13 May, 2016

Radio 4 Extra Listings for 14/05/2016 - 20/05/2016

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SAT SATURDAY 14 MAY 2016 SAT SAT 00:00 William Hope Hodgson - The House on the Borderland SAT b007wxhs (Listen) SAT Episode 4 SAT Back from his voyage, the narrator sees a sinister green SAT hand at his window. Jim Norton reads William Hope Hodgson's SAT fantasy. SAT SAT 00:30 Soul Music b00mbkk4 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Allegri's Miserere SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT Allegri wrote the chord sequence for his Miserere in the SAT 1630s for use in the Sistine Chapel during Holy Week. It SAT then went through the hands of a 12-year-old Mozart, SAT Mendelssohn and Liszt until it finally reached England in SAT the early 20th century and got fixed into the version we SAT know today. SAT The soaring soprano line that hits the famous top C and SAT never fails to thrill has become a firm favourite for SAT concert audiences around the world. Textile designer Kaffe SAT Fassett, writer Sarah Manguso and conductor Roy Goodman SAT explain how they have all been deeply affected by this SAT beautiful piece of music. SAT SAT 01:00 Russell Thorndike - Doctor Syn b00dbwts (Listen) SAT Episode 10 SAT The devastated daredevil sets out to take revenge on his SAT enemies - one by one. Concluded by Rufus Sewell. SAT Christopher Syn, a brilliant young scholar, is a Doctor of SAT Divinity at Oxford, but his eventual decision to throw away SAT the Bible for the sword in a mad quest for vengeance will SAT influence the rest of his life. SAT Russell Thorndike's 18th Century, Kent-based adventure SAT features pirates, smuggling, highwaymen, duels, wicked SAT squires and beautiful Spanish ladies. Based on the first two SAT novels (published 1935 and 1936) in the seven-title SAT sequence, 'Doctor Syn on the High Seas' and 'Doctor Syn SAT Returns'. Abridged by Doreen Estall. SAT Writer Russell Thorndike (1885-1972) is less well-known than SAT his sister, the actress Dame Sybil Thorndike, but his Doctor SAT Syn novels hold a special place in the affection of lovers SAT of atmospheric, swashbuckling storytelling everywhere. His SAT novels have been filmed with actors as diverse as George SAT Arliss, Peter Cushing and Patrick McGoohan in the role of SAT Syn, and the Kent village of Dymchurch holds an official SAT 'Day of Syn' every other year, to commemorate a home-grown SAT literary folk hero. SAT Producer: Lawrence Jackson SAT Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland SAT First broadcast in 2006. SAT SAT 01:30 Big Game, Little Game b00v1rh8 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT In the second of two programmes, Mark Stephen charts a SAT unique swap involving two gamekeepers - one from the SAT Kalahari, the other from the Angus Glens. SAT Gamekeeper Andy Malcolm is swapping 40,000 acres of heather SAT moorland high in the Angus Glens for a reserve on the edge SAT of the Kalahari in South Africa. The game warden from there SAT will travel to Scotland in a unique swap documented for BBC SAT Radio 4. SAT The programmes offer the very different perspectives of SAT Scottish gamekeeper Andy Malcolm and his South African SAT counterpart Dylan Smith. Both men track their experiences in SAT the form of audio diaries and in reflections to presenter SAT Mark Stephen who is alongside them in this job exchange. How SAT they deal with issues ranging from land conservation to SAT animal welfare and how far experiences in their own SAT landscapes can translate into ideas for their new ones, is SAT at the heart of the recordings. SAT Producer: Sue Mitchell. SAT SAT 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn01 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Nick discovers the reason behind Gatsby's parties - his need SAT to be reunited with someone from his past. Read by Sam SAT Robards. SAT SAT 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and SAT the Mind b041dn37 (Listen) SAT Talking Cures? SAT Martin considers some of the therapies that combined the SAT psychoanalytic principles of Freud and Jung with the SAT behaviour modifying techniques of the mid-Twentieth SAT Century's other significant psychological movement SAT 'behaviourism'. SAT With reference to the 'Gloria' tapes that featured the same SAT patient being treated by three different 'talking cures' - SAT Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, Fritz SAT Perls's Gestalt Therapy and Carl Rogers's Person Centred SAT Therapy. SAT Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, SAT University of London. SAT Producer: Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 02:30 15 Minute Drama b013ptf6 (Listen) SAT Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad, A House in Chawton SAT May's name has appeared on a terrorist death list. She and SAT her husband Ali are desperate to escape from Iraq. Bee, a SAT British journalist, has managed to arrange a university SAT place for May, but to get to Britain they must first get to SAT Jordan. At the last moment Ali's Jordanian visa is refused. SAT May resolves to go by herself to Jordan and sort out the SAT problem. This is a true story. SAT May ..... Souad Faress SAT Bee ..... Fenella Woolgar SAT Ali ..... Zubin Varla SAT Justin ..... Stephen Hogan SAT Eva/Ayasha ..... Deeivya Meir SAT Militia Man/Official/Minister ..... Peter Polycarpou SAT Newsnight director ..... Jonathan Forbes SAT Lawyer/Octavia ..... Elaine Claxton SAT Director..... Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service SAT b07bft32 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT In the guise of Sir Hilary Bray, Bond contacts Blofeld and SAT learns more about his Alpine hideaway. Read by Joanna SAT Lumley. SAT SAT 03:00 Classic Serial b01m4c90 (Listen) SAT Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks, Episode 3 SAT The final part of Thomas Mann's Nobel Prize winning story of SAT a 19th Century merchant family struggling to keep pace with SAT changing times. J Thomas and Gerda's son Hanno shows no SAT aptitude for business, but may make a great musician. SAT Dramatised by Judith Adams with original music by Nico SAT Muhly. SAT Technical presentation by David Fleming Williams SAT Produced and directed by Chris Wallis SAT An Autolycus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Narrator: Pip Carter SAT Elizabet Buddenbrook: Barbara Flynn SAT Thomas Buddenbrook: Joseph Millson SAT Toni Buddenbrook: Clare Corbett SAT Christian Buddenbrook: Carl Prekopp SAT Gerda Buddenbrook: Colleen Prendergast SAT Hanno Buddenbrook: Gene Goodman SAT Hanno Buddenbrook: Harry Lawtey SAT Kai, Count Molln: Thiago Los SAT Kai, Count Molln: Hugo Docking SAT Pfhul: David Thorpe SAT Dr Grabow: Stephen Critchlow SAT Ida Jungmann: Alison Pettit SAT Dr Brecht: Gerard McDermott SAT Master 1: Ben Crowe SAT Master 2: Shaun Prendergast SAT Boy 1: Liam Maslov-Boxer SAT Boy 2: Scott Smith SAT Boy 3: George Sanderson SAT Clementine: Judith Adams SAT Writer: Thomas Mann SAT Producer: Chris Wallis SAT Director: Chris Wallis SAT SAT 04:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01nl675 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Hughes, Czerski, Finkelman SAT The Museum of Curiosity is hosted by the Professor of SAT 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) and 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 comedian Sean SAT Hughes, physicist Dr Helen Czerski and cuneiform expert Dr SAT Irving Finkel. SAT Guests to look forward to: SAT Comedian Sara Pascoe SAT Ig Nobels Prize founder Marc Abrahams SAT Astronaut Buzz Aldrin. SAT SAT 04:30 No Commitments b01773xl (Listen) SAT Series 9, Houseroom SAT Anna's love-life seems to be on an even keel, but can the SAT same be said for Roger? Stars Angela Thorne. From January SAT 2003. SAT SAT 05:00 Winston in Love b007jncr (Listen) SAT Clip Clop, Clip Clop SAT It's Father's wedding day, but will he really cut his family SAT off without a bean? Stars Maurice Denham. From February SAT 1991. SAT SAT 05:30 The Rest Is History b079mhls (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 6 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 Josie Long and Kevin Eldon, who discuss SAT Captain Blood, Drake's Drum, Bloody Mary and E.R.N.I.E. SAT Produced by Mark Augustyn and Justin Pollard SAT An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Frank Skinner SAT Panellist: Josie Long SAT Panellist: Kevin Eldon SAT Panellist: Kate Williams SAT Producer: Mark Augustyn SAT Producer: Justin Pollard SAT SAT 06:00 Peter Tinniswood b007jsl3 (Listen) SAT The Village Fete SAT When Nancy moves to the countryside with her brother, sister SAT and poorly father, everything goes wrong. The Empson SAT family's new house has a gas leak and needs re-wiring and SAT re-roofing. SAT Nancy doesn't mind. She likes organising. But then Winston, SAT the local poacher and handyman, takes over and invites Nancy SAT to the village fete. SAT Stars Shirley Dixon as Nancy, Maurice Denham as Father, Liz SAT Goulding as Rosie, Christian Rodska as William and Bill SAT Wallis as Winston. SAT Peter Tinniswood's play introduces the Empson family - which SAT sparked five series of Winston's adventures for BBC Radio SAT between 1989 and 1994. SAT Producer: Shaun McLoughlin SAT First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1987. SAT SAT 07:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00r7lyf (Listen) SAT Making Sex Safe 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 From the 1950s the phrase 'scandalous bestseller' began to SAT appear on the covers of paperbacks such as Peyton Place by SAT Grace Metalious, Couples by John Updike and Portnoy's SAT Complaint by Philip Roth. And in spite of a widespread SAT belief that America had become unshockable, there continued SAT to be bursts of controversy over works of literature dealing SAT with sex, including Tony Kushner's Angels in America - SAT subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes - Edmund White's SAT A Boy's Own Story, Susanna Moore's In the Cut and Patricia SAT Cornwell's introduction of the first lesbian character in a SAT mainstream crime series. The programme also features SAT Nicholson Baker's response to discovering - in the Starr SAT Report - that his erotically explicit book Vox was one of SAT the love gifts given by Monica Lewinsky to President SAT Clinton. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Robyn Read SAT SAT 08:00 Archive on 4 b03z3ghc (Listen) SAT Portraying Real Lives SAT Actress Maxine Peake meets with actors and, in a series of SAT one to one conversations, discusses the challenges of SAT portraying the real-life character as opposed to the SAT fictional. SAT Maxine Peake has tackled many factual roles, including SAT Tracey Temple in Confessions of a Diary Secretary, Joan le SAT Mesurier in Hancock and Joan, the title role in The Secret SAT Diaries of Miss Anne Lister, Anne Scargill in Queens of the SAT Coal Age, Stephen Hawking's secretary in the 2015 film The SAT Theory of Everything, and her infamous portrayal of Myra SAT Hindley in See No Evil. SAT Most actors will only face a critical backlash if their SAT portrayal of King Lear or Jimmy Porter does not meet SAT expectation, but what happens if their subject is real? How SAT does this change the actor's approach to the character SAT research, is it better or worse to meet them, does this SAT restrict the boundaries or increase the empathy? And what SAT happens if that character is regarded as evil in the public SAT psyche? SAT In discussion with friends and colleagues such as Michael SAT Sheen, Sally Hawkins, Patricia Hodge, Monica Dolan, Shaun SAT Evans and Anne Scargill we discover how different the SAT approach can and has to be. SAT Producer: Elizabeth Foster. SAT First broadcast as part of BBC Radio 4's Character Invasion. SAT Clips SAT The Special Relationship, BBC, writer: Peter Morgan SAT Fantabulosa, BBC, writer: Martyn Hesford SAT See No Evil, ITV, writer: Neil McKay SAT U Be Dead, ITV, writer: Gwyneth Hughes SAT HG Wells War With The World, BBC, writer: James Kent SAT Made In Dagenham, writer: William Ivory SAT The Falklands Play, BBC, writer: Ian Curteis SAT Queens Of The Coal Age, BBC, writer: Maxine Peake SAT SAT 09:00 I Did It My Way b0092lb4 (Listen) SAT Roy Hudd SAT Much-loved comedian and actor Roy Hudd talks to Peter Reed SAT about his radio life and times, with behind-the-scenes SAT stories of making his on-air hit shows: SAT The News Huddlines (06/06/79). Poking fun at topical events SAT and personalities, this series ran for 25 years on BBC Radio SAT 2 when Roy was joined by Chris Emmett and his leading ladies SAT Janet Brown, Alison Steadman and June Whitfield. SAT The Newly Discovered Casebook of Sherlock Holmes SAT (16/01/1999). Roy dons his deerstalker to investigate 'The SAT Case of the Clockwork Fiend' with June Whitfield. SAT The Sony Radio Academy Gold award-winning Huddwinks SAT (14/08/86). Chris Emmett and Denise Coffey join Roy for SAT 'Railway '86 - The Movie!': British Rail's new 'Silver SAT Bullet' train ends up as a runaway express to Aberdeen. SAT Roy also reveals his more dramatic side in Peter SAT Tinniswood's play The Scan (29/09/1999). Compulsive talker SAT Ernest seeks reassurance from a protective nurse. Roy's SAT co-star is Judy Cornwell. SAT Produced by Mik Wilkojc. SAT SAT 12:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqb0 (Listen) SAT The Menace of Totleigh Towers SAT Bertie is obliged to sort out an amorous mix-up between his SAT friends. PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael SAT Hordern. SAT SAT 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007jzkv (Listen) SAT Brian Allington SAT The man of many parts uses the wealth and poverty of his SAT experience to discuss his old chum. Stars Peter Jones. From SAT May 1986. SAT SAT 13:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b07bkvqz (Listen) SAT The Experience of Love SAT Christopher Green explores the recent history of Britain's SAT gay and lesbian community. With Jonathan Coy and Adie Allen. SAT SAT 14:10 Inheritance Tracks b07bkw1s (Listen) SAT Carlos Acosta SAT Cuban ballet dancer Carlos Acosta chooses NG La Banda's SAT 'Echale Limon' and Polo Montanez's 'Un Millon de Estrellas'. SAT SAT 14:15 Frankly Speaking b07bkwq3 (Listen) SAT Edith Sitwell SAT The British avant garde poet and critic Dame Edith Sitwell SAT answers questions posed by writer Margaret Lane, critic SAT Lionel Hale, and Oscar-winning screenplay writer Paul Dehn. SAT Aged 68 when interviewed, she recalls her childhood SAT influences and shares her belief in the popularity of SAT poetry. SAT Dame Edith was born in 1887 and died in 1964. SAT Launched in 1952 on the BBC Home Service, Frankly Speaking SAT was a novel, ground breaking series. Unrehearsed and SAT unscripted, the traditional interviewee/interviewer pairing SAT was initially jettisoned for three interviewers firing SAT direct questions. Early critics described it as 'unkempt', SAT 'an inquisition' and described the guest as prey being SAT cornered, quarry being pursued - with calls to axe the SAT unscripted interview. But the format won out and eventually SAT won over its detractors. SAT Unknown or very inexperienced broadcasters were employed as SAT interviewers, notably John Betjeman, Malcolm Muggeridge and SAT Penelope Mortimer. Only 40 or so of the original 100 SAT programmes survive. SAT First broadcast on the BBC Home Service in 1955. SAT SAT 14:45 Could Do Better b03m7dn7 (Listen) SAT Terence Stamp SAT Robert Booth summons Terence Stamp to his study for a quiet SAT word about the actor's school reports. From November 1987. SAT SAT 15:00 Archive on 4 b03z3ghc (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SAT SAT 16:00 Peter Tinniswood b007jsl3 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SAT SAT 17:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SAT American Literature b00r7lyf (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SAT SAT 18:00 Afternoon Drama b01pzs6y (Listen) SAT Paul Evans - Chapel of Skins SAT Recorded high up in the Shropshire hills of the Welsh SAT Marches, and inspired by a living landscape and its history, SAT the Chapel of Skins is a fictional story about a ghostly SAT meeting of ways, written and narrated by Paul Evans with SAT wildlife sound recordings by Chris Watson. SAT High in the hills of the Welsh Marches, a remote crossroads SAT is marked by a telephone kiosk and an old stone chapel. It SAT is a mysterious and beautiful place, steeped in history SAT because of the ancient tracks which cross here like the SAT centre of a compass. SAT North, south, east, west: each direction is a 'way' ; a path SAT or opening affording passage from one place to another. SAT Along each way of travel comes a way of being; a voice SAT telling a story. Each story is set in a different time but SAT arrives in the same place. These voices have very different SAT histories but are drawn by necessity to the mystical yet SAT sinister Chapel of Skins which reflects the beauty and SAT harshness of Nature at this crossroads. SAT The drama becomes intense as each character must tell their SAT stories to the listener before the chapel bell tolls SAT midnight on the twelfth day of the twelfth month of the SAT twelfth year. Only at that moment will the chapel door open SAT in a bizarre midnight ritual and the lost souls find SAT sanctuary. So, the Chapel is a way too, a gateway affording SAT passage from one place to another. If they fail to tell SAT their stories, the fate of these restless figures, these SAT voices in the landscape, is to wander the hills for another SAT hundred years. SAT Wildlife sound recordist: Chris Watson SAT Directed and Produced by Sarah Blunt. SAT Best of Natural History - Podcast SAT You can SAT download SAT this programme for free via the BBC's SAT Best of Natural History Podcast SAT Available after broadcast. SAT Credits SAT Phone Box: Paul Evans SAT Trebrodier: Liza Sadovy SAT Anchor: Ben Crowe SAT Quabbs: Alex Tregear SAT Writer: Paul Evans SAT Director: Sarah Blunt SAT Producer: Sarah Blunt SAT SAT 18:45 15 Minute Drama b011vh4r (Listen) SAT HH Munro - Beasts on the Lawn: Saki, Gabriel Ernest SAT Beasts on the Lawn: Saki 2011 SAT Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro) SAT Adapted by Sean Grundy SAT Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short SAT stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a SAT modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their SAT own good. The tales are woven together by the character of SAT Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange SAT days and long nights. SAT Episode Four: Gabriel Ernest SAT Unpleasant celebrity chef Van Cheele has made quite a name SAT for himself with his particular brand of nasty cooking. One SAT day he finds a filthy naked teenager sunbathing in his large SAT garden on the Munro Estate. The boy claims to enjoy hunting SAT animals and also occasionally humans on the estate. Van SAT Cheele believes that this is a prank by a fellow celebrity SAT chef, but soon discovers that he's truly met his match. SAT Cast: SAT Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood SAT Gabriel Ernest.......................Carl Prekopp SAT Van Cheele..............................Ed Weeks SAT Ewa Ptorovisch......................Dolly Wells SAT Jeff the Man..................Malcolm Hamilton SAT Director: Alison Crawford. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Alison Crawford SAT SAT 19:00 I Did It My Way b0092lb4 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SAT SAT 22:00 What Does the K Stand For? b03lpjy6 (Listen) SAT Series 1, The Cat Next Door SAT An actress moves in next door to the Amos household and SAT encourages Young Stephen to overcome his stage fright. 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 Fola: Kathryn Drysdale SAT PE Teacher: Harry Jardine SAT Bo Bells: Rachel Atkins SAT Producer: Colin Anderson SAT Writer: Jonathan Harvey SAT Writer: Stephen K Amos SAT SAT 22:30 Armando Iannucci - Facts and Fancies b007jrlr (Listen) SAT From the Man Who Mistook his Bike for Olives SAT Turning his attention to dictators, the producer, writer and SAT performer presents his own collection of humorous essays. SAT SAT 22:45 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop b00txj0l (Listen) SAT Responsibility SAT By Christopher Green. SAT Ida Barr is a music hall singer who has embraced hip hop and SAT rap, reflecting the cultural diversity of London's East End, SAT where she has been living in retirement for several decades. SAT Ida has a genuine love of talking to people so each week she SAT investigates a new topic and creates a unique brand of SAT music-hall, hip-hop fusion with beat boxer Shlomo. This SAT week, the topic is "Responsibility". SAT Produced by Claire Grove SAT Ida Barr is the creation of award-winning performer SAT Christopher Green (aka spoof country and western singer Tina SAT C). "Missy Elliott meets Marie Lloyd" - Guardian. Each week SAT Ida investigates a current political buzz word - Choice, SAT Responsibility, Diversity and Transparency - and records her SAT findings on her Ida-pod - an ancient battery operated SAT cassette machine with a greasy earpiece. Her target groups SAT include the Sutton House over 55's drama group, children SAT from the Italia Conti Aacademy and Theatre Venture's Youth SAT Company from Stratford East. SAT Beat box artist Shlomo was heard by 3.9 billion people SAT around the world when he and Björk performed "Oceania" at SAT the opening ceremony of the 2004 Athens Olympics. He has SAT also worked with artists such as Martha Wainwright, Damon SAT Albarn, and Nitin Sawhney. He is a classically-trained SAT percussionist and heads the world's only human beatbox SAT choir, the Vocal Orchestra. SAT Christopher Green has written and performed three Tina C SAT series for BBC Radio 4 plus Tina C's Election Night BBQ SAT Special (Nov 2008). 'Ida Barr's Bingo' was at the Brighton SAT Festival and the South Bank earlier this year and 'Ida Barr: SAT So This Is Christmas' was at the Barbican Centre in December SAT 2008. SAT Credits SAT Producer: Claire Grove SAT SAT 23:00 Masala FM b007jyfv (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT Is the London Asian radio station about to lose its star SAT presenter? Stars Meera Syal and Sanjeev Bhaskar. From SAT September 1996. SAT SAT 23:30 The Museum of Everything b007k4y7 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Behind the Magic SAT The guides star in a beastly new DVD, and Turkish art proves SAT popular. Stars Marcus Brigstocke and Dan Tetsell. From May SAT 2005. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 MAY 2016 SUN SUN 00:00 Afternoon Drama b01pzs6y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 00:45 15 Minute Drama b011vh4r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 18:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 01:00 Writing the Century - Omnibus b07bkvqz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 13:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:10 Inheritance Tracks b07bkw1s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:10 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:15 Frankly Speaking b07bkwq3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Saturday] SUN SUN 02:45 Could Do Better b03m7dn7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 03:00 Archive on 4 b03z3ghc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 04:00 Peter Tinniswood b007jsl3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 05:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern SUN American Literature b00r7lyf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad b0146g6s (Listen) SUN Omnibus: How a true email friendship grew between BBC SUN journalist Bee Rowlatt and Iraq-based academic May Witwit. SUN With Souad Faress. SUN SUN 07:15 A Woman's World b00wr9py (Listen) SUN The Midwife SUN The series on men with jobs in mainly female workplaces SUN continues with the story of Andy Yelland, a male midwife. SUN Andy and his wife Mandy - who is also a midwife - discuss SUN attitudes towards men in their profession. "It is an odd job SUN for a man to do" says Andy, "there's no doubt about it". His SUN route into the job was unusual - he had previously been a SUN geologist. Chris Ledgard talks to Andy's colleagues at St SUN Michael's Hospital in Bristol to find out what they think of SUN his work, and hears about occasions when patients have asked SUN to be looked after by a woman. SUN SUN 07:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01h667d (Listen) SUN Series 8, Keeping the Flame Alive 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 With the Olympics looming Stan spies a golden opportunity - SUN renting out Ed's flat for the duration of the games at the SUN princely sum of £3,000 a week. So Ed has to pack up his SUN newspaper collection, sift through his takeaway trays and SUN leave the place he's called home for the last years. But SUN where will he go? SUN Credits SUN Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas SUN Fiona: Jenny Agutter SUN Janie: Rachel Atkins SUN Olive: Stephanie Cole SUN Cliff: Geoff McGivern SUN Frank: Simon Greenall SUN Jaz: Philip Jackson SUN Pearl: Rita May SUN Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy SUN Lisa: 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 b07bl57v (Listen) SUN Tale of A Cat SUN Can cheeky schoolboy Jimmy dream up a way to keep an SUN unexpected feline visitor? 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 Producer: James Casey SUN First broadcast on the BBC Light Programme in April 1960. SUN SUN 08:30 Doctor in the House b007lmys (Listen) SUN With their microscopes in at the pawn broker, the young SUN medics need some cash in a hurry. SUN The misadventures of student doctor Simon Sparrow - adapted SUN for radio by Ray Cooney from Richard Gordon's novel 'Doctor SUN in the House' published in 1952. SUN Starring Richard Briers as Simon Sparrow, Geoffrey Sumner as SUN Sir Lancelot Spratt, Ray Cooney as Tony Benskin, Edward Cast SUN as Taffy Evans, Joan Young as Lady Spratt and David Jason as SUN the Waiter. SUN Producer: David Hatch SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in August 1968. SUN SUN 09:00 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: Omnibus b07bl683 (Listen) SUN Naturalist Chris Packham reads his recollections of being an SUN introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions. SUN SUN 10:10 Inheritance Tracks b07bljwd (Listen) SUN Katie Derham SUN Broadcaster Katie Derham chooses 'Bachianas Brasileiras No SUN 5' by Heitor Villa-Lobos and 'Fire and Rain' by James SUN Taylor. SUN SUN 10:15 World Book Club b07bljwg (Listen) SUN Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Sun SUN Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about her novel set during SUN the 1960s Biafran War in Nigeria. With Harriett Gilbert. SUN From June 2009. SUN SUN 11:15 The Moth Radio Hour b07blk9p (Listen) SUN Series 2, Dog Mother, Tour Guide, and Milli Vanilli SUN True stories told live in the USA: Jennifer Hixson SUN introduces tales of relationships, revelations and SUN confronting racism. SUN The Moth is an acclaimed not-for-profit organisation SUN dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling based in the SUN USA. Since 1997, it has celebrated both the raconteur and SUN the storytelling novice, who has lived through something SUN extraordinary and yearns to share it. Originally formed by SUN the writer George Dawes Green as an intimate gathering of SUN friends on a porch in Georgia (where moths would flutter in SUN through a hole in the screen), and then recreated in a New SUN York City living room, The Moth quickly grew to produce SUN immensely popular events at theatres and clubs around New SUN York City and later around the USA, the UK and other parts SUN of the world. SUN The Moth has presented more than 15,000 stories, told live SUN and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. SUN The Moth podcast is downloaded over 27 million times a year. SUN Featuring true stories told live on stage without scripts, SUN from the humorous to the heart-breaking. SUN The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Jay Allison and Atlantic SUN Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts and is distributed SUN by the Public Radio Exchange. SUN SUN 12:00 The Clitheroe Kid b07bl57v (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] SUN SUN 12:30 Doctor in the House b007lmys (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] SUN SUN 13:00 Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad b0146g6s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] SUN SUN 14:15 A Woman's World b00wr9py (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 today] SUN SUN 14:30 Lisa Owen - Not Working: Omnibus b07blljq (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Claire finds cracks appearing in her flat. They seem to SUN match those in her relationship with Luke. Read by Emily SUN Bruni. SUN SUN 15:45 Mr Ossie's Rolled-Gold Fish and Chip Shop b00bwjcq (Listen) SUN Desperate to see an Everton match, a boy turns to the local SUN fish fryer for help. Vincent McInerney's story read by SUN Richard Tate. SUN SUN 16:00 Saturday Drama b0183dzq (Listen) SUN Penelope Fitzgerald - The Gate of Angels SUN by Penelope Fitgerald, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus SUN Penelope Fitzgerald's 1990 novel, set in Edwardian London SUN and Cambridge, exploring love, religion, physics and the SUN random nature of chance. SUN Credits SUN Fred Fairly: Geoffrey Streatfield SUN Daisy Saunders: Jade Williams SUN Kelly: Carl Prekopp SUN Venetia: Tracy Wiles SUN Matron: Tracy Wiles SUN Wrayburn: James Lailey SUN Dr Sage: James Lailey SUN Matthews: Gerard McDermott SUN Skippey: Simon Bubb SUN Flowerdew: Paul Moriarty SUN Master: Paul Moriarty SUN Manageress: Victoria Inez Hardy SUN Mrs Saunders: Adjoa Andoh SUN Beazley: Rikki Lawton SUN Solicitor: Adam Billington SUN Constable: Adam Billington SUN Writer: Penelope Fitzgerald SUN SUN 17:00 Poetry Extra b07bln18 (Listen) SUN Crazy For Love - Layla and the Mad Poet SUN BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the SUN BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Crazy for Love - Layla and SUN the Mad Poet'. SUN The inspiration for Eric Clapton's seminal pop song, 'Layla SUN and Majnun' is said to be the most beautiful poem in the SUN Arab world and beyond. SUN Pre-empting Romeo and Juliet by centuries, Layla and Majnun SUN is the classic Middle East love story. Sitting at the heart SUN of pre-Islamic Arab culture, its message is universal and it SUN has since crossed borders and transcended language barriers SUN even spreading as far as India and Turkey. SUN Based on a tale of thwarted love and poetry sent on the SUN wind, Anthony Sattin tells the tale of its creator - Majnun SUN - whose name is the word for 'mad' or 'crazy' in Arabic and SUN tries to find out if he, or the object of his love, were SUN real or imagined, fact or fiction. SUN Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SUN First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010. SUN SUN 17:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01h667d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 18:00 Saturday Drama b016vxyz (Listen) SUN Alan Garner - The Weirdstone of Brisingamen SUN Written by Alan Garner. SUN A much-loved story firmly rooted in an ancient landscape SUN offers a thrilling and moving adventure. SUN Say 'Alderley Edge' to a lot of people and they'll think of SUN footballers with their wives, living in grand mansions. But SUN for a great many the words will conjure up wizards and a SUN hundred knights sleeping in a cave for thousands of years. SUN Alan Garner used a local legend as the starting point for SUN his bookThe Weirdstone of Brisingamen and the story is SUN firmly set in the part of Cheshire that he knows so well. SUN The book has been cherished by readers of all ages for fifty SUN years. SUN Alan Garner's story,dramatised by Peter Thomson, is set on SUN Alderley Edge and stems from a local legend of knights SUN sleeping in a cave for hundreds of years, ready to awake and SUN save the world from evil when the need comes.Wizards and SUN dwarfs play their part, but it's two children who seem to SUN hold the key to the future. SUN Dramatised by Peter Thomson SUN Music by Mia Soteriou. SUN Special Effects Wilfredo Acosta SUN Produced and directed by Jane Morgan SUN A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Credits SUN Colin: Robert Powell SUN Young Colin: Hugo Docking SUN Susan: Fern Deacon SUN Gowther: Trevor Cooper SUN Bess: Rachel Atkins SUN Selina Place: Monica Dolan SUN Cadellin: Philip Voss SUN Fenodyree: Steve Hodson SUN Durathror: Struan Rodger SUN Director: Jane Morgan SUN Writer: Alan Garner SUN SUN 19:00 The Moth Radio Hour b07blk9p (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] SUN SUN 19:45 Fingers in the Sparkle Jar: Omnibus b07bl683 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] SUN SUN 20:55 Inheritance Tracks b07bljwd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:10 today] SUN SUN 21:00 World Book Club b07bljwg (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 10:15 today] SUN SUN 22:00 Ed Reardon's Week b01h667d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] SUN SUN 22:30 Hearing With Hegley b00bfq19 (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 6 SUN The poet laureate of alternative comedy, John Hegley SUN entertains an audience with his book of verse. From December SUN 1996. SUN SUN 22:45 No Tomatoes b0082dsm (Listen) SUN Retro Rocket SUN A harp goes back in time with Paul Copley and Helen Moon. SUN Sketch show mixing up language and sounds. From October SUN 2007. SUN SUN 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07chgl6 (Listen) SUN The best in contemporary comedy. Arthur Smith chats to Andy SUN Zaltzman. SUN SUN 23:00 The Shuttleworths b007n13d (Listen) SUN John Shuttleworth's Open Mind, Fairies SUN The Sheffield singer-songwriter investigates agent Ken's SUN surprise discovery in his garden pond. With Kim Wilde. From SUN April 2006. SUN SUN 23:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01j6wgv (Listen) SUN Series 1, Episode 2 SUN In this episode, the team are horrified that the media have SUN been invited to one of Malcolm's citizenship ceremonies, SUN Anita's got problems with childcare and Luke's having a SUN 'quarter life' crisis. SUN Births, Deaths and Marriages is a brand new sitcom set in a SUN Local Authority Register Office where the staff deal with SUN the three greatest events in anybody's life. SUN Written by David Schneider (The Day Today, I'm Alan SUN Partridge), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is a SUN stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any SUN wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health SUN and safety. He's single but why does he need to be married? SUN He's married thousands of women. SUN Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been SUN parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and SUN Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her, marriage isn't just SUN about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit SUN in our new age of austerity. SUN There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried SUN he'll end up like Malcolm one day, and ditzy Anita who may SUN get her words and names mixed up occasionally but, as the SUN only parent in the office, is a mother to them all. SUN Cast: SUN Malcolm ...... David Schneider SUN Lorna ....... Sarah Hadland SUN Anita ........ Sandy McDade SUN Luke ....... Russell Tovey SUN Mary ....... Sally Bretton SUN Mr. Arnold/Peter Stephenson ...... Andrew Brooke SUN Bereaved woman/New Citizen/Mum ...... Jane Whittenshaw SUN Producer: Simon Jacobs SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 MAY 2016 MON MON 00:00 Saturday Drama b016vxyz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Sunday] MON MON 01:00 Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad b0146g6s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Sunday] MON MON 02:15 A Woman's World b00wr9py (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:15 on Sunday] MON MON 02:30 Lisa Owen - Not Working: Omnibus b07blljq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Sunday] MON MON 03:45 Mr Ossie's Rolled-Gold Fish and Chip Shop b00bwjcq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 15:45 on Sunday] MON MON 04:00 Saturday Drama b0183dzq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:00 Poetry Extra b07bln18 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] MON MON 05:30 Ed Reardon's Week b01h667d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Sunday] MON MON 06:00 Wimsey b007jzdt (Listen) MON The Nine Tailors, The Bells are Rung Up MON The elegant, intelligent amateur sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey MON is drawn into the case of an unsolved jewel theft - which MON turns into a grave mystery. MON Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, With Peter MON Jones as Bunter, Philip Latham as The Reverend Theodore MON Venables and Stephen Greiff as Stephen Driver. MON British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a MON number of detective novels and short stories by English MON crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first MON published in 1934. MON Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord MON Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton MON and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First MON World War. MON Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio MON from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations MON that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. MON Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. MON Producer: Martin Fisher MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1980. MON MON 06:30 Menotti b00l59rm (Listen) MON Music writer Michael White tells the life story of composer MON Gian Carlo Menotti and assesses why his music has fallen MON from grace. MON Menotti was a star - he partied at the White House with the MON Kennedys and sailed on yachts with Maria Callas. His music MON was celebrated, but today has been largely forgotten. This MON programme tells his story through music, memories, Menotti's MON own words, interviews with musicologists and singers who MON worked with him. Michael often visited Menotti in both his MON Scottish castle and in Italy, and had rare access to the MON composer's private papers. MON MON 07:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qcsv (Listen) MON Series 1, Episode 3 MON A hairy folk band helps Tamsyn Trelawny and the Cornish MON smugglers to escape the law. Stars Lucy Speed. From February MON 2003. MON MON 07:30 The Unbelievable Truth b079nggy (Listen) MON Series 16, Episode 6 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 gifts, women, fashion MON and songs. 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 b01p0x1b (Listen) MON Series 1, The Inspector Calls MON The threat of closure from an official inspection calls for MON desperate measures at the sleepy station. MON Starring Arthur Lowe as Horace, Ian Lavender as Bert, MON Kenneth Connor as Percy, Liz Fraser as Gloria and John MON Graham as Phineas Perkins. MON Jim Eldridge's eponymous series is set in a sleepy railway MON station. The Hepplewhites have run 'Parsley Sidings' station MON for generations and the current Station Master, Horace, MON hopes that his son Bert will continue the line. MON Mild-mannered Ticket Clerk Bert wants to work anywhere but MON on the railways. His colleague, Station Announcer Gloria MON Simpkins, secretly loves him. Porter Percy Valentine is an MON archetypal wheeler-dealer and the ancient Signalman, MON Bradshaw, causes havoc and dispenses home-made remedies in MON equal measure. The 'Parsley Sidings' nemesis is Phineas MON Perkins, the station master of Potwhistle Halt, one stop MON down the line. 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 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007jztn (Listen) MON The TV Spectacular - A Contradiction in Terms MON The veteran of many parts recounts the woeful tale of a MON 'Gala Night in Venice'. Stars Peter Jones. From June 1986. MON MON 09:00 The Write Stuff b00qpq1x (Listen) MON Series 12, Nancy Mitford MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are MON joined by John O'Farrell and Mark Billingham. The author of MON the week and subject for pastiche is Nancy Mitford, and the MON reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON 09:30 Tony's b007jt1y (Listen) MON Series 1, Money Money Money MON While checking the pipes in the cellar, the corner-shop MON barber makes a discovery. Stars Victor Spinetti. From MON November 1979. MON MON 10:00 Classic Serial b018w867 (Listen) MON The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 1 MON By Ayeesha Menon MON Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles MON Dickens 'Martin Chuzzlewit' and sets it amongst the Catholic MON community in modern-day Mumbai, India. MON Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old MON recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, MON Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit MON nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost MON to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey MON (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans MON are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers MON a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the MON extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his MON fortune. MON Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karan Pandit), MON an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a MON fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and MON murder... MON Thomas, an orphan, is apprentice to the scheming architect MON Pinto, a cousin to miserly old Martin Chuzzlewit, the MON richest landlord in Bandra. Drawn into the world of the MON Chuzzlewits, he forms a close friendship with the spirited MON Mickey, grandson of Martin and heir to the family fortune. MON When old Martin gets ill, Thomas witnesses attempts by MON family members to worm their way into his life and secure MON his fortune, while Mickey gives up everything in pursuit of MON love... MON Ayeesha Menon is an award-winning writer who works MON extensively in film and radio. For BBC Radio 4 she has MON written several outstanding adaptations including: Q & A MON (Slumdog Millionaire) which won Gold for Best Drama at the MON Sony Radio Academy Awards; THE Cairo Trilogy, starring Omar MON Sharif, which won a Bronze at the Sony Awards; My Name is MON Red from the novel by Orhan Pamuk; and Six Suspects from the MON novel by Vikas Swarup. MON Cast: MON Martin ..... Roshan Seth MON Thomas ..... Karan Pandit MON Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala MON Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur MON Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla MON Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon MON Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir MON Joseph ..... Nadir Khan MON Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur MON Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital MON Louis ..... Rohit Malkani MON Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel MON Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri MON Manek ..... Vivek Madan MON Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon MON Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg MON Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja MON Sound Design: David Chilton MON Music: Sacha Puttnam MON Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan MON Producer: John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b00761hk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON 4 Extra Debut. An innocent spinster tries to be a governess, MON but lands a job which turns out to be a real education. Read MON by Maureen Lipman. MON MON 11:15 CW Hill - Killing Maestros b007w5g0 (Listen) MON Conductor Sergei Bodanov feels jinxed by the evil curse of a MON Wagner opera. Christopher William Hill's drama stars Bill MON Nighy. MON MON 12:00 Parsley Sidings b01p0x1b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 12:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007jztn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 13:00 Wimsey b007jzdt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 13:30 Menotti b00l59rm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn11 (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON Nick is helpless watching Gatsby's faltering attempts to win MON Daisy Buchanan back. Can you really repeat the past? MON F Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about aspiration in MON boom-time America. Read in 10-parts by Sam Robards. MON Abridged by Neville Teller. MON Producer: Duncan Minshull MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1996. MON MON 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and MON the Mind b041vvvt (Listen) MON Lock 'Em Up MON This week, Martin examines the evolution of psychology's MON medicalised model, clinical psychiatry. MON In this programme, he traces the origins of the asylum MON movement, visiting London's 'Bedlam' hospital, the York MON Retreat, the centre of 'moral treatment' in the late MON Eighteenth Century, and the dark Victorian buildings of the MON former Winwick asylum. MON Produced by Alan Hall MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrdv (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. 'Pug' and MON 'Cat' get romantic. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le MON Touzel. MON MON 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service MON b07bphlq (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON James Bond has made contact with Blofeld, but fears his MON cover story has been compromised. Joanna Lumley reads Ian MON Fleming's thriller in ten-parts. MON First published in 1963, this was Fleming's 11th Bond novel, MON sandwiched between 'The Spy Who Loved Me' and 'You Only Live MON Twice'. In movie terms, this was the sixth of the original MON Bond movie franchise with George Lazenby playing the hero MON and Diana Rigg as Tracy. MON The reader Joanna Lumley had a small, unnamed role in the MON 1969 film of 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service', being simply MON referred to as 'The English Girl'. MON Abridged by Michael Bakewell. MON Producer: David Benedictus MON First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1989. MON MON 15:00 Classic Serial b018w867 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] MON MON 16:00 The Write Stuff b00qpq1x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 16:30 Tony's b007jt1y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] MON MON 17:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qcsv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] MON MON 17:30 The Unbelievable Truth b079nggy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jw4p (Listen) MON The Unusual Soiree MON When young poet Gabriel Syme meets Lucien Gregory, he's MON introduced to a mysterious Edwardian London secret society. MON Published in 1908, GK Chesterton's most famous novel is read MON in 13-parts by Geoffrey Palmer. MON Director: Lawrence Jackson MON Made for BBC Radio 7 by BBC Northern Ireland. MON First broadcast in 2005. MON MON 18:30 A Good Read b00765yc (Listen) MON Bianca Jagger & Mariella Frostrup MON Matthew Parris, Bianca Jagger and Mariella Frostrup discuss MON favourite paperbacks by Ahmed Rashid, Redmond O'Hanlon and MON Evelyn Waugh. From 2002. MON In Trouble Again by Redmond O'Hanlon MON Publisher: Penguin MON Taliban by Ahmed Rashid MON Publisher: Pan MON The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh MON Publisher: Penguin. MON MON 19:00 Parsley Sidings b01p0x1b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] MON MON 19:30 J Kingston Platt's Showbiz Handbook b007jztn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] MON MON 20:00 Wimsey b007jzdt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] MON MON 20:30 Menotti b00l59rm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] MON MON 21:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b00761hk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] MON MON 21:15 CW Hill - Killing Maestros b007w5g0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] MON MON 22:00 The Unbelievable Truth b079nggy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] MON MON 22:30 Kevin Eldon Will See You Now b01lhgzm (Listen) MON Series 1, Hooter MON Comedy's best kept secret ingredient gets his own sketch MON show. Sketches, characters, sound effects, bit of music, MON some messin' about, you know... MON In this episode, a fly, a fruit bowl and the Hallelujah MON Chorus. Obviously. Plus maverick street-artist Banksy's MON first-ever in-depth interview. Oh, did we mention the fruit MON bowl? Yep. MON Kevin Eldon is a comedy phenomenon. He's been in virtually MON every major comedy show in the last fifteen years. But not MON content with working with the likes of Chris Morris, Steve MON Coogan, Armando Iannucci, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse, MON Stewart Lee, Julia Davis and Graham Linehan, he's finally MON decided to put together his own comedy series for BBC Radio MON 4. MON After all the waiting - Kevin Eldon Will See You Now... MON Appearing in this episode are Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan MON Partridge, Scott and Bailey), Julia Davis (Nighty Night), MON Rosie Cavaliero (Peep Show), Paul Putner (Little Britain), MON Justin Edwards (The Consultants) and David Reed (The Penny MON Dreadfuls) with special guest Phil Cornwell as a man MON shouting "Wisbeach". MON Written by Kevin Eldon with additional material by Jason MON Hazeley and Joel Morris (Flight Of The Conchords, That MON Mitchell and Webb Sound). MON Original music by Martin Bird. MON Produced and directed by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 News Quiz Extra b07bpknp (Listen) MON Series 17, Episode 5 MON Susan Calman is among the guests for this episode of News MON Quiz Extra, the bumper bonus version of Friday's programme. MON MON 23:45 Singular Women b00752sz (Listen) MON Bea MON 4 Extra Debut. EastEnders' June Brown plays a long-suffering MON companion. Bittersweet comedy series about four very MON different women. From September 1997. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 MAY 2016 TUE TUE 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jw4p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:30 A Good Read b00765yc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:00 Wimsey b007jzdt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 01:30 Menotti b00l59rm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn11 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and TUE the Mind b041vvvt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrdv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service TUE b07bphlq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 03:00 Classic Serial b018w867 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:00 The Write Stuff b00qpq1x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 04:30 Tony's b007jt1y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:00 Elephants to Catch Eels b007qcsv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 05:30 The Unbelievable Truth b079nggy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 06:00 Wimsey b007jzg3 (Listen) TUE The Nine Tailors, Lord Peter Is Called In TUE Back in Fenchurch St Paul, Lord Peter Wimsey speculates on TUE mystery of the unidentified and badly battered body... TUE Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey. With Timothy TUE Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, Philip Latham as The TUE Reverend Theodore Venables, John Church as Ezra Wilderspin TUE and Diana Bishop as Liz Wilderspin. TUE British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a TUE number of detective novels and short stories by English TUE crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first TUE published in 1934. TUE Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord TUE Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton TUE and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First TUE World War. TUE Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio TUE from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations TUE that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. TUE Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. TUE Producer: Martin Fisher TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 1980. TUE TUE 06:30 Captured By Pirates b00rdwm5 (Listen) TUE Kate Silverton uncovers the story of the English schoolgirls TUE who were captured by pirates off the China coast, and later TUE ended up in a Japanese concentration camp with Eric Liddell. TUE In 1935, the SS Tungchow was taken over by a dozen Chinese TUE pirates as it emerged from the Yangtse River. They were TUE expecting a cargo of gold bullion but instead found three TUE lady teachers and seventy British missionaries' children, on TUE their way to Chefoo boarding school on the North China TUE coast. TUE Six years later, in 1941, these same children became enemy TUE aliens when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbour. They were TUE imprisoned in the Weihsien Internment Camp, Shantung TUE Province, along with 500 other children, half of them TUE without parents. The morale of the girls and their teachers TUE was greatly improved by two Brownie packs and a Girl Guide TUE Company. Their sports were organised by Eric Liddell, TUE (Chariots of Fire) until he died. TUE This is an extraordinary tale, and it's told by those who TUE were there: TUE Margaret Holder, née Vinden. TUE Beryl Goodland, née Welch. TUE Kathleen Foster, née Strange. TUE Mary Previte, née Taylor. TUE Evelyn Heubener, née Davey. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea TUE Programme consultant Janie Hampton. First broadcast in 2010. TUE TUE 07:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b008wmnh (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE A new museum of East End Life, shaped like an enormous TUE upturned whelk cup, means more structural damage to Linda's TUE laid-back lifestyle. TUE Sitcom written by and starring Linda Smith. TUE With Femi Elufowoju Jnr, Jeremy Hardy, Margaret John, Martin TUE Hyder and Chris Neill. TUE Producer: Jon Rolph TUE First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 2002. TUE TUE 07:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b042l78d (Listen) TUE Series 2, Rosa and Matthew TUE Isy Suttie returns to BBC Radio 4 with a brand new series of TUE her Sony Award Winning show, recounting a series of love TUE stories affecting people she's known throughout her life, TUE told partly through song. TUE Sometimes Isy has merely observed other people's love lives; TUE quite often she's intervened, changing the action TUE dramatically - for better or worse. Intertwined within these TUE stories are related real life anecdotes from Isy's own, TUE often disastrous, love life. TUE In this episode, Isy recounts the tale of Rosa and Matthew, TUE a hypnotherapist and an osteopath who work a few doors apart TUE and find it difficult to express their feelings for each TUE other. TUE With her multi-character and vocal skills, and accompanied TUE by her guitar, Isy creates a hilarious and deeply moving TUE world, sharing with us her lessons in life and love. TUE "A voice you want to swim in" The Independent TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE Credits TUE Performer: Isy Suttie TUE Writer: Isy Suttie TUE Producer: Lyndsay Fenner TUE TUE 08:00 Round the Horne b007jpq0 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 14 TUE Englishman 'Beau' joins the Foreign Legion to forget... and TUE Time & Motion efficiency experts, Julian and Sandy look for TUE efficiencies at the BBC. TUE Stars Kenneth Horne, Kenneth Williams, Hugh Paddick and TUE 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 b015h1xd (Listen) TUE Vipers in the Bosom TUE Whitehall gets worried. Could the bungling duo be secret TUE spies? Stars Deryck Guyler and Richard Murdoch. From June TUE 1974. TUE TUE 09:00 News Quiz Extra b07bpknp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 09:45 Singular Women b00752sz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 23:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 10:00 Classic Serial b01946wd (Listen) TUE The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 2 TUE By Ayeesha Menon TUE Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles TUE Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit and sets it amongst the Catholic TUE community in modern-day Mumbai, India. TUE Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old TUE recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, TUE Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit TUE nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost TUE to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey TUE (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans TUE are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers TUE a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the TUE extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his TUE fortune. TUE Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karan Pandit), TUE an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a TUE fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and TUE murder... TUE Disinherited by his grandfather, Mickey Chuzzlewit escapes TUE India and tries to make his fortune in Dubai. In his TUE absence, the scheming Pinto and murderous Joseph join forces TUE in an attempt to get hold of the old man's fortune. And TUE while Thomas's feelings grow for Mickey's fiancé, Mary, a TUE mysterious lodger with a terrible secret moves in next door TUE ... TUE Ayeesha Menon is an award-winning writer who works TUE extensively in film and radio. For BBC Radio 4 she has TUE written several outstanding adaptations including: Q & A TUE (Slumdog Millionaire) which won Gold for Best Drama at the TUE Sony Radio Academy Awards; The Cairo Trilogy, starring Omar TUE Sharif, which won a Bronze at the Sony Awards; My Nane Is TUE Red from the novel by Orhan Pamuk; and Six Suspects from the TUE novel by Vikas Swarup. TUE Cast: TUE Martin ..... Roshan Seth TUE Thomas ..... Karan Pandit TUE Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala TUE Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur TUE Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla TUE Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon TUE Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir TUE Joseph ..... Nadir Khan TUE Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur TUE Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital TUE Louis ..... Rohit Malkani TUE Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel TUE Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri TUE Manek ..... Vivek Madan TUE Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon TUE Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg TUE Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja TUE Sound Design: David Chilton TUE Music: Sacha Puttnam TUE Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan TUE Producer: John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b00761j1 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Actress Miss La Fosse is impressed by the curate daughter's TUE quick thinking and histrionic powers. Read by Maureen TUE Lipman. TUE TUE 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0112gvf (Listen) TUE Mike Bartlett - Heart TUE by Mike Bartlett. Alison Steadman plays Susan, a recently TUE retired primary school teacher. She sells things on eBay, TUE paints her own version of modern art and grows exotic plants TUE in a poly-tunnel. Her husband Steve is stressed at work and TUE is becoming depressed and increasingly vicious. She hardly TUE recognises him. Even hates him at times. Retirement wasn't TUE meant to be like this. TUE Directed by Claire Grove TUE Can love cope with personality change? In Mike Bartlett's TUE play, Steve thinks he is being sidelined by his new young TUE boss. His mounting stress unleashes a ferocity of emotions TUE between him and his wife. Susan tries to be light and funny TUE but it only makes things worse. Mark is actually in a TUE downward spiral into full blown clinical depression. Neither TUE he nor Susan recognise this until it is too late. Alison TUE Steadman and Nicholas Farrell star. TUE Mike Bartlett is one of the most exciting writers in Britain TUE today. He has worked with Paines Plough, the Royal Court and TUE the National Theatre, where he was writer-in-residence. His TUE play LOVE,LOVE,LOVE won Best New Play in the 2011 Theatre TUE Awards UK and COCK won an Olivier Award in 2010 for TUE Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. NOT TALKING TUE for BBC Radio 3 scooped both the Imison Award for Best First TUE Radio Play and The Tinniswood Award for Best Play in 2007. TUE His television series THE TOWN was nominated for a BAFTA for TUE Breakthrough Talent. TUE Credits TUE Susan: Alison Steadman TUE Steve: Nicholas Farrell TUE Jackie: Joanna Monro TUE Writer: Mike Bartlett TUE Producer: Claire Grove TUE TUE 12:00 Round the Horne b007jpq0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 12:30 The Men From the Ministry b015h1xd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 13:00 Wimsey b007jzg3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 13:30 Captured By Pirates b00rdwm5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn1h (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE Tom is astounded as Gatsby finally confronts him with his TUE true feelings for his wife, Daisy. Read by Sam Robards. TUE TUE 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and TUE the Mind b041xbxk (Listen) TUE The Cuckoo's Nest TUE From the late Eighteenth Century, the treatment - or TUE containment - of mentally ill people was taken out of the TUE hands of the church and into the hands of doctors. TUE Martin talks to psychiatrist Professor Tom Burns about TUE changing models of treatment and to Joanna Moncrieff, author TUE of The Myth of the Chemical Cure. TUE Producer: Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrf5 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, recalling TUE time spent apart as their daughter grows up. With Alex TUE Jennings. TUE TUE 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service TUE b07bpnsg (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE James Bond's cover has been blown, so he must battle to TUE escape Blofeld's Alpine hideaway - and fast. Read by Joanna TUE Lumley. TUE TUE 15:00 Classic Serial b01946wd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] TUE TUE 16:00 Counterpoint b00dk91z (Listen) TUE 2005, Episode 4 TUE Ned Sherrin's music quiz with Sue Bates of Barrow-upon-Soar, TUE Andrew Beardsell of Brighouse and Alan Gallagher from TUE Wallsend. TUE TUE 16:30 Flying the Flag b00c65k9 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Cool Heads TUE The diplomats take action as a hijack hits their wives' TUE fact-finding shopping trip. Stars Dinsdale Landen. From TUE December 1990. TUE TUE 17:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting TUE b008wmnh (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] TUE TUE 17:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b042l78d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jw50 (Listen) TUE The Anarchists' Council TUE In an underground HQ, Gabriel Syme witnesses Lucien Gregory TUE addressing the Central Anarchist Council. Read by Geoffrey TUE Palmer. TUE TUE 18:30 The Palace of Laughter b0084hvl (Listen) TUE Series 2, Ayr Gaiety Theatre TUE Geoffrey Wheeler probes the west coast venue's unique TUE staying power and its connection to Scotland's best-loved TUE bard Robert Burns. TUE TUE 19:00 Round the Horne b007jpq0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] TUE TUE 19:30 The Men From the Ministry b015h1xd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Wimsey b007jzg3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] TUE TUE 20:30 Captured By Pirates b00rdwm5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] TUE TUE 21:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b00761j1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] TUE TUE 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0112gvf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] TUE TUE 22:00 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b042l78d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] TUE TUE 22:30 The Guns of Adam Riches b01qkmws (Listen) TUE Series 1, Timecop TUE Brand new character comedy from 2011 Edinburgh Award winner, TUE Adam Riches. With fast-paced, offbeat sketches, songs (there TUE are no songs) and a generous dollop of audience interaction. TUE Also starring Cariad Lloyd and Jim Johnson. TUE This week, Timecops visit the BBC to try and prevent Adam TUE from making an offensive radio programme. TUE Written by Adam Riches TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer and Rupert Majendie. TUE TUE 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07cm6bm (Listen) TUE The best in contemporary comedy. Diane Morgan chats to TUE stand-up comedian Ed Gamble. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00t2crk (Listen) TUE Series 1, Switching Off TUE Comatose Ben's doctors bring in a psychiatrist, as he TUE recalls his therapy from the past. Stars Neil Pearson. From TUE August 2006. TUE TUE 23:30 The Wilson Dixon Line b00knt17 (Listen) TUE When Love Comes to Town (And Then Leaves Again) TUE Another chance to hear this affectionate tribute to the TUE philosophy of country music. Cowboy philosopher Wilson Dixon TUE shares his viewpoints on life, love and relationships TUE through songs and anecdotes. TUE Saddled up with sidekick Snake Wizzelteats, his observations TUE on everyday life draw the audience into world full of larger TUE than life characters and situations. In episode three, When TUE Loves Come To Town...And Then Leaves Again, Wilson talks TUE about love and affairs of the heart. Hard done by love, he TUE talks about his ex-wife Maureen, who pulled at Wilson's TUE heart like he pulls on his guitar strings. Hold onto your TUE stetson and get ready for the rocky ride of romance. TUE Wilson Dixon is the comic creation of Jesse Griffin and TUE sidekick Snake Wizzelteats is performed by Jesse Budd. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2016 WED WED 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007jw50 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:30 The Palace of Laughter b0084hvl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:00 Wimsey b007jzg3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 01:30 Captured By Pirates b00rdwm5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn1h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and WED the Mind b041xbxk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrf5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service WED b07bpnsg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 03:00 Classic Serial b01946wd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:00 Counterpoint b00dk91z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 04:30 Flying the Flag b00c65k9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:00 Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting WED b008wmnh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 05:30 Isy Suttie's Love Letters b042l78d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 06:00 Wimsey b007jzhc (Listen) WED The Nine Tailors, Bunter Breaks the Law WED As Lord Peter Wimsey's murder probe moves to the church bell WED tower, his manservant Bunter uses his initiative. WED Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, With Peter WED Jones as Bunter, Timothy Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, WED Noel Dyson as Mrs Venables, Keith Drinkell as Will Thoday WED and Claire Clifford as Mary Thoday. WED British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a WED number of detective novels and short stories by English WED crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first WED published in 1934. WED Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord WED Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton WED and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First WED World War. WED Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio WED from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations WED that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. WED Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. WED Producer: Martin Fisher WED First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. WED WED 06:30 Never Before in the History of Motion Pictures... WED b00rkm42 (Listen) WED With the help of Michael Winner, Invictus star Adjoah Andoh WED and those both currently and formerly responsible for WED bringing us the hyperbole and bombast we've come to expect WED from film advertising, writer Patrick Humphries takes an WED affectionate look at the story of the movie trailer. He WED charts its beginnings from simple cinema slide into the high WED octane technological wizardry we're used to today. WED Central to the story in the UK is Esther Harris who WED dominated British trailer making for over fifty years WED beginning in the 1920s. We hear from this 'Queen of WED Trailers', herself in a never before broadcast interview. WED This wonderfully eccentric ninety year old explains over a WED cup of tea how her extraordinary career began and the WED problems she encountered with censors and occasionally WED directors including Michael Winner who she recalls told her, WED "you're a bloody nuisance you know but you've got style!" WED Passionate trailer lover Michael Winner talks about Esther WED and that relentlessly thorny issue, censorship and we find WED out about his own personal trailer favourites. WED With king size thrills and breathtaking suspense, this is a WED never before heard tribute to a unique aspect of the film WED industry; and of course, perhaps to no one's surprise, it WED features a very gravelly voice.... WED Produced by Katrina Fallon WED A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 07:00 Married b007ys7j (Listen) WED Series 2, Betrayal WED Robin learns how his new-universe life can be sweet, even at WED someone else's expense. Stars Hugh Bonneville. From April WED 2000. WED WED 07:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04p87r7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Exit Strategy WED 6/6: Exit Strategy. In this final episode of the series, WED Uljabaan is determined to fail his annual inspection, in WED order to be sent to a better posting. But he'll need Kat and WED Lucy's help in order to make it work - and he can do without WED any surprises, such as the identity of the Zone Commander WED who'll be conducting the inspection... 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 hyperintelligent 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 Zone Commander Ravella: Nina Sosanya WED Writer: Eddie Robson WED Producer: Ed Morrish WED WED 08:00 The Navy Lark b01m42n7 (Listen) WED The Emperor of Tratvia WED Captain Povey calls on the crew of HMS Troutbridge to help WED him out of a domestic predicament. WED Stars Leslie Phillips as the Sub-Lieutenant, Jon Pertwee as WED the Chief Petty Officer, Stephen Murray as the Number One, WED Richard Caldicot as Captain Povey, Ronnie Barker as Able WED Seaman Johnson, Heather Chasen as Mrs Povey and Tenniel WED Evans as The Admiral. 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 January 1964. WED WED 08:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j3f8d (Listen) WED Series 9, Episode 2 WED Radio Prune presents A Kick in the Arts, and So You Think WED You've Got a Feed Line? With Bill Oddie. From November 1973. WED WED 09:00 The Motion Show b07bpq37 (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 6 WED Graeme Garden chairs the debating game with Gyles Brandreth, WED Steve Punt, Marcus Brigstocke and Andy Parsons. From July WED 2001. WED WED 09:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k04h (Listen) WED The Brew That Is True WED The royal train's visit sparks turmoil for the rural railway WED station's new manager. Stars Peter Davison. From December WED 1995. WED WED 10:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) WED The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 3 WED By Ayeesha Menon WED Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old WED recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, WED Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit WED nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost WED to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey WED (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans WED are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers WED a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the WED extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his WED fortune. WED Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karqn Pandit), WED an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a WED fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and WED murder... WED Mickey returns to India determined to show his grandfather WED he is a changed man and to marry Mary, the love of his life. WED But, in his absence, things have changed; the old man now WED appears to be under the control of the scheming Pinto who WED will not let Mickey near him. And Thomas has fallen in love WED with Mary... Meanwhile the hapless Joseph loses all his WED money in a Ponzi scheme. With his debtors closing in, murder WED seems to be the only way out... WED Ayeesha Menon is an award-winning writer who works WED extensively in film and radio. For BBC Radio 4 she has WED written several outstanding adaptations including: Q & A WED (Slumdog Millionaire) which won Gold for Best Drama at the WED Sony Radio Academy Awards; The Cairo Trilogy, starring Omar WED Sharif, which won a Bronze at the Sony Awards; My Name Is WED Red from the novel by Orhan Pamuk; and Six Suspects from the WED novel by Vikas Swarup. WED Cast: WED Martin ..... Roshan Seth WED Thomas ..... Karan Pandit WED Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala WED Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur WED Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla WED Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon WED Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir WED Joseph ..... Nadir Khan WED Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur WED Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital WED Louis ..... Rohit Malkani WED Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel WED Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri WED Manek ..... Vivek Madan WED Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon WED Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg WED Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja WED Sound Design: David Chilton WED Music: Sacha Puttnam WED Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan WED Producer: John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b07bt8vp (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The shy spinster is transformed for a party and gets the WED chance to sort out Miss Du Barry's love life. Read by WED Maureen Lipman. WED WED 11:15 Afternoon Drama b0122twz (Listen) WED Margaret Wilkinson - Can You Hear Me WED A new drama by Margaret Wilkinson. WED It is the summer of 1940 and Anna, a young Italian WED translator is working at the BBC's Wood Norton Hall, WED Evesham: a government listening post where she monitors WED enemy domestic radio broadcasts. Her work is secret; she WED looks for buried information on troop movements in Italian WED radio broadcasts and provides information to the Allies. WED Anna works alongside sound engineers and other translators, WED including young German translator Fred who is in love with WED Anna. WED One day the voice of Anna's recently interned Italian lover WED Carlo comes over the airwaves asking for her help. Anna is WED gripped by a fierce dilemma. As Carlo's communications WED increase in frequency, passion and urgency, Fred discovers WED Anna's activities and warns her not to believe what she WED hears, this could be an enemy spy posing as Carlo. WED When news comes in that a ship carrying Italian internees WED has been struck by a torpedo from a German submarine, Anna WED is shocked to hear that it is The Arandora Star, a ship she WED believes Carlo to have been aboard. Fred urges Anna to WED inform the authorities immediately; she cannot aid an enemy WED fugitive. WED Will Anna risk losing everything for Carlo? WED ANNA.....Morven Christie WED FRED.....Matthew McNulty WED CARLO.....Cesare Taurasi WED MRS FELLOWS.....Sarah Parks WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 12:00 The Navy Lark b01m42n7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 12:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j3f8d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 13:00 Wimsey b007jzhc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 13:30 Never Before in the History of Motion Pictures... WED b00rkm42 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn20 (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Tom and Gatsby's struggle for Daisy's love sparks some WED tragic consequences. Read by Sam Robards. WED WED 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and WED the Mind b041xykb (Listen) WED The Snake Pit WED Martin talks to clinical psychologist Vaughan Bell about WED different forms of mental disturbance - psychoses and WED neuroses - and their manifestation in popular culture, WED including the Polanski film Rosemary's Baby and the poetry WED of Spike Milligan. And he meets Dolly Sen, a film-maker WED who's experienced psychosis for most of her life. WED Producer: Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrfh (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Tragedy WED strikes and more loneliness follows. With Sylvestra Le WED Touzel. WED WED 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service WED b07bpswt (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED Having evaded capture by Blofeld's men in Switzerland, Bond WED tries to establish what the villain is up to. Read by Joanna WED Lumley. WED WED 15:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] WED WED 16:00 The Motion Show b07bpq37 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 16:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k04h (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] WED WED 17:00 Married b007ys7j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] WED WED 17:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04p87r7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007w5jd (Listen) WED The Tale of a Detective WED When Gabriel Syme turns the tables on Lucien Gregory, the WED Central Anarchist Council takes action. Read by Geoffrey WED Palmer. WED WED 18:30 Off the Page b007w0j1 (Listen) WED Act Your Age WED Dominic Arkwright chairs the lively discussion series. WED 5/7. Act Your Age WED With Katherine Whitehorn, Martin Newell and Lucy Mangan. WED WED 19:00 The Navy Lark b01m42n7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] WED WED 19:30 I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again b00j3f8d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] WED WED 20:00 Wimsey b007jzhc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] WED WED 20:30 Never Before in the History of Motion Pictures... WED b00rkm42 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] WED WED 21:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b07bt8vp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] WED WED 21:15 Afternoon Drama b0122twz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] WED WED 22:00 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully WED b04p87r7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] WED WED 22:30 Start/Stop b03bg4vk (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED by Jack Docherty WED A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the WED sunset. And sinking. This week a Barbecue proves painful for WED everyone. 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 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07cm6zx (Listen) WED The best in contemporary comedy. Diane Morgan chats to Jack WED Spencer (also known as character comedian Al Greene). WED WED 23:00 2000 Years of Radio b007jng1 (Listen) WED Series 1, Crusade Roadshow WED Out and about, historic expeditions and more are on the WED airwaves. Stars Marcus Brigstocke. From November 2000. WED WED 23:15 Guy Browning's Small Talk b0076mv2 (Listen) WED Series 2, How to Kiss WED The writer enumerates the many and varied methods of WED engendering facial contact, and where it might lead. From WED August 2004. WED WED 23:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b012wjd5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED A multi-paced, one woman Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing WED the exceptional talent of Lucy Montgomery. Lucy is a true WED chameleon who can embrace any character with uncanny WED accuracy, from a non-stop chattering public school girl to a WED decrepit and self-abasing charwoman. Lucy is a rare and WED multifaceted performer her intelligence and Barry WED Humphries-esque glee give her characterisations a smart and WED distinctive edge. WED Like all big stars, Lucy's worked hard to earn her tilt at WED the windmill of fame. In her ten years since Footlights WED she's honed her talents on Radio 4 shows as diverse as the WED Sony Gold winning Down the Line, The Museum of Everything, WED The Department, Another Case of Milton Jones, Mastering the WED Universe, Torchwood, The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook WED and The Way We Live Right Now. On television she has made WED her mark on BBC THREE's TittyBangBang, BBC ONE's Armstrong WED and Miller and BBC TWO's - Bellamy's People. WED Starring; Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Natalie WED Walter and Waen Shepherd WED Written by Lucy Montgomery with additional material by Steve WED Burge, Jon Hunter, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Fay Rusling. WED Script Editor; Dan Tetsell WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 MAY 2016 THU THU 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007w5jd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:30 Off the Page b007w0j1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:00 Wimsey b007jzhc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 01:30 Never Before in the History of Motion Pictures... THU b00rkm42 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn20 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and THU the Mind b041xykb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrfh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service THU b07bpswt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 03:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:00 The Motion Show b07bpq37 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 04:30 Change at Oglethorpe b007k04h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:00 Married b007ys7j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 05:30 Welcome to Our Village, Please Invade Carefully THU b04p87r7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Wednesday] THU THU 06:00 Wimsey b007jzjm (Listen) THU The Nine Tailors, The Hunt Moves to France THU After intercepting the mystery letter, Lord Peter Wimsey THU decides it's time to head across the English Channel. THU Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, With Peter THU Jones as Bunter, Timothy Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, THU Andre Moran as Commissaire Rosier and Lolly Cockerill as THU Madame Legros. THU British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a THU number of detective novels and short stories by English THU crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first THU published in 1934. THU Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord THU Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton THU and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First THU World War. THU Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio THU from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations THU that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. THU Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. THU Producer: Martin Fisher THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. THU THU 06:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero b00rmrpt (Listen) THU Nitin Sawhney explores the life of the Indian musician Ravi THU Shankar as he approaches his 90th birthday. THU Ravi Shankar is one of the greatest musicians the world has THU ever seen. In the West his outstanding career has sometimes THU been overshadowed by his brief association with the Beatles THU but he has been performing and composing at the highest THU level for over 70 years. The man who first brought Indian THU classical music to an international audience was once THU compared to Mozart by the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin. THU But it wasn't an easy journey to success - it took an THU arduous process of study and practice. Fellow musician and THU fan Nitin Sawhney meets his hero to discuss how he did it. THU With contributions from Ravi Shankar's daughter Anoushka, THU one of India's biggest music stars Zakir Hussain, George THU Harrison's wife Olivia, The Who's Pete Townshend and music THU historian Ken Hunt. THU Credits THU Producer: James Hale THU THU 07:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqdd (Listen) THU Upstairs, Downstairs and Bumps in the Night THU Bertie tries to play peacemaker when he arrives at Totleigh THU Towers. PG Wodehouse romp with Richard Briers and Michael THU Hordern. THU THU 07:30 Don't Start b06wg843 (Listen) THU Series 3, Driving THU What do long term partners really argue about? The third THU series of Frank Skinner's sharp comedy. Starring Frank THU Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. THU In this episode, Kim and Neil's return home from a funeral THU involves a missed left turn, a backseat stenographer and the THU planet Zobula. THU The first and second series of Don't Start met with instant THU critical and audience acclaim: THU "That he can deliver such a heavy premise for a series with THU such a lightness of touch is testament to his skills as a THU writer and, given that the protagonists are both bookworms, THU he's also permitted to use a flourish of fine words that THU would be lost in his stand-up routines." Jane Anderson, THU Radio Times THU "Frank Skinner gives full rein to his sharp but splenetic THU comedy. He and his co-star Katherine Parkinson play a THU bickering couple exchanging acerbic ripostes in a cruelly THU precise dissection of a relationship." Daily Mail THU "...a lesson in relationship ping-pong..." Miranda Sawyer, THU The Observer THU Don't Start is a scripted comedy with a deceptively simple THU premise - an argument. Each week, our couple fall out over THU another apparently trivial flashpoint. Each week, the stakes THU mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But these are no THU ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other with THU increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary references THU and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's weaknesses. THU Underneath the cutting wit, however, there is an THU unmistakable tenderness. THU An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. THU Credits THU Neil: Frank Skinner THU Kim: Katherine Parkinson THU Writer: Frank Skinner THU THU 07:45 The Pin b06mg9gb (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU Join Alex and Ben in their weird twist on the double-act THU sketch show. Strap in for a 15 minute delve in to a world of THU oddness performed in front of a live studio audience. THU The Pin are an award-winning comedy duo, and legends of THU Edinburgh festival. They deconstruct the sketch form, in a THU show that exists somewhere between razor-sharp smartness and THU utterly joyous silliness. THU After a sold-out run in Edinburgh, and a string of hilarious THU performances across BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC 3, Channel 4, and THU Comedy Central, this is The Pin's debut solo show for Radio THU 4. Join them as they celebrate, make, collapse and rebuild THU their jokes, each other, and probably the radio too. THU For fans of Adam and Joe, Vic and Bob, and Fist of Fun - a THU show of absurd offerings from two loveable idiots. THU 'Reinventing sketch comedy before our very eyes.' THU ***** The List THU 'Eviscerating their chosen form completely.' THU **** The Sunday Times THU 'A very classy, very funny show indeed.' THU **** The Telegraph THU 'Adept at finding laughs in surprising places.' THU **** The Times THU 'A genuine boundary pusher.' THU **** London is Funny. THU Credits THU Performer: Alex Owen THU Performer: Ben Ashenden THU THU 08:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b0081l71 (Listen) THU Series 2, The Holiday THU Author Gerald and his wife Diana struggle to get on a THU getaway. THU The convoluted chronicle of an optimistic author starring THU Ian Carmichael as Gerald C Potter and Charlotte Mitchell as THU his wife. THU Written by Basil Boothroyd. THU Producer: Bobby Jaye THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in December 1977. THU THU 08:30 Radio Active b007k1zs (Listen) THU Series 5, Wimbledon THU Anyone for tennis? Radio Active's exclusive 'live' coverage THU from Court 19. THU Starring Helen Atkinson-Wood, Angus Deayton, Geoffrey THU Perkins, Philip Pope and Michael Fenton-Stevens. THU Music by Philip Pope and Angus Deayton. THU Written by Angus Deayton, Geoffrey Perkins with John Cantor, THU Moray Hunter, John Docherty and Jeremy Pascall. THU Producer: Jamie Rix THU First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 1985. THU THU 09:00 The Food Quiz b0076mtq (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU On Jay Rayner's menu are Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Anissa THU Helou, Sue Lawrence and Charlie Hicks. From August 2004. THU THU 09:30 Artists b00xlxm5 (Listen) THU Series 1, Love's Banquet THU Tamsin is infuriated by Josef's lack of commitment, and THU Nisha is up to something fishy. Stars Graham Crowden. From THU April 2003. THU THU 10:00 Classic Serial b01r51f0 (Listen) THU Esther Waters, Episode 1 THU Esther Waters by George Moore. Dramatised by Sharon Oakes THU Episode 1 THU Set against a background of gambling and horseracing; Esther THU Waters is a stirring tale of how a servant girl makes her THU way in Victorian England.Forced to leave the home of her THU brutal stepfather, Esther takes a job as a maid at THU 'Woodview', a country estate owned by a nouveau riche racing THU family. THU Producer/Director Gary Brown THU Celebrated author Colm Toibin championed Esther Waters as a THU neglected Classic for Radio Four's Open Book programme. He THU encourages listeners to read the novel again because he THU thinks it has a wonderful story with fascinating characters, THU a heroine we'll come to know and love, and it's one of those THU books you just can't put down. THU Esther's tale is a slice of Victorian life that is rarely THU shown; single parenting, wet nursing, divorce, gambling, and THU religious zealotry. Through her we discover exactly what it THU feels like to be poor and powerless. The book was banned THU until Gladstone revoked it, saying it was compassionate, THU moral and humane; and after that it became a best seller. THU Credits THU Esther: Lyndsey Marshal THU William: Matthew McNulty THU Sarah: Joanne Froggatt THU Mrs Rivers: Joanne Froggatt THU Leopold: Hugh Simon THU George: Hugh Simon THU Demon: Stephen Hoyle THU Peggy: Lisa Brookes THU Mrs Latch: Melissa Jane Sinden THU Mrs Barfield: Melissa Jane Sinden THU Anne: Fiona Clarke THU Mrs Spires: Fiona Clarke THU Director: Gary Brown THU Producer: Gary Brown THU Writer: Sharon Oakes THU THU 11:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b07c6340 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The shy spinster goes to a night club for the first time and THU meets a man of her own age called Joe. Read by Maureen THU Lipman. THU THU 11:15 Afternoon Drama b00pxqz5 (Listen) THU Sophie Woolley - Carbon Cleansing THU By Sophie Woolley. When ex-banker Tabitha knocks 'green' THU activist Will off his bicycle with her 'Chelsea Tractor', THU two worlds literally collide. A tale of ecological THU responsibility, guilt and grimy hot tubs. THU Tabitha ...... Doon Mackichan THU Will ...... Joseph Kloska THU Samantha ...... Gemma Saunders THU Mary ...... Tessa Nicholson THU Reporter ...... John Biggins THU Directed by David Hunter. THU THU 12:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b0081l71 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 12:30 Radio Active b007k1zs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 13:00 Wimsey b007jzjm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 13:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero b00rmrpt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn2k (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU Nick witnesses Gatsby's failure to convince Daisy to be with THU him and Autumn - as fresh tragedy arrives. Read by Sam THU Robards. THU THU 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and THU the Mind b041ybjc (Listen) THU Sane in Insane Places THU Psychiatric treatments have had their fair share of THU controversy. THU In this episode, Martin looks at the extraordinary THU popularity of lobotomies during the middle of the last THU century, the continued use of Electroconvulsive Therapy and THU the 'anti-psychiatry movement' of RD Laing in the 1960s. THU Producer: Alan Hall THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrfx (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. Another THU world war is looming. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le THU Touzel. THU THU 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service THU b07bpxgc (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU With Blofeld's evil plan revealed, he must be stopped. But THU Bond is forced to use unconventional means. Read by Joanna THU Lumley. THU THU 15:00 Classic Serial b01r51f0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] THU THU 16:00 The Food Quiz b0076mtq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 16:30 Artists b00xlxm5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] THU THU 17:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqdd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] THU THU 17:30 Don't Start b06wg843 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 17:45 The Pin b06mg9gb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] THU THU 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007w43w (Listen) THU The Feast of Fear THU Gabriel Syme meets his fellow anarchists at a breakfast THU meeting in London's Leicester Square. Read by Geoffrey THU Palmer. THU THU 18:30 Great Lives b0076zm4 (Listen) THU Series 10, Max Miller THU 4 Extra Debut. Garry Bushell chooses the music hall THU comedian. With Matthew Parris and first-hand expert analysis THU from Roy Hudd. From August 2006. THU THU 19:00 The Small, Intricate Life of Gerald C Potter THU b0081l71 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] THU THU 19:30 Radio Active b007k1zs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] THU THU 20:00 Wimsey b007jzjm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] THU THU 20:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero b00rmrpt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] THU THU 21:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b07c6340 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] THU THU 21:15 Afternoon Drama b00pxqz5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] THU THU 22:00 Don't Start b06wg843 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] THU THU 22:15 The Pin b06mg9gb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 today] THU THU 22:30 Alex Horne Presents The Horne Section b043x48z (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU Stand-up Alex Horne and his 5-piece band explore fashion and THU trends through live music and comedy. This week there's a THU ceilidh and songs about Alex's car and the first dance at THU his wedding amongst others. They're joined by special guest THU comedian Marcus Brigstocke and singer Vula Malinga. THU Host... Alex Horne THU Band... Joe Auckland, Mark Brown, Will Collier, Ben THU Reynolds, Ed Sheldrake THU Guest... Marcus Brigstocke and Vula Malinga THU Producer... Charlie Perkins. THU Credits THU Presenter: Alex Horne THU Performer: Marcus Brigstocke THU Performer: Vula Malinga THU Producer: Charlie Perkins THU THU 22:55 The Comedy Club Interviews b07cm6n7 (Listen) THU The best in contemporary comedy. Diane Morgan is joined THU again by stand-up comedian Ed Gamble. THU THU 23:00 Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation b04kf60f (Listen) THU Series 10, How to Be Better THU Stand by your radios! Jeremy Hardy returns to the airwaves THU with a broadcast of national comic import! THU Using just the Bible, the Monarchy and Audrey Hepburn, THU Jeremy Hardy promises to build a whole new you. 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 another THU episode of his show, famous for lines like, "Islam is no THU weirder than Christianity. Both are just Judaism with the THU jokes taken out." 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 Performer: Jeremy Hardy THU Writer: Jeremy Hardy THU Producer: David Tyler THU THU 23:30 Hardeep at The Stand b016x2nh (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 4 THU 4/6 THU Join Hardeep Singh Kohli for some hilarious stand up comedy THU from the worlds best comedians. There's jokes, anecdotes and THU backstage revelations. THU THU 23:45 Knocker b0089jjk (Listen) THU Eligibilliant THU Market researcher Ian Dunn tackles a run down council tower THU block. Stars Neil Edmond and Paula Wilcox. From November THU 2007. THU Episode 2 - Eligibilliant THU Halloween in a run down tower block. Constantly mistaken for THU a Trick or Treater (he's stencilled 'Cowabunga' on his THU pac-a-mac to appeal to his youthful target group) and THU harassed by children so poor that they have to throw THU imaginary fireworks, Ian knocks on the Last Door In The THU Block. After terrifying and extended scrapings, the door is THU edged open by a rasping old woman who has struggled to drag THU her breathing apparatus to the door.. and who seems to have THU been expecting him. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 MAY 2016 FRI FRI 00:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007w43w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:30 Great Lives b0076zm4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 18:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:00 Wimsey b007jzjm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 01:30 Ravi Shankar: Sitar Hero b00rmrpt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn2k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b041ybjc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:15 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrfx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 02:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service FRI b07bpxgc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 03:00 Classic Serial b01r51f0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:00 The Food Quiz b0076mtq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 04:30 Artists b00xlxm5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:00 Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves b007jqdd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:30 Don't Start b06wg843 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 on Thursday] FRI FRI 05:45 The Pin b06mg9gb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 06:00 Wimsey b007jzky (Listen) FRI The Nine Tailors, A Question of Identity FRI Following his trip to France, Lord Peter Wimsey takes a step FRI closer to identifying the killer. FRI Starring Ian Carmichael as Lord Peter Wimsey, With Peter FRI Jones as Bunter, Phillip Latham as the Reverend Theodore FRI Venables, Timothy Bateson as Superintendent Blundell, FRI Stephen Greiff as Nobby Cranton and Noel Dyson as Mrs FRI Venables. FRI British gentleman detective Lord Peter Wimsey features in a FRI number of detective novels and short stories by English FRI crime writer, Dorothy L Sayers. The Nine Tailors was first FRI published in 1934. FRI Classy and sharp-witted, aristocratic amateur sleuth Lord FRI Peter Bredon Wimsey was born in 1890 and educated at Eton FRI and Oxford, before serving in the military during the First FRI World War. FRI Ian Carmichael appeared as Lord Peter Wimsey for BBC Radio FRI from 1973 to 1983, in addition to the BBC TV adaptations FRI that were broadcast between 1972 and 1975. FRI Adapted for radio in six episodes by Alistair Beaton. FRI Producer: Martin Fisher FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1980. FRI FRI 06:30 Leading Ladies b00vhg2z (Listen) FRI Theatre director and artistic director of the Southbank FRI Centre Jude Kelly marks the 350th anniversary of the first FRI performance by the first English professional actress. FRI Before the restoration and the reopening of the theatres FRI after years of Puritan rule, boys and men had played women's FRI roles. However, when Charles II came to the throne he FRI requested that women be allowed on stage and the course of FRI theatre history was changed forever when a woman took the FRI stage in the role of Desdemona on 8th December 1660. FRI Although little is known about who she was, Jude Kelly FRI pieces together a picture of what life would have been like FRI for the first generation of actresses. She visits the real FRI tennis court at Hampton Court Palace to find out what the FRI first performance would have been like, takes Celia Imrie to FRI the site of where the first performance took place and tours FRI the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in search of Nell Gwynn. FRI Were the first actresses' victims of exploitation or women FRI who exploited the situation to their own advantage? Were FRI they whores or pioneers? FRI Producer: Benjamin Partridge FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 07:00 Crowned Hudds b00pgydd (Listen) FRI How Ye Quest Was Wonne FRI Poking fun at King Arthur, Roy Hudd takes a royal romp FRI through history, with June Whitfield and Chris Emmett. From FRI August 1995. FRI FRI 07:30 Meet David Sedaris b011tzmn (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Incomplete Quad and The Squirrel and the FRI Chipmunk FRI The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and FRI charm to BBC Radio 4 for a second series of audience FRI readings. This week a memoir of one nefarious summer while FRI studying at college: "The Incomplete Quad" and a modern take FRI on the anthropomorphic fable in: "The Squirrel & The FRI Chipmunk". FRI Producer: Steve Doherty FRI A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 08:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007k47r (Listen) FRI No Hiding Place FRI Bob takes Terry to be restyled at the hairdressers. FRI Starring James Bolam as Terry Collier and Rodney Bewes as FRI Bob Ferris. FRI With Sheila Fearn, George Layton, Jo Beadle, Brian Godfrey FRI and Donald Gee. FRI Created and scripted for BBC TV by Dick Clement and Ian La FRI Frenais. Adapted for radio by Patrick Tilley. FRI Producer: John Browell FRI Originally lost from the archive, the audio was recovered in FRI a BBC Treasure Hunt. FRI First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 1975. FRI FRI 08:30 The Goon Show b009kmns (Listen) FRI The Flea FRI Neddie Seagoon is Samuel Pepys and he is facing trouble from FRI a flea called Francoise. Stars Harry Secombe. From December FRI 1956. FRI FRI 09:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01npjp9 (Listen) FRI Series 5, Pascoe, Abrahams, Aldrin FRI The Museum of Curiosity is hosted by the Professor of FRI 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) and 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 Sara FRI Pascoe, Ig Nobels founder Marc Abrahams and Astronaut Dr FRI Buzz Aldrin. FRI FRI 09:30 No Commitments b017gnkt (Listen) FRI Series 9, Coming Clean FRI The love lives of sisters Anna and Charlotte take some FRI unexpected twists and turns. Stars Angela Thorne. From FRI February 2003. FRI FRI 10:00 Classic Serial b01r95hq (Listen) FRI Esther Waters, Episode 2 FRI Esther Waters by George Moore. Dramatised by Sharon Oakes FRI Episode 2 FRI Set against a background of horseracing and gambling; a FRI stirring tale of how a woman survives and brings up her FRI child in Victorian England. Esther leaves the workhouse with FRI her baby. She is desperate for them to stay together. But FRI how can she earn money? FRI Producer/Director Gary Brown FRI Celebrated author Colm Toibin championed Esther Waters as a FRI neglected Classic for Radio Four's Open Book programme. He FRI encourages listeners to read the novel again because he FRI thinks it has a wonderful story with fascinating characters, FRI a heroine we'll come to know and love, and it's one of those FRI books you just can't put down. FRI Esther's tale is a slice of Victorian life that is rarely FRI shown; single parenting, wet nursing, divorce, gambling, and FRI religious zealotry. Through her we discover exactly what it FRI feels like to be poor and powerless. The book was banned FRI until Gladstone revoked it, saying it was compassionate, FRI moral and humane; and after that it became a best seller. FRI Credits FRI Esther: Lyndsey Marshal FRI William: Matthew McNulty FRI Sarah: Joanne Froggatt FRI Leopold: Hugh Simon FRI Judge: Hugh Simon FRI Fred: Graeme Hawley FRI Demon: Stephen Hoyle FRI Mrs Barfield: Melissa Jane Sinden FRI Mrs Empson: Melissa Jane Sinden FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Sharon Oakes FRI FRI 11:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b00761kk (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI After such fun, Miss Pettigrew dreads the future - but it's FRI time to let people know who she really is. Read by Maureen FRI Lipman. FRI FRI 11:15 Martyn Wade - Dogged Persistence b009xytf (Listen) FRI Maureen and Veronica are brought together by a troublesome FRI dog. Stars Joan Sims and Elizabeth Spriggs. Recorded on FRI location. FRI FRI 12:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007k47r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 12:30 The Goon Show b009kmns (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 13:00 Wimsey b007jzky (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 13:30 Leading Ladies b00vhg2z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 14:00 F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby b007jn2z (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Tragedy has struck, leaving Nick to ponder his life as he FRI struggles to find mourners for a funeral. Read by Sam FRI Robards. FRI FRI 14:15 In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and FRI the Mind b041yf8g (Listen) FRI Care in the Community FRI At the end of this week of programmes examining psychiatry, FRI the medicalised model for treating mental illness, Martin FRI outlines the impact of reforms during the latter half of the FRI Twentieth Century that resulted in the closure of Britain's FRI Victorian asylums and a new policy of 'care in the FRI community'. FRI Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, FRI University of London. FRI Producer: Alan Hall FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:30 The Churchills - Speaking for Themselves b007jrg7 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI The letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill. The reality FRI of war strikes home. With Alex Jennings and Sylvestra Le FRI Touzel. FRI FRI 14:45 James Bond - On Her Majesty's Secret Service FRI b07bq049 (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI Battling the evil Blofeld, Bond joins forces with Draco. All FRI looks plain sailing for 007 and Tracy. Concluded by Joanna FRI Lumley. FRI FRI 15:00 Classic Serial b01r95hq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:00 today] FRI FRI 16:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01npjp9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 16:30 No Commitments b017gnkt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:30 today] FRI FRI 17:00 Crowned Hudds b00pgydd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:00 today] FRI FRI 17:30 Meet David Sedaris b011tzmn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 18:00 GK Chesterton - The Man Who Was Thursday b007w525 (Listen) FRI The Exposure FRI Sunday unmasks one of the anarchists as a Scotland Yard FRI detective, leaving Gabriel Syme in despair. Read by Geoffrey FRI Palmer. FRI FRI 18:30 Soul Music b00mg3yv (Listen) FRI Series 8, The Look of Love FRI Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional FRI appeal. FRI Hal David discusses writing The Look of Love with Burt FRI Bacharach, for the soundtrack of the spoof 1967 James Bond FRI film Casino Royale. This classic track, sung by Dusty FRI Springfield, provided the musical backdrop for a love scene FRI between Peter Sellers and Ursula Andress. FRI Dusty Springfield's former backing singer, Simon Bell, FRI remembers being on stage at the Albert Hall when Dusty FRI laughed her way through a performance of the song, and FRI musician Jonathan Cohen describes how the samba rhythm FRI underscoring Dusty's smooth vocals combine to make this an FRI enduringly popular love song. FRI It has been covered many times by artists including Isaac FRI Hayes, Gladys Knight and the French singer Mirielle Mathieu. FRI This programme hears from people whose personal memories of FRI love and loss are forever linked with The Look of Love. FRI FRI 19:00 Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? b007k47r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:00 today] FRI FRI 19:30 The Goon Show b009kmns (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Wimsey b007jzky (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:00 today] FRI FRI 20:30 Leading Ladies b00vhg2z (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 06:30 today] FRI FRI 21:00 Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day b00761kk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 today] FRI FRI 21:15 Martyn Wade - Dogged Persistence b009xytf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 today] FRI FRI 22:00 Meet David Sedaris b011tzmn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 07:30 today] FRI FRI 22:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b03brkf1 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 5 FRI John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, FRI regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things FRI like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit FRI sketch show. FRI The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by FRI The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny FRI sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The FRI second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and FRI Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. FRI This time around, John promises to stop doing silly sketches FRI about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey addiction or how FRI goldfish invented computer programming, and concentrate FRI instead on the the big, serious issues. FRI This fifth episode of the series reveals the truth behind FRI some famous anecdotes and a curious tale of a hard-bitten FRI dame. Part of this show are in 3-D. Unfortunately, it's a FRI horrible part. FRI Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret FRI Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. FRI Producer: Ed Morrish. FRI Credits FRI Presenter: John Finnemore FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: Simon Kane FRI Ensemble: Lawry Lewin FRI Ensemble: Carrie Quinlan FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI Writer: John Finnemore FRI FRI 23:00 Dave Podmore b007tm7h (Listen) FRI Dave Podmore's World of Cricket, Episode 4 FRI The player joins a host of Z-list celebrities on charity FRI walk for mauled dog Shep. Stars Chris Douglas. From June FRI 2002. FRI FRI 23:30 Ross Noble Goes Global b007jvv4 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Singapore FRI Spotting a monkey and shopping malls galore, the comedian is FRI having a bad hair day in the incredible humidity. From May FRI 2002. FRI