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SAT SATURDAY 30 JANUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 The Laxian Key b007k30w (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Evans the Welsh vigilante aims to senselessly bomb the SAT planetary decontaminationists for melting Earth. Stars Chris SAT Larner. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076m94 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Stand By Me SAT Singer-songwriter Ben E King talks about writing the classic SAT song, and others reflect on its lasting emotional power. SAT From July 2004. SAT SAT 01:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator SAT b01r7bhp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Rex v Burnaby SAT At first glance it looked like a simple bullion robbery, but SAT Thorndyke's investigations reveal that nothing is as it SAT first appeared. Read by William Gaminara. SAT John Thorndyke, barrister and doctor of medicine, possesses SAT an armoury of skills that equip him as the first SAT scientifically plausible "forensic" detective. R. Austin SAT Freeman, his creator, was himself a medic with an extensive SAT knowledge of forensic medicine, and the solutions to the SAT puzzles are completely plausible. In fact the scientific SAT detail and authenticity of Thorndyke's investigations go SAT much further than anything in the Holmes stories, though SAT Freeman was happy to acknowledge his debt to Arthur Conan SAT Doyle: SAT "A fellow doctor, Conan Doyle, had made a brilliant and SAT well-deserved success by the creation of the immortal SAT Sherlock Holmes. Considering that achievement, I asked SAT myself whether it might not be possible to devise a SAT detective story of a slightly different kind; one based on SAT the science of Medical Jurisprudence, in which, by the SAT sacrifice of a certain amount of dramatic effect, one could SAT keep entirely within the facts of real life, with nothing SAT fictitious excepting the persons and the events. I came to SAT the conclusion that it was, and began to turn the idea over SAT in my mind." SAT Thorndyke's work-life stretches over four decades from the SAT early 1900s until the Second World War, a period during SAT which Freeman wrote more than 20 novels and several SAT collections of short stories, from which the six in this SAT series are selected. SAT The reader William Gaminara is best known as pathologist Leo SAT Dalton in the BBC's long-running series 'Silent Witness'. SAT Producer: John Taylor SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Fiction Factory and first SAT broadcast in 2013. SAT SAT 01:30 Bandits of the Blitz b00tmtj8 (Listen) SAT With Britain at war and London under siege from the SAT Luftwaffe, everyone's pulling together. Or are they? Whilst SAT bombs rained down and long-suffering Brits helped each SAT other, some people were simply helping themselves - SAT stealing, looting, and making money on the black market. SAT World War II created vast opportunities for crime. SAT Warehouses were robbed, army stores rifled and forgers kept SAT busy providing false identity documents, ration books and SAT clothing coupons. Looters, stealing anything of value, SAT cleaned out blitzed houses. SAT The blackout and bombing provided perfect cover for safe SAT cracking and Post Office raids. Professional criminals SAT thrived. People like Billy Hill, who despite prison terms SAT used his wartime muscle to become, in his words, "Boss of SAT Britain's Underworld". SAT Complex emergency rules left normally-law-abiding citizens SAT facing the courts. Shopkeepers who fell foul of the tangle SAT of red tape faced heavy fines. SAT Even as the war ended, rationing continued, and the black SAT market flourished. Presenter Duncan Campbell unearths SAT once-secret papers that put Billy Hill at the centre of SAT London's organised crime in the 1950s. SAT Using archive accounts and talking to people who were there, SAT Campbell tells the tale of crime on the home front. With SAT interviews from Billy Hill's son, Justin Hill, former jewel SAT thief Peter Scott, veteran ex police officers, and SAT historians and academics. SAT Presenter Duncan Campbell is a former crime correspondent SAT for the Guardian. SAT Producer: Liz Carney SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:00 Donna Tartt - The Secret History b03q9ng3 (Listen) SAT Episode 15 SAT Richard has been shot, and as events escalate, not everyone SAT will get out alive. Donna Tartt's thriller, concluded by SAT William Hope. SAT SAT 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vhh4d (Listen) SAT Basavana: A Voice in the Air SAT A portrait of Basavana, the radical poet and religious guru SAT from the 12th century, whose words have inspired many other SAT Indian poets, writers and dramatists. Professor Sunil SAT Khilnani tells the story of a man whose deceptively simple SAT verses protest against the immorality of the caste system SAT and proclaim the intrinsic value of people who happen to be SAT born poor. "His verses ... are what best explain him. They SAT have a directness that reveals to us a free thinker, social SAT reformer and religious evangelist who sometimes struggled to SAT resist worldly temptations," says Professor Khilnani. SAT Basavana was an inspiration to his followers yet his life SAT came to a bitter end. His teachings are kept alive by a SAT substantial religious community called the Lingayats who are SAT concentrated in Northern Karnataka. SAT Produced by Mark Savage SAT Researcher: Manu Pillai SAT Readings by Sagar Arya SAT Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of SAT remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. SAT SAT 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767g1 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT In 1960s Yorkshire, can Andrea and Philip, a married man, SAT keep their affair a secret? Stars Deborah McAndrew and SAT Robert Glenister. SAT SAT 02:45 Rukhsana Ahmad - Freedom's Daughter b007jybp (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Nehru is released from jail, while Indira Gandhi's political SAT views are developing. Read by Nina Wadia. and Paul SAT Bhattacharjee. SAT SAT 03:00 Charles Dickens b01b3fqd (Listen) SAT Little Dorrit, Episode 5 SAT Arthur is struck by disaster, and Mrs Clennam is finally SAT forced into revealing the family secret. Dickens adaptation SAT stars Ian McKellen. SAT SAT 04:00 The 3rd Degree b01fhrjh (Listen) SAT Series 2, Queen Mary, University of London SAT Coming this week from Queen Mary, University of London, "The SAT 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed SAT at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners SAT whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on SAT location at a different University each week, and it pits SAT three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a SAT genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being SAT a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent SAT standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and SAT jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 04:30 Albert and Me b0480vfp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Casual Labour SAT Single dad Bryan tries to find work by advertising in a shop SAT window. Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. SAT Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to SAT find work and raise his baby son. In the original 1977 SAT series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who SAT tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series SAT returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played SAT once-again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1983. SAT SAT 05:00 1834 b011vffj (Listen) SAT London SAT Trapped in Macclesfield in 1834, a bored Jason heads to SAT London, but is waylaid by a mint-loving highwayman. Stars SAT Michael Begley. From July 2003. SAT SAT 05:30 So Wrong It's Right b01j5nws (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show about the wrong SAT side of life. Guests Father Ted and IT Crowd writer Graham SAT Linehan, comedian Matthew Crosby and Sony-award winning SAT podcaster Helen Zaltzman compete to suggest the best in bad SAT ideas. SAT So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask three guests a number SAT of questions testing their powers of creativity and SAT revealing the best embarrassing stories from their lives. SAT This week, the panel's worst experiences with a stranger and SAT the best ideas for the worst new gadget are just two of the SAT challenges faced by the panel. SAT Can anyone top Helen's nomination for most annoying modern SAT irritant, 'constructed reality TV'? And will anyone beat SAT Graham Linehan's suggestion for a terrible new gadget, the SAT 'exciting ladder'? SAT The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also SAT presents BBC4s acclaimed Newswipe and Screenwipe series, and SAT is an award winning columnist for The Guardian. He also won SAT Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. SAT Produced by Aled Evans SAT A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 06:00 Colin Davis - Thin Boy b06z61l1 (Listen) SAT "Who is the sane one," asked the philosopher Bertrand SAT Russell, "the man who cracks up because of Hiroshima, or the SAT rest of us who remain unaffected by it?" SAT On 10 December, 1957, Claude "Buck" Eatherly, ex-509th SAT Squadron, USAF, stood trial for robbing post offices. He SAT pleaded not guilty by virtue of insanity.... SAT Colin Davis's biographical play stars Peter Whitman as SAT Claude Eatherly, Peter Marinker as the Writer, Bob Sherman SAT as Colonel Tibbetts, Serretta Wilons as Eatherly's Woman, SAT Bill Wallis as Dr McElroy and Nigel Anthony as Dr SAT Constantine. SAT Producer: Andy Jordan SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1990. SAT SAT 07:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075vhy (Listen) SAT Tea Shops SAT Comedian and writer Tony Hawks tests the guide books that SAT claim to help us navigate our way around our holidays. SAT Kicking off this 6-part series, Tony goes in search of that SAT very British creation, the tea-room. SAT Should it be milk or tea in first to make the very best SAT cuppa? Armed with his guide, Tony's tea tour takes in the SAT delights of Dorset. But what is it that writers think of in SAT order establish real tea-room credibility for guide-readers, SAT including the needs of visitors from abroad? SAT Producer: Lucy Willmore SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b017l87m (Listen) SAT Rebuilding Britain for the Baby Boomers SAT Maxwell Hutchinson analyses the great push to re-build post SAT war Britain. SAT In the 1990's architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson SAT began recording interviews with the men who re-built Britain SAT after World War 2. These idealists - then in their eighties- SAT told how they'd returned from war to a country ravaged by SAT the Luftwaffe, determined to design a country fit for heroes SAT . Many were graduates of the left-leaning Architectural SAT Association and brought their radical ideas, influenced by SAT le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, to building social housing SAT for slum clearance families ; hospitals for the infant NHS; SAT schools for the children of the Butler Education act; and SAT bold new tower blocks that would transform the city skyline. SAT Most of them worked for local authorities and saw their SAT profession as a public service. These "duffle-coated SAT pip-squeaks" as they were known, included Sir Phillip Powell SAT ,Sir Andrew Derbyshire , Ivor Smith, Peter Smithson , the SAT father of Brutalism; Lord Esher and Jim Cadbury Brown. Many SAT have since died. Using these interviews, plus newsreel and SAT contemporary archive , this programme captures that idealism SAT and reflects the later disillusionment when modernism - and SAT architects - fell out of fashion. SAT 2011 was the fiftieth anniversary of Parkhill Flats, SAT Sheffield. It was seen as the embodiment of the modernist SAT movement - streets in the sky to replace the grim terraces SAT bulldozed after the war to give families indoor lavatories, SAT central heating and airy balconies. At first the families SAT couldn't believe their luck - they loved their modern new SAT homes. But as the building began to show cracks, and the SAT community spirit failed to translate from slum-terrace to SAT deck access, Parkhill Flats became a by-word for all that SAT was rotten in the state of post war architecture. It wasn't SAT long before residents starting chucking their rubbish over SAT the balconies, and the flats became the new slums. Peter SAT Smithson, once blamed the residents of his much criticised SAT development, Robin Hood Gardens (a sister project to SAT Parkhill) for letting the building go to rack and ruin; for SAT "painting their doors purple" and not applying "the minor SAT arts of occupation". SAT Parkhill Flats - the largest listed building in Europe - is SAT undergoing extensive renovation by the trendy developers SAT Urban Splash; so the story of this emblematic building, SAT which Sheffielders love and loathe in equal measure, is SAT still a talking point. Maxwell Hutchinson goes back to SAT Parkhill to see the renovation, talk to former residents and SAT find out if the post-war dream of the young architects who SAT designed this colossal building can be revived. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller b01r9rh7 (Listen) SAT Colin Murray SAT 'Radio is my companion'. Presenter, writer, producer Colin SAT Murray is such an enthusiast that he plans his travel around SAT certain radio shows or stocks up with podcasts for the car SAT journey. SAT Colin's selection includes some of his comedy and radio SAT heroes: Desert Island Discs with castaway Mel Brooks SAT 01/07/1978; Alan Partridge in Knowing Me, Knowing You SAT 05/01/1993; Mark Thomas The Manifesto 02/07/2009; grammar SAT boffins in Many a Slip 05/05/1964; BBC Radio Ulster and SAT Radio Foyle presenter Gerry Anderson and Stewart Lee in SAT Chain Reaction 20/01/2005. SAT SAT 12:00 The Motion Show b00768f5 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with SAT Steve Punt, Simon Fanshawe, Dan Gaster and Jenny Eclair. SAT From July 2000. SAT SAT 12:30 Tomorrow, Today! b016r51y (Listen) SAT Series 2, Dr Chaotica and the Rise of the Atomic Man-Bees SAT Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1962. SAT A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the SAT unimaginably futuristic world of 2008. SAT Suspicious deaths provoke mixed reactions. SAT Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles SAT Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell SAT Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune SAT Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn SAT Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Douglas Bennings ...... Jon Glover SAT Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon SAT Mrs Tinkler ...... Rachel Atkins SAT Graham Tinkler ...... Lloyd Thomas SAT Delivery Boy ...... Alex Lamipekun. SAT SAT 13:00 November Dead List b06z66tg (Listen) SAT Series 2 Omnibus SAT DCI Greave investigates a series of murders in rural SAT Norfolk. Gritty psychological crime drama starring Lia SAT Williams. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b06z67z6 (Listen) SAT James Naughtie SAT Broadcaster James Naughtie chooses 'Mrs Jamieson's SAT Favourite' played by Aly Bain and Schubert's Sonata for SAT Arpeggione. SAT SAT 14:15 Robin Brooks - The Romantics b06z68nc (Listen) SAT Robin is a dreamer SAT He can't stop himself travelling back in time to hold SAT imaginary conversations about the early 19th-century poets, SAT Shelley, Keats and Byron, with people who were close to SAT them. SAT But his domestic life goes tragically wrong. Can he bring SAT himself back to the real world long enough to save it? SAT Robin Brooks's play stars Christopher Timothy as Robert, SAT Edward de Souza as Edward, Robin Brooks as Shelley, Jonathan SAT Adams as Byron and Nicholas Murchie as Keats and Theresa SAT Streatfeild as Gillian. SAT Director: Tim Gebbels SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1992. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b017l87m (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Colin Davis - Thin Boy b06z61l1 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075vhy (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Planet B b00y90wz (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Pirate Islands SAT Medley and Kip must battle island inhabitants to save Planet SAT B. Virtual reality saga by Penelope Skinner. Stars Claire SAT Harry. SAT SAT 18:30 Ghost Zone b007jtzr (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT The advance party receives a hostile reception from the SAT bizarre occupants of the village. Stars Sandy Neilson. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller b01r9rh7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b0375b3z (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 3 SAT Master character comedian Colin Hoult presents his much SAT anticipated debut comedy series for BBC Radio 4. Enter the SAT Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of SAT sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister SAT Ringmaster. SAT Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: SAT Thwor - the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len SAT Parker - Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers SAT enthusiast; Anna Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten SAT silver screen hits such as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish SAT Delight' and 'A Bowl For My Bottom'; and many more. SAT Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his SAT highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's SAT Too Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his SAT many hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also SAT appeared and written for a number of Radio 4 series SAT including 'The Headset Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' SAT Digi-Radio'. SAT 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully SAT staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out SAT 'Comic gold' - Metro SAT 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Colin Hoult SAT Producer: Sam Bryant SAT SAT 22:30 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00yz2hw (Listen) SAT Series 2, Merlin's Visit SAT Written by David Kay & Gavin Smith. SAT Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of SAT 21st century wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated SAT 2000-year-old sorcerer with enough power in his small finger SAT to destroy a town, yet not even enough clout to get his bins SAT emptied on time by the local council. Even for such a SAT skilful sorcerer - modern life is rubbish! SAT Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He SAT initially set up as a plc for income tax relief, but has SAT found it a useful vehicle to help him bolster his Wizard SAT skill set and his range of services. (Even a wizard has to SAT diversify). He's been running Fruity Potions from his cave SAT for the past few years, in between completing the odd quest SAT as instructed by the Wizard Council. In the past his SAT services were to help kings in battles of good and evil, or SAT as he prefers to put it, 'assisting with neighbour SAT disputes.' SAT This week Mordrin has to prepare for the visit of Merlin to SAT Blairochil, and eyeing an opportunity for a promotion, pulls SAT out all the stops. SAT Cast: SAT Mordrin: David Kay SAT Geoff: Gordon Kennedy SAT Heather: Hannah Donaldson SAT Bernard The Blue: Jack Docherty SAT Lord Cumnock: Michael McKenzie SAT Policeman: Jonny Austin SAT Producer/Director: Gus Beattie SAT A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:45 Warhorses of Letters b01pcqkr (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT By Marie Phillips and Robbie Hudson SAT The romantic correspondence between two of history's most SAT important horses: Napoleon's mount Marengo and the Duke of SAT Wellington's own Copenhagen. It is the eve of Waterloo and SAT our two heroes face the prospect of seeing each other face SAT to face, if only it was not across a battlefield. And is SAT Marengo's life at risk from another more immediate enemy? SAT Produced by Gareth Edwards. SAT Credits SAT Marengo: Stephen Fry SAT Copenhagen: Daniel Rigby SAT Narrator: Tamsin Greig SAT Producer: Gareth Edwards SAT Writer: Marie Phillips SAT Writer: Robbie Hudson SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b070d59j (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Arthur Smith chats SAT to 'Beasts'. SAT SAT 23:00 Pleased to Meet You b0124y89 (Listen) SAT Pilot SAT Ninety-something good-time girl Dora Dale tells some wild SAT tales from her star-strewn past. With Martin Kelner and Jake SAT Yapp. From November 2005. SAT SAT 23:30 The Big Booth b007jv50 (Listen) SAT Series 2: The Big Booth Too, Episode 3 SAT Boothby Graffoe meets a man with a replacement tongue and a SAT man in a washing machine. With Stephen Frost. From February SAT 2001. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 JANUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Planet B b00y90wz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Ghost Zone b007jtzr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 November Dead List b06z66tg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b06z67z6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Robin Brooks - The Romantics b06z68nc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b017l87m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Colin Davis - Thin Boy b06z61l1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075vhy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm: Omnibus b06z87jb (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN In 1960s Yorkshire, Andrea meets Philip, a married man. SUN Tenderness, not lust, might be the real enemy. Stars Deborah SUN McAndrew. SUN SUN 07:15 Shoot from the Hip - the World's Coolest Camera SUN b0076xhf (Listen) SUN Lucy Ash finds out why, in the digital age, the world still SUN loves a relic of the Soviet Union - the low-spec Lomo SUN camera. SUN SUN 07:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q9771 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Technology SUN Stephen K Amos is joined by stand-ups Marlon Davis, Jarlath SUN Reagan and Lloyd Langford to consider the pros and cons of SUN living with technology. Produced by Colin Anderson. SUN SUN 08:00 Jim the Great b02zbzxb (Listen) SUN Series 2, Joust in Time SUN To settle a debt, the moustachioed monarch challenges a SUN bloodthirsty Viking to a duel. Stars Jimmy Edwards. From SUN September 1979. SUN SUN 08:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b008kmkg (Listen) SUN Reshuffling Patron Saints, the art of piano moving and SUN spoofing 'Under Milk Wood'. SUN A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker. SUN With Terence Brady and Pauline Yates. Pianist: Gordon SUN Langford. SUN Written by Miles Kington, Roy Lomax, John Graham, Peter SUN Spence, Chris Miller, Chris Allen, Jim Eldridge, Chris Bell SUN and Laurie Holloway and Peter N Christie SUN Producer John Fawcett-Wilson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972. SUN SUN 09:00 Volker Weidermann - Summer Before the Dark: Omnibus SUN b06z8cxj (Listen) SUN 1936: Stefan Zweig and his mistress stroll Ostend's seafront SUN waiting for writer, Joseph Roth to arrive. Read by Peter SUN Firth. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b06z8dhz (Listen) SUN Sarah Millican SUN Comedian Sarah Millican chooses 'Bossanova' from Fun in SUN Acapulco by Elvis Presley and 'Wired for Sound' by Cliff SUN Richard. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06z8dj3 (Listen) SUN Absent Friends, Peter O'Sullevan SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Beethoven to Edith Piaf, horse racing SUN commentator Peter O'Sullevan makes his castaway choices. SUN With Sue Lawley. From September 1997. SUN SUN 11:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06z8f2p (Listen) SUN Amputation, Al Gore and Heroin SUN True stories told live in the USA: The Moth's founder, SUN George Dawes Green, introduces tales about survival and SUN redemption. SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 11:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00zf648 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Cicada SUN 5/20. One of the great wild sounds of North America is the SUN purring of insects in the evening, especially that of SUN Cicadas, one of the great stridulating sounds in the wild. SUN This is the tale of one Cicada; the 17-year periodic Cicada SUN that stunned the community in New England thirteen years SUN after the Pilgrim Fathers had landed. There was a plague of SUN insects, all with red eyes on stalks - and all emerging SUN continuously out of the soil. When the plague subsided a few SUN weeks later the people of Plymouth Rock were braced for SUN another onslaught, but nothing happened until 17 years SUN later. David Attenborough recalls a filming trip to New SUN England to film this species of Cicada with both fascinating SUN natural history and a hilarious twist. SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN Credits SUN Producer: Julian Hector SUN SUN 12:00 Jim the Great b02zbzxb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b008kmkg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm: Omnibus b06z87jb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Shoot from the Hip - the World's Coolest Camera SUN b0076xhf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus b06z8kwx (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Mitsy meets the King of Egypt. But the outcome does not SUN please her father. Alaa Al Aswany's novel is read by Raad SUN Rawi, Amir El-Masry and Emerald O'Hanrahan. SUN SUN 15:45 Trevor Hoyle - The Dying Art of Letter Writing SUN b01bmrq2 (Listen) SUN Malcolm wants to sell the family paper mill, but his Aunt SUN Emmie declares "Over my dead body!". Letters read by Joyce SUN Gibbs. SUN SUN 16:00 Peter Tinniswood b007k354 (Listen) SUN The Governor's Consort SUN Mary Wimbush stars as Lady Edith in this play written SUN specially for her by Peter Tinniswood. SUN Lady Edith is sailing with her husband to the tiny South SUN Atlantic island of St David's, of which he's about to become SUN Governor. Her fellow passengers, not to mention the crew and SUN the exuberant band on board, produce an invigorating and SUN somewhat earthy effect on her Ladyship, a frustrated woman SUN of 'a certain age' with a vivid imagination. SUN With John Moffatt as Sir Wilfred, Bernard Hepton as Dr SUN Spoforth and Stephen Thorne as Captain McWhirter. SUN Radio kept Mary Wimbush particularly busy throughout her SUN career. She was known to millions as Julia Pargetter in 'The SUN Archers' until her death in 2005, shortly after she'd SUN recorded an episode of the BBC's long-running soap opera at SUN the BBC's Mailbox in Birmingham. SUN Director: Enyd Williams SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b06z8twh (Listen) SUN With Great Pleasure - Jo Shapcott SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'With Great Pleasure' from the 2003 Ledbury Poetry SUN Festival, Jo Shapcott presents some of her literary SUN favourites read for her by Christian Rodska and Mark SUN Meadows. SUN Her choices range from medieval poem Piers Plowman to war SUN poet Ivor Gurney via Galileo, Emily Dickinson and the ascent SUN of Kilimanjaro. SUN Producer: Viv Beeby SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003. SUN SUN 17:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q9771 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Nick Stafford - The Fire Inside b0075gpk (Listen) SUN A stranger seeks shelter at an isolated farmhouse in the SUN depths of winter. The occupants, Jack and Mavis, put him in SUN an upstairs room, sparking a sinister chain of events - and SUN an investigation into what has really been going on... SUN Nick Stafford's supernatural tale stars Philip Jackson as SUN Jack, Kate Rutter as Mavis, Jonathan Tafler as Ellis and SUN Stephen Critchlow as Colin. SUN Director: Claire Grove SUN First broadcast in the Elemental Tales series on Radio 4 in SUN 1999. SUN SUN 18:45 Nigel Kneale - The Pond b06z8twn (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. An old man calls to a frog and then catches SUN it for a sinister purpose, but will he pay for his crime? SUN Read by George Parsons. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b06z8f2p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00zf648 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:50 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Volker Weidermann - Summer Before the Dark: Omnibus SUN b06z8cxj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b06z8dhz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b06z8dj3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q9771 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Clayton Grange b01n65zq (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 3 SUN by Neil Warhurst with additional material by Paul Barnhill SUN Episode 3 SUN Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly stupid scientists SUN in Clayton Grange, a top secret Scientific Institute at the SUN top of the hill behind the supermarket; with a government SUN brief to think the unthinkable. This week, the team attempt SUN to make war just a bit more gentle. Meet the scientists who SUN are a bit rubbish at life. And not much better at science. SUN Saunders ..... Anthony Head SUN Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst SUN Roger ..... Paul Barnhill SUN Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine SUN Lionel ..... Don Gilet SUN Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse SUN Producer/Director ..... Marion Nancarrow. SUN SUN 23:00 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00c5xtr (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 SUN An attic full of peas, switching from Girl Guide to sumo SUN wrestler and dull geological holidays. With Ben Moor. From SUN June 2008. SUN SUN 23:30 The Harpoon b00cq60w (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 4 SUN A star-spangled American issue of the nostalgic spoof of SUN boys' adventure story papers. With Alistair McGowan. From SUN March 1994. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Nick Stafford - The Fire Inside b0075gpk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:45 Nigel Kneale - The Pond b06z8twn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm: Omnibus b06z87jb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Shoot from the Hip - the World's Coolest Camera MON b0076xhf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Automobile Club of Egypt: Omnibus b06z8kwx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Trevor Hoyle - The Dying Art of Letter Writing MON b01bmrq2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Peter Tinniswood b007k354 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b06z8twh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01q9771 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator MON b01r7ml4 (Listen) MON Series 2, The Stalking Horse MON When Miss Dalby, a leading light in the suffragette MON movement, is accused of the murder of a man on a train, MON Thorndyke takes up the case for her defence. Read by William MON Gaminara. MON John Thorndyke, barrister and doctor of medicine, possesses MON an armoury of skills that equip him as the first MON scientifically plausible "forensic" detective. R. Austin MON Freeman, his creator, was himself a medic with an extensive MON knowledge of forensic medicine, and the solutions to the MON puzzles are completely plausible. In fact the scientific MON detail and authenticity of Thorndyke's investigations go MON much further than anything in the Holmes stories, though MON Freeman was happy to acknowledge his debt to Arthur Conan MON Doyle: MON "A fellow doctor, Conan Doyle, had made a brilliant and MON well-deserved success by the creation of the immortal MON Sherlock Holmes. Considering that achievement, I asked MON myself whether it might not be possible to devise a MON detective story of a slightly different kind; one based on MON the science of Medical Jurisprudence, in which, by the MON sacrifice of a certain amount of dramatic effect, one could MON keep entirely within the facts of real life, with nothing MON fictitious excepting the persons and the events. I came to MON the conclusion that it was, and began to turn the idea over MON in my mind." MON Thorndyke's work-life stretches over four decades from the MON early 1900s until the Second World War, a period during MON which Freeman wrote more than 20 novels and several MON collections of short stories, from which the six in this MON series are selected. MON The reader William Gaminara is best known as pathologist Leo MON Dalton in the BBC's long-running series 'Silent Witness'. MON Producer: John Taylor MON Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Fiction Factory and first MON broadcast in 2013. MON MON 06:30 Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London MON b00h6xlm (Listen) MON Journalist Mark Paytress searches for mysterious 60s MON personality Stash, friend of The Beatles and The Rolling MON Stones. From March 2009. MON Credits MON Producer: Sian Price MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b0076m76 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON Reflexology and nudism in the sketch comedy about growing MON older disgracefully. Stars Arthur Smith, Clive Swift and MON Paula Wilcox. From July 2004. MON MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06ybgxr (Listen) MON Series 8, Ward, Sharman, Blofeld MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome an award-winning Australian MON comedian who is so much more than a mere joker, Felicity MON Ward; the cricket commentator whose association with James MON Bond villainy is more than a mere coincidence, Henry MON Blofeld; and a former chemist from Mars who is more than a MON Mir astronaut, Dr Helen Sharman OBE. MON This week, the Museum's guests discuss the cultural MON significance of Australians using watermelons as hats; how MON you can increase your stature in more ways than one by going MON into space; how it took an author as inventive as P.G. MON Wodehouse to coin the word 'gruntled' decades after the word MON 'disgruntled'; the vital importance of toilets; and the MON coolest possible way of telling mountain trekkers where you MON were when you first saw the Himalayas. MON The show was researched by Anne Miller and Molly Oldfield of MON QI. MON The producers were Richard Turner and James Harkin. MON It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Sarah Millican MON Interviewed Guest: Felicity Ward MON Interviewed Guest: Henry Blofeld MON Interviewed Guest: Helen Sharman MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: Dan Schreiber MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jqpj (Listen) MON Series 3, The Royal Train MON Captain Mainwaring gets up steam when the Home Guard platoon MON receive sealed orders regarding the King. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier MON as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John MON Laurie as Private Frazer, Arnold Ridley as Godfrey, Ian MON Lavender as Private Pike, Bill Pertwee as Hodges, Larry MON Martyn as Private Walker and Frank Williams as the Vicar. MON Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV MON scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. MON Producer: John Dyas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1976. MON MON 08:30 Brothers in Law b007k2p3 (Listen) MON Series 2, But... MON Juggling his cases and girlfriends, barrister Roger has MON trouble with toggles and gromits. With Richard Briers. From MON August 1971. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00dr86m (Listen) MON Series 8, Raymond Chandler MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John MON Walsh with guests Lynne Truss and Mark Billingham. The MON author of the week and subject for pastiche is Raymond MON Chandler and the reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 Tomorrow, Today! b017071k (Listen) MON Series 2, Squab Is Not the Language of Love MON Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1962. MON A BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the MON unimaginably futuristic world of 2008. MON Radio writer Hugo defects to TV. MON Nigel Lavery ...... Peter Bowles MON Sylvia Hann ...... Cheryl Campbell MON Godfrey Winnard ..... John Fortune MON Sir Angus McNairn ...... Gary Waldhorn MON Hugo Kellerman ...... Joseph Kloska MON Douglas Bennings ...... Jon Glover MON Keith Wood ...... Sam Pamphilon MON Georgina Barrett ...... Carolyn Pickles MON Burton ...... Peter Marinker. MON MON 10:00 Lee Hall - I Luv U Jimmy Spud b007jmts (Listen) MON Jimmy Spud is Newcastle's only trainee angel, determined to MON solve cosmic mysteries and save his father from the grip of MON lung cancer. MON Lee Hall's play about poverty, illness, love and redemption MON stars Gareth Brown as Jimmy Spud, Charlie Hardwick as Mother MON and Dave Whittaker as Father. MON Producer: Kate Rowland MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1995 MON First repeated in 1997 as part of Lee Hall's "God's Country" MON quartet plays: The Love Letters Of Ragie Patel, The Sorrows MON of Sandra Saint and Spoonface Steinberg. MON MON 11:00 Mick Jackson - Junior Science b016x4t9 (Listen) MON Back to School MON To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick MON Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence MON at The Science Museum in London. MON In these three specially-commissioned stories, children MON become involved in science with strange and unsettling MON results. MON In Back To School, young Robert Thornber discovers strange MON goings-on in the Science Block when he accidentally goes MON back to school a day early. He is soon forced to run for his MON life. MON Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. MON His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for MON The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won MON The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has MON published three novels and two illustrated collections of MON stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears MON which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. MON Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. MON One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by MON Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at MON international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best MON Short Animation. MON Mick lives in Brighton with his family. MON Written by Mick Jackson. Read by David Holt. MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:15 Nick Warburton - Purvis b007k1jy (Listen) MON A vicar appoints a lonely widower as church safety officer, MON but he proves to be rather accident prone. Stars Peter MON Sallis. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jqpj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Brothers in Law b007k2p3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator MON b01r7ml4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London MON b00h6xlm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zsdgc (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set MON in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a MON young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious MON circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of MON The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always MON provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads MON to the extraordinary stories of the deathless man and the MON tiger's wife. MON Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 MON Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on MON the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - MON the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short MON story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer MON Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David MON Mitchell. MON She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in MON Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family MON immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United MON States. MON The reader is Hattie Morahan. MON Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vx1bs (Listen) MON Amir Khusro: The Parrot of India MON By turns warrior, prisoner of war, court poet and passionate MON Sufi devotee, Amir Khusro was above all a quick-witted MON literary survivor. And his ability to write for all manner MON of patrons and audiences, added to his faith in Sufism, MON would help his words endure for 700 years. Sunil Khilnani MON tells the story of the man who called himself 'The Parrot of MON India'. MON After a career as a soldier, Khusro gained fame in the royal MON courts of Delhi where poets improvised and extemporised for MON their patrons, competing with each other in a kind of MON medieval poetry slam. But despite being the most admired MON court poet of his time, he eventually suffered burnout and MON turned for spiritual strength to the great Sufi Muslim saint MON Nizamuddin Auliya. From then on his poetry focussed on the MON ideal of Sufi devotion, a merging of identity between master MON and follower. MON Sunil Khilnani visits old Delhi and Khusro's tomb where his MON songs, passed down through 700 years of oral tradition, are MON still performed. Those songs have also come to live in the MON unconscious of millions of Indians through their use in MON cinema. Javed Akhtar, one of the great song-writers of MON Indian cinema, pays tribute to his 13th century predecessor. MON The founding fathers of modern India made Amir Khusro a MON mascot of cultural harmony. Sunil Khilnani explores the life MON of a Sufi Muslim who has become the embodiment of the MON nation's unofficial motto: 'Unity in Diversity'. MON Producer: Jeremy Grange MON Executive Producer: Martin Smith MON Original music composed by Talvin Singh. MON MON 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767h8 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON In 1960s Yorkshire, Tom plans for Norma's future, while MON Andrea's future is very much threatened. Stars Deborah MON McAndrew. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b04vk6kt (Listen) MON Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 1 MON Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's MON enigmatic masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter's Journey. MON Composed in 1827, this powerful song-cycle for voice and MON piano uses twenty-four poems by Wilhem Muller and is MON considered one of classical music's most powerful MON compositions. MON Drawing upon his experience as a performer (he has performed MON Winterreise more than a hundred times), on his musical MON knowledge and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge MON unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings behind the songs to MON explore the world Schubert inhabited. MON Ian Bostridge is recognised as one of the greatest Lieder MON interpreters today. He has made numerous award-winning MON recordings of opera and song, and gives recitals throughout MON Europe, North America and the Far East. He was the original MON Caliban in Thomas Ades's The Tempest, and played Aschenbach MON in the landmark 2007 production of Britten's Death in Venice MON at ENO. He will be Humanitas Professor of Classical Music at MON the University of Oxford in 2014-15. MON Read by Ian Bostridge MON Written by Ian Bostridge MON Abridged by Laurence Wareing MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON Credits MON Reader: Ian Bostridge MON Author: Ian Bostridge MON Abridger: Laurence Wareing MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 15:00 Lee Hall - I Luv U Jimmy Spud b007jmts (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00dr86m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Tomorrow, Today! b017071k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b0076m76 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06ybgxr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Hordes of the Things b0089b37 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The kingdom of Albion is in peril. Andrew Marshall and John MON Lloyd's epic Tolkien parody stars Patrick Magee and Paul MON Eddington. From November 1980. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b007623t (Listen) MON Sir Bernard Crick and Joe Farrell MON Kirsty Wark and her guests, eminent social scientist Sir MON Bernard Crick, and writer and critic Joe Farrell, discuss MON paperbacks by William Riviere, Pat Barker and Sarah Dunant. MON From 2001. MON Mapping the Edge by Sarah Dunant MON Publisher: Virago MON The Ghost Road by Pat Barker MON Publisher: Penguin MON Kate Caterina by William Riviere MON Publisher: Sceptre. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jqpj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Brothers in Law b007k2p3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator MON b01r7ml4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London MON b00h6xlm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Mick Jackson - Junior Science b016x4t9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Nick Warburton - Purvis b007k1jy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity b06ybgxr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010m2f6 (Listen) MON Series 4, Evil Narbara MON The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns with a MON 4th series with more shop based shenanigans and over the MON counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty MON sidekick Dave. MON Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli MON 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 MON audience with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and MON a Writers' Guild award in 2008. This brand new series sees a MON crop of new shop regulars, and some guest appearances along MON the way from the likes of Mina Anwar and Kevin Eldon. MON In this episode a rowdy party shop run by an unfriendly sort MON causes havoc amongst the local traders association after a MON number of undesirables descend on the town. MON So join the staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' in their tireless MON quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke MON with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh MON Mahju has built it up over the course of 30 years, and is a MON firmly entrenched feature of the local area. Ramesh loves MON the art of the 'shop'. MON However; he does apply the 'low return' rules of the shop to MON all other aspects of his life. Ramesh is ably assisted by MON his shop sidekick Dave, a forty-something underachiever who MON shares Ramesh's love of the art of shopkeeping, even if he MON is treated like a slave. MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both MON surly and not particularly keen on the old school approach MON to shopkeeping, but natural successors to the business, and MON Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them MON whether they like it or not! MON Cast: MON Ramesh: Sanjeev Kolhi MON Dave: Donald McLeary MON Sanjay: Omar Raza MON Alok: Susheel Kumar MON Peggy: Kate Donnelly MON Mrs Begg: Marj Hogarth MON Hilly: Kate Brailsford MON Lovely Sue: Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan MON Bra Jeff: Steven McNicol MON Producer/Director: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b06zdcjg (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 4 MON A satirical review of the week's news chaired by Miles Jupp. MON Tune in to hear some bonus material from the live recording MON that didn't quite make it into the regular weekly show. MON MON 23:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b01jhdhr (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON Last in the series of Helen Keen's quirky comic but true MON look at the past and future of space exploration. This week MON looks at what we could do if a giant asteroid was heading MON straight for us and looks at where else we might be able to MON go in the solar system if Earth was destroyed, and how we MON might get there. And we ask the most searching of all MON questions, why didn't the dinosaurs avoid extinction by MON developing a space programme of their own? And if they had, MON how could a T Rex have flown a spaceship with those tiny MON arms? MON With Helen Keen MON Peter Serafinowicz MON Susy Kane MON Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill MON Produced by Gareth Edwards. MON Credits MON Performer: Helen Keen MON Actor: Peter Serafinowicz MON Actor: Susy Kane MON Producer: Gareth Edwards MON Writer: Helen Keen MON Writer: Miriam Underhill MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Hordes of the Things b0089b37 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b007623t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 R Austin Freeman - Thorndyke, Forensic Investigator TUE b01r7ml4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Stash: The Dandy Aesthete of Swinging London TUE b00h6xlm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zsdgc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vx1bs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767h8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b04vk6kt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Lee Hall - I Luv U Jimmy Spud b007jmts (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00dr86m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Tomorrow, Today! b017071k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b0076m76 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Museum of Curiosity b06ybgxr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4fd (Listen) TUE The Confession of Guilt TUE Recalling the case of an immigrant accused of wounding near TUE a cricket ground, Horace Rumpole investigates the truth of a TUE true confession. TUE "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". TUE Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law TUE Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole TUE With Michael Maloney as Nick Rumpole and Godfrey Kenton as TUE Mr Justice Everglades and John Church as Magnus Piecan. TUE Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John TUE Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. TUE Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central TUE Criminal Court of England and Wales. TUE Director: Ian Cotterell TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. TUE TUE 06:30 Composing New York b00t1zc7 (Listen) TUE New York City has always drawn composers from the Old World TUE - from Dvorak and Mahler to Kurt Weill, Rachmaninov and TUE Benjamin Britten. Some, like Puccini, crossed the Atlantic TUE to premier new works, others like Gustav Mahler and Bela TUE Bartok stayed for longer periods to compose, study and TUE conduct. But all were shaped by the energy of New York, just TUE as the city's musical culture was shaped, in turn, by them. TUE Behind this extraordinary cultural exchange lay a deeper TUE question: what should a truly American "classical" music TUE sound like? Did it lie outside the concert hall and with the TUE Broadway musical, as envisaged by Kurt Weill? Or was it TUE Dvorak's iconic New World symphony, with its powerful TUE invocations of the black American spiritual, that pointed TUE the way? TUE Filled with the sounds of NYC, British composer and New York TUE resident Tarik O'Regan presents a vivid portrait of the city TUE which electrified these great composers and, through their TUE works composed and premiered in New York, transformed the TUE wider world of classical music. TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 07:00 Fat Chance b01byc68 (Listen) TUE Better Wed Than Dead TUE Kelly's wedding brings matters to a head and Sally's meeting TUE does not go well. Slimline sitcom starring Michael TUE Troughton. From March 1999. TUE TUE 07:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ycr4z (Listen) TUE Series 2, Milton's Motors TUE When Milton opens up a car repair shop, he finds he's on a TUE collision course with a notorious local villain. Meanwhile, TUE a mysterious tin of travel sweets comes to a sticky end. TUE Mention Milton Jones to most people and the first thing they TUE think is 'Help!'. Because each week, Milton, and his trusty TUE assistant Anton (played by Milton regular, Tom Goodman-Hill) TUE set out to help people and soon find they're embroiled in a TUE new adventure. Because when you're close to the edge, then TUE Milton can give you a push. TUE "Milton Jones is one of Britain's best gagsmiths with a TUE flair for creating daft yet perfect one-liners" - The TUE Guardian. TUE "King of the surreal one-liners" - The Times TUE "If you haven't caught up with Jones yet - do so!" - The TUE Daily Mail TUE Written by Milton with James Cary (Bluestone 42, Miranda) TUE and Dan Evans (who co-wrote Milton's Channel 4 show House Of TUE Rooms), the man they call "Britain's funniest Milton" TUE returns to the radio with a fully-working cast and a TUE shipload of new jokes. TUE The cast includes regulars Tom Goodman-Hill (Spamalot, Mr. TUE Selfridge) as the ever-faithful Anton, Josie Lawrence and TUE Ben Willbond. TUE With music by Guy Jackson. TUE Produced and directed by David Tyler TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Himself: Milton Jones TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007tm45 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 19 TUE Kenneth Horne welcomes 'The Palone Ranger', Fiona and TUE Charles with sound effects, plus Julian and Sandy take TUE charge of the BBC wardrobe department. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick, Betty Marsden and Bill TUE Pertwee. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE Music by Edwin Braden and the Hornblowers and The Fraser TUE Hayes Four. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in June 1967. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b012b8hx (Listen) TUE Fowl Play TUE The blundering duo learn not to put all their eggs in one TUE in-tray. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From TUE August 1972. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b06zdcjg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Helen Keen's It Is Rocket Science b01jhdhr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Lee Hall - The Love Letters of Ragie Patel b06zdnkh (Listen) TUE Ragie Patel is left with his Grandparents for the summer. A TUE chance meeting with the amazing Jimmy Spud convinces Ragie TUE that he might be a Hindu god, and when Nandini asks him to TUE act as a go-between, he's convinced of his powers. TUE Lee Hall's play about Faith, Hope and Reality in the 1990s TUE stars Kulwant Singh Bhatia as Ragie Patel, Gareth Brown as TUE Jimmy Spud, Nina Wadia as Nandini, Rashid Karapiet as TUE Grandfather and Jamila Massey as Grandmother. TUE Producer: Kate Rowland TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as part of Lee Hall's TUE "God's Country" quartet plays: I Luv U Jimmy Spud, The TUE Sorrows of Sandra Saint and Spoonface Steinberg. TUE TUE 11:00 Mick Jackson - Junior Science b01756jf (Listen) TUE The Answering Machine TUE To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick TUE Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence TUE at The Science Museum in London. TUE In these three specially-commissioned stories, children TUE become involved in science with strange and unsettling TUE results. TUE In 'The Answering Machine', the narrator remembers his TUE father buying an early version of an answering machine. The TUE machine changes the lives of his family in a chilling and TUE unexpected way. TUE Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. TUE His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for TUE The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won TUE The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has TUE published three novels and two illustrated collections of TUE stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears TUE which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. TUE Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. TUE One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by TUE Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at TUE international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best TUE Short Animation. TUE Mick lives in Brighton with his family. TUE Written by Mick Jackson TUE Read by David Holt TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jw6t (Listen) TUE Mr Reliable TUE It is Mr Openshaw's job to listen to people, except when he TUE visits Mrs Flenswick. Peter Tinniswood tale starring Peter TUE Sallis and Edna Dore. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007tm45 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b012b8hx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4fd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Composing New York b00t1zc7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zshp7 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch read Tea Obreht's TUE evocative debut novel set in a Balkan country scarred by TUE war, and where Natalia, a young doctor, is struggling to TUE understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather's TUE death. A tattered copy of The Jungle Book which her TUE grandfather kept with him always provides an unlikely clue, TUE sending her on a quest that leads to the extraordinary TUE stories of the deathless man and the tiger's wife. Today, TUE Natalia remembers the night her grandfather told her about TUE his first encounter with the deathless man. TUE Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 TUE Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on TUE the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - TUE the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short TUE story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer TUE Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David TUE Mitchell. TUE She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in TUE Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family TUE immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United TUE States. TUE The readers are Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch. TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vy50d (Listen) TUE Kabir: Offender and Offendables TUE Today's subject is the low-caste weaver and poet who dared TUE to upturn the social orthodoxies of 15th century India - and TUE who still challenges us today. Sunil explores the life and TUE poetic legacy of Kabir - a dissenter, a provoker and an TUE abrasive debunker of humbug. TUE There are plenty of legends around the poet - for example TUE that, after his death, his body transfigured into flowers so TUE that he could be neither cremated by his Hindu followers s TUE nor buried by Muslim devotees - but we actually know very TUE little about Kabir's life. One of the few certain facts is TUE that he lived in India's most sacred city, Varanasi. Sunil TUE Khilnani finds himself in the poor neighbourhood of TUE Bajardhia where low-caste Muslims still work today as TUE weavers. Sitting in cramped rooms among men with little TUE work, Sunil reflects on the man who described himself as 'a TUE patient weaver's son' but who is actually one of the most TUE impatient, acerbic, fed-up voices in the Indian cultural TUE canon. TUE Kabir has become venerated across northern India as a saint, TUE almost a god. Yet Sunil finds Kabir's name being invoked in TUE secular circles too, for example the annual Jaipur Literary TUE Festival, a 21st century haven for independent thinking. TUE Here he meets the eminent poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, TUE translator of Kabir's poems into modern idiom and an TUE advocate for the poetic dissenter who wasn't afraid to TUE offend the powerful. TUE Producer: Jeremy Grange TUE Original music composed by Talvin Singh. TUE TUE 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767hs (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE 1960s Yorkshire: Andrea faces a battle, while Shirley is TUE shocked by her brother's news. Stars Deborah McAndrew and TUE David Calder. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b04vkhlb (Listen) TUE Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 2 TUE Internationally acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge examines one TUE of the most powerful compositions in classical music: TUE Schubert's song-cycle Winterreise (Winter's Journey). TUE In this episode, which explores the political context of the TUE piece, he focuses on song five "Der Lindenbaum" (The Linden TUE Tree) and song ten "Rast" (Rest) TUE Ian Bostridge is recognised as one of the greatest Lieder TUE interpreters today. He has made numerous award-winning TUE recordings of opera and song, and gives recitals throughout TUE Europe, North America and the Far East. He was the original TUE Caliban in Thomas Ades's The Tempest, and played Aschenbach TUE in the landmark 2007 production of Britten's Death in Venice TUE at ENO. He will be Humanitas Professor of Classical Music at TUE the University of Oxford in 2014-15. TUE Written and read by Ian Bostridge TUE Abridged by Laurence Wareing TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Ian Bostridge TUE Author: Ian Bostridge TUE Abridger: Laurence Wareing TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 15:00 Lee Hall - The Love Letters of Ragie Patel b06zdnkh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Act Your Age b00g47nm (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 6 TUE Simon Mayo discovers which generation is the funniest. With TUE Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Roy Walker. From January TUE 2009. TUE TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag b00b2nfp (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Opium of the People TUE It may be Glorious Reindeer Day, but light bulbs and TUE tolerance are in short supply. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From TUE March 1988. TUE TUE 17:00 Fat Chance b01byc68 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ycr4z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Hordes of the Things b007jqts (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE The epic Tolkien parody sees Aygar the hero get an TUE ear-bashing from his mum. Stars Paul Eddington and Simon TUE Callow. From December 1980. TUE TUE 18:30 That Reminds Me b007jp4b (Listen) TUE Series 3, Jack Douglas TUE Comic actor Jack Douglas - famed for playing 'Alf TUE Ippititimus' - shares memories of his TV, stage and film TUE career with an audience. TUE How Des O'Connor was Jack's springboard to success and a TUE part in the 'Carry On' films. Plus the mystery of the sex TUE appeal of co-star Sid James! TUE Producer: Claire Jones TUE Jack Douglas: Born: 26th April 1927. Died: 18th December TUE 2008 TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2001. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007tm45 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b012b8hx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4fd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Composing New York b00t1zc7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Mick Jackson - Junior Science b01756jf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Peter Tinniswood b007jw6t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ycr4z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies b007jtr3 (Listen) TUE The Food Industry TUE Andrew Maxwell is one of the UK's most informed and fearless TUE stand ups. In this series of one-off stand up shows, he uses TUE his trademark intelligence and political incisiveness to dig TUE behind the clichés and assumptions about four possible TUE threats to British society: food, the internet, drugs and TUE Nationalism. TUE This series will showcase a comedian at the top of his TUE abilities tackling difficult and important 'slow news' TUE topics with a depth and perceptiveness that remains outside TUE the remit of mainstream 'topical' comedy. TUE In this first episode, Andrew looks at the food industry. TUE From horseburgers right up to snail ice-cream, it seems like TUE there's something wrong with every rung of the food ladder. TUE But given that food is essential to survival, shouldn't we TUE be clearer about what it is we want from the industry that TUE provides it? TUE Always adept at making shrewd, balanced and very funny TUE political observations, Maxwell was one of the first comics TUE at the 2011 Edinburgh Festival to react to the riots in TUE England and the Arab Spring and evolve his act accordingly TUE to rave reviews and a nomination. He performed his 2012 TUE Edinburgh show That's the Spirit at the Assembly Rooms TUE George Square to sell out audiences and followed this with a TUE run at London's Soho Theatre. He also performed at the TUE Montreal Just For Laughs Comedy Festival last year including TUE a performance at the televised American Dream Gala and at TUE the Udderbelly Festival. TUE "One of the most significant comedians working in the TUE country today" THE INDEPENDENT TUE "Fiercely funny and utterly invigorating" THE TIMES TUE "Stand up. is rarely this politically well-informed or TUE thought-provoking" THE SCOTSMAN TUE Written and performed by ..... Andrew Maxwell TUE Script edited by ..... Paul Byrne TUE Produced by ..... Ed Morrish. TUE Credits TUE Writer: Andrew Maxwell TUE Performer: Andrew Maxwell TUE Producer: Ed Morrish TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b070d5d7 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Iain Lee chats to TUE Adam Hess. TUE TUE 23:00 Revolting People b00wg3mg (Listen) TUE Series 4, George Washington TUE Captain Brimshaw attempts to broker peace with George TUE Washington. 1775 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From TUE May 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 Les Kelly's Britain b017mws9 (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) hosts a magazine show from hell. TUE Les is a cross between Jeremy Kyle and a slap in the face. TUE He claims this is the only radio show for 'normal, decent TUE people'. 'If you aren't normal or decent, this is not the TUE show for you,' says Les. TUE This week Les talks to Britain's only male nun, a man who TUE only speaks using sound fx and answers the question: what is TUE the world coming to? TUE Written by Bill Dare with Julian Dutton. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Hordes of the Things b007jqts (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 That Reminds Me b007jp4b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4fd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Composing New York b00t1zc7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zshp7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05vy50d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767hs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b04vkhlb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Lee Hall - The Love Letters of Ragie Patel b06zdnkh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Act Your Age b00g47nm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b00b2nfp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Fat Chance b01byc68 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Thanks a Lot, Milton Jones! b06ycr4z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4gk (Listen) WED The Dear Departed WED Rumpole recalls a fraud case based on some ghostly messages. WED "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". WED Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law WED Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole WED With Michael Spice as Guthrie Featherstone, Peter Pratt as WED Justice Venables and Preston Lockwood as Mr Pontefract. WED Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John WED Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. WED Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central WED Criminal Court of England and Wales. WED Director: Ian Cotterell WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. WED WED 06:30 Sidekick b00sfy5g (Listen) WED The sidekick is not, by definition, the focus of our WED attention. They are destined to be overshadowed by their WED better half, the hero who will save Gotham, solve the WED uncrackable case or rescue the girl from the bad guys... WED But without the sidekick these heroes would often remain too WED distant, too powerful or just too brilliant for us to ever WED really love them. So in steps the earthy, flawed and loyal WED sidekick to provide the audience with someone to connect to, WED a character who knows how the world really works to help the WED hero off tilting at windmills. WED Whether it's in countless children's films - think Eddie WED Murphy's Donkey to Mike Myers's Shrek - or a hundred comic WED books and cartoons - or high literature from Cervantes to WED Sterne and Shakespeare to Verne - the sidekick provides the WED laughs, the pratfall and the focus of our empathy. WED Frank Cottrell Boyce talks with those who've created WED sidekicks, those who've played the parts and those who've WED studied just how essential these charcters really are to WED making the fiction seem believable and offer a human face to WED the often inhuman character supposedly at the centre of the WED show. WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00p92xt (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED Peter, Nigel and Michael make mistakes and promises. Stars WED Raymond Coulthard, Adam Godley and James Fleet. From WED November 2005. WED WED 07:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates an 18th WED century bet; can he walk from London's Royal Academy to the WED Royal Exchange building while blindfolded in under one hour? WED Written by and starring Tim FitzHigham. Additional material WED written by Jon Hunter and Paul Byrne. Produced by Joe WED Nunnery. WED Credits WED Presenter: Tim FitzHigham WED Producer: Joe Nunnery WED Writer: Tim FitzHigham WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: Paul Byrne WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01hc2x3 (Listen) WED On the Carpet WED The floor of Murray's cabin aboard HMS Troutbridge is bare - WED and Phillips wants it to stay that way. WED Stars Jon Pertwee as the Chief Petty Officer, Leslie WED Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Stephen Murray as the Number WED One, Ronnie Barker as Able Seaman Johnson, Richard Caldicote WED as Captain Povey and Heather Chasen as Heather. 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 October 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01211y0 (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 12 WED A complete guide to the aristocracy, and the hunt for the WED Time Trousers goes Down Under. Stars John Cleese. From March WED 1969. WED WED 09:00 The Motion Show b00768jd (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED Graeme Garden chairs the debating game featuring Steve Punt, WED Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth and Simon Bates. From July 2000. WED WED 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008kkz1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, WED Patricia Routledge, John Sessions and John Wells. From WED August 1991. WED WED 10:00 Lee Hall - The Sorrows of Sandra Saint b06zh3r6 (Listen) WED Sandra and her brother Scout are still grieving for their WED Dad. WED Sandra is 14, difficult, angry at the world and drives her WED mum mad. Scout is two years younger and believes if he WED buries a sock in the garden, then he might bring his father WED back to life. However, Sandra has other ideas in mind ... WED Lee Hall's play about Faith, Hope and Reality in the 1990s WED stars Hayley Richardson at Sandra, Michael Walpert as Scout WED and Tracey Wilkinson as Mother. WED Producer: Kate Rowland WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as part of Lee Hall's WED "God's Country" quartet plays: I Luv U Jimmy Spud, The Love WED Letters of Ragie Patel and Spoonface Steinberg. WED WED 11:00 Mick Jackson - Junior Science b017clx1 (Listen) WED Zero Gravity WED To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick WED Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence WED at The Science Museum in London. WED In these three specially-commissioned stories, children WED become involved in science with strange and unsettling WED results. WED In 'Zero Gravity', Daniel Taylor throws a ball into the air, WED with unexpected results. He is soon able to carry out the WED ultimate experiment in gravity and explores his home town in WED a way he never has before. WED Mick Jackson is a Booker-nominated author and screenwriter. WED His first novel, The Underground Man, was shortlisted for WED The Booker Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and won WED The Royal Society of Authors' First Novel Award. He has WED published three novels and two illustrated collections of WED stories including Spirit Bears, Circus Bears and Sewer Bears WED which were produced by Sweet Talk for BBC Radio 4. WED Mick also writes screenplays and has directed documentaries. WED One of his short stories,The Pearce Sisters, was adapted by WED Aardman Animation and won more than twenty prizes at WED international film festivals, including a BAFTA for Best WED Short Animation. WED Mick lives in Brighton with his family. WED Written by Mick Jackson WED Reader: David Holt WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b037d18g (Listen) WED Christopher William Hill - Hush! Hush! Whisper Who Dares! WED 1969. Ernest Shepard looks forward to a V&A retrospective of WED his drawings for Winnie-the-Pooh. But then, in an imagined WED meeting with the now grown-up Christopher Robin Milne, some WED painful truths emerge. By Christopher William Hill. WED Credits WED Writer: Christopher William Hill WED Ernest Shepard: Oliver Ford Davies WED Norah: Kate Fahy WED Christopher Milne: Simon Treves WED Janet Steen: Harriet Chandler-Judd WED Reynolds: Michael Bertenshaw WED Ensemble: Sean Murray WED Ensemble: Ben Crowe WED Ensemble: Philippa Stanton WED Director: Peter Kavanagh WED Producer: Peter Kavanagh WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01hc2x3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01211y0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4gk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Sidekick b00sfy5g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zt22l (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch read Tea Obreht's WED evocative debut novel set in a Balkan country scarred by WED war, and where Natalia, a young doctor, is struggling to WED understand the mysterious circumstances of her grandfather's WED death. A tattered copy of The Jungle Book which her WED grandfather kept with him always, provides an unlikely clue, WED sending her on a quest that leads to the extraordinary WED stories of the deathless man and the tiger's wife. Today, WED memories of a pledge that her grandfather made to the WED deathless man are conjured up. WED Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 WED Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on WED the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - WED the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short WED story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer WED Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David WED Mitchell. WED She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in WED Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family WED immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United WED States. WED The readers are Hattie Morahan and David Horovitch. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w002k (Listen) WED Guru Nanak: The Discipline of Deeds WED Today's Incarnation is a poet who established one of the WED great world religions: Guru Nanak, the 15th century founder WED of Sikhism. WED Like the Buddha and Mahavira, the founder of the Jain WED religion, Nanak was a wanderer. He spent 25 years on the WED road and is said to have travelled as far as Mecca and the WED Himalayas. But, unlike his predecessors, when he had WED achieved enlightenment he returned to his homelands in the WED Punjab. He taught his disciples that, rather than renouncing WED the world and retreating from it, they must use their faith WED to change it from within. Nanak's 'disciplined worldliness' WED emphasised the importance of work and family. WED He also instituted an idea which is practised in Sikh WED temples all over the world. Sunil Khilnani visits the WED Gurudwara Nanak Piao in Delhi as they serve the langar, a WED meal provided by volunteers to anyone who comes, regardless WED of status, sex or religion. Everybody eats together in an WED equalizing act, a dispelling of the taboos designed to WED protect caste boundaries. WED Sunil explores the life of a man whose ideas were polemical WED and provocative. In announcing that "there is neither Hindu WED nor Muslim" Nanak wasn't proposing a harmonious blend of WED religions. Instead, he was rejecting other paths and WED creating an entirely new religion, one which now has around WED 30 million followers. WED Producer: Jeremy Grange WED Original music composed by Talvin Singh. WED WED 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767j6 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED 1960s Yorkshire: After finding out Tom is actually her WED father, Shirley has gone missing. Stars Ruth Herbert and WED David Calder. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b04vkc30 (Listen) WED Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 3 WED Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's WED masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter's Journey. Drawing upon WED his experience as a performer (he has performed Winterreise WED more than a hundred times), on his musical knowledge and on WED his training as a scholar, Bostridge unpicks the enigmas and WED subtle meanings behind the songs to explore the world WED Schubert inhabited. WED In this episode, he focuses on three songs: "Einsamkeit" WED (Loneliness), "Die Post" (The Post) and "Der greise Kopf" WED (The Old Man's Head). WED Written and read by Ian Bostridge WED Abridged by Laurence Wareing WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED Credits WED Reader: Ian Bostridge WED Author: Ian Bostridge WED Abridger: Laurence Wareing WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 15:00 Lee Hall - The Sorrows of Sandra Saint b06zh3r6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The Motion Show b00768jd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008kkz1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00p92xt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Hordes of the Things b007jqwz (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The epic Tolkien parody sees one defender of Albion making a WED startling discovery. Starring Paul Eddington and Simon WED Callow. From December 1980. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076z8b (Listen) WED Blonde Moments WED Dominic Arkwright asks how blonde hair evolved with Toby WED Young, Pauline Black and Libby Potter. From July 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01hc2x3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b01211y0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4gk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Sidekick b00sfy5g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Mick Jackson - Junior Science b017clx1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b037d18g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This? WED b01njxp8 (Listen) WED Dietary Practices WED Fosters nominated and talented comedian, Andrew Lawrence, WED kicks off his new series in which he brings us a comic WED explanation of our development via stand up, sketch and WED song. This week Andrew looks at what goes in to making our WED diet: "what we shove in our mouths, dissolve in our guts and WED shunt out of our poo pipes". Including a rather different WED view of fair trade, a comment on road-kill as food and a WED moving song about the extinction of the Mammoth. Sara Pascoe WED and Marek Larwood assist. WED Producer: Jane Berthoud. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b070d5rj (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight Iain Lee chats to WED Adam Hess. WED WED 23:00 Listen Against b008drpb (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED A cheeky round-up of a week's worth of BBC radio that never WED happened. WED Rewinding and mangling real programmes from across the WED networks, Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take liberties with WED Steve Wright, Woman's Hour and Eddie Mair. WED The brain-child of writer, comic and broadcaster Jon Holmes. WED Producer: Bill Dare and Jon Holmes WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 2007. WED WED 23:30 And Now in Colour b00cfzx5 (Listen) WED Series 1, Marathon WED The sketch show team and their studio audience enter the WED London Marathon. With Tim Firth and Tim De Jongh. From April WED 1990. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Hordes of the Things b007jqwz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076z8b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4gk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Sidekick b00sfy5g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zt22l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w002k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767j6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b04vkc30 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Lee Hall - The Sorrows of Sandra Saint b06zh3r6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 The Motion Show b00768jd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008kkz1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Brothers b00p92xt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05nvjm7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsdk (Listen) THU The Gentle Art of Blackmail THU Rumpole recalls a clear case of extortion at his Oxford THU College, St Joseph's. THU "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". THU Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law THU Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole THU With Brian Sanders as the Judge, Geoffrey Bayldon as Bernard THU Crompton and Emily Richard as Sue Galton. THU Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John THU Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. THU Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central THU Criminal Court of England and Wales. THU Director: Ian Cotterell THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. THU THU 06:30 The Name Game b00s5nzv (Listen) THU The number of people changing their name by deed poll has THU doubled in the past five years and should top 70,000 this THU year. With a one hour express service that costs just a few THU pounds, people are hastening to fill in the forms, make the THU change and become someone new. Tim Samuels asks what is THU driving this self-reinvention - is it divorce, immigration THU or the quest for a little cheer? THU After tea with Christine Hamilton - now Mrs British THU Battleaxe - Tim heads off to meet some of the migrants, THU attention seekers, former drunks and others reinventing THU themselves. He encounters Ian Roberts, who transformed THU himself into the distinguished actor and playwright Kwame THU Kwei Armah, a young man called Dylan who changed his surname THU to reject his undeserving father, and Princess-Rainbow.com THU who woke up one morning with more than just a hangover. THU He brushes dust off the Close Rolls at the National Archives THU to discover the origins of the deed poll and is on his best THU behaviour with the Senior Master at the Royal Courts of THU Justice. THU And before he takes the plunge to change his own name, Tim THU pauses to contemplate identity, aspiration and belonging. THU Producer: Sarah Bowen. THU THU 07:00 Hazelbeach b008crhw (Listen) THU Series 1, Party THU Ronnie organises a disastrous birthday party and Nick THU finally finds his father's will. Stars Jamie Foreman. From THU November 2007. THU THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06yfjdy (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 4 THU John Finnemore - writer and star of Cabin Pressure and John THU Finnemore's Double Acts, regular guest on The Now Show and THU The Unbelievable Truth - returns for a fifth series of his THU multi-award-winning sketch show, joined as ever by a cast of THU Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie THU Quinlan. THU This week features a sketch that couldn't catch a cold in THU Coventry, if you know what we mean; a train passenger who THU really doesn't over think things; and, well, since you ask THU him for a tale of a haunted mansion... THU One of the most consistently funny sketch shows for quite THU some time" - The Guardian THU "The best sketch show in years, on television or radio" - THU The Radio Times THU "The inventive sketch show ... continues to deliver the THU goods" - The Daily Mail THU "Superior comedy" - The Observer THU Written by and starring ... John Finnemore THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is a BBC Radio Comedy THU production. THU Credits THU Presenter: John Finnemore THU Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith THU Ensemble: Simon Kane THU Ensemble: Lawry Lewin THU Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan THU Producer: Ed Morrish THU Writer: John Finnemore THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jn7v (Listen) THU Series 5, A Winter's Tale THU Harold admits he's planning a holiday - but without his dad THU Albert. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in June 1974. THU THU 08:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jtg6 (Listen) THU Series 1, The Promotion THU The author and his wife compete to publicise their new THU books. Stars Ian Carmichael and Charlotte Mitchell. From THU April 1976. THU THU 08:55 Inheritance Tracks b06zj4pn (Listen) THU Chris Hadfield THU Astronaut Chris Hadfield inherits 'Where Have All the THU Flowers Gone', and passes on 'The Story' by Brandi Carlile. THU THU 09:00 Genius b00850j1 (Listen) THU Series 3, Charlie Brooker THU Dave Gorman and Charlie Brooker chew over ridiculous, THU brilliant but unworkable ideas, and choose the best. From THU November 2007. THU THU 09:30 Senses b06zhjpj (Listen) THU Hearing THU An affair conducted via tape cassette-recorded messages THU conjures up a few problems with the sense of hearing. THU Starring Celia Imrie as Heather, John McGlynn as Tony and THU Francesca Brill as Audrey. THU Senses is a six-part comedy drama boasting a stellar list of THU star names, including Joan Sims, Charles Gray, Alex THU Jennings, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Geoffrey Palmer, Lynda THU Bellingham, Brian Murphy, Rodney Bewes, Liz Fraser, Rory THU McGrath and Maurice Denham. THU As writer Bob Sinfield explains: "The six half-hour plays THU dealt respectively with the five obvious senses plus the THU er...other one". THU Producer: Neil Cargill THU First broadcast on the BBC Radio 4 in 1990. THU THU 10:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg b007jnsq (Listen) THU Spoonface is seven years old, autistic and terminally ill THU with cancer. She's fascinated by opera and by the way her THU parents behave. With the help of their cleaner, Mrs Spud, THU she tries to come to terms with her extraordinary life. Lee THU Hall's award-winning monologue is performed by Becky THU Simpson. THU First broadcast in 1997, it elicited such an extraordinary THU response from BBC Radio 4 listeners that a repeat was THU scheduled within days of the original transmission. THU Originally the final part of Hall's quartet of dramas THU examining the experience of growing up from the perspective THU of children, Spoonface Steinberg was subsequently adapted THU for TV and the stage. Lee Hall went on to receive an Academy THU Award nomination for his screenplay of Billy Elliot, later THU turned into a stage musical. THU Produced by Kate Rowland. THU THU 11:00 Gillian Tindall - The Great Eastern Adventure THU b038qbkn (Listen) THU Aunt Susie and Uncle Trevor's long-planned trip proved THU momentous, but didn't go at all according to plan. Read by THU Jean Rogers. THU THU 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers b007jx3z (Listen) THU Series 1, The Troubles of This Life THU The lively events in the parish of Over Stowey, from the THU 1799 diary of Somerset parson, William Holland. Stars Ronald THU Pickup. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jn7v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jtg6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 12:55 Inheritance Tracks b06zj4pn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:55 today] THU THU 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsdk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Name Game b00s5nzv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zt3tr (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set THU in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a THU young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious THU circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of THU The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always THU provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads THU to the extraordinary stories of the deathless man and the THU tiger's wife. Today, the tiger begins his long journey into THU local legend. THU Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 THU Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on THU the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - THU the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short THU story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer THU Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David THU Mitchell. THU She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in THU Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family THU immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United THU States. THU The reader is Hattie Morahan. THU Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w47hh (Listen) THU Krishnadevaraya: Kingship Is Strange THU Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the King's India Institute in THU London, visits Hampi in today's Karnataka, site of the THU sprawling capital of Krishnadevaraya, 16th-century warrior THU and self-doubting king. Krishnadevaraya lived in a brutal THU age and yet his writings show he was both learned and THU thoughtful, with an artistic temperament. He was a THU compulsive self-promoter whose presence is felt amongst the THU ruins at Hampi, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. But it is THU in the Amuktamulyada, his long poetic work, that we hear his THU original voice which marks, says Professor Khilnani, "the THU emergence of an individual self, a subjective voice - THU centuries before the arrival of colonial ideas of the THU individual". THU Produced by Mark Savage THU Researcher: Manu Pillai THU Editor: Hugh Levinson. THU THU 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767jp (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU 1960s Yorkshire: Election Day draws closer with Philip and THU Tom as rivals. Stars David Calder and Robert Glenister. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b04vqsh5 (Listen) THU Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 4 THU Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's THU song-cycle masterpiece Winterreise, Winter's Journey. THU Drawing upon his experience as a performer, on his musical THU knowledge and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge THU unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings behind the songs to THU explore the world Schubert inhabited. THU "I'm at an end with all dreams / why should I linger among THU the sleepers?" In this episode, he looks at the ways in THU which Schubert used his composition to challenge the social THU and political order of his day, focusing on two songs: "Im THU Dorfe" (In The Village) and "Tauschung" (Deception). THU Written and read by Ian Bostridge THU Abridged by Laurence Wareing THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU Credits THU Reader: Ian Bostridge THU Author: Ian Bostridge THU Abridger: Laurence Wareing THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 15:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg b007jnsq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Genius b00850j1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Senses b06zhjpj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Hazelbeach b008crhw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06yfjdy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Hordes of the Things b007jqyx (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Can the Radox's assembled forces win the battle? Epic THU Tolkien parody stars Paul Eddington and Christian Rodska. THU From December 1980. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076xtw (Listen) THU Series 9, Andrew Carnegie THU 4 Extra Debut. Financial journalist Jeff Randall chooses THU businessman and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie. With THU Matthew Parris. From November 2006. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jn7v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jtg6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 19:55 Inheritance Tracks b06zj4pn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:55 today] THU THU 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsdk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Name Game b00s5nzv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Gillian Tindall - The Great Eastern Adventure THU b038qbkn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers b007jx3z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06yfjdy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Secret World b012ylgm (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU James Bond star Daniel Craig tries to get car insurance. Jon THU Culshaw explores famous folk's private lives. From August THU 2010. THU THU 23:00 Susan Calman Is Convicted b03zd3j5 (Listen) THU Series 2, Children THU In a new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores issues on THU which she has strong opinions. This week, she explains that THU she has never been interested in having children, and why THU they frighten her. THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU Credits THU Performer: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU THU 23:30 The Consultants b007k320 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU The team ponder how to revamp tea to make it more dangerous THU and exciting. With Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James THU Rawlings. From February 2003. THU THU 23:45 World of Pub b008m4ft (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU Barry and Garry build the world's first environmentally THU friendly bar. Stars Phil Cornwell and John Thomson. From THU March 1998. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Hordes of the Things b007jqyx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076xtw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsdk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Name Game b00s5nzv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zt3tr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w47hh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767jp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b04vqsh5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Lee Hall - Spoonface Steinberg b007jnsq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Genius b00850j1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Senses b06zhjpj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Hazelbeach b008crhw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06yfjdy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4l3 (Listen) FRI The Rotten Apple FRI Rumpole recalls a suspicious case of bribery in the police FRI force. FRI "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". FRI Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law FRI Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole FRI With Michael Spice as Guthrie Featherstone, Robert Harris as FRI Justice Vosper and Brian Carroll as Erskine-Brown. FRI Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John FRI Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. FRI Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central FRI Criminal Court of England and Wales. FRI Director: Ian Cotterell FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. FRI FRI 06:30 Mayhem at the Ritz b00sjrv4 (Listen) FRI In the 1960s, demand to see the latest music sensation was FRI so high there were insufficient British venues to meet the FRI demand for tickets. The ABC Gaumont and Rank/Odeon cinema FRI chains saw a money-making opportunity. Andrew Collins FRI revisits this unique time to hear how staff coped with FRI thousands of hysterical teenagers, and to reveal an era when FRI health and safety issues were not a concern, but having a FRI good time was the priority. FRI A small but dedicated band of workers were able to switch FRI working procedures to embrace the new era of the pop package FRI tours. We meet chief projectionist Robert Phillpot, FRI press-ganged into working the curtains, liaising with tour FRI managers and roadies while making frantic notes about FRI lighting sequences and spotlight cues. FRI We also find out about the 1963 Beatles tour that kicked off FRI at The Bradford Gaumont. Manager James Whittell recalls FRI escorting the Beatles around the cinema, pointing out the FRI art decor. And hear how rock n' roll legend Little Richard FRI quizzed the manager about where to go in Bradford, as the FRI star stood abandoned outside the empty Gaumont after the FRI show. FRI Listen out for extracts from a rare interview The Beatles FRI recorded backstage at the ABC Market Street, for the FRI Huddersfield Tape Recording Society. As Beatle Historian FRI Mark Lewisohn confirms, it still makes compelling listening. FRI Producer: John Sugar FRI A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 1834 b0121lh5 (Listen) FRI Victorian Principles FRI When Queen Victoria comes to visit, Jason unwittingly FRI changes the course of history. Stars Michael Begley. From FRI July 2003. FRI FRI 07:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jhdh7 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy panel show devoted to the FRI art of being wrong, with leading comics and entertainers FRI competing to give the best in wrong answers. FRI So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie challenge the panel's FRI creativity and asks them to reveal their finest embarrassing FRI stories from their lives. This week the worst experiences at FRI a party and terrible ideas for a series of children's books FRI are just two of the challenges faced by the panel. Will FRI anyone beat Isy Suttie's suggestion for a 'wrong' children's FRI book - the paperwork-themed 'Morris The Admin Mouse'? FRI The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also FRI writes for The Guardian and presents BBC4's satirical series FRI Newswipe and Screenwipe as well as Channel 4's You Have Been FRI Watching. He won Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards FRI 2009 and Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press FRI Awards for his newspaper columns. FRI Produced by Aled Evans FRI A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jph6 (Listen) FRI Series 6, The Gourmet FRI The lad thinks he's a connoisseur of food, so Sid enters him FRI in an eating competition. FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Warren FRI Mitchell and Hugh Morton. FRI Guest star: BBC sports commentator, Ray Glendenning. FRI Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson. FRI Theme and incidental music written by Wally Stott. FRI Producer: Tom Ronald FRI First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1959. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jn76 (Listen) FRI Tales of Old Dartmoor FRI Prison governor Neddie Seagoon relocates his inmates to the FRI south of France. Stars Harry Secombe. From February 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 The 3rd Degree b01dp52g (Listen) FRI Series 2, University of Northampton FRI Coming this week from the University of Northampton, "The FRI 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed FRI at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners FRI whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded on FRI location at a different University each week, and it pits FRI three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a FRI genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being FRI a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent FRI standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and FRI jokes thrown in for good measure. FRI Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes FRI posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union FRI buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities FRI across the UK. FRI The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General FRI Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the FRI 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not FRI only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, FRI languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness FRI of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the FRI Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their FRI Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, FRI and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both FRI sides... FRI The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit FRI surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly FRI rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more FRI than just glanced at that reading list... FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b048s4vy (Listen) FRI Series 2, Driver FRI Single dad Bryan takes a driving job but finds himself FRI caught up in crime. Stars Robert Lindsay and Pat Coombs. FRI Robert Lindsay takes over as the single parent struggling to FRI find work and raise his baby son. In the original 1977 FRI series, Bryan was played by the late Richard Beckinsale who FRI tragically died in 1979. After a six-year hiatus, the series FRI returned with Bryan's mother and baby Albert played once FRI again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in March 1983. FRI FRI 10:00 Annie Caulfield - Almost Always African b007k30r (Listen) FRI Gambian musician Moses Biama comes to London to record with FRI fading English rock star Frank. Stars Lenny Henry and Bill FRI Nighy. FRI FRI 11:00 Rudyard Kipling - At the Pit's Mouth b03y00mj (Listen) FRI A man rides out with his married lover. Brian Gear reads FRI Kipling's cautionary tale set in India at the time of the FRI British Raj. FRI FRI 11:15 Paupers and Pig Killers b007jx44 (Listen) FRI Series 1, The Fruits of the Earth FRI In the year 1800, parson William Holland battles with the FRI Somerset farmers and sees the harvest in. Stars Ronald FRI Pickup. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jph6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jn76 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4l3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Mayhem at the Ritz b00sjrv4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b00zt611 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set FRI in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a FRI young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious FRI circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of FRI The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always FRI provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads FRI to the extraordinary stories of the deathless man and the FRI tiger's wife. Today, Natalia evokes her grandfather as a FRI nine year old boy, and the day the men of his village set FRI off to hunt the tiger. FRI Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 FRI Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on FRI the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - FRI the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short FRI story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer FRI Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David FRI Mitchell. FRI She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in FRI Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family FRI immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United FRI States. FRI The reader is Hattie Morahan. FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion and produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05w8dn6 (Listen) FRI Mirabai: I Go the Other Way FRI Sunil Khilnani tells the story of Mirabai, the 16th century FRI mystic poet who is one of India's most revered saints. FRI Mirabai was born into a conservative warrior caste in FRI Rajastan but rejected traditional family life and became a FRI wandering religious singer devoted to the Hindu god Krishna. FRI "All this, of course, was scandalous behaviour," says FRI Professor Sunil Khilnani "But Mira proved herself FRI ungovernable in her spiritual zeal". Mirabai composed up to FRI a hundred songs or bhajans which have been passed down FRI through the centuries by oral tradition. Others have been FRI added in her name over the centuries. Today some see Mirabai FRI as a potent symbol of feminism and self-transformation, FRI others as a passionate religious inspiration. FRI With field recordings by Parita Mukta and readings by Sheenu FRI Das FRI Produced by Mark Savage FRI Researcher: Manu Pillai FRI Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of FRI remarkable Indians featured on the Radio 4 website. FRI FRI 14:30 Stan Barstow - A Raging Calm b00767k6 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI 1960s Yorkshire: Election Day and Andrea and Philip's wife, FRI Kate, clash. Stars Robert Glenister and Deborah McAndrew. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b04vqvbq (Listen) FRI Ian Bostridge - Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 5 FRI Literature, religion and the hurdy-gurdy man. FRI Internationally acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge concludes his FRI exploration of Schubert's existential masterpiece FRI Winterreise, Winter's Journey. FRI Strange old man, FRI Should I go with you? FRI Will you to my songs FRI Play your hurdy-gurdy? FRI Written and read by Ian Bostridge FRI Abridged by Laurence Wareing FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ian Bostridge FRI Author: Ian Bostridge FRI Abridger: Laurence Wareing FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 15:00 Annie Caulfield - Almost Always African b007k30r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The 3rd Degree b01dp52g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b048s4vy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 1834 b0121lh5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jhdh7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Eric Pringle - Dancing With Jaques b06zjdjy (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. London, 1959: Jobless Jackie's first night FRI 'working the streets' ends in a mysterious, ghostly FRI encounter. With Alice Arnold. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076md4 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins FRI Terry Waite and musician Steve Hackett talk about the FRI emotional impact of Bach's music for two violins. From July FRI 2004. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jph6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jn76 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007k4l3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Mayhem at the Ritz b00sjrv4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Rudyard Kipling - At the Pit's Mouth b03y00mj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Paupers and Pig Killers b007jx44 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 So Wrong It's Right b01jhdh7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007xwmc (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI Can Prentiss and McCabe's medicine help the government sort FRI out the NHS? Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From January FRI 2002. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b070hwxm (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Plus Arthur Smith chats FRI again to Tony Law. FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b03kp2kh (Listen) FRI Series 4, Repeat After Me FRI One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC FRI Radio 4 doing what he does best. FRI This week, a story dealing with the guilt he sometimes feels FRI as a result of writing stories about his family in "Repeat FRI After Me" and some more extracts from his hilarious diary. FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Reader: David Sedaris FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI Writer: David Sedaris FRI FRI 23:30 Goodness Gracious Me b01nwbhk (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI The Kapoors visit a stately home, plus food for thought from FRI Smeeta Smitten, Showbiz Kitten. Stars Meera Syal. From May FRI 1998. FRI
30 January, 2016
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 30/01/2016 - 05/02/2016
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