25 March, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 26/03/2016 - 01/04/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 26 MARCH 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k125 (Listen) SAT Episode 7 SAT Earth's last living man Robert Neville's shock discovery SAT leaves him feeling deeply suspicious. Read by Angus McInnes. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b008nz60 (Listen) SAT Series 6, Finlandia SAT Sibelius's glorious orchestral work was adopted by the SAT Finnish people as a symbol of its fight for independence SAT from Russia, and over 100 years later it is still regarded SAT as Finland's second national anthem. Its popularity is SAT international, both in orchestral form and also in shorter SAT form as the Finlandia Hymn. Contributors include Sibelius's SAT great-grandson Jaakko Ilves and conductor John Storgards. SAT SAT 01:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnk5 (Listen) SAT Down the Hatches SAT Private eye VI Warshawski's dead cousin "Boom Boom" knew too SAT much about something - and his flat is burgled, leading to SAT another murder... SAT Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Kathleen Turner as VI SAT Warshawski. With William Hootkins as Bobby Mallory, Kerry SAT Shale as Murray, James Aubrey as Martin Bledsoe, Teresa SAT Gallagher as Paige Carrington and William Roberts as Clayton SAT Phillips. SAT Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female SAT sleuths in modern crime-fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, SAT is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI SAT is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but SAT she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky SAT says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women SAT were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed SAT either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, SAT smart, likeable female private investigator". SAT Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 SAT film 'VI Warshawski'. SAT Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. SAT Director: Janet Whitaker SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. SAT SAT 01:30 Men Against The Eiger b07525kg (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Dougal Haston talks about becoming the first SAT Briton to climb the Eiger by the direct route on 25th March SAT 25,1966. From May 1966. SAT SAT 02:00 HE Bates - Sugar for the Horse b007jvmk (Listen) SAT Aunt Tibby SAT A cunning landlady proves to be as resourceful as the SAT mischievous Uncle Silas. HE Bates' country tale is read by SAT David Neal. SAT SAT 02:15 Plants: From Roots to Riches b04dqwyh (Listen) SAT The Great Providers SAT Prof Kathy Willis concludes her major new history series by SAT asking how much plant biodiversity is worth, and examines SAT new research into securing the future of our staple crops. SAT Understanding the distribution, diversity and potential of SAT plants for food, lay at the heart of the 18th century SAT botanical impresario Joseph Banks' vision to "improve SAT Britain's estates of the world". To secure future resilience SAT of crops in today's world there's a growing need to conserve SAT the closest wild relatives of our staple crops. SAT Kathy Willis discovers, given climatic threats to some of SAT our most substantial crops such as coffee - for which the SAT industry currently depends on a single species, the economic SAT value of wild relatives of today's domestic crops is SAT considerable. SAT And as we hear, some important future crops are still to be SAT found from previously overlooked plants. SAT With contributions from Richard Thompson, Business SAT valuations partner at Price-Waterhouse Cooper; historian Jim SAT Endersby; head of coffee research at Kew, Aaron Davis; Kew's SAT head of yams Paul Wilkin. SAT Producer Adrian Washbourne SAT Music for the series was composed by Mark Russell. SAT SAT 02:30 Ladies of Letters b007jwdc (Listen) SAT Ladies of Letters Spring Clean, Episode 5 SAT Vera uncovers a sinister scandal, and Irene is on her way SAT home. Stars Prunella Scales and Patricia Routledge. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b06nbzds (Listen) SAT Charlotte Bronte: A Life, Affairs of the Heart SAT Hattie Morahan reads Claire Harman's new and intimate SAT biography of Charlotte Bronte. This vivid and complex SAT portrait of one of our greatest novelists looks ahead to the SAT two hundredth anniversary of her birth in April 2016. Today, SAT Charlotte grieves for her brother Branwell and her sisters SAT Emily and Anne who died in quick succession. Affairs of the SAT heart are also on her mind. SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT Credits SAT Reader: Hattie Morahan SAT Author: Claire Harman SAT Abridger: Julian Wilkinson SAT Producer: Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 03:00 Home Front b06kvdtc (Listen) SAT 4 January 1916 - Dorothea Winwood SAT On this day, Lord Derby published a report that over 650,000 SAT fit single men hadn't offered themselves for service, and SAT Dorothea Winwood is getting into the rhythm of work at the SAT Bevan. SAT Written by Mike Walker SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SAT Credits SAT Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley SAT Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair SAT Max Davenport: Trevor White SAT Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads SAT Alec Poole: Tom Stuart SAT Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook SAT Bob Capeling: Joe Sims SAT Margaret Bishop: Catherine Bailey SAT Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont SAT Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone SAT Pigman: Sean Murray SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT SAT 04:00 Wildbrain b075562j (Listen) SAT 1997 - Semi-final SAT Lionel Kelleway visits Mere Sands Wood in Lancashire, to SAT test more wildlife knowledge in the BBC Natural History SAT Unit's quiz. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b007jp3j (Listen) SAT Series 8, Wanderlust SAT Roger is tempted to stray, but he'd be keeping it in the SAT family. Stars Rosemary Leach and Bill Nighy. From January SAT 2002. SAT SAT 05:00 1835 b012gpr4 (Listen) SAT The Reluctant Aristocrat SAT Belport tries to prove he's not a toff, but instead starts SAT the world's first rail strike. Stars Paul Rider. From June SAT 2004. SAT SAT 05:30 Wordaholics b01s8mns (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 5 SAT Gyles Brandreth chairs the comedy panel game where this week SAT Milton Jones and Robin Ince compete against Natalie Haynes SAT and Lloyd Langford to find out who is the most passionate SAT and knowledgeable about words. SAT Today the Letter of the Week is 'W'. Lloyd Langford hazards SAT a guess as to what 'Welsh cricket' is while Natalie Haynes SAT has to work out what 'Whistling breeches' are. SAT In a round about Australian slang Robin Ince tries to guess SAT the meaning of 'guttergripper' while Milton Jones takes a SAT stab at 'shypoo'. SAT All the panellists come up with some brilliant new toponyms SAT and also reveal their pet-hate words. SAT Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle SAT Producer: Claire Jones. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Gyles Brandreth SAT Writer: Jon Hunter SAT Writer: James Kettle SAT Producer: Claire Jones SAT Panellist: Milton Jones SAT Panellist: Robin Ince SAT Panellist: Natalie Haynes SAT Panellist: Lloyd Langford SAT SAT 06:00 Saturday Drama b00f8zvc (Listen) SAT Marks & Gran - Von Ribbentrop's Watch SAT By Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. SAT Wine shop owner Gerald desperately needs money: his business SAT is failing and the landlord has raised the cost of the SAT lease. When he inherits a watch that used to belong to SAT wartime Nazi Joachim Von Ribbentrop he believes that his SAT financial troubles are over. But it sparks conflict with his SAT wife and brother, who question the ethics of the potential SAT sale. SAT Gerald ...... Allan Corduner SAT Ruth ...... Harriet Walter SAT Lila ...... Miriam Margolyes SAT David ...... Nicholas Woodeson SAT Sasha ...... Sophie Winkleman. SAT SAT 07:30 Touchline Tales b00sy3l9 (Listen) SAT Series 1, A Thunder of Hooves, A Babble of Bookies SAT Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew head for some SAT famous sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and SAT trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their SAT lives. Today, they lay some bets at a mid-week meet at SAT Goodwood Races, bump into Bob Champion and see if they can SAT discern a potential winner by just looking at it. SAT As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has, as SAT ever, a fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal. But SAT Christopher gamely tries to match him stride by stride with SAT his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest SAT levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at SAT the lowest). And who comes out on top is revealed when they SAT tot up their winnings at the end of the day. SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Des Lynam SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak SAT Presenter: CHRISTOPHER MATTHEW SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01jhpfq (Listen) SAT Bards of the Back Straight SAT 4 Extra Debut. Poet Paul Farley explores how the language of SAT poetry and sports commentary compare. With Sir Peter SAT O'Sullevan. From June 2012. SAT SAT 09:00 Ross Noble's Newcastle b0755pvx (Listen) SAT From the bistro bar of Newcastle's Tyne Theatre, where he SAT performed his very first hometown gig - Ross Noble explores SAT Geordie comedy past and present. SAT Featuring a candid interview with Sarah Millican, an SAT exploration of happiness with Jason Cook and a trip back in SAT time to the humour of old with Percy Douglas and Bobby SAT Thompson. SAT Self-deprecating, quick witted and warm, there's much to be SAT said for Geordie humour that sets it apart from the comedy SAT in the rest of the British Isles. Newcastle is a city of SAT almost pathological friendliness - no-one takes themselves SAT too seriously and everyone is as quick to poke fun at SAT themselves as at others. Whether you put it down to the SAT cheeriness of the accent or the egalitarian mentality of SAT your average Novocastrian, there's no denying Geordies want SAT people to enjoy themselves as much as they do, and that true SAT homespun North Eastern humour has its tongue placed firmly SAT in its cheek. SAT Multi-award winning Cramlington born stand up comic Ross SAT Noble is one of British comedy's biggest household names - a SAT TV and radio regular, with numerous sell-out stage shows. SAT The carefully selected archive includes: SAT * Ross Noble On.... SAT * Jason Cook, Gavin Webster and Kai Humphries, MacAulay & Co SAT at the Edinburgh Fringe SAT * The Geordie Game SAT * Knitted Trunks, Woman's Hour SAT * Sarah Millican, Funny Friends SAT * Ant and Dec, Desert Island Discs SAT * Jason Cook and Chris Ramsey, Jason Cook's Happiness HQ SAT * Fireside Tales SAT * Percy Douglas, Wot Cheor Geordie SAT * Bobby Thompson, Turns of the Century SAT * Jesting About SAT Producer: Anna Miles SAT Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by BBC Radio Scotland. SAT SAT 12:00 Trapped b0076grw (Listen) SAT All Downhill from Here: SAT A group of desperate friends are landed in an unfortunate SAT situation on a ski lift. Stars Olivia Coleman. From SAT September 2003. SAT SAT 12:30 The Brothers b00pcn0m (Listen) SAT Series 3, Mix Tape SAT Despite a new office, Nigel and Michael still struggle with SAT life. Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From February SAT 2007. SAT SAT 13:00 Hollywood Endings: Omnibus b0755s0z (Listen) SAT A plane crash in the Sierra Nevada piques the interest of SAT Anna Caceres of the LAPD. Starring Kathleen Turner. 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 b0755t89 (Listen) SAT Ben Elton SAT Writer and comic Ben Elton chooses 'Sagt Mir Wo Die Blumen SAT Sind'? sung by Marlene Dietrich and 'We are the Champions' SAT by Queen. SAT SAT 14:15 Great Men of Music b07561ql (Listen) SAT Craig Warner's drama about Eddie, who cannot speak, but SAT expresses his feelings by drawing musical scores. Stars Phil SAT Davis. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01jhpfq (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Saturday Drama b00f8zvc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Touchline Tales b00sy3l9 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone b07564gn (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Howling Man SAT When a young American goes on a walking tour between the two SAT World Wars, he inadvertently creates chaos. SAT Stars Christian Stolte. With David Darlow, Doug James and SAT Ana Sferuzza. SAT Narrator: Stacy Keach. SAT Adapted by Dennis Etchison and written by Charles Beaumont. SAT Originally a cult sci-fi and horror TV series created by Rod SAT Serling and broadcast in the USA on CBS from 1959 to 1964, SAT The Twilight Zone was first adapted by American producer SAT Carl Amari in 2002 as a 40-minute radio drama series. SAT Rod Serling had managed to electrify the new medium of SAT television - so armed with a licence from CBS and the SAT Serling estate, Amari's slick adaptions are based on the SAT original TV scripts. SAT Actor Stacy Keach (best known here as TV detective Mike SAT Hammer) takes Serling's original role as narrator - with a SAT full cast, music and sound effects. SAT Directed and produced by Carl Amari and Roger Wolski for SAT Falcon Picture Group. SAT SAT 18:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrgl (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Recent strange events lead Sergeant Mike Malone to SAT investigate the leader of a local religious cult. Read by SAT Nigel Anthony. SAT SAT 19:00 Ross Noble's Newcastle b0755pvx (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Vivian Stanshall's Radio Flashes b04dm1bx (Listen) SAT Episode 3 SAT Music and comedy courtesy of Britain's greatest eccentric. SAT With advice from fitness guru Gregory Pectorals. SAT Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band singer Vivian Stanshall took to the SAT airwaves of BBC Radio 1 on Saturday 28 August 1971. SAT Over two hours, relive Vivian's mix of zany comedy and music SAT - including his take on Dick Barton's radio serial "Breath SAT from the Pit". Featuring drummer Keith Moon from The Who. SAT Vivian has previously featured on 4 Extra - thanks to his SAT solo comedy 'Sir Henry at Rawlinson End', which originated SAT as sessions for the John Peel Show on BBC Radio 1 in the SAT mid-1970s. SAT With Chris Bowler. Produced by John Walters. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 MARCH 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone b07564gn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrgl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:00 Hollywood Endings: Omnibus b0755s0z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:10 Inheritance Tracks b0755t89 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:15 Great Men of Music b07561ql (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Saturday Drama b00f8zvc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Touchline Tales b00sy3l9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Ladies of Letters b00k1864 (Listen) SUN Ladies of Letters Spring Clean, Omnibus SUN A heart attack, Australia and a medical scandal turn up in SUN this comedy of emails. Stars Patricia Routledge and Prunella SUN Scales. SUN SUN 07:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048l0gk (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 2 SUN Roger Law makes his way to Shanghai to find out how the SUN ultra-rich Chinese are turning to butlers to keep their SUN houses in order, and considers offering his services. SUN Producer Mark Rickards. SUN SUN 07:30 Mr Blue Sky b01h5xcs (Listen) SUN Series 2, You're Leaving SUN Harvey Easter (played by Mark Benton), 46, is the eternal SUN optimist. He is able to see the good in every situation, the SUN silver lining within every cloud, the bright side to every SUN bit of bad news. SUN This, however, is his downfall. Someone for whom the glass SUN is always half-full can be difficult to live with, as his SUN wife of 19 years, Jacqui (played by Claire Skinner), knows SUN all too well. Even as life deals Harvey and the Easter SUN family a series of sadistic blows, Harvey looks on the SUN positive side. It's pathological with him. The way Jax sees SUN it, instead of dealing with the problems of their marriage SUN and their teenage kids, Harvey's optimism is actually his SUN way of avoiding engagement with the big issues. SUN Mr Blue Sky is about one man battling to remain positive in SUN moments of crisis, and one woman battling to live with SUN someone who has his head in the clouds. SUN This week, Harvey's racist mum, Lou, moves in while she SUN grieves for her plumber boyfriend and drives Jax out of the SUN house, but will she give her blessing to Charlie and SUN Kill-R's wedding when they fix a date? SUN Cast: SUN Harvey Easter ..... Mark Benton SUN Jacqui Easter ..... Claire Skinner SUN Charlie Easter ..... Rosamund Hanson SUN Robbie Easter ..... Tyger Drew Honey SUN Kill-R ..... Javone Prince SUN Lou Easter ..... Sorcha Cusack SUN Rakesh Rathi ..... Navin Chowdhry SUN Sean Calhoun ..... Michael Legge SUN Written by Andrew Collins SUN Title Music Arrangement by Jim Bob SUN Producer/Director: Anna Madley SUN Editor: Rich Evans SUN An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 08:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b07569bb (Listen) SUN From 04/11/1943 SUN Tommy Handley and the gang are asked to take over a local SUN public school. SUN ITMA proved to be one of the BBC's most popular radio SUN comedies ever produced. It was first transmitted just before SUN the start of the Second World War in 1939 and ran to 1949. SUN Domestic audiences topped 20 million, and the audience SUN worldwide was said to number 30 million. It starred SUN Liverpudlian comic Tommy Handley, who with Ted Kavanagh SUN created the series named after the phrase newspapers often SUN used to describe Hitler: It's That Man Again! SUN The original setting on a ship was deemed inappropriate once SUN war broke out, and was replaced with the Office Of Twerps, SUN with Tommy as Minister of Aggravation and Mysteries. Other SUN settings followed - a seaside resort, and a war factory SUN which by 1943, for this run of episodes, had been turned SUN into a hotel. SUN Featuring a host of supporting characters including Dorothy SUN Summers as Mrs Mopp and Jack Train as Colonel Humphrey SUN Chinstrap. SUN Producer: Francis Worsley SUN First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1943. SUN SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House b007jsxl (Listen) SUN Digs SUN Student medic Simon Sparrow gets saddled with vampish SUN landlady, Mrs Robinson. SUN The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted SUN for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor SUN in the House' published in 1952. SUN Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as SUN Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast SUN as Taffy Evans, Norma Ronald as Vera and Ann Murray as Mrs SUN Robinson. SUN Producer: David Hatch SUN Recorded at the BBC Paris studio in London. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1968. SUN SUN 09:00 But You Did Not Come Back: Omnibus b07569bk (Listen) SUN Deported with her father to Auschwitz-Birkenau, only SUN Marceline Loridan-Ivens survived the Holocaust. Read by Sara SUN Kestelman. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b04prn2x (Listen) SUN Rebecca Front SUN The Thick of It actress shares her love of 'They All Laughed SUN at Christopher Columbus' and why she will pass on Bach's SUN concerto. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b0756c1q (Listen) SUN Comedy Writers - Marks and Gran SUN 4 Extra's extended edition as Kirsty Young chats to island SUN castaways, comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. SUN From September 2015. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b0756cp2 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Sewing, Singing, Suits, and Cemeteries SUN True stories told live in the USA: Catherine Burns SUN introduces tales about running away from home and the power SUN of singing. SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 12:00 ITMA - It's That Man Again b07569bb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House b007jsxl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Ladies of Letters b00k1864 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048l0gk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Hot Milk: Omnibus b0756d5d (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Sophia, a young anthropologist, sets out to discover if her SUN mother's illness is real or imagined. Read by Indira Varma. SUN SUN 15:45 Gillian Tindall - A Necessary Price b0756g95 (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Having lived in France for ages, Eleanor SUN hardly feels English any more - then she confronts an old SUN secret. Read by Anna Massey. SUN SUN 16:00 Don Haworth - Challenged b0075s00 (Listen) SUN Set in a remote part of the Pennines, a widowed mother and SUN her son battle to come to terms with the passage of time SUN when hired worker, Tom arrives. SUN Son Harry, who has learning difficulties, is described by SUN his school as 'challenged'. With Tom's encouragement he SUN finds new confidence, but this creates fresh conflict for SUN the trio. SUN Don Haworth's atmospheric drama stars Brigit Forsyth as SUN Anne, Paul Copley as Tom and Matthew Booth as Harry. SUN Producer: Pauline Harris SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b0756glz (Listen) SUN Walking With Whitman SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN 'Walking With Whitman' features the father of American SUN Literature who blew away the cobwebs of dusty imitation. SUN The Lancashire Moors are the unlikely setting for a SUN celebration of the acclaimed poet, Walt Whitman. Every year SUN Whitman's devotees gather for the annual Whitman Walk, to SUN recite his works and share from the loving cup. Stuart SUN Maconie joins this happy band of walkers and Whitmanites to SUN discover why the American, who never visited this northern SUN mill town, is still celebrated around Bolton some 120 years SUN later. SUN Producer: Russell Crewe SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2009. SUN SUN 17:30 Mr Blue Sky b01h5xcs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 EM Forster - The Machine Stops b048jcvg (Listen) SUN A world in which people can only communicate through a SUN machine sounds like the internet today. But this story, SUN written in 1909, takes us to a future where the machine has SUN become an all-powerful God. SUN EM Forster's story dramatised by Gregory Norminton. SUN Stars Gemma Jones as Vashi, John McAndrew as Kuno and Jillie SUN Meers as the Computer. SUN Director: Jane Morgan SUN Producer: Marilyn Imrie SUN Made for BBC Radio 4 by Catherine Bailey Productions. SUN First broadcast in 2001. SUN SUN 18:45 Edgar Allan Poe b00grsvq (Listen) SUN The Tell-Tale Heart SUN The perfect murder, planned and executed with unerring SUN precision. Unless a rhythmic beating gives it away. Read by SUN Brian Gear. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b0756cp2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:50 But You Did Not Come Back: Omnibus b07569bk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b0756c1q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Mr Blue Sky b01h5xcs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Jelly Mountain b00ftk74 (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN Musings on a footkerchief and a forest full of girls. Songs SUN and stories from Ivor Cutler, with Beverley Crew. From May SUN 1996. SUN SUN 22:45 The In Crowd b008qs9f (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 6 SUN Sketch show from Manchester's Comedy Store with Robin Ince, SUN Helen Moon, Smug Roberts and Kate Ward. From April 2002. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b076pxm8 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to SUN Pierre Novellie. SUN SUN 23:00 I Think I've Got a Problem b00cc4qg (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 1 SUN Tom is sent to a specialist to be rid of the band inside his SUN head. Stars Suggs and Bob Monkhouse. From March 2003. SUN SUN 23:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b00fnfnq (Listen) SUN Series 1, China SUN The naive gap year student lands in Beijing for his Duke of SUN Edinburgh Award challenge. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From SUN July 2002. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 MARCH 2016 MON MON 01:00 Ladies of Letters b00k1864 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048l0gk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Hot Milk: Omnibus b0756d5d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Gillian Tindall - A Necessary Price b0756g95 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Don Haworth - Challenged b0075s00 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b0756glz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Mr Blue Sky b01h5xcs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnkn (Listen) MON Bedtime Stories MON Somebody wants private eye VI Warshawski dead and tampers MON with her car. MON Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Kathleen Turner as VI MON Warshawski. With Eleanor Bron as Lottie, William Hootkins as MON Bobby Mallory, Kerry Shale as Murray, James Aubrey as Martin MON Bledsoe, Peter Marinker as Nils Greyfalk, and Teresa MON Gallagher as Paige Carrington. MON Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female MON sleuths in modern crime-fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, MON is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI MON is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but MON she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky MON says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women MON were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed MON either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, MON smart, likeable female private investigator". MON Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 MON film 'VI Warshawski'. MON Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. MON Director: Janet Whitaker MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. MON MON 06:30 Britain's Black Revolutionary b00t4q0j (Listen) MON There are still few black leaders in British political life MON - but life-long trade unionist Bill Morris finds that as far MON back as the London of 1848 the son of slave was leading one MON of this countries most powerful political movements. MON Few of us have heard of William Cuffay, a physically MON deformed tailor who lived in Soho. And yet he was notorious MON in his day, to the extent that the political class of the MON 1840s dubbed him "the pore old blackymore rogue" as he went MON on to lead a political movement so powerful that Britain MON cowered behind its shuttered windows and the massed ranks of MON its armies. MON Just as the thrones of Europe were yet again tumbling to MON revolution, the 1848 Chartist uprising in favour of MON democracy and equality in London threatened the status quo MON in Britain. History records that an articulate democrat, MON William Cuffay, emerged as a key organiser of the mass MON demonstration that faced the Duke of Wellington's army in MON the demand for the vote. Revolution threatened the capital - MON but who was the diminutive tailor holding such sway? MON Lord Morris follows a predecessor in the labour movement MON through his fascinating story - from son of a St Kitts slave MON to political leader, and ultimately into exile at Her MON Majesty's pleasure in Tasmania. MON Producer: Philip Sellars. MON Credits MON Producer: Philip Sellars MON MON 07:00 Trapped b0076gw4 (Listen) MON Stand-Up Tragedy MON Backstage at a comedy club, four comics discover life on the MON circuit isn't all fun. Stars Philip Jackson. From September MON 2003. MON MON 07:30 Just a Minute b0741n3y (Listen) MON Series 74, Episode 5 MON Nicholas Parsons asks Gyles Brandreth, Esther Rantzen, Paul MON Merton & Tim Rice to speak on the topic of his choosing, MON without deviation, repetition or hesitation for Just a MON Minute. MON This week's topics include: Bubble & Squeak, A Leap Year and MON A Mission to Mars. MON Hayley Sterling blows the whistle. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Paul Merton MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Tim Rice MON Panellist: Esther Rantzen MON Producer: Victoria Lloyd MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jrdx (Listen) MON Series 3, The Captain's Car MON When a French general pays a visit to Walmington-on-Sea, MON there's a mighty motoring mix-up for the Home Guard 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, Larry MON Martyn as Private Walker, Betty Marsden as Lady Maltby and MON Garrard Green as Colonel Masters. 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 August 1976. MON MON 08:30 Listen to Les b01n21nt (Listen) MON From 10/02/1985 MON Lugubrious Les Dawson tells us of thin Albert, and Cosmo MON Smallpiece discusses modern teenagers. MON With Daphne Oxenford, Eli Woods and Colin Edwynn. MON Music by Brian Fitzgerald. MON Scripted and produced by James Casey. MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in February 1985. MON MON 09:00 Quote... Unquote b01lhbgn (Listen) MON Another edition of the 48th series of Quote... Unquote, the MON popular quotations programme presented and devised by Nigel MON Rees. The guests this week are author Louise Doughty, writer MON and broadcaster Natalie Haynes, newsreader Nicholas Owen and MON columnist Hugo Rifkind. The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON Producer: Ed Morrish. MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jmlv (Listen) MON Series 6, A Good Read MON The staff heatedly debate what makes a good read, with Mr MON Beeston as a reluctant mediator. Stars Karl Howman. From MON June 1991. MON MON 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06kvm16 (Listen) MON 11-15 January 1916 MON In the week when the Welsh and Scottish Trades Unions voted MON to oppose conscription, there's pressure at the Bevan to MON return more wounded men to duty. MON Written by Sarah Daniels MON Directed by Allegra McIlroy MON Editor: Jessica Dromgoole MON Story-led by Shaun McKenna MON Sound: Martha Littlehailes MON Matthew Strachan MON Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. MON Credits MON Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy MON Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger MON Alec Poole: Tom Stuart MON Alphonse Duvall: Matthew Juul MON Anna White: Amelia Lowdell MON Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper MON Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley MON Dr Henry Streatfield: Chris Pavlo MON Emile Tourte: Stephane Cornicard MON Eric Morton: Paul Rainbow MON Esme Macknade: Katie Angelou MON Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw MON Hilary Pearce: Craige Els MON Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford MON Ivor Davies: Alun Raglan MON Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts MON Len Reeves: Darren Swift MON Lilian Frost: Alex Tregear MON Nancy Parker: Jane Whittenshaw MON Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair MON Norman Harris: Sean Baker MON Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads MON Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom MON Roland Pemble: Jack Holden MON Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon MON Ruth Billings: Katie Redford MON Sylvia Graham: Joanna David MON Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe MON Anna White: Amelia Lowdell MON Eve: Debra Baker MON Evadne: Evie Killip MON Yvette: Rebecca Hamilton MON Auctioneer: Gerard McDermott MON Mr Martindale: Ewan Bailey MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Allegra McIlroy MON MON 11:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b0759mjt (Listen) MON The Superstitious Man's Story MON Longpuddle villagers discover how strange omens surround the MON death of ex-resident, William Privett. (1891) Read by MON Richard Mitchley. MON These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and MON 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of MON description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of MON Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into MON human nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a MON rapidly vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain MON timeless in their embrace of both the farcical and the MON tragic aspects of daily life. MON Abridged by Isobel Creed MON Produced by Lizzie Davies MON Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. MON MON 11:15 Bookclub b0075h53 (Listen) MON John le Carré MON James Naughtie and readers from Cornwall talk to author John MON le Carré about his Cold War spy trilogy Tinker, Tailor, MON Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People - MON following the battles of spymasters Smiley and Karla. MON In a specially extended edition of the programme, John talks MON about the provenance of his characters and the influence of MON his own background on his writing. MON Producer: Jeanette Thomas MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jrdx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Listen to Les b01n21nt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnkn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Britain's Black Revolutionary b00t4q0j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdcrk (Listen) MON A Delicate Truth, A Rock and a Hard Place MON If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that MON good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian MON Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel MON from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which MON tells the story of a good man who must choose between his MON conscience and his duty to the Service. MON An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of MON Gibraltar, a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office MON serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; MON the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer, the success, MON assured. MON But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and MON commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find MON himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will MON take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the MON depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the MON truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention MON and justice it deserves. MON Tonight: Between a Rock and A Hard Place - the MON counter-operation swings in to action. MON John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities MON of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in MON British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty MON years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between MON London and Cornwall. MON Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as MON Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of MON Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga. MON The reader is Damian Lewis MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON Credits MON Producer: Di Speirs MON Reader: Damian Lewis MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Author: John Le Carre MON MON 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yn6xm (Listen) MON Gossips and Goodfellows MON Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of MON friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr MON Thomas Dixon presents a timely, major new history of how the MON meaning and experience of friendship have changed over the MON centuries. MON Episode One: Gossips and Goodfellows MON In the 16th century, friendships were generally limited to MON an overlapping network of family members and neighbours, who MON lived and worked in close proximity, and shared their lives MON at home, in church, at the well, the bake-house and the MON tavern. MON Today, our friendships often extend across the globe, and MON our Social Networks can extend to thousands. MON Thomas Dixon launches the series by talking with the MON anthropologist and evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, MON whose influential research explores the number of people MON with whom each individual is cognitively capable of MON sustaining a meaningful relationship. MON The newly named "Dunbar's Number" is around 140, and Thomas MON maps this figure onto the historical picture of village MON life. He speaks with historians Bernard Capp and Naomi MON Tadmor about close-knit, real-life friendships in the MON sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He learns how a group MON of female "Gossips" supported their friend Mary Freeman when MON her husband accused her of giving him the pox; and about two MON young "Goodfellows"in 1617, who got so drunk that they MON pissed into a chamber pot and shared the contents. MON This is the beginning of an absorbing story in which both MON the similarities and the differences between friendship past MON and present emerge. MON Producer: Beaty Rubens MON Presenter: historian Dr Thomas Dixon is the Director of the MON Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, MON University of London. MON Further Reading MON Barbara Caine (ed.), *Friendship: A History* (Equinox, 2009) MON MON Bernard Capp, *When Gossips Meet: Women, the Family and MON Neighbourhood in Early Modern England* (Oxford University MON Press, 2003) MON MON Robin Dunbar, *How Many Friends Does One Person Need? MON Dunbar's Number and Other Evolutionary Quirks* (Faber & MON Faber, 2011) MON MON Naomi Tadmor, *Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century MON England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage* (Cambridge MON University Press, 2001) MON MON Mark Vernon, *The Meaning of Friendship* (Palgrave MON Macmillan, 2005) MON The History Of Emotions blog MON Read a series of specially commissioned blog posts MON supporting the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Five Hundred Years of MON Friendship‘. MON Thomas Dixon on ‘Five Hundred Years of Friendship’ at the MON History of Emotions Blog MON Robin Dunbar, ‘Counting your friends in threes’ MON Mark Knights and Tessa Whitehouse, ‘Talking about MON friendship’ MON Antonella Liuzzo Scorpo, ‘Friendship in the middle ages’ MON Naomi Tadmor, ‘Friends and families’ MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b04vdgq0 (Listen) MON The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Hail St Custards MON Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St MON Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious MON Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and MON their parents. MON Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from MON Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel MON Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - MON including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own MON H-bomb. MON Episode 1: Hail St Custards MON Nigel Molesworth gives a guided tour of the complete and MON utter shambles that is St Custards, the finest educational MON establishment this side of Dotheboys Hall. MON Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by MON Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material MON by Abigail Wilson. MON Directed by Patrick Barlow MON Produced by Liz Anstee MON A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Molesworth: Imelda Staunton MON Peason: Sophie Thompson MON Grabber: Jack Farthing MON Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay MON Headmaster: Patrick Barlow MON Radio Announcer: Lewis Macleod MON Adaptor: Patrick Barlow MON Adaptor: George Poles MON Author: Geoffrey Willans MON Author: Ronald Searle MON Director: Patrick Barlow MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b05r0b35 (Listen) MON The Shepherd's Life, Episode 1 MON Some people's lives are entirely their own creations. James MON Rebanks's isn't. The first son of a shepherd, who was the MON first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have MON lived and worked in and around the Lake District for MON generations. MON It's a life lived according to the demands of the seasons: MON sending the sheep to the fells in the summer and making the MON hay; the autumn fairs where the flocks are replenished; the MON gruelling toil of winter when the sheep must be kept alive, MON and the light-headedness that comes with spring, as the MON lambs are born and the sheep get ready to return to the MON fells. MON Through his eyes, we see that the Lake District is not a MON playground or a scenic backdrop, it's a working landscape MON that needs sheep and its farmers to survive. MON James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter (using his MON moniker: @herdyshepherd1) where you can see photographs MON detailing day to day life on the farm - including his fine MON flock of Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the MON workforce, sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. MON Read by Bryan Dick MON Written by James Rebanks MON Abridged by Sian Preece MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron MON Music details: MON Track: "The Nightshift" MON CD: Country Escape MON Label: BBC Production Music BBCPM031. MON Credits MON Reader: Bryan Dick MON Author: James Rebanks MON Abridger: Sian Preece MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06kvm16 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b01lhbgn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmlv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Trapped b0076gw4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 Just a Minute b0741n3y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k14x (Listen) MON Episode 8 MON Worried that Ruth has the vampire plague, last man on Earth MON Robert Neville regrets being so candid. Read by Richard MON Matheson. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b0076406 (Listen) MON Barry Norman & Ben Pimlott MON Matthew Parris and his guests, film critic Barry Norman and MON historian Ben Pimlott, discuss favourite books by George MON Orwell, Donna Leon and George Eliot. From 2001. MON Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell MON Publisher: Penguin MON Friends in High Places by Donna Leon MON Publisher: Arrow MON Middlemarch by George Eliot MON Publisher: Penguin. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jrdx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Listen to Les b01n21nt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnkn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Britain's Black Revolutionary b00t4q0j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b0759mjt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Bookclub b0075h53 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 Just a Minute b0741n3y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01pp5vg (Listen) MON Series 5, Dave Gorman MON Marcus Brigstocke invites comic Dave Gorman to try new MON experiences, including horse-riding and a strip club. From MON January 2013. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b07466lj (Listen) MON Series 48, Episode 4 MON Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week via topical MON stand-up and sketches. MON Credits MON Presenter: Steve Punt MON Presenter: Hugh Dennis MON MON 23:30 Elvenquest b016vn8f (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 4 MON As they continue their search for the Sword of Asnagar, the MON noble Questers find themselves coming to the rescue of King MON Baldwin the Jovial whose mead hall is being terrorised by a MON terrible creature called "The Grundle". But when Amis, the MON Chosen One, starts to question whether he is actually all MON that special after all, the Questers hatch a plan to kill MON the beast and restore Amis' self-worth. MON Meanwhile, time is running out for Lord Darkness. Kreech MON tells he must find a girlfriend to keep him young, or he'll MON find his incorporeal essence once more slowly shrivelling MON and turning to dust. So Darkness starts off on the dating MON game. Trouble is, it's been a bit of time since he last met MON a girl, let alone chatted one up... MON Starring: MON Darren Boyd as Vidar MON Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech MON Dave Lamb as Amis aka The Chosen One MON Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness MON Stephen Mangan as Sam MON Daniel Rigby as King Baldwin The Jovial MON and MON Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea MON Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 MARCH 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k14x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b0076406 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnkn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Britain's Black Revolutionary b00t4q0j (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdcrk (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yn6xm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b04vdgq0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b05r0b35 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06kvm16 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b01lhbgn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmlv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Trapped b0076gw4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 Just a Minute b0741n3y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnl3 (Listen) TUE Deadlock TUE VI Warshawski flies to Canada to continue her investigation TUE on the giant freighter the Lucella Weisser. But she's in for TUE a shock when they sail through the Great Lakes Lock. TUE Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Kathleen Turner as VI TUE Warshawski. With Eleanor Bron as Lottie, William Dufris as TUE Captain Bemis and Keith Drinkel as Mike Sheridan. TUE Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female TUE sleuths in modern crime-fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, TUE is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI TUE is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but TUE she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky TUE says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women TUE were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed TUE either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, TUE smart, likeable female private investigator". TUE Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 TUE film 'VI Warshawski'. TUE Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. TUE Director: Janet Whitaker TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. TUE TUE 06:30 M Is for Maxwell Knight b00h30nq (Listen) TUE Writer and historian Christopher Lee tells the story of the TUE popular 1950s radio and television naturalist Maxwell TUE Knight, who led a secret existence as an MI5 spy runner. He TUE discovers what it was about this quietly spoken and gentle TUE man that made him such a successful spymaster and inspired TUE Ian Fleming to use him as a model for the character of M in TUE his James Bond novels. TUE TUE 07:00 55 and Over b01p3hnx (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's TUE romantic comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes TUE made by the modern 50-pluser. Hearts are more fragile than TUE previously thought this week when disaster strikes and old TUE lovers are forced to confront their new younger replacements TUE around a hospital bed. TUE Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson TUE Ray ..... Philip Jackson TUE Tony ..... Patrick Brennan TUE Heather ..... Liza Sadovy TUE Honey ..... Stephanie Racine TUE Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis TUE Portia ..... Sarah Thom TUE Producer/Director ..... Helen Perry. TUE TUE 07:30 Clare in the Community b0612n9l (Listen) TUE Series 10, My Kinda Town TUE Episode One - My Kind Of Town TUE Clare gets involved with a devious TV producer who's making TUE a documentary about the Sparrowhawk estate. Brian has gone TUE on a fitness kick and joined a men's group, which is TUE threatened by the arrival of a new member. TUE Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all TUE the right jargon but never a practical solution. TUE A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering TUE in other people's lives on both a professional and personal TUE basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and TUE heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of TUE discomfort to her. TUE Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control TUE both her professional and private life In today's Big TUE Society there are plenty of challenges out there for an TUE involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. TUE Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden TUE Producer Alexandra Smith. TUE Credits TUE Clare: Sally Phillips TUE Brian: Alex Lowe TUE Alan: Richard Lumsden TUE Carl: Richard Lumsden TUE Simon: Andrew Wincott TUE Libby: Sarah Kendall TUE Lou: Lizzie Roper TUE Caspar: Karl Theobald TUE Malcolm: Anil Goutam TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007zkzy (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 7 TUE Kenneth Horne hits The Celluloid Jungle and waltzes off for TUE some strictly Bona Ballroom tuition from Julian and Sandy. 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 Donald Webster TUE Music by the Max Harris Group. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in April 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b013qzgl (Listen) TUE Safe and Unsound TUE The bungling bureaucrats spark fears of a top level security TUE leak. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From April TUE 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b07466lj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01blzkq (Listen) TUE The Music Festival TUE A year into married life and already things are a little TUE creaky. So, following Will's unimaginative anniversary TUE present (a draining rack), Annabelle has signed them up for TUE a course of marriage counselling. TUE Each week, counsellor Guy mediates a recent dispute between TUE Will and Annabelle, with flashbacks to the events that TUE spawned the argument, and by the end, the couple find TUE marital equilibrium once more. Sort of. TUE Guy arbitrates, usually leaning towards Annabelle's more TUE sensible point of view. In contrast to Will's uptightness, TUE Guy is laconic and urbane and clearly irritates Will. TUE The writer and comedian Will Smith leads the starry cast of TUE Mr and Mrs.Smith. TUE Episode 3 - The Music Festival TUE An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling, TUE written by Will Smith. Will reluctantly accompanies wife TUE Annabelle to a music festival. She brings her annoying TUE friend Heather along. TUE FULL CAST DETAILS: TUE Will Smith ..... Will Smith TUE Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Guy ..... Paterson Joseph TUE Heather ..... Morwenna Banks TUE Various ..... Simon Bubb TUE Written by ..... Will Smith TUE Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. TUE TUE 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l37tj (Listen) TUE 18-22 January 1916 TUE In the week of the first concerted attempt to break the TUE Siege of Kut, Folkestone's characters are all looking for TUE release. TUE Written by Sarah Daniels TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole TUE Story-led by Shaun McKenna TUE Sound: Martha Littlehailes TUE Matthew Strachan TUE Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. TUE Credits TUE Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy TUE Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger TUE Albert Wilson: Jamie Foreman TUE Alec Poole: Tom Stuart TUE Anna White: Amelia Lowdell TUE Bob Capeling: Joe Sims TUE Clemmie Crayford: Joanna Monro TUE Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper TUE Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley TUE Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont TUE Edward Easton: Raymond Wilson TUE Emile Tourte: Stephane Cornicard TUE Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook TUE Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford TUE Jessie Moore: Lucy Hutchinson TUE Mr Mottershead: Gerard McDermott TUE Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready TUE Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf TUE Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone TUE Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair TUE Nev Cotton: Leo Wan TUE Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads TUE Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom TUE Ralph Winwood: Nicholas Murchie TUE Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack TUE Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe TUE Nurse Wright: Isobel Rogers TUE Writer: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 11:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075fmsz (Listen) TUE The Winters and The Palmleys TUE The aged groceress remembers a lonely old lady from the TUE village, "dead these five-and-twenty year at least" who had TUE good reason to be so aloof from her neighbours. (1891) Read TUE by Richard Mitchley. TUE These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and TUE 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of TUE description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of TUE Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into TUE human nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a TUE rapidly vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain TUE timeless in their embrace of both the farcical and the TUE tragic aspects of daily life. TUE Abridged by Isobel Creed TUE Produced by Lizzie Davies TUE Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. TUE TUE 11:15 David Napthine - Unforgettable b0480grn (Listen) TUE Have You Heard the Music Man TUE Ex-trombonist George can't recall his son's name, yet music TUE sparks lucid memories of his days on the road. Stars Windsor TUE Davies. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007zkzy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b013qzgl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnl3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 M Is for Maxwell Knight b00h30nq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdm1c (Listen) TUE A Delicate Truth, Suspicions and Unease TUE If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that TUE good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian TUE Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel TUE from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which TUE tells the story of a good man who must choose between his TUE conscience and his duty to the Service. TUE An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of TUE Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office TUE serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; TUE the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, TUE assured. TUE But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and TUE commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find TUE himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will TUE take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the TUE depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the TUE truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention TUE and justice it deserves. TUE Tonight: Suspicions and Unease - the more Toby sees of his TUE new Minister, the less he understands. TUE John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities TUE of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in TUE British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty TUE years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between TUE London and Cornwall. TUE Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as TUE Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of TUE Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga. TUE The reader is Damian Lewis TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Di Speirs TUE Author: John Le Carre TUE Reader: Damian Lewis TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE TUE 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yns3j (Listen) TUE A Marriage of Minds TUE Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of TUE friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr TUE Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning TUE and experience of friendship have changed over the TUE centuries. TUE Episode Two: A Marriage of Minds TUE Having launched the series by exploring the close-knit but TUE instrumental friendships which most people experienced in TUE the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Dr Thomas Dixon TUE turns to the elite ideal of friendship as expressed in TUE classical writers such as Aristotle and Cicero, and as lived TUE out by Renaissance men such Thomas More and Erasmus. TUE He looks into the continuing influence of these emotional TUE "friendships of choice". Today we take such friendships for TUE granted but in the seventeenth century they were available TUE only to those who had the time, money and education to TUE pursue them. TUE It was commonly believed that only men had the capacity for TUE such friendships but Thomas Dixon reveals how women too were TUE beginning to spread their social wings. He tells the story TUE of the Welshwoman Katherine Philips, a published poet and TUE the wife of a wealthy landowner, who argued that since the TUE soul has no gender, then friendship - a mingling of souls - TUE was equally available to both men and women. TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE Further Reading TUE Alan Bray, *The Friend* (University of Chicago Press, 2003) TUE * * TUE Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds), *Love, TUE Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800* (Palgrave, 2005) TUE TUE Frances Harris, *Transformations of Love: The Friendship of TUE John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin *(Oxford University TUE Press, 2002) TUE TUE Keith Thomas, *The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in TUE Early Modern England* (Oxford University Press, 2009), TUE Chapter 6: ‘Friendship and Sociability’ TUE The History of Emotions blog TUE Read a series of specially commissioned blog posts TUE supporting the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Five Hundred Years of TUE Friendship‘. TUE Mark Vernon, ‘Philosophy and the art of friendship’ TUE Laura Gowing, ‘Friends without words’ TUE Amanda Herbert, ‘Female alliances’ TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b04vdy14 (Listen) TUE The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, A Tour of the Cages TUE Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St TUE Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious TUE Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and TUE their parents. TUE Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from TUE Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel TUE Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - TUE including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own TUE H-bomb. TUE Episode 2: A Tour of the Cages TUE Molesworth and his friend Peason explain the different types TUE of masters and how best to deal with them. TUE Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by TUE Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material TUE by Abigail Wilson. TUE Directed by Patrick Barlow TUE Produced by Liz Anstee TUE A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Credits TUE Molesworth: Imelda Staunton TUE Peason: Sophie Thompson TUE Grabber: Jack Farthing TUE Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay TUE Mr Metcalf-Walker: Lewis Macleod TUE Adaptor: Patrick Barlow TUE Adaptor: George Poles TUE Author: Geoffrey Willans TUE Author: Ronald Searle TUE Director: Patrick Barlow TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b05r3tcz (Listen) TUE The Shepherd's Life, Episode 2 TUE James Rebanks is the first son of a shepherd, who was the TUE first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have TUE lived and worked in and around the Lake District for TUE generations. TUE An increasingly marginalised and precarious livelihood - it TUE costs £1 to sheer a sheep, yet each fleece is worth only 40p TUE - Rebanks' anger at the way small farmers are treated, and TUE his passion for continuing his ancestors way of life, is TUE palpable. Through his eyes, we see that the Lake District is TUE not a playground or a scenic backdrop, it's a working TUE landscape that needs sheep and its farmers to survive. TUE James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter TUE @herdyshepherd1 where you can see photographs detailing day TUE to day life on the farm - including his fine flock of TUE Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the workforce, TUE sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. TUE Read by Bryan Dick TUE Written by James Rebanks TUE Abridged by Sian Preece TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Bryan Dick TUE Author: James Rebanks TUE Abridger: Sian Preece TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l37tj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Foul Play b00jtm1q (Listen) TUE Series 3, Oh Yes She Is Dead! TUE Crime writers Susan Moody and Simon Shaw tackle a charming TUE pantomime murder. Simon Brett hosts the murder quiz. From TUE January 1998. TUE TUE 16:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01blzkq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 55 and Over b01p3hnx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Clare in the Community b0612n9l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k167 (Listen) TUE Episode 9 TUE With the new society on the attack, Robert Neville refuses TUE to leave his house. Read by Richard Matheson. TUE TUE 18:30 The Palace of Laughter b007k29d (Listen) TUE Series 2, Sunderland Empire TUE Geoffrey Wheeler profiles North East England's premier TUE variety venue, where comic actor Sid James sadly died on TUE stage. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007zkzy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b013qzgl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnl3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 M Is for Maxwell Knight b00h30nq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075fmsz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 David Napthine - Unforgettable b0480grn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Clare in the Community b0612n9l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b00vrxwt (Listen) TUE Series 4, A Tolerable Life De-Happified TUE In this new series of Mark Evans' Victorian epic, Pip must TUE enlist the help of his former nemesis to fight a new evil TUE spreading terror and cake-crumbs through the streets of TUE London. TUE Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson TUE Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen TUE Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head TUE Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman TUE Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Pippa ..... Susy Kane TUE Writer ..... Mark Evans TUE Producer ..... Gareth Edwards TUE In Volume Four Chapter the First "A Tolerable Life TUE De-Happified", our hero Pip sees his former nemesis - the TUE badly named Gently Benevolent - thwarted and locked up in a TUE prison within a jail within a gaol spelled the other way, TUE and apparently repentant of his crimes. But late one foggy TUE night when Pip is attacked with a bowl of sinister custard TUE he realises a new form of evil is stalking the streets of TUE London, and he is obliged to ask for help from his erstwhile TUE foe. Can Benevolent now be trusted? And who is the sinister TUE evil figure? TUE Meanwhile, Pip's wife Ripely has become obsessed with TUE cutlery, and the purchase of some diamond-handled dodo TUE knives looks likely to force Pip into bankruptcy. And his TUE best friend Harry Biscuit claims to be having terrible TUE problems with an angry badger, but is it all as it seems? TUE Credits TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b076pxv8 (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to Pro TUE Resting. TUE TUE 23:00 Father Figure b01bl4fb (Listen) TUE People Carrying TUE New family sitcom written by and starring Irish comedian TUE Jason Byrne. Tom Whyte and his family are on their way to a TUE wedding. It's all going well until they hit a traffic jam. TUE Before long traffic laws are being broken; the rescue TUE services are on their way and there's a few surprises TUE waiting for them in the lay-by. TUE Tom Whyte.... Jason Byrne TUE Elaine Whyte.... Lucy Montgomery TUE Dylan Whyte .... Dominic Applewhite TUE Mary Whyte.... Pauline McLynn TUE Pat Whyte.... Dermot Crowley TUE Roddy.... Michael Smiley TUE Producer.... Julia McKenzie. TUE TUE 23:30 Radio 9 b04dykmz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Urban fox hunting, reckless parenting and faking surgery for TUE real. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From June 2005. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 MARCH 2016 WED WED 00:00 Richard Matheson - I Am Legend b007k167 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Palace of Laughter b007k29d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnl3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 M Is for Maxwell Knight b00h30nq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdm1c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yns3j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b04vdy14 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b05r3tcz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l37tj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Foul Play b00jtm1q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01blzkq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 55 and Over b01p3hnx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Clare in the Community b0612n9l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnm6 (Listen) WED Pavane for a Dead Hockey Player WED Everyone wants private eye VI Warshawski off the case, but WED the next body isn't hers. In fact, she thought he was the WED villain. WED Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Kathleen Turner as VI WED Warshawski. With James Aubrey as Martin Bledsoe, William WED Hootkins as Bobby Mallory, Kerry Shale as Murray and Bill WED Nighy as Roger Ferrant. WED Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female WED sleuths in modern crime-fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, WED is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI WED is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but WED she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky WED says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women WED were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed WED either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, WED smart, likeable female private investigator". WED Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 WED film 'VI Warshawski'. WED Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. WED Director: Janet Whitaker WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. WED WED 06:30 The Green Children of Woolpit b00slvqh (Listen) WED Sometime in the Twelfth Century two children appeared from a WED pit on the edge of a field in the Suffolk village of WED Woolpit. They were coloured green and spoke a unknown WED language. They sickened until they were allowed to eat green WED beans. The boy died but the girl revived and grew up WED learning English, marrying a man from Kings Lynn, and WED speaking of the place she and her brother had come from. WED Susannah Clapp and Richard Mabey investigate the story and WED its remarkable enduring appeal to villagers, visitors and a WED succession of folklorists and writers. WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00pm1nv (Listen) WED Series 3, Gothic WED Nigel is haunted, while Michael thinks he is Bruce Willis. WED Stars Raymond Coulthard and Adam Godley. From February 2007. WED WED 07:30 Chain Reaction b0742mqd (Listen) WED Series 11, Sandi Toksvig interviews Roy Hudd WED Series 11 of the show where one week's interviewee becomes WED the next week's interviewer. The first episode of Chain WED Reaction was broadcast on BBC Radio Five in 1991 when John WED Cleese was the first comedian in the hot seat. Now, 25 years WED on, a new series sees another raft of the world's best-loved WED comedians talking to each other about their lives and work. WED This week, the writer, broadcaster and erstwhile News Quiz WED host Sandi Toksvig turns interviewer as she chats to comedy WED icon, Roy Hudd. WED Sandi Toksvig is a prolific writer and broadcaster who WED chaired the News Quiz on BBC Radio 4 for nine years and over WED 220 episodes. In 2015 she was a founder member of the WED Women's Equality Party and, later that year was announced as WED the new host of the long-running BBC television series, QI. WED Roy Hudd has clocked up more than 50 years in showbusiness, WED starting out as a Butlins redcoat in the 1950s and then WED developing a stellar career through numerous successes on WED stage, radio and screen. BBC Radio listeners know him best WED as the host of the much loved News Huddlines on Radio 2 for WED 26 years. More recently, Roy gained plaudits for his moving WED portrayal of Bud Flanagan in the BBC drama 'We're Doomed! WED The Dad's Army Story'. WED In this the year of his 80th birthday, Roy tells Sandi about WED his beginnings in showbusiness, reveals how Arthur Askey WED gave him a leg up in the early days and shares his favourite WED pantomime story courtesy of Tom O'Connor. WED Producer: Richard Morris WED A BBC Radio Comedy Production. WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01kbz4q (Listen) WED Chasing the Kepeac WED Sister ships HMS Troutbridge and HMS Makepeace are sent on a WED wild ghost chase into the fog. WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as Mrs WED Povey, Ronnie Barker as Commander Stanton, Tenniel Evans as WED the Admiral and Michael Bates as Commander Bracewell. 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 November 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b013n0q0 (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 8 WED With the rise of the Common Market in mind, Radio Prune goes WED international. Stars John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From April WED 1970. WED WED 09:00 It's Not What You Know b037tnxt (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED What is Masterchef finalist Kirsty Wark's signature dish? WED What is Andrew Maxwell's best character trait? What is WED Francis Wheen's greatest fear? WED All these questions, and more, will be answered in the show WED hosted by Miles Jupp, where panellists are tested on how WED well they know their nearest and dearest. WED Producer: Sam Michell. WED Credits WED Presenter: Miles Jupp WED Panellist: Francis Wheen WED Panellist: Kirsty Wark WED Panellist: Andrew Maxwell WED Producer: Sam Michell WED WED 09:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqjk (Listen) WED The Charge of the Boys' Brigade WED Miss Primrose is ordered to travel to South Africa and WED murder General Cheeseman. With Alison Steadman. From WED September 1988. WED WED 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3js2 (Listen) WED 25-29 January 1916 WED In the week when President Woodrow Wilson declared "The WED world is on fire, and sparks are likely to drop anywhere", WED pressures begin to tell at the Bevan hospital too. WED Written by Claudine Toutoungi WED Directed by Allegra McIlroy WED Editor: Jessica Dromgoole WED Story-led by Shaun McKenna WED Sound: Martha Littlehailes WED Matthew Strachan WED Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. WED Credits WED Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy WED Adeline Lumley: Helen Schlesinger WED Alec Poole: Tom Stuart WED Beryl Roche: Rebecca Hamilton WED Bob Capeling: Joe Sims WED Carl Larkin: Richard Pepple WED Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley WED Dr Streatfield: Chris Pavlo WED Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont WED Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw WED Hilary Pearce: Craige Els WED Ivy Layton: Lizzy Watts WED Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf WED Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone WED Millie Mumford: Jessica Turner WED Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair WED Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads WED Patrick Bunting: Jack Ashton WED Phyllis Marshall: Christine Absalom WED Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon WED Sylvia Graham: Joanna David WED Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack WED Private Bunce: Ewan Bailey WED Private Fynn: Caolan McCarthy WED Private Kelly: Leo Wan WED Private Lensfield: George Watkins WED Writer: Claudine Toutoungi WED Director: Allegra McIlroy WED WED 11:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075g3n9 (Listen) WED Netty Sargent's Story WED Mr Day, the painter, recalls the unusual circumstances by WED which Netty Sargent came to own her house. (1891) Read by WED Richard Mitchley. WED These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and WED 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of WED description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of WED Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into WED human nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a WED rapidly vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain WED timeless in their embrace of both the farcical and the WED tragic aspects of daily life. WED Abridged by Isobel Creed WED Produced by Lizzie Davies WED Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. WED WED 11:15 David Napthine - Unforgettable b0482y65 (Listen) WED Eraser WED After a head injury, Terri keeps notes to help her memory, WED but her notebooks begin to contradict each other. With WED Jo-Anne Horan. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01kbz4q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b013n0q0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnm6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Green Children of Woolpit b00slvqh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdmy9 (Listen) WED A Delicate Truth, Breaking Every Rule WED If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that WED good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian WED Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel WED from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which WED tells the story of a good man who must choose between his WED conscience and his duty to the Service. WED An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of WED Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office WED serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; WED the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, WED assured. WED But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and WED commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find WED himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will WED take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the WED depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the WED truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention WED and justice it deserves. WED Tonight: Breaking Every Rule - Toby takes an irrevocable WED step. WED John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities WED of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in WED British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty WED years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between WED London and Cornwall. WED Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as WED Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of WED Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga. WED The reader is Damian Lewis WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED Credits WED Producer: Di Speirs WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Reader: Damian Lewis WED Author: John Le Carre WED WED 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03ynvdb (Listen) WED Love Your Enemies WED Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of WED friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr WED Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning WED and experience of friendship have changed over the WED centuries. WED Episode Three: Love Your Enemies WED At a time when Christianity taught a gospel of universal WED love, including loving your enemy, individuals might still WED find themselves drawn to particular friendships. The Bible WED itself contained such contradictions, as the 17th century WED Anglican poet George Herbert put it: "David had his WED Jonathan, Christ his John." These apparent contradictions WED were the cause of real anxiety amongst devout Christians. WED The role of individual friendships became even more apparent WED after the Reformation, when personal friendships began to WED assume the confessional role once held by priests. WED Thomas Dixon takes up the story during the Civil War, and WED considers this tension within particular religious WED communities such as the Quakers. WED He talks with the historian Naomi Tadmor and also hears from WED Anglican-turned-Quaker, Terry Waite, who movingly recalls WED the meaning of friendship and of learning to love himself as WED a friend, during years of solitary confinement after being WED taken hostage in 1987. WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED Further Reading WED Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds), *Love, WED Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800* (Palgrave, 2005) WED WED Amanda E. Herbert, *Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and WED Friendship in Early Modern Britain *(Yale University Press, WED 2014) WED WED Terry Waite, *Taken on Trust* (Coronet, 1994) WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b04vf6z5 (Listen) WED The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Lessens and How to Avoyd WED Them WED Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St WED Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious WED Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and WED their parents. WED Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from WED Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel WED Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - WED including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own WED H-bomb. WED Episode 3: Lessens and How to Avoyd Them WED Molesworth's efforts to explain the best way to bunk off WED class are thwarted by the fact all the masters seem to have WED disappeared. Can he and Peason find the missing teachers in WED time to avoyd their lessens? WED Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by WED Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material WED by Abigail Wilson. WED Directed by Patrick Barlow WED Produced by Liz Anstee WED A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. WED Credits WED Molesworth: Imelda Staunton WED Peason: Sophie Thompson WED Grabber: Jack Farthing WED Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay WED Headmaster: Patrick Barlow WED Latin Master: Lewis Macleod WED Adaptor: Patrick Barlow WED Adaptor: George Poles WED Author: Geoffrey Willans WED Author: Ronald Searle WED Director: Patrick Barlow WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b05r3xc3 (Listen) WED The Shepherd's Life, Episode 3 WED James Rebanks is the first son of a shepherd, who was the WED first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have WED lived and worked in and around the Lake District for WED generations. WED Small scale farming is an increasingly precarious WED livelihood, it's almost impossible to earn enough money to WED bring up a family, you need a secondary income. And so, as WED disagreements with his father intensified, James, aged WED twenty-one, decided to return to education, resulting in a WED place at Oxford. All the time he was away, he longed to be WED back home, working on the fells. WED James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter ( as the WED @herdyshepherd1 ) where you can see photographs detailing WED day to day life on the farm - including his fine flock of WED Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the workforce, WED sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. WED Read by Bryan Dick WED Written by James Rebanks WED Abridged by Sian Preece WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED Credits WED Reader: Bryan Dick WED Author: James Rebanks WED Abridger: Sian Preece WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3js2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 It's Not What You Know b037tnxt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqjk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00pm1nv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Chain Reaction b0742mqd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride b0092n8g (Listen) WED The Night Owls WED Assembled monster turned B&B landlady, Brenda investigates a WED mysterious Whitby radio host. Stars Joanna Tope and Monica WED Gibb. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b00771k5 (Listen) WED Letting the Cat Out of the Bag WED 4 Extra Debut. Dominic Arkwright, Fran Abrams, Camilla WED Wright and Simon Evans discuss the role of journalism in WED revealing secrets. From December 2006. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01kbz4q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b013n0q0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnm6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Green Children of Woolpit b00slvqh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075g3n9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 David Napthine - Unforgettable b0482y65 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Chain Reaction b0742mqd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Seekers b03ctfp8 (Listen) WED Series 1, That Bloke Keeps Looking At Us WED There's a bloke sitting at the other end of the Job Centre WED waiting room. Joe, Terry and Stuart try and work out who he WED is. He starts giving the three lads, evil looks. Joe becomes WED adamant that he is a hitman sent by the Food Standards WED Agency. Terry thinks it might be a bloke from Benefits WED fraud. Whoever he is they're determined not to be WED intimidated and return the evil looks. WED Seekers, is about the characters that regularly frequent a WED Job Centre in the Essex town of Rayleigh. Be it the WED unfulfilled or aspirational staff that work there, or the WED mixture of jobless people from every walk of life, some WED desperate to get back to work, some trying their best to WED never have to work at all. WED We listen into the mundane, pointless and sometimes WED bewildering conversations, the petty arguments and pointless WED rivalries that people involve themselves in just to relieve WED the boredom in the sterile, air conditioned building, they WED all have to return to day after day. WED Episode Three: That Bloke Keeps Looking At Us WED Written by Steven Burge WED Produced by Katie Tyrrell. WED Joe's CV WED Joe's CV shows he's full of self-confidence... And not much WED else! WED Credits WED Stuart: Matthew Horne WED Joe: Daniel Mays WED Terry: Tony Way WED Mr Rocastle: Tony Way WED Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi WED Gary Probert: Steve Oram WED Bill Parfitt: David Seddon WED George Dorset: Alex Lowe WED Mandy Dorset: Bharti Patel WED Mr Boland: Michael Bertenshaw WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Steven Burge WED WED 23:00 The Masterson Inheritance b007jspx (Listen) WED Series 1, The Mastersons and Johnson WED The family's fate is linked with that of a tumble dryer. WED Improvised comedy with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From WED April 1993. WED WED 23:30 And Now in Colour b007jscz (Listen) WED Series 2, Stately Home WED The team take the audience on a posh day out. Starring Tim WED de Jongh, William Vandyck and Tim Firth. From January 1991. WED WED THU THURSDAY 31 MARCH 2016 THU THU 00:00 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride b0092n8g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b00771k5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnm6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Green Children of Woolpit b00slvqh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdmy9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03ynvdb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b04vf6z5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b05r3xc3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3js2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 It's Not What You Know b037tnxt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqjk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Brothers b00pm1nv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Chain Reaction b0742mqd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnmq (Listen) THU The Long Goodbye THU Clayton Phillips's body could only have got into the hold of THU the Gertrude Rutton one way. VI uses the same vehicle to THU confront the villain and ends up swimming for her life. THU Sara Paretsky's thriller stars Kathleen Turner as VI THU Warshawski. With Bill Nighy as Roger Ferrant, Peter Marinker THU as Nils Greyfalk and Kerry Shale as Murray. THU Eleanor Bron as Lottie, William Hootkins as Bobby Mallory, THU James Aubrey as Martin Bledsoe, Peter Marinker as Nils THU Greyfalk, Teresa Gallagher as Paige Carrington and William THU Roberts as Clayton Phillips. THU Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female THU sleuths in modern crime-fiction. Her heroine, VI Warshawski, THU is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. VI THU is comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects but THU she never loses touch with her basic femininity. Paretsky THU says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women THU were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed THU either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, THU smart, likeable female private investigator". THU Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 THU film 'VI Warshawski'. THU Dramatised by Michelene Wandor. THU Director: Janet Whitaker THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. THU THU 06:30 Gurinder: The Indian Sequel b00s1n43 (Listen) THU Radio 4 is on the road! We're off to Goa with British film THU director Gurinder Chadha, who's a special guest at India's THU biggest and most colourful film festival, in Goa. Her movies THU - Bend It Like Beckham, Bride And Prejudice, Bhaji on the THU Beach - are big hits in India. For millions of Indians, her THU portrayal of life for British Asians is the most realistic THU view they've had of their diasporic counterparts in the UK. THU Not only have her films changed our notion of what 'British' THU means by putting the Asian community firmly in the THU mainstream consciousness, but the way that Indian audiences THU respond to her films also tells us something about the THU changing relationship between India and the UK, and the THU Indian diaspora who live here. THU As a twice migrant herself, she brings elements of Indian, THU Kenyan, and British themes to her work - a fusion of THU cinematic methods and subject matter. In the glamorous THU setting of the flamboyant Goan film festival, we'll discover THU how huge Gurinder is there, and talk to Indian cinemagoers, THU directors, actors, and movie buffs about the larger than THU life director, her films, and how, whilst they're clad in THU their designer labels in a country that's a new world power, THU they see the British Asian community as endearingly old THU fashioned. THU The producer is Lucy Greenwell, and this is a Just Radio THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes b007ncd1 (Listen) THU Series 1, Homeward Bound THU Moving back where he grew up, Patrick meets school mate THU Billy. Jim Sweeney's comedy-drama with Steve Steen. From THU July 2001. THU THU 07:30 Hal b04pr6sy (Listen) THU Death THU Hal Cruttenden stars as a forty-something husband and father THU who, years ago, decided to give up his job and become a stay THU at home father. His wife, Sam, has a successful business THU career which makes her travel more and more. His children, THU Lilly and Molly, are growing up fast, and his role as their THU father and mentor is diminishing by the day. THU So what can Hal do as he reaches a crossroads in his life? THU Help is (sort of) at hand in the form of his eager mates - THU Doug, Fergus and Barry - who regularly meet at their local THU curry house for mind expanding conversations that sadly THU never give Hal the core advice he so desperately needs. THU Hal is confused even further as he regularly has visions of THU his long dead and highly macho father, who he's forced to THU engage in increasingly frustrating conversations. THU In this second episode, Hal faces a horrifying thought - he THU might have testicular cancer. So he tries to look mortality THU in the face - not easy for an overly sensitive and emotional THU man. He tries to bond with his entrepreneurial stepson Jack, THU but a visit to a football match doesn't work out as Hal THU planned. THU An unlikely form of salvation arrives when it's suggested THU that Hal takes part in a charity run. Things take an THU unexpected turn and Hal actually surprises himself - but not THU in the way he planned. THU The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Anna THU Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby and Samuel Caseley. THU Produced by Paul Russell THU An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Hal: Hal Cruttenden THU Actor: Dominic Holland THU Actor: Ed Byrne THU Actor: Anna Crilly THU Actor: Gavin Webster THU Actor: Dominic Frisby THU Actor: Samuel Caseley THU Writer: Hal Cruttenden THU Writer: Dominic Holland THU Producer: Paul Russell THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp1c (Listen) THU Series 6, Porn Yesterday THU Harold's aghast when he discovers exactly 'What the Butler THU Saw'! THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Norma Ronald and Anthony Sharpe. THU Following the conclusion of their hugely successful THU association with Tony Hancock, writers Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson wrote 10 pilots for the BBC TV's Comedy Playhouse in THU 1962. The Offer was set in a house with a yard full of junk, THU featuring the lives of rag and bone men Albert Steptoe and THU his son Harold and it was the spark for a run of 8 series THU for TV. THU Written for TV and adapted for radio by Ray Galton and Alan THU Simpson. THU Produced by Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in March 1976. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b008s3jb (Listen) THU Series 4, The Martin Brown Show THU A big break for "Mr Hospital Radio" himself, as Martin Brown THU gets his very own show on Radio Active. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope and Steve Brown. THU Written by Angus Deayton and Geoffrey Perkins. With Jon THU Canter, THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1984. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075llz (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU Ian McMillan's irreverent literary game with Mark Thomas, THU Roger McGough, Dillie Keane and Miles Kington. From October THU 1997. THU THU 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008qs53 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, THU Patricia Routledge, Joan Sims and June Whitfield. From THU November 1994. THU THU 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3lgf (Listen) THU 1-5 February 1916 THU In the week when Britain suffered the worst zeppelin raid THU thus far in the war, all of Folkestone is jumpy. THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole THU Story-led by Shaun McKenna THU Sound: Martha Littlehailes THU Matthew Strachan THU Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. THU Credits THU Adam Wilson: Billy Kennedy THU Albert Wilson: Jamie Foreman THU Alec Poole: Tom Stuart THU Anna White: Amelia Lowdell THU Billy Barstow: David Hounslow THU Cristine: Ysabelle Cooper THU Dorothea Winwood: Rachel Shelley THU Edie Chadwick: Kathryn Beaumont THU Elsie Buss: Tracy Wiles THU Florrie Wilson: Claire Rushbrook THU Fred Apps: Ewan Bailey THU Gabriel Graham: Michael Bertenshaw THU Dr Streatfield: Chris Pavlo THU Hilary Pearce: Craige Els THU Isabel Graham: Keely Beresford THU Johnnie Marshall: Paul Ready THU Kitty Lumley: Ami Metcalf THU Marion Wardle: Laura Elphinstone THU Millie Mumford: Jessica Turner THU Nell Kingsley: Alice St Clair THU Norman Harris: Sean Baker THU Olive Hargreaves: Rhiannon Neads THU Queenie Penfold: Lorna Nickson Brown THU Ruby Tulliver: Martine McCutcheon THU Smith: David Hounslow THU Sylvia Graham: Joanna David THU Victor Lumley: Joel MacCormack THU Winifred Dinsdale: Alice Lowe THU Town Clerk: Leo Wan THU Councillor Pepper: Ewan Bailey THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 11:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075p19n (Listen) THU Old Mrs Chundle THU Kindly soul Mrs Chundle, a little deaf, who sought help from THU the new curate to hear his weekly sermon. (1929) Read by THU Richard Mitchley. THU These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and THU 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of THU description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of THU Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into THU human nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a THU rapidly vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain THU timeless in their embrace of both the farcical and the THU tragic aspects of daily life. THU Abridged by Isobel Creed THU Produced by Lizzie Davies THU Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. THU THU 11:15 David Napthine - Unforgettable b0483q5w (Listen) THU May All Your Wishes Come True THU Eddie is found wandering Newcastle with no idea of his past. THU What should he do until his memory returns? Stars Derek THU Walmsley. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp1c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b008s3jb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Gurinder: The Indian Sequel b00s1n43 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdrrp (Listen) THU A Delicate Truth, Hard Evidence THU If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that THU good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian THU Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel THU from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which THU tells the story of a good man who must choose between his THU conscience and his duty to the Service. THU An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of THU Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office THU serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; THU the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, THU assured. THU But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and THU commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find THU himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will THU take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the THU depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the THU truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention THU and justice it deserves. THU Tonight: Hard Evidence - his worst suspicions confirmed, who THU can Toby trust now? THU John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities THU of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in THU British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty THU years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between THU London and Cornwall. THU Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as THU Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of THU Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga. THU The reader is Damian Lewis THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU Credits THU Producer: Di Speirs THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Reader: Damian Lewis THU Author: John Le Carre THU THU 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yqj3f (Listen) THU Webs of Loyalty THU Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of THU friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr THU Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning THU and experience of friendship have changed over the THU centuries. THU Episode Four: Webs of Loyalty THU Renaissance thinkers insisted that friendships were purely THU about emotional ties, but, in reality, friendships are often THU formed for more instrumental reasons - to give practical THU support in times of need. "That's what friends are for", THU observes one speaker in the opening montage of this episode. THU Thomas Dixon takes up his story to explore the impact of THU expanding commerce and politics on friendship in the 18th THU century. THU He learns about the friendship of the midwife and THU money-lender, Elizabeth Hatchett, with the pawn-broker, THU Elizabeth Carter, who lived and worked together in London in THU the early 18th century. And he looks into the circles of THU friendship of a Sussex shopkeeper, Thomas Turner, during the THU 1761 General Election, as an example of friendship within THU political life. Historians Alex Shepard and Naomi Tadmor THU share their research and vivid examples of such complex webs THU of loyalty. THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU Further Reading THU Barbara Caine (ed.), *Friendship: A History* (Equinox, THU 2009), Chapter 5, ‘From Christian Friendship to Secular THU Sentimentality: Enlightenment Re-evaluations’, by David THU Garrioch. THU THU Laura Gowing, Michael Hunter and Miri Rubin (eds), *Love, THU Friendship and Faith in Europe, 1300-1800* (Palgrave, 2005) THU THU Naomi Tadmor, *Family and Friends in Eighteenth-Century THU England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage* (Cambridge THU University Press, 2001) THU The History of Emotions blog THU Read a series of specially commissioned blog posts THU supporting the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Five Hundred Years of THU Friendship‘. THU Naomi Tadmor, ‘Friends and families’ THU Alex Shepard, 'Crediting female friendship' THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b04vfczr (Listen) THU The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Wizz for Atomms THU Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St THU Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious THU Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and THU their parents. THU Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from THU Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel THU Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - THU including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own THU H-bomb. THU Episode 4: Wizz for Atomms THU Tired of masters skipping lessens to visit the new THU under-matron, Prudence, the Headmaster has banned everyone THU in school from visiting the infirmary. But Grabber, the THU skool bully, has fallen for her and orders Molesworth to THU help him out. THU Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by THU Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material THU by Abigail Wilson. THU Directed by Patrick Barlow THU Produced by Liz Anstee THU A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Molesworth: Imelda Staunton THU Peason: Sophie Thompson THU Grabber: Jack Farthing THU Headmaster: Patrick Barlow THU Radio Announcer: Lewis Macleod THU Adaptor: Patrick Barlow THU Adaptor: George Poles THU Author: Geoffrey Willans THU Author: Ronald Searle THU Director: Patrick Barlow THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b05r3zjm (Listen) THU The Shepherd's Life, Episode 4 THU James Rebanks is the first son of a shepherd, who was the THU first son of a shepherd himself, he and his family have THU lived and worked in and around the Lake District for THU generations. THU In this episode, he remembers the dark days of 2001, when THU farmers faced the horror of Foot and Mouth disease. From the THU loss came something unexpected: a neighbour's kindness led THU him to breed pure Herdwick sheep. THU James Rebanks has a huge following on Twitter (he's the THU @herdyshepherd1 ) where you can see photographs detailing THU day to day life on the farm - including his fine flock of THU Herdwick sheep and, the latest additions to the workforce, THU sheepdog Floss's ten puppies. THU Read by Bryan Dick THU Written by James Rebanks THU Abridged by Sian Preece THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU Credits THU Reader: Bryan Dick THU Author: James Rebanks THU Abridger: Sian Preece THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU THU 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3lgf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075llz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008qs53 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes b007ncd1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Hal b04pr6sy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride b00941pb (Listen) THU The Vintage Costumed Hero Ball THU Monstrous B&B landlady Brenda gets a murderous surprise at a THU superheroes convention. Stars Joanna Tope and John Paul THU Hurley. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0077058 (Listen) THU Series 10, Nina Simone THU Joanna MacGregor chooses the singer, pianist and activist. THU With Matthew Parris and expert analysis from Mark Coles. THU From September 2006. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp1c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b008s3jb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnmq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Gurinder: The Indian Sequel b00s1n43 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075p19n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 David Napthine - Unforgettable b0483q5w (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Hal b04pr6sy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Headset Set b0124pxs (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 2 THU A new audience sketch show set in the world of call centres. THU A new phone system is causing chaos at Smile5, the catalogue THU company that sells anything and everything. THU WELCOME TO SMILE5! THU Smile5 is a mail order catalogue company selling everything THU from Rolex watches to lawnmowers, from financial products to THU phone and broadband, from holidays to health insurance. And THU somewhere in a brown-field wasteland miles from the nearest THU town, it runs one of the largest call centres operating in THU the UK. This is the world of The Headset Set. THU Each episode features a host of sketches set in the call THU centre, eavesdropping on both sides of the bizarre, horrific THU and ludicrous business-customer relationship. While the bulk THU of each show is taken up with standalone sketches, there are THU linked scenes providing a gentle narrative curve to THU proceedings. These scenes feature four of the call centre's THU employees: THU Sailesh - Officially the team leader, Sailesh has recently THU moved from Bangalore seemingly bringing a wealth of THU call-centre experience and an admirable work ethic lacking THU in his fellow Headsetters. However, Sailesh has a secret... THU was he headhunted or did he leave India under a cloud? THU Bernie - As she's been here longer than anyone and she THU refuses to recognise Sailesh's authority. She also refuses THU to learn how to use anything more technologically advanced THU than a 1980s trim phone. THU Aleesha - A self-loathing street-wise cynic who resents THU having to work at Smile 5. Or in fact, having to work at THU all. THU Big Tony - Tony spends most of his time on the phone, but THU not necessarily on Smile 5 business. He's always running THU some sort of scam, like a minicab office from his desk. THU There are also sketches featuring the HR department, who THU seem determined not to hire anyone and Smile5's head of THU training Ralph, who trains the most inept of the call centre THU staff, such as the child-like Bradley (Paul Sharma) who is THU too nervous to take calls. THU EPISODE 2 THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul sharma THU Various ..... Philip Fox THU Written by ..... Various THU Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani THU WRITERS THU This is a team written sketch show originated by Stephen THU Carlin and James Kettle. Established sketch writers such as THU Stephen Carlin, James Kettle, Jon Hunter and Colin Hoult are THU joined by the best writers to have emerged from recent 'open THU door' radio shows, such as Recorded for Training Purposes THU and Newsjack. All tied together by script editors James THU Kettle and Dan Tetsell. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b076pxzd (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Tiff Stevenson chats to Pro THU Resting. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jmbj (Listen) THU Series 3, A Four Letter Word THU A new arrival in Hell persuades Satan to re-shoot Casablanca THU with a mutant alien. Devilish comedy stars Andy Hamilton. THU From April 1999. THU THU 23:30 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford b00767qj (Listen) THU Series 1, The Verse Was Yet to Come THU The new poet-in-residence heads to the north-west to gain THU inspiration from the locals. Stars James Quinn. From May THU 2002. THU THU 23:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b00slshn (Listen) THU Series 2, Normal Reality THU Everyday insights from the cartoonist, who asks where THU reality ends and fantasy begins. Stars Paul McCrink. From THU February 2003. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride b00941pb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0077058 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 VI Warshawski - Deadlock b007jnmq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Gurinder: The Indian Sequel b00s1n43 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdrrp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yqj3f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b04vfczr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b05r3zjm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l3lgf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075llz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008qs53 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes b007ncd1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Hal b04pr6sy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost Special b01c8cbn (Listen) FRI Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story of the mysterious FRI disappearance of a train en route from Liverpool. Read by FRI David Schofield. FRI FRI 06:30 M1: The Modernist Marvel b00nk9hz (Listen) FRI As the M1, Britain's first major motorway, celebrates its FRI 50th year, performance poet and musician John Hegley FRI presents a poetic meditation on the 200-mile stretch of road FRI that is the transport backbone of Britain. FRI With his mandolin in tow, John slows down, turns off and FRI seeks out the overlooked sights and sounds of the M1. He FRI learns why there is no Junction 3, discovers that there was FRI a scientific formula to the loo break that determined how FRI far apart service stations should be built, and admires the FRI road for the glimpse on the modern world it offers us. FRI FRI 07:00 1835 b012mbjv (Listen) FRI Down at the Old Bull and Bush FRI Aristocrat Belport tries escapology to woo a music hall FRI singer, but servant Ned is smitten too. Stars Paul Rider. FRI From July 2004. FRI FRI 07:30 Wordaholics b01sdmd2 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI Gyles Brandreth presides over the comedy panel game where, FRI this week, Susie Dent and Lloyd Langford compete against FRI Dave Gorman and Natalie Haynes to find out which team is the FRI most passionate and knowledgeable about words. FRI This week Susie Dent reveals two of her favourite FRI now-defunct words from Samuel Johnson's Dictionary are FRI 'pandiculation' (to stretch while yawning) and 'snirtle' (to FRI laugh in a quiet and restrained manner); Dave Gorman comes FRI up with a new cliche to replace 'Curiosity Killed the Cat'; FRI Natalie Haynes tells us what the Cockney rhyming slang 'a FRI Basil' refers to and Lloyd Langford is asked the meaning of FRI 'dumpoke' from the 1903 dictionary, 'Hobson Jobson - A FRI Glossary of Anglo Indian Colloquial Words and Phrases' (a FRI book which Susie Dent claims is 'a very good read'). FRI Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle FRI Producer: Claire Jones. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Gyles Brandreth FRI Writer: Jon Hunter FRI Writer: James Kettle FRI Producer: Claire Jones FRI Panellist: Susie Dent FRI Panellist: Lloyd Langford FRI Panellist: Dave Gorman FRI Panellist: Natalie Haynes FRI FRI 08:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jxpn (Listen) FRI Series 6, The Impersonator FRI When he hears his sound-alike in a TV commercial, the lad FRI heads straight to court. FRI Starring Tony Hancock. With Sidney James, Bill Kerr, Peter FRI Goodwright, Ann Lancaster, Jerry Stovin, Jack Watson, Ronald FRI Wilson and Wilfrid Babbage. 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 December 1959. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b008wf71 (Listen) FRI The Nadger Plague FRI Neddie Seagoon turns to witchcraft to thwart Grytpype-Thynne FRI and Moriarty. Stars Peter Sellers. From October 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 Wildbrain b075pp7l (Listen) FRI 1997 - Semi-final FRI Lionel Kelleway visits Bristol, to test more wildlife FRI knowledge in the BBC Natural History Unit's quiz. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b007jp3z (Listen) FRI Series 8, Impossibly High Standards FRI Victoria grows more irritating, as Anna gets a surprise FRI proposition. Simon Brett comedy starring Celia Imrie. From FRI January 2002. FRI FRI 10:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l4n8z (Listen) FRI 8-12 February 1916 FRI In the week that conscription came into effect, there are FRI secrets and celebrations in Folkestone. Final Omnibus of the FRI season, Home Front returns on 4th April 2016 FRI Adeline Lumley ..... Helen Schlesinger FRI Albert Wilson ..... Jamie Foreman FRI Anna White ..... Amelia Lowdell FRI Charles Chaplin ..... Owen Clarke FRI Cristine ..... Ysabelle Cooper FRI Dolly Clout ..... Elaine Claxton FRI Dorothea Winwood ..... Rachel Shelley FRI Dr Streatfield ..... Chris Pavlo FRI Elsie Buss ..... Tracey Wiles FRI Eric Morton ..... Paul Rainbow FRI Florrie Wilson ..... Claire Rushbrook FRI Gabriel Graham ..... Michael Bertenshaw FRI Hilary Pearce ..... Craige Els FRI Isabel Graham ..... Keely Beresford FRI Ivor Davies ..... Alun Raglan FRI Ivy Layton ..... Lizzy Watts FRI Jessie Moore ..... Lucy Hutchinson FRI Johnnie Marshall ..... Paul Ready FRI Kitty Lumley ..... Ami Metcalf FRI Laurie Pearce ..... Will Howard FRI Lilian Frost ..... Alex Tregear FRI Maisie Harris ..... Cassie Layton FRI Nancy Parker ..... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Norman Harris ..... Sean Baker FRI Roland Pemble ..... Jack Holden FRI Ruby Tulliver ..... Martine McCutcheon FRI Ruth Billings ..... Katie Redford FRI Sylvia Graham ..... Joanna David FRI Victor Lumley ..... Joel MacCormack FRI Winifred Dinsdale ..... Alice Lowe FRI Clerk ..... Richard Pepple FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Directed by Allegra McIlroy FRI Editor: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Story-led by Shaun McKenna FRI Sound: Martha Littlehailes FRI Matthew Strachan FRI Consultant Historian: Maggie Andrews. FRI FRI 11:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075pq6s (Listen) FRI The Thieves Who Couldn't Help Sneezing FRI An ambush on Christmas Eve does not end well for the FRI perpetrators. (1877) Read by Richard Mitchley. FRI These tales from Thomas Hardy published between 1877 and FRI 1929, possess all the power of his novels: the wealth of FRI description, the realistic portrayal of the age old lore of FRI Wessex, the 'Chaucerian' humour and the shrewd insights into FRI human nature. They tenderly re-create, what was even then, a FRI rapidly vanishing rural world and yet the narratives remain FRI timeless in their embrace of both the farcical and the FRI tragic aspects of daily life. FRI Abridged by Isobel Creed FRI Produced by Lizzie Davies FRI Made for BBC Radio Extra by Waters Company Productions. FRI FRI 11:15 Afternoon Drama b011plrz (Listen) FRI Gerda Stevenson - The Apple Tree FRI Family drama set on a Scottish island, starring Juliet FRI Stevenson. FRI Maria is an Englishwoman who has fallen in love with her FRI husband Iain's Highland heritage - but there's a shock in FRI store for them when they take a trip home to his mother's FRI island croft. FRI It is Hogmanay. Iain, an artist, and the son of a crofter, FRI has just received news of his mother's death. He and Maria FRI set off from Edinburgh to attend the funeral. They drive FRI north in blizzard conditions. Eventually they reach Iain's FRI mother's house, where brother James, sister-in-law Ishbel, FRI and the church elders are gathered. In the aftermath of this FRI family crisis Maria's love affair with the island way of FRI life will be severely tested. FRI Maria..............Juliet Stevenson FRI Iain.................Iain MacRae FRI James.............David Walker FRI Ishbel..............Carina MacLeod FRI Minister..........Angus Peter Campbell FRI Producer/director: Bruce Young FRI Gerda Stevenson is a Scottish actress, writer and director. FRI She is married to the Gaelic poet, Aonghas MacNeacail. FRI FRI 12:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jxpn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b008wf71 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost Special b01c8cbn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 M1: The Modernist Marvel b00nk9hz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b01sdw31 (Listen) FRI A Delicate Truth, A Ghost from the Past FRI If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that FRI good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian FRI Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel FRI from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which FRI tells the story of a good man who must choose between his FRI conscience and his duty to the Service. FRI An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of FRI Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office FRI serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; FRI the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, FRI assured. FRI But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and FRI commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find FRI himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will FRI take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the FRI depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the FRI truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention FRI and justice it deserves. FRI Tonight: A Ghost from the Past - Sir Christopher Probyn's FRI idyllic retirement is about to be shattered. FRI John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities FRI of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in FRI British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty FRI years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between FRI London and Cornwall. FRI Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as FRI Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of FRI Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga. FRI The reader is Damian Lewis FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI Credits FRI Producer: Di Speirs FRI Abridger: Sally Marmion FRI Reader: Damian Lewis FRI Author: John Le Carre FRI FRI 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03yqyz9 (Listen) FRI When William Met Mary FRI Social networking appears to be expanding our circles of FRI friendship just as our sense of community is contracting: Dr FRI Thomas Dixon presents a timely history of how the meaning FRI and experience of friendship have changed over the FRI centuries. FRI Episode Five: When William Met Mary FRI The famous 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally, crystallised for FRI modern viewers the key question of whether a man and woman FRI can truly be friends without any sexual element. FRI This was a question which radical and educated people were FRI beginning to ask in the 18th century, alongside its mirror FRI image - can a husband and wife also be friends? FRI Thomas Dixon traces the changing face of friendship and the FRI new idea of "companionate marriage" during this era, through FRI the linked histories of the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft and FRI the radical philosopher William Godwin. FRI With the help of the historian Barbara Taylor, he considers FRI three moving stories: Mary's early friendship with Fanny FRI Blood, of whom she declared: "To live with this friend is FRI the height of my ambition"; the halting start, close FRI friendship and devoted but tragically short marriage of FRI Wollstonecraft with Godwin, who described their relationship FRI as "friendship melting into love"; and the marriage of their FRI daughter, Mary, who wrote of her desolation after the death FRI by drowning of her husband, the poet Percy Shelley: "I have FRI now no friend." FRI Thomas Dixon brings together issues of friendship and FRI marriage in this most contemporary of historical series. FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI Further Reading FRI Barbara Caine (ed.), *Friendship: A History* (Equinox, FRI 2009), Chapter 6, ‘Taking up the Pen: Women and the Writing FRI of Friendship’, by Barbara Caine. FRI FRI Amanda E. Herbert, *Female Alliances: Gender, Identity, and FRI Friendship in Early Modern Britain *(Yale University Press, FRI 2014). FRI FRI Claudia Johnson (ed.), *The Cambridge Companion to Mary FRI Wollstonecraft *(Cambridge University Press, 2002) FRI FRI Simon May, *Love: A History* (Yale, 2011), Chapter 4: ‘Love FRI as Perfect Friendship’ FRI FRI Barbara Taylor, *Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist FRI Imagination* (Cambridge University Press, 2003) FRI FRI Ralph M. Wardle (ed.) *Godwin & Mary: Letters of William FRI Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft *(University of Nebraska FRI Press, 1977) ​ FRI The History of Emotions blog FRI Read a series of specially commissioned blog posts FRI supporting the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Five Hundred Years of FRI Friendship‘. FRI Sally Holloway, ‘Friendship, love, and letter-writing’ FRI Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b04vjh7t (Listen) FRI The Skool Days of Nigel Molesworth, Fun with Scrumms FRI Imelda Staunton stars as Nigel Molesworth, the Curse of St FRI Custards, in this brand new adaptation of the notorious FRI Goriller of 3B's guide to skool life for tiny pupils and FRI their parents. FRI Aided by best friend Peason and thwarted by everyone from FRI Grabber the skool bully to Wandsworth the skool dog, Nigel FRI Molesworth teaches us the ins and outs of skool life - FRI including how to avoid lessens and how to build your own FRI H-bomb. FRI Episode 5: Fun with Scrumms FRI As the school term comes to an end, Molesworth must find a FRI way to survive the perils of the playing field and the wrath FRI of skool bully Grabber if he is to have any hope of tucking FRI into some Christmas turkey. FRI Adapted by Patrick Barlow and George Poles from the books by FRI Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle, with additional material FRI by Abigail Wilson. FRI Directed by Patrick Barlow FRI Produced by Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Molesworth: Imelda Staunton FRI Peason: Sophie Thompson FRI Grabber: Jack Farthing FRI Prudence: Jessica Brown Findlay FRI Headmaster: Patrick Barlow FRI Chief Prune: Lewis Macleod FRI Adaptor: Patrick Barlow FRI Adaptor: George Poles FRI Author: Geoffrey Willans FRI Author: Ronald Searle FRI Director: Patrick Barlow FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b05r6sx0 (Listen) FRI The Shepherd's Life, Episode 5 FRI Spring is the farmer's reward for the hard days of winter - FRI and in this final episode, the cycle of the year begins FRI again, as James Rebanks prepares for lambing. FRI The first son of a shepherd, who was himself the first son FRI of a shepherd, James and his family have lived and worked in FRI and around the Lake District for generations. Through his FRI eyes we see that the Lake District is not a playground or a FRI scenic backdrop, it's a working landscape that needs sheep FRI and its farmers to survive. FRI Read by Bryan Dick FRI Written by James Rebanks FRI Abridged by Sian Preece FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron FRI Music details: FRI Track: "The Nightshift" FRI CD: Country Escape FRI Label: BBC Production Music BBCPM031. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bryan Dick FRI Author: James Rebanks FRI Abridger: Sian Preece FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 15:00 Home Front - Omnibus b06l4n8z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 Wildbrain b075pp7l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b007jp3z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 1835 b012mbjv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Wordaholics b01sdmd2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Paul Magrs - Never the Bride b009gctd (Listen) FRI Our Frank FRI A cliff-top drama for Whitby landlady Brenda, when her FRI monstrous old fiance appears. Stars Joanna Tope and Monica FRI Gibb. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b008pygx (Listen) FRI Series 6, Tainted Love FRI Series about pieces of music with a powerful emotional FRI impact. FRI 3/4. Tainted Love FRI Originally a Motown song written by Ed Cobb and recorded by FRI Gloria Jones, Tainted Love became famous on the Northern FRI Soul scene in the late 1970s. A classic version was later FRI recorded by Soft Cell. FRI FRI 19:00 Hancock's Half Hour b007jxpn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b008wf71 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Lost Special b01c8cbn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 M1: The Modernist Marvel b00nk9hz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Thomas Hardy - More Tales of Village Life b075pq6s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Afternoon Drama b011plrz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Wordaholics b01sdmd2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01nq1c8 (Listen) FRI Series 4, Miss Reenie Comes to Stay FRI Adam's surprise birthday present for his Dad backfires. FRI Adam has a surprise for his Dad's birthday - his sister FRI Reenie! It backfires when Miss Reenie turns out to be the FRI house guest from hell and plans to stay for 6 months. FRI Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record FRI shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker FRI and some terrific tunes. FRI Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record FRI shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real FRI soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if FRI we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the FRI charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), FRI reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son FRI Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly FRI girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently FRI married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) FRI which is leaving his best friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) FRI feeling left out - that is until Rudy's sister Miss Reenie FRI comes to stay. FRI Adam ..........Lenny Henry FRI Rudy.......... Larrington Walker FRI Tasha...........Natasha Godfrey FRI Doreen..........Claire Benedict FRI Clifton...........Jeffery Kissoon FRI Miss Reenie.......Angela Wynter FRI RSPCA Man ........ ..Joe Sims FRI Written by Paula Hines FRI Script Editor: Danny Robins FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell FRI SWEET JAMAICA * LORD KITCHENER FRI DANGER IN YOUR EYES * ASWAD FRI LORD A MASSIE MASSIE * DANNY D AND THE SHADOWS FRI NOT ME * ROBERT MITCHUM FRI GIRL I'VE GOT A DATE * ALTON ELLIS FRI I'M IN LOVE AGAIN * FATS DOMINO FRI TOP FORM/OLD MACDONALD * YELLOWMAN FRI SISTER LOVE * GREGORY ISAACS FRI BLACK WOMAN * SISTER CAROL FRI DANGEROUS * KARDINAL OFFISHALL & AKON. FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b076py0b (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Max FRI and Ivan. FRI FRI 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture b007md98 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Che Guevara FRI The radical comedian profiles the revolutionary leader who FRI became a left-wing hero, despite chronic asthma. From April FRI 2001. FRI FRI 23:30 Hard to Tell b03jb3n7 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI Second series of the relationship comedy written by Jonny FRI Sweet. FRI It tells its central love story through the couple's FRI individual conversations with their family and friends. In FRI the process, we are introduced to all manner of FRI relationships from a father and his cherished tour van to FRI two women rivalling for the position of Best Friend, from a FRI brother and sister comparing notes on Brazilians to a vicar FRI and his new parish, and from a lodger's historic fling with FRI a local waitress to a mum's lack of control over her desire FRI to monitor her son's life. FRI Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, FRI contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to FRI restaurants, funerals, French dressers and monkey puzzle FRI trees. FRI Jonny Sweet is also the writer of Radio 4's Party and FRI co-writer/co-star of Chickens on Sky 1. FRI Episode 3: FRI Tom's Mum's cousin has died and she volunteers her son to FRI give the eulogy. At the funeral, Ellen suspects an FRI infidelity, while Gillian the lodger suspects a mental FRI disorder. FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Gillian: Julia Davis FRI Paul: Simon Greenall FRI Ashley: Alex Macqueen FRI Lesley: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Ellen: Charlotte Ritchie FRI Hermione: Sarah Solemani FRI Tom: Jonny Sweet FRI Maeve: Katy Wix FRI The Vicar: Matthew Baynton FRI Lucy: Kate Jevons FRI Producer: Lucy Armitage FRI Writer: Jonny Sweet FRI