01 January, 2016

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SAT SATURDAY 02 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nmjxb (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT MacLeod witnesses a mysterious ceremony in a former church SAT and meets with his friend's widow. Read by Robert Paterson. SAT SAT 00:15 Book at Bedtime b03xchr6 (Listen) SAT Lynne Truss - Cat Out of Hell, Episode 5 SAT By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the SAT bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of SAT a cat with nine lives. And a relationship as ancient as time SAT itself and just as powerful. SAT The scene - an isolated cottage on the coast on a stormy SAT evening. Inside, Alec a recently bereaved widower and his SAT dog. To pass the time Alec explores the contents of a folder SAT of documents emailed to him by an acquaintance at the SAT library where he used to work. What he discovers is an SAT extraordinary story that will change his life forever. SAT Episode 5: SAT Whilst Alec waits for Winterton to call, he decides to SAT return to the British Library for the first time since SAT Mary's death. But a terrible shock awaits him. SAT Reader: Mike Grady SAT Abridger: Jeremy Osborne SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Mike Grady SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT Abridger: Jeremy Osborne SAT Author: Lynne Truss SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076bpw (Listen) SAT Series 3, Somewhere SAT Exploring what Leonard Bernstein's song from 'West Side SAT Story' means to different people. With Stephen Sondheim. SAT From December 2002. SAT SAT 01:00 Kipling in Love b06sx9sy (Listen) SAT In the Pride of His Youth SAT London, 1880: Marrying Bella dashes Dicky's dream of a SAT career in India. What can he do when offered a post? Stars SAT Samuel West. SAT SAT 01:30 The Marx Brothers in Britain b00sp198 (Listen) SAT Author and historian Glenn Mitchell profiles the fascinating SAT visits to Britain of legendary comedy team The Marx SAT Brothers. SAT The Marx Brothers; Groucho, Harpo, Chico and (for a while) SAT Zeppo, inspired a generation of comedians, not least in SAT Britain via The Goon Show and, by extension, Monty Python's SAT Flying Circus. Although Britons knew the Marxes essentially SAT from their American films, they worked in the UK on several SAT remarkable occasions, the first of which pre-dates their SAT movie career. SAT Featuring actor Michael Roberts, famous for playing Groucho SAT on the UK radio series Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel and SAT using archive and new contributions from people that met and SAT worked with them this programme recreates and explores the SAT eventful visits of the brothers. SAT Beginning with their first in 1922, with an ensemble that SAT included future 'boop-oop-a-doop' girl Helen Kane, the SAT opening night at the London Coliseum saw them the target of SAT flying pennies. With the act not working they reverted to an SAT earlier sketch, moving to the Alhambra for the third week SAT prior to appearances in Bristol and Manchester where SAT elsewhere on the bill was a young Sandy Powell. SAT By the time of their next visit, in 1931, the Marxes had SAT gone from vaudeville to being the biggest attraction in SAT Broadway musical-comedy. Two of their shows had been filmed SAT - The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers - and had done SAT sufficient business in the UK for impresario C.B. Cochran to SAT invite them to star at the Palace, London. SAT Audiences were thrilled and the Marxes enjoyed their second SAT stay in London, even when Harpo and Chico, drawn into a SAT protracted card game in an unheated flat, found themselves SAT burning the furniture to keep warm! The journey back saw SAT Groucho and family strip-searched at US Customs when Groucho SAT put down his occupation as 'smuggler'. SAT In 1947, Chico accepted a solo engagement at the London SAT Casino. He returned to Britain in January 1949 for an SAT extensive variety tour, joined briefly by Harpo for a SAT four-week engagement at the London Palladium in June. In a SAT dockside interview - to be heard in the programme - Chico is SAT asked about the Italian accent he used when in character and SAT claims that, after seeing what they'd done to Mussolini, SAT he'd become Greek! SAT Chico's final UK visit was in 1959 for two BBC appearances, SAT one of which, Showtime hosted by David Nixon. SAT There will also be interview material from Groucho's various SAT trips to Great Britain between 1954 and 1971. Some of his SAT activities were professional - such as a British TV version SAT of his quiz show You Bet Your Life - while others were SAT purely social, notably his celebrated meeting with T.S. SAT Eliot. SAT Contributors include actor Ron Moody, Theatre historian SAT Chris Woodward and Marxist fan Peter Dixon. SAT SAT 02:00 Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus b00sjr7d (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Salieri is seething when Mozart writes an Italian opera, so SAT he plots to stop it. Read by F Murray Abraham. SAT SAT 02:15 The History of the Future b01mkzgw (Listen) SAT Leonardo da Vinci SAT Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a SAT look at the designs of Renaissance Man Leonardo da Vinci. SAT Juliet views his designs for warfare which seem to prefigure SAT the modern tank and helicopter, and tries to understand how SAT the culture of 15th century Florence with its political and SAT religious turmoil as well as artistic flowering spoke to SAT Leonardo's vision of the future. Many of Leonardo's SAT inventions were astonishingly ahead of their time, but he is SAT also a man firmly of his time, a time in which God, and the SAT Revelation of the judgement of the Apocalypse depicted on SAT the roof of the Baptistry would determine the end times for SAT all. Juliet speaks to Evelyn Welch and Martin Kemp. SAT Produced by Victoria Shepherd SAT A Juniper Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyc (Listen) SAT Episode 15 SAT Becky is delighted to be presented at court, but Rawdon is SAT not happy. With Stephen Fry, Emma Fielding and Stephen SAT Wyatt. SAT SAT 02:45 Miles Kington - Someone Like Me b00dpspz (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT A shock at the age of 18 from his sausage-loving father. The SAT much-missed broadcaster recalls his eccentric childhood. SAT SAT 03:00 Mystery Theater b06sxbwk (Listen) SAT Sorry, Wrong Number: Agnes Moorehead SAT 1943: Agnes Moorehead stars as the neurotic, bedridden Mrs SAT Elbert Stevenson who overhears a murder being plotted via SAT crossed phone wires. SAT It proved so popular that between 1947 and 1960, Moorehead SAT freshly performed her "one-woman show" on CBS radio eight SAT times, including versions for the East and West coasts - and SAT always used her original script. However, the lead role in SAT the 1948 movie version of Sorry, Wrong Number went to SAT Barbara Stanwyck. SAT The film roles of Hollywood actress Agnes Moorehead SAT (1900-1974) included Citizen Kane, The Magnificent Ambersons SAT and Show Boat. She also starred as Endora in the SAT long-running US TV sitcom 'Bewitched' for ABC. SAT Written by Lucille Fletcher, the May 25th 1943 broadcast of SAT Sorry, Wrong Number was deemed to be "culturally, SAT historically, or aesthetically significant" by the American SAT Library of Congress and chosen for the National Recording SAT Preservation Board. Orson Welles once called it "the single SAT greatest radio script ever written." SAT Sound-effects by Bernie Surrey. SAT Producer: William Spier SAT Moorehead was a regular performer in CBS Radio's Suspense SAT series which ran in the USA from 1942 to 1962. SAT 4 Extra's MYSTERY THEATER showcases American radio's golden SAT years of the 1940s and 50s, when many of Hollywood's SAT greatest screen stars were regular performers, often SAT re-enacting film roles. SAT SAT 03:25 Agatha Christie - Speaking Her Own Words b06t3wh4 (Listen) SAT Unambitious SAT Excerpts from the Queen of the Crime's personal tapes SAT dictating her autobiography for her typist - before she made SAT any amendments for publication. SAT Completed in 1965, the book was first published in the UK in SAT 1977, the year after her death. SAT Introduced by Agatha Christie's grandson, Mathew Prichard SAT who discovered her tapes. SAT Producer: Peter Reed. SAT SAT 03:30 Poirot b007ytww (Listen) SAT Murder on the Orient Express, Episode 5 SAT Time is against Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot as he battles SAT to unmask the murderer aboard the Orient Express. SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule SAT Poirot. With Sylvia Syms as Mrs Hubbard, Sian Phillips as SAT Princess Dragmiroff, Francesca Annis as Miss Debenham, Frank SAT Windsor as Pierre Michel, Peter Polycarpou as Dr SAT Constantine, Desmond Llewelyn as Masterman and Andre Maranne SAT as Monsieur Bouc. SAT Music composed and played by Michael Haslam SAT From the book published in 1934 and dramatised by Michael SAT Bakewell SAT Director Enyd Williams. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b01d0qth (Listen) SAT Series 2, University of East Anglia SAT Coming this week from the University of East Anglia, "The SAT 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed SAT at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners SAT whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on SAT location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafes and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:30 Mind Your Own Business! b009xyw7 (Listen) SAT The Premature Berth SAT Tycoon Jimmy's lavish new yacht infuriates his head of SAT finance. Stars Bernard Cribbins and Frank Thornton. From SAT January 1988. SAT SAT 05:00 1834 b01137b8 (Listen) SAT What Century Are You Living In? SAT After a few drinks, English teacher Jason Slater wakes up in SAT the 19th century. Stars Michael Begley. From June 2003. SAT SAT 05:30 Stop/Start b01jhjsh (Listen) SAT by Jack Docherty SAT A new sitcom about love, marriage and putting up with each SAT other. Stop/Start follows three couples as they do their SAT best to get on with their lives. When things get tricky, the SAT characters are able to stop the action, explain themselves SAT to the audience and start it all up again. SAT Barney ..... Jack Docherty SAT Cathy ..... Kerry Godliman SAT Fiona ..... Fiona Allen SAT David ..... Charlie Higson SAT Evan ..... Steve Edge SAT Alice ..... Katherine Parkinson SAT Producer ..... Steven Canny SAT Jack Docherty SAT Jack has a fantastic record of making stand-out comedy. He SAT first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe with SAT the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to write for SAT radio and television including: Spitting Image, Alas Smith SAT and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, The Lenny SAT Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News Huddlines and SAT a ton of other things. SAT He has also made guest appearances in The Comic Strip SAT Presents, Sardines, Atletico Partick, The Morwenna Banks SAT Show, Monarch of the Glen, Welcome to Strathmuir, Red Dwarf SAT V and The Old Guys. He has also featured in the Radio 4 SAT comedies Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard SAT and has appeared on various comedy panel shows including SAT Have I Got News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. SAT SAT 06:00 Poirot b007rd7r (Listen) SAT The Murder of Roger Ackroyd SAT When Belgian sleuth, Hercule Poirot retires to the country SAT to grow vegetable marrows, he soon discovers that someone SAT has planted the seeds of treachery ....and of murder. SAT Agatha Christie's whodunit stars John Moffatt as Hercule SAT Poirot. With John Woodvine as Dr Sheppard, Peter Gilmore as SAT Raymond, Deryck Guyler as Parker the Butler, Laurence Payne SAT as Roger Ackroyd, Diana Olsson as Caroline and Eva Stuart as SAT Miss Russell. SAT From the book first published in 1926 and dramatised by SAT Michael Bakewell. SAT Director: Enyd Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. SAT SAT 07:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075p39 (Listen) SAT Eating Abroad - 1960 to 1969 SAT Escargot, prawn cocktail, cheese fondue, coq au vin, shish SAT kebab, yam and potato bake, pasta, paella and choux pastry. SAT Marguerite Patten mingles recipes of the 1960s with memories SAT of the first heart transplant, the first man on the moon, SAT the Beatles, flower power, the rise of the supermarket - and SAT Alfred Hitchcock's macabre sense of humour. 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 b01k9lvs (Listen) SAT Series 4, Paddy Ashdown SAT From rookie MP to Liberal Democrats leader, from the Royal SAT Marines to high office in Bosnia, Paddy Ashdown relives his SAT life from the archives in a frank and sometimes emotional SAT conversation with John Wilson SAT From his early days in the army to his leadership of the SAT Liberal Democrats, Paddy Ashdown - now Lord Ashdown- has SAT been a singular political figure. He arrived in Westminster SAT as a Liberal but soon his party voted for a merger with the SAT SDP. He led the newly named Liberal Democrats for 11 years SAT and then worked in Bosnia, trying to repair the damage that SAT the war had done. SAT In this interview he meets his younger self at key moments SAT from the sound archive and discusses his reactions with John SAT Wilson. We hear his memories of serving in the Marines and SAT also hear extracts from his first major speech at the SAT Liberal Party Conference when he warned of the dangers of SAT Cruise missiles. SAT There are highly emotional moments as well, when Paddy SAT recounts the horrors of the scenes he saw in Bosnia in 1992. SAT And the programme comes up to the present with a SAT consideration of what the Coalition and the recent local SAT elections have meant for the Liberal Democrats. SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 09:00 Ed Reardon's Weekend b01nsw4v (Listen) SAT The author and pipe-smoker undertakes a journey through his SAT life literary. Featuring The Swim, Dad, The Last Miaow, SAT Parsnip Junction, Summer of '76 and Original British Drama. SAT What can be said about Ed Reardon that the man himself could SAT not write with greater style and elan? The man who once SAT ghost-wrote a book for Sooty is never lost for words. Even SAT his recent theft of Edam from a BBC redundancy party cannot SAT keep him off-air for long. SAT A warning to 12-year-old media charlatans though: it's time SAT to tremble. Lynne Truss's fiercest critic is here to grace SAT BBC Radio 4Extra in person. The scourge of the railway fare SAT tariff has hand-picked six chapters of his life to share SAT with you, in a retrospective already hailed as "a collection SAT of programmes". SAT Finally the author of Who Would Fardels Bear is set to SAT receive his due. Or would do, if we could keep him out of SAT the betting shop and in the studio long enough to get his SAT links recorded. SAT Ed's recent output includes the Stig's Xmas Book of Speed SAT Camera Locations, but there's no denying the sheer artistic SAT power of the man, as he applies his singular talent to SAT children's TV, misery memoirs, Original British Drama and SAT even breaking a window. SAT Produced by Martin Dempsey. SAT SAT 12:00 The Brothers b00nn2hg (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT Michael gets a circus obsession and Nigel has an odd SAT encounter. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From SAT September 2005. SAT SAT 12:30 Hazelbeach b0082dtq (Listen) SAT Series 1, Wine SAT Back in England, Nick finds the mysterious Ronnie Hazelbeach SAT in his late dad's house. Stars Jamie Foreman. From October SAT 2007. SAT SAT 13:00 Incredible Women - Omnibuses b06tft0b (Listen) SAT Series 4 Omnibus SAT Rebecca and Jeremy Front introduce five new monstrous but SAT incredible women. First off, Kirstie Clarke tells it like it SAT is. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06tkswf (Listen) SAT Dickie Bird SAT Cricket umpire Dickie Bird chooses Nat King Cole's 'When I SAT Fall in Love' and Barbra Streisand's 'The Way We Were'. SAT SAT 14:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06tftqt (Listen) SAT Jung Chang SAT Wild Swans author Jung Chang reflects on surviving the SAT Cultural Revolution in China. With Professor Anthony Clare. 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 July 1996. SAT SAT 15:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b01k9lvs (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Poirot b007rd7r (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SAT b0075p39 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Angela Carter - Vampirella b06tfv03 (Listen) SAT Could finding true love, free Count Dracula's daughter from SAT her "dreadful wheel of destiny"? SAT A reimagining of the familiar vampire narrative - as Anna SAT Massey stars as the last-in-line of the undead on the eve of SAT the First World War. SAT Starring Anna Massey as the Countess Vampirella and SAT Elizabeth Ba'athory, David March as Count Dracula, Sawney SAT Beane as Henri Blot, Richard O'Callaghan as Hero and Betty SAT Hardy as Mrs Beane. SAT Angela Carter later rewrote this radio play as a short story SAT 'The Lady In The House Of Love'. SAT Also a writer of short stories, novels, stage plays, SAT librettos, screenplays and essays, Angela Carter died in SAT 1992 aged just 52. SAT Directed by Glyn Dearman. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in July 1976. SAT SAT 19:00 Ed Reardon's Weekend b01nsw4v (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Irish Micks and Legends b01nxw2q (Listen) SAT Series 1, Children of Lir 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 Children of Lir. SAT Written and performed by Aisling Bea and Yasmine Akram SAT Producer: Raymond Lau. SAT SAT 22:15 Mission Improbable b01pcqkt (Listen) SAT Series 1, Ice! SAT Adventure journalist Jane, long term singleton Lucy and SAT zookeeper Amelia set off on another international adventure. SAT This time, Jane finds herself trying to beat that famous SAT adventurer Marcus Wolfton across the arctic tundra in a bid SAT to be the first and only journalist to record the voice of SAT the last speaker of a dying language. Meanwhile Lucy finds SAT herself trying to slow the team down so she can get up close SAT and personal with the man himself, who's only a matter of SAT hours behind. Amelia only has eyes for the polar bears she's SAT hoping she'll get a chance to chat to. SAT During this ice cap caper, our heroes survive sub-zero SAT temperatures, furious indigenous wildlife and a frantic game SAT of cosmetic tennis before an encounter with an angry Inuit SAT has them running for their lives. Will they survive? Will SAT they beat Marcus Wolfton to the prize? Or will they dress up SAT as nuns and make complete fools of themselves? SAT Cast: SAT Jane................Catriona Knox SAT Lucy................Lizzie Bates SAT Amelia.............Anna Emerson SAT Marcus............James Lance 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 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00y2sq7 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Root of All Evil SAT Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a SAT 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where SAT settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as SAT important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. SAT This week Mordrin recruits ally and former Wizard activist SAT Ben The Brown to settle a garden dispute with his neighbour SAT Jill. SAT Cast: SAT Mordrin: David Kay SAT Bernard The Blue: Jack Doherty SAT Ben The Brown: Arnold Brown SAT Jill: Katrina Bryan SAT Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson SAT Ash: Greg McHugh SAT Sickie-More: Johnny Austin SAT Producer/Director: Gus Beattie SAT A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b012216l (Listen) SAT Series 1, Normal Work SAT Pondering his life as a cartoonist proves to be more SAT dangerous and revealing than intended. Stars Paul McCrink. SAT From July 2002. SAT SAT 23:00 The Jason Byrne Show b01p6pxc (Listen) SAT Series 3, I Won't Eat Bread From a Puddle SAT The award-winning funny man hears about his audience's worst SAT fears. With Daisy Haggard and Laurence Howarth. From SAT November 2010. SAT SAT 23:30 Son of Cliché b00p84qh (Listen) SAT Austin Dernoid SAT Spoofing David Coleman and radio continuity. Sketch comedy SAT with Chris Barrie, Nick Maloney and Nick Wilton. From SAT November 1984. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Angela Carter - Vampirella b06tfv03 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Incredible Women - Omnibuses b06tft0b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06tkswf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 In the Psychiatrist's Chair b06tftqt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Meeting Myself Coming Back b01k9lvs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Poirot b007rd7r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Marguerite Patten's Century of British Cooking SUN b0075p39 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus SUN b008qpww (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Becky's ambitious pursuit of riches goes from strength to SUN strength. Narrated by Stephen Fry. Stars Emma Fielding and SUN Jon Glover. SUN SUN 07:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l1dkm (Listen) SUN A Palace for Whitehall SUN In the fourth in the series, architectural writer and SUN historian Jonathan Glancey looks at some of the most SUN fantastic building projects of Britain and finds out why SUN they didn't make it off the drawing board. Imagine a SUN sumptuous palace in London that would have taken up most of SUN Whitehall. This was exactly what was planned in the time of SUN James I of England by the King's ambitious architect, Inigo SUN Jones. He had been appointed to the position of Surveyor of SUN the King's Works in 1613 and he drew up extensive and SUN revolutionary plans for Whitehall. SUN Jonathan Glancey joins Simon Thurley of English Heritage in SUN Inigo Jones's masterpiece, the Banqueting House, to find out SUN what happened to the grandiose scheme. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qgxxb (Listen) SUN Series 6, A Bottle of Ulterio Motivo SUN ED REARDON'S WEEK SUN Episode 5 : A Bottle of Ulterio Motivo SUN Ed finds himself in the money when he sells most of his SUN possessions to a themed wine bar owned by the lovely Violet SUN Carson. SUN With Christopher Douglas as Ed Reardon and SUN Stephanie Cole as Olive SUN Simon Greenall as Ray SUN Geoff McGivern as Cliff SUN Philip Jackson as Jaz SUN Rita May as Pearl SUN Barunka O'Shaughnessey as Ping SUN And Geoffrey Whitehead as Stan SUN With Dan Tetsell and Emma Fryer. SUN Written by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis. SUN Credits SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN SUN 08:00 The Al Read Show b01rlngp (Listen) SUN From 10/12/1998 SUN A look at the fire brigade and the morning after the night SUN before. A collection of the northern comic's 1950s SUN monologues. SUN SUN 08:30 A Life of Bliss b049y7mw (Listen) SUN Maxine SUN David needs courage to pursue Maxine, while brother-in-law SUN Tony battles to win a contract. Stars George Cole. From SUN August 1957. SUN SUN 09:00 The House By the Lake: A Story of Germany - Omnibus SUN b06tg6fm (Listen) SUN Looking for respite from life in Berlin, Dr Alfred Alexander SUN leases a plot of land and builds a holiday home by the lake. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06tktbv (Listen) SUN Carly Simon SUN Singer-songwriter Carly Simon chooses 'Something Wonderful' SUN from The King and I, and 'How Can I Tell You' by Cat SUN Stevens. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06tg70m (Listen) SUN Absent Friends, Terry Pratchett SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Mozart to Meatloaf, the best-selling SUN fantasy fiction author shares his castaway choices with Sue SUN Lawley. From February 1997. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06tgd7g (Listen) SUN Tattoos and Two Southern Gothics SUN True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns SUN introduces tales about family history, growing up and SUN surprises in prison. 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 b00yjtg4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Canopy SUN 1/20. If you walk into a rainforest you are immediately met SUN by quite literally a forest of trees. All the tree trunks SUN look like cathedral pillars, smooth and wet from the rain. SUN Not a single branch emerges from the trunk for tens of SUN metres - and when they do you see a breath-taking SUN interlocking jungle of branches and leaves, ferns and SUN flowers and all number of creatures great and small. The SUN canopy is a bonanza of tropical forest life, in the bright SUN light and gentle breeze - a far cry from the dark and humid SUN underworld of the forest floor. Not surprising then that SUN David Attenborough knew this would be a perfect place to SUN film wildlife. SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 12:00 The Al Read Show b01rlngp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 A Life of Bliss b049y7mw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus SUN b008qpww (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l1dkm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 The Provincial Lady Goes Further - Omnibus b06tggq2 (Listen) SUN E M Delafield's novel detailing the life of a SUN Devonshire-dwelling upper-middle class lady and her attempts SUN to keep her somewhat ramshackle household from falling into SUN chaos. SUN SUN 15:45 Peter Regent - The Proposal b06tggq4 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Marry Sally? George is not sure, but snooping SUN landladies and memories from his past may force his hand. SUN Read by Trevor Nichols. SUN SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama b010y1wy (Listen) SUN Ian Buchan - A Change in the Willows SUN Toad is back on a spending spree and dismissive of his SUN friends - until he needs their help for a rather irritating SUN ghost problem! Ratty finds himself flooded out of his river SUN side home by rising river levels. SUN Mole tries to understand the link between the pang in his SUN stomach and the desire all animals have to be amongst their SUN own kind. And good old Badger is upset that nobody listens SUN to him and his friends take him for granted. SUN Cast: SUN Toad ..... Tim McInnerny SUN Mole ..... Stephen Mangan SUN Ratty ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt SUN Badger ...... Andrew Sachs SUN Dove ..... Issy van Randwyck SUN Sheep .....Ian Buchan SUN Mole 2 ..... Yolanda Kettle SUN Mole 3 ..... Ilker Kaleli SUN Mole 4 ..... Jonathan Sayer SUN Mole 5 ..... Natalie Carrington SUN Written by Ian Buchan SUN Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SUN Producer: Julian Stevens SUN An Artists Studio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06tgh7r (Listen) SUN The Echo Chamber - Clive James SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'The Echo Chamber', Clive James talks to Paul Farley and SUN reads his staring-death-in-the-face poems. SUN Clive James has been a poet throughout his life as well as a SUN literary critic, memoirist and television pundit. He didn't SUN expect to be alive for this collection, after illness and SUN old age took him in their grip a couple of years ago. But, SUN against the odds, he's still with us. And his recent poems SUN are extraordinarily clear-eyed and fearlessly moving. He SUN manages to be light throughout whilst remaining, as one SUN critic put it, deadly serious. SUN Producer: Tim Dee. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2015. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qgxxb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Fear on Four b00c8zsz (Listen) SUN The Edge SUN The Man in Black reveals how success turned sour has led SUN Thomas towards the edge - both physically and mentally. SUN Starring Gareth Armstrong as Thomas, Melinda Walker as Meg, SUN Alistair White as Jeffrey, Sian Jenkins as Davina and Edward SUN de Souza as the Man in Black. SUN Fear on 4 brings you more in a series of nerve-tinglers. SUN Written by John Piirto. SUN Producer: Gerry Jones SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. SUN SUN 18:30 Philip K Dick - Of Withered Apples b007jplz (Listen) SUN As a beautiful woman picks its last withered apple, a dying SUN ancient tree is determined to survive. Read by William SUN Hootkins. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06tgd7g (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00yjtg4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 The House By the Lake: A Story of Germany - Omnibus SUN b06tg6fm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06tktbv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06tg70m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b00qgxxb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 My Teenage Diary b03b2j7f (Listen) SUN Series 5, Janet Ellis SUN Another brave celebrity revisits their formative years by SUN opening up their intimate teenage diaries. SUN Comedian Rufus Hound is joined by actress and presenter SUN Janet Ellis, whose teenage diaries show that her love of SUN arts and crafts started long before she got the job on Blue SUN Peter. SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Rufus Hound SUN Interviewed Guest: Janet Ellis SUN Producer: Harriet Jaine SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00bg3gf (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN The comedy award-winner finds 1001 uses for peas, misses a SUN meeting and shuns a caravan owner. With Ben Moor. From May SUN 2008. SUN SUN 23:30 A Look Back at the Future b01s5d66 (Listen) SUN 2099 SUN From August 1994, Brian Perkins, Hugh Dennis and Kate SUN Robbins host a retrospective on 2099, the year that time ran SUN backwards. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 JANUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Fear on Four b00c8zsz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Philip K Dick - Of Withered Apples b007jplz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair Omnibus MON b008qpww (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Unbuilt Britain b01l1dkm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 The Provincial Lady Goes Further - Omnibus b06tggq2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Peter Regent - The Proposal b06tggq4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Saturday Drama b010y1wy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06tgh7r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qgxxb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Kipling in Love b06tgptz (Listen) MON Love o' Women MON India, 1885: 'Don't try for things that are out of your MON reach - An' that's what the girl told the soldier!' Stars MON John Duttine. MON MON 06:30 Landscape With Canals and Machines: The Legacy of LTC MON Rolt b00vrssh (Listen) MON Hermione Cockburn on LTC Rolt, the writer who led us to MON value our industrial landscape. MON LTC Rolt achieved something remarkable - he changed the MON character of the British - for the better - by altering MON their perception of their land and history. Before he began MON writing, and campaigning, our industrial landscape was MON regarded a desecration of a rural idyll. It was Rolt who MON taught us to value it, to appreciate its beauty and to MON appreciate the achievements of those who created the great MON engines, viaducts, lighthouses, ships and railways that MON revolutionised Britain - and the world. MON The father of industrial archaeology, Rolt wrote definitive MON biographies of the Stephensons, Brunel, Watt and Telford. He MON wrote about railways, aeronautics and cars (his 1920s Alvis MON is still going), and 'High Horse Riderless' is an important MON early work of environmental philosophy. And he wrote MON fiction, including ghost stories. MON His book 'Narrowboat' led to the establishment of the Inland MON Waterways Association and the canal network's navigation MON channels, structures, towpaths, bridges, tunnels and MON aqueducts were saved in the nick of time. MON Rolt is now recognised as a pioneer of the leisure industry. MON He went on to rescue the bankrupt Talyllyn narrow-gauge MON railway and taught volunteers to restore, then run it. Such MON an endeavour had never been attempted before but now this is MON a model for renovation and conservation schemes all over MON contemporary Britain, and all over the world. MON Hermione Cockburn, with help from Timothy West (who also has MON a narrowboat) and Rolt's widow, Sonia, tells the story of MON this remarkable engineer and author and reveals how his work MON shapes our thinking today - not just about our past but how MON we deal with it for the future. MON MON 07:00 Street and Lane b00vls7z (Listen) MON Series 2, Ringing the Changes MON A vicar needs help in his belfry, as the Yorkshire builders MON get in a flap over an old feud. Stars Shaun Dooley. From MON January 2007. MON MON 07:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06sgjr8 (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 5 MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Grand MON Theatre in Blackpool. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden MON and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the MON piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. It is a BBC Radio Comedy MON production. MON Credits MON Presenter: Jack Dee MON Panellist: Barry Cryer MON Panellist: Graeme Garden MON Panellist: Tim Brooke-Taylor MON Panellist: Rob Brydon MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jqdz (Listen) MON Series 3, Big Guns MON Captain Mainwaring's platoon spark havoc in MON Walmington-on-Sea when they try to fire a large naval gun. 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, Bill Pertwee as Hodges, Larry MON Martyn as Private Walker, Julian Orchard as Mr Upton and MON Michael Middleton as The Pickford's Man. 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 b007k1p0 (Listen) MON Series 2, In and Out MON Lawyer Roger tries to defend a prisoner overly fond of life MON behind bars. Stars Richard Briers and James Beck. From MON August 1971. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b012krrh (Listen) MON The legendary quotations quiz Quote...Unquote returns for a MON new series, hosted by the incomparable Nigel Rees. This MON week's panellists are the Irish comedian Ardal O'Hanlon, MON Sony Gold-winning broadcaster Shelagh Fogarty and celebrated MON actor Martin Jarvis. MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. MON Credits MON Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jmhb (Listen) MON Series 5, Bon Voyage MON On a school trip to Calais, it's a member of staff who MON causes concern rather than the children. With Karl Howman. MON From June 1990. MON MON 10:00 EM Forster - Howard's End b0107x49 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON When Helen Schlegel goes to stay at Howard's End - the MON country home of the Wilcox family, her own life, along with MON that of her sister Margaret, is changed forever MON Starring John Hurt as the Narrator, Lisa Dillon as Margaret MON Schlegel, Jill Cardo as Helen Schlegel, Tom Ferguson as MON Tibby Schlegel, Alexandra Mathie as Aunt Juley, Malcolm MON Raeburn as Henry Wilcox and Ann Rye as Ruth Wilcox. MON EM Forster's classic English novel adapted for radio in two MON parts by Amanda Dalton. MON Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. MON MON 11:00 A Dalmatian Trilogy b019f6kg (Listen) MON The Book of Complaints MON Episode 3 (of 3): The Book of Complaints by James Hopkin MON An Englishman takes refuge from his past life on the island MON of Korcula, where he meets an extraordinary silhouette MON cutter and learns about mysterious murmur-maids. MON James Hopkin has lived and travelled widely in Europe, MON including time spent on the Dalmatian islands off the coast MON of Croatia. These three specially-commissioned stories MON explore the history and landscape of the area, as well as MON providing a colourful journey for the senses. MON Hopkin gained a First Class honours degree in English and MON Philosophy in Manchester, then a Distinction in his MA on MON modern fiction, followed by a British Academy Award for his MON PhD. In September 2002, he won an Arts Council short story MON competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. MON His novel Winter Under Water (2007) was an assured and MON critically-acclaimed debut marking the arrival of a major MON new writer. He published a small collection of stories in MON 2008, along with the paperback of Winter Under Water. MON James Hopkin's A Georgian Trilogy, also produced by Sweet MON Talk, was broadcast in 2010. MON Reader: Tom Goodman-Hill MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:15 Have Your Cake b011d7nb (Listen) MON Bitter Chocolate Cake MON Spectacular cakes for special moments - Maggie helps MON neighbour Sabina. Nicola Baldwin's culinary drama stars MON Lesley Sharp. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jqdz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Brothers in Law b007k1p0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Kipling in Love b06tgptz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Landscape With Canals and Machines: The Legacy of LTC MON Rolt b00vrssh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus b00slqvd (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Salieri plots to ensure Mozart falls out of favour with the MON Masons. Read by F Murray Abraham. Adapted from the stage MON play. MON MON 14:15 The History of the Future b01mqmkt (Listen) MON Malthus MON Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a MON look at the predictions of the clergyman and economist, MON Thomas Robert Malthus. MON This late-18th century vision of the future came from an MON urgent problem Malthus identified, which threatened the MON future of the masses. The problem, as he saw it, was that MON population growth would outstrip man's ability to feed MON himself. Unless population was controlled by man, famine and MON disaster would inevitably result. MON Malthus developed this theory in 1798 in his essay The MON Principle of Population. He was a man of God - the curate in MON a parish in rural Surrey from where he was well-placed to MON notice that he was christening more babies than he was MON burying, and became alarmed about levels of rural poverty on MON his doorstep. To modern ears his predictions seem MON startlingly prescient as we struggle with population MON explosion in many parts of the world, and fret about our MON ability to feed ourselves with finite resources, debating MON the merits of GM crops. MON Juliet Gardiner digs down into the predictions to discover MON how the future looked from where Malthus stood. Where did MON his dark vision about future population come from in a MON society which had not yet conducted a census? Juliet speaks MON to Donald Winch and Niall O'Flaherty and visits the Surrey MON parish where Malthus preached, christened and buried the MON dead. MON Produced by Victoria Shepherd MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyn (Listen) MON Episode 16 MON Rawdon leaves debtors' prison, but more trouble soon MON follows. William Makepeace Thackeray dramatisation with MON Stephen Fry. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00xhb25 (Listen) MON Jane Shilling - Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 1 MON Jane Shilling's reflective and enquiring memoir is told from MON the perspective of mid life. Today she finds similarities MON between the changes that accompany middle age, and her MON memories of adolescence. MON Read by Samantha Bond. MON Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard MON Jane Shilling's memoir, The Stranger in the Mirror, views MON life from the perspective of mid life. In exploring her MON past, Jane discovers similarities between middle age and MON adolescence. To her frustration she finds that there are no MON role models for her middle years that interest her, MON particularly as she sets out to create a new wardrobe on MON arriving at fifty. A failed love affair leads her to MON contemplate a different kind of future, and the MON precariousness of life as a freelance journalist is brought MON into stark relief by events beyond her control. Finally, she MON also reflects on the women who have influenced her from the MON previous generation, and discovers that while middle age MON seems to be a series of small losses, it is also about MON looking forward to the next part of the adventure. MON Jane Shilling writes on books for the Daily Telegraph, MON Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on television for the MON Evening Standard. This is her second book. She lives in MON Greenwich with her son. MON MON 15:00 EM Forster - Howard's End b0107x49 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b012krrh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmhb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Street and Lane b00vls7z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06sgjr8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nqncy (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Scholar Andrew MacLeod sees chilling photos of occult MON influence and fears for his family and friends. Read by MON Robert Paterson. MON MON 18:15 Book at Bedtime b03xdlzd (Listen) MON Lynne Truss - Cat Out of Hell, Episode 6 MON By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the MON bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of MON a cat with nine lives, and relationship as ancient as time MON itself and just as powerful. MON The scene - an isolated cottage on the coast on a stormy MON evening. Inside, Alec a recently bereaved widower and his MON dog. To pass the time Alec explores the contents of a folder MON of documents emailed to him by an acquaintance at the MON library where he used to work. What he discovers is an MON extraordinary story that will change his life forever. MON Episode 6: MON Winterton finally turns up and Alec demands some answers. MON But can Winterton deliver? MON Reader: Mike Grady MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Reader: Mike Grady MON Producer: Karen Rose MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON Author: Lynne Truss MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0075r4b (Listen) MON Sir Robert May and Pauline Melville MON Louise Doughty and her guests, former government chief MON scientist Sir Robert May and prize-winning novelist Pauline MON Melville discuss three favourite paperbacks by Primo Levi, MON Gilbert White and Mikhail Bulgakov. From 2000. MON If This Is A Man by Primo Levi MON Publisher: Abacus MON The Natural History of Selbourne by Gilbert White MON Publisher: Penguin MON The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov MON Publisher: Flamingo. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jqdz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Brothers in Law b007k1p0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Kipling in Love b06tgptz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Landscape With Canals and Machines: The Legacy of LTC MON Rolt b00vrssh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 A Dalmatian Trilogy b019f6kg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Have Your Cake b011d7nb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06sgjr8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Cabin Pressure b01qjc6k (Listen) MON Series 4, Yverdon-Les-Bains MON Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny charter MON airline. MON Love is in the air as Douglas and Herc fight it out over the MON fruit tray, and hope springs eternal as Martin has the MON interview of his life. 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 the BBC. MON Credits MON Carolyn Knapp-Shappey: Stephanie Cole MON 1st Officer Douglas Richardson: Roger Allam MON Captain Martin Crieff: Benedict Cumberbatch MON Arthur Shappey: John Finnemore MON Captain Hercules 'Herc' Shipwright: Anthony Head MON Oskar Bider: Nicholas Woodeson MON Captain Deroche: Kate Duchene MON Writer: John Finnemore MON Director: David Tyler MON Producer: David Tyler MON MON 23:00 Dead Ringers b06spjqj (Listen) MON A Look Back at the Year 2020 MON The New Years edition of Dead Ringers is a little different MON as the whole team have gone into the future and then taken a MON look back at at the year 2020. Who will be Prime Minister, MON who will be President and will anyone have decided about MON London's extra runway by then? MON Will ISIS be replaced by something even more dangerous to MON the people in the middle east - Tony Blair? Or will he have MON joined UKIP by then? MON How will England cope when the SNP win the general election MON and move Parliament to Hollyrood? MON Will Today's radio car be replaced with telepathic MON communication (which still breaks down)? MON What will the first political broadcast done entirely with MON emojis sound like? MON Will there be anyone left in Syria to drop bombs on? MON Will the Queen have abdicated, how long before Prince MON Charles does the same? MON No promises, but Boris Jonson and Donald Trump MAY sing a MON duet. MON Starring Jon Culshaw, Lewis MacLeod, Jan Ravens, Debra MON Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. MON Producer...Bill Dare MON A BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON Credits MON Performer: Jon Culshaw MON Performer: Debra Stephenson MON Performer: Jan Ravens MON Performer: Lewis Macleod MON Performer: Duncan Wisbey MON MON 23:30 Weak at the Top b00tlwzg (Listen) MON Series 2, Otters MON Marketeer John Weak has got an environmental crisis - trying MON to go green without the costs. Stars Alexander Armstrong. MON From July 2006. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 JANUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nqncy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:15 Book at Bedtime b03xdlzd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0075r4b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Kipling in Love b06tgptz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Landscape With Canals and Machines: The Legacy of LTC TUE Rolt b00vrssh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus b00slqvd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 The History of the Future b01mqmkt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00xhb25 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 EM Forster - Howard's End b0107x49 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b012krrh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmhb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Street and Lane b00vls7z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b06sgjr8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Kipling in Love b06tk7jx (Listen) TUE Beyond the Pale TUE India, 1885: Can an English merchant's love for a widowed TUE Indian woman overcome the cultural barriers? Stars Nina TUE Wadia. TUE TUE 06:30 Milton's Music b00qhql9 (Listen) TUE Clarinettist and Cambridge University English literature TUE graduate Emma Johnson analyses the influence of John Milton TUE senior on his famous poet son. TUE In one of his early Latin poems John Milton junior wrote, TUE 'Apollo, wishing to disperse himself between the two, gave TUE to me certain gifts, to my father others, and father and TUE son, we possess each one half of the god'. This programme TUE fills in the other half of that Godly image by exploring the TUE musical gifts of John Milton senior. The musicologist and TUE performer Richard Rastall has unearthed and recorded many of TUE the elder Milton's pieces including choral, viol consort and TUE song settings. He shows what he has discovered and what it TUE sounds like in specially reconstructed recordings of works TUE that even scholars are unfamiliar with. TUE As well as revealing John Milton the composer, the programme TUE examines the life of the man and his relationship with his TUE son. Although a gifted musician, John Milton was not able to TUE live on the earnings from his compositions alone. A TUE scrivener by trade, he managed to free himself from the TUE Scriveners' Company in 1599 and was subsequently able to TUE afford a private tutor for his son and then provide for him TUE when he took a place at St Paul's School and Christ's TUE College, Cambridge. TUE Emma also talks to Milton scholars and the early music group TUE Fretwork, as they prepare and record John Milton's TUE instrument works. TUE TUE 07:00 Fat Chance b019fwxg (Listen) TUE Weigh in with Wendy TUE Graham attends Wendy Bottomley's weight loss class. Slimline TUE sitcom about fighting the flab. From February 1999. TUE TUE 07:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06sgygq (Listen) TUE Series 2, Financial Advisor TUE This week, Milton Jones becomes a responsible sober-suited TUE Financial Adviser, and fights off a Swedish invasion with TUE the aid of his trusty hamster. TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The TUE Guardian. TUE "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The TUE Daily Mail TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda) TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton" TUE returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a TUE shipload of new jokes. TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill ( Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Dan Tetsell (Newsjack). TUE With music by Guy Jackson. TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Himself: Milton Jones TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007r44l (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 15 TUE Kenneth Horne's got a big top, Rambling Sid Rumpo sings a TUE Pewter Woggler's Bangling Song and your actual cob is on TUE Julian and Sandy's bona menu. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in May 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jnys (Listen) TUE The Conference Trick TUE Not keen to secure plots on planet Venus, the government TUE enlist the clumsy civil servants. With Deryck Guyler. From TUE July 1972. TUE TUE 09:00 Dead Ringers b06spjqj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Capital Gains b00sqlnp (Listen) TUE Series 2, Political Capital TUE Events move rapidly as Julius Hutch undertakes a desperate TUE mission in his eco-protest. Stars Peter Jones. From August TUE 1987. TUE TUE 10:00 EM Forster - Howard's End b01091p5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Helen Schlegel is unhappy that her sister Margaret has TUE agreed to marry Henry Wilcox. TUE Starring John Hurt as the Narrator, Lisa Dillon as Margaret TUE Schlegel, Jill Cardo as Helen Schlegel, Tom Ferguson as TUE Tibby Schlegel, Alexandra Mathie as Aunt Juley, Malcolm TUE Raeburn as Henry Wilcox, Ann Rye as Ruth Wilcox and Joseph TUE Kloska as Charles Wilcox. TUE EM Forster's classic English novel adapted for radio in two TUE parts by Amanda Dalton. TUE Produced in Manchester by Susan Roberts. TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. TUE TUE 11:00 Stories from Earth Music Bristol b0183rb7 (Listen) TUE Birthday Crow TUE Birthday Crow. A new story from Tessa Hadley. A girl begins TUE to hear noises after she escapes from a family party she TUE doesn't want to be at. Inspired by the themes of the Earth TUE Music Bristol festival and recorded in front of an audience TUE there. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 11:15 Have Your Cake b011dd7m (Listen) TUE Private Parkin TUE A man claiming to be a chef gatecrashes the cake club. TUE Nicola Baldwin's culinary drama stars Lesley Sharp and TUE Tamsin Greig. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007r44l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jnys (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Kipling in Love b06tk7jx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Milton's Music b00qhql9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus b00slxyg (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Will Salieri's plan to scupper 'The Magic Flute' work? And TUE who is Mozart writing a Requiem for? Read by F Murray TUE Abraham. TUE TUE 14:15 The History of the Future b01mqp1y (Listen) TUE Marx TUE Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a TUE look at the ideas of Karl Marx. TUE We have reached the middle of the 19th century and a very TUE different vision of the future from those we have TUE encountered along the way from Ancient Greece. This is a TUE future that is predetermined - but not by God. For Karl TUE Marx, predicting the future was informed by what he saw as TUE the inexorable workings of economic forces in society. TUE Marx held that all societies progress through the dialectic TUE of class struggle - a struggle between those who own the TUE means of production and the workers who provide the labour TUE to make goods. Marx predicted that Capitalism would TUE inevitably produce internal contradictions and tensions that TUE would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by the TUE new system of Socialism, in which society would be governed TUE by the working class. TUE Marx was born into a middle class family of Jewish origin in TUE Trier in the Prussian Rhineland in 1818. In 1843, he arrived TUE in Paris, a ferment of revolutionary ideas, and it was in TUE the French capital that Marx met his collaborator Freidrich TUE Engels. After attending the Communist League in December TUE 1847, Marx and Engels produced The Communist Manifesto which TUE fed into the demands for social and political change which TUE culminated in the revolutions that swept Europe in 1848. TUE Following the failure of these revolutions, the Marx family TUE fled to London. TUE Juliet Gardiner visits the Red Lion pub in Soho where Marx TUE used to hold political meetings and speaks to his biographer TUE Gareth Steadman Jones, getting a sense of the revolutionary TUE fervour that was in the air at the time Marx was in London, TUE and how the future looked from there. TUE TUE 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyr (Listen) TUE Episode 17 TUE Rawdon falters in his resolve to fight a duel with Lord TUE Steyne. Narrated by Stephen Fry. Stars Emma Fielding and TUE Philip Fox. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00xk1gp (Listen) TUE Jane Shilling - Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 2 TUE The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's reflective and TUE enquiring memoir on middle age. Today, Jane arrives at TUE fifty, and finds she doesn't have a thing to wear. Putting a TUE new wardrobe together, leads her to reflect on attitudes TUE towards mid life in the public's imagination. TUE Jane Shilling writes on books for the Daily Telegraph, TUE Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on television for the TUE Evening Standard. This is her second book. She lives in TUE Greenwich with her son TUE Read by Samantha Bond. TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 15:00 EM Forster - Howard's End b01091p5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00fr1tp (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE Simon Mayo discovers which generation is the funniest. With TUE Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker. From December TUE 2008. TUE TUE 16:30 Capital Gains b00sqlnp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 Fat Chance b019fwxg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06sgygq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nqqgl (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE An unwelcome object reappears, and MacLeod senses Katrina's TUE presence again. Should he run or dig deeper? Read by Robert TUE Paterson. TUE TUE 18:15 Book at Bedtime b03xf0h2 (Listen) TUE Lynne Truss - Cat Out of Hell, Episode 7 TUE By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the TUE bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of TUE a cat with nine lives, and relationship as ancient as time TUE itself and just as powerful. TUE The scene - an isolated cottage on the coast on a stormy TUE evening. Inside, Alec a recently bereaved widower and his TUE dog. To pass the time Alec explores the contents of a folder TUE of documents emailed to him by an acquaintance at the TUE library where he used to work. What he discovers is an TUE extraordinary story that will change his life forever. TUE Episode 7: TUE Alec makes contact with Wiggy. But not before events take an TUE even darker turn. TUE Reader: Mike Grady TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Mike Grady TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Author: Lynne Truss TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jp71 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Warren Mitchell TUE Award-winning actor Warren Mitchell talks about where his TUE love of acting began, the terrors of performing on live TUE television - and how Alf Garnett came into his life thanks TUE to BBC TV sitcom 'Till Death Us Do Part'. TUE Warren Mitchell (Born: 1926 - Died: 2015) TUE Series showcasing the reminisces of celebrated raconteurs TUE before a live audience. TUE Producer: Claire Jones TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007r44l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jnys (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Kipling in Love b06tk7jx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Milton's Music b00qhql9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Stories from Earth Music Bristol b0183rb7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Have Your Cake b011dd7m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06sgygq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Show What You Wrote b01r52xj (Listen) TUE Series 1, Sci-Fi and Fantasy TUE The Show What You Wrote is a brand new sketch show, which is TUE made up entirely from sketches sent in by the public. TUE Recorded in Manchester in front of a live audience, and TUE starring John Thomson, Helen Moon, Fiona Clarke and Gavin TUE Webster, with a special appearance by Gyles Brandreth. TUE We've picked the best sketches from thousands of submissions TUE to make each show, and every week we'll be covering a TUE different theme, from kitchen sink drama, to suspense heavy TUE thrillers. This week's episode is Sci Fi and Fantasy. TUE Script editor ...... Jon Hunter TUE Producers ..... Carl Cooper and Alexandra Smith TUE Written by..... Jack Bernhardt, Elise Bramich, Peter Brush, TUE Alex Buchanan, Simon Carter, Andy Flood, Robert Frimston & TUE Edward Rowett, Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch, Peter Jump, Adam TUE Perrott, Melissa Phillips, Eddie Robson, Paul Solomons, TUE Jimmy Weeks & Jess Bunch, and Ash Williamson. TUE Writers TUE The Show What You Wrote was written by you (or more TUE specifically): TUE Alex Buchanan TUE Andy Flood TUE Ash Williamson TUE Paul Solomons TUE Jack Bernhardt TUE Elise Bramich TUE Jimmy Weeks & Jess Bunch TUE Peter Jump TUE Peter Brush TUE Robert Frimston & Edward Rowett TUE Eddie Robson TUE Adam Perrott TUE Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch TUE Simon Carter TUE TUE The script editor was Jon Hunter TUE Credits TUE Ensemble: John Thomson TUE Ensemble: Helen Moon TUE Ensemble: Fiona Clarke TUE Ensemble: Gavin Webster TUE Ensemble: Gyles Brandreth TUE Producer: Carl Cooper TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 23:00 Twenty Players b06tknk5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Mr Wellesley Fagge TUE Forgotten sporting heroes. Jonathan Agnew tells the story of TUE a nearly great amateur cricketer, Wellesley Fagge. From July TUE 1997. TUE TUE 23:15 Sir Henry at Rawlinson End b00scw61 (Listen) TUE Diplodocus vs Concreton 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 b007jm4p (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 5 TUE With London's transport system in a shambles, the TUE consultants ride to the rescue. Stars Emma Kennedy. From TUE November 2001. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 JANUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nqqgl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:15 Book at Bedtime b03xf0h2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jp71 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Kipling in Love b06tk7jx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Milton's Music b00qhql9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus b00slxyg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 The History of the Future b01mqp1y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00xk1gp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 EM Forster - Howard's End b01091p5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00fr1tp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Capital Gains b00sqlnp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Fat Chance b019fwxg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06sgygq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Kipling in Love b06tkwhn (Listen) WED On Greenhow Hill WED Himalayas, 1885. Ordered to kill a sniper, three soldiers WED ponder the reasons why they joined the army. Stars Steve WED Hodson. WED WED 06:30 The Last of the Hardy Players b00vrxjx (Listen) WED President of the Hardy Society Julian Fellowes tells the WED extraordinary story of The Hardy Players, an amateur theatre WED group inspired and supported by Thomas Hardy. He meets WED original cast member Norrie Woodhall, who recalls rehearsals WED at Hardy's home at Max Gate, near Dorchester. WED Hardy's celebrity status drew the attention of London WED critics, who thronged to Dorchester to see and review the WED Players' performances for the national newspapers. Hardy WED invited the drama critic of The Times, Harold Child, to stay WED with him and was rewarded by a whole column for the review WED and a leading article on the players. Hardy later wrote to WED Child suggesting that "the special attributes of the WED production were that the great grandparents of the actors WED were the real actors in the scenes depicted... they all know WED the events traditionally and of course are themselves WED continuators of the dialect, humours etc of the WED personages.." WED There are many comical anecdotes about the members of the WED group and their performances which could come directly off WED the pages of 'Under the Greenwood Tree' or 'The Trumpet WED Major'. In 1909, the Hardy Players staged 'Far From the WED Madding Crowd'. Hardy insisted the sheep shearing scene was WED done properly so the director employed a professional sheep WED shearer to do the job on stage. The man was offered beer as WED payment - as he clipped the sheep he kissed and sang to WED them, drowning out the words of the actors, much to the WED amusement of the audience. For 'The Three Fiddlers' a local WED fiddle player was engaged to play for a scene. Harry Bailey WED (the fiddler) got so carried away it proved difficult to get WED him off stage when the scene ended. WED The programme also reveals telling biographical detail about WED Hardy himself. First readings would often take place at Max WED Gate, in the presence of Hardy's guests - James Barrie, Sir WED Henry Newbolt and TE Lawrence among them. In 1910 Hardy WED supplied music for 'The Mellstock Choir' and at one WED rehearsal seized Mrs Emma Tilley as his partner to WED demonstrate a country dance he remembered from his youth. In WED 1913 Gertrude Bugler (sister of Norrie Woodhall) made her WED first appearance - an exceptional talent whom The Daily WED Mirror compared to Ellen Terry and Sarah Bernhardt. Hardy WED was said to be infatuated with the beautiful Gertrude - an WED assertion Norrie denies, although she recalls the 'insane WED jealousy' of Hardy's wife, Florence. When Gertrude married a WED cousin in 1921, her acting career was interrupted by WED inconvenient (from the Players' point of view) pregnancies, WED but she was later able to play Tess (a pre-condition of WED Hardy allowing permission) and went on to a season on the WED London stage. WED Hardy presented the Players with an original verse play WED called 'The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall' in WED 1923. Such was the national interest in this play that the WED BBC (only a year old) broadcast it 'radiated from the WED Bournemouth station only.' But Hardy refused permission for WED London productions of his plays, perhaps protective of the WED special local qualities of the Hardy Players. WED The New Hardy Players were formed in 2005, with original WED Player Norrie Woodhall as President. Norrie was cast by WED Hardy himself as Tess' sister, Liza Lu, in the stage version WED of his novel, Tess of the D'Urbervilles. She recalls how WED Hardy added some lines to her role at the read-through. WED Norrie still performs occasionally with the Players, at the WED age of 104. WED A fascinating and entertaining story, beautifully told by WED Julian Fellowes, brings new insight to the Hardy story. WED Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00ntdnr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED The two dysfunctional siblings Nigel and Michael win an WED award. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From October WED 2005. WED WED 07:30 It's Jocelyn b06snvwk (Listen) WED It's Jocelyn is the eagerly anticipated new series from WED comedian Jocelyn Jee Esien (3 Non Blondes and Little Miss WED Jocelyn). WED Back with a raft of brand new characters including the WED Overly Dramatic Family, a pair of terrible African Drummers WED and a bad-tempered couple who run a takeaway business, WED Jocelyn vents her frustrations at the world around her WED through sketches and stand-up. From pedantic dinner dates to WED coping with annoying friends, Jocelyn's life provides a rich WED seam of humour. WED Jocelyn is delighted to be joined in the cast by Curtis WED Walker, Ninia Benjamin and Kevin J. WED The producer is John Pocock WED It is a BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED Credits WED Performer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Ensemble: Curtis Walker WED Ensemble: Ninia Benjamin WED Ensemble: Kevin J WED Producer: John Pocock WED Writer: Jocelyn Jee Esien WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01flnk2 (Listen) WED Whittlesea Regatta WED All that the crew of HMS Troutbridge have to do is tow a WED barge. What could possibly go wrong? 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 The Mayor, Richard Caldicote as WED Captain Povey, Tenniel Evans as The Admiral and Michael WED Bates as Rear Admiral Ironbridge. 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 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011ckn4 (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 8 WED Fifth Division football, and Professor Prune goes on a WED Victorian adventure. Stars John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From WED March 1969. WED WED 09:00 Counterpoint b008s4b7 (Listen) WED 1999, Semi-finals WED Ned Sherrin's second semi-final with Adam Nagel of WED Birmingham, Hertfordshire's Philip Robinson and Michael WED Eardley of Bucks. WED WED 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b0089jcr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, WED Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From July WED 1991. WED WED 10:00 Charles Dickens b019fx2g (Listen) WED Mrs Lirriper, Episode 1 WED Meet the formidable and huge-hearted Mrs Lirriper and the WED eccentric collection of lodgers who rent rooms from her - WED one of whom leaves behind more than anyone could have WED expected WED Charles Dickens's neglected classic dramatised and produced WED by Ellen Dryden. WED Starring Julia McKenzie as Mrs Lirriper, John Fortune as the WED Major, Jordan Clarke as Jemmy, Alison Skilbeck as Miss WED Wozenham and Jonathan Dryden Taylor as Mr Edson. WED Made by First Writes Radio for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast WED in 2007. WED WED 11:00 Stories from Earth Music Bristol b01888wj (Listen) WED I Am River WED By Horatio Clare. A watery memory of dark times. Inspired by WED the themes of the Earth Music Bristol festival. Recorded WED with an audience in 2011. WED WED 11:15 Have Your Cake b011djvk (Listen) WED Fairy Cakes WED When her daughter quits art school, Maggie enlists help and WED gets baking. Amanda Whittington's culinary drama stars WED Lesley Sharp. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01flnk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011ckn4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Kipling in Love b06tkwhn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Last of the Hardy Players b00vrxjx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus b00sm4m4 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Did Salieri really poison his rival? And who was Mozart's WED mysterious visitor? All is revealed. Read by F Murray WED Abraham. WED WED 14:15 The History of the Future b01mqq6p (Listen) WED HG Wells WED Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a WED look at the figure who, for many of us, defines our modern WED vision of the future, H.G.Wells. WED Often called the 'father of science fiction' , Wells' most WED popular novels - The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds WED - gave a terrifyingly dark image of the future. An image of WED an army of belligerent Martians, of machines invading WED suburban England, of conflict in outer space, and of the WED mutation of species. Wells' future world is one where WED science has taken a wrong turn, where innovation is not used WED for the good of humanity but it's destruction. It is not a WED vision of progress but a pessimistic prediction of decline WED and despair. Many of the imaginative scenarios he envisaged WED proved eerily prescient and some still haunt us today. WED Juliet Gardiner tries to discover why there was so much WED interest in the future at the fin de siècle. What current WED concerns was Wells reflecting in his prophecies about this WED future? Wells was a biologist by training. He had studied WED under T.H.Huxley , the man described as 'Darwin's bulldog', WED and it was Darwin's theories that had thrown not only WED religious belief but also the whole notion of time into a WED ferment - providing a whole new model of change, progress WED and evolution. If, according to the theory of natural WED selection, a species could change and adapt over millions of WED years and then die out, then the whole concept of the future WED of humankind was challenged. WED Juliet continues to make the case that a History of the WED Future is a history of anxiety, speaking to Frank James and WED Roger Luckhust. WED Produced by Victoria Shepherd WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyt (Listen) WED Episode 18 WED A keen William Dobbin returns from India to visit a frosty WED Amelia. Narrated by Stephen Fry. Stars Katy Cavanagh and Tom WED Smith. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00xk1tf (Listen) WED Jane Shilling - Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 3 WED The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's bittersweet WED memoir about middle age and looks both backwards and WED forwards. Today, she considers the highs and lows of single WED parenthood, and a holiday in Crete gives her pause for WED thought. WED Jane Shilling writes on books for the Daily Telegraph, WED Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on television for the WED Evening Standard. This is her second book. She lives in WED Greenwich with her son WED Read by Samantha Bond. WED Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 15:00 Charles Dickens b019fx2g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Counterpoint b008s4b7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b0089jcr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00ntdnr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 It's Jocelyn b06snvwk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nrd22 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Voices from beyond the grave, both good and bad. MacLeod WED finds he is not alone and may have a useful ally. Read by WED Robert Paterson. WED WED 18:15 Book at Bedtime b03xf1jy (Listen) WED Lynne Truss - Cat Out of Hell, Episode 8 WED By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the WED bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of WED a cat with nine lives, and relationship as ancient as time WED itself and just as powerful. WED The scene - an isolated cottage on the coast on a stormy WED evening. Inside, Alec a recently bereaved widower and his WED dog. To pass the time Alec explores the contents of a folder WED of documents emailed to him by an acquaintance at the WED library where he used to work. What he discovers is an WED extraordinary story that will change his life forever. WED Episode 8: WED As the body count rises Alec fears for his life. WED Reader: Mike Grady WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Reader: Mike Grady WED Producer: Karen Rose WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Author: Lynne Truss WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076xh3 (Listen) WED All By Myself WED Dominic Arkwright asks Lucy Mangan, Lance Workman and David WED Blandy to consider the joys of the solitary life. From March WED 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01flnk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b011ckn4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Kipling in Love b06tkwhn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Last of the Hardy Players b00vrxjx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Stories from Earth Music Bristol b01888wj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Have Your Cake b011djvk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 It's Jocelyn b06snvwk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b01gvtj8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Insurance WED Sony Award-winning comic, Tom Wrigglesworth returns for a WED new series of his open letters. This week, his letter is WED addressed to the insurance industry as Tom asks why WED everything has to be so confusing. WED Written by Tom Wrigglesworth, James Kettle and Miles Jupp. WED Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. WED WED 23:00 Beauty of Britain b010y0sh (Listen) WED Series 2, Life in the UK WED Series 2 of this Radio 4 comedy follows Beauty's continuing WED adventures among the cauliflower-cheese eating population as WED the Featherdown Agency sends her to provide care for those WED who need it - and occasionally some who don't, but all of WED whom have relatives with guilty consciences. Beauty sees WED herself as an inspiration to other African girls hoping to WED live the dream in Britain. Until she gets the nod from God WED about which sector of the economy would most benefit from WED her entrepreneurial skills, Beauty will carry on grating the WED Extra Mature Cathedral City, running the assisted baths and WED trying to understand the British character. WED The series breaks the embarrassed silence about what happens WED to us when we get old and start to lose our faculties. WED Beauty sees Britain at its best, its worst and also WED sometimes without its clothes on running the wrong way down WED the M6 with a toy dog shouting 'Come on!' WED Beauty of Britain is a narrative comedy written by WED Christopher Douglas (of Ed Reardon fame) and Nicola WED Sanderson. WED Episode 6 'Life in the UK' WED Beauty Oolonga, a Southern African care worker, shares her WED quirky view of Britain. Beauty's visa to work in the U.K. is WED about to run out. Will she pass her citizenship test and be WED granted indefinite leave to remain and will the handsome, WED mature Ade be her saviour? Last in series. WED CAST: WED Beauty ..... Jocelyn Jee Esien WED Liz ..... Rita May WED Helen ..... Nicola Sanderson WED Mrs Gupte ..... Indira Joshi WED Anil ..... Paul Sharma WED Jodie ..... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Waiter/Receptionist ..... Christopher Douglas WED Ade ..... Paterson Joseph WED The music for the series was performed by The West End WED Gospel Choir. WED Written by Christopher Douglas and Nicola Sanderson WED The producer is Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED 23:30 Beautiful Dreamers b00w200k (Listen) WED The River Europe WED Nat follows the endurance swimmer and world's fittest WED alcoholic Craig McKenzie's controversial attempt to complete WED the world's toughest swim. Featuring contributions from WED Clive Russell, Ewan Bailey, Morven Christie and Vera WED Filatova. WED Writers ..... James Lever and Nat Segnit. WED Producers ..... Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko. WED Credits WED Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 JANUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nrd22 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:15 Book at Bedtime b03xf1jy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076xh3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Kipling in Love b06tkwhn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Last of the Hardy Players b00vrxjx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Sir Peter Shaffer - Amadeus b00sm4m4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 The History of the Future b01mqq6p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00xk1tf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Charles Dickens b019fx2g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Counterpoint b008s4b7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Beachcomber... 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THU THU 07:00 Hazelbeach b0084hvy (Listen) THU Series 1, Mother THU Nick's worst fears come true, and Ronnie sells heart rate THU monitors to Monty Python fans. Stars Jamie Foreman. From THU October 2007. THU THU 07:30 Intensive Carey b06sp2zg (Listen) THU Critically acclaimed comedian Carey Marx unexpectedly THU suffered a heart attack a few years ago. He survived. And THU turned his experience into a stand-up show. THU Presenting his debut half hour for Radio 4, this is the true THU story of Carey's brush with death. It turns out that cardiac THU failure can be funny. THU Written by and starring Carey Marx. THU Producer Alexandra Smith. THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007k1zr (Listen) THU Series 4, Any Old Iron? THU Albert gets concerned about an offer made to Harold. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Richard Hurndall, John Samson and Stephanie THU Turner. 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 March 1972. THU THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007vlws (Listen) THU Series 1, The Wedding Ring THU The small-time crime writer is distracted when his wife THU loses something precious. Stars Ian Carmichael. From March THU 1976. THU THU 09:00 Genius b0080rmy (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU Lego prisons? A tea tray as a system of measurement? THU Germaine Greer helps Dave Gorman solicit new thinking. From THU October 2007. THU THU 09:30 No Commitments b007jnz1 (Listen) THU Series 7, Soft Soap THU Charlotte makes her soap debut and Victoria has a change of THU heart. Starring Angela Thorne and Celia Imrie. From February THU 2001. THU THU 10:00 Charles Dickens b019jw02 (Listen) THU Mrs Lirriper, How the Parlours Added a Few Words THU Tales told by Edmund Yates, Amelia Edwards and Elizabeth THU Gaskell. THU With Jemmy away at school, Mrs Lirriper's lodgers join THU forces to tell and send him their favourite stories such as THU the surprising adventures of the snobbish Mr Mortiboy, the THU haunting of James Murray, and Elizabeth Gaskell's chilling THU tale of love, loss and obsession. THU Charles Dickens's neglected classic dramatised and produced THU by Ellen Dryden. THU Starring Julia McKenzie as Mrs Lirriper, John Fortune as the THU Major, Alison Skilbeck as Victorine, Caroline John as Madam THU Hawtry/Elizabeth Gaskell, Michael Harbour as Morgan/Old THU Gentleman/Sir Mark and Victoria Woodward as Ellen/Theresa. THU Made by First Writes Radio for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast THU in 2007. THU THU 11:00 Stories from Earth Music Bristol b018g29j (Listen) THU Frost at Midnight THU Frost at Midnight. A new story by Helen Dunmore. A baby in a THU crib. Why cry? A story inspired by the themes of the Earth THU Music Bristol festival and recorded in front of an audience THU there. Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU 11:15 Have Your Cake b011f57z (Listen) THU Scripture Cake THU A recipe triggers an unlikely friendship for Maggie. Amanda THU Whittington's tasty drama stars Lesley Sharp and Sheila THU Hancock. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007k1zr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007vlws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jq1v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Kipling and France b0076vkh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Evelyn Waugh Short Stories b008d1xh (Listen) THU On Guard, part 1 THU To remind her of him while he's abroad, a young man buys his THU fiancee a snappy puppy called Hector. Read by Crawford THU Logan. THU THU 14:15 The History of the Future b01mqq9n (Listen) THU George Orwell THU Juliet Gardiner continues her History of the Future with a THU look at the visions of George Orwell, and his haunting THU fictions imagining a dark near-future under a Totalitarian THU regime. THU Orwell's most famous and most chilling exercise in fictional THU futurology is his novel 1984, which portrays a society at THU perpetual war, living at all times under the secret THU surveillance of the sinister all seeing, all powerful forces THU of The Party. This creates an almost hallucinatory vision of THU a paranoid, upside down future of mind control in which THU reality is denied. 1984's vision of Big Brother surveilling THU the population, penetrating its innermost sanctums, is THU evoked whenever 24 hour CCTV surveillance and other Civil THU Liberty issues are discussed. Orwell epitomises the modern THU view of the future which is an ambivalent one - suspicious THU even while optimistic about the march of progress. THU George Orwell was seriously ill with tuberculosis on the THU remote Scottish island of Jura when he wrote 1984 in 1948, THU and he died just two years later aged 46. His book was part THU of a trend of dystopian literature in the 20th century. THU His particular vision seems prescient and ahead of its time. THU There was a strong surge of optimism after the Second World THU War in Britain, a commitment to world government to ensure THU peace, and there was still lingering admiration of the THU Soviet Union and the part it had played in winning the war THU for the Allies, its darker side as yet largely unknown - or THU ignored. Juliet speaks to Orwell's biographer D.J. Taylore THU to discover how he seemed to foresee the horrors of later in THU the century and the Cold War. THU Produced by Victoria Shepherd THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyx (Listen) THU Episode 19 THU Jos, Amelia and William head to Europe and meet an old THU 'friend'. Narrated by Stephen Fry. Stars Emma Fielding and THU David Calder. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00xk1wm (Listen) THU Jane Shilling - Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 4 THU The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's personal THU meditation about what it's like to be at the mid point, THU looking both backwards and forwards. Today she explores THU belonging from the perspective of family and place. THU Jane Shilling is a journalist, she writes on books for the THU Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on THU television for the Evening Standard. This is her second THU book. She lives in Greenwich with her son. THU Read by Samantha Bond THU Abridged by Julian Wilkinson THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 15:00 Charles Dickens b019jw02 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b0080rmy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 No Commitments b007jnz1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Hazelbeach b0084hvy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Intensive Carey b06sp2zg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nrrbn (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU A visit to a potential ally begins to clarify MacLeod's THU thoughts, but raises doubts about Katrina. Read by Robert THU Paterson. THU THU 18:15 Book at Bedtime b03xglvy (Listen) THU Lynne Truss - Cat Out of Hell, Episode 9 THU By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the THU bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of THU a cat with nine lives, and relationship as ancient as time THU itself and just as powerful. THU The scene - an isolated cottage on the coast on a stormy THU evening. Inside, Alec a recently bereaved widower and his THU dog. To pass the time Alec explores the contents of a folder THU of documents emailed to him by an acquaintance at the THU library where he used to work. What he discovers is an THU extraordinary story that will change his life forever. THU Episode 9: THU Having uncovered the shocking, real identity of the Grand THU Cat Master, Alec sets off for Harville Manor to confront THU him. THU Reader: Mike Grady THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Reader: Mike Grady THU Producer: Karen Rose THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Author: Lynne Truss THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076vgv (Listen) THU Series 8, Zhao Ziyang THU 4 Extra Debut. Journalist Robert Thomson on the rise and THU fall, in 1989, of Chinese premier Zhao Ziyang. With Francine THU Stock. From November 2005. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007k1zr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007vlws (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jq1v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Kipling and France b0076vkh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Stories from Earth Music Bristol b018g29j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Have Your Cake b011f57z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Intensive Carey b06sp2zg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b012b1z6 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU Alan Titchmarsh - quaint gardener or ruthless murderer? Jon THU Culshaw and friends probe the private lives of the famous. THU From July 2010. THU THU 23:00 Bleak Expectations b00p3380 (Listen) THU Series 3, Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked and Redeemed THU Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. THU Pip and Ripely find themselves facing a vast and evil undead THU army. England has only one hope - that Miss Sweetly THU Delightful can melt Mr Benevolent's cruel, undead heart. THU Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman THU Bishop Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely Bin ...... Sarah Hadland THU Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy THU The Duke of Chelsea ...... Mark Evans. THU THU 23:30 The Museum of Everything b007k17t (Listen) THU Series 1, To Infinity and Beyond THU A bunch of Star Trek fans beam in for a sci-fi convention. THU Stars Marcus Brigstocke and Danny Robbins. From April 2004. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 JANUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01nrrbn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:15 Book at Bedtime b03xglvy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076vgv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jq1v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Kipling and France b0076vkh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Evelyn Waugh Short Stories b008d1xh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 The History of the Future b01mqq9n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00xk1wm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Charles Dickens b019jw02 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b0080rmy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 No Commitments b007jnz1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Hazelbeach b0084hvy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Intensive Carey b06sp2zg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jq28 (Listen) FRI The Devil's Foot, Episode 2 FRI Tragedy in a Cornish village leads Sherlock Holmes and FRI Doctor Watson deep into the soul of a man hell bent on FRI revenge. FRI Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story read by James Nickerson. FRI Produced in Manchester by Joanne Reardon. FRI Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2003. FRI FRI 06:30 Kipling and France b0076vnz (Listen) FRI Their Name Liveth for Evermore FRI Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee investigate why Rudyard FRI Kipling became an inspector of war cemeteries in France. FRI From November 2005. FRI FRI 07:00 1834 b011db7v (Listen) FRI The Time Machine FRI As Jason attempts to return to 2003, he gets involved with FRI various culinary devices. Stars Michael Begley. From June FRI 2003. FRI FRI 07:30 Happy Tuesdays b00tbkfx (Listen) FRI Pauline Pepys Dowry FRI Samuel Pepys' diaries make occasional mention of his sister FRI Pauline who has come to visit. She appears not to have been FRI an entirely welcome guest. This comedy is inspired by FRI Pauline, and by many other unwelcome love-lorn house-guests FRI throughout human history... FRI Meet Pauline Pepys. Her love life is in tatters, her FRI sister-in-law wants her to move out of the spare room, and FRI her best friend is her worst enemy. Oh, and this being FRI London in the 1660s there's a nasty spot of plague about. FRI This episode sees Pauline fall for a handsome executioner, FRI but when he seems to prefer Charlotte she offers to fix FRI Pauline up with a very romantic poet. Meanwhile Elizabeth FRI has arranged for a lavish portrait of herself and Samuel FRI that is not altogether going to plan. And the maid is doing FRI something awful with a dead fish and a goat. FRI A new historical comedy starring Olivia Colman as hopeless FRI romantic Pauline, Sharon Horgan as her best friend Charlotte FRI the vainest woman in Britain, David Mitchell as a distinctly FRI itchy Samuel Pepys, Katherine Parkinson as Elizabeth his FRI wife, who is very stressed about making the right impression FRI on society; and Tom Hollander as Russell de Bret, a man who FRI in the twenty first century would be a rock star, but has FRI chosen instead the career of public executioner; with FRI Rebekah Staton as the peculiarly fish-obsessed house maid FRI Jane and Dave Lamb as Joth a very angry painter and Wilston, FRI a very sad poet... FRI Pauline Pepys' Dowry is written by Amy Shindler and Beth FRI Chalmers and produced by Gareth Edwards. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jp6s (Listen) FRI Series 6, The Smugglers FRI Returning from a holiday abroad, Sid tricks the lad and Bill FRI into sneaking in watches. FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Kenneth FRI Williams, Patricia Hayes and Noel Dryden. 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 September FRI 1959. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b0081rvd (Listen) FRI The Mighty Wurlitzer FRI Neddie propels his mighty organ across the Sahara. Stars FRI Harry Secombe and Spike Milligan. From January 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b01dhn6p (Listen) FRI Series 2, Swansea University FRI Coming this week from Swansea University, "The 3rd Degree" FRI is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at FRI cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst FRI delighting the current ones. It's recorded on location at a FRI different University each week, and it pits three FRI Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a FRI genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being FRI a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent FRI standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and FRI jokes thrown in for good measure. FRI Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union FRI buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities FRI across the UK. FRI The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General FRI Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the FRI 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not FRI only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, FRI languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness FRI of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the FRI Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their FRI Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, FRI and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both FRI sides... FRI The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit FRI surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly FRI rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more FRI than just glanced at that reading list... FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b007k0dw (Listen) FRI Series 2, A Moving Story FRI Single dad Bryan tries to get a loan to move house, but it's FRI not simple. Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. FRI Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to FRI find work and raise his baby son. In the original 1977 FRI series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who FRI tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series FRI returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played once FRI again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1983. FRI FRI 10:00 Charles Dickens b019lw3y (Listen) FRI Mrs Lirriper, Mrs Lirriper's Legacy FRI Jemmy returns from school for the holidays just in time to FRI join Mrs Lirriper and the Major on a trip to France in FRI search of a mysterious benefactor. When they eventually FRI track him down, he turns out to be the last person anyone FRI could have expected. FRI Charles Dickens's neglected classic dramatised and produced FRI by Ellen Dryden. FRI Starring Julia McKenzie as Mrs Lirriper, John Fortune as the FRI Major, Jordan Clarke as Jemmy, Alison Skilbeck as Miss FRI Wozenham and Gus Brown as Mr Buffle/Consul. FRI Made by First Writes Radio for BBC Radio 4. First broadcast FRI in 2007. FRI FRI 11:00 Afternoon Reading b013q20y (Listen) FRI F Scott Fitzgerald - The Pat Hobby Stories, Pat Hobby's FRI Secret FRI Written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Adapted by Archie Scottney. FRI Alfred Molina reads F. Scott Fitzgerald's brilliant stories FRI of late 1930s Hollywood, directed by Martin Jarvis. Since FRI the advent of the talkies, hack screen writer Pat Hobby has FRI fallen on hard times and hard liquor. FRI Now, desperately in need of a studio writing job, he pursues FRI a drunken movie director and obtains some secret information FRI about a crucial film script idea. Producer Banizon is FRI prepared to buy the idea from Pat, because the knowledge FRI could save his next movie. So can Pat Hobby, at last, hold FRI the studio up to ransom before spilling the beans? Maybe. FRI But death and desperation make things even more problematic FRI than usual for Pat. FRI Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis FRI A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Alfred Molina FRI Director: Martin Jarvis FRI Producer: Martin Jarvis FRI Adaptor: Archie Scottney FRI Author: F Scott Fitzgerald FRI FRI 11:15 Have Your Cake b011f7m9 (Listen) FRI Lady's Cake FRI Tess and Nicky face temptation and bad news, as Maggie faces FRI a ghost from her past. Nicola Baldwin's drama stars Lesley FRI Sharp. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jp6s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b0081rvd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jq28 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Kipling and France b0076vnz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Evelyn Waugh Short Stories b007k30q (Listen) FRI On Guard, part 2 FRI A small dog called Hector comes to dominate his mistress's FRI life while her fiance is abroad. Read by Crawford Logan. FRI FRI 14:15 The History of the Future b01mqr52 (Listen) FRI The Future from Here FRI Juliet Gardiner concludes her History of the Future with a FRI view of the future from where we stand in 2012. Are we more FRI or less anxious about what's to come than we ever were? FRI Juliet speaks to James Martin and Ian Goldin of the Oxford FRI Martin School, a research community of over 300 scholars FRI working to address the most pressing global challenges and FRI opportunities of the 21st century. From the governance of FRI geo-engineering and the possibilities of quantum physics, to FRI the future of food and the implications of our ageing FRI population. FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair b007jvyz (Listen) FRI Episode 20 FRI Becky, Jos, Amelia and William's futures are finally FRI decided. Conclusion of William Makepeace Thackeray's drama, FRI narrated by Stephen Fry. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00xk1zj (Listen) FRI Jane Shilling - Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 5 FRI The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's memoir about FRI middle age, and looks both backwards and forwards to new FRI adventures. Today austere times lie ahead after Jane's FRI working life as a freelance journalist receives a blow. FRI Jane Shilling is a journalist who writes on books for the FRI Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on FRI television for the Evening Standard. This is her second FRI book. She lives in Greenwich with her son. FRI Read by Samantha Bond FRI Abridged by Julian Wilkinson FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 15:00 Charles Dickens b019lw3y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b01dhn6p (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b007k0dw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 1834 b011db7v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Happy Tuesdays b00tbkfx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Jonathan Aycliffe - The Matrix b01ns0y8 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Can MacLeod escape the evil that stretches from North Africa FRI to Scotland? The gripping conclusion read by Robert FRI Paterson. FRI FRI 18:15 Book at Bedtime b03xgtsj (Listen) FRI Lynne Truss - Cat Out of Hell, Episode 10 FRI By acclaimed storyteller Lynne Truss, author of the FRI bestselling Eats, Shoots and Leaves, the mysterious tale of FRI a cat with nine lives, and relationship as ancient as time FRI itself and just as powerful. FRI The scene - an isolated cottage on the coast on a stormy FRI evening. Inside, Alec a recently bereaved widower and his FRI dog. To pass the time Alec explores the contents of a folder FRI of documents emailed to him by an acquaintance at the FRI library where he used to work. What he discovers is an FRI extraordinary story that will change his life forever. FRI Episode 10: FRI The showdown at Harville Manor. But can Alec survive in the FRI face of such evil? FRI Reader: Mike Grady FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Mike Grady FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Author: Lynne Truss FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076bst (Listen) FRI Series 3, The Pathétique FRI Biographer Anthony Holden and conductor Vassily Sinaisky FRI explore the cultural impact of Tchaikovsky's final symphony. FRI From December 2002. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jp6s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b0081rvd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Sherlock Holmes b007jq28 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Kipling and France b0076vnz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Afternoon Reading b013q20y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Have Your Cake b011f7m9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Happy Tuesdays b00tbkfx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World b007jqf9 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Good and Evil FRI The sci-fi star and inventor explains life's big mysteries. FRI Stars Richard Herring, Stewart Lee and Tom Baker. From FRI October 1992. FRI FRI 23:00 The Gobetweenies b01l1g5k (Listen) FRI Series 2, Under the Same Night Stars FRI Lucy is despairing about the future of the planet - until FRI she meets a cute boy with a moped. But Tom is in a huff with FRI his family and inventing imaginary parents because he is not FRI allowed to see his best friend Freddy. When Freddy runs away FRI it's left to Lucy to save the day. Thank goodness her mum FRI never uses that porcini filled writing shed. FRI Written by Marcella Evaristi. FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI An Absolutely Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Joe: Mark Bonnar FRI Mim: Sarah Alexander FRI Tom: Finlay Christie FRI Lucy: Phoebe Abbott FRI Jenn: Emily Bruni FRI Fred: Oli Dillon FRI Bob: Stephen Critchlow FRI Chris: Daniel Boyd FRI Writer: Marcella Evaristi FRI Director: Marilyn Imrie FRI Producer: Gordon Kennedy FRI FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell b015p5g6 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 1 FRI Thanks to a bike accident that's landed him in A&E, Tom FRI Sheffield is about to go for a pizza with Ellen, a woman FRI with the most noble of foreheads and - it turns out - the FRI most attentive of dads. FRI Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy by Jonny FRI Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009). He FRI conjures up characters depicting every relationship from FRI father and daughter to the mirror in the bathroom and the FRI feller hiding at a party; from the stalker and the stalked FRI to dog owners and their dogs; and from lifelong friends to FRI long term partners and their dearly departed. FRI The series revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny FRI himself), his immediate family (Getting On's Vicki FRI Pepperdine, The Thick Of It's Alex MacQueen and Not Going FRI Out's Katy Wix), and Tom's longed-for-and-lusted-after new FRI girlfriend, Ellen (played by Charlotte Ritchie), her best FRI friend Hermione (Him & Her's Sarah Solemani) and Ellen's FRI zealously protective father (Simon Greenall). FRI Tim Key and Tom Basden both make deliciously awkward cameo FRI appearances. FRI Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, FRI contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to FRI pub toilets, themed parties, early morning phone calls and FRI Christmas Editions of Jonathan Creek. FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Tom: Jonny Sweet FRI Tom: Simon Greenall FRI Ashley: Alex Macqueen FRI Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Hermione: Sarah Solemani FRI Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie FRI Maeve: Katy Wix FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI Writer: Jonny Sweet FRI