12 February, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 13/02/2016 - 19/02/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Wally K Daly b007nfs5 (Listen) SAT 625Y, Episode 2 SAT Scientist Kate Brown's attempt to bring her new gene SAT discovery into the public domain doesn't go to plan. Stars SAT Amanda Root and Geoffrey Whitehead. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b0076mh5 (Listen) SAT Series 4, Like a Rolling Stone SAT Robbie Robertson, Al Kooper and Greil Marcus reflect on Bob SAT Dylan's song that challenged and changed lives. From July SAT 2004. SAT SAT 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsh4 (Listen) SAT The Case of Identity SAT Rumpole deals with some dubious alibis in court and in SAT chambers. SAT "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". SAT Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law SAT Horace Rumpole. SAT With Robert Harris as Mr Justice Vosper, Michael Spice as SAT Guthrie Featherstone, Brian Carroll as Erskine-Brown and SAT Amanda Murray as Phillida Trant. SAT Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John SAT Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. SAT Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central SAT Criminal Court of England and Wales. SAT Director: Peter King SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. SAT SAT 01:30 In Search of My Lizard Brain b00rtdps (Listen) SAT At the 3rd annual London Fifty at Hoxton Hall in Shoreditch SAT in January 2010, ventriloquist Nina Conti left Monkey behind SAT and watched 50 hours of improvisation, directed by Dana SAT Anderson, Canadian creator of the Improvathon (or Soapathon) SAT and Adam Meggido, of the innovative London theatre, The SAT Sticking Place. SAT It was Ken Campbell who first brought the idea of the SAT Improvathon - a marathon of improvised drama and comedy - to SAT Britain from Canada, where he'd been inspired by Dana SAT Anderson and his Die-Nasty company at Edmonton's Varscona SAT Theatre. SAT 25 actors gathered for the 6pm start on Friday, and most of SAT them were still there when it ended at 9pm on Sunday. So was SAT the audience, though there were some thin periods in the SAT early hours of the morning. The theme was loosely Victorian SAT and on stage at various times were Queen Victoria and Prince SAT Albert, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen and many SAT made up characters. SAT Once the actors have been improvising for 30 hours they SAT experience what Dana calls 'Stargate' and find themselves SAT 'being' rather than acting. They no longer have to think SAT about what to do or say on stage - it just happens. They SAT define this as being in touch with their 'lizard' or SAT instinctual brain. SAT Nina asked Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of the Centre for SAT Advanced Biomedical Imaging at University College London to SAT account for this; he puts it down to a combination of sleep SAT deprivation and creative high which leads to disinhibition. SAT For actors and audience the Improvathon proved an SAT extraordinary and compelling experience. Nina was most SAT struck by the sense of community and support it engendered, SAT as the actors pulled together to keep each other going and, SAT by saying 'yes' to every new idea, took themselves and the SAT production to new levels. SAT SAT 02:00 Tea Obreht - The Tiger's Wife b0100jhd (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Hattie Morahan reads Tea Obreht's evocative debut novel set SAT in a Balkan country scarred by war, and where Natalia, a SAT young doctor, is struggling to understand the mysterious SAT circumstances of her grandfather's death. A tattered copy of SAT The Jungle Book which her grandfather kept with him always SAT provides an unlikely clue, sending her on a quest that leads SAT to the extraordinary stories of an immortal man and the SAT tiger's wife. Today, Natalia makes connections between her SAT father's childhood, the tiger's wife and the deathless man. SAT Tea Obreht is on "The New Yorker's Top Writers under 40 SAT Fiction Issue" (June 2010), and at 24 was the youngest on SAT the list. 'The Tiger's Wife' is one of the Waterstone's 11 - SAT the best debuts that they have picked for 2011. Her short SAT story, "The Sentry", appeared in the "Guardian Summer SAT Fiction Issue", alongside stories by Hilary Mantel and David SAT Mitchell. SAT She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and raised in SAT Belgrade, where she spent her childhood. In 1992, her family SAT immigrated, and in 1997 eventually settled in the United SAT States. SAT The reader is Hattie Morahan. Abridged by Sally Marmion and SAT produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05wz0kt (Listen) SAT Nainsukh: Owner Transfixed by Goose SAT Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles Nainsukh, the 18th century SAT artist whose intimate and engaging portraits of a prince's SAT life created a new vision for Indian art. SAT In his paintings of his patron, Balwant Singh, Nainsukh SAT departed from the rigid formality of traditional Indian SAT painting. Instead he showed the prince in his most unguarded SAT moments: having his beard trimmed by a barber, being SAT mimicked by a performer, huddled ill and depressed under a SAT bulky quilt, and writing a letter bare-chested in his tent. SAT "It's an almost modern, instagram-esque familiarity" says SAT Sunil Khilnani. SAT The artist Howard Hodgkin, an appreciator and collector of SAT Nainsukh's work, describes Nainsukh as "the first great SAT modern artist of India". In his favourite painting, Balwant SAT Singh and his pet goose stare at each other, both bird and SAT prince transfixed. SAT Prof. Khilnani tells the story of two men: one a painter SAT with a unique talent to express humanity and individuality, SAT warmth and humour; the other a prince who unreservedly, SAT unselfconsciously gave himself to the artist as subject. SAT Producer: Jeremy Grange SAT Executive Producer: Martin Smith. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b009j9jk (Listen) SAT Colette - Cheri, Episode 5 SAT Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian courtesan SAT and a man half her age, set in Paris before WWI. SAT 5/5. Cheri has returned to Lea, but can their love affair SAT survive? SAT Narrator ...... Lindsay Duncan SAT Cheri ...... Joseph Millson SAT Lea ...... Frances Barber SAT Directed by Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b042bjzl (Listen) SAT Richard Benson - The Valley, Episode 5 SAT Abridged from Richard Benson's epic family saga The Valley, SAT the focus of this Book of the Week is on the story of the SAT author's grandmother - Winnie Hollingworth (1909 - 2002) - SAT and her life in the mining villages of the Dearne Valley in SAT South Yorkshire. SAT This remarkable social history draws on years of research, SAT interviews and anecdote which chart generations of carousing SAT and banter, tears and fights all set against the background SAT of a close-knit community where almost everybody worked SAT either in the mines or the mills. SAT Richard Benson's first book, THE FARM which related the SAT story of his own parents and brother and their livelihood in SAT the Yorkshire Wolds was described as ' an extraordinary SAT mixture of hardness and tenderness, wit and slog.. wonderful SAT ' Ronald Blythe author of Akenfield. It went on to be a no.1 SAT bestseller. SAT This new book is a powerful and moving achievement - it SAT follows Winnie from her first romantic encounter: 'her heart SAT beating hard and fast down in her whalebone and elastic' to SAT her final years sitting in the lounge of a long rubber-tiled SAT room with high-backed chairs around the walls.. ' where 'the SAT residents either roost mutely or chat while their eyes SAT search the room for a younger person who might play the SAT piano for them.' SAT Ep 5. Children become adults, and Winnie and Harry grow SAT frail, but there are still surprises in store. SAT Read by Richard Stacey SAT PRODUCER: JILL WATERS SAT Abridged and directed by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC 4Extra. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Richard Stacey SAT Director: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT SAT 03:00 David Wade - Alexander b00cfwr8 (Listen) SAT The Hunt of the God King SAT The conquering king pursues Darius, King of Persia, and SAT falls in love. Stars Michael Maloney, Alex Jennings and SAT Barry Foster. SAT SAT 04:00 Wildbrain b00753sd (Listen) SAT 1997 - Heat 1 SAT 4 Extra Debut. Lionel Kelleway visits Essex, to chair the SAT BBC Natural History Unit's quiz in which contestants test SAT their wildlife knowledge. SAT SAT 04:30 Albert and Me b049f20x (Listen) SAT Series 2, File Under Trouble SAT Single dad Bryan takes a temporary filing job and chases a SAT missing file. 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 once SAT again by the ever-versatile Pat Coombs. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1983. SAT SAT 05:00 Dry Slopes b0075178 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Emma SAT 4 Extra Debut. Can jobless and loveless Angus rekindle a SAT relationship, despite the barriers of technology? Starring SAT Nick Ball. From July 1997. SAT SAT 05:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jrjq8 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 5 SAT Charlie Brooker hosts the comedy show that seeks the finest SAT wrong answers, with guest comics Susan Calman and Miles Jupp SAT plus writer Shaun Pye on the panel. SAT So Wrong It's Right sees Charlie ask his guests to pitch SAT their finest terrible ideas and to disclose the most SAT shameful, yet entertaining, stories from their lives. SAT In this episode, Charlie challenges his guests to recall the SAT stupidest thing they've ever believed and to suggest the SAT best ideas for the worst new sport for the London 2012 SAT Olympics. 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 Hood b070n8g7 (Listen) SAT Noble Secrets SAT England, 1201: King John reigns and Phillip De Nicholay, SAT Sheriff of Nottingham, is in trouble. The treasury is empty, SAT looted by his former friend; his position and hopes of SAT marrying the Lady Marion are in danger. His only hope is to SAT recover the money. To do that though, he'll need the help of SAT the notorious outlaws of Sherwood Forest. Phillip is about SAT to learn that his actions will be the making of the man they SAT will come to call Robin Hood. SAT Stars Lee Ingleby as Philip De Nicholay, Peter Greenall as SAT Little John, Damian Cooper as Will Scarlet and Sean Connolly SAT as Brother Tuck. SAT Director: Iain Meadows. SAT Produced by Iain Meadows and Matt Hopper for Spiteful Puppet SAT Entertainment. SAT SAT 07:15 The Meaning of Trees b071k9ts (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Quintessentially British, symbolising SAT strength? Yet its existence is threatened. With Fiona SAT Stafford. From December 2012. SAT SAT 07:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075vsz (Listen) SAT Ghost Guides SAT Comedian and writer Tony Hawks tests the guide books that SAT claim to help us navigate our way around our holidays. SAT Testing the plethora of reference books to the limit, Tony SAT is out to see if they can really help him find a ghost. SAT Producer: Lucy Willmore SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b036j3r0 (Listen) SAT Churchill's Secret Cabinet SAT Clement Attlee once claimed that Churchill led Britain to SAT victory in the Second World War through his words. But what SAT influenced these words and their delivery? SAT The answer lies in a newly discovered wooden cabinet SAT containing not only Churchill's private collection of SAT gramophone records, but also rare recordings of his unknown SAT speeches. SAT In this Archive on 4, historian Andrew Roberts joins SAT archivists, historians, musicians, even Churchill's own SAT family, to discover how these rapidly disintegrating discs - SAT some of them over a hundred years old - offer new clues SAT about his oratorical style. Their survival depends on the SAT fast action of the Cambridge archivists in a race against SAT time to digitise them, before they quite literally turn to SAT dust. SAT Already, the work in progress has turned up some surprising SAT revelations - including a glimpse into Churchill's very own SAT desert island discs. The apparently unmusical Churchill SAT turns out to be someone who treasures songs of satire, SAT humour and intense patriotism. We discover recordings of SAT black swans enjoyed by a nature loving Churchill we rarely SAT see, and then there are those fascinating newly discovered SAT recordings of Churchill's own voice - including the first SAT known recording of him, from the early 20th century. SAT From these records, Andrew Roberts gleans valuable insights SAT into that famous titan of British oratory - how it was not SAT just his words, but his unique musical delivery that came to SAT reflect and even embody the hopes of a nation. SAT Producer: Kati Whitaker. SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Greats b01kjsg3 (Listen) SAT Overseas SAT Captain Barry Cryer welcomes you aboard a special edition of SAT Comedy Greats showcasing a selection of the BBC's hit comedy SAT shows that were adapted for listeners overseas. SAT During the 1950s to 1970s, a surprising number of series SAT were either edited, rescripted or remade. SAT Barry reveals bits that never made it out of Blighty to SAT enable shows to be better understood abroad. SAT Featuring: SAT The Clitheroe Kid - Another Mother for Ossie. From November SAT 1965 SAT The Navy Lark - Going Dutch. From November 1959 SAT The Men From the Ministry - Birds of a Feather. Re-recording SAT from 1980. SAT Hancock's Half Hour - The New Secretary. Re-recorded in SAT November 1958. SAT Round the Horne - The Man With the Golden Thunderball. SAT Re-recorded July 1966 with an edited version of the original SAT script. SAT I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again - series 3 (10/13). SAT Re-recording from 1966. SAT Produced by Kerry Reece for BBC Radio 4 Extra. SAT SAT 12:00 What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning b00b41fq (Listen) SAT Florence Craye SAT Trapped in Steeple Bumpleigh, Bertie Wooster meets an old SAT flame. PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael SAT Hordern. SAT SAT 12:30 A Short Gentleman b018xt55 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT by Jon Canter, adapted by Robin Brooks SAT Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect SAT specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless SAT legal logic to his disastrous personal life. SAT 1/4 SAT Robert sails through all his exams, but finding a girlfriend SAT is more testing. SAT Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting SAT The Writer SAT Jon Canter read Law at Cambridge, where he was President of SAT Footlights, then worked as an advertising copywriter before SAT becoming a radio and TV scriptwriter. His comic novels SAT include Seeds of Greatness, A Short Gentleman and Worth. SAT Praise for A Short Gentleman SAT 'Brilliant, but for God's sake don't let this book fall into SAT the hands of any women - if they find out what we're really SAT like we'll never hear the end of it.' Charlie Higson SAT 'A witty, accomplished, and highly entertaining warning SAT about the folly of ambition.' Mail on Sunday SAT 'Elegantly written, civilised and genuinely funny.' The SAT Scotsman SAT 'Robert is infectious. You might just catch yourself SAT bringing his loathsome logic to your own domestic dilemmas.' SAT Time Out. SAT Credits SAT Father: James Hayes SAT Mother: Nichola McAuliffe SAT Young Robert: Josef Lindsay SAT Pilkington: Ewan Bailey SAT Ticky Moxon-Smith: Katherine Jakeways SAT Judy Page: Tracy Wiles SAT Alan Temperley: Gerard McDermott SAT Author: Jon Canter SAT Adaptor: Robin Brooks SAT Director: Jonquil Panting SAT Producer: Jonquil Panting SAT SAT 13:00 Halfway Here: Omnibus b070npz3 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT A family bumble along in a normally dysfunctional way until SAT an accident causes them each to unravel. Starring Tyger SAT Drew-Honey. SAT Credits SAT Writer: Yasmina Reza SAT Michael: Lenny Henry SAT Veronica: Rosie Cavaliero SAT Millson: Joseph Millson SAT Annette: Monica Dolan SAT Director: James Macdonald SAT Producer: Catherine Bailey SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b070nqwv (Listen) SAT Bruce Forsyth SAT Entertainer Bruce Forsyth chooses 'When You Wish Upon a SAT Star' by Jiminy Cricket and 'New York, New York' by Liza SAT Minnelli. SAT SAT 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0499n6h (Listen) SAT Daniel Glattauer - Love Virtually SAT Starring David Tennant and Emilia Fox, Love Virtually by SAT Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer is a thoroughly modern SAT epistolary novel with one difference - its protagonists Emmi SAT Rothner and Leo Leike communicate exclusively by email. SAT The European answer to You've got Mail. SAT Two million copies sold in Germany to date. And bought by SAT thirty-five publishers around the world, Love Virtually by SAT Austrian novelist Daniel Glattauer, is well on the way to SAT becoming a global publishing phenomenon. SAT They "meet" when Emmi mistakenly sends an e-mail to Leo's SAT inbox. A romance ensues that allows them to live out a SAT shared secret life far removed from their day-to-day SAT existences. But to what extent does it rely on fantasy and SAT escapism, and will it survive a real-life meeting? SAT The problem is...Emmi (a modern Madame Bovary) is SAT married.... SAT Have email, Facebook, texting and the like created a SAT generation of isolated young people who prefer to SAT communicate remotely - who may be in fact afraid to engage SAT in face to face contact to find love? Is it possible to fall SAT in love with someone you've never met? Does a virtual affair SAT 'count' as adultery? What are the implications of the fact SAT that we can pretend to be anyone in cyberspace? SAT Adapted by Eileen Horne. SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Leo Leike: David Tennant SAT Emmi Rothner: Emilia Fox SAT Emmi's Husband: Paul Jesson SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT Adaptor: Eileen Horne SAT Author: Daniel Glattauer SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b036j3r0 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Hood b070n8g7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:15 The Meaning of Trees b071k9ts (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075vsz (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Planet B b00yqqs6 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Disaster! SAT In the last hours of Planet B, what is better than a SAT farewell party? Virtual reality saga by Matthew Wilkie. SAT Stars Lloyd Thomas. SAT SAT 18:30 Ghost Zone b007jx3m (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT The alien's purpose in Inchbrae becomes apparent when Jill SAT and Beth witness more moments from the past. Stars Gayanne SAT Potter. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Greats b01kjsg3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Richard Herring's Objective b0174gl1 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Wheelchair SAT Richard Herring's Objective SAT Episode 2: 'The Wheelchair' SAT Richard Herring examines 'The Wheelchair' the representative SAT symbol of disability on disability access signs and asks if SAT there is equal access. He wonders if it is still the case SAT that we see the disability rather than the person. SAT Written by and starring Richard Herring, with Emma Kennedy SAT and special guest, comedian Francesca Martinez. SAT Produced by Tilusha Ghelani SAT The second series of Richard Herring's Objective pokes and SAT prods a variety controversial objects and see if the SAT controversy falls out. Through vox pops, interviews and SAT stand up comedy Richard examines the objects' history, SAT meaning and significance and challenges our assumed logic SAT and stereotypes. Can we reclaim these objects away from SAT their unfortunate associations? SAT In series one the comedian investigated 'The Hitler SAT Moustache', 'The Hoodie' and 'The St. George's Flag' and in SAT the new series he'll be training his beady eye on 'The SAT Golliwog', 'The Wheelchair', 'Page 3' and 'The Old School SAT Tie'. SAT SAT 22:30 Alun Cochrane's Fun House b01rr555 (Listen) SAT Living Room SAT Comedian Alun Cochrane has a 25 year mortgage which he can SAT only pay off by being funny. In this series he takes us on a SAT room by room, stand up tour of his house. SAT He has a fridge that beeps at him when he doesn't move SAT quickly enough and a fire alarm he can't reach. His SAT relationship with his house is a complicated one. SAT A hoarder of funny and original observations on everyday SAT life, Alun invites us to help him de-clutter his mind and SAT tidy his ideas into one of those bags that you hoover all SAT the air out of and keep under your bed. This show will help SAT Alun and his house work through their relationship issues SAT and prevent a separation that Alun can ill afford; at least SAT not until the market picks up anyway. SAT Alun Cochrane and Gavin Osborn SAT Writers: Alun Cochrane and Andy Wolton SAT Producer: Carl Cooper. SAT Credits SAT Performer: Alun Cochrane SAT Performer: Gavin Osborn SAT Writer: Alun Cochrane SAT Writer: Andy Wolton SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b071xmy0 (Listen) SAT The best in contemporary comedy. Tonight, Arthur Smith is SAT joined by Shazia Mirza. SAT SAT 23:00 Pleased to Meet You b007k2t5 (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 2 SAT Ninety-something good-time girl Dora Dale dishes the dirt on SAT her celeb chums to Martin Kelner. With Jake Yapp. From SAT August 2006. SAT SAT 23:30 The Big Booth b007jrvv (Listen) SAT Series 2: The Big Booth Too, Episode 5 SAT Boothby Graffoe's script dictatorship is overthrown by the SAT Workers' Collective. With Kevin Eldon. From February 2001. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Planet B b00yqqs6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:30 Ghost Zone b007jx3m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Halfway Here: Omnibus b070npz3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b070nqwv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Afternoon Drama b0499n6h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b036j3r0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Hood b070n8g7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:15 The Meaning of Trees b071k9ts (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Tony Hawks's Guide to the Guides b0075vsz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Colette - Cheri b070p5p1 (Listen) SUN Omnibus. Colette's tale of a love affair between a Parisian SUN courtesan and a man half her age, set in Paris, 1912. Stars SUN Frances Barber. SUN SUN 07:15 Definitely Dunn b070p6c6 (Listen) SUN Flat Feet and Concert Parties SUN Don't panic! Memories of Dad's Army star Clive Dunn, who SUN played Lance-Corporal Jack Jones for nearly a decade on TV, SUN radio and film between 1968 to 1977. SUN Recalling highlights from his first 50 years in SUN entertainment, Clive recalls life at boarding school, SUN joining the army and his early stage appearances. SUN Clive was aged 68 at the time of recording. He died in SUN Portugal in 2012, aged 92. SUN Producer: Edward Taylor SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in 1988. SUN SUN 07:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01qkmpl (Listen) SUN Series 2, Midlife Crisis SUN Stephen K Amos and comedian guests, Fred MacAulay, Angela SUN Barnes and Greg Proops compile an Idiot's Guide to having SUN your midlife crisis. Producer: Colin Anderson. SUN SUN 08:00 Jim the Great b0334t0v (Listen) SUN Series 2, Here Comes the Hun SUN The moustachioed monarch raises an army to take on Attila SUN and his approaching horde. Stars Jimmy Edwards. From SUN September 1979. SUN SUN 08:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00hmb64 (Listen) SUN 23/7/1972 SUN Mystery in a spoof of smooth sleuth Paul Temple - and wires SUN get crossed on the telephone. SUN A sequential entertainment for radio starring Ronnie Barker. SUN With Terence Brady, Pauline Yates and Ann Beach. Pianist: SUN Gordon Langford. SUN Written by Arnold Brown, Donald Churchill, Peter Spence, Don SUN Currell and Andy Kelvin, John Graham, Charles Griffin, JG SUN Sacks, Myles Rudge and Ted Dicks, and Gerald Wiley. SUN Producer John Fawcett-Wilson SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1972. SUN SUN 09:00 Ben Rawlence - City of Thorns: Omnibus b070pb48 (Listen) SUN In the desert, near the Somali border where only thorn SUN bushes grow, is a city of half a million people. Read by SUN David Seddon. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b070pb4b (Listen) SUN Judy Finnigan SUN The television presenter Judy Finnigan chooses 'Who's Sorry SUN Now' by Connie Francis, and 'Hey Jude', by The Beatles. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b070pb4d (Listen) SUN Space, Monica Grady SUN 4 Extra Debut. From Brahms to Ultravox, space scientist SUN Professor Monica Grady makes her castaway choices. With SUN Kirsty Young. From July 2015. SUN SUN 11:00 In Pod We Trust b06p46bp (Listen) SUN Stories from the Heart SUN Miranda Sawyer continues her exploration into the world of SUN podcasts by rounding up some of the best from around the SUN globe. SUN This week's programme features personal storytelling SUN concerning issues which some of us find it hard to talk SUN about: love, sex, family and money. Matters of the heart. SUN Guests include Anna Sale, creator and host of New York-based SUN podcast, "Death, Sex and Money", and Lea Thau, who SUN documented her own love life in a series for Los SUN Angeles-based Strangers podcast "Love Hurts". SUN Producer: Jim Frank SUN Researcher: Chris Pearson. SUN Anna Sale SUN Joining Miranda this week is Anna Sale, who presents ' SUN Death, Sex & Money SUN '. Anna describes her show as "a podcast about the big SUN questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite SUN conversation". SUN (Image taken by Amy Pearl / Courtesy WNYC) SUN Lea Thau SUN Miranda speaks to Lea Thau, producer of the Los SUN Angeles-based ' SUN Strangers SUN ' podcast. Last year Lea documented her *own *love life SUN in the series " SUN Love Hurts SUN ". SUN Another Round SUN Another Round SUN is presented by Heben Nigatu and Tracy Clayton. They cover SUN 'everything from race and gender to squirrels and mangoes' SUN in a podcast produced by SUN Buzzfeed SUN Gravy SUN Gravy SUN is a fortnightly podcast, telling the stories of people and SUN places through food. The podcast is produced by the SUN Southern Foodways Alliance SUN Scroobius Pip's Distraction Pieces podcast SUN Distraction Pieces SUN is a weekly interview podcast hosted by Scroobius Pip. SUN SUN 11:30 Short Cuts b01mqpgf (Listen) SUN Series 2, Faking It SUN Nina Garthwaite presents a showcase for delightful and SUN adventurous short documentaries. A selection of brief SUN encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. SUN In 'Faking It', she blurs the line between fact and fiction SUN with tales of love, lying and a loose grip on reality. SUN The indie pop duo Summer Camp construct a 'documentary song' SUN which delves into the falsity of flirting and those moments SUN when we realise we've really fallen in love and the actor SUN Jonathan Keeble reveals his real - or is it his false - SUN identity ... SUN Nina also learns how you successfully conceal your true self SUN in the workplace, why you shouldn't trust your new SUN boyfriend's grandmother and the dangers of picking a fight SUN with a Ouija board. SUN Produced by Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4 SUN The items featured in this programme were: SUN Translations SUN Featuring Jonathan Keeble SUN The Disguise SUN Produced by Leo Hornak SUN All There Is SUN Composed by Summer Camp SUN The Chamuyero SUN Produced by Barney Rowntree SUN Fact and Fiction SUN Featuring Jonathan Keeble SUN The Séance SUN Produced by Bob Carlson. SUN SUN 12:00 Jim the Great b0334t0v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead b00hmb64 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Colette - Cheri b070p5p1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Definitely Dunn b070p6c6 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Virginia Woolf - Orlando: Omnibus b070pcsn (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Orlando, the Tudor time travelling adventurer, is SUN preoccupied by the penalties and privileges of womanhood. SUN Read by Amanda Hale. SUN SUN 15:45 Maeve Binchy - Needy b070pd53 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Heather learns that all Valentine's Day SUN declarations of love should be viewed with suspicion. Read SUN by Patricia Hodge. SUN SUN 16:00 Gaston Leroux - The Mystery of the Yellow Room SUN b01gyl0j (Listen) SUN The door was bolted and the windows barred, so how was Mlle SUN Sangerson shot at, knocked unconscious, and left for dead? SUN Gaston Leroux's classic 'locked room' mystery, dramatised by SUN Stephen Sheridan. SUN Stars Nicholas Boulton as Rouletabille and Geoffrey SUN Whitehead as Inspector Larson. SUN Director: David Blount SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1998. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b0075ldx (Listen) SUN With Great Pleasure - Les Murray SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN In 'With Great Pleasure', Les Murray talks through a SUN selection of his favourite poems and stories. Expect moon SUN landings, U-boats, vespers songs and Doublemen in a SUN beautiful and eclectic selection read by Sean Barrett and SUN Sally Cookson. SUN Producer: Sara Davies SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. SUN SUN 17:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01qkmpl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Robert Westall - The Wheatstone Pond b00768rk (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. After a boating lake is drained, a SUN clairvoyant antiques dealer becomes embroiled in a deadly SUN occult mystery. Stars John Duttine. SUN SUN 19:00 In Pod We Trust b06p46bp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] SUN SUN 19:30 Short Cuts b01mqpgf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] SUN SUN 20:00 Ben Rawlence - City of Thorns: Omnibus b070pb48 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:10 Inheritance Tracks b070pb4b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:15 Desert Island Discs Revisited b070pb4d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01qkmpl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01bwp8v (Listen) SUN Pilot SUN Thom Tuck recounts heart-rending tales of love and loss, SUN laying bare all the failures he's suffered in his SUN relationships and drawing comparisons with the 54 SUN straight-to-DVD Disney movies he's watched, so we don't have SUN to. These underrated gems - perhaps rightfully ignored and SUN forgotten - mirror his experiences with women he has loved SUN too often and too soon. SUN A show with a huge heart, all about heartbreak in various SUN forms...the perfect antidote for Valentines Day. SUN Thom Tuck's brilliant debut solo show was nominated for Best SUN Newcomer at the Fosters Comedy Awards in Edinburgh 2011. He SUN is also part of acclaimed sketch group "The Penny SUN Dreadfuls". SUN "...a seductive experience" The Guardian SUN Produced by Lianne Coop. SUN SUN 23:00 Newsjack b07052l1 (Listen) SUN Series 14, Episode 1 SUN This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into SUN sketches, one-liners and vox-pops written by the public. SUN Trying to make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. SUN This week Nish is joined by Celeste Dring, Jess Ransom and SUN Mike Wozniak. SUN Newsjack was script edited by Grainne Maguire and Liam SUN Beirne. The producers were Matt Stronge and Suzy Grant. SUN It was a BBC Radio Comedy Production. SUN SUN 23:30 The Nick Revell Show b00ckmj4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Visitors SUN When the writer's niece and an old pal visit, love is in the SUN air. Or is it just a hangover? With Doon Mackichan. From SUN July 1993. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Robert Westall - The Wheatstone Pond b00768rk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Colette - Cheri b070p5p1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Definitely Dunn b070p6c6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Virginia Woolf - Orlando: Omnibus b070pcsn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Maeve Binchy - Needy b070pd53 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Gaston Leroux - The Mystery of the Yellow Room MON b01gyl0j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b0075ldx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Life: An Idiot's Guide b01qkmpl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jshh (Listen) MON The Expert Witness MON Rumpole recalls the case of a GP accused of killing his MON wife. MON "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". MON Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law MON Horace Rumpole and Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole MON With Derek Farr as Mr Justice Skelton and Ellis Dale as Owen MON Munroe, MON Originally a TV series created by writer and barrister John MON Mortimer, Rumpole hit the BBC radio airwaves in 1980. MON Case-by-case, Rumpole recalls his work at the Central MON Criminal Court of England and Wales. MON Director: Peter King MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. MON MON 06:30 Star Spangled Hendrix b00tg2m0 (Listen) MON When Jimi Hendrix returned to his native America as a star, MON the country he knew had changed. This programme, presented MON by Tom Robinson to tie in with the 40th anniversary of the MON guitarist's death, explores the pressure Jimi was under to MON make an explicit political declaration. MON Tom explores Hendrix's 14 months in the Screaming Eagles 101 MON Airborne Division that saw him parachute a total of 26 times MON before he was invalided out with a broken ankle. Brother MON Leon Hendrix discusses his elder bother's time in the MON military, along with comments from author Charles Sharr MON Murray. MON Singer and friend Eric Burdon explains how, after the riots MON in Grosvenor Square, Jimi trotted out the American MON government's party line on Vietnam - the so-called "Domino MON Theory". MON The Soft Machine supported Hendrix as they travelled across MON America and drummer Robert Wyatt recalls how Jimi responded MON to media questions about the war, and the emergence of the MON Black Power movement. Hendrix was receptive to the Black MON Panther Party and found the Seattle Chapter of the MON organisation run by two former high school friends. Both MON Panthers, Aaron and Elmer Dixon talk about how receptive MON Hendrix was to the cause. MON The programme culminates with Jimi's Woodstock Festival MON performance of 'The Star Spangled Banner', an eloquent (and MON wordless) statement against the Vietnam war. In retrospect, MON it can also be read as a swan song for the era of peace and MON love and for Hendrix himself, who died in his sleep the MON following year. Jimi Hendrix is more than a blues guitarist MON who got lucky in the 60s. He did the best he could to be his MON own man without openly taking sides, and we are still trying MON to get to know him 40 years after his death. MON Producer: John Sugar MON A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 07:00 The Right Time b0076mf5 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 3 MON Roman orgies and aged bikers in the sketch comedy about MON growing older disgracefully. Stars Dudley Sutton. From July MON 2004. MON MON 07:30 The Museum of Curiosity b070cz5y (Listen) MON Series 8, Lucas, Scott, Hartston MON This week, the Professor of Ignorance John Lloyd and his MON curator Sarah Millican welcome the comedian, actor and star MON of Little Britain, Matt Lucas; a neuroscientist from MON University College, London who studies comedy under MON laboratory conditions, Professor Sophie Scott; and an MON author, former British Chess champion and leading MON psychometrics consultant who writes the Beachcomber column MON in the Daily Express, has written dozens of bestselling MON books, and has finally gained recognition as a reality TV MON star on Gogglebox. MON This week, the Museum's guests discuss the joy of farts; the MON many uses of the human tongue; and why obsessive behaviour MON can turn a chess player into an unstable towering genius. MON Credits MON Presenter: John Lloyd MON Presenter: Sarah Millican MON Interviewed Guest: Matt Lucas MON Interviewed Guest: Sophie Scott MON Interviewed Guest: William Hartston MON Producer: Richard Turner MON Producer: James Harkin MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jqxp (Listen) MON Series 3, High Finance MON Captain Mainwaring realises Corporal Jones's money troubles MON involve the whole platoon. 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 Private Godfrey, MON Ian Lavender as Private Pike, Bill Pertwee as Hodges, Frank MON Williams as the Vicar and Pearl Hackney as Mrs Pike. 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 July 1976. MON MON 08:30 Brothers in Law b007js3q (Listen) MON Series 2, 1471 MON Both of barrister Roger's girlfriends, Sally and Joy, MON attempt to get him some work. Stars Richard Briers. From MON September 1971. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00dzbmv (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 3 MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness, flanked by captains Sebastian Faulks and John MON Walsh with guests Harry Ritchie and Simon Brett. The author MON of the week and subject for pastiche is Philip Roth and the MON reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 Tomorrow, Today! b0178s5n (Listen) MON Series 2, Prey of the Bog Monster MON Comedy series by Christopher William Hill, set in 1962. A MON BBC producer struggles to make a radio soap set in the MON unimaginably futuristic world of 2008. MON 4/6. Prey of the Bog Monster MON The show avoids censorship by becoming an outside broadcast. 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 Veronica Walters ...... Johannah Tincey MON Henderson ...... Ben Crowe. MON MON 10:00 David Wade - Alexander b007q9by (Listen) MON Great Son of Ammon MON The king confronts and conquers, as he faces the end of the MON span of years allotted by the Fates. Stars Michael Maloney. MON MON 11:00 Under the Skin b01c6s87 (Listen) MON Correspondence MON Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South MON Asian Literature Festival, which was staged in London and MON across the United Kingdom in October. The relationship MON between the English language, its literary tradition and MON writers from South Asia has become an exciting and enduring MON part of British literary life. MON The Festival celebrated writers from South Asia and British MON Asian writing, equally, reflecting the diversity of themes, MON subjects and literary forms that constitute South Asian MON writing in 2011. MON Under the Skin features two original stories and one adapted MON from the collection Too Asian, Not Asian Enough which was MON published to coincide with the festival. NSR Khan's story MON Correspondence is a touching and witty account of a MON Pakistani father coming to terms with the life of his MON British Asian daughter. MON Under the Skin starts with Deni Francis, Lyndam Gregory and MON Najma Khan reading a story in letters between a father and MON daughter. MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Writer: NSR Khan MON Actor: Deni Francis MON Actor: Lyndam Gregory MON Actor: Najma Khan MON Producer: David Roper MON MON 11:15 Dave Sheasby - Apple Blossom Afternoon b007jpjz (Listen) MON Ted is not asking much for his birthday, just a winning MON accumulator bet. But will the final horse oblige? Stars MON Malcolm Hebden. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jqxp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Brothers in Law b007js3q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jshh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Star Spangled Hendrix b00tg2m0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00801nd (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON A Cornish house with a fragrant lawn links five cousins MON through war and adulthood. Read by Sian Phillips. MON MON 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xd506 (Listen) MON William Jones: Enlightenment Moghul MON Professor Sunil Khilnani looks at the contribution Sir MON William Jones made to our understanding of Indian history MON and culture. Jones set sail for India at the end of the 18th MON century where he became one of the greatest advocates for MON studying the glories of India's past. Already a master of MON many languages, he learned Sanskrit which he declared "more MON perfect than the Greeks, more copious than the Latin and MON more exquisitely refined than either". He introduced a MON radical idea: that Sanskrit and Europe's classical languages MON were all tributaries of a single, lost linguistic river. MON Professor Khilnani describes Jones as "a man who arrived in MON India and studied its culture with humility and then sought MON to awaken the West to its riches. The irony is that he also MON awakened the East". MON Produced by Mark Savage MON Researcher: Manu Pillai MON With a recital of an Indian composition on harpsichord, from MON the Oriental Miscellany by Jane Chapman. MON Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of MON remarkable Indians featured in the series on the Radio 4 MON website. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b008y3kt (Listen) MON The Kiss, Waterloo East MON Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. MON 1/5. Waterloo East MON Dan breaks up with Jeanie on the platform of Waterloo East MON Station. She is heartbroken, but they have the best break-up MON kiss she has ever had. A year later they meet again and he MON wants her back. Jeanie knows how feckless he is, but she did MON love that kiss. MON Jeanie ...... Claire Rushbrook MON Dan ...... Lee Ross MON Myrtle ...... Sheila Reid MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b00y5dc3 (Listen) MON Colin Thubron - To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 1 MON "By trekkers' standards our party is small and swift: a MON guide, a cook, a horse-man, myself. We move scattered above MON the river, while loan traders pass us the other way, leading MON their stocky horse and mule-trains between lonely villages. MON They look fierce and open, and laughingly meet your eyes. MON The delicacy of the plains has gone..." MON Renowned travel writer Colin Thubron is about to climb Mount MON Kailis in Tibet, one of the holiest places in the world and MON hardly visited by westerners. Its slopes are rugged, MON glacial, and peopled by the toughest types alive. Its slopes MON are also full of stories: Hindu and Buddhist tales of MON struggle, devotion and intrigue. But on from these lower MON reaches, Kailis' s peak rises sacrosanct. Forbiddingly MON distant. And it is here that Thubron casts his gaze, then MON walks towards, as listeners can discover in his new account. MON 1. In the first of five episodes, abridged by Penny MON Leicester, the author begins his ascent of Mount Kailas with MON trusty guide and cook in tow. But what exactly lies ahead?, MON he asks himself. MON Reader Stephen Boxer. MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 15:00 David Wade - Alexander b007q9by (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00dzbmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Tomorrow, Today! b0178s5n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 The Right Time b0076mf5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Museum of Curiosity b070cz5y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Wally K Daly b007jv0y (Listen) MON The Children of Witchwood, Episode 1 MON Jackie Lamont, a student at a local college, goes missing MON mysteriously. And when she reappears, just as mysteriously, MON she seems to have somehow been given special telepathic MON powers. MON Meanwhile, the Cranford Family have guarded a secret for MON hundreds of years - and Jackie Lamont is a threat. MON But BQ Brown of the Ministry of Defence is investigating a MON possible link between the burning of six children as witches MON in the 17th century and Jackie's disappearance. MON Starring Wendy Baxter as Jackie Lamont, Emily Chennery as MON Mandy Lamont and Michael Cochrane as the Sergeant. MON Director: Jenny Stephens. MON A five- part story originally made for BBC7 in 2005. MON MON 18:30 World Book Club b070rvzp (Listen) MON Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting MON Irving Welsh discusses his cult novel about drugs and MON violence, later filmed for the cinema. With Harriet Gilbert. MON From August 2007. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jqxp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Brothers in Law b007js3q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jshh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Star Spangled Hendrix b00tg2m0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Under the Skin b01c6s87 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Dave Sheasby - Apple Blossom Afternoon b007jpjz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Museum of Curiosity b070cz5y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b010y376 (Listen) MON Series 4, John Craven's Fjällräven MON More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, MON courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. MON Written by and starring Donald McLeary and Sanjeev Kohli, MON Fags, Mags & Bags has proved a hit with the Radio 4 audience MON with this series picking up a Writers' Guild nomination for MON best comedy in 2011. MON In this episode Dave and the boys are busily organising a MON surprise 50th birthday party for Ramesh, but will Sanjay MON manage to keep his trap closed long enough without spilling MON the beans before the big day. 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. MON Ramesh Mahju has built up the business over the course of MON thirty years, and is a firmly entrenched feature of the MON local area. However, he does apply the "low return" rules of MON the shop to all other aspects of his life. MON He is ably assisted by his shop sidekick Dave, a MON forty-something underachiever who shares Ramesh's love of MON the art of shopkeeping, even if he is treated like a slave. MON Then of course there are Ramesh's sons, Sanjay and Alok, MON both surly and not particularly keen on the old school MON approach to shopkeeping. But they are natural successors to MON the business and Ramesh is keen to pass all his worldly MON wisdom onto them - whether they like it or not. MON Cast: MON Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli MON Dave ..... Donald Mcleary MON Sanjay ..... Omar Raza MON Alok ..... Susheel Kumar MON Dr Southwell ..... Kevin Eldon MON Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth MON Mrs Armstrong ..... Maureen Carr MON Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo MON Bra Jeff ..... Steven McNicol MON Producer: Gus Beattie MON A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b070ryy3 (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 6 MON A satirical review of the week's news chaired by Miles Jupp. MON Miles is joined by Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Justin MON Moorhouse and Steve Lamacq. MON MON 23:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea b007ynlv (Listen) MON Series 1, The Murder Mystery MON The elderly Scotsmen probe Mrs Naughtie's odd disappearance MON amid some unsavoury rumours. Stars Barry Cryer and Graeme MON Garden. From December 2002. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Wally K Daly b007jv0y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 World Book Club b070rvzp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jshh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Star Spangled Hendrix b00tg2m0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00801nd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xd506 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b008y3kt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b00y5dc3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 David Wade - Alexander b007q9by (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00dzbmv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Tomorrow, Today! b0178s5n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 The Right Time b0076mf5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Museum of Curiosity b070cz5y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjb (Listen) TUE The Course of True Love TUE Rumpole muses on the case of a teacher accused of seduction. TUE "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". TUE Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law TUE Horace Rumpole. TUE With Denys Hawthorne as Judge George Frobisher and Michael TUE Spice as Guthrie Featherstone. 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: Peter King TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1980. TUE TUE 06:30 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon b00vk2fx (Listen) TUE Sue Perkins revisits her former home-town of Croydon to ask TUE just how South London's 'Mini-Manhattan' became the butt of TUE so many jokes, mocked by comedians from the great Morecambe TUE and Wise to Basil Brush. TUE With a skyline made up of 60's brutalist office blocks and TUE re-clad 80's ones, Croydon's aesthetics are hard to love, TUE but whether you're heading to town from Gatwick Airport, TUE commuting from the South Coast, or a new immigrant TUE registering at the Home Office's Lunar House, Croydon is TUE your welcome to London. TUE With a powerful sense of nostalgia tinged with panic, Sue, TUE who's joined by fellow comedian Steve Punt, lurks on the TUE stairwells and top storeys of seven car parks in Croydon, TUE trying to get a new perspective on local planning decisions, TUE past and present. She hears historic tales of Elizabeth the TUE First and punk svengali Malcolm McLaren, Bridget Riley - TUE Queen of OpArt - and the emergence of the hottest current TUE urban music Dubstep. TUE Vincent Lacovara, fan of Croydon, and its current urban TUE planner believes these concrete viewing platforms can TUE provide a fresh vantage point from which the history and TUE super-future of Croydon can be laid out before Sue - so that TUE she can see all the possibilities it had to offer her, and TUE which she missed growing up. The great architectural TUE commentator Nikolaus Pevsner said Croydon's skyline was TUE 'thrilling from a distance' but maybe that's the problem - TUE up close it takes a trained or loving eye to appreciate the TUE uniqueness of Croydon - and after all we can't all come from TUE the Cotswolds. TUE The time has come to reassess the concrete dreams of the TUE 1960's - and Sue is the woman to do it. TUE Producers Sara Jane Hall and Gillian Darlington. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Gillian Darlington TUE TUE 07:00 A Short Gentleman b0196rnd (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE by Jon Canter, adapted by Robin Brooks TUE Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect TUE specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless TUE legal logic to his disastrous personal life. TUE 2/4 TUE Robert woos Elizabeth, by means of a putty-coloured carpet. TUE Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE Credits TUE Robert: Hugh Bonneville TUE Elizabeth: Lyndsey Marshal TUE Guy: Adam Billington TUE Sophie: Francine Chamberlain TUE Anthony: Carl Prekopp TUE Actor: Gerard McDermott TUE Actor: Lauren Mote TUE Actor: Tracy Wiles TUE Author: Jon Canter TUE Adaptor: Robin Brooks TUE Director: Jonquil Panting TUE Producer: Jonquil Panting TUE TUE 07:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b007jvf7 (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 1 TUE Buying a new carpet sweeper for her neighbour turns into a TUE major operation. East London tower block comedy. TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00nth15 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 1 TUE Kenneth Horne is a doctor who talks to animals, tune into TUE wonderful Radio Balls Pond Road and Julian and Sandy troll TUE west to The Lazy Bona Ranch. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. TUE For series 4, Marty Feldman was replaced by Brian Cooke & TUE Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Webster TUE Music by the Max Harris Group. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in February 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b012n3rv (Listen) TUE Taking Leave of Their Census TUE The daft duo go west to Cornwall and get embroiled in dodgy TUE doings. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From August TUE 1972. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b070ryy3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Hamish and Dougal: You'll Have Had Your Tea b007ynlv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 The True Story of Martin Guerre b070stnx (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE 4 Extra Debut. Charged as an imposter, Guerre's trial is TUE dramatised from notes of the 16th-century French judge, Jean TUE de Coras. Stars Sean Bean. TUE TUE 11:00 Under the Skin b01cj384 (Listen) TUE Another Life, by Resma Ruia TUE Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South TUE Asian Literature Festival, which is staged in London and TUE across the United Kingdom. The relationship between the TUE English language, its literary tradition and writers from TUE South Asia has become an exciting and enduring part of TUE British literary life. The Festival celebrates writers from TUE South Asia and British Asian writing, equally, reflecting TUE the diversity of themes, subjects and literary forms that TUE constitute South Asian writing in 2012. TUE Under the Skin features three stories by British Asian TUE writers. Resma Ruia's Another Life focuses on the TUE restlessness of an Asian businessman who visited Manchester TUE as a young man on his way to America - but never left. TUE Lyndam Gregory, Deni Francis and Najma Khan are the readers. TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Writer: Resma Ruia TUE Reader: Lyndam Gregory TUE Reader: Deni Francis TUE Reader: Najma Khan TUE Producer: David Roper TUE TUE 11:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast b007jqxk (Listen) TUE Elsie's secret lover and Kathleen's mystery past put TUE Britain's wartime security at risk. Stars Jo Joyner and TUE Christine Brennan. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00nth15 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b012n3rv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon b00vk2fx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00803g6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE As the sirens sound for the Second World War, Monica has TUE good reason to be worried. Read by Sian Phillips. TUE TUE 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xdcvk (Listen) TUE Rammohan Roy: Humanity in General TUE Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles Rammohan Roy, the Bengali TUE scholar and reformer who became a worldwide intellectual TUE celebrity and campaigned against Sati, the suicide of widows TUE on their husbands' funeral pyres. TUE Rammohan Roy was part of an international set of radicals TUE and reformers attacking established religion and ruling TUE despots in the early 19th century, including the East India TUE Company. He urged Indians to judge their society and TUE behaviour by universal values at the very moment these TUE values were emerging in the Enlightenment West. "And ever TUE since Roy," Sunil Khilnani says, "Indians have been part of TUE the global argument about the nature of justice, rights and TUE freedom" TUE He is best known for his advocacy for women and his TUE opposition to Sati, the Hindu rite in which widows died on TUE their husbands' funeral pyres. His campaign converged with TUE the birth of an international concern with human rights. TUE With contributions from Nobel prize-winning economist TUE Amartya Sen and from the late Prof. Christopher Bayly, Sunil TUE Khilnani's examination of Rammohan Roy's life takes him from TUE the Sati ghats of Calcutta to a quiet cemetery on the TUE outskirts of Bristol, Roy's last resting place. TUE Producer: Jeremy Grange TUE Executive Producer: Martin Smith TUE Original Music composed by Talvin Singh. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b008x4rx (Listen) TUE The Kiss, The Advertiser TUE Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. TUE 2/5. The Advertiser TUE A 73-year-old woman sees an astonishingly beautiful kiss at TUE Waterloo East and determines that she wants to kiss someone TUE for the first time in her life. She places an advert in a TUE national newspaper. TUE Myrtle ...... Sheila Reid TUE Gary ...... Jacob Krichefski TUE Brian/Albert ...... John Dougall TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b00yqn6v (Listen) TUE Colin Thubron - To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 2 TUE "By trekkers' standards our party is small and swift: a TUE guide, a cook, a horse-man, myself. We move scattered above TUE the river, while loan traders pass us the other way, leading TUE their stocky horse and mule-trains between lonely villages. TUE They look fierce and open, and laughingly meet your eyes. TUE The delicacy of the plains has gone..." TUE Renowned travel writer Colin Thubron is about to climb Mount TUE Kailis in Tibet, one of the holiest places in the world and TUE hardly visited by westerners. Its slopes are rugged, TUE glacial, and peopled by the toughest types alive. Its slopes TUE are also full of stories: Hindu and Buddhist tales of TUE struggle, devotion and intrigue. But on from these lower TUE reaches, Kailis's peak rises sacrosanct. Forbiddingly TUE distant. And it is here that Thubron casts his gaze, then TUE walks towards, as listeners can discover in his new account. TUE 2. During the ever rockier ascent of Kailas, the author with TUE his guide and cook must enlist the help of Dhabu, who has TUE horses to help the cause... TUE Read by Stephen Boxer. TUE TUE 15:00 The True Story of Martin Guerre b070stnx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 It's Your Round b00yrfwr (Listen) TUE Series 1, Episode 2 TUE "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format TUE is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the TUE panellists has brought along their own round for the others TUE to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and TUE unpredictable. TUE This episode Andy Parsons, Rebecca Front, Miles Jupp and TUE prog-rock legend, Rick Wakeman battle it out to see who can TUE beat each other at their own games. TUE Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the TUE games they've brought along. Can the teams guess the concept TUE for Rick's new prog rock album in his "What's The Concept?" TUE round? And what happens when the teams have to play Andy's TUE inventively titled "It's Not Your Round"? And would Rebecca TUE Front like to marry Prince William? Find out the answers to TUE these questions and more in this show. TUE Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure TUE everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. TUE Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell TUE Devised by Benjamin Partridge TUE Producer: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag b00b5r1h (Listen) TUE Series 2, Political Flu TUE The embassy chief must cope when political sickness strikes TUE in the People's Republic. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From April TUE 1988. TUE TUE 17:00 A Short Gentleman b0196rnd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b007jvf7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Wally K Daly b007jv16 (Listen) TUE The Children of Witchwood, Episode 2 TUE Jackie Lamont has now, just as mysteriously, re-appeared. TUE She seems to have somehow been given special telepathic TUE powers. TUE TUE 18:30 The Palace of Laughter b007svws (Listen) TUE Series 1, London Windmill TUE Geoffrey Wheeler explores the venue famed for its nude TUE tableaux and known as the 'comics' graveyard'. From March TUE 2002. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00nth15 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b012n3rv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon b00vk2fx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Under the Skin b01cj384 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Caroline Gawn - Fresh from the Coast b007jqxk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b007jvf7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Andrew Maxwell's Public Enemies b03f8g6l (Listen) TUE Drugs Trade 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 The drugs trade is one of our few booming industries. In TUE this third episode, Andrew looks at the facts behind both TUE the illegal and legal drugs. What are the risks? What are TUE the problems? And what can we do about either? 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 23:00 Revolting People b00wr9v4 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Reunion TUE Samuel and company hit London, where McGurk has a family TUE get-together. 1775 America sitcom stars Andy Hamilton. From TUE May 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 Think the Unthinkable b007k4p8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE The management consultants plug into media technology. Stars TUE Emma Kennedy and Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2002. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2016 WED WED 00:00 Wally K Daly b007jv16 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Palace of Laughter b007svws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon b00vk2fx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00803g6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xdcvk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b008x4rx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b00yqn6v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 The True Story of Martin Guerre b070stnx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 It's Your Round b00yrfwr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b00b5r1h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 A Short Gentleman b0196rnd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting WED b007jvf7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjp (Listen) WED The Perils of the Sea WED Rumpole recalls the case of murder. How did Barney Bateman WED die? WED "The Splendours And Miseries Of An Old Bailey Hack". WED Starring Maurice Denham as ageing London barrister-at-law WED Horace Rumpoleand Margot Boyd as Hilda Rumpole. WED With Norman Shelley as the Judge and Michael Spice as WED Guthrie Featherstone. 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 Latch-Key Kids b00sg1hf (Listen) WED Actress Jessica Hynes a latch-key kid from the age of six WED hears the stories of others over the generations who too had WED to let themselves in to an empty house after school. How has WED this shaped and influenced the way she and others bring up WED their children? WED The term "latch- key kid" came to prominence during the WED Second World War when children as young as five years old WED were being left as their Dads were away fighting and their WED mothers became part of the labour force. Sandra now a WED grandmother in her 70's, was along with her parents 'bombed WED out' of their home in Sheffield. They lost everything and WED her mum had to go out to work; throughout her entire school WED life Sandra was a latch--key kid. Later on in life when she WED too got married and had kids she made a secret pact - she WED was going to be around for her kids but in doing so what WED were the consequences? WED Decades later the term became synonymous with neglect and WED was dropped but the practice continues to this day. John WED Amaechi defends rigorously his upbringing - having to be WED responsible and independent made him into who he is today - WED his success and they way he has raised his own family WED mirrors his own experience. But 80's child Lizzie who became WED a delinquent teenager says she was "at times WED overlooked"....brought up on Pot Noodles and stale things WED she's opted for a different life for her two boys.Whose got WED it right ? WED WED 07:00 Married b0081vm4 (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED With a wife and kids, bachelor Robin Lightfoot learns more WED about his parallel universe. Stars Hugh Bonneville. From WED April 1999. WED WED 07:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05qgm0y (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED Adventuring comedian Tim FitzHigham recreates another 19th WED century bet; can he cook a pudding underneath ten feet of WED water? 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 b01j0sf9 (Listen) WED Troutbridge's Party WED Peeved Pertwee is barred from a wardroom celebration for WED Admiral Sir Benjamin Troutbridge. WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Ronnie Barker as AS Johnson, Richard Caldicote as Captain WED Povey and Heather Chasen as Mrs Povey. WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in October 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b007jqws (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 1 WED Seventies radio explained by Tim Brooke-Taylor, John Cleese, WED Graeme Garden, David Hatch, Jo Kendall and Bill Oddie. From WED February 1970. WED WED 09:00 The Motion Show b070wg2g (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED Graeme Garden's debating game with Gyles Brandreth, Hugh WED Dennis, Arthur Smith and Antony Worrall Thompson. From WED August 2000. WED WED 09:30 The Party Line b00sp1tv (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 2 WED MP Duncan welcomes a French delegation - will he end up with WED 'oeuf' on his face? Punt and Dennis's June 2005 topical WED sitcom. WED WED 10:00 The True Story of Martin Guerre b070wmg2 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Accepting him after eight years away and bearing two more WED children, Guerre's wife claims he is an impostor. Stars WED Lesley Dunlop. WED WED 11:00 Under the Skin b01cvdds (Listen) WED Eyebrows, by Kavita Bhanot WED Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South WED Asian Literature Festival, which is staged in London and WED across the United Kingdom. WED The relationship between the English language, its literary WED tradition and writers from South Asia has become an exciting WED and enduring part of British literary life. The Festival WED celebrates writers from South Asia and British Asian WED writing, equally, reflecting the diversity of themes, WED subjects and literary forms that constitute South Asian WED writing in 2012. WED Under the Skin features three stories by British Asian WED writers. Kavita Bhanot's Eyebrows introduces us to three WED generations of women seen through the eyes of Jaya on her WED weekend visits to her grandmother. WED Lyndam Gregory, Deni Francis and Najma Khan are the readers. WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Writer: Kavita Bhanot WED Reader: Lyndam Gregory WED Reader: Deni Francis WED Reader: Najma Khan WED Producer: David Roper WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00s9g1y (Listen) WED Mark Wheatley - So You Want To Disappear WED By Mark Wheatley WED Fraser once tracked clients who jumped bail. Then he added a WED little twist to the business by helping people disappear WED instead, which is why Kathryn gives him a call. WED Kathryn ..... Lia Williams WED Fraser ..... Neil Pearson WED Ali ..... Tessa Nicholson WED Mitch ..... Michael Shelford WED Kyle ..... Miche Doherty WED Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01j0sf9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b007jqws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Latch-Key Kids b00sg1hf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00804b2 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED As Calypso weds wealthy Scotsman Hector Grant, the other WED cousins must move on. Read by Sian Phillips. WED WED 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xgm2b (Listen) WED Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi: Badass Queen WED Prof. Sunil Khilnani explores the life of Lakshmibai, Rani WED of Jhansi, the queen who fought against the British and WED became a heroine of India's 1857 Rebellion. WED "The Rani was certainly no ordinary queen," he says of the WED woman who was listed by Time magazine as one of its 'Top Ten WED Badass Wives'. A typical day for Lakshmibai involved WED weightlifting, wrestling and steeplechasing - all before WED breakfast. Yet, despite her physical prowess, she was a WED reluctant rebel. She was drawn into the uprising only when WED the British annexed Jhansi after her husband died. The WED legend goes that, when the Rani's fort was under siege from WED the British, she mounted her horse, her young son holding on WED tight behind her, and leapt to freedom from the ramparts. WED The most iconic image of the Rani of Jhansi is at her last WED stand, in battle: again on horseback with her sword held WED high and the reins of her horse between her teeth. It's an WED image that evokes powerful Hindu goddesses like Kali and WED Durga. However, Sunil Khilnani argues that, by ascribing its WED heroines extra-human powers, supposedly to celebrate them, WED India is in fact denying the reality of women's experience. WED Producer: Jeremy Grange WED Executive Producer: Martin Smith WED Original Music composed by Talvin Singh. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b008x4s0 (Listen) WED The Kiss, The Kiss That Never Happened WED Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. WED 3/5. The Kiss That Never Happened WED Ted has imagined kissing Liesl over several years, while she WED has dated, got engaged, married and become a mother. Now, WED when he thinks her marriage is in trouble, he feels closer WED than ever to the long-sought kiss. WED Liesl ...... Kate Ashfield WED Ted ...... Ben Crowe WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b00yqsx4 (Listen) WED Colin Thubron - To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 3 WED "By trekkers' standards our party is small and swift: a WED guide, a cook, a horse-man, myself. We move scattered above WED the river, while loan traders pass us the other way, leading WED their stocky horse and mule-trains between lonely villages. WED They look fierce and open, and laughingly meet your eyes. WED The delicacy of the plains has gone..." WED Renowned travel writer Colin Thubron is about to climb Mount WED Kailas in Tibet, one of the holiest places in the world and WED hardly visited by westerners. Its slopes are rugged, WED glacial, and peopled by the toughest types alive. Its slopes WED are also full of stories: Hindu and Buddhist tales of WED struggle, devotion and intrigue. But on from these lower WED reaches, Kailas's peak rises sacrosanct. Forbiddingly WED distant. And it is here that Thubron casts his gaze, then WED walks towards, as listeners can discover in his new account. WED 3 Colin Thubron strides forth into majestic desolation and WED one early morning awakes face to face with a local beast. WED Meanwhile, Mt Kailas looms ever nearer for him... WED WED 15:00 The True Story of Martin Guerre b070wmg2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The Motion Show b070wg2g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Party Line b00sp1tv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Married b0081vm4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05qgm0y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Wally K Daly b007jv1f (Listen) WED The Children of Witchwood, Episode 3 WED The Cranford Family have a carefully guarded secret - their WED surviving descendants possess incredible supernatural WED powers. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b0076zh0 (Listen) WED Bitching WED Kathy Lette, Kate Figes and Tom Mitchelson join Dominic WED Arkwright to discuss the motives for bitching. From August WED 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01j0sf9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b007jqws (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Latch-Key Kids b00sg1hf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Under the Skin b01cvdds (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00s9g1y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05qgm0y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Andrew Lawrence: How Did We End Up Like This? WED b01nq7dj (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Sketches, stand-up and song in a comic exploration of WED clothing. With Andrew Lawrence and Sara Pascoe. From WED November 2011. WED WED 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b071xnmj (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson is joined by WED Abandoman. WED WED 23:00 In and Out of the Kitchen b01q8l39 (Listen) WED Series 2, Valentine's Day WED Tradition in the Trench/MacIlveny household dictates that WED Valentine's Day is the one day of the year when Damien is WED not allowed in the kitchen and Anthony can be left alone to WED cook a special meal to celebrate the occasion... much to WED Damien's chagrin. WED Meanwhile, Damien struggles to finish the links to a new WED series for Sky Arts all about the dietary habits of the WED great poets. And his dad has an unfortunate accident whilst WED walking the dog... WED Produced by: Sam Michell. WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED Anthony MacIlveny: Justin Edwards WED Damien's Mother: Selina Cadell WED Builder: Ben Crowe WED Mr Mullaney: Brendan Dempsey WED Marion Duffett: Lesley Vickerage WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 23:30 And Now in Colour b007wqf1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Salisbury Plain WED The sketch show team take their audience on Territorial Army WED manoeuvres. With Tim de Jongh and Michael Rutger. From April WED 1990. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2016 THU THU 00:00 Wally K Daly b007jv1f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b0076zh0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsjp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Latch-Key Kids b00sg1hf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00804b2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xgm2b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b008x4s0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b00yqsx4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 The True Story of Martin Guerre b070wmg2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 The Motion Show b070wg2g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Party Line b00sp1tv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Married b0081vm4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b05qgm0y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsk0 (Listen) THU The Age of Retirement THU Rumpole reconsiders his future - as does a hardened thief. 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 Robert Harris as Mr Justice Vosper and Brian Carroll as THU Erskine-Brown. 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 Settling the Score b00lbgqq (Listen) THU Tim Blackmore examines the complex relationship between THU composer and commissioner and asks if having boundaries set THU on the creative process is a help or a hindrance. THU The programme follows the progress of writing a new musical, THU Feather Boy, by film composer Debbie Wiseman. She has been THU commissioned by the National Theatre to write for this THU musical which will performed in 'workshop' style in July. THU Her commissioner is the director Anthony Banks. THU THU 07:00 What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning b00b7b0p (Listen) THU Steeple Bumpleigh THU Forced into a meeting at the cottage, Bertie Wooster gets a THU warning. PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael THU Hordern. THU THU 07:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06zv3x5 (Listen) THU Series 5, Episode 6 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 - concludes the 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 final episode of the series finds John apologising for THU a delay, and wondering what his hobbies are. And, well, THU since you ask him for a tale of national mourning and THU robots... 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 Original music composed by ... Susannah Pearse THU Original music performed by ... Susannah Pearse & Sally THU Stares 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 b007jnfd (Listen) THU Series 5, Men of Letters THU Albert butts in on Harold's church magazine article. THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Anthony Sharp as the Vicar. 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 Radio Active b008gdb7 (Listen) THU Series 3, Probe Round the Back THU Radio Active's regular analysis programme, Probe, takes a THU look behind-the-scenes at Britain's first national local THU radio station THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon THU Canter, Moray Hunter and John Docherty. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1983. THU THU 09:00 The Food Quiz b070wpnt (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU On Jay Rayner's menu are Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jill THU Dupleix, Clement Freud and Marguerite Patten. From September THU 2003. THU THU 09:30 The Senses b070wpnw (Listen) THU Sight THU A retired MP's ambition to improve the morality of his THU village has the opposite effect. THU Stars Ernest Clark as George, Donald Gee as Spargo, Rebecca THU Saire as Phoebe and Rory McGrath as Littlejohn. 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 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent b00770cw (Listen) THU 4 Extra Debut. A terrorist bomb in London kills the bomber, THU threatening establishment and anarchist circles. 1907 black THU comedy with Ron Cook. THU THU 11:00 Deep Country b01b8xcb (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Neil Ansell is in search of solitude. He takes up home in a THU dilapidated cottage in a very remote part of the Welsh THU countryside, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water. THU He has only wildlife around him for company as he makes the THU cottage habitable. Read by Matthew Gravelle. THU Abridged by Willa King THU Directed by Emma Bodger THU A BBC Cymru Wales Production. THU THU 11:15 Matthew Dunster - Depth of Field b007636p (Listen) THU Michael is an 18-year-old with an obsession with crisps and THU rock group Nirvana, and has Asperger's syndrome. His ordered THU life is challenged by unexpected events. Stars Lee Ingleby. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnfd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b008gdb7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsk0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Settling the Score b00lbgqq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00805nd (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The cousins' relationships blossom in London, but the Second THU World War starts to take its toll. Read by Sian Phillips. THU THU 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xhww3 (Listen) THU Jyotirao Phule: The Open Well THU A portrait of the social reformer and anti-caste campaigner. THU Professor Sunil Khilnani, from the India Institute, King's THU College London, visits Pune where Jyotirao Phule set out to THU educate women and promote the cause of the lower-caste THU members of Indian society. Phule and his wife were THU castigated for challenging the caste system. In a defiantly THU symbolic act, he allowed all comers to drink from the well THU at his house, in an age when members of the lower castes THU were barred from drinking water used by the upper castes. THU Today there are many government funding schemes for schools THU which bear either Phule's or his wife's name but THU discrimination against the Dalits, then known as THU Untouchables, hasn't gone away. "Phule wanted to rock the THU system," says Professor Khilnani "not just to create tiny THU islands of equality". THU Produced by Mark Savage THU Researcher: Manu Pillai THU Listeners can catch up with the series and see the list of THU remarkable Indians featured in the series on the Radio 4 THU website. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b008x4s3 (Listen) THU The Kiss, The Accident THU Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. THU 4/5. The Accident THU When Sean dies in an accident, his father Ray kisses him for THU the first time and is shocked by how cold his skin is. Ray THU begins to kiss everything, from photographs and soft toys to THU geckos, walls and windows. THU Ray ...... Harry Towb THU Barbara ...... Susan Porrett THU Ted ...... Ben Crowe THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b00yqy5w (Listen) THU Colin Thubron - To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 4 THU "By trekkers' standards our party is small and swift: a THU guide, a cook, a horse-man, myself. We move scattered above THU the river, while loan traders pass us the other way, leading THU their stocky horse and mule-trains between lonely villages. THU They look fierce and open, and laughingly meet your eyes. THU The delicacy of the plains has gone..." THU Renowned travel writer Colin Thubron is about to climb Mount THU Kailas in Tibet, one of the holiest places in the world and THU hardly visited by westerners. Its slopes are rugged, THU glacial, and peopled by the toughest types alive. Its slopes THU are also full of stories: Hindu and Buddhist tales of THU struggle, devotion and intrigue. But on from these lower THU reaches, Kailas's peak rises sacrosanct. Forbiddingly THU distant. And it is here that Thubron casts his gaze, then THU walks towards, as listeners can discover in his new account. THU 4. Few westerners make it to Mount Kailas and its majestic THU lakes.Then the author hears about the remarkable explorer THU Sven Hedin and his adventures thereabouts in 1907... THU Reader Stephen Boxer. THU THU 15:00 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent b00770cw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The Food Quiz b070wpnt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 The Senses b070wpnw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 What Ho! Jeeves: Joy in the Morning b00b7b0p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06zv3x5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Wally K Daly b007jv1m (Listen) THU The Children of Witchwood, Episode 4 THU Is there a connection between the six children that were THU burnt as witches in the 17th century and Jackie Lamont's THU disappearance? THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076y4d (Listen) THU Series 9, Ella Fitzgerald THU The entrepreneur Ivan Massow chooses the singer, Ella THU Fitzgerald. With Matthew Parris and singer Dame Cleo Laine. THU From May 2006. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jnfd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b008gdb7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsk0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Settling the Score b00lbgqq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Deep Country b01b8xcb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Matthew Dunster - Depth of Field b007636p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b06zv3x5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 Newsjack b070wqp9 (Listen) THU Series 14, Episode 2 THU This week's stories lovingly bashed, mashed and moulded into THU sketches, one-liners and vox-pops by the public. Trying to THU make sense of it all is our host, Nish Kumar. THU Nish is joined this week by Jess Ransom, Mike Wozniak and THU Ellie White. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b071xnnx (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson is joined by THU Abandoman. THU THU 23:00 Believe It! b01hjtm8 (Listen) THU Series 1, Rivals THU Believe it! THU Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has THU always said he'd never write one. THU Based on glimmers of truth, Believe It is the hilarious, THU bizarre, revealing (and, most importantly, untrue) celebrity THU radiography of Richard Wilson. THU He narrates the series, weaving in and out of dramatised THU scenes from his fictional life-story. He plays a heavily THU exaggerated version of himself: a Scots actor and national THU treasure, unmarried, private, passionate about politics, THU theatre and Manchester United (all true), who's a confidant THU of the powerful and has survived childhood poverty, a THU drunken father, years of fruitless grind, too much success, THU monstrosity, addiction, charity work, secret work for THU governments and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery (not true). THU All the melodramatic staples of celebrity-autobiography are THU wonderfully undercut by Richard's deadpan delivery. THU (The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed THU reference to his famous catchphrase.) THU Richard is supported by a small core cast: THU David Tennant THU John Sessions THU Lewis Macleod THU Arabella Weir THU and Jane Slavin THU who play anyone and everyone! THU Ghost written by Jon Canter THU Produced by: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Actor: Richard Wilson THU Actor: David Tennant THU Actor: John Sessions THU Actor: Lewis Mcleod THU Actor: Arabella Weir THU Actor: Jane Slavin THU Writer: Jon Canter THU Producer: Clive Brill THU THU 23:30 The Consultants b007k3f3 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU The team wonder why so many men went to 'mow a meadow'. With THU Neil Edmond, Justin Edwards and James Rawlings. THU THU 23:45 World of Pub b008qt08 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU For the Queen's visit, Dodgy Phil books her beloved Chas and THU Dave. But can they make it? Stars John Thomson. From March THU 1998. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Wally K Daly b007jv1m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076y4d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 John Mortimer - Rumpole b007jsk0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Settling the Score b00lbgqq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00805nd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xhww3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b008x4s3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b00yqy5w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent b00770cw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz b070wpnt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 The Senses b070wpnw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 What Ho! 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FRI FRI 07:00 Dry Slopes b070ws38 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Tick Tock FRI Jobless Angus is nearly 30 and gets a visit from the Spirit FRI of Birthdays Yet to Come. Stars Nick Ball. From July 1997. FRI FRI 07:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jxrtw (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 6 FRI Presented by Charlie Brooker, So Wrong It's Right is a FRI competitive game of wrongness where coming up with terrible FRI ideas is the right thing to do. FRI Over a series of rounds, Charlie asks his guests to trawl FRI through their lives for comic calmites and to pitch FRI inappropriate ideas. FRI In this episode - the last in the current series - the FRI guests joining him to try and out-wrong each other are FRI comedians Susan Calman and Rob Beckett and Pointless star FRI Richard Osman. FRI The panel's worst experience as a teenager is just one of FRI the challenges in this edition. Will anyone better Richard FRI Osman's confession that he performed a rap version of the FRI Easter story in front his entire school? FRI The host of So Wrong It's Right, Charlie Brooker, also FRI presents BBC2's How TV Ruined Your Life, Channel 4's You FRI Have Been Watching and 10 O'Clock Live, and writes for The FRI Guardian. He won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British FRI Press Awards and Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards FRI 2009. FRI Produced by Aled Evans FRI A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b009h7l4 (Listen) FRI Series 6, Fred's Pie Stall FRI The lad is out to save a Cheam institution threatened by FRI council closure. FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Wilfred FRI Babbage, Hugh Morton and Harry Towb. 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 November 1959. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jt5g (Listen) FRI The Great Tuscan Salami Scandal FRI A meaty mystery for Neddie Seagoon, unaccompanied by the FRI show's striking musicians. Stars Harry Secombe. From FRI February 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 Wildbrain b070ws3b (Listen) FRI 1997 - Heat 2 FRI Lionel Kelleway visits the Liverpool Museum, to chair the FRI BBC Natural History Unit's quiz in which contestants test FRI their wildlife knowledge. FRI FRI 09:30 Albert and Me b04b6dbs (Listen) FRI Series 2, High Society FRI Single dad Bryan attends a garden fete and impresses the FRI guest of honour. 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. FRI After a six-year hiatus, the series returned with Bryan's FRI mother and baby Albert played once again by the FRI ever-versatile Pat Coombs. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in April 1983. FRI FRI 10:00 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent b00770h8 (Listen) FRI What began as an international terrorist bombing outrage FRI quickly resolves into a domestic tragedy. Stars Robert FRI Glenister. FRI FRI 11:00 Deep Country b01bkhjl (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Neil Ansell is living in a very remote part of the Welsh FRI countryside, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water, FRI and only the wildlife around him for company. The winters FRI are particularly hard, but he revels in the isolation and FRI tranquillity. Read by Matthew Gravelle. FRI Abridged by Willa King FRI Directed by Emma Bodger FRI A BBC Cymru Wales Production. FRI FRI 11:15 Pilgrim - Sebastian Baczkiewicz b00xmbyz (Listen) FRI Series 1, He Who Would Valiant Be FRI A dragon's egg must be retrieved by a hero cursed with FRI immortality - between the worlds of faerie and man. Stars FRI Paul Hilton. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b009h7l4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jt5g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Andrew Sachs - The Revenge b007jr11 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 The Deighton File b00kjh8g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Mary Wesley - The Camomile Lawn b00807gp (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Helena leaves her lover to help Richard. A gun shot causes a FRI commotion. Read by Sian Phillips. FRI FRI 14:15 Incarnations: India in 50 Lives b05xqbm8 (Listen) FRI Birsa Munda: Have You Been to Chalkad? FRI Prof. Sunil Khilnani profiles Birsa Munda, the young, FRI charismatic healer who led his tribal community in revolt FRI against the British and whose life, more than a century FRI after his death, poses the question: 'Who owns India?' FRI Scattered across the subcontinent, India's tribal peoples or FRI Adivasis, match in size the populations of Germany or FRI Vietnam. Yet the land rights of India's original inhabitants FRI are regularly overridden in the name of development. One of FRI history's great defenders of Adivasi rights was Birsa Munda, FRI born in the late 19th century in what is now the FRI north-eastern state of Jharkhand. At a time of famine and FRI disease across northern India his community looked to the FRI Birsa for healing and leadership. The young man who claimed FRI he could turn bullets to water led a rebellion against the FRI British, their Indian middlemen and Christian missionaries. FRI The question 'Who owns India' takes Sunil Khilnani to a FRI tribal community who are losing their land and access to FRI food, fuel and water with the growing encroachment of luxury FRI housing complexes - second homes for city dwellers. We also FRI hear from author and political activist Arundhati Roy. "The FRI fact that Adivasis still exist," she says, "is because FRI people like Birsa Munda staged the beginnings of the battle FRI against the takeover of their homeland. FRI Though he died at the age of just 25, Birsa Munda has become FRI a lasting symbol of tribal resistance. He's the only Adivasi FRI whose portrait hangs in the Indian Parliament. "His was a FRI firework of a life," says Sunil Khilnani, "but a life whose FRI embers still burn". FRI Producer: Jeremy Grange FRI Executive Producer: Martin Smith FRI Original Music composed by Talvin Singh. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b008x4s6 (Listen) FRI The Kiss, Jacob Lennon FRI Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme. FRI 5/5. Jacob Lennon FRI Everyone at school is in love with Jacob Lennon. Andrea and FRI Sophie imagine that kissing him must be like eating melted FRI marshmallows. Then Andrea finds out the truth. FRI Andrea ...... Sophie Pemberton FRI Sophie ...... Laura Molyneux FRI Jacob ...... Lloyd Thomas FRI Milton ...... Baxter Willis FRI Mr Chester ...... Alex Lanipekun FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b00yrg1l (Listen) FRI Colin Thubron - To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 5 FRI "By trekkers' standards our party is small and swift: a FRI guide, a cook, a horse-man, myself. We move scattered above FRI the river, while loan traders pass us the other way, leading FRI their stocky horse and mule-trains between lonely villages. FRI They look fierce and open, and laughingly meet your eyes. FRI The delicacy of the plains has gone..." FRI Renowned travel writer Colin Thubron is about to climb Mount FRI Kailas in Tibet, one of the holiest places in the world and FRI hardly visited by westerners. Its slopes are rugged, FRI glacial, and peopled by the toughest types alive. It'Its FRI slopes are also full of stories: Hindu and Buddhist tales of FRI struggle, devotion and intrigue. But on from these lower FRI reaches, Kailas's peak rises sacrosanct. Forbiddingly FRI distant. And it is here that Thubron casts his gaze, then FRI walks towards, as listeners can discover in his new account. FRI 5.Near the top of Mt Kailas, the air thins, the pilgrims FRI cluster, and there is a cry of 'victory to the gods'... FRI Read by Stephen Boxer. FRI FRI 15:00 Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent b00770h8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 Wildbrain b070ws3b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 Albert and Me b04b6dbs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Dry Slopes b070ws38 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 So Wrong It's Right b01jxrtw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Wally K Daly b007jv1s (Listen) FRI The Children of Witchwood, Episode 5 FRI Jackie's extraordinary telepathic powers attract the evil FRI attentions of the eerie Cranford family. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b0076x76 (Listen) FRI Series 5, Clair de lune FRI 4 Extra Debut. An exploration of Claude Debussy's music for FRI piano, which was inspired by a poem about moonlight. With FRI Phil Cool. From February 2006. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b009h7l4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jt5g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Andrew Sachs - The Revenge b007jr11 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 The Deighton File b00kjh8g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Deep Country b01bkhjl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Pilgrim - Sebastian Baczkiewicz b00xmbyz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 So Wrong It's Right b01jxrtw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Absolute Power b007zmrm (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 4 FRI Martin has a sporting challenge, but can Charles save a FRI disgraced minister? Stars Stephen Fry and John Bird. From FRI January 2002. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b071xntq (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith is joined by FRI Matt Forde. FRI FRI 23:00 Meet David Sedaris b03m3nty (Listen) FRI Series 4, Company Man; Diary Extracts FRI One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC FRI Radio 4 doing what he does best. FRI This week, the pros and cons of being grown up enough to FRI have a guest room in "Company Man", and some more extracts FRI from his hilarious diary, which he has kept nightly for over FRI 30 years. 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 b01p4sgr (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 3 FRI The Kapoors tee-off on the golf course, and the Delhi FRI students take a train to Southend-on-Sea. Stars Meera Syal. FRI From June 1998. FRI