Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
SAT SATURDAY 09 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Susan Hill - The Mist in the Mirror b036q7t8 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Sir James's account is not quite all of the story. Gareth SAT Armstrong and John Moffatt conclude Susan Hill's tale of SAT supernatural stalking. SAT SAT 00:15 Roald Dahl b041ym4c (Listen) SAT The Man From the South SAT Win a car or lose a finger - what will be the result of an SAT old man's bizarre bet? Read by Terry Molloy. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b008tn7d (Listen) SAT Series 6, Spem in Alium SAT Thomas Tallis's work is one of the most elaborate and SAT spectacular pieces of choral music ever written. Scored for SAT 40 voices, the piece is best sung and heard in the round in SAT order to appreciate an extraordinary sonic experience. SAT Choral conductor Simon Halsey, Michael Morpurgo and others SAT discuss the music's spine-tingling effect on both performers SAT and listeners. SAT SAT 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b012wzzj (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Jenny has fallen for Robert Forester, though he's not SAT certain of his feelings for her. SAT Meanwhile, her ex-fiance, Greg, is very certain. He wants SAT Jenny back - and Robert is in the way. SAT Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John SAT Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, SAT Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf and Matt Rippy as Jack SAT Neilsen. SAT Adapted by Shaun McKenna. SAT Music composed and performed by David Chitton SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. SAT SAT 01:30 Ken and Mark and Robert b00tdznx (Listen) SAT Legendary film-maker Ken Russell is in the studio with Mark SAT Kermode recalling his love of music, which inspired such SAT films as Mahler, Tommy and The Music Lovers as well as many SAT television documentaries. SAT Meanwhile, in the adjacent studio, musician Robert Ziegler SAT is also talking about Ken's love of music... to Twiggy, SAT Glenda Jackson MP, Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Lord Bragg SAT and Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. SAT Can Ken hear what they are saying about him? Can they hear SAT what Ken is saying about them? SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Producer: David Roper SAT SAT 02:00 Book at Bedtime b01sjn6b (Listen) SAT A Delicate Truth, Truth Must Out SAT If the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that SAT good men do nothing, how can they remain silent? Damian SAT Lewis begins reading A Delicate Truth, the brand new novel SAT from the master of his genre, John le Carré, a novel which SAT tells the story of a good man who must choose between his SAT conscience and his duty to the Service. SAT An undercover counter-operation in the British colony of SAT Gibraltar; a middle-ranking man from the Foreign Office SAT serving as 'eyes on' and reporting to an ambitious Minister; SAT the aim to capture a jihadist arms-buyer - the success, SAT assured. SAT But back in the UK a junior officer has his doubts and SAT commits an unthinkable act. Three years on, he will find SAT himself facing an impossible choice. In a journey that will SAT take him from Cornwall to Wales via murky secrets in the SAT depths of Whitehall, Toby Bell will try to find out the SAT truth about the night on the Rock and bring it the attention SAT and justice it deserves. SAT Tonight: Truth must out - whatever the cost. SAT John le Carré was born in 1931 and attended the universities SAT of Bern and Oxford. He taught at Eton and served briefly in SAT British Intelligence during the Cold War. For the last fifty SAT years he has lived by his pen. He divides his time between SAT London and Cornwall. SAT Damian Lewis is a British actor best known for his role as SAT Nicholas Brody in Homeland. His many credits include Band of SAT Brothers, Life and The Forsyte Saga. SAT The reader is Damian Lewis SAT The abridger is Sally Marmion SAT The producer is Di Speirs. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Di Speirs SAT Abridger: Sally Marmion SAT Reader: Damian Lewis SAT Author: John Le Carre SAT SAT 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zdkkc (Listen) SAT A Battalion of Pals SAT Dr Thomas Dixon presents a timely new history of the SAT changing meaning and experience of friendship over the SAT centuries SAT Episode 10: A Battalion of Pals SAT Dr Thomas Dixon tells two contrasting stories for this SAT examination of the impact of World War One on male SAT friendship. SAT He begins and ends with the pacifist Bloomsbury Group, SAT focusing on E.M Forster and his famous remark, "If I had to SAT choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, SAT I hope I should have the guts to betray my country". Dr Matt SAT Cook places this remark - shocking at the time - in the SAT context of Forster's hidden sexual orientation. SAT Forster began his masterpiece, A Passage to India, before SAT the war, in optimism about the possibility of friendships SAT and love across the nations. As Dr Santanu Das explains, he SAT completed it, after the War, in a far bleaker mood. SAT Meanwhile, amongst the less highly educated classes, groups SAT of work-mates were being conscripted into the army. Thomas SAT Dixon explores this new role for friendship - as a SAT recruiting sergeant - and its tragic consequences. SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT Related Reading SAT Peter Chapman, *Grimsby’s Own: The Story of the Chums SAT *(Grimsby Evening Telegraph and Hutton Press, 1991) SAT SAT Sarah Cole, *Modernism, Male Friendship, and the First World SAT War* (Cambridge University Press, 2007) SAT SAT Santanu Das, *Touch and Intimacy in First World War SAT Literature* (Cambridge University Press, 2008) SAT SAT Peter Simkins, *Kitchener’s Army: The Raising of the New SAT Armies 1914-1916* (Pen and Sword Military, 2007) SAT The History of Emotions blog SAT Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this SAT series. SAT Santanu Das, ‘The dying kiss’ SAT SAT Paul Reed, ‘Looking for the Grimsby Chums SAT ’ SAT SAT 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00srvkl (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Pregnant Jane books an appointment at an abortion clinic, SAT but Mavis offers her an illegal alternative. Stars Lynne SAT Seymour. SAT SAT 02:45 Paul Theroux - Fresh Air Fiend b007jylg (Listen) SAT Unspeakable Rituals and Outlandish Beliefs SAT The writer describes the bizarre traditions and ceremonies SAT that he encountered during his travels. Read by Stuart SAT Milligan. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b0183r3q (Listen) SAT François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gargantua SAT Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Dramatised by SAT Lavinia Murray. SAT Ep 2 - Pantagruel. SAT Concluding the bawdy and scatological adventures of Medieval SAT giants. This episode concentrates on the story of SAT Gargantua's son, Pantagruel and his morally dubious friend SAT Panurge, as they go on a quest to discover whether marriage SAT is for them. On the way they have many adventures before SAT they come before the Seer of the Holy Bottle who gives them SAT a definitive judgement. SAT Rabelais.....David Troughton SAT Gargantua....Robert Wilfort SAT Pantagruel....Justin Edwards SAT Panurge...Conrad Nelson SAT Friar Jean....Jonathan Keeble SAT Jacqueline/Seer...Fiona Clarke SAT Librarian/Secretary...Mark Chatterton SAT Producer Gary Brown SAT This tale is a dizzying blend of fantasy, comedy, philosophy SAT and scatological humour. The world's a messy place. All the SAT big mock-heroic novels that followed - Don Quixote, Tristram SAT Shandy, Gulliver's Travels, Ulysses - are about mess, SAT they're about slops and slime, encyclopedic in their efforts SAT to encompass humanity in all its bawdy, chaotic, grungy, and SAT painful reality. And like Gargantua and Pantagruel they're SAT also very funny. The Rabelaisian world view is founded on SAT the assumption that the humourless are not yet wise - and SAT these tales insist you learn to laugh at humanity. SAT Gargantua and Pantagruel is dramatised by Lavinia Murray, SAT one of our leading radio playwrights whose credits include SAT 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' and 'The Confessions of an SAT English Opium Eater'. SAT SAT 04:00 Wildbrain b076w83n (Listen) SAT 1997 - Final SAT Lionel Kelleway presents the final of the natural history SAT quiz from the home of the British Birdwatching Fair at SAT Rutland Water. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b007jp4g (Listen) SAT Series 8, All Roads Lead to Rome SAT Roger's jealousy leads him to an unexpected confrontation. SAT Stars Celia Imrie, Angela Thorne and Bill Nighy. From SAT February 2002. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston in Love b007jn9c (Listen) SAT I'm in Love, I'm in Love SAT Newly in love, Nancy is not too keen on recalling past SAT events with the old rogue Winston. Stars Maurice Denham. SAT From December 1990. SAT SAT 05:30 The Rest Is History b04v2ssq (Listen) SAT Series 1, Episode 1 SAT Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SAT it. SAT The Rest Is History is a new comedy discussion show which SAT promises to help him find out more about it. SAT Along with his historian in residence Dr Kate Williams, each SAT episode sees Frank joined by a selection of celebrity SAT guests, who will help him navigate his way through the SAT annals of time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, SAT oddest, and most interesting moments in history. SAT Frank's guests in this edition of the programme are Dave SAT Gorman and Sara Pascoe SAT Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard SAT An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Frank Skinner SAT Panellist: Dave Gorman SAT Panellist: Sara Pascoe SAT Panellist: Kate Williams SAT Producer: Dan Schreiber SAT Producer: Justin Pollard SAT SAT 06:00 Winston Graham - The Little Walls b076wbmj (Listen) SAT Philip has returned to Europe from America after his brother SAT appeared to commit suicide in Amsterdam. His search for the SAT truth takes him from England to Holland and Italy. SAT Stars Alex Jennings as Philip Turner, Roger Lloyd Pack as SAT Martin Coxon, Kate Buffery as Leonie Winter, Vivian Pickles SAT as Charlotte Weber and Norman Jones as Captain Sanbergh. SAT Winston Graham's novel was the first winner of the Crime SAT Writers' Association award for best crime novel of the year SAT in 1955. Dramatised by Juliet Ace. SAT Producer: Ned Chaillet SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1991. SAT SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00qj2nv (Listen) SAT Fighters and Writers SAT Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became SAT the literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the SAT nation's stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. SAT Mark traces the way a group of young Americans returning SAT from WWII turned the US into a literary superpower. SAT Contributors include Philip Roth, Toni Morrison and Edward SAT Albee as well as Norman Mailer, John Updike and Kurt SAT Vonnegut, the last three recorded in the final major SAT interviews of their lives. SAT Drawing on interviews with dozens of key writers and SAT critics, Mark Lawson examines the role of authors in SAT capturing the nature of the US and explores the successes SAT and controversies of America's literary output. He shows how SAT differences of race, region and gender informed and expanded SAT the stories being told. And he nominates his candidate for SAT the title of the most unfairly neglected great American SAT novelist. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Robyn Read SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b0076xwv (Listen) SAT Royal Tours SAT 4 Extra Debut. Denys Blakeway looks at the history and SAT purpose of the royal tour, exploring the travels of Queen SAT Elizabeth II. From April 2006. SAT SAT 09:00 Comedy Controller b007jpfr (Listen) SAT Stephen Fry SAT Stephen Fry, actor, writer, wit and naughty national SAT treasure chooses his favourite comedies from the BBC radio SAT archive. SAT For Stephen, radio comedy inhabits the very way 'I write and SAT think'. He takes us back to his childhood, curled up and SAT listening to programmes like Men From the Ministry (1972). SAT He remembers his friend Douglas Adams, who Stephen recalls SAT thought the whole world through...only backwards, no better SAT displayed than in the very first Hitchhikers Guide to the SAT Galaxy (1978). SAT He relives the thrill of being offered the chance to write SAT his very own radio show, and asking his friends Hugh Laurie SAT and Emma Thompson to help out in Saturday Night Fry (1988). SAT Stephen marvels at the brilliance of the team behind the SAT ultimate news show On the Hour (1992) including Armando SAT Iannucci, Chris Morris and Steve Coogan. SAT He explains what it's like to experience, from the comedy SAT coal face, an absolute radio classic, the antidote to panel SAT games: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (2003). And chooses his SAT own antidote to radio phone in shows, the award winning Down SAT The Line (2007), starring Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson SAT - who Stephen knew as comedy saplings. SAT For Stephen, TV is often a greedy, one dimensional medium. SAT For him listening to radio "is so much more". SAT Producer: Peter McHugh. SAT SAT 12:00 The Emerald Green Show b076c11b (Listen) SAT Celebrations SAT 4 Extra Debut. Emerald Green is a vain, ambitious black SAT woman. Can she really become a chat-show queen? Stars SAT Llewella Gideon. From May 1998. SAT SAT 12:30 Winston in Love b007jn9c (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:00 today] SAT SAT 13:00 How Does That Make You Feel? b076wgfd (Listen) SAT Series 7 Omnibus SAT Therapist Martha's clients all want to be something they are SAT not and it is driving them, and her, crazy. Stars Frances SAT Tomelty. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b076wgfj (Listen) SAT Mick Fleetwood SAT Rock musician Mike Fleetwood chooses 'Clap Hands, Here Comes SAT Charlie!' by Charlie Kunz and 'Imagine' by John Lennon. SAT SAT 14:15 Don Haworth - Recce b007qspy (Listen) SAT A study of Tom, a seemingly affable man, easy-going and SAT concerned about all the right things. SAT So why does he find himself isolated and alone with his SAT family on a hillside farm? A TV company's intention to film SAT him at work reveals the reason why. SAT Don Haworth's drama stars Michael Tudor Barnes as Tom, SAT Joanna Mackie as Angela and Anna Cropper as Joan. SAT Director: Kay Patrick SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b0076xwv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Winston Graham - The Little Walls b076wbmj (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00qj2nv (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone b076wgfm (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank SAT A young man wakes at his own funeral, causing panic at the SAT church. Set in the mid-1920s in a small rural town in SAT Arkansas, the townsfolk believe he must be possessed by a SAT wandering demon... SAT Starring Robert Knepper. With Ambre Lake, Peggy Roeder and SAT Ricky Adams. SAT Narrator: Stacy Keach. SAT Written by Montgomery Pittman and adapted by Dennis SAT Etchison. 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 SAT and sound effects. SAT Produced by Carl Amari and directed for Falcon Picture SAT Group. SAT SAT 18:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrn3 (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT With everyone trapped behind a 'force wall', a battle of SAT good and evil begins in the town of Pentworth. Read by Nigel SAT Anthony. SAT SAT 19:00 Comedy Controller b007jpfr (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 Chain Reaction Extra b077ywdz (Listen) SAT Al Murray interviews Ian Hislop SAT Specially extended episode for BBC Radio 4 Extra from series SAT 11 of Chain Reaction, with bonus material. Pub Landlord SAT creator, Al Murray passes the baton to the comedian and SAT satirist Ian Hislop. SAT After an early foray into stand-up as a character called SAT 'The Murderer', Al Murray created his famous Pub Landlord SAT character in the mid-90s as part of a touring show with SAT Harry Hill. The Pub Landlord toured worldwide before making SAT his own chat show and sitcom for Sky. Outside of the Pub SAT Landlord, Al is well known as a presenter of history SAT documentaries and more recently as a candidate for SAT parliament - standing against Nigel Farage in South Thanet SAT during the 2015 UK General Election. SAT Al's guest Ian Hislop is much more used to the cut and SAT thrust of British politics both as a long-standing team SAT captain on 'Have I Got News for You' and as the editor of SAT satirical magazine Private Eye. As a dedicated fan and SAT student of history, he's made several acclaimed SAT documentaries on wide-ranging subjects including SAT conscientious objectors and The Beeching Report. SAT In this extended version of the original programme, Al SAT grills Ian on his early days writing for such comedians as SAT Harry Enfield, asks how we should define the role of the SAT satirist and poses the intriguing question, 'what's it like SAT being sued?' SAT Producer: Richard Morris SAT A BBC Radio Comedy Production SAT The original, un-extended programme was first broadcast on SAT BBC Radio 4 in March 2016. SAT SAT 22:45 Poets' Tree b00slxyx (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Paul Hamilton visits some young offenders to demonstrate SAT poetry's rehabilitative powers. Stars Kevin Eldon. From SAT April 2008. SAT SAT 23:00 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00sjcvd (Listen) SAT 1980s SAT Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's first radio series is SAT about his progression from working-class Herbert to SAT middle-class intellectual and being caught awkwardly between SAT the two. His story is told through reflective interviews, SAT but mainly, Micky's acclaimed stand up comedy. Micky's SAT transition from the mean streets of the East End to the SAT leafy lanes of Dulwich is a fascinating story, with each SAT episode focusing on a different decade of Micky's life. SAT In this episode Micky takes us through his 1980's, spent SAT running away to New York and being the international lover SAT and player of the East End. He chats to his parents, his SAT sister and his school friends in interviews that shed light SAT on the stand up comedy. SAT The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. SAT The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. SAT SAT 23:30 The Museum of Everything b007k425 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Dig SAT Drop in on a 'live' archaeology excavation, and visit a very SAT liberal safari park. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From March SAT 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 APRIL 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone b076wgfm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrn3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 How Does That Make You Feel? b076wgfd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b076wgfj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Don Haworth - Recce b007qspy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b0076xwv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Winston Graham - The Little Walls b076wbmj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SUN American Literature b00qj2nv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room Omnibus SUN b00ssp44 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN In a squalid 1950s bedsit, single Jane is pregnant and has SUN to overcome personal and social prejudices. Stars Lynne SUN Seymour. SUN SUN 07:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048nlfq (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN Roger Law visits two very different Chinese theme parks with SUN one thing in common - they are both in miniature. SUN From The Empire of the Little People to Window on the World, SUN Roger finds the world scaled down. SUN Producer Mark Rickards. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01f5mmk (Listen) SUN Series 8, Have a Great Weekend SUN Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, SUN complete with his trusty companion Elgar and his never SUN ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever SUN scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and SUN cat together. SUN Inevitably he finds himself once more battling through the SUN week encountering the numerous 12-year olds who run the SUN media, teaching the lively bunch of pensioners who can SUN "teach him a thing or two about money making schemes, frugal SUN living and having a good time thank you very much", and SUN regular run-ins with the rather successful Jaz Milvane, SUN director of Ed's only ever book-to-screen adaptation. SUN As we renew our acquaintance with Ed we find him in a SUN somewhat lighter mood, enjoying normal weekend-ish type SUN things, like having a bath, and whistling. He's also SUN visiting the DIY store - because he can. His renewed SUN acquaintance with 1960's hot young model, Fiona Templeton, SUN could have much to do with this new outlook, particularly as SUN they have a shared love of the free sachets to be found in SUN the Sunday newspapers. As long as they don't mix up the SUN shampoo sachet with the brown sauce sachet they should be SUN fine. SUN Credits SUN Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas SUN Fiona: Jenny Agutter SUN Olive: Stephanie Cole SUN Jaz Milvain: Philip Jackson SUN Pearl: Rita May SUN Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Post Office Clerk: Nicola Sanderson SUN Kourier (stet): Dan Tetsell SUN Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Writer: Andrew Nickolds SUN Writer: Christopher Douglas SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN SUN 08:00 The Clitheroe Kid b007wvh4 (Listen) SUN Mind My Bike SUN Can cheeky schoolboy Jimmy come up with an idea to raise SUN some cash for a new bike? SUN Starring Jimmy Clitheroe as The Clitheroe Kid. With Peter SUN Sinclair as Grandfather, Patricia Burke as Mother, Diana Day SUN as Susan and Peter Goodwright as Billy Parker. SUN The Clitheroe Kid ran from 1958-1972, gaining audiences SUN above 10 million at its peak. SUN Its Lancashire-born star, Jimmy Clitheroe (1921-1973) was SUN just 4'3" tall, with a rather shrill voice making him a very SUN believable naughty schoolboy - despite being 35 when it SUN began as a one-off show. Created by James Casey in 1956, a SUN pilot followed and series 1 proper in 1958. Both writing and SUN producing, James stayed with his creation until it finally SUN came off-air. Jimmy died a year later aged just 51. SUN Theme music by Alan Roper and played by the BBC Northern SUN Dance Orchestra conducted by Alyn Ainsworth - with Jimmy SUN Leach at the Electronic Organ. SUN Scripted by James Casey and Frank Roscoe SUN Produced: James Casey SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in January 1959. SUN SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House b007jt0n (Listen) SUN In the Wards SUN Unleashed on the patients, the medics are unprepared for the SUN formidable Sister Virtue. 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, Joan Sanderson as Sister Virtue and Irene SUN Handl as Mrs Clark. 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 Beethoven for a Later Age: Omnibus b076zgcb (Listen) SUN Life with the Tackas Quartet - and tackling Beethoven. First SUN violinist Edward Dusinberre's recollections read by Tim SUN McMullan. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b076zjbv (Listen) SUN Patti Smith SUN Singer-songwriter Patti Smith chooses Artie Shaw's SUN 'Nightmare' and 'After the Gold Rush' by Neil Young. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b01m6pk7 (Listen) SUN Mary Berry SUN 4 Extra's extended edition. Kirsty Young chats to 'The Great SUN British Bake Off' judge and cookery guru, Mary Berry. From SUN August 2012. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b077njnd (Listen) SUN Series 2, Goats, Cops and Haircuts SUN True stories told live in the USA: The Moth's founder, SUN George Dawes Green, introduces tales about trust and SUN suspicion. 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 The Clitheroe Kid b007wvh4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House b007jt0n (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room Omnibus SUN b00ssp44 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048nlfq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky b05r71hc (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Chelski, a London home for Russian wealth. Gorsky, a story SUN about beauty, money and books. Read by Philip Arditti. SUN SUN 15:45 Vincent McInerney - Food For Thought b076zs8z (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. A hard-drinking sailor tries to buy SUN friendship in Liverpool by promising the meal of a lifetime. SUN Read by Gerard McDermott. SUN SUN 16:00 Classic Serial b018g264 (Listen) SUN AG Macdonell - England, Their England SUN Martin Jarvis directs a galaxy of stars in a Classic Serial SUN one-off episode. The cast is led by outstanding Scots actor SUN Tony Curran as Donald. SUN In this classic 1930s comic novel, a young Scot, Donald SUN Cameron, invalided from the Western Front in 1918, finds SUN himself commissioned to write a book about the SUN eccentricities of the English - through 'a foreigner's SUN eyes'. An enthusiastic innocent abroad, Donald encounters an SUN array of richly comic characters. He attends an absurd SUN country house weekend, enjoys drinks with Fleet Street SUN hacks, attempts some book-reviewing, visits The League of SUN Nations as an MP's private secretary and, memorably, plays SUN village cricket - the most famous fictional cricket match in SUN literature. SUN The novel is dramatised by Archie Scottney ('Something SUN Fresh', 'Summer Lightning', 'Goldfinger', 'The Mysterious Mr SUN Quin') and who once took 5 wickets for 36 runs. SUN Martin Jarvis says: 'A joy to direct. The preposterous game SUN of cricket at its heart leaps happily onto the air waves. SUN With Ian Hislop to skipper our all-stars, I felt we had hit SUN some kind of pitch-perfection. The absurdity and blessedness SUN of England and the English remains reassuringly, SUN recognisable.' SUN Cast: SUN Donald Cameron .....Tony Curran SUN Evan Davies ..... Ioan Gruffudd SUN Mr Hodge ..... Ian Hislop SUN Tommy Huggins ..... Alfred Molina SUN Rupert Harcourt .. ... Rufus Sewell SUN Mr Bloomer ..... Michael York SUN Sir Henry ..... Ian Ogilvy SUN Gwennie ..... Jill Gascoine SUN Pendragon ..... Lloyd Owen SUN Esmeralda .....Sophie Winkleman SUN Carolyn Seymour, Julian Holloway, Oliver Dillon, JD SUN Cullum,Kenneth Danziger, SUN Darren Richardson, Simon Templeman, Alan Shearman, Matthew SUN Wolf, Daisy Hydon. SUN Sound design: Mark Holden SUN Producer: Rosalind Ayres SUN Director: Martin Jarvis SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b076ztr4 (Listen) SUN Radio Heaney SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive. SUN 'Radio Heaney' is a compilation of many of the poet's SUN greatest radio moments. SUN In his acceptance speech as newly-anointed Nobel Laureate, SUN Seamus Heaney recalled how vital a role the wireless had SUN played in his early life growing up on a farm in Mossbawn SUN Co. Derry. On the radio, he heard dispatches from the front SUN line during the Second World War, was gripped by Dick Barton SUN Special Agent and revelled in the musicality of the Shipping SUN Forecast. SUN As an up and coming published poet, Heaney wrote and SUN presented many programmes for schools in Northern Ireland, SUN exploring and celebrating fellow writers and the local SUN landscape. He also made for a compelling contributor and SUN interviewee to any discussion on the purpose of poetry and SUN was ultimately crowned with the medium's greatest accolade, SUN an invitation to Radio 4's Desert Island. SUN Presented by John Toal. SUN Producer: Owen McFadden SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2014. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01f5mmk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Saturday Drama b016k89p (Listen) SUN Something Wicked This Way Comes SUN Something Wicked This Way Comes SUN By Ray Bradbury SUN Dramatised by Diana Griffiths SUN Composer ..... David Paul Jones SUN Sound ..... Paul Cargill SUN Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris SUN Set in 1960's Illinois this gem of modern Gothic literature SUN is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and SUN William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small SUN Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one SUN Autumn midnight. These two innocents, both aged 13, (Will is SUN born one minute before Halloween, and Jim one minute after) SUN save the souls of the town (as well as their own). This is a SUN vivid variation on the eternal theme of the fight between SUN Good and Evil. A thrilling, chilling, richly kaleidoscopic SUN sound world ensues; a shimmering mirror maze that reflects SUN your older or younger self, depending on your desires, and a SUN magic carousel that plays Chopin's Funeral March forwards - SUN with each rotation you gain a year, and rotating backwards - SUN you get younger. SUN Credits SUN Writer: Diana Griffiths SUN Director: Pauline Harris SUN Producer: Pauline Harris SUN Will: Theo Gregory SUN Jim: Joseph Lindsay SUN Charlie: Henry Goodman SUN Mr Dark: Kenneth Cranham SUN Mr Coogar: Gerard McDermott SUN Lightening rod salesman: Gerard McDermott SUN Miss Foley: Barbara Barnes SUN Dust Witch: Buffy Davis SUN Robert: Taran Stanzler SUN Young Miss Foley: Amelia Clarkson SUN JED: Ethan Brooke SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b077njnd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:50 Beethoven for a Later Age: Omnibus b076zgcb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b01m6pk7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b01f5mmk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b00b0sgk (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 2 SUN The poet laureate of alternative comedy John Hegley SUN entertains an audience with his book of verse. From November SUN 1996. SUN SUN 22:45 No Tomatoes b0080274 (Listen) SUN Trash Talk SUN Sketch show mixing up language and sounds. Spaghetti SUN spellings with Paul Copley and Helen Moon. From October SUN 2007. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b077x0hk (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Simon SUN Day, in the guise of prog rock legend Brian Pern, and Rhys SUN Thomas. SUN SUN 23:00 I Think I've Got a Problem b00cl6vl (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN At the zoo Tom meets Pi, who has a band in her head too. So SUN what could go wrong? Stars Suggs and Bob Monkhouse. From SUN April 2003. SUN SUN 23:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b007jrmf (Listen) SUN Series 1, The Arctic SUN Frozen fiascos are afoot as the dim student traveller sails SUN with Greenpeace. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From August 2002. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 APRIL 2016 MON MON 00:00 Saturday Drama b016k89p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room Omnibus MON b00ssp44 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Roger Law and the Chinese Curiosities b048nlfq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Vesna Goldsworthy - Gorsky b05r71hc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Vincent McInerney - Food For Thought b076zs8z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Classic Serial b018g264 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b076ztr4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01f5mmk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b0131yvn (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON As each day passes with Greg still missing after the fight, MON Detective Lippenholtz is finding Robert's story harder to MON believe. MON Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John MON Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, MON Joanne McQuinn as Jenny Theirolf, Briony Glassco as Nickie MON Jurgen and Peter Marinker as Detective Lippenholtz. MON Adapted by Shaun McKenna. MON Music composed and performed by David Chitton MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. MON MON 06:30 Thesiger At 100 b00wlbvv (Listen) MON This year is the centenary of photographer and traveller MON Wilfred Thesiger, whose 38000 photographs of Africa and the MON Arabian Peninsula are celebrated in a new exhibition at MON Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum. BBC Security correspondent MON Frank Gardner, who was encouraged by Thesiger to learn MON Arabic, looks back on his fascinating life and reflects how MON it is through Thesiger's work that we currently have such an MON understanding of the North African and Arab world. Thesiger MON lived among the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq, and he also MON became famous for crossing the Rub' al Khali, the "Empty MON Quarter" of Saudi Arabia, surviving on less than a pint of MON water a day. MON Gardner talks to Christopher Morton of the Pitt Rivers about MON Thesiger's work, and what it reveals of past ways of life, MON and he also speaks to the curator of the exhibition, Philip MON N Grover about ways of interpreting the graphic imagery of MON the photographs. Thesiger's biographer Alexander Maitland MON tells the story of his wartime service with the SAS and SOE, MON and explorer Benedict Allen assesses the importance of MON Thesiger's travels and writing. Despite Thesiger's keen MON appreciation of desert peoples and their way of life, he MON hated modern society. The only modern invention he valued MON was the camera. We hear his voice in historic broadcasts MON from the 1940s and 50s, his elegant prose recalling his MON travels in what is now a lost age. MON Producer: Alyn Shipton MON A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 07:00 Trapped b0076h2t (Listen) MON The Art Class MON An art tutor with commitment issues gets into the clutches MON of a determined Russian model. Stars Alex Lowe. From MON September 2003. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b0731bsv (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 1 MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON Henning Wehn, Jon Richardson, Susan Calman and Jack Dee are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as tattoos, milk, supermarkets and MON Vladimir Putin. MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Henning Wehn MON Panellist: Jon Richardson MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Jack Dee MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Dad's Army b007jrl4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Is There Honey Still for Tea? MON A new aerodrome threatens Private Godfrey's idyllic cottage MON with demolition. 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, Joan Cooper as Cissie Godfrey MON and Fraser Kerr as the Colonel/ Sir Charles Renfrew MON McAlistair. 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 b01nchmv (Listen) MON From 24/02/1985 MON Les Dawson has holiday tales to tell and there are problems MON to solve for agony uncle, Dr Rhubarb. 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 b01m0lgj (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 b007jmmv (Listen) MON Series 6, A Day at the Centre MON Chaos reigns when Mr Sims' class win a trip to the 'Blue MON Peter' TV studio. Stars James Grout and Karl Howman. From MON July 1991. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b03bq0c2 (Listen) MON Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Men at Arms MON by Evelyn Waugh MON Dramatised by Jeremy Front MON Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: MON Guy Crouchback is a man scarred by a broken marriage, MON searching for a purpose in a modern world, when war breaks MON out he feels he may have at last found a cause worth MON fighting for. MON Directed by Sally Avens MON Waugh's trilogy of WWII novels mark a high point in his MON literary career. Originally published as three volumes: MON Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional MON Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and MON published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the MON form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are MON dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. MON This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the MON comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty MON and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be MON counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most MON enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his MON own experiences during WWII. Sword of Honour effortlessly MON treads the line between the personal and the political - it MON is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied MON war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from MON isolation to self fulfilment. His adventures are peopled by MON colourful characters: the eccentric, Apthorpe, one-eyed, MON Ritchie-Hook, promiscuous, Virginia Troy. At the centre of MON the novel is Guy for whom we never lose our sympathy as he MON emerges from his adventures bowed but not broken. From Dakar MON to Egypt, the Isle of Mugg to the evacuation of Crete, MON tragedy is leavened by Waugh's acerbic and farcical comedy. MON Credits MON Narrator: Tim McInnerny MON Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready MON Apthorpe: Adrian Scarborough MON Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook: Tim Pigott-Smith MON Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws MON Trimmer: Lee Ingleby MON Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris MON Angela: Priyanga Burford MON Tony: Harry Jardine MON Mr Crouchback: Sean Murray MON Major Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw MON Mrs Tickeridge: Joanna Brookes MON Leonard: Arthur Hughes MON Daisy: Georgie Fuller MON De Souza: Joel MacCormack MON Sgt Major: Ben Crowe MON Aide: John Norton MON Director: Sally Avens MON Adaptor: Jeremy Front MON Author: Evelyn Waugh MON MON 11:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nckb5 (Listen) MON Haven MON Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in MON 2013. She is widely regarded as a doyenne of the short story MON form, a writer whose acuity and compassion shines through MON all her work. These stories are from her 2012 collection, MON Dear Life. MON Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic MON surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, MON captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that MON lies beneath. Life is laid bare, and the complicated MON emotions of normal lives resonate long after the final page MON is turned. MON Today in Haven, a prolonged stay with her uncle and aunt MON change a young girl's understanding of the world. MON The reader is Barbara Barnes MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON Music details: MON Trio in B Flat Major MON by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed by the Florestan Trio MON - from the album MON Mozart: Piano Trios, K502, K542 & K564 MON (Hyperion). MON MON 11:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds MON b041y015 (Listen) MON Enter a Frightened Lady MON Now he is retiring from a long police career, Bill wants a MON quiet life. His old pal Tommy has other ideas. Stars Bernard MON Hepton. MON MON 12:00 Dad's Army b007jrl4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Listen to Les b01nchmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b0131yvn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Thesiger At 100 b00wlbvv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s8v6t (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Assistant postmaster Martin conceals a secret all-consuming MON passion for the words of Papa. Written and read by Michael MON Palin. MON MON 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zy1c0 (Listen) MON Testaments of Friendship MON Dr Thomas Dixon brings his timely new history of the MON changing face of friendship into the era immediately after MON the First World War, when the international friendship MON movement flourished. MON Episode 11: Testaments of Friendship MON At the centre of this episode is the story of Vera Brittain, MON author of the ever-popular memoirs, Testament of Youth and MON Testament of Friendship. Thomas Dixon traces Brittain's life MON through her pre-war loves, the heart-breaking war-time MON losses of her brother, her two closest male friends and her MON fiancee, and her post-war friendship with the writer, MON Winifred Holtby. MON Thomas Dixon hears from Brittain's daughter, Baroness MON Shirley Williams, about her mother's passionate belief in MON the ability of women to sustain profound friendships even MON during a period when they were frequently depicted in films, MON books and newspaper articles as being hostile to one MON another. MON He also speaks with Professor Seth Koven about Muriel MON Lester, whose friendships both with a poor East End girl, MON Nellie Dowell, and with Mahatma Gandhi, represented a drive MON for international peace and reconciliation after the horrors MON of the First World War. MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON Related Reading MON Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study MON of the Years 1900-1925 (Victor Gollancz,1933) MON MON Vera Brittain, Testament of Friendship: The Story of MON Winifred Holtby (Macmillan, 1940) MON MON Vera Brittain, The Rebel Passion: A Short History of Some MON Pioneer Peace-Makers (Allen & Unwin, 1964) MON MON Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), MON Chapter 7, ‘Class, Sex and Friendship: The Long Nineteenth MON Century’, by Marc Brodie and Barbara Caine MON MON Leela Gandhi, Affective Communities: Anti-Colonial Thought, MON Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism and the Politics of Friendship MON (Duke University Press, 2006) MON MON Seth Koven, The Match Girl and the Heiress (Princeton MON University Press, forthcoming) MON The History of Emotions blog MON Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this MON series. MON Seth Koven, ‘The Matchgirl and the heiress’ MON MON Sue Morgan, ‘Maude Royden, friendship, and faith’ MON MON James Ellison, ‘Friends across the ocean’ MON MON MON 14:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00sss5c (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Battling 1950s social prejudices, single mother-to-be Jane MON is in hospital with a threatened miscarriage. Stars Lynne MON Seymour. MON MON 14:45 Book of the Week b010dhcr (Listen) MON Edmund De Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 1 MON By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. MON 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger MON than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the MON extraordinary events that overtake one family. MON Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first MON encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his MON great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the MON 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could MON ever have imagined. MON His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time MON were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, MON Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation MON settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; MON emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists MON became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire MON collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to MON his banker cousin in Vienna. MON Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would MON play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. MON The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to MON the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their MON vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved MON by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was MON occupied. MON Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great MON buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the MON network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a MON tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique MON collection. MON Abridged by Polly Coles MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b03bq0c2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 Quote... Unquote b01m0lgj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Trapped b0076h2t (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth b0731bsv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Orbiter X b077018m (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON First broadcast in 1959, a bold plan to conquer space begins MON with prefabricated components of space station 'Orbiter X' MON being transported up from Earth, but the task proves MON perilous... MON BD Chapman's adventure stars John Carson as Captain Bob MON Britton, Andrew Crawford as Captain Douglas McClelland, MON Barrie Gosney as Flight Engineer Hicks, Donald Bisset as MON Colonel Kent and John Witty as Captain Jack Bradley. MON Shaped like a giant wheel and code-named 'Orbiter X', the MON space station is designed to circle Earth, travelling in a MON rapid polar orbit - boasting synthetic gravity, produced by MON the rotation around the central hub. MON Fact and fiction were curiously interwoven, as a fortnight MON before broadcast, the Soviet Luna 2 space probe crash landed MON on the Moon. MON Producer: Charles Maxwell MON First broadcast in 14 parts on the BBC Light Programme in MON 1959. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b007658m (Listen) MON Tim Page & Gillian Slovo MON Louise Doughty and her guests, photographer Tim Page and MON novelist Gillian Slovo, discuss paperbacks by Chester Himes, MON Carl Hiaasen and Bao Ninh. From 2001. MON Cotton Comes to Harlem, by Chester Himes MON Publisher: Canon Gate MON Tourist Season, by Carl Hiaasen MON Publisher: Pan MON The Sorrow of War, by Bao Ninh MON Publisher: Vintage. MON MON 19:00 Dad's Army b007jrl4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Listen to Les b01nchmv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b0131yvn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Thesiger At 100 b00wlbvv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nckb5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds MON b041y015 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b0731bsv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01q7bq4 (Listen) MON Series 5, Les Dennis MON Les Dennis tries his first ever taste of cheese, reads The MON Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe, hears his first ever MON Rolling Stones Album and watches the hit comedy The MON Inbetweeners. He gives his verdict to Marcus Brigstocke. MON MON 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b077sjft (Listen) MON From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club MON has two hours of comedy. Plus Jon Holmes chats to Helen MON Atkinson Wood. MON MON 23:00 The Now Show b075thgv (Listen) MON Series 48, Episode 6 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 b017757w (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 6 MON When the Questers get drunk to celebrate Vidar's birthday, MON Sam tries once again to gain (albeit with customary MON cack-handedness) the affections of Penthiselea, much to her MON consternation. Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is anxious to get MON one over his old nemesis, Kaybar the Maleficent, and so MON decides to do something really newsworthy and light the MON "Beacon of Doom". MON If the "Beacon of Doom" is lit then the runes dictate that MON one of the Questers must do battle in hand-hand combat with MON Lord Darkness himself. And so, to impress Penthiselea, Sam MON volunteers to be that Quester. Problem is, Sam doesn't have MON the first idea how to fight hand-to-hand. Fortunately, nor MON it seems, does Lord Darkness. Should make for an interesting MON showdown then... 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 and MON Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea MON Written by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto MON Producer: Sam Michell. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 APRIL 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Orbiter X b077018m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b007658m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b0131yvn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Thesiger At 100 b00wlbvv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s8v6t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zy1c0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00sss5c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book of the Week b010dhcr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b03bq0c2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 Quote... Unquote b01m0lgj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmmv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Trapped b0076h2t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth b0731bsv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b01381wz (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE Robert has been shot. Could Greg Wyncoop - who has not been TUE seen since they both fought by the river - really have done TUE it? Or is his body lying in the morgue? TUE Patricia Highsmith's intriguing tale of obsession stars John TUE Sharian as Robert Forester, Adrian Lester as Greg Wyncoop, TUE Briony Glassco as Nickie Jurgen and Peter Marinker as TUE Detective Lippenholtz. TUE Adapted by Shaun McKenna. TUE Music composed and performed by David Chitton TUE Director: Marion Nancarrow TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. TUE TUE 06:30 Face to Face with Evelyn Waugh b007qtln (Listen) TUE John Freeman's interview for BBC TV with English writer TUE Evelyn Waugh. Introduced by Joan Bakewell. From June 1960. TUE TUE 07:00 The Emerald Green Show b077xx1r (Listen) TUE Cut TUE Emerald's illusions of glamour and fame are shattered when TUE she meets her TV producer. Stars Llewella Gideon. From May TUE 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 Clare in the Community b062n4nb (Listen) TUE Series 10, Sisters TUE Episode Three- Sisters TUE Clare and her estranged sister are forced to co-operate with TUE one another, in between some Sparrowhawk team lead TUE self-defence training. 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 Nali: Nina Conti TUE Megan: Nina Conti TUE Ray: Richard Lumsden TUE Helen: Pippa Haywood TUE Simon: Andrew Wincott TUE Libby: Sarah Kendall TUE Joan: Sarah Thom TUE Sarah Barker: Sarah Thom TUE Scarlett: Eleanor Curry TUE Stine Wetzel: Amelia Lowdell TUE Hunter: Neet Mohan TUE Dylan: Elliot Steel TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b00t29v7 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 9 TUE Kenneth Horne blasts off boldly in 'Journey to Uranus', a TUE ditty from Rambling Sid Rumpo and 'Bona Books' with Julian TUE 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. Marty departed after TUE series 3. TUE Scripted by Barry Took, Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer. TUE Music by the Max Harris Group. TUE Producer: John Simmonds TUE First broadcast on the BBC Radio 2 in April 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jzmz (Listen) TUE Flushed With Success TUE The hapless duo direct Trooping the Colour and fix the TUE plumbing. Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From May TUE 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 The Now Show b075thgv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland b007jlrq (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE The comedian chronicles his life from childhood to TUE fatherhood. Stand-up and sketches, with Dave Lamb. From TUE August 2000. TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b03c2myq (Listen) TUE Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Men at Arms, part 2 TUE by Evelyn Waugh TUE dramatised by Jeremy Front. TUE The Halbadiers are yet to see action so Guy spends his time TUE aiding Apthorpe with the concealment of his Thunder box - a TUE portable latrine. And Guy's ex-wife Virginia makes a TUE reappearance in his life. TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE Waugh's trilogy of WWII novels mark a high point in his TUE literary career. Originally published as three volumes: TUE Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional TUE Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and TUE published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the TUE form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are TUE dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. TUE This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the TUE comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty TUE and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be TUE counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most TUE enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his TUE own experiences during WWII. Sword of Honour effortlessly TUE treads the line between the personal and the political - it TUE is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied TUE war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from TUE isolation to self fulfilment. His adventures are peopled by TUE colourful characters: the eccentric, Apthorpe, one-eyed, TUE Ritchie-Hook, promiscuous, Virginia Troy. At the centre of TUE the novel is Guy for whom we never lose our sympathy as he TUE emerges from his adventures bowed but not broken. From Dakar TUE to Egypt, the Isle of Mugg to the evacuation of Crete, TUE tragedy is leavened by Waugh's acerbic and farcical comedy. TUE Credits TUE Narrator: Tim McInnerny TUE Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready TUE Apthorpe: Adrian Scarborough TUE Brigadier Ben Ritchie-Hook: Tim Pigott-Smith TUE Virginia: Lydia Leonard TUE Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Tommy: Nicholas Boulton TUE Leonard: Arthur Hughes TUE De Souza: Joel MacCormack TUE Brigadier: David Seddon TUE Sgt Major: Ben Crowe TUE Crock: John Norton TUE Brigade Major: Sean Murray TUE Director: Sally Avens TUE Adaptor: Jeremy Front TUE Author: Evelyn Waugh TUE TUE 11:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nhcq8 (Listen) TUE In Sight of the Lake TUE Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in TUE 2013. She is widely regarded as a doyenne of the short story TUE form, a writer whose acuity and compassion shines through TUE all her work. These stories are from her 2012 collection, TUE Dear Life. TUE Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic TUE surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, TUE captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that TUE lies beneath. Life is laid bare, and the complicated TUE emotions of normal lives resonate long after the final page TUE is turned. TUE Today in 'In Sight of the Lake' a woman goes in search of a TUE doctor, again. TUE The reader is Liza Ross, TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE Music details: TUE Ballade TUE by Achille-Claude Debussy, performed by Kathryn Stott. TUE TUE Rêverie TUE * *by Achille-Claude Debussy, performed by Kathryn Stott. TUE TUE Both pieces are from the album TUE Debussy; Collection TUE (Conifer). TUE TUE 11:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds TUE b041y956 (Listen) TUE Dutch Treat TUE Retired veteran detective Bill wanted a quiet life. Now he TUE is on the trail of a missing diamond courier. Stars Bernard TUE Hepton. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b00t29v7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jzmz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b01381wz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Face to Face with Evelyn Waugh b007qtln (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s90x3 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Martin feels increasingly slighted by his lack of promotion, TUE and there's a rival collector. Written and read by Michael TUE Palin. TUE TUE 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zy24b (Listen) TUE The Suburbs of the Heart TUE Continuing his history of friendship over the last five TUE hundred years, Dr Thomas Dixon explores how friendship was TUE changed by a new form of technology and a new type of TUE science in the early years of the twentieth century. TUE Episode 12: The Suburbs of the Heart TUE Just as the internet has been seen as an enemy of TUE friendship, so the new technology of the early twentieth TUE century - the telephone - was initially viewed with TUE mistrust. Magazines and newspaper articles listed it along TUE with the telegram and the motor car as potentially TUE detrimental to the art of friendship. TUE One author wrote: "we live, alas in the suburbs of each TUE other's hearts". TUE Meanwhile, as the real suburbs were extended, the new TUE science of psychology began to advise lonely city-dwellers TUE on how to form new alliances and friendships. TUE Dr Thomas Dixon hears from Professor Mark Peel about the TUE impact of urbanisation on friendship, and is won over by his TUE surprisingly passionate defence of Dale Carnegie's often TUE mocked best-seller, How to Make Friends and Influence TUE People. TUE Producer: Beaty Rubens. TUE Related Reading TUE Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), TUE Chapter 8, ‘New Worlds of Friendship: The Early Twentieth TUE Century’, by Mark Peel TUE TUE Claude S. Fischer, America Calling: A Social History of the TUE Telephone to 1940 (University of California Press, 1994) TUE TUE Juliet Gardiner, The Thirties: An Intimate History (Harper TUE Press, 2011) TUE The History of Emotions blog TUE Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this TUE series. TUE Michael Kay, ‘Phone a friend?’ TUE TUE TUE Mark Peel, ‘New worlds of friendship’ TUE TUE 14:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00st4hk (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Reconciled Jane and Toby are making Christmas plans, when an TUE unexpected visitor arrives. Stars Lynne Seymour and John TUE McAndrew. TUE TUE 14:45 Book of the Week b010hd99 (Listen) TUE Edmund De Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 2 TUE By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. TUE 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger TUE than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the TUE extraordinary events that overtake one family. TUE Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first TUE encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his TUE great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the TUE 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could TUE ever have imagined. TUE His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time TUE were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, TUE Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation TUE settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; TUE emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists TUE became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire TUE collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to TUE his banker cousin in Vienna. TUE Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would TUE play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. TUE The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to TUE the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their TUE vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved TUE by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was TUE occupied. TUE Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great TUE buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the TUE network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a TUE tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique TUE collection. TUE Abridged by Polly Coles TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b03c2myq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Foul Play b00k2d8w (Listen) TUE Series 3, Commercial Death TUE Crime writers John Harvey and Val McDermid try to solve the TUE death of a radio DJ. Chaired by Simon Brett. From January TUE 1998. TUE TUE 16:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland b007jlrq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] TUE TUE 17:00 The Emerald Green Show b077xx1r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Clare in the Community b062n4nb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Orbiter X b077y362 (Listen) TUE Conflict in Space TUE Orbiter 2's crew discover why their sister ship has been TUE disabled - and who is responsible. Stars Andrew Crawford. TUE From October 1959. TUE TUE 18:30 The Palace of Laughter b007k2sh (Listen) TUE Series 2, Dublin Gaiety Theatre TUE Geoffrey Wheeler crosses the water to visit one of the TUE finest venues on the variety circuit, in Ireland's capital TUE city. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b00t29v7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b007jzmz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b01381wz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Face to Face with Evelyn Waugh b007qtln (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nhcq8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds TUE b041y956 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Clare in the Community b062n4nb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b00w2282 (Listen) TUE Series 4, A Wretched Life Made Much, Much Sadder TUE "A wretched life made much much sadder" Volume Four, Chapter TUE three of the Victorian comic epic by Mark Evans. After an TUE embarrassing disaster involving a bridge and a train full of TUE puppies and orphans Pip and Harry travel to America on the TUE SS Massive Britain, where Pip begins a reading tour. But all TUE is not as it seems and Mister Benevolent lures our hero into TUE a gunfight at the "All Right I Suppose Corral" 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 Credits TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b077sjtv (Listen) TUE From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club TUE has two hours of comedy. Plus Jon Holmes chats to Helen TUE Atkinson Wood. TUE TUE 23:00 Father Figure b01c3dlh (Listen) TUE The Wake TUE Set in London this is a Belfast-tinged sitcom post 'The TUE Troubles' but suffused with old sectarian enmities. It's TUE centred around young couple Tom and Elaine Murphy [called TUE Jason and Chloe in the pilot] and their son Dylan [in the TUE pilot they had young kids called Mikey and Lewis]. For TUE childcare reasons, Jason has recently given up his job at TUE the 'Irish Republican theme pub' meaning that Elaine - a TUE hospital doctor - is the breadwinner. Jason's parents [Mary TUE and Paddy] are staunch Irish Catholics. The mother TUE disapproves of their Protestant daughter-in-law, but the TUE father tries to keep the peace. Chloe's parents [Jarleth and TUE Tina] hold equally extreme Protestant views. TUE Series regulars include Jason Byrne, as well as Sharon TUE Horgan [Pulling], Pauline McLynn [Father Ted], Michael TUE Smiley [Spaced], Paul Putner [Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle], TUE and West End star Paul Nicholas [Just Good Friends]. Others TUE featured in the series include Simon Nye, Caroline Quentin, TUE Mathew Horne, Kevin Eldon, Stewart Lee, Liza Tarbuck, Tim TUE Minchin, Miriam Margolyes, Michael Kitchen, and Rhys Thomas. TUE TUE 23:30 Radio 9 b04g429s (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Travels at sea, a magazine for NIMBYs and faking your way in TUE abseiling. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From July TUE 2005. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL 2016 WED WED 00:00 Orbiter X b077y362 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Palace of Laughter b007k2sh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Patricia Highsmith - The Cry of the Owl b01381wz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Face to Face with Evelyn Waugh b007qtln (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s90x3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b03zy24b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00st4hk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book of the Week b010hd99 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b03c2myq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Foul Play b00k2d8w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 The Small World of Dominic Holland b007jlrq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 The Emerald Green Show b077xx1r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Clare in the Community b062n4nb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 The Spying Game b016c7by (Listen) WED The Living Daylights WED Legendary spy James Bond battles to rescue a trapped British WED agent. Ian Fleming's Cold War thriller set in Berlin. Read WED by Dan Steven. WED Hired assassins, double agents and secret codes. 'The Spying WED Game' is 4 Extra's gripping series of espionage stories. WED Abridged by Sally Marmion WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins WED Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2011. WED WED 06:30 The Paris Bouquinistes b00srktl (Listen) WED Paris has many grand monuments dominating its skyline, but WED for regular visitors to the 'city of light' there is a sight WED every bit as ingrained into its terroir as the Eiffel Tower, WED the Arc de Triomphe and Sacre Coeur - that of the riverside WED booksellers who for centuries have plied their trade on the WED banks of the River Seine. Les Bouquinistes can count WED Presidents (including Mitterand and Thomas Jefferson) as WED regular customers, and boast a proud history of providing a WED source of literatures thought subversive to the prevailing WED authorities of the day. More recently, many have branched WED out from books to supplement their income, offering plastic WED souvenirs instead of Balzac, plastic tat in place of WED Monserrat - a practice the city council, worried about WED tarnishing the image of playground Paris, has fought WED against. In 'The Paris Bouquinistes' Kirsty Lang takes a WED long stroll along the Seine to meet some of the current crop WED and discover how confident they feel about the future WED prosperity of their time-honoured trade. WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00psscz (Listen) WED Series 3, The One True Yoghurt WED Nigel stutters, Michael proposes, and Zorro seeks the WED meaning of life in a dessert. Stars Raymond Coulthard. From WED March 2007. WED WED 07:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04l0zq7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Counter Plot WED 1/6: Counter Plot. In this first episode of the series, WED Richard is alarmed to discover that Uljabaan has WED commandeered six allotments for some sort of experiment, WED while Katrina is more concerned that he's arrested Lucy. But WED what kind of plants is he planting inside the building he WED has built? WED Welcome To Our Village, Please Invade Carefully is a sitcom WED about an alien race that have noticed that those all-at-once WED invasions of Earth never work out that well. So they've WED locked the small Buckinghamshire village of Cresdon Green WED behind an impenetrable force-field in order to study human WED behaviour and decide if Earth is worth invading. WED The only inhabitant who seems to be bothered by their new WED alien overlord is Katrina Lyons, who was only home for the WED weekend to borrow the money for a deposit for a flat when WED the force-field went up. So along with Lucy Alexander (the WED only teenager in the village, willing to rebel against WED whatever you've got) she forms The Resistance - slightly to WED the annoyance of her parents Margaret and Richard who wish WED she wouldn't make so much of a fuss, and much to the WED annoyance of Field Commander Uljabaan who, alongside his WED unintelligible minions and The Computer (his WED hyper-intelligent supercomputer), is trying to actually run WED the invasion. WED Written by Eddie Robson WED Script-edited by Arthur Mathews WED Produced by Ed Morrish. WED Credits WED Katrina Lyons: Hattie Morahan WED Richard Lyons: Peter Davison WED Margaret Lyons: Jan Francis WED Lucy Alexander: Hannah Murray WED Field Commander Uljabaan: Charles Edwards WED The Computer: John-Luke Roberts WED Ron: Dave Lamb WED Lawrence: Michael Bertenshaw WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01kv7h1 (Listen) WED The Sicilian Secret Agent WED When the crew of HMS Troutbridge sets off to pick up an MI5 WED man in the Med, Phillips takes a wrong turning. 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, Ronnie Barker as AS WED Johnson and Michael Bates as Commander Bracewell and Tenniel WED Evens as Taffy Goldstein . WED Laughs afloat aboard British Royal Navy frigate HMS WED Troutbridge. The Navy Lark ran for an impressive thirteen WED series between 1959 and 1976. WED Scripted by Lawrie Wyman WED Producer: Alastair Scott Johnston. WED First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in December 1963. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b007jskn (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 10 WED The Radio Prune team hand out their gongs, and get saved by WED the bell. Stars John Cleese and Tim Brooke-Taylor. From WED April 1970. WED WED 09:00 The Motion Show b00762c8 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED 4 Extra Debut. Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with WED Hugh Dennis, Arthur Smith, Gyles Brandreth and Henry Naylor. WED From May 2001. WED WED 09:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqp1 (Listen) WED The Prunestone WED Two crime writers decide to aid the perfect murder. Stars WED Peggy Mount, Dorothy Tutin and John Savident. From September WED 1988. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b03cdh4l (Listen) WED Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Officers and Gentlemen, part WED one WED by Evelyn Waugh WED dramatised by Jeremy Front. WED Sent home in disgrace following a misbegotten raid in Dakar, WED Guy is again looking for useful employment. But his next WED posting takes him somewhere totally unexpected. WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED Credits WED Narrator: Tim McInnerny WED Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready WED Tommy: Nicholas Boulton WED Jumbo Trotter: Rupert Vansittart WED Virginia: Lydia Leonard WED Trimmer: Lee Ingleby WED Ivor: Sam Pamphilon WED Chatty Corner: Ben Crowe WED Katie Campbell: Carys Eleri WED Mrs Campbell: Christine Absalom WED Laird: Michael Bertenshaw WED Adjutant: David Seddon WED Kilbannock: Oliver Chris WED ATS Commandant: Priyanga Burford WED Scots Major: Sean Murray WED Driver: Arthur Hughes WED Director: Marc Beeby WED Adaptor: Jeremy Front WED Author: Evelyn Waugh WED WED 11:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nkt55 (Listen) WED Gravel WED Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in WED 2013. She is widely regarded as a doyenne of the short story WED form, a writer whose acuity and compassion shines through WED all her work. These stories are from her 2012 collection, WED Dear Life. WED Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic WED surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, WED captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that WED lies beneath. Life is laid bare, and the complicated WED emotions of normal lives resonate long after the final page WED is turned. WED Today in Gravel, a woman remembers a life-changing winter WED when she was very young and tries to assuage her sense of WED complicity. WED The reader is Laurel Lefkow WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED Music details: WED Little Green WED by Joni Mitchell from the album WED Blue WED (Warner Music UK). WED WED 11:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds WED b041ycyn (Listen) WED Fear is the Key WED Retired veteran detective Bill wanted a quiet life. Now he WED is racing to save an old friend's son. Stars Bernard Hepton. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01kv7h1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b007jskn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 The Spying Game b016c7by (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 The Paris Bouquinistes b00srktl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s93jx (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED As pressure mounts at work, Martin finds himself being WED challenged in his private life, too. Written and read by WED Michael Palin. WED WED 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b040014g (Listen) WED In Need, In Deed, By Post WED Dr Thomas Dixon continues to trace the changing meaning of WED friendship over the last five hundred years. WED Episode 13: In Need, In Deed, By Post WED Mass Observation and the archive of the Co-Operative WED Correspondence Club provide intimate evidence for friendship WED during the Second World War. WED Dr Clare Langhamer discusses how, in 1935, one lonely mother WED in County Wicklow began a correspondence network that WED continued through to the 1990s, long preceding today's WED MumsNet and NetMums. WED She also shares some revealing evidence from the vast Mass WED Observation archive at the University of Sussex about how WED women's friendships were affected by their war-work. WED Thomas Dixon also considers how men on active service formed WED new bonds across the class divide, and, in one extraordinary WED case from the BBC Sound Archive, not only with other human WED beings: "I have a passion for tanks," begins Captain Michael WED Halstead's account of life on the front line. WED Producer: Beaty Rubens. WED Related Reading WED Jenna Bailey, Can Any Mother Help Me? (Faber and Faber, WED 2007) WED WED Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), WED Chapter 8, ‘New Worlds of Friendship: The Early Twentieth WED Century’, by Mark Peel WED WED James Hinton, Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the WED Making of the Modern Self (Oxford University Press, 2010) WED WED Margaretta Jolly (ed.), Dear Laughing Motorbyke: Letters WED from Women Welders in the Second World War (Scarlet Press, WED 1997) WED WED Clare Langhamer, The English in Love: The Intimate Story of WED an Emotional Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2013) WED WED Mass Observation, War Factory: A Report (Faber and Faber, WED 1943) WED The History of Emotions blog WED Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this WED series. WED Jenna Bailey, ‘Can any mother help me?’ WED WED James Ellison, ‘Friends across the ocean’ WED WED 14:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00st9x9 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Single mother-to-be Jane returns home to find her boarding WED house deserted. Stars Lynne Seymour. WED WED 14:45 Book of the Week b010hd91 (Listen) WED Edmund De Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 3 WED By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. WED 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger WED than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the WED extraordinary events that overtake one family. WED Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first WED encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his WED great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the WED 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could WED ever have imagined. WED His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time WED were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, WED Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation WED settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; WED emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists WED became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire WED collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to WED his banker cousin in Vienna. WED Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would WED play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. WED The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to WED the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their WED vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved WED by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was WED occupied. WED Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great WED buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the WED network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a WED tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique WED collection. WED Abridged by Polly Coles WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b03cdh4l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The Motion Show b00762c8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqp1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00psscz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04l0zq7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Orbiter X b0783jsj (Listen) WED The Master Plan WED Orbiter 2's crew discover why the aliens have abducted them WED and where they have been imprisoned. Stars Andrew Crawford. WED From December 1959. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b00771wy (Listen) WED The Power of Positive Thinking WED The Power of Positive Thinking WED Does looking on the bright side bring you good luck? Is WED 'Seize the Day' the proper motto for a satisfying life? Or WED should we accept our limitations and embrace negativity? WED Psychologist Richard Wiseman, philosopher Julian Baggini and WED journalist Lucy Cavendish explore whether the glass is half WED full or half empty. Dominic Arkwright chairs the discussion. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01kv7h1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b007jskn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 The Spying Game b016c7by (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 The Paris Bouquinistes b00srktl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nkt55 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds WED b041ycyn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04l0zq7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Seekers b03ffkgm (Listen) WED Series 1, The Baby WED EPISODE 5: THE BABY WED Someone's left a baby under Terry's seat. When the owner WED doesn't come back, Stuart, Joe and Terry have to look after WED it. They argue about if they were in Three Men and a Baby, WED which character they'd be. Obviously, all three of them want WED to be Tom Selleck. WED Stuart has a brainwave and uses the baby to show Nicola how WED mature and grown up he is, and in a moment of inspiration he WED claims it's his adopted child. This moment of inspiration WED turns out to be a moment of stupidity when Stuart is WED challenged by the incensed mother who returns to find her WED baby in a papoose strapped to Stuart. She blames the father. WED Who is the father? WED Credits WED Stuart: Matthew Horne WED Joe: Daniel Mays WED Terry: Tony Way WED Nicola: Zahra Ahmadi WED Ribena: Hannah Wood WED Mr Brooks: Alex Lowe WED Tom Boddle: Alex Lowe WED Mrs Kangalee: Bharti Patel WED Gary Probert: Steve Oram WED Policewoman: Philippa Stanton WED Policeman: Michael Bertenshaw WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED Writer: Steven Burge WED WED 23:00 The Masterson Inheritance b007jstr (Listen) WED Series 1, The Sweat of the Mastersons WED The family saga of Big Ben, opium dens and men in frocks. WED Improvised comedy with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From WED May 1993. WED WED 23:30 And Now in Colour b007jqfb (Listen) WED Series 2, The Great Outdoors WED The sketch team take the audience on an activity holiday. WED Stars Tim de Jongh, William Vandyck and Tim Firth. From WED January 1991. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 APRIL 2016 THU THU 00:00 Orbiter X b0783jsj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b00771wy (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 The Spying Game b016c7by (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 The Paris Bouquinistes b00srktl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s93jx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b040014g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00st9x9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 Book of the Week b010hd91 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b03cdh4l (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 The Motion Show b00762c8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007jqp1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Brothers b00psscz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully THU b04l0zq7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 The Spying Game b016d4h9 (Listen) THU Max Is Calling THU An idealistic CIA recruit is pitched against the hardened THU cynicism of a seasoned operative. THU Gayle Lynds' thriller is set in the spy capital of the THU world, Vienna. Read by Simon Lee Phillips. THU Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins. THU Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2011. THU THU 06:30 The Goodies: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime b00vr5d2 (Listen) THU In their twelve years in our living rooms the Goodies THU rediscovered the Lost Island of Munga, represented the UK in THU the Winter Olympics, started Britain's space program and THU blew up the BBC. THU First appearing on our screens in November 1970, The THU Goodies' Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor - THU were prime-time mainstays for the next decade. They were the THU fifth biggest-grossing pop act of 1975, bagged two Silver THU Roses of Montreux, and were so funny they caused a THU 50-year-old bricklayer to laugh himself to death. THU Their shows, in which the trio played an agency of three THU bicycling blokes for hire to do "anything, anywhere, THU anytime", were freewheeling streams-of-nonsense in which TV THU conventions were upended and every silent-movie gag in THU history lovingly re-created. THU On the 40th anniversary of the Goodies' television debut, THU comedian Ross Noble hops on his trandem and revisits a world THU of giant cats, Lancastrian martial artists, rampaging THU Dougals and funky gibbons. THU Producer: Simon Barnard THU A Wise Buddah production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes b007qx33 (Listen) THU Series 1, Lazy Sunday THU Patrick faces a full house, as Maria takes on her pub THU competition. Stars Jim Sweeney and Cathryn Harrison. From THU August 2001. THU THU 07:30 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) THU Fidelity 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 last episode of the series, Hal faces a new THU challenge - unwanted romantic attention. Happily married to THU Sam and with two adoring daughters, life is a picture of THU roses at home. But how will Hal cope with the romantic THU attention of a new, attractive neighbour Angie? THU The cast includes co-writer Dominic Holland, Ed Byrne, Ronni THU Ancona, Anna Crilly, Gavin Webster, Dominic Frisby, Samuel THU Caseley and Emily and Lucy Robbins. 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: Ronni Ancona THU Actor: Anna Crilly THU Actor: Gavin Webster THU Actor: Dominic Frisby THU Actor: Samuel Caseley THU Actor: Emily Robbins THU Actor: Lucy Robbins THU Writer: Hal Cruttenden THU Writer: Dominic Holland THU Producer: Paul Russell THU THU 08:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp6x (Listen) THU Series 6, Seance in a Wet Rag and Bone Yard THU Sceptical Harold slams Albert's claims about speaking to the THU dead... THU Starring Wilfrid Brambell as Albert and Harry H Corbett as THU Harold. With Patricia Routledge, Gwen Nelson and Edward THU Kelsey. 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 b008x3tl (Listen) THU Series 4, The Breakfast Show THU Radio Active's Breakfast Show is broadcast simultaneously on THU TV with a whole host of celebrity interviews, an agony aunt THU and live music. What could possibly go wrong? 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, Geoffrey Perkins and Jon Canter. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1984. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075ly2 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Mark Thomas, THU Dillie Keane, Roger McGough and Miles Kington. From April THU 1997. THU THU 09:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008wff3 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 5 THU JB Morton's whimsies as performed by Richard Ingrams, John THU Wells, Patricia Routledge and Joan Sims. From December 1994. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b03f86lk (Listen) THU Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Officers and Gentlemen, part THU 2 THU by Evelyn Waugh THU dramatised by Jeremy Front. THU Guy's unit have been posted to Egypt where they are THU surrounded more by rumour than action. But the chaos of war THU is approaching. THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU Credits THU Narrator: Tim McInnerny THU Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready THU Major Hound: John Dougall THU Tommy: Nicholas Boulton THU Ludovic: Carl Prekopp THU Virginia: Lydia Leonard THU Trimmer: Lee Ingleby THU General Whale: Sean Murray THU Kilbannock: Oliver Chris THU Kirstie Kilbannock: Polly Frame THU Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw THU Sgt Hughes: Arthur Hughes THU Sgt Smiley: Ben Crowe THU Ivor: Sam Pamphilon THU Priest: John Norton THU Greek Woman: Carys Eleri THU Soldier: Joel MacCormack THU Soldier: David Seddon THU Director: Sally Avens THU Adaptor: Jeremy Front THU Author: Evelyn Waugh THU THU 11:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01npb85 (Listen) THU Pride THU Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in THU 2013. She is widely regarded as a doyenne of the short story THU form, a writer whose acuity and compassion shines through THU all her work. These stories are from her 2012 collection, THU Dear Life. THU Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic THU surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, THU captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that THU lies beneath. Life is laid bare, and the complicated THU emotions of normal lives resonate long after the final page THU is turned. THU Today in Pride, an old man remembers his past and a THU friendship that might have grown in other circumstances. THU The reader is Garrick Hagan THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU Music details THU Piano Trio in d, Op.49: 2. Andante Con Moto Tranquillo THU by Felix Mendelssohn, performed by Beaux Arts Trio - from THU the album THU Dvorak / Mendelssohn: Piano Trios THU (Philips) THU THU 11:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds THU b041yksc (Listen) THU The £7,000,000 Touch THU A quiet retirement eludes veteran detective Bill. Bundled THU into a car, he comes face to face with Jacobus. Stars THU Bernard Hepton. THU THU 12:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp6x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b008x3tl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 The Spying Game b016d4h9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 The Goodies: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime b00vr5d2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s9d01 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Martin finds himself drawn more and more to Ruth, but Elaine THU has some curt words for him. Written and read by Michael THU Palin. THU THU 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b04009c6 (Listen) THU Families of Choice THU Dr Thomas Dixon brings his major history of friendship up to THU the 1970s, when gender politics began to change friendships THU once again, and considers how popular culture both reflected THU and influenced this change. THU Episode 14: Families of Choice. THU Professor Barbara Taylor shares with Thomas Dixon her THU personal memories of how the second-wave feminist movement THU of the 1970s altered women's friendships in the way that THU Mary Wolstonecraft had discussed right back in the THU eighteenth century. THU Thomas Dixon also explores the growing freedom of gay men THU and lesbian women to establish their own "families of THU choice". THU And - somewhat excitedly - he debates with the cultural THU critic Matthew Sweet how television reflected friendships THU between men. While Thomas confesses to an erstwhile love of THU the phenomenally successful American sit-com, Friends, THU Matthew Sweet makes an expansive claim for British THU television's The Likely Lads, comparing the depth of Terry THU and Bob's friendship to that of Tennyson and Hallam. THU Meanwhile, slightly extending a quotation of the 17th THU Century poet, George Herbert, Thomas declares: "David had THU his Jonathan, Christ his John, Eric had his little Ern, Ant THU his Dec." THU Producer; Beaty Rubens. THU Related Reading THU Rebecca G. Adams and Graham Allan (eds), Placing Friendship THU in Context (Cambridge Unviersity Press, 2009). THU THU Barbara Caine (ed.), Friendship: A History (Equinox, 2009), THU Chapter 9, ‘The Importance of Friends: The Most Recent THU Past’, by Mark Peel with Liz Reed and James Walter THU THU Catherine Donovan, Brian Heaphy, and Jeffrey Weeks, Same Sex THU Intimacies: Families of Choice and Other Life Experiments THU (Routledge, 2001) THU THU Margaretta Jolly, In Love and Struggle: Letters in THU Contemporary Feminism (Columbia University Press, 2008) THU THU Susie Orbach and Luise Eichenbaum, Bittersweet: Facing up to THU Feelings of Love, Envy and Competition in Women’s THU Friendships (Century, 1987) THU THU Liz Spencer and Ray Pahl, Rethinking Friendship: Hidden THU Solidarities Today (Princeton University Press, 2006) THU The History of Emotions blog THU Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this THU series. THU Thomas Dixon, ‘Thank God we can choose our friends’ THU THU THU Barbara Taylor, ‘Friendship trumped madness’ THU THU Mark Peel, ‘New worlds of friendship’ THU THU 14:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00sts9k (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU With Toby gone, single mother-to-be Jane bumps into the THU baby's father and asks him for help. Stars Lynne Seymour. THU THU 14:45 Book of the Week b010hd93 (Listen) THU Edmund De Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 4 THU By Edmund de Waal. Read by Nicholas Murchie. THU 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger THU than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the THU extraordinary events that overtake one family. THU Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first THU encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his THU great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the THU 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could THU ever have imagined. THU His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time THU were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, THU Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation THU settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; THU emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists THU became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire THU collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to THU his banker cousin in Vienna. THU Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would THU play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. THU The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to THU the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their THU vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved THU by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was THU occupied. THU Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great THU buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the THU network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a THU tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique THU collection. THU Abridged by Polly Coles THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b03f86lk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075ly2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008wff3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes b007qx33 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Orbiter X b0783mpg (Listen) THU Flight to the Moon THU The crew are captured, in space, by the sinister Unity THU organisation and taken to the Moon. Stars Andrew Crawford. THU From October 1959. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076zvp (Listen) THU Series 10, WH Auden THU 4 Extra Debut. Broadcaster Jeremy Vine chooses the poet WH THU Auden. With Matthew Parris and Auden biographer Richard THU Davenport-Hines. From August 2006. THU THU 19:00 Steptoe and Son b007jp6x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b008x3tl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 The Spying Game b016d4h9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 The Goodies: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime b00vr5d2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01npb85 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds THU b041yksc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Headset Set b012fs7b (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU A new audience sketch show set in a call centre. Today is THU appraisal day in the offices of Smile5, the catalogue THU company that sells anything and everything. Only Sailesh has THU prepared, the others plan to use various other crackpot THU methods to sail through. 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 Script editor ..... Dan Tetsell THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani 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 three of the call centre's THU employees - Bernie, Aleesha and Big Tony - trying the THU patience of their team leader Sailesh. THU This is a team written sketch show series originated by THU Stephen Carlin and James Kettle and script edited by James THU Kettle and Dan Tetsell. THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b077sk0j (Listen) THU From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club THU has two hours of comedy. Plus Jon Holmes chats to Helen THU Atkinson Wood. THU THU 23:00 Old Harry's Game b007jmd4 (Listen) THU Series 3, The Beautiful Game THU Satan decides to hold a major football tournament in Hell - THU The Underworld Cup. Devilishly funny sitcom stars Andy THU Hamilton. From April 1999. THU THU 23:30 Sir Ralph Stanza's Letter from Salford b00767xp (Listen) THU Series 1, The Best Page is a Rampage THU The new poet-in-residence has a run-in with 'the man', which THU gets his creative juices flowing. Stars James Quinn. From THU May 2002. THU THU 23:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b00snqqs (Listen) THU Series 2, Normal Sleep THU The cartoonist searches for the secret meaning of life, said THU to be written on a sausage. Stars Paul McCrink. From March THU 2003. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Orbiter X b0783mpg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076zvp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 The Spying Game b016d4h9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 The Goodies: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime b00vr5d2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s9d01 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b04009c6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00sts9k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book of the Week b010hd93 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b03f86lk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075ly2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Beachcomber... By the Way b008wff3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes b007qx33 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Hal b04tdqwq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 The Spying Game b016d8xj (Listen) FRI The Red Carnation FRI The loyalties of a former Russian spy are tested to the FRI limits when she uncovers an assassination plot. Baroness FRI Orczy's thrilling tale, set in 19th century Vienna, is read FRI by Adjoa Andoh. FRI Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins. FRI Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra and first broadcast in 2011. FRI FRI 06:30 Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories b00n52l1 (Listen) FRI Armed with little more than a harpsichord and a copy of The FRI Hobbit, musician and comedian Mitch Benn fearlessly uncovers FRI the myths and legends of the symphonic concept album. FRI Meeting some of the leading artists and fans of the genre, FRI including Rick Wakeman, Jeff Wayne, David Bedford, Brian FRI Blessed and Stuart Maconie, he battles capes and keyboard FRI solos to rediscover the wondrous stories behind these epic FRI musical extravaganzas. FRI From Rick Wakeman's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' to FRI Jeff Wayne's 'The War of the Worlds', musicians in the FRI seventies somehow decided that it was a good idea to retell FRI classic tales in the form of symphonic concept albums. FRI Classical music met rock to spawn towering monuments to FRI pretension and excess: gigantic gatefold covers, sleeve FRI notes longer than a 19th century novel, and - surely its FRI defining feature- portentous narration delivered by some of FRI our finest thesps. FRI For a generation of acned youth weaned on Tolkien and FRI Moorcock, these epic compositions were masterpieces, a FRI symphonic escape from dreary mid-70's discontent and FRI economic gloom. They sold millions, but until recently, FRI languished forgotten in the vinyl collections of middle-aged FRI men, gathering dust in the post-punk apocalypse. But with FRI The War of the Worlds now filling stadiums world wide thirty FRI years on, and Rick Wakeman's two tudor-tastic Six Wives of FRI Henry VIII concerts selling out at Hampton Court last year, FRI can Mitch be discovering a symphonic rock renaissance? FRI Produced by Jackie Curthoys and Dave Dodd FRI A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston in Love b007ylvk (Listen) FRI Taking Tea With Roland FRI Nancy wants her new man to meet the family, but will old FRI rogue Winston sabotage the event? Stars Bill Wallis. From FRI January 1991. FRI FRI 07:30 The Rest Is History b04vd88y (Listen) FRI Series 1, Episode 2 FRI A new, six-part comedy discussion show hosted by Frank FRI Skinner. FRI Frank loves history, but just doesn't know much of it, so FRI he's devised The Rest Is History to find out more about it. FRI Along with his historian in residence, Dr Kate Williams, FRI each episode sees Frank joined by a selection of celebrity FRI guests, who will help him navigate his way through the FRI annals of time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, FRI oddest, and most interesting moments in history. FRI Frank's guests in this edition of the programme are Victoria FRI Coren Mitchell and Andy Zaltzman. FRI Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard FRI An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Frank Skinner FRI Panellist: Victoria Coren Mitchell FRI Panellist: Andy Zaltzman FRI Panellist: Kate Williams FRI Producer: Dan Schreiber FRI Producer: Justin Pollard FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jr9f (Listen) FRI Home is the Hero FRI Bob's fiancee Thelma is appalled by the return of Terry to FRI his home town after seven years. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob FRI Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. With Sheila FRI Fearn and Peter Whitman. FRI Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La FRI Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley. FRI Producer: John Browell FRI Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in FRI the BBC's Archive Treasure Hunt in 2003. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1975. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b008zfwf (Listen) FRI The Spectre of Tintagel FRI Neddie reveals his Arthurian roots and goes in search of FRI treasure in deepest Cornwall. Stars Spike Milligan. From FRI October 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n0xpx (Listen) FRI Series 5, Murray, Bondeson, McAlister FRI The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor FRI of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John FRI Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, FRI Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined FRI by the comedian Jimmy Carr. FRI Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of FRI entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one FRI item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place FRI in the museum. FRI This week, John and Jimmy have invited along the Natural FRI History Museum's resident dipterologist (fly expert) Erica FRI McAlister; Consultant Rheumatologist at the Cardiff FRI University School of Medicine Jan Bondeson and the comedian, FRI historian and fictitious Pub Landlord Al Murray. FRI Guests booked for the rest of the series include: FRI Astronomer Dr Stuart Clark FRI Plant-hunter and former hostage Tom Hart Dyke FRI Comedian, novelist and sitcom writer Jo Brand FRI Physicist and broadcaster Dr Helen Czerski FRI Expert on Ancient Mesopotamia Dr Irving Finkel FRI Comedian Humphrey Ker FRI Magian/actor/comedian Andy Nyman FRI Anatomist author and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts FRI Ig Nobels Prize founder Marc Abrahams FRI Astronaut Buzz Aldrin FRI Comedian Pamela Stephenson FRI Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir Andre Geim. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b016c7c0 (Listen) FRI Series 9, Ill of the Dead FRI There is a death in the family and the ripples from FRI Victoria's insecurities flow outward. With Angela Thorne. FRI From January 2003. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b03f87yp (Listen) FRI Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour, Unconditional Surrender FRI by Evelyn Waugh FRI Dramatised by Jeremy Front FRI Evelyn Waugh's satirical WW2 masterpiece: Guy is beginning FRI to lose his idealism about the War. FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI Waugh's trilogy of WWII novels mark a high point in his FRI literary career. Originally published as three volumes: FRI Officers and Gentlemen, Men at Arms and Unconditional FRI Surrender they were extensively revised by Waugh, and FRI published as the one-volume Sword of Honour in 1965, in the FRI form in which Waugh himself wished them to be read. They are FRI dramatised for the Classic Serial in seven episodes. FRI This is a story that continues to delight as we follow the FRI comic and often bathetic adventures of Guy Crouchback. Witty FRI and tragic, engaging and insightful, this work must be FRI counted next to 'Brideshead Revisited' as Waugh's most FRI enduring novel. Like Brideshead, Waugh drew heavily upon his FRI own experiences during WWII. Sword of Honour effortlessly FRI treads the line between the personal and the political - it FRI is at once an indictment of the incompetence of the Allied FRI war effort, and a moving study of one man's journey from FRI isolation to self fulfilment. His adventures are peopled by FRI colourful characters: the eccentric, Apthorpe, one-eyed, FRI Ritchie-Hook, promiscuous, Virginia Troy. At the centre of FRI the novel is Guy for whom we never lose our sympathy as he FRI emerges from his adventures bowed but not broken. From Dakar FRI to Egypt, the Isle of Mugg to the evacuation of Crete, FRI tragedy is leavened by Waugh's acerbic and farcical comedy. FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Tim McInnerny FRI Guy Crouchback: Paul Ready FRI Virginia: Lydia Leonard FRI Arthur Box-Bender: Robert Daws FRI Ian Kilbannock: Oliver Chris FRI Kirstie Kilbannock: Polly Frame FRI Mr Crouchback: Sean Murray FRI Ludovic: Carl Prekopp FRI Loot: David Seddon FRI Tommy: Nicholas Boulton FRI Julia Stitch: Christine Kavanagh FRI Everard Spruce: Harry Jardine FRI Major Tickeridge: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Oates: Arthur Hughes FRI Sapper: John Norton FRI Sister: Carolyn Pickles FRI Secretary: Carys Eleri FRI Director: Sally Avens FRI Adaptor: Jeremy Front FRI Author: Evelyn Waugh FRI FRI 11:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nt07t (Listen) FRI To Reach Japan FRI Alice Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in FRI 2013. She is widely regarded as a doyenne of the short story FRI form, a writer whose acuity and compassion shines through FRI all her work. These stories are from her 2012 collection, FRI Dear Life. FRI Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic FRI surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, FRI captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that FRI lies beneath. Life is laid bare, and the complicated FRI emotions of normal lives resonate long after the final page FRI is turned. FRI Today in To Reach Japan, a young poet sets out across a FRI continent and finds more than she imagined. FRI The reader is Laurel Lefkow FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI Music details FRI Dogsong 2 FRI by The Be Good Tanyas - from the album FRI Chinatown FRI (EMI). FRI FRI 11:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds FRI b042m3c2 (Listen) FRI Appointment in Zurich FRI A quiet retirement still eludes veteran detective Bill as FRI his foe, Cater, sets an intricate plan in motion. Stars FRI Bernard Hepton. FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jr9f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b008zfwf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 The Spying Game b016d8xj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories b00n52l1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01s9lcn (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Nick continues to make his clandestine plans for the Post FRI Office, and Elaine isn't happy. Written and read by Michael FRI Palin. FRI FRI 14:15 Five Hundred Years of Friendship b0400mh3 (Listen) FRI The Lonely Cyborg FRI Dr Thomas Dixon brings his major new series on the changing FRI face of friendship to a close with a look at how the old and FRI the young are navigating their friendships today through FRI technologies old and new, and at how friendship might look FRI in the future. FRI Episode 15: The Lonely Cyborg FRI A group of Birmingham schoolgirls prove themselves FRI thoughtful and self-aware about how to conduct their FRI friendships online and about the differences between online FRI and face-to-face friendships. Professor Deborah Chambers, an FRI authority on social media and personal relationships from FRI the University of Newcastle, confirms that fears about FRI children's online friendships with strangers have been FRI exaggerated. FRI At the other end of the life-span, Thomas Dixon speaks with FRI the writer Penelope Lively about friendship in her ninth FRI decade, and about why she likes to consider herself part of FRI "the landline generation". FRI Closing the series, Thomas Dixon emphasizes the importance FRI of physical touch and presence for friendship, and presents FRI a final montage of the voices which have featured throughout FRI the series, sharing stories of their own friendships. FRI Producer: Beaty Rubens. FRI Related Reading FRI danah boyd, It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked FRI Teens (Yale University Press, 2014) FRI Deborah Chambers, Social Media and Personal Relationships: FRI Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship (Palgrave FRI Macmillan, 2013) FRI Penelope Lively, Ammonites and Leaping Fish: A Life in Time FRI (Fig Tree, 2013) FRI Tom Standage, Writing on the Wall: Social Media - The First FRI 2,000 Years (Bloomsbury, 2013) FRI The History of Emotions blog FRI Read specially commissioned blog posts supporting this FRI series. FRI Deborah Chambers, ‘Online friendship’ FRI FRI FRI Beaty Rubens, ‘What makes friendships last?’ FRI FRI 14:30 Lynne Reid Banks - The L-Shaped Room b00svc1h (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI With the baby due, expectant single mother Jane receives FRI unexpected financial help. Stars Lynne Seymour. FRI FRI 14:45 Book of the Week b010hd95 (Listen) FRI Edmund De Waal - The Hare with Amber Eyes, Episode 5 FRI By Edmund de Waal.Read by Nicholas Murchie. FRI 264 delicate wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger FRI than a matchbox - that stand as a symbol of the FRI extraordinary events that overtake one family. FRI Potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first FRI encountered this collection in the Tokyo apartment of his FRI great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the FRI 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could FRI ever have imagined. FRI His family the Ephrussis came from Odessa, and at one time FRI were the largest grain exporters in the world; in the 1870s, FRI Charles Ephrussi was part of a wealthy new generation FRI settling in Paris. Charles's passion was collecting; FRI emerging French painters and - when Japanese art and artists FRI became all the rage in the salons - he bought an entire FRI collection of netsuke and sent them as a wedding present to FRI his banker cousin in Vienna. FRI Later, three children - including a young Ignace - would FRI play with the netsuke as history reverberated around them. FRI The Anschluss and Second World War swept the Ephrussis to FRI the brink of oblivion. Almost all that remained of their FRI vast empire was the netsuke collection, dramatically saved FRI by a loyal maid when their huge Viennese palace was FRI occupied. FRI Edmund de Waal travels the world to stand in the great FRI buildings his forebears once inhabited. He traces the FRI network of a remarkable family against the backdrop of a FRI tumultuous century and tells the story of a unique FRI collection. FRI Abridged by Polly Coles FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b03f87yp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n0xpx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b016c7c0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston in Love b007ylvk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 The Rest Is History b04vd88y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Orbiter X b0784dyd (Listen) FRI Inside the Moon Station FRI Orbiter 2's crew have been taken to the Moon by the shadowy FRI Unity organisation. Stars John Carson and Barrie Gosney. FRI From October 1959. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00djtj8 (Listen) FRI Series 7, Swan Lake FRI Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional FRI appeal. FRI 1/4. Swan Lake FRI The story behind Tchaikovsky's ballet and the impact it has FRI had on those who have heard and danced to it. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jr9f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b008zfwf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 The Spying Game b016d8xj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories b00n52l1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Alice Munro - Dear Life b01nt07t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Robert Barr - Galbraith and the King of Diamonds FRI b042m3c2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Rest Is History b04vd88y (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b039ctgm (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 1 FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda, presents a third series of his hit sketch FRI show. FRI The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by FRI The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny FRI sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The FRI second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and FRI Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. FRI In this new series, John promises to stop doing silly FRI sketches about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey FRI addiction or how goldfish invented computer programming, and FRI concentrate instead on the the big, serious issues. FRI This first episode of the series addresses the kind of FRI animals that don't get sanctuaries; why the train manager FRI needs to see the train driver; and why people literally FRI shout at the radio? FRI Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret FRI Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. FRI Original music is by Susannah Pearse. FRI Producer: Ed Morrish. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Finnemore FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: Simon Kane FRI Ensemble: Lawry Lewin FRI Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI FRI 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b077x2zm (Listen) FRI The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats again to FRI Brian Pern, aka Simon Day, and Rhys Thomas. FRI FRI 23:00 The Mark Steel Lecture b007qhq3 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Karl Marx FRI The radical comedian offers his assessment of the FRI influential revolutionary thinker and philosopher. From FRI April 2001. FRI FRI 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global b007jvrg (Listen) FRI Series 1, Budapest and Warsaw FRI Kicking off his comedy travelogues in the capital of FRI Hungary, the stand-up then takes the train to Poland. From FRI June 2001. FRI
08 April, 2016
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 09/04/2016 - 15/04/2016
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)