles have found love with a local Girl Guide Leader? THU A weekend camp might help him find out. Stars Kim Wall. From THU August 2005. THU THU 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g5b3 (Listen) THU 19-23 October 1915 THU Omnibus edition of the epic drama series set in Great War THU Britain a hundred years ago this week, when crises lead to THU drastic actions THU Written by Richard Monks THU Story-led by Sarah Daniels THU Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Allegra McIlroy THU Editor: Jessica Dromgoole. THU Credits THU Adam: Billy Kennedy THU Adeline: Helen Schlesinger THU Albert: Harry Myers THU Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell THU Beau: Stephen Critchlow THU Dolly: Elaine Claxton THU Dorothea: Rachel Shelley THU Esme: Katie Angelou THU Florrie: Claire Rushbrook THU Foxton: Sam Dale THU Isabel: Keely Beresford THU Johnnie: Paul Ready THU Juliet: Lizzie Bourne THU Kitty: Ami Metcalf THU Lilian: Alex Tregear THU Maggie: Hollie Thoupos THU Mrs Edkins: Rachel Davies THU Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw THU Norman Harris: Sean Baker THU Roland: Jack Holden THU Roy: Tim Beckmann THU Sally: Sarah Thom THU Sam: Alexander Aze THU Soldier 1: Owen Clark THU Soldier 2: Neet Mohan THU Writer: Richard Monks THU Director: Allegra McIlroy THU THU 11:00 RK Narayan Stories b01dbfnc (Listen) THU Trail of the Green Blazer THU Over the cacophony of a bustling Indian market, a THU distinctive jacket seems to beckon pickpocket Raju. Read by THU Sam Dastor. THU THU 11:15 Paul Farley - The English Civil War b007lz4p (Listen) THU One day a cavalier walks into a supermarket. Is he the real THU thing or is his battle a more modern matter? Stars Robert THU Bathurst. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jmlj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b008hzh9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 P Division b00rfr3b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Fu Manchu in Edinburgh b00rt91z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nnmhy (Listen) THU Doing a Mole; Christmas Shopping THU Created in The Times of 1937 and immortalised on film, the THU engaging stories of an English housewife. Read by Penelope THU Wilton. THU THU 14:15 A Cause for Caroling b03kv1f3 (Listen) THU Carol Crisis? What Crisis? THU In the fourth programme in the series Jeremy describes the THU impact of the Reformation and later Puritan attitudes to THU music in general and carols in particular. The development THU of the Medieval carol may have been arrested but there was THU never a serious threat to folk caroling and it wasn't long THU after the Commonwealth that carols, or rather one particular THU carol, was back in church. THU Series Description: THU The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when THU carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back THU then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots THU in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would THU quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song. THU But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music THU history because each shift in the story has been preserved THU in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now THU and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and THU modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that THU happening in any other situation. THU In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol THU journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into THU the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the THU byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery THU musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the THU carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol THU veer between the sacred and secular even before there was THU any understanding of those terms. For long periods the THU church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the THU virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. THU Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by THU the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge. THU He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the THU carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, THU some of which survive to this day and many others which THU languish unloved but ready for re-discovery. THU It's a journey full of song describing the history of a THU people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the THU coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the THU heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. THU Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this THU music. THU That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are THU one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather THU than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for THU Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar THU example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on THU the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the THU uninhibited world of folk song and ballad. THU The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which THU he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing THU - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - THU is the question asked. THis series is an attempt to answer THU why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In THU fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood THU Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he THU described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on THU Christmas Eve: THU 'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time THU worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally THU transmitted from father to son through several generations THU down to the present characters, who sang them out right THU earnestly." THU Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the THU famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC THU since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service THU that commands a worldwide audience measured in many THU millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance THU in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition THU that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the THU choir stalls. THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvwg (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Becky Sharp aims to charm a wealthy spinster and her THU handsome nephew. Narrated by Stephen Fry. With Emma THU Fielding. THU THU 14:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrpx (Listen) THU Out to Lunch THU The humorist, writer and self-proclaimed Royalist muses on a THU menu of exotic and prehistoric dishes. THU THU 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g5b3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075m1d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Be Prepared b0076tft (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 North by Northamptonshire b03q69c1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Tina C: Herstory b06r885k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Arthur Conan Doyle - Professor Challenger b00zjbvl (Listen) THU When the World Screamed THU Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's irascible academic sets out on a THU bold mission to be recognised by Mother Earth. Stars Bill THU Paterson. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076xqm (Listen) THU Series 9, Morecambe and Wise THU Actress Penelope Keith nominates legendary comedy double-act THU Morecambe and Wise as masters of classless entertainment. THU On Christmas day in 1977, almost 29 million people sat down THU to watch Morecambe And Wise on BBC One. With false noses THU galore, Penelope co-starred alongside them in Ernie's play THU Cyrano de Bergerac. After this show, the duo defected back THU to ITV. THU So will Penelope's two heroes stand up to intensive scrutiny THU from Mathew Parris and merit the description of having led THU great lives? THU With Eric Morecambe's son Gary, who offers some fascinating THU insights into his father's background and how he viewed his THU success. THU Producer: Miles Warde THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2006. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jmlj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel b008hzh9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 P Division b00rfr3b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Fu Manchu in Edinburgh b00rt91z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 RK Narayan Stories b01dbfnc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Paul Farley - The English Civil War b007lz4p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Tina C: Herstory b06r885k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Two Episodes of Mash b01mqqht (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU In Episode 3: Diane, Joe and David break loose from BBC THU Security and go on the run around Radio 4. We hear them THU crash into the radio station's usual programming (Book At THU Bedtime, The Archers...) before making their getaway with THU Aled Jones. THU An animation of their Fishing Sketch by Tom Rourke can been THU seen on the Radio 4 website. THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Aled THU Jones, Paul Harry Allen, Bobbie Pryor & Gary Newman. THU Producer: Clair Wordsworth. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b014r11r (Listen) THU For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers THU the best in comedy. Tonight, Iain Lee chats again with Paul THU Garner. THU THU 23:00 Bleak Expectations b00nrrd5 (Listen) THU Series 3, A Sort of Fine Life De-Niced Completely THU Pip wants to save the poor and Harry Biscuit wants swans. THU Mark Evans's Dickensian spoof stars Tom Allen. From November THU 2009. THU THU 23:30 The Museum of Everything b007k0r6 (Listen) THU Series 1, A Very Important Visitor THU With exhibits ranging from Robin Hood to tribute bands' Mock THU 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From March THU 2004. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 DECEMBER 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Arthur Conan Doyle - Professor Challenger b00zjbvl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076xqm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 P Division b00rfr3b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Fu Manchu in Edinburgh b00rt91z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nnmhy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 A Cause for Caroling b03kv1f3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvwg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrpx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064g5b3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075m1d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Be Prepared b0076tft (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 North by Northamptonshire b03q69c1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Tina C: Herstory b06r885k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 P Division b00rgnxh (Listen) FRI Two Way Cut, Episode 4 FRI Donoghue has enough evidence to arrest Stein - but where is FRI he? Louise wants to make a statement about the murder and FRI Elka Willems is going to tell Mrs Salisbury about her FRI daughter's illness. FRI Stars Frank Gallagher as DC Malcolm Montgomery, Robert FRI Carlyle as DC King, Eliza Langland as WPC Elka Willems, FRI Ginni Barlow as Mrs Sailisbury, Mary Ann Reid as Mrs Steen, FRI Jake D'Arcy as DS Ray Sussock and Crawford Logan as DI FRI Donoghue. FRI Published in 1988, this is Peter Turnbull's fifth P Division FRI novel about his Glaswegian cops. FRI Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. FRI Producer: Hamish Wilson FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. FRI FRI 06:30 Eagle: The Space Age Weekly b00wqdx6 (Listen) FRI Sir Tim Rice explores the lasting appeal of British magazine FRI Eagle and the impact of its flagship character Dan Dare. FRI Eagle ran in two main incarnations between 1950 and 1994. FRI Dan Dare, often referred to as "Biggles in space", is FRI regarded in some circles as the greatest British science FRI fiction hero of the 20th century FRI In this feature we chart the influences behind the comic, FRI and explore the life of its creator Marcus Morris, a FRI fascinating man who began the publication because of his FRI concern over 'horrific' US comics which presented FRI 'disturbing' storylines which he felt 'corrupted British FRI youth'. FRI The programme reveals how Dan Dare was originally envisaged FRI as a space chaplain before becoming the popular astronaut. FRI It also examines the work of illustrator Frank Hampson who FRI introduced technology years ahead of its time. Hampson knew FRI the Space Age was on its way while serving in the Second FRI World War and seeing the German VI rockets. He made the Dan FRI Dare strips as realistic as possible by dressing his team in FRI spacesuits and uniforms, basing the look of the fictional FRI characters on his colleagues. FRI We reveal how the stories had educational value and, along FRI with Dan Dare, we look at other Eagle offerings including FRI Shakespeare's plays and the Greek myths which ran as comic FRI strips. FRI Featuring contributions from author Philip Pullman, Sally FRI Morris the daughter of Eagle Creator Marcus and Eagle FRI Society member David Britton. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston Comes to Town b007svwq (Listen) FRI The Best Place for Them FRI With Father set for an old folk's home, can the old rogue FRI save the day for Nancy? Stars Maurice Denham. From February FRI 1990. FRI FRI 07:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06rxgtc (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI The fun packed second series from comedy duo Lucy Trodd and FRI Ruth Bratt draws to a conclusion. Sketches and songs from a FRI whole range of new characters, with the occasional FRI appearance from some old favourites. FRI The first series was nominated for Best Comedy at the BBC FRI Audio awards 2014, and all four performers have recently FRI been on the West End stage as part of the smash hit FRI Showstopper: The Improvised Musical - and were part of the FRI show when it graced the Radio 4 airwaves a few years ago. FRI This week the vaguely European owners of the Fings and Bobs FRI Novelty Shop make a return visit to FRI Wherever-we-come-from-Land, Evelyn and Gertie try to be nice FRI and - there's been a murder! FRI Performers: FRI Lucy Trodd FRI Ruth Bratt FRI Adam Meggido FRI Oliver Senton FRI Written and created by: Ruth Bratt and Lucy Trodd FRI Script Editor: Jon Hunter FRI Original music: Duncan Walsh Atkins FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Lucky Giant production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Performer: Lucy Trodd FRI Performer: Ruth Bratt FRI Performer: Adam Meggido FRI Performer: Oliver Senton FRI Writer: Ruth Bratt FRI Writer: Lucy Trodd FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b008p8pl (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Prize Money FRI The lad gets more than he bargained for when he wins a TV FRI quiz show. FRI Starring 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 May 1958. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b0080j61 (Listen) FRI Sale of Manhattan FRI Neddie Seagoon learns he is the rightful owner of New York FRI and sets off to reclaim his land. Stars Harry Secombe. From FRI November 1955. FRI FRI 09:00 The 99p Challenge b06s6mrj (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 5 FRI Crazy panel show capers as host Sue Perkins grills Armando FRI Iannucci, Peter Baynham, Sean Lock and Jack Docherty. FRI The game where someone stands to leave the studio 99p richer FRI than when they came in. FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2003. FRI FRI 09:30 Mind Your Own Business! b009pr6l (Listen) FRI Points of Disagreement FRI Whiz-kid Jimmy and staid Russell clash over a business FRI takeover. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton. From FRI January 1988. FRI FRI 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064jrpl (Listen) FRI 26-30 October 1915 FRI Closing Omnibus edition of season five of this epic drama FRI series set in Great War Britain. FRI CAST FRI Guard ..... David Acton FRI Esme ..... Katie Angelou FRI Norman ..... Sean Baker FRI Edie ..... Kathryn Beaumont FRI Roy ..... Tim Beckmann FRI Stella ..... Ava Bell FRI Ray ..... Scarlett Bell FRI Isabel ..... Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mack ..... Owen Clarke FRI Dolly ..... Elaine Claxton FRI Alice ..... Claire Louise Cordwell FRI Beau ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Sylvia ..... Joanna David FRI Cooper ..... Mark Edel-Hunt FRI Marion ..... Laura Elphinstone FRI Hilary ..... Craige Els FRI Roland ..... Jack Holden FRI Man 1 ..... David Hounslow FRI Adam ..... Billy Kennedy FRI Kitty ..... Ami Metcalf FRI PC Eldridge ..... Dan Hagley FRI Brad ..... Neet Mohan FRI Clemmie ..... Joanna Monro FRI Albert ..... Harry Myers FRI Woman ..... Rhiannon Neads FRI Johnnie ..... Paul Ready FRI Marieke ..... Olivia Ross FRI Florrie ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea ..... Rachel Shelley FRI Alec ..... Tom Stuart FRI Sally ..... Sarah Thom FRI Maggie ..... Hollie Thoupos FRI Ivy ..... Lizzy Watts FRI Nancy ..... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Written by Richard Monks FRI Story-led by Sarah Daniels FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 Nick Warburton - The Inspection b011pnrj (Listen) FRI Roy dislikes his nice new school jacket so much that losing FRI it becomes a mission. Read by Christian Rodska. FRI FRI 11:15 Richard Lumsden - Man in the Moon b008m1zr (Listen) FRI Derbyshire bus driver Morris remembers a day out in FRI Scarborough. FRI Moving verse drama stars Tom Courtenay as Morris and Gillian FRI Bevan as Esther. FRI Set in Derbyshire, the poignant story spans 40 year as FRI Morris is hounded by memories of a scarred early life and a FRI tragic accident. As he takes a last walk along the moors FRI that mean so much to him, he remembers 'the tiny moments FRI stuck inside your mind' - as his story is told in flashback. FRI Writer Richard Lumsden also appears in his own play in FRI several supporting roles. FRI Producer: Sally Avens FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b008p8pl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b0080j61 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 P Division b00rgnxh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Eagle: The Space Age Weekly b00wqdx6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Jan Struther - Mrs Miniver b00nnp65 (Listen) FRI Back From Abroad; Three Stockings FRI The engaging stories of an English housewife, created in The FRI Times of 1937 and immortalised on film. Read by Penelope FRI Wilton. FRI FRI 14:15 A Cause for Caroling b03kvby7 (Listen) FRI The Ghosts of the West Gallery FRI In the fifth programme of his series telling the story of FRI the Christmas Carol Jeremy Summerly visits Dorchester where FRI Thomas Hardy captured the caroling tradition that had FRI matured through the 17th and 18th century but which faced FRI extinction in the 19th. The West Gallery tradition of FRI musicians and singers in parish churches was an integral FRI part of community life in Hardy's Wessex as elsewhere. FRI Jeremy explains the origins of that tradition and the FRI fuguing carols so beloved at the time and why it was that FRI their days were numbered. FRI Along with folk musician Tim Laycock he gets to see the FRI carol manuscripts from which Hardy's great grandfather FRI played and sang on Christmas night in 1800. FRI Series Description: FRI The Christmas carol is as popular now as it was when FRI carolers celebrated the birth of Edward III in 1312. Back FRI then the carol was a generic term for a song with its roots FRI in dance form, nowadays only the strictest scholar would FRI quibble with the fact that a carol is a Christmas song. FRI But the journey the carol has taken is unique in music FRI history because each shift in the story has been preserved FRI in the carols that we sing today. Go to a carol concert now FRI and you're likely to hear folk, medieval, mid-victorian and FRI modern music all happily combined. It's hard to imagine that FRI happening in any other situation. FRI In these programmes Jeremy Summerly follows the carol FRI journey through the Golden age of the Medieval carol into FRI the troubled period of Reformation and puritanism, along the FRI byways of the 17th and 18th century waits and gallery FRI musicians and in to the sudden explosion of interest in the FRI carol in the 19th century. It's a story that sees the carol FRI veer between the sacred and secular even before there was FRI any understanding of those terms. For long periods the FRI church, both catholic and protestant, was uneasy about the FRI virility and homespun nature of carol tunes and carol texts. FRI Nowadays many people think that church music is defined by FRI the carols they hear from Kings College Cambridge. FRI He traces the folk carol in and out of church grounds, the FRI carol hymn, the fuguing carol and the many other off-shoots, FRI some of which survive to this day and many others which FRI languish unloved but ready for re-discovery. FRI It's a journey full of song describing the history of a FRI people who needed expression for seasonal joy in the FRI coldest, hardest time of the year. And however efficient the FRI heating system may be, the carol still generates warmth. FRI Much of that is to do with the positive nostalgia of this FRI music. FRI That nostalgia is in part due to the fact that carols are FRI one of the first kinds of song children actually sing rather FRI than hear. Many favourite carols were actually written for FRI Children; Once in Royal David's City the most familiar FRI example. Another factor is the concentration in the texts on FRI the humanity of nativity with tunes garnered from the FRI uninhibited world of folk song and ballad. FRI The series title is taken from a Thomas Hardy poem in which FRI he ponders of a Darkling Thrush why it should chose to sing FRI - 'so little cause for carolings of such ecstatic sound' - FRI is the question asked. THis series is an attempt to answer FRI why Carols remain so popular and familiar to so many. In FRI fact Hardy himself, in his first novel Under The Greenwood FRI Tree, went some way to answering his own question when he FRI described the Mellstock Quire singing at Midnight on FRI Christmas Eve: FRI 'Then passed forth into the quiet night an ancient and time FRI worn hymn, embodying a quaint Christianity in words orally FRI transmitted from father to son through several generations FRI down to the present characters, who sang them out right FRI earnestly." FRI Jeremy brings the series up to date with the story of the FRI famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast by the BBC FRI since the 1920s but born originally in Truro. It's a service FRI that commands a worldwide audience measured in many FRI millions, but as Jeremy concludes it has left an imbalance FRI in the appreciation of our caroling tradition, a tradition FRI that has always had one foot in the pub and another in the FRI choir stalls. FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvwn (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Becky travels to London with the ailing spinster Miss FRI Crawley. Narrated by Stephen Fry. With Emma Fielding and FRI Margaret Tyzack. FRI FRI 14:45 Alan Coren - Core Coren b007jrq9 (Listen) FRI One is One - Leading the Solitary Life FRI The humorist, writer and broadcaster muses on a Victorian FRI novelty, the chance of appearing in Macbeth and FRI home-working. FRI FRI 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b064jrpl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 99p Challenge b06s6mrj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Mind Your Own Business! b009pr6l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston Comes to Town b007svwq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06rxgtc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Arthur Conan Doyle - Professor Challenger b00zs6nn (Listen) FRI The Disintegration Machine FRI Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's indomitable academic must FRI investigate dastardly Latvian scientist Theodore Nemor. FRI Stars Bill Paterson. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076blv (Listen) FRI Series 3, Kol Nidrei FRI Max Bruch's piece for cello is based on Jewish prayer sung FRI at Yom Kippur and played memorably by Jacqueline du Pre. FRI From November 2002. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b008p8pl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b0080j61 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 P Division b00rgnxh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Eagle: The Space Age Weekly b00wqdx6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Nick Warburton - The Inspection b011pnrj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Richard Lumsden - Man in the Moon b008m1zr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Trodd en Bratt Say 'Well Done You' b06rxgtc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World b007qx6z (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Universe FRI The spoof TV sci-fi star explains life's big mysteries. FRI Stars Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Tom Baker. From FRI October 1992. FRI FRI 23:00 The Gobetweenies b01kl20n (Listen) FRI Series 2, Happy Father's Day FRI Mark Bonnar and Sarah Alexander star as the exes determined FRI to be double- not single-parents and bring their kids up FRI together apart. FRI But Lucy has noticed the difference between her affluent FRI mum, a children's fiction writer, and her broke dad who has FRI just started a new job with Your Pets Painted in the FRI Afterlife.com. She figures her dad he needs a proper FRI Father's Day present, and her tuba has served it's purpose FRI of getting her into that good state school where she doesn't FRI get bricks thrown at her head. So why not take a visit to FRI the pawn shop? FRI Her mum Mimi's young life was blighted by a no-show actor FRI dad but she has fibbed to her kids, telling them her missing FRI magical dad suffered from Dramnesia. When Tom discovers his FRI granddad is starring in a stool-softening advert he invites FRI him to visit. Won't his mum be delighted? FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Joe: Mark Bonnar FRI Mimi: Sarah Alexander FRI Tom: Finlay Christie FRI Lucy: Phoebe Abbott FRI William: Nicky Henson FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI FRI 23:30 Shappi Talk b00x41ng (Listen) FRI Series 2, History FRI Shappi Khorsandi looks at a variety of subjects close to her FRI Iranian heart - including Politics, Addiction and, in this FRI programme, History. FRI Having an incident filled, historical background herself, FRI Shappi looks back at a variety of historical figures and FRI moments in history, comparing our current lives. FRI Joining her is iconic comedian Simon Evans, who puts his own FRI idiosyncratic spin on history, and TV historian Adam FRI Hart-Davis, who has a chat with Shappi about his love of FRI everything historic. There's also a comic song from Duncan FRI Oakley. FRI Producer: Paul Russell FRI An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Shappi Khorsandi FRI Interviewed Guest: Adam Hart-Davis FRI Interviewed Guest: Simon Evans FRI Interviewed Guest: Duncan Oakley FRI Producer: Paul Russell FRI