27 May, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 28/05/2016 - 03/06/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007wqf0 (Listen) SAT The Earth in Anarchy SAT The allies head for the coastal town using horses, then SAT motor cars to outrun their masked pursuers. Read by Geoffrey SAT Palmer. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00mk6tc (Listen) SAT Series 8, Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme, by Thomas SAT Tallis SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT When Vaughan Williams wrote his Tallis Fantasia in 1910, he SAT changed the course of British music. Here at last was a SAT piece of music which was no longer under the Teutonic SAT influence, but which drew on old English hymn tunes and folk SAT idioms for its themes. As the string music builds to a SAT climax, interviewees tell how this music has brought solace SAT and hope in times of tragedy and changed the course of their SAT lives. SAT SAT 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green b012yv9b (Listen) SAT Series 1, London Pride SAT George Dixon is showing new boy in blue, Andy Crawford, the SAT ropes on the beat of Dock Green in London's East End. SAT Much to PC Crawford's surprise, Dixon is prepared to bend SAT the rules in order to arrest one of a gang of safebreakers. SAT Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David SAT Calder as PC George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford SAT and Jacob Dylan Thomas as Fred Jenkins/ Lenny Judd. SAT Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by SAT Sue Rodwell. SAT Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The SAT Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, SAT Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running SAT from 1955 to 1976. SAT Produced in Bristol by Jeremy Howell and Viv Beeby. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. SAT SAT 01:30 He Belonged to Glasgow: The Will Fyffe Story SAT b00vky75 (Listen) SAT Born in Dundee in 1885, Will Fyffe became synonymous with a SAT different city when his song 'I Belong To Glasgow' captured SAT the nation's hearts. SAT After spending his formative years in touring theatre, Will SAT Fyffe switched to comedy and music hall, and became a SAT headline act throughout Scotland. Along with his SAT contemporary Harry Lauder, his humour transcended the SAT regional stage and appearances all over Britain led to five SAT Royal Variety performances. SAT A leading film star of the 1930s and 40s, he made one SAT Hollywood film, although put this burgeoning career on hold SAT as war broke out and he returned to entertain the troops. SAT An accident in 1947 led to his untimely death, but his body SAT of work lives on through his songs, sketches and films. SAT Singer-songwriter and Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross looks SAT at Fyffe's life, career and legacy with family, film SAT historians and music hall experts, including Professor SAT Jeffrey Richards, and Will Fyffe's daughter, Eileen. SAT Producer: Elizabeth Foster. SAT SAT 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nf0tr (Listen) SAT Adam in Paradise SAT William stakes his claim on Thornhill's Point, but other SAT people have the same idea. Read by Ron Cook. SAT SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and SAT the Mind b042lp8w (Listen) SAT We Do What We're Told SAT Following the Second World War, psychologists wanted to SAT understand how so many ordinary Germans could have agreed to SAT participate in the Nazis' atrocities. SAT Martin Sixsmith looks at their attempts to explain the SAT banality of evil, including the controversial experiments of SAT Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo. And he talks to Oxford SAT Professor Miles Hewstone about how far social psychology has SAT come in clarifying how we think and act within a group. SAT Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, SAT University of London. SAT Produced by Sara Parker SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrjy (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Winston writes from Canada. Randolph leaves Oxford for a SAT lecture tour of the USA. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le SAT Touzel. SAT SAT 02:45 Miles Kington - How Shall I Tell the Dog? b00yc4vx (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Test your own will to live, and how to write a funny book SAT about cancer. Miles Kington's last letters. With Michael SAT Palin. SAT SAT 03:00 Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov b00yc3jw (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Following Ivan's dramatic appearance at his brother's trial, SAT Katerina prepares to deal Dmitry a fatal blow. Stars Paul SAT Hilton. SAT SAT 04:00 We've Been Here Before b00ft41b (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 1 SAT Clive Anderson's panel show of the past, with Gyles SAT Brandreth, John O'Farrell, Arabella Weir and Arthur Smith. SAT From June 2004. SAT SAT 04:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007k0wh (Listen) SAT Series 1, The New Synagogue SAT A single phone call turns Rabbi Fine's comfortable Jewish SAT community upside down. Stars Tracy-Ann Oberman. From SAT November 1999. SAT SAT 05:00 Crowned Hudds b00plhpx (Listen) SAT Odd Stuart SAT A new slant on King Charles II. Roy Hudd's historical royal SAT romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From September SAT 1994. SAT SAT 05:30 Meet David Sedaris b01211y4 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Me Talk Pretty One Day; It's Catching SAT The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SAT charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This SAT week the perils of an American learning French in Paris in SAT "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and an essay dealing with a SAT friend's concern for cleanliness; "It's Catching". SAT Producer: Steve Doherty SAT A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 Saturday Drama b01pf5d7 (Listen) SAT Lewis Carroll - Alice through the Looking Glass SAT By Lewis Carroll, dramatised by Stephen Wyatt It's SAT mid-winter, the snow is falling against the window, and SAT Alice is learning how to play chess but then, on a whim, she SAT goes to the mirror and pretends her black kitten is the Red SAT Queen and suddenly everything changes ... SAT With Jim Al-Khalili, Roger McGough, Jenni Murray, Jane SAT Garvey, Eric Robson, Pippa Greenwood, Peter Donaldson, SAT Kirsty Young, Andrew Marr, Evan Davies, Garry Richardson & SAT Melvyn Bragg. SAT This dramatisation brings out the intellectual spine of SAT Lewis Carroll's classic story - while losing none of the SAT fun. SAT When Alice crashes through the looking glass she enters a SAT world set out like a giant chess board and discovers SAT science, maths, poetry, riddles, and wordplay. It is SAT instantly entertaining and tantalizingly offers the listener SAT more than meets the ear. SAT In this fast-moving and surrealist world, Alice has to SAT decode the bizarre rules of the mirror-world. If Alice can SAT get to The Eighth Square she will be Queen. Lewis Carroll is SAT ever present. He sets out the chess game for Alice, teasing SAT the listener into having an overview of his story and SAT exploring the ideas within it. SAT On her chess journey Alice will meet the Red & White Queen, SAT Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledee and Tweedledum (who might be more SAT familiar than the listener can possibly imagine) and the Red SAT & White Knights. But there's a twist here - Alice will also SAT discover that Radio 4 can be found on the other side of the SAT glass. SAT Published for Christmas 1871 this story is the mirror image SAT of Alice In Wonderland: the characters are chess pieces SAT instead of cards. It is Winter rather than Summer and time SAT runs backwards. Tim Burton's film was 'inspired' by Lewis SAT Carroll's books but it wasn't Lewis Carroll's book. This is SAT a chance for the Radio 4 listeners to discover the real SAT thing and show them why this classic appeals to SAT philosophers, linguists and chess fans, prefaced Modernism, SAT has provoked a wealth of academic study, and in doing so SAT remind them of the bits they loved in childhood (and the SAT bits they've forgotten). SAT Mathematician Carroll, prefaced his book with a chess SAT problem. It is claimed the game is a part of a sequence of SAT numbers - that Alice's journey is code - that Carroll was SAT flirting with numerology and esotericism. It is intriguing SAT because Carroll loved number games and puzzles. He was SAT frighteningly clever. He regularly invented things. You SAT could say he was the Mark Zuckerberg of his time. SAT Credits SAT Alice: Lauren Mote SAT Lewis Carroll: Julian Rhind-Tutt SAT The Red Queen: Carole Boyd SAT The White Queen: Sally Phillips SAT Humpty Dumpty: Nicholas Parsons SAT Tweedledee: Alistair McGowan SAT Tweedledum: Alistair McGowan SAT The White Knight: John Rowe SAT The White King: Robert Blythe SAT Messenger: Ben Crowe SAT Guard: Patrick Brennan SAT Pudding: Stephanie Racine SAT Writer: Stephen Wyatt SAT SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00rfhzx (Listen) SAT The Celebrity Tour SAT Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became SAT the literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the SAT nation's stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. SAT Among the millions of words written by modern American SAT authors, one of the most important is 'I'. The SAT autobiographical, first-person story - featuring authors in SAT light disguise or even under their own names - has become an SAT increasingly significant literary genre. SAT Philip Roth and John Updike wrote long sequences of stories SAT about fictional famous American authors - Nathan Zuckerman SAT and Henry Bech - who can be read as versions of their own SAT histories. Later, Roth went further, with several books SAT including characters with his own name, just as Norman SAT Mailer would refer to himself in non-fiction books as SAT 'Mailer'. This is one of the devices of the 'New SAT Journalism', developed by Tom Wolfe and Hunter S Thompson, SAT which put the reporter at the heart of the story. SAT Conversely, some authors, including JD Salinger and Thomas SAT Pynchon, were so appalled by the prospect of the publicity SAT circuit that they preferred to vanish completely. SAT Beginning on 'The Philip Roth Tour' of Newark, New Jersey, SAT in which Liz Del Tufo takes tourists to sites featured in SAT the author's work, Mark Lawson reflects on the way in which SAT a celebrity culture has made writers play with their public SAT personalities, talking to Philip Roth, Tom Wolfe, Bret SAT Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Dave Eggers and Professor Diane SAT Roberts. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Robyn Read SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b06vg1ph (Listen) SAT Utopias SAT 2016 sees the 500th anniversary of a book that generated an SAT idea that has been hotly contested throughout the hundreds SAT of years since its release; that book was 'Utopia' and its SAT author was Thomas More. SAT More had been on a trade mission to Antwerp, and spent much SAT of his time talking to fellow humanist scholars like Erasmus SAT about the notion of an ideal society and what it might look SAT like. Out of those conversations came the book, a slippery SAT tale that blurs fact and fiction and which has left readers SAT ever since trying to fathom whether More was indeed SAT presenting his island of Utopia, where equality is paramount SAT and greed attacked, as a model society or as a salutary SAT tale. SAT Half a millennium on, Michael Symmons Roberts heads to SAT Antwerp himself to find out more about the actual book, that SAT so many make reference without ever having opened its pages. SAT He finds out that partly for safety's sake (the text being SAT one on level a critique of contemporary England) it was SAT published abroad and in Latin; he also hears about its great SAT popularity, how it led many to try and set up their own SAT perfect communities, and examines the irony that More would SAT rather have seen this book about an equal society burned SAT rather than seeing it translated into the vernacular and SAT therefore made available to all. SAT Along the way Michael also eavesdrops on figures from the SAT BBC archives describing what their personal Utopias might SAT look like - including Tony Benn, Jeanette Winterson, Aldous SAT Huxley, Nawal El Saadawi and Ian Banks. SAT SAT 09:00 Doctor Who b0076jh7 (Listen) SAT Who Made Who SAT Five decades doesn't mean much to a time traveller, but SAT after fifty years, the Doctor is still a mystery. SAT Radio 4 Extra doesn't have all the answers, but we can shed SAT a little light. Not just a TV phenomenon, Doctor Who has SAT also taken us into strange new sonic realms and the written SAT word. Mark Gatiss examines the Target novels, which offered SAT a glimpse into those early stories before video. We hear SAT from surviving cast and crew of the original pilot episode, SAT the people who gave the show its unique sound in Dance of SAT the Daleks, and finally we catch up with Susan - the SAT Doctor's Granddaughter, last seen on 22nd-century Earth. SAT In between, John Lloyd, AL Kennedy and others who recall SAT those monochrome early years examine what makes them so SAT special. Hosting it is Tracy-Ann Oberman, not only a star of SAT Friday Night Dinner and Eastenders but a Doctor Who SAT villainess in her own right. SAT Tracy-Ann Oberman is an actor and writer with an extensive SAT variety of diverse credits; Big Train, Toast of London and SAT Monroe to name but three. For Doctor Who fans she will be SAT known as Yvonne Hartman - the woman who saw off Rose and set SAT up Torchwood. SAT Programmes included in this three hour special SAT On the Outside it Looked Like An Old Fashioned Police Box SAT Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who writer and fanatic, explores the SAT hugely popular Doctor Who novelisations of the 1970s and SAT 80s, published by Target books. Featuring some of the best SAT excerpts from the books and interviews with publishers, SAT house writers, illustrators and the actors whose adventures SAT the books tirelessly depicted. SAT SAT SAT The Reunion – Doctor Who SAT Sue MacGregor reunites five people who created and starred SAT in the first series of a television landmark, Doctor Who. SAT Fifty years later, those who crammed nervously into the SAT BBC's Lime Grove Studios in 1963 recount the triumphs and SAT disasters that ushered in the longest running SAT science-fiction series in the world. Joining Sue MacGregor SAT is Waris Hussein, the director of the episode, Carole Ann SAT Ford who played the Doctor's granddaughter and companion SAT Susan, William Russell who played the Doctor's right hand SAT man Ian Chesterton, actor Jeremy Young who was the first SAT Doctor Who enemy Caveman Kal, and television presenter Peter SAT Purves who travelled with William Hartnell in the mid 60's SAT as companion Steven Taylor. SAT SAT Dance of the Daleks SAT How do you make a sink-plunger seem scary? Matthew Sweet, SAT who spent the Saturday tea-times of his youth peering at the SAT television from behind the sofa, time-travels through Doctor SAT Who's 47-year history to investigate the weird and wonderful SAT soundworld of its incidental music. He talks with some of SAT the composers who have contributed, in very different SAT musical styles, to the enduring success of the programme SAT over the decades. SAT SAT Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman? SAT A mockumentary starring Jane Asher and Andrew Sachs. It SAT examines the life of a Susan Foreman, the Doctor’s SAT granddaughter through the realistic lens of a researcher SAT conducting an interview with a subject. Last seen in SAT decimated London after a Dalek invasion, where is the Time SAT Lord's relative now? SAT SAT 12:00 Charles Parker Prize b07d2vfx (Listen) SAT 2016 SAT Charles Parker was a talented radio producer who worked with SAT Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger over 50 years ago to create SAT the famous series of 'radio ballads'. SAT Each year a team of radio professions meet to decide the SAT winners of an award dedicated to his memory. For the past 12 SAT years the Charles Parker Award has been presented to the SAT best feature made by students studying radio at universities SAT and colleges throughout the UK. In this programme Charles's SAT daughter Sara Parker, herself an award-winning radio SAT producer, reviews this year's competition, talks to the SAT judges, plays extracts from some of the entries, meets the SAT prize-winners and plays their Bronze, Silver and Gold SAT Award-winning features. SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Soundscape Productions. SAT SAT 13:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City b07d2vlz (Listen) SAT Mary Ann in Autumn - Omnibus SAT 2008 in San Francisco, and Mary Ann returns with some big SAT news to share with Michael. Starring Kate Harper and Trevor SAT White. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b07d2wt7 (Listen) SAT Peter White SAT Broadcaster Peter White chooses 'Ma She's Making Eyes At Me' SAT by Marie Adams and 'Golden Slumbers' by The Beatles. SAT SAT 14:15 Frankly Speaking b07d2z3f (Listen) SAT Allen Lane SAT Publisher and founder of Penguin books, Allen Lane answers SAT the questions posed by George Scott, Margaret Lane and SAT Walter Allen. SAT Aged 58 when interviewed, Allen talks of his life as a SAT pioneering paperback publisher and his discovery of DH SAT Lawrence. SAT Sir Allen Lane was born in 1902 and died in 1970. SAT Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking SAT was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and SAT unscripted, the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing SAT was initially jettisoned for three interviewers firing SAT direct questions. Early critics described it as 'unkempt', SAT 'an inquisition' and described the guest as prey being SAT cornered, quarry being pursued - with calls to axe the SAT unscripted interview. But the format won out and eventually SAT won over its detractors. SAT Only 40 or so of the original 100 programmes survive. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1961. SAT SAT 14:45 Could Do Better b03p85pm (Listen) SAT Wendy Cope SAT Robert Booth summons poet and ex-teacher Wendy Cope to his SAT study for a quiet word about her school reports. From SAT November 1988. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b06vg1ph (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Saturday Drama b01pf5d7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00rfhzx (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Doctor Who b07d3137 (Listen) SAT The Crimes of Thomas Brewster, Episode 1 SAT 2010: The Doctor teams up with an old associate to track SAT down an imposter in a battle to save the Earth from rogue SAT androids. SAT Starring Colin Baker as the Sixth Doctor, Maggie Stables as SAT Evelyn Smythe, John Pickard as Thomas Brewster and Anna Hope SAT as DI Menzies. SAT Writer: Jonathan Morris SAT Producer: David Richardson SAT A Big Finish production. SAT SAT 19:00 Doctor Who b0076jh7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-Ups b03fdh2c (Listen) SAT Series 1, Time to Celebrate SAT When Tom phones home we find out why he hates celebrations, SAT why his mum can't stop organising them and why his father SAT needs an electric whisk. SAT Classic Wrigglesworth rants combined with a fascinating and SAT hilarious glimpse into his family background and the SAT influences that have shaped his temperament, opinions and SAT hang-ups. SAT Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups is a 30 minute phone call from SAT Tom ringing his parents for his weekly check-in. As the SAT conversation unfolds, Tom takes time out from the phone call SAT to explain the situation, his parent's reactions and relate SAT various anecdotes from the past which illustrate his SAT family's views. And sometimes he just needs to sound-off SAT about the maddening world around him and bemoan everyday SAT annoyances. SAT During all this Hang Ups explores class, living away from SAT 'home', trans-generational phenomena, what we inherit from SAT our families and how the past repeats in the present. All in SAT a 30 minute phone call. SAT 'Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang-ups' gets underneath the skin of SAT Tom and the Wrigglesworth family, so sit back and enjoy a SAT bit of totally legal phone hacking. SAT Written by Tom Wrigglesworth and James Kettle SAT Additional Material by Miles Jupp SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT Credits SAT Tom: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Granny: Judy Parfitt SAT Dad: Paul Copley SAT Mum: Kate Anthony SAT Writer: Tom Wrigglesworth SAT Writer: James Kettle SAT Writer: Miles Jupp SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci - Facts and Fancies b007jrmj (Listen) SAT From diseases to identity cards, the producer, writer and SAT performer presents his own collection of humorous essays. SAT SAT 22:45 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop b00v72r5 (Listen) SAT Diversity SAT By Christopher Green. SAT Ida Barr is a music hall singer who has embraced hip hop and SAT rap, reflecting the cultural diversity of London's East End, SAT where she has been living in retirement for several decades. SAT Ida has a genuine love of talking to people so each week she SAT investigates a new topic and creates a unique brand of SAT music-hall, hip-hop fusion with beat boxer Shlomo. This SAT week, the topic is "Diversity". SAT Produced by Claire Grove SAT Ida Barr is the creation of award-winning performer SAT Christopher Green (aka spoof country and western singer Tina SAT C). "Missy Elliott meets Marie Lloyd" - Guardian. Each week SAT Ida investigates a current political buzz word - Choice, SAT Responsibility, Diversity and Transparency - and records her SAT findings on her Ida-pod - an ancient battery operated SAT cassette machine with a greasy earpiece. Her target groups SAT include the Sutton House over 55's drama group, children SAT from the Italia Conti Aacademy and Theatre Venture's Youth SAT Company from Stratford East. SAT Beat box artist Shlomo was heard by 3.9 billion people SAT around the world when he and Björk performed "Oceania" at SAT the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics. He has SAT also worked with artists such as Martha Wainwright, Damon SAT Albarn, and Nitin Sawhney. He is a classically-trained SAT percussionist and heads the world's only human beatbox SAT choir, the Vocal Orchestra. SAT Christopher Green has written and performed three Tina C SAT series for BBC Radio 4 plus Tina C's Election Night BBQ SAT Special (Nov 2008). 'Ida Barr's Bingo' was at the Brighton SAT Festival and the South Bank earlier this year and 'Ida Barr: SAT So This Is Christmas' was at the Barbican Centre in December SAT 2008. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Claire Grove SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07dbv0k (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to SAT Richard Gadd. SAT SAT 23:00 Masala FM b007zjm8 (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT The station is only attracting Z-list Asian celebrities, but SAT then a top 'royal' phones in. Stars Meera Syal. From SAT September 1996. SAT SAT 23:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01292g0 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser SAT Sitcom starring Justin, Anne Reid and Paul Copley. A SAT Manchester DJ tries to balance love, work and everything SAT else without much success. This week, his job seems to be on SAT the line. SAT Anne Reid ..... Gran SAT Christine Bottomley ..... Lisa SAT Justin Moorhouse ..... Justin SAT Lloyd Langford ..... Bryn SAT Paul Copley ..... Ray SAT Susan Cookson ..... Tanya SAT Produced by Steven Canny SAT In one version of his life, Justin is a well-known local SAT Manchester radio DJ who is successful, funny, and stopped in SAT the street by adoring fans. He's the man who has everything. SAT In another version he's a DJ in a slightly shabby local SAT radio station who gets hassled by the occasional oddball on SAT the street. And he's the man who hopes for everything. The SAT truth lies somewhere inbetween. SAT And at home? Well, naturally, his private life is chaotic. SAT His wife has left him, taking custody of his 8-year-old son SAT Justin jnr, and is in the process of taking him to the SAT cleaners. So he's back on the market. As is his house - so SAT he's currently living in his father-in-law's spare room in SAT Bury. The only person who understands him is his Gran, SAT living in luxury in an old folk's home in Warrington. Oh, SAT and his producer Bryn but this might not be a good thing. SAT Despite all this mess, Justin always remains positive. Every SAT new day is a new opportunity, "When life throws you lemons, SAT make lemonade". SAT Recorded in front of an audience in Manchester. SAT Everyone Quite Likes Justin is written by Justin Moorhouse SAT and Jim Poyser. Justin is a comedian who sells out gigs SAT across the country. He has also written plays and a previous SAT show for Radio 4. Jim Poyser is a writer and producer of SAT enormous experience in both radio and television. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 29 MAY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Doctor Who b07d3137 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City b07d2vlz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b07d2wt7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Frankly Speaking b07d2z3f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:45 Could Do Better b03p85pm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b06vg1ph (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Saturday Drama b01pf5d7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SUN American Literature b00rfhzx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrkh (Listen) SUN Omnibus, part 2 SUN The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. War, SUN traffic accidents and unexpected house purchases. Starring SUN Alex Jennings. SUN SUN 07:15 A Woman's World b00wrbs1 (Listen) SUN Women's Studies SUN Professor Jeff Hearn talks to Chris Ledgard about his SUN relationship with the academic world of Women's Studies. SUN After a group of female staff at Bradford University set up SUN the UK's second Women's Studies postgraduate course in the SUN early 1980s, Jeff Hearn was asked to teach on it. Professor SUN Hearn - who describes himself as a profeminist - found SUN himself, he says, "on an ambiguous margin of Women's SUN Studies." Now a professor of Gender Studies in Sweden, he SUN and his colleagues discuss his work as a man on the fringe SUN of academic feminism. SUN Credits SUN Producer: Chris Ledgard SUN SUN 07:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01cjwv9 (Listen) SUN Series 7, The Viewing SUN Arthur finds a cunning way of nosing around a neighbours SUN home, as he masquerades as a potential purchaser, he also SUN receives interesting news from an old friend in Spain. SUN Count Arthur Strong (Steve Delaney) - one time Variety Star, SUN now sole proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of SUN Performance - is a show business legend, raconteur, and SUN lecturer extraordinaire. He stars in a Sitcom with regular SUN sidekick Wilfred Taylor, Master Butcher, and a host of other SUN characters. SUN All false starts and nervous fumbling badly covered up by a SUN delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance, and an expert SUN in everything from the world of entertainment to the origin SUN of the species, everyday life with Arthur is an enlightening SUN experience. SUN Cast: SUN Steve Delaney SUN Mel Giedroyc SUN Alastair Kerr SUN David Mounfield SUN Producer: John Leonard SUN A Komedia production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 Ray's a Laugh b07d39yl (Listen) SUN Ted wants to make some home improvements, but can he manage SUN to wangle a loan from the bank? SUN Starring Ted Ray. With Kitty Bluett and Kenneth Connor. SUN Ray's A Laugh - the successor to ITMA - follows the comedy SUN exploits of Ted's life at home with his 'radio' wife Kitty, SUN as well as in a variety of jobs. It ran from 1949-1961. SUN Scripted by Bernard Botting and Charles Hart. SUN BBC Variety Orchestra conducted by Paul Fenoulhet. SUN Producer: Leslie Bridgmont SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1958. SUN SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House b007mwkh (Listen) SUN Marriage-itis SUN Medic Simon Sparrow must cope with both his hangover and a SUN bad case of cold feet. SUN The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted SUN for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor SUN in the House' published in 1952. SUN Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as SUN Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast SUN as Taffy Evans and Norma Ronald as Matron/Vera. SUN Producer: David Hatch SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1968. SUN SUN 09:00 Aarathi Prasad - In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: SUN Omnibus b07d3bj4 (Listen) SUN Aarathi Prasad explores the ancient and modern in Indian SUN medicine. Read by Sudha Bhuchar. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b07d3fpp (Listen) SUN Pauline Black SUN Singer Pauline Black chooses 'My Boy Lollipop' by Millie SUN Small and 'Get Up Stand Up' by Bob Marley. SUN SUN 10:15 World Book Club b07d3fpr (Listen) SUN Neil Gaiman - American Gods SUN 4 Extra Debut. Neil Gaiman, voted by listeners as the SUN programme's 'most wanted' guest, joins Harriett Gilbert and SUN invited audience. From September 2013. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b07d3fs9 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Live from Sydney SUN True stories told live: David Crabb introduces a special SUN show from Australia with tales around the theme of 'the SUN razor's edge'. 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 12:00 Ray's a Laugh b07d39yl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House b007mwkh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrkh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 A Woman's World b00wrbs1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Robert Macfarlane - Landmarks b05qdqsq (Listen) SUN Omnibus. Robert Macfarlane visits some inspiring places to SUN meet the people and 'collect' the words that evoke the area. SUN Read by Tobias Menzies and the author. SUN SUN 15:45 Fay Weldon Stories b007jztv (Listen) SUN Inspector Remorse SUN 4 Extra Debut. An art critic sits in a church on Easter SUN Friday, contemplating what she has to be remorseful for. SUN Read by Patricia Hodge. SUN SUN 16:00 Marcy Kahan - Death at the Desert Inn b00t6v8d (Listen) SUN $300,000 dollars are left in a satchel in Noel Coward's Las SUN Vegas suite, and so he sets off again on his unexpected SUN posthumous career as a detective. SUN Marcy Kahan's crime thriller stars Malcolm Sinclair as Noel SUN Coward, Eleanor Bron as Lorn Lorraine. Tam Williams as Cole SUN Lesley, Belinda Lang as Judy Garland and Jake Broder as Joe SUN Glaser. SUN The Desert Inn, scene of one of his greatest cabaret SUN triumphs, is the setting for "a highly probable Noel Coward SUN Murder Mystery", complete with Judy Garland, a showgirl, a SUN Broadway agent, an unlikely croupier, a US Congressman and SUN Coward's act, with half of Hollywood in the audience. SUN Another crime to be solved with the Master's favourite SUN weapon - wit. SUN Director: Ned Chaillet SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2004. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b07d3htz (Listen) SUN David Walliams on Philip Larkin SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with David Walliams on Philip SUN Larkin. SUN Actor David Walliams is a great admirer of Philip Larkin's SUN poetry, and to mark the 25th anniversary of the poet's SUN death, he talked to former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, who SUN wrote a widely acclaimed biography of Larkin, about why he SUN finds this poetry so appealing. SUN Walliams chooses a selection of the poems he likes best, SUN some well-known and some far less so, to explore the central SUN themes that recur throughout Larkin's work. It's a SUN fascinating three-way meeting of minds: the actor, the SUN biographer and the poet they both admire. SUN The poems are read by Philip Larkin, Tom Courtenay and SUN Patrick Romer. SUN Producer: Sara Davies SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. SUN SUN 17:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01cjwv9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Drama b06y9b6t (Listen) SUN Utopia SUN 2016 is the 500th Anniversary of Thomas More's classic work SUN of speculative fiction, which has entered the culture so SUN deeply that the name of his fictional island is the accepted SUN term for our hopes and dreams of a better society. SUN Poet Michael Symmons Roberts dramatisation brings More's SUN strange and enchanting island to life, told through the SUN memoirs of Raphael Hythloday. SUN More goes on a diplomatic trip to Antwerp, to sort out a SUN dispute in the commercial wool trade between Britain and the SUN Netherlands. While he is there he meets an old man who is SUN clearly widely travelled. SUN More complains about the petty politics of the trade SUN dispute, and the old stranger bemoans the state of SUN contemporary society. There is a better way, he says, and I SUN have seen it. The stranger introduces himself as the SUN explorer and adventurer Raphael Hythloday, who at the height SUN of his career of was sent out from Antwerp to explore an SUN unmapped and remote part of the ocean. After months of SUN sailing, he chanced upon an island society unlike any he had SUN seen before. The island was called 'Utopia'. SUN Utopia fleshes out the story of Raphael's visit to the SUN island, giving us vivid descriptions of the place and its SUN society, its laws and social patterns and customs. SUN All the bearings for this new drama are be taken from the SUN rules and descriptions of the island in More's book, and the SUN clues he gives about Raphael's visit. SUN Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts. SUN Credits SUN Raphael Hythloday: Raad Rawi SUN Young Raphael: Nacho Aldeguer SUN Thomas More: Michael Peavoy SUN Achorian: Michael Peavoy SUN Peter Giles: Cameron Blakeley SUN Abraxa: Emily Pithon SUN Barzanes: Jonathan Keeble SUN Macaria: Fiona Clarke SUN Director: Susan Roberts SUN Author: Thomas More SUN Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07d3fs9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Aarathi Prasad - In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room: SUN Omnibus b07d3bj4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks b07d3fpp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:00 World Book Club b07d3fpr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01cjwv9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 The Masterson Inheritance b007jpvx (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Quest for the Other Rabbit's Foot SUN Myths and mucking out at the court of King Arthur. SUN Improvised family saga with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. SUN From June 1994. SUN SUN 23:00 Think the Unthinkable b01hbrw8 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 1 SUN The management consultants tackle credit card security, with SUN the morally dubious Owen. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From July SUN 2004. SUN SUN 23:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jrqr1 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 SUN In this episode, the team are horrified that the media have SUN been invited to one of Malcolm's citizenship ceremonies, SUN Anita's got problems with childcare and Luke's having a SUN 'quarter life' crisis. SUN Births, Deaths and Marriages is a new sitcom set in a Local SUN Authority Register Office where the staff deal with the SUN three greatest events in anybody's life. SUN Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan SUN Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a SUN stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any SUN wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health SUN and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? SUN He's married thousands of women. SUN Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been SUN parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and SUN Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just SUN about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit SUN in our new age of austerity. SUN There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried SUN he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may SUN get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the SUN only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. SUN Cast: SUN Malcolm ...... David Schneider SUN Lorna ....... Sarah Hadland SUN Anita ........ Sandy McDade SUN Luke ....... Russell Tovey SUN Mary ....... Sally Bretton SUN Mr. Arnold/Peter Stephenson ...... Andrew Brooke SUN Bereaved woman/New Citizen/Mum ...... Jane Whittenshaw SUN Producer: Simon Jacobs SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 30 MAY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Drama b06y9b6t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrkh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 A Woman's World b00wrbs1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Robert Macfarlane - Landmarks b05qdqsq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Fay Weldon Stories b007jztv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Marcy Kahan - Death at the Desert Inn b00t6v8d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b07d3htz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01cjwv9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green b013216n (Listen) MON Series 1, Needle in a Haystack MON A baby's life is in danger when some pep pills go missing MON and George Dixon causes a stir at home when he offers PC MON Crawford the spare room... MON Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David MON Calder as PC George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford MON and Charlene Brooks as Mary Dixon. MON Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by MON Sue Rodwell. MON Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The MON Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, MON Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running MON from 1955 to 1976. MON Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howell. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. MON MON 06:30 How the Rest Got Home b00sjngj (Listen) MON The miracle of Dunkirk carries an air of finality about it MON in the popular mind. More than 300,000 troops evacuated, MON ending Allied - especially British - involvement on the MON Continent. MON But this is simply untrue. MON Nearly 200,000 non-French Allied troops continued to see MON action in France, some only arriving after Dunkirk. MON How The Rest Got Home tells some of their stories: those who MON survived the sinking of the Lancastria (Britain's worst-ever MON maritime disaster); those who founded the escape routes to MON the south coast of France; those who only reached home after MON five tortured years in German captivity, following MON humiliating capture at St Valery-en-Caux. There were SO many MON different ways back. MON The programme hears from a string of veterans in their late MON 80s and 90s. There's Henry Harding, whose leap off the MON Lancastria saved his life - he still has the watch he was MON wearing at the time, its hands frozen. Scotsmen Bill MON Crighton and Andrew Cheyne recall the sheer terror of MON Rommel's bombardment at St Valery, and the emotion of their MON eventual return to Aberdeen after five years' hard labour as MON German prisoners. MON On archive tape, Helen Long remembers the cloak and dagger MON business of hiding and protecting post-Dunkirk escapees in MON the brothels of Marseilles. MON Presenter and military historian Saul David has been a close MON observer of the forgotten stories of continuing heroism and MON tragedy after Dunkirk. He visits the Normandy coastline MON where much of the action took place. MON An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Producer: Andrew Green MON MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007r4mg (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 5 MON When a new rival appears in town, 18th-century smuggler MON Tamsyn Trelawny tries to quit. Stars Lucy Speed. From March MON 2003. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b07btlmc (Listen) MON Series 75, Episode 2 MON Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 75th series of MON the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 MON seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. No MON repetition? That's no small order after nearly 50 years. MON Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence, Alexei Sayle and Graham Norton MON join host Nicholas Parsons and the topics on the cards MON include Clock-watching, Cardigan Bay, and A Hot Potato. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Josie Lawrence MON Panellist: Alexei Sayle MON Panellist: Graham Norton MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings b01p8pl1 (Listen) MON Series 1, The Excursion MON Railway Station Master Horace Hepplewhite decides Parsley MON Sidings needs to boost passenger numbers with train MON excursions. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, MON Kenneth Connor as Percy, Liz Fraser as Gloria and John MON Graham as the American Tourist. MON Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway MON station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station MON for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, MON hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. MON Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but MON on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria MON Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an MON archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, MON Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in MON equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas MON Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop MON down the line. MON Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. MON Producer: Edward Taylor MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in January 1972. MON MON 08:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k0bg (Listen) MON Hollywood and Back MON The veteran of many parts recalls one of the worst screen MON performances never seen. Stars Peter Jones. From June 1968. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00r0yml (Listen) MON Series 12, JD Salinger MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are MON joined by Tibor Fischer and Peter Kemp. The author of the MON week and subject for pastiche is JD Salinger, and the reader MON is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 Tony's b00tdlr8 (Listen) MON Series 1, The Italian Connection MON The salon and owner are attacked by gangsters, but can a MON cousin speak their language? Stars Victor Spinetti. From MON November 1979. MON MON 10:00 Dave Sheasby - Five Summers and Johnny Onion MON b00vzz1p (Listen) MON For Anne, a photo provokes vivid memories of an intense lost MON love story across the English Channel. Stars Susan Jameson. MON MON 11:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential b01j2ld7 (Listen) MON The Last Tenant MON Written by Heidi Amsinck MON Read by: Jack Klaff MON In these three specially-commissioned tales by Heidi MON Amsinck, Copenhagen and its surrounds are places of twilight MON and shadows: mysterious places where strange, occasionally MON bad things happen. MON The Last Tenant MON Jan Vettegren is convinced that the office building he's MON bought is a steal - once you get past the wear-and-tear, MON creaks and strange recurring smells. But none of his MON colleagues are happy to work alone there. MON Heidi Amsinck, a writer and journalist born in Copenhagen, MON has covered Britain for the Danish press since 1992, MON including a spell as London Correspondent for the broadsheet MON daily Jyllands-Posten. Heidi has written numerous short MON stories for radio including, most recently, the three story MON set Danish Noir (2010), which was also produced by Sweet MON Talk for BBC Radio 4. A graduate of the MA in Creative MON Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, Heidi lives in MON Surrey with her husband and two young sons. MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Reader: Jack Klaff MON Producer: Jeremy Osborne MON Writer: Heidi Amsinck MON MON 11:15 Afternoon Drama b011jvyz (Listen) MON Ewa Banaszkiewicz - SBLT (Single But Living Together) MON by Ewa Banaszkiewicz MON What happens if you separate but circumstances force you to MON continue to live together? MON Alex thinks she can make it work with a list of rules but MON then emotions begin to get in the way. MON Directed by Sally Avens. MON Credits MON Alex: Natasha Little MON Josh: David Seddon MON Liz: Sarah Smart MON Duncan: Will Tudor MON Rilla: Jane Whittenshaw MON Nicky: Alex Tregear MON Zoe: Martha Avens MON Writer: Ewa Banaszkiewicz MON Director: Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b01p8pl1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k0bg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green b013216n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 How the Rest Got Home b00sjngj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nhsgh (Listen) MON A Crowd of Neighbours MON William and Sal meet some fellow river-dwellers at MON Thornhill's Point. A story of belonging and ownership read MON by Ron Cook. MON MON 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and MON the Mind b042zcqh (Listen) MON The Stages of Life MON In this programme Martin Sixsmith looks at the stages of MON human development from childhood to old age, including Erik MON Erikson's psychosocial model with its eight phases of the MON human life cycle. MON He examines Jean Piaget's influential work on childhood MON development and John Bowlby's theory of attachment between MON mother and child. MON He considers how the study of animals such as Konrad MON Lorenz's work with geese on imprinting and Harlow's MON controversial experiments with baby monkeys informed MON research, as well as talking to Bristol University's MON Professor Bruce Hood about early years development and MON theory of mind. MON Produced by Sara Parker. MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsfz (Listen) MON The Virgin in the Garden, part 1 MON In 1950s Yorkshire, Frederica Potter, still living at home, MON senses that something exciting is beginning. Stars Hannah MON Watkins. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b011tz8h (Listen) MON James Joyce - A Biography, Episode 1 MON "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the MON lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope MON with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora MON go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he MON was by her..." MON Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at MON Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial MON jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of MON married life, but still managed to produce works of MON literature that stand the test of time. MON 1. Gordon Bowker's study of the great writer, abridged for MON radio by Penny Leicester, begins with his early life in MON Dublin, which is full of japes with friends and then an eye MON to exile... MON Narrator Jim Norton and the voice of Joyce is Andrew Scott. MON MON 15:00 Dave Sheasby - Five Summers and Johnny Onion MON b00vzz1p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00r0yml (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Tony's b00tdlr8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007r4mg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b07btlmc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jzyb (Listen) MON The Pursuit of the President MON After the sunset confrontation between motor cars, the MON detectives return to London to accost Sunday. Read by MON Geoffrey Palmer. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b007675y (Listen) MON Michael Berry and Nick Broomfield MON Rosie Boycott talks to the documentary filmmaker Nick MON Broomfield and the mathematical physicist Sir Michael Berry, MON about favourite books by Jack London, Philip Roth and Paul MON Scott. From 2002. MON The Human Stain by Philip Roth MON Publisher: Vintage MON People of the Abyss by Jack London MON Publisher Pluto Press MON Staying On by Paul Scott MON Publisher: Mandarin. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b01p8pl1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007k0bg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green b013216n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 How the Rest Got Home b00sjngj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Heidi Amsinck - Copenhagen Confidential b01j2ld7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Afternoon Drama b011jvyz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b07btlmc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b01m0pqk (Listen) MON Series 1, The One with Anubis, Almighty Jackal-Headed God of MON the Egyptian Underworld MON Comedy's best kept secret ingredient gets his own sketch MON show. Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, MON some messin' about, you know... MON In this episode, Kevin goes into space, meets a bandit and MON evokes the powerful gods of Ancient Egypt. Not all at the MON same time, obviously - that would be weird. No, separately. MON Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually MON every major comedy show in the last fifteen years, but not MON content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve MON Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, MON Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally MON decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC Radio MON 4. MON After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now. MON Appearing in this episode are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan MON Partridge, Scott & Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), MON Rosie Cavaliero (Peep Show), Paul Putner (Little Britain), MON Justin Edwards (The Consultants) and David Reed (The Penny MON Dreadfuls) with special guest Phil Cornwell as David Bowie MON circa 1973. MON Written by Kevin Eldon. MON With additional material by Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris MON (Flight Of The Conchords, That Mitchell & Webb Sound). MON Original music by Martin Bird. MON Produced and directed by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b07d7b01 (Listen) MON Series 17, Episode 7 MON Susan Calman, Holly Walsh, Francis Wheen and Dane Baptiste MON are Miles' guests for this episode of News Quiz Extra, the MON bumper bonus version of Friday's programme. MON Producer..... Tamara Shilham MON A BBC Studios Production. MON MON 23:45 Singular Women b00755cm (Listen) MON Dora MON Lesley Joseph recreates her stage role as Dora, a 'person of MON restricted growth' whose performances are under threat. From MON 1997. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 31 MAY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jzyb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b007675y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green b013216n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 How the Rest Got Home b00sjngj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nhsgh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and TUE the Mind b042zcqh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsfz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b011tz8h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Dave Sheasby - Five Summers and Johnny Onion TUE b00vzz1p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00r0yml (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Tony's b00tdlr8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007r4mg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b07btlmc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133pl2 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Crawford's First Pinch TUE Some unsavoury postcards turn up on the Dock Green beat and TUE the link to a recent spate of bicycle thefts makes PC Andy TUE Crawford desperate to notch up his first arrest. TUE Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David TUE Calder as PC George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford, TUE Charlene Brooks as Mary Dixon and Michael Fenton Stevens as TUE Ned Cooney. TUE Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by TUE Sue Rodwell. TUE Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The TUE Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, TUE Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running TUE from 1955 to 1976. TUE Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howell. TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. TUE TUE 06:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? b00tt6f6 (Listen) TUE In June 2006, the death was announced of the pianist Joyce TUE Hatto. She was heralded as a great lost genius of classical TUE music- a reclusive woman who almost never performed in TUE public, but who in later life had created sublime recordings TUE in private. A few months later it emerged that those TUE recordings were fake- lifted from other performers and TUE tweaked in the studio - which leaves a question hanging. TUE In this programme, the biographer Anne Sebba asks 'Who was TUE Joyce Hatto?' TUE 'In the final few years of her life, she released a huge TUE range of CD recordings which swamped the market and were TUE praised to the hilt by a select band of reviewers,' says TUE Anne, 'I remember thinking, Where had this amazing talent TUE been all these years'? TUE Then, after a pile of glowing obituaries, which told of her TUE four decade battle with cancer, these recordings of the TUE pianist Joyce Hatto were branded as fake - copies of TUE commercial recordings made by other artists, - not by Joyce TUE at all. TUE In this programme, her husband, William Barrington Coupe, TUE the sound engineer for her recordings, said that he alone TUE was to blame for the deception- acting purely out of love, TUE and replacing passages of his wife's playing with other TUE artists. TUE But behind the final deception, there is an intriguing story TUE of an incredibly talented pianist marred by ill-health. TUE The conductor George Hurst talks about working with Joyce in TUE the early 1960s. The novelist Rose Tremain recalls Joyce as TUE an inspirational piano teacher. The critic Lewis Foreman TUE remembers an extraordinary performance at Guildford. TUE Producer: David Prest TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b008zs1b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Neighbourhood Watch TUE Linda's tortoise, Sir Cliff, has been sprung from his high TUE security facility. Can the Neighbourhood Watch group find TUE the culprit? TUE Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith. TUE With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Martin Hyder, TUE Margaret John and Chris Neill. TUE Special guest: Dillie Keane TUE Producer: Jon Rolph TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01s8cp3 (Listen) TUE Series 2, George and Louise TUE Isy Suttie returns to BBC Radio 4 with a brand new series of TUE her Sony Award Winning show, recounting a series of love TUE stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, TUE told partly through song. TUE Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; TUE quite often she's intervened, changing the action TUE dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these TUE stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, TUE often disastrous, love life. TUE In this final episode of the series, Isy recounts the tale TUE of George and Louise, set against the backdrop of the TUE Matlock Ceilidh over Christmas / New Year 2014. TUE With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied TUE by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving TUE world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love. TUE "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE Credits TUE Performer: Isy Suttie TUE Writer: Isy Suttie TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00tlwzb (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 16 TUE Listeners have their say - and there's a bona surprise for TUE Julian and Sandy. TUE Kenneth Horne hosts the last ever show. With Kenneth TUE Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. 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. Marty departed after TUE series 3. TUE Scripted by Barry Took, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. TUE Music by the Max Harris Group. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jp1t (Listen) TUE Sky High TUE Construction chaos abounds for the bumbling civil servants TUE over a new office block. Stars Richard Murdoch. From July TUE 1974. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b07d7b01 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Singular Women b00755cm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vj1 (Listen) TUE The Young Lady in Black TUE In 1875, Carlingford jealousies and rivalries arise as Mrs TUE Oliphant returns to focus on Phoebe Beecham's family. With TUE Elizabeth Spriggs. TUE TUE 11:00 Opening Lines b00d4f0g (Listen) TUE Series 10, The Deep TUE Miranda and Andy's idyllic holiday in the tropics ends up TUE exposing rifts in their relationship. Read by Helen TUE Longworth. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b011p7t0 (Listen) TUE Jimmy McAleavey - Hearing Voices TUE D.I. James McCoy is an old style, hard-man copper, who TUE though tempted by an offer of redundancy, determines to nail TUE the killer of a colleague involved in undercover work. McCoy TUE knows what he has to do to gain a conviction, but for the TUE first time in his career he finds himself undermined not TUE only by a psychopathic murderer, but by a somehow familiar TUE voice in his head which ridicules and emasculates him, and TUE threatens to completely destroy him. TUE Hearing Voices by Jimmy McAleavey TUE James McCoy - Tim McInnerny TUE The Voice - Danny Webb TUE Kenny -Ian Bartholomew TUE McKenzie - Daniel Rabin TUE Fairleigh - Ewan Bailey TUE Anika - Jane Slavin TUE Davide - Nyasha Hatendi TUE Psychologist - Joanna Munroe TUE Hearing Voices was directed and produced by Eoin TUE O'Callaghan. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Eoin OCallaghan TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00tlwzb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jp1t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133pl2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? b00tt6f6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nhw1l (Listen) TUE Give a Little, Take a Little TUE William and Sal Thornhill must learn to live next to their TUE new Aboriginal river bank neighbours. Read by Ron Cook. TUE TUE 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and TUE the Mind b042zsy1 (Listen) TUE DNA and Darwin TUE Martin Sixsmith looks at how our DNA and the development of TUE our brain informs who we are and how we think. TUE He re-examines the nature versus nurture debate and TUE considers the claims of evolutionary psychology from Robert TUE Sapolsky's work with baboons to the increasing interest in TUE epigenetics. TUE He talks to geneticist Steve Jones of University College TUE London and visits the Oxford Brain bank to interview TUE neuropathologist Margaret Esiri about the structure of the TUE brain. TUE Producer: Sara Parker TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsgc (Listen) TUE The Virgin in the Garden, part 2 TUE A wealthy theatre director is producing a play and Frederica TUE Potter is desperate to secure a role. Stars Hannah Watkins. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b011v1bb (Listen) TUE James Joyce - A Biography, Episode 2 TUE "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the TUE lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope TUE with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora TUE go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he TUE was by her..." TUE Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at TUE Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial TUE jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of TUE married life, but still managed to produce works of TUE literature that stand the test of time. TUE 2. Joyce and Nora have left Ireland for Pola and then TUE Trieste, where literary ambitions are at odds with the need TUE to eke out a living. So maybe Joyce's brother Stannie should TUE join them? TUE TUE 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vj1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00drrzf (Listen) TUE 2005, Episode 6 TUE Ned Sherrin hosts the music quiz with Oliver Longstaff and TUE Peter Robinson of Harrogate and Jane Prust from Leeds. TUE TUE 16:30 Ayres on the Air b01ms34r (Listen) TUE Series 4, Spring TUE Popular poet Pam Ayres is joined in her poetry and sketch TUE show by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead as they look TUE at the season of Spring. TUE This week she looks subjects such as flowers and animals in TUE springtime, spring elections plus she has some unusual tips TUE for spring cleaning. TUE Her poems this week include: I Was Standing by the Cow; TUE Heaps of Stuff; Barking: Fleeced and the Snoring Poem. TUE Produced by Claire Jones. TUE TUE 17:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b008zs1b (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01s8cp3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jvck (Listen) TUE The Six Philosophers TUE The men pursue Sunday as he flees them aboard a hot-air TUE balloon. Read by Geoffrey Palmer. TUE TUE 18:30 The Tingle Factor b07d7yr3 (Listen) TUE Alan Ayckbourn TUE Playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn talks to Robin Ray about the TUE music which stirs his emotions. Recorded in Scarborough. TUE In between his music choices, Alan remembers his musical TUE father, recounts some of his successes and flops - and how TUE he became the owner of a special cat. TUE Producer: Andrew Mussett TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00tlwzb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jp1t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133pl2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? b00tt6f6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Opening Lines b00d4f0g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b011p7t0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01s8cp3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Guns of Adam Riches b01qwj0j (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Third Pole TUE In this final episode, the award-winning comedian Adam TUE Riches tells the story of Martin, an audience member from TUE London, who started the evening as an unsuspecting software TUE developer, but ended it as the greatest explorer ever to TUE walk the earth. As Martin battles to be the first man to TUE reach the "Third Pole", he is faced by many challenges, TUE including a rival team of Norwegians, led inexplicably by TUE the German filmmaker, Werner Herzog. TUE Written by and starring Adam Riches. TUE Also starring Cariad Lloyd, Jim Johnson and Simon Yadoo. TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b0138y1m (Listen) TUE For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers TUE the best laughs. Plus tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats to TUE Amy Howerska. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00t6v4j (Listen) TUE Series 1, Switching Off TUE Comatose Ben journeys across his brain's landscape, TUE reminding him of Tolkien's Mordor. Stars Neil Pearson. From TUE August 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 The Remains of Foley and McColl b007jrl6 (Listen) TUE The Real You TUE Sean Foley and Hamish McColl's producer forces them to get TUE proper jobs. Surreal comedy from June 2000. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 01 JUNE 2016 WED WED 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jvck (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Tingle Factor b07d7yr3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133pl2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Who Was Joyce Hatto? b00tt6f6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nhw1l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and WED the Mind b042zsy1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsgc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b011v1bb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vj1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00drrzf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Ayres on the Air b01ms34r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting WED b008zs1b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b01s8cp3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0132tjy (Listen) WED Series 1, Dixie WED When things go missing from the Dixon household Doris, the WED downtrodden girl from next door, is exposed as a petty WED thief. But it's Mary Dixon who comes to her rescue, against WED George's wishes, and who earns the admiration of Andy WED Crawford... WED Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David WED Calder as PC George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford, WED Charlene Brooks as Mary Dixon and Sarah Counsell as Doris WED Monroe. WED Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by WED Sue Rodwell. WED Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The WED Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, WED Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running WED from 1955 to 1976. WED Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howell. WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. WED WED 06:30 Banishing Eve b00rd4f1 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Historian of the ancient world Bettany Hughes uses the WED latest scholarship to take us back to the 2nd century AD, as WED pagan Europe began to embrace Christianity. What emerged out WED of this crucible of religious change marked the beginning of WED the end for women as religious leaders for a millennium and WED half. Common wisdom would have it that women went from WED goddesses to flower arrangers in just over a century. But WED why - and was it that straightforward? WED Bettany finds that the history of women in the early church WED is written more in the fragments of stone left behind than WED in the scriptures. She visits Rome and traces the activities WED of women in the early church as they fought hand in hand WED with men to see their faith survive. Things got more WED difficult after Christianity became the recognised religion WED of the Roman Empire and beyond. But this is not just a tale WED of capitulation and annihilation; women fought doggedly for WED their positions. From Nicea to Northumbria, Bettany follows WED the decline - but not quite fall - of women in the early WED church. WED WED 07:00 Married b00804fg (Listen) WED Series 2, Serenity WED As he finally adjusts to his parallel life, Robin tries to WED convince his 'ex-wife' of the truth. Stars Hugh Bonneville. WED WED 07:30 Heresy b07c2t5p (Listen) WED Series 10, Episode 2 WED Victoria Coren Mitchell presents another edition of the show WED which dares to commit heresy . Her guests this week are Alex WED Horne, Jonny Woo and Richard Osman. Together they discuss WED money, dress codes and sexy TV dramas. WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Presenter: Victoria Coren Mitchell WED Panellist: Alex Horne WED Panellist: Jonny Woo WED Panellist: Richard Osman WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01mhnh2 (Listen) WED Stuck on a Sandbank WED The crew of HMS Troutbridge is set for shore leave - if they WED can just manage to complete one tiny mission first. WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as WED Heather, Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson and Tenniel WED Evans as Leading Seamen Goldstein. 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 January 1964. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j1c4p (Listen) WED Series 9, Episode 4 WED Prune Playhouse presents The Search for the Nile. With John WED Cleese, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden. From November 1973. WED WED 09:00 Jest a Minute b012n3rz (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED Justin Moorhouse, Rob Deering, Chris Corcoran and Tom Allen WED hit London in Rhod Gilbert's comedy quiz. From September WED 2006. WED WED 09:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0mg (Listen) WED The Unquiet American WED The rural station staff attempt to secure an old engine, but WED there is a big catch. Stars Peter Davison. From January WED 1996. WED WED 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vj3 (Listen) WED A New Gentleman WED A shock awaits Phoebe Beecham when she arrives in WED Carlingford to visit her sick grandmother. Stars Charlotte WED Attenborough. WED WED 11:00 Opening Lines b00d4f0l (Listen) WED Series 10, Put the Radiator on, Get the Coffee Going WED Series showcasing cutting-edge contemporary writing. WED In Anna Britten's story, a young decorator's encounter with WED a middle-aged divorcee and a dragonfly give him unexpected WED inspiration for a colour scheme. WED Read by Mike Bailey. WED WED 11:15 Andy Rashleigh - Be Prepared b0076m8m (Listen) WED Starring Ian McKellen as Robert Baden-Powell. WED One of the key figures of the early 20th century, Robert WED Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, looks back upon WED a life embodying the spirit of Imperial adventure. From the WED balcony of his home, he regrets, he gives thanks, he wonders WED if he has at last found something like harmony and peace. WED Written by Andy Rashleigh. WED The cast includes Zoe Waites, Nicholas Boulton, Jon Glover, WED John Rowe and Philip Fox. WED Directed by Cherry Cookson. WED First broadcast on Radio 4 in July 2004. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01mhnh2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j1c4p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0132tjy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Banishing Eve b00rd4f1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nj7cs (Listen) WED A Time of Fear WED Tensions between the white farmers and the Aboriginals start WED to escalate. Read by Ron Cook. WED WED 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and WED the Mind b0435c89 (Listen) WED Mapping the Brain WED From early research into how different areas of the brain WED function to President Barack Obama's announcement in 2013 of WED a one hundred million dollar brain mapping project, Martin WED Sixsmith examines the impact of neuroscience on what we know WED about the way we think, feel and act. WED He undergoes transmagnetic cranial stimulation to map the WED workings of his brain and he looks down a microscope at the WED Oxford Brain Bank to see what individual brain cells can WED tell us. WED He listens to the chattering of neurons communicating with WED each other through a single wire implanted in a rat's brain WED and finds out why London cabbies have larger hippocampi than WED the rest of us. WED Producer: Sara Parker WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsgn (Listen) WED The Virgin in the Garden, part 3 WED Stephanie is increasingly worried about her brother, Marcus, WED and the influence a teacher is having on him. Stars Carl WED Prekopp. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b011vg8x (Listen) WED James Joyce - A Biography, Episode 3 WED "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the WED lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope WED with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora WED go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he WED was by her..." WED Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at WED Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial WED jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of WED married life, but still managed to produce works of WED literature that stand the test of time. WED 3. Exile leads to Rome which is not an idyll but all WED 'Pprrpffrrppff' to Joyce. So it's back to Stannie in WED Trieste... WED WED 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vj3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 Jest a Minute b012n3rz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0mg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Married b00804fg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Heresy b07c2t5p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007ww7m (Listen) WED The Accuser WED As Sunday presides over a feast, Lucien Gregory appears. WED Gabriel finds himself back in Saffron Park. Read by Geoffrey WED Palmer. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b007x3f6 (Listen) WED Know Your Place WED Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. WED 7/7. Know your Place WED With Peregrine Worsthorne, Joolz Denby and Francis Gilbert. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01mhnh2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j1c4p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0132tjy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Banishing Eve b00rd4f1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Opening Lines b00d4f0l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Andy Rashleigh - Be Prepared b0076m8m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Heresy b07c2t5p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Start/Stop b03c46ts (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 6 WED by Jack Docherty WED A comedy about three couples sailing off in to the sunset. WED And sinking. This week a lunch invitation looks like it WED might change everything. WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED Jack Docherty WED Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. WED He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe WED with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to WED write for radio and television including: Spitting Image, WED Alas Smith and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, WED The Lenny Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News WED Huddlines and a ton of other things. WED He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows WED including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks WED Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and WED Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies WED Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has WED appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got WED News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented WED his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on WED Channel 5. WED Credits WED Barney: Jack Docherty WED Cathy: Kerry Godliman WED Fiona: Fiona Allen WED David: Charlie Higson WED Evan: John Thomson WED Alice: Katherine Parkinson WED Producer: Steven Canny WED Writer: Jack Docherty WED WED 23:00 2000 Years of Radio b007jnh4 (Listen) WED Series 1, Mad - Georgian Radio WED Full Age of Enlightenment updates, plus the Earl of Sandwich WED lives up to his name. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From November WED 2000. WED WED 23:15 Guy Browning's Small Talk b0076n25 (Listen) WED Series 2, How to Pack WED Start naked and pretend to get dressed - bad luck if the WED taxi comes early. The writer shares travel tips. From WED September 2004. WED WED 23:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b0137yqf (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing WED the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. Lucy is a true WED chameleon who can embrace any character with uncanny WED accuracy, from a deluded teenager to a nonagenarian Diva. WED Lucy is a rare and multifaceted performer her intelligence WED and Barry Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a WED smart and distinctive edge WED Like all big stars, Lucy's worked hard to earn her tilt at WED the windmill of fame. In her ten years since Footlights WED she's honed her talents on Radio 4 shows as diverse as the WED Sony Gold winning Down the Line, The Museum of Everything, WED The Department, Another Case of Milton Jones, Mastering the WED Universe, Torchwood, The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook WED and The Way We Live Right Now. On television she has made WED her mark on BBC THREE's TittyBangBang, BBC ONE's Armstrong WED and Miller and BBC TWO's - Bellamy's People. WED Starring; Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie WED Walter and Waen Shepherd. WED Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve WED Burge, Jon Hunter, Fay Rusling, Abigail Burdess, Suk Pannu, WED Andy Wolton and Joseph Morpurgo. WED Script Editor; Dan Tetsell WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED THU THURSDAY 02 JUNE 2016 THU THU 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007ww7m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b007x3f6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0132tjy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Banishing Eve b00rd4f1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00nj7cs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and THU the Mind b0435c89 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsgn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b011vg8x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vj3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 Jest a Minute b012n3rz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k0mg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Married b00804fg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Heresy b07c2t5p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133g6t (Listen) THU Series 1, Rock, Rattle and Roll THU When a fanatical Spurs fan has his prized football rattle THU stolen, an FA cup tie provides the perfect excuse for a THU weekend away in Blackpool for Andy and Mary. THU Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David THU Calder as PC George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford, THU Charlene Brooks as Mary Dixon, Andrew Sachs as Ben Harvey THU and Jacqueline Tong as Jessie Harvey. THU Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by THU Sue Rodwell. THU Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The THU Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, THU Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running THU from 1955 to 1976. THU Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howell. THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. THU THU 06:30 Banishing Eve b00rl4kn (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU In the second part of her series charting the role of women THU in the founding of the Christian Church, historian Bettany THU Hughes continues to explore gender tension at the heart of THU the new religion. THU As Christianity became the state religion in the Roman THU Empire and spread into Europe, Bettany follows the concerted THU efforts to remove women from spiritual life. The church was THU becoming organised and its creed defined - and as the church THU fathers met in Nicea and Ephesus they were faced with a THU decision that would affect the status of women for the next THU thousand years. How were women to be seen in the new church? THU The two characters of Eve and Mary dominated the debate and THU had profound effects on the religious perception of women. THU But women fought doggedly for their positions. Bettany sets THU out to re-discover these women from Rome, Greece and a windy THU Whitby and finds that the history of women in the early THU Church is written as much in the fragments of stone left THU behind as in the official scriptures. THU THU 07:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqjc (Listen) THU Spode Is Unsuccessful THU Gussie upsets his fiancee when he looks elsewhere on the THU menu. PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael THU Hordern. THU THU 07:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07c4tq7 (Listen) THU Series 2, Women THU Paul Sinha returns for a second series of his History THU Revision, the show that uncovers the fascinating stories THU that we've forgotten in our onward march of progress. In the THU last series we learned how Alexander Graham Bell did NOT THU invent the telephone, and that the World Cup final of 2014 THU could only have happened because of the 1415 invasion of THU Morocco. THU 1/4: Women. THU This week, Paul looks at the forgotten women of history. THU From warriors to inventors to civil rights activists, Paul THU unearths some stories, that for reasons of sexism and THU patriarchy, we never got told about at school. You're THU welcome, ladies. THU "Sinha's gift for finding humour in it all makes him worth a THU listen" - The Telegraph THU Written and performed by Paul Sinha THU Produced by Ed Morrish THU A BBC Radio Comedy Production. THU Credits THU Writer: Paul Sinha THU Performer: Paul Sinha THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jykd (Listen) THU Series 3, The Leak THU Author Gerald becomes obsessed with his wife Diana's sense THU of smell. THU The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring THU Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as THU his wife, Diana. THU With Edward Kelsey. THU Written by Basil Boothroyd. THU Producer: Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1979. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b007k2hv (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 3 THU It's Martin Brown's one and only chance to do something THU useful with his life, as owner Sir Norman Tonsil generously THU pays for him to become an all-round entertainer, for as long THU as it keeps him away from the radio station. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins with John THU Canter, John Docherty, Moray Hunter and Richard Curtis. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985. THU THU 09:00 The Food Quiz b07db8j5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU On Jay Rayner's menu are Clement Freud, Angela Hartnett, THU Jennifer Sharp and Iqbal Wahhab. From September 2004. THU THU 09:30 Artists b00y9453 (Listen) THU Series 1, A Brush With Death THU Gerard organises Tamsin's first solo exhibition, but she's THU got so much else to do. Stars Vicki Pepperdine. From April THU 2003. THU THU 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vk2 (Listen) THU An Unmitigated Cub THU Despite opposing religions, Reginald is attracted to Phoebe, THU but Mr Northcote's arrival sparks friction. Stars Timothy THU West. THU THU 11:00 Opening Lines b00d4f0n (Listen) THU Series 10, Pink or Blue THU Series showcasing cutting-edge contemporary writing. THU In Elizabeth Wells's story, gender stereotyping and THU dysfunctional families are seen through a teenager's eyes in THU small-town Canada. THU Read by Maggie Blake. THU THU 11:15 Jennifer Curry - The Man on the Green Bicycle THU b007644w (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. The remarkable love affair of famous poetry THU translator, Arthur Waley and Alison Grant. Based on real THU events. With Ronald Pickup. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jykd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b007k2hv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133g6t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Banishing Eve b00rl4kn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00njcrc (Listen) THU It is Just Like Mine THU William and the Aboriginals struggle on for ownership of the THU Hawksbury river banks. Read by Ron Cook. THU THU 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and THU the Mind b0435kkj (Listen) THU Man, Machine and Memory THU In the 1950s, mathematician and Bletchley Park code breaker THU Alan Turing envisaged a sophisticated computer whose THU mechanical generation of responses would be THU indistinguishable from that of a human. THU In this programme Martin Sixsmith looks at the way this THU metaphor of human cognition has informed research into THU memory and perception. THU He considers the work of the 1930s Cambridge psychologist THU Frederic Bartlett and the American memory specialist George THU Miller. He talks to Alan Baddeley who with Graham Hitch THU developed a new theory of working memory, and to Peter THU Thompson of the University of York about the way our brains THU perceive and process information - sometimes failing to spot THU the most obvious. THU Producer: Sara Parker THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsh1 (Listen) THU The Virgin in the Garden, part 4 THU Stephanie and Daniel declare their feelings for each other THU but her father reacts badly to the news. Stars Geoffrey THU Whitehead. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b011vh4m (Listen) THU James Joyce - A Biography, Episode 4 THU "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the THU lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope THU with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora THU go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he THU was by her..." THU Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at THU Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial THU jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of THU married life, but still managed to produce works of THU literature that stand the test of time. THU 4. It's February 1914, Joyce is 32. Tensions in Trieste THU increase with the prospect of war. Exile now means Zurich, a THU haven for writers and artists and gossip. Jung is there, so THU is Lenin, but Joyce wants THU to focus on writing Ulysses. THU THU 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vk2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The Food Quiz b07db8j5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Artists b00y9453 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqjc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07c4tq7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Edgar Allan Poe b007jpt5 (Listen) THU The Fall of the House of Usher, Episode 1 THU What power does the family's ancestral home hold over THU Roderick and Madeline Usher? THU Sean Barrett reads Edgar Allan Poe's gothic horror story, THU first published in 1839. A man's descent into madness seems THU bound to the house of his ancestors. THU Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2003. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b007728l (Listen) THU Series 11, Albert Einstein THU Time Magazine called him The Man of the Century and others THU have said he was 'the greatest Jew since Jesus'. His THU theories still make our brains spin, but what was Einstein THU like as a person? TV science presenter Professor Kathy Sykes THU discusses the archetypal crazy genius with Matthew Parris THU and Einstein's biographer, John Gribbin. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jykd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b007k2hv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133g6t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Banishing Eve b00rl4kn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Opening Lines b00d4f0n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Jennifer Curry - The Man on the Green Bicycle THU b007644w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07c4tq7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b045bqt6 (Listen) THU Series 3, Cariad Lloyd and Gwyneth Herbert THU Music and comedy from host Alex Horne and his 5-piece band, THU with special guest comedian Cariad Lloyd and singer Gwyneth THU Herbert. This week's theme is The Tudors versus The Vikings THU featuring a battle, a huge motivational song and a prequel THU to a Barry Manilow's Copacabana. THU Host... Alex Horne THU Band... Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben THU Reynolds, Ed Sheldrake THU Guests... Cariad Lloyd and Gwyneth Herbert THU Producer... Charlie Perkins. THU Credits THU Presenter: Alex Horne THU Performer: Cariad Lloyd THU Performer: Gwyneth Herbert THU Producer: Charlie Perkins THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b021zvz3 (Listen) THU For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers THU the best laughs. Plus tonight, Tom Wrigglesworth chats again THU to Amy Howerska. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00bf9z0 (Listen) THU Series 4, Beautiful England THU As Satan sets out to prove England is the worst nation, THU Scumspawn tackles a lager lout. Satanic sitcom stars Andy THU Hamilton. From April 2001. THU THU 23:30 Hardeep at The Stand b017pj3t (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 6 THU 6/6 THU This week we hear a very familiar voice in a very familiar THU setting, it's Scotland's number one stand up comedian Fred THU MacAulay - that man simply has funny bones. Hardeep chats THU with Sarah Millican about her "catastrophic" career, there's THU a bit of stand up from the amazing Neil Delamere and some THU jokes about wonky teeth and texting from Ireland's titter THU merchant Colm O'Regan. THU THU 23:45 Knocker b008g2dm (Listen) THU Confidentialitydence THU Experimental kitchen wipes sorely test market researcher Ian THU Dunn. Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From December THU 2007. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 03 JUNE 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Edgar Allan Poe b007jpt5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b007728l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133g6t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Banishing Eve b00rl4kn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00njcrc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b0435kkj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jsh1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b011vh4m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vk2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz b07db8j5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Artists b00y9453 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Paul Sinha's History Revision b07c4tq7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133ldd (Listen) FRI Series 1, Roaring Boy FRI Mary and Andy have some exciting news for George, but he's FRI nowhere to be found - and on the other side of Dock Green, a FRI desperate young man with a gun is on the run. FRI Radio revival of BBC TV's famous copper starring David FRI Calder as PC George Dixon, David Tennant as Andy Crawford FRI and Charlene Brooks as Mary Dixon, Carl Prekopp as Doug FRI Beale and Hayley Docherty as Diana Johnson. FRI Written by Ted Willis. Dramatised from his TV screenplay by FRI Sue Rodwell. FRI Dixon of Dock Green's roots go back to 1950 film drama 'The FRI Blue Lamp' which ended with Dixon being shot dead. However, FRI Warner's role was resurrected for the BBC TV series running FRI from 1955 to 1976. FRI Produced in Bristol by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howell. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2005. FRI FRI 06:30 The Ambassador's Reception b00rv5dc (Listen) FRI "Being thrown out of the US embassy in Ankara with Arthur FRI Miller - a voluntary exile - was one of the proudest moments FRI of my life." FRI In March 1985 Harold Pinter and American playwright Arthur FRI Miller took a trip to Turkey that culminated in their being FRI thrown out of the American Ambassador's dinner party held in FRI Arthur Miller's honour. They were not in Turkey for a play FRI or a literary event but to draw attention to the ruthless FRI limits being set on freedom of expression in Turkey at that FRI time, and the many writers languishing in prison. FRI "Mr. Pinter, you don't seem to understand the realities of FRI the situation here. Don't forget, the Russians are just over FRI the border. You have to bear in mind the political reality, FRI the diplomatic reality, the military reality." FRI For BBC Radio 4 writer and journalist Maureen Freely FRI retraces their footsteps and takes us on a journey across FRI Istanbul into the homes and meeting places of the Turkish FRI literati who in the 1980s were oppressed, imprisoned and FRI tortured for their opinions. Until then the world had turned FRI a blind eye to their plight. Did Pinter and Miller's trip FRI draw attention to a regime that was cruelly persecuting its FRI people or were hopes raised only to be quashed again with FRI the realisation that military strategy was more important to FRI the world than human rights? FRI Evoking images of country full of promise yet stunted by FRI doubt and distrust Maureen hears from painters, writers, and FRI publishers - those who remember the trip vividly, those who FRI were locked up for speaking their mind, and the new FRI generation of authors. She finds out whether Turkey is a FRI better, safer and freer place to be a writer today than it FRI was in the spring of 1985 or whether having an opinion that FRI deviates from the official line remains a dangerous path to FRI tread. FRI The producer is Gemma Newby. It is an All Out production for FRI BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Crowned Hudds b00psrfz (Listen) FRI Fourth Wedding and Some Funerals FRI Poking fun at King Henry VIII, it's Roy Hudd's historical FRI royal romp, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From FRI August 1995. FRI FRI 07:30 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar b07ctlnq (Listen) FRI We all like to think we know about the news and yet, whilst FRI jokes about George Osborne's new haircut are all well and FRI good, do you still have that nagging suspicion there's FRI important things going on beneath the headlines you'd like FRI to know about? FRI Well, help is at hand! Nish Kumar is here to cast his FRI spotlight on the week's most talked about news items, taking FRI an in-depth look at the biggest stories from the past seven FRI days to scrutinise what's actually going on beneath the FRI bluster. FRI In tonight's show, Nish gets to grip with the EU and the FRI scaremongering coming from both sides, press regulation in FRI light of Paddling Pool-gate, and the seemingly impenetrable FRI TTIP. Meanwhile, intrepid reporter Diane Steer puts the FRI Remain campaign's predictions to the test. FRI Starring Nish Kumar, Kieran Hodgson, Cariad Lloyd, and Freya FRI Parker. FRI Written by Liam Beirne, Sarah Campbell, Max Davis, Gabby FRI Hutchinson-Crouch, Nish Kumar, and Tom Neenan. FRI The research producer was Rachel Wheeley. FRI The production coordinator was Sophie Richardson. FRI It was produced by Matt Stronge and was a BBC Studios FRI Production. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Nish Kumar FRI Ensemble: Kieran Hodgson FRI Ensemble: Cariad Lloyd FRI Ensemble: Freya Parker FRI Writer: Liam Beirne FRI Writer: Sarah Campbell FRI Writer: Max Davis FRI Writer: Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch FRI Writer: Nish Kumar FRI Writer: Tom Neenan FRI Producer: Matt Stronge FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrx4 (Listen) FRI Storm in a Tea Chest FRI Bob and Terry take a trip down memory lane. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob FRI Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. FRI With Robert Gillespie. FRI Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La FRI Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley. FRI Producer: John Browell FRI Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in FRI a BBC Treasure Hunt. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1975. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b009qwz0 (Listen) FRI Wings Over Dagenham FRI Move aside Orville and Wilbur, Neddie is the pioneer FRI aviator. Stars Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers. From January FRI 1957. FRI FRI 09:00 We've Been Here Before b00fy1g5 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI Clive Anderson's yesteryear quiz with Gyles Brandreth, John FRI O'Farrell, Natalie Haynes and Richard Herring. From June FRI 2004. FRI FRI 09:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007jwbj (Listen) FRI Series 1, The TV Stars FRI With Rabbi Sue set for the small screen, Rabbi Abraham takes FRI a different route. Stars Tracy-Ann Oberman. From November FRI 1999. FRI FRI 10:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vkc (Listen) FRI A Guilty Bit of Paper FRI Mr May is swept towards the conclusion of his deceitful FRI action. For others, there is upset and surprise. Stars FRI Elizabeth Spriggs. FRI FRI 11:00 Alex Shearer - Play Chopsticks for Me b04d0kl3 (Listen) FRI The Great Stromberg is a piano teacher, but his student FRI begins to suspect that he may be a fraud. Read by Jonathan FRI Keeble. FRI FRI 11:15 Sue Teddern - Picking Up the Pieces b0076dyr (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. After her husband is killed trying to stop FRI burglars, a surprising friendship develops for lonely Emma. FRI Stars Nicola Stephenson. FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrx4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b009qwz0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133ldd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Ambassador's Reception b00rv5dc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Kate Grenville - The Secret River b00njx8d (Listen) FRI A New Emptiness FRI William Thornhill makes his choice, but will he reap his FRI reward? Ron Cook reads the hard-hitting conclusion. FRI FRI 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b04368f7 (Listen) FRI A Problem of Consciousness FRI In this programme, Martin Sixsmith examines the 'hard FRI problem' of consciousness and the work of psychologists such FRI as Susan Blackmore who believe it is 'just an illusion'. FRI He asks what drives us to think and act as we do, and FRI questions the role of freewill and morality. He discovers FRI how emotions affect our cognitive functions and examines the FRI importance of insight, including Gestalt psychologist FRI Wolfgang Kohler's work with chimpanzees. FRI He looks at Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman's 'thinking FRI fast and thinking slow' model and the impact decision making FRI has not only on individuals but also for the success of the FRI economy and society. FRI Produced by Sara Parker FRI Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, FRI University of London. FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 AS Byatt - The Frederica Quartet b007jshd (Listen) FRI The Virgin in the Garden, part 5 FRI In coronation year, Bill Potter has trouble accepting his FRI daughter's desire to marry curate Daniel. Stars Geoffrey FRI Whitehead. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b011vhsg (Listen) FRI James Joyce - A Biography, Episode 5 FRI "Living In Ireland had lost all meaning for Joyce; and the FRI lure of 'exile' began to possess him. But if he was to elope FRI with Nora he would need to secure an income, and would Nora FRI go with him? Fortunately, she was as captivated by him as he FRI was by her..." FRI Our five part reading of this voluminous account looks at FRI Joyce's years spent in Europe, when he held down menial FRI jobs, caroused a lot, experienced the ups and downs of FRI married life, but still managed to produce works of FRI literature that have stood the test of time. FRI 5. To Trieste, then later to Paris, and by 1919 it's the FRI efforts of some determined women, Margaret Anderson, Harriet FRI Weaver and Sylvia Beach, who help Joyce in the publication FRI of Ulysses. FRI FRI 15:00 Margaret Oliphant - Phoebe Junior b03m7vkc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 We've Been Here Before b00fy1g5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 The Attractive Young Rabbi b007jwbj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Crowned Hudds b00psrfz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar b07ctlnq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Edgar Allan Poe b007jsry (Listen) FRI The Fall of the House of Usher, Episode 2 FRI As his behaviour starts to change, Roderick Usher reveals FRI his terrible secret. Edgar Allen Poe's classic Gothic FRI horror, read by Sean Barrett. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00mr2wr (Listen) FRI Series 8, You've Got a Friend FRI Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional FRI appeal. FRI Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor, FRI You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this FRI programme people tell how this song has affected their life. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrx4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b009qwz0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Dixon of Dock Green b0133ldd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Ambassador's Reception b00rv5dc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Alex Shearer - Play Chopsticks for Me b04d0kl3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Sue Teddern - Picking Up the Pieces b0076dyr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Spotlight Tonight with Nish Kumar b07ctlnq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Armando Iannucci b007jzbt (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI Anarchic sketches and music, first heard on BBC Radio 1 in FRI March 1994. With Rebecca Front, David Schneider and Richard FRI Herring. FRI FRI 23:25 The Comedy Club Interviews b07gdbgz (Listen) FRI For two hours, seven nights a week, the Comedy Club offers FRI the best laughs. Plus Arthur Smith chats to Deborah FRI Frances-White. FRI FRI 23:30 The Consultants b0076pm3 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 2 FRI A complaint about a wonky pram turns serious. Cerebral FRI sketch show with Neil Edmond and Justin Edwards. From FRI November 2003. FRI

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