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SAT SATURDAY 23 APRIL 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 Orbiter X b0788cnv (Listen) SAT Return to Woomera SAT Patched up Orbiter 2 heads for Earth, but will CSP realise SAT that the incoming incommunicado ship is friendly? Stars John SAT Carson. From November 1959. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00dnjrn (Listen) SAT Series 7, So What SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT Telling the stories of some of the people whose lives have SAT been affected by So What, the opening track on Miles Davis' SAT seminal 1959 album Kind of Blue. SAT SAT 01:00 DI Cromwell - Jagged Prayer b00c3rlj (Listen) SAT Virtual Saints SAT Despite moving the convent into cyber space, Mother Helen SAT and her nuns are not safe from declining numbers. And DI SAT Cromwell has the small matter of an old murder to solve. SAT Crime and convents, the police and perdition come together SAT in comedy writer and former monk Robert Smith's mystery. SAT Starring Timothy Spall as DI Cromwell, Cheryl Campbell as SAT Mother Helen, Jeremy Finch as DC Kelp and Bryan Pringle as SAT Mr Lord. SAT Producer: Ned Chaillet SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2000. SAT SAT 01:30 Mapping the Town b0076hbm (Listen) SAT 4 Extra Debut. Julian Richards looks at the colourful SAT village created by Clough William-Ellis in north Wales. From SAT October 2003. SAT SAT 02:00 Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair b01sf1x0 (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT Martin returns to the Post Office, seeking Geraldine. SAT Meanwhile, Nick anticipates a big day. Written and read by SAT Michael Palin. SAT SAT 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jcwg7 (Listen) SAT Beau Brummell - The Dandy Style SAT Tastemaker to the Regency, Beau Brummell was British SAT fashion's most influential man. The interior designer SAT surveys his impact. SAT SAT 02:30 Julia Darling - Posties b0076f5r (Listen) SAT Letters to the Dead SAT Albanian asylum seeker Olix turns to his elderly neighbour, SAT Merril, for help. Stars Rad Lazar and Madeleine Moffatt. SAT SAT 02:45 Book of the Week b00zf5sh (Listen) SAT Edgelands, Episode 5 SAT Poets Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts explore a SAT wilderness that is much closer than you think: those SAT debatable zones that are neither town nor countryside. These SAT two lyric poets celebrate the strange beauty of these places SAT that we all journey through, but generally fail to SAT acknowledge. SAT Recorded entirely on location in the English edgelands, this SAT Book of the Week journeys through the post-industrial SAT landscapes of car breaker's yards, landfill sites, retail SAT parks, sewage treatment works and power stations. SAT Today, ruined warehouses and abandoned piers. SAT Read by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT Edgelands is published by Jonathan Cape (27th February SAT 2011). It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award SAT for non-fiction in 2009. SAT Paul Farley is the author of four collections of poetry - SAT including 'Ice Age' - and has received the Forward Prize for SAT Best First Collection, the Whitbread Poetry Award and the SAT E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and SAT Letters. SAT Michael Symmons Roberts has published five collections of SAT poetry - including 'Corpus', which won the Whitbread Poetry SAT Award - and two novels. He is a frequent collaborator with SAT the composer James MacMillan and their opera, 'The SAT Sacrifice' won the RPS Award. SAT SAT 03:00 Saturday Drama b00fr7kx (Listen) SAT Lynne Truss - Giving Up the Ghost SAT By Lynne Truss. SAT In a house full of carbon monoxide, firefighter Scott gets SAT separated from his colleagues and begins to experience the SAT last terrible moments of his friend Jacko's life, who had SAT died in similar circumstances eight months earlier. SAT Scott ...... Adrian Bower SAT Alan ...... Struan Rodger SAT Philip ...... Jeff Rawle SAT Giggsy ...... Joe Absolom SAT Mike ...... Brendan Charleson SAT H/Jacko ...... Richard Nichols SAT Lucy ...... Sara McGaughey SAT Directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n7l2h (Listen) SAT Series 5, Brand, Hart Dyke, Clark SAT The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor SAT of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John SAT Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, SAT Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined SAT by the comedian Jimmy Carr. SAT Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of SAT entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one SAT item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place SAT in the museum. Ever since someone gave the Museum the Big SAT Bang it's been expanding at an alarming rate, and now SAT there's no looking back without the aid of a huge telescope. SAT This week, John and Jimmy have invited along Astronomer Dr SAT Stuart Clark; Plant-hunter and former hostage Tom Hart Dyke; SAT and comedian, novelist and sitcom writer Jo Brand. SAT Guests booked for the rest of the series include: SAT Physicist and broadcaster Dr Helen Czerski SAT Expert on Ancient Mesopotamia Dr Irving Finkel SAT Comedian Humphrey Ker SAT Magician/actor/comedian Andy Nyman SAT Anatomist author and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts SAT Comedian Sean Hughes SAT Ig Nobels Prize founder Marc Abrahams SAT Astronaut Buzz Aldrin SAT Comedian, author and sex therapist Pamela Stephenson SAT Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir Andre Geim. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b016n8zl (Listen) SAT Series 9, Changing Lives SAT Roger sees his dad's death as a watershed, while others see SAT it as a chance to redecorate. Stars Bill Nighy. From January SAT 2003. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston in Love b007jnbk (Listen) SAT Happy Days in Cawnpore SAT Everyone is in love except William, but is Nancy's ministry SAT man her best choice? Stars Maurice Denham. From January SAT 1991. SAT SAT 05:30 The Rest Is History b0773pcp (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of SAT it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to SAT find out more about it. SAT Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate SAT Williams, Frank is joined by a selection of celebrity guests SAT who help him navigate his way through the annals of time, SAT picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and most SAT interesting moments in history. SAT The guests are Holly Walsh and Richard Herring, who discuss SAT Burke and Hare, Mussolini, Catherine Parr and the jokes of SAT yesteryear. SAT Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard SAT An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Frank Skinner SAT Interviewed Guest: Holly Walsh SAT Interviewed Guest: Richard Herring SAT Interviewed Guest: Kate Williams SAT Producer: Mark Augustyn SAT Producer: Justin Pollard SAT SAT 06:00 The Forsyte Saga b07705ws (Listen) SAT The Forsytes Continues, Episode 1 SAT John Galsworthy's epic novels of love, money and betrayal in SAT an upper class family. SAT Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan SAT 1920 and Soames Forsyte would do anything for his sparkling SAT daughter, Fleur. But when she begins to fall in love with SAT the wrong man, how can he stop history repeating itself? SAT Original music composed by Neil Brand SAT Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow SAT Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new SAT dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The SAT Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the SAT lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 SAT years from 1886 to 1936. SAT The Forsytes Continues is the 2nd of 4 series of The Forsyte SAT Saga, which follows the life of young Fleur Forsyte, the SAT baby born at the end of series one. Now 19 and thoroughly SAT spoiled by her doting father, Fleur is relishing everything SAT the 1920s has to offer. SAT It's 20 years since Soames Forsyte divorced the love of his SAT life, Irene, who went on to marry his cousin Jo. Now their SAT respective children have grown up, neither knowing their SAT parents' troubled history. SAT When adult life inflicts its first wounds, Fleur throws SAT herself into smart society determined to embrace all that is SAT considered modern. She's an archetypal bright young thing, a SAT restless soul, on a mission to burn her wings. This young SAT generation which has survived the horrors of war is hell SAT bent on consuming all that is shiny and new - it's fast cars SAT and fast living, where scruples are old hat and collecting SAT "sensations" is the thing. To Soames, every inch the SAT Victorian man, this modern age feels increasingly strange SAT and he wonders about his place in it and how to protect his SAT daughter from it. SAT Still insulated from reality by their wealth and class, the SAT Forsytes and their kind can no longer ignore the threat of SAT social change. SAT Today's 90' drama comprises the third novel, To Let. Our SAT dramatisation of the fourth novel, The White Monkey, begins SAT on Monday and continues across the week in the 15 Minute SAT Drama slot before concluding in the Saturday Drama at 1430. SAT Award-winning writers Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan are SAT dramatising the complete novels and Interludes and have SAT taken a new approach to the books - delving deeper to bring SAT more of Galsworthy's wonderful insight, wit and observation SAT from the page. Although focussed on the period in which they SAT were written - in the first 20 years of the 20th century - SAT the novels feel remarkably contemporary and have much to SAT reveal of our own world and inner lives. SAT Credits SAT Fleur Forsyte: Jessica Raine SAT Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson SAT Irene Forsyte: Juliet Aubrey SAT Jon: Jonathan Bailey SAT Michael Mont: Ben Lambert SAT Annette Forsyte: Aurelie Amblard SAT Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey SAT Holly Dartie: Katie Redford SAT Prosper Profond: Sam Alexander SAT June Forsyte: Amelia Lowdell SAT Violet: Evie Killip SAT Man: Gerard McDermott SAT Author: John Galsworthy SAT Adaptor: Lin Coghlan SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT Producer: Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00qvs38 (Listen) SAT Divided States 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 Each American president ends speeches by asking God to bless SAT 'these United States'. But in a nation born through war - SAT and later almost split by civil conflict - there remain deep SAT divisions of colour and opportunity. Mark Lawson explores SAT the way in which this legacy of division and violence has SAT been explored by the nation's authors. SAT He talks to writers including Joyce Carol Oates, Toni SAT Morrison, James Ellroy and Walter Mosley and literary critic SAT Professor Harold Bloom, who nominates Cormac McCarthy's SAT Blood Meridian as the greatest modern American novel because SAT it deals with the violence at the heart of American life. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Robyn Read SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b01m49vh (Listen) SAT Your Starter for Ten: 50 Years of University Challenge SAT Fifty years after episode one was shown on ITV, the geek SAT fest that is University Challenge has not only survived but SAT also flourished. SAT In this Archive on 4, former Radio 4 controller now Master SAT of St Peter's college Oxford, Mark Damazer, pays tribute to SAT his favourite quiz. SAT Delving into its history he uncovers a programme that began SAT against the backdrop of a shake up in Britain's university SAT system and came from the entrepreneurial spirit of SAT Manchester's Granada studios. SAT Mark meets former contestants like Gail Trimble, Sean SAT Blanchflower and Luke Pitcher who have all won the coveted SAT University Challenge title. Through personal anecdotes from SAT the archives from Bamber Gascoigne and in a new interview SAT with Jeremy Paxman, Mark discovers how competing students SAT have, across the decades, delighted its hosts. SAT Mark Thompson and ITV's John Whiston debate how University SAT Challenge works as piece of television and why it has SAT endured for half a century. SAT The show has ever been controversial. In a protest about SAT Oxbridge being allowed to enter so many college teams, SAT Manchester University, which included future broadcaster SAT David Aaronovitch, answered most of the questions with silly SAT answers. David tells Mark why he regretted taking his place SAT on the team. Quentin Smith, now a lawyer, was the man behind SAT the Manchester University controversy and tells his version SAT of the story for the first time. SAT There are also plenty of starters for ten: What sort of SAT brain do you need to be good at it? Has it got deliberately SAT easier or harder? And how do you put together the best team? SAT Answers will be revealed in this loving homage to one of SAT Britain's most admired television shows. SAT Produced by: Jo Meek SAT A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Open Mike: Mike Craig's Radio Memoirs b00c0077 (Listen) SAT Mike Craig was a prolific producer and writer of over 1200 SAT comedy shows for both BBC Radio and TV - including Morecambe SAT and Wise, Ken Dodd, Jimmy Tarbuck, Al Reid, Harry Worth and SAT The Grumbleweeds. It was Mike who wrote the legendary SAT high-kicking sketch on the 1976 Morecambe and Wise Christmas SAT Show with newsreader Angela Rippon. SAT In this 3 hour showcase of his radio memoirs, Mike presents SAT a selection of his own favourites: SAT * Castle's On The Air SAT 13/12/1975 SAT Record-breaking Roy Castle brings you espionage, The Three SAT Musketeers and the perils of powering a car with cooking SAT sherry explained by Stanley Unwin. SAT * Jimmy's Cricket Team SAT Series.1 (3/8) SAT Irish comedian Jimmy Cricket with a letter from his mammy SAT and more! With Bill Pertwee, Peter Goodwright and Noreen SAT Kershaw. Written by Eddie Braben. From 1990. SAT * Bernie Clifton's Comedy Shop SAT 05/10/1982 SAT From restaurants to great moments in history - a non-stop SAT barrage of gags. With Caroline Turner, Tony Pearce and Pat SAT Mooney. SAT * Ho-Di-Ho starring The Grumbleweeds SAT 23/11/1986 SAT The Grumbleweeds decide to go on holiday to Maplin's holiday SAT camp. With Ruth Madoc and Paul Shane. SAT * Al Read Says Such Is Life SAT The Lancashire sausage-maker turned comedian illustrates SAT pages of his autobiography with excerpts from his classic SAT performances. From 1987 SAT * Ken Dodd's Easter Special SAT 04/04/1988 SAT From the City Varieties Theatre, Leeds, Spring is in the air SAT and Doddy's tackling romance and there's trouble at t'mill. SAT With Johnny Moore, Paula Tilbrook, SAT Based mainly in Manchester, Mike retired from the BBC in SAT 1993. He was born 11th March 1935 and died 28th October SAT 2010. SAT Recorded at BBC Manchester and compiled by Mik Wilkojc. SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in 2008. SAT SAT 12:00 Quote... Unquote b01m5fnp (Listen) SAT Another edition of the 48th series of Quote... Unquote, the SAT popular quotations programme presented and devised by Nigel SAT Rees. The guests this week are the broadcaster Samira Ahmed, SAT actor Simon Jones, historian Dominic Sandbrook, and SAT journalist Dominic Lawson. The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT Producer: Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 12:30 Dad's Army b007jrnv (Listen) SAT Series 3, Ten Seconds From Now SAT The Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon is set to take part SAT in a secret worldwide radio broadcast. SAT Starring Arthur Lowe as Captain Mainwaring, John Le Mesurier SAT as Sergeant Wilson, Clive Dunn as Corporal Jones, John SAT Laurie as Private Frazer, Arnold Ridley as Private Godfrey, SAT Ian Lavender as Private Pike, Frank Thornton as the BBC SAT producer and Larry Martyn as Private Walker. SAT Adapted for radio from Jimmy Perry and David Croft's TV SAT scripts by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles. SAT Producer: John Dyas SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1976. SAT SAT 13:00 John Galsworthy - The Forsytes Continues: Omnibus SAT b07854zj (Listen) SAT Epic saga of love, money and betrayal. A newly married Fleur SAT embraces the social whirl of 1920s London. Starring Jessica SAT Raine. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b078569w (Listen) SAT Emilia Clarke SAT Actress Emilia Clarke chooses 'Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts SAT Club Band' by The Beatles and 'Check Yo Self' by Ice Cube. SAT SAT 14:15 Afternoon Drama b009ts31 (Listen) SAT Good Evening SAT Roy Smiles' celebration of the Beyond the Fringe team takes SAT a funny and affectionate look at how four young men from SAT Oxbridge changed the face of British comedy. SAT Alan Bennett ...... Matt Addis SAT Peter Cook ...... Rory Kinnear SAT Jonathan Miller ...... Jonathan Aris SAT Dudley Moore ...... Benedict Cumberbatch SAT A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b01m49vh (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Willy Russell - Educating Rita b015n8pq (Listen) SAT A sparky and touching portrayal of the relationship between SAT a working-class Open University student and her SAT alcohol-fuelled tutor. SAT Willy Russell's award-winning comedy stars Laura Dos Santos SAT as Rita and Bill Nighy as Dr Frank Bryant. SAT Adapted by Willy Russell from his play originally SAT commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, which SAT premièred at the Warehouse theatre, London in 1980. SAT Director: Kirsty Williams SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2009. SAT SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00qvs38 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 The Twilight Zone b07859h4 (Listen) SAT Series 3, The Grave SAT A gun-for-hire gets more than he bargained for when he's SAT dared to visit an outlaw's final resting place. SAT Starring Michael Rooker. With Mike Starr, Doug James, Jeff SAT Lupetin and Linda Reiter. 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 and sound effects. SAT Produced and directed by Carl Amari and Roger Wolkski for SAT Falcon Picture Group. SAT SAT 18:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrth (Listen) SAT Episode 8 SAT Trapped behind a supernatural 'force wall', will Pentworth's SAT Spring Carnival ceremonies have an effect? Read by Nigel SAT Anthony. SAT SAT 19:00 Alan Bennett - The History Boys b007g95p (Listen) SAT The History Boys SAT By Alan Bennett. SAT Adapted for radio by Richard Wortley from Nicholas Hytner's SAT National Theatre production. More than three decades on from SAT Forty Years On, Alan Bennett turns his attention once more SAT to education, encompassing both the tussles of staffroom SAT rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence. SAT Hector ...... Richard Griffiths SAT Irwin ...... Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Mrs Lintott ...... Frances de la Tour SAT The Headmaster ...... Clive Merrison SAT Crowther ...... Samuel Anderson SAT Posner ...... Samuel Barnett SAT Dakin ...... Dominic Cooper SAT Timms ...... James Corden SAT Akthar ...... Sacha Dhawan SAT Lockwood ...... Andrew Knott SAT Scripps ...... Jamie Parker SAT Rudge ...... Russell Tovey SAT Solo singer ...... Samuel Barnett SAT Pianists ...... Jamie Parker and Tom Attwood SAT Produced by David Hunter. SAT Musical arrangement by Richard Sissons. SAT Director Richard Wortley. SAT SAT 21:30 The 3rd Degree b041zcmf (Listen) SAT Series 4, University of Nottingham SAT A quiz show hosted by Steve Punt where a team of three SAT University students take on a team of three of their SAT professors. SAT Coming this week from the University of Nottingham, "The 3rd SAT Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic quiz show aimed at SAT cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 listeners whilst SAT delighting the current ones. SAT The Specialist Subjects in this episode are British History, SAT Management Studies and Philosophy and the questions range SAT from the International Monetary Fund., Kierkegaard and SAT Wagner to the Fat Slags and Goofy SAT The show is recorded on location at a different University SAT each week, and it pits three Undergraduates against three of SAT their Professors in a genuinely original and fresh take on SAT an academic quiz. Being a Radio 4 programme, it of course SAT meets the most stringent standards of academic rigour - but SAT with lots of facts and jokes thrown in for good measure. SAT Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes SAT posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union SAT buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities SAT across the UK. SAT The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General SAT Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the SAT 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not SAT only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, SAT languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness SAT of television, film, and One Direction... In addition, the SAT Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their SAT Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, SAT and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both SAT sides... SAT The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit SAT surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly SAT rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more SAT than just glanced at that reading list... SAT In this series, the universities are Bristol, Kent, SAT Bedfordshire, Birmingham, Nottingham & Aberystwyth. SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive Television production for BBC Radio 4 SAT Overflow (incl Cast Lists) SAT The host, Steve Punt, although best known as a satirist on SAT The Now Show is also someone who delights in all facets of SAT knowledge, not just in the Humanities (his educational SAT background) but in the sciences as well. As well as "The Now SAT Show" he has made a number of documentaries for Radio 4, on SAT subjects as varied as "The Poet Unwound - The History Of The SAT Spleen" and "Getting The Gongs" - an investigation into SAT awards ceremonies - as well as a half-hour comedy for Radio SAT 4's 2008 Big Bang Day set in the Large Hadron Collider, SAT called "The Genuine Particle". This makes him the perfect SAT host for a show which aims to be an intellectual, fulfilling SAT and informative quiz, but with wit and a genuine delight in SAT exploring the subjects at hand. SAT The 3rd Degree is a Pozzitive production, produced by David SAT Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm SAT Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Bigipedia, The Brig Society, SAT Thanks A Lot, Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, SAT Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes SAT Off, The 99p Challenge, My First Planet, The Castle and SAT even, going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include SAT Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The SAT Paul & Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony SAT Ferrino Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's SAT dinnerladies. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Steve Punt SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT SAT 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? b03jdw6r (Listen) SAT Series 1, Who Am I? SAT Young Stephen wrestles with his identity and gets some SAT career advice from his useless but enthusiastic teacher. SAT Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos SAT Produced by Colin Anderson. SAT Credits SAT Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos SAT Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah SAT Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna SAT Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas SAT Vincent Amos: Don Gilet SAT Miss Collins: Gemma Whelan SAT Jayson: Frankie Wilson SAT PE Teacher: Harry Jardine SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT Writer: Jonathan Harvey SAT Writer: Stephen K Amos SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci - Facts and Fancies b007jrkw (Listen) SAT A Switch in Time SAT Tackling time-wasting and greetings cards, the producer, SAT writer and performer presents his own collection of humorous SAT essays. SAT SAT 22:45 Poets' Tree b00srg4q (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Paul Hamilton looks at pop music's poetic merits, and a SAT tribute to an unheralded genius. Stars Kevin Eldon. From SAT April 2008. SAT SAT 23:00 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00sp1rs (Listen) SAT 2000s 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 this last decade, SAT which he has spent settling down with a middle class woman SAT "she's been ski-ing and everything" and building a career as SAT a stand up comedian. In the documentary segments, Micky SAT chats to his parents about turning to stand up and discusses SAT comedy and class with the brilliant comic mind that is Sean SAT Lock. SAT The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. SAT The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. SAT SAT 23:30 The Museum of Everything b007k4j3 (Listen) SAT Series 2, The Coach Trip SAT Our guides organise an excursion to the Chaversham Medieval SAT Fair. Stars Marcus Brigstocke and Danny Robins. From April SAT 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 APRIL 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 The Twilight Zone b07859h4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:40 James Follett - Temple of the Winds b007jrth (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:40 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 John Galsworthy - The Forsytes Continues: Omnibus SUN b07854zj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b078569w (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Afternoon Drama b009ts31 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b01m49vh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Willy Russell - Educating Rita b015n8pq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SUN American Literature b00qvs38 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Julia Darling - Posties b0788hrj (Listen) SUN Omnibus SUN Five stories about letters, postal workers and the way SUN communication is changing. Stars Grace Stillgrove and Val SUN McLane. SUN SUN 07:15 Anglo-Saxon Portraits b0788l2p (Listen) SUN 4 Extra Debut. Simon Keynes probes the life of the SUN Anglo-Saxon monarch of one of the most turbulent times of SUN English history. From April 2013. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01g61vw (Listen) SUN Series 8, It's a Nude Nude Nude Nude World SUN Ed Reardon leads us through the ups and down of his week, SUN complete with his trusty companion, Elgar, and his SUN never-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 Jaz Milvain asks Ed to curate a moving tribute to him and SUN his work in film for the 'surprise' party that he's SUN organising for his 60th birthday. Whilst Ed relishes the SUN idea of a comedy 'roast' Jaz is looking for something more SUN akin to a light sauté. SUN So it is that Ed tracks down Jaz's first masterwork, 'It's a SUN Nude Nude Nude Nude World' to form the cornerstone of the SUN tribute, not knowing that Fiona did a few day's work on it. SUN Credits SUN Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas SUN Fiona: Jenny Agutter SUN Olive: Stephanie Cole SUN Posh Woman: Sally Grace SUN Frank: Simon Greenall SUN Cliff: Geoffrey McGivern SUN Waiter: Martin Hyder SUN Jaz: Philip Jackson SUN Pearl: Rita May SUN Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Writer: Andrew Nickolds SUN Writer: Christopher Douglas SUN Producer: Dawn Ellis SUN SUN 08:00 The Clitheroe Kid b007k0mn (Listen) SUN Cupid and the Black Hand Gang SUN Can cheeky schoolboy Jimmy find somewhere for his infamous SUN gang to meet? SUN Starring Jimmy Clitheroe as The Clitheroe Kid. With Peter SUN Sinclair as Grandfather, Patricia Burke as Mother, Diana Day SUN as Susan and Leonard Williams as Theodore Craythorpe. 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 b007k437 (Listen) SUN Sex and St Swithins SUN Medic Simon Sparrow breaks hospital rules by flirting with a SUN pretty new nurse. SUN The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted SUN for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor SUN in the House' published in 1952. SUN Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as SUN Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast SUN as Taffy Evans and Barbara Mitchell as Sister. SUN Special guest star: Irene Handl as Mrs Clarke. 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 House Full of Daughters: Omnibus b0788mfx (Listen) SUN Juliet Nicolson's memoir of seven generations of women, SUN including her grandmother Vita Sackville West. Read by SUN Juliet Stevenson. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b0788n1c (Listen) SUN Mike Batt SUN Songwriter and producer Mike Batt chooses Schubert's 9th SUN Symphony and 'Little Red Rooster' performed by Howling Wolf. SUN SUN 10:15 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b01c7xqf (Listen) SUN Sir David Attenborough SUN 4 Extra's extended 70th anniversary show. Kirsty Young chats SUN to broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough. From SUN January 2012. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b0788pnc (Listen) SUN Series 2, Taxidermy, Orderlies and Spinal Tap SUN True stories told live in the USA: The Moth's founder, SUN George Dawes Green, with tales of inheritance, hospitals and SUN Spinal Tap. 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. 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SUN SUN 12:00 The Clitheroe Kid b007k0mn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House b007k437 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Julia Darling - Posties b0788hrj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 Anglo-Saxon Portraits b0788l2p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Gillian Slovo - 10 Days: Omnibus b0788r4r (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN The home secretary gains valuable inside information about SUN his rival, while London still burns. Read by Jasmine Hyde SUN and Ben Onwukwe. SUN SUN 15:45 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories b04j2dsd (Listen) SUN Articles of War SUN It is September 1805 and a young lieutenant awaits his first SUN naval action with some trepidation. Read by Ewan Bailey. SUN The 25 short stories that comprise England and Other Stories SUN mark Swift's return to the short form after seven acclaimed SUN novels. The stories dwell on the essence of Englishness and SUN those chosen place us on the eve of the Battle of Trafalgar, SUN in a barbers, a supermarket, a laboratory and Macintyre's SUN warehouse, and in each place and time, Swift perfectly SUN captures a universal truth from the minutiae of lives. SUN "This is a sharp, beautiful collection: every story quick SUN and readable but leaving in the memory a core, a residue of SUN thoughtfulness" The Guardian SUN Graham Swift came to prominence with this second novel SUN Shuttlecock, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in SUN 1983. That same year, Swift's Waterland, set in the Fens SUN earned him a place on the shortlist for the Booker prize. SUN Swift would go on to win the Booker prize in 1996 with his SUN novel Last Orders, which became a film starring Michael SUN Caine, Tom Courtney, Bob Hoskins and Helen Mirren. SUN Produced by Jeremy Osborne SUN Made for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sweet Talk. SUN SUN 16:00 The Forsyte Saga b0780jy8 (Listen) SUN The Forsytes Continues, Episode 7 SUN John Galsworthy's epic family saga of love, money and SUN betrayal. SUN Dramatised for radio by Lin Coghlan SUN Faced with the consequences of flirting with danger, Fleur SUN must make a choice. In the changing world of high finance SUN where honesty no longer appears to be in fashion, Soames SUN decides to make a stand. Away from the glittering lights of SUN London's smart set, Bicket and Victorine's dreams of SUN escaping to a better life in Australia are no closer to SUN coming true. SUN Original music composed by Neil Brand SUN Produced and directed by Gemma Jenkins SUN Over the next 2 years, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a new SUN dramatisation of all 9 books in John Galsworthy's The SUN Forsyte Saga. An epic tale of sex, money and power in the SUN lives of an upper middle-class family in London, it spans 50 SUN years from 1886 to 1936. SUN Today's play concludes the fourth novel in the series, The SUN White Monkey. We pick up the story again in September. SUN Credits SUN Fleur Forsyte: Jessica Raine SUN Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson SUN Michael Mont: Ben Lambert SUN Wilfred Desert: Max Bennett SUN Sir Lawrence Mont: Brian Protheroe SUN Bicket: Sam Alexander SUN Aubrey Green: Sam Alexander SUN Victorine: Evie Killip SUN Elderson: Ewan Bailey SUN Annette Forsyte: Aurelie Amblard SUN Holly Dartie: Katie Redford SUN Butterfield: Caolan McCarthy SUN Miss Perren: Rebecca Hamilton SUN Station Porter: Gerard McDermott SUN Night Porter: Sean Baker SUN Shareholder: George Watkins SUN Shareholder: Debra Baker SUN Shareholder: Leo Wan SUN Author: John Galsworthy SUN Adaptor: Lin Coghlan SUN Director: Gemma Jenkins SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b0788t06 (Listen) SUN Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with Rainer Maria Rilke's Sonnets SUN to Orpheus - Dancing the Orange. SUN Leading us through the nuances of their meaning, Karen SUN Leeder alerts us to the beauty and power SUN of one of the great modernist works of literature of 1922. SUN After a lifetime wandering about Europe Rilke was at last SUN able to settle when his patron, Werner Reinhart, bought the SUN Château de Muzot in the Swiss Valais so that he could live SUN there, and write. His aim was to complete his monumental SUN work, 'The Duino Elegies'. But this plan was interrupted in SUN February when, 'completely unexpected' the 'Sonnets to SUN Orpheus' broke upon him'. Within three weeks he had SUN completed 55 poems, of great variety, but all sonnets. SUN Rilke didn't like English and never visited Britain. Yet the SUN 'Sonnets to Orpheus' have fascinated English language SUN readers and writers ever since they appeared - with SUN translations every decade. SUN With writers Martyn Crucefix and Don Paterson, plus German SUN scholar and poet Rüdiger Görner, Karen Leeder teases out the SUN major issues the poems address; death, love and, the SUN creation and role of poetry - for Rilke a song of praise for SUN life, and even death, in a creation without God, through SUN which meaning is accomplished. SUN Karen visits the Château de Muzot and with Nanni Reinhart, SUN who lives there now, to considers its impact on the SUN composition of the poems. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01g61vw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 The Female Ghost b00njj2k (Listen) SUN Edith Nesbit - Man Sized in Marble SUN Two newlyweds reject their housekeeper's dread of All SUN Saints' Eve, until it arrives. With Carolyn Jones and SUN Stephen Critchlow. SUN SUN 18:30 Voices From the Grave b007jwnf (Listen) SUN Middlewitch SUN It's midsummer and an old woman, clinging to the old magics, SUN keeps watch over her cursed Welsh village. Lucy Catherine's SUN horror stars Elizabeth Morgan, Christian Patterson and Jenny SUN Livesy. SUN Voices From The Grave is a series of four chilling and SUN intimate dramas, inspired by existing ghost stories from SUN around Britain. The writers make these stories more than SUN simply scary - they are studies of humanity, love, rage and SUN despair, of passion, longing and pain. SUN Lucy Catherine is an experienced writer for radio, TV and SUN theatre. Her radio productions include her adaptation of SUN Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Looted and The Goldilocks Zone. SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins. SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b0788pnc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:45 House Full of Daughters: Omnibus b0788mfx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks b0788n1c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:00 Desert Island Discs: Longplay b01c7xqf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b01g61vw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b00b7c59 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 4 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 b0081b7p (Listen) SUN World Weary SUN It's snow jokes from Paul Copley and Helen Moon, in the SUN sketch show mixing up language and sounds. From October SUN 2007. SUN SUN 23:00 The Shuttleworths b007k4tn (Listen) SUN John Shuttleworth's Open Mind, UFOs SUN The Sheffield singer-songwriter investigates unsolved SUN phenomena, with agent Ken Worthington and guest Patrick SUN Mower. From March 2006. SUN SUN 23:30 Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off b007mh3w (Listen) SUN Series 1, Thailand SUN The bumbling student's aim to emerge spiritually becomes a SUN physical revelation with a loose sarong. Stars Marcus SUN Brigstocke. From August 2002. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 APRIL 2016 MON MON 00:00 The Female Ghost b00njj2k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 00:30 Voices From the Grave b007jwnf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Julia Darling - Posties b0788hrj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 Anglo-Saxon Portraits b0788l2p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Gillian Slovo - 10 Days: Omnibus b0788r4r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Graham Swift - England and Other Stories b04j2dsd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 The Forsyte Saga b06zh1dw (Listen) MON The Forsytes, Episode 7 MON From the novels of John Galsworthy MON Dramatised for radio by Shaun McKenna MON Irene has fled to Paris to escape her husband, Soames, who MON now has a private detective watching her every move. MON But even Soames cannot control the secrets and changes which MON are rolling towards the Forsytes. MON Original music composed by Neil Brand MON Produced and directed by Marion Nancarrow MON This Saturday Drama concludes "In Chancery", the second book MON of "The Forsytes". We pick up the story again in April. MON Credits MON Soames Forsyte: Joseph Millson MON Irene Forsyte: Juliet Aubrey MON Narrator: Jessica Raine MON Jo Forsyte: Ewan Bailey MON Jolly Forsyte: Joel MacCormack MON Val Dartie: George Watkins MON Holly Forsyte: Katie Redford MON Annette Forsyte: Aurelie Amblard MON June Forsyte: Rebecca Hamilton MON James Forsyte: Gerard McDermott MON Emily Forsyte: Susan Jameson MON Madame Lamotte: Susan Jameson MON Winifred: Debra Baker MON Dartie: Chris Pavlo MON Polteed: Sean Baker MON Nurse: Evie Killip MON Maid: Evie Killip MON Doctor: Leo Wan MON Boy: Joel MacCormack MON Author: John Galsworthy MON Adaptor: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b0788t06 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01g61vw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 P Division b007jx5x (Listen) MON Condition Purple, Episode 1 MON Chief Inspector Donoghue's men are on the case when the body MON of a prostitute is found in Blythswood Square, in the heart MON of Glasgow's prosperous business quarter. MON Stars John Buick as DC King, Kay Gallie as Diana, Martin MON Cochrane as DCI Donoghue, Gerard Slevin as Dr Reynolds, Anne MON Marie Timoney as Hazel and Ann Louise Ross as WPC Elka MON Willems. MON Published in 1989, this is Peter Turnbull's sixth P Division MON novel about his Glaswegian cops. MON Recorded in a BBC studio and on location in Glasgow. MON Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. MON Producer: Hamish Wilson MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. MON MON 06:30 Ali: Me, My Family and Muhammad Ali b00rd3wb (Listen) MON Deirdre Pascall relives her youthful meeting with Muhammad MON Ali in 1976 and measures his impact on the black British MON population of the day. MON When Deirdre went with her broadcaster father Alex Pascall MON OBE to the Savoy Hotel in March 1976, she was dreaming of MON getting a glimpse of her childhood hero, world champion MON boxer Muhammad Ali. Little did she know that once Ali had MON seen her she would be swept up and spend much of the press MON conference for the launch of Ali's autobiography, The MON Greatest, sitting on the great man's knee. MON Surrounded by the great and good of the British press, with MON photographers crammed into the room, she remembers the Champ MON asking her who he was. 'You're the greatest' was her reply, MON to his evident delight. MON But the next day there were no pictures of her in the MON newspapers. They chose to stick with the shot of Ali and his MON book. Perhaps in the London of 1976, a little black girl MON wasn't felt to be a particularly British image? MON Since then Deirdre has wondered much about that day. In this MON programme she goes in search of the memories and in MON particular in search of a photograph of her meeting. She MON also asks her father and her father's generation what they MON made of Ali's trips to the UK back then. He was already a MON superstar to most British people by that time, even if some MON of them found his abrasive language and powerful Islamic MON rhetoric disturbing. As a boxer he had no equals. But how MON important a figure was he to black Britons who had their own MON struggles and challenges, often very different from the ones MON that Ali represented back in the States? MON Of course the reason for her trip to the Savoy in the first MON place was so that her father could get an interview with Ali MON for his BBC radio show, Black Londoners. Deirdre listens MON again to that recording in which a far more quietly spoken MON Ali talks to his British brothers. This isn't the showman MON who appeared on the Parkinson show, although his humour is MON there. This was an Ali listening and learning and probing, MON as we hear during the programme. MON There are other issues for Deirdre as well. How does she MON feel now about her hero's stance on the place of women, on MON integration, on religion? And why is that Savoy meeting with MON a boxer so important to a woman who went on to train as a MON classical pianist? MON MON 07:00 Trapped b0076h8h (Listen) MON Clem Walder's Way Out MON With three wives, Clem can't keep up his treble life any MON longer. How can he escape them all? Stars Alex Lowe. From MON October 2003. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b07756bj (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 3 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 Elis James, Reginald D Hunter, Maeve Higgins and David MON O'Doherty are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as the 1970s, toys, the MON moon and electricity. 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: Elis James MON Panellist: Reginald D Hunter MON Panellist: Maeve Higgins MON Panellist: David O'Doherty MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 08:00 Parsley Sidings b01nrmxq (Listen) MON Series 1, The Market Special MON The station staff at Parsley Sidings go all out to boost MON falling passenger numbers. MON The eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway station. The MON Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station for MON generations and the current Station Master, Horace, hopes MON that his son Bert will continue the line. Mild-mannered MON Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but on the MON railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria Simpkins, MON secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an archetypal MON wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, Bradshaw, causes MON havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in equal measure. The MON 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas Perkins, the station MON master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop down the line. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, MON Kenneth Connor as Percy, Liz Fraser as Gloria and Elizabeth MON Morgan as Ethel. MON Re-created Announcements by Keith Skues. MON Producer: Edward Taylor MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in December 1971. MON MON 08:30 Listen to Les b01nlzcy (Listen) MON From 17/03/1985 MON Lugubrious Les Dawson with a tale of when the worm turned, MON and Cosmo discusses modern art. 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 March 1985. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00q3lcy (Listen) MON Series 12, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are MON joined by Mark Billingham and John O'Farrell. The author of MON the week and subject for pastiche is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, MON and the reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 King Street Junior b007jmp7 (Listen) MON Series 6, The Games Children Play MON School staff can't wait for summer holidays, but as sports MON day looms, one pupil sparks panic. Stars Karl Howman. From MON July 1991. MON MON 10:00 Martyn Wade - Stepniak b00sfby9 (Listen) MON Bittersweet true love story of Olive Garnett, who falls for MON a Russian expatriate with a sinister past. Stars Justine MON Waddell. MON MON 11:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b007k1v8 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Child, child. If you come to this doomed house, what is to MON save you?" MON Poor but wise orphan, Flora Poste decides to live with her MON relatives in Sussex MON In 1932, Stella Gibbons' book was acclaimed as a wickedly MON funny send-up of a certain kind of heavy-breathing novel MON about the doom-laden everyday life of country folk. Since MON then it has become a classic of comedy in its own right. MON Abridged in six parts and produced by Pamela Howe. MON Read by Kenneth Williams MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1974. MON MON 11:30 Agatha Christie b00jzckt (Listen) MON Magnolia Blossom MON Theo is ready to leave her husband when a financial scandal MON intervenes. Mike Walker's revamped whodunit starring Emilia MON Fox. MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b01nrmxq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 Listen to Les b01nlzcy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 P Division b007jx5x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Ali: Me, My Family and Muhammad Ali b00rd3wb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 Book at Bedtime b064yj8q (Listen) MON Go Set a Watchman, Episode 1 MON Harper Lee's explosive second novel was finally published in MON 2015. Believed lost for decades after the publication of 'To MON Kill A Mockingbird', this book revisits much-loved MON characters, this time through adult eyes. MON Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb MON for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into MON the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her MON beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship MON with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same MON place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother MON Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust MON shattered before she is able to become her own woman. MON Harper Lee was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill MON a Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept MON over and revered by generations since its publication in MON 1960. She lived in Monroeville, Alabama until her death in MON February 2016. MON Read by Fenella Woolgar MON Written by Harper Lee MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. MON Credits MON Reader: Fenella Woolgar MON Author: Harper Lee MON Abridger: Robin Brooks MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie MON MON 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2wg (Listen) MON Beau and Byron - The Romantic Rebellion MON Laurence robes up to commune with Lord Byron, unwitting MON author of Romantic dress and famously painted as an Albanian MON nobleman. MON MON 14:30 15 Minute Drama b0128qtd (Listen) MON Cath Staincliffe - Blood in the Mountains, Episode 1 MON When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, MON probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, MON search backwards through the family line to find the true MON heir and get a slice of the fortune. Their quest leads them MON to uncover a broken family with a terrible secret. MON Henry Gaunt has died leaving a sizeable estate but no Will. MON His step-sister can't inherit and there are no known kin. MON The step-sister doesn't know much about Henry's father: she MON thinks he died in the Second World War when Henry was a MON small child. Dan and Rachel's investigation leads to a MON surprising discovery. MON DAN.....William Ash MON RACHEL.....Claire Keelan MON YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes MON GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgh3c (Listen) MON Bruce Chatwin - On the Black Hill, Episode 1 MON Iestyn Jones reads from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the MON lives of identical twin brothers Lewis and Benjamin Jones, MON on their farm in the Welsh Marches. MON 1/5. The courtship and marriage of the brothers' parents: MON Mary, their literate and well-travelled mother, and their MON ill-tempered, inarticulate father Amos. MON MON 15:00 Martyn Wade - Stepniak b00sfby9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00q3lcy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 King Street Junior b007jmp7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Trapped b0076h8h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth b07756bj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 Orbiter X b078cv0k (Listen) MON A Flight Against Time MON With the Commonwealth Space Project now aware of Unity's MON plans, Britton, McLelland and Hicks return to Orbiter X. 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, Gerik Schjelderup as Max Kramer and Ian Sadler MON as Neasen. 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 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and MON Beyond b00753xl (Listen) MON Agricultural Change MON Charlotte Smith draws on radio's rich archive of past MON editions of BBC Radio 4's long running series On Your Farm MON to show how much the farming industry changed across the MON 20th century. The series, which began in 1965, has visited MON every possible kind of farm around the British Isles and MON beyond. MON We hear how in the early days On Your Farm was broadcast MON live, frequently from around the kitchen table, and so MON became a celebration of hearty farming breakfasts and the MON vagaries of the weather. MON In this programme, Charlotte hears the memories of the Rudge MON Family from Herefordshire, who spoke to On Your Farm in MON 2004, with their recollections taking us back to the Second MON World War. And she hears about Sandwell Park Farm in the MON West Midlands, which is run along Victorian lines. MON Produced by Mark Smalley. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b01nrmxq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 Listen to Les b01nlzcy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 P Division b007jx5x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Ali: Me, My Family and Muhammad Ali b00rd3wb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b007k1v8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:30 Agatha Christie b00jzckt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b07756bj (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01qdvsy (Listen) MON Series 5, Dame Evelyn Glennie MON Dame Evelyn Glennie, despite having appeared in the Olympic MON 2012 ceremony as the rhythmic backbone, had never seen it. MON She watches it for the first time, and also watches Downton MON Abbey, goes on a Go-Kart, and throws a pot. She gives her MON verdicts to Marcus Brigstocke. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b078czy3 (Listen) MON Series 17, Episode 2 MON Made for 4 Extra. Jeremy Hardy is among Miles's guests for MON this episode of News Quiz Extra, the bumper bonus version of MON Friday's programme. MON MON 23:45 Paperback Hell b0076ch5 (Listen) MON Paddy Murphy's Ghost MON A tale of a miserable Irish childhood in another spoof MON chapter of a bestseller. Starring Michael Fenton Stevens. MON From January 2003. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 APRIL 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 Orbiter X b078cv0k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and TUE Beyond b00753xl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 P Division b007jx5x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Ali: Me, My Family and Muhammad Ali b00rd3wb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 Book at Bedtime b064yj8q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2wg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 15 Minute Drama b0128qtd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgh3c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Martyn Wade - Stepniak b00sfby9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00q3lcy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 King Street Junior b007jmp7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Trapped b0076h8h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth b07756bj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 P Division b007jx62 (Listen) TUE Condition Purple, Episode 2 TUE The police post-mortem has shown that prostitute, Stephanie TUE Craigellachie had an 'I belong to Dino' tattoo. But who is TUE Dino and what did he have to do with her murder? TUE Stars Martin Cochrane as DCI Donoghue, Ralph Riach as DS Ray TUE Sussock, Gaylie Runciman as Karen, John Buick as DC King, TUE Frank Gallagher as DC Montgomery and Alex McAvoy as Tuesday TUE Noon. TUE Published in 1989, this is Peter Turnbull's sixth P Division TUE novel about his Glaswegian cops. TUE Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. TUE Producer: Hamish Wilson TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. TUE TUE 06:30 Sid James: Not Just a Dirty Laugh b01s4762 (Listen) TUE Marking the centenary of Sid James, comedian Lee Mack TUE examines recently discovered archives and rare recordings TUE offering a unique insight into the actors lesser known work TUE on radio, stage and screen. TUE Actors Bernard Cribbins, Lance Percival and Liz Fraser TUE reveal their own experiences of working with Sid and we hear TUE from his daughter, the author, Reina James who provides the TUE programme with previously unheard material from the family TUE archives of her father's years in South Africa. TUE Throughout the programme Christopher Fairbank provides the TUE voice of Sid for sketches found in the BBC's written TUE archives and quotes excerpts from interviews given during TUE his extraordinary life. TUE Born in Johannesburg in May 1913, Sid James arrived in TUE Britain in 1946 and came to prominence as sidekick to ground TUE breaking comedy actor Tony Hancock. He later became a TUE household name as the star of the Carry On series of films TUE As Lee Mack discovers there's more skill to Sid James' TUE performances than is often evident. He'd already made TUE numerous screen appearances before Hancock and the Carry Ons TUE with straight roles and comic support in films by Powell and TUE Pressburger and Ealing Comedies. His early radio work TUE includes parts alongside Peter Sellers and Dennis Price, on TUE stage he performed in Guys and Dolls and starred in Citizen TUE James his own television situation comedy scripted for him TUE by Galton and Simpson. TUE Presenting a fascinating collection of extracts never before TUE broadcast on radio this documentary puts the emphasis on the TUE unfamiliar with interviewees adding another dimension to TUE Sid's story by revealing his early career and assessing his TUE copious talents. TUE TUE 07:00 The Emerald Green Show b078dlrj (Listen) TUE All For One TUE Will Emerald's ego be able to deal with the ambitious plans TUE of new girl, Tanesha? Stars Llewella Gideon. From June 1998. TUE TUE 07:30 Clare in the Community b06442qh (Listen) TUE Series 10, This Is a Man's World TUE Episode Five - This Is A Man's World. TUE Nali's ex-husband arrives unexpectedly and Clare takes it TUE upon herself to intervene. Simon has some bad news about TUE Brian's vitamin supplements. 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 Simon: Andrew Wincott TUE Justin: Dustin Demri-Burns TUE Thomas: Stefan Ramsden TUE Writer: Harry Venning TUE Writer: David Ramsden TUE Producer: Alexandra Smith TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007jpdl (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 11 TUE Kenneth Horne escapes Stalag Limpwrist, Rambling Syd Rumpo TUE sings of a maiden's nodes and a visit to Bona Abbey with TUE Julian and Sandy. TUE With Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and Betty Marsden. TUE Recorded at the BBC's Paris Studio in Lower Regent Street, TUE London. Announcer: Douglas Smith TUE Round The Horne was born out of the demise of BBC radio TUE comedy Beyond Our Ken, after the end of writer Eric TUE Merriman's involvement. Using the same cast and producer, TUE Barry Took and Marty Feldman were persuaded to write the TUE scripts - which led to four series that ran between 1965 and TUE 1968 - packed full of parodies, recurring characters, TUE catchphrases and double-entendres. 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 May 1968. TUE TUE 08:30 The Men From the Ministry b014j01w (Listen) TUE Sir Gregory is set to leave, but can one of the daft duo TUE fill his shoes? Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. TUE From May 1973. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b078czy3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Paperback Hell b0076ch5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 William Wordsworth - Michael b0076lkn (Listen) TUE A dramatisation of Wordsworth's poem. Michael is a shepherd TUE whose life is changed forever by the arrival of a son. With TUE Tom Courtenay. TUE TUE 10:45 Alan Bennett - Two in Torquay b0076f3m (Listen) TUE A middle-aged man and woman chat politely in a hotel. TUE Neither is quite what they seem to be. Stars Alan Bennett TUE and Judi Dench. TUE TUE 11:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078dmm5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Flora meets more cousins and offers suggestions to try and TUE improve the lives of those on the farm. Read by Kenneth TUE Williams. TUE TUE 11:30 Agatha Christie b00jz7jj (Listen) TUE Philomel Cottage TUE When Alex meets Terry she's swept off her feet. He persuades TUE her to leave her job with a dot com company and set up a TUE business with him - based in an out of the way cottage in TUE the country... TUE A new spin on the Queen of the whodunit, Agatha Christie's TUE classic story, dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. TUE Stars Lizzie McInnerny as Alex, Tom Hollander as Terry, Adam TUE Godley as Richard and Struan Rodger as Merlin. TUE Producer: Jeremy Mortimer TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2002. TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jpdl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b014j01w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 P Division b007jx62 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Sid James: Not Just a Dirty Laugh b01s4762 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 Book at Bedtime b065gjs0 (Listen) TUE Go Set a Watchman, Episode 2 TUE Harper Lee's explosive second novel was finally published in TUE 2015. Believed lost for decades after the publication of 'To TUE Kill A Mockingbird', this book revisits much-loved TUE characters, this time through adult eyes. TUE Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb TUE for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into TUE the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her TUE beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship TUE with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same TUE place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother TUE Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust TUE shattered before she is able to become her own woman. TUE Harper Lee was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill TUE a Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept TUE over and revered by generations since its publication in TUE 1960. She lived in Monroeville, Alabama until her death in TUE February 2016. TUE Read by Fenella Woolgar TUE Written by Harper Lee TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE Credits TUE Reader: Fenella Woolgar TUE Author: Harper Lee TUE Abridger: Robin Brooks TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2x9 (Listen) TUE The Tartan Titan and the Highland Fashion Cult TUE Romanticism and nationalism in 19th-century Scotland, where TUE King George IV's endorsement meant tartan and the kilt TUE became cult. TUE TUE 14:30 15 Minute Drama b0128pyc (Listen) TUE Cath Staincliffe - Blood in the Mountains, Episode 2 TUE When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, TUE probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, TUE search backwards through the family line to find the true TUE heir and get a slice of the fortune. Their quest leads them TUE to uncover a broken family with a terrible secret. TUE Henry Gaunt died leaving a sizeable estate but no Will. Dan TUE and Rachel have discovered that Henry's father George died TUE fighting in the Spanish Civil War and that his cousin Eric TUE joined the International Brigades with him. If Eric is still TUE alive he might be the rightful heir. TUE DAN.....William Ash TUE RACHEL.....Claire Keelan TUE YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes TUE GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle TUE CORPORAL REEVES.....Russell Richardson TUE ERIC.....Russell Dixon TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgj46 (Listen) TUE Bruce Chatwin - On the Black Hill, Episode 2 TUE Iestyn Jones reads from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the TUE lives of identical twin brothers Lewis and Benjamin Jones, TUE on their farm in the Welsh Marches. TUE From earliest childhood, the twins seem to feel each other's TUE happiness and pain, and often speak in a private language. TUE By adolescence, differences begin to emerge but the TUE brothers' bond is stronger than ever. TUE TUE 15:00 William Wordsworth - Michael b0076lkn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 15:45 Alan Bennett - Two in Torquay b0076f3m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00d7q3d (Listen) TUE 2005, 2005 - Heat 1 TUE Ned Sherrin chairs the music quiz with Nicholas Brann of TUE London, Brian Clements from Chelmsford and Jill Halifax of TUE London. TUE TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag b00bx1kd (Listen) TUE Series 3, Our Own Correspondent TUE With the press on the prowl, Ambassador Mackenzie's memoirs TUE spark Embassy havoc. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From November TUE 1990. TUE TUE 17:00 The Emerald Green Show b078dlrj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Clare in the Community b06442qh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 Orbiter X b078dqb6 (Listen) TUE Building the Space Station TUE Britton, McLelland and Hicks play along with Unity's plans TUE to commandeer the space station. Stars John Carson. From TUE December 1959. TUE TUE 18:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and TUE Beyond b078dr11 (Listen) TUE Prince Charles on Biodiversity TUE Charlotte Smith explores Prince Charles' interest in TUE biodiversity, drawing on editions of On Your Farm recorded TUE with him in 2015 at his summer holiday farm house in TUE Romania's Transylvania. And she hears about the organic TUE farming methods used at his Duchy Home Farm at Highgrove in TUE Gloucestershire. TUE Mining the rich archive of past editions of the long running TUE series On Your Farm shows how much the farming industry TUE changed across the 20th century. The series, which began in TUE 1965, has visited every possible kind of farm around the TUE British Isles and beyond. TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jpdl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b014j01w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 P Division b007jx62 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Sid James: Not Just a Dirty Laugh b01s4762 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078dmm5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:30 Agatha Christie b00jz7jj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Clare in the Community b06442qh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 Bleak Expectations b00wdjvk (Listen) TUE Series 4, A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried Up TUE Volume Four, Chapter 5: "A Now Tricky Life Woefully Miseried TUE Up" by Mark Evans TUE Pip and Harry have escaped the exploding desert island, but TUE Harry has been transformed into a dinosaur. Now they must TUE catch Mister Benevolent and prevent him taking over the TUE world, but the trail has lead them to France. Here they must TUE face unimaginable horrors including a bacon free breakfast TUE and a deadly confrontation in a cheese mine. But there is a TUE glimmer of hope in the form of The Scarlet Pimple. 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 Reverend Godly Fecund ..... David Mitchell TUE Frenchman ..... Mark Evans TUE Writer ..... Mark Evans TUE Producer ..... Gareth Edwards TUE Producer Gareth Edwards. TUE Credits TUE Producer: Gareth Edwards TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b079rr91 (Listen) TUE From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club TUE has two hours of comedy. Plus Jess Fostekew chats to Taylor TUE Glenn. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00svcbq (Listen) TUE Series 1, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go TUE Ben is in a coma. While his family wonder how to wake him TUE up, his mind is busy elsewhere. Stars Neil Pearson. From TUE July 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 Radio 9 b04hkfq5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE An unusual doctor, the perils of parenthood and faking it as TUE a boxer. Stars Johnny Daukes and Hils Barker. From August TUE 2005. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 APRIL 2016 WED WED 00:00 Orbiter X b078dqb6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and WED Beyond b078dr11 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 P Division b007jx62 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Sid James: Not Just a Dirty Laugh b01s4762 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 Book at Bedtime b065gjs0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2x9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 15 Minute Drama b0128pyc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgj46 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 William Wordsworth - Michael b0076lkn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:45 Alan Bennett - Two in Torquay b0076f3m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00d7q3d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b00bx1kd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 The Emerald Green Show b078dlrj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Clare in the Community b06442qh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 P Division b007jx64 (Listen) WED Condition Purple, Episode 3 WED While Dino remains as elusive as ever, the team continue WED their search for fresh evidence in the hunt for the killer WED of prostitute, Stephanie Craigellachie. WED Stars Martin Cochrane as DCI Donoghue, Ralph Riach as DS Ray WED Sussock, John Buick as DC King, Frank Gallagher as DC WED Montgomery and Louise Beattie as Collette. WED Published in 1989, this is Peter Turnbull's sixth P Division WED novel about his Glaswegian cops. WED Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. WED Producer: Hamish Wilson WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. WED WED 06:30 Uncool Britannia b00sh3pm (Listen) WED The Pakamac Years WED Steve Punt presents a new three part history of the Britain WED that's ubiquitous yet unashamedly uncool. Steve argues the WED nation's recent past has been hijacked by the fashionistas WED and that it's time to celebrate the past as it really was - WED deeply unhip. Forget the Rolling Stones, Mary Quant and the WED Aston Martin, what Britons really love is a nice melody, a WED sensible coat and a reliable motor... WED Steve re-imagines the 50s and 60s as the Pakamac Years. He WED argues that it wasn't beatniks that epitomised the spirit of WED the era - but the foldaway mac. The Pakamac flew off the WED shelves in their tens of thousands as Britons rejoiced in WED the sheer novelty and practicality of a plastic raincoat WED which you could pop in your handbag. Steve also considers WED the importance of anoraks, cagoules, parkas and snorkels as WED emblems of uncool Britain. WED Producer: Laurence Grissell WED (repeat). WED WED 07:00 The Brothers b00q9xrj (Listen) WED Series 3, Loony Tunes WED As Bugs Bunny makes an untimely appearance, Nigel and WED Michael go their separate ways. Stars Adam Godley. From WED March 2007. WED WED 07:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04md4nr (Listen) WED Series 2, Questioning Loyalties WED 3/6 Questioning Loyalties. Field Commander Uljabaan's WED loyalty cards, rewarding villagers for their collaboration, WED are not only ruining Katrina's plans but also Richard's WED chances in the weekly pub quiz. They turn to Ron, the WED landlord of the Rose & Crown for help in scuppering the WED scheme. 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 Producer: Ed Morrish WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01lb306 (Listen) WED Confirming Povey's Rank WED Is Povey a fraud? It seems so, as the crew of HMS WED Troutbridge race to secure his captaincy WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Richard Caldicote as Captain Povey, Heather Chasen as WED Heather, Ronnie Barker as Lieutenant Queeg and Tenniel Evens WED as The Commander. 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 b00h8kxm (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 12 WED Oedipus Rex gets the Radio Prune treatment, and a Whitehall WED farce with a twist. With John Cleese and Bill Oddie. From WED May 1970. WED WED 09:00 The Motion Show b00762kw (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED Graeme Garden hosts the comic debating game with Marcus WED Brigstocke, Steve Punt, Stuart Maconie and Jenny Eclair. WED From June 2001. WED WED 09:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007k44b (Listen) WED Bleak Horse WED Timothy Tamperton reports back on the stranger's death wish WED on the evil Joshua Farley. Stars Stephen Moore. From October WED 1988. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b01mtsm3 (Listen) WED Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd, A Farmer Just WED Beginning WED By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 1/3 - Young farmer WED Gabriel Oak sees an ideal wife in Bathsheba Everdene, but WED she turns him down, believing in true romance. As she WED becomes rich, he is ruined, and the tables turn. WED Musicians ... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole WED This episode will be available to listen to until 14th WED October 2012. WED Credits WED Bathsheba: Alex Tregear WED Gabriel Oak: Shaun Dooley WED Boldwood: Toby Jones WED Troy: Patrick Kennedy WED Liddy: Lizzy Watts WED Fanny: Hannah John-Kamen WED Maltster: Robert Blythe WED Jan: Joe Sims WED Joseph: Sam Alexander WED Henery: Patrick Brennan WED Billy: Don Gilet WED Cain: Harry Livingstone WED Aunt: Tracy Wiles WED Maryann: Amaka Okafor WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED Producer: Jessica Dromgoole WED Writer: Graham White WED WED 11:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078jq9b (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Flora opts to help those she meets, including Elfine and Big WED Business the Bull. Kenneth Williams reads Stella Gibbons' WED classic. WED WED 11:30 Agatha Christie b00jzwdq (Listen) WED In a Glass Darkly WED A jealous lover is haunted by a fellow pilot's death and a WED vision of murder. Mike Walker's revamped whodunnit with Neil WED Dudgeon. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01lb306 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00h8kxm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 P Division b007jx64 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Uncool Britannia b00sh3pm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 Book at Bedtime b065gjvl (Listen) WED Go Set a Watchman, Episode 3 WED Harper Lee's explosive second novel was finally published in WED 2015. Believed lost for decades after the publication of 'To WED Kill A Mockingbird', this book revisits much-loved WED characters, this time through adult eyes. WED Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb WED for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into WED the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her WED beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship WED with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same WED place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother WED Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust WED shattered before she is able to become her own woman. WED Harper Lee was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill WED a Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept WED over and revered by generations since its publication in WED 1960. She lived in Monroeville, Alabama until her death in WED February 2016. WED Read by Fenella Woolgar WED Written by Harper Lee WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED Credits WED Reader: Fenella Woolgar WED Author: Harper Lee WED Abridger: Robin Brooks WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie WED WED 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2xr (Listen) WED Men in Black - The Funereal Victorians (and Oscar of course) WED Why did Victorian men dress ready for a funeral? Black WED embodied power and serious purpose yet democratised fashion WED for ever. WED WED 14:30 15 Minute Drama b0128qtd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] WED WED 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgj48 (Listen) WED Bruce Chatwin - On the Black Hill, Episode 3 WED Iestyn Jones reads from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the WED lives of identical twin brothers Lewis and Benjamin Jones, WED on their farm in the Welsh Marches. WED Benjamin is called up to fight in WWI and Lewis is drawn to WED young Rosie Fifield, but neither love nor war can separate WED the boys for long. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b01mtsm3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The Motion Show b00762kw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007k44b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 The Brothers b00q9xrj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04md4nr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 Orbiter X b078jrh3 (Listen) WED The Net Closes WED Can Britton, McLelland and Hicks quick thinking lead CSP to WED locate Unity's HQ on Earth? Stars Gerik Schjelderup. From WED December 1959. WED WED 18:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and WED Beyond b078jrh5 (Listen) WED Foot and Mouth WED Charlotte Smith recalls the foot and mouth epidemic of 2001. WED Drawing on past editions of BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm WED broadcast during that year, when the countryside was closed WED to the public, and the army were called in, she hears the WED distress of livestock farmers whose herds were slaughtered. WED Producer: Mark Smalley. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01lb306 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00h8kxm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 P Division b007jx64 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Uncool Britannia b00sh3pm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078jq9b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:30 Agatha Christie b00jzwdq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] WED WED 22:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04md4nr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Start/Stop b039dbjr (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the WED sunset. And sinking. This week a trip to a classical concert WED poses difficulties for everyone. WED Producer ..... Steven Canny WED Jack Docherty WED Jack has an exceptional record of making stand-out comedy. WED He first performed at the 1980 Edinburgh Festival Fringe WED with the comedy sketch group The Bodgers and went on to WED write for radio and television including: Spitting Image, WED Alas Smith and Jones, Vic Reeves Big Night Out, Absolutely, WED The Lenny Henry Show, Max Headroom, Weekending, The News WED Huddlines and a ton of other things. WED He has also performed in a huge variety of comedy shows WED including in The Comic Strip Presents, The Morwenna Banks WED Show, Monarch of the Glen, Red Dwarf V, The Old Guys and WED Badults. He has also featured in the Radio 4 comedies WED Baggage and Mordrin MacDonald - 21st Century Wizard and has WED appeared on various comedy panel shows including Have I Got WED News For You and It's Only TV But I Like It. Jack presented WED his own show The Jack Docherty Show which ran for 2 years on WED Channel 5. WED Credits WED Barney: Jack Docherty WED Cathy: Kerry Godliman WED Fiona: Fiona Allen WED David: Charlie Higson WED Evan: John Thomson WED Alice: Katherine Parkinson WED Producer: Steven Canny WED Writer: Jack Docherty WED WED 23:00 The Masterson Inheritance b007jsy1 (Listen) WED Series 1, The Mastersons Lose Everything WED Decadent Auderon's unsavoury habits threaten family ruin. WED Improvised comedy with Paul Merton and Josie Lawrence. From WED May 1993. WED WED 23:30 And Now in Colour b0080qg5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Eurospecial WED The sketch team cross the English Channel for a French WED link-up. Stars Tim de Jongh and William Vandyck. From WED February 1991. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 APRIL 2016 THU THU 00:00 Orbiter X b078jrh3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and THU Beyond b078jrh5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 P Division b007jx64 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Uncool Britannia b00sh3pm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 Book at Bedtime b065gjvl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2xr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01291vy (Listen) THU Cath Staincliffe - Blood in the Mountains, Episode 3 THU When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, THU probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, THU search backwards through the family line to find the true THU heir and get a slice of the fortune. Their quest leads them THU to uncover a broken family with a terrible secret. THU Henry Gaunt died leaving a sizeable estate but no Will. Dan THU and Rachel have discovered that ninety four year old Eric THU Beatty is the rightful heir to his estate but Eric is THU refusing to take what is rightfully his. THU DAN.....William Ash THU RACHEL.....Claire Keelan THU YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes THU GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle THU JO.....Eithne Brown THU MR GHYLL.....Russell Richardson THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgj48 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b01mtsm3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 The Motion Show b00762kw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 The Fall of the Mausoleum Club b007k44b (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 The Brothers b00q9xrj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully THU b04md4nr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 P Division b007jx68 (Listen) THU Condition Purple, Episode 4 THU As the search for Dino and Jimmy 'The Rodent' Purdue THU continues, Donoghue receives a report of another murder. 'P THU Division' closes in... THU Stars Ralph Riach as DS Ray Sussock, Martin McCardie as PC THU Hamilton, Gerard Slevin as Reynolds, Martin Cochrane as DCI THU Donoghue, Gaylie Runciman as Karen, John Buick as DC King, THU Frank Gallagher as DC Montgomery and Alex McAvoy as Tuesday THU Noon. THU Published in 1989, this is Peter Turnbull's sixth P Division THU novel about his Glaswegian cops. THU Recorded in a BBC studio and on location in Glasgow. THU Dramatised by Stephen Mulrine. THU Producer: Hamish Wilson THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1993. THU THU 06:30 Uncool Britannia b00skpbn (Listen) THU The James Last Years THU Steve Punt continues his three part history of the Britain THU that's ubiquitous yet unashamedly uncool. Steve argues the THU nation's recent past has been hijacked by the fashionistas THU and that it's time to celebrate the past as it really was - THU deeply unhip. Forget the Rolling Stones, Mary Quant and the THU Aston Martin, what Britons really love is a nice melody, a THU sensible coat and a reliable motor... THU Steve makes an assault on Punk, claiming it was James Last THU and his orchestra rather than Sid Vicious and his safety THU pins who embodied the 70s. Between the mid-60s and the THU mid-80s, Last racked up 52 hit albums - coming second only THU to Elvis. Whilst the Punks may have packed out a few obscure THU venues, James Last was selling out the Royal Albert Hall. THU Steve attempts to get to the bottom of how this German THU band-leader won over legions of Brits with his THU easy-listening tunes and why the maestro of the THU middle-of-the-road has never received credit for his THU chart-topping success. THU Producer: Laurence Grissell THU (repeat). THU THU 07:00 All the Young Dudes b007rkc3 (Listen) THU Series 1, People's Parties THU Billy is not keen on entertaining round at his place, until THU someone suggests a game of cards. Starring Jim Sweeney. From THU August 2001. THU THU 07:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b077jb6z (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU David Baddiel hosts the second series of the panel show THU where some of the funniest comedians have to go against all THU their instincts and try not to make an audience laugh. THU Featuring Omid Djalili, Sara Pascoe, Russell Kane, Adam THU Hess. THU A So Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: David Baddiel THU Panellist: Omid Djalili THU Panellist: Sara Pascoe THU Panellist: Russell Kane THU Panellist: Adam Hess THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jtjp (Listen) THU Series 2, The Guests THU Author Gerald is appalled at news of unwelcome dinner THU companions. THU The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring THU Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as THU his wife. THU With Michael Goldie and Penelope Reynolds THU Written by Basil Boothroyd. THU Producer: Bobby Jaye THU The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter ran from 1976 THU to 1981 THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1977. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b007k18c (Listen) THU Series 4, The BioShow THU The station biographical series pays tribute to the THU sensational life of celebrated actor, Sir John Lesley. 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 with Jon Canter, THU John Docherty, Moray Hunter, Helen Murry and Nick Wilton. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1984. THU THU 09:00 Booked b0075m92 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 6 THU Ian McMillan chairs the literary quiz with Roger McGough, THU Mark Thomas, Rory Motion and Dillie Keane. From November THU 1997. THU THU 09:30 Artists b00x59wq (Listen) THU Series 1, Moor Will Mean Worse THU A community of artists in Cornwall bicker over each others' THU work - and with each other. Stars Pauline McLynn. From March THU 2003. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b01n0vh4 (Listen) THU Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd, Cuts and Points THU By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 2/3 - Bathsheba THU discovers that sending William Boldwood a valentine card was THU a terrible mistake. But Boldwood is not Gabriel's only rival THU for Bathsheba's heart. THU Musicians ..... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole THU This episode will be available to listen to until 14th THU October 2012. THU Credits THU Bathsheba: Alex Tregear THU Gabriel Oak: Shaun Dooley THU Boldwood: Toby Jones THU Troy: Patrick Kennedy THU Liddy: Lizzy Watts THU Fanny: Hannah John-Kamen THU Maltster: Robert Blythe THU Jan: Joe Sims THU Joseph: Sam Alexander THU Henery: Patrick Brennan THU Billy: Don Gilet THU Cain: Harry Livingstone THU Maryann: Amaka Okafor THU Writer: Graham White THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU Producer: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 11:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078jvg1 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Will Flora's marriage plans for Elfine triumph, and will she THU finally meet her Aunt Ada Doom? Read by Kenneth Williams. THU THU 11:30 Agatha Christie b00jzy3m (Listen) THU The Dressmaker's Doll THU A creepy doll with a mind of its own causes alarm along THU London's catwalks. Mike Walker's revamped whodunnit with THU Juliet Aubrey. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jtjp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b007k18c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 P Division b007jx68 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Uncool Britannia b00skpbn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 Book at Bedtime b065gk5b (Listen) THU Go Set a Watchman, Episode 4 THU Harper Lee's explosive second novel was finally published in THU 2015. Believed lost for decades after the publication of 'To THU Kill A Mockingbird', this book revisits much-loved THU characters, this time through adult eyes. THU Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb THU for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into THU the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her THU beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship THU with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same THU place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother THU Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust THU shattered before she is able to become her own woman. THU Harper Lee was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill THU a Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept THU over and revered by generations since its publication in THU 1960. She lived in Monroeville, Alabama until her death in THU February 2016. THU Read by Fenella Woolgar THU Written by Harper Lee THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU Credits THU Reader: Fenella Woolgar THU Author: Harper Lee THU Abridger: Robin Brooks THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2y6 (Listen) THU Men in Uniform - Nation and Empire Resplendent THU Not always for camouflage, 19th-century uniforms were THU vibrant and flattering. Fashion's military love affair THU continues today. THU THU 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01292tx (Listen) THU Cath Staincliffe - Blood in the Mountains, Episode 4 THU When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, THU probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, THU search backwards through the family line to find the true THU heir and get a slice of the fortune. Their quest leads them THU to uncover a broken family and a terrible secret. THU Henry Gaunt died leaving a sizeable estate but no Will. Dan THU and Rachel have discovered that ninety four year old Eric THU Beatty is the rightful heir to the estate but with Eric's THU refusal to accept the estate and Eric's daughter Jo THU desperate to get her hands on the inheritance Dan and Rachel THU must think creatively if they are to get their percentage. THU DAN.....William Ash THU RACHEL.....Claire Keelan THU YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes THU GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle THU JO.....Eithne Brown THU REEVES / BENNY.....Russell Richardson THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgj4c (Listen) THU Bruce Chatwin - On the Black Hill, Episode 4 THU Iestyn Jones reads from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the THU lives of identical twin brothers Lewis and Benjamin Jones, THU on their farm in the Welsh Marches. THU After the war the twins turn their attention even more THU towards each other and their home. But tension erupts when THU Lewis has an encounter with Joy Lambert, the wife of a local THU artist. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b01n0vh4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 Booked b0075m92 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Artists b00x59wq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 All the Young Dudes b007rkc3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b077jb6z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 18:00 Orbiter X b078jwxl (Listen) THU The Final Round THU Britton, McLelland and Hicks are back on Earth. Can CSP foil THU Unity's plan for world domination? Stars John Carson. From THU December 1959. THU THU 18:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and THU Beyond b078jwxn (Listen) THU More Than Just Farming THU Charlotte Smith visits HMP North Sea Camp, a prison in THU Lincolnshire, where inmates at the end of long sentences are THU taught farming skills. THU It's drawn from the long-running Radio 4 series, On Your THU Farm. She also looks into a question that's repeatedly asked THU - who 'belongs' in the countryside? Many black and Asian THU people, for example, report they seldom visit rural areas. THU We hear how Anna Hill explored that issue in an edition of THU On Your Farm in 2001 when she looked at the barriers between THU urban and rural communities. THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b007jtjp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b007k18c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 P Division b007jx68 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Uncool Britannia b00skpbn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078jvg1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:30 Agatha Christie b00jzy3m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:30 today] THU THU 22:00 Don't Make Me Laugh b077jb6z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:30 The Headset Set b012r7v2 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 6 THU An audience sketch show set in the call centre of Smile5, THU the catalogue company that sells anything and everything. THU Sailesh missing a customer order leads him to reveal the THU reason he left Bangalore to join The Headset Set. THU Aleesha, Lorraine and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie, Denise and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn THU Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Paul sharma 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 b079rrd6 (Listen) THU From 10pm to midnight, seven days a week, the Comedy Club THU has two hours of comedy. Plus Jess Fostekew chats again to THU Taylor Glenn. THU THU 23:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04gyp8k (Listen) THU Series 10, How to Eat Food THU Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves. THU In this show, in order to help explain one of our most THU fundamental acts as human beings, Jeremy Hardy picks up the THU topic of food with the chopsticks of enquiry and then drops THU it on his trousers of former cleanliness. THU Helping him tackle the subject will be special guests Vicki THU Pepperdine (Getting On, My First Planet) and Speaks To The THU Nation regular, Paul Bassett Davies. THU Welcome to "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation", a series of THU debates in which Jeremy Hardy engages in a free and frank THU exchange of his entrenched views. Passionate, polemical, THU erudite and unable to sing, Jeremy returns with a new series THU of his show, famous for lines like "Kids should never be THU fashion slaves, especially in the Far East. My 12-year old THU daughter asked me for a new pair of trainers. I told her she THU was old enough to go out and make her own". THU Few can forget where they were twenty years ago when they THU first heard "Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation". The show THU was an immediate smash-hit success, causing pubs to empty on THU a Saturday night, which was particularly astonishing since THU the show went out on Thursdays. The Light Entertainment THU department was besieged, questions were asked in the House THU and Jeremy Hardy himself became known as the man responsible THU for the funniest show on radio since Money Box Live with THU Paul Lewis. THU Since that fateful first series, Jeremy went on to win Sony THU Awards, Writers Guild nominations and a Nobel Prize for THU Chemistry. He is a much-loved regular on both The News Quiz THU and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. He can't sing. THU Written by Jeremy Hardy THU Produced by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Presenter: Jeremy Hardy THU Performer: Vicki Pepperdine THU Performer: Paul Bassett Davies THU Writer: Jeremy Hardy THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 23:30 Hardeep at The Stand b015zsd8 (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU 1/6 THU We're back at The Stand comedy club for more jokes, stories THU and revelations from some of the world's best comedians. THU Hardeep Singh Kohli takes to The Stand's tiny stage to THU introduce a selection of the world's greatest comedians. THU This week Hannibal Buress, one of the staff writers for 30 THU Rock and Saturday Night Live talks to us about his eating THU habits, airport security and his Scottish visitors. American THU A-Lister Margaret Cho talks about working with Bill Hicks, THU her Korean heritage and the pressure of being Woody Allen's THU favourite stand up comedian and we get some great gags from THU Scottish favourite and Radio Scotland regular Des Clarke. THU THU 23:45 Steven Appleby's Normal Life b00st0z2 (Listen) THU Series 2, Normal Oceanography THU The cartoonist wades into the world under the sea, and gets THU intimate with a haddock. Stars Paul McCrink. From March THU 2003. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 APRIL 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 Orbiter X b078jwxl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and FRI Beyond b078jwxn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 P Division b007jx68 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Uncool Britannia b00skpbn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 Book at Bedtime b065gk5b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2y6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 15 Minute Drama b01292tx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgj4c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b01n0vh4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 Booked b0075m92 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Artists b00x59wq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 All the Young Dudes b007rkc3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Don't Make Me Laugh b077jb6z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Renny Krupinski - Bright Red One b078jzlg (Listen) FRI Alan: We have it in red, sir. FRI Keith: Red, eh? FRI Alan: A sort of bright red, sir. Immaculate throughout. FRI 19,000 miles. FRI Keith: And three four fifty, you said? I'll come down. FRI But Keith looks set to regret the day he had this telephone FRI conversation, the first of many. FRI Renny Krupinski's drama stars John Baddley as Alan, Renny FRI Krupinski as Keith, Camille Coduri as Sharon and Paul FRI Gregory as Meetek. FRI Directed by Janet Whitaker FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1988 as part of Tuesday FRI Follies: Six Thirty Minute Plays. FRI FRI 06:30 Uncool Britannia b00sn4rd (Listen) FRI The Austin Montego Years FRI Steve Punt concludes his three part history of the Britain FRI that's ubiquitous yet unashamedly uncool. Steve argues the FRI nation's recent past has been hijacked by the fashionistas FRI and that it's time to celebrate the past as it really was - FRI deeply unhip. FRI Today Steve takes to the road, remembering the Austin FRI Maestro & Montego which were unveiled with great fanfare in FRI the early 80s. Steve takes a drive in a Montego with FRI motoring journalist Quentin Willson and attempts to get to FRI grips with why history has been so unkind to these two FRI sensible but unstylish motors. He hears from the voice FRI behind the cars' celebrated speech synthesiser, Nicolette FRI McKenzie, and hears from dealers, designers and marketing FRI men involved in the car's launch. FRI Producer: Laurence Grissell. FRI FRI 07:00 Winston in Love b007jnby (Listen) FRI A Dangerous Critter FRI Love is in the air. Even the old rogue is hooked up. But has FRI Nancy met her match? Stars Maurice Denham. From January FRI 1991. FRI FRI 07:30 The Rest Is History b07858bs (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 4 FRI Frank Skinner loves history, but just doesn't know much of FRI it. So he's devised a comedy discussion show in order to FRI find out more about it. FRI Along with his historian in residence, Professor Kate FRI Williams, Frank is joined by a selection of celebrity guests FRI who help him navigate his way through the annals of time, FRI picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and most FRI interesting moments in history. FRI The guests are Chris Addison and Alun Cochrane, who discuss FRI the three wise men, Jack Straw (not that one), Henry Austen FRI and a weaponry timeline. FRI Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard FRI An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Frank Skinner FRI Panellist: Chris Addison FRI Panellist: Alun Cochrane FRI Panellist: Kate Williams FRI Producer: Mark Augustyn FRI Producer: Justin Pollard FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrgc (Listen) FRI Moving On FRI Bob and Terry take an eventful trip down memory lane. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier, Rodney Bewes as Bob FRI Ferris and Brigit Forsyth as Thelma Chambers. With Sheila FRI Fearn and Michael Segal. 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 provided by FRI BBC producer Stan Was. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1975. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b007jnm5 (Listen) FRI The Great Bank Robbery FRI All set for the Long Distance Bass Drum Race, Neddie Seagoon FRI is duped into villainy. Stars Spike Milligan. From November FRI 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n9yfs (Listen) FRI Series 5, Ker, Stephenson Connolly, Geim 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. Ever since someone gave the Museum the Big FRI Bang it's been expanding at an alarming rate, and now FRI there's no looking back without the aid of a huge telescope. FRI This week, John and Jimmy have invited along comedian FRI Humphrey Ker, sex therapist, comedian and author Dr Pamela FRI Stephenson-Connolly and Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir FRI Andre Geim. FRI Guests booked for the rest of the series include: FRI Physicist and broadcaster Dr Helen Czerski FRI Expert on Ancient Mesopotamia Dr Irving Finkel FRI Magician/actor/comedian Andy Nyman FRI Anatomist author and broadcaster Professor Alice Roberts FRI Comedian Sean Hughes FRI Ig Nobels Prize founder Marc Abrahams FRI Astronaut Buzz Aldrin. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b016vn8c (Listen) FRI Series 9, Imaginary Friends FRI Victoria is keen to meet her daughter's new boyfriend, but FRI is he all that he seems? Stars Angela Thorne. From January FRI 2003. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b01n606d (Listen) FRI Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd, A Successful FRI Rival FRI By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 3/3 - one man FRI proves constant in his love for Bathsheba, while she gives FRI up on all hopes of happiness. FRI Musicians ... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole FRI This episode will be available to listen to until 14th FRI October 2012. FRI Credits FRI Bathsheba: Alex Tregear FRI Gabriel Oak: Shaun Dooley FRI Boldwood: Toby Jones FRI Troy: Patrick Kennedy FRI Liddy: Lizzy Watts FRI Fanny: Hannah John-Kamen FRI Maltster: Robert Blythe FRI Jan: Joe Sims FRI Joseph: Sam Alexander FRI Henery: Patrick Brennan FRI Billy: Don Gilet FRI Cain: Harry Livingstone FRI Maryann: Amaka Okafor FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI Writer: Graham White FRI FRI 11:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078k3vl (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Flora's plan for Amos and Seth Starkadder takes off. Judith FRI is next on the list. Kenneth Williams reads Stella Gibbons' FRI classic. FRI FRI 11:15 Jim Broadbent - A Sense of History b04yf832 (Listen) FRI In keeping his family estate intact, the 23rd Earl of Leete FRI has resorted to the odd murder and a degree of coercion. FRI Stars Jim Broadbent. FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrgc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b007jnm5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Renny Krupinski - Bright Red One b078jzlg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Uncool Britannia b00sn4rd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 Book at Bedtime b065gkj1 (Listen) FRI Go Set a Watchman, Episode 5 FRI Harper Lee's explosive second novel was finally published in FRI 2015. Believed lost for decades after the publication of 'To FRI Kill A Mockingbird', this book revisits much-loved FRI characters, this time through adult eyes. FRI Jean Louise 'Scout' Finch travels from New York to Maycomb FRI for her annual visit home. It's always a relief to slip into FRI the comfortable rhythms of the South; to spend time with her FRI beloved father Atticus and rekindle her spiky relationship FRI with Aunt Alexandra. But mid-50s Alabama is not the same FRI place where young Scout spent idyllic summers with brother FRI Jem, and the 26-year old will be betrayed and have her trust FRI shattered before she is able to become her own woman. FRI Harper Lee was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'To Kill FRI a Mockingbird', a book which has been studied, loved, wept FRI over and revered by generations since its publication in FRI 1960. She lived in Monroeville, Alabama until her death in FRI February 2016. FRI Read by Fenella Woolgar FRI Written by Harper Lee FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI Credits FRI Reader: Fenella Woolgar FRI Author: Harper Lee FRI Abridger: Robin Brooks FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie FRI FRI 14:15 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Men of Fashion b00jm2yn (Listen) FRI Sporting Gents - The Prince of Wales Plays Golf FRI The interior designer examines how sportswear has been men's FRI fashion's single biggest influence since the French FRI Revolution. FRI FRI 14:30 15 Minute Drama b01293bs (Listen) FRI Cath Staincliffe - Blood in the Mountains, Episode 5 FRI When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is published, FRI probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan and Rachel, FRI search backwards through the family line to find the true FRI heir and get a slice of the fortune. Their quest leads them FRI to uncover a broken family and a terrible secret. FRI Henry Gaunt died leaving a sizeable estate but no Will. FRI Ninety four year old Eric Beatty, the rightful heir to the FRI estate has rejected the money. Eric fought for the FRI International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War alongside FRI Henry Gaunt's father George who was killed there. But Eric FRI has been holding a terrible secret about George's death and FRI Dan and Rachel are about to uncover it. FRI DAN.....William Ash FRI RACHEL.....Claire Keelan FRI YOUNG ERIC.....Tom Hughes FRI GEORGE.....Stephen Hoyle FRI JO.....Eithne Brown FRI ERIC.....Russell Dixon FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 14:45 Book at Bedtime b00fgj4f (Listen) FRI Bruce Chatwin - On the Black Hill, Episode 5 FRI Iestyn Jones reads from Bruce Chatwin's novel about the FRI lives of identical twin brothers Lewis and Benjamin Jones, FRI on their farm in the Welsh Marches. FRI The twins continue to enjoy farm life, shunning modernity FRI and sharing their parents' bed. Then Mrs Redpath arrives FRI with news that will change everything. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b01n606d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n9yfs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b016vn8c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Winston in Love b007jnby (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 The Rest Is History b07858bs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 Sally Warboyes - Wishing Well b0075vj3 (Listen) FRI 4 Extra Debut. Sarah needs a room for the night and is taken FRI under the wing of Grace and Kenneth. Sinister drama with FRI Rosemary Leach. FRI FRI 18:30 On Your Farm: A Journey Through the British Isles and FRI Beyond b078k3vn (Listen) FRI Rare Breeds FRI Charlotte Smith hears from founder Joe Henson why the Rare FRI Breeds Survival Trust was set up. BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm FRI programme visits Joe's Cotswold farm to hear about the FRI history of farm animals. FRI Mining the rich archive of past editions of the long running FRI series On Your Farm shows how much the farming industry FRI changed across the 20th century. The series, which began in FRI 1965, has visited every possible kind of farm around the FRI British Isles and beyond. FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007jrgc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b007jnm5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Renny Krupinski - Bright Red One b078jzlg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Uncool Britannia b00sn4rd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Kenneth Williams Reads: Cold Comfort Farm b078k3vl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Jim Broadbent - A Sense of History b04yf832 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 The Rest Is History b07858bs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 Comedy Club at Machynlleth b078k3vq (Listen) FRI Series 5, Episode 1 FRI Made for 4 Extra. Interviews and features from the 2016 FRI Machynlleth Comedy Festival. FRI FRI 22:35 It's David O'Doherty Time b00tlw72 (Listen) FRI The comedian combines documentary with song to describe the FRI busy day he spent tidying his Dublin bedsit. From December FRI 2008. FRI FRI 23:05 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01rl8nd (Listen) FRI Steven Seagal FRI In his debut solo Radio 4 show, comedian Thom Tuck recounted FRI heart-rending tales of loves lost while drawing comparisons FRI with 54 Straight-to-DVD Disney movies he'd watched, so we FRI don't ever have to. FRI Thom now turns his attention to other genres of FRI Straight-to-DVD movies - seeking out further underrated gems FRI and drawing parallels with captivating personal tales from FRI his own life experience, backed by cinematic music, so we FRI can rest easy. FRI In this first episode, Thom looks at the action film genre. FRI Steven Seagal has made 27 sub-masterpieces of FRI Straight-to-DVD action films. Thom has managed to extricate FRI himself from the same number of scrapes during his life. He FRI grabbed a man's face! Seagal punched a man's face! FRI "...a seductive experience" The Guardian FRI Produced by Lianne Coop. FRI FRI 23:35 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00hkrbb (Listen) FRI Astronomy for Dummies FRI Josie unravels greater mysteries of the cosmos in her quest FRI to better herself through learning and books. From February FRI 2009. FRI FRI 23:45 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b01jrknw (Listen) FRI Series 3, The End of the World Is Nigh FRI Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of FRI 21st Century Wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated 2000 FRI year-old Scottish sorcerer with enough power in his small FRI finger to destroy a town, yet insufficient clout to get a FRI speed bump installed outside his cave by the local council. FRI Even for such a skilful sorcerer, modern life is rubbish! FRI In this episode, Mordrin (David Kay) is enlisted by fellow FRI wizard Bernard The Blue (Jack Docherty) to help tackle a FRI fiery meteor which is heading straight to earth and is FRI threatening to wipe out all civilisation. However, Mordrin's FRI attention is swayed from the task in hand by news that FRI Heather has a new boyfriend in the shape of slimy patter FRI merchant Aiden. (Donald Pirie). Will Mordrin be able to be FRI distracted long enough from aiming pot shots at Aiden to FRI save the world from certain doom? FRI Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He FRI initially set up his jam-making business Fruity Potions as a FRI plc for income tax relief, but has found it a useful vehicle FRI to help him bolster his skill set and his range of products FRI and services. (Even a wizard has to diversify these days.) FRI He's been running Fruity Potions from his cave for the past FRI few years, in between completing the odd quest as instructed FRI by the Wizard Council. In the past, his services were to FRI help kings in battles of good and evil, or as he prefers to FRI put it 'assisting with neighbour disputes'. Now it can range FRI from killing the odd Jakonty Dragon to an array of end of FRI the world-type scenarios. FRI Written by David Kay & Gavin Smith. FRI Producer: Gus Beattie FRI A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. FRI Credits FRI Mordin: David Kay FRI Bernard the Blue: Jack Docherty FRI Geoff: Gordon Kennedy FRI Heather: Hannah Donaldson FRI Aiden: Donald Pirie FRI Writer: David Kay FRI Writer: Gavin Smith FRI Producer: Gus Beattie FRI
22 April, 2016
Radio 4 Extra Listings for 23/04/2016 - 29/04/2016
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